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Katie r h. Garden Line does
not necessarily endorse any of the products or

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

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Richt. It's so crazy trip.
Just watch him as many good things to

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suppot. Crazy gas canst jump back
again, not a sad gas. Good

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morning, Good Sunday morning. And
I just want to congratulate everyone listening.

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A forgetting up at this hour to
listen to garden Line. Second for remembering

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to set your clocks back or forward? Excuse me, spring forward? We

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fall back in the fall. Well, anyway, apparently I remembered because I'm

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here today. We are looking forward
to talking about all kinds of things gardening.

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Now you need to look next door
at your neighbor's house. If the

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lights are off, go bang on
the door, wake them up, tell

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them they're missing guard line. They
will rise up and call you blessed someday,

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maybe not today. They'll call you
something else this morning. I suspect

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what are we going to talk about
today? Well, you get to set

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the stage for that by making a
call to seven to one three. Hey,

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before I give the phone number,
do you know that when you need

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to reach information on any kind of
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listen to some of the past shows. Yep, they're available. Just go

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online and go to the garden Line
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you find the past shows. They're
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So anytime you want to go back
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we're also the shows and we turn
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listen to past shows that way as
well. You just go online if you've

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but you can listen to guard Line. Sign up to listen to it.

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You can listen live. We have
people that listen even outside the state to

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garden Line live because they use that
feature, which is kind of cool,

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I think, because you can kind
of go backwards. We always miss something,

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maybe I said something you couldn't remember
what it was, did and write

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it down. Well, you can
do that as well. Well. If

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you would like to just get really
immediate and start talking today with me about

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things, you can doll us up
at seven one three, two, one

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

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eight seven four. And I always
tell folks that if you want to

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get on guard line fast, the
best thing to do is call early in

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the morning because phones are wide open
right now, so you can get right

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in if you'd like to do that. It is spring, and if we

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have a bit of gardening blood in
us, we are excited to be outside.

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And you know, getting the soil
ready. Everybody who listens to the

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show ought to know that first thing
you do is get the soil ready,

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brown stuff before green stuff. Getting
the soil ready means building up the soil.

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It means putting composted materials in.
It means purchasing a bed mix to

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grow in. It means putting in
the right fertilizers and getting that soil ready

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for when the plant roots hit the
ground. Everything they need is there.

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There's good moisture because it holds moisture. There's good drainage because it drains well,

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so there's oxygen in the soil.
There's every nutrient the plant might need.

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They're in the bank account waiting for
it. And that's as easy as

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it goes right there, you know. For I was talking about spring and

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everything, it's an exciting time.
Yesterday I was saying we were giddy gardeners

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because it's springtime. I would say, take all that energy to all that

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interest in the flowers and vegetables and
that gorgeous, beautiful lawn and on and

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on. Take all that interest and
just focus it with facts so that you

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can have success. I want you
in the middle of summer to look at

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a lawn that is gorgeous. And
to do that, we got to do

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certain things right. And there's a
lot of misinformation out there on any topic,

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certainly on gardening, and we want
to guide you in the right way

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to do it. If you want
to have a beautiful tomato harvest, there's

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a way to get there from here, and that's what we're here to help

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you with. Well, we're going
to go straight to the phones this morning

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and I'm going to head out to
sugar Land and talk to Mel. Hello,

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Mel, good morning, Hi,
good morning. What's up. So

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the freeze a couple of years ago
it killed these little three beads clovers I

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have in the front. They have
these real cool looking maroon red looking like

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heart to look like hearts on each
three of the clovers, and they finally

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came back this year barely like little
ones. Uh, there's anywhere I can

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just like dig that out of the
ground and like somehow keep it, I

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don't know, put in a a
an indoor flower of it, or trying

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to cultivate them or keep them keep
them healthy all the year round, or

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do you think it's just a springtime
fan. It's it's gonna it's gonna be

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hard to keep it year round.
There's a number of different kinds of clovers,

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and the kind you're describing is it
tends to kind of go away,

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and so you can try that and
see, certainly let it go back to

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seed if you like the looks of
it, and have it in a bed

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or whatever you're you're wanting to accomplish
with it. But you know, some

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in some parts of the country you
can you can almost have clovers as like

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a groundcover lawn type material, but
we don't do well with that down here

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just because of the summer heat primarily
right on and so it's just a natural

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seating that does myself. Yeah,
that's it. Most of it behaves like

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biennial sprouting in the fall, going
through winter and then looking good in the

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spring when everything looks good, and
then they take the idea. I did

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some bike riding over here, the
like four ben big drals. Yes,

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gorgeous, man, it's gorgeous everywhere
this year. All right, all right,

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well, thank you. Enjoy it
out there, mil It is certainly

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time to do that. Thanks for
the call. Appreciate that very much.

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We were talking. I was just
mentioning a while ago. You know,

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the importance of taking care of your
lawn. And one of the things we

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need to do is we need to
deal with the cool season weeds that now

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are really making their presence known by
growing fast. Uh. And this is

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the time on my schedule where if
you're going to do an early greenup,

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you do that. Now. Nitrofoss
has a product that is the early Greenup.

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It's the fifteen five to ten.
But it also contains trimeac, which

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is a broad leaf post emergent weed
killer. And so if you wet the

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lawn, just wet the foliage of
the weeds, put that product out.

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It'll stick to the weed surfaces.
Give it about a day or so watered

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in really good, and then what's
going to happen is you will have moved

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the nutrients down in the soil.
But you also will take down those broad

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leaf weeds. They are going to
get bigger and grow more. They're going

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to have blooms, they're going to
have seeds, and the sooner in that

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process you can shut it down,
the better. Now you can find nitrofoss

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products a whole lot of places.
Lake Hardware down in Angleton, Fisher's Hardware

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in Baytown, and D and D
Feed up in tambule I'll carry the nitrofoss

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products like the fifteen to five to
ten with the trimeac in it. I

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want to go now to Spring,
Texas. We're going to talk to Liz.

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Hey, Liz, Hey, good
morning. Yes, Hey Liz,

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I'm sorry. I took your call
and I then looked at the clock.

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Will you hold on and I'll I'll
talk to you first when I come back.

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Sure, thank you. Sorry about
that false alarm. We'll be right

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back. Welcome back to the garden
line. Hey, it's good to have

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you with us today. Well let's
see here, Liz, this is not

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a false alarm. We're back and
you're the first pack. Can we help

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today? Yes? My question is
how do you start introducing beneficial bugs to

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your rose garden? Do you just
buy them. Where do you go,

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do you at one type at a
time, or how do you go by

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doing that? Good questions that you
can purchase bugs beneficials around. But you've

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got beneficials around, they just don't
have a reason to be there yet,

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and you can give them a reason
to be there. So when you plant

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flowers that attract them in and among
your roses or somewhere in the yard,

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you're going to find that the beneficials
show up. The flowers that have small

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daisy like blooms like the chemomeal or
fall aster. There's a lot of little

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flowers like that that have the little
small daisy like blooms. And in terms

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of the shape of the flower,
flowers that have an umbrella like bloom top

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and that would be yarrow for example, was a good one for that aniss

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when it goes to bloom. A
coriander which is cilantro when it goes to

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bloom. There's a lot of flowers
like that. Herbs like time and trailing

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rosemary and chives all attract beneficial insects. And then having a few aphids around.

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I usually put some tropical milkweed out
and because it attracts a yellow aphid

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that will not get on your roses. But when you have that, you're

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gonna have lady beetles, you're gonna
have lace wings, you're gonna have parasitoid

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wasps all in the garden. So
basically, it's kind of like the old

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movie Field of Dreams of a baseball
field where they said if you build it,

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they will come, and that that's
how it is in your garden.

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Okay, all right, thank you, all right, you take. I

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need to put something on my website
about that. That would be a good

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addition. You've given me an idea. Maybe I can get around to getting

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that done. Thank you, Liz, Thank you, bet bye bye.

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That's good. Good to visit about
those things. Let's see, we're going

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to go to Mark in Liberty.
Hello. Mark, howdy sir, how

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can we help today? I just
wanna, I just wonder. I'm actually

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it's seven thirty at night here in
Singapore. I'm just I'll be home in

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a couple of weeks. I want
to see if it's too late for me

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to put down barricade to stop stick
or burst. Uh no, it's not,

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No, it's not. First of
all, congratulations on being the furthest

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away caller I've had so far on
my time on the show. No,

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it's not at all. You need
to get it down when you get back.

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Grassburgs aren't the earliest weeds to sprout, but don't delay. As soon

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as you get back, go ahead
and get the barricade down. Water it

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in with one half inch roughly of
water, just to move it to the

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surface. Just a little bit of
water, and that's where it'll go to

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work when they try to sprout.
You must have some sandy soil up there,

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yes, sir, And I'm getting
a bigger and bigger bumper crop every

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year, so it's driving me crazy. Well, that's right, appreciate it.

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Yeah, you bet, Mark and
have a safe trip back. Good

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to hear from you this morning.
Yeah. Barricade is one of those products

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that we call a pre emergent And
what does that mean. It means before

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you have the weeds, you put
it down. Post emergents kill weeds.

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You can see, pre emergence prevent
weeds that haven't sprouted yet from successfully establishing.

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And that's what barricade does. It
works on It works on grassy weeds

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and it works on broad leaf weeds. Both the key to a pre emergent

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herbicide is to incorporate rate it.
And what does that mean. That means

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we move it down to the soil
surface. In agriculture there used to be

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some that they very lightly disked the
field to get them into the surface.

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For our home lawn weed applications,
it's water. We put about a third

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inch to a half inch of water
on just to move it down to the

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weed surface. And that is where
it's going to work. And for those

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of you who've heard about it,
I mean talk about it a lot here

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on garden Line. You can find
it in a lot of places. So

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if you're looking for it, how
about a task Asta ace They carry it

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out there. You're going to find
it at ace at Sincle Ranch too,

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for example. That's another place where
they will call bary Kate. If you're

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done in Lake Jackson, Lake Hardware
and Clute will have it as well,

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So it's easy to find as you
look around. Let's head out now to

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kemp Logan and we're going to talk
to Ron. Hello. Ron, Yeah,

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good morning. Skip. Let's talked
to you yesterday morning about a weed

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that propped up in some New Saint
Augustine saw that. I laid down in

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the fall, and I emailed in
a couple of pictures yesterday hoping that you

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could identified tell me what you used
to kill it. I saw that,

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and I there are several weeds that
look just like that. There. It's

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a partially looking leaf. There is
a partially type weed that can have it.

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But there are some other things in
the carrot family that will have that

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kind of leaf. So I can't
say the specific name of it. If

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you tried. I think you tried
for a long weed tree zone on it.

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I tried that and that didn't seem
to affect it. I would I

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would give a shot at boneye weed
beater ultra do the ultra one. There's

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yeah, I would try that and
see, you know, without knowing exactly

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the weed, you know, I
can't say, yes, this will knock

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it out, but it has a
different mix of ingredients that would give you

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a better shot at it. I
think you also have the option we talk

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about doing, you know, an
application of a product to stick to the

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weeds when you fertilize. I was
talking about that earlier. And if you

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haven't put in a spring green up
yet and you're gonna put a spring greenup

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in you might try one that is
going to have a broad leaf post emergent

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weed killer in it. Have you
have you done it for greenup? Pardon?

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Yeah, I've done early greenup and
I'll try the weed. That's what

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I would do. That work,
Yeah, that's what I would do.

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Just follow the label, carefully,
mix it right and catch the weed as

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it's as soon as you can,
uh where it's at its most susceptible stage

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right now, right, Okay,
thanks Jeff, I appreciate it, you

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bet, Thanks for the call.
Our phone number if you'd like to give

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us a call is seven one three
two one two fifty eight seventy four seven

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one three two one two five eight
seven four Verden Tree Farm. They make

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it easy for you and they have
the trees that you need for your yard

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here in this area, the trees
that grow throughout this whole, and really

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they for example, will have palm
trees for those of you who are interested

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in palms, the hardiest palms that
you would want to plant around here.

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They can tell you which ones those
are and recommend which one to plant.

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Maybe you want a different kind of
shade tree. Well, They've got it.

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Even very large shrubs, types of
hollies and other things. They carry

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those as well. They make it
easy by having three locations. You can

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go out to West Houston Parker Cypress. You can go in the central town

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where Yale and I ten come together. You can go down to Pearland on

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Broadway Street. They have those there
as well. And then they make it

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easy by sitting down with you and
consulting and saying, hey, this.

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You bring them a picture of your
yard and they'll tell you here's some options

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I think would fit what you're looking
for there. And finally they make it

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easy. You just pick it out
and they tag it and they bring it

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to your house and they plant it
for you. Now, that makes it

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easy. A good quality tree,
good quality service, and just a downright

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good company. Verdant Treefarm dot com. Verdant Treefarm dot com. You can

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find out more about them. It's
really, really, really a pleasure to

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work with the folks, and they
do a very good job, very good

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job. Let's go out to Austin
in League City. Now. Hello Austin,

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Hello, sir, how are you
doing this morning? I'm well,

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thank you, Yeah, I wanted
to ask you I saw somebody local to

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me advertising on Facebook yesterday about air
raiding lawns that I just wanted to Is

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that really something beneficial to have done? It is very beneficial, especially in

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a clay soil where they can get
compacted and you don't have a good oxygen

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down in the root zone of the
plant yards that are struggling along. We

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have a couple of folks in the
area that do that. Those companies tend

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to not travel too far because it's
expensive hauling the bulk of the compost and

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the and everything to do a yard, and so you're down in League City,

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you're just a little bit I believe
outside of where B and B would

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go. They cover more southwest.
But some people will runt equipment and do

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it themselves. I can tell you
this. The people you hire to do

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it, they've got better equipment that
does a better job pulling the plugs out

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of the ground, and then the
equipment that spreads is fast and easy to

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get it done that way. But
in a pinch, if you can't get

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somebody to come out, you can
do some compost, top dressing and even

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aerration yourself. Okay, well,
I appreciate the help all right, good

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luck with that, Thank you,
you bet take care. Yeah, heavn

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aeration is great oxygen in the soil. When you make those cores, when

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you pull the plugs out of the
ground, those open hole, excuse me,

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organic matter goes in them. You're
fertilizers will go down in there,

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but most of all oxygen goes down
in there, and then the compost top

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dressing is just the finishing thing that
really helps you have a very very beautiful

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lawn. Speaking of a beautiful lawn, the folks at Microlife have a lot

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of different products that you can use
on your lawn and really anywhere in your

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landscape that we're hitting the fertilization time. And they're sixty four is a green

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bag. That's the standard product that
they produce four lawn fertilization. But don't

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forget the hum Mats plus. Hum
Mates plus is concentrated compost in a bag.

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It's got a little nutrient in it, but you're not putting it down

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for nutrient. It's not putting.
You're not putting it down to fertilize.

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You're putting it down to get the
final stage of compost, which helps build

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soil structure down on your ground and
the microbial activity that comes along with that

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that helps the roots to thrive.
Therefore the grass does better. So over

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time, applying the microlife a few
mates plus that's a purple bag over and

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over again through the seasons, it
just gets better and better and better.

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Not that you're not going to see
results soon, but to continue to do

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what nature does, and that is
to build the soil slowly over time.

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That is a secret to good success
with that. And I would suggest that

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if you want go online to Microlife
Fertilizer dot com. You're going to find

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all their products there with more information
on them, and also a list of

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all the places you can buy Microlife, which is pretty much everywhere. There

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were very very widely widely available.
Excuse me, I have some hum mates

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plus and I'm actually about to put
on my yard this spring. You know,

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they say that Cobbler's kids go barefoot? Have you ever heard that Mickey

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Cobbler's kids. The other day,
I was looking at my yard going,

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I'm glad garden line listeners can't see
because I took a hit last year.

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I'm resotting some areas, so let
me get me about three or four weeks

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and then take a look. It'll
be in a lot better better shape by

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that point in time. You know, there's nothing wrong with struggling with plant

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things. Nature has its vicissitudes,
as we say, and it's always it's

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always changing, it's always different,
and you can always fix things. In

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some years you have challenges, like
last year on my lawn I did,

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but you can always come back and
we give the advice to help you do

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that. Hey, I'm going to
take break. Let Nicky have the mic

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for a bit. Seven one three
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I'll be right back and Ike,
you'll be first up. All right,

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enough of that. We play weird
stuff on guarden Line. Sometimes I say

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fun stuff, you may say weird
stuff. My family rolls their eyes when

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that kind of stuff happens at my
house. But hey, you know,

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you got to be yourself right,
you know. The one of the coolest

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new products on the market that I've
seen in the last few years is the

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three tree stabilizer. It's a new
product that's out there now. You attach

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it to a post, a vertical
post, and attach it to your newly

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planted trees trunk. If maybe you
plant a tree last fall and you didn't

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stake it. Go ahead and get
one now and put it on there.

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It holds that tree very firmly,
but it has a strap that is soft

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and you set it loosely so the
tree can move a little bit. That's

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important on developing trunk strength. Don't
honker it down. You see these people

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that put like three guy wires down
and that tree, it's like it's a

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rocket. They're afraid it's going to
take off. No, you want it

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to move with the tree stabilizer.
You have a vertical post, so it's

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not leaning out for someone to cut
their shoulder or something on. It doesn't

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have the wires going to the ground
to trip over. It's very neat and

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clean. You set the post pretty
close to the tree itself and it just

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allows you to get around it and
work. But most of all, it

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does the job right and you can
get it a lot of places. You

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can find it at rcw B Cannons
at Arborgate Lance for all seasons, Jorges

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Hidden Gardens down South and Alvin has
it and Southwest Fertilizer. Of course they

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have it. They have everything.
But it's easy to find and it works,

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and it lasts a long time,
and it's well worth the investment.

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Listen, you paid a lot for
that tree, and this is a small

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investment to help you make sure you
have success because the goal is to get

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that tree growing healthy and fast.
I'm going to go now out to Cyprus

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and we're going to talk to Ike
this morning. Good morning Ike, Hi,

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Good morning Skip. How are you, sir? I'm well, Thank

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you, sir. I had a
question I've got hey Ike, can you

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hear me? Dog? Yes?
Can you hear me? Yeah? Yeah,

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you cut completely out. I didn't
catch that. Are you there?

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Yes, I'm here now. Okay. I have a problem in my backyard.

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I cannot get grass to grow.
I've got dogs that play pretty aggressively

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and I think has a lot to
do with it. Yeah. I had

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somebody suggest I use many white Dutch
clover as a to get something growing to

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help with the mud that is caused
because of no grass that's able to be

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grown. My next alternative is to
do just turf just to prevent some of

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the mud from coming in. Have
you heard of that or is that a

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I've heard of it. That's not
a wear and terror plant clover. The

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turf is your best bet. If
Saint Augustine is not working well for you,

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you might consider switching over to Azoisia. They're a denser, tougher turf.

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They have an underground rhizome that's a
little bit more bounce backable. Saint

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Augustine just lives sitting up on top
of the ground. That would be something

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to consider, depending on all the
factors of sunlight and whatever that you have

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there on the spot. Yeah,
it's definitely getting enough sunlight. That's it's

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got direct heat on the backside with
the sunset. So yeah, that's okay,

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Well it sounds good. I'll give
that a try, all right,

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and just sit down and give the
dogs a good talking to. They they

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care, I mean they Oh I
didn't know that. I'll be happy to

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change my habits for you. They
definitely love the grass. Yeah, you

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bet. You take care, have
a good have a good rest of your

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day. Have you been to Plants
for all seasons lately? I'm telling you

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I have, and they are loaded
up on all kinds of plants. Uh.

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The color is just amazing. There
are plants for all seasons and where

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you're there, check out their their
containers, beautiful glazed containers that if you

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were to go in and say,
look, I want I want a multiple

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plant, beautiful color container that will
carry me through spring on into summer.

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They can walk you around and go, well, here's a here's a group

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of flowers that you can plant in
a container. You want to get a

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good sized container, and they'll help
you in the in terms of I'll say

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designing it, meaning we'll put this
one in the middle, put these around

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the sides, and you can go
home and create something that is just going

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to be a showstopper on your patio
if you want to put it out on

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a front porch wherever you have it, tell them how much sun you can

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give it and they'll get you straightened
out. That's how they do things there.

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They give good advice. They have
good plants that want to grow here,

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and that's the key to success.
If you have a problem, take

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it in, take a picture,
take a plant. They'll identify it,

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they'll diagnose it, they'll do it
right. That is how the Flowerys have

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been doing things since nineteen seventy three
at Plants for All Seasons, and you

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can just go to the website Plants
for All Seasons dot com, or you

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can call them to eight, one, three, seven, six, sixteen

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forty six. They are right off
of FM two forty nine Tomball Parkway as

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you're going north for a Tomball cross
over Luetta and they're right there on the

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side of Tomball Parkway. And I'm
going to head out now. I think

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we're going out to Spring and talk
to Liz. Good morning, Liz.

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Yes, it's me again. I
have another question. I'm sorry, that's

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okay. Yeah, this is regarding
the the other call that you had about

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the tilling. Yes, so we're
gonna be putting roses tomorrow. And my

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question is, I know you talked
about it. That is a good idea.

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So do I need to what kind
of tool do I need to use?

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Do I need to actually use like
the simple menual one? Should I

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go to Low's and rent one?
Yeah? And my other question that I

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have and how deep that's right,
how deep do I go? Okay,

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my toil that I have right now, it's kind of like hmm soft because

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I've been putting you know, stuff
on it through the past years. But

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then when you get down beep,
it's going to be clay. And my

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other question is the alfalfa. What's
the difference between the pellets and the powder.

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There's a preference, that's all.
Uh what was the product that you're

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has pellets and powder? Oh a'l
falfa, oh alfalfa. Okay, well

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it doesn't matter which of those two
if you want to put it down.

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But you know that that it doesn't
matter pelletz er powder. So how big?

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How many roses are you going to
plant? How big is this bed?

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It's about you cut out on the
numbers, say the two numbers,

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twenty eleven, twenty eleven. Okay, we yeah, At that size,

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a rototiller is probably justifiable. Either
rototilling or spading will work. I would

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put about three or four inches of
compost or bed mix. Better bed mix

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a rose soil would be ideal on
the ground, and then I would rototill

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it or spade it in as deeply
as you can. Rototillers don't go very

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deep. They're only going to go
about maybe four to six inches if you

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really get a good sized rototiller to
get as far as you can. So

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that's why I just put a little
bit accompost on top, mix it in

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as deeply as I can, or
bed mix, and then add more to

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the surface and build up a bed
that's about a foot high because it's going

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to settle down to about six inches
high, and so then you can dig

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the holes and plant the roses.
Okay, okay, so much I appreciate

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it. You bet good luck with
that. Sounds like a fun, fun

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project and good plans as well.
You know, the Landscaper's Pride folks have

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a lot of products for you to
choose from that twenty something products, and

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that includes things like their pot Dirt, which is an omri organic certified organic

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soil, proven for short term and
really a kind of a high potency plant

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growth. It's got nutrients like it's
got worm castings and sand, it's got

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vermiculite and other things as well.
So if you've got a color bed that

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you really want to pop, pot
Dirt can do it. Landscapers Mix has

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pine bark, riceols, pearlite,
and even a slow release fertilizer. So

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do you want to build up a
bed for good drainage, something for a

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new bed that you're putting in,
or something just to add to and raise

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up a little bit more an existing
bed that you have. Now you're going

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to find Landscapers Pride products all over
just go to Landscaperspride dot com and that

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will take you to where you can
find every place where you can get these

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products, and there are a lot
of places. We're going to take a

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break and we'll be right back.
When we come back, Larry, you'll

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be the first up. Welcome back
to Guardline. Hey, we're glad you're

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listening today, as we always are. Yesterday I was out at the antiqu

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Rosingporium and I had a great time
give a talk on beneficial insects. It

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was during their spring celebration, which
is still going on today, so it's

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not too late to get out there. It's a beautiful drive out there to

407
00:29:51.440 --> 00:29:55.920
Independence, Texas, just north of
Brenham, and the Anti rosen Porium is

408
00:29:56.000 --> 00:30:00.839
just beautiful and they have old roses. They know roses grow roses correctly.

409
00:30:02.480 --> 00:30:06.200
For example, they use a two
gallum pot, which is a good size

410
00:30:06.319 --> 00:30:11.240
to develop a good root system for
your rows to have a good start.

411
00:30:11.640 --> 00:30:15.599
And they have all the antiques that
you would want, and it's amazing.

412
00:30:15.640 --> 00:30:18.759
They're beautiful. A lot of them
are blooming right now. They just look

413
00:30:18.799 --> 00:30:22.279
great. If you want to find
the place, let me just do this.

414
00:30:22.519 --> 00:30:29.119
Here's their website. Antique Roseemporium dot
com, Antique Rosenporium dot com.

415
00:30:29.240 --> 00:30:32.640
It's about an hour drive from most
of the areas here in Houston. You

416
00:30:32.680 --> 00:30:36.640
can give them a call at nine
seven nine eight three six fifty five forty

417
00:30:36.720 --> 00:30:40.680
eight. And remember, they are
roses, but they are so much more.

418
00:30:40.839 --> 00:30:45.319
And the experience of going out there
and just enjoying seeing the place and

419
00:30:45.400 --> 00:30:48.160
being out in the fresh air,
driving through the blue bonnets. Yep,

420
00:30:48.359 --> 00:30:52.400
blue bonnets are popping out there.
Well, it's worth it, very very

421
00:30:52.480 --> 00:30:55.799
worth it. I'm going to head
over to Sugarland now and talk to Larry.

422
00:30:55.920 --> 00:30:59.880
Hello, Larry, Hey, Good
morning, morna. I've got a

423
00:31:00.039 --> 00:31:03.680
about a four inch in diameter red
bud tree, of course, is looking

424
00:31:03.839 --> 00:31:10.640
beautiful right now. But I discovered
yesterday where I had had some straps around

425
00:31:10.759 --> 00:31:18.920
the trunk, that the that the
park got bark got damaged and underneath I

426
00:31:19.000 --> 00:31:26.359
could see some some tiny red buds
red bugs. Okay, and what what

427
00:31:26.480 --> 00:31:30.799
in the world should I do?
A red bug does not ring a bell

428
00:31:30.920 --> 00:31:34.160
for a tree insect pest, so
it may be some things just hiding under

429
00:31:34.200 --> 00:31:40.480
there. If you wanted to squirt
them with something, you could I don't

430
00:31:40.599 --> 00:31:44.920
know. Of a red tree pest
that would be damaging the trunk on a

431
00:31:45.599 --> 00:31:49.880
on red bud, so little bitty, I mean it was real hard to

432
00:31:51.000 --> 00:31:53.680
find. Yeah, well, I
wouldn't sweat it. You know, if

433
00:31:53.920 --> 00:31:57.759
that little you probably squirt some soaper
oil on them and they'll be fine.

