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

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

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It's crazy, Yes, Trim just
watch him as well us so many

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give a teas the suppotasys back again
not a sound good morning, good Saturday

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morning on a great day for gardening, boyet today is it's gonna be a

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good one to get out and about. I'm your host, Skip Richter,

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and you're listening to garden Line.
We are a call in show. That

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means if you have a question about
gardening and would like to call in and

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ask, we'd be happy to help
you with that. The phone number seven

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

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eight seven four. I got some
work done in the garden this week.

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Finally found some time to get out
there and do a little bit of this,

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that and the other. We've got
a number of projects started. You

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know, one thing about gardening is
you never finish. And I think that's

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a good thing. I mean,
you could decide, well I'm done.

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That's that's all I'm gonna do.
But I'm just saying you've got color changes.

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There's always a new season coming,
there's new vegetables, and there's new

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flowers to plant, just lots of
things going on. And I think it's

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good to look at your landscape as
an evolving palette, you know, because

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what we do is we paint with
plants, right, and you can just

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set it up and try to get
it to last as long as you want.

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I mean that's possible. But in
reality, the most beautiful landscapes,

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and I think as a gardener,
the most fun is when you're changing some

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things out periodically. You know,
don't be afraid to pull out shrubs and

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put new shrubs in. Shrubs get
too big, sometimes they overgrow, or

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a new variety comes out, a
new species comes out that you just think

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will more enhance the property look better. They'll be afraid to do that.

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Certainly, we do that with flowers
and shrubs and vegetables. I mean,

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you know that's common, but why
not consider some re vamping on your landscape

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on one thing I think everybody needs
to do more of, and that is

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container color. Container gardening outside,
whether you're growing vegetables or flowers, a

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quality container not only can be productive
it can be beautiful. You move them

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in and out. It's a way
to get almost instant bizazz to a space,

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whether it's a patio or coming up
the front walk. However you want

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to do it. Hanging baskets,
it's another way. By the way,

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if you're doing that, you can
fill those containers with jungle Land, a

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product distributed by Nitrophos. Jungle Land
is a quality swim mix. It drains

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well, but it also holds moisture, so it allows you to not have

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to water so often, but also
to make sure you don't have that soggy,

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gummy, gunky wet condition that's so
hard on plant roots. Jungle Land

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is designed for that with Canadian blonde
pete and organic matters. Got microhizo fungi

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in it to help with the root
system. And you're going to find jungle

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Land by the way. I'm talking
about the flour and vegetable planting version.

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There's also an indoor version, but
you're going to find it at Bearings Hardware

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on Bissonette and Westheimer out in Richmond, at Plantation Ace Hardware. You'll find

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it there as well as Hiding and
Feed up on Stubner Airline. We're going

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to jump right into the phones this
morning and go to Hockeley and talk to

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Ruthie. Hello, Ruthy, do
we have a Ruthie today? All right,

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I think it would. Let's see
here. I'm going to put Ruthie

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back on hold that all right,
just one second, we'll get your hare

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Ruthie. There we go. I
heard of Ruthie. Oh oh, oh

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good, I hear you. Now. I recently found a Peggy Martin rose

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growing wild in one of our unimproved
pastures on our ranch. So I took

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up a couple of branches that had
just started rooting. I cut off another

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branch. I need your thoughts on
how to help it root and will it

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survive. A couple of ways to
go about it. You can take cuttings

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and root the cuttings you need to
deplement a rooting hormone. You need short

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little cuttings, maybe four to six
inches long at the most six that you

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take the leaves off the bottom third
or half of the cutting and dip it

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in the rooting hormone and put it
in a moist medium with a cover over

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it to keep air from escaping,
kind of a greenhouse like cover. It

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could be saran wrap, or it
could be a upside down Mason jar.

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Whatever works for you. Okay,
that works. What's better since it's growing

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in your pasture. Or would be
to take a branch from it, bend

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it down toward the ground, and
then bend the branch so that it cracks

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not breaks off. But it's more
like your elbow. You know, your

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arm is attached to your shoulder.
Your elbow moves, but it's still attached.

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And put that belt, put that
elbow under the soil, or put

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it on a prong out there.
Do something to hold it down. It

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could be a coat hanger, pin
in the ground. It could be a

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big rock setting on it. Keep
it moist. You're going have to go

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out there about every two ny days
and wet that area, and after a

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while it will root. And that's
a higher person success. By the way,

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realthy, that is not a Peggy
Martin. That's something else, because

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if it came from a seed from
you know, pollination, unless someone took

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a Peggy Martin and planted it out
there, that is some other kind of

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rose. But it may look a
lot like Peggy Martin. Yeah, it

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looks exactly like Peggy Martin. We
used to have some rent houses out there,

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so I'm thinking that somebody planted it. I don't know anyway, I

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just it's beautiful. I want to
get it to root, and so this

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helps. There you go, Okay, good luck with that. Perfect Thank

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you so much. You bet,
thanks a lot, good ie, appreciate

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it. Well, let's see here
a little bit of information there. It

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is kind of interesting. I want
to just mention a couple of other things

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we I was in ace Heart Restored
the other day looking at some of the

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materials that they had on hand.
I bought a actually this is not really

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related to gardening, but I bought
one of those little things you hook to

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your garden hose and spray off the
sidewalk. You know, it's kind of

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like a powerwasher, but on a
garden hose end. If you can,

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try to put those two together.
And was just cleaning off the side sidewalk.

