Katie r H Garden Line does not necessarily endorse any of the products or services
advertised on this program. Welcome to kat r H Garden Line with Skip Rictor
it's Crazy Trim, just watch him as well. Spain. Welcome to garden
Line. Good to have you with us this morning. Congratulations everybody who is
awake. Maybe a cup of coffee or tea or something helping you along there.
We're glad to have you with us. Now. We are a call
in show. That means you can call in and ask whatever questions you want
to ask, as long as it's related to gardening. We'll try to stay
We'll try to limit it that way. Our phone number is seven one three
two one two fifty eight seventy four seven one three two one two five eight
seven four. I was just checking out Vernant Tree Farm. They Vernant has
unbelievable selection trees. I think they planted over two hundred thousand trees here in
the Greater Houston area. They're the largest tree farm here inside the Houston area.
And if you go to their website, you ought to do that.
By the way, it's a Verdant v er da nt treefarm dot com.
You're going to find on their website awesome information. If you want to learn
about the different trees. They have pages and pages of descriptions of each of
the different trees, including the palm trees, lots of palms. Verden is
well known for their palms, and let me tell you they have established palms
all over the area. They know how to do all of this. You
go there, you pick out your tree or trees, and you tag them,
and they bring them and they plan them. And if they plan them,
they give you a one year warranty guaranteed with the nation. Now that's
a big deal. That is a very big deal if you are military or
first responders. Tempersent discount for their Verdant Tree Farm. But if you're looking
to establish a tree, and I hope you are, we need to get
those done soon. The sooner the better, just get Just check out Verdant
be E R D A N T treefarm dot com. In West Houston Parker
Cypress and Heights area where Yale and I ten come together, and then down
in Perland on Broadway Street. We're going to go to the phones first thing
this morning here and we're going to talk to Cindy. Good morning, Cindy,
good morning. How can we help you? Yes, I would like
to address that email that was sent to you about the skinny pine tree.
Oh, yes, yes, what that is? What that was, Cindy,
I got that. That is a type of a juniper or arbor idy
tho. It's probably the one it's called Italian cypress. But they are very
tall. You know, if you see pictures of a Mediterranean villa, typically
they have those lining the drive going up to it. And they they're a
beautiful, a very unique structured tree. The problem with them here is if
bagworms get on them and chew out a bunch of leaves, which they can,
then you have this hole in the plant and it's just going to stay
there unless there's greenly green little foliage the scaly foliage leaves they have. Unless
there's some of those there to re sprout and fill that area in a hole
in one of those, it's going to stay a hole in one of those.
There's some foliage diseases in our rainy climate that can hit them as well
and do the same thing, and you know, it's just that's the problem
with them is once you've got them marred or taken chunks out of them or
one side out of it. It's not very beautiful anymore. And I think
yours are in the early stages of some of that happening. So what do
we do to correct it? Well, there there essentially is no getting foliage
back. The only place that those trees can send out a bud to fill
in is from green foliage. So when you've got a large section that goes
all the way to the trunk and there's no green there, the only way
it can fill in is from the sides coming in, and that usually is
a very very slow process, if at all, If you knew ahead of
time what the problem was going to be, you know, you could reach
out and get it early, whether it's bagworms or a foliage disease. But
at this point after the fact, yeah, not very practical to try to
spray it. Well, I didn't see bagworms on it, okay at all?
Okay, Well, chances are it's it's a foliage disease. There are
some bungle things that attack those. Spider mites can also attack group of plants,
but that tends you see the foliage sort of go from green wis almost
a silvery gray and then and then just die prosily. You know, with
those Italian Cyprus types of plants, it's hard to get a spray wand that'll
reach up and really cover the foldo that that was the problem to. So
what do you suggest take it out? Well, you know, if you
can live with it, with the look of it, I would live with
the look of it for now. You can take it out, but you're
not going to find a plant that adequately fills that shape. There are some
narrow plants youpon and other things that speak certain varieties that are narrow, but
they're not going to be that high, that tall, and they have issues
get a little bit older with the shape. Okay, well, I guess
either we live with it or we'll take it out. Okay, all right.
Anyway, hate to be the bearer of bad news, but that's one
of the reasons why you won't hear me recommending those plants. When they're gorgeous,
they're gorgeous. But when they're not, they're not. Yeah, they're
not. It takes a long time for them to return gorgeous. Absolutely,
that is so true. All right, Well, thank you very much for
the call, and again I wish you the best with that. Thank you
all right, take care. Yeah, that is a challenge with those kind
of plants. I hope you're doing some potting up, creating some containers outside
on the patio. Oh my goodness, this is a time. There's all
kinds of color options right now, but you want to start with the foundation
of good growing media. That's the brown stuff we keep talking about. Well,
in the case of a container, we're talking about jungle in jungle Lends,
a product by nitrofoss It absolutely is just well designed to do the things
you most need out of a growing mix, and that is you want to
hold water for a while, so you don't have the water them twice a
day. You want to drain access water so they don't become water logged.
And you want them to be able to hold on to the nutrients so when
you fertilize, that nutrient is in there and it's going to stick around for
a while. And jungle Land does all the above. It's got a blend
of Canadian blonde pete with four ages, four different sources of aged organic matter.
It's got the microhizal fungi in it that work with the roots of the
plant, and you're gonna find it in a lot of different places. You'll
find jungle Land, for example, at Barings Hardware both Bessonette and West Teimer.
You're going to find it at Plantation Ace Hardware out there in Richmond Rosenberg.
And you're also going to find it at Hiden and feed Up I forty
five North Area Memorial Memorial Drafts, excuse me, Stuben or Airline. There
we go on jungle Land. Let's see, we're gonna have to run to
a break here. Robert, you'll be the first when we come back.
Just hang on, we'll be right back with you. Welcome back to Gardenline.
Good to have you with us today. A while ago, I was
just talking about jungle land and using it in containers for color. Well,
tell you what, if you're looking for color, you're not in the Kingwood
area anyone or anywhere around that region. You ought to check out Warren Southern
Gardens. Both Warren Southern Gardens and Kingwood Garden Center. They stay in stock
of wonderful color. Right now, they've got a deal on their baskets of
Calibrica Warren Southern Gardens and a really good deal where they've cut them significantly in
the price and Calibrica. It looks like a little pansies. If you haven't
seen Calibrica before, just think of little pansies. That's what they look like.
They also have a deal on a color Star from Nelson's. And you
know, here's the combination. We got good potting mix, we've got good
plants to go in it, and we fertilize with a good fertilizer to keep
it going. And one of the reasons we do that is because you need
vegetative growth. That's what fertilizer can push, especially the nitrogen to catch the
sun and produce more flows blooms and their for more flowers. And that's why
it's important to use a product like that like Noson Color Star in your beds.
And you can get it on a really good price. Actually out at
Warren's Southern Guards. Now, I just mentioned a couple of things, but
what are you looking for? What do you need? They still just stock
and restock and restock, and it's always a good time to go out there
and see really unusual things too. Having a gave that is called Silver Star,
and you just got to see it. It's green and silvery white and
kind of a also has kind of a yellowish hue when you look at the
sun coming through beautiful Agave, gorgeous. That's just an example. You never
know what you're going to see out there because they are always getting in something
cool and new at Warren Southern Gardens out in Kingwood. We're going to go
now out to Spring Branch and talk to Robert. Hello, Robert, hold
on just one moment, Robert. It helps a lot if I hit the
right button. How you doing this morning? I'm doing well, sir,
but I'm not in Spring Branch anymore. I'm over at the waffle house at
Highway six and I ten tell everybody the last quick question, simple, Yes,
No, I got a beer keg in the back of my truck and
it's over half full, and beer's been in there for about three years,
sitting through several seasons, freezes and lots of heat. And I know when
I cut that thing open, I'm gonna cut it in the middle like a
keg and turn it into a couple of planters, be nice stainless steel planters.
Right. So, anyway, when I open that thing up, it's
gonna stink and it's gonna have some rotten beer in there. Would that be
conducive to my compost pile or is that going to hurt my compost pile because
I need to play to hide that stinky beer, and my neighbors are going
to kick my You know what if I just dump it in the street there?
Okay, Well, Robert, I want to congratulate you. You get
an award. I've been answering gardening questions for almost forty years and I've never
had this one. So that's the new Question of the Week award. Well,
the other thing is I'm on my way to the race is but we
won't talk about that. I used to get in trouble with Randy for telling
him where I was headed in the morning, so we'll leave it at that.
So this is the first for me too. But I really do I
want to turn the stainless keg into a couple of planters by doing the same
thing we do with the cask. But down at the beach house, I've
had so much trouble keeping planters of any kind because the sun and everything else
tears them up. With the saltaires, I figured this stainless may last a
little while, all right. Well, uh, as far as putting beer
on compost, piles and things like that. There's no problem with that at
all. It'll be just fine. I mean, it's it's not going to
hurt anything. You know, the microbes may wake up with a headache the
next morning, but other than that, I don't see a negative to it.
You know, when you talk about it being all yucky and stinky,
I'm kind of curious if that'll be the case when you open it up.
But I guess I'm trying to sit here and think of what could go wrong
over time with beer. I wouldn't worry about it. I would just use
it, Okay. I don't make the poletry SAGGI. I don't know what
the beer turns into after it's been there that long. But we opened up
a pony keg some years back and split it the same way, and it
was rank and it had only been in there for a month or two.
Okay, But I well, I would use it. I would use it
sparingly. You know. I wouldn't just inundate the pile with it. But
I think it ought to be. Okay. Well that's my that's me shooting
from the hell because trust me, there's no research on this. Well,
i'll tell you what, I'll give you some feedback. If it hurts my
compost, I'll let you know. And if everything that comes out of there
in the next few months is uh is doing great, then I'll let you
know. On to well what I need Yeah, yeah, what I need
you to do though, is in the future. Uh. Don't don't let
beer go unconsumed like that. Come on, man, it was that come
from my backyard. But anyway, I was helping to clean out and he
goes, you know, I forgot that was back there. I said,
well, let me have it. I got to use for it. Anyway,
you have, Thanks you too, Thanks a lot. Oh boy,
you never know, you never know when the phone rings. Uh. Sometimes
I ought to do a show and just go through all of the questions that
you just wouldn't expect that I've had over the years, but never that one.
So no word to Robert on that ACE Hardware Stores or your go to
place, they are they what do you need? Well, right now,
you need fertilizer for your lawn. You need things to control weeds for your
lawn or for your flower bed. You need things that are going to control
insects or diseases. ACE has all of that fire ants. We are entering
big time fire ants season. Start with a bait and ACE has a number
of baits. You have a nice selection of baits. It's used at a
very low rate. Any that escaped out give it a couple of weeks and
just look. And any that escaped the bait then hit them with individual mound
treatment and ACE has a wide variety of those as well. Mosquito season is
here. Boy. I was out in the garden the other day working on
pulling some things out and the mosquitoes were all over me and I just not
noticed them that much. Well, they got mosquito repellent, and they've got
things to control mosquitos, like the little dunks that you put in the water
to help kill them. Ace Hardware forty stores in the area. Go to
Acehardware dot com and find the store locator and you'll see the stores that are
close to you. We're going to go to southeaston now and talk to park
Or Hello Parker, good morning, Skip Now are you sir? I'm well,
thank you. A beautiful weekend to get out and enjoy the outdoors.
Coming up it is. He got a quick question for you. I was
raised to mow the yard directionally up and down or you know, one direction
up and back versus. I've seen many people cutting alowns in the square technique,
which the is there a proper way? And then of course the other
question is about, uh, what do I spray the mowers with to make
sure that their disease free underneath? There's no spray to put on a mower
and no real need to do that that Okay, okay, some of our
diseases, gray leaf spot, brown patch and things, those are those are
rather you bick with us, and so you're not like causing it to come
in a different areas. They're they're waiting for the right conditions. So okay,
I would It's always a good idea to clean out your more the old
clippings and things like that, but uh, don't don't worry about spraying them.
As far as both both of my neighbors have landscapers coming in and I
know, you know, from different yards they're bringing. You know, is
it possible to bring different diseases? Well, I guess technically if there were
some grass blades stuck up underneath there the hed gray leaf spot, for example,
just pick one disease you could then be bringing that in. But it's
it's a spore. It's going to be floating on the air, So okay
about that. It's not a bad idea though, to ask them to just
clear glow that out. They may not want to do that, but that
would just be the only thing I would think. Yeah, they're on both
sides of me, so uh, they both the landscape is okay, Well,
I would directs a cross hatch. You can do that. The most
beautiful lawns you see are a cross mode, you know, the golf courses
and things like that, golf course screens and whatnot. But if you don't
do that, you'll still have a beautiful lawn, so that there's no harm.
I've always done it that way, or that's how my father taught me,
but now you know, it's you. I see different different ways of
doing it. So just making sure that I'm not creating a monster there.
All right, thank you for the call. Park appreciate that. Yeah,
that's an interesting question. Nelson's has created a fertilizer that is called slow and
Easy. Slow with the letter in and easy. What is slow and easy?
It is a fertilizer that the chemistry of the fertilizer is designed to be
very long lasting and gradually feed your lawn over time. That is how lawns
take up nutrients a little bit each day, and so with Slow and Easy,
even if you put quite a bit on, you know that for months
you're going to have that fertilizer releasing into your soil the nutrients, especially the
nitrogen. That's the primary slow release part. It also contains sulfur to help
balance the sole pH when your lawn has these yellowish spots and they may come
and go, that's a lack of sulfur. Now it's in this Slow and
Easy as well. It's a blue bag from turf Star and it also,
by the way, the bag is forty pounds and it covers five thousand square
feet. When you promote slow even growth, you help create a deeper riot
system in your lawn along with regular mowing, and that helps reduce water consumption
or less say, makes it more drought resilient. That slow even growth is
very important and Slow and Easy does just that. From Nelson. Slow and
Easy it's a twenty two two ten fertilizer and that twenty two is going to
be gradually released over months. It's a good way to go about it.
You're listening to Garden Line. Our phone number is seven to one three two
one two fifty eight seventy four seven one three two one two five eight seven
four it. There is still time to get shrubs and trees planted. There
is, and that includes roses. By the way, if you would love
to have beautiful roses, you get one planted. Now you're gonna get some
blooms on it as we go through summer, but especially in the fall,
the show will be outstanding, and then of course next spring it'll be right
back again. RCW Nursery is really the leader in roses. The last time
I did a count of the of the page at RCW Nursery, I think
there are two hundred and thirty six roses that they carry. Now, things
come and go, supply comes and goes, customers come in and clean them
out. So I'm not saying on hand at any given time there's every rose
they carry, But just give them a call because RCWS get it, got
it Nursery? What does that mean? That means that they don't have it,
they'll get it for you if they can, if it's available, And
that is one of the nice things. At RCW Nursery. They grow their
own trees up in Williamson Tree Farm up there in Plannersville area, so they
have the best culls of ours for growing in this area. The website is
RCW Nurseries dot com. That's the garden center. That is where Belty eight
comes into Tomball Parkway right there. Super easy to get to RCW Nurseries.
