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Welcome to kat r h Garden line
with scamp Ricord's sho crazy trim. Just

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watch him as many give things to
seep bats not a sid Good morning on

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a what's going to be a good
Sunday. Really look forward to today.

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Uh we are we're entering the hot
season of the year, there's no question

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about that. Uh, but our
mornings are still wonderful times to be outside.

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Grab a cup of coffee, walk
out, walk through the landscape.

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Uh. You know, they say
that the best fertilizer is the footprints of

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the gardener, and I would add
the best pest control as a footprints of

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the gardener as well. And the
reason is the more you're out there and

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you notice things, the more you
tend to be taking care of your plants

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and not letting things get away.
For example, a pest infestation, when

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you catch it early, you use
much safer. We'll see softer products,

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meaning not as harsh, not as
much of a backlash, negative effect on

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landscapes, you know, killing beneficial
insects or other things like that. And

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it just it all starts with you
being out there noticing things early on.

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So take advantage of these cool hours
to walk around and look. You know,

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I like to also when I drive
around town, I look at landscapes.

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Of course, all the time,
being horticultures, I can't help that,

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but a lot of times I'll see
them and I'll ask, why do

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I like that landscape? What about
it do I like? Is there?

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Is it the curves of the layout
that are very that actually pleasing? Is

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it? Axit? For example,
the use of certain kinds of plants and

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how they laid it out, or
maybe I see a plant, it's like,

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what is that? Find out more
about it? Learn about that one.

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And the more you do that kind
of thing, the more you kind

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of know what you want to have
at your house, and whether you do

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it yourself or whether you hire somebody
to do it. Always having some pictures

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on hand to kind of remind you
to give you some inspiration as you go

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out shopping. Those are good ideas, and so I would encourage you take

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advantage of that. It's always good. Different times of the year. I'll

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do a walk through and just kind
of look at things. After that season,

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you know, the end of summer's
Oh, it's a great time because

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that's when you find out who's a
wimp and who's a hero and the landscape.

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Plants that can survive are warm,
let's just say blazing hot instead of

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warm, are blazing hot summer,
the sultiness of the humidity and everything else.

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Well, at the end of summer, you kind of get an idea.

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You know, you see that area
of the yard, you know,

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I am trying to keep that grass
alive over there. I don't even use

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that as a lawn area. Really, maybe I should install some more drought

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tolerant plants, some native plants,
things that might have a better chance of

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surviving and thriving, not just surviving
in that area. So just the thought,

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it's always good to kind of get
ahead of time. Fall planting season

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will be here and we can still
plant things now, So this is a

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good time to do that kind of
evaluation. Well, welcome to Garden Line.

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I'm your host, Skip Richter.
We're glad to have you with us.

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Our phone number is seven to one
three two one two k t RH

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if you'd like to give us a
call. I'm gonna talk about a couple

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of things this morning that I've kind
of been thinking about regarding regarding plants and

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horticulture and planting and things like that
whenever we're trying to establish a plant.

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And I had a number of people
I talked to yesterday out at the Langham

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Creek Ace Hardware. By the way, thanks for inviting me out. It

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was a blast. We had a
good time. I think, I hope

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everybody that came did. We were
cutting up and just really learning a lot

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of things and having fun in the
process. But while I was out there,

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I talked to a number of folks
who had recently planted something or were

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in the process of trying to do
some kind of planting. And I notice

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a lot a lot of times that
you know, I always talk about fallbying

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the best time to plant because it
allows the most time between planting and the

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weather we're experiencing right now, which
is very stressful to plants. You can

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plant any plant any well, you
can plant anything that's a perennial that'll live

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here here after year, any month
of the year. Okay, So you

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could put trees in now if you
if you wanted to, if it was

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a reason to go ahead and get
that head start. Just when you plant

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things now, you have to in
your mind picture that you just put the

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pot in the ground with the plant
and what that will duty you if you

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picture that is, you'll know now
when I need to water it, where

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would you put the water well?
Where all the roots are in the pot?

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Right? And early on in planting
we have a little bit of a

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touching go like that where you know
it's very hot outside. We get the

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plant established and we get it wet, make sure the root ball is well

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saturated with water, and then we
have to maintain that by continuing in small

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doses to water it each day as
we gradually expand that root zone. We'd

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like it to happen fast, but
as it happens, for example, in

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a tree three years down the line, we are still building, you know,

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a very resilient root zone or root
system year after year. So as

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you apply that water in small doses
and then gradually expanding the wedding area and

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just what you need to get down
and feel the soil, dig down about

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three or four inches and feel it. And if it's wet, don't water

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because of clay soil and weather with
us, water water water, and it

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ends up being an underground bathtub,
and that is very detrimental to roots.

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Drought is detrimental completely submerge. No
oxygen for the roots is detrimental. So

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that's the touch and go that we
do. But it can be done.

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But she just kind of get involved, not just you know, turn on

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a sprinkler, walk away and forget
it. Well, let's let's go ahead

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and jump in to some calls this
morning. I'm going to head out now

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to Cyprus, Texas and talk to
Katie. Hello, Katie, I need

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to get a connection here to Katie. Get naughty. I'm gonna put Katie

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back on hold, and if you
guys can try to get her on the

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line, that would be good.
We'll come back to you, Katie.

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If you're trying to talk to me
and I can't hear you, this's just

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hang on. We'll be right back. See that all right? Check back

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here? Do we have Katie?
All right? Back on hold? So

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I was talking about planting and making
sure that plants get established. Well,

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if you take a container in a
garden center or in a grower field,

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they've got the containers. They're water
in those things every day and in most

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cases depends on the plant and the
pot size and the location in the garden

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center, but they're watering them often
because it only takes about a day or

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two for a pot to dry out
in hot, hot weather and full sun

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especially, and so that frequent watering
makes sure that completely confined root system has

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a chance of surviving. And the
thing you need to remember when you're water

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plants, whether it's a container full
of tomatoes or something that blooms, is

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when that plant goes into drought stress, you probably you probably when it goes

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into dashes, you probably water pretty
quick and it bounces right back and it's

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like, oh, dodge that bullet. Well, yes, and no the

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plant you dodged it. In the
planets that alive, But when you let

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a tomato go into a drought stress, it's going to be more likely to

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abort fruit the fruit that it has, or not going to develop the full

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size that they potentially could develop.
And when it comes to flowers, they

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just quit flowering in many cases when
they're going through those stresses. So those

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are just some things to consider,
and we want to avoid that kind of

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stress at all costs in order to
be able to maintain not just a live

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plant, but a productive plant as
well. We're going to take a quick

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break here, Katie. I'll get
to you first. When we come right

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back, get the stretch, all
right, welcome back to guard Line.

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Good to have you with us.
You know, I've been talking about planting

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and how we can still plant in
the summer season, how to make sure

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where our plants do well, and
it's all just about making sure we alleviate

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any kind of stress that we can. I'm going to go back. I

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believe we got Katie connected in our
Yeah, Katie Cyprus connected. Hey Katie,

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welcome to the show. Good to
have you. Hey, good morning,

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thank you. I have found two
new guinea flatworms in my flowerbed,

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and from what I'm reading, it
is not good. How can I get

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rid of them? Oh? Boy, that's a good question. I doubt

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you're going to find anything on a
garden shelf that says for treating new guinea

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flatworms. You know, the label
that tells us what something will work on

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and what we're allowed to use it
on. I don't want to look into

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that a little bit. This is
a for those listening. It's an invasive

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species, fairly new to us here, and it just happens a lot around

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the world where one pest or creature
finds its way to a new environment and

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now it typically becomes a problem when
you when that happens because they don't have

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all their and I send you video, Yeah, you can send me video.

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It's to double to confirm, like
good care for animals, like the

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rat lung worm that it carried.
I know you're crazy. Yes, you

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can send me a video. I'm
not an expert on that, but I

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can probably figure it out what it
is, and I'll give me a reminder

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to see if I can find you
what you can do about it. There's

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probably not going to be a lot
that you can do about it. When

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when you have those kind of things, you know, it's not like they're

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eating the leaves of your plant,
so you spray the leaves of your plant

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and the poison gets in the pest. This is going to be the kind

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of thing that you've ended up nuke
in a whole area to try to kill

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it, and that has its own
negative effects of course, But can they

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completely destroy my plant? Let me
let me see it. Let's get identified

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and then we'll go from there.
I don't. I don't think so.

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But I'm going to put you on
hold, Katie, and the producer will

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give you my email address so you
can send me the video or if you

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have a close up photo too,
that would be very good. Oh yeah,

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when something, if you have a
still photo that's close up in sharp

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focus, that's the best way for
me to be able. Okay, all

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right, okay, Well this is
a fun thing to share around as you

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go visit family and friends. Here's
a photo, the photo of my exotic

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invasive species that I've got here.
All right, thanks you very much.

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I hang on just a second,
here we go. Yeah, you know,

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we get these new oh gosh,
these new species in and sometimes it's

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not a big deal. Sometimes they
create great alarm that never pans out,

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and other times they you know,
it can be I don't know, a

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new problem that we have to deal
with, Like I've got things like the

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emerald ash borer, and what was
the one that we became so alarmed with

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not too many years ago, the
the oh murder they called the murder hornets

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up in Washington State, and we
were all worried they were going to appear

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here, and a lot of our
current existing WASP family members were immediately assumed

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to be murder hornets when people found
them in the lawn and in the landscape.

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But they're not they're not here.
That's one we can relax on if

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you do have pasts in your landscape. Nineer fives has a product called bug

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out Max and it really is ideally
designed for use in the lawn for things

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that live in the lawn. Not
just pests of the lawn like a chinchbug

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or a sideweb worm, although it
would kill those, but things like ants

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and fleas and tics. You know, yesterday I was talking with someone out

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at Langham Creek Ace Hardware about controlling
fleas, and we talked about the different

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aspects of effective flea control, but
one thing was dealing with things out in

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the lawn and landscape that are in
the thatch. And do you know fleas

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they lay eggs that hatch out into
larva that become people that become adult fleas,

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and so out in the thatch of
the landscape you can have that going

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on. You know, the dog
that the fleas are hopping off the dog

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and hopping onto the dog as they
run around the landscape. And that's part

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of that big cycle that we have
to break and Nuchruss bug Out Max can

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do that sort of thing for you. You know, when it comes to

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effective pest control. To put a
product like that out to get it spread

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over the area so that it's going
to do what you need it to do

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in terms of effective control and effect. Nice even coverage is important. That's

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what I'm trying to get to and
say, nice even coverage is important.

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You water it in and within forty
eight hours it's doing its work, and

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then it's going to last all through
the summer. It's a persistent product that

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will be in that thatch of the
turf down at the base near the ground,

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and you're going to have ongoing control, so you don't have to apply

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it three times over the summer season. You can ply it once and you

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get your summer season of control.
You're going to find that product did a

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task asda Ace Hardware. You're going
to find it down in Lake Jackson is

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called Light Hardware Clute and you're going
to find it at Jim's Hardware Montgomery,

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as well as many other other places. If you'd like to give us a

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call and talk gardening, our phone
number is seven one three two one two

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kt r H seven one three two
one two kt r H. Be happy

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to visit with you and see if
we can help you have help you have

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a more bountiful garden and a more
beautiful landscape. That is what it's about.

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That that's one of the enjoyable things
about gardening is not only the visual

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appeal of beauty and design and just
whatever you like the looks of that that

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beauty, but also just the multi
century enjoyment a fragrance of flowers, of

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the sounds of birds and water.
The smells meant well, I said,

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fragrance of flowers and one week create
the environment that brings in or we bring

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in both plants and animals, creatures
that we're interested in, whether it's pollinators

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or butterflies or whatever. It just
makes our outdoors a relaxing place to be.

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It's a very therapeutic thing to get
out and do that. One of

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the keys is we're going into the
summer season to keep in our plants healthy

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and just really doing the best they
can do. As I was talking about

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earlier, with production of flowers and
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covered is making sure that we provide
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also making sure that we have a
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what nature does. Nature mulches the
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top of the soil, whether it's
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know grass blades shriveling up and being
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The surface of the soil covered up, keep the sunlight out of the

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soil. And that does several things. Number one, the easy thing off

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the top is down cuts down on
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you have bear soil, nature wooll
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the area. Second thing it does
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huge. We don't think about this, but you have you walked out well,

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I know, if you go barefoot
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about to step into it and you
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on a white concrete driveway, it
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it. Well, our soils are
dark and they really absorb a lot of

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the solar radiation and get too hot
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three inches even becomes inhospitable for roots
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and so mulch stops all that and
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It helps conserve moisture and protect the
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a lot of different multi They have
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they have a cedar mulch and a
cypress mulch. Both of those a

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cedar has a nice aromatic smell.
They both I think are very attractive.

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The cypress locks down really well,
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light colored mulch. Pine Bark's one
everybody knows about. That's one of the

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most popular multches there is. From
the Landscaper's Pride. They've got the shredded

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hardwood. And then they have black
velvet. Black velvet is not dyed,

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it is molts. It is naturally
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and dense. And all of these, whatever you use of these, get

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it down, get it in a
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to block the sunlight, to hold
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inches deep. On some of them, you can go a little shallower,

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that's okay. But Landscaper's Pride has
all these and they're everywhere. You can

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go to the website Landscaperspride dot com
and look at the store locator and you

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will see so many dots you can
go well, I can probably walk from

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here to where I can get Landscaper's
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want to head out now. We're
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talk to Susan. Hello, Susan, Hello, good morning. So I

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live in Orange and I'm moving to
the sam Rayburn area. I have Amarillis

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bulbs that have been in the ground
for twenty years. I want to take

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them with me. What is my
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Is there any green foliage on them
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So all you can do is dig
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approaches. Why is just dig them
and let them dry out. I mean,

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don't leave them sitting in the full
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it go ahead and shrivel. The
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back. Sometimes when we do that, it kind of throws them off of

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a bloom cycle and stuff. But
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So that's very very effective. But
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dig them and repot them and try
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create a little potted bulbs to carry
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It's essential to keep them alive and
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Uh, Susan, I'm gonna have
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but if you want to, I'm
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you want to hang on for more
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happy to do that. All right, folks, it's time for a break.

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Seven one three two one two kt
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guard line. Good to have you
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to the phones. And let's see
here. I believe we were talking with

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Susan. Hello Susan, Yeah,
hello, Skip. So if I lift

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the bulbs and I want them to
dry out, to cut the tops off

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now, just they'll shrivel up.
You don't have to cut them off and

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just put them in a spot where
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of course, don't put a bunch
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and where it's warm, but there's
but the air moves through easily, but

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no direct sun shining down on them. Okay, okay, And then when

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would be the best time to actually
put them in the ground. I would

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put them back in the ground,
probably September. I think I would hold

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them until then. You could pulp
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But I'm just sort of thinking about
their natural cycle and and oh yeah,

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yeah, typically I used to one
of my mentors used to say, you

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take amarillis and containers and you just
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end of summer and let them dry
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and then set them back up and
start watering them and they take back off

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again. And so when do you
have to dig them and move them now?

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Yes? Okay, yeah, it's
a long time for them to say,

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but I think that's what I would
do with them. Okay, Okay,

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great, Thank you, Skip,
love your show, all right,

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Thanks lot, appreciate the call very
much. Let's see here. We're going

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to go now to West Houston and
talk to Ron. Hello Ron, good

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morning, Skip morning. I I've
just moved into a new location and the

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flower bed has been abused with dyed
mulch for quite a while, and I

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wanted to know what do I need
to do to remediate the soil so that

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things will actually grow again. Yeah, well, there are a lot of

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things that can mess up the soil. You know, I'm not a I'm

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not a fan of dyed mulch.
That's a whole nother topic for me.

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But it's it will also decompose in
time, you know. It's just those

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dyes are It's not like they've ruined
the soil and you can never grow there

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again without excavating everything that. It's
not that way at all, But I

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would, I would just if you
want to rake some of the old stuff

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out, you could, in this
case get rid of it and then just

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put some fresh compost down, mix
it in a little bit in the surface.

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Is if it's around existing plants,
you're not gonna be able to mix

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it much. But then put a
regular mulch of your choosing above on top

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of that and you'll be fine.
Okay. Would any amendments like Medina has

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to grow be beneficial for that area. It's always helpful to have things that

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are that stimulate microbial activity and whatnot. I don't know exactly the condition of

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that soil. You know, I
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surface and mulch on top. If
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you're going to truly completely renovate that
bed, I would take advantage of that

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time to amend the soil into its
best condition. That might be bringing in

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a bed mix. That might mean
putting some if it's a heavy clay,

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putting some expanded shale down and mixing
it in as you're doing that mixing to

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get a longer term benefit. Okay, yeah, I was just I know

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I've been listening to the Garden Line
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that Randy had a very strong opinion
about diagmol from the poisons that it puts

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into the dirt well, and that's
what I was concerned about. You know,

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it's not something it's not something that
the beneficial creatures are going to be

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excited about in the soil. Nature
is just so resilient run I don't want

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to downplay, like, oh,
there's no concern, don't worry, don't

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you know totally, But at the
same time, nature is extremely resilient.

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When you think about the fact that
we can have an oil spill on the

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ocean and their bacteria that eat it
up. That's that's resilient. And so

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no matter what we do, nature
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and reheal the situation for plant growth. So that that's kind of how I

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feel. But yeah, I would, I would share Randy's lack of appreciation

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for for for it. I just
you know, everybody has their opinions.

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Some people think silk flowers are beautiful. I see them and go, that's

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not real, that's fake. I
don't like that. You know. There's

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a lot of things that are that
are that way. I can't stand the

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little tiny cacti you see for sale
in certain generally not plant centers, but

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other places that have been dyed like
navy blue or purple. You know,

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to me, it's just fake and
I don't like the looks of that.

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So that's how I feel primarily about
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about the specifics and things, but
for me, it's it's mainly just an

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aesthetic preference. And I think mulch
should be there to decompose and feed the

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soil because that's what nature does with
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why I'd rather rather do it with
a natural product. An unna Unnow,

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of using medina has to grow after I

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rake off the diamulch uh spread down
with medina has to grow, put compost

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on top of that, and then
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could I plant right away? That
you plant it right away? You should.

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condition of the soil in addition to
any chemistry or microbial or any of that.

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There's just a physical condition. And
if you've got a really tight clay

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bed, getting in there and improving
the physical structure of the soil would be

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important as in addition to you're talking
about you know, chemical issues or microbial

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issues and whatnot. So anything you
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very important to Okay, all right, thank you very much. You're welcome.

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All right, I appreciate appreciate the
call. YEP. I know a

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lot of people have a lot of
opinions about things like that, and not

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everybody everybody definitely agrees on it.
There's some people who like that look.

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You know, there's also people who
like painted grass. Have you ever seen

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painted grass? It's not beautiful color, so we spray it with a dye

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and it looks a very weird blue
green. To me, not real fond

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of the color. But other people
love it, So I don't know what

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do they say? Yadis tirkin ziine
blizzerin every creature has its pleasure. There

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that was worth the price of admission
today. Hey, you're listening to guardline

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lay some brick in a porous type
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Do you have irrigation issues, maybe
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right, the system just wasn't designed. Well. Call Peerscapes. They do

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quarterly maintenance program. Maybe you like
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help taking care of it. Well, have them come in fertilize it and

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weed, inspect the irrigation, do
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that. You'll see some really inspirational, inspirational landscape installations. You realize you

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got professionals on your hands with very
By the way, also this I think

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this is an interesting point and worth
making, and that is that they've got

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employees that have been with them a
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ten years. The longer longest tenured
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years that have been with them.
And when you have that kind of experience,

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you just know how to handle things
here in our area. I'm going

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to take a little break here now. It's time for us again and I'll

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be back. Our phone number if
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We are going to go back to
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Mike in the Woodlands. Hey Mike, Hey, good morning Skip. I'm

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moving into a brand new home that's
been vacant for a couple of years.

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People that move We're going to move
into it. They had some unfortunate circumstances,

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but they've got it looks like bermuda
grass, and I've never seen this

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type of bermuda grass before. It
just seems seems to look different. And

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I'm just wondering other different strains of
bermuda many many look different. Yeah,

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many different strains. If you've got, for example, like everything from a

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golf course green which is a very
dwarf strain, up to common coastal bermuda

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in pastures which gets knee high almost, it's a it's a a lot of

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things in between. There's some that
are a little finer texture leaves than others.

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There's a little variation there as well. Uh So, bottom line is,

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yeah, you get you a lot
to pick from when it comes to

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bermuda grass. Okay, I don't
know if you saw the pictures that I

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sent in, Yeah, idea,
okay, Yeah, it just looks just

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look different. I thought it was
bermuda, but it just just seemed to

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look be a different strain though what
I was, yeah used to. I

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know it's some about Yeah, there's
a variation like that. But no matter

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what it is, the more often
you mowed it, the better it looks.

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I don't care what kind of bermuda
you buy. If it's a dwarf

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type, you got them it really
often, or have the kind you have,

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00:30:52.599 --> 00:30:55.680
you probably get way away with a
once a week mowing at about a

408
00:30:55.680 --> 00:30:57.839
two and a half inch height.
I think would be pretty good based on

409
00:30:57.920 --> 00:31:03.000
what I saw. Okay, yeah, I've been looking around for a real

410
00:31:03.160 --> 00:31:07.839
mower, but things like all that's
online is just the manual push behind.

411
00:31:08.400 --> 00:31:14.240
Yes, and if you want to, if you want to really go hogwild,

412
00:31:14.279 --> 00:31:18.839
you can buy one that's motorized.
It's about fourteen Yeah, yeah,

413
00:31:18.880 --> 00:31:23.240
there you go. Yeah, I
know, you know with with Bermuda,

414
00:31:23.319 --> 00:31:29.200
that's not very super dwarf. If
you mow it regularly with a sharp propeller

415
00:31:29.240 --> 00:31:32.960
blade mower at about inches two and
a half inches high, it'll make a

416
00:31:33.000 --> 00:31:36.680
decent line. The shorter you get, the more you're going to need that

417
00:31:36.759 --> 00:31:41.000
real mower to be able to do
the real tight cut, and the more

418
00:31:41.000 --> 00:31:45.880
often you're gonna be yeah too,
right for there was also a picture of

419
00:31:45.920 --> 00:31:51.240
a weed that is growing in the
backyard. Yes, if you saw that

420
00:31:51.400 --> 00:31:53.839
or no, that's called ragweed.
There's a whole bunch of different species of

421
00:31:53.960 --> 00:31:59.400
ragweed. But that is a species
of ragweed that has grown out there.

422
00:32:00.680 --> 00:32:02.279
You know, if there's a whole
lot of it. If there's not a

423
00:32:02.279 --> 00:32:06.680
lot of it, just hand pulling
it simple. If there is a lot

424
00:32:06.720 --> 00:32:09.119
of it, it's difficult to control. Now because it's so hot, and

425
00:32:09.200 --> 00:32:16.039
without hurting your turf. I don't
know the label on I would need to

426
00:32:16.160 --> 00:32:22.240
check a product, a lawn weed
control product that contains two four D would

427
00:32:22.240 --> 00:32:27.440
be an option for controlling ragweed.
But I just need to check and make

428
00:32:27.480 --> 00:32:31.519
sure that your bermuda is on that
label. Meaning I know Saint Augustine.