434
00:31:59.279 --> 00:32:00.839
But I would ignore. But that's
just a reminder of, you know,

435
00:32:00.960 --> 00:32:06.200
being careful on those strapping trees.
That's why I like that tree stabilizer because

436
00:32:06.200 --> 00:32:09.079
it's got that big soft rubber strap
that allows movement. Yeah, helps avoid

437
00:32:09.160 --> 00:32:15.920
that. Right now, Should I
try to do anything to protect the bark

438
00:32:15.039 --> 00:32:21.079
where the where the inside you know
you can see the under the bark,

439
00:32:21.920 --> 00:32:25.799
No, No, I would.
I would just leave it and focus on

440
00:32:27.440 --> 00:32:30.480
getting it good nutrients and as we
get into summer and it's hot, an

441
00:32:30.559 --> 00:32:36.559
occasional maybe once a week, good
soaking of irrigation so that you get some

442
00:32:36.799 --> 00:32:39.400
vigor into that red bud. And
that is what it needs to be able

443
00:32:39.440 --> 00:32:44.400
to heal that over close that over, I should say, and it'll be

444
00:32:44.559 --> 00:32:47.400
just fine. Oh okay, I
mean it just doesn't go halfway around the

445
00:32:47.480 --> 00:32:53.279
tree, does it. No?
Okay, all right, okay, second

446
00:32:53.359 --> 00:32:59.799
quick question. Okay, the oak
leaves the I've got two large oaks in

447
00:32:59.839 --> 00:33:06.519
the front yard that do those things
help at all? Do they ever break

448
00:33:06.640 --> 00:33:10.480
down or you know they do?
They will, Yeah, they will if

449
00:33:10.519 --> 00:33:13.839
you don't do anything to them,
because they do that they break down in

450
00:33:13.920 --> 00:33:17.079
the forest. But if you run
over them with a lawnmower and break them

451
00:33:17.160 --> 00:33:22.079
up a little, it increases the
surface area and the microbes can break them

452
00:33:22.119 --> 00:33:25.480
down even faster. So if you
wanted to speed the breakdown, that's what

453
00:33:25.640 --> 00:33:29.720
I do, Hilary. I appreciate
those questions and good luck with them,

454
00:33:29.759 --> 00:33:31.839
but yeah, take advantage of those
leaves. They're very good to have around

455
00:33:31.920 --> 00:33:37.000
for mulching and for composting and everything
else. And you take care. Good

456
00:33:37.079 --> 00:33:40.680
luck out there, and Sugar Lencer. The bee supply out in Dayton is

457
00:33:40.759 --> 00:33:45.519
the place where you go if you
are interested in beekeeping. It's also the

458
00:33:45.559 --> 00:33:49.160
place where you go if you were
just interested in learning about bees. They

459
00:33:49.200 --> 00:33:52.160
have be tours where you sample honey
and it, trust me, it is

460
00:33:52.359 --> 00:33:59.160
fascinating. You will be glad you
went. Very educational, very entertaining and

461
00:33:59.240 --> 00:34:02.519
eye opening. Fun just fun.
But for those of you wanting to keep

462
00:34:02.599 --> 00:34:06.880
bees, or maybe you're thinking about
it, but you haven't decided for sure

463
00:34:06.960 --> 00:34:09.480
yet. Why don't you sign up
for one of their beginning beekeeping classes.

464
00:34:09.599 --> 00:34:14.559
There's one on March twenty third,
there's another in April thirteenth, April twenty

465
00:34:14.639 --> 00:34:16.800
seventh, and there's two more in
May. Sign up for one. You

466
00:34:16.960 --> 00:34:21.280
go out there, you learn a
lot, They provide a lunch for you,

467
00:34:21.440 --> 00:34:25.199
even get to suit up and go
work with some bees outside with them,

468
00:34:25.679 --> 00:34:30.639
and it is extremely educational. Those
folks really know what they're talking about.

469
00:34:31.000 --> 00:34:37.480
The website, if you want more
information, is the besupply dot com

470
00:34:37.039 --> 00:34:43.159
dbesupply dot Com. It's as simple
as that. I mentioned that I was

471
00:34:43.199 --> 00:34:46.360
at Anti Grows and Porium last week. Next Saturday, I'm going to be

472
00:34:46.440 --> 00:34:52.679
a Buchanan's Native Plants that's down in
the Heights on Eleventh Street. Now,

473
00:34:52.760 --> 00:34:55.400
those of you who have been to
Buchanans know that it's worth going to Buchanans

474
00:34:55.880 --> 00:35:01.039
anytime for anything, because they have
an encre selection of native plants. But

475
00:35:01.280 --> 00:35:07.840
come out and see me next Saturday
again. That is next Saturday, the

476
00:35:08.880 --> 00:35:14.239
sixteenth. I had to look at
my calendar sixteenth of the month, and

477
00:35:14.440 --> 00:35:17.320
I'll be just visiting with you at
the table. Come by bring me samples,

478
00:35:17.400 --> 00:35:20.920
bring me plants. If it's a
sample, put it in a ziplock

479
00:35:21.039 --> 00:35:23.679
or closure bag, bring me photos
to look at, and we'll just talk

480
00:35:23.719 --> 00:35:25.559
about all the kinds of things.
You can say, Hey, i've got

481
00:35:25.599 --> 00:35:29.480
an area that I can't get anything
to run. It's too shady, all

482
00:35:29.559 --> 00:35:32.599
right, Well, beukeins can fix
that. They've got a whole section of

483
00:35:32.760 --> 00:35:38.480
plants that do well in the shade. Maybe you're needing some beautiful flowers for

484
00:35:39.159 --> 00:35:45.599
the beneficials. Oh, my goodness, you ought to see the beneficials options.

485
00:35:45.679 --> 00:35:49.760
The bucinnans, for example, they've
got a blue adgeratum. Now it's

486
00:35:49.800 --> 00:35:54.440
an annual that produces a lot of
nectar and pollinators just love that plant.

487
00:35:54.760 --> 00:36:00.719
But that's next weekend, so make
plans right now. Next Saturday, after

488
00:36:00.800 --> 00:36:04.400
the show, I'll head over there
and I'll be there from eleven to one.

489
00:36:04.840 --> 00:36:07.159
Oh, they're giving away some prizes
too. They are like eight different

490
00:36:07.239 --> 00:36:13.519
prizes are given away. So that's
another cool reason, fun reason to go

491
00:36:13.880 --> 00:36:17.360
and to do that. Come see
me. Well, I want to welcome

492
00:36:17.400 --> 00:36:22.320
back to folks from Grimes County Feed. Grimes County Feed is a really cool

493
00:36:22.360 --> 00:36:25.400
old time feed store. It's up
there in Grimes County. They're celebrating,

494
00:36:25.440 --> 00:36:30.119
by the way, their fifth year
anniversary. But it's that old time service.

495
00:36:30.440 --> 00:36:34.440
The Roy family. They've been members
of the community there for a long

496
00:36:34.599 --> 00:36:37.840
time and they give back to the
community in so many different ways. And

497
00:36:37.920 --> 00:36:40.800
people that go in there. I
talk to listeners from time to time that

498
00:36:42.000 --> 00:36:44.280
just say, Yep, we go
to Grimes County. We love it there.

499
00:36:44.719 --> 00:36:47.199
And one reason they like it is
because Grimes County has the fertilizers I

500
00:36:47.320 --> 00:36:53.119
talk about. You hear me talk
about nitrofoss or Microlife or Nelson's or Medina.

501
00:36:53.239 --> 00:36:59.760
They have all those products there at
Grimes County feed They're on Highway thirty

502
00:37:00.119 --> 00:37:02.599
Carlos, Texas. So it's just
a hop, skipping or jump outside in

503
00:37:02.639 --> 00:37:07.960
Annesota outside Brian College Station area.
And if you're in all the beautiful little

504
00:37:08.000 --> 00:37:14.880
towns in God's Country up there,
that would be places like Reliance and Iola

505
00:37:14.960 --> 00:37:17.840
and beat Eyes and Shiro and Richard's. Doesn't that sound fun? Rones,

506
00:37:17.880 --> 00:37:22.599
Prairie Anderson. How about that?
Grimes County feeds your backyard feed store.

507
00:37:22.639 --> 00:37:25.039
I mean, it's just right in
your backyard, easy to get to.

508
00:37:25.400 --> 00:37:31.760
Those of you in subdivisions like kings
Kingwood and muir Wood king Oaks. Excuse

509
00:37:31.800 --> 00:37:36.920
me, king Oaks and mure Wood. I love driven through the subdivision.

510
00:37:37.000 --> 00:37:40.920
Stop and visit with a gardener one
time out there. Those are just a

511
00:37:42.039 --> 00:37:45.519
hop skipping or jump away as well. Grimes County Feed They treat you right,

512
00:37:46.079 --> 00:37:50.559
they provide the products you need,
and they just help you get off

513
00:37:50.639 --> 00:37:52.519
to a good start. And boy, now's the time to go by there

514
00:37:52.599 --> 00:38:00.800
and get that done. This past
week I looked up and my water for

515
00:38:00.920 --> 00:38:06.480
the birds was dry and my bird
feeder was empty. Now I wish they

516
00:38:06.559 --> 00:38:08.800
had come peckt on the back door
and told me to get out there,

517
00:38:08.880 --> 00:38:12.679
because I would have been happy to
fill it up. But I had noticed

518
00:38:12.679 --> 00:38:15.239
I wasn't seeing birds around in the
backyard. Well shame on me. But

519
00:38:15.400 --> 00:38:21.559
I've taken care of that and we
are now back in business with the birds.

520
00:38:21.599 --> 00:38:24.159
You know, Wabirds Unlimited. That's
the place I go. That's where

521
00:38:24.159 --> 00:38:28.360
I get all of my bird stuff. Because when they sell you bird seed,

522
00:38:28.559 --> 00:38:30.519
it's bird seed the birds eat.
It's not bird seed the birds kick

523
00:38:30.559 --> 00:38:36.440
out. And cheap bird seed is
expensive bird seed because what you get for

524
00:38:36.559 --> 00:38:40.320
what you pay is very very little. Now wibirds has a nesting super Blend

525
00:38:40.639 --> 00:38:44.960
listen. Birds are going to be
hatching young. In fact, some already

526
00:38:45.039 --> 00:38:50.719
are right now for spring, and
those young need high protein oil a lot

527
00:38:50.800 --> 00:38:53.719
of energy in the food to survive. That's why the birds are bringing them

528
00:38:53.840 --> 00:38:59.960
the caterpillars that they got out of
our landscapes. Nesting super Blend provide.

529
00:39:00.320 --> 00:39:05.639
It's got like sunflowers and peanuts and
dried mealworms and bark butter and safflower and

530
00:39:05.760 --> 00:39:09.719
tree nuts, and it is a
superpower food that will really help your birds

531
00:39:10.119 --> 00:39:14.559
raise more birds, so we get
to enjoy their antics and their beauty.

532
00:39:15.719 --> 00:39:17.800
I just love birds and always have
water out for them. By the way,

533
00:39:17.960 --> 00:39:22.199
always have water out for your birds. By the way, I forgot

534
00:39:22.199 --> 00:39:23.599
to tell you this. If you
don't know how to find a wild birds,

535
00:39:23.639 --> 00:39:29.280
go to WBU dot com forward slash
Houston. That's how you find them.

536
00:39:29.320 --> 00:39:32.039
There's a bunch of them all over
town. I love love, and

537
00:39:32.239 --> 00:39:36.920
I enjoy birds. That's one of
the things over the last five years that

538
00:39:37.000 --> 00:39:40.760
I've added to my gardening enjoyment.
I think you would too. Sitting in

539
00:39:40.800 --> 00:39:45.440
the morning outside with a cup of
coffee, listening to the songs Ah that's

540
00:39:45.480 --> 00:39:49.639
worth the price of admission right there. Well, I want to remind you

541
00:39:49.760 --> 00:39:52.880
I am going to be at Buchanans
this coming Saturday, so please come by

542
00:39:52.920 --> 00:39:55.400
and see me, bring me some
samples, let's talk. I want to

543
00:39:55.440 --> 00:39:59.280
meet you. I want to find
out what kind of questions you have and

544
00:39:59.360 --> 00:40:04.199
how we can I hope you have
a more beautiful garden and more bountiful landscape.

545
00:40:04.360 --> 00:40:07.480
We're gonna take a little break.
I'll be right back our phone number

546
00:40:07.639 --> 00:40:15.079
seven one three two one two kg
r H. Kt r H Garden Line

547
00:40:15.159 --> 00:40:17.800
does not necessarily endorse any of the
products or services advertised on this program.

548
00:40:20.199 --> 00:40:32.400
Welcome to kt r H Garden Line
with skip rictor crazy trim. Just watch

549
00:40:32.519 --> 00:40:52.760
him as many good things to see. Razing glare not a sound. Welcome

550
00:40:52.840 --> 00:40:55.719
back to Guarden Line. Good to
have you this morning, and let me

551
00:40:55.800 --> 00:41:00.760
be the first to say welcome to
our folks that think they're turning in,

552
00:41:01.559 --> 00:41:07.280
tuning in for the first time today
or earliest time today. You didn't set

553
00:41:07.280 --> 00:41:09.119
your clock back and it's actually seven
o'clock, but we're glad to have you.

554
00:41:09.159 --> 00:41:12.840
Anyway you can, you can be
the first caller in this hour,

555
00:41:13.360 --> 00:41:16.119
the first caller of the show.
I did that one time, and now

556
00:41:16.239 --> 00:41:21.320
forever, every time Day Life Savings
Times comes and goes, I go to

557
00:41:21.440 --> 00:41:24.679
sleep, making sure you know,
Oh gosh, I don't want to forget

558
00:41:24.719 --> 00:41:29.800
this. It would be a very
dead show if for one hour I wouldn't

559
00:41:29.800 --> 00:41:32.599
hear right, that would be kind
of kind of boring. Oh gosh,

560
00:41:32.960 --> 00:41:36.800
here's our number if you'd like to
give us a call. Seven one three

561
00:41:37.079 --> 00:41:42.639
two one two five eight seven four
seven one three two one two fifty eight

562
00:41:42.760 --> 00:41:47.079
seventy four. Now is the time
to get your spring early green up done.

563
00:41:47.360 --> 00:41:51.639
That's an optional fertilization, of course, but if you'd like to make

564
00:41:51.679 --> 00:41:54.360
the lawn look a little greener and
just have a little more color in it

565
00:41:54.599 --> 00:41:59.599
and as it comes into spring,
have that energy to get going, well,

566
00:42:00.000 --> 00:42:01.639
how's the time to do it.
If you go on my schedule which

567
00:42:01.760 --> 00:42:08.079
is at gardening with Skip dot com. That's my website, Gardening with Skip

568
00:42:08.159 --> 00:42:13.000
dot com. The schedules there that
talks about fertilizing as well as one that

569
00:42:13.079 --> 00:42:16.320
talks about insect disease and weed control. And in the spring we have that

570
00:42:16.400 --> 00:42:20.079
early green up and then a little
bit later when we get into April,

571
00:42:20.119 --> 00:42:24.800
we'll be talking about long term fertilization
with a gradual release fertilizer. But the

572
00:42:24.840 --> 00:42:30.280
early green up one would be Nitropos
Imperial. That's the red bag from Nitrofoss.

573
00:42:30.360 --> 00:42:35.840
It's a fifteen five ten. Why
fifteen five to ten because a three

574
00:42:36.039 --> 00:42:40.559
one two ratio fifteen five ten,
that ratio of nutrients is what an m

575
00:42:40.639 --> 00:42:45.280
turf research determined a long time ago
is what grass takes up. That's what

576
00:42:45.440 --> 00:42:49.840
it needs. And you know,
I mean, you can put triple thirteen

577
00:42:49.920 --> 00:42:52.159
on your lawn, but a lot
of that middle number is not going to

578
00:42:52.199 --> 00:42:55.119
be taken up by the grass,
and it's going to build up in the

579
00:42:55.239 --> 00:43:00.880
soil to high levels over time,
which is not a good thing. Three

580
00:43:00.960 --> 00:43:04.559
one two ratios what we're looking for. And so the fifteen five to ten

581
00:43:04.960 --> 00:43:09.239
from Nitrofoss, the red bag,
the Imperial they call it, that's the

582
00:43:09.320 --> 00:43:13.280
one for now, and you get
it out at the right rate. By

583
00:43:13.320 --> 00:43:15.960
the way, the right rate for
those of you who've bought it haven't put

584
00:43:15.000 --> 00:43:20.679
it out yet, is seven pounds
per thousand square feet. Around seven pounds

585
00:43:20.719 --> 00:43:23.000
per thousand gives you a good pound
of nitrogen. So you're ready to go.

586
00:43:23.639 --> 00:43:27.599
Where can you find things? Like
that. Well, when I say

587
00:43:27.679 --> 00:43:30.880
things like that, I mean that. And other nitrofoss products. How about

588
00:43:30.920 --> 00:43:36.280
shades of green up in the woodlands, they carry it up there. Enchanted

589
00:43:36.360 --> 00:43:40.760
gardens out in the Richmond Rosenberg area, they carry that product out there as

590
00:43:40.840 --> 00:43:45.639
well. It's easy to find these
products because nitro fross is widely sold all

591
00:43:45.679 --> 00:43:50.760
over town, and the Imperial is
kind of a standard in terms of spring

592
00:43:50.800 --> 00:43:55.159
green up for your lawn. You're
listening to garden Line. I'm your host,

593
00:43:55.199 --> 00:43:58.239
Skip Richter, and if you would
like to give us a call,

594
00:43:58.519 --> 00:44:04.800
you can reach me seven one three
two one two kt R eight seven one

595
00:44:04.840 --> 00:44:08.960
three two one two KTRH. I
have a bunch of plants sitting on the

596
00:44:09.039 --> 00:44:13.800
porch that are waiting to go in
my garden. I waved goodbye when I

597
00:44:13.960 --> 00:44:16.639
left for the weekend because I've been
gone all weekend from the house, and

598
00:44:17.239 --> 00:44:20.639
I just said, I'll be back
to get you planted when we get back.

599
00:44:20.719 --> 00:44:22.480
And when I do, I'm going
to dive right in and get that

600
00:44:22.639 --> 00:44:27.960
job done. Uh. The the
plants that sit on my porch are in

601
00:44:28.039 --> 00:44:31.079
great danger of being forgotten to be
watered because I do travel around a lot.

602
00:44:31.559 --> 00:44:34.880
Uh, and so I need to
get those things in the ground.

603
00:44:35.639 --> 00:44:38.679
When you get those plants planted,
get them watered in, fertilized, get

604
00:44:38.760 --> 00:44:43.920
them off to a good start,
you are going to enjoy the blooming benefits,

605
00:44:44.000 --> 00:44:47.960
the blooming dividends of those for months
to come. And I would encourage

606
00:44:49.000 --> 00:44:53.400
you to do something to color your
landscape this spring. For example, what

607
00:44:53.480 --> 00:44:58.840
are you going to do new?
What is new this spring for your landscape?

608
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Are you going to try a new
tomato variety, a new pepper variety.

609
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Are you going to try a different
way of trellising or caging your tomatoes?

610
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You know, we can cage them, We can put them on a

611
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steak. I like to use livestock
panels at a slant, so you just

612
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have this wall of foliage. You
kind of sort of weave the vines in

613
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and out. You have to get
real neurotic about it, just weeding through

614
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a little bit to hold them on
there and that way the foliage shades the

615
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fruit that is hanging down below.
That works really well. So what flowers

616
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are you going to grow this year? How about some of the supertunias ones

617
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like the variety has been around for
a while now, is bubblegum there's some

618
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new old varieties or newer varieties out
there from the proven winters folks. Those

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things are loaded with blooms. They
look like petunias, but they're smaller,

620
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a little smaller flower. But I'm
talking wall to wall foliage. Try one

621
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of those this year. How about
herbs? Have you ever grown herbs before?

622
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You don't have to have an herb
guard. What herbs are you're going

623
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to grow this year you haven't grown
before? A new type of basil maybe

624
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you know in basil blooms it is
very attractive to beneficial insects. Are you

625
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going to try some new things in
the yard? Maybe you set that mower

626
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a little higher, mow a little
more regular, Maybe do some replace the

627
00:46:20.239 --> 00:46:24.800
clock on the timer for your lawn
watering to one that's much more efficient and

628
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will save you money in the long
run. What are you going to do

629
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new this year? What are you
going to try and new? A new

630
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houseplant? There's some really cool house
plants out there. If you've never grown

631
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the ZZ plant? ZZ what a
name? ZZ plant? It is a

632
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bulletproof one. It puts up with
you if you forget the water for a

633
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while. It's kind of a succulent
plant. It does well with that.

634
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It likes light, but it put
it puts up with fairly low light levels

635
00:46:52.079 --> 00:46:57.000
as well, gets a little stretchier, but it miners doing just fine in

636
00:46:57.079 --> 00:47:00.760
a lower light level. How about
trying that one. What are you going

637
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to do new this year? I
want to In fact, if you call

638
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this morning, I'd like to hear
something that you would like to try new

639
00:47:07.360 --> 00:47:13.000
this year, something you haven't done
before. Maybe you're gonna garden more for

640
00:47:13.119 --> 00:47:15.199
the birds, plant some things that
attract birds, or plant some things that

641
00:47:15.280 --> 00:47:20.519
attract beneficial insects, or take care
of pollinators. There's a whole world of

642
00:47:20.599 --> 00:47:24.480
things. How about incorporating some natives
into your landscape? Would that be new

643
00:47:24.599 --> 00:47:28.960
for you? I'm just I'm not
talking about a renovation. I mean tell

644
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me something you're going to do new, And I hope you will try something

645
00:47:32.000 --> 00:47:37.039
new, because there is a world
of horticulture that we never will have enough

646
00:47:37.239 --> 00:47:43.119
life to span to get through,
and we got to keep trying new things.

647
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It's fun, it's exciting, and
I want to tell you this.

648
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Every year I try a couple a
dozen new things that I haven't tried before,

649
00:47:51.199 --> 00:47:53.679
and every year I find something that
is now added to my list of

650
00:47:53.719 --> 00:47:58.760
favorites. So I hope you'll consider
that. I'm going to go straight out

651
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this morning to clear Lake and we're
going to talk to Jim. Hello,

652
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Jim, Good morning, Skip.
I aerated my lawn yesterday. I thought

653
00:48:08.280 --> 00:48:15.320
put down top soil today. I
was curious, do I need to rake

654
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out all the old thatch and do
I fertilize before I put down the top

655
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soil or after I put down top
I got you, all right, Well

656
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that's gonna be a little bit of
a discussion, so Jim, I'm gonna

657
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put on hold here. We got
to go to a break, and when

658
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we come back, I'm going to
elaborate on that with you. Thank you

659
00:48:31.800 --> 00:48:35.800
for that question. Greg, You'll
be next after that for the rest of

660
00:48:35.880 --> 00:48:38.000
you. If you'd like to call
in seven one three two one two kt

661
00:48:38.199 --> 00:48:43.360
RH. All right, let's have
some fun, fun gardening fun today on

662
00:48:43.760 --> 00:48:45.480
guardenline. If you want to give
us a call, seven to one three

663
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two one two kt r H.
I am at the broken record about soil

664
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right over and over again. I
tell you brown stuff before green stuff.

665
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If you want to have success organic
matter in the soil in a heavy clay,

666
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expanded shale in the soil, fertilizer, nutrients in the soil so that

667
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the plant can thrive. That's important
and Airlom Soils has got you covered on

668
00:49:12.760 --> 00:49:16.039
that. They make a wide variety
of products. They have a great supply

669
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of quality leaf mold composts. Now
we talk about it as a top dressing

670
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for your lawn, but you can
use leap more compost and garden bed and

671
00:49:24.559 --> 00:49:28.239
mix it in the soil. You
can use it as a mulch on the

672
00:49:28.360 --> 00:49:30.320
surface if you like, I mean
any way you want to use it as

673
00:49:30.360 --> 00:49:36.400
good. The veggie and herb mix
is one of their most popular selling products,

674
00:49:36.440 --> 00:49:40.280
and rose soil to super super popular. It's really a steel seventy dollars

675
00:49:40.360 --> 00:49:44.480
per yards. I don't know how
they sell up with that, but that's

676
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a great, great price. You
can get it book delivered, you can

677
00:49:47.760 --> 00:49:53.400
go to there's over eighty stores in
the region that carry Airlomb Soils products,

678
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so not hard to find. It
all not difficult at all. So I

679
00:49:59.519 --> 00:50:02.639
hope that you will consider that getting
the soil right is important. Just go

680
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to Heirloomsoilsoftexas dot com. Airloomsoils off
Texas dot Com. That'll get you off

681
00:50:08.519 --> 00:50:15.719
to a good, good start.
Okay, Jim, you're doing some fertilization,

682
00:50:15.960 --> 00:50:17.760
so let's jump back in again.
I kind of filled me in on

683
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the basic of what you're wanting to
ask. Okay, So I made the

684
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areation runs yesterday across the lawn,
so all the plugs have been pulled up

685
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and they're all in there. Okay, have some areas that have some heavy

686
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that I wanted to know if I
needed to break that out before I start

687
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putting down the topsoil. But even
at that, before that point, should

688
00:50:43.800 --> 00:50:50.079
I be putting the imperial down before
I'd put the topsoil on the lawn or

689
00:50:50.480 --> 00:50:54.400
after I'd put the top Are you
talking about a leaf mold compost? Why

690
00:50:54.400 --> 00:51:01.239
are you adding soil? It's a
top soil in compost. Okay. I

691
00:51:01.280 --> 00:51:05.760
wouldn't put too much of that on. I'd keep it a very thin layer.

692
00:51:07.880 --> 00:51:12.679
So yeah, normally we just bring
soil in when we're needing to raise

693
00:51:12.760 --> 00:51:15.719
the level of the lawn. But
I would go ahead and do the fertilization

694
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now and then give it a little
bit of water to moisten it. You

695
00:51:21.880 --> 00:51:27.119
can put the you can put the
soil compost mixed down again, just don't

696
00:51:27.159 --> 00:51:30.880
do it too deep, right,
all right, Yeah, as far as

697
00:51:30.039 --> 00:51:34.639
raking out the thatch, you don't
need to because number one, when you

698
00:51:34.840 --> 00:51:37.760
air rate and bring soil to the
surface, it melts down around the thatch

699
00:51:37.880 --> 00:51:43.840
and helps speed decomposition. And if
you put a layer of lethal compost or

700
00:51:43.960 --> 00:51:47.159
the compost soil mix you're talking about, that is going to cover up a

701
00:51:47.239 --> 00:51:52.880
lot of those runners and that will
speed their decay greatly. Great, all

702
00:51:52.960 --> 00:51:57.000
right, well, thank you very
much. I appreciate that you bet Jim

703
00:51:57.079 --> 00:52:01.920
good luck out there getting that lawn
in tip top shape. The product of

704
00:52:04.079 --> 00:52:07.360
the new kind of I guess new
to me product really it is new in

705
00:52:07.400 --> 00:52:14.360
the market that has just really impressed
me this spring has been Nelson's Genesis transplant

706
00:52:14.440 --> 00:52:20.239
mix. Nelson Genesis. It's a
six y one three fertilizer. It is

707
00:52:20.360 --> 00:52:25.199
basically loaded with all kinds of beneficial
bacteria, the endo, mikeriza, the

708
00:52:25.320 --> 00:52:31.199
ectomicroriza that really help roots to be
very efficient and very effective in taking up

709
00:52:31.280 --> 00:52:36.119
nutrients. It's got humites in it
also that condition the soil. It just

710
00:52:36.320 --> 00:52:38.360
enhances the biology of the soil.
Well, here's what you do you.