I was redoing some landscape better. Actually, I'm getting ready to redoce some
landscape beds where I had to put in some drainage and other things and wanted
to get all those you know, fixed up and looking good. Well,
it is very important, you know, to get that soil right. And
the folks at Nature's Way they know how to make soil. John Ferguson's been
making soil for many years now. When you think about things like rose mix,
the rose bed mix, rose soil. If you think about things like
leaf mold composts, you know that started. They're at Nature's way, uh
a Nature's way. If you want to get the fine textured compost for top
dressing your lawn, they can get it. And now's a good time to
put it out. If you're doing it yourself or Nature's Way Resources can get
you set up on just that. Their phone number is nine three six three
two one sixty nine ninety. Now when you go out there, you can
go out there with a trailer and pick up bulk or with with your car
pick up bags if you want to do it that way. Check out the
plants. They have a very nice two acre nursery and garden center. They
got the fruit trees, native perennials, and many many other things at Nature's
Way. We're going to take a break and hand the mic over to Nikki
for the news and here, well, here we go. Welcome back to
guard Line. Good to have you with us today. Earlier I was talking
about that now is the time to get those trees planted before the heat of
summer arrives. The sooner you get them in, the more time they have
to begin establishing that root system. You know, when you put the tree
on the ground, it's coming out of the container and it's basically a cylinder
of roots and you put it in the ground and that's where the roots still
are. Of course, right after planting, it takes time for those roots
to move out into the surrounding soil. So Initially, you're watering pretty much
where you were watering when it was in the container, that cylinder of roots
and a little beyond that. And it's important that it never dries out and
also doesn't stay soggy wet an underground bathtub roots submerged in that. Very few
species can tolerate that, so do that. The other thing to think about
is that cylinder doesn't have the roots out reaching out yet to stabilize it.
So you need to do something to stabilize the tree. Now, traditionally people
have used, you know, the three iron posts with wire rods or wire
cable sticking out in all directions. That's extra expense, it's extra trouble you
trip over them. It just isn't It isn't necessary anymore. We have a
product called three sixty Tree Stabilizer. It's a stiff plastic arm that is very
strong. It grabs a hold of a post and it grabs a hold of
the tree and it makes sure that it doesn't move. Now, you can
put two of those on, one from let's say north south and one from
east west, and that way, no matter which way the wind blows,
you're going to have a very very stable tree. Tree stabilizers are widely available
here. I mean if you're done out in Alvin or Hayes Hidden Gardens or
Southwest Fertilizer in Houston plants for all seasons up at RCW Nurses and be Cannon's
down Central and Arbigate up and Tumble. It's easy to get them. You
just need to know that you want to stabilize that tree a little bit so
that the roots can get established well and the tree doesn't end up now being
slanted. And you've seen trees like that because they weren't staked at planting.
They're leaning and they finally establish, but then you have a leaning tree.
So anyway, three sixty tree stabilizer will do just that. The nice thing
that I like, and you need to remember, is the strap that goes
around the tree. Keep it a little on the loose side because you want
the tree to move a little bit. That kind of movement helps strengthen the
trunk, so don't just honker it down like you're afraid of it taking off
like a rocket. That is true. If you would like a way to
have your beds maintained through the year professionally where they're always looking good, you
ought to call the Pierscape spokes. Pierscapes has a quarterly maintenance deal. So
you know, you sign up for this and they're going to come in.
They're going to molt your beds or pull the weeds, and then most they're
going to provide seasonal color. They're different. You know, you can do
color change twice a year or up to three or four times a year.
I mean you can do that. They're going to fertilize. They're going to
trim anything that needs trimmed, and then inspect the irrigation system make sure it's
working properly, just to check. And that is the Peerscape spokes. Now,
I know when you think Piercescapes, you're thinking about constructing landscapes and hard
escapes and providing drainage solutions to wet areas and irrigation and paths and lighting and
everything like that. Well, Pierscapes also will do that quarterly maintenance. And
I encourage you to call them. Listen a quality landscaper. Peerscapes. They
stay busy and call. Don't delay, go ahead and call and get on
the board so that they can sign you up. Depending on what you need
done, they'll give you a date where they'll try to get out there and
just go to the website peerscapes dot com or three, excuse me, here's
the phone number two eight one three seven oh fifty sixty two eight one three
seven five zero six zero for pierscapes in the yard. This past week I
was doing a little bit of trimming on a y text that I have at
the house, and it was by text doesn't know what it wants to be.
I think of it as a tree, but it has a unique growth
habit. It's kind of difficult to make it into a tree form, although
you can typically a multi stem tree is maybe a better way to describe it.
Or you can just prune the heck of it a lot and have a
giant bush. I like them because they bloom and the summertime. But I
noticed in the trimming and getting all the stuff cleared out that the new growth,
of course, had already begun. Yes, I should have done the
printing a lot before, but I just noticed that thing of you know,
how do you shape a bye tex? It's kind of up to year.
It's like any plant, what do you want to look at? That's what
you do. I'm going to go out to Sugarland. Now we're going to
talk to Michael. Hello Michael, good morning, Skip. How are you
this morning? I'm well, sir, so am I listen. I've got
a problem, and I know you're the guy answered these questions for me.
It's a three I guess you say a three point question. I have had
a neighbor move in behind Neil next to me, and they let the yard
go crazy. I've been on the schedule now for the last five years,
had no problem with my Saint Augustine. But now all of a sudden,
I've got a huge bermuda infestation which has really taken over about forty feet of
my Saint Augustine. Here's my question. I want to take that whole section
out and replace it with Saint Augustine. What I need to know is what
is the best way to just to rid the whole area of the bermuda.
Well, the best way, I mean hand digging, is the non sprayway,
which was ridiculously unpractical for your area there. The best way would be
to spray it with a product that has a grass killer or a vegetation killer
in it, like Life Essay. It would be the round up version.
The grass version. There's a couple of different chemicals that will do that.
One of them begins with the boys name Seth set H. That's the ingredient.
I think the glass would work better on it. What you're going to
find is you're gonna spray it according to the label, and then you're going
to wait a while and maybe even you know, mix up the soil a
little bit, like you're preparing for grass planting. Wait a while because you
won't get it all and you want to hit it again, and you may
even wait a little longer and do it a third time. After a couple
of weeks. Once we get warm weather, it's going to be popping out
of the ground and you want to eradicate it. Otherwise you're just it's a
time bomb waiting to reinfest. Okay, so what is the name of the
product that you're suggesting? Well, well, it round up is the brand.
Everybody knows. Lifeless say is the product. But it kills anything.
It's green that you spray it on pretty much, and it moves down and
it does a good job of getting down in the roots and the rhizomes underground.
Okay, after you said I should wait, what maybe a week or
so or how much longer. Well, you want to wait until it pops
back. And I would watch it a couple of weeks really and see if
you miss some they'll probably start to stick their head up. And just be
patient, because again, you don't want to be doing this again three years
from now. What can I prime the soil where to help speed up the
the fertility and the ability to put that Saint Augustine back out? Uh?
Well, you could you could do a soil test and find out what's needed
all across your lawn, or you could just you could put a light dose
of a lawn fertilizer down if you're gonna mix it in really well, uh
in the soil. If you get any low spots or need to bring in
fill soil, you know, do that also at that time. And then
when you put your new Saint Augustine down, you're gonna water it in.
And I would wait about two weeks before I even think about fertilizing. It
could be a little longer even if you want so so nothing like Medina has
you know, Uh so I'll fertilize or anything interm in between. Just you
could, you know, you could that has to go for lawn is a
hose in application and give the Saint Augustine a week maybe to just right early
on. All that grass needs is a constant supply of water so you can
get some roots in the ground. Uh. And at that point you could
do a hash to grow and it's not going to burn it or anything like
that. Hey, Michael, I've got to run. If you have a
follow up, you're welcome to stick around. We're going to head off to
a break here. Our phone number is seven one three two one two fifty
eight seventy four. Welcome back to guard Line. Glad you're listening with us.
Boy. The glow is starting in the eastern sky. Is that sun
is getting ready to make its appearance today on what's going to be a wonderful
day for getting outside and getting some things done. Are you at the stage
where you're doing quick clean up or are you at the stage where you're doing
planting. You're ready to go, You're ready to put things in wherever you
are in the process. Today is a good day for getting that done,
as well as for going out and shopping for the things that you need.
For those of you down in the Richmond area, Richmond Rosenberg, that whole
area of sugar Land in Chenny Garden's Garden Center. They are on the Katie
Folscher side of Richmond and it's on FM fifty nine. That's where it's located.
If you haven't been there, you really need to go. It is
quite the showplace and Chandy Gardens has everything that you could possibly need right now.
They have a supply of some of the string house plants like string of
turtles and string of hearts, and the hoya that's called the heart shape heart
heart hoya. Yep, there, it just looks like a heart each of
the leaves. They have, of course, things for pollinating plants. They've
got an unbelievable selection of pottery, just gorgeous pottery that you'll find there.
So you're gonna find everything there, you really are. I mean, it's
still time to get your boog and vas, your mandavillas. They have a
beautiful stock of those for seasonal color that just never never gets too hot for
those things. In Chandi Gardens, I would consider it one of those show
placed destinations that people come from all over to go to. I love to
go out there. Every time I go out there, I see things I
didn't know they carried because they're always growing and always changing with the seasons that
we have. Monday through Saturday eight to five, Sunday ten am to four
pm. Enchanted Gardens Richmond dot com again they're on FM three fifty nine north
of Richmond, h If you would like to give us a call, our
phone number is seven to one three two one two fifty eight seventy four seven
one three two one two five eight seven four. What kind of questions do
you have? Do you perhaps struggling to get your lawn in shape? Last
summer was brutal. I think lawns are the number one question we get on
garden Line. I think that's an easy first place when it comes to question
topics. Because last summer is so hot and dry, lawns dyed of chinch
bugs and diseases and all that comes in. You want to create the most
healthy lawn you can. And the folks at Nitrofoss they've got something called super
turf. Now you've heard me talk about it before. It's a silver bag
of Nitrofos Superturf nineteen four to ten. It's got half the nitrogen in that
slow release form that's what we want. We want a gradual release of nitrogen
over time. It also has four percent iron to promote a nice uniform green
color for those yellow areas. Nitrofos Superturf is one of those products from Nitrofoss
that is widely widely available. If you go out to enchanted gardens in Richmond,
they're going to have it there. If you go to the growers outlet
in Willis or RCW Nursery up on where two forty nine comes into Beltway eight,
you're going to find your Nitrofoss Superturf fertilizer at all those places. We're
going to now go up to Northwest Houston and talk to Ed. Hello,
Ed morning, Sir Marning. Got a real concern with some thirty year old
boxwood beds that's on either side of my entry in front of the house with
some other shrubs behind them between the wall of the house and the boxwood rope.
Last weekend I was cutting them back and discovered within a lot of the
inner growth was dying out. Got really concerned. Ran up to one of
the well known nurseries, Lady Advisement. She thinks that it's boxwood blight.
Okay, and that's scary, she said, because not much you can do
for it. Can you give me any advice? Okay, when you looked
at the shrubs before you got up close and saw what you saw, did
they look uniformly green all the way across? Oh? They were very healthy
because they had a very good growth that I had not trimmed back for the
spring yet. And when I started trimming that back, that's when this stuff
popped up on me. Yeah. I can't diagnose a disease based on just
a conversation, but I would put about eighty five percent, maybe ninety percent,
that what you're seeing is the interior shaded branches dying out and not boxwood
blake, because boxwood blake you would have sections of branches that are dying.
So you stand back at the road and you can see the big brown sections
any shrub, any shrub that sheared. Shearing makes more and more density once
you get past that outer layer of leaves, it's all twigs and brown inside
because there's no light for the leaves to grow in there. So I think
that I think that's what you're looking at. Well, she suggested that i'd
look for a product called Subdue. Yes, how I die, She said
it was. I couldn't find it. Went to Carnelians and they gave me
something called moder Ray Garden foss EHOs okay, and they said put that on
the roots because it's a roof thing to treat. What's your suggest and not
do? If anything? Well, if you got it, you can certainly
use it. Follow the label very carefully. Yeah, boxwoods. There's a
number of things that can happen to them, from nematodes to cold damage,
believe it or not at times, to the blights like you're talking about.
Uh So, if you got the product, give it a shot, just
as an extra insurance measure. But I think you're going to be okay here,
okay, And I use all microlife products for Ferdi lives. Is it
okay to fertilize after I put that down because I'm getting ready to do yard
work today. Yes, you can fertilize anything you want right now. Yep,
that's okay, fair enough? All right? Any suggestions on spraying it
with as far as the foliage goes, No, I wouldn't. I don't
think there is anything that you need to spray for. I got you,
okay, good luck, Thank you right. I hope my crystal ball is
right on that. I'm ninety percent sure it is. I may be called
in you for a consult. If it doesn't work all right, well I
can also show up and do last rites. So but that's a fee.
I'm hey, thanks man, thank you, by bye. We love feed
stores here on garden Line, and Spring Creek Feed is up in Magnolia.
It's on FM twenty nine seventy eight. If you've been out there. It's
a big thoroughfare through there, just minutes away from Graham Parkway Highway to forty
nine. Sprint Creek Feed stocks the fertilizers you hear me talk about on Guardline.
They've stock pest and disease and weed management products. Of course, they
have high quality feed for your pets and for your other animals. But I
just find it. I always like to go in because it makes feel good
to be greeted by friendly and courteous staff, and they really have that at
Spring Creek Feed. By the way, they also have things for ponds.
If you need to put product in your ponds for various like weeds, they've
got that covered too. They just you know, they make sure and stay
on top of things, and they even will do special ordering if you need
something they don't have in stock, and they have a delivery service too.
You can ask them about Spring Creek Feed. They're located in Magnolia on FM
twenty nine seventy eight eight. They expanded their their garden product area and they
even added some plants and things in this year. I was visiting with them
a while back and they were telling me about all the plans and I was
seeing it too in the store there. Well, we're about to take a
break here for the top of the hour. First hour is in the books.
Here on garden Line, I am going to be at Let's See a
Chanted Forest Enchanted Forest today from eleven thirty to one thirty. So when garden
Line's over, I'm heading that way. I hope you'll come out to see
me. We're going to be giving away a number of by Medina, like
the hast Grow six twelve six that I talk about for transplanting, the has
to Grow on We were just had a conversation about that a minute ago.
Has to Grow super Grow sixteen oh two. That is a brand new fertilizer.
It is. It's really cool. I'll be I'm going to be talking
about that a little bit later. Medina plus the liquid fish blend and a
lot of little sample bottles of various things, and just come out all those
giveaways. I'll be answering your gardening questions from eleven thirty to one thirty.
