WEBVTT 1 00:00:01.040 --> 00:00:10.960 Welcome to kt r H Garden Line with Skip Ricter. It shows gas can 2 00:00:11.199 --> 00:00:21.399 use a trim. You just watch him as worlds Gas. Many good things 3 00:00:21.440 --> 00:00:29.839 to sup botas in great gas. You did Savos jobs back again. They're 4 00:00:29.879 --> 00:00:40.679 not a SidD Glasses and gas and the sound bemon of between the gas. 5 00:00:44.079 --> 00:00:49.520 Well, come, welcome to garden Line. We are here, live and 6 00:00:49.640 --> 00:00:54.920 well and ready to go with all kinds of gardening talk. What are the 7 00:00:55.000 --> 00:01:00.719 topics that are of interest? What are the topics of interest? Do you 8 00:01:00.719 --> 00:01:04.480 have any particular questions that you might be interested in gett a little help with. 9 00:01:04.560 --> 00:01:07.319 Well, that's why we're here. You can give us a call seven 10 00:01:07.319 --> 00:01:12.159 to one three two one two k t r H seven one three two one 11 00:01:12.200 --> 00:01:18.000 two k t r H and we'll be happy to visit about those kinds of 12 00:01:18.040 --> 00:01:23.439 things. Boy, this weather has been interesting, hasn't it. These storms 13 00:01:23.439 --> 00:01:29.200 that are coming through not so bad this last one, but before that we 14 00:01:29.280 --> 00:01:34.079 had a couple of doozies. And when people end up dealing with things out 15 00:01:34.120 --> 00:01:41.159 in the landscape from storms, typically fallen limbs, excessive water standing after a 16 00:01:41.200 --> 00:01:45.120 storm, it just reminds us of the things that we need to do to 17 00:01:45.319 --> 00:01:49.040 prepare for them, and then also maybe talk a little bit about the things 18 00:01:49.079 --> 00:01:53.680 we do afterwards. When you have a branch that has been broken on a 19 00:01:53.719 --> 00:01:57.519 tree, you of course need to remove it. But when it comes to 20 00:01:57.560 --> 00:02:00.920 how to remove a branch, a lot of folks aren't aware of that. 21 00:02:01.280 --> 00:02:06.959 And if I were to simplify it as much as just down to the basic, 22 00:02:07.560 --> 00:02:10.439 here's a visual picture for you. If you're following a branch down the 23 00:02:10.560 --> 00:02:14.560 say it attaches to the trunk. You're following it down toward the trunk. 24 00:02:14.919 --> 00:02:19.960 Right before it attaches, it flares out, and so if you cut that 25 00:02:20.039 --> 00:02:24.039 branch off where it attaches to the trunk, you have a big wound because 26 00:02:24.080 --> 00:02:29.800 it has flared out. If you go out to just a little bit, 27 00:02:30.400 --> 00:02:34.199 you've moved outside of what's called the branch collar, and you're making a much 28 00:02:34.240 --> 00:02:38.439 smaller cut. If you move out further, it will die after you cut 29 00:02:38.479 --> 00:02:43.120 it. That insection will die and you will be left with a stub, 30 00:02:43.319 --> 00:02:49.400 which is a rotting piece of wood that prevents the branch from closing over that 31 00:02:49.479 --> 00:02:53.039 wound. So there's a sweet spot in there, and that is very important 32 00:02:53.039 --> 00:02:58.000 when you're making those cuts. The branch collar has the ability to heal more 33 00:02:58.039 --> 00:03:02.439 so than trunk tissue does. So cutting off that color is not a good 34 00:03:02.479 --> 00:03:06.879 idea, but making the cut at the right place allows it the best chance 35 00:03:06.919 --> 00:03:10.000 in the world to be able to heal and go fast, or at least 36 00:03:10.159 --> 00:03:15.719 heal what relatively fast for what a tree would be doing. Let's go ahead 37 00:03:15.719 --> 00:03:19.280 and go to the phones this morning. We're going to go to Kingwood and 38 00:03:19.319 --> 00:03:23.639 talk to Salvador. Hey, skip by doing today. I'm well, sir, 39 00:03:23.240 --> 00:03:29.680 good Hey. I got three citrus trees that are in thirty gallon pots, 40 00:03:30.560 --> 00:03:32.919 the lemon and the grapefruit. This is a second year they've been out. 41 00:03:32.960 --> 00:03:36.520 I brought them in for the winners because I was tired of losing them. 42 00:03:37.360 --> 00:03:42.039 Well, the lemon tree has lost maybe half a sleeve, but now 43 00:03:42.080 --> 00:03:46.520 it's blooming again. But the grapefruit tree when they were out there, when 44 00:03:46.520 --> 00:03:50.879 I brought him out there to begin with this end of the winter, they 45 00:03:50.919 --> 00:03:55.439 were bright green and fresh looking. Now the grapefruit tree is almost a complete 46 00:03:55.560 --> 00:03:59.960 yellow. There's some green in it, but it's yellowish. There is fruit 47 00:04:00.120 --> 00:04:02.840 growing on it. I just wondered what happened, okay, as it went 48 00:04:02.960 --> 00:04:08.680 from green to yellow. Can you describe what changed first, and was it 49 00:04:08.719 --> 00:04:14.840 older leaves, younger leaves? Did they just turn completely I'm going to say, 50 00:04:15.879 --> 00:04:18.160 did you say older leaves? Yeah, further down the branch, you 51 00:04:18.199 --> 00:04:23.360 know the No, it sort of all happened at once. It gradually I 52 00:04:23.480 --> 00:04:28.079 noticed it. But now it's pretty much you know, it's it's yellow. 53 00:04:28.759 --> 00:04:31.639 It still looks healthy, I guess, But it went from a lush green 54 00:04:32.480 --> 00:04:35.879 to this, and the whole tree is like that. Okay, Well, 55 00:04:36.360 --> 00:04:39.680 I don't know what it could be. And it was before the rains even 56 00:04:39.720 --> 00:04:42.519 happened, too, so I know it's not fluttered or anything like that, 57 00:04:42.839 --> 00:04:47.600 right right, Well, chances are it's not a nutrient issue for a tree 58 00:04:47.639 --> 00:04:51.600 to change that fast. Staying in the same soil is not going to be 59 00:04:51.680 --> 00:04:58.439 a nutrient issue. It's going to be a water issue. And water logging 60 00:04:58.800 --> 00:05:03.079 is one of the more common causes of a situation where the plant starts yellowing 61 00:05:03.120 --> 00:05:09.040 and dropping its leaves. Well, that's the thing. The grapefruit tree did 62 00:05:09.079 --> 00:05:14.519 not drop its leaves. It's just staying a yellow a lemon drop. Like 63 00:05:14.560 --> 00:05:16.439 I said, half the trees. But now it's blooming back again. All 64 00:05:16.560 --> 00:05:20.199 those crouts are coming back. Okay, so it's not dropped its leaves, 65 00:05:20.199 --> 00:05:26.360 it's turning in. Nope, not at all. Well, I still would 66 00:05:26.480 --> 00:05:32.240 check soul moisture. If the yellowing is all over the tree, yes, 67 00:05:32.759 --> 00:05:40.879 I have trouble attributing that to any nutrient because no nutrients changed dramatically in that 68 00:05:41.000 --> 00:05:45.319 short amount of time, and the soil there are nutrients that are mobile the 69 00:05:45.360 --> 00:05:47.800 plant can move them around. They are nutrients the plant cannot move around. 70 00:05:48.360 --> 00:05:53.680 And so to see the yellowing all over rather than in old leaves or new 71 00:05:53.759 --> 00:05:59.199 leaves or whatever, I just don't see a nutrient related to that. Was 72 00:05:59.240 --> 00:06:03.879 there any chance that you sprayed the tree with anything or sprayed something? Never 73 00:06:04.040 --> 00:06:08.480 do I spray the trees ever. Okay, rid in the garage for about 74 00:06:08.560 --> 00:06:11.240 it, I don't know, maybe a month just for those cold times. 75 00:06:11.319 --> 00:06:15.879 Yeah, I think we're talking about something in the soil in terms of sole 76 00:06:15.000 --> 00:06:23.879 moisture. It pots have drain holes, hopefully it does, and those drills 77 00:06:24.040 --> 00:06:28.439 can become clogged. Are these pots sitting on the patio or are they sitting 78 00:06:28.439 --> 00:06:31.360 out on the sting and the lawnder the plastic you know, the gardeners when 79 00:06:31.360 --> 00:06:34.879 they put in the trees and the house as well, I grabbed a bunch 80 00:06:34.920 --> 00:06:40.240 of them, their thirty gallons, okaying around. I do know that I 81 00:06:40.319 --> 00:06:43.040 move them around when I cut the grass, so they're not you know, 82 00:06:43.079 --> 00:06:46.959 blocking the rain and the flow of the water. Yeah. So that they 83 00:06:46.000 --> 00:06:49.600 have holes at the bottom around the sides of the pot. That's really big 84 00:06:49.639 --> 00:06:57.560 holes. Yeah, so that the gardener you know what the gardeners where the 85 00:06:57.560 --> 00:07:03.079 people put in people's shards and when it curst building those big black yell have 86 00:07:03.199 --> 00:07:09.000 you treated the yard with anything? Nope? Okay, well we didn't see, 87 00:07:09.079 --> 00:07:12.680 but that that this is when they just came out, So we didn't 88 00:07:12.680 --> 00:07:15.560 see that had nothing to do with it. They were already yellowing probably about 89 00:07:15.639 --> 00:07:23.639 two weeks after being taken outside. Okay, all right, they just kind 90 00:07:23.639 --> 00:07:26.040 of let it play out and see what happens. Like I said, the 91 00:07:26.120 --> 00:07:28.920 lemon tree is just coming back like it's brand new. Now, Yeah, 92 00:07:29.040 --> 00:07:31.279 I think, I think so. I would just to be sure, I 93 00:07:31.279 --> 00:07:38.040 would fertilize them with a product for centrus. Follow the label, don't put 94 00:07:38.079 --> 00:07:41.839 too much in there, right, just follow the label and let's water that 95 00:07:41.959 --> 00:07:46.199 in and see give them a little bit of time. But that all yellow 96 00:07:46.360 --> 00:07:49.079 is quite a mystery because you've kind of eliminated a lot of the things that 97 00:07:49.160 --> 00:07:55.279 might have led to that. You know. The soil was from a one 98 00:07:55.319 --> 00:07:59.519 of the A stores. It's a citrus palm soil good okay, and last 99 00:07:59.560 --> 00:08:05.600 year they were growing great. I bought a lime tree this year and it 100 00:08:05.600 --> 00:08:09.800 hasn't been effective. Well it's like you know, crystal, just very lush 101 00:08:09.839 --> 00:08:15.120 green. But so I basically I'm just gonna move the pots again, make 102 00:08:15.160 --> 00:08:16.639 sure it's draining boil. You know, with all this water, I could 103 00:08:16.639 --> 00:08:20.199 see what you're saying, but it did happen before this, So just let 104 00:08:20.240 --> 00:08:24.120 it play out and see what goes on. Yeah, I don't you know. 105 00:08:24.240 --> 00:08:30.040 You've we've eliminated chemical problems, we've eliminated nutrient problems, We've eliminated sort 106 00:08:30.040 --> 00:08:33.080 of drainage problems. I'll just let mother nature take its course and hope and 107 00:08:33.120 --> 00:08:37.960 pray it works. I think so. Uh So that would be my suggestion. 108 00:08:39.840 --> 00:08:41.200 I'll call you maybe a month to see you and give you an update 109 00:08:41.200 --> 00:08:43.919 and see what's happening. That would be That would be good. I'd appreciate 110 00:08:43.960 --> 00:08:46.879 that perfect all right, thank you sir. Yeah, but do that fertilization. 111 00:08:48.559 --> 00:08:50.120 I will thank you if the tree turns around, it can do some 112 00:08:50.440 --> 00:08:54.080 Wait, what was the fertile What should I put in there one more time? 113 00:08:54.200 --> 00:08:58.919 Oh, a citrus crius type of food and like a citrus food or 114 00:08:58.919 --> 00:09:03.159 something. Yeah, just a product that's labeled for CRUs. We we are 115 00:09:03.120 --> 00:09:11.639 all our fertilizer sponsors that We've chose them because they have high quality. All 116 00:09:11.679 --> 00:09:16.799 of them have quality ingredients, and we have Centrius food. So now I'm 117 00:09:16.840 --> 00:09:20.039 just trying to see if that's the problem. This could not be the problem, 118 00:09:20.039 --> 00:09:28.480 though possibly correct. I don't think it is so tast it happened and 119 00:09:28.559 --> 00:09:31.720 how all over the plant it happened at once? Okay, Well, like 120 00:09:31.759 --> 00:09:35.039 I said, I'll touch back to maybe next month. I'll tell you what's 121 00:09:35.080 --> 00:09:39.000 going on. Thanks, thanks for your info. I appreciate your call. 122 00:09:39.919 --> 00:09:43.679 All right, our phone number seven one three two one two five eight seven 123 00:09:43.799 --> 00:09:48.759 four seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four. We're gonna take 124 00:09:48.759 --> 00:09:50.360 a little break here. It is time for a break and then something. 125 00:09:50.440 --> 00:09:54.840 I'll be right back, all right, Little Leonard Stannard first thing in the 126 00:09:54.840 --> 00:09:58.200 morning, there could have you with us on guard line today. 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Hello, Melvin, 151 00:11:39.320 --> 00:11:41.919 Hey, good morning, Scoop. You doing Bud, I'm good, sir. 152 00:11:43.039 --> 00:11:46.799 Okay. I've got two peach trees. One is a red barn, 153 00:11:48.600 --> 00:11:52.200 the other one is a mid pride. They both got plenty of peaches on 154 00:11:52.279 --> 00:11:58.639 it. So the question is what time of the year did they naturally ripen 155 00:11:58.879 --> 00:12:03.879 on the tree, And then what is the best method for picking them early 156 00:12:03.960 --> 00:12:09.200 and trying to get them to ripen or soften up off the tree. And 157 00:12:09.559 --> 00:12:13.360 your reason for picking them early is what birds? Well, it got so 158 00:12:13.480 --> 00:12:16.679 many of them on there, you know, Okay if they all at the 159 00:12:16.720 --> 00:12:22.919 same time, yeah, you know, then I've got the bombard people with 160 00:12:22.039 --> 00:12:26.240 peaches or cut them up, freeze them and stuff like that. All right, 161 00:12:26.320 --> 00:12:31.960 well, okay, here, here's here's the thing. Peaches are primarily 162 00:12:31.039 --> 00:12:37.519 ripening in June and in July here in our area. Uh, that is 163 00:12:37.960 --> 00:12:43.279 primetime peach season. You may get some that ripen towards the end of May, 164 00:12:43.320 --> 00:12:50.039 but those are not That's the minority of the peaches. When a peach 165 00:12:50.120 --> 00:12:56.519 ripens, it turns from green to that blushed color that everybody recognizes as a 166 00:12:56.559 --> 00:12:58.919 peach. But the way to really tell if it's ripe is to find us 167 00:13:00.360 --> 00:13:03.759 that's not in the sun. You know, wherever the sun hits the peach, 168 00:13:03.799 --> 00:13:05.679 it's going to be pretty red. But if you find like where a 169 00:13:05.759 --> 00:13:09.799 leaf lays across the peach, or sometimes right up at the top where the 170 00:13:09.840 --> 00:13:13.679 stem attaches, or just the underside, backside, you'll see a change from 171 00:13:13.919 --> 00:13:20.399 green to kind of a shartruse yellow color. And as it gets toward that 172 00:13:20.519 --> 00:13:24.879 yellow on the side that doesn't have sun, it's probably getting ripe. You 173 00:13:24.879 --> 00:13:28.600 can also squeeze them just a little bit, and if they give to the 174 00:13:28.639 --> 00:13:31.320 pressure of like your thumb, that's another sign that they're very ripe. You 175 00:13:31.360 --> 00:13:35.279 can pick them a little bit earlier. But the peaches are not a fruit 176 00:13:35.320 --> 00:13:39.720 that has the ability to ripen off the tree. They're not like a tomato, 177 00:13:39.759 --> 00:13:41.639 for example, that you can pick it a little finish. So you 178 00:13:41.759 --> 00:13:48.720 need the peach to at least be at a firm but sweet stage before you 179 00:13:48.759 --> 00:13:52.000 pick it again. If you let it get mushy, you know how that 180 00:13:52.039 --> 00:13:58.559 turns out. It's called peach cobbler. But if you just look at those 181 00:13:58.600 --> 00:14:01.519 signs, I think that's the best. And now it's just another reason why, 182 00:14:01.559 --> 00:14:05.000 you know, as I recommend trees for people, I try to get 183 00:14:05.320 --> 00:14:09.399 ripening over a period of time. You know, get a peach that ripens 184 00:14:09.799 --> 00:14:13.000 two weeks after the peach that you that you already have that kind of thing, 185 00:14:13.720 --> 00:14:18.320 just to spread that out a little. Yeah, right now, there 186 00:14:18.879 --> 00:14:24.080 you feel them and they're very hard. The red barn has like got beautiful 187 00:14:24.159 --> 00:14:28.320 blush on them, you know, beautiful looking peaches there, but when you 188 00:14:28.360 --> 00:14:33.240 grab them, they're actually very very hard. Yeah. Yeah, Well, 189 00:14:33.360 --> 00:14:37.120 the commercial folks pick peaches at that stage because you cannot ship a peach that 190 00:14:37.679 --> 00:14:45.159 starts often, and so they just look at the color, the color on 191 00:14:45.240 --> 00:14:50.200 the side where the sun isn't making it look riper than it is. I 192 00:14:50.200 --> 00:14:52.679 think that's your best bet. And then tastes some taste one you kind of 193 00:14:52.679 --> 00:15:00.000 get an idea that way, what that color should look like. Yeah, 194 00:15:00.200 --> 00:15:03.600 but that's good. That leads me in the right direction, all right, 195 00:15:05.440 --> 00:15:09.639 Melan, I gotta tell you, I've heard about a lot of people with 196 00:15:09.759 --> 00:15:13.639 problems, but haven't too many peaches. I've never heard about anybody that had 197 00:15:13.639 --> 00:15:20.480 that problem. Usually i'd say that's a that's a way to make a lot 198 00:15:20.480 --> 00:15:24.080 of people happy. Maybe you can trade them for something you need. Yeah, 199 00:15:24.120 --> 00:15:28.480 the red barren is so loaded that the limbs are just kind of like, 200 00:15:28.639 --> 00:15:33.039 oh my god, down, Oh okay. You know they're pretty much 201 00:15:33.399 --> 00:15:39.720 almost the size of tennis ball. You know, Well, remember in the 202 00:15:39.720 --> 00:15:43.399 spring, you want to thin your peaches out. If you can thin them 203 00:15:43.399 --> 00:15:48.559 out by the time they reach about thumb size, that's the best. But 204 00:15:48.600 --> 00:15:50.759 I'll put mine. You know, if you open your hand as wide as 205 00:15:50.799 --> 00:15:54.360 it will open, the distance between the tip of your thumb and the tip 206 00:15:54.440 --> 00:15:58.000 of your little finger, that's how far peaches should be on a branch in 207 00:15:58.120 --> 00:16:02.519 order to full size. And one, yeah, I should offend them out. 208 00:16:02.639 --> 00:16:04.600 I did not do that. You know, that's just all right, 209 00:16:04.720 --> 00:16:08.000 but appreciate it. Enjoy your so and keep it up there. Thank thanks 210 00:16:08.000 --> 00:16:11.320 with the call. Appreciate the call very much. Our phone number if you've 211 00:16:11.320 --> 00:16:15.639 got a question something you would like to ask seven one three two one two 212 00:16:17.159 --> 00:16:22.559 five eight seven four seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four out 213 00:16:22.559 --> 00:16:26.720 in the lawn. It is time to do your summer fertilization if you haven't 214 00:16:26.759 --> 00:16:30.960 done that already, and I would recommend at this point in the season that 215 00:16:30.039 --> 00:16:34.039 you choose a slow release fertilizer. And what is that, Well, that 216 00:16:34.120 --> 00:16:41.200 means a fertilizer that especially the nitrogen in the fertilizer is not just a form 217 00:16:41.360 --> 00:16:47.720 that dissolves away and is immediately available. When we do that, we end 218 00:16:47.799 --> 00:16:52.240 up with a flush of green growth, meaning you get to mow a lot 219 00:16:52.279 --> 00:16:57.639 more and overdoing nitrogen actually causes the plant to have less of a root system. 220 00:16:57.759 --> 00:17:03.320 I know it's hard to imagine, but I've seen the studies and the 221 00:17:03.360 --> 00:17:08.440 pictures of the roots and how they look in different nitrogen levels. So if 222 00:17:08.480 --> 00:17:11.480 you have a fast release, for like, you can dose it out in 223 00:17:11.519 --> 00:17:15.200 small doses. But that means fertilizing just a little bit a whole lot of 224 00:17:15.200 --> 00:17:18.799 times. What I'd recommend is that is a slow release, and that is 225 00:17:18.839 --> 00:17:23.559 going to have nitrogen informs that release gradually over time. It's also nice when 226 00:17:23.599 --> 00:17:26.839 we get a gully washer rain that doesn't all just dissolve and wash away. 227 00:17:27.319 --> 00:17:33.039 Nitropos Superturf is that kind of fertilizer. Nitrofos Superturf was designed for our area, 228 00:17:33.240 --> 00:17:37.119 for our southern turf cress. It's like Saint Augustine and Bermuda and Zoysia 229 00:17:37.440 --> 00:17:41.839 and our hot and humid climate. It will help cut down on moy up 230 00:17:41.880 --> 00:17:45.920 to twenty five percent just by evening evening that growth out. Now you're going 231 00:17:45.960 --> 00:17:52.079 to find nitrofoss super turf at OspA ace in the woodlands for example. You 232 00:17:52.160 --> 00:17:56.240 also find it at plants for all seasons. I was just talking about right 233 00:17:56.279 --> 00:18:00.440 there on two forty nine Tomball Parkway and plants and things up and run them 234 00:18:00.640 --> 00:18:07.880 another good source for nitropost products like the super turf. If you are mowing 235 00:18:08.200 --> 00:18:12.960 your lawn, and I know you are, you have a decision to make. 236 00:18:14.400 --> 00:18:19.839 Do you return the clippings to the turf or do you remove them bag 237 00:18:19.920 --> 00:18:25.599 them. I want you to think about something When you put nutrients on the 238 00:18:25.640 --> 00:18:29.440 ground, the grassroots take it up, and what do they grow with it? 239 00:18:29.599 --> 00:18:33.880 Grass runners and leaves blades, grass blades. When you then clip those 240 00:18:33.920 --> 00:18:38.960 grass blades off, you're taking some of the nutrient that you purchased and you're 241 00:18:40.000 --> 00:18:44.680 going to put it in a bag and set it at the curb where the 242 00:18:44.720 --> 00:18:49.200 trash comes and hauls it away. That's called renting fertilizer. Your nutrients. 243 00:18:49.240 --> 00:18:55.920 You paid for good nutrients. They're gone from the property. When you return 244 00:18:56.000 --> 00:19:02.880 your clippings to the turf, those clippings release a perfect blend of nutrients. 245 00:19:02.920 --> 00:19:06.200 Because think about this. To grow a grass blade, you have to have 246 00:19:06.319 --> 00:19:11.960 the right balance in that grass blade of nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium, minuscule 247 00:19:11.039 --> 00:19:15.920 little elements, trace minerals, things like manganese and zinc. They're all in 248 00:19:15.960 --> 00:19:21.079 the blade. And so it's nature's own perfect slow release fertilizer. A study 249 00:19:21.119 --> 00:19:25.200 done by text A and m many years ago, they looked at the nutrient 250 00:19:25.279 --> 00:19:29.559 value of clippings. And if you take all the clippings from one year of 251 00:19:29.599 --> 00:19:33.559 mowing and you had it analyzed, and then you got the pounds of nutrients 252 00:19:33.839 --> 00:19:41.720 that were in those clippings you would weigh more apply nutrients with your lawn more 253 00:19:41.920 --> 00:19:45.480 than your fertilizer spreader. I will say that again. We fertilize our lawns 254 00:19:45.799 --> 00:19:49.200 to give it the extra boost. Nitrogen, for example, is volatile. 255 00:19:49.240 --> 00:19:53.039 We need to keep adding some to it. But your lawn mower puts out 256 00:19:53.039 --> 00:19:57.519 more nutrients than your fertilizer spreader does. And so to bag those and have 257 00:19:57.640 --> 00:20:00.759 mauled a ways just wasting. You can do that now when it rains too 258 00:20:00.839 --> 00:20:04.079 much and the grass gets at tall. Yes, I bag some of mine 259 00:20:04.119 --> 00:20:07.359 the other day. I hate to have to do that, but I did 260 00:20:07.839 --> 00:20:11.160 used it as mulch and flower beds and some garden beds that I had. 261 00:20:11.880 --> 00:20:15.880 But in general, let that clipping go back into the lawn and feed your 262 00:20:15.920 --> 00:20:18.000 lawn. All right, we're gonna take a little break here. It's time 263 00:20:18.039 --> 00:20:22.519 for the news. Seven one three two one two KTRH. Welcome back to 264 00:20:22.599 --> 00:20:26.680 garden Line. How many of you remember the arches. Okay, we're going 265 00:20:26.000 --> 00:20:30.799 way back. I remember, Okay, here we go. Brief story. 