WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.280 --> 00:00:04.240 Kat r H Garden Line does not necessarily endorse any of the products or services 2 00:00:04.280 --> 00:00:11.119 advertised on this program. Welcome to kat r H Garden Line with Skimp Richter's 3 00:00:13.039 --> 00:00:36.520 Crazy trim. Just watch him as so many teats. Good morning, Good 4 00:00:36.560 --> 00:00:41.000 Sunday morning. It is a beautiful day in store for us. Today is 5 00:00:41.039 --> 00:00:45.640 going to get warm today like it has been nothing eighties, which, hey, 6 00:00:45.840 --> 00:00:49.759 if you went through this summer, you know the eighties is like somebody 7 00:00:49.840 --> 00:00:54.479 left the refrigerator door open or something. But boy, is it going to 8 00:00:54.560 --> 00:00:57.840 cool off after that. We got some cool weather and I'm going to talk 9 00:00:57.880 --> 00:01:00.920 about that because there are some things you need to know about what's going to 10 00:01:00.920 --> 00:01:06.000 be going on in your yard and your landscape because of the cool weather that's 11 00:01:06.040 --> 00:01:08.159 coming. We will leave that as a little teaser for right now, and 12 00:01:08.439 --> 00:01:11.640 we'll get to it here in just a little bit. Welcome to Garden Line. 13 00:01:11.640 --> 00:01:14.959 We're glad you're listening this morning. If you'd like to give us a 14 00:01:15.000 --> 00:01:18.519 call, maybe you got a question something you'd like to visit about. You 15 00:01:18.560 --> 00:01:22.760 can give us a call at seven one three, two one two five eight 16 00:01:23.319 --> 00:01:30.159 seven four seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four I was out 17 00:01:30.280 --> 00:01:34.359 at Southwest Fertilizer yesterday and thanks for everybody that came out. Boy, we 18 00:01:34.400 --> 00:01:38.359 had a group, and those of you who took time to wait and get 19 00:01:38.359 --> 00:01:42.400 a chance to visit with me at the table, I really appreciate that. 20 00:01:42.480 --> 00:01:46.159 I appreciate that patience, and I do not take that for granted. We 21 00:01:46.200 --> 00:01:49.239 had a whole lot of bags of plants coming out up there, you know, 22 00:01:49.359 --> 00:01:53.480 the weeds, and I saw a lot of weeds yesterday as well as 23 00:01:53.519 --> 00:01:56.760 a lot of other things too, And we just had a really good time. 24 00:01:56.799 --> 00:02:00.799 And thanks to Southwest Fertilizer for hosting us and giving away some really nice 25 00:02:00.840 --> 00:02:06.000 prizes and things. That was that was especially nice as well. We had 26 00:02:06.000 --> 00:02:09.039 a really good time. But while I was talking to people, somebody asked 27 00:02:09.080 --> 00:02:15.039 me some questions about minor nutrients, you know, trace elements, the you 28 00:02:15.080 --> 00:02:19.919 know, how do you do you do you put on the asmite now kinds 29 00:02:19.919 --> 00:02:23.840 of questions, and I was explaining to them and I guess this, you 30 00:02:23.879 --> 00:02:27.599 know, I talk about it from time to time, but I think it 31 00:02:27.639 --> 00:02:30.240 doesn't really make sense to a lot of folks, and that is that a 32 00:02:30.240 --> 00:02:35.280 fertilizer is something that adds nutrients, so in a sense, you could call 33 00:02:35.360 --> 00:02:39.000 azemite a fertilizer, but I prefer to not think of it that way because 34 00:02:39.080 --> 00:02:44.599 it will help you understand how and when to apply it, and and what 35 00:02:44.800 --> 00:02:49.759 and how much to apply when you're when you think of your standard fertilizers, 36 00:02:49.759 --> 00:02:53.080 and right now we're doing fall fertilization. Those there are the big three numbers, 37 00:02:53.159 --> 00:03:00.560 nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium. Sometimes they have micronutrients also include certain 38 00:03:00.599 --> 00:03:05.879 micronutrients also included. Sometimes they occasionally have secondary nutrients to the big three. 39 00:03:05.919 --> 00:03:09.960 Things like magnesium or sulfur might be in. There are calcium, but a 40 00:03:10.039 --> 00:03:15.039 trace mineral is something needed in very small amounts, but it is absolutely essential. 41 00:03:15.159 --> 00:03:19.919 So if you take some obscure nutrients, it's one of the twenty or 42 00:03:19.919 --> 00:03:24.759 so that plants have to have to survive. Let's say molebdanum as an example. 43 00:03:24.879 --> 00:03:28.280 How many times have you gone to the garden center and gone, do 44 00:03:28.319 --> 00:03:31.360 you have any molybdenum fertilizer? Of course never, but your plants have to 45 00:03:31.400 --> 00:03:35.560 have that. Now, it's probably already in your soil, but it may 46 00:03:35.599 --> 00:03:39.000 not be its sufficient quantities. And when we add trace minerals, we make 47 00:03:39.039 --> 00:03:43.479 sure that when the plant needs to do whatever it's doing, growing roots, 48 00:03:43.520 --> 00:03:47.520 growing leaves, making fruit, whatever it needs, the molybdenum is there and 49 00:03:47.560 --> 00:03:53.120 that's why we add the asmite for example, and so those trace elements we 50 00:03:53.159 --> 00:03:59.000 don't have to quote fertilize with them every time we fertilize. Your soil test 51 00:03:59.080 --> 00:04:01.840 will tell you what your levels of those are, and so you know. 52 00:04:02.120 --> 00:04:05.919 But in the absence of a soil test, I would recommend that once a 53 00:04:06.000 --> 00:04:11.439 year. You could do it twice if you felt like the plants needed it. 54 00:04:11.800 --> 00:04:15.240 You apply a trace supplement like that. And azemite is just an example 55 00:04:15.639 --> 00:04:18.560 of what we're talking about, and it's an excellent example. You can go 56 00:04:18.600 --> 00:04:24.199 to azamite Texas dot com and learn a lot more about that product. But 57 00:04:24.279 --> 00:04:27.959 that's what we're talking about. So, yes, we fertilize at certain times 58 00:04:27.959 --> 00:04:30.519 of the year with certain products. You can do azimite at any time you 59 00:04:30.600 --> 00:04:33.839 want to do that, and it's easy to remember when you're fertilizing. So 60 00:04:33.879 --> 00:04:38.759 I usually say, when you fertilize, consider doing the asimite, but just 61 00:04:38.959 --> 00:04:41.839 know that it doesn't have to be at a certain time of the year. 62 00:04:41.879 --> 00:04:46.439 It's not going to make your grass grow faster like the nitrogen, for example, 63 00:04:46.720 --> 00:04:50.160 it's going to stock the soil with the nutrients that plants need. Well, 64 00:04:50.279 --> 00:04:54.160 let's go on out now to Katie. We're going to talk to Ralph 65 00:04:54.199 --> 00:04:59.040 this morning. Good morning, Ralph, Good morning. Skip. Have a 66 00:04:59.160 --> 00:05:05.600 quick question. I've already put the Texas trio down a couple weeks ago, 67 00:05:06.439 --> 00:05:12.639 and I went ahead and air rated my yard yesterday. I guess I should 68 00:05:12.720 --> 00:05:17.439 have done it the opposite there, but got a wild here did it today? 69 00:05:17.480 --> 00:05:21.720 I was going to put a's in mind. Is there something else that 70 00:05:21.800 --> 00:05:29.720 you can put in addition to that to I guess help the soil as you 71 00:05:29.920 --> 00:05:32.879 have it open right now? Yeah, No, not really. The compost 72 00:05:32.879 --> 00:05:39.800 top dressing we often do after a narration because with those holes open, you 73 00:05:39.839 --> 00:05:43.000 can get a little bit of organic matter down into the soil, and it 74 00:05:43.040 --> 00:05:46.240 also helps kind of hold you the hole open. A little bit of that 75 00:05:46.399 --> 00:05:49.959 having that organic matter in there, because it helps drainage so air and water 76 00:05:50.000 --> 00:05:55.079 can move in better. But other than that, I think you've kind of 77 00:05:55.120 --> 00:06:00.360 covered it. The only negative of the aerrating after the Texas three stop is 78 00:06:00.399 --> 00:06:04.959 that the barricade forms a barricade over the soil surface. And so when you 79 00:06:05.000 --> 00:06:09.959 punch holes in that barricade, if you will, now you have little areas 80 00:06:10.120 --> 00:06:15.120 where you potentially could get a weed germination. Maybe the soil that comes out 81 00:06:15.120 --> 00:06:17.480 of that plug now is land on top of the soil. But that is 82 00:06:17.519 --> 00:06:20.319 not a huge deal. I mean it just if you have the choice, 83 00:06:20.439 --> 00:06:27.319 go ahead and put the pre emergent after you air rate, but don't reapply 84 00:06:27.360 --> 00:06:30.199 the pre emergent now you definitely don't want to do that. You put the 85 00:06:30.279 --> 00:06:33.720 right amount, don't double up on it. Okay. One last question, 86 00:06:35.439 --> 00:06:42.360 what about putting down like rye on some of the areas that might be a 87 00:06:42.360 --> 00:06:46.879 little bare because of the heat this summer. Well, the problem the problem 88 00:06:46.920 --> 00:06:53.040 with that is now that you've put the barricade down, it stops broad leaf 89 00:06:53.040 --> 00:06:57.959 and grassy seeds from germinating, and so you're going to have trouble getting a 90 00:06:58.000 --> 00:07:04.120 stand of rye. Follow the application of barricade fair enough. I'll just put 91 00:07:04.160 --> 00:07:09.480 the age of mind and let it go. Yep. Sounds like you, 92 00:07:09.480 --> 00:07:11.680 you know, good shape there. You're doing a lot of good things to 93 00:07:11.680 --> 00:07:15.680 the lawn. So I hope it has I hope you have a good success 94 00:07:15.680 --> 00:07:18.319 with it. Hey, appreciate your show. Thank you, Thank you very 95 00:07:18.399 --> 00:07:24.360 Muchrov appreciate the call very much. Yeah, it is important, and we 96 00:07:24.360 --> 00:07:28.959 were just talking about, you know, the nitrofoss Texas three step and basically 97 00:07:29.040 --> 00:07:31.759 what that is is the fall special for winter riser. That is the right 98 00:07:31.879 --> 00:07:36.759 ratio of nutrients to help your lawn get strong for winter and come out stronger 99 00:07:36.800 --> 00:07:41.399 in the spring. Second step is that barricade. That's a pre emergent. 100 00:07:41.839 --> 00:07:44.959 It you watered in with half inch of water. It goes into the soil 101 00:07:45.079 --> 00:07:47.079 surface and stays there. It doesn't wash it down through the soil. It's 102 00:07:47.120 --> 00:07:50.319 made to tie up right up near the surface where the weed seeds are going 103 00:07:50.360 --> 00:07:54.920 to germinate, and when they try to come through the barricade, it is 104 00:07:54.959 --> 00:07:58.480 a barricade that prevents that. Now, the third step would be the Eagle 105 00:07:58.519 --> 00:08:03.560 turf fungicide and we enter the cool season and we start to see things like 106 00:08:03.639 --> 00:08:07.000 brown patch up here or take our root rot reinfect at that time. Uh, 107 00:08:07.000 --> 00:08:11.160 this is a protectant. It's systemic. It goes into the grass and 108 00:08:11.199 --> 00:08:15.480 it prevents those diseases from attacking. So if you've been having a problem with 109 00:08:15.519 --> 00:08:18.839 brown patch year after year after year, number one. We need to get 110 00:08:18.879 --> 00:08:24.160 you into a stronger turf situation, a healthier turf situation where you're not predisposed 111 00:08:24.199 --> 00:08:28.560 to that, but that fungicide can help break that cycle for this coming season. 112 00:08:28.600 --> 00:08:33.759 Now you can find nitropost three step at Cyprus Ace Hardware, Fishers Hardware 113 00:08:33.759 --> 00:08:37.159 down in La Port and Plantation Ace Hardware out in Richmond has it as well. 114 00:08:37.320 --> 00:08:39.679 Well, it's time for us to take a little bit of break when 115 00:08:39.879 --> 00:08:43.720 we come back. If you would like to give us a call at seven 116 00:08:43.799 --> 00:08:46.720 one three two one two fifty eight seventy four, Josh will get you on 117 00:08:46.759 --> 00:08:50.519 the board. Who are you going to call? Well, I suggests calling 118 00:08:50.600 --> 00:08:56.720 garden line not about ghosts, but plant related questions. Seven one three two 119 00:08:56.879 --> 00:09:01.240 one two five eight seven four seven one three two fifty eight seventy four. 120 00:09:01.639 --> 00:09:05.320 So I was talking earlier, kind of got a little teaser about, Hey, 121 00:09:05.360 --> 00:09:07.799 this weather means we need to be aware of some stuff in our landscape. 122 00:09:07.840 --> 00:09:13.759 So let's let's talk about that a little bit. When weed seeds germinate, 123 00:09:13.679 --> 00:09:20.080 the things that make them germinate are number one, moisture and the seeds. 124 00:09:20.480 --> 00:09:24.080 As the water soaks in the seed, it initiates a germination process, 125 00:09:24.639 --> 00:09:30.159 but temperature also. Each weed seed has a range of temperatures that it's likely 126 00:09:30.240 --> 00:09:33.600 to germinate. And I say weed seed, it could be a radish seed 127 00:09:33.720 --> 00:09:37.639 or you know, a sunflower seed, whatever you're planting. As it germinates, 128 00:09:37.639 --> 00:09:39.960 it it's when it's moist, but when the temperatures are right. As 129 00:09:41.000 --> 00:09:43.720 temperatures drop in the fall. And when I say temperatures drop, of course 130 00:09:43.759 --> 00:09:46.840 we're thinking about the air temperature, but it's actually the soil temperature which is 131 00:09:46.879 --> 00:09:52.559 connected to the air temperature. But as it drops, those weed seeds then 132 00:09:52.080 --> 00:09:58.360 begin to germinate more rapidly. They're able to germinate. And with this cold 133 00:09:58.360 --> 00:10:03.440 weather that's coming in, and maybe cold isn't the right word, but cold 134 00:10:03.440 --> 00:10:07.840 for here, as the temperatures drop down, the soil temperature is going to 135 00:10:07.879 --> 00:10:11.639 be decreasing, and the weeds that are the seeds that are there in the 136 00:10:11.639 --> 00:10:15.440 top inch or so of soil, they're going to be able to start germinating. 137 00:10:15.519 --> 00:10:18.879 And so those things we do with in the spring, like chickweed and 138 00:10:18.960 --> 00:10:24.519 hen bed and clover and let's see annual bluegrass, the one that's called cleavers. 139 00:10:24.559 --> 00:10:28.759 It's kind of like the velcrow weed that sticks to all of those cool 140 00:10:28.799 --> 00:10:33.000 season weeds. They will begin germinating now and they'll form little plants that sit 141 00:10:33.039 --> 00:10:35.799 there through the winter. If you looked at them, you'd say, oh, 142 00:10:35.840 --> 00:10:39.720 yeah, there's a little seedling there, but you don't renoice them. 143 00:10:39.039 --> 00:10:43.679 But then when we go through the holiday season and we come into spring and 144 00:10:43.720 --> 00:10:48.039 the day link starts to get longer and the temperatures start to get milder, 145 00:10:50.279 --> 00:10:52.639 they take off and grow. And our blue bonnet is the prime example of 146 00:10:52.639 --> 00:10:56.639 that, our state flower. It does exactly that. It germinates in the 147 00:10:56.679 --> 00:11:00.759 fall, kind of sits, there's a little rosett of leaf in the winter 148 00:11:00.879 --> 00:11:03.759 time. And boy, then in spring, I mean, it's almost knee 149 00:11:03.840 --> 00:11:07.919 high, and there's blooms everywhere and seeds flying everywhere. And by the way, 150 00:11:07.960 --> 00:11:09.519 blue bonnets do throw their seed. I don't know if you knew that 151 00:11:09.600 --> 00:11:13.720 or not, but they fling their seed all around. I was sitting in 152 00:11:13.759 --> 00:11:18.679 a blue bonnet patch one time at about that time of the year, and 153 00:11:18.720 --> 00:11:22.120 you could hear these little clicks. I had a little hat on, and 154 00:11:22.240 --> 00:11:26.720 actually I could hear the seeds landing on my hat as if someone was flicking 155 00:11:26.759 --> 00:11:28.080 them up in the air. And they were dropping on my hat. And 156 00:11:28.120 --> 00:11:33.320 it's because the plants are throwing their seed everywhere, which is a pretty cool 157 00:11:33.360 --> 00:11:37.440 thing if you're a plant, because you spread a wider and wider range of 158 00:11:37.799 --> 00:11:41.679 you know, your offspring. So anyway, that's what blue bonnets do, 159 00:11:41.720 --> 00:11:45.600 and that's what our other seeds that we would consider weeds and our lawns are 160 00:11:45.600 --> 00:11:50.960 doing, lawns and landscapes and garden beds and whatnot. So now is the 161 00:11:52.039 --> 00:11:56.879 time to do two things. Number One, if you have bare soil areas, 162 00:11:58.279 --> 00:12:01.679 cover them with mulch. When you block out the light, the little 163 00:12:01.720 --> 00:12:07.200 seeds cannot push. They don't have the energy to push through a thick mulch 164 00:12:07.799 --> 00:12:11.320 trying to get to light. In fact, some it's actually the light itself 165 00:12:11.320 --> 00:12:18.320 that helps in that germination. So mulching helps prevent weed problems. And if 166 00:12:18.399 --> 00:12:20.519 you miss it a little bit, and now you see these little tiny weeds 167 00:12:20.559 --> 00:12:24.480 coming up in your garden beds, throw multch on top of them, because 168 00:12:24.480 --> 00:12:28.720 if they're real small, it'll still kill them. It'll smother them not from 169 00:12:28.799 --> 00:12:31.919 air, but from light. The other thing is there's areas you can't maultz, 170 00:12:31.960 --> 00:12:35.720 like your lawn and when our lawns get thin, and boyd did this 171 00:12:35.960 --> 00:12:39.919 summer ever make our launs? Then well, what do we do there? 172 00:12:41.120 --> 00:12:43.320 That would be where a pre emergent herbicide would come in. Now, certainly 173 00:12:43.320 --> 00:12:48.879 things like compost top dressing work, but at the very thin layer that's put 174 00:12:48.879 --> 00:12:54.519 out for a compost top dressing is generally not enough to fully block out all 175 00:12:54.600 --> 00:13:00.279 weed seeds, but it does help with that. But the pre emmer and 176 00:13:00.279 --> 00:13:03.600 herbicide goes to the soil surface and then when the weeds try to come through, 177 00:13:03.639 --> 00:13:07.840 it prevents them. And so that's why we talk about those kinds of 178 00:13:07.840 --> 00:13:11.919 things, especially now in October. But cool season weeds can germinate in November, 179 00:13:13.039 --> 00:13:16.879 they can germinate in December. Even our winters are so mild here that 180 00:13:16.919 --> 00:13:20.919 when the temperatures are right, you can get germination. It's just that it 181 00:13:20.000 --> 00:13:24.919 begins when the weather cools off and the weather is about to cool off. 182 00:13:24.440 --> 00:13:31.320 So because of the way they work, some of them will kill very small 183 00:13:31.320 --> 00:13:35.440 seedlings. Some pre emergent herbicides they have a little bit of a kickback, 184 00:13:35.519 --> 00:13:37.320 you know, like, well you miss germination, but the seedling is still 185 00:13:37.320 --> 00:13:41.600 so young it'll kill it. But most of them don't do a great job 186 00:13:41.639 --> 00:13:43.840 about that, and so we want to get it down ahead of time. 187 00:13:45.440 --> 00:13:48.679 It's as simple as that, so that this weather reminds us of that. 188 00:13:48.720 --> 00:13:54.559 The weather also reminds me that diseases like, for example, brown patch, 189 00:13:54.679 --> 00:14:01.360 the big circles, the brown patch in your lawn that is brought about by 190 00:14:01.720 --> 00:14:05.639 several factors. Temperature is a huge one. That's why you don't see big 191 00:14:05.679 --> 00:14:11.759 brown circles in the summer. It's too hot for that particular strain of that 192 00:14:11.879 --> 00:14:18.480 disease riseoc tonia. And the moisture is another huge factor. Disease is like 193 00:14:18.600 --> 00:14:22.360 moisture. Almost all diseases like it to be a little on the wet side. 194 00:14:22.919 --> 00:14:26.240 And in our lawns. We can't control rainfall. But a lot of 195 00:14:26.279 --> 00:14:31.039 people are still running the irrigation as if it was July, and that's way 196 00:14:31.399 --> 00:14:35.080 way too much water. Did Your lawn does not need that. We're getting 197 00:14:35.159 --> 00:14:39.080 rain. The soil is moist a little supplementing here and there is fine. 198 00:14:39.399 --> 00:14:46.360 But the more often you wet the soil, the more disease problems with brown 199 00:14:46.399 --> 00:14:50.879 patch you're going to have. So if you continue to keep it wet by 200 00:14:50.879 --> 00:14:54.639 squirting your lawn, three times a week. For example, you are asking 201 00:14:54.720 --> 00:14:58.639 for brown patch problems. If you mow your lawn real short and try to 202 00:14:58.639 --> 00:15:01.039 make Saint Augustine and inch and a half high rather than two and a half 203 00:15:01.120 --> 00:15:05.559 inches high, you're going to have more problems. If you put a spring 204 00:15:05.679 --> 00:15:11.840 or summer fertilizer which has higher nitrogen levels on your lawn now and push it 205 00:15:11.879 --> 00:15:16.080 with extra nitrogen, you're going to have more brown patch problems. And when 206 00:15:16.120 --> 00:15:20.919 the cool weather arrives, which here it is we're on the doorstep, you're 207 00:15:20.960 --> 00:15:24.600 going to have more brown patch problems. So everything you can do culturally, 208 00:15:24.600 --> 00:15:26.279 you want to do. If you've got a lawn that's been plagued by year 209 00:15:26.320 --> 00:15:35.399 after year, a pre preventative type product that can soak into the plant, 210 00:15:35.480 --> 00:15:39.840 and that's where the eagle fungicide Nitroprusses ego would be an example of that. 211 00:15:39.840 --> 00:15:43.879 That will help prevent the problem when it rives. But don't wait until the 212 00:15:43.879 --> 00:15:46.120 circles are there. When you see a circle, it means the leaves have 213 00:15:46.159 --> 00:15:50.000 been rotted off that runner. And when the leaves have been rotted off the 214 00:15:50.039 --> 00:15:54.799 runner, you're not going to get new grass blades and green up that circle 215 00:15:54.080 --> 00:15:58.879 until the weather warms up enough for the grass to start growing actively again. 216 00:15:58.320 --> 00:16:03.799 So you got money of looking at ugly or you prevent it that. That's 217 00:16:03.840 --> 00:16:07.720 how that works. So with this cool front that's coming, uh, and 218 00:16:07.440 --> 00:16:11.480 just be aware that you're lawn watering. Your lawn is not going to need 219 00:16:11.559 --> 00:16:15.960 the water that it's been needing, so don't add to that. Don't increase 220 00:16:17.039 --> 00:16:21.120 the incidence of disease. So you have several things. You got cultural options, 221 00:16:21.240 --> 00:16:23.679 You've got a spray option or a granular depending on you know, what 222 00:16:23.759 --> 00:16:27.639 kind of products you're putting down. But when you put those down, that 223 00:16:29.159 --> 00:16:33.159 is the thing that helps prevent it. Also. All right, I hope 224 00:16:33.240 --> 00:16:37.240 that makes sense. But it's kind of big news that the weather's cooling off. 225 00:16:37.399 --> 00:16:38.759 It's big news because we don't want to walk around in hot weather. 226 00:16:38.799 --> 00:16:42.240 We're ready for some cold. I got some sweaters I've been staring at going 227 00:16:42.320 --> 00:16:45.519 I wonder if I'm ever going to get to put those things on. And 228 00:16:45.600 --> 00:16:49.440 so it's good weather, good good news for gardeners. Hey, our phone 229 00:16:49.519 --> 00:16:53.840 number is seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four seven one three 230 00:16:53.879 --> 00:16:57.639 two one two fifty eight seventy four. Those products I'm talking about, you 231 00:16:57.639 --> 00:17:03.319 know, the fertilize, the pre emergent products, the disease control products. 232 00:17:03.359 --> 00:17:06.799 You can get all about it. Ace Hardware. And you know I've been 233 00:17:06.799 --> 00:17:10.799 telling you that Ace Hardware has thirty nine stores in the Houston area. Do 234 00:17:10.799 --> 00:17:14.400 you know that I was lying? It's actually forty. I just found out 235 00:17:14.720 --> 00:17:17.160 they've added some more stores. In fact, they had a couple more stores 236 00:17:17.839 --> 00:17:19.519 Orange. If those of you out in Orange, you got an Ace Hardware 237 00:17:19.559 --> 00:17:22.319 that's part of the Houston group. Now in Bay City also has a new 238 00:17:22.519 --> 00:17:26.079 group. By the way, I bet you didn't know this, but ACE 239 00:17:26.640 --> 00:17:29.519 is a place for everything you need. But it's also the place for all 240 00:17:29.559 --> 00:17:33.839 your Christmas lighting and decoration needs, both inside the house and outside the house. 241 00:17:33.880 --> 00:17:38.119 So maybe you want to do some lighting for the tree, or lighting 242 00:17:38.160 --> 00:17:41.559 for indoors a house, or lighting for on the outside. They've got custom 243 00:17:41.640 --> 00:17:47.160 lights by the foot. They got box sets and various configurations with multitude of 244 00:17:47.240 --> 00:17:51.400 colors and sizes. Do you need a wreath, do you need some garland? 245 00:17:51.759 --> 00:17:55.559 It's at Ace. Tell you Ace has everything. Ace is the place, 246 00:17:56.000 --> 00:17:59.880 that's what they say, right. Most stores have their full displays out 247 00:18:00.079 --> 00:18:03.640 ready to go. Now, So go check them out when it comes to 248 00:18:03.759 --> 00:18:07.440 decorating inside your house. Hey, you got to swing by there to grab 249 00:18:07.480 --> 00:18:11.359 the products you need for your lawn and garden. Why not also go ahead 250 00:18:11.400 --> 00:18:15.039 and grab that holiday lighting that you're looking for. Ace Hardware dot Com look 251 00:18:15.079 --> 00:18:18.359 for the store locator. You can find one near you. And now that's 252 00:18:18.400 --> 00:18:25.720 even easier to do with two additional stores in our local group. That is 253 00:18:25.920 --> 00:18:30.400 that is cool stuff. My days of climbing up on a ladder are limited 254 00:18:30.519 --> 00:18:33.920 now. I don't do that as much as I used to. But I've 255 00:18:33.920 --> 00:18:38.440 got folks, kidson, and there's significant others that are willing to help out 256 00:18:38.480 --> 00:18:42.599 with that. So I'm very, very very grateful for that for sure. 257 00:18:44.079 --> 00:18:48.720 Hey, I mentioned that yesterday I was out of Southwest Fertiliser. Next Saturday, 258 00:18:48.200 --> 00:18:52.279 November fourth, eleven thirty to one thirty, I'll be at Ciena Maltz. 259 00:18:52.759 --> 00:18:57.119 Ciena Maltz, that's right. Ciena Maltz is down there near It's just 260 00:18:57.200 --> 00:19:02.839 north of Roach Sharon. It's on FM. You can go to cienamultch dot 261 00:19:02.880 --> 00:19:04.880 com find out more about them. But I've got an idea. Why don't 262 00:19:04.920 --> 00:19:10.079 you come out next Saturday? Let me let me show you the wide variety 263 00:19:10.119 --> 00:19:14.720 of products, all these fertilizers, all these mulches, all these soil products. 