429
00:32:31.559 --> 00:32:35.599
In the summer, two four D
can be pretty rough on it as the

430
00:32:35.599 --> 00:32:39.519
temperatures get hot, and so you
don't want to cause problems by what you

431
00:32:39.640 --> 00:32:45.079
use to control the ragweed, So
wiper applicators, because that ragweed is going

432
00:32:45.119 --> 00:32:49.400
to come up higher than your bermuda
pretty fast, So you don't mow for

433
00:32:49.400 --> 00:32:52.440
a few days, you can get
to the ragweed touching the bermuda. That

434
00:32:52.440 --> 00:32:58.880
that's an option. But it may
be that there there's one out there that

435
00:32:58.960 --> 00:33:04.920
you could just spray on the bermuda
and there wouldn't be a problem. Okay,

436
00:33:04.960 --> 00:33:07.960
but it's gonna have two four D
in it. Two four D it's

437
00:33:07.039 --> 00:33:13.319
one of the herbicides. It's often
used in lawns to control weeds. Been

438
00:33:13.680 --> 00:33:16.480
an old, old product, been
used a long time. It's got its

439
00:33:16.559 --> 00:33:21.519
pros and cons. But in this
case, with this weed in this setting,

440
00:33:21.640 --> 00:33:24.119
meaning a Bermuda lawn. I think
it's going to be the thing you

441
00:33:24.200 --> 00:33:30.079
need to use. Okay, there's
other weeds in the yard. They seem

442
00:33:30.119 --> 00:33:36.000
to be broad leaved. Should I
just go ahead and individually spray those if

443
00:33:36.079 --> 00:33:39.440
you with yes? Yes. Now
I noticed the grass is kind of stressed.

444
00:33:39.480 --> 00:33:43.960
It looks like it's been through some
drought or something like that. The

445
00:33:44.039 --> 00:33:47.119
densities is not there. So as
you mow, water and fertilize, that'll

446
00:33:47.319 --> 00:33:52.799
that'll get denser. But when it
comes to the weed, it is pretty

447
00:33:52.839 --> 00:33:55.400
actively growing. It seems to be
pretty happy, and that's important for you

448
00:33:55.720 --> 00:34:00.599
active control. If you've got ragweed
that's drought stressed and stunted sort of,

449
00:34:00.960 --> 00:34:05.079
you're not going to get good control
with these products. It needs to be

450
00:34:05.160 --> 00:34:09.000
happy and growing actively. Yeah,
it looks like it's growing very happily.

451
00:34:09.280 --> 00:34:15.199
Okay, thanks a lot, and
I appreciate the call. Take care all

452
00:34:15.320 --> 00:34:19.039
right, thank you, skip by
bye, bybbye. Have you been at

453
00:34:19.039 --> 00:34:22.360
plans for all seasons? Plans for
all seasons is where see if you're going

454
00:34:22.360 --> 00:34:27.239
to up Tombo Parkway two forty ninths
where Luetta crosses over, so you just

455
00:34:27.440 --> 00:34:30.679
if you're going north, just cross
over Luetta and Plants for All Seasons is

456
00:34:30.760 --> 00:34:32.559
right there on the right hand side. It's easy to get to. I've

457
00:34:32.599 --> 00:34:37.840
been around since nineteen seventy three,
and this family nursery has an outstanding selection

458
00:34:37.880 --> 00:34:40.400
of all kinds of things that you
might want. If you want to go

459
00:34:40.480 --> 00:34:45.719
in and get some inspiration on doing
containers, if you just want to maybe

460
00:34:45.719 --> 00:34:47.719
you want to do it do it
yourself combo, they can help you with

461
00:34:47.760 --> 00:34:51.920
that. Do you want to just
purchase a baskets, It's ready to go.

462
00:34:52.039 --> 00:34:53.960
You got people coming over tonight for
a gathering. Hey, you can

463
00:34:54.000 --> 00:34:59.239
just go in there and get the
instant color and it really will do well

464
00:34:59.280 --> 00:35:01.679
in your landscape because they choose plants
that do well here and they advise you

465
00:35:01.719 --> 00:35:05.920
on how to take care of them. They also help if you've got problems

466
00:35:05.960 --> 00:35:08.039
you want to take a sample in
or a picture in to have them help

467
00:35:08.039 --> 00:35:13.199
you with it. They are experts
at that, which is definitely, as

468
00:35:13.239 --> 00:35:15.400
I like to say, worth the
price of admission. You can go a

469
00:35:15.400 --> 00:35:19.599
lot of places and buy things,
but when you go to Plants for All

470
00:35:19.639 --> 00:35:23.519
Seasons, you've got a very educated
staff that can guide you in the right

471
00:35:23.559 --> 00:35:27.920
way. You're not wasting your time
and money on plants and products that are

472
00:35:27.960 --> 00:35:30.239
not going to work here for you. Plants for All Seasons dot Com is

473
00:35:30.280 --> 00:35:36.679
their website if you'd like to get
McCall to eight one three seven six sixteen

474
00:35:36.800 --> 00:35:40.800
forty six to eight one three seven
six sixteen forty six. Remember it is

475
00:35:40.880 --> 00:35:46.039
still a good time to be planting. We got three months of summer ahead

476
00:35:46.079 --> 00:35:51.239
of us, and why not have
a colorful one with plants that laugh at

477
00:35:51.280 --> 00:35:53.119
the summer heat. Go buy plants
for all Seasons and ask them they can

478
00:35:53.199 --> 00:35:59.719
help you do exactly that. We're
going to go now to John in Spring

479
00:35:59.760 --> 00:36:06.239
Tech says hello, John marin Skip. I lived in my house just over

480
00:36:06.320 --> 00:36:12.519
thirty years in the Spring area,
and we're looking at doing some repair on

481
00:36:12.760 --> 00:36:16.400
some drainage that we have that's been
installed, but also in some of the

482
00:36:16.639 --> 00:36:21.920
wee drain lines and from the backyard
to the street. I was worrying if

483
00:36:21.920 --> 00:36:25.599
you could recommend a company to do
that, I would recommend Pierce Scapes.

484
00:36:25.840 --> 00:36:30.840
They are the best company I know
for doing just that. I hear the

485
00:36:30.960 --> 00:36:35.320
music playing in my ear here.
I'm going to give you a website,

486
00:36:35.480 --> 00:36:39.360
Piercescapes dot com, and then I'm
going to give you a phone number two

487
00:36:39.400 --> 00:36:45.800
eight one three seven oh fifty sixty. Go to their website peerscapes dot com.

488
00:36:45.800 --> 00:36:50.480
There's a section on irrigation and there's
information on drainage that you can read

489
00:36:50.480 --> 00:36:52.960
about on there. It's very very
helpful. In fact, they just hay,

490
00:36:53.000 --> 00:36:57.039
thanks a lot. Yeah, they
just had something on their Facebook page.

491
00:36:57.079 --> 00:37:00.159
I think it was like how to
choose an irrigation a drainage contractor some

492
00:37:00.239 --> 00:37:06.320
of the key points. Thanks a
lot for the colle s. All right,

493
00:37:06.360 --> 00:37:07.400
folks, will be right back.
You want to get on the boards

494
00:37:07.400 --> 00:37:10.960
and be ready to go. Seven
one three two one two k t r

495
00:37:12.199 --> 00:37:38.639
H k t r H Garden Line
with skip rictor it's just watch him as

496
00:37:25.280 --> 00:37:47.239
again not a sign. Welcome back
to the guard line. Good to have

497
00:37:47.280 --> 00:37:51.639
you today. If you looked outside, it is beautiful. The sun is

498
00:37:51.639 --> 00:37:54.000
shining. We've got a clear sky, and I think this is going to

499
00:37:54.039 --> 00:37:58.119
be a good day. I'm looking
forward to today this afternoon. I've got

500
00:37:58.159 --> 00:38:00.199
a couple of things I want to
get out and do a few things I

501
00:38:00.280 --> 00:38:04.320
need to take care of. As
I'm puttering about, I do need to

502
00:38:04.320 --> 00:38:06.719
stop by. I had some various
products I need to pick up. I

503
00:38:06.760 --> 00:38:12.239
kind of went to the cupboard the
other day to do some gardening and found

504
00:38:12.280 --> 00:38:14.960
that, yeah, I need some
more of this and some more of that,

505
00:38:15.079 --> 00:38:17.159
and so i'd swing by and get
some of that done too this afternoon.

506
00:38:19.519 --> 00:38:21.960
I just want to remind you that
even though it's getting hot, it's

507
00:38:22.000 --> 00:38:25.360
still a good time to put out
plants, and there are all kinds of

508
00:38:25.360 --> 00:38:30.840
plants that can take this summer heat. It was out at Nelson Water Garden,

509
00:38:30.400 --> 00:38:35.119
which is nursery and water garden actually
out in Katie by the way.

510
00:38:35.159 --> 00:38:37.280
If you've not been out there,
that's your West Houston Garden center. And

511
00:38:37.320 --> 00:38:40.079
you just sat out to Katie and
turned north on Katie Fort Ben Road,

512
00:38:40.440 --> 00:38:44.679
and it's just a hop, skipping
or jump down down the street and when

513
00:38:44.679 --> 00:38:45.800
you get there, you're going to
find a lot of plants and go like,

514
00:38:45.840 --> 00:38:49.760
well, I thought this place was
just water garden. Not at all.

515
00:38:49.880 --> 00:38:53.039
They've had a very nice nursery lots
and lots of different kinds of plants

516
00:38:53.039 --> 00:38:58.440
there. But when we get into
summer heat and we start griping about the

517
00:38:58.480 --> 00:39:02.440
fact, okay it's getting hot,
well you just need a water garden,

518
00:39:02.559 --> 00:39:07.480
that's what you need. Meaning do
you want a little maybe a waterfall in

519
00:39:07.519 --> 00:39:12.760
the landscape that creates that beautiful beauty
visually and the sound of it. Would

520
00:39:12.800 --> 00:39:17.679
you like one of those large containers, those urns that are glazed pottery that

521
00:39:17.719 --> 00:39:22.239
the water spills out of the top
of and goes down into a rock bed

522
00:39:22.280 --> 00:39:25.239
where it just recirculates. That's called
a disappearing fountain. And they are so

523
00:39:25.559 --> 00:39:29.920
cool, they're so beautiful, and
the birds and beneficial insects, well,

524
00:39:29.960 --> 00:39:32.920
thank you for that too, by
the way, Nelson Nursery and Water Gardens

525
00:39:32.920 --> 00:39:37.519
out and Katie's got all of that
and then some you just need to go

526
00:39:37.599 --> 00:39:39.760
and take someone with you. This
is a destination place. It's the kind

527
00:39:39.800 --> 00:39:45.199
of place where allow yourself a little
time to just go back among the many

528
00:39:45.280 --> 00:39:50.159
water features that they have on the
property. There back behind the plant nursery

529
00:39:50.199 --> 00:39:53.599
part of it. It is shaded. It is beautiful and you would just

530
00:39:53.840 --> 00:39:58.880
enjoy the therapy. In fact,
they had a charge in emission just for

531
00:39:59.559 --> 00:40:05.440
audio therapy that you get when I
sit by water. I enjoy so much

532
00:40:05.480 --> 00:40:08.360
the sound. It's relaxing, its
just and it's also just beautiful anyway.

533
00:40:08.800 --> 00:40:15.679
Nelson Watergardens dot Com. Nelson watergardens
dot com. That's a website, easy

534
00:40:15.719 --> 00:40:19.000
to find them, easy to get
to, and when you get there,

535
00:40:19.119 --> 00:40:21.960
you'll be surprised and you really enjoy
yourself. I know you will, because

536
00:40:21.960 --> 00:40:24.360
I always do when I go out
there. We're gonna head over to Kingwood

537
00:40:24.400 --> 00:40:29.199
now and talk to Joe. Hey, Joe, good morning, Skip.

538
00:40:29.920 --> 00:40:35.280
I had to dig up three Sunshine
the gustrooms that are planted in a bed

539
00:40:35.360 --> 00:40:39.039
near my house, and they're in
about seven gallon containers and I'm watering them

540
00:40:39.079 --> 00:40:44.800
every day and I'll be replanting them
all in about a week and a half.

541
00:40:45.360 --> 00:40:51.280
My question is when I replant them, what should be the frequency for

542
00:40:51.480 --> 00:40:57.960
watering. I assume start off heavy
and then taper down. And then would

543
00:40:57.960 --> 00:41:00.360
it be helpful to use medina has
to grow for plants, and how many

544
00:41:00.440 --> 00:41:07.719
times? And then after that medina
growing green fertilized organic fertilizer. How often

545
00:41:08.239 --> 00:41:12.960
should I apply some of that?
Yeah, so first job is going to

546
00:41:12.960 --> 00:41:15.000
be to get them a root system
again, because they lost about ninety percent

547
00:41:15.039 --> 00:41:20.039
of it no matter how much you
tried to dig. And so I would

548
00:41:20.039 --> 00:41:23.159
get them in the ground to keep
them adequately moist. And so you know,

549
00:41:23.320 --> 00:41:27.840
saying how often or how much to
water. I can't tell you because

550
00:41:28.400 --> 00:41:31.360
a lot of factors a factor into
that. But that root system that they

551
00:41:31.400 --> 00:41:35.719
have where it's all been cut off, is going to start re sprouting new

552
00:41:35.800 --> 00:41:39.400
roots. And you want that soil
to be consistently moist, not soggy,

553
00:41:39.480 --> 00:41:45.519
underwater, not dry. You want
it to stay adequately moist. So water

554
00:41:45.679 --> 00:41:47.800
is needed for that. And I
have to get my hands involved in terms

555
00:41:47.840 --> 00:41:51.760
of you know, dig down and
feel the soil a few inches below the

556
00:41:51.800 --> 00:41:57.280
surface, and that's how I get
to literally get a feel for how much

557
00:41:57.320 --> 00:42:00.199
water I need to put on the
medina. Haster grows, the drench would

558
00:42:00.239 --> 00:42:06.239
be good. I would probably drench
it right at planting. I'd probably do

559
00:42:06.320 --> 00:42:12.360
it again about ever two weeks for
several more applications, and you would it's

560
00:42:12.440 --> 00:42:15.199
just doing a lot of good things
for the plant root system because of the

561
00:42:15.440 --> 00:42:20.760
various things in the concoction of the
medina has to grow. As far as

562
00:42:20.880 --> 00:42:25.079
going to the dry fertilizer you mentioned
going to a medina a fertilizer granule,

563
00:42:25.480 --> 00:42:30.079
you could do that. I would
wait at least six weeks after planting,

564
00:42:30.559 --> 00:42:37.760
and in the short term go with
more of a gradual feed through. You

565
00:42:37.760 --> 00:42:42.159
could use their seaweed product, their
fish and motion products, any of the

566
00:42:42.199 --> 00:42:45.679
products like that there. They're very
safe to use on the new plants.

567
00:42:45.760 --> 00:42:51.320
But job number one is getting a
root system in and at least six weeks

568
00:42:51.400 --> 00:42:55.360
later then beginning to put granule fertilizer
out is good. I just I guess

569
00:42:55.360 --> 00:43:00.079
what I'm trying to say, Joe, is that it's not nutrients that's their

570
00:43:00.159 --> 00:43:05.760
number one need right off the bat. The number one need is consistent moisture

571
00:43:05.800 --> 00:43:09.760
in the root system. That sounds
great. Skip on the Medina haster grill.

572
00:43:09.840 --> 00:43:16.360
You said every two weeks for several
times. Yeah, I would probably

573
00:43:16.400 --> 00:43:20.800
do it over two weeks for three
or four times even. Okay, watering

574
00:43:20.800 --> 00:43:23.719
it in at planting very you know
very well. But then yeah, a

575
00:43:23.760 --> 00:43:27.760
couple of weeks, just do it
again, do it again, and I

576
00:43:27.800 --> 00:43:30.280
think that that will go a long
way to help him. Thank you much.

577
00:43:30.320 --> 00:43:32.679
I appreciate the help. All right, Jim, thanks a lot too.

578
00:43:34.960 --> 00:43:37.000
We're going to go to Austin now
and talk to Robert. Is this

579
00:43:37.159 --> 00:43:43.960
Austin, Texas, Austin County?
What are we doing here Robertas County?

580
00:43:44.400 --> 00:43:51.679
Okay, we need to know what's
the best way to get stickers? Are

581
00:43:51.719 --> 00:43:55.360
these the stickers that are look sort
of like grasp but they come up way

582
00:43:55.400 --> 00:44:00.880
above the turf with little seed heads
on top. They get that all getting

583
00:44:00.920 --> 00:44:07.239
your feet. Yeah, okay,
the grass that's a grass burr and that

584
00:44:07.280 --> 00:44:12.320
particular kind of stick arette. It's
hard to spray and kill the plant if

585
00:44:12.400 --> 00:44:15.199
it's in your lawn. Is that
where it is in a in a grassy

586
00:44:15.280 --> 00:44:20.119
lawn or where are you seeing those? Yeah? So what would kill the

587
00:44:20.119 --> 00:44:25.920
grass burr plant will also kill your
lawn. So what we generally do with

588
00:44:25.960 --> 00:44:31.920
those, Robert is use pre emergent
herbicides like a barricade application by nitroposs.

589
00:44:32.440 --> 00:44:37.519
You can put that down. I
have a schedule online and if you go

590
00:44:37.599 --> 00:44:45.119
to my website gardening with Skip dot
com, you can find the schedules there

591
00:44:45.159 --> 00:44:47.039
for free. You are I'm going
to say, you're a little north of

592
00:44:47.119 --> 00:44:52.039
us, meaning it's a little cooler. Spring arrives a tadbit later for you

593
00:44:52.159 --> 00:44:54.199
than it does for us. Not
much, just a tadbit, so you

594
00:44:54.239 --> 00:44:59.519
can bump. You can bump the
schedule just a week or two later.

595
00:45:00.079 --> 00:45:05.719
It tells you exactly when to put
on a pre emergent herbicide like barricade,

596
00:45:06.119 --> 00:45:08.039
and you would want to it's for
you. It's going to probably be I

597
00:45:08.079 --> 00:45:14.800
would say mid to late February that
you need to get that down okay and

598
00:45:15.000 --> 00:45:20.280
a really good well, thank you
rid of them. Just be ready to

599
00:45:20.480 --> 00:45:24.719
also, by the way, be
ready to repeat that application about sixty to

600
00:45:24.880 --> 00:45:32.719
ninety days later to continue that protection
on into summer against the scrasppers. Thank

601
00:45:32.760 --> 00:45:36.199
you, sir, Thanks for the
call. Appreciate that you take a good

602
00:45:36.280 --> 00:45:37.719
day. All right, We're going
to take a little break here. I'll

603
00:45:37.719 --> 00:45:42.000
be right back seven one three two
one two k t R H give us

604
00:45:42.039 --> 00:45:45.760
calls today. We are here to
help you have a more bountiful garden and

605
00:45:45.840 --> 00:45:50.599
a more beautiful landscape. I like
to put it that way, because you

606
00:45:50.639 --> 00:45:54.280
know, the enjoyment of plants,
of horticulture, of the gardening world is

607
00:45:54.360 --> 00:46:00.800
getting out and creating beauty and enjoying
beauty. I think we all, wondergree

608
00:46:00.840 --> 00:46:02.679
or another, have a creative process
in us. When you make something,

609
00:46:02.719 --> 00:46:06.800
when you do something, when you
build something, when you create something,

610
00:46:07.360 --> 00:46:10.199
it's a sense of satisfaction and you
enjoy it all the more. You know,

611
00:46:10.239 --> 00:46:14.079
they say that no vegetable states as
good as the ones you grow,

612
00:46:14.599 --> 00:46:17.159
and that's really true. No flowers
is pretty is the ones you picked in

613
00:46:17.199 --> 00:46:22.559
your yard and brought in and put
in a vase. So get active in

614
00:46:22.639 --> 00:46:28.320
gardening, release some creative juices.
Make your place a place you just love

615
00:46:28.400 --> 00:46:31.880
to come home to. We've been
working at our house these past few weeks

616
00:46:31.880 --> 00:46:37.000
and we'll continue to on enhancing our
outdoor sitting area. We've got a little

617
00:46:37.000 --> 00:46:42.239
area in the back where we enjoy
going out and sitting. So there's issues

618
00:46:42.320 --> 00:46:45.159
like what are we going to do
about the mosquitoes, and we're working on

619
00:46:45.199 --> 00:46:49.719
that. We've got some beautiful plants
we've been putting in the area. I've

620
00:46:49.719 --> 00:46:52.000
got some work I need to do
some more. There, got a flower

621
00:46:52.000 --> 00:46:53.880
bed about to go in. But
the whole idea is to go out there

622
00:46:53.920 --> 00:46:57.559
and be able to sit down and
enjoy it. We just added a little

623
00:46:57.599 --> 00:47:00.920
water fountain out into that area,
and oh my gosh, you walk outside

624
00:47:01.039 --> 00:47:06.679
and it's like you just the sound
of water is just so therapeutic. Love

625
00:47:06.719 --> 00:47:09.679
that, love that very much.
Of course, having a beautiful lawn is

626
00:47:09.800 --> 00:47:14.679
very important to people, and for
those of you who are looking for a

627
00:47:14.760 --> 00:47:22.400
very high concentration of nitrogen in an
organic product. Nitrophos has a product called

628
00:47:22.440 --> 00:47:28.400
sweet Green that is eleven percent nitrogen. It's a molasses space product, and

629
00:47:28.840 --> 00:47:31.840
we know any organic gardener can tell
you whenever you add molasses to the soil,

630
00:47:31.920 --> 00:47:37.280
it stimulates microbial activity. The good
guys that are down there making roots

631
00:47:37.679 --> 00:47:42.800
happy, if you will, they
release nutrients to roots. They protect roots

632
00:47:42.800 --> 00:47:45.079
from diseases. Did you know that? Do you know that there are microbes

633
00:47:45.079 --> 00:47:50.719
that protect roots from getting sick?
So that's true. There are microbes that

634
00:47:50.800 --> 00:47:54.480
help fight pests as well, and
many benefits. And when you put on

635
00:47:54.519 --> 00:47:58.880
sweet Green, you not only stimulate
that microbial activity, but you got that

636
00:47:58.880 --> 00:48:01.719
eleven percent nitrogen. What I would
recommend at this point in the season,

637
00:48:01.719 --> 00:48:06.960
because you don't want just a sudden, huge flesher growth, is take get

638
00:48:07.000 --> 00:48:10.039
your sweet green, put it down
in a little bit lower rate, and

639
00:48:10.079 --> 00:48:14.679
then about two months from now,
six weeks two months from now, do

640
00:48:14.719 --> 00:48:17.079
it again at that same rate.
And so what you've done you sort of

641
00:48:17.119 --> 00:48:21.800
split it up and spread it out
a little bit. And while in and

642
00:48:21.840 --> 00:48:25.760
of itself it's not a slow release
product, you can by putting small doses

643
00:48:25.800 --> 00:48:32.159
out accomplished essentially the same thing and
Microlife sweet Green is very effective and wonderfully

644
00:48:32.199 --> 00:48:38.599
scented. I mean that molasses base
is just absolutely delightful. If you will,

645
00:48:39.119 --> 00:48:42.360
I love the smell of it.
You're going to find it at places

646
00:48:42.519 --> 00:48:45.199
like for example, Plants for all
Seasons up on two forty nine will carry

647
00:48:45.239 --> 00:48:50.119
if you're up in the Woodlands,
aspa Ace hardware up there in the Woodlands.

648
00:48:50.119 --> 00:48:52.840
Another place you can get screen sweet
green, or go out to Brenham

649
00:48:52.960 --> 00:48:55.239
the Plants and Things. They've got
it out there as well. Sweet Green

650
00:48:55.679 --> 00:49:02.840
an organic type product from the folks
Nitrofoss. You're listening to guard Line and

651
00:49:02.920 --> 00:49:07.440
we're here to help you have a
beautiful place and help you have more enjoyment.

652
00:49:08.199 --> 00:49:12.559
And sometimes when I talk to gardeners, and I love talking to gardeners.

