WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.320 --> 00:00:04.919 KTRH Garden Line does not necessarily endorse any of the products or services advertised on 2 00:00:04.960 --> 00:00:18.480 this program. Welcome to ktr H Garden Line. With Skip Ricord's Crazy Trip. 3 00:00:19.440 --> 00:00:34.920 You just watch him as who tell us so many past the us back 4 00:00:35.000 --> 00:00:40.520 kicking, but they're not a s Well, good morning. You are listening 5 00:00:40.560 --> 00:00:45.000 to garden Line. I hope you're having a good Sunday morning so far. 6 00:00:45.320 --> 00:00:47.840 At least got one eye open with a cup of coffee in your hand, 7 00:00:47.960 --> 00:00:52.399 or tea if that's what you like to drink. You know, it's dark 8 00:00:52.439 --> 00:00:55.600 outside. Your neighbors probably aren't listening to garden Line. If the light turn 9 00:00:55.679 --> 00:00:57.759 on, go over there and bang on the door and tell them they're missing 10 00:00:57.799 --> 00:01:03.159 it. And they will appreciate that so much once they start listening and realize 11 00:01:03.200 --> 00:01:07.799 they can have a beautiful lawn and a bountiful landscape just from having listened to 12 00:01:07.879 --> 00:01:11.079 go and find. Okay, maybe that's over selling it, but hey, 13 00:01:11.280 --> 00:01:14.599 Hey, that's what we're trying to do here. We're trying to help you 14 00:01:15.200 --> 00:01:19.120 to have success, help you find plants that are going to be successful for 15 00:01:19.200 --> 00:01:23.000 you. Boy, this brutal summer, I'm going to say we just got 16 00:01:23.000 --> 00:01:26.920 through how about that. Can I be an optimist here just a little bit. 17 00:01:26.159 --> 00:01:29.640 I mean, we get five degrees off the temperature for the day, 18 00:01:29.680 --> 00:01:32.239 and I'm going to call that fall. We're ready to go. It is 19 00:01:32.359 --> 00:01:34.280 coming, by the way, it is coming. We'll get some rain, 20 00:01:34.359 --> 00:01:38.959 we're getting some cooler weather arriving. Those kinds of things, We're just going 21 00:01:38.000 --> 00:01:42.719 to get better and better by time we're into October. Well, let me 22 00:01:42.719 --> 00:01:45.719 put it this way, by the time we're into October, you are either 23 00:01:45.799 --> 00:01:49.680 going to have done or wish you did the things that you need for your 24 00:01:49.920 --> 00:01:55.200 October garden. For example, the warm season plants in your vegetable garden, 25 00:01:55.359 --> 00:01:59.239 they need to go in definitely by now. Get them in now if you 26 00:01:59.280 --> 00:02:04.959 have them already. The planting things that are going to be warm season flowers. 27 00:02:04.959 --> 00:02:07.240 Marigoles do great in the fall. They look great in the fall because 28 00:02:07.240 --> 00:02:10.319 spider mites aren't bothering them so much. They'll be go pom pom types. 29 00:02:10.360 --> 00:02:15.879 The African marigoles, those are especially beautiful. They just glow in the fall. 30 00:02:16.599 --> 00:02:21.439 Petunia is another example, does really well. Involved But all those things 31 00:02:21.439 --> 00:02:24.360 have to get planted now, because if you wait until mid October or something, 32 00:02:24.439 --> 00:02:30.159 you're just too late for all of that for sure. So it's also 33 00:02:30.199 --> 00:02:32.240 the time to get our soil ready because when it comes time to plant, 34 00:02:32.560 --> 00:02:38.159 what if it starts raining and it rains for two weeks, you can't get 35 00:02:38.159 --> 00:02:40.479 out there and work the soil because it's so wet, sopping wet. But 36 00:02:40.639 --> 00:02:46.080 building your soil now will help you be ready when you do want a plant, 37 00:02:46.199 --> 00:02:50.000 maybe you're going to put out some roses or shrubs in the fall, 38 00:02:51.199 --> 00:02:53.319 the soil will already be ready. You'll be ready to go. There's no 39 00:02:53.439 --> 00:02:57.560 loutage. Make hay while the sunshines. Well, I would say prepare your 40 00:02:57.560 --> 00:03:01.120 soil while the sunshines because rain is coming. That's what happens in the fall 41 00:03:01.159 --> 00:03:05.960 here in the Greater Houston area, and prepare your soil ahead of time. 42 00:03:06.120 --> 00:03:08.840 Don't just wait. I know it's a little warmer than you want to be 43 00:03:08.879 --> 00:03:14.639 out there, but we have morning hours that are much much cooler. In 44 00:03:14.680 --> 00:03:17.599 fact, I've got a lot of seventy seven type temperatures this week in the 45 00:03:17.639 --> 00:03:22.280 mornings. That'd be a great time to get out and get a little early 46 00:03:22.759 --> 00:03:27.080 soil work done and you'll be glad you did later. For reasons, I 47 00:03:27.199 --> 00:03:30.360 just described and for others, Hey, if you'd like to give us a 48 00:03:30.400 --> 00:03:34.560 call and ask a question, our phone number is seven one three two one 49 00:03:34.639 --> 00:03:38.280 two five eight seven four. You know, talking about the soils, it 50 00:03:38.439 --> 00:03:45.319 is important to have a quality soil just because someone is selling compost or maybe 51 00:03:45.360 --> 00:03:50.280 you go to a place, maybe a national chain that's not one of the 52 00:03:50.360 --> 00:03:53.639 folks we brag on here on garden Line, and you see something and example, 53 00:03:53.639 --> 00:03:58.639 well that's cheap. Well yes it is. I would say cheap is 54 00:03:58.680 --> 00:04:00.520 a better word than an expense. When you look at some of the soils 55 00:04:00.520 --> 00:04:04.080 that are for sale to compost, the mulches and whatnot. You get something 56 00:04:04.120 --> 00:04:08.560 and it's called garden soil or potting soil and you open it up and it 57 00:04:08.599 --> 00:04:12.840 looks like shredded wood chips. I mean that is not a quality soil. 58 00:04:13.439 --> 00:04:18.519 Airloom. Soils knows how to make a quality soil airloom from the potting soils 59 00:04:18.519 --> 00:04:27.800 for indoors, to the rose soils, to the fungal types of composte materials 60 00:04:27.920 --> 00:04:31.639 like their leaf mold composts. That's an excellent product. Rose soil. They 61 00:04:31.680 --> 00:04:34.079 just have a ton I mean I could sit here just probably for an hour, 62 00:04:34.199 --> 00:04:39.199 just naming all of the products and describing all the products that Airloom Soils 63 00:04:39.279 --> 00:04:43.560 makes. They know how to make them and their first rate. And when 64 00:04:43.600 --> 00:04:46.639 you put that kind of material down, it makes it look like your thumb 65 00:04:46.680 --> 00:04:53.399 just turned green. Because your plants thrive. Soil is everything. Not preparing 66 00:04:53.399 --> 00:04:58.079 the soil is like playing Russian Roulette with only one empty chamber. Good luck 67 00:04:58.120 --> 00:05:00.959 with that one. You're just not and to have success. And you spend 68 00:05:00.959 --> 00:05:04.560 money, you spend time, you get excited about. Maybe you're buying a 69 00:05:04.680 --> 00:05:08.000 rosebush. Oh, it's gonna be this beautiful. I see the picture on 70 00:05:08.040 --> 00:05:11.920 the tag. That's what's going to look like. Only if you give that 71 00:05:12.000 --> 00:05:15.199 rosebush the kind of soil that it wants to grow in, or that tomato 72 00:05:15.279 --> 00:05:17.920 plant or whatever you're planting. It doesn't matter what it is. And heirloom 73 00:05:17.959 --> 00:05:20.680 soils can help you get to there. It's as simple as that. They've 74 00:05:20.680 --> 00:05:25.000 got the one yard supersack. They can deliver to your door, or you 75 00:05:25.000 --> 00:05:28.759 can buy it by the bag. Airloom Soils is widely available across the Houston 76 00:05:28.800 --> 00:05:32.160 area and have success. And I'm just telling you, if I were to 77 00:05:32.399 --> 00:05:36.959 put all the eggs in one basket, it would be make your soil right 78 00:05:38.319 --> 00:05:42.680 and then you can have success. The best plant in the world, the 79 00:05:42.720 --> 00:05:46.800 best everything you do after it in the world. You know, the fertilizing 80 00:05:46.800 --> 00:05:49.439 and watering and all that. Of course that's all important, but if you 81 00:05:49.519 --> 00:05:54.120 don't start with soil, it's like going out there with two by fours and 82 00:05:54.800 --> 00:05:58.040 on the dirt starting to build a house. You have no foundation. How 83 00:05:58.519 --> 00:06:00.319 is that house ever going to have success us and not right away in the 84 00:06:00.360 --> 00:06:05.879 first year. That's what is so important when we talk about soils like heirloom. 85 00:06:08.079 --> 00:06:11.839 Our phone number is seven one three two one two five eight seven four 86 00:06:11.959 --> 00:06:15.399 seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four. We had a lot 87 00:06:15.439 --> 00:06:18.319 of things to talk about today. Hopefully some of your calls, because that's 88 00:06:18.319 --> 00:06:21.759 the stuff you're interested in. And I guarantee you if you have a question, 89 00:06:21.879 --> 00:06:26.519 somebody else has that question too. Hey, I had a great time 90 00:06:26.639 --> 00:06:31.720 out there at the Ace Hardworst Store Plantation Ace yesterday. Thanks for all the 91 00:06:31.720 --> 00:06:34.680 folks that came out. Got to meet a lot of new folks and that's 92 00:06:34.720 --> 00:06:40.399 always fun. Hopefully we got you squared away on the questions and problems you 93 00:06:40.480 --> 00:06:44.560 brought in. I want to remind you that this next Saturday, I'm going 94 00:06:44.639 --> 00:06:47.639 to be up at the Montgomery County Home and Garden Show from twelve to two. 95 00:06:47.920 --> 00:06:51.879 From noon to two, I'll be doing a one hour seminar first from 96 00:06:51.879 --> 00:06:56.319 twelve to one, and then from one to two, I'll be doing an 97 00:06:56.360 --> 00:06:59.120 appearance at a table where we can do kind of like we did yesterday. 98 00:06:59.120 --> 00:07:01.360 You bring your things in, show me some samples, show me some pictures 99 00:07:01.399 --> 00:07:04.360 are just come in and ask questions and we talk about them. I'm going 100 00:07:04.439 --> 00:07:09.240 to be giving away some Nelson plant food jugs and some Adena samples as well 101 00:07:09.319 --> 00:07:12.279 up there, and I hope you can come out and see me, because 102 00:07:12.319 --> 00:07:15.839 that all the folks up in Montgomery County. This is a chance. You 103 00:07:15.839 --> 00:07:18.639 don't have to go far. I'll be right up there at the Montgomery County 104 00:07:18.639 --> 00:07:23.279 Home and Garden Show, and that's at the Lone Star Convention Center kind of 105 00:07:23.399 --> 00:07:27.480 Northeast Conro. You know where it is if you live up there, so 106 00:07:27.639 --> 00:07:31.040 come out and see me. You know Nelson Turf Star products. I brag 107 00:07:31.079 --> 00:07:35.000 on them a lot, but for good reason. They've got a long line 108 00:07:35.040 --> 00:07:41.480 of products from color Start and Nutristar to the Nature Star Organic line to turf 109 00:07:41.519 --> 00:07:45.480 star, and we have been talking about different turf stars all summer, like 110 00:07:45.519 --> 00:07:48.600 slow and Easy in Bruce's Brew. We're about to hit the fall season and 111 00:07:48.759 --> 00:07:53.360 once we get if you're we're just talking about Montgomery County. If you're up 112 00:07:53.439 --> 00:07:57.360 north, I would say late September through October. If you're down further south 113 00:07:57.439 --> 00:08:01.120 in a warmer area, definitely in October. Carbo Load is their product that 114 00:08:01.240 --> 00:08:07.800 has the higher potassium content, which what we refer to as a winterizer fertilizer 115 00:08:07.360 --> 00:08:13.279 or a fall fertilizer. It prepares your lawn for cold, cold weather, 116 00:08:13.680 --> 00:08:16.680 and that is really important. But the most important thing it does, and 117 00:08:16.680 --> 00:08:20.920 people don't realize this is our fall fertilizers prepare our lawn for spring. Grass 118 00:08:22.000 --> 00:08:26.639 comes out of spring and its health and vigor level is dependent on how it 119 00:08:26.680 --> 00:08:30.480 went into winter. It's as simple as that. Nelson's carbo Load will do 120 00:08:30.560 --> 00:08:33.039 just that for your lawn or yeah, for your turf grass. Hey, 121 00:08:33.120 --> 00:08:37.559 let's take a break. Our phone number seven one three two one two fifty 122 00:08:37.639 --> 00:08:41.720 eight seventy four. Boogie will gee to get us going again here on garden 123 00:08:41.759 --> 00:08:46.639 line. Our phone number seven one three two one two five eight seven four. 124 00:08:46.720 --> 00:08:48.919 Give me a call if you'd like to visit about I don't know, 125 00:08:48.960 --> 00:08:52.360 whatever's interest to you when it comes to gardening. We're here to try to 126 00:08:52.440 --> 00:08:56.600 cover the various kinds of questions you might have. It's it's a lot of 127 00:08:56.639 --> 00:09:00.399 fun getting to kind of drill down on things. It's kind of a playing 128 00:09:00.440 --> 00:09:05.799 Colombo, I guess on some of the issues that people come up with. 129 00:09:05.200 --> 00:09:09.240 It's it's always a kind of a mystery solving thing, which I think is 130 00:09:09.240 --> 00:09:11.720 a lot of fun. It's a good challenge too, by the way, 131 00:09:11.759 --> 00:09:16.799 that's for sure. I was taking care of some houseplants I have the other 132 00:09:16.919 --> 00:09:22.360 day, and one of my favorite new house plants is it's really you know, 133 00:09:22.399 --> 00:09:24.240 there's a number of really good ones out there, but I like the 134 00:09:24.240 --> 00:09:28.440 philodendrons. I find them really easy. But I like house plants, you 135 00:09:28.440 --> 00:09:33.080 know that are beyond just green. There's nothing wrong with green. But there's 136 00:09:33.120 --> 00:09:39.639 a philodendron brandyanum that is has silver all in it and it grows really easily. 137 00:09:39.720 --> 00:09:45.360 I mean it, I'm amazed at how how easily it how easy it 138 00:09:45.440 --> 00:09:48.759 is to take care of. It's real simple. I've I've got a syndapsis 139 00:09:48.799 --> 00:09:52.799 also that is the same way, it's just really easy to grow. Uh. 140 00:09:52.879 --> 00:09:56.960 The syndapsis picked us, I think is the one I have and I've 141 00:09:56.039 --> 00:10:00.360 gone, I'm gone a lot, and I you know, often tie just 142 00:10:00.399 --> 00:10:03.399 ignore it. But I've got in good light. It is just thriving, 143 00:10:03.799 --> 00:10:07.559 really easy one to grow a lot of fun too. And you know, 144 00:10:07.360 --> 00:10:13.039 if you're looking for things like that, Buchanans Plants has an unbelievable collection of 145 00:10:13.080 --> 00:10:16.840 these kinds of house plants. And if you want rare fund maybe you've got 146 00:10:16.879 --> 00:10:18.840 every plant in the world, you need another one, and they've got a 147 00:10:18.919 --> 00:10:22.159 rare one or two, or three, or four or ten that you can 148 00:10:22.600 --> 00:10:26.879 go check out. By the way, Buchanans on September thirtieth Saturday, they're 149 00:10:26.919 --> 00:10:31.279 gonna have from nine to noon they're gonna have a talk all about natives and 150 00:10:31.639 --> 00:10:35.919 you can kind of get some good help while you're shopping. It's kind of 151 00:10:35.919 --> 00:10:39.879 a meat and chat going on there with the Native Plant Society of Texas. 152 00:10:39.960 --> 00:10:41.039 By the way, for those of you who don't know, Buchanans is on 153 00:10:41.840 --> 00:10:46.960 East eleventh Street, six to eleven East eleventh Street up in the Heights. 154 00:10:46.720 --> 00:10:50.600 They've got a lot of events that come through there. Lots of great ones 155 00:10:50.679 --> 00:10:54.200 coming up too. By the way, they just got in a bunch of 156 00:10:54.399 --> 00:10:58.960 cool season type stuff like dianthus and snap dragons. Of course, the petunias, 157 00:10:58.960 --> 00:11:01.200 amergals. I'm in town. It's time to get them in. Now 158 00:11:01.279 --> 00:11:05.000 is the time they're starting to get their vegetables in, and also an end 159 00:11:05.000 --> 00:11:09.039 of summer sales. Select plants they have are fifty to seventy percent off. 160 00:11:09.399 --> 00:11:13.600 That is a that is worth, that is a real I can't talk to. 161 00:11:13.039 --> 00:11:18.559 That's a reason we're stopping in and of itself. Buchanan's Plants. Every 162 00:11:18.559 --> 00:11:20.919 time I go there, I learned something because they got plants I had never 163 00:11:20.960 --> 00:11:24.519 heard of before, believe it or not, thirty four years of doing this, 164 00:11:24.679 --> 00:11:28.919 there's always some new plants. And I just love the layout and the 165 00:11:28.960 --> 00:11:31.799 way it's so easy to shop, walk around, just enjoy. It's like 166 00:11:31.840 --> 00:11:37.240 you're you're living in someone's personal jungle of wonderful things. Especially they specialize in 167 00:11:37.279 --> 00:11:43.279 those natives really really nice at Buchanan's Plants. Our phone number is seven one 168 00:11:43.399 --> 00:11:48.120 three two one two five eight seven four. We're gonna go to Cypress now 169 00:11:48.159 --> 00:11:54.320 and talk to Sandy. Morning. Sandy, I skip the morning, my 170 00:11:54.440 --> 00:11:58.919 sister wanted to identify something that's going at our house. Okay, and I'm 171 00:11:58.919 --> 00:12:03.919 sure if it's or she's probably thinking, is it edible? Okay? I 172 00:12:05.399 --> 00:12:09.120 sent it yesterday afternoon and it was called you know, help me? Can 173 00:12:09.120 --> 00:12:13.919 you help me identify what this is? Or? Okay? And what is 174 00:12:13.960 --> 00:12:18.440 the name that the email came in? Swatty? Galli? Here? Can 175 00:12:18.440 --> 00:12:22.759 you spell that for me? Please? S w A t I okay, 176 00:12:24.120 --> 00:12:28.480 g A yeah, I got you, all right, let me go look 177 00:12:28.519 --> 00:12:33.879 here. Okay, No, I got a July. I don't have anything 178 00:12:33.000 --> 00:12:39.600 from yesterday. Let's do this, Sandy. I'm gonna put you on hold 179 00:12:39.799 --> 00:12:45.159 and Joshua can give you an email and what up? Let me check spam. 180 00:12:45.240 --> 00:12:48.440 I'll check that again. But he's gonna give you an email and wee 181 00:12:48.440 --> 00:12:52.200 can let me just have you try it again, okay, since okay, 182 00:12:52.320 --> 00:12:56.720 we're all right. Let me see. I've got a lot of emails from 183 00:12:56.759 --> 00:13:01.879 you, but but all of them start the the most recent is July sixteenth, 184 00:13:01.919 --> 00:13:05.159 So I'm gonna put you back on hold just to verify for sure. 185 00:13:05.159 --> 00:13:09.159 I know you got the right one, but would you re send Let's try 186 00:13:09.200 --> 00:13:13.000 that? Yeah, let me talk about emails just for a little bit while 187 00:13:13.000 --> 00:13:18.679 we're while we're on that topic, I try to focus the emails on things 188 00:13:18.679 --> 00:13:22.240 we can talk about on the air, just because there is no way I 189 00:13:22.279 --> 00:13:28.000 can get through a tenth of the emails that people will send as we open 190 00:13:28.080 --> 00:13:33.159 those gates. And so if you've had emails in the past and didn't get 191 00:13:33.159 --> 00:13:37.200 a reply on them or something somehow they slipped through the cracks, just if 192 00:13:37.240 --> 00:13:41.080 you will send. If you're going to send an email, send it, 193 00:13:41.120 --> 00:13:43.080 but then be ready to call in on the show so we can talk about 194 00:13:43.080 --> 00:13:46.159 it. Because again, sitting down and typing out all the answers, I'm 195 00:13:46.200 --> 00:13:48.879 just not able to do it. I wish i could, but it's just 196 00:13:50.000 --> 00:13:52.639 too much of a flow. So we always want to connect them to a 197 00:13:52.720 --> 00:13:58.440 call on the show if at all possible. All right, you are listening 198 00:13:58.480 --> 00:14:05.039 to garden Lie seven one three two one two five eight seven four seven one 199 00:14:05.159 --> 00:14:09.240 three two one two fifty eight seventy four, and we're talking about all kinds 200 00:14:09.279 --> 00:14:13.679 of things related to gardening today. By the way, Thank you, Thank 201 00:14:13.720 --> 00:14:18.080 you Jill and Mickey out there at Ace Hardware and Richmond yesterday. That was 202 00:14:18.759 --> 00:14:22.759 it was a nice event. Were really enjoyed coming out and doing that. 203 00:14:22.919 --> 00:14:24.639 I always like to go to ACE Hardware. You know, there's a there's 204 00:14:24.679 --> 00:14:28.480 an ACE Hardware near you, no matter where you are. Ace Hardware dot 205 00:14:28.519 --> 00:14:33.159 Com. It's a website. You just find the store locator. There's literally 206 00:14:33.200 --> 00:14:37.480 there's thirty nine of them in our Houston Ace Hardware group here and so it's 207 00:14:37.559 --> 00:14:41.840 easy to find. And I was in there and actually my wife went with 208 00:14:41.879 --> 00:14:46.200 me on this one. And at the end of all the two hours that 209 00:14:46.240 --> 00:14:48.879 I was there, I thought, Okay, it's time to go, and 210 00:14:48.960 --> 00:14:52.799 she comes around the corner with a shopping car full of stuff. So yeah, 211 00:14:52.840 --> 00:14:56.440 She've had all kinds of good stuff in Ace Hardware, which is not 212 00:14:56.720 --> 00:15:01.080 hard to do. I mean, the bar key sections unbelievable. Of course, 213 00:15:01.240 --> 00:15:05.600 you know your garden line listeners, it's all about the lawn. It's 214 00:15:05.600 --> 00:15:09.840 all about the lawn, of course, the gardens and the trees and everything 215 00:15:09.840 --> 00:15:11.480 else. And they have all the products for that. They've got all the 216 00:15:11.480 --> 00:15:15.720 fertilizers I talk about here. If you have any kind of a disease, 217 00:15:15.759 --> 00:15:18.120 insect or weed problem, they've got the products that will control it. There. 218 00:15:18.159 --> 00:15:20.559 It's really just as simple as that. And that's what a lot of 219 00:15:20.559 --> 00:15:26.399 the questions were yesterday, disease, insects and weeds, and then the eternal 220 00:15:26.519 --> 00:15:28.440 question of this time of the year is why is my lawn dying? Or 221 00:15:28.440 --> 00:15:33.080 what do I do about my lawn? And when your lawns are struggling like 222 00:15:33.159 --> 00:15:39.039 that, you've got to help them out. Coming up is our fall fertilization 223 00:15:39.240 --> 00:15:45.559 application time, and one of the things that we feature in the fall on 224 00:15:45.600 --> 00:15:50.360 the schedule are products that are higher in potassium. That's the third number on 225 00:15:50.399 --> 00:15:54.320 the bag. All summer we've been talking about ratios like three one two four 226 00:15:54.480 --> 00:15:58.440 one two were the nitrogen's the big guy in the room. Now we're going 227 00:15:58.559 --> 00:16:02.919 to focus on potassium and drop that nitrogen down, not get rid of it. 228 00:16:03.000 --> 00:16:07.240 We still need nitrogen with it, but not much. And that's why 229 00:16:07.360 --> 00:16:12.480 why is that important. Potassium gives cold heartiness. Potassium also gives drought tolerance, 230 00:16:12.759 --> 00:16:17.120 believe it or not, and so when we're dealing with lawns that have 231 00:16:17.200 --> 00:16:21.919 been struggling and trying to recover, that's why we have potassium and our fertilizers 232 00:16:21.960 --> 00:16:26.080 all through the year, but especially in the fall time. You want those 233 00:16:26.080 --> 00:16:30.480 plants going into winter strong because when they come out. It's not like in 234 00:16:30.519 --> 00:16:33.080 the early spring they've got this big giant root system that's just taken up all 235 00:16:33.080 --> 00:16:38.399 the nutrients. They're using stored energy to come out in the spring, and 236 00:16:38.519 --> 00:16:42.240 as they begin to grow and get new roots going in the ground, they're 237 00:16:42.240 --> 00:16:45.559 more and more able to take up the nutrients that we're putting down in the 238 00:16:45.559 --> 00:16:52.200 spring. But it is the fall fertilization that brings your plants out of winter 239 00:16:52.399 --> 00:16:56.360 strong, and that is really important. And I'm going to be a broken 240 00:16:56.399 --> 00:17:00.840 record like I am with you start with the soil. Spend money on the 241 00:17:00.840 --> 00:17:03.759 brown stuff when you spend money on the green stuff, because the brown stuffs 242 00:17:03.759 --> 00:17:07.079 the important stuff, the compost and things. I will be the same way 243 00:17:07.160 --> 00:17:12.799 about fall and potassium talking this winter or this this fall. So that's really 244 00:17:12.880 --> 00:17:18.359 important, you know, whenever you're transplanting, and I hope you're planning on 245 00:17:18.400 --> 00:17:22.079 that. Now is it time to be planting a lot of things getting ready 246 00:17:22.079 --> 00:17:26.960 for fall. But as fall gets here in the weather cools the success you're 247 00:17:26.000 --> 00:17:30.359 going to have with planting your woody ornamental shrubs and trees and woody vines, 248 00:17:32.000 --> 00:17:34.440 it just increases. And it's a time when we're getting a lot of perennials 249 00:17:34.480 --> 00:17:37.720 in the ground as well, and perennial herbs in the ground. Has to 250 00:17:37.839 --> 00:17:42.319 Grow six twelve six needs to be your transplant partner. And what I mean 251 00:17:42.359 --> 00:17:45.680 by that is you take the has to grow six twelve six. It's got 252 00:17:45.720 --> 00:17:51.359 the NPK six twelve six in it. It's also got in medina cell activator, 253 00:17:51.440 --> 00:17:55.920 it's got humic acid, it's got seaweed extracts and all of that combination. 254 00:17:56.400 --> 00:18:00.119 You mix it in water and drench it in, use that water to 255 00:18:00.160 --> 00:18:03.720 water in your plant, and then five to seven days later, do it 256 00:18:03.759 --> 00:18:06.319 again, and five to seven days later do it again. I mean, 257 00:18:06.319 --> 00:18:10.279 you can keep doing it if you want, but at least three good waterings 258 00:18:10.319 --> 00:18:14.039 in because that new plant is trying to get those roots that went into the 259 00:18:14.079 --> 00:18:18.920 ground out into the soil around it, and that is really important to be 260 00:18:18.960 --> 00:18:23.279 able to get them in to the soil around it. And that success sets 261 00:18:23.319 --> 00:18:29.519 you up for a very successful establishment. And when that plant gets into spring, 262 00:18:30.079 --> 00:18:33.680 is going to be so far ahead of the same plant that you planted 263 00:18:33.960 --> 00:18:37.599 in the spring compared to the one you put in fall and did the has 264 00:18:37.599 --> 00:18:42.319 to grow drench over the roots into the roots that's so so important. It 265 00:18:42.440 --> 00:18:48.440 is a key for success in getting those things going. Well, you're listening 266 00:18:48.440 --> 00:18:52.680 to guard Line our phone number seven one three two one two five eight seven 267 00:18:52.799 --> 00:18:57.680 four seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four, and you will 268 00:18:57.720 --> 00:19:00.799 get on the line here, Josh, We'll get you on the board so 269 00:19:00.839 --> 00:19:03.079 we can talk to you. And when we come back from break. Now 270 00:19:03.119 --> 00:19:06.319 we're going to take time for the Nicki News Network. Hey, Nikki, 271 00:19:06.359 --> 00:19:10.119 do you know we were talking earlier about plants, and I told people that 272 00:19:10.119 --> 00:19:14.319 that just listening to garden Line would make their plants more bountiful. Yes, 273 00:19:14.400 --> 00:19:18.000 well and so on, and that's my experience. Well, and have you 274 00:19:18.000 --> 00:19:21.759 ever thought about leaving the radio on when you're not there and so that the 275 00:19:21.799 --> 00:19:26.680 plants can hear garden Line? I honestly believe when you come back to the 276 00:19:26.720 --> 00:19:27.839 house at the end of the day, they're gonna be a foot taller, 277 00:19:29.599 --> 00:19:32.720 greener, prettier, and there may be blooms on things that don't even bloom. 