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KTRH Garden Line does not necessarily endorse
any of the products or services advertised on

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this program. Welcome to KTRH garden
Line with Skip Rictor, so please just

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watch him as well. Good morning, Good Sunday morning on garden Line.

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I'm your host, Skip Director,
and we're here to answer gardening questions.

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What's interesting do you? What do
you what do you wonder about? What

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are your questions? What are you
dealing with? Some plants giving you trouble,

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you bring them with you, give
us a call, put them on

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the air. I'll give him a
good talking to him. We'll fix us

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saying how about that our phone number
seven one three two one two five eight

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two fifty eight seventy four. Hey,

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you're not a gardenerent, especially if you're

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a gardener, and you're thinking about
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just be a place where you can
really enjoy an active life, you know,

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through the rest of your life as
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about a community for people fifty five
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want a beautiful home, a beautiful
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you. Well, that would be
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fullsher on Highway three fifty nine,
just two miles from downtown fullsher that I'm

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helping them put in a community garden
in this community. So not only do

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you get all the pluses of a
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one here. And that would be
a really cool place where you can gather,

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where you can garden, where you
can visit with your friends and things.

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And I just can't think of a
better way for retirement for a gardener

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than a Dellweb community. Go to
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to eight one four five nine zero
six zero nine. We're gonna start right

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out on the phones today and we're
gonna go to Tom Ball and talk to

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Mel Well. Good morning, Mel, Hey, good morning. Good to

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hear your voice again. I got
a question about aze. Is we planted

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some last a year, but I
guess it's in the fall, early fall,

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and they're doing okay. I've been
putting something down called Microlife acidifier,

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Yes, six two four, and
every pink pink bag or pinkish red bag,

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right, Yeah, Microsoft. Yeah. So anyway, I was wondering,

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they're not really they're doing okay,
they but is it okay? Like

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if in about a month from now, I just put it down yesterday again,

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in about a month from now,
if I add to that, Yeah,

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something I think by nitrofosss color Express, it's a fourteen fourteen fourteen?

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Is it okay? Mix those two? You can just be careful now when

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you switch from like an organic fertilizer
and a synthetic oftentimes you've got a salt

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based situation. You will be real
careful. If you're not watering enough and

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you get a concentrated overdose of something
like, you know, anything that's salt

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based, you could burn the roots
because it's how your roots are primarily up

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very close to the surface of the
soil. Is there any other thing I

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might besides that a color express?
Is there any other thing that I might

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do to give it a little bit
of a boost of nitrogen and all that?

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A Well, it sounds like now
you've done two of the Microlife acidifiers

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in the last how many months?
Oh? I think I believe it was

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in the fall that we do maybe
even earlier. Okay, remember, well

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you know, it's fine and it's
going to be releasing and you should be

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getting enough nutrition. So if you're
not seeing the vigor you want, yeah,

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you could add a little bit more, but I might be wondering about

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things like watering. You know,
is it getting a little on the dry

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side, and so they're slowing down
and kind of putting it on hold,

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waiting to see if it's going to
rain again. Uh, that that may

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be a factor as certainly as ey
is. You know, we think of

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a machade loving plants, but they
want bright shade, and bright sha helps

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drive growth. That's one of the
things that does. Uh, And so

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that may be a factor too.
So you know, you kind of it's

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it's up to you. I would
depending on how I don't know how much

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you put out or when or where
you spread the fertilizer and all that,

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so it's kind of hard to assess
accurately, but I would just say,

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uh, you know, if you
felt like you didn't put on enough,

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you can put out more, whatever
kind of fertilizer you want to put out.

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And if you feel like maybe that
was okay and maybe it's just needing

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a little more frequent watering, you
could certainly do that. Is there?

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Okay? Is there another why don't
you call them what a natural uh fertilizer

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other than I don't know what term
you use other than the microlife? Yeah,

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yeah, as in the microlife?
Is there one that? Is there

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something else that is natural fertilizer?
You might say, yeah, there's a

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number of them out there, But
Lemondina makes a has to grow product,

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several has to grow products that are
that are natural. You might want to

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try something like that. Some of
those are available as a liquid most of

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the mark Yeah, I do have
some, okay, And so that when

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you mix it according to the label
again and you put it on, it's

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like you're washing the right there into
the roots and you get a pretty fast

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response. So you may try that
and see if that helps. If it

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does, then that tells you,
hey, a little I need a little

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more nutrient and so that okay,
Yeah, all right, you're not going

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to burn with with the has to
grow all right? Sounds cool to me.

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All right, Thank you very much, you bet mel. I appreciate

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I really appreciate that call. You
know. We are we love our feed

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stores here on Garden Line and Texas
Feed stop out in Mont Bellevue. I

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mean, if you live anywhere Mott
Bellevue, even around the Baytown area,

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this is your hometown feed store.
It's on ninety five thirty four North Highway

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one forty six and Mont Bellevue.
Or let me make it even easier,

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just go on Highway one forty six
a few minutes north of I ten and

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they'll be there on the right.
Super duper customer service Brian and rope Hope

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Roads. They make sure that customers
are treated right. There's you know,

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folks, young men still carry the
bags out for you, probably because they've

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hired a teenager from the Mont Belleview
community. They are part of that community

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out there. So wherever you are
in that area, just remember you're gonna

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at Texas Feed Stop. You're gonna
find all the furlizers we talk about,

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all the products we talk about,
you know, like maybe you need mosquito

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donks or something along those. They're
going to have them. Whatever you want

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to do to green up your yard, grow a citrus tree, plant a

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vegetable garden. They've got the supplies
there for all kinds of things that may

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arise that you need to do with. That's at Texas feed stop again just

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a few minutes north of I ten
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through the Mott Bellevue even down into
the Baytown area. I set out.

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Now I'm gonna go to Brassouria County
and we're gonna talk to Lewis this morning.

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Well, good morning, Lewis,
Good morning, Skip. My question

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this morning is about magnolia trees,
and I'm talking about the large flowered,

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single specimen, big, big specimen
trees, not the little gems. I

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want to plant one this fall from
my wife, and it's actually up in

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brads County, not Gloria County,
Okay. And I was wondering just two

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questions, what wrote variety in nursery? Would you recommend another some selected varieties

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of the Randall floras? Yes,
and you know, if there's any arboretums

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that may have the maybe David Creature
is up and at Stephen F. Auston

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or anywhere that Well, I was
really looking for some Skip Ricker advice.

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Thanks. They do up at the
up at Creatures place up there in acadets.

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They they do have occasional plant sales, but those are gonna be smaller

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plants, uh, and I don't
know that they'll that they sell Magnolia as

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part of the deal. They might. Uh, if you're kind of up

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in the Bryses County area, you've
got several options. Williams. Some tree

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farms out there in Plantersville, and
they can provide a larger tree, give

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you a head start. You know, it doesn't have to be huge.

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It could be twenty gallons, but
you know up to too. I don't

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know, one hundred, two hundred
gallons. They have some well, they

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would have it there. You would
just I would say, just give them

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a call and see if it's something
that are you wanting to pick it up?

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Is this a duet yourself or do
you want them to come planet?

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No, No, no, it's
a it's a duet yourself. And and

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maybe I'm misled by a large sho
I'm talking about the big grand of flora.

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Right, you're a large tree and
a container, but the grand of

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floor of varieties. And I know, yeah, I would come right there.

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There are some I tell you what, you know what I'm against a

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hard break here, Lewis. Let's
take a break and I'll come right back

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and we'll it's this conversation the phone
number seven one three two one two fifty

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eight seventy four. Good morning,
you are listening to Garden Line and if

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you'd like to give us a call
our phone number seven one three two one

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two fifty eight seventy four. Hey, I've got an educational public service announcement

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for you here. If you have
trees around your house, now is a

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time to make sure that they are
ready for the storms that inevitably will come

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during a hurricane season here in Southeast
Texas. And maybe you need some limbs

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removed, or your roof line's cleared. Perhaps there's a dead tree that needs

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to come down, a limb hanging
over your roof, rubbing on the shingles,

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or something of value, maybe your
neighbor's yard it's hanging over there.

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This is the time you got a
power line drop. You know, during

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a storm, if a tree limb
falls on that, you are without power

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and it's a mess to get that
thing fixed up. Get a professional to

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come out, and I'll tell you
who a professional is. That is Martin

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Spoon Moore, Martin and his wife
Joe of Affordable Tree Service. They know

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what they're doing. They'll tell you
what they're gonna do and they'll do it.

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When they say they will do it, they'll come out. They'll give

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you an honest consultation on the trees, isn't what needs to happen, what

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doesn't need to happen, and then
you'll know exactly where you stand. Their

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four phone number seven one three six
nine nine twenty six sixty three, Or

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if you want, you can go
online to aff Tree Service dot com and

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find out more about Affordable Tree Service
there. But seven one three six nine

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nine twenty six sixty three. Write
that number down because a day will come

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where you'll decide, you know what
it's time. Maybe you're gonna do some

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construction around a tree. Get them
out there to look at it first before

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the damage is done, and they
can advise you on how to avoid that.

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We're going to head back to Brassis
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continue our conversation with Lewis. Lewis, you had a southern magnolia you want

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to plant out there, and you
know I was I was trying to think

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through during break that cultivars varieties of
southern magnolia, and almost all of them

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that I can think of, almost
all along and think of are basically varieties

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that they developed to be more compact, maybe to have a straight, straight,

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narrow trunk really tall, and they're
just in general. I think a

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lot of the folks are going to
be selling you either one of those kinds

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like Little Gem or Teddy Bear being
examples, are just the standard type,

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probably without a variety name. But
again, the closest tea out there is

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going to be the Williamson Tree Farm
in Plantersville. Did you indicate you want

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to get it and plant it yourself
or do you want to have somebody to

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do it? No, I'm going
to plant it myself. Okay, Okay.

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What I was thinking, memory serve, was that at the Ruby masar

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Aretum in Ecodoches, you knows,
Jalia or Stephen F. Fauston, that

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they had some granded flora selection collections, you know, just where you could

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observe them, if nothing else,
just for the flower size, the leaf

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colorations, all many things that make
the big trees look so cool. Well,

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uh, you know, you might
want to give them a call see

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what they you know, if they
do sell things like that, I can

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say it's gonna be very small trees, probably just because it takes a good

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while to grow a big magnolia,
Southern magnolias. At least you might try

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that. I guess the key is
going to be finding them. Dave Creech

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and his folks doing a wonderful ornamental
what do ornamental research and stuff up there,

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and I think a lot of the
things are so cutting edge. You

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know, you're just not going to
go to your local nursery and find it

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necessarily, but it's worth it's worth
a call if you want to check into

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that. But I do know that, you know, the closest to you

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would be probably over at Williamson.
You could certainly go to a garden center

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as well. You know, Williamson's
connected our CW nursery, that's their retail

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end down here. But I'm pretty
sure you can go give him a call,

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r c W call. You can
go directly to the tree farm.

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I'm pretty sure they'll they'll arrange for
that. A chant forest may have some

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good advice, well, they would
have good Yeah, they have good advice

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there, there's no question about that. It's a little further of a drive

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for you. I was just trying
to kind of get as close as as

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we could up to you. I
mean, you know, if you're just

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looking for advice, we got a
lot of great nurseries, chanted forest or

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chanted gardens, arbigade, all kinds
of things are up kind of oh you

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know on the west to north side
of town here. Yeah, I don't

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mind driving because this is a you
know, lifetime selection to go buy a

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magnolia tree. You know, next
r hour grab won't make a difference.

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Well I might, so I might, sorry by calling the arboretum up there

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and get with somebody and maybe they
would say, yeah, there's the new

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righty we're really liking and here's the
name of it, and then your phone

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calls can be made with that knowledge. All right here, Okay, thank

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you, Skip a good day you
too, Thanks for Carl Lewis. I

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appreciate that I have been bragging on
Vego garden beds for a long time,

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and it's because I'm telling you there's
nothing like them. All my life,

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I've made beds out of mounds of
dirt. I've made beds out of with

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center blocks around them. I made
beds with treated wood around it. Ten

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all kinds of things, you know, It's made one garden after another,

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not like Vego vego Garden beds number
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there they are treated in a way
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corrosion from happening to the metal number
one. It's a very thick metal,

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but it is it is especially well
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put a USD approved paint on top
of that and it just makes for a

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really nice bed that way outlasts you're
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that because treated wood is nice in
terms of rot resistance. But when you

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put something up against the soil,
it's only a matter of time when it's

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wood based. And so you can
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the way, when you're online looking
at vegogarden dot com, you need to

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check out there a little Oasis Garden
planner. It's like a little three D

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thing where you can say this is
about the size of my yard and you

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can just start to put together a
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thing. Vegogarden dot com. You
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at their Oasis Garden Planner. They
also sell through a number of our good

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high quality home mom and pop nurseries
here in the Greater Houston area. I

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getting up early in the morning and
you know, you look outside and it's

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it's still dark outside, and it's
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can get some some clear thinking done. And I was doing a little bit

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this morning, just you know,
kind of considering some different things and what

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would be what would be some good
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course we hope you set the stage
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way, the number is seven one
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four. But I would just trying
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be of interest and helpful to folks
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one of the one of the questions
we just get a lot of is the

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fertilization for our lawns. Our lawns
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care the most about. It just
is it's what makes the phone ring,

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whether it's here at Garden Line or
at the County Extension office. That is,

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that's what people mainly call about,
those two topics. And so we

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want to have lawns that are beautiful. And I see people do a lot

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of things wrong. I see people, you know, fail to water their

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long properly. They wat are too
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good deep, infrequent soaking, they
under fertilize, they over fertilize, They

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fertilize with the wrong product. There
was a time when triple thirteen was the

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fertilizer everybody put out. Well,
we've we've learned that when you do that,

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over time, phosphorus builds up to
levels that are so high it ties

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up iron and now we have yellowing
in the grass. Do you see what

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I'm saying. What you need is
a quality product, but you need one

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that releases over time. And Nelson's
has one just like that. It's called

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Slow and Easy Nelson's Plant Food.
It's a twenty two two ten, so

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super low in the phosphorus. Very
few lawns need phosphorus fertilization. I've looked

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at a lot of soil tests,
you know, over the decades, and

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just rarely see a need for turf
grass to have additional phosphorus added. So

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the Slow and Easy is one that's
going to release gradually over time. You

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put it out and I know,
you know, you think twenty two that's

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a lot of nitrogen well, no, you're putting it out about five pounds

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per thousand square feet, so you're
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But that pound is gradually released,
so you don't get the flushes of

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growth. That means you have to
mow more. That means you have a

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less extensive root system. Isn't that
interesting that when you make the top grow

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more, the roots become less developed, They grow less developed. Nelson's Slow

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and Easy twenty two ten will carry
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excellent, excellent option for that kind
of thing. Well, we're getting kind

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of close to a break here,
But Nikki, I think that if anyone

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asks about my Christmas list, on
my Christmas list is a Lansdown Moody Caboda

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L twenty five one. That's all
I'm asking. I'm not asking for much.

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That's just right there. Yeah,
now is a joking with Nikki about

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it. But now it's a really
good time to do that because they're having

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they're extending that incredible deal where for
eighty four months. Now, I'm an

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aggie, but I can tell you
that's seven years, zero down, zero

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percent interest. Extending that incredible deal
all the way I think into October,

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you're not going to find better.
And when it comes to originals, and

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that would be Caboda and Lansdowne Moody
hands down, it's Landsdown. You can

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go to LM tractor dot com to
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delay. I mean, do you
want something, Maybe you want a front

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endloader. You can trick these things
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the little shredders behind them and everything, carrying those feedsacks to the barn,

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you know, moving the soil material. You buy several yards of soil,

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now you just scoop it out and
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of fun ways, but mainly you
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You know. It's kind of like
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Are you just really having a good
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five one, hands down, it's
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I think we got some news coming. Good morning. You're listening to garden

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Line. I'm your host, Skip
Richter, and our phone number is seven

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one three two one two five eight
seven four seven one three two one two

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fifty eight seventy four. You know
how to Arburgate. They're they're always coming

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up with new ideas, new plants, just new ways to have success in

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the garden. You know, it's
one of those garden centers when you go.

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Everybody that is they're greeting you and
helping you. They know what they're

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talking about. I mean, they
provide the service. They do that you

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know that hold your hand, walks
through if you need that. Let me

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come here, let me show you
this. You ought to consider this plan?

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How about this one for the spot
you just describe. That's the kind

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of place. Arburgade is a lot
of fun to go there too, by

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the way, but they also have
a one two three completely easy system that

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starts with an organic food. It's
a four four three plus ten percent calcium

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organic granular Fertilizer's going to release very
slowly. It's got, you know,

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of course, plenty of organic matter
in addition to those nutrients. But it

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works super super well. They also
have a soil. Now this soil isn't

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just any soil because they understand the
clay soils we deal with here. This

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has compost in it, large particle
sand and expanded shale, all of which

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helped to open up those clay soils
and with the expanded shale to keep them

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open. And then you can also
include an organic compost complete that would have

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two different types of composts blended together
with all the great microbes that you get

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when you do that, and an
expanded shale component in that as well.

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One two three food soil compost,
all organic, all complete, and all

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available at arbor Gate. See.
I told you they're always coming up when

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new and cool stuff. By the
way, right now, they've got some

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beautiful hidden gingers that they have a
Brazilian tropical plants out there, but the

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hidden gingers are just especially pretty in
you. You need to check those out.

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You got a bright, shady area
and you want to add some interest

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in color to it. Try that. Ask them up to see their hidden

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gingers. Let's head out now to
Cyprus and we're gonna talk to Daryl.

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Good morning, Daryl, Good morning, Skip. How are you today.

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I'm doing pretty pretty well for a
Sunday morning. Were good? Good?

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All right, Hey, I've got
some lawn issues. I sent some pictures

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into you. I don't know if
you can pull them up, but I

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did. Let me let me see
if I can get to them. Go

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ahead and keep asking your saying what
you're saying. Yeah, I've got some

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areas that I don't know if it's
ginch bugs, I don't are a fungus.

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I know i've got in one part
of the yard. I sent a

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close up and I think I've got
some. I know I have some kind

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of fungus. Go on, you
can, you'll see that. But these

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dead spots that are getting larger,
I'm concerned. It kind of reminds me

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of the solid web worms when they
hit. But there's no malls flying around.