264 00:19:14.839 --> 00:19:19.279 This is primetime season for doing that, and I hope that you will 265 00:19:19.319 --> 00:19:25.519 come out next Saturday and visit with me. They're actually having quite the shindig 266 00:19:25.799 --> 00:19:29.920 out there at Ciena Moltz. There's a there's a lot of different things that 267 00:19:29.960 --> 00:19:32.359 they've planned. We got a lot of different folks that are going to be 268 00:19:32.359 --> 00:19:34.480 out there. They're calling it fall Back in Love with your Yard. I 269 00:19:34.480 --> 00:19:37.759 think that's a good idea. They're going to be giving away prizes. The 270 00:19:37.880 --> 00:19:41.359 first ten customers are going to get a gift card coming out there. I'm 271 00:19:41.359 --> 00:19:45.519 going to be giving away some products as well. Out there. A lot 272 00:19:45.559 --> 00:19:48.599 of our sponsors that you've heard about here are going to be out at Ciena 273 00:19:48.640 --> 00:19:52.480 molt It's going to be quite a deal. They have a little Mary had 274 00:19:52.519 --> 00:19:56.200 a little party trailer with some treats as well. Just fun to be out 275 00:19:56.200 --> 00:20:00.759 there again. Write this number down ninety six fifteen FM five twenty one and 276 00:20:00.920 --> 00:20:07.440 row Sharon ninety six fifteen FM five twenty one or cienamultch dot com. I 277 00:20:07.480 --> 00:20:12.559 hope you'll come out next Saturday after the garden Line Show and let's visit and 278 00:20:12.599 --> 00:20:17.559 as always, bring your samples, bring pictures, we'll talk about whatever you're 279 00:20:17.559 --> 00:20:21.440 interested in. To get your long and good, great, wonderful, beautiful 280 00:20:21.440 --> 00:20:25.119 shape going into the cool season. Well, we're gonna turn it over to 281 00:20:25.119 --> 00:20:30.240 the Nicki News Network our phone number seven one three two one two KTRH if 282 00:20:30.279 --> 00:20:33.599 you'd like to get on the board. Good morning, welcome to garden Line 283 00:20:33.680 --> 00:20:37.200 on a beautiful Sunday morning, still dark outside, but it is going to 284 00:20:37.279 --> 00:20:44.960 be a great, great day. Hey, if you are interested in perhaps 285 00:20:44.960 --> 00:20:48.839 a gift for friends, maybe you're gonna go visit for Thanksgiving, or you're 286 00:20:48.880 --> 00:20:52.960 just getting ready for the holiday season. In general, think about Wilberd's unlimited. 287 00:20:52.240 --> 00:20:57.839 I mean, they have an outstanding array of things that pretty much anybody 288 00:20:57.960 --> 00:21:03.839 would find beautiful and interesting additions to their landscape, their home. They do 289 00:21:03.920 --> 00:21:06.160 all of that kind of stuff. You know, our birds right now, 290 00:21:06.279 --> 00:21:10.039 or because the days are getting shorter and get a little cooler as we move 291 00:21:10.119 --> 00:21:14.960 forward, short days and longer nights means there's less daytime hours for birds to 292 00:21:15.000 --> 00:21:18.400 fuel up, and Wi Birds has created a special product. It's called the 293 00:21:18.440 --> 00:21:23.119 Winter Super Blend. It's packed with fat and protein that these birds need as 294 00:21:23.160 --> 00:21:26.839 we go in to this winter season. Also, by the way, if 295 00:21:26.960 --> 00:21:30.240 still if you have your hummingbird feeders, leave one up. The roofous humming 296 00:21:30.279 --> 00:21:33.640 birds are still around a few of them. They stick around here and you 297 00:21:33.680 --> 00:21:37.640 may get lucky enough to see one through the holiday season. Guddenly leave those 298 00:21:37.759 --> 00:21:42.359 up. And finally, just remember that even though you know we're getting some 299 00:21:42.440 --> 00:21:45.680 moisture, we got some moisture in the soil, birds still need a pool 300 00:21:45.680 --> 00:21:48.839 of water to get a drink out of, and so keep the water out 301 00:21:48.920 --> 00:21:52.400 for them. I just filled up two containers the other day for our left 302 00:21:52.400 --> 00:21:56.200 town. Make sure that we have plenty of water for our birds in the 303 00:21:56.240 --> 00:22:00.640 backyard. Also stocked up the feeder a little bit before before we're gone. 304 00:22:00.640 --> 00:22:03.119 I've got that squirrel excluding feeder, which is the coolest thing I've ever seen. 305 00:22:03.480 --> 00:22:07.880 The Wilbirds also has that as well. Go to w BU dot com 306 00:22:07.920 --> 00:22:12.759 forward slash Houston WBU dot com forward slash Houston and you can find out the 307 00:22:12.799 --> 00:22:18.279 wildbird stores in our area. We're gonna head out to Nadville now and talk 308 00:22:18.319 --> 00:22:22.720 to Jan. Hello Jan, good morning, Skip morning. I would say 309 00:22:22.720 --> 00:22:29.160 how are you, but I'm not gonna waste your time, you know. 310 00:22:29.240 --> 00:22:33.839 I always say, nobody really cares. Yeah, that's right. There. 311 00:22:33.920 --> 00:22:37.400 Used to be a radio host in Austin, and people are you know, 312 00:22:37.440 --> 00:22:38.720 because it's an American thing. We just go how you doing? You know? 313 00:22:40.000 --> 00:22:42.359 And he would always go, do you care? I think you trying 314 00:22:42.400 --> 00:22:47.000 to break people asking him that question. Michael, Yeah, Michael Berry says, 315 00:22:47.039 --> 00:22:48.160 just get to the point. There you go, there you go. 316 00:22:48.640 --> 00:22:55.559 So anyway, what's Jen's point? I had some really large old crepe myrtles 317 00:22:55.799 --> 00:22:59.559 and they're just scraggly. What can I fertilize them with to bring them back 318 00:22:59.599 --> 00:23:03.319 to make it really pretty blooms? Yeah, the drought has affected them. 319 00:23:03.599 --> 00:23:07.279 You know, they're not watered right. Well, I wouldn't. You could 320 00:23:07.279 --> 00:23:11.359 fertilize them now, that's fine, but especially as we come out of winter 321 00:23:11.480 --> 00:23:15.720 and they're ready to grow. Uh, that would be a time I use. 322 00:23:15.000 --> 00:23:18.279 I use lawn fertilizer on my crepe myrtles. Now, there are great 323 00:23:18.359 --> 00:23:23.960 mertertilizer, lawn terf fertilizer for your lawn. Just I use that. Now. 324 00:23:25.119 --> 00:23:30.000 There are there are fertilizers for shrubs and trees, and those are great 325 00:23:30.160 --> 00:23:33.599 for crepe myrtles. But if you if you don't happen to have some on 326 00:23:33.680 --> 00:23:36.720 hand and you need to fertilize, just use your lawn fertilizer on that'll be 327 00:23:36.759 --> 00:23:40.400 okay. Uh. And when you do it in the spring when they're about 328 00:23:40.440 --> 00:23:45.960 to grow, that nitrogen really supports vigor and new growth, you know, 329 00:23:45.079 --> 00:23:48.319 but they're not going to grow. The nitrogen is important, but they also 330 00:23:48.359 --> 00:23:52.359 need sole moisture and they need the temperature where they can grow. So that's 331 00:23:52.400 --> 00:23:56.599 why I really focus on the nitrogen boost in the spring. But any kind 332 00:23:56.640 --> 00:23:59.960 of a good fertilizer to stock up your soil for now would be fine. 333 00:24:00.759 --> 00:24:03.960 Okay, what a triple thirteen work? Yeah, but I don't like that 334 00:24:04.000 --> 00:24:10.759 fertilizer. Our plants don't take up nutrients in a one to one one ratio 335 00:24:10.960 --> 00:24:15.559 like triple thirteen. And so if you happen to have a soil that needed 336 00:24:15.599 --> 00:24:22.039 phosphorus and was low and phosphorus, which is not the norm. But and 337 00:24:22.400 --> 00:24:26.400 if you also happen to need about the same amount of potassium, well then 338 00:24:26.440 --> 00:24:30.799 triple thirteen would be a good fertilizer, but it generally is not, and 339 00:24:30.839 --> 00:24:34.119 so we aim for other ratios. All right. Well, I'll get those 340 00:24:34.160 --> 00:24:37.640 fertilized in the spring. And I know there's a lot of things that have 341 00:24:37.720 --> 00:24:41.680 gone into dormancy because of the drought. Do you think any of it will 342 00:24:41.720 --> 00:24:48.559 come back, I e. Especially my big o' magnolia tree. Well, 343 00:24:48.440 --> 00:24:52.079 if it if they're drought dormant, yes, they'll come back. If they're 344 00:24:52.079 --> 00:24:56.519 dead, of course they won't. And so that's just the thing you kind 345 00:24:56.519 --> 00:25:00.319 of got to figure out. Yeah, just wait time. We'll tell We 346 00:25:00.400 --> 00:25:03.799 usually say go up and scratch the twigs or bend the twigs at the end 347 00:25:03.880 --> 00:25:07.240 and see if they're supple and bend or if they're dry and they snap, 348 00:25:07.680 --> 00:25:11.440 And that'd be one way, but scraping the bark back a little is also 349 00:25:11.559 --> 00:25:14.640 a way. I think at this point. Just wait and see what comes 350 00:25:14.640 --> 00:25:17.240 out in the spring, and that'll tell you where to prune too. By 351 00:25:17.279 --> 00:25:18.839 the way, you know, you may have some die back on the outsides 352 00:25:18.880 --> 00:25:23.440 and then you get some sprouting further back. Then you know to cut back 353 00:25:23.480 --> 00:25:26.920 to that spot. All right, Well, thank you so much and have 354 00:25:26.960 --> 00:25:30.599 a good day. Appreciate your show. Well, thank you, I appreciate 355 00:25:30.640 --> 00:25:33.839 that. Thanks for being a listener to the show. If those of you 356 00:25:33.839 --> 00:25:38.720 in the Heights know about Buchanans Plants, and boy, I always love visiting 357 00:25:38.720 --> 00:25:44.279 Buchanans. It's just it's a beautiful place. And the selection of stuff they 358 00:25:44.319 --> 00:25:48.240 have it's really unbelievable. I mean they specialize in natives, that's their thing. 359 00:25:48.359 --> 00:25:52.839 I mean, if you're looking for a native that is hard to find, 360 00:25:52.119 --> 00:25:55.720 maybe nobody else has it, well, they're going to have it there. 361 00:25:55.920 --> 00:26:00.680 That is what they do. But they if you need herbs, that's 362 00:26:00.720 --> 00:26:03.799 the place. If you need house plants, Buchanans house plants selections unbelievable. 363 00:26:04.079 --> 00:26:07.839 And right now, cool season color is the deal. So they got some 364 00:26:07.920 --> 00:26:11.480 cycloman in by the way, they got a big shipment of holiday cactus in. 365 00:26:11.680 --> 00:26:17.880 It looks awesome. They've got unbelievable selection when it comes to the cool 366 00:26:17.880 --> 00:26:25.400 season garden like Dianthus, like cyclomen like you need pansies, Iola's alyssum stock, 367 00:26:25.559 --> 00:26:27.559 all the cool season color, they've got it there at Buchanans. They're 368 00:26:27.599 --> 00:26:33.480 in the Heights on our eleven Street. The website Buchanansplants dot com. You 369 00:26:33.519 --> 00:26:36.359 need to go to that website too, because not only does it tell you 370 00:26:36.359 --> 00:26:38.160 about what's going on at the nursery. But there's a lot of really good 371 00:26:38.279 --> 00:26:42.920 educational content that they put together for you on that website. Let's head out 372 00:26:42.960 --> 00:26:47.960 to Cove now and talk to Dennis. Hello, Dennis, Hi, good 373 00:26:48.000 --> 00:26:51.960 morning. Real quick question. I still have green tomatoes on the vine, 374 00:26:52.279 --> 00:26:56.400 and with the cold weather coming, are they likely to ripen any more on 375 00:26:56.440 --> 00:27:00.680 the vine or is it time to bring them in and them in a bag 376 00:27:00.759 --> 00:27:04.920 with an apple. I would bring them in. I wouldn't necessarily put them 377 00:27:04.960 --> 00:27:07.240 in a bag with an apple. I would just bring them in and set 378 00:27:07.279 --> 00:27:15.759 them on the counter where there's indoor temperatures and the process of ripening continues after 379 00:27:15.839 --> 00:27:18.079 you harvest the tomato. A lot of fruit aren't that way. A peach 380 00:27:18.119 --> 00:27:22.960 won't do that, for example, but a tomato will. But here's the 381 00:27:23.000 --> 00:27:29.599 thing. Tomatoes, when they're green, they go from being immature and incapable 382 00:27:29.640 --> 00:27:34.400 of ripening to mature. They're still green, but they will ripen just as 383 00:27:34.400 --> 00:27:37.359 well as they would outside. I mean, they just you pick them, 384 00:27:37.400 --> 00:27:41.599 you set them down, they just keep going. The difference is, and 385 00:27:41.759 --> 00:27:44.680 of course, when you test it this way, you've just destroyed the tomato. 386 00:27:44.960 --> 00:27:48.160 But if you take a sharp knife and cut through your tomato. If 387 00:27:48.240 --> 00:27:52.960 that inside is not like a jelly material and the seeds just move to the 388 00:27:52.039 --> 00:27:56.799 side as a knife goes by, that is an immature tomato. And if 389 00:27:57.119 --> 00:28:00.599 when you cut through it the seeds pushed the side because you got that jelly 390 00:28:00.640 --> 00:28:06.519 in the little sections, that is a mature tomato that would have ripened. 391 00:28:06.759 --> 00:28:08.920 Now you can kind of get an eye for looking at them. Sometimes size 392 00:28:10.000 --> 00:28:12.359 is a way to tell. Sometimes, you know, tomatoes can sometimes not 393 00:28:12.400 --> 00:28:17.079 get full size, and so, uh it you just kind of learn to 394 00:28:17.119 --> 00:28:19.160 train your eye. I usually pick a few more than I think will actually 395 00:28:19.240 --> 00:28:22.519 ripen. I go a little past that, and some of them may not 396 00:28:22.559 --> 00:28:27.240 turn out, but the rest of them will inside. Okay, thank you 397 00:28:27.359 --> 00:28:30.240 very much. Yes, that's it, Dennis, thank you. I appreciate 398 00:28:30.279 --> 00:28:33.119 that. Yeah, we uh, you know, we always talk about a 399 00:28:33.200 --> 00:28:37.640 vine ripen tomato, and yeah, that's good to have a vine ripen tomato. 400 00:28:37.039 --> 00:28:40.400 But I'm telling you, when it's you know, we're looking at cole 401 00:28:40.480 --> 00:28:44.119 Weather coming, get that tomato, it'll be good. It'll be just fine 402 00:28:44.119 --> 00:28:48.759 inside. And another reason is when you got mockingbirds pecking into your tomatoes, 403 00:28:48.240 --> 00:28:52.000 that's a good reason to maybe pick one a little early. And bring it 404 00:28:52.000 --> 00:28:53.319 in. Hey, we're going to take a break. Our phone number seven 405 00:28:53.359 --> 00:28:59.119 one three two one two fifty eight seventy four will be right back. Well, 406 00:28:59.200 --> 00:29:03.079 good Saturday or Sunday morning. I lost the day there. It's still 407 00:29:03.160 --> 00:29:07.000 dark outside. So as I like to say, if your neighbor's lights aren't 408 00:29:07.039 --> 00:29:08.720 on, go bang on the door, tell them they're missing garden line. 409 00:29:08.839 --> 00:29:14.400 Aye. Will so appreciate that. So appreciate someday, not this morning, 410 00:29:14.519 --> 00:29:18.559 but someday. So think of it as doing a horticultural favor in your neighborhood. 411 00:29:19.839 --> 00:29:22.680 Yeah. Yeah, yesterday I was out at Southwest Fertilizer. I was 412 00:29:22.720 --> 00:29:27.759 mentioning that earlier. And every time I go in Southwest Fertilizer, I'm just 413 00:29:27.839 --> 00:29:32.400 amazed at the what they have. People were coming in, they were asking 414 00:29:32.440 --> 00:29:34.920 all these questions, and you know, it didn't matter what their question was. 415 00:29:36.319 --> 00:29:37.440 I could say, yep, you need this, and it's right over 416 00:29:37.480 --> 00:29:41.759 there. I mean, it's just that Southwest Fertilizer they don't have it. 417 00:29:41.960 --> 00:29:45.039 You don't need it. Because they have it. They have everything that you 418 00:29:45.119 --> 00:29:49.160 possibly need. Now's a good time to get that fertilizer you need if you 419 00:29:49.240 --> 00:29:53.319 need weed control or disease control or insect control or anything like that. It's 420 00:29:53.359 --> 00:29:56.759 going to be there at Southwest. You can go to the website Southwest Fertilizer 421 00:29:56.880 --> 00:30:00.640 dot com, or you can just go out to the their store at the 422 00:30:00.680 --> 00:30:06.319 corner of Bisonet and Renwick. Corner of Bisonette and Renwick. While we're out 423 00:30:06.359 --> 00:30:11.440 there yesterday, Bob had those kneeling benches that I love to brag about out 424 00:30:11.480 --> 00:30:15.599 there, and people were picking those things up like hotcakes, because that is 425 00:30:15.480 --> 00:30:18.480 I like to sort of tongue in cheek just say, that thing will change 426 00:30:18.480 --> 00:30:22.000 your life. You sit on it like a bench. It folds up by 427 00:30:22.039 --> 00:30:25.240 the way you open it up. Sit it not like a bench, Flip 428 00:30:25.240 --> 00:30:26.640 it over, kneel down on it, and use your hand the handles to 429 00:30:26.640 --> 00:30:30.240 help get up and down. That's the best part of it at all. 430 00:30:30.480 --> 00:30:33.079 And I'm telling you it's convenient. I can't tell you how many people while 431 00:30:33.119 --> 00:30:36.799 I was out there were telling me, yes, I love that thing. 432 00:30:37.000 --> 00:30:41.480 That is that is a life changer, and especially not just for people that 433 00:30:41.519 --> 00:30:44.480 are older, but especially as you get older and it's harder to get up 434 00:30:44.519 --> 00:30:48.319 and down. Maybe little arthritis here or there, or just you know how 435 00:30:48.319 --> 00:30:52.079 it is. That tool helps you keep gardening. And Bob's got plenty of 436 00:30:52.079 --> 00:30:56.559 those out there, so you ought to check those out while you're out at 437 00:30:56.720 --> 00:31:03.240 Southwest Fertilizer. Need to I've got some stuff to do at my house that 438 00:31:03.319 --> 00:31:06.039 I need to get done. I've got some plants that I need to staff. 439 00:31:06.079 --> 00:31:08.440 I got some strawberry plants. As a matter of fact, And because 440 00:31:08.599 --> 00:31:12.000 you know, I'm running around doing the radio, I don't always have time 441 00:31:12.039 --> 00:31:17.079 at the house to get things planted. So hopefully this next week we're going 442 00:31:17.160 --> 00:31:19.599 to get those things in the ground, because it is it is time to 443 00:31:19.640 --> 00:31:25.079 get that done. But anytime you're going to put those plants in, just 444 00:31:25.359 --> 00:31:29.359 make sure you've got a well built soil first. And I talk and talk 445 00:31:29.400 --> 00:31:33.160 and talk about that. It's so important to start with good soil because it 446 00:31:33.240 --> 00:31:37.920 makes you look like a pro. It really does. When you drop. 447 00:31:38.319 --> 00:31:41.839 When you PLoP a plant to an unprepared plot, I love to say that 448 00:31:42.960 --> 00:31:48.000 your chances of success plummet. Because, yeah, there's great fertilizers. Yeah, 449 00:31:48.039 --> 00:31:52.000 there's all kinds of other things we do for helping our plants, but 450 00:31:52.240 --> 00:31:56.720 you've just you know, you've just added to the degree of difficulty and the 451 00:31:56.720 --> 00:32:01.880 problems that it's probably going to have. You know, when I was out 452 00:32:01.880 --> 00:32:07.240 of Southwest, one of the one of the products that people were asking a 453 00:32:07.279 --> 00:32:12.000 lot about and picking up was Nelson's carbo Load. Carbo Load is the fall 454 00:32:12.039 --> 00:32:15.319 fertilizer that Nelson make. They make a lot of great fertilizers. They've been 455 00:32:15.319 --> 00:32:20.759 doing it now for over forty years and they just celebrated that forty year anniversary. 456 00:32:20.839 --> 00:32:23.000 And by the way, congratulations to Dean and all the team out there 457 00:32:23.000 --> 00:32:28.480 at Nelson's on quite an accomplishment. And boy have they ever built up a 458 00:32:28.640 --> 00:32:34.759 wonderful group of product selections that you can choose from out there. You know, 459 00:32:36.440 --> 00:32:40.359 this fall, they're donating two dollars for every bag of carbo Load sold 460 00:32:40.720 --> 00:32:45.119 to Randy Lemon's Memorial Scholarship up at A and M. What a good cost 461 00:32:45.240 --> 00:32:49.640 and what a great product too. So it's like a win win when you 462 00:32:49.680 --> 00:32:53.119 get a really good product, it includes also something to help prevent weeds, 463 00:32:53.480 --> 00:32:59.000 and you contribute two bucks toward a really good cost something that will live on 464 00:32:59.160 --> 00:33:04.519 forever. Randy would have been extremely proud to know that there was a scholarship 465 00:33:04.559 --> 00:33:07.279 in horticulture in his name up at Texas A and M. The carbo load 466 00:33:07.559 --> 00:33:14.079 has that ingredient that also helps prevent weed seeds from coming up. So uh, 467 00:33:14.119 --> 00:33:17.519 it is important to fertilize sooner rather than later, but it's especially important 468 00:33:17.559 --> 00:33:22.720 to get that pre emergent down sooner rather than later. So grab your carbo 469 00:33:22.720 --> 00:33:25.400 load, get it down a sap because here comes the cold weather with a 470 00:33:25.400 --> 00:33:29.799 little bit of rain, and there's a lot of things that I talked about 471 00:33:29.799 --> 00:33:31.920 earlier. They're going to start happening in your lawn and you want to be 472 00:33:31.960 --> 00:33:36.519 ahead of all of that. It's it's not difficult to pull that one off. 473 00:33:38.319 --> 00:33:42.960 Driving across town. The other day, I ran past a Lensdown Moody, 474 00:33:43.359 --> 00:33:46.160 and I always like it's kind of like going past a car dealership and 475 00:33:46.200 --> 00:33:51.519 pulling in and jumping in and sitting in a hot ride and you know it, 476 00:33:51.599 --> 00:33:54.200 picture yourself in this car or whatever. Well, I'm that way about 477 00:33:54.279 --> 00:34:00.359 tractors and Lansdown Moody has their Click Pick Go Orange deal going on right now, 478 00:34:00.400 --> 00:34:02.640 and what that basically means is you want to pick the Caboda you want, 479 00:34:02.960 --> 00:34:12.000 and the L twenty five two that is the workhorse from Cabota hydrostatic transmission. 480 00:34:12.079 --> 00:34:15.079 I mean it is, as I like to say, a sweet ride. 481 00:34:15.239 --> 00:34:16.960 It is a hard working ride too. Secondly, you click on your 482 00:34:17.719 --> 00:34:22.239 tractor deal that's tractor package dot Com. So do you want a box cutter, 483 00:34:22.280 --> 00:34:23.280 do you need a box blade? Do you need a front end loader, 484 00:34:23.320 --> 00:34:25.719 post hole digger? You know that sort of thing. You put your 485 00:34:25.760 --> 00:34:31.519 package together and then you get to go with the really amazing finance plan, 486 00:34:32.000 --> 00:34:37.079 no money down, no interest for eighty four months now Lansdown Moody. This 487 00:34:37.159 --> 00:34:44.039 isn't some big national corporation. This is our local tractor company. They're a 488 00:34:44.079 --> 00:34:47.639 Houston company. They've been here since nineteen thirty six, nine locations around the 489 00:34:47.639 --> 00:34:50.880 Gulf coast. Here. I mean, it's not hard to find a lens 490 00:34:50.880 --> 00:34:53.840 down where you can hop in and do like I do with tractors, and 491 00:34:53.960 --> 00:34:57.320 a lot of people do with cars. And let's go in and sit on 492 00:34:57.320 --> 00:35:00.199 one. Check it out, get the field, see what it's like. 493 00:35:00.280 --> 00:35:07.159 Let them tell you about it. Lmtractor dot com. Lmtractor dot com landsdown 494 00:35:07.159 --> 00:35:12.599 in Caboda. What a combination. Well, you're listening to garden Line and 495 00:35:12.639 --> 00:35:17.599 we're nearing the end here of our first hour of the show. This morning. 496 00:35:19.239 --> 00:35:22.840 I want to I'm going to talk about a number of different things today. 497 00:35:23.079 --> 00:35:28.639 One thing I want to mention is the folks at Texas Gardener are doing 498 00:35:28.719 --> 00:35:32.360 the Texas Tomato Lovers Conference. Now, this is in January. It's coming 499 00:35:32.400 --> 00:35:37.480 in January, January thirteenth, to be specific. That's a Saturday. They're 500 00:35:37.480 --> 00:35:39.920 going to have it out at the Anti Gurowsman for him, and they've got 501 00:35:39.960 --> 00:35:45.599 a lineup of speakers. Razanne Green is going to be there. She's gonna 502 00:35:45.599 --> 00:35:51.960 be talking about growing tomatoes with and for the young family destin our Texas garden 503 00:35:51.960 --> 00:35:55.639 guys. It's gonna be talking about mastering container grown tomatoes. Patti Leander is 504 00:35:55.800 --> 00:36:00.159 one of my former master gardeners when I was a County Horticulture in Austin, 505 00:36:00.280 --> 00:36:07.039 Texas, and she is a vegetable growing guru. Best Varieties for twenty twenty 506 00:36:07.079 --> 00:36:12.400 four plus eight Steps to Grafting Success? Did you know you could graft tomatoes? 507 00:36:12.960 --> 00:36:14.960 Patty's going to teach you how to do it, tell you all about 508 00:36:15.000 --> 00:36:17.599 it, and I'm going to be there talking about the ten Commandments of Tomatoes 509 00:36:17.719 --> 00:36:22.519 Success. How's that for a title. This is all at the Texas Tomato 510 00:36:22.599 --> 00:36:28.559 lover's conference. Just go just do a search for Texas Gardener Magazine and it'll 511 00:36:28.599 --> 00:36:30.280 all be It'll be there on their on their website. You can find out 512 00:36:30.320 --> 00:36:34.599 there if you follow me on social media. I just posted something about it. 513 00:36:34.639 --> 00:36:37.559 I'm gonna have something on my website coming up here about it. That's 514 00:36:37.679 --> 00:36:40.199 gardening with Skip dot com. But I just want to give you the head 515 00:36:40.239 --> 00:36:45.599 start because these spots are not going to last forever. These spots for you 516 00:36:45.639 --> 00:36:50.199 know, it's a limited amount of space that they have available. So you 517 00:36:50.280 --> 00:36:54.079 can also give them a call two fy four eight four eight ninety three ninety 518 00:36:54.760 --> 00:37:00.639 three. I did want to mention to you that if you're up in the 519 00:37:00.719 --> 00:37:04.679 Montgomery area and you haven't been by A and A Plants, you need to 520 00:37:04.719 --> 00:37:07.960 go check out the color that they have right now. Now. I know 521 00:37:07.039 --> 00:37:12.079 it's holiday season and Ana's got all the blame, you know, chimine as 522 00:37:12.159 --> 00:37:15.480 for the back patio and all kinds of stuff like that, but the color 523 00:37:15.760 --> 00:37:20.480 is absolutely amazing. An A Plants is on the east side of Montgomery on 524 00:37:20.679 --> 00:37:22.719 the way to Conroe on Highway one oh five, seven days a week. 525 00:37:22.960 --> 00:37:28.800 Today's a great day to go out to a NA well we're gonna take a 526 00:37:28.800 --> 00:37:31.159 little break top of the hour, get Nikky in here for the news. 527 00:37:31.679 --> 00:37:35.039 Uh, if you would like to give us a call. What kind of 528 00:37:35.079 --> 00:37:37.800 gardening questions do you have today? Well, let's let's find out seven one 529 00:37:37.920 --> 00:37:43.239 three two one two k t RH. As simple as that, seven to 530 00:37:43.280 --> 00:37:46.760 one three two one two k t r H. Don't forget that. Next 531 00:37:47.239 --> 00:37:53.199 Sunday or Saturday. Next Saturday, November fourth, albeit siena mulch down near 532 00:37:53.320 --> 00:37:57.760 Roch Sharon, and this is your opera. You hear me talk about Sienna. 