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We'd had a bunch of soil delivered, and I'd been moving it around

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doing some things and just cleaning it
all off. But while I was in

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there, I just again noticed how
much product they carry. When you're thinking

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about things like fertilizers and pesticides,
we control insect disease, all of that

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kind of thing. When you're looking
at all of the different things you need

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to go with your gardening, it's
there. It's at ACE. ACE is

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the place for that. And right
now, ACE is a place to go

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in and get your fire ant control. You need to start with a fire

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ant bait. ACE is going to
have more than one brand a fire ant

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bait that work well. The fire
ant bait is put out a very low

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rate all over your property. And
then a couple of weeks later, any

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mounds that have not been shut down, you know you kick the top off

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and no ants come out, that
means you did it well. Any mounds

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you missed, just use a mound
drench and acessos as well for you.

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They've got mosquito control and boys at
ever time to get on the mosquitos in

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the yard. Ace is a place
for anything you need. It's easy to

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find. Go to Acehardware dot com
and you'll find with their store locator.

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They're on the Acehardware dot Com website
over forty store forty stores here actually in

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the Greater Houston area, making it
easy for you to find one that's really

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really close to you. We're gonna
take a little break. We'll be right

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back our phone number seven one three
two one two fifty eight seventy four.

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Welcome back to garden Line. Good
to have you with us today. Hey,

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this is going to be a day
to get outside, get some stuff

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done. It is always a good
day for gardening. I've said this before.

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If you listen to guard Line,
you've probably heard me say that even

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on a rainy day, sleading hail
outside everything all the above, well,

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you can still garden inside. You
can start transplants for outdoors. You can

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root cuttings. We're just talking to
Ruthy about rooting some cuttings on a rose

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a minute ago. You can start
seeds for example. You can take care

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of your houseplants. You can divide
them, you can repot them. That

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there's always something to be doing when
you like to grow things, and boys

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are ever always something to grow.
So many plants, so little time.

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That's one of the things I tell
you. Those of us that are plant

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collectors were dangerous because if there's a
plant we don't have, we got to

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have it, and we already filled
our yard up. I mean, for

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crying out loud, the place looks
like a bomb went off in a garden

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center and everything rooted where it landed. That's what a plant collector's yard looks

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like. I'm sorry, it just
is Hey, it's your yard, do

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what you want. And then you
got the folks that are the you know,

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they're into the beauty and the design, and they may even hire somebody

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to come out and lay it out
and make it all beautiful and gorgeous.

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And yeah, that's wonderful your own
little botanical garden, however you want to

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go about it. Speaking of a
botanical garden, if you want to create

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one, you need to drive over
to Plants for All Seasons. I was

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by there, oh gosh, about
a week ago, and it is amazing

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the color that they have right now. I mean, the place is just

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from the time you walk in,
you are just walking past rows and layers

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of flowers, you know, roses
on standards and all kinds of things,

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vines, you know that Lamanda's amanda
villas, and you've got things like tropical

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aubiscus. You've got a beautiful annual
flower for containers for beds, You've got

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vegetables and herbs, and just go
by and you see what I'm talking about

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and if you've been there before,
you know they always keep stocked up plants

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for all seasons. That's the garden
Center if you haven't been there. If

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you're going north toward Tomball on Highway
two forty nine, we call it Tomball

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Parkway. When you get to Luetta, you exit Luetta and go right across

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the Luetta stay on the feeder road
and it's right there on the right hand

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side, easy to find, easy
to get in and out, and always

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there. You're going to find two, well, several things, but two

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very important things. Is a great
selection of plants that want to grow here

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and staff that know what they're talking
about, and they can direct you to

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the plant that fits the situation you
need a plant for. Is it shady,

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is it sunny, is it well
drained or not? Do you want

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color or are you looking for produce? They can point you to the right

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things plants for all seasons. The
website just go by their plants for all

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seasons. Dot Com two eight,
one, three, seven, six,

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sixteen forty six makes it easy when
you go someplace and they've got what you're

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needing. They've got exactly what you're
looking for. I think that's important.

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And I've talked about these kind of
things before here on Guardline that you know,

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you can go a lot of places
and buy plants. You can,

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they may or may not be four
here. It drives me nuts to go

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into places that sell plants that absolutely
won't grow here. They just won't.

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They not a long term it's a
long term disappointment. Or to go into

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places where people don't know what they're
talking about. They just absolutely don't.

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And I mean I'm not knocking the
people. I mean they for crying out

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loud. They were They're just looking
for a job, to someplace to work

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right, and good for them.
But when you're going in wanting knowledge about

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what does this pest control product do? Or what will kill our ants?

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Or how do I prevent a weed? Or what is a good fertilizer and

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how do I use it? And
on and on and on, when do

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you print this plant? All that
kind of stuff. Our independent garden centers

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are mom and pot nurseries. That's
the way to go. And I'm telling

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you, in the long term,
it is much more economical to go to

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a place that knows what they're talking
about, where you get the right plant

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and you do it once and you
have success than it is to do this,

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you know, shopping around with people
that just don't know what they're doing,

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places that just don't know what they're
selling, and so on. Anyway,

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I gripe about that a lot,
but it's a soapbox for me.