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Okay, let's see is that Henley? Yes, right, okay,

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good, Yeah, great pictures.
By the way, thank you. So

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one of your pictures shows one of
the most photogenet cases of gray leaf spot

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I've ever seen on Saint Augustine.
Gray leaf spot's brought on by excessive nitrogen

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by excessive water, keeping it wet. It's often worse than shady areas,

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but it can happen in the sun
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You just you just bag up all
the This is one time where I

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might bag the clippings. Normally I
say return them, but bag them,

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use them in compost, use them
as a molt somewhere, but just get

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all that those fungal spores out of
the lawn you're still gonna have at present.

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But I don't know, this is
just a lot, So I think

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I would probably bag those clippings if
I were you, And some of your

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other photos that are out kind of
by the street and things. You've got

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a mix of things going on there. It looks like take all root rot

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to me visually, But that's not
a disease you can officially, you know,

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diagnosed based just on looking at a
picture, because drought looks similar to

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that. Damage from certain kinds of
herbicides look similar to that. And it

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also being next to your sidewalk and
your driveway curbs, things it. We

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can't eliminate chinch bugs and they are
active. Now have you ever have you

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ever looked at or seen pictures of
chinch bugs? I have? Okay,

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so you, if you know what
you're looking for, go down on hands

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and knees to the zone between healthy
and dead. Chinch Bugs will not be

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in the dead grass anymore, but
wherever the grass is declining, that's where

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your highest population will be. And
just part the grass, and do you

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know, looking about four or five
different spots part the grass, look at

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the at the soil surface and the
thatch and see if you see chinch bugs,

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and if so, you need to
treat them promptly. Otherwise we're probably

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dealing with take all root rot,
and that would be a whole different thing.

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But I would eliminate the chinchbug first. Okay, Now, what kind

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of fun on your side is good
for the great leaf spot? Great leaf

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spot, you can do a variety
of different things. The products that contain

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chlorothalonil chlorothalonil uh Dakanil is one brand
example. UH products that contain my clobutanil.

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There's there's a lot of them out
there. You're in you're in the

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cypers area, so you know,
you head over to a place like Plants

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for All Seasons on two forty nine. They have got all those kind of

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products. They're gonna know what they're
talking about, and they'll be able to

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kind of walk you through like here's
your two options, and this one's systemic

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and that one's not and so on, and probably drill right down to it.

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But there are a number of different
fungic sides that will work on great

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leaf spot. Okay, I'll give
it much fun. All right, Well,

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good luck with it, and thank
you sir. I appreciate that.

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I'm gonna send you a note requesting
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because those are absolutely you are.
You are a sick plant photographer for

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sure. That excellent job on that. Thank you very much. They appreciate

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the call. You know. Star
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long time, making a big difference
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Hope is a christ centered community.
Really, it's been more than a hundred

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years. They've got the downtown Men's
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where if you are someone that is
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need a place to stay. You
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it's not just get a job.
You got to be able to get to

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the job, and you don't have
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to dress for an interview, and
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the wardrobe, because there isn't a
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provides all that. They help people
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under them so they can make a
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for their children. Now six thousand
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o H mission dot org learn more. I know you're compassionate and you care

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about people, and you want to
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goes to a good cause, not
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a street corner, but life changing
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Hope provides. We are gonna let's
see where are we now? About to

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have to take a break. Sandy, you will be the first up.

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When we come back, we'll talk
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if any of you would like to
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eight seventy four get by word the
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do good Saturday morning, you are
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to talk gardening. That makes sense
right with a title like guarden Line.

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I'm your host, Skip Richter and
our phone number seven one three two one

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two fifty eight seventy four. Listen. If you have been thinking about putting

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and you can produce quite a bit
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maybe you don't want something sitting on
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residential, they do residential and commercial. If you want one of those uh

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standing metal standing seam metal roofs,
they can put that together. You know,

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custom put it together right there so
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Brinkman quality again. Two eight one
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It's about to Cyprus and we're gonna
talk to Sandy this morning. Good morning

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Sandy, Hi, good morning Skip
for are you. I'm well? Thank

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you. I sent you. I
sent you some pictures yesterday. I spoke

413
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to you about my plant. Yes
that I um don't know the names,

414
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and I spent indoor and outdoor plants
now my real name. So you're gonna

415
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have to look under swatty Gallier.
I've already got it pulled up. Oh

416
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okay, I found you. So
you're wanting that. You want to know

417
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the one the Hawaiian t I just
think you need to. You know,

418
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as far as getting rid of it, I would just tilt the container over,

419
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slide it out, knock off all
the soil you can. You can

420
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reuse that soil in the pot,
mix it up with some fresh so you

421
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can replant those pots. I think
that's probably the most practical way to get

422
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rid of it, unless you just
want to dump the whole thing in the

423
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trash. But I you know,
there's probably a lot of good soil on

424
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there. That. If you want
to just stretch it a little bit,

425
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you could do that. Uh,
the plants. You've got a beautiful eggs

426
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growing there out of a container,
and some cannas in there behind it with

427
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a egga with a golden Eggxora with
the golden colors. Looks like you have

428
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some gomprina, which is a bachelor
button another name for it, with a

429
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little reddish what is the magenta,
I don't know, magenta colors. I

430
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think it's kind of hard to see. On the other one, it looks

431
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like a chrysanthemum too. That's a
beautiful container of that. And then of

432
00:30:59.480 --> 00:31:03.799
course you're blueberry, so you're having
a lot of fun with containers. Yeah,

433
00:31:03.839 --> 00:31:08.599
I just don't know how to like
trimp up tap run Yeah, like

434
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I want to, like I want
to keep especially this um green with the

435
00:31:14.759 --> 00:31:19.599
magenta or the purple all right,
so on that, how do I trim

436
00:31:19.680 --> 00:31:23.720
that? Well? I mean,
it depends on your aesthetic preferences. I

437
00:31:23.759 --> 00:31:27.039
think it looks great just spilling over
the sides like it is, but you

438
00:31:27.079 --> 00:31:30.759
could I would reach under and just
cut off any branches that are sticking out

439
00:31:30.839 --> 00:31:34.880
further than you want them to be, or that are hanging down further than

440
00:31:34.920 --> 00:31:38.079
you want them to be, And
so you decide what is the shape you

441
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want, and then just snap here
and there and go about it slow,

442
00:31:41.359 --> 00:31:44.720
walk around, take a look at
it, and then prune again. And

443
00:31:44.799 --> 00:31:47.559
you can come up with a good, a good solution on that one.

444
00:31:47.559 --> 00:31:49.799
As far as the blueberry, you
want to get anything hanging really low to

445
00:31:49.839 --> 00:31:53.279
the ground out of the way.
But when we come to winter, that's

446
00:31:53.319 --> 00:31:57.640
the time when you want to prune
a little twiggy growth out of your blueberry

447
00:31:57.680 --> 00:32:02.720
and it'll it'll rejuvenate in the spring. Okay, all right? And what

448
00:32:02.799 --> 00:32:09.240
about the one inside the um?
It's not a croton, but it's the

449
00:32:09.240 --> 00:32:14.759
one that's going straight up. I
think I missed that picture. Let me

450
00:32:15.000 --> 00:32:16.240
look and see. I don't see
that. I think it's one of the

451
00:32:16.319 --> 00:32:21.920
first ones. Okay, I'm not
seeing it right now. But when oh,

452
00:32:22.039 --> 00:32:25.519
you're talking, are you talking about
the Hawaiian t No? Not,

453
00:32:25.720 --> 00:32:30.160
it's inside my house. Okay.
It's the one with the green um.

454
00:32:30.720 --> 00:32:37.440
There's a green plant that's growing straight
up. And then right next to it

455
00:32:37.519 --> 00:32:42.079
is another one that looks like we
got maroon. And yeah, I don't

456
00:32:42.119 --> 00:32:45.960
I don't see it in the pictures, but in general, on those when

457
00:32:45.000 --> 00:32:51.440
you have a long stock going up
with um, you know, no side

458
00:32:51.440 --> 00:32:54.240
branching, you often can cut the
tips out and cause them to branch,

459
00:32:54.880 --> 00:33:00.799
But without seeing exactly the one,
it's kind of hard for me to say

460
00:33:00.799 --> 00:33:05.160
for sure. Okay, I'll resend
those pictures to you. Then, all

461
00:33:05.240 --> 00:33:08.039
right, well, thank you very
much. I appreciate thank you. Okay,

462
00:33:08.079 --> 00:33:14.519
bo bye. What I enjoy gardening
for a lot of reasons. It's

463
00:33:14.519 --> 00:33:17.079
good for your health, that's absolutely
true. Good physical health, is good

464
00:33:17.079 --> 00:33:22.039
for mental health. Lots of benefits
to garden. We're made to garden.

465
00:33:22.160 --> 00:33:24.000
I mean, did I really believe
that? And those of you who aren't

466
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gardening, you know who you are. You just haven't arrived yet. It's

467
00:33:29.519 --> 00:33:32.319
time to grow up. Get a
garden because it is wonderful for herod.

468
00:33:32.359 --> 00:33:37.000
I was visiting with someone earlier about
like a bird sanctuary that's connected to a

469
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hospital and just you look at the
window and you just see the trees and

470
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the birds. There is so much
scientific research showing that that makes people heal

471
00:33:47.920 --> 00:33:53.519
faster. I mean plants, which
is nature and people put together. It

472
00:33:53.680 --> 00:33:59.039
changes things. It changes a cognitive
ability of kids. Really, I mean

473
00:33:59.519 --> 00:34:02.640
kids offer from add in a classroom
where they can get out and see nature

474
00:34:02.720 --> 00:34:08.039
versus not statistical difference between the two. One of the things that I think

475
00:34:08.119 --> 00:34:13.719
makes gardening fun, one of the
extras is the birds. They fly in

476
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with the song. And you've heard
me say before gardening is an aesthetic aesthetic

477
00:34:17.880 --> 00:34:22.320
thing where we look at the beauty. But gardening is also affects our olfactory

478
00:34:22.360 --> 00:34:28.360
where we enjoy the sense and the
smells. And gardening effects are hearing the

479
00:34:28.400 --> 00:34:30.599
birds songs that come in in the
morning. I love sitting outside in the

480
00:34:30.639 --> 00:34:35.679
morning hearing the bird songs. Well, Wallbird's unlimited as a place. You

481
00:34:35.719 --> 00:34:37.079
need to know about it if you
want to do that. I've got a

482
00:34:37.159 --> 00:34:42.840
really cool new feeder that I got
from Wall Birds that is a squirrel proof

483
00:34:42.920 --> 00:34:45.480
feeder, and I tell you,
it is so much fun watching squirrels not

484
00:34:45.519 --> 00:34:50.440
get to eat my bird seed.
It's kind of entertaining and boy do they

485
00:34:50.480 --> 00:34:53.119
ever not give up. But I
think I've got them thwarted with this special

486
00:34:53.599 --> 00:34:58.840
bird excluding feeder that they have.
It's nesting seasons, so your bluebirds,

487
00:34:58.880 --> 00:35:05.519
cardinals, chickenees and ends need to
be fed. And Wabirds has nesting super

488
00:35:05.559 --> 00:35:10.440
Blend. Nesting super blend is just
a super food. It's high quality.

489
00:35:10.800 --> 00:35:15.400
It helps them during the nesting season, but also we're going to be doing

490
00:35:15.440 --> 00:35:19.280
molting here as we get later into
the summer, and birds need to mold

491
00:35:19.320 --> 00:35:24.320
to get new feathers to replace their
old damaged feathers, and the quality feed

492
00:35:24.400 --> 00:35:29.960
helps them renew their plumage and keep
it in top condition. So I would

493
00:35:29.960 --> 00:35:32.320
feed nesting super Blend all the way
through August. Now. Wahbirds has a

494
00:35:32.320 --> 00:35:37.239
lot of other great great feeds bird
seeds by the way, too, they

495
00:35:37.239 --> 00:35:39.840
have some of those no waste type
bird seeds where you know, rather than

496
00:35:39.880 --> 00:35:44.280
having maybe sunflowers and shells, so
when you know the birds are done with

497
00:35:44.360 --> 00:35:46.280
them, you got this pile of
shells underneath the feeder, which is fine.

498
00:35:46.960 --> 00:35:50.960
If you don't like that, use
one of the no mess feeds.

499
00:35:51.119 --> 00:35:54.119
They have quality feeds. When you
pay for feed, bird feed, bird

500
00:35:54.239 --> 00:36:00.880
seed in a wall birds mix,
you are not wasting money on anything that

501
00:36:00.960 --> 00:36:04.639
the birds don't want to eat.
The old red bbes you get in cheap

502
00:36:04.679 --> 00:36:07.159
bird seed birds that's the last thing
in the world they want to eat,

503
00:36:07.199 --> 00:36:10.159
and they typically kick it out on
the ground. So it can grow like

504
00:36:10.199 --> 00:36:15.360
a weed underneath your feeder. Wahbirds
feeds are not that way, and you

505
00:36:15.400 --> 00:36:19.360
can get a feed designed for the
kind of birds you want to feed.

506
00:36:19.400 --> 00:36:24.599
Some cover a wide range of species. But go to WBU dot com WBU

507
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dot com Forward Slash Houston. There's
seven Wallbirds. You can find one near

508
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you on that website. You can
go to clear Lake, West Houston bel

509
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Air. Maybe you're done in pear
Land or up in Cypress Kingwood, or

510
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over in Katie. Wallbirds for all
of you guys. There just so easy

511
00:36:40.760 --> 00:36:45.960
and it's fun to visit. And
it's a great place too to buy really

512
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cool gifts for that person that has
everything, but you just don't know what

513
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to get them. Well, check
out Wall Birds Unlimited. It's kind of

514
00:36:52.960 --> 00:36:58.119
hard to find somebody that just doesn't
enjoy beautiful birds and beautiful songbirds in our

515
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landscapes. Well, you're listening to
Gardenline. I am your host, Skip

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Rict and our phone number is seven
one three two one two five eight seven

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four. We're gonna take a little
break here. If you would like to

518
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give Josh a call, he'll get
you on the boards and you'll be first

519
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up when we come back by the
way later today, real special deal here.

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You need to note this. We
are going to have the Peerscapes folks

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in the studio. That's right,
Peerscapes right here in the studio Jason and

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I believe he's bringing a designer with
him. So if you have any questions

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about landscaping, maybe you know what
can be done to fix drainage over here,

524
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or you know, I don't know
hardscaping. Any advice you want,

525
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this is your chance to pick their
brain and they are the experts on it.

526
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I mean when it comes to landscapes, Peerscapes is just first class.

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The designs, the services they offer
pretty much anything you need. What do

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you need, let's hear you give
us a call about seven one three two

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one two fifty eight seventy four,
that's eight o'clock hour. KTRH Garden Line

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does not necessarily endorse any of the
products or services advertised on this program.

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Welcome to KTRH Guarden Line with Scarre
Rictor It's smell. Just watch him as

532
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so many Well, good morning on
a beautiful Sunday morning. This is the

533
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time of day to be in joining
outside. I'll tell you the early day

534
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and late day. It's kind of
when we get out there and get a

535
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few things done. Hey, if
you are thinking about retirement, maybe you'd

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like to find a community where you
know all the things you care about are

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right there around you. Dellweb's building
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just two miles from Full Shirt Downtown. Full Shirt on FM three fifty nine.

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Now, a Dellweb community is going
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The whole community is based around lifestyle
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five and better active adults who want
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And you know that's the way to
do it. And gardeners know that.

543
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And this Dellweb community, by the
way, has a community garden going in

544
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that I'm helping them with. I
just can't imagine. I mean, you

545
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don't have to dig up your backyard
to put a garden in here. So

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here you have a beautiful community,
great programs, great activities, beautiful walking

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trails. It's just gorgeous. And
on top of it all, you've got

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a place you can go garden,
you can visit with your gardening friends and

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things there. I mean, it's
just it's a perfect setup. Call Dellweb

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at two eight one four five nine
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online to dellweb dot com Slice Houston
and you can get more inform there.

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Let's head out this morning to Cove
and we're going to talk to Dennis.

553
00:40:06.079 --> 00:40:09.480
Hello, Dennis, Hi, good
morning. I have a question about fig

554
00:40:09.519 --> 00:40:15.000
trees. Our pigs were through through
producing probably two three weeks ago, and

555
00:40:15.159 --> 00:40:21.840
my question is should I keep watering
them? At some point do they become

556
00:40:22.159 --> 00:40:25.320
dormant? You know, does it
make sense to keep watering or do they

557
00:40:25.360 --> 00:40:30.679
just kind of once they aren't producing
to the trees, I'm asking that I'm

558
00:40:30.719 --> 00:40:36.800
starting to notice the leaves or getting
yellow. We only had measurable rain wants

559
00:40:37.679 --> 00:40:40.960
about June tenth, right, I
wouldn't worry about a lot of watering on

560
00:40:40.960 --> 00:40:45.079
a fig, but I would do
rescue watering if needed. So if the

561
00:40:45.159 --> 00:40:47.920
soil gets really, really dry,
the figs will cast their leaves off,

562
00:40:49.039 --> 00:40:52.840
they'll turn yellow and drop right off. And you'd like to keep as much

563
00:40:52.000 --> 00:40:57.920
of the carbohydrate producing leaf surfaces as
you can on the plant for a good

564
00:40:58.000 --> 00:41:00.760
vigor and health and so on.
I think I would, you know,

565
00:41:00.840 --> 00:41:05.880
just what I would call a rescue
watering a good soaking on an infrequent basis.

566
00:41:05.960 --> 00:41:08.199
You don't even have to do it
weekly, but just keep the fig

567
00:41:08.360 --> 00:41:13.719
in decent shape. There are other
things that can be causing them to drop

568
00:41:13.840 --> 00:41:17.559
leaves and decline. They're susceptible and
nematodes in the soil. You know,

569
00:41:17.599 --> 00:41:22.559
there's just other possibilities. There's some
foliage diseases like rusts that will attack them.

570
00:41:22.760 --> 00:41:27.519
But I think in general what you're
describing is just a good soaking occasionally.

571
00:41:27.800 --> 00:41:30.039
Just keep an eye on them,
and if anything changes, you can

572
00:41:30.079 --> 00:41:35.840
call us back with a description of
exactly what's happening on the leaf. All

573
00:41:35.920 --> 00:41:37.360
right, thank you, hey,
Dennis, thank you, and good luck

574
00:41:37.360 --> 00:41:42.119
with a fig. That's a wonderful, wonderful plant to have. I love

575
00:41:42.159 --> 00:41:46.639
figs. I grew up eating fig
jelly that was made with strawberry jello.