533 00:37:58.599 --> 00:38:00.400 Here's your opportunity to go see a brag on the place. I mean, 534 00:38:01.280 --> 00:38:04.199 let me show you all the products that they have in there, all 535 00:38:04.199 --> 00:38:07.079 the fertilizers I've been telling you you need to put down. They've got them 536 00:38:07.559 --> 00:38:12.559 mulches and oh my gosh, composts and bags and bulk and everything else. 537 00:38:12.840 --> 00:38:15.519 They're gonna have really a nice little shindig out there at Sienna. Lots of 538 00:38:15.559 --> 00:38:19.960 folks out there, food truck, you name it. I hope you will 539 00:38:20.039 --> 00:38:25.039 join us. Kat r H Garden Line does not necessarily endorse any of the 540 00:38:25.079 --> 00:38:31.480 products or services advertised on this program. Welcome to Katy r H Garden line 541 00:38:31.760 --> 00:38:58.920 with skip rictor. It's crazy gas. Just watch him as many spotsy not 542 00:38:59.079 --> 00:39:07.880 a sound well, good morning, good morning. I hope you are having 543 00:39:08.000 --> 00:39:12.719 a good morning so far. I got your eyes both open. Maybe it 544 00:39:12.800 --> 00:39:15.400 took a cup of coffee to help with that, but welcome to garden Line. 545 00:39:15.440 --> 00:39:21.519 Give us a call seven one three two one two five eight seven four 546 00:39:21.639 --> 00:39:27.119 if you would like to visit about something related to gardening. Maybe you have 547 00:39:27.840 --> 00:39:31.320 been looking out the window at your landscape, or maybe having to close one 548 00:39:31.440 --> 00:39:36.639 eye as you drive up the driveway and see your landscape because summer has just 549 00:39:36.760 --> 00:39:40.159 been that brutal to it. I understand that, believe me. Up driving 550 00:39:40.159 --> 00:39:45.119 around seeing some of the loss of plants, the loss of lawns and things, 551 00:39:45.119 --> 00:39:45.840 it's kind of hard to look at now. There are a lot of 552 00:39:46.000 --> 00:39:51.360 do it your suffers out there, and I'm I'm a Dutch sofer everything I 553 00:39:51.480 --> 00:39:53.760 can. I think that's part of the benefit of gardening is getting out and 554 00:39:53.840 --> 00:39:58.960 doing things. But you know, sometimes you need somebody to come in and 555 00:39:59.199 --> 00:40:04.159 do a turnkey job in a professional way. You know, I'm a plant 556 00:40:04.199 --> 00:40:07.760 person. I love plants, but if you were to take me and create 557 00:40:07.840 --> 00:40:12.559 a plant design, not so much. I mean, it's kind of like 558 00:40:12.599 --> 00:40:16.719 giving me Rembrandts paints and canvas and saying paint something. I could put paint 559 00:40:16.840 --> 00:40:21.760 on canvas, but it wouldn't look like rem Brandt. Well, I want 560 00:40:21.760 --> 00:40:24.119 to tell you who would, and that's the folks at Pierscapes, Jason Garretty 561 00:40:24.199 --> 00:40:29.760 and his team Bob and Canvas, and those folks know how to design stuff. 562 00:40:29.840 --> 00:40:35.280 They know how to create beauty and esthetically pleasing designs. And if you 563 00:40:35.320 --> 00:40:37.440 would like to have someone come in and redo the lawn, maybe your irrigation 564 00:40:37.639 --> 00:40:43.119 system, it wasn't well designed and it's just the coverage is not good and 565 00:40:43.199 --> 00:40:45.960 as a result, you have dead spots because you can't water enough to keep 566 00:40:45.000 --> 00:40:52.320 them them adequately hydrated. Call Pierscapes. They can do it. They can 567 00:40:52.360 --> 00:40:54.480 put in lighting, they can fix drainage. You have areas that are too 568 00:40:54.559 --> 00:40:59.840 soggy wet, almost all plants want good drainage. They can fix that. 569 00:41:00.360 --> 00:41:02.119 Now, you can give them a call at two eight one three, seven 570 00:41:02.440 --> 00:41:07.239 fifty sixty, or just go online to Piercescapes dot com check out some of 571 00:41:07.280 --> 00:41:10.199 the jobs that they've done. Click around there. There's some nice photos of 572 00:41:10.280 --> 00:41:15.320 it. You can transform your landscape and get it into looking something that's just 573 00:41:15.519 --> 00:41:20.599 beautiful. Again, make sure when you do talk to them about, you 574 00:41:20.679 --> 00:41:23.519 know, what are some drought tolerant plant options that I could put in because 575 00:41:23.840 --> 00:41:29.719 should this ever happen again, which you know inevitably it's gonna Uh, Pierce 576 00:41:29.800 --> 00:41:32.639 Capes is the one that can give you that resilience in your landscape. As 577 00:41:32.719 --> 00:41:39.320 they redesigned something absolutely gorgeous again. Just go to Piercescapes dot com. We 578 00:41:39.440 --> 00:41:45.280 are now going to head to Columbus and talk to JW. Hello JW, 579 00:41:45.039 --> 00:41:49.000 Good morning, sir. Hey, this is not going to be simple. 580 00:41:49.199 --> 00:41:52.800 I live out in the country. I don't Saint Augustine grass was killed by 581 00:41:52.880 --> 00:41:57.559 bugs, you know, tinch bugs and everything else, and I fight them 582 00:41:57.599 --> 00:42:00.159 with some effect. And this year was a year all the way around, 583 00:42:00.880 --> 00:42:07.159 and I got a patch off the patio. There's probably twelve by twenty that 584 00:42:07.400 --> 00:42:10.039 has I don't know how many plants there are, but I have tens of 585 00:42:10.159 --> 00:42:15.159 thousands of sandbirds. I took a torch to them earlier in the summer and 586 00:42:15.360 --> 00:42:20.679 burned them down to the ground. All that did was to seem to help 587 00:42:20.719 --> 00:42:23.960 them. Yeah, but didn't. Yeah, I did, but I think 588 00:42:24.039 --> 00:42:28.000 I just burned off the stems and the seed sell the ground. That's my 589 00:42:28.119 --> 00:42:34.000 guess. Okay, I need some sort of solution. I refuse to mow 590 00:42:34.119 --> 00:42:37.719 them because that's going to scatter the seed all the more and pre emergence not 591 00:42:37.840 --> 00:42:44.360 going to be all that easy, though I would certainly consider it. You 592 00:42:44.480 --> 00:42:49.320 have any suggestions, and I'm not about killing the ground. But below this 593 00:42:49.480 --> 00:42:53.199 area, I have a real nice Lsu purple hybrid fig that I love and 594 00:42:53.320 --> 00:42:58.159 I don't want to harm it. Okay, all right, well, yeah, 595 00:42:58.239 --> 00:43:00.679 pre emergent' is a great option. Now. Just want to make sure 596 00:43:00.719 --> 00:43:04.119 we're talking about it's a grass type weed that has the burrs on it, 597 00:43:04.280 --> 00:43:08.960 right, it's the sandburs O carry stick them, yel the thorns break off 598 00:43:09.000 --> 00:43:12.639 in your skin, and then you're in paint. By the way, if 599 00:43:12.679 --> 00:43:15.599 you will keep our jail in your refrigerator and you go to stick out a 600 00:43:15.679 --> 00:43:20.639 thorn, put some more gel on it about five minutes before you start digging 601 00:43:20.719 --> 00:43:22.679 on it with that sterilized needle. That will help the paint. All right, 602 00:43:22.800 --> 00:43:25.519 folks, you heard it here first on garden Line. There's a tip 603 00:43:25.559 --> 00:43:30.559 of the day right there. J W. I would there are some pre 604 00:43:30.639 --> 00:43:37.280 emergence that work very well on sandburg Uh. The pendomethylen is one ingredient. 605 00:43:37.480 --> 00:43:40.000 Wait a minute, you've got to do that in Englis. Please oh p 606 00:43:40.199 --> 00:43:47.920 e n d I M E t h A l I N Okay one more 607 00:43:49.000 --> 00:43:53.199 time. P E n d Let me do this rather than just giving you 608 00:43:53.360 --> 00:43:59.920 the one nitrofus barricade if that's a brand, and okay, Scott, there 609 00:44:00.119 --> 00:44:06.199 there are two or three different pre emergent ingredients that will prevent grasspers sandburds. 610 00:44:07.039 --> 00:44:09.760 The barricade has got one of them, and it works just fine. What 611 00:44:09.920 --> 00:44:15.000 you want to do is follow the label. Now, sandburgs germinate in as 612 00:44:15.079 --> 00:44:20.480 the temperature warms up in spring, but they germinate a little later than a 613 00:44:20.559 --> 00:44:23.239 lot of our other weeds. They need a tad bit warmer soil before they 614 00:44:23.360 --> 00:44:28.880 kick into gear. Normally I would say pre emergent in early February, but 615 00:44:29.000 --> 00:44:32.360 I would say with sandburs, you could probably go to mid to late February 616 00:44:32.440 --> 00:44:39.159 and you would be just fine. You may have to own sixty maybe ninety 617 00:44:39.280 --> 00:44:45.039 days after that application do it again, because stuff doesn't last forever and you 618 00:44:45.159 --> 00:44:50.639 want it to continue to do what it does. Okay, now pas here 619 00:44:50.679 --> 00:44:52.519 the ones that will come up. What do I do with the ones that 620 00:44:52.599 --> 00:44:54.599 are already there that they can't get rid of? I tried digging them up, 621 00:44:54.639 --> 00:45:00.320 and that was that was way too tedious. Well, if it's surely 622 00:45:00.320 --> 00:45:02.679 a samber plant, the winner ought to take it out. It's an annual. 623 00:45:02.760 --> 00:45:07.440 It's not a perennial. Really, Yes, I did not know that. 624 00:45:07.679 --> 00:45:10.039 Yeah, they seem to live here all year long. Okay, you 625 00:45:10.119 --> 00:45:14.039 know, I guess I don't know. I've never thought about, you know, 626 00:45:14.119 --> 00:45:15.559 some protected spot. But out there in Columbus, you shouldn't. They 627 00:45:15.559 --> 00:45:21.960 shouldn't be a perennial. Some people will take like a piece of carpeting and 628 00:45:22.159 --> 00:45:24.559 drag it over the area to pick up all the little birds the birds get 629 00:45:24.639 --> 00:45:28.800 caught in the carpet, and just throw the carpet away. You know, 630 00:45:29.159 --> 00:45:35.119 I'm not talking about like that's a great idea that yeah, just a piece 631 00:45:35.239 --> 00:45:37.519 or I guess you could probably do that with burlap pretty well too. But 632 00:45:37.960 --> 00:45:42.480 well, old carpet seeds to come by these days in burlaugh, there you 633 00:45:42.599 --> 00:45:45.280 go and then just throw it away. But that that would get all a 634 00:45:45.360 --> 00:45:46.920 lot of the seeds out of the way when you're going to walk across it, 635 00:45:47.440 --> 00:45:51.039 but pre emergent at that right time. I'll talk about that when we 636 00:45:51.159 --> 00:45:55.119 get back into spring on the show. But that's yes, sir. And 637 00:45:55.440 --> 00:46:00.280 one other thing to remember is when you fertilize, they actually don't do as 638 00:46:00.360 --> 00:46:06.639 well. Uh. They like a sandy droughty uh low nitrogen level area where 639 00:46:06.719 --> 00:46:12.840 grass doesn't want to grow. They proliferate so good turf care practices or actually 640 00:46:13.199 --> 00:46:17.159 work against sandburs's success. Sam, we were going to plant something in place 641 00:46:17.239 --> 00:46:21.639 of that, you know, some sort of side. What would you recommend 642 00:46:22.079 --> 00:46:25.079 instead of Saint Augustine, Yes, suir, I not like San Augustine, 643 00:46:25.199 --> 00:46:29.800 But would we consider it or something else. I'm gonna have to take a 644 00:46:29.880 --> 00:46:32.480 break. Bermuda or Zoysia is the fast answer, and I'm gonna put you 645 00:46:32.559 --> 00:46:35.360 on hold and go to break. If you all stick around, we can 646 00:46:35.400 --> 00:46:37.639 talk about that a little further. But Bermuda or Zoysia would be the other 647 00:46:37.719 --> 00:46:40.760 two. We are taking a break now at seven one, three, two, 648 00:46:40.840 --> 00:46:45.199 one, two, fifty eight seventy four. Well, welcome back to 649 00:46:45.360 --> 00:46:49.559 garden Line. Welcome back on a what is gonna be a beautiful Sunday. 650 00:46:50.119 --> 00:46:52.559 Uh, here we are and join I don't know, maybe one hopefully one 651 00:46:52.599 --> 00:46:57.000 of the last days where we're up in the upper eighties like this or mid 652 00:46:57.079 --> 00:47:00.519 eighties, it's going to drop down, be a little on the chain side 653 00:47:00.559 --> 00:47:01.559 for a few days, get a little bit of rain in that. And 654 00:47:01.880 --> 00:47:07.880 as we were talking about earlier, that means that the winter weeds are definitely 655 00:47:07.000 --> 00:47:10.000 going to be kicking into gear and trying to sprout, and that means that 656 00:47:10.159 --> 00:47:16.239 diseases like brown patch, the big circles in the lawn are going to start 657 00:47:16.400 --> 00:47:22.119 showing up, especially in lawns that have been pushed with too much nitrogen late 658 00:47:22.159 --> 00:47:27.320 in the season. That's why for our fall application we recommend the lower levels 659 00:47:27.360 --> 00:47:30.760 of nitrogen. You know, folks at Nitross they've created that system, the 660 00:47:30.880 --> 00:47:37.760 one two three system that starts with that a fall fertilizer that is a we 661 00:47:37.920 --> 00:47:40.880 call them fall special or winter winter Riser fertilizer. Basically means we're going to 662 00:47:40.960 --> 00:47:45.639 drop that nitrogen level down, make sure we got plenty of potassium to get 663 00:47:45.679 --> 00:47:50.679 the grass as strong going into winter as possible, so it comes out strong, 664 00:47:50.840 --> 00:47:52.199 so it's hardier in the winter. It's just a win win on that, 665 00:47:52.719 --> 00:47:58.800 and then they add the step two barricade pre emergent weed control. It 666 00:47:58.920 --> 00:48:01.800 controls broadly weeds, it controls grassy weeds. You put it down, you 667 00:48:01.880 --> 00:48:05.800 water it in. If worms a barricade, the weeds can't get through, 668 00:48:06.400 --> 00:48:08.320 and it's much easier to prevent a weed than it is to try to kill 669 00:48:08.400 --> 00:48:13.880 one that's existing. Next spring, those weeds that are germinating in these next 670 00:48:13.960 --> 00:48:17.280 few weeks here, next spring, they'll be huge and they'll have flowers and 671 00:48:17.360 --> 00:48:21.639 starting to set seed, and all the products we try to use aren't as 672 00:48:21.719 --> 00:48:25.840 effective as just preventing them in the first place. Third step is nitrofoss. 673 00:48:25.880 --> 00:48:31.000 Eagle turf fungicide soaks into the tissue and when brown patch tries to kick in 674 00:48:31.239 --> 00:48:35.239 and infect, when take all root rot tries to kick in and infect, 675 00:48:35.840 --> 00:48:42.639 it helps suppress those and prevent them successfully getting into your grass and taking your 676 00:48:42.679 --> 00:48:45.800 grass down. And where do you get these well, all nitrofoss products, 677 00:48:45.840 --> 00:48:52.119 including the Texas three step Trio are available at Gim's Hardware, Montgomery Ace Hardware's 678 00:48:52.320 --> 00:48:57.760 in City, and Memorial and Lake Hardware down in Clute. Simple as that 679 00:49:00.400 --> 00:49:05.280 we've talked about a number of things today regarding the cool weather and the arrival 680 00:49:05.320 --> 00:49:09.360 of cool and stuff as it cools off. Now, some of the some 681 00:49:09.519 --> 00:49:14.639 of the cool season plants that we put for put in for flowers will just 682 00:49:14.880 --> 00:49:21.159 naturally do better. Pansy's and viola's, for example, they like cooler weather 683 00:49:21.400 --> 00:49:24.079 and when we plant them, you know, earlier in October, you try 684 00:49:24.119 --> 00:49:28.039 to plant them and maybe the temperatures are up in the nineties. Still they're 685 00:49:28.119 --> 00:49:30.920 just not happy with that. They'll survive, you can keep them going, 686 00:49:30.400 --> 00:49:35.440 but now is getting to be the prime time, prime time for getting those 687 00:49:35.519 --> 00:49:38.239 in the ground and having success. So if you're looking for color that is 688 00:49:38.440 --> 00:49:43.840 very hardy. One of the two of the hardiest cool season flower plants that 689 00:49:43.880 --> 00:49:49.519 we have is viola and pansy and they would they would be excellent to be 690 00:49:49.840 --> 00:49:53.960 purchasing and planting right now, and you can find you can find products like 691 00:49:54.039 --> 00:49:58.559 that. You got to go out to Enchanted Gardens and Jenny Gardens out in 692 00:49:58.679 --> 00:50:02.719 Richmond now and Jennigar Gardens has everything you can imagine planting. But if you're 693 00:50:02.760 --> 00:50:07.840 looking for some great cool season color, maybe you do want violas and pansies, 694 00:50:07.880 --> 00:50:13.920 Maybe you want dianthus or a lissum or snap dragons or stock for example, 695 00:50:14.360 --> 00:50:17.840 that's a not so common cool season plant. They're going to have it. 696 00:50:19.000 --> 00:50:21.880 Maybe you want some cool season foliage too, you know Dusty Miller. 697 00:50:22.000 --> 00:50:27.079 The silver color of Dusty Miller makes a beautiful combination with light blue and blue 698 00:50:27.199 --> 00:50:31.400 colored pansies and violas. Just a real good combo tip there. But in 699 00:50:31.519 --> 00:50:36.360 Chanti Gardens has more than that. They've got the fertilizers that I talk about 700 00:50:36.400 --> 00:50:39.400 here on the show. They've got the soil products that we recommend here on 701 00:50:39.480 --> 00:50:44.320 the show. Grab some bags that remember brown stuff before green stuff. So 702 00:50:44.719 --> 00:50:46.519 when you go out there to get plants, make sure you go home with 703 00:50:46.639 --> 00:50:52.400 some composts, some soil amendments, and the fertilizers that you need as well. 704 00:50:52.039 --> 00:50:55.719 They are on FM three fifty nine. So as you're in Richmond heading 705 00:50:55.840 --> 00:51:00.360 up toward Katie direction, they're going to be on FM three fifty nine right 706 00:51:00.440 --> 00:51:07.679 there. Enchanted Gardens Richmond dot com open Monday through Saturday eight to five Today 707 00:51:07.199 --> 00:51:12.239 Sundays from ten am to four pm. It's a good day to go visit 708 00:51:12.480 --> 00:51:17.480 out at Enchanted Gardens. Our phone number is seven one three two one two 709 00:51:17.960 --> 00:51:22.840 fifty eight seventy four seven one three, two, one two, five eight 710 00:51:23.400 --> 00:51:29.960 seven four. I was out at Quality Home Products this past week visiting with 711 00:51:30.079 --> 00:51:32.159 them, learning more about some of the products that they have and uh, 712 00:51:32.280 --> 00:51:37.039 you know, some of the different uh services that they offer. And you 713 00:51:37.119 --> 00:51:40.639 know, the thing that is most impressive to me about Quality Home Products is, 714 00:51:42.000 --> 00:51:45.039 well, it is impressive that they have generatic generators, which are an 715 00:51:45.079 --> 00:51:52.119 outstanding product. I'm absolutely outstanding generator product. They've got them in all different 716 00:51:52.199 --> 00:51:58.320 sizes. The thing that is most impressive about Quality Home is that when you 717 00:51:58.440 --> 00:52:02.400 buy that generator, you've got a team that goes to work with you and 718 00:52:02.639 --> 00:52:06.760 stays with you. And here's what I mean by that. You've got to 719 00:52:06.880 --> 00:52:09.960 get a hold of the HOA or maybe the city power department or something where 720 00:52:10.000 --> 00:52:13.280 you're you know, you're going to be hooking this new thing up. You 721 00:52:13.360 --> 00:52:15.199 got to get the permit whatever. They do that for you. They handle 722 00:52:15.239 --> 00:52:17.400 that for you. You're going to need a slab to put the thing on, 723 00:52:17.679 --> 00:52:21.480 They do that for you. After you have it hooked up, it's 724 00:52:21.519 --> 00:52:24.760 going to have to be serviced. They do that for you twenty four seven, 725 00:52:25.039 --> 00:52:30.119 three hundred and sixty five days a year customer service team. That's why 726 00:52:30.599 --> 00:52:34.159 now for the eighth time, by the way, news flash, they've won 727 00:52:34.239 --> 00:52:39.760 the Better Business Bureau Pinnacle Award, the most prestigious customer service award the BBB 728 00:52:39.960 --> 00:52:45.159 offers. I mean, they are mopping the floors with that kind of thing 729 00:52:45.599 --> 00:52:50.199 because they take care of their customers, because people love the experience they have, 730 00:52:50.679 --> 00:52:52.679 they love the service after the sale. I was talking to them and 731 00:52:52.960 --> 00:52:59.159 there was somebody who sold their house and they actually contacted the new homeowner to 732 00:52:59.280 --> 00:53:04.519 go in there and work with them on the generator that they inherited when they 733 00:53:04.559 --> 00:53:07.400 got the house. Who does that? Who does that? That's the kind 734 00:53:07.440 --> 00:53:12.760 of service they offer, And that's why I say, yes, generat generators 735 00:53:12.800 --> 00:53:16.480 are great, but when you get it from quality home, oh, it's 736 00:53:16.599 --> 00:53:21.519 way past the product you purchased. It's all the things that come with that. 737 00:53:21.599 --> 00:53:23.239 And by the way, when we go through late fall and winter, 738 00:53:24.159 --> 00:53:30.079 generator world slows down. People are thinking about other things. It now's the 739 00:53:30.159 --> 00:53:32.079 time to get one. And it's kind of like driving in Houston traffic. 740 00:53:32.280 --> 00:53:36.440 Yes, at five o'clock you can get on the roads and you will eventually 741 00:53:36.519 --> 00:53:37.960 get somewhere. There are a lot of the people that are on the roads 742 00:53:38.039 --> 00:53:43.119 right then you go at another time and you got a free trip right through 743 00:53:43.159 --> 00:53:46.280 town. So same thing with generators. Why not contact them in these next 744 00:53:46.360 --> 00:53:52.320 few months and go ahead and get that process started so that you will be 745 00:53:52.440 --> 00:53:55.400 ready to go whenever you might need it. And you know, with generators, 746 00:53:55.400 --> 00:54:00.840 it's not just a storm, it's our grid that is not always very 747 00:54:00.920 --> 00:54:04.199 reliable. And can you imagine having something just comes on and keeps the power 748 00:54:04.239 --> 00:54:07.639 going in the whole house even if you're not there. Oh well, I 749 00:54:07.719 --> 00:54:10.199 know I'm droning on about that, but I am very impressed with quality home 750 00:54:10.280 --> 00:54:16.199 products and the service that they provide. That is really important if you happen 751 00:54:16.280 --> 00:54:22.239 to live up in the Magnolia area. On FM twenty nine to seventy eight 752 00:54:22.280 --> 00:54:25.840 is Spring Creek Feed Spring Creek Feed Center is your hometown feed center up in 753 00:54:25.920 --> 00:54:30.280 Magnolia on twenty nine to seventy eight, just minutes away from Graham Parkway and 754 00:54:30.559 --> 00:54:35.960 Highway to forty nine. Now, they carry the fertilizers that I brag about 755 00:54:36.079 --> 00:54:39.719 here on garden Line. They carry all the herbicide, fungicide, pesticide things 756 00:54:39.760 --> 00:54:44.159 that you need to deal with those issues in your lawn. They have plenty 757 00:54:44.239 --> 00:54:47.239 of lawn and garden and pond supplies too. By the way, great pet 758 00:54:47.280 --> 00:54:52.400 food products, high quality pet food products. Again, friendly, courteous staff. 759 00:54:52.679 --> 00:54:55.199 I tell you, and you've if you've listened to me along on garden 760 00:54:55.280 --> 00:55:01.320 Line. The number one thing to me is the service that you get with 761 00:55:01.400 --> 00:55:07.199 a company. And I want to be greeted. I want friendly people who 762 00:55:07.280 --> 00:55:09.719 know what they're talking about. They help me, they're not deadheaded, and 763 00:55:12.039 --> 00:55:15.000 they could care less that you walked in the door. They actually make sure 764 00:55:15.119 --> 00:55:19.440 you get what you need. And that's how they treat you at Sprin Creekfeed 765 00:55:19.519 --> 00:55:23.280 Center. Now again they're up in Magnolia on FM twenty nine seventy eight, 766 00:55:23.360 --> 00:55:29.840 just minutes away from Graham Parkway and Highway to forty nine. Our phone number 767 00:55:29.840 --> 00:55:34.159 here on garden Line is seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four. 768 00:55:34.280 --> 00:55:37.559 If you would like to give Josh a call and you can get on 769 00:55:37.639 --> 00:55:40.239 the board and we can visit with you about the things that are of interest 770 00:55:40.599 --> 00:55:45.400 to you. I was talking about having the strawberries I needed to get planted. 771 00:55:45.440 --> 00:55:47.760 I've got a few other things. We got some herbs, we purchased 772 00:55:47.800 --> 00:55:52.920 the other day that I need to get into my herb planting. I've got 773 00:55:52.920 --> 00:55:58.199 a little box that I grow herbs in. I also grow them in containers. 774 00:55:58.320 --> 00:56:00.920 I also grow them in the ground. I just like growing herbs and 775 00:56:01.000 --> 00:56:05.320 I need to get those planted. And when I do, here's how I 776 00:56:05.440 --> 00:56:09.320 do it. Number One, top quality soil mix. That's important. Number 777 00:56:09.400 --> 00:56:16.599 two watermen with astro grow six twelve six. That's a fertilizer six twelve six 778 00:56:16.760 --> 00:56:21.480 fertilizer. You mix it in water, you drench your plants, goes down 779 00:56:21.519 --> 00:56:23.760 in the root system and it helps them get started. But it's not just 780 00:56:23.840 --> 00:56:30.679 those three nutrients NPK. It's medinosol activator, it's humic acid, and it's 781 00:56:30.719 --> 00:56:36.440 seaweed extracts. All present in as to grow six twelve six A water amen 782 00:56:36.480 --> 00:56:39.559 at planting, a watermen about a week later. Again same product, a 783 00:56:39.679 --> 00:56:45.880 watermen about a week after that. Three times water those in because you want 784 00:56:45.960 --> 00:56:49.480 the roots to hit the ground running. You want them to have success and 785 00:56:49.639 --> 00:56:53.960 be invigorated to be able to create that strong plant. Fall is a great 786 00:56:54.079 --> 00:56:59.440 time to plant and getting your plants off to the head start with astro grow 787 00:56:59.800 --> 00:57:01.679 is a great way to do it. You're not going to burn your plants, 788 00:57:01.960 --> 00:57:04.840 never going to burn your plan. You can mix it up and do 789 00:57:04.880 --> 00:57:07.119 it as a full of your spray if you'd like to do that. It 790 00:57:07.239 --> 00:57:08.719 is not gonna burn your plants. It's really good. You can buy it 791 00:57:08.760 --> 00:57:13.159 in a court bottle with a measuring cup. There's even a hose en spray 792 00:57:13.280 --> 00:57:15.719 or quart that you can hook it up to and you know, spray over 793 00:57:15.840 --> 00:57:19.760 plants. You're law and all kinds of thing. It's a good product. 794 00:57:19.840 --> 00:57:22.719 It'll it'll work very well, but especially in my yard. It is what 795 00:57:22.880 --> 00:57:28.719 I look to when I'm putting in a new perennial or annual type of plant. 796 00:57:30.360 --> 00:57:34.199 Let's go out to Southwest Houston now and we're going to talk to Carolyn. 797 00:57:34.320 --> 00:57:38.599 Hello, Carolyn, good morning. You had covered this before, but 798 00:57:38.719 --> 00:57:45.880 I didn't write it down. I have aphids on my okra uh at this 799 00:57:46.000 --> 00:57:49.159 all I get rid of it well. At this stage of the game, 800 00:57:49.320 --> 00:57:52.199 Okra is slowing down, especially when we get this cool front coming in here, 801 00:57:52.639 --> 00:57:55.039 and I don't worry about it. A lot I've had. I've had 802 00:57:55.079 --> 00:58:00.519 some aphids on my ochre this summer. Occasionally I'll just get a strong blast 803 00:58:00.559 --> 00:58:05.360 of water and just just blast as many as I can right off of them. 804 00:58:05.920 --> 00:58:07.239 Uh, and they just they're just not going to come back, and 805 00:58:07.320 --> 00:58:12.559 the okra is going slowing down enough to where I just don't know if it's 806 00:58:12.639 --> 00:58:15.400 worth treating them. If you did want to use an insecticide on them, 807 00:58:15.440 --> 00:58:22.119 I would use insecticidal soap that is very safe, very safe. Mix it 808 00:58:22.159 --> 00:58:25.000 according to the label, and you just need to get the aphids wet because 809 00:58:25.039 --> 00:58:29.800 it's not a poison. It kills them by dissolving the waxy coating on their 810 00:58:29.880 --> 00:58:34.800 body. So insecticidal soap would be another option. But for me, you 811 00:58:34.880 --> 00:58:37.760 know, having to walk to the garage and mix up something and spray it. 812 00:58:37.880 --> 00:58:44.159 I just get a blast of water myself. Wonderful, all right, 813 00:58:44.719 --> 00:58:45.960 thank you? All right. By the way, you know those are Cajun 814 00:58:46.000 --> 00:58:52.519 aphids. That's the kind of aphid that gets on okra. Just I'm sorry 815 00:58:52.599 --> 00:58:57.119 that was That was a real sad attempted humor, right there. You take 816 00:58:57.199 --> 00:59:00.199 care of there you go there, You probably brought them with you. They 817 00:59:00.320 --> 00:59:04.639 got on your car when you drove back over. Carolyn, thank you for 818 00:59:04.760 --> 00:59:07.960 the call. It's time for us to go to the Nicky News Network. 