653
00:49:12.599 --> 00:49:14.719
And by the way, all of
you who came out to Langham Creek

654
00:49:14.760 --> 00:49:17.760
Case Hardware yesterday, thank you and
thank you for your patience. I know

655
00:49:17.880 --> 00:49:21.280
that was a some some of you
had a little bit of a weight,

656
00:49:22.199 --> 00:49:24.639
but we had a good time and
we were we were out there. When

657
00:49:24.639 --> 00:49:29.400
I when I talk to gardeners,
sometimes with some folks, I pick up

658
00:49:29.480 --> 00:49:35.679
a sense of what should I say, Uh, fear is a little too

659
00:49:35.679 --> 00:49:40.719
strong of word, but maybe hesitation
or anxiousness about trying to grow things and

660
00:49:42.320 --> 00:49:45.719
failing at it, you know,
like, well I want a garden,

661
00:49:45.880 --> 00:49:49.400
but I don't know how, or
I planted something and it died and I

662
00:49:49.440 --> 00:49:52.000
don't have a green thumb and all
of that. And you've heard me say

663
00:49:52.039 --> 00:49:54.880
there's no brown thumbs. There's only
an informed thumbs. And so if you

664
00:49:54.920 --> 00:50:00.320
want a green thumb, well let's
help you turn your thumb green. That

665
00:50:00.480 --> 00:50:06.719
and gardening is to be fun and
it's not rocket science. We follow some

666
00:50:06.760 --> 00:50:08.840
principles, and those of you who
came out yesterday, we'd here, you

667
00:50:08.880 --> 00:50:13.119
know, I'd have a sample and
we talk about it. And it wouldn't

668
00:50:13.159 --> 00:50:15.440
be just like here's a problem,
here's what to kill it with, or

669
00:50:15.440 --> 00:50:17.280
here's a problem, here's what to
spray on it. It's more of the

670
00:50:17.320 --> 00:50:22.039
whole cultural thing and how you make
plants happy so that the number of times

671
00:50:22.079 --> 00:50:27.519
you have to control a pastor disease
are reduced. Overall, it's not just

672
00:50:27.599 --> 00:50:30.920
about you and a spray one keeping
plants alive. And as you begin to

673
00:50:30.000 --> 00:50:34.519
learn those principles, you know plants
need sunlight. Some need lots of sun

674
00:50:34.719 --> 00:50:37.159
to do well. Plants need good
soil and good drainage, you know,

675
00:50:37.239 --> 00:50:42.360
the brown stuff that comes before we
put the green stuff the plants in.

676
00:50:43.280 --> 00:50:46.079
There's just a lot of principles and
as we begin to learn about those and

677
00:50:46.119 --> 00:50:51.159
how to make plants happy, then
we have better success. And there's a

678
00:50:51.239 --> 00:50:55.039
quote that somebody talking about I spent
most of my life learning to see things

679
00:50:55.039 --> 00:50:59.440
from a plant's point of view.
And that's a good way to put it.

680
00:51:00.079 --> 00:51:02.480
When you know what plants like and
you give them that, they thrive.

681
00:51:02.960 --> 00:51:07.559
And that's why grandma could grow anything. And she seemed to have a

682
00:51:07.639 --> 00:51:12.360
quote green thumb. Well, grandma
was doing the right things because she understood

683
00:51:12.400 --> 00:51:15.440
how to keep a plant happy,
how to have success with it, probably

684
00:51:15.480 --> 00:51:19.920
through experience as well as learning maybe
from her grandma. But gardening is fun,

685
00:51:19.960 --> 00:51:22.840
so have fun doing it. Don't
be afraid of failing. Listen,

686
00:51:22.960 --> 00:51:29.440
we have rototillers, we have hoe, a garden hoe that we can chop

687
00:51:29.480 --> 00:51:32.960
out a problem of weed or something
mistakes we made with and there's no shame

688
00:51:34.039 --> 00:51:37.880
in that. One of the best
horticultures in the country years ago said uh

689
00:51:37.079 --> 00:51:39.679
to be a great horticultures. She
got to kill a lot of plants,

690
00:51:39.880 --> 00:51:44.719
and so give yourself permission to experiment. Now, do you want to buy

691
00:51:44.760 --> 00:51:46.840
stuff and kill it? Of course
not. But if you go to a

692
00:51:46.880 --> 00:51:52.159
good garden center, one that knows
what they're talking about, okay, and

693
00:51:52.360 --> 00:51:57.639
you get the right plants and you
get their advice, and hopefully listen to

694
00:51:57.719 --> 00:52:00.519
garden line as well, we can
help you have success with that and you

695
00:52:00.639 --> 00:52:05.800
have more fun. But the main
thing is just recognize that, don't worry

696
00:52:05.840 --> 00:52:08.920
about failing. You don't fail unless
you give up, then you fail.

697
00:52:09.320 --> 00:52:14.320
But as long as you're trying,
no shame in it. I've tried a

698
00:52:14.360 --> 00:52:16.719
lot of things. I wonder if
this would work, and it didn't,

699
00:52:16.920 --> 00:52:21.079
and so I learned and I moved
on. And you just get to be

700
00:52:21.079 --> 00:52:25.079
a better and better gardener as you
go. Have fun. That is important.

701
00:52:25.159 --> 00:52:29.440
Don't sweat it. Don't get uptight
about whether or not you're going to

702
00:52:29.519 --> 00:52:32.199
succeed. All right, Well,
there was a little speech for you.

703
00:52:32.599 --> 00:52:37.719
Our phone number is seven one three
two one two k TRH. I didn't

704
00:52:37.719 --> 00:52:39.559
realize I was droning on, but
I don't know thinking out loud there.

705
00:52:39.639 --> 00:52:44.440
Hopefully that was a little bit helpful
for you. Ace Hardware. I was

706
00:52:44.480 --> 00:52:45.920
out at the one at Langham Creek
yesterday. You know, they're all over

707
00:52:45.960 --> 00:52:50.480
Houston. There's forty stores in the
Greater Houston area that are part of the

708
00:52:50.480 --> 00:52:53.800
ACE group, and it's easy to
find things. At ACE Hardware. They

709
00:52:53.960 --> 00:52:59.719
have every fertilizer I talk about on
garden line. If you've got pest diseases

710
00:52:59.880 --> 00:53:04.280
or weeds, they've got a variety
of products to work on that. Again,

711
00:53:04.639 --> 00:53:07.199
at the appearance yesterday, we were, you know, talking about different

712
00:53:07.199 --> 00:53:10.760
problems and looking at the shelf and
here's some of your options for controlling it,

713
00:53:10.760 --> 00:53:13.760
and they had a lot of them. They've got a lot of them.

714
00:53:14.119 --> 00:53:16.960
ACE is a place if you need
fireant control, I'd recommend starting with

715
00:53:17.039 --> 00:53:21.960
bait. That's the number one way
we manage fire ants. If you need

716
00:53:22.000 --> 00:53:25.119
to fertilize, of course, they're
there. If you need mosquito repellents,

717
00:53:25.280 --> 00:53:31.920
if you need BT in the form
of mosquito dunks or mosquito bits, the

718
00:53:31.960 --> 00:53:38.239
little granules, they've got that at
ACE Hardware. Bragging about Microlife fertilizer while

719
00:53:38.280 --> 00:53:42.079
ago. You know, ACE has
a lot of different forms of it,

720
00:53:42.199 --> 00:53:45.760
and you know microlife we think about
the green bag that's the standard lone fertilizer

721
00:53:45.800 --> 00:53:52.000
for microlife, and I get that
that is that's like fertilizer number one from

722
00:53:52.079 --> 00:53:57.360
them. But what about things like
Biomatrix. That's a liquid. It's an

723
00:53:57.400 --> 00:54:02.199
orange label. Biomatrix is seven to
one three fertilizer. I use it in

724
00:54:02.280 --> 00:54:07.400
transplanting all the time. I use
it in watering house plants. You shake

725
00:54:07.440 --> 00:54:09.400
it up, mix a little bit
in water, just follow the label.

726
00:54:09.440 --> 00:54:14.280
Trial easy. And not only does
it have the seven to one three ratio

727
00:54:14.360 --> 00:54:19.360
of nutrients, it also has thirty
nine different strains of beneficial bacteria. It

728
00:54:19.440 --> 00:54:23.920
has its base with things like amino
acids and fish protein and calcium and kelp

729
00:54:23.960 --> 00:54:27.719
and humic acid. It's all that
good stuff in it. It's not going

730
00:54:27.760 --> 00:54:30.880
to burn your plants, but it
will help them grow and it also will

731
00:54:30.920 --> 00:54:36.960
help them get established very very well
microlife. Biomatrix is just one example of

732
00:54:37.000 --> 00:54:39.840
many of the liquid products that are
available for microlife. I want to head

733
00:54:39.880 --> 00:54:44.000
out now to Willis, Texas.
We're going to talk to Sherry. Hello

734
00:54:44.079 --> 00:54:47.599
Sherry, the Hi, skip,
how are you? And well? Thank

735
00:54:47.639 --> 00:54:54.000
you? Yes. We leave every
summer for five weeks mid July to mid

736
00:54:54.039 --> 00:54:59.280
August. We're leaving in two weeks. And last year it was kind of

737
00:54:59.320 --> 00:55:04.400
a disaster because our rainbird system was
not set up will be watering enough,

738
00:55:05.000 --> 00:55:07.960
And so I was wondering what your
advice is on how to set our rain

739
00:55:08.039 --> 00:55:14.719
bird. We have sane arcistine grass
whole meadow, mostly because we have quite

740
00:55:14.760 --> 00:55:20.199
a bit of shade, but not
all stay. And so what would you

741
00:55:20.239 --> 00:55:24.400
advise. I would advise unless your
lawn has some disease issues, like take

742
00:55:24.440 --> 00:55:29.480
our root right where the plants are
struggling a lot, the lawn grass plants

743
00:55:29.480 --> 00:55:32.639
are struggling a lot, I would
water with one it's good right now,

744
00:55:32.760 --> 00:55:36.880
Okay, I would give it one
inch of water, and I would do

745
00:55:36.920 --> 00:55:40.559
it once a week at one time, and in a series, all one

746
00:55:40.639 --> 00:55:45.800
time, in a series of applications. Huh that Now, if you want

747
00:55:45.800 --> 00:55:47.920
to, if it makes you uncomfortable, you can do it twice a week.

748
00:55:47.960 --> 00:55:52.880
But you go from one inch to
half inch each time. So okay,

749
00:55:52.920 --> 00:55:55.440
Well, how do I know how
much is a half inch? Because

750
00:55:55.480 --> 00:56:00.400
I just have duration? That is
a good question. And anything that has

751
00:56:00.440 --> 00:56:04.400
straight sides, like a tuna fish
can, a cat food, can,

752
00:56:04.440 --> 00:56:07.679
a pinto bean can you know?
You can put those around the yard,

753
00:56:07.880 --> 00:56:12.519
or you can get rain gauges like
people use and stick them out there,

754
00:56:12.840 --> 00:56:16.159
turn on your system and record how
long it takes to capture an inch.

755
00:56:16.679 --> 00:56:21.639
In most cases, Sherri, you
can't put an inch of water on without

756
00:56:21.760 --> 00:56:25.840
runoff. So we do something called
cycle and soak. But first you got

757
00:56:25.840 --> 00:56:30.519
to figure out what rate it's putting
it out. So let's say it after

758
00:56:30.920 --> 00:56:32.800
x amount of time you applied to
a third of an inch, Well,

759
00:56:32.800 --> 00:56:37.880
that would tell you three times that
much time is how long the system has

760
00:56:37.920 --> 00:56:42.840
to run in total to apply an
inch. So that's how you determine.

761
00:56:42.920 --> 00:56:46.760
Because everybody's sprinkler heads maybe a little
different in their arrangement and everything. So

762
00:56:46.920 --> 00:56:50.880
that tells you, for your lawn, how long do I have to water

763
00:56:50.960 --> 00:56:52.760
it? And then you measure that
once and then you know you don't have

764
00:56:52.800 --> 00:56:59.039
to keep checking it. I would
do cycle and soak, which means the

765
00:56:59.119 --> 00:57:04.400
irrigation let's say after a third of
an inch of vrogation has started to run

766
00:57:04.440 --> 00:57:07.920
off. I'm just making that up. Then you would have it go off

767
00:57:07.920 --> 00:57:10.679
for about forty five minutes and come
on again to apply another third of an

768
00:57:10.679 --> 00:57:14.360
inch and go off for about forty
five minutes and then come on again to

769
00:57:14.400 --> 00:57:17.239
play the third third of an inch, and that what's the soul volume,

770
00:57:17.360 --> 00:57:22.639
very deep believe, and that creates
a good resilient root system. Because you're

771
00:57:22.639 --> 00:57:28.599
not watering every day and keeping the
top saturated, you're allowing oxygen to come

772
00:57:28.639 --> 00:57:31.639
into the soil. And that once
a week's schedule is a good one because

773
00:57:31.639 --> 00:57:36.320
you mentioned a lot of your lawn
is in the shade now in full sun,

774
00:57:36.400 --> 00:57:39.480
and a lawn that hasn't been weaned
off of frequent watering twice a week

775
00:57:39.519 --> 00:57:45.039
would be the way to go a
half inch each time. Okay, yeah,

776
00:57:45.039 --> 00:57:49.639
because the part of our lawn is
full sun, not a lawn.

777
00:57:49.760 --> 00:57:53.400
Okay, yeah, well that my
recommendation. Listen, I've got to go

778
00:57:53.440 --> 00:57:57.760
to break, but if you want
to hang on, I'll step we can

779
00:57:57.760 --> 00:58:00.000
come back and keep talking about this. We'll be right back, folks.

780
00:58:00.039 --> 00:58:04.280
Good to have you with us.
We were visiting with Sherry up and Willison.

781
00:58:04.320 --> 00:58:07.320
We're going to continue that discussion.
Hey, Sherry, thanks for hanging

782
00:58:07.360 --> 00:58:12.440
on. Hi. Yeah, so
that's very clear, and I understand.

783
00:58:12.519 --> 00:58:16.679
I guess the follow up question is
how long into the fall should this watering

784
00:58:16.800 --> 00:58:22.920
routine go. So if you go
online, if you have a pin or

785
00:58:22.960 --> 00:58:27.800
paper handy there, if you're right
down gardening with skip dot com, that's

786
00:58:27.800 --> 00:58:31.719
my website, Gardening with skip dot
com on there is the lawn care schedule,

787
00:58:31.800 --> 00:58:35.760
and what I've put on the lawn
care schedule, there's a blue bar

788
00:58:35.880 --> 00:58:40.559
going across it in the watering row
and it I have the historical average inches

789
00:58:40.599 --> 00:58:45.800
of water that your lawn is going
to need per week in the absence of

790
00:58:45.880 --> 00:58:50.480
rainfall, for each month of the
year. So you can look and from

791
00:58:50.519 --> 00:58:54.719
from May through August it's one inch, by in September it's three quarters of

792
00:58:54.760 --> 00:58:59.800
an inch. In October it's a
half inch. And so you know,

793
00:58:59.840 --> 00:59:01.280
you can kind of head your bet
there if you need to kind of land

794
00:59:01.320 --> 00:59:06.719
somewhere in the middle, that's fine. But generally we begin to get rain.

795
00:59:07.360 --> 00:59:10.960
Do you happen to have a rain
switch on your system? Sure,

796
00:59:12.800 --> 00:59:16.039
it's supposed to all it's supposed to
alter based on rain, But I don't

797
00:59:16.039 --> 00:59:21.960
know exactly how that works, you
know, I guess it knows when it

798
00:59:22.079 --> 00:59:24.840
has rained. I don't know.
Well, there's usually a little device it's

799
00:59:24.880 --> 00:59:29.920
attached to the eaves of your house
or someplace, and when rain falls in

800
00:59:30.000 --> 00:59:32.320
it, it swells up and it
cuts the system off. So even though

801
00:59:32.360 --> 00:59:37.360
the system the clock is going,
it won't let the valves be notified to

802
00:59:37.480 --> 00:59:42.280
come on. And that's called a
rain saw. We have that, so

803
00:59:42.400 --> 00:59:45.480
I would do. I would set
the schedule according to what I have online

804
00:59:45.519 --> 00:59:51.800
at gardeningwiskip dot com, and then
I would not worry about it because if

805
00:59:51.840 --> 00:59:54.079
it does rain, the switch is
going to take care of that, so

806
00:59:54.119 --> 01:00:00.039
you don't end up wasting water.
All right. Then, I don't remember

807
01:00:00.079 --> 01:00:05.159
what we were doing last year,
but when we got back, it wasn't

808
01:00:05.159 --> 01:00:07.960
good. In fact, this guy
was so dry. This guy was coming

809
01:00:07.000 --> 01:00:12.719
over and watering with a hose,
like dragging it around. Yeah. And

810
01:00:13.039 --> 01:00:17.360
then and he also does all the
fertilizer and we got really bad brown packed.

811
01:00:17.519 --> 01:00:21.000
I mean he got in the fall. It was so bad, and

812
01:00:22.360 --> 01:00:25.280
so I want to avoid that.
Yeah. Good, Well, sounds like

813
01:00:25.320 --> 01:00:29.119
you got a plan. And I
hope you're going to someplace cooler, that's

814
01:00:29.159 --> 01:00:34.960
for sure. Go to New England
every year. Oh my god, thank

815
01:00:34.960 --> 01:00:37.880
you? Do you hear how many
people you just caused to have severe pain

816
01:00:38.360 --> 01:00:44.440
knowing that you're escaping to cool weather. Well we we continue to bake well

817
01:00:45.639 --> 01:00:47.920
well when he spent twenty seven years
up there and raised kids up there and

818
01:00:47.960 --> 01:00:53.159
still have kids and grandkids. Ex
Yeah, no kidding. We'll have a

819
01:00:53.159 --> 01:00:57.039
great trip here. Thanks a lot
for the call. Thank you so much.

820
01:00:57.840 --> 01:01:00.960
Bye bye. We're going to go
now to full and talk to Clint.

821
01:01:00.000 --> 01:01:05.559
Hello, Clint more skip. What
I got about a one hundred and

822
01:01:05.639 --> 01:01:09.000
ninety six feet fence line. The
plane of wax myrtles, okay, and

823
01:01:09.360 --> 01:01:13.119
about two years old. First year
they end too well. The second year

824
01:01:13.159 --> 01:01:16.199
they have blown up and they are
huge. The issue I have now is

825
01:01:16.239 --> 01:01:20.920
you're getting so thick that they're coming
taking up too much my yard. What

826
01:01:21.079 --> 01:01:22.840
is the best time of year to
prune them back? Is it okay?

827
01:01:22.880 --> 01:01:27.199
Now? Is it not too late? Really throughout the year, primarily in

828
01:01:27.239 --> 01:01:31.280
the warm growing season, starting in
spring and going into you know, I

829
01:01:31.320 --> 01:01:37.000
would say probably September or so.
I'd stop pruning them somewhere in there.

830
01:01:37.800 --> 01:01:40.920
But the thing with them you got
to watch for is you need to make

831
01:01:40.960 --> 01:01:47.519
sure all areas of that shrub get
good light. And shrubs notoriously want to

832
01:01:47.559 --> 01:01:51.920
grow top heavy. They want the
top to grow out more than the bottom

833
01:01:51.960 --> 01:01:54.960
does, and the top ends up
shading the bottom. Then and now you

834
01:01:55.079 --> 01:02:00.320
have like an umbrella with foliage on
top where the umbrella is, and it's

835
01:02:00.360 --> 01:02:05.159
all sticks and twigs down below.
So if you continue to keep the top

836
01:02:05.400 --> 01:02:09.440
narrower than the base a little bit, that think of a trapezoid kind of

837
01:02:09.480 --> 01:02:15.719
thing where the top is shorter than
the base and the slides slope out a

838
01:02:15.760 --> 01:02:19.760
little then that maintains that. But
you're going to do a lot more cutting

839
01:02:19.880 --> 01:02:22.599
in the upper third of the shrub
than you are in the rest of the

840
01:02:22.599 --> 01:02:27.920
shrub, because that's where most of
the regrowth, most of the regrowth will

841
01:02:27.920 --> 01:02:30.880
occur. And so I would do
it. I would start it in the

842
01:02:30.920 --> 01:02:36.440
spring, early spring. I would
continue it periodically as needed. The more

843
01:02:36.440 --> 01:02:39.960
often you hedge them, the denture
they'll be perfect. Thank you so much,

844
01:02:40.000 --> 01:02:45.519
All right, man, have fun. I just was remembered just noticing

845
01:02:45.559 --> 01:02:49.920
him clench from Fullsher. One time
I was out at Fullsher and I somewhere

846
01:02:49.920 --> 01:02:54.960
in that countryside around there, I
saw someone who had pruned yo ponds like

847
01:02:55.639 --> 01:03:00.519
little animals, you know, like
there would be a I don't know,

848
01:03:00.000 --> 01:03:05.920
one that looks like a pet or
a dog or a bird or something and

849
01:03:06.079 --> 01:03:07.840
they were Look when I drove by, I thought, well, and now

850
01:03:07.880 --> 01:03:13.320
I know where doctor Seuss lives.
But anyway, it was there were pom

851
01:03:13.400 --> 01:03:15.559
poms, and I mean if they
got creative, and you know, that's

852
01:03:15.639 --> 01:03:17.800
fun. Hey, it's your yard, remember I said, well, ago,

853
01:03:17.880 --> 01:03:22.159
don't worry about failing at gardening.
Just have fun. Well, it's

854
01:03:22.159 --> 01:03:23.840
your yard. Have fun. I
can tell you how to prune a shrub

855
01:03:23.920 --> 01:03:28.159
brunna however you want. I'll tell
you what happens if you don't prune it

856
01:03:28.280 --> 01:03:32.559
right. But the more you create
a sculpture with a shrub, the more

857
01:03:32.599 --> 01:03:37.079
often you have to prune. So
those junipers that are a nice upright spiral,

858
01:03:37.280 --> 01:03:42.360
they're very beautiful, but you got
to maintain that. The shrubs that

859
01:03:42.440 --> 01:03:45.000
have like a little trunk sticking out
and then a pomp pom meatball on it

860
01:03:45.039 --> 01:03:49.519
and then it goes up further in
another pom pom meatball. All that kind

861
01:03:49.559 --> 01:03:53.079
of pruning requires maintenance, and if
you don't, you'll lose the structure and

862
01:03:53.159 --> 01:03:57.800
it's hard to get it back once
you lose it. And top heavy shrubs

863
01:03:57.880 --> 01:04:01.639
is an example of that. Once
you lose the foliage down low it's hard

864
01:04:01.639 --> 01:04:04.199
to get it back. In fact, sometimes you have to just go cut

865
01:04:04.239 --> 01:04:10.840
everything way back and kind of start
almost from knee high or lower to rebuild

866
01:04:10.880 --> 01:04:15.800
you a structure on the shrub.
But the more often you the more particularly

867
01:04:15.920 --> 01:04:25.239
you prune, the more shape creative
designing efforts you make on that, the

868
01:04:25.280 --> 01:04:27.679
more often you're gonna have to do
to maintain it. That's just something to

869
01:04:27.719 --> 01:04:35.119
think about when it comes to pruning
shrubs. Plants respond to branches being pruned

870
01:04:35.679 --> 01:04:41.239
by sending out new growth. You
know, you cut a you cut a

871
01:04:41.280 --> 01:04:44.599
little let's save a little tree that's
size of a broomstick. You cut it

872
01:04:44.599 --> 01:04:49.159
off it head high. It's gonna
send out shoots all up near the end

873
01:04:49.280 --> 01:04:51.599
where you cut it, and they're
going to bunch of shoots. You are

874
01:04:51.599 --> 01:04:57.039
going to replace what was one trunk. And so that is the effect of

875
01:04:57.239 --> 01:05:01.119
hedge pruning on a shrub. You're
just cutting off the ends of branches.

876
01:05:01.159 --> 01:05:05.880
When you do that, you end
up with a proliferation with If you're making

877
01:05:05.960 --> 01:05:10.320
a hedge is a good thing,
that is for sure a good thing.

878
01:05:10.360 --> 01:05:13.440
If it's a great myrtle, stop
it. Don't do it that way.

879
01:05:13.760 --> 01:05:15.119
We'll come back in just a moment
and talk about that a little bit more.

880
01:05:15.320 --> 01:05:18.400
Our phone number seven one three two
one two k t RH. I'll

881
01:05:18.400 --> 01:05:24.360
be right back. There's no escaping
to welcome back to the guard line.

