WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.320 --> 00:00:04.320 Katie r h Garden Line does not necessarily endorse any of the products or services 2 00:00:04.320 --> 00:00:11.240 advertised on this program. Welcome to Katie r H Garden Line with Skip Rictor. 3 00:00:11.359 --> 00:00:32.000 It's show crazy, just watching as so many peas seep hot zicas, 4 00:00:36.359 --> 00:00:45.640 not a sad credits. Good morning, Good Saturday morning. Glad you're joining 5 00:00:45.719 --> 00:00:50.640 us today for garden Line. One of the early birds, so congratulations on 6 00:00:50.759 --> 00:00:52.799 that. I hope you got a cup of coffee in your hand, if 7 00:00:52.920 --> 00:00:56.600 that is what you like, or a cup of hot tea for those of 8 00:00:56.640 --> 00:01:00.359 you who enjoy hot tea kind of helps open the eyes. I had to 9 00:01:00.399 --> 00:01:04.799 open my eyes this about four o'clock, so I do need a little bit 10 00:01:04.799 --> 00:01:08.879 of coffee here and there to help get me jump started the first thing in 11 00:01:08.920 --> 00:01:11.760 the morning. If you'd like to give us a call this morning, that's 12 00:01:11.799 --> 00:01:15.239 what we're here for. Answer gardening questions seven to one three, two, 13 00:01:15.319 --> 00:01:22.439 one two, five eight seven four seven one three two one two fifty eight 14 00:01:22.959 --> 00:01:27.519 seventy four. I have been really busy this past week getting some things done 15 00:01:27.640 --> 00:01:30.640 outside. I've got a lot of stuff going on. Of course I do. 16 00:01:30.719 --> 00:01:34.000 It's spring. You do too, or at least you could, uh 17 00:01:34.159 --> 00:01:40.879 there's early waking up of the lawn that's happening right now. Our grasses or 18 00:01:41.239 --> 00:01:46.359 you know, I always say that our southern grasses, Saint Augustine and Bermuda 19 00:01:46.439 --> 00:01:49.640 grass, there's always your grass. Those are the big three. They are 20 00:01:49.959 --> 00:01:53.400 slow to wake up in the spring, slower than a teenager on a Saturday 21 00:01:53.439 --> 00:01:57.599 morning. So if you've got teens in the house, you'll see signs of 22 00:01:57.680 --> 00:02:01.799 life. What sometime after lunch today you get the idea and our grass is 23 00:02:01.879 --> 00:02:05.400 the same way. We'll talk about that today. What do we do right 24 00:02:05.480 --> 00:02:07.400 now to take care of our grass? How do we keep them happy? 25 00:02:08.400 --> 00:02:12.360 What kinds of things are going on in the vegetable garden. I planted a 26 00:02:12.439 --> 00:02:16.759 bunch of different things. I've got some new tomatoes in there was I got 27 00:02:16.800 --> 00:02:21.840 my original planting in earlier, but a couple of others that I planted a 28 00:02:21.919 --> 00:02:24.879 little late. I started a little late from seed actually under a light indoors, 29 00:02:24.919 --> 00:02:28.960 and so those had to go outside. All the peppers are in out 30 00:02:29.039 --> 00:02:32.039 in the garden, and then I've always got experiments. I think one of 31 00:02:32.120 --> 00:02:36.360 the fun parts of gardening. You know, there's the meat and potato stuff 32 00:02:36.520 --> 00:02:38.159 that's like you got to grow a tomato, maybe you got to grow up 33 00:02:38.439 --> 00:02:45.000 a pepper or a potato or squash or whatever you like to grow. And 34 00:02:45.120 --> 00:02:47.879 then there's the stuff you haven't tried before that you just want to try it. 35 00:02:49.479 --> 00:02:53.439 And there are some really cool things that ninety nine point nine percent of 36 00:02:53.520 --> 00:03:00.639 gardeners around here or any given area haven't tried before, and you ought to 37 00:03:00.680 --> 00:03:01.879 try it. Maybe you'll try it and you don't like it, but maybe 38 00:03:01.919 --> 00:03:05.680 you'll try it and you have a new favorite. And that's why I always 39 00:03:05.719 --> 00:03:08.879 think you need to be experimenting or trying some new things you haven't tried before. 40 00:03:09.800 --> 00:03:14.319 Tomatoes are the queen of the garden. Have you ever grown one upside 41 00:03:14.360 --> 00:03:16.560 down? It's a novel see, but you can do it. It's kind 42 00:03:16.560 --> 00:03:20.439 of fun. Gives a neighbor something to talk about. They talk about you 43 00:03:20.479 --> 00:03:23.360 already don't worry about it. But lawns are the big topic every day on 44 00:03:23.599 --> 00:03:28.039 Guarden Line. That's the one we get the most calls about. And we're 45 00:03:28.080 --> 00:03:31.199 happy to take those calls. If you've got broad leaf weeds, for example, 46 00:03:31.360 --> 00:03:37.080 that are plaguing your lawn, and you know you're just looking at where's 47 00:03:37.120 --> 00:03:39.479 my lawn? All I can see is the broad leaf weeds well wherever the 48 00:03:39.560 --> 00:03:44.719 sunlight hits the soul nature plants of weed. And last summer was tough. 49 00:03:44.960 --> 00:03:49.240 We got some open space in our grass and here comes the cool season weeds, 50 00:03:49.280 --> 00:03:51.639 which is what you're looking at now. Now, if you want to 51 00:03:51.719 --> 00:03:53.680 do an early green up, now's the time to do it. And Nitrobos 52 00:03:53.840 --> 00:03:58.360 has a product that's there, fifteen five ten that also includes a TRIMEC, 53 00:03:58.400 --> 00:04:01.680 which is a broad leaf weed control product. Now, trimes available a lot 54 00:04:01.719 --> 00:04:06.240 of different kinds of forms. Basically what it is a combination of different post 55 00:04:06.360 --> 00:04:12.039 emergent broadleaf weed control products I'll put together in one so you get the broadest 56 00:04:12.319 --> 00:04:17.000 spectrum that you can. So we're talking about all the different cool season weeks 57 00:04:17.079 --> 00:04:23.600 like chickweed and clover and dandelions coming out now or has been out, hind 58 00:04:23.680 --> 00:04:27.839 bit and cleavers or belgrow plant, all those are going to be controlled with 59 00:04:27.920 --> 00:04:30.279 TRIMEC and you need to do it soon. Number one, The early green 60 00:04:30.399 --> 00:04:35.560 up time is now. So this is an immediate release fertilizer. It's nitroposces 61 00:04:35.680 --> 00:04:42.000 again, it's their fifteen five to ten and it includes trimech in it. 62 00:04:42.079 --> 00:04:46.519 When you're shopping color is always helpful to do these kind of things. And 63 00:04:46.639 --> 00:04:51.480 I think that if you will look for the one, the nitroposs product fifteen 64 00:04:51.560 --> 00:04:58.480 five to ten that has the trimech in it, that one is important now 65 00:04:58.600 --> 00:05:03.199 that would be there to call it a teal colored bag. It's a blue 66 00:05:03.399 --> 00:05:06.519 ish, it's not the dark blue, but it's a teal colored bag and 67 00:05:06.680 --> 00:05:12.759 it says wheed feed fifteen five to ten by Nitrofish. It's sold everywhere, 68 00:05:13.240 --> 00:05:15.199 just like night fross is sold everywhere. Where do you get it? Well, 69 00:05:15.240 --> 00:05:17.879 you can get it at Bearings Hardware and this isn't that and on on 70 00:05:18.040 --> 00:05:23.040 West Timer you can get it at Anys plantation yep out there in for those 71 00:05:23.120 --> 00:05:26.879 of you who live in the Richmond Rosenberg area. Very handy for you. 72 00:05:27.040 --> 00:05:31.360 Hiding and feed on Stuber Airline also carries this and other nitro Fass products. 73 00:05:33.079 --> 00:05:35.199 Give you our number again if you'd like to give us a call. It's 74 00:05:35.199 --> 00:05:41.199 always the early birds usually get on pretty quick because you know, when things 75 00:05:41.279 --> 00:05:45.759 heat up then everybody's interested in talking. But if you're awake and alive and 76 00:05:45.879 --> 00:05:48.680 have a question, now be a good time to get a quick quick in 77 00:05:49.000 --> 00:05:53.360 and answer. Love to visit with you seven to one three two one two 78 00:05:53.839 --> 00:05:58.319 fifty eight seventy four. Seven to one three two one two fifty eight seventy 79 00:05:58.360 --> 00:06:00.560 four. I was out at a plant trestas nursery. It was about a 80 00:06:00.600 --> 00:06:03.639 week ago, a little over a week ago, I think, and just 81 00:06:03.759 --> 00:06:08.199 visiting with Sherry about some of the things going on out there and their products. 82 00:06:08.240 --> 00:06:12.079 Boy, they're loaded with tomatoes and it's not too late to plant tomatoes. 83 00:06:12.120 --> 00:06:14.360 You can still get those in. Go ahead and do it. It's 84 00:06:14.399 --> 00:06:18.680 a great time to plant in fact. And their peppers they're over just it's 85 00:06:18.800 --> 00:06:23.839 unbelievable the peppers that they have, herbs and flowers, and well, you've 86 00:06:23.839 --> 00:06:27.639 been to Plants for All Seasons, you know what kind of selection that they 87 00:06:27.720 --> 00:06:31.240 have. I think also you need to know this that the advice you get 88 00:06:31.319 --> 00:06:38.079 there that alone is worth the price of admission is they say, skilled people 89 00:06:38.360 --> 00:06:41.480 that can help you find the right plant, that can help you solve your 90 00:06:41.519 --> 00:06:45.759 plant problem. Take them a sample, take them a picture so they can 91 00:06:45.839 --> 00:06:48.000 say, yep, here's what you need to do. Put it all together. 92 00:06:48.240 --> 00:06:51.000 At Plants for All Seasons and Plants for All Season has been around since 93 00:06:51.079 --> 00:06:58.439 nineteen seventy three, and they truly are a place that a lot of Gardner's 94 00:06:58.480 --> 00:07:03.160 revere. When I was in there, I felt like I was heading downstream 95 00:07:03.680 --> 00:07:09.680 during the spawn of salmon. As you know how they're all jumping up going 96 00:07:09.720 --> 00:07:12.399 the other way. I felt like that's what was going on, because they 97 00:07:13.160 --> 00:07:15.959 they were hopping because people know, when you get there, you're gonna get 98 00:07:15.000 --> 00:07:17.959 good plants, you're gonna get good advice and everything like that. Hey, 99 00:07:18.040 --> 00:07:21.360 Plants for All Seasons dot com. That's our website. If you want to 100 00:07:21.360 --> 00:07:27.360 give them a call, just dial two eight one three seven six sixteen forty 101 00:07:27.399 --> 00:07:30.399 six two eight one three seven six sixteen forty six. And when you're there, 102 00:07:30.519 --> 00:07:34.639 take a look at the pottery. I got some pottery last year from 103 00:07:34.680 --> 00:07:39.319 the folks of Plants for All Seasons, and oh my gosh, you know 104 00:07:39.680 --> 00:07:44.439 it's just beautiful. In fact, I'm several of those pieces this week. 105 00:07:44.519 --> 00:07:47.279 I'm going to be potting up, putting some flowers in because they are so 106 00:07:47.399 --> 00:07:51.480 beautiful. Well, we're running into our first low break here. We will 107 00:07:51.519 --> 00:07:54.959 be back. If you want to give us a call, Josh, we'll 108 00:07:54.959 --> 00:07:58.519 get you on the board. Seven to one three two one two fifty eight 109 00:07:58.879 --> 00:08:03.120 seventy four welcome back to Guardline. Good to have you this morning. We're 110 00:08:03.120 --> 00:08:05.160 going to jump right into the phones, and first thing we're gonna do is 111 00:08:05.199 --> 00:08:09.800 head out to Lake Jackson and talk to John. Hello, John, Hello, 112 00:08:11.480 --> 00:08:16.160 how can we help? I have a percentme tree that for the last 113 00:08:16.319 --> 00:08:22.560 five to six years in the spring it buds out and loads up with percimmons. 114 00:08:22.439 --> 00:08:26.639 And I have put nets over to keep the birds out, try to 115 00:08:26.720 --> 00:08:33.159 keep the squirrels out. But it seems that within six weeks ninety of the 116 00:08:33.600 --> 00:08:41.480 precinemans drop off, and our harvest maybe six down to one a year. 117 00:08:41.799 --> 00:08:46.000 Wow. And I have done everything I can think of. I've pruned it. 118 00:08:46.360 --> 00:08:52.000 Sometimes I put food steaks in the ground. I might have lost what 119 00:08:52.120 --> 00:08:56.080 to do? Okay? Uh? Do you know the variety offhand? No? 120 00:08:56.240 --> 00:08:58.080 I do not. It came with the house I bought back into. 121 00:08:58.080 --> 00:09:03.399 Okay, that's fine. Persimmons are real bad about casting their fruit off, 122 00:09:03.279 --> 00:09:09.399 especially when they set too many, or if they go into a stress early 123 00:09:09.519 --> 00:09:13.120 on when the fruit are young, they'll cast off. It could be a 124 00:09:13.240 --> 00:09:20.799 pollination issue. Some persimmons will set just fine without pollination. Some of them 125 00:09:20.279 --> 00:09:24.720 do better if there's another variety to help. But Once those things have been 126 00:09:24.759 --> 00:09:28.679 on long enough, then they're not going to get cast off, you know. 127 00:09:28.799 --> 00:09:33.039 But early in the process is where you lose them. And the only 128 00:09:33.120 --> 00:09:37.200 thing I know to tell you is just think about the stress thing. I 129 00:09:37.360 --> 00:09:41.200 doubt that's happening every year. But if lack of water, too much water, 130 00:09:41.320 --> 00:09:46.039 I don't know, some sort of a stress is bothering them. Then 131 00:09:46.120 --> 00:09:50.279 the next thing would be just to get you another percymontry. I'd be helpful 132 00:09:50.320 --> 00:09:54.679 to know what variety it is the one you have, but we could give 133 00:09:54.720 --> 00:09:56.879 a good guess at it, and maybe you could get with the cross. 134 00:09:58.120 --> 00:10:01.159 That may help a little bit too, because it'll set some seeds in there 135 00:10:01.320 --> 00:10:07.519 that will help hold the fruit on the plant. Well. Twenty fourteen, 136 00:10:09.120 --> 00:10:13.559 fifteen, twenty sixteen, I have bumper crops, Okay, Yeah, I 137 00:10:13.559 --> 00:10:16.559 mean it did good for the first three years and then it just kind of 138 00:10:16.720 --> 00:10:20.840 been going downhill. And in the last five years it's been really bad. 139 00:10:20.240 --> 00:10:24.240 And like I said, I might have lost what to do. Yeah, 140 00:10:24.559 --> 00:10:28.919 I am true with that last about the spress. And you know they said 141 00:10:28.960 --> 00:10:33.039 that no ferilizer, food, steaks. I tried everything. Yeah, it's 142 00:10:33.159 --> 00:10:39.320 not a lack of nutrient that's doing that. So the only other thing that 143 00:10:39.360 --> 00:10:45.080 I'm thinking about is did a neighbor have a tree that you know was taken 144 00:10:45.159 --> 00:10:48.440 out in the process of what you described. I don't know why for someone 145 00:10:48.519 --> 00:10:54.519 that sets fruit well is now not setting are you? Are you getting plenty 146 00:10:54.600 --> 00:10:58.159 of sunlight on that plant or have trees maybe grown? Okay, we're taking 147 00:10:58.200 --> 00:11:03.960 out all the goods here in terms of an answer. Let me think about 148 00:11:03.960 --> 00:11:05.440 it some more. I'm gonna ponder look into that one a little bit. 149 00:11:05.519 --> 00:11:09.039 I've not run into a tree that set well and then later didn't that we 150 00:11:09.200 --> 00:11:13.879 can't identify a particular stress or problem with. So I'm gonna have to leave 151 00:11:13.919 --> 00:11:20.679 it at that. John and uh, just yeah, I don't have anything 152 00:11:20.720 --> 00:11:24.440 else to think about on this one, but I will look into it because 153 00:11:24.440 --> 00:11:26.159 I don't like to get stumped, and so we'll see what we can find 154 00:11:26.159 --> 00:11:31.759 out. Appreciate it. Thank you for the call. We're gonna now go 155 00:11:31.960 --> 00:11:35.600 to Ron and camp Logan. Hello, Ron, Yeah, good morning, 156 00:11:35.919 --> 00:11:39.919 thanks for taking my call. You bet I lost part of my Saint Augustine 157 00:11:41.000 --> 00:11:46.200 yard in the drought last year and I planted a replanted it. Did the 158 00:11:46.120 --> 00:11:50.080 filling sod put it down came in pretty good. But I'm getting a weed 159 00:11:52.759 --> 00:11:56.919 popping up in that area, so apparently it came with the sod. Okay, 160 00:11:56.279 --> 00:12:00.440 I've got some pictures of it, and I wanted to get permission to 161 00:12:00.519 --> 00:12:01.799 send him into you to have you take a look at him. Okay, 162 00:12:03.120 --> 00:12:05.440 yeah, that would be fine. I'll put you on hold in the bit 163 00:12:05.480 --> 00:12:09.120 and Josh can do that. I think I can just tell you though, 164 00:12:09.720 --> 00:12:13.240 if it is. If you're seeing the weed now and it's a let's say 165 00:12:13.480 --> 00:12:18.840 it's some size, it's not just like a tiny seedling coming up, then 166 00:12:18.000 --> 00:12:22.279 it's a cool season broad leaf weed. It could be a perennial weed like 167 00:12:22.399 --> 00:12:28.240 dykhata. It's not a broad leaf weed. It's it's almost like a fern. 168 00:12:28.360 --> 00:12:31.879 It'll stick up, I mean, just going up three or four inches, 169 00:12:31.960 --> 00:12:35.519 kind of in clumps, if you will, Okay, well, believe 170 00:12:35.519 --> 00:12:37.600 it or not, that's a broad leaf because anything that's not a grass or 171 00:12:37.600 --> 00:12:41.240 a sedge a broad is considered a broad leave, even though the leaves are 172 00:12:41.320 --> 00:12:46.279 not broad like in the case of your fern like weed. There are several 173 00:12:46.320 --> 00:12:48.840 weeds that get that description. If you want to send me a picture, 174 00:12:48.919 --> 00:12:54.200 that's fine, but I would say, have you done your spring early green 175 00:12:54.279 --> 00:12:58.559 up yet. I put out barricade the second week of February, and I 176 00:12:58.639 --> 00:13:01.919 did my green up two weeks go. But these weeds first started showing up 177 00:13:01.360 --> 00:13:05.600 probably two three weeks ago. Okay, it is a cool season weed. 178 00:13:05.759 --> 00:13:13.159 Okay, Well, since you have the fertilizer already down, I would grab 179 00:13:13.279 --> 00:13:18.960 a product. Oh and I makes a post emergent spray product called weed Beater. 180 00:13:20.600 --> 00:13:24.799 There's weed Beater Ultra. The spray is a good one to use now, 181 00:13:24.360 --> 00:13:28.639 and I would spot spray those weeds with it. Be careful to use 182 00:13:28.679 --> 00:13:33.879 the right rate and shut them down right now. And yeah, I tried. 183 00:13:33.279 --> 00:13:35.799 I did that with the weed free zone. I've had good luck with 184 00:13:35.919 --> 00:13:39.399 that on different weeds, and the weed free zone didn't seem to impact it. 185 00:13:39.519 --> 00:13:41.919 All right, Well, send me a picture. Let me see the 186 00:13:43.039 --> 00:13:46.519 lawn from a little bit further back, and then get as close as you 187 00:13:46.600 --> 00:13:48.440 can get to that weed. Make sure it's in sharp focus, and send 188 00:13:48.480 --> 00:13:52.120 that to me. I'm gonna put you on hold and we will take it 189 00:13:52.200 --> 00:13:56.799 from there, all right. Uh. You know, the the last week 190 00:13:58.000 --> 00:14:01.440 or week before I was visiting with Tys fix my slab foundation repair and just 191 00:14:01.519 --> 00:14:05.159 picking his brain. And that guy he listen, he's been doing this for 192 00:14:05.240 --> 00:14:09.720 twenty three years here in the Greater Houston area, and he knows. He 193 00:14:09.960 --> 00:14:15.120 understands why foundations crack, how the movement occurs, and most importantly, how 194 00:14:15.159 --> 00:14:18.759 to fix it. Uh, there is a process to doing it right, 195 00:14:18.960 --> 00:14:22.720 and Ty does it right. In fact, the three things that I would 196 00:14:22.759 --> 00:14:26.759 say to remember is he's number One's going to show up on time, he's 197 00:14:26.799 --> 00:14:28.840 going to give you a fair price, and he's going to fix it right. 198 00:14:28.000 --> 00:14:33.399 And you can go to his website fix myslab dot com, fix myslab 199 00:14:33.480 --> 00:14:37.159 dot com, or you can call him two eight one two FI five forty 200 00:14:37.279 --> 00:14:41.399 nine forty nine. Now, if you've got issues with the driveway that's cracking 201 00:14:41.559 --> 00:14:46.600 and you know, slanting up like it's turning into a mountain range, either 202 00:14:46.639 --> 00:14:48.080 way, I can get in there and he can float that thing up and 203 00:14:48.159 --> 00:14:52.000 get it in the right spot, have it level again, and save you 204 00:14:52.039 --> 00:14:54.919 all the money of pouring a new driveway. So you need to get a 205 00:14:54.919 --> 00:14:58.200 hold of him fix my slab dot com. Don't wait. If you got 206 00:14:58.279 --> 00:15:01.080 cracks in the sheet rock, cracks in the brick, if a doors are 207 00:15:01.120 --> 00:15:05.279 sticking, don't wait. Just not going to get better, and it can 208 00:15:05.399 --> 00:15:07.519 get a lot worse. So give them a call. I want to head 209 00:15:07.600 --> 00:15:11.360 now out to Montgomery and we're going to talk to Albert. Hello, Albert, 210 00:15:13.480 --> 00:15:15.919 Hello, Skip, How you doing this morning? I hope you're doing 211 00:15:16.039 --> 00:15:20.320 well. I'm doing great. Uh. I got a bunch of trees on 212 00:15:20.440 --> 00:15:26.840 my I got an acre and basically two types of trees, schuemar red oak 213 00:15:26.960 --> 00:15:31.960 and a nutall oak and uh okay, I read trees. They're all about 214 00:15:33.080 --> 00:15:37.519 six eight feet tall. And the schuemar red are really blooming, leaves are 215 00:15:37.559 --> 00:15:41.559 coming out looking great. And the nutalls I have nothing, no blooms. 216 00:15:41.639 --> 00:15:46.679 I'm am I just too worried here or impatient or so. There's there's no 217 00:15:46.840 --> 00:15:52.000 buds pushing out. Is there leaves coming out on it? No? And 218 00:15:52.120 --> 00:15:54.960 they're still alive, you know. I scrape them and they're green, but 219 00:15:54.600 --> 00:15:58.159 there's buds. Come give it a little more time. There's different reasons that 220 00:15:58.240 --> 00:16:03.240 could be a little bit more of a sleepy head. I've never noticed a 221 00:16:03.320 --> 00:16:07.480 difference between nuttall and other red oaks in terms of how early they leave out. 222 00:16:08.480 --> 00:16:11.960 But would I would give it some more time if it still has green 223 00:16:12.240 --> 00:16:18.840 branches on it. I think it's gonna be Okay. There's always a possibility 224 00:16:18.960 --> 00:16:22.039 that that's not the case, and there are a number of things that could 225 00:16:22.159 --> 00:16:26.120 have caused the demise of that tree, but I think just give it a 226 00:16:26.159 --> 00:16:29.080 little more time if you still see the signs of life underneath the bark. 227 00:16:29.960 --> 00:16:36.320 Okay, all right, Hey, thanks for the call. Appreciate that. 228 00:16:36.759 --> 00:16:41.080 I appreciate that very much, Albert. Whenever you're doing spring planting, and 229 00:16:41.320 --> 00:16:45.879 I am doing spring planting, I'm just saying, this week I'm going to 230 00:16:45.919 --> 00:16:49.440 be planting up some flower pots with some color plants. I've got a lot 231 00:16:49.519 --> 00:16:55.360 of bedwork to do. I'm revamping a bed and then gonna I've got a 232 00:16:55.440 --> 00:16:57.600 rose, I'm gonna dig up, move it aside on a tarp, get 233 00:16:57.639 --> 00:17:00.360 that bed revamped, and put it right back in immediately. And yes, 234 00:17:00.440 --> 00:17:04.319 you can still do that. And when I do has to grow six twelve 235 00:17:04.440 --> 00:17:08.160 six is what I'm going to pour on the plant root system when I plant 236 00:17:08.200 --> 00:17:11.640 them, I do it right after planting. Drench the root system because you 237 00:17:11.680 --> 00:17:15.160 want to water them in after planting. Anyway, we'll just water them in 238 00:17:15.319 --> 00:17:18.759 with has to grow six twelve six. Water it tells you on the label 239 00:17:18.759 --> 00:17:22.799 how much to mix put in a watering can drench it over five days later 240 00:17:22.920 --> 00:17:26.680 or a week later, do it again five days later, a week after 241 00:17:26.759 --> 00:17:30.279 that, do it again, and those three applications will help that plant get 242 00:17:30.319 --> 00:17:34.720 a root system established. It's got all the things that the plant roots need 243 00:17:34.799 --> 00:17:40.160 to thrive. So just add water as they say, has to grow six 244 00:17:40.279 --> 00:17:45.480 twelve six. Widely available like all the Medina products are. Let's head out 245 00:17:45.519 --> 00:17:51.240 now to Jim in clearly pay Jim, good morning. Skip. Have a 246 00:17:51.279 --> 00:17:55.519 little bit of a long problem that I brought on myself back in twenty two 247 00:17:55.640 --> 00:18:00.119 when I overfertilized and got some brown patch out of it. Okay, had 248 00:18:00.200 --> 00:18:07.200 the long hot summer and killed off a good bit of the remaining glass. 249 00:18:07.200 --> 00:18:11.920 I've got a lot of bears patches under an oak tree that I keep well 250 00:18:11.000 --> 00:18:18.119 trimmed, but I'm still on the schedule. I did a very light brown 251 00:18:18.279 --> 00:18:26.680 patch fertilization at the very beginning of February, very light though. I've got 252 00:18:26.720 --> 00:18:30.880 about two thousand, five hundred square feet and i used probably about ten pounds 253 00:18:30.960 --> 00:18:38.480 of the brown patch. And I've since put on some barrier, and just 254 00:18:40.200 --> 00:18:44.559 yesterday I put down some as M. But I'm wondering if I'm able at 255 00:18:44.640 --> 00:18:48.440 this point to do the green up. Oh you can, yeah, you 256 00:18:48.559 --> 00:18:52.079 can. Now you haven't in some of the products you were naming. I 257 00:18:52.160 --> 00:18:56.519 didn't hear was there a fertilizer in there? Since January first? Have you 258 00:18:56.599 --> 00:19:00.799 put any down? Yeah? The nective foss beer that was the only thing. 259 00:19:02.079 --> 00:19:06.079 Well, the barricade, though, that is a that is a pre 260 00:19:06.160 --> 00:19:11.240 emergent. I meant. I meant to say brown Patch, Mike Frost, 261 00:19:11.319 --> 00:19:17.240 brown Patch and the brown bag that should have been well, you should you 262 00:19:17.279 --> 00:19:25.240 should have that should have been applying a something to control the diseases. I'm 263 00:19:25.720 --> 00:19:30.920 just here. Here's the thing. The brown bag nitrophas is a false special 264 00:19:30.000 --> 00:19:37.400 fertilizer, and so I'm going to assume you haven't put an actual immediate release 265 00:19:37.480 --> 00:19:41.400 nutrient down yet. So I would go ahead with the Imperial lawn fertilizer that's 266 00:19:41.440 --> 00:19:47.599 a fifteen five ten and nitrophos. Imperials designed to be a quick release, 267 00:19:47.720 --> 00:19:51.079 which is in the spring. That's what we want. Things are a little 268 00:19:51.160 --> 00:19:55.519 cool relative to summer, and the fertilizers that are slow release are going to 269 00:19:55.559 --> 00:19:57.799 be real sleepy heads right now. So you would use a quick release right 270 00:19:57.839 --> 00:20:03.279 now and night. Foss Imperial is their red bag, and that is the 271 00:20:03.359 --> 00:20:07.559 one that I would use. Follow the label carefully. You're going to use 272 00:20:07.680 --> 00:20:12.200 seven pounds per thousand square feet. That's the right amount, seven pounds per 273 00:20:12.319 --> 00:20:18.519 thousand square feet. Okay, And then I did do the three step last 274 00:20:18.640 --> 00:20:22.920 fall. Should I repeat the eagle at this point? You could? If 275 00:20:22.920 --> 00:20:26.720 you've already got the big brown circles. It's a little late to do much. 276 00:20:27.000 --> 00:20:30.319 When is things warm up, those spots are going to green up again. 