819 00:59:08.119 --> 00:59:13.360 Our phone number is seven one three two one, two fifty eight seventy four. 820 00:59:13.440 --> 00:59:15.800 Give us a call, get Josh, you'll get you on the board. 821 00:59:15.000 --> 00:59:19.920 And now here's Nicky Well. Good Sunday morning. Hey, it's a 822 00:59:20.119 --> 00:59:23.039 beautiful eastern sky with the sun coming up out there today. I hope you 823 00:59:23.119 --> 00:59:25.480 take a look at it. And by the way, when you're out and 824 00:59:25.519 --> 00:59:29.960 about today, it's a good time to pick up the products you need for 825 00:59:30.239 --> 00:59:34.159 your lawn going into this coming week because it is going to get cool. 826 00:59:34.199 --> 00:59:37.119 We're going to get some rain and the weed seeds are going to be very 827 00:59:37.159 --> 00:59:42.239 happy about that. The cool season weeds as are cool season turf diseases, 828 00:59:42.360 --> 00:59:45.599 so you want to make sure and take care of those kinds of things. 829 00:59:45.880 --> 00:59:52.639 You know. Microlife Fertilizers has a combination that I like to use in the 830 00:59:52.719 --> 00:59:57.320 fall season, and that is the Microlife bron Patch five to one three and 831 00:59:57.920 --> 01:00:01.760 Microlife Bioinoculant by inoculant. It's not just for fall, it's just that what 832 01:00:01.920 --> 01:00:05.719 it does, you use it in a small amount goes a long way. 833 01:00:06.400 --> 01:00:09.719 It's the violet colored bag, by the way, but the bioinoculant is putting 834 01:00:09.800 --> 01:00:15.679 a lot of extra microbial content out there. Into the soil and helping to 835 01:00:15.760 --> 01:00:17.800 build the soil. That way to the structure of the soil, of microbial 836 01:00:17.880 --> 01:00:22.440 content of the soil as well as as it splashes up on the grass plants, 837 01:00:22.440 --> 01:00:27.239 you're getting some extra microbial content there, which is important because when diseases 838 01:00:27.360 --> 01:00:31.480 land, they're looking for a place where the spor can land and infect the 839 01:00:31.599 --> 01:00:37.679 plant. And when you've got that area populated with a lot of different microbial 840 01:00:37.800 --> 01:00:40.840 activity, let's just say it's a crowded environment, it doesn't do as well. 841 01:00:40.880 --> 01:00:45.079 And then we have microbes that actually help fight disease as well. Now, 842 01:00:45.320 --> 01:00:46.559 the first part of that though, is the brown patch. That's a 843 01:00:46.639 --> 01:00:51.320 five to one three that is a fertilizer and it's a good one for going 844 01:00:51.440 --> 01:00:54.599 into the fall season, and it also is chock full of microbes. And 845 01:00:54.719 --> 01:00:59.559 that's why they call it the brown patch, because they recommend that as something 846 01:00:59.559 --> 01:01:01.800 you would put it down. And as you use the microlife products over time, 847 01:01:01.880 --> 01:01:07.039 here's what's going to happen. Not only are you adding the nutrients, 848 01:01:07.079 --> 01:01:10.239 but you're adding organic batter, different types of You're adding a ton of microbes 849 01:01:10.280 --> 01:01:15.239 to the soil, and you're building and building that environment. And when you 850 01:01:15.360 --> 01:01:19.079 have good soil, you're going to have healthy plants. That's important. Good 851 01:01:19.119 --> 01:01:22.599 soil has good nutrients, it has good structure, it has good organic matter 852 01:01:22.679 --> 01:01:29.239 content, it's got good microbial activity, and that whole combination. You're enhancing 853 01:01:29.320 --> 01:01:32.159 that when you put on something like a Microlife brown patch five to one three. 854 01:01:32.239 --> 01:01:37.360 Now, there's a lot of other good micro products from Microlife. You 855 01:01:37.400 --> 01:01:40.960 can go to microlifefertilizer dot com find out more about these and about others that 856 01:01:42.079 --> 01:01:45.719 are out there. But for the fall season, I would recommend first and 857 01:01:45.800 --> 01:01:50.840 foremost that Microlife brown Patch five to one three. It works very very well. 858 01:01:51.199 --> 01:01:53.800 We're going to go now out to Magnolia and we're going to talk to 859 01:01:53.960 --> 01:02:00.000 Ron. Hello, Ron, morning morning. I've got some grapefruit trees and 860 01:02:00.360 --> 01:02:06.000 they're getting leechins starting to grow on them. Is there something to worry about 861 01:02:06.119 --> 01:02:09.360 or is there something I can do about that? Uh? Well, not 862 01:02:09.519 --> 01:02:14.280 probably something to worry about, but it may be a sign of something. 863 01:02:14.480 --> 01:02:22.280 The lichens themselves are not a disease of the plant. They're a combination of 864 01:02:22.519 --> 01:02:27.679 an algae and let's see an algae and fungus I believe growing together, and 865 01:02:28.519 --> 01:02:34.559 you get those weird little papery, frilly, just all kinds of different lichens 866 01:02:34.599 --> 01:02:37.400 that'll grow on it. They're a sign that the plant canopy is thinning out 867 01:02:37.440 --> 01:02:43.320 a little bit. So anything that weakens the plant, drought, soil compaction, 868 01:02:43.960 --> 01:02:47.639 lack of water, lack of nutrients, anything like that, the canopy 869 01:02:47.719 --> 01:02:52.239 thins and you start to see the lichens because the plant's just not growing as 870 01:02:52.320 --> 01:02:55.239 fast. So when we see plants that are just kind of sitting there and 871 01:02:55.360 --> 01:03:00.360 not really vigorous, lichens are going to show up. So you can treat 872 01:03:00.440 --> 01:03:05.239 them. There's a product, I believe it's called mossmas. There are also 873 01:03:05.440 --> 01:03:09.639 some copper based products that can be used to suppress likened growth. But I 874 01:03:09.800 --> 01:03:15.519 find that in general it's more backup, let's figure out why this plant isn't 875 01:03:15.599 --> 01:03:19.519 doing better, and let's get it invigorated, and then the lichens are not 876 01:03:19.679 --> 01:03:23.679 something you really need to treat. Okay, all right, thank you, 877 01:03:24.079 --> 01:03:29.440 you bet run, thank you, and enjoy those grape fruit trees. Yeah, 878 01:03:29.519 --> 01:03:32.400 lichen is an interesting thing. We got a couple of several things out 879 01:03:32.440 --> 01:03:37.599 there that are associated with plant problems, but there really aren't the cause of 880 01:03:37.639 --> 01:03:40.079 the plant problem. Ball moss is a good example. Ball moss grows in 881 01:03:40.159 --> 01:03:44.760 trees. You see trees that are declining, it's like they're two thirds dead 882 01:03:44.920 --> 01:03:47.000 and the ball moss is everwhere. And people think the ball mass killed them. 883 01:03:47.400 --> 01:03:52.480 Well, no, the ball moss had its opportunities because as that plant 884 01:03:52.559 --> 01:03:57.039 got weak and as the canopy thins, the ball moss just proliferates. But 885 01:03:57.239 --> 01:04:01.400 remember this. I I can tell you that ball moss will grow on a 886 01:04:01.519 --> 01:04:05.119 power line. I've seen it over the over the highway in Austin, Texas. 887 01:04:05.159 --> 01:04:09.320 Took a picture one one time because if it needed plant, sap or 888 01:04:09.400 --> 01:04:12.639 something to grow, how could it grow on a power line. You see 889 01:04:12.719 --> 01:04:16.320 lichens on fence posts and rocks. They're not a parasite of the plant. 890 01:04:16.400 --> 01:04:20.199 They're just along for the ride. And there are more a sign that something 891 01:04:20.239 --> 01:04:27.480 else isn't isn't doing really well. If you're in the in the market for 892 01:04:27.840 --> 01:04:30.599 a new roof and maybe your old roof has damage, maybe it's just age. 893 01:04:31.000 --> 01:04:33.159 Maybe you want a different kind of roof. Maybe you got shingles and 894 01:04:33.159 --> 01:04:40.199 you'd like a nice single seam metal roof. You know that that's an idea 895 01:04:40.280 --> 01:04:44.760 right there. Maybe you would like to switch out from a standard shingle roof 896 01:04:45.079 --> 01:04:49.119 to a Brinkman's timberline solar shingle roof. Well, Brinkman's a company that can 897 01:04:49.199 --> 01:04:53.480 do that. Can you imagine that your roof itself, not a panel on 898 01:04:53.559 --> 01:04:57.360 the roof, but your roof itself is making electricity? Sure? Could I 899 01:04:57.480 --> 01:05:00.440 use that this summer? Right now? All of a sudden blazed down. 900 01:05:00.920 --> 01:05:03.239 Well, Brinkman's got you covered now. They they've been doing this for fifty 901 01:05:03.360 --> 01:05:09.079 years. They give twenty five years warranty on their workmanship, and they use 902 01:05:09.199 --> 01:05:13.519 only quality products. That's why they won the Better Business Bureau Pinnacle of Ward 903 01:05:13.639 --> 01:05:16.280 twenty twenty two. You can go to the website Brinkman Quality dot com, 904 01:05:16.480 --> 01:05:20.760 or you can just give them a call two eight one four eight zero seventy 905 01:05:20.880 --> 01:05:26.840 six sixty three. Listen, you don't stay in business in the Greater Houston 906 01:05:26.880 --> 01:05:30.239 area for fifty years unless you are using quality products, doing quality work, 907 01:05:30.360 --> 01:05:38.199 and taking care of your customers. And that's Brinkman Quality. Our phone number 908 01:05:38.280 --> 01:05:43.000 is seven to one three two one two k t r H. If you'd 909 01:05:43.039 --> 01:05:46.000 like to give us a call seven to one three two one two k t 910 01:05:46.639 --> 01:05:51.599 r H. That this cool weather has really gotten kind of gotten me excited. 911 01:05:51.760 --> 01:05:55.960 I like cool weather now. I don't want to be cold all the 912 01:05:56.039 --> 01:06:00.920 time. But after you've been through months and months and months of blazing hot 913 01:06:01.079 --> 01:06:05.079 summer weather, it's time for a break, and we're about to get one. 914 01:06:05.119 --> 01:06:09.719 So I hope you enjoy that. Take advantage of being outside. Couple 915 01:06:09.760 --> 01:06:14.199 of tips. If you've got let's say, holiday cactus, Thanksgiving cactus, 916 01:06:14.320 --> 01:06:19.440 Christmas cactus that is outside, I put mine outside because as the day links 917 01:06:19.480 --> 01:06:23.800 get shorter, and as you get that cooler weather, they'll set the bloom 918 01:06:23.840 --> 01:06:28.039 buds and then you can have the beautiful bloom season. If you have them 919 01:06:28.079 --> 01:06:31.760 outside, just watch, don't let them don't let that temperature drop below definitely 920 01:06:31.840 --> 01:06:36.119 not below fifty degrees, maybe you know, somewhere in the fifty to fifty 921 01:06:36.199 --> 01:06:39.960 five range. If it's going a little colder than that, I'd go ahead 922 01:06:40.000 --> 01:06:43.880 and bring them in, But mind stay out in the mid fifties and that 923 01:06:44.039 --> 01:06:45.960 helps with that blooming cycle. But just be aware of that if you've got 924 01:06:46.000 --> 01:06:49.159 other house plants out there, that's a little bit of a shock to get 925 01:06:49.199 --> 01:06:53.400 a cold when it drops down a little too far. So we're not hitting 926 01:06:53.440 --> 01:06:57.679 the forties. I don't believe this week, but just always be aware of 927 01:06:57.760 --> 01:07:00.519 that, because yeah, you won't take care of them and have beautiful, 928 01:07:00.800 --> 01:07:05.159 beautiful blooms. By the way, if you've if you've got Christmas cactus or 929 01:07:05.239 --> 01:07:11.920 Thanksgiving cactus from past years and you would like to, you know, rejuvenate 930 01:07:12.000 --> 01:07:14.599 it. When we come back, I'm going to talk about how you get 931 01:07:14.639 --> 01:07:16.920 those things to bloom again. Right now, we're going to take a break 932 01:07:17.000 --> 01:07:20.559 our phone number seven one three two one two k t RH will be right 933 01:07:20.679 --> 01:07:25.719 back and Jack, you'll be the first up. Well, good Sunday morning 934 01:07:26.119 --> 01:07:29.880 on what is going to be a great day to get out this afternoon, 935 01:07:29.920 --> 01:07:32.800 get a little bit of gardening done, maybe a little bit of gardening shopping. 936 01:07:32.920 --> 01:07:35.000 You know, we do have some things we need to be picking up 937 01:07:35.079 --> 01:07:41.480 right now. There's a lot lot happening and our garden centers are just chock 938 01:07:41.559 --> 01:07:44.960 full, I know, Kingwood Garden Center, Warren's Garden Center out in the 939 01:07:45.039 --> 01:07:46.880 Kingwood area. I mean, if you live and we always talk about it 940 01:07:46.960 --> 01:07:50.800 as a Kingwood deal, but you know, if you live in a Task 941 01:07:50.840 --> 01:07:55.320 casita, if you live in Hoffmann or Umble anywhere in that whole region out 942 01:07:55.320 --> 01:07:58.760 there, Porter there's a local Garden Center for you both of them. Kingwood 943 01:07:58.760 --> 01:08:00.920 Garden Center has got a real a good deal on the snapdragons. You buy 944 01:08:00.960 --> 01:08:05.480 them by the flat right now. And snap dragons are just beautiful. They're 945 01:08:05.519 --> 01:08:09.800 a cheery plant. I mean they I don't know, they just kind of 946 01:08:09.840 --> 01:08:13.920 make you happy looking at them. The interesting flower forms, the spikes, 947 01:08:13.960 --> 01:08:16.079 there's types that are very compact that make a bedding plant. There are types 948 01:08:16.079 --> 01:08:19.079 of get tall and you actually use for a cut flour. And boy, 949 01:08:19.199 --> 01:08:24.399 I tell you Kingwood Garden Center, that gift shop is loaded up for fall 950 01:08:24.560 --> 01:08:29.720 and it is absolutely beautiful as it always is inside there. The Warrens Garden 951 01:08:29.800 --> 01:08:30.960 Center as well. I mean, you know, you know when you go 952 01:08:31.079 --> 01:08:33.279 there, you're gonna have people that know what they're talking about. They're gonna 953 01:08:33.319 --> 01:08:36.880 help you. They're gonna direct you to a wide variety of things, because 954 01:08:36.920 --> 01:08:41.439 that's what they have at Warrens is a wide variety. They they've got you 955 01:08:41.600 --> 01:08:44.880 covered on all those fertilizers that I talk about. They've got you covered on 956 01:08:45.000 --> 01:08:46.920 soils. Do you need a rose soil? Do you need you know, 957 01:08:47.159 --> 01:08:50.760 any kind of a bed mix in a bag. They've they've got it out 958 01:08:50.840 --> 01:08:57.000 there at Warren's in Kingwood Garden Centers. Really simple as that. Hey, 959 01:08:57.079 --> 01:09:00.760 let's go up to Conro and we're gonna talk to Jack. Hello, Jack, 960 01:09:02.000 --> 01:09:08.720 Hello, how can we help? Yeah? Yeah, I put some 961 01:09:09.000 --> 01:09:14.319 pre emerging down and some Paul fertilizer from Ace and but I think I was 962 01:09:14.319 --> 01:09:18.319 a little late. Come up. My yard is covered with some flowering weed 963 01:09:18.560 --> 01:09:21.520 and I'm mowing it spreading the seas and I'm wondering if I can do anything 964 01:09:21.520 --> 01:09:25.479 about that, or I just have to wait this out to the winter. 965 01:09:25.600 --> 01:09:29.680 Now, will you say sunflowery weed? Could you describe it a little more 966 01:09:29.760 --> 01:09:33.319 for me? No, they're like weeds, but they have little bitty pink 967 01:09:33.359 --> 01:09:36.399 white flowers on it. Ah, Okay, it's just tiny. Yeah. 968 01:09:36.600 --> 01:09:45.359 That is called slender astor, and slender ast is a problem. If I 969 01:09:45.479 --> 01:09:48.279 were you now, you probably don't want to hear this, But get out 970 01:09:48.319 --> 01:09:51.640 and pull them up. They come out of one spot where there's a tap 971 01:09:51.760 --> 01:09:56.199 root, and you can grab that and pull it out of the ground and 972 01:09:56.560 --> 01:10:00.680 it'll be all interwoven into your grass. But every one of the those plants, 973 01:10:00.920 --> 01:10:05.000 every flower's got like fifty seeds, and every plant has a bunch of 974 01:10:05.079 --> 01:10:10.199 flowers and so this is a stage of the season where spraying them is not 975 01:10:10.319 --> 01:10:15.039 going to be effective. They've reached what we call a reproductive stage and the 976 01:10:15.119 --> 01:10:18.920 post emergent weed killer is not going to work. But you can get as 977 01:10:19.000 --> 01:10:23.720 much of the seed out as possible. So if you're able to do that, 978 01:10:23.920 --> 01:10:27.720 I would highly recommend it, just because you know it's going to set 979 01:10:27.760 --> 01:10:30.960 you up for a lot more next year. The way to deal with those 980 01:10:30.239 --> 01:10:34.479 is as we get into next spring season, putting down a pre emergent product 981 01:10:34.800 --> 01:10:40.680 and then repeating it about sixty to ninety days later to extend that coverage and 982 01:10:40.840 --> 01:10:45.800 prevent the plants forever getting established. That's a sneaky weed jack. It'll it 983 01:10:45.920 --> 01:10:49.199 comes up, you don't really know it's there, and the people first notice 984 01:10:49.239 --> 01:10:54.199 it because it's woven into the turf. They first notice it. When the 985 01:10:54.239 --> 01:10:59.439 little daisy like pink flowers start to show up. Well then it's a little 986 01:10:59.479 --> 01:11:04.760 late to right. So just a thought there on those, alrighty, all 987 01:11:04.880 --> 01:11:09.880 right, well good luck with good luck with that, I know, just 988 01:11:10.159 --> 01:11:13.319 the Also in the meantime, just make sure you do the fall fertilization on 989 01:11:13.399 --> 01:11:16.840 your lawn if you haven't already, and continue to just build that lawn with 990 01:11:17.119 --> 01:11:21.680 mowing, watering, and fertilizing through the season, and it'll choke out most 991 01:11:21.720 --> 01:11:26.640 of your weed problems. The slender asters one of the few that survives in 992 01:11:26.720 --> 01:11:30.000 a dense, healthy lawn. But the rest of them, you does it 993 01:11:30.119 --> 01:11:35.039 help to mow it, you know, lower or higher or just regular bat 994 01:11:35.640 --> 01:11:40.119 That plant adjusts to whatever you do if you have that weed. If you 995 01:11:40.520 --> 01:11:43.720 can go to a vacant lot and see those weeds and they are literally almost 996 01:11:43.760 --> 01:11:46.199 waist high, but they get in a lawn, we mow them and they 997 01:11:46.279 --> 01:11:49.359 go sideways, and you mow lower and they just go sideways lower. I 998 01:11:49.439 --> 01:11:54.560 mean, they are a weed that mowing. It's not like a big grassbur 999 01:11:54.720 --> 01:11:58.680 sticking up in the air. It's a tougher one to deal with. Yeah, 1000 01:12:00.520 --> 01:12:04.640 if you haven't gone online to my lawn care schedule, it's gardening with 1001 01:12:04.920 --> 01:12:10.560 skip dot com that schedules online. You can see from January to December, 1002 01:12:11.319 --> 01:12:15.560 the fertilizers you make, both synthetic and organic, the times to air rate 1003 01:12:15.680 --> 01:12:19.680 to mineral supplement, and how to mow or wind to mow, and just 1004 01:12:19.760 --> 01:12:24.479 some tips on watering and mowing. So I think you'll find that helpful you 1005 01:12:24.520 --> 01:12:29.000 how to check that out? Okay, thank you very much. All right, 1006 01:12:29.079 --> 01:12:30.520 Jack, you take care up there. I used to live in Conra 1007 01:12:30.600 --> 01:12:34.439 a long time ago. That's a great community up there, love it. 1008 01:12:36.279 --> 01:12:42.840 Let's see. I want to talk about the fact that now is the time 1009 01:12:42.920 --> 01:12:46.560 to plant woody ornamentals, and that includes trees and shrubs and woody vines. 1010 01:12:46.880 --> 01:12:50.439 It's also the time plant perennials and all kinds of other things too. But 1011 01:12:50.560 --> 01:12:55.279 if you've been thinking about planting a tree now, let's just say next summer 1012 01:12:55.479 --> 01:12:59.039 is going to get as miserable as this summer, god, or even half 1013 01:12:59.159 --> 01:13:03.680 that bad. You should get the tree planted now, because it has months 1014 01:13:04.199 --> 01:13:09.239 and the roots will grow in our mild climate here, It'll grow all winter 1015 01:13:09.359 --> 01:13:14.079 long and they'll get established. And when next summer comes, the tree planted 1016 01:13:14.199 --> 01:13:17.279 now will be way ahead of the tree planted let's say in May, for 1017 01:13:17.439 --> 01:13:21.359 example. Now, who can help you with that, well, tree farm 1018 01:13:21.439 --> 01:13:27.199 can Verden Tree Farms got several locations. They're in West Houston on Barker Cyprus. 1019 01:13:27.239 --> 01:13:30.680 They're up in the heights where Yale Street and I ten come together, 1020 01:13:30.760 --> 01:13:33.920 and then there's one down in Paarland on Broadway Street, just a few blocks 1021 01:13:33.920 --> 01:13:39.039 away from Killing Steakhouse by the way. Now, Verdant Tree Farm will help 1022 01:13:39.079 --> 01:13:41.880 you pick out the tree you need, take them a picture, talk to 1023 01:13:41.920 --> 01:13:44.279 them. They'll do a free consultation. You know, hey, this is 1024 01:13:44.359 --> 01:13:45.960 one I think would work. Walk out in the yard, pick the tree 1025 01:13:46.000 --> 01:13:50.920 you want in their tree yard and pick the tree you want. They'll tag 1026 01:13:50.960 --> 01:13:54.359 it, they'll bring it, they'll plant it right. The sooner you get 1027 01:13:54.399 --> 01:13:57.560 it done, the better. And if you're thinking about planting a tree, 1028 01:13:58.479 --> 01:14:01.000 now's the time. Absolutely the time of the year. And as we like 1029 01:14:01.079 --> 01:14:03.479 to say, the best time to plant a tree was fifty years ago. 1030 01:14:03.600 --> 01:14:09.680 The next best time is today. Verdant Treefarm dot com. They can get 1031 01:14:09.720 --> 01:14:13.359 you set up. We're going to now head out to Missouri City and talk 1032 01:14:13.439 --> 01:14:18.399 to Dana. Hello Dana, good morning, and it's SANAA sorry, no 1033 01:14:18.560 --> 01:14:25.239 problem. So my grass over the summer just took a beating. I mean, 1034 01:14:25.399 --> 01:14:29.359 there are areas that are just my Saint Augustine used to be really thick 1035 01:14:30.000 --> 01:14:32.840 and lush, and it's it's area that just died out. I'm trying to 1036 01:14:32.880 --> 01:14:35.960 figure out what I need to do, you know, to kind of get 1037 01:14:36.000 --> 01:14:40.880 that turned around. You know, I just put some fall fertilizer down. 1038 01:14:41.119 --> 01:14:45.560 I was I was thinking about doing, you know, a truckload of composts 1039 01:14:45.600 --> 01:14:49.079 and spreading that out and trying to help because the dirt is clay when you 1040 01:14:49.159 --> 01:14:55.720 get down about three three inches or so. I'm just trying to you know, 1041 01:14:55.920 --> 01:15:00.359 I really really missed my grass the way it used to be. Yes, 1042 01:15:00.560 --> 01:15:02.119 So I'm just trying to figure out, you know, what's what's the 1043 01:15:02.239 --> 01:15:05.439 best way to get started. What are some of the steps that I need 1044 01:15:05.520 --> 01:15:09.520 to take to try to You're don't either dig all it, dig that part 1045 01:15:09.600 --> 01:15:13.119 out and put new sawd down or will it come back? Yeah? You 1046 01:15:13.199 --> 01:15:16.840 know, I just I'm I'm about to pull what little hair I have left, 1047 01:15:17.159 --> 01:15:21.079 all right, Dana, Dana, I've got about a minute here left 1048 01:15:21.119 --> 01:15:24.800 to answer, so I'm gonna I'm gonna go quick on it. But bottom 1049 01:15:24.880 --> 01:15:30.119 line is residing if the area is large, if it's you know, you've 1050 01:15:30.159 --> 01:15:32.840 got grass sprigs that are alive a foot apart, well that will cover back 1051 01:15:32.920 --> 01:15:36.359 over without resotting. But if you've got larger areas, you're gonna have to 1052 01:15:36.399 --> 01:15:40.640 put sod in those areas. I would probably wait to put that side down 1053 01:15:40.800 --> 01:15:45.960 until we get into the spring when the grass is growing about April to put 1054 01:15:45.000 --> 01:15:47.880 the new sawd down and water it in. In the meantime, you can 1055 01:15:47.960 --> 01:15:50.720 leave the old stuff there, old stuff there that's dead, or you can 1056 01:15:50.800 --> 01:15:55.279 rake it out. But whenever you expose the soil to sunlight, here comes 1057 01:15:55.359 --> 01:16:01.319 weeds. So I would not do a lot of weed control anytime within a 1058 01:16:01.359 --> 01:16:05.119 few months of when you're going to put the sod down, because those products 1059 01:16:05.119 --> 01:16:09.079 are meant to inhibit root growth. And if you're going to lay sod right 1060 01:16:09.159 --> 01:16:13.359 down on a soil that's had pre emergent put on it recently, that's not 1061 01:16:13.479 --> 01:16:16.199 a good thing. So you can decide which way you want to go on 1062 01:16:16.319 --> 01:16:21.840 that, but that residing is probably going to be necessary, and that would 1063 01:16:21.880 --> 01:16:26.640 give you a good time now to do any filling up holes. You know 1064 01:16:26.800 --> 01:16:30.039 Randy's talk about the kill, till and fill, where you kill the thing, 1065 01:16:30.319 --> 01:16:34.199 kill the weeds and everything you fill, you know, or I said 1066 01:16:34.239 --> 01:16:38.439 that backwards, but you know what I mean, level it out in any 1067 01:16:38.520 --> 01:16:41.399 kind of scratching up the soil to loosen it before you lay your sod. 1068 01:16:41.640 --> 01:16:45.279 But that would be things that leveling out the soil and then getting it loosened 1069 01:16:45.359 --> 01:16:49.279 up would be prior to whenever you're going to lay that sod. All right, 1070 01:16:49.560 --> 01:16:51.720 thank you very much. All right. And in the meantime, if 1071 01:16:51.720 --> 01:16:56.119 you've got living grass out there, go ahead and do that fall fertilizer because 1072 01:16:56.159 --> 01:16:58.800 we want it. It's already weak. We want to strengthen it before we 1073 01:16:58.920 --> 01:17:02.359 go into winter. Comes out stronger in the spring. Got you all right, 1074 01:17:02.439 --> 01:17:08.159 sir, Thank you, thank you you take care. Wow, that 1075 01:17:08.399 --> 01:17:12.159 error went by fast seven one three two one two. K t r H. 1076 01:17:12.319 --> 01:17:15.600 Get on the boards. We'll be right back. K t r H 1077 01:17:15.680 --> 01:17:19.520 Garden Line does not necessarily endorse any of the products or services advertised on this 1078 01:17:19.600 --> 01:17:26.720 program. Welcome to k t r H Garden Line with Skip Ricter. It's 1079 01:17:28.640 --> 01:17:57.760 crazy shrip. Just watch him as many septasy not a sign. Well, 1080 01:17:57.920 --> 01:18:00.600 good morning, good morning. You're listening in the Garden Line. I'm glad 1081 01:18:00.640 --> 01:18:04.800 you're listening. We're to answer gardening questions, talk about gardening things that are 1082 01:18:04.880 --> 01:18:10.720 interest to you and if you'd like to give us calf seven one three two 1083 01:18:10.800 --> 01:18:16.399 one two fifty eight seventy four seven one three two one two five eight seven 1084 01:18:16.680 --> 01:18:23.000 four. It's as simple as that. I was talking about soils earlier in 1085 01:18:23.039 --> 01:18:27.159 the importance of quality soils. And if you are thinking about putting in a 1086 01:18:27.239 --> 01:18:30.960 garden bed, or if you need to build up a garden bed you already 1087 01:18:30.000 --> 01:18:33.279 have, or maybe fill a box that you're growing in, such as a 1088 01:18:33.359 --> 01:18:38.640 vego garden. Here's the deal that you don't want to miss out on. 1089 01:18:38.760 --> 01:18:41.880 And this is from Heirloom Soils, by the way. Uh, they have 1090 01:18:42.600 --> 01:18:46.520 a big fall special on the bulk soils that they have, So for example, 1091 