711
00:52:38.559 --> 00:52:42.480
Let's say you've got some old tomato
plants and you're going to bump them up

712
00:52:42.480 --> 00:52:44.960
to a bigger pot, or you're
going to plant them in the ground.

713
00:52:45.320 --> 00:52:50.039
You mix in some genesis with that
soil that you're going to plant them into,

714
00:52:50.639 --> 00:52:53.159
and then you plant the plant,
and that's how as those roots begin

715
00:52:53.280 --> 00:52:57.239
to move out, they've got that
product right there to go. I do

716
00:52:57.360 --> 00:53:00.760
it when I'm potting up houseplants to
the next level, doing some of that

717
00:53:00.960 --> 00:53:05.480
this week. I'll be using the
genesis again for that. When I'm going

718
00:53:05.559 --> 00:53:08.679
to put a bunch of color plants
and a container on the patio. There's

719
00:53:08.760 --> 00:53:13.800
the genesis going into that mix,
and then the plants get planted into it.

720
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And I'm telling you the results I've
seen. I did some peppers this

721
00:53:15.599 --> 00:53:20.719
spring. Already they jumped out of
the ground. They turned so emerald green.

722
00:53:20.960 --> 00:53:23.760
It was beautiful already. By the
way, I already have a few

723
00:53:23.840 --> 00:53:28.280
that haven't planted yet, and they
already have little peppers on them past the

724
00:53:28.320 --> 00:53:30.920
bloom stage because they're so happy.
And where do you get it? All

725
00:53:31.000 --> 00:53:35.480
over the place? For example,
I noticed the other day that the folks

726
00:53:35.519 --> 00:53:40.199
at Nelson Water Garden and nursery.
Out and Katie are carrying Nelson's Genesis transplant

727
00:53:40.280 --> 00:53:44.760
mix. They carry a wide variety
of the things that you hear me talk

728
00:53:44.800 --> 00:53:47.960
about here on garden Line. They
carried them out there at Nelson Water Garden,

729
00:53:49.119 --> 00:53:52.440
and if you haven't been, you
really should go. This is Think

730
00:53:52.480 --> 00:53:55.199
of it as your nursery on the
west side, but think of it as

731
00:53:55.239 --> 00:53:59.719
a destination nursery, because that's what
it is. When you go in the

732
00:53:59.760 --> 00:54:02.519
back, you know they have a
garden center where you can buy all kinds

733
00:54:02.559 --> 00:54:06.000
of plants. I got some herbs
from them one time, and I mean,

734
00:54:06.039 --> 00:54:09.119
they do have a variety of plants. But what their specialty is is

735
00:54:09.239 --> 00:54:14.800
water gardens. And if you want
them to come to your house and design

736
00:54:15.000 --> 00:54:17.559
a little waterfall, they can do
that. If you want a little pond

737
00:54:19.079 --> 00:54:24.480
that has maybe lily pads, the
beautiful blooms of lilies lily pads, if

738
00:54:24.519 --> 00:54:30.360
you want beautiful fish like subunkin the
koi and things, they've got all of

739
00:54:30.440 --> 00:54:34.599
that. The plants for the water
garden, the fish for the water garden.

740
00:54:35.199 --> 00:54:38.039
But the thing that impresses me,
I think almost the thing that impressed

741
00:54:38.039 --> 00:54:44.320
me most would just be the disappearing
fountain containers, large beautiful vase, water

742
00:54:44.440 --> 00:54:47.639
running out of the top, going
into a gravel bed and recirculating it.

743
00:54:49.079 --> 00:54:52.920
Just the sound of water, the
visual of the movement, and just how

744
00:54:53.199 --> 00:54:59.920
beautiful these containers are. It's like
a showplace. It is a focal point

745
00:55:00.199 --> 00:55:04.199
in your landscape and they can come
out and do that for you. They

746
00:55:04.360 --> 00:55:09.360
do go out and do that.
Here's the website Nelsonwatergardens dot com. Here's

747
00:55:09.400 --> 00:55:14.320
the location, Katie Fort Ben Road
in Katie, Texas. So if you're

748
00:55:14.360 --> 00:55:17.239
heading out west, you're just going
to turn right go north Katie Fort Ben

749
00:55:17.360 --> 00:55:21.079
Road about a stone's throw. If
you want to give them a call to

750
00:55:21.239 --> 00:55:24.559
eight one three nine one forty seven
sixty nine. I'm going to go now

751
00:55:24.599 --> 00:55:29.639
out to Charles in Kingwood. Hello, Charles, Hey, how are you

752
00:55:29.719 --> 00:55:31.880
today, sir? I'm well,
sir, Thank you. Okay, I

753
00:55:32.000 --> 00:55:36.639
got two sagos. The last time
in the freeze, what was that two

754
00:55:36.719 --> 00:55:40.760
years ago? They were froze.
Both of these have about eighty percent brown

755
00:55:40.960 --> 00:55:45.079
and twenty percent green on the prawns
or the leaves. Okay. I've been

756
00:55:45.239 --> 00:55:50.360
driving around and seeing a lot of
people now have cut off all the prawns

757
00:55:50.400 --> 00:55:53.079
and some people have left them on. I just wondered, does it matter

758
00:55:53.119 --> 00:55:58.119
if you leave man take them off
or should those trees come back since there

759
00:55:58.280 --> 00:56:01.239
is some green on them? Yeah? They should. The real important thing,

760
00:56:01.760 --> 00:56:07.000
you know, the whether a branch
lives or it doesn't isn't whether determining

761
00:56:07.079 --> 00:56:10.880
the tree survival. It's the blood
at the top. Is it alive or

762
00:56:10.960 --> 00:56:16.400
not? And I can almost guarantee
you it is. So if it were

763
00:56:16.559 --> 00:56:21.760
mine, I would leave anything green. Like if you have a half dead

764
00:56:21.840 --> 00:56:25.119
frond, then cut the dead off
and leave the green because that's capturing sunlight,

765
00:56:25.320 --> 00:56:30.760
providing fuel for the plant's growth.
And then at some point as new

766
00:56:30.840 --> 00:56:32.840
growth comes out, then you can
cut off the old, ugly, stubbed

767
00:56:32.880 --> 00:56:37.960
off or whatever fronds. No,
what if you would just leave it alone?

768
00:56:37.679 --> 00:56:40.519
Is that negative or is that really
not going to hurt it? It'll

769
00:56:40.559 --> 00:56:47.159
be fine, It'll be fine.
It just may look a little lopsidednky just

770
00:56:47.239 --> 00:56:51.119
when they cut off those things.
It's just it doesn't look great. But

771
00:56:51.320 --> 00:56:52.719
you know, I've seen more and
more of people doing that, So I'm

772
00:56:52.840 --> 00:56:55.239
just wanted to ask you, Okay, well, thank you very much.

773
00:56:55.280 --> 00:56:59.039
I appreciate it. I like the
show thank you. I appreciate you listening,

774
00:56:59.079 --> 00:57:02.679
and good luck with your your sega
out there. Sago palms are kind

775
00:57:02.679 --> 00:57:06.840
of cool. You know, they're
not palms there. We call them sago

776
00:57:06.960 --> 00:57:10.079
palms. But listen, in gardening, we call a lot of things things

777
00:57:10.199 --> 00:57:15.199
that they're not. We just do. I don't know why that is,

778
00:57:15.880 --> 00:57:19.800
but it is, and it gets
it gets confusing. Like the word jasmine

779
00:57:20.119 --> 00:57:23.039
there is there are plants that are
jasmine, and then there's plants that we

780
00:57:23.199 --> 00:57:29.960
call jasmine that are not jasmine,
and so we just have to We got

781
00:57:30.000 --> 00:57:31.480
a whole lot of examples. I'm
not going to bore you with all that,

782
00:57:31.679 --> 00:57:35.360
but it's one of the things that
kind of bugs me about gardening.

783
00:57:36.000 --> 00:57:39.199
It's why we have botanical names for
plants. You know, if I say

784
00:57:39.239 --> 00:57:44.599
that's a butterfly plant, well,
what does that mean? For some people

785
00:57:44.679 --> 00:57:49.440
it means boodleia, but for the
others it means other things. And common

786
00:57:49.599 --> 00:57:53.119
names vary. If you want to
go crazy, make a plant list and

787
00:57:53.199 --> 00:57:58.320
try to decide what name to put
on things. Because you do a Google

788
00:57:58.400 --> 00:58:02.000
search for this plant and you can
find that it may have seven names.

789
00:58:02.000 --> 00:58:06.239
I's got more names than a criminal
in the lamb. You know, it's

790
00:58:06.719 --> 00:58:10.880
got all these different colloquial names.
But if I started using scientific names,

791
00:58:10.960 --> 00:58:15.440
I think your eyes had rolled back
in your head, or the botanical names,

792
00:58:15.480 --> 00:58:17.559
your isid rolled back in your head, and you'd be going, ah,

793
00:58:19.360 --> 00:58:22.159
well, we were talking about ago, about you know, putting down

794
00:58:22.440 --> 00:58:27.840
or doing some aerration on your soil, putting down a compost top dressing,

795
00:58:27.920 --> 00:58:31.440
a leaf moll compost top dressing.
We now have a place for those of

796
00:58:31.519 --> 00:58:37.119
you who are south and west,
the south and west quadrant of Houston.

797
00:58:37.519 --> 00:58:40.679
So what is that, Well,
that's Missouri City. That is sugar Land,

798
00:58:42.079 --> 00:58:45.400
that is all the way east to
Pearland and then down all along Highway

799
00:58:45.440 --> 00:58:51.079
six like Fresno, Siena, Arcola, Iowa Colony, Manful and all those

800
00:58:51.119 --> 00:58:55.000
neighborhoods around there. The place is
B and B Turk Pros B and B

801
00:58:55.519 --> 00:59:00.679
Turk Prose. It's a family owned
place and it's focused on giving you honest

802
00:59:00.800 --> 00:59:04.920
work and quality work. And they
do that. I've seen the work that

803
00:59:05.039 --> 00:59:08.960
they do. They've got the equipment
to go in and do a deep time

804
00:59:09.119 --> 00:59:15.880
aeration on your lawn and then to
follow with a top quality leaf mold compost

805
00:59:15.960 --> 00:59:22.159
top dressing and when you have a
clay soil, that is something that periodically

806
00:59:22.719 --> 00:59:25.199
really needs to be done for the
benefit if you. If your grass is

807
00:59:25.280 --> 00:59:30.400
struggling as we were getting in here
spring, we're getting some growth that's going

808
00:59:30.440 --> 00:59:32.440
to be occurring here soon. You
need to call them up and get on

809
00:59:32.519 --> 00:59:36.679
the schedule for them to come by. The phone number is seven to one

810
00:59:36.840 --> 00:59:43.960
three two three four fifty five ninety
eight seven one three two three four fifty

811
00:59:44.079 --> 00:59:49.000
five ninety eight. Remember from sugar
Land across to Pearland, from Missouri City

812
00:59:49.119 --> 00:59:52.039
all the way down to Manfil and
Siena. This is the company that can

813
00:59:52.119 --> 00:59:59.480
provide a quality job when it comes
to renovating that lawn. Rejuvenating that lawn,

814
00:59:59.480 --> 01:00:02.360
I should say that's a better word. With the deep tye narration and

815
01:00:02.599 --> 01:00:08.440
the compost top dressing that is applied. I've seen lawns that are done like

816
01:00:08.519 --> 01:00:14.199
that and it is amazing to watch
them green up and take off growth.

817
01:00:15.239 --> 01:00:17.559
I always say the brown stuff for
the green stuff, right. You got

818
01:00:17.679 --> 01:00:21.480
to make the roots happy. When
you do a deep time narration, and

819
01:00:21.559 --> 01:00:24.800
when you do a compost top dressing, you're bringing oxygen into the soil.

820
01:00:25.199 --> 01:00:29.599
Roots need oxygen. And in a
heavy clay, it's hard to get oxygen

821
01:00:29.679 --> 01:00:35.880
down there because two dense. You
need nutrients down there, and stuff washes

822
01:00:35.960 --> 01:00:40.119
down into the holes that were created. The organic matter gets down in there,

823
01:00:40.239 --> 01:00:44.480
which helps build the soil and improve
that clay. And so what are

824
01:00:44.519 --> 01:00:47.920
you doing when you do deep tyme
narration, core aeration, and when you

825
01:00:49.039 --> 01:00:53.079
do compost top dressing, you're essentially
taking care of the brown stuff which will

826
01:00:53.119 --> 01:00:59.639
make the green stuff your lawn look
really really good. Have you been out

827
01:00:59.679 --> 01:01:04.639
to the in Chenny Gardens? Chenny
Gardens is one of those places I just

828
01:01:04.840 --> 01:01:12.199
love to go visit because it is
always beautiful and it is always it's huge.

829
01:01:12.480 --> 01:01:15.119
I mean, they have stuff all
over the area you just wander and

830
01:01:15.360 --> 01:01:20.639
wander through. And the color plants, the roses, the shrubs, the

831
01:01:21.239 --> 01:01:25.960
perennials, the ornamental grasses. Do
you need herbs and vegetables, annual flowers

832
01:01:27.000 --> 01:01:30.119
for bedding color, They have all
of that. They carry, the fertilizers,

833
01:01:30.199 --> 01:01:32.800
they carry, the soils, the
brown stuff that you need to have

834
01:01:32.960 --> 01:01:37.440
success. So make sure and go
home with some fertilizer and some bed mixes

835
01:01:37.519 --> 01:01:42.360
and composts and other soils, and
you're going to find success with it.

836
01:01:42.599 --> 01:01:47.199
Very knowledgeable folks. Here's the website
Enchanted Gardens Richmond dot com. They're on

837
01:01:47.440 --> 01:01:53.360
FM three point fifty nine just north
of Richmond. I'm just sitting here enjoying

838
01:01:53.599 --> 01:01:58.280
listening to Linda Ronstadt. Boy,
that takes me back a while. I

839
01:01:58.440 --> 01:02:02.599
love that lady's voice, just love
the style and everything. Well, I'm

840
01:02:02.639 --> 01:02:06.239
sitting here talking about music, and
we're supposed to talk about gardening. How

841
01:02:06.239 --> 01:02:10.000
about that? Give us a call
seven one three two to one two KTRH.

842
01:02:10.159 --> 01:02:16.679
Seven to one three two one two
KTRH. I wanted to we had

843
01:02:16.679 --> 01:02:23.280
a little break here talk about something
that I think is a pretty common misconception

844
01:02:23.679 --> 01:02:29.920
when it comes to pruning plants.
Now, we're not in the winter time

845
01:02:30.000 --> 01:02:34.079
when we think of a lot of
dormant pruning, but once we get into

846
01:02:34.159 --> 01:02:38.880
the springtime, we have different options
when it comes to things that are hedges

847
01:02:39.199 --> 01:02:44.079
in our landscape or that are shrubs, let me say shrubs instead. In

848
01:02:44.159 --> 01:02:49.599
our landscape, there are things that
can be shared and make a beautiful dense

849
01:02:49.880 --> 01:02:53.440
shrub. And the more you shear
a plant, the more dense it gets.

850
01:02:54.400 --> 01:03:00.599
So you're cutting off very little,
but you're cutting it off often that's

851
01:03:00.719 --> 01:03:05.159
called shearing. It's the same reason
why the more you mow the lawn,

852
01:03:05.880 --> 01:03:08.920
more often you mow the lawn with
less cut off. Each time the denture

853
01:03:08.960 --> 01:03:14.039
your lawn's going to get So that's
shearing. But there's also a lot of

854
01:03:14.119 --> 01:03:17.360
plants that have just a beautiful natural
form added the anti g rosen perim.

855
01:03:17.480 --> 01:03:22.000
Yesterday I was taking pictures of some
of their bridle reath. The spyriea has

856
01:03:22.119 --> 01:03:28.199
big arching branches that come out full
of white flowers, really pretty. Now,

857
01:03:28.360 --> 01:03:30.559
if you were to prune that in
the wintertime, all those flowers we're

858
01:03:30.679 --> 01:03:34.679
enjoying now would have been cut off, And so you prune it after it

859
01:03:34.760 --> 01:03:37.400
blooms. That's true with azaleas too. By the way, anything that blooms

860
01:03:37.519 --> 01:03:42.119
just in spring. The lady banks
rows blooms only in the spring, so

861
01:03:42.280 --> 01:03:44.760
let it bloom. Let it bloom, and then do the prurring on it.

862
01:03:45.280 --> 01:03:49.719
But we tend to box up everything. And you know, it's your

863
01:03:49.840 --> 01:03:52.559
yard, it's your shrub. You
can do whatever you want with it.

864
01:03:52.679 --> 01:03:57.000
But I saw some agarita that's a
native South Texas wild shrub. It makes

865
01:03:57.079 --> 01:04:01.039
berries and beautiful yellow flowers. Some
of the other day New bronfils that had

866
01:04:01.079 --> 01:04:04.880
been trimmed like a meat ball.
It looked like a dwarfio pond the way

867
01:04:04.920 --> 01:04:09.480
they'd shared it. And that is
not the form of that plant. It

868
01:04:09.559 --> 01:04:13.440
has a beautiful form. We don't
have to do that. So how do

869
01:04:13.559 --> 01:04:16.599
we prune those? Well, if
you want to leave something natural rather than

870
01:04:16.800 --> 01:04:19.559
if it gets a little lanky,
you got some wild hair sticking up in

871
01:04:19.599 --> 01:04:24.800
the air there, just follow a
wild hair down to where it attaches to

872
01:04:24.880 --> 01:04:29.679
another branch and cut it off right
there. So it's like you you remove

873
01:04:29.800 --> 01:04:32.280
the long branch but leave the shorter
side one. And when you prune like

874
01:04:32.360 --> 01:04:35.840
that, we call that thinning cuts. When you prune like that, when

875
01:04:35.880 --> 01:04:39.840
you're done thinning, you know it
was prune. But if someone walked up,

876
01:04:39.880 --> 01:04:42.599
they wouldn't go, oh, you
just shared your plant. It has

877
01:04:42.679 --> 01:04:45.960
a natural form and a lot of
things look good like that. Barbary is

878
01:04:46.000 --> 01:04:49.559
a plant that should be pruned that
way. There are a lot of things

879
01:04:49.639 --> 01:04:55.039
that look better that way. When
we talk about pruning a abelia, a

880
01:04:55.119 --> 01:05:00.920
glossy abelia, they get shared a
lot and they just look batter. If

881
01:05:00.039 --> 01:05:03.519
you take a little time to do
more of a thinning work, on them

882
01:05:03.800 --> 01:05:08.199
because they're going to be blooming.
Those plants bloom on new growth, the

883
01:05:08.239 --> 01:05:11.719
glossy abilias. So learn a little
bit about how to prune a plant.

884
01:05:12.000 --> 01:05:14.320
You're going to have your own opinion
of how you want it to look.

885
01:05:14.719 --> 01:05:16.480
And if you want the place,
if you want your landscape to look like

886
01:05:16.599 --> 01:05:23.480
Doctor Seuss lives there, then you
can turn everything into poodle tails and lion

887
01:05:23.559 --> 01:05:26.599
tails and all that kind of stuff. That's fine, it's your yard.

888
01:05:27.039 --> 01:05:30.239
But there are options, and there's
a much more natural and I think subtractive

889
01:05:30.280 --> 01:05:38.519
way to go about pruning. Microlife
has a wide variety of products and I

890
01:05:38.599 --> 01:05:44.480
talk about them all the time because
they work. Microlife organic fertilizer products have

891
01:05:45.039 --> 01:05:49.119
a number of different components that help
your plants thrive. One of them is

892
01:05:49.159 --> 01:05:53.920
the nutrients themselves. The six two
four green bag that we use in our

893
01:05:54.000 --> 01:05:59.559
lawns has got a three one two
ratio of nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium,

894
01:05:59.760 --> 01:06:05.440
but it comes from plant parts and
so it contains all the nutrients that plants

895
01:06:05.480 --> 01:06:10.679
took up when they grew. And
that way, it doesn't say on the

896
01:06:10.760 --> 01:06:13.599
bag it's says sixty four, but
it's got calcium in it. It's got

897
01:06:13.679 --> 01:06:15.559
sulfur in it, it's got magnesium
in it, it's got some zinc in

898
01:06:15.639 --> 01:06:18.639
it, it's got you see what
I'm saying. It's got the wide variety

899
01:06:18.719 --> 01:06:23.960
of things that go with it.
But most importantly, it also has microbial

900
01:06:24.079 --> 01:06:29.039
life in it. And the microbes
that are in a good quality fertilizer,

901
01:06:29.239 --> 01:06:33.760
like the microlife, are going to
help your plant roots. Roots need microbes.

902
01:06:33.800 --> 01:06:38.119
They don't want to grow in sterile, dead soil. They want soil

903
01:06:38.280 --> 01:06:42.159
that is teeming with life because the
life in the soil helps the plants grow.

904
01:06:42.480 --> 01:06:45.000
That's another reason why we use the
purple bag hu mates plus. It's

905
01:06:45.039 --> 01:06:48.519
a zero zero four. We don't
put it down for the nutrients. We

906
01:06:48.639 --> 01:06:54.519
put it down because humus is the
final product of composts, and humts plus

907
01:06:54.679 --> 01:06:59.199
is concentrated compost in a bag that
basically is what it amounts to. It's

908
01:06:59.239 --> 01:07:02.440
a purple bag. And so when
you're going to do your lawn fertilizing,

909
01:07:02.960 --> 01:07:08.920
why not put in some purple bag
humkes plus for microlife in there. Go

910
01:07:09.000 --> 01:07:12.639
to Microlife Fertilizer dot com you can
find out more about the products that they

911
01:07:12.800 --> 01:07:15.440
carry and where you can find them. Also, if you'd like to give

912
01:07:15.480 --> 01:07:18.280
us a call if you've got a
plant question this morning, you can reach

913
01:07:18.360 --> 01:07:24.119
me at seven one three two one
two five eight seven four seven one three

914
01:07:24.519 --> 01:07:30.239
two one two fifty eight seventy four. Spring Creek Feed is your hometown feed

915
01:07:30.320 --> 01:07:34.039
store if you're up there, perhaps
in the I'll say the Magnolia area.

916
01:07:34.199 --> 01:07:39.360
They're on FM twenty nine seventy eight, so just a few minutes away from

917
01:07:39.480 --> 01:07:44.000
Highway two forty nine, uh,
the Tambol Parkway or the gram Parkway rather,

918
01:07:44.079 --> 01:07:47.039
I should say Grand Parkway. It's
easy to get to, really easy

919
01:07:47.039 --> 01:07:50.519
to get to, and it's a
cool place. And they have really expanded

920
01:07:50.960 --> 01:07:57.880
their outdoor selection of plants and other
kinds of products as well this year.

921
01:07:58.280 --> 01:08:00.119
I was by visiting with them about
them month ago, I believe it was,

922
01:08:00.599 --> 01:08:04.480
and I'm telling you that I was
very impressed with all of the new

923
01:08:04.559 --> 01:08:09.760
things that they're bringing in now.
They've always carried the fertilizers I recommend on

924
01:08:09.840 --> 01:08:14.880
garden Line. They always and still
have herbicides, fungicides, and pesticides.

925
01:08:14.920 --> 01:08:17.399
In fact, we were discussing some
of the things that they have and things

926
01:08:17.439 --> 01:08:20.439
they might want to get in the
store that I think would be very helpful

927
01:08:20.479 --> 01:08:26.239
for customers there. And Spring Creek
Feed is always transitioning, changing, growing,

928
01:08:26.359 --> 01:08:30.760
improving, and every time I go, I'm just really impressed with the

929
01:08:30.840 --> 01:08:34.159
things they have there. Again,
they're on FM twenty nine seventy eight in

930
01:08:34.239 --> 01:08:38.319
the Magnolia area. And if you
need pet food and all that, of

931
01:08:38.399 --> 01:08:42.279
course it's a feedstore, they've got
all that tack for your horses and other

932
01:08:42.399 --> 01:08:47.279
things. But the garden center has
been really really impressive to me at Spring

933
01:08:47.399 --> 01:08:50.880
Creek Feed. You might want to
stop by the We love feed stores here

934
01:08:50.960 --> 01:08:56.960
on Garden Line. We love our
feed stores and I just I grew up

935
01:08:57.119 --> 01:08:59.840
going into feed stores. The smell
of a feed store, you know,

936
01:09:00.159 --> 01:09:01.920
to go in, you smell the
animal feeds and things. I just love

937
01:09:02.039 --> 01:09:08.760
that they think that's cool. That
is very cool. Out of my garden,

938
01:09:09.920 --> 01:09:15.600
we are doing some addition of containers
this coming week. I've got a

939
01:09:15.680 --> 01:09:18.520
bunch of flowers that I'm going to
be putting in and some herbs as well

940
01:09:18.720 --> 01:09:24.039
that I'm going to be putting into
containers. I'm building a special herb bed.

941
01:09:25.079 --> 01:09:28.920
You've heard of the term kitchen garden. A kitchen garden, the idea

942
01:09:29.039 --> 01:09:31.640
there, it's just a garden.
But the idea of a kitchen garden is

943
01:09:32.039 --> 01:09:35.920
we're going to put it right outside
the house, beside the house, maybe

944
01:09:36.039 --> 01:09:40.840
outside the kitchen. You just walk
out and you snip, snip, snip,

945
01:09:40.920 --> 01:09:43.560
and walk back in and you use
it to cook. That's what a

946
01:09:43.680 --> 01:09:46.119
kitchen garden is about. So it's
going to have herbs and vegetables. You

947
01:09:46.159 --> 01:09:49.520
can have flowers in it too.
Why not bring some cut flowers in to

948
01:09:49.640 --> 01:09:54.640
decorate the home. But this is
kind of a kitchen bed. I guess

949
01:09:54.760 --> 01:09:59.840
it's on our patio and we'll be
putting in the different herbs there that we

950
01:10:00.079 --> 01:10:02.520
can get out and enjoy. But
I also have them there because herbs have

951
01:10:02.720 --> 01:10:06.920
blooms, many of them do,
and the blooms attract beneficial insects, including

952
01:10:08.000 --> 01:10:12.000
some pollinators. And I think that's
just another reason. You know, I

953
01:10:12.119 --> 01:10:15.479
talked about beneficials yesterday, and there's
a lot we can do to attract them,

954
01:10:15.520 --> 01:10:18.159
and herbs is one way we can
do that too. We're gonna take

955
01:10:18.159 --> 01:10:23.000
a little break here our phone number
seven one three two one two kt RH.

956
01:10:23.039 --> 01:10:26.960
I'll be right back there. We
go a little sleep at the wheel

957
01:10:27.000 --> 01:10:30.119
to get us going this morning.
Hey, you are listening to guardline and

958
01:10:30.239 --> 01:10:33.840
what are we here for. We're
here to help you have a bountiful garden

959
01:10:33.960 --> 01:10:38.880
and a beautiful landscape. That is
what we're aiming for here. So as

960
01:10:38.920 --> 01:10:42.800
I always say, there's no such
thing as brown thumbs, there's only uninformed

961
01:10:42.880 --> 01:10:45.479
thumbs. So let's inform your thumb
this morning. Give us a call.