266 00:20:32.200 --> 00:20:36.400 I remember that on the back of cereal boxes for a little while, they 267 00:20:36.400 --> 00:20:41.240 would print little records. Yeah, they press into a plastic that was over 268 00:20:41.279 --> 00:20:44.559 the back of a cereal box, and you could cut them out and put 269 00:20:44.599 --> 00:20:48.119 them on your little forty five record player and play the records. And it 270 00:20:48.160 --> 00:20:52.079 was super sugar, crisp sugar. Of course, that was a song by 271 00:20:52.119 --> 00:20:56.599 the Archies. I'll never forget that, all right, those days are gone, 272 00:20:56.640 --> 00:21:00.359 as they say. Well, I have been talking about recycling your clippings 273 00:21:00.359 --> 00:21:03.920 and the importance of that, and it is important. It is something we 274 00:21:03.960 --> 00:21:08.640 should do. There is some place for organic matter on your property to go. 275 00:21:10.519 --> 00:21:14.519 It could go back in the lawn in the case of clippings. It 276 00:21:14.519 --> 00:21:17.559 could be ground up and used as a mulch. In the case of leaves 277 00:21:17.640 --> 00:21:21.480 or branches or things. Most people don't have a grinder to do that kind 278 00:21:21.519 --> 00:21:23.920 of thing. I run over my leaves in the fall, some of them 279 00:21:25.119 --> 00:21:26.960 I run over with the lawnmower and just chop them up real good, so 280 00:21:27.000 --> 00:21:30.880 I can use them as a little fine textured mulch on the surface of the 281 00:21:30.920 --> 00:21:34.440 ground in my vegetable garden. That works pretty well. But remember that that 282 00:21:34.559 --> 00:21:41.519 nature recycles naturally. Have you ever seen a deer in the forest drake and 283 00:21:41.640 --> 00:21:45.680 leaves, or a cow in a meadow bagging clippings? Of course, not 284 00:21:47.559 --> 00:21:52.319 that nature has a way of taking what grew and turning it back into the 285 00:21:52.319 --> 00:21:56.119 soil and making the soil better and the soil better in the process. Even 286 00:21:56.200 --> 00:22:00.759 grass plants, you know, grass plants live about a year. Excuse me. 287 00:22:00.839 --> 00:22:04.240 The roots of a grass, it's an individual root lives about a year 288 00:22:04.359 --> 00:22:08.160 and then it dies. Now it's pushed a channel through the soil and growing 289 00:22:08.880 --> 00:22:15.920 and it's just all kinds of microbes that are going all proliferating around that root 290 00:22:15.000 --> 00:22:18.319 because of the things the roots feeding them. And then is that as it 291 00:22:18.400 --> 00:22:22.400 dies, now you have a passage for air and moisture to move down in 292 00:22:22.440 --> 00:22:26.319 the soil more readily. And so if you do a time lapse, imagine 293 00:22:26.400 --> 00:22:30.200 the grass plant sending down a root and it dies, and then here comes 294 00:22:30.240 --> 00:22:33.200 another root and another root. Of course they don't all die at once. 295 00:22:33.279 --> 00:22:37.880 It's a process. But in that process the soil is getting loosened. It's 296 00:22:37.960 --> 00:22:42.240 having organic matter put down into it. We do that, we buy compost 297 00:22:42.319 --> 00:22:47.799 and we speed up the process put it down in the soil. But nature 298 00:22:47.799 --> 00:22:51.960 does that naturally, and so taking advantage of that system, the healthier your 299 00:22:52.039 --> 00:22:56.359 lawn is, the better your lawn is doing the better your lawn will do. 300 00:22:56.559 --> 00:23:00.400 How does that sound. The better your lawn is doing, the better 301 00:23:00.440 --> 00:23:03.319 your lawn will do. What does that mean? That means you've got a 302 00:23:03.319 --> 00:23:07.079 healthy lawn. You've got good coverage, your weed problems are being minimized, 303 00:23:07.480 --> 00:23:11.960 you've got an active growing root system that is enriching the soil. You've got 304 00:23:12.079 --> 00:23:15.960 nutrients from the clippings that are going back into the soil, and so all 305 00:23:17.000 --> 00:23:21.079 of that creates a more beautiful lawn too. Again, it doesn't mean that 306 00:23:21.160 --> 00:23:26.720 we don't have things to do like fertilizing. We do. But nature system 307 00:23:26.079 --> 00:23:30.640 which we are taking a notch up in terms of having a nice, beautiful, 308 00:23:30.720 --> 00:23:36.720 uniform, dense lawn. A nature system is to take care of itself. 309 00:23:36.759 --> 00:23:38.160 The better your lawn is doing, the better your lawn will do. 310 00:23:38.640 --> 00:23:41.480 So good healthy dense lawn. That's a secret. If you go to my 311 00:23:41.559 --> 00:23:47.680 schedule on guarding with skip dot com and let's see, if you go there 312 00:23:47.920 --> 00:23:52.119 on the lawn care schedule, the lawn care schedule, it talks about how 313 00:23:52.160 --> 00:23:56.920 to mow properly. Do you know there is a way actually to mow properly? 314 00:23:56.279 --> 00:24:02.680 And it talks about the importance of returning those clippings and creating a dense, 315 00:24:02.720 --> 00:24:04.839 healthy lawn. If you go to the weed schedule, the weed management 316 00:24:04.920 --> 00:24:08.640 schedule in red letters right in the middle of the page, I'm going to 317 00:24:08.720 --> 00:24:14.960 read it. The first and most important step and weed control is to build 318 00:24:14.960 --> 00:24:22.039 a dense, healthy turf over time through proper through proper fertilizing, mowing, 319 00:24:22.519 --> 00:24:26.200 and watering. Remember, wherever sunlight hits the soil, nature plants a weed. 320 00:24:27.200 --> 00:24:30.559 All Right, those are some thoughts. I think it's a little bit 321 00:24:30.720 --> 00:24:36.160 on the academic side, But I think as you understand that it starts to 322 00:24:36.160 --> 00:24:38.680 make sense, and the way you go about gardening and the way you look 323 00:24:38.720 --> 00:24:44.880 at problems in the lawn starts to kind of evolve a little bit and we 324 00:24:45.079 --> 00:24:48.119 just become better gardeners as we do. Remember, there are no brown thumbs. 325 00:24:48.119 --> 00:24:52.680 There's uninformed thumbs. And for you lawn rangers out there, hopefully I 326 00:24:52.799 --> 00:24:56.759 just informed the thumb just a little bit there. Our phone number, if 327 00:24:56.799 --> 00:25:00.759 you'd like to give us a call, is seven to one three two five 328 00:25:00.839 --> 00:25:07.920 eight seven four seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four. Your 329 00:25:07.960 --> 00:25:11.240 Ace Hardware stores, Yeah, the forty Ace Hardware stores in the Greater Houston 330 00:25:11.279 --> 00:25:17.319 area. They stay stocked up on the things you need to have a more 331 00:25:17.400 --> 00:25:22.599 beautiful landscape and a more bountiful garden. That would include things like every fertilizer 332 00:25:22.640 --> 00:25:26.640 I talk about on garden Line, like composts and mulchz that you hear me 333 00:25:26.720 --> 00:25:30.720 talk about here on garden Line. They have the pest control, the weed 334 00:25:30.759 --> 00:25:34.880 control, the disease control products you need to have success in the case of 335 00:25:36.000 --> 00:25:40.680 things like here's mosquito season. You can buy your mosquito dunks there. You 336 00:25:40.720 --> 00:25:44.759 can buy a fogger there if you're going to go after them that way. 337 00:25:45.839 --> 00:25:49.119 Just whatever you're trying to do to have a beautiful, beautiful landscape and a 338 00:25:49.160 --> 00:25:55.119 bountiful garden, ACE can help you with that and also help you with making 339 00:25:55.160 --> 00:26:00.400 your outdoor living a nicer experience. First of all, no mosquitos. Second 340 00:26:00.400 --> 00:26:03.640 of all, a really sweet barbecue bit, you know what I'm talking about, 341 00:26:03.839 --> 00:26:07.799 Like Trager, Big Green Egg, wherever, those kinds of things they've 342 00:26:07.799 --> 00:26:11.200 got that they can get it all set up. Go to ACE check them 343 00:26:11.240 --> 00:26:17.279 out Acehardware dot Com. Find the store locator so that you can find the 344 00:26:17.319 --> 00:26:22.440 ACE Hardware nearest to you. Pick up your fertilizer, your FIREMNT control time 345 00:26:22.559 --> 00:26:30.319 still time to do that, and mosquito repellent this weekend at ace, I 346 00:26:30.400 --> 00:26:34.160 was complaining yesterday about the mosquitos and their outbreak, and one of the things 347 00:26:34.160 --> 00:26:38.400 I have to do when I get home is clean out my gutters on the 348 00:26:38.440 --> 00:26:45.200 house. I had just not noticed this, but I have a certain kind 349 00:26:45.200 --> 00:26:51.799 of well. I have cypress trees that pretty sees little feathery leaves, and 350 00:26:51.880 --> 00:26:56.000 those things will really clog up a gutter well, and I hadn't noticed that 351 00:26:56.160 --> 00:27:00.359 they'd built up. And when we had this gully washer and it was overloading 352 00:27:00.400 --> 00:27:03.480 the gutters, Uh, it came over the sides of the gutter and a 353 00:27:03.839 --> 00:27:07.079 normal gutter. That shouldn't happen. But I need to get up there and 354 00:27:07.160 --> 00:27:12.240 clean that out because I guarantee you there are mosquitoes that are reproducing in that 355 00:27:12.400 --> 00:27:15.799 area. Mosquitoes just need a little bit of water and a little bit of 356 00:27:15.839 --> 00:27:19.160 time to lay an egg, get the larvae, and here comes the adult 357 00:27:19.200 --> 00:27:25.480 mosquito coming out of it. And we need to make sure and stay away 358 00:27:25.519 --> 00:27:27.039 from that and avoid it. And that's what's going to happen in my house 359 00:27:27.839 --> 00:27:32.400 for sure this week it's time take a break. Our phone number seven one 360 00:27:32.519 --> 00:27:36.599 three two one two ktrh. I'll be right back. Welcome back to gardenline. 361 00:27:36.640 --> 00:27:38.839 Good heavy with us. What do you like to talk about today? 362 00:27:40.000 --> 00:27:44.519 I've been going on about some of the natural systems out there, how to 363 00:27:44.559 --> 00:27:48.880 have a beautiful, dense, thick, healthy lawn, and why the practices 364 00:27:48.920 --> 00:27:52.440 we do help achieve that. For us, that is our goal to have 365 00:27:52.480 --> 00:27:56.440 a beautiful, dense, healthy lawn those of you who love lawns, and 366 00:27:56.519 --> 00:28:02.200 boy, judging from percentage wise of the calls, we get lawns and trees 367 00:28:02.359 --> 00:28:06.079 or by far the top two topics that people are interested in. I mean, 368 00:28:06.119 --> 00:28:10.160 we get, you know, questions on plumerias and roses and bugs and 369 00:28:10.200 --> 00:28:12.960 diseases and everything else. But I'll tell you LUNs and trees, that is, 370 00:28:14.359 --> 00:28:17.960 those are very important to people and they should be. Trees are a 371 00:28:18.079 --> 00:28:22.400 valuable, valuable asset to the landscape. They shade our homes, which in 372 00:28:22.440 --> 00:28:30.400 the summertime can help significantly on air conditioning electric bills, for example. They 373 00:28:30.480 --> 00:28:34.960 also provide shade for us as we're sitting outside. I have a cypress tree. 374 00:28:34.960 --> 00:28:38.000 I complain about some things about that cypress tree, but I tell you 375 00:28:38.000 --> 00:28:41.440 I don't complain about the fact that when I go outside and sit underneath it, 376 00:28:41.440 --> 00:28:45.640 it is nice and cool. Even on a hot day, there's a 377 00:28:45.720 --> 00:28:49.039 nice break. If we have a breeze, we have a big fan. 378 00:28:49.160 --> 00:28:53.000 I have an out back that is my artificial breeze if the breeze refuses to 379 00:28:53.039 --> 00:28:57.079 blow, Because a breeze makes a big difference. But trees are valuable. 380 00:28:57.160 --> 00:29:03.000 Blooming trees are very gorgeou and when you decide to plant a tree, you 381 00:29:03.039 --> 00:29:07.160 need to think about it for a while. Think about what do you want 382 00:29:07.400 --> 00:29:10.839 out of that tree. Some people will call and say, what's a good 383 00:29:10.880 --> 00:29:12.160 tree to plant? I lost the tree, what's a good tree to replace 384 00:29:12.200 --> 00:29:17.000 it? Well, what do you want? Do you want a big spreading 385 00:29:17.079 --> 00:29:22.000 shade tree. Do you want something that's ever green or something that is going 386 00:29:22.039 --> 00:29:26.680 to lose its leaves and allow the sun through in the winter or does that 387 00:29:26.759 --> 00:29:30.000 matter? Do you want something that blooms? How big? Do you want 388 00:29:30.000 --> 00:29:33.480 it to be? Little tree over a patio area or again a big giant 389 00:29:33.559 --> 00:29:37.319 shade tree. All of that helps us determine what are some of the options 390 00:29:37.319 --> 00:29:41.319 to have success with your trees. But think about trees, they are a 391 00:29:41.400 --> 00:29:45.920 long term investment. If you live in that house for the rest of your 392 00:29:45.960 --> 00:29:51.680 life, A quality tree could last that whole time. I really could. 393 00:29:52.119 --> 00:29:56.599 It's a very, very valuable investment and I think an important decision. So 394 00:29:56.759 --> 00:30:00.279 let's not take it lightly. Let's choose some good, good types of trees 395 00:30:00.319 --> 00:30:04.039 that are gonna survive for us and fit what we want them to be able 396 00:30:04.079 --> 00:30:10.920 to do. I was talking about our schedule online and if you go to 397 00:30:10.960 --> 00:30:15.480 gardening with Skip dot com, you will find that schedule that will guide you 398 00:30:15.640 --> 00:30:19.240 in both lawn care and lawn pest disease and weed management. I talk about 399 00:30:19.279 --> 00:30:25.759 it a lot because I've put together a lot of information into these two schedules 400 00:30:26.200 --> 00:30:30.799 in hopes that they'll guide you because you're gonna have questions next week, next 401 00:30:30.839 --> 00:30:34.400 month, next season, next year, and you can always refer back to 402 00:30:34.440 --> 00:30:37.359 this and as we do updates to it, I'll let you know. But 403 00:30:37.400 --> 00:30:42.440 the nice thing I think about these schedules is they're color coded and they cover 404 00:30:42.640 --> 00:30:48.319 January through December, and they give you options both synthetic and organic for both 405 00:30:48.359 --> 00:30:53.160 fertilizing, insect control, disease control, weed control. Where we have those 406 00:30:53.200 --> 00:30:59.559 options, they are there listed on the schedule, and that makes it really 407 00:30:59.559 --> 00:31:03.880 easy for you. A lot of people print that out and make it and 408 00:31:03.039 --> 00:31:06.920 just you know, take it with them when they go shopping, because that 409 00:31:06.960 --> 00:31:10.440 way, you don't have to remember what it was that you were wanting to 410 00:31:10.440 --> 00:31:14.079 get, or what the option B and C is for you. You got 411 00:31:14.119 --> 00:31:18.599 them right there. I'm going to be doing another appearance before we hit the 412 00:31:18.640 --> 00:31:23.640 summer season here, and that will be two weeks from yesterday at Wildbirds Unlimited 413 00:31:23.680 --> 00:31:27.119 in bel Air. Now. Warbirds Unlimited stores are fun to go to, 414 00:31:27.880 --> 00:31:33.279 you know, just on any given day, but I hope you'll consider coming 415 00:31:33.359 --> 00:31:37.759 out and meet me there at the wild Birds Unlimited. I love to meet 416 00:31:37.759 --> 00:31:40.599 people that listen to the shows. That's just always fun. It's one of 417 00:31:40.680 --> 00:31:45.160 my favorite things about the whole gardening world is meeting gardeners and talking to gardeners. 418 00:31:47.160 --> 00:31:52.400 Warbirds Unlimited has an excellent selection of everything you need for birds. I'll 419 00:31:52.440 --> 00:31:56.119 be there because they're there, they're the experts on birds. I'll be there. 420 00:31:56.200 --> 00:31:59.200 If you've got plants you want diagnosed, you can bring a sample in, 421 00:31:59.640 --> 00:32:01.599 you can bring a photo in. If you have plants that you would 422 00:32:01.680 --> 00:32:06.119 like to have identified. Maybe it's a weed. Maybe it's a beautiful plant 423 00:32:06.160 --> 00:32:08.359 you saw somewhere. Bring me a picture. Let's look at it. Remember 424 00:32:08.440 --> 00:32:13.839 when you take pictures and bring them or email them to me. If we're 425 00:32:13.880 --> 00:32:19.319 dealing with an email question, it's important to take a picture of the plan 426 00:32:19.440 --> 00:32:23.000 and it's setting, and then also a picture of what distinguishes that plan up 427 00:32:23.039 --> 00:32:27.279 close. Like if it were a disease spot, let me see it up 428 00:32:27.279 --> 00:32:30.279 close. If it's an insect, let me see it up close. If 429 00:32:30.279 --> 00:32:34.559 it is a pattern in the leaves or a blotching or a lack of color 430 00:32:34.640 --> 00:32:37.079 or whatever, let me see it up close and make sure it's in sharp 431 00:32:37.119 --> 00:32:40.440 focus before you hit sent. One last thing, if you're going to be 432 00:32:40.480 --> 00:32:45.160 emailing and with email, I can't answer the emails of everyone in the in 433 00:32:45.200 --> 00:32:50.759 the Greater Houston area, so we connect those to the show. But if 434 00:32:50.839 --> 00:32:54.200 you do email me a photo, please attach it rather than embed it into 435 00:32:54.240 --> 00:32:59.599 the text. When a photo is embedded in the text, I have to 436 00:32:59.599 --> 00:33:02.599 go through a couple of steps to be able to save it and really zoom 437 00:33:02.640 --> 00:33:07.759 in better to see it better. And when it's attached, it's real fast 438 00:33:07.799 --> 00:33:10.480 and that makes it a lot easier. So if you would attach them rather 439 00:33:10.480 --> 00:33:14.359 than to bed them. That would be helpful anyway. I hope you come 440 00:33:14.400 --> 00:33:19.480 out next or not next two saturdays from yesterday, June fifteenth, right in 441 00:33:19.519 --> 00:33:22.359 the big middle of June. That's easy to remember. Wabird's unlimited in bel 442 00:33:22.400 --> 00:33:28.079 Air. Look forward to seeing you out there. Back at the house, 443 00:33:28.640 --> 00:33:34.319 I was working on some beds that had been neglected for a little while, 444 00:33:34.400 --> 00:33:37.839 and I finally had some time to get out and do some revamping of those 445 00:33:37.880 --> 00:33:43.079 beds. I was taking out some really heavy clay that we had in the 446 00:33:43.119 --> 00:33:45.359 beds from a trench that had been dug and the clay had been just set 447 00:33:45.400 --> 00:33:51.039 there because I didn't want it put, you know, in the yard and 448 00:33:51.279 --> 00:33:54.319 other beds. And I'm moving that clay out, and then I'm bringing in 449 00:33:54.960 --> 00:34:01.519 quality bed mixes to work into the soil. Things also like expanded shale to 450 00:34:01.559 --> 00:34:07.160 work into the soil, and that makes it's really helpful to be able to 451 00:34:07.200 --> 00:34:08.400 do that. I'll talk about a little bit more of that in a moment. 452 00:34:08.679 --> 00:34:13.320 Let's go to Conro now and talk to Larry. Hello, Larry, 453 00:34:13.480 --> 00:34:15.960 good morning, Skip. How are you today. I'm well, sir. 454 00:34:15.039 --> 00:34:20.079 How can we help good? I sent you a couple of pictures yesterday in 455 00:34:20.199 --> 00:34:23.159 reference to some trees I put in some hollies, Yes, okay, And 456 00:34:23.199 --> 00:34:28.960 I was just asking if you'd recommend that I put those in in Oh, 457 00:34:29.000 --> 00:34:34.840 I guess October. Hey, Larry, I don't see those pictures, do 458 00:34:34.960 --> 00:34:40.039 you. Let's see here? Isn't here to show up as from Larry? 459 00:34:40.760 --> 00:34:45.599 Is that? Or does email begin with some different letters or things? The 460 00:34:45.719 --> 00:34:52.400 email would come be s is in Sam b as in Victory owas in Oscar 461 00:34:52.599 --> 00:35:02.800 b as in Bravo four three SV I don't see it? Will you resend 462 00:35:02.800 --> 00:35:06.840 them? And when I come back from break, if you want to hang 463 00:35:06.880 --> 00:35:08.039 on the phone, you can do that. We're about to have to take 464 00:35:08.039 --> 00:35:13.119 a break here. But if you will re send them to me or just 465 00:35:13.159 --> 00:35:16.400 call back, we will try to dive into that. Okay, yeah, 466 00:35:16.519 --> 00:35:20.239 let me get yeah, let me get back and make sure I get with 467 00:35:20.320 --> 00:35:23.480 your assistant there to get that email correctly then, because I received it from 468 00:35:23.559 --> 00:35:27.280 them yesterday. Okay, Okay, here, I'm gonna put you on hold, 469 00:35:27.679 --> 00:35:30.199 am my producer. You're going to give you my email address. Thanks 470 00:35:30.199 --> 00:35:35.400 a lot. All right, we've been listening to Guardline. We're here to 471 00:35:35.440 --> 00:35:38.039 talk about the things that interest you, How can we help you have success? 472 00:35:38.159 --> 00:35:42.760 That is That is exactly what we're trying to do here. You know, 473 00:35:42.880 --> 00:35:46.000 gardening is I think the most wonderful hobby there is out there for a 474 00:35:46.079 --> 00:35:51.519 lot of reasons, but it is one that is daunting to some people. 475 00:35:51.599 --> 00:35:53.960 And it doesn't need to be like we say, there's no brown thumbs. 476 00:35:53.960 --> 00:35:59.559 There's some informed thumbs stick around. We'll be right back and we will continue 477 00:35:59.679 --> 00:36:19.559 to inform your thoughts to KTI r H Garden Line with Scamp Richard's trip. 478 00:36:20.920 --> 00:36:35.039 Just watch him as a world, so many good things to see. Boss 479 00:36:37.639 --> 00:36:43.360 S, welcome back to the guarden Line. Good to have you with us. 480 00:36:44.199 --> 00:36:47.639 We are looking forward to visiting with you about the things that interest you. 481 00:36:49.320 --> 00:36:52.880 That is what we're trying to do here on the Garden Line. Make 482 00:36:52.920 --> 00:36:55.199 sure that we help you have success, as I like to put it, 483 00:36:55.320 --> 00:37:00.559 a more beautiful landscape and a more bountiful garden. We're gonna head back out 484 00:37:00.599 --> 00:37:04.239 to Conroe to talk to Larry. Larry, I've got your photos and taken 485 00:37:04.280 --> 00:37:07.679 a look at them, and I think the first thing I would say is 486 00:37:07.280 --> 00:37:12.320 think about what you want the plant form to be. Do you want a 487 00:37:12.440 --> 00:37:15.320 tree with a you know, a bear trunk coming up and then a top 488 00:37:15.559 --> 00:37:19.719 that has all the leaves and foliage on it. Are you looking for more 489 00:37:19.760 --> 00:37:23.679 of a wall of foliage it goes to the ground or what do you think 490 00:37:23.719 --> 00:37:30.280 there? Well, I'm definitely I wanted to look like a tree more than 491 00:37:30.320 --> 00:37:35.079 a bush. Okay, well you're well on your way to that. The 492 00:37:35.119 --> 00:37:38.320 trees, they look pretty good. Actually, I think you obviously have spent 493 00:37:38.519 --> 00:37:43.559 some time making sure they're well watered. Get them through, you know, 494 00:37:44.199 --> 00:37:46.599 when we come into this next year, just remember the root system is still 495 00:37:46.719 --> 00:37:53.199 very confined, so just make sure that the original root ball and a little 496 00:37:53.239 --> 00:38:01.719 beyond that does not dry out. So you'd recommend trimming those up Pruningum, 497 00:38:01.920 --> 00:38:07.960 yeah, you could clean up the trunks to the height if you want uniformity. 