278 00:19:33.319 --> 00:19:36.680 You have to talk directly to the plants. Yes, right, yeah, 279 00:19:36.720 --> 00:19:40.200 I'll see that. And so Nikki's plants, if you're listening right now, 280 00:19:40.359 --> 00:19:42.960 All right, enough of that nonsense. Let's let's find out what's happening 281 00:19:44.079 --> 00:19:48.960 with the news. Good morning, good morning, you were listening to Garden 282 00:19:49.000 --> 00:19:53.039 Line, and we're glad you're here. We hope to help you with whatever 283 00:19:53.119 --> 00:19:56.359 kinds of questions you have. That's that's what this is all about. How 284 00:19:56.400 --> 00:20:02.000 can we help have a beautiful garden, bountiful landscape. That's what we're going 285 00:20:02.039 --> 00:20:06.279 for. I mean, it gives us pleasure to go outside and see nature, 286 00:20:06.519 --> 00:20:11.160 and to see a beautiful garden and a beautiful landscape is important. It 287 00:20:11.200 --> 00:20:15.039 helps in many ways. There's a psychological benefit. Of course, there's a 288 00:20:15.079 --> 00:20:18.400 physical benefit and getting out and working in the soil and getting fresh air, 289 00:20:18.039 --> 00:20:22.160 enjoying all of that. And I'll tell you right now, people walking around 290 00:20:22.240 --> 00:20:26.000 looking at their landscapes, it's kind of like, woo, that was a 291 00:20:26.240 --> 00:20:30.400 rough summer we've been through here, and it's time to begin to change that 292 00:20:30.480 --> 00:20:33.240 around. And we can. There's a lot of ways to change it around. 293 00:20:33.839 --> 00:20:38.359 You know, fall season is the best planning season of the year, 294 00:20:38.440 --> 00:20:42.680 and we are just on the doorstep right now. A fall we can plant 295 00:20:42.680 --> 00:20:45.359 twelve months out of you. You can plant this morning, you can plant 296 00:20:45.359 --> 00:20:48.640 in July if you want I mean, if you take care of it, 297 00:20:48.759 --> 00:20:52.200 you can do that. You can get by with that. But fall is 298 00:20:52.240 --> 00:20:56.519 the easy time. You know, you put something in the ground and fall 299 00:20:56.079 --> 00:21:00.799 and it's not hard to keep it going because the demands are so low on 300 00:21:00.839 --> 00:21:04.559 the plant. But of course now as when we're preparing the soil getting things 301 00:21:04.599 --> 00:21:08.720 ready for that, but it's also the time when we're doing our shopping and 302 00:21:08.759 --> 00:21:12.319 getting ready for fall in that way. And for example, RCW Nursery right 303 00:21:12.359 --> 00:21:17.599 now they got fifteen percent off of select trees, shrubs and perennials and annuals. 304 00:21:17.599 --> 00:21:21.400 I mean, it's an opportunity. It's not everything in the whole nursery 305 00:21:21.480 --> 00:21:23.400 on sale, but a lot of great deals. Now'd be a good time 306 00:21:23.440 --> 00:21:26.839 to get by and look at that while you're how did RCW check out the 307 00:21:26.880 --> 00:21:32.400 pumpkins, the metal pumpkins, the little pumpkin coaches, and I mean they 308 00:21:32.440 --> 00:21:36.359 have some really cool bling if you want to decorate your fall for the harvest 309 00:21:36.359 --> 00:21:38.559 season, Halloween, Thanksgiving, all of that kind of thing. They've got 310 00:21:38.599 --> 00:21:42.519 a lot of really good stuff on that. They carry every fertilizer that I 311 00:21:42.599 --> 00:21:48.920 brag on here in the Gardenline Radio show. It is a wide selection of 312 00:21:48.119 --> 00:21:52.480 quality things that they have. If you're looking for a rose this fall, 313 00:21:52.920 --> 00:21:56.079 the biggest selection I know of in town is at RCW Nurseries. They like 314 00:21:56.160 --> 00:22:00.640 four pages single space rose Rose, Rose rows. Give McCall find out you 315 00:22:00.680 --> 00:22:03.920 know what are the roadses you want? You can find that list by the 316 00:22:03.920 --> 00:22:08.000 way on their website. It's RCW Nurseries dot com. They're the nursery for 317 00:22:08.039 --> 00:22:11.359 those of you new to the Houston area. They're Tomball Parkway, which is 318 00:22:11.400 --> 00:22:15.279 Highway two forty nine where it comes into Beltway eight. So as you're going 319 00:22:15.359 --> 00:22:18.319 over the overpass, they're switching from one of those roads to the other. 320 00:22:18.640 --> 00:22:22.000 They're down below and it's really easy to get to, really easy to find, 321 00:22:22.039 --> 00:22:25.839 and when you get there, what you find is going to be a 322 00:22:25.839 --> 00:22:30.039 lot of wonderful things. They also have trees fifteen gallons the two hundred gallons 323 00:22:30.039 --> 00:22:33.680 that they grow themselves up in Plantersville, and fall is the time to get 324 00:22:33.720 --> 00:22:38.599 those things established as well. All of that at RCW Nurseries easy to get, 325 00:22:38.640 --> 00:22:41.880 too easy to find, and if they don't have it, I bet 326 00:22:41.920 --> 00:22:45.279 they can get it. They specialize and they get don't have it, we 327 00:22:45.440 --> 00:22:48.440 can get it. Types of things. You know, you go into a 328 00:22:48.480 --> 00:22:52.599 lot of nurseries and you don't find it and they don't have it, and 329 00:22:52.880 --> 00:22:56.519 that's kind of the end of it. Not at RCW. They absolutely do 330 00:22:56.559 --> 00:23:00.079 everything they can to get that product in that you're looking for. Our phone 331 00:23:00.119 --> 00:23:04.519 number is seven one three two one two five eight seven four seven one three 332 00:23:04.559 --> 00:23:08.559 two one two. Katie R. H. Give Josh a call. We'll 333 00:23:08.599 --> 00:23:12.119 get you on the boards. We'll talk about the things that are of interest 334 00:23:12.359 --> 00:23:22.200 to you. I love talking about the components of success to gardening because that's 335 00:23:22.279 --> 00:23:26.279 what we need to get in your hands. You've heard me say before. 336 00:23:26.640 --> 00:23:32.160 There are no brown thumbs. There are uninformed thumbs. That's what's that's essentially 337 00:23:32.200 --> 00:23:34.720 what we think of as a brown thumb. And people think, well, 338 00:23:34.759 --> 00:23:38.319 you just gotta have this knack. Granny had this knack. Anything she touched 339 00:23:38.319 --> 00:23:42.480 turned green. Well, okay, I bet she did. But it wasn't 340 00:23:42.519 --> 00:23:47.519 because there was some magical power to Granny's fingers. It was because Granny knew 341 00:23:47.519 --> 00:23:48.759 what to do. She had learned over the years. She had learned from 342 00:23:48.759 --> 00:23:52.279 other people, she had learned herself, and she knew how to do things. 343 00:23:52.319 --> 00:23:56.000 She had learned the secrets of doing it. And that is exactly why 344 00:23:56.279 --> 00:24:00.559 we want to help you with that, because it's not it needs to not 345 00:24:00.640 --> 00:24:04.519 be a secret. It needs to be simple, plug and play. Do 346 00:24:04.599 --> 00:24:07.839 these things make it work. Start with a soil, Choose good plants, 347 00:24:08.079 --> 00:24:11.319 plant them right, take care of them right, get the right kinds of 348 00:24:11.400 --> 00:24:15.960 nutrients and products on there to help that plant succeed. And then you sit 349 00:24:17.039 --> 00:24:18.920 back and you enjoy your landscape. And when it comes to a lawn, 350 00:24:19.359 --> 00:24:23.839 one of the things that you need to be doing for your lawn is providing 351 00:24:23.880 --> 00:24:29.880 a supplement of trace elements. Trace elements or things that they only need a 352 00:24:30.000 --> 00:24:33.720 little bit of a very tiny amount, but they have to have it. 353 00:24:33.720 --> 00:24:37.240 It's essential. If you take an element, let's say, oh, I 354 00:24:37.240 --> 00:24:42.240 don't know manganese, for example, and you could take every molecular manganese out 355 00:24:42.240 --> 00:24:47.279 of the soil, that no plant could live. It has to have manganese. 356 00:24:47.319 --> 00:24:51.400 It only needs a tiny pet but it is essential. It's very important. 357 00:24:51.799 --> 00:24:55.680 The big nutrients, the macros, nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium, they're 358 00:24:55.720 --> 00:24:59.480 the ones on all the fertilizer bags. They're needed in large amounts. They're 359 00:24:59.519 --> 00:25:03.960 also a essential, but they're needing a large amount. But trace minerals are 360 00:25:03.400 --> 00:25:08.000 essential, and Azamite provides that. You can go online to azamite Texas dot 361 00:25:08.000 --> 00:25:14.359 com find out more. Just know this that when you purchase azamite, it 362 00:25:15.440 --> 00:25:18.759 provides that bank account so when the plant needs it, it's there. Forty 363 00:25:18.839 --> 00:25:23.240 four pounds of asamitel covers six thousand to twelve thousand square feet, so it 364 00:25:23.240 --> 00:25:26.400 goes a long way. But now it'd be a good time to get some 365 00:25:26.480 --> 00:25:29.640 of that down. You don't have to put it down right when you put 366 00:25:29.640 --> 00:25:33.759 on fertilizer. You can put on any time you want. But azamite application 367 00:25:33.839 --> 00:25:37.160 this fall, coming out of the summer we've had, I would definitely include 368 00:25:37.160 --> 00:25:44.400 that on the list for sure. We're gonna go out to Magnolia and talk 369 00:25:44.480 --> 00:25:49.319 to Tim. Hello, Tim, good morning morning. I've got a very 370 00:25:49.359 --> 00:25:53.160 mature gets. I don't know how old it is, but it's big and 371 00:25:53.759 --> 00:26:00.039 large and doing well. But I've got a soaker hose completely around the tree, 372 00:26:00.200 --> 00:26:06.240 and I wanted to know how much, meaning how long should I keep 373 00:26:06.319 --> 00:26:11.960 that soker hose going and how often should I water that? Uh, you 374 00:26:12.000 --> 00:26:15.799 know, to not get too much water or enough you know. I'm more 375 00:26:15.200 --> 00:26:19.680 obviously not lose a tree. Yeah, you know it. It's it's hard 376 00:26:19.759 --> 00:26:26.680 to give numbers because sunny sunny areas versus shade, sandy, silver versus clay, 377 00:26:26.759 --> 00:26:30.119 it, all of that changes, all of that changes it. And 378 00:26:30.160 --> 00:26:34.640 so U I would say, get a get a long handle screwdriver, and 379 00:26:34.759 --> 00:26:38.640 after you've watered what you think is enough, wait a few minutes, put 380 00:26:38.799 --> 00:26:42.119 you know, thirty minutes to push it down in the soil and see if 381 00:26:42.160 --> 00:26:48.119 that's if that screwdriver goes down at least eight to ten inches. If it 382 00:26:48.200 --> 00:26:52.400 does, you've given that tree a good deep soaking. If it doesn't, 383 00:26:52.440 --> 00:26:55.519 you need to soak some more. That's the best way to know for sure. 384 00:26:56.680 --> 00:27:00.279 Okay, and then like maybe once a week or something like that. 385 00:27:00.599 --> 00:27:03.039 I mean just even when I'm getting it, so you know, ever ten 386 00:27:03.160 --> 00:27:08.359 to fourteen days is enough and you're focusing on the area, the entire area 387 00:27:08.440 --> 00:27:12.119 beneath the branch spread of the tree. Ever, ten to fourteen days is 388 00:27:12.240 --> 00:27:18.359 enough if you give it a good soaking. The frequent shallow weddings or the 389 00:27:18.880 --> 00:27:22.160 wastewater, and the tree's not getting the help it needs. It needs a 390 00:27:22.200 --> 00:27:26.279 good soaking, but not very often, not very often at all, Okay, 391 00:27:26.480 --> 00:27:29.079 all right, all right, Tim, you bet, thank you for 392 00:27:29.119 --> 00:27:32.279 the call. You're listening to garden Line. We're gonna take a break and 393 00:27:32.319 --> 00:27:36.279 come right back. Seven one three two one two five eight seven four. 394 00:27:36.440 --> 00:27:37.680 Get you on the board, Helen. When we come back, you will 395 00:27:37.680 --> 00:27:41.359 be the first step. Well, good morning. You are listening to garden 396 00:27:41.359 --> 00:27:45.920 Line this morning, and we are answering all kinds of gardening questions coming in 397 00:27:45.079 --> 00:27:48.480 and that's what we love to do. You know. I was just talking 398 00:27:48.480 --> 00:27:52.359 to Tim about that that oak tree out there and watering it. And soaker 399 00:27:52.440 --> 00:27:57.680 hoses are great. They work well because they water slowly and allow that water 400 00:27:57.799 --> 00:28:02.519 to get in to the ground. That's important. The only thing, the 401 00:28:02.559 --> 00:28:07.319 only hesitation I have about the socrehose is you need a lot of soacer hoose 402 00:28:07.720 --> 00:28:11.720 or you need to move it two or three times, meaning you need to 403 00:28:11.759 --> 00:28:17.519 water the volume of soil. To water in one spot, even if it's 404 00:28:17.559 --> 00:28:23.279 a socrehose size spot is only watering a fraction of that tree's roots system. 405 00:28:23.279 --> 00:28:27.519 We'd like to water the entire area beneath the branch spread, so you could 406 00:28:27.799 --> 00:28:33.000 do circles about a foot apart, spiral going around the tree, and then 407 00:28:33.079 --> 00:28:34.480 you could move it out and do it again, and you move further out 408 00:28:34.519 --> 00:28:37.480 and do it again. You can do that, or you can just do 409 00:28:37.519 --> 00:28:41.039 a tree hugger sprinkler. That's the way that I like to water these trees, 410 00:28:41.200 --> 00:28:45.160 especially as trees get older and bigger, because that's a huge area and 411 00:28:45.200 --> 00:28:49.039 maybe you don't want to water with your lawn irrigation system the entire property just 412 00:28:49.079 --> 00:28:52.359 to take care of this one tree. You're trying to, you know, 413 00:28:52.440 --> 00:28:56.640 not waste money on water. Well. With the tree hugger, you turn 414 00:28:56.720 --> 00:29:00.160 it on and depending on how far you turn it on, how large a 415 00:29:00.160 --> 00:29:03.200 tree hugger, there's three sizes, seven inch, eleven inch, fifteen inch, 416 00:29:03.920 --> 00:29:07.680 how far you water out or how large it is, how large you 417 00:29:07.720 --> 00:29:11.759 water it makes it just so easy because you turn it on and you can 418 00:29:11.799 --> 00:29:14.599 wet this large area. You can run it for a while and turn it 419 00:29:14.640 --> 00:29:15.640 off, let it soak for a while, and then run it for a 420 00:29:15.640 --> 00:29:18.519 while and turn it off, let's soak for a while. It's easy to 421 00:29:18.559 --> 00:29:22.559 do. It's really easy to do with a tree hugger, and it is 422 00:29:22.720 --> 00:29:26.440 a great way to you know, not only what not waste water, but 423 00:29:26.519 --> 00:29:29.880 to give a bigger volume of soul. Think of it this way. If 424 00:29:29.880 --> 00:29:32.920 you had to have let's say, surgery, and you only had a portion 425 00:29:33.000 --> 00:29:36.599 of your lung left right, maybe a third, and you were trying to 426 00:29:36.599 --> 00:29:41.079 breathe, well, that part would be taking an oxygen, but you'd have 427 00:29:41.119 --> 00:29:44.480 to be a little careful because you couldn't get enough oxygen from that portion of 428 00:29:44.519 --> 00:29:47.279 the lung. Think of the soil as that way, we're watering it. 429 00:29:47.359 --> 00:29:49.359 And if you put a hose at the bottom of a tree and water it, 430 00:29:49.480 --> 00:29:52.519 yes, the roots there are getting water, but that tree has a 431 00:29:52.599 --> 00:29:56.279 huge system and you can't get enough water for the whole tree. About watering 432 00:29:56.319 --> 00:30:00.839 one spot. That's why I'm talking about the tree hugger and the benefit of 433 00:30:00.839 --> 00:30:04.920 being able to water a much larger area at one time. We're gonna now 434 00:30:06.039 --> 00:30:10.759 go, let's see, We're gonna head out to Cypress and talk to Sandy. 435 00:30:11.039 --> 00:30:15.720 Hey, Sandy, I did get the email this time? Oh yes, 436 00:30:15.880 --> 00:30:22.000 yeah. And looking at the plant, it well, I don't think 437 00:30:22.039 --> 00:30:26.079 it's a weed. I think it's a garden plant. But I could be 438 00:30:26.119 --> 00:30:30.680 wrong. But there's the one plant I think it could be is Mexican mint 439 00:30:30.720 --> 00:30:33.720 marigold. And I know it doesn't look like a marigold. But that's what 440 00:30:33.799 --> 00:30:37.119 Mexican meant marigold looks like. And if you go up and take your hand 441 00:30:37.279 --> 00:30:41.519 and rub it down those long shoots and then smell your hand. If it 442 00:30:41.519 --> 00:30:47.880 smells like one of those black jellybeans, a liquorice jelly beans, that's Mexican 443 00:30:47.880 --> 00:30:51.359 mint marigold, and it will be blooming for you pretty soon. It's a 444 00:30:51.400 --> 00:30:55.400 fall bloomer. Now, if it doesn't smell like liquorice, then we're gonna 445 00:30:55.400 --> 00:30:57.839 need to wait and let that thing bloom and then send me a picture of 446 00:30:57.839 --> 00:31:00.880 what the blooms look like. And I can probably take it to another step. 447 00:31:02.319 --> 00:31:06.319 But of all the common garden plants, that's the one that it most 448 00:31:06.400 --> 00:31:08.680 resembles to me. And if if that's the case, I'd be curious to 449 00:31:08.720 --> 00:31:12.359 hear back. Yeah, well, if that my sister's house, it's my 450 00:31:12.440 --> 00:31:17.000 sister's Okay, I'll ask her to take a picture of it. If it 451 00:31:17.039 --> 00:31:21.240 blames Yeah, and do the smell test. I don't know if you've already 452 00:31:21.240 --> 00:31:23.240 done that, but do the smell test on it if you haven't, because 453 00:31:23.240 --> 00:31:30.920 that foliage has a very distinct liquorice jelly bean smell. Okay, all right, 454 00:31:32.119 --> 00:31:34.119 Alli, thank you so much. Skip Hey, thank you appreciate that 455 00:31:34.200 --> 00:31:41.920 call. Thank you very much. Take care our lawns, our lawns. 456 00:31:41.920 --> 00:31:45.279 We keep talking about our lawns. They're struggling. They're are struggling and struggling 457 00:31:45.319 --> 00:31:48.599 with the heat, with the drought. It's been a tough tough year. 458 00:31:48.240 --> 00:31:52.200 When it gets weak, then here comes take all root rot and here comes 459 00:31:52.839 --> 00:31:56.640 you know, other things moving in to take advantage of a weakened lawn. 460 00:31:56.799 --> 00:32:00.759 And this would be a great time to get some microlife products out there and 461 00:32:00.839 --> 00:32:06.319 to try to rejuvenate that lawn. The microlife Humates plus is an excellent product 462 00:32:06.359 --> 00:32:10.799 for that. I talk about the fish based ocean harvest the blue label. 463 00:32:12.319 --> 00:32:15.720 Normally we're using that, you know, smaller plants comes in a quart jug, 464 00:32:16.000 --> 00:32:19.559 but you can use that as a foldier in your lawn as well. 465 00:32:19.599 --> 00:32:22.960 I mean, it is an excellent product that provides a lot of things. 466 00:32:22.240 --> 00:32:28.240 Share lawns need minerals to be replenished. They some of these good organic products 467 00:32:28.279 --> 00:32:31.640 will contain things like hormones and plants stimulators and other things that are in there. 468 00:32:32.079 --> 00:32:37.240 They also not only add microbes, but they stimulate the microbes. You 469 00:32:37.240 --> 00:32:42.480 already have, and so what you're doing is you're creating an environment where that 470 00:32:42.559 --> 00:32:47.200 grass has the best chance of recovery. That is important in so many areas. 471 00:32:47.240 --> 00:32:52.000 Even with human medicine. We don't just have product that may deal with 472 00:32:52.039 --> 00:32:57.920 the problem directly itself, but we get the patient recuperated, we get the 473 00:32:57.960 --> 00:33:01.240 patient stronger, we get the pretient here so it's able to recover. And 474 00:33:01.279 --> 00:33:07.039 those natural processes that are in plants, that are in our bodies that help 475 00:33:07.200 --> 00:33:10.720 healing and recovery, we kick them into gear with the support from products like 476 00:33:12.000 --> 00:33:15.039 that microlife products that I'm talking about very important at this time of year when 477 00:33:15.039 --> 00:33:20.680 you're trying to get that lawn out of its struggling and by the way, 478 00:33:20.720 --> 00:33:23.880 that fall fertilization is coming, and the Microlife brown patch is an excellent product 479 00:33:24.279 --> 00:33:31.160 for doing just that. Remember the importance of that high potassium in drought resilience 480 00:33:31.359 --> 00:33:37.200 and in cold resilience, very very important. Let's head out to Alvin and 481 00:33:37.240 --> 00:33:42.640 we're going to talk to Helen. Hello, Helen, Hello, good morning, 482 00:33:42.799 --> 00:33:45.720 good morning. How can we help. Well, I've got several things, 483 00:33:45.720 --> 00:33:51.720 so I don't know. I'll try to cut it short. I may 484 00:33:51.759 --> 00:33:53.640 have to catch you short and then come back after the hour if you want 485 00:33:53.640 --> 00:33:59.519 to hold Okay, I have two areas. I have a pergola in the 486 00:34:00.440 --> 00:34:07.400 backyard, and i'd like to establish grape vines, okay, would hold our 487 00:34:08.320 --> 00:34:14.400 this tremendous heat or you know the cold? Yes, okay, so i'd 488 00:34:14.480 --> 00:34:17.679 like that. And then another area and on the front porch, I need 489 00:34:17.719 --> 00:34:27.760 to have vines growing up wire chain fins. Okay. And so it is 490 00:34:27.800 --> 00:34:36.119 so hot it has just even tore up the resin on my ratan. It's 491 00:34:36.159 --> 00:34:42.760 a plastic ratan, and boy, it's just cracking up. And so I'd 492 00:34:42.760 --> 00:34:47.079 like to preserve some of it, all right, And the tooth is there? 493 00:34:47.280 --> 00:34:50.719 Let me ask and then let me ask you a question about the grapes 494 00:34:50.800 --> 00:34:52.639 real quick. Are you what do you want them for? Do you want 495 00:34:52.639 --> 00:34:57.000 to eat the grapes? Do you want to make jellyably? I know we 496 00:34:57.079 --> 00:35:02.440 have mustangs just growing everywhere, but I just don't think. I don't know 497 00:35:02.480 --> 00:35:07.360 why. I thought maybe there would be a better variety than a very bitter 498 00:35:07.559 --> 00:35:13.239 mustang. All right, Well, there's champanel. Champanell isn't is from a 499 00:35:13.360 --> 00:35:17.119 native Texas species of grape, and it is very tough, very hardy. 500 00:35:17.400 --> 00:35:22.800 It's not a fresh eating grape. It's a jelly making grape. Okay. 501 00:35:22.840 --> 00:35:29.199 The other grape I would recommend is called Southern sensation, and it is a 502 00:35:29.239 --> 00:35:32.760 seedless grape that does very well here. And if you want table grapes, 503 00:35:32.840 --> 00:35:40.239 Southern waya in Southern what sensation? Okay, Southern sensation seedless is a table 504 00:35:40.280 --> 00:35:45.920 grape that is your best shot. We don't have almost no table grapes that 505 00:35:45.360 --> 00:35:50.559 do well here, but Southern sensation is probably the best of our choices. 506 00:35:50.719 --> 00:35:54.440 Okay, okay, all right, and can we uh, let's see, 507 00:35:54.480 --> 00:35:58.920 can we go ahead and hold for the rest half of the next half of 508 00:35:58.960 --> 00:36:01.280 that would be that you can hang on. It's going to be over a 509 00:36:01.320 --> 00:36:05.159 newsbreak, but well, we will come come back to you. Sorry, 510 00:36:05.159 --> 00:36:10.079 I just have to continue on here. If you are looking for a way 511 00:36:10.199 --> 00:36:15.159 to regenerate your soil and therefore your plants. I keep talking about soul first, 512 00:36:15.199 --> 00:36:20.960 soul first, bronze stuff before the green stuff. Arburgate arbogate dot com 513 00:36:21.079 --> 00:36:23.320 is a website. You can go learn about more there. But Arburgates one 514 00:36:23.360 --> 00:36:29.320 two three system Organic Food Complete. It's a four four three plus calcium organic 515 00:36:29.360 --> 00:36:32.760 fertilizer which feeds anything but roots. What butt roots anything with roots. That's 516 00:36:32.760 --> 00:36:37.639 how food gets into the plant by the roots. The Organic Soil Complete is 517 00:36:37.840 --> 00:36:43.239 a soil blend that has the composts and it's got it's got expended shale in 518 00:36:43.320 --> 00:36:47.119 it, and it is an excellent choice for whenever you're needing to build up 519 00:36:47.119 --> 00:36:51.159 the soil, maybe make them bed, maybe even use it in a container. 520 00:36:51.280 --> 00:36:54.840 It is a quality product that works that way. Organic Compost Complete is 521 00:36:54.880 --> 00:36:58.800 what you expect composts, but it's two different kinds of composts. So with 522 00:36:58.880 --> 00:37:02.239 that you also get the shale. So every time you put Organic Compost Complete 523 00:37:02.239 --> 00:37:07.679 and mix it into your soil, maybe you finish one crop of flowers or 524 00:37:07.679 --> 00:37:10.039 whatever and you're putting another one in, or you're just building a soil maybe 525 00:37:10.039 --> 00:37:15.000 for rose beds. The Organic Compost Complete puts that shale in two So between 526 00:37:15.000 --> 00:37:20.920 the compost and the shale are heavy clay soils that are so brutally tough to 527 00:37:20.920 --> 00:37:24.039 deal with. Here just get better and better over time. And all of 528 00:37:24.039 --> 00:37:29.599 that is at Arbigate Nursery, which is on twenty nine twenty just west of 529 00:37:29.639 --> 00:37:31.639 two forty nine up in Tomball, Hey, we're gonna take a break. 530 00:37:32.280 --> 00:37:37.320 Our phone number is seven one three two one two five eight seven four seven 531 00:37:37.360 --> 00:37:43.719 one three two two fifty eight seventy four. Next Saturday from twelve to two, 532 00:37:43.880 --> 00:37:46.880 so a couple hours after the show ends here on Saturday, I'll be 533 00:37:46.920 --> 00:37:51.599 at the Montgomery County Home and Garden Show. So everybody up there in Montgomery 534 00:37:51.599 --> 00:37:53.119 County that listens, I hope you will come out to the Home and Garden 535 00:37:53.119 --> 00:37:57.000 Show. I'm gonna give a talk. I'm doing one hour seminar, and 536 00:37:57.039 --> 00:38:00.679 then I'll be spending an hour at a table to your gardening questions and also 537 00:38:00.760 --> 00:38:04.639 just to meet you. I love to meet our listeners out there. It'll 538 00:38:04.639 --> 00:38:07.840 be at the lone Star Convention Center in Conro and I'll be giving away Nelson 539 00:38:07.880 --> 00:38:13.960 plant food jugs and samples of Medina fertilizers as well. So I hope you 540 00:38:14.000 --> 00:38:16.079 can make that next Saturday, twelve to two. Put that on your calendar. 