576
00:41:47.159 --> 00:41:52.360
Now I don't know how Mom pulled
that off, but yeah, it was.

577
00:41:52.639 --> 00:41:55.719
It was basically strawberry jello mixed with
fig and it made a really nice

578
00:41:55.800 --> 00:42:00.679
dense jelly. I also grew up
eating figs run around barefoot, climbing in

579
00:42:00.679 --> 00:42:04.880
the tree, dodging wasps. We
didn't have the nice closed eye type of

580
00:42:04.920 --> 00:42:08.320
figs. Back then that you do
have available now. And boy, if

581
00:42:08.320 --> 00:42:12.159
you're ever going to buy a fig, make sure it has a closed eye

582
00:42:12.199 --> 00:42:15.920
so it doesn't let all those bugs
in to sour the fig. And once

583
00:42:15.960 --> 00:42:19.639
it gets sour, it becomes a
little wasp beer joint and they want to

584
00:42:19.679 --> 00:42:24.639
hang out with all that fermented sap
or juices coming out of it. This

585
00:42:24.760 --> 00:42:28.559
is a time where you have a
unique opportunity to buy a tree at a

586
00:42:28.599 --> 00:42:31.519
super superprice, and that would be
from Verdant. They have a Christmas in

587
00:42:31.639 --> 00:42:36.159
July sale. I love that Christmas
in July. It's going on at all

588
00:42:36.159 --> 00:42:38.719
three of their locations. You know. They're out there at on the west

589
00:42:38.719 --> 00:42:43.800
side, kind of near Bear Creek
Park. It's on Barker Cyprus down in

590
00:42:43.840 --> 00:42:46.000
Paarland on Broadway Street. They have
their second location, and then they have

591
00:42:46.039 --> 00:42:50.280
a location on Yale Street where it
comes into E ten. Not hard to

592
00:42:50.280 --> 00:42:54.159
find a Verdant around town. You
can go to Verdant tree farm dot com

593
00:42:54.480 --> 00:42:58.920
and find out more information. With
Verdant, you get to pick out your

594
00:42:58.920 --> 00:43:00.760
tree, they put a tag on
it, they bring it out and they'll

595
00:43:00.800 --> 00:43:06.280
install it for you. Now in
this Christmas in July cl ten to fifty

596
00:43:06.320 --> 00:43:10.639
percent off trees when purchased with an
install, so they're not discounting the install,

597
00:43:10.719 --> 00:43:15.239
but the tree ten to fifty percent
off. And this is for trees

598
00:43:15.239 --> 00:43:19.639
that they have there on site,
which they have a great selection. They're

599
00:43:19.760 --> 00:43:23.199
on site. So check out Verdant
treefarm dot Com. Now would be a

600
00:43:23.239 --> 00:43:27.519
good time if you've been thinking about
putting in a tree, Let's get it

601
00:43:27.599 --> 00:43:30.960
in and let's get it done right. Especially important to plant and care for

602
00:43:31.079 --> 00:43:36.760
it right when you're doing it during
the warm season, and Verdant knows exactly

603
00:43:37.039 --> 00:43:40.000
how to do that right. That's
one of the things I enjoy about our

604
00:43:40.000 --> 00:43:45.159
companies that here on garden Line,
we don't hire, or if we don't

605
00:43:45.239 --> 00:43:50.199
hire, we don't take on ads
for companies that don't have a reputation for

606
00:43:50.360 --> 00:43:54.679
doing things right. It just I
can't imagine steering you to a place where

607
00:43:54.880 --> 00:43:58.559
you're not going to get treated right, or you're not going to get the

608
00:43:58.599 --> 00:44:01.119
service that you need, you're not
going to get selection where they don't know

609
00:44:01.159 --> 00:44:06.679
what they're talking about. There's a
lot of businesses that fill all those categories

610
00:44:06.719 --> 00:44:10.039
around any town, but when you're
hearing us talk about things on Guardenline,

611
00:44:10.079 --> 00:44:16.559
those are companies that I personally either
have utilized or have talked to customers that

612
00:44:16.840 --> 00:44:22.239
we've we've we look into companies and
we keep a close eye on things because

613
00:44:22.760 --> 00:44:27.119
it's important to me to send you
in the right direction. I mean,

614
00:44:27.159 --> 00:44:30.960
how many times have you wasted money
on something because you wish someone had told

615
00:44:31.000 --> 00:44:36.280
you, Yeah, don't go there, don't buy that product that doesn't work,

616
00:44:36.400 --> 00:44:42.960
or and so on. That's what
it's all about. Microlife fertilizer number

617
00:44:42.960 --> 00:44:47.400
one organic fertilizer, number one selling
organic fertilizer in the Greater Houston area.

618
00:44:47.480 --> 00:44:52.000
And Microlife they just build quality products. You know, They've got their their

619
00:44:52.440 --> 00:44:57.800
Microlife Green Bag, which is a
six two four. It's just all a

620
00:44:57.880 --> 00:45:00.800
round. You pretty much choose on
anything you grow, but we really focus

621
00:45:00.800 --> 00:45:05.480
it on lawns because it does so
well with lawns. But that's the green

622
00:45:05.519 --> 00:45:07.719
bag six to four. Now,
the purple bag is the Humates plus.

623
00:45:08.079 --> 00:45:14.679
What does humates plus? Well,
imagine taking compost and concentrating it down into

624
00:45:14.880 --> 00:45:19.440
little granules that you can put out
with a fertilizer spreader, Concentrated compost in

625
00:45:19.440 --> 00:45:24.679
a bag that's Microlife Humates plus.
Things like that, add a bazillion beneficial

626
00:45:24.719 --> 00:45:31.159
microbes over sixty three essential nutrients.
There's this nice gradual feeding as it releases

627
00:45:31.199 --> 00:45:37.039
out and it just it's also improving
the soil gradually over time. You can

628
00:45:37.039 --> 00:45:39.960
go online to Microlife Fertilizer dot com
and you can find out about the green

629
00:45:40.000 --> 00:45:44.920
bag and the Purple bag and every
other Microlife product, as well as find

630
00:45:45.239 --> 00:45:47.159
the dealers in your area. And
by the way, if it's a garden

631
00:45:47.159 --> 00:45:51.519
center on garden line, if it's
a feed store, if it's an ace

632
00:45:51.599 --> 00:45:55.360
hardware store, you're probably gonna find
Microlife Fertilizer and all their products there.

633
00:45:57.840 --> 00:46:02.280
Our phone number is seven one three
two one two five eight seven four seven

634
00:46:02.320 --> 00:46:07.039
one three two one two fifty eight
seventy four. Feel free to give us

635
00:46:07.079 --> 00:46:12.639
a call that you know. We're
happy to answer your gardening questions. If

636
00:46:12.679 --> 00:46:15.920
you need to send a photo,
we can arrange a way to do that.

637
00:46:15.119 --> 00:46:21.320
Sometimes with you describing something and me
picturing it, they don't necessarily jive

638
00:46:21.480 --> 00:46:24.400
right, So occasionally I'll ask you
to send a photo so we can do

639
00:46:24.440 --> 00:46:29.559
a little bit better job of diagnosing
it. I was talking about verdant and

640
00:46:29.639 --> 00:46:35.639
the trees and getting things established successfully, and I want to come back and

641
00:46:35.679 --> 00:46:37.920
talk a little bit more about that
right after the break, but in the

642
00:46:37.920 --> 00:46:40.760
meantime, if you want to get
on the board seven one three two one

643
00:46:40.880 --> 00:47:00.400
two five eight seven four. Good
Sunday morning, and you're listening to garden

644
00:47:00.440 --> 00:47:04.239
Line. I'm your host, skip
Rickter, and we're here to answer your

645
00:47:04.280 --> 00:47:07.159
gardening questions, so feel free to
give us a call. Seven one three

646
00:47:07.239 --> 00:47:12.199
two one two five eight seven four
seven one three two and two fifty eight

647
00:47:12.639 --> 00:47:17.119
seventy four. I was talking yesterday
about plants for summer that flower that are

648
00:47:17.239 --> 00:47:22.199
dependable, that you can trust,
and one of those plants is Russellia also

649
00:47:22.280 --> 00:47:29.880
called choirecracker fern. It has this
almost very linear, very narrow linear,

650
00:47:30.320 --> 00:47:35.239
almost pine needle like leaves on it, and it grows long shoots that arch

651
00:47:35.360 --> 00:47:40.360
over and load up with these beautiful
red flowers that are just they're disgorgeous.

652
00:47:42.039 --> 00:47:45.599
They're very showy. Hummingbirds go nuts
over them, and I've seen them.

653
00:47:45.599 --> 00:47:47.440
I saw him down at Moody Gardens
one time, used in a boulevard,

654
00:47:47.480 --> 00:47:52.559
and I mean they were just masked
with firecracker fern or Russelia. It looked

655
00:47:52.880 --> 00:47:55.039
it was a showstopper and The reason
I thought about it is because at it

656
00:47:55.079 --> 00:48:00.360
Warren Southern Gardens they got a shipment
of those in and it just reminded me,

657
00:48:00.400 --> 00:48:04.840
Oh, that's another plant that we
need, we need to be talking

658
00:48:04.880 --> 00:48:07.039
about in the summer. You know, I talked about plumbago yesterday and how

659
00:48:07.079 --> 00:48:12.199
surprising it lee tough it is in
the hot weather. Well this if you

660
00:48:12.239 --> 00:48:15.639
have not seen a firecracker fern,
you need to see it. It's not

661
00:48:15.760 --> 00:48:20.960
a fern, but it is a
very very tough plant that is very beautiful.

662
00:48:21.000 --> 00:48:23.119
I mean it can reach up to
five feet tall, but the limbs

663
00:48:23.199 --> 00:48:27.840
just sort of or the shoots just
sort of bend over and absolutely gorgeous.

664
00:48:28.039 --> 00:48:30.639
By the way, Warrens is on
North Park Drive in Kingwood, and also

665
00:48:30.679 --> 00:48:34.760
in Kingwood is Kingwood Garden Center.
They're on Stone Hollow Drive and both up

666
00:48:34.840 --> 00:48:37.159
are open seven days a week.
So now you've got something to do this

667
00:48:37.199 --> 00:48:40.119
afternoon. Right. They've got that
filling station. If you've got Microlife or

668
00:48:40.159 --> 00:48:44.360
Nelson plant food, the little plastic
judge, you can go refill them there.

669
00:48:44.960 --> 00:48:47.719
Saves little money and it avoids buying
another piece of plastic to put in

670
00:48:47.760 --> 00:48:52.360
the landfill somewhere down the line.
They do a great job of designing and

671
00:48:52.519 --> 00:48:59.960
making combo containers too. Just beautiful. That's the kind of fortune you live

672
00:49:00.119 --> 00:49:01.960
in when you live in the greater
Kingwood area, I mean New Caney,

673
00:49:02.079 --> 00:49:06.719
Kingwood, humble A, Tasca,
Ceda. You were rich with garden centers

674
00:49:06.719 --> 00:49:09.840
over there, Warren seven Gardens,
Kingwood Garden Center. That's kind of place

675
00:49:09.880 --> 00:49:14.000
that you love take family when they
come in from out of town because it's

676
00:49:14.119 --> 00:49:17.599
just fun even for non gardeners seeing
all the beauty. Let's head over.

677
00:49:19.079 --> 00:49:23.360
I think we're gonna go to Joel
and Magnolia and what's up this morning,

678
00:49:23.440 --> 00:49:28.599
Joel, Good morning, Skip,
long time listener, first time caller to

679
00:49:28.679 --> 00:49:31.800
you. Well, I'm glad you
called. I've got a few questions for

680
00:49:31.840 --> 00:49:37.519
you. As you probably heard um
question regarding m I haven't heard you mentioned

681
00:49:38.199 --> 00:49:43.880
Randy's fertilization schedule. You seem to
be maybe from reading this my life Mark

682
00:49:43.920 --> 00:49:50.119
thinking maybe you'd like to look and
observe and then apply fertilizer. We put

683
00:49:50.119 --> 00:49:52.400
on fourtilze a little late in the
year April. We put on the supertur

684
00:49:52.480 --> 00:49:55.280
from April, and we've been waiting. We listen to you, I mean

685
00:49:55.280 --> 00:49:59.519
we haven't heard anything about schedules,
So just wandering our grasses grown. Then

686
00:49:59.519 --> 00:50:02.519
we're getting yeah, almost two times
a week for cutting grass. What do

687
00:50:02.599 --> 00:50:09.280
you what's your beliefs or feelings on
the frequency or schedules of fertilization. Yeah,

688
00:50:09.360 --> 00:50:13.920
well, number one, you need
to keep using Randy schedule for now.

689
00:50:14.000 --> 00:50:17.360
I am working on a newer one
that I'm putting out. Just I've

690
00:50:17.360 --> 00:50:22.480
been doing spending quite a bit of
time researching with turf specialists, plant disease

691
00:50:22.480 --> 00:50:27.480
specialists, entomology specialists, and a
lot of others. Just said, okay,

692
00:50:27.480 --> 00:50:30.360
what's the latest here, And I've
got a new one that is on

693
00:50:30.400 --> 00:50:34.800
the verge of coming out. It'll
be out before certainly before we get very

694
00:50:34.840 --> 00:50:37.400
far into August. If not,
if we can put it out in July,

695
00:50:37.519 --> 00:50:40.000
we're going to do that. But
it's it's going to be coming out.

696
00:50:40.039 --> 00:50:43.519
But in the meantime, there's nothing
wrong with using Randy schedule. It's

697
00:50:43.559 --> 00:50:46.440
a great schedule. So just keep
keep operating. I've just been heading my

698
00:50:46.559 --> 00:50:50.400
nose in the books trying to you
know, get mine ready to go.

699
00:50:51.599 --> 00:50:57.480
Okay, sounds good. He's a
mite. You often talked about signals and

700
00:50:57.519 --> 00:51:00.559
signs at your certain signals, I
spend about two years since we'll put less

701
00:51:01.079 --> 00:51:06.039
might last time all frequently or what
kind of signals, what kind of spress

702
00:51:06.039 --> 00:51:08.199
signals or signposts should we look forward
or say hey it's time to do it

703
00:51:08.239 --> 00:51:14.440
again, or just visit. Yeah, that's a tough one. If you

704
00:51:14.559 --> 00:51:20.559
see the problems from a micronutrient or
trace element deficiency, it's going to already

705
00:51:20.599 --> 00:51:24.000
be pretty severe for you to see
it. The most visible one is iron,

706
00:51:24.119 --> 00:51:29.239
which shows up a lot in our
Saint Augustine ones, especially when we

707
00:51:29.280 --> 00:51:32.360
overdo the phosphorus and when our pH
is high. Iron deficiencies real common.

708
00:51:32.840 --> 00:51:36.360
But there's a lot of others.
I was reading the other day that I

709
00:51:36.440 --> 00:51:40.880
believe it was manganese is helpful in
combating with take all patch issues. Well,

710
00:51:42.320 --> 00:51:45.480
that's a new one, But that's
a micronutrient you're just not going to

711
00:51:45.519 --> 00:51:47.679
see on the list of the label
of most fertilizers. And that's why the

712
00:51:47.760 --> 00:51:53.599
trace elements like the aismite you're talking
about are important. The real way,

713
00:51:54.480 --> 00:51:58.159
Joel, that I would say,
whether you need them or not, is

714
00:51:58.320 --> 00:52:01.559
have a soul test done and have
them look at all of the micros and

715
00:52:01.719 --> 00:52:07.000
just see if anything's out of way, okay, all right, all right,

716
00:52:07.159 --> 00:52:10.480
and then the that would go to
textas A and M Extension Office or

717
00:52:10.519 --> 00:52:14.119
something like that, or Tony Extension
Office. Yeah, you can just go

718
00:52:14.280 --> 00:52:20.000
straight. Yeah, you can just
go straight to soil testing dot TAM dot

719
00:52:20.320 --> 00:52:30.000
edut okay. And then the final
question is regarding herbicides. Randy used to

720
00:52:30.000 --> 00:52:38.119
talk about we'd beat her ultra and
it was basically under eight three definite constant

721
00:52:38.159 --> 00:52:42.920
a degree, so like in the
webber through February marks. Then we beat

722
00:52:43.559 --> 00:52:50.199
then the standard weed beater the warm
seasons. And is that still pretty I

723
00:52:50.280 --> 00:52:53.159
have a plenty dollars two hots hadn't
touched it. Yeah, that's still pretty

724
00:52:53.159 --> 00:52:57.239
good. And then where does where
does weed beat her complete fit into that

725
00:52:57.360 --> 00:53:02.320
schedule? And and then how does
that number number one heard that before?

726
00:53:02.599 --> 00:53:06.239
Yeah, number one, I would
say that. I would say that it

727
00:53:06.280 --> 00:53:10.000
depends on the weeds you're going after
as to which combo of ingredients is going

728
00:53:10.079 --> 00:53:15.480
to work best for you. Most
herbicides, if you read the label.

729
00:53:15.079 --> 00:53:21.079
And then when I say herbicides,
I mean broadleaf post emergent herbicides, you

730
00:53:21.119 --> 00:53:23.440
know, kill existing broad leaf weeds
in your lawn. Most of them are

731
00:53:23.440 --> 00:53:29.039
going to tell you eighty five or
upper eighties you need to back off because

732
00:53:29.039 --> 00:53:34.639
it's getting too hot. And there
is one called Celsius that is you can

733
00:53:34.760 --> 00:53:37.800
use it in hotter weather. It's
harder to find a little price, but

734
00:53:37.920 --> 00:53:42.159
it works very well. And so
that's kind of what we try to do

735
00:53:42.760 --> 00:53:45.360
in the new schedule I have coming
out. We do a pretty hard push

736
00:53:45.559 --> 00:53:51.480
for treating your warm season weeds early
in the season on the schedule so that

737
00:53:51.519 --> 00:53:53.880
you don't have to try to fight
them. And then it's almost a chemotherapy

738
00:53:53.880 --> 00:53:57.880
where you're killing the weeds, but
you're making the Saint Augustine sick at the

739
00:53:57.920 --> 00:54:04.199
same time. Right, Yeah,
Because I've you Selsie the fahrenheit off brands

740
00:54:04.760 --> 00:54:07.519
and that's worked well in the hot
weather for you know, Virginia button weeds

741
00:54:07.519 --> 00:54:12.239
and stuff like that. I know
we beat or also works for everything in

742
00:54:12.280 --> 00:54:17.360
its cold seasons, but the standard
meat beater does not touch Yeah, Virginia,

743
00:54:19.239 --> 00:54:22.559
that might be that would be where
we have to go to some other

744
00:54:22.599 --> 00:54:24.519
things and where we're going to end
up with Virginia button weed. You're gonna

745
00:54:24.519 --> 00:54:29.840
be timing your control different and that
will come out in the new schedule as

746
00:54:29.880 --> 00:54:32.840
well. Okay, sure, all
right, it's fantastic. I appreciate the

747
00:54:32.880 --> 00:54:37.320
information. I appreciate what job you're
doing. Really good. Thank you for

748
00:54:37.400 --> 00:54:39.719
calling. I really appreciate that.
You know, we talk about all these

749
00:54:39.880 --> 00:54:44.880
these products, these chemicals and different
kinds of things. Uh, where do

750
00:54:44.920 --> 00:54:46.119
you find something like that real close
to you? Well, I'll tell you

751
00:54:46.119 --> 00:54:52.559
where and Ace Hardware. Go to
Ace Hardware dot com and do the store

752
00:54:52.599 --> 00:54:54.360
locator and you can see the all
thirty nine stores they are here in the

753
00:54:54.360 --> 00:54:58.239
Houston area, and there's gonna be
two or three really close to you.