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And there is a great value in
having a local business that's been here a

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while that knows what they're talking about. I mentioned earlier. You know Ace

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Hardware having mosquito control products, and
you know, mosquito dunks is one of

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those products that mesquite to dunks or
the little formed a little like mini donuts

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if you will, that you put
out there in water and they release a

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mosquito disease. Is that cool or
what? Now, this disease won't hurt

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birds, It won't hurt the family
cat or dog. It is just something

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that gets mosquitoes. And it's a
form of BT actually different than the caterpillar

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form. But it will release that
and it will last for a month or

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more. And one dunk covers one
hundred square feet of water surface. They

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also have a little granular form of
it as well, mosquito bits. But

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the dunk as it dissolves, it's
releasing that bacterium, and it's making sure

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you're not a skeeter breeder at your
place. By the way, you should

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check underneath your pots, those little
catch basins. Dump those out the bird

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baths, blast the water out,
get some fresh water in there, because

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mosquito larva can transform really fast.
If you've got gutters that are sagging and

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they tend to hole water. It
does not take much water at all.

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I mean a mosquito literally a little
thumbleful of water, especially once it's got

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some decaying organic matter in it.
They really love that. They can go

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through their life cycle in there.
So you need to watch for that.

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Holes in trees and other things watch
out for that. But mosquito dunks is

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the safest, simplest product in the
world to use. Just use it and

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help avoid being a skeeter breeder.
Once they're flying around, then we're having

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to get other kinds of pesticides to
spray them and kill them and whatnot.

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Why not just shut them down at
the source. With mosquito dunks widely available

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every independent nursery that I've been talking
about, the feed stores that I've been

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talking about, and ace hardware stores, they're going to have the mosquito dunks

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Mosquito season. Boy, is that
ever? Is that ever? A fun

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time in the south right? You
know, they discovery We've already had some

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reports around different parks of Texas here
colluding the mosquito capital of the world down

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southeast Texas of certain kinds of human
diseases that have been discovered already mosquitoes.

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You know, everybody knows about things
like malaria, you know when they built

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the Panama Canal and we're dealing with
that. There's West Nile virus and several

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other different kinds of human diseases that
are vectored by mosquitos. You do not

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need those things put in their mouth
parts in you so garden line quiz,

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what is the first and most important
step if you're gonna have success with plants?

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The answer is, I'll go ahead
and give you the answer. The

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soil, the soil, the soil, the soil, brown stuff, then

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green stuff. That is the simple
abc of success with gardening. Brown stuff

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and then green stuff. Yes you
need fertilizer, Yes you need sunlight and

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drainage and all that, but you
start with the soil and heirloom soils has

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created blend designed for success with whatever
you're going to want to grow. For

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example, they're veggie and herb mix
one hundred and nineteen dollars a cubic yard.

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You can go buy it and bulk
up at the border location. You

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can have them deliver it to you. You can have them deliver it and

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not just dump it on the driveway, but bring one of their supersacks in.

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It's a cubic yard in a sack. They set on your driveway,

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nice and neat and clean. They
have a fruit berry and citrus mix,

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they have a leaf, more composts. They have a wide variety of different

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options. They also have them in
bags and they're widely available in bags.

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There's lots of different places carry heirloom
soils now far and wide, even beyond

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the Greater Houston area. Airloom soils
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success with your plants. When the
roots hit the ground and they're growing in

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an airloom soil mix, they're going
to proliferate. And if the roots are

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happy, the drainage is good,
the water holding capacity is there, that

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plant's going to be set up for
success. And it all starts with a

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quality earline blend in the soil.
Don't buy a plant, take it home

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and PLoP it down into an unprepared
plot. That's my Peter Piper. Don't

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PLoP a plant into an unprepared plot. Get a quality mix like an airlom

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soil, put it in the ground. Give that plant a chance to have

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success. I see so many I
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a garden center rather where someone is
buying a flat of plants. And

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I've seen this so many times play
out because they call me later, they

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go home, they walk around the
yard going where am I going to plant

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these things? And then they finally
just sort of scratch back the weeds and

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till the soil just a bit or
spade it, and then put the plants

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in. And by the time we
hit summer, there's already weeds and they're

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getting tired of it and mowing over
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And that's why we need a cooling
off period for purchasing plants. Know,

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any of you who work for a
garden center probably are not going to

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be favor of this law, But
just from a plant survival standpoint of society

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for the prevention of cruelty to plants
feels this way. You know, you

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go buy a plant and the cashier
says, did you prepare your soil first?

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And it's like, no, I'm
going to take this flat and set

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it down here behind me, and
you come back when your soil is ready

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and you can purchase these plants.
Well, it would end up creating a

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mess, but it would sure be
good for the plants and for our goals

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of having produce and beauty and whatnot
in the garden and the landscape. Too

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many people don't prepare. Too many, don't you know. A quality turf

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fertilizer like sweet Green. Sweet Green, by the way, is from nitrofost

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nice. Sweet Green is a product
made based on molasses and microbes. So

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microbes are part of the factory that
makes the Sweet Green, and a product

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like Sweet Green gives your lawn a
good boost of nitrogen that also stimulates biological

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activity. When you put anything like
a molasses, a sugar based, a

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carbohydrate based product onto the soil,
microbes are stimulated, especially the beneficial bacteria

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that are out there in the soil, and Sweet Green does that. Sweet

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Green is eleven percent nitrogen. That
is a lot for an organic, natural

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type of nitrogen. You're going to
be able to find it at an enchanted

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forest done in Richmond. If you're
up in Willis, go to Growers Outlet.