Add Enchanted for Us en Richmond, Enchanted Forest in Richmond if you have not
been out there before. The location is FM twenty seven fifty nine, Richmond,
Texas. While you're there, you're going to see all of the reasons
why I brag about Enchanted for Us every weekend on garden Line. I hope
you can make it out there today. We'll be right back to answer your
gardening question. KATRH Garden Line. It's not necessarily endorse any of the products
or services advertised on this program. Welcome to k t r H Garden Line
with Skip Rictor. It's crazy. Just watch him as well us so many
things again, not a sad Welcome back to guarden Line. Good to have
you with us today. If you'd like to give us a call, that's
why we're here. By the way, you'd like to give us a call,
it is seven one three two one two k t r H. Easy
to get a hold of us. We will talk about the things you're interested
in talking about, like your lawns and trees and shrubs and herbs. And
I don't know what what is of interest to you, what piques your interest?
What issues or you haven't in your lawn? I bet there are some.
It is really common to have a lawn that has issues in it,
because nature has a way sometimes of not like in the idea that we want
to have turf. I don't know why it feels that way. Lawn is
a contributor to a cooler environment around your house, like a actually turf.
The amount of bt us of heat that turf absorbs solar radiation is amazing significantly.
For example, in large cities, we have what we call a heat
island effect. That's all the concrete basically and asphalt and everything else that's absorbing
and reflecting heat everywhere, just hotter in the city than it is outside the
city. Turf around a home is part of that. Plant canopy tree canopies
are important in the same kind of way. You want to take care of
your turf. You want to keep it well fed. But think of feeding
your turf not just as one thing you do, but it's something you do
building the soil over time. Microlife is designed for that kind of thing.
They're a green bag. That's the six to four for microlife. That bag
is the standard for your lawn fertilizing in an organic type system. They have
designed it that way. It's loaded with microbes, micro all kinds of microbes
that interact with your soil roots to create that environment. Did you know that
if you were to take all the microbes out of the soil, plants would
have an extremely difficult, maybe impossible time of surviving in many cases because they
do so many things for the plants. Microbes make the world. They run
the world. They really do. They are in charge. Microlife also has
a humans plus that's a purple bag and that is loaded with microbial content.
But what is humates. Well, think of a pile of leaves and then
you decompose them and you have compost. Think of compost and it continues to
decompose away and you have humus. That's kind of the process. So humous
is a substance that is excellent for building your soil structure, for creating a
healthier soil environment. The aeration, the drainage, all the things that we
want we build over time by the way we care for our ones, and
microlife folks have designed a number of products for just that purpose. If you
want to find out more like where to get them, well, go to
Microlife Fertilizer dot com Microlifefertilizer dot com and you'll find there a list of the
places where you can get Microlife. I was talking a minute ago about my
flower beds and starting to get those revamped now that the turf project is behind
me, and boy, the turf project eight about three weeks because I had
to do so many things to get ready for the turf I have. The
home we moved into is blast I think, with three cypress trees. I
love cypress trees, but these trees in the soil we have, which is
not well drained. The soil itself, we'll send up knees everywhere, and
that's my lawnmower targets. And instead of playing whack a mole, I just
mow the heads off the moles when they pop up, and that's the cypress
tree. I got two and a half wheel barrows of cypress knees just to
get them out of the area so that I could have a head start at
least on getting that lawn in and growing. There are a lot of other
activities, but now it's onto the flower beds and I'm excited about that part.
We're also doing containers. We just planted some My wife planted some klaliies
and a container a little bit back ago, and we've got other containers that
are waiting for me to get to them to get things planted. Jungle Land
distributed by Nitrophoss. Jungle Land is a quality soil mix that drains well and
it also holds moisture. So it doesn't hold excess moisture, but it holds
moisture. It is the kind of mix that you just add your fertilizer to
and you're going to have a success with your plants. Don't cut corners on
cheap, low budget mixes. Make sure that you go with jungle Land for
your outdoor containers. There's also an indoor version called jungle Land water Saving Potting
soil. I'll talk about that in another time. Well, you can get
jungle Land at a lot of different places. For example, OspA ace up
in the Woodlands. Container carries the jungle Land plants for all seasons on two
forty nine carries it in, so does plants and things up in Brunham.
Well, I'm going to quit talking for just a moment here and we're going
to go up to Spring Branch and talk to Hurda. Hey it turn off
the radio and let's figure out what we can do for today. Thank you,
Thank you for being there for Kip. I have my thea are putting
on new leaves, but they have a few yellow leaves. Is that lack
of iron? If you look at an azalea branch, if the yellowing is
on the end of the branch, those leaves that are brand new coming out,
that's the worst yellowing there. That's iron. If you go back the
branch and it's the oldest leaves on the branch that are turning yellow, that's
not It could be a lack of nitrogen, but it also could just be
that they're getting old, they're getting shaded more back in there, and they're
falling off. So do you happen to know which it is? I think
it's the new leaves. Okay, Well, what you need to do is
you need to get a fertilizer that is for acid loving plants like azilias.
Camellias and blueberries for example. Oh yes, okay, and fertilized. Start
fertilizing with that. You might want to put a kelated iron product on.
And there's some products I know. Nitrophoss has one in a are the keylated
iron that you can put down. And what keylated means is it's like it's
got a bodyguard around a claw. Like you grab a tennis ball with your
hand. Your hand is your hand is the keylated. The tennis ball is
the iron that your hand is the kelation that doesn't let the source steal it
away, but lets the roots have it. It just gives it more time
to get in the roots. All right, all right, and let's see,
Uh I had a mallow zerr in too small a pot and it also
had a little one of those saucers at the bottom, okay part and it
was just having too much water okay, but transported it and the roots were
going in a circle. I kind of by hand loosened them. Yeah,
hey, I heard. I'm sorry to interrupt you, but I'm going to
need to go to a break. Can you tell me what your basic question
is on that is on that aloe? Hey? Yes, yes, sir,
thank you, Okay, thank you for the call. I appreciate that
very much. We're going to have to go to our break today and I'll
be right back. Welcome back to the garden line. The sky is glowing
with the promise of some sunshine here just a little bit, and today's the
day you got to get out and get some things done in the lawn and
garden. You're not going to find better weather than we got today. Trees.
Let's talk about trees. I said turf is the number one thing that
makes the phone ring. Trees are number two. Affordable tree service. Martin
Spoon Moore and his wife, they have been doing treecare for a long long
time here in the Houston area, over thirty years. They know what they're
doing, they know how to do it right. And if you have any
tree care that is needed, maybe you need to do some pruning because you
know storm season will come here and we're gonna have to be dealing with that.
Maybe you need some early training of your trees to get him off to
a good start. Maybe you need to do something around the tree, like
trenching, and you need Martin In there to advise you on whether or not
to do it. Some alternative options and how to care for your trees.
He does all that seven one three, six nine nine twenty six sixty three
seven one three, six nine twenty six sixty three. He'll do deep root
feeding for your trees as well. Pretty much anything you need have him come
out to do a consultation, he'll come out and he'll do that. Martin
has the knowledge, he understands what he's doing. By the way, another
way you can reach out to them is afftree Service dot com two fs Afftree
Service dot com. Hurder. Let's see if we can wrap this alo question
up. So you were it was in a pot and kind of water logged,
and where do we go from here? World? The US? It
was real pale green, but it's gotten more color now, but it has
a couple of tips that light brown. Do I just wait longer? Yeah,
just wait longer. There's nothing you can do to fix that, and
it'll just keep keep growing, especially if you give a little more space.
I got to run to another collar here, but thank you very much for
that call. We're going to go now out to Girardo and Meadows Place.
Hello, Girardo, Hey Skipiting, good morning to you. A question I
have I bought Dorset golden apple tree last year, and I was actually surprised
that came in the summer gallon pot and it started the fruit and so forth.
I cut all the fruit off. It probably produced like about six seven
apples. I cut it off. I put it in, put it in
the ground, actually a redbed, raised bed, put it in the ground.
And this year it's producing pretty much. I come in like twenty five
apples. My question is still a couple of questions. How old are the
trees will lose you when you buy them from a nursery, and the should
I actually cut off the fruit? Yeah, okay. Age varies depends on
the nursery you buy them from and whether they whether they Some nurseries will grow
their own things. Some nurseries will buy the men. Usually fruit trees are
purchased in uh and so I can't say exactly how old they are. But
when you graft a fruit tree, the graft wood you put on it,
or the bud wood you put on it is already mature. And so that's
why with fruit sometimes we get a little bit earlier production. If you could
pull most of those off, I would like to tell you in an ideal
world. Pull them all off and give the tree another year to grow.
Pull most of them off, maybe leave yourself, you know, five or
so apples on it so you can enjoy those, and it just will put
all that energy that went into fruit, it'll put them put it into branches
and growing bigger. So you can hang a lot of apples next year on
those trees. But anyway, that that's for your choice to do. I
can't remember the second half of your question. What was that now you basically
answered it. I wondered I was going to cut them all off, and
I'll do suggestion. I was thinking in my head, like, okay,
let me cut off most of them except for a few. Yeah. You
know, if you read the books, it says you got to cut them
all off for two or three two years at least. But I understand you're
looking at potential taste. But cut them off soon because the more time and
energy that goes into producing those twenty five apples, the less growth you're going
to get out of that tree as a result. So cut them off.
Okay, appreciate it, Thank you so much. Good have a good morning.
You bet, thanks a lot for that call. I appreciate that.
Moss Nursery is down to Seabrook, Texas, and it is a place where
I don't know, it's almost like going to the park or going to a
museum. I mean, they've got artifacts. The gym brings in from all
over the world. It's really cool. If you want to add a tropical
look, a tropical field to your garden, for example, well what about
some palms. Moss probably has eight to ten kinds of palms or so.
And the bay it take home size, you know, like the two to
eight foot range where it's still manageable. Of course, they have hibiscus and
bougainvillia. They always have that other tropical foliage. Oh my gosh, the
leaves of tropicals, elephant ear plants, ten to twelve different kinds of elephant
ear. Did you know there were that many bananas, five to six frities
bananas that he's got. And then the bird of paarad ice I'm talking about
that orange and blue flower version and ligularia that's those big, old, giant
above ground lily pads, if you will. They sort of look like big
lily pads, gingers and philodendron. Listen, Moss isn't just another garden Center.
It's a seventy year old, family operated eight acre source for everything that
you need, and I really need everything that you might need. There on
Toddville Road down there in Seabrook. You can go to the website Moss m
a a s nursery dot com. We're going to go now to Martin in
Sugarland. Hello Martin, there we go. How can I help today?
Hey? I was I was going to put out some high yield Uh.
I don't know if you could talk on get cut out there. I heard
the word high yield and nothing after that. Yeah, I was. I
was wanting to mix. Uh. I want to know the mix with the
high yield weed killer for Saint Augustine. And and they have another ingredient that
helps stick uh that it helps stick the high yield on the lead on the
weeds. I was wondering if you knew what the mixture was. I don't.
You have to read the label for the mixture, Okay, and that's
the right. And if you don't have the label still for some reason,
then go online and do a yield a high yield label search, you know,
and that that'll get you the mix that you need. What you're talking
about on sticking. That's a surfactant and you can buy you can buy surfactants.
You're done there in sugar Land, you probably well, Uh, Southwest
Fertilizers just up the road from you just a little bit. I would go
in there and tell Bob Bob, I need a surfactant. Uh. And
he even has that heightened product on the shelf where you could look at a
label from his product if you want to do that. And where is that,
uh, Southwest Fertilizer. Southwest Fertilizer is at the corner of Bissonet in
Renwick, Bissonet and Baguet in Southwest Houston. So just head up, head
up eighty nine. Hey, can you do that with a hose? Can
you apply it with a hose prayer? Not knowing the ingredient? What are
you going? Are you trying to prevent weeds or kill existing weeds? Existing
weeds? Okay? You I wouldn't generally do that with a hose in sprayer.
And the reason is all we got to do is get the leaves a
little wet. You start drenching things and washing it down in the soil,
and you got other issues. If you could do it spot. Yeah,
spot spot treatment will a little pump up. All right, that's good,
Dan. I appreciate your help. All right, Martin, thank you appreciate
that call. We love feedstorce here on Garden Line, and one of my
favorite stores is Grimes County Feeding Farm up in Carlos, Texas. I love
driving out to the Carlos, Texas area. I just think of that as
a God's country, just beautiful out there. So all of you that are
listeners of Garden Line that live in maybe king Oaks or Murewood Subdivision, or
in communities like Curtain and Iola and Reliance, Romees, Prairie, Shiro,
Beat Eyes, Richard's and all those communities out there, this is your hometown
feed store, even up in the Brian College Station area. It is not
a far drive out Highway thirty to Carlos, Texas and Grimes County Feed They're
two miles west of two forty four. The Roy family has owned and operated
this since the beginning, and they just treat you like family. And they're
active in the community. And we're talking about everything from past law enforcement careers
and fire careers to you name it. They are active in their community and
they carry all the fertilizers I'll talk about here on garden line and things to
control paths, and they bring in fish periodically. If you want to stalk
upon talk to them at Grimes County Feet. I'm going to head out now
to sugar Land and talk to Susan. Hello, Susan sky Skip. I'm
on my way to the nursery. But I have three questions quick. One,
I cannot find a setting for my got spreader for sweet green fertilizer.
Okay, if you don't know how much to put out on a fur laser
like that, we generally put it out a notch or two above halfway.
This is a push one with wheels, right, we're talking about ye.
Yes. So let's say that your spreader had ten settings for just as an
example, Well, five would be in the middle, so maybe six.
I would probably do six on that. And if you had twenty notches,
maybe eleven or twelve you'd put it down. But if you think it's too
much, you can drop you can drop it. But that's the best guess
because there's a lot of particle sizes and even the way the particles kind of
sift down and move from different kinds of things. It's hard to be exact,
and I know that's confusing, but go for it really hard. I
can't find it setting on any of the websites. That answers my question.
But the other thing I asked wanted to ask is pill bugs. I've heard
a slugo and that I have ve here. What's better to use? Dietamacious
earth is not that great out there in the environment where the dew and rainfall
and stuff like that get on it. Slugo and there's a slug o plus
I think it's called plus. There's something in addition to slugo on the name.
Those two products put out would be a good approach. But remember pill
bugs are out there in the mult They're primarily wanting to decompose, eat that
decomposing material, unless it's my yard where they eat the bottoms off every strawberry
in my patch. Yes, yes, well that's my problem. My deal
is like no more. And then the other quick question was a good bag
soil that I can put in my raised beds to refresh them before I put
my herbs in. I would get heirloom soils, veggie and herb mix because
it's why available. It's can be easy to find in your area. I
suspect it's a Southwest fertilizer because they carry everything. Uh. And if you
go down to your two nurseries down there in Richmond and Chennant Forest Enchanted Gardens,
they're going to have it. Okay, okay, so heirloom Okay,
thank you Reggie and herb mix from Heirlooms. Okay, yep, very good.
Thanks for your help, your show. Thank you. I appreciate that.
Well, it's good to talk to you today. I am going to
turn the mic over here to Nikki for the news, but I just wanted
to add that, don't forget. I'm going to be down at Enchanted Forest
Garden Center in Richmond, actually just outside toward trigger Land. I'll be there
today from eleven thirty to one thirty answering your gardening question. So I hope
you can join us. All right, Nikki, it's all yours. Welcome
back to guard Line on what is already a beautiful day to get out in
the garden. Let's do something. Hey, here's an idea. Have you
ever grown vegetables in a container? You ought to try it. Container.