541 00:38:16.599 --> 00:38:24.840 Look forward to seeing KATRH Garden Line does not necessarily endorse any of the 542 00:38:24.840 --> 00:38:31.960 products or services advertised on this program. Welcome to KTRH Garden Line with Skip 543 00:38:32.119 --> 00:38:54.639 Rictor. It's smell crazy just watching as so many good good morning good Sunday 544 00:38:54.679 --> 00:38:59.480 morning. I hope you are having a good one so far. We're here 545 00:38:59.519 --> 00:39:02.400 to talk about any kind of thing gardening that you're interested in. By the 546 00:39:02.400 --> 00:39:06.280 way, if you've got a little piece of property out there, this goes 547 00:39:06.320 --> 00:39:08.559 beyond the garden. But hey, if you are a big time gardener, 548 00:39:08.599 --> 00:39:12.559 if you have a little piece of property, you need to know about the 549 00:39:12.719 --> 00:39:20.000 Lansdowne Moody deal with Caboda USA dot com. 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Lots and lots 569 00:40:34.039 --> 00:40:37.960 and lots of uses for a quality tractor like that. Lots of fun too, 570 00:40:37.679 --> 00:40:42.320 lots of fun. Mix work so much easier. Let's go out. 571 00:40:42.760 --> 00:40:46.400 We're gonna go back now and complete our conversation with Helen. Helen, we 572 00:40:46.400 --> 00:40:50.320 were talking about vines. I think we got through some grapes and then you 573 00:40:50.400 --> 00:40:53.000 had a vine you wanted for like a chain link fence. Did you say, 574 00:40:53.639 --> 00:40:59.840 yes, great, I had that little star. It's like a little 575 00:41:00.079 --> 00:41:04.719 light star. Yes, and it is such a good vine freezes. I'm 576 00:41:04.760 --> 00:41:08.519 so tired of planning things that freeze. Evidently, we're going to have to 577 00:41:08.519 --> 00:41:17.719 try some northern covers, and so that's one thing I kind of needed was 578 00:41:17.880 --> 00:41:22.679 something that would grow on a chain link fence. So you had a a 579 00:41:22.760 --> 00:41:27.400 Confederate jasmine on there. What did you have? I believe it was it 580 00:41:27.519 --> 00:41:32.679 had the little white flowers and it grows so well and it freezes. So 581 00:41:34.400 --> 00:41:37.440 yeah, we just had some tough winters for that. That's a right line. 582 00:41:37.719 --> 00:41:43.480 Just some tough winters. Okay, Well, my next question and my 583 00:41:43.639 --> 00:41:51.079 third question was I have to protect my home with like a huge flower box 584 00:41:51.719 --> 00:42:00.800 completely across my ninety two hundred foot frontage to the road. I live across 585 00:42:00.840 --> 00:42:07.239 the street from the high school, and all that baseball water they niche out 586 00:42:07.440 --> 00:42:15.199 they're curving, but I'm not allowed to niche mine. So it's like a 587 00:42:15.039 --> 00:42:20.320 street that just fills up. I'm the basin. But I've got a flower 588 00:42:20.360 --> 00:42:25.519 box that goes clear across. My box would live. The other was like 589 00:42:25.760 --> 00:42:30.119 trees growing, and we just kept trimming them. When they died, I 590 00:42:30.199 --> 00:42:36.159 had them all pulled out. Now I'd like something to replace them. I 591 00:42:36.239 --> 00:42:43.360 don't want the roses. I want some type of plant that would at least 592 00:42:43.480 --> 00:42:50.920 grow three to four feet high shrub totally across, because like the driveway, 593 00:42:51.440 --> 00:43:00.199 the water comes when when cars go, the wake hits my garage feet high. 594 00:43:00.239 --> 00:43:06.039 That's good, that's the way. Good night. I've been dealing with 595 00:43:06.079 --> 00:43:12.760 that for years years. Yeah, southern wax myrtle. That's a little short 596 00:43:12.880 --> 00:43:15.360 to keep it. But you could keep southern wax myrtle probably about four feet. 597 00:43:15.559 --> 00:43:20.400 There is one type of it that's a little more compact than the standard 598 00:43:20.400 --> 00:43:23.960 type. Go for the more compact type. That would be important. But 599 00:43:24.079 --> 00:43:30.880 a Southern native it knows about living in wet conditions and things, and it 600 00:43:30.880 --> 00:43:34.119 doesn't have to have a swamp to live, but it can tolerate some of 601 00:43:34.159 --> 00:43:37.960 that. That may be your best bet. You can keep it hedged and 602 00:43:37.039 --> 00:43:40.519 make a very dense hedge out of it, and choose whatever heights you want 603 00:43:40.519 --> 00:43:46.199 and keep it at that. Right. Okay, I do have something I 604 00:43:46.239 --> 00:43:52.960 want, but several people, you know, kind of go against it. 605 00:43:52.320 --> 00:44:02.800 Okay, it's that bush that has maroon really wine colored. And now when 606 00:44:02.840 --> 00:44:08.719 I want to say Chinese, is Chinese witch hazel? No, It's starts 607 00:44:08.760 --> 00:44:15.320 with the a I believe, and it's just a beautiful plant. But people 608 00:44:15.400 --> 00:44:21.639 say it's very hard to grow. Now our neighbors have two bushes of it, 609 00:44:22.280 --> 00:44:30.159 but I just don't know if Evidently it doesn't freeze, so it lasted, 610 00:44:30.039 --> 00:44:34.599 you know, through the let's freeze and then the heat. Yeah, 611 00:44:34.719 --> 00:44:37.840 let's do this. If you did, do you do email? No, 612 00:44:38.000 --> 00:44:42.880 sir? Okay, uh, well, try to find the name of it 613 00:44:43.000 --> 00:44:49.039 and then give us a callback. Thank you for your program. I really 614 00:44:49.199 --> 00:44:52.360 enjoy it. It is very helpful. Well, thank you the A and 615 00:44:52.440 --> 00:44:54.639 the purple. Right now, my brain is not coming up with a plant. 616 00:44:54.679 --> 00:44:59.000 But I'm sure what you say. The name wine ish colored more than 617 00:44:59.079 --> 00:45:05.679 purple, I guess as some verbal well, and yeah, I always always 618 00:45:05.719 --> 00:45:07.320 slips my mind. All right, Helen, thank you for the call. 619 00:45:07.360 --> 00:45:10.360 I appreciate look forward to helping you more with that as we go a little 620 00:45:10.400 --> 00:45:16.440 further down the line. You're talking about putting out you know, plants that 621 00:45:17.360 --> 00:45:23.440 do well. Verdant Tree Farm grows trees that do well. They choose species 622 00:45:23.559 --> 00:45:29.360 based on the fact that they are going to be successful here in the Greater 623 00:45:29.400 --> 00:45:31.280 Houston area. So whether you need a if you need a palm tree, 624 00:45:31.320 --> 00:45:35.320 for example, what kind of palm should you plant well? Some do well 625 00:45:35.360 --> 00:45:37.760 and some do not do well at all. Some of you get to replant 626 00:45:37.760 --> 00:45:39.719 every year because it gets too cold. They don't sell that kind. They 627 00:45:39.760 --> 00:45:43.320 sell the kind that will do well for you. And you can go to 628 00:45:43.480 --> 00:45:49.039 Verdant Tree Farm. It's v er da Nttreefarm dot com Verdon Tree Farm. 629 00:45:49.320 --> 00:45:52.360 If you're looking for locations out in the West Houston, there's one on Barker, 630 00:45:52.400 --> 00:45:53.960 Cyprus. That's the one I've always been to. That's the original, 631 00:45:53.960 --> 00:46:00.000 I believe. Down in pair Land on Broadway Street there's a Verdant Tree Farm 632 00:46:00.159 --> 00:46:04.559 blocks from Killing Steakhouse. And up in the heights where Yale Street comes into 633 00:46:04.559 --> 00:46:07.119 I ten there's a Burden tree form. It's not hard to find one ten 634 00:46:07.159 --> 00:46:13.679 percent discount for military for first responders, one year warranty with installation, and 635 00:46:13.800 --> 00:46:15.880 boy are we ever hitting the time of the year when you need to get 636 00:46:15.880 --> 00:46:19.280 those kinds of things in the ground. By the way, it's not just 637 00:46:19.400 --> 00:46:22.800 trees. I mean, you know, you need certain kinds of hollies. 638 00:46:22.840 --> 00:46:25.960 For example, you may kind of be caught there between a shrub and a 639 00:46:25.960 --> 00:46:30.039 tree. With some of these hollies. They sell those as well, and 640 00:46:30.079 --> 00:46:34.719 they know how to install them properly so they live and you have good success 641 00:46:34.840 --> 00:46:37.960 with them. We are going to have to take a break here, Mike, 642 00:46:37.079 --> 00:46:39.760 Donn and Dennis, you are the first three up when we come back. 643 00:46:40.039 --> 00:46:44.480 Thank you for holding on our phone number seven one three two one two 644 00:46:44.559 --> 00:46:49.119 fifty eight seventy four. Well, good morning. You're listening to garden Line 645 00:46:49.239 --> 00:46:52.079 and we are talking all kinds of things gardening. Hey, you know your 646 00:46:52.159 --> 00:46:57.199 lawn. It probably looks like I can't finish that sentence right now. With 647 00:46:57.280 --> 00:47:01.559 the summer that just hammered it with heat and drought and everything like this, 648 00:47:01.559 --> 00:47:06.599 this would be a good time to have an aeration and a compost top dressing 649 00:47:06.599 --> 00:47:08.880 done. Now, when you aerate, you can go rental a narrator that 650 00:47:09.039 --> 00:47:14.719 just pushes a hole in the ground, that just squeezes and compacts the sides 651 00:47:14.760 --> 00:47:17.800 of the hole as it presses open a hole. There's a core narrator that 652 00:47:17.920 --> 00:47:22.159 pops the little plugs the soil out. That's the best kind to do, 653 00:47:22.320 --> 00:47:24.719 and that's a kind that Greenpro uses. Now green Pro has been doing this 654 00:47:24.800 --> 00:47:28.760 for a good while. They know what they're doing. They do the aeration 655 00:47:28.880 --> 00:47:32.480 and then they do a compost top dressing with quality compost. So what happens 656 00:47:32.559 --> 00:47:36.719 is you get that low compost coating over the surface of the soil that blocks 657 00:47:36.719 --> 00:47:37.920 a little bit of light. Hey, it probably helps a little bit with 658 00:47:38.039 --> 00:47:43.880 the winter weed germination which is going to start next month. But it also 659 00:47:44.079 --> 00:47:45.679 falls down in the hole, so you're getting organic matter in the holes. 660 00:47:45.679 --> 00:47:49.760 You're getting oxygen in the holes. When it rains, water goes down in 661 00:47:49.800 --> 00:47:53.119 there and it helps infiltration and water soaking in. So if it rains an 662 00:47:53.119 --> 00:47:55.960 inch, you get that inch on your ground rather than running off down the 663 00:47:57.000 --> 00:48:01.000 street. Green Pro knows what they're doing and they have a special deal if 664 00:48:01.039 --> 00:48:06.519 you are a gardenline listener, you sign up for aeration and compost top dressing 665 00:48:06.519 --> 00:48:09.559 by the fifteenth of September, that is five days from now. By then 666 00:48:10.239 --> 00:48:14.039 they'll give you ten percent off. Now you don't have to have it done 667 00:48:14.079 --> 00:48:16.360 by the fifteenth, You just have to sign up for it and book your 668 00:48:16.360 --> 00:48:22.679 time by the fifteenth to receive the ten percent discount. This is a great 669 00:48:22.719 --> 00:48:28.079 deal, a great opportunity, and with lawns in the shape that our lawns 670 00:48:28.079 --> 00:48:31.039 are in this summer, this is one way to help bring them out of 671 00:48:31.039 --> 00:48:37.360 that in a way that works very, very effectively, a lot cheaper than 672 00:48:37.440 --> 00:48:40.519 doing a resotting. Maybe chinch bugs were also part of the problem. This 673 00:48:40.559 --> 00:48:46.840 morning again or this summer again. Compost top dressing followed following a good aeration 674 00:48:47.280 --> 00:48:51.920 by Greenpro. That's the way to go. Let's head out now we're going 675 00:48:51.960 --> 00:48:55.760 to go to Mike and Brunham. Mike, thanks for hanging on. Yes, 676 00:48:55.800 --> 00:48:59.039 sir, how are you doing well? I'm okay today. How are 677 00:48:59.039 --> 00:49:05.280 you? I'm doing well, doing well, thank you. I am looking 678 00:49:05.320 --> 00:49:13.159 at building a new I guess cabin next to a tree in my backyard, 679 00:49:14.000 --> 00:49:22.719 and I'm concerned about any potential damage to roots, uh to that tree and 680 00:49:22.079 --> 00:49:28.559 uh, if any if that should be considering a different location. All right, 681 00:49:28.960 --> 00:49:34.079 yeah, well, in future infiltration, let me ask you a few 682 00:49:34.159 --> 00:49:38.039 questions. Is this gonna be perembeam er slab? It's gonna be slab? 683 00:49:38.199 --> 00:49:44.599 Okay, how far away from the tree is the slab gonna be? The 684 00:49:44.719 --> 00:49:47.400 slab is probably gonna be. I mean, it's a it's a large mature 685 00:49:47.480 --> 00:49:52.199 oak. It's gonna be kind of at the outer edge. It's probably twenty 686 00:49:52.239 --> 00:49:55.079 feet from the actual trunk. So the outer edge of the branches where they 687 00:49:55.079 --> 00:49:59.000 are current a little bit more. If you were to walk up to that 688 00:49:59.079 --> 00:50:00.840 tree and each all the way around it with both arms, what are you 689 00:50:01.000 --> 00:50:04.559 How big is that? Is that a steering wheel or your car? Is 690 00:50:04.599 --> 00:50:07.719 that a large coffee can? How big of a trump? It's a little 691 00:50:07.719 --> 00:50:10.239 bit bigger than the steeringhil of the car. Okay, well, if you 692 00:50:10.440 --> 00:50:15.639 if you keep it twenty feet away, it can be done. I would 693 00:50:15.960 --> 00:50:21.199 want to get into the cool season and get the soil moist. I wouldn't 694 00:50:21.280 --> 00:50:23.440 want to do that to a tree in the middle of summer drought, for 695 00:50:23.480 --> 00:50:28.599 example. I'm not saying it wouldn't survive that, but right now it needs 696 00:50:28.639 --> 00:50:30.800 all the roots that's got. But as you do that, as you build 697 00:50:30.800 --> 00:50:35.119 it that far away, I think you're going to be Okay as far as 698 00:50:35.159 --> 00:50:39.239 what the roots do, you know, you're you're gonna anytime you've got a 699 00:50:39.239 --> 00:50:43.039 building and the rainwater's coming off of it, roots are going to go up 700 00:50:43.079 --> 00:50:46.159 against the slab. It stays moist there. That's where they proliferate. And 701 00:50:46.199 --> 00:50:49.760 it's not so much that they go under it like they do a driveway or 702 00:50:49.800 --> 00:50:53.079 a sidewalk, but they draw all the water away from it, because then 703 00:50:53.199 --> 00:50:57.960 the soil goes from being very wet after a rain to very dry, and 704 00:50:58.000 --> 00:51:01.800 that shrink and swell is our foundation concern that we have with roots. You 705 00:51:01.880 --> 00:51:06.719 can have somebody come out cut the roots and put a barrier in that comes 706 00:51:06.760 --> 00:51:09.480 at an expense, but that prevents any roots from getting any closer to it. 707 00:51:09.960 --> 00:51:14.880 But I think in this case, just making sure that when we go 708 00:51:14.920 --> 00:51:19.480 into next summer and it's hot and dry, that all the areas that are 709 00:51:19.519 --> 00:51:24.480 still not covered by slab get a good soaking ever ten days to two weeks 710 00:51:24.960 --> 00:51:30.360 during an extended time of drought no rainfall, let's say within the last couple 711 00:51:30.360 --> 00:51:36.159 of weeks. Okay, So as far as that barrier's concerned there, so 712 00:51:36.360 --> 00:51:39.480 I'm doing, I build, I do most of this work. Is there 713 00:51:39.480 --> 00:51:45.800 a dy barrier for the roots? Probably, I don't know. It's not 714 00:51:45.800 --> 00:51:49.679 going to be like you go to a garden center a home store and buy 715 00:51:49.760 --> 00:51:54.639 one of the materials, a very very very thick fabric not fabric plastic type 716 00:51:54.679 --> 00:51:59.960 material that goes underground and creates a wall. Essentially, there are some fabric 717 00:52:00.039 --> 00:52:06.159 type materials that even have a root burning product incorporated in them so that as 718 00:52:06.199 --> 00:52:08.840 the roots hit them, it's like a root hits air. The air burns 719 00:52:08.840 --> 00:52:13.559 the root and it, you know, it prevents it from going forward. 720 00:52:13.599 --> 00:52:15.079 It doesn't hurt the tree. It just says roots can't go by here. 721 00:52:15.760 --> 00:52:20.239 There's different ones that I am not an expert in that. Someone like Affordable 722 00:52:20.239 --> 00:52:23.320 Treecare could tell you exactly what that's done and what they would charge to do 723 00:52:23.400 --> 00:52:28.360 it and too. But bottom line, as you're getting a wall in the 724 00:52:28.400 --> 00:52:32.840 ground after you cut the roots in making the trench, and you're putting that 725 00:52:32.960 --> 00:52:37.760 vertical wall down in the ground around it to prevent them from going that way, 726 00:52:37.599 --> 00:52:39.960 I see. And as far as how deep that needs to be, 727 00:52:40.039 --> 00:52:46.119 and all of that that's outside of my league. Okay, all right, 728 00:52:46.199 --> 00:52:50.599 excellent. I appreciate your time today, you bet I thank you very much. 729 00:52:51.440 --> 00:52:53.920 We are going to now go out to sugar Land and talk to Don. 730 00:52:54.039 --> 00:52:58.480 Hello Don, and thanks for waiting. Good morning, Sip. Thank 731 00:52:58.519 --> 00:53:04.360 you. I'll live it a townhouse that's only got a partially open patio. 732 00:53:04.519 --> 00:53:08.039 It's about a eight by twenty and only about a four by twenty section at 733 00:53:08.079 --> 00:53:15.039 the top is open. I've made some big planter boxes out of a hearty 734 00:53:15.119 --> 00:53:20.199 board at the bottom. And my wife loves bamboo. I don't like it, 735 00:53:20.239 --> 00:53:23.440 but anyway, so y'all compromise when you're getting it. Is that what 736 00:53:23.519 --> 00:53:28.199 I'm Yeah? And well, she likes it as a barrier at the top. 737 00:53:28.960 --> 00:53:35.039 Anyway, She's used different varieties and hasn't been satisfied with it. Most 738 00:53:35.079 --> 00:53:39.280 of the bamboo at the tips of the leaves always turned brown. Do you 739 00:53:39.440 --> 00:53:44.239 have a particular variety and when? What kind of soil would you put in 740 00:53:44.280 --> 00:53:47.920 there? And fertilizer to make this stuff go? She gets out there and 741 00:53:49.000 --> 00:53:52.559 she takes scissors and clips all the one that's brown parts off the top. 742 00:53:52.639 --> 00:53:58.840 But the last variety was a thinner stock bamboo, and it didn't do well. 743 00:53:58.880 --> 00:54:02.639 And there's the stuff well dying on her. Eventually the bamboo will grow 744 00:54:02.719 --> 00:54:08.159 out and then the sunlight gets it. But it just doesn't seem to do 745 00:54:08.239 --> 00:54:13.760 what it needs to do. And I know it shouldn't be that difficult. 746 00:54:14.079 --> 00:54:17.440 I don't know if there's too much water or what. Yeah, bamboo's grass, 747 00:54:17.559 --> 00:54:21.679 and so like any grass, when he gets two drivets can die back 748 00:54:21.840 --> 00:54:24.639 and or die out right. If it's a severe enough drought, there's a 749 00:54:24.679 --> 00:54:29.320 lot of types of bamboo. The kind you want probably is a clumping type 750 00:54:30.199 --> 00:54:32.760 as opposed to the running types. Those are the ones that take over the 751 00:54:32.800 --> 00:54:37.199 world and you wish and ever planted them. Unless we were just talking about 752 00:54:37.239 --> 00:54:44.199 root containing her tree roots. You can do an underground root barrier for bamboo 753 00:54:44.280 --> 00:54:47.000 too, to keep it within a space, but that's that's a whole nother 754 00:54:47.559 --> 00:54:51.960 step. What I would do is, let's see you're done in Sugarland. 755 00:54:52.000 --> 00:54:57.280 I would probably call the folks over at enchanted gardens and see what kinds they 756 00:54:57.320 --> 00:55:00.360 can get and would recommend the problem with the clump types is they're a little 757 00:55:00.440 --> 00:55:07.119 less hardy, not all of them. There's some heartier clumpers. But describe 758 00:55:07.159 --> 00:55:09.199 to them what you want and they can tell you what kind of plants they 759 00:55:09.199 --> 00:55:15.159 would get in that they would recommend for that particular spot. It's going to 760 00:55:15.239 --> 00:55:17.719 come down to hot tall do you want it to be? Uh? And 761 00:55:17.400 --> 00:55:21.960 uh? You know how wide of a boxed area you have which you were 762 00:55:21.960 --> 00:55:24.880 describing to me, and they can tell you what they can get that would 763 00:55:24.880 --> 00:55:29.960 fit that. Okay, what kind of soil or fertilizer would you use? 764 00:55:30.320 --> 00:55:35.719 Any kind any good quality soil mix A good blend. It will do very 765 00:55:35.719 --> 00:55:38.599 well in I mean it'll grow. And just the native soil that's out there, 766 00:55:38.599 --> 00:55:42.599 I mean they're pretty tough. So look compost in there is good. 767 00:55:42.880 --> 00:55:45.920 When you fertilize them, treat them like a lawn. They're a grass, 768 00:55:45.960 --> 00:55:50.920 just lawn fertilizers. What you would use? Okay? All right? Can 769 00:55:51.559 --> 00:55:53.079 I ask you one other question real quick? Yeah? Sure, I had 770 00:55:53.119 --> 00:55:58.519 that. I had that Behavior Grass and Saint Augustine, so I called Southwest 771 00:55:58.559 --> 00:56:00.920 Fertilizer and they didn't have manner that you recommend it, but they have a 772 00:56:00.920 --> 00:56:07.440 different variety and they said, don't use it until it cools off. Well, 773 00:56:07.440 --> 00:56:10.719 all my grass is dead anyway, except the Behavior grass. But anyway, 774 00:56:10.760 --> 00:56:15.920 if you have like fruit trees around, is that is that not good 775 00:56:15.960 --> 00:56:20.679 to use around a fruit tree or would it be okay if you just kind 776 00:56:20.719 --> 00:56:23.599 of spotted around it? Really if you're if you're very careful, follow the 777 00:56:23.679 --> 00:56:28.840 label carefully. Manner is one of those products. It works very well. 778 00:56:29.320 --> 00:56:31.639 But if it if you get a gully washer or rain or you just irrigate 779 00:56:31.679 --> 00:56:36.119 a lot and wash it down into the root system. It is very hard 780 00:56:36.199 --> 00:56:38.599 on trees and shrubs because they've got roots all over the place, all over 781 00:56:38.719 --> 00:56:43.079 your lawn. They're tree and shrub roots, and so you just have to 782 00:56:43.119 --> 00:56:45.880 be careful on using it, you know, you want to you want to 783 00:56:45.920 --> 00:56:49.800 put it down at the proper rate, not too much, and don't don't 784 00:56:49.840 --> 00:56:52.119 do it before we're about to get an inch or to a rain, you 785 00:56:52.159 --> 00:56:54.480 know, right before that, and you can you can probably do a pretty 786 00:56:54.480 --> 00:56:58.679 good job with it that way. It wouldn't hurt it. The fruit though, 787 00:56:58.760 --> 00:57:05.320 and edible fruit no well, no, yeah, no, I mean 788 00:57:05.360 --> 00:57:09.719 it's not labeled for putting in an orchard, but in our landscapes we have 789 00:57:09.800 --> 00:57:15.599 all kinds of plants combined together, and so I would be more concerned about 790 00:57:15.599 --> 00:57:19.960 doing damage to the tree, you know, than it being taken up and 791 00:57:20.039 --> 00:57:24.000 being in fruit. If you you would be doing it now anyway you want 792 00:57:24.000 --> 00:57:28.960 to give. What I would do is I would water very well and get 793 00:57:29.039 --> 00:57:35.679 that behagrass growing and then put the manner down And because actively growing weeds is 794 00:57:35.719 --> 00:57:38.199 what takes up whatever herbside we're putting on them, and that would be your 795 00:57:38.199 --> 00:57:42.480 goal. And then you're not watering after that to wash it down in the 796 00:57:42.480 --> 00:57:45.440 soil. All right, got it? Okay? Thank you very much. 797 00:57:45.599 --> 00:57:49.800 You bet, I thank you that. I appreciate you saying that. Yeah, 798 00:57:49.840 --> 00:57:52.159 I mentioned in Channa Garden, you know. In Channa Gardens is out 799 00:57:52.159 --> 00:57:54.800 there on three fifty nine just north of Richmond. It's on the Katie Fulscher 800 00:57:55.000 --> 00:58:00.320 side of Richmond. You can go to their website enchanted Gardens Richmond dot com. 801 00:58:00.679 --> 00:58:04.400 Enchanna Gardens is a place where you can get any kind of plant you 802 00:58:04.440 --> 00:58:07.960 need. I mean they have everything, and they have a good selection of 803 00:58:07.039 --> 00:58:10.679 everything. Do you need pottery? Do you want to create a fairy garden? 804 00:58:10.719 --> 00:58:14.840 You know, faerry gardens are They're really cool, a little miniature gardens 805 00:58:14.840 --> 00:58:17.280 with little miniature figurines and them. It's kind of an unusual thing. They've 806 00:58:17.320 --> 00:58:20.679 got them in big containers. They got you know, but round the base 807 00:58:20.719 --> 00:58:22.480 of your tree where nothing else is gonna want to grow, Why not put 808 00:58:22.480 --> 00:58:25.239 a ferry garden. Go out to Encinna and see there. They're pretty cool. 809 00:58:25.599 --> 00:58:30.159 Do you need antique and hybrid rows, is vegetables, herbs, specimen 810 00:58:30.199 --> 00:58:34.880 trees. I mean they and their staff knows what they're talking about. And 811 00:58:34.960 --> 00:58:37.679 oh yes, by the way, they carry all the fertilizer. If you 812 00:58:37.760 --> 00:58:40.119 talk about they carry the soil as we talk about. You can get those 813 00:58:40.199 --> 00:58:44.960 Vego garden beds we talk about at the Enchena Gardens. I mean they're hours 814 00:58:45.280 --> 00:58:50.000 eight am to five thirty pm on Monday through Saturday and Sunday today ten am 815 00:58:50.039 --> 00:58:52.480 to four pm. So get out this afternoon and check them out. You 816 00:58:52.519 --> 00:58:57.400 will see why I'm so impressed and why when I have family come, that's 817 00:58:57.440 --> 00:59:02.280 one of the places I take my visit and other friends just because every time 818 00:59:02.280 --> 00:59:06.760 they go it's like, Wow, I've never seen a place like this. 819 00:59:06.840 --> 00:59:09.840 Well, when you go to Enchanted, you will have Well we're running a 820 00:59:10.000 --> 00:59:14.679 kind of short on time here to start, Dennis. I know you've been 821 00:59:14.679 --> 00:59:16.920 holding. Thank you for your patients. If we can get through this newsbreak, 822 00:59:17.360 --> 00:59:22.119 you will be the very next one that comes up. Our phone number 823 00:59:22.199 --> 00:59:27.440 is seven one three two one two five eight seven four seven one three two 824 00:59:27.480 --> 00:59:31.559 one two fifty eight seventy four. Just a reminder that if you haven't downloaded 825 00:59:32.280 --> 00:59:37.320 or put a bookmark in for my lawn care schedule, Skip Ricter lawn care 826 00:59:37.400 --> 00:59:44.199 schedule is on gardening with Skip dot com. Gardening with Skip dot Com. 827 00:59:44.239 --> 00:59:47.639 It tells you what to use all through the year from January to December. 