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They've got sweet Green there. And
if you're anywhere around the Houston area,

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RCW Nurseries, which is on Tomball
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eight, they've got Sweet Green there. And by the way, I'm going

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to be there today. I'm going
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from eleven thirty to one thirty,
and I'm going to tell you more about

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it as we go through the show. But let me just say this,

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they are having an unbelievable event.
I mean, we're talking about barbecue stuff

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that drink there. They are going
to have percent off of roses and Japanese

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maples, Fi techs, the Cajun
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and even citrus trees. There's a
lot of other giveaways. I'm gonna be

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giving away some asmit and some tree
stabilizers while I'm there. But anyway,

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while you're there, pick up your
sweet Green. They're going to have sweet

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Green of course available because one of
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there you go. That is that
is what you need to be doing

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today. I hope you're sitting there
and making your calendar for what you're going

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to do this afternoon. It needs
to start with coming by to see me

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at RCW Nursery. By the way, when you're there, you can register

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for a one hundred dollars gift certificate. So in addition to us just given

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stuff away all day and twenty percent
off all these plants, one hundred dollars

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gift certificate. Oh my gosh,
I know what I would do with them.

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Well, this could work out really
well. You could do any immediate

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gardening work that you have to get
done, do that early, and then

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go see you and then the rain
will be coming. So it's all planning.

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It's all good. You got it. You gotta get it in order.

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Nicky's got to figure it out right
there. Well, I'm gonna take

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a break and hand the microphone over
to NICKI our phone number if you'd like

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to give Josh callin. Get on
the board seven one three two one two

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k t R H. Welcome back
to guard Line. Good to have you

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with us today. We are here
to talk about gardening. Here is the

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number. You'll need to write this
down so you can give us a call.

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Seven one three two one two k
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one two k t R. H
Uh. Dandy Feed Up in Tomball is

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kind of a one stop shop for
a lot of things. Of course you

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are a feed store. They're gonna
have quality livestock feed, quality pet food

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for example, very very high quality
lines of pet food. They're gonna have

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everything else you need for your garden
and landscape. Uh. The fertilizers you

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hear me talking about here, they've
got those. They've got those. They

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carry plants. There's a lot of
beautiful little plants they bring in seasonal out

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front, different kinds of things.
If you need pest disease and weed management

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products, they've got that. And
it's just easy to swing in and out

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there on twenty nine to twenty just
west Tomball, head out that way.

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Uh. They always are getting shipments
of new I say always, especially during

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this season spring season. Shipments of
chicks coming in all the time. If

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you need If you and I have
backyard chickens and you want a selection of

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dozens of different breeds of all kinds
of things, they've got that there at

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D and D feed includes, of
course the feed and the little setups that

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you need to get started. Here's
a phone number, give them a call

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to eight one three five one seventy
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one seven one four four. We
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and talk to Dwayne. Hello,
Dwayne, good morning morning. I'm having

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a problem with the leaves just spraying
off my plants as fast as they I

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thought I had a problem with beer
and put cages on them, and they're

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still disappearing as fast as they grow. What kind of plant? Fruit?

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Trees? Oh? Really? Yes? And you've actually lost my trees died

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last year because of it, and
so I planted new trees and the same

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things happening again this year. And
I'm like, oh my god, what's

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the problem. So you've looked over
them and you don't see any caterpillars hiding

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under leaves or anywhere around there.
I can't find anything. People have even

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suggested going out there with the flashlight
at night. Some of the stuff is

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nocturnal, and yes, I don't
see anything then, and I'm like,

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what the heck is going on?
So that was my next suggestion. You

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know, there's also leafcutter ants that
will work at night and you go to

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bed and the trees got leaves on
it, you wake up in the morning,

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they're all gone. That leaf cutters
can do that, but there typically

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you should see trails along the ground
where they're carrying those leaves off to their

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their mound somewhere and they car they
can go some distance. Yeah, the

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mound's not going to be right around
that plant. Uh So I would I

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would go back out at night try
that again. But again you should notice

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in the ground there's just some little
pathways, you know, as they kind

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of go back and forth through there, you can kind of see a little

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bit of a trail where they're doing
their work. But h I that's what

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I would suggest, depending on what
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it was a caterpillar or a beetle
feeding, we would use certain kinds of

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pesticides to spray on the on the
plant. If it is a leaf cut

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around, then you're going to go
to a certain kind of bait to try

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to control those bait. Really Okay, somebody has suggested some mile die on

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and it seems to have helped,
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another problems. I think, Okay, well, we got to figure out

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what's do it first. And if
you got them caged and deer can't get

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there, then it's going to be
a bug of some kind. Yes,

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and my best guess is leaf cutter
Aunt. But I would go out and

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look over those plants, turn leaves
over, look around a lot of times.

