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

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advertised on this program. Welcome to
Katie r H Garden Line with Skip Ricter.

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It's crazy trip. Just watch him
as well. So many good things

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got crazy? Was the club back
taking? Not a SUDDA good morning,

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Good Sunday morning. We'sh a happy
Easter all the folks out there, and

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hey, we are really really looking
forward to talking with you this morning.

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Uh, first of all, congratulations, you're an early riser, so I

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congratulate you there. Glad to have
you with us. Look outside, dark

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outside, your neighbor's lights aren't on. Go bang on the door, you

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know the routine, Tell them they're
missing garden Line. Wake come up.

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They will rise up someday and call
you blessed, but not this morning.

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They will call you something else this
morning. We're glad to have you with

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us, and we're gonna be talking
about a lot of things regarding gardening today.

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I did want to make a comment
yesterday, I think it was yesterday.

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I was talking about in Chanic Gardens
and I mentioned that they were open

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today. I said tomorrow, which
is today, and they're actually closed on

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Easter and so for them, and
for really all of your garden centers,

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I would just you know, check
their social media, check the website,

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give them a call. I make
sure that they are open today. If

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you're going to head out and do
any garden purchasing, perhaps this afternoon,

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well that would be a good thing
to do. Speaking of in Chana gardens,

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I tell you the place it just
is always fun to go to.

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What do I mean by that,
Well, I mean it's the things they

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create, from little ferry gardens to
just different kinds of scenes. I was

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looking at they're putting together some giant
hanging baskets with all kinds of beautiful plants,

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and you know, think about this. Hanging baskets can be hanging in

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the sun, but they got to
be hanging from something, so if it's

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a tree, limb or a porch, maybe they're not getting a lot of

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sun. And you can make some
really cool shade hanging baskets and they got

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all the plants you need to do
that. We make a real big one

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though, one has plenty of soil
and everything in it, and they're just

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gorgeous. They also have plants for
shade. Have you ever thought about your

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color in the shade. You know, in the shade it's darker and you

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need things that kind of are bright
that really show up. They've got a

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Collegia repens. It's a gold form
of it. It's kind of kin to

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a wandering jewtipe plant that it's just
beautiful and lights up the shade really well.

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That'd be another option for you.
And they have my favorite spring blooming

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tree, the Chinese fringe tree.
Just billows of shaggy white blooms with a

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honey like scent that is wonderful.
It's a medium size, small to medium

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sized tree, doesn't grow super fast, so you can just enjoy it for

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a long time. Not gonna take
over the whole property, but boy,

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is it ever a cool tree.
They have that there. Of course,

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they have everything there. Jenni Gardens
and Richmond. First of all, the

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website in Chennick Gardens Richmond dot com. They're on the Katie Fullsher side of

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Richmond, so if you're heading from
Richmond up toward Katie, they're on FM

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three point fifty nine and they normally
the normal business hours are Monday through Saturday

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eight to five and on Sundays not
today on other Sundays from ten am to

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four pm. So it's always a
good time to go out there. Take

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some friends with you, take family. They will love just walk in the

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place. Even non plant people,
non gardeners, will love just walking and

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seeing the beauty and all the wide
variety of things they carry out there.

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So it's a good day, always
a good day for being in enchanted gardens.

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And again, like our like we
essentially insist on with a quality nursery.

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They absolutely have trained, educated staff
that know what they're talking about and

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can guide you to the best plants, the best ways to take care of

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them. That is very important when
you are shopping at any garden center to

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have that kind of service. You're
listening to garden Line, and so how

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about a phone number, because this
is a call in show seven to one

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

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eight seven four. Give us a
call. We'll talk about the things that

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are of most interest to you.
The warm season, weeds in our lawns

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are sprouting, and it's time if
you're going to get down a preventative application,

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Now is the time to get down
your barricade, your barricade application is

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a applied watered in with a little
bit of water. That is very important

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to remember, and then it moves
into the soil surface where it forms a

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barricade and a weed seed tries to
germinate. It prevents that root development.

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The seed desiccates and dies and you
never saw the weed. The barricade took

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care of it before the weed became
a big visible weed when it tried to

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establish. The reason I say now
is the time is because you know if

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you wait until they've all sprouted,
it's a pre emergent. So get it

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on as soon as you can if
you want extended coverage. Then going out

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a couple of months into the future, sixty ninety days somewhere out there,

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you can do another application of it
to carry that prevention on in through the

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summer season. But it's important to
get that out. And you're going to

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find barricade all the places that are
going to carry our nitropross products here in

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the region shades of Texas up in
the woodlands, enchanted gardens. I was

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just talking about Don Richmond Rosenberg.
They have barricade as well. The other

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night to Fast Products, Fisher's Hardware, both the one in southeaston on South

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Moore and the one in Laporte on
Broadway Carrie the Barricade. Also, I

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was talking yesterday about putting in some
sod, which I'm doing putting in a

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lot of sod and trying a bunch
of different cultivars and a couple of species.

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I'm doing some Saint Augustine and some
Zoysia. There's always new grasses coming

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out. And when a new grass
comes out, you know, we have

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great hope for it because it's gone
through the research process. It's also probably

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gone through our Southern Turf Trials,
and that is a collaboration of LANGRA universities

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here throughout the South. We took
places like University of Georgia and so on

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all across the South in Texas,
and I'm here in Texas where they evaluate

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these in a checkerboard fashion out in
the field and they look at them.

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How do they perform, do they
get diseases? How do they fill in?

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What's the growth rate? You know, how often do you have to

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mow thing? Is it drought tolerant. There's a lot of important factors that

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are evaluated. So when a turf
variety comes out it's supposed to be a

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good one, but oftentimes over time
we learn some things about them, and

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so it's always good early on to
have people growing them out, to check

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them out, to see how they
do. You just never know, you

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know, everybody's yard is different soils, different different parts of the region,

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and so I'm doing a little bit
of that in my yard. I'm doing

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a couple of Saint Augustine's doing a
couple of zoysias, and I just think

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it's a fun thing. Personally.
For me, it is getting out and

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trying these new things, testing them
out and learning about them. If you're

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going to replace your sod, it's
good to go ahead. We're kind of

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getting into the best season really for
getting that done as things warm up.

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But we're already planting turf out there. But with every degree of warming as

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we move towards summer, that turf
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By the time we get now into
April, that's a good time for turf

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to take off running and get going, and so it's a good time to

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establish it. The demands are a
little lower, and so it's easier to

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get it established if you wait until
the heat of summer. You can plant

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turf just fine, but demands are
higher, so you're watering a little more

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often, a little more carefully.
We're going to take a little break.

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I will be back if you'd like
to give us a call, Josh,

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get you on the boards. Seven
one three two one two KTRH. Welcome

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back. Good to have you back
with garden line. If you'd like to

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be on ask a question, well, let's do that. Seven one three

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two one two k t RH.
Can you call. We'll talk about the

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things that interest you most. In
the meantime, I want to try to

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talk you into doing some containers on
your patio, containers on the front porch,

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containers anywhere you can find them.
Containers are a great way to add

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instant color and instant interest to your
landscape. You know, if you can

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you can do anything from just let's
say you want to grow some vegetables.

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I mean, if you want to
do it on the cheap, get you

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a five gallon bucket, drill some
holes in the bottom and put some good

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potting mix in there, and planted
in it, and go for it.

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If you want to really create beauty, a beautiful glazed pot is stunning.

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Always get a little bit bigger pot
than you think. That's a good way

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to put it. If you watch
I watch occasionally garden shows and they're typically

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you know, from some other part
of the country, east coast or midwest

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or west coast, and I see
these containers that are too small for Texas.

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That's just too small for Texas,
that's the thing. Well, and

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what is that? Why would that
be? Well, here, it's hot.

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It's hot during the day. It's
even hot at night really comparatively to

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what a night should be for a
plant. And it takes a lot of

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water to supply that plant. So
if you put a plant in a smaller

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than it needs pot in Texas,
you're going to be water in it twice

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a day, maybe just trying to
keep it from going into stress. Maybe

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if it's too small more than that. But if you make a larger pot,

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that's more volume of soil, and
with a larger volume of soil,

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then it can it has a bank
account of soil and nutrients could draw from.

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So always bump the pot size up
a little bit. Can you grow

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up a tomato and a five gallon
bucket? Yes, but should you know

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you should have a ten gallon bucket, unless it's just a little tiny dwarf

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tomato. If you are growing flowers
and things, that's the same. Another

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thing a larger pot does is it
shows up more in the landscape because you

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can do a combination planting. You
can have something spilling over the sides of

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flowers, you can have something that
fills in as kind of the base width

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of the of the planter, and
then you can have something upright that is

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it just really shows off. And
they call that thriller, filler and spiller

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from the top down, thriller filler, spiller, and so an upright could

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be something like a burgundy colored ornamental
grass, or it could be a lot

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of things. And you don't have
to use that formula. But when you

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get a larger container and you put
a lot of things together in it,

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it's just beautiful. It's just it
just is. That's how that works,

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and I would encourage you to do
that and always make sure that container has

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drainage and secondly it has good quality
soil nitrophiles. They distribute something called jungle

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land. A jungle land has an
indoor version and an outdoor version. The

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outdoor version, which is what I'm
talking about right now. It is called

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jungle Land Flour and Vegetable and it
just absolutely does really well with our plants

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for a couple of reasons. It
holds moisture, but it drains the excess

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moisture. It's got microizal fungi,
it's got four sources of aged organic matter

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including also Canadian blonde pete, and
it just is going to be that foundation,

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the brown stuff that helps the plants
to thrive. And a good quality

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product like that. And you're going
to find, you know, when we

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talk about you, where do you
buy these things? Where do you get

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them? Well? With jungle Land, you can get them a number of

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places. You can get them at
ace and sickle ramps for example out there

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in Katie. You can get jungle
Land over in a task Asida at a

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task Asida Ace and you can go
down to Jim's Hardware Montgomery and they have

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it as well there. But a
quality mix like jungle Land and the container.

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Make sure you put plants in a
grouping that want to be together.

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So is it a shady spot,
is it a sunny spot? Well,

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don't you know, don't put a
plant in each sun in a shady container

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mix them together like that. Make
sure that you use plants that have variation

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in them. So for example,
the fine lines, the vertical linear lines

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of a grass compared to a big
broad leaf like a kalladium, for example,

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would be an example of that.
And that's variation and it just looks

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interesting. If you want to get
into color combinations and stand within a color

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family way, you can do that
if you want, but it's up to

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you at your house your content.
I like containers also because you can move

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them to a shady spot around behind
the barn if you will. When they're

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not looking good, you can kind
of replant them and get them going again

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and then move them back or if
you want to go through that. It's

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just easy to have fast, nice
color. And when you buy a quality

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container, it's going to last for
a long long time. And I think

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more people should plant more things than
containers, including vegetable gardens and herb gardens.

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And by the way, there's nothing
wrong with mixing some vegetables and some

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herbs together and a container. How
about a regano spilling over the sides or

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a time spilling over the side.
You get the idea. We listen to

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the garden Line our phone number seven
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four. You know, our soils
here and along the Gulf Coast, they

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typically are a heavy clay. Now
we have everything from sand to heavy clay.

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But when you're in a clay soil, there's a lot of shrinking and

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swelling as it gets dry and gets
wet. You've seen places where you walk

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in the backyard in the summer and
it's dry and the cracks are so large

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you could lose your little fufuu dog
down in the crack in the backyard.

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Well, that's because the soil has
shrunk and then it rains and suddenly those

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cracks are pressed together. And what
does this do well, it tears up

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sidewalks, it tears up driveways,
and it also has its effect on foundations

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for our slabs. Ty Strickland has
a company called Fix My Slab Foundation Repair

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and he's been doing this for twenty
three years. He knows what he's doing.

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One of the things I like best
about tie and Fix my Slab.

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And I've said I'm visited with them
and his wife and it just they're good

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folks. He's committed to making sure
he's on time. He tells you he's

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going to be there. He's there. He's committed to giving you a fair

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price, not just throwing some big
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the work you need done and giving
you a fair price. And then he's

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committed to getting it fixed right.
It doesn't have to get redone when Ty

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gets through with the job. Now, tell them you're a Guardenline listener.

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They get free estimates for garden Line
listeners. But how do you know you

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may have a foundation problem? Well, doors are sticking, perhaps, cracks

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in the brick on the outside,
cracks in the sheet rock on the inside.

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Those are all signs that something's moving. And I'll tell you, if

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you've got a house that's been around
for I don't know, twenty years or

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so, you pretty much have got
a foundation that has moved enough to potentially

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have some some things that need taking
a good look at. That's just the

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way it works. Fixmislab dot com
is his website. The phone number two

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eight one two FI five forty nine
forty nine two eight one two five forty

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nine forty nine. All right,
Uh, you're listening to Gardenline. We're

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going to be talking gardening all morning, So I hope you will all morning

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until ten am, how about that? But when you start at six,

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it feels like all morning. Glad
you're with us today. By the way,

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those of you out in Seabrook are
really fortunate. You've got Moss Nursery

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out there, And if you haven't
been, I don't know, you must

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be living under a rock, because
everybody in that region knows Moss Nursery.

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Moss is a place where you never
know what they're going to get in next,

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and they have one of everything.
I would recommend if you're thinking about

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going to a park one day,
don't go to the park. Go to

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Moss Nursery and walk through their eight
acres of plants and containers. I mean,

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you know, go through the vegetables
and herb section, go through the

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immense flower selection and hanging baskets selection. Go through the greenhouse. The greenhouse

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is amazing. They have house plants, including succulents, including things like cacti

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to they always getting something new in
shipment after shipment after shipment. The trucks

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are just unloading and unloading. I
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out there because they must feel like
that they're actually the ones working at the

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dock unloading the cargo ships just around
the core there. Because they get so

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many cool plans out there. People
love it. They Moss hires gardeners.

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I've talked to a couple of master
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there. Uh, they are people
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and that love what they do too, and that's that's also important. They're

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on Toddfield Road in Seabrook. The
website is Moss Nursery with there's two a's

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m aas nursery dot com. The
phone number two eight one seven or two

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four seven four twenty four eighty eight. Let me try that one again two

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eight one four seven four twenty four
eighty eight. Moss is not just another

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garden center. You need to go
check it out. Even if you love

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across town, you ought to go
just check it out. It is one

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of the cool places that I love
to go, that's for sure. Well,

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you're you are listening to Guardline our
phone number seven one three two one

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

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If you haven't fertilized your lawn yet
this spring, then I would say it's

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time to just go ahead and start
with your slow release fertilizers because it's warming

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and up enough now to where we
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start that process. And Nitroposs has
one called Superturf that is the silver bag

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that makes it easy you walk into
a garden center, which is Superturf.

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It's the silver bag nineteen four ten, nineteen fourteen. It's got fifty percent

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of the nitrogen is in a slow
release form, so it's going to feed

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your grass for a couple of months
or more out there. It also has

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iron a four percent iron. I
was talking to somebody the other day that

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had some light light green in the
grass and kind of a yellowing and I

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just said, well, it's probably
an iron deficiency. And we were standing

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right in front of some superturf,
and I said, this one right or

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got it in it? That is
important if you don't know if you have

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iron deficiency. By the way,
just pick a grass blade a yellowing plate,

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lift it up and look at it
to the sky and if you see

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streaks of green and yellow, like
vertical lines of green and yellow, that

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is a sign of our deficiency in
the plant. It means you need to

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add a little bit more often.
That gets better itself. As a soul

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warms up, mycrobial activity kicks in
even faster. But a product like Superturf

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will help you in terms of dealing
with that. Where do you get super

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turf, Well, you can get
it at Kingwood, at the Ace Hardware

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Store. You can get it up
at the arbor Gate in Tomboil. You

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get in shades of green done in
South Texas, Genoa, Red Bluff Road,

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easy to find, easy to find. Now, if you did a

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early green up like we talk about, well, then you don't need to

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do superturf right away. Given about
a month. You can give it more

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than a month, six weeks and
then do your start your summer fertilization regimen.

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But it is time to start transitioning
over to those slow releases, and

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that is why we're talking about it
this morning. Well, I tell you

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what. Well, first of all, I'm gonna I had a great time

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out at Ciana Maltch Estordy. Thank
you folks at Santa Moltch. We had

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a bunch of us out there.
We took we give it away a lot

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of products as a result of people
coming by out there. It's a lot

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of low form and getting getting contacted
like you're a winner. Next Saturday,

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I'm going to be at M and
D Ace Hardware out at clear Lake.

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M and D Supply, which is
an Ace hardware out in clear Lake.

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I'm going to tell you a little
bit more about that as we go forward.

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Time for a break. We're turning
it over to Nikki for the news.

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Welcome head and go line. Glad
to have you with us this morning

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on a what's gonna be a nice
Easter day. I wish everybody happy Easter.

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It's out there, it is it
about to be celebrating today. There's

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a lot of egg hunting going on
this weekend, I believe judging from everything

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I'm seeing going on everywhere. Uh, you know, the the keys in

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our gardening that we need to remember
are to give the plant the simple things

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that it wants. And I'm really
boiling this down to just ABC here,

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but oftentimes we forget the ABC's of
taking care of plants. And plants need

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good soil that can hold water but
drain, and that has good nutrient content

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that's balanced out. There's a little
of everything in it. In other words,

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not just excess of one thing and
almost none of another. So good

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soil. That's the first. Plants
need sunlight. Now, some can grow

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in shade, but the deeper the
shade gets, the smaller our plant palate

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becomes to choose from sunlight shines on
the leaves, and the leaves make carbohydrates,

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which fuels everything it makes for growth. It helps with health. The

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plant's ability to fend off things and
everything else is fueled by the energy that

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comes from the sun that goes into
the plant and the plant to turn it

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into plant food. And so as
the light goes down, you're going to

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have less blooming with most plants.
You're going to have less fruiting, for

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sure, with a lot of our
fruiting plants. And so sunlight is very

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critical. So good soil and good
sunlight, those are just really basic things.

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And then finally, plants need to
have adequate water. Adequate water supply

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so that they can hydrate themselves.
Very few plants grow in a swamp.

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Very few plants want to grow in
the desert. At least looking around your

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landscape, very few of those plants
your landscape and gardens can grow in a

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desert, so you need moisture for
them, but you need it not to

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be too much, and it's not
too When I say it needs to,

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it's not too much. It's not
that there's a lot of water that's killing

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them. It's that the water is
driving oxygen out of the soil and in

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a submerg It's like us, can
you breathe underwater? Of course not?

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Do you know? Plants? Roots
do the equivalent of breathing. It's called

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respiration, and they have to have
oxygen in order to do what they do.

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So that's why when you water log
them you have problems. People think

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that water drowns plants. Well,
I guess it does, but it's really

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not the excess of water. It's
the lack of oxygen that they can get

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to. So soil, sun and
water, that's the base. If you

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get those three right, you can
grow a lot of things. Now you

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need to know your plant, so
you know what kind of soil, how

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much sun, and how much water
it needs. But those are the three

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big ones. Nature's way Resources is
set up to provide you with the soil

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part. The brown stuff that I
keep saying is the most important, comes

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before the green stuff. Nature's Way
Resources has been making quality composts for a

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long time. They have bed mixes
like rose soil. They have the fungal

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composts. It's by what Every Friday, by the way, is Fungal Friday.

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Put that on your calendar. You're
gonna get a ten percent discount off

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bag products and twenty percent off bulk
that they deliver for you. Bolk deliveries

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twenty percent off. They also have
the leaf mold compost. Now is an

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important time to get out there and
get the lawn covered with a thin layer,

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very thin layer of leaf mold compost. If you can do the correoration

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with it, that's even better.
But Nature's waighs a provider of all those

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quality products, and that is part
of that first of the ABC's of plant

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success, getting the soil right.
So start off with soil that the plants

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are going to thrive in. A
Nature's Way Resource is easy to reach them.

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Here's the phone number nine three six
three two one sixty nine ninety.

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We're going to go now out to
spring Break, Spring Branch and talk to

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Mary. Hello, Mary, Oh, Yes, I lik a a oh

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partment here Spring Branch, and my
window face is west so I get the

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afternoon sun, and I've been thinking
about growing herbs, and i just wanted

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to know what is the best potting
soil to grow herbs inside, and where

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in my area would be a good
place for me to buy the herbs.

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Okay, so, a good quality
potting soil would be the jungle n indoor

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potting soil. The jungle indoor has
little crystals in it, and our potting

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soils are almost all organic matter.
You know, it could be coconut core,

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pete, moss, compost. Those
kinds of things are what makes up

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most potting soil. But the crystals, after that potting soil starts to dry

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out, they hold onto the water
a little more and the roots can continue

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to get some moisture if you forget
to water the potting mix. And so

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that that is a good a good
way, a good place to start with

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the jungle end. You don't find
it in a lot of places. You

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know, You've got to knownumber of
ace hardware stores that are close to you.

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They're going to carry it in the
spring, you said, spring or

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spring branch, spring spring branch,
okay, spring branch, Yeah, they're

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going to carry that for you as
far as plants, you're not too terribly

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far away from two forty nine.
You go up to forty nine, you've

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got plants for all seasons pretty close
to where you're located right there, So

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that would be a place where you
could get some herbs. I don't know,

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is there a trying to think of
what else? Depends on exactly where

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where exactly you're located in the Spring
Branch Well region? Yeah, okay,

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I am in the and the Ande
and two ninety area. Okay, yeah,

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I would probably just if you're looking
for some real close, i'd probably

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just run up to plants for all
seasons there, and also I also to

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get to plants for all seasons you're
gonna if you would just stop at belt

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Way eight, that's our CW Nursery
and they've got a good selection as well

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of herbs that you want to What
was the name of the last place,

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h R c W R c W
Nursery. When you're going on the overpasses

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there with Bella eight and Highway two
forty nine, tom Ball Parkway, it

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is just right down there. Just
hunt them down on a map and your

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little phone directions and whatever will take
you right to it. Okay, okay,

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well thanks, thanks very much,
and I want you know I'm a

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very old woman. I am eighty
oh wow, and I've been listening to

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garden Line for the last twenty years
and you are excellent replacement for dear Randy.

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Well, that's kind of you.
I appreciate you saying that. Yeah,

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you know, Thomas Jefferson said,
although I am an old man,

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I'm a young gardener. I like
that. Yes, it was many,

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many years ago that I read that, and when I was a young woman,

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about thirty years ago, I went
to Monticello. Oh boy, it

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is a fabulous place and I highly
recommend everyone take that trip there, and

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I do as well. Mary.
Thank you so much for the kind words,

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and I hope we got you off
to a good start there. Yeah,

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enjoy that indoor gardening. And good
for you continuing to go after the

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gardening, because I think gardening keeps
you young. I just do. Thanks

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a lot morey. You know,
I mentioned plants for all seasons. They

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are kind of a people in that
whole region. They know plants for all

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seasons. They've been going there,
they know it. But they're the kind

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of place where you go and you
know, you're going to get it right.

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And what do I mean by that, Well, you're going to get

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the plants that you want that will
grow here and do well here. And

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I don't care if it's tomatoes or
peppers or flowering bedding plants or shrubs or

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tree I mean the whole nine yards. Herbs. Oh gosh, they have

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a great herb selection that Mary would
enjoy, I know. But they also

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have the staff that knows what they're
talking about. And listen, that is

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so important. When you go and
just find the cheapest plant you can find

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anywhere, I'm telling you, it's
going to go wrong for you. And

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here's why it may not be a
plant that does well here. A lot

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of places don't take care of their
plants. The plants just are not cared

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for and they're stressed and they're not
going to do as well. And then

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places sell plants they shouldn't sell.
And you know, I could sit here

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and give the dirty dozen list of
the places like that, But the bottom

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line is I walk into a lot
of spots that aren't really in the business

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of growing plants. They're in the
business of other things. And when you

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go in there, you look and
you go that it doesn't even grow here

407
00:30:00.119 --> 00:30:03.680
in this region. You know,
like some black raspberries, you don't grow

408
00:30:03.720 --> 00:30:07.920
those in Houston. I mean,
don't call me and say you grew one

409
00:30:07.960 --> 00:30:11.079
one time. I'm just telling you
that they don't do well here. Well.

410
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Plants for All Seasons they check all
the right boxes there. They're on

411
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just north of Luetta on two forty
nine Tombo Parkway two eight one three seven

412
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six sixteen forty six, or go
to their website Plants for All Seasons dot

413
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com. We're going to take a
break, phone number seven one three two

414
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one two KTRH. Welcome back to
garden Line today. We're glad to have

415
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you with us. I hope that
you are going to enjoy today. So

416
00:30:40.759 --> 00:30:45.960
certainly it's our Easter Sunday today,
a big, big important holiday there for

417
00:30:45.240 --> 00:30:51.359
a lot of folks, and it
also is going to be a wonderful afternoon

418
00:30:51.599 --> 00:30:53.960
to be out and about taking care
of things. I'm going to go straight

419
00:30:55.119 --> 00:30:59.880
to the phones. We're going to
talk to Betty in Shenandoah. Hello Betty,

420
00:31:00.200 --> 00:31:04.680
good morning and happy Easter and to
you as well. I have a

421
00:31:04.759 --> 00:31:11.920
question. I have been trying to
find Genesis fertilizer and I cannot find it

422
00:31:11.119 --> 00:31:18.359
at all my favorite spots Arburgate all
seasons. I'm just wondering if you might

423
00:31:18.400 --> 00:31:22.759
know where I could find it.
You tried to Arbrogate implants for all seasons.

424
00:31:22.880 --> 00:31:30.720
Both tell you what if anybody from
Nelson's is listening, if you would

425
00:31:32.119 --> 00:31:36.279
text Ror let me know, I'll
report that back to you later. Betty,

426
00:31:36.359 --> 00:31:38.880
I do not have an availability list
of all the places that are carrying

427
00:31:38.880 --> 00:31:44.799
that specific product. I'm a little
surprised plans for All season didn't have it,

428
00:31:45.240 --> 00:31:48.680
But anyway, they may be able
to get it for you too if

429
00:31:48.720 --> 00:31:52.480
they. Okay, well, I
think I think it was It was on

430
00:31:52.519 --> 00:31:55.400
a gardening show. I don't know
if it was yours or not, and

431
00:31:55.400 --> 00:31:59.279
they said they had amazing results with
their tomatoes, and so I thought,

432
00:31:59.319 --> 00:32:00.720
well, I'm going to give to
try. That was a show. Yeah,

433
00:32:00.759 --> 00:32:07.200
absolutely, So your way up toward
Conroe Way, you might try.

434
00:32:07.480 --> 00:32:12.319
There's some Ace hardware stores kind of
up your direction. There's one. Yeah,

435
00:32:12.359 --> 00:32:15.400
I tried my local one. Yeah, they did not have all.

436
00:32:15.480 --> 00:32:16.720
Right, Well, I need to
find out. That's a good question.

437
00:32:17.400 --> 00:32:20.759
But you do need to get a
hold of some of that. And so

438
00:32:20.799 --> 00:32:22.880
we're going to find it one way
or another. Just keep listening, Okay,

439
00:32:23.480 --> 00:32:25.680
I'll let you know. Okay,
have a good day, all right,

440
00:32:25.920 --> 00:32:30.119
bye bye bye, Thank you very
much for those of you here going.

441
00:32:30.200 --> 00:32:37.079
Okay, what are we talking about? Genesis Genesis is it's actually neutral

442
00:32:37.160 --> 00:32:40.880
Star Genesis. It's it's one of
Nelson Plant Foods products and it's a fertilizer

443
00:32:40.960 --> 00:32:45.960
designed to aid in the process of
a plant being relocated into a new place.

444
00:32:46.079 --> 00:32:51.359
It stimulates the plant in a number
of ways. Number one, it's

445
00:32:51.559 --> 00:32:53.920
it's an organic type fertilizer. It's
a six to one to three mix.