498 00:38:07.079 --> 00:38:09.480 You know, some of them branch a little lower. You could remove 499 00:38:09.519 --> 00:38:13.440 the lower branches. Just figure out what the heights you want it to be 500 00:38:14.280 --> 00:38:19.000 and then prune them out. Remember that leaves develop where sunlight, where there's 501 00:38:19.000 --> 00:38:22.840 sunlight, So if your top of the tree gets real wide and broad, 502 00:38:23.000 --> 00:38:27.360 it's going to shade out the lower areas and you're not going to have foliage 503 00:38:27.440 --> 00:38:32.920 down in lower areas, So just do a little selective printing, not sharing 504 00:38:32.960 --> 00:38:37.239 them like a shrub, but a little selective printing to shape them as you 505 00:38:37.320 --> 00:38:42.599 want them, making sure that the lower leaves are reaching out and getting sunlight 506 00:38:42.639 --> 00:38:49.159 as well. When you trim they grow at the bottom of the tree, 507 00:38:49.199 --> 00:38:52.800 at the bark right near the ground. Does that encourage growth more to the 508 00:38:53.320 --> 00:39:00.239 top of the tree, Well, it does. Trees are going to to 509 00:39:00.280 --> 00:39:06.599 grow anywhere that there's sunlight. You're going to see branches sprout, shoots come 510 00:39:06.639 --> 00:39:09.239 out, You're going to see leaves growing and things like that. When you 511 00:39:09.440 --> 00:39:14.599 allow that to go on, there's a certain percentage of what the roots are 512 00:39:14.599 --> 00:39:19.199 taking up that is going into those branches, and especially if they are branches 513 00:39:19.320 --> 00:39:22.360 that are not going to be permanent on the tree, then when you cut 514 00:39:22.360 --> 00:39:28.519 them off, you've you know, you all the resources that went into making 515 00:39:28.559 --> 00:39:31.679 that branch are taken away now and it would have been better to make the 516 00:39:31.719 --> 00:39:37.199 decision a little earlier and to have those resources go into the growth that is 517 00:39:37.239 --> 00:39:42.000 more permanent. Sounds good. That's what I'll do, all right, sir. 518 00:39:42.519 --> 00:39:44.519 Thank you, very thank you, sir. A good day. Yeah, 519 00:39:44.559 --> 00:39:51.440 thanks for the call. Appreciate that a lot. I'm having trouble here 520 00:39:51.480 --> 00:39:55.800 with my buttons. Okay. Earlier I is going on and on about nature 521 00:39:55.960 --> 00:40:00.239 and taking care of the soil and whatnot, and lens Scaper's Pride is a 522 00:40:00.280 --> 00:40:07.119 company built around that. Landscaper's Pride has like twenty seven I believe different products 523 00:40:07.199 --> 00:40:10.480 that are out there on the market, things that improve the soil, you 524 00:40:10.559 --> 00:40:14.599 know, compost, soil blends and whatnot. But I want to talk about 525 00:40:14.599 --> 00:40:16.679 what goes on top of the soil because you think about a forest, the 526 00:40:16.760 --> 00:40:21.239 rich some of the richest soil on Earth, and you've got a lot of 527 00:40:21.519 --> 00:40:24.199 organic matter that's decomposing on the surface, and that's called malts when we get 528 00:40:24.239 --> 00:40:30.039 it into a garden. They have the black velvet molts, unnaturally dark molts, 529 00:40:30.079 --> 00:40:34.440 not dyed, naturally dark, beautiful, beautiful molts, very velvety in 530 00:40:34.559 --> 00:40:39.079 depth. They have a hardwood molts based on true hardwood shredding trees, not 531 00:40:39.480 --> 00:40:45.000 plump, not a pecking pallets like some companies will do. They have a 532 00:40:45.039 --> 00:40:50.239 pine bark molt, which is our most popular and it's a beautiful pine bark. 533 00:40:50.559 --> 00:40:53.920 That last pine bark lasts a little bit longer, doesn't decompose as fast 534 00:40:54.280 --> 00:40:58.199 as some of the other maltes might do. And then of course the Garden 535 00:40:58.239 --> 00:41:01.599 Magic Soil, that's the blend that in addition to the chicken pellet fertilizer, 536 00:41:01.639 --> 00:41:06.000 it gives you about three months of feeding. That soil has. It's based 537 00:41:06.000 --> 00:41:08.440 on pine, it's got humus, it's got screen pine, and it also 538 00:41:08.480 --> 00:41:15.559 has composted rice holes. So again several different organic materials decomposed back into a 539 00:41:15.639 --> 00:41:20.400 quality growing mix for plants. All at Landscapers Pride. All you have to 540 00:41:20.440 --> 00:41:24.320 do is go to Landscaperspride dot com and you can find out more about the 541 00:41:24.320 --> 00:41:30.920 products and also where to get them. Let's go now out to Champion's Forest 542 00:41:30.039 --> 00:41:34.599 and talk to Barbara. Hello, Barbara, oh skip, thanks for taking 543 00:41:34.639 --> 00:41:39.320 my call this morning. Sure, I am unundated in some areas with ki 544 00:41:39.440 --> 00:41:44.760 linga, okay, And what can I use on it? It's I don't 545 00:41:44.800 --> 00:41:47.280 want to damage to Saint Augustine if I can avoid it, okay. Kay 546 00:41:47.400 --> 00:41:53.400 Linga is a lot like nutgrass, and in terms of it being related, 547 00:41:53.719 --> 00:41:59.760 it's very similar to sedge, and it is a little more difficult to control 548 00:41:59.800 --> 00:42:05.760 than than nuts edge is. And so what what I would suggest you probably 549 00:42:05.800 --> 00:42:09.960 are going to want to get something with halo sulfur on in it. And 550 00:42:10.039 --> 00:42:15.239 I know that's a that's a lot of a lot of word there, but 551 00:42:15.320 --> 00:42:21.920 basically something like heritage. Excuse me, not heritage. I just went blank. 552 00:42:22.960 --> 00:42:28.920 Sedge hammer, I'm sorry, sedge hammer, sedge hammer, or there's 553 00:42:29.239 --> 00:42:35.199 sedge ender. Also, sedge hammer and sedge ender are both products that will 554 00:42:35.239 --> 00:42:38.760 help you will need to apply them more than once, and so they not 555 00:42:38.880 --> 00:42:45.320 said the kalinga is probably not a one shot deal. Thet if I use 556 00:42:45.360 --> 00:42:50.239 a pump up sprayer and spray it and it happens to hit some of the 557 00:42:50.320 --> 00:42:55.400 Saint Augustine, that's okay, just just follow read the label carefully, and 558 00:42:55.559 --> 00:43:01.159 follow the label carefully, try to target the kilinga. But the sedgehammer is 559 00:43:01.199 --> 00:43:06.679 designed to be used in lawns, as is the sedge ender. Right, 560 00:43:07.679 --> 00:43:10.079 I appreciate that. I'll get to that today. Well not today, it's 561 00:43:10.119 --> 00:43:14.639 still too wet. Yeah, but as soon as things start to dry out 562 00:43:14.639 --> 00:43:19.239 a little bit. And just a one more note, sedges, including Klinga, 563 00:43:20.280 --> 00:43:24.199 they love wet conditions. And it doesn't mean if you let your lawn 564 00:43:24.280 --> 00:43:27.800 dry out, they're going to go away. It just means that the wetter 565 00:43:27.840 --> 00:43:30.880 it is, the more they proliferate, and the more of a challenge it 566 00:43:30.960 --> 00:43:35.880 is to bring them under control. And this season it's definitely hit all spots. 567 00:43:36.079 --> 00:43:37.679 Yeah, we're not in charge of the clouds, are you. No, 568 00:43:37.760 --> 00:43:40.599 we're not so yeah. Well, I tell you, I see a 569 00:43:40.639 --> 00:43:45.519 lot of folks that weigh over water their lawn way more than the lawn needs. 570 00:43:45.519 --> 00:43:46.920 And so just keep that in mind, you know, be a little 571 00:43:46.920 --> 00:43:52.000 stingy with the water out there. Well, where I live, I don't 572 00:43:52.239 --> 00:43:54.400 have to water too much because the way the drainage is set up in our 573 00:43:54.480 --> 00:44:00.119 patio community, the water runs downhill and guess who lives down there? You 574 00:44:00.159 --> 00:44:04.840 go, all right, all right, Well, uh then maybe the way 575 00:44:04.920 --> 00:44:08.280 to get rid of kilinga is to call a realtor. Well, I don't 576 00:44:08.280 --> 00:44:12.639 think I want to move. I like, hey, Barbara, thank you, 577 00:44:12.719 --> 00:44:15.440 appreciate it, Thank you. I have a great day, you too. 578 00:44:15.840 --> 00:44:17.559 We're going to take a little break. Seven one three two one two 579 00:44:17.920 --> 00:44:21.920 k t R. Hil be right back. Welcome back to the guard Line. 580 00:44:22.320 --> 00:44:24.400 Good to have you with us today. If you have a question that 581 00:44:24.400 --> 00:44:29.239 we can assist with our phone number. The number you need to call is 582 00:44:29.280 --> 00:44:32.920 seven one three two one two k t r A seven one three two one 583 00:44:34.039 --> 00:44:39.440 two k t r h uh Nitroposs has a number of different fertilizer products in 584 00:44:39.480 --> 00:44:44.719 the market. One of them that I find very interesting is sweet Green. 585 00:44:45.119 --> 00:44:49.599 And I say interesting because this is a different kind of an approach to fertilizer 586 00:44:50.480 --> 00:44:55.960 based on a molasses type material with microbial activity on it. Uh. It 587 00:44:57.000 --> 00:45:01.559 has an eleven percent nitrogen content that is very high for an organic type material. 588 00:45:02.159 --> 00:45:07.880 When you put it on the soil, that carbon based material, the 589 00:45:07.920 --> 00:45:15.239 molasses based material, the carbon it really reactivates the microbes in the soil, 590 00:45:15.360 --> 00:45:21.599 especially beneficial bacteria. These microbes need carbon in order to thrive and grow, 591 00:45:21.760 --> 00:45:25.599 and when you add this to the soil, you get a rejuvenation and a 592 00:45:25.639 --> 00:45:30.639 real increase in bacterial numbers. This is why organic gardeners like to put molasses 593 00:45:30.719 --> 00:45:36.000 on the soil for example. They recognize that and sweet Green will give you 594 00:45:36.079 --> 00:45:39.639 a nice greening up. It'll dissolve away as the rainfalls or as you irrigate 595 00:45:40.039 --> 00:45:45.199 move down into the soil and you see that result. Because it is going 596 00:45:45.280 --> 00:45:50.320 to be available, you can use this more than once through your summer season 597 00:45:50.639 --> 00:45:54.199 to continue to just provide the amount of green and growth that you're looking for. 598 00:45:54.360 --> 00:45:59.079 You're going to find it at Enchanted Gardens down in Richmond Rosenberg, at 599 00:45:59.079 --> 00:46:02.199 Shades of Texas up in the Woodlands. You also find it at Fisher's Hardbor 600 00:46:02.320 --> 00:46:07.400 both the one in South Houston on South Moore and also the Fisher's Hardware and 601 00:46:07.480 --> 00:46:12.320 the Port on South Broadway Street. Makes it easy to find a lot of 602 00:46:12.400 --> 00:46:21.119 availability of these and other nitro fuss products. I think that with the rain 603 00:46:21.159 --> 00:46:22.920 that we've had, our lawns are doing pretty well. Actually, in fact, 604 00:46:22.960 --> 00:46:28.719 the only thing I've noticed is I saw some yellowing in my lawn the 605 00:46:28.760 --> 00:46:30.679 other day, and it was a beautiful green lawn, And there are just 606 00:46:30.719 --> 00:46:35.719 some areas that are just starting to yellow a little bit. And I think 607 00:46:35.840 --> 00:46:38.639 that just an excessive amount of water maybe to drain is not being as good 608 00:46:38.679 --> 00:46:42.639 as it is. I don't know what else going on there. I'm keeping 609 00:46:42.639 --> 00:46:45.480 an eye on it. Maybe add a little iron key late to the soil. 610 00:46:45.599 --> 00:46:51.400 Iron key late is a form of iron that the soil doesn't just tie 611 00:46:51.519 --> 00:46:55.840 up immediately like it would regular iron, and iron key late, just judiciously 612 00:46:55.880 --> 00:47:01.679 applied, can help with that lack of color. Let's go to pair Land. 613 00:47:01.760 --> 00:47:05.960 Now we're going to talk to Greg. Hello, Greg, Hi, 614 00:47:06.159 --> 00:47:12.119 Skip. I've got a lawn that B and B put in a bunch of 615 00:47:12.159 --> 00:47:15.559 new San Augustine saw it for us about five weeks ago. They did a 616 00:47:15.559 --> 00:47:22.599 beautiful job, did a beautiful job. And what I need to know is 617 00:47:22.599 --> 00:47:27.880 is it okay to do anything now you would with a regular established lawn, 618 00:47:28.079 --> 00:47:32.400 from fertilizer to bug out max to anything. Is there anything I shouldn't do 619 00:47:32.679 --> 00:47:37.039 with this lawn? Yet? After almost five weeks, most of the time 620 00:47:37.119 --> 00:47:40.559 turf comes in with a as I put it a charge of fertilizer. It's 621 00:47:40.599 --> 00:47:45.000 got some nutrient in it, and it doesn't need nutrients for a while. 622 00:47:45.880 --> 00:47:49.159 It's getting a root system down. Been in five weeks now you've got a 623 00:47:49.199 --> 00:47:53.519 pretty good root system. You can go by one of two ways of looking 624 00:47:53.559 --> 00:47:58.400 at it. One would be to say, wait a month at least maybe 625 00:47:58.440 --> 00:48:01.960 six weeks before you start fertilizing. Okay, so you're getting close to that. 626 00:48:02.000 --> 00:48:06.280 The other would say, when you've had to mow the lawn twice, 627 00:48:07.079 --> 00:48:10.400 it's probably time to start fertilizing. And that's what and that's what we've done. 628 00:48:12.239 --> 00:48:15.800 It has been mowed twice. Yeah, so it's got enough of a 629 00:48:15.920 --> 00:48:22.320 root system to where we're not worried about it being not established. And so 630 00:48:22.480 --> 00:48:24.800 you could do any of those things that you want to do. Look at 631 00:48:24.840 --> 00:48:29.360 the color too. But if you're going to do a fertilizer, I would 632 00:48:29.400 --> 00:48:34.280 do one that is a very slow release one, gradually releasing those nutrients over 633 00:48:34.320 --> 00:48:42.920 time. Okay. And and and I use nitro fas is it the it's 634 00:48:43.119 --> 00:48:45.079 no, it's not the red bag. It's a silver bag from Nitropos. 635 00:48:45.559 --> 00:48:52.119 It's called super turf. Yeah, superturf, silver bag. Really easy to 636 00:48:52.159 --> 00:48:55.119 find. Uh. And and just to apply that, follow the label on 637 00:48:55.239 --> 00:49:01.239 Nitrophos super turf. You're going to put about five pounds per thousand square feet. 638 00:49:01.239 --> 00:49:04.760 I believe I need to check that label again and may be a little 639 00:49:04.760 --> 00:49:07.960 off on that, but I believe it's fine. Okay. I think on 640 00:49:07.039 --> 00:49:12.840 my fertilizer spreader, I think it goes to fifteen and I used about ten. 641 00:49:12.960 --> 00:49:16.679 Does that sound about right? Yeah? Probably? So, yeah, 642 00:49:17.039 --> 00:49:22.000 that is okay. That is a difficult thing because we had all these brands 643 00:49:22.039 --> 00:49:25.800 a fertilizer and all these brands of spreaders and things. One way that I 644 00:49:25.840 --> 00:49:30.920 put it. Is this a walk behind spreader, It's got wheels, it 645 00:49:30.079 --> 00:49:37.519 is h it's like a broadcast. So generally if you put it a notch 646 00:49:37.719 --> 00:49:42.239 or two above halfway, so you said you have you had a fifteen notches 647 00:49:42.280 --> 00:49:45.599 on it, Yeah, fifteen, and I usually do about ten. Yeah, 648 00:49:45.760 --> 00:49:49.920 nine or ten would be okay, Yeah, don't you won't. Don't 649 00:49:49.920 --> 00:49:52.519 go over ten. But I'll tell you something else. There's nothing wrong with 650 00:49:52.639 --> 00:49:58.639 going like way lower than that. And you go across your lawn and then 651 00:49:58.679 --> 00:50:01.199 at the end you see how much you have left. And it may be 652 00:50:01.239 --> 00:50:07.679 that you've put almost two thirds of it out, so you need to back 653 00:50:07.719 --> 00:50:09.599 off a lot, or it may be that you need to add more. 654 00:50:09.840 --> 00:50:13.920 But if you just do it in one trip across the lawn, you could 655 00:50:13.960 --> 00:50:16.679 run out before you get to the end of the lawn. And so I 656 00:50:16.800 --> 00:50:20.719 like to go a little light until I figure out with my spreader and this 657 00:50:20.880 --> 00:50:23.039 product, this is about what I want to set it on. Anyway, 658 00:50:23.079 --> 00:50:29.199 that's just a little little extra things. Not know that that that's great. 659 00:50:29.239 --> 00:50:32.400 One more really quick thing I've got And I talked to you about this before 660 00:50:32.519 --> 00:50:37.920 and everything worked out beautifully. But I planted a big yucka tom Sonyana and 661 00:50:39.440 --> 00:50:44.920 it just got through blooming and it's got a few blooms left before they're about 662 00:50:44.960 --> 00:50:49.679 to all fall off. Is it okay to cut off that bloomstock now? 663 00:50:49.960 --> 00:50:52.000 Or should I wait until it dries out? You can cut it off now 664 00:50:52.039 --> 00:50:57.039 if you want. Okay, Yeah, that's good. Well, that takes 665 00:50:57.039 --> 00:51:00.000 care of everything. That love your show. Thanks a bunch, Hey, 666 00:51:00.000 --> 00:51:02.000 Thanks, Greg, appreciate you being a listener. Okay, all right, 667 00:51:02.119 --> 00:51:08.000 bye bye you bet bye bye. Mother's Day. Mother's Day was passed. 668 00:51:08.119 --> 00:51:12.679 Does that mean we quit giving gifts? No, there's always a day for 669 00:51:12.760 --> 00:51:16.480 a gift. Father's Days coming up. Now. When you think about gifts 670 00:51:16.519 --> 00:51:21.079 and you think about somebody who already has everything, what would be a good 671 00:51:21.159 --> 00:51:24.519 suggestion. Maybe it's just a housewarming gift. This is a great I have 672 00:51:24.559 --> 00:51:30.840 a great idea for you. Wa Bird's Unlimited. Wild Birds Unlimited has all 673 00:51:31.119 --> 00:51:37.159 kinds of things birds and most people enjoy just watching birds, or sitting out 674 00:51:37.199 --> 00:51:40.280 on a patio and listening to their songs and watching their antics. Whether you 675 00:51:40.320 --> 00:51:45.320 need a little bird waterer, a little bird bath as they call it, 676 00:51:45.800 --> 00:51:49.199 if you need a house for birds, if you need a feeder for birds 677 00:51:49.320 --> 00:51:52.719 Wildbirds Unlimited. How's all that? Including a really cool book called The Joy 678 00:51:52.760 --> 00:51:57.360 Bird Feeding by the founder of Warbirds Unlimited. It makes an excellent gift from 679 00:51:57.400 --> 00:52:02.440 housewarming to whatever event, to just hey you're my friend. Here is I 680 00:52:02.519 --> 00:52:07.559 just wanted to do this for you. Wild Birds Unlimited is six locations around 681 00:52:07.639 --> 00:52:13.480 town. Go to WBU dot com, forward slash Houston, or hey, 682 00:52:13.599 --> 00:52:16.000 I have an idea for you. I'm going to be at Waldbirds Unlimited. 683 00:52:16.239 --> 00:52:21.360 It's coming up two weeks from yesterday, June fifteenth. I'll be at the 684 00:52:21.400 --> 00:52:24.800 Waldbirds Unlimited and bel Air. So come on over and see me and we'll 685 00:52:24.800 --> 00:52:30.559 talk about some great ideas for gifts or maybe you want to buy something for 686 00:52:30.679 --> 00:52:35.719 yourself. Let's head out to Hoffman now and talk to Greg. Hello, 687 00:52:35.880 --> 00:52:40.639 Greg, how you doing. I'm good, sir. What's up? All 688 00:52:40.719 --> 00:52:45.519 right? I'm in here. You're telling about these mosquito dunks. Yes, 689 00:52:45.840 --> 00:52:52.639 and I was warning Are they safe around animals and stuff like that? Absolutely 690 00:52:52.760 --> 00:52:55.840 safe. Birds can drink the water, the cat, the dog can drink 691 00:52:55.880 --> 00:53:00.800 the water. It is. The reason is this is a disease of the 692 00:53:00.840 --> 00:53:06.440 mosquito larva. And so I mean if a lady beetle K drank the water. 693 00:53:06.480 --> 00:53:12.280 It wouldn't hurt it because it's not it's not a mosquito larva. Okay, 694 00:53:12.360 --> 00:53:15.719 cool, cool good. I got a few animals and bought me some 695 00:53:15.760 --> 00:53:17.039 of the mosquito dunks. Could. I've been hearing you talk about them, 696 00:53:17.039 --> 00:53:21.039 and yeah, yeah, good, And I read up on it a lot, 697 00:53:21.079 --> 00:53:24.960 but I just wanted to see if my mind was reading the same way 698 00:53:25.239 --> 00:53:29.840 it was reading. Yeah. No, this is you know, there are 699 00:53:29.840 --> 00:53:32.960 a lot of pesticides out there, and we always concerned about, you know, 700 00:53:34.440 --> 00:53:37.320 side effects and stuff. I can't think of anything with less than those 701 00:53:37.360 --> 00:53:43.280 side effects as a mosquito dunk in terms of all the things we care about 702 00:53:43.280 --> 00:53:46.679 in the backyard, from people to pets, to beneficial insects to birds, 703 00:53:46.719 --> 00:53:52.800 you name it. All righty, well, get sure, do appreciate it, 704 00:53:52.840 --> 00:53:54.280 and thank you. You have a wonderful day, SIRVI. You bet. 705 00:53:54.480 --> 00:53:59.920 Thanks. I appreciate the call. Good luck those mosquitoes. I tell 706 00:53:59.920 --> 00:54:02.920 you, we've all got a battle on our hands. Oh I know it. 707 00:54:04.039 --> 00:54:07.559 I'm battling them already, so all right, but take care great right, 708 00:54:07.599 --> 00:54:12.440 yeah, mosquitos, mosquitos, boy, they have been they have been 709 00:54:12.519 --> 00:54:16.440 proliferating at my house, you know, and you got to be diligent. 710 00:54:16.960 --> 00:54:22.559 I had here, here's just an example. I was in my garden and 711 00:54:22.639 --> 00:54:25.400 I had I spread leaves in the walkways in my garden. It just makes 712 00:54:25.440 --> 00:54:30.239 an all weather pathway. They decompose and then periodically I harvest if you build 713 00:54:30.239 --> 00:54:34.239 the walkways and put it in the beds, because it's composted leaf material. 714 00:54:34.760 --> 00:54:37.159 Uh. And I had an extra bag of leaves that I set off in 715 00:54:37.199 --> 00:54:39.599 a corner and kind of forgot about. And I was walking by the other 716 00:54:39.639 --> 00:54:43.320 day, just cleaned things up, picking things up, and I saw that 717 00:54:43.360 --> 00:54:46.079 bag and it had rained on it, and of course there were these little 718 00:54:46.199 --> 00:54:51.559 small puddles in the bag. Mosquitoes can proliferate in that they can breed and 719 00:54:52.280 --> 00:54:57.440 go through their life cycle in that look for places where you have standing water 720 00:54:57.480 --> 00:55:00.320 that you can get rid of. And if you have standing water, you 721 00:55:00.400 --> 00:55:05.000 need to keep mosquito dunks or the thing to use makes it so easy. 722 00:55:05.000 --> 00:55:09.440 Each dunk lass about a month, I believe, releasing that disease of mosquito 723 00:55:09.519 --> 00:55:14.400 larvae into the soil. Well, we're gonna take a little break here for 724 00:55:14.480 --> 00:55:16.119 the news. Our phone number if you would like to give me a call. 725 00:55:16.199 --> 00:55:20.519 We got a wide open board here if you'd like, here's this a 726 00:55:20.599 --> 00:55:25.880 great chance to get on uh seven one three two one two kt r H 727 00:55:27.280 --> 00:55:31.760 seven to one three two one two kt r H. I would like to 728 00:55:31.800 --> 00:55:36.400 ask a question and when you come when we come back, if if you 729 00:55:36.440 --> 00:55:39.280 call, would you think about what are some new things you want to try 730 00:55:39.320 --> 00:55:43.159 in the garden you haven't done before? Maybe you heard me talk about birds 731 00:55:43.239 --> 00:55:45.119 or birdhouses. Maybe you heard me talk about the mosquito dunks, or maybe 732 00:55:45.119 --> 00:55:49.239 some kind of plant. What are you going to do different this year? 733 00:55:49.440 --> 00:55:53.440 Gardening is about growing in more ways than one. It's about growing in your 734 00:55:53.440 --> 00:55:58.920 gardening skills and growing in the in the number of things and the types of 735 00:55:59.000 --> 00:56:01.400 things that you have. Will be right back, welcome back to guarden Line. 736 00:56:01.719 --> 00:56:06.079 Glad to have you with us today. If you'd like to give us 737 00:56:06.079 --> 00:56:09.920 a calf seven one three two one two kt RH and we're going to head 738 00:56:10.000 --> 00:56:15.480 right out to Friendswood and talk to Charlotte. Hello Charlotte, Good morning, 739 00:56:15.559 --> 00:56:22.760 Stip morning. I would like to ask you about white I think their white 740 00:56:22.760 --> 00:56:29.320 flies in my yard. Okay, I've had them at least a year and 741 00:56:30.199 --> 00:56:35.119 I kept thinking they would die in the winter, and I applied bug out 742 00:56:35.280 --> 00:56:42.360 Max about three weeks ago. And I cannot tell that there's any difference. 