277 00:20:30.759 --> 00:20:33.480 So I think at this point in the season, if you're already seeing 278 00:20:33.519 --> 00:20:37.680 the circles, I wouldn't do the eagle at this point. It would have 279 00:20:37.720 --> 00:20:41.160 been helpful earlier as more of a preventative. I don't have any of the 280 00:20:41.240 --> 00:20:45.319 brown circles at the time. All right, okay, I think you're good. 281 00:20:45.640 --> 00:20:47.680 Hey, Jim, I got to run for a break here, but 282 00:20:47.799 --> 00:20:49.839 thank you very much for the call, and good luck with all that you're 283 00:20:49.880 --> 00:20:53.079 doing out there in the lawn. Our phone number is seven one three two 284 00:20:53.119 --> 00:21:00.480 one two five eight seven four. Welcome back to guard Line. Appreciate listening 285 00:21:00.519 --> 00:21:03.000 today. You know the weather is slowly warming up now We've got two cool, 286 00:21:03.119 --> 00:21:07.160 crisp nights coming up here. We've got two of them, and then 287 00:21:07.200 --> 00:21:10.880 it's going back up again. And you know, each time that we move 288 00:21:10.920 --> 00:21:15.559 another day, another week is certainly another month forward. We are just getting 289 00:21:15.640 --> 00:21:18.799 warmer and warmer, and our plants are going to continue. Right now, 290 00:21:18.839 --> 00:21:22.200 they're growing at a pretty good rate. It's going to pick up a little 291 00:21:22.240 --> 00:21:27.720 bit with the slight warming of the temperatures. And when I think about beautiful 292 00:21:29.000 --> 00:21:36.440 color in late spring or even early spring, really the bougainvillia is just a 293 00:21:36.880 --> 00:21:40.640 gorgeous plant. Don't you agree with me? I mean, isn't aren't bougain 294 00:21:40.720 --> 00:21:44.839 villa is just stunning. And when the weather heats up, they're happy with 295 00:21:45.000 --> 00:21:48.400 that. I mean they live in climates where it is blazing hot, where 296 00:21:48.440 --> 00:21:52.519 the humidity is hot, you know, high. It's just amazing. And 297 00:21:52.920 --> 00:21:57.240 RCW has got boogain villas like you would not believe. They have tree forms 298 00:21:57.279 --> 00:22:02.160 we call those standards in the boogam villa that's been trained to have a single 299 00:22:02.240 --> 00:22:06.640 trunk coming up and then it has this big round top full of blooms, 300 00:22:06.720 --> 00:22:11.079 full of colors. That boogam villa isn't hanging baskets. I mean, there's 301 00:22:11.240 --> 00:22:15.359 just a wide variety out there. And you know the colors of bougainvilla, 302 00:22:15.400 --> 00:22:18.680 I mean they are stunning, so many good options now, RCW. Of 303 00:22:18.759 --> 00:22:25.079 course they're gonna have roses. They specialize in a bazillion kinds of roses. 304 00:22:25.599 --> 00:22:27.680 They're gonna have trees, all the ones you want to plant. Now is 305 00:22:27.720 --> 00:22:32.960 the time to get any woody ornamental planted. Every day before summer you get 306 00:22:33.000 --> 00:22:37.279 it done is another day that plant has to get settled and get some roots 307 00:22:37.359 --> 00:22:42.279 down so summer watering is easier on you. The website RCW nurses dot com. 308 00:22:42.400 --> 00:22:45.119 If you haven't been there, it's where two forty nine comes at about 309 00:22:45.160 --> 00:22:49.480 way eight and that it just makes it really easy to get to and when 310 00:22:49.519 --> 00:22:55.160 you go, you are going to come home with color, a lot of 311 00:22:55.359 --> 00:23:00.759 beautiful, beautiful color. Uh. This week I said I was some outdoor 312 00:23:00.839 --> 00:23:03.720 things this week. Another thing I'm having to do this week is take care 313 00:23:03.119 --> 00:23:07.599 of some indoor plants. I've got a whole bunch of houseplants that have outgrown 314 00:23:07.640 --> 00:23:11.079 their container. And it's not that there's some sized plant where I have to 315 00:23:11.160 --> 00:23:15.799 bump it up, but when every time I turn around I'm looking and I 316 00:23:15.880 --> 00:23:18.599 need to water it again because the schedule I use for my other plants that 317 00:23:18.640 --> 00:23:22.440 are inadequate sized containers isn't enough. That plant needs to boom up to a 318 00:23:22.480 --> 00:23:26.440 bigger pot holds more soil, holds more water, skip doesn't have to water 319 00:23:26.480 --> 00:23:30.000 it as much. That's kind of how that works. And when I bump 320 00:23:30.079 --> 00:23:33.480 them up, I want to tell you there is a quality product's distributed by 321 00:23:33.519 --> 00:23:37.960 Nitropuss called jungle Land. Jungle Land has an outdoor one and then I'm going 322 00:23:38.039 --> 00:23:42.640 to be using an indoor one that has water crystals in it. These are 323 00:23:42.720 --> 00:23:48.200 little crystals that soak up many times their weight in water. So if that 324 00:23:48.319 --> 00:23:52.240 pot gets a little dry, the roots are going to have encountered the crystals 325 00:23:52.559 --> 00:23:56.559 and they'll be able to absorb moisture out of those crystals, so that if 326 00:23:56.680 --> 00:24:00.279 I forget the water, it's a little more forgiven. And that's from jungle 327 00:24:00.359 --> 00:24:04.200 Land, and jungle Land, you know, can be found everywhere because it's 328 00:24:04.359 --> 00:24:07.680 distributed by Nitrofoss. So where you get it, well, how about enchanted 329 00:24:07.759 --> 00:24:12.160 forest out there in Richmond Rosenberg. How about growers outlet way up in Willis 330 00:24:12.400 --> 00:24:15.039 Yep. They have it as well, in RCW Nursery, you're just talking 331 00:24:15.079 --> 00:24:21.119 about them. They're going to have the nitropuss products as well. I'm going 332 00:24:21.160 --> 00:24:22.400 to head to the phones now. We're going to start off by going to 333 00:24:22.519 --> 00:24:26.759 Champions Forest and talking to Barbara. Hello, Barbara, Hello, Skip, 334 00:24:26.920 --> 00:24:32.240 It's nice to talk with you. I have identified a weed that I've got. 335 00:24:32.279 --> 00:24:38.279 It's called poeanna and it's taken over quite a bit of a dead section 336 00:24:38.440 --> 00:24:44.799 of the yard and I'd like to know if we Beater Ultra will take care 337 00:24:44.880 --> 00:24:55.000 of it. Weed Beater Ultra is not going to take care of the poanna 338 00:24:55.079 --> 00:24:59.079 that's there now. It is setting seed and it is soon going to be 339 00:24:59.160 --> 00:25:03.480 turning brown and eyeing out and all those seeds are waiting. They put it 340 00:25:03.559 --> 00:25:07.519 on their calendar in October to start sprouting in your yard, and that's when 341 00:25:07.599 --> 00:25:12.440 you want to use a pre emergent herbicide product at that point in time. 342 00:25:12.839 --> 00:25:15.599 Okay, all right, Well, I'm trying to pull up what I can, 343 00:25:18.000 --> 00:25:21.279 but there's some sections that are extremely large, and that's what I thought. 344 00:25:21.319 --> 00:25:25.480 If I could spray something on there, and I know about the seeds 345 00:25:25.680 --> 00:25:30.160 and that's what I'm concerned about, Well, we'd Beater Alta is a bonaide 346 00:25:30.200 --> 00:25:34.559 product. It's a spray on product and it's good for broad leaf weeds. 347 00:25:34.920 --> 00:25:40.359 That the cool season weeds that you're looking at, Yes, but that not 348 00:25:40.519 --> 00:25:44.359 the grassy you need to prevent that. Now the night you mentioned I think 349 00:25:44.400 --> 00:25:48.440 you mentioned nitrophiles. Nitrophiles has something called barricade, and that's what you're going 350 00:25:48.519 --> 00:25:52.279 to want to use in October. But if you go online to my schedule, 351 00:25:52.680 --> 00:25:55.319 have you seen it yet online? Yes? I have. Okay, 352 00:25:55.599 --> 00:25:57.319 Well there's two of them. On's just how to mow, water fertilize your 353 00:25:57.400 --> 00:26:00.839 lawn. The other one is all the problems of the lawn, how to 354 00:26:00.920 --> 00:26:03.759 deal with it, and on there I have exactly when you need to apply 355 00:26:03.880 --> 00:26:07.000 it and what you need to apply. All right, That's what I needed 356 00:26:07.039 --> 00:26:10.119 to know, so I'll be sure to do it all righty Will. That's 357 00:26:10.160 --> 00:26:12.160 a great day, you too, Thank you. I appreciate your call very 358 00:26:12.240 --> 00:26:18.000 much. Yeah, that getting ahead of those weeds is really really important because 359 00:26:18.799 --> 00:26:23.200 it's easier to prevent a weed than it is to kill it once it's up 360 00:26:23.279 --> 00:26:27.519 and growing. Okay, that is just it's just a fact. So when 361 00:26:27.599 --> 00:26:30.599 we can prevent them, we want to do that. And the first way 362 00:26:30.640 --> 00:26:33.279 we prevent them is making a dense, healthy lawn. That is very important, 363 00:26:33.319 --> 00:26:37.359 a dense, healthy lawn, and that's done by proper mow, water 364 00:26:37.480 --> 00:26:41.960 and fertilized. That's why I put that schedule out. You follow that schedule 365 00:26:42.119 --> 00:26:48.200 and you will create density that chokes out a lot of your weed problems that 366 00:26:48.279 --> 00:26:51.759 come from seed. And why not reduce it as much as you can, 367 00:26:51.880 --> 00:26:55.279 and then if something escapes, we know how to go in and control those 368 00:26:55.359 --> 00:26:59.079 things as well. If you haven't been up to ana plants in a while, 369 00:26:59.319 --> 00:27:03.880 you need to go. It is a load of color right now. 370 00:27:03.960 --> 00:27:07.960 I mean they got marigals in, they got palladiums in for those shady areas, 371 00:27:07.759 --> 00:27:11.119 and there's all kinds of other plants. And A and A Plants always 372 00:27:11.160 --> 00:27:15.720 has a good supply there on the east side of Montgomery on one oh five. 373 00:27:17.079 --> 00:27:21.200 Those of you in the neighborhoods around like Conroe there in your backyard, 374 00:27:21.799 --> 00:27:25.839 by the way, their crews also do some early work in your landscapes. 375 00:27:25.880 --> 00:27:29.000 If you need to get in get some cleanup and bed of beds and things, 376 00:27:29.400 --> 00:27:32.559 go give A and A a call. The number is nine three six 377 00:27:33.319 --> 00:27:37.599 five ninety seven. Fifty seventy and you can also get them online by going 378 00:27:37.680 --> 00:27:44.920 to Montgomery Nursery dot com. I'm gonna see here. Let's go ahead and 379 00:27:45.079 --> 00:27:48.279 we're going to go to Pearland and talk to Don. Hello, Don, 380 00:27:48.319 --> 00:27:49.480 I got a couple of minutes. But let's see if we can solve it. 381 00:27:51.440 --> 00:27:53.880 Yes, how you doing? I've got to put down the green up? 382 00:27:55.359 --> 00:28:00.400 And in some section on my laune is the lead. I mean, 383 00:28:00.599 --> 00:28:04.039 the grass is yellow and I would just wonder if I was to spray those 384 00:28:04.160 --> 00:28:08.279 area with the salt activated, would that help it? Well? It could? 385 00:28:08.799 --> 00:28:12.720 It could. In the spring, we often have yellowing due to iron 386 00:28:12.799 --> 00:28:17.720 deficiency, and as the soil is cooler, and when we get when it 387 00:28:17.799 --> 00:28:21.559 stays a little wet, we get some good rains and stuff, the grass 388 00:28:21.559 --> 00:28:25.400 will often show a yellowing that it then grows out of. I want you 389 00:28:25.480 --> 00:28:26.759 to go out and I want you to pick one of your blades of grass. 390 00:28:26.960 --> 00:28:30.559 Is this Saint Augustine done? Yes? It is. Pick a blade 391 00:28:30.599 --> 00:28:36.079 of grass that's looking yellow and hold it up to the sky and look at 392 00:28:36.119 --> 00:28:40.680 it up close. And if you see streaks vertical lines of yellow and green 393 00:28:40.960 --> 00:28:45.880 alternating across the blade, that's iron deficiency, so you can put on iron 394 00:28:45.920 --> 00:28:52.359 supplements. Medina product you're talking about is going to enhance microbial activity, which 395 00:28:52.720 --> 00:28:57.480 helps turn the iron that's available on organic matter into forms that the plant can 396 00:28:57.640 --> 00:29:00.920 use. And you can see benefit from that as well. It's not adding 397 00:29:02.000 --> 00:29:07.759 iron, it's it's helping make the soil more active to release the iron in 398 00:29:07.880 --> 00:29:11.599 this case, specifically the iron that your plants need. So those are two 399 00:29:11.680 --> 00:29:15.359 ways to go about it. A lot of times, if it's not too 400 00:29:15.440 --> 00:29:17.960 bad, if you wait a while, it's going to get better. But 401 00:29:18.079 --> 00:29:22.039 if you want to just hit the ground run and keep that grass looking good, 402 00:29:22.519 --> 00:29:26.839 you need to do those supplements. Okay, Dann, thank you, 403 00:29:26.960 --> 00:29:29.079 that's what I need to know. All right, don thank you. I 404 00:29:29.079 --> 00:29:33.319 appreciate your call. We're going to take a break here for another news break 405 00:29:33.680 --> 00:29:37.799 and our phone number seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four. 406 00:29:37.839 --> 00:29:41.640 I want to come back. We're going to go straight to Brian and James. 407 00:29:41.319 --> 00:29:45.759 Welcome back to Garden Line. Good to have you with us today. 408 00:29:47.039 --> 00:29:51.039 Enjoy talking about gardening and enjoy helping people have more success with their plants. 409 00:29:51.079 --> 00:29:52.160 That's what we're here for. You know, a number of years ago. 410 00:29:52.200 --> 00:29:56.359 I lived up in Willis and shout out to those listeners up in Willis, 411 00:29:56.799 --> 00:30:00.319 and I had bees in the backyard. I had I had a couple of 412 00:30:00.400 --> 00:30:04.359 hives and really just enjoyed the fascinating world of bees. Plus you get honey. 413 00:30:06.000 --> 00:30:08.079 If you have a garden you need pollination done, why not have a 414 00:30:08.119 --> 00:30:12.160 beehive in the backyard and you get the honey. And that is to learn 415 00:30:12.240 --> 00:30:15.480 how to do that is very important, and the Bee Supply will help you 416 00:30:15.640 --> 00:30:19.799 do exactly that. In fact, they've got classes, they're beginning bee keeping 417 00:30:21.160 --> 00:30:26.160 classes. They're underway. March ninth is the next class, which is today, 418 00:30:26.640 --> 00:30:29.759 So I'm not going to say next. It's going on today. March 419 00:30:29.839 --> 00:30:33.079 twenty third comes after that April thirteenth, and they have three more through the 420 00:30:33.519 --> 00:30:37.920 spring season where you can go in. You can get a number of hours 421 00:30:37.960 --> 00:30:41.720 of training, A lunch is involved in it, and you even get to 422 00:30:41.759 --> 00:30:47.200 go out and see do some handling of the beehives themselves. Suit up and 423 00:30:47.279 --> 00:30:52.039 go out there and do that. Thebsupply dot Com that's a company, thebesupply 424 00:30:52.160 --> 00:30:55.640 dot Com out in Dayton. For those of you who aren't interested in bees, 425 00:30:56.000 --> 00:30:59.400 you just need to go and look at the observation hive and maybe take 426 00:30:59.480 --> 00:31:03.279 one of their honey tours where they give you a lot of different samples of 427 00:31:03.359 --> 00:31:07.400 honey to try and you just learn about how it all works, and that 428 00:31:07.559 --> 00:31:11.200 I'm telling you, I promise you you'll be fascinated. It's incredibly educational, 429 00:31:11.319 --> 00:31:18.039 it's incredibly entertaining, and I just was blown away by the knowledge of the 430 00:31:18.079 --> 00:31:22.200 folks out at VB Supply in Dayton. Let's go now to Chapel Hill and 431 00:31:22.240 --> 00:31:26.079 we're going to talk to Brian. Hello, Brian, Good morning, Skip. 432 00:31:26.960 --> 00:31:30.799 I've got a question for you, and what I want to do is 433 00:31:30.880 --> 00:31:36.160 plant some native grass. I've got about two and a half acres and oh 434 00:31:36.480 --> 00:31:40.759 probably a third of it is long around the house, whereas is pretty much 435 00:31:40.839 --> 00:31:45.599 pasture, well not that it's weeds. And so I want to plant some 436 00:31:45.759 --> 00:31:49.319 native grass and get that to grow and mow it a couple of times a 437 00:31:49.440 --> 00:31:52.880 year. But I'm not sure how to go about it. I don't know 438 00:31:52.960 --> 00:31:59.039 if I need to till it up or disc that area up, or can 439 00:31:59.240 --> 00:32:01.880 do is broadcast it out and will it take hold well? Getting it to 440 00:32:04.200 --> 00:32:07.400 take hold with a real thick stand of not just the grasses, but all 441 00:32:07.440 --> 00:32:09.920 the dead material on top of the ground, it's hard to get the seeds 442 00:32:09.960 --> 00:32:15.079 down there to the soil with sunlight. If you could, if you could 443 00:32:15.599 --> 00:32:21.839 mow down the any height of weeds and grass and then do a light tilling 444 00:32:22.000 --> 00:32:24.160 now and then throw the sieds down, that's what I would do. Do 445 00:32:24.200 --> 00:32:30.880 you already have a seed mix that you're planning? No? I don't. 446 00:32:30.920 --> 00:32:36.160 He's been kind of looking around. Yeah, are you wanting Are you wanting 447 00:32:36.240 --> 00:32:43.200 a pasture look or do you want something a little a little more managed, 448 00:32:43.200 --> 00:32:49.319 a little bit lower rate or lower height. I'm sorry, Well that's where 449 00:32:49.480 --> 00:32:52.160 we get into a confert with my wife. I like more of a pasture. 450 00:32:52.359 --> 00:32:55.759 Okay, well, I'll let y'all work that out. There is something 451 00:32:55.839 --> 00:33:00.920 called the South Southeast Texas Native Seed Mix, and you ought to consider that 452 00:33:01.119 --> 00:33:07.000 one. Now you're actually up in Chapel Hill, So another thing you could 453 00:33:07.079 --> 00:33:13.079 do is call the Native American Seed. They're out in Junction, Texas, 454 00:33:13.200 --> 00:33:17.039 and they have blends for every region of the state and they will take time. 455 00:33:17.640 --> 00:33:22.119 You can go on their website too and learn about it. Native text, 456 00:33:22.279 --> 00:33:28.359 Native American Seed, Native American sled in Junction, Texas and I'm just 457 00:33:28.480 --> 00:33:30.640 going to send you to them where you're going to learn a whole lot more. 458 00:33:30.720 --> 00:33:34.480 And also if you choose to buy some seed. Hey, Brian, 459 00:33:34.599 --> 00:33:37.759 thank you, I need to run another call here. Appreciate that very much. 460 00:33:38.200 --> 00:33:42.119 For those of you in the tom Ball area, your hometown feed stores 461 00:33:42.200 --> 00:33:45.559 D and D, they're on the west side as you head twenty nine to 462 00:33:45.559 --> 00:33:49.119 twenty west, they're right out there where they're loaded up with plants right now. 463 00:33:49.839 --> 00:33:52.559 And at D and D you're going to find the fertilizers I talk about 464 00:33:52.599 --> 00:33:54.599 here on garden Line. They've got the microlife, they've got the nitropos for 465 00:33:54.720 --> 00:34:00.759 example. They just have the whole nine yards everything you need, including composts 466 00:34:00.839 --> 00:34:07.799 like airloom SEL's compost and the veggie and herbex from Marylom soils. So there's 467 00:34:07.839 --> 00:34:10.360 always something happening. And in the spring they get their baby chicks in. 468 00:34:10.519 --> 00:34:14.480 For those of you who want to try the backyard chickens, you just need 469 00:34:14.559 --> 00:34:17.639 to go there. Just go to D and Defeat two eight one three five 470 00:34:17.800 --> 00:34:23.760 one seventy one forty four to eight one three five one seventy one forty four. 471 00:34:24.280 --> 00:34:28.800 I think you will be very impressed with the place with the selection that 472 00:34:28.920 --> 00:34:32.920 they have, and it's just I always enjoy going by and visiting with Jeff 473 00:34:32.960 --> 00:34:36.840 and the folks at d and Defeat. I want to go out now to 474 00:34:37.039 --> 00:34:40.159 West Chase and we're going to talk to James. Hello, James, Hello, 475 00:34:40.400 --> 00:34:50.679 Skip. I'm using Southwest Fertilizer fifteen five ten fast release and slow release. 476 00:34:51.880 --> 00:34:57.119 For somehow I mixed up the bags and I put out the slowly release 477 00:34:57.280 --> 00:35:02.480 first instead of putting a fast out. Okay, so how long before I 478 00:35:02.639 --> 00:35:08.360 need to let the other one sit before the before I can put the fast 479 00:35:08.360 --> 00:35:12.639 release back on. Yeah, no, I would. I would just hold 480 00:35:12.679 --> 00:35:15.320 off. You're okay, you're okay for now. If you wanted to put 481 00:35:15.960 --> 00:35:19.840 just a little bit a very light application of fast release, you could do 482 00:35:19.960 --> 00:35:22.480 that. I don't know how heavy you did the slow release. No, 483 00:35:22.639 --> 00:35:28.760 no, no, it was a regular uh covering five five thousand score feet. 484 00:35:28.880 --> 00:35:31.679 Okay, it's already down, all right, Okay, So now maya 485 00:35:31.920 --> 00:35:36.800 is well, when can I put the slow lease? I would give it 486 00:35:36.840 --> 00:35:40.280 a couple of months and see how it's looking. Certainly within three months that 487 00:35:40.440 --> 00:35:44.840 you could use the fast release in the summer. What you're going to do 488 00:35:45.000 --> 00:35:49.800 is split it and do a half rate, and then about four weeks later, 489 00:35:49.920 --> 00:35:52.920 do another half rate. So you're you're creating a slow release by splitting 490 00:35:53.000 --> 00:35:58.119 up a fast release into more more than one application. Uh, that's a 491 00:35:58.199 --> 00:36:01.880 question. You also may just want to Bob at Southwest and ask him what 492 00:36:02.119 --> 00:36:07.639 is what does he expect the release time on his slow release to be? 493 00:36:07.639 --> 00:36:10.480 So he could he could tell you that better because he off the top of 494 00:36:10.559 --> 00:36:15.159 my head, I can't remember what kind of forms of nitrogen does it have 495 00:36:15.280 --> 00:36:23.280 in it? Oh? It's five? Right, Okay, Well I would 496 00:36:23.360 --> 00:36:27.639 encourage you to do that. I think that pretty well. Don't worry about 497 00:36:27.679 --> 00:36:30.559 too much anyway you go, you're gonna be okay, but you'll get some 498 00:36:30.679 --> 00:36:37.440 benefit. Well, I just wondered, so please explain to me one more 499 00:36:37.480 --> 00:36:43.199 time. What when to release it? I mean put the fast release. 500 00:36:43.320 --> 00:36:47.800 Well, no fast release already on there. That's okay. You've got me 501 00:36:47.880 --> 00:36:55.519 turned around. Now if you put the fast release down, then so you 502 00:36:55.639 --> 00:37:00.400 put the slow release down slowly sound first. Okay. So what I'd do 503 00:37:00.679 --> 00:37:04.320 is I'd wait two months and then I would put the fast release down. 504 00:37:04.519 --> 00:37:08.480 I'd split the application in two. So you were going to put seven pounds 505 00:37:08.519 --> 00:37:13.760 per thousand square feet for a full application, I would put about three pounds 506 00:37:13.960 --> 00:37:15.719 per thousand square feet or three and a half if you can get it down 507 00:37:15.760 --> 00:37:19.519 that low, and then wait about a month to put the other three and 508 00:37:19.559 --> 00:37:22.440 a half on it, and you'll give a gradual release. Hey, I 509 00:37:22.480 --> 00:37:23.719 got a run, but I do, thank you, and good luck with 510 00:37:23.760 --> 00:37:27.559 that. But do call Bob there. He can help you with that. 511 00:37:28.519 --> 00:37:31.440 It is hummingbird season. You got to get out there and get those hummingbirds 512 00:37:31.519 --> 00:37:36.159 taken care of. They have the ruby throat. They come here for a 513 00:37:36.239 --> 00:37:39.239 while, rest up because they just had to cross the gulf to get here. 514 00:37:39.639 --> 00:37:44.480 So you want to get your feeders out right now. It's also nesting 515 00:37:44.599 --> 00:37:47.519 season, so do you have your boxes cleaned up and ready for them for 516 00:37:47.719 --> 00:37:52.320 birds to nest? In? Pick up the Nesting super Blend at Wildbirds Unlimited. 517 00:37:52.440 --> 00:37:57.280 Wild Birds Unlimited. It's easy to find one. Just go to wb 518 00:37:57.960 --> 00:38:04.280 U dot com, WBU dot forward slash Houston and you'll find the locations of 519 00:38:04.320 --> 00:38:07.519 all the wild birds around here and the nesting Superblind. Write that down Nesting 520 00:38:07.599 --> 00:38:13.960 Superblin. It's loaded with proteins and oils and the carbs that they need. 521 00:38:14.320 --> 00:38:19.039 For when they're raising new sets of young very very important to do, and 522 00:38:19.199 --> 00:38:21.960 boy is it ever an important time to get out there and start feeding, 523 00:38:22.039 --> 00:38:23.519 taking care of those songbirds. Make sure they got water too. By the 524 00:38:23.559 --> 00:38:29.840 way, I'm going to be out of take Anti Rosenporium today after the show. 525 00:38:30.119 --> 00:38:31.559 I'm making a bee line up there. I'll be there at noon now 526 00:38:31.599 --> 00:38:37.119 ANTIQ Rosenporium. By the way, the website's antiqu rosenporium dot com. They 527 00:38:37.679 --> 00:38:40.280 aren't just roses, they are roses on boy do they ever have a selection 528 00:38:40.559 --> 00:38:45.320 of the old roses. And they're even developing roses of their own. They're 529 00:38:45.360 --> 00:38:52.079 actively pursuing that right now. But today is the spring celebration and tomorrow I'll 530 00:38:52.119 --> 00:38:54.800 be there today from twelve to two. First, I'm going to do a 531 00:38:54.960 --> 00:38:59.920 talk on beneficial insects. I hope you'll come and listen to that. It's 532 00:39:00.119 --> 00:39:02.559 actually going to be with pictures and slides and I even have a little bit 533 00:39:02.599 --> 00:39:07.000 of video and stuff. It's pretty cool. You'll like it. You'll learn 534 00:39:07.079 --> 00:39:09.480 all about what are the beneficials that you already have, and how do you 535 00:39:09.559 --> 00:39:14.480 take care of them and why are they so important? And then I'll be 536 00:39:14.519 --> 00:39:17.519 at a table, and I'm gonna be given away some big old jars of 537 00:39:19.519 --> 00:39:24.119 Microlafe fertilizer. So probably about ever fifteen minutes given a jar away. I've 538 00:39:24.159 --> 00:39:29.719 got some little samples to there, bring me some pictures, bring me some 539 00:39:29.880 --> 00:39:34.519 plants and ziplock bags that have issues or that you want identify it and we'll 540 00:39:34.599 --> 00:39:37.880 talk about that. And I'm want to tell you something. Forget the fact 541 00:39:37.920 --> 00:39:43.920 that I'm talking. Just going to Antique Rosing Forium is a wonderful thing to 542 00:39:44.000 --> 00:39:46.639 do this afternoon. I hope you'll come out. I look forward to seeing 543 00:39:46.719 --> 00:39:50.599 you, all of you up there in the Brian College Station area, the 544 00:39:50.679 --> 00:39:55.760 Navisota area, all the region Brenham and all that whole region around antiq Rosing 545 00:39:55.840 --> 00:39:59.400 for him. You got to come out and see the place. If you 546 00:39:59.440 --> 00:40:02.159 only give them a call nine seventy nine, eight three six fifty five forty 547 00:40:02.239 --> 00:40:07.079 eight, but just come out, come out and see for yourself. Let's 548 00:40:07.119 --> 00:40:09.000 meet. I'd like to meet the people who listen to garden Line. Look 549 00:40:09.039 --> 00:40:19.000 forward to seeing you. Hope you can make it. Katie R. H. 550 00:40:19.119 --> 00:40:22.840 Garden Line does not necessarily endorse any of the products or services advertised on 551 00:40:22.880 --> 00:40:29.360 this program. Welcome to kt r H Garden Line with Skip Rictor. It's 552 00:40:30.280 --> 00:40:52.559 crazy gas a trim. Just watch him as gods many spotzy gasms come. 553 00:40:53.400 --> 00:40:58.519 Welcome to garden Line. Got to have you back. We are talking about 554 00:40:58.760 --> 00:41:01.000 all things gardening, and I tell you, if you are not a gardener 555 00:41:01.039 --> 00:41:06.760 in the spring, I don't know what to say. I mean, they 556 00:41:07.920 --> 00:41:10.440 be a gardener the spring. How about that? For folks that have never 557 00:41:10.559 --> 00:41:15.320 tried gardening before, who have tried and felt like you failed, that's why 558 00:41:15.360 --> 00:41:19.599 we're here to help. And you do not have to fail at gardening. 