446
00:32:54.319 --> 00:33:00.319
It has beneficial bacteria and it's got
both the both of the types of funge

447
00:33:00.319 --> 00:33:04.599
that helped the plant take up nutrients
and protect the plant roots too. They're

448
00:33:04.599 --> 00:33:09.240
called indo and ectomcoriza if you like
big words. But it also has humates

449
00:33:09.359 --> 00:33:14.640
that would help which help condition the
soil, and it just enhances the biology

450
00:33:14.640 --> 00:33:17.119
of the soil and in general you
have good success with it. I had

451
00:33:17.160 --> 00:33:21.400
great success doing some peppers this year
with it when I tested it out.

452
00:33:21.880 --> 00:33:24.160
I had a collar the other day
that has raved about it for their tomatoes

453
00:33:24.160 --> 00:33:28.839
and other things. And it's a
it's a good mix comes in little jars,

454
00:33:29.079 --> 00:33:31.440
like a lot of those kinds of
plant foods do. But it works

455
00:33:31.440 --> 00:33:36.920
really well, and we're going to
find out some of the source are the

456
00:33:37.160 --> 00:33:38.960
locations where you can pick that up. I know a lot of you are

457
00:33:39.000 --> 00:33:45.319
buying it out there. Maybe anybody
up kind of north central knows where they

458
00:33:45.400 --> 00:33:47.839
got it. Call in let us
know, we'll see if we can help

459
00:33:47.880 --> 00:33:52.839
Betty out a little bit more on
that. You're listening to guarden Line.

460
00:33:52.880 --> 00:33:58.680
Our phone number is seven to one
three two one two ktr H seven one

461
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three two one two KTRH. I
was talking to Jason's Jason at Pierscapes a

462
00:34:06.240 --> 00:34:08.440
couple of days ago, and we
were just talking about, you know,

463
00:34:08.519 --> 00:34:13.480
this spraying, how different this year
is than last year, and you know,

464
00:34:13.679 --> 00:34:17.280
all the things that have to do
with the green industry and the weather

465
00:34:17.679 --> 00:34:24.360
and whatnot. And he was just
talking about how they staying quite busy,

466
00:34:24.440 --> 00:34:29.320
and you know, a good landscaper, a reputable landscaper, they're going to

467
00:34:29.400 --> 00:34:32.559
be busy and you're going to have
to book them out weeks, if not

468
00:34:32.719 --> 00:34:37.760
months. It just depends on what
you need done, how big the job

469
00:34:37.920 --> 00:34:42.559
is, and when you call.
But I would suggest that you if you're

470
00:34:42.639 --> 00:34:45.960
thinking about doing any kind of work
on the landscape and you need some help

471
00:34:46.000 --> 00:34:50.119
with that. You give them a
call, get on the board, I

472
00:34:50.159 --> 00:34:53.480
tell them you heard it on guardline, and find out when would they be

473
00:34:53.480 --> 00:34:57.480
able to come and do that work. So, for example, you need

474
00:34:57.559 --> 00:35:04.280
irrigation systems check out and any repairs
done. That summer is coming, folks,

475
00:35:04.400 --> 00:35:07.559
and you don't want to limp into
summer with a bad irrigation system.

476
00:35:07.599 --> 00:35:13.559
And most irrigation systems are pretty inefficient
and could use a little improvement. That

477
00:35:13.599 --> 00:35:15.360
would be an example. Do you
want a beautiful patio? Do you want

478
00:35:15.360 --> 00:35:19.800
a water feature in the backyard you
know with your patio? Do you want

479
00:35:19.960 --> 00:35:24.000
hardscape done? There'd be pathways.
Do you need lighting and outdoors, any

480
00:35:24.039 --> 00:35:28.880
kind of rock construction type projects.
Do you have a place that doesn't drain,

481
00:35:28.960 --> 00:35:30.199
well, you just got a lot
of rain. You got some of

482
00:35:30.199 --> 00:35:34.440
those spots I do in my yard. I just put in a French train

483
00:35:34.800 --> 00:35:38.559
this past week. They can do
that. They can fix that for you.

484
00:35:38.880 --> 00:35:44.960
But here's something that maybe you're not
aware of that Piercecapes does they have

485
00:35:45.000 --> 00:35:49.360
a quarterly maintenance program for your beds. So you sign up for it.

486
00:35:49.440 --> 00:35:52.960
In every quarter. That's four times
a year. They come in it.

487
00:35:52.039 --> 00:35:55.800
They do trimming, they do weeding, they do fertilizing, They check the

488
00:35:55.840 --> 00:36:00.760
irrigation system. If there's problems,
well then that be an additional charge.

489
00:36:01.559 --> 00:36:07.719
They do aeration, they do seasonal
color changes, and they remultch, freshen

490
00:36:07.800 --> 00:36:10.239
up the mult put some new multch
out there. It's all a maintenance of

491
00:36:10.280 --> 00:36:15.360
the beds. So you know,
with our seasons, we're coming out of

492
00:36:15.360 --> 00:36:17.880
winter, the pansies aren't happy anymore. It's time to put in petunias and

493
00:36:17.920 --> 00:36:23.079
other things. And then summertime comes
and they will do this seasonal color changes

494
00:36:23.199 --> 00:36:27.519
for you. It depends on,
you know, how many color changes you

495
00:36:27.559 --> 00:36:30.800
want. You negotiate that with them
or I say negotiate, you know,

496
00:36:30.920 --> 00:36:32.280
call them and find out what will
it cost for do this, what it

497
00:36:32.320 --> 00:36:37.599
costs to do that. But Piercescapes, that's a great idea getting on that

498
00:36:37.760 --> 00:36:43.159
quarterly maintenance program that they offer their
peerscape. So if you would like to

499
00:36:43.159 --> 00:36:45.159
get in touch with them, how
about I give you an email and a

500
00:36:45.159 --> 00:36:51.960
phone number. Pierscapes dot com,
pierce Scapes one word dot com two eight

501
00:36:52.039 --> 00:36:59.360
one three, seven oh fifty sixty. I looking at their website, it

502
00:36:59.440 --> 00:37:01.159
is done. The kinds of work
that they can do, I mean,

503
00:37:01.199 --> 00:37:06.400
and you don't have to have a
taj Mahal, you know, million dollar

504
00:37:06.519 --> 00:37:09.000
landscape to hire them to do.
They can do that, but you don't

505
00:37:09.039 --> 00:37:14.519
have to have that. They can
do small simple things as well for you.

506
00:37:14.800 --> 00:37:19.920
And certainly that service is pretty cool
with the maintenance maintenance agreement. Well,

507
00:37:19.920 --> 00:37:23.000
you're listening to Gardenline. Our phone
number is what is it? Seven

508
00:37:23.039 --> 00:37:27.559
one three two one two fifty eight
seventy four. If you'd like to give

509
00:37:27.599 --> 00:37:30.159
Josh a call and get on the
board, it's a good day to call.

510
00:37:30.559 --> 00:37:34.800
I think Easter Sunday people imagine that
they've got their minds on other things

511
00:37:34.800 --> 00:37:39.719
today. Absolutely so I've been talking
about some different things and the importance of

512
00:37:40.079 --> 00:37:49.639
color containers too. I just would
encourage you this season to grow something new,

513
00:37:50.000 --> 00:37:54.440
to do something different. For example, maybe you've never grown herbs before.

514
00:37:54.840 --> 00:38:00.039
Grow a few herbs, try that
out. Maybe you've never tried growing

515
00:38:00.159 --> 00:38:05.719
vegetables in a container. Let us
help you and have success and try that

516
00:38:05.760 --> 00:38:07.920
out. Why don't you do that? Grow some fresh, healthy produce.

517
00:38:08.000 --> 00:38:12.679
It's what fifteen hundred miles fresher than
what you buy in a store. Why

518
00:38:12.679 --> 00:38:15.920
don't you try that? Give that
a shot. Maybe you've never done the

519
00:38:15.960 --> 00:38:19.440
hanging baskets. Maybe there's a new
cop Maybe don't you've not had a citrus

520
00:38:19.480 --> 00:38:23.119
plant and you want to put one, maybe a little small lime or a

521
00:38:23.239 --> 00:38:28.599
lemon or something, and a large
container. Try it out. Try something

522
00:38:28.679 --> 00:38:30.800
new this year? What are you
going to try that's new? Every year,

523
00:38:30.920 --> 00:38:35.840
I always try a number of new
things. And it may be a

524
00:38:35.880 --> 00:38:40.199
new plant, it may be a
new gardening technique, maybe a new way

525
00:38:40.239 --> 00:38:45.920
of dealing or helping avoid pests and
weeds and diseases and things like that.

526
00:38:45.280 --> 00:38:51.039
But try something new. There's so
many cool new things. And with house

527
00:38:51.079 --> 00:38:53.480
plants, oh my gosh, so
many new cool houseplants out there. I'm

528
00:38:53.480 --> 00:38:57.599
going to talk about some specific plants
here coming up in just a bit,

529
00:38:58.400 --> 00:39:00.400
but we're going to end up taking
a here in just a moment, so

530
00:39:00.480 --> 00:39:04.360
I don't want to launch too far
into that, but you know what,

531
00:39:04.679 --> 00:39:07.960
I am going to mention one plant. One plant that is underplanted here in

532
00:39:08.000 --> 00:39:15.440
the Houston area is called persian shield. Persian shield has large, bold foliage

533
00:39:15.880 --> 00:39:22.239
that is a purplish color. If
you can imagine in between purple and pink

534
00:39:22.519 --> 00:39:24.599
in there, but more toward the
purple side. And then it also has

535
00:39:24.639 --> 00:39:29.199
green and some silvery look to the
leaves. If it gets in a little

536
00:39:29.239 --> 00:39:31.280
more sunlight, it's going to have
more of the purple. If it goes

537
00:39:31.320 --> 00:39:34.840
into a little more shade, you're
going to see more of the silver.

538
00:39:35.159 --> 00:39:37.119
But it's a wonderful little plant.
You can keep it pinched back, keep

539
00:39:37.159 --> 00:39:42.719
it branching, and have it about
three feet high, and that purple color

540
00:39:42.840 --> 00:39:45.400
just really shows up. Well.
That's a cool one. And shade is

541
00:39:45.440 --> 00:39:51.760
often a challenging place for growing plants
just because you know it doesn't get enough

542
00:39:51.760 --> 00:39:54.599
sunlight out there. So Persian Shield, if you hadn't tried it before,

543
00:39:54.880 --> 00:39:59.000
try it this year. Our garden
centers carry it. Easy to find.

544
00:40:00.039 --> 00:40:04.639
Owner reminds you that I will be
at M and D Supply that's an ace

545
00:40:04.639 --> 00:40:09.320
hardware store in the clear Lake area, and I'll be there next Saturday.

546
00:40:09.719 --> 00:40:14.280
Next Saturday from eleven thirty to one
thirty. I hope you'll come out.

547
00:40:14.320 --> 00:40:17.880
We're going to be doing giveaways from
nitrofoss products and it's just gonna be a

548
00:40:17.880 --> 00:40:21.880
good time. You can bring me
samples. You can bring me pictures.

549
00:40:22.400 --> 00:40:25.239
I just want to come by and
say hi. I went out at cinemals

550
00:40:25.760 --> 00:40:29.079
yesterday a lot of people just said, I just want to come by and

551
00:40:29.119 --> 00:40:31.280
say hi. I appreciate the Garden
Line. I have been listening a long

552
00:40:31.320 --> 00:40:34.960
time. Well you can do that
too. I always like to meet the

553
00:40:35.000 --> 00:40:37.079
folks that listen to Garden Line.
But M and D at clear Lake also,

554
00:40:37.119 --> 00:40:42.519
I should mention this for those of
being down in Wharton the Ace Hardware

555
00:40:42.559 --> 00:40:45.440
there, it's called Wharton Feed and
Ace Hardware. It's on Richmond Road,

556
00:40:45.559 --> 00:40:51.639
North Richmond Road. They're having a
Friday and Saturday grand opening in that area

557
00:40:51.719 --> 00:40:53.880
too. You want to swing by
there and check that place out. We'll

558
00:40:53.880 --> 00:41:00.360
be back KATRH Garden Line. It's
not necessar sly endorse any of the products

559
00:41:00.440 --> 00:41:07.559
or services advertised on this program.
Welcome to kt r H Garden Line with

560
00:41:07.800 --> 00:41:25.239
Skip Rictor it's crazy Gas. Just
watch him as many you got crazy.

561
00:41:30.280 --> 00:41:35.440
Hey, welcome back to garden Line
on Easter Sunday morning. I want to

562
00:41:35.519 --> 00:41:37.719
welcome you and uh, just hang
on. We're going to talk about all

563
00:41:37.840 --> 00:41:42.280
kinds of things gardening. If you
got a question something you would like to

564
00:41:42.320 --> 00:41:46.000
talk about just give me a call
seven one three two one two k t

565
00:41:46.199 --> 00:41:50.719
R H seven one three two one
two k t R eight. That makes

566
00:41:50.719 --> 00:41:53.800
it simple, easy, easy to
do. If you have not done your

567
00:41:53.840 --> 00:42:00.159
early spring greenup fertilization, that's the
one that's optional my schedule, but we

568
00:42:00.199 --> 00:42:04.440
put it down. The reason it's
there on the schedule is because when you

569
00:42:04.440 --> 00:42:07.920
put on an early spring green up, it releases those nutrients, and while

570
00:42:07.039 --> 00:42:12.639
it's cool and the grass doesn't take
off growing and running all over the place,

571
00:42:12.840 --> 00:42:17.400
it does turn green and it is
you're getting those nutrients into the plants,

572
00:42:17.440 --> 00:42:21.360
so as it warms up, they're
going to have that reserve to take

573
00:42:21.400 --> 00:42:24.440
off and be growing. Well.
That's an example of that would be Nitrofos

574
00:42:24.480 --> 00:42:29.519
Imperial. It's a fifteen five to
ten. That's the red bag from Nitrofoss

575
00:42:30.280 --> 00:42:31.760
And if you haven't done one and
you want to do that, you can

576
00:42:31.960 --> 00:42:35.920
Right now. We're kind of on
that line between do you want to do

577
00:42:36.039 --> 00:42:38.960
an early greenup type application or do
you want to just go ahead and do

578
00:42:39.639 --> 00:42:45.239
the slower release, longer version.
But now's a fine time to put out

579
00:42:45.239 --> 00:42:50.159
a fifteen five to ten to get
it in the ground and to make those

580
00:42:50.280 --> 00:42:54.360
nutrients available plants. That ratio of
nutrients was developed by turf scientists Texas A

581
00:42:54.360 --> 00:43:00.639
and M and other Southern universities as
being the ideal may for what grass needs

582
00:43:00.679 --> 00:43:05.440
to grow and thrive and do well. And when you're dealing with nitrofross products,

583
00:43:05.480 --> 00:43:07.480
you're going to find them in a
lot of places. It's really easy

584
00:43:07.760 --> 00:43:12.360
to find your nitroposs. For example, a D and D feed store up

585
00:43:12.360 --> 00:43:16.119
in Tumble. They have the nitrofoss
products. If you go out to Angleton,

586
00:43:16.199 --> 00:43:21.199
to Lake Hardware and Angleton, or
to Fisher's Hardware and Baytown, those

587
00:43:21.239 --> 00:43:27.760
are all places you can get the
nitroposs products. DND the red bag.

588
00:43:27.880 --> 00:43:30.639
That's the easy way to remember it
is the red bag. I mentioned D

589
00:43:30.679 --> 00:43:34.559
and D. D and D.
When I think of D and D feed,

590
00:43:35.199 --> 00:43:37.119
I think of a number of things. Number one, it's a great

591
00:43:37.159 --> 00:43:42.239
feed store. I mean, whether
you're looking for quality feed for pets or

592
00:43:42.280 --> 00:43:46.239
whether you're looking for feed for your
outdoor animals, then the D and D

593
00:43:46.400 --> 00:43:50.440
is going to have it. It's
also the place that has all the fertilizers

594
00:43:50.480 --> 00:43:53.079
I talk about here on guard Line
and the soil blends. You need a

595
00:43:53.119 --> 00:43:58.719
bag of some quality stuff like a
rose soil or fruit berry and citrus,

596
00:43:58.800 --> 00:44:02.320
or veggian herb from marloom. They've
got those there as well as aged leaf

597
00:44:02.400 --> 00:44:08.159
mole compost. But Dani's a place
that has the chicks coming in all the

598
00:44:08.239 --> 00:44:12.360
time. I don't know why that
sounds funny to say it that way,

599
00:44:12.440 --> 00:44:15.320
but that's just true. It's a
place where the chicks hang out. Well,

600
00:44:15.960 --> 00:44:19.960
D and D feed This Thursday,
on April fourth, they're getting in

601
00:44:20.079 --> 00:44:22.159
four different types of turkeys. Did
you know there were four different types of

602
00:44:22.159 --> 00:44:25.320
turkeys? How about a blue slate? How about a bourbon red? How

603
00:44:25.360 --> 00:44:29.800
about a chocolate turkey. I don't
think it tastes chocolate, but it must

604
00:44:29.800 --> 00:44:31.920
be the color. How about a
royal palm turkey. Then on Friday,

605
00:44:32.039 --> 00:44:37.400
I don't know, let's see that
five ten, fifty, way over fifteen

606
00:44:37.960 --> 00:44:43.239
different types of chicks coming in like
pullets. We call them pullets. Well,

607
00:44:43.360 --> 00:44:46.679
that would be olive eggar and Rhode
island and buff orpington and lavender orpington.

608
00:44:46.800 --> 00:44:50.000
I could just read them all.
These are Oh they have a naked

609
00:44:50.039 --> 00:44:52.280
neck. We had some one of
those one time. It's a chicken and

610
00:44:52.320 --> 00:44:59.159
there's no feathers on the neck part
is that weird? It's absolutely they're going

611
00:44:59.239 --> 00:45:01.280
to get some of those as well. Hey, dndfeed, just go check

612
00:45:01.280 --> 00:45:04.679
them out. They've got a great
selection of plants too. Right now,

613
00:45:04.880 --> 00:45:07.480
phone numbers two eight, one,
three, five, one seventy one,

614
00:45:07.800 --> 00:45:13.519
forty four. They're on FM twenty
nine to twenty west of Tomboul, about

615
00:45:13.559 --> 00:45:16.599
three miles west of Highway two forty
nine, two eight one three five one

616
00:45:16.800 --> 00:45:22.039
seventy one forty four. Man,
people are in the backyard chickens. I'm

617
00:45:22.039 --> 00:45:25.159
telling you, Uh, we're gonna
go out now to sugar Land and talk

618
00:45:25.199 --> 00:45:30.760
to Nick. Hello, Nick,
good morning, Happy Easter, Happy Easter

619
00:45:30.840 --> 00:45:36.920
to you as well. That all
help? Oh please? So my question

620
00:45:37.280 --> 00:45:42.440
is, and this is why I
am calling. My mother in law wiped

621
00:45:42.480 --> 00:45:49.039
out all the flowers that I had
that attracted hummingbirds. Okay, and I

622
00:45:49.039 --> 00:45:52.079
don't even know what to begin to
plant. That's why I'm calling, because

623
00:45:52.079 --> 00:45:55.760
you know everything. Wait a minute, I want to get my wife on

624
00:45:55.800 --> 00:46:00.599
the phone. She needs to hear
that. No, go ahead, and

625
00:46:00.840 --> 00:46:07.440
uh, even if you tell me
what's a plant? How long can I

626
00:46:07.519 --> 00:46:08.599
well they come back in a seat? Will it take? Will it take

627
00:46:08.639 --> 00:46:14.079
a season? Will it take several
seasons. It depends on what the plants

628
00:46:14.119 --> 00:46:16.320
are. Some things you get them
the first season. A lot of the

629
00:46:16.360 --> 00:46:21.119
salvias, you're going to get those
right away. And there's some good hummingbird

630
00:46:21.119 --> 00:46:24.119
plants in the salvias. Uh,
if you're talking about something that's more of

631
00:46:24.159 --> 00:46:28.760
a shrub or vine, a witty
vine, then you may have to wait

632
00:46:28.920 --> 00:46:32.280
a year or two to get the
amount of growth and blooms that's really going

633
00:46:32.360 --> 00:46:37.119
to make a big difference. Like
coral vine that's a beautiful native vine that

634
00:46:37.199 --> 00:46:39.920
attracts hummingbirds. And just another example. There's a lot of plants though I

635
00:46:39.960 --> 00:46:45.440
would I would include some annual and
perennial flowers just to get you going.

636
00:46:45.679 --> 00:46:50.079
And then plants some things that are
a little bit longer term. You know,

637
00:46:50.119 --> 00:46:52.280
they're not they're not one year and
done. They're they're going to be

638
00:46:52.280 --> 00:47:00.199
there for years for you. And
what what fertilizer to help expedite the process?

639
00:47:00.440 --> 00:47:05.440
You know possible. There's a lot
of fertilizers out there. There are

640
00:47:05.480 --> 00:47:10.519
some like color stars and excellent fertilizers, maybe by Nelson's The color star is

641
00:47:10.599 --> 00:47:15.280
going to provide a good nutrition.
I tell you in a pinch. I

642
00:47:15.320 --> 00:47:21.559
often use my lawn fertilizer for fertilizing
vegetables and flowers and other things. It

643
00:47:22.320 --> 00:47:24.159
just don't don't overthink it, don't
worry about it too much. But if

644
00:47:24.199 --> 00:47:28.239
you want something that's kind of designed
for, like a color bed like that,

645
00:47:28.320 --> 00:47:32.039
Nelson's Color Star can do that,
and I don't have to worry about

646
00:47:32.199 --> 00:47:37.400
molts or anything like that, do
I or welling down top soil or well,

647
00:47:37.960 --> 00:47:40.280
anything you do to improve the soil
is the most important thing you're going

648
00:47:40.360 --> 00:47:44.880
to do. So if you want
to put on a bed, mix and

649
00:47:45.000 --> 00:47:46.760
mix it in a little bit,
or just on top of the soil,

650
00:47:46.920 --> 00:47:51.079
if you need to put some top
soil to bring up the level for drainage,

651
00:47:51.119 --> 00:47:53.000
to make sure the roots aren't sitting
in too wet, those are all

652
00:47:53.039 --> 00:47:59.519
important things to do. But I
would get that those spots ready to go

653
00:47:59.559 --> 00:48:01.960
before you put the plants in,
and you can just buy bags of product.

654
00:48:02.079 --> 00:48:05.639
You're done in sugar lands. I
mean you got you know, in

655
00:48:05.719 --> 00:48:10.480
Chenny gardens and in Chennit forest,
just in your backyard. Well, I

656
00:48:10.519 --> 00:48:15.480
appreciate your time, wish me luck
and have a nice easter, all right,

657
00:48:15.599 --> 00:48:19.559
Nick, Thank you? You don't
need luck. I know you're gonna

658
00:48:19.559 --> 00:48:22.039
do a good job of this,
and it's gonna it's gonna be nice.

659
00:48:22.079 --> 00:48:25.519
The pollinators, I'll tell them when
I talk to them, and the hummingbirds

660
00:48:25.599 --> 00:48:30.280
that just hang on your you're on
your way back. I don't Someday I

661
00:48:30.280 --> 00:48:32.719
want to hear the story about the
mother in law and the destroying flowers,

662
00:48:32.760 --> 00:48:37.239
but not this morning. Thanks a
lot, right, I appreciate you by

663
00:48:37.360 --> 00:48:43.000
bye. Received that very much.
Oh, let's see, we're gonna go

664
00:48:43.079 --> 00:48:45.679
now. Yeah, I don't have
time for another call. Say a little

665
00:48:45.679 --> 00:48:49.920
break here, Ronnie and Bernie.
We're gonna come to you when we come

666
00:48:49.960 --> 00:48:52.599
back from our break. Our phone
number for the rest of you seven one

667
00:48:52.639 --> 00:48:58.119
three two one two five eight seven
four. Welcome back to the guarden Line.

668
00:48:58.119 --> 00:49:00.599
Good to have you with us today. I've been talking about redoing my

669
00:49:00.679 --> 00:49:05.159
lawn. I'm also doing a patio
out back. We're going to do a

670
00:49:05.320 --> 00:49:09.119
one of those little stone with a
decomposed granite patios, not a concrete patio,

671
00:49:09.280 --> 00:49:15.639
but a one of just a flat
stone flagstones with the decomposed granted.

672
00:49:15.960 --> 00:49:17.519
And it's finally given me a place
to put a little water feature that I

673
00:49:17.559 --> 00:49:22.920
have. I've got a bird bath
that I have been really looking forward to

674
00:49:22.960 --> 00:49:24.840
getting set up, and I just
haven't had the spot for it, and

675
00:49:24.920 --> 00:49:29.280
so it's kind of gone to the
back. But water is such a cool

676
00:49:29.280 --> 00:49:31.760
thing in the landscape. The sound
of water is nice. And then bringing

677
00:49:31.800 --> 00:49:36.119
the birds in closer and providing with
stuff during the heat of summer, that's

678
00:49:36.159 --> 00:49:40.400
important. And that made me think
about Nelson Water Garden and Nursery, which

679
00:49:40.440 --> 00:49:45.360
is out there and Katie and Nelson's
has been a longtime leader. They are

680
00:49:45.480 --> 00:49:52.239
nationally known as a leader when it
comes to how do you design beautiful water

681
00:49:52.280 --> 00:49:55.480
gardens. They created this disappearing fountain
that comes out of a container, a

682
00:49:55.639 --> 00:50:00.719
big beautiful container. Let me just
tell you this. You need to go.

683
00:50:00.920 --> 00:50:04.840
It is a destination nursery and when
you get out there, you're going

684
00:50:04.880 --> 00:50:08.880
to walk through and they just have
like waterfalls and the container fountains I was

685
00:50:08.920 --> 00:50:14.760
talking about, and you're just wandering
through looking at the koyfish and the lily

686
00:50:14.840 --> 00:50:16.559
pads and everything. And they are
a garden center too, Yes, they

687
00:50:16.679 --> 00:50:21.920
are a garden center. If you
want to find out more from them about

688
00:50:21.920 --> 00:50:25.559
them, go to the website which
is Nelson Watergardens dot com. By the

689
00:50:25.559 --> 00:50:30.079
way, there's a Landscape design and
build tab on the website where you can

690
00:50:30.079 --> 00:50:35.719
fill things out because they do landscape
design services, and especially with the water

691
00:50:35.800 --> 00:50:38.679
gardens. Oh my gosh, why
don't you check into that and look at

692
00:50:39.000 --> 00:50:42.440
when you go out there and see
it, you're gonna want a water I

693
00:50:42.519 --> 00:50:45.960
promise you're gonna want a water garden. They're just so so cool. Katie,

694
00:50:45.159 --> 00:50:50.360
Fort Ben Road just north of it
out there, and Katie, let's

695
00:50:50.440 --> 00:50:55.760
go now to rich Wood and talk
to Ronnie. Hello, Runnie, Hello,

696
00:50:55.920 --> 00:51:04.639
Jeff. I have a large tree
and last year it dropped its leaves

697
00:51:04.719 --> 00:51:09.119
early because of what I think was
powder post beetles. So call one of

698
00:51:09.159 --> 00:51:16.519
your advertisers and for scribal something I
put on get rid of the beetles apparently,

699
00:51:16.599 --> 00:51:21.800
So this year the leaves came out, okay, But now it's some

700
00:51:21.960 --> 00:51:27.639
quiet, fungus looking stuff growing around
the base of the of the tree where

701
00:51:27.760 --> 00:51:30.920
all the powder was coming out when
it had the beetles. Okay, So

702
00:51:31.719 --> 00:51:35.000
you know what that could be and
what I can do for it. Well,

703
00:51:35.280 --> 00:51:39.159
I'm ninety percent sure that the bark
is dead underneath that area. When

704
00:51:39.159 --> 00:51:43.119
the bark is alive, if it
truly is like a powder post beetle.