I'd go for one maybe five gallon size for most of the smaller statued vegetables,
or it can always be larger. Or if you're going to do tomatoes,
get up at least ten gallons and you will have better success with that
as well. But it would be a good thing to be out and about
doing today. Give it a try. It's fun to grow your own food.
It's just I don't know, it's just rewarding in a deep, deep
sense. While Ago I was talking about slugo, we were discussing dealing with
some pill bugs and things. I want to clarify a little bit about about
that bait, Slugo. Standard Slugo is an iron phosphate bait. That's the
ingredient iron phosphate. And what happens. It's a bait. So the slugs
and snails and saw bugs or whatever, they're going to eat that, and
when they eat it, it causes a terminal case of constipation. Okay,
I'm sorry. That is as nice as I can put it, terminal case
of confimation, and it kills them that way. Well, they've taken slugo
bait, the iron phosphate, and they've added spinosid to it, which is
an organic and scticide, and it gives additional control. So it's called Slugo
plus. That's the two. And this isn't a commercial slugo. It's I'm
just telling you these two and how they work well. When it's ingested by
slugs and snails. You know, first of all, they they quit feeding
and that's that is the important thing right there. So if you want to
expand it the SLUGO from slugs and snails to a lot of other things,
I would go with the Slugo plus uh. And it's widely available of seen
it on shelves all over the Houston area, so not hard to find.
Our phone number is seven to one three two one two fifty eight seventy four,
or if you want to dial by letter seven one three two one two
ktr H. That's easy to remember when it was the last time you were
at the Antique rose Emporium, the Antiqurosenporum. That is one of my favorite
places to go because there is always something going on and because of the experience
of being out there. When you go to the antiqu Rosenmporium, it's like
you've gone back in time and it is just beautiful and boy, this time
of year is a great time to go and get out there. You're going
to see a lot of different display gardens that are beautiful. Certainly when it
comes to antique roses, I mean they have them in space. They people
all over the country by roses from antiquros and Porum. They're well known.
They grow them in three gallon pots, which makes for a little more robust
plant, a little better putting it out and getting a good headstart. You
can find out more at Antique Roseemporium dot com Antique Roseemporium dot com. That
is one thing that I would suggest today be a good day to get out
and do that. By the way, they're having educational workshops with the Native
Plant Partner Program from ten am to two pm two day out at Antique Rose
and Porium and the Tinker Garden. That's where the children. It's a children's
gardening program. That's a good name for it. This will be a six
week curriculum starting April nineteenth and twentieth at one pm, goes through mid May
and the kids are going to learn all kinds of fun things. Go out
there, check it out. It is pretty cool. I'm going to go
now to San Leone and we're going to talk to Terry Hello, Terry.
Yeah, hey, my grandson. I have a gardener in my backyard and
I had my grandson over and we had dinner the other night and I had
avocados, jalapenos, tomatoes, and I threw them into garbage. Well,
my grandson, when I was into the bathroom, went and he dug all
those things out and he buried it. He's me working in the garden,
and he said, Papa Berry, does all that all those seeds in your
garden over there and just all a mixed bag right there in the middle.
You show me where you dug it up. Can I just let that go
for him and see what happened? Yeah, you can. You can.
You know if if all the peppers came up in one spot, well your
peppers will be they will grow, they will produce peppers, but it it
will be a different version of the pepper you planted. Most peppers are hybrids.
There are a lot of self pollinating So if it was a self pollinating
variety, it's going to be pretty much like the one that you picked or
bought or whatever. Is he gonna make that tomatoes like spicy? No,
No, not at all, not at all. No, there's no between
species. There's none of that stuff going on in the vegetable garden. Oh
all right, So I just let it go and let him enjoy it.
There you go make a new man out of well. And you can cheat
a little bit. You can kind of scoop up a young plant if it's
too close together, you know, like a pepper and a tomato that are
three inches apart. I think you got to move one and put it in
the other area, and nobody will know the difference. And I won't tell
him, I promise. I appreciate. I love your show. Thank you,
Thank you, Terry. I appreciate, appreciate that very much. If
you're looking to have a beautiful yard, your yard is needing a supply of
nitrogen. Supplementally additional nitrogen through the growing season, and lawns grow like crazy.
Our southern turf grass is the big three, Saint Augustine, Zysio grass
and Bermuda grass. They grow like crazy if they have water going through this
warm season or hot season. Super Turf nineteen four to ten Super turf the
silver bag from nitrofoss. It has half its nitrogen in a slow release form,
so it's going to gradually feed over time. And it also has four
percent iron. Now, when you see yellowing of the grass, oftentimes it's
an iron deficiency. And with the adding the four percent iron in here,
that is just a really good extra touch from the folks at Nitrofoss. Nitropross
Fertilizers are going to find them widely available. ACE Hardware on Memorial Drive they've
got them down there, Katie Hardware, Ace out on Pinnock they've got them
there as well. Our Stanton Shopping Center down in Alvin are all places you
can get this Nitrofoss Super Turf, the silver bag. We're going to go
now to Jersey Village and talk to Ed. Hello, Ed, Good morning,
Skip Kip. I've got a rose I've got a rose bush issue.
Okay, this rose bush. It's in about a fifteen gallon plot, five
six years old, maybe older, but it makes beautiful roses. These first
ones that have come out just fantastic, planted properly like we do, color
Star fertilizer. Been feeding them. But the leaves, the new growth,
new leaves up toward the buds, and the buds are turning gnarly, wrinkled
like it's got a fungus. I've and ends up making up affecting the bud.
They don't bloom out good. There are red rose get dark red almost
just don't. Then my next other bush is just beautiful. I don't know
what's on these on this bush. Okay, do you notice the new shoots
are are very red with lots of little thorns more than normal? No?
Would you? And I tell you what there? Because there's a disease that's
very significant for roses. I want to I want to take a look before
I speculate. You can gnarly growth can be caused by a hormone type heerbicide
like two four D, which is in TRIMEC mixes if you get on roses,
and that is a possibility. But there's also a disease called rose rosette.
Would you take a picture of the bush and then take a picture,
maybe two or three pictures up really close, but make sure they're in sharp
focus of what you're seeing already. Okay, And I'm going to put you
on hold and Josh will give you the email to send them to. All
Right, thanks a lot, we'll talk about them later. I'll talk about
them later on the show if I get them and have a chance to look
at them before the end of the show. All right, thanks a lot.
Yeah, yeah, you don't want to mess around with rose rosette.
That is a very contagious and very devastating disease. I was in my yard
this past week. It was early in the morning. In fact, it
even started in the house. I was having coffee with my wife who were
sitting there, and I just talking about how much I love the sound of
like birds in the morning, just early early in the morning. You can
hear them come out and they start singing. And to go out and sit
on a patio and have a cup of coffee, and are you know you
don't have to have coffee to do this, but to just enjoy that early
morning. It's cool. It's everything's waking up for the day. And boy,
the birds are their loud mouths first thing in the morning, they really
are. I enjoy that. And it's because you know, we've got feeders
out and we put the kind of feed that birds like, so they come
to our house. We give them water. We got plenty of water stores
there for them and Wildbird's Unlimited can get you set up on all of the
above and more. They have quality feeds like the nesting super blend. That's
an important one in the spring because birds are raising young and it provides the
nutrients in a very very i'm say a concise form, meaning there's not debris
and waste. When you open a bag of wild Birds, you get a
bag of bird food. There's not those little red bebes that are in cheap
bird feed. That's not in Wildbirds Unlimited. If you go to Walbirds Unlimited's
website WBU dot com and then a forward slash Houston WBU dot com forward slash
Houston, you can find out all about them. I'm going to be doing
some Waldbirds appearances here a little a little later in the season, and I
hope you will check them out online and then go to a store. It's
time to take a break. We'll be right back. Our phone number is
seven one three two point two. Ktr Well, welcome back to Garden Line
on a wonderful day. I bet some of you may even be sitting outside
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Lots of ways to listen to garden Line, So tell your friends about
it. We always love to have new listeners and if we can help them
have a more bountiful garden and a more beautiful landscape, we'll do just that.
One of the ways you have a bountiful garden and a beautiful landscape is
to start with the soil. Start with the soil. I know, you
go to the garden center, there's pretty plants, big old flowers on them.
You want to take that home, but just know this, you're either
going to PLoP it into the plant into an unprepared plot, or you're going
to fix the soil first so that when you put that plant you bought in,
it thrives. CNA Maltch down south south of the Houston area. Ciena
malt down the Sienna area. They are a place where you can get all
kinds of things to make your round. Stuff really affective for plants. By
the way, They're on FM five point twenty one just north of Roast Sharon.
The website is cienamult dot com. They just got in bulk of some
of the airlom soil leaf mold composts. They also carry the veggie and herb
mix. I was telling somebody about that a little bit ago for building up
a bit. Sienna Maltz has what you need, including every fertilizer I talk
about on guarden Line, and a lot of pest control as well. Cienamultch
We're going to now go to Richmond and talk to Sean. Hello. Sean,
Hey, So I'm currently I recently bought a home and the lawn wasn't
in that grade of a condition. I've got about one hundred square feet of
the lawn that really needs to be either resawed for meat a seed, and
I started to go ahead and see with the Bermuda, but I'm kind of
trying to figure out what the best soil mix would be to kind of top
the soil off to ensure that it stays moist and kind of get washed away
for many rain well, you know, the wash away when the soils bear.
Nothing's going to stop that, especially if it's a slope. But I
would go with some type of the top soil to fill in those areas.
You want something reasonably close to the lawn that the soil you already have,
and to fill in those areas. I wouldn't put in a compost unless you're
gonna rototillot into the soil surface. But in general, just a good top
soil is probably the best way to go. Okay, do you recommend any
any particular brand of top soil or any any particular store that would be good
to use. The war On Rock and Malt is up in the Porter area.
I don't know if you've been up to Warren Rock and Molts before,
but I think I think that that would be a pretty good source for you.
I realize you're really close to it. You know, you're in a
task asta, so all you got to do is drive up the street a
little f their deporter and go to Warren's Rock and Mulch and they can FoST
you up on a lot of different things. Perfect. And as far as
fertilizing after putting the seed down, is there any particular fertilizer you recommend to
get the seeds grown, just a lawn fertilizer. But early on they don't
have the roots and don't need the fertilizing. They need to establish some sort
of a plant before you start fertilizing them. So you got some time after
seeding those little spindley seedlings. Yeah, don't fertilize those. Just just wait
until it gets established and has a good root system and then you can do
that. All right, okay, And last question I have is regarding nitro
false fertilizers. I know you recommend those quite a bit. What would be
the closest location for me to find those products? Nitrophos is widely available,
you see. Where are you Richmond, Texas? Where are you closest to
Oh? I had I had, I said you're inn Ataska seed a while
ago. I'm sorry you're not Richmond. I think Ciena Mulch may be the
closest for you to get some things like that. Okay, I'll give them
a cry, thank you, take care, bye bye? All right,
We appreciate you listening to garden Line and Hosts. Got a little crossed over
there. Enchanted Forest is and literally an enchanting place. That's where I'm going
to be today from eleven thirty to one pm. When you go to Enchanted
Forests, You're going to find everything you need. Do you want flowers,
you want vegetables and herbs? They have all of that, a lot of
all of that. Do you want shrubs and trees, Yes, they have
that as well. Containers. That little gift shops really cool too. If
you are looking for anything for your plants and gardens and whatnot, check out
Enchanted Forest. When it comes to pollinator gardens, boy, that is a
hot thing right now. They have a super white selection, including for butterfly
plants, super wide selection of plants that help you create that special kind of
garden that you're trying to create. We're going to go now to a Tascasida
and talk to Judith. Hello Judith, Hi, Hi, Skip. I've
been trying to remember for years what it is? Is it hummus or you?
Ye know? I don't know what it is and I can't find my
notes. Okay, what to do? There's a neglected lawn across the street
and it has waves of golden waves of sandburs in it that you know,
cats, sneakers, bikes, everybody gets them in their feet. You drag
them into your house, the whole thing, and there's something to pour on
there that it will stop it. I mean, it's not my house,
but it's hurting the whole neighborhood. Right, If you can get a product
out before they come up, which I suspect they're already sprouting out there and
you're, oh, yeah, I used to dig them out, but now
somebody's renting it. Yeah. Yeah, the pre emergence is important. Let
me just mention this on my website, gardening with skip dot com. I
have my pest disease and we'd management schedule look at it and next spring it'll
tell you when to apply these products to stop December. Other than that,
you could spray a grass only killer and that would kill anything grassy that you
spray it on. Over there. It's not a lawn, right, it's
just weeds. Well, it's the front strip, you know, the the
access strip. Oh so there is turf there. No, Now it's all
sand, okay and weeds, nothing but sand and weeds. So another option
would be, if you're gonna kill all the weeds, a product containing Life
of State does that Life that's a round up type product, many brands of
that. If you want to kill just the grass, grassy weeds, there
are products out there that control grass, and if you go to a good
garden center, they can direct you to that. Go out to Kingwood Garden
Center or Warren Southern Gardens, they can direct you to it. And there
you would use something and the ingredient begins with the boy's name SETH s E
T H. Look for something that starts with seth. That's for grassy weeds,
and that ought to get you in business. Hey, I'm I'm gonna
have to run here pretty quick, but I hope that Okay, good luck,
thank you, good luck with that. We're going to go to Marty
in Fairfield. Hey, Marty, what's up? Hey? And I have
to break Ye're up against a break in two minutes on the date read the
side bed. Put a race bed against a brick wall that it's already time
high up against the reapholes. Okay, what can I between the bed and
the wheelholes to keep the dirt from going into the whols. Ah, boy,
I wouldn't do that approach. I would. I would put a board
whatever the bed border you want to use, put a board or whatever,
you know, a few inches away from the house there, because you need
to be able to see. You need to be able to have access to
the foundation. When someone's coming out and checking for termites and stuff, they're
looking for the little mud runs that come up the wall and think they need
to be able to see that and have access to it. Right, But
what can I put down there to keep the dirt away from them? Oh?
Well, I mean you could. You could use whatever you would use
to border a bed. I mean, it could be treated with timbers,
it could be a fancy bedding material could I mean, it could be rocks
cemented in or there's a lot of ways to go about it. Okay,
well that's not that wide. So I was just trying to figure out.
Okay, no, frost are great, I have plenty, all right,
Thank you, Marty. Appreciate that a lot. Uh Yeah, always leave
those wheepoles open. People will malt a garden bed and the mault comes up
above the wheepole, and you're just you're just asking for problem that Marty knows
that that's why she called asks the question, but a lot of people don't
pay attention to that, and it is important that you do pay attention to
that. Maybe you get away with it for a little while, but eventually
it's going to catch up to you. You're listening to Garden Line and we're
here every Saturday and Sunday from six am to ten am, and our phone
number if you'd like to give us a call. Coming back from the break,
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Putting another hour in the books here. We'll be right back after the news.