962
01:10:45.600 --> 01:10:50.439
Seven to one three two one two
five eight seven four seven one three two

963
01:10:50.479 --> 01:10:56.239
one two fifty eight seventy four.
The soil, the soil, the soil.

964
01:10:57.159 --> 01:11:03.039
Our plants need over over twenty nutrients. Now you look at a fertilizer

965
01:11:03.079 --> 01:11:06.319
bag and how many numbers are on
there? Typically three, most of the

966
01:11:06.399 --> 01:11:11.560
time. Three. Those are the
ones we need the most of Nitrogen,

967
01:11:11.720 --> 01:11:16.119
phosphorus, and potassium, we need
the most quantity of those. But all

968
01:11:16.199 --> 01:11:21.399
of the twenty plus nutrients are essential
for some aspect of plant growth. So

969
01:11:21.520 --> 01:11:28.399
if you take some obscure nutrient like
manganese and you remove it from the soil,

970
01:11:28.439 --> 01:11:30.159
you couldn't do it. But if
you could take all the manganese out

971
01:11:30.159 --> 01:11:33.600
of the soil, a plant could
not live because it has to have it,

972
01:11:33.720 --> 01:11:40.520
even though it needs a tiny bit
that's azemite trace minerals, micronutrients,

973
01:11:40.560 --> 01:11:43.800
that's what we call them. Azmite
is chock full of those. And by

974
01:11:43.880 --> 01:11:46.399
putting azmite down, you are not
going to make your plant take off and

975
01:11:46.479 --> 01:11:50.199
grow. You are going to build
the bank account so that as it grows

976
01:11:50.640 --> 01:11:54.920
it is able to grow, it
has the nutrients that it needs. That's

977
01:11:55.039 --> 01:11:59.800
why we talk about trace minerals and
azmite. Texas dot Com cantain you more

978
01:12:00.000 --> 01:12:03.039
about it, but I want you
to think about that because it's not like

979
01:12:03.159 --> 01:12:09.079
you put azimite down and it's like
fertilizing meaning making the plant grow fertilizing.

980
01:12:09.279 --> 01:12:13.800
No, it's fertilizing meaning building the
bank account so the plant has what it

981
01:12:13.920 --> 01:12:16.119
needs when it grows. And so
you can do azemite anytime. You do

982
01:12:16.199 --> 01:12:17.920
in the winter, you do in
the summer. You can do it now.

983
01:12:18.119 --> 01:12:21.760
Might as well do it now because
you've got your lawn fertilizers out there,

984
01:12:21.800 --> 01:12:26.880
you're going to be spreading them.
Always spread the azamite in a separate

985
01:12:26.920 --> 01:12:30.800
application, could be the same day, could be before or after your fertilizer.

986
01:12:30.319 --> 01:12:34.680
But don't mix things that have big
particle size and things that have small

987
01:12:34.800 --> 01:12:40.600
particle size in your fertilizer. Spreader. Have you ever seen a Do you

988
01:12:40.640 --> 01:12:44.159
ever have a container or something and
you kind of were wiggling at shaking it

989
01:12:44.279 --> 01:12:46.760
or whatever, and everything that was
big came to the top and everything that

990
01:12:46.960 --> 01:12:50.640
was small settle to the bottom.
Well, that's what happens in a fertilizer

991
01:12:50.680 --> 01:12:55.880
spreader when you mix big particles with
small particles. So you want a first

992
01:12:55.920 --> 01:13:00.359
fertilized and then azemite, or first
azimite and then fertilize. Way you go

993
01:13:00.439 --> 01:13:02.880
about it, make sure you get
those trace minerals on there where they're available.

994
01:13:03.199 --> 01:13:05.880
Let's head out to tom Ball.
We're going to talk to Craig this

995
01:13:06.079 --> 01:13:11.560
morning. Hello Craig, Yes,
sir, thanks for taking my call.

996
01:13:11.800 --> 01:13:15.720
Yeah, I've got an issue with
my lawn at Sant Augustine. Over the

997
01:13:15.800 --> 01:13:20.479
winter, it had some areas where
it turned browner than some of the other

998
01:13:20.600 --> 01:13:24.680
areas, and it's done it every
once in a while in the past,

999
01:13:24.760 --> 01:13:29.159
but this year it seems like the
grass actually died and I have small little

1000
01:13:29.199 --> 01:13:34.039
pieces of green in the middle of
the brown patch or brown area that's dyed,

1001
01:13:34.800 --> 01:13:38.840
and I just didn't know if I
just need to rake up all the

1002
01:13:38.960 --> 01:13:43.279
stats from the dead grass and then
let that green stuff take back over,

1003
01:13:43.720 --> 01:13:45.439
or if I need to do something
else. You know, Craig, there's

1004
01:13:45.439 --> 01:13:49.640
a couple of things listening to your
description that could be going on. One

1005
01:13:49.720 --> 01:13:55.000
thing is there's a disease called brown
patch. It's the big brown circles and

1006
01:13:55.119 --> 01:13:58.399
in a nice, healthy green lawn, they really show up and you know

1007
01:13:58.520 --> 01:14:00.800
you have it because they're a roundish
everything. But we can have kind of

1008
01:14:00.880 --> 01:14:04.399
minor attacks on them, and it
can be in a grass that's not that

1009
01:14:05.000 --> 01:14:09.000
healthy and alive, so it's kind
of hard to see the circles, but

1010
01:14:10.319 --> 01:14:13.439
it's still doing what it does.
I would get out of my hands and

1011
01:14:13.520 --> 01:14:16.680
knees in those areas and look at
the runners really closely. If you see

1012
01:14:16.760 --> 01:14:20.199
green on the runners, that grass
is alive and leaves will come back.

1013
01:14:20.960 --> 01:14:26.079
If it truly is dead, I
mean all brown, there's no green runners,

1014
01:14:26.680 --> 01:14:30.239
then you're going to either need to
plug some soil in or if they're

1015
01:14:30.479 --> 01:14:32.680
the big enough area, just bring
blocks of sod in to do that.

1016
01:14:33.640 --> 01:14:38.920
But over the course of the next
few months, if you give good mowing,

1017
01:14:39.039 --> 01:14:43.279
watering, and fertilizing care, the
lawn can fill in pretty well.

1018
01:14:44.039 --> 01:14:48.119
If that gaps between living green spots
are more than a foot. I would

1019
01:14:48.199 --> 01:14:53.479
put some sod in there in between
those, but it'll cover a foot pretty

1020
01:14:53.560 --> 01:14:58.560
quickly. Okay, thank you so
much. All right, good luck,

1021
01:14:59.520 --> 01:15:01.720
Yes, sir, glad glad to
have you here today. Yeah, that

1022
01:15:02.560 --> 01:15:11.880
is important. Jungle land is a
product for container soil that is distributed by

1023
01:15:11.960 --> 01:15:16.079
nitrofiss and jungle land has two forms. One is outdoors. We call that

1024
01:15:16.399 --> 01:15:20.800
the flour and vegetable planting soil.
That is what jungle l and flower and

1025
01:15:20.920 --> 01:15:25.640
vegetable planting soil for the outdoors.
For the indoors, there is the jungle

1026
01:15:25.720 --> 01:15:29.520
land water saving potting soil. It
has crystals in it that hold, they

1027
01:15:29.600 --> 01:15:33.359
absorb and hold many many times their
weight in water. And as the roots

1028
01:15:33.399 --> 01:15:38.560
grow, they grow up against those
crystals. And then as the soil gets

1029
01:15:38.680 --> 01:15:41.720
dry, you forget to water.
I know you don't, but your neighbor

1030
01:15:41.800 --> 01:15:45.439
does. Let's say, then you've
got those crystals holding water that the plant

1031
01:15:45.520 --> 01:15:48.840
can get a little bit from,
so it makes it a little more forgiving

1032
01:15:48.960 --> 01:15:53.119
of let's say, an owner that
just isn't on top of things, which

1033
01:15:53.199 --> 01:15:56.359
we've all been in that person right
when it comes to watering our plants.

1034
01:15:56.920 --> 01:16:00.840
That's an advantage of it. Jungle
land is available everywhere you get nitro foss

1035
01:16:00.880 --> 01:16:04.760
products. Which where is that everywhere? Pretty much everywhere there is night fross

1036
01:16:04.880 --> 01:16:09.520
is widely available here in the Greater
Houston area. And so where would you

1037
01:16:09.640 --> 01:16:13.720
find something like that jungle end?
Well, how about going out to Plantation

1038
01:16:13.840 --> 01:16:16.800
Ace Hardware in Richmond Rosenberg. They're
going to have it there. How about

1039
01:16:16.840 --> 01:16:21.000
Bearings Hardware either on Westheimer or Byssinette. They're going to have it there,

1040
01:16:21.319 --> 01:16:26.119
hiding and feed up on I thirty
five North on Stubner Airline. Yep,

1041
01:16:26.239 --> 01:16:29.800
they're going to have it there.
Too. Easy to find and a quality

1042
01:16:29.880 --> 01:16:33.640
mix, quality soil. And remember, your plant growth is only as good

1043
01:16:34.319 --> 01:16:39.239
as the brown stuff that it's growing
in, and so we want to take

1044
01:16:39.279 --> 01:16:43.319
good care of that have success.
I don't know if that resonates with you.

1045
01:16:43.399 --> 01:16:45.920
I know I say it all the
time, brown stuff before green stuff.

1046
01:16:45.239 --> 01:16:47.560
But it's so easy. You go
to a garden center and where do

1047
01:16:47.600 --> 01:16:53.439
your eyes go to? All those
beautiful flowers or that row of tomato plants

1048
01:16:53.479 --> 01:16:56.840
and peppers that you're wanting to plant, or herbs or whatever. Eyes go

1049
01:16:56.960 --> 01:17:00.439
to that, And that's good,
that's fun. Load up, take a

1050
01:17:00.560 --> 01:17:03.920
lot of at home. It's good
stuff, but before you PLoP it into

1051
01:17:04.000 --> 01:17:13.680
an unprepared plot, make the soil
a bank account full of nutrients, a

1052
01:17:13.840 --> 01:17:19.760
condition of good loose aeration, excellent
drainage, all of those things. That

1053
01:17:20.319 --> 01:17:25.319
is the key to success. It
makes your thumb. People will say you

1054
01:17:25.439 --> 01:17:30.439
have a green thumb if you do
the brown stuff first. I've been to

1055
01:17:30.560 --> 01:17:34.439
garden centers and watch people. I've
talked to people that are shopping and I've

1056
01:17:34.560 --> 01:17:41.399
seen the results of people that don't
do this. They go to the garden

1057
01:17:41.479 --> 01:17:44.359
center, they buy a flot of
plants. They come home and now they

1058
01:17:44.439 --> 01:17:46.000
think, okay, where am I
going to put them? And they kind

1059
01:17:46.000 --> 01:17:50.159
of scratch out this little flower bed
in the yard and they put the plants

1060
01:17:50.239 --> 01:17:54.840
into it. They PLoP the plants
into an unprepared plot. I love that

1061
01:17:55.600 --> 01:18:00.439
lots of piece and it looks good
the first day, and then over time

1062
01:18:00.279 --> 01:18:05.600
it's not the struggling. The weeds
are coming in and they've been mowing around

1063
01:18:05.680 --> 01:18:09.000
it, and now they's mow over
it and they say, I have a

1064
01:18:09.039 --> 01:18:12.279
brown thumb. I can't grow things. That is a shame that shouldn't happen.

1065
01:18:12.960 --> 01:18:15.880
I think that the State of Texas
legislature needs to pass a law.

1066
01:18:16.079 --> 01:18:21.279
Okay, this is tongue in cheek, before anybody gets too upset, pass

1067
01:18:21.319 --> 01:18:26.760
a law that says there's a cooling
off period before you can buy a plant.

1068
01:18:28.239 --> 01:18:30.199
There's a cooling off period. So
if you get to the garden center

1069
01:18:30.239 --> 01:18:33.720
to check out, the person behind
the counter has to ask you have you

1070
01:18:33.880 --> 01:18:38.079
prepared your soil yet? And if
you say no, they pick up the

1071
01:18:38.520 --> 01:18:40.640
flat and they turn around, set
it down, and they say, Okay,

1072
01:18:40.640 --> 01:18:42.399
we're going to put this back here
and we're going to hold it for

1073
01:18:42.560 --> 01:18:45.720
you. Come back in a day
or two when your soul's prepared and we

1074
01:18:45.800 --> 01:18:50.079
can legally sell you these plants.
The Society for the Prevention of Plants is

1075
01:18:50.159 --> 01:18:55.079
in favor of this law. By
the way, prevention of plants, prevention

1076
01:18:55.239 --> 01:18:59.399
of cruelty to plants is in favor
of that law. I'm not sure garden

1077
01:18:59.439 --> 01:19:03.560
centers would, but I'll tell you
this, if people would just get things

1078
01:19:03.680 --> 01:19:09.119
ready for the plants, they would
hit the ground running and everyone would say,

1079
01:19:09.159 --> 01:19:12.560
what a green thumb you have.
And it's because you simply had the

1080
01:19:12.680 --> 01:19:17.159
information you needed to know how to
make plants happy. Good sunlight, good

1081
01:19:17.279 --> 01:19:23.800
drainage, plenty of nutrients, adequate
moisture in the soil. It's not that

1082
01:19:24.079 --> 01:19:30.439
difficult brown stuff before Greenstone. All
right, Well there I did it again.

1083
01:19:30.520 --> 01:19:35.119
Next Saturday, from eleven to one, I'm going to be a Buchanan's

1084
01:19:35.159 --> 01:19:41.279
Native Plant that's right here downtown northdown
nor not downtown, north of downtown on

1085
01:19:41.399 --> 01:19:45.439
eleventh Street in the Heights. Buchanan's
Native Plants has an awesome selection of things

1086
01:19:45.520 --> 01:19:48.720
they're going to be giving away.
I think there's eight different giveaways. We're

1087
01:19:48.720 --> 01:19:53.359
going to be providing a really cool
stuff from Buchanans, which that's what they

1088
01:19:53.439 --> 01:19:57.399
specialize in, this cool stuff.
I'm going to be sitting there answering gardening

1089
01:19:57.520 --> 01:20:00.319
questions, visiting with you the gardener. You wander around with you and we

1090
01:20:00.399 --> 01:20:04.399
can talk about some different plants.
We can make sure that that somebody is

1091
01:20:04.479 --> 01:20:09.439
there, and they've got such great
employees to take you over to fifth the

1092
01:20:09.600 --> 01:20:14.000
situation you're asking about to find the
right plants for you to answer your gardening

1093
01:20:14.119 --> 01:20:16.720
question. Put it on your calendar. Eleven a m. Next Saturday at

1094
01:20:16.760 --> 01:20:21.520
Buchanans. Katie R. H.
Garden Line does not necessarily endorse any of

1095
01:20:21.560 --> 01:20:27.960
the products or services advertised on this
program. Welcome to Katie r. H

1096
01:20:28.119 --> 01:20:45.319
Garden Line with Scipe Richter's So Crazy
Trim Just watch him as so many good

1097
01:20:45.439 --> 01:20:56.039
things to sept Welcome back to Guarden
Line. On a beautiful Sunday, look

1098
01:20:56.079 --> 01:21:00.720
outside, the sun is hitting the
tree tops, the sky is blue,

1099
01:21:00.399 --> 01:21:04.800
and your plants are calling for you. They want you to get out this

1100
01:21:04.920 --> 01:21:09.319
after. In fact, there are
plants at garden centers around town saying please

1101
01:21:09.479 --> 01:21:12.479
come take me home. I want
to live at your house. There's so

1102
01:21:12.600 --> 01:21:15.319
many options, as we like to
say, so many plants, so little

1103
01:21:15.520 --> 01:21:18.800
time. Well, if you're taking
care of your yard and you're looking out

1104
01:21:18.880 --> 01:21:23.399
there and it is weeds, weeds, weeds, what you're seeing is cool

1105
01:21:23.439 --> 01:21:29.840
season weeds. Cool season broad leaf
weeds primarily are what takes off and grows

1106
01:21:29.920 --> 01:21:32.279
and alarms us this time of the
year. That's why the folks at night

1107
01:21:32.359 --> 01:21:38.680
Foss put together the Spring green Up
product, which is fifteen five ten immediately

1108
01:21:38.840 --> 01:21:44.000
available release fertilizer with a trimech in
it, which is a broad leaf weed

1109
01:21:44.079 --> 01:21:46.720
killing product. You can buy that
in spray type forms and things, or

1110
01:21:46.800 --> 01:21:50.680
you can get it together in this
combo product and The nice thing about it

1111
01:21:50.800 --> 01:21:55.760
is you wet the lawn, you
put the fertilizer out and with the with

1112
01:21:55.920 --> 01:21:59.760
the trimech in it, it sticks
to the leaves. It soaks in about

1113
01:21:59.760 --> 01:22:01.159
a week. About a day or
two later, you can water it in

1114
01:22:01.199 --> 01:22:04.119
a little bit, get that furlijer
on the ground, and you've dealt with

1115
01:22:04.239 --> 01:22:09.760
the broadly weeds and you've dealt with
getting your spring green up nutrients into the

1116
01:22:09.840 --> 01:22:14.199
soil in a three one two ratio. The ratio the terf researchers long ago,

1117
01:22:14.439 --> 01:22:16.960
Texas, A and M and other
places determined was the best for your

1118
01:22:17.079 --> 01:22:21.279
lawn. Now, nitopas products are
broadly available. You can find them all

1119
01:22:21.359 --> 01:22:26.000
over the place. They're one of
the easiest to find products because of the

1120
01:22:26.079 --> 01:22:30.399
wide availability. If you go to
KTA's Hardware out there and Katie, yep,

1121
01:22:30.520 --> 01:22:32.119
they're going to have them there,
Ace Hardware, a Memorial and the

1122
01:22:32.199 --> 01:22:36.000
Memorial Drive will have them as well. You're going to find them at Stanton's

1123
01:22:36.159 --> 01:22:41.239
shopping center down in Alvin. Two. Just three examples of where you're going

1124
01:22:41.279 --> 01:22:45.720
to find nitropass products like this Nitrofas
weed and feed fifteen five to ten with

1125
01:22:45.920 --> 01:22:50.960
minerals that includes the ingredient trimech as
the active ingredient. Very very helpful.

1126
01:22:53.640 --> 01:22:58.319
I was amused. I'm always amused
when I go out to Moss Nursery because

1127
01:22:58.319 --> 01:23:02.319
the place is one you wander and
wander and wander through. I mean it's

1128
01:23:02.399 --> 01:23:09.279
acres, it's acres, and it's
a beautiful tree filled area that just every

1129
01:23:09.319 --> 01:23:12.239
time you turn a corner you see
something unusual, you know, like a

1130
01:23:12.399 --> 01:23:18.479
wooden African mask, a wooden canoe
carved out, wooden canoe somewhere. They

1131
01:23:18.760 --> 01:23:25.119
just have all kinds of quizzical things
out there at Moss Nursery. Well,

1132
01:23:25.720 --> 01:23:30.359
right now the trucks are coming through
right and left. Just last Thursday,

1133
01:23:30.439 --> 01:23:32.760
for example, they started at seven
thirty in the morning. Trucks are lined

1134
01:23:32.840 --> 01:23:39.800
up waiting to upload unload. Fifteen
deliveries later. There were plants. They

1135
01:23:39.840 --> 01:23:43.119
were on the tables, they were
on the ground, they were in the

1136
01:23:43.279 --> 01:23:45.800
aisles and the walkway, they were
everywhere. I mean, it was solid

1137
01:23:46.159 --> 01:23:49.199
plants. I don't know how the
employees keep it up, keep up with

1138
01:23:49.319 --> 01:23:54.840
it. Thirty different kinds of hanging
baskets came in. They've got vegetables,

1139
01:23:54.920 --> 01:23:57.840
of course, they got herbs,
shrubs, trees, vines. They have

1140
01:23:57.920 --> 01:24:00.520
Texas Natives if you like Texas natives, saying that's a new thing to try

1141
01:24:00.600 --> 01:24:04.079
this year. If you haven't done
one before, try one. Fruit trees,

1142
01:24:04.159 --> 01:24:10.199
Camellias, azelias, including those old
standards like jud Solomon and Formosa,

1143
01:24:10.319 --> 01:24:15.680
and then the new repeat bloomers as
well. It's always fun at Moss Now.

1144
01:24:15.760 --> 01:24:19.079
Moss Nursery is not just another garden
centers. That's one of their mottos.

1145
01:24:19.159 --> 01:24:24.720
Moss Nursery not just another garden center. They're in Seabrook, Texas,

1146
01:24:25.079 --> 01:24:28.039
and so wherever you live it's worth
a drive down to check them out.

1147
01:24:28.399 --> 01:24:33.079
You can go to the website Moss
Nursery dot com or drive out to Toddville

1148
01:24:33.119 --> 01:24:36.960
Road in Seabrook, Texas. See
it for yourself. Believe me, you

1149
01:24:38.079 --> 01:24:43.319
will be impressed again, another one
of our destination garden centers. People come

1150
01:24:43.359 --> 01:24:46.199
from far and wide to go to
Moss Nursery. I'm going to head out

1151
01:24:46.279 --> 01:24:53.119
now to Cut and Shoot to talk
to Teresa. Hello, Teresa, Hello,

1152
01:24:53.520 --> 01:24:56.319
how are you today? I'm good? How are things out in the

1153
01:24:56.399 --> 01:25:01.760
metropolis of cut and Shoot. It's
never dull moment out here. I have

1154
01:25:03.960 --> 01:25:09.680
a question for you. We had
newly installed. Saw that the hottest time

1155
01:25:09.720 --> 01:25:13.079
of the year last year. It's
a new build and in the back we

1156
01:25:13.560 --> 01:25:17.199
noticed large areas. That's kind of
piggybacking off the other guy's question of what

1157
01:25:17.439 --> 01:25:21.600
we know had to been brown patch
that developed. Okay, so we do,

1158
01:25:21.800 --> 01:25:25.960
and there's some pretty thick thatch there
that's brown, but we do see

1159
01:25:26.039 --> 01:25:31.359
green popping up and the runners are
green. So my question is on your

1160
01:25:31.439 --> 01:25:38.199
schedule it mentions about putting down a
funge aside. One of them is eagle

1161
01:25:38.439 --> 01:25:43.439
something false guess. So we've already
put the weed neater on about two three

1162
01:25:43.479 --> 01:25:48.680
weeks ago. Should we put down
that fungicide now? Is it appropriate to

1163
01:25:48.760 --> 01:25:55.880
do that? I don't think I
would at this stage. That's a good

1164
01:25:56.000 --> 01:25:59.920
fungicide, But when we're dealing with
a brown patch and we're using a fun

1165
01:26:00.279 --> 01:26:04.119
side were it's best to get ahead
of it. You get you get the

1166
01:26:04.159 --> 01:26:10.960
funger side down, then when the
disease would occur, it the grass is

1167
01:26:11.039 --> 01:26:14.720
protected. If you wait until you
have the big brown circles, well,

1168
01:26:14.760 --> 01:26:18.760
the fungicide will prevent additional circles,
but it's not going to fix the brown

1169
01:26:18.840 --> 01:26:23.039
and you've already got the brown and
we're about to warm up to the point

1170
01:26:23.119 --> 01:26:27.399
where we don't worry about brown patch
anymore until next fall. And so I

1171
01:26:27.479 --> 01:26:31.119
don't think you would gain from that, but you might want. You know,

1172
01:26:31.279 --> 01:26:36.319
Nitrofuss sells that eagle. They also
sell a barricade which is specifically for

1173
01:26:36.479 --> 01:26:42.920
pre emergent control of weeds, and
you might consider putting that down because when

1174
01:26:42.960 --> 01:26:47.880
you put down, oh you did, okay, decree and the okay,

1175
01:26:48.239 --> 01:26:53.479
yeah, because that that's important because
this is one of the things people don't

1176
01:26:53.520 --> 01:26:56.520
think about. But when brown patch
rocks, the leaves off the runner,

1177
01:26:56.640 --> 01:26:59.800
yes, the grass is still alive
and will come back, but during that

1178
01:26:59.840 --> 01:27:03.000
time where sunlight is hitting the soil, here come the weeds. And that's

1179
01:27:03.039 --> 01:27:08.560
where the barricade would come in and
be very effective. Which good good to

1180
01:27:08.680 --> 01:27:11.800
you. Sound like you've done all
you can do. The weed nater's going

1181
01:27:11.840 --> 01:27:15.359
to give you a nice gradual feeding
over time. So you should be set

1182
01:27:15.439 --> 01:27:20.000
up there. And sounds like should
I rake out any of the facets there

1183
01:27:20.159 --> 01:27:27.079
or is that protecting the soil from
being exposed? Well, it is protecting

1184
01:27:27.159 --> 01:27:31.479
it a little bit from being exposed, but raking it out probably not that

1185
01:27:31.680 --> 01:27:35.199
helpful. If you're ever going to
do it. Compost stop dressing, This

1186
01:27:35.279 --> 01:27:41.359
would be a time to do it
because it falls over those thatchy materials and

1187
01:27:41.479 --> 01:27:45.479
helps keep them moist and then they
rot faster. That can help a little

1188
01:27:45.479 --> 01:27:47.479
bit, but your grass is going
to crawl back in and green up,

1189
01:27:47.560 --> 01:27:50.680
So I wouldn't I wouldn't try to
get You can do a lot of damage

1190
01:27:50.720 --> 01:27:56.119
trying to get the dead out when
there's living runners in among them. Now

1191
01:27:56.199 --> 01:27:58.920
we are thinking about in the top
dressing, and we're actually in top with

1192
01:27:59.079 --> 01:28:02.960
the guys that you wreck amended.
My concern was should we first take care

1193
01:28:02.960 --> 01:28:06.760
of the drainage issues, because again, this is a new acre type lot

1194
01:28:08.279 --> 01:28:10.680
and we have a lot of drainage
issues we're trying to say on top of

1195
01:28:10.800 --> 01:28:15.760
swampy land out here. So should
we first deal with the drainage before we

1196
01:28:16.439 --> 01:28:21.000
tackle with the top soil? Oh
yeah, oh yeah? Or the top

1197
01:28:21.079 --> 01:28:24.960
dressing. I mean, I'm top
dressing, okay, Yeah. Sometimes drainage

1198
01:28:25.319 --> 01:28:29.359
is going to create a lot of
trenches and issues, you know, and

1199
01:28:29.520 --> 01:28:34.560
so you want to get that fixed, okay, because then when that's done,

1200
01:28:34.720 --> 01:28:39.319
you know, you kind of rake
the soil down and the damage it

1201
01:28:39.399 --> 01:28:42.920
has to be done to get the
drainage fixed is over, and then you

1202
01:28:43.079 --> 01:28:45.600
go in and do whatever you're going
to do to get the side going again,

1203
01:28:46.159 --> 01:28:50.319
or maybe new siders needed in some
areas. Okay, that's perfect.

1204
01:28:50.399 --> 01:28:54.760
That really helps a lot. I
appreciate that. All right, you take

1205
01:28:54.840 --> 01:28:58.000
care. Okay, you too,
thank you. Good luck with that.