705
00:51:43.360 --> 00:51:47.000
They don't just drill through living bark
typically, but a dead area they will

706
00:51:47.039 --> 00:51:51.079
go in. There are a number
of different beetles that can do that.

707
00:51:51.280 --> 00:51:54.800
And then the white is a fungal
mushroom. It doesn't look like a mushroom.

708
00:51:54.800 --> 00:51:58.239
It's more like a shelf fungi.
I don't know if you've ever been

709
00:51:58.320 --> 00:52:00.679
in the forest and you feel see
a log on the floor of the forest

710
00:52:00.679 --> 00:52:05.840
and it's got the shelf fungi coming
out, it's it's a it's a fungus

711
00:52:05.880 --> 00:52:09.280
somewhat like that, but it's basically
in there to decompose the wood in the

712
00:52:09.320 --> 00:52:13.480
tree. So it's just a sign
that you've got a dead area there.

713
00:52:15.320 --> 00:52:22.440
Having an arborous look at it would
be a good idea because that particular tree,

714
00:52:22.480 --> 00:52:29.239
the ash, they're not a super
strong hardwood last a long time once

715
00:52:29.519 --> 00:52:34.719
you've got exposure of the inner material
to decay. So as far as it

716
00:52:34.800 --> 00:52:37.079
being a hazard during a storm,
that would be the first question that I

717
00:52:37.079 --> 00:52:42.000
would have about it. But that's
not a disease of the tree that you

718
00:52:42.119 --> 00:52:49.039
spray for those little white things,
it's they're just there to decompose okay,

719
00:52:49.880 --> 00:52:52.480
thank you very much. All right, sir, you take care you do

720
00:52:52.480 --> 00:52:57.239
you need a contact for down in
your area or or somebody up here that

721
00:52:57.920 --> 00:53:02.920
has Yeah, okay, have you
ever have you ever contacted Martin at Affordable

722
00:53:02.960 --> 00:53:08.280
Tree before. Yes, he's the
one that I talked to I believe about

723
00:53:08.400 --> 00:53:12.400
power post people. Yeah, telling
me talk to me on guarden Line and

724
00:53:12.440 --> 00:53:15.760
that I feel like you got a
d some kind of a decomposer of fungi

725
00:53:15.960 --> 00:53:22.119
there. Martin. He knows what
he's doing and I feel comfortable recommending him

726
00:53:22.159 --> 00:53:27.760
because because of that. But Affordable
Tree Service Martin spoon More would be the

727
00:53:27.760 --> 00:53:30.960
one that I would call. Uh, you've probably already got his phone number,

728
00:53:30.000 --> 00:53:37.119
but the website's Afftree Service dot com. Okay, all right, Ronnie,

729
00:53:37.119 --> 00:53:38.920
thank you, you bet, thank
you very much. I appreciate that.

730
00:53:39.519 --> 00:53:44.000
Yeah, Martin, he stays busy, So if you want any kind

731
00:53:44.000 --> 00:53:45.719
of tree work done, you need
to call him. Tell him you're from

732
00:53:45.760 --> 00:53:49.840
garden Line. That helps you gets
to the front of the line. He

733
00:53:50.039 --> 00:53:52.920
kind of gives a preference to Guardenline
listeners. Uh. But a phone number

734
00:53:52.920 --> 00:53:57.320
for those of you who aren't familiar
with it, seven one, three,

735
00:53:57.360 --> 00:54:02.599
six nine nine two six six three
Martin or his wife Joe answer the phone.

736
00:54:02.840 --> 00:54:06.639
Yep, the owners answer the phone
around there. That's how they do

737
00:54:06.719 --> 00:54:10.000
business. He definitely is a profession
It costs about one hundred and fifty bucks

738
00:54:10.039 --> 00:54:14.960
for him to come out for a
consultation. And if you know, he's

739
00:54:14.960 --> 00:54:16.719
going to tell you what's going on
and what he thinks needs to be done,

740
00:54:16.840 --> 00:54:20.400
or if he doesn't think anything needs
to be done. But if you

741
00:54:20.519 --> 00:54:23.360
if you hire him to do the
work, then that one fifty just goes

742
00:54:23.440 --> 00:54:27.599
right into the cost of what you're
hiring him to do, so you you

743
00:54:27.599 --> 00:54:30.440
don't lose the one fifty. So
it's always a good idea to have a

744
00:54:30.519 --> 00:54:36.559
knowledgeable arborius take a look at stuff. We're going to go now to spring

745
00:54:36.599 --> 00:54:40.079
and talk to Bernie. Hello,
Bernie, Happy Easter. Have easter do.

746
00:54:42.360 --> 00:54:46.599
I've got a vegetable garden with the
usual pepper's cucumber tomatoes in it.

747
00:54:46.599 --> 00:54:52.280
It's like few other things, they
all seem to be doing good. I've

748
00:54:52.320 --> 00:54:58.679
got blooms, small fruit coming on. But I know the stink bug and

749
00:54:58.880 --> 00:55:01.000
the white fly, the green ca
otolers are probably going to evade it sometime.

750
00:55:01.599 --> 00:55:07.920
And I've never done this before.
Is there a spray that uh?

751
00:55:07.000 --> 00:55:12.119
And I should uh a routine spray? Should I starts doing that now or

752
00:55:12.239 --> 00:55:16.760
like like uh like seven spray and
to try to prevent them from coming in.

753
00:55:17.000 --> 00:55:20.840
No, I wouldn't do that.
Uh, it's not going to prevent

754
00:55:20.880 --> 00:55:23.159
them from coming in, but when
they're there getting sprayed with it is going

755
00:55:23.199 --> 00:55:28.559
to kill them. But seven seven
has some negative effects. It actually makes

756
00:55:28.599 --> 00:55:34.159
spider mites reproduce faster and uh it
does. It kills everything that eats the

757
00:55:34.199 --> 00:55:37.920
spider mite too. So you get
these tomatoes and spider mites. Spider maights

758
00:55:37.960 --> 00:55:40.760
love tomatoes, and so I don't
want to do anything to encourage them.

759
00:55:42.079 --> 00:55:45.719
And I usually, I mean,
I know people have used seven on tomatoes

760
00:55:45.760 --> 00:55:49.360
for a long time, but I'm
just telling you that just to start spraying

761
00:55:49.360 --> 00:55:54.320
them now, you're just asking for
ahe spider maight problem. So Eccusually when

762
00:55:54.880 --> 00:56:00.280
go ahead, I say Eccusually when
they arrive is when I see, you

763
00:56:00.320 --> 00:56:01.679
know, and it's almost too late, you know. And I was just

764
00:56:01.719 --> 00:56:06.559
wondering if there's something else I should
do. Yeah, So for the stink

765
00:56:06.599 --> 00:56:13.880
bugs and caterpillars there, I would
wait until you see something going on out

766
00:56:13.880 --> 00:56:16.880
there. If you know what stink
bugs look like when they're immature, and

767
00:56:16.920 --> 00:56:22.239
the leaf footed bug, which is
stinkbug's cousin, when you see them,

768
00:56:22.320 --> 00:56:25.079
you can just put a pail of
soapy water and swap that little herd of

769
00:56:25.119 --> 00:56:29.239
them and they fall into it and
die. You have to bother mixing up

770
00:56:29.239 --> 00:56:32.039
a spray to spray on them.
That is one thing. When you see

771
00:56:32.079 --> 00:56:36.639
the caterpillars, a bet that's the
time to pull it out. But another

772
00:56:36.679 --> 00:56:39.719
thing that people are starting to try, there's a mesh that you put over

773
00:56:39.760 --> 00:56:43.679
the plants. It's not row cover, but it's more like think of your

774
00:56:43.719 --> 00:56:49.840
windows screen, but something super lightweight
with even smaller holes, and the rain

775
00:56:49.960 --> 00:56:52.000
goes through, air goes through,
and you just basically create a screen portch

776
00:56:52.079 --> 00:56:55.760
that goes over the top of the
tomatoes into the ground and nothing can get

777
00:56:55.800 --> 00:57:00.800
through there. And you don't you
don't need sex to pollinate your tomatoes.

778
00:57:00.920 --> 00:57:05.719
The wind shaking them will do that. But that that is another option.

779
00:57:06.119 --> 00:57:07.719
Uh, if you want to,
you want to go that route, but

780
00:57:07.800 --> 00:57:10.679
I would if it were me,
I would just wait see what shows up

781
00:57:10.760 --> 00:57:15.280
and then we can find the safest, most effective thing to use. Okay,

782
00:57:15.480 --> 00:57:19.679
that's what I'll wait to wait waaly, come all right, just check

783
00:57:19.719 --> 00:57:22.840
it, check it out. They
say the best fertilizer is the footprints of

784
00:57:22.840 --> 00:57:25.000
the gardener. I would add to
it, the best pest control is the

785
00:57:25.000 --> 00:57:29.360
footprints of the gardener. So get
out there, catch them, catch the

786
00:57:29.400 --> 00:57:32.400
problem early, and it's easier to
get rid of the problem. Thank you,

787
00:57:32.400 --> 00:57:38.039
okay, thank your help. Take
care. If you have a broad

788
00:57:38.119 --> 00:57:42.320
lead weed problem in your launch,
and that's that would be the winter weeds,

789
00:57:42.440 --> 00:57:45.440
the things that sprouted last fall and
have been growing through the winter just

790
00:57:45.480 --> 00:57:50.320
a little bit, and then here
comes spring, just like our blue bonnets

791
00:57:50.800 --> 00:57:57.000
take off growing bloom set seeds and
and they're gone. Well uh not nitrophiles,

792
00:57:57.760 --> 00:58:00.960
excuse me. They have a product
that's a nitrofoss fifteen to five to

793
00:58:01.039 --> 00:58:06.639
ten and it has the ingredient trimech
in it, So it's both the fertilizer

794
00:58:06.679 --> 00:58:09.599
and a weed control. For a
post emergent control of broadly weeds, you

795
00:58:09.639 --> 00:58:15.920
get the weeds wet, those particles
stick to the weeds and they move into

796
00:58:15.000 --> 00:58:19.599
the weed tissues to kill the weed
and then give it after a day or

797
00:58:19.599 --> 00:58:22.199
two, give it a good watering, move that fifteen to five to ten

798
00:58:22.320 --> 00:58:25.920
in and it's like your spring greenup
fertilization. So after you if you use

799
00:58:27.000 --> 00:58:30.559
that, after you use it,
wait about a month or so before you

800
00:58:30.599 --> 00:58:35.800
start into your summer fertilizations. And
that way you kind of kill two birds

801
00:58:35.800 --> 00:58:38.079
with one stone. You can find
nitro Fross products a lot of different places.

802
00:58:38.119 --> 00:58:44.239
I'll give you a few examples.
If you happen to be down Southwest

803
00:58:44.440 --> 00:58:49.920
Bearings Hardware on Businet Bearing Hardware and
Wesheimer they both have it out in Richmond

804
00:58:49.960 --> 00:58:53.920
Plantation Ace Hardware they carry the Nitrofosh
products as well. Hiding and Feed up

805
00:58:53.920 --> 00:58:59.960
on Interstate forty five North on Stubener
Airline that area they have it as well.

806
00:59:00.639 --> 00:59:04.320
We're going to now head south west
Houston and talk to Carolyn. Hello,

807
00:59:04.400 --> 00:59:09.719
Carolyn, good morning. I have
a question about the ornamental cabbage and

808
00:59:09.880 --> 00:59:17.559
tail. Are they edible? They're
edible, but they weren't bread for that,

809
00:59:19.079 --> 00:59:22.760
so they may not be as good
to eat as that. But they

810
00:59:22.800 --> 00:59:25.480
are an edible plant. They're just
a different version of cabbage and kale.

811
00:59:28.199 --> 00:59:34.360
So is there any there's nothing basically
different except the taste probably probably maybe,

812
00:59:34.400 --> 00:59:38.280
I don't know if texture if they're
tougher textures are stringing. I don't nutrition

813
00:59:38.719 --> 00:59:43.119
I've never tried eating them nutrition wise. I just I wouldn't know, but

814
00:59:43.199 --> 00:59:45.199
I would think it'd be somewhat close. They are cold. We call those

815
00:59:45.360 --> 00:59:53.079
coal crops coil e and that includes
broccoli and cabbage, corrobbie, collards.

816
00:59:53.599 --> 00:59:59.559
I'm leaving some owt, Brussels sprouts, cauliflower, all of those. You

817
00:59:59.599 --> 01:00:02.199
can eat the leaves of all of
those if you want, but they're not

818
01:00:04.159 --> 01:00:10.199
the term I use is edible but
not palatable. So I had a friend

819
01:00:10.239 --> 01:00:16.360
one time who planted some broccoli,
I mean some some what was it a

820
01:00:16.440 --> 01:00:20.559
collars or something and or kale.
When it was coming up, he was

821
01:00:20.599 --> 01:00:22.679
eating the leaves of it, and
all of a sudden it put on a

822
01:00:22.719 --> 01:00:27.719
broccoli head. It turned out broccoli
the whole time. It was a some

823
01:00:27.880 --> 01:00:32.480
of the plant long ago that was
selected for the variations. And you know,

824
01:00:32.519 --> 01:00:37.239
with Brussels sprouts, we're eating the
side buds. With cabbage, we're

825
01:00:37.280 --> 01:00:39.519
eating the terminal bud at the end
of the stem. With coole robbie,

826
01:00:39.519 --> 01:00:43.920
we're eating the swollen stem. You
know, with broccoli and cauliflower, we're

827
01:00:43.920 --> 01:00:46.400
eating the flower bud up at the
top, and I don't know what else.

828
01:00:46.440 --> 01:00:50.840
I left collars and kale. We're
eating the leaves, so I would

829
01:00:50.920 --> 01:00:53.239
if you want to eat something,
I would grow the one developed for the

830
01:00:53.320 --> 01:00:58.760
leaves in this case. As opposed
to this was a friend of mine who

831
01:00:58.840 --> 01:01:02.800
said she was planning it and she's
kind of moving from flowers into vegetables,

832
01:01:02.880 --> 01:01:07.199
okay, And I said, well, if it's if it has a bright

833
01:01:07.320 --> 01:01:12.960
purple middle, it's it's the ornamental. It could be. There's actually purple

834
01:01:13.000 --> 01:01:16.119
cabbages too, but yeah, it's
not gonna it's not poisonous or anything like

835
01:01:16.159 --> 01:01:20.159
that. But if she does try
eating it, I'd like to report back

836
01:01:20.199 --> 01:01:22.840
because I've never tried eating one of
those. Uh maybe just as good as

837
01:01:23.039 --> 01:01:29.239
regular Kaylen Cabby, I don't know. Okay, great, thank you,

838
01:01:29.519 --> 01:01:32.480
thank you so much. I appreciate
your call very much. You've been listening

839
01:01:32.519 --> 01:01:35.960
to garden Line. We're gonna take
a little break here for the news.

840
01:01:36.639 --> 01:01:39.480
If you would like to be on, ask a question perhaps seven to one

841
01:01:39.559 --> 01:01:45.920
three two one two kt R eight
seven one three two one two kt RAH

842
01:01:45.960 --> 01:01:51.119
and I'll be right back when Nikki
is done telling us what's up? What's

843
01:01:51.159 --> 01:01:54.039
happening. Well, welcome back to
garden Line. Good to have you with

844
01:01:54.119 --> 01:01:58.119
us. What are we going to
talk about? You tell me by calling

845
01:01:58.199 --> 01:02:04.800
seven one three two one two KTRH. I tell you it. I hear

846
01:02:05.079 --> 01:02:09.000
so many people lamenting the condition of
their lawn and it just I was out,

847
01:02:09.480 --> 01:02:13.679
you know, centemal gesture and a
number of different people stopping by.

848
01:02:13.760 --> 01:02:17.239
We're talking to me about lawn issues. Lawns got hammered last summer. It

849
01:02:17.360 --> 01:02:22.079
was dry, and it was hot
for a very long time, very dry,

850
01:02:22.280 --> 01:02:24.199
very hot. And if your lawn
is thin and not looking good,

851
01:02:24.239 --> 01:02:27.840
you've got a couple of options.
I mean, you can replace it,

852
01:02:28.400 --> 01:02:31.119
just redo the whole thing. But
if you've got some decent turf there and

853
01:02:31.159 --> 01:02:35.960
it's just getting on the thin side, I would suggest you consider a good

854
01:02:36.199 --> 01:02:42.039
deep time aeration, a core aeration
with a compost top dressing, a quality

855
01:02:42.079 --> 01:02:47.119
compost top dressing on it that brings
oxygen into the soil fertilizer you apply,

856
01:02:47.400 --> 01:02:52.039
and the composts that you apply will
find its way down into those holes as

857
01:02:52.079 --> 01:02:57.920
well, and it just enhances the
root system. Along with your regular fertilization.

858
01:02:58.039 --> 01:03:00.360
This really enhances a lot, a
lot less it's an investment to do

859
01:03:00.440 --> 01:03:05.360
that. You know, to have
for example greenpro have them come out and

860
01:03:05.400 --> 01:03:08.199
do it. It's an investment,
but it's a lot less expensive than resotting.

861
01:03:08.239 --> 01:03:12.159
Trust me, I can tell you
that one. But if you want

862
01:03:12.199 --> 01:03:17.880
more information, go to greenpro dot
net. Greenpro dot net. Greenpro covers

863
01:03:17.920 --> 01:03:23.800
sort of the north and West region
from Houston and out so thing places like

864
01:03:24.679 --> 01:03:29.800
let's say west to Katie, you
know, West Houston area, Central Houston,

865
01:03:29.920 --> 01:03:32.719
North Houston, you go up to
Conroe and Willis and the Woodlands and

866
01:03:32.760 --> 01:03:38.400
over to Montgomery, Magnolia, Cyprus
Spring. Those are all areas covered by

867
01:03:38.519 --> 01:03:42.960
Greenpro. You know, when you
got really quality equipment, which they do,

868
01:03:43.440 --> 01:03:45.079
and then you're having to haul in
all that compost top dressing. You

869
01:03:45.119 --> 01:03:51.000
just can't drive all over creation on
that and make it worthwhile. But greenpro

870
01:03:51.159 --> 01:03:54.880
dot net can do it. And
I'm telling you aeration quality aeration with compost

871
01:03:54.880 --> 01:04:00.920
top dressing is a huge benefit to
your lawn, especially when you have areas

872
01:04:01.000 --> 01:04:08.400
that are struggling with soil compaction.
Soil compaction is uh. It takes the

873
01:04:08.440 --> 01:04:12.199
oxygen out of the root system.
Earlier I was talking about water logging.

874
01:04:12.599 --> 01:04:15.039
It's not they're not being killed by
water. Plants are not being killed by

875
01:04:15.079 --> 01:04:19.400
water. They're being killed because the
roots diye for lack of oxygen in a

876
01:04:19.440 --> 01:04:25.079
water log soil. That's one of
the things that happens in that and soil

877
01:04:25.119 --> 01:04:28.519
compaction does that too, and you
can't get a good deep root system.

878
01:04:28.960 --> 01:04:33.920
And that's one of the reasons why
corroation is helpful. But not just pressing

879
01:04:34.039 --> 01:04:39.199
a hole in the soil. You
know, like you like some of the

880
01:04:39.320 --> 01:04:43.639
cheap rental units, do you want
to pull a plug out of the soil

881
01:04:43.679 --> 01:04:46.880
and leave that plug on the surface. That that is the right way to

882
01:04:46.960 --> 01:04:51.599
do corrooration. Other things taking care
of your lawn, A microlife has the

883
01:04:51.639 --> 01:04:59.320
green bag the six two four organic
fertilizer to put down and feed the lawn.

884
01:04:59.440 --> 01:05:03.239
Not just those nutrients, but you're
providing a lot of other compounds in

885
01:05:03.840 --> 01:05:10.679
that fertilizer, like microbial activity.
Microbes themselves are in that microlife fertilizer.

886
01:05:11.039 --> 01:05:15.480
And also another thing about it is
because it's an organic fertilizer made from things

887
01:05:15.519 --> 01:05:20.119
that were once alive like plant like
you know, compost was made from things

888
01:05:20.119 --> 01:05:24.639
that were alive. Also, well, because of that, you've got all

889
01:05:24.679 --> 01:05:29.559
the nutrients the plants need, not
just the nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium.

890
01:05:29.559 --> 01:05:31.800
The bag says six to four,
but there's a lot more in it than

891
01:05:31.880 --> 01:05:38.280
just those three nutrients. And Microlife
also makes a humans plus. This is

892
01:05:38.559 --> 01:05:45.079
a product that's the final decomposition of
compost. It's concentrated compost in a bag.

893
01:05:45.159 --> 01:05:47.800
It's the purple bag. So what
I would suggest in bringing your lown

894
01:05:47.920 --> 01:05:53.599
back the green bag and then follow
that with the purple bag and watered in

895
01:05:53.719 --> 01:05:58.119
really good, and let's get that
grass grown again, because I realize the

896
01:05:58.159 --> 01:06:01.800
struggle you have because I have struggle
the same thing this year. Microlife Fertilizer

897
01:06:01.840 --> 01:06:05.159
dot com is where you can find
out more about Microlife and where to buy

898
01:06:05.199 --> 01:06:11.280
it. It is one of our
more widely available fertilizers throughout this region.

899
01:06:11.880 --> 01:06:15.960
So if you're listening to garden Line, unless you're listening online and Timbuck too,

900
01:06:15.000 --> 01:06:18.079
by the way, I've never had
a caller from Timbuck too. That's

901
01:06:18.320 --> 01:06:23.360
my next goal. But unless you're
listening way off, you're going to find

902
01:06:23.400 --> 01:06:26.920
Microlife products where you live pretty close. Not a problem like that. For

903
01:06:26.960 --> 01:06:30.039
example, those of you that are
up in the Lake Conro area, Lake

904
01:06:30.079 --> 01:06:34.559
Conroe. All the neighborhoods around like
Conroe, you have a backyard nursery.

905
01:06:34.599 --> 01:06:38.960
It's Ana Plants and Produce. I'm
sure you've seen it, and I bet

906
01:06:39.039 --> 01:06:44.320
you've been there. It's just on
the east side of Montgomery and they carry

907
01:06:44.400 --> 01:06:47.119
all of the things you need,
like that microlife fertilizer I was talking about,

908
01:06:47.159 --> 01:06:50.400
and other fertilizers you hear me talk
about as well. They got it

909
01:06:50.519 --> 01:06:54.599
right there at Ana Plants. In
fact, they told me that they were

910
01:06:54.880 --> 01:06:59.039
printing out some copies of my laun
care schedule and have them at the counter

911
01:06:59.159 --> 01:07:01.239
there for customers to grab, so
you don't want to punt one at yours

912
01:07:01.239 --> 01:07:04.920
out. You may check that out. They have Nature's Way resources like leaf

913
01:07:04.960 --> 01:07:10.159
mold composts, so if you're doing
a do it yourself leaf mold compost top

914
01:07:10.239 --> 01:07:14.679
dressing, well you can. You
can get some products there by the bag.

915
01:07:14.719 --> 01:07:16.840
I wouldn't do huge yards trying to
do it by the bag, but

916
01:07:16.920 --> 01:07:21.400
small areas, yeah, that's that's
valid. It certainly does that. If

917
01:07:21.400 --> 01:07:25.559
you live ou above the lake,
they do spring cleanups. They have a

918
01:07:25.639 --> 01:07:30.320
landscape crew really that goes out and
they're very talented. But when it comes

919
01:07:30.320 --> 01:07:32.559
to oh my gosh, this place
coming out of winter doesn't look so good.

920
01:07:32.800 --> 01:07:38.559
Let them come out and do some
clean up early spring cleanup around the

921
01:07:38.679 --> 01:07:41.840
landscape. Beds and things that you
have. Just call them at A and

922
01:07:41.880 --> 01:07:45.840
A. Plants are just swing by
there. They're in your backyard. It's

923
01:07:45.880 --> 01:07:50.480
really easy to get there and to
find them. I was talking earlier about

924
01:07:50.480 --> 01:07:55.880
a couple of things. I was
talking about containers and having success with containers,

925
01:07:55.920 --> 01:07:59.639
and I certainly today again we're talking
a lot about lawns and taking care

926
01:07:59.679 --> 01:08:04.199
of your lawns. I don't know
how many of you have really tried hanging

927
01:08:04.239 --> 01:08:10.920
baskets, uh, for your patio
or for the porch, or wherever you're

928
01:08:10.920 --> 01:08:15.360
gonna you're gonna put them. But
hanging baskets are just a beautiful way to

929
01:08:15.480 --> 01:08:20.479
add color and beauty to make a
place more inviting. We had a little

930
01:08:20.520 --> 01:08:26.039
back patio behind our house and one
year we just put a lot of beautiful

931
01:08:26.119 --> 01:08:28.840
fern hanging baskets out there, and
it just kind of felt like you were

932
01:08:28.840 --> 01:08:31.439
in a tropical paradise with those those
flowers, and I mean the fern,

933
01:08:31.600 --> 01:08:38.319
the foliage. I've done a number
of different kinds of flowers and hanging baskets.

934
01:08:36.760 --> 01:08:40.920
Uh, it's just a beautiful way
to do that. And so think

935
01:08:40.920 --> 01:08:45.520
about that when you're decorating the outdoors. Don't just think of the landscape,

936
01:08:45.560 --> 01:08:48.319
but think of what can we put
around here. Just remember, with any

937
01:08:48.439 --> 01:08:53.760
kind of a container, you even
need to water pretty often so that they

938
01:08:53.760 --> 01:08:58.119
stay adequately moist. Now, some
things like a purse lane and a hanging

939
01:08:58.159 --> 01:09:01.399
basket. That's a succulent and so
it's a little more forgiving. It soon

940
01:09:01.479 --> 01:09:04.720
needs water, but it's a little
more forgiving than some of the other plants

941
01:09:04.800 --> 01:09:08.720
might be when it comes to going
a little bit on the dry side.

942
01:09:09.000 --> 01:09:13.399
They do pretty well. I love
personally. And the colors are all over

943
01:09:13.439 --> 01:09:16.199
the place, just wide variety of
colors. Our phone number is seven to

944
01:09:16.239 --> 01:09:20.079
one three two one two k t
RH. We'd like to give us a

945
01:09:20.079 --> 01:09:24.800
call and talk about something you're interested
in. Seven to one three two one

946
01:09:24.920 --> 01:09:30.359
two k t RH. You've heard
me talk about ACE Hardware before and their

947
01:09:30.399 --> 01:09:32.880
motto is ACE is the place.
ACE is the place for and you fill

948
01:09:32.880 --> 01:09:36.079
in the blank. They carry the
fertilizers I talk about. You can get

949
01:09:36.079 --> 01:09:40.840
your gardening tools and you're uh,
let's say you need a garden hose,

950
01:09:40.880 --> 01:09:45.359
and there's bray nozzles, and you
need things to control insects and diseases and

951
01:09:45.479 --> 01:09:49.000
pasts, and certainly the fertilizer products
that we talk about, they've got that.

952
01:09:49.600 --> 01:09:54.479
It's also the place to get your
fire ant control. And this is

953
01:09:54.479 --> 01:09:57.439
a season to get that done.
We get a lot of rain and you

954
01:09:57.479 --> 01:10:00.880
see these mounds popping up everywhere.
What I would recommend is go to ACE,

955
01:10:01.479 --> 01:10:06.079
grab you a fire at bait.
They have several different good there's a

956
01:10:06.159 --> 01:10:10.399
number of good ones out there.
I could start naming them, but then

957
01:10:10.439 --> 01:10:14.000
I'd leave half of them out.
But a good quality bait and put that

958
01:10:14.039 --> 01:10:16.880
out at the required level, and
the required level is super super low.