01:18:46.920 --> 01:18:51.600 the veggie and herb mix that is outstanding for vegetables, herbs. Heck, 1092 01:18:51.640 --> 01:18:54.920 it's good for flowers too, by the way, and a lot of 1093 01:18:55.000 --> 01:18:58.479 other things. But veggie and herb mix fall special. It's a one hundred 1094 01:18:58.479 --> 01:19:01.760 and nineteen dollars bulk pard. Or if you want a supersack, it's one 1095 01:19:01.840 --> 01:19:05.399 hundred and forty eight dollars per cubic yard. Now, a supersack's a big 1096 01:19:05.920 --> 01:19:11.479 giant sack that holds a cubic yard of mix and they just set it right 1097 01:19:11.520 --> 01:19:14.119 there in your driveway. It's very neat and clean, easy to do. 1098 01:19:14.399 --> 01:19:16.640 If you'd rather go out and go pick it up yourself out in porter, 1099 01:19:16.760 --> 01:19:19.640 you can do that. If you want to have it delivered the bulk, 1100 01:19:19.760 --> 01:19:24.760 for example, delivered to your house, dumped on the driveway. You can 1101 01:19:24.840 --> 01:19:29.960 do that too. But these are really good, significant discount deals. Now 1102 01:19:30.039 --> 01:19:33.720 the rose soil that they have, that again is outstanding for many things beyond 1103 01:19:33.840 --> 01:19:39.800 roses, but definitely roses and shrubs and perennial plants. Seventy dollars bulk, 1104 01:19:40.159 --> 01:19:44.000 ninety nine dollars for the supersack. And that's all at Heirloom Soils. Now 1105 01:19:44.039 --> 01:19:48.119 you can go to Airloomsoilsoftexas dot com and find out more. But here's your 1106 01:19:48.239 --> 01:19:53.319 chance to get those bulk deliveries. To create the new bed, to fill 1107 01:19:53.399 --> 01:19:57.560 a box, to anything that you need to do where you need more than 1108 01:19:57.640 --> 01:20:00.159 a few bags of soil to do it. That's your deal. So don't 1109 01:20:00.520 --> 01:20:04.359 don't delay taking advantage of that, because you're not gonna find prices like that 1110 01:20:05.159 --> 01:20:10.479 again, very very often anywhere around town. Now I'm going to head out 1111 01:20:10.560 --> 01:20:15.159 to northwest Houston and we're going to talk to Ed. Hello, Ed morning, 1112 01:20:15.239 --> 01:20:19.840 Sure morning. I have three crape myrtles, probably twenty five years old, 1113 01:20:20.640 --> 01:20:26.920 and now one of them especially is dropping leaves ninety miles now. The 1114 01:20:27.039 --> 01:20:30.800 other two are looking kind of poolly like they're about to start okay, but 1115 01:20:30.119 --> 01:20:32.720 they just they look like they need some food. I don't know what to 1116 01:20:32.760 --> 01:20:36.439 give them. Well, you know, we're in the fall season, and 1117 01:20:36.960 --> 01:20:42.479 leaf drop is not unusual. It's a little early, but I think for 1118 01:20:42.600 --> 01:20:45.399 a lot of our plants, and I've seen this on crape myrtles quite a 1119 01:20:45.479 --> 01:20:51.279 bit, there's just so much stress from this summer that they started dropping a 1120 01:20:51.319 --> 01:20:55.920 little bit earlier, and so you don't want to invigorate them to try to 1121 01:20:55.960 --> 01:21:00.119 put new growth on because you know a freeze is coming and tender sucond on 1122 01:21:00.239 --> 01:21:02.920 growth. That's not a good combo. So I would I would just let 1123 01:21:03.000 --> 01:21:06.880 them go ahead and do what they're doing. Make sure the soil is adequately 1124 01:21:06.960 --> 01:21:10.880 moist, which it should be with the rains we've had in the temperature, 1125 01:21:10.880 --> 01:21:13.880 and once the leaves drop off, they're not going to need They're not gonna 1126 01:21:13.880 --> 01:21:18.039 be using much water anyway. But do that when if you want to do 1127 01:21:18.279 --> 01:21:23.479 some fertilization in the winter time, you can just to get the nutrients down 1128 01:21:23.560 --> 01:21:27.279 in the soil. If it were mine, I think i'd wait until spring 1129 01:21:27.439 --> 01:21:30.319 when they're starting some new growth and get a fertilizer on them at that time 1130 01:21:30.800 --> 01:21:35.000 to support the new growth. Okay, yeah, I just got a little 1131 01:21:35.000 --> 01:21:40.560 work because next little neighbor has too, and here's a still green green, 1132 01:21:40.760 --> 01:21:44.239 much greener than mine. Mine just looked like that. He hit this this 1133 01:21:44.479 --> 01:21:46.760 brown and stage a little early to me. So that's why I wanted to 1134 01:21:46.800 --> 01:21:50.720 ask you a questions they have and we've seen that quite a bit around town. 1135 01:21:50.880 --> 01:21:55.279 So it's just, you know, it's just not a problem what we're 1136 01:21:55.319 --> 01:21:58.520 dealing with a way, that's true. All right, Well, you take 1137 01:21:58.600 --> 01:22:02.760 care, enjoy those those great myrtles. Myrtles are a unique plant. They 1138 01:22:03.600 --> 01:22:08.880 bloom for about three months during the about ninety days of blooming, and that 1139 01:22:09.039 --> 01:22:13.439 varies with varieties, but really outstanding. Get them in all sizes, Get 1140 01:22:13.479 --> 01:22:16.800 them in all colors. You know, there's the typical red and pink and 1141 01:22:16.960 --> 01:22:21.239 white, and there's even lavender colors out there that are just beautiful, some 1142 01:22:21.479 --> 01:22:26.600 very deep red colors. The crammurtles are really versatile plant. They call it 1143 01:22:26.720 --> 01:22:30.439 the lilac of the South, and that's basically because we can't grow lilacs in 1144 01:22:30.520 --> 01:22:33.439 the South. But I jokingly say, if you miss your lilacs, buy 1145 01:22:33.520 --> 01:22:36.319 some perfume and a crape myrtle and squirt the bush with it and there you 1146 01:22:36.439 --> 01:22:41.680 go. That's about as closest we can get to it down here. But 1147 01:22:41.840 --> 01:22:45.520 it is a very nice, versatile plant. Lots of lots of advantages to 1148 01:22:45.680 --> 01:22:53.600 it. I was, I'm always checking in on our local mom and pop 1149 01:22:53.720 --> 01:22:56.520 garden centers and what do they have, and what's going on there, what's 1150 01:22:56.560 --> 01:23:00.800 happening And in tended Forest, it's just a it's a wonderful place. If 1151 01:23:00.800 --> 01:23:03.000 you haven't been there. It's on FM twenty seven fifty nine in Richmond, 1152 01:23:03.079 --> 01:23:06.560 So if you're en Richmond heading up towards sugar Land direction on fifty nine, 1153 01:23:06.640 --> 01:23:12.640 it's off to the right FM twenty seven fifty nine And when you drive out 1154 01:23:12.720 --> 01:23:15.720 there, you just drive up and it's like you've entered another little world. 1155 01:23:15.880 --> 01:23:19.000 I mean, I love the buildings. It's weird to talk about nursing until 1156 01:23:19.000 --> 01:23:21.479 you like the buildings, but I really do. They just put in a 1157 01:23:21.640 --> 01:23:27.039 new herb area, They put in a new vegetable area. By the way, 1158 01:23:27.079 --> 01:23:31.119 their succulent house is restocked. That's that hut that they grow in. 1159 01:23:31.319 --> 01:23:34.920 Oh my gosh. They have a wide variety of succulents, and succulents are 1160 01:23:34.960 --> 01:23:38.760 really popular now. You know, you go through a summer like we just 1161 01:23:38.880 --> 01:23:44.119 did, and suddenly succulents start looking even better because they're so darn tough when 1162 01:23:44.199 --> 01:23:46.600 it comes to heat and drought. But they've got those and they've got all 1163 01:23:46.720 --> 01:23:49.800 kinds of cool season color. I know, the cyclomene are in out there. 1164 01:23:49.840 --> 01:23:54.439 A lot of other good things are in out there. I just wanted 1165 01:23:54.800 --> 01:24:00.800 to also mention they have orchids, a lot of beautiful orchids in the restock. 1166 01:24:00.880 --> 01:24:02.800 And you know orchids. People think of orchids as something that's hard to 1167 01:24:02.840 --> 01:24:08.479 grow, but what the kind you typically find now in a garden center is 1168 01:24:08.520 --> 01:24:12.479 going to be the moth orchid, and those are easy to grow. They're 1169 01:24:12.600 --> 01:24:17.760 very easy to grow. And if you will give them some humidity and some 1170 01:24:17.960 --> 01:24:23.640 bright light but not direct sun, and don't over water them, and they're 1171 01:24:23.800 --> 01:24:28.000 potted up in a way to make overwatering hard to do, they will just 1172 01:24:28.079 --> 01:24:30.199 do well. I've got some that bloom year after year, and I got 1173 01:24:30.319 --> 01:24:33.680 to admit it, I neglect those things more than I should. But you 1174 01:24:33.800 --> 01:24:38.079 got to go check out the orchids that they have out and enchanted for us. 1175 01:24:38.119 --> 01:24:40.880 And of course when you're out there, lots of cool color, lots 1176 01:24:40.920 --> 01:24:44.199 of ornamentals, lots of woody shrubs and trees and vines and all kinds of 1177 01:24:44.279 --> 01:24:46.840 other things. Of course, if you need mums and decorations, they've got 1178 01:24:46.920 --> 01:24:50.439 that. It's pretty much everything you need enchanted for us, as simple as 1179 01:24:50.479 --> 01:24:55.800 that. Hey, the phone number is two eight one three excuse me, 1180 01:24:56.000 --> 01:25:01.439 nine to three seven ninety nine to eight one three seven ninety four forty nine. 1181 01:25:02.880 --> 01:25:05.359 Our phone number here if you'd like to give us a call. A 1182 01:25:05.479 --> 01:25:13.000 garden Line is seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four seven one 1183 01:25:13.119 --> 01:25:19.520 three two one two fifty eight seventy four. Uh. Microlife Fertilizers, Well, 1184 01:25:19.760 --> 01:25:24.239 the folks at Microlife have put together a really nice combination of products, 1185 01:25:24.279 --> 01:25:27.159 and I want to come back and talk to you when we get back from 1186 01:25:27.199 --> 01:25:33.359 break here about a blue plus blue product combination that I think is really really 1187 01:25:33.479 --> 01:25:36.640 cool from the folks at Microlife. Right now, we're going to take that 1188 01:25:36.760 --> 01:25:42.960 break and we'll be right back. Halloween music there. Hey, you're listening 1189 01:25:43.000 --> 01:25:45.720 to garden Line. I'm your host, Skip Richter, and we are here 1190 01:25:45.800 --> 01:25:49.840 to answer your gardening questions at seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy 1191 01:25:50.039 --> 01:25:55.439 four. Before I went to break, I talked about the Microlife Blue plus 1192 01:25:55.520 --> 01:25:58.000 Blue. I don't know if that's what they call it. That's what I 1193 01:25:58.119 --> 01:26:01.319 call it. It is the microL Life Ultimate, the eight four six organic 1194 01:26:01.359 --> 01:26:08.279 fertilizer. That's a blue bag and it is a It's just a quality mix. 1195 01:26:08.399 --> 01:26:12.439 It's got a good concentration of nutrients. So when you're when you're planting 1196 01:26:12.479 --> 01:26:15.640 a plant, you want to put some of this in the soil around the 1197 01:26:15.680 --> 01:26:17.520 plant. You can do that because Microlife fertilizers are not going to burn your 1198 01:26:17.520 --> 01:26:20.760 plants. They're not a salt based fertilizer. Normally I say, don't throw 1199 01:26:20.800 --> 01:26:24.319 fertilizer in the planting hole, but this will be an exception to that, 1200 01:26:24.680 --> 01:26:27.560 and I wouldn't throw it in the planting hole. I would mix it in 1201 01:26:27.760 --> 01:26:30.960 the backfield as you put it back in. They also have the Microlife Ocean 1202 01:26:31.039 --> 01:26:36.760 Harvest. That's a second blue that is a liquid sea food fish based product 1203 01:26:38.239 --> 01:26:41.520 that you can use to water plants in. You can use it as a 1204 01:26:41.680 --> 01:26:45.239 foliar feed if you would like to do that, or you can mix it 1205 01:26:45.359 --> 01:26:47.279 up and use it to water your plants in. So if you're trying to 1206 01:26:47.279 --> 01:26:50.439 put in a new tree, shrub or other plant, this is be a 1207 01:26:50.520 --> 01:26:55.640 good combination for that. Again from the folks at Microlife. Now you can 1208 01:26:55.720 --> 01:27:01.119 go to Microlifefertilizers dot com and learn about these products and learn about other products 1209 01:27:01.159 --> 01:27:03.840 that they have, and most importantly, where can you get them? And 1210 01:27:03.920 --> 01:27:08.359 I can just tell you this, I'll give you a shortcut everywhere. They're 1211 01:27:08.359 --> 01:27:12.520 pretty much pretty much everywhere that we have out there. Well, let's go 1212 01:27:12.680 --> 01:27:15.119 back to the phones now. We're going to go to Bake Cliff and talk 1213 01:27:15.159 --> 01:27:19.920 to Joan. Hello, Joan, good morning, Good morning. I have 1214 01:27:20.600 --> 01:27:27.239 recently purchased an avocata three, my first I have no experience with him, 1215 01:27:27.680 --> 01:27:31.199 and I didn't know if I should put it in the ground this fall or 1216 01:27:31.760 --> 01:27:38.319 if I should put it in a big pot and wait for spring. I 1217 01:27:38.359 --> 01:27:42.000 would put it in a pot and wait for spring. And here's why avocados 1218 01:27:42.079 --> 01:27:45.880 are marginal lee hardy. Here. You may go through years without any freeze 1219 01:27:46.000 --> 01:27:49.239 significant freeze damage, or we may have a year that kills them way back 1220 01:27:49.279 --> 01:27:54.800 and they kind of base the resprout back out again. So we don't know 1221 01:27:54.880 --> 01:27:58.119 what kind of winter we're going to have for sure. So since you're asking, 1222 01:27:58.279 --> 01:28:00.720 if you were asking this question back in this summer, i'd say put 1223 01:28:00.720 --> 01:28:03.079 it in the ground. But if now that you're asking it at this point, 1224 01:28:03.159 --> 01:28:05.920 I would hold on to it and just make sure it's okay, get 1225 01:28:05.960 --> 01:28:10.000 it, leave it outside as much as you can to get to get good 1226 01:28:10.079 --> 01:28:14.079 sunlight. But just move it in when we're going to drop down below freezing, 1227 01:28:14.520 --> 01:28:16.119 just to be extra careful with it, and then get it back out 1228 01:28:16.199 --> 01:28:19.239 when we passed the last frostrate and spring, get it out in the ground, 1229 01:28:19.319 --> 01:28:23.600 get it going. Okay, That's what I needed to hear. Thank 1230 01:28:23.640 --> 01:28:27.479 you you, bet Jo, good day you too. Thank you very much 1231 01:28:27.840 --> 01:28:30.000 for that call. Let's see. We are now going to go to talk 1232 01:28:30.079 --> 01:28:40.119 to Don in Cyprus. Hello Don, Hello Skip. I've got a couple 1233 01:28:40.199 --> 01:28:44.760 of fruit trees that are in ten gallon pots that I put put in just 1234 01:28:45.039 --> 01:28:47.359 in the fall this year, okay. And then I have a number of 1235 01:28:48.439 --> 01:28:55.199 they were new sprouted live oak trees that I have in like two or three 1236 01:28:55.279 --> 01:28:59.760 gallon pots okay, And I'm curious how hardy they are. And when I 1237 01:29:00.199 --> 01:29:02.199 maybe think to bring them in, I know it's getting down into the mid 1238 01:29:02.359 --> 01:29:09.680 thirties this week. Yeah, the the potted you said, live oak, 1239 01:29:09.880 --> 01:29:12.600 right, was one of them. Yes, the live oaks are going to 1240 01:29:12.640 --> 01:29:15.800 be plenty hardy. Anytime you have a plant in the container, that container 1241 01:29:16.000 --> 01:29:20.800 soil can get much much colder than the soil in the ground because it's exposed 1242 01:29:20.800 --> 01:29:27.760 to air on three sides or for size, and so I would maybe put 1243 01:29:27.800 --> 01:29:30.520 it up against the house or something like that, just a little bit of 1244 01:29:30.560 --> 01:29:32.720 a protected spot. But they'll be okay. Now the fruit tree. What 1245 01:29:32.880 --> 01:29:38.920 kind of fruit trees you got in pots? One is blood orange I think 1246 01:29:39.000 --> 01:29:44.359 it is okay, and the other is a grapefruit. Oh okay, Well, 1247 01:29:44.439 --> 01:29:48.399 ten gallons is a good starting sized pot. But you're gonna need to 1248 01:29:48.439 --> 01:29:53.159 bump those up here in time so they keep growing, especially that grapefruit that 1249 01:29:53.319 --> 01:29:57.399 is a very large type of citrus tree, and so keeping it in a 1250 01:29:57.479 --> 01:30:00.319 really small pots a little bit of a challenge till I go from a ten 1251 01:30:00.359 --> 01:30:04.279 to a twenty in the fall. You could, Yeah, I want to 1252 01:30:04.319 --> 01:30:09.159 keep them in pots. Yeah, well that would be it if you can 1253 01:30:09.239 --> 01:30:12.439 do that. You know, the equivalent of a half whiskey barrel kind of 1254 01:30:12.520 --> 01:30:16.720 size is pretty good. I've never tried growing a grapefruit and that size of 1255 01:30:16.760 --> 01:30:21.800 pot. I know we have smaller cetrus like satsuma, oranges, kumquats, 1256 01:30:21.880 --> 01:30:27.000 or smaller the mere lemon and the limes we grow in smaller pots. But 1257 01:30:27.159 --> 01:30:30.279 just kind of watch them and see how they're doing. Here's the big big 1258 01:30:30.399 --> 01:30:34.319 thing. When we get to hot summer weather. If that tree is trying 1259 01:30:34.359 --> 01:30:36.439 to be a big tree in a little pot, it's going to dry it 1260 01:30:36.600 --> 01:30:40.600 really fast, and so you're going to have to watch to make sure it 1261 01:30:40.680 --> 01:30:44.600 doesn't go into drought stress. And I can't tay how off into water because 1262 01:30:44.640 --> 01:30:47.279 it depends on what I was watering them almost every day, every day or 1263 01:30:47.359 --> 01:30:51.680 every other day during the heat of our drought. Well that it came both 1264 01:30:51.720 --> 01:30:55.840 of them came through real Well, yeah, that's probably going to be necessary. 1265 01:30:56.159 --> 01:30:59.720 But yeah, I would bring the I would bring the citrus if you 1266 01:30:59.760 --> 01:31:01.279 could put it in a place where you could roll it into the garage. 1267 01:31:01.920 --> 01:31:04.640 Anytime it's going to drop down below freezing, I would just do that. 1268 01:31:05.359 --> 01:31:09.159 Uh, they're going to be a little heartier than that, but not much, 1269 01:31:09.359 --> 01:31:15.079 and so uh don't what degree below freezing. I'd bring the citrus into 1270 01:31:15.119 --> 01:31:17.079 the garage just to be And then one other quick question. I have a 1271 01:31:17.720 --> 01:31:24.439 pecan tree that that fruited for the first time this year and just a little 1272 01:31:24.720 --> 01:31:29.079 just a few pecans really, but what should there should I add zinc? 1273 01:31:29.279 --> 01:31:32.920 Is it zinc to that? In high pH soils, Zinc is helpful. 1274 01:31:33.439 --> 01:31:39.359 But you'll know you need zinc because the leaves instead of getting full sized and 1275 01:31:39.479 --> 01:31:42.359 they look like a pecan leaf. You know, pecan leaf looks like a 1276 01:31:42.479 --> 01:31:47.159 spear. They'll be they call a mouse eared. They're like stunted and a 1277 01:31:47.199 --> 01:31:50.920 little more round it at the tip. That's a sign of a zinc deficiency. 1278 01:31:51.399 --> 01:31:55.279 You may not have a zinc problem in your soil, and you may 1279 01:31:55.359 --> 01:31:59.600 not. It looks beautiful. I would leave it alone. Zinc is a 1280 01:31:59.640 --> 01:32:02.079 whole the thing to deal with, and if you don't have to, I 1281 01:32:02.119 --> 01:32:05.960 wouldn't just add it just because it's a pecan tree. I've just been putting. 1282 01:32:06.119 --> 01:32:11.119 You know what's on my grass? I pretty much follow pretty close to 1283 01:32:11.600 --> 01:32:15.119 your plan. Look for the grass and of course the tree is in it. 1284 01:32:15.279 --> 01:32:18.159 So yeah, I use I used her fertilizer on my fruit trees, 1285 01:32:18.399 --> 01:32:24.000 pecan trees especially. I've done that too. It's fine. To do. 1286 01:32:24.159 --> 01:32:27.479 I mean, we have specially fertilizers and they're fine. I mean, if 1287 01:32:27.479 --> 01:32:30.279 you got them, use them. If you see them. It's right now 1288 01:32:30.359 --> 01:32:33.439 a good time to add a couple of more fruit trees, it is. 1289 01:32:33.600 --> 01:32:38.560 I like to buy them in like a three gallon pot and then transplant them. 1290 01:32:38.680 --> 01:32:41.800 Yeah, that'd be a good time to do that all the way through 1291 01:32:41.840 --> 01:32:44.760 them. In fact, you know, fruit trees you can plan any time 1292 01:32:44.800 --> 01:32:46.880 of the year if they're a container grown, but now's the best time. 1293 01:32:47.880 --> 01:32:51.359 And with bear root trees, if you buy bear root trees, we typically 1294 01:32:51.479 --> 01:32:55.479 get those in the dead of winter and try to get them in the ground 1295 01:32:55.680 --> 01:33:00.279 in January before you know who has a lot of the like smaller three allen 1296 01:33:00.520 --> 01:33:06.000 free. I also might have some trimming questions for for whoever I go to 1297 01:33:06.399 --> 01:33:12.239 Webre. You're up in Cyprus, so plants for all seasons, and arbor 1298 01:33:12.359 --> 01:33:15.640 Gate and RCW all three are pretty close to you, and they all carry 1299 01:33:15.760 --> 01:33:20.600 fruit trees and they can all guide you on the proper way to handle whatever 1300 01:33:20.680 --> 01:33:26.800 you're purchasing. Awesome, thank you, sir. Yeah, you're lucky up 1301 01:33:26.840 --> 01:33:30.439 there. By the way, you are loaded with really outstanding garden center. 1302 01:33:30.560 --> 01:33:34.560 So that you're fortunate. Oh yeah, yeah, the plants for all seasons 1303 01:33:34.600 --> 01:33:38.840 I've gone to for thirty years or so. All right, there you go. 1304 01:33:38.960 --> 01:33:41.720 Well, hey, thank you for the call. I appreciate that very 1305 01:33:41.800 --> 01:33:45.520 much, and good luck with your fruit trees. Talking about about trees and 1306 01:33:45.600 --> 01:33:49.560 planting. Anytime that you're going to put in a woody ornamental when you buy 1307 01:33:49.600 --> 01:33:53.439 it, just go ahead and get a tree hug or sprinkler. Because here's 1308 01:33:53.479 --> 01:33:56.760 the deal. Now, I say woody ornamentally, I include fruit trees in 1309 01:33:56.840 --> 01:34:00.880 that as well. Any woody plant. As that tree gets established, you 1310 01:34:00.960 --> 01:34:03.239 need to water it right at the base because that's where the roots are early 1311 01:34:03.399 --> 01:34:08.840 on. But then you want to expand that watering area as the plant grows 1312 01:34:09.000 --> 01:34:12.640 and as we get into really hot summer weather. And a tree hugger goes 1313 01:34:12.680 --> 01:34:15.159 around the tree, hooks to a hose. You turn it on depending on 1314 01:34:15.279 --> 01:34:18.920 how high you have it turned on. The little valve there at the base 1315 01:34:19.000 --> 01:34:24.640 of it. You can water a large area if you want, and it 1316 01:34:24.800 --> 01:34:28.880 will water that area under the tree canopy and just beyond that, and that's 1317 01:34:28.960 --> 01:34:31.640 the area where you need to focus. Once your tree has become established, 1318 01:34:31.680 --> 01:34:35.359 Now you can go to tree Hugger Sprinkler dot com find out more information about 1319 01:34:35.399 --> 01:34:40.399 them. They're available in most of our garden centers, ace hardware stores, 1320 01:34:40.520 --> 01:34:43.199 feed stores. You're going to find treehre in a lot of places. Just 1321 01:34:43.279 --> 01:34:45.560 go to tree Hugger Sprinkler dot com and you can find what you're looking for. 1322 01:34:46.039 --> 01:34:49.439 Let's head to Alvin and talk to Larry. Now, Hello, Larry, 1323 01:34:50.680 --> 01:34:55.439 how you doing well? I'm doing well? What's up? Well? 1324 01:34:55.560 --> 01:35:00.439 I've got a problem with aay is I put on the front of a house 1325 01:35:00.520 --> 01:35:02.840 to make it like a hedgerow? Yes, sir, but even with the 1326 01:35:02.920 --> 01:35:05.960 water in a sprinker system, they didn't make it very good to the heat. 1327 01:35:06.159 --> 01:35:10.119 Okay, Well, I'm wondering what I'm wondering. What a good plant 1328 01:35:10.159 --> 01:35:13.520 to make a hedge out of along the front of the house would be. 1329 01:35:13.720 --> 01:35:17.520 For Texas weather, what's the amount of sunlight that you get there morning sun 1330 01:35:17.760 --> 01:35:24.479 and no after doing sun? Okay, A good one would be Laura pedlum 1331 01:35:24.680 --> 01:35:28.880 Chinese witch hazel. It's got burgundy colored foliage. When the new growth comes 1332 01:35:28.920 --> 01:35:30.520 out, get some cool weather on it. It has a burgundy color. 1333 01:35:30.920 --> 01:35:36.680 In the spring, it's got beautiful shaggy, little strappy pink hot pink petals 1334 01:35:38.359 --> 01:35:41.720 that are really pretty. Just when you buy one, read the label. 1335 01:35:41.800 --> 01:35:45.439 How big does it get? The old type could get fifteen feet high or 1336 01:35:45.520 --> 01:35:49.199 more, and they grew eventually into almost a little well, into a little 1337 01:35:49.239 --> 01:35:53.760 tree. Some of the new ones are more dwarf. So pick one that's 1338 01:35:53.880 --> 01:35:56.159 going to get about the size you want it to be, and as you 1339 01:35:56.319 --> 01:35:58.840 keep it hedged, it will be beautiful. You don't even have to keep 1340 01:35:58.840 --> 01:36:00.359 it hedged if you don't want to. That that sounded like what you were 1341 01:36:00.439 --> 01:36:04.279 looking for. I want to make the hedges about twenty foot wide across the 1342 01:36:04.359 --> 01:36:09.199 house. Would that work there? Oh? Yeah, yeah, you ft 1343 01:36:09.279 --> 01:36:12.000 them about whatever? Diches Oh no, no, no, no, no, 1344 01:36:12.239 --> 01:36:15.359 not near that wide. So here's here's a general tip for hedges. 1345 01:36:16.079 --> 01:36:18.880 If you look at a plant, and I'm going to make up a number, 1346 01:36:18.960 --> 01:36:24.760 let's just say you buy a Chinese witch angel that's going to be four 1347 01:36:24.880 --> 01:36:29.479 feet or five feet wide, then you want to plant it about two thirds 1348 01:36:30.079 --> 01:36:32.439 that far apart. So if it was four feet, you know, you 1349 01:36:32.520 --> 01:36:36.600 may look at a little over a little under three feet or something, and 1350 01:36:36.760 --> 01:36:41.880 that way it forms a hedge. The closer you get, the more plants 1351 01:36:41.880 --> 01:36:45.199 you're purchasing, and at some point you don't need to buy that many plants. 1352 01:36:45.239 --> 01:36:46.239 But if you put them too far apart, you have to wait forever 1353 01:36:46.399 --> 01:36:49.840 for them to reach each other and break ahead. But two thirds is a 1354 01:36:49.880 --> 01:36:56.880 pretty good rule of thumb if you're putting in a hedgerow of anything. Okay, 1355 01:36:57.439 --> 01:37:02.600 my second question is I down the microlife the purple back stuff about two 1356 01:37:02.640 --> 01:37:08.880 months ago when I followed up with that brown bag for brown Patch, big 1357 01:37:09.000 --> 01:37:13.319 bag and my yard. I've always been by the I always go by the 1358 01:37:13.399 --> 01:37:15.920 radio limit schedule. But I'm starting to get some pale yellow in it. 1359 01:37:16.680 --> 01:37:20.680 Okay, hard to put in a street green down now? Or is it 1360 01:37:20.720 --> 01:37:24.279 too much time? No? No, no, don't do nitrogen now. 1361 01:37:24.680 --> 01:37:28.439 Don't do the extra nitrogen now. That could be a number of things. 