743 00:56:42.559 --> 00:56:47.480 Okay, Now, describe what you're seeing. How big are they and when 744 00:56:47.480 --> 00:56:52.440 you walk through the yard, what do they do? Okay, So, 745 00:56:55.559 --> 00:57:02.239 especially early morning when I walked through the yard, they just fly up in 746 00:57:02.559 --> 00:57:12.440 cloud, almost like a cloud, and they are very very small. I 747 00:57:12.480 --> 00:57:17.039 mean, I can't part of it's my vision, I'm sure, but I 748 00:57:17.119 --> 00:57:22.320 can't really make them out very well. I just know that there are clouds 749 00:57:22.360 --> 00:57:25.760 of white Okay, Okay, you know, I don't think that's white flies. 750 00:57:25.840 --> 00:57:31.960 Number one white flies. Our turf is not a target for white flies 751 00:57:32.039 --> 00:57:39.320 eating. There are there are many kinds of little gnatlike creatures that it could 752 00:57:39.320 --> 00:57:45.079 be coming from. It could be fungus gnats. They eat on organic matter 753 00:57:45.119 --> 00:57:47.960 decomposing in the soil surface, and they love wet conditions. It could be 754 00:57:49.519 --> 00:57:52.480 a lot of different kinds of things. It is not a pest of the 755 00:57:52.559 --> 00:57:54.920 lawn though, so other than the fact that you got these little credits flying 756 00:57:54.960 --> 00:57:59.960 around, it's not something you need to be concerned about with your lawn. 757 00:58:00.599 --> 00:58:05.119 Okay, Well, that's good. To hear. Yeah, it's always good 758 00:58:05.159 --> 00:58:12.880 to seem to be dying or anything. But it just bothers me. Yeah, 759 00:58:12.920 --> 00:58:15.800 I understand. Well, you know, I mean we could you could 760 00:58:15.800 --> 00:58:21.719 spray a insecticide out there, and for the case of these, I think 761 00:58:21.760 --> 00:58:27.039 you would need to go to a spray because the the product used is going 762 00:58:27.079 --> 00:58:30.519 to dissolve and go down into the lower thatch and soil area and and do 763 00:58:30.639 --> 00:58:35.480 its work down there. But I think with something like this you probably need 764 00:58:35.480 --> 00:58:37.920 a spray that you can get all over the foliage of the grass and stuff. 765 00:58:38.320 --> 00:58:43.559 It. Just remember what you know, Nature has a lot of interactions 766 00:58:43.559 --> 00:58:46.400 going on, and very few of the things are pasts that are out there. 767 00:58:46.440 --> 00:58:52.320 So I always try to avoid disrupting the balance. Uh, you know, 768 00:58:52.400 --> 00:58:54.519 but if if you need to get rid of them, that that is 769 00:58:54.639 --> 00:58:58.960 possible. I just not if it were my yard, I don't. I 770 00:58:59.000 --> 00:59:04.159 wouldn't. I would just ignore it. No, I'm fine with ignoring them 771 00:59:04.199 --> 00:59:08.760 if if it's not going to kill my grass. Right, it's not not 772 00:59:08.880 --> 00:59:13.760 those things. If your grass dies, it's because of some mills. Okay, 773 00:59:13.880 --> 00:59:16.440 Okay, thank you very much, Thank you, Charlotte, appreciate that 774 00:59:16.559 --> 00:59:20.480 very much. Now that you and I have just decided we don't have a 775 00:59:20.519 --> 00:59:23.079 problem there. I guess we can go solve world hunger and deal with some 776 00:59:23.119 --> 00:59:29.480 big problems. Right. Get the bills paid. Thank you, Charlotte. 777 00:59:29.519 --> 00:59:32.599 I appreciate it. You take care. Yeah, that is for sure. 778 00:59:34.199 --> 00:59:38.039 If you are wanting to have a beautiful lawn and landscape, I want to 779 00:59:38.079 --> 00:59:44.199 tell you about peer Scapes. Peerscapes has been around for a good while and 780 00:59:44.239 --> 00:59:47.840 they're professionals. They've got designers that can go in and I mean then recreate 781 00:59:49.159 --> 00:59:54.639 whatever you're looking for. Do you want a beautiful outdoor rock patio area. 782 00:59:54.760 --> 00:59:59.639 Do you want it to have outdoor lighting, landscape lighting? Do you want 783 01:00:00.360 --> 01:00:05.119 to have work done with an irrigation system to improve drainage to like I said, 784 01:00:05.239 --> 01:00:07.559 pretty much what you need. Do you want to have a whole new 785 01:00:07.599 --> 01:00:10.719 beds put in and design? They can do all of that. Pierscapes is 786 01:00:10.960 --> 01:00:15.760 a professional. They are professionals. They absolutely know how to do it right 787 01:00:15.800 --> 01:00:19.400 and you can go to their website. Do this, Go to their website 788 01:00:19.440 --> 01:00:22.719 and see what I'm talking about. Pierscapes dot com. Piercescapes dot com. 789 01:00:22.840 --> 01:00:27.559 You will be very impressed with the kind of upscale work they can do, 790 01:00:27.880 --> 01:00:31.239 but they can do work on any kind of a home setting. And they 791 01:00:31.239 --> 01:00:36.639 have a quarterly maintenance, so maybe you just want someone to come in once 792 01:00:36.679 --> 01:00:40.159 a quarter clean up the flower beds, put in new color, malt the 793 01:00:40.199 --> 01:00:44.599 flower beds, you know, do some trimming and fertilizing and all that type 794 01:00:44.639 --> 01:00:47.360 of thing. Check the irrigation system. Perscapes can do that too. Just 795 01:00:47.400 --> 01:00:52.920 give them a call again, make it easy for you pierscapes dot com or 796 01:00:52.039 --> 01:01:00.000 two eight one three seven zero five zero six zero. Now we're going to 797 01:01:00.000 --> 01:01:04.239 head out to Kingwood and talk to Joe. Hello, Joe, good morning 798 01:01:04.320 --> 01:01:10.280 Skip. I had a one question and asking your advice about lawn fertilizer spreaders. 799 01:01:10.519 --> 01:01:16.760 I'd used the Trustee Scott's Speedy Green for about twenty years and recently the 800 01:01:17.280 --> 01:01:21.760 one of the wheels fell off of it, so I thought I would just 801 01:01:21.880 --> 01:01:24.440 go replace it with the same kind since it had been such a good one, 802 01:01:24.440 --> 01:01:29.920 and I got online the new ones have terrible ratings and you know, 803 01:01:29.960 --> 01:01:35.519 their very poor quality. So I just my yards about six thousand square feet, 804 01:01:35.639 --> 01:01:38.679 and of course it's broken into some big parts, some little parts, 805 01:01:38.800 --> 01:01:42.440 or you know, in the front yard, there's probably three areas in the 806 01:01:42.480 --> 01:01:47.239 back about six. I used a hand fertilizer and so I get better control, 807 01:01:47.400 --> 01:01:52.239 but it only holds about four pounds and so it takes a long time 808 01:01:52.400 --> 01:01:57.519 to spread the fertilizer. So I was calling to see what advice you had. 809 01:01:57.800 --> 01:02:00.199 Do you use a walk behind the spreader or to use a handspreader? 810 01:02:00.360 --> 01:02:05.119 I used a walk behind for fertilizer. If I were putting out fire at 811 01:02:05.159 --> 01:02:10.400 Bait, I would use a handspreader. Uh do you mind sharing what what 812 01:02:10.480 --> 01:02:15.599 brand you use? I don't mind. I was just thinking about it as 813 01:02:15.760 --> 01:02:19.800 I figured you'd ask that I think it. I think it's a Scotts brand. 814 01:02:20.079 --> 01:02:25.440 To be honest, I had to look at the brand. Uh it's 815 01:02:25.559 --> 01:02:30.000 uh yeah, I'm pretty sure it's the Scotts. And I don't remember which 816 01:02:30.000 --> 01:02:34.039 way it's a it's a good but let's say a medium range of Scott's spreader 817 01:02:34.039 --> 01:02:37.480 and it works well for me. That's fine. Yet I got it over 818 01:02:37.639 --> 01:02:42.239 at uh Southwest Fertilizer, bought it from Bob over there, and and it 819 01:02:42.880 --> 01:02:45.480 Yeah, I've been pleased with it. Yeah yeah. Have you bought it? 820 01:02:45.760 --> 01:02:47.840 Was it recently or have you had it a quite a while ago, 821 01:02:49.119 --> 01:02:52.800 about a year ago, and then I've gone through a lawn transition. I 822 01:02:52.880 --> 01:02:55.880 planted a new lawn a couple of months ago, and so I haven't had 823 01:02:55.920 --> 01:03:00.800 to fertilize yet. I'm about to start, but it's the on came in 824 01:03:00.840 --> 01:03:04.960 with such good nutrient charts. It is still looking good. But I'm about 825 01:03:05.000 --> 01:03:07.079 to put this low release out to take care of the rest of the season 826 01:03:07.519 --> 01:03:12.960 up to fall. When you put out grub killer, to use the walk 827 01:03:13.000 --> 01:03:16.079 behind for that also, you can. Yeah, it just depends on how 828 01:03:16.119 --> 01:03:21.800 big of an area you're going to cover. Most of the time, I 829 01:03:21.800 --> 01:03:27.400 would not cope my whole lawn in an insecticide for grubs. They tend to 830 01:03:27.440 --> 01:03:30.440 be more of a problem near outdoor lights. You got a porch light or 831 01:03:30.480 --> 01:03:35.159 something where all the june bugs are, and you see them more in kind 832 01:03:35.159 --> 01:03:37.800 of hotspots like that. To be honest, I just have not had a 833 01:03:37.840 --> 01:03:43.039 grub problem that I've had to worry about in a very very long time. 834 01:03:44.519 --> 01:03:47.679 I do it mainly as a preventive to keep the faral logs out of my 835 01:03:47.800 --> 01:03:52.239 yard. Okay, oh well, okay, but I mean they'll come in 836 01:03:52.480 --> 01:03:55.119 rooting for earthworms and a lot of things. But yeah, I know what 837 01:03:55.119 --> 01:03:59.679 you're talking about. Yeah, armadilla's too. They love the Yeah, yeah, 838 01:04:00.039 --> 01:04:02.400 I have lots of armadillas. All right. Joe Hey, thank you, 839 01:04:02.440 --> 01:04:05.039 Skip you Bet, I appreciate you. Carl, thank you very much. 840 01:04:05.039 --> 01:04:09.159 We're going to take a little break seven one three two one two K 841 01:04:09.280 --> 01:04:12.440 t r H. I'll be right back. Come back to garden line a 842 01:04:12.519 --> 01:04:20.480 little memory of Tobeque. Well we are. We're discussing a variety of different 843 01:04:20.559 --> 01:04:26.119 kinds of things today. I've been doing a little bit of, I don't 844 01:04:26.119 --> 01:04:29.440 know, going in depth a little more on a few topics. I like 845 01:04:29.519 --> 01:04:32.000 to do that every now and then, just to kind of get some understanding 846 01:04:32.079 --> 01:04:35.840 of what's going on behind the scenes in gardening and why we have success, 847 01:04:35.840 --> 01:04:41.400 why we do what we do. One of the questions I get periodically and 848 01:04:41.519 --> 01:04:45.719 probably should get more based on driving around and seeing how things are planted, 849 01:04:45.519 --> 01:04:49.480 is how far apart do you plant things? How far apart do you plant 850 01:04:49.920 --> 01:04:55.639 like annuals in a bed or shrubs down down a hedgerow? And uh, 851 01:04:56.280 --> 01:05:00.519 one answer to that is do you want fast or do you want to save 852 01:05:00.599 --> 01:05:04.760 money? Which is more important to you because of course you put things closer 853 01:05:04.800 --> 01:05:09.159 together and you get faster fill in, but that comes at a cost of 854 01:05:09.239 --> 01:05:14.159 more plants. You can put them further apart, and you may take a 855 01:05:14.199 --> 01:05:17.440 while to get it to fill in, but you bought less than the way 856 01:05:17.480 --> 01:05:20.480 of plant. So it's kind of a trade off there. And in general, 857 01:05:20.559 --> 01:05:25.639 as a very general roll of thumb, I think about how big a 858 01:05:25.679 --> 01:05:30.280 plant's going to get, and I'll plant it at about fifty percent to seventy 859 01:05:30.280 --> 01:05:34.679 five percent, maybe eighty percent of that distance. So if you've got a 860 01:05:34.719 --> 01:05:38.760 shrub, and I'll make the numbers easy. If you've got a shrub that's 861 01:05:38.760 --> 01:05:42.760 going to get ten feet wide, that would be planning them five feet apart 862 01:05:43.079 --> 01:05:47.960 for a very fast fill in, or up to about eight feet apart for 863 01:05:48.159 --> 01:05:53.719 a slower Okay, so fifty to eighty percent of the distance. You have 864 01:05:53.760 --> 01:05:56.960 to consider too, how fast does a plant grow. If it's something that 865 01:05:57.239 --> 01:06:00.719 just crawls, like Texas Mountain Laurel grows very very slowly, probably gonna put 866 01:06:00.719 --> 01:06:04.679 something like that a little bit closer because it's going to take a long long 867 01:06:04.760 --> 01:06:08.840 time. If it's something that grows fast, well, then a little further 868 01:06:08.880 --> 01:06:13.079 apart would be That'd be another factor in how far apart to plant things in 869 01:06:13.119 --> 01:06:17.360 flower beds and whatnot. There's some great online tools where you know, it'll 870 01:06:17.360 --> 01:06:23.639 tell you I'm putting in a plant, here's the bed area, and I 871 01:06:24.239 --> 01:06:28.880 let's see, I need to plant these x inch you know, inches apart 872 01:06:29.440 --> 01:06:31.639 or so, and then it'll tell you how many plants you need for that 873 01:06:31.719 --> 01:06:36.000 area. And that's very helpful going in. Just remember that always, I 874 01:06:36.840 --> 01:06:43.159 always have an extra plant or two or three around, because sometimes something happens 875 01:06:43.199 --> 01:06:46.159 to one plant, and that way, you've got the one kind of sitting 876 01:06:46.159 --> 01:06:49.679 in the on deck circle and you can just pop it right in little Astro's 877 01:06:49.719 --> 01:06:54.920 reference. You can pop it right in to that spot. So just having 878 01:06:55.000 --> 01:07:00.159 an extra one or two is a little way to head your bet some And 879 01:07:00.199 --> 01:07:02.519 then I end up putting those in a container or something like that, because 880 01:07:02.639 --> 01:07:06.280 you know you can't get rid of a plant that's perfect health. Well let's 881 01:07:06.280 --> 01:07:09.960 go back to the phones. We're going to go to Spring and talk to 882 01:07:10.239 --> 01:07:15.840 Rich. Hello, Rich, good morning. Skip struggling struggling with trying to 883 01:07:16.719 --> 01:07:26.679 tell the difference between kalinga and nutsedge. Okay, all right here, nuts 884 01:07:26.800 --> 01:07:33.239 edge has a more upright growth habit. It's gonna get taller than Kalinga gets. 885 01:07:33.719 --> 01:07:38.920 On top of nuts edge, you're going to have some you're gonna have 886 01:07:38.960 --> 01:07:45.280 a cluster of what would be a sedge bloom doesn't look like a flower. 887 01:07:45.920 --> 01:07:48.960 And then the seed set that's more open, and it may it may cover 888 01:07:49.039 --> 01:07:54.239 an area, oh, I don't know, two inches across or more. 889 01:07:54.920 --> 01:08:00.159 Kalinga the top of it where the seeds would be. It's more like small, 890 01:08:00.280 --> 01:08:05.880 fuzzy, almost round ish types of things sitting right in there entire So 891 01:08:05.920 --> 01:08:11.559 maybe the individual ones would be about the size of, you know, one 892 01:08:11.599 --> 01:08:15.560 of your smaller fingernails or something like that. Kalinga, there are some, 893 01:08:16.000 --> 01:08:19.239 so Kalinga is the one that has it. It almost looks like a mini 894 01:08:19.520 --> 01:08:24.039 pineapple if you will in the middle. Yeah, yeah, something like that. 895 01:08:24.039 --> 01:08:28.239 That would be Kalinga. And then nutsedge is just more open. And 896 01:08:28.279 --> 01:08:35.000 you can do an online search for nutsedge and Kalinga doing image search and it'll 897 01:08:35.039 --> 01:08:38.880 it'll direct you to you. There's yellow and there's purple nut sets. So 898 01:08:39.000 --> 01:08:45.159 student kinds of nutsedge that are most common around here is very selective herbicide skip 899 01:08:45.279 --> 01:08:49.840 that will take care of both without hurting Saint Augustine. I would go with 900 01:08:50.560 --> 01:08:57.199 sedge hammer or sedge ender, and you will need especially with the kalinga it's 901 01:08:57.199 --> 01:09:00.000 harder to control. You will need to be ready to do more than one 902 01:09:00.119 --> 01:09:05.720 application over time, maybe six weeks apart. Just watch it and see you 903 01:09:05.760 --> 01:09:13.880 don't want to overdo that. But sedgender or sedge hammer both are pretty effective. 904 01:09:14.760 --> 01:09:16.560 Well, do appreciate the help, Skip, Thank you you bet take 905 01:09:16.600 --> 01:09:21.079 care. Appreciate that call. We're going to go out now and talk to 906 01:09:21.560 --> 01:09:27.359 Greg in Katie, Texas. Hey Greg, Hey, how you doing, 907 01:09:27.439 --> 01:09:30.960 Skip? I'm good? Today is Greg Day. You're the third Greg. 908 01:09:30.239 --> 01:09:36.840 I don't know what's going on. They don't give you enough time to send 909 01:09:36.880 --> 01:09:41.479 it. I mean that was the first one up. Sorry about that. 910 01:09:41.560 --> 01:09:45.640 I'm trying to send it. I thought last week about webworms into trees. 911 01:09:45.760 --> 01:09:49.239 I am sending you a picture I think it went now where a tree is 912 01:09:49.279 --> 01:09:56.119 completely full of them. It's in the green space right next to my house. 913 01:09:56.520 --> 01:10:00.520 My house has a lot of trees that are sixteen to seventy eat taller 914 01:10:00.640 --> 01:10:03.640 more. I can't get a hose or anything else up high enough to break 915 01:10:03.720 --> 01:10:10.720 up the webs, so right now the webworms are falling on us. And 916 01:10:11.159 --> 01:10:15.039 that's disgusting. But I'm concerned because they're all over. I mean, there's 917 01:10:15.119 --> 01:10:18.159 hundreds of them. Are they going to be eating the grass and the plants? 918 01:10:20.319 --> 01:10:25.399 No, they don't eat grass. There are other plants that they can 919 01:10:25.439 --> 01:10:30.000 eat. Wow, I see the photo, Holy Macarel. What kind of 920 01:10:30.000 --> 01:10:33.279 plant is that? I don't know. It's a tree in the green space 921 01:10:33.399 --> 01:10:38.159 next to me. But I have a lot of trees in my yard. 922 01:10:38.239 --> 01:10:42.279 Like I said, we're sixty and probably all the way up to eighty feet, 923 01:10:42.319 --> 01:10:46.560 and there's all sorts of my neighbors the same way. The webworms are 924 01:10:46.640 --> 01:10:53.600 just crawling all over the fence. That is, for those of you listening 925 01:10:54.119 --> 01:10:58.199 to me talk about a picture on the radio, which is not a good 926 01:10:58.319 --> 01:11:04.439 not good radio. This multi stem shrub is completely white with webs and there's 927 01:11:04.479 --> 01:11:08.960 not a single living leaf on it that I can see. That's amazing. 928 01:11:09.359 --> 01:11:15.199 So those webworms, there's not much left for them to eat on there, 929 01:11:15.359 --> 01:11:19.920 So there's no sense spraying it at this stage. Blasting the webs off wouldn't 930 01:11:19.920 --> 01:11:23.720 be a bad idea, just getting it cleaned up. They are the tree 931 01:11:23.760 --> 01:11:27.119 is going to bush the bush, it's going to come back out, and 932 01:11:27.399 --> 01:11:32.000 as it comes back out, you want to spray the foliage with an insecticide. 933 01:11:32.039 --> 01:11:36.720 There's organic and synthetic options, but spray it with insecticide so that any 934 01:11:36.760 --> 01:11:42.000 webworms that remain don't just go right back to town, because if they eat 935 01:11:42.039 --> 01:11:44.640 a leaf that's been sprayed, it will kill them. And that is the 936 01:11:44.680 --> 01:11:48.399 goal on this. This is worse than I've ever seen on a plant like 937 01:11:48.439 --> 01:11:53.840 that. I'm gonna I'll come in in the email later, but yeah, 938 01:11:53.960 --> 01:11:58.720 that's what I would suggest. Just watch if you start to see a little 939 01:11:58.720 --> 01:12:00.840 bit of a webbing form on any other plant around there, then spray the 940 01:12:00.880 --> 01:12:04.960 plant with the insect side. Most of sexercides don't last that long, so 941 01:12:05.000 --> 01:12:09.279 you don't want to just spray because something might show up. You want to 942 01:12:09.319 --> 01:12:13.840 wait until you see it actually has. Like I said, most of our 943 01:12:13.880 --> 01:12:17.920 trees are sixty seventy or tall or be tall, and there's nothing I can 944 01:12:17.960 --> 01:12:26.159 do well. That is true, but I haven't seen anything like this anywhere 945 01:12:26.159 --> 01:12:30.640 in town. And in fact, there are a few years where we see 946 01:12:30.720 --> 01:12:34.640 the cons taken almost completely leafless, but not very common. Very interesting. 947 01:12:34.680 --> 01:12:39.880 Thanks for the thanks for the photo. Good luck with that, but do 948 01:12:40.000 --> 01:12:43.239 stay with it and be ready to go when they show up somewhere else. 949 01:12:43.279 --> 01:12:46.319 They got probably two more generations this year that we're going to see of those 950 01:12:46.359 --> 01:12:51.800 things. All righty, okay, thank you, thank you. Wow, 951 01:12:51.960 --> 01:12:56.439 that's interesting. All right. Well here at the end of another hour, 952 01:12:56.520 --> 01:12:58.880 Sarah, we didn't quite make it to you, but you will be the 953 01:12:59.039 --> 01:13:01.840 first up when we come back at the after the top of the hour news. 954 01:13:02.399 --> 01:13:06.560 Just a reminder again, I'm going to be at Wallbird's Unlimited in bel 955 01:13:06.640 --> 01:13:13.079 Air on Saturday, June fifteenth, two saturdays from yesterday, and I'll be 956 01:13:13.439 --> 01:13:21.800 answering questions, looking at samples and just folks. Listen to garden Line at 957 01:13:23.039 --> 01:13:40.880 r H Garden Line with Scamp Richards Trim just watch him as well. So 958 01:13:41.119 --> 01:13:56.560 many things to say, sig welcome back guarden Line. Good Davey with us 959 01:13:56.600 --> 01:14:00.439 today. Looking forward to visiting about the things that are of interest to you. 960 01:14:01.039 --> 01:14:05.159 Let's just hop right on that and we're going to head out to Sarah 961 01:14:05.239 --> 01:14:10.840 in clear Lake. Hello, Sarah, high Skip. I have been gardening 962 01:14:10.840 --> 01:14:14.920 in my yard for thirty five years. And when I very first started kind 963 01:14:14.960 --> 01:14:18.319 of landscaping the yard which had never had anything done with it, I planted 964 01:14:18.359 --> 01:14:21.880 these azaiahs called Gumpos and they were little dwarfs. I mean, they didn't 965 01:14:21.880 --> 01:14:27.479 ever get any higher than like two feet ever, and they had these beautiful 966 01:14:27.560 --> 01:14:31.399 kind of dusty rose ballooms. And I cannot find them anymore. I've been 967 01:14:31.439 --> 01:14:36.079 to Arburgate, I've been to mos Nursery. I cannot find them. Or 968 01:14:36.119 --> 01:14:39.840 do they just not grow them anymore? Well, I'll tell you what. 969 01:14:39.880 --> 01:14:44.319 If those two places can't find them, they must not because they have an 970 01:14:44.359 --> 01:14:49.359 extensive ability to go out and find and bring plants in. Now. I've 971 01:14:49.359 --> 01:14:53.520 never asked them to order anything. Well, is that something I can do? 972 01:14:54.640 --> 01:14:56.760 Yeah? I would do that. I would talk to them and say, 973 01:14:56.800 --> 01:15:02.039 can you order this particular plant. I'm not familiar with that particular Azalia. 