828 00:59:49.159 --> 00:59:52.320 All of the cultural practices that help make a beautiful lawn. Well, good 829 00:59:52.360 --> 00:59:55.880 morning, you are listening to Garden Line and we are going to go straight 830 00:59:55.920 --> 01:00:00.079 to Dennis and cove. Dennis, you get the Worldwide Award for Patients. 831 01:00:00.159 --> 01:00:04.760 Thank you for waiting. Okay, I have two questions. I'll start with, 832 01:00:05.039 --> 01:00:07.280 Well, hope is a shorter answer. It's about soaker hoses. I've 833 01:00:07.320 --> 01:00:13.159 been watering my foundation by hand, and I got one hundred and fifty foot 834 01:00:13.239 --> 01:00:17.400 soaker hose to try that to be more convenient. And I ran it about 835 01:00:17.400 --> 01:00:22.719 two hours and I saw water coming out the entire length of the hose. 836 01:00:22.840 --> 01:00:25.360 But the end of the two hours, i'd say the last half of the 837 01:00:25.400 --> 01:00:31.360 hose, the ground was not really watered. And at the very end, 838 01:00:32.199 --> 01:00:36.679 you know, it was just hardly damp at all. Okay, is that 839 01:00:36.920 --> 01:00:40.639 going to be typical? Are there you know hoses that are I imagine that'd 840 01:00:40.639 --> 01:00:46.159 be hard to manufacture a hose where the prosty actually increases along line so you 841 01:00:46.199 --> 01:00:52.679 get even water distribution. Yeah, that's the problem. Anytime you run down 842 01:00:52.760 --> 01:00:55.639 a piece of pipe, whether it's PVC or whatever, the pressure at the 843 01:00:55.639 --> 01:01:00.440 beginning is greater than the pressure at the end, there's that a drag on 844 01:01:00.480 --> 01:01:05.840 the pipe. It's hard to think imagine water inside PBC having friction, but 845 01:01:05.920 --> 01:01:10.360 it does and the pressure decreases. Now, if the pipe slopes downward, 846 01:01:12.000 --> 01:01:15.000 you can have it all even, but you got to get the right slope 847 01:01:15.280 --> 01:01:21.599 where gravity overcomes the friction loss and it stays the same. There are drip 848 01:01:21.679 --> 01:01:29.039 irrigation lines that are made with interior emitters that it's called a tortuous path. 849 01:01:29.119 --> 01:01:31.519 But when the water comes into the emitter, it has to go through a 850 01:01:31.599 --> 01:01:36.280 zigzag. It almost looks like a zipper going back and forth, back and 851 01:01:36.320 --> 01:01:38.920 forth, and then it comes out the hole. And what that does is 852 01:01:39.079 --> 01:01:49.119 it helps moderate the pressure and it gives you a more even application. All 853 01:01:49.159 --> 01:01:52.000 the way down the line. One hundred and fifty is a long way to 854 01:01:52.039 --> 01:01:55.000 go, and if there were any way to have maybe the water come in 855 01:01:55.119 --> 01:01:59.880 midway down the line and then go both ways, you would cut it to 856 01:02:00.119 --> 01:02:06.360 seventy five feet each way. Your water loss water pressure loss would be different. 857 01:02:06.400 --> 01:02:09.440 But those in line emitters with a tortuous path, you buy them anywhere 858 01:02:09.440 --> 01:02:14.719 you buy drip irrigation. You can get them in there's you know, six 859 01:02:14.800 --> 01:02:19.599 inch spacing, twelve inch spacing, and so on. They come in different 860 01:02:19.639 --> 01:02:22.800 amounts, and we use them in landscape beds, we use them in agriculture, 861 01:02:22.360 --> 01:02:25.559 but you could certainly use them for your foundation like that. The other 862 01:02:25.599 --> 01:02:30.880 thing that happens with emitters, and especially the soaker hoses too, is if 863 01:02:30.880 --> 01:02:34.840 your water qualities a little off, maybe you've got some calcium or iron compounds 864 01:02:34.880 --> 01:02:40.159 that develop deposits in there. They get clogged up and they just don't weep 865 01:02:40.480 --> 01:02:45.280 the water out like they would otherwise, and so that can also happen. 866 01:02:45.360 --> 01:02:51.480 That's something happens more over time, though, Dennis, Okay, okay, 867 01:02:51.559 --> 01:02:57.280 thank you. My second question has to do I've got a number of deciduous 868 01:02:57.320 --> 01:03:00.920 trees. Most of them are things we planted, so they're still fairly new, 869 01:03:02.159 --> 01:03:07.280 you know, probably three feet high, some a little shorter, maybe 870 01:03:07.360 --> 01:03:12.079 some are a little taller. And I've I've been doing what Randy used to 871 01:03:12.119 --> 01:03:15.639 call the deep root watering, where I make the holes around and then water 872 01:03:16.599 --> 01:03:21.480 into the holes rather than trying to soak the ground, especially in all the 873 01:03:21.480 --> 01:03:24.960 heat. And I usually do this on the weekend, and things have been 874 01:03:24.960 --> 01:03:29.480 holding up pretty well through the summer, but within the last couple of weeks, 875 01:03:30.159 --> 01:03:34.800 I've noticed on several things that leaves are starting to turn brown. I 876 01:03:34.880 --> 01:03:40.039 noticed particularly I've got maybe seven crat myrtles, and probably on six of them 877 01:03:40.199 --> 01:03:45.280 the tips of the leaves are starting to brown. And there's some other trees 878 01:03:45.320 --> 01:03:49.760 that this is happening, and they're all deciduous. But this seems to be 879 01:03:49.800 --> 01:03:58.440 a little early to start losing leaves. Should I keep watering anyway? And 880 01:03:58.480 --> 01:04:01.039 if the leaves come off? Kind of like, how do I know the 881 01:04:01.079 --> 01:04:05.639 watering still doing any good? Or how much to water? Yeah? Is 882 01:04:05.639 --> 01:04:11.880 your soiled clay? Yes? Oh yes? So let me this This what 883 01:04:11.920 --> 01:04:15.159 I'm about to say goes back as well to your your house foundation. If 884 01:04:15.159 --> 01:04:19.440 you take a long handled screwdriver and you push it into a clay soil that 885 01:04:19.480 --> 01:04:23.800 you've watered, let's say from the top, like your socer hose was doing, 886 01:04:24.679 --> 01:04:28.320 it'll go through the clay easily when it's wet. And then when you 887 01:04:28.400 --> 01:04:31.960 hit however deep that watering got, it'll be like you hit a hit concrete. 888 01:04:32.119 --> 01:04:34.920 And so you can pull the screwdriver out and you know exactly how deep 889 01:04:34.960 --> 01:04:40.039 that soil is wet. That's that's helpful for you. Your socer hose or 890 01:04:40.039 --> 01:04:43.280 whatever you're using around the house. But when you get about out around the 891 01:04:43.280 --> 01:04:46.719 crape myrtles and things, I would still do a gradual soaking from the top 892 01:04:46.760 --> 01:04:49.239 down. Now, if you just tried to put a sprinkler and just water 893 01:04:49.280 --> 01:04:54.159 water water without stopping, it's going to run off. But anything that would 894 01:04:54.239 --> 01:04:57.800 gradually soak as wide of an area as you can, and it could be 895 01:04:57.880 --> 01:05:00.000 running a sprinkle and turning it off, running it, turning it all the 896 01:05:00.039 --> 01:05:03.239 way down, that is good because you've got roots up there in the top 897 01:05:03.400 --> 01:05:06.760 let's say two inches from the surface of the soil, there's roots. And 898 01:05:06.800 --> 01:05:11.320 if you do the deep root, that does provide that bank account down in 899 01:05:11.360 --> 01:05:15.320 the soil, and that's helpful. But if it's not doing enough, maybe 900 01:05:15.480 --> 01:05:23.360 the water isn't coming upward enough to fully wet a volume of soil where you 901 01:05:23.480 --> 01:05:27.360 have more resilience when it comes to the plant always having an access to that 902 01:05:27.480 --> 01:05:31.320 moisture. Does that make sense? Yes? And so I guess again the 903 01:05:31.400 --> 01:05:36.800 last part of that is, you know these things lose their leaves, does 904 01:05:36.840 --> 01:05:42.880 it make sense to keep watering or you know at that point and you're just 905 01:05:42.960 --> 01:05:46.239 kind of waiting connect spring to see how well things come back. Well, 906 01:05:46.239 --> 01:05:50.079 what happens is they do lose their leaves as a way of trying to survive, 907 01:05:50.199 --> 01:05:55.239 because the leaves are what uses water up there. It's how the water 908 01:05:55.280 --> 01:05:58.800 gets out of the plant primarily, and so they drop the leaves just to 909 01:05:58.840 --> 01:06:02.039 say, well, okay, we'll just hang on to survive. But during 910 01:06:02.079 --> 01:06:06.599 that time, that plant can't do photosynthesis, it can't make carbohydrates for winter 911 01:06:06.719 --> 01:06:11.559 heartiness. It can't. You know it. It's not a good thing. 912 01:06:11.679 --> 01:06:16.199 It's a survival mechanism, but it is not helpful beyond just surviving. So 913 01:06:16.400 --> 01:06:19.920 I would go ahead and give them some water because new leaves are going to 914 01:06:20.000 --> 01:06:25.480 come on them. We hate to have them defoliate and then refoliate towards the 915 01:06:25.559 --> 01:06:30.760 end of the year, just because you know that's it should be going into 916 01:06:30.840 --> 01:06:33.440 fall and then dropping the leaves. But I would say it'd be worth giving 917 01:06:33.480 --> 01:06:39.840 them watering still now, because there's a long time before it truly gets cooler 918 01:06:40.000 --> 01:06:43.519 and the leaves normally start to drop, and I think you can get some 919 01:06:43.559 --> 01:06:49.000 benefit out of getting hydration and some more leaves on that plant. Okay, 920 01:06:49.079 --> 01:06:51.440 thank you very much. Yes, The only thing I wouldn't do, Dennis 921 01:06:51.559 --> 01:06:58.480 is fertilize a plant because they you don't want to just push a lot of 922 01:06:58.519 --> 01:07:00.519 succulent growth, but you do want to get some more leaves on that great 923 01:07:00.559 --> 01:07:03.679 myrtle. All right, all right, thank you, yeah, thank you. 924 01:07:03.760 --> 01:07:06.519 I appreciate the call. It's good, excellent questions. I know a 925 01:07:06.519 --> 01:07:11.760 lot of other people probably have similar ones. You know, if you are 926 01:07:11.920 --> 01:07:17.159 in the area down Highway six, a few blocks south of ninety six down 927 01:07:17.199 --> 01:07:20.800 in League City, that is League City Feed. That's your hometown feed store. 928 01:07:20.960 --> 01:07:26.760 The Thunderbergs have a very nice I call it old fashioned because they got 929 01:07:26.760 --> 01:07:30.719 all the stuff that you would expect in a feed store. The fertilizers recommend, 930 01:07:30.719 --> 01:07:33.480 the feeds, the pep foods, all the stuff, backyard chicken products. 931 01:07:33.480 --> 01:07:38.679 They've got all of that. But they have that family service, you 932 01:07:38.679 --> 01:07:41.519 know what I'm talking about, that you walk in your family the way you're 933 01:07:41.559 --> 01:07:45.679 treated. They carry the things you need. If you need pest side products 934 01:07:45.679 --> 01:07:47.760 for your long they're going to have them. And it's so easy. You 935 01:07:47.840 --> 01:07:51.519 get to Highway three a few blocks south and ninety six. So if you're 936 01:07:51.519 --> 01:07:56.599 in clear Lake City or oh come into Reale. Dickinson Lamart Bay Cliff, 937 01:07:56.760 --> 01:08:00.360 League City Webster. This is your hometown feed store and now they're open Monday 938 01:08:00.360 --> 01:08:03.519 through Saturday, closed to Sunday. They're open till six Monday through Saturday. 939 01:08:03.519 --> 01:08:09.480 So after working, swing by there two eight one three three two sixteen twelve 940 01:08:09.559 --> 01:08:14.079 two eight one three three two sixteen twelve for League City Feed. Well, 941 01:08:14.119 --> 01:08:17.000 we're gonna take a break here. We will be back our phone number seven 942 01:08:17.079 --> 01:08:21.560 one three two one two fifty eight seventy four. Well, good Sunday morning, 943 01:08:21.960 --> 01:08:26.119 What a great day. It is beautiful outside. We got a little 944 01:08:26.159 --> 01:08:32.760 bit break from that just I don't know how to intense infernal heat that we 945 01:08:32.760 --> 01:08:35.760 were dealing with this summer. And we got a little bit of rain some 946 01:08:35.800 --> 01:08:39.399 parts of the area, especially Houston, a little bit to the east side. 947 01:08:39.560 --> 01:08:42.640 Rain for everybody's coming. That's called fall. It is coming, the 948 01:08:42.680 --> 01:08:45.760 temperatures dropping. It's time to get ready and speaking to get ready. If 949 01:08:45.760 --> 01:08:48.600 you live up in the Montgomery area, A and A Plants and Produce has 950 01:08:48.600 --> 01:08:53.479 got everything you need to get ready. They have a great stock of plants. 951 01:08:53.520 --> 01:08:56.960 I mean we're talking shrubs, trees for trees, if you want annual 952 01:08:57.000 --> 01:09:00.399 color, if you need vegetables, and herbs and things like that. They've 953 01:09:00.399 --> 01:09:02.560 got it all. Plus they have a lot of nice fall bling. You 954 01:09:02.600 --> 01:09:05.800 know, they always have bling up at Ana Plants and Produce, whether it's 955 01:09:05.880 --> 01:09:12.399 chimin eas or other kinds of structures out there, maybe topiaries, some deck 956 01:09:12.439 --> 01:09:15.239 furniture, patio furniture. That's another good thing that they have, along with 957 01:09:15.279 --> 01:09:18.720 the yard art and you know, hand tools and glove everything you need to 958 01:09:18.760 --> 01:09:21.479 have a garden. By the way, on Sunday, October eighth, I 959 01:09:21.520 --> 01:09:26.039 know that's a distance away, but write this down. Sunday, October eighth 960 01:09:26.159 --> 01:09:32.079 is their annual family fall festival. The technical term is Shindig. It's one 961 01:09:32.119 --> 01:09:39.840 heck of shindig coming up Sunday, October eighth, twelve noon to four pm. 962 01:09:39.960 --> 01:09:43.359 Twelve noon to four pm. Doesn't cost anything. Mister Scarecrow, be 963 01:09:43.439 --> 01:09:45.359 there. There'll be a DJ there, there'll be face painting, there'll be 964 01:09:45.359 --> 01:09:50.319 a balloon artist, there'll be a pumpkin patch. Just put on your calendar. 965 01:09:50.439 --> 01:09:54.199 You don't want to miss that one. Out at A and A Plants 966 01:09:54.199 --> 01:09:57.720 and Produce if you haven't been there before. When you're in Montgomery, you 967 01:09:57.800 --> 01:10:00.920 just head east on one oh five to the edge of Town on Highway Wonder 968 01:10:00.920 --> 01:10:05.760 five Tortomball, Tomball toward Conro. My gosh, don't even have my map 969 01:10:05.800 --> 01:10:10.119 in my head here, and that's where they are. It's easy to find 970 01:10:10.159 --> 01:10:13.760 them. So all those folks out in April sound like Conro, bent Water, 971 01:10:13.920 --> 01:10:16.119 you know de Lago. All those places out there, they are your 972 01:10:16.199 --> 01:10:20.319 hometown garden center and they carry all the fertilizers we talk about here, So 973 01:10:20.479 --> 01:10:27.479 that makes it easy for one stop shopping. We've been dealing with this brutal, 974 01:10:27.680 --> 01:10:30.760 brutal summer weather and I know I keep saying it and you already know 975 01:10:30.880 --> 01:10:34.439 it, but I'm telling you things are changing, that it is coming and 976 01:10:34.479 --> 01:10:38.319 we need to be ready for it. Now. Maybe you're looking out there 977 01:10:38.399 --> 01:10:43.479 and you're going, this is so discouraging brown yard. There's shrubs that are 978 01:10:43.640 --> 01:10:48.079 dying, and I just don't even look at it. Well, know that 979 01:10:48.159 --> 01:10:51.359 it can all be turned around. It can all be turned around. You 980 01:10:51.439 --> 01:10:55.159 maybe a do it yourself and you're gonna chip away and do it yourself. 981 01:10:55.399 --> 01:11:00.479 But if you really want the first rate, beautiful landscape and you want a 982 01:11:00.520 --> 01:11:02.800 turnkey job to make it easy, maybe it's done in stages, but maybe 983 01:11:02.880 --> 01:11:08.560 it's done at one time. Pierscapes is a one and here's why you need 984 01:11:08.600 --> 01:11:12.119 to know this. Now you call them, now, you take pictures in, 985 01:11:12.479 --> 01:11:14.840 You sit down with them, you tell them what you want. Maybe 986 01:11:14.880 --> 01:11:16.800 you have pictures or something you like that you saw some or bring it in 987 01:11:16.840 --> 01:11:19.720 and say I like this and can I do this here? What do you 988 01:11:19.720 --> 01:11:25.960 think? They're going to guide you and suggestion and suggest things because they know 989 01:11:26.000 --> 01:11:28.680 what it takes to make things right. They can fix the soil, they 990 01:11:28.680 --> 01:11:31.720 can put in plants that are drought resistant, so you're not doing this every 991 01:11:31.720 --> 01:11:36.000 time we have this kind of a summer. Peerscapes is easy to get a 992 01:11:36.039 --> 01:11:41.640 hold of two eight one, three, seven zero fifty sixty. They do 993 01:11:41.840 --> 01:11:44.560 everything. Do you need hardscapes? Do you need a patio? Do you 994 01:11:44.600 --> 01:11:47.520 need irrigation work? I bet you do. Most irrigation systems need help. 995 01:11:47.600 --> 01:11:54.039 They're not well designed or maintained. And Peerscapes can do just that. Peerscapes 996 01:11:54.319 --> 01:11:59.039 dot Com. Give them a call, and why not do it now so 997 01:11:59.079 --> 01:12:01.760 that when fall comes and the prime time for getting all these in the ground 998 01:12:01.840 --> 01:12:06.319 is done by the holidays, You've got a beautiful place and you've started over 999 01:12:06.680 --> 01:12:12.079 with resilient plants and a well designed landscape. That's what peerscapes can do. 1000 01:12:12.680 --> 01:12:16.800 That is what they can do. I was sitting at home this past week 1001 01:12:17.039 --> 01:12:24.079 and look across the living room and going across the floor was a cockroach. 1002 01:12:24.359 --> 01:12:28.479 Yes, in my house, a cockroach. I have two Golden retrievers, 1003 01:12:28.560 --> 01:12:30.359 and you know what they were doing. They were just looking at it. 1004 01:12:30.720 --> 01:12:34.800 They just looked at those ingrates, those freeloaders. They were just I hope 1005 01:12:34.960 --> 01:12:38.840 they'd pounce on it and get rid of or they eat everything else. Everything 1006 01:12:38.840 --> 01:12:41.800 else goes in their mouth. Not this. Well, I tell you what 1007 01:12:41.840 --> 01:12:45.520 I need to do. I need to call McGrath pest Control. Scott knows 1008 01:12:45.600 --> 01:12:49.760 how to control pests. Even doing this, I think nineteen seventy four, 1009 01:12:49.800 --> 01:12:55.000 Scott's dad started the business, still family run over forty eight years now. 1010 01:12:55.640 --> 01:13:00.439 He has the experience. You can go online to MacGrath Pest Control dot com 1011 01:13:00.520 --> 01:13:04.199 or you can just call him two eight one four six nine eighty two forty. 1012 01:13:04.199 --> 01:13:08.319 Every time of the year there's something we're dealing with. There's the season 1013 01:13:08.399 --> 01:13:12.119 where seasons where we're dealing with mosquitoes. There's the fire ants in the yard, 1014 01:13:12.520 --> 01:13:15.039 there are the critters that get up in the attic. You know, 1015 01:13:15.119 --> 01:13:18.760 there's dealing with mosquitos and rodents and all kinds of things. Scott does. 1016 01:13:18.800 --> 01:13:25.119 All of that covers a whole hous scenaria, modern technology with old fashioned customer 1017 01:13:25.239 --> 01:13:28.920 service. So when you call McGraph, they don't go, well, block 1018 01:13:29.000 --> 01:13:31.079 your whole Next Saturday, we might show up. Like a lot of service 1019 01:13:31.119 --> 01:13:34.640 people do. They tell you the time that they're going to come, not 1020 01:13:34.760 --> 01:13:39.319 a five hour window. They show up and they're highly rated on all the 1021 01:13:39.399 --> 01:13:44.239 review sites. McGrath Pest Control write that down. You're gonna need it. 1022 01:13:44.399 --> 01:13:46.800 You need it probably today, but you're gonna need it as we go through 1023 01:13:46.840 --> 01:13:50.439 time because there's always a new thing we're dealing with and McGraph knows how to 1024 01:13:50.479 --> 01:13:56.920 deal with each of them effectively, and that is really important. We have 1025 01:13:57.000 --> 01:14:00.199 been talking about all kinds of things gardening. I just want to remind you 1026 01:14:00.239 --> 01:14:03.319 that next Saturday, I'm going to be at the Montgomery Home and Garden Show 1027 01:14:03.760 --> 01:14:09.079 that is up at the Lone Star Convention Center in Conro. Now, Nelson 1028 01:14:09.159 --> 01:14:13.600 plant Food is going to be there, given away some food plant food jugs, 1029 01:14:13.600 --> 01:14:16.760 some of their quality products that Nelson produces, and also I'll be giving 1030 01:14:16.760 --> 01:14:20.399 away some medina samples. At the same time, I'll be given a talk 1031 01:14:20.520 --> 01:14:25.399 from twelve noon to one pm, and I hope you will come for that. 1032 01:14:25.520 --> 01:14:29.239 It'll be about all kinds of things we need to do to take what 1033 01:14:29.319 --> 01:14:31.760 we have now coming out of summer and turn it into something special. Whether 1034 01:14:31.800 --> 01:14:35.279 it's your lawn, your garden, your flowers, if trees are struggling. 1035 01:14:35.479 --> 01:14:39.720 We'll talk about all that, and then I'll be sitting at a table for 1036 01:14:39.760 --> 01:14:43.560 an hour to answer your gardening questions. We are very happy to take care 1037 01:14:43.560 --> 01:14:47.600 of all of those kinds of things really important. If you haven't been, 1038 01:14:47.680 --> 01:14:51.119 If you're in and the Tombawler, your hometown feed store is D and D 1039 01:14:51.239 --> 01:14:55.840 Feed. D and D Feed is out there on twenty nine twenty. It's 1040 01:14:55.840 --> 01:14:59.600 about three miles west of two forty nine, just west of Tomball on the 1041 01:14:59.680 --> 01:15:03.239 left. Inside. The Dover family has been doing this since nineteen eighty nine. 1042 01:15:03.479 --> 01:15:09.560 Their expansion this summer is it's great when I go in there and look 1043 01:15:09.560 --> 01:15:14.680 at the amount of products and everything you need for your animals, for your 1044 01:15:15.319 --> 01:15:18.039 livestock, for your pets. They have quality pet foods, Origin Diamond, 1045 01:15:18.159 --> 01:15:21.960 Victor Starpro. They got this little kind of pet deli where you can get 1046 01:15:23.199 --> 01:15:28.079 really cool kind of bones and snacks and all kinds of things. If you 1047 01:15:28.119 --> 01:15:30.239 come home without those, your dogs will look at you like, how could 1048 01:15:30.239 --> 01:15:33.920 you treat me this way? You need to get some of those. DND 1049 01:15:34.079 --> 01:15:40.159 feed is easy to get to. They often have plants outside as well. 1050 01:15:40.439 --> 01:15:45.079 They carry every product we talk about in terms of fertilizers to make your lawn 1051 01:15:45.119 --> 01:15:48.520 and garden special. They carry the mulches and the soils that we brag on 1052 01:15:48.640 --> 01:15:51.640 here on garden Line. So it's really easy to do, really easy to 1053 01:15:51.640 --> 01:15:56.600 get to. Again, DND feed they are three miles west of ivy two 1054 01:15:56.640 --> 01:16:00.479 forty nine on twenty nine twenty in Humble. Check them out and you'll see 1055 01:16:00.560 --> 01:16:05.640 why we say it is your hometown feed store for all the greater Tomball area. 1056 01:16:08.520 --> 01:16:13.680 One more reminder that you can get my lawncare schedule for free online at 1057 01:16:13.800 --> 01:16:18.039 gardening with Skip dot com. Gardening with Skip dot com, we talk about 1058 01:16:18.079 --> 01:16:23.000 the synthetic fertilizers and what to do. We talk about organic fertilizers and what 1059 01:16:23.079 --> 01:16:27.800 to do, the trace minerals, the aeration, the mowing, the watering. 1060 01:16:28.239 --> 01:16:32.920 There's instruction for all of that here on the garden schedule that I produced. 1061 01:16:33.880 --> 01:16:36.800 These are all cultural things. Now we have another schedule it's going to 1062 01:16:36.840 --> 01:16:41.600 be coming out that talks about the problems, the pests, the disease, 1063 01:16:41.680 --> 01:16:44.319 the weeds. When do you do what, When do you look for chinch 1064 01:16:44.439 --> 01:16:47.439 bugs? When would sobworms side web worms occur? When do you put on 1065 01:16:47.560 --> 01:16:50.159 a pre emergent and so on. I'll talk about that on the air. 1066 01:16:50.359 --> 01:16:54.840 We're gonna have that schedule out, But for now, the big elephant in 1067 01:16:54.880 --> 01:17:00.720 the room on the lawncare schedule is fall fertilization. We're just about to enter 1068 01:17:00.800 --> 01:17:04.600 the prime time for the fall fertilizers, and it's not the same fertilizers as 1069 01:17:04.640 --> 01:17:12.239 the spring and summer. Those are high nitrogen fertilizers. When we're promoting vigorous 1070 01:17:12.319 --> 01:17:15.720 growth fall, we drop the nitrogen levels way down. We make sure the 1071 01:17:15.760 --> 01:17:21.000 potassium is plenty high, but it's potassium with a little bit of nitrogen makes 1072 01:17:21.039 --> 01:17:27.039 for the essential ana freeze inside a plant that's carbohydrates. So no matter what 1073 01:17:27.119 --> 01:17:29.920 kind of winter we have, if you're putting in a new lawn replacing your 1074 01:17:29.960 --> 01:17:32.680 o lawn, you definitely need to get a quality fall fertilizer on it. 1075 01:17:32.960 --> 01:17:35.560 You need to get it as hearty and tough as you can going into winter 1076 01:17:36.000 --> 01:17:41.279 and then coming out in spring it's going to be even better. So check 1077 01:17:41.319 --> 01:17:47.319 out the lawn care schedule of Gardening with Skip dot Com. KTRH Garden Line 1078 01:17:47.399 --> 01:17:53.680 does not necessarily endorse any of the products or services advertised on this program. 1079 01:17:53.880 --> 01:18:13.119 Welcome to KTRH Guarden Line with Skip Ricord. Just watching Golden Well, good 1080 01:18:13.159 --> 01:18:18.039 morning, good morning on a beautiful Sunday morning. You're listening to Garden Line, 1081 01:18:18.079 --> 01:18:23.319 and we're all about helping you have a beautiful garden and a bountiful landscape. 1082 01:18:23.560 --> 01:18:28.039 That is our goal here and coming out of this summer, we got 1083 01:18:28.000 --> 01:18:30.600 our work cut out for us. But it can be done. Believe me, 1084 01:18:30.640 --> 01:18:33.119 it can be done. Do not be discouraged. Cool weather is coming, 1085 01:18:33.319 --> 01:18:36.800 rain is coming. We've got a night. One of the nice things 1086 01:18:36.840 --> 01:18:42.560 about living this far south in Texas is we do not have brutal winners. 