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Caterpillars are the same color as the
undersides of the leaves, and they're

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kind of hard to find. But
if you don't find any caterpillars or beetles

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and you go out at night with
a flashlight, you ought to be finding

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something because they got to be eating
sometime of the day, and I bet

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it's at night. Okay, I'll
check it out. Yeah, and if

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you do, if you do end
up finding the leaf cutter Aunt, just

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let me know and we'll we'll come
up with a good solution for you on

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that. Yeah, I'll call you
back on that one. The other quick

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question I had is a plant in
some pecan trees and I had mixed some

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store bought manure in the dirt and
they don't seem to be sprouting. And

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someone told me that they could kill
the roots if you put if you put

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anything in the ground that's too potent, like dry granular salt based fertilizer or

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straight manure kinds of stuff that can
burn roots. But just a moderate amount

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is okay mixed in with the soil. But generally we don't put anything in

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the planting hole. We just added
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the nutrients down into the soil.
Yeah, I guess I missed up on

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that one. Yeah, it's okay, okay, I appreciate them, all

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right, sir, Good luck,
Thank you, Yes, sir, you

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take the day you as well.
You as well those of you up in

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the Montgomery area. Your hometown garden
center is right there on the east edge

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of town on one oh five is
a NA Plants and Produce. Now an

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A has been there a long time. I mean the family has has been

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right there in that location, formerly
called it Flora's Produce out there. Uh.

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And it's just the kind of garden
center you go in and you're always

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going to find something going on.
I tell you another thing I really like

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about A and E. They are
so involved in the community. Every time

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you turn around, they're doing some
kind of program for kids. They're going

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to some school and doing something.
They just are very active in their community,

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and I think that that is really
admirable. The other thing is if

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you need any kind of a work
done out there in the Lake Conroe area,

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in one of those neighborhoods like April
Sound and Walden and on and on,

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we'll give them a call. Find
out about the landscape crew coming out

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and doing some clean up around the
house. Doing a little bit of work

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around the house. They can do
that. When you're at Ana, you're

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going to find every fertilizer I talk
about, and I mean nitrofoss and Nelson

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and microlife, and you're going to
find airloom soils in nature's way, leaf

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mole compost, both the fine and
the course types of it. Ana stays

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stocked up and it's just the kind
of place you go to grab what you

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need to get the work done.
Today'd be a good time to go out

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and get that done because we've got
some rain coming up here at least they

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predict a little bit, So go
ahead and get your supplies so you're ready

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to go. You can get that
law and fertilized, get those beds worked

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on and definitely get some plants to
really turn your place around. Go out

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now to Cypress and we're going to
talk to Ed. Hello, Ed,

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good morning morning. I've got a
couple of river birch trees that were planted

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about two years ago, okay,
and last year they're leafed out by now,

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and they look really good. They're
about ten to twelfth with tall and

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this year. You know, they
come in groups of three trunks, and

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on one of them two the trunks
are leafed out, and then one is

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not, and then on the other
only one of the trunks is okay.

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You know, different things can cause
a river birch or any country like that

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to have a die back. Certainly
last summer was brutal on them, and

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it could have taken them down to
a point where they just went ahead and

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you lost that trunk. But what
I would do before you give up on

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it, give it a little more
time, Ed, but also go up

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there with your thumbnail or pocket knife
and scrape back the outer bark on some

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smaller branches. See if it looks
kind of a creamy to light green healthy

406
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color underneath or right under the bark, or if it is just paper sack

407
00:29:25.720 --> 00:29:27.880
brown, pecan brown. You know, that means that branch is dead.

408
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And so just work your way from
the outer part of the tree down in

409
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toward the trunk and see if you
find any life in it. But I

410
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would give them a little more time. They may still come back. But

411
00:29:41.799 --> 00:29:45.359
there's also a good chance that for
some reason, at least part of that

412
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trunk has been killed back. So
I'll just work myself down and then cut

413
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it at the point where it looks
like it's still light, right where dead

414
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is dead, and so you might
as well take dead out. But just

415
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when you find life, uh,
that tells you where to prune. Another

416
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thing you can do is just give
it another few weeks and you should see

417
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some sprouting somewhere if there's life in
it. And when you do, that

418
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tells you back where to prune.
Back to Okay, because on one of

419
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them, the one that only has
one trunk, yeah, where it's actually

420
00:30:18.680 --> 00:30:23.160
leaped out on the smaller branches,
uh, there's some sprouts coming out,

421
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you know, closer to the ground. Yeah, trump, Yeah, And

422
00:30:26.200 --> 00:30:29.640
you can do that. You can
take out the tree if you have to

423
00:30:29.720 --> 00:30:33.599
take out a trunk and use some
of those sprouts. One or two maybe

424
00:30:33.920 --> 00:30:37.839
uh to uh make new trunks coming
up from that area, but that that

425
00:30:37.880 --> 00:30:41.440
would be a strategy. But that's
gonna be a little further down the road

426
00:30:41.440 --> 00:30:45.200
before you make that kind of a
decision. But I wish you, I

427
00:30:45.240 --> 00:30:47.799
wish you luck with it, and
thank you, Ed. I appreciate appreciate

428
00:30:47.839 --> 00:30:51.440
your call very much. Thank you. We're gonna take a little break here.

429
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Seven one three two one two k
t r H is the number.