974 01:15:02.720 --> 01:15:06.000 The name sounds for me, I think I remember back when when it 975 01:15:06.079 --> 01:15:10.680 was talked about a lot. It's g u m p o. Is that 976 01:15:10.800 --> 01:15:13.800 it? I think so? I think so. I think that's right, 977 01:15:14.600 --> 01:15:16.840 the Gumpo Azalia. I'm just gonna look right here and and see if I 978 01:15:16.840 --> 01:15:23.000 can see. Yeah, Monrovia carries it, and I know that Arburgate orders 979 01:15:23.039 --> 01:15:30.119 from Monrovia. Okay, and so far we'll talk to Moss. They they 980 01:15:30.119 --> 01:15:35.920 can do that too, I'm just saying it it. I haven't asked Moss 981 01:15:36.000 --> 01:15:40.920 about, you know, some of their plant sources and things, but yeah, 982 01:15:41.079 --> 01:15:45.239 gumpos apparently still around. Yeah they were. They were a great little 983 01:15:45.239 --> 01:15:46.560 plant. They're not as vigorous as you would like. Really have to take 984 01:15:46.600 --> 01:15:50.199 care of them, but I still have two, miraculously an every year. 985 01:15:50.239 --> 01:15:54.880 They just are a delight when they bloom because the color is just so pretty 986 01:15:54.920 --> 01:15:58.119 and I have not seen anything else like it. Yeah, well that sounds 987 01:15:58.159 --> 01:16:00.840 pretty cool. Well I'll go right on down and ask them. Thanks for 988 01:16:00.880 --> 01:16:03.960 your help. Thank you, good work. Well, I appreciate it. 989 01:16:04.000 --> 01:16:10.319 Thank you. Take care. Uh yeah, there's always some new plant coming 990 01:16:10.359 --> 01:16:15.239 along, and there's always old plants that we fall in love with, and 991 01:16:15.319 --> 01:16:18.119 sometimes they stick around. Sometimes they become very difficult to find. You know, 992 01:16:18.399 --> 01:16:23.479 we're not talking about tomatoes, but I can tell you a dozen tomato 993 01:16:23.600 --> 01:16:27.600 varieties that I used to love that you just don't see anymore. They're just 994 01:16:27.720 --> 01:16:30.479 kind of not around. Some of them. The breeders don't even do them 995 01:16:30.520 --> 01:16:33.960 anymore, so that that's a sad thing. But when you fall in love 996 01:16:33.960 --> 01:16:36.760 with the plant, you need to be able to have it around. Uh 997 01:16:38.399 --> 01:16:43.640 Medina has come out with a new fertilizer product. It's a liquid that goes 998 01:16:43.680 --> 01:16:46.920 on the end of your garden hose and it's called super Grow Plus. And 999 01:16:47.000 --> 01:16:51.640 I'm very impressed with this product. It's a sixteen zero two fertilizer. Now, 1000 01:16:51.680 --> 01:16:55.960 one little quart bottle is going to cover about four thousand square feet, 1001 01:16:56.039 --> 01:16:59.880 take you about ten minutes to get that job done, and you can do 1002 01:16:59.920 --> 01:17:02.439 it now, you can do it a couple of months from now. It's 1003 01:17:02.479 --> 01:17:08.760 primarily going to release the nutrients now, but about one fifth of the nitrogen 1004 01:17:08.800 --> 01:17:13.520 in it is going to be gradually released over time. It has a wonderful 1005 01:17:13.560 --> 01:17:19.439 concoction of things like molasses and humic acid for examples. Those are excellent. 1006 01:17:19.520 --> 01:17:25.119 A seaweed extract is in it. Iron a chlated form of iron specifically, 1007 01:17:25.199 --> 01:17:28.920 isn't it So if you had a little yellow spots and whatnot, I would 1008 01:17:29.000 --> 01:17:31.520 just try this out. Grab you one of those court bottles of Supergrow Plus, 1009 01:17:31.640 --> 01:17:34.119 hook it up to the hose, and go over the lawn. Hit 1010 01:17:34.159 --> 01:17:38.239 those spots that are looking a little on the yellow side, and I think 1011 01:17:38.239 --> 01:17:40.840 you're going to see a difference from that. Now. This is one of 1012 01:17:40.920 --> 01:17:45.199 many has to grow or many products from Medina, including has to grow, 1013 01:17:45.840 --> 01:17:49.199 has to grow plant food, has to grow for lawns, and then now 1014 01:17:49.439 --> 01:17:56.680 has to grows super grow plus all good products from Medina widely available in our 1015 01:17:56.800 --> 01:18:00.680 area. It does really, really well. We're going to go down to 1016 01:18:00.880 --> 01:18:06.640 Steve and Mission Bend. Hello, Steve, Hello, ships. I have 1017 01:18:06.800 --> 01:18:12.840 lived in the house that we are in for about thirty one years and we 1018 01:18:12.880 --> 01:18:17.079 have a brand new problem in our backyard. And I'm told they're called webworms, 1019 01:18:18.279 --> 01:18:24.119 and they they've covered a tree in the backyard with webs, and those 1020 01:18:24.159 --> 01:18:27.800 little worms are crawling all over our patio, furniture, all over our yard. 1021 01:18:28.479 --> 01:18:31.239 Okay, how do I get rid of it? Well, if you 1022 01:18:31.359 --> 01:18:35.560 got any leaves left to eat, you can spray those leaves and it'll kill 1023 01:18:35.560 --> 01:18:41.079 the webworms. That We've got organic options, and we've got synthetic options that 1024 01:18:41.199 --> 01:18:45.840 will buy up the fastest. The fastest I would probably you could either do 1025 01:18:45.960 --> 01:18:53.079 something called spinosaid SPI n O s A D, or you could go to 1026 01:18:54.079 --> 01:19:01.399 what are called synthetic paritheroids, another synthetic parrethoids and the ingredients there are many 1027 01:19:01.560 --> 01:19:08.359 ingredients, but they all in and th h R I N SO resmethrine ci 1028 01:19:08.439 --> 01:19:15.640 fluthren. Yeah, those kinds of things end in thren and there's only one 1029 01:19:15.640 --> 01:19:18.640 that's organic, and that is pyrethrine. All the rest are synthetic, and 1030 01:19:18.920 --> 01:19:29.279 the pardon son p y th h r i N. Pyrethrine does not last 1031 01:19:29.319 --> 01:19:31.760 very long in the environment, and so if you want an organic I would 1032 01:19:31.840 --> 01:19:41.199 use the spinocid instead spinosaid, but the synthetic perrethroids are going to last longer. 1033 01:19:41.960 --> 01:19:46.600 By Fenthren is a very common one, okay, But again you got 1034 01:19:46.640 --> 01:19:49.840 to get it on the foliage, so breaking up the web with a little 1035 01:19:49.920 --> 01:19:55.399 stick, a strong stream of water, whatever. But the sooner you get 1036 01:19:55.399 --> 01:19:58.359 it to them the better. The older the caterpillars are, the harder they 1037 01:19:58.359 --> 01:20:02.600 are to ule. Do we spray the whole yard as well, Only the 1038 01:20:02.640 --> 01:20:09.520 plants that have the webbing or the start of webbing on them. They webworms 1039 01:20:09.560 --> 01:20:14.119 like a lot of different kinds of plants. But there's no sense in spraying 1040 01:20:14.159 --> 01:20:17.039 something that hasn't gotten a little bit of a start of the caterpillars, or 1041 01:20:17.119 --> 01:20:24.840 you'll it won't stick around long enough. Okay, thanks, thanks, good 1042 01:20:24.960 --> 01:20:28.119 luck, appreciate the cost. Yeah, thank you very much for that. 1043 01:20:29.000 --> 01:20:32.520 Talking about bugs, and things. Night Foss Bug Out Max is a granular 1044 01:20:32.680 --> 01:20:35.640 product. You put it down your lawn, you water it in, and 1045 01:20:35.840 --> 01:20:40.279 it controls, oh gosh, over one hundred and thirty different kinds of insects, 1046 01:20:40.359 --> 01:20:43.920 I believe, And within forty eight hours you got total control. And 1047 01:20:43.960 --> 01:20:45.680 that control is going to last through the summer. It sticks around so very 1048 01:20:45.680 --> 01:20:50.079 persistent, and it'll control ants and fleas and ticks and chinch bugs and sod 1049 01:20:50.119 --> 01:20:54.840 webworms. And by the way, we're entering the season for chinch bugs and 1050 01:20:54.880 --> 01:20:59.720 eventually sod webworms here. So Night Foss bug Out Max is the way you 1051 01:20:59.760 --> 01:21:03.119 can get ahead of the game or to catch up, and they've gotten ahead 1052 01:21:03.119 --> 01:21:06.560 of you. You'll find them at Hiding Feed on Stubner Airline. You'll find 1053 01:21:06.600 --> 01:21:11.479 them at Plantation Ace Hardware out in Richmond Rosenberg, and at the two Bearing 1054 01:21:11.520 --> 01:21:15.239 Hardwares here in Houston on Businette and on West Timer. It's time take a 1055 01:21:15.239 --> 01:21:19.239 little break, and when we come back, I will head to Richard just 1056 01:21:19.439 --> 01:21:26.880 you'll be first out. Good to have you with us listening today. Enjoy 1057 01:21:27.119 --> 01:21:30.520 getting outside and getting some things done this afternoon. I hope if you'd like 1058 01:21:30.600 --> 01:21:36.159 to enjoy just taking care of the flowers and the vegetables and whatnot, kind 1059 01:21:36.159 --> 01:21:40.560 of walking through and looking things over. You know, they say the best 1060 01:21:40.560 --> 01:21:45.279 fertilizer is the footprints of the gardener. I say the best pest control is 1061 01:21:45.399 --> 01:21:48.319 also the footprints of the gardener. You know, you catch them right now. 1062 01:21:48.359 --> 01:21:53.960 Webworms are just everywhere. People going crazy about web worms, and they 1063 01:21:54.000 --> 01:21:58.640 should. I mean, they're they're, they're they're everywhere. But they started 1064 01:21:58.640 --> 01:22:01.600 off as a few little kind of pillars on a leaf somewhere on a tree, 1065 01:22:01.640 --> 01:22:05.600 maybe several spots, but they start off that way. And if you 1066 01:22:05.640 --> 01:22:10.880 see them at that stage, a little squirt of the right insecticides and you 1067 01:22:11.199 --> 01:22:15.800 got them under control. When you don't happen to notice them in time, 1068 01:22:15.319 --> 01:22:19.119 they may already be so far ahead of things it's hard to catch up, 1069 01:22:19.199 --> 01:22:24.359 or there's very little left to save on the foliage of a tree. So 1070 01:22:24.600 --> 01:22:29.079 just an example of how getting out and checking things early helps. In fact, 1071 01:22:29.159 --> 01:22:34.680 I'll say this stand by this that if you want to use the safest, 1072 01:22:35.119 --> 01:22:42.720 the least toxic pesticides, and if you want to have the most benefit 1073 01:22:42.960 --> 01:22:46.640 from them, the earlier you do it the better. As insects get older, 1074 01:22:46.640 --> 01:22:51.479 as caterpillars get older, like things like BT isn't as effective against them 1075 01:22:53.119 --> 01:22:56.800 as it is when they're very young. And then there are some insects like 1076 01:22:56.840 --> 01:23:00.000 stink bugs and leaf footed bugs where a boy, you don't catch them early, 1077 01:23:00.119 --> 01:23:03.760 you're gonna have to go with some pretty potent stuff and definitely not an 1078 01:23:03.880 --> 01:23:09.159 organic product in order to get them under control. So just a little tip 1079 01:23:10.520 --> 01:23:15.359 the footprints of the gardener. Catch it early, act early, and you 1080 01:23:15.479 --> 01:23:18.479 have the widest range of options and the safest options that you might want to 1081 01:23:18.520 --> 01:23:23.359 spray out there. All right, just a free tip for the day. 1082 01:23:23.720 --> 01:23:28.159 Let's go to West Houston and talk to Richard. Hello Richard, Hey, 1083 01:23:28.239 --> 01:23:32.079 good morning, Skip, how are you. I have good? That's wonderful. 1084 01:23:32.600 --> 01:23:39.239 I have a two year old camellia that's on a trellis and we want 1085 01:23:39.239 --> 01:23:44.520 to transplant it today. Are there any precautions and steps we need to take 1086 01:23:44.600 --> 01:23:48.039 after we move it that you would recommend? In particular, Boy, transplanting 1087 01:23:48.079 --> 01:23:53.399 your camellia today is tough. You're probably going to lose some lot of foliage 1088 01:23:53.520 --> 01:23:59.560 on that plant when you do. Getting as much of the root system as 1089 01:23:59.560 --> 01:24:03.560 you can wider is more important than deeper. Okay, so is it going 1090 01:24:03.640 --> 01:24:09.319 to be put somewhere on your property. Yes, we're moving just from one 1091 01:24:09.359 --> 01:24:12.880 side of the yard to the other, rich soil to rich soil. It's 1092 01:24:12.920 --> 01:24:16.079 a good, good situation. So the less disruptive you can be to the 1093 01:24:16.159 --> 01:24:18.560 roots, because digging it, no matter what you do, is going to 1094 01:24:18.560 --> 01:24:23.960 be extremely disruptive. But the less disruptive the better. So what I do, 1095 01:24:24.039 --> 01:24:28.479 And I moved a rosebush a while back like this. I cut a 1096 01:24:28.520 --> 01:24:30.640 circle around the plant, cut down, and then I took my shovel and 1097 01:24:30.720 --> 01:24:35.520 went underneath. So maybe I was oh, probably six or eight inches deep 1098 01:24:35.600 --> 01:24:42.000 something like that. And I went underneath and then got about halfway and I 1099 01:24:42.039 --> 01:24:45.560 slid a tarp underneath the plant. You know, lean it one way, 1100 01:24:45.600 --> 01:24:48.159 slide the tarp under, then cut loose the other side, and just slide 1101 01:24:48.159 --> 01:24:51.720 the plant right up on the tarp and drag the tarp to the new location. 1102 01:24:53.359 --> 01:24:57.720 You can move a very heavy piece of soil with dragging a tarp, 1103 01:24:57.920 --> 01:25:00.880 and the one person can do it, but two for sure. You get 1104 01:25:00.880 --> 01:25:03.880 it in this new spot, dig a hole that's the depth and size of 1105 01:25:03.960 --> 01:25:06.479 what you got, and just slide it right into that hole. And then 1106 01:25:06.560 --> 01:25:11.039 water it in very well. Build a little burma soil around it if you 1107 01:25:11.079 --> 01:25:15.239 can, so that when you water, the water soaks right into that spot. 1108 01:25:15.039 --> 01:25:20.520 If the area is somewhat sunny, definitely cover it with some sort of 1109 01:25:20.560 --> 01:25:27.079 a shading cloth. However, you can rig something up to help it, 1110 01:25:27.399 --> 01:25:31.319 because it's not going to have the roots to supply water to the leaves and 1111 01:25:31.399 --> 01:25:36.199 it'll all turn brown if it can't keep water to the leaves. Well, 1112 01:25:36.239 --> 01:25:43.239 that's very informational. Do you apply anything like a root stimulator or just water? 1113 01:25:43.279 --> 01:25:45.000 Now you can't. You can do root stimulators. There's a number of 1114 01:25:45.000 --> 01:25:48.800 different things. Are based on vitamins, I'm based on hormones. I'm both, 1115 01:25:49.720 --> 01:25:54.079 but that won't hurt anything at all. To add well, great, 1116 01:25:54.119 --> 01:25:59.119 I had one special request. Would you allow me to wish my gardener wife 1117 01:25:59.199 --> 01:26:04.439 a happy enniverse street nast Julie. Okay, anniversary to both of you. 1118 01:26:04.680 --> 01:26:09.399 That's good. Well, thank you. Yeah, she's the she's my gardener 1119 01:26:09.399 --> 01:26:12.399 and love of my life, so thank you. I just have to ask 1120 01:26:12.439 --> 01:26:15.960 you, now, uh, when you said when I people talk about their 1121 01:26:15.039 --> 01:26:18.039 gardener, they're usually talking about somebody they hire to come in and take care 1122 01:26:18.079 --> 01:26:21.159 of things. Does she do all the work around that place, making everything. 1123 01:26:21.920 --> 01:26:25.239 She does most of the work. I have to give her all the 1124 01:26:25.279 --> 01:26:29.079 credits. She's certainly the brains well and uh, I do some of the 1125 01:26:29.159 --> 01:26:31.159 labor, but she's the brain. Okay. Well, I refer to that 1126 01:26:31.239 --> 01:26:34.880 as German gardening. It's it's getting work done by the sweat of your frow. 1127 01:26:35.399 --> 01:26:40.159 Thanks a lot, Richard, I appreciate your call. Have a good 1128 01:26:41.199 --> 01:26:45.359 okay anniversary to both of you. Well, that's good, that's good. 1129 01:26:46.079 --> 01:26:51.199 Gardening is a fun thing and and and to do with you know, a 1130 01:26:51.239 --> 01:26:56.760 spouse or friends or family. Uh, it's just enjoyable. And I'm fortunate 1131 01:26:56.840 --> 01:27:00.039 to have several people includ my wife and the family that enjoy getting out a 1132 01:27:00.039 --> 01:27:02.039 little bit and doing some gardening. And uh, I don't know, it's 1133 01:27:02.079 --> 01:27:09.039 just more time to relax and enjoy more of that psychological benefit that gardening brings. 1134 01:27:09.119 --> 01:27:12.920 And in so many ways, gardening brings peace of mind. It's a 1135 01:27:12.960 --> 01:27:15.560 way to wind down when you are dealing with stresses. It's a way to 1136 01:27:15.680 --> 01:27:20.159 unwind. Uh. It's just a just a good activity out there. Well. 1137 01:27:20.319 --> 01:27:26.039 Our phone number seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four seven 1138 01:27:26.079 --> 01:27:29.159 one three two one, two, five, eight, seven four or by 1139 01:27:29.239 --> 01:27:40.439 email at Garden Success at TAMU dot Edu. Garden Success at TAMU dot Edu. 1140 01:27:40.560 --> 01:27:44.640 We've had storms recently and we saw a lot of big limbs come down 1141 01:27:44.840 --> 01:27:49.319 and do a lot of damage, including knocking out the power here through huge 1142 01:27:49.439 --> 01:27:55.439 sections of the greater Houston area. Well, when hurricane season arrives, which 1143 01:27:55.479 --> 01:27:59.960 it did yesterday officially and goes all the way through November, you need to 1144 01:28:00.119 --> 01:28:03.279 think about getting Martin spoon Moore and his team from Affordable Tree to come out 1145 01:28:03.319 --> 01:28:08.560 and do some selective pruning. That would be trimming away any dead areas in 1146 01:28:08.600 --> 01:28:13.319 a tree, doing other selected pruning, making sure your trees are safer than 1147 01:28:13.399 --> 01:28:16.319 the heavy winds. You're basically setting your trees up for the best they can 1148 01:28:16.359 --> 01:28:19.720 be in terms of storm readiness. Now, you don't want to have a 1149 01:28:19.760 --> 01:28:24.399 tree fall on your home or a giant limb fall on your home or other 1150 01:28:24.520 --> 01:28:28.640 valuable property. So if you have any dead trees or huge dead limbs, 1151 01:28:28.720 --> 01:28:33.680 would definitely get those out now. I can't express enough the importance of proper 1152 01:28:33.720 --> 01:28:39.720 tree care coming into this storm season, And as we learn just the other 1153 01:28:39.800 --> 01:28:43.600 day, it doesn't have to be a hurricane season. To have major damage 1154 01:28:43.920 --> 01:28:47.319 to our trees, call Martin spoon Moore. Here's his number seven one three 1155 01:28:47.920 --> 01:28:56.560 six twenty six sixty three, seven one three six nine nine twenty six sixty 1156 01:28:56.640 --> 01:29:02.720 three. His website aff Tree Service do aff Tree Service dot com. Martin's 1157 01:29:02.760 --> 01:29:06.359 been doing this for many years here in the Greater Houston area. This is 1158 01:29:06.560 --> 01:29:11.560 a family operation. I mean, he and his wife. They answer the 1159 01:29:11.600 --> 01:29:15.359 phones. If you call and Martin or Joe doesn't answer the phone, well 1160 01:29:15.720 --> 01:29:20.720 hang up. You call the wrong place with affordable in the name Affordable Tree 1161 01:29:21.039 --> 01:29:28.439 Service dot com. I hate it when people lose major limbs on trees because 1162 01:29:28.960 --> 01:29:32.279 typically when nature prunes a tree doesn't do a very good job. I'm just 1163 01:29:32.359 --> 01:29:35.199 saying, you know, when you get a limb that breaks and rips and 1164 01:29:35.279 --> 01:29:40.520 strips the bark down and things, those wounds are very slow to heal, 1165 01:29:40.720 --> 01:29:45.319 if they heal at all, and that's why it's important to avoid that at 1166 01:29:45.319 --> 01:29:49.000 all costs, if at all possible. If you would like to give us 1167 01:29:49.000 --> 01:29:54.239 a call, seven one three two one two five eight seven four is the 1168 01:29:54.359 --> 01:30:01.920 number. Dan Nelson out at Nelson Plant Food has been concocting some quality fertilizers 1169 01:30:02.000 --> 01:30:05.279 for a very long time. You know, Nelson Plant Food has the Color 1170 01:30:05.359 --> 01:30:09.640 Star line, They've got the Turf Star line, the Slow and Ease. 1171 01:30:09.640 --> 01:30:13.520 They have other lines as well, but in the Turf Star line, Bruce 1172 01:30:13.600 --> 01:30:15.159 is s brew and Slow and EASi are the two ones that I like to 1173 01:30:15.199 --> 01:30:20.000 talk about in the summertime. Bruce sprew is a quick green up product, 1174 01:30:20.079 --> 01:30:24.239 but it has a couple of types of slow release fertilizers, so you do 1175 01:30:24.399 --> 01:30:28.279 get a gradual feeding over time as well. So I would say it's front 1176 01:30:28.359 --> 01:30:35.079 loaded to the fertilizing now and then backloaded to the gradual release flip that around. 1177 01:30:35.279 --> 01:30:40.039 Slow and Easy has a little bit of available fertilizer right away, but 1178 01:30:40.439 --> 01:30:45.920 it has some very long release nitrogen chemistries in it that will provide you release 1179 01:30:46.079 --> 01:30:50.800 for over four months. So when you use Slow and Easy now, you 1180 01:30:50.960 --> 01:30:57.119 do not fertilize again until the fall. Fertilization Slow and Easy helps feed the 1181 01:30:57.239 --> 01:31:02.600 microbes in the soil, It helps acidify the soil. It just provides that 1182 01:31:02.760 --> 01:31:08.960 kind of turf growth that makes nice even growth for even you have a spike 1183 01:31:09.039 --> 01:31:13.359 in mowing problems, you don't have a loss of root system due to overfertilizing, 1184 01:31:13.880 --> 01:31:17.359 slow and easies and excellent products from Nelson Plant Food as many of their 1185 01:31:17.439 --> 01:31:23.840 products are excellent and well known and well loved. Here. You've probably have 1186 01:31:24.000 --> 01:31:27.880 used the color Star before. Hey, have you ever used their Boogain Villa 1187 01:31:27.920 --> 01:31:30.520 food? Those of you who have Boogain vellas, Nelson has an excellent Boogain 1188 01:31:30.600 --> 01:31:34.720 Villa food as well. And it really for any vine. I mean, 1189 01:31:34.800 --> 01:31:38.560 do you have a Virginia creeper? Do you have a passion vine? Do 1190 01:31:38.640 --> 01:31:43.479 you have a trumpet hondisuckle of vine? Butterfly vine, Carolina jessemine. You 1191 01:31:43.520 --> 01:31:46.319 know that's the one that blooms yellow in the spring, jasmines, and you 1192 01:31:46.359 --> 01:31:49.720 know, whatever it is, Boogain Villa Food is an excellent choice for all 1193 01:31:49.800 --> 01:31:57.279 of those you are listening to Guardline and we're here to answer your gardening questions. 1194 01:31:57.359 --> 01:32:00.359 And we're gonna run real quick here to Jimmy and Conrad. Oh hey, 1195 01:32:00.439 --> 01:32:09.399 Jimmy, do we have a Jimmy? All right, I'm gonna have 1196 01:32:09.479 --> 01:32:12.680 to put you on old Jimmy when we come back from a break. We 1197 01:32:12.840 --> 01:32:15.800 just don't have enough time really to go into the call. When when we 1198 01:32:15.880 --> 01:32:18.239 come back from a break, you will be our first s up and we 1199 01:32:18.439 --> 01:32:23.920 will discuss what is of interest to you before we go into break. I 1200 01:32:24.000 --> 01:32:28.720 just want to remind you my schedules are online that cover your lawn through the 1201 01:32:28.800 --> 01:32:31.960 year January to December. One is the lawn care schedule. The other is 1202 01:32:32.039 --> 01:32:36.880 the lawn Pest Disease and we'd management schedule. Gives you all the products organic 1203 01:32:38.000 --> 01:32:42.840 and synthetic, tells you when to apply them and to control or two feed 1204 01:32:43.039 --> 01:32:45.199 whatever you need to do in your lawn. They're both free and they're both 1205 01:32:45.359 --> 01:32:53.399 at Gardening with Skip dot Com. Gardening with Skip dot Com. All right, 1206 01:32:53.439 --> 01:32:56.279 I'm gonna turn it over to the news and we'll be right back. 1207 01:32:56.560 --> 01:33:02.439 Good to have you with us listening today. Enjoy getting outside and getting some 1208 01:33:02.600 --> 01:33:08.920 things done this afternoon, I hope if you'd like to enjoy just taking care 1209 01:33:08.920 --> 01:33:13.000 of the flowers and the vegetables and whatnot, kind of walking through and looking 1210 01:33:13.039 --> 01:33:15.920 things over. You know, they say the best fertilizer is the footprints of 1211 01:33:16.000 --> 01:33:20.520 the gardener. I say the best pest control is also the footprints of the 1212 01:33:20.560 --> 01:33:26.680 gardener. You know, you catch them right now. Webworms are just everywhere. 1213 01:33:26.800 --> 01:33:29.439 People going crazy about web worms, and they should I mean, they're 1214 01:33:29.520 --> 01:33:34.039 they're, they're they're everywhere. But they started off as a few little caterpillars 1215 01:33:34.439 --> 01:33:39.560 on a leaf somewhere on a tree, maybe several spots, but they start 1216 01:33:39.640 --> 01:33:42.720 off that way. And if you see them at that stage, a little 1217 01:33:42.760 --> 01:33:47.640 squirt of the right in sexicides and you got them under control. When you 1218 01:33:47.840 --> 01:33:53.399 don't happen to notice them in time, they may already be so far ahead 1219 01:33:53.439 --> 01:33:56.479 of things it's hard to catch up, or there's very little left to save 1220 01:33:56.800 --> 01:34:00.880 on the foliage of a tree. So just an example of how getting out 1221 01:34:00.920 --> 01:34:05.439 and checking things early helps. In fact, I'll say this stand by this 1222 01:34:06.399 --> 01:34:14.800 that if you want to use the safest, the least toxic pesticides and if 1223 01:34:14.840 --> 01:34:18.920 you want to have the most benefit from them, the earlier you do it 1224 01:34:19.000 --> 01:34:24.159 the better. As insects get older, As caterpillars get older, like things 1225 01:34:24.239 --> 01:34:29.159 like BT isn't as effective against them as it is when they're very young. 