1206
01:28:59.000 --> 01:29:03.800
I used to go out to to
Moorhead Blueberry Farm out near Porter and Cutt

1207
01:29:03.880 --> 01:29:06.880
and Shoot area. That was always
fun. Hey, we're going to take

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01:29:06.880 --> 01:29:11.119
a break. We'll be right back
our phone number seven one three two one

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01:29:11.199 --> 01:29:14.399
two ktrh. Bill, you'll be
the first up when I come back.

1210
01:29:15.640 --> 01:29:19.119
You welcome back. We're glad to
have you listening on garden Line this morning.

1211
01:29:19.239 --> 01:29:21.840
What do you want to talk about? You got a question seven to

1212
01:29:21.840 --> 01:29:26.680
one three two one two ktrh.
That's a easy way to do it.

1213
01:29:27.840 --> 01:29:30.159
We are coming out of the winter
season, so a lot of pruning has

1214
01:29:30.199 --> 01:29:33.600
gotten done, but there's still pruning
that may need to be done at your

1215
01:29:33.640 --> 01:29:40.399
place. And don't let anyone touch
your trees except Affordable Tree Service. They

1216
01:29:40.479 --> 01:29:44.800
know what they're doing. We're talking
about years of experience. Martin spoon Moore.

1217
01:29:45.439 --> 01:29:49.119
He does a professional job and a
lot of people they just own a

1218
01:29:49.239 --> 01:29:55.119
chainsaw and know how to make wood
come apart. That is not a tree

1219
01:29:55.159 --> 01:29:59.760
service. Someone who knows wisely how
to prune for the sake of the health

1220
01:29:59.800 --> 01:30:03.600
and strength long term of your trees. Martin charges one hundred and fifty bucks

1221
01:30:03.640 --> 01:30:06.640
to come out for a consultation.
If you hire him to do the work,

1222
01:30:06.880 --> 01:30:11.840
that goes into the cost of what
he's doing. So it just,

1223
01:30:12.039 --> 01:30:15.840
you know, can't run around everybody's
got a question go all over town.

1224
01:30:15.319 --> 01:30:18.279
It's a matter of if you're serious
about having work done, have them come

1225
01:30:18.279 --> 01:30:23.079
out and look at it. Maybe
even just a consultation is helpful though,

1226
01:30:23.159 --> 01:30:26.720
because I'll tell you, maybe you're
going to be putting some trenching in and

1227
01:30:26.920 --> 01:30:30.079
you need someone to kind of guide
you on what you can and can't do

1228
01:30:30.399 --> 01:30:32.720
without hurting that tree's life. What
will be the best way to approach it.

1229
01:30:33.199 --> 01:30:36.760
Martin can do anything related to trees. We're talking about deep root watering

1230
01:30:36.840 --> 01:30:41.880
and feeding. Watering in the summertime
and deep root feeding. We're talking about

1231
01:30:41.920 --> 01:30:45.359
pruning. We're talking about everything your
tree needs to look good and be strong

1232
01:30:45.439 --> 01:30:55.840
and be healthy. Affordable Tree Service
the website aff Tree Service Dot com aff

1233
01:30:55.960 --> 01:31:00.199
Tree Service dot com the phone number
seven one three six nine nine sixty three.

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01:31:00.319 --> 01:31:03.079
Tell them you're a guardline listener that
puts you at the front of the

1235
01:31:03.159 --> 01:31:08.880
line because they do stay very,
very busy. Because that's what happens when

1236
01:31:08.920 --> 01:31:13.439
you do a good job in charge
of fair price. People come back again

1237
01:31:13.479 --> 01:31:15.479
and again and they tell their friends, I want to go out to full

1238
01:31:15.520 --> 01:31:20.279
sure and we're going to talk to
Bill this morning. Hello Bill, good

1239
01:31:20.359 --> 01:31:26.760
morning. I just recently purchased a
home in Quorter and need to start the

1240
01:31:27.039 --> 01:31:31.000
fertilizer schedule. And so I'm wondering, is so currently I bought the nitropol

1241
01:31:31.119 --> 01:31:35.279
silver bag, so I go back
and get a weed and feed versus the

1242
01:31:35.399 --> 01:31:40.720
silver bag. Well are you I
heard you speak of a turquoise bag yesterday?

1243
01:31:42.439 --> 01:31:45.159
Right. It depends on the situation. So is your lawn full of

1244
01:31:45.239 --> 01:31:49.079
wags right now? Covered up?
Yes? Oh? Covered up with leads?

1245
01:31:49.079 --> 01:31:51.760
Okay? Yeah. I was just
talking a moment ago about the one

1246
01:31:51.840 --> 01:31:59.800
with the trimc in it from NIGHTPS
and that that is a It does give

1247
01:31:59.840 --> 01:32:03.079
a quick release, but it also
has the product that controls the weeds.

1248
01:32:03.119 --> 01:32:06.479
But you got to get the weeds
wet, just barely wet so the granules

1249
01:32:06.520 --> 01:32:12.119
stick to the weeds. Leave it
a day and then water it in now,

1250
01:32:12.319 --> 01:32:15.399
Okay, I would not don't take
the silver bag back, because you're

1251
01:32:15.399 --> 01:32:18.800
going to need it in April if
you do the first one now late April,

1252
01:32:18.880 --> 01:32:24.199
I would probably do the silver bag, okay. And then should I

1253
01:32:24.279 --> 01:32:30.800
go ahead and mow, bagging everything
and then put down the fertilizer or fertilized.

1254
01:32:30.880 --> 01:32:33.520
Now, with everything tall and kind
of in bloom, you want to

1255
01:32:33.560 --> 01:32:39.159
leave it all tall in bloom so
all those leaves can capture all those leaves.

1256
01:32:39.199 --> 01:32:43.039
When you wet, the leaves can
capture fertilizer granules that have the trimic

1257
01:32:43.119 --> 01:32:46.239
in it. Okay, great,
thank you so much. Give it a

1258
01:32:46.319 --> 01:32:49.880
day and then watered in. And
after you watered in, I would leave

1259
01:32:49.920 --> 01:32:55.479
it another few days, probably five
days, just to be sure before you

1260
01:32:55.680 --> 01:32:58.560
mow. And then you can bag
that stuff up in case there are any

1261
01:32:58.720 --> 01:33:02.239
living In case there any seeds that
have already formed on the weeds, the

1262
01:33:02.359 --> 01:33:06.920
bagger can capture as many as possible
so they're not going right into your lawn

1263
01:33:08.199 --> 01:33:11.640
for next fall. Got okay,
No, perfect, Thank you so much.

1264
01:33:11.760 --> 01:33:14.199
Yeah, hang on to that silber
bag though you're going to use it.

1265
01:33:14.399 --> 01:33:17.079
Yep, Well do all right,
thank you, take care. Yeah,

1266
01:33:17.279 --> 01:33:21.159
there's a there's a lot of different
things that we can do in our

1267
01:33:21.239 --> 01:33:26.079
lawns to enhance and create beauty.
And so it's a kind of a challenge

1268
01:33:26.119 --> 01:33:29.920
on the air. You give instructions
on the air, and different people have

1269
01:33:30.039 --> 01:33:32.720
different situations. So someone hears you
say use this, and maybe they have

1270
01:33:32.760 --> 01:33:36.560
a different situation, and so I
would recommend a different product for that or

1271
01:33:36.600 --> 01:33:42.359
a different timing or something. And
so I always listen in and but the

1272
01:33:42.439 --> 01:33:45.760
best way to know for sure just
to contact me directly and let's talk about

1273
01:33:45.800 --> 01:33:51.039
your situation, your lawn and whatnot. I think it is also I realize

1274
01:33:51.119 --> 01:33:55.760
we have busy lives and most people
are not going to sit down and get

1275
01:33:55.800 --> 01:34:00.600
all nerdy about lawn notes and care. But those of you who are covered

1276
01:34:00.680 --> 01:34:08.199
up with broad leaf weeds right now, what you do this summer to create

1277
01:34:08.319 --> 01:34:15.239
density will help reduce that next year
this time. The second thing to remember

1278
01:34:15.560 --> 01:34:19.079
is when you have broad leaf weed
issues, be looking at your lawn in

1279
01:34:19.279 --> 01:34:25.000
January and early February, and if
you see the broad leaf weeds are going

1280
01:34:25.039 --> 01:34:29.600
to be much smaller, but that's
the most susceptible stage, and that's when

1281
01:34:29.640 --> 01:34:32.680
it's the easiest to kill them.
And it's so cool there you're not concerned

1282
01:34:32.720 --> 01:34:35.840
about any damage to the lawn like
we would have in the summer. The

1283
01:34:35.920 --> 01:34:40.760
products that kill broad leaf weeds can
be very damaging in the summer. But

1284
01:34:42.079 --> 01:34:45.199
just make a note next February,
look at the lawn. Make a management

1285
01:34:45.279 --> 01:34:49.399
decision then, and I think that's
better. Some people wait until the weeds

1286
01:34:49.439 --> 01:34:55.520
are really really high and have blims
and seeds already on them, and well,

1287
01:34:55.880 --> 01:35:00.399
we can kill weeds, but you
know it's better to start sooner because

1288
01:35:00.399 --> 01:35:03.640
they're already shading out the Saint Augustine
by that stage. If you do what

1289
01:35:03.720 --> 01:35:09.439
I say in January and February,
the weeds are small and your grass blades

1290
01:35:09.479 --> 01:35:12.840
are not being shaded out at that
point in time. Because Saint Augustine doesn't

1291
01:35:12.880 --> 01:35:16.319
go dormant, contrary to popular belief, it does not go dormant like your

1292
01:35:16.399 --> 01:35:21.840
trees go dormant. It just slows
down growth because of short days in cool

1293
01:35:21.880 --> 01:35:27.680
weather. And as a result,
if we have some seventy five degree days

1294
01:35:27.840 --> 01:35:32.359
in January, that grass plant can
take in sunlight and it can be producing

1295
01:35:32.399 --> 01:35:36.960
carbohydrates, which is a strengthening thing. So give your lung what it needs.

1296
01:35:39.720 --> 01:35:43.279
It's spring planting. That means we're
putting out rose bushes, and we're

1297
01:35:43.319 --> 01:35:47.720
putting out boogainvillias, and we're you
know, we're putting out vegetable plants like

1298
01:35:47.840 --> 01:35:53.600
tomatoes and peppers and eggplant and everything
else. All kinds of planting going on.

1299
01:35:53.760 --> 01:35:56.800
Perennial flowers. Oh my gosh,
I got to get those in.

1300
01:35:57.319 --> 01:36:00.840
When you plant them, get you
some has to gross, six twelve six

1301
01:36:00.640 --> 01:36:04.119
has to grow. Six twelve six
has the Medina soil activator in it.

1302
01:36:04.279 --> 01:36:10.039
That's the basis of it stimulates the
biological activity. It's also got humic acid

1303
01:36:10.159 --> 01:36:15.319
in it, which humic acids help
improve soil structure. That is one of

1304
01:36:15.399 --> 01:36:19.039
the things that they do. They
improve nutrient uptake as a result as well.

1305
01:36:19.479 --> 01:36:23.840
And also it has seaweed extract.
So here's how I do it.

1306
01:36:24.520 --> 01:36:27.880
Just get you follow the label,
put it in a watering can, pull

1307
01:36:27.920 --> 01:36:30.079
it up with water. You plant
your tomato, you plant your rose,

1308
01:36:30.159 --> 01:36:34.760
you plant whatever you're planting, and
drench it in with that. Five to

1309
01:36:34.880 --> 01:36:40.640
seven days later, drench it again
with the medina has to grow six twelve

1310
01:36:40.680 --> 01:36:45.000
six, and then five to seven
days later a third time medina has to

1311
01:36:45.119 --> 01:36:48.199
grow six twelve six. That new
plant has the best chance it can have

1312
01:36:48.760 --> 01:36:53.840
to hit the ground running. Everything
that's going to make those roots happy is

1313
01:36:54.000 --> 01:36:59.279
now in the soil around the roots, from nutrients to microbial activity. Do

1314
01:36:59.439 --> 01:37:02.800
you name it, and it has
the best chance of getting established. That's

1315
01:37:02.840 --> 01:37:06.239
how you get a plant in the
ground successfully. Is that one two,

1316
01:37:06.359 --> 01:37:12.039
three steps, the same step each
time. Water it in with medina hastro

1317
01:37:12.079 --> 01:37:16.159
gros six twelve six and it will
do well for you. You're listening to

1318
01:37:16.279 --> 01:37:19.479
garden Line and I'm your host,
Skip Richter, And what are we doing

1319
01:37:19.520 --> 01:37:24.920
here? Well, we're here to
answer your gardening questions. That is what

1320
01:37:25.079 --> 01:37:28.039
we're here for. And so if
you'd like to give us a call seven

1321
01:37:28.079 --> 01:37:31.840
one three two one two five eight
seven four, I'd be happy to do

1322
01:37:31.960 --> 01:37:34.720
that. In the meantime, I'm
going to talk about things that I am

1323
01:37:34.840 --> 01:37:41.199
interested in. For example, I
want to remind you again that the Arbor

1324
01:37:41.279 --> 01:37:45.920
Gate has a brand new parking lot
in the back that is unbelievable. You

1325
01:37:45.960 --> 01:37:47.680
don't have to park out in front. There is a parking lot in front,

1326
01:37:47.720 --> 01:37:51.119
but it stays full because the arbor
gate stays busy. People love that

1327
01:37:51.239 --> 01:37:57.000
place for good reason. But in
back off a road called Trishel Road,

1328
01:37:57.479 --> 01:38:01.479
which is sort of a loop.
It leaves before Arburgate and it comes back

1329
01:38:01.520 --> 01:38:04.800
into twenty nine to twenty after Arburgate, so it goes around behind the place.

1330
01:38:05.680 --> 01:38:10.079
You turn in before or after and
get into the back parking lot and

1331
01:38:10.199 --> 01:38:14.239
it is all weather. It's a
real cool thing that like it absorbs rainfall

1332
01:38:14.319 --> 01:38:17.800
and takes it right down into the
soil through the parking lot surface, so

1333
01:38:17.920 --> 01:38:23.520
it's never muddy. It's always a
good firm surface and lots of it's huge.

1334
01:38:23.680 --> 01:38:26.159
There's a lot of parking back there. You need to do that.

1335
01:38:26.239 --> 01:38:30.199
When you're at Arburgate, you know, you got to come home with all

1336
01:38:30.239 --> 01:38:34.600
the cool stuff that they have.
They've got annuals and perennials and shrubs and

1337
01:38:34.680 --> 01:38:40.960
groundcovers and herbs and houseplants and flowering
spring plants and roses and everything else.

1338
01:38:41.439 --> 01:38:45.359
Why not this The theme today has
kind of been off and on, what

1339
01:38:45.479 --> 01:38:46.880
are you going to do new this
year? Well, here's something new.

1340
01:38:47.000 --> 01:38:50.920
Go to Arburgate and ask them to
see their be bomb and put some of

1341
01:38:50.960 --> 01:38:58.079
that out. B bomb is a
monarda and it's attractive to bollinators, and

1342
01:38:58.279 --> 01:39:03.880
it's gorgeous, very beautiful plant.
It spreads underground, uh and it just

1343
01:39:04.079 --> 01:39:09.520
forms a large area that will be
very attractive. Plus I just think the

1344
01:39:09.600 --> 01:39:13.439
ballooms are gorgeous. So there's a
new one, a new suggestion that they've

1345
01:39:13.520 --> 01:39:17.399
got out there at Arborgate, along
with eight hundred billion other wonderful things that

1346
01:39:17.520 --> 01:39:25.600
you can't live without, you know. I plant nurseries are well, let's

1347
01:39:25.680 --> 01:39:30.880
just say for me that, how
do we say they're addictive? Okay,

1348
01:39:30.880 --> 01:39:34.359
I'll just put it that way.
They are very addictive because I've never seen

1349
01:39:34.399 --> 01:39:39.000
a plant that I don't have that
I also don't want. I mean,

1350
01:39:39.079 --> 01:39:42.479
it's like I don't have that I
need one. Yep, that's right now.

1351
01:39:42.600 --> 01:39:45.239
Some people are good. They landscape
and they create this beautiful beauty.

1352
01:39:45.800 --> 01:39:48.920
I tend to be a plant collector
and some of you are too. I

1353
01:39:49.079 --> 01:39:51.800
know, I know you, I
know who I'm talking to here. You've

1354
01:39:51.840 --> 01:39:56.479
got to have a plant you don't
already have, And what do our landscapes

1355
01:39:56.520 --> 01:39:59.760
look like when we're plant collectors?
But we're not designers, and we don't

1356
01:39:59.800 --> 01:40:02.199
hire designer. They look like a
bomb went off in a garden center and

1357
01:40:02.279 --> 01:40:06.840
everything rooted where it landed. I'm
just saying true confessions on the air right

1358
01:40:06.920 --> 01:40:10.640
here. Because you get a plant, you got to have it, and

1359
01:40:10.720 --> 01:40:13.399
so where am I going to put
it? I don't know, Maybe right

1360
01:40:13.439 --> 01:40:16.479
over there between these other two plants. That's okay too. Hey. The

1361
01:40:16.560 --> 01:40:20.000
whole idea is are you having fun. If you're having fun, it's your

1362
01:40:20.079 --> 01:40:25.399
place. You go for it and
you have fun. That is true.

1363
01:40:25.960 --> 01:40:32.399
Absolutely. I've talked to you about
ACE Hardware's before, and the reason we

1364
01:40:32.640 --> 01:40:38.319
like Ace Hardware so much is because
they have everything that you need. You

1365
01:40:38.399 --> 01:40:41.760
know their motto, Ace is the
place, and it is the place.

1366
01:40:41.920 --> 01:40:45.159
It's the place for everything. Yeah, it's a hardware store. It's a

1367
01:40:45.159 --> 01:40:47.600
place for plumbing, it's a place
for electrical and on and on. But

1368
01:40:47.720 --> 01:40:51.000
it's a place for your yard.
It's a place for your garden. It's

1369
01:40:51.039 --> 01:40:55.279
the place to get ever fertilizer you
here on garden line. It's the place

1370
01:40:55.399 --> 01:41:00.840
to get the products to go depressed
diseases and weeds, a product to get

1371
01:41:00.960 --> 01:41:04.279
tools and supplies and wielborrow. It's
a product to turn that backyard pat It's

1372
01:41:04.359 --> 01:41:11.119
the place to turn that backyard patio
into a wonderful setting. ACE has all

1373
01:41:11.199 --> 01:41:15.479
of that stuff and they're everywhere.
Acehardware dot Com find the store locator.

1374
01:41:15.920 --> 01:41:20.000
There's forty of them in the Greater
Houston area. Forty. I think you

1375
01:41:20.079 --> 01:41:24.119
can find one or two or three
that are near you. In fact,

1376
01:41:24.199 --> 01:41:27.039
I know you will. And when
you go into ACE, you will be

1377
01:41:27.079 --> 01:41:30.159
impressed and you'll see why I like
to brag on it, because it's got

1378
01:41:30.520 --> 01:41:33.399
everything that you need. I'm gonna
take a little break here, and when

1379
01:41:33.479 --> 01:41:36.520
we come back, Kevin, you'll
be the first up for other people that

1380
01:41:36.560 --> 01:41:42.159
would like to be online with me. Seven one three two one two fifty

1381
01:41:42.239 --> 01:41:45.760
eight seventy four. Welcome back to
Guarden Line. Glad you're with us today.

1382
01:41:46.279 --> 01:41:50.079
What are we going to talk about
this next segment here? I got

1383
01:41:50.119 --> 01:41:53.720
a few things I'd like to visit
about. But hey, I bet you

1384
01:41:53.840 --> 01:41:58.239
got some questions. You can reach
me at seven one three two one two

1385
01:41:58.960 --> 01:42:04.000
kat are A seven three two one
two KTRH makes it easy, easy to

1386
01:42:04.039 --> 01:42:09.920
get your questions answered. And I
don't know, I've heard reports that when

1387
01:42:09.960 --> 01:42:13.640
your house plans, hear you on
the phone with garden line that they just

1388
01:42:13.680 --> 01:42:16.039
start turning greener because they know life's
going to get better for them. I'm

1389
01:42:16.119 --> 01:42:19.880
just saying it's a report, it's
a rumor. You tell me if that's

1390
01:42:19.960 --> 01:42:25.439
true or not. Let's go out
to Montgomery and talk to Kevin this morning.

1391
01:42:25.520 --> 01:42:31.159
Hey, Kevin, good morning.
What some weeds out in the front.

1392
01:42:31.479 --> 01:42:33.680
We got a new house that we
built in last year. We put

1393
01:42:33.800 --> 01:42:38.720
some saw down in the front,
but right past that we have a bunch

1394
01:42:38.800 --> 01:42:43.279
of them with the old just normal
weeds and grass growing up. I put

1395
01:42:43.279 --> 01:42:46.640
a back of silver out, oh
about two weeks ago, and I'm wondering,

1396
01:42:46.720 --> 01:42:49.399
can I go over all those weeds
with the purple bag or the steel

1397
01:42:49.399 --> 01:42:58.840
bag? Of me you put the
super turf out, yes, you could.

1398
01:43:00.079 --> 01:43:05.239
Uh why the silver bag is going
to release slowly over time, so

1399
01:43:05.479 --> 01:43:10.279
putting an immediate release out would be
fine. It's a little overkill, but

1400
01:43:10.399 --> 01:43:13.760
it's not like putting two immediate releases
out, one right after the other.

1401
01:43:13.880 --> 01:43:16.880
I'd avoid that, so you could
you could take that approach to it if

1402
01:43:16.960 --> 01:43:20.119
you want to go about that.
Now, the purple bag that would be

1403
01:43:20.399 --> 01:43:26.680
uh pre emergent. The teal bag
is going to be the post emergent,

1404
01:43:26.800 --> 01:43:29.439
which is going to be the one
you want to control the weeds you already

1405
01:43:29.479 --> 01:43:33.479
have there. So it kind of
depends on how much of the silver bag

1406
01:43:33.600 --> 01:43:38.079
super turf you put out if you
feel if you're worried about having too much

1407
01:43:38.239 --> 01:43:41.960
nutrient at one time, you know, you could spray the weeds. But

1408
01:43:42.439 --> 01:43:45.199
I don't think there's a problem with
just going ahead and doing the both of

1409
01:43:45.279 --> 01:43:48.640
them. Excellent, I'll probably wait
a week and then get a bag of

1410
01:43:48.680 --> 01:43:54.479
the teal and put it out.
Well, I would, I would go

1411
01:43:54.960 --> 01:43:58.279
I will go ahead and do it
now. It's not like, yeah,

1412
01:43:58.439 --> 01:44:00.319
I mean, if you're going to
do both, then I would just go

1413
01:44:00.359 --> 01:44:04.000
ahead and do it now because the
the silver bag is going to be slowly

1414
01:44:04.119 --> 01:44:10.560
beginning to release. And so yeah, I think that's a lot. Uh,

1415
01:44:11.800 --> 01:44:15.079
you know, I'm not. It
definitely wouldn't be my first choice to

1416
01:44:15.479 --> 01:44:18.239
double up on it. But you're
either if you got those existing weeds,

1417
01:44:18.600 --> 01:44:23.680
then you're either going to have to
do the tillback or just spray them themselves.

1418
01:44:23.800 --> 01:44:27.720
But do you have have you seen
my schedule online? I do.

1419
01:44:28.199 --> 01:44:31.159
Yeah. We're at the feed store
and we were buying our and Normost stuff

1420
01:44:31.199 --> 01:44:34.119
and we come back with time.
Yeah, that we had. We just

1421
01:44:34.159 --> 01:44:38.199
went ahead and put it out,
but uh, I'm not going to actually

1422
01:44:38.239 --> 01:44:41.680
put the teal bag over the Saint
Augustine. It's just going to be we

1423
01:44:41.800 --> 01:44:44.119
have six acres, so it's going
to be, you know, out over

1424
01:44:44.239 --> 01:44:47.359
the other part that does not have
the Saint Augustine in it. Right now,

1425
01:44:47.760 --> 01:44:51.520
Okay, where did you put the
silver bag over Saint Augustine or over

1426
01:44:51.600 --> 01:44:55.359
the other Yes, over the Saint
Augustine And some of it went out though

1427
01:44:55.399 --> 01:44:58.199
there, but I just want to
make sure in case some gets into the

1428
01:44:58.199 --> 01:45:00.520
Saint Augustine's not going to hurt anything. Okay, that's it. Well,

1429
01:45:00.560 --> 01:45:04.439
good luck with that, take care. Thank you so much. You bet

1430
01:45:04.880 --> 01:45:10.239
appreciate the call. Con yep.
For those of you who are wondering what

1431
01:45:10.279 --> 01:45:14.760
we're talking about on schedules, if
you go online to gardening with Skip dot

1432
01:45:14.880 --> 01:45:17.840
com. Gardening with Skip dot com. That's my website. It's just getting

1433
01:45:17.920 --> 01:45:24.079
started and now that I'm officially retired
from my career job, spending more time

1434
01:45:24.319 --> 01:45:28.640
with horticulture in general, hope to
get a lot more to things up there

1435
01:45:28.680 --> 01:45:30.479
on the website. But right now
you can get the lawn care schedule and

1436
01:45:30.600 --> 01:45:35.000
the lawn pest disease and we'd management
schedule. So the way I like to

1437
01:45:35.079 --> 01:45:40.359
refer to them is how to take
care of your lawn, how to deal

1438
01:45:40.439 --> 01:45:43.800
with the things that want to eat
your lawn or kill your lawn. Those

1439
01:45:43.880 --> 01:45:47.640
are the two schedules and they're very
helpful. They're organic and synthetic options on

1440
01:45:47.760 --> 01:45:54.760
there. It tells you exactly when
to apply things to be timely and gives

1441
01:45:54.840 --> 01:45:58.720
a lot of additional information that is
important for you to know to have a

1442
01:45:58.840 --> 01:46:04.000
good, healthy, dense lawn,
which is what we're looking for. So

1443
01:46:04.079 --> 01:46:06.960
when you get all these products we're
talking about, you know, all the

1444
01:46:08.079 --> 01:46:12.640
colors of bags from all the different
companies and things. Southwest Fertilizer has all

1445
01:46:12.720 --> 01:46:15.399
that. They have all of that
and a lot more. If you're looking

1446
01:46:15.479 --> 01:46:19.800
for something to control insects or spider
mites, if you're looking for something to

1447
01:46:19.880 --> 01:46:26.560
control diseases, root rots of the
roots or foliage blights and leaf spots.

1448
01:46:26.600 --> 01:46:30.880
If you're looking for something that'll prevent
weeds or something that will kill weeds,

1449
01:46:30.960 --> 01:46:36.199
that you have Southwest Fertilizer. They
have everything everything you could possibly need.

1450
01:46:36.880 --> 01:46:42.399
They always stay up to date when
new things come out, they look into

1451
01:46:42.439 --> 01:46:44.600
them, make sure they're going to
work right, and then they bring them

1452
01:46:44.640 --> 01:46:47.399
in. You know the three sixty
tree stabilizer. I was talking about it

1453
01:46:47.479 --> 01:46:51.800
earlier. They've already got them there
at Southwest Fertilizer. Bots got them ordered.