1362 01:37:28.479 --> 01:37:30.880 It could be a little bit of a root problem going on. It could 1363 01:37:30.920 --> 01:37:34.239 be a droughty issue. Lots of different stresses can cause that. But it's 1364 01:37:34.319 --> 01:37:38.439 not a fertilizer thing that you need to deal with. If you're seeing a 1365 01:37:38.479 --> 01:37:43.000 little bit of yellowing on the grass right now, just it's probably a lack 1366 01:37:43.039 --> 01:37:45.000 of roots. It could be from take all root rot. You could try 1367 01:37:45.039 --> 01:37:49.279 a little bit of an iron application if you wanted. If it's an iron 1368 01:37:49.319 --> 01:37:54.680 efficiency causing the yellowing, that would help that. Okay, well how about 1369 01:37:54.720 --> 01:37:57.720 some asia bite You could do that, but that's not going to have that 1370 01:37:57.800 --> 01:38:01.680 particular nutrient at a high enough level to treat for the yellowing itself. Hey, 1371 01:38:01.720 --> 01:38:06.600 I've got I've got to go to our mid hour break. But if 1372 01:38:06.600 --> 01:38:10.680 you quick quick question, well hang on and when we come back from a 1373 01:38:10.800 --> 01:38:14.000 break, I'll be glad to take it on and see how we can help. 1374 01:38:14.479 --> 01:38:16.680 We are heading to break. Here's Nikki our number seven one three two 1375 01:38:16.760 --> 01:38:21.039 one two k t RH. Teach your kids how to chant that when they're 1376 01:38:21.079 --> 01:38:26.920 walking down the street for Halloween. Hey, you're listening to gardenline seven one 1377 01:38:27.000 --> 01:38:30.159 three two one two five eight seven four is our number. 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We're going to go back out to Larry 1395 01:39:45.920 --> 01:39:47.880 now, Larry, I think you had some other question to go with your 1396 01:39:48.279 --> 01:39:51.600 shrub question, Yes, sir, I did. I would like to know 1397 01:39:51.840 --> 01:39:57.880 where I could go with one of those sponsored nurseries on garden Line to pick 1398 01:39:57.960 --> 01:40:02.399 up these Laura pedlums where there's a year down in Alvin. You're a little 1399 01:40:02.399 --> 01:40:09.600 bit of a distance out there, I think probably, And i'd have to 1400 01:40:09.680 --> 01:40:12.399 get the map out here and kind of look at at distances from you. 1401 01:40:12.760 --> 01:40:17.479 I think some of the enchanted folks out toward Richmond Way might be one that 1402 01:40:17.760 --> 01:40:20.880 is not super super close, but it's not too too darn far either, 1403 01:40:20.920 --> 01:40:25.000 and it's well worth the trip. You might want to try one of those. 1404 01:40:25.920 --> 01:40:29.399 Now, you know here in Houston we got good nurseries all different directions, 1405 01:40:29.560 --> 01:40:33.680 so uh, you're going to not have trouble finding Laura pedlums in different 1406 01:40:33.760 --> 01:40:39.520 sizes. Okay, So the iron, I'll get the iron at the A's 1407 01:40:39.520 --> 01:40:42.359 hard Worth to treat the lawn. Yes, and then I'll either go to 1408 01:40:42.520 --> 01:40:45.520 mass or I'll go to Cannon, I guess to see what they got for 1409 01:40:45.600 --> 01:40:47.800 shrubs. So is it the right time of year to plant those war pedals? 1410 01:40:47.880 --> 01:40:53.479 Absolutely? Best time of the year to plan any What do you and 1411 01:40:53.479 --> 01:40:56.399 in the past always usual roads soil, What do you suggest to put around 1412 01:40:56.479 --> 01:40:59.600 them? Roussel is fine. I would mix it into the ground that you 1413 01:40:59.760 --> 01:41:01.960 have and then dig the hole in plant. I would go about and do 1414 01:41:02.079 --> 01:41:05.439 it that way, But it's an excellent mix for a lot of things. 1415 01:41:05.600 --> 01:41:11.960 Especially the lower pedlums would be especially well adapted to that. Okay, and 1416 01:41:12.079 --> 01:41:15.439 then you would you say Pansy's is a good flowering plant to put in for 1417 01:41:15.600 --> 01:41:17.840 the cool season. Pansy is an excellent one. It's one of the most 1418 01:41:17.960 --> 01:41:23.119 cold hardy. I like Viola's a little better than Pansy's. The flower is 1419 01:41:23.199 --> 01:41:27.880 smaller, but you have more flowers. And after a rainstorm sometimes pansies can 1420 01:41:27.920 --> 01:41:30.399 get a little beat up. But the violas just seem to hold up a 1421 01:41:30.439 --> 01:41:35.640 little bit better. But both of them are outstanding. I'm not dissing January 1422 01:41:35.720 --> 01:41:40.319 in February. Oh yeah, yeah, they if it's cold, they're happy. 1423 01:41:42.359 --> 01:41:45.159 Okay, Well you've answered my questions, all right, Larry, good 1424 01:41:45.239 --> 01:41:48.199 luck, get out there and enjoy that, have a very very good time 1425 01:41:48.319 --> 01:41:51.720 doing it. Where are we going from here? Let's see, we're going 1426 01:41:51.800 --> 01:41:57.119 to go to Rebecca in Sharpstown. Hello, Rebecca, Hey, Skip. 1427 01:41:58.079 --> 01:42:03.920 I had three trees lost, all three to the ganoderma. Yes, okay, 1428 01:42:04.079 --> 01:42:09.479 the arbor has told me we can replant another tree because we need shade. 1429 01:42:09.800 --> 01:42:15.840 Yes, but how far from the trunk or the hole of where the 1430 01:42:15.119 --> 01:42:18.520 three trees were how far away? Because he said, don't put it back 1431 01:42:18.600 --> 01:42:23.640 in the same hole. Well, that's yeah, And that's not so much 1432 01:42:23.680 --> 01:42:28.039 because of ganoderma. That's because just when you you've had a tree that's growing 1433 01:42:28.079 --> 01:42:30.560 and you got all this essentially wood in the soil, it's kind of hard 1434 01:42:30.920 --> 01:42:34.840 to get good soil mixed to go right up around the new tree. So 1435 01:42:35.039 --> 01:42:38.880 just move over enough to where you don't have wood in the way, basically 1436 01:42:39.319 --> 01:42:42.439 is what that amounts to. So you are you talking like maybe two or 1437 01:42:42.479 --> 01:42:45.640 three feet from the base. Yeah, if you know, if it was 1438 01:42:45.720 --> 01:42:49.439 a giant, if it was a giant, giant becomes yeah, yeah, 1439 01:42:49.479 --> 01:42:54.279 because if it was a large one, you're gonna have big roots out several 1440 01:42:54.359 --> 01:42:59.000 feet, so that becomes a problem digging a hole. Yeah, okay, 1441 01:42:59.319 --> 01:43:01.520 okay, okay, that's what I needed to know. Thank you very much. 1442 01:43:01.640 --> 01:43:05.279 All right, thank you. I appreciate appreciate that call very much. 1443 01:43:06.279 --> 01:43:11.560 Let's see remote a Rob. But Rob has disappeared, so let's go to 1444 01:43:11.840 --> 01:43:15.479 Greg in Kingwood. Hey, Greg, how can we help? I skipped 1445 01:43:16.439 --> 01:43:20.319 part my front lawn up this summer. Water's too expensive to water it's so 1446 01:43:21.159 --> 01:43:26.000 it's crunchy and brown now, and I think I got clay in that soil. 1447 01:43:26.920 --> 01:43:30.479 Get any ideas for bringing that back? I think it's Sant Augustine. 1448 01:43:30.760 --> 01:43:33.239 Okay, well, and its Yeah. If you get out on your hands 1449 01:43:33.279 --> 01:43:39.199 and knees and the runners themselves are brown, then it's dead. Saint Augustine 1450 01:43:39.239 --> 01:43:44.239 doesn't live below ground. It's all above ground. There's no rhizomes underneath the 1451 01:43:44.239 --> 01:43:47.239 ground, like with Bermuda and Zoezia. So if it's dead then you just 1452 01:43:47.359 --> 01:43:51.560 have to pull the debris out of there and reside that area. It's a 1453 01:43:51.640 --> 01:43:57.319 little late in the season to reside, you can, but root growth is 1454 01:43:57.399 --> 01:44:00.319 going to slow down a lot here on Saint Augustine's, so we're at my 1455 01:44:00.479 --> 01:44:04.000 yard. I'd probably wait and let the spring growth start up and then do 1456 01:44:04.119 --> 01:44:09.680 the sodding. Then okay, great, yeah, all right. If the 1457 01:44:09.760 --> 01:44:12.720 roots are brown, it's dead. It's no good. You're gonna have to 1458 01:44:12.760 --> 01:44:15.079 pull up and reside in the spring. If the runners, well, yeah, 1459 01:44:15.119 --> 01:44:18.159 the runners are crawl along the top of the ground on Saint Augustine. 1460 01:44:18.239 --> 01:44:21.840 Yes, if that's brown, it's a goner. All right. Sorry, 1461 01:44:21.880 --> 01:44:25.960 you ahead, your sorry you did that? Had that happen to your lawn. 1462 01:44:26.039 --> 01:44:28.880 I know a lot of people can feel your pain on that one for 1463 01:44:29.000 --> 01:44:32.760 sure. Uh. You know when we talk about quality and good soils and 1464 01:44:32.880 --> 01:44:38.199 things that will help enhance the soil, uh, Nature's Way has that all 1465 01:44:38.279 --> 01:44:41.800 of that. I mean they were a leader for a long long time historically 1466 01:44:41.880 --> 01:44:46.000 a leader in the quality soil components. They know how to make composts. 1467 01:44:46.039 --> 01:44:50.199 They have a wide range of compost options. Every Friday is Fungal Friday. 1468 01:44:50.279 --> 01:44:55.479 Fungal based compost products ten percent off bags, twenty percent off bulk, and 1469 01:44:55.600 --> 01:44:59.119 they have plenty of it there. They have rose soil, they have leaf 1470 01:44:59.199 --> 01:45:01.720 mole composts, they know how to make those. And they also while you're 1471 01:45:01.760 --> 01:45:05.479 out there, they've got a nice little native plant nursery and not just natives, 1472 01:45:05.560 --> 01:45:11.079 but includes natives out in their property. Now that's if you go north 1473 01:45:11.119 --> 01:45:15.840 on thirty or forty five, when you get to where fourteen eighty eighty eight 1474 01:45:15.960 --> 01:45:19.159 comes in, just turn right, go across the railroad tracks, you'll be 1475 01:45:19.199 --> 01:45:25.720 at Nature's Way. Here's a phone number nine three six three two one sixty 1476 01:45:26.079 --> 01:45:29.960 nine ninety. Let them set you up with a quality product, because remember 1477 01:45:30.039 --> 01:45:33.239 brown stuff before green stuff. All right, Now we are going to head 1478 01:45:33.279 --> 01:45:39.760 out to Marty in Fairfield. Hello, Marty, morning Skitnie. Hey, 1479 01:45:39.960 --> 01:45:45.479 I heard you say something earlier about pulling some tomatoes in with the cold weather 1480 01:45:45.560 --> 01:45:54.840 coming. But I also have squash and eggplants and green tomatoes and miscellaneous peppers 1481 01:45:54.880 --> 01:45:57.960 and stuff. But do I have to bring all of that in? Well, 1482 01:45:58.359 --> 01:46:00.640 if it's going to freeze, it'll it'll damage all of those. But 1483 01:46:00.920 --> 01:46:04.760 if we're just talking about you know it's getting cool, they're not moving fast 1484 01:46:04.840 --> 01:46:10.199 enough. They none of those will ripen indoors. They are what they are 1485 01:46:10.279 --> 01:46:14.159 when you harvest them. So you can eat squash from the time the bloom 1486 01:46:14.239 --> 01:46:17.159 falls off all the way up until it gets big, so there's no ripening 1487 01:46:17.239 --> 01:46:19.880 of the squash to worry about. And pepper's the same way. You can 1488 01:46:19.960 --> 01:46:24.359 eat green peppers or you can let them turn red at this point in the 1489 01:46:24.439 --> 01:46:28.479 season, unless it's going to get cold enough to do damage to them at 1490 01:46:28.520 --> 01:46:32.039 your location, I would just leave them out there. Yeah. No, 1491 01:46:32.199 --> 01:46:36.119 it's supposed to be the lowest as I saw was like thirty eight. Okay, 1492 01:46:36.199 --> 01:46:39.720 they should be, Okay. I wouldn't planning on bringing anything in, 1493 01:46:39.880 --> 01:46:43.439 not even my tomatoes. All right, Well, at thirty eight. You 1494 01:46:43.479 --> 01:46:45.239 can leave them. They'll probably be okay. But if we get some fraud 1495 01:46:45.239 --> 01:46:49.640 they're getting close to frostable temperatures there, then you might have some problems. 1496 01:46:49.680 --> 01:46:53.359 But hey Martin, I got to run, got to run. Do an 1497 01:46:53.359 --> 01:46:57.199 app Thank you for the call. I appreciate that very much. Our number 1498 01:46:57.319 --> 01:47:00.680 is seven one three two one two fifty eight. Give Josh a call. 1499 01:47:00.760 --> 01:47:03.359 We'll get you on the board stand. You'll be first when we come back. 1500 01:47:04.119 --> 01:47:08.760 Well, good morning. You're listening to garden Line and we are having 1501 01:47:08.760 --> 01:47:11.960 a good time talking about all kinds of things that are going on out in 1502 01:47:12.199 --> 01:47:15.479 the lawn and of course out in the garden. We're gonna head out now 1503 01:47:15.520 --> 01:47:19.520 to Eagle Lake and talk to Stan. Hello Stan, Hey, good morning, 1504 01:47:19.600 --> 01:47:26.760 Skip, Good morning all. I have a question regarding potatoes that were 1505 01:47:26.800 --> 01:47:30.920 planted in obviously August in time in the window. Red potatoes. I think 1506 01:47:30.960 --> 01:47:40.920 they're redlest soda. Okay, They're over twelve inches tall and they just started 1507 01:47:40.960 --> 01:47:45.640 to curl. The leaves just started to make a fist. You know what 1508 01:47:45.680 --> 01:47:50.000 I'm saying. Okay, don't know. We came up with three things. 1509 01:47:50.159 --> 01:47:55.159 I'm not going to buy us your professional answer. I want to know what 1510 01:47:55.279 --> 01:47:59.600 you think. Okay, well, there there are some different things that could 1511 01:47:59.640 --> 01:48:02.680 cause. First of all, go unfold some leaves, unfurl some leaves and 1512 01:48:03.000 --> 01:48:05.720 see if you see a bunch of aphids in there feeding on them, or 1513 01:48:05.720 --> 01:48:11.399 any other kind of pest. Certain kinds of pests will cause that plant leaf 1514 01:48:11.479 --> 01:48:15.760 to deform and twist and curl around them. And so that'd be the first 1515 01:48:15.760 --> 01:48:17.920 thing I'd look for. That's an easy one, yes or no. The 1516 01:48:18.079 --> 01:48:23.319 next thing would be, has any kind of a herbicide for broad leaf weeds, 1517 01:48:23.720 --> 01:48:27.640 that is, especially a two to four D based herbicide been used around 1518 01:48:27.720 --> 01:48:31.680 the plants? Or have you used a sprayer on the potatoes that might have 1519 01:48:31.840 --> 01:48:35.840 contained a herbicide like that in the past. That would be the second question. 1520 01:48:36.560 --> 01:48:43.399 Any thoughts on those aphids? I looked at them yesterday and they usually 1521 01:48:43.439 --> 01:48:46.279 hang out on the underside of a good leaf, right, yeah, okay, 1522 01:48:46.560 --> 01:48:51.319 so I found no sign of that. Okay, As far as herbicide, 1523 01:48:51.640 --> 01:48:58.079 it wouldn't be anything that the property owner had applied. If anything, 1524 01:48:58.119 --> 01:49:03.600 it would have been drift and well probably not. Then you know, if 1525 01:49:03.640 --> 01:49:06.720 we were in hot summer weather. There are certain kinds of things that can 1526 01:49:06.800 --> 01:49:13.479 volatilize and drift more so than they would right now. The only other thing 1527 01:49:13.520 --> 01:49:16.159 would be something viral, and that would be a little bit longer shot, 1528 01:49:16.439 --> 01:49:21.560 but that I guess is a possibility. Okay, nobody's dug anything up yet. 1529 01:49:21.680 --> 01:49:25.920 I'm curious. Yeah, I mean, even those little red potatoes are 1530 01:49:26.079 --> 01:49:30.159 just excellent. So yeah, Well, one other thing you could do, 1531 01:49:30.359 --> 01:49:32.640 Stan, I can put you on hold here as we're done, and you 1532 01:49:32.760 --> 01:49:38.079 could send me some close up photos. Show me the whole potato row and 1533 01:49:38.199 --> 01:49:41.000 then get up close on a leaf. Make sure it's in sharp focus. 1534 01:49:41.520 --> 01:49:43.760 Let me take a look at them, and if I have a thought on 1535 01:49:43.880 --> 01:49:45.920 it, I'll come in. You know, if it's pretty much what I 1536 01:49:45.960 --> 01:49:49.840 already said, then I've already said it. I won't I won't just repeat 1537 01:49:49.920 --> 01:49:53.680 it, but let me take a look. I'll be happy to do that. 1538 01:49:54.399 --> 01:49:57.079 That's great. May I have your email address? Yes, I'll put 1539 01:49:57.079 --> 01:49:59.560 you on hold and Josh I'll pick up the phone and he will give that 1540 01:49:59.680 --> 01:50:03.800 to you. Thank you for that, for that call. The folks at 1541 01:50:03.920 --> 01:50:10.960 Arburgate have created a really cool one two three system. The one two three 1542 01:50:11.319 --> 01:50:14.239 is pretty much what you need when you're going to put a plant in the 1543 01:50:14.279 --> 01:50:16.039 ground and take care of it. And so what is that. Well, 1544 01:50:16.079 --> 01:50:20.000 first of all, it's an organic food complete. That's a four to four 1545 01:50:20.039 --> 01:50:25.800 to three plus ten percent calcium organic fertilizer. You can use this on your 1546 01:50:25.880 --> 01:50:29.359 launch a good ratio for this fall season, by the way, because you 1547 01:50:29.399 --> 01:50:31.600 know you've got a little the nitrogen and the potassium are getting close to the 1548 01:50:31.720 --> 01:50:35.600 same same range there. And it's not just for launch. You can use 1549 01:50:35.600 --> 01:50:41.319 it on flowers and shrubs and your vegetable gardens and so on. Eleven different 1550 01:50:41.359 --> 01:50:45.279 types of microhizol fungi in there, and it gradually releases. Being an organic 1551 01:50:45.640 --> 01:50:48.800 mature forty five percent organic matter, lots of trace minerals in it as well. 1552 01:50:49.239 --> 01:50:53.920 That's organic food complete from arborgate. Then the other two are for your 1553 01:50:54.000 --> 01:50:58.399 soil. There's organic soil complete and then there is or of course the fertilizer 1554 01:50:58.520 --> 01:51:02.159 is two, but organic soil complete and organic compost complete. If the organic 1555 01:51:02.239 --> 01:51:06.119 soil complete is a special blend, it's got compost in, large particle sand 1556 01:51:06.319 --> 01:51:11.840 and expanded shale all in it. So think of it as a growing mix 1557 01:51:12.000 --> 01:51:16.079 a soil that will do very very well. Now the organic compost complete again, 1558 01:51:16.159 --> 01:51:19.720 we get some of that expanded shale, which is a long term benefit 1559 01:51:19.920 --> 01:51:25.520 to clay soils. You can never you always keep adding the expanded shale if 1560 01:51:25.520 --> 01:51:30.319 you've got a clay with poor drainage. But this particular compost complete has two 1561 01:51:30.359 --> 01:51:35.239 different kinds of compost blended together, really good beneficial diversity of microbes in it. 1562 01:51:35.600 --> 01:51:40.199 And again when you put those three together, organic food complete, organic 1563 01:51:40.279 --> 01:51:46.159 soil complete, organic compost complete, you have a winning combination on having success. 1564 01:51:46.239 --> 01:51:49.520 You know, you go the Garbagate, you buy these beautiful healthy plants. 1565 01:51:49.520 --> 01:51:51.720 You're going to take home and plant them. You want them to have 1566 01:51:51.880 --> 01:51:58.319 success. So brown stuff before green stuff. Remember, take care of these 1567 01:51:58.920 --> 01:52:02.039 plants by can carry the soil first with these three products. By the way, 1568 01:52:02.079 --> 01:52:05.399 when you're at Arbagate, check out that new wonderful parking lot behind the 1569 01:52:05.479 --> 01:52:11.800 building Trishall Road. Whether whichever direction you're coming before or after Arburgate, you 1570 01:52:11.800 --> 01:52:15.520 can turn in Trisher Road parking lots behind it. Oh my gosh, it's 1571 01:52:15.600 --> 01:52:19.159 convenient, wonderful, wonderful. Let's head out now we're going to go to 1572 01:52:19.439 --> 01:52:24.399 sugar Land and talk to Steve. Hello, Steve, Hey, you have 1573 01:52:24.520 --> 01:52:31.399 it going well. Thank you. Good I'm calling my soil after the heat 1574 01:52:31.439 --> 01:52:36.199 of this past summer is just severely compacted with line, you know, with 1575 01:52:36.920 --> 01:52:42.960 cracks going all through down my yard where you know it's separated maybe a half 1576 01:52:43.039 --> 01:52:47.520 inch full inch apart, and trying to figure out how to decompact the soil 1577 01:52:47.680 --> 01:52:51.520 so my graants will grow because much like the man and Siana plantation earlier. 1578 01:52:51.720 --> 01:52:55.359 Yes, I've got all sorts of brown patches and it's all around, you 1579 01:52:55.399 --> 01:52:59.279 know, wherever the cracks and the soil are, and this is your lawn 1580 01:52:59.520 --> 01:53:02.479 soil talking about this is my lawn. Correct. So you can't rototilla lawn 1581 01:53:02.560 --> 01:53:06.319 and mix in composts and things. What you can do, First of all, 1582 01:53:06.359 --> 01:53:11.479 you need to get it moistened so that it's not like concrete with the 1583 01:53:11.560 --> 01:53:15.560 giant cracks. And as we get some rain that helps to swell it back 1584 01:53:15.640 --> 01:53:20.600 up again. When it is moist but not supersaturated, you don't want it 1585 01:53:20.680 --> 01:53:24.680 to be like gouey gumbo. You want it to be moist. You can 1586 01:53:24.760 --> 01:53:31.439 do a core aeration and a compost top dressing. A cororation pulls the plugs 1587 01:53:31.439 --> 01:53:34.960 out of the soil, and you can rent machines to do it, but 1588 01:53:35.079 --> 01:53:40.159 they tend to not do as good a job as a really high quality machine 1589 01:53:40.600 --> 01:53:44.039 that reaches down into the soil and pulls that core out and drops it on 1590 01:53:44.119 --> 01:53:46.399 the surface. That's a better way to go. And then the compost top 1591 01:53:46.520 --> 01:53:50.399 dressing. And if you do that, I would do that once or twice 1592 01:53:50.439 --> 01:53:55.439 a year for a little while here, and that will just get it just 1593 01:53:55.520 --> 01:53:58.880 gets better and better as you do that. But if you're starting from the 1594 01:53:59.000 --> 01:54:01.720 worst of soils, clay, hard, big cracks, all that stuff, 1595 01:54:02.479 --> 01:54:06.840 that is one thing that will be very helpful. Continuing to get the grass 1596 01:54:06.960 --> 01:54:13.399 to grow with fertilizer, watering, and proper mowing is also important because grassroots 1597 01:54:13.439 --> 01:54:16.000 live about a year. So you know, you've seen these videos of the 1598 01:54:16.119 --> 01:54:20.119 time lapse photography, you know where you watch something that takes months happen in 1599 01:54:20.199 --> 01:54:25.520 a two seconds. Well, when your grassroots grow and die and grow and 1600 01:54:25.640 --> 01:54:28.960 die, each root lives about a year, you're adding organic matter. You're 1601 01:54:29.000 --> 01:54:32.039 opening up the soil. Those roots are creating chambers, and so healthy grass 1602 01:54:32.199 --> 01:54:38.359 builds its own soil too. Returning your clippings and recycling that organic matter into 1603 01:54:38.399 --> 01:54:43.920 your grass also helps. So all of that combination is the pathway that gets 1604 01:54:43.920 --> 01:54:46.640 you where you want to go from where you are, okay. And is 1605 01:54:46.720 --> 01:54:49.800 the nitrofoss brown which is what I've been using, you know for this time 1606 01:54:49.840 --> 01:54:54.119 of year, that's still the preferred thing to use. Yes, this time 1607 01:54:54.159 --> 01:54:58.439 of year, the nitro Froust brown bag is the one to use. It's 1608 01:54:58.479 --> 01:55:04.159 got lower nitrogen but still a good component of potassium in it. Very important. 1609 01:55:05.600 --> 01:55:09.279 And is it better for me to use a spreader or a dropper when 1610 01:55:09.319 --> 01:55:13.159 I'm putting down my bro You know, everybody has their preferences. I like 1611 01:55:13.319 --> 01:55:16.039 the spreader, but you got to watch and just your overlap and how much 1612 01:55:16.039 --> 01:55:20.079 you're putting out that you don't create streaks. The droppers can create streaks too 1613 01:55:20.119 --> 01:55:25.600 because when they overlap that you get that. But either one will do the 1614 01:55:25.720 --> 01:55:29.319 job. It kind of comes up to your preference. Okay, all right, 1615 01:55:29.399 --> 01:55:32.039 say well, I appreciate the help you bet, thank you very much. 1616 01:55:32.119 --> 01:55:35.359 I appreciate the call. Donnie. We are going to have to catch 1617 01:55:35.439 --> 01:55:40.279 you right at first thing in the next hour. Our phone number is seven 1618 01:55:40.359 --> 01:55:45.159 one three two one two k t r H seven one three two one two 1619 01:55:45.600 --> 01:55:48.520 k t r H. Hey, don't forget next Saturday. I will be 1620 01:55:48.560 --> 01:55:53.600 at c Namulch down near Rose Sharon, and we're gonna be there. I'll 1621 01:55:53.600 --> 01:55:56.960 be there from eleven thirty to one thirty. They're gonna have quite a shindig 1622 01:55:57.079 --> 01:55:59.760 out there. They're gonna have a food truck and a lot of other folks 1623 01:56:00.000 --> 01:56:03.720 out there. Some of our sponsor reps will be out there with their products. 1624 01:56:04.239 --> 01:56:06.560 You need to go. You need to see Ciena Molts, you need 1625 01:56:06.640 --> 01:56:09.760 to see the fertilizers. While you're out there, by the way, you 1626 01:56:09.800 --> 01:56:13.600 can pick up your fall fertilization products. You can pick up bags of molts 1627 01:56:13.640 --> 01:56:16.279 and order bulks of molts. If you're within twenty miles of Ciena Moltz, 1628 01:56:16.319 --> 01:56:19.000 He'll deliver it down in that area. But I hope you come out next 1629 01:56:19.039 --> 01:56:26.800 Saturday, eleven thirty to one thirty. KATRH Garden Line does not necessarily endorse 1630 01:56:26.840 --> 01:56:32.319 any of the products or services advertised on this program. Welcome to KTRH Garden 1631 01:56:32.399 --> 01:56:45.720 Line with Scip Richard. It's so crazy trip. Just watch him as world. 1632 01:56:47.159 --> 01:56:51.840 Well. Good morning on a beautiful Sunday. The sun is shining and 1633 01:56:53.640 --> 01:56:56.399 I can just tell you it's gonna be a great day to get out take 1634 01:56:56.520 --> 01:57:00.479 advantages. Afternoon, get some stuff done out in the yard, or maybe 1635 01:57:00.520 --> 01:57:03.279 go visit a garden center to pick up the products that you need. I'm 1636 01:57:03.279 --> 01:57:08.000 going to head now to north Shore and talk to Donnie. Hello Donnie, 1637 01:57:09.000 --> 01:57:14.000 Hello, Skip, Good morning, sir. Morning. I've got about three 1638 01:57:14.119 --> 01:57:16.479 questions. At first, I'm trying to make them real quick. I've got 1639 01:57:16.520 --> 01:57:24.279 about three pecan trees in my yard backyard inside, and they're about twelve plus 1640 01:57:24.439 --> 01:57:30.359 feet tall, probably with a canopy out at leeds eight feet white. For 1641 01:57:30.439 --> 01:57:35.640 the last five plus years, I have not gotten any pecans. And I 1642 01:57:35.840 --> 01:57:42.159 noticed earlier this morning you was talking about feeding them with zinc. I've never 1643 01:57:42.319 --> 01:57:46.479 fed them with zinc. So and I don't know exactly what kind of pecan 1644 01:57:47.079 --> 01:57:50.600 trees they are. Okay, what should I start, Donnie? Are these 1645 01:57:50.720 --> 01:57:58.000 volunteer pecans or did you buy and purchase it and planet a tree? One 1646 01:57:59.039 --> 01:58:03.000 was already there when I bought this property, okay, and the other two 1647 01:58:03.439 --> 01:58:10.680 were replant it replanted from a store bought tree or from one you dug up 1648 01:58:10.720 --> 01:58:15.039 and moved one I dug up moved. Okay. They're probably seedlings, and 1649 01:58:15.359 --> 01:58:23.119 seedlings take a long time before they reach a mature productive age. A young 1650 01:58:23.199 --> 01:58:30.279 pecans, they call it juvenile wood. It is incapable of being reproductive. 