559 00:41:19.800 --> 00:41:21.679 In fact, I would say, you don't fail a gardening, you just 560 00:41:21.760 --> 00:41:25.320 give up. Don't don't give up because it's always a new start. It's 561 00:41:25.519 --> 00:41:30.599 just information, Like they say, just add water, Just add water to 562 00:41:30.719 --> 00:41:35.239 plants. Just add information to the gardener. That's what turns the brown thumb 563 00:41:35.320 --> 00:41:38.840 green. Is good information. Planning the right varieties. What are they planning 564 00:41:39.400 --> 00:41:45.360 them correctly? How do you do that using nutrients and water wisely and in 565 00:41:45.480 --> 00:41:49.480 the right way. We can talk to you about that, making sure you 566 00:41:49.559 --> 00:41:52.400 have mulches. You know, there's a lot of aspects of gardening. There's 567 00:41:52.679 --> 00:41:57.440 just a little bit of information turns the brown thumb green, and we're going 568 00:41:57.480 --> 00:42:00.199 to try to turn your brown thumb green today. By the way, one 569 00:42:00.280 --> 00:42:04.079 good way to turn your brown thum green is to go out to Warren Southern 570 00:42:04.159 --> 00:42:08.559 Gardens. They have an excellent supply, excellent supply plants. It is spring, 571 00:42:08.800 --> 00:42:14.559 and it is definitely spring out at Warren Southern Gardens. The excuse me. 572 00:42:14.920 --> 00:42:20.239 The place just looks like a showplace with so much beautiful color, just 573 00:42:20.679 --> 00:42:23.760 gorgeous, gorgeous colors. All kinds of plants that you would want they're going 574 00:42:23.800 --> 00:42:29.079 to happen there. They specialize in that they've got your heirloom soils, for 575 00:42:29.199 --> 00:42:34.320 example, to give you top quality mixes to grow your plants in. They've 576 00:42:34.400 --> 00:42:38.320 got a nice selection of some of the spring flowering trees, of the shrubs 577 00:42:38.360 --> 00:42:44.000 that you would want a plant. It's just the place to go. I'll 578 00:42:44.119 --> 00:42:45.639 just make it real simple. It's just the place to go. Out there 579 00:42:45.840 --> 00:42:50.599 in Kingwood. You've got warrants and you've got Kingwood Garden Center as well, 580 00:42:51.000 --> 00:42:54.400 and both of them are places you want to be at. They're both open 581 00:42:54.599 --> 00:42:59.320 seven days a week, so that makes it also very very convenient. I 582 00:42:59.360 --> 00:43:02.119 hope you go as them. If you don't even live out in the Kingwood 583 00:43:02.119 --> 00:43:06.599 area. You need to go see Warren. Southern Guards is just outstanding. 584 00:43:06.960 --> 00:43:10.239 We're gonna go now to a task Asida and talk to Sandy. Hello, 585 00:43:10.400 --> 00:43:17.320 Sandy, good morning. One quick question for you. I used Nitrofoss triple 586 00:43:17.400 --> 00:43:22.760 thirteen on my yard and I've been trying to get it at ACE and they 587 00:43:22.880 --> 00:43:28.559 keep telling me that their supplier, the warehouse, is out. Okay. 588 00:43:28.679 --> 00:43:35.679 Is there another store or garden center that I can find this at? Well? 589 00:43:36.559 --> 00:43:39.320 Probably? Uh, Sandy, I want to talk you out of using 590 00:43:39.360 --> 00:43:45.039 triple thirteen. Okay, the grass. If you chopped your grass blades off 591 00:43:45.119 --> 00:43:49.000 and sent them to the lab and said what's in it, they're going to 592 00:43:49.039 --> 00:43:52.719 tell you there's a three one two or a four to one two ratio of 593 00:43:52.840 --> 00:43:57.519 nutrients. Triple thirteen is a one one one. You get a lot of 594 00:43:57.639 --> 00:44:01.719 extra phosphorus that you don't need, and so I would switch over Nitrofus. 595 00:44:02.280 --> 00:44:07.480 They have their Imperial, which is a spring greenoup product. It works very 596 00:44:07.639 --> 00:44:12.800 very well. When we get into the warmer season, we'll start using their 597 00:44:12.880 --> 00:44:16.599 Superturf and that's kind of a let's say a four to one two ratio, 598 00:44:16.719 --> 00:44:21.760 which is good. Lots of nitrogen in there. It's a slow release. 599 00:44:22.280 --> 00:44:25.960 So right now you want to look for the nitrofus red bag that is the 600 00:44:27.039 --> 00:44:30.840 Imperial, and you want to look later for the silver bag. As we 601 00:44:30.880 --> 00:44:34.760 get a little further in. If you go online to my website Gardening with 602 00:44:35.320 --> 00:44:38.880 Skip, that's me Gardening with Skip dot com, there is a lawn care 603 00:44:39.480 --> 00:44:44.199 chart from January to December. What do you do? And it guides you 604 00:44:44.320 --> 00:44:46.199 in all of this stuff. It'll answer questions you didn't even know you had. 605 00:44:47.280 --> 00:44:52.440 Okay, so you recommend nitrofos in imperial, now, yes, I 606 00:44:52.480 --> 00:44:57.039 would do the Imperial as the early green up, and then later you're going 607 00:44:57.079 --> 00:45:00.840 to go to the superturf. That's a silver bag. But we'll that's on 608 00:45:00.920 --> 00:45:06.199 my stone. I would probably start that about if you do if you do 609 00:45:06.440 --> 00:45:12.679 the greenup now, I would probably say mid April, I would go ahead 610 00:45:12.679 --> 00:45:15.519 and start with a slow release. You could wait till late April, since 611 00:45:15.559 --> 00:45:19.079 you're getting a little bit later start on the green up. But either way 612 00:45:19.239 --> 00:45:22.000 is fine. Yeah, okay, okay, I appreciate it very much. 613 00:45:22.000 --> 00:45:25.599 All Right, Sandy, thank you. I hope that helps. Let's see, 614 00:45:25.760 --> 00:45:30.239 I wanted to I wanted to go out. Let's do this. I'm 615 00:45:30.280 --> 00:45:35.159 going to hold off just a second. On a call we were talking about, 616 00:45:35.320 --> 00:45:37.840 you know, where to find things and where to find products and whatnot. 617 00:45:37.159 --> 00:45:42.920 Southwest Fertilizer for those of you anywhere on the southwest region of town, 618 00:45:43.039 --> 00:45:46.800 even outside of town. I know people that drive from pretty far away away, 619 00:45:47.159 --> 00:45:52.760 like even north of Houston to come down to Southwest Fertilizer because when you 620 00:45:52.880 --> 00:45:55.559 go there, they're to have everything that you need. Everything that you need, 621 00:45:57.239 --> 00:46:00.480 and I mean that every fertilizer I talk about, and or every time 622 00:46:00.639 --> 00:46:02.920 we answer a question on how to kill a bug, how to kill a 623 00:46:04.360 --> 00:46:07.679 how to control a disease, how to kill a weed. They have all 624 00:46:07.760 --> 00:46:09.880 of that and more, and they have knowledgeable staff. So pull up a 625 00:46:09.920 --> 00:46:13.599 weed from your yard, are two or three, put them in a bag, 626 00:46:14.079 --> 00:46:16.199 go see Bob and his team at Southwest. Bob and Aaron and the 627 00:46:16.239 --> 00:46:20.440 whole team there. They know what they're talking about and they will take you 628 00:46:20.559 --> 00:46:22.360 right to the product and tell you how to use it. And that is 629 00:46:22.719 --> 00:46:28.519 very important if you're an organic gardener. They have all of the above fertilizers 630 00:46:28.679 --> 00:46:35.400 and pest control in an organic form. Southwest Fertilizer dot com. I'm telling 631 00:46:35.440 --> 00:46:37.119 you, if they don't have it, you don't need it, and that 632 00:46:37.480 --> 00:46:43.159 I'm serious about that. That is a fact. Let's go up to Cleveland 633 00:46:43.280 --> 00:46:46.159 now and we're going to talk to Sonny. Hello, Sonny, Yes, 634 00:46:46.440 --> 00:46:51.800 good morning. How are you doing Goodil is a particular show. I got 635 00:46:51.840 --> 00:46:55.320 a question for you. I bought some roses off a couple of stores and 636 00:46:55.559 --> 00:46:59.679 they left them in the you know those pots that comes with it, and 637 00:47:00.000 --> 00:47:04.239 already producing flower buds and everything else, and I wanted to plant them in 638 00:47:04.280 --> 00:47:08.079 the ground. Do you really recommend a rosset soil or can I just buy 639 00:47:08.119 --> 00:47:14.599 a regular soil and put some rose fertilizer. Well, you would want to 640 00:47:14.719 --> 00:47:19.800 use a fertilizer, but you would also want to make sure and get a 641 00:47:19.960 --> 00:47:23.960 good roast soil to plant. And you are just a stone's throw away from 642 00:47:24.079 --> 00:47:28.880 Airline Soils, which is up in the Porter, Texas area. Uh, 643 00:47:29.079 --> 00:47:34.000 and they bag soil uh and sell it all over the region. And so 644 00:47:34.159 --> 00:47:39.119 you're you're not going to have any trouble finding a quality rose soil from from 645 00:47:39.119 --> 00:47:44.239 the Porter Texas. Yeah, they're they're down in Porter, but they they 646 00:47:44.519 --> 00:47:47.760 sell in a wide variety of areas. I don't know a supplier in Cleveland, 647 00:47:49.159 --> 00:47:52.159 but I do know as you drive down the interstate, you're going to 648 00:47:52.239 --> 00:47:57.079 come to Porter and you're going to have a couple of locations there where you 649 00:47:57.199 --> 00:48:01.599 can find, uh, the the rose soil. All right, thank you, 650 00:48:01.719 --> 00:48:05.159 right, you take care? All right, thank you, Sonny. 651 00:48:05.199 --> 00:48:10.639 I appreciate appreciate your call. You know, the airloom soils. It's they 652 00:48:10.840 --> 00:48:15.440 just have so many things. If you need, I mean, what do 653 00:48:15.519 --> 00:48:16.639 you need? Let me just put it that way, what do you need? 654 00:48:17.280 --> 00:48:21.480 Do you need leaf mole compost in bulk? They've got it. In 655 00:48:21.559 --> 00:48:25.679 fact, they just picked up a new site where you can buy bulk leaf 656 00:48:25.760 --> 00:48:30.840 mole compost from heirloom soil. It's up in the Tombol area. It's it's 657 00:48:30.880 --> 00:48:34.679 called Beyond Paradise Nursery on huff Smith Corville. So if you're in Tomball, 658 00:48:34.800 --> 00:48:37.679 just go about a mile or two northeast and you're there and they got the 659 00:48:37.760 --> 00:48:42.880 bulk of it, so you can get quality leaf moll compost. That's the 660 00:48:42.920 --> 00:48:45.079 one we use for for top dressing our lawns. That's the one you can 661 00:48:45.119 --> 00:48:49.000 put on your garden as a malt. That's the one you can put in 662 00:48:49.079 --> 00:48:52.280 the soil and mix it in Airloom soils has all those quality products, and 663 00:48:52.960 --> 00:48:57.239 the stuff is made out there in the Porter, Texas area, but it's 664 00:48:57.320 --> 00:49:02.000 sold by bag in a wide variety a multitude of places all over town. 665 00:49:02.760 --> 00:49:06.280 I'm gonna have to take a break right here, and when I come back, 666 00:49:06.360 --> 00:49:07.639 Carolyn, you'll be the first up. Our number is seven one, 667 00:49:07.760 --> 00:49:14.280 three, two, two fifty eight seventy four. Welcome back to guard Line. 668 00:49:14.599 --> 00:49:17.360 Thank you for listening today. We're as grateful when you listen to guard 669 00:49:17.440 --> 00:49:22.400 Line because it gives an opportunity to reach more people. And my goal is 670 00:49:22.920 --> 00:49:27.800 how can we make Houston even more of a gardening paradise. We already have 671 00:49:28.119 --> 00:49:34.039 so dead got many wonderful nurseries that I say any major city in America ought 672 00:49:34.039 --> 00:49:36.880 to be jealous because you go north, south, east, west, central 673 00:49:36.960 --> 00:49:40.039 and Houston and you've got a destination nursery. I mean, you really do, 674 00:49:40.679 --> 00:49:45.119 and that's amazing. We live down south where it gets really hot and 675 00:49:45.159 --> 00:49:47.840 where it can be muggy, and where our souls can be like a clay, 676 00:49:49.440 --> 00:49:52.800 uh and on and on yep, and that's that's the way it is 677 00:49:52.920 --> 00:49:55.639 here. But we can grow a lot of stuff. There are plants that 678 00:49:57.039 --> 00:50:00.039 like the conditions we have, and there are ways to help plants get through 679 00:50:00.119 --> 00:50:05.239 the conditions we have. And so there is no reason why your yard shouldn't 680 00:50:05.280 --> 00:50:09.480 be green and beautiful, while your flower beds are full of color, while 681 00:50:09.519 --> 00:50:14.239 your home just pop. While there's no reason why your home shouldn't just pop 682 00:50:14.440 --> 00:50:16.559 when people drive by and see it. And then the backyard, the herbs, 683 00:50:16.639 --> 00:50:20.960 the flowers, the vegetables, all those kinds of things as well, 684 00:50:21.280 --> 00:50:24.480 you can have that right here now if you are doing any kind of a 685 00:50:24.599 --> 00:50:31.440 transplanting and I'm gonna be I was talking about having to pot up some house 686 00:50:31.519 --> 00:50:36.360 plants and also pot up some plants that are going to go outside for color. 687 00:50:37.320 --> 00:50:42.760 The folks at Nelson Fertilizer have a product called nutri Star Genesis. Now 688 00:50:42.840 --> 00:50:46.440 it's a six one three fertilizer. It's got beneficial bacteria, the endo and 689 00:50:46.519 --> 00:50:51.880 ectomycorrhizal kind of fungi that really helped the roots take up nutrients. It's got 690 00:50:52.000 --> 00:50:55.719 humates to help with the soil. It's just it enhances a biology the soil. 691 00:50:55.800 --> 00:51:00.239 And it's got that six one three. It's a good ratio for early 692 00:51:00.360 --> 00:51:04.679 growth six to one three nutri Star Genesis Transplant Mix. So how do you 693 00:51:04.840 --> 00:51:07.039 use it? Well, you take your plant that you're going to transplant, 694 00:51:07.119 --> 00:51:10.760 You go to your container and the soil you're going to use and the container. 695 00:51:12.400 --> 00:51:15.559 You just mix the nutri Star Genesis into it and then set your plant 696 00:51:15.599 --> 00:51:19.440 in and it hits the ground running. I did it with some vegetables this 697 00:51:19.480 --> 00:51:23.719 spring. Amazing, amazing results. You could put it in the soil and 698 00:51:23.840 --> 00:51:29.719 mix it in with the soil as well around a plant that you're putting in. 699 00:51:30.519 --> 00:51:34.719 But I'm telling you, anytime you are going to be using potting soil 700 00:51:34.800 --> 00:51:39.559 to grow things, throw a little Nutristar Genesis Transplant Mix six one three in 701 00:51:39.719 --> 00:51:44.880 there and you'll see what I'm talking about. It is excellent, excellent in 702 00:51:45.239 --> 00:51:47.920 the plant response. I want to go out to Southwest Houston and talk to 703 00:51:49.000 --> 00:51:53.760 Carolyn. Hello, Carolyn, good morning. I've gotten my feese in from 704 00:51:53.880 --> 00:52:00.840 Baker Creek and on the bush beans, they recommend six session planting. I've 705 00:52:00.880 --> 00:52:07.679 already done the overnight soaking. Then well those seeds that have been soaked keep 706 00:52:07.840 --> 00:52:12.280 for another couple of weeks so that I could plant half of them now and 707 00:52:12.400 --> 00:52:17.000 half. Then No, when you do the soaking. What happens is it 708 00:52:17.320 --> 00:52:23.840 initiates the germination response. Biochemicals inside the seed start to move around and and 709 00:52:23.960 --> 00:52:29.320 here it goes. And once that starts, that seedling cannot dry out again. 710 00:52:30.159 --> 00:52:32.559 And you can't just leave it in water. So you got to plant 711 00:52:32.599 --> 00:52:37.320 what you got or find some of the restorm. Okay, okay, Oh, 712 00:52:37.519 --> 00:52:45.960 and you suggested being being trying something new. Yes, so I'm planting 713 00:52:45.199 --> 00:52:52.519 tree okra. Okay, Oh is that from Baker creeting? Is that from 714 00:52:52.559 --> 00:52:54.880 Baker cree correct? All right, well it's going to get big and that 715 00:52:55.159 --> 00:52:58.360 that Okra. I want to tell you this, Carolyn, is going to 716 00:52:58.400 --> 00:53:00.800 be a little slower to come into. It takes a little longer than some 717 00:53:00.960 --> 00:53:06.719 of our other varieties. But if you want something fun new novel, we'll 718 00:53:06.800 --> 00:53:09.320 give it a try to reocra. Yeah, it's a it's a it's a 719 00:53:09.440 --> 00:53:15.760 type from Africa that they sell. All right, well, good for you, 720 00:53:15.559 --> 00:53:22.440 good for you. Try something new. Yeah, that is that's one 721 00:53:22.480 --> 00:53:28.360 of the fun parts of gardening. Hey, when we think spring and lawns, 722 00:53:28.400 --> 00:53:30.800 we think about getting them fertilized. Right, Well, I won't tell 723 00:53:30.800 --> 00:53:32.800 you what else you need to think about. You need to think about your 724 00:53:34.000 --> 00:53:37.760 micronutrient applications. Now, you can do this anytime of the year. As 725 00:53:37.760 --> 00:53:42.400 amias product I'm talking about. You can put it on now, you can 726 00:53:42.480 --> 00:53:44.880 put it on in summer. You can put it on January if you want. 727 00:53:45.039 --> 00:53:46.320 Because what it's going to do, it's gonna move down to the soil 728 00:53:46.800 --> 00:53:52.639 where the roots are and it's going to provide that tiny bit of essential trace 729 00:53:52.719 --> 00:54:00.400 minerals. All plants need around twenty different nutrient elements, and how many numbers 730 00:54:00.440 --> 00:54:04.400 are in a fertilizer bag typically three, So what about the other seventeen? 731 00:54:04.679 --> 00:54:07.000 You want to make sure the plant that there's plenty for the plants there, 732 00:54:07.079 --> 00:54:10.440 and that's what asmite does. You can go to ASMIT Texas dot com to 733 00:54:10.519 --> 00:54:14.000 find out more about it. The only thing I want you to remember, 734 00:54:14.320 --> 00:54:16.599 or the last thing I want you to remember about it is don't put it 735 00:54:16.639 --> 00:54:22.400 in the same hopper as your fertilizer or the same hopper as your like barricade, 736 00:54:22.760 --> 00:54:27.199 primergent or something like that. You want to put it in separately in 737 00:54:27.320 --> 00:54:30.960 an application. You can do it the same day, immediately after, immediately 738 00:54:30.039 --> 00:54:36.159 before, but just put it in its own application so that when you do 739 00:54:36.280 --> 00:54:38.360 the setting. You get the right amount out because it doesn't take much. 740 00:54:38.440 --> 00:54:44.519 A forty four pound bag will cover six to twelve thousand square feet. It's 741 00:54:44.800 --> 00:54:50.960 trace minerals, but it's essential minerals. Let's go to Marcy in northwest Houston. 742 00:54:51.000 --> 00:54:53.719 Now, hello, Marcy, Hi, did good morning? I have 743 00:54:53.840 --> 00:55:00.920 a potion. I bought the tenacity and the hervis Do I put that only 744 00:55:01.079 --> 00:55:07.039 on on a club clover weed or I can use it for any other weed 745 00:55:07.480 --> 00:55:12.280 on my grass? Tell me again what the herbicide is? It is? 746 00:55:12.480 --> 00:55:22.840 Uh? One is tenacity tensity? Okay, tenacity and the herb herbicide is 747 00:55:23.239 --> 00:55:28.639 I don't know really the name of I know, I just you just put 748 00:55:28.719 --> 00:55:32.079 it together with the blue ink and you can spray, you know, the 749 00:55:32.159 --> 00:55:37.000 weeds. Okay. Uh. Well, I don't know how you got a 750 00:55:37.039 --> 00:55:38.320 hold of that one, but you don't have to tell me on the airth 751 00:55:39.239 --> 00:55:45.480 But that is a that is a typically a commercial herbicide application. Yeah. 752 00:55:45.800 --> 00:55:52.280 Yeah, and so uh, let's see, you're gonna let me think about 753 00:55:52.320 --> 00:55:57.119 this, man. It's basically going to control your your broad leaf weeds pretty 754 00:55:57.159 --> 00:56:01.079 effectively. Yeah, and so you would want to do that, I would 755 00:56:01.119 --> 00:56:05.840 do it. I would do it right away, because the weeds you have 756 00:56:06.119 --> 00:56:12.400 now are cool season broad leaves. Later in the summer we'll have warm season 757 00:56:12.519 --> 00:56:15.480 broad leaves that are big enough to see and deal with water. Water you 758 00:56:17.239 --> 00:56:21.360 okay, I spray them weddy, Yeah, all right? Well what what 759 00:56:21.639 --> 00:56:25.119 what? You sprayed? The tenacity? Uh huh? Okay, all right, 760 00:56:25.320 --> 00:56:30.039 well there there you go. You should be But I can use it 761 00:56:30.159 --> 00:56:34.920 in in other weeds. There are winter weeds. Yes, what you see 762 00:56:34.960 --> 00:56:37.960 now is winter weeds are blooming and setting seed right now. The summer weeds 763 00:56:38.000 --> 00:56:42.400 you don't see them, but they're germinating right now. They are germinating. 764 00:56:42.800 --> 00:56:46.119 And then when they get big enough that that you would be able to spray 765 00:56:46.199 --> 00:56:50.760 something on them, or you could just use a pre emergent herbicide to prevent 766 00:56:50.840 --> 00:56:55.039 them from growing and establishing in the first place. And that okay, okay, 767 00:56:55.760 --> 00:57:00.280 go ahead. Let me ask you this that the flower they're coming down 768 00:57:00.400 --> 00:57:05.599 from the oak tree, can I leave it on the ground and needs a 769 00:57:05.679 --> 00:57:07.559 quick soil? I have to pick it up? No, don't pick it 770 00:57:07.679 --> 00:57:13.159 up, Nobody. God does not pick up the oak catkins in the forest. 771 00:57:13.719 --> 00:57:16.559 It's nature, right. It just falls to the ground and it makes 772 00:57:16.639 --> 00:57:20.760 the sol Richer. Don't worry about it at all. They're a little bit 773 00:57:20.800 --> 00:57:23.239 of an annoyance on your sidewalks and stuff. But no, no problem using 774 00:57:23.639 --> 00:57:27.760 Marcy. I hope that helps. Thank you very much. I appreciate you 775 00:57:27.880 --> 00:57:30.880 very much. Appreciate your call. Yeah, we're talking about killing weeds that 776 00:57:30.920 --> 00:57:36.199 are already existing. Nitropus has a fifteen to five ton which is a fast 777 00:57:36.280 --> 00:57:38.519 release product. Now is the time to put it on, but also has 778 00:57:38.599 --> 00:57:44.320 trimec in it, and the trimeach gets on the weeds that are broad leaf 779 00:57:44.519 --> 00:57:47.480 and it kills broad leaf weeds that are growing in your lawn. And that's 780 00:57:47.519 --> 00:57:52.519 the cool season weeds. Water the lawn slightly, just enough to wet the 781 00:57:52.639 --> 00:57:59.719 leaves and then put the product, the Nitropuss with the trimec out on. 782 00:58:00.599 --> 00:58:04.480 The particles will stick to the weeds, they'll move into the weeds and that 783 00:58:04.559 --> 00:58:07.920 will kill them. It's a teal colored bag, so a teal color bag. 784 00:58:08.519 --> 00:58:14.239 It's a nitrofoss product. And then after a day or two, after 785 00:58:14.360 --> 00:58:16.360 you've done that, go ahead and water the lawn with about a half inch 786 00:58:16.400 --> 00:58:22.920 of water to move the fertilizer and the product it's up on down into the 787 00:58:22.000 --> 00:58:25.480 soil surface. Okay, that will work really well for you. Where do 788 00:58:25.519 --> 00:58:30.239 you get nitropos? Well, where do you live? You get night FROs 789 00:58:30.440 --> 00:58:32.800 anywhere you live, for example, plants for all seasons up on two forty 790 00:58:32.920 --> 00:58:37.559 nine they carry nitropos. Plants and things up in Brenham they carry nitro fross. 791 00:58:37.800 --> 00:58:43.079 All spaws, nursery down in the woodlands yep, or actually it's up 792 00:58:43.119 --> 00:58:45.679 in the woodlands, I should say. Oh, Karkandol Road they carry nitrofoss 793 00:58:45.760 --> 00:58:50.679 as well. We're going to go now to Cyprus and talk to Rick. 794 00:58:50.880 --> 00:58:57.360 Hello, Rick, Hey, good morning, so chacking my call. I 795 00:58:57.480 --> 00:59:01.719 talked with you several weeks ago, a couple of months ago at UH at 796 00:59:01.760 --> 00:59:06.039 Town Lake and showed you my my garden that I was gonna build. Well, 797 00:59:06.079 --> 00:59:10.079 I built it and I planted it last week. I have herbs in 798 00:59:10.199 --> 00:59:19.199 it and uh like rosemary and basil from arugula, peppers, tomatoes, onions 799 00:59:19.280 --> 00:59:24.480 and hives and and everything's looking really good. I've planted them all from small, 800 00:59:24.800 --> 00:59:30.000 small plants, and and so far since last Sunday, everything's still there 801 00:59:30.000 --> 00:59:32.639 and it all looks great and they look perky, and they're going up. 802 00:59:34.039 --> 00:59:37.719 But I don't know is how much to water them? Okay, there, 803 00:59:37.880 --> 00:59:39.760 my house space is kind of north south. They're in the south part of 804 00:59:39.840 --> 00:59:44.639 my backyard, and uh, they're in the sun most of the time. 805 00:59:44.719 --> 00:59:49.239 There's a tree behind my sins that gives them a little bit of shade there 806 00:59:49.280 --> 00:59:52.719 in some parts of the day. But I don't want to over water. 807 00:59:53.000 --> 00:59:57.519 But but I'm not sure how much and how often too water? All right, 808 00:59:57.639 --> 01:00:01.840 well, it's it's in a raised bed. So I don't like answering 809 01:00:01.960 --> 01:00:07.079 questions with put this much of water on this often because there's so many variables. 810 01:00:07.760 --> 01:00:12.239 Go out and feel the soil, whatever season you're in, whatever you're 811 01:00:12.320 --> 01:00:15.039 watering, and feel the soil about four inches deep, and is it moist 812 01:00:15.199 --> 01:00:20.559 or not? You want it to stay moist, and so you would water 813 01:00:20.719 --> 01:00:22.840 as much as that takes. So that'll be a lot more a lot more 814 01:00:22.880 --> 01:00:28.559 often in the summer than winter. It'll be more often in a sandy soil 815 01:00:28.840 --> 01:00:34.039 or a very chunky organic bed mix than in a clay soil. So see, 816 01:00:34.079 --> 01:00:37.000 there's a lot of variations. And so if I told you, well, 817 01:00:37.079 --> 01:00:39.920 put a half inch a week on in those beds, I just don't 818 01:00:40.039 --> 01:00:45.320 know that. But I would say this time of year. Probably a moderate 819 01:00:45.400 --> 01:00:50.679 watering once a week would be enough in the absence of rainfall. Gotcha, 820 01:00:51.400 --> 01:00:54.119 and I use that. I use the soil from plants for all seasons. 821 01:00:54.360 --> 01:00:57.559 Okay, I told them when I was going to plant, and that's what 822 01:00:57.639 --> 01:01:00.599 they gave me. Now here's my other question. Ok I gotta do it 823 01:01:00.679 --> 01:01:05.280 real quick, Okay, real quick. They didn't have onion plants, but 824 01:01:05.360 --> 01:01:07.760 they had these dried They looked like green onions, but they were really yellow 825 01:01:07.800 --> 01:01:12.760 onions, and they came in a big bundle. And I really didn't know 826 01:01:12.840 --> 01:01:15.880 what to do with those, so I just planted them a little ways down. 827 01:01:15.000 --> 01:01:19.360 Was I supposed to soak those in water? No? No, you 828 01:01:19.440 --> 01:01:22.000 don't have to. You could, but you don't have to. No, 829 01:01:22.119 --> 01:01:25.400 they're good. Only question, just just this. As they begin, keep 830 01:01:25.480 --> 01:01:30.360 them moist. They have a very shallow root system, so keep them moist 831 01:01:30.559 --> 01:01:36.280 and then fertilize them in small amounts regularly. You at this point you need 832 01:01:36.320 --> 01:01:39.039 to get those growing as fast as you can. You're going to have smaller 833 01:01:39.119 --> 01:01:43.760 onions this year with the late planting, but you will have onions, and 834 01:01:43.840 --> 01:01:46.679 small onions taste just as good as big ones. Hey, thanks a lot, 835 01:01:46.840 --> 01:01:50.400 Rick, I appreciate that. Good luck with that garden. Sounds like 836 01:01:50.480 --> 01:01:54.000 you're well on your way. Have you been out to Nelson Water Garden out 837 01:01:54.039 --> 01:01:59.960 in Katie. I'm telling you it is a showplace. This is another Destiny 838 01:02:00.119 --> 01:02:05.599 Nation garden. Just think of it as the West Houston's destination garden. Nelson 839 01:02:05.679 --> 01:02:08.719 Watergardens is a garden center, so you can get all kinds of plants there. 