430
00:30:56.119 --> 00:30:59.319
Welcome back to guard Line. Good
to have you with us today. Hey,

431
00:30:59.359 --> 00:31:03.359
we are glad listening. Gardening is
a fun hobby, and I think

432
00:31:03.799 --> 00:31:07.400
another fun thing is getting to visit
with other gardeners. I enjoy. I

433
00:31:07.480 --> 00:31:10.680
enjoy listening to gardening. Yeah.
I do listen to gardening radio shows and

434
00:31:10.720 --> 00:31:14.440
TV shows too, by the way, and I enjoy visiting with gardeners.

435
00:31:14.519 --> 00:31:19.960
You always learn something that is just
true. You never gardener keeps you young.

436
00:31:21.200 --> 00:31:25.240
Thomas Jefferson said, though I am
an old man, I am,

437
00:31:25.279 --> 00:31:29.599
but a young gardener. Good man, good smart. That was a smart

438
00:31:29.599 --> 00:31:33.119
thing to say, because I'm telling
you this, it is I think the

439
00:31:33.400 --> 00:31:37.440
best hobby in the world. I
just really, of course enjoy it.

440
00:31:37.440 --> 00:31:40.599
And it's not just because I do
this on the radio. I do this

441
00:31:40.640 --> 00:31:45.079
on the radio and I've became a
County Agrolfe Extension Horticultures for thirty six year

442
00:31:45.160 --> 00:31:49.960
career because I love it. I
love doing gardening. I love interacting with

443
00:31:51.039 --> 00:31:56.799
plants and people. Gardeners are good
folks. They just are a lot of

444
00:31:56.839 --> 00:32:00.160
fun being around gardeners. We're talking
about river birches a minute to go with

445
00:32:00.200 --> 00:32:02.400
the ed And you know, if
you're looking for quality trees, any kind

446
00:32:02.400 --> 00:32:06.799
of a tree that you want to
plant, Verdant Tree Farm has got you

447
00:32:06.920 --> 00:32:10.359
covered. The folks at Verdant they
have a wide selection of the kind of

448
00:32:10.400 --> 00:32:13.759
trees you want to grow here,
things that do well. It's the largest

449
00:32:13.759 --> 00:32:20.119
tree farm inside the Houston area.
The Greater Houston are here. Verdant Tree

450
00:32:20.119 --> 00:32:24.759
Farm has palm trees, they have
deciduous trees and evergreen trees, large shrubs,

451
00:32:24.759 --> 00:32:28.759
certain kinds of hollies for example,
that you might want. They can

452
00:32:28.759 --> 00:32:31.039
get you fixed up on all of
that. Now, there's three locations.

453
00:32:31.039 --> 00:32:37.680
There's the West Houston location out on
barker Cypress, the Broadway Street location down

454
00:32:37.720 --> 00:32:42.119
in pair Land, and the location
in the Heights where Yellownite ten come together.

455
00:32:42.599 --> 00:32:45.279
So whether it's cold hardy trees you're
looking for, drought resistant trees you're

456
00:32:45.319 --> 00:32:49.200
looking for, do you need some
help, a little bit of in office

457
00:32:50.240 --> 00:32:53.240
consultation, little design consultation. They
can work with you on that. They're

458
00:32:53.279 --> 00:32:57.440
happy to you pick out your tree, they tag it. You get to

459
00:32:57.440 --> 00:32:59.960
pick the one by the way you
want, They tag it, they bring

460
00:33:00.160 --> 00:33:01.839
to your house, they plant it, and if they plant it, they

461
00:33:01.880 --> 00:33:07.480
offer your one year warranty with that
installation. If you want instapazaz like I

462
00:33:07.519 --> 00:33:10.519
got a hammock, I got to
hang it somewhere, ask them for one

463
00:33:10.559 --> 00:33:14.839
of those seven hundred gallon sized trees. I mean, they have trees up

464
00:33:14.880 --> 00:33:17.319
to that size. If you want
to go for that, however you want

465
00:33:17.359 --> 00:33:22.200
to go about it. Verbin treefarm
dot com. That's the website. Go

466
00:33:22.319 --> 00:33:24.680
check them out and you're going to
find that they have the right kind of

467
00:33:24.680 --> 00:33:30.720
tree for any budget. Let's go
out to Spring Branch and talk to Sally.

468
00:33:30.799 --> 00:33:37.079
Hello, Sally, good morning.
I have I have Ammarillis bulbs that

469
00:33:37.240 --> 00:33:44.400
have the strong stalk with the flowers
blooming flowers at the end. Can I

470
00:33:44.640 --> 00:33:49.839
move those to another bed right now? You know, if you have to

471
00:33:50.039 --> 00:33:52.839
go ahead and do it if you
can, wait a little while, let

472
00:33:52.920 --> 00:33:55.839
the blooms be done, and let
those leaves have some sunlight for a while

473
00:33:55.880 --> 00:34:00.799
to kind of replenish the reserves.
That would be better and avoiding having them

474
00:34:00.839 --> 00:34:05.960
get out of sink on their bloom
cycle. But but yes, either way,

475
00:34:07.000 --> 00:34:10.639
wait if you can, and you
mean, wait till the blooms die,

476
00:34:10.840 --> 00:34:16.440
or wait till the stalk gets mushy
and well to the to the blooms

477
00:34:16.480 --> 00:34:21.199
die back, and then give them, give them a few weeks after that