882
01:05:24.400 --> 01:05:28.719
Good to have you with us.
We are gonna talk about a number of

883
01:05:28.760 --> 01:05:33.239
different things. They go going into
break, talking about various aspects of gardening

884
01:05:33.280 --> 01:05:36.639
and hope, hopefully trying to encourage
you to get out there and have fun,

885
01:05:36.880 --> 01:05:41.480
enjoy, don't worry about it,
continue to learn. You know.

886
01:05:41.599 --> 01:05:44.960
One of the things about gardenings that
keeps us young, in addition to mental

887
01:05:44.960 --> 01:05:49.199
health benefits and physical health benefits,
is just the fact that with gardening,

888
01:05:49.599 --> 01:05:54.039
there's always a new season, there's
always a new hope, there's always something

889
01:05:54.119 --> 01:05:58.679
new to try to do. Uh
And with every change of the seasons,

890
01:05:59.079 --> 01:06:01.760
gardening changes, and it keeps us
on our toes and we I enjoy that.

891
01:06:01.880 --> 01:06:05.559
I think that's a wonderful aspect of
it. You know. A while

892
01:06:05.599 --> 01:06:10.719
back, we had those storms that
came through here, and I mean devastrated,

893
01:06:11.079 --> 01:06:15.599
devastated trees and landscapes. We lost
power. Over a million people lost

894
01:06:15.639 --> 01:06:18.519
power during that lift storm. And
that was I think in May before hurricane

895
01:06:18.519 --> 01:06:26.320
season June to November's hurricane season.
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896
01:06:26.440 --> 01:06:31.000
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897
01:06:31.039 --> 01:06:35.119
need something that you know keeps the
food and the fridge and freezer from going

898
01:06:35.159 --> 01:06:38.800
bad? Or do you have a
home work from home business where you need

899
01:06:38.840 --> 01:06:41.760
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time and you need access and you can't

900
01:06:41.760 --> 01:06:45.280
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901
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902
01:06:48.599 --> 01:06:55.440
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903
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904
01:06:59.639 --> 01:07:03.480
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905
01:07:03.480 --> 01:07:06.960
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906
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907
01:07:14.199 --> 01:07:17.480
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908
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909
01:07:20.440 --> 01:07:25.159
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They work with you in every aspect of

910
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911
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912
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913
01:07:40.320 --> 01:07:43.519
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want the best of the best the home

914
01:07:44.000 --> 01:07:48.920
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915
01:07:48.960 --> 01:07:55.679
one three quality. Simple as that
qualitytx dot com or call seven one three

916
01:07:55.760 --> 01:07:59.639
quality. Listen. There's a long
season storm season ahead, and it doesn't

917
01:07:59.639 --> 01:08:01.239
take a heart hurricane to have a
storm. You need to give them a

918
01:08:01.239 --> 01:08:04.639
call and start that process. Find
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919
01:08:04.679 --> 01:08:08.360
how do we go about it?
What are the steps? I think you'll

920
01:08:08.400 --> 01:08:12.239
be very impressed, and by the
time we hit this fall season, hopefully

921
01:08:12.320 --> 01:08:15.439
you'll be ready to go with your
new generator that gives you that protection and

922
01:08:15.560 --> 01:08:21.039
sustains life as we go forward,
whether it's our food that we're protecting,

923
01:08:21.039 --> 01:08:25.960
whether it's our businesses we're running,
or just being able to keep the lights

924
01:08:25.960 --> 01:08:29.000
on. Let's go out to Spring, Texas now and we're going to talk

925
01:08:29.039 --> 01:08:33.079
to rich Richard. Hello, Richard
Aldi, how are you? I'm good,

926
01:08:33.119 --> 01:08:39.399
sir, how are you this morning? I'm running around to play racket

927
01:08:39.399 --> 01:08:42.239
ball, but I had a question
about a tree in my front yard.

928
01:08:42.279 --> 01:08:45.279
It looked like this since I bought
it six years ago. The trunk kind

929
01:08:45.319 --> 01:08:49.840
of splits almost immediately, but it's
almost dead in the middle, but the

930
01:08:49.880 --> 01:08:55.760
rest of the tree looks awesome.
I mean, it's in my front yard.

931
01:08:55.800 --> 01:08:59.000
I live in Legends Ranch up in
Spring, Okay, and I just

932
01:08:59.039 --> 01:09:00.760
seen office of something and I got
to replace or if there's something I can

933
01:09:00.800 --> 01:09:03.880
do to help this tree. Okay. So when you say the trunk splits,

934
01:09:04.039 --> 01:09:10.560
is it like you have twin trunks
coming up beside each other. I'm

935
01:09:10.600 --> 01:09:14.079
talking about it. It's definitely one
tree. It's one tree, but it's

936
01:09:14.479 --> 01:09:16.960
about six inches off the ground.
You kind of get an opening, okay,

937
01:09:17.159 --> 01:09:21.439
that wide about eight inches and then
goes back to the tree or about

938
01:09:21.479 --> 01:09:28.359
four feet. Yeah. So those
narrow, side by side trunks are problem

939
01:09:28.399 --> 01:09:33.239
because as each one gets bigger in
diameter, it's like they're pushing each other

940
01:09:33.359 --> 01:09:39.199
apart, and that's essentially splitting the
tree. That that pressure. You know,

941
01:09:39.279 --> 01:09:43.359
if you if you had super strength
and you grabbed them and pull them

942
01:09:43.359 --> 01:09:46.600
apart, it would split down the
middle. And uh, I can't see

943
01:09:46.640 --> 01:09:50.720
the tree, so I can't give
you the you know, the final word

944
01:09:50.840 --> 01:09:56.159
on it. I mentioned that it's
also black in that area. Yeah.

945
01:09:56.239 --> 01:10:01.319
The reason it's before yeah, yeah, the reason it's black is because the

946
01:10:01.359 --> 01:10:08.159
bark that when you push bark up
against bark, it doesn't heal over and

947
01:10:08.279 --> 01:10:13.239
join together. It just rots inside
there. And typically when a tree splits

948
01:10:13.239 --> 01:10:15.600
and you lose a them, usually
it's because it's a narrow angle, and

949
01:10:15.720 --> 01:10:24.079
usually you see that black decomposing bark
in that narrow v angle that is formed

950
01:10:24.119 --> 01:10:28.119
by those If I were you,
I would contact Martin spoon Moore over at

951
01:10:28.119 --> 01:10:30.119
Affordable Tree and have him take a
look at it. You know, I

952
01:10:30.159 --> 01:10:33.159
can sit here and say that doesn't
sound good, or you know, I

953
01:10:33.479 --> 01:10:36.840
don't know whether to tell you that
a bolt in there would be helpful,

954
01:10:36.960 --> 01:10:40.840
or a cable across there, or
if it's needed, or if one or

955
01:10:40.880 --> 01:10:45.920
the other trunk should just be taken
out. But Martin can come out take

956
01:10:45.960 --> 01:10:48.560
a look at it and give you
a professional assessment on best next steps.

957
01:10:50.000 --> 01:10:55.640
And they called Affordable Trees. Is
that what you Affordable Tree? The the

958
01:10:56.359 --> 01:10:58.079
do you have a pen or pencil? Handy? I and give you the

959
01:10:58.079 --> 01:11:04.479
phone number? Go ahead, Yeah, it's seven one three six twenty six

960
01:11:05.159 --> 01:11:12.439
sixty three and the website is a
f F Tree service dot com. A

961
01:11:12.680 --> 01:11:15.039
f F Tree service dot com.
Tell him that you listen to guard Line,

962
01:11:15.199 --> 01:11:19.079
marg says busy because he does a
good job and that helps you kind

963
01:11:19.079 --> 01:11:21.760
of move to the front of the
line. Uh. And uh, I'm

964
01:11:21.800 --> 01:11:26.720
sure he'll do a good job for
you. Always does great. Can I

965
01:11:26.760 --> 01:11:30.399
get that number one more time?
I got seven one three six two six

966
01:11:31.000 --> 01:11:35.399
six three? Thank you very much, all right, good luck with that.

967
01:11:35.520 --> 01:11:39.479
Yeah, and and do something sooner
rather than later, because you know,

968
01:11:39.520 --> 01:11:43.479
after a storm, it's a little
late, uh to to repair what's

969
01:11:43.560 --> 01:11:45.560
lost. Yeah, you never know
when that's gonna hit. So this is

970
01:11:45.560 --> 01:11:48.920
one I wouldn't put off too long. All right, I'll give him a

971
01:11:48.960 --> 01:11:54.560
call Monday. Thank you, Richard. You take care good to visit with

972
01:11:54.600 --> 01:11:57.399
you. Uh, we're gonna go
now out away. We're gonna go to

973
01:11:57.439 --> 01:12:03.279
Houston, Texas and talk to Alicia
and saying that right, all right,

974
01:12:03.359 --> 01:12:13.960
welcome to Guardline. Thank you.
Hi. My and my question what can

975
01:12:14.039 --> 01:12:23.840
I do for snails? Blook in
yours? They have been all porchside.

976
01:12:25.000 --> 01:12:31.800
I have tried different things, slow
beg and coffee break. Okay, thank

977
01:12:31.840 --> 01:12:35.880
you? Okay, what what you
need to do is you need to get

978
01:12:35.880 --> 01:12:41.960
a product that is a bait for
snails and slugs, and there's more than

979
01:12:42.039 --> 01:12:47.199
one on the market. One example
is, oh gosh, I just went

980
01:12:47.520 --> 01:12:53.960
uh, I just went ba on
the product name. What is slug O

981
01:12:54.319 --> 01:12:58.920
slug O s l u g g
O And it's a bait. It's an

982
01:12:59.000 --> 01:13:03.000
iron based bas They eat it and
they essentially get a terminal case of constipation

983
01:13:04.000 --> 01:13:06.399
and it gets rid of them.
That way. You need to get a

984
01:13:06.399 --> 01:13:11.319
good fresh bait and put it out. You put it in little trays around

985
01:13:11.399 --> 01:13:14.800
the area or sprinkle it around.
You just want them to get plenty of

986
01:13:14.800 --> 01:13:17.359
it, and it works really well. It works kind of naturally actually.

987
01:13:18.000 --> 01:13:23.399
But slug O there's also a slug
O plus that I think has They have

988
01:13:23.479 --> 01:13:28.079
spinosa don it or something in addition
to that so that it controls some things

989
01:13:28.119 --> 01:13:31.920
other than just snails and slugs.
Okay, thank you, we're can I

990
01:13:31.960 --> 01:13:36.159
buy it anywhere you go. Ace
Hardware stores have got it. You're going

991
01:13:36.199 --> 01:13:39.960
to find it at our feed stores. You probably find it most of our

992
01:13:40.000 --> 01:13:43.800
garden centers. But wherever you are
in Houston, just go to Ace Hardware

993
01:13:43.920 --> 01:13:46.640
dot com and you'll get a map
of all the stores, and I know

994
01:13:46.680 --> 01:13:53.199
there'll be one near you. Okay, so much, all right, thanks

995
01:13:53.279 --> 01:13:57.319
lot, appreciate it. Well,
you've been listening to guard Line. We

996
01:13:57.439 --> 01:14:00.520
just put an hour in the books
again. Gonna take a little break here

997
01:14:00.520 --> 01:14:04.119
for the top of the hour and
we will be back with garden Line.

998
01:14:04.199 --> 01:14:08.840
If you would like to call and
get on the board, so you're first

999
01:14:08.920 --> 01:14:13.840
up when you come back. Seven
one three two one two k t r

1000
01:14:14.079 --> 01:14:16.720
H seven one three two one two
k t r H. I just want

1001
01:14:16.720 --> 01:14:19.840
to remind you again, I still
run into people all the time that listen

1002
01:14:19.840 --> 01:14:25.560
to garden Line, but I haven't
seen my schedules. Go to gardening with

1003
01:14:26.119 --> 01:14:30.520
skip dot com and the schedules are
there. There's other information there. I

1004
01:14:30.600 --> 01:14:36.159
keep adding to it all the time, so check it out. Garden Line

1005
01:14:36.239 --> 01:15:05.840
with Skip Rickards trip just watch him
as many the Club of Welcome back to

1006
01:15:05.880 --> 01:15:11.079
Guardline. Good to have you with
us, definitely good to have you with

1007
01:15:11.119 --> 01:15:13.000
us today. We've got a lot
to talk about. We're going to be

1008
01:15:13.039 --> 01:15:15.640
going through a number of different things
today. First of all, I wanted

1009
01:15:15.640 --> 01:15:20.760
to remind you that if you have
not done your summer lawn fertilization, now

1010
01:15:20.760 --> 01:15:25.399
would be a good time to get
it out and put it down, water

1011
01:15:25.479 --> 01:15:29.840
it in and let nature take care
of it from there and nitrophas the silver

1012
01:15:29.920 --> 01:15:34.000
bag that is nitropas superturf. That's
a good, slow released product, excellent.

1013
01:15:34.039 --> 01:15:38.279
It's designed for our soils, it's
designed for our climate, and it's

1014
01:15:38.319 --> 01:15:42.000
designed for our turf grasses that we
have down here. And when you put

1015
01:15:42.000 --> 01:15:45.079
on nitrophs superturf, half of the
nineteen percent nitrogen that's in it, which

1016
01:15:45.119 --> 01:15:49.439
is a lot of nitrogen, half
of that is going to be gradually released

1017
01:15:49.560 --> 01:15:55.920
over time, so you don't have
an over application of nitrogen. You don't

1018
01:15:55.920 --> 01:16:00.319
have nitrogen that is causing a lot
of fast hop growth. So your more,

1019
01:16:00.399 --> 01:16:02.159
your watering more, your root system
is more limited. Did you know

1020
01:16:02.199 --> 01:16:06.920
that when you have excessive nitrogen on
a lawn, it actually limits the root

1021
01:16:08.000 --> 01:16:11.039
growth compared to the top growth,
and then you have a plant that's less

1022
01:16:11.039 --> 01:16:15.399
resilient. So nitrofoss superturf is designed
to avoid that, to spread that feeding

1023
01:16:15.439 --> 01:16:18.159
out over time. And that's handy
too, because then you don't have to

1024
01:16:18.159 --> 01:16:21.760
worry about At this point, I
wouldn't worry about fertilizing again until we get

1025
01:16:21.760 --> 01:16:27.640
into our fall fertilization season. You
know you can find Nitrofoss Superturf at Hiding

1026
01:16:27.680 --> 01:16:30.960
and Feed on Stubnor Airline. You're
going to find Nitrofoss Superturf at D and

1027
01:16:31.000 --> 01:16:35.319
D feed in Tomball, Texas,
as well as Fisher Hardware, both the

1028
01:16:35.319 --> 01:16:40.920
one in South Houston on Southmoor and
the one in Laporte on Broadway Street.

1029
01:16:41.720 --> 01:16:44.800
We're going to head back out to
the phones now and talk to Mike in

1030
01:16:44.880 --> 01:16:48.840
China, Texas. Hello, Mike, Hello, I am having a problem.

1031
01:16:49.279 --> 01:16:55.279
I have a jungle growing in my
yard. It's I think they called

1032
01:16:55.279 --> 01:16:59.439
it giant ragweed. Ah, yes, okay, tell lem me gets about

1033
01:16:59.439 --> 01:17:02.239
the size of your arm. It
can. I mean we have there's a

1034
01:17:02.359 --> 01:17:08.960
I don't know, have to like
seventeen different species of ragweed around the world.

1035
01:17:09.039 --> 01:17:11.079
I believe I may be wrong about
that, but there's a lot.

1036
01:17:11.199 --> 01:17:14.560
Let me put it that way.
And this stuff grows six seven feet tall.

1037
01:17:14.760 --> 01:17:16.800
I live close to railroad tracks and
they don't maintain it, and it

1038
01:17:16.920 --> 01:17:21.159
encroaches into my yard. I'm just
trying to stop it so it throws over

1039
01:17:21.199 --> 01:17:27.560
the fence at you. Huh right, Okay, well, uh, ragweed

1040
01:17:27.600 --> 01:17:30.079
of course really shows up as it
warms up. If we could control it

1041
01:17:30.199 --> 01:17:33.720
much earlier, it's better. Our
options are better. Is this then?

1042
01:17:34.199 --> 01:17:39.279
Would you be spraying it in your
grass? Is that where you're share that

1043
01:17:39.279 --> 01:17:42.840
that? I don't mind the grass
on that side of the dances and a

1044
01:17:42.920 --> 01:17:45.920
ride away So it's okay they use
it for a driveway anyway. Yeah,

1045
01:17:45.000 --> 01:17:48.800
so yeah, I can't put anything
near anyway, so the railroad on twenty

1046
01:17:48.840 --> 01:17:54.159
five feet of it. Yeah,
Well, products containing two four D are

1047
01:17:54.279 --> 01:17:59.640
very effective against ragweeds of all types. The earlier that you get them on

1048
01:17:59.760 --> 01:18:03.560
the utter, and the ragweed needs
to be in a state of growth,

1049
01:18:03.760 --> 01:18:10.439
not like drought stressed on hold for
the product to work its best. So

1050
01:18:10.520 --> 01:18:15.840
you've got a number of different products
that contain two forty There's one group of

1051
01:18:15.880 --> 01:18:20.319
combo products called Trimac that you can
put down and it will, uh,

1052
01:18:20.560 --> 01:18:26.600
it will provide you with you know, the combination including two for dy.

1053
01:18:27.319 --> 01:18:33.720
You can also go to just a
straight two four D type product and depending

1054
01:18:33.720 --> 01:18:36.960
on you know, you're you're not
too far away from Beaumont over there,

1055
01:18:38.039 --> 01:18:41.880
So M and D supply on College
Street and Beaumont is going to have the

1056
01:18:42.520 --> 01:18:45.159
parking lot right now, waiting for
an open All right, we'll bang on

1057
01:18:45.199 --> 01:18:47.319
the doors. I'm for crying out
loud. I got problems at home.

1058
01:18:47.359 --> 01:18:51.199
I gotta I don't have time to
sit here. Now that's funny. Yeah,

1059
01:18:51.199 --> 01:18:55.000
well, good for you, because
that's a good place to get M

1060
01:18:55.000 --> 01:18:58.560
and d's. We have a scene
here in Beaumont and M and D hardware.

1061
01:18:58.560 --> 01:19:00.720
If you can't buy it here,
you can't find it. All right,

1062
01:19:00.760 --> 01:19:05.880
there you go. I believe that
well, so a two fourty type

1063
01:19:05.880 --> 01:19:10.239
product would be probably your best bet. There are other broad leaf we controls

1064
01:19:10.239 --> 01:19:14.359
out there. I just don't know
off the top of my head that they're

1065
01:19:14.439 --> 01:19:18.520
going to be effective against ragweed.
They may well be, but two forty

1066
01:19:18.640 --> 01:19:23.600
is what one I know that works
sure. I don't guess called a bind

1067
01:19:23.680 --> 01:19:26.079
or something to make it stick to
the leaves or spray at the roots or

1068
01:19:27.520 --> 01:19:30.319
no, just spray it on the
foliage. That's the most important part.

1069
01:19:30.359 --> 01:19:33.079
To do it early in the morning, when it's cool. You can get

1070
01:19:33.119 --> 01:19:38.960
a product a Turbo, which is
a spread spreader sticker. There are other

1071
01:19:39.039 --> 01:19:44.279
brands of spreader sticker, and they
make sure that the droplets adhere to the

1072
01:19:44.359 --> 01:19:48.720
leaf, that they spread out so
that the most coverage of foliage possible is

1073
01:19:48.760 --> 01:19:55.399
what you achieved with your spray.
Okay, all right, I appreciate your

1074
01:19:55.439 --> 01:19:58.479
ill. Yeah, do it in
the morning when it's also still too by

1075
01:19:58.479 --> 01:20:03.199
the way, because and two forty
drifts any broad leaf plant your landscape is

1076
01:20:03.199 --> 01:20:09.239
in trouble, so don't don't allow
it. I would not pump my sprayer

1077
01:20:09.319 --> 01:20:12.479
up too much because when you create
a lot of pressure, you create a

1078
01:20:12.520 --> 01:20:15.720
fog that drifts across the yard.
And so yeah, be careful with that.

1079
01:20:16.760 --> 01:20:26.640
There's nothing back there but chinaberry trees
and that stuff. So two forty

1080
01:20:26.720 --> 01:20:29.760
maybe the best thing that could happen
to it. I can do it.

1081
01:20:30.119 --> 01:20:33.359
Yeah, that's just kidding. Yeah, all right, thanks, appreciators are

1082
01:20:33.520 --> 01:20:39.399
all Yeah, growing up, I
can tell you that chinaberry trees, with

1083
01:20:39.439 --> 01:20:45.119
their brittle limbs, are responsible for
more broken collar bones on young boys than

1084
01:20:45.159 --> 01:20:50.880
any other plant on the planet.
Probably. Seriously, they have their advantages.

1085
01:20:50.920 --> 01:20:55.039
I know that I get the beauty
of them, having grown up and

1086
01:20:55.439 --> 01:20:58.199
been a young boy at once.
In fact, some people would contend that

1087
01:20:58.279 --> 01:21:03.199
I'm still growing up. I can
tell you that if you've got a sling

1088
01:21:03.239 --> 01:21:09.720
shot and a China berry tree.
You can hold off the whole neighborhood until

1089
01:21:09.720 --> 01:21:15.000
the berriers run out. Do that
with this you wish. Let's go to

1090
01:21:15.039 --> 01:21:19.079
Houston talk to Georgietta. Hello,
George Eda, Hello, good morning.

1091
01:21:19.640 --> 01:21:25.640
I'm calling with reference to a fifty
year old oak tree that I have in

1092
01:21:25.680 --> 01:21:30.520
my yard here in Houston area.
And it is a big tree. It

1093
01:21:30.560 --> 01:21:34.199
has a lot of shade to it. But I live out of town and

1094
01:21:34.239 --> 01:21:41.279
I come here to take care of
it at their wind's house, and it

1095
01:21:41.520 --> 01:21:47.920
is losing its bark in places.
It's kind of spotty, and I'm having

1096
01:21:47.960 --> 01:21:54.680
someone come out and cut the limbs
and things back because it's very shaded under

1097
01:21:54.720 --> 01:21:58.960
it, and some of the limbs
are so big they're touching the house.

1098
01:21:59.119 --> 01:22:01.560
Okay. Is the bark falling off
the trunk or the main branches too?

1099
01:22:02.399 --> 01:22:10.159
It looks like the trunk that's not
real bad. But there's one piece that's

1100
01:22:10.560 --> 01:22:14.279
a little smaller than my hand.
But it's coming off in little splotches.

1101
01:22:14.479 --> 01:22:17.720
Okay, all right? And uh
so is it coming off mostly on one

1102
01:22:17.840 --> 01:22:21.199
side of the tree or is it
all around your seeing these splotches, it

1103
01:22:21.199 --> 01:22:25.680
looks like on one side. Okay, all right? Now, last question.

1104
01:22:25.720 --> 01:22:28.760
Do you know if it's a north
or the south or south east west

1105
01:22:28.800 --> 01:22:31.840
side of the tree? Can you
tell? And looking at it, it's

1106
01:22:31.920 --> 01:22:35.680
more toward the west side. But
it's the tree is shades its trunk so

1107
01:22:35.840 --> 01:22:40.000
much, you know. Okay,
I don't know how much sunny gets up

1108
01:22:40.039 --> 01:22:42.960
under there. All right. Well, well George and I've got a break

1109
01:22:43.000 --> 01:22:45.399
right now. I'm gonna have to
take a hang on. When we come

1110
01:22:45.399 --> 01:22:46.920
back, we're gonna we're gonna talk
about what to do. All right,

1111
01:22:46.960 --> 01:22:50.520
Thanks a lot, appreciate that our
phone number seven one three two one two

1112
01:22:50.760 --> 01:22:54.479
kat r h. I'll be welcome
back. Good to have you back with

1113
01:22:54.560 --> 01:22:58.840
us today on a lovely Sunday morning. Well you look outside, that is

1114
01:22:59.319 --> 01:23:00.920
that's what we're looking looking for a
good day to be out and about.