840 01:02:09.039 --> 01:02:14.239 But what are they specialized in water gardens? We're talking about ponds, 841 01:02:14.239 --> 01:02:20.320 We're talking about waterfalls. We're talking about something they invented, the disappearing container 842 01:02:20.440 --> 01:02:25.719 fountain, big beautiful glazed urns with water running over the sides and down into 843 01:02:25.920 --> 01:02:30.119 gravel where it recirculates. Yep, they have those, and I can try 844 01:02:30.159 --> 01:02:34.559 to describe them on the air, but it won't do justice. Go to 845 01:02:34.679 --> 01:02:40.559 the website Nelsonwatergarden dot com and go there by the way. They welcome people 846 01:02:40.639 --> 01:02:45.800 to come in and just enjoy walking through it. You will be inspired. 847 01:02:45.079 --> 01:02:49.119 Time to take a break for Nicky in the news our phone number seven, 848 01:02:49.199 --> 01:02:53.079 one, three, two and two KTRH. Welcome back to garden Line. 849 01:02:53.159 --> 01:02:55.400 Good to have you with us today. I'm your host, Skip Richter, 850 01:02:55.519 --> 01:03:00.679 And what are we doing we're entering gardening questions. We're hoping you have a 851 01:03:00.960 --> 01:03:07.079 more beautiful landscape, a more bountiful garden. And that's just important. And 852 01:03:07.199 --> 01:03:08.760 you know, one of the parts of that is being able to get the 853 01:03:08.840 --> 01:03:13.960 supplies you need to do that. You're going to need fertilizers, you're going 854 01:03:14.039 --> 01:03:16.840 to need to control pests, diseases and wheats. You are going to need 855 01:03:17.079 --> 01:03:21.599 mulches for the top of the soil. You're gonna need all the tools like 856 01:03:22.199 --> 01:03:28.639 hoe hose, a garden hose, and on and on and all those and 857 01:03:29.079 --> 01:03:30.960 where can you go for a one stop shop that's near you, Well, 858 01:03:31.519 --> 01:03:37.400 Ace Hardware. Ace Hardware has forty stores in the Greater Houston area and there's 859 01:03:37.440 --> 01:03:40.320 one near you. Ace Hardware carries all the fertilizers that I talk about. 860 01:03:40.400 --> 01:03:45.159 You're going to find your mulches there, your bedmo type things. You're going 861 01:03:45.199 --> 01:03:49.960 to find everything that you need and staff that is friendly and helpful to get 862 01:03:50.280 --> 01:03:52.960 it in your hands so you can go home and have good success. Is 863 01:03:53.000 --> 01:03:57.159 a time for new wheelbarrow, you see what I'm talking about. They're going 864 01:03:57.239 --> 01:04:00.960 to have it all plus a lot, lot or you can get pretty much 865 01:04:01.039 --> 01:04:05.199 anything you need for your home, for your outdoor areas, and certainly for 866 01:04:05.280 --> 01:04:09.880 your gardens at a hardware acehardware dot Com. Go to that. Go to 867 01:04:09.960 --> 01:04:14.239 Acehardware dot Com find the store locator and you'll get a map with a lot 868 01:04:14.320 --> 01:04:16.599 of red dots on it and you can find the ones and that's more than 869 01:04:16.639 --> 01:04:20.000 one, that's right nearest you. I'm going to go out to Tomball, 870 01:04:20.119 --> 01:04:26.000 Texas, and we're going to talk to Rick. Hello. Rick, I'm 871 01:04:26.039 --> 01:04:30.280 well, sir, how can we help today? I'm making a raised bed 872 01:04:30.760 --> 01:04:35.480 and I'll go A couple of weeks ago, maybe you talked about this place 873 01:04:35.559 --> 01:04:42.440 to get this soul that's been pre mixed and it's really great stuff that live 874 01:04:42.480 --> 01:04:45.840 in Tomball and I do not remember the name of them, and our ward 875 01:04:45.880 --> 01:04:49.719 to go get it, you said, okay, you say, roses. 876 01:04:51.199 --> 01:04:58.440 No, what's the plan? Well, I have a raised bed? Okay. 877 01:04:59.000 --> 01:05:01.440 Uh, So you're to plant flowers or vegetables or what kinds of thing? 878 01:05:01.599 --> 01:05:04.960 Vegetables? Okay, So what you're going to want to do is get 879 01:05:05.239 --> 01:05:12.039 get you a vegetable and herb soil. Of vegetable and herb soil, it's 880 01:05:12.119 --> 01:05:15.199 real easy, easy, easy to find. And so if you're up in 881 01:05:15.239 --> 01:05:19.239 the Tamboi area. They're going to be a number of places that carry the 882 01:05:19.400 --> 01:05:26.840 heirloom soils vegetable and herb mix and so that is the one you're looking for. 883 01:05:27.760 --> 01:05:29.880 Where are you going to find it up there? Let's see, I 884 01:05:29.920 --> 01:05:33.280 believe you can if you go out just on the northwest side there's beyond Paradise 885 01:05:33.400 --> 01:05:39.079 Nursery and Supply. They're on a farm to market twenty nine to seventy eight. 886 01:05:39.159 --> 01:05:42.360 It's it's just about a mile outside of town. You're going to find 887 01:05:42.440 --> 01:05:45.039 heirloom soils there. You're going to find them out. I believe they have 888 01:05:45.119 --> 01:05:47.159 it out. Yeah, they do have it out in D and D Feed 889 01:05:47.280 --> 01:05:51.480 and Supply. That's twenty nine to twenty west of town, just out there, 890 01:05:51.639 --> 01:05:55.519 just a little piece there. They're going to have to have the same 891 01:05:56.039 --> 01:06:00.079 soil that you said. Someplace did a special blend in a mix. You 892 01:06:00.119 --> 01:06:04.000 could pick it up in either bulk or some huge I don't know, yes, 893 01:06:04.920 --> 01:06:13.280 that that was probably probably uh there is. UH. Heirloom Soils makes 894 01:06:13.320 --> 01:06:15.480 a quality, wonderful product. I was just telling you about those. Uh 895 01:06:15.760 --> 01:06:20.840 and Nature's Way, which is way up forty five toward conro also makes a 896 01:06:20.920 --> 01:06:25.079 great product. That they'll bag and they'll bulk up there. And I've talked 897 01:06:25.079 --> 01:06:28.519 about both of them. I don't know who specifically I was talking about when 898 01:06:28.559 --> 01:06:30.920 you heard that, but either way, you're not going to go wrong. 899 01:06:32.079 --> 01:06:36.599 Okay, Well, I'm I'm right down the road from H D D N 900 01:06:36.719 --> 01:06:42.119 D the feed. Yeah, I just go by there. Uh, tell 901 01:06:42.199 --> 01:06:46.159 Jeff, Tell Jeff that, you know, you talk to us and the 902 01:06:46.280 --> 01:06:51.039 heirloom vegetable and herb and I know he carries it, you know, with 903 01:06:51.239 --> 01:06:56.320 spring and people shopping like crazy, he may have to get it get another 904 01:06:56.400 --> 01:06:59.639 shipment back in, but I know he checks that on hand. All right, 905 01:07:00.679 --> 01:07:02.880 Thank you, sir, Thank you. I appreciate that call very much. 906 01:07:03.960 --> 01:07:11.000 Oh boy, yards. We care about our yards, and our yards 907 01:07:11.039 --> 01:07:15.039 struggled last summer during the drought and heat combo that just hammered them. We 908 01:07:15.119 --> 01:07:17.880 also have a lot of clay soil around here. Glay soil does not take 909 01:07:17.920 --> 01:07:21.800 in water very fast. Clay soil does not drain well, and it's an 910 01:07:21.880 --> 01:07:27.480 issue. And when you have a lawn that you really need to renovate and 911 01:07:27.599 --> 01:07:31.679 to get looking better green pro those are your folks that do that. They 912 01:07:31.800 --> 01:07:36.280 go out, they do a deep time aeration. They pop a core out 913 01:07:36.320 --> 01:07:40.119 of the soil and drop it on the surface. That's the kind of aerration 914 01:07:40.239 --> 01:07:43.920 you want, not just a spike that pushes the hole open, but you 915 01:07:44.000 --> 01:07:46.239 want to pop a cora soil out and leave it on the surface. Water, 916 01:07:46.400 --> 01:07:49.960 nutrients, organic matter all go in those holes and the root system and 917 01:07:50.119 --> 01:07:56.159 oxygen very important, and the root system thrives as a result. The green 918 01:07:56.199 --> 01:08:00.800 pro folks can also do a compost top dressing that goes hand in hand with 919 01:08:01.320 --> 01:08:04.599 the aeration. You can do one or the other, but I would recommend 920 01:08:04.639 --> 01:08:08.960 to them both, and it's easy, easy to find them. They do 921 01:08:09.079 --> 01:08:15.239 about a forty five mile radius up there in the north and a little bit 922 01:08:15.360 --> 01:08:17.960 west part of Houston. So if you live in Spring Cyprus, the Woodlands, 923 01:08:18.039 --> 01:08:24.199 Conroe, willis Magnolia up in Montgomery, you are down to iten Katie, 924 01:08:24.319 --> 01:08:28.159 West Houston, even maybe central Houston. They are going to serve those 925 01:08:28.319 --> 01:08:31.119 areas and just call them get a price. Now, when you do this, 926 01:08:32.000 --> 01:08:35.760 it is an investment in your lawn. It's a lot less expensive than 927 01:08:35.840 --> 01:08:41.600 residing, I'll tell you that for sure. And an occasional deep core aeration 928 01:08:41.760 --> 01:08:46.239 with compost top dressing will really make your launa show placed that. That's one 929 01:08:46.319 --> 01:08:50.880 of the things that I think makes the most difference in terms of the beauty 930 01:08:50.960 --> 01:08:55.680 in the lawn is taking our clay soils and opening them up a little bit, 931 01:08:55.920 --> 01:08:59.159 getting some oxygen in there, getting some organic matter down in there. 932 01:09:00.840 --> 01:09:02.520 We're going to head out the phones now and talk to Jeff. Hello, 933 01:09:02.680 --> 01:09:08.560 Jeff, Hey, Skip, I just you were just talking about heirloom soil. 934 01:09:08.720 --> 01:09:12.159 So my garden has went to the next level since I started using them 935 01:09:12.239 --> 01:09:15.399 a couple of years ago. I really love it. Yeah, quality stuff. 936 01:09:15.520 --> 01:09:17.239 Just give a plug for them. And who never runs out of it 937 01:09:17.399 --> 01:09:23.680 is Southwest Fertilizer, Isn't that the truth? They always have a huge supply. 938 01:09:23.800 --> 01:09:26.520 If you need forty bags of something, they've got, Oh, you 939 01:09:26.560 --> 01:09:30.920 don't have to call ahead, all right. Yeah, Well that's why I 940 01:09:31.159 --> 01:09:39.079 like the I like to talk about Southwest because you just know when you're going 941 01:09:39.119 --> 01:09:41.880 there, they're gonna have everything. You know, some places could be good 942 01:09:41.920 --> 01:09:45.439 places, a lot of other good things, but Southwest is that's what they 943 01:09:45.479 --> 01:09:51.319 specialize in. Anyway, I just love their soils. They have taken my 944 01:09:51.439 --> 01:09:54.760 garden to the next level. I just want to let you know that, 945 01:09:54.960 --> 01:09:57.720 well, thank you, Jeff. I appreciate that. I know Bob would 946 01:09:57.720 --> 01:10:01.720 be happy to hear that. I appreciate your call. Well, what Jeff 947 01:10:01.840 --> 01:10:08.800 was talking about is the brown stuff. And if you've listened to garden Line 948 01:10:09.039 --> 01:10:13.680 at least once you've heard me say take care of the brown stuff, and 949 01:10:13.800 --> 01:10:16.079 then which will help take care of the green stuff, or first comes brown 950 01:10:16.159 --> 01:10:21.000 stuff, then comes green stuff. A lot of gardeners who have no idea 951 01:10:21.039 --> 01:10:25.239 what they're doing will go to a nursery, see beautiful plants, take them 952 01:10:25.279 --> 01:10:29.279 home and PLoP them into an unprepared plot. That's almost like Peter Piper picked 953 01:10:29.319 --> 01:10:35.640 up picker and that plant will struggle because it needs help. Plants live in 954 01:10:35.720 --> 01:10:41.840 their root system, meaning the root system is what supplies the daily water, 955 01:10:42.119 --> 01:10:46.159 the daily nutrients that are required for growth. Roots need oxygen, roots need 956 01:10:46.399 --> 01:10:53.239 microbes, roots need good soil, and quality soil helps. If you go 957 01:10:53.399 --> 01:10:57.199 to a garden center to buy plants, go home with a bag of quality 958 01:10:57.279 --> 01:11:01.279 soil. We have a lot of different soils appliers, a lot of sources. 959 01:11:01.439 --> 01:11:05.279 Actually you're going to find these things that the Ice Hardware's and the Southwest 960 01:11:05.319 --> 01:11:09.479 Hardware's and our garden centers that we talk about. They all are going to 961 01:11:09.520 --> 01:11:13.439 provide you that because they know the plant you're taking home needs a good home, 962 01:11:13.680 --> 01:11:17.199 and a good home is quality soil. We can't stress that enough. 963 01:11:17.720 --> 01:11:24.159 It's a lot easier to get excited about vegetables and flowers and shrubs and all 964 01:11:24.239 --> 01:11:28.319 that stuff as opposed to just the bag of brown stuff. But the bag 965 01:11:28.399 --> 01:11:34.319 of brown stuff that is what is the most important thing in success with your 966 01:11:34.399 --> 01:11:38.880 plants. That's the key, that's the secret sauce. And you've got to 967 01:11:38.920 --> 01:11:43.159 take care of the soil in order for that plant to have a home that 968 01:11:43.239 --> 01:11:47.760 it wants to live in and thrive in. I think I made that point. 969 01:11:47.840 --> 01:11:54.159 I hope you heard that, but so so very important. I literally 970 01:11:54.199 --> 01:11:58.359 could talk the whole four hour show just about soil because it's that important. 971 01:11:58.640 --> 01:12:01.880 Let's take a little break seven one three two one two ktrh and we'll be 972 01:12:01.960 --> 01:12:05.920 right back. Welcome back to Guardline. Hey, it's good to have you 973 01:12:06.000 --> 01:12:09.199 with us today. What do you want to talk about. That's what we'll 974 01:12:09.239 --> 01:12:12.359 talk about. Just give us a call seven to one three two one two 975 01:12:12.560 --> 01:12:16.439 five eight seven four seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four. 976 01:12:16.840 --> 01:12:20.800 If you are planting a tree, or if you did plant a tree this 977 01:12:21.000 --> 01:12:27.239 winter or spring season, or even really last last fall, which is also 978 01:12:27.279 --> 01:12:31.439 a good time to plant. The three sixty tree stabilizer product is one you 979 01:12:31.640 --> 01:12:35.079 need to know about. And here's here's how this works. It's a very 980 01:12:36.159 --> 01:12:41.720 sturdy, stiff arm. Think of it that way. One end attaches to 981 01:12:41.840 --> 01:12:45.680 the post and it'll attach to bigg around fence post. It'll attach to a 982 01:12:45.239 --> 01:12:49.760 metal t post. It's designed for that to hold on tight. The other 983 01:12:49.960 --> 01:12:54.880 end is a strap, a soft rubber strap that goes around the tree and 984 01:12:55.000 --> 01:12:58.880 allows a little bit of movement. A little bit of movement is important because 985 01:12:58.920 --> 01:13:03.199 when you bend in stretch a plant regularly, it causes the plant to grow 986 01:13:03.720 --> 01:13:08.560 stronger tissues. In the case of a tree trunk, we're talking about lignan 987 01:13:08.720 --> 01:13:13.600 compounds and think the wood of the tree is stronger and not likely to snap 988 01:13:13.720 --> 01:13:18.119 off during a real strong storm. Three sixty tree stabilizer is like that. 989 01:13:18.199 --> 01:13:20.880 You can put one on a tree. You can put two, put one 990 01:13:23.359 --> 01:13:26.199 and the other at right angles, so like one's point in north south, 991 01:13:26.239 --> 01:13:29.439 the other's east west, and that way, whichever way the wind blows. 992 01:13:29.640 --> 01:13:32.239 It's going to control it. You don't have all those guy wires going out 993 01:13:32.279 --> 01:13:36.399 to the ground. These the fence posts are very close to the tree and 994 01:13:38.039 --> 01:13:41.680 you're not tripping over them. It's easy, it works well, and they 995 01:13:41.880 --> 01:13:45.039 last. You can get them at places like Orgeshid and gardens of those who 996 01:13:45.159 --> 01:13:48.039 way down south toward Alvin Southwest fertilizer. You know I said, if they 997 01:13:48.079 --> 01:13:50.000 don't have it, you don't need it. Well, yep, they got 998 01:13:50.199 --> 01:13:55.199 three sixty tree stabilizer. You're going to find them at nurses like RCW and 999 01:13:55.279 --> 01:13:59.159 Buchanans and Arborgate and plants for all seasons, and there's more coming soon. 1000 01:13:59.560 --> 01:14:05.000 They they are just widely, widely available. Don't plant a tree without taking 1001 01:14:05.039 --> 01:14:09.920 care of it. We're going to go now to Mary and Billina Park. 1002 01:14:10.479 --> 01:14:15.880 Hello, Mary, Hi, Hi, Hello, welcome. Welcome to garden 1003 01:14:15.920 --> 01:14:21.319 Line. Thank you. I'll listen to you every weekend. But I have 1004 01:14:21.520 --> 01:14:29.039 a problem that has come up. And we have a huge tree in my 1005 01:14:29.199 --> 01:14:35.439 son's front yard next door and it's just in full bloom, but it's been 1006 01:14:35.640 --> 01:14:43.960 loose in limbs and leaves and I need a phone number of an arborist so 1007 01:14:44.119 --> 01:14:48.119 we can would like to save the tree, but not in the shape. 1008 01:14:48.159 --> 01:14:51.880 It's the end. Yeah. Absolutely, Here you got a piner pencil handy? 1009 01:14:53.840 --> 01:14:57.720 Sure too. Okay, you need to call You need to call Martin 1010 01:14:57.840 --> 01:15:03.800 Spoon Moore. And here his company called Affordable Tree Service. Affordable Yes, 1011 01:15:04.119 --> 01:15:11.600 Affordable Tree Service. Here's his phone number seven one, seven one three six 1012 01:15:13.680 --> 01:15:17.760 twenty six sixty three. I'll say that again, seven one three six nine 1013 01:15:17.920 --> 01:15:23.279 nine twenty six sixty three. If you'd like to go to the website, 1014 01:15:23.399 --> 01:15:30.760 it's Afftree Service dot com. Okay, I have that too, Thank you 1015 01:15:30.960 --> 01:15:35.039 so much. All right, I'll listen to you every weekend and love your 1016 01:15:35.119 --> 01:15:39.560 show. Thank you. I wondered who it was out there listening. Now 1017 01:15:39.600 --> 01:15:44.199 I've met her. Thank you for the call. Mary, appreciate that very 1018 01:15:44.319 --> 01:15:47.640 much. Yeah, Martin. He can do anything pretty much that you need 1019 01:15:47.760 --> 01:15:51.600 for your trees. I mean so certainly, things like pruning, for example, 1020 01:15:53.000 --> 01:15:57.720 trimming them up, advising, consulting. He charges one hundred and fifty 1021 01:15:57.760 --> 01:16:00.760 dollars to come out for a consultation. But if you hire him for service 1022 01:16:00.800 --> 01:16:04.000 work, that one fifty is you've already paid toward the service work, so 1023 01:16:04.159 --> 01:16:08.239 you get that back if you will. But he can't, you know, 1024 01:16:08.439 --> 01:16:12.760 just go running out to ever tree in Houston, and just for curious questions 1025 01:16:12.840 --> 01:16:15.239 people have, so he sets that that way, and that's that's a very 1026 01:16:15.319 --> 01:16:18.000 reasonable thing. I'll tell you this, just for him to come out and 1027 01:16:18.079 --> 01:16:21.800 to look at your tree and tell you stuff about it, that that alone 1028 01:16:23.000 --> 01:16:26.640 is worth more than the one fifty. Are you going to put anything around 1029 01:16:26.680 --> 01:16:29.279 a tree, like a sidewalk or a drive where you're going to dig a 1030 01:16:29.319 --> 01:16:34.279 trench and run a utility line. Call Martin first, because you can do 1031 01:16:34.520 --> 01:16:40.119 significant damage to trees by damaging their roots, and he can advise you on 1032 01:16:40.199 --> 01:16:42.560 the best way to do that. And for those of you listening, it's 1033 01:16:42.600 --> 01:16:47.479 aff Tree Service dot com or seven one thirty six nine nine twenty six sixty 1034 01:16:47.800 --> 01:16:51.000 three. We're going to head out now to Richmond and talk to Doug. 1035 01:16:51.319 --> 01:16:55.399 Hello, Doug, Hey, Skip, how are you doing this morning. 1036 01:16:55.680 --> 01:17:00.239 I'm good. I have a question about Medina plus soil active. It's also 1037 01:17:00.399 --> 01:17:04.840 folier feet and you recommend that from time to time. Yeah, I've got 1038 01:17:04.880 --> 01:17:13.520 one of the relatively high quality hose in sprayers. I'd like to use that 1039 01:17:13.680 --> 01:17:17.279 to spray all my citrus. Have four different kinds of citrus in my backyard. 1040 01:17:17.920 --> 01:17:24.760 I'm curious. My improved myer limit is blooming like crazy. Can I 1041 01:17:24.840 --> 01:17:28.960 spray this on blooming citrus and not have to worry about damaging the blooms. 1042 01:17:29.520 --> 01:17:32.520 I've never tried that. I don't see why it would damage the blooms. 1043 01:17:33.760 --> 01:17:38.920 If you want to be maybe try it on a little bit first. It's 1044 01:17:39.039 --> 01:17:44.800 not a salt based fertilizer. Some of the liquids that people use commonly or 1045 01:17:44.880 --> 01:17:46.800 salt based, and I would worry a little bit about that on the bloom, 1046 01:17:46.880 --> 01:17:50.159 especially if you mix it too strong. But with with the medina, 1047 01:17:50.319 --> 01:17:53.319 you're not gonna have to worry about it. And you know, when it 1048 01:17:53.399 --> 01:17:57.840 comes to Folier, I talk about the hast grow six twelve six, which 1049 01:17:57.960 --> 01:18:00.319 can be used folier, but medina a lot of other things. You know, 1050 01:18:00.399 --> 01:18:06.119 they've got the seaweed for example, they got the fish emulsion. Those 1051 01:18:06.159 --> 01:18:11.039 are all great to use folio as well. Now, the thing about citrus 1052 01:18:11.680 --> 01:18:16.119 doug is it's got a waxy leaf and water rolls off so and the thing 1053 01:18:16.159 --> 01:18:21.399 about Folier feed is that you want to spray upward to get the bottom leaf 1054 01:18:21.520 --> 01:18:27.399 surfaces, especially because that's where the stowmates are that open up, and it's 1055 01:18:27.399 --> 01:18:30.359 easier to get the water and nutrients in it, and you want to do 1056 01:18:30.399 --> 01:18:31.439 it early in the morning. So if you're going to try to use them 1057 01:18:31.439 --> 01:18:35.079 on a citrus, make sure your spraying is going up and make sure you're 1058 01:18:35.119 --> 01:18:40.439 doing it early before the day heats up while the stowmates are still open. 1059 01:18:41.840 --> 01:18:48.119 Okay, well I'm playing on washing in some micro life citrus. Yeah, 1060 01:18:48.199 --> 01:18:51.359 fertilizer, yes, excellent. I want to just wash it in with the 1061 01:18:51.680 --> 01:18:56.319 with the medina plus you can do that. Well, I'll just spray it 1062 01:18:56.399 --> 01:19:00.279 on the top too. But if the fertilizer is going to be it's mostly 1063 01:19:00.359 --> 01:19:05.399 to just activate the trees. Yeah, that's it. Well, you know, 1064 01:19:05.640 --> 01:19:09.720 everything you do to help that tree is going to be helpful. I 1065 01:19:09.800 --> 01:19:15.520 mean, the soil products that have humates in them and the microlife naturally slow 1066 01:19:15.680 --> 01:19:21.199 releasing, gradual organic fertilizers are going to be helpful, you know, spraying 1067 01:19:21.680 --> 01:19:26.720 things that enhance the tree, and all these different products have different things that 1068 01:19:26.840 --> 01:19:30.239 they are better at doing, you know, so like fish emulsion versus seaweed. 1069 01:19:30.399 --> 01:19:34.000 You know, they each have the things that they offer and the has 1070 01:19:34.079 --> 01:19:41.039 to grow the six twelve six that is, And it's just another example, 1071 01:19:41.600 --> 01:19:45.920 you know, that it has its own strength. Very good. Well, 1072 01:19:45.960 --> 01:19:47.000 thanks a lot. I appreciate it, all right, Doug, thank you. 1073 01:19:47.399 --> 01:19:49.680 Have fun with that's interest. Now you know. The rule on garden 1074 01:19:49.720 --> 01:19:53.479 Line is I don't charge for advice, but I do expect half of your 1075 01:19:54.039 --> 01:19:57.399 harvest. Just drop it off at the station and we'll call it even. 1076 01:19:58.279 --> 01:20:00.880 Okay, it sounds good. Thank you, it's good to talk to you. 1077 01:20:01.560 --> 01:20:04.039 Oh, we're having fun here. We're having a lot of fun. 1078 01:20:04.520 --> 01:20:08.159 If you want to get out and have some fun, you need to get 1079 01:20:08.399 --> 01:20:13.239 to RCW Nursery. I was talking about them earlier, but RCW is it's 1080 01:20:13.560 --> 01:20:17.880 just a showplace right now. I've been bragging on the boogain villias, every 1081 01:20:17.960 --> 01:20:23.800 kind of boogomvillia form, the true little mini trees, the hanging basket they 1082 01:20:23.840 --> 01:20:29.800 got all of that. The colors are outstanding. But RCW is not just 1083 01:20:30.079 --> 01:20:32.600 roses, although they are roses, not just trees, although they have excellent 1084 01:20:32.640 --> 01:20:38.039 trees, but they're also color plants. All the color bed things that you're 1085 01:20:38.079 --> 01:20:41.319 going to plant, all the hanging basket things you're gonna plant, they're at 1086 01:20:41.439 --> 01:20:46.680 RCW Nurseries RCW nurseries dot com. They are right where Tamba Parkway two forty 1087 01:20:46.760 --> 01:20:50.720 nine comes into Beltway eight, so it's easy to get to and when you 1088 01:20:50.840 --> 01:20:54.239 go, you're going to be impressed. But you need to get there now 1089 01:20:54.680 --> 01:20:59.159 to see the boogain villias and get one before all your fellow shoppers run out 1090 01:20:59.239 --> 01:21:02.840 there and grab it right from under you. That that is the fun thing 1091 01:21:02.880 --> 01:21:06.479 about spring. Early bird gets a worm. We need to come up with 1092 01:21:06.600 --> 01:21:12.960 one of those for gardening, like the early gardener gets the bougainvillia he's going 1093 01:21:13.039 --> 01:21:16.279 out shopping or her boogainvilla. It depends on the color you want too, 1094 01:21:16.520 --> 01:21:20.479 because you know, some things are so unusual that they tend to go first. 1095 01:21:20.680 --> 01:21:27.079 We like the unusual stuff. That's how we roll as gardeners. It's 1096 01:21:27.119 --> 01:21:30.399 a lot of fun to be a gardener, that's for sure. Hey, 1097 01:21:30.439 --> 01:21:32.560 I want to talk about a couple of things first. I'm going to be 1098 01:21:32.760 --> 01:21:40.279 at Antique Rose Emporium today twelve to two from noon to two ANTIQ Roseenporium. 1099 01:21:40.640 --> 01:21:44.279 They are having their big Spring Shindig out there, and I'm going to be 1100 01:21:44.359 --> 01:21:48.079 giving a talk for about an hour on beneficial insects. I promise you I 1101 01:21:48.119 --> 01:21:53.359 will tell you a lot of things you didn't know that will help you come 1102 01:21:53.439 --> 01:21:57.600 home and enhance the beneficial insects population. That, by the way, is 1103 01:21:57.680 --> 01:22:00.600 doing free pest control for you out there in the garden. I'll be at 1104 01:22:00.600 --> 01:22:03.560 a table. I'll be giving away several big old jugs of micro Life sixty 1105 01:22:03.640 --> 01:22:09.159 four fertilizer. So sign up when you're there, put your name in the 1106 01:22:09.239 --> 01:22:12.840 box, and we will be given away those about it for fifteen minutes, 1107 01:22:13.279 --> 01:22:15.239 and I'll be give my samples as well. Uh. If you're out and 1108 01:22:15.279 --> 01:22:19.680 about and just looking for some other fun cool stuff to do. March tenth, 1109 01:22:20.199 --> 01:22:25.760 Uh, the Plumerius Society is having their meeting and they're having Andy Chi 1110 01:22:25.920 --> 01:22:30.319 Dester to speak. I'll tell you more later about that. Katie r h. 1111 01:22:30.439 --> 01:22:33.159 Garden Line does not necessarily endorse any of the products or services advertised on 1112 01:22:33.199 --> 01:22:40.319 this program. Welcome to Katie r h. Garden Line with Skip Rictor. 1113 01:22:40.439 --> 01:22:56.960 It's so crazy, Trim, just watch him as so many good things. 1114 01:22:57.159 --> 01:23:03.920 Septsy Well, welcome back to garden Line. We're glad you're listening this morning. 