1226 01:34:30.000 --> 01:34:33.520 And then there are some insects like stink bugs and leaf footed bugs where boy, 1227 01:34:33.560 --> 01:34:35.640 if you don't catch them early, you're gonna have to go with some 1228 01:34:35.720 --> 01:34:41.880 pretty potent stuff and definitely not an organic product in order to get them under 1229 01:34:41.880 --> 01:34:46.319 control. So just a little tip the footprints of the gardener. Catch it 1230 01:34:46.439 --> 01:34:51.399 early, act early, and you have the widest range of options and the 1231 01:34:51.479 --> 01:34:56.640 safest options that you might want to spray out there. All right, just 1232 01:34:56.760 --> 01:35:00.159 a free tip for the day. Let's go to West Houston and talk to 1233 01:35:00.319 --> 01:35:03.439 Richard. Hello Richard, Hey, good morning, Skip. How are you? 1234 01:35:04.319 --> 01:35:10.840 I have good? That's wonderful. I have a two year old camellia 1235 01:35:10.960 --> 01:35:15.399 that's on a trellis and we want to transplant it today. Are there any 1236 01:35:15.560 --> 01:35:20.439 precautions and steps we need to take after we move it that you would recommend? 1237 01:35:20.520 --> 01:35:26.359 In particular, Boy, transplanting your camellia today is tough. You're probably 1238 01:35:26.399 --> 01:35:31.319 going to lose some lot of foliage on that plant when you do. Getting 1239 01:35:31.840 --> 01:35:36.199 as much of the root system as you can wider is more important than deeper. 1240 01:35:38.239 --> 01:35:41.119 Okay, So is it going to be put somewhere on your property? 1241 01:35:42.279 --> 01:35:45.239 Yes, we're moving just from one side of the yard to the other. 1242 01:35:45.000 --> 01:35:48.680 Rich soil to rich soil. It's a good, good situation. So the 1243 01:35:49.279 --> 01:35:53.359 less disruptive you can be to the roots, because digging it, no matter 1244 01:35:53.439 --> 01:35:57.239 what you do, is going to be extremely disruptive. But the less disruptive 1245 01:35:57.359 --> 01:36:00.479 the better. So what I do. And I moved a rosebush a while 1246 01:36:00.560 --> 01:36:03.880 back like this. I cut a circle around the plant, cut down, 1247 01:36:04.079 --> 01:36:08.600 and then I took my shovel and went underneath. So maybe I was oh, 1248 01:36:08.920 --> 01:36:13.880 probably six or eight inches deep something like that. And I went underneath 1249 01:36:14.079 --> 01:36:18.119 and then got about halfway and I slid a tarp underneath the plant. You 1250 01:36:18.159 --> 01:36:21.279 know, lean it one way, slide the tarp under, then cut loose 1251 01:36:21.359 --> 01:36:25.399 the other side, and just slide the plant right up on the tarp and 1252 01:36:25.600 --> 01:36:29.880 drag the tarp to the new location. You can move a very heavy piece 1253 01:36:29.920 --> 01:36:32.880 of soil with dragging a tarp, and then one person can do it, 1254 01:36:33.000 --> 01:36:36.199 but two for sure. You get it in this new spot. Dig a 1255 01:36:36.239 --> 01:36:40.880 hole. That's the depth and size of what you got, and just slide 1256 01:36:40.920 --> 01:36:44.079 it right into that hole, and then water it in very well. Build 1257 01:36:44.119 --> 01:36:46.279 a little burm of soil around it if you can, so that when you 1258 01:36:46.439 --> 01:36:51.720 water, the water soaks right into that spot. If the area is somewhat 1259 01:36:51.800 --> 01:36:58.840 sunny, definitely cover it with some sort of a shading cloth. However, 1260 01:36:58.920 --> 01:37:02.520 you can rig something up to help it, because it's not going to have 1261 01:37:02.600 --> 01:37:08.680 the roots to supply water to the leaves. And it'll all turn brown if 1262 01:37:09.119 --> 01:37:14.119 it can't keep water to the leaves. Well, that's very informational. Do 1263 01:37:14.239 --> 01:37:17.479 you apply anything like a root stimulator or just water? No, you can't. 1264 01:37:17.600 --> 01:37:20.279 You can do root stimulators. There's a number of different things. Some 1265 01:37:20.680 --> 01:37:25.960 are based on vitamins, I'm based on hormones. I'm both. But that 1266 01:37:26.000 --> 01:37:29.239 won't hurt anything at all. To add well, great, I had one 1267 01:37:29.359 --> 01:37:33.960 special request. Would you allow me to wish my gardener wife a happy anniversary? 1268 01:37:34.279 --> 01:37:40.520 Name Julie. Okay, well, anniversary to both of you. That's 1269 01:37:40.600 --> 01:37:44.399 good. Well, thank you. Yeah, she's she's my gardener and love 1270 01:37:44.439 --> 01:37:46.399 of my life, so thank you. I just have to ask you now 1271 01:37:47.640 --> 01:37:51.079 when you said when I people talk about their gardener, they're usually talking about 1272 01:37:51.119 --> 01:37:54.479 somebody they hire to come in and take care of things. Does she do 1273 01:37:54.600 --> 01:37:58.560 all the work around that place? Making everything? She does most of the 1274 01:37:58.640 --> 01:38:00.520 work. I have to give her all the reit. She's certainly the brains. 1275 01:38:01.039 --> 01:38:04.079 Well and uh I do some of the labor, but she's the brain. 1276 01:38:04.279 --> 01:38:08.560 Okay, Well, I refer to that as German gardening. It's it's 1277 01:38:08.640 --> 01:38:12.439 getting work done by the sweat of your frow. Thanks a lot, Richard. 1278 01:38:12.600 --> 01:38:15.520 I appreciate your call. Have a good thing. Thank you sir. 1279 01:38:15.880 --> 01:38:19.680 Okay, the anniversary to both of you. Well, that's good. That's 1280 01:38:19.800 --> 01:38:26.640 good. Gardening is a fun thing and and to do with you know, 1281 01:38:26.800 --> 01:38:30.920 a spouse or friends or family. Uh, it's just enjoyable. And I'm 1282 01:38:30.960 --> 01:38:33.560 fortunate to have several people, include my wife and the family that enjoy getting 1283 01:38:33.560 --> 01:38:36.399 out a little bit and doing some gardening. And uh, I don't know, 1284 01:38:36.520 --> 01:38:42.640 it's just more time to relax and enjoy more of that psychological benefit that 1285 01:38:42.800 --> 01:38:46.239 gardening brings. And in so many ways, gardening brings peace of mind. 1286 01:38:46.359 --> 01:38:49.880 It's a way to wind down when you are dealing with stresses. It's a 1287 01:38:49.920 --> 01:38:55.039 way to unwind. Uh, it's just a just a good activity out there. 1288 01:38:55.560 --> 01:39:00.199 Well our phone number seven one three two one two fifty eights of twenty 1289 01:39:00.239 --> 01:39:03.760 four seven one three two one two five eight seven four or by email at 1290 01:39:03.840 --> 01:39:15.439 garden Success at TAMU dot edu. Garden Success at TAMU dot Edu. We've 1291 01:39:15.479 --> 01:39:18.800 had storms recently and we saw a lot of big limbs come down and do 1292 01:39:19.079 --> 01:39:25.880 a lot of damage, including knocking out the power here through huge sections of 1293 01:39:25.920 --> 01:39:30.479 the Greater Houston area. Well, when hurricane season arrives, which it did 1294 01:39:30.680 --> 01:39:34.239 yesterday officially and goes all the way through November. You need to think about 1295 01:39:34.600 --> 01:39:39.159 getting Martin spoon Moore and his team from Affordable Tree to come out and do 1296 01:39:39.319 --> 01:39:43.640 some selective pruning. That would be trimming away any dead areas in a tree, 1297 01:39:44.319 --> 01:39:47.520 doing other selective pruning, making sure your trees are safer than the heavy 1298 01:39:47.600 --> 01:39:51.239 winds. You're basically setting your trees up for the best they can be in 1299 01:39:51.399 --> 01:39:56.199 terms of storm readiness. Now, you don't want to have a tree fall 1300 01:39:56.279 --> 01:40:00.800 on your home or a giant limb falling your home or other valuable proper So 1301 01:40:00.880 --> 01:40:04.039 if you have any dead trees or huge dead limbs, would definitely get those 1302 01:40:04.359 --> 01:40:10.319 out now. I can't express enough the importance of proper tree care coming in 1303 01:40:10.840 --> 01:40:14.800 to this storm season, and as we learned just the other day, it 1304 01:40:14.880 --> 01:40:18.359 doesn't have to be a hurricane season to have major damage to our trees. 1305 01:40:18.720 --> 01:40:25.600 Call Martin spoon Moore. Here's his number seven one three six nine twenty six 1306 01:40:25.960 --> 01:40:32.439 sixty three seven one three six nine nine twenty six sixty three his website aff 1307 01:40:32.560 --> 01:40:39.000 Tree Service dot com. Afftree Service dot com. Martin's been doing this for 1308 01:40:39.199 --> 01:40:43.680 many years here in the Greater Houston area. This is a family operation. 1309 01:40:43.800 --> 01:40:46.560 I mean he and his wife. They answer the phones. If you call 1310 01:40:46.720 --> 01:40:51.119 and Martin or Joe doesn't answer the phone, well hang up. You call 1311 01:40:51.199 --> 01:40:59.680 the wrong place. With affordable in the name Affordabletree Service dot com. I 1312 01:40:59.760 --> 01:41:04.399 hate it when people lose major limbs on trees because typically when nature prunes a 1313 01:41:04.479 --> 01:41:08.680 tree doesn't do a very good job. I'm just saying, you know, 1314 01:41:08.840 --> 01:41:12.119 when you get a limb that breaks and rips and strips the bark down and 1315 01:41:12.239 --> 01:41:15.319 things, those wounds are very slow to heal, if the heel at all. 1316 01:41:15.880 --> 01:41:20.119 And that's why it's important to avoid that at all costs, if at 1317 01:41:20.119 --> 01:41:25.479 all possible. If you would like to give us a call, seven one 1318 01:41:25.560 --> 01:41:30.720 three two one two five eight seven four is the number. Dan Nelson out 1319 01:41:30.720 --> 01:41:38.920 at Nelson Plant Food has been concocting some quality fertilizers for a very long time. 1320 01:41:39.039 --> 01:41:42.600 You know. Nelson Plant Food has the Color Star line, They've got 1321 01:41:42.680 --> 01:41:45.359 the Turf Star line, the Slow in Ease. They have other lines as 1322 01:41:45.399 --> 01:41:48.680 well, but in the Turf Star line Bruce is sprew and slow and easier. 1323 01:41:48.800 --> 01:41:53.279 The two ones that I like to talk about in the summertime Bruce Sprew 1324 01:41:53.520 --> 01:41:56.920 is a quick green up product product, but it has a couple of types 1325 01:41:56.960 --> 01:42:00.079 of slow release fertilizers, so you do get a gradual feead over time as 1326 01:42:00.119 --> 01:42:05.840 well. So I would say it's front loaded to the fertilizing now and then 1327 01:42:06.159 --> 01:42:12.359 backloaded to the gradual release flip that around. Slow and Easy has a little 1328 01:42:12.399 --> 01:42:17.359 bit of available fertilizer right away, but it has some very long release nitrogen 1329 01:42:17.439 --> 01:42:24.359 chemistries in it that will provide you release for over four months. So when 1330 01:42:24.399 --> 01:42:28.880 you use Slow and Easy now, you do not fertilize again until the fall. 1331 01:42:28.920 --> 01:42:32.439 Fertilization Slow and Easy helps feed the microbes in the soil, It helps 1332 01:42:32.479 --> 01:42:41.079 acidify the soil, just provides that kind of turf growth that makes nice even 1333 01:42:41.119 --> 01:42:45.479 growth for even you have a spike in mowing problems, you don't have a 1334 01:42:45.600 --> 01:42:49.640 loss of root system due to overfertilizing. Slow and Easies and excellent products from 1335 01:42:49.680 --> 01:42:57.159 Nelson Plant Food as many of their products are excellent and well known and well 1336 01:42:57.239 --> 01:43:00.880 loved here. You've probably used the color Star before. Hey, have you 1337 01:43:00.920 --> 01:43:03.119 ever used their Booga and Villa food? Those of you who have Booga and 1338 01:43:03.199 --> 01:43:08.520 vedas, Nelson has an excellent Boogain Villa food as well. Uh, and 1339 01:43:08.680 --> 01:43:11.840 it really for any vine. I mean, do you have a Virginia creeper, 1340 01:43:11.920 --> 01:43:15.039 do you have a passion vine? Do you have a trumpet hondisuckle of 1341 01:43:15.159 --> 01:43:17.760 vine, a butterfly vine, Carolina jessemine. You know that's the one that 1342 01:43:17.840 --> 01:43:21.640 blooms yellow in the spring. It's jasmines. And you know, whatever it 1343 01:43:21.800 --> 01:43:27.960 is, Boogin Villa food is an excellent choice for all of those. Uh. 1344 01:43:28.119 --> 01:43:30.960 You are listening to Guardline and we're here to answer your gardening questions. 1345 01:43:31.039 --> 01:43:34.000 And we're going to run real quick here to Jimmy and Conroe. Hey, 1346 01:43:34.119 --> 01:43:39.399 Jimmy, welcome back, looking forward to continuing on here with our next hour 1347 01:43:39.479 --> 01:43:44.000 of the show. We're going to head out to who's been online? Okay 1348 01:43:44.159 --> 01:43:46.960 Kay in Paarland, Hello, Okay, Hi, good morning, Skip, 1349 01:43:47.000 --> 01:43:50.560 Thank you for taking my call. Sure, I was just got part of 1350 01:43:50.680 --> 01:43:58.600 the conversation with the lady who was looking for and azalia that she couldn't find 1351 01:43:58.680 --> 01:44:01.960 any longer, and I didn't hear what it was. I'm not an azalea 1352 01:44:02.079 --> 01:44:05.199 person now, but back in the day when my husband and I had our 1353 01:44:05.239 --> 01:44:10.680 first house, we had an azalea. It was back in the sixties and 1354 01:44:10.760 --> 01:44:16.159 it was called Macrantha, and it was amazing. It bloomed almost all year, 1355 01:44:16.800 --> 01:44:25.000 except like December and January, and it wasn't profuse blooms like azagahs do 1356 01:44:25.239 --> 01:44:30.439 now for a month or so, but it just bloomed all all through. 1357 01:44:30.680 --> 01:44:33.760 It started in the spring, and it bloomed all through the summer and just 1358 01:44:33.880 --> 01:44:39.600 went down in the cold winter. And I haven't seen it anywhere, and 1359 01:44:39.880 --> 01:44:42.800 I was just wondering, have you or have you ever heard of it? 1360 01:44:43.119 --> 01:44:45.640 Yeah? I have there there's still they're still available. I don't you know, 1361 01:44:45.680 --> 01:44:48.960 I don't check all the varieties of our garden center to know, right, 1362 01:44:50.199 --> 01:44:54.560 but I think they still can be found. Uh yeah, I just 1363 01:44:55.640 --> 01:44:58.520 I was just curious if you'd ever, you know, heard of it. 1364 01:45:00.000 --> 01:45:05.039 Okay, well, so it's still out there somewhere if the Okay, thanks, 1365 01:45:05.439 --> 01:45:09.359 thank you so much, have a great day. Bye bye you too. 1366 01:45:09.520 --> 01:45:14.439 Take care. Let's see here we are now going to head out to 1367 01:45:14.960 --> 01:45:16.880 Greg and Conrad. Okay, this is the fourth Greg of the day. 1368 01:45:17.039 --> 01:45:25.000 Something's going on. Well it's a different one. Uh hey skip, uh. 1369 01:45:25.640 --> 01:45:30.159 I want your ideas on a vine I built a pergola or an arbor 1370 01:45:30.640 --> 01:45:35.960 on my back porch. Uh. Anyway, I'm trying to I want to 1371 01:45:36.039 --> 01:45:39.880 grow a vine up it. I don't want it to cover all of it, 1372 01:45:40.039 --> 01:45:45.000 but uh, you know part of it, and you know, ideally 1373 01:45:46.520 --> 01:45:53.319 I was thinking of the Star Jazz niney uh, but I don't know if 1374 01:45:53.319 --> 01:45:57.279 it's gonna be able to handle the the full sign and the heat that was 1375 01:45:57.399 --> 01:46:00.119 get here in the summertime. No, I've seen it out in full sign. 1376 01:46:00.239 --> 01:46:03.279 It can it can take a full sign. Yeah, okay, the 1377 01:46:03.359 --> 01:46:08.960 star Jasmin can because you're rewarded with the wonderful flowers. Uh, you know, 1378 01:46:09.079 --> 01:46:14.640 the lovely it. It blows a couple of times a year, doesn't 1379 01:46:14.640 --> 01:46:18.880 it, uh spring into the summertime kind of. Uh So I would say 1380 01:46:18.960 --> 01:46:23.239 it can have more of an ongoing bloom. You may get a little re 1381 01:46:23.880 --> 01:46:28.159 bloom balance of it. I haven't really studied that close to to even notice, 1382 01:46:28.960 --> 01:46:33.680 but yeah, Star Jasmine. It's real popular in Houston. Typically you'll 1383 01:46:33.720 --> 01:46:38.920 see it being used in a lot of ways that it makes a wonderful wall. 1384 01:46:39.319 --> 01:46:42.960 You'll see it on like an iron fencing going down the road. I've 1385 01:46:43.000 --> 01:46:45.520 seen it on chain link fence, which is the prettiest thing you can do 1386 01:46:45.600 --> 01:46:47.800 to a chain link fences. Throw a little star jasmine over the top of 1387 01:46:47.840 --> 01:46:50.439 it. You can share it, you know, like as if it were 1388 01:46:50.479 --> 01:46:56.079 a shrub. And so it's it's a versatile plant. All right. Great, 1389 01:46:56.800 --> 01:46:59.640 that answers that I appreciate it. All right. Just keep in mind 1390 01:46:59.720 --> 01:47:03.960 that it is an eager grower. So it doesn't understand that where you wanted 1391 01:47:04.039 --> 01:47:09.119 to stop unless you tell it with a hedging tremors. Okay, okay, 1392 01:47:11.119 --> 01:47:15.640 thank you, thank you very much. I appreciate appreciate your call. Uh. 1393 01:47:15.840 --> 01:47:17.960 Now we're going to go to Louise and West Houston. Hello, Louise, 1394 01:47:19.199 --> 01:47:21.640 Hey, Skip, how are you? I'm good, sir, what's 1395 01:47:21.760 --> 01:47:27.920 up? Hey? Oh, I just know who I'm talking about. I 1396 01:47:28.000 --> 01:47:32.960 just figured out who Louise is. Hey, So you you helped me. 1397 01:47:33.039 --> 01:47:38.000 I have a few things. You helped me with the wet worms on Thursday. 1398 01:47:38.840 --> 01:47:43.600 And so what I did is I tweeted it with what it was the 1399 01:47:43.720 --> 01:47:47.600 systemic uh bray. I think he used an assepate. I believe if I 1400 01:47:47.800 --> 01:47:54.560 remember your your your and then and then I let it dry and I have 1401 01:47:54.640 --> 01:47:59.079 played the wet worm control and everything died. All those wet worms died. 1402 01:47:59.600 --> 01:48:03.159 So I know it's a pup their topic right now. But you know, 1403 01:48:03.439 --> 01:48:08.920 if people wanted to see what what was used, they can go to the 1404 01:48:08.960 --> 01:48:13.159 Heirlom Soils Instagram and check it out. Oh yeah, yeah, do you 1405 01:48:13.239 --> 01:48:15.359 put it on there? Okay, I'll go check that out. I'll put 1406 01:48:15.399 --> 01:48:17.279 it on there. Yeah, I put it. So related a couple of 1407 01:48:17.359 --> 01:48:24.399 things. Uh, I'm gonna be in San Antonio in on Saturday next week 1408 01:48:25.079 --> 01:48:28.960 at the Festival of Flowers. So if anybody is in the west part of 1409 01:48:29.279 --> 01:48:31.079 you know, West Houston is closer to San Antonio. WANs to come, 1410 01:48:31.119 --> 01:48:35.760 say hi, as a really cool event. And they have a bunch of 1411 01:48:35.840 --> 01:48:40.800 vendors, a bunch of your sponsors go there and have boots and stuff like 1412 01:48:40.840 --> 01:48:45.520 that. And number three, you mentioned the discount we have going on just 1413 01:48:45.600 --> 01:48:50.039 fifty percent off and they have two footbags of the works and cactus. But 1414 01:48:50.800 --> 01:48:57.840 Warren Soilent Gardens in Kingwood Garden Center have forty percent off on soils on Heirlom 1415 01:48:57.880 --> 01:49:01.520 Soils and all the plants will today Warrens and Kingwood until today. And that 1416 01:49:01.720 --> 01:49:08.560 the other the uh, the works putting mix and you know the and the 1417 01:49:08.680 --> 01:49:12.760 cactus succulent that ends today too, right, it is, yeah, but 1418 01:49:12.880 --> 01:49:15.439 I weren't selling gardens in Kywood Garden Center. All the plants, all the 1419 01:49:15.520 --> 01:49:20.600 air them cells products and Poma products are going to be so pretty good deal. 1420 01:49:21.119 --> 01:49:26.960 You know, an end of season inventory reduction. You can never get 1421 01:49:27.079 --> 01:49:30.680 enough soil or enough molts. Jere My Jerema malts my Maltz quote a minute 1422 01:49:30.720 --> 01:49:33.760 ago. I don't know if you were you were listening to that one I 1423 01:49:34.159 --> 01:49:39.680 had. I found I found a quote about maulch and now I'm trying to 1424 01:49:40.079 --> 01:49:43.920 trying to find yourself say it, say it the right way here? Oh 1425 01:49:44.119 --> 01:49:46.800 god, yeah, I listened to it. That that double it or like 1426 01:49:46.920 --> 01:49:51.359 a free bags or something. So uh. An easy way to get rid 1427 01:49:51.399 --> 01:49:55.760 of that quote is to use the calculator online. There you go, you 1428 01:49:55.880 --> 01:50:00.159 do, I know you got one good? Uh that would say you a 1429 01:50:00.199 --> 01:50:05.920 little bit but it but it I like to give a funny quote there. 1430 01:50:06.039 --> 01:50:10.079 Oh yeah, I always buy three or four more bags. Always. You 1431 01:50:10.800 --> 01:50:15.000 never to have more more soil or multile hands. Most doesn't go bad. 1432 01:50:15.079 --> 01:50:17.960 If you let us sit there long enough, you got compost. Well, 1433 01:50:18.119 --> 01:50:23.239 no, most those go bad. And the reason why is because the decomposition 1434 01:50:23.399 --> 01:50:30.800 process kind of stops and then starts bleaching the wood inside the bag. Reaction 1435 01:50:30.199 --> 01:50:38.239 Yeah back, yeah, yeah, okay, Well that was it. So 1436 01:50:38.479 --> 01:50:43.279 if anybody until Saturday complete. Yeah, I've been to Festival Flowers. It's 1437 01:50:43.279 --> 01:50:48.079 a wonderful event. I think when I went it was like at uh Mason 1438 01:50:48.319 --> 01:50:55.399 Shriner building up on the Shriners Auditorium in North North Yeah, so it's still 1439 01:50:55.439 --> 01:51:00.399 there. Okay, good, Yep. We reached the edge of San Antonio, 1440 01:51:00.560 --> 01:51:03.399 not quite to San Antonio with this show, so you're probably gonna have 1441 01:51:03.479 --> 01:51:09.520 some people listening that are just outside of town our direction that that are interesting. 1442 01:51:10.000 --> 01:51:14.920 Thanks a lot, Louise, all right, thank you, all right. 1443 01:51:15.279 --> 01:51:23.880 Our phone number is seven one three two one two KTRH. Give him 1444 01:51:23.880 --> 01:51:27.800 my producer a call and we'll get you on the board. We just cleared 1445 01:51:27.800 --> 01:51:30.840 out the lines with that last call. We've got some open lines. So 1446 01:51:30.119 --> 01:51:33.239 we've got a question you've been wanting to ask, Well, this would be 1447 01:51:33.279 --> 01:51:36.800 a good time to do that. We got one more hour. We're about 1448 01:51:36.840 --> 01:51:41.159 to put this show in the books for the weekend. One more hour of 1449 01:51:41.239 --> 01:51:45.439 garden Line coming up. Remember that garden Line is also available by podcasts, 1450 01:51:45.000 --> 01:51:49.520 So whether you use the iHeartMedia podcast app like I do, or you have 1451 01:51:49.680 --> 01:51:54.439 other podcast apps. You can find garden Line and you can listen to past 1452 01:51:54.479 --> 01:51:58.159 shows. So when you're wondering what was that quote, he said, well, 1453 01:51:58.640 --> 01:52:01.000 what is the that you just mentioned? You can go back and listen 1454 01:52:01.039 --> 01:52:04.239 to past shows and enjoy that. Just a reminder too, you can listen 1455 01:52:04.319 --> 01:52:08.239 live on the heart Media app. So you could be out in your garden 1456 01:52:08.359 --> 01:52:11.880 right now with the phone in your pocket listen to the garden Line. LI 1457 01:52:17.000 --> 01:52:30.640 to kt r H Garden Line with Skip Rict. It's crazy Trim just watch 1458 01:52:30.760 --> 01:52:46.039 him as well. God us so many birthdays to suppazy gess not a sign. 1459 01:52:51.039 --> 01:52:55.039 Welcome back to garden Line. Good to have you with us. We 1460 01:52:55.319 --> 01:52:58.159 uh we're here to answer your gardening questions if you got any, and you 1461 01:52:58.239 --> 01:53:02.600 give us a call. Seven one three two one two kt r H seven 1462 01:53:02.680 --> 01:53:09.079 one three two one two kat r H. Let's head out to Katie and 1463 01:53:09.239 --> 01:53:15.520 talk to Laurel. Hello, Laurel, Hi, I have noticed on my 1464 01:53:15.720 --> 01:53:20.000 tomato plant that we have the stink bug. And I understand that's the same 1465 01:53:20.079 --> 01:53:27.079 as the leaf put it bug right, same same damage. Yes, okay, 1466 01:53:27.560 --> 01:53:34.199 I sprayed uh uh well is that strong enough to get rid of them. 1467 01:53:34.680 --> 01:53:39.199 Uh, you cut out on me when you named the product. What 1468 01:53:39.319 --> 01:53:46.920 did you spray? I sprayed Captain Jack's Dead bug? Captain Jack's dead Was 1469 01:53:46.960 --> 01:53:51.680 it Captain Jack's deadbug? Brew? Is that what they called it? Oh? 1470 01:53:51.800 --> 01:53:55.760 I think it's just Captain Jack's Dead bug. I don't know. I 1471 01:53:55.840 --> 01:54:00.600 had to. I put it in a pump sprayer, two tablespooze per gallon. 