959
01:10:17.359 --> 01:10:25.159
Follow that with an application of the
individual mound treatments after you see what the

960
01:10:25.399 --> 01:10:29.279
bait did or didn't do. It's
always better to start with a bait and

961
01:10:29.319 --> 01:10:31.000
then give it some time to work, and then if you need to,

962
01:10:31.399 --> 01:10:35.199
the individual mound treatments can come in. I'm going to come back after the

963
01:10:35.239 --> 01:10:38.960
break and talk about that a little
bit more, but we're going to take

964
01:10:38.960 --> 01:10:41.439
a break right now. Seven to
one three two, one, two,

965
01:10:41.479 --> 01:10:45.760
five, eight seven four. Good
morning, a good Easter day, as

966
01:10:45.760 --> 01:10:49.000
well. By the way, did
you know that a red solo cup those

967
01:10:49.159 --> 01:10:56.600
lines on there are specific volume measurements
and I can't remember what each one is.

968
01:10:56.680 --> 01:10:59.560
Just go online look it up.
But the first time I saw that,

969
01:11:00.119 --> 01:11:02.119
it was like, wow, that
is a That's like having a measuring

970
01:11:02.159 --> 01:11:06.399
cup right there, right there in
a red solo cup. Who to thunk

971
01:11:06.479 --> 01:11:10.520
it? All? Right, well, you're back here with Guardline. I'm

972
01:11:10.520 --> 01:11:12.359
your host, Skip Ricker, and
what are we going to do. We're

973
01:11:12.359 --> 01:11:15.000
gonna talk about gardening. I was
talking about fire ants before we went in

974
01:11:15.039 --> 01:11:19.039
to break and because this is the
season to get on them, spring and

975
01:11:19.119 --> 01:11:25.039
fall especially big times to deal with
the fireing issues. So a bait there

976
01:11:26.000 --> 01:11:30.600
is synthetic and organic types of bait
that you can purchase for fire ants.

977
01:11:30.640 --> 01:11:33.520
Whichever way you want to go.
The bait knocks out not just the mounds

978
01:11:33.520 --> 01:11:38.560
you see, but the mounds that
haven't i'll say boiled to the surface yet

979
01:11:38.600 --> 01:11:43.560
then they haven't come up. They're
developing underground because they have foragers that are

980
01:11:43.560 --> 01:11:45.880
going out and picking up the bait
particles. And you don't dump bait on

981
01:11:45.960 --> 01:11:50.239
the mound. You spread it very
thinly, follow the label. I know

982
01:11:50.319 --> 01:11:57.159
what the like the andro product.
One pound of andro baate covers an acre

983
01:11:57.800 --> 01:12:01.720
forty three five hundred and six square
feet. Now think about how far apart

984
01:12:01.720 --> 01:12:05.399
the granules are when you do that. That's what baits are for. That

985
01:12:05.680 --> 01:12:09.399
ants pick them up, they take
them back, feed them the queen,

986
01:12:09.439 --> 01:12:12.960
feed them the colony, and it
takes it out. It works well.

987
01:12:13.279 --> 01:12:15.800
The ones you miss, you can
do the mound treatment. But if you

988
01:12:15.000 --> 01:12:19.439
just do mound treatments. If some
people say I pour barling water on my

989
01:12:19.520 --> 01:12:23.920
fire ants, well okay, good. Let's say you killed the mound,

990
01:12:23.960 --> 01:12:27.359
which you probably didn't get the whole
thing, but you definitely kill the plant

991
01:12:27.399 --> 01:12:30.920
right next to it. But that's
just what you're playing whack the mole with

992
01:12:31.039 --> 01:12:34.279
fire ants when you do mound treatments, because another one pops up and you

993
01:12:34.479 --> 01:12:38.359
lop that one down and then another
one pops up. First the bait,

994
01:12:38.640 --> 01:12:42.279
and then then if you miss some, then do the mound treatment on those.

995
01:12:42.640 --> 01:12:45.720
That's called the Texas two step method. Texas A and min Zobologists developed

996
01:12:45.720 --> 01:12:50.479
out a number of years ago.
The Texas two step is bait followed by

997
01:12:50.479 --> 01:12:54.159
mound treatment. That's the way to
go about so ace hardware has got that.

998
01:12:54.560 --> 01:12:57.760
You know, they've got all the
products you need for both steps of

999
01:12:57.840 --> 01:13:01.600
the Texas two step. They all
also have the fertilizers and things you need.

1000
01:13:01.600 --> 01:13:03.600
While you're there, Why don't you
just go and pick up a bag

1001
01:13:03.640 --> 01:13:09.680
of the Nitrofos superturf. That's the
silver bag. You can walk right into

1002
01:13:09.680 --> 01:13:13.880
ACE and say I need your silver
bag, and they will they will know

1003
01:13:13.920 --> 01:13:17.319
what you're talking about. Nitrofos Superturf's
that one that releases gradually. It's their

1004
01:13:17.399 --> 01:13:23.640
slow release fertilizer. So it's when
it gets wet. Those granules they don't

1005
01:13:23.680 --> 01:13:28.840
all just go immediately into solution in
the soil. There's some that it can

1006
01:13:28.880 --> 01:13:31.920
take, you know, a good
while. Superturf will last year a couple

1007
01:13:31.920 --> 01:13:36.239
of months, maybe three months,
and or getting that nutrient out of it.

1008
01:13:36.319 --> 01:13:41.079
And so while you're at ACE,
just pick up the Nitropos superturf and

1009
01:13:41.159 --> 01:13:45.520
you can get it at pretty much
every ace you find, I mean widespread

1010
01:13:45.960 --> 01:13:50.239
widespread availability on that superturf. So
why you're dealing with fire ants, grab

1011
01:13:50.319 --> 01:13:55.439
that fertilizer for summer. You're gonna
need it. You're listening to garden Line,

1012
01:13:55.439 --> 01:13:59.520
I'm your host skip Rictor and our
phone number is seven to one three

1013
01:14:00.039 --> 01:14:03.439
two one two fifty eight seventy four, seven to one three two and two

1014
01:14:03.479 --> 01:14:13.640
five eight seven four. One of
my favorite things to do during the week

1015
01:14:13.720 --> 01:14:16.479
are on weekends is just to visit
garden centers. I love to go to

1016
01:14:16.520 --> 01:14:20.159
garden sets. They're each different.
And when I say garden center, I

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01:14:20.159 --> 01:14:26.239
don't mean a garden center, you
know, just tied onto a bunch of

1018
01:14:26.279 --> 01:14:30.600
other things. I'm talking about one
of those mom and pop garden centers that

1019
01:14:31.039 --> 01:14:35.479
is just a destination, a place
like in chenned Forest and Richmond, which

1020
01:14:35.479 --> 01:14:38.760
by the way, I'm going to
be there sometime in April. A little

1021
01:14:38.800 --> 01:14:42.680
bit later in April, will be
out there doing an appearance. In chenned

1022
01:14:42.760 --> 01:14:46.359
Forest, you walk in and the
whole scene, from the buildings to the

1023
01:14:46.439 --> 01:14:50.760
trees to everything, the way the
plants are laid out, it's just inviting

1024
01:14:51.039 --> 01:14:58.840
to walk through. And they just
expanded Danny Clay had expanded the herb and

1025
01:14:58.880 --> 01:15:02.840
the vegetable area and they have unbelievable
selection, really good for that. If

1026
01:15:02.880 --> 01:15:09.840
you like pollinators and if you like
butterflies, they really really stock up on

1027
01:15:09.920 --> 01:15:15.680
those things. Last year they had
a bunch of larval food sources for butterflies,

1028
01:15:15.720 --> 01:15:20.880
you know, like monarchs eat milkweed
and gofridillary eats a passion buying leaves,

1029
01:15:21.560 --> 01:15:25.720
and they had so many caterpillars on
them. They were like you could

1030
01:15:25.720 --> 01:15:30.159
take home a free caterpillar when you
bought the plant, because then you got

1031
01:15:30.159 --> 01:15:31.359
to you know, your head start. You get to watch the crystalis and

1032
01:15:31.399 --> 01:15:36.760
everything for him. But Intended Forest
is really good about that pollinator gardens,

1033
01:15:36.800 --> 01:15:43.359
butterfly gardens. But they have a
lot more their greenhouse full of color,

1034
01:15:43.479 --> 01:15:49.680
with impatience and with just guardina,
just a lot of different kinds of plants,

1035
01:15:49.880 --> 01:15:54.920
a lot of different beautiful, beautiful
kinds of plants. Lantanna's kind of

1036
01:15:54.920 --> 01:15:57.439
one of the pick of the week
that they've had out there, and they've

1037
01:15:57.479 --> 01:16:00.359
got a wide variety. And do
you know, Lantana's don't have to just

1038
01:16:00.399 --> 01:16:02.920
be a big old bush. There's
some varieties there are a lot smaller and

1039
01:16:03.239 --> 01:16:05.800
go ahead and check it out.
By the way, enchanted forest, if

1040
01:16:05.800 --> 01:16:12.399
you're in Richmond, going toward sugar
Land off to the right is where you're

1041
01:16:12.399 --> 01:16:16.479
going to get to enchanted forests.
That's FM twenty seven fifty nine twenty seven

1042
01:16:16.920 --> 01:16:24.640
fifty nine. That is I just
would recommend you do that. Go out

1043
01:16:24.640 --> 01:16:27.399
and check out, by the way, on all our garden centers, I

1044
01:16:27.439 --> 01:16:29.920
have not called everyone. See who's
open, who's not open to what?

1045
01:16:30.359 --> 01:16:31.960
Just go check their social media,
go check their webs. I don't give

1046
01:16:31.960 --> 01:16:35.880
them a call before you head out
that way today being Easter Sunday, and

1047
01:16:36.000 --> 01:16:40.680
just make sure that they're open before
you head out that way. But I

1048
01:16:41.000 --> 01:16:45.199
every day is a good day to
go out to Enchended Forest and visit them.

1049
01:16:45.720 --> 01:16:49.680
We were talking about fire ants as
being one of the pests that we

1050
01:16:49.800 --> 01:16:55.279
have to deal with when it comes
to getting out and enjoying the garden.

1051
01:16:55.319 --> 01:16:59.359
Mosquitos are another one that we have
to deal with. And you know,

1052
01:16:59.439 --> 01:17:03.640
mosquitos need water in order to go
through their life cycle, but they're pretty

1053
01:17:03.680 --> 01:17:08.880
fast. It doesn't take long for
the mosquito to lay an egg, the

1054
01:17:08.880 --> 01:17:13.520
egg to hatch into a little larva
that floats along the surface and not to

1055
01:17:13.600 --> 01:17:18.560
transform into an adult mosquito. And
when you have like leaky gutters, they

1056
01:17:18.560 --> 01:17:23.920
can hold water for a period of
time and mosquitoes can reproduce in there.

1057
01:17:24.199 --> 01:17:28.119
When you have a bird bath that
just sits stagnant, or a dog bowl

1058
01:17:28.279 --> 01:17:31.079
full of water outside that just sits
stagnant for a long period of time.

1059
01:17:31.520 --> 01:17:36.319
Mosquitoes are gonna be present, and
we say, don't be a Skeeter breeder,

1060
01:17:38.119 --> 01:17:41.720
because all we have to do is
dump those areas. Fix those areas.

1061
01:17:42.920 --> 01:17:45.439
You know, they're the little mosquito
dunks and granules you put in that

1062
01:17:46.079 --> 01:17:49.359
is a stagnant body of water,
maybe it's a pond or something like that.

1063
01:17:49.640 --> 01:17:54.039
You can put them in there to
control the larva there. But you

1064
01:17:54.119 --> 01:17:58.920
want to be ahead of this whole
thing. And here in southeast part of

1065
01:17:58.960 --> 01:18:02.560
Texas or through the region, it
rains a lot in general, and when

1066
01:18:02.600 --> 01:18:06.840
it does, here come the Skeeters. So kind of plan ahead as you're

1067
01:18:06.880 --> 01:18:11.239
thinking about that. That's just kind
of like a public service message. But

1068
01:18:11.279 --> 01:18:14.760
there's a lot we can do to
avoid that kind of problem. And with

1069
01:18:14.840 --> 01:18:18.520
different kinds of mosquitoes, different species, and the different diseases they carry,

1070
01:18:19.039 --> 01:18:23.079
we need to be extra careful.
You know. The Health Department's always looking

1071
01:18:23.159 --> 01:18:29.279
at looking for things like do we
have West Nile virus and other things that

1072
01:18:29.359 --> 01:18:34.079
mosquitoes can carry. So give you
a little extra extra careful if you have

1073
01:18:34.159 --> 01:18:41.039
pets. Make sure your pets are
being treated for heartworms. Do you know

1074
01:18:41.159 --> 01:18:45.720
that mosquitoes can carry the heartworm and
your pet gets the heartworm. Here on

1075
01:18:45.760 --> 01:18:53.960
the Gulf Coast, there are widespread
heartworm issues with pets or dogs, very

1076
01:18:54.000 --> 01:18:59.720
widespread problem, and so another reason
keeping the mosquitoes down. But don't depend

1077
01:18:59.760 --> 01:19:03.720
on that. Make sure your pets
are always continually on HeartWare medication. If

1078
01:19:03.760 --> 01:19:08.520
you just moved here from some other
parts of the country. The Gulf Coast

1079
01:19:08.800 --> 01:19:14.399
is a hotbed for heartworm problems with
dogs, and that is a serious problem

1080
01:19:14.479 --> 01:19:17.800
you do not want to mess around
with. Let's go out to Whitehall and

1081
01:19:17.840 --> 01:19:21.960
we're going to talk to Mark.
Hello. Mark, Hello, good morning,

1082
01:19:23.000 --> 01:19:28.560
and thanks. Skip. I'm really
struggling with pruney freshly planted fruit trees.

1083
01:19:28.920 --> 01:19:31.960
Okay, I've been online and saying, yes, you've got you've got

1084
01:19:31.960 --> 01:19:34.920
a knee, capp them and cut
them back and skip. They're beautiful,

1085
01:19:34.920 --> 01:19:39.479
They've got leaves, some are producing
some small fruit. Yeah, and I'm

1086
01:19:39.520 --> 01:19:43.680
really struggling with this. Yeah,
I got you. The Aggie Horticulture website

1087
01:19:43.840 --> 01:19:46.920
has a publication on each fruit tree
in the fruit section, and it shows

1088
01:19:46.960 --> 01:19:50.119
you how to train and prune them
going along. So whatever you're planting,

1089
01:19:50.279 --> 01:19:55.760
what kind of fruit have you planted? Well, we've got two pair,

1090
01:19:55.960 --> 01:20:00.560
two apple, two peach, two
necktarine, and too plumps. They're all

1091
01:20:00.600 --> 01:20:03.399
in a line, a straight line, about twenty five thirty feet apart.

1092
01:20:03.640 --> 01:20:09.119
Yeah, So on the plums and
the peaches, you want to open bowl

1093
01:20:09.439 --> 01:20:12.680
or a base shape or a challice
shape if you want to go that route.

1094
01:20:13.359 --> 01:20:15.600
And to do that, you got
to cut the trunk off somewhere and

1095
01:20:15.640 --> 01:20:18.640
get your branches. Now, if
your tree came with it and you happen

1096
01:20:18.680 --> 01:20:25.920
to have branches that are about the
right height let's say about need to pants

1097
01:20:25.920 --> 01:20:30.239
pocket high, you know, something
like that, and they're going in different

1098
01:20:30.319 --> 01:20:35.840
directions, so they're kind of like
the three points on a triangle, then

1099
01:20:35.880 --> 01:20:39.840
you don't have to cut those off, cut everything else off, and just

1100
01:20:40.079 --> 01:20:44.920
train those. If you bottle a
bear root tree when you plant it,

1101
01:20:45.000 --> 01:20:48.880
we say just cut it off at
that time if the plant, if the

1102
01:20:48.920 --> 01:20:55.119
branches on those trees are really not
where they should be, just leaving them

1103
01:20:55.319 --> 01:21:00.359
is a mistake you need and a
young tree can develop a new branches pretty

1104
01:21:00.399 --> 01:21:03.600
quickly. With the apples and the
pears, we're doing more of a central

1105
01:21:03.600 --> 01:21:08.640
water time of training, where we
have a central trunk and then what we

1106
01:21:08.720 --> 01:21:12.680
call a whirl of branches at a
certain height, and then you go up

1107
01:21:12.720 --> 01:21:16.039
another eighteen twenty four inches whatever,
you have another whirl of branches, and

1108
01:21:16.119 --> 01:21:21.479
that's kind of the goal in apple
and pair pruning. Pairs are a little

1109
01:21:21.560 --> 01:21:27.039
tricky to get to cooperate with pruning, and we try to minimize pruning on

1110
01:21:27.119 --> 01:21:29.479
those. But I mean, we
could sit here and talk all day on

1111
01:21:29.520 --> 01:21:32.520
those. I'm about to We're going
to hear music in just a minute.

1112
01:21:32.560 --> 01:21:38.279
But if you want to hang around
until after this break on top of the

1113
01:21:38.319 --> 01:21:43.760
hour, we can continue the discussion. But be brave, be brave the

1114
01:21:43.840 --> 01:21:46.359
right do the right thing. But
you know, there may be some more

1115
01:21:46.399 --> 01:21:49.199
details I didn't get from you in
that, So if you want to talk

1116
01:21:49.199 --> 01:21:57.000
about it, I'll I'll hang with
you. Thank you. Yes. Where

1117
01:21:57.000 --> 01:21:59.720
I'm going to be next Saturday,
I'm going to be at the ACE Hardware

1118
01:21:59.720 --> 01:22:03.439
store. I'm going to be at
specifically the M and D clear Lake store

1119
01:22:03.479 --> 01:22:06.319
down in clear Lake. Ace Hardware
it's easy to find. Hey, how

1120
01:22:06.319 --> 01:22:10.640
do you find an ACE Hardware store? You go to ACE hardware dot com.

1121
01:22:10.680 --> 01:22:13.399
And you find the store locator and
it takes your right to it makes

1122
01:22:13.439 --> 01:22:15.960
it real easy. I'll be there
from eleven thirty to one thirty. Love

1123
01:22:16.000 --> 01:22:19.479
to meet you. I'm gonna be
giving away Nitropost products are providing us some

1124
01:22:19.520 --> 01:22:24.880
cool giveaways there. We'll be doing
that also next Friday and Saturday. Down

1125
01:22:24.920 --> 01:22:30.439
in Wharton they're opening the new Wharton
feed an Ace Hardware store on Richmond Road.

1126
01:22:32.199 --> 01:22:36.199
Kt RH Garden Line does not necessarily
endorse any of the products or services

1127
01:22:36.199 --> 01:22:43.520
advertised on this program. Welcome to
kt r H Garden Line with Skip Richter.

1128
01:22:43.680 --> 01:23:04.840
It's so crazy just watch him as
so many Welcome back to garden Line.

1129
01:23:06.119 --> 01:23:12.680
Welcome back to guard Line on a
Sunday Easter Sunday, wishing you all

1130
01:23:13.119 --> 01:23:17.279
happy Easter Sunday. Hope you have
a very nice and relaxed time as well.

1131
01:23:18.039 --> 01:23:23.279
We are going to start this hour
by heading right out to Whitehall to

1132
01:23:23.359 --> 01:23:27.279
talk to Mark. Hello. Mark, we just were talking pruning and here

1133
01:23:27.319 --> 01:23:30.039
we go again. Yes, sir, I just have to get over the

1134
01:23:30.079 --> 01:23:33.479
initial fear because they're so beautiful.
At this point. There palms on them,

1135
01:23:33.479 --> 01:23:35.880
there's speeches on them, and it's
like, oh, what do I

1136
01:23:35.920 --> 01:23:41.079
do and I'm sorry, how old
are these streets. How long have they

1137
01:23:41.119 --> 01:23:45.840
been in They've been in the ground
now about four weeks? Yeah, okay,

1138
01:23:45.880 --> 01:23:49.680
and they're all six foot six foot
seven foot tall. Yeah. Well,

1139
01:23:51.880 --> 01:23:56.640
take a look at those publications.
When I grew up. Each I

1140
01:23:56.680 --> 01:24:00.880
start the branches you know, down
about wasst higher, a little lower than

1141
01:24:00.920 --> 01:24:04.920
waist high, and create that bowl. And I know you've got those up

1142
01:24:04.960 --> 01:24:09.279
there, but just remember this,
everything that has peaches. If you wait

1143
01:24:09.359 --> 01:24:13.960
until after the fruit is on the
tree, then you're taking a lot of

1144
01:24:14.039 --> 01:24:18.560
lumber out, a lot of growth
that the tree put out, Whereas if

1145
01:24:18.560 --> 01:24:21.560
you do it now, all the
new growth is going to come from buds

1146
01:24:21.560 --> 01:24:26.680
on the branches where they should be. And so that's a trade off.

1147
01:24:27.359 --> 01:24:30.079
I know, you got a peach
and you don't want to you don't wanna,

1148
01:24:30.640 --> 01:24:34.159
you know, lose it. But
really it's the third year that we

1149
01:24:34.279 --> 01:24:40.119
really look to get our production starting. That's just starting. And the way

1150
01:24:40.319 --> 01:24:43.520
I think it helps mart to look
at it, maybe maybe this makes it

1151
01:24:43.520 --> 01:24:47.680
a little easier, is if you
for the first two or three years focus

1152
01:24:47.840 --> 01:24:54.720
primarily on building a great, big
tree that's well shaped, that has light

1153
01:24:54.840 --> 01:24:59.399
all through the branches. Then you're
going to hang a lot of fruit on

1154
01:24:59.479 --> 01:25:04.159
that tree in the years to come. If you instead allow it that hasn't

1155
01:25:04.159 --> 01:25:09.720
been prune to shade out the lower
areas and allow it to try to have

1156
01:25:09.840 --> 01:25:13.880
fruit and things, then you're not
going to have the tree that in the

1157
01:25:13.880 --> 01:25:17.079
future you can hang a lot of
fruit on. And so just think of

1158
01:25:17.119 --> 01:25:20.119
it that way. Maybe they'll make
it a little bit easier. But look

1159
01:25:20.159 --> 01:25:25.920
at those publications on Aggie Horticulture.
I think they'll be helpful. I'll do

1160
01:25:25.960 --> 01:25:29.079
it, all right, Mark,
good luck with that. Now. If

1161
01:25:29.199 --> 01:25:32.520
you do it, I recommend it
and you're successful. I just ask normally

1162
01:25:32.640 --> 01:25:35.359
ask for half the produce from callers, but if you can just give me

1163
01:25:35.439 --> 01:25:40.720
twenty five percent spring in summer,
I'll call it even. All right,

1164
01:25:41.800 --> 01:25:46.439
You got to the Easter service,
youtobe, by bye. Those of you

1165
01:25:46.560 --> 01:25:51.600
that live out in Kingwood, you
I'm sure know about Kingwood Garden Center and

1166
01:25:51.640 --> 01:25:58.039
Warren Southern Gardens. You know those
two places. They always have the kinds

1167
01:25:58.039 --> 01:26:00.800
of plants and the kinds of products
you looking for. You know, do

1168
01:26:00.840 --> 01:26:04.039
you want to run out there and
pick up some quality airloom soils, for

1169
01:26:04.159 --> 01:26:08.840
example, Well, they have that
absolutely they have that. If you want

1170
01:26:08.880 --> 01:26:11.800
to get out and get some beautiful
flowers. Oh my gosh. They are

1171
01:26:11.960 --> 01:26:17.039
loaded up with color right now.
And I just was talking yesterday about some

1172
01:26:17.119 --> 01:26:19.600
of the things you know you want
boog and videos. Those are gorgeous,

1173
01:26:19.640 --> 01:26:25.800
gorgeous color. They have shrubs that
have beautiful color. They've got that red

1174
01:26:25.920 --> 01:26:30.159
bud. That what it's the name
of that red bud. It's like flame,

1175
01:26:30.039 --> 01:26:35.159
oh my, flamethrower, flamethrower red
bud. The new growth is just

1176
01:26:35.399 --> 01:26:40.399
a reddish orange color. The older
leaves are kind of orangey, and the

1177
01:26:40.439 --> 01:26:44.560
color it's just really beautiful, really
really beautiful. Lots of color you can

1178
01:26:44.600 --> 01:26:46.520
get from them for your landscape.
They're going to have all the products I

1179
01:26:46.560 --> 01:26:49.880
talk about. If I say,
you ought to use this fertilizer, it's

1180
01:26:49.880 --> 01:26:53.800
a good one. They're going to
have it there at Orange Garden Center and

1181
01:26:54.000 --> 01:27:00.039
Kingwood Garden Center. They just absolutely
have done something recently to that I think

1182
01:27:00.159 --> 01:27:05.720
is wonderful, and that is dropping
their prices significantly. They have made a

1183
01:27:05.800 --> 01:27:10.880
lot of changes and the new price
structure I think is a really good one.

1184
01:27:11.119 --> 01:27:14.560
Save some money. Go check that
out. Also, if you want

1185
01:27:14.600 --> 01:27:19.399
to buy things, buy the flat, a flat of eighteen plants on vegetables

1186
01:27:19.399 --> 01:27:24.880
and herbs. Well, you don't
have to buy like eighteen tomatoes. You

1187
01:27:24.960 --> 01:27:29.720
can buy some tomatoes and some peppers
and some herbs and things. You can

1188
01:27:29.800 --> 01:27:33.760
mix and match any of the vegetables, and that is a discounted price when

1189
01:27:33.760 --> 01:27:36.760
you buy the whole flat. So
maybe you and a neighbor want to go

1190
01:27:36.800 --> 01:27:41.439
together and each get nine plants.
That's another way to look at it.

1191
01:27:41.880 --> 01:27:46.680
Larrence Kingwood Garden Centers great places to
go. You listen to garden Line.

1192
01:27:46.800 --> 01:27:50.399
I'm your host, Skip Richter,
and we're here to answer gardening questions.

1193
01:27:50.399 --> 01:27:56.119
You can give us a call seven
to one three two one two five eight

1194
01:27:56.439 --> 01:28:01.560
seven four seven one three two one
two five eight seven four. I was

1195
01:28:01.600 --> 01:28:09.199
talking earlier about the mosquitos and the
importance of making sure standing water areas are

1196
01:28:09.319 --> 01:28:13.399
drained often. I don't mean ever
two weeks. I mean you know,

1197
01:28:13.439 --> 01:28:16.600
every few days, make sure that
that gets stumped out, or to use

1198
01:28:16.640 --> 01:28:21.560
some of the products that control them. And there's products like the mosquito dung,

1199
01:28:21.720 --> 01:28:27.560
some stueto granules that you can put
in stagnant water and it releases a

1200
01:28:27.560 --> 01:28:32.159
little microbe that is a type of
BT in that interesting. You know BT

1201
01:28:32.359 --> 01:28:38.119
is caterpillar control, right, BT
caterpillar control. There's other strains of BT

1202
01:28:38.319 --> 01:28:42.399
that do other things. Leaf feeding
beetles, there's a strain for that.

1203
01:28:42.520 --> 01:28:47.159
It's not the caterpillar one. Don't
buy regular caterpillar BT for beetles, it

1204
01:28:47.199 --> 01:28:53.039
won't work. There's a strain for
fungus nats. There's a strain that works

1205
01:28:53.039 --> 01:28:58.279
well for the mosquitoes. BT israeli
ensis is the one for the mosquitoes.