1115 01:23:04.159 --> 01:23:06.199 It's going to be a good day for gardening. It's a good weekend 1116 01:23:06.279 --> 01:23:11.399 for gardening. A little of overcast guys today, but that's Okay, nice 1117 01:23:11.439 --> 01:23:15.840 breeze outside, and it's just an excellent time to get out and get things 1118 01:23:15.960 --> 01:23:19.880 established. He who hesitates his loss, right, it's a it's always good 1119 01:23:20.359 --> 01:23:25.039 to do things at the right time and to get a good early start, 1120 01:23:25.359 --> 01:23:28.720 and that is what we're talking about right now. It is so easy on 1121 01:23:28.800 --> 01:23:31.800 a plant right now, the weather we're having, mild weather, easy conditions 1122 01:23:31.920 --> 01:23:38.439 to survive and thrive and establish in. And so this is a good opportunity 1123 01:23:38.520 --> 01:23:41.079 to get that done. I hope you'll take advantage of it this weekend, 1124 01:23:41.079 --> 01:23:45.279 both today and tomorrow or really excellent days. I was talking before the break. 1125 01:23:45.319 --> 01:23:49.720 We were discussing, you know, taking care of citrus trees and whatnot, 1126 01:23:50.520 --> 01:23:54.960 and some of the things that could be sprayed on them. The Medina 1127 01:23:55.000 --> 01:23:58.399 products spray up on that as a liquid feed, for example, and we 1128 01:23:58.520 --> 01:24:02.520 mentioned Microlife and the ordinance of putting a quality product down on the soil as 1129 01:24:02.560 --> 01:24:05.640 well. And Microlife has a wide variety of products. I mean, the 1130 01:24:05.720 --> 01:24:09.720 standard green bag we use for our lawns, by the way, I use 1131 01:24:09.760 --> 01:24:15.079 it for pretty much everything. They have a particular fertilizer for the citrus plants 1132 01:24:15.119 --> 01:24:18.479 that you might have, but they also have something called humants Plus. It's 1133 01:24:18.600 --> 01:24:24.439 the purple bag of microlife and hum mats plus. It has four percent potassium 1134 01:24:24.479 --> 01:24:27.960 in it. But you're not putting it down just for the nutrients. You're 1135 01:24:27.960 --> 01:24:33.920 putting it down because humus is concentrated compost in a bag, and it's taking 1136 01:24:34.159 --> 01:24:39.640 all of the goodness of compost concentrating it down into a particle. And humus 1137 01:24:39.720 --> 01:24:44.399 helps the soil. It helps create structure, so you get oxygen down in 1138 01:24:44.479 --> 01:24:48.520 the soil, so water and filtrates better so roots can thrive better in the 1139 01:24:48.640 --> 01:24:55.439 soil. It is a haven for beneficial microbes that are in working in concert 1140 01:24:55.520 --> 01:25:00.640 with your tree roots and Microlife fertilizers are widely available. Pretty much all sponsors 1141 01:25:00.840 --> 01:25:05.159 are selling them these days. But just go to Microlifefertilizer dot com Microlife Fertilizer 1142 01:25:05.239 --> 01:25:10.680 dot com and you will find where you can get these as well as learn 1143 01:25:10.760 --> 01:25:15.119 more about other other particular products that might be of interest to you. So 1144 01:25:15.319 --> 01:25:19.439 remember this spring when you're doing your six two four fertilizing with microlife. The 1145 01:25:19.520 --> 01:25:26.279 green bag also put out some of the microlife h makes plus because again that 1146 01:25:26.479 --> 01:25:31.319 is part of your long term soil building, which equals plant performance. In 1147 01:25:31.439 --> 01:25:38.880 the case of your lawn equals plant performance increases as well. Our phone number 1148 01:25:38.920 --> 01:25:42.640 if you would like to give me a call and ask a gardening question is 1149 01:25:42.720 --> 01:25:48.359 seven to one three two one two fifty eight seventy four seven one three two 1150 01:25:48.439 --> 01:25:57.720 one two five eight seven four. Have you been to enchanted forests down in 1151 01:25:57.840 --> 01:26:00.640 the Richmond Rosenberg area? So those of you down there that haven't been, 1152 01:26:01.479 --> 01:26:06.159 you just get on the highway going into Houston, the interstate there and head 1153 01:26:06.720 --> 01:26:12.640 north towards Sugarland. Chended Forest is off to the right. They're on FM 1154 01:26:12.880 --> 01:26:16.720 twenty seven fifty nine FM twenty off to the right, well before sugar Land. 1155 01:26:17.399 --> 01:26:21.239 If you want to get McCall, it's two eight one nine three seven 1156 01:26:21.479 --> 01:26:27.279 forty gosh, ninety four forty nine. I'm going to do that one again, 1157 01:26:27.720 --> 01:26:34.079 two eight one nine three seven ninety four four nine. You are going 1158 01:26:34.199 --> 01:26:39.760 to be stunned from the time you get out of your car at the color 1159 01:26:40.079 --> 01:26:44.159 that they've got right now, and intended forests and those bougain villias that are 1160 01:26:44.479 --> 01:26:47.920 just such gaudy, gorgeous plants. Yep, they got a lot of those 1161 01:26:47.960 --> 01:26:51.720 as well. By the way today at the end of garden line starting at 1162 01:26:51.760 --> 01:26:56.800 ten am. Louis tomorrow from heirloom soils. We were talking about them earlier. 1163 01:26:57.079 --> 01:27:01.119 Louis is going to help you get off to a good start with making 1164 01:27:01.239 --> 01:27:04.119 a garden bed. He's gonna talk to you about it, talk about the 1165 01:27:04.279 --> 01:27:10.159 things we put in and why they're important and how that works. And Louis, 1166 01:27:10.760 --> 01:27:13.920 in fact, he's calling it making your bed. That's a good one. 1167 01:27:14.159 --> 01:27:17.319 Louise is always fun. He's always he's funny, but he's very very 1168 01:27:17.399 --> 01:27:21.600 informative. And if you're gonna head out to a Jenny gardens today would be 1169 01:27:21.600 --> 01:27:26.439 a good time to do that visit with Louise. Or you're gonna go shopping 1170 01:27:26.479 --> 01:27:30.720 tomorrow, that'd be another great time to visit him down there. I enjoy 1171 01:27:31.119 --> 01:27:35.920 talking about gardens and plants. Of course. It's just a lot of fun 1172 01:27:36.439 --> 01:27:43.399 to grow things and one of the most I think one of the most pleasurable 1173 01:27:43.840 --> 01:27:47.520 things is to plant a seed and watch it come up and watch that tiny 1174 01:27:47.720 --> 01:27:53.239 dried bit of the tritis shee once held in your hand as a seed become 1175 01:27:53.279 --> 01:27:57.800 a beautiful plant loaded with tomatoes or flowers or whatever you're growing it for. 1176 01:27:58.560 --> 01:28:01.640 That whole process is fun and when you have success. It's just good. 1177 01:28:02.039 --> 01:28:06.319 When you buy a tomato, don't you picture? Can't you taste the tomatoes 1178 01:28:06.359 --> 01:28:10.960 you're going to grow. Now, when you go home and don't have success 1179 01:28:11.039 --> 01:28:15.119 with it, that's disappointing, but it's unnecessary. We can help you have 1180 01:28:15.319 --> 01:28:18.880 success. It all begins with tomato. For example. It's important to have 1181 01:28:19.039 --> 01:28:23.960 good soil, brown stuff, brown stuff, brown stuff, good nutrients in 1182 01:28:24.039 --> 01:28:27.960 this to a part of what we call the brown stuff. Picking the varieties 1183 01:28:28.039 --> 01:28:31.000 that do well, putting them in sun and keeping them adequately moist but not 1184 01:28:31.199 --> 01:28:35.319 drowned, and you can have success too. It's not that difficult. And 1185 01:28:35.720 --> 01:28:42.399 soil is critical. And the folks at Ciena Mulch have the soil that you 1186 01:28:42.600 --> 01:28:45.760 need, and they're down south down towards Rows Sharon direction. They're going to 1187 01:28:45.840 --> 01:28:48.359 sell you bulk, they're going to sell you bags. Yes, they have 1188 01:28:48.439 --> 01:28:54.079 the landscaper's pride in the heirloom soils both available. They have every fertilizer I 1189 01:28:54.159 --> 01:28:58.640 talk about on garden Line here and Ciena Mulch will deliver within about twenty miles 1190 01:28:58.720 --> 01:29:03.000 of the location, which typically is on FM five point twenty one near Highway 1191 01:29:03.079 --> 01:29:08.399 six and two eighty eight just Arthur Rose Sharing. They're open today until two 1192 01:29:08.520 --> 01:29:12.600 pm, so if you're going to go by, don't delay. Close tomorrow, 1193 01:29:13.079 --> 01:29:15.399 but call them up. Check them out. Go to the website Sienna 1194 01:29:15.600 --> 01:29:19.840 Mulch dot com. While you're there, you're going to see gorgeous mulches. 1195 01:29:19.880 --> 01:29:26.359 You're going to see unbelievable selections of various rocks. Whether you need little river 1196 01:29:26.520 --> 01:29:30.119 rocks to create a drainway in your garden or if you want beautiful flat rocks 1197 01:29:30.159 --> 01:29:34.840 to create a patio, They've got all of that and then some At Sienna 1198 01:29:35.319 --> 01:29:40.680 Mulch. They will help you take care of the brown stuff, that is 1199 01:29:40.840 --> 01:29:45.039 for sure, so that you can have success with your plans. Probably one 1200 01:29:45.079 --> 01:29:49.760 of the most common calls I'm getting right now is the call about weeds in 1201 01:29:49.800 --> 01:29:51.920 the lawn. What do I do? I got weeds in the lawn, 1202 01:29:51.920 --> 01:29:57.479 and we talked about the things that you can do to manage your lawn weeds. 1203 01:29:58.159 --> 01:30:00.439 Most of the conversations now are the the weeds that you see, the 1204 01:30:00.520 --> 01:30:03.479 cool season weeds. That's the clover, the hen bit, the chick weed, 1205 01:30:03.479 --> 01:30:06.880 all of those things that you see right now. But what's going on 1206 01:30:08.439 --> 01:30:13.039 unseen right now is down at the soil surface. Weed seeds are germinating for 1207 01:30:13.239 --> 01:30:17.720 warm season weeds and nitrofoss barricade is designed to stop that. I don't care 1208 01:30:17.760 --> 01:30:24.119 if it's a grassy weed or a broad leaf weed. It is in secret 1209 01:30:24.199 --> 01:30:30.560 seclusion, planning to spoil your beautiful lawn show when late spring and summer arrive, 1210 01:30:31.079 --> 01:30:34.119 and you can prevent that with nitroposs barricade. You want to put it 1211 01:30:34.199 --> 01:30:39.039 down at the label rate. Always follow the label rate. It is the 1212 01:30:39.399 --> 01:30:44.199 rate that works best and won't damage. And the label rate is very important. 1213 01:30:44.399 --> 01:30:46.079 And then watered in with about a half inch of water. A half 1214 01:30:46.119 --> 01:30:50.279 inch of water moves it into the soil surface to create that barricade over the 1215 01:30:50.359 --> 01:30:54.000 surface. Now where do you get it? Well, are you in Katie, 1216 01:30:54.319 --> 01:30:57.399 Go out to Ktas Hardware They've got it. There. Are you in 1217 01:30:57.520 --> 01:31:00.920 the Memorial area Memorial Drive, Ace Hardware City has got it. And down 1218 01:31:01.000 --> 01:31:04.119 at Stanton Shopping Center in Alvin they've got it as well. We're going to 1219 01:31:04.159 --> 01:31:08.840 take a break. I'll be right back seven one three two one two ktr 1220 01:31:09.039 --> 01:31:13.359 H. Welcome back to guard Line. Glad you're listening today. What do 1221 01:31:13.439 --> 01:31:15.760 you want to talk about? That's what we'll talk about Just give us a 1222 01:31:15.840 --> 01:31:20.119 call seven one three, two, one two five eight seven four seven one 1223 01:31:20.199 --> 01:31:26.840 three two and two fifty eight seventy four. If you don't already know it, 1224 01:31:26.960 --> 01:31:30.279 you need to know this. The Arburgate Nursery up in Tombul, Texas 1225 01:31:30.520 --> 01:31:34.319 has a wonderful new parking lot in the back. It's off of Triischel Road. 1226 01:31:34.359 --> 01:31:39.159 Trishel is a little road that as you're driving down twenty nine to twenty 1227 01:31:39.239 --> 01:31:43.079 and you're passing Arburgate before you get there, Trishel goes around behind Arburgate and 1228 01:31:43.119 --> 01:31:46.039 then after you pass Arburgate it comes back down into twenty twenty again. So 1229 01:31:46.199 --> 01:31:49.720 even if you miss it the first time, you just drive past and you 1230 01:31:49.920 --> 01:31:55.199 catch it the second time. Great all weather parking lot. It is wonderful 1231 01:31:55.680 --> 01:31:59.640 easy access to the nursery. Now while you're at Arburgate, you know what 1232 01:31:59.680 --> 01:32:02.359 you're going to find. You're gonna find every cool plant that you can imagine. 1233 01:32:02.479 --> 01:32:06.239 They always have fruit treats for sale at Arburgate, and now's a great 1234 01:32:06.319 --> 01:32:11.439 time to get one and get it planted. Their selection of herbs and tomatoes, 1235 01:32:11.600 --> 01:32:15.920 their selection with annual flowers is outstanding, and at Arburgate, the staff 1236 01:32:16.159 --> 01:32:21.520 is incredibly knowledgeable. You know Beverly and Canon and all of the staff there. 1237 01:32:23.079 --> 01:32:27.199 They greet you, they answer your questions, They take you to the 1238 01:32:27.239 --> 01:32:30.840 plant you need. They give you ideas, they help you resolve problems. 1239 01:32:30.520 --> 01:32:34.279 Maybe you've got an area that's too shady, Well walk over the area where 1240 01:32:34.319 --> 01:32:39.039 they keep their shade loving plants and tell them what you're looking for. I 1241 01:32:39.159 --> 01:32:43.000 need some beautiful white plants. I need some plants that will do well in 1242 01:32:43.079 --> 01:32:46.520 this or that situation. They'll set you up while you're there. Remember brown 1243 01:32:46.560 --> 01:32:49.279 stuff, brown stuff, brown stuff. We talk about it. We talk 1244 01:32:49.279 --> 01:32:53.279 about it, we talk about it. They've got the Organic Food Complete, 1245 01:32:53.399 --> 01:32:58.039 which is a fertilizer, organic fertilizer. They've got Organic Soil Complete, which 1246 01:32:58.199 --> 01:33:01.600 is a soil blend that you plant right into and it has the expanded shale 1247 01:33:01.600 --> 01:33:05.399 in it. And then the Organic Compost Complete, and that is a compost. 1248 01:33:05.560 --> 01:33:09.920 We're also with the expanded shehal Listen. Organic matter is wonderful. It 1249 01:33:10.000 --> 01:33:14.439 breaks down in time and goes away, turns towards humus. The expanded shell 1250 01:33:14.479 --> 01:33:18.960 will help keep those clay particles apart and keep that soil open for a longer 1251 01:33:19.399 --> 01:33:23.279 period of time. We're going to go out to League City now and talk 1252 01:33:23.359 --> 01:33:28.199 to Dina. Hello, Dina, Hello, how are you? I'm wonderful 1253 01:33:28.239 --> 01:33:31.000 today it's spring and I'm a gardener. Thank you for taking my call. 1254 01:33:31.840 --> 01:33:36.479 I have ragweeds that's taking over my flower bed. I'm pulling it up by 1255 01:33:36.600 --> 01:33:41.199 hand, but it's killing me and I'm trying to figure out how to get 1256 01:33:41.319 --> 01:33:45.600 rid of its ragweed. You have flowers in the bed now, Yes, 1257 01:33:45.920 --> 01:33:49.239 I have lantana in the bed right now. When you pull up what you're 1258 01:33:49.279 --> 01:33:54.720 calling ragweed, does it not just have one little plant with the troth system, 1259 01:33:54.880 --> 01:33:59.399 but it has like a sideways structure, stem like structure going under ground? 1260 01:34:00.920 --> 01:34:02.680 Is it has? When I pull them up, they come up real 1261 01:34:02.800 --> 01:34:08.199 easily because they're not that big right now. But when when they get big, 1262 01:34:08.319 --> 01:34:13.359 they get tall, but the lead their leaves are smaller with more leaves 1263 01:34:13.600 --> 01:34:18.760 on it. Yeah. Uh so with with the flowers around, it's not 1264 01:34:19.000 --> 01:34:23.600 safe to use a broad leaf herbicide just because a little bit un draft and 1265 01:34:23.680 --> 01:34:28.119 do damage what I have done. And is this a big flower bed or 1266 01:34:28.119 --> 01:34:31.159 a small area? It's a huge flower bed. Okay, the length of 1267 01:34:31.840 --> 01:34:35.000 I'm not going to finish my sentence, then that's it's not a good solution. 1268 01:34:35.760 --> 01:34:39.880 Uh, if you can get it cleaned out. What I've done in 1269 01:34:39.960 --> 01:34:44.880 my gardens is put down newsprint or any you know, brown rolls of craft 1270 01:34:44.920 --> 01:34:48.000 paper kind of thing down on the ground and then throw them malch on top 1271 01:34:48.079 --> 01:34:51.359 of it. You want to wet the paper so that it sticks down in 1272 01:34:51.479 --> 01:34:57.399 holes and that will create a barrier. If it's just mulch, some of 1273 01:34:57.439 --> 01:35:01.199 those weeds with extra energy can push through it. But if the paper will 1274 01:35:01.239 --> 01:35:04.760 work pretty well for you and it's you know, you got to get the 1275 01:35:04.800 --> 01:35:09.239 weeding done and then immediately put the paper down and immediate put mulch on it. 1276 01:35:09.640 --> 01:35:14.439 And that is one technique that paper will decay away in time, like 1277 01:35:14.960 --> 01:35:18.439 meat, paper, paper wrap kind of like that, or cardboard. I 1278 01:35:18.640 --> 01:35:23.920 use newspaper. A newsprints a little harder to find these days, but there 1279 01:35:24.119 --> 01:35:27.720 there are rolls of paper that's kind of like paper sack paper, Does that 1280 01:35:27.840 --> 01:35:30.239 make sense? That kind of thing. You can do that as well. 1281 01:35:30.720 --> 01:35:36.000 Uh, that gives you several months of help. I would encourage you if 1282 01:35:36.039 --> 01:35:40.920 you're doing any transitions in the bed, when you pull out the old stuff, 1283 01:35:41.159 --> 01:35:45.119 that's a good time to hit those weeds and because you can use stuff 1284 01:35:45.159 --> 01:35:48.199 on them. Then that that because you don't have your desirable plants in the 1285 01:35:48.279 --> 01:35:53.479 spot. Another shout out I want to do is I had called Program to 1286 01:35:53.640 --> 01:35:57.720 do composts in my yard. Fertilized and composts, Yes, and they don't 1287 01:35:57.800 --> 01:36:02.039 come as far as League City. But the gentleman referred me to clip Cliff 1288 01:36:02.159 --> 01:36:06.119 Landscaping. He's on Facebook, and he came out and did it and did 1289 01:36:06.199 --> 01:36:11.720 an excellent job. He fertilized it first and then he put the compost down. 1290 01:36:11.880 --> 01:36:15.960 He left my place cleaner than before he left. He didn't, so 1291 01:36:15.039 --> 01:36:19.960 I wanted to give a shout out for him because Program won't come this far 1292 01:36:20.039 --> 01:36:26.159 to League City either, right. So that's right, that's the League City 1293 01:36:26.199 --> 01:36:29.039 area. You're kind of out there on the edge of the world. And 1294 01:36:29.159 --> 01:36:32.960 Green Greenpro is a great surface service. They do a really good job. 1295 01:36:33.760 --> 01:36:38.319 But you're He preferred me to this guy, and he said if he does 1296 01:36:38.399 --> 01:36:41.479 a good job, call me back because he says I need some contact in 1297 01:36:41.560 --> 01:36:45.079 League City. Yeah. Also, I had one more question. Would crab 1298 01:36:45.319 --> 01:36:50.720 and lobster Neptune Crab and lobster do well putting it down before put the cardboard, 1299 01:36:50.800 --> 01:36:56.319 so they save the calcium helps keep the weeds from coming up. I 1300 01:36:56.399 --> 01:37:00.640 don't believe that about the calcium helping weeds, so I would not I would 1301 01:37:00.680 --> 01:37:04.800 not use it for that. Would you use grabbing lobster in your garden bed? 1302 01:37:05.159 --> 01:37:10.159 You can? It's an organic material. And uh so, people that 1303 01:37:10.239 --> 01:37:14.640 have nematods, that's a good thing to do because the things that can attack 1304 01:37:14.760 --> 01:37:21.199 nematodes, the kitan in those sea creature shells. Kitan helps feed the things 1305 01:37:21.239 --> 01:37:25.680 that attack nematods. So it's not going to kill all your nematodes, but 1306 01:37:25.800 --> 01:37:29.880 you're creating a soil that nemetdes aren't thriving in and are having a hard time 1307 01:37:29.960 --> 01:37:32.760 with. But that would be the time I would use it. And I 1308 01:37:32.840 --> 01:37:39.119 get my compost from Hornhey Garden Hora Gardens in Alvin. Yeah, and he 1309 01:37:39.239 --> 01:37:42.720 has an mix of composts and stuff, so I get that from him. 1310 01:37:43.279 --> 01:37:47.960 You just know all the good places down there. Yeah. Every time I 1311 01:37:48.000 --> 01:37:50.920 go to Hoges, I was like, oh now you got that. This 1312 01:37:51.039 --> 01:37:54.520 spring I went out there, I was like, good night, I didn't 1313 01:37:54.520 --> 01:37:58.039 know you had that many fruit trees. He's always got something. Yeah, 1314 01:37:58.239 --> 01:38:01.359 he's got great prices too. Well, thank you. So much for the 1315 01:38:01.720 --> 01:38:04.680 recommendation, and that's what I'll do. I appreciate that, all right, 1316 01:38:04.760 --> 01:38:09.640 Diana, thanks for the call. I appreciate that very much. Since we're 1317 01:38:09.640 --> 01:38:14.439 talking about southeast Houston down there with the League City and whatnot, League City 1318 01:38:14.560 --> 01:38:17.640 Feed, that is your hometown feed store for that whole region. You know, 1319 01:38:17.920 --> 01:38:23.239 Lovemark and clear Lake City and Santa Fe and Dickinson and Webster, all 1320 01:38:23.319 --> 01:38:28.840 that region down there. League City Feed. They've been around actually the building 1321 01:38:28.960 --> 01:38:32.159 was built forty years ago in what we used to be an Okra patch and 1322 01:38:32.359 --> 01:38:35.279 it's just your great old time feed store. You know. They help you. 1323 01:38:35.359 --> 01:38:39.239 They care stuff out for you. If I talk about a fertilizer, 1324 01:38:39.359 --> 01:38:42.960 they've got it. League City Feed, including things like asimite and soils like 1325 01:38:43.039 --> 01:38:47.279 heirloom soils for example. They just carry it. All things to control pest 1326 01:38:47.359 --> 01:38:53.000 diseases and weeds, they've got it. They have a high quality pet food 1327 01:38:53.039 --> 01:38:57.640 selection, a really good pet really good things for your pets. Now. 1328 01:38:57.880 --> 01:39:01.399 They are on a Highway three, just a few blocks south of Highway ninety 1329 01:39:01.479 --> 01:39:08.119 six in League City. They're open nine to six, so after work every 1330 01:39:08.199 --> 01:39:11.159 day after work, you can just swing by there and you have time to 1331 01:39:11.239 --> 01:39:14.239 grab the stuff you need, and that include Saturday too, nine am to 1332 01:39:14.319 --> 01:39:17.119 six pm. Closed on Sunday. But go to Lake City Feed. You'll 1333 01:39:17.119 --> 01:39:21.560 get everything you need. And I just enjoy always going in there and visiting 1334 01:39:21.640 --> 01:39:27.560 with Wes about what's going on. We're going to head now back out to 1335 01:39:27.720 --> 01:39:32.560 the phones and I'm going to talk to Cleveland or Brian in Cleveland. Hello, 1336 01:39:32.680 --> 01:39:38.119 Brian, Hello, sir, how are you? I'm well, I 1337 01:39:38.239 --> 01:39:40.560 got a question for you. I have quite a few fruit trees and I 1338 01:39:40.600 --> 01:39:44.479 have two pop all trees on the way, and I know when they're young 1339 01:39:44.800 --> 01:39:47.000 they kind of need some shade. But at what age can I put them 1340 01:39:47.119 --> 01:39:53.960 or what height can I put them in? Like full sun? Well, 1341 01:39:54.760 --> 01:39:58.319 that's a good question, and it's a gradual answer. It's not just real 1342 01:39:58.399 --> 01:40:02.359 specific. Papa is in the forest where it occurs. It's an understory and 1343 01:40:02.800 --> 01:40:08.159 as a result, that's why you know they generally don't like the brunt of 1344 01:40:08.239 --> 01:40:10.800 the sun. How are you going to shade them in the early days? 1345 01:40:11.399 --> 01:40:15.560 By the way, Well, there three to four feet tall the ones I 1346 01:40:15.760 --> 01:40:17.239 ordered right now, That's what I'm trying to figure out. I could either 1347 01:40:17.279 --> 01:40:21.479 do a sunshade and I had some grape arbors made that I could potentially put 1348 01:40:21.520 --> 01:40:27.399 them under that and just move the arbors later, okay, as get older, 1349 01:40:27.600 --> 01:40:30.199 Well, you got them coming in, so I would I would do 1350 01:40:30.319 --> 01:40:33.039 that, and I would orient the shade if you can, so that at 1351 01:40:33.159 --> 01:40:39.000 least from noon on through the afternoon you're getting a break from the hot sun. 1352 01:40:40.039 --> 01:40:44.000 That and a big shade cloth could do that. It allows the air 1353 01:40:44.079 --> 01:40:46.039 to go through, so it's not likely to blow away in the wind, 1354 01:40:46.159 --> 01:40:50.000 at least not as much as a tarp or something would. Yes, sir, 1355 01:40:50.880 --> 01:40:54.720 so about what? But how old or what height? Do you think 1356 01:40:54.720 --> 01:40:57.600 I could like let them have the full sun that they require to produce. 1357 01:40:58.960 --> 01:41:00.039 Is there is there a number of the or is it just going to watch 1358 01:41:00.079 --> 01:41:02.760 it? Yeah, it's a gradual thing. If you're buying a tree, 1359 01:41:02.840 --> 01:41:09.840 it's is it. Did they give a variety name for it? Yeah? 1360 01:41:10.079 --> 01:41:14.319 I think one of them is Pennsylvania. I think I remember the other Those 1361 01:41:14.399 --> 01:41:17.439 have been grafted, and so when you graft, you you get a head 1362 01:41:17.560 --> 01:41:23.920 start. And because you're taking older wood to graft onto a young rootstock, 1363 01:41:24.479 --> 01:41:27.920 and as a result, you're going to get your production. I don't know 1364 01:41:28.079 --> 01:41:31.560 the age of production on popa off hand. Uh, but you could go 1365 01:41:31.680 --> 01:41:34.439 look it up as to how many how long it takes to begin production. 1366 01:41:34.600 --> 01:41:39.079 And that's about the point where you'd probably want to start to give it a 1367 01:41:39.119 --> 01:41:42.720 little more light because it's going to be bigger. It's gonna be bigger any 1368 01:41:42.800 --> 01:41:45.079 hard to it's gonna be hard to shade at that state. Well, yeah, 1369 01:41:45.119 --> 01:41:47.239 I know, I know that they require the full sun to produce. 1370 01:41:47.279 --> 01:41:50.319 I just didn't know it. You know what age are we talking that they 1371 01:41:50.359 --> 01:41:55.000 could you know, take the full sun text? You know that's right? 