754
00:54:58.280 --> 00:55:00.519
Worth a drive to go get your
stuff because they have it. They've got

755
00:55:00.519 --> 00:55:06.199
the fertilizers we talk about here,
they've got when you're looking for insecticide,

756
00:55:06.199 --> 00:55:08.840
fungicide, you know, herbicides,
those they have a great selection. I

757
00:55:08.920 --> 00:55:13.519
was just in an ac other day
looking down the line at all the products

758
00:55:13.519 --> 00:55:15.559
they carry, and it always surprises
me at lobit like, oh wow,

759
00:55:15.679 --> 00:55:19.920
I did not know they had that
too. It just keeps getting a better

760
00:55:19.960 --> 00:55:22.880
and better place for you to pick
up those kind of things, like I

761
00:55:22.000 --> 00:55:25.760
was just visiting about there with Joel. Go to ACE Hardware dot com to

762
00:55:25.760 --> 00:55:30.559
find out more. ACE Hardware is
just a fun place to visit. Lots

763
00:55:30.559 --> 00:55:34.559
of things available in the store.
I could take the whole show just trying

764
00:55:34.599 --> 00:55:38.320
to describe everything in an ACE Hardware
for you or the general categories even go

765
00:55:38.440 --> 00:55:43.800
see for yourself Ace hardware dot Com. We're fortunate to have so many nice

766
00:55:43.840 --> 00:55:51.599
ACE stores here in our area.
If you have been planting trees or shrubs

767
00:55:51.639 --> 00:55:54.679
in the last few months, those
trees are shrubs still have a very confined

768
00:55:54.760 --> 00:56:00.960
root system, and if you're planning
something now there's the whole system is just

769
00:56:00.079 --> 00:56:04.239
still in that cylinder that went in
the ground. How do you take care

770
00:56:04.239 --> 00:56:07.000
of it? Well, they have
to have water. The demands are high

771
00:56:07.039 --> 00:56:09.000
on them. Now that doesn't mean
drown them, but it means keep it

772
00:56:09.079 --> 00:56:14.400
consistently moist. And tree hugger sprinklers
enable you to do that. So you

773
00:56:14.400 --> 00:56:17.480
put a tree hugger sprinkler kind it
kind of folds in around your tree.

774
00:56:17.760 --> 00:56:22.800
There's like a seven inch, eleven
inch and fifteen inch diameter versions. But

775
00:56:22.920 --> 00:56:24.800
you can turn the water on with
a little valve there, hook it up

776
00:56:24.800 --> 00:56:28.679
to your water hose and it turns
it on. So it maybe it just

777
00:56:28.719 --> 00:56:32.480
sprinkles two inches high or three inches
just to water that area right there at

778
00:56:32.480 --> 00:56:36.880
the base where all the roots still
are, if you just planted it and

779
00:56:36.920 --> 00:56:38.519
then you turn it up a little
more to water a wider area in a

780
00:56:38.599 --> 00:56:44.960
wider area. I did a little
video for KBTX TV and Brian Coller Station

781
00:56:45.039 --> 00:56:49.480
Texas the other day just talking about
summer watering of trees and featuring that tree

782
00:56:49.519 --> 00:56:52.719
Hugger Sprinkler's It is a quality product. You can go online tree Hugger sprinkler

783
00:56:53.039 --> 00:56:58.760
dot com find out more information from
them there. Let's head out to Base

784
00:56:58.800 --> 00:57:01.519
City now and we're going to talk
to Keith. Hello Keith, Hey,

785
00:57:01.519 --> 00:57:06.000
good morning, Chris, thanks for
taking my call. Hey. I had

786
00:57:06.119 --> 00:57:13.199
some squash planted early in the spring
and the bo's got a hold of it.

787
00:57:13.440 --> 00:57:20.440
The worm bore and replanted some couple
of weeks ago, and they've come

788
00:57:20.519 --> 00:57:23.440
up. They're looking pretty and then
the leaves are starting to turn yellow.

789
00:57:23.800 --> 00:57:30.920
Okay, I would I'd follow that
vine back toward the ground, study it

790
00:57:30.000 --> 00:57:34.199
carefully, and you're probably going to
see some little holes where you see that

791
00:57:34.239 --> 00:57:38.400
wet, sawdusty looking stuff coming out, indicating that there may be a borer

792
00:57:38.480 --> 00:57:42.880
in it. That's one of the
things borers will do is it goes through

793
00:57:42.960 --> 00:57:45.800
yellow and it's way to dead,
So you might want to consider that one.

794
00:57:46.760 --> 00:57:51.960
It also could be that it needs
some nitrogen fertilizer that shows up in

795
00:57:52.000 --> 00:57:54.039
the older leaves. If the new
growth is yellow, it could be nitrogen

796
00:57:54.159 --> 00:57:58.480
or sulfur. It could be a
number of different things. These plants are

797
00:57:58.480 --> 00:58:01.639
only like a foot high. Okay, wow, real old. Yeah,

798
00:58:01.679 --> 00:58:07.199
I watched the watering. Don't over
water and saggy soil. That symptom you're

799
00:58:07.239 --> 00:58:10.400
describing can also happen, So those
are you know, it could be a

800
00:58:10.400 --> 00:58:13.760
lot of things. If you want
to send a picture of it, I

801
00:58:13.800 --> 00:58:16.320
can put you on hold and Josh
can get you how to send me a

802
00:58:16.360 --> 00:58:20.199
picture. Somebody something up a real
closer. I can see what's going on

803
00:58:20.639 --> 00:58:22.519
in good sharp focus, and I'll
try to go a little further than that.

804
00:58:22.800 --> 00:58:24.719
But as you can tell, there's
just a lot of things that could

805
00:58:24.760 --> 00:58:31.519
be. I've got three other plants
right there in the same area, squashed

806
00:58:31.519 --> 00:58:37.760
plants, and they're doing fine.
No no yellowing, no nothing, nice

807
00:58:37.760 --> 00:58:44.880
and green healthy all right. And
I use a soaker hose and I monitor

808
00:58:44.960 --> 00:58:49.000
the water with a moisture meter.
Okay, and how to keep it right

809
00:58:49.079 --> 00:58:52.679
in the middle of the green.
Yeah, and you know we're about to

810
00:58:52.760 --> 00:58:55.440
hit a break here in about the
next fifteen seconds here, Keith, But

811
00:58:55.599 --> 00:59:00.960
I send me a picture. Let
me look at it and see. It's

812
00:59:00.000 --> 00:59:05.360
gonna be something happening underground. And
I don't know exactly what, but let

813
00:59:05.400 --> 00:59:07.920
me let's start with a picture,
because otherwise I'm just kind of shooting out

814
00:59:07.960 --> 00:59:12.599
there and the air not knowing.
Okay, thank you for the call.

815
00:59:12.719 --> 00:59:15.159
I appreciate that. I'm putting you
on hold, Josh. We'll pick you

816
00:59:15.280 --> 00:59:31.360
up, all right. We don't
monkey around on garden line. We're here

817
00:59:31.400 --> 00:59:37.719
to answer your gardening questions seven one
three two one two fifty eight seventy four.

818
00:59:37.280 --> 00:59:40.760
If you have not fertilized, you're
long this summer. I have got

819
00:59:40.800 --> 00:59:45.000
an idea for you, and that
is Nitrofus. This is a silver bag.

820
00:59:45.079 --> 00:59:47.599
I like colors because it makes it
easier. I could tell you,

821
00:59:47.599 --> 00:59:52.559
you know, like you need to
go and purchase this particular name or brand

822
00:59:52.639 --> 00:59:58.119
or whatever. Nitrofus super Turf nineteen
four ten. The silver bag. That's

823
00:59:58.119 --> 01:00:01.480
what you need to know. Nitrofus
Superturf is going to gradually release it is

824
01:00:01.519 --> 01:00:07.039
set up where it just the chemistry
of the product does not allow those nutrients

825
01:00:07.079 --> 01:00:09.159
to become available overnight, and that
is what you want. We want to

826
01:00:09.199 --> 01:00:14.480
gradually feed that thing, just like
we eat. Plants eat every day.

827
01:00:14.519 --> 01:00:17.639
Every day they're taking up nutrients,
and so we want a fertilizer that is

828
01:00:17.679 --> 01:00:22.639
feeding them day by day as you
go out through the system. That would

829
01:00:22.639 --> 01:00:25.639
be the nitro FoST Superturf. Now
you're gonna find nitro fosts all Ace Hardware

830
01:00:25.679 --> 01:00:30.239
stores, a lot of our home
mom and pop nurseries and garden centers.

831
01:00:30.480 --> 01:00:34.239
I mean they're located all over the
place. It's easy to find nitro FoST

832
01:00:34.280 --> 01:00:38.760
products here in the Greater Houston area. So check out the silver bag the

833
01:00:38.920 --> 01:00:44.360
superturf. It's an excellent product that
will gradually feed and you'll be set up

834
01:00:44.480 --> 01:00:50.320
until it's time to do a fall
fertilization. You know. Coming up in

835
01:00:50.320 --> 01:00:53.440
the eight o'clock hour, I am
going to have Jason or excuse me,

836
01:00:53.599 --> 01:00:59.000
yeah, Jason from Peerscapes and he's
bringing a designer with him. I believe

837
01:00:59.079 --> 01:01:01.559
this morning you've heard me talk about
peer Escapes. I mean, you know,

838
01:01:01.599 --> 01:01:06.360
the one stop shop for all things
landscaping. It doesn't matter what you

839
01:01:06.440 --> 01:01:09.239
need. If they do, they
do stuff like a rock border or a

840
01:01:09.239 --> 01:01:14.760
hardscape. Maybe you need a walkaway. Perhaps your drainage isn't okay, Welcome

841
01:01:14.840 --> 01:01:19.599
to Southeast Texas and they can fix
that. Maybe your irrigation system needs a

842
01:01:19.639 --> 01:01:22.880
little bit of work done on it, or you want to install landscape lighting.

843
01:01:22.119 --> 01:01:25.360
I mean, I could just go
on and on. These are experienced

844
01:01:25.400 --> 01:01:30.880
folks, professionally trained employees and designers
that know how to create that beautiful show

845
01:01:30.880 --> 01:01:37.199
place. You can call peer Escapes
at two eight one three seven zero five

846
01:01:37.320 --> 01:01:40.280
zero six zero, or in the
eight o'clock hour, you can just give

847
01:01:40.320 --> 01:01:45.599
me a call here on garden Line
because we are fortunate to have Jason and

848
01:01:45.000 --> 01:01:49.280
perhaps one of his designers here.
What kind of questions do you have?

849
01:01:49.320 --> 01:01:52.440
Do you do you want to ask
a question about design, about how to

850
01:01:52.920 --> 01:01:57.199
deal with a wet area? You
have just all kinds of things basically,

851
01:01:57.559 --> 01:02:02.719
how to turn as landscape into a
show place and what are the kinds of

852
01:02:02.760 --> 01:02:06.679
things that could be done for that. Give us a call. By the

853
01:02:06.719 --> 01:02:09.639
way, peerscapes dot com is their
website. You need to check it out.

854
01:02:10.239 --> 01:02:15.199
It's time to take your landscape up
to the next notch. I always

855
01:02:15.239 --> 01:02:20.639
say that a lot of us or
plant collectors, you know, I see

856
01:02:20.639 --> 01:02:22.960
a plant at the garden center,
I want to have that one like that,

857
01:02:22.320 --> 01:02:25.239
like that firecracker fern, it warrens
the other that I was telling you

858
01:02:25.239 --> 01:02:30.760
about a minute ago. Well,
when plant collectors bring plants home, what

859
01:02:30.800 --> 01:02:34.920
do they do with them? They
just put them somewhere. Our landscapes look

860
01:02:35.000 --> 01:02:37.119
up like a bomb went off in
a garden center and everything rooted where it

861
01:02:37.239 --> 01:02:43.880
landed. Right when you hire a
professional designer like Peerscapes to come in and

862
01:02:43.960 --> 01:02:47.480
create that little beautiful look, it
didn't look that way. It's esthetically pleasing,

863
01:02:47.559 --> 01:02:52.000
and sometimes us gardeners need a little
bit of help with someone with a

864
01:02:52.000 --> 01:02:55.400
little bit of design flare. As
a result, Hey, let's go out

865
01:02:55.400 --> 01:02:59.320
to the woodlands. We're gonna talk
to Tammy. We got morning Tammy,

866
01:03:00.440 --> 01:03:06.199
Good morning SKIPT. I have a
question about Saint Augustine grass. My husband

867
01:03:06.199 --> 01:03:10.400
and I mow our own lawn and
we've kept it. It's really beautiful,

868
01:03:10.480 --> 01:03:15.360
three inches three and a half inches
once a week. It's very dense.

869
01:03:15.199 --> 01:03:19.920
But we needed someone to help us
out for a week. So we had

870
01:03:19.960 --> 01:03:24.800
someone in our neighborhood come mow it, and before I realized it, he

871
01:03:24.880 --> 01:03:30.280
had almost finished some front yard and
his mower blade was too short, so

872
01:03:30.320 --> 01:03:36.119
he cut off about two and a
half inches of the grass and kind of

873
01:03:36.840 --> 01:03:42.039
not scalped, but really crew cut
a few areas, particularly by the curb.

874
01:03:42.639 --> 01:03:47.360
So heartbroken because we worked so hard
on it, and we recovered from

875
01:03:47.800 --> 01:03:53.400
web worms last summer, so I'm
wondering what we can do to make sure

876
01:03:53.400 --> 01:04:00.719
it doesn't get damaged. I assume
it's shocked. And interestingly, the grass

877
01:04:00.760 --> 01:04:04.199
blades look a lot wider where he
cut down so much, so I don't

878
01:04:04.239 --> 01:04:08.519
know if we were already getting a
problem, Profess, just the way it

879
01:04:08.559 --> 01:04:11.800
looks when you cut off two and
a half inches. Yeah, what can

880
01:04:11.880 --> 01:04:14.519
we do? What to look out
for? That is stressful? You're right,

881
01:04:14.599 --> 01:04:16.679
and that does create a problem for
the grass, but it will bounce

882
01:04:16.719 --> 01:04:24.119
back. When was the last time
you fertilized. We did the super turf

883
01:04:24.119 --> 01:04:28.000
back in April. In April,
okay, April, the silver back.

884
01:04:28.239 --> 01:04:30.679
Yeah, you're you're probably okay.
If you wanted to give a little bit

885
01:04:30.679 --> 01:04:34.760
of an extra dose, that would
be fine. We're stretching it out a

886
01:04:34.800 --> 01:04:38.440
little bit. So this might not
be a bad time to get a summer

887
01:04:38.480 --> 01:04:42.440
application of the super turf again,
if you can do that, just follow

888
01:04:42.480 --> 01:04:46.960
the label. I would put five
pounds of super turf per thousand square feet

889
01:04:47.639 --> 01:04:50.719
here in the summer application. That'll
be about the right am, okay.

890
01:04:51.079 --> 01:04:55.440
And so in the meantime, you
just got to wait and let it grow

891
01:04:55.480 --> 01:04:59.440
back. You know, it took
off all this big green foliage that was

892
01:04:59.519 --> 01:05:01.880
kind of eating the runners and stuff. And so now the sun is blazing

893
01:05:01.920 --> 01:05:05.920
down through and you're kind of looking
at all the ugly stuff behind the scenes,

894
01:05:05.960 --> 01:05:10.519
you know, down towards the ground
line that you normally weren't seeing because

895
01:05:10.519 --> 01:05:14.920
you had a nice high MOI.
But your landscape will bounce back, your

896
01:05:15.000 --> 01:05:17.239
lawn will bounce back from that,
okay, And it's not too hot to

897
01:05:17.840 --> 01:05:20.639
do more of the super turf.
Now, maybe do it in the morning.

898
01:05:20.639 --> 01:05:24.599
Of water at it. No,
it's not because five pounds per thousand

899
01:05:24.679 --> 01:05:28.400
square feet that is not a lot
of fertilizer. I mean number one and

900
01:05:28.559 --> 01:05:31.039
number two. It's a gradual release. So I mean it's not like putting

901
01:05:31.119 --> 01:05:34.320
table salt and a glass of water
and it all dissolves at once. And

902
01:05:34.639 --> 01:05:39.639
you got salty water. Right,
this is a very gradual release, so

903
01:05:39.719 --> 01:05:44.400
it'll be safe to do. Okay, all right, we'll do that,

904
01:05:44.519 --> 01:05:45.719
thank you so much. And from
now and we'll mow our own lawn.

905
01:05:46.079 --> 01:05:49.360
Yeah, well I understand. But
you know, if you have problems in

906
01:05:49.400 --> 01:05:51.679
the future, you can call us
back. We can take a look pictures,

907
01:05:51.679 --> 01:05:54.800
and you know, maybe something else
is coming in. I mean,

908
01:05:54.920 --> 01:05:58.559
we can't know that now, but
I think it's awful coincidental that it's right

909
01:05:58.599 --> 01:06:00.760
after the scalp that you're seeing in
it. So yeah, well he had

910
01:06:00.800 --> 01:06:03.880
a very dull blade too, we
could tell. I mean, I've never

911
01:06:04.280 --> 01:06:09.239
thought about it until I've heard you
talking. The difference in having a blunt

912
01:06:09.239 --> 01:06:15.119
blade and a sharp mulching blade clearly
not mulching. We'll keep an eye on

913
01:06:15.159 --> 01:06:16.880
it. Thank you for the call, and we're here if you need to

914
01:06:16.880 --> 01:06:23.079
call back sometime. I appreciate that
very much, Tammy. Star of Hope

915
01:06:23.679 --> 01:06:28.039
is it's just a beacon of hope
here in the greater Houston community. It

916
01:06:28.159 --> 01:06:30.840
is a cause that I thoroughly believe
in. I know Randy thoroughly believed in

917
01:06:30.920 --> 01:06:35.440
Star of Hope as well. And
here's the reason why. They don't just

918
01:06:35.760 --> 01:06:42.239
throw a handful of money at people
to go here, go fix your life.