1115
01:23:01.000 --> 01:23:04.600
Got a real still not a lot
of breeze blowing right now, but don't

1116
01:23:04.600 --> 01:23:08.560
pick up a little bit as the
weather warms up. Today. We're going

1117
01:23:08.640 --> 01:23:13.920
to go back to Georgetta in Houston
and Georgeta we were you were talking.

1118
01:23:14.359 --> 01:23:18.359
Go ahead and continue on with where
you were, please. Well, I

1119
01:23:19.039 --> 01:23:23.399
just didn't know if I mean there
was something I could brave the tree with.

1120
01:23:23.640 --> 01:23:28.159
I have the film and coming out
to cut back the tree, and

1121
01:23:28.239 --> 01:23:31.439
he said he would look up in
the breech of the tree because the limbs

1122
01:23:31.439 --> 01:23:35.239
are so big to see if it
was holding water or something like that.

1123
01:23:36.720 --> 01:23:42.920
I know last year the lit the
drafts and everything. I watered, but

1124
01:23:43.960 --> 01:23:46.640
my sprinkler didn't get up in that
area. Yeah, but I did try

1125
01:23:46.680 --> 01:23:54.760
to water the tree because of the
bad conditions. Well, yeah, there's

1126
01:23:54.800 --> 01:23:58.880
different things, Georgetta that can cause
bark to pop off like that. Typically

1127
01:24:00.239 --> 01:24:06.039
we look backwards at past hard freeze
cold times where we can do some damage

1128
01:24:06.039 --> 01:24:12.479
to the trunk. There is physical
damage that can occur from it being bumped

1129
01:24:12.960 --> 01:24:17.560
by something and the bark gets kind
of crushed and starts to die back in

1130
01:24:17.600 --> 01:24:23.920
an area. There's a lot of
different things that even some more unusual,

1131
01:24:23.960 --> 01:24:27.600
like a lightning strike or whatever.
I think in this case, if it's

1132
01:24:27.720 --> 01:24:30.359
just patches here and there, I
wouldn't worry about it a lot. I

1133
01:24:30.359 --> 01:24:33.880
would clean out all the dead bark
in that area to expose the inner wood,

1134
01:24:34.640 --> 01:24:38.800
because what's going to happen is the
tree is going to start to create

1135
01:24:38.880 --> 01:24:44.039
callous from the sides of those areas
that close back over like a little lava

1136
01:24:44.079 --> 01:24:47.600
flow coming in from all sides to
close it back over. So what's most

1137
01:24:47.600 --> 01:24:51.399
important is keeping the tree in good
health so that it is able to continue

1138
01:24:51.399 --> 01:24:58.239
to callous and close at as fast
a rate as possible. As trees get

1139
01:24:58.279 --> 01:25:01.520
older, they tend to like us, I guess, they tend to not

1140
01:25:01.640 --> 01:25:05.720
be as resilient. They don't bounce
back as fast as when we were younger,

1141
01:25:05.760 --> 01:25:09.840
you know, and trees can be
that way. So making sure that

1142
01:25:09.880 --> 01:25:15.119
it has adequate water during extended heat
and drought conditions, that would be one

1143
01:25:15.119 --> 01:25:18.760
thing that's in your control other than
just cleaning out the dead bark to open

1144
01:25:18.800 --> 01:25:25.439
that area up. Okay, Well, I planted that tree when I could

1145
01:25:25.439 --> 01:25:30.439
put my fingers around it, and
now I can't even put my arms around

1146
01:25:30.520 --> 01:25:35.960
it. The special tree to me, I would like to keep it healthy,

1147
01:25:36.119 --> 01:25:40.319
no kidding, no kidding. How
many areas do you think the bark

1148
01:25:40.439 --> 01:25:43.520
is coming off like that? You
said the size of your hand or something.

1149
01:25:43.560 --> 01:25:47.760
I believe high towards the breach is
about the size of my hand.

1150
01:25:47.840 --> 01:25:56.640
The other pieces probably are about maybe
two inches by maybe two by two is

1151
01:25:57.199 --> 01:26:00.800
a max. Okay, but it's
kind of popped in areas where it is

1152
01:26:00.960 --> 01:26:05.840
Are you seeing any sawdust hung up
in the bark? No, but there

1153
01:26:05.880 --> 01:26:10.359
is a pine tree and a house
across the street. Two of them are

1154
01:26:10.399 --> 01:26:13.960
dead, and I know pine barked
beetles will do that right, and they

1155
01:26:14.000 --> 01:26:16.399
won't get in your oak though.
That's that's good news for your tree.

1156
01:26:17.199 --> 01:26:21.239
So yeah, I would Is it
bleeding? Is it leaking? Sap?

1157
01:26:21.359 --> 01:26:25.840
Is it wet or white foam coming
out? Okay? I think you know

1158
01:26:25.880 --> 01:26:28.560
what I just said is pretty much. I believe your tree is okay.

1159
01:26:28.640 --> 01:26:30.039
I don't know what initially did.
It could have been a lot of things,

1160
01:26:30.439 --> 01:26:35.119
but bottom line is the tree in
decent health, which it sounds like

1161
01:26:35.159 --> 01:26:41.560
yours is, will heal that over
or close that over rather with callous tissue.

1162
01:26:41.600 --> 01:26:44.399
So you just got to get that
to happen as soon as possible,

1163
01:26:44.479 --> 01:26:46.960
so the inner wood is not exposed
any longer than it has to be.

1164
01:26:48.439 --> 01:26:53.720
So you're suggesting to kind of pick
off the loose bark that's around, it's

1165
01:26:53.760 --> 01:27:00.159
already right as the damage looking is. Yeah, don't worry Georgia a whole

1166
01:27:00.159 --> 01:27:02.960
lot about trying to get all this
out. It's just that when you have

1167
01:27:03.000 --> 01:27:09.239
a big piece of dead bark sitting
over interior wood that holds moisture in so

1168
01:27:09.279 --> 01:27:13.319
the decay rate is increased in there. It gives bugs a place to hide

1169
01:27:13.359 --> 01:27:15.760
and whatnot. So we like to
clear that out. Anything that's dead and

1170
01:27:15.800 --> 01:27:19.479
loose. Just pull it off and
the tree will take it from there.

1171
01:27:21.000 --> 01:27:24.800
Okay, well, thank you so
much. I'll take that in the heart

1172
01:27:24.960 --> 01:27:29.399
and I'll keep an eye on the
tree. All right, good, good,

1173
01:27:29.479 --> 01:27:32.079
Thanks for the calle George, take
care, bye bye. Our phone

1174
01:27:32.159 --> 01:27:36.359
number is seven one three two one
two k t R eight seven one three

1175
01:27:36.399 --> 01:27:41.359
two and two k t RH.
On July, for those of you who

1176
01:27:41.359 --> 01:27:46.159
are history officionados, on July first, in the year nineteen o seven,

1177
01:27:46.319 --> 01:27:53.239
here in Houston, Texas, something
happened that has changed Houston for the better

1178
01:27:53.399 --> 01:27:58.199
and many many ways. And what
that is is Star of Hope Mission,

1179
01:27:58.960 --> 01:28:02.399
a christ centered commune to hear in
Houston that's been helping the homeless now for

1180
01:28:02.479 --> 01:28:09.800
one hundred and seventeen years as of
Monday tomorrow, one hundred and seventeen years

1181
01:28:09.800 --> 01:28:15.800
in the Houston community, changing lives, turning hopelessness into hope, changing the

1182
01:28:15.880 --> 01:28:20.600
lives of not only into our families, but specifically too, changing the lives

1183
01:28:20.600 --> 01:28:27.319
of kids who are growing up in
situations that are just really tough, that

1184
01:28:27.560 --> 01:28:30.600
don't give them a great opportunity for
a future. You know, your small

1185
01:28:30.600 --> 01:28:34.159
donations to Star Hope make a difference, like two dollars and eighty cents pace

1186
01:28:34.239 --> 01:28:38.119
for a meal, and Star Hope
serves about six thousand meals a week.

1187
01:28:38.920 --> 01:28:44.159
They don't just feed people, They
house people in one of several different centers.

1188
01:28:44.239 --> 01:28:48.439
They train people how to get and
hold a job. They provide the

1189
01:28:48.520 --> 01:28:55.039
skills necessary for various kinds of jobs. They help deal with substance abuse.

1190
01:28:55.319 --> 01:28:59.960
To get that monkey off your back
if you will, where you actually can

1191
01:29:00.199 --> 01:29:02.520
get out there and create a future
and hope for you and your children.

1192
01:29:02.760 --> 01:29:08.159
Star of Hope has been around now
one hundred and seventeen years. Happy birthday,

1193
01:29:08.199 --> 01:29:11.399
Star of Hope. By the way, I would urge you to consider

1194
01:29:11.439 --> 01:29:15.039
supporting Star of Hope. My wife
and I do. It's because we believe

1195
01:29:15.079 --> 01:29:17.439
in it, and I know when
a dollar is given to Star Hope,

1196
01:29:17.479 --> 01:29:23.039
it is a dollar that would be
very well spent and will not only change

1197
01:29:23.039 --> 01:29:28.880
the lives of those individuals that receive
it, but change our greater Houston community

1198
01:29:29.119 --> 01:29:34.399
as well, because every time someone's
life that's heading in a bad direction gets

1199
01:29:34.439 --> 01:29:39.920
turned around into a good direction.
It benefits us all as a community as

1200
01:29:39.960 --> 01:29:43.520
well. Put your compassion to work. Will you put your compassion to work

1201
01:29:43.520 --> 01:29:46.960
with me? Starofhope Mission dot org. What a great way to do it.

1202
01:29:47.079 --> 01:29:54.760
And again, hey folks, congratulations
and happy one hundred and seventeenth anniversary.

1203
01:29:55.239 --> 01:30:00.159
Appreciate that I visited there. I've
talked with them. I've been of

1204
01:30:00.199 --> 01:30:03.640
the programming where people got up and
talked about what Star of Hope has meant

1205
01:30:03.680 --> 01:30:08.880
to their life. And oh,
my gosh, the stories I'm telling you,

1206
01:30:09.079 --> 01:30:12.079
it's what do they say, it's
made for TV stuff. It's the

1207
01:30:12.199 --> 01:30:18.479
kind of thing that would be gripping
and a heartfelt, feel good, exciting,

1208
01:30:18.960 --> 01:30:27.199
wonderful movie to have those kinds of
stories made into movies. Because starhar

1209
01:30:27.239 --> 01:30:31.560
makes a difference, They really do. Southwest Fertilizer is on the corner of

1210
01:30:31.600 --> 01:30:34.319
Bisonett and Renwick, and you guys
have heard me talk about them before.

1211
01:30:35.039 --> 01:30:40.760
Southwest is the place where you go
to get anything you need to manage pests,

1212
01:30:40.800 --> 01:30:45.560
to manage diseases, to manage insects, to manage weeds, anything you

1213
01:30:45.640 --> 01:30:49.800
need for fertilizing your lawn. Every
fertilizer I talk about on Guardline is at

1214
01:30:50.319 --> 01:30:58.319
Southwest Fertilizer. Do you need products
like from Medina or from Microlife, or

1215
01:30:58.319 --> 01:31:01.680
from nitrofoss or from Nelson. Do
you need funge of sizes like copperfunt based

1216
01:31:01.680 --> 01:31:05.159
funge sides. Or you an organic
gardener and you want all of the above,

1217
01:31:05.279 --> 01:31:10.920
but you want it in an organic
form. Southwest Fertilizer has it.

1218
01:31:11.720 --> 01:31:16.119
Bob prides himself and whatever's new coming
out, he's on top of it.

1219
01:31:16.399 --> 01:31:20.399
And whatever works that has been out
for a while, he's gonna keep it

1220
01:31:20.439 --> 01:31:24.279
in stock. Do you need a
fertilizer spreader? Do you need a little

1221
01:31:24.520 --> 01:31:27.760
hand carried worthybird to put out fire? Amt Bait? Do you need the

1222
01:31:27.760 --> 01:31:30.880
fire at bait? Do you need
tools? Eighty foot wall of tools?

1223
01:31:30.920 --> 01:31:32.760
Do you see what I'm saying.
It's just everything you need is there.

1224
01:31:33.119 --> 01:31:36.760
If you can't find it as Southwest
Fertilizer, you don't need it, because

1225
01:31:36.800 --> 01:31:42.560
if you need it, they will
carry it very responsive and staying up the

1226
01:31:42.640 --> 01:31:45.640
date. It's easy to get in
and out corner abys Ut and Runwick.

1227
01:31:45.880 --> 01:31:48.039
You can go to the website Southwest
Fertilizer dot com. If you like.

1228
01:31:48.079 --> 01:31:50.800
They're open today, by the way, you need to go buy this afternoon

1229
01:31:50.840 --> 01:31:55.199
and get you some products. They're
ready to go, and their staff knows

1230
01:31:55.239 --> 01:31:57.920
what they're talking about. You can
take them a picture, you can take

1231
01:31:57.920 --> 01:32:00.159
them a sample, bring it in
and say, what is this? How

1232
01:32:00.159 --> 01:32:02.520
do I get rid of it?
Do I need to even be worried about

1233
01:32:02.560 --> 01:32:06.000
it? And they can answer those
questions and make sure you have success.

1234
01:32:06.359 --> 01:32:11.640
That's what they're there for, is
to help you have also a more bountiful

1235
01:32:11.640 --> 01:32:19.239
garden and a more beautiful landscape.
Always like going in to Southwest Fertilizer this

1236
01:32:19.439 --> 01:32:25.199
week, getting back to my landscape
and getting some things done. I've got

1237
01:32:25.199 --> 01:32:27.680
some more planting to do, you
know, I keep telling you just because

1238
01:32:27.720 --> 01:32:32.239
it's summer doesn't mean we have to
quit planning at all. We absolutely can

1239
01:32:32.319 --> 01:32:36.399
keep going. And I've got a
number of things that I'm still setting out

1240
01:32:36.479 --> 01:32:39.760
in the landscape. I've got a
rosemary, by the way, that I'm

1241
01:32:39.800 --> 01:32:42.920
putting in a big old container,
beautiful container, by the way, glaze

1242
01:32:42.920 --> 01:32:49.439
pottery. Rosemary is one of the
most drought resistant shrubs you can plant.

1243
01:32:49.760 --> 01:32:53.119
Yeah, I probably don't think of
it that way, but that's what it

1244
01:32:53.239 --> 01:32:57.520
is the trailing types can spill over
a wall or over the sides of a

1245
01:32:57.560 --> 01:33:00.800
container, or along the ground.
They bloom by than the upright types.

1246
01:33:00.880 --> 01:33:06.840
Both types will bloom. The trailing
types will provide that extra bloom which benefits

1247
01:33:06.880 --> 01:33:11.720
pollinators, but the upright types that's
kind of putting in the container. Lots

1248
01:33:11.720 --> 01:33:18.439
of good varieties out there, lots
of good varieties of rosemary. I enjoy

1249
01:33:18.479 --> 01:33:23.800
it because we use it for cooking. There's one culture bar called barbecue skewers,

1250
01:33:23.840 --> 01:33:27.800
and it's called it's called that because
it has long, straight, little

1251
01:33:28.119 --> 01:33:31.279
thin woody shoots and you just strip
the leaves off and slide your art don't

1252
01:33:31.279 --> 01:33:36.439
strip them off, and slide to
your kebabs onto the rosemary stick. Put

1253
01:33:36.479 --> 01:33:41.760
it on the grill. What a
cool thing, And grill your shish kebabs

1254
01:33:41.800 --> 01:33:45.199
of meats and vegetables or whatever you
want to put on them. And that's

1255
01:33:45.239 --> 01:33:48.319
barbecue skewers. Others can be used
in the same way. But that's one

1256
01:33:48.359 --> 01:33:51.560
of the things I'm doing is potting
that up with a good quality potting soil,

1257
01:33:53.439 --> 01:33:56.319
and I'm going to be sitting it
in a spot where there's a clay

1258
01:33:56.359 --> 01:33:59.760
soil. Now, if you have
a pot. My pot just has one

1259
01:33:59.800 --> 01:34:02.680
hole in the very bottom of it. So if you set that on top

1260
01:34:02.720 --> 01:34:08.000
of a clay soil as the organic
matter underneath it, maybe it's grass or

1261
01:34:08.039 --> 01:34:14.039
something decomposes away. Now that clay
on the bottom essentially is plugging the whole

1262
01:34:14.399 --> 01:34:16.279
of your drainage, and so it's
important to get it up. I'm putting

1263
01:34:16.319 --> 01:34:21.960
mine up on a little bit of
a two three raised brick type masonry structures

1264
01:34:23.000 --> 01:34:26.000
that we'll keep it up off the
ground so it drains well. Well,

1265
01:34:26.079 --> 01:34:30.119
let's take a break here as time
for the news seven one three two ktrh.

1266
01:34:30.239 --> 01:34:36.399
I'll be right back guardline. We're
ready to go again here with your

1267
01:34:36.640 --> 01:34:41.920
gardening questions. I want to go
straight out to let's see, we're going

1268
01:34:41.960 --> 01:34:45.000
to head out to Katie. If
I can find the button here, there

1269
01:34:45.079 --> 01:34:47.439
we go. I'm gonna talk to
Ralph. Hello, Ralph, good morning,

1270
01:34:48.439 --> 01:34:55.359
Hey, good morning. Skip.
Have a very quick question. It's

1271
01:34:55.439 --> 01:35:00.359
time I guess to treat or pre
treat for chinch bugs and sod web worms.

1272
01:35:01.479 --> 01:35:06.960
I have both products, the nitro
foss bug out and the cynara I

1273
01:35:08.000 --> 01:35:11.800
can't pronounce it, sin arm.
Do you put do you put them?

1274
01:35:11.880 --> 01:35:16.399
Down together no or after one another, or how do you know? The

1275
01:35:17.640 --> 01:35:20.399
bugout max is a granule. You
put it down, you get it wet,

1276
01:35:20.479 --> 01:35:26.479
and that the chemicals on it,
the chemical on it synthetic perithro.

1277
01:35:26.520 --> 01:35:30.600
It soaks out into the thatch area
and so pests that are crawling through there

1278
01:35:30.600 --> 01:35:32.319
are going to be exposed to it. It's persistent, it lasts a good

1279
01:35:32.359 --> 01:35:36.239
while, and so we say put
it out now and you don't have to

1280
01:35:36.239 --> 01:35:41.000
worry about it again through this summer
season. It gives you continue to care.

1281
01:35:41.760 --> 01:35:45.359
The cyanar max is typically something you
mix up in a spryer or attached

1282
01:35:45.399 --> 01:35:48.079
to the end of a host,
depending on how you buy it. And

1283
01:35:48.520 --> 01:35:53.159
I bought it, so you attach. Yeah, So you just go out

1284
01:35:53.199 --> 01:35:57.560
there and you just essentially wet your
grass with it and it coats the grass,

1285
01:35:57.800 --> 01:36:00.119
but then it also soaks down around
the runner and in the thatch as

1286
01:36:00.159 --> 01:36:05.000
well. Probably for the chinchbugs,
either one is going to do it or

1287
01:36:05.000 --> 01:36:09.640
really not. Probably definitely either one
will do a really good job. If

1288
01:36:09.640 --> 01:36:14.279
you're going after just the sod webworms, the bugout max will work on them,

1289
01:36:14.439 --> 01:36:16.680
but because they come up at night
and feed on the grass blades,

1290
01:36:17.119 --> 01:36:21.680
the larva. New that having that
if you used the cinara, you could

1291
01:36:21.800 --> 01:36:27.840
then essentially be spraying those the foliage
of your grass plant. Uh and and

1292
01:36:27.960 --> 01:36:31.039
it probably would work a little bit
better on that particular pest. But either

1293
01:36:31.079 --> 01:36:36.960
way to go, we we expect
coverage as those sod webworm larva crawl back

1294
01:36:38.039 --> 01:36:40.920
down in the thatch. If you've
done a good job with the bugout max

1295
01:36:41.079 --> 01:36:45.800
that you're probably good to go there. So either way you're okay. Okay,

1296
01:36:45.840 --> 01:36:47.760
but you don't have to use both, is what you're saying. You

1297
01:36:47.800 --> 01:36:50.840
do it both? No, No, they are both very effective if you

1298
01:36:50.880 --> 01:36:55.680
get both their synthetic perihids. If
you get either one out into the ground,

1299
01:36:55.720 --> 01:37:00.680
it's gonna kill insects. Okay,
great, thanks so much. All

1300
01:37:00.760 --> 01:37:03.439
right, you take care of Thanks
for the car Ralph appreciate that a lot.

1301
01:37:03.560 --> 01:37:06.760
Let's go to Dickinson and talk to
Annie. Hello, Annie, a

1302
01:37:06.880 --> 01:37:14.399
niece. I'm sorry, Yes,
do you have me? I do?

1303
01:37:14.479 --> 01:37:19.640
I do? Okay? Hi?
Uh? I called you like a month

1304
01:37:19.680 --> 01:37:27.479
ago. I guess about by a
bird paradise and just simply will not bloom.

1305
01:37:27.560 --> 01:37:33.600
Well it's still not blooming, but
I'm continuing with my color star feedings.

1306
01:37:33.880 --> 01:37:40.520
Okay, and it just keeps laying
there. You know what, how's

1307
01:37:40.560 --> 01:37:44.199
the plant growth? What are the
Is there a lot of new foliage coming

1308
01:37:44.239 --> 01:37:46.760
on? Yeah, it's gotten gets
you folage. So it's a beautiful,

1309
01:37:46.800 --> 01:37:51.520
healthy plant. Okay, it just
won't bloom. Okay. So I was

1310
01:37:51.600 --> 01:38:00.000
gonna ask you about magnesium. H
Now, I've used that before on crazy

1311
01:38:00.119 --> 01:38:04.000
myrtle that was stubborn about blooming because
of the weather, and it worked great.

1312
01:38:04.960 --> 01:38:08.640
Can I use that on a bird
of paradise? Well you can,

1313
01:38:08.800 --> 01:38:13.439
but the question is do you need
it. Magnesium is a positively charged element,

1314
01:38:14.039 --> 01:38:19.319
and whenever we overdo a positively the
charge element, for example, it

1315
01:38:19.359 --> 01:38:25.279
can affect the uptake of other positive
belief charged, crowding it out in the

1316
01:38:25.319 --> 01:38:27.960
soil, if you will, in
a sense. Yeah. Well what I'm

1317
01:38:28.000 --> 01:38:30.159
giving it now is not doing the
job. And it's good stuff. Yeah

1318
01:38:31.039 --> 01:38:34.760
yeah, color show is awesome.
You can you get good foliage? Right?

1319
01:38:35.079 --> 01:38:39.439
I mean good? Yeah, beautiful, beautiful. Yeah that's the sun.

1320
01:38:39.680 --> 01:38:43.239
Lots of sun. Yeah, I
got lots of sun. Well,

1321
01:38:43.319 --> 01:38:45.359
I tell you, they say they
do better when they get a little crowded.