1372 01:41:55.119 --> 01:41:58.399 Okay, Well, good luck with it. I appreciate your call. And 1373 01:41:58.680 --> 01:42:00.800 uh yeah, like we say, we all require half of your produce for 1374 01:42:00.960 --> 01:42:05.840 the free answer you just got so just leave some Papa's on the doorstep at 1375 01:42:05.920 --> 01:42:11.199 the radios. Yeah, take Eric. I appreciate that. Brian. Good. 1376 01:42:11.439 --> 01:42:15.479 Good to visit with you. For sure. Nature's Way resources is up 1377 01:42:15.520 --> 01:42:18.279 on Highway forty five Interstate forty five. If you go up toward Conroe where 1378 01:42:18.439 --> 01:42:25.159 fourteen eighty eight comes in from Magnolia, you just turnet. Turning toward Magnolia, 1379 01:42:25.159 --> 01:42:28.199 you go the other way across the railroad tracks and your Nature's Way. 1380 01:42:28.640 --> 01:42:31.560 They are having their big shindig on March ninth, and guess what day March 1381 01:42:31.680 --> 01:42:35.560 ninth is today, and they'd be from nine to two. They're gonna have 1382 01:42:35.640 --> 01:42:40.479 speakers, They're gonna have stuff for the kids to do. They're gonna have, 1383 01:42:40.600 --> 01:42:43.720 you know, grab a little sip of sangria to walk around and enjoy 1384 01:42:43.800 --> 01:42:45.680 yourself. Make sure and leave room in the car. You got to bring 1385 01:42:45.760 --> 01:42:50.479 plants home. Did you know they have a really nice growing native plant nursery 1386 01:42:50.680 --> 01:42:56.319 there they do. You're going to load up on bags of whatever product you 1387 01:42:56.439 --> 01:43:00.600 need. And Nature's Way has every kind of soil product, soil enhancing product 1388 01:43:01.039 --> 01:43:03.800 that you would need. They carry it there, or you can just give 1389 01:43:03.840 --> 01:43:08.159 them a call. Haven't come deliver it to where you live. Remember the 1390 01:43:08.239 --> 01:43:14.119 brown stuff, and nobody makes brown stuff better than Nature's Way. John has 1391 01:43:14.159 --> 01:43:16.880 been doing this for years. He created ros soil, he created leafmo composts, 1392 01:43:17.439 --> 01:43:20.720 the things that are now standards in the industry. He knows how to 1393 01:43:20.800 --> 01:43:25.640 do it. Nature's Way resources there on. If you want the address, 1394 01:43:25.720 --> 01:43:30.399 it's Sherbrooke Circle, Conrod, Texas, or you can call them nine three 1395 01:43:30.479 --> 01:43:34.880 six two seven three twelve hundred or go to the website. It's easy Nature's 1396 01:43:35.199 --> 01:43:41.000 Way Resources dot Com. Well, it's time for us to take another little 1397 01:43:41.039 --> 01:43:43.560 break here. If you would like to get on the boards, give Josh 1398 01:43:43.640 --> 01:43:47.439 a call it seven one three two to one two kt r H and Rich, 1399 01:43:47.560 --> 01:43:49.920 Dina and Cookie. We will get to you when we come back. 1400 01:43:50.760 --> 01:43:57.079 Welcome back to Guardline. Glad you're listening today. I am looking forward to 1401 01:43:57.119 --> 01:43:59.920 your question. You can give us call it seven one three two one two 1402 01:44:00.520 --> 01:44:04.720 fifty eight seventy four seven three fifty eight seventy four. Let's go out to 1403 01:44:04.760 --> 01:44:09.560 spring. Now we're gonna talk to Rich. Hello, Rich, Good morning, 1404 01:44:09.640 --> 01:44:13.159 sir, morning Skip. I sent you a picture of my Saint Augustine 1405 01:44:13.600 --> 01:44:20.359 lawn that uh has really popped greened up, really nice, dark and I 1406 01:44:20.439 --> 01:44:26.039 think it's the result of two things. I used the Nelson slow and easy, 1407 01:44:26.479 --> 01:44:32.760 and then I also did a liquid application of diesel exhaust fluid and I 1408 01:44:32.960 --> 01:44:36.239 was very skeptical. I looked at it online. I said, wait a 1409 01:44:36.239 --> 01:44:42.560 minute, it's urea and water and it really it really worked. Well, 1410 01:44:43.920 --> 01:44:46.880 yeah, I'm not I'm just not going to comment on it. I've heard 1411 01:44:46.920 --> 01:44:51.199 of things like that, people using it. I just, uh, we're 1412 01:44:51.239 --> 01:44:59.079 just getting outside of the labeled applications of things and stuff. So your lawn 1413 01:44:59.319 --> 01:45:02.159 looks good. Uh, and uh it certainly does. I see your your 1414 01:45:02.239 --> 01:45:05.119 pop out there and he seems to be happy with the place as well. 1415 01:45:06.319 --> 01:45:11.039 Yes, yeah, all right, And so you basically just want to tell 1416 01:45:11.079 --> 01:45:14.560 me about that or did you have a question. No, I just wanted 1417 01:45:14.600 --> 01:45:16.319 to share and see if you you know what you knew about it, and 1418 01:45:16.439 --> 01:45:19.600 if other people were interested. Yeah, I'd like to. I'm not going 1419 01:45:19.680 --> 01:45:23.159 to comment on I have heard about it before. I know people that talk 1420 01:45:23.199 --> 01:45:26.840 about that using that and uh, but I'm just trying to kind of stay 1421 01:45:26.920 --> 01:45:30.399 with the products that are basically made and sold for gardening. So I'm gonna 1422 01:45:30.399 --> 01:45:32.600 I'm gonna turns pass on going any further. Thank you though for letting me 1423 01:45:32.720 --> 01:45:36.800 know. And uh, I always especially especially appreciate getting a photo so I 1424 01:45:36.880 --> 01:45:41.600 can see things that are going on. Well you take care, sir. 1425 01:45:42.319 --> 01:45:45.800 Uh. We're going to go now out to League City and talk Noe. 1426 01:45:45.800 --> 01:45:49.439 We've already talked to Dina today. What what's going on out there? Accidentally 1427 01:45:49.520 --> 01:45:55.720 with the wrong call, all right, so now let's go to Sillsby and 1428 01:45:55.960 --> 01:46:00.399 talk to Cookie. Hello, Cookie, Hello, how you doing today? 1429 01:46:00.359 --> 01:46:08.159 I'm doing fine. I have a question actually about three different weeds, and 1430 01:46:08.319 --> 01:46:11.479 they all might need the same thing. So let me tell you what I 1431 01:46:11.680 --> 01:46:15.000 have. I have a weed that's coming up my yard. It looks like 1432 01:46:15.119 --> 01:46:18.319 a chive. It has a small white flower on the top of the little 1433 01:46:18.399 --> 01:46:23.079 yold center and when you dig it up, it has this little small bulb 1434 01:46:23.319 --> 01:46:28.199 at the bottom in the ground. That's one weed I'm having a problem with. 1435 01:46:28.279 --> 01:46:30.079 It seems like I dig him up and they just, you know, 1436 01:46:30.239 --> 01:46:33.000 keep popping up. And then I think this is the time of year you 1437 01:46:33.159 --> 01:46:36.199 take care of Virginia button weed. I really don't have a lot. I 1438 01:46:36.279 --> 01:46:40.079 have a little, but it's and I try to get there and pull up 1439 01:46:40.079 --> 01:46:43.199 in the morning when the ground's damp, and sometimes I get off the root 1440 01:46:43.239 --> 01:46:45.079 and sometimes I don't. But it seems like it's the gift that keeps on 1441 01:46:45.279 --> 01:46:47.600 giving, you know. I just have a little bit here and there. 1442 01:46:48.560 --> 01:46:53.640 And I'm actually in for the third weed for a neighbor of mine who has 1443 01:46:53.800 --> 01:46:59.279 an infestation of dollar weed. Oh wow, is it pretty extensive? His 1444 01:46:59.439 --> 01:47:06.439 infestiation it's fairly yeah, fairly large. Well, let's start off with the 1445 01:47:06.600 --> 01:47:12.199 first one. The first one is either wild onion or wild garlic. It 1446 01:47:12.279 --> 01:47:16.199 doesn't really matter what uh and that weed. If you're going to get something 1447 01:47:16.239 --> 01:47:18.800 that has like a two four D type product in it, that can be 1448 01:47:18.880 --> 01:47:24.840 helpful. There are some other products that that are pretty effective that are combinations 1449 01:47:24.880 --> 01:47:28.319 of things. You just got to get it on the plants and stay with 1450 01:47:28.520 --> 01:47:31.199 it because every time it gets the leaves up, then the next thing, 1451 01:47:31.239 --> 01:47:36.640 you know, we're dealing with We're dealing with the fact that it's replenished the 1452 01:47:36.720 --> 01:47:42.560 bulb and now it's even a stronger weed than it was, right yeah, 1453 01:47:42.640 --> 01:47:46.359 and so that you don't want to give it a chance to come up for 1454 01:47:46.560 --> 01:47:51.399 control. Okay, right, okay, So what I put on it or 1455 01:47:51.439 --> 01:47:56.520 you get into that, well, I'm well, a product that contains two 1456 01:47:56.560 --> 01:48:01.920 four D so uh yeah, now four D two come a four h D 1457 01:48:02.119 --> 01:48:05.800 as in dog. Yeah, and it's in it's in products that have TRIMEC. 1458 01:48:05.880 --> 01:48:10.760 It's it. You can buy it individually and spray it, or you 1459 01:48:10.880 --> 01:48:14.000 can use you know, other other things like that. I want to go 1460 01:48:14.079 --> 01:48:16.520 on to the Virginia button read if we could, uh the product I would 1461 01:48:16.600 --> 01:48:20.079 get. There are more than one product that's label for it. But as 1462 01:48:20.119 --> 01:48:25.520 far as something you can get a hold of you can do something called celsius 1463 01:48:27.039 --> 01:48:32.880 celsius like fahrenheit and celsius uh. And it it is available. It's doesn't 1464 01:48:32.920 --> 01:48:36.279 take much of it. It's a little bit pricey. But the thing that's 1465 01:48:36.319 --> 01:48:40.000 good about it is you can use it even when the weather warms up a 1466 01:48:40.039 --> 01:48:42.359 little bit. It can be in the low nineties and it's still locy to 1467 01:48:42.399 --> 01:48:45.880 you celsius uh and it will Can you spell that for me? So I 1468 01:48:45.960 --> 01:48:53.960 don't, Yes, yes, c E l s I U s celsius and 1469 01:48:54.079 --> 01:48:59.000 so that that would work. There are combo products, you know that. 1470 01:48:59.119 --> 01:49:01.199 They'll have the two four D, the hubdi Camba in them, and some 1471 01:49:01.359 --> 01:49:04.920 other things. Not all of them are labeled for Saint Augustine. I would 1472 01:49:05.000 --> 01:49:09.439 use the Celsius. It's good to have it on hand because it fits a 1473 01:49:09.560 --> 01:49:15.279 niche a niche a niche that other control products don't, mainly being able to 1474 01:49:15.399 --> 01:49:19.479 use it safely in warmer not one hundred degree, but in warmer temperatures, 1475 01:49:20.199 --> 01:49:25.800 and it would work well. The Virginia button weed single applications may not do 1476 01:49:25.920 --> 01:49:29.680 it. Cels is pretty good, but just be ready to come back and 1477 01:49:29.760 --> 01:49:32.079 get it again. Don't give it a chance to get up and growing. 1478 01:49:32.760 --> 01:49:38.079 Okay, okay, and then a pre emergent that prevents the seeds of it 1479 01:49:38.199 --> 01:49:42.279 from germinating would be another good thing, and that would be something we would 1480 01:49:42.279 --> 01:49:46.720 do very early in the spring, like a barricade type product brought. I 1481 01:49:46.800 --> 01:49:51.319 cannot put that down, that barricade. You can if you get it down 1482 01:49:51.359 --> 01:49:57.640 before the weed seed germinates, okay, and follow the label, use it 1483 01:49:57.720 --> 01:50:00.760 at the label rate, and water it in with the half inch of water. 1484 01:50:00.880 --> 01:50:04.199 Sure, okay, thank you so much. You bet you take care. 1485 01:50:08.159 --> 01:50:11.960 One of my favorite garden centers to visit and I try to get around 1486 01:50:12.159 --> 01:50:15.279 all over Houston as much as I can because number one, I love doing 1487 01:50:15.319 --> 01:50:18.399 it, but it helps me step up the date on what's available. One 1488 01:50:18.439 --> 01:50:25.079 of my favorite garden Buchanans down in the Heights. Buchanans Native Plants. That's 1489 01:50:25.119 --> 01:50:29.640 the full name, Buchanans Native plants. They specialize in natives and they have 1490 01:50:29.840 --> 01:50:32.960 natives for all of the region. They have natives for just the huge Houston 1491 01:50:33.239 --> 01:50:36.920 kind of general heastonary. They even delineate them that way if you if that's 1492 01:50:38.000 --> 01:50:42.560 what you want now, they are going to have lots of things color Yes, 1493 01:50:43.199 --> 01:50:45.199 shrubs, Yes, trees, yes, fruit, yes, house plants. 1494 01:50:45.239 --> 01:50:49.439 Oh my gosh, yes, it's unbelievable. Right now, you got 1495 01:50:49.560 --> 01:50:56.479 to go by if you've never seen Tangerine Beauty crossline. Tangerine Beauty crossline cross 1496 01:50:56.520 --> 01:51:01.439 lines a native plant. Tangerine Beauty is a cultovar of crossbine and it's just 1497 01:51:01.560 --> 01:51:08.560 gorgeous. The blooms are in clusters or big old flowery trumpets that are a 1498 01:51:09.000 --> 01:51:13.960 tangerine color. And it is a wonderful plant to use in the right spot 1499 01:51:14.039 --> 01:51:15.199 and need something to grow on. But just go by and look at it 1500 01:51:15.359 --> 01:51:19.439 at Buchanan's Native Plants. I'm going to be there, not too long for 1501 01:51:19.600 --> 01:51:25.920 not next weekend actually, but Buchanans Plants is on East eleventh and the Heights 1502 01:51:26.119 --> 01:51:30.720 and the website is Buchanansplants dot com. Check that out. You will find 1503 01:51:30.800 --> 01:51:35.279 there a wealth of gardening information. They have really put a lot of quality 1504 01:51:35.359 --> 01:51:41.920 stuff online to kind of guide you in your gardening success. Always a good 1505 01:51:42.000 --> 01:51:49.960 day to visit out of Buchanans. The other day I was out getting some 1506 01:51:50.119 --> 01:51:54.319 areas of my lan ready for SOD planning. I'm going to be planting sod 1507 01:51:54.439 --> 01:51:57.760 in some areas where I lost grass last year. I think I've mentioned it 1508 01:51:57.840 --> 01:52:00.159 before, but I took a two week trip away and the worst part of 1509 01:52:00.359 --> 01:52:06.720 summer. My irrigation system for some reason didn't come on, and the chinchbugs 1510 01:52:06.800 --> 01:52:11.039 and brown take all root rode. It's kind of like when the cats away, 1511 01:52:11.079 --> 01:52:14.039 the mice will play. I think I've never had that problem before. 1512 01:52:14.439 --> 01:52:17.319 Chinchbugs or take all root rod in my lawns. I had a little take 1513 01:52:17.359 --> 01:52:21.159 all while back, but when I leave town, it's like green light, 1514 01:52:21.640 --> 01:52:26.560 he's not here, and they take out sections of my lawn. And I 1515 01:52:26.640 --> 01:52:29.920 know some of you have dealt with that as well. When you're planting turf, 1516 01:52:30.279 --> 01:52:31.840 you want to let it warm up just a little bit like we're having 1517 01:52:32.000 --> 01:52:36.159 now in the next few weeks. You can plant turf all the way through 1518 01:52:36.199 --> 01:52:40.680 summer. Of course it does well, but it's a little easier to kind 1519 01:52:40.720 --> 01:52:44.680 of get it in and get it established. The demands aren't so high, 1520 01:52:44.920 --> 01:52:48.159 like one hundred degree July day or August day. You can plant turf, 1521 01:52:48.600 --> 01:52:54.079 but the grass is kneading water and it hardly has a root system when you 1522 01:52:54.119 --> 01:52:57.279 first get it, so you're having to retake care of it easy, but 1523 01:52:57.720 --> 01:53:01.479 prepare the soil first. Randy used to say, he'll phil, he'll fill 1524 01:53:01.720 --> 01:53:05.840 till till something like that. You want to get rid of any weeds that 1525 01:53:05.960 --> 01:53:10.279 you have, and I've been doing that so I don't have competition. Right 1526 01:53:10.319 --> 01:53:13.760 when I laid the terf. You want to fill in any area that you 1527 01:53:13.880 --> 01:53:15.479 need to fill in, and I'm doing that this week because let me be 1528 01:53:15.560 --> 01:53:18.880 planning the week after. Well, it's time for a break now. Our 1529 01:53:19.000 --> 01:53:23.560 number is seven one three, two one two fifty eight seventy four and I'll 1530 01:53:23.600 --> 01:53:28.000 be right back. Welcome back to the garden line. Glad to have you 1531 01:53:28.119 --> 01:53:31.000 with us today. I was talking earlier about my law and the fact that 1532 01:53:31.079 --> 01:53:33.840 I lost a huge section of it. A lot of you have experienced that. 1533 01:53:34.000 --> 01:53:36.000 I get a lot of calls on that, and a lot of people 1534 01:53:36.439 --> 01:53:41.560 email or ask about it. Maybe your landscape kind of went through the same 1535 01:53:41.640 --> 01:53:45.600 thing. Maybe it's time to turn lemons into lemonade. And here's what I 1536 01:53:45.720 --> 01:53:48.399 mean. You're going to have to replant. So let's back up a step 1537 01:53:48.560 --> 01:53:51.520 and let's think about what do you want your place to look like. You 1538 01:53:51.560 --> 01:53:59.239 know, the folks at Peer Scapes, they are specialists in designing outdoor living. 1539 01:54:00.039 --> 01:54:02.960 They are you know, from a deck to an outdoor patio, stone 1540 01:54:03.000 --> 01:54:05.920 patio, Do you want a barbecue pit, kind of built in kind of 1541 01:54:06.000 --> 01:54:11.920 area with a do you want a rock for example, a beautiful rock section 1542 01:54:12.159 --> 01:54:15.479 where you've got flagstone and you have rock walls, maybe water coming over the 1543 01:54:16.760 --> 01:54:20.119 water fountain type of thing. They can do that. Do you need your 1544 01:54:20.119 --> 01:54:26.279 irrigation system checked? Because they are specialists in fixing it and poorly designed, 1545 01:54:26.600 --> 01:54:31.239 poorly operating, poor repair irrigation wastes water and costs as plants. How about 1546 01:54:31.239 --> 01:54:34.640 a fire pit in the backyard? You see what I'm talking about? Anything 1547 01:54:34.720 --> 01:54:41.319 you need Pierscapes, It just it's unbelievable how versatile and how widespread they are 1548 01:54:41.399 --> 01:54:46.119 and so professional. Their landscape designs are gorgeous. They are absolutely outstanding. 1549 01:54:46.600 --> 01:54:53.239 So you know, it just makes sense to deal with a professional when you're 1550 01:54:53.279 --> 01:54:57.319 trying to create that kind of outdoor beauty, and Pierscapes they make it easy. 1551 01:54:57.479 --> 01:54:59.720 I mean, for crying out loud, they're easy to get a hold 1552 01:54:59.760 --> 01:55:02.000 of two eight, one, three, seven oh fifty sixty. You can 1553 01:55:02.039 --> 01:55:06.680 go to their website puerscapes dot com just to get an idea of some of 1554 01:55:06.760 --> 01:55:11.319 the kinds of projects they can do. But big or small, they're able 1555 01:55:11.479 --> 01:55:14.720 to turn your area into a place you want to go out and live in. 1556 01:55:15.279 --> 01:55:19.520 That's Puerscapes. Our phone number is two excuse me seven one three two 1557 01:55:19.600 --> 01:55:24.840 one two ktrh which offer it that way this time if you like to dial 1558 01:55:24.920 --> 01:55:30.880 by the letters. I mentioned earlier that woody ornamentals need to be planted asap. 1559 01:55:30.600 --> 01:55:34.359 Can you plant them twelve months out of the year. Yes, in 1560 01:55:34.520 --> 01:55:41.399 the heat blazing heat of summer, it's hard to give them enough water to 1561 01:55:41.520 --> 01:55:44.720 stay moist, but not so much that you drowned them. It can be 1562 01:55:44.800 --> 01:55:47.600 done. It can be done, But why not do it now and give 1563 01:55:47.760 --> 01:55:55.119 your newly established woody ornamentals weeks and weeks to be able to get a root 1564 01:55:55.159 --> 01:55:59.199 system established so it is a little more resilient. That first year or even 1565 01:55:59.279 --> 01:56:03.319 two is a touch and go tough time for trees. Verdant Tree Farm has 1566 01:56:03.399 --> 01:56:06.640 a selection you need. They grow a lot of different kinds of trees. 1567 01:56:06.880 --> 01:56:13.199 When it comes to palms, hardy palms, then they can get you set 1568 01:56:13.279 --> 01:56:15.680 up. They know how to do them, they know how to establish them, 1569 01:56:15.720 --> 01:56:17.199 and they have good plants too. By the way, when it comes 1570 01:56:17.319 --> 01:56:21.439 to other types of trees, maybe a beautiful deciduous tree. They can get 1571 01:56:21.479 --> 01:56:28.720 you fixed up on that as well. Verdanttreefarm dot com ve er d a 1572 01:56:29.079 --> 01:56:33.560 n T Verdant which means green Treefarm dot com. There's a location in West 1573 01:56:33.560 --> 01:56:38.159 Houston, Parker Cyprus, a location in the Heights where it and Yale come 1574 01:56:38.239 --> 01:56:43.079 together. And down in Pearland there's a location as well, just a few 1575 01:56:43.119 --> 01:56:47.880 blocks from Killing Steakhouse on Broadway Street. Verdant Tree Farm they're an easy call. 1576 01:56:48.359 --> 01:56:51.319 They will help you pick out the right kind of tree and then you 1577 01:56:51.479 --> 01:56:54.680 choose the actual one you want. They bring it, they plant it, 1578 01:56:54.960 --> 01:56:58.760 and if they plant it, they guarantee or they offer a one year warranty 1579 01:56:59.560 --> 01:57:04.920 with that installation included with the installation burden tree form I. You know they 1580 01:57:05.439 --> 01:57:10.119 when they talk about trees, one of the sayings is the best time to 1581 01:57:10.239 --> 01:57:13.119 plant a tree is forty years ago. The second best time is today, 1582 01:57:13.720 --> 01:57:17.920 And that is really true. You want to have success because when you look 1583 01:57:17.960 --> 01:57:23.079 at a home and you look at the value of a home, big beautiful 1584 01:57:23.720 --> 01:57:28.800 trees are critical. Now, back if you go back in time and someone 1585 01:57:28.960 --> 01:57:34.479 had planted a trash tree, well about the time it should be a big, 1586 01:57:34.560 --> 01:57:40.079 beautiful, stately tree. It's coming down because of all kinds of issues 1587 01:57:40.199 --> 01:57:44.159 with limb strength and diseases and other things. So pick a good tree for 1588 01:57:44.319 --> 01:57:47.119 that. But the time to get it done is right away. It adds 1589 01:57:47.199 --> 01:57:51.920 to the value of your home so much, enhancing the value of your home. 1590 01:57:53.039 --> 01:57:56.159 And we love, we love a beautiful tree for a lot. And 1591 01:57:56.279 --> 01:58:01.199 listen, if you live in the in Texas anywhere, are brutal and a 1592 01:58:01.399 --> 01:58:06.960 shade tree over an outdoor sitting area, it's worth its waiting gold, absolutely 1593 01:58:08.039 --> 01:58:12.119 worth its waiting gold. For those of you done in the Richmond area. 1594 01:58:12.439 --> 01:58:15.119 In Chenni Gardens is a place you probably be in there, but if you 1595 01:58:15.199 --> 01:58:17.760 haven't, you absolutely need to go because you live nearby. And there are 1596 01:58:17.760 --> 01:58:23.359 people that come from long distances. Talk to somebody from Austin, Texas one 1597 01:58:23.439 --> 01:58:27.399 day out in Chenna Garden and they drove over to Houston. See what I 1598 01:58:27.520 --> 01:58:30.079 mean about. We're lucky here to have these kind of places. They drive 1599 01:58:30.119 --> 01:58:33.279 all the way here to go to in Chenna Gardens. Now the website, 1600 01:58:33.720 --> 01:58:36.560 you need to go to the website so you can learn all about the place, 1601 01:58:36.600 --> 01:58:41.199 how to get there, how to call them, and everything Enchanted Gardens 1602 01:58:41.680 --> 01:58:45.079 Richmond dot com. And if you're in Richmond and you go up north Katie 1603 01:58:45.159 --> 01:58:50.159 direction, Katie Fullsher Direction, FM three point fifty nine, that's where they're 1604 01:58:50.239 --> 01:58:54.960 located. It's easy to get to. And when you get there, your 1605 01:58:55.000 --> 01:58:59.600 jaw's going to drop because it's big and it's spread out and beautiful, and 1606 01:58:59.720 --> 01:59:01.319 you will under and wonder and what are you gonna find? You're gonna find 1607 01:59:01.359 --> 01:59:06.359 my favorite spring flowering tree. Chinese fringe doesn't get too big, stays a 1608 01:59:06.479 --> 01:59:12.159 moderate size, you know, compared to big shade tree, and it is 1609 01:59:12.520 --> 01:59:16.399 beautiful. It's billows of fragrant, shaggy white blooms in the spring. Yep, 1610 01:59:16.520 --> 01:59:21.319 they've got those there. You're gonna find one of my favorite new plants 1611 01:59:21.399 --> 01:59:27.760 for bedding color and hanging baskets. And that's the supertunias. I used to 1612 01:59:27.800 --> 01:59:30.600 plant the bubblegum v I'd love the bubble gum r It. It's a good 1613 01:59:30.640 --> 01:59:35.760 one still around. They have a new one called Supertuna Vista Jazzberry. It 1614 01:59:35.960 --> 01:59:42.159 is pink on steroids. And these supertunias they put so many blooms. I 1615 01:59:42.199 --> 01:59:45.479 can't quite figure out how the leaves get sunlight, because I mean it is 1616 01:59:45.920 --> 01:59:51.119 wall to wall blooms, just beautiful, season long color. And it's at 1617 01:59:51.359 --> 01:59:57.479 enchanted gardens because they always stay up to date on the latest things when you're 1618 01:59:57.520 --> 02:00:01.760 planning these things up in a container. The jungleland putting soil I was talking 1619 02:00:01.760 --> 02:00:05.119 about earlier was using the indoor, talking about using the indoor one with the 1620 02:00:05.159 --> 02:00:10.159 crystals on my plants. They have an outdoor version as well, and it's 1621 02:00:10.239 --> 02:00:14.119 distributed by Nitrofoss, so you can get it anywhere you get Nitrofoss. This 1622 02:00:14.319 --> 02:00:20.039 product has quality Canadian blond peat mixed with four different types of aged organic materials 1623 02:00:20.319 --> 02:00:26.840 and micro riises of fungi, and your plants just do well. Remember brown 1624 02:00:26.960 --> 02:00:30.800 stuff before green stuff, even if the brown stuff's in a container. You 1625 02:00:30.960 --> 02:00:33.520 want the best you can get so your plants can perform. Where do you 1626 02:00:33.640 --> 02:00:36.680 get it? Shades of Texas up in the woodlands, they've got it. 1627 02:00:38.000 --> 02:00:40.760 You can get it in shanted gardens. I was just talking about them. 1628 02:00:40.840 --> 02:00:44.800 Down to Richmond Rosenberg. You can get it a lot of different places, 1629 02:00:44.880 --> 02:00:49.800 including Fisher's Hardware on South Broadmoor and Broadway Street southeastern the Port area. They 1630 02:00:49.960 --> 02:00:54.560 carry these Nitrofoss products as well. We're going to take a break for the 1631 02:00:54.680 --> 02:00:59.199 news and I will be back in just a bit. I want to give 1632 02:00:59.279 --> 02:01:01.600 you a number so that you can write it down and call it call us. 1633 02:01:01.840 --> 02:01:04.960 I hope you listen to Guardline with a pinner and a paper handy, 1634 02:01:05.119 --> 02:01:09.600 because we're always giving out different things that you want to write down so that 1635 02:01:09.720 --> 02:01:14.159 you can remember them. Our number is seven one three two one two kt 1636 02:01:14.800 --> 02:01:18.520 r H. Now after the show today, I am going to be going 1637 02:01:18.640 --> 02:01:25.359 out to the Antique Rose Emporium for their big shindig. It's a two day 1638 02:01:25.399 --> 02:01:30.319 shindig today and tomorrow. I'll be there today from twelve to two, and 1639 02:01:30.399 --> 02:01:31.840 I hope you'll come out to see me. If you've got samples you want 1640 02:01:31.840 --> 02:01:35.039 to identify it or diagnosed, or photos of the same, make sure the 1641 02:01:35.039 --> 02:01:39.840 photos are in good focus. Let's talk. We'll get you on the right 1642 02:01:40.039 --> 02:01:43.680 track out there. I'm going to start off with a with a talk about 1643 02:01:43.720 --> 02:01:48.079 an hour indoors. I've got slides and video and everything about beneficial insects, 1644 02:01:48.279 --> 02:01:53.640 and I promise you you will learn things you did not know about beneficial insects, 1645 02:01:53.720 --> 02:01:57.960 and you'll realize that it's more than just lady bugs. Everybody knows lady 1646 02:01:57.960 --> 02:02:02.600 bugs. There's a lot of other good, beneficial insects that will enhance our 1647 02:02:02.640 --> 02:02:06.399 gardens because you know they're doing the majority of us control for you. You 1648 02:02:06.520 --> 02:02:11.880 think it's you and the spray wand but in an actuality, the reason we're 1649 02:02:11.920 --> 02:02:15.640 not waiting through our gardens knee deep in aphids is because of a lot of 1650 02:02:15.720 --> 02:02:18.600 beneficials that love to eat aphids. How do you attract them? How do 1651 02:02:18.720 --> 02:02:21.079 you keep them? Then I'll be at a table where I'll be giving away 1652 02:02:21.479 --> 02:02:27.119 some jugs of Microlife sixty four fertilizer. Yep, you can win one about 1653 02:02:27.119 --> 02:02:29.880 every fifteen minutes or so, we'll give one away. I'll have also some 1654 02:02:30.039 --> 02:02:33.840 extra samples of that to give away while we're out there. So make sure 1655 02:02:33.960 --> 02:02:39.520 and get out there and let's talk. Let's find out what is of interest 1656 02:02:39.600 --> 02:02:44.760 to you. Just in the way of a reminder, Tomorrow, the Plumeria 1657 02:02:44.880 --> 02:02:50.399 Society of America is having their early season Plumeria Growing Tips Meeting and it'll be 1658 02:02:50.439 --> 02:02:56.800 at the Bay Area Community Center on East NASA park Way in Sebrook, located 1659 02:02:56.880 --> 02:03:00.520 in clear Leak Park, clear Like Park. Excuse me and Esther from Medina 1660 02:03:00.680 --> 02:03:04.600 is going to be there talking about spring soil prep. And Andy knows a 1661 02:03:04.840 --> 02:03:10.520 lot about all kinds of things related to gardening and soil prep. She knows 1662 02:03:10.560 --> 02:03:14.319 how important that is. There will be some other presentations there as well. 1663 02:03:14.680 --> 02:03:20.199 That is from two to four thirty tomorrow Sunday afternoon, the Area Community Center, 1664 02:03:20.319 --> 02:03:25.319 East Nassa Parkway in Seabrook. I hope you can go out and check 1665 02:03:25.359 --> 02:03:30.319 them out, because I promise you will learn a lot. Katie r H. 1666 02:03:30.439 --> 02:03:33.159 Garden Line does not necessarily endorse any of the products or services advertised on 1667 02:03:33.199 --> 02:03:40.319 this program. Welcome to Katy r h. Garden Line with Skip Richt. 