919
01:06:42.920 --> 01:06:46.280
That doesn't work when you have hit
rock bottom. You don't have a

920
01:06:46.280 --> 01:06:48.960
car to get to work, you
don't have clothes to go for an interview,

921
01:06:49.239 --> 01:06:54.599
you can't feed the family in the
meantime while you're trying to find a

922
01:06:54.679 --> 01:06:58.480
job, and maybe you don't have
interview skills and know how to get and

923
01:06:58.559 --> 01:07:01.360
hold a good job. There's a
lot of things. There's no one face

924
01:07:01.400 --> 01:07:08.079
of homelessness. There's many faces of
homelessness. But I know folks that are

925
01:07:08.119 --> 01:07:11.920
listening. I know you are compassionate
people. I know you care about other

926
01:07:11.960 --> 01:07:15.800
people. You don't want to waste
money just throwing up, you know,

927
01:07:15.920 --> 01:07:18.639
creating more of a problem. Maybe
Star of Hope is a very opposite of

928
01:07:18.719 --> 01:07:23.519
all that. It is hope,
It is real life change that lasts.

929
01:07:23.559 --> 01:07:30.800
Go to shmission dot org sh mission
dot org to donate. They also there's

930
01:07:30.840 --> 01:07:32.639
opportunity street to volunteer if you want
to take it to the next level.

931
01:07:32.960 --> 01:07:39.719
But I cannot think of a better
use of money if you're trying to truly

932
01:07:40.039 --> 01:07:44.719
provide long term change to people's lives
than Star of Hope. And I mean

933
01:07:44.800 --> 01:07:47.320
that, from the bottom of my
heart, we are going to take a

934
01:07:47.360 --> 01:07:51.000
break here. We'll be back in
a bit. Our phone number seven one,

935
01:07:51.119 --> 01:07:56.360
three, two and two five eight
seven four and Bill, you will

936
01:07:56.400 --> 01:08:13.199
be the first when we come back. Hey, good Sunday morning. Glad

937
01:08:13.239 --> 01:08:15.599
you're listening to garden Line. I
hope you're having a good time. We

938
01:08:15.719 --> 01:08:18.199
sure are here. We're here to
answer your gardening questions. Seven one three,

939
01:08:18.319 --> 01:08:24.000
two one two five eight seven four
seven one three two On two fifty

940
01:08:24.079 --> 01:08:30.399
eight seventy four, I was talking
about Bob at Southwest Fertilizer yesterday. We

941
01:08:30.399 --> 01:08:38.680
were I was hunting down some really
uncommon pesticide issues or pesticide products. Excuse

942
01:08:38.760 --> 01:08:43.279
me that I just knew if anybody's
got it, Southwest Fertilizer has it.

943
01:08:43.399 --> 01:08:45.439
You know, they've they've been around
since nineteen fifty five, and they do

944
01:08:45.560 --> 01:08:49.159
have everything. If we talk about
a fertilizer, they have it there plus

945
01:08:49.199 --> 01:08:51.880
some. I mean, they have
all the products we talk about. If

946
01:08:51.920 --> 01:08:55.880
you're an organic gardener and you're hearing
about, well, this is a place

947
01:08:55.920 --> 01:09:00.119
that sells herbicides and sexicides, fungicides, you're not going to find it or

948
01:09:00.199 --> 01:09:05.319
organic selection anywhere than Southwest Fertilizer.
They've they've got it all. And that's

949
01:09:05.319 --> 01:09:09.760
why I call Bob, because I
knew here this is a product that's probably

950
01:09:09.800 --> 01:09:13.119
not going to be found many places. Just want to make sure somebody around

951
01:09:13.119 --> 01:09:15.560
town has it. And of course
they had it. Of course they had.

952
01:09:15.560 --> 01:09:17.520
I shouldn't even had to call.
While you're there, get your more

953
01:09:17.560 --> 01:09:24.119
blade sharpened. You know, we
were just talking about Tammy had somebody come

954
01:09:24.119 --> 01:09:29.079
in and you know, hack through
their their lawn with a dull moor blade

955
01:09:29.079 --> 01:09:32.359
that just you know, basically rips
the ends off the grass blades. And

956
01:09:32.640 --> 01:09:35.720
as a result, what do you
do. You get a little brown tip

957
01:09:35.800 --> 01:09:40.359
on the end of your grass blade
and multiply that times eight hundred billion,

958
01:09:40.439 --> 01:09:44.239
which is all the leaves in your
yard, the grass blades, and it

959
01:09:44.359 --> 01:09:46.399
takes away from the green. A
sharp more blade makes your long greener.

960
01:09:46.439 --> 01:09:49.640
Imagine that. It's not a huge
difference, but it is a difference,

961
01:09:49.920 --> 01:09:54.119
and it's better for the grass too. By the way, Now at Southwest

962
01:09:54.119 --> 01:09:57.800
Fertilizer, you know you can take
in samples, you can take in pictures

963
01:09:57.800 --> 01:10:00.520
of stuff. They'll look at it, they'll get be an honest assessment and

964
01:10:00.680 --> 01:10:03.319
diagnose the problem, tell you if
you need anything, and if you do,

965
01:10:03.800 --> 01:10:06.079
direct you to the product, and
then tell you how to use it.

966
01:10:06.159 --> 01:10:10.479
Right, Because I'm telling you it
always scares me to talk to people

967
01:10:10.520 --> 01:10:15.399
about herbicides and inseexicides and fungicides because
I know when you know, essentially I'm

968
01:10:15.439 --> 01:10:17.800
turning them loose to go fix this
problem. I don't know how they're going

969
01:10:17.840 --> 01:10:20.800
to use it. And when you
miss use a product, you can cause

970
01:10:20.880 --> 01:10:25.680
more damage than you do good.
And that's why I go into a place

971
01:10:25.720 --> 01:10:30.640
like Southwest where they can really direct
you. But always remember the label is

972
01:10:30.680 --> 01:10:31.640
the law. The label is a
law. By the way, if you

973
01:10:31.680 --> 01:10:36.880
want to find out more about Southwest
Fertilizer, just go to Southwest Fertilizer dot

974
01:10:36.880 --> 01:10:41.600
com. They're down on the corner
of Bissonette and Renwick, Southwest Houston.

975
01:10:42.239 --> 01:10:45.439
Really easy to find, easy to
get to. Also, let's head out

976
01:10:45.479 --> 01:10:49.239
to Conro. We're gonna talk to
Bill. Good morning, Bill, Good

977
01:10:49.239 --> 01:10:57.640
morning. Skip quick question on verbina. I love verbina. They grow so

978
01:10:57.720 --> 01:11:01.560
well, but I come the leaves
are turning kind of that gray coloratic.

979
01:11:01.640 --> 01:11:04.720
It looks like powder eight mildew,
and I don't know quite what to do

980
01:11:04.800 --> 01:11:08.960
about it. Is there a specific
fungicide I could use on them. I

981
01:11:09.039 --> 01:11:12.600
think I'm watering them too much,
and I thought maybe I need to prune

982
01:11:12.640 --> 01:11:14.920
them back a little bit. But
it doesn't seem like it's the right time

983
01:11:14.960 --> 01:11:17.520
to hear for any kind of proud
Yeah, in the in the summer heat,

984
01:11:17.680 --> 01:11:20.359
I'm just going to assume it's powder
and mildew, you know, without

985
01:11:20.439 --> 01:11:24.319
drilling past it. It could be
other things, but let's just go with

986
01:11:24.359 --> 01:11:29.119
that. A lot of our organic
products that will work. The horticultural oil

987
01:11:29.119 --> 01:11:33.840
actually works pretty good on powdery mildew. There are some other organics that will

988
01:11:33.840 --> 01:11:38.079
work pretty well on it. But
in the heat, anytime you use like

989
01:11:38.119 --> 01:11:43.479
an oil, you are increasing your
plant burning potential, and so I hesitate

990
01:11:43.560 --> 01:11:46.760
to do that. There is a
there's a product. Do you have a

991
01:11:46.760 --> 01:11:53.960
pen or pencil handy I do?
The ingredient is try a dima fon so

992
01:11:54.119 --> 01:12:01.319
tr i A d I m O
N try diamonphon. It's also there's a

993
01:12:01.319 --> 01:12:05.439
brain called or there's a form of
it called baylaton, but there's some others.

994
01:12:05.479 --> 01:12:09.279
But where you know, wherever you're
going and getting your stuff, look

995
01:12:09.319 --> 01:12:12.439
for a trimea diamonphon that's gonna be
really good on powdery mill doing. It's

996
01:12:12.439 --> 01:12:17.840
gonna be labeled for your ornamentals.
Okay, all right, I'm out printing

997
01:12:17.880 --> 01:12:23.800
the verbina. You can cut it
back. It didn't hurt it to share

998
01:12:23.840 --> 01:12:27.039
it back a little and have it
grow. Just don't overdo it. You

999
01:12:27.039 --> 01:12:29.960
know. It's kind of like the
petunias. As petunias start to get into

1000
01:12:30.000 --> 01:12:32.760
summer and they're not looking so great, I'll share them back, fertilize them,

1001
01:12:32.960 --> 01:12:36.680
water them, and they bounce back
with fresh new growth and therefore new

1002
01:12:36.720 --> 01:12:40.920
blooms. And that's what you would
be doing. Just don't overdo it,

1003
01:12:41.279 --> 01:12:45.439
or you may find that the plants
just really don't recover from that. Any

1004
01:12:45.479 --> 01:12:48.680
special fertilizer or is it just a
general good one for any general good one.

1005
01:12:48.720 --> 01:12:51.840
I mean yeah, And just it's
not hard on this. I know

1006
01:12:51.920 --> 01:12:55.560
people talk about you know, well
it has blooms, so you need lots

1007
01:12:55.600 --> 01:12:59.560
of phosphors, you know, without
a soil test and knowing what's in your

1008
01:12:59.560 --> 01:13:02.439
ground, I would just use the
standard fertilizing. I'll tell you this.

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01:13:03.079 --> 01:13:06.159
Don't tell anybody. I hope no
one's listening. I use a lawn fertilizer

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01:13:06.199 --> 01:13:10.760
for just about everything I do.
I mean, I've got a lot of

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01:13:10.760 --> 01:13:15.039
fertilizers and I use them all.
But there's nothing wrong with using lawn fertilizer

1012
01:13:15.079 --> 01:13:18.000
to fertilizer trees and shrubs and you
know, all kinds of things. And

1013
01:13:18.199 --> 01:13:21.800
you're Verbena is not going to quit
blooming if you use a little lawn fertilizer

1014
01:13:21.800 --> 01:13:25.359
on at one time. But yeah, you can go out and buy good

1015
01:13:25.399 --> 01:13:29.039
color products and things like that too, that's just fine. But in a

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01:13:29.079 --> 01:13:34.079
pinch, just fertilizer thuds are good, all right, all right, you

1017
01:13:34.199 --> 01:13:39.479
bet, thank you for the call. I appreciate that. I you know,

1018
01:13:39.560 --> 01:13:41.960
it's been a while. It's probably
been over a month since I've been

1019
01:13:42.000 --> 01:13:46.159
to Quality Feed and Garden Company Downtown. That's just north of downtown, by

1020
01:13:46.159 --> 01:13:50.039
the way. You can go online
to Quality feed co dot com and find

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01:13:50.079 --> 01:13:54.560
them. I used to go when
they're at their older location. They have

1022
01:13:54.760 --> 01:13:58.560
moved now to a newer location about
four and a half miles from where they

1023
01:13:58.600 --> 01:14:01.840
are. They're on Luzon Street,
Luzio, and that's near the intersection of

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01:14:01.840 --> 01:14:06.359
Equipment and Alesion And if you want
an old time feed store, I mean,

1025
01:14:06.680 --> 01:14:11.800
Quality Feed has been a Houston tradition
since nineteen twenty eight. You know,

1026
01:14:11.960 --> 01:14:15.600
Ken and Chris have been operating it
for thirty two years now. They've

1027
01:14:15.760 --> 01:14:17.359
If I mentioned a fertilizer, you're
going to be able to buy it at

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01:14:17.439 --> 01:14:20.640
Quality Feed. If I talk about
some of the potting mixes, they're going

1029
01:14:20.680 --> 01:14:25.079
to have him there. He also
makes his own Kin's potting soil. He

1030
01:14:25.079 --> 01:14:30.760
even has plants available. They sell
some bones eye trees and they have occasionally

1031
01:14:30.800 --> 01:14:34.199
have a little bones eye classes there. But any kind of fertilizer, pesticide,

1032
01:14:35.399 --> 01:14:39.279
they've got it all, by the
way their feed store. I mean,

1033
01:14:39.359 --> 01:14:42.279
so if you if you got backyard
chickens, this is the place you

1034
01:14:42.359 --> 01:14:45.479
need to go about. Ever two
weeks they get new chicks in and of

1035
01:14:45.560 --> 01:14:49.000
course they have everything you need to
have success with your backyard chickens at Quality

1036
01:14:49.039 --> 01:14:57.720
Feed, Quality feed coo dot com. I love talking about flowering plants,

1037
01:14:57.840 --> 01:15:00.439
and I'll love talking about heat tolerant
plants and vegetables and things like that.

1038
01:15:00.560 --> 01:15:04.920
And just know that just because it's
summer doesn't mean we can't be putting some

1039
01:15:05.079 --> 01:15:09.800
plants out there. And I think
we need to do a better job overall

1040
01:15:09.920 --> 01:15:14.039
we being okay, all of us
in the Greater Houston area need to do

1041
01:15:14.119 --> 01:15:18.680
a better job of creating summer color
and our landscapes. And I've said this

1042
01:15:18.840 --> 01:15:24.079
before, but our landscapes when summertime
comes, become a sea of green.

1043
01:15:24.399 --> 01:15:29.279
They just green grass, green groundcovers, green shrubs, green trees. We

1044
01:15:29.399 --> 01:15:31.800
can have color. And there's so
many options. Go to any one of

1045
01:15:31.840 --> 01:15:35.119
the garden centers, so we talk
about on garden line today. Go this

1046
01:15:35.239 --> 01:15:39.000
afternoon, take a look at them
and you'll see what I'm talking about.

1047
01:15:39.079 --> 01:15:43.079
Oh wow, there's a lot of
color. You know. There's there's hibiscus,

1048
01:15:43.199 --> 01:15:46.760
and there's uh, the zenias,
various types of compact zenias. I

1049
01:15:46.840 --> 01:15:53.760
talked about, the the rizelia that
and it's blooms, and the plumbago and

1050
01:15:53.800 --> 01:15:57.159
its blooms. And one of my
favorite's Pride of Barbados, also called red

1051
01:15:57.239 --> 01:16:00.279
bird of Paradise. Oh my gosh, that thing is so gaudy. When

1052
01:16:00.319 --> 01:16:03.279
it blooms in your yard. You
can put fifty pink flamingos and everybody that

1053
01:16:03.399 --> 01:16:06.640
drives by will not know they saw
a pink flamingo. They will just see

1054
01:16:06.800 --> 01:16:11.359
the gaudiest thing in the landscape,
and that is a red bird of Paradise.

1055
01:16:11.680 --> 01:16:14.880
Hey, if you're trying to water
and take care of your landscape and

1056
01:16:15.159 --> 01:16:17.880
especially your lawn, you need to
know about the water my Yard app.

1057
01:16:17.960 --> 01:16:20.600
You can get it on the Apple
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Google Play, or just go online
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01:16:28.399 --> 01:16:31.840
is free. It's a free app. You sign up, you follow the

1060
01:16:31.960 --> 01:16:35.880
instructions on what you know, you
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1061
01:16:36.199 --> 01:16:44.079
a specific to your location watering recommendation
by email. So what does that mean.