1322
01:38:46.079 --> 01:38:49.800
You can't crowd them overnight, but
that is supposed to help a little

1323
01:38:49.800 --> 01:38:53.399
bit. It sounds to me like
you're doing what you should do. I'm

1324
01:38:53.439 --> 01:38:57.000
sitting here trying to think what else
might be in your power to get this

1325
01:38:57.159 --> 01:39:00.359
darn thing to bloom other than just
getting a little crowded. Let me think

1326
01:39:00.399 --> 01:39:03.119
on it a little bit. I
don't have an answer right now of another

1327
01:39:03.239 --> 01:39:08.119
thing. You're doing the things I
would suggest. So if I come up

1328
01:39:08.119 --> 01:39:12.479
with another thing, I'll talk about
it on the air. But thank you,

1329
01:39:12.640 --> 01:39:15.560
thank you very much. Adequate moisture, not too much, and then

1330
01:39:15.600 --> 01:39:20.840
a good quality nutrient. I just
would maybe watch that if every time you

1331
01:39:20.880 --> 01:39:26.399
fertilize, your applying a little bit
of nitrogen, and the nitrogen is volatile,

1332
01:39:26.439 --> 01:39:29.319
and maybe back off a little bit
now and give it some time,

1333
01:39:29.920 --> 01:39:33.760
because sometimes when we push with nitrogen, we end up getting vegetative growth at

1334
01:39:33.760 --> 01:39:40.520
the expense of bloom production. And
and so you try, just you fertilized

1335
01:39:40.600 --> 01:39:44.760
quite a bit, You're good.
The nitrogen will tend to cycle out and

1336
01:39:44.800 --> 01:39:47.920
go away. And see if that's
settling it down a little bit doesn't help.

1337
01:39:48.000 --> 01:39:53.760
That would be my next suggestion for
it. Okay, I'll seed it

1338
01:39:55.039 --> 01:39:59.359
like every two months instead of once
a month. Oh yeah, yeah,

1339
01:40:00.000 --> 01:40:02.000
that would be a good idea.
Let's see that if that works. Okay,

1340
01:40:02.119 --> 01:40:05.600
all right, okay, well,
thank you very much. All right,

1341
01:40:05.640 --> 01:40:11.640
thank you. I appreciate the call
very much. Talking about different kinds

1342
01:40:11.680 --> 01:40:15.319
of feeding and fertilizing and stuff.
You know. The color Star is an

1343
01:40:15.319 --> 01:40:18.920
excellent product by Nelson by the way, Nelson Plant Food. Nelson has a

1344
01:40:19.000 --> 01:40:23.119
number of different lines. They've got
the color Star line, but they also

1345
01:40:23.159 --> 01:40:27.359
have the nutri Star line, and
the nutri Star would be individual canisters of

1346
01:40:28.000 --> 01:40:30.640
specific types of plant food. For
example, there's one for palms and ornamental

1347
01:40:30.640 --> 01:40:35.880
grasses. There's another one for roses. Outstanding for roses, the Bougainvillia.

1348
01:40:36.359 --> 01:40:43.119
Bougain Villa is a neutral star type
that works well on any kind of a

1349
01:40:43.199 --> 01:40:45.800
flowering vine. So if you've got
a flowering vine, the Carolina jessamine,

1350
01:40:46.399 --> 01:40:49.680
you know, butterfly vine, honeysuff, or anything like that, it'll work

1351
01:40:49.720 --> 01:40:54.119
really well for those. They have
the create Myrtle line, which is good

1352
01:40:54.119 --> 01:40:57.600
for any blooming tree, and of
course the Slow and Easy, the super

1353
01:40:57.640 --> 01:41:01.399
slow release turf Star line that will
feed your lawn from now up until the

1354
01:41:01.439 --> 01:41:06.119
fall when it's time to do fall
fertilization. Great way to get from here

1355
01:41:06.159 --> 01:41:10.800
to fall. Let's take a little
break and we will be back and we'll

1356
01:41:10.840 --> 01:41:15.840
talk to Doris and Doc when we
come back, and welcome back to the

1357
01:41:15.840 --> 01:41:18.880
Garden Line. I'm your host,
Skip Richter, and we're here to answer

1358
01:41:18.920 --> 01:41:23.760
your gardening questions. How can we
help you have a more bountiful garden and

1359
01:41:23.840 --> 01:41:27.720
more beautiful landscape. That's what we're
here for. So give us a call

1360
01:41:27.760 --> 01:41:30.680
at seven one three two one two
k t r H if you've got a

1361
01:41:30.760 --> 01:41:34.319
question you'd like to ask about gardening
to help you have more success. We're

1362
01:41:34.319 --> 01:41:40.319
going to start this hour by heading
or this segment by heading out to Friendswood

1363
01:41:40.359 --> 01:41:45.600
to talk to Doc. Hello.
Doc, Hello, welcome to the neighborhood.

1364
01:41:45.720 --> 01:41:55.079
Thank you. I am oh well
sorry, I'm having troubles with a

1365
01:41:55.520 --> 01:42:00.159
I'll try to of some sort some
sort of small could be or whatever.

1366
01:42:00.279 --> 01:42:04.680
I know it's not fleas, but
something comes up and attacks me if I'm

1367
01:42:04.720 --> 01:42:10.800
about the knee down when I go
out into the backyard or even to the

1368
01:42:10.840 --> 01:42:15.479
front, and I'd like to spray
something to kill whatever that bug is and

1369
01:42:15.680 --> 01:42:18.359
maybe get an idea of what the
bug is. Yeah, it's a good

1370
01:42:18.439 --> 01:42:24.199
question. So you're you're walking as
let's say, with shorts maybe on,

1371
01:42:24.439 --> 01:42:28.399
and it's getting you on the legs
or is it coming up you dos legs?

1372
01:42:28.439 --> 01:42:34.199
Okay, well it's coming up only
when my legs are uncovered and really

1373
01:42:34.319 --> 01:42:39.199
just a little blow of the knee
add down. Interesting. Well, I

1374
01:42:39.279 --> 01:42:42.279
was going to say, if you
eliminated mosquitoes, I'm sure you have.

1375
01:42:43.119 --> 01:42:46.560
They're definitely out and biting this right
now. There are fleas that can come

1376
01:42:46.600 --> 01:42:50.279
out of the lawn in the thatch
and jump up and bite you. If

1377
01:42:50.319 --> 01:42:56.119
you're not seeing fleas, then we
can eliminate that one as well. I

1378
01:42:56.159 --> 01:43:00.039
know it's not fleas. I'd recognize
them, they hope. Yeah. And

1379
01:43:00.279 --> 01:43:04.239
there's some little creatures sometimes around the
beach areas. You hear people talk about

1380
01:43:04.279 --> 01:43:08.159
no sums. They're a little gnatlike
things, but boy, they got a

1381
01:43:08.199 --> 01:43:12.640
set of dentures on them. They
can bite, and they could be that.

1382
01:43:12.800 --> 01:43:15.199
We also have chiggers that come out
of the grass, but those take

1383
01:43:15.239 --> 01:43:20.560
a while before you notice the problem, and that would expo Tiggers would explain

1384
01:43:20.680 --> 01:43:24.920
also at being low on your legs
because it takes them over they're tiny.

1385
01:43:24.960 --> 01:43:28.279
It takes the while to crawl up. Typically people get chiggers, though not

1386
01:43:28.399 --> 01:43:30.560
because they crawl up all over them, but because we lay down in the

1387
01:43:30.600 --> 01:43:35.199
grass and they get on us,
And so that would be a possibility.

1388
01:43:36.039 --> 01:43:40.199
The only thing that I would suggest
for those kinds of things would be some

1389
01:43:40.239 --> 01:43:44.720
sort of insecticide treatment to try to
shut down whatever it is out there,

1390
01:43:44.720 --> 01:43:46.840
because it's gonna be a really tiny
insect that you don't just see like you

1391
01:43:46.840 --> 01:43:53.640
would a flee or a mosquito.
I agree, but I don't know what

1392
01:43:53.760 --> 01:44:00.439
would be appropriate. If is your
lawn bermuda grass by any chance, uh,

1393
01:44:00.920 --> 01:44:04.960
Augustine, Saint Augustine, Wow,
Because that that also helps reduce eliminate

1394
01:44:05.079 --> 01:44:12.239
the chiggers from being the most likely
culprit. I would probably get a hoose

1395
01:44:12.359 --> 01:44:17.439
end attached product called cyinara, and
and uh just follow the label and go

1396
01:44:17.600 --> 01:44:21.680
over the lawn with it. Uh. Follow that, I don't follow the

1397
01:44:21.760 --> 01:44:27.039
label, you know, don't double
up on it, don't go outside the

1398
01:44:27.079 --> 01:44:30.920
label. Uh, and just apply
it and let it allow it time to

1399
01:44:30.000 --> 01:44:33.840
dry off before you walk back out
there and see if you still notice them.

1400
01:44:34.159 --> 01:44:40.279
If spraying cinara across the lawn is
not helping with this, then it

1401
01:44:40.399 --> 01:44:44.000
is something flying in from somewhere else
and then we're up a creek. Then

1402
01:44:44.199 --> 01:44:48.720
then we're left to things like trying
to put a repellent on us like we

1403
01:44:48.760 --> 01:44:55.319
do for mosquitoes. So I have
noticed that repellent does work. Okay,

1404
01:44:55.479 --> 01:44:59.279
if I if I sway that on
my legs before I go out, then

1405
01:44:59.319 --> 01:45:01.680
it's not a pro Yeah, well, doc, I think you know,

1406
01:45:02.319 --> 01:45:06.319
try the cinara. That would be
your best option to just get everything out

1407
01:45:06.319 --> 01:45:11.960
of the way, or just resort
then to the repellents, because it's going

1408
01:45:12.039 --> 01:45:15.680
to be something flying in, and
you know, spraying your a lot of

1409
01:45:15.680 --> 01:45:19.439
control mosquitoes, right, So I'm
sure also that it does not fly in

1410
01:45:19.600 --> 01:45:25.279
because I can stand out on my
patio. Oh okay, no problem.

1411
01:45:25.640 --> 01:45:28.920
It's only when I walk out into
the grass that I'm attacked. Then I'm

1412
01:45:28.960 --> 01:45:33.920
about ninety percent sure the hose end
attached bottle with cinara is gonna do the

1413
01:45:34.000 --> 01:45:39.000
trick. I shall get it.
And you shouldn't have to do it real

1414
01:45:39.079 --> 01:45:44.600
often either, because if these things
are residing in the grass, you you

1415
01:45:44.640 --> 01:45:46.239
know it's not I can't just spray
this twice a week. Keep going,

1416
01:45:46.880 --> 01:45:51.159
it'll last a while, all right, all right, sir? Thanks a

1417
01:45:51.159 --> 01:45:56.720
lot. Appreciate you call very much. Appreciate it a lot, and you're

1418
01:45:56.760 --> 01:45:59.960
going to get products like that at
a place like ACE Hardware. For example.

1419
01:46:00.039 --> 01:46:02.640
ACE Hardware's are all over the place. There what forty stores in the

1420
01:46:02.640 --> 01:46:06.560
Greater Houston area. You can go
to Acehardware dot com and when you go

1421
01:46:06.640 --> 01:46:11.880
in the fertilizers I talk about many
of the saw products that I talk about,

1422
01:46:12.640 --> 01:46:17.000
and certainly disease, pest, insect, we whatever control is going to

1423
01:46:17.039 --> 01:46:20.359
be at ACE Hardware. Like the
product I just talked about, Synarra the

1424
01:46:20.479 --> 01:46:25.199
hose end attached. That is just
an example. There are other products that

1425
01:46:25.239 --> 01:46:28.000
will work on this, but that's
an example of one, and you're gonna

1426
01:46:28.000 --> 01:46:30.439
find it at your acehard Infact,
I saw some just yesterday when I was

1427
01:46:30.479 --> 01:46:35.159
out at the Langham Creek Ace Hardware. They had some signar on hand out

1428
01:46:35.199 --> 01:46:41.159
there, so that worked pretty good. Acehardware dot Com for and go to

1429
01:46:41.199 --> 01:46:44.479
the store located to find the one
near you. There's lots of them around.

1430
01:46:44.560 --> 01:46:46.159
Makes it easy to find anything you
need for your lawn, your garden,

1431
01:46:46.239 --> 01:46:51.119
and your landscape. We're gonna see
now here, Okay, who's next

1432
01:46:51.199 --> 01:46:57.079
in line? Doris in Austin County. Hello, Doris, good morning.

1433
01:46:57.199 --> 01:47:03.680
How are you. I'm good today. What's up? Well? Nut grass?

1434
01:47:03.960 --> 01:47:11.880
My yard is becoming a nut grass
territory. And I've tried two products

1435
01:47:11.880 --> 01:47:18.079
and it won't kill it. Can
you tell me what you've tried? Well,

1436
01:47:18.199 --> 01:47:23.439
one is a nut sedge killer and
the other one is a weed stop

1437
01:47:23.560 --> 01:47:28.079
for lawns. It says kills yellow
nut sedge. Yeah. Well, there's

1438
01:47:28.159 --> 01:47:32.439
yellow and there's purple. And I
can describe how to tell the difference between

1439
01:47:32.479 --> 01:47:36.359
them, but it's it has to
do mainly with the tips of the leaves

1440
01:47:36.399 --> 01:47:47.960
out pointed. Okay, hello,
the bloom in this, I'm sorry I

1441
01:47:48.000 --> 01:47:51.279
had to sneeze there, pardon me. The blooms and the seed head on

1442
01:47:51.319 --> 01:47:55.640
top are different on the two,
and it kind of matters which you have

1443
01:47:55.680 --> 01:47:58.640
because some products work on one but
not all. I'll tell you the truth.

1444
01:47:58.680 --> 01:48:03.960
I have both then, okay,
you're over it, I know.

1445
01:48:04.239 --> 01:48:11.119
And the ones that have the little
knobs on top it is very very thin

1446
01:48:12.159 --> 01:48:15.319
lead. Yeah, and then at
the bottom it's kind of red. That's

1447
01:48:15.439 --> 01:48:19.520
kylinga. That's kylinga that you're seeing. You just describe with the knobs on

1448
01:48:19.600 --> 01:48:24.600
top, and then leaves. Uh. You know what may be good is

1449
01:48:24.600 --> 01:48:29.159
if you could take a picture or
pick off some of the little bloom heads

1450
01:48:29.159 --> 01:48:31.479
on top the seed heads and things
you see up there and lay them on

1451
01:48:31.520 --> 01:48:34.079
a piece of paper and take a
picture of them, or lay them on

1452
01:48:34.119 --> 01:48:39.079
a dark counter surface. Uh,
and send me those pictures. Let me

1453
01:48:39.119 --> 01:48:42.880
make sure I get the right product
for you. There's one called sedge ender.

1454
01:48:43.359 --> 01:48:47.760
There's one called uh sedge hammer.
Uh. There there. I've tried

1455
01:48:47.760 --> 01:48:50.560
to sedge hammer on this and it
don't work. Wow, that's one of

1456
01:48:50.600 --> 01:48:56.039
the best products that's out there for
it. I didn't find what kind of

1457
01:48:56.079 --> 01:49:04.720
ress. Okay, Well, I
Doris, I could suggest products. You

1458
01:49:04.760 --> 01:49:08.479
can go out buy more stuff and
try it again. Or why don't we

1459
01:49:08.560 --> 01:49:11.920
start with looking at it and let
me know exactly the weeds you got.

1460
01:49:12.279 --> 01:49:15.640
If there's more than one kind,
take pictures of each one. I mentioned

1461
01:49:15.640 --> 01:49:19.840
one. You've described it and I
said it's sounds like kay linga. Another

1462
01:49:19.880 --> 01:49:24.439
one is some type of nuts edge, and may have both types. Let

1463
01:49:24.439 --> 01:49:27.520
me see pictures of them so that
I can prescribe something that I know is

1464
01:49:27.520 --> 01:49:30.760
going to work, rather than just
giving you the next thing to try.

1465
01:49:31.000 --> 01:49:36.039
Okay, does that sound okay,
okay, all right. When you apply

1466
01:49:36.159 --> 01:49:42.119
them, you need to add something
that helps it stick to the slick nut

1467
01:49:42.159 --> 01:49:46.000
grass foliage. That's called a swatter
turbo. Okay, you have been using

1468
01:49:46.039 --> 01:49:54.159
that too, No, okay,
all right, well let's let's let's get

1469
01:49:54.199 --> 01:49:57.359
the right idea. I'm putting you
in hold now. The producer will give

1470
01:49:57.399 --> 01:50:00.479
you my email address and then we
can go from there. Does that sound

1471
01:50:00.560 --> 01:50:05.119
good? Sounds good? All right? Thank you. We will be back

1472
01:50:05.119 --> 01:50:09.159
here after a break. Martha and
Mansfield. You will be the first one

1473
01:50:09.279 --> 01:50:13.000
up and we come back. Thanks
for waiting. We look forward to visiting

1474
01:50:13.000 --> 01:50:15.119
with you more when we get past
the top of the hour. Ms.

1475
01:50:15.840 --> 01:50:20.319
Thanks again to the folks at Langham
Pregate's Hardware having us out yesterday. We

1476
01:50:20.399 --> 01:50:23.680
had a real good time. And
think those of you who came out,

1477
01:50:24.039 --> 01:50:29.560
well, I've never seen so many
samples of sick plants, bugs, diseases,

1478
01:50:29.720 --> 01:50:32.840
weeds, insects. I said,
I felt like the Statue of Liberty.

1479
01:50:32.960 --> 01:50:36.840
Remember the Emmer Lazarus poem, bring
me You're tired, You're weary,

1480
01:50:36.920 --> 01:50:41.560
your huddled masses yearning to breathe free. This was kind of like, bring

1481
01:50:41.560 --> 01:50:47.359
me your disease you're infested your weedy
lawns, yearning to have a diagnosis sound

1482
01:50:47.399 --> 01:50:53.079
free. It was a good time
though. Always good to know what you're

1483
01:50:53.079 --> 01:50:57.399
fighting so that you can choose the
right product to do it. To KTRH

1484
01:50:57.520 --> 01:51:14.800
guarded line with skin rictor trip just
watch him as the world. There are

1485
01:51:14.920 --> 01:51:31.399
so many good things to spray again, not a sign sun, welcome back

1486
01:51:31.439 --> 01:51:35.560
to the garden line. Good have
you today on a lovely Sunday day.

1487
01:51:36.439 --> 01:51:40.399
Beautiful. I've got some clouds in
the sky, so give us a little

1488
01:51:40.479 --> 01:51:43.600
break here and there as they passed
by from the sun. But a good

1489
01:51:43.640 --> 01:51:47.920
day to get out and about this
afternoon. We are still enjoying some really

1490
01:51:47.960 --> 01:51:51.359
good weather. I think you know
it is summertime and go deal with summer.

1491
01:51:51.399 --> 01:51:54.840
But hey, we live here.
We're used to this, right.

1492
01:51:56.920 --> 01:51:59.920
I hope you are. I hope
you are. It's part of the changing

1493
01:52:00.079 --> 01:52:02.319
of the seasons. Remember everywhere you
live, there's trade offs in terms of

1494
01:52:02.720 --> 01:52:05.560
do you have a long, hard
winter, do you have a long hot

1495
01:52:05.600 --> 01:52:09.880
summer, or what other kinds of
things do we deal with. That's okay,

1496
01:52:10.079 --> 01:52:12.800
that's right. We can do a
lot of good fun stuff around here.

1497
01:52:12.840 --> 01:52:15.119
And those of you who are near
the coast, have a little extra

1498
01:52:15.199 --> 01:52:19.439
benefit of being able to get down
there and enjoy yourself as well. I'm

1499
01:52:19.439 --> 01:52:23.479
going to go straight out to the
phones this hour and we're going to go

1500
01:52:23.479 --> 01:52:28.600
to Mansfield to talk to Martha.
Hello Martha, Good morning Skip. I

1501
01:52:28.760 --> 01:52:32.279
was calling you about my pear tree, which my husband planted about maybe six

1502
01:52:32.439 --> 01:52:39.000
years ago. Never have buried any
pears, and lately he planted a peach

1503
01:52:39.039 --> 01:52:43.840
tree next to it, and it
was loaded with peach with plums. I'm

1504
01:52:43.880 --> 01:52:47.079
sorry. And this year we got
about five pairs off the tree. Some

1505
01:52:47.159 --> 01:52:50.119
of them fell on the ground and
they brought it. I got I may.

1506
01:52:50.760 --> 01:52:55.239
They got about three good ones off
of it. Wow. So I

1507
01:52:55.279 --> 01:52:58.439
want to know what can I do
so I can have more fruits. So

1508
01:52:58.680 --> 01:53:01.920
you the par produced well in the
past, but this year not so much.

1509
01:53:02.159 --> 01:53:06.800
Never did never did, oh,
never never did. I'm sorry,

1510
01:53:06.880 --> 01:53:13.439
I misunderstood you. Okay, Well, pears, is it getting good sunlight?

1511
01:53:13.560 --> 01:53:16.039
Is it full sun? The tree's
lots of sun on it. Oh

1512
01:53:16.119 --> 01:53:20.920
yeah, it's in my backyard full
sun. Okay. What is the trunk

1513
01:53:21.039 --> 01:53:25.800
diameter of the tree up about waist
high? Like? Is it the size

1514
01:53:25.840 --> 01:53:30.880
of a coca cola can, or
bigger or smaller or oh it's tall,

1515
01:53:30.000 --> 01:53:35.479
it's it's about maybe two or three
coca cola can. Okay, so it's

1516
01:53:35.479 --> 01:53:40.119
a big one. It's a big
one. Yeah. As pears get older,

1517
01:53:40.359 --> 01:53:45.079
they still should produce. Though sometimes
we see a little bit of a

1518
01:53:45.439 --> 01:53:46.840
year where you have a real good
year and then not so good year,

1519
01:53:46.840 --> 01:53:50.439
but you're just not even you're trying
to get to the first good year that

1520
01:53:50.520 --> 01:53:56.119
you have. I would say,
be careful that you don't overdo the nitrogen

1521
01:53:56.319 --> 01:54:00.840
when you fertilize them. If you
fertilize them, if you haven't fertilized all,

1522
01:54:00.760 --> 01:54:04.920
I would probably give it a little
bit of a turf type fertilizer,

1523
01:54:05.920 --> 01:54:11.399
but just in a moderate amount.
Probably. Oh, let's say, maybe

1524
01:54:14.119 --> 01:54:16.279
I'm still trying to do the trunk
diameter in my head. Here are we

1525
01:54:16.359 --> 01:54:20.840
looking at? Therefore, coquinees,
are you looking something like those those big

1526
01:54:20.960 --> 01:54:26.680
coffee cans, the large sized coffee
cans we used to buy coffee in it?

1527
01:54:27.079 --> 01:54:31.920
Yeah, okay, yeah, I
would probably give it probably two pints

1528
01:54:32.000 --> 01:54:35.800
of a quarter fertilizer. So,
however, you want to measure it out

1529
01:54:36.199 --> 01:54:40.800
a quarter fertilizer, and I would
spread it in an area from the trunk

1530
01:54:40.920 --> 01:54:45.000
out as far as the branches reach
in all directions, and then watered in

1531
01:54:45.119 --> 01:54:48.159
really good. And do that now
because your pear tree is going to be

1532
01:54:48.199 --> 01:54:54.800
setting its blooms for next year during
the mid to late summer to fall early

1533
01:54:54.880 --> 01:54:58.600
fall season, so you want to
get it in as good health as you

1534
01:54:58.640 --> 01:55:03.680
can right now. If we go
into an extended drought where it's going to

1535
01:55:03.760 --> 01:55:06.840
stress the plants a lot, I
would make sure it gets a good soaking,

1536
01:55:08.159 --> 01:55:13.079
just periodically though, just to avoid
the stress. Other than those two

1537
01:55:13.159 --> 01:55:15.279
things, I think that's what's in
your power. And the rest is the

1538
01:55:15.319 --> 01:55:19.560
trees got to settle down and grow. It may be a variety that just

1539
01:55:19.640 --> 01:55:24.479
doesn't do so well here, but
I think we can give it every effort

1540
01:55:24.520 --> 01:55:28.479
to try to bring it forward.
And a little bit of a moderate amount

1541
01:55:28.479 --> 01:55:31.039
of fertilizer done right away, don't
wait until later to do it. And

1542
01:55:31.079 --> 01:55:35.840
then today watering as needed, but
just get your good lawn fertilizer to do

1543
01:55:35.920 --> 01:55:42.720
that. Okay. And one other
question about my our is potato my husband's

1544
01:55:42.720 --> 01:55:46.239
planets for the first time in the
gordon. Instead of the vine growing straight

1545
01:55:46.319 --> 01:55:53.399
up, they're growing like across all
the roads. I mean they it's not

1546
01:55:54.000 --> 01:56:00.239
and it's Irish potatoes. Correct.
Usually the Irish potatoes we plan in ring

1547
01:56:00.439 --> 01:56:01.920
and then they come up and by
the time we get to this season,

1548
01:56:02.479 --> 01:56:08.199
those vines are turning yellow and brown
and shriveling up on us. Uh.