1668 02:03:40.520 --> 02:03:58.079 It's so crazy, Trim. Just watch him as so many goings to zeptasy. 1669 02:04:04.239 --> 02:04:10.079 They're not a sad Welcome back to Garden Line. Lad you're sticking with 1670 02:04:10.239 --> 02:04:13.359 us today. We've got another hour left before we put this show in the 1671 02:04:13.399 --> 02:04:19.960 books, and I head up to Antique Rose Emporium for their big spring shindig. 1672 02:04:20.000 --> 02:04:24.000 I'll be giving a talk. I'll be answering your gardening questions up there, 1673 02:04:24.560 --> 02:04:27.000 and listen. You got to go just to see the place. I 1674 02:04:27.079 --> 02:04:29.840 know a lot of you have not been and you need to see the antique 1675 02:04:29.880 --> 02:04:32.000 rosing part. It is cool. It's like a trip back in time. 1676 02:04:32.720 --> 02:04:36.039 You know you got the antique roses. There's your trip back too. But 1677 02:04:36.159 --> 02:04:39.960 the place is just a showplace. It's really cool and there's gonna be a 1678 02:04:39.960 --> 02:04:42.920 lot of good information going on, not just myself on some time. I'm 1679 02:04:42.920 --> 02:04:45.800 talking about all the talks that are going on out there for their big spring 1680 02:04:46.079 --> 02:04:50.640 shindig. We are going to get to the phones. First thing here, 1681 02:04:50.800 --> 02:04:55.520 jump right on it. We got Bob in Jersey Village. Hello, Bob, 1682 02:04:57.439 --> 02:05:00.079 Hello, how are you today? I'm good? Good? What's up 1683 02:05:00.159 --> 02:05:06.720 today for you? Quick question? Do berries point? How soon after you 1684 02:05:06.800 --> 02:05:11.880 see them blooming? Are they right? Did you say? Do are blue? 1685 02:05:13.680 --> 02:05:18.359 All right? The way you understand that deberries are black berries? Along? 1686 02:05:18.479 --> 02:05:25.239 Got it? Got it? Okay? Well they turn, they go, 1687 02:05:25.520 --> 02:05:29.039 they the berries red and then and then it starts to turn black. 1688 02:05:29.119 --> 02:05:33.600 You won't to let it fully turn black. If you pull on it a 1689 02:05:33.640 --> 02:05:38.600 little bit, it'll pop loose. If it's fully ripe. It also the 1690 02:05:38.760 --> 02:05:44.159 berries are shiny, and they lose the shine dolls a little bit, and 1691 02:05:44.279 --> 02:05:47.319 that's another sign that they're hitting the ripe stage. But if you're pulling on 1692 02:05:47.479 --> 02:05:50.159 one and you're having to have a wrestling match with the planet to get it 1693 02:05:50.239 --> 02:05:55.079 off of there. It's probably not right. Well, I'm seeing them bloom 1694 02:05:55.199 --> 02:05:58.479 right now. They're blooming, yes, now, yes, And I'm just 1695 02:05:58.600 --> 02:06:01.520 wondering how many weeks? Two weeks, three weeks? Boy, I can't. 1696 02:06:02.399 --> 02:06:06.359 Yeah. I grew up picking blueberry dewberries, Bob, and I can't 1697 02:06:06.439 --> 02:06:10.800 tell you how long it is from bloom to harvest on those things. I 1698 02:06:11.199 --> 02:06:14.960 never paid attention to that. But yeah, just watch out when you start 1699 02:06:15.039 --> 02:06:18.239 reaching down at the ground to pick stuff. Uh yeah, well you find 1700 02:06:18.359 --> 02:06:21.119 or you find a copper head in there too, So be a little careful 1701 02:06:21.760 --> 02:06:26.600 out picking them. But they're they're fun, fun, fun, they are 1702 02:06:26.760 --> 02:06:29.920 all right. Thank you all right, Bob, thank you for the call. 1703 02:06:30.039 --> 02:06:34.600 I appreciate that very much. Uh. The product turf Star Weed Dator, 1704 02:06:34.680 --> 02:06:38.079 I've had a lot of people asking me about it. It seems to 1705 02:06:38.119 --> 02:06:41.439 be a lot of excitement about it right now on the on the market. 1706 02:06:41.479 --> 02:06:45.920 It's a newer product, not brand new, but newer, uh Turftar weedaters 1707 02:06:45.960 --> 02:06:50.880 by Nelson Fertilizer, And what it combines is a post emergent weed control with 1708 02:06:51.079 --> 02:06:57.600 a very gradual release fertilizer over time. So instead of saying weed't weed and 1709 02:06:57.840 --> 02:07:01.800 feed, just say weed and weed now feed feed over time. That's the 1710 02:07:01.880 --> 02:07:06.000 better way to put it. It will kill broad leaf weeds and so you've 1711 02:07:06.039 --> 02:07:10.439 got them. It's all the cool season weeds you're looking at. Wet the 1712 02:07:10.479 --> 02:07:13.560 grass just enough to wet the surface. You're not water in the lawn. 1713 02:07:14.039 --> 02:07:17.159 Immediately put down turf star weedonator. It sticks to the wet grass surfaces. 1714 02:07:17.560 --> 02:07:20.640 Give it a day or two to just kind of soak in, and then 1715 02:07:20.760 --> 02:07:25.119 you can water with about a half inch of water to move the fertilizer on 1716 02:07:25.279 --> 02:07:30.520 down into the ground and to have that plant set up for a very gradual 1717 02:07:30.600 --> 02:07:32.760 release. It's going to go on for a couple of months at least. 1718 02:07:33.479 --> 02:07:39.439 It's a very good gradual release fertilizer, and it doesn't just release everything at 1719 02:07:39.439 --> 02:07:41.960 one time, but it gives you the long term feeding. So if you 1720 02:07:42.000 --> 02:07:45.119 look at my schedule that we talk about a spring green up and then a 1721 02:07:45.159 --> 02:07:48.960 long term this would be more of a long term type of feeding with turfstar 1722 02:07:49.079 --> 02:07:51.840 weed needed by the folks at Nelson. I'm going to go out to East 1723 02:07:51.880 --> 02:07:57.760 Houston now and talk to Steve Hello, Steve Hi, good morning, Good 1724 02:07:57.760 --> 02:08:07.039 morning. On the webworms. If I sprayed this, uh it was BTCo 1725 02:08:07.399 --> 02:08:11.479 you had recommended, yes for webworms. Yeah, and if I spray it, 1726 02:08:11.319 --> 02:08:15.760 I'm going to start to spray it. But I've still had berries on 1727 02:08:15.920 --> 02:08:22.720 my possum haul holly, and I don't know if it's somehow deleterious to the 1728 02:08:22.079 --> 02:08:26.680 mocking birds or other birds that come in and feed on them. Not at 1729 02:08:26.680 --> 02:08:30.039 all, Not at all, Okay, No, it's just fine. The 1730 02:08:30.159 --> 02:08:35.960 thing about BT and the webworms and things, typically people encounter them in their 1731 02:08:35.119 --> 02:08:41.239 pecan tree. They attacked me several other species is that BT doesn't last but 1732 02:08:41.319 --> 02:08:46.079 about a day and then it's no longer effective. So you need to get 1733 02:08:46.239 --> 02:08:50.279 really good coverage, which may mean breaking up webs with a strong stream of 1734 02:08:50.359 --> 02:08:54.399 water a long pole if you can reach them, because you've got to get 1735 02:08:54.479 --> 02:08:58.399 the coverage to the foliage. The caterpillars are eating, so they eat it 1736 02:08:58.479 --> 02:09:03.640 in the next twenty four hours. If you don't get good coverage, you're 1737 02:09:03.680 --> 02:09:07.600 not gonna get good control, and you may find yourself spraying again on a 1738 02:09:07.680 --> 02:09:13.000 future a future day to give another shot at it. There's another product. 1739 02:09:13.279 --> 02:09:18.359 I'm assuming you want to go organic because BT is the organic option there and 1740 02:09:18.720 --> 02:09:24.760 spendosaid SPI Nosa D and it soaks into the leaf tissues of the plant. 1741 02:09:24.840 --> 02:09:30.600 It's an organic product, and you could also use that and get a little 1742 02:09:30.680 --> 02:09:37.840 more longer term control. Okay, okay, either one. Either one will 1743 02:09:37.920 --> 02:09:41.600 kill them if you use it, right, Okay. Well, and I 1744 02:09:41.760 --> 02:09:43.920 have no webworms yet, but I was going to go ahead and spray just 1745 02:09:45.000 --> 02:09:48.640 as a preventative. Yes, okay, Well they'll be they'll be hatching out. 1746 02:09:48.680 --> 02:09:52.560 We have a little webworm in the spring sometimes, and then the fall 1747 02:09:52.720 --> 02:09:56.279 is when we really get them, late summer early fall, and that's when 1748 02:09:56.319 --> 02:10:01.439 you really need to be watching for them. The the spring app typically well 1749 02:10:01.960 --> 02:10:07.600 anything can happen in nature, but typically I don't see the major defoliation type 1750 02:10:07.600 --> 02:10:11.880 stuff in the spring, but in the fall we do. Yeah, I 1751 02:10:11.960 --> 02:10:15.600 guess I had seen mine in the on my own and I have never seen 1752 02:10:15.640 --> 02:10:18.680 them. I have a pecan tree in my backyard and I have never seen 1753 02:10:18.079 --> 02:10:20.920 any in the in the in the fall, but I do see them in 1754 02:10:20.960 --> 02:10:26.800 the spring. And well, yeah, interesting maybe now are you are you 1755 02:10:26.880 --> 02:10:30.239 talking about webs out on the branches? Are you talking about webs in the 1756 02:10:30.319 --> 02:10:33.680 little like the v crotch of the limb where two limbs come together. No, 1757 02:10:35.000 --> 02:10:37.319 on the absolutely on the branch, okay, and you can and I 1758 02:10:37.439 --> 02:10:41.560 can, yeah, of course I can see the small worms in there. 1759 02:10:41.119 --> 02:10:45.479 And while I got you on the phone, well, I have about thirty 1760 02:10:45.760 --> 02:10:50.359 have about thirty seconds street and then I will uh, how to how to 1761 02:10:50.520 --> 02:10:56.720 control squirrels from eating my my green pecans? If you have any suggestions, 1762 02:10:56.800 --> 02:11:00.760 and thank you. Yeah, let me let me just say that that is 1763 02:11:00.840 --> 02:11:03.319 a challenge. There's not a good way to do it. If you have 1764 02:11:03.359 --> 02:11:07.920 an isolated tree that you can keep them out of, meaning there's not a 1765 02:11:07.000 --> 02:11:11.039 power line going for them to jump from the power line to the tree, 1766 02:11:11.640 --> 02:11:16.560 you can put a flashing strip around the trunk so they that they can't jump 1767 02:11:16.680 --> 02:11:22.960 above you, and you can have low limbs. They'll get on the get 1768 02:11:22.039 --> 02:11:28.359 up that way too. That's one technique. Other than that squirrel fed pecan 1769 02:11:28.680 --> 02:11:31.880 or a pecan fed squirrel is one of the best eating dumpling meat you'll find. 1770 02:11:33.079 --> 02:11:35.720 So I'll just leave you with that. Yeah, yeah, But unfortunately, 1771 02:11:35.880 --> 02:11:39.720 I don't think my neighbors would like to be shooting. Yeah. Yeah. 1772 02:11:39.840 --> 02:11:41.600 Law enforcement and ballistics. Yeah, you got all kinds of issues. 1773 02:11:41.640 --> 02:11:45.319 Hey, thanks for the call. We're taking a little break here. We'll 1774 02:11:45.359 --> 02:11:52.640 be right back. Welcome back to guards Line. We're in our last forty 1775 02:11:52.720 --> 02:11:54.199 minutes or so of the show today. If you'd like to give us a 1776 02:11:54.239 --> 02:11:58.000 call, now's the time. I'll be back in the morning, six am, 1777 02:11:58.279 --> 02:12:05.960 right and early to do this again. Nursery options here are so amazing. 1778 02:12:07.039 --> 02:12:09.239 I talk about it all the time, but I'm telling you, if 1779 02:12:09.279 --> 02:12:13.640 you have always been around the Houston area, you may not know just how 1780 02:12:13.000 --> 02:12:18.359 good we have it here. We have so many good options and one of 1781 02:12:18.399 --> 02:12:22.920 the best nurseries for all of you. If you're going down south and west 1782 02:12:24.399 --> 02:12:28.920 tarched seabird direction, Moss Nurseries in your backyard. I would encourage people to 1783 02:12:28.000 --> 02:12:33.159 drive a distance to get there because they have a huge variety. And here's 1784 02:12:33.199 --> 02:12:39.039 the thing. The trucks, it's just like lined up down the block to 1785 02:12:39.079 --> 02:12:43.600 get into Moss Nursery. I'm talking about multiple trucks today, plant loads from 1786 02:12:43.640 --> 02:12:46.199 Texas and Florida and California. And then next thing you know, there's five 1787 02:12:46.319 --> 02:12:50.920 deliveries of vegetable plants from some of our local growers coming in last Thursday, 1788 02:12:50.960 --> 02:12:56.960 for example, they started arriving at seven thirty in the morning. Fifteen delivery 1789 02:12:56.039 --> 02:13:01.760 loads later. There were plants on tables and aisles and sidewalks everywhere. They 1790 02:13:01.800 --> 02:13:07.439 have thirty kinds of hanging baskets and what kind of plants, shrubs, vegetables, 1791 02:13:07.520 --> 02:13:11.359 trees, the outstanding health plants selection like you've never seen. Do you 1792 02:13:11.520 --> 02:13:16.119 like the spring bloomers, the old fashioned stuff like the formosa and Judge Solomon 1793 02:13:16.359 --> 02:13:20.399 azaleas. There's a lot of the new repeat bloomers too, and camellias. 1794 02:13:20.479 --> 02:13:24.119 And Jim just got in more of those old African masks. You never know 1795 02:13:24.239 --> 02:13:26.760 what he's gonna buy, and you never know when you turn a corner what 1796 02:13:26.920 --> 02:13:33.039 you're gonna see when you wander through this acres of nursery. Mos Nursery is 1797 02:13:33.159 --> 02:13:37.000 not just another garden center. They're on Toddville Road in Seabrook. Here's the 1798 02:13:37.079 --> 02:13:43.560 website maas Nursery dot com. This two a's two eight one four seven four 1799 02:13:43.880 --> 02:13:46.159 twenty four eighty eight. I always like to go out there. We're gonna 1800 02:13:46.159 --> 02:13:50.760 go talk to Barbara now in Conroad, Texas. Hey you doing Barbara, 1801 02:13:50.920 --> 02:13:54.479 I'm doing this fun. How about you skip. I'm gonna make it. 1802 02:13:54.680 --> 02:13:58.319 I'm gonna make it, all right. We live up here off one oh 1803 02:13:58.399 --> 02:14:03.840 five and call road, and course they widen the road, and now I'll 1804 02:14:03.880 --> 02:14:07.159 get a lot of road noise. And I'm looking to find if some kind 1805 02:14:07.199 --> 02:14:11.960 of trees that I can plant that'll absorb some of that noise. Okay, 1806 02:14:11.680 --> 02:14:16.920 okay? And how far how far do you think the road is from you? 1807 02:14:18.319 --> 02:14:24.159 Oh? Probably about one hundred two hundred feet? Okay, all right. 1808 02:14:26.560 --> 02:14:31.479 There are several principles at work, and I'm gonna I'm gonna talk about 1809 02:14:31.479 --> 02:14:35.319 that. Number One, you want an evergreen, because evergreens have the blocking 1810 02:14:35.439 --> 02:14:41.479 foliage on sound, blocking foliage on year round plants do not remove all the 1811 02:14:41.600 --> 02:14:46.359 noise. They just what are you can muffle the noise down a little bit. 1812 02:14:46.479 --> 02:14:50.399 They do a pretty good job of that. The closer the plants are 1813 02:14:50.479 --> 02:14:54.359 to the sound, the better. Because if you were to draw a line 1814 02:14:54.399 --> 02:14:56.600 from the sound to your house, and you were to put a plant like 1815 02:14:56.800 --> 02:15:03.119 five feet from the sound, those it's blocking ways even though that are higher 1816 02:15:03.319 --> 02:15:07.600 up that it does a better job of blocking, is what I'm trying to 1817 02:15:07.720 --> 02:15:11.319 describe. Right by your house, you'll get you'll get decent blocking as well. 1818 02:15:11.920 --> 02:15:15.760 But I would also do it in layers. If you have a row 1819 02:15:15.760 --> 02:15:18.640 of shrubs followed by a road of taller trees like a liva for example, 1820 02:15:20.319 --> 02:15:24.479 where you'd have canopy that goes up higher. That is important also in the 1821 02:15:26.399 --> 02:15:31.119 blocking of the sound. Okay, I've got some high trees. I mean, 1822 02:15:31.159 --> 02:15:37.039 I've got full, beautiful trees. Okay, okay, Well, so 1823 02:15:37.359 --> 02:15:41.399 you're looking for the specific kinds of plants, right, that's right, yeah, 1824 02:15:41.439 --> 02:15:46.840 okay, So yopon that's trimmed makes a nice hedge. A Southern wax 1825 02:15:46.920 --> 02:15:52.760 myrtle that's trimmed makes a nice tough hedge as well. There are things like 1826 02:15:52.960 --> 02:15:56.960 Japanese u if you plant them close enough together, they may and shear them. 1827 02:15:58.359 --> 02:16:00.560 They make a nice wall. And this is going to you're gonna hear 1828 02:16:00.600 --> 02:16:03.720 this. I'm saying it over and over again, because every time you share 1829 02:16:03.760 --> 02:16:07.640 a planet, it gets denser, and so the sound blocking gets better if 1830 02:16:07.680 --> 02:16:11.159 you just let plants grow wild and naturally they tend to not be so dense. 1831 02:16:11.640 --> 02:16:16.800 And so the show a seven foot fence that I could plant something up 1832 02:16:16.840 --> 02:16:20.319 against. Yeah, and I've heard evergreen we're really good. But yeah, 1833 02:16:20.560 --> 02:16:24.920 any particular top of evergreen. Well, the ones I've given you are already 1834 02:16:26.039 --> 02:16:33.520 or evergreen. The Carolina cherry laurel is evergreen again. Needs this shearing, 1835 02:16:33.600 --> 02:16:37.120 and it needs a fairly well drained soil. It doesn't like a swamp, 1836 02:16:37.280 --> 02:16:41.639 but it will do well, creates a beautiful plant. There's just a lot 1837 02:16:41.680 --> 02:16:48.159 of good options out there. I'd probably in general stay away from junipers and 1838 02:16:48.319 --> 02:16:52.479 arborvitis. They can do a good job. The Eastern red cedar gets really 1839 02:16:52.600 --> 02:16:58.760 big in time, but it does a good job. But typically you're not 1840 02:16:58.840 --> 02:17:01.200 gonna find it in the tray very much. But those others, I mean, 1841 02:17:01.280 --> 02:17:09.399 ship will do fine. Any fast growing type of caroline cherry low is 1842 02:17:09.399 --> 02:17:13.399 pretty fast growing. Uh really, the shared youpine, the shared southern wax 1843 02:17:13.479 --> 02:17:18.280 myrtle moved better, pretty good pace. Uh So, I think you're gonna 1844 02:17:18.319 --> 02:17:20.040 I think you're gonna like what those do. Holly's are fine. They're a 1845 02:17:20.040 --> 02:17:24.680 little more of a challenge to get established. But hollies, uh do Okay, 1846 02:17:24.760 --> 02:17:26.479 they don't grow real fast. Some of them, once they get their 1847 02:17:26.559 --> 02:17:31.200 roots down and get going, they have a good growth rate though. All 1848 02:17:31.280 --> 02:17:35.440 right, any idea of where I could find these junipers, I mean those 1849 02:17:35.479 --> 02:17:39.079 plants. I'm gonna have to go after this. Uh A and A plants 1850 02:17:39.280 --> 02:17:43.559 out in Montgomery is not too far away from you. I would start there 1851 02:17:43.639 --> 02:17:46.120 and talk to them, ask them what they have, but also ask them 1852 02:17:46.159 --> 02:17:48.399 what they can get. They may be able to order them and bring them 1853 02:17:48.399 --> 02:17:50.680 in for it. All right, thank you very much for that call. 1854 02:17:50.760 --> 02:17:56.079 I appreciate that, barber. Uh you heard me earlier talking about microlife humates. 1855 02:17:56.360 --> 02:18:00.959 Now, hummates are that it's the final stage of decomposed organic matter. 1856 02:18:01.319 --> 02:18:07.040 It's the stage it's going to help the soil structure at microbial activity around the 1857 02:18:07.159 --> 02:18:11.719 humates will be excellent. And when you use humates and get that over time 1858 02:18:13.000 --> 02:18:16.200 working its way down into the soil, you're going to end up with a 1859 02:18:16.280 --> 02:18:20.719 better soil structure, which is important. It's the purple bag from microlife humates 1860 02:18:20.760 --> 02:18:24.719 plus the numbers on the bag are is zero zero four because we're not putting 1861 02:18:24.719 --> 02:18:30.280 it down just for nutrients. We're primarily putting it down to enhance the soil 1862 02:18:30.479 --> 02:18:35.399 life and therefore enhance the root system and to build the soil structure over time 1863 02:18:35.600 --> 02:18:39.559 as well. Microlife humates. So when you get that green bag of sixty 1864 02:18:39.680 --> 02:18:43.920 four to fertilize your lawn. Grab a bag of microlife humates to follow that 1865 02:18:43.079 --> 02:18:48.159 up with always good to build soil. Over time you're listening to Garden Line, 1866 02:18:48.559 --> 02:18:52.600 I'm your host, Skip Richter, and we're here to answer gardening questions. 1867 02:18:52.040 --> 02:18:54.440 If you have a question you would like to ask, just give me 1868 02:18:54.479 --> 02:19:00.760 a call at seven one three two p one two five eight seven four seven 1869 02:19:00.840 --> 02:19:05.959 one three two one two fifty eight seventy four. I was in an ACE 1870 02:19:07.000 --> 02:19:11.319 hardware store the other day looking at their BARBIEQ equipment, you know, and 1871 02:19:11.399 --> 02:19:16.040 they've got of course, I always talk about ACE because they're gonna have every 1872 02:19:16.079 --> 02:19:18.920 fertilizer, they're gonna have your soil products, they're gonna have your insecticide, 1873 02:19:20.000 --> 02:19:24.959 fungicide, herbicide products for weeds, and all the tools and stuff. But 1874 02:19:24.280 --> 02:19:28.760 it's the place to go for outdoor living. You know, do you need 1875 02:19:28.040 --> 02:19:31.159 Do you want a beautiful string of those I like we call them beer garden 1876 02:19:31.239 --> 02:19:35.319 lights, but it's a little string of light bulbs, very low wadded or 1877 02:19:35.440 --> 02:19:41.040 LEDs that you hang out to create that soft glow ambiance outside. Yeah, 1878 02:19:41.079 --> 02:19:43.319 they got that. They got barbecue pits too, and they got from the 1879 02:19:43.440 --> 02:19:48.040 top of the line stuff we're talking about like Trager and a Big Green Egg. 1880 02:19:48.520 --> 02:19:52.120 They also have weber pits and all the I was looking at all the 1881 02:19:52.159 --> 02:19:56.200 stuff that goes with the barbeque experience and they have a ton of it. 1882 02:19:56.840 --> 02:20:00.399 Uh. You know, you go in there and if you like things for 1883 02:20:00.479 --> 02:20:03.559 indoor in the house, beautifying and creating, maybe like a farmhouse, look 1884 02:20:05.239 --> 02:20:07.239 all kinds of stuff like that is going to be a Ace Hardware. Go 1885 02:20:07.360 --> 02:20:11.440 to the website Acehardware dot Com. They have a store locator and you can 1886 02:20:11.520 --> 02:20:16.479 find the stores. There'll be more than one near you at Acehardware dot Com 1887 02:20:16.639 --> 02:20:22.200 to the store locator. But if you hear me brag about it or recommend 1888 02:20:22.280 --> 02:20:24.440 it as a soil or a fertilizer here on Guardline, you're going to find 1889 02:20:24.520 --> 02:20:31.440 it in the Ace Hardware stores around the area. I love this time of 1890 02:20:31.600 --> 02:20:35.479 year because it's a time where there's excitement and new hope, and I feel 1891 02:20:35.559 --> 02:20:39.840 it. I've been doing this for many years and I still every spring. 1892 02:20:41.399 --> 02:20:45.680 I just get gardener giddy inside. Ooh, I'm gonna have to trademark that 1893 02:20:45.840 --> 02:20:52.159 gardener giddy. The excitement of that new variety you're trying out of something of 1894 02:20:52.399 --> 02:20:58.040 the luscious tomato. Of the beautiful flowers I was talking earlier about, like 1895 02:20:58.120 --> 02:21:03.760 the bubblegum Supertuna and the other one, the newer one. You just think, 1896 02:21:03.920 --> 02:21:07.040 you know what, what if I put some hanging baskets and really beautified 1897 02:21:07.120 --> 02:21:11.000 this area around here, wouldn't that be cool? Yes, yes, it 1898 02:21:11.040 --> 02:21:15.559 would be cool. It enhances the area that you're growing. But just remember, 1899 02:21:15.680 --> 02:21:22.040 anytime you are working on transforming your landscaping gardens so that you have a 1900 02:21:22.159 --> 02:21:28.360 more bountiful garden, a more beautiful landscape, you start with fixing the soil, 1901 02:21:28.520 --> 02:21:33.159 right, brown stuff before green stuff, and Nature's Way Resources is really 1902 02:21:33.440 --> 02:21:39.840 the one that essentially created and established the quality soil market. And they John 1903 02:21:39.879 --> 02:21:46.879 Ferguson, they created the herb soil working with the Houston Herb Herb Soil, 1904 02:21:48.159 --> 02:21:52.239 Rose Soil, I'm sorry, working with the Houston Rose Society. They have 1905 02:21:52.479 --> 02:21:56.079 soil for vegetable and for herbs that does very well. They've got the mineral 1906 02:21:56.239 --> 02:22:01.440 enhancers that do very very well. They have multi is all kinds of quality 1907 02:22:01.520 --> 02:22:05.239 mulchies and they can tell you what you need. They know what they're talking 1908 02:22:05.280 --> 02:22:07.520 about. Talk to John, talk to Ian out there and you will find 1909 02:22:07.559 --> 02:22:11.799 what you're looking for. They have it by the bag and it's available in 1910 02:22:11.879 --> 02:22:13.840 some garden centers as well. You can pick it up their Nature's Way or 1911 02:22:13.879 --> 02:22:16.799 in a garden center. They've got it by bulk. You can call them 1912 02:22:16.879 --> 02:22:22.280 in order. But today, just as a fyi, is their Spring Garden 1913 02:22:22.399 --> 02:22:26.239 Festival. It's from nine to two today, nine am to two pm. 1914 02:22:26.959 --> 02:22:31.319 And just go to Nature's Way Resources if you don't know where they are. 1915 02:22:31.399 --> 02:22:37.920 If you're heading up forty five toward Conroe where fourteen eighty eight comes in from 1916 02:22:37.959 --> 02:22:41.520 the left, then you just turn right across the railroad tracks and you're there. 1917 02:22:41.799 --> 02:22:43.719 And this Spring Garden FESTI will be a lot of fun, good talks 1918 02:22:43.760 --> 02:22:46.639 and all kinds of things there. But make sure and leave room in your 1919 02:22:46.760 --> 02:22:50.360 car because you need plants. By the way, I didn't tell you this 1920 02:22:50.479 --> 02:22:54.040 time. They've got a Naty plant nursery as well there, so maybe you 1921 02:22:54.159 --> 02:22:58.680 need to attach a trailer. I think that's I think that's the only way 1922 02:22:58.760 --> 02:23:01.479 to go to Nature's Way. You need a lot of good stuff. We're 1923 02:23:01.520 --> 02:23:07.079 going to go to Tallaquah, Oklahoma and talk to Dina. Hello, Dina, 1924 02:23:07.159 --> 02:23:11.680 good morning, how are you. I'm good? Are you listening on 1925 02:23:11.799 --> 02:23:16.680 an app or what I'm listening on my Google. Okay, all right, 1926 02:23:18.120 --> 02:23:22.200 I got a question. So the temperature shirt is to drop to in the 1927 02:23:22.280 --> 02:23:28.719 morning to twenty nine. I have azelias in bloom or not in bloom, 1928 02:23:28.760 --> 02:23:31.120 but budge. You can see the color of them. I have hydrangeles. 