1651 01:58:30.119 --> 01:58:35.159 It ages to a certain point where it is now able to make pollen and 1652 01:58:35.359 --> 01:58:43.199 nuts and become a productive tree. That with pecans, depending on just the 1653 01:58:43.319 --> 01:58:48.239 genetics of that particular seedling and other conditions in the site, that could take 1654 01:58:48.399 --> 01:58:50.800 a number of years. I mean, it wouldn't be unusual to see a 1655 01:58:50.800 --> 01:58:57.479 pecan twelve years old from a seedling not producing, so that is probably what's 1656 01:58:57.520 --> 01:59:00.880 going on with them. There's not a thing that makes pecans not produce other 1657 01:59:01.000 --> 01:59:05.520 than a lack of sunlight. But other than that, I think you just 1658 01:59:05.680 --> 01:59:09.960 need your trees or just having they're still growing up. You know. It's 1659 01:59:10.000 --> 01:59:14.079 like any kind of animal that they have to hit a certain age before they're 1660 01:59:14.199 --> 01:59:20.960 capable of reproduction. Okay, Suddond. Question is I got some like spider 1661 01:59:21.199 --> 01:59:30.520 like weeds in my flower bed okay, and they're just going everywhere? Yeah? 1662 01:59:30.800 --> 01:59:35.520 Are they very very flat to the ground, yes, yes, okay, 1663 01:59:35.960 --> 01:59:40.800 that is spurge. And just to check and make sure that I'm talking 1664 01:59:40.800 --> 01:59:44.600 about the right weed. When you go outside, pulls on, break them 1665 01:59:44.640 --> 01:59:48.000 off, and you should see little white gloves of sap come out immediately from 1666 01:59:48.039 --> 01:59:57.319 that broken stem that's spurge, and spurge proliferates because it produces a bazillion seeds 1667 01:59:57.880 --> 02:00:00.279 and anytime you got a little bit of a bear, they're gonna come up. 1668 02:00:00.520 --> 02:00:05.680 And they loved. They grow in soil too dry and too poor to 1669 02:00:05.800 --> 02:00:11.159 support growth of a lot of other plants. They're very resilient, very resourceful 1670 02:00:11.279 --> 02:00:16.640 plants. The thing I would do, and I was talking with someone at 1671 02:00:16.680 --> 02:00:21.479 Southwest Fertilizer yesterday about this. I have a little hoe that is it's called 1672 02:00:21.479 --> 02:00:26.800 a diamond hoe, but it's very flat. You hold it at an angle, 1673 02:00:26.960 --> 02:00:30.279 almost like if you were gonna be sweeping the floor, you know, 1674 02:00:30.359 --> 02:00:33.800 with a broom, and you just slide it right under the surface. You 1675 02:00:33.880 --> 02:00:38.680 don't chop with it like people picture a standard type hoe where you're chopping and 1676 02:00:38.800 --> 02:00:43.399 digging the weeds out. This you're just sliding it right under the surface. 1677 02:00:43.920 --> 02:00:46.680 And that those spurge plants, they come out in a single spot. They 1678 02:00:46.720 --> 02:00:49.439 have a tap root. They come one little spot in that big old spread 1679 02:00:49.439 --> 02:00:53.960 out plant is where it comes out of the ground and you can grab them 1680 02:00:54.079 --> 02:00:57.359 and pull them hand pull them that way, or if you got a larger 1681 02:00:57.439 --> 02:01:00.760 area, just sliding a hoe right under the surface, because here's the deal. 1682 02:01:00.800 --> 02:01:03.039 You don't want to turn the soil over and just bring new soil and 1683 02:01:03.119 --> 02:01:06.960 new weed seeds to the surface. So we're just skimming right under the surface. 1684 02:01:08.359 --> 02:01:11.119 And whether you hand pull them or whether you skim under like that, 1685 02:01:11.640 --> 02:01:14.319 then gather them up carefully and put them in a bucket and get them out 1686 02:01:14.319 --> 02:01:17.920 of there. You know, if you hit them and shake them and everything, 1687 02:01:18.000 --> 02:01:20.439 you're just going to be knocking a bunch of more weed seeds off. 1688 02:01:20.960 --> 02:01:25.920 But then the ultimate thing is to keep that soil moltzed with two to three 1689 02:01:26.000 --> 02:01:29.960 inches of molts so some light can't get to the soil and you prevent them 1690 02:01:30.560 --> 02:01:32.439 coming up. They're not a perennial, they're a warm season annual weed. 1691 02:01:34.279 --> 02:01:42.840 Okay, should you on your boy, I forget the course. Okay, 1692 02:01:43.680 --> 02:01:50.039 yeah, it's all right, as you'd trim them all year around. You 1693 02:01:50.199 --> 02:01:54.880 can do some trimming anytime you have a wild hair in the bush there. 1694 02:01:54.960 --> 02:01:57.920 You want to trim it back to you know, kind of make the plant 1695 02:01:58.039 --> 02:02:00.600 shaped like you want just a while here to going out, you can trim 1696 02:02:00.720 --> 02:02:08.680 those. But once we get past, oh maybe early to midsummer, you 1697 02:02:08.760 --> 02:02:14.600 want to stop pruning the azaleas of any amount significant amount of pruning because they're 1698 02:02:14.640 --> 02:02:17.359 setting their buds for the spring bloom the coming year. So like right now 1699 02:02:17.439 --> 02:02:21.520 you're azala bushes. Whatever blooms are going to have in spring, they're already 1700 02:02:21.600 --> 02:02:25.720 in the buds right now, so if you prune them, you'd be removing 1701 02:02:25.800 --> 02:02:29.800 that. So wait until after spring bloom to do any pruning you need to 1702 02:02:29.840 --> 02:02:35.399 do to those azaleas. Got you, okay? All right, thank you 1703 02:02:35.520 --> 02:02:38.920 much, Yes, Sarah, thank you for the call. I appreciate that. 1704 02:02:39.720 --> 02:02:44.920 Glad to be able to help the folks at RCW Nurseries. They are 1705 02:02:45.079 --> 02:02:49.640 still having that fall Shindi going on where they have fun and games and activities 1706 02:02:49.720 --> 02:02:53.760 for all ages. I mean, you can walk through their beautiful garden areas 1707 02:02:53.840 --> 02:02:56.960 and you can take family photos, have a hilarious that's up with that. 1708 02:02:57.079 --> 02:03:00.560 They got refreshments and snacks for the families. You do not want to miss 1709 02:03:00.600 --> 02:03:05.479 out, ladies and gentlemen on this autumn extravaganza. This is all through October, 1710 02:03:05.600 --> 02:03:10.600 so this is the end of it. This weekend at RCW Nurseries and 1711 02:03:10.720 --> 02:03:14.079 RCW if you've not been there, they're on Tomball Parkway right where it comes 1712 02:03:14.119 --> 02:03:19.800 into Beltway eight, so it's easy to find. The website is Rcwnnurseries dot 1713 02:03:19.920 --> 02:03:24.439 com. Simple as that. While you're out there, they got a fifteen 1714 02:03:24.479 --> 02:03:28.119 percent discount on trees going on. So if you're thinking about planting a tree, 1715 02:03:28.640 --> 02:03:30.960 now's the time to do it. So go out there. You can 1716 02:03:30.039 --> 02:03:33.159 walk around and see the trees that they have. They grow them themselves up 1717 02:03:33.199 --> 02:03:39.399 in Plannersville and they only grow things that do well here, and so check 1718 02:03:39.439 --> 02:03:44.560 them out at RCW Nurseries. Grab a tree to add to your landscape because 1719 02:03:44.800 --> 02:03:46.520 fifteen percent off now is a really good time. While you're there, you 1720 02:03:46.560 --> 02:03:49.840 can grab the fertilizers you need for your lawn and for your trees. In 1721 02:03:49.920 --> 02:03:53.960 fact, they have a little package of products that they will sell you to 1722 02:03:54.079 --> 02:03:58.560 go with a tree you purchase, and it's the things that enhance the early 1723 02:03:58.760 --> 02:04:02.520 root growth and get that tree well established. So it's kind of a one 1724 02:04:02.600 --> 02:04:09.000 stop shop for everything like that. RCW Nurseries. We're going to go now, 1725 02:04:09.680 --> 02:04:11.720 well, I'm running out of time here. We're gonna have to take 1726 02:04:11.720 --> 02:04:15.479 a little break. Terry and Jake, you are the first two up when 1727 02:04:15.520 --> 02:04:18.279 we come back. Our phone number is seven one three two one two fifty 1728 02:04:18.359 --> 02:04:24.399 eight seventy four. Welcome back to Guardenline. We are glad you're listening today 1729 02:04:24.560 --> 02:04:28.039 and looking forward to talking to you about whatever gardening questions you might have. 1730 02:04:29.079 --> 02:04:31.199 We're going to go out to Bay City first and talk to Terry. Hello, 1731 02:04:31.399 --> 02:04:35.680 Terry, Good morning, Skip. Okay. I have two questions. 1732 02:04:36.560 --> 02:04:40.600 One, it's about the freeze. It's gonna come not freeze, but the 1733 02:04:40.680 --> 02:04:45.079 co wedded it's going to come up during the night. I have Moto burning 1734 02:04:45.199 --> 02:04:48.079 pots. Do I need to bring them in? It's going to get down, 1735 02:04:49.119 --> 02:04:51.880 you know, close to freezing for sure. If it's even in the 1736 02:04:53.039 --> 02:04:56.279 upper thirties, I would go ahead and bring them in, just because they 1737 02:04:56.319 --> 02:05:00.239 don't like that temperature and not gonna be very happy with it. U depends 1738 02:05:00.279 --> 02:05:02.039 on how cold it gets where you are, but it's not a big deal, 1739 02:05:02.119 --> 02:05:04.680 you know, to bring them in take them back out, so that 1740 02:05:04.920 --> 02:05:10.079 that would be my suggestion. Will they survive out there above freezing? Yeah, 1741 02:05:10.159 --> 02:05:13.359 they probably would, but they start not looking so good when they get 1742 02:05:13.560 --> 02:05:16.880 colder than they want to be, right, okay. And then second question 1743 02:05:17.119 --> 02:05:23.439 is I have a yard that has no grass, It's completely bare ground because 1744 02:05:23.479 --> 02:05:26.800 of huge oak trees and I've had them trimmed all I'm ever going to trim 1745 02:05:27.239 --> 02:05:30.239 in the spring. I want to put in some kind of grass that will 1746 02:05:30.319 --> 02:05:33.439 take heavy shade. I don't know what kind, but right now it's just 1747 02:05:33.720 --> 02:05:38.840 ugly having bare ground. So is there any kind of a seed that I 1748 02:05:38.880 --> 02:05:42.680 can throw down without any work and maybe it'll just come up and be green 1749 02:05:42.760 --> 02:05:46.079 instead of dirt. Well, we have ryegrass we can plant in the winter. 1750 02:05:46.319 --> 02:05:50.760 But if it's is this a live oak? Yeah, okay, so 1751 02:05:50.960 --> 02:05:56.640 live oaks keep their canopy into the cool season, and the rye grass needs 1752 02:05:56.760 --> 02:06:00.760 light and it's just not going to it's going to be spindley and lecor to 1753 02:06:00.880 --> 02:06:04.239 try to grow it underneath their So I don't think under that situation it's going 1754 02:06:04.319 --> 02:06:09.000 to be as there is a solution for you to seed out. You may 1755 02:06:09.079 --> 02:06:12.680 want Saint Augustine's the most shade tolerant of our grasses. And if it's not 1756 02:06:12.920 --> 02:06:15.439 doing well there and you've done the trimming and it's kind of is what it 1757 02:06:15.600 --> 02:06:19.279 is, I think you're going to need to switch to a shade loving groundcover, 1758 02:06:19.920 --> 02:06:24.279 or you can create a moulst area, put some shade loving shrubs in 1759 02:06:24.359 --> 02:06:27.479 it. You know what I'm saying, you're going to have to do something 1760 02:06:27.520 --> 02:06:30.840 other than grass. It's for but see the whole yard, even where you 1761 02:06:30.960 --> 02:06:34.279 walk. I mean, I can do some kind of a bond that that 1762 02:06:34.319 --> 02:06:40.560 wouldn't be practical for the whole yard. Well, you know, if it's 1763 02:06:40.600 --> 02:06:43.960 shady, it's shady, and the grass isn't going to grow. And I've 1764 02:06:44.000 --> 02:06:47.840 seen some beautiful landscapes where they had two giant live oaks in front of the 1765 02:06:47.920 --> 02:06:50.760 house. And I mean, so there wasn't a hope or prayer for grass. 1766 02:06:51.359 --> 02:06:56.199 But they planted loriopee in certain areas. They used Aztec grass, which 1767 02:06:56.279 --> 02:07:00.039 is like a white green striped version like a like a a rioty bit different. 1768 02:07:00.560 --> 02:07:03.720 Uh, And and they just made a big beautiful green, dark green 1769 02:07:03.760 --> 02:07:09.800 groundcover with using some different colors. A juga as a groundcover will grow and 1770 02:07:09.960 --> 02:07:13.880 shade and it can have some types have kind of a bronzy colored foliage. 1771 02:07:14.439 --> 02:07:16.640 Uh. There, you know, ferns can grow in areas like I mean, 1772 02:07:16.680 --> 02:07:20.319 there's a lot of things you can do. But yeah, if you 1773 02:07:20.399 --> 02:07:25.279 want to grass, it's just not gonna work in that much shade. Okay, 1774 02:07:26.239 --> 02:07:28.960 Okay, well I guess it is what it is then, yeah it 1775 02:07:29.159 --> 02:07:30.479 is. I mean, you know they say when life gives you lemons, 1776 02:07:30.520 --> 02:07:34.000 make lemonade, And there are a lot of types of lemonade you can make 1777 02:07:34.039 --> 02:07:38.680 out of a shady area. Yeah, and it's for my own home. 1778 02:07:38.760 --> 02:07:42.800 This is a rent home, so in renters can not want to do a 1779 02:07:42.880 --> 02:07:45.760 lot of yard work. So I guess I'll just put them in some stepping 1780 02:07:45.840 --> 02:07:49.520 stones and that's the best they're gonna get. Yeah, that'd be another option. 1781 02:07:50.159 --> 02:07:55.079 You could do that and just look around shade loving things, see what 1782 02:07:55.199 --> 02:07:57.920 you like the looks of you know, if it is a rental type home, 1783 02:07:58.000 --> 02:08:01.239 it's not even water and things. I think the riopy is probably a 1784 02:08:01.279 --> 02:08:03.000 good way to go. Certainly. Monkey grass is another way. It's even 1785 02:08:03.119 --> 02:08:07.760 darker green and puts up with more shade. Monkey grass, but it doesn't 1786 02:08:07.840 --> 02:08:11.119 spread very fast, so you're having to buy a lot of it to cover 1787 02:08:11.279 --> 02:08:16.600 a large area like you've got. I've got lope in my own home. 1788 02:08:16.680 --> 02:08:18.920 I have a lot of loraape that I could dig up and put over there. 1789 02:08:18.960 --> 02:08:22.439 But I don't want to do a hope andnch of like digging in the 1790 02:08:22.560 --> 02:08:26.600 yard. So how much do I have to prepare the soil to put something 1791 02:08:26.720 --> 02:08:30.399 like monkey grass or loiope, Yeah, not much. I'd spread about an 1792 02:08:30.439 --> 02:08:33.600 inch of compost over the surface, and then as you're digging in the plants, 1793 02:08:33.640 --> 02:08:35.840 it's going to get mixed in a little bit. And just set the 1794 02:08:35.920 --> 02:08:39.960 plants out and get them watered in. I like the Aztec grass because it 1795 02:08:41.039 --> 02:08:43.800 has it's a bright color. It's not just another dark green in there, 1796 02:08:43.840 --> 02:08:48.359 and so you can line a bed with it, or line a walkway or 1797 02:08:48.399 --> 02:08:52.560 whatever. I think the stepping stones are a really good idea. Great. 1798 02:08:52.720 --> 02:08:54.520 Okay, well, thank you so much. All right, Darry, thank 1799 02:08:54.560 --> 02:09:00.199 you for the colt. Appreciate that very much, very much. Well, 1800 02:09:00.640 --> 02:09:03.680 it's fall fertilizing time. You need to not delay. It's also the time 1801 02:09:03.800 --> 02:09:07.199 if you're going to put down a pre emergent weak control, you need to 1802 02:09:07.239 --> 02:09:09.840 get that done. And night Fross has made it easy with their Texas three 1803 02:09:09.880 --> 02:09:16.079 step Step one Nitropos Fall Special night Fuss Fall Special. It's a brown bag. 1804 02:09:16.199 --> 02:09:20.760 It's design for fall applications to make your turf stronger so that it goes 1805 02:09:20.840 --> 02:09:26.840 through winter better and comes out stronger in the spring. And this is important 1806 02:09:26.479 --> 02:09:30.760 people think about fertilizing in the spring and summer, and yeah, those are 1807 02:09:30.800 --> 02:09:35.560 important times, but falls the most important one you have because your lawn is 1808 02:09:35.640 --> 02:09:39.199 strengthened to go through winter. And the early growth is not due to fertilizer 1809 02:09:39.279 --> 02:09:43.960 in the spring. The first growth on your lawn is due to stored energy 1810 02:09:45.119 --> 02:09:48.880 in the grass. That's what it draws on as it begins to grow. 1811 02:09:48.159 --> 02:09:52.319 Then the grassroots begin taking up nutrients and the spring fertilizing is good at that 1812 02:09:52.439 --> 02:09:58.079 time. Early on. It's the fertilizer you're putting down now, nitrophosphall special 1813 02:09:58.399 --> 02:10:01.079 nit frous barricades, a pre emmergen weed control. Put it down, water 1814 02:10:01.119 --> 02:10:05.880 it in with a half inch of water, and it stops weeds from sprouting 1815 02:10:05.000 --> 02:10:09.880 from seeds and coming through and becoming a problem. And weeds are going to 1816 02:10:09.920 --> 02:10:13.920 be sprouting now, especially with a little rain and cool weather that's coming up. 1817 02:10:13.520 --> 02:10:18.920 Third, nitrofas eagle turf fungicide systemic product gets in the soil and it 1818 02:10:20.079 --> 02:10:24.640 prevents weeds from being able or excuse me, prevents the diseases from being able 1819 02:10:26.039 --> 02:10:28.119 to attack your plant. So I said. It gets in the soil, 1820 02:10:28.159 --> 02:10:33.079 it gets in the plant itself as you spray it on the plant and What 1821 02:10:33.279 --> 02:10:37.000 it does is when that brown patch spore lands and it tries to infect your 1822 02:10:37.079 --> 02:10:39.520 grass, You've got a systemic fungicide already in the grass. That's what the 1823 02:10:39.600 --> 02:10:43.239 eagles were one two three. Where do you get nitrofoss products like the three 1824 02:10:43.319 --> 02:10:48.199 step, Well everywhere, but you can get them at Bearings hardware on Biscinet 1825 02:10:48.800 --> 02:10:52.399 all spas hardware out in the woodlands or plants and things up and Brunham all 1826 02:10:52.640 --> 02:10:58.600 carry the nitrofos three step. Let's now go and we're going to talk to 1827 02:10:58.800 --> 02:11:01.960 Jake and friends. Would hello, Jake, Hey Skip, good morning, 1828 02:11:03.119 --> 02:11:07.960 Good morning. Hey, So I have a question about a live oak tree. 1829 02:11:07.119 --> 02:11:11.279 Okay, have my front yard. It's kind about fifteen feet along on 1830 02:11:11.520 --> 02:11:15.119 all sides of it, uh huh doing the house on the sidewalk, kind 1831 02:11:15.159 --> 02:11:20.239 of planted up on a raised area soil, and it's got sticks azelias that 1832 02:11:20.359 --> 02:11:24.399 the previous homeowner. They're pretty small that they put in. Okay, and 1833 02:11:24.840 --> 02:11:28.159 it's not dropping acorns this year, so this would be the third year of 1834 02:11:28.159 --> 02:11:31.800 the first two years it did. And just a little concerned about that. 1835 02:11:31.880 --> 02:11:35.960 It's got a bunch of suckers on the branches too, like water sprouts. 1836 02:11:35.159 --> 02:11:39.479 Yes, Okay, that the water sprouts is usually a sign of going through 1837 02:11:39.520 --> 02:11:43.600 a drought, stress or anything that stresses a tree, Like if you cut 1838 02:11:43.680 --> 02:11:48.279 tree roots, if you have soil compaction and the tree begins to die back 1839 02:11:48.319 --> 02:11:52.760 from the periphery, it will typically trunk sprout and major branch sprout a lot. 1840 02:11:52.720 --> 02:11:56.159 Just some of that could also just be due to pruning or some other 1841 02:11:56.319 --> 02:12:01.119 thing. I wouldn't worry about the lack of acorn. That's that's not a 1842 02:12:01.239 --> 02:12:05.520 cause for concern. That is not a sign that something's gone wrong. But 1843 02:12:05.640 --> 02:12:07.760 the trunk sprouting a little bit of it is okay, but just kind of 1844 02:12:07.840 --> 02:12:13.479 watch that and it may have been a stress response. Yeah, it's got 1845 02:12:13.479 --> 02:12:16.119 a lot and it's done that for the past couple of years. Okay, 1846 02:12:16.479 --> 02:12:20.640 So I know I have some soil compaction, and I don't know if there's 1847 02:12:20.640 --> 02:12:24.760 any like DIY type stuff that I could do, like maybe get a one 1848 02:12:24.760 --> 02:12:28.439 of the deep root watering things I like to do stuff myself. Yeah, 1849 02:12:28.520 --> 02:12:30.439 you could do some of that. I mean, when you get a lot 1850 02:12:30.479 --> 02:12:33.880 of tree roots in, it's hard to do much to loosen the soil. 1851 02:12:33.920 --> 02:12:39.039 You can't run a you can't run a deep deep time neration through there. 1852 02:12:39.399 --> 02:12:41.840 It'll hit all the roots and tear up the machinery. You know. I 1853 02:12:41.960 --> 02:12:46.079 have put a little spading fork down straight into the soil, wriggled it in 1854 02:12:46.199 --> 02:12:50.000 when the soil is moist, and just pull back to crack the soil a 1855 02:12:50.079 --> 02:12:52.439 little bit and done that in a bunch of areas to kind of loosen it. 1856 02:12:52.600 --> 02:12:56.640 You're not turning it over anything. You're just you're just leaning back on 1857 02:12:56.680 --> 02:12:58.960 the handle a little bit to crack open the soil a bit. You could 1858 02:13:00.119 --> 02:13:03.279 do that. It's a little bit tedious to do, but that could help. 1859 02:13:03.720 --> 02:13:07.840 But just keeping a good a good compost on the surface of the soil, 1860 02:13:07.000 --> 02:13:11.119 it's gonna work its way in and that'll also help too, especially along 1861 02:13:11.159 --> 02:13:16.199 with any other kind of disturbance we're talking about, from a deeper watering to 1862 02:13:16.399 --> 02:13:22.239 a spading time just wiggled into the soil. Okay, alrighty, all, 1863 02:13:22.760 --> 02:13:26.840 yep, appreciate it, all righty, thank you for the call. Good 1864 02:13:26.920 --> 02:13:31.840 luck with that those trees and everything you got going up there and friends with 1865 02:13:31.720 --> 02:13:37.039 uh. You know, the bee supply out in Dayton is a place that 1866 02:13:37.520 --> 02:13:39.000 is really for everybody. And here's why I say that. Now, if 1867 02:13:39.039 --> 02:13:43.880 you are a beekeeper. They've got ever supply you need, and they have 1868 02:13:43.960 --> 02:13:46.079 training for you as well out there, and they take time to train you. 1869 02:13:46.600 --> 02:13:48.880 They want you to have success. I mean, you can call them 1870 02:13:48.960 --> 02:13:54.319 back and you're not gonna bother them. They're there to help you have success 1871 02:13:54.560 --> 02:13:56.520 because they can put the right product in your hand and with good advice. 1872 02:13:56.880 --> 02:14:00.640 If you have success as a beekeeper, you're gonna come back, of course 1873 02:14:00.680 --> 02:14:03.800 you would. If you are interested in beekeeping, they're the place. They 1874 02:14:03.880 --> 02:14:09.840 have classes for that. In fact, their classes for twenty twenty four are 1875 02:14:09.880 --> 02:14:13.159 already signing up now on the websit. You go to the website and you 1876 02:14:13.279 --> 02:14:18.359 can sign up and the classes begin, I believe in January of twenty twenty 1877 02:14:18.399 --> 02:14:20.760 four. So you don't want to delay on that, you know. I 1878 02:14:20.840 --> 02:14:24.560 mean the if you want to order bees, by the way, get those 1879 02:14:24.680 --> 02:14:28.600 done too, because they'll start picking up you'll start picking up your bees out 1880 02:14:28.640 --> 02:14:31.000 there April eleventh. It'll go through the end of May. The sooner you 1881 02:14:31.079 --> 02:14:33.960 sign up, the better. They have two different strains of bees. They 1882 02:14:35.000 --> 02:14:37.920 can tell you which is which and what you need to do. By the 1883 02:14:37.920 --> 02:14:41.960 way, the phone number nine three six seven seven six seven three nine. 1884 02:14:43.239 --> 02:14:46.279 Finally, if you're just interested in learning about bees, they have free b 1885 02:14:46.439 --> 02:14:50.000 tours out there. You get a little bit of honey, sample and everything. 1886 02:14:50.159 --> 02:14:52.920 It is a lot of fun. Take some of your friends garden club 1887 02:14:52.159 --> 02:14:56.680 or Scout troop or you name it, go out to the Bee Supply and 1888 02:14:56.760 --> 02:15:00.640 Dayton. But again, the thing I would recommend is just start off for 1889 02:15:00.720 --> 02:15:05.039 giving them a call nine three six seven seven six seven three nine, or 1890 02:15:05.119 --> 02:15:11.920 go to the website, which is thebsupply dot com. We're now gonna go 1891 02:15:11.079 --> 02:15:16.960 out to Spring and talk to Josh. Hello, Josh, Hey, Stip, 1892 02:15:18.000 --> 02:15:22.680 how you doing. I'm well, what's up? Hey? You can't 1893 02:15:22.720 --> 02:15:24.920 complaint. I'm probably gonna come on out there to the RCW Love event. 1894 02:15:24.960 --> 02:15:28.119 You coming that you're doing? That sounds real good? Oh no, they're 1895 02:15:28.199 --> 02:15:31.880 doing it out there. Yeah, out at RCW. I'm gonna be at 1896 02:15:31.920 --> 02:15:35.560 our. I'm gonna be at RCW on November eleventh, though, if you 1897 02:15:35.600 --> 02:15:39.079 want to come out that time, but that'll be after this event's over. 1898 02:15:39.000 --> 02:15:41.199 Yes, I'll be out there. I'll meet you man. Yeah, I 1899 02:15:41.359 --> 02:15:45.159 love your show man. Yeah. Really, I've been listening to Going Line 1900 02:15:45.199 --> 02:15:48.560 since I was eighteen. I'm thirty nine now. Well, good, good, 1901 02:15:48.640 --> 02:15:52.319 you are you are I have memorized everything and then by now, yes, 1902 02:15:52.840 --> 02:15:56.039 now I have a question about these trees. I have a client and 1903 02:15:56.399 --> 02:16:00.079 the tree roots are coming to the top. Now I know I need to 1904 02:16:00.960 --> 02:16:03.840 errate the area and feed the trees to get the roots to go back down. 1905 02:16:05.039 --> 02:16:07.520 But part of it is they used a lot of sand as well, 1906 02:16:07.640 --> 02:16:11.640 so as the sand washed away, it left the dirt that's there. Yes, 1907 02:16:11.760 --> 02:16:16.159 but you still have the tree roots that's up. Should I cut the 1908 02:16:16.239 --> 02:16:18.279 roots? What should I do? What should I do? All right? 1909 02:16:18.319 --> 02:16:20.319 First of all, the roots will not go back down. There's no going 1910 02:16:20.399 --> 02:16:24.359 down. What happens is you've got a little spaghetti sized root that goes right 1911 02:16:24.439 --> 02:16:28.000 under the surface when it's a young root, and as it gets bigger and 1912 02:16:28.079 --> 02:16:31.760 bigger, it's pushing down and up and out in all directions. As it 1913 02:16:31.840 --> 02:16:35.520 grows in diameter and pushing down that's hard soil, so pushing up it just 1914 02:16:35.600 --> 02:16:39.719 lifts the soil up and it appears to be coming to the surface. But 1915 02:16:39.840 --> 02:16:43.440 that's why. Also you mentioned water washing it off. That is another reason 1916 02:16:43.520 --> 02:16:46.799 why that that happens. And so all you can do is fill in with 1917 02:16:46.959 --> 02:16:50.760 some soil around it. To get the soil up to the root level. 1918 02:16:52.399 --> 02:16:56.680 That would be about all that is in your control. Okay, all right, 1919 02:16:56.680 --> 02:16:58.959 okay, well all right, that sounds like a plant. Yeah. 1920 02:17:00.120 --> 02:17:03.399 The only other thing would be to plan a groundcover like Asian jasmine, just 1921 02:17:03.479 --> 02:17:05.000 to cover it all up. I'm heading to a break, but hey, 1922 02:17:05.079 --> 02:17:07.559 thanks thanks for that call, Josh, and I look forward to seeing you 1923 02:17:07.600 --> 02:17:11.040 out at RCW. Thank you very much. We're going to take a break. 1924 02:17:11.079 --> 02:17:16.920 It's time for the Nicky News Network. We need that little news sound, 1925 02:17:16.000 --> 02:17:20.559 you know. Dunda dun d dunda dun dun. Our number seven one 1926 02:17:20.639 --> 02:17:24.079 three two one two fifty eight seventy four. Give Josh a call, who 1927 02:17:24.159 --> 02:17:28.200 get you on the board, and here's NICKI. Well, good morning. 