1549
01:56:08.199 --> 01:56:13.199
And then we do it again in
late August for a fall crop. Uh.

1550
01:56:13.680 --> 01:56:17.239
Do the vines look healthy? Well, yes, they look healthy sitting

1551
01:56:17.279 --> 01:56:23.600
then some of them are turning a
little yellow as they vine across another road

1552
01:56:23.640 --> 01:56:30.720
that there's nothing planting in it.
That's interesting. Would you mind sending me

1553
01:56:30.760 --> 01:56:34.760
a photo of what you're seeing,
Uh, just kind of a picture of

1554
01:56:34.800 --> 01:56:38.319
it as a group, and then
maybe get up close and show me some

1555
01:56:38.399 --> 01:56:41.920
leaves up close. Okay, I'll
be happy to do that. Yeah.

1556
01:56:42.039 --> 01:56:45.680
And my last question go ahead.
I'm gonna have to put you Whenever we're

1557
01:56:45.680 --> 01:56:47.239
done, I'll put you on hold
and the producer will give you the email.

1558
01:56:48.159 --> 01:56:51.239
Okay. Well, my last question
is about my roses. I bought

1559
01:56:51.359 --> 01:56:57.600
three little roses. They're really beautiful, put out gorgeous roses, and they're

1560
01:56:57.600 --> 01:57:00.439
growing so tall and about to reach
the top of the ouse. Do I

1561
01:57:00.560 --> 01:57:04.439
cut him down? You can cut
them back at this point in the season.

1562
01:57:05.199 --> 01:57:11.239
H maybe when let's say, when
we get toward late August, I

1563
01:57:11.279 --> 01:57:15.000
would I would trim them back.
That allows them to put on some new

1564
01:57:15.039 --> 01:57:17.960
growth for a good fall bloom.
We're about to go into the really rough

1565
01:57:18.000 --> 01:57:21.720
summer season. I hate to do
prune them too heavily right now. Okay

1566
01:57:23.079 --> 01:57:25.560
they might, they might do okay
with it, but I don't want to

1567
01:57:25.560 --> 01:57:30.079
take that chance. Yeah, and
then when we get into winter, the

1568
01:57:30.359 --> 01:57:34.000
February, early February, late January, that's your time to get a good

1569
01:57:34.199 --> 01:57:38.800
If you need to do a big
time pruning, get that done then and

1570
01:57:38.880 --> 01:57:42.279
follow it up with a little bit
of a lighter shearing a little later on.

1571
01:57:43.279 --> 01:57:48.359
Got it. Thank you so much, my pleasure. Good to talk

1572
01:57:48.399 --> 01:57:53.039
to you. Uh. You know, we've we've got these clay soils around

1573
01:57:53.039 --> 01:57:56.000
here. We talk about them from
gardening stampont all the time. But the

1574
01:57:56.560 --> 01:58:00.960
klay shrinks and swells when it gets
dry and when it gets wet. It

1575
01:58:00.000 --> 01:58:03.319
shrinks when it's dry, it swells
when it's wet. And that movement,

1576
01:58:03.520 --> 01:58:09.560
because we do go from dry to
wet pretty often, that movement is powerful,

1577
01:58:09.720 --> 01:58:15.039
powerful enough to crack the foundation on
your home. Powerful enough to heave

1578
01:58:15.159 --> 01:58:19.640
your driveway or your sidewalk up where
you know triple trying to walk across it.

1579
01:58:20.119 --> 01:58:25.079
Well, Fix my slab foundation Repair
by Tie Strickland. That those folks

1580
01:58:25.239 --> 01:58:28.399
know what they're doing. They've been
in the business a long time. Listen.

1581
01:58:28.439 --> 01:58:31.079
They're all about customer service and doing
things right. If you want something

1582
01:58:31.159 --> 01:58:35.880
on time, priced, fair and
fixed right, that's fix my slab foundation

1583
01:58:36.000 --> 01:58:40.479
repair. Whether it is a sidewalk, a driveway or a home foundation,

1584
01:58:41.000 --> 01:58:45.640
they can do it. Here's the
website, fix myslab dot com, fixmslab

1585
01:58:45.680 --> 01:58:49.520
dot com, or you can call
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1586
01:58:49.600 --> 01:58:55.039
nine forty nine two eight one two
fi five forty nine forty nine. Walk

1587
01:58:55.079 --> 01:58:57.960
around the house. Take a look
at the bricks for cracks, look inside

1588
01:58:58.000 --> 01:59:01.199
at the sheet rock for cracks or
doors sticking. Any of those are signs

1589
01:59:01.239 --> 01:59:03.840
that you don't need to delay.
You need to have somebody look at it

1590
01:59:03.920 --> 01:59:08.600
soon, because it doesn't get better, it only gets worse. Fix my

1591
01:59:08.680 --> 01:59:13.239
slab fix myslab dot com. We're
gonna take a little break here, Heidi.

1592
01:59:13.319 --> 01:59:15.000
You will be our first up when
we come back. The number seven

1593
01:59:15.039 --> 01:59:18.199
one three two one two k t
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1594
01:59:19.199 --> 01:59:25.000
friends, are nice to do,
get nice going back to burn line.

1595
01:59:26.079 --> 01:59:29.279
Good to have you with us today. Looking forward to talking to you about

1596
01:59:29.279 --> 01:59:31.119
the things that interest you. If
you'd like to give a skull seven one

1597
01:59:31.159 --> 01:59:35.840
three two one two k t r
H. We're gonna head now over and

1598
01:59:35.880 --> 01:59:41.079
talk to Heidi. Hello, Heidi, Hey, good morning, skiff.

1599
01:59:41.159 --> 01:59:45.159
How are you doing. Is this
Heidi from T Research Farms? Yes?

1600
01:59:45.479 --> 01:59:50.520
How How are things out there at
the farms? Very hot? Okay?

1601
01:59:50.600 --> 01:59:59.319
Well, yeah, we've been working
on production and trying to keep things watered.

1602
01:59:59.520 --> 02:00:03.119
Okay, you're looking good, but
I think it's another rain. All

1603
02:00:03.239 --> 02:00:08.640
right? Well good, Well,
what what's the what's the uh? What's

1604
02:00:08.720 --> 02:00:13.960
the call? The lady? They
called about the pear tree. Yes,

1605
02:00:14.359 --> 02:00:17.399
it's possible. It's a high chill
pair. It is. We don't have

1606
02:00:17.439 --> 02:00:25.560
a lot of choices of pairs that
produce down here, and a lot of

1607
02:00:25.600 --> 02:00:30.039
people. My sister was given a
plum tree and was all excited, and

1608
02:00:30.159 --> 02:00:32.199
I said, do you know what
variety? And she said no, oh,

1609
02:00:32.279 --> 02:00:36.439
yes she did, there was.
It was purchased at one of the

1610
02:00:36.479 --> 02:00:42.960
box stores and uh, it was
a very high chill plump. And I

1611
02:00:42.960 --> 02:00:45.000
said, well, you can have
a pretty green tree, but it's never

1612
02:00:45.039 --> 02:00:48.000
going to bloom and never going to
fruit. That's a good point. I

1613
02:00:48.039 --> 02:00:51.880
think I mentioned in the call that
depending on the variety she had, but

1614
02:00:51.920 --> 02:00:56.560
that that is really true, and
a lot of people make that mistake.

1615
02:00:56.680 --> 02:00:59.520
So it's good. Fortunately around Houston
here we got a lot of folks that

1616
02:00:59.600 --> 02:01:05.159
provide locally adapted fruit trees. Oh. Absolutely, you very good one.

1617
02:01:06.920 --> 02:01:13.119
There's some very good ones, but
mostly with your apples and your pears and

1618
02:01:14.840 --> 02:01:18.039
plums and peaches. I guess it's
still you have to have your low chill

1619
02:01:18.319 --> 02:01:24.520
or medium chill. Yeah, down
here, that's true. But something most

1620
02:01:24.520 --> 02:01:28.319
people don't know. I have to
explain to them. And I know that

1621
02:01:28.319 --> 02:01:31.399
that's right up your alley, But
just I needed to just call in and

1622
02:01:31.479 --> 02:01:34.560
say hi and throw that out.
Well, Heidi, it's always good to

1623
02:01:34.600 --> 02:01:38.600
hear from you, and glad to
hear things are going good at it.

1624
02:01:38.680 --> 02:01:41.239
I need to swing back out.
There's been ages since I've been out there

1625
02:01:41.279 --> 02:01:45.319
to that place. It sure has
he now that you're not in Travis County.

1626
02:01:45.600 --> 02:01:49.039
Yeah that's true. Okay, Well, hey, thanks for thank you

1627
02:01:49.159 --> 02:01:53.279
very much for the call. I
appreciate that having no problem. In fact,

1628
02:01:53.319 --> 02:01:55.880
I'm going to drone on about chill
hours here in a little bit.

1629
02:01:55.920 --> 02:01:59.319
I think if I'm I have time
to you, that's a very good point

1630
02:01:59.359 --> 02:02:02.560
to bring up. You take care, Bob. We're going to now,

1631
02:02:02.920 --> 02:02:05.840
let's see, we're going to go
to West Houston and talk to Tom.

1632
02:02:05.960 --> 02:02:12.319
Hello, Tom, Hi Chip.
A couple quick questions. How do I

1633
02:02:12.640 --> 02:02:17.840
kill prade myrtle suckers about six feet
from the mother plant? Six feet a

1634
02:02:17.880 --> 02:02:23.760
sucker from a You're pretty sure it's
a sucker attached to a root, and

1635
02:02:23.800 --> 02:02:27.520
maybe not a seedling coming up out
there. Well, I get I'm not

1636
02:02:27.560 --> 02:02:29.840
the xp one. I guess it
could be either. I mean I would

1637
02:02:29.880 --> 02:02:32.319
say that either are four to six
feet and then we eat them and they

1638
02:02:32.439 --> 02:02:38.479
just come back in a week.
Yeah, that far away. I don't

1639
02:02:38.520 --> 02:02:42.359
know. It could be attached to
a root, but it's also possible it's

1640
02:02:42.399 --> 02:02:45.680
a ceiling. The difference, the
reason that's important is if it were its

1641
02:02:45.680 --> 02:02:50.399
own plant, I could recommend you
apply a certain type of a herbicide to

1642
02:02:50.520 --> 02:02:55.720
the trunk that will kill it.
But if it were attached to the mother

1643
02:02:55.840 --> 02:02:59.319
plant, we wouldn't want to do
that because then that product gets into the

1644
02:02:59.359 --> 02:03:03.279
mother plant as well, because they're
connected. So that would be the first

1645
02:03:03.319 --> 02:03:09.359
thing is figuring out if these things
are on their own or not. If

1646
02:03:09.399 --> 02:03:13.239
they're if they are attached to the
mother plant, you just have to dig

1647
02:03:13.319 --> 02:03:17.119
down and try to remove them with
as much of the root as you can

1648
02:03:17.279 --> 02:03:21.319
to get them out of there because
there's no spray in them. If they

1649
02:03:21.439 --> 02:03:27.640
are not attached to the mother plant, you can cut off the crape that

1650
02:03:27.680 --> 02:03:31.239
you want to get rid of near
the ground and immediately dab a product on

1651
02:03:31.319 --> 02:03:39.199
the back cut surface that contains an
ingredient called trichloe here t r i clo

1652
02:03:39.520 --> 02:03:44.960
p y r that is sold as
poison ivy killer. It's it's sold as

1653
02:03:45.039 --> 02:03:47.399
brush and stump killer. It's got
a lot of different names that it goes

1654
02:03:47.439 --> 02:03:51.680
by, but Triclo piers the ingredient. You're not spraying it, You're putting

1655
02:03:51.760 --> 02:03:57.159
drops of it out. Get your
little foam paint brush with the little tiny

1656
02:03:57.199 --> 02:04:00.359
foam brushes and take the tricle pair
right out of the container straight and dabit

1657
02:04:00.479 --> 02:04:04.159
straight onto that fresh cut surface.
And it works wonders, and you've applied

1658
02:04:04.800 --> 02:04:11.239
just the most minuscule amount of product
out in the environment as you can tyclo

1659
02:04:11.399 --> 02:04:15.239
clear triclo peer. Huh, that's
the ingredient. And you're you were in

1660
02:04:15.279 --> 02:04:19.000
West Houston, so I don't know
how far away from Southwest Fertilizer you are,

1661
02:04:19.640 --> 02:04:25.159
but Bob has definitely got tricle peer
and more than one form there at

1662
02:04:25.199 --> 02:04:30.159
Southwest Fertilizer and the corner of Bismett
and Man. What about these products called

1663
02:04:30.159 --> 02:04:38.319
like sucker stopper and some of the
other spray on. So if the sucker

1664
02:04:38.399 --> 02:04:41.800
is coming off the bottom of the
crate myrtle, you cut it off as

1665
02:04:41.920 --> 02:04:46.479
close to the trunk base as you
can and then you spray the sucker stopper

1666
02:04:46.840 --> 02:04:51.920
or the what's the other one,
not sucker ender, there's another it's got

1667
02:04:51.920 --> 02:04:56.039
sucker in the name. But anyway, you spray those right on that cut

1668
02:04:56.119 --> 02:05:00.520
surface. And what it is,
it's a hormone. And whenever we print

1669
02:05:00.520 --> 02:05:03.680
a plant, it stimulates regrowth.
When you spray the sucker stopper on there,

1670
02:05:04.000 --> 02:05:09.079
you're hormonally telling the plant there's nothing
going on here, you don't need

1671
02:05:09.119 --> 02:05:12.640
to regrow, don't worry about it. In other words, you're suppressing that

1672
02:05:12.800 --> 02:05:18.279
sucker regrowth. If it's a one
coming up six feet away. Then if

1673
02:05:18.319 --> 02:05:24.399
you sprayed what you cut off,
it would suppress it there. But if

1674
02:05:24.399 --> 02:05:27.880
it's its own plant out there,
you're probably still going to get some suckers

1675
02:05:27.880 --> 02:05:30.760
coming off the base of it.
And it's hard to get down to the

1676
02:05:30.800 --> 02:05:33.920
cut surface if you cut it below
the surface of the soil. So I

1677
02:05:33.920 --> 02:05:38.479
appreciate that. I got one quick
question about a peach tree. It's four

1678
02:05:38.560 --> 02:05:42.720
years old and it's been very healthy, but it's dropping about twenty or so

1679
02:05:43.199 --> 02:05:45.079
yellow leaves a day now. I
mean it looks helt except for a few

1680
02:05:45.159 --> 02:05:50.640
yellow leaves or anything to be concerned
about. Well, yellow leaves aren't good

1681
02:05:51.119 --> 02:05:56.079
on a peach tree. Peaches will
get yellow leaves when the roots sit in

1682
02:05:56.199 --> 02:06:00.520
soggy, wet conditions and can't get
oxygen. They'll get yellow leafs when they

1683
02:06:00.520 --> 02:06:03.720
go through a drop period where they
can't get enough water and the tree just

1684
02:06:03.920 --> 02:06:09.960
starts to kick off some of those
older leaves that would do it. Is

1685
02:06:09.960 --> 02:06:15.520
the are the yellow leaves also associated
with any spots on or holes in the

1686
02:06:15.600 --> 02:06:18.039
leaf? I haven't noticed any.
I mean, I'll look again, but

1687
02:06:18.680 --> 02:06:23.880
my recollection from this morning is that
they're just yellow leaves dropping. And yeah,

1688
02:06:24.319 --> 02:06:27.000
again, it's about twenty a day
though, so I think this has

1689
02:06:27.039 --> 02:06:30.520
happened last year. So yeah,
I know it gets enough water. Now

1690
02:06:30.640 --> 02:06:31.920
to a question about it, does
it get too much or too little?

1691
02:06:32.319 --> 02:06:34.439
You know, it's kind of hard
to say. It's got to sprinkle around

1692
02:06:34.479 --> 02:06:38.680
it. How old is this?
How long has the tree been in planting?

1693
02:06:38.720 --> 02:06:41.800
It's five years old? Five,
you know what, Tom, Just

1694
02:06:41.840 --> 02:06:45.199
to be sure, I would get
a little hand trowel and the end of

1695
02:06:45.239 --> 02:06:48.000
a garden hose and I would dig
down around the base of that tree and

1696
02:06:48.039 --> 02:06:51.079
try to wash it out a little
bit, so you can examine the base

1697
02:06:51.119 --> 02:06:56.880
of the trunk at and just below
the surface of the soil and look for

1698
02:06:56.920 --> 02:07:00.520
anything that might be strangling the trunk. Sometimes root going in a circle can

1699
02:07:00.560 --> 02:07:06.399
do that. Sometimes a plant tag
that drop down where it's not being photodegraded

1700
02:07:06.399 --> 02:07:12.359
by the sun becomes a strangling piece
of plastic around the tree. But let's

1701
02:07:12.439 --> 02:07:15.079
just make sure that's not going on, because it's possible. I've seen that

1702
02:07:15.119 --> 02:07:20.439
in peaches before. And if you
can eliminate that one, I would just

1703
02:07:20.479 --> 02:07:27.359
say, let's get it a little
bit of fertilizer and a consistent so moisture

1704
02:07:27.399 --> 02:07:31.239
without excess have you fertilized it this
year? I have, but I've just

1705
02:07:31.439 --> 02:07:36.119
used long fertilizers out nine. That's
a perfect I use long fertilizer my peaches

1706
02:07:36.159 --> 02:07:40.960
all the time or on fruit trees
and other things. Yeah, that would

1707
02:07:41.000 --> 02:07:44.520
be fine. So if you've already
fertilized it, you probably don't need any

1708
02:07:44.560 --> 02:07:49.479
more. The only other thing is
sometimes creating a larger moulted area around the

1709
02:07:49.520 --> 02:07:56.039
tree helps keep moisture consistent, keeps
the roots cooler, and helps the tree

1710
02:07:56.079 --> 02:07:59.840
to thrive also. So those are
a few tips for things to think of

1711
02:08:00.000 --> 02:08:03.159
about. Well, thanks for your
help, all right, sir, Good

1712
02:08:03.279 --> 02:08:09.159
luck with that mine, sure,
bye bye. Wild Bird's Unlimited is my

1713
02:08:09.239 --> 02:08:15.359
favorite store to go to for anything
related to birds, and it's because of

1714
02:08:15.439 --> 02:08:18.000
two things. You know, you've
heard me talk on garden Line about companies

1715
02:08:18.079 --> 02:08:24.439
and things and service. Knowledge of
the people that are knowledge on the on

1716
02:08:24.520 --> 02:08:28.319
the part of the people who are
helping you is critical. You got to

1717
02:08:28.359 --> 02:08:31.359
have people know what they're talking about. Secondly, you've got to have quality

1718
02:08:31.399 --> 02:08:35.760
products that is very very important.
And service, of course is very very

1719
02:08:35.800 --> 02:08:39.880
important. And wild birds you're going
to get all of that. Yeah,

1720
02:08:39.239 --> 02:08:43.039
if you want to bring birds to
your yard. They can help you.

1721
02:08:43.199 --> 02:08:48.279
They have the products that are necessary, whether there's bird feeders, bird houses,

1722
02:08:50.159 --> 02:08:54.600
bird baths for water. They have
the feed that is high quality feeds

1723
02:08:54.640 --> 02:08:58.520
such as right now you should still
be putting out the nesting super Blend because

1724
02:08:58.880 --> 02:09:03.199
we're still in nesting season right now, and the birds often go through molts,

1725
02:09:03.239 --> 02:09:07.119
and whenever birds are molting, they're
shedding their feathers and getting new feathers.

1726
02:09:07.359 --> 02:09:11.359
They don't fly around a lot because
they don't have the whole system set

1727
02:09:11.439 --> 02:09:13.840
up there, you know, in
terms of making it easy to fly around.

1728
02:09:13.880 --> 02:09:16.760
They stay kind of close. They
find cover where they can take cover

1729
02:09:16.840 --> 02:09:22.479
and fly less, hang around a
reliable food source and nesting super Blend is

1730
02:09:22.680 --> 02:09:26.760
a outstanding product that has the kinds
of protein, it's got calcium in it,

1731
02:09:26.840 --> 02:09:31.159
and it just does well. The
birds are able to thrive with that

1732
02:09:31.279 --> 02:09:35.359
kind of a blend, especially at
this time of the year. You're going

1733
02:09:35.439 --> 02:09:37.439
to find that if you're going to
go on vacation, you want to get

1734
02:09:37.479 --> 02:09:41.039
a seed cylinder from wild Bird that
is a compacted round cylinder of seed,

1735
02:09:41.119 --> 02:09:43.760
solid all the way through, just
like just like one of those big old

1736
02:09:43.840 --> 02:09:48.159
candles you pull on a table and
it takes the birds a while to peck

1737
02:09:48.199 --> 02:09:50.840
it out of there, and so
they don't just fly up, grab a

1738
02:09:50.880 --> 02:09:52.199
seed and fly away. You get
to watch them for a little bit longer,

1739
02:09:52.199 --> 02:09:54.760
which is what we like to do. Also, if you go on

1740
02:09:54.880 --> 02:09:58.119
vacation you're going to be gone for
a couple of weeks, put one of

1741
02:09:58.159 --> 02:10:00.880
those out there. When you come
back, the birds still be working on

1742
02:10:00.920 --> 02:10:05.920
it. It lasts a good while. WBU dot com that's the website.

1743
02:10:05.960 --> 02:10:11.640
You need to go to WBU dot
com Forward slash Houston and it'll show you

1744
02:10:11.800 --> 02:10:16.199
the six Wildbirds Unlimited throughout this area
that you can go to and get these

1745
02:10:16.319 --> 02:10:20.439
kinds of supplies. It's always inspirational
and fun to go out there. I

1746
02:10:20.520 --> 02:10:24.159
talked earlier today about things were doing
for the birds in our landscape and how

1747
02:10:24.239 --> 02:10:28.520
much we enjoy getting out and seeing
their antics and hearing their songs. We

1748
02:10:28.600 --> 02:10:31.960
just put up a new feeder the
other day and the blue jays found it,

1749
02:10:33.000 --> 02:10:35.640
and boy are they ever going crazy
out there at the feeder. Anyway,

1750
02:10:35.840 --> 02:10:39.640
Wildbirdsunlimited dot Com, Forward slash Houston, you need to check them out.

1751
02:10:39.880 --> 02:10:46.000
My favorite store. When it comes
to backyard birding, you're listening to

1752
02:10:46.039 --> 02:10:50.600
Gardenline. Our number is seven one
three two one two fifty eight seventy four

1753
02:10:50.840 --> 02:10:56.119
seven one three two one two five
eight seven four. Uh. We're about

1754
02:10:56.159 --> 02:11:00.960
to take a little break here for
the news. As we hit the nine

1755
02:11:01.079 --> 02:11:07.680
thirty break, I want to remind
you that this summertime is the time to

1756
02:11:07.720 --> 02:11:11.920
get your lawn fertiliza and done.
So, if you haven't done so already,

1757
02:11:11.960 --> 02:11:15.319
I'd recommend you get your slow release
fertilizer. Get that job done so

1758
02:11:15.319 --> 02:11:18.159
you don't have to worry about it
again until we come back until in fall.

1759
02:11:18.399 --> 02:11:24.880
And in the meantime return the clippings
nature' z owe slow release organic fertilizer.