1472 01:54:00.920 --> 01:54:08.439 Okay, what I'm trying to remember what the ingredient is in Captain Jackson? 1473 01:54:09.520 --> 01:54:15.119 I think shot I thought of it. Probably is. I was going 1474 01:54:15.199 --> 01:54:20.760 to check and make sure. Spinosa is very effective against webworms, but it's 1475 01:54:20.880 --> 01:54:29.840 not effective against stink bugs to speak of. So what's your Yeah, what 1476 01:54:29.920 --> 01:54:35.039 you're gonna need is something that has more of a more of a punch to 1477 01:54:35.199 --> 01:54:39.359 it. And at this stage, when the stink bugs are adults, or 1478 01:54:39.439 --> 01:54:43.079 the leaf footed bugs and they have wings that can fly around, it takes 1479 01:54:43.239 --> 01:54:45.800 a more potent spray to be able to take them down and get rid of 1480 01:54:45.840 --> 01:54:50.840 them. Something that is what we would refer to as a synthetic parithroid. 1481 01:54:51.560 --> 01:54:58.159 Uh. And those are products that end in the letter's thren t H R 1482 01:54:58.319 --> 01:55:03.359 I n H. There's permethrin, there's by fen Thren. There's a lot 1483 01:55:03.439 --> 01:55:14.079 of thrends out there. Uh, the only one that's organic is I just 1484 01:55:14.159 --> 01:55:19.680 went blank. I can't say the one that that's going to organic. Yeah, 1485 01:55:20.239 --> 01:55:24.840 I'll be honest. I don't pretend to be organic at all. I 1486 01:55:25.279 --> 01:55:30.399 just want my vegetables. Well then yeah, then then go with with a 1487 01:55:30.520 --> 01:55:33.920 product. You're out there at Katie kt Is Hardens a couple of hardware stores 1488 01:55:34.640 --> 01:55:39.079 out in the KT area that are going to carry these products for you. 1489 01:55:39.560 --> 01:55:42.880 And I would just recommend you you go to one of those, and I 1490 01:55:42.960 --> 01:55:47.399 think you're going to find good successor you're up near I ten. I'm on 1491 01:55:47.720 --> 01:55:55.039 Mason, so the eighth hardware on Mason's Night. Okay, good sounds good. 1492 01:55:55.359 --> 01:55:58.760 Okay, do you have a particular product, I mean, can you 1493 01:55:58.880 --> 01:56:04.119 name a specific What are the the stink bugs are on tomatoes? Yeah? 1494 01:56:05.399 --> 01:56:10.920 Yeah, you're gonna have to find something that has tomatoes on the label, 1495 01:56:11.000 --> 01:56:15.199 something that's labeled for edibles like the tomato. And I don't have in ahead 1496 01:56:15.239 --> 01:56:18.199 every product that they carry, you know, out there on the shelf. 1497 01:56:19.000 --> 01:56:25.039 But if you if you go and give that a just look for something with 1498 01:56:25.199 --> 01:56:29.119 Thren in the name. And that'll work. There are some other chemistries out 1499 01:56:29.159 --> 01:56:32.159 there that will work pretty good for that. It just has to be labeled 1500 01:56:32.199 --> 01:56:38.439 for tomatoes and that that's the challenge. Okay, great, okay, thank 1501 01:56:38.479 --> 01:56:42.000 you very much. All right. Yes, oh and one one tip, 1502 01:56:42.399 --> 01:56:45.079 Laura, spray early in the morning. They tend to be a little more 1503 01:56:45.159 --> 01:56:49.239 sluggish, so you can get around and get spray on them than they are 1504 01:56:49.880 --> 01:56:55.319 later in the day when when the weather, when the weather heats up. 1505 01:56:57.720 --> 01:57:00.720 Okay, okay, thank you very much, thank you. I appreciate appreciate 1506 01:57:00.760 --> 01:57:05.760 your call very much. Thank you, Bybie. Our phone number if you'd 1507 01:57:05.800 --> 01:57:12.279 like to get us a call is seven one three seven one three six two 1508 01:57:12.479 --> 01:57:18.319 six. Excuse me, seven one three two one two five eight seven four. 1509 01:57:18.399 --> 01:57:21.439 I'm looking at other numbers while I'm trying to say a different number. 1510 01:57:21.479 --> 01:57:28.239 Seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four r KTRH if you like 1511 01:57:28.479 --> 01:57:31.399 to go that route. We have talked about a number of different things today. 1512 01:57:31.399 --> 01:57:40.920 I wanted to discuss a little bit briefly about having success with containers. 1513 01:57:41.800 --> 01:57:46.319 I think that containers are underutilized in our in our landscape. You can put 1514 01:57:46.359 --> 01:57:50.880 a container just about anywhere, right so if you need to move a plant 1515 01:57:51.079 --> 01:57:58.600 and it's in a container, it's really easy to do. I like geraniums 1516 01:57:59.119 --> 01:58:01.800 in the springtime, they're out in full sun doing just fine. When it 1517 01:58:01.840 --> 01:58:05.520 starts getting hot, it's too much for them to be in full sun all 1518 01:58:05.600 --> 01:58:09.840 day, so I move them into a spot with the morning sun and they 1519 01:58:09.920 --> 01:58:14.680 do fine. It's just containers reversatile. You want, though, a container 1520 01:58:14.920 --> 01:58:19.880 with adequate soil volume, because here it is hot, and it's hot twenty 1521 01:58:20.000 --> 01:58:23.960 four hours a day, seven days a week when we move into summer, 1522 01:58:24.479 --> 01:58:28.399 and so that plant is pumping a lot of water to keep itself cool. 1523 01:58:28.880 --> 01:58:31.159 And if you don't have a good volume of soil, you're not going to 1524 01:58:31.199 --> 01:58:35.760 have a good bank account of water, and it'll be limited and the plant 1525 01:58:35.800 --> 01:58:43.319 will tend toward getting drought symptoms like wilting or some other setback. You want 1526 01:58:43.359 --> 01:58:46.079 to keep those things growing. So whatever the plant you're growing, depending on 1527 01:58:46.119 --> 01:58:49.039 the size of it, just get a container that's a little bigger than you 1528 01:58:49.239 --> 01:58:54.119 probably think you need, and I think you'll be better off that way. 1529 01:58:54.199 --> 01:58:57.960 Make sure you get a good quality mix in it, a good quality mix 1530 01:58:58.119 --> 01:59:02.319 that drains adequately well. There are a number of good things that you can 1531 01:59:02.399 --> 01:59:08.359 use many different kinds of soils and mixes and blends, but make sure it 1532 01:59:08.479 --> 01:59:12.199 drains really well. That's important in order to have that because you wanted to 1533 01:59:12.239 --> 01:59:15.560 whole moisture bit which you also wanted to drain well, and then pick plants 1534 01:59:15.680 --> 01:59:17.680 that do well in the summertime. And a good garden center can help you 1535 01:59:18.159 --> 01:59:23.920 with choosing those kinds of plants and even combine them in a container if that's 1536 01:59:23.960 --> 01:59:28.560 what you're looking for. A good garden center example would be Nelson's Water Garden 1537 01:59:29.239 --> 01:59:33.000 and Nursery. Nelson's actually Nursery and water Garden out there in Katie, Texas 1538 01:59:33.600 --> 01:59:38.359 is an outstanding garden center. They have a wide variety of plants. And 1539 01:59:38.439 --> 01:59:42.000 then Nelson's have been in the business for a long time and they know their 1540 01:59:42.079 --> 01:59:45.760 stuff when it comes to quality plants. Now you know, they originally became 1541 01:59:46.000 --> 01:59:53.520 literally nationally famous with the water garden part of the business. They can set 1542 01:59:53.560 --> 01:59:58.000 up ponds, they can set up disappearing fountains, they can set up waterfalls, 1543 01:59:58.039 --> 02:00:00.399 they can do all this kind of thing. Stock them for you with 1544 02:00:00.600 --> 02:00:05.560 water plants like lilies. Water lilies are very beautiful, and many other plants 1545 02:00:05.840 --> 02:00:09.600 they can stock them with a fish. They have all that there. They 1546 02:00:09.720 --> 02:00:12.319 can come out to your place and do it, do it, set it 1547 02:00:12.439 --> 02:00:15.399 up, or they can advise you if you're doing it yourself, on how 1548 02:00:15.439 --> 02:00:18.079 to go about doing that yourself. But at the garden center, you're going 1549 02:00:18.119 --> 02:00:21.640 to find a wide variety of things that do well here. Every time I 1550 02:00:21.800 --> 02:00:26.359 look at what are they talking about right now, what they just get in, 1551 02:00:26.680 --> 02:00:29.760 it's like, oh my gosh, that is an excellent choice for our 1552 02:00:29.840 --> 02:00:32.600 area. So that in and of itself is worth a trip. But you 1553 02:00:32.720 --> 02:00:35.640 got to go for the inspiration. When you get out there and you see 1554 02:00:35.720 --> 02:00:40.720 the place and you see the water, you hear the water, you're gonna 1555 02:00:40.720 --> 02:00:45.199 want water for your backyard or your patio or wherever you want to put it. 1556 02:00:45.000 --> 02:00:51.359 Nelson Nursery and Water Gardens in Katie. That's a website Nelsonwatergardens dot com. 1557 02:00:51.600 --> 02:00:56.479 Nelsonwatergardens dot com. It's on Katie Fort Benroad, So you just turn 1558 02:00:56.640 --> 02:01:00.600 to the right when you're heading out ten toward Katie, to the right on 1559 02:01:00.720 --> 02:01:03.279 Katie Fort Benroad, and it's a stone's throw right up there, easy to 1560 02:01:03.319 --> 02:01:06.119 find. And again I promise you you will love it when you go, 1561 02:01:06.279 --> 02:01:10.520 and you should take some friends with you when you do it because they will 1562 02:01:10.600 --> 02:01:15.079 love it too. Really good relationship time. On a very brief trip right 1563 02:01:15.159 --> 02:01:20.880 out there to Nelson Water Garden our West Houston Garden Center here on garden Line. 1564 02:01:24.399 --> 02:01:28.920 Folks at Microlife have they've been making fertilizer for a long time and they 1565 02:01:29.800 --> 02:01:33.680 focus on organic types of products. And you can find micro Life products that 1566 02:01:33.760 --> 02:01:42.840 are in a liquid. Their liquid products from fisher moulsion to seaweed to fertilizers 1567 02:01:42.960 --> 02:01:46.000 in a liquid form. You can find them in the granular form. Right 1568 02:01:46.119 --> 02:01:51.319 now, we're thinking about lawns. It's lawn time and Microlife's six two four 1569 02:01:51.680 --> 02:01:56.800 green bag, the green bag, that's an excellent product for lawns, but 1570 02:01:56.880 --> 02:01:59.439 I'll tell you this, it's an excellent product for a lot of things. 1571 02:02:00.119 --> 02:02:03.560 Use it my vegetable gardens. That it works very well out in there. 1572 02:02:03.600 --> 02:02:06.960 It doesn't have to be on a lawn, but it is a standard for 1573 02:02:08.119 --> 02:02:13.920 Microlife for lawn care. They have the Humates plus concentrated compost in a bag. 1574 02:02:14.199 --> 02:02:18.960 Humates plus is the purple bag and it is a concentration of composts down 1575 02:02:19.079 --> 02:02:25.560 into that final stage called humus that is the final decomposition stage of organic matter. 1576 02:02:26.000 --> 02:02:30.359 And with humates plus, you are stimulating the microbial content in the soil 1577 02:02:30.399 --> 02:02:35.000 as well as adding some because it does contain microbes and microhizal fungi, those 1578 02:02:35.039 --> 02:02:41.079 fungi that grow in association with a plant's root and reach out, making the 1579 02:02:41.239 --> 02:02:45.840 root more efficient, more effective. It's all there in a bag microlife, 1580 02:02:45.039 --> 02:02:51.960 humtes plus. Whenever you are going out and fertilizing, just keep in mind 1581 02:02:53.199 --> 02:02:56.560 that you want to get things spread out evenly. And I mentioned this in 1582 02:02:56.640 --> 02:03:00.199 a call a little bit earlier. But what I'm using a new fertilizer or 1583 02:03:00.239 --> 02:03:03.239 a new spreader and trying to figure out the settings. We have our rule 1584 02:03:03.279 --> 02:03:09.159 of thumb, which is you know to basically, when you are using a 1585 02:03:09.279 --> 02:03:12.640 push behind spreader in other words, of spreader on wheels, just go a 1586 02:03:12.760 --> 02:03:15.800 notch or two above half. So if they're twenty notches, then set it 1587 02:03:15.880 --> 02:03:19.720 on eleven or twelve. See what I'm saying, And you want to get 1588 02:03:19.760 --> 02:03:24.399 that right, But early on I will often hedge bed a little bit, 1589 02:03:24.840 --> 02:03:30.439 and I will make sure and maybe go light the first trip over and then 1590 02:03:30.560 --> 02:03:35.359 go crossways again, because that first trip will tell you are you getting the 1591 02:03:35.479 --> 02:03:39.520 right amount down or do you need to increase it a little bit, do 1592 02:03:39.560 --> 02:03:42.840 you need to lower it? So start by aiming for about half, just 1593 02:03:42.960 --> 02:03:45.079 as a tip until you figure out how to use it. It's time for 1594 02:03:45.199 --> 02:03:48.079 us to take a break. We are going to be right back, Tiffany. 1595 02:03:48.119 --> 02:03:51.840 You'll be first up when we come back. The days of the singing 1596 02:03:53.000 --> 02:03:59.680 cowboys, a lot of that was even before my time or Rogers's case, 1597 02:03:59.800 --> 02:04:01.880 g Autry. You know, back in those days, when you watch the 1598 02:04:02.000 --> 02:04:06.279 old black and white Western movies, it was easy to know who to shoot 1599 02:04:06.319 --> 02:04:10.159 at because of the color of the cowboy hat. If it was a white 1600 02:04:10.199 --> 02:04:11.960 hat, that's supposed to be a good guy, if it's a black hat, 1601 02:04:12.000 --> 02:04:15.720 that's supposed to be a bad guy. Don't you wish bugs wore hats 1602 02:04:15.000 --> 02:04:19.800 so we'd know whether they were beneficial insects or pests that we need to squirt 1603 02:04:19.840 --> 02:04:24.600 in the face of something. Just a thought, just a thought. We're 1604 02:04:24.640 --> 02:04:27.760 going to go out to cypressnow and talk to Tiffany. Hey, Tiffany, 1605 02:04:29.359 --> 02:04:32.199 Hi, Skip. We absolutely love your show. That was cute about the 1606 02:04:32.239 --> 02:04:35.800 bugs. Yes, we do wish that we try to have fun ever now 1607 02:04:35.840 --> 02:04:40.119 and then, all right, yes, you do. We love we absolutely 1608 02:04:40.159 --> 02:04:44.880 love your show so much and you So we have two crate myrtles in our 1609 02:04:44.960 --> 02:04:48.039 backyard. We moved in this house. It'll be five years this June. 1610 02:04:48.239 --> 02:04:54.479 So they were planted five years ago and they've been healthy. They're about ten 1611 02:04:54.600 --> 02:04:58.840 feet tall. But on one of them and they have the white blooms. 1612 02:04:59.239 --> 02:05:04.800 So the one on the left, it's I noticed on the mark that it's 1613 02:05:04.960 --> 02:05:12.279 covered with these tiny little they sort of look like ants, but like termite 1614 02:05:12.560 --> 02:05:15.640 maybe looking things. And then some of them are a little bit larger like 1615 02:05:15.800 --> 02:05:20.039 ants. So I looked in the beds thoroughly and there's no ant beds. 1616 02:05:21.479 --> 02:05:26.720 I just wanted to know what you suggest. And I was listening to you 1617 02:05:27.000 --> 02:05:30.760 yesterday and you were talking about how some crp myrtles the bark is not the 1618 02:05:30.840 --> 02:05:34.960 gray color, it's more the cinnamon, and that's how ours is. It's 1619 02:05:35.079 --> 02:05:41.039 more of the cinnamony color. But it's sort of flaking off a little bit 1620 02:05:41.199 --> 02:05:45.960 too, Okay. So just wanted your advice and what we should do. 1621 02:05:45.359 --> 02:05:50.720 So when you're seeing these ants, are they on both the branches and the 1622 02:05:50.840 --> 02:05:57.720 leaves, are just you're seeing them on branches or leaves it looks like just 1623 02:05:57.880 --> 02:06:00.720 the branches. To be honest with you, I mean I have to like 1624 02:06:00.840 --> 02:06:09.199 put my glasses on and really look the branches in the main trunk. Okay, 1625 02:06:09.560 --> 02:06:13.960 are you Are you noticing any Black City material on the surface of the 1626 02:06:14.039 --> 02:06:18.159 branches or anything. No, No, that's one thing I haven't seen any 1627 02:06:18.199 --> 02:06:21.199 of. It's just kind of like that cinemon color and it's a little bit 1628 02:06:21.359 --> 02:06:26.359 flaky. Yeah, but yeah, but just no, it's none of that 1629 02:06:26.520 --> 02:06:29.239 blackstood. I've had that before. In our create myrtle. We have a 1630 02:06:29.319 --> 02:06:33.800 smaller one in the front, and we've had that before. And but no, 1631 02:06:34.039 --> 02:06:38.279 these these don't. Yeah, this doesn't have it on there. Okay. 1632 02:06:38.680 --> 02:06:43.439 So when answer on trees, they don't eat trees? Answer not a 1633 02:06:43.560 --> 02:06:47.359 tree pass But when answer on trees are shrubs or any kind of plant, 1634 02:06:48.079 --> 02:06:54.560 usually it's because there are some insects that they're taking care of on that plant. 1635 02:06:55.399 --> 02:07:00.600 And okay, so aphids would be an example. A scale the the 1636 02:07:00.359 --> 02:07:04.920 insects that produce honeydew, a sugary water substance, which is why we get 1637 02:07:05.039 --> 02:07:10.399 Black City mold. Those insects. Ants actually are taking care of them and 1638 02:07:10.520 --> 02:07:14.680 protecting them because they can go up with their antenna and they can rub on 1639 02:07:14.760 --> 02:07:17.640 the insect and they produce a drop of sugary water the ants can drink and 1640 02:07:17.760 --> 02:07:21.800 feed on, and so okay, that's usually what's happening. If you got 1641 02:07:21.920 --> 02:07:27.479 ants and you're not seeing city mold, I'm not sure what it is that 1642 02:07:27.560 --> 02:07:30.600 you're seeing. If you would like to send a picture of like the trunk 1643 02:07:30.640 --> 02:07:33.760 where you're finding ants, if there's are they in groups or are they just 1644 02:07:33.880 --> 02:07:39.119 kind of here and there. There's a lot of them, I mean, 1645 02:07:39.600 --> 02:07:43.640 not really in groups per se, but there's like yesterday, I mean like 1646 02:07:43.760 --> 02:07:46.119 Friday, I looked and that was the first time I noticed them, But 1647 02:07:46.359 --> 02:07:50.840 yesterday it seemed like there was a lot more just crawling all over, not 1648 02:07:50.960 --> 02:07:55.520 really in groups, but just kind of crawling everywhere. They're up to something 1649 02:07:55.600 --> 02:07:58.479 and it's not eating your plant. If you would like to take a close 1650 02:07:58.560 --> 02:08:01.279 up picture and get it in good sh our focus and send it to me, 1651 02:08:01.399 --> 02:08:05.039 I can take a look. I'll probably see some scale on those plants 1652 02:08:05.600 --> 02:08:09.399 when I look at it, but I don't know. That's why. Yeah, 1653 02:08:09.680 --> 02:08:11.880 to see a photo. If you'd like to do that, let me 1654 02:08:11.960 --> 02:08:13.640 know and I can put you on hold and the producer can give you an 1655 02:08:13.640 --> 02:08:18.119 email to send the photo to. Yes, I definitely would like to do 1656 02:08:18.319 --> 02:08:22.840 that for sure, and I can send them. Yeah, we're about to 1657 02:08:22.880 --> 02:08:24.960 go to church. But I'll definitely send it next Saturday, so you can 1658 02:08:26.279 --> 02:08:30.239 look at it and I'll call back. That's good anytime during the week. 1659 02:08:30.319 --> 02:08:33.239 I will answer it on Saturday on the air. You can call back. 1660 02:08:33.199 --> 02:08:39.279 But just the closest you can get, the better I can see the ant 1661 02:08:39.439 --> 02:08:43.800 or whatever the insect is, I'll be able to do a better diagnosis. 1662 02:08:43.880 --> 02:08:46.159 Okay, I'm going to comment on that a little bit more in a moment, 1663 02:08:46.960 --> 02:08:50.800 but so you may want to stick around, keep the radio on as 1664 02:08:50.840 --> 02:08:52.840 you're on your way to church. I'm going to make some more comments. 1665 02:08:52.880 --> 02:08:56.560 Absolutely, we absolutely will. We listen to as long as we can. 1666 02:08:56.920 --> 02:09:00.800 And I have one more question if you have time. Okay, we have 1667 02:09:00.960 --> 02:09:05.560 a tiny little bed to be It's like on the west side of our driveway, 1668 02:09:05.399 --> 02:09:09.279 so it doesn't get any shade. It gets full sun all the time, 1669 02:09:09.319 --> 02:09:13.600 and we have just a little green bush we like to plant something beside 1670 02:09:13.640 --> 02:09:18.640 it. I'd say the bed is about four by like five feet, and 1671 02:09:18.279 --> 02:09:22.680 I mean it does get the full sun and so you know, our daughter, 1672 02:09:22.760 --> 02:09:26.680 our little one, she loves daisies. Like I thought about planting daisies 1673 02:09:26.039 --> 02:09:31.239 or I don't know, but it needs to be something that can really handle 1674 02:09:31.359 --> 02:09:35.239 full sun. And I know you talked about this salvia, but we have 1675 02:09:35.760 --> 02:09:41.560 mainly orange and yellow flowers in our yard. That's kind of the color scheme 1676 02:09:41.600 --> 02:09:45.800 we like to stick with. Is there anything you recommend orange and yellow? 1677 02:09:46.319 --> 02:09:50.319 There is a little zenia with tiny flowers that look daisy like they're white. 