1454
01:46:51.800 --> 01:46:56.880
They're on the shelf. They just
that's how they do business. And

1455
01:46:56.960 --> 01:46:59.399
you can go in there with a
problem, a question, a picture,

1456
01:46:59.439 --> 01:47:01.760
a plant. They can help you. They can direct you right, and

1457
01:47:01.880 --> 01:47:06.199
that's what they're gonna do. Uh. Southwest Fertilizer is in Southwest Houston.

1458
01:47:06.439 --> 01:47:11.760
There's no surprise there. They're on
the corner of Bisonette and Renwick Bisinet and

1459
01:47:11.800 --> 01:47:16.399
Renwick. You can go to the
website Southwest Fertilizer dot com. But just

1460
01:47:16.560 --> 01:47:21.359
know this that when you go,
there's nothing you need that they don't have.

1461
01:47:21.840 --> 01:47:25.920
If they don't have it, you
don't need it. That's the way

1462
01:47:25.920 --> 01:47:30.560
I like to put it. Southwest
Fertilizer. Our phone number is seven one

1463
01:47:30.680 --> 01:47:34.760
three two one two five eight seven
four seven one three two one two fifty

1464
01:47:34.840 --> 01:47:40.760
eight seventy four. We are here
to answer your gardening question. Happy to

1465
01:47:40.840 --> 01:47:45.920
do just that. Have you been
to the RCW nursery recently? You need

1466
01:47:45.039 --> 01:47:49.159
to go by. Now. They're
right there at the corner of where belt

1467
01:47:49.199 --> 01:47:54.920
Way eight and Highway two forty nine
called Tomball Parkway where it comes together.

1468
01:47:55.319 --> 01:47:59.560
Easy access from anywhere to get to
them. But I'm telling you right now,

1469
01:48:00.199 --> 01:48:03.960
the color is outstanding. And the
thing that caught my eye most at

1470
01:48:04.159 --> 01:48:08.680
RCW was the bougainvillias. Now they
have a lot of other color. I

1471
01:48:08.760 --> 01:48:14.600
mean. RCW is known for having
a wide selection of roses, just pages

1472
01:48:14.680 --> 01:48:17.199
and pages of roses. They are
known for their trees, which they grow

1473
01:48:17.279 --> 01:48:23.960
themselves, that are all excellent plants. They're grown right, They're varieties that

1474
01:48:24.039 --> 01:48:28.640
belong here. But oh my goodness, the color they have. You know,

1475
01:48:28.840 --> 01:48:32.000
things like petunias. They've got things
like calibricoa, and all the daisy

1476
01:48:32.159 --> 01:48:36.319
like flowers that we enjoy, Rudbeckia's
and others in the spring. But those

1477
01:48:36.359 --> 01:48:41.880
bougainvillias are outstanding. Do you want
a hanging basket boogainvillia? How about a

1478
01:48:42.000 --> 01:48:45.279
standard? Do you know what a
standard is. It's a plant that's not

1479
01:48:45.439 --> 01:48:49.720
normally a tree that they prune up
to a straight trunk with a little we

1480
01:48:49.840 --> 01:48:54.359
call it a head on top where
all the flowers are. They're roses that

1481
01:48:54.439 --> 01:48:58.279
are standards. It's like a little
mini tree that's a rose on top,

1482
01:48:58.720 --> 01:49:03.520
bougainvillias, many tree with a booga
via flowers on top. RCW Nursery easy

1483
01:49:03.560 --> 01:49:11.840
to find. RCW Nurseries Plural dot
com. RCW Nurseries dot com two eight

1484
01:49:11.920 --> 01:49:15.760
one four four zero fifty one sixty
one. And they also have the products

1485
01:49:15.800 --> 01:49:21.479
that I recommend on Guardenline that you
need to establish these plants successfully in your

1486
01:49:21.560 --> 01:49:26.079
landscape, and they'll walk you through
that on how to have success because they

1487
01:49:26.159 --> 01:49:30.000
want you to have success. That
is very important to them that their customers

1488
01:49:30.199 --> 01:49:35.159
are happy that they find their landscapes
are doing what they want them to do,

1489
01:49:35.439 --> 01:49:39.439
because they know that'll bring you back
for more of the same good stuff

1490
01:49:39.680 --> 01:49:45.640
that you got. The first time
I went to a garden center a while

1491
01:49:45.720 --> 01:49:49.640
back, and I was looking at
some of the house plants, the indoor

1492
01:49:49.720 --> 01:49:54.239
plants and things in all year is
a good time for indoor plants, right.

1493
01:49:54.800 --> 01:49:58.439
I was looking at some of the
indoor plants and I just was amused

1494
01:49:58.479 --> 01:50:01.399
by the containers. It used to
be a flower pot was a flower pot,

1495
01:50:01.560 --> 01:50:05.720
a houseplant pot was a houseplot pot. Now we've got pots that look

1496
01:50:05.840 --> 01:50:10.840
like faces. And so you plant
a string of fill in the blank to

1497
01:50:10.960 --> 01:50:13.439
come out of the top, it
looks like hair coming out of the top

1498
01:50:13.560 --> 01:50:17.800
of it at all, kinds of
whimsicles that it just adds another fun aspect

1499
01:50:17.880 --> 01:50:20.880
to it. Hey, let's take
a break our number seven one three two

1500
01:50:20.960 --> 01:50:25.279
one two KTRH. I'll be right
back and Lynn and Darryl you'll be the

1501
01:50:25.279 --> 01:50:30.319
first up. Welcome back to garden
line. Good to have you with us

1502
01:50:30.359 --> 01:50:33.000
today. Uh. If you live
down south of town and you need a

1503
01:50:33.119 --> 01:50:36.680
supply of compost and moltch, or
maybe you want to put on a rock

1504
01:50:36.800 --> 01:50:42.960
patio, a beautiful flatstone rock out
there, perhaps create a little drainage way

1505
01:50:43.079 --> 01:50:45.600
using river rock. Where do you
go? Where you go to? Sana

1506
01:50:45.640 --> 01:50:50.920
malt Cena Maltz has got all of
that top quality materials at cienamlts. They

1507
01:50:51.000 --> 01:50:56.880
deliver within about twenty miles of their
location. And where are they located.

1508
01:50:56.960 --> 01:51:00.720
Well, it's on FM five twenty
one. It's near Highway six and just

1509
01:51:00.840 --> 01:51:06.039
north of Rose Sharon. Here's the
website Sienna Mulch dot com Siena Multch dot

1510
01:51:06.119 --> 01:51:11.520
com. Do you need the fertilizers? I recommend they have them all do

1511
01:51:11.680 --> 01:51:16.920
you need things like bags of multch
materials, composts. They've got bags from

1512
01:51:17.000 --> 01:51:21.640
Landscaper's Pride and Heirlooms soil. They've
got the liquids from Microlife and Medina.

1513
01:51:23.079 --> 01:51:27.760
In other words, the brown stuff, remember brown stuff before green stuff.

1514
01:51:28.239 --> 01:51:34.119
Everything you need to make that soil
a very hospitable place for plants to thrive,

1515
01:51:34.479 --> 01:51:39.800
You're going to find it. Ciena
Mulch Sienna Mulch dot com. They're

1516
01:51:39.800 --> 01:51:43.880
closed today, closed on Sundays,
but they're open Monday through Friday from seven

1517
01:51:43.960 --> 01:51:47.159
thirty in the morning till five and
on Saturday from seven thirty to two pm.

1518
01:51:47.439 --> 01:51:50.359
You can go pick it up yourself, or within twenty miles you can

1519
01:51:50.399 --> 01:51:57.119
have them deliver it for you.
Let's go to Lynn in Spring now.

1520
01:51:57.239 --> 01:52:02.359
Hello Lynn, Hi. I have
a list of items that I will be

1521
01:52:02.520 --> 01:52:08.239
using for my rose garden, and
I'm not sure if if I need to

1522
01:52:08.359 --> 01:52:13.920
add or remove some things. I
have like the plant mix it's the Kellog

1523
01:52:14.479 --> 01:52:19.680
plus Organic. I have the Texas
Native cedar mulch. It's organic, shredded

1524
01:52:19.720 --> 01:52:26.399
covered, natural color and aromatic.
I have the black cow manure. I

1525
01:52:26.600 --> 01:52:30.800
have the Healthy Soil compost, the
landscaper's pride. They say, dude,

1526
01:52:30.800 --> 01:52:35.000
that three to one ratio. And
they also told me that I need to

1527
01:52:35.119 --> 01:52:39.279
use the soil that I dig up
from the hole and use that in the

1528
01:52:39.359 --> 01:52:46.079
little mix, warm castings, the
micael rise a root group, rot group,

1529
01:52:47.199 --> 01:52:51.079
and the microlive six two four acid, the fire and the microlives.

1530
01:52:51.119 --> 01:52:56.720
There's zero four humus plus. And
I have the organic roastone rose food.

1531
01:52:56.880 --> 01:53:00.439
So I'm not sure if I need
all of that or I need to remove

1532
01:53:00.520 --> 01:53:02.880
some things. I know you talked
about medina plant food, so I need

1533
01:53:02.920 --> 01:53:06.920
a shatto some and maybe at that. Okay, So the last thing was

1534
01:53:06.960 --> 01:53:13.760
it rose food or roast soil?
The last thing roast? Okay, that's

1535
01:53:13.800 --> 01:53:17.640
a fertilizer. Okay, okay,
I think that's a fertilize. What was

1536
01:53:17.720 --> 01:53:23.720
the very first thing you said on
your list? It was the planting mix

1537
01:53:24.399 --> 01:53:29.800
Kellogg. It's the name brand is
Kellog plus organic. Is that a fertilizer?

1538
01:53:31.359 --> 01:53:35.840
I believe that is. Let me
take a look. Okay, Well,

1539
01:53:36.079 --> 01:53:40.840
first of all, the stuff that
you mix into the soil is fine

1540
01:53:40.880 --> 01:53:44.039
to do. Not all of it
is the stuff I would recommend that you

1541
01:53:44.159 --> 01:53:45.800
put out. But if you bought
it you can't take it back, then

1542
01:53:45.880 --> 01:53:48.359
go ahead and use it. That
would be the manure, the black cam

1543
01:53:48.439 --> 01:53:54.560
manure, for example. And then
you mentioned something else that was right right

1544
01:53:54.640 --> 01:53:58.840
before, the black calmner I believe. But anyway, those soil amenimus.

1545
01:53:58.880 --> 01:54:01.479
Mix them in is deeply. You
can get them in the soil. Have

1546
01:54:01.680 --> 01:54:06.720
you ever grown plants in this spot
before? Well, yes, it was

1547
01:54:06.880 --> 01:54:14.920
the no coulross. Yes, okay, So I always suggest people use rose

1548
01:54:15.680 --> 01:54:19.000
soil, and there's blends of that
available. That's a good one for growing

1549
01:54:19.119 --> 01:54:23.520
roses. Now, the micro life
products that we talked about that you talked

1550
01:54:23.520 --> 01:54:26.359
about there, that's fine, go
ahead and put them down, and when

1551
01:54:26.399 --> 01:54:29.239
you mix everything up, you can
just mix them in with it. They're

1552
01:54:29.279 --> 01:54:31.479
also okay to apply to the surface. But if you're making the bed up,

1553
01:54:31.560 --> 01:54:34.319
go ahead and mix them in and
have it in the soil when the

1554
01:54:34.399 --> 01:54:40.039
plant goes to sending roots out into
that area. There was one of them

1555
01:54:40.119 --> 01:54:43.000
that was a mulch on top.
That's fine, that's at the very end.

1556
01:54:43.119 --> 01:54:45.800
After you've planted your roses. There
are a couple of things in there

1557
01:54:46.039 --> 01:54:50.800
that, like I said, the
one I wasn't sure what that first one

1558
01:54:51.119 --> 01:54:56.279
was, but Okay, I have
the warm castings. Do I really need

1559
01:54:56.359 --> 01:54:59.800
it? Well, you don't need
it, but it's good for the soil.

1560
01:55:00.039 --> 01:55:03.199
Ribcastings are excellent to mix in.
That's that's a type of compost if

1561
01:55:04.479 --> 01:55:09.319
the same same purpose, So you
could do that, I would, I

1562
01:55:09.319 --> 01:55:15.399
would shift more. If you're going
to do the roses the microlife fertilizer,

1563
01:55:15.960 --> 01:55:19.199
that's the acidic that you mentioned you
have, I would continue to use that

1564
01:55:19.560 --> 01:55:24.439
as a fertilizer then on your roses. Each time you need to fertilize,

1565
01:55:24.520 --> 01:55:28.279
just put that out. It'll be
fine, okay, okay, and make

1566
01:55:28.319 --> 01:55:30.279
sure make sure it drains wealth a
raise beds the way we do that,

1567
01:55:30.560 --> 01:55:33.880
and then make sure they get good
sunlight and you should have good success.

1568
01:55:35.000 --> 01:55:36.920
Great, thank you so much.
All right, Lynn, thank you.

1569
01:55:38.000 --> 01:55:41.720
I appreciate appreciate your call very much. UH. For those of you wanting

1570
01:55:41.760 --> 01:55:45.399
to put a container in indoors are
out whether it's a house planner or an

1571
01:55:45.399 --> 01:55:50.760
outdoor patio container, jungle land.
Jungle land is a soule mix for containers

1572
01:55:50.800 --> 01:55:54.680
that contains a potting salt. Think
it was a putting soil that you would

1573
01:55:54.720 --> 01:55:59.159
do outdoors. That would be the
vegetable and the flower and vegetable version of

1574
01:55:59.239 --> 01:56:01.840
jungle land. In doors, there
is the version with the crystals that soak

1575
01:56:01.920 --> 01:56:06.880
up water and hold that water to
allow the plant to go further between waterings

1576
01:56:08.039 --> 01:56:12.239
successfully. You know, jungle lands
available everywhere you find nit frost products.

1577
01:56:12.439 --> 01:56:15.039
Now, that's not hard to find
night frost products here in the Greater Houston

1578
01:56:15.079 --> 01:56:19.199
area. How about Alspaw's ace up
in the Woodlands, They're going to have

1579
01:56:19.319 --> 01:56:23.600
that. How about plants for all
seasons? On two forty nine, they're

1580
01:56:23.640 --> 01:56:26.560
going to have those products, plants
and things up in Brenham. We'll also

1581
01:56:26.640 --> 01:56:30.840
have products like the jungle land from
my nitrofis. I want to head to

1582
01:56:31.239 --> 01:56:36.119
Darryl in Northwest Houston now, Hello
Darryl O, good morning, Skip Corner.

1583
01:56:36.279 --> 01:56:42.000
Hey. I asked some questions about
some outdas. Are they a long

1584
01:56:42.159 --> 01:56:46.079
lasting plant? I've planted some years
ago my father I've given me and they

1585
01:56:46.199 --> 01:56:49.119
last seven or eight years at the
most, and they just die. And

1586
01:56:49.239 --> 01:56:53.560
I've had them since and they last
the same thing, and then they just

1587
01:56:53.920 --> 01:56:57.199
you know, after a certain lengths
of time, they just start looking bad

1588
01:56:57.279 --> 01:57:01.399
and die. Okay, Well,
any plant can fall prey to something Althea's

1589
01:57:01.520 --> 01:57:05.960
as a shrub, they should be
around for longer than seven or eight years.

1590
01:57:06.359 --> 01:57:09.199
So I don't know what all was
going on. There could be a

1591
01:57:09.279 --> 01:57:13.000
drainage issue, could be a root
ride, it could be something else going

1592
01:57:13.079 --> 01:57:15.600
on. Well, I've got them
in several different areas of my yard.

1593
01:57:16.439 --> 01:57:19.279
Now I've got some in the front
driveway. I live on the corner in

1594
01:57:19.319 --> 01:57:23.520
the front driveway. They're doing great
now. They had one by the back

1595
01:57:23.600 --> 01:57:26.119
driveway. It didn't do it for
years. It was a solid white woman.

1596
01:57:26.199 --> 01:57:29.520
I loved it, but it just
which. I have some seeds started

1597
01:57:29.520 --> 01:57:31.439
from it, thank goodness. But
okay, they just all of them,

1598
01:57:31.439 --> 01:57:36.079
They just they get the leaves get
kind of a yellowish like almost spots to

1599
01:57:36.239 --> 01:57:42.119
them, And I don't know I
should I be fertilizing them more or Althea

1600
01:57:42.239 --> 01:57:45.399
leaves turn yellow when like they go
through drought and then they get watered again.

1601
01:57:45.520 --> 01:57:50.159
They can turn yellow. They can
turn yellow when something is not good

1602
01:57:50.239 --> 01:57:56.239
in the roots, soggy wet conditions. Perhaps if the old leaves are just

1603
01:57:56.479 --> 01:58:00.159
gradually losing their green, that's a
nitrogen to fish. But when you see

1604
01:58:00.399 --> 01:58:05.000
healthy green leaves everywhere, and some
leaves just bright yellow. That's that's a

1605
01:58:05.159 --> 01:58:12.000
water thing and the soil going on. Okay, should fertilize them with anything?

1606
01:58:12.359 --> 01:58:16.479
Yes, I would. I would
on those use a lawn type fertilizer

1607
01:58:16.600 --> 01:58:21.239
will be just fine for them.
You can go buy you can buy hibiscus

1608
01:58:21.319 --> 01:58:27.800
food for example, you know,
like sixty four will be fun it.

1609
01:58:28.399 --> 01:58:30.680
You know what I think if I
were doing those as, I think I

1610
01:58:30.720 --> 01:58:34.439
would use. If you're going to
use microlives, I would use their their

1611
01:58:34.600 --> 01:58:39.920
acid loving it's kind of a pink
bag, a sixty fin type, but

1612
01:58:40.039 --> 01:58:42.920
it's a it's a pink bag.
I would do that one on the outfias.

1613
01:58:42.960 --> 01:58:45.640
I think they will perform a little
better with that. Okay, sounds

1614
01:58:45.680 --> 01:58:49.439
good? Wy yes, sir,
thank you very much. Hey, when's

1615
01:58:49.479 --> 01:58:53.920
the last time you're out at Warren's
Garden Center. Warren's Garden Center, yep

1616
01:58:54.000 --> 01:58:58.680
out in Kingwood. Warrens always stocks
everything you need. I mean, we're

1617
01:58:58.720 --> 01:59:01.880
talking about ball so we're talking about
shrubs. We're talking about beautiful, gorgeous

1618
01:59:01.920 --> 01:59:06.600
flowers. Their annual color right now
is outstanding. Do you like succulents?

1619
01:59:06.680 --> 01:59:13.760
Do you like plants that have colorful
foliage? Do you want beautiful spring blooming

1620
01:59:13.840 --> 01:59:16.479
trees and roses. Yes, yes, yes, all the above. All

1621
01:59:16.520 --> 01:59:20.439
those spring booming, blooming trees you've
been enjoying around town, like red bud

1622
01:59:20.560 --> 01:59:26.239
and Chinese fringe tree and saucer magnolias. Get one, get it planted now,

1623
01:59:26.319 --> 01:59:29.840
so next spring you can have those
kind of blooms. We're in.

1624
01:59:29.960 --> 01:59:33.239
Southern Gardens is just a place where
you can always find what you're looking for.

1625
01:59:33.760 --> 01:59:38.039
So it's good to go out there
and visit. Same with Kingdom Garden

1626
01:59:38.079 --> 01:59:41.960
Center too, just down the street, just down the street. Well,

1627
01:59:42.000 --> 01:59:45.920
I want to remind you that my
schedule is online. If you want to

1628
01:59:45.119 --> 01:59:49.439
fertilize or do test control in your
lawn, it tells you what to use

1629
01:59:49.880 --> 01:59:56.680
and when to use. It makes
it really really easy. Next Saturday,

1630
01:59:57.840 --> 02:00:02.159
Next Saturday, what day does that? Sixteenth of March? At eleven a

1631
02:00:02.359 --> 02:00:05.920
m. To one pm. I'm
going to be at Buchanans and the Heights

1632
02:00:06.000 --> 02:00:12.479
Buchanans Native Plants and the Heights on
Eleventh Street, eleven am to one pm.

1633
02:00:12.880 --> 02:00:15.319
I'll be there. I'm going to
be there just to answer your guarding

1634
02:00:15.399 --> 02:00:18.960
questions, Bring me samples, bring
me plants, just come say hi that

1635
02:00:19.680 --> 02:00:25.439
they have at Buchanans everything you could
possibly need and we can get you set

1636
02:00:25.560 --> 02:00:29.399
up on the products and the plants
to help you have success. Plus it's

1637
02:00:29.560 --> 02:00:32.479
just fun to get to meet the
listeners. Katie r H. Garden Line

1638
02:00:32.520 --> 02:00:36.199
does not necessarily endorse any of the
products or services advertised on this program.

1639
02:00:38.880 --> 02:00:45.239
Welcome to kat r H. Garden
Line with Scamp Richt. It's so crazy,

1640
02:00:50.439 --> 02:01:12.359
just as so many good things to
set Welcome back to guard Line.

1641
02:01:12.680 --> 02:01:16.800
Glad to have you with us on
a gorgeous Sunday. Look outside, Oh

1642
02:01:16.920 --> 02:01:23.039
my, oh my, sunshine,
blue skies, nice weather, good temperatures,

1643
02:01:23.119 --> 02:01:25.880
little breeze out there. It's a
good day to be out, good

1644
02:01:25.960 --> 02:01:28.920
day to be out and about.
For those of you who didn't get out

1645
02:01:28.960 --> 02:01:32.960
to the Anti groz Impourium yesterday,
they're still going today with their spring Shindig

1646
02:01:33.119 --> 02:01:36.720
that they have going on out there. I was out speaking yesterday at the

1647
02:01:36.840 --> 02:01:39.920
event. Got to meet a lot
of folks. That was a lot of

1648
02:01:39.960 --> 02:01:42.560
fun too. By the way,
thanks thanks for having us out there.

1649
02:01:43.239 --> 02:01:46.000
But it's still going today. They
got vendors out there, and it's just

1650
02:01:46.199 --> 02:01:49.359
always a good day to go visit
the Rosenporium. It's just really nice out

1651
02:01:49.399 --> 02:01:56.159
there. By the way, I
just was looking at my official National Gardening

1652
02:01:56.279 --> 02:02:00.680
Holiday calendar. Yeah, I have
one of those, and March twelfth is

1653
02:02:00.840 --> 02:02:06.520
Plant a Flower Day, so that
would be if I'm adding things up right,

1654
02:02:06.680 --> 02:02:11.119
that would be on Tuesday, Plant
a Flower Day. I'm going to

1655
02:02:11.199 --> 02:02:15.880
officially change that to today this afternoon. Go get you some flowers and plant

1656
02:02:15.920 --> 02:02:19.359
them. Why don't we just make
it Plant a Flower week or month because

1657
02:02:19.399 --> 02:02:25.439
it's a good time to be doing
that. Lots of beautiful color. Everything

1658
02:02:25.479 --> 02:02:28.680
must bloom in the spring, so
this is just a fun time to get

1659
02:02:28.720 --> 02:02:30.840
out and do that sort of thing. We're going to go to Missouri City

1660
02:02:30.960 --> 02:02:33.760
and we're going to talk to Jane
right off the bat here. Hello Jane,

1661
02:02:35.600 --> 02:02:40.399
Yeah, good morning. I needed
to Ian. I had two bags

1662
02:02:40.520 --> 02:02:46.279
of fertilizer. Actually one is the
SKA the Niprofoss barricade and I have a

1663
02:02:46.399 --> 02:02:51.760
spreader. It's a Scott's Easy Green
and the dial goes from twenty two to

1664
02:02:51.920 --> 02:02:57.119
thirty two. What do I set
that on for the barricade and then the

1665
02:02:57.279 --> 02:03:00.920
Niprofoss red bag. I believe on
the barricade we're going to go one notch

1666
02:03:01.119 --> 02:03:06.720
up, one above one quarter,
So like you, if your spreader had

1667
02:03:06.840 --> 02:03:12.760
ten on it, probably three.
If your spreader had you know, five

1668
02:03:12.920 --> 02:03:17.039
on it, probably maybe two.
Uh. Just here, here's the thing

1669
02:03:17.119 --> 02:03:21.800
about spreading anything. There are a
lot of particle sizes, there's a lot

1670
02:03:21.880 --> 02:03:27.399
of spreader brands, and it's just
it's frustrating to try to figure it all

1671
02:03:27.479 --> 02:03:31.560
out. I would always go a
little lighter because ideally, if you want

1672
02:03:31.600 --> 02:03:38.680
the best coverage of the barricade or
of a fertilizer, you would fertilize like

1673
02:03:39.039 --> 02:03:43.279
nor south and then turn sideways and
fertilize east west, so you'd only use

1674
02:03:43.399 --> 02:03:47.039
half of it on each path.
And that way, if you mess up

1675
02:03:47.119 --> 02:03:50.399
a little bit, you're still okay. It's not like you get halfway across

1676
02:03:50.520 --> 02:03:55.199
the lawn and now all the barricade's
gone and you realize I put it out

1677
02:03:55.279 --> 02:03:58.039
twice as much as I should over
there, and I don't have any over

1678
02:03:58.119 --> 02:04:01.520
here. So I would go light
because you can always go back over it.

1679
02:04:01.760 --> 02:04:10.039
So that's what about the go ahead? What about the fertilizer. Which

1680
02:04:10.079 --> 02:04:12.880
fertilizer did you say you had?
I was focused on I had the red

1681
02:04:12.960 --> 02:04:18.000
bag, red bag, the Imperial, Yeah, terferial, the same kind

1682
02:04:18.039 --> 02:04:21.439
of thing. Just follow follow the
instructions on you said you had a what

1683
02:04:21.640 --> 02:04:28.079
was the brand of the It's a
Scott Easy Green spreader and the guide on

1684
02:04:28.159 --> 02:04:31.840
the bottom is between twenty two and
thirty two. The numbers twenty two and

1685
02:04:31.920 --> 02:04:36.399
thirty two. It says that a
quarter that just like you're saying. It

1686
02:04:36.520 --> 02:04:41.840
says that on the bag twenty two
on the no on the little dial on

1687
02:04:41.920 --> 02:04:45.039
the bottom, it starts at thirty
two, and I can move the little

1688
02:04:45.079 --> 02:04:48.760
dial to thirty two, twenty two
to thirty two thirty two. You know

1689
02:04:48.840 --> 02:04:51.800
what, I'm not going to give
you a number on that because I need

1690
02:04:51.920 --> 02:04:57.359
to make sure I'm right. And
again it with all these different brands of

1691
02:04:57.439 --> 02:05:00.520
spreaders. Right, you're down in
Missouri City. You know what I would

1692
02:05:00.520 --> 02:05:05.479
do. I would call Southwest Fertilizer
and I would talk to them there.