1087 01:18:42.720 --> 01:18:45.159 Occasionally we get one of those. It's and not supposed to be that cold 1088 01:18:45.159 --> 01:18:48.520 here. But overall, I mean, for crying out loud, we grow 1089 01:18:48.640 --> 01:18:53.680 citrus here, people grow avocado trees here. I mean, this is a 1090 01:18:54.479 --> 01:18:59.079 really a gardening, a gardening Eden when it comes to all the different things 1091 01:18:59.119 --> 01:19:02.239 you can grow that people even a little further north can't grow, and it's 1092 01:19:02.239 --> 01:19:05.319 a nice thing to have. We also tend to get a lot of rain 1093 01:19:05.359 --> 01:19:10.720 here. Now, of course, here comes these weird summers we've had lately 1094 01:19:11.159 --> 01:19:13.840 that make it a little bit more of a challenge. But the bottom line 1095 01:19:14.000 --> 01:19:16.840 is this is a great place to garden, and you can enjoy the beauty 1096 01:19:16.920 --> 01:19:23.199 and the bounty of your garden just by following some principles, by doing some 1097 01:19:23.279 --> 01:19:26.760 things right. And one of those principles is start with the soil. It 1098 01:19:26.840 --> 01:19:29.760 all starts with the soil. The soil, the soil, the soil. 1099 01:19:30.119 --> 01:19:32.359 Spend money on the brown stuff before you spend money on the green stuff, 1100 01:19:32.439 --> 01:19:35.760 or at least do it at the same time. Do not neglect taking care 1101 01:19:35.800 --> 01:19:42.039 of the soil first before you plant, and then continuing to take care of 1102 01:19:42.039 --> 01:19:44.479 it after you plant. And how do we do that well. We do 1103 01:19:44.520 --> 01:19:48.800 that by choosing quality products and Nature's way resources. They have long been a 1104 01:19:48.880 --> 01:19:55.319 leader when it comes to everything that makes roots and plants happy. This is 1105 01:19:55.359 --> 01:19:59.600 what I mean. We're talking about compost, We're talking about rose, soil, 1106 01:19:59.640 --> 01:20:03.159 blend. We're talking about leaf mold compost. We're talking about all kinds 1107 01:20:03.199 --> 01:20:11.319 of ingredients that enhance the soil therefore enhance the soil microbiology, which means the 1108 01:20:11.439 --> 01:20:16.359 roots are enhanced and plants just do better. They've got all kinds of products 1109 01:20:16.399 --> 01:20:19.960 to do that, everything you can imagine, including way more than the ones 1110 01:20:20.039 --> 01:20:25.239 I just mentioned. They also have a nice selection and native plants at their 1111 01:20:25.319 --> 01:20:28.239 nursery. That's something that people are probably not aware of. But if you 1112 01:20:28.239 --> 01:20:30.279 haven't been out there, you need to check it out. And they have 1113 01:20:30.399 --> 01:20:32.119 been out there, you need to go back because they've really upgraded it a 1114 01:20:32.119 --> 01:20:35.439 lot. They just continue to get better and better out there. John and 1115 01:20:35.479 --> 01:20:43.640 Ian at Nature's Way really have things heading in a very exciting direction. You 1116 01:20:43.680 --> 01:20:47.920 can give m a call at nine three six three two one sixty nine ninety 1117 01:20:48.000 --> 01:20:55.640 nine three six six two one Let's see gosh nine three six three two one 1118 01:20:55.880 --> 01:21:00.560 sixty nine ninety My tongue is tripping over itself, by the way way On 1119 01:21:00.640 --> 01:21:03.439 September thirtieth, towards the end of this month, I'm going to be out 1120 01:21:03.439 --> 01:21:08.479 there because they're having their Fall Garden Festival. One heck of a Shindig. 1121 01:21:08.760 --> 01:21:11.960 I'll be out there entering gardening questions, meeting the public. They're going to 1122 01:21:12.000 --> 01:21:15.079 have food, music, vendors, beverages, at kid scavenger hunt, all 1123 01:21:15.159 --> 01:21:19.000 kinds of fun for little gardeners. They'll be demonstrations going on, like how 1124 01:21:19.000 --> 01:21:21.920 to create an enchanting fairy garden. I was just talking about that a little 1125 01:21:21.920 --> 01:21:27.439 bit earlier, learning learn that magic of a miniature garden. It is really 1126 01:21:27.520 --> 01:21:30.800 kind of cool. So mark your calendars again September thirtieth. It's no charge 1127 01:21:30.840 --> 01:21:34.720 to come into this. You can visit their website or you can just if 1128 01:21:34.720 --> 01:21:39.039 you want, you can get m a call nine three six three two one 1129 01:21:39.199 --> 01:21:43.239 sixty nine ninety. While you're out there, I hope you'll pick up some 1130 01:21:43.239 --> 01:21:45.479 of their quality products. You can order them in bulk to be delivered. 1131 01:21:45.520 --> 01:21:51.000 You can also buy them by bag at various places around our listening area. 1132 01:21:51.319 --> 01:21:56.039 We're going to head out now to the Woodlands and talk to Jennifer. Hello, 1133 01:21:56.159 --> 01:21:59.960 Jennifer, good morning, how are you. I'm well, Thank you. 1134 01:22:00.640 --> 01:22:04.960 I have a question. I recently had a bunch of trees trimmed up, 1135 01:22:05.039 --> 01:22:10.479 you know, branches done and everything. The arborists came out and took 1136 01:22:10.520 --> 01:22:14.439 care of it, and then literally maybe a week and a half later, 1137 01:22:14.760 --> 01:22:20.199 I looked out and one of my mature pine trees was completely brown as far 1138 01:22:20.239 --> 01:22:25.399 as the needles are concerned. And I I walked up to it and looked 1139 01:22:25.600 --> 01:22:29.279 and there I again, I don't know, but this looks like maybe pine 1140 01:22:29.319 --> 01:22:35.279 beetles. There's boars all throughout the base and up the tree I guess too, 1141 01:22:36.119 --> 01:22:41.680 where there's little sawdust, uh coming out, and then there's also sap 1142 01:22:42.439 --> 01:22:45.600 that's like partially uh, you know, coming out of the tree. And 1143 01:22:45.680 --> 01:22:48.279 I, I don't know, I think that's it. I don't know what 1144 01:22:48.399 --> 01:22:54.479 happened, but it must have happened very quickly. But I've done anything to 1145 01:22:54.479 --> 01:23:01.399 to prevent that is tough because getting out there and spraying a tall pine tree 1146 01:23:01.439 --> 01:23:05.000 trunk trying to none of us have the equipment to do that properly. You 1147 01:23:05.039 --> 01:23:09.560 need to get eighty percent of the trunk covered with a spray to try to 1148 01:23:09.600 --> 01:23:14.840 prevent an infestation. They're opportunists, and when pines get weak, they show 1149 01:23:14.920 --> 01:23:16.720 up. I mean, if that pine had been hit by lightning, you 1150 01:23:16.720 --> 01:23:20.000 would see beetles showing up real quickly after that. If that pine has gone 1151 01:23:20.000 --> 01:23:25.880 through drought, which it has. That that is another weakening thing that makes 1152 01:23:25.920 --> 01:23:30.039 the beetle more likely to be able to attack and kill the tree. The 1153 01:23:30.079 --> 01:23:33.479 best thing you can do at this time is to get it down as fast 1154 01:23:33.520 --> 01:23:38.159 as you can. Those beetles, and you said they go up the tree 1155 01:23:38.239 --> 01:23:41.319 not more more than like eight feet high, they go way up the trunk, 1156 01:23:41.479 --> 01:23:45.199 the little sap and sawdust, I mean, I think so. I 1157 01:23:45.520 --> 01:23:48.520 didn't really investigate it up beyond that. Yeah, I saw most of the 1158 01:23:48.600 --> 01:23:51.840 damage around the base. Around the base, well, that could be turpentine 1159 01:23:51.880 --> 01:23:56.520 beetle. But get as you get higher, there's ips and graver beetle. 1160 01:23:56.680 --> 01:24:00.600 There is the true southern pine bark beetle, and there's actually I think there's 1161 01:24:00.640 --> 01:24:03.760 five different bark beetles that can attack pines. The number doesn't matter. The 1162 01:24:03.800 --> 01:24:09.319 bottom line is when they're up there, they're poor flyers. But if you 1163 01:24:09.359 --> 01:24:12.199 know, if they were up thirty feet high or twenty feet high on a 1164 01:24:12.279 --> 01:24:15.960 tree, then they can take off and fly to another tree on your Oh. 1165 01:24:17.720 --> 01:24:21.640 So getting that tree down, even if you do nothing but cut it 1166 01:24:21.680 --> 01:24:26.840 down and it's laying on the ground, you've gone a great distance and reducing 1167 01:24:27.079 --> 01:24:30.920 infestation of the other trees so good deep soakings. It would be nice just 1168 01:24:30.920 --> 01:24:33.520 to get a good rainfall. I don't know if you got any and the 1169 01:24:33.560 --> 01:24:38.039 thing that came through yesterday or did you get some good raining a little bit. 1170 01:24:38.960 --> 01:24:42.359 Well, getting them out of stress is important. But getting that tree 1171 01:24:42.359 --> 01:24:45.840 down soon, and also what will happen is the bark wills real quickly start 1172 01:24:45.880 --> 01:24:48.119 coming off the tree and then anybody who's got a climate to take it down. 1173 01:24:48.680 --> 01:24:54.359 That is re dangerous to try to climb a tree with loose bark sooner, 1174 01:24:54.600 --> 01:24:58.399 sooner rather than later. I would probably talk to the folks that Affordable 1175 01:24:58.439 --> 01:25:00.800 Tree. They're the ones we like to brag on here because they do a 1176 01:25:00.840 --> 01:25:06.600 great job and they you know, just whatever you do, you need to 1177 01:25:06.640 --> 01:25:11.840 get somebody soon to get out there and get that thing down. Okay, 1178 01:25:12.159 --> 01:25:14.520 okay, thank you very much. All right, Jennifer, thank you. 1179 01:25:14.600 --> 01:25:17.920 I appreciate that call very much. You know, the folks at CNA Maltch 1180 01:25:18.000 --> 01:25:24.720 down south of Houston, they have ever fertilizer I recommend, and they have 1181 01:25:25.000 --> 01:25:30.399 an unbelievable supply of quality products. So when we brag on soils and products, 1182 01:25:30.479 --> 01:25:34.000 we talk about you know, like an heirloom soil kind of materials and 1183 01:25:34.000 --> 01:25:38.079 stuff. We're talking about a quality product. Well, that's the kind of 1184 01:25:38.079 --> 01:25:42.520 stuff that you're going to find when you get to CNA Malts. When they 1185 01:25:42.600 --> 01:25:47.000 sell you perhaps a multch like a native hardwood malt or double ground malt, 1186 01:25:47.159 --> 01:25:53.000 or whenever you're looking for rose soil or an organic compost material, they've got 1187 01:25:53.000 --> 01:25:55.600 that. They deliver within about twenty miles. And by the way, they 1188 01:25:55.600 --> 01:25:59.840 are near Highway six and two eighty eight north of Rose Sharon on FM five 1189 01:26:00.079 --> 01:26:03.079 twenty one. They're open Monday through Friday, from seven thirty to five on 1190 01:26:03.199 --> 01:26:09.479 Saturday seven thirty to two, closed on Sundays. But they also again carry 1191 01:26:09.520 --> 01:26:13.800 those fertilizers, which it's just I'm not even having time to get to all 1192 01:26:13.840 --> 01:26:17.359 the rock products that they provide at cienamals dot com. Go to cienamulch dot 1193 01:26:17.359 --> 01:26:19.960 com. You'll see what I'm talking about. Well, we're gonna take a 1194 01:26:19.960 --> 01:26:25.159 break. Our phone number seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four. 1195 01:26:25.680 --> 01:26:28.920 Well, good morning. You are listening to garden Line and we are 1196 01:26:28.920 --> 01:26:30.800 here to answer your gardening questions. I'm your host, Skip Rector, and 1197 01:26:30.840 --> 01:26:34.800 you can give us a call seven one three, two one two five eight 1198 01:26:35.079 --> 01:26:40.880 seven four. If you are out in the Richmond area, a nursery you 1199 01:26:40.920 --> 01:26:44.159 need to know about is enchanted forests. Now, if you're in Richmond and 1200 01:26:44.199 --> 01:26:46.039 you're heading up toward sugar Land direction, it's off to the right, it's 1201 01:26:46.159 --> 01:26:51.439 it's south of fifty nine when you enter. It truly is an enchanted place. 1202 01:26:53.359 --> 01:26:56.399 The setting reminds me of kind of like an old West town. I 1203 01:26:56.439 --> 01:26:59.840 don't know if that's accurate or not, but you just go in there and 1204 01:27:00.039 --> 01:27:02.039 you got that feel, that that feel of the building stuff. By the 1205 01:27:02.039 --> 01:27:06.520 way, they just put in a new herb area and it is a really 1206 01:27:06.520 --> 01:27:10.920 cool little structure over the herbs. And you know, fall is herb season, 1207 01:27:11.600 --> 01:27:15.880 the best time to plant almost every basil being an exception it likes hot 1208 01:27:15.920 --> 01:27:19.000 weather, but almost all the other herbs, Fall is an outstanding time to 1209 01:27:19.079 --> 01:27:24.199 plant. And enchanted forest has the herbs you need. I mean, they've 1210 01:27:24.239 --> 01:27:29.199 got a wonderful stock in this really cool new area that is now open out 1211 01:27:29.199 --> 01:27:31.840 there. They've got snap dragons out there too, all kinds of things, 1212 01:27:31.840 --> 01:27:34.439 you know, fall flowers, that kind of thing. It's time to get 1213 01:27:34.439 --> 01:27:38.920 those in. You can go for it and have beautiful color all the way 1214 01:27:39.000 --> 01:27:42.119 into the fall. They've got some really cool fall to core. I was 1215 01:27:42.159 --> 01:27:46.680 looking at some of the pumpkin decorations for indoors and outdoors and whatnot, and 1216 01:27:46.800 --> 01:27:50.880 oh my gosh, if you're planning a Halloween or Thanksgiving or any kind of 1217 01:27:50.920 --> 01:27:54.800 gathering, you got to have some of that stuff. There's more coming too. 1218 01:27:54.800 --> 01:27:57.800 By the way, Pumpkins are coming pretty soon too. They're we're not 1219 01:27:57.840 --> 01:28:01.479 too far away from their pumpkin season. Lots of educational programs this fall out 1220 01:28:01.680 --> 01:28:06.880 at Enchanted Forest. In fact, on September sixteenth, Saturday, September ten 1221 01:28:06.960 --> 01:28:11.399 am, they're going to do a beneficial insects program on how to achieve and 1222 01:28:11.479 --> 01:28:16.439 sustain a natural balance in your garden. And these are free and just go 1223 01:28:16.600 --> 01:28:21.319 to the Facebook page for Enchanted Forest and you'll see what I'm talking about. 1224 01:28:21.600 --> 01:28:25.159 Get those things on your calendar. I'm going to be out there before the 1225 01:28:25.279 --> 01:28:29.680 end of this fall giving a talk myself. I always like going out there 1226 01:28:29.680 --> 01:28:32.159 too. By the way, we're going to head out now to Lake Jackson 1227 01:28:32.239 --> 01:28:36.319 and talk to Ronnie. Hello, Ronnie, Hey, how y'all doing today? 1228 01:28:36.520 --> 01:28:41.520 Well we're doing well? What's up? Quick? Question. I've got 1229 01:28:41.600 --> 01:28:47.600 access to some barn manure. It's not green, it is dried, and 1230 01:28:48.079 --> 01:28:55.159 talking with the gentleman that I got it from, he just told me till 1231 01:28:55.239 --> 01:28:58.199 it right into the ground. I went on the line and it says to 1232 01:28:58.359 --> 01:29:01.479 let it age for like six months with leaves and other stuff. Can I 1233 01:29:01.520 --> 01:29:05.199 put the leaves on it? When I if I tell it into the ground, 1234 01:29:05.399 --> 01:29:09.640 what do you say, thing? What are you growing in this spot? 1235 01:29:10.079 --> 01:29:14.760 Getting ready for next spring? Tell about vegetables? Yes, they're affegetable, 1236 01:29:14.760 --> 01:29:17.960 so I'm sorry. Yeah. The deal with vegetables is when you have 1237 01:29:18.039 --> 01:29:23.239 the nerves that are not fully aged for a couple of months, h there's 1238 01:29:23.319 --> 01:29:28.680 potential for some microbes that would be human illnesses to be there. You know, 1239 01:29:28.760 --> 01:29:31.640 et coli for example, that kind of thing. Okay, and so 1240 01:29:31.800 --> 01:29:34.000 we don't want to just put it down the ground, mix it in and 1241 01:29:34.039 --> 01:29:38.399 then have rain splash it up on the vegetables we're growing, because that would 1242 01:29:38.399 --> 01:29:42.840 be a direct contamination. That would be a health concern. You know, 1243 01:29:43.000 --> 01:29:45.560 if you're growing something else, I wouldn't worry about it. But with the 1244 01:29:45.640 --> 01:29:48.039 vegetables, I would let it age. You can mix it with some leaves 1245 01:29:48.079 --> 01:29:51.399 if you want just kind of create a heap on the ground. You don't 1246 01:29:51.399 --> 01:29:55.720 have to go all the way into a full fledged compost pile. Maybe mix 1247 01:29:55.760 --> 01:29:58.319 it around a little bit, and then I would say you put it on 1248 01:29:58.560 --> 01:30:00.800 in late winter for your spring garden. Let's give it a little bit of 1249 01:30:00.880 --> 01:30:05.520 time to do some decomposing before you do that, just as an extra measure. 1250 01:30:05.600 --> 01:30:09.399 You may not do that and get away with it, but I don't 1251 01:30:09.439 --> 01:30:13.800 want to run the risk gamblevising you. Yeah, absolutely, I agree. 1252 01:30:13.960 --> 01:30:15.319 A thank you sir, Yes, sir, thank you for the call. 1253 01:30:15.439 --> 01:30:18.600 I appreciate that very much. Hey, if you live out in Mount Bellevue, 1254 01:30:18.600 --> 01:30:23.119 I'm gonna tell you about your hometown feed store. We love our local 1255 01:30:23.159 --> 01:30:28.119 feed stores and out in Mont Bellevue that is Texas Feedstop. Now, if 1256 01:30:28.119 --> 01:30:31.840 you're in Mont Bellevue from Interstate ten, go north on Highway one one forty 1257 01:30:31.840 --> 01:30:35.279 six, just a few minutes on Interstate ten, go north on Nord forty 1258 01:30:35.319 --> 01:30:39.760 six a few minutes and there they are on the right hand side. You're 1259 01:30:39.800 --> 01:30:45.159 not going to find better customer service at than anywhere than they have at Texas 1260 01:30:45.159 --> 01:30:48.119 Feed Stop. It is awesome. Brian and Hope Rhodes, they have created 1261 01:30:48.359 --> 01:30:53.439 that place that I can just describe it as family friendly. It is. 1262 01:30:53.960 --> 01:30:57.560 When you walk in, you're treated like family. You feel like family. 1263 01:30:57.600 --> 01:31:00.880 They carry the bags out for you, and they got all the stuff we 1264 01:31:00.880 --> 01:31:02.920 talk about, all those fertilizers, we talk about, all the soul stuff. 1265 01:31:02.920 --> 01:31:06.279 We talk about the mosquito dunks for example. When you hear me talk 1266 01:31:06.319 --> 01:31:10.920 about things, you can go into Texas feed sime you can find them, 1267 01:31:10.960 --> 01:31:13.840 and it's really easy to do. So, I mean, maybe you don't 1268 01:31:13.880 --> 01:31:16.479 live right in Mont Bellevue, maybe you know you're a little further out. 1269 01:31:16.720 --> 01:31:21.319 This is still your hometown feed store. I mean it's just so easy to 1270 01:31:21.319 --> 01:31:27.279 get to and the products and the service. Maybe you're getting ready for deer 1271 01:31:27.279 --> 01:31:30.359 season. They've got a lot of products for that as well. It's really 1272 01:31:30.359 --> 01:31:35.439 easy Baytown, Mont Bellevue, that whole area your hometown feed store for everything 1273 01:31:35.479 --> 01:31:40.359 you need for your garden as a Texas feed stop. We're gonna head out 1274 01:31:40.359 --> 01:31:44.920 to Clear Light now and talk to Lane. Hello, Lane, Hello, 1275 01:31:45.399 --> 01:31:49.520 thanks for taking my call. Sure, So, last time I call you, 1276 01:31:49.680 --> 01:31:54.439 my ask about the American Holly and it's dead. So I'm having it 1277 01:31:54.600 --> 01:32:00.479 pulled out and all the plane old bushes that the builders gave me. They're 1278 01:32:00.640 --> 01:32:02.840 dead, so I'm having them pulled out and I'm going to plant new plants. 1279 01:32:02.880 --> 01:32:11.079 And I was wondering what should I till into the soil for to uh, 1280 01:32:11.720 --> 01:32:15.600 you know, handle these new plants. Yeah, okay, Can I 1281 01:32:15.640 --> 01:32:21.760 just put in like plain omericable garden soil. No, I would not use 1282 01:32:21.800 --> 01:32:25.840 pete moss. When it dries out, It's hard to get it wet again. 1283 01:32:26.000 --> 01:32:29.920 And it is a mind product that is is a limited supply if we 1284 01:32:30.039 --> 01:32:32.520 keep using it up like that. I would get a quality mix like a 1285 01:32:32.920 --> 01:32:38.680 rose soil that would be an excellent one. And you can get rose sau 1286 01:32:38.840 --> 01:32:41.319 bulk. You can get it in bags, depending on how big of a 1287 01:32:41.359 --> 01:32:45.880 bed you're making, but that would be good. Okay, well, straight 1288 01:32:45.920 --> 01:32:48.279 compost too, so if it's pretty long, you probably want to have a 1289 01:32:48.720 --> 01:32:53.479 delivery made, or if you know anyone with a trailer and a truck to 1290 01:32:53.560 --> 01:32:56.800 go get it. You can have a truck. Okay, well, uh 1291 01:32:57.039 --> 01:33:00.640 you know that. Then you can go for it and get it yourself, 1292 01:33:00.760 --> 01:33:03.760 or you can just order and have it delivered. If you go to Airloom 1293 01:33:03.800 --> 01:33:09.680 Soils website Heirloom Soils, they're up in the porter direction, so they're not, 1294 01:33:09.880 --> 01:33:12.640 you know, across the street from here. But if you go to 1295 01:33:12.680 --> 01:33:15.920 their website, they have a soil calculator and number one, you can see 1296 01:33:15.960 --> 01:33:17.760 their soils there and find out what it costs to get them delivered and everything. 1297 01:33:18.119 --> 01:33:21.720 But on the soil calculator, you measure the length and the width of 1298 01:33:21.720 --> 01:33:26.159 your bed and you say, I want I want it four inches deep, 1299 01:33:26.199 --> 01:33:29.640 I want eight inches Well, however much you need, and it'll tell you 1300 01:33:29.760 --> 01:33:33.079 exactly how many cubic yards it takes to do that. And that's really helpful 1301 01:33:33.119 --> 01:33:38.640 information because you're probably going to find that buying it by the bag is just 1302 01:33:38.720 --> 01:33:42.319 not the way to go. It's better to get bulld and those kinds of 1303 01:33:42.319 --> 01:33:45.239 places like Airloom, they'll deliver it down there and you can get a good 1304 01:33:45.239 --> 01:33:49.960 mix. But a rose soil or just a really quality compost that's screened and 1305 01:33:50.159 --> 01:33:55.439 that it is well composted in a bed like that gets you. You want 1306 01:33:55.439 --> 01:33:59.000 to mix it into the soil that you have and create a raised, mixed 1307 01:33:59.079 --> 01:34:03.600 up bed like that and then plant and you're going to have much better success. 1308 01:34:04.079 --> 01:34:09.039 Okay, do I And then I put malt on top? Yes, 1309 01:34:09.239 --> 01:34:13.039 after you plant. You cover the soil surface with a blanket of malts. 1310 01:34:13.199 --> 01:34:16.520 That protects the soil. It keeps the soil temperatures moderated, It helps hold 1311 01:34:16.520 --> 01:34:21.960 moisture from just evaporating right off the surface in summer droughts like we just had, 1312 01:34:23.319 --> 01:34:25.680 and most of all, it keeps the weeds down. You know, 1313 01:34:26.199 --> 01:34:29.760 sunlight can't get to the soil when you've got a good mulch cover over the 1314 01:34:29.760 --> 01:34:35.079 top. Okay, And I was just thinking using cedar mulch, No I 1315 01:34:35.119 --> 01:34:40.279 would use. I would probably be used a shredded hardwood mulch for that. 1316 01:34:39.880 --> 01:34:43.960 That's going to work better for you. Yeah, okay, I mean there 1317 01:34:43.960 --> 01:34:46.760 are a lot of mulch is out there, but a shredded hardwood is a 1318 01:34:46.800 --> 01:34:53.000 good one. Okay. Yeah, I know about no using guide boards, 1319 01:34:53.119 --> 01:34:57.319 you know mostly yeah, don't do that. Don't do that. And you 1320 01:34:57.399 --> 01:35:01.199 know how we have a lot of ants. They do damage to the plants 1321 01:35:01.279 --> 01:35:06.680 or no, but by and large, note there are very few types of 1322 01:35:06.720 --> 01:35:10.960 ants that will mess with plants, and they just like to mess a few 1323 01:35:11.000 --> 01:35:14.119 montes well or even most of them don't even mess with arts. The fire 1324 01:35:14.159 --> 01:35:17.640 ants will be Yeah, I think we attack them there You go there you 1325 01:35:17.680 --> 01:35:21.479 go, Hey Lane, I appreciate your calling and good luck getting that bed 1326 01:35:21.479 --> 01:35:26.720 made. I hope you have good success. Thank you, you bet you 1327 01:35:26.840 --> 01:35:30.920 take care if you're looking to put in a vegetable bed, or a flower 1328 01:35:30.000 --> 01:35:33.319 bed, or an herb bet or some other kind of bed that you just 1329 01:35:33.399 --> 01:35:40.119 want a beautiful bed that does the job and lasts a long long time. 1330 01:35:40.279 --> 01:35:45.560 That is Vego garden beds. You can go online to vegogarden dot com and 1331 01:35:45.600 --> 01:35:47.960 find out more about them. When you see these beds, you will see 1332 01:35:48.000 --> 01:35:53.600 why I think they are so gorgeous. They are treating The metal inside the 1333 01:35:53.600 --> 01:35:59.520 bed is treated in a way that prevents corrosion and rust, and then they 1334 01:35:59.640 --> 01:36:04.319 coat it with a paint that is safe to use in gardening beds that lasts 1335 01:36:04.399 --> 01:36:11.079 a long time, non toxic, no leeching of metals or toxins or anything. 1336 01:36:11.159 --> 01:36:14.159 With a Vego garden bed. They're modular. You can make them long 1337 01:36:14.199 --> 01:36:16.039 and skinny, you make square, you can make them C shaped or L 1338 01:36:16.119 --> 01:36:19.359 shaped. You just put them together like you want and it's really easy to 1339 01:36:19.399 --> 01:36:24.600 do. It's like playing with tinker toys. Essentially, Vego garden beds way 1340 01:36:24.640 --> 01:36:29.560 out last treated wood and for organic gardeners that you absolutely would want to use 1341 01:36:29.600 --> 01:36:33.079 a Vego garden bed because there isn't any concern with anything leaching out of the 1342 01:36:33.119 --> 01:36:38.439 bed itself. Vegogarden dot Com or a lot of our garden centers now are 1343 01:36:38.479 --> 01:36:41.600 starting to carry the Vego garden beds, and so it's easy to find, 1344 01:36:42.079 --> 01:36:45.199 and I encourage you to really give them a good long look because this is 1345 01:36:45.720 --> 01:36:50.800 a one time purchase you're gonna make that is going to be decades of enjoyment 1346 01:36:50.880 --> 01:36:56.319 as a result. Neat, clean, easy, beautiful Vego garden beds. 1347 01:36:57.439 --> 01:37:00.359 We're let's see what are we doing. I got a little time here before 1348 01:37:00.359 --> 01:37:03.600 I have to go to our next break out there. I brag on ACE 1349 01:37:03.640 --> 01:37:09.319 hardware all the time. By the way, thank you for Mickey and jailed 1350 01:37:09.359 --> 01:37:12.439 down at Richmond Ace. We had a great time out there yesterday. That 1351 01:37:12.520 --> 01:37:15.319 was really a lot of fun. Ace hardwares are all over town. I 1352 01:37:15.319 --> 01:37:19.319 mean, you can find ACE hardware near you. It is not difficult because 1353 01:37:19.319 --> 01:37:24.279 there's thirty nine of them in the Houston area. If I recommend a fertilizer, 1354 01:37:24.359 --> 01:37:27.319 it's going to be an ACE. If you have a pest problem, 1355 01:37:27.439 --> 01:37:31.520 a disease problem, a wheat problem. ACE will have more than one. 1356 01:37:31.560 --> 01:37:36.000 They will have several products for each problem that you might have that you can 1357 01:37:36.079 --> 01:37:40.039 choose from. I mean, it is the place to have a more beautiful 1358 01:37:40.119 --> 01:37:45.079 lawn, to have trees that thrive, to have a garden that thrives. 