1678 02:09:50.479 --> 02:09:56.880 They also have an orange and a yellowish gold form and it's called narrow leaf 1679 02:09:58.239 --> 02:10:03.000 zenia. It spreads more like a little lava flow. It's not like regular 1680 02:10:03.119 --> 02:10:07.439 zinias that come up as cut flowers. This one will stay probably no more 1681 02:10:07.520 --> 02:10:13.119 than probably a ten inches or so high, and it just sort of flops 1682 02:10:13.159 --> 02:10:18.680 out, but it's constantly in bloom with these little yellow flowers that are little, 1683 02:10:18.840 --> 02:10:20.960 maybe about the size of a quarter, but there's a lot of them 1684 02:10:22.000 --> 02:10:24.079 and it makes a real pretty mass and you can get those colors that are 1685 02:10:24.119 --> 02:10:30.880 in your scheme. Ooh, that sounds very pretty, Okay, narrowly zinnias 1686 02:10:31.239 --> 02:10:35.560 zen and so that would be that would be one option. Let's see full 1687 02:10:35.600 --> 02:10:39.079 sun marigoles can take hot weather. The spider mices get on them pretty good. 1688 02:10:39.119 --> 02:10:45.119 But marigols are another one that's gonna have the yellow and orange coloring that 1689 02:10:45.239 --> 02:10:48.760 you can choose from, so there's some very dwarf type. You want something 1690 02:10:48.840 --> 02:10:52.840 to stay small enough to fit the setting, so that would be enough for 1691 02:10:52.920 --> 02:10:56.399 you. Just have to watch for the spider mics. That's the problem with 1692 02:10:56.520 --> 02:11:00.920 marigols in the summer. Gotcha. Okay, Well, thank you so much. 1693 02:11:01.000 --> 02:11:05.199 Skip. Like I said, we love your show and keep doing it. 1694 02:11:05.560 --> 02:11:07.800 Thank you. Appreciate that, appreciate the call. I've got to put 1695 02:11:07.840 --> 02:11:11.359 you on hold, Tiffany, and my producer's gonna pick up and give you 1696 02:11:11.439 --> 02:11:16.159 my email so that you can send me those photos. Yeah. I want 1697 02:11:16.199 --> 02:11:20.560 to just a couple of comments here, Charlie. You're gonna be the first 1698 02:11:20.680 --> 02:11:24.720 up after the break here. I don't have enough time to give your question 1699 02:11:24.880 --> 02:11:31.920 adequate time. Aphids and ants have a mutually beneficial relationship. The ants will 1700 02:11:33.039 --> 02:11:37.000 literally carry aphids up onto a plant and set them down, and then they 1701 02:11:37.119 --> 02:11:41.960 come back to them and in some cases the answer like dairy farmers, they 1702 02:11:43.079 --> 02:11:46.520 put the aphids there. The aphids are sucking juices. They're getting that sugary 1703 02:11:46.560 --> 02:11:50.800 stuff. The answer taking their antenna and making the aphid produce a little drop 1704 02:11:50.880 --> 02:11:54.399 of sweet stuff and then feeding on that stuff. Kind of cool. So 1705 02:11:54.520 --> 02:11:58.680 that's why we call them dairy farmers. Now. Also, when things come 1706 02:11:58.760 --> 02:12:01.560 to eat the aphids, the ants will defend them. So it's kind of 1707 02:12:01.680 --> 02:12:05.039 like, you know, the ant comes in and it says, hey, 1708 02:12:05.199 --> 02:12:07.359 uh, what are you going to give me? And uh, in exchange 1709 02:12:07.439 --> 02:12:11.720 for that, I'll give you some protection. So in that sense, the 1710 02:12:11.760 --> 02:12:15.760 answer like the mafia, So you choose it. Dairy farmers are the mafia 1711 02:12:16.319 --> 02:12:20.600 answer putting aphids on plants in many cases, and they're also there for other 1712 02:12:20.720 --> 02:12:26.560 types of honeydew and whatnot. Scale can produce honeydew our sugary substances. You 1713 02:12:26.600 --> 02:12:31.079 know, white flies can. Uh there's meatie bugs another one that can do 1714 02:12:31.199 --> 02:12:33.279 that. But there you go. That's the story of the ants. They're 1715 02:12:33.319 --> 02:12:37.039 either mafia or dairy farmers, or maybe a little bit of both. It's 1716 02:12:37.119 --> 02:12:41.279 time for a break for the news our number seven one three two two kt 1717 02:12:41.520 --> 02:12:45.239 r H. Charlie your first step when we come back. All right, 1718 02:12:45.439 --> 02:12:48.199 welcome back to Guardline. Good to have you with us today. We are 1719 02:12:48.319 --> 02:12:52.399 going to head straight out to the phones and talk to Charlie and Lake Jackson. 1720 02:12:52.479 --> 02:12:58.520 Hey Charlie, Hey Skip, thank you for taking my call. I 1721 02:12:58.680 --> 02:13:01.800 was gonna say, according to my wife, all bugs have black hats, 1722 02:13:03.800 --> 02:13:09.760 and I got a problem with squatters and for Wes right, Yeah, I 1723 02:13:09.880 --> 02:13:13.079 used to I used to joke about the U in my house. If it 1724 02:13:13.159 --> 02:13:16.479 had six legs, it was an instant death sentence. You know, the 1725 02:13:16.560 --> 02:13:20.680 court case starts. The first point is it has six legs, A galvel 1726 02:13:20.760 --> 02:13:24.720 comes down and it goes to the chair. That's that's how spiders are in 1727 02:13:24.840 --> 02:13:31.199 my house when I had kids around. So my question is generally I live 1728 02:13:31.239 --> 02:13:35.960 in Lake Jackson, Texas, and so as you can imagine that we're next 1729 02:13:35.039 --> 02:13:41.680 to the town that's capital of the world. Is that clue? But you're 1730 02:13:41.680 --> 02:13:48.479 talking about so well as I used that cutter back guard, the other guard, 1731 02:13:50.520 --> 02:13:54.399 one of those products that spray broadcat of the guard, and it's it's 1732 02:13:54.439 --> 02:13:58.479 fairly effective. But when I get close to my house and stuff, I 1733 02:13:58.560 --> 02:14:07.800 generally like to at that way. My question is that in order to get 1734 02:14:07.880 --> 02:14:11.760 some other bugs and the face of time and everything, h is it okay? 1735 02:14:11.920 --> 02:14:18.199 Or is it effective? Just waste my time when I add balance, 1736 02:14:18.319 --> 02:14:26.520 prayer and then also the uh, the the big those three ingredients together, 1737 02:14:26.199 --> 02:14:30.880 then add the water and then spray. So I'm trying to hit all the 1738 02:14:30.960 --> 02:14:35.520 bugs, you know that I'm having it with. I've had some success, 1739 02:14:35.600 --> 02:14:41.520 of course on the webworms. But I'm I'm wondering if you have that. 1740 02:14:41.800 --> 02:14:46.680 Okay, when you were saying the names and of the mix, uh you 1741 02:14:46.840 --> 02:14:50.920 cut out I heard cutter, I think, And but the other two the 1742 02:14:52.039 --> 02:14:58.439 other one is permethium, is that, uh right? And then the other 1743 02:14:58.479 --> 02:15:05.640 one is mauth ion Okay, And do you know what the ingredient is in 1744 02:15:05.760 --> 02:15:09.640 the cutter. It's probably a synthetic perithroid. I believe you're exactly right. 1745 02:15:09.760 --> 02:15:15.840 Yeah, well number one, I don't think you'd need to mix synthetic Perrethroids 1746 02:15:15.880 --> 02:15:18.720 are all pretty good at killing insects. Of course, each product may have 1747 02:15:18.880 --> 02:15:26.000 certain things that it controls. The problem with mixing is the potential for incompatibility. 1748 02:15:26.079 --> 02:15:31.000 And what happens is when you mix two things that are not compatible, 1749 02:15:31.640 --> 02:15:35.199 they things can change, they can separate out, and so like if you 1750 02:15:35.319 --> 02:15:41.720 did dormond oil with a liquid insecticide and water, it would separate out or 1751 02:15:41.720 --> 02:15:46.319 will separate from water. So the first half of your spraying, you know, 1752 02:15:46.439 --> 02:15:48.520 you're applying one thing, and then the second half you're only applying the 1753 02:15:48.640 --> 02:15:54.399 second. Another thing that happens is that they start to clump and or drop 1754 02:15:54.520 --> 02:15:58.119 out, precipitate out, like if you shook up some muddy water and then 1755 02:15:58.560 --> 02:16:03.760 settled out of it would be the silty mud if it's sat there for a 1756 02:16:03.840 --> 02:16:07.600 minute. That happens with incompatibility, or it can happen. You can put 1757 02:16:07.640 --> 02:16:11.800 them in a little jar and mix them all up and shake it up and 1758 02:16:11.920 --> 02:16:16.560 then watch and see. You just want to make sure that pressure can build 1759 02:16:16.640 --> 02:16:20.720 up. He can build up with incompatibility. You know, I think for 1760 02:16:20.840 --> 02:16:24.520 a home garden situation, Charlie, I would just spray separately. But my 1761 02:16:24.760 --> 02:16:30.239 first thought when I heard those chemicals is they're pretty much all going to do 1762 02:16:30.319 --> 02:16:33.600 the same thing. So depending on what you're going after specifically, I don't 1763 02:16:33.639 --> 02:16:39.079 know that you need to mix very good. Well, then he answered my 1764 02:16:39.200 --> 02:16:43.239 question. I really apprestated. All right, I love your show, Thanks, 1765 02:16:43.280 --> 02:16:46.000 sir, appreciate that very much. I do appreciate that. You know, 1766 02:16:46.040 --> 02:16:50.600 we're talking about all these different products and things. If you're looking for 1767 02:16:50.680 --> 02:16:54.399 a place that has everything along those lines. That is Southwest Fertilizer at the 1768 02:16:54.440 --> 02:17:00.360 corner of Businett and Renwick in southwest Houston. Southwest Fertilizer has been around since 1769 02:17:00.399 --> 02:17:07.399 the fifties and there's not a product that I mentioned, whether it's a herbicide 1770 02:17:07.520 --> 02:17:11.799 or insecticide, or whether it's a fertilizer that Bob doesn't have it. Southwest 1771 02:17:11.799 --> 02:17:13.639 Fertilizer they do. And when you walk in there, you're going to be 1772 02:17:13.719 --> 02:17:20.559 stunned at just how much stuff they have. Probably one of the biggest lines 1773 02:17:20.600 --> 02:17:24.760 of organic products anywhere in town. When it comes to synthetics, biggest lines 1774 02:17:24.879 --> 02:17:28.159 in town. You make the choice, They're going to have it there. 1775 02:17:28.840 --> 02:17:33.120 They have tools, they have so many other things we're talking earlier about. 1776 02:17:33.239 --> 02:17:35.520 I said, I got a fertilizer spread or a push behind one. They 1777 02:17:35.559 --> 02:17:39.120 also have the kind you walk behind and turn the knob. I mean, 1778 02:17:39.280 --> 02:17:43.120 if you don't find it as Southwest Fertilizer, you don't need it because they 1779 02:17:43.280 --> 02:17:48.520 carry so many things. Again, on the corner of Bissinet and Runwick in 1780 02:17:48.639 --> 02:17:54.760 Southwest Houston, and here's the website Southwest Fertilizer dot com. Southwest Fertilizer dot 1781 02:17:54.840 --> 02:18:01.440 com. We are going to go now to the West time and doctor Glinda. 1782 02:18:01.559 --> 02:18:07.159 Hello Glinda, Hi, good morning. I am just about to work 1783 02:18:07.200 --> 02:18:09.719 in my yard and I was listening to the show and I thought, gosh, 1784 02:18:09.799 --> 02:18:13.840 I just need to call and find out. I have a horrible problem 1785 02:18:13.840 --> 02:18:18.399 of weeds. I'm sure that's not unique to just me, but it just 1786 02:18:18.440 --> 02:18:22.440 seems like it's just awful. I weed, I weed, I weed, 1787 02:18:22.520 --> 02:18:24.879 I weed. I can't get rid of them. And the two big things, 1788 02:18:24.959 --> 02:18:28.559 of course, nutgrass. I think everybody has that, and I haven't 1789 02:18:28.600 --> 02:18:31.799 found anything that really kills nutgrass. And then I had this other weed that 1790 02:18:33.760 --> 02:18:39.879 is the best I can describe it as like a wild wandering jew with a 1791 02:18:39.000 --> 02:18:43.319 really pretty purple flower. I don't know what it is, but you know, 1792 02:18:43.399 --> 02:18:45.760 you really have to dig the roots out to get rid of that. 1793 02:18:46.639 --> 02:18:52.959 And I'm about to put in some great bed mix that I got from Cowboy, 1794 02:18:52.239 --> 02:18:56.120 and I thought, well, you know, maybe I should just call 1795 02:18:56.159 --> 02:19:01.079 and see if there's something some some know, chemical or granule that I can 1796 02:19:01.159 --> 02:19:05.920 put in into this dirt or into the bed. Now before it put the 1797 02:19:05.959 --> 02:19:07.200 dirt in, what do you think? All right? I just think I'm 1798 02:19:07.239 --> 02:19:11.360 doing all this work and paying all this money for this new dirt and mulch, 1799 02:19:11.479 --> 02:19:18.159 and I get it. And so the wondering jew type plant that you're 1800 02:19:18.159 --> 02:19:22.360 talking about is called tratiscentia and it is a common one. And it's kind 1801 02:19:22.360 --> 02:19:24.239 of in between the grasses and the broad leaves. So things that work on 1802 02:19:24.360 --> 02:19:28.319 grasses don't really work. Things that work on broad leaves don't really work. 1803 02:19:28.879 --> 02:19:31.319 It's a little bit more of a challenge to control the nuts edge. Is 1804 02:19:31.360 --> 02:19:37.399 it growing in your lawn or is it growing in a flower bed? Well, 1805 02:19:37.479 --> 02:19:41.959 I would say it could well be both, but okay, yeah, 1806 02:19:43.479 --> 02:19:46.559 not so much in the in the lawn, it's flower beds, more flower 1807 02:19:46.600 --> 02:19:50.120 beds. Yeah, that is a bit of a challenge. You've opened up 1808 02:19:50.120 --> 02:19:52.479 a can of worms here, Glenda, and I'm up against Oh do you 1809 02:19:52.680 --> 02:19:58.959 mind hanging on? So I can't do justice to an answer with zero timeline, 1810 02:20:00.159 --> 02:20:01.959 So hang on and we'll come back to kat. Okay, thanks very 1811 02:20:03.040 --> 02:20:05.879 much. Sure our phone number if you'd like to give us a call seven 1812 02:20:05.920 --> 02:20:07.760 one three two one two K t R H. I'll be right back. 1813 02:20:07.959 --> 02:20:11.879 Welcome back. Good to have you here with us on garden Line. We're 1814 02:20:11.079 --> 02:20:16.120 entering our last segment of the day, and we opened up a conversation with 1815 02:20:16.200 --> 02:20:20.040 Glinda from Westheimer before we went to break and so now we're going to jump 1816 02:20:20.120 --> 02:20:24.520 right back into the big middle of it. Well, Glinda, I want 1817 02:20:24.559 --> 02:20:28.159 to congratulate you that you have chosen some very difficult control weeds. So that's 1818 02:20:28.200 --> 02:20:35.600 off to you for that. The the one that has the purple flowers, 1819 02:20:35.719 --> 02:20:41.440 I said, was a tratiscancha spider it may be specifically more commonly called spider 1820 02:20:41.520 --> 02:20:46.120 wort. Is it like, oh, maybe foot high and knee high tall? 1821 02:20:46.319 --> 02:20:50.719 Or does it stay real low to the ground. Well, it's it's 1822 02:20:50.840 --> 02:20:54.520 very straggly, okay. You know, it can be close to the ground, 1823 02:20:54.559 --> 02:20:56.840 but it's kind of a climber too. If there's anything, you know, 1824 02:20:56.959 --> 02:21:01.120 a shrub close to it, it'll climb up, okay, but it's 1825 02:21:01.239 --> 02:21:03.360 just very straggly. All right. Well, that's probably not spider work. 1826 02:21:03.440 --> 02:21:09.360 Then that's probably something more like the wandering jew type of plant. Those are 1827 02:21:09.440 --> 02:21:18.319 difficult to control. I have seen plants in that grouping, Okay, not 1828 02:21:18.559 --> 02:21:22.319 specifically maybe the plant you have, but plants in that grouping. Celsius is 1829 02:21:22.360 --> 02:21:28.239 a herbicide that is available over the counter here in the Houston area. It 1830 02:21:28.360 --> 02:21:31.520 is not inexpensive, but it is very good for broad leaf weed control, 1831 02:21:31.760 --> 02:21:37.840 and it's listed also for controlling plants in that family. Now you have to 1832 02:21:37.920 --> 02:21:43.639 try it and see. I can't guarantee you the efficacy specifically against the one 1833 02:21:43.680 --> 02:21:46.680 you have, because we still haven't totally figured out which one you have, 1834 02:21:46.559 --> 02:21:50.639 but if you've got any weeds in the lawn, Celsius is good. One 1835 02:21:50.680 --> 02:21:52.399 other nice thing about Celsius, if you mix it up, go ahead and 1836 02:21:52.520 --> 02:21:56.159 use it is it works on broad leaf weeds, but it isn't as hard 1837 02:21:56.239 --> 02:22:01.399 on your turf. Do you have Saint Augustine any chance? Yeah, okay, 1838 02:22:01.799 --> 02:22:05.959 it's not as hard as on Saint Augustine as most other broad leaves are. 1839 02:22:05.040 --> 02:22:09.239 When the temperatures get into the mid eighties and early a low nineties, 1840 02:22:11.440 --> 02:22:15.239 a lot of these other products will really be hard on Saint Augustine. Celsius 1841 02:22:15.600 --> 02:22:18.000 is not so much. And so when you mix it up you try it 1842 02:22:18.120 --> 02:22:22.079 on this I would like to know how it works with you, and if 1843 02:22:22.120 --> 02:22:26.200 you don't mind taking a picture, show sending me a picture so I can 1844 02:22:26.280 --> 02:22:31.680 see specifically what the weed is and knowing that I have a lot of weeds 1845 02:22:31.680 --> 02:22:35.239 that come up in my place, but not everyone in the world. So 1846 02:22:35.360 --> 02:22:39.879 I haven't tried every herbicide against every weed for sure, but I would try 1847 02:22:39.959 --> 02:22:41.879 that. But I know it'll do good on the summer weeds in your lawn, 1848 02:22:41.959 --> 02:22:45.639 so I think that would be a two fer. You could give a 1849 02:22:45.719 --> 02:22:50.079 shot to the nuts. Sedge is very difficult to control, and there's a 1850 02:22:50.120 --> 02:22:56.399 product called image Image for nuts Edge. Now, like other companies, I 1851 02:22:56.440 --> 02:23:00.719 don't know why they do this, but they take a way well known name 1852 02:23:01.000 --> 02:23:05.280 and then they sell it with product with ingredients that aren't part of the well 1853 02:23:05.360 --> 02:23:11.520 known name product. So there's images that don't have the thing you need to 1854 02:23:11.600 --> 02:23:16.360 control nutsedge in it. So look for the label that says image for nuts 1855 02:23:16.399 --> 02:23:20.319 sedge that that has that as part of the name of the product. There's 1856 02:23:20.399 --> 02:23:24.479 other images, but if you take that one, follow the label carefully, 1857 02:23:24.600 --> 02:23:31.360 depending on what's growing there, there are you can have some damage from image 1858 02:23:31.399 --> 02:23:35.879 to desirable plants, so that's in your in your beds. There's a list 1859 02:23:35.120 --> 02:23:39.760 of plants that you can use image around, and then there are the lists 1860 02:23:39.840 --> 02:23:43.159 that you shouldn't use image around. But generally it just tells you what you 1861 02:23:43.280 --> 02:23:46.440 can rather than what you can't. Yeah, and it's a spray. It's 1862 02:23:46.479 --> 02:23:52.479 a spray you sprayed on the plant, wait about two days, so if 1863 02:23:52.520 --> 02:24:00.360 you can target it to the the nutsedge weeds on the foliage weed and wait 1864 02:24:00.399 --> 02:24:03.600 about two days and then water it in with about a half inch of water. 1865 02:24:03.680 --> 02:24:07.520 Because it moves in the soil and has root activity as well. That's 1866 02:24:07.559 --> 02:24:11.440 what that's the reason why. Also we worry about a certain plants using it 1867 02:24:11.559 --> 02:24:16.639 around. You can't use roundup around plants. That kills everything you the product 1868 02:24:16.000 --> 02:24:24.760 uh oh gosh, sedg gender and sedge hammer. I believe they're just labeled 1869 02:24:24.760 --> 02:24:26.159 for launch. I may be wrong about that. I need to check it. 1870 02:24:26.559 --> 02:24:30.319 I am actually working on a nut said publication I'm going to put on 1871 02:24:30.360 --> 02:24:33.159 my website. I hope to get it up by next weekend. But I've 1872 02:24:33.200 --> 02:24:37.760 been I've been doing the research on it, getting ready and working on it. 1873 02:24:37.479 --> 02:24:41.840 So hopefully that will be around. We'll be able to you know, 1874 02:24:43.760 --> 02:24:46.520 give give you a better a better answer to that than I'm giving you right 1875 02:24:46.600 --> 02:24:54.920 now. Okay, Well, wonderful I was gonna say. I was. 1876 02:24:54.000 --> 02:24:58.040 I also use something called dead we Brew. It's a bone eye problem. 1877 02:25:01.520 --> 02:25:07.639 Yeah, but you know that seems to work but again, those two particular 1878 02:25:07.719 --> 02:25:11.319 weeds just seem to be so resilient that you think it killed them. The 1879 02:25:11.399 --> 02:25:13.440 next thing you know, you see a new little green leaf poking out of 1880 02:25:13.840 --> 02:25:18.760 something you thought was so anyway, Well good, I will try those two 1881 02:25:18.959 --> 02:25:22.399 in those two items you mentioned, what did you put the dead weed brew 1882 02:25:22.559 --> 02:25:28.440 on? Well, just about everything. I mean, I know, I 1883 02:25:28.559 --> 02:25:33.920 know it's a broad leaf killer as well. So I have this other little 1884 02:25:33.000 --> 02:25:37.440 weed too that's gosh. I don't know what they're called. You know, 1885 02:25:37.799 --> 02:25:41.639 it seems like every time the wind blows, it blows in a new weed. 1886 02:25:41.440 --> 02:25:46.760 And so I just keep having different weeds. I'll look at one, 1887 02:25:46.799 --> 02:25:48.159 I'll go, wow, I didn't see you last year. Where'd you come 1888 02:25:48.239 --> 02:25:54.799 from? Yeah? Well, dead we has two naturally occurring acids in it, 1889 02:25:54.959 --> 02:25:58.360 the coprilic and capric They sound about the same, uh and uh. 1890 02:25:58.600 --> 02:26:03.239 So if it you know, if that works on something, go ahead and 1891 02:26:03.319 --> 02:26:07.159 give it a try. It's it's definitely worth a try. With the nutsedge. 1892 02:26:07.799 --> 02:26:11.040 Most of the products that are out there for nuts edge, they they 1893 02:26:11.120 --> 02:26:16.600 don't they don't have a surfactant in them, and you need to add a 1894 02:26:16.760 --> 02:26:22.440 surfactant. That's something I have learned. Yes, those those slick leaves, 1895 02:26:24.600 --> 02:26:28.479 they they don't hold the spray, and so this works. There. There 1896 02:26:28.559 --> 02:26:35.159 is a product, the one called uh sedge Hammer Plus does have a surfactant 1897 02:26:35.280 --> 02:26:39.600 already in it, so it works pretty good. But yeah, and I 1898 02:26:39.959 --> 02:26:43.639 just went and checked it. Sedge Tammer is labeled for landscape beds, so 1899 02:26:43.840 --> 02:26:48.120 that but you need to the label. Be very careful, careful with it, 1900 02:26:48.399 --> 02:26:52.959 right, Okay, okay, well that sounds wonderful. Thank you so 1901 02:26:52.159 --> 02:26:54.280 much. I appreciate your help. All right, good luck with those. 1902 02:26:54.360 --> 02:26:58.600 Thanks for the call, Thank you, sure bye bye. All right, 1903 02:26:58.760 --> 02:27:03.520 let's in the garden line and we are who we're just a well minute of 1904 02:27:03.600 --> 02:27:07.559 it. No time for calls left in this show today. Well, I 1905 02:27:07.639 --> 02:27:11.959 appreciate the fact that you listen to guard Line. I just want to tell 1906 02:27:11.959 --> 02:27:15.920 you though, when you're looking for supplies and things, Ace Hardware stores have 1907 02:27:16.040 --> 02:27:18.760 got them. You know, we're throwing these names around, you know, 1908 02:27:18.000 --> 02:27:22.399 sedge hammer and all that kind of stuff. Ace Hardware has got a wide 1909 02:27:22.479 --> 02:27:26.040 variety of products for controlling pest diseases and weeds, as well as all the 1910 02:27:26.120 --> 02:27:31.159 fertilizers I talk about on Garden Line. So when you hear me talk about 1911 02:27:31.200 --> 02:27:35.040 a product, your ACE Hardware store is probably the closest place to go to 1912 02:27:35.120 --> 02:27:39.559 get it, because there's forty stores here in the Greater Houston area. Go 1913 02:27:39.680 --> 02:27:43.520 to Acehardware dot Com find the store locator. Sometimes when you go to ACE 1914 02:27:43.559 --> 02:27:46.120 Hardware dot Com, it pops up and says can we use your location? 1915 02:27:46.360 --> 02:27:50.120 Just say yes, and it gets you right there. Ace Hardware very very 1916 02:27:50.200 --> 02:27:54.920 effective for finding everything you need in one spot, really really good for that. 1917 02:27:56.639 --> 02:27:58.440 I want to remind you that I'm going to be at a Wallbird's Unlimited 1918 02:27:58.719 --> 02:28:03.719 to weeks from yesterday. That's June fifteenth. It's a Saturday, after the 1919 02:28:03.799 --> 02:28:09.000 show. I'll be there from eleven am to one pm. From eleven am 1920 02:28:09.479 --> 02:28:11.040 to one pm, and I hope you'll come out and see me. It 1921 02:28:11.159 --> 02:28:16.799 is the Wallbirds Unlimited, specifically in bel Air. There's six of them around 1922 02:28:16.799 --> 02:28:20.680 the Greater Houston area. I'll be at the bel Air store two weeks from 1923 02:28:20.879 --> 02:28:26.920 yesterday. Bring your samples and all kinds of things out and we'll diagnose them, 1924 02:28:26.959 --> 02:28:30.600 we'll identify them, and we'll just sit there and talk and laugh and 1925 02:28:30.680 --> 02:28:33.239 have fun. How about that. That's another fun thing to do. I 1926 02:28:33.280 --> 02:28:37.799 hope you can figure out by now. I like to have fun. Appreciate 1927 02:28:37.879 --> 02:28:41.639 you guys being listeners. Don't forget we do have the podcast that is available 1928 02:28:41.719 --> 02:28:45.159 where you can listen to past shows and tell your friends about Garden Line. 1929 02:28:45.239 --> 02:28:48.680 We occasionally have callers from all over the country that like to listen in so 1930 02:28:48.959 --> 02:28:54.399 wherever your friends live, they can do the Heart Media app and listen live 1931 02:28:54.959 --> 02:28:58.840 where they can go to the KTRS website and listen to past shows there. 1932 02:29:00.360 --> 02:29:03.879 Well, I hope you have a wonderful, wonderful I just want to leave 1933 02:29:03.920 --> 02:29:09.719 you the quick quote. We can complain because roses have thorns, are rejoiced 1934 02:29:09.799 --> 02:29:11.680 because thorn bushes have roses.