It's the hour and we'll be talking about your gardening questions and a few
things I'd like to throw in as well. Oh, I also should tell
you just one more time. I know people tune in and are out at
different times. I'm going to be at the Enchanted Forest Garden Center. Enchanted
Forest, that's the one out in Richmond on FM twenty seven fifty nine.
So if you're in Richmond, you're heading up to a trigger land. It's
off to the right twenty seven fifty nine enchanted forests. I'm going to be
entering gardening question. I'm going to be giving away a lot of Medina products,
things like has to Grow six twelve six, that's the one I always
talk about for transplanting, hast to Grow Lawn twelve four to eight, Medina
super Grow which is a new one sixteen zero two Medina, plus the liquid
Fish Blend, and a lot of those small sample bottles, and most of
all, I'll be answering your gardening question. Hope to see you then.
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two one two k trh on garden line, I always say brown stuff before
green stuff. And what that means is that sounds simple to me. I
like it. But anyway, it means that get the soil right before you
put the plant in. You can buy soils and plants at all of our
great garden centers around the area here, but get the soil right, and
that includes both soil bed amendments, but it also includes nutrition and microlife.
Fertilizers are designed in fact, they're packed with microbial content and they're designed to
decompose into the soil. As microbes get a hold of that microlife granule if
you will, they release the nutrients out of it. And the six two
four fertilizer fur lawns. That's how that works, That's how all their products
work. You get an enhancement of microbial growth because not only does this product
have microbes in it, but your soil has microbes in it, and it
feeds and absolutely sets those plants root systems up for success. That is important.
Now for the lawns, hu Mates plus zero zero four that would be
a good one to add periodically because every time you add it, you're contributing
toward building so structure out there, and you're also giving microbes a very good
place where they thrive. And that's that's how it works. The humans talking
to somebody earlier wanted acid loving plants. Microlife has a kind of a pink
bag, bright pink bag that is for acid loving plants. You can find
out more at microlifefertilizer dot com. Microlifefertilizer dot com makes it real easy to
find it and get it. We're going to go now to Katie and talk
to John. Hello, John, Hey, good morning. Just wanted to
make a quick common plask my question. You're talking about the Hosta Grow.
Those products are awesome. My neighbor across the street he said, last year,
the tomatoes once they get to a certain temperature, they stopped producing.
Mine. I was using the Hosta Grow fertilizer for my tomatoes. They just
never stopped producing until like October. I mean it's nuts good. Well,
there's several different great has to grow products from Medina that are out there,
and the ones I've tried so far. I'm about to try the sixteen O
two and that's a new one. But the ones I've tried so far are
just awesome. They work, Yes, they do, so shout out to
them. So my question is, I got a nineteen year old lawn in
Katie. We have some big oak trees with some shade, and the Saint
Augustine's kind of thinned out, so I'm looking to put some grass seed in
there to cover and fill in the bary spots. What kind of grass do
you recommend? Because there's so many different types. Did you say you're wanting
to seed grass or just put the put the grass maybe plugs or side pieces
in just the grass seed. There's bermuda and Zoosha and rye and rescue and
for the warm season here, there isn't a grass seed for a shady spot.
Saint Augustine is a shady, taller shade tolerance we're going to get and
there's not a seed available for it. So you would be looking at purchasing
some either siding the whole thing or putting some pieces, take up side pieces
and cut them into strips and plant those strips to make your dollar go a
little further. But if it may be too shady even for Saint Augustine to
thrive, in which case the only solution is to brighten the shade by removing
some of the canopy of the tree, and that is a very temporary solution
that generally I don't like to recommend. Okay, what about sunny spots,
what kind of like close to the street where there's no shade cover in your
lawn? Is Saint Augustine? Correct? Okay, Well, if you don't
mind a mix, there are Bermuta seeds, but it will be invasive and
it will and have it all through your lawn and it will you'll have that
mix a very different looking grass. So I don't know that you would want
to give that a try, as long as it's green. Okay, Well,
that would be an option. There also also are some Zoizia seeds.
Have you ever considered azoysia a variety before? I'm looking at the different ones,
and that is one of the types on the home people website. Okay,
well, I would I would consider that. There's a website it's Aggie
Turf dot t a m U dot e ed u Aggie Turf dot TAMU dot
e d u And if you go there, there's a section for Texas turf
grasses and you can click on zoysia and what it will will have as you
scroll down. Is there's a number of different varieties of zoysia that are available.
I don't know azoisia that well. There there are actually there's two on
there that apparently can be purchased by seed. May be hard to find.
I don't know. I've never tried that before, but there are two voyages
on that list of recommended ones. All right, Hey, I'm going to
have to have to run, John, Thanks for the CALLI appreciate that a
lot. You know, I was talking about the microlife and building the soil.
Well, another big part of building the soil is to bring in some
type of decomposed organic matter, whether it is a compost top dressing, which
the folks at Nature's Way have a wonderful supply of screened compost excuse me,
screened compost top dressing with leaf mold composts, and that would be great on
your lining put in the soil if you want. But they also have bed
mixes like things for vegetables or things for fruit or just flowers. Whatever you
want to grow, you're going to find it in Nature's Way. That's the
gardens, the nursery. And actually I say that because they do have a
lot of plants available too. You need to check that out. But that's
the one up north on the State forty five where fourteen eighty eight comes in
from the west side. You turn right across the railroad tracks and you're there.
Here's the phone number nine three six three two one sixty nine to ninety.
Remember on Fridays they have Fungal Friday sale, which is ten percent off
the bag product and twenty percent off the bulk product of fungal composts. We
are going to head back to the phones now and go to Jersey Village.
Talk to George. Hello, George, Yeah, good morning, Gip.
How thing's going with you? Going well? Thanks? I've had two opinions
on when to harvest some yukongo potatoes. It one was that one of the
flowers appear. The other one was one day the plant starts to die.
So which one is accurate? Oh, I don't go by the flowers when
the plant starts declining. I do, but you know, you can steal
potatoes off in the short term in there kind of like the red new potatoes.
You kind of dig down and find a big one and remove it and
let the plant keep going with the rest of them, I give you a
headstart. All right, okay, thanks very much, thank you much.
I appreciate that we're gonna have to take a break right here. Those of
you that are on hold, we will get to you first when we come
back. Welcome back to the Guardenline. Good to have you with us today.
Listen. If you haven't been an RCW nursery to check out their selection
of plants, you need to do that. Rcw's the nursery where Tambo Parkway
FM two forty nine comes in to belt Way eight. It's easy access,
easy get to their row selection pages and pages over two hundred and thirty roses
that they can carry there at RCW. Always call to find the roads you
want and then call do you have the men stock? And like all their
plants. If they don't have it, they can probably order it and bring
it in if it's available. That's why we call RCW. They get it.
Got it nursery RCW nurseries dot com. You need to check it out.
You need to go there. And of course the fertilizers you hear me
talk about here on garden Line and many other products of well are available there
at RCW. We are now going to go to Bjata in Baytown. Hello,
bj Hi. I planted some four o'clock flowers from seeds. They are
just beautiful, but they're not blooming. What do I do when it comes
from seed? It takes a little while to establish. That's actually a perennial
type plant. It has underground storage roots and so it may be a little
slower, but it should It should do fine. Is it getting plenty of
sun? Oh? Definitely yes. And the steams are just beautiful, but
nows Okay, Well, I would say time, don't push them with extra
nitrogen just yeah, just you know that that's the one probably that's not going
to help a lot right now. If they're growing and looking good, I
would just hold off on that and then you can use a flower type fertilizer
later on in the season. Thank you, all right, Thanks appreciate that.
Four o'clocks are a really cool old time flower, but beware they like
to They're persistent, and so don't plan them where you don't want them.
That's one way to look at it. Let's go to Jerry and West Columbia.
Hello Jerry, Hello Jip Hey, we will be transplanting three slabo trees
today. I just want to see what kind of tips you can get me
on having a successful transplant. So are you digging them out of the ground
somewhere or are you pulling them out of containers? Okay, out of the
ground. It's a tough time of year to do that. You want to
get as much of the root system as you can, which is a challenge
because it's heavy. Soil is heavy. But try to get as much of
the roots as you can. Cover those roots up in the transition. Are
you going to have to drive them somewhere? Are they on your property?
I'm driving them about? Oh wow, okay, boy, you keep making
it harder for us there. You got to keep the roots wet, pack
them in something wet, and you've got to keep the wind off of those
leaves. You know, a couple of two or three shade cloths put over
the top of them in the back of the truck or trailer or whatever.
And because that's just going to draw them out more. The challenge is going
to be can they grow roots in time before the leaves have lost enough water
to wear the plant defoliates, So that that is a challenge. If you
could wait to do any transplanting. Fall is the best time to get that.
Late fall it is the best time to get that done. Or winter
in the fall. Yeah, late fall like November, December, January,
all those months are good for if you got to dig up and move a
plant, much better chance of success. Okay, Now, what about like
adding anything to the soil? Is anything? Is there anything you would recommend?
No, that is going to be a big tree that has roots going
far and wide. Don't amend the soil and the planting hole. It's not
going to help it. If you wanted to rototill some soil in a big,
big area before you dig the planting hole, some soil, some compost
or something a little bit, you could do that, but the tree is
going to be Okay. You just need to as you fill the soil back
with whole. When with soil, water the whole periodically as you're filling it
so the soil settles in among the roots. You want good root to soil
contact, not a bunch of air pockets all underneath there. Gotcha? Okay,
Okay, Chip, thank you, all right, you bet, thanks
for the call. Appreciate that. Sweet Green is a product by Nitrofoss that
is a molasses based product. Molasses and microbes are basically what does the work
of making sweet grain happen. Is one of the high organic or nitrogen content
organic type materials that you're going to find on the available on the market.
Sweet Green is about eleven percent nitrogen and it it smells great. I love
to put some in the back of the car and haul them around. But
sweet Green is easy to apply, it does work, and being a sugar
type product, the microbes just love it, absolutely love it. You're going
to find it in Shades of Texas up in the Woodlands in chenned Garden down
in Richmond Rosenberg area, and you can also find sweet Green at Fishers Hardware,
both the one in South Houston on Southmore and the one in Laport out
on South Broadway. We're going to go back to the phones now and we're
going to talk to Mark in Jersey Village. Hello, Mark, Hi,
Skip. I have outsourced my lawn care to commercial group that has not done
well, and I've got an estepe lawn thirty years or more, but it's
really thin. So I'm taking back over the management of feeding and everything.
But I wanted to clarify something I purchased the naitroposs nineteen ten yesterday, but
I also got asimite. Is this something I should apply together or on the
same treatment or do they work together? Well, well, it doesn't matter.
Think of as a mite as stocking up the soil bank account with trace
mentals and nutrients. The nitrophys is going to provide the big nutrients that it
needs in quantities, and especially the nitrogen that promotes growth. So if you
want to do them on the same day, if you want to do them
six months apart, it doesn't matter great to delay on the nitrophile. It
is time to be doing nitrogen fertilizing to our lawns. You can also yeah,
yeah, all right. So my grandson's coming today and he's going to
be doing the spreading, and you've given me the clue on how to do
it. Thank you, thank you, thank you very much. My wife's
uncle and my wife's one of her cousins, second cousins. I guess little
child was working with his uncle out in the garden and the uncle had a
big pile of manure that he's putting out on the garden, and this kid
was going in and just taking his hands and playing with the manure and stuff,
and he kept telling him, son, that's manure, that's manure.
And finally he goes gen you know what manure is and the guy shakes his
head no, and he told him and the kid just runs inside to clean
up. It was like a revelation. Orgeshidden Gardens is down there in Alvin.
Have you been to Orgesiden Gardens. You got to check them out.
They're in Alvin. And he always has a stock of some nice plants.
He's got roses, citrus trees if that hadn't sold out on them, but
citrus trees like sensuma orange, the lime, and the Meyer lemon. If
you like blueberries, he has those and thornless blackberries as well at Horages Hidden
Gardens. And of course you're gonna find vegetables and perennials and other things.
That tree stabilizer, the three sixty tree stabilizer I was talking about, that's
at Horaes Hidden Gardens. Really really easy and Horaes a great guy to visit
with. I think you got to go the best to go on a weekend,
Friday or Saturday. It is a good day. Jorges Hidden Gardens down
in Alvin. We are gonna let's see here, Oh God, hanging on
there. I wanted to I wanted to talk just briefly about successful bloom production
in your flower beds. In general, we have different kinds of plants.
We have annuals and perennials. The perennials typically have their bloom season and then
they're done, and it may be a short season, it may be a
longer season, but that's what they do. Annuals will live through the course
of the year but then die and they don't come back again. And we
have annuals that have a fairly short season because they need like let's say,
cool weather. But then we have annuals that go a long time in the
summer beds. One of the best is Vinca or Madagascar periwinkles what I call
it, but vinca very heat tolerant, long long, long, long term
bruling. Then we have Angelonia that's another good one, long long, long
term. You want to keep the plants stimulated with good nutrients to push growth.
That is important. And so as you fertilize your beds, like using
a product like Nelson color Star for example, as you fertilize those beds,
you're going to get a rejuvenation of growth. And when you have a rejuvenation
of growth, you can cheer them back if you need to, and they'll
push fresh new growth. But leaves make sugars that help the plants that blooms
and if it fruits, set fruit. And that is why it's important,
even with blooming plants to have a good supply of nitrogen to support that growth.
If you're growing in a container, jungle Land by nitrofoss is the way
to go. I talked earlier about their outdoor jungle Land Flour and Vegetable planting
soil indoors. They have a water saving potting soil no. It has crystals
that absorb way many times their weight in water. And when the roots are
in the soil and the potting soil dries out, those crystals don't dry out
as fast. They slow down. The roots can still get moisture from those
and it makes it a little more forgiving if you forget to water maybe a
little bit too long. I know you don't do that, but people do
that. Well, if you want more information, where can I get it?
Where can I find that kind of thing? Well, you can find
it at Lake Hardware down in Clute you can find it. It Gem's hard
where in Montgomery you can find this particular product distributed by Nitrofoss the jungle Land
at the ACE Hardware and Katie at single ranch. That's widely available and it
works. So make sure and supply your plants what they need. And you
know we always talk about the brown stuff and the green stuff. By providing
what they need, you are going to have. You know that you're going
to have that bank account so the roots can thrive. That is critical.
ACE Hardware is another place where all the ACE hardwers where you're going to get
nitrophce Nitrofoss type products. ACE has everything. You know. Their slogan is
ACE is a place well. ACE is a place for everything garden as well.