1693
02:05:06.039 --> 02:05:10.239
They deal with that every day,
day in and out. I don't think

1694
02:05:10.359 --> 02:05:15.479
they sell that spreader, but they
can give you at it a long long

1695
02:05:15.560 --> 02:05:18.079
time. Yeah, yeah, I
know a good guide. I just I'll

1696
02:05:18.199 --> 02:05:25.119
just tell you this though, janey
uh uh go easy, go light,

1697
02:05:25.319 --> 02:05:29.520
because you can always call back over
it. It's it's always better to go

1698
02:05:29.800 --> 02:05:31.840
under what you think, because by
the time you get halfway across the lawn,

1699
02:05:31.960 --> 02:05:39.479
you'll know my backyard. I'm getting
my big tree, my oak tree

1700
02:05:39.720 --> 02:05:43.640
trimmed on Thursday. Would you fertilize
before like today and then water it in

1701
02:05:43.880 --> 02:05:46.520
or would I wait, you could
do either way. Either way is fine,

1702
02:05:46.800 --> 02:05:50.680
there's not a problem. Yeah,
your choice, all right, you

1703
02:05:51.720 --> 02:05:55.439
bet? Good luck with that.
Yeah, that night Fuss Imperial is an

1704
02:05:55.520 --> 02:05:58.880
excellent, excellent fertilizer. It's a
red bag and it's the one we use

1705
02:05:59.279 --> 02:06:02.520
for early green So you want to
get out there early now and the grass

1706
02:06:02.680 --> 02:06:08.119
is growing, it's alive, it's
awake, it's it'll turn green. As

1707
02:06:08.199 --> 02:06:11.680
it warms up, it starts growing
faster and faster, and then we switch

1708
02:06:11.760 --> 02:06:15.399
over to the slow releases at that
time. This is early green up time

1709
02:06:15.520 --> 02:06:17.199
for Imperial, and gosh, you
can get imperil all over the vice.

1710
02:06:17.239 --> 02:06:20.880
I keep telling you these night frost
products. Kingwo Ace Hardware has got them,

1711
02:06:20.960 --> 02:06:25.399
the Arborgate up and Tombull's got them. Shades of green down on Genoa

1712
02:06:25.439 --> 02:06:28.279
Red Bluff, South Houston. Yep, they got them too down there,

1713
02:06:28.720 --> 02:06:33.039
easy easy to find, very very
important too. You know, the the

1714
02:06:34.840 --> 02:06:41.439
garden centers are just looking so good
right now. It's fun to get out

1715
02:06:41.600 --> 02:06:44.640
and to see all the things going
on. A and A Plants and Produce

1716
02:06:44.920 --> 02:06:49.720
produce up in Montgomery, for example, they absolutely have loaded up on collar

1717
02:06:49.880 --> 02:06:53.600
and it's a beautiful place to go
visit. You know, A and A's

1718
02:06:53.640 --> 02:06:56.920
three acres. You can wander through. We got we got all the plants,

1719
02:06:57.039 --> 02:06:59.520
and then you've got all the bling, you know, the things from

1720
02:06:59.600 --> 02:07:05.000
chimney is to other things. You
decorate little metal arches that go over walkways

1721
02:07:05.079 --> 02:07:11.000
and just it's a way to turn
your whole outdoor area and do just a

1722
02:07:11.119 --> 02:07:15.239
wonderland of plants and cool stuff that
you like. ANA Plants and Produce is

1723
02:07:15.359 --> 02:07:19.279
on the east side of Montgomery on
one oh five. They're easy, easy

1724
02:07:19.359 --> 02:07:23.680
to find. They also have a
landscape crew that'll go out there. If

1725
02:07:23.720 --> 02:07:27.159
you're up in the in the Lake
Conroy area, for example, they can

1726
02:07:27.239 --> 02:07:30.079
come out and do some clean up
on your home beds around the area.

1727
02:07:30.159 --> 02:07:35.640
They keep my schedule there at the
counter, easy to find, seven days

1728
02:07:35.640 --> 02:07:39.800
a week, nine to five.
So this afternoon there's something to do.

1729
02:07:40.119 --> 02:07:44.760
An A Plants and Produce and go
bring home some beauty and bounty for your

1730
02:07:44.840 --> 02:07:49.359
landscape. I'm want to go now
to Richmond and talk to Mary. Hello,

1731
02:07:49.479 --> 02:07:56.560
Mary, all Rick Scamp I'm sorry, all right, I have a

1732
02:07:56.720 --> 02:08:01.000
question about little pecan tree. It's
out seven years old. We had it

1733
02:08:01.079 --> 02:08:05.680
in a pot until about two years
ago, a big thirty gallon pot,

1734
02:08:05.039 --> 02:08:09.880
okay, and we planted it in
the ground and we planted it up,

1735
02:08:11.199 --> 02:08:13.880
you know, because it rains a
lot out here in our area and sometimes

1736
02:08:13.920 --> 02:08:18.359
it gets kind of wet and mushy. Huh. So it's about two feet

1737
02:08:18.760 --> 02:08:24.239
up off the ground level. But
anyway, it's starting to get little spots

1738
02:08:24.520 --> 02:08:30.399
of moss on it. Okay,
Hey, I'm gonna take I'm gonna take

1739
02:08:30.399 --> 02:08:33.720
a quick break and when I come
back, I'll go into that and answer

1740
02:08:33.720 --> 02:08:35.680
your question. Mary. Just hang
on one second. We'll be right back.

1741
02:08:37.359 --> 02:08:39.840
Well, welcome back to Garden Line. Glad to have you with us

1742
02:08:39.920 --> 02:08:45.640
today. Listen, if you need
to find a place to get the supplies

1743
02:08:45.920 --> 02:08:50.560
you need for your lawn and landscape
ace hardware. Now you hear me go

1744
02:08:50.720 --> 02:08:54.680
through the day. We're talking about
this fertilizer or that fertilizer, or this

1745
02:08:54.800 --> 02:08:58.520
weed control or that weed control.
Maybe you're dealing with chinchbugs, this coming

1746
02:08:58.640 --> 02:09:01.199
summer, and you need to know
where to good stuff Ace Hardware. ACE

1747
02:09:01.239 --> 02:09:05.159
Hardware has forty stores around the Greater
Houston area. They're easy to find.

1748
02:09:05.279 --> 02:09:11.479
Go to ACE Hardware dot com.
Ace Hardware dot com store locators on that

1749
02:09:11.600 --> 02:09:16.680
page store locator find the one near
you. And with forty there are mini

1750
02:09:16.920 --> 02:09:20.399
near you. It's easy to find
a good Ace Hardware store. And they

1751
02:09:20.479 --> 02:09:22.680
carry everything you need for your lawn, for your landscape, for your home,

1752
02:09:22.800 --> 02:09:28.600
for that backyard patio. It's just
it's the one place, as they

1753
02:09:28.680 --> 02:09:31.000
say at ACE, Ace is the
place, and ACE is the place for

1754
02:09:31.159 --> 02:09:37.560
everything you need to have a beautiful
lawn and a bountiful landscape. For sure.

1755
02:09:37.000 --> 02:09:41.560
I'm going to go back now out
to Mary, and we left Mary

1756
02:09:41.680 --> 02:09:48.079
with some moss center pegan tree trunk
and Mary. That is an organism called

1757
02:09:48.239 --> 02:09:54.479
lichen l I c h E N
liken and it's actually kind of an algae

1758
02:09:54.680 --> 02:10:00.119
and fungus thing growing together there.
It's it's not damaging your plan, but

1759
02:10:00.680 --> 02:10:03.920
it is a sign that number one, there's good humidity in the area,

1760
02:10:05.359 --> 02:10:09.079
but that the canopy of that pecan
tree is not very dense, so it's

1761
02:10:09.079 --> 02:10:13.560
allowing a lot of sunlight through and
the growth of the pecan tree has slowed

1762
02:10:13.600 --> 02:10:18.079
down a lot. Probably it's because
the pecan was in a pot for so

1763
02:10:18.279 --> 02:10:22.399
long, which really slows growth to
a crawl. I would just recommend you

1764
02:10:22.560 --> 02:10:28.079
ignore it and you start fertilizing that
pecan tree and watering it is needed when

1765
02:10:28.119 --> 02:10:31.279
it gets hot, and get it
growing fast and it will not be something

1766
02:10:31.319 --> 02:10:35.960
you need to worry about. Okay, so good, thank you so much.

1767
02:10:37.079 --> 02:10:41.199
Get you a lawn fertilizer that does
not have weed control in it,

1768
02:10:41.800 --> 02:10:46.039
and for every inch of trunk diameter, give it two cups of fertilizer,

1769
02:10:46.520 --> 02:10:50.239
spread out in the bag area a
big area around it. And I would

1770
02:10:50.279 --> 02:10:54.640
do that about every six weeks between
now in August, just to keep that

1771
02:10:54.840 --> 02:10:58.840
tree going and give it a good
watering, keep the weeds away, put

1772
02:11:00.079 --> 02:11:03.319
mult around it, and that it'll
hit the ground running and we'll get we'll

1773
02:11:03.319 --> 02:11:07.000
get. We won't worry about the
liking, right, Okay, Well,

1774
02:11:07.079 --> 02:11:11.560
thank you so much, you bet, thank you, Mary. I appreciate

1775
02:11:11.720 --> 02:11:16.920
I appreciate that a lot uh the
folks at Peerscapes know how to turn any

1776
02:11:16.039 --> 02:11:22.800
landscape into a show place. And
so maybe you're looking at the results of

1777
02:11:22.880 --> 02:11:26.960
last summer's heat and drought, and
it's just discouraging. It's depressing to look

1778
02:11:26.000 --> 02:11:31.159
at. Let peerscapes turn it around. Maybe you've got a backyard and it's

1779
02:11:31.159 --> 02:11:35.359
a nice yard, but you really
want to entertain guests out there, and

1780
02:11:35.079 --> 02:11:39.840
whatever level of taking it to the
next notch you want, peerscapes can do

1781
02:11:39.960 --> 02:11:43.520
it. Do you want a patio
area, a rock patio. Do you

1782
02:11:43.600 --> 02:11:46.920
want perhaps a water feature in the
back ear? Do you want landscape lighting

1783
02:11:48.239 --> 02:11:50.880
that takes it up another step?
Do you want a barbecue area? Do

1784
02:11:50.960 --> 02:11:54.640
you want a fire ring out in
the yard? Made a brick for example,

1785
02:11:56.000 --> 02:11:58.239
that you could get around and really
enjoy, or brick or rock could

1786
02:11:58.239 --> 02:12:01.840
be made a beautiful rock Piercescapes can
do all that. They can get your

1787
02:12:01.880 --> 02:12:07.520
irrigation system back in shape. And
most systems need work. They're not efficient,

1788
02:12:07.600 --> 02:12:11.840
they're not working right. Have pearscapes
look at it, Go ahead and

1789
02:12:11.880 --> 02:12:13.239
get with them. They stay busy, they do a great job. They

1790
02:12:13.279 --> 02:12:16.680
stay busy, and you want to
get a hold of them and get scheduled

1791
02:12:18.039 --> 02:12:20.640
so that they can come out and
get that done at your place. Peerscapes

1792
02:12:20.920 --> 02:12:28.359
dot com, Peerscapes dot com two
eight one three seven oh five zero six

1793
02:12:28.560 --> 02:12:31.359
zero. Go to their website and
see their work and you'll see why I

1794
02:12:31.479 --> 02:12:37.119
say they can transform your place,
that is for sure. I want to

1795
02:12:37.159 --> 02:12:39.800
go out to Spring now and we're
going to talk to Jim. Hello Jim,

1796
02:12:41.479 --> 02:12:43.600
Hi, Skip, how are you? I'm well, sir. How

1797
02:12:43.640 --> 02:12:48.560
can we help today? Hey?
I'm going to starting tomorrow, I have

1798
02:12:48.720 --> 02:12:52.800
a contractor coming in to resaw my
entire front yard. All right, I

1799
02:12:52.920 --> 02:12:56.640
pretty much had I took a beat
and last year in the heat wave and

1800
02:12:56.720 --> 02:13:01.600
everything else. Yeah, that's neither
here nor there. So my question Skip

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02:13:01.800 --> 02:13:07.760
was around, he's going to till
up the entirety of the front yard and

1802
02:13:07.199 --> 02:13:11.279
you know, and and calmb out
all the clumps and the and the little

1803
02:13:11.279 --> 02:13:15.880
bit of grass that is still there. Yeah. I was wondering at this

1804
02:13:16.039 --> 02:13:20.039
time, should would it would be
applicable for me to go ahead and add

1805
02:13:20.119 --> 02:13:24.720
some fertilizers into the dirt or barricade
or asthmite, or do I wait for

1806
02:13:24.840 --> 02:13:28.199
the saw to go down and then
do all that on top of the sawd

1807
02:13:28.359 --> 02:13:33.119
if you had a soil test that
and you don't have time for it now,

1808
02:13:33.239 --> 02:13:35.520
But then we would say, yeah, I add these nutrients according to

1809
02:13:35.560 --> 02:13:41.840
the soil test. Do not put
barricade down until a long time from now,

1810
02:13:43.079 --> 02:13:46.880
because if you put it down and
then lay saw it on it side,

1811
02:13:46.039 --> 02:13:48.760
the side's trying to put down roots
and the barricades in the way.

1812
02:13:50.079 --> 02:13:54.880
That's why it does. So don't
do that. You could put fertilizer down,

1813
02:13:54.079 --> 02:13:58.359
but you don't need it right now. Get the they're doing what they

1814
02:13:58.399 --> 02:14:03.520
should do it up, smooth it
out, lay the sod. Make sure

1815
02:14:03.880 --> 02:14:07.319
the sod is going to need water. Probably the first week. I typically

1816
02:14:07.399 --> 02:14:11.119
will put water down like twice a
day, very little, just a little

1817
02:14:11.159 --> 02:14:15.399
quarter inch of water, just to
keep the grass alive while it gets some

1818
02:14:15.560 --> 02:14:18.600
roots in the ground, moving them
to once a day and then twice a

1819
02:14:18.680 --> 02:14:24.439
week and so on. But it
needs time to it needs to be kept

1820
02:14:24.479 --> 02:14:28.680
a live until it can get roots. But you're only half inch long when

1821
02:14:28.720 --> 02:14:33.159
it comes in with sod down into
the ground. After it's been in for

1822
02:14:33.239 --> 02:14:35.880
a couple of weeks, you ought
to be able to grab a piece and

1823
02:14:35.960 --> 02:14:37.920
when you pull on it, it
doesn't just lift up like a throw rug.

1824
02:14:39.039 --> 02:14:41.560
You can tell the roots are pegging
down in the ground. At that

1825
02:14:41.840 --> 02:14:46.560
stage, you could begin fertilizing with
one of the fertilizers on my schedule at

1826
02:14:46.720 --> 02:14:52.760
gardeningwth Skip dot com and follow the
label put them out at the right rate.

1827
02:14:52.680 --> 02:14:56.119
Yep, I do, I do. I do religiously. Hey,

1828
02:14:56.159 --> 02:14:58.920
Skip, real quick, go ahead. I'm sorry, no, I said,

1829
02:15:00.079 --> 02:15:03.720
good, real quick before I jump
off. I heard you yesterday talking

1830
02:15:03.760 --> 02:15:09.920
about to a gentleman who had some
light green grass grown in his backyard,

1831
02:15:09.279 --> 02:15:13.199
and you told them to pull out
a piece of it and hold it up

1832
02:15:13.199 --> 02:15:15.920
to the sun and take a look
and see if you had streaks in it.

1833
02:15:16.079 --> 02:15:18.520
Yes, and if you did,
then you probably had a problem with

1834
02:15:18.640 --> 02:15:24.479
some iron. Yes. I did
that because I have some light green areas

1835
02:15:24.520 --> 02:15:28.359
in my backyard and the streaks are
there. Okay, So what's the best

1836
02:15:28.720 --> 02:15:35.640
way to put some iron into the
soil. There are kelated iron products that

1837
02:15:35.760 --> 02:15:41.279
you can put out and they last
a little longer because they're kelated, meaning

1838
02:15:41.399 --> 02:15:46.359
the soil can't tie them up so
fast. That is one option. There

1839
02:15:46.439 --> 02:15:48.720
are other forms of iron that are
not keylated that you put out and for

1840
02:15:48.800 --> 02:15:54.319
a little while they'll help, and
that Iron Height is one brand of those.

1841
02:15:54.439 --> 02:15:58.479
There's a lot of other products,
and Nitrophoss has some iron based products

1842
02:15:58.479 --> 02:16:01.520
as well. Put those down to
get the iron to the root system.

1843
02:16:01.800 --> 02:16:09.920
Now, if most of the time
you probably don't have an iron deficiency in

1844
02:16:09.039 --> 02:16:13.840
the soil, it's that the grass
isn't getting the iron that's there. And

1845
02:16:13.000 --> 02:16:18.039
that can happen because the soil is
cool and it's a little damp. We

1846
02:16:18.159 --> 02:16:22.119
see iron deficiency in the spring that
just goes away on its own by summer.

1847
02:16:24.039 --> 02:16:26.840
And it also can happen when you
have a little bit of take all

1848
02:16:26.960 --> 02:16:30.920
root rot, which kills roots of
the grass. And as it kills roots,

1849
02:16:30.960 --> 02:16:33.559
the plant can't take up the iron
it's taken up at the tip of

1850
02:16:33.639 --> 02:16:37.000
a growing root, and so that
would mean you know, you put iron

1851
02:16:37.079 --> 02:16:41.319
down, but plant doesn't have the
roots to take the iron that's there up.

1852
02:16:41.639 --> 02:16:45.319
So that's kind of what you have
to discern. If it's a spring

1853
02:16:45.479 --> 02:16:50.840
only thing, then it's probably just
a cool temperatures and extra wet will cause

1854
02:16:50.879 --> 02:16:54.799
an iron deficiency. Okay, okay, I think it might be the ladder.

1855
02:16:56.520 --> 02:16:58.799
Okay, but I'll pay attention to
it. Thank you so very much

1856
02:16:58.840 --> 02:17:03.719
for your for your feedback. I
love love the show. Well good,

1857
02:17:03.799 --> 02:17:07.600
I'm glad, I'm glad you do. Thanks for being a listener appreciate that

1858
02:17:07.680 --> 02:17:11.280
a lot lawns can be a challenge. But I'll tell you when we when

1859
02:17:11.360 --> 02:17:16.440
we want to have success with plants, we learn that rather than looking at

1860
02:17:16.559 --> 02:17:20.000
how do you fix this, how
do you fix that? How do you

1861
02:17:20.120 --> 02:17:22.559
fix this? How do you fix
that? We learn how do you make

1862
02:17:22.600 --> 02:17:28.959
a plant happy? How do you
grow it? And I say all the

1863
02:17:28.040 --> 02:17:31.879
time, you start with the soil. So when the plant gets in the

1864
02:17:31.959 --> 02:17:35.760
ground, it's like you took it
to Disneyland. It's happy. It's like

1865
02:17:37.319 --> 02:17:41.680
I've got good drainage, I've got
good water holding capacity. Every nutrient I

1866
02:17:41.799 --> 02:17:45.639
possibly could need is there, and
supplies that are adequate. Do you see

1867
02:17:45.680 --> 02:17:48.159
what I'm saying That that's how we
make them happy. And we run into

1868
02:17:48.200 --> 02:17:52.680
a lot of problems on plants.
We're talking about lawns right now. Turf

1869
02:17:52.799 --> 02:17:56.719
grass that's stressed, take all root
rod is all. It's worse in a

1870
02:17:56.799 --> 02:18:01.719
stressed turf grass. And so how
do we how do we create the conditions

1871
02:18:01.920 --> 02:18:05.360
to make the plant as happy as
it can be? And that's why all

1872
02:18:05.479 --> 02:18:11.280
these steps along the way are important
because over time, things like compaction happen

1873
02:18:11.360 --> 02:18:15.399
to your soil, which does not
make your grassroots happy at all. But

1874
02:18:15.559 --> 02:18:20.760
you can errate to maintain a loose
soil with good oxygen and good supply.

1875
02:18:20.920 --> 02:18:24.239
You can do compost top dressings,
you can provide the nutrients it needs,

1876
02:18:24.319 --> 02:18:28.639
the humates that get out in the
soil, and help with that as well

1877
02:18:28.840 --> 02:18:31.959
improving on the soil structure. That
is helpful. Now, if you've got

1878
02:18:31.959 --> 02:18:35.639
a lawn full of weeds, and
I mean I'm talking about all those cool

1879
02:18:35.680 --> 02:18:39.280
season weeds. If you see a
weed right now, it's a cool season

1880
02:18:39.360 --> 02:18:43.319
weed. The worm season weeds are
barely starting to germinate well. Tourchtar Weedenator

1881
02:18:43.360 --> 02:18:48.680
by Nelson's is designed for that because
what it is is it is a very

1882
02:18:48.879 --> 02:18:52.399
slow release fertilizer product that's going to
feed your lawn for the next two or

1883
02:18:52.479 --> 02:18:58.479
three months. But it has a
post emergent broadleaf weed control. So with

1884
02:18:58.639 --> 02:19:01.760
those what do we do We soil
the weeds barely. You don't have to

1885
02:19:01.799 --> 02:19:05.079
wet the soil, just barely put
water enough to get everything on top of

1886
02:19:05.120 --> 02:19:09.920
the ground damp and then when you
throw the product down or apply it with

1887
02:19:11.000 --> 02:19:13.799
your fertilizer spreader, it sticks to
the weeds. Give it a week,

1888
02:19:15.200 --> 02:19:20.120
give it a day or two to
kind of soak into those leaf tissues and

1889
02:19:20.239 --> 02:19:22.479
then water the thing to get the
fertilizer down to the soil. At that

1890
02:19:22.639 --> 02:19:26.840
point, and those plants have already
taken in what's going to kill them in

1891
02:19:26.959 --> 02:19:31.600
the turf Star Weedenator. Turf Star
Weedenator is widely available. It's very effective,

1892
02:19:33.000 --> 02:19:37.040
and it's designed to control the weeds
first now, but then to give

1893
02:19:37.079 --> 02:19:41.079
you a gradual feeding over time,
which makes the lawn look great. It's

1894
02:19:41.120 --> 02:19:46.399
got twenty percent nitrogen and a lot
of that. The majority of that is

1895
02:19:46.479 --> 02:19:52.680
in a form that's not going to
release until the soil warms and soil microbes

1896
02:19:52.879 --> 02:20:01.000
become active to start to break that
down and release those nutrients. One gets

1897
02:20:01.239 --> 02:20:03.879
what it needs. That's how it
works. It's important to know how things

1898
02:20:03.959 --> 02:20:09.440
work in order to have success.
I mentioned that I'm going to be at

1899
02:20:09.600 --> 02:20:15.760
Buchannan's Nursery next Saturday. That's Saturday
to sixteenth, from eleven to one pm.

1900
02:20:16.319 --> 02:20:18.639
I'll be there answering your gardening questions. We'll talk about whatever you want

1901
02:20:18.639 --> 02:20:24.760
to talk about plant wise. Bring
me samples to identify or samples to diagnose.

1902
02:20:24.479 --> 02:20:28.280
Put them in a plastic bag.
Before you bring them in. And

1903
02:20:28.120 --> 02:20:33.000
if you have photos on your phone, maybe you've got an area that you've

1904
02:20:33.040 --> 02:20:35.360
got some questions about. Take some
photos, take them from a distance,

1905
02:20:35.520 --> 02:20:39.799
take them close up, and make
sure they're in sharp focus, because my

1906
02:20:39.959 --> 02:20:45.120
answer is only as good as the
focus of the photo. If it's too

1907
02:20:45.200 --> 02:20:48.040
blurry, I'm not going to be
able to help. Let's talk about it.

1908
02:20:48.360 --> 02:20:50.879
Let's find out what's going on.
And while you're a Buginnan's, you're

1909
02:20:50.920 --> 02:20:54.639
going to find every kind of solution
and plant that you cannot live without.

1910
02:20:54.719 --> 02:20:58.239
Trust me, every time I go
in there, it's like, oh boy,

1911
02:20:58.360 --> 02:21:01.639
here we go again. I'm glad
I got room in the car.

1912
02:21:01.799 --> 02:21:05.840
When are you going to Buchanan Buchanon's
next Saturday? Cool into one? I

1913
02:21:05.959 --> 02:21:07.879
know, I know. It's eleven
Street in the Heights, So it's round

1914
02:21:07.959 --> 02:21:11.079
the middle. It's the middle of
the whole list every yes, you know,

1915
02:21:11.159 --> 02:21:16.479
if you're listening in Huntsville or Galveston
or Corpus CHRISTI bu Canon's is just

1916
02:21:16.600 --> 02:21:22.680
a short drive over. We're right
in the big middle of everything. Nikki,

1917
02:21:22.799 --> 02:21:26.719
we got news. I guess you've
got some information that we can't live

1918
02:21:26.799 --> 02:21:31.200
without. I keep telling you that
the most breaking news of the day is

1919
02:21:31.280 --> 02:21:33.920
it's time to get out there and
fertilize and do we control in your lawns?

1920
02:21:35.520 --> 02:21:39.360
That's that is like breaking news.
Okay, very critical since I've said

1921
02:21:39.360 --> 02:21:41.840
that was going to be my lead, but yeah, right, you just

1922
02:21:41.920 --> 02:21:46.559
did. I was born at night. It wouldn't last time. All right,

1923
02:21:46.879 --> 02:21:52.040
here you go, Welcome back to
garden Line. Folks were talking gardening

1924
02:21:52.120 --> 02:21:56.719
today. We are here every Saturday
from six am to ten am and every

1925
02:21:56.799 --> 02:22:00.879
Sunday from six am to ten am. So that means what we got less

1926
02:22:00.959 --> 02:22:03.360
than thirty minutes left than today's show. If you got a question and it

1927
02:22:03.440 --> 02:22:07.799
can't wait till next Saturday, that'd
be a good time to call. Seven

1928
02:22:07.840 --> 02:22:11.760
to one three two one two five
eight seven four. We've got an open

1929
02:22:11.840 --> 02:22:15.040
line right now, open lines right
now. As a matter of fact,

1930
02:22:15.399 --> 02:22:18.319
a little perfect storm. It's kind
of interesting how calls come in. Sometimes

1931
02:22:18.399 --> 02:22:20.840
you go board full of calls,
and then other times, for some reason,

1932
02:22:20.920 --> 02:22:24.719
it just kind of gets quiet for
a little bit. Well, I've

1933
02:22:24.799 --> 02:22:26.959
got a question. Now's the time
you can get in without waiting. I

1934
02:22:28.760 --> 02:22:31.840
was talking about lawn care and taking
care of things and planning for spring and

1935
02:22:31.959 --> 02:22:35.840
what not. Through today, And
I want to tell you about a garden

1936
02:22:35.959 --> 02:22:41.719
center that you probably have not heard
about. If you listen to Garden Line,

1937
02:22:41.760 --> 02:22:45.440
you've heard me talk about it.
But that's Orges Hidden Gardens. Now.

1938
02:22:45.520 --> 02:22:48.840
Jorge is down there in Alvin,
Okay, down south of Highway six

1939
02:22:50.000 --> 02:22:58.319
on Elizabeth Street in Alvin. And
I've been watching Jorges Garden center grow over

1940
02:22:58.520 --> 02:23:01.120
recent months and year. You know, it started off very small, and

1941
02:23:01.239 --> 02:23:05.520
he just keeps getting bigger and bigger
every time I go. There's more stuff.