478
00:34:21.320 --> 00:34:23.880
if you can. But it comes
down to, you know, like if

479
00:34:23.880 --> 00:34:27.519
it were in my house and say, you know what, I can redo

480
00:34:27.559 --> 00:34:30.480
that later in the year, Well
then wait and do it in the fall,

481
00:34:30.719 --> 00:34:32.400
you know. But if you need
to get it moved now for whatever

482
00:34:32.480 --> 00:34:36.360
reason, go ahead and do it
it. Just like I said, when

483
00:34:36.400 --> 00:34:39.960
you catch a bulb and you haven't
given it a chance post bloom to replenish

484
00:34:40.039 --> 00:34:45.239
its reserves, it has to kind
of get back in line and you know,

485
00:34:46.039 --> 00:34:50.199
recover from that before it can go
back into blooming. Right, But

486
00:34:50.320 --> 00:34:52.920
I won't, but I won't kill
the bulb. You will not kill the

487
00:34:52.920 --> 00:34:55.360
bulb. No, okay, all
right, thank you, all right,

488
00:34:55.360 --> 00:35:01.599
thanks you for the call. Appreciate
that very very much. When you're thinking

489
00:35:01.679 --> 00:35:07.639
about soil blends and all kinds of
different options and some really unique options.

490
00:35:07.719 --> 00:35:15.840
Landscapers supply, you know, they've
always been local, the Landscaper's supply,

491
00:35:15.280 --> 00:35:20.719
Landscapers. What am I saying?
Landscaper's Pride, My gosh, where'd that

492
00:35:20.760 --> 00:35:24.599
come from? Landscaper's Pride is always
local. They always have top quality resources.

493
00:35:24.599 --> 00:35:29.559
They've got twenty seven different bag products. It's kind of a one stop

494
00:35:29.599 --> 00:35:32.559
shop with them because and you just
need to go to a Landscaperspride dot com

495
00:35:32.559 --> 00:35:37.039
to see what I'm talking about.
But they have got the premium potting soil

496
00:35:37.119 --> 00:35:42.760
mix, a very high quality mix
for indoor or outdoor plants. It's got

497
00:35:42.760 --> 00:35:45.159
color Star fertilizer to give it three
months of feeding. So you buy the

498
00:35:45.199 --> 00:35:47.679
mix, you've already got the fertilizer
in it. You're ready to go for

499
00:35:47.760 --> 00:35:52.320
three months. It'll take care of
it. Gardener's Magic Soil. It's got

500
00:35:52.400 --> 00:35:58.440
humous screened pine compost, composted rice
holts, and chicken pellet fertilizer in it,

501
00:35:58.639 --> 00:36:00.840
and the chicken pellet fertilizer will give
you another three months. That's right.

502
00:36:01.360 --> 00:36:07.000
Pod dirt is an organic certified soil, very good for those flowering plants

503
00:36:07.079 --> 00:36:10.719
like you want to you want to
redo an annual bed for a color change.

504
00:36:10.760 --> 00:36:14.119
You know, hey, the cool
season colors out, it's time for

505
00:36:14.159 --> 00:36:17.239
the warm season. Pretty soon.
Some of those things like oh maybe petunias

506
00:36:17.280 --> 00:36:20.760
and things are going to be winding
down a little bit and you're gonna want

507
00:36:20.760 --> 00:36:24.840
to put in some more heat tolerant
things. Here's a good opportunity to use

508
00:36:24.840 --> 00:36:29.440
that pod dirt to do that.
And on and on twenty seven different products

509
00:36:29.679 --> 00:36:32.960
Landscaperspride dot com. That's where you
find a store locator to get you to

510
00:36:34.039 --> 00:36:37.679
the right product for what you need. We're going to head now out to

511
00:36:37.840 --> 00:36:45.400
Meadow Place and talk to Jim.
Hello Jim Hello, skip quick question.

512
00:36:45.639 --> 00:36:50.280
I followed all the schedule this year. I got two applications of barricade.

513
00:36:50.840 --> 00:36:55.199
Then I put down the sweet green
and Asa mic and after the sweet Green,

514
00:36:55.239 --> 00:36:59.519
I had an outbreak of cocker burs. Well, I treated them all

515
00:36:59.599 --> 00:37:02.519
with weed beater, knocked them all
down. I got about, like I

516
00:37:02.519 --> 00:37:07.159
said, about ten brown spots in
the yard where I treated. My question

517
00:37:07.440 --> 00:37:15.400
is just wait for the Saint Augustine, which is doing great. Yeah,

518
00:37:15.559 --> 00:37:21.679
to come back put the nineteen four
to ten down after they came out and

519
00:37:21.719 --> 00:37:24.559
after I treated them, And I'm
just wondering what a little has to grow

520
00:37:24.599 --> 00:37:30.239
for law or something helped those brown
spots recover. Well, I mean you

521
00:37:30.280 --> 00:37:32.239
can't you can do that. The
nineteen four ten is going to give you

522
00:37:32.320 --> 00:37:37.360
a very long drawn out even feeding
over time. So you're set up for

523
00:37:37.400 --> 00:37:42.199
about three months, four months maybe
with all that you've been doing in there

524
00:37:42.559 --> 00:37:44.679
for that. If you wanted to
use a has to grow for lawn,

525
00:37:45.519 --> 00:37:50.800
you could do that as well to
get a real fast boost to those plants,

526
00:37:50.880 --> 00:37:52.559
just to get a little quicker boost
out of it than the slow release

527
00:37:52.559 --> 00:37:58.079
would do. But in general you
don't have to do both. But there's

528
00:37:58.159 --> 00:38:00.880
nothing wrong if you want to do
that for the purposes you just described to

529
00:38:00.960 --> 00:38:06.079
me. Well, about how long
would it take for the spots to recover?