1062
01:16:44.199 --> 01:16:47.479
It means there's a local weather station
that's measuring solar intensity, that's measuring

1063
01:16:47.560 --> 01:16:53.520
humidity, that's measuring wind speed,
that's measuring all of those factors in temperature,

1064
01:16:53.880 --> 01:16:58.760
everything that affects how much water grass
uses. And because of research over

1065
01:16:58.840 --> 01:17:00.359
the years, they cry bunch it
through a computer. I think tell you

1066
01:17:00.439 --> 01:17:04.479
exactly. I got one the other
day said your lawn needs four your lawn

1067
01:17:04.560 --> 01:17:09.720
needs point four or five inches of
rainfall this week. It's about a half

1068
01:17:09.760 --> 01:17:15.359
inch. Based on science and water
my Yard app a wonderful free opportunity for

1069
01:17:15.479 --> 01:17:19.399
everyone in this listening area. Water
myyard dot org or the app on Google

1070
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Play or on Apple. Well,
you've been listening to Guardline Hey, guess

1071
01:17:24.760 --> 01:17:27.560
what. We have a special guest
coming up. I've been talking about it

1072
01:17:27.640 --> 01:17:30.000
this morning, but Jason from Peerscapes
is going to be here now. We're

1073
01:17:30.000 --> 01:17:34.800
going to talk about landscaping and landscape
projects. If you have any questions,

1074
01:17:34.920 --> 01:17:41.359
here's your chance to pick an expert's
brain and to get some suggestions, some

1075
01:17:41.560 --> 01:17:47.760
ideas, some explanation, information on
what is done in creating a beautiful landscape

1076
01:17:48.039 --> 01:17:53.079
and some of the options that are
out there for us. So I hope

1077
01:17:53.119 --> 01:17:55.640
you'll call back. That'll be in
the eight o'clock hour. Right now,

1078
01:17:55.680 --> 01:18:00.239
we're going to take a break and
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01:18:00.359 --> 01:18:04.520
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You can just give us a call,

1081
01:18:09.720 --> 01:18:13.039
Josh. We'll get you on the
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1082
01:18:13.079 --> 01:18:23.279
hour, you'll be the first stop. Ktr H Garden Line does not necessarily

1083
01:18:23.399 --> 01:18:29.720
endorse any of the products or services
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01:18:29.880 --> 01:18:46.520
H Garden Line with Scarre rictor so
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1085
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1086
01:19:02.439 --> 01:19:08.840
morning, lovely looking outside. You're
listening to garden Line. I'm your host,

1087
01:19:08.920 --> 01:19:11.880
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01:20:10.680 --> 01:20:13.600
need for your lawn. And maybe
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a fertilizer. Maybe it's a micronutrient
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Let's head out to Cyprus and excuse
me, We're gonna head out to Cove

1107
01:20:42.920 --> 01:20:45.880
to Rufus and I think we're going
to talk about cypress. How about that

1108
01:20:45.000 --> 01:20:51.840
Rufus? Good morning, Stop morning. My second guy came by a while

1109
01:20:51.880 --> 01:20:56.039
back and told me that I need
to kill this ball cypress tree that's twenty

1110
01:20:56.119 --> 01:21:00.000
eight feet away from the wall of
my concrete setting system. He said,

1111
01:21:00.039 --> 01:21:04.560
it's gonna cause me problems. And
I'm sitting goba. It's twenty eight feet

1112
01:21:04.600 --> 01:21:11.640
away and parallel with it in the
house is my septic line sprinkler, which

1113
01:21:11.800 --> 01:21:17.079
is about forty put away from the
septic tank and it sprinkles and it does

1114
01:21:17.119 --> 01:21:20.079
I have money? Am I in
jeopardy there? I need to kill this

1115
01:21:20.239 --> 01:21:24.560
tree and get rid of it,
like he said, Well, I wouldn't

1116
01:21:24.720 --> 01:21:28.359
ever make that assessment, you know, on the air, not seeing the

1117
01:21:28.439 --> 01:21:32.039
situation, not seeing the tree.
If you've got a septic line that's you

1118
01:21:32.119 --> 01:21:35.279
know, squirting water all the time, it's gonna stay wet. If it

1119
01:21:35.399 --> 01:21:40.399
stays wet, cypress tends to form
knees, at least some types of cypress

1120
01:21:40.439 --> 01:21:43.840
do. I don't know if yours
is already doing that or not, but

1121
01:21:44.359 --> 01:21:48.079
the only thing that I would think
is if you love that tree and it

1122
01:21:48.319 --> 01:21:55.079
sounds like it's a big, beautiful
tree, I might consider having a one

1123
01:21:55.119 --> 01:21:58.640
of those root walls put in underground. I'm talking about, you know,

1124
01:21:58.720 --> 01:22:02.239
the barriers where they can come in. The folks that affordable tree. If

1125
01:22:02.239 --> 01:22:06.399
you talk to Martin spoon Moore an
affordable tree, they do that kind of

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01:22:06.520 --> 01:22:10.399
service. You might just want to
have him come out and take a look

1127
01:22:10.439 --> 01:22:12.920
at that and say what would it
cost, you know, to just do

1128
01:22:13.039 --> 01:22:15.239
a wall, because cypress roots get
in everywhere, and yes, there'll be

1129
01:22:15.439 --> 01:22:20.159
twenty something feet away. I have
actually seen a cypress knee came up in

1130
01:22:20.239 --> 01:22:26.359
somebody's yard by their driveway, and
I looked dry. I couldn't see it.

1131
01:22:26.439 --> 01:22:30.319
The nearest cypress was two houses down, and that knee was up.

1132
01:22:30.399 --> 01:22:32.199
I don't know how I did it, but it Yes, they'll go quite

1133
01:22:32.239 --> 01:22:39.439
a ways out there. Really.
Yeah, Well, I like the tree.

1134
01:22:39.479 --> 01:22:41.760
My wife wants me to kill it. The guy wants me to kill

1135
01:22:41.880 --> 01:22:44.439
I want you three. I think
it's guy keep all right. Well,

1136
01:22:45.880 --> 01:22:49.479
Well, like I always tell people
on garden Line, horticulture advice is free.

1137
01:22:49.680 --> 01:22:54.520
Marriage counseling is three hundred dollars an
hour. So I'll let you figure

1138
01:22:54.520 --> 01:22:58.359
out how you're going to settle out
at the house. But seriously, there's

1139
01:22:58.359 --> 01:23:00.760
a way to keep the tree.
And then certainly, you know, if

1140
01:23:00.840 --> 01:23:05.520
for whatever reason you want to get
rid of it, you can affordable tree.

1141
01:23:06.399 --> 01:23:13.880
Let's see seven one three six nine
nine two six six three seven one

1142
01:23:14.000 --> 01:23:17.640
three six nine nine two six sixty
three. That's eight f F tree tree

1143
01:23:17.720 --> 01:23:21.319
service dot Com. Right, Yeah, talk to him and you know,

1144
01:23:21.399 --> 01:23:25.279
maybe maybe you could just send him
a picture and say, you know,

1145
01:23:25.359 --> 01:23:28.039
what do you think about this situation? But y'all can work it out.

1146
01:23:29.439 --> 01:23:33.119
Well, the good thing is there's
nothing path that tree going to another anteloda

1147
01:23:33.199 --> 01:23:38.880
where it's got going that way,
okay, And it's kind of like dound

1148
01:23:38.920 --> 01:23:41.520
heel, so all the water goes
that way. Yeah, I get it.

1149
01:23:41.800 --> 01:23:44.680
That makes sense, all right,
guy, Well good luck with you,

1150
01:23:45.199 --> 01:23:48.760
yes, sir, you take care. Buchanan's Plants in the Heights is

1151
01:23:49.199 --> 01:23:54.319
one of those destination garden centers,
and I, you know, I take

1152
01:23:54.439 --> 01:23:59.520
family to places like this just because
it doesn't matter if you're a gardener or

1153
01:23:59.600 --> 01:24:01.439
not. You're gonna be fascinated and
you're gonna find something you likes. By

1154
01:24:01.439 --> 01:24:04.239
the way, they've got a great
gift shop, awesome kinds of stuff in

1155
01:24:04.279 --> 01:24:10.600
the gift shop. Their houseplants selection
is unbelievable. It is really impressive,

1156
01:24:10.920 --> 01:24:15.239
and they really specialize in native plants. They're truly dedicated to that. They've

1157
01:24:15.239 --> 01:24:19.000
got native plants for pollinators, you
know, simple low maintenance native plants.

1158
01:24:19.239 --> 01:24:25.000
If you want plants that are just
from the Houston Harris County area, right

1159
01:24:25.119 --> 01:24:30.880
here, they've got a table for
just those superlocal, hyperlocal native plants that

1160
01:24:30.960 --> 01:24:34.239
are available. Tropicals, perennial shrubs, roses, oh my gosh, the

1161
01:24:34.880 --> 01:24:39.000
herbs that they carry there. They've
got so many different kinds of so many

1162
01:24:39.000 --> 01:24:44.039
different kinds of rosemary, for example. Buchanans Plants a wonderful place to visit.

1163
01:24:44.399 --> 01:24:47.840
Go to Bucanons Plants dot com and
learn about more. But with all

1164
01:24:47.840 --> 01:24:51.439
the beautiful trees and stuff, it's
just a pleasure to walk around there,

1165
01:24:51.520 --> 01:24:56.600
even on a hot summer day,
to go out to walk around and just

1166
01:24:56.840 --> 01:25:01.800
see all the beauty and get some
inspiration and also expert advice from employees that

1167
01:25:01.960 --> 01:25:06.479
know what they're talking about. We're
gonna now head out to League City and

1168
01:25:06.680 --> 01:25:14.279
talk to Stephanie. Hello, Stephanie. Hy Um, I've bought a heirloom

1169
01:25:14.439 --> 01:25:19.239
rose there. It's been some rose
and they're telling me um and instructions to

1170
01:25:19.399 --> 01:25:27.960
plant in the ground without any type
of fertilizer and having trouble finding soil without

1171
01:25:28.000 --> 01:25:34.119
the fertilizer, finding soil without fertilizer. You are you looking? Are you

1172
01:25:34.199 --> 01:25:38.760
looking like it bags of putting soil
kind of stuff or what are you doing?

1173
01:25:39.159 --> 01:25:45.399
Like the round soil m most of
it has some type of you know,

1174
01:25:45.760 --> 01:25:48.319
slow release, and that's what they're
saying that the well, the roots

1175
01:25:48.479 --> 01:25:53.239
can handle that. Yeah. I
don't know exactly what kinds of brands you're

1176
01:25:53.239 --> 01:25:55.680
looking at or where you're shopping or
anything, but you can. You ought

1177
01:25:55.680 --> 01:26:00.359
to be able to buy a good
rosebed mix. Okay, And to see

1178
01:26:00.399 --> 01:26:02.399
you're down in the League City area. There ought to be somebody selling a

1179
01:26:02.439 --> 01:26:08.840
good rosebed mix down near your area
there, but I think the feed store

1180
01:26:09.039 --> 01:26:11.600
Lake City Feed might have it.
Well, they may have some things in

1181
01:26:11.720 --> 01:26:15.600
bags. They sure may rather that. They do carry a lot of our

1182
01:26:15.680 --> 01:26:18.359
products, and that's great, a
great place to shop. You might just

1183
01:26:18.479 --> 01:26:23.560
talk to them about it and see
what they can get in. But I

1184
01:26:23.640 --> 01:26:26.640
would look for just a regular roseau. If you get a soul with some

1185
01:26:26.760 --> 01:26:30.600
fertilizer, that's okay. But I'm
more concerned about the quality of the soil

1186
01:26:30.760 --> 01:26:33.159
that's coming with the fertilizer, because
I can't see the bags you're talking about,

1187
01:26:33.560 --> 01:26:36.960
and a lot of potting soils,
they're just going to get mucky and

1188
01:26:38.119 --> 01:26:42.840
heavy and not be a good long
term thing for your roses. Right,

1189
01:26:43.880 --> 01:26:46.520
Okay, okay, thank you,
Yeah, you bet, you bet.

1190
01:26:46.880 --> 01:26:49.319
All right, We're gonna take a
little break here and we'll be right back

1191
01:26:49.399 --> 01:26:55.000
phone number seven one three two one
two fifty eight seventy four. Terry,

1192
01:26:55.039 --> 01:27:12.479
you'll be first up when we come
back. Your kids. A good Sunday

1193
01:27:12.560 --> 01:27:16.239
morning. You are listening to garden
Line and we're in our last hour this

1194
01:27:16.439 --> 01:27:21.920
morning. A while ago, we
were just visiting with stephanieut in League City

1195
01:27:21.960 --> 01:27:26.760
and she mentioned the League City Feed
and it just reminded me. If you

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01:27:27.000 --> 01:27:30.600
live anywhere down that direction. We're
talking about Webster, Clay, Lake City,

1197
01:27:30.840 --> 01:27:33.640
you know Bay Cliff, Lamark,
Dickinson, Santa Fe and League City.

1198
01:27:34.680 --> 01:27:38.920
League City Feed is your hometown feed
store. And it's a great feed

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01:27:38.960 --> 01:27:43.680
store by the way where West and
Madison Funderberg. They are really doing a

1200
01:27:43.760 --> 01:27:45.119
great job with the I ME and
running it. They carry all the stuff

1201
01:27:45.159 --> 01:27:47.359
we talk about here. You know, if I talk about fertilizers, you're

1202
01:27:47.359 --> 01:27:49.800
going to have it at League City
Feed. You can just depend on that.

1203
01:27:49.880 --> 01:27:55.720
They've got a good selection of pesticidal
turbicides and fundicides, good quality premium

1204
01:27:55.760 --> 01:27:59.279
pet pet foods, and if you've
got backyard chickens, they're going to be

1205
01:27:59.319 --> 01:28:02.199
able to supply you with everything you
need to keep that going. They're on

1206
01:28:02.319 --> 01:28:06.279
Highway three, just a few blocks
south of Highway ninety six. That's Highway

1207
01:28:06.319 --> 01:28:10.359
three, few blocks south and ninety
six. Just give them a call to

1208
01:28:10.520 --> 01:28:15.640
eight one three three two one six
one two two eight one three three two

1209
01:28:16.000 --> 01:28:23.079
one six one two one of our
great guard Line feed stores. We are

1210
01:28:23.119 --> 01:28:28.319
going to now head out to Terry
in Montgomery. Hello, Terry, good

1211
01:28:28.399 --> 01:28:33.600
morning. I seem to have developed
a problem with mealy bugs on some of

1212
01:28:33.760 --> 01:28:42.399
my potted plants. Okay. I've
tried insecticidal soap, I've tried spot dabbing

1213
01:28:42.479 --> 01:28:46.159
with seventy percent alcohol, and I
just can't get rid of them. They're

1214
01:28:46.159 --> 01:28:48.840
a problem. It's a good thing
they're outside, though, that's to your

1215
01:28:48.840 --> 01:28:54.119
advantage. They have a lot of
natural enemies, and I would suggest,

1216
01:28:54.279 --> 01:28:58.479
you know, don't use any kind
of a i'll say poison insecticide on them,

1217
01:28:59.279 --> 01:29:02.720
because those kinds of things, uh, knock out the natural enemies and

1218
01:29:02.920 --> 01:29:06.479
let the meaty bugs kind of keep
going. So they don't really work well.

1219
01:29:08.000 --> 01:29:11.960
Now, is this a plant that
blooms that they're on, No,

1220
01:29:12.319 --> 01:29:16.319
they're on my um. I have
a croton, and I've noticed it on

1221
01:29:17.319 --> 01:29:23.680
an arrowhead ivy that I've got,
okay, and even a halopano plan I've

1222
01:29:23.720 --> 01:29:27.800
got okay, So they just kind
of aren't too picky about where they Yeah,

1223
01:29:28.720 --> 01:29:31.640
yeah, what I do. What
I do with ladybugs is number one,

1224
01:29:32.840 --> 01:29:36.600
blast off as much as you can
with a very strong stream of water.

1225
01:29:38.279 --> 01:29:40.479
You don't quite need a power washer, but you know, you want

1226
01:29:40.479 --> 01:29:43.720
to get a good strong stream of
water and knock off all you can,

1227
01:29:44.239 --> 01:29:45.720
and that's not going to eradicate them, but it gets the numbers down.

1228
01:29:45.800 --> 01:29:50.680
It prevents them from proliferating even more. They do have natural enemies, I

1229
01:29:50.760 --> 01:29:55.600
mean, lady beatle larva they have. They have parasitoids that get inside their

1230
01:29:55.640 --> 01:29:59.199
bodies and kill them. There's just
a lot of things, and what we

1231
01:29:59.319 --> 01:30:01.399
need is for the to build up
a little bit around your place. And

1232
01:30:02.039 --> 01:30:06.039
when those when those good guys have
bad guys to feed on, they will

1233
01:30:06.119 --> 01:30:10.600
build up around your place. And
there are a lot of them for mealy

1234
01:30:10.640 --> 01:30:15.000
bugs. As far as a spraying
kind of product, you know, a

1235
01:30:15.159 --> 01:30:18.000
horticultural oil can be helpful, but
you don't want to use that in this

1236
01:30:18.159 --> 01:30:21.199
hot weather. You need to wait
let it get down below the you know,

1237
01:30:21.520 --> 01:30:26.680
at least in the lower nineties before
you start to look at a horticultural

1238
01:30:26.760 --> 01:30:30.079
oil so you don't burn your plants. And then finally, for something that

1239
01:30:30.239 --> 01:30:34.399
doesn't bloom and is not an edible
plant, there are a couple of systemic

1240
01:30:34.560 --> 01:30:39.760
insecticides that will go up in the
plant and will help reduce their numbers because

1241
01:30:39.800 --> 01:30:45.119
they're sucking juice Oude of your plants. So one product is the ingredient is

1242
01:30:45.279 --> 01:30:51.239
dino tepheron dino as in dinosaur.
The other one is mic chlobutanil. Those

1243
01:30:51.439 --> 01:30:56.880
are systemics. You put them on
the soil, soak them in the soil,

1244
01:30:56.960 --> 01:30:59.720
they go up in the plant and
they do that work. We just

1245
01:31:00.039 --> 01:31:03.560
avoid those on plants at bloom just
because of the effect on bees for example.

1246
01:31:04.520 --> 01:31:09.239
Okay, all right, okay,
I'll give those a world Thank you

1247
01:31:09.319 --> 01:31:13.159
so much. All right, thank
you. I appreciate that call very much.

1248
01:31:14.000 --> 01:31:16.600
Let's go out to surfside and we're
gonna talk to Mike. Hello,

1249
01:31:16.760 --> 01:31:20.239
Mike, Hey, Skip, how
are you doing today? I'm doing well.

1250
01:31:20.479 --> 01:31:24.079
What can we do for you?
Hey, I've got a question of

1251
01:31:24.159 --> 01:31:27.520
guarding storage of seeds. I'm you
know, I grow a lot of vegetables

1252
01:31:27.800 --> 01:31:31.119
and I'm starting to collect seeds from
the vegetables, heirloom type vegetables I grow

1253
01:31:31.159 --> 01:31:38.560
over here. Do you have any
recommendations for storage of the seeds so that

1254
01:31:38.680 --> 01:31:44.479
theyn't be yes good down the road? I mean absolutely, don't refrigeration or

1255
01:31:44.800 --> 01:31:46.840
what do you do? You bet
so? Uh, it just depends on

1256
01:31:46.920 --> 01:31:49.479
how long you want them to last. But first of all, they need

1257
01:31:49.560 --> 01:31:54.560
to be fully dried. They can't
be you know, contain moist content coming

1258
01:31:54.600 --> 01:31:59.000
out of the of the whatever fruit
you picked them out of. You need

1259
01:31:59.039 --> 01:32:01.239
to make sure they're fully dry.
Once they're fully dry, I would put

1260
01:32:01.319 --> 01:32:05.199
them in something that's air tight.
You could use a glass jar. I

1261
01:32:05.359 --> 01:32:11.880
use those little rubber or plastic containers
with a snap on lid, you know

1262
01:32:11.960 --> 01:32:14.880
where you can really seal it up
and you put that thing under water and

1263
01:32:14.920 --> 01:32:17.279
no water gets in. You can
use that and you can put them in

1264
01:32:17.319 --> 01:32:20.279
the refrigerator and that'll work well.
If you want to kick it up a

1265
01:32:20.399 --> 01:32:25.640
notch, you can put the little
desiccate packets that you often find, like

1266
01:32:25.800 --> 01:32:30.079
if you buy supplements or electronics,
eve, when they come with your stereo.