1206
01:28:58.760 --> 01:29:02.520
And those products are available at a
hardware stores. You know, everything's available

1207
01:29:02.560 --> 01:29:05.640
a dase. They just have everything
you need. But when you're dealing with

1208
01:29:05.680 --> 01:29:11.079
mosquitoes and you need products for that, including equipment, you know, fogger

1209
01:29:11.159 --> 01:29:14.319
and other things, Ace Hardware is
going to have all of that. UH

1210
01:29:14.359 --> 01:29:16.680
And so you know you're in there, you're buying your fertilizer, you're getting

1211
01:29:16.680 --> 01:29:21.239
your fire ant control, you're getting
a mosquito control equipment. They got something

1212
01:29:21.279 --> 01:29:26.880
else for the the UH patio for
that beautiful outdoor sitting area, maybe a

1213
01:29:26.880 --> 01:29:31.399
string of lights through the area for
that evening Ambiyonce Ace Hardware has it all,

1214
01:29:31.840 --> 01:29:38.560
go to the website acehardware dot com
now asardware dot com has a store

1215
01:29:38.640 --> 01:29:42.880
locator, and you you just put
in. In fact, they may ask

1216
01:29:42.920 --> 01:29:45.800
you that when you first go the
website, you know where are you from?

1217
01:29:45.840 --> 01:29:47.680
Can we can we look? Can
we use your location? And that

1218
01:29:47.760 --> 01:29:51.600
way you can get the map of
all the things and the places to go

1219
01:29:51.640 --> 01:29:56.079
so you can find an ACE hardware
near you. I think that's good because

1220
01:29:56.079 --> 01:30:00.840
it makes it super super easy.
ACE is the place wh why not won't

1221
01:30:00.880 --> 01:30:03.960
stop shopping. I'm going to head
out now to North Houston and we're going

1222
01:30:04.000 --> 01:30:08.720
to talk to Robert. Hello,
Robert, very good mornings you. Yeah.

1223
01:30:08.760 --> 01:30:13.439
I was listening to your program yesterday
and a man called about cabbage and

1224
01:30:13.479 --> 01:30:17.840
he told him to use spinosad and
he said that that spinosad it wouldn't run

1225
01:30:17.880 --> 01:30:23.479
off the cabbage because you know,
I guess it's kind of slickly. I

1226
01:30:23.479 --> 01:30:28.119
was wondering, could you use that
spinosad as a spread er sticker? No,

1227
01:30:28.319 --> 01:30:32.680
I think I think what we were
talking about is those blue leaf vegetables,

1228
01:30:32.680 --> 01:30:38.279
the coal crops like broccoli, cabbage
and caulifar or whatnot. The drops

1229
01:30:38.479 --> 01:30:42.960
just stand up on the leaf and
roll off. They don't spread out flat,

1230
01:30:43.119 --> 01:30:46.760
and so you need more of a
surfactant to try to get that to

1231
01:30:46.880 --> 01:30:51.239
work that way, and the spinosa
is not a surfactant. You would need

1232
01:30:51.279 --> 01:30:55.840
something to spread those droplets out to
get them to stay, because you need

1233
01:30:55.880 --> 01:30:59.000
them to soak into the leaf tissue. So when the bug eats the leaf

1234
01:30:59.520 --> 01:31:01.880
it gets that can die. So
that that's kind of how that would work.

1235
01:31:02.760 --> 01:31:05.239
Okay. You can also you can
also cover them. You know,

1236
01:31:05.319 --> 01:31:10.000
those things don't have to be pollinated, so a very lightweight row cover over

1237
01:31:10.039 --> 01:31:13.800
them. That little moth is flying
through the garden looking for the right kinds

1238
01:31:13.800 --> 01:31:16.520
of plants to lay its eggs on, and it can't lay eggs on their

1239
01:31:16.520 --> 01:31:20.439
plants because you got to cover over
them. That's another good option. Okay,

1240
01:31:20.760 --> 01:31:25.199
Well I thought many after I listened
yesterday you used a spreader, but

1241
01:31:25.680 --> 01:31:28.800
since you said no, I'll go
with yeah, no, it's it's it's

1242
01:31:28.880 --> 01:31:31.960
not made to be a spreader stick. Yeah. Okay, thank you all.

1243
01:31:31.960 --> 01:31:34.720
Good to clear that up. Thanks
for the call, appreciate that very

1244
01:31:34.800 --> 01:31:39.199
much. Uh, if you can
hang on just a minute, we are

1245
01:31:39.199 --> 01:31:42.439
going to take a little quick break
here and when we come back, John

1246
01:31:42.640 --> 01:31:45.680
Dudley and Steve, you guys will
be the first ones up. Welcome back

1247
01:31:45.720 --> 01:31:49.359
to the garden line. If you're
doing some potting up of your plants,

1248
01:31:49.399 --> 01:31:55.840
maybe you're maybe you're doing some outdoor
potting. Will Jungle in from distributed about

1249
01:31:55.880 --> 01:31:59.600
night Fross. They've got a quality
product that drains very well. It's a

1250
01:31:59.720 --> 01:32:04.840
four to different types of aged organic
materials and also Canadian blonde pede in there

1251
01:32:04.880 --> 01:32:09.640
and micro hizo fungi. It helps
with the root system indoors. It's the

1252
01:32:09.680 --> 01:32:12.600
indoor potting soil version. What does
that mean, Well, it means it

1253
01:32:12.600 --> 01:32:15.920
has little crystals in it that swell
up with water. So if you forget

1254
01:32:15.920 --> 01:32:20.239
the water, it will help extend
a little further, Uh, those plants

1255
01:32:20.399 --> 01:32:26.399
ability to avoid going into a drought
stress. And so that's very handy for

1256
01:32:26.439 --> 01:32:30.520
that. Those crystals are really cool
and juggle Land is available wide widely.

1257
01:32:30.880 --> 01:32:33.479
You know, any any place you're
going to get a night frosh products.

1258
01:32:34.039 --> 01:32:38.319
For example, if you go to
d and Defeat up in Tomball, they're

1259
01:32:38.359 --> 01:32:41.720
going to have those kind of things. Angleton Lake Hardware down in Angleton,

1260
01:32:42.039 --> 01:32:45.319
they're going to have those sort of
things. Fisher's Hardware and Baytown as well.

1261
01:32:45.359 --> 01:32:50.000
Easy to find night Frost products,
including the Jungle l in potting soil

1262
01:32:50.199 --> 01:32:55.640
potting mix. We're going to go
now to Tomball and talk to John.

1263
01:32:55.720 --> 01:33:00.399
Hello John, good morning, Skiff, Half easter to you and as well,

1264
01:33:00.439 --> 01:33:03.840
thank you. I have a quick
question. I've got a couple of

1265
01:33:04.279 --> 01:33:12.319
cherry tomatoes and I'm not exactly sure
if I should throw in some fifteen five

1266
01:33:12.359 --> 01:33:17.239
ten or has to grow or I
have some fertilizer from Arborgate. What's your

1267
01:33:17.279 --> 01:33:23.680
recommendation on that? In roses?
You can go either way. It kind

1268
01:33:23.680 --> 01:33:28.520
of depends on the soil content of
nutrients that you have now, So assuming

1269
01:33:28.600 --> 01:33:31.880
we don't know that, then if
you wanted to use a long furtilizer,

1270
01:33:32.000 --> 01:33:35.800
that would be fine. But I
think the Arborgates is it are four four

1271
01:33:35.840 --> 01:33:42.720
to three. I believe their soil
organic food complete rather four four three plus

1272
01:33:42.760 --> 01:33:45.760
gas. I think I would use
that on them. Of the things you

1273
01:33:45.800 --> 01:33:47.840
were questioning, I think that's going
to be your best back because it works

1274
01:33:47.880 --> 01:33:54.279
on anything that has roots pretty much. I mean, that's widely usable.

1275
01:33:55.439 --> 01:34:00.399
And how often skips should I do
that? I would do it at right

1276
01:34:00.439 --> 01:34:04.000
after planting. You can actually mix
it into the soil, not just in

1277
01:34:04.039 --> 01:34:06.720
the hole, but mix it into
the soil and then plant a plant in

1278
01:34:06.760 --> 01:34:11.399
that area, but I would do
it right after planning. I would probably

1279
01:34:11.520 --> 01:34:17.359
repeat it about three or four weeks
later a second time. And because our

1280
01:34:17.840 --> 01:34:21.399
summers are going to shut down the
tomatoes, so I don't know that a

1281
01:34:21.439 --> 01:34:27.199
third application is going to be necessary, right, Okay? And I guess

1282
01:34:27.279 --> 01:34:31.960
the same with roses, right about
once every one two months? Yeah,

1283
01:34:32.359 --> 01:34:36.079
every that would that'd be eight weeks. Yes, that two months would be

1284
01:34:36.479 --> 01:34:41.760
pretty good. And with roses,
you're going to do it more often through

1285
01:34:41.800 --> 01:34:45.520
the summer because they're continuing to grow
through the summer. But that, yeah,

1286
01:34:45.760 --> 01:34:49.760
it would work very well for that. Thank you, Skip, appreciate

1287
01:34:49.760 --> 01:34:54.359
it, you bet, thank you, John, appreciate that call. You

1288
01:34:54.359 --> 01:34:57.159
know the Arbigate they have a new
parking lot. Did you know that?

1289
01:34:57.800 --> 01:35:01.279
As you're heading out, you know, twenty nine to out west of Tomball,

1290
01:35:01.560 --> 01:35:05.039
west of two forty nine, the
Arbigate's going to be on your left.

1291
01:35:05.159 --> 01:35:09.880
Well before you get to Arbigate,
Trichel Road goes off to the left,

1292
01:35:09.960 --> 01:35:14.680
goes around Arburgate and comes back into
twenty nine to twenty right after Arburgate.

1293
01:35:14.720 --> 01:35:17.600
So if you miss Trischel Road,
just oh there's Arburgate. So really

1294
01:35:17.640 --> 01:35:21.119
be looking because the other end of
Trishele's right there and you go in the

1295
01:35:21.159 --> 01:35:24.960
back and the parking lot is awesome. I mean, it's all weather.

1296
01:35:25.600 --> 01:35:28.640
It's really cool the design of it, the way they did it, where

1297
01:35:28.840 --> 01:35:31.960
the water just goes right down in
through the parking lot through that hardescape.

1298
01:35:32.560 --> 01:35:36.119
But it's cool. And we were
just talking with John about the organic food

1299
01:35:36.159 --> 01:35:41.279
Complete that's the four four to three
plus calcium. They also make an organic

1300
01:35:41.399 --> 01:35:47.800
soil complete that has the high quality
blended soil mix with expanded shale in it,

1301
01:35:47.920 --> 01:35:54.920
and an organic compost complete which has
high quality compost with expanded shale in

1302
01:35:54.960 --> 01:35:58.079
it. Why do we keep putting
expanded shail in these things? Because our

1303
01:35:58.119 --> 01:36:01.479
heavy clay soils. Expanded shale is
one of the things along with the organic

1304
01:36:01.520 --> 01:36:06.760
matter like the compost that helps keep
that soil open and build a structure so

1305
01:36:06.800 --> 01:36:13.199
that oxygen and water drain into the
go through the soil profile better and the

1306
01:36:13.239 --> 01:36:16.640
plant roots just have a better environment
all around. That's that's all available at

1307
01:36:16.640 --> 01:36:20.439
the arbit It's color one two three
system. Ask them about it when you

1308
01:36:20.439 --> 01:36:25.000
get out there. We're gonna go
to West Houston now and talk to Dudley.

1309
01:36:25.039 --> 01:36:30.760
Hello, Dudley Aunty Easter and to
you as well, what's up this

1310
01:36:30.920 --> 01:36:35.279
morning. We've got a schumock read
oak tree that we planned four years ago.

1311
01:36:36.119 --> 01:36:41.479
It's about six ancient diameter or we
won't know if it's dying, okay,

1312
01:36:41.640 --> 01:36:46.239
being barked at the bottom up about
a foot it's flaking off and there's

1313
01:36:46.279 --> 01:36:55.000
an ant bed there. We've treated
the ants. Okay. Woodpecker has eaten

1314
01:36:55.039 --> 01:37:05.399
holes in it up about seven feet
and it's the first Believes of the last

1315
01:37:05.880 --> 01:37:12.119
time talking about when all the trees
budding, it gets the last one to

1316
01:37:12.159 --> 01:37:15.960
bud and the fall is the Believes
fall first. I don't want to know

1317
01:37:16.039 --> 01:37:20.000
what to do. Okay, it's
dying when you say the bark is chipping

1318
01:37:20.079 --> 01:37:25.800
off or is it like the big
thick section whole section of bark where you

1319
01:37:25.840 --> 01:37:31.640
see the wood underneath. Yes,
okay, well something killed the bark there

1320
01:37:32.640 --> 01:37:36.520
when trees are young. That could
be the sun shining against the trunk in

1321
01:37:36.560 --> 01:37:41.760
the winter time. I can explain
that one why, but just say for

1322
01:37:41.840 --> 01:37:45.439
now that that could have started it. As the tree gets older and the

1323
01:37:45.439 --> 01:37:49.239
bark gets thicker than the sun is
not an issue on that bark, but

1324
01:37:49.520 --> 01:37:54.800
it could be a cold crack from
one of our past freezes that formed under

1325
01:37:54.840 --> 01:37:59.119
there, and the tissues died and
that expanded a little bit before the tree

1326
01:37:59.199 --> 01:38:01.960
was able to start losing it over. I don't know what caused it,

1327
01:38:02.039 --> 01:38:06.399
but that's just a dead bark And
the number one thing should we tail the

1328
01:38:06.439 --> 01:38:10.560
bark off? Yeah, just the
outer bark where you can kind of see

1329
01:38:10.600 --> 01:38:14.840
it. What you're going to see
is the sides of the wound begin to

1330
01:38:14.920 --> 01:38:17.399
close in. And it's slow,
but they close in. It's just like

1331
01:38:17.439 --> 01:38:24.479
a lava flow coming back across that
across that interior wood. And the more

1332
01:38:24.520 --> 01:38:28.439
you do to keep the tree healthy, the faster it closes. Now the

1333
01:38:28.840 --> 01:38:31.439
woodpecker, is that a hole like
size of a golf ball or are we

1334
01:38:31.520 --> 01:38:36.359
talking about little the size of pencil
eraser holes little pencils. Yeah, a

1335
01:38:36.399 --> 01:38:42.199
little. That's a sapsucker and it's
not going to do much damage. Nothing,

1336
01:38:42.319 --> 01:38:45.439
nothing to really worry about in terms
of that. Uh. As far

1337
01:38:45.520 --> 01:38:49.880
as why is the tree not doing
as well, I would consider fertilizing it.

1338
01:38:50.520 --> 01:38:55.239
If you look at the trunk of
the tree about chest high, how

1339
01:38:55.560 --> 01:38:59.399
how many inches across? Not around, but across is that trunk you know,

1340
01:38:59.439 --> 01:39:02.359
if it's a size of a coke
can, that would be three roughly

1341
01:39:02.399 --> 01:39:05.520
three inches. If it's the size
of the steering wheel or car, not

1342
01:39:05.680 --> 01:39:10.079
a one pound, about a one
pound coffee can, about a one pound

1343
01:39:10.119 --> 01:39:13.640
coffee. Again, for every thumb
with for every thumb with the cross,

1344
01:39:13.680 --> 01:39:18.399
every inch across, give it one
or two cups of turf fertilizer, or

1345
01:39:19.239 --> 01:39:25.000
you can purchase a fertilizer. I
know naitre Foss makes one specifically four trees,

1346
01:39:25.279 --> 01:39:28.359
but in the in the absence of
that, you can also use a

1347
01:39:28.479 --> 01:39:33.279
lawn fertilizer, not weed control in
it, just fertilizer. And that's that's

1348
01:39:33.279 --> 01:39:36.760
how much you put out and put
it as wide as the branch spread goes,

1349
01:39:38.359 --> 01:39:44.119
so one to two cups per inch
spread evenly as white does the branches

1350
01:39:44.199 --> 01:39:48.399
go watered and really good. Okay, okay, all right, sir,

1351
01:39:50.239 --> 01:39:54.399
all right, you take it.
I appreciate your call very much. Thanks

1352
01:39:54.479 --> 01:39:58.319
a lot. Uh. This is
the time. It's kind of like what

1353
01:39:58.520 --> 01:40:02.079
they say, last call, last
call for pre emergence for those summer weeds

1354
01:40:02.119 --> 01:40:05.600
of sprout in the spring. You
need to get that done. In barricade

1355
01:40:05.600 --> 01:40:10.399
by Nitrofoss is a product that moves
down into the soil. By the way,

1356
01:40:10.439 --> 01:40:13.479
you have to water it in after
you apply it. Very important.

1357
01:40:13.800 --> 01:40:17.319
Moves down in the soil and it
forms a barricade. And anything that's trying

1358
01:40:17.319 --> 01:40:20.880
to put like a weed seed trying
to grow a root into that soil,

1359
01:40:21.279 --> 01:40:25.399
it shuts it down right there.
It doesn't let it develop into a plant,

1360
01:40:25.399 --> 01:40:30.880
and it dies. That's how the
barricade's working. Barricade is always to

1361
01:40:30.920 --> 01:40:39.079
be applied like any fertilizer, any
herbicide, fungicide, insecticide, according to

1362
01:40:39.119 --> 01:40:43.720
the label. Follow follow, follow, follow the label. That is very

1363
01:40:43.760 --> 01:40:47.359
important. If a teaspoon is good, a tablespoon is not better. In

1364
01:40:47.479 --> 01:40:53.359
fact, can cause problems when we
start using any kind of a pesticide product

1365
01:40:54.000 --> 01:40:57.960
like that, when we misuse them, that is not good. So follow

1366
01:40:58.000 --> 01:41:00.520
the label and it'll do its job. Label is there for a reason.

1367
01:41:00.720 --> 01:41:03.920
That is a rate that the company
itself is saying, this is the rate

1368
01:41:03.960 --> 01:41:08.479
that works. It works best to
do it this way, so follow that

1369
01:41:08.560 --> 01:41:12.159
label. Barricade is widely available.
It's a it's a night foss product,

1370
01:41:12.159 --> 01:41:14.960
so you know you're going to find
them all over the place, like if

1371
01:41:14.960 --> 01:41:17.600
you're out in Kingwood. The Ace
Hardware out there has them. I think

1372
01:41:17.680 --> 01:41:20.720
I Arborgate. I was just talking
about them a minute ago. They've got

1373
01:41:21.039 --> 01:41:26.079
that kind of product as well.
It's easy to find night foss products.

1374
01:41:26.079 --> 01:41:30.399
But it's important to get that done. We can do barricade at other months

1375
01:41:30.399 --> 01:41:31.960
of the year, you know,
there are things that sprout later, but

1376
01:41:32.399 --> 01:41:36.199
right now I wouldn't delay anymore.
I would get that done. Let's go

1377
01:41:36.359 --> 01:41:41.159
out to Dayton and we're going to
talk to Steve. Hello, Steve,

1378
01:41:42.439 --> 01:41:45.359
Hey, Skip, thanks for taking
the call. I got a question about

1379
01:41:46.039 --> 01:41:49.720
a palm tree. I have two
palm trees. One I think is a

1380
01:41:49.840 --> 01:41:59.640
Merit Paulsa and the other one is
a Melodie Methley probably, yeah, and

1381
01:42:00.039 --> 01:42:06.720
planning about we'll say thirty feet apart. Okay, and the trees are I

1382
01:42:06.840 --> 01:42:12.840
bought large trees, so maybe the
trees were full or five years old when

1383
01:42:12.880 --> 01:42:17.920
I bought them, and I've had
them for uh three maybe four years.

1384
01:42:18.399 --> 01:42:23.520
And the issue I have is they
put they put on hundreds of blooms.

1385
01:42:23.600 --> 01:42:30.000
I mean hundreds of blooms, but
I get maybe three or four plums and

1386
01:42:30.039 --> 01:42:34.359
that's it. Well, and okay, I don't know what to do.

1387
01:42:34.840 --> 01:42:38.439
Yeah, So if you're getting a
lot of blooms. That means you're getting

1388
01:42:38.479 --> 01:42:46.680
good sunlight, so that that's important. Yeah, they got full sun Yeah,

1389
01:42:47.039 --> 01:42:51.039
why are the blooms not saying well? Pollination is one one thing now

1390
01:42:51.319 --> 01:42:59.880
methaly I know is it can self
pollinate, and I think the Mariposa all

1391
01:43:00.079 --> 01:43:03.359
so is self pollinating. So that's
why I'm both of them. So the

1392
01:43:03.399 --> 01:43:10.640
next step would be are bees there
is there is there some reason that you're

1393
01:43:10.920 --> 01:43:15.479
getting the insects in there. I
see the bees on it. You know.

1394
01:43:15.479 --> 01:43:19.359
I've got uh, I've got peach
trees in that same area, and

1395
01:43:19.399 --> 01:43:27.279
I've got a number of different types
of oranges, and I get tons of

1396
01:43:27.319 --> 01:43:32.520
peaches off the trees. I uh, okay, and I have raised bad

1397
01:43:32.560 --> 01:43:36.119
gardens in the area, and and
I just have you know, beautiful plants

1398
01:43:36.159 --> 01:43:40.199
in the garden, plenty of fruit
in the garden. Okay. Uh,

1399
01:43:41.479 --> 01:43:46.720
it's a stumper. I would,
you know, excessive fertilization, but that

1400
01:43:46.720 --> 01:43:53.479
would affect fruits that not not bloom. You know, I read about maybe

1401
01:43:53.560 --> 01:43:58.960
overfertilizing. I use micro life six
two four, so I don't make it

1402
01:43:59.039 --> 01:44:02.319
an open over probably not. I
don't think it's it's a fertilization. I

1403
01:44:02.319 --> 01:44:04.359
got about thirty seconds, BEFO,
I have to go to break here.

1404
01:44:05.039 --> 01:44:09.880
The only other thing I could think
of is they're not the variety you thought

1405
01:44:09.920 --> 01:44:14.399
they were, and their variety of
needs pollination. That's a long shot.

1406
01:44:14.920 --> 01:44:16.640
I'm all ponned by this one a
little bit, but pretty much all the

1407
01:44:16.680 --> 01:44:21.560
common reasons that that happens. You've
we've ruled out in our conversation. If

1408
01:44:21.560 --> 01:44:25.640
you want to stick around till after
break, Steve, that's fine. I

1409
01:44:25.720 --> 01:44:29.039
had to go and we're going to
move to the news. I'll be right

1410
01:44:29.079 --> 01:44:32.680
back. Well, Nikki, we
got things to talk about today. It

1411
01:44:32.720 --> 01:44:39.000
is right, it's news time.
Yes, we do indeed disappointing things to

1412
01:44:39.039 --> 01:44:42.279
talk about today. I didn't like
hearing about the Astros and the Yankees.

1413
01:44:42.840 --> 01:44:47.399
That was disappointing. And we've got
a major thoroughfare that is closed down all

1414
01:44:47.520 --> 01:44:53.680
lanes. Oh that's fine. Yes, welcome back to guard Line on an

1415
01:44:53.680 --> 01:44:58.479
Easter Sunday morning. We are glad
you're with us today. Appreciate you being

1416
01:44:58.520 --> 01:45:00.079
a listener to guard Line. I
hope we're hell for you and our goal.

1417
01:45:00.239 --> 01:45:05.119
My goal is to have to help
you have a more bountiful garden and

1418
01:45:05.159 --> 01:45:10.039
a more beautiful landscape. And it's
as simple as that. And so just

1419
01:45:10.239 --> 01:45:14.479
using some of the simple principles of
things that help plants grow along with I've

1420
01:45:14.479 --> 01:45:19.199
been doing this thirty five years,
so answering gardener questions and learning myself.

1421
01:45:19.680 --> 01:45:23.319
Yes I am a gardener. I
don't just talk about it on the radio.

1422
01:45:24.479 --> 01:45:28.920
Trying to help you avoid the mistakes
that are commonly made by gardeners or

1423
01:45:29.039 --> 01:45:32.600
people that would like to be that's
why we're here. Well, our CW

1424
01:45:32.720 --> 01:45:40.000
Nurseries is the garden center that's there
well where Beltway eight comes into Highway two

1425
01:45:40.079 --> 01:45:43.520
forty nine, which is Tomball Parkway. So it's easy to get to,

1426
01:45:43.680 --> 01:45:46.000
really easy to get to. I
want you to write down the website it's

1427
01:45:46.119 --> 01:45:51.199
URCW Nurseries dot com. That way
you can get more information on things that

1428
01:45:51.239 --> 01:45:55.920
are going on whatnot. Now I
think of them as they get it,

1429
01:45:55.960 --> 01:45:58.760
got it nursery. That means that
they don't have it, they'll do their

1430
01:45:58.800 --> 01:46:02.800
best to find it. And whether
you need annuals or perennials, or herbs

1431
01:46:02.880 --> 01:46:06.319
or shrubs. A native plants,
a trees, they grow their own trees

1432
01:46:06.399 --> 01:46:12.399
up in Plantersville area, so they
have the varieties the cultivars if in some

1433
01:46:12.520 --> 01:46:18.239
cases that do best here always first
stop shopping for roses. They just like

1434
01:46:18.319 --> 01:46:24.439
four pages or two hundred roses.
Over two hundred roses they carry there.

1435
01:46:24.720 --> 01:46:30.479
That's incredible right there. But it
doesn't matter what plants you're looking for.

1436
01:46:30.640 --> 01:46:32.000
Just go by and ask them about
it. They probably got it. And

1437
01:46:32.039 --> 01:46:36.119
they also have the products to help
you get off to a good start with

1438
01:46:36.159 --> 01:46:39.800
what you plant. You know,
do you need a root stimulator type of

1439
01:46:39.840 --> 01:46:43.680
product in there? Do you want
to put some micro life fertilizer like a

1440
01:46:43.720 --> 01:46:47.000
collar. Just a minute ago was
talking about around the trees that they'd planted.

1441
01:46:47.279 --> 01:46:51.560
Well they've got all of that at
RCW Nurseries. Again. They're on

1442
01:46:51.640 --> 01:46:57.520
Tomball Parkway, right where about Way
eight and Tombil Parkway come together. Let's

1443
01:46:57.560 --> 01:47:00.560
go up to West Houston. We're
going to talk to Greg. Hello Greg,

1444
01:47:01.199 --> 01:47:06.159
Hey, good morning Skip. I've
got a few very quick questions about

1445
01:47:06.239 --> 01:47:14.039
Zoiza. I just laid down one
pallette and a small backyard and we were

1446
01:47:14.119 --> 01:47:16.760
rushed and we did the best we
could. And we haven't rolled it yet.

1447
01:47:17.399 --> 01:47:23.840
And I had a question about rolling
it and how heavy, you know,

1448
01:47:23.920 --> 01:47:27.720
how how much water put in that
roller of how heavy to make it

1449
01:47:27.800 --> 01:47:31.159
in order to roll it properly?
Yeah, and then I have a couple

1450
01:47:31.239 --> 01:47:34.359
more. But if you want to
when you say when you say you just

1451
01:47:34.479 --> 01:47:40.760
laid some does that mean yesterday or
what when? Yesterday? Okay? So?

1452
01:47:41.600 --> 01:47:44.800
Or have you watered it yet?
Watered it? Yes? Good?