1359 01:37:45.159 --> 01:37:47.880 ACE has all of that, and then some lots of cool stuff for the 1360 01:37:47.960 --> 01:37:53.359 home, for outdoors. It's just really to do, really easy to do 1361 01:37:53.720 --> 01:37:56.520 when you go to ACE and do your shopping there, and when you get 1362 01:37:56.520 --> 01:37:59.359 there, you're going to find out, like I found out yesterday, there's 1363 01:37:59.399 --> 01:38:02.199 a lot of other stuff you can't live without. My wife came around the 1364 01:38:02.199 --> 01:38:05.479 corner with a bag full of stuff. I sat there for two hours. 1365 01:38:05.640 --> 01:38:10.760 That was two hours of shopping. Nikki, it almost broke us. Oh 1366 01:38:10.800 --> 01:38:13.680 yeah, I mean the prices were good, but when you fill the basket 1367 01:38:13.720 --> 01:38:15.720 to the brim, Oh yeah, man, but you just keep going. 1368 01:38:16.199 --> 01:38:20.239 Yes, I could use that. Yeah. In fact, we fired up 1369 01:38:20.239 --> 01:38:24.760 our new soda stream from ACE. One of those little things where you you 1370 01:38:25.119 --> 01:38:29.239 put the water in flavor in it and it just carbonates. The whole thing 1371 01:38:29.760 --> 01:38:34.039 is I've always been a wonderful It's absolutely wonderful. Need it, yes, 1372 01:38:34.840 --> 01:38:40.159 Well, I mean what do we need? We need water, we need 1373 01:38:40.199 --> 01:38:44.720 air, we need but I wanted it and so we got one. But 1374 01:38:44.800 --> 01:38:47.000 when you combine the air in the water, you get carbonation. That you 1375 01:38:47.039 --> 01:38:53.840 get carbonation. It's effervescent, kind of like the Nikki News network. Let's 1376 01:38:53.880 --> 01:38:58.079 go to the news. Well, good morning, you're listening to Gardenline and 1377 01:38:58.119 --> 01:39:02.960 we're having a good time today on morning talking about all kinds of things gardening, 1378 01:39:03.000 --> 01:39:06.720 all kinds of things gardening, including trees. You know, trees are 1379 01:39:06.760 --> 01:39:13.840 a valuable part of our landscape. There the value that they create ask Andy 1380 01:39:13.920 --> 01:39:18.039 realtor. The value that they create for your home is significant. And planting 1381 01:39:18.119 --> 01:39:21.439 trash trees is a bad idea because about the time it should be the most 1382 01:39:21.479 --> 01:39:26.239 valuable thing in your landscape, it is being falling apart, it's being taken 1383 01:39:26.239 --> 01:39:30.399 out and it never should have been planted. We need to choose good quality 1384 01:39:30.439 --> 01:39:32.680 trees and we talk about that sometimes here on garden Line. The importance of 1385 01:39:32.720 --> 01:39:36.600 that planting them right is important, but then taking care of them, helping 1386 01:39:36.640 --> 01:39:42.399 them through drought times. For example, you know Martin Spoon with Affordable Tree, 1387 01:39:42.439 --> 01:39:45.840 they do the deep root watering. You know, we've heard of deep 1388 01:39:45.880 --> 01:39:48.359 root feeding. Of course, well deep root watering is also very important. 1389 01:39:48.439 --> 01:39:54.119 It gets water down in the system quickly to rescue a tree, to provide 1390 01:39:54.159 --> 01:39:57.439 that bank account that the trees need. Now. Martin does all kinds of 1391 01:39:57.479 --> 01:40:01.279 things. This is an important time to to make sure and get your trees 1392 01:40:01.359 --> 01:40:04.520 ready for any kind of a storm season we might have. I mean, 1393 01:40:05.359 --> 01:40:10.600 hurricane season lasts until November, but didn't have to be hurricane. That causes 1394 01:40:10.680 --> 01:40:14.359 the winds that can break a week limb. If it's brown, take it 1395 01:40:14.399 --> 01:40:16.439 down. That makes it really simple. If you have a tree that's browned, 1396 01:40:16.680 --> 01:40:19.520 you better take it down because it's going to fall on something like your 1397 01:40:19.520 --> 01:40:25.680 neighbor's house or maybe your car. Continue to do that. Deeper feeding very 1398 01:40:25.800 --> 01:40:29.439 very important. If you want any kind of work done, you need to 1399 01:40:29.479 --> 01:40:33.680 call now because Martin books up fast. Always tell them that you are a 1400 01:40:33.720 --> 01:40:38.439 Guardenline customer because that gets you to the front of the line an affordable tree. 1401 01:40:38.520 --> 01:40:42.560 They have been a strong Guardenline supporter for a long time and we're proud 1402 01:40:42.600 --> 01:40:46.880 to have them. We're already having storms passed through and just don't mess around 1403 01:40:46.880 --> 01:40:49.720 with it. Get them pruned and get them pruned properly. Listen. If 1404 01:40:49.760 --> 01:40:53.520 a guy shows up with a pickup and a chainsaw, that doesn't mean they 1405 01:40:53.600 --> 01:40:58.680 know what they're doing. Martin Spoonmore knows what he's doing. And bad pruning 1406 01:40:59.159 --> 01:41:02.840 is forever. When you butcher a tree, it will forever be a weakened, 1407 01:41:03.000 --> 01:41:08.680 more hazardous not to mention, just flat, ugly plant and they're so 1408 01:41:08.720 --> 01:41:13.159 beautiful and valuable. Give Martin a call at seven one three six nine nine 1409 01:41:13.479 --> 01:41:16.680 twenty six sixty three. I was talking to Jennifer earlier about the pombark beetles 1410 01:41:16.760 --> 01:41:19.359 that you know, I'd already kill that tree. That thing needs to come 1411 01:41:19.399 --> 01:41:24.279 down, and you need someone that knows what they're doing when they do it, 1412 01:41:24.359 --> 01:41:28.439 and that would be Martin Spoonmore at Affordable Tree again seven one three sixty 1413 01:41:28.479 --> 01:41:33.800 nine nine twenty six sixty three. You're listening to Garden Line and our phone 1414 01:41:33.840 --> 01:41:40.279 number is seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four. We actually 1415 01:41:40.319 --> 01:41:43.199 have an opening right now. If you would like to give us a call 1416 01:41:43.319 --> 01:41:45.920 and get on the lines, we would be happy to visit with you about 1417 01:41:45.960 --> 01:41:51.359 the things that are of interest or of concern to you after this Scember. 1418 01:41:51.439 --> 01:41:54.920 There are a lot of things people are concerned about. I'm sitting there looking 1419 01:41:54.920 --> 01:41:57.640 at the studio windows right now at a tree. There's a whole bunch of 1420 01:41:57.640 --> 01:42:01.279 grain trees and one brown tree. And you probably have noticed that before. 1421 01:42:01.600 --> 01:42:04.880 And it's always hard to help people that have a bunch of trees that look 1422 01:42:04.920 --> 01:42:08.800 healthy and one that's brown and explain to them why it died, and they 1423 01:42:08.800 --> 01:42:11.119 don't want to believe you. And here's why, Well, why didn't the 1424 01:42:11.119 --> 01:42:13.880 others die? If you're saying it was drought, why didn't the others die. 1425 01:42:14.279 --> 01:42:15.880 If you're saying that it was some other cause, why didn't the others 1426 01:42:15.920 --> 01:42:19.000 get it? Well? Why do you go to a party with five friends 1427 01:42:19.199 --> 01:42:24.239 and come home shake the same hands, have the same people coughing in the 1428 01:42:24.279 --> 01:42:28.800 air as everybody else, and you get sick or your friend gets sick, 1429 01:42:28.880 --> 01:42:31.000 but the rest of the group doesn't. It's just the way nature is. 1430 01:42:31.119 --> 01:42:35.920 That's how things work. Sometimes it's because the patient is a weak patient and 1431 01:42:36.039 --> 01:42:41.640 not as resilient that happens. And that's one of the explanations for these things 1432 01:42:41.680 --> 01:42:45.439 on our trees. Speaking of your trees too, you need to make sure 1433 01:42:45.600 --> 01:42:53.000 that you choose a good quality roofer whenever you have damage to a roof, 1434 01:42:53.560 --> 01:42:59.399 and when storms comes through, here come the storm chasers and they run through 1435 01:42:59.439 --> 01:43:01.439 everywhere and they say, here, I'll get you your insurance, I'll fix 1436 01:43:01.439 --> 01:43:03.439 your roof, I'll put you a new one on there, and blah blah 1437 01:43:03.439 --> 01:43:08.119 blah blah. Those are fly by night and they're gone. They're off chasing 1438 01:43:08.159 --> 01:43:12.239 the next storm in Florida or wherever. Literally they travel all over the place 1439 01:43:12.399 --> 01:43:15.840 like that. You need a place from a company from here, You need 1440 01:43:15.880 --> 01:43:21.199 a hometown person. That's Brinkman. Jason Brickman, Brinkman Roofing. Brickman Roofing 1441 01:43:21.760 --> 01:43:28.600 had been doing this for fifty years, twenty five years. Warranty of the 1442 01:43:28.600 --> 01:43:30.359 service that they do in your roof. They can do shingle roof, they 1443 01:43:30.359 --> 01:43:34.840 can do standing metal seam roofs. Don't trust a company just knocks on the 1444 01:43:34.880 --> 01:43:40.920 door. Go with someone that has won the Better Business Bureau Pinnacle Award. 1445 01:43:41.359 --> 01:43:45.439 That's Brinkman Quality dot Com. Or call them at two eight one four eight 1446 01:43:45.479 --> 01:43:47.720 zero seventy six sixty three. And when you call them, ask them about 1447 01:43:47.720 --> 01:43:55.880 their timberline solar shingle. This is a solar energy producing shingle that is not 1448 01:43:56.560 --> 01:44:00.920 on the roof it is the roof really cool. They protect your home while 1449 01:44:01.239 --> 01:44:05.760 they create electricity. We're gonna go now to the phones and talk to Bill 1450 01:44:05.920 --> 01:44:11.560 out in Spring. Hello Bill, Hey, good morning, Skip morning. 1451 01:44:11.880 --> 01:44:16.000 Appreciate all the good information you're providing everyone. I've got a question. I'm 1452 01:44:16.000 --> 01:44:21.039 gonna put in a new flower bed and I've got to chill it up. 1453 01:44:21.079 --> 01:44:28.960 I've got san augustine in there now and the typical spring tomball gumbo. Okay, 1454 01:44:29.039 --> 01:44:32.720 so when I tell this, uh, what kind of preparations should I 1455 01:44:32.760 --> 01:44:35.920 do once I get it tiled up? What kind of amendment should I put 1456 01:44:35.960 --> 01:44:40.479 in there to make it more friable in a better bed? Yeah, that's 1457 01:44:41.000 --> 01:44:43.720 good. Well, say, austine's easy to get out of there. I 1458 01:44:43.760 --> 01:44:45.119 mean you scrape it off the top of it's all gone. It's not like 1459 01:44:45.159 --> 01:44:50.680 bermudo grass, So that's good. I would buy a rose soil and put 1460 01:44:50.720 --> 01:44:55.000 that down. That is. I know roses are on the name of the 1461 01:44:55.039 --> 01:44:58.680 mix, but it is good for a lot of things. If you're just 1462 01:44:58.720 --> 01:45:02.119 planting petunias and pansies and things, rose soil is good for that. I 1463 01:45:02.119 --> 01:45:04.439 mean, you can grow anything in a rose soil. So I would I 1464 01:45:04.439 --> 01:45:10.199 would buy that I would probably put about must say, four inches of it 1465 01:45:10.239 --> 01:45:13.920 down. Mix it a little bit with the soil that you have underneath, 1466 01:45:13.960 --> 01:45:18.399 so it's not just like wonderful rose oil and boom instantly that black clay you're 1467 01:45:18.439 --> 01:45:23.119 describing. You kind of blend that transition a little bit, and then you 1468 01:45:23.119 --> 01:45:27.119 can add more to the top. Make sure the bed gets high enough to 1469 01:45:27.199 --> 01:45:30.239 drain well in whatever area. If it's a low spot, you need to 1470 01:45:30.239 --> 01:45:32.319 come up a little higher. But when it does rain, and it will 1471 01:45:32.359 --> 01:45:36.520 again, sometimes it just stays wet for days and days, and we want 1472 01:45:36.520 --> 01:45:40.960 to get our roots up out of that in a well drained mix like rose 1473 01:45:41.039 --> 01:45:45.279 soil would give you. I raise it, you think, yeah, I 1474 01:45:45.279 --> 01:45:47.319 think so. I mean if it was let's say, out the top of 1475 01:45:47.319 --> 01:45:50.479 a little mound, well it's already raised, but a lot of things are 1476 01:45:50.520 --> 01:45:55.880 flat, and so getting it up maybe if you were to bring it up 1477 01:45:55.920 --> 01:45:59.359 about ten inches, it's going to settle down to about six pretty quick. 1478 01:46:00.159 --> 01:46:03.239 That's just ow so will work. So bring it up hired and you think 1479 01:46:03.279 --> 01:46:05.760 you want it because it won't stick around. If you ever had a flower 1480 01:46:05.800 --> 01:46:10.119 pot on the patio, you know that you start off full of potting soil 1481 01:46:10.199 --> 01:46:13.680 and two years later the parts half full. Well, that's what happens in 1482 01:46:13.720 --> 01:46:18.199 a garden bed too. Well, I bought about a dozen plants yesterday. 1483 01:46:18.279 --> 01:46:27.279 I've got the hotlit shalba and the passion vine, and so I'm gonna be 1484 01:46:27.279 --> 01:46:30.800 planning those in. There is that proper soil and everything for those plants that 1485 01:46:30.840 --> 01:46:32.880 would be excellent for all of those. And Bill, I'm gonna have to 1486 01:46:32.920 --> 01:46:35.920 go. I'm gonna have to go to a break here. If you had 1487 01:46:36.000 --> 01:46:39.520 more of a more questions, you can stick around. I'll come back to 1488 01:46:39.520 --> 01:46:41.920 you, but I need to I need to break and take a break right 1489 01:46:41.920 --> 01:46:45.520 now. Our phone number seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four. 1490 01:46:46.279 --> 01:46:48.920 Well, you're listening to garden Line, and we're glad you are. 1491 01:46:49.000 --> 01:46:53.640 We're here to answer your gardening questions and visit about all kinds of things gardening 1492 01:46:53.800 --> 01:46:58.560 that you might have. You know, when when it comes to supplies for 1493 01:46:58.640 --> 01:47:02.000 everything you need for a garden, you cannot find a place that has a 1494 01:47:02.039 --> 01:47:08.720 better, more complete, more extensive selection than Southwest Fertilizer. It is simple 1495 01:47:08.760 --> 01:47:12.520 as that they've been around since nineteen fifty five. And when I say Southwest 1496 01:47:12.560 --> 01:47:16.000 for Elijah. I'm talking about the corner of Bissonette and Renwick here in Houston. 1497 01:47:16.239 --> 01:47:20.560 Corner or Bissonette and Renwick. You can go to Southwest Fertilizer dot com 1498 01:47:20.560 --> 01:47:25.840 to find them there learn more about them. All the fertilizers are recommend and 1499 01:47:25.840 --> 01:47:30.359 then some the plant soil products that are recommend and then some. There is 1500 01:47:30.479 --> 01:47:34.600 nothing that will attack your plants, whether it's a disease, an insect, 1501 01:47:34.800 --> 01:47:43.039 a weed in your lawn that Southwest Fertilizer doesn't have several options of effective control. 1502 01:47:43.319 --> 01:47:45.119 And the folks there, Bob and his team, they are experts. 1503 01:47:45.199 --> 01:47:47.920 They know. They bring them a sample, bring him a picture, they 1504 01:47:47.960 --> 01:47:50.199 can look at it. They can tell you what it is and they can 1505 01:47:50.239 --> 01:47:54.600 point you to the right product for the situation. Because the devil's always in 1506 01:47:54.640 --> 01:47:58.640 the details, isn't it. Well, they understand the details and they know 1507 01:47:58.880 --> 01:48:02.039 how to help you have success. Now when you go to Southwest, you're 1508 01:48:02.079 --> 01:48:05.800 going to also want to ask Bob about the kneeling bench that they have. 1509 01:48:05.960 --> 01:48:10.760 That's a really cool product. It's one of my favorite, absolute favorite new 1510 01:48:10.800 --> 01:48:14.560 products that I discovered. Been around longer and I discovered it, but I 1511 01:48:14.680 --> 01:48:17.079 discovered them and started using them. It's easy to get down, to eat, 1512 01:48:17.119 --> 01:48:20.600 to get up. You carry them around one way it's a seat, 1513 01:48:20.640 --> 01:48:25.079 you turn around the other way and it is a kneeling bench with handles to 1514 01:48:25.119 --> 01:48:29.039 help you get back up again. Trust me, that is important. It's 1515 01:48:29.039 --> 01:48:31.800 been anywhere north of forty. That is very important. They have those, 1516 01:48:31.840 --> 01:48:34.760 They fold up, they store away really easy. It's really easy. But 1517 01:48:34.840 --> 01:48:39.239 Southwest Fertilizer, of course they have those. They have everything that you would 1518 01:48:39.279 --> 01:48:42.119 need. And if they if they don't have it, you don't need it. 1519 01:48:42.439 --> 01:48:45.640 That's as simple as that with Southwest. Hey, let's run out to 1520 01:48:45.279 --> 01:48:51.000 Sandra in Kingwood. How you doing, Sandra. I'm doing fine, Skiffs. 1521 01:48:51.600 --> 01:48:56.319 Thanks for taking my call. I have a quick question for you. 1522 01:48:57.159 --> 01:49:00.439 I even have a patio home. So i have a very small all front 1523 01:49:00.520 --> 01:49:05.239 yard and I've got a reddo that almost the canopy almost covers my entire front 1524 01:49:05.319 --> 01:49:12.279 yard. And what I'd like to do is eventually replace that Saint Augustine underneath 1525 01:49:12.279 --> 01:49:17.359 that tree would dwarf Mundo graphs. Okay, So I I have my college 1526 01:49:17.439 --> 01:49:20.600 kid coming next week and I'm going to give him a spade and he's gonna 1527 01:49:20.640 --> 01:49:27.000 dig up some of the grass. He's gonna make a circle underneath the canopy 1528 01:49:27.039 --> 01:49:30.359 and we're going to get bigger every year. But my question is, once 1529 01:49:30.439 --> 01:49:36.279 he gets the graph up, should I add more dirt to the ground, 1530 01:49:36.840 --> 01:49:43.359 And what month would be best to plant this Mundo graphs Now's a good time. 1531 01:49:43.399 --> 01:49:45.560 This falls probably the best time you can plant it. You could also 1532 01:49:45.600 --> 01:49:50.079 plant it in the springtime, that's fine. Mondo is a slow grower, 1533 01:49:50.279 --> 01:49:53.920 so it doesn't fill in real fast, so you don't feel a little closer 1534 01:49:53.960 --> 01:49:57.000 than you would other plants could just because of the spread rate is slower. 1535 01:49:57.560 --> 01:50:00.439 If you can mix in a little bit of compost at a bit of an 1536 01:50:00.439 --> 01:50:02.720 improved soil mix kind of thing like that, it would be helpful. The 1537 01:50:02.800 --> 01:50:06.199 challenge is going to be doing it around the tree because all the roots they're 1538 01:50:06.279 --> 01:50:11.359 just there's woody root everywhere you try to dig around a tree. And so 1539 01:50:11.840 --> 01:50:15.920 I would just see how well you can do that in terms of adding a 1540 01:50:15.920 --> 01:50:19.239 little soil and mixing it in and then getting that Mondo planted. Did you 1541 01:50:19.279 --> 01:50:25.920 mention the dwarf or the regular mondo l Mondo? Yeah, that one stayed 1542 01:50:26.000 --> 01:50:30.439 really low. I mean, that's that is the beautiful dark green lawn underneath 1543 01:50:30.439 --> 01:50:34.800 a tree where nothing will grow. Mudo can grow where it's too dark for 1544 01:50:34.920 --> 01:50:40.239 mushrooms. Of course that's a joke, but it is one one good shade 1545 01:50:40.279 --> 01:50:45.840 tolerant plant. Okay, And then water it like you said for regular side, 1546 01:50:45.960 --> 01:50:49.720 like every day for two weeks or whatever. It is not necessary because 1547 01:50:49.720 --> 01:50:54.640 you're bringing in a good root system because it's coming in as transplants already in 1548 01:50:54.640 --> 01:50:58.840 a container side they go in and they shave it off just a half inch 1549 01:50:58.960 --> 01:51:01.720 under the soil, and so you're losing all those roots. You get the 1550 01:51:01.800 --> 01:51:05.239 roots that are in the clay soil that comes to you with the side. 1551 01:51:05.840 --> 01:51:11.520 That's why we're having to water it frequently lightly, just to keep it going 1552 01:51:11.640 --> 01:51:15.439 until it gets its roots down. With mondo, it's a transplant, it's 1553 01:51:15.479 --> 01:51:20.960 different. That makes that makes sense. And as it I know I'm gonna 1554 01:51:20.960 --> 01:51:25.439 plan it, I don't know, maybe six inches apart, and I know 1555 01:51:25.520 --> 01:51:29.880 that eventually it will fill in. But until it fills in, like next 1556 01:51:29.880 --> 01:51:35.399 spring, if I do have some soil that's not root down, could I 1557 01:51:35.600 --> 01:51:45.399 interspers little plants in there such as I would you talk thus things that grow 1558 01:51:45.439 --> 01:51:50.159 in the shade, yes flower colladiums or impatience or what are you trying to 1559 01:51:50.199 --> 01:51:57.880 do? Yeah, impatient? Well you could if there's enough light for the 1560 01:51:57.920 --> 01:52:01.119 impatience. They like shade, but they like a bright shade. But you 1561 01:52:01.359 --> 01:52:05.439 could do that. I've never really thought about it that way. If you 1562 01:52:05.520 --> 01:52:08.920 like the look of that, I would say you could go ahead and do 1563 01:52:08.960 --> 01:52:12.600 it, or you could just have a bed area that you plant the impatience 1564 01:52:12.640 --> 01:52:15.239 in and then the mando is outside of that. It's kind of up to 1565 01:52:15.279 --> 01:52:18.520 you. It's your yard. You get to call it. Well, it's 1566 01:52:18.560 --> 01:52:26.560 my yard in the h a yard, and I I'm going to go on 1567 01:52:26.640 --> 01:52:30.760 the premise that dwarf mundo grass is a grass and they should not bother me 1568 01:52:30.880 --> 01:52:33.399 about replacing one with the matter. But we'll see. Oh my gosh, 1569 01:52:33.399 --> 01:52:40.239 okay, yeah, I feel you're pain Okay, all right, Sander, 1570 01:52:40.279 --> 01:52:43.119 good luck with that. Thank you. You know. One of my one 1571 01:52:43.159 --> 01:52:46.760 of my favorite parts of gardening is birds. And it used to not be. 1572 01:52:46.800 --> 01:52:50.359 I was not a bird person and I walked into a wild Bird's Unlimited 1573 01:52:50.399 --> 01:52:56.600 store and yeah, the rest is history. So I'm warning you when you 1574 01:52:56.640 --> 01:53:00.079 walk in there, you will you will find stuff you you absolutely have to 1575 01:53:00.079 --> 01:53:02.760 have them bring home and it's all good stuff. That's the nice thing. 1576 01:53:03.000 --> 01:53:04.880 If they say you feed, it's good. Feed it. They say a 1577 01:53:04.920 --> 01:53:09.000 bird feeder or birdhouse, it's a good one, and they know what they're 1578 01:53:09.000 --> 01:53:13.079 talking about. The staff knows how to help you. This is peak month 1579 01:53:13.279 --> 01:53:16.399 for ruby throated hummingbirds. Were in the big middle of their fall migration. 1580 01:53:16.840 --> 01:53:20.880 You need to make sure that they have feed out all the time. Now 1581 01:53:20.920 --> 01:53:25.239 you can purchase a liquid for them. You don't need the stuff with the 1582 01:53:25.279 --> 01:53:29.600 red dyes. You just take four parts water, one part white table sugar, 1583 01:53:29.760 --> 01:53:32.159 four parts water one part white table sugar sugar, mix it up. 1584 01:53:32.199 --> 01:53:35.000 I heat mine a little bit just so the sugar dissolves well, and then 1585 01:53:35.079 --> 01:53:39.439 let it cool off and put it in a bird feeder. I've got several 1586 01:53:39.520 --> 01:53:44.680 kinds of hummingbird feeders. My favorite is the high perch feeder from Wahbirds. 1587 01:53:45.039 --> 01:53:47.279 It is a really cool feed of four different sizes that it comes in. 1588 01:53:47.359 --> 01:53:50.760 They even have cleaning brushes for cleaning them. You can go to the Wahbirds 1589 01:53:50.840 --> 01:53:58.720 Unlimited website by the way, that's WBU Wildbirds Unlimited dot com, slash Houston 1590 01:53:59.119 --> 01:54:03.079 and you can find the seven wild Birds store here in the Greater Houston area. 1591 01:54:03.159 --> 01:54:09.760 Also on their website there is good information on all kinds of things right 1592 01:54:10.119 --> 01:54:14.479 around hummingbirds. There's also their social media pages. You know, each Wilbirds 1593 01:54:14.479 --> 01:54:17.479 stores independently owned, so you can go there, find out about the hummingbird 1594 01:54:17.560 --> 01:54:23.960 festivals around town. Find out tricks and tips for having success with your birds. 1595 01:54:24.199 --> 01:54:28.680 Really really easy to do, not not difficult at all. Now I've 1596 01:54:28.680 --> 01:54:30.920 been talking about storm today, you know, getting your trees trimmed and things 1597 01:54:30.960 --> 01:54:35.319 like that. When storms come, power often goes out and we need a 1598 01:54:35.319 --> 01:54:39.560 generator to keep the power going unless you want to replace all the food and 1599 01:54:39.600 --> 01:54:44.720 the fraser and the refrigerator. Not to mention the smell well Quality Home Products 1600 01:54:44.760 --> 01:54:49.479 of Texas and the website write this down QUALITYTX dot com, QUALITYTX dot com, 1601 01:54:49.560 --> 01:54:54.399 or just call them seven one three quality. They are a seven time 1602 01:54:54.720 --> 01:55:00.600 Better Business Pinnacle Award winner Quality Home Products. They sell a Generac automatic standby 1603 01:55:00.720 --> 01:55:04.680 generator and you could be in ten buc two off halfway across the country. 1604 01:55:04.720 --> 01:55:08.640 The power goes out, it pops on. How cool is that? I 1605 01:55:08.680 --> 01:55:12.840 mean, that really works. It's outside, just like your your air conditioning 1606 01:55:12.960 --> 01:55:18.239 units. 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Just watch him as woods. What good morning. You are 1616 01:56:45.439 --> 01:56:48.920 listening to Garden Line and we are talking gardening. That's what we do here. 1617 01:56:49.159 --> 01:56:51.760 If you'd like to give us call, our phone number is seven one 1618 01:56:51.920 --> 01:56:58.960 three two one two five eight seven four seven one three two one two fifty 1619 01:56:59.000 --> 01:57:03.720 eight seventy are you can just dial two one two KTRH. Some people like 1620 01:57:03.800 --> 01:57:06.880 to dial by the letters. I find that I'm going around trying to find 1621 01:57:06.920 --> 01:57:10.760 the right letters. Easier to just put the numbers in, but some people 1622 01:57:10.840 --> 01:57:13.079 like to do the letters. So we got it both ways. Makes it 1623 01:57:13.119 --> 01:57:16.399 real easy, doesn't it. You know, one of the things that I 1624 01:57:16.600 --> 01:57:21.399 enjoy in the fall season is being able to get outside, visit some garden 1625 01:57:21.439 --> 01:57:27.520 centers and find some of those kinds of products that you just, I don't 1626 01:57:27.520 --> 01:57:30.600 know, you just don't see all year. There's there's a lot of different 1627 01:57:30.600 --> 01:57:32.399 things we get to plant in the fall. We have our fall color, 1628 01:57:32.439 --> 01:57:35.479 of course, the warm season color. I've been talking about that for a 1629 01:57:35.520 --> 01:57:42.600 while now. We also have the things that are so much better when planted 1630 01:57:42.600 --> 01:57:44.760 in the fall, or let me put it this way, they're easier to 1631 01:57:44.800 --> 01:57:50.039 plant and have success in the fall. Perennials and herbs and fruit fruit trees 1632 01:57:50.079 --> 01:57:54.039 actually too. We typically think of late winter, but you can put them 1633 01:57:54.079 --> 01:57:57.439 in in the fall season and they do quite well. Here's the thing. 