1267
01:32:30.239 --> 01:32:33.920
You know that I didn't you put
those that because moisture is your enemy

1268
01:32:34.119 --> 01:32:38.239
with storing seed. And then finally, if you put them in the freezer,

1269
01:32:38.760 --> 01:32:42.039
they will last even longer. I
mean when when they want a store

1270
01:32:42.079 --> 01:32:46.199
seed for decades or something, Uh, they get it just really really cold,

1271
01:32:46.279 --> 01:32:48.479
and they keep it right there.
You know, don't take them in

1272
01:32:48.560 --> 01:32:55.159
and yeah, if you does the
freezing temperature, it doesn't kill the seed.

1273
01:32:55.279 --> 01:32:58.239
No, it does. I mean, I guess there's probably some seeds

1274
01:32:58.319 --> 01:33:00.000
that it would maybe, Man,
I don't know, maybe a tropical kind

1275
01:33:00.039 --> 01:33:03.479
of seed. But if it's well
dried, most seed is going to do.

1276
01:33:03.640 --> 01:33:06.920
But refrigerator is just fine. You
store them as long as you probably

1277
01:33:06.960 --> 01:33:11.560
need to a refrigerator. Just remember
this when you take them out, set

1278
01:33:11.640 --> 01:33:15.159
them on the counter. Let them
achieve room temperature before you open them,

1279
01:33:15.399 --> 01:33:17.640
because just like if you take a
soft drink out of the refrigerator and set

1280
01:33:17.680 --> 01:33:21.000
it on a counter, you get
these beads of sweat forming on the outside

1281
01:33:21.319 --> 01:33:26.119
because it's cold. That'll happen on
your seeds and your seed packets and the

1282
01:33:26.199 --> 01:33:29.239
paper that they're in or whatever.
And so there, we just went the

1283
01:33:29.319 --> 01:33:31.880
wrong way on moisture. So let
it achieve room temperature before you open it

1284
01:33:32.000 --> 01:33:35.560
up. Wow, all right,
man, I appreciate it, All right,

1285
01:33:35.600 --> 01:33:39.920
mate, I appreciate that call very
much. Hey, if you are

1286
01:33:40.079 --> 01:33:45.720
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01:34:02.039 --> 01:34:06.039
makes sense with Delweb. I mean, they do lifestyle programs designed around you

1292
01:34:06.680 --> 01:34:11.880
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1295
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difference is all about. Let's head
out now to New Katie and we're gonna

1296
01:34:28.680 --> 01:34:31.119
talk to William. Hello William,
Good morning, sir. How are you?

1297
01:34:31.479 --> 01:34:35.680
I'm well, okay. I have
two questions. Well, I got

1298
01:34:35.760 --> 01:34:41.439
a question a comment, And the
first question is on my cantaloupees of God

1299
01:34:41.840 --> 01:34:48.039
in my garden. The majority of
them are are maturing, but then in

1300
01:34:48.159 --> 01:34:53.199
their final stages they go ahead and
just go flat before they ever have a

1301
01:34:53.359 --> 01:34:58.720
chance to really ripen. H Do
you know what will cause is the cantaloupes

1302
01:34:58.960 --> 01:35:01.640
just flatten, flatten out like an
air out of a tire. Huh,

1303
01:35:02.520 --> 01:35:08.279
yes, sir? How big are
they when they do that? There probably

1304
01:35:08.399 --> 01:35:15.279
maybe the size of a small football. Wow, Well that is some sort

1305
01:35:15.319 --> 01:35:19.279
of an interior decay that's getting in
them. Uh, you know, it

1306
01:35:19.359 --> 01:35:23.000
could be that something makes a hole. I know, you know, even

1307
01:35:23.079 --> 01:35:27.079
like pillbugs. Sawbugs will chew on
them on the ground side up underneath and

1308
01:35:27.159 --> 01:35:30.479
get in there something for some reason, a decay is getting in those things.

1309
01:35:30.600 --> 01:35:34.319
That's not a It's not a super
common thing to happen to candle ups.

1310
01:35:34.359 --> 01:35:39.560
I've seen it happen. Yeah,
it's not common. And so I

1311
01:35:39.640 --> 01:35:43.560
would just if you see one that's
starting to deflate, I would pick it

1312
01:35:43.760 --> 01:35:46.199
and turn it over, you know
before it's just a rotted mess, and

1313
01:35:46.560 --> 01:35:49.800
and look for any way that something
could have gotten in and then take a

1314
01:35:49.840 --> 01:35:54.079
knife and cut it open and look
at the inside and see what you see.

1315
01:35:54.399 --> 01:35:57.600
I don't know what's going on specifically
in there, but for them to

1316
01:35:57.720 --> 01:36:02.239
reach that full size and then start
to collapse, um, I don't know.

1317
01:36:03.039 --> 01:36:05.520
Could it be that you're leaving them
on too long and they need to

1318
01:36:05.560 --> 01:36:10.479
be picked earlier. No, because
they're still attached to the vines, and

1319
01:36:10.640 --> 01:36:15.079
I generally kind of wait and you
know, to where they they're trying to

1320
01:36:15.000 --> 01:36:18.960
separate from the vine as well.
I took them. I just don't know

1321
01:36:19.600 --> 01:36:24.600
what's caused them to go flat.
Well, um, yeah, that's that's

1322
01:36:24.640 --> 01:36:28.079
what I would suggest. I don't
know anything else to tell you about it.

1323
01:36:29.359 --> 01:36:32.399
Okay, I've got one comment to
make, and this is for your

1324
01:36:33.159 --> 01:36:40.000
people or your audience. They grow
watermeltains and if they have a problem with

1325
01:36:40.279 --> 01:36:46.920
raccoons getting into the moltain patch.
I was traveling along up in northeast Texas

1326
01:36:47.039 --> 01:36:53.039
and I run across a gentleman that
was on the side of the road selling

1327
01:36:53.119 --> 01:36:58.720
his watermelons, and he had really
nice watermelons. I asked him because I

1328
01:36:58.840 --> 01:37:01.760
had problems with raccoons getting into my
melon, I said, I asked the

1329
01:37:01.880 --> 01:37:09.720
gentleman, how do you keep raccoon
off of your meltain back? And he

1330
01:37:09.880 --> 01:37:15.720
laughed and he said what he does
is he takes powdered lime out that's Lami

1331
01:37:15.920 --> 01:37:20.000
and mix up a paste and he
goes ahead and he puts it on the

1332
01:37:20.720 --> 01:37:27.000
melons you know that are about ready
to pick. You got you gotta be

1333
01:37:27.119 --> 01:37:30.119
real careful because them coon will get
into melons that are green. I've never

1334
01:37:30.199 --> 01:37:35.560
heard that one, but he said
he said that. Now, he said

1335
01:37:35.600 --> 01:37:40.640
that you can go ahead and take
the lime and when you're ready to pick

1336
01:37:40.720 --> 01:37:45.159
the melon go ahead and just it'll
wash right off. It doesn't hurt hurt

1337
01:37:45.199 --> 01:37:50.000
divines. But he said that lime
goes ahead and burns the uh raccoon when

1338
01:37:50.039 --> 01:37:55.159
they come up there and you know, smell the plant. Well, I

1339
01:37:55.239 --> 01:38:00.159
said, yeah, but I tried
it and it does warget. But it

1340
01:38:00.239 --> 01:38:03.800
looks kind of funny all those white
blonds out they're painted that line. Yeah,

1341
01:38:03.920 --> 01:38:08.439
sure therese the tunes are not getting
into them. Okay, Well,

1342
01:38:08.520 --> 01:38:11.960
thanks to that tip. I appreciate
that. Appreciate the call very much,

1343
01:38:12.000 --> 01:38:15.520
William, thank you very much.
Listen, if you've not been out to

1344
01:38:15.640 --> 01:38:17.720
Enchanted Forest before, I don't care
where you live in town, you need

1345
01:38:17.800 --> 01:38:24.039
to. You need to check it
out. Enchanted Forest is a unique nursery.

1346
01:38:24.119 --> 01:38:27.960
It's down in the Richmond area,
but if you're going from Richmond kind

1347
01:38:27.960 --> 01:38:30.680
of up towards sugar Land, it's
it's down south of fifty nine towards the

1348
01:38:30.800 --> 01:38:35.199
right. As you're going up that
direction. Enchanted Forest is a beautiful place.

1349
01:38:35.279 --> 01:38:40.000
It has huge trees, so shopping
in the summer is pleasant there.

1350
01:38:40.039 --> 01:38:43.680
You just walk through and you're in
the shade and it's just wonderful, super

1351
01:38:44.159 --> 01:38:47.439
high quality plants. Right now,
they've got white vain Dutchman's pipe. It's

1352
01:38:47.479 --> 01:38:51.880
an aristolochia from Briata. It's a
kind of a litttle groundcover, a little

1353
01:38:51.920 --> 01:38:56.399
perennial groundcover, about six twelve inches
high, about two three feet wide.

1354
01:38:56.720 --> 01:39:00.239
It's a magnet for pipeline. Pipeline
swallowtail larva. By the way, you

1355
01:39:00.359 --> 01:39:03.039
better buy a bunch of them,
because the pipepline come in after them.

1356
01:39:03.119 --> 01:39:08.079
Pretty good. But the folks had
enchanted for us. They're knowledgeable, they

1357
01:39:08.199 --> 01:39:12.239
take time to help you. They've
got a whole new shipment of jungle Jack's

1358
01:39:12.279 --> 01:39:15.439
plumeriat in by the way too.
But going on visit with Danny and Clay

1359
01:39:15.479 --> 01:39:20.279
down there, give mu call two
eight one three or nine three seven ninety

1360
01:39:20.359 --> 01:39:26.800
four forty nine. That's two eight
one nine three seven ninety four forty nine.

1361
01:39:26.920 --> 01:39:30.399
It is a wonderland of plants.
I love to walk through there and

1362
01:39:30.479 --> 01:39:34.000
shop. You will agree when you
see it. Pretty cool place, enchanted

1363
01:39:34.039 --> 01:39:56.920
forest. But I think we got
chink in the good Sunday morning. You're

1364
01:39:57.000 --> 01:39:59.880
listening to guard Line. I'm your
host skip Rictor, and we're here dans

1365
01:40:00.000 --> 01:40:03.600
your gardening questions. We had some
folks lined up to do just that you

1366
01:40:03.680 --> 01:40:08.239
know, I brag on ACE Hardware
all the time, but somebody just texted

1367
01:40:08.319 --> 01:40:12.840
me from up in the Montgomery area
and was looking for some you know,

1368
01:40:13.079 --> 01:40:15.880
particular product, and I suggested they
go to the Ace Hardware up there Lake

1369
01:40:15.920 --> 01:40:20.399
Conrads In Ace Hardware, there's thirty
night up all over town. And if

1370
01:40:20.439 --> 01:40:24.760
it's a product you need to take
care of your plants and your property,

1371
01:40:24.840 --> 01:40:28.520
they're gonna have it. They're gonna
have fertilizers, they're gonna have mulches and

1372
01:40:28.600 --> 01:40:31.239
things. They're gonna have a really
good selection of insecticide, fun to side

1373
01:40:31.279 --> 01:40:34.720
herbicide, whatever kinds of things like
that you want. Plus, when you're

1374
01:40:34.760 --> 01:40:38.840
at ACE, you can get all
kinds of things power equipment, you know,

1375
01:40:39.000 --> 01:40:43.800
things that for outdoor decorating or entertainment
whatnot, as well as indoor.

1376
01:40:43.880 --> 01:40:47.000
And of course it's summertime and we
love to barbecue. You know, make

1377
01:40:47.079 --> 01:40:51.840
that cooking heat outside rather than inside
the house. A webber, trigger,

1378
01:40:51.960 --> 01:40:55.840
Big Green Egg, and more,
plus all the bling you need to go

1379
01:40:56.000 --> 01:41:00.439
with a good barbecue setup. It's
Ace Hardware and more. Go to Ace

1380
01:41:00.560 --> 01:41:03.560
Hardware dot com. Find a store
near you. There's only thirty nine of

1381
01:41:03.600 --> 01:41:05.880
them around here. I believe you
can throw a rock and hit two or

1382
01:41:05.920 --> 01:41:11.680
three from wherever you live. We're
gonna head now out to Friendswood and talk

1383
01:41:11.720 --> 01:41:16.640
to Claudia. Hello, Claudia,
Good morning Skip. I don't have a

1384
01:41:16.920 --> 01:41:23.239
peach tree that I planted. I
think it was in late March or April,

1385
01:41:23.520 --> 01:41:28.800
and it has not grown one millimeter. The leaves droop. It just

1386
01:41:29.000 --> 01:41:35.000
looks pitiful, and I water it
every day it gets full sun. I

1387
01:41:35.079 --> 01:41:41.600
don't know what's wrong. Okay,
how well does the soil drain. Does

1388
01:41:41.640 --> 01:41:44.439
it tend to stay a little moist
after a rain, or do you feel

1389
01:41:44.439 --> 01:41:48.159
like, yeah, roal, good
drainage or what's it like? I'm really

1390
01:41:48.199 --> 01:41:51.319
not sure. I don't think the
drainage is all that good. Okay,

1391
01:41:51.520 --> 01:41:57.920
all right, well try to get
it by with adequate watering between now and

1392
01:41:58.039 --> 01:42:01.279
fall. In other words, if
it's getting dry, and I would dig

1393
01:42:01.399 --> 01:42:05.479
down, you know, just you
know what size the container of soil was

1394
01:42:05.560 --> 01:42:10.239
it went in the ground when you
planted it. Just dig down just a

1395
01:42:10.279 --> 01:42:13.600
little outside that and feel the soil, maybe dig three or four inches deep

1396
01:42:13.640 --> 01:42:16.439
and feel the soil and if it's
if it's moist, don't water. If

1397
01:42:16.520 --> 01:42:20.520
it's not it, give it some
water so you want to keep it right.

1398
01:42:20.640 --> 01:42:26.520
When fall comes, it may be
worth digging that thing up. And

1399
01:42:26.600 --> 01:42:29.640
we're talking fall, I mean like
November, we want all the stresses to

1400
01:42:29.720 --> 01:42:33.199
be gone. Digging it up and
reworking that area, maybe creating a little

1401
01:42:33.199 --> 01:42:36.680
bit of a raised mound by bringing
in, you know, a good quality

1402
01:42:36.720 --> 01:42:40.800
soil mix, even like a rose
soil or something like that. You can

1403
01:42:40.840 --> 01:42:43.600
put a box on the ground to
raise it up if you want, or

1404
01:42:43.680 --> 01:42:46.680
you can, you know, just
create a pitcher's mound or however it works

1405
01:42:46.680 --> 01:42:50.359
at your house, and then reset
that plant in the fall. Look for

1406
01:42:50.479 --> 01:42:56.399
any roots that are circling, going
around in a circle. Cut those again.

1407
01:42:56.479 --> 01:43:00.319
It's okay to do in November,
and then try resetting it. And

1408
01:43:00.399 --> 01:43:04.479
then when next spring comes, let's
start to give it some fertilizer on a

1409
01:43:05.000 --> 01:43:10.039
light light application on a regular basis
for a while and see if we can

1410
01:43:10.079 --> 01:43:13.880
get it to bounce back. Something's
wrong underground right now, and that's what

1411
01:43:14.000 --> 01:43:16.399
we're trying to figure out. Oh
one other quick check before we hit fall,

1412
01:43:17.039 --> 01:43:19.520
dig down around the base of the
tree and make sure there's not a

1413
01:43:19.680 --> 01:43:25.199
tag. You know, those plastic
locking nursery tags they put on fruit trees,

1414
01:43:25.239 --> 01:43:28.079
tell us about variety of or whatever. Make sure there's not one of

1415
01:43:28.119 --> 01:43:30.520
those that's fallen to the bottom of
the trunk is now covered with soil or

1416
01:43:30.600 --> 01:43:35.279
malt or something, because those can
strangle a tree that's trying to grow underground.

1417
01:43:35.359 --> 01:43:41.439
They don't photo degrade like they would
above ground, and that plastic can

1418
01:43:41.560 --> 01:43:44.880
last forever. So just check for
that. That's the last check, and

1419
01:43:44.960 --> 01:43:48.279
then I think fall would be when
you try to fix this thing. Okay,

1420
01:43:48.640 --> 01:43:51.520
all right, I appreciate it.
Skip, thank you, you bet,

1421
01:43:51.920 --> 01:43:57.560
I appreciate your call. Thank you
very much. Good bye. So

1422
01:43:57.760 --> 01:44:03.039
we have we have rain. We
live in the Houston area and when it

1423
01:44:03.199 --> 01:44:09.600
rains, water stands and all you
need is literally about a thumblefull or a

1424
01:44:09.720 --> 01:44:13.720
bottle cap of water sitting there for
a little while for a mosquito to lay

1425
01:44:13.760 --> 01:44:16.520
an egg in it. And here
we go, that beautiful outdoor area suddenly

1426
01:44:16.720 --> 01:44:23.520
becomes invaded by little miniature vampires flying
around trenda suck your blood and we don't

1427
01:44:23.560 --> 01:44:26.960
want that. Well, Mosquito Dunks
fixes that. Mosquito Dunks is a little

1428
01:44:26.960 --> 01:44:31.039
beige doughnut floats on water, lasts
about a month. It slowly dissolves and

1429
01:44:31.199 --> 01:44:38.079
releases a bacteria toxic to all species
of mosquitoes. Now, this will not

1430
01:44:38.399 --> 01:44:41.399
harm fish, it will not harm
pets, it will not harm people,

1431
01:44:41.560 --> 01:44:45.960
not harm birds or other wildlife.
It's just a mosquito disease, and what

1432
01:44:45.079 --> 01:44:48.520
a wonderful thing to happen to a
mosquito. You can also buy granules,

1433
01:44:48.560 --> 01:44:51.439
by the way, and if you
got little, small areas where you want

1434
01:44:51.479 --> 01:44:55.239
to sprinkle a little in the bottom
of a catch basin on a pod or

1435
01:44:55.319 --> 01:45:00.560
something, or maybe a large area
that truly infested bad and you want to

1436
01:45:00.640 --> 01:45:04.119
just scatter granules all over it,
that's another option. But mosquito dunk's easy

1437
01:45:04.199 --> 01:45:08.920
to find. All our independent nursery, speed stores and ace hardware stores carry

1438
01:45:08.920 --> 01:45:12.800
them, and boy does that ever
save you some headache. Also, you

1439
01:45:12.880 --> 01:45:17.039
know, mosquito diseases are a significant
concern, just another reason to keep those

1440
01:45:17.119 --> 01:45:23.399
darned things out of our landscapes.
We're going to head now to Baytown and

1441
01:45:23.520 --> 01:45:28.920
talk to Annette. Hello, Annette, Hi there. I have a smith

1442
01:45:29.359 --> 01:45:32.640
fig tree and the leaves are starting
to turn yellow. I'm worried I have

1443
01:45:32.720 --> 01:45:36.840
a fungus. It starts off with
a green leaf and a brown spot on

1444
01:45:36.960 --> 01:45:40.199
it, and then it starts to
get yellow around it, and then the

1445
01:45:40.239 --> 01:45:46.239
whole leaf gets yellow. I pulled
off about thirty percent of the leaves yesterday,

1446
01:45:46.399 --> 01:45:49.119
but I've noticed on the green leaves
there are a lot of brown spots.