1453
01:47:45.039 --> 01:47:47.319
Okay? So for the first week, go ahead and water twice a day

1454
01:47:47.399 --> 01:47:49.880
with just a little bit of water, you know, just just a little

1455
01:47:49.920 --> 01:47:54.279
bit. Uh and and uh.
But you want it, you want the

1456
01:47:54.319 --> 01:47:57.520
soil underneath it to be moist,
so initially you may put a little more

1457
01:47:57.560 --> 01:48:00.640
down the roller. I don't know
the weight on roller on that I would

1458
01:48:01.000 --> 01:48:03.720
you know, I mean, you
don't want to compact your soil, but

1459
01:48:04.279 --> 01:48:09.640
at the same time, you want
good soil sid contact. When I plant

1460
01:48:09.680 --> 01:48:12.760
grass, I step on it and
just kind of with your feet, you

1461
01:48:12.760 --> 01:48:15.560
know, press it down. Well, when I put when I step on

1462
01:48:15.560 --> 01:48:19.159
one foot, my whole body way
goes on that spot. So that's a

1463
01:48:19.159 --> 01:48:26.239
lot of weight right there for for
that small footprint. Literally, So I

1464
01:48:26.279 --> 01:48:29.800
would I would just you know,
fill up enough to where it's got a

1465
01:48:29.840 --> 01:48:33.079
real good weight in it. And
you're trying to make the sod contact the

1466
01:48:33.119 --> 01:48:38.239
soil. Uh. And that with
your regular watering gets it off to a

1467
01:48:38.279 --> 01:48:45.680
good start. Okay. And when
there's a and I've got it fenced off,

1468
01:48:45.720 --> 01:48:49.159
it's not going to be walked on
except for by me for three months.

1469
01:48:49.239 --> 01:48:55.560
Right. And there's there's obviously seams. You know, you can't you

1470
01:48:55.560 --> 01:49:00.520
can't make them disappear completely. Is
there anything that you can due to those

1471
01:49:00.600 --> 01:49:08.279
seams to encourage them to spread together
faster? Just once it's been in for

1472
01:49:08.319 --> 01:49:13.039
two weeks and it's rooted in fertilized
according to my schedule. Uh, And

1473
01:49:13.239 --> 01:49:17.119
and do the proper amount for the
particular product that you buy, and they'll

1474
01:49:17.159 --> 01:49:20.760
fill in. Those seams will fill
in pretty fast. Yeah. And it's

1475
01:49:20.800 --> 01:49:26.279
Emerald zoys. My understanding is lower
night rogen higher or whatever. The metal

1476
01:49:26.279 --> 01:49:30.479
one is, no five, No, I would I would do a three

1477
01:49:30.520 --> 01:49:35.399
one two ratio kind of fertilizer or
four one two for that, even that

1478
01:49:35.520 --> 01:49:39.600
variety. It does not need the
middle of nighte right. Okay. And

1479
01:49:39.640 --> 01:49:44.359
the grass the grass farm said that
it has a good amount of fertilizer in

1480
01:49:44.439 --> 01:49:47.720
it that should be good for like
a month. What do you think about

1481
01:49:47.800 --> 01:49:51.039
that comment? Oh? Well,
it does I mean, because they are

1482
01:49:51.039 --> 01:49:56.239
trying to grow grass fast and so
they're keeping it at peak nutrition. So

1483
01:49:56.479 --> 01:49:59.680
I said two weeks, that's just
a time you need to get it rooted

1484
01:49:59.720 --> 01:50:01.159
in. You know, it doesn't
have roots, how's it going to take

1485
01:50:01.239 --> 01:50:05.560
up much nutrient? So if they
say it's a month, they probably put

1486
01:50:05.600 --> 01:50:10.640
a slower release in there, and
you could wait to do what they said.

1487
01:50:11.199 --> 01:50:15.119
Do you wait four weeks to start
fertilizing? And is it okay?

1488
01:50:15.880 --> 01:50:21.600
I wasn't able to spray Medina soil
activator down prior to laying the sod.

1489
01:50:23.119 --> 01:50:28.239
Is it okay to spray some soil
activator on top of it? You can

1490
01:50:28.279 --> 01:50:30.239
do that. And as far as
the Medina products are concerned, I think

1491
01:50:30.319 --> 01:50:35.720
that I would go with the You
know, the Medina has the lawn version

1492
01:50:35.800 --> 01:50:41.199
of their fertilizer. It's called has
to Grow Lawn, and I would use

1493
01:50:41.279 --> 01:50:45.039
that one. It's a twelve four
to eight fertilizer hose end applicator. Hey,

1494
01:50:45.079 --> 01:50:48.439
I need to run, but I
would use that Medina product. Gary,

1495
01:50:48.960 --> 01:50:53.359
if if you can, thank you, Yeah, that's true. You

1496
01:50:53.359 --> 01:50:56.600
know it has to grow six twelve
six that's the one I used for the

1497
01:50:57.439 --> 01:51:00.760
planting for transplanting, moving stuff right
into the soil. Get those transplants going,

1498
01:51:01.399 --> 01:51:04.000
get them off to a good start. Do it at planting, Do

1499
01:51:04.039 --> 01:51:08.359
it a week later, do it
a week after that. Three applications,

1500
01:51:08.720 --> 01:51:12.840
totally two weeks there apart. Get
those things growing for your lawn. Yeah,

1501
01:51:12.920 --> 01:51:15.800
it has to grow long twelve four
eight. It does well. It's

1502
01:51:15.920 --> 01:51:20.199
one that you put on the end
of a garden hose and you water it

1503
01:51:20.279 --> 01:51:25.600
in, so it's already a liquid
to go on down. It's got the

1504
01:51:25.720 --> 01:51:30.680
kinds of nutrients that your soil needs, and Medina products are just one that

1505
01:51:30.800 --> 01:51:35.520
are going to provide a lot in
addition to just the basic nutrients as well,

1506
01:51:35.760 --> 01:51:41.600
you know, things that stimulate the
biological activity. So that works.

1507
01:51:41.680 --> 01:51:46.560
That works great. I talk about
brown stuff and green stuff a lot because

1508
01:51:46.600 --> 01:51:49.600
that's the simplest way I can think
to put it. You know, brown

1509
01:51:49.600 --> 01:51:55.520
stuff the soil level. That's the
line between brown stuff and green stuff.

1510
01:51:55.760 --> 01:52:00.960
Okay, below ground is the secret
to success with your plants. That's the

1511
01:52:00.000 --> 01:52:06.159
brown stuff. Heirloom soils makes quality
brown stuff. Whether you buy a veggiean

1512
01:52:06.279 --> 01:52:11.720
herb mix, whether you buy the
fruit berry and citrus mix, which by

1513
01:52:11.720 --> 01:52:15.560
the way, is Hardware up Alspa
up in the Woodlands. They're now carrying

1514
01:52:15.680 --> 01:52:20.039
airloom souce, fruit very and citrus
mix, the veggie and Herb mix.

1515
01:52:20.680 --> 01:52:25.800
They can deliver it to you.
You can go there and get a trailer

1516
01:52:25.840 --> 01:52:29.279
and bring it back. They can
bring us supersac put it on your driveway

1517
01:52:30.119 --> 01:52:32.600
in just in bulk. Just for
the product itself. One hundred and nineteen

1518
01:52:32.600 --> 01:52:36.119
bucks is a really good price for
the veggie and Herb mix. But all

1519
01:52:36.199 --> 01:52:41.319
those products are designed by airloom soil
to helpe you have success. And the

1520
01:52:41.359 --> 01:52:44.720
only thing that you add after that
is you can put your fertilizers in.

1521
01:52:45.479 --> 01:52:48.600
Then you got the brown stuff in
the best possible shape for roots to thrive.

1522
01:52:48.680 --> 01:52:54.079
Because when a root, when the
plant's roots are thriving, that plant

1523
01:52:54.159 --> 01:52:58.399
is well on its way to success. We are going to take a little

1524
01:52:58.439 --> 01:53:01.920
break here to remind you. I'm
going to be at the Ace Hardware out

1525
01:53:01.920 --> 01:53:06.039
in clear Lake, the M and
d Ace Hardware and clear Lake next Saturday.

1526
01:53:06.840 --> 01:53:11.680
Next Saturday, and I'll be doing
a regular appearance out there giving away

1527
01:53:11.680 --> 01:53:15.720
some nitrophospertilizer, and I hope you
can come out and see me. Eleven

1528
01:53:15.760 --> 01:53:18.399
thirty to one thirty, bring me
samples, bring me pictures, let's talk,

1529
01:53:18.600 --> 01:53:24.239
let's have let's help you have a
more beautiful, bountiful garden and beautiful

1530
01:53:24.279 --> 01:53:28.640
landscape. I'll be right back.
Welcome back to Garden Line. It is

1531
01:53:28.720 --> 01:53:33.079
good to have you with us on
this Easter Sunday morning. We're looking forward

1532
01:53:33.079 --> 01:53:39.479
to talking about a few more things
that I think are important for us to

1533
01:53:39.520 --> 01:53:44.000
cover today. It's always about the
lawn. That's the big deal, that's

1534
01:53:44.000 --> 01:53:46.079
the elephant in the room. When
I worked for Agger Life Extension for thirty

1535
01:53:46.079 --> 01:53:50.279
five years, I was an horticulturist
and we used to say the three things

1536
01:53:50.279 --> 01:53:54.720
that make the phone ring, or
the three t's trees, turf, and

1537
01:53:54.800 --> 01:53:58.920
tomatoes. And that's true on Garden
Line too. You know, trees and

1538
01:53:59.000 --> 01:54:01.720
turf, those are the huge and
nobody ever calls me about their called Robbie,

1539
01:54:01.760 --> 01:54:08.079
but boy tomatoes, that one is
a common topic. But turf is

1540
01:54:08.119 --> 01:54:14.880
important and it's important to keep your
turf adequately fed. Now, excessive amounts

1541
01:54:15.039 --> 01:54:18.760
of fertilizer are not good. Remember
if a tspoons good, a tablespoon is

1542
01:54:18.800 --> 01:54:25.439
not better. Don't do that when
you overfertilize the turf, applying too much

1543
01:54:25.680 --> 01:54:29.399
nitrogen. For example, you get
top growth at the expensive root growth,

1544
01:54:29.439 --> 01:54:32.079
and we need a good root growth, especially when you're moving to summer stress.

1545
01:54:32.439 --> 01:54:35.680
Well, a product like super Turf
by Nitrofoss, when you put it

1546
01:54:35.720 --> 01:54:39.960
on at the proper rate, which
is about five pounds per thousand square feet,

1547
01:54:40.119 --> 01:54:43.520
it's a nineteen four to ten.
Now that's a big nitrogen number,

1548
01:54:44.159 --> 01:54:47.000
but you're putting it on a lower
rate, it's going to go farther and

1549
01:54:47.119 --> 01:54:50.960
secondly, half of that nitrogen isn't
going to release right away, It's going

1550
01:54:51.039 --> 01:54:55.520
to be releasing over time, over
a couple of months. That gives you

1551
01:54:55.600 --> 01:55:00.920
that slow even growth, but it
does provide the continent need supplementation of nitrogen,

1552
01:55:00.960 --> 01:55:04.880
which your turf needs on an ongoing
basis through the growing season. It

1553
01:55:04.920 --> 01:55:11.560
also has iron four percent iron to
help take care of that spring yellowing that

1554
01:55:11.600 --> 01:55:15.399
we often have and we're often dealing
with. Now you can buy excuse me,

1555
01:55:15.439 --> 01:55:19.920
you can buy the Super Turf Altic
Kingwood at the Ace Hardware store and

1556
01:55:19.960 --> 01:55:25.399
a Tascas Sita Face hardware store out
there. D and De feed and Tombo

1557
01:55:25.640 --> 01:55:30.520
is going to have the Nitrofoss fertilizer
Super Turf. The silver bag. Let's

1558
01:55:30.600 --> 01:55:36.960
go now to Alan in Sugarland.
Hello, Alan, good morning, Skip.

1559
01:55:38.000 --> 01:55:40.279
How you doing today? I'm good, sir. How can we help?

1560
01:55:41.319 --> 01:55:45.319
I've got web worms and mulberry tree
in the backyard. Last year,

1561
01:55:45.520 --> 01:55:54.000
the it was an infestive invested with
them, and this year I felt that

1562
01:55:54.079 --> 01:55:58.520
I would. I went out to
the hardware store and talk to them and

1563
01:56:00.680 --> 01:56:05.680
they suggested to put out a systemic
before the webworms came in. Now.

1564
01:56:05.760 --> 01:56:13.399
Last year they came in later,
but they about the systemic last weekend and

1565
01:56:13.520 --> 01:56:17.199
they're already making whales. Now.
Yeah, it takes that systomach a while

1566
01:56:17.239 --> 01:56:23.119
to work too. Yeah, yeah. Would it do any good to put

1567
01:56:23.159 --> 01:56:26.520
that systemic on at this point in
time? Would they eat these once they

1568
01:56:26.560 --> 01:56:30.800
come out of the whale? You
know, I've never heard systemic recommended for

1569
01:56:30.920 --> 01:56:33.479
webworms. To me, that seems
like a canon to kill a nat.

1570
01:56:34.079 --> 01:56:38.840
You know, I'm going to put
send something in the whole tree of that,

1571
01:56:39.000 --> 01:56:41.319
and it takes a while to do
it. I would just use a

1572
01:56:41.359 --> 01:56:45.680
direct spray on them. You can
use BT or spinosa if you want an

1573
01:56:45.800 --> 01:56:48.319
organic product. If you don't don't
care about that, there's a lot of

1574
01:56:48.319 --> 01:56:55.359
insecticides labeled for landscape. Use that
you spray them and the key is to

1575
01:56:55.359 --> 01:56:59.039
get it on the leaves so when
the webworms eat the leaves, it makes

1576
01:56:59.039 --> 01:57:05.159
them sick. And yeah they you
love mulberry. Okay, all right,

1577
01:57:05.279 --> 01:57:11.279
now what did what did you suggest
now? Bt bt uh that only lasts

1578
01:57:11.279 --> 01:57:16.000
a day. Uh spinosa that lasts
a little bit longer. Spin no sad

1579
01:57:16.319 --> 01:57:20.760
s p I n O s A
D. I'm gonna have to be uh

1580
01:57:21.079 --> 01:57:30.479
oh in spin like I'm going to
spin a top and then oh and then

1581
01:57:30.800 --> 01:57:33.560
s a d like sad. Okay, Hey, Alan, I'm gonna have

1582
01:57:33.600 --> 01:57:39.439
to run. But I hope that. I hope that helps. If if

1583
01:57:39.439 --> 01:57:42.319
you have any additional questions on it, just feel free to give us a

1584
01:57:42.359 --> 01:57:45.880
call after you've you been out.
Thank you, yes, sir, thank

1585
01:57:45.920 --> 01:57:50.079
you very much. You know,
birds make a landscape beautiful. The songs

1586
01:57:50.079 --> 01:57:53.680
of the birds, the melodies,
the antics of the bird. I just

1587
01:57:53.760 --> 01:57:56.119
like watching them. Even a bird
bath, you know, taking a bath

1588
01:57:56.520 --> 01:58:00.479
while bird's unlimited. They've got everything
you need for birds. This is the

1589
01:58:00.520 --> 01:58:03.439
season when our birds are nesting and
they need a high quality feed. Keep

1590
01:58:03.479 --> 01:58:08.520
your nest boxes cleaned out and ready
so when that happens, it's ready to

1591
01:58:08.560 --> 01:58:13.319
go, and I'm telling you it's
already happening. But Superblend is a it's

1592
01:58:13.399 --> 01:58:16.239
called Nesting super Blend, and it's
a feed designed for this time of the

1593
01:58:16.319 --> 01:58:21.119
year when birds need more of that
protein. It's got various kinds of like

1594
01:58:21.159 --> 01:58:26.560
sunflower, peanuts, it's got dried
meal worms which I love, that bark,

1595
01:58:26.640 --> 01:58:30.079
butter, sapphire tree nuts, a
lot of things. It's perfect for

1596
01:58:30.159 --> 01:58:32.479
those birds when they're trying to raise
they're young. So when you go to

1597
01:58:32.520 --> 01:58:35.000
Wildbirds, you're going to find every
kind of feed you need. They are

1598
01:58:35.119 --> 01:58:40.239
experts in that they know what they're
doing. And I would recommend just starting

1599
01:58:40.239 --> 01:58:45.600
by going to the website WBU dot
com slash Houston. Now, that's going

1600
01:58:45.640 --> 01:58:49.640
to get you to the about six
Wildbird stores here in the Greater Houston area.

1601
01:58:50.279 --> 01:58:54.000
I'm going to head out now to
Katie and talk to Ray. Hello,

1602
01:58:54.159 --> 01:58:58.119
Ray, Good Morning's Cape, Good
morning. I just had a quick

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01:58:58.199 --> 01:59:02.319
question. I have okay, I
have I have tomatoes, I have the

1604
01:59:02.439 --> 01:59:08.399
peppers, I have avocados, I
have eggplant. I have all of those

1605
01:59:08.399 --> 01:59:14.239
things in the in my garden.
What is the one the one fertilizer I

1606
01:59:14.279 --> 01:59:17.079
could use for all of them.
Yeah, because I know the avocado they

1607
01:59:17.159 --> 01:59:21.279
have the citrus and avocado food.
I have that, but I can't use

1608
01:59:21.279 --> 01:59:27.600
that for the tomatoes. What is
the one fertilizer that I could use for

1609
01:59:28.279 --> 01:59:32.199
all of them? Yeah? Well, you know they we put names on

1610
01:59:32.279 --> 01:59:38.680
fertilizers like citrus food or like whatever, rose food and so on. But

1611
01:59:38.920 --> 01:59:41.800
if you look, a lot of
them are pretty similar, and so there's

1612
01:59:41.840 --> 01:59:44.399
not it's not the end of the
world to use one thing on another.

1613
01:59:44.600 --> 01:59:47.439
I use a lot because I buy
lawn fertilizer and big old bags for the

1614
01:59:47.520 --> 01:59:50.640
lawn. If I got some left
over, I'll use it in the garden

1615
01:59:51.039 --> 01:59:56.920
and it works just fine. Now, if you want to buy specifically a

1616
01:59:56.960 --> 02:00:02.199
product for you know, the garden, I know Nelson's Fertilizer makes some canisters

1617
02:00:02.439 --> 02:00:08.840
of some various products that are designed
for vegetables. That would be an option

1618
02:00:08.960 --> 02:00:12.840
you could do that. I nitro
foss has its own kind of products like

1619
02:00:12.920 --> 02:00:15.560
that, or if you just wanted
to get a bag of microlife and put

1620
02:00:15.560 --> 02:00:17.920
it out there in the garden,
all of them are gonna work. It's

1621
02:00:17.960 --> 02:00:23.800
just a matter of getting the nutrients
into the solution so that the plants can

1622
02:00:23.840 --> 02:00:27.000
take it up, and so uh, don't don't sweat that too much.

1623
02:00:27.199 --> 02:00:31.000
But what I would recommend is go
to my website, gardening with Skip dot

1624
02:00:31.039 --> 02:00:38.239
com, and there you're gonna find
my schedules and these are for lawns.

1625
02:00:38.279 --> 02:00:42.880
And I know you're asking a vegetable
question, but on my lawn care schedule,

1626
02:00:42.920 --> 02:00:45.640
it gives you a link to where
you get a soil test, and

1627
02:00:46.079 --> 02:00:49.920
you need to have that done.
And then when you fertilize your vegetable garden,

1628
02:00:50.239 --> 02:00:53.560
call me back, tell me what's
in your soil, and I can

1629
02:00:53.600 --> 02:00:58.159
give you a bit more accurate answer. Okay, yes, sir, thank

1630
02:00:58.199 --> 02:01:00.520
you so much, Yes, sir, thanks for coming in, and good

1631
02:01:00.600 --> 02:01:02.520
luck with that. You know,
we're talking about all these products and things

1632
02:01:02.800 --> 02:01:11.760
Medina Microlife, Nelson's, nitrofoss and
on and on. Well, Southwest Fertilizer

1633
02:01:11.920 --> 02:01:16.359
has all of those. They have
absolutely all of those. Now when you're

1634
02:01:16.399 --> 02:01:21.800
looking for tools, when you're looking
for pesticide, herbicides, anything, seeds,

1635
02:01:23.439 --> 02:01:26.439
they've got it all there at Southwest
Fertilizer. It's the place to go.

1636
02:01:26.920 --> 02:01:29.199
I like to say it this way. If they don't have it,

1637
02:01:29.840 --> 02:01:32.199
you don't need it. They are
on the corner of Biscinet and Runwick,

1638
02:01:32.720 --> 02:01:36.640
and you will be amazed. I
know of no store anywhere in town that

1639
02:01:36.800 --> 02:01:42.640
has as much variety of things as
Southwest Fertilizer does. You can go to

1640
02:01:42.720 --> 02:01:46.560
the website Southwest Fertilizer dot com find
out more about it there. But trust

1641
02:01:46.640 --> 02:01:51.399
me on this one, you're going
to go home pretty much with everything you

1642
02:01:51.479 --> 02:01:56.319
need for your garden, just on
a one stop shop on that. I

1643
02:01:56.359 --> 02:02:00.560
haven't talked about Jorge in a while. Hoores Hidden Gardens always has a good

1644
02:02:00.560 --> 02:02:04.239
selection, and you know he just
keeps growing that place. Right now,

1645
02:02:04.279 --> 02:02:09.920
He's got a lot of evergreen trees. He's got Egleston Holly's, Japanese blueberries,

1646
02:02:10.000 --> 02:02:14.920
magnolias and live oaks. The beautiful
Peggy Martin rose minus just starting to

1647
02:02:14.920 --> 02:02:18.640
bloom. He's got Peggy Martin roses
too on little lattices, lots of Lantana's

1648
02:02:18.680 --> 02:02:23.680
boy, that's a dependable plant for
color in beds. And do you need

1649
02:02:23.720 --> 02:02:28.920
some manuals like marigols or some perennials
like Salvia's hibiscus fruit trees. It's all

1650
02:02:28.920 --> 02:02:33.880
there at Jorges Hidden Gardeners. Now
they also carry the three sixty tree stabilizer.

1651
02:02:33.960 --> 02:02:38.920
They carry a lot of different things
that you might be surprised that they

1652
02:02:38.920 --> 02:02:44.960
have. Now here's the address Elizabeth
Street and Alvin. Elizabeth Street and Alvin,

1653
02:02:45.159 --> 02:02:48.319
just south the Highway six, So
Alvin, Santa Fe, Dickinson Hillcrest,

1654
02:02:48.319 --> 02:02:53.720
Algoa, Arcadia, Alta Loma,
all of those communities. Jorges Hidden

1655
02:02:53.760 --> 02:02:57.560
Gardens is your backyard nursery down there. You need to go check them out

1656
02:02:57.640 --> 02:03:01.199
on Elizabeth Street in Alvin. Say
hi to Harvey by the way when you

1657
02:03:01.239 --> 02:03:05.159
go by there. Well, let's
see here, am I about to put

1658
02:03:05.159 --> 02:03:10.119
another one in the books. It
looks like we are here just toward the

1659
02:03:10.239 --> 02:03:14.079
end of the hour waiting on the
music, and that's the official time that

1660
02:03:14.159 --> 02:03:20.000
it's closing down. Let's see.
I wanted to mention music start here.

1661
02:03:20.439 --> 02:03:25.760
I want to mention that next Saturday, I will be at the clear Lake

1662
02:03:26.079 --> 02:03:30.720
Ace Hardware store. The clear Lake
acehard it's called M and D Clearlake,

1663
02:03:31.079 --> 02:03:33.319
M and D clar Lake. Would
you come out and see me. I'd

1664
02:03:33.359 --> 02:03:36.880
love to see you out there.
That it's we're gonna have a good time.

1665
02:03:38.079 --> 02:03:41.399
We just really are M and D
Ace Hardware. It's on Bay Area

1666
02:03:41.439 --> 02:03:44.640
Boulevard. Down in Houston. But
all you got to do is go to

1667
02:03:44.680 --> 02:03:49.520
the ACE Hardware website ace hardware dot
com. If you want the rest of

1668
02:03:49.560 --> 02:03:55.279
it. It's slash store dash locator, but you can find all the ACE

1669
02:03:55.279 --> 02:04:00.439
Hardware stores. Next Saturday, eleven
thirty one thirty I'll be at Acehart m

1670
02:04:00.640 --> 02:04:03.119
D claar Lay. So all of
you down in all those communities around down

1671
02:04:03.159 --> 02:04:09.960
there, from Seabrook and Galveston and
Haarland, Deer Park all through Laport,

1672
02:04:10.119 --> 02:04:13.560
all that region, come on down. Let's see. Let's talk by the

1673
02:04:13.600 --> 02:04:17.680
way next week. Also down in
Wharton at the new ACE Hardware Wharton feed

1674
02:04:17.720 --> 02:04:21.840
and ACE Hardware is opening up on
North Richmond Road and Wharton, Texas,

1675
02:04:21.880 --> 02:04:26.319
and they got a little shindig going
on over there as well. Well,

1676
02:04:26.720 --> 02:04:30.119
here comes another one with the news. When we get back, we'll go

1677
02:04:30.239 --> 02:04:33.720
right back into plants. Kat r
H Garden Line does not necessarily endorse any

1678
02:04:33.760 --> 02:04:40.640
of the products or services advertised on
this program. Welcome to kt r H

1679
02:04:40.800 --> 02:05:00.239
Garden Line with scamp Ricter. It's
so crazy just watch him as day.

1680
02:05:02.840 --> 02:05:09.600
Welcome back to the Garden Line for
our last hour segment on this Easter Sunday.

1681
02:05:10.079 --> 02:05:14.159
Happy Easter Sunday. By the way, we are here every Saturday and

1682
02:05:14.199 --> 02:05:16.680
every Sunday from six am to ten
am. To your neighbors or friends.

1683
02:05:17.000 --> 02:05:20.239
They can listen to us. In
fact, people live outside this area,

1684
02:05:20.319 --> 02:05:26.800
they can listen to us online with
the iHeart Radio app and other apps will

1685
02:05:26.800 --> 02:05:29.960
carry it to But just look for
a garden line and you can listen live

1686
02:05:29.960 --> 02:05:33.720
there. You can go to the
website, the KTRH seven forty am website

1687
02:05:33.760 --> 02:05:38.079
and listen there. You can listen
to some past shows as well. So

1688
02:05:38.159 --> 02:05:40.520
if you miss something that I said
and you want to get back to it,

1689
02:05:40.560 --> 02:05:44.479
well just do it that way you
can find it. We are going

1690
02:05:44.520 --> 02:05:47.880
to go first out to Southwest Houston
and talk to David. Hello, David,

1691
02:05:49.000 --> 02:05:53.000
good morning. I've got a river
birch tree that has not gotten any

1692
02:05:53.159 --> 02:05:57.560
leaves yet. It's an old tree, maybe twenty years old. Is it

1693
02:05:57.600 --> 02:06:02.720
dead or is it just coming back
light? Well, I wouldn't give up

1694
02:06:02.720 --> 02:06:09.760
on it just yet. If you
scratch the branches with your thumbnail or a

1695
02:06:09.760 --> 02:06:14.600
little knife just underneath that outer skin
of the bark, look for green or

1696
02:06:14.600 --> 02:06:19.039
creamy colored green to green. If
you see just brown, it's dead.

1697
02:06:19.279 --> 02:06:24.439
But I would give it just a
tad bit more time to make sure.