1634 01:57:57.520 --> 01:57:59.760 When you put a plant in the ground in the fall, it has all 1635 01:57:59.760 --> 01:58:02.840 one to get roots in the ground, get them going, and then when 1636 01:58:02.880 --> 01:58:06.439 spring comes, it's ahead of the plant that you would have waited to plant 1637 01:58:06.479 --> 01:58:11.439 in the spring. And so I have found that to be a very successful 1638 01:58:11.479 --> 01:58:15.520 way of getting through that first summer, and that is really important. And 1639 01:58:15.560 --> 01:58:17.840 you know, at Warren's Southern Gardens, out in Kingwood. They have a 1640 01:58:17.880 --> 01:58:21.880 lot of new plants coming in. They do have some beautiful dianthus, and 1641 01:58:21.920 --> 01:58:26.319 if you've not grown dianthus before, you need to go check it out and 1642 01:58:26.439 --> 01:58:30.000 try the different kinds. There's the old fashioned types, there's some new types 1643 01:58:30.000 --> 01:58:33.439 that get taller, just neon colors. Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful. They 1644 01:58:33.479 --> 01:58:36.680 have those kinds of things out there at the Kingwood Garden Center, same kind 1645 01:58:36.680 --> 01:58:42.600 of things coming in. There's always something new coming in to Warren Southern Gardens 1646 01:58:42.600 --> 01:58:45.279 in Kingwood Garden Center. By the way, for the calendar, you know, 1647 01:58:45.279 --> 01:58:48.079 I always listen to Guarden Line with a piece of paper and a pencil 1648 01:58:48.159 --> 01:58:51.640 handy because you want to write something like this. Down at at Kingwood Garden 1649 01:58:51.680 --> 01:58:57.479 Center, they're going to have the herb infused Fall into Prosecco event. Now, 1650 01:58:57.479 --> 01:59:00.359 what is this. This is a garden to Glass mixology class. You 1651 01:59:00.399 --> 01:59:08.680 can discover that art of crafting exquisite cocktails with prosecco using fresh herbs harvested straight 1652 01:59:08.680 --> 01:59:12.119 out of the garden. They'll teach you how to grow herbs, how to 1653 01:59:12.159 --> 01:59:16.000 harvest herbs, and how to infuse spirits for a craft cocktail that's delicious and 1654 01:59:16.119 --> 01:59:20.279 In fact, you can sign up for what they call their gartending class at 1655 01:59:20.319 --> 01:59:27.319 the website. It's Kingwood Garden Center dot com. Kingwood Garden Center dot com. 1656 01:59:27.319 --> 01:59:30.760 It's really easy to find and out there in Kingwood. As I always 1657 01:59:30.760 --> 01:59:34.079 say, you guys are lucky. You've got to outstanding garden centers. Both 1658 01:59:34.159 --> 01:59:40.159 Kingwood Garden Center and Warren's Garden Center so easy to find. Warrens is on 1659 01:59:40.319 --> 01:59:45.560 North Park Drive. Kingwood Garden Center is on Stone Hollow Drive out there in 1660 01:59:45.760 --> 01:59:47.640 Kingwood. Well, let's go to the phones. We're going to head out 1661 01:59:47.640 --> 01:59:54.520 to Alvin now and doctor Lawrence. Hello Lawrence, Hey, good morning. 1662 01:59:56.079 --> 02:00:00.359 Just a couple of simple questions, probably, and I apologize. I'm sure 1663 02:00:00.359 --> 02:00:02.760 one of these has been asked a dozen times, but I'm just now getting 1664 02:00:02.800 --> 02:00:11.319 around to it. I haven't fertilized for June or July on the fertilizer schedule 1665 02:00:11.399 --> 02:00:15.600 because we haven't any rainy and still didn't get any rain this weekend, but 1666 02:00:15.800 --> 02:00:20.000 their forecasting rain for Tuesday Wednesday, and I don't know whether to put down 1667 02:00:20.039 --> 02:00:26.439 the summer you know, the June July fertilizer or the fall fertilizer, or 1668 02:00:26.520 --> 02:00:29.399 do I do them both now I wouldn't do both, and I wouldn't do 1669 02:00:29.479 --> 02:00:32.199 the summer one. And here's what's happened. Okay, we are getting fall 1670 02:00:32.479 --> 02:00:38.359 skept fall. We are about to enter that season and when we start getting 1671 02:00:38.479 --> 02:00:43.039 rain, and if you have a high nitrogen fertilizer that you're putting out things 1672 02:00:43.079 --> 02:00:46.119 like brown patch call also called a large patch, they're gonna be so much 1673 02:00:46.119 --> 02:00:50.319 worse and we would rather avoid that. So going into fall, we're not 1674 02:00:50.359 --> 02:00:54.800 trying to make our grass grow fast like we all all the rest of the 1675 02:00:54.920 --> 02:00:59.520 summer and spring season. We're trying to get it. It's slowing down because 1676 02:00:59.520 --> 02:01:01.199 the days you're getting shorter than I you are going to be cooling off, 1677 02:01:01.640 --> 02:01:06.600 and we want to get the nutrients in that create winter heartiness and that creates 1678 02:01:06.600 --> 02:01:11.800 strength and the spring coming out as it begins to put out new growth. 1679 02:01:12.239 --> 02:01:15.800 Fall is when that happens. So we use our fall fertilizers in If you 1680 02:01:15.920 --> 02:01:21.319 go online Lawrence to gardening with skip dot com my schedules, it's up there 1681 02:01:21.720 --> 02:01:27.000 and it shows when you would apply these fertilizers, and it also gives a 1682 02:01:27.000 --> 02:01:30.319 list of all the fertilizers that I would recommend as quality products for that fall 1683 02:01:30.359 --> 02:01:38.079 fertilization, right, should I wait until closer to fall or you know, 1684 02:01:38.119 --> 02:01:43.119 for putting this out just basically you didn't get it out. Yeah, our 1685 02:01:43.199 --> 02:01:46.159 lawns don't have calendars, but you get you gotta just realize there is a 1686 02:01:46.520 --> 02:01:49.560 better time, a good time, a best time, and all that kind 1687 02:01:49.600 --> 02:01:54.520 of thing. When it comes to planting, I would probably hold off a 1688 02:01:54.560 --> 02:01:58.560 little bit more the fact that you're getting a little bit of rain that you 1689 02:01:58.600 --> 02:02:01.039 know, I could be talked into doing a little extra early, but we're 1690 02:02:01.039 --> 02:02:04.800 gonna have other rain that comes. But I would generally on the schedule. 1691 02:02:04.840 --> 02:02:10.800 It's an October thing and you're you're down in Alvin, though and further south, 1692 02:02:12.399 --> 02:02:14.840 you could do it a little bit earlier just because of temperature. There's 1693 02:02:14.840 --> 02:02:18.000 a difference between Conro and Alvin when it comes to winds of fresh frost and 1694 02:02:18.039 --> 02:02:20.880 all that kind of thing. So if you want to find early, that's 1695 02:02:20.880 --> 02:02:30.119 perfectly okay. Okay. The second question would be I have a bunch of 1696 02:02:30.199 --> 02:02:34.560 mulch. You know, it's really they were the power company was out, 1697 02:02:34.560 --> 02:02:40.159 you know, decimating the trees in the area, and I talked them into 1698 02:02:40.239 --> 02:02:44.000 dumping you know, the chippings, the wood chips, and you know, 1699 02:02:44.199 --> 02:02:48.479 over the past year it is slowly you know, decayed and is becoming actually 1700 02:02:48.600 --> 02:02:54.079 kind of a decent mulch. The problem is that I'm getting crab grass growing 1701 02:02:54.119 --> 02:02:57.279 up the side of it, and I'd like to, you know, poison 1702 02:02:57.359 --> 02:03:00.640 that with something, because I don't like crab grass. And you know what 1703 02:03:00.640 --> 02:03:04.399 I'm worried about is will it will that poison leach back out of the mulch 1704 02:03:04.439 --> 02:03:09.079 as it decays, you know, want to start using it in places? 1705 02:03:09.760 --> 02:03:12.760 Or you know, am I just being worried for no good reason? No 1706 02:03:12.760 --> 02:03:16.960 good reason I would get a grass only killer. Then there there are two 1707 02:03:17.119 --> 02:03:20.159 ingredients out in the market that are grass only. But when you go to 1708 02:03:20.199 --> 02:03:24.199 shop at a garden center, if you go to an ace hardware store near 1709 02:03:24.239 --> 02:03:28.960 you, you're going to ask him for something that kills just grass. And 1710 02:03:29.520 --> 02:03:31.079 that way, you know, if you get it on any broad leaves, 1711 02:03:31.119 --> 02:03:35.039 it is probably not gonna hurt anything. But the grass only killers are easy 1712 02:03:35.119 --> 02:03:39.199 to get, and crab grass is easy to kill, and you just want 1713 02:03:39.199 --> 02:03:41.880 to get it done. Sooner you get done the better because once it starts 1714 02:03:41.920 --> 02:03:45.640 producing seedheads, and now you got seeds that are moving with your mulch into 1715 02:03:45.640 --> 02:03:49.039 the new spot. And that's you'd rather avoid if you can. Yeah, 1716 02:03:49.159 --> 02:03:54.079 yeah, And then just a third question. If you don't mind what's good 1717 02:03:54.079 --> 02:04:00.399 for killing you pond, Try clope here, tri I cl oh ke y 1718 02:04:00.640 --> 02:04:05.640 are try clop here. When you go buy it, it's gonna say stump 1719 02:04:06.199 --> 02:04:12.239 stump killer or poison ivy killer or brush killer. And here's what you do. 1720 02:04:12.319 --> 02:04:16.720 You cut off the yopon and you paint with I use a little sponge 1721 02:04:17.319 --> 02:04:20.119 paint brush things and a little wooden stick, you know what I'm talking about. 1722 02:04:20.560 --> 02:04:24.920 I just dab the tracolo pier right on the fresh cut stump, not 1723 02:04:24.960 --> 02:04:27.279 the next day. You want it fresh, and you put it right on 1724 02:04:27.359 --> 02:04:30.000 there. You don't need to spray it all over the place because it'll kill 1725 02:04:30.039 --> 02:04:32.600 other things. You just put it right on there. It translocates down and 1726 02:04:32.640 --> 02:04:38.039 it does a really good job. Now Yopon has underground network where it can 1727 02:04:38.079 --> 02:04:41.359 pop up, and so you may have some escapes that you have to retreat. 1728 02:04:41.399 --> 02:04:43.920 But that's the way to do it, all right. Yeah, Well 1729 02:04:44.239 --> 02:04:46.319 you can kill all the poison ivy around it that it wants. It absolutely 1730 02:04:46.439 --> 02:04:49.119 kills poison ivy two very well. Hey, I gotta go to a break, 1731 02:04:49.119 --> 02:04:51.720 but thank you for the calls and good luck with all that out there. 1732 02:04:53.119 --> 02:04:56.079 Hey, we're gonna go to a break phone number seven one three two 1733 02:04:56.119 --> 02:05:00.399 one two fifty eight seventy four. I'll be right back. Well, my 1734 02:05:00.479 --> 02:05:02.560 gift to you is I'm not going to stand along with that. How about 1735 02:05:03.720 --> 02:05:06.800 all right? Well, you are listening to Garden Line, and of course 1736 02:05:06.840 --> 02:05:10.800 we're here to help you have a beautiful garden and a bountiful landscape. That 1737 02:05:11.000 --> 02:05:15.000 is what we are about here. It is time. I mean, we 1738 02:05:15.039 --> 02:05:18.439 are on the doorstep of fall right and October is the big month for putting 1739 02:05:18.520 --> 02:05:24.359 down our fall fertilization. You can go on my Gardening Law lawn Care schedule. 1740 02:05:24.479 --> 02:05:28.520 It is gardening with Skip dot com and you can find the schedule there. 1741 02:05:28.880 --> 02:05:30.680 It'll tell you when to put it down and what to put down. 1742 02:05:30.920 --> 02:05:36.199 And if you are looking for a quality product for fall fertilization, that is 1743 02:05:36.279 --> 02:05:42.119 carbo load. It is a ten twenty product at that high potassium number, 1744 02:05:42.199 --> 02:05:45.239 the lower nitrogen number compared to the rest of the year when we're high nitrogen, 1745 02:05:45.279 --> 02:05:50.359 low potassium. The fall fertilization carbo load, that's the one it's going 1746 02:05:50.399 --> 02:05:56.119 to provide what your lawn needs. And our lawns need to be fertilized this 1747 02:05:56.199 --> 02:06:00.840 fall. We have got to get them out and recovering from what they just 1748 02:06:00.880 --> 02:06:03.039 went through and some are still going through, and we've got to get them 1749 02:06:03.039 --> 02:06:06.800 ready so that when they go into fall there are stronger plant, more co 1750 02:06:06.960 --> 02:06:11.399 hardy, and come out and spring better. That is why we change fertilizers 1751 02:06:11.479 --> 02:06:15.800 for the fall, and Nelson Plant Food Carbon carbo Load will provide you just 1752 02:06:15.880 --> 02:06:18.479 that, just like any of the other quality Nelson Plant Food products, the 1753 02:06:18.560 --> 02:06:21.960 Color Star, the Nutril Star, the turf Star, they're organic Nature Star 1754 02:06:23.039 --> 02:06:27.960 line, all excellent products and for your lawn. Remember the carbo load. 1755 02:06:28.479 --> 02:06:32.439 That is Nelson's way of helping your lawn have success and come out even better 1756 02:06:32.560 --> 02:06:38.399 next spring. Well, we're gonna go now to Pleasantville and talk to Deborah. 1757 02:06:38.520 --> 02:06:45.800 Hello, Debrah, Hi, how are you? I'm well today? 1758 02:06:45.840 --> 02:06:48.119 McGrath, my Saint Augustine. I talked to you. I thought I had 1759 02:06:48.159 --> 02:06:53.399 sought large catch or I thought I had a fungle. Yeah, so I 1760 02:06:53.439 --> 02:06:57.520 sprayed with the f stop and it looked like it's improving. I've still got 1761 02:06:57.520 --> 02:07:01.279 issues where I think is large catch or take off patch can I put iron 1762 02:07:01.319 --> 02:07:05.119 down? I got my fault for the ready, got my barritat ready, 1763 02:07:05.359 --> 02:07:11.199 But can I give it a touch of iron? You cans just showing yellowing? 1764 02:07:12.439 --> 02:07:15.000 Yes, it's yellowing and it's almost like somebody pours sprays scalding water over 1765 02:07:15.039 --> 02:07:18.720 an area. Oh boy, well that may be more than just iron. 1766 02:07:18.920 --> 02:07:21.479 Now the iron won't have anything to do with take all root rot, but 1767 02:07:23.319 --> 02:07:28.600 it will help circumvent the fact that because of drought and or maybe because of 1768 02:07:28.600 --> 02:07:32.560 this disease, the plant has lost roots and you hope to have new root 1769 02:07:32.640 --> 02:07:36.920 growth to take up iron. Iron is taken up by the ends of growing 1770 02:07:38.000 --> 02:07:42.359 roots, and so when you can't get the iron in that way the way 1771 02:07:42.439 --> 02:07:45.760 you hope to get it in, then an iron application to it can be 1772 02:07:45.800 --> 02:07:50.359 helpful, both a fullier application but also a granular to just make sure there 1773 02:07:50.439 --> 02:07:55.680 is more iron available right there for the roots as it washes down into the 1774 02:07:55.680 --> 02:07:59.600 soil after application. So yes, okay, now I would be a fine 1775 02:07:59.640 --> 02:08:01.680 time to put down iron if you need to just be careful when you put 1776 02:08:01.720 --> 02:08:09.279 iron down. It's stains concrete and masonry and so state laying a rusty nail 1777 02:08:09.359 --> 02:08:13.119 on the sidewalk when it gets your sidewalk stained. You never get that stain 1778 02:08:13.199 --> 02:08:16.520 out, so you want to be careful iron products. I sins you an 1779 02:08:16.560 --> 02:08:24.119 email about some zailus and Colius wants you could disregard that. I don't know 1780 02:08:24.199 --> 02:08:28.039 what's going on with this, Okay, I think it's heat, but yes, 1781 02:08:28.199 --> 02:08:30.520 I just wanted to ask you about the iron Okay, thank you so 1782 02:08:30.600 --> 02:08:33.159 much. I'll check with you next week. All right, good good luck 1783 02:08:33.159 --> 02:08:35.119 out there in Pleasantville. What a nice name for a place to live, 1784 02:08:35.239 --> 02:08:41.960 Pleasantville. Alright, you take care, you take care if you live up 1785 02:08:41.960 --> 02:08:45.520 in Grimes County. I am excited to be able to tell you about Grimes 1786 02:08:45.560 --> 02:08:48.880 County feed that is your hometown feed store. And I don't just mean Grimes 1787 02:08:48.880 --> 02:08:52.560 Canty. I mean Heaven up into Brian College Station area. You know, 1788 02:08:52.600 --> 02:08:56.079 as you get up into Brads's County. This is a local place not too 1789 02:08:56.079 --> 02:08:58.760 far away from you, even up there State Highway thirty Carlos, Texas, 1790 02:08:58.800 --> 02:09:05.760 too miles west of FM two forty four. It's locally owned and operated by 1791 02:09:05.800 --> 02:09:09.560 the roy family. And they have the fertilizers we talk about. They have 1792 02:09:09.600 --> 02:09:11.279 a nice selection of those. You can go in there. You can find 1793 02:09:11.319 --> 02:09:13.960 Mosquito Dunts. You can go in there, you can find the tree hugger 1794 02:09:13.960 --> 02:09:18.119 sprinklers. And by the way, those of you that live up in that 1795 02:09:18.199 --> 02:09:22.840 area, all those neighborhoods up there, like Kingwoods and Murewood and all the 1796 02:09:22.840 --> 02:09:26.760 communities around it, a lot of your soil is it drains very well, 1797 02:09:28.000 --> 02:09:31.199 a really good quality soil. But when you have a tree that's under stress, 1798 02:09:31.399 --> 02:09:35.840 you have got to give those soakings that go down deep in the soil. 1799 02:09:35.239 --> 02:09:39.239 And I would do it ever ten days in that area with that kind 1800 02:09:39.279 --> 02:09:41.960 of soil, with a tree hugger sprinkler. That is important to do that. 1801 02:09:43.159 --> 02:09:46.439 And the folks at Grimes County Feed have those along with everything else you 1802 02:09:46.439 --> 02:09:52.880 would expect from a feed store, including the important fertilizers that we talk about 1803 02:09:52.880 --> 02:09:56.359 putting down. Now, swing by Grames County Feed and make sure you pick 1804 02:09:56.439 --> 02:10:01.520 them up because that is important for the lawns and in this case the trees 1805 02:10:01.840 --> 02:10:05.439 that have gone through this brutal, brutal summer. Boys driving through there the 1806 02:10:05.439 --> 02:10:09.000 other day and just looking at the post oaks and the way they're struggling, 1807 02:10:09.039 --> 02:10:13.000 summer being killed out right, definitely time to step in and help those plants. 1808 02:10:13.680 --> 02:10:18.640 We're gonna go now to League City, Texas and talk to Dina. 1809 02:10:18.760 --> 02:10:26.079 Hello Dina, Hello, good morning, good morning. I have a question. 1810 02:10:26.199 --> 02:10:30.520 I have a Flare bed that is a fairly large Flaire bed, and 1811 02:10:30.600 --> 02:10:39.159 I had the most delivered it. Dina, I lost you there. You 1812 02:10:39.279 --> 02:10:43.840 cut out right after you said mulch delivered. All right, if if you're 1813 02:10:43.880 --> 02:10:46.319 not able to come back here, let's I'm gonna put you on hold and 1814 02:10:46.359 --> 02:10:48.880 maybe we can figure out what's wrong, or you may have to call right 1815 02:10:48.880 --> 02:10:54.239 back in. Uh. Let's instead go to Thomas in the Woodlands. Hello, 1816 02:10:54.319 --> 02:11:00.520 Thomas, let's skip. I got a question for you. I bring 1817 02:11:00.520 --> 02:11:05.640 in plants inside of my house. But I have noticed over the past couple 1818 02:11:05.640 --> 02:11:11.119 of months I have bowl weevils everywhere. And I found a box inside my 1819 02:11:11.439 --> 02:11:16.920 pantry looked like an old bottle of wine had been leaking. But anyway I 1820 02:11:18.000 --> 02:11:22.680 have, I just can't figure out how to get rid of them. Okay, 1821 02:11:22.079 --> 02:11:24.680 well, it's a it's not a bowl weevil, and if it's in 1822 02:11:24.720 --> 02:11:28.359 the pantry, that's a different kind of weavil. But boy, there are 1823 02:11:28.399 --> 02:11:33.199 weavils that love to get into you know, you've got oatmeal and rice and 1824 02:11:33.399 --> 02:11:35.840 pinto bean dry, pinto bean stored and they love to get into that kind 1825 02:11:35.840 --> 02:11:43.239 of thing. U there are I am not a pantry insect expert, Bert, 1826 02:11:43.680 --> 02:11:48.880 they're you know, a good quality pest control place can do that that 1827 02:11:48.039 --> 02:11:50.960 they can come in and do the treatment that you need to get rid of 1828 02:11:52.000 --> 02:11:54.600 them. If you are insisting on doing a do it yourself job, there 1829 02:11:54.600 --> 02:11:58.399 are home treatments that you can use. They're not going to be as effective 1830 02:11:58.479 --> 02:12:03.880 or maybe asked as long as what a professional could do. But though that's 1831 02:12:03.920 --> 02:12:05.960 the way you're going to have to go. First of all, you've got 1832 02:12:05.960 --> 02:12:11.039 to get all the stuff that is infested out of there. You can, 1833 02:12:11.119 --> 02:12:13.159 you know, you can see when they've been in it. If they you're 1834 02:12:13.199 --> 02:12:16.159 not sure if they've been in the or not, put in the freezer. 1835 02:12:16.279 --> 02:12:18.479 Leave it in the freezer for a couple of days and then take it out 1836 02:12:18.520 --> 02:12:22.520 and that'll kill something that might have been in there and shut it down at 1837 02:12:22.600 --> 02:12:26.239 least. You know what I when I notice every morning, I take a 1838 02:12:26.279 --> 02:12:28.920 wet towel and I put it on the ground and in the pantry. I've 1839 02:12:28.960 --> 02:12:35.199 got all this stuff off the floor and then they'll be like twenty of them 1840 02:12:35.279 --> 02:12:37.479 on there and then I pick them off the towel and kill them, but 1841 02:12:37.760 --> 02:12:41.920 they just keep coming back there today. Yeah, any kind of a trapping 1842 02:12:41.319 --> 02:12:45.920 tracting thing like that, you're only getting a portion of them and you're never 1843 02:12:45.960 --> 02:12:48.279 going to catch up. You're gonna have to do some sort of an insecticide 1844 02:12:48.319 --> 02:12:52.960 treatment in there and do that. If you go on a line right down, 1845 02:12:52.000 --> 02:13:00.199 Agra Life, learn a g R I l I f E learn diagraf 1846 02:13:00.399 --> 02:13:11.560 learn Agri Life, learn dot i oh agrilife learn dot tam U dot edu. 1847 02:13:11.760 --> 02:13:16.560 It's at Texan m University dot du as an education. You can type 1848 02:13:16.560 --> 02:13:20.720 in pantry pests in the search and you will get access to a free publication 1849 02:13:20.800 --> 02:13:26.600 that tells you everything from you know, home pest to pantry pest, the 1850 02:13:26.720 --> 02:13:30.560 silverfish to you name it. There's publications on all that stuff. I'm gonna 1851 02:13:30.560 --> 02:13:33.479 have to run to my next call, but good luck with getting through those 1852 02:13:33.479 --> 02:13:37.199 things under control. I appreciate your call very much. You know, I've 1853 02:13:37.479 --> 02:13:41.560 i've I used to brag on Greenpro all the time, and we're back in 1854 02:13:41.600 --> 02:13:48.079 that season again where compost top dressing after a good narration is very important. 1855 02:13:48.199 --> 02:13:52.920 And listen to this because this is time sensitive. If you by the fifteenth 1856 02:13:52.920 --> 02:13:56.279 of September, five days from now, we'll give them a call tell them 1857 02:13:56.319 --> 02:14:00.000 your Guardenline listener. They will give you ten percent off on whatever they come 1858 02:14:00.079 --> 02:14:03.920 to do to you at your house. That would be the aeration, good 1859 02:14:03.000 --> 02:14:09.199 cororation, and top dressing with a quality compost. That is going to help 1860 02:14:09.199 --> 02:14:11.760 a lone that has been through what we've been through. It gets it's organic 1861 02:14:11.800 --> 02:14:15.560 matter down in the soil, It gets oxygen in the soil, and when 1862 02:14:15.600 --> 02:14:18.199 it rains, it helps water soak in better, down deeper into the soil. 1863 02:14:18.520 --> 02:14:20.960 Now, you got to do this by the fifteenth. You don't have 1864 02:14:22.039 --> 02:14:24.920 to have it done by the fifteenth. You got a column and schedule it 1865 02:14:24.960 --> 02:14:28.840 by the fifteenth to get that ten percent off. That is Green Pro. 1866 02:14:28.199 --> 02:14:33.560 Green Pro has We've been bragging on them for a long time here on Garden 1867 02:14:33.600 --> 02:14:39.079 Line and do not delay. We are going to now go to League City 1868 02:14:39.239 --> 02:14:41.880 and talk to Dina. Hello, Dina, good morning. How are you. 1869 02:14:43.159 --> 02:14:46.560 I'm well? How are you this morning? I'm fine, I'm fine. 1870 02:14:46.720 --> 02:14:52.359 I have a question. I have a flower bed that had lantana planted 1871 02:14:52.479 --> 02:14:56.399 in and I had a company come in and put mass and it had to 1872 02:14:56.399 --> 02:15:01.239 be the worst mass ever because I've got tons of all different kinds of weeze, 1873 02:15:01.359 --> 02:15:05.640 have got nut grass, I've got everything. So I'm pulling everything out. 1874 02:15:05.720 --> 02:15:11.039 I want to pull everything out till it. But what can I do? 1875 02:15:11.079 --> 02:15:15.880 Because it looks like the nutgrass is really embedded into the ground. What 1876 02:15:15.960 --> 02:15:20.960 would you recommend I put to just cover it all up, let it settly 1877 02:15:20.000 --> 02:15:24.840 in, and then go back later in the spring and plant something. Yeah, 1878 02:15:24.960 --> 02:15:30.039 I would use a product called manage Manage. Can I get it at 1879 02:15:30.359 --> 02:15:33.920 Ace Hardware? Yeah? Absolutely, Ace Hardware Manage. There's anohe called sedge 1880 02:15:35.039 --> 02:15:37.920 ender sedge ender. But you walk into Ace, tell them you've got nutsedge. 1881 02:15:37.920 --> 02:15:41.079 You need a nutsedge control. They'll provide you. Just out simple as 1882 02:15:41.119 --> 02:15:45.760 that ahead and get it treated. But if the nut sedge and growing, 1883 02:15:45.800 --> 02:15:48.880 actively water it and get it growing, because those products kill it better. 1884 02:15:50.039 --> 02:15:52.119 If it's actively growing, then if it's dry, oh okay. Because I 1885 02:15:52.279 --> 02:15:56.800 was I had a young man to start pulling up all the nut grass, 1886 02:15:56.159 --> 02:16:01.279 I still have plenty of nutgrass. You'll just put it on, just spray 1887 02:16:01.359 --> 02:16:03.680 it all on it and just leave it follow and then kill it app or 1888 02:16:03.800 --> 02:16:05.800 kill it app first. No, No, no, no, no, 1889 02:16:07.000 --> 02:16:09.560 spray it on it and leave it. That's all you need to do, 1890 02:16:09.760 --> 02:16:13.439 all right, okay, all right? And can I spread it in different 1891 02:16:13.479 --> 02:16:16.600 areas in my flower beds if I have different flower beds. If you have 1892 02:16:16.720 --> 02:16:20.920 not said read the label on the product, have them at ACE help you 1893 02:16:20.960 --> 02:16:22.760 with that so you get a product okay to use. Thank you. I 1894 02:16:22.800 --> 02:16:26.199 appreciate the calm after run. While guy was just talking about Green proff I 1895 02:16:26.239 --> 02:16:30.680 got to give their phone number. It is eight three two three five one 1896 02:16:30.880 --> 02:16:35.920 zero zero three two for Green Pro eight three two three five one zero zero 1897 02:16:35.959 --> 02:16:39.760 three two and make sure by the fifteenth get in on that special deal for 1898 02:16:39.840 --> 02:16:43.639 ten percent off. Well, good morning. You are listening to Garden Line 1899 02:16:43.760 --> 02:16:50.000 and we are in full force here with all kinds of questions and answers on 1900 02:16:50.040 --> 02:16:52.319 things gardening. I'll tell you what. I am excited that people are still 1901 02:16:52.360 --> 02:16:56.440 interested in their lawns. I was kind of afraid that as the lawn fried 1902 02:16:56.440 --> 02:17:01.159 and died, so would enthusiasm for gardening. This that kind of tends to 1903 02:17:01.200 --> 02:17:03.920 happen sometimes, but not now. Nope, this is the time for hope, 1904 02:17:03.959 --> 02:17:07.319 and this is the time for action to get our gardens ready, our 1905 02:17:07.399 --> 02:17:11.760 lawns ready for the best gardening season of the year. Fall is coming. 