Do you need fertilizers, They've got them fire and controlled. This is
the season to start with your bait and then finish with the mound treatments a
couple of weeks later. If any of the mounds escape the bait. If
you just do mound treatments, you're playing whack them with fire mounts and it's
just a it's a treadmill. So start with the bait. Mosquito repellent and
the mosquito dunks, for example, they've got those at Ace Hardware, and
boy is at Mosquito season. As the mosquitos told me last week when I
was working in my vegetable garden one day. Hey, we're gonna quit talking
here our phone number seven to one three two to one two KTRH. I
am going to turn the mic over to Nicky and the news and we'll be
right back. So if you would like to give Joshua call at the number
seven to one three two one two ktr h, you can be the first
stup when we come back. Welcome back to guard Line. Good to have
you with us today. I'm going to start off by heading to Jersey Village
and talking to Gary. Hello Gary, Hi, scare petty doing. I'm
doing well. Thanks good. I'm on my way to Dayton to pick up
a bee hive. I think I need some pollinators in my backyard, so
I'm going to give this a try. Oh wow, okay, good.
Good. Sounds sounds like a plan. Yeah. I wanted to ask you
about raised beds. In the past, I've used would to make my frame
that lasts a couple of years and then it runs out I think I've heard
you talk about or I've seen some options for uh modular type. Yes,
raised beds, Yes, absolutely? And what's Is there a local distributor someplace
I can go look at these? Yes? Absolutely, it is Vego Garden
Beds v E g O. And if you if you go online uh and
do and find Vego uh, you're going to be able to connect with them
here locally. They have a spot up in kind of the Klient area,
sort of north area of Houston, and they have the beds all laid out
there. It's beautiful. You can go see it and check it out and
all of that, and let me I'm gonna try to get you a phone
number or a web I want to say Vego Garden dot com, but I
want to make sure I'm right about that. Yeah, I don't, dang
it, I don't have that with me. But it's easy to find begore.
Are you familiar with the price points? Where is it going to be
better to go back with the wood frames? Are? Well? I think
I think long term the metal beds are probably going to be your better bet
because even the rot resistant wood does in time decay and it also warps and
and there are other issues, you know with it, and some people don't
like putting treated wood in something in a bed they're going to eat, for
example. You're talking about pollinators though, so those are your options. There's
a lot of other, you know, options on the market that people do.
But I would do the vego if it were me. Okay, all
right, right, I appreciate the information, Yes, sir, thank you
very much. I appreciate that call. You know. The folks at Escaper's
Pride twenty seven different products, bagged products. They also have bulk available too.
By the way, you can go to Landscaperspride dot com. That's the
website. While are you there, check out the Premium potting soil. You
can use it indoors or outdoors. It contains prolide, it has color Star
Noilson color Star fertilizer in It feeds up to three months and so the roots
just are very happy. And Premium Potting Sole pot dirt is an organic certified
soil. It does really well for all your flowering plants. It's packed with
nutrients, worm casting sand, vermiculide, and more so, when you're doing
a color change in a bed, get some pot dirt from Landscaper's Pride.
Mix it into the soil each time you do that, and you're just gonna
have better and better results. And there's many others. Garden Magic, for
example, has humus and screen pine and composted rice sALS and pelleted chicken fertilizer
in it that lasts up to six months as well. Landscaperspride dot Com go
there you can find sources are a nice multi calculator. It's easy, easy,
one stop shopping there with Landscaper's Pride. We're going to now go to
uh Pinehurst and talk to Vicky. Hello Vicky, good morning skips. I
have a question about weed that's in my yard. I've looked it up and
I know what it is, but I want to know if it dies in
the summer heat. It's that hory h O A r y BOLISA vote can
you spell up from me? Or yes, h O A r y and
then the second order bo b O w l E s I A. That
is a new one to me. How did you get that id on it?
Uh? From uh? From my phone? Okay taking a picture?
Okay, well it may well be hory belicia. Uh. I just noticed
that our medicine man here locally Meriweather for our forager. His website has Horri
Belicia on it with a lot of information and ID and stuff like that.
You I want to check that out. Apparently I don't have time to read
this whole page right now, but it's on his edible website. So that's
kind of curious. But you're wanting to get rid of it, right,
Yes, I am. I just won't need to know if it dies in
the summer. I know it's a spring and winter weed is what I found,
but I can't find out if it you know, the summer heat will
kill it. Yeah. Everything I'm finding is like edible or like kind of
like cilantro. I don't want to eat it. I will get this kinda
kind of like cilantro. That's good. Is it edible? I'm going to
have to check on that. I mean, excuse me? Is it?
Is it a perennial? That is? That's what you're asking And what we
thought was that that you had. The one that I was telling you about
is forage Texas dot com. Foraging. Mark is extremely knowledgeable and all kinds
of things regarding flora foraging and whatnot, So I would I would recommend that
you check that website out really really well. I'm just sitting here trying to
real quickly thought if these sites should tell us that it is a Perennie orange
and I'm not seeing that. I'll keep looking. If I figured out,
I'll say it on the air. Okay, thank you so much, Skip,
I appreciate it. You bet too. Yeah, kind of confusing there.
You know Nelson's turf star Slow and Easy. We are in that season
now. And if you go to my website gardening with Skip dot com and
we're talking about fertilizing plants and when do you do it and what do you
do and so on, Well, Nelson Slow and Easy, that's the one.
It's so, it's the Slow and Easy Blue. It's a blue bag,
makes it easy to pick it out. But it's twenty two two ten,
nice ratio. But it will last. The nitrogen in it will last
for months, and the other elements in it don't tend to wash away as
much. Now, I would say putting it down now will give you the
best gradual feed over time compared to some product that releases really fast. It
supports beneficial insects. Beneficial insects beneficial micro organisms, and by creating a healthier,
deeper rooted grass plant, you're going to reduce water consumption and increase the
ability of that plant to survive when it's a little on the dry side.
Nelson Slow and Easy twenty two to ten. Easy to find, lots of
places. For example, Plants for All Seasons carries Nelson Slow and Easy.
Plants for All Seasons. Is that garden center you know it already. It's
on two forty nine Tombaugh Parkway just north of Luetta, This family owned center,
the Flowerty's. What a great group and so knowledgeable. You go there,
you get good service. They sell you plants that belong here, that's
something from timbuck to that won't grow here. You can take samples in or
pictures in. They'll help you diagnose the problem and put the right product in
your hand to solve it. Plants for All Seasons dot com that's the website.
The phone number. Write this down two eight, one, three seven
six, sixteen forty six. We are now going to go to Cypress and
talk to Melissa. And Melissa, I'm just letting you know I got about
thirty seconds. Let's get the question and then I'll come right back to you
after break. Okay. I have a Pendo palm in my yard that's about
twenty five plus years old, and I was willing to buy another one,
and I just wanted we're the best place to get that in Houston, Vergon.
And I spend the two seventy five on one or spend like the five
hundred to get a bigger one. That's that part is up to you.
But Verdant Tree Farm is on Barker Cypress, so it's direct soule both of
you Verdon to be er damt Tree Farm and they have an excellent selection there
and they're close by and they'll come out and plan them plan them for you
too if you want. Oh that's good to know. Thank you very much.
Okay, bye, bye bye. All right, we got to go
to a break here. Logan, you were the very first up. When
we come back, our phone number is seven one three two one two fifty
eight seventy four. Welcome back to Guardenline. Good have you with us today.
If someone was telling me earlier who was it, it was going to
get some bees and was willing to do some pollinator planting in the yard.
He was talking about the B supply out in Dayton. The B supply is
I have been to a lot of different places that have B supplies and things,
nothing like the B supply. It is unbelievable all that they have.
You know, they have a b rental program. So if you live out
in the country and you got five to twenty acres when you're within fifty mile
radius of the B supplying Dayton, that you can get part of it.
Become part of their b rental program. They put bees on your property,
they do all the work. There's more information on their website. If that
prepeaked your interest vbsupply dot com. You know, when you have bees on
your property, it is a what do you call it? A tax?
Good night? I can't even say the right word. The taxes come down,
the local taxes come down on the property as a result of that.
Gosh, I can't even think of the word for it. Bee keeping class.
There is a strong foundation that you receive at the bee keeping class when
you take it. It starts at nine thirty goes until three thirty, so
that's a long period of time. Go to the website. They've added a
bunch of more classes coming up. Well. First of all. They have
the honey extraction class too, where you learn how to pull the honeysoupers out
of a hive, uncap them, spin them in an extractor filter it all
hands on, come in this. This's pretty cool. There's candle making class
with beeswax, and a meat making class learn how to make meat. If
you don't know, meat is fermented honey solution, and it's kind of fun,
kind of cool anyway. Dbsupply dot com we are now going to go
see where were we here everything Logan in, Katie, Hello, Logan morning.
How are you doing? I'm doing well, thank you. How can
we help my lawn? I put a weeding feed out and then I put
a fast reacting nitrogen in and I still in getting little kind of like yellow
flowers, try to find something. I tried to choke them out with that
nitrogen and it's just not working. Okay, Well, long density is what
you're trying to build, and nitrogen is part of that. Fertilizer in general,
regular mowing is part of that, getting the long growing fast. If
you're treating that is probably a post emergent excuse me, that is probably a
broad leaf weed and you would have to use a broad leaf post emergent product
to spot spray them. You don't have to treat the whole yard. Just
spot spray it with something that kills weeds after they're up and growing, or
just grow yourself out of it. In an established lawn, it's probably axalis.
There's some other weeds that can be there. It just we tend to
not see ongoing problems with those, Okay, so just try and choke them
out, yeah, to give it time and grow yourself out of the problem.
Or if you want to spray them a post emergent broad leaf weed control
product, you can go to the Ace Hardware down there in pair Land.
They can give you a product. Just tell them what you want post emergent
broadleaf weed control and they can from their many products on the shelf give you
the ones you need. All right, thank you, I have a good
one. I appreciate your call. Logan, thank you very age. Let's
see, I'm going to go here. We're going to run now to Charles
in Spring. Hello, Charles, good morning. That could be helped to
day. I have an orange tree that was damaged I believe in Harvey,
and then further damaged with the drought. Part of it dyed. I cut
off the dead wood, which left me pretty much with a toothpick with a
few branches. But it had green leaves and some fruit, all right.
And what is your question about the tree, Well, it had green leaves
at the end of last year. It didn't come back with any leaves this
year. And I'm getting spring from the trunk. Okay, should I leave
those sprouts I grow? If the sprouts are growing from below the graph line,
just get rid of it. That's rootstock. If it's coming from above
the graph line, then it is something you can train back into a tree.
Just from one way to also tell is the rootstock tends to be very
thorny, so those sprouts should be pretty thorny. But that's the best advice
right now. And then just give it some fertilizer. If it ends up
being that you do have some above the graph sprouts that are going charles them.
I have to run here, But I hope that helps you and get
you off on a good start. By the way, microlife makes a citrus
feed that works really well for that. Okay, thank you, yes,
sir, thank you very much. It all starts in the soil and It
all continues in the soil too. By the way, Heirloom Soils, the
folks at Heirloom Soils, they are they the selection in the blend they have
is amazing, things like the veggie and Herb soil, which by the way,
is on sale for one nineteen in bulk up there in the porder area,
and they can also deliver it. You can go there and load it
up, or they can bring it to you. They can dump it on
the driveway, or they can bring you a supersack, which is a cubic
yard in a container, a sack type container. It works really well.
I was just talking to Luis and he was saying that aspose as up in
the Woodlands had now started stalking their fruit berry and citrus mix. A lot
of places stock their veggie and herb mix and their rosesoil mix. Heirlooms Soilsoftexas
dot com. You need to go there. You can learn a lot about
all the different soils. I don't have time to tell you about them here
on the air, but heirloom cells a Texas are soils that are very successful
and I know they work because I've used to myself. Let's go to Paarland
and talk to Kay. Hell Okay, good morning, Sank, thank you
for taking my call. I have a question for a friend of mine who's
having a real problem with caterpillars. All right, so this is one of
those asking for a friend, right, Yes, uh, it's any her
geraniums, Elephanteer's mint, high Biscus ponsett is on and on is eating everything.
It's a two inch orange kind of like the black fuzzy caterpillars. There's
a lot of people call an as it's orange underneath it has some black hair.
She went online is that it's called a wooly bear or a tiger caterpillar.
Okay, well, it doesn't matter what it is. I'm going to
tell you how what she needs to do. There's two two products. One
is BT it's for basillistheringensis, the name of the microbe that makes capillar sick.
You spray it on the foliage. The caterpillars have to eat the foliage.
So you may need a little bit of surfactant on things that have slippery
leaves that the spray just rolled. But it's only gonna last you a day
or maybe two out there in the environment. But that would be one.
It's natural, it's organic. The other one is spinosaid s p I n
O S A D that also kills things that each leaves, like caterpillars.
And again with the serfact then if you need to, and it's gonna last
a little bit longer, but if it's a caterpillar, those two will control
it. Okay. There's another one that's called a Muslim moth Muslim. It
doesn't matter what it is. Yeah, yeah, if it's mama was a
moth or butterfly, they'll kill it. Oh great, okay, thank you,
thank you very much. I appreciate that call of pair. Land Way,
if you've been to Ana Plants and Produce, those of you up at
Lake Conro, you need you need to hear this. This is your hometown
garden center, I mean, and they always have a good stock of lots
of cool things. Son, you hear me talk about nitrophos and Nelson's and
microlife and airloom soils in Nature's way, leaf mole comples. They carry that
all that out there at Ana Plants and Produce. They have things to control
insects and diseases and weeds. They even have a landscape crew you need to
contact them and ask about having the landscape crew come out and do a cleanup
and whatever you need done around the landscape there. Make sure your beds are
in tip top shape. They generally carry my lawn schedules at the checking counter.
But Ana Plants and Produce very much a part of the community, always
having programs. They have ongoing things for kids where the kids can come out
and enjoy it and do things like that. Ana Plants and Produce. It's
just a great place to visit, and you need to check back because it's
always changing, you know, as the seasons go by. The different kinds
of plant material that you'll find, and that include shrubs and trees. You
need to go by there just to see the bling. I'm talking about the
stuff you put in your landscape, maybe for a vine to grow on,
or maybe it's a decorative pod, or maybe it's some yard art type of
thing. They are loaded with stuff like that, really really cool supply of
it. A and A Plants and Produce. By the way, they're on
the east side of Montgomery on Highway one oh fives, right on the east
side edge of Montgomery. So all you folks at the Lake Lake Conroe.
This is your backyard nursery. Of course, people in Montgomery, Conroe and
all through that area. It's easy to get to and they have what you
need. Well, it looks like we're about to put another show hour in
the books. We'll be coming back for the last hour of the show this
morning. Don't forget what happens after the last hour of the show today.
Well, I go to the excuse me, after the last hour of the
show today, I go to the Enchanted Forest down in Richmond. They are
there. I'm going to be answering your gardening questions. First of all,
I'd just like to meet the listeners to garden Line. Come by and say
hi, let's talk. If you want to bring a sample for identification or
diagnosis, or if you want to bring a picture to show me an area
and what does this look like. Make sure the pictures are in sharp focus.
If it's something going wrong, get up really close, but make sure
it's in sharp focus, and bring those in. I'm going to be giving
away six or five different Medina products, and then a whole bunch of little
small sample bags of Medina products while I'm there. That is an intented forest.