1698
02:06:25.880 --> 02:06:28.840
All right, Well, thanks very
much, all right, good luck with

1699
02:06:28.920 --> 02:06:32.680
that. I hope it turns out
that it bounces back for you. Yeah,

1700
02:06:32.800 --> 02:06:36.399
it's you know, last summer was
tough and a lot of trees have

1701
02:06:36.439 --> 02:06:41.119
struggled with it. This is kind
of getting away from David's river birch question,

1702
02:06:41.199 --> 02:06:46.600
but this just kind of reminded me
about that when plants get weak,

1703
02:06:46.800 --> 02:06:53.720
they're more likely to get sick,
and so your stressed lawn is more likely

1704
02:06:53.760 --> 02:06:59.840
to get take all root rot much
more likely when it is stressed. Your

1705
02:07:00.039 --> 02:07:04.159
oak trees are more likely to get
hypoxylin kinker, which kicks off the bark

1706
02:07:04.399 --> 02:07:11.039
and can kill a tree when they
go through stress. So that's why we

1707
02:07:11.119 --> 02:07:15.000
try to alleviate stress as soon as
possible, or better yet, prevent it

1708
02:07:15.039 --> 02:07:18.760
in the first place on our plants. But when it's blazing hot and no

1709
02:07:19.079 --> 02:07:24.079
rain in sight for weeks and weeks
and weeks, well that's kind of hard

1710
02:07:24.079 --> 02:07:29.399
to overcome. It makes it quite
a challenge. I want to thank the

1711
02:07:29.720 --> 02:07:34.479
Ashley and really the whole group out
there at Siena Multch yesterday was a great

1712
02:07:34.520 --> 02:07:41.119
time going out and being part of
their little second annual spring Fling. We

1713
02:07:41.159 --> 02:07:43.600
had a really good time. It's
got to talk to the folks that know

1714
02:07:43.800 --> 02:07:46.640
some plant food. Shelby was there
and then the Heirloom Saw has spent some

1715
02:07:46.680 --> 02:07:55.039
time with Louise and Texas Gardener.
Texas Gardener Magazine was present as well.

1716
02:07:55.920 --> 02:08:01.079
I you know, it's it's always
good to get to visit with these folks,

1717
02:08:01.359 --> 02:08:05.079
but also to visit with you the
gardeners. They came by and thank

1718
02:08:05.119 --> 02:08:09.199
you for coming back. By the
way, Jay White from Texas Gardener Magazine

1719
02:08:09.239 --> 02:08:13.119
was there. Thank you for coming
by, asking your questions and visiting.

1720
02:08:13.159 --> 02:08:16.680
I love to get out and do
that. And I think you saw those

1721
02:08:16.680 --> 02:08:22.239
of you who came out saw why
I brag on cienamulch such a selection of

1722
02:08:22.399 --> 02:08:28.119
different kinds of the brown stuff.
You know. That would include soil blends,

1723
02:08:28.239 --> 02:08:31.800
composts, you know, the rose
soil kind of blend for example.

1724
02:08:31.520 --> 02:08:35.279
It would include things like the mulchus
they go on the surface. It would

1725
02:08:35.359 --> 02:08:41.439
include also rocks and stones for pathways
and maybe you're doing a little dry river

1726
02:08:41.520 --> 02:08:46.680
bed with some river rock through the
landscape for drainage. They have all of

1727
02:08:46.680 --> 02:08:50.840
that stuff and also they carry all
the fertilizers I talk about on garden Line,

1728
02:08:52.119 --> 02:08:56.119
Microlife and Nelson's and Nitrofots. They
carry heirloom soils, and they carry

1729
02:08:56.199 --> 02:09:00.319
landscapers Pride, they carry Medina products, and they even have some tool tools

1730
02:09:00.359 --> 02:09:05.800
out there, good quality landscaping tools
as well. Ciena Maltz is down there

1731
02:09:05.800 --> 02:09:09.079
in the Siena area, so if
you're south of Houston and within twenty miles

1732
02:09:09.119 --> 02:09:13.800
of them, they'll deliver to you. So that's pretty cool. So those

1733
02:09:13.840 --> 02:09:18.840
of you in Roach Sharon and Sandy
Point and Iowa Colony and Quill Valley and

1734
02:09:18.159 --> 02:09:24.479
even over to pear Land back near
Brasispin State Park, that's it. They're

1735
02:09:24.520 --> 02:09:28.239
on five twenty one FM five twenty
one just north of Roch Sharon. You

1736
02:09:28.279 --> 02:09:33.880
can go to their website CNA Maltz
dot com, CNA malt dot com.

1737
02:09:35.359 --> 02:09:39.239
Check them out. Thanks again for
having us out there and having a good

1738
02:09:39.279 --> 02:09:46.399
time with that shindig Here on Guardenline, we do talk about the brown stuff

1739
02:09:46.399 --> 02:09:50.720
a lot, but I do want
to say that it is very important for

1740
02:09:50.800 --> 02:09:54.960
success with plants, for you to
plant things that want to be here.

1741
02:09:54.880 --> 02:10:01.319
I do this myself, but gardeners
are always wanting to grow something that doesn't

1742
02:10:01.319 --> 02:10:05.000
want to grow here. You go
to Colorado, you see the blue Columbines

1743
02:10:05.039 --> 02:10:09.319
of Colorado and bring those seeds home. You see a blue spruce tree,

1744
02:10:09.920 --> 02:10:13.479
you can picture having this little Christmas
tree in the backyard. Yeah, it's

1745
02:10:15.079 --> 02:10:18.600
pretty much a slow tortuous death for
a blue spruce tree here in this area.

1746
02:10:18.640 --> 02:10:20.960
But we always want to do that. You moved here from the Midwest,

1747
02:10:22.000 --> 02:10:28.479
and you remember Forcythia announcing spring every
year. Well, it doesn't work

1748
02:10:28.680 --> 02:10:33.279
done here. Maybe there's a lot
of common plants that people just associate,

1749
02:10:33.479 --> 02:10:37.720
you know, with where they used
to live or where they're from or growing

1750
02:10:37.800 --> 02:10:41.319
up. Give us a call on
garden Line. Let's make sure we connect

1751
02:10:41.399 --> 02:10:45.359
you with the plants that will work. Or go buy one of these mom

1752
02:10:45.399 --> 02:10:48.479
and pop we call that. Independent
garden centers is really the way to put

1753
02:10:48.520 --> 02:10:52.560
it. That have quality, educated
staff and that carry the plants that belong

1754
02:10:52.640 --> 02:10:58.000
here, not plants that the chain
is selling all over the country. You

1755
02:10:58.039 --> 02:11:01.840
know that kind of thing. You
want to have success. By the way,

1756
02:11:01.920 --> 02:11:07.520
if your lawn has the broadleaf weeds
from winter still in there, you

1757
02:11:07.560 --> 02:11:11.920
can get a product from nitrofoss It's
their fifteen five to ten plus Trimeac.

1758
02:11:11.199 --> 02:11:16.199
TRIMEC has three different kinds of broad
leaf herbicides. And if you get the

1759
02:11:16.239 --> 02:11:18.159
leaves of the weeds wet, just
turn on the sprinkler for a little bit.

1760
02:11:18.479 --> 02:11:22.399
Have those particles then stick to the
to the leaves because you know,

1761
02:11:22.479 --> 02:11:28.239
you wet the area, and then
immediately put the product out. It sticks

1762
02:11:28.239 --> 02:11:30.840
to the leaves, that moves down
in the tissues and it kills the whed

1763
02:11:31.279 --> 02:11:35.479
and then water it after a day
or two and the fertilizer moves down into

1764
02:11:35.520 --> 02:11:39.279
the soil and you've just put on
a quick release fifteen five to ten fertilizer

1765
02:11:39.600 --> 02:11:43.000
kind of our spring green up type
of thing. You can do it just

1766
02:11:43.079 --> 02:11:46.760
that way. It works well.
You can find nitro frost products all over

1767
02:11:48.039 --> 02:11:52.319
I keep saying that all over Stanton
Shopping Center. Now then they've got nit

1768
02:11:52.399 --> 02:11:56.079
fross products, Ace Hardware and Memorial
Ace Hardware City and Memorial Katie Hardware.

1769
02:11:56.119 --> 02:12:00.760
Ace. They've got them to just
another places where we can find it.

1770
02:12:01.119 --> 02:12:03.920
Let's go out to Conroe right now. We're going to talk to Jenny.

1771
02:12:03.960 --> 02:12:07.680
Hello, Jenny, I want to
tell you this before I start. I've

1772
02:12:07.720 --> 02:12:11.079
got about thirty seconds and I want
to want us to talk a little bit,

1773
02:12:11.079 --> 02:12:13.479
but you're gonna have to hold through
break and we'll continue. Okay,

1774
02:12:13.960 --> 02:12:18.760
okay, okay, I have a
slim gym magnolia tree, well, my

1775
02:12:18.880 --> 02:12:24.159
daughter does. And the tips of
the leaves are turning gray and brittle.

1776
02:12:24.399 --> 02:12:28.760
Okay, all right, Well,
let me put that on hold and when

1777
02:12:28.800 --> 02:12:31.479
we come back, I will tackle
that question. Thanks for being patient.

1778
02:12:33.319 --> 02:12:35.199
Okay, thank you, you bet. We're listening to Garden Line. We'll

1779
02:12:35.199 --> 02:12:39.680
be right back. Welcome back to
Guarden Line. Good to have you with

1780
02:12:39.760 --> 02:12:43.199
us today. We are talking about
all kinds of things, but right now

1781
02:12:43.239 --> 02:12:48.159
we're talking to Jenny and Conroe about
some slim gym magnolias with great tips.

1782
02:12:48.840 --> 02:12:50.520
Jenny, how long has that plant
been in the ground. Is it a

1783
02:12:50.560 --> 02:12:56.079
recent plant? No, it's been
about four years. Okay, all right,

1784
02:12:56.119 --> 02:13:00.079
so it's got a good root system
by now. Yes, when you

1785
02:13:00.119 --> 02:13:05.279
see the tip die back, it
could be a response to drought on a

1786
02:13:05.279 --> 02:13:09.159
plant, right the tips and the
margins or the first to go. It

1787
02:13:09.199 --> 02:13:13.600
could also be and this is less
likely, but it could also be a

1788
02:13:13.600 --> 02:13:18.520
fertilizer burn, a salt based synthetic
fertilizer that's over applied or put in a

1789
02:13:20.000 --> 02:13:24.520
you know, just concentrated around the
plant can be taken up and the salts

1790
02:13:24.520 --> 02:13:28.520
in there can cause a burn on
tips and margins. I've never seen that

1791
02:13:28.840 --> 02:13:31.439
magnolia, and I don't think that's
what it is. Yeah, my daughter

1792
02:13:31.520 --> 02:13:39.199
does, okay, so, but
I thought it might be from the drought.

1793
02:13:39.359 --> 02:13:43.920
The new growth looks great, Okay, It's just I've never seen a

1794
02:13:43.960 --> 02:13:48.920
gray magnolia leaf. Yeah, like
that. They do that though, that's

1795
02:13:48.279 --> 02:13:52.960
that's not unusual. And the new
growth being good. You're good to go.

1796
02:13:54.560 --> 02:13:58.279
You're okay, nothing to worry about. We can go deal with hunger

1797
02:13:58.319 --> 02:14:01.479
and world peace and other big issues
of the day. And also we're free,

1798
02:14:01.880 --> 02:14:05.800
free to move on. Thank you, all right, have a happy

1799
02:14:07.199 --> 02:14:11.000
Yeah you too. I appreciate your
call. When you're planning a new tree.

1800
02:14:11.439 --> 02:14:13.159
By the way, you know that
the best time of the planet tree

1801
02:14:13.159 --> 02:14:16.479
was forty years ago. Second best
times today. Right, we want to

1802
02:14:16.520 --> 02:14:20.159
get that thing up, or we
can hang a hammock in it pretty quick,

1803
02:14:20.199 --> 02:14:22.119
or where we get the blooms if
it's a blooming tree, well three

1804
02:14:22.159 --> 02:14:26.239
sixty tree stabilizer is think of it. It's a bar. It grabs the

1805
02:14:26.239 --> 02:14:30.520
tree, it grabs the post and
it can grab onto any kind of post,

1806
02:14:30.560 --> 02:14:33.520
even a teapost. There's a little
fitting in there that's perfect for a

1807
02:14:33.560 --> 02:14:37.119
teapost. It's got a loose strap
to let the tree move, and it's

1808
02:14:37.159 --> 02:14:41.000
a very good stiff. The state
goes pretty close to the trunk because the

1809
02:14:41.000 --> 02:14:45.840
stabilizer is not that long, fairly
short, but the steak goes pretty close

1810
02:14:45.880 --> 02:14:48.000
to the trunk and so you're not
tripping over wire. First of all,

1811
02:14:48.000 --> 02:14:50.640
you've got to buy wire. You
want to cut up a garden hose to

1812
02:14:50.720 --> 02:14:56.039
protect the tree from getting cut by
the guy wires and all that kind of

1813
02:14:56.039 --> 02:14:58.640
stuff. Just put a little steak
in by it and get a tree stabilizer.

1814
02:14:58.680 --> 02:15:01.520
You can get those things at jorgesed
and Gardens. I was just talking

1815
02:15:01.520 --> 02:15:07.000
about him a minute ago. Southwest
fertilizer plants for all seasons, we cannons,

1816
02:15:07.119 --> 02:15:09.640
arbrogate RCW. Those are some of
the places or where you can get

1817
02:15:09.680 --> 02:15:16.279
the three sixty tree stabilizer. If
you need extra stability for other direction of

1818
02:15:16.319 --> 02:15:20.199
the wind, you can do too, like one nor south, one east

1819
02:15:20.199 --> 02:15:24.479
west. Then no matter which way
the wind blows, that tree is stabilized

1820
02:15:24.680 --> 02:15:28.279
and it works pretty well. In
fact, it works very very well,

1821
02:15:28.600 --> 02:15:33.319
a lot better than the guy wars. Let's go to Cindy now in spring.

1822
02:15:33.479 --> 02:15:39.000
Hello Cindy, Ohay, happy Easter
and you as well. What's up

1823
02:15:39.039 --> 02:15:46.199
today? Thank you so claud cow
Okay, I want to talk about this

1824
02:15:46.399 --> 02:15:50.159
tree. It is a pine.
I would think it is an orntmental pine.

1825
02:15:50.800 --> 02:15:56.239
In from the ground up, its
brown, then it kind of turns

1826
02:15:56.279 --> 02:15:58.600
green, and then it turns brown
again. It's as tall as my home.

1827
02:16:00.680 --> 02:16:07.000
And is this just the color of
the bark that you're describing some sticking

1828
02:16:07.039 --> 02:16:15.119
out from the tree. It Okay, it looks like a norse fulk pine,

1829
02:16:15.600 --> 02:16:22.239
but it's straight up like skin.
Okay, ornamental. Sounds like a

1830
02:16:22.359 --> 02:16:26.600
fungus is eating on it. I
tell you what, I'm not going to

1831
02:16:26.640 --> 02:16:30.800
do a good job with the description, trying to nail this one down.

1832
02:16:30.960 --> 02:16:33.319
I'm gonna I would like you to
send me a picture of the plant in

1833
02:16:33.399 --> 02:16:37.159
general, and then some close ups
and good sharp focus and let me look

1834
02:16:37.200 --> 02:16:39.600
at that and I can get right
to it that way. I think that

1835
02:16:41.040 --> 02:16:43.600
more accurate and more efficient. I'm
going to put you on hold and Josh

1836
02:16:43.600 --> 02:16:48.399
will give you an email to send
me those photos. Thank you, Thank

1837
02:16:48.520 --> 02:16:52.920
you, appreciate your call. I
appreciate your call very much. When was

1838
02:16:52.959 --> 02:16:54.840
the last time you went to the
anti rosen for him? Have you even

1839
02:16:54.879 --> 02:17:00.399
been? If you haven't, you've
got to go. We are always talk

1840
02:17:00.440 --> 02:17:03.719
about our destination garden. This is
definitely a destination. They have people followed

1841
02:17:03.799 --> 02:17:09.319
the country that come there. Anti
Crows Imporium has been specializing in anti croses

1842
02:17:09.360 --> 02:17:13.079
for a long long time, and
they know how to grow them. They

1843
02:17:13.079 --> 02:17:16.000
grow them, They grow their roses
and two gallon pots, which a lot

1844
02:17:16.680 --> 02:17:20.200
a lot of rose producers don't do
that, and the two gallon pots just

1845
02:17:20.280 --> 02:17:24.239
allows them to establish a little bigger, better root system before they go in

1846
02:17:24.280 --> 02:17:28.879
the ground. Anti crows have been
around since nineteen eighty three, In fact,

1847
02:17:30.040 --> 02:17:33.440
about the time I got out of
my original degree at A and M.

1848
02:17:33.520 --> 02:17:35.639
That's when they started, about the
time I went to my master's.

1849
02:17:37.040 --> 02:17:39.879
They always have something going on there. There's always upcoming events going on.

1850
02:17:41.159 --> 02:17:46.239
By the way, their facilities can
be rented out for various kinds of things.

1851
02:17:46.559 --> 02:17:48.479
Just have to give them a call, find out, find out from

1852
02:17:48.520 --> 02:17:52.920
them. You know what's available,
how do I go about it? How

1853
02:17:52.920 --> 02:17:56.840
do I do it? It makes
it really easy, easy, easy to

1854
02:17:56.879 --> 02:18:00.760
get a hold of them. By
the way, you haven't been out there,

1855
02:18:00.760 --> 02:18:03.040
you need to go now because spring
is the most beautiful time of the

1856
02:18:03.120 --> 02:18:07.600
year out there at Antique rosen Parium. You get to drive through the blue

1857
02:18:07.600 --> 02:18:11.719
bonnets on the way up there too. The phone numbers ninety seven nine eight

1858
02:18:11.840 --> 02:18:16.200
three six fifty five forty eight,
ninety seven nine eight three six fifty five

1859
02:18:16.319 --> 02:18:22.959
forty eight or Antique Roseemporium dot com. And by the way, they're not

1860
02:18:24.360 --> 02:18:26.680
just roses. They have a lot
of other kinds of plants, including many

1861
02:18:26.760 --> 02:18:31.239
native plants and pollinator plants. While
you're out there, you can chop with

1862
02:18:31.360 --> 02:18:35.079
those as well. I always like
going out there. That is just a

1863
02:18:35.200 --> 02:18:39.760
fun It's like fun drive out into
the country not too far away. Well,

1864
02:18:39.799 --> 02:18:43.040
you're listening to guard Line and we're
here talking about things that I hope

1865
02:18:43.040 --> 02:18:50.360
you'd be interested in to have a
beautiful and bountiful garden and landscape. If

1866
02:18:50.399 --> 02:18:52.120
you'd like to give us a call, the number is seven to one three

1867
02:18:52.319 --> 02:18:58.120
two one two kt RHU. We're
approaching the end of the show today and

1868
02:18:58.559 --> 02:19:03.479
right now I've got a cleared board
amazingly enough, so there's a zero wait

1869
02:19:03.680 --> 02:19:09.000
at least for the first one or
two they give me a call here nine

1870
02:19:09.079 --> 02:19:16.200
of seven one three two one two
ktr H. I talked earlier about Microlife

1871
02:19:16.200 --> 02:19:20.120
products they have. Microlife has a
real wide product line. They've got the

1872
02:19:20.200 --> 02:19:26.600
dry fertilizers. They've got the one
for acidic uh loving plants that would be

1873
02:19:26.680 --> 02:19:33.760
cardenia's and blueberries and camellias and zalias. You get the idea that is the

1874
02:19:35.159 --> 02:19:37.479
pinkish bag. Then they've got the
green bag, which we typically use for

1875
02:19:37.600 --> 02:19:41.440
lawns, but I'm telling you you
can use it for anything you got.

1876
02:19:41.680 --> 02:19:45.680
It works very well. The green
bag is a six two four, and

1877
02:19:45.760 --> 02:19:48.200
so if you haven't fertilized your lawn, you six two four it. Now,

1878
02:19:48.600 --> 02:19:54.079
get that down and let it start
going to work to have a beautiful

1879
02:19:54.120 --> 02:19:56.959
dense grass. The he Mates plus
is the purple bag. It is a

1880
02:19:58.079 --> 02:20:03.280
zero zero four fertilizers, little potassium
in it, but it's it's basically based

1881
02:20:03.319 --> 02:20:09.040
on humus, which is concentrated compost. So the humans plus is concentrated compost

1882
02:20:09.079 --> 02:20:11.360
in a bag. Think of it
that way, you put it out.

1883
02:20:11.399 --> 02:20:18.920
It helps with soil microbiology and also
the soil structure. Humus is an important

1884
02:20:18.040 --> 02:20:24.040
element of creating good structure in the
soil, so just another reason to apply

1885
02:20:24.120 --> 02:20:28.360
it. Hey, Microlifefertilizer dot com. That's the website. Go there and

1886
02:20:28.399 --> 02:20:31.600
find out where you can get it. It's available about as widely as any

1887
02:20:31.600 --> 02:20:37.079
fertilizer I know, Microlife fertilizers,
and that includes their liquid fertilizers as well.

1888
02:20:37.639 --> 02:20:41.319
Just go to the website and you
can find out where you can get

1889
02:20:41.360 --> 02:20:45.360
it and learn more about those.
Also. Let's say I want to go

1890
02:20:45.440 --> 02:20:48.239
now to Spring and we're going to
talk to Mike. Hello, Mike,

1891
02:20:48.399 --> 02:20:52.719
Hey, Skip, how you doing. I'm well, sir. Hey,

1892
02:20:52.760 --> 02:20:56.920
I've got a little piece of property
up on the lake in Livingston on the

1893
02:20:56.959 --> 02:21:01.559
north side, and I want to
ask if there's any kind of natural or

1894
02:21:01.639 --> 02:21:05.559
native grasses that I can plant for
the little grass the little bit of a

1895
02:21:05.639 --> 02:21:13.760
yard I have that doesn't take a
lot of water and their maintenance. Oh,

1896
02:21:13.239 --> 02:21:18.079
se, do you ever get sunlight
up there? I know there's we

1897
02:21:18.159 --> 02:21:20.239
have. I have quite a few
bit of trees. It's just in a

1898
02:21:20.280 --> 02:21:24.040
little spot right in the front yard
that I have fenced in. I guess

1899
02:21:24.079 --> 02:21:30.840
there's behea that grows in the ditches, and yeah, behea is extremely tough.

1900
02:21:31.840 --> 02:21:33.639
But the problem with Behea is the
day after you mow it, it

1901
02:21:33.680 --> 02:21:37.239
seems like it sends up that tall
seaed heead, so it always looks like

1902
02:21:37.280 --> 02:21:41.120
it needs to get mowed again.
But I you know, if you were

1903
02:21:41.159 --> 02:21:43.879
telling me you had a little parking
area out there and you wanted a good

1904
02:21:43.879 --> 02:21:46.319
turf cover over it to you know, keep from running out the soil,

1905
02:21:46.360 --> 02:21:50.079
and I'd say behave it would be
a good one for that. I don't

1906
02:21:50.079 --> 02:21:52.639
think for a long grass you're going
to be as happy with it. But

1907
02:21:52.200 --> 02:21:56.719
if you're willing to put up with
those seatheads, you certainly can do that,

1908
02:21:56.840 --> 02:22:01.840
and it can survive on in the
conditions the soil type conditions that you

1909
02:22:01.920 --> 02:22:05.719
have up there. I don't know, I might think about some other options,

1910
02:22:05.719 --> 02:22:09.639
you know, maybe a real low
growing groundcover or some other things as

1911
02:22:09.719 --> 02:22:16.559
being another alternative. The most shade
tolerant grass is Saint Augustine, uh,

1912
02:22:16.760 --> 02:22:22.360
and so that that would be an
option for you to consider up there as

1913
02:22:22.399 --> 02:22:28.239
well. Well. The issue with
me is the water is real expensive in

1914
02:22:28.280 --> 02:22:31.719
this little spot I have, so
you know, to water it, okay,

1915
02:22:31.879 --> 02:22:35.079
you know, it's kind of a
cost prohibitive. I got you,

1916
02:22:35.200 --> 02:22:39.000
I got you. Okay, Well, those would be some ideas. Maybe

1917
02:22:39.000 --> 02:22:45.239
the behavior would be one to try. I'm just not thinking of another one

1918
02:22:45.280 --> 02:22:48.280
to tell you that it's going to
grow up there in that soil. Uh

1919
02:22:48.840 --> 02:22:54.479
just almost don't have the water it
Uh that those those limitations take take out

1920
02:22:54.520 --> 02:23:00.319
most of our most popular turf grass
options. Yeah. Yeah, kind of

1921
02:23:00.319 --> 02:23:03.639
a little weekend place. Yeah,
so all right, all right, Rick,

1922
02:23:03.559 --> 02:23:05.600
good luck with that. Well that
it's a weekend place. You just

1923
02:23:05.600 --> 02:23:09.120
show up and first thing you do
is mow the lawn. All right,

1924
02:23:09.639 --> 02:23:13.920
all right, thank thank you.
Appreciate that call very much. The folks

1925
02:23:13.959 --> 02:23:18.360
at Lan being up there reminds me
of a Landscaper Spride. Landscaper Spride is

1926
02:23:18.639 --> 02:23:24.319
a Loco Doar region provider of twenty
seven different bag products. They also have

1927
02:23:24.360 --> 02:23:26.920
them by the bulk. Now,
if you want to learn more about these,

1928
02:23:28.000 --> 02:23:31.360
just go to Landscaperspride dot com and
you can find out all about them.

1929
02:23:31.440 --> 02:23:33.319
I want to talk about their rose
mix. It's a very effective mix

1930
02:23:33.360 --> 02:23:37.799
for any kind of woody ornamental plant
plants that like a little more acidic soil

1931
02:23:37.840 --> 02:23:43.840
as well. It's got composted pine
bark sphagnum and also a slow release fertilizer

1932
02:23:43.879 --> 02:23:48.200
in it. They have another one
called Gardener's Magic Soil. It has humus

1933
02:23:48.200 --> 02:23:52.600
screened pine and composted rice holes and
a chicken pellet fertilizer that lasts up to

1934
02:23:52.680 --> 02:23:56.319
three months. Now, I could
just go on and on about the many

1935
02:23:56.520 --> 02:24:03.079
different products from Landscaper's Pride. I
suggest you would focus on the fact that

1936
02:24:03.879 --> 02:24:07.959
this business has been around for twenty
years now, twenty seven different products,

1937
02:24:09.280 --> 02:24:13.159
always local, top quality resources,
and just go to Landscaperspride dot com find

1938
02:24:13.159 --> 02:24:16.360
out where you can get it,
and it's not going to be hard to

1939
02:24:16.360 --> 02:24:22.000
find. I have talked about fertilizer. I've forgot to mention the asamite.