1942
02:23:05.600 --> 02:23:09.079
I mean, it is full of
all kinds of plants, lots of

1943
02:23:09.120 --> 02:23:13.760
different kinds of fruit, plants,
plenty of vegetables, herbs, flowers,

1944
02:23:15.000 --> 02:23:18.360
all kinds of things like that.
If you're looking for trees and shrubs to

1945
02:23:18.479 --> 02:23:22.159
plant in the art, he's got
those two. He's one of those garden

1946
02:23:22.200 --> 02:23:28.719
centers that carries the three sixty tree
stabilizer as well and the fertilizers that you

1947
02:23:28.799 --> 02:23:31.360
hear me talk about. Orge.
It is going to carry those kinds of

1948
02:23:31.440 --> 02:23:35.399
things. So whatever you're looking for, you ought to give them a checkout.

1949
02:23:35.600 --> 02:23:37.559
Those of you down south, it's
pretty far down south there, so

1950
02:23:39.040 --> 02:23:43.719
anyone living around the Alvin area.
Alvin Santa fe Dickinson Hillcrest, al Gooo,

1951
02:23:45.520 --> 02:23:50.200
maybe Alta Loma or Arcadia. You've
got a hometown garden center right down

1952
02:23:50.280 --> 02:23:52.840
there by you, and you need
to go down and visit them. They're

1953
02:23:52.959 --> 02:23:56.280
open on Friday, Saturday, and
Sunday from eight am to four pm.

1954
02:23:56.319 --> 02:24:00.559
They're open on weekends. That's when
they're open for business. He does other

1955
02:24:00.680 --> 02:24:03.639
things during the week taking care of
landscapes and whatnot. But during the weekends

1956
02:24:03.840 --> 02:24:07.799
the garden center opens up, and
so things like, hey, how about

1957
02:24:07.799 --> 02:24:11.920
a Peggy Martin Rose. I've got
one of those, one of my favorite

1958
02:24:11.000 --> 02:24:16.239
Roses. Orges got the Peggy Martin
Rose. He's got geraniums, crate myrtles

1959
02:24:16.280 --> 02:24:20.559
and things like that. Go check
them out again. They're on the Elizabeth

1960
02:24:20.680 --> 02:24:24.159
Street in Alvin. It's hard word
for me to say, just south of

1961
02:24:24.280 --> 02:24:33.239
Highway six. Orges hidden gardens.
Well, I said, call and here

1962
02:24:33.319 --> 02:24:37.000
we go, William and Laporte.
We'll start there. Hey, William,

1963
02:24:37.040 --> 02:24:39.520
how are you today? I'm doing
good. I appreciate the show. Thank

1964
02:24:39.559 --> 02:24:45.159
you. I need bushes now across
the back of the yard. The backyard

1965
02:24:45.200 --> 02:24:48.200
I had odi anders. You know
a couple of years ago, the deep

1966
02:24:48.280 --> 02:24:50.799
freeze frozen back to the ground.
Right, So I thought, i'll you

1967
02:24:50.879 --> 02:24:54.040
know, take too long for him
to regrow. I dug them all up.

1968
02:24:54.120 --> 02:24:58.719
I planted new ones and they're still
small, right. I hadn't had

1969
02:24:58.760 --> 02:25:01.200
a chance to get me. Guess
what happened. They've all frozen back to

1970
02:25:01.280 --> 02:25:07.159
the ground. So I want something
that will not freeze back. You know,

1971
02:25:07.200 --> 02:25:09.959
I live in the port now.
I know about the red tipped patinas,

1972
02:25:11.040 --> 02:25:13.399
and you know they're nice because the
you know, the new leaser red.

1973
02:25:13.959 --> 02:25:18.319
Is there a like a hedge bush
that grows a five or so feet

1974
02:25:18.360 --> 02:25:20.239
tall. If it grows taller,
I can keep it, you know,

1975
02:25:20.360 --> 02:25:22.000
shortened, so it doesn't you know, get too tall. Something that I

1976
02:25:22.000 --> 02:25:26.040
can plant back there that grows,
you know, fairly quickly, that's just

1977
02:25:26.159 --> 02:25:28.959
not going to freeze back to the
ground like we had this last year.

1978
02:25:28.239 --> 02:25:33.719
I would try Southern wax myrtle.
It's a kind of a light gun a

1979
02:25:33.840 --> 02:25:37.680
light green bush. But if you
share it, it will be very dense,

1980
02:25:37.760 --> 02:25:43.559
very dense. But any any shrub
gets denser because you share it.

1981
02:25:43.799 --> 02:25:46.959
That that's the key. It'll get
about the size you're talking about U.

1982
02:25:48.239 --> 02:25:50.040
And I think it'll work well.
It'll put up with some wet conditions.

1983
02:25:50.360 --> 02:25:54.280
It can put up with some dry
conditions, you know, for a while

1984
02:25:54.200 --> 02:25:58.000
early on, you're gonna want to
keep fertilizing it with a lawn fertilize.

1985
02:25:58.120 --> 02:26:03.239
Just use your lunertizer as long as
it doesn't have weed controlling it, right,

1986
02:26:03.559 --> 02:26:07.920
use that on your shrubs and water
them regularly, especially through the first

1987
02:26:07.120 --> 02:26:11.840
summer or two to get them established
fast. But that that would be a

1988
02:26:11.879 --> 02:26:13.520
good one. Of course, there's
one hundred different shrubs you could plant,

1989
02:26:15.200 --> 02:26:18.840
but I think southern wax moreles a
native through the region, and I think

1990
02:26:18.120 --> 02:26:22.120
that you would have good success with
that. Okay, yeah, And I

1991
02:26:22.239 --> 02:26:24.520
had planned for I do this just
to you know. We got moss nursery.

1992
02:26:24.559 --> 02:26:28.280
We got another nursery around the corner. Go and look and see what

1993
02:26:28.360 --> 02:26:31.280
they've got. You know, is
there anything that grows? And I was

1994
02:26:31.399 --> 02:26:33.120
just at AGB. I don't know
how big they get, and I didn't

1995
02:26:33.159 --> 02:26:37.840
see a name on the buckets,
but they're bushes. But they had little

1996
02:26:37.959 --> 02:26:41.879
flowers growing starting to grow on them. I couldn't describe it, but is

1997
02:26:41.920 --> 02:26:48.520
there anything that would grow in these
bushes? About three quarters of the line

1998
02:26:48.559 --> 02:26:52.600
they get full sign As you start
getting down towards the end, they start

1999
02:26:52.680 --> 02:26:54.600
falling under the shade of a tree. So we go from full sign to

2000
02:26:54.719 --> 02:26:58.440
like filtered to one end is starting
to kind of get just shade. Okay,

2001
02:27:00.159 --> 02:27:03.440
had anything planted on the shady part, but they are definitely full so

2002
02:27:03.600 --> 02:27:07.719
pretty much full sun. Yeah,
well, I think you probably would switch

2003
02:27:07.360 --> 02:27:13.040
species as you get into the shade
because something that flowers in the sun is

2004
02:27:13.159 --> 02:27:16.360
not going to bloom well in the
shade. Something that's dense in the shin

2005
02:27:16.719 --> 02:27:22.239
sun is going to be less dense
as you get into more shade. For

2006
02:27:22.360 --> 02:27:24.479
flowers, I wish I could if
you had a color of the bloom or

2007
02:27:24.559 --> 02:27:28.719
size of the bloom or anything on
those shrubs you saw, I could probably

2008
02:27:28.760 --> 02:27:31.319
tell you what that was. Well. To me, they kind of looked

2009
02:27:31.520 --> 02:27:35.479
like the flower that grows on lantana, only a little larger, you know,

2010
02:27:35.559 --> 02:27:39.040
the red and orange. I mean, that's okay kind of what they

2011
02:27:39.079 --> 02:27:43.840
look Okay, that maybe like a
nixor or something. Yeah, I'm not

2012
02:27:43.920 --> 02:27:48.959
gonna be able to guess for sure
on that. I will say this though,

2013
02:27:48.959 --> 02:27:52.159
as you were talking, I got
thinking about what about like a knockout

2014
02:27:52.280 --> 02:27:56.520
rose. Those are very disease resistant. They will get five feet tall if

2015
02:27:58.159 --> 02:28:03.719
and you can shear them to make
a hedge if you want. They're very

2016
02:28:03.840 --> 02:28:05.799
forgiving of that. And the more
you cut back a rose, the more

2017
02:28:05.879 --> 02:28:11.040
bloom terminals it has. Just put
your good rose mix in there. Give

2018
02:28:11.079 --> 02:28:15.520
them good drainage roses. You know, want a good soil to grow in.

2019
02:28:16.680 --> 02:28:20.559
That's just another option. They're not
fully evergreen, but you know they

2020
02:28:22.440 --> 02:28:26.000
they're beautiful. Yeah, all right, man, I do I appreciate the

2021
02:28:26.040 --> 02:28:30.440
advice. All right, sir,
good luck out there. Appreciate that,

2022
02:28:30.879 --> 02:28:33.200
thanks a lot. I appreciate that
very much. Yeah, soil, soil,

2023
02:28:33.360 --> 02:28:37.520
soil, soal, that's very important. In fact, let's head out

2024
02:28:37.600 --> 02:28:39.319
now to Brenham and we're going to
talk to Ed. Hello. Ed,

2025
02:28:41.680 --> 02:28:50.799
Well, skip question. Mushroom compost
in a vegetable garden. You can do

2026
02:28:50.920 --> 02:28:52.879
that. You can do that.
You want to use it sparingly. It's

2027
02:28:52.920 --> 02:28:58.120
a very potent stuff. Uh So
I would say, if you haven't gotten

2028
02:28:58.200 --> 02:29:01.559
a lot of organic matter into the
soil, I would put a couple of

2029
02:29:03.200 --> 02:29:05.399
oh you do, okay, Well, I'd probably put an inch an inch

2030
02:29:05.479 --> 02:29:11.319
of much mushroom compost only and then
rototile it end deeply. Now it can

2031
02:29:11.440 --> 02:29:15.360
have a little bit of an odor, but that goes away. As soon

2032
02:29:15.440 --> 02:29:18.840
as the microbes start to work on
it, that odor will go away.

2033
02:29:18.639 --> 02:29:22.239
But I had someone sitting on top
of the ground and oh my goodness,

2034
02:29:24.120 --> 02:29:28.040
was it was ripe. But I'm
telling you make stuff grow, that's for

2035
02:29:28.159 --> 02:29:31.840
sure. All right, Well,
i'll try that next year then, okay,

2036
02:29:31.040 --> 02:29:39.120
Yeah, you have a big vegetable
garden, not that big eights about

2037
02:29:39.239 --> 02:29:43.879
ninety okay, well, so you
can use that. It is a higher

2038
02:29:43.959 --> 02:29:48.399
pH material, the mushroom compost,
so some people will avoid that and go

2039
02:29:48.559 --> 02:29:52.200
with something a little more acidic,
you know, in terms of the garden.

2040
02:29:52.639 --> 02:29:56.600
But unless you're just dealing with already
got a high pH problem and then

2041
02:29:56.680 --> 02:30:00.559
you're just adding a lot of mushroom
compost, it's not going to be a

2042
02:30:00.600 --> 02:30:05.280
problem. Put a soul for down
to try to bring that PHDW that can

2043
02:30:05.360 --> 02:30:07.959
help. Yeah, over time,
over time, that'll help. All right,

2044
02:30:09.040 --> 02:30:11.319
Well, good luck growing vegetables out
there and broun them. You know

2045
02:30:11.399 --> 02:30:13.280
the role on guardline. My advice
is free, but I just expect half

2046
02:30:13.360 --> 02:30:18.559
the produce dropped off here at the
station and I will call it even bring

2047
02:30:18.639 --> 02:30:26.000
a pick up. Thanks for being
a good sport. I appreciate you take

2048
02:30:26.040 --> 02:30:31.799
care of it. Bubba bubba.
Yeah. When we're talking about quality products,

2049
02:30:31.959 --> 02:30:37.239
Nature's Way has. If your soil
needs it, Nature's Way has got

2050
02:30:37.319 --> 02:30:41.280
it. In other words, mushroom
conbos, you know, blends, we

2051
02:30:41.399 --> 02:30:43.079
talked about those. But if you
go to Nature's Way, you're going to

2052
02:30:43.120 --> 02:30:46.479
get a quality mix, like a
vegetable mix or herb type mix. You're

2053
02:30:46.520 --> 02:30:50.879
going to get a rose type mix. You're going to get just composts.

2054
02:30:50.879 --> 02:30:54.200
You're going to get micronutrient blends.
You're going to find the fertilizers left the

2055
02:30:54.280 --> 02:30:58.319
micro life that you would put in. Uh. They know how to make

2056
02:30:58.399 --> 02:31:01.520
the soil right. So if you're
putting in a vegetable garden, a flower

2057
02:31:01.600 --> 02:31:05.159
bed, anything you're gonna grow,
call Nature's Way. They're on Sherbrooke's Circle

2058
02:31:05.360 --> 02:31:09.799
and south of Conrod, just off
forty five, right there where fourteen eighty

2059
02:31:09.840 --> 02:31:16.159
eight comes in Nature'sway Resources dot Com
and the phone number nine three six two

2060
02:31:16.319 --> 02:31:22.360
seven three twelve hundred. They've long
been a leader when it comes to making

2061
02:31:22.479 --> 02:31:26.479
the brown suff stuff awesome, so
your plants can be gorgeous and productive.

2062
02:31:28.120 --> 02:31:31.959
We'll be right back. Welcome back, to guard line. Glad to have

2063
02:31:33.120 --> 02:31:35.719
you as always. What are we
gonna talk about today, Well, let's

2064
02:31:35.799 --> 02:31:41.319
find out. We're gonna go to
Jim in Cyprus. Hello, Jim'll skip.

2065
02:31:43.559 --> 02:31:46.639
Well, I'm good. What's up
with Jim? I got a very

2066
02:31:46.719 --> 02:31:50.799
beautiful green yard. But it looks
closer. Look it's all clover. Oh

2067
02:31:52.840 --> 02:31:56.399
okay, all right, oh boy. Well the clover's gonna be dying down

2068
02:31:56.440 --> 02:32:01.600
on its own soon. So that's
one option, is just let it die

2069
02:32:01.680 --> 02:32:05.319
down. If you've got a big
yard and pulling the clover out is not

2070
02:32:05.840 --> 02:32:13.040
an option, then spraying it would
be an option. Here's what I generally

2071
02:32:13.159 --> 02:32:16.520
do. I generally don't have like
weeds over the whole yard. So when

2072
02:32:16.520 --> 02:32:20.479
I see something like clover, it
comes out of one spot in the ground,

2073
02:32:20.479 --> 02:32:22.559
a little taproot, and I can
just go in there with a little

2074
02:32:22.600 --> 02:32:26.440
corner of a hoe or with my
hands, pop it out and get all

2075
02:32:26.559 --> 02:32:31.040
the seeds that are on it,
because it's already blooming, probably probably already

2076
02:32:31.079 --> 02:32:35.399
has some seeds forming, And that
is the best way, because you get

2077
02:32:35.440 --> 02:32:37.879
all that out of there, you
can spray it and kill it. But

2078
02:32:37.000 --> 02:32:39.959
if they're already formed seeds, they're
just going to go in the ground and

2079
02:32:41.040 --> 02:32:43.719
you'll be back next year. You'll
have to use a pre emergent in the

2080
02:32:43.840 --> 02:32:48.719
fall for it. But those are
your options. So if you want to

2081
02:32:48.760 --> 02:32:52.440
go ahead and spray it, you
can do that, or you can pull

2082
02:32:52.520 --> 02:32:56.200
it get rid of it. But
either way, the lawn then can come

2083
02:32:56.280 --> 02:33:00.719
on through and have a good shot
at it. I hope you're in fairly

2084
02:33:00.799 --> 02:33:05.239
good shape, so if it is, I'll bounce back well unlock everybody else.

2085
02:33:05.760 --> 02:33:09.959
I had some you know, a
drought. But what I spray it

2086
02:33:09.040 --> 02:33:13.799
with? You got two options.
One you could put down a product.

2087
02:33:15.000 --> 02:33:18.319
It's a fertilizer that has a post
emergent weed control in it. Just a

2088
02:33:18.440 --> 02:33:28.200
minute ago I was talking about the
Weedonator from Nelson's Weedator has a long release

2089
02:33:28.280 --> 02:33:31.799
fertilizer, a slow release fertilizer.
They'll fertilizer for the next two or three

2090
02:33:31.879 --> 02:33:35.600
months, but it also has a
product that will kill the existing weed the

2091
02:33:35.719 --> 02:33:39.639
clover. And what you do is
you wet the clover just a little bit.

2092
02:33:39.719 --> 02:33:43.479
You don't don't put a lot of
water out to what the soil,

2093
02:33:43.639 --> 02:33:46.520
just get the foliage wet and then
you run over it with your fertilizer.

2094
02:33:46.600 --> 02:33:52.000
Spreader with the weedonator in it.
It sticks to those clover leaves, soaks

2095
02:33:52.040 --> 02:33:56.600
in. You give it about a
day or two and then water it in

2096
02:33:56.879 --> 02:34:01.079
and move it into the soil.
But at that point time the weeds have

2097
02:34:01.239 --> 02:34:03.639
already taken it up and it will
move forward to kill them. So if

2098
02:34:03.639 --> 02:34:07.920
you're not able to physically remove the
clover plants, the weed and eat are

2099
02:34:07.959 --> 02:34:13.040
applied like that would work. That's
from Nelson's. It's from Nelson Garden,

2100
02:34:13.120 --> 02:34:20.479
Dolon, Nelson Plant Food, the
FURTI and so you're in Cyprus. I

2101
02:34:20.680 --> 02:34:22.399
I think you probably are going to
be able to find that at some of

2102
02:34:22.479 --> 02:34:26.159
your your Ace hardware stores, for
example, they're up in that area.

2103
02:34:28.639 --> 02:34:33.239
I think when when when it says
Cypress, can you be a little more

2104
02:34:33.280 --> 02:34:39.959
specific as to where you are a
wolf of Highway six Copperfield area Highway six,

2105
02:34:41.280 --> 02:34:48.719
Yeah, south of Yeah, well
you are. Let's see you're you're

2106
02:34:48.799 --> 02:34:58.559
not to go ahead, there's a
barker I can get to. Yeah,

2107
02:34:58.680 --> 02:35:03.280
M and D M and D A
is up there, just just northeast of

2108
02:35:03.399 --> 02:35:09.040
Cypress and Luetta. I think you're
are you talking about? Well, I

2109
02:35:09.079 --> 02:35:13.920
don't know's there's several Ice Hardware is
up in that area over. If you're

2110
02:35:13.000 --> 02:35:16.879
from near Jones Road, there's Cypress
Ace on Jones Road too. Yeah,

2111
02:35:18.440 --> 02:35:22.239
okay, I appreciate it. I'm
sorry call to ask a damn question,

2112
02:35:22.440 --> 02:35:24.079
but I don't get to listen at
all. No, it's not a dumb

2113
02:35:24.159 --> 02:35:28.280
question at all. A bazillion people
have the same question you have, so

2114
02:35:30.239 --> 02:35:33.920
good luck with that. Hope you
see a nice green lawn that's not wheat

2115
02:35:33.319 --> 02:35:37.040
by the way. Uh I don't. I don't know if you'll find this

2116
02:35:37.159 --> 02:35:39.600
funny. I do. A friend
of mine in Mississippi says he gets rid

2117
02:35:39.639 --> 02:35:43.760
of all his weeds by taking his
glasses off. And uh, I think

2118
02:35:43.799 --> 02:35:50.079
you said you talked about having a
beautiful green lawn. Take off your glasses

2119
02:35:50.159 --> 02:35:54.719
and it looks great. That's not
a real solution, but at least it's

2120
02:35:54.719 --> 02:35:58.639
a funny way to look at it
from the back door. Looks beautiful till

2121
02:35:58.639 --> 02:36:01.000
you get close and look at it, so you know, it's only like

2122
02:36:01.239 --> 02:36:07.799
sixty one hundred feet, but it's
well. And when that clover starts dying

2123
02:36:07.840 --> 02:36:09.600
down and turning brown, it's not
going to be a very pretty green lawn,

2124
02:36:09.719 --> 02:36:13.799
but it'll be gone. And that
fertilizer are recommended to you there.

2125
02:36:15.319 --> 02:36:18.479
That'll get the lawn going to fill
back on. So all right, so

2126
02:36:18.639 --> 02:36:24.600
thank you doing wait very long to
put fertilizer out. No, after that,

2127
02:36:24.799 --> 02:36:28.360
you don't need to fertilize again until
probably May. All right, Jim,

2128
02:36:28.440 --> 02:36:31.079
thank you. I appreciate you call
a lot. Hey have you been

2129
02:36:31.159 --> 02:36:35.479
to in Jenny Forest done in Richmond? Do you know about it? If

2130
02:36:35.520 --> 02:36:39.280
you don't, you need to because
if you're in Richmond, you're heading toward

2131
02:36:39.879 --> 02:36:43.079
sugar Land Way and chenned Forest is
off to the right. It's on FM

2132
02:36:43.239 --> 02:36:48.200
twenty seven fifty nine. Now in
Chenned Forest is always getting in new shipments.

2133
02:36:48.360 --> 02:36:52.479
They always have color. It just
and there by the way, every

2134
02:36:52.520 --> 02:36:56.280
weekend they got some kind of educational
program going on. I mean they really

2135
02:36:56.399 --> 02:37:01.239
do. Just always something going on
there and Chanted Forest. I believe next

2136
02:37:01.280 --> 02:37:05.680
weekend is gonna be a program by
John Panzarella on citrus and avocados, for

2137
02:37:05.799 --> 02:37:07.639
example. But you go by there, you're gonna find color, You're gonna

2138
02:37:07.639 --> 02:37:11.959
find herb, you're gonna find vegetables, every kind of plant you can imagine.

2139
02:37:11.559 --> 02:37:16.520
And Danny and Klay Lenderman, they
know what they're talking about. They

2140
02:37:16.719 --> 02:37:20.719
are welcoming to the guests, they
point you in the right direction, they're

2141
02:37:20.799 --> 02:37:24.520
patient with your questions, and it's
just another reason to go to this destination

2142
02:37:24.760 --> 02:37:31.000
nursery down there just outside of the
Richmond Rosenberg area. That's Enchanted Forest,

2143
02:37:31.440 --> 02:37:39.040
Chanted Forest, Richmond TX dot com
and Channitforest, Richmond, TX dot com.

2144
02:37:39.360 --> 02:37:43.000
Let's go to a Tesca cita.
Now we're gonna talk to Evana.

2145
02:37:43.120 --> 02:37:48.399
Hello, Evanna, good morning on
this beautiful day. I have got very

2146
02:37:48.559 --> 02:37:52.719
quick questions. I'm looking for crape
myrtles and I'm looking for leef compost for

2147
02:37:54.319 --> 02:38:00.719
lon top dressing. Where can I
go in this area great myrtles and leaf

2148
02:38:00.920 --> 02:38:05.479
compost. Let's see a Teska sita
trying to pull up here. I think

2149
02:38:05.559 --> 02:38:11.120
you may be a little bit outside
of B and b's service area. You

2150
02:38:11.399 --> 02:38:15.879
might want to give them a call. I think you're a little bit outside

2151
02:38:15.920 --> 02:38:22.319
of that service area. But B
and B is a supplier of the not

2152
02:38:22.520 --> 02:38:30.319
only deep tiner, the core aeration. But excuse me, my brain went

2153
02:38:30.399 --> 02:38:33.840
sideways for a minute. But the
leaf will compost that goes on on on

2154
02:38:33.040 --> 02:38:39.600
top of that. So if you, if you can, if you can

2155
02:38:39.639 --> 02:38:43.040
get a hold of them. I
think it might be worth an ask.

2156
02:38:43.159 --> 02:38:50.120
I'm just trying to gosh, B
B and B landscape pros. Let me

2157
02:38:50.360 --> 02:38:54.360
let me pull in here in just
a minute. I'm gonna check their service

2158
02:38:54.440 --> 02:38:56.200
area. I think, yeah,
you're going to be outside. I'm sorry,

2159
02:38:56.360 --> 02:39:01.559
I'm sorry you're you're outside of that. It's as what was the other

2160
02:39:01.680 --> 02:39:05.959
thing you were saying you wanted.
So I'm looking for nice of red or

2161
02:39:07.040 --> 02:39:13.159
watermelon color. Yeah, the watermelon
is really easy to find. That's a

2162
02:39:13.280 --> 02:39:16.760
real common, common type of crape
myrtle, several varieties like that. I

2163
02:39:16.799 --> 02:39:20.239
think your best bet is gonna you're
just in the back door of Kingwood there,

2164
02:39:20.680 --> 02:39:24.639
so just run over to Warren's Garden
Center or Kingwood Garden Center and Kingwood

2165
02:39:26.559 --> 02:39:31.600
and they're gonna have the other one
was Lawrence Warren with a W. Warren

2166
02:39:31.479 --> 02:39:37.680
like Warren's Garden Center and Kingwood Garden
Center. And sorry about the false alarm

2167
02:39:37.799 --> 02:39:41.399
there on. I was, I
was thinking the wrong direction for you.

2168
02:39:41.559 --> 02:39:48.000
And I don't have anyone that I
work with that is a core errator leap

2169
02:39:48.079 --> 02:39:56.719
mold compost applier in your area.
There probably are some, but I don't

2170
02:39:56.760 --> 02:39:58.719
know who they are. And I
couldn't vouch for them, and I would,

2171
02:39:58.719 --> 02:40:03.079
I would. I don't thank you
very much, all right, Evana,

2172
02:40:03.440 --> 02:40:07.280
have a good one. You too, you too, and yes,

2173
02:40:07.360 --> 02:40:11.280
you're right. It is an absolutely
wonderful day. We don't forget. Next

2174
02:40:11.399 --> 02:40:15.600
Saturday, eleven am to one pm, I'll be at Buchanan's Native Plants and

2175
02:40:15.639 --> 02:40:20.239
they're giving away eight different prize giveaways, all kinds of cool stuff that you

2176
02:40:22.159 --> 02:40:26.239
I know you would enjoy getting.
Ken is always a fun place to go.

2177
02:40:26.639 --> 02:40:28.360
But I'm going to be there answering
your gardening questions. I love to

2178
02:40:28.440 --> 02:40:31.840
meet the listeners, So come on
out and see me. Say hi,

2179
02:40:31.719 --> 02:40:35.799
and any kind of questions you have, let's go. You got me to

2180
02:40:35.920 --> 02:40:41.000
I one on one there, Let's
talk about the things that are of interest

2181
02:40:41.079 --> 02:40:43.840
to you. Let's solve those problems, the areas where you need more color,

2182
02:40:45.120 --> 02:40:48.040
or a struggle with a planet that
isn't growing right, or you need

2183
02:40:48.120 --> 02:40:50.760
a suggestion for something. We can
cover all that other stuff. Hey,

2184
02:40:50.840 --> 02:40:54.360
we've had a lot of fun today
on Guardline. Remember you can listen to

2185
02:40:54.399 --> 02:40:58.319
past shows on the podcast in the
meantime. See you next Saturday morning,

2186
02:40:58.440 --> 02:40:58.520
sharp, six am.