FM twenty seven fifty nine in Richmond, Texas. If you're heading north
towards sugar Land where it's off to the right. Kat RH Garden Line does
not necessarily endorse any of the products or services advertised on this program. Welcome
to KTRH Garden Line with Skip Rict. It's so crazy, Trim, just
watch him as world. So many things to sup A sad. Welcome to
garden Line. Welcome back to guarden Line. This is our last hour of
the morning today. We'll be back tomorrow six am to ten am. Tell
your neighbors about it. Hopefully they will want to become listeners as well,
because you know our number one goal we want you to have a beautiful lawn
and a bountiful garden, beautiful landscape. That that is what we're aiming for.
Gardening should be fun, and so if it's not fun for you,
let's fix that. Let's figure out what may be done differently. There's a
lot of possibilities on things, but let's let's make it an enjoyable, enjoyable
hobby. And let's make sure also that it's something that really fulfills you.
And just knowing that I have a beautiful place, I have a beautiful garden.
I love the smell of the flowers. I like watching the butterflies because
I planted a garden that attracts them. Those types of things you know.
Has to grow is a Medina product. In fact, has to grow is
many Medina products. There are several different has to grows which I will be
giving away simple or actually containers of when I'm at Enchanted Forest today after the
show. Has to grow four excuse me, twelve four eight is a liquid
lawn food plus. It's has to grow four gosh, twelve four eight liquid
lawn food plus. I'm not normally dyslexic, but I think I am today
anyway. It's lawn care in a bottle. You look at your garden hose,
you spray it all over the lawn. Doesn't take long about ten minutes
for the average lawn, and it's got the natural food supplements in it.
That's the twelve four to eight is a perfect blend for the want and it
also has Medina soil activator and humate liquidumy liquid humans. It just makes easy,
easy for ten into your lawn and given it a pretty quick boost.
Really, it's fast, it absorbs easily, it stimulates the natural soil organisms
and it's a very effective product. I've used it on my lawn several times
myself. Now, if you leave your clippings on, do it about four
times a year. The has to grow liquid lawn food plus twelve four eight
about four times a year. If you take your clippings away, Number one,
quit doing that. Number two you probably want to do. The has
to grow about monthly with the hose en feeding of the lawn Medina products,
many many excellent products out there on the market. Hey, the Arborgate.
The Arborgate. I was looking at their social media and they have a ton
of really interesting things on how to take care of fruit trees right now.
I've been a series of things that Beverly and Angela have put together out there.
You should go watch those. You can learn a lot. Like I
said, there's a number of different ones that are available out there. This
is the time to take care of our fruit. I did a post to
my website Gardening with Skip dot com a while back, and it was sage
advice on the basics of fruit tree success. I would also read that remember
the arbrogates can have fruit trees year round. That's amazing. In fact,
that's wonderful. That's cool. The Arburgate has a new parking lot in the
back. No parking on twenty nine to twenty. You just drive down Trishel
Road which starts before Arbigate and loops around behind it and comes back in to
twenty nine to twenty go to the back parking lot behind the building and it's
easy, easy, easy to get in get out. I don't care if
it's been raining, what do they call it a frog strangler rain? You
can get in and eye of that parking lot really really easy. Arbrogate's a
wonderful place, you know, it's a destination. People come from all over
to go there. If for those of you who just moved to the area,
it is on twenty nine to twenty to the west of Tomball. Really
easy to get to and when you go, you're going to be amazed.
Plan on being there a while. I want to head out now to Santa
Fe and we're going to talk to Joe. Hello, Joe, good morning
morning. How can I help. I've got a plant in my yard that's
kind of taking over the perimeter around a tree. I was told it is
a yellow flag Irish and it can be invasive. I don't know whether to
let it go or try to take it out or what's your advice. Well,
it likes where it is, and so it slowly spreads by rhizomes over
time. It's really easy. Just scrape underneath the rhizome, cut off the
roots, and you're back in business. I think they're beautiful. If you
want to leave some and just occasionally kind of trum it back, that's fine.
Don't worry about it taking over your whole property. I mean I doubt
okay, it would take a while and I doubt that that would happen.
It's it's not that bad looking at planet's little kind of ornamental yellow flower on
it. Yeah, yeah it is. Uh, it does pretty well here.
But it's a matter of what you want to look at your yard,
your garden, your it's your call whether you want to keep those around or
not. So if I leave it is it is. You don't think it's
going to comas me any problem down the road. I don't. But as
it spreads, when it's wider than you want it to be, you can
you can trim it in right there. Okay, Okay, it's not it's
yeah, it's it's not the end of the end of the world. Not
the end of the world. Yeah right, you you know it. It
likes wet areas, so that tells me probably you're getting some some wet areas
in your yard. I wanted the question for you. Can I mount this
of you all? So let's do it real quick. I have some amarillas
that I was gifted quite a few years ago, fifteen to twenty years.
They were ivory with a maroon troup. I have transplanted those things. They've
grown up. I've given them to friends. Now, all of a sudden,
I got about about one minute Joe, for I have to go to
break it's now become a spider lily, a Peruvian daffodil. Somebody called it,
what's going on with this plant? Well, one plant doesn't change species
like that. I don't know what's going on, but somehow the other plant
was there and just came on. I don't know what else to say about
that, but I do know that one species can't change into another one.
Well, he said, because it was a hybrid, that it's reverting back
to its former Well, if a plant's a hybrid and it produces seeds,
those seeds will be something different than what you're seeing somewhat different, okay,
but it shouldn't be a different species. Hey, I've got a run where
against a hard commercial break. Thank you for the call. Appreciate that very
much. I'll be back seven one three two one two K t R H.
Welcome back to Guardenline. Good to have you with us today. We
are here to answer your gardening questions and to help you have success. Someone
earlier asked about azamite. Could they do the fertilizer and the azmite together or
would it be a problem, And the answer is you can do them together,
but not in the same hopper. Don't put them, don't mix them.
The particle size is different and they'll settle out and you get a lot
of azamite in one area and a lot of fertilizer in the other. But
do separate applications. But if you can do in the same day, just
spread one fertilizer and then spread the asmite, or you can put them put
them at different times. The asamite is not there to kick plants into fast
growth. It is there to provide the micro nutrients as plants grow that they
need, and so do it as you want it. You know, one
thing that we're learning really about the as M I two is it can be
combined with other products, such as using a compost type material that you're going
to be spreading through a bed, or other kinds of combinations like that.
If you want to do at that route, it works just fine to do
it that way. You can go. You can use it in combination.
Just remember to stay at the right rate. It doesn't take much because it's
a trace mineral. It's not what you don't put as much of it out
as you put out fertilizer. For example. Just a tracement a forty four
pound bag will cover six to twelve thousand square feet. You can do it
in spring and in fall. You can just do do it once a year.
I would just recommend that you go to Azmite Texas dot com the website,
take a look at it, learn a little bit more about it.
But it's going to be widely available. I think most all of our garden
center and feed store type sponsors carry the right now. But I just ever
where I go I see it. Let's go out to Kingwood and we're going
to talk to Sean. Hello, Sean, Hello, how can we help?
I have a rather large pine tree that turned brown when it got hot.
I guess that was last summer, okay, and it did not green
up this spring, and I was wondering, if there's a chance that it
is just dormant and it will turn green or bush, go ahead and cut
it down. If if there are no green needles, the entire tree is
dead. If you have branches that don't have green needles and other branches do,
those branches are live, but the brown ones are dead. Pines can
only reach sprout from the base of a living needle. Oh well, that's
it started to turn green this spring. Yeah, and then then it turned
brown again, and now it's all brown. Yeah. Well, whatever it
was struggling with, that was its last gasp effort at making it and it
just didn't ready to be the bearer of bad news. By the way,
don't delay on getting it down. Call Affordable Tree, have them come out
and take it down. Pine trees pretty quickly start to slough bark, and
they're they're very difficult to climb without well, they're dangerous, and so you
want to get this one was about ninety feet tall too, So holy moly,
Okay, it's a big and it's probably thirty inches at the base.
Big All right, Well, well I don't want to cut this tree and
it's going to leave a big hole in the sky. Yes, sir,
I fully understand that. I'm just advising you on the fact that don't delay
in getting it out of there. Thank you. Sorry to be the bearer
of bad news. They are a lot of beautiful pine trees out there in
the Kingwood area that do well. Hey, have you considered using sweet green
on your lawn? Sweet green is a nito foss product. That is,
it smells sweet because it's based on a molasses type materi that has microbes that
have gone to work on it. And sweet green is just a it's a
pleasant scent to be around eleven percent nitrogen. That is high for an organic
type nitrogen source. Sweet Green, because it's of molasses based, really increases
the population of a lot of different kinds of beneficial microbes, creating that rich
environment that helps the plants have their optimum growth and optimum health. You're going
to find it at a task Asta ace, for example. You're going to
find it at the ace out of Sincle Ranch on Mason Road. You're going
to find it at Lake hardware down include or Gym's hardware up in Montgomery area.
Easy to find nitroposs products including Sweet Green. Let's see, we're going
to go to Freddy Up and Tombol. Hello Freddy, Hello, sir,
how are you doing today? I'm well, how are you? Fantastic?
Beautiful day, beautiful day. I got a quick question for you and March
I did a weed and feed in my lawn, and when's a good time
for me to put actually fertilizer. I usually say that that will last you
about four to six weeks. The early application like that, that was a
fast release fertilizer if it was in a weed and feed, and so I
would say anytime here in April. If you want to wait a little bit
longer, depending on when in March you put it out, just give it
four to six weeks and then put down your slow release fertilizer. Okay.
Is there a certain a certain fertilizer, that certain fertilizer that you recommend,
you know, like a turf builder or anything like that, or yeah,
no, I don't do the Scots. We have a number of fertilizers that
we talk about here on garden Line. I mean you've heard me talk about
different ones. If you wanted to put out something slow release like that,
you might consider Nitrofossis Super Turf. That's a nineteen four to ten fertilizer.
It's got releases nitrogen for the next two or three months into summer, and
it also has some iron to keep things especially green. Sometimes iron chlorosis can
get into our turf. But it's a silver it's a silver bag. So
you know, being up there in Tombole, I know that D and D
Feed carries that out west of Tombol. I'm sure there's some other places that
carry the super turf as well. You might as you think, yeah,
go ahead, you think you think ACE Hardware will carry something like that,
or almost always almost. I don't think I've been in an ACE that didn't
have those those for lives. Okay, okay, all right, well all
buddy, I'll give it a shot. Appreciate it, buddy, all right,
you take care. Appreciate the call very much. If you are done
in the Heights and you have not been to Buchanan's Plants, or even if
you have, you need to go back and you need to check them out.
Buchanans Is it's just like a hideaway place in the Heights and it is
wonderful to roam around through there. If you're interested in native plants, it
is a must stop. They have I over and over again, I see
them on their social media put some native up and it's like, I didn't
know that was in the market. I didn't know you could buy that.
You know, just a homeowner going into a garden center could buy it.
That's how it is with Buchanan's Plants. They're on Eleventh Street in the Heights,
and they don't just have natives. They have an excellent houseplant collection,
amazing herbs and flowers and vegetables and perennials and shrubs and trees. They've got
a lot of different things there. But you got to go buy and check
it out. Also go to the website Buchanansplants dot com. Buchanansplants dot com.
They're at the website. You'll find a lot of very excellent educational pieces
that will really really help you. I've been very impressed with the kind of
product they put out. And then all the fertilizers I talk about on Guardline.
Yep, they're gonna have their Buchanans Native plants on Eleventh Street and the
Heights. We're going to go out to sugar Land now and talk to Alan.
Hello Allan, good morning, Sara. How are you? I'm good,
I'm good. How can we help tonight? Well, so I've been
taking some advice from y'all. About sixty days ago, mid March, I
went to see in a mulch purchased a blue bag of the nitro foss We
didn't feed. I missed the window for the post and premurder and stuff.
So I put that down and I actually called Nitro Falls and asked them,
you know a little bit more about this in comparison to the red bag.
But I normally use the red bag, and I'm not sure why I went
to blue, but anyways, it didn't do what it was supposed to do
as far as killing all the weeds. So my front yard looks great.
My backyard is still flooded with weeds. And they started to roll away when
I after about a week of putting it down, but they're like back in
full fourth So all right, So there's several possibilities. The granules didn't stick
to the leave, you didn't give a little light watering of the of the
surface, so the granules stick better to the lit weeds. Not every weed
is equally susceptible to every chemical that would normally control a broad leave for a
grass or whatever it's designed for. That's a possibility as well. Here's what
I like you to do. I'm going to be in the Enchanted Forest nursery
at eleven thirty today. Pull those weeds up, put them in bags and
bring them there. Let me take a look at them and see. And
I may have to direct you to something you can mix up in a sprayer
and spot treat that you can get this get control of those weeds or some
of them. I may say, don't worry about them, they're going to
go away. But if you'll do that, I'll be happy to look through
your weeds and you could also that's probably the best way is let me have
a sample. Yeah, And then and then since it's been about eight weeks
since I put down that you know that blue bag, I know, then
that's also a quick release as well. According to the factor it is.
Can I am I able now to put that silver bag that you guys are
recommending. Yeah, The nitropost product silver bag is called Superturf and it is
time to put that down if it's been you see now, well that also
helped choke the weed that as well or not. Well. Here, here's
what happens. As you mow, water and fertilize properly, the lawn gets
denser and denser. And when that when that happens, the weeds that are
coming from seed can't make it up through that density to sunlight. They just
can't, and so it reduces them a lot. And rather than have a
thin lawn and constantly spraying and dropping everything in the world on it trying to
kill weeds, start with a healthy, dense lawn and your problems go down
a whole lot. Yeah, and my backyard has tons of sun light,
so it's definitely not a it's definitely not an issue. And highly irrigation and
I mow once a week. All right, Well, Alan, I'm gonna
have to run. Sounds like you're doing the right thing. But if you
go to my website gardening with Skip dot com gardening with, there's a lawn
case schedule. It's free to download, and it tells you exactly when and
what to put on uh and and of all these different products that go on
your lawn. Okay, and the one the weed ones on the pest Disease
and weed Management two schedules are both free. Thanks a lot for the call.
Good luck with that. I hope I get to see you today out
there at Enchanted Forest Garden Center. We're going to go now to Dickinson and
talk to Carrissa. Hello, Carissa, Hi, good morning. How are
you well? I'm well? How are you? I'm doing good. It's
a beautiful day, and I just have a quick question for you. My
husband and I just recently purchased thirty six acres on the Dickinson Buy you.
It's lorgest piece of property, but it's been abandoned since Harvey, and it
is completely for grown with BlackBerry briers which are producing but also poison ivy or
poison oak. It's huge all over the trees, the trees here. I'm
just trying to figure out what is step one to get this under control.