1929 02:23:31.239 --> 02:23:35.520 Do I need to cover them all? If it's going to bloom, you 1930 02:23:35.639 --> 02:23:39.040 need to cover it, and if it has tender shoot growth, you need 1931 02:23:39.079 --> 02:23:41.520 to cover it. That's too cold, but it doesn't take much drape a 1932 02:23:41.639 --> 02:23:46.399 cover over, try to have it drop down to the soil, and just 1933 02:23:46.559 --> 02:23:50.000 with the warmth of what's rising from the soil should take care of you. 1934 02:23:50.120 --> 02:23:54.280 At twenty nine degrees, that's okay, that's kind of You're right on the 1935 02:23:54.360 --> 02:23:58.879 line there. But don't need any extra shouldn't need any extra heat. So 1936 02:23:58.239 --> 02:24:03.159 even if you bought tarps to get out there and put over it, anything 1937 02:24:03.200 --> 02:24:05.440 you can cover them with, get them covered for the night. I have 1938 02:24:05.760 --> 02:24:09.920 freeze cloth. Okay, the freeze cloth is good stuff too. Yeah. 1939 02:24:09.959 --> 02:24:13.479 Indeed, we can hang on through break if we need to. But I'm 1940 02:24:13.520 --> 02:24:16.719 about to have to take a break here. But did that answer your question? 1941 02:24:18.639 --> 02:24:22.840 That did Japanese the Japanese maple. Can I spray them with water? 1942 02:24:22.360 --> 02:24:26.639 Don't spray them with don't spray anything with water. Yeah, that's a whole 1943 02:24:26.760 --> 02:24:31.239 other explanation, but I tell you just that, that's all you need to 1944 02:24:31.319 --> 02:24:33.719 know. All right, appreciate the call very much. We're going to take 1945 02:24:33.719 --> 02:24:37.319 a break here for the news some one three two one two ktr H. 1946 02:24:39.760 --> 02:24:43.959 Welcome back to garden Line. Good to have you with us today. Still 1947 02:24:43.000 --> 02:24:46.120 got plenty to talk about. In this last half hour of Garden Line. 1948 02:24:46.479 --> 02:24:52.159 We are going to discuss a number of things that you need to know regarding 1949 02:24:52.280 --> 02:24:54.920 success with your garden. And a lot of that comes from calls, because 1950 02:24:54.920 --> 02:25:00.399 we get questions from people all the time. The folks at Landscapers I have 1951 02:25:00.600 --> 02:25:07.520 a wonderful selection of just all kinds of brown stuff, the brown stuff, 1952 02:25:07.600 --> 02:25:11.600 the first step, the critical step. In fact, twenty seven different bag 1953 02:25:11.840 --> 02:25:15.959 products and bulk available too. You can go to the website Landscaperspride dot com 1954 02:25:16.319 --> 02:25:18.920 find out more about it there. But the things like their potting soil very 1955 02:25:20.079 --> 02:25:22.239 versatile. I mean, add a little bit of gret to it and you 1956 02:25:22.280 --> 02:25:26.479 can even turn it into something that's good for your cactus and succulents. It's 1957 02:25:26.520 --> 02:25:30.719 a very versatile economical potting soil. Now, the pot dirt is an OMNI 1958 02:25:30.840 --> 02:25:33.680 certified organic soil, and listen to this. It is loaded with nutrients, 1959 02:25:33.719 --> 02:25:37.760 it's got worm casting, it's got sand and vermiculite and more things in it. 1960 02:25:39.200 --> 02:25:41.520 So it's excellent for those annual beds. If you've got seasonal color changes, 1961 02:25:41.559 --> 02:25:45.120 you know it's time to put in the spring plants. You can get 1962 02:25:45.120 --> 02:25:50.639 a good popacolor with pot dirt from Landscaper's Pride. The Landscaper's mix is designed 1963 02:25:50.719 --> 02:25:54.719 with fresh pine bark, risols, pearlite, and even a slow release fertilizer 1964 02:25:54.200 --> 02:25:58.639 for improving a bed or for creating a new planting bed because it drains so 1965 02:25:58.760 --> 02:26:01.840 well well. They've got a rose mix. It's very effective for any kind 1966 02:26:01.840 --> 02:26:05.280 of woody plant that you're going to put in. It's got composted pine and 1967 02:26:05.360 --> 02:26:11.239 spagnum and slow release fertilizer. They are just so many products available. Where 1968 02:26:11.280 --> 02:26:13.200 do you get them? Let me make it fast and easy. Go to 1969 02:26:13.479 --> 02:26:20.040 Landscaperspride dot com. Landscaperspride dot com and they'll tell you all the places widely 1970 02:26:20.079 --> 02:26:24.680 available, all the places that you can get their products here in the Greater 1971 02:26:24.239 --> 02:26:28.159 Houston area. We're going to go to Magnolia now and talk to Walter. 1972 02:26:28.440 --> 02:26:33.879 Hello, Walter, Yeah, I'd like to find out what is the best 1973 02:26:33.959 --> 02:26:37.680 fertilizer and put on tomato b asks, you know that. To answer that 1974 02:26:37.879 --> 02:26:41.200 question, right, I need a soil test. And here's what I mean. 1975 02:26:41.719 --> 02:26:46.559 We have fertilizers they say tomato fertilizer on the label, and they're great 1976 02:26:46.639 --> 02:26:50.360 for tomatoes. But if your soil had real high potassium and no phostphish or 1977 02:26:50.399 --> 02:26:56.000 real high phosphors or no potassium or whatever, then the best fertilizer for your 1978 02:26:56.040 --> 02:26:58.680 tomatoes would be a little bit different. And so I would recommend first to 1979 02:26:58.760 --> 02:27:05.040 start with a soil test. For my tomatoes. I use a regular lawn 1980 02:27:05.120 --> 02:27:09.360 type fertilizer and I have good success with them because my soil is already a 1981 02:27:09.440 --> 02:27:13.959 lot of compost has been added, it's got a good nutrient content, and 1982 02:27:13.079 --> 02:27:18.319 that little extra boost and nitrogen is very helpful. But you ask ten people 1983 02:27:18.399 --> 02:27:22.360 that question, you're going to get ten different answers. But the bottom line 1984 02:27:22.520 --> 02:27:26.799 is you want every nutrient the tomato needs in the soil bank account so it 1985 02:27:26.879 --> 02:27:33.879 can draw from that. So where do we get that girl bit. You 1986 02:27:33.000 --> 02:27:41.600 go to soil testing at dot TAMU dot edu and I'll make that easy for 1987 02:27:41.680 --> 02:27:46.920 it. It's TAMU like Texas a m university and dot edu like the first 1988 02:27:48.040 --> 02:27:54.239 three letters of education all colleges and in dot edu soil testing dot TAMU dot 1989 02:27:54.479 --> 02:28:01.079 edu and you can send it in on my website gardening with skip dot com. 1990 02:28:01.639 --> 02:28:07.120 I have a soil testing made easy publication. It's just an info sheet 1991 02:28:07.159 --> 02:28:09.600 that I put together tells you exactly how to take a sole test right so 1992 02:28:09.760 --> 02:28:20.000 you get good results. But I'll tell you go ahead. Well, yeah, 1993 02:28:20.040 --> 02:28:24.840 I was just gonna say, uh, don't worry about the specific tomato 1994 02:28:24.920 --> 02:28:28.879 fertilizer too much. You get to if I talk about a fertilizer like here 1995 02:28:28.959 --> 02:28:33.040 for lawns, aside from the ones that have herbicide in them. Uh, 1996 02:28:33.280 --> 02:28:37.840 they're going to do fine for your tomatoes until you reach the point where you've 1997 02:28:37.920 --> 02:28:41.399 tested the soil and now you're a little more enlightened on which direction you might 1998 02:28:41.479 --> 02:28:43.879 want to go. You're not going to mess anything up just to get them 1999 02:28:43.920 --> 02:28:48.920 some nitrogen for this year. Yeah. I've always tripled thirtin and had good 2000 02:28:50.000 --> 02:28:54.719 luck. But yeah, I didn't something I would. You know, those 2001 02:28:54.920 --> 02:29:00.399 long ago were the fertilizers that were recommended. But what we found is that 2002 02:29:00.840 --> 02:29:05.280 over time that middle number, it doesn't really go away, It just builds 2003 02:29:05.399 --> 02:29:09.479 up, and over time we can get that middle number too high. Your 2004 02:29:09.559 --> 02:29:16.239 tomato plant does not take up nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium in a one 2005 02:29:16.479 --> 02:29:20.399 one one ratio or in the other product you said, a one two one 2006 02:29:20.600 --> 02:29:24.639 ratio. It takes up mostly in nitrogen, a little bit of phosphorus, 2007 02:29:24.719 --> 02:29:31.879 and a moderate amount of potassium. So I wouldn't. I wouldn't use those, 2008 02:29:31.440 --> 02:29:35.920 you know, for the next decade every year because you're heading in the 2009 02:29:35.000 --> 02:29:39.280 wrong direction. It's not going to change things one year, but over time. 2010 02:29:43.200 --> 02:29:46.879 Okay, we'll send us ass off and see what they say. Appreciate 2011 02:29:46.920 --> 02:29:48.879 it all right, and you know the rule on guarden line. My advice 2012 02:29:50.000 --> 02:29:52.680 is free. I just ask you to bring half the tomatoes and leave with 2013 02:29:52.799 --> 02:29:56.959 the station for me. Well, we can't. We can't amall we made 2014 02:29:58.000 --> 02:30:03.840 for con salt. I will. I'll settle for jars of spaghetti impcante. 2015 02:30:03.959 --> 02:30:07.079 That's okay, you can do that. Thanks a lot, man, Hey, 2016 02:30:07.120 --> 02:30:11.600 I appreciate your calling. Thanks for being a listener. You take care. 2017 02:30:11.840 --> 02:30:16.079 That's funny. Have you ever grown tomatoes in a container? You know 2018 02:30:16.200 --> 02:30:22.399 you can do that? Right in a container, you can grow any kind 2019 02:30:22.440 --> 02:30:26.879 tomato won't grow if the container's big enough. Now it needs to be large 2020 02:30:26.000 --> 02:30:31.959 enough, and that's important because I've grown tomatoes in five gallon buckets with holes 2021 02:30:31.200 --> 02:30:35.120 drilled in the bottom before, and that's okay. But what I found is 2022 02:30:35.360 --> 02:30:41.799 I was watering them twice a day because when water becomes a little less available, 2023 02:30:41.360 --> 02:30:48.159 you get slower growth and less fruit set. And you're growing these things 2024 02:30:48.200 --> 02:30:52.719 to grow fruit. When water becomes erratically available, it's very watered now and 2025 02:30:52.920 --> 02:30:56.360 by the end of the day it's very dry. Blossom undrot is a bigger 2026 02:30:56.399 --> 02:31:03.040 problem. So for tomatoes, you need at least ten gallon container, and 2027 02:31:03.319 --> 02:31:05.120 you know they'll often they don't tell you how many gallons is in it, 2028 02:31:05.200 --> 02:31:09.959 but you get the two five gallon buckets worth the soil about that size of 2029 02:31:09.000 --> 02:31:13.360 a container, or you can get bigger, and bigger is okay. It 2030 02:31:13.479 --> 02:31:18.520 is okay to be larger because when it's larger. See, a tomato root 2031 02:31:18.600 --> 02:31:22.159 system is going to be reaching out three or four feet all directions and then 2032 02:31:22.239 --> 02:31:26.079 going down deep too, and so when you put it in even a ten 2033 02:31:26.200 --> 02:31:30.760 gallon container, that's a limited amount of soil. And so you got a 2034 02:31:30.840 --> 02:31:33.360 water enough to keep it moist, and you have to add the nutrients. 2035 02:31:33.479 --> 02:31:37.840 Everything that plant gets comes out of that container, every drop of water, 2036 02:31:37.239 --> 02:31:41.680 every molecule of nutrient comes out of the container. So you want that soil 2037 02:31:43.079 --> 02:31:46.639 to be top notch, have all the nutrients you need, so quality soil 2038 02:31:46.680 --> 02:31:50.600 and quality fertilizing is important. For example, a natche Foss distributes one called 2039 02:31:50.680 --> 02:31:56.479 jungle Land. Jungle Land is they have two versions. There's the flour and 2040 02:31:56.680 --> 02:32:00.760 vegetable planting soil that's for your outdoor tomatoes that we were I was just talking 2041 02:32:00.760 --> 02:32:05.040 about. And then they have the indoor one with water holding crystals for potting 2042 02:32:05.120 --> 02:32:09.079 soils for indoor plants. But let's go to that outdoor one. That's what 2043 02:32:09.120 --> 02:32:13.719 we're talking about. Jungle and flour and vegetable planting soil and a good quality 2044 02:32:13.799 --> 02:32:16.920 mix that is going to drain well and will hold nutrients and will hold water, 2045 02:32:18.280 --> 02:32:22.200 but not to the point of being mucky soggy. You don't want that. 2046 02:32:22.719 --> 02:32:24.920 Now, where are you going to get jungle land? Well, I 2047 02:32:24.959 --> 02:32:26.719 don't know, let's go to the Arborgate up in Tomball. Let's go to 2048 02:32:26.879 --> 02:32:31.920 Kingwood Ace Hardware. I think we can find some jungle land up there. 2049 02:32:31.200 --> 02:32:35.520 I mean it's easy to find. It's widely available the Shades of Texas too. 2050 02:32:35.639 --> 02:32:41.559 Down in southeaston on Genoa Red Bluff, they've got night frost products there 2051 02:32:41.600 --> 02:32:45.840 as well, so it's not hard to find. But remember the size of 2052 02:32:45.920 --> 02:32:50.120 the container. It really does matter, especially on plants that are going to 2053 02:32:50.159 --> 02:32:54.799 get bigger, like a tomato plant, and especially in the summertime when the 2054 02:32:54.879 --> 02:32:56.520 weather is so hot. We're going to take a break and come back for 2055 02:32:56.600 --> 02:33:00.600 our last segment. If you got a question, can't hold until tomorrow. 2056 02:33:01.000 --> 02:33:07.600 Seven one three two one two KTRH. Hey, welcome back to garden Line. 2057 02:33:07.920 --> 02:33:11.239 We're in our last segment today and I am looking forward to talking to 2058 02:33:11.280 --> 02:33:15.399 you. I am going to be heading up to antichrosen Porium right when the 2059 02:33:15.440 --> 02:33:16.520 show's over. I'll be there from twelve to two. I'll tell you a 2060 02:33:16.520 --> 02:33:20.079 little bit more about that in a minute, but I hope you will come 2061 02:33:20.120 --> 02:33:22.280 out and see me today out there. We're going to start off by going 2062 02:33:22.440 --> 02:33:28.440 to Laporte and talking to Samantha Hello, Samantha, Hello, how are you 2063 02:33:28.559 --> 02:33:33.639 doing? I'm Wilson. I was just wondering, isn't there a difference between 2064 02:33:33.799 --> 02:33:41.159 potting soil and gardening soil. There's a huge difference. Yes, Potting soil 2065 02:33:41.440 --> 02:33:46.319 is specially designed. In fact, we shouldn't even call it soil. We 2066 02:33:46.479 --> 02:33:50.600 know what we mean when we say potting soil, but it really it's a 2067 02:33:50.719 --> 02:33:56.200 growing media, growing medium, and it's got mostly organic matter in different forms. 2068 02:33:56.319 --> 02:34:01.719 Sometimes it has things like pearlide or vermiculid in it as well, and 2069 02:34:01.959 --> 02:34:07.520 so it's designed to get the most out of every square foot of soil area 2070 02:34:07.639 --> 02:34:11.280 that you have. You just put regular soil and the container, the plants 2071 02:34:11.319 --> 02:34:15.159 would not do as well. That's what I thought. I keep trying to 2072 02:34:15.520 --> 02:34:18.360 convince my husband and he said very no different. So I said, well 2073 02:34:18.440 --> 02:34:22.920 I always talk to and ask him, well again, the difference is it 2074 02:34:24.040 --> 02:34:28.719 drains better, it still holds water and nutrients, and there's just a lot 2075 02:34:28.840 --> 02:34:33.479 more composting material in it. What kind of potting soil would you bought for 2076 02:34:33.600 --> 02:34:37.360 house plants? When do you hear it? And then I was just talking 2077 02:34:37.360 --> 02:34:43.280 about the jungle land from nitrofoss That one is widely available and it's called jungle 2078 02:34:43.719 --> 02:34:48.680 Land that Nitropos distributes it. It's a good one. We have a number 2079 02:34:48.840 --> 02:34:54.799 of excellent kinds of potting mixes around here. So it it depends. You're 2080 02:34:54.840 --> 02:34:58.479 in Laporte, So you could go to a you could go to an Ace 2081 02:34:58.520 --> 02:35:03.799 hardware store somewhere down around you and you probably are going to find jungle Land 2082 02:35:05.680 --> 02:35:09.799 down in that area. So, okay, what do you what do you 2083 02:35:09.840 --> 02:35:13.079 want to grow in the pot? Can ask you that, Oh, I'm 2084 02:35:13.239 --> 02:35:18.280 this my house plants. Okay, so that and he bought me gardening because 2085 02:35:18.280 --> 02:35:24.040 he brought me tomatoes. I thought might need to want potting soil from my 2086 02:35:24.200 --> 02:35:28.079 house plants. Yes, and he doesn't understand it. Yeah, Well, 2087 02:35:28.760 --> 02:35:33.040 Deer Park has a Lumber and Ace Hardware on Center Street. There. I'll 2088 02:35:33.040 --> 02:35:35.680 tell you another place. I'm just kind of looking. You're you're not far 2089 02:35:35.799 --> 02:35:41.280 away from Seabrook and Moss Nursery carries potting soil as well. Now they may 2090 02:35:41.360 --> 02:35:46.639 have they may have the jungle Land, they may have the from Heirloom soils. 2091 02:35:46.719 --> 02:35:54.319 Heirloom Soils makes a potting mix alsoom Yeah, but go to Seabrook and 2092 02:35:54.479 --> 02:35:58.680 go to Moss. Have you been to Moss nursery before. Oh yes, 2093 02:35:58.760 --> 02:36:03.200 sir, plenty of times. Yeah. Well that's whatever they sell for potting 2094 02:36:03.239 --> 02:36:07.520 soil is going to be a good quality potting saw. Okay, I so 2095 02:36:07.680 --> 02:36:13.079 appreciate it. All right, you take care, Thank you too. I'm 2096 02:36:13.120 --> 02:36:16.479 going to head now to Galveston, Texas and talk to Ross. Hello, 2097 02:36:16.639 --> 02:36:20.680 Ross, good morning, how are you. I'm okay today? How can 2098 02:36:20.719 --> 02:36:24.920 we help today? I just noticed I've got several big palm trees in my 2099 02:36:26.040 --> 02:36:30.159 backyard, been there since the storm I just two thousand and eight or nine, 2100 02:36:31.000 --> 02:36:33.680 and they're good size or three feet around, probably ten feet high, 2101 02:36:35.200 --> 02:36:39.000 and from the bottom they look kind of rotten, like it's kind of rotten 2102 02:36:39.040 --> 02:36:41.959 at the bottom one of them. Particularly in the next one too, it's 2103 02:36:41.159 --> 02:36:46.000 kind of starting to do that. Uh huh. I know you used to 2104 02:36:46.079 --> 02:36:48.719 having pictured. I don't want to do that, but I just wondered from 2105 02:36:48.799 --> 02:36:50.479 what I said, if you tell me what I could make. Yeah, 2106 02:36:50.799 --> 02:36:54.319 I don't need a photo on that one. A couple things. Palms can 2107 02:36:54.879 --> 02:37:00.760 get freeze damage to trunks, that is possible, and that could cause h 2108 02:37:01.040 --> 02:37:03.079 you know, some of the tissues in there that are taking stuff up and 2109 02:37:03.159 --> 02:37:07.239 down to die and you could get a decay that follows. There are also 2110 02:37:07.399 --> 02:37:11.479 some trunk rot organisms that can affect a palm tree. I don't know a 2111 02:37:11.639 --> 02:37:18.440 good solution for either. There's not something you spray on the outside that is 2112 02:37:18.520 --> 02:37:24.840 going to fix that, and you just the tree itself will often shut that 2113 02:37:24.000 --> 02:37:31.840 down and keep going. But that that would be my I guess, just 2114 02:37:31.040 --> 02:37:35.000 take care of the tree in general. But I don't know anything that you 2115 02:37:35.000 --> 02:37:39.200 can put on it that's going to cure that rot. Fertilizer was some kind 2116 02:37:39.239 --> 02:37:43.280 of palm fertilizer that would be. It's always a good idea to provide the 2117 02:37:43.360 --> 02:37:48.000 nutrients that plants need. And there's a lot of good quality palm fertilizer type 2118 02:37:48.040 --> 02:37:52.559 products you know that'll that'll do do a very good job of keeping the tree 2119 02:37:54.399 --> 02:37:58.760 healthy, about providing the nutrients it needs to rebuild, to strengthen, to 2120 02:37:58.120 --> 02:38:01.840 recover and what not. Okay, I'll try that, thanks so much. 2121 02:38:03.120 --> 02:38:05.239 All right, Ross, you take care. Sorry to hear about that palm 2122 02:38:05.319 --> 02:38:09.760 tree. That's no fun. That is for sure, no fun at all. 2123 02:38:11.840 --> 02:38:16.840 Whenever you are dealing with the plant that is struggling, just just know 2124 02:38:16.600 --> 02:38:20.520 that when a plant gets weak, the things that can attack, the plant 2125 02:38:22.040 --> 02:38:26.639 can really proliferate, And so I think a good analogy is to use it 2126 02:38:26.840 --> 02:38:31.360 like our human body. If you don't sleep well and you don't get enough 2127 02:38:31.399 --> 02:38:37.600 sleep, and you don't eat well, and you don't exercise, you're just 2128 02:38:37.760 --> 02:38:43.280 a couch potato. You are more likely to catch a germ that turns into 2129 02:38:43.319 --> 02:38:48.079 a sickness and causes problems than someone who's fit. Does that mean a fit 2130 02:38:48.159 --> 02:38:52.639 person can't get sick. Of course they can, They absolutely can. It 2131 02:38:52.840 --> 02:38:58.360 just means why not put the subject in a better health state. And that's 2132 02:38:58.479 --> 02:39:03.360 true our lawns. It's true of our trees as well. And I'll give 2133 02:39:03.360 --> 02:39:07.520 you two examples. Take all root rot is a devastating lawn disease. If 2134 02:39:07.639 --> 02:39:09.959 just flat kills the lawn, now the one that makes the big brown circles 2135 02:39:11.000 --> 02:39:13.079 brown patch in the cool season, that rots the leaves off, and the 2136 02:39:13.200 --> 02:39:16.600 long comes back. But take all root rot kills the lon And it's an 2137 02:39:16.639 --> 02:39:20.600 opportunist. It's out there. The spores and things are out there. It's 2138 02:39:20.639 --> 02:39:24.479 not like someone walks over to your house and drops off. Take all the 2139 02:39:24.520 --> 02:39:26.760 spores. They're out there. But when the lung gets weak, it gets 2140 02:39:26.840 --> 02:39:33.000 a chance the upper hand. It takes off. Oak trees get hypoxylan canker. 2141 02:39:33.680 --> 02:39:37.920 It's a fungal disease. And the pathologists tree pathologist told me that you 2142 02:39:37.959 --> 02:39:43.120 can go to a healthy oak in the forest and you can find hypoxylan canker 2143 02:39:43.840 --> 02:39:48.680 presence out there. The spores are out there. But when the tree gets 2144 02:39:48.719 --> 02:39:52.920 stressed, the disease moves in and now one'll kill a whole tree. And 2145 02:39:52.040 --> 02:39:56.000 so what do we do well, going back in time last summer, a 2146 02:39:56.120 --> 02:40:03.559 good occasional soaking of the soil to event that drought stress. Avoiding over using 2147 02:40:03.760 --> 02:40:09.040 and misusing weed killer type products because they can some of them can get down 2148 02:40:09.120 --> 02:40:13.360 in the tree's root system. I generally tried not recommend the ones that have 2149 02:40:13.479 --> 02:40:18.440 the potential for that because if people misuse them, then you have that issue. 2150 02:40:20.200 --> 02:40:22.200 They making sure the tree is adequately water, make sure it's fertilized, 2151 02:40:22.200 --> 02:40:28.399 has the nutrients it needs, so make thing healthy and you can avoid the 2152 02:40:28.600 --> 02:40:31.840 issues and the sicknesses that that tree would have to deal with. That's just 2153 02:40:31.959 --> 02:40:35.600 a principle of nature. And it's true. You know, there's a lot 2154 02:40:35.680 --> 02:40:41.079 of principles of nature that apply to humans and to pets as well, so 2155 02:40:41.799 --> 02:40:45.360 if you are dealing with lawns that struggled last year, like I was talking 2156 02:40:45.399 --> 02:40:50.000 about, plants struggled and you got bare spots wherever sunlight hits the soil, 2157 02:40:50.159 --> 02:40:52.479 nature plants a weed, and you got to get out there. Put you 2158 02:40:52.600 --> 02:40:58.040 some barricade down, watered in with a half inch of water, and those 2159 02:40:58.200 --> 02:41:00.959 areas where sunlight is hitting the soil, well, when you watered in, 2160 02:41:01.239 --> 02:41:05.000 it forms a barricade. And when the weed seeds try to germinate and crabgrass 2161 02:41:05.280 --> 02:41:11.040 and grassburr and other warm season weeds, they're either starting to germinate or goun 2162 02:41:11.120 --> 02:41:15.000 to germinate really soon. You got to get that down for that purpose. 2163 02:41:15.120 --> 02:41:18.159 And it's from nitrofos. And you know, nitrofoss or their products are widely 2164 02:41:18.159 --> 02:41:22.120 available. ACE Hardware, for example, carries them. A lot of our 2165 02:41:22.200 --> 02:41:26.079 garden centers will carry those as well. It's not hard to find nitroposs products 2166 02:41:26.159 --> 02:41:30.920 like the barricade. I'm going to head over to Sugarland now we're going to 2167 02:41:30.959 --> 02:41:33.479 talk to Bill, and Bill I've got about one less than one minute, 2168 02:41:33.520 --> 02:41:37.239 so let's see if we can help you. Okay, I'll I'll go fast. 2169 02:41:37.239 --> 02:41:41.479 My question is I have some pecan leaves and some Japanese blueberry leaves in 2170 02:41:41.639 --> 02:41:45.600 my garden and where I have all my plants, And yes, do I 2171 02:41:45.680 --> 02:41:48.479 need to get rid of those? Or are they okay to just die? 2172 02:41:48.959 --> 02:41:52.559 I knew a guy who had his whole yardist pecan trees, and he had 2173 02:41:52.760 --> 02:41:56.319 compost bins that were four feet wide and twenty feet long, and he just 2174 02:41:56.520 --> 02:42:01.399 filled them with pecan leaves and made some of the best composts you could make. 2175 02:42:01.840 --> 02:42:03.959 Keep them, okay, run them over with them, catch them in 2176 02:42:05.000 --> 02:42:09.120 the in the catcher, and and use them as malt or make compost or 2177 02:42:09.120 --> 02:42:13.000 whatever you want to do with it, okay. And the Japanese blueberry too, 2178 02:42:13.040 --> 02:42:16.639 they're okay, Yeah, same thing. There's no diseases on those that 2179 02:42:16.719 --> 02:42:18.920 are going to affect a plant in your garden. Well, thank you so 2180 02:42:20.079 --> 02:42:22.600 much. All right, good take care out there in sugar Land. All 2181 02:42:22.719 --> 02:42:26.799 right, Well, it looks like we're putting one in the books. I 2182 02:42:26.360 --> 02:42:30.959 suspect that I'm going to hear some music here playing pretty quick here. I 2183 02:42:31.159 --> 02:42:33.920 just want to tell you it reminds you. In fact, I'm going to 2184 02:42:33.959 --> 02:42:35.840 be an anti rosen forum today, and I hope you'll come out to see 2185 02:42:35.920 --> 02:42:41.639 me listen. Anti Rosen for him is a showplace. If people drive from 2186 02:42:41.719 --> 02:42:45.440 out of state to come there to buy old roses, that is the kind 2187 02:42:45.440 --> 02:42:48.799 of showplace it is. It's a wonderful drive out in the country and up 2188 02:42:48.840 --> 02:42:54.120 in Independence, Texas, Justice north of Brunham. And I hope you'll come 2189 02:42:54.159 --> 02:42:56.159 out. I'd tell you I'll swing by and pick you out and put you 2190 02:42:56.200 --> 02:43:01.399 in the car, but I can't quite do that there. But anyway, 2191 02:43:01.440 --> 02:43:03.399 I'm gonna be heading up there. I'll be there from twelve to two. 2192 02:43:03.440 --> 02:43:07.479 I'll start with a one hour talk on beneficial insight, and I promise you 2193 02:43:07.559 --> 02:43:11.239 will learn stuff and you'll get to see stuff. Did you see the movie 2194 02:43:11.360 --> 02:43:15.479 Alien? Remember the movie Alien? And that guy one morning at breakfast, 2195 02:43:15.600 --> 02:43:18.920 Well, let's just say things with bad with the guy. Well, I'll 2196 02:43:18.959 --> 02:43:22.879 show you a video of an aphit where that process is getting started. It's 2197 02:43:22.959 --> 02:43:26.239 really cool. Anything bad that happens to an eightph it is fun for me. 2198 02:43:28.639 --> 02:43:31.399 After that, I'll be at a table and I'll give away some micro 2199 02:43:31.479 --> 02:43:33.559 life fertilizer, the sixty four and the big jugs. I'll give away a 2200 02:43:33.639 --> 02:43:37.040 bunch of those. Every a little bit I'll be giving away a little samples 2201 02:43:37.079 --> 02:43:41.399 as well, and most of all, I'll be meeting you, talking to 2202 02:43:41.479 --> 02:43:43.040 you. Let's look at a picture, Let's look at a sample. Let's 2203 02:43:43.559 --> 02:43:48.200 diagnose it, let's identify it. How can we help today? Those of 2204 02:43:48.280 --> 02:43:52.479 you in Novinesota Brian College Station. Hey, we're just down the street. 2205 02:43:52.600 --> 02:43:52.040 Come see it.