1940
02:24:22.079 --> 02:24:28.760
You know. Asmite is that micro
nutrient element that's the the trace minerals that

1941
02:24:28.840 --> 02:24:31.120
are essential, but you only need
them in tiny amounts. That's why a

1942
02:24:31.200 --> 02:24:37.079
forty four pound bag of asmite covers
six to twelve thousand square feet, but

1943
02:24:37.159 --> 02:24:39.479
it's loaded with those. You can
go to asmite Texas dot com and find

1944
02:24:39.479 --> 02:24:43.040
out you can do it when you're
fertilized, or you can do it some

1945
02:24:43.239 --> 02:24:46.520
other time. Just don't put it
in your fertilizer. In other words,

1946
02:24:46.040 --> 02:24:50.479
fill the hopper with fertilizer. Do
your business, fill the hopper with asmite,

1947
02:24:50.520 --> 02:24:54.319
do your business, separate them out
and that works just great. It

1948
02:24:54.520 --> 02:24:58.360
is a part of building the bank
account in the soil to make it have

1949
02:24:58.479 --> 02:25:01.959
success. Well, we're going to
go to break. Let's see our phone

1950
02:25:01.000 --> 02:25:05.239
number seven one three two one two
KTRH. When we come back, Rick,

1951
02:25:05.360 --> 02:25:09.680
you will be the first up.
Well, welcome back to garden Line,

1952
02:25:09.959 --> 02:25:13.159
Little Megan Trainer. First thing in
here, not first thing, actually

1953
02:25:13.200 --> 02:25:16.840
one of the last things. You're
listening to guard Line. We answer gardening

1954
02:25:16.920 --> 02:25:20.959
questions, and we talked to you
about how to have success, how to

1955
02:25:20.959 --> 02:25:24.040
have a beautiful garden, how to
have a bountiful garden. Uh, it

1956
02:25:24.200 --> 02:25:28.040
is what we do. Uh.
If you if you live in the League

1957
02:25:28.040 --> 02:25:31.520
City area, well, your hometown
feed store and we love feats first are

1958
02:25:31.559 --> 02:25:35.680
on garden Line. Your hometown feed
store is League City Feed Now. Forty

1959
02:25:35.760 --> 02:25:43.000
years ago, Wes Madison's grandfather built
this store in an Ochre patch. I

1960
02:25:43.079 --> 02:25:45.959
love that. Anything it starts in
an Ochre patch, it's got to be

1961
02:25:46.000 --> 02:25:48.840
good. Uh. The Thunderbergs have
been taking care of the store since then,

1962
02:25:48.959 --> 02:25:52.920
and it is that old time feed
store that you would expect with the

1963
02:25:52.079 --> 02:25:56.440
service you would expect carrying your bags
out and everything. But here's the thing.

1964
02:25:56.920 --> 02:26:00.680
Any fertilizer I talk about, they're
going to have it down there,

1965
02:26:00.760 --> 02:26:03.879
and then they're going to have all
the other products to go with your lawn

1966
02:26:03.879 --> 02:26:09.079
and landscape and garden care. The
pesticides, the herbicides, the fungicides that

1967
02:26:09.159 --> 02:26:13.760
you might need, premium pet food
if you got backyard chickens, oh many,

1968
02:26:13.040 --> 02:26:16.079
they can get you set up with
good quality feeds for that. Now.

1969
02:26:16.120 --> 02:26:20.399
Where they located, well, they're
about three or just actually a few

1970
02:26:20.440 --> 02:26:26.799
blocks south of Highway ninety six on
Highway three. Okay, League City Highway

1971
02:26:26.799 --> 02:26:31.840
three, go south ninety six,
not very far now. The thing also

1972
02:26:31.879 --> 02:26:33.680
you need to know is they're open
Monday through Saturday nine to six, so

1973
02:26:33.719 --> 02:26:37.239
it's easy to stop by after work. They're closed on Sunday. And the

1974
02:26:37.280 --> 02:26:41.559
phone number if you want to give
them a call to eight one three three

1975
02:26:41.639 --> 02:26:46.559
two sixteen twelve. Two eight one
three three two sixteen twelve for League City

1976
02:26:46.600 --> 02:26:52.600
feed Let's go to Lake Livingston now, Rick, thanks for holding How can

1977
02:26:52.600 --> 02:26:58.520
we help? Yes, I've been
trying to grow blue bonnets for years and

1978
02:26:58.639 --> 02:27:01.159
I've had no luck. Just planted
them, sowed them in the fall.

1979
02:27:01.280 --> 02:27:05.479
I've sowed them in the spring.
I even dissed them in kind of prep

1980
02:27:05.559 --> 02:27:09.159
the soil. Everything else grows,
but I cannot get blue bonnets to grow.

1981
02:27:11.200 --> 02:27:16.239
That's very interesting. Do you have
a sandy soil or do you have

1982
02:27:16.079 --> 02:27:22.520
a heavier textured soil. It's very
sandy. Like I say, all I've

1983
02:27:22.559 --> 02:27:24.920
got Indian paint brushes and stuff like
that. They all come up fine,

1984
02:27:24.920 --> 02:27:28.840
but I have I just can't get
blue bonnets. I don't know if it's

1985
02:27:28.879 --> 02:27:33.399
bad seeds. Orm Well, it
could be bad seed, but that's unlikely,

1986
02:27:33.959 --> 02:27:39.479
and especially when you've tried it more
than once. Blue Bonnets are planted

1987
02:27:39.639 --> 02:27:43.120
ideally in the fall, earlier in
the fall, so that they can absorb

1988
02:27:43.200 --> 02:27:46.760
moisture and as it cools off,
start to sprout. You know what,

1989
02:27:48.440 --> 02:27:52.639
This may be at least part of
the problem. If I ask every Texan

1990
02:27:52.680 --> 02:27:56.719
how many what's the state flower of
Texas? How many do we have?

1991
02:27:56.760 --> 02:28:01.920
They would say the blue bonnet?
And actually there is. There are several

1992
02:28:01.520 --> 02:28:07.280
varieties of lupines that grow here in
Texas, and they're all considered the safflower.

1993
02:28:07.479 --> 02:28:13.879
So why do I say that,
Well, there's one called Lupinus subcarnosis,

1994
02:28:13.920 --> 02:28:18.000
and one called Lupinas tex census,
the one you see with the little

1995
02:28:18.040 --> 02:28:22.959
white tips all along the roadsides as
you drive through most of Texas. That's

1996
02:28:24.040 --> 02:28:28.120
one type. Then that's the type
planted most. But when you get in

1997
02:28:28.239 --> 02:28:31.639
sandy areas, you have a different
looking blue bonnet that is deep blue all

1998
02:28:31.639 --> 02:28:35.680
the way to the tip, all
the way to the tip, no white

1999
02:28:35.840 --> 02:28:39.360
little bunny tail on the top of
it. I would try planting that one.

2000
02:28:39.440 --> 02:28:43.680
I think that you're going to have
better success with it. Now.

2001
02:28:43.719 --> 02:28:48.040
I don't know where you've purchased your
seed before you're doing mail order or what.

2002
02:28:50.680 --> 02:28:54.040
Yes, I got it from online, I can't remember. I think

2003
02:28:54.079 --> 02:28:56.840
it was a place up close to
Betas, Texas the seed place. It

2004
02:28:56.920 --> 02:29:01.079
was a native seed place. I
picked them up from a year. Okay,

2005
02:29:01.399 --> 02:29:07.680
well just ask them which species they're
selling you because and you'll notice this

2006
02:29:07.840 --> 02:29:11.879
now when you drive around. I
had across I ten going to San Antonio,

2007
02:29:13.120 --> 02:29:16.399
and there's a couple of bands of
sandy soil in there, and I

2008
02:29:16.520 --> 02:29:20.479
notice it because the blue bonnets are
different in that area. It's a different

2009
02:29:20.520 --> 02:29:24.399
one. So I think that would
be a good thing to consider. And

2010
02:29:24.479 --> 02:29:28.079
if you want to which one?
Which one is that the more blue?

2011
02:29:28.399 --> 02:29:33.120
Which your proper name for that one? I believe that's Lupinus tech census.

2012
02:29:33.840 --> 02:29:37.280
Uh. Let's see. I'll tell
you in just one second. Here I

2013
02:29:37.319 --> 02:29:41.280
thought I thought I was sure,
and then now I'm going to be extra

2014
02:29:41.360 --> 02:29:46.360
sure. Uh all right, there
we go. We'll come back to it.

2015
02:29:46.399 --> 02:29:50.840
But if you want to try a
different source, like if you can't

2016
02:29:50.840 --> 02:29:54.879
be sure you're getting the right one, right, uh, then I would

2017
02:29:56.520 --> 02:30:01.079
make sure and do a source like
Native American seed which is out in Junction

2018
02:30:03.360 --> 02:30:11.440
okay, okay, and what's the
one in Fredericksburg while seed while seed Okay,

2019
02:30:11.559 --> 02:30:15.680
I'll try both of them. Yeah, I am me. So I'm

2020
02:30:15.680 --> 02:30:18.639
trying to I'm trying to do a
dual thing. Do pollinators and you know

2021
02:30:18.719 --> 02:30:22.120
something that pollinators can work with,
but also make feels look a little prettier.

2022
02:30:22.280 --> 02:30:26.719
Yeah, yeah, so I I
let's see the Oh, the sandy

2023
02:30:26.799 --> 02:30:33.440
Land is actually it's a subcarnosis.
So if the one that says Texas in

2024
02:30:33.479 --> 02:30:39.000
the species name, that's the standard
when you see everywhere, and the subcarnosis

2025
02:30:39.159 --> 02:30:43.239
is the one that's the sandy they
also call it sandy Land blue bonnet.

2026
02:30:43.000 --> 02:30:46.079
I think you'll have better luck with
that. Give that a try, and

2027
02:30:46.159 --> 02:30:50.559
I'll keep thinking on this. But
I can't think of another reason why you

2028
02:30:50.600 --> 02:30:54.799
would just not have any success other
than maybe not having enough sunlight. But

2029
02:30:54.840 --> 02:30:56.799
if Indian blankets are growing there,
then you ought to have enough sun for

2030
02:30:56.879 --> 02:31:01.000
blue bonnets. Yeah. Yeah,
I can plant pretty much anything. I've

2031
02:31:01.000 --> 02:31:03.879
been transplanting since I was a kid, and even as a kid, I

2032
02:31:03.959 --> 02:31:07.920
never had luck with the blue bonnets. But I always lived in a sandy

2033
02:31:07.959 --> 02:31:13.760
soul area and just got the blue
bonnets that were most available. All right,

2034
02:31:13.959 --> 02:31:16.440
Well, there you go. Thank
you Rick for the call. Good

2035
02:31:16.520 --> 02:31:22.040
luck with it. If you do
have good success, calls back in the

2036
02:31:22.200 --> 02:31:24.239
year or so whenever you do have
some. I'd like to know how that

2037
02:31:24.280 --> 02:31:26.760
works out for you. Okay,
all right, thank you, thank you.

2038
02:31:28.360 --> 02:31:31.959
The folks at Nelson have a product
in their turf Star line. Turf

2039
02:31:31.959 --> 02:31:37.600
Star is the Nelson fertilizers that you
put on your lawn. Turf Star turf

2040
02:31:37.600 --> 02:31:41.920
Star we donator weed and nature.
Now, this is a very interesting product

2041
02:31:41.959 --> 02:31:48.159
because it has a slow release nitrogen
that the design of the nitrogen forms in

2042
02:31:48.200 --> 02:31:54.520
this product release and some faster,
but some more gradually over time, and

2043
02:31:56.399 --> 02:32:00.559
that's good. That would be a
slow release. It also has a ratio.

2044
02:32:00.639 --> 02:32:05.399
It's got a good load of nitrogen
and of course less of the phosphorus,

2045
02:32:05.399 --> 02:32:09.319
and a medium amount of potassium.
But it also has a weed control

2046
02:32:09.399 --> 02:32:13.239
product that kills broad leaf weeds that
the existing broadleaf weeds that you have.

2047
02:32:13.760 --> 02:32:18.479
So you would wet your lawn,
you would fertilize with turf Star weedinator,

2048
02:32:20.280 --> 02:32:24.399
and that product will stick to the
wet leaves of your weeds and it moves

2049
02:32:24.399 --> 02:32:28.639
into the weeds and it kills them. And then so give it about a

2050
02:32:28.719 --> 02:32:31.239
day or two to do that,
and then watered in to get the fertilizer

2051
02:32:31.280 --> 02:32:35.680
part all down in the soil where
it can go to work. And when

2052
02:32:35.719 --> 02:32:39.200
you've done that, you have fertilized
for your first fertilization of the summer according

2053
02:32:39.239 --> 02:32:43.319
to my schedule that's out there.
So I turf Star weededter. You might

2054
02:32:43.360 --> 02:32:46.280
want to give that one a try. I think you'll be pleased with how

2055
02:32:46.319 --> 02:32:50.719
that works. I'm going to go
now to Galveston and talk to Bill.

2056
02:32:50.760 --> 02:32:54.040
Bill, I've got less than a
minute, but I'd like to get your

2057
02:32:54.120 --> 02:32:58.200
question in and then we'll come back
with an answer. Quick, quick question.

2058
02:32:58.360 --> 02:33:03.840
Can you can you spray niam oil
on citrus trees and avocado trees that

2059
02:33:03.920 --> 02:33:09.440
are blooming, boy, blooming?
You can spread on those trees except in

2060
02:33:09.479 --> 02:33:16.319
the really heat of summer, the
blooming. You know, that's a good

2061
02:33:16.360 --> 02:33:20.840
question. I wouldn't do it.
I don't think it's as toxics of the

2062
02:33:20.840 --> 02:33:22.239
bees. I may be wrong about
that. Let's come back from break.

2063
02:33:22.319 --> 02:33:26.120
Let me give me a minute to
check on something, and I'll come back

2064
02:33:26.159 --> 02:33:30.799
and we'll try to answer that better. It'll hang out, Okay, okay,

2065
02:33:31.200 --> 02:33:35.719
it's time for a break here phone
number seven one three two one two

2066
02:33:35.120 --> 02:33:41.680
fifty eight seventy four. Welcome back
to Guarden Line for the last segment of

2067
02:33:41.840 --> 02:33:45.239
the day. We are glad to
have you with us today, answering gardening

2068
02:33:45.319 --> 02:33:48.959
questions at seven one three two one
two fifty eight seventy four. So I

2069
02:33:50.040 --> 02:33:56.799
checked into the name on the bees
and don't do it. Basically the research

2070
02:33:56.879 --> 02:34:01.280
that I could locate and find there
were there were some concerns and just a

2071
02:34:01.399 --> 02:34:05.920
general recommendation is don't use it on
flowering plants during the time of you know,

2072
02:34:05.959 --> 02:34:07.440
they're flowering, So that would be
fruit trees, for example, when

2073
02:34:07.440 --> 02:34:13.000
they're flowering. There are some studies
that showed that it has kind of an

2074
02:34:13.040 --> 02:34:18.159
anti feed in effect, which means
the foraging the feeding is reduced in the

2075
02:34:18.200 --> 02:34:22.559
bee colony. And also there are
some other possible effects that it can have

2076
02:34:22.760 --> 02:34:30.000
on bees on the reproduction and a
lot of loss of a queen bee perhaps

2077
02:34:30.040 --> 02:34:31.920
something like that. So you know, it's not the end of the world

2078
02:34:33.040 --> 02:34:37.200
kind of product, but in fact
it's relatively safe for a lot of things.

2079
02:34:37.239 --> 02:34:41.479
But i'd hold off when your citrus
is not blooming to use the knee

2080
02:34:41.520 --> 02:34:46.360
oil on it to be safe,
because we definitely don't need to make things

2081
02:34:46.360 --> 02:34:50.520
more difficult than they are for our
bees. I want to go now to

2082
02:34:50.799 --> 02:34:56.559
Spring Branch and talk to John.
Hello John, Hello, Skip. I

2083
02:34:56.600 --> 02:35:05.959
have heard about planting flowers in your
as companions for your vegetable garden to suppress

2084
02:35:05.959 --> 02:35:11.760
insects. And you know, I
found out last year about the Mexican bean

2085
02:35:11.799 --> 02:35:18.760
beetle. Okay, so I have
that and cutworms. Okay. So are

2086
02:35:18.840 --> 02:35:28.040
there any flowers that you can plant
that will attract predators or something and suppress

2087
02:35:28.760 --> 02:35:35.559
negative insects. That's a good question
that as a general rule, putting the

2088
02:35:35.639 --> 02:35:41.200
right kinds of flowers into a garden
area helps increase the levels of certain beneficial

2089
02:35:41.239 --> 02:35:46.959
insects, which helps control certain paths. I don't know of a flower that

2090
02:35:46.000 --> 02:35:54.280
would attract and support something that attacks
the Mexican bean beetle caterpillars. They have

2091
02:35:54.399 --> 02:35:58.520
a bunch of natural enemies. The
best natural enemy of caterpillars as wasps,

2092
02:35:58.079 --> 02:36:05.280
paper wasps. Most of their diet
is cutterpillars. For those, uh,

2093
02:36:05.360 --> 02:36:13.840
there is a bracken Those those are
the red and black bodied wasps. Yeah,

2094
02:36:13.959 --> 02:36:18.280
or the yellow and kind of brown
golden cut that's another type of paper

2095
02:36:18.360 --> 02:36:22.799
wasp. Uh. They formed the
little paper nests, you know, and

2096
02:36:22.840 --> 02:36:26.280
then and they sting us if we
mess with them. Uh. The brackenid

2097
02:36:26.520 --> 02:36:35.360
wasp attacks the tomato hornworm and it
is a tiny little wasp that having flowers

2098
02:36:35.360 --> 02:36:39.959
that they can get nectar from would
be good. So small flowered daisy like

2099
02:36:39.040 --> 02:36:45.040
flowers like chemameal for example, would
be that way. Uh uh there are

2100
02:36:45.559 --> 02:36:50.600
you see what are some other good
flowers for this? Flowers with an umbrella

2101
02:36:50.840 --> 02:36:56.479
like head like yarrow or dill,
or a carrot that was left in the

2102
02:36:56.520 --> 02:37:01.040
garden and goes to bloom, has
that umbrella like head that will attract and

2103
02:37:01.319 --> 02:37:05.639
the many weeds do too. By
the way they will attract I'm trying to

2104
02:37:05.639 --> 02:37:11.120
get rid of that. Yeah,
tiny parasitoid parasitoid wasps that are out there

2105
02:37:11.799 --> 02:37:20.520
aphids. There are wasps in the
affidious genus that attack aphids in our gardens,

2106
02:37:20.520 --> 02:37:24.680
including the aphids on tomatoes, and
so the small flowers would attract those

2107
02:37:24.760 --> 02:37:31.719
as well, the small blooming kinds
of plants. Let's see alessum, which

2108
02:37:31.799 --> 02:37:35.360
is a beautiful little white flower we
use in the cool season. It does

2109
02:37:35.360 --> 02:37:39.680
pretty good into the warm season for
a while. That is very attractive to

2110
02:37:39.760 --> 02:37:43.280
surfed fly larvae which eat aphids as
well, and other beneficials. I mean,

2111
02:37:43.319 --> 02:37:46.719
I could sit here kind of go
on and on, but yes,

2112
02:37:46.920 --> 02:37:50.360
that's the case. But don't think
that just any flower is going to fixture

2113
02:37:50.680 --> 02:37:54.840
your pest problem kind of thing you
need to kind of aim for. You

2114
02:37:54.840 --> 02:37:58.079
can do a little research online to
find the flowers that are recommended that also

2115
02:37:58.200 --> 02:38:03.719
grow here. And well, I
was I wanted a list, and you

2116
02:38:03.760 --> 02:38:07.239
know, the opinion of a horticultural
list, it would be worth my time

2117
02:38:07.399 --> 02:38:13.159
to you know, plants marching on
annual flowers are potted greennial and John,

2118
02:38:13.360 --> 02:38:16.680
let me do it this way.
Flowers that have a daisy like flower,

2119
02:38:18.440 --> 02:38:24.040
so that would be like a purple
cone flower has a daisy like flower.

2120
02:38:24.680 --> 02:38:28.680
I mentioned camomeal, a little tiny
daisy like flowers. Anything has a little

2121
02:38:28.719 --> 02:38:33.639
daisy like flower is going to be
good. Anything that has that umbrella flowerhead

2122
02:38:33.799 --> 02:38:39.559
like the arrow or ordell has or
fennel has that too. Those kinds are

2123
02:38:39.559 --> 02:38:43.079
good. And then most of the
herbs are going to be good. Chives

2124
02:38:43.920 --> 02:38:50.079
as a bloom and rosemary, the
trailing type blooms better than the upright type.

2125
02:38:50.360 --> 02:38:56.040
Those flowers are also visited by pollinators
and other things. Oh and how

2126
02:38:56.040 --> 02:39:01.200
about borage? Is that effective as
it is? It has a little short

2127
02:39:01.239 --> 02:39:05.559
balloon period of time, but bords
would be okay, okay, well,

2128
02:39:05.559 --> 02:39:11.000
thank you very much. All right, you take care, Thank you,

2129
02:39:11.079 --> 02:39:16.120
John. I appreciate that in you
as well. You're talking about flowers and

2130
02:39:16.520 --> 02:39:22.360
these plants and pollinators and stuff.
You can native plants, if you can.

2131
02:39:22.360 --> 02:39:24.520
A native plants is in the Heights. They're on Eleventh Street. You've

2132
02:39:24.520 --> 02:39:30.120
probably been there. Most people have
because it's an awesome place to go.

2133
02:39:30.520 --> 02:39:33.040
They have a little of everything.
Their house planting greenhouse is huge they've got

2134
02:39:33.280 --> 02:39:37.479
I was in there the other day
just looking at all these vegetables and herbs

2135
02:39:37.479 --> 02:39:41.079
that they have. They've always got
things going on. You need plants for

2136
02:39:41.120 --> 02:39:45.559
shady ears, but what about pollinators? What about butterfly attracting plants? Yes,

2137
02:39:45.680 --> 02:39:48.840
they can do that, and if
you need native plants, they have

2138
02:39:48.879 --> 02:39:52.399
on the best selections you're gonna find
anywhere. In fact, down to what

2139
02:39:52.479 --> 02:39:54.760
plants are native to. Just ride
around the Houston area. They can even

2140
02:39:54.799 --> 02:39:58.760
sell those kind of plants to you
that do really well and that would help

2141
02:40:00.079 --> 02:40:03.559
the pollinators and with the beneficial insects
when we do some of those type of

2142
02:40:03.600 --> 02:40:07.639
things. Well, I told you
they're on eleven Street in the Heights.

2143
02:40:07.239 --> 02:40:11.040
It's a good place to it.
You need to go out and check out

2144
02:40:11.120 --> 02:40:16.600
Buchanan's Plants, sign up for the
newsletter and look online at all of the

2145
02:40:16.719 --> 02:40:22.440
educational material they have there that is
really valuable, and I highly recommend you

2146
02:40:22.719 --> 02:40:28.239
get on their list for the newsletter
just for your own learning alone, much

2147
02:40:28.319 --> 02:40:31.959
less to know what's going on at
Buchanan's Plans. We're going to go over

2148
02:40:33.079 --> 02:40:35.799
to Montrose now talk to Melvin.
Hello, Melvin, Hi, there.

2149
02:40:35.879 --> 02:40:45.600
How are you? I'm well,
this is Melvin. I have a problem

2150
02:40:45.639 --> 02:40:54.079
with a lawn. It's been stressed
out by all this chemicals put on it

2151
02:40:54.120 --> 02:41:01.360
by true green and grass's dyads.
Okay, the Saint Olson grass has died,

2152
02:41:01.600 --> 02:41:07.639
and I have an appoint uh a
materials contract from contact, but a

2153
02:41:07.920 --> 02:41:13.959
proposal that I want to use scott
whedon feed on it and the plant but

2154
02:41:15.239 --> 02:41:20.280
grass afterwards. Uh. And that
that feeds two hundred and twenty five bucks.

2155
02:41:20.520 --> 02:41:26.639
And then there's a second proposal to
put Scott's wheden feed on it and

2156
02:41:28.280 --> 02:41:37.079
use twelve flats and plugs. Uh, six dollars? Uh? Is Themata

2157
02:41:37.120 --> 02:41:43.239
grass a better alternative for how long
than Saint Elverston grass? Well, you're

2158
02:41:43.280 --> 02:41:48.799
you're kind of in the inner inner
area of Houston. Do you have really

2159
02:41:48.799 --> 02:41:52.399
good sunlight or is this a somewhat
shady Yes, yes we have. We

2160
02:41:52.440 --> 02:41:56.000
have very good sunlight. Yes.
Okay, well, uh, then you

2161
02:41:56.079 --> 02:42:01.559
can grow that. The the negative
of Bermuda grass, uh is that it

2162
02:42:01.879 --> 02:42:07.479
invades everywhere, So your flower beds
and things, you're going to be fighting

2163
02:42:07.520 --> 02:42:15.079
it going into the flower bed.
That's that's the negative of it. They're

2164
02:42:15.399 --> 02:42:18.200
really looked at for very well.
Yeah, okay. Well, the the

2165
02:42:18.280 --> 02:42:22.479
other thing about bermuda is for it
to look its best, you need to

2166
02:42:22.479 --> 02:42:26.959
mow it very often. It's very
important to it off. Mow it often.

2167
02:42:28.799 --> 02:42:33.280
Don't stretch out the mowing schedule,
get it done as soon as possible,

2168
02:42:33.639 --> 02:42:37.159
and if you can take it a
little shorter, that's better. But

2169
02:42:37.280 --> 02:42:39.879
those would be the things now on
the Scots we You know, there's a

2170
02:42:39.959 --> 02:42:43.920
lot of products that are sold out
there. There are like well I'm not

2171
02:42:43.920 --> 02:42:50.280
going to name them online, but
they have different ones that have different ingredients

2172
02:42:50.280 --> 02:42:54.639
in them. Some of those products
have an ingredient that if you put that

2173
02:42:54.760 --> 02:42:58.000
down and then planted grass seed,
they it wouldn't come up. It would

2174
02:42:58.079 --> 02:43:03.719
kill the g It prevents seeds from
coming up. Others kill existing meats.

2175
02:43:03.840 --> 02:43:05.799
Is your lawn full of existing weeds
right now? Do you have just a

2176
02:43:05.799 --> 02:43:11.799
lot of weeds in it? The
excuse that the weeds were treated about triggering

2177
02:43:13.159 --> 02:43:16.920
three different times. We don't have
any weeds, but I'm saying olives and

2178
02:43:16.959 --> 02:43:20.239
grasses. It's a patch that needs
to be taken up. Then, okay,

2179
02:43:20.600 --> 02:43:24.200
okay, ground worked up a little
bit for the bermuda seeds, and

2180
02:43:24.280 --> 02:43:26.799
that's what we're going to do.
Yeah, if you're going to do bermuda,

2181
02:43:26.959 --> 02:43:30.760
then get the Saint Augustine out of
there. You can do the seeds

2182
02:43:30.760 --> 02:43:33.920
of the plugs. The problem with
seeds is it takes a little while for

2183
02:43:33.920 --> 02:43:37.319
those little tiny seeds to germinate and
to get established and to have a plant

2184
02:43:37.360 --> 02:43:41.520
that's tough. Bermuda is a tough
plant, very tough once it's established,

2185
02:43:41.520 --> 02:43:46.040
but as a seed link, it's
a very weak plant. And so how

2186
02:43:46.040 --> 02:43:52.000
long you tink you to take before
we have a bermuta lawn providing depending on

2187
02:43:52.120 --> 02:43:56.399
care and the seeding rate and everything, it's going to probably be about oh

2188
02:43:56.600 --> 02:44:01.600
three weeks four weeks before you think
it's filling in decently, But it's going

2189
02:44:01.639 --> 02:44:05.639
to take longer than that for that
grass to really reach the tough stage of

2190
02:44:05.799 --> 02:44:09.559
the area. So you know,
the plugs may be a better way to

2191
02:44:09.600 --> 02:44:15.079
go because bermuda spreads quickly, and
so I think I would probably it's going

2192
02:44:15.120 --> 02:44:18.360
to be more expensive, but I
think I would go on away like that,

2193
02:44:18.079 --> 02:44:20.520
and I would stay away from the
herbicides. Right now, let's get

2194
02:44:20.520 --> 02:44:24.000
the bermuda in and get it going. If you're using plugs, you can

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use a pre emergent herbicide to prevent
each seeds. But but if you're not

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using plugs, don't use the pre
emergence. Okay, okay, well I

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appreciate your HEILP shirt. Well,
thank you and good luck. Nope,

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all right, well there we are. We just put another show in the

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books that goes fast, doesn't it. Next Saturday? Where am I going

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to be? Clearly M and d
Ace Hardware from eleven thirty to one thirty.

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Next Saturday, M and Dace and
clearly