1906 02:17:13.120 --> 02:17:16.360 Fall will bring cool weather, Fall will bring rain. You will want to 1907 02:17:16.399 --> 02:17:18.920 be outside again. Act now, though, to get ready for that, 1908 02:17:18.920 --> 02:17:22.920 that is important. Act now and an example of act now is to take 1909 02:17:22.959 --> 02:17:26.360 care of your lawn and Microlife products are a great way to do that. 1910 02:17:26.520 --> 02:17:31.520 You know, when you buy Microlife, you know you're getting microbially friendly, 1911 02:17:31.639 --> 02:17:37.959 if not microbially packed product. Our lawns need that microbes and plants and roots. 1912 02:17:37.760 --> 02:17:43.200 It's a symbiotic relationship that is very very important for plant health. So 1913 02:17:43.239 --> 02:17:48.479 you'd be putting down for example, they have their brown patch forlizer that season 1914 02:17:48.639 --> 02:17:52.600 for all of that kind of application for the fall fertilization. You can call 1915 02:17:52.639 --> 02:17:56.360 it one orizer if you want, but that is in October and it can 1916 02:17:56.399 --> 02:17:58.399 be done even at the end of September. That's fine too. We just 1917 02:17:58.440 --> 02:18:01.680 want to get that down to get our plants ready. If your lawn is 1918 02:18:01.719 --> 02:18:07.479 struggling, making sure that you get the kind of products like humates for example 1919 02:18:07.520 --> 02:18:13.639 humates plus this cost concentrated compost in a bag. You know, I usually 1920 02:18:13.760 --> 02:18:16.959 use the Ocean Harvest, the blue label. Just spraying on my plants, 1921 02:18:16.959 --> 02:18:20.040 flower beds and shrubs and things. But you can use it on lawn too. 1922 02:18:20.079 --> 02:18:22.879 I mean, if you've got a lawn area and you won't do that, 1923 02:18:22.920 --> 02:18:24.639 you can do that because that is going to provide all kinds of things 1924 02:18:24.639 --> 02:18:28.000 that plants need. So with this whole line of products, we've got minerals 1925 02:18:28.000 --> 02:18:33.920 that we're replenishing. There are hormones, there are plants stimulators, there's products 1926 02:18:33.959 --> 02:18:37.840 that help the microbes. That's all part of how Microlife can help you and 1927 02:18:37.920 --> 02:18:43.280 your lawn have success. That's what we're looking for. And right now, 1928 02:18:43.440 --> 02:18:46.840 coming out of summer especially important to take care of our grass to help it 1929 02:18:46.879 --> 02:18:52.000 get its feet under it because fall and winter or winter is coming and at 1930 02:18:52.040 --> 02:18:56.120 that time the grass is on hold and then here comes spring and if it 1931 02:18:56.120 --> 02:18:58.719 goes into winter week, it's going to come out in spring week. If 1932 02:18:58.719 --> 02:19:03.120 it go into winter strong, because you've applied these products and you've gotten that 1933 02:19:05.360 --> 02:19:07.840 beefing up. If you will of the grass plant done, then it's gonna 1934 02:19:07.879 --> 02:19:13.520 come out and spring strong. That's why it's important. Microlife Fertilizer dot com. 1935 02:19:13.559 --> 02:19:16.079 You can find more information, you can read about every one of these 1936 02:19:16.120 --> 02:19:20.280 products. Right there. We're gonna go to El Campo now and we're gonna 1937 02:19:20.319 --> 02:19:22.399 talk to Nick. Hello Nick, good morning, Skip. How are you. 1938 02:19:22.600 --> 02:19:26.559 I'm well this morning. How you doing? Hey? So, with 1939 02:19:26.639 --> 02:19:31.200 the drought and everything, I've got about forty five oak trees and I've infested 1940 02:19:31.200 --> 02:19:35.639 with the robust oak bore. I've treated most of the trees all with the 1941 02:19:35.719 --> 02:19:41.120 metic loprid and spray with bithon to kill you know, the adult beetles. 1942 02:19:41.239 --> 02:19:45.879 My question is, of course I haven't had then water about half of them, 1943 02:19:45.920 --> 02:19:48.840 but hadn't had the really good rain to get them to soak up the 1944 02:19:48.920 --> 02:19:54.559 systemically. So I'm wondering if when it does start raining, am I missing 1945 02:19:54.600 --> 02:19:56.959 something or should have tried to you think fertilize them to give them a little 1946 02:19:58.079 --> 02:20:01.680 jump start and getting rehealing, or I would hold off on the fertilizing until 1947 02:20:01.719 --> 02:20:03.959 spring for those trees. By the way, is this a live oak or 1948 02:20:05.000 --> 02:20:09.000 what kind of oak is it? Okay, well, you know we're going 1949 02:20:09.040 --> 02:20:11.879 into fall. The trees need to slow down growth. They need to be 1950 02:20:11.920 --> 02:20:15.520 they don't need to be pushed with nitrogen right now, but coming out in 1951 02:20:15.600 --> 02:20:18.799 spring, I would do the fertilization at that time for them. But it 1952 02:20:18.840 --> 02:20:22.920 sounds like you're kind of doing what's it you're in your power to do to 1953 02:20:22.959 --> 02:20:28.079 help get back on their feet. So just remember that borers are usually sign 1954 02:20:28.120 --> 02:20:33.159 of a week a weekend tree, and so anything you do that keeps a 1955 02:20:33.239 --> 02:20:39.719 tree strong, including fighting summer drought, that helps reduce the incidence of borers 1956 02:20:39.760 --> 02:20:43.559 that we have to deal with, right and the minor cloak should help as 1957 02:20:43.600 --> 02:20:46.159 well. Grat Yeah, that's a systemic. It gets in the plumbing, 1958 02:20:46.200 --> 02:20:48.520 you put it on the ground, you watered in the roots, take it 1959 02:20:48.600 --> 02:20:52.079 up on something like an oak tree. It's not like you about bees going 1960 02:20:52.120 --> 02:20:56.000 to the flowers, so we don't worry about that. Second, it works 1961 02:20:56.079 --> 02:20:58.360 inside the plant. Anything that choos on it. And if the bar is 1962 02:20:58.399 --> 02:21:03.799 working in the bark, inside the outer bark where all the living tissues are, 1963 02:21:03.479 --> 02:21:07.680 it can get a hold of some of metacoporate that way. But if 1964 02:21:07.680 --> 02:21:11.719 it's working on the interior wood, those products trunknn reach it in there. 1965 02:21:11.719 --> 02:21:15.120 And there are some boards that they just bore around in the deadwood. It's 1966 02:21:15.159 --> 02:21:18.680 like an old Tubi four inside. Uh, they're boring in that. That 1967 02:21:18.840 --> 02:21:22.479 is not hurting the health of the tree because there's nothing living in there. 1968 02:21:22.399 --> 02:21:26.440 Are you are you with the robust soak bore? Is it more of an 1969 02:21:26.440 --> 02:21:31.040 internal or just on the external part you No, I don't the name robust 1970 02:21:31.120 --> 02:21:33.520 boar. I'm not familar. I'might have to look at that one to see 1971 02:21:33.520 --> 02:21:37.120 which one you're talking about. I've not heard that term before, and it's 1972 02:21:37.159 --> 02:21:41.319 a little bit surprising because I've I've kind of heard about everything. Yeah. 1973 02:21:41.360 --> 02:21:46.760 One of our fellow aggies up up in Austin, actually entomologists up there, 1974 02:21:46.760 --> 02:21:50.120 gave me the information on it. I send him a picture of it, 1975 02:21:50.360 --> 02:21:54.000 Okay, told me it was and so I just wasn't real familiar with what 1976 02:21:54.040 --> 02:21:58.079 they fed on if it was the outside or internal as well. Yeah. 1977 02:21:58.200 --> 02:22:01.399 Just look at it. Boy, that Bookers got long long antenna. Wow. 1978 02:22:01.399 --> 02:22:05.440 Yeah. So it definitely does occur here in the Texas area. I'm 1979 02:22:05.479 --> 02:22:09.000 just not familiar with Allen. Yes, okay, Well great, well, 1980 02:22:09.040 --> 02:22:13.840 thanks for thank you for the call. I appreciate that very much, very 1981 02:22:13.920 --> 02:22:18.840 much. Uh let's see, we are going to now go to West Houston 1982 02:22:18.959 --> 02:22:22.959 and talk to Mary. Hello Mary, Yeah, hello, script, Skip 1983 02:22:24.520 --> 02:22:31.000 just needs your input quickly here. I have some under the weather shrubs Uramus 1984 02:22:31.239 --> 02:22:39.639 and Nandina, particularly Nandina, which is a understand, is a slow growing 1985 02:22:39.719 --> 02:22:45.000 shrub, very slow growing. So I had it six feet high, and 1986 02:22:45.120 --> 02:22:52.399 all the leaves turn yellow. Uh huh, six foot nandina? Okay, 1987 02:22:52.479 --> 02:22:56.360 all the leaves, all the leaves turn yellow. Okay. Yeah. I 1988 02:22:56.399 --> 02:23:01.079 got tired of looking at it right at the front door, so I cut 1989 02:23:01.079 --> 02:23:05.559 it back four feet four feet okay, Okay. I cut the stems and 1990 02:23:05.600 --> 02:23:09.079 look, and I looked at the stems. There was some green in there, 1991 02:23:09.159 --> 02:23:13.200 but it was faint, okay, very faint. The rest of it 1992 02:23:13.360 --> 02:23:18.280 was yellow, yellowish. Show. I cut it back so it's about two 1993 02:23:18.280 --> 02:23:22.719 feet high. There's some there's some growth coming out of the bottom the base. 1994 02:23:24.120 --> 02:23:30.079 Yeah, some fertile granulated fertilizer with iron and drenched it with water. 1995 02:23:30.399 --> 02:23:35.120 Okay. Now I sent you a picture on Friday. Uh, Mary, 1996 02:23:35.319 --> 02:23:37.399 let me look Friday. Okay, Mary. So bottom line, as you've 1997 02:23:37.440 --> 02:23:43.319 done what you can do, just know that nandina's generally when we cut them 1998 02:23:43.319 --> 02:23:46.840 back, we cut them back to the ground. We don't cut the whole 1999 02:23:46.840 --> 02:23:50.840 planet necessarily, but we cut it back because here's why. When when you 2000 02:23:52.479 --> 02:23:56.360 when you cut that back, you uh, the nandina doesn't reach sprout well 2001 02:23:56.520 --> 02:24:00.680 from that stem that you cut back. So what we have to do is 2002 02:24:00.719 --> 02:24:05.000 we need to remove individual things all the way to the ground because there's probably 2003 02:24:05.000 --> 02:24:07.120 not many leaves left on what you cut back, right, there's not. 2004 02:24:07.440 --> 02:24:11.280 Yeah, I would go ahead, since you've done what you've done, go 2005 02:24:11.319 --> 02:24:13.879 ahead and cut all of them back to the ground, and then the freshman 2006 02:24:13.959 --> 02:24:16.639 ground, fresh new growth will come out and in the future, in the 2007 02:24:16.639 --> 02:24:20.520 future, as you're cutting them back, just individually take individual stems to the 2008 02:24:20.520 --> 02:24:24.520 ground and leave the others and help it transition to sending up new shoots from 2009 02:24:24.559 --> 02:24:28.440 the ground. Okay, sure, but there were no stems that were there 2010 02:24:28.520 --> 02:24:31.280 was nothing alive. Okay, that was well okay, Well, hopefully with 2011 02:24:31.360 --> 02:24:35.079 water and time, it's going to come back and we'll just have to wait. 2012 02:24:35.479 --> 02:24:37.680 What about fertilizer. You've done what you need to do for now. 2013 02:24:37.760 --> 02:24:41.079 Let's wait and see when we get back into next spring and we see what 2014 02:24:41.159 --> 02:24:45.239 kind of new growth we have, we can make another decision. Hey, 2015 02:24:45.280 --> 02:24:48.399 I got to run to a break, but thank you, thank you, 2016 02:24:48.879 --> 02:24:50.799 thank you, ma'am. Appreciate the call. Seven one three two one two 2017 02:24:52.120 --> 02:24:54.200 fifty eight seventy four is our number if you'd like to get on the boards 2018 02:24:54.239 --> 02:25:00.520 with Josh Well, good morning again on our last segment this s Day morning. 2019 02:25:00.840 --> 02:25:03.399 You're listening to garden Line. I'm your host, Skip Richter, and 2020 02:25:03.399 --> 02:25:05.559 we're here to answer your gardening questions. Happy to do that. Hey, 2021 02:25:05.600 --> 02:25:09.559 if you live in north central part of Houston, your hometown feed store is 2022 02:25:09.639 --> 02:25:13.000 Quality Feed and Garden Center. Ken and Chris have been doing this for what 2023 02:25:13.200 --> 02:25:18.360 thirty two years. The store has been around sind nineteen twenty eight for crying 2024 02:25:18.360 --> 02:25:20.760 out lot, I mean that is and when you go in it has that 2025 02:25:22.079 --> 02:25:24.319 cool old time feel. I mean, first of all, they got that 2026 02:25:24.959 --> 02:25:31.360 nineteen what is it, the old feed rack nineteen twenty eight feed racks stocked 2027 02:25:31.360 --> 02:25:33.399 with heirloom feeds. By the way, they just got in all their twenty 2028 02:25:33.479 --> 02:25:39.559 twenty four feeds that are seeds, that are organic seeds and they're heirloom varieties. 2029 02:25:39.600 --> 02:25:43.879 That's what they do there at Quality Feeds to carry the airloom varieties. 2030 02:25:43.040 --> 02:25:46.479 So you need to get in because you know those things are going to get 2031 02:25:46.479 --> 02:25:48.959 bought and sold out and you want to have your selection. Now's the time 2032 02:25:50.000 --> 02:25:52.399 to do that. Ken and Chris have done a great job of creating that 2033 02:25:52.520 --> 02:25:56.280 kind of environment. You know, all the things I talk about on guarden 2034 02:25:56.280 --> 02:26:00.559 Line, the fertilizers and whatnot, they've got it there. They have every 2035 02:26:00.639 --> 02:26:03.360 kind of anything that wants to mess with your yard, garden and plants like 2036 02:26:03.479 --> 02:26:07.959 disease, insects and weeds. They've got a product to control it. At 2037 02:26:07.120 --> 02:26:11.879 Quality feed. You can go to Quality feedcode dot com. Now for those 2038 02:26:11.920 --> 02:26:13.120 of you who went to the old place like I used to go to, 2039 02:26:13.239 --> 02:26:18.239 they've moved not too long ago to eighteen thirteen Lozon Street. That's new the 2040 02:26:18.280 --> 02:26:24.239 Intersection Equipment and Allusion. They're open today from eleven thirty to four pm, 2041 02:26:24.360 --> 02:26:26.159 so you can get in there and do that. By the way, if 2042 02:26:26.200 --> 02:26:31.520 you need backyard chickens, they always are getting new shipments of chicks in and 2043 02:26:31.280 --> 02:26:35.760 it's a great place to go and get stocked up for not just the chicks, 2044 02:26:35.799 --> 02:26:37.840 but all the stuff you need to feed them to water them. And 2045 02:26:39.319 --> 02:26:46.399 they stock up on an incredible array of quality products for everything. If you 2046 02:26:46.520 --> 02:26:50.200 got a critter from two legs to four legs running around the place, Quality 2047 02:26:50.200 --> 02:26:54.159 feed has got the feed you need for that, so give him a call 2048 02:26:54.360 --> 02:26:56.799 or check them out. I would just go by there today. Quality feedcode 2049 02:26:56.799 --> 02:27:01.360 dot Com eighteen thirteen, Lozon Street. We are now going to head out 2050 02:27:01.440 --> 02:27:05.879 to tom Ball and talk to John. Hello John, Good morning Skip. 2051 02:27:07.040 --> 02:27:11.399 I have a quick question for you, sir. Fertilizer. I've got like 2052 02:27:11.440 --> 02:27:15.639 three or four bags in my garage because I have a small yard. I 2053 02:27:15.680 --> 02:27:18.239 just bought him this year. Yes, if I keep them there tight, 2054 02:27:18.360 --> 02:27:22.440 how long would that fertilizer be good for? You know, it's it is 2055 02:27:22.520 --> 02:27:28.479 hard to give a number specifically. You know, there are products that are 2056 02:27:28.520 --> 02:27:31.920 that are more of a synthetic chemical based product. There are products are organic 2057 02:27:31.959 --> 02:27:37.719 products, and just the way they hold or don't hold their quality over time 2058 02:27:37.760 --> 02:27:41.879 can vary a little bit. If it's a hot and a humid storage environment, 2059 02:27:41.920 --> 02:27:46.639 you mentioned they're sealed up. That helps some with the humidity, but 2060 02:27:46.799 --> 02:27:50.760 in heat that's not a friend of any kind of product. But if I 2061 02:27:50.840 --> 02:27:52.520 had it, I would go ahead and use it and put it out and 2062 02:27:52.600 --> 02:27:56.600 just get you some fresh when you get a chance to get some fresh. 2063 02:27:56.639 --> 02:28:01.120 But anytime you can store something during the hot weather inside a garage or something, 2064 02:28:01.120 --> 02:28:03.799 it's a little bit better for it to do that, and if you 2065 02:28:03.840 --> 02:28:07.959 want it to last a little bit longer. Okay, one more quick question 2066 02:28:09.159 --> 02:28:13.680 I'll put out some sweet green and I've noticed something. Yeah, my penta 2067 02:28:13.760 --> 02:28:18.120 is and just in the middle of the night just pulled him up or was 2068 02:28:20.000 --> 02:28:22.719 was digging it. And that's weird. Have you ever heard of something like 2069 02:28:22.760 --> 02:28:28.520 that. I've never heard of that, never have Now. The sweet green 2070 02:28:28.559 --> 02:28:31.959 is a good quality product and when you put it down and water it in, 2071 02:28:31.360 --> 02:28:35.200 and you always should water in a fertilizer. When you water it in, 2072 02:28:35.000 --> 02:28:39.120 it shouldn't be available for something to come dig it up or mess with 2073 02:28:39.159 --> 02:28:41.879 it like that. I don't know what would pull up a penta that. 2074 02:28:41.079 --> 02:28:45.879 I mean that almost sounds like deer or something are grabbing the top and pulling 2075 02:28:45.959 --> 02:28:48.079 on him or coming out of the ground. I don't know exactly, but 2076 02:28:48.479 --> 02:28:54.000 that's an unusual symptom. It's weird. Yeah, thanks you all right, 2077 02:28:54.079 --> 02:28:56.799 John, Thank you. Glad you glad to talk to you. Glad we 2078 02:28:56.840 --> 02:29:01.760 could help a little bit today with that. By the way, I am 2079 02:29:01.799 --> 02:29:05.319 going to be out at the Montgomery County Home and Garden Show and this will 2080 02:29:05.360 --> 02:29:11.440 be next Saturday, Saturday, September sixteenth, from twelve to one pm, 2081 02:29:11.479 --> 02:29:13.639 a little bit later than my normal appearances. This will be from noon twelve 2082 02:29:13.639 --> 02:29:18.200 o'clock to one. I'm going to give an hour talk from twelve to twelve 2083 02:29:18.280 --> 02:29:20.159 to two. I'll be there. I'm going to give an hour long talk 2084 02:29:20.200 --> 02:29:26.040 from twelve to one on everything you're gonna want to know about getting ready for 2085 02:29:26.079 --> 02:29:28.239 the fall season. What do we do about these lawns, what do we 2086 02:29:28.280 --> 02:29:31.959 do about these trees? When is it safe to go back outside? By 2087 02:29:31.959 --> 02:29:35.680 the way, the answer to that is now, all the kinds of things 2088 02:29:35.719 --> 02:29:39.520 you want to play at your vegetable garden, your flowers, whatever questions you 2089 02:29:39.600 --> 02:29:41.600 come, we just sit there and enter a lot of gardening questions and have 2090 02:29:41.680 --> 02:29:46.360 a really good time. I'm gonna be given away some Nelson Plam food jugs, 2091 02:29:46.360 --> 02:29:50.639 some Medina samples as well, and so come by, let's meet, 2092 02:29:50.760 --> 02:29:54.840 let's talk. After that one hour talk, I'll sit at a table for 2093 02:29:54.879 --> 02:29:58.360 an hour and just visit with you, diagnose things, bring samples in if 2094 02:29:58.360 --> 02:30:01.680 you want, bring photos in if you want, make sure they're in good 2095 02:30:01.680 --> 02:30:05.559 sharp focus. But that is next Saturday, twelve to two at the Montgomery 2096 02:30:05.600 --> 02:30:11.040 County Home and Garden Show. So everybody up there in Montgomery County that listens 2097 02:30:11.079 --> 02:30:13.959 to this show, I hope you will come out it's at the Lone Star 2098 02:30:13.079 --> 02:30:18.479 Convention Center, right across the street from the Extension office and all the beautiful 2099 02:30:18.520 --> 02:30:20.799 gardens that they have out there. Look forward to seeing you. We're gonna 2100 02:30:20.799 --> 02:30:26.719 head out now to Katie and talk to Doug. Hello, Doug, good 2101 02:30:26.760 --> 02:30:35.799 morning. Well i'd like to know. Okay, it's between summer and fall 2102 02:30:35.920 --> 02:30:41.079 now, and I'm not sure if all the heat's over with. And I 2103 02:30:41.479 --> 02:30:46.000 heard you talking earlier about fertilizer and stuff. My law, I don't think 2104 02:30:46.000 --> 02:30:52.840 I have any diseases. It's even pale. It's just not very green anymore. 2105 02:30:52.120 --> 02:30:56.520 Yeah, I don't have spots or you know, things like that Wilton 2106 02:30:56.680 --> 02:31:01.959 leaves. It looks pretty healthy. Really, the color is just not very 2107 02:31:03.079 --> 02:31:05.680 green. Is what can I do to green up my lawn at this point 2108 02:31:05.760 --> 02:31:09.559 in time? Okay, Well, hold off on worrying about the green up. 2109 02:31:09.639 --> 02:31:13.360 Let's figure out, you know, how to get it back on its 2110 02:31:13.360 --> 02:31:18.360 feet healthy first of all, and that would make sure that it is getting 2111 02:31:18.360 --> 02:31:22.559 adequate water. If you take a straight long handle screw driver out there, 2112 02:31:22.559 --> 02:31:24.520 shove it in the ground, see how far down it goes, and it 2113 02:31:24.559 --> 02:31:31.360 will it will do. It will do fine. Uh. And so I 2114 02:31:31.399 --> 02:31:33.760 mean it's okay, water really good. All right, Well, we don't 2115 02:31:33.760 --> 02:31:37.559 want to put a high nitrogen on now what we're gonna be doing. If 2116 02:31:37.559 --> 02:31:41.600 you go to gardeningraskip dot com, you can see my schedule and we're gonna 2117 02:31:41.479 --> 02:31:46.120 where you are in Katie at the end of September and and in October is 2118 02:31:46.159 --> 02:31:48.280 the time to put the fall fertilizer down. And I list all those on 2119 02:31:48.319 --> 02:31:52.360 the schedule. Hold off until then. That is just like a couple of 2120 02:31:52.360 --> 02:31:56.159 weeks from now, and and put them down at that time and water them 2121 02:31:56.200 --> 02:31:58.479 in and that will do the most you can to getting those things healthy. 2122 02:31:58.559 --> 02:32:03.799 All right, I got I got one last fellow here online. I'd like 2123 02:32:03.879 --> 02:32:05.920 to catch them if I could, Doug. But I thank you, yes, 2124 02:32:05.959 --> 02:32:18.719 sir, thank you. Oh well you're still there, Doug. Okay. 2125 02:32:18.319 --> 02:32:24.079 We had a question about a spreadable mineral fertilizer, and I'm not I'm 2126 02:32:24.079 --> 02:32:28.120 not sure what they're referring to there. I guess all of our fertilizers provide 2127 02:32:28.159 --> 02:32:33.360 minerals. All of our fertilizers are spreadable. So I have a number of 2128 02:32:33.360 --> 02:32:39.479 fertilizers that are quality that I recommend. Go to gardening with Skip dot com 2129 02:32:39.479 --> 02:32:45.079 gardening with skip dot com in the big middle of the page. I'm building 2130 02:32:45.079 --> 02:32:48.159 a website. It's the first thing on it, and pretty much all of 2131 02:32:48.159 --> 02:32:52.120 it's on it right now is the lawn care schedule. Print it out or 2132 02:32:52.120 --> 02:32:54.040 just look at it on your computer. And if you're if you want to 2133 02:32:54.120 --> 02:32:56.719 use organics, if you want to use synthetics, if you don't care, 2134 02:32:56.920 --> 02:33:01.079 they're all listed on there until as you when to apply them, which one 2135 02:33:01.120 --> 02:33:05.040 to get you just choose one. You don't apply them all. Follow the 2136 02:33:05.159 --> 02:33:09.239 recommendations for how much to put on that will be on the bag, and 2137 02:33:09.399 --> 02:33:13.760 that will set your lawn up. We can't do any more than that right 2138 02:33:13.760 --> 02:33:18.399 now in terms of getting the lawn ready for winter and spring, because remember, 2139 02:33:18.280 --> 02:33:24.799 the health of the lawn going into the fall into the winter season is 2140 02:33:24.840 --> 02:33:26.639 going to be the health of the lawn coming out of the winter season, 2141 02:33:28.040 --> 02:33:30.959 and we've got to do everything we can to take care of it now. 2142 02:33:31.000 --> 02:33:35.799 And it's not a lot of nitrogen that just promotes brown pudge. We switch 2143 02:33:35.879 --> 02:33:41.559 fertilizers in the fall to less nitrogen and a good strong amount of potassium the 2144 02:33:41.719 --> 02:33:45.719 third number on the bag, So that is what you need to apply. 2145 02:33:45.840 --> 02:33:48.520 They're all listed on the schedule. It's very simple. Just follow it, 2146 02:33:50.040 --> 02:33:52.559 get those down, get those watered in. Now. If we're dealing with 2147 02:33:52.680 --> 02:33:58.159 issues like insect deal, that's another thing. There's treatments for that. If 2148 02:33:58.200 --> 02:34:01.479 you're dealing with disease concern, may be large patches worrying you, or maybe 2149 02:34:01.959 --> 02:34:07.959 the brown patch, the large brown patch circles we used to call a brown 2150 02:34:07.959 --> 02:34:13.079 patch, now it technically is called large pen They we can help with that. 2151 02:34:13.319 --> 02:34:15.559 If you've got to take all root rot, we can talk about that 2152 02:34:15.680 --> 02:34:20.159 kind of thing. But right now, culturally, it's the lawn and the 2153 02:34:20.200 --> 02:34:22.799 fall fertilization, the winter riser, if you want to call them that. 2154 02:34:24.479 --> 02:34:26.120 Don't really care for that name, but everybody knows what you mean when you 2155 02:34:26.200 --> 02:34:31.040 say that. I'm so we'll go with that. This is a time to 2156 02:34:31.040 --> 02:34:35.079 get them down. Remember, I'm going to be up in Montgomery on this 2157 02:34:35.120 --> 02:34:37.559 coming Saturday to helpstitute. I hope you'll come out there and join us out 2158 02:34:37.559 --> 02:34:41.479 there. Had a good time talking with you today on garden Line. You 2159 02:34:41.520 --> 02:34:46.319 know, we do this regularly every Saturday from Sunday from six am to ten 2160 02:34:46.360 --> 02:34:50.000 am. You can listen to pass shows by podcast. If you miss something 2161 02:34:50.520 --> 02:34:52.200 tell your friends and neighbors about it. We got folks that listen from a 2162 02:34:52.280 --> 02:34:56.719 wide area. We're looking to have more. Hey, have a good week.