1928 02:17:28.319 --> 02:17:31.959 You are listening to garden Line on a wonderful Sunday, and we're glad you 1929 02:17:31.040 --> 02:17:35.440 are our phone number seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four. 1930 02:17:35.600 --> 02:17:41.360 Yesterday I was visiting with Felder Rushing from Mississippi on the air here today on 1931 02:17:41.520 --> 02:17:46.440 guarden Line. And he's going to be speaking at the Fall Festival of Roses 1932 02:17:46.639 --> 02:17:50.680 out at the Antique Roseenporium. Now that is November third through fifth, So 1933 02:17:50.920 --> 02:17:56.239 read that as just around the corner right November third through fifth. You can 1934 02:17:56.360 --> 02:18:01.719 get your tickets at we Areroses dot com. It's a website for antiqu Rosenberg. 1935 02:18:01.840 --> 02:18:05.239 We are Roses dot com. Now the Fall Festival Roses is free and 1936 02:18:05.319 --> 02:18:09.040 they're going to have the third through fifth, three days of talks going on. 1937 02:18:09.920 --> 02:18:13.719 You're going to get to a Fielder several times, and a lot of 1938 02:18:13.959 --> 02:18:18.000 really other excellent talks they got going on out there. Now, if you 1939 02:18:18.319 --> 02:18:22.719 are interested in the farm to table dinner, that is going to be a 1940 02:18:22.760 --> 02:18:26.079 special deal. That is one you do need to purchase a ticket for. 1941 02:18:26.639 --> 02:18:31.559 And the ticket sales will end tonight, so I believe they may have some 1942 02:18:31.719 --> 02:18:35.200 tomorrow, but definitely about tomorrow night it's over with. But I wouldn't delay 1943 02:18:35.319 --> 02:18:39.719 because you know this is a space available type deal, so don't delay. 1944 02:18:39.440 --> 02:18:45.000 That'll be on Friday night. It'll be at six fifteen pm. Felder will 1945 02:18:45.000 --> 02:18:48.680 give a talk as a keynote there. They're going to have a wonderful dinner, 1946 02:18:48.479 --> 02:18:52.399 beautiful chef serve dinner and it's just going to be a good time. 1947 02:18:52.719 --> 02:18:56.840 That's how they do things at antiqu Rosing forium. But if you want more 1948 02:18:56.879 --> 02:18:58.879 information, you can call them at ninety seven nine eight, three, six 1949 02:19:00.360 --> 02:19:03.520 fifty five forty eight. And by the way, get out there early enough 1950 02:19:03.639 --> 02:19:07.280 to do some shopping, because they've got a wonderful selection, not just of 1951 02:19:07.479 --> 02:19:13.079 roses, but perennials, Texas star Hibiscus, Salvia, Greggy I, butterfly 1952 02:19:13.159 --> 02:19:16.559 of Viron, all kinds of good stuff out at the Antique Rosing Porium. 1953 02:19:16.639 --> 02:19:20.840 They are roses and so much more. Don't miss the farm and table dinner 1954 02:19:20.920 --> 02:19:28.280 on Friday and the all over fall vessel of roses that is going on November 1955 02:19:28.479 --> 02:19:31.120 third through fifth. This is your chance. It's a big deal. Don't 1956 02:19:31.159 --> 02:19:35.280 want to miss that. We are now going to head out. Let's see, 1957 02:19:35.360 --> 02:19:39.600 we're gonna go to Ronnie and Lake Jackson. Hello, Ronnie, Hey, 1958 02:19:39.719 --> 02:19:41.680 Skip, how are you doing this morning? I'm good, sir. 1959 02:19:41.000 --> 02:19:46.760 What's up? Listen? I've got to cut bunch of I live on a 1960 02:19:46.079 --> 02:19:50.600 little over an acre. I've got a whole bunch of little trees coming up 1961 02:19:50.680 --> 02:19:56.079 anywhere from they've sprouted straight up seven foot down to three foot. Okay, 1962 02:19:56.280 --> 02:20:01.000 is there some way I can cut them and put something all the trunk or 1963 02:20:01.120 --> 02:20:05.760 the leftover base that will go to the root and kill it. There is. 1964 02:20:07.600 --> 02:20:16.120 The product is called the ingredient is called trichlo pierre trii clo p y 1965 02:20:16.399 --> 02:20:18.840 r. Now it's sold in a variety of products. One of them may 1966 02:20:18.879 --> 02:20:22.680 be called brush killer, poison, ivy killer or whatever, but that's what 1967 02:20:22.799 --> 02:20:28.159 it does. So you cut it off and immediately get your little one of 1968 02:20:28.200 --> 02:20:31.719 those little sponge paint brushes like you get at the paint store, you know, 1969 02:20:31.879 --> 02:20:35.719 and just dab that product right on the fresh cut right away. Don't 1970 02:20:35.760 --> 02:20:39.719 do it the next day while it's fresh cut. It dab it on there. 1971 02:20:39.760 --> 02:20:43.799 Sure. If the tree is really thin barked, real young, which 1972 02:20:43.879 --> 02:20:46.360 it sounds like some of those may be, you can literally just kind of 1973 02:20:46.399 --> 02:20:50.879 paint it on the outside of the bottom foot of trunk or so and do 1974 02:20:50.000 --> 02:20:54.760 that. Sometimes people will mix it in a little bit of diesel. Diesel 1975 02:20:54.879 --> 02:20:58.879 is an oil, and mixing the tracle pier into diesel makes it stick better 1976 02:21:00.079 --> 02:21:03.120 to the outer bark. But if you're gonna cut him off, just cut 1977 02:21:03.200 --> 02:21:07.399 him off and treat that stump. It should get it in one treatment. 1978 02:21:07.559 --> 02:21:09.639 Sometimes you get a little bit of rich sprouting. It recovers, but you 1979 02:21:09.760 --> 02:21:15.200 hit it a second time and you'll be done. I appreciate it. Skip, 1980 02:21:15.360 --> 02:21:18.680 take care all right, Ronnie, thank you. I appreciate appreciate your 1981 02:21:18.719 --> 02:21:22.000 call very much. The uh, let's see, we're gonna now go to 1982 02:21:22.239 --> 02:21:28.600 Norman in Spring. Hello Norman, Hey, Skip, thanks for taking our 1983 02:21:28.680 --> 02:21:33.399 call. Yes, sir, how can we help? Many years ago we 1984 02:21:33.600 --> 02:21:39.079 learned about esperanza being a beautiful yellow blooming plant. Yes, sir, I 1985 02:21:39.200 --> 02:21:45.280 found out esperanza means hope, h jope okay in Spanish. So we're hoping 1986 02:21:45.719 --> 02:21:54.040 that our esperanza will bloom someday. We planted a speranza store bought in a 1987 02:21:54.360 --> 02:21:58.360 coy pond that we had covered up, okay, and that thing is as 1988 02:21:58.399 --> 02:22:05.000 big as a tree now and we haven't had one bloom. Can you help 1989 02:22:05.079 --> 02:22:09.559 us out something's wrong? Is it supposed to have yellow blooms or orange blooms? 1990 02:22:09.639 --> 02:22:16.159 Yellow? Okay? So there are native types of esperanza. They tend 1991 02:22:16.200 --> 02:22:20.000 to have strappier leaves with more jagged edges. And then the gold star, 1992 02:22:20.239 --> 02:22:24.600 the kind that really set the world on for a number of years ago. 1993 02:22:24.600 --> 02:22:31.879 It has a little flatter, a little broader rather leaf and I can't describe 1994 02:22:31.920 --> 02:22:33.799 the difference on the air. You just have to see them. But as 1995 02:22:33.840 --> 02:22:37.879 you go into a garden center and see a true gold star. Gold Stars 1996 02:22:37.879 --> 02:22:41.760 will start blooming when they're three feet high, and they keep going. If 1997 02:22:41.799 --> 02:22:45.079 you've got one that big that's not blooming, I think you must have gotten 1998 02:22:45.200 --> 02:22:48.200 kind of more of a I'll call it a wild type of esperanza. Uh. 1999 02:22:48.520 --> 02:22:52.680 And you might you don't want to hear this, but you might need 2000 02:22:52.760 --> 02:22:54.200 to go find you a gold star, dig it and dig that one up 2001 02:22:54.280 --> 02:23:01.479 and put a gold star in and eventually, yeah, eventually even the wild 2002 02:23:01.520 --> 02:23:03.879 type should bloom. But it shouldn't be that big and not blooming. Yeah. 2003 02:23:05.639 --> 02:23:09.920 Yeah, the truncks own it, are you know, probably inch and 2004 02:23:09.959 --> 02:23:15.840 a half tick? Okay, it's sticking up over there all right, backs 2005 02:23:15.879 --> 02:23:18.799 as high as you can think. Yeah, no blooms at all. Well, 2006 02:23:18.879 --> 02:23:20.319 you could wait, give it one more year, or you could replace 2007 02:23:20.399 --> 02:23:22.479 it. Those are kound of the two options. I hate to be the 2008 02:23:22.520 --> 02:23:26.440 bearer of bad news, but appreciate you. Appreciate you calling asking about it. 2009 02:23:26.799 --> 02:23:30.719 Norman. That os Brown's is a beautiful plant. Thank you, thank 2010 02:23:30.760 --> 02:23:33.680 you for that call. If you need any tree work done, you need 2011 02:23:33.760 --> 02:23:39.680 to call Affordable right now. Martin spoon More he knows trees. I've been 2012 02:23:39.719 --> 02:23:43.600 doing this over thirty years, taking care of Houston trees. The website is 2013 02:23:43.719 --> 02:23:48.200 Afftree Service dot com. The phone number is seven one three six nine nine 2014 02:23:48.520 --> 02:23:54.440 twenty six sixty three. And when you call the owner and his owners, 2015 02:23:54.639 --> 02:23:56.879 Martin and his wife, they're gonna be the ones that answer seven one three 2016 02:23:58.200 --> 02:24:01.680 six nine nine twenty six sixty three. They don't answer. You call the 2017 02:24:01.719 --> 02:24:05.719 wrong place with Affordable in the name. Hang out in Redal. But if 2018 02:24:05.760 --> 02:24:09.360 you need any kind of work done in your trees, pruning, get on 2019 02:24:09.479 --> 02:24:11.120 the schedule. He stays busy. I mean he does good work, so 2020 02:24:11.200 --> 02:24:15.559 he stays busy. But garden line customers go to the front of the line. 2021 02:24:15.719 --> 02:24:18.840 So just don't delay. Get scheduled. I mean you may want him 2022 02:24:18.879 --> 02:24:22.159 to do pruning in February or something. Go ahead and call him and get 2023 02:24:22.200 --> 02:24:24.600 on the schedule and let's get that done. If you're planning on doing anything 2024 02:24:24.680 --> 02:24:28.840 around those trees, to disturb the soil, a trench, a sidewalk, 2025 02:24:30.399 --> 02:24:33.840 driving vehicles through there, anything, you got to call him and let him 2026 02:24:33.879 --> 02:24:37.319 come out first with a consultation to tell you how to do it right. 2027 02:24:37.600 --> 02:24:43.000 Because once you damage your tree, it's very difficult to recover from that kind 2028 02:24:43.000 --> 02:24:46.760 of damage. So call Martin first. He knows what he's talking about. 2029 02:24:48.280 --> 02:24:50.040 We're about to have to take a break here. Valerie, you will be 2030 02:24:50.120 --> 02:24:52.920 the very first st up. Thanks for waiting. I'm going to have to 2031 02:24:52.959 --> 02:24:56.280 hold you till after break so I can devote an adequate amount of time to 2032 02:24:56.399 --> 02:25:00.879 your call. And Troy you will be next. The phone number is seven 2033 02:25:00.959 --> 02:25:05.680 one three two one two five eight seven four seven one three two one two 2034 02:25:05.959 --> 02:25:09.239 kt r H. Give Josh a call. Let's get you on the boards 2035 02:25:09.319 --> 02:25:16.079 and we'll be right back. Josh, you're getting creative on me today. 2036 02:25:16.719 --> 02:25:20.200 I like that. Listen. If you're listening to Guarden Line. By the 2037 02:25:20.239 --> 02:25:22.879 way, I'm your host, Skip Richter and if you're inched, given us 2038 02:25:22.920 --> 02:25:26.680 to call seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four. UH. 2039 02:25:28.040 --> 02:25:33.760 Nature's Creation has an all natural betting plant food with micarizal fungi. Now this 2040 02:25:33.920 --> 02:25:37.479 is specifically blended for betting plants. It contains alfalfa meal, cottonseed meal, 2041 02:25:37.600 --> 02:25:41.760 humates, molasses, I got some composted poultry and calman are in there, 2042 02:25:41.879 --> 02:25:46.600 sulfate of potash, green sand, and then the micarizal fungi. So it's 2043 02:25:46.680 --> 02:25:50.799 excellent for any kind of fall blooming plants, your pansies, your cycloman snap 2044 02:25:50.879 --> 02:25:56.200 dragons, a listen stock, petunias, anything like that. Now you're going 2045 02:25:56.239 --> 02:26:00.120 to be able to buy Nature's Creation, all natural betting plant food with Micorizat 2046 02:26:00.200 --> 02:26:03.639 fungi at Quality Feed on Luzon Street. We talk about them all the time. 2047 02:26:03.959 --> 02:26:07.920 Moss Nursery out in Seabrook or I was just mentioning RCWP on two forty 2048 02:26:09.000 --> 02:26:13.280 nine and all Houston garden centers will carry that product. I'm going to head 2049 02:26:13.360 --> 02:26:16.399 out now. We've got a little busy board going on here. Let's go 2050 02:26:16.479 --> 02:26:20.319 to Valerie and Valerie, how are you doing this morning? Oh? I'm 2051 02:26:20.440 --> 02:26:24.680 fine, I said a question. Thanks for taking my call. I have 2052 02:26:24.760 --> 02:26:28.319 a question. It's the cold weather coming this week. Is still is it 2053 02:26:28.440 --> 02:26:33.639 too late to plant? Fad? Too late to plant? What? Please 2054 02:26:33.440 --> 02:26:37.959 put saw down? You know, if you need to get it down, 2055 02:26:39.040 --> 02:26:43.120 go ahead and get it down as soon as possible. Generally we're kind of 2056 02:26:43.200 --> 02:26:46.639 hitting that line where it's it's a tough call because as we get cooler and 2057 02:26:46.680 --> 02:26:50.719 cooler, the sod roots are going to slow down and you're not going to 2058 02:26:50.760 --> 02:26:54.479 get that new sod established as quickly as we'd like to. If you can 2059 02:26:54.600 --> 02:26:58.799 wait until about April and it's really growing and get it down, then it'll 2060 02:26:58.799 --> 02:27:03.040 have to ground running. But if you need to get it down again, 2061 02:27:03.360 --> 02:27:05.200 do so soon. We're about to get into some really cool weather and that 2062 02:27:05.319 --> 02:27:09.159 Saint Augustine is not going to be interested in growing when we get into the 2063 02:27:09.239 --> 02:27:13.040 next few days of this week, but it'll warm up again a little bit 2064 02:27:13.079 --> 02:27:16.120 after that. So that's the judgment call you need to make on that valerie. 2065 02:27:16.159 --> 02:27:20.840 It's not a black and white issue. And how do you prepare the 2066 02:27:20.000 --> 02:27:24.040 soil before you do it. First of all, you want to level the 2067 02:27:24.120 --> 02:27:26.600 area. If you got any holes or anything like that, you want to 2068 02:27:26.600 --> 02:27:30.079 get some soil in there to level it. And then just if you loosen 2069 02:27:30.200 --> 02:27:31.639 up the surface a little bit, that's okay, but it doesn't have to 2070 02:27:31.719 --> 02:27:35.760 happen. What's most important is when you lay the new side, you press 2071 02:27:35.920 --> 02:27:39.760 it down so there's no air gap between the soil that came in with the 2072 02:27:39.879 --> 02:27:43.879 sod and the soil in your yard. And then you want to water it 2073 02:27:43.959 --> 02:27:52.600 with light frequent irrigations to keep it supplied with moisture until it gets some roots 2074 02:27:52.639 --> 02:27:58.920 down and then you back off. Okay, okay, And so you say 2075 02:28:00.159 --> 02:28:03.840 I need to wait till the coat like next weekend when it's warm again. 2076 02:28:05.079 --> 02:28:09.120 Well, you know, there's no problem going ahead and laying it down now. 2077 02:28:09.399 --> 02:28:13.440 I mean, it's going to do something. But I wouldn't delay laying 2078 02:28:13.479 --> 02:28:16.239 it down. I would just do it pretty quick. But I'm just telling 2079 02:28:16.280 --> 02:28:18.200 you that as it warms up a little bit, then you get the grass 2080 02:28:18.239 --> 02:28:22.959 moves a little faster and gets established a little faster. Okay, But April 2081 02:28:24.079 --> 02:28:28.079 is really the ideal time to put it down. Grass is very happy here 2082 02:28:28.200 --> 02:28:31.719 in April, and it's ready to get growing, and it just may be 2083 02:28:31.799 --> 02:28:33.719 a simpler time. You may get by with it. And I don't want 2084 02:28:33.719 --> 02:28:37.719 to it's a gray area and I don't want to be confusing about this, 2085 02:28:37.120 --> 02:28:39.840 but you may get by with it now. But if you put it down 2086 02:28:39.959 --> 02:28:45.319 and then we had a really bad hard freeze came unusually early here, well 2087 02:28:45.440 --> 02:28:48.959 that'd be a problem for the grass because it's not well rooted in yet. 2088 02:28:48.280 --> 02:28:54.280 And so that's why I'm saying, you know, it's do it, but 2089 02:28:54.440 --> 02:28:58.600 do it quick or wait and do it later and kind of head your bed 2090 02:28:58.680 --> 02:29:03.200 that way. Okay, yeah, I think I may sauce. I hate 2091 02:29:03.280 --> 02:29:07.719 to take the chance and buy all this pod and then have it. Yeah. 2092 02:29:07.920 --> 02:29:11.200 Well yeah, and you know, I know people are still out planting 2093 02:29:11.280 --> 02:29:15.559 side and they get by with it. But it just that's the facts on 2094 02:29:15.680 --> 02:29:18.520 it. But I hope that helps Valerie, and I do appreciate your call. 2095 02:29:18.520 --> 02:29:22.120 Oh well, thanks. Can I ask you one quick question, a 2096 02:29:22.159 --> 02:29:24.760 real quick one. I got some folks with you, and the man said 2097 02:29:24.879 --> 02:29:31.200 he had tree roots coming through. And you said, planning a ground cover 2098 02:29:31.440 --> 02:29:35.120 like as O jazz man. Is that what you called it? I said, 2099 02:29:35.239 --> 02:29:39.719 Asian Jazmine as an example, it's the groundcover you see around all over 2100 02:29:39.799 --> 02:29:46.120 town around live oaks. Underneath it's just a groundcover that grows on the soil. 2101 02:29:46.479 --> 02:29:48.479 Yeah, And that was just an example of one. But basically I 2102 02:29:48.600 --> 02:29:52.000 was saying, plant plants to cover up those roots. That was about all 2103 02:29:52.079 --> 02:29:56.520 that amounted to. Okay, oh okay, Asian Jazz. Thank you. 2104 02:29:56.680 --> 02:29:58.959 I appreciate your call very much. I'm going to run now to Southwest Houston 2105 02:30:00.120 --> 02:30:03.479 talk to Donna. Hello, Donna, Hi there, Hi, thank you 2106 02:30:03.600 --> 02:30:07.120 for taking thank you for taking my call. A quick question. I bought 2107 02:30:07.399 --> 02:30:13.520 for your recommendation the carbo load okay, but I'm I'm not sure whether my 2108 02:30:15.159 --> 02:30:18.799 uh my lawn is covered by oak trees about a half of it, and 2109 02:30:18.920 --> 02:30:24.239 I didn't see where it said because it has the pre emergent, is it 2110 02:30:24.399 --> 02:30:26.680 still okay to put beneath the drip line of the oak tree? It is 2111 02:30:26.760 --> 02:30:31.360 okay. You want to put it out at the right rate. Anytime you're 2112 02:30:31.360 --> 02:30:33.600 applying, whether it's a fertilizer with a pre emergent or a pre emergent by 2113 02:30:33.639 --> 02:30:41.159 itself, it's it's like taking a medicine yourself. You don't triple dose something. 2114 02:30:41.319 --> 02:30:46.559 You follow the instructions on the bottle, right and and that's that's true 2115 02:30:46.840 --> 02:30:50.079 of any kind of a pre emergent herbicide. But there's no problem with putting 2116 02:30:50.120 --> 02:30:54.120 that under your trees, watering it in well, no carbo load is it's 2117 02:30:54.159 --> 02:31:00.680 got an excellent blend of nutrients for fall. It's designed based on dific research 2118 02:31:00.719 --> 02:31:03.840 tot A and M by soiling crops and whatnot. It's designed to give your 2119 02:31:03.920 --> 02:31:07.000 lawn what it needs now. And they throw that pre emergon in because just 2120 02:31:07.200 --> 02:31:11.840 like now, we're fertilizing for our grass to get stronger. Going into winter, 2121 02:31:11.239 --> 02:31:15.879 we also have to have the pre emergent there to prevent the winter weeds. 2122 02:31:15.959 --> 02:31:18.120 And as we go into this next week, we got cool weather and 2123 02:31:18.159 --> 02:31:22.000 we've got some rain coming, and winter weeds are going to be an issue, 2124 02:31:22.239 --> 02:31:26.079 but they are every year. But that's just the queue for them to 2125 02:31:26.159 --> 02:31:28.520 get going. So if you're going to do that carbo load, and I 2126 02:31:28.600 --> 02:31:33.479 recommend you do, don't delay, go ahead and get it down, okay. 2127 02:31:33.520 --> 02:31:37.399 And if some of it kind of goes over into my evergreen bushes, 2128 02:31:37.479 --> 02:31:41.879 that's okay for them as well, perfectly. Okay. The only place that 2129 02:31:41.959 --> 02:31:45.639 wouldn't be okay is if you had some soil where you're going to plant some 2130 02:31:46.200 --> 02:31:48.479 lettuce seeds, or you were going to plant, you know, some flower 2131 02:31:48.559 --> 02:31:52.399 seeds or something right away. You wouldn't want to put it down and then 2132 02:31:52.520 --> 02:31:56.479 have those because it would do to them like it does to the weed seeds. 2133 02:31:56.520 --> 02:31:58.399 But it's made for lawns, so if you get a little bit around 2134 02:31:58.399 --> 02:32:03.000 the shrubs, it's okay. Thank you, and we love your show, 2135 02:32:03.079 --> 02:32:07.600 and thanks for keeping the song grating in the grass for your song. Okay, 2136 02:32:07.399 --> 02:32:11.879 all right, thank you, b I appreciate that. I appreciate that 2137 02:32:11.959 --> 02:32:15.920 done. And by the way, that on that uh carbo load every bag 2138 02:32:16.040 --> 02:32:20.719 that's sold this fall. Dan Nelson's donating two dollars to Randy's memorial scholarship. 2139 02:32:22.159 --> 02:32:24.840 What a wonderful cause Randy would be so proud. I can tell you that 2140 02:32:24.920 --> 02:32:30.479 I knew Randy A and M meant a lot to him, and this would 2141 02:32:30.520 --> 02:32:33.159 really make him happy. I can tell you that for sure. Let's go 2142 02:32:33.239 --> 02:32:35.200 out to Montgomery now we're going to talk to Troy. Hello, Troy, 2143 02:32:37.360 --> 02:32:41.360 Hey, good morning. A quick question for you the end of the year. 2144 02:32:41.479 --> 02:32:46.959 Basil just wondering with this cold weather. Should I just bring it into 2145 02:32:46.000 --> 02:32:50.840 the garage for the next few days. Do a partial haircut or a complete 2146 02:32:50.879 --> 02:32:54.959 haircut? It's growing in a container. Yeah, okay, uh yeah. 2147 02:32:56.120 --> 02:32:58.799 Basil does not like cool temperatures. It doesn't have to freeze for Basil to 2148 02:32:58.840 --> 02:33:03.159 be unhappy. When you get in the lower forties, it's not very happy. 2149 02:33:03.200 --> 02:33:05.760 And when you get in the thirties anywhere, it's very unhappy. So 2150 02:33:07.159 --> 02:33:09.600 I would I would probably bring it in. You can take it back out 2151 02:33:09.639 --> 02:33:13.479 again when the temperatures are better. But just realize it's not going to be 2152 02:33:13.520 --> 02:33:18.120 a winter herb for you. Oh yeah, it only will lasts only for 2153 02:33:18.200 --> 02:33:20.639 a short time. Yeah, I just didn't know if I should go ahead 2154 02:33:20.639 --> 02:33:22.559 and do a complete harvesting. Yeah, that's something you can do. I 2155 02:33:22.600 --> 02:33:26.360 mean, some people will cut the stems and they'll put them in a glass 2156 02:33:26.479 --> 02:33:28.440 of water indoors and they'll they'll form roots and you can keep it in a 2157 02:33:28.479 --> 02:33:31.680 window sill maybe for the winter. Or pick the leaves and dry them. 2158 02:33:31.760 --> 02:33:37.239 That's another option too. Okay, well, listen, really appreciate your help. 2159 02:33:37.360 --> 02:33:41.360 All right, Troy, you take care up there in Montgomery, and 2160 02:33:41.440 --> 02:33:46.600 we definitely appreciate your call. Wow, this this morning has gone fast. 2161 02:33:46.879 --> 02:33:52.639 That that just really really went quick. Guard lines around every Saturday and every 2162 02:33:52.719 --> 02:33:56.280 Sunday from six am to ten am. If you got neighbors that aren't listening, 2163 02:33:56.399 --> 02:33:58.760 I hope you'll tell them. Tell you tell your relatives too, you 2164 02:33:58.840 --> 02:34:01.399 know. So our signal reaches all the way over to the Louisiana border, 2165 02:34:01.479 --> 02:34:05.079 and I know I've listened to it and really passed new bron fuls over that 2166 02:34:05.239 --> 02:34:09.559 direction. So a wide variety of areas, you know, people tell them 2167 02:34:09.559 --> 02:34:13.479 about garden Line. We focus here on helping people have success. The way 2168 02:34:13.479 --> 02:34:16.799 I like to put it is to help you have a more beautiful lawn and 2169 02:34:16.879 --> 02:34:22.520 a more bountiful landscape. That's what it's all about here, including your vegetable 2170 02:34:22.600 --> 02:34:26.760 gardens and your fruit trees and whatnot. Don't forget that. Next Saturday, 2171 02:34:28.079 --> 02:34:33.319 I will be at Ciena Mulch from eleven thirty to one thirty. Cna Maultch 2172 02:34:33.440 --> 02:34:35.239 is down there in the road sharing area. You hear about me talk about 2173 02:34:35.280 --> 02:34:39.600 Sienna all the time. I'll be there for two hours at a table doing 2174 02:34:39.639 --> 02:34:43.639 an appearance. The folks at Senna are having quite a little gathering. That 2175 02:34:43.719 --> 02:34:46.399 little food truck coming out. They've got a number of different people. Some 2176 02:34:46.520 --> 02:34:50.440 of our sponsors will be out there and others. It's just a good chance 2177 02:34:50.559 --> 02:34:54.600 to really get out and have a good time and learn a lot and meet 2178 02:34:54.639 --> 02:34:56.239 a lot of people. And while you're out there, that would be a 2179 02:34:56.280 --> 02:35:01.360 good time to go ahead and pick up those fertilizers about the Nelson Carblode a 2180 02:35:01.360 --> 02:35:05.120 minute ago. They've got that. They've got all the fertilizer we talk about 2181 02:35:05.159 --> 02:35:09.120 here on guarden Line. They have a good supply of all of it on 2182 02:35:09.239 --> 02:35:11.639 hand. They've got the bag molts, they've got they got a bulk maltz 2183 02:35:11.719 --> 02:35:16.559 delivery within twenty miles of the area of that around there for a small charge, 2184 02:35:16.280 --> 02:35:20.239 So it'd be a good time. Just empty the back of your pickup 2185 02:35:20.280 --> 02:35:22.159 truck so you can bring a bunch of stuff home, because you know what 2186 02:35:22.520 --> 02:35:28.280 we say, brown stuff comes before green stuff. Take care of the soil 2187 02:35:28.799 --> 02:35:31.000 and then put the plants in and you will be well on your way to 2188 02:35:31.120 --> 02:35:35.680 success. So so very important. You know, it's easy to get excited 2189 02:35:35.719 --> 02:35:39.440 about a big, old, giant, red dinner plate sized hibiscus flower. 2190 02:35:39.959 --> 02:35:45.280 Kind of hard sometimes to get people excited about some brown composts. If you're 2191 02:35:45.280 --> 02:35:48.680 a gardener, you do get excited about that. I like to lay in 2192 02:35:48.760 --> 02:35:52.559 a big poly compost and make compost angels, you know, even the hands 2193 02:35:52.680 --> 02:35:56.000 back and before. But that's just me. Hey, if you haven't gone 2194 02:35:56.040 --> 02:36:00.959 to my website gardening with skip dot com, need to do that. On 2195 02:36:01.200 --> 02:36:05.479 there you will find my lawn care schedule and my lawn pest disease and weed 2196 02:36:05.799 --> 02:36:13.000 management schedules. Both they're both available there at gardeningwi skip dot com. Also 2197 02:36:13.079 --> 02:36:18.799 there I posted a link to an article on planting fruit trees by doctor Larry 2198 02:36:18.840 --> 02:36:22.440 Stein from the an M. Horde Department. It is an excellent article. 2199 02:36:22.799 --> 02:36:26.440 I recommend you read it. If you are thinking about anytime soon planning a 2200 02:36:26.479 --> 02:36:28.719 fruit tree, that would be a good one to see. We're going to 2201 02:36:28.840 --> 02:36:33.680 keep chucking that website full of stuff, got a lot of plans for adding 2202 02:36:33.760 --> 02:36:37.479 more content to it. But go ahead and bookmarket so you're ready to go, 2203 02:36:37.600 --> 02:36:41.280 And in the meantime you can listen to us on podcasts if you missed 2204 02:36:41.319 --> 02:36:43.559 anything, I will just see you next Saturday.