1447
01:45:49.279 --> 01:45:53.680
Okay, So I don't know if
it's humidity, if it's fungus or

1448
01:45:53.800 --> 01:45:57.680
what. Right, tell me that
I miss the name of the plant that

1449
01:45:58.000 --> 01:46:03.720
Smith Smith variety of fig tree.
Okay. When figs get those spots,

1450
01:46:04.000 --> 01:46:09.479
they could be fungal, they could
be bacterial, and there's a disease called

1451
01:46:09.720 --> 01:46:14.319
rust that will get on Usually that
creates a yellow spot that then can turn

1452
01:46:14.399 --> 01:46:18.000
brown. But there are some bacteria
and fungus that will do that to a

1453
01:46:18.079 --> 01:46:23.920
fig tree. Most of the time, I find that they're not a big

1454
01:46:24.079 --> 01:46:29.000
enough concern to worry about, and
our options for fungal treatment or bactericides on

1455
01:46:29.039 --> 01:46:32.640
a fig is pretty limited, so
I would try to live with it as

1456
01:46:32.760 --> 01:46:36.399
much as you can. As long
as those figs still have quite a bit

1457
01:46:36.479 --> 01:46:42.439
of green photosynthesizing leaves, they're going
to be okay. And if you need

1458
01:46:42.520 --> 01:46:45.039
to go to a spray, one
of the things that's been used in the

1459
01:46:45.119 --> 01:46:49.920
past is sulfur sprays. But the
problem with sulfur when the temperatures up mid

1460
01:46:50.079 --> 01:46:55.840
nineties and above, especially as it
burns plants, and so that kind of

1461
01:46:55.920 --> 01:47:00.520
limits our ability to use sulfur.
That would be an organic option for controlling

1462
01:47:00.600 --> 01:47:02.640
it, but I would wait and
watch. I wouldn't give up on it

1463
01:47:02.840 --> 01:47:08.279
just yet. If you're doing anything
to spray the foliage, like an irrigation

1464
01:47:08.439 --> 01:47:12.279
system that squirts the foliage all the
time, I would avoid that. You

1465
01:47:12.359 --> 01:47:15.279
know, keep that tree as dry
as you can. But picking off the

1466
01:47:15.359 --> 01:47:17.800
older leaves, getting them out of
there, because that's just going to be

1467
01:47:17.880 --> 01:47:23.479
a source for innoculum to reinfect.
That would be a good idea. But

1468
01:47:23.800 --> 01:47:27.560
I think that's probably what you need
to do on the fig. I would

1469
01:47:27.600 --> 01:47:30.680
have to really hunt far and wide
to find a good fig fungicide, and

1470
01:47:30.760 --> 01:47:35.279
the last time I tried it,
I came up pretty short. Okay,

1471
01:47:35.479 --> 01:47:40.199
that sounds good. I'll just leave
it alone and and see what happens.

1472
01:47:40.399 --> 01:47:43.920
I think. So they are tough
trees, been around long time in this

1473
01:47:44.039 --> 01:47:46.520
area. You know this needs to
be a huge fig production area. Hey,

1474
01:47:46.560 --> 01:47:49.279
we're gonna take a break. Our
number seven one three two one two

1475
01:47:49.560 --> 01:47:53.960
fifty eight seventy four. When we
come back, we will be with you.

1476
01:47:54.159 --> 01:48:15.760
Mary first. Well you're listening to
Guardline. We are entering our last

1477
01:48:15.840 --> 01:48:18.880
little segment here before we end the
weekend. We'll be back next week.

1478
01:48:18.960 --> 01:48:24.479
Of course, every Saturday and every
Sunday six am to ten am. Answering

1479
01:48:24.520 --> 01:48:28.399
your gardening questions. Hey, have
you've been thinking about putting a solar panels

1480
01:48:28.439 --> 01:48:30.520
on your roof? But you just
don't like the way a solar panel looks.

1481
01:48:30.840 --> 01:48:35.560
You need to consider Brinkman's timberline solar
shingles. That's right, shingles.

1482
01:48:35.600 --> 01:48:39.640
They're not on the roof, they
are the roof. Now, Brinkman has

1483
01:48:39.680 --> 01:48:43.880
been providing service to the Houston area
for roofing, oh well gosh, fifty

1484
01:48:44.000 --> 01:48:46.119
years now this year I believe this
is actually their fiftieth anniversary, if I'm

1485
01:48:46.159 --> 01:48:51.840
not mistaken. They warranty their work, they stand behind it not they use

1486
01:48:51.960 --> 01:48:58.000
quality products and they do quality workmanship
for up to twenty five year guarantee against

1487
01:48:58.119 --> 01:49:00.680
leaks on your roof. Now,
don't just trust a company and knocks on

1488
01:49:00.760 --> 01:49:03.520
the door and says, hey you
need your roof or place, let me

1489
01:49:03.760 --> 01:49:08.840
get you a claim. No,
go with a local company. If you've

1490
01:49:08.880 --> 01:49:13.600
been here fifty years, if you
won the Better Business Bureau Pinnacle Award in

1491
01:49:13.680 --> 01:49:16.359
twenty twenty two, that's a good
sign, right, Well, that's Brinkman.

1492
01:49:16.880 --> 01:49:20.640
Brinkman Quality dot Com is a website
or if you want to give them

1493
01:49:20.680 --> 01:49:27.159
a call to eight one four eight
zero seven six six three. We're going

1494
01:49:27.199 --> 01:49:30.439
to head out now to north west
Houston and talk to Mary. Hello,

1495
01:49:30.600 --> 01:49:39.199
Mary, good morning learning. How
can we help? I'm having a serious

1496
01:49:39.279 --> 01:49:45.399
out by break up chamber bighter wheats
in my backyard. Okay, what can

1497
01:49:45.439 --> 01:49:46.960
I do? It's in you,
It's in your lawn. It's in your

1498
01:49:47.039 --> 01:49:51.119
lawn as opposed to you. Okay, Well I always say bag your clipping

1499
01:49:51.359 --> 01:49:56.279
or don't bag your clippings. This
is time when I would bag my clippings

1500
01:49:56.399 --> 01:50:01.399
because all along the leaf structure of
chamber better is our little balls that are

1501
01:50:01.479 --> 01:50:06.039
seeds. And it's really interesting when
you turn it upside down. It's a

1502
01:50:06.399 --> 01:50:12.159
chamber bitter properly known as Philanthus urine
area by the way, urine area.

1503
01:50:12.680 --> 01:50:15.920
Another name for it is peawater leaf
flower. I don't know. I've never

1504
01:50:15.039 --> 01:50:18.399
crushed it and smelled it. I
don't know where that came from but just

1505
01:50:18.520 --> 01:50:23.720
a fun fact that you're here here
on garden light. It's a tough one

1506
01:50:23.760 --> 01:50:26.920
to control. In beds, we
just say ham pull it, ham pull

1507
01:50:27.000 --> 01:50:29.640
it. And if you mulch,
it's not going to come up because it

1508
01:50:29.800 --> 01:50:34.479
needs sunlight to sprout up through the
soil. So work on for next year

1509
01:50:34.640 --> 01:50:39.880
building density into your Saint Augustine.
That would be helpful, but for now

1510
01:50:40.880 --> 01:50:45.600
there are not many options. There
are some post emergent weed killers that contain

1511
01:50:45.960 --> 01:50:51.600
like a three way at trimac type
products, but when it's as hot as

1512
01:50:51.640 --> 01:50:55.199
it is now, you just can't
use those things. I mean, it

1513
01:50:55.880 --> 01:51:02.640
hurts your Saint Augustine too. Next
spring, before the temperature of the soil

1514
01:51:02.720 --> 01:51:08.359
gets up around seventy so let's say
definitely by March, you want to get

1515
01:51:08.439 --> 01:51:14.600
down A product called Gallery. Gallery
is a herbicide that's a pre emergent.

1516
01:51:14.680 --> 01:51:17.479
You put it down, you water
it in, and it prevents weed germination

1517
01:51:17.600 --> 01:51:21.199
for a good period of time.
You may have to do another application because

1518
01:51:21.239 --> 01:51:25.960
this one will often sprout a little
bit late later than crabgrass and all the

1519
01:51:26.039 --> 01:51:29.319
other things we deal with in the
lawn, But that would be the long

1520
01:51:29.479 --> 01:51:32.359
term solution and the short term,
every time you mow bag the clippings,

1521
01:51:32.520 --> 01:51:38.560
you're getting every little seed thing structure
underneath the leaf out of there, and

1522
01:51:38.880 --> 01:51:42.119
boy, that is what makes it
proliferate and it makes it so hard to

1523
01:51:42.199 --> 01:51:46.600
control. Okay, okay, thank
you very all right, thank you for

1524
01:51:46.680 --> 01:51:51.560
the call. I appreciate that very
much. You know, Microlife has their

1525
01:51:53.079 --> 01:51:56.880
wonderful fertilizer life. I mean,
they're the number one selling organic fertilizer here

1526
01:51:56.920 --> 01:52:00.800
in Houston. Lots of quality products. I like a couple of their liquid

1527
01:52:00.840 --> 01:52:02.239
products. In fact, I like
a lot of their liquid products. But

1528
01:52:02.399 --> 01:52:08.119
the Biomatrix, which is the orange
label, it's a seven one three liquid.

1529
01:52:08.159 --> 01:52:10.359
I use it on the houseplants.
In fact, just use some the

1530
01:52:10.439 --> 01:52:14.479
other day. I got back here
in town and houseplants we're saying, hey,

1531
01:52:14.520 --> 01:52:16.319
we could use some neat, so
we did that. It's full of

1532
01:52:16.359 --> 01:52:21.680
beneficial microbes, which is kind of
nice because roots need microbes, including house

1533
01:52:21.720 --> 01:52:26.600
plant roots, and the Biomatrix orange
label is a great one for that.

1534
01:52:27.000 --> 01:52:31.319
Now, when you get into the
outdoors, that's where the Ocean Harvests Blue

1535
01:52:31.399 --> 01:52:36.199
label. Microlife's Ocean Harvest Blue label. It's a four two three fish based

1536
01:52:36.239 --> 01:52:41.479
fertilizer and you can use it as
a drench to fertilize your plants. You

1537
01:52:41.560 --> 01:52:44.560
can use it as a full leare
feed. Just follow the label and how

1538
01:52:44.600 --> 01:52:47.600
to apply it. It works very
very well. Those two products indoor and

1539
01:52:47.680 --> 01:52:51.239
outdoor, will really get your plants
set up. You got color plants on

1540
01:52:51.359 --> 01:52:56.720
the patio, you've got house plants
indoors. You need these two products to

1541
01:52:56.880 --> 01:53:00.399
work, and they do work very
well. If you go online to microlifelizer

1542
01:53:00.479 --> 01:53:03.560
dot com, you're going to find
all the places that you can buy Microlife.

1543
01:53:03.560 --> 01:53:06.239
But I can make it easy for
you. If it's a home garden

1544
01:53:06.279 --> 01:53:10.359
center we talk about, I bet
they have Microlife. If it's an ACE

1545
01:53:10.439 --> 01:53:14.319
hardware store, I bet they Microlife. Even our feed stores that we talk

1546
01:53:14.359 --> 01:53:18.279
about usually will carry a Microlife product. But these two orange and blue.

1547
01:53:18.520 --> 01:53:23.119
That makes it easier to remember.
Orange and blue make your plants happy.

1548
01:53:23.880 --> 01:53:28.600
They will do exactly just that.
Well. We've had a full day here,

1549
01:53:28.720 --> 01:53:30.680
lots of talking to lots of different
folks, lots of different calls.

1550
01:53:31.520 --> 01:53:36.000
We always enjoy visiting with you guys. If you miss a show or if

1551
01:53:36.039 --> 01:53:40.479
you're wondering what was it that he
said, you can go buy podcast,

1552
01:53:40.640 --> 01:53:43.840
go online to your podcast app and
you can listen to garden Line. You

1553
01:53:43.840 --> 01:53:46.960
can go back and listen to past
shows if you'd like. We're always appreciating

1554
01:53:47.000 --> 01:53:49.720
folks that are listening to us by
podcasts, as well as the folks that

1555
01:53:49.800 --> 01:53:54.560
listen to us live from a distance
online, which is another option that you

1556
01:53:54.640 --> 01:53:58.279
can do. I had several calls
from out of state yesterday. I believe

1557
01:53:58.359 --> 01:54:01.439
in what was good to always visit
with gardeners from all over the place.

1558
01:54:02.039 --> 01:54:06.079
If you live up in tumble anywhere
near the Tumball area. As you go

1559
01:54:06.319 --> 01:54:11.039
west of town about three miles on
Highway two forty nine on the left,

1560
01:54:11.119 --> 01:54:14.199
you're going to see D and D
Feed and Supply. Don't pass by.

1561
01:54:14.319 --> 01:54:17.680
You need to pull in because the
Dover family has really created a great food

1562
01:54:17.760 --> 01:54:20.720
store there. They just expanded.
They got a lot more area now.

1563
01:54:21.199 --> 01:54:25.800
But all the fertilizers I talk about, you know the soils that we talk

1564
01:54:25.840 --> 01:54:29.920
about here. Do you need plants, there's plants out front. They have

1565
01:54:30.600 --> 01:54:34.680
hand tools available, just everything.
They're feed store. So the high end

1566
01:54:34.720 --> 01:54:41.119
dog feed, Origin Diamond, Victor
Starprote they've got that livestock feed, the

1567
01:54:41.279 --> 01:54:45.479
horsecare products, maybe you have rats
rodents outside. If you live around here,

1568
01:54:45.600 --> 01:54:48.880
you probably have rodents outside. They've
got products for that. Do you

1569
01:54:48.960 --> 01:54:53.439
need to clean the pool? Got
that covered, get the idea, just

1570
01:54:53.680 --> 01:54:56.840
everything. I mean. I talked
about mosquito dunks earlier. D and D

1571
01:54:56.960 --> 01:55:00.760
Feed's got them. We love those
kind of feeds or they provide that family

1572
01:55:00.880 --> 01:55:04.720
service. It's been family and owned
and operated by the Dover family since it

1573
01:55:04.840 --> 01:55:10.399
opened in nineteen eighty nine, and
they just keep getting better and better out

1574
01:55:10.479 --> 01:55:13.960
there at D and D Feed.
So if you're listening for me anywhere up

1575
01:55:13.960 --> 01:55:17.199
in that direction, D and D
Feed, that's your hometown feed store.

1576
01:55:17.239 --> 01:55:21.520
You need to give them. Give
them a check. Really really good place

1577
01:55:21.560 --> 01:55:25.119
to visit. I need to get
back in there. My dogs love some

1578
01:55:25.239 --> 01:55:28.000
of their dog treats they have,
like this little dog. I don't know

1579
01:55:28.039 --> 01:55:31.680
whether they call it a dog delicatessent
or something where they have all kinds of

1580
01:55:31.760 --> 01:55:34.359
dog treats. My dogs like them. In fact, if they know I

1581
01:55:34.399 --> 01:55:38.840
went there and didn't bring them anything, they don't speak to me for thirty

1582
01:55:38.880 --> 01:55:44.840
minutes. They don't remember things long
D and D Feed. You know.

1583
01:55:45.399 --> 01:55:48.399
Garden Line is here to answer gardening
questions. To help you have success.

1584
01:55:48.560 --> 01:55:55.479
My goal and the whole deal is
how do we help people to feel like

1585
01:55:55.560 --> 01:55:58.680
they have a green thumb instead of
a brown thumb, Because you've heard me

1586
01:55:58.760 --> 01:56:03.000
say before there aren't any brown thumbs. There are uninformed thumbs, and that

1587
01:56:03.159 --> 01:56:08.319
makes your thumb look brown. You
believe everything you read online, you're not

1588
01:56:08.520 --> 01:56:11.560
going to have a green thumb because
a lot of it is just not true.

1589
01:56:12.039 --> 01:56:15.920
We provide research based information, the
best of my knowledge, stuff that

1590
01:56:15.000 --> 01:56:19.479
I've either tried and done or that
has been done by research throughout the South,

1591
01:56:20.119 --> 01:56:25.239
to prove that it's effective and that
it's accurate. Because when I tell

1592
01:56:25.279 --> 01:56:28.760
you something, I want it to
be the truth. I wanted to be

1593
01:56:28.880 --> 01:56:33.239
accurate, and I wanted to help
you turn your place into a more beautiful

1594
01:56:34.000 --> 01:56:41.039
landscape, to turn your garden into
more bountiful garden and good information and good

1595
01:56:41.079 --> 01:56:44.359
products or how we do just that, and that's why we're here. I

1596
01:56:44.439 --> 01:56:49.239
hope you'll tell your gardening friends about
garden Line. Every Saturday, every Sunday,

1597
01:56:49.479 --> 01:56:54.159
six am to ten am. You
can listen in or you can call

1598
01:56:54.239 --> 01:56:57.079
in. I know most of you
listen and don't call. It's okay.

1599
01:56:57.199 --> 01:57:00.159
We're just slowly, one by one, getting you shy folks out there there.

1600
01:57:00.680 --> 01:57:02.079
It's a safe place. I don't
think you've heard of me bark at

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01:57:02.119 --> 01:57:06.399
anybody yet or light their head off, so it's a friendly place. We'll

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help you. Hey, if it's
the question you think, the stupid question,

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somebody probably else has it too.
Don't worry about that. We'll handle

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that. I'll worry about the stupid
answers. Okay, we will take care

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of that. Whatever the question you
might have, that's what we're here for.

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Hey, thanks for being a garden
Line listener. I look forward to

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talking to you again next Saturday.