Yeah. Step one is to spray the poison ivy and the blackberries with the
product containing tri clop here t R I C l O P y R tri
cloak pak. When you do that, it will it will translocate down and
do a really good job of killing them. You may have to do a
reapplication, but that should do the job pretty good for you. And okay,
that well, you're gonna have to redo it. I mean it just
no doubt. You never get it all with one spraying, right, okay
y, And then we have we have mostly pine trees, but we also
have some beautiful mossy oak but they're starting to die. I guess maybe not
starting to but there's many dead ones on the property. Is it because of
what I just named it's growing there? Or is there something we can do
to check what's in our soil? Or how can we keep those three oaks
alive? A lot of different things could be involved in that. It could
be weather, It could be freezes, could be drought. In fact,
it probably is those last two. But nothing. Those plants are not the
problem. Hey, I got to run. Thank you very much for the
call. Len to turn over to Nicky and the news right now. You
can call us at seven one three two one two KTR. If you're a
jitterbugging, you need to stop, sit back down, let's talk. Let's
talk plants. Here we go Garden line, last thirty minutes of the day.
UH, if you would like to give us A call seven one three
two one two fifty eight seventy four. I want to talk to you about
taking care of your lawn by top dressing it. This is the time of
year we do that. If you look at my lawn care schedule, uh,
the lawn care schedule, there's a thing on a ration and I talk
about air rating and putting a high quality, finely screened leap more compost down
and so that goes from April through September. And the reason I have it
at that time is because as the grass comes out of spring and it's trying
to wake up and get a new root system in the ground, air rating,
you know, does hit some grass plant parts and it can cause a
little bit of damage to it. Overall, it is a way way way
beneficial activity for the grass. So I let the grass wake up a little
bit, get a little strengthen it, and then here we go. It's
time to do that. If you live south and west of the Houston area,
BnB Turf Pros is a company you want. When I say south and
west, I mean Missouri City, Sugarland down south Presno or Cola Siena,
Iowa colony you know over in pair Land for example, that's about as far
east as BnB turf Pros go, but you can go all the way down
to Manville and they'll come. They'll come out there. When I was talking
to BnB turf Pros as we were about to bring them on the show,
and I always like to know that the people that sell the products, either
I've used the products, or I have science research based information on the product,
or I can see the kinds of service that they give those sort of
things. B and B turf pro they really go above to make a personal
connection with their clients and ensure satisfaction. Go to their website BB there's no
end in it Bbturfpros dot com and look at what customers are saying about them.
They are very highly rated. Listen, when you're doing in a service
dot company, Oh somebody is not happy no matter what you do. But
they have very very high ratings. They only use products that I trust Here
on garden Line. They go to Saanamult to get their products that they're putting
out there on your lawn. You can give B and B a call seven
three two three four fifty five ninety eight seven one three two three four fifty
five ninety eight. They do the aeration and compost, stop dressing. Just
call them up and see what they can do for you to turn that lawn
back around. I want to go now out to Lake Jackson and we're going
to talk to James. Hello, James, Hi Skip, Thank you so
much for taking my call. I learned something from you every weekend I have.
I'd like to get some advice from you on a couple of things.
My house is about ready to get elevated, and they're going to lift the
foundation up about four and a half feet off the ground, so all this
zone up around the foundation is going to be basically excavated and destroyed. So
all the shrubs that I have in there are just going to get trampled on
and and evacuated. So what I'd like some advice on. I have a
couple of plans, like I have a set of roses, really nice out
roses that are probably about four feet in diameter. Wow, and I'm trying
to decide whether or not I should just forget about keeping them or just start
over. I would like to have some roses when I get done, and
they would have to be moved. So would you recommend that I transplant them,
And if I do, how would you do that? How long do
you think you're going to be out of a shop there on the getting back?
Yeah, that's yeah, that's a good question. I think so in
about thirty days, so into May, well they'll start the work and then
probably wouldn't be done until into July. Okay, Well, we're picking a
time of year where it's fixing the heat up, and so I hate to
trim the roots and put them in containers to try to keep them going.
It can be done, but that's a more stressful thing. If you can
get quite a bit of roots and go set those plants in a semi shady
area, Like roses need sunlight to bloom. Well, right here, we're
just trying to keep them alive. So a little morning sun maybe under the
shade of a tree, and then they're protected. Set the bar root.
It's basically going to be bear root when you dig it up, but set
the roots with whatever soil you can move over in that spot and then take
something it could be a bed mix, like buy some bags of veggie and
herb soil or roast soil would be better, and then just throw them in
around there, water and settle it in around the roots and keep it moist.
You want to have a little break from the sun, but enough sun
to continue to support growth. And they can set like that, and when
it's time to plant, you can just kind of lift them up and move
them to a new spot and set them in with some TLC. But that
would be I think the most practical approach if you're trying to save those plants.
Okay, yeah, at one thought I had was getting one of those
really cheap plastic swimming pool so that you could find it, you know,
like a Walmart, and then setting the delicately just placing those shrubs inside that
pool. But can I can I maybe as I'm lifting the soil the bush
up out of the soil, can I put it down on like one of
those weed barrier cloths and then use that to lift it up into the pool
with that? Yeah, I would, you could do that if it's a
strong enough one. I do tarps all that. I've got some little tarps,
and I'm telling you something that would cause four men to go to the
chiropractor. You can set them on the tarp and one guy can drag it
across the yard, you know. So yeah, don't. Don't try to
lift it. But I like the little plastic tarps because they're slick and they
glide over the surface very well. Okay, and so you would slide the
roses into the container. Well, yeah, and if you're going to lift
it to you know, you grab two sides of the tarp the other side
guy grabs two sides, and you can lift the lot that way. You're
not bending over, You're just using your arms to do it. And you
could put them in the pool. But make sure there's holes in the bottom
of the pool so it drains well. I mean good size holes, not
just like a little nail hole. And in fact, if it's sitting on
clay soil, the water is going to have trouble getting out because clay plugs
up those holes. But yeah, do that, and then fill it with
a rose soil is what I would use. All the plant, all shrubs.
Fill it with a rose soil watered in really good, and those roots
are going to have moisture and you're doing the best you can to minimize stress,
but at the same time giving them a little bit of sunlight to get
them by. Okay. And then then last last question I have about thirty
seconds to break. Yeah, so I got about an eight foot tall,
four foot wide canulia and in the same way, I mean, is there
somebody that can get to actually help me transplant that. I'm sure the roots
really that I don't know. I would probably cut that back by about a
third, just because try to get some of the leaves off. But yeah,
I don't know who to tell you to get on that. You just
have to find some labor local to do it. Okay, Yeah, all
right, thank you, James, appreciate your call. Good luck with that.
I'd like to hear how that turns out. We're going to go to
break right now or a phone number seven one three two one two fifty eight
seventy four. Welcome back to Guardline. Good to have you with us on
a great day for gardening. I was we've been talking about these products and
things to control this and that and the other. And it reminded me a
while back, good while back, I was in a big Buck store and
it doesn't matter what the name of it was, because well, I'll just
leave it there. Uh. And I did this several times as a matter
of fact, just as after the first time, I did it again and
again as a test, go up to somebody in that section and go,
hey, can you help me with And I ask them a question for a
pest control And I could tell as I began asking the question, their eyes
glazed over and they were just kind of grabbing at the shelf. They didn't
know what they were talking about. I was saying, Oh, so you
been working in the garden center while No, actually I was a hairdresser.
I was cutting hair before I hard on to do this, okay, and
now you're selling all these products that can cause a lot of damage if misused.
Another time, I was in and I had an appointment with the garden
center manager to a program. I got their new guy in and oh,
you're the new manager. What are you doing well? I was in charge
of the jewelry counter last week. See what I'm saying, folks, when
we go to an independent garden center, a mom and pop garden center,
or a local feed store, a local business, we're going to get the
advice and the right product for the job from someone who knows what they're talking
about. That is very very very important. Southwest Fertilizers that kind of place
too, you know, Southwest. It's on the corner of Businet and Renwick
and Bob and his whole team there, Bob and his whole team, Aaron
and all of them. They know what they're talking about, and they have
every product you can imagine that you would need. If I talk about it
on Guardline, that's just a drop in the bucket of all the things they
carry at Southwest Fertilizer, including all those fertilizers. Do you need a new
fertilizer spreader? Do you need to have small engine work done it? They
do that in the back of the store. Do you need a tool,
Well, walk down an eighty foot wall and pick one out Southwest Fertilizer on
the corner of Bissinet and Renwick. Southwest Fertilizer dot com. Okay, enough
of a soapbox there, let's go talk to David and Montgomery. Hey David,
good morning morning. I have an I have an issue with dollar weed,
and I just laid New Sod down. Of course I have to water
it in real well, and these little dollar weeds started popping up everywhere,
and I need to know you're a great opinion on how to treat that with
New Sod. Yeah, there's with brand new sid i'd let's let's get that
sade in. Let's get it, give it a few weeks to get established,
to get a good root system in the ground, and so it's not
in a week in state. Uh. There are some products that most of
the broad leaf we control products when you spray them in hot weather and the
upper eighties, nineties nineties, they're stress in augustine a lot, a lot,
and so we try to avoid that. There's one called Celsius that's pretty
widely available at our some of our garden centers and defeed stores for example.
Uh. And Celsius is a little more a little less damaging. You know,
you could be up in the lower nineties. It's not going to hurt,
and it's a it's a great one for dollar weed and Virginia button weed
both. Then there are many other products out there on the market that you
can be directed to that you know, we'll control that. All right,
Thank you very much. I appreciate your call very much. Let's go now
to League City and we're going to talk to Linn. Hello, Linn,
good morning. So I need to transplant my tomato plants into a larger container.
I'm going to use large pots for that, and what do you recommend
Like I think one of your earlier callers said that he used was it heirloom
or fust to grow? Well, you're talking about what do you use for
soil? Yes, okay, First of all, if it's a tomato,
I would put it in a pot that holds ten gallons or more of soil.
You can grow a tomato and a five five gallons of soil. But
you're especially if it's a big plant, you're having to water it when it
gets hot. You're watering a couple times a day to keep it from going
into us stress. So that's why I like a little more soil volume.
Uh. The product I think I was talking about at the time was heirloom
soils Veggie and Herb mes heirloom soils Veggie and herb mex. Uh got it,
thank you. It is easy to find, uh, you know you're
you're gonna All you have to do is go to your ACE Hardware dot com
and find find the ACE our league city feed. Yeah. ACE Hardware is
near you wherever you are. Uh, you're going to be able to to
You got two aces too, by the way, You've got uh the Kilgore's
Ace Hardware on the main street in League City, and you've got uh the
U League City Ace Hardware on West League City Parkway, so they're both close
to here. They carried those products. Okay. The gentleman that had the
question about the dollar weed, I have a similar issue with that, but
not newly established in Augustine and I have dollar weed and ax flas Okay,
I mean it's ox fallis is just every too much too much oxalis? Uh
is, It's sends seeds everywhere. It is pretty amazing how that plant works.
I would again the Celsius would be an option for that. There are
a number of products that you could use for it. The folks at Bunye
have one called weed beater, though I would do the weed Beater Ultra that
I think is the best blend for that particular kind of weed. Just do
it when the temperatures are cooler, doing the earliest time of day even this
time of year. Do it in the morning. The weed Beater Ultra.
Fur Loom also has some products that work well for that. But let's just
simplify it and say Celsius and bun Eyed weed Beater Ultra are two good options.
Okay, thanks, so much all right, you bet, thank you
appreciate that call. When was the last time or have you even been to
Nelson Water Garden and Nursery. Nelson Water Garden and Nursery is well. First
of all, it may surprise you to know that they have a nursery,
and they do have a nice nursery out there. The Nelson folks have been
leading the water garden world for a very long time. They absolutely know how
to create the most beautiful water gardens. Maybe you want a little pond with
koy in it or goldfish in it. Maybe you want a waterfall to enhance
and provide that sound of water. Maybe you want a disappearing fountain, a
giant beautiful urn container water spills over the side and recirculates. Those are so
cool and the birds will thank you too, by the way. They love
a constant, good source of water. They can build, They can design
and build everyone. They do it one at a time. They'll build it
for you, or they'll help you. If you want to try to do
it yourself, you could start small little container water garden is a great way
to go. Ponds are just a start. When you're out there, check
out all the nursery plants that they have a lot of cool supplies out there.
I would suggest you take people with you because this is a destination nursery,
Nelson Water Garden. It's on Katie Fortman Road, north of Highway Toann
the Katie Freeway. You just go out there, turn right on Katie Fort
Ben and it's a stone's throw away. Take people with you, because trust
me on this one, you're going to see scenes as you walk through this
place that are just absolutely gorgeous and will make you go yeah, that at
my place. That would be perfect. At my place, a little back
entertainment area, you know where we gather our guests. Nelsonwatergarden dot com.
That's the website. I really recommend you go check them out. In fact,
today will be a great day to get out there. We're going to
go now to Janet in Montgomery. Hello Jennet, good morning morning. Yes,
I have a lot of knockout and drift roses in the yard, and
I have one section that appears to have what I believe is rosette disease the
mites and is that fatal? Can I do anything? Well? We need
to identify it A S A P to be sure. I hate you to
rip everything out if you don't have it, and I hate to leave everything
in. If you do so, you can send me some photos of it
up close. There there is an excellent website for Rose Rosette, and as
we're talking here, I'm gonna I'm going to find it for you, Okay,
but I don't want to miss say the name of it. Okay.
Anyway, Uh, what if you send me pictures of the symptoms. I
can you know, pretty well diagnose it if you show me some close ups,
especially of the new shoots and the new growth. Okay, all right,
and how do how do I send that to you? I'm going to
put you on hold at the end, and Josh will get on and he
will give you an email that you can send it to. Kay. See
you're in Montgomery, you and me too far away from enchanted forest where I'll
beat it day. I was going to say, you put some in a
bag, but I probably don't want to do that anyway, coming into a
nursery. Anyway, there's good information. I'm not finding the website trying to
do two things at once here, but if you do a search for Roserosett,
there'll be a lot of good pictures and that that will help. But
I'll look forward to seeing those. I'm putting you on hole right now.
Jennet, thank you appreciate that call very much. We're putting another show in
the books. Wow, this one, this went fast. It already just
seemed like it to me, but it sure did go fast. I'm going
to be heading out right after this. In fact, I'm making a B
line for the Enchanted Forest garden Center or nursery. That is the one that
if you're in Richmond Rosenberg, you're going north, you look towards sugar Land,
you look off to the right, drive not look drive off to the
right. That's where it is. It's FM write this down FM twenty seven
fifty nine, Richmond, Texas. There's going to be a donut truck of
air. I know, I believe that. How am I going to get
by with that one? I'm going to be answering your questions. I'm going
to give away six different kinds of Medina products as well as a whole lot
of little sample bottles for you. I'll be answering your questions, both identifying
problems and plants, diagnosing issues that may be going on, identifying insects,
bring me pictures, bring me samples, keep them in a ziplock bag before
you bring them in. Or let's just talk. I love to visit and
meet with Gardenline customers, all of you anywhere Southwest in fact, typically at
these events we're going to have someone drive from far away to come. We
always have a view of those, So come out and chanted for us eleven
thirty to one thirty two days. I hope you'll be there. Look forward
to meeting you.