1760
02:11:26.039 --> 02:11:28.560
It's a grass clipping. Why would
you ever bag it up for somebody

1761
02:11:28.600 --> 02:11:31.520
to haul away. We'll be right
back back to the guard line. Good

1762
02:11:31.520 --> 02:11:35.159
to have you with us. We
are here to help you have a more

1763
02:11:35.520 --> 02:11:39.439
bountiful garden, a more beautiful landscape. That is certainly our goal. I

1764
02:11:39.479 --> 02:11:43.319
tell you there's a new product by
Medina that definitely can have you have a

1765
02:11:43.319 --> 02:11:48.079
more beautiful yard, and it's called
Medina Has to Grow Supergrow Plus. It's

1766
02:11:48.119 --> 02:11:50.319
one of their has to Go line. You know, there's regular has to

1767
02:11:50.359 --> 02:11:54.159
grow. There has to grow for
lawns. Well. This is Supergrow Plus,

1768
02:11:54.239 --> 02:12:00.039
which is also for lawns. It's
a sixteen zero two fertilizer, but

1769
02:12:00.079 --> 02:12:03.800
it also has keylated iron to help
with that yellowing that occurs in your lawn.

1770
02:12:05.079 --> 02:12:09.680
About a fifth of that nitrogen in
it is a slow release form of

1771
02:12:09.760 --> 02:12:13.960
nitrogen. It's got seaweed extract in
it, it's got molasses, it has

1772
02:12:13.039 --> 02:12:18.479
humic acid in it. It's quite
a concoction to do all the things that

1773
02:12:18.520 --> 02:12:22.479
are necessary to keep a lawn healthy
and growing. One bottle of it hooks

1774
02:12:22.560 --> 02:12:26.720
up to a garden hose and covers
about four thousand square feet and you can

1775
02:12:26.720 --> 02:12:28.880
do it about ten minutes to your
whole four thousand square feet a yard.

1776
02:12:30.319 --> 02:12:35.439
That's simple. Medina has to Grow
works well, and Medina Supergrow Plus part

1777
02:12:35.479 --> 02:12:39.920
of the has to grow line is
just outstanding for the lawn. Now,

1778
02:12:39.960 --> 02:12:43.520
I say for the lawn, you
can spray it on your tomato plants and

1779
02:12:43.520 --> 02:12:46.039
the vegetable garden or flower beds or
whatever you want to spray it on if

1780
02:12:46.039 --> 02:12:50.239
you wish. It's a good product. It's gonna work. But primarily we

1781
02:12:50.239 --> 02:12:54.239
think of it as a lawn based
product, and I encourage you to try

1782
02:12:54.239 --> 02:12:56.159
it out. It's easy to find. It's available in a lot of garden

1783
02:12:56.159 --> 02:13:00.960
centers, a lot of feed stores, our feed in Guardline, You're gonna

1784
02:13:00.960 --> 02:13:05.199
find it in Nace hardware stores.
You're going to find it at Southwest Fertilizer,

1785
02:13:05.239 --> 02:13:07.560
down a bus net and Runwick.
It's just a widely available product and

1786
02:13:07.600 --> 02:13:13.479
an excellent product. I would highly
recommend super Grow Plus except to a hose

1787
02:13:13.960 --> 02:13:18.920
from Medina. We're going to go
now to Memorial and talk to Jeff.

1788
02:13:18.239 --> 02:13:22.319
Hello, Jeff, Well, Hello, how you doing today? I'm well,

1789
02:13:22.399 --> 02:13:28.359
sir, thank you. Okay,
So I have a couple of years

1790
02:13:28.399 --> 02:13:33.119
ago I went and bought two lemon
trees and two lime trees from a local

1791
02:13:33.399 --> 02:13:37.680
nursery, not a box store.
And one of my lemon trees gave me

1792
02:13:37.720 --> 02:13:43.239
some fruit last year, and it
has fruit on again. This year's got

1793
02:13:43.239 --> 02:13:48.399
five lemons on it. But the
other three trees have never shown any indication

1794
02:13:48.760 --> 02:13:54.319
of bearing any fruit at all.
Okay, and I guess my question is

1795
02:13:54.560 --> 02:14:03.199
we're all entertainers, and they're all
like similarly situated in terms of getting moisture

1796
02:14:03.239 --> 02:14:05.640
and in terms of getting sun and
shade. Okay, and I don't know

1797
02:14:05.680 --> 02:14:09.399
what the difference is between those three
and the one why I keep getting food

1798
02:14:09.399 --> 02:14:13.159
off of one but not the others. And they're all the same cultivar of

1799
02:14:13.239 --> 02:14:18.479
lemon, all the same species.
Well, two of them are lines,

1800
02:14:18.079 --> 02:14:24.479
and the two lemons are Myer's limits, So I don't know. So the

1801
02:14:24.520 --> 02:14:28.680
two lines beyond that and the two
lemons, and they're supposed to be okay.

1802
02:14:28.840 --> 02:14:33.159
Yeah, well so you probably have
most of this already in place.

1803
02:14:33.279 --> 02:14:37.920
But to have success with citrus,
you need adequate soul volume so that it

1804
02:14:37.960 --> 02:14:41.640
doesn't get droughty all the time.
You know, you forget to water it

1805
02:14:41.720 --> 02:14:46.239
for a few days and all of
a sudden you're coming back, and that

1806
02:14:46.239 --> 02:14:50.000
that stress period will affect bloom and
fruit set and everything else. You need

1807
02:14:50.039 --> 02:14:54.600
good sunlight, full sunlight, if
possible at least six hours for it to

1808
02:14:54.600 --> 02:14:58.199
do its best, and of course
keeping it adequately moist, a moderate amount

1809
02:14:58.239 --> 02:15:01.479
of fertilizer in the mix, a
good well drained soil mix, and the

1810
02:15:01.520 --> 02:15:05.159
container. Those are all the components. Now, if all that is being

1811
02:15:05.239 --> 02:15:09.199
done and or at least equal between
them all, So why are some doing

1812
02:15:09.239 --> 02:15:13.319
good and others are not? I
don't know. Where we go past that

1813
02:15:13.640 --> 02:15:18.760
this is not going to be due
to a pest an insect. It's probably

1814
02:15:18.800 --> 02:15:22.680
not going to be due to a
disease. And so you know, of

1815
02:15:22.760 --> 02:15:26.920
all those things, can you think
anything that might not be happening sunlight,

1816
02:15:26.000 --> 02:15:31.600
adequate moisture, adequate soil volume,
fertilizer or anything. Well, well,

1817
02:15:31.600 --> 02:15:35.199
the curious part is, you know, Okay, if it's an absence of

1818
02:15:35.239 --> 02:15:39.880
water, then I mean they all
get the same amount of moisture, the

1819
02:15:39.880 --> 02:15:43.319
same the same amount of water,
they all get roughly the same amounts sunlight,

1820
02:15:43.960 --> 02:15:46.880
They're all have roughly the same I
mean, they're all in the same

1821
02:15:48.000 --> 02:15:50.680
kind of containers, so they all
have roughly the same soil volume. Okay,

1822
02:15:50.760 --> 02:15:56.000
And I guess maybe what it is
is that you know, I don't

1823
02:15:56.039 --> 02:15:58.319
particularly spend a lot of time watering
them, and you know, so maybe

1824
02:15:58.439 --> 02:16:03.720
those three just need more water,
or need more sun or something. I

1825
02:16:03.720 --> 02:16:07.800
guess, Yeah, you know one
who's getting I'm sorry, I'm talkue to

1826
02:16:07.880 --> 02:16:16.600
Jeff. Jeff. There's a lot
of factors in the watering. How big

1827
02:16:16.680 --> 02:16:20.119
is the container, the type of
soil you have, is you could start

1828
02:16:20.119 --> 02:16:24.159
off with a real good soil mix, and over time it just decomposes a

1829
02:16:24.159 --> 02:16:26.560
way and gets a little mucky.
You know, it may be too chunky,

1830
02:16:26.600 --> 02:16:31.200
and it's straining too well, not
holding water or vice versa as possible.

1831
02:16:31.680 --> 02:16:35.559
Uh. And just even though they're
all in sun, there's always gonna

1832
02:16:35.559 --> 02:16:39.360
be some differences. But I tell
you, when citrus is young, production

1833
02:16:39.559 --> 02:16:45.159
is often less, and the trees
will often bloom and set little tiny fruit

1834
02:16:45.159 --> 02:16:48.120
and then abort the fruit. Uh. And while they're a little just tiny,

1835
02:16:48.159 --> 02:16:52.680
tiny little citrus fruit. And so
as the tree gets established and settles

1836
02:16:52.719 --> 02:16:58.000
in, we usually see better production
come on. So that would be something

1837
02:16:58.040 --> 02:17:03.440
I would suggest think about in the
meantime, watch that watering and then give

1838
02:17:03.479 --> 02:17:05.920
them a little bit of nutrition,
a little bit of extra There's some of

1839
02:17:05.959 --> 02:17:11.680
our fertilizer sponsors produce things that are
for fruit that do really well for fruit.

1840
02:17:13.239 --> 02:17:16.319
I often use a low fertilizer on
mine, but you could get one

1841
02:17:16.319 --> 02:17:20.319
specifically designed for your fruit that would
do well. Also. You just want

1842
02:17:20.360 --> 02:17:26.040
moderate nutrition and then they just need
a little time to grow. Because I

1843
02:17:26.079 --> 02:17:28.959
have it in the past head centris
that did a lot of a boarding when

1844
02:17:28.000 --> 02:17:35.120
the plants are very small and didn't
have the good strong root system yet okay,

1845
02:17:35.399 --> 02:17:37.239
all right, well, thank you
very much. All right, good

1846
02:17:37.280 --> 02:17:39.799
luck with those. I appreciate that
a lot. Now we're going to go

1847
02:17:39.879 --> 02:17:43.399
talk to Robert in Cyprus, and
sounds like we're all on the same subject,

1848
02:17:43.440 --> 02:17:48.600
Is that right, Robert? Yes? But my question is is I've

1849
02:17:48.600 --> 02:17:52.879
got two lemon trees I've had for
three years. They're growing, ones at

1850
02:17:52.920 --> 02:17:58.239
eight foot the other one's nine foot
tall. They've never bloomed. And I'm

1851
02:17:58.280 --> 02:18:05.440
wondering about the grab. Is it
is every tree different? Does it have

1852
02:18:05.559 --> 02:18:09.760
to be grafted? It doesn't have
to be, but they almost all are.

1853
02:18:09.200 --> 02:18:13.799
Uh, And they're grafted to one
of specific mostly one of two different

1854
02:18:13.879 --> 02:18:22.760
rootstocks here in the Greater Houston area. Uh, that's too long. I've

1855
02:18:22.799 --> 02:18:28.120
never heard of one. I've never
heard of one. Good Sunlight on the

1856
02:18:28.200 --> 02:18:31.959
leaves to make carbohydrates are needed to
form the bloom buds and then also to

1857
02:18:33.559 --> 02:18:37.280
form the fruit. Uh. And
so it sounds like you're getting that adequate

1858
02:18:37.280 --> 02:18:41.399
so moisture so it doesn't go into
stress is not excessive amounts of nitrogen,

1859
02:18:43.159 --> 02:18:46.680
but it shouldn't go as long as
you described without fruiting at all. That

1860
02:18:46.680 --> 02:18:54.120
that's very peculiar. On do you
know, is this a is some mere

1861
02:18:54.239 --> 02:18:58.559
lemon or is it some of the
lemon tree a barn from the nursery,

1862
02:18:58.600 --> 02:19:03.719
And you know it's just like I
don't understand. Yeah, myers are good

1863
02:19:03.799 --> 02:19:07.639
lemons. They do just fine.
Well. A tree, like a lemon

1864
02:19:07.719 --> 02:19:11.959
or other fruit tree sets fruit because
sunlight shines on the leaves, carbohydrates are

1865
02:19:11.959 --> 02:19:18.440
made and it just gets the ability
to set the bloom buds and then the

1866
02:19:18.440 --> 02:19:22.239
fruit. Are your trees blooming and
not setting or are they not even blooming?

1867
02:19:22.280 --> 02:19:26.040
I've never seen a flower on them. To be here with you on

1868
02:19:26.200 --> 02:19:30.120
garden Line, I'm your host,
Skip Richter and our phone number seven one

1869
02:19:30.159 --> 02:19:33.319
three two one two fifty eight seventy
four. We are going to now run

1870
02:19:33.360 --> 02:19:37.360
out to let's see, we're going
to Huntsville, Texas and talk to Charles.

1871
02:19:37.559 --> 02:19:43.520
Hello, Charles. I've heard a
lot of discussions this morning about bark

1872
02:19:43.559 --> 02:19:46.159
stripping. And I've got a pear
tree that it went from the bottom clear

1873
02:19:46.159 --> 02:19:50.600
to the top and I ended up
losing about four or five branches that became

1874
02:19:50.719 --> 02:19:56.040
dead. And a local landscaper looked
at it and said wrap it with burlap.

1875
02:19:56.479 --> 02:20:00.399
And I'm wondering if the rash now
was the same that existed ten or

1876
02:20:00.440 --> 02:20:03.159
twelve years ago, that every time
you had something sought off you had to

1877
02:20:03.200 --> 02:20:09.000
spray it with that black tar like
steps just as a protection. And now

1878
02:20:09.079 --> 02:20:13.319
that's gone completely out of style.
Yeah, do you have comments about that.

1879
02:20:13.360 --> 02:20:16.639
I don't. Wrapping is not going
to be helpful or needed. In

1880
02:20:16.680 --> 02:20:20.479
fact, it actually could work against
you. I'd like to clear away any

1881
02:20:20.520 --> 02:20:26.440
dead barks, to expose the inner
wood that is there. That way,

1882
02:20:26.520 --> 02:20:28.799
when we have a rain or something, it gets wet, it dries out

1883
02:20:28.879 --> 02:20:35.159
quickly, and the bark, the
callous that will form on the sides of

1884
02:20:35.200 --> 02:20:39.559
a wound or a dead area and
begin to crawl back over. If you

1885
02:20:39.600 --> 02:20:43.639
will like a lava flow to close
over and protect that interior wood, that

1886
02:20:43.680 --> 02:20:48.040
callous can be seen and it can
go ahead and do its job. Well,

1887
02:20:48.079 --> 02:20:52.280
I've seen that callous form and since
I gave up one spring. But

1888
02:20:52.319 --> 02:20:56.000
at one time that was the answer. Oh spray, and I assume that

1889
02:20:56.079 --> 02:21:00.319
was a black tar like substance you
sprayed on it. Yes, yes,

1890
02:21:00.639 --> 02:21:03.719
absolutely, black black tar like substance. But I don't recommend doing that at

1891
02:21:03.719 --> 02:21:07.040
all. Didn't Well, that must
have gone out of style. Yeah,

1892
02:21:07.120 --> 02:21:11.200
it has gone it's it's been disproven. I won't go into all the details

1893
02:21:11.239 --> 02:21:16.120
of why, but it doesn't help. There's only one time when we use

1894
02:21:16.159 --> 02:21:20.040
those pruning paints, and that is
if here in Texas, if you have

1895
02:21:20.120 --> 02:21:24.159
oak wilt in your area and you
prune an oak tree, the paint is

1896
02:21:24.200 --> 02:21:28.280
on there, not to help it
wound healing, but to stop the bug

1897
02:21:28.319 --> 02:21:33.319
from getting in and infecting with that
disease. So that's all right, all

1898
02:21:33.399 --> 02:21:35.879
right, Charles, thanks, thank
you, appreciate your insight. You bet,

1899
02:21:35.959 --> 02:21:41.920
thank you for the call. I'm
going to go now to Kathy in

1900
02:21:41.959 --> 02:21:50.520
northwest Houston. Hello, Kathy,
Hi, very good callers today. The

1901
02:21:50.559 --> 02:21:54.959
guy with the bar problem. I've
got oak trees out here and they slop

1902
02:21:56.040 --> 02:22:01.280
off bark every so many years.
So it's a common thing in trees.

1903
02:22:01.479 --> 02:22:05.040
They need to remove old bark in
orders for the new bark to expand,

1904
02:22:05.479 --> 02:22:09.680
the tree to expand in its girth. Then the other thing was the guy

1905
02:22:09.760 --> 02:22:18.719
with the lemon problem. Lemons limes
sometimes the type of lemon or lime it

1906
02:22:18.799 --> 02:22:26.520
is, they come in male and
female. There. I'm sorry, Kathy,

1907
02:22:26.559 --> 02:22:31.120
but there there's not a male and
female lemon or lime that one is.

1908
02:22:31.479 --> 02:22:35.879
That's not accurate. The really,
yeah, because it's not we have

1909
02:22:35.959 --> 02:22:39.000
that's what I had been told.
Well, we have a few fruit that

1910
02:22:39.079 --> 02:22:43.120
can do something like that, like
per simmons can have male and female flowers

1911
02:22:43.360 --> 02:22:48.280
that are separate, not separate trees
male and female. Oh well that might

1912
02:22:48.280 --> 02:22:52.000
have been I mean it was years
and years and years ago that I learned

1913
02:22:52.040 --> 02:22:56.520
that. Yeah, and there are
some fruit Papayas have male and female trees

1914
02:22:56.559 --> 02:22:58.840
that are separate, or trees that
are both. Actually, but yeah,

1915
02:23:00.000 --> 02:23:01.959
we got red plum. There are
red plums that are male and female.

1916
02:23:03.000 --> 02:23:07.319
Awesome. Actually, I'm sorry that
the plums, peaches, per simmons,

1917
02:23:07.440 --> 02:23:13.520
I mean plums, peaches, pears, apricots, stone fruits, palm fruits

1918
02:23:13.559 --> 02:23:16.040
like apples and pears, all of
those are they have perfect flowers, they

1919
02:23:16.040 --> 02:23:20.319
have male and female parts on the
flowers. But okay, but there are

1920
02:23:20.360 --> 02:23:22.200
other things that will cause the lack
of fruits out that we've been hearing about

1921
02:23:22.239 --> 02:23:26.040
today. Well it's just true.
Okay. Well I smoke then, and

1922
02:23:26.079 --> 02:23:30.000
thank you for updating my information.
Well, thanks for calling in. I

1923
02:23:30.040 --> 02:23:33.040
appreciate that, and thanks for being
listening to Guardenline. Appreciate that a lot.

1924
02:23:33.600 --> 02:23:37.760
We're going to go now to Pleasantville. That's a nice, pleasant sound,

1925
02:23:37.840 --> 02:23:41.799
and we're going to talk to Deborah
hy Deborah, Well, I skip

1926
02:23:41.840 --> 02:23:46.360
the weeds over here are pleasant.
Now I'm restarting a Saint Augustine yard.

1927
02:23:46.399 --> 02:23:50.360
I can't do it all at one
time. So half of the yard is

1928
02:23:50.440 --> 02:23:52.600
waiting for me to put salt on. It is full of nut stage and

1929
02:23:52.719 --> 02:23:58.680
Virginia button weed. Okay, could
I spray something like image or sedge hammer

1930
02:23:58.719 --> 02:24:01.920
on there? Wake them within a
half and we saw it? Or should

1931
02:24:01.959 --> 02:24:03.760
I just lay that saw right on
top of it, let it grow and

1932
02:24:03.840 --> 02:24:07.399
then hit it. Well, whenever
you lay side, you want to lay

1933
02:24:07.440 --> 02:24:11.879
it on bare dirt, so whatever
it takes, not on old dead grass,

1934
02:24:11.920 --> 02:24:15.479
because you want the sad bottom to
touch the dirt and root right in.

1935
02:24:15.559 --> 02:24:20.280
Really well, I would definitely control
the button weed and the nut's edge

1936
02:24:20.399 --> 02:24:24.639
in the meantime because you can use
things, and you can do a better

1937
02:24:24.719 --> 02:24:30.680
job of killing those weeds without hurting
your lawn while you're in between lawns,

1938
02:24:30.719 --> 02:24:33.360
if you will, so, law, Yeah, get your sedge hammer,

1939
02:24:33.559 --> 02:24:39.399
get those nuts edges killed. They're
gonna come back again one application. You

1940
02:24:39.399 --> 02:24:41.719
know there's nuts underground that haven't sprouted
death that will, you know, and

1941
02:24:43.120 --> 02:24:46.600
so do that. As far as
Virginia button weed would there's a lot of

1942
02:24:46.639 --> 02:24:48.799
different ways you can go about it
when you don't have to worry about what

1943
02:24:48.840 --> 02:24:52.440
you're spraying it on. But in
a lawn, we would use celsius,

1944
02:24:52.559 --> 02:24:58.600
which is a herbicide to kill the
button weed. It's very effective. If

1945
02:24:58.600 --> 02:25:00.680
you don't have a lawn, then
we can and try it. You can

1946
02:25:00.680 --> 02:25:05.079
try other things. Okay, yeah, right there on the half of the

1947
02:25:05.159 --> 02:25:07.159
lawn is I resaw it that the
other half doesn't have anything on it,

1948
02:25:07.239 --> 02:25:11.559
But yeah, weeds that's going into
my bare dirt. Yeah that's right.

1949
02:25:11.600 --> 02:25:15.760
I'm trying to smother it with cardboard
the natural way. Yeah, it's crazy.

1950
02:25:16.120 --> 02:25:18.159
Well, you know, and nuts
edge can hold its breath a long

1951
02:25:18.239 --> 02:25:22.280
time, so cardboard is not going
to really get those nuts out of there.

1952
02:25:22.319 --> 02:25:26.079
It'll kill it sticking up above the
ground, but they'll poke through it.

1953
02:25:26.840 --> 02:25:31.719
So but your instinct is right,
get that completely weed free from those

1954
02:25:31.799 --> 02:25:37.959
perennial, pernicious weeds like nutsedge and
bermuda grass and Virginia button weed and dollar

1955
02:25:37.000 --> 02:25:41.840
weed, anything like that. Now's
the time to clear it up. Even

1956
02:25:41.879 --> 02:25:45.399
if you spray it a while.
You watch, and you wait and give

1957
02:25:45.440 --> 02:25:48.840
it some water to encourage re sprouting
of anything still there, and spray it

1958
02:25:48.840 --> 02:25:52.959
again, get it cleaned out,
and then when you lay your lawn down,

1959
02:25:52.159 --> 02:25:56.680
it's much easier than if you lay
lawn over a weedy spot. Okay,

1960
02:25:58.319 --> 02:26:03.079
all right, thank you so much, thanks a lot, appreciate appreciate

1961
02:26:03.159 --> 02:26:07.040
your call very much. Wow.
What do they say? Time flies when

1962
02:26:07.040 --> 02:26:09.200
you're having fun? Here we are
it is time for music to be playing.

1963
02:26:09.239 --> 02:26:15.280
We're at the end of the hour. Star of Hope is celebrating their

1964
02:26:15.360 --> 02:26:20.159
one hundred and seventeen anniversary Monday,
July first, that's tomorrow. Can you

1965
02:26:20.200 --> 02:26:26.719
believe that since nineteen oh seven they
have been making a difference. They've changed

1966
02:26:26.760 --> 02:26:31.200
the lives of thousands of homeless men, women and children. I hope you'll

1967
02:26:31.280 --> 02:26:33.440
join them in their journey. My
wife and I support Star Hope. You

1968
02:26:33.440 --> 02:26:39.319
can go to Star of Hope mission
dot org. Sh mission is actually it

1969
02:26:39.440 --> 02:26:46.959
don't spell out Star Hope soohmission dot
org. And we're going to be posting

1970
02:26:46.000 --> 02:26:50.799
some stuff about this on our Facebook
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1971
02:26:50.840 --> 02:26:56.079
will follow us on Facebook too,
because we're always putting things up that are

1972
02:26:56.120 --> 02:26:58.319
helpful here and there, letting you
know about things going on in the gardening

1973
02:26:58.360 --> 02:27:03.079
world around out. Star of Hope, Mission Boy, whatever here I can

1974
02:27:03.120 --> 02:27:05.959
find a better consy. Hey,
thanks for listening to us this weekend.

1975
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