530
00:38:06.239 --> 00:38:10.639
There's there's Saint Augustine left in the
areas where I knocked the cockle burs

531
00:38:10.679 --> 00:38:15.639
out. Yeah. As a general
guide, assuming everything's in good shape,

532
00:38:15.719 --> 00:38:19.960
I would say that if you've got
Saint Augustine spriggs that are a fourth foot

533
00:38:20.000 --> 00:38:23.159
apart, that'll cover over by the
time we get into midsummer, you should

534
00:38:23.199 --> 00:38:27.199
be covered over by the way on
the hast grow lawn. That is a

535
00:38:27.239 --> 00:38:30.119
good fertilizer to use. But Medina
has a new one and it's called has

536
00:38:30.119 --> 00:38:37.599
to Grow super Grow Plus. It's
a sixteen zero two and it also hooks

537
00:38:37.679 --> 00:38:42.159
up to your hose end and you
just water your lawn with it, apply

538
00:38:42.280 --> 00:38:45.760
it that way and eighteen percent of
the nitrogen is slow release, but it

539
00:38:45.840 --> 00:38:50.719
also has you know, the immediate
release, so you could go either way,

540
00:38:50.920 --> 00:38:53.800
the has to Grow lawn for a
little bit faster release or the has

541
00:38:53.800 --> 00:38:59.400
to Supergrow Plus. That's a lot
of words, isn't it. Okay,

542
00:38:59.559 --> 00:39:02.880
Well, appreciate the appreciate that comments. All right, you take care,

543
00:39:04.000 --> 00:39:08.440
Thank you very much. You bet
good luck with that. What was the

544
00:39:08.519 --> 00:39:14.239
last time you were out to Enchanted
Forest out in Richmond. If you've never

545
00:39:14.280 --> 00:39:16.239
been, you need to go by
the way. I suspect you've been.

546
00:39:16.400 --> 00:39:20.440
But in Jenny Forest, Richmond,
I was out there just a few weeks

547
00:39:20.480 --> 00:39:24.239
ago. They are just one of
those destination nurseries. You walk in and

548
00:39:24.280 --> 00:39:27.719
you just look up and you go, oh my gosh, it's gonna be

549
00:39:27.760 --> 00:39:31.599
fun, and it is. It
absolutely is. They have the widest selection

550
00:39:31.840 --> 00:39:36.000
of all kinds of things. When
I was out there last time, all

551
00:39:36.119 --> 00:39:40.239
their butterfly attracting plants they were everywhere, and oh my gosh it was there

552
00:39:40.320 --> 00:39:46.119
were monarch caterpillars on them. There
was gopherdillary caterpillars out there on the passion

553
00:39:46.199 --> 00:39:54.440
vines and pipevines, swallowtails on the
pipeline. It just it's just a great

554
00:39:54.440 --> 00:39:58.639
place to go. And if you
want a butterfly garden, they have really

555
00:39:58.639 --> 00:40:00.480
got you covered. They even give
you a caterpillar take home with the plant

556
00:40:00.480 --> 00:40:05.760
if they got one there on the
plants. Where is this place? Well?

557
00:40:05.840 --> 00:40:09.079
And Jennet Forest is on FM twenty
seven fifty nine in Richmond, So

558
00:40:09.079 --> 00:40:14.159
if you're in Richmond Rosenberg that direction
and you're heading up towards sugar Land,

559
00:40:14.239 --> 00:40:17.960
it's off to the right, Okay, it's down south of Highway fifty nine

560
00:40:19.519 --> 00:40:22.079
and Jenna Forest. Richmond always has
things going on. Every time you turn

561
00:40:22.119 --> 00:40:25.920
around, there is something happening.
There's a program out there on an introduction

562
00:40:27.000 --> 00:40:30.360
to herbalism. Someone from the Houston
Botanic Guards going to be out there talking

563
00:40:30.360 --> 00:40:36.280
about how to use herbs in just
in lives in general. They always have

564
00:40:36.320 --> 00:40:38.599
food trucks going on. You just
need to go go to the website.

565
00:40:38.840 --> 00:40:45.920
Enchanted Forest, Richmond, TX dot
com. Jenniforce, Richard, TX dot

566
00:40:45.960 --> 00:40:52.239
com. We're going to cut that
off here for today or for this hour.

567
00:40:52.320 --> 00:40:54.519
It's time to go to a little
break for the news. I just

568
00:40:54.559 --> 00:41:00.079
want to remind you this afternoon or
this morning actually after the show, from

569
00:41:00.280 --> 00:41:06.280
eleven thirty to one thirty, I'm
going to be at r CW Nurseries that's

570
00:41:06.400 --> 00:41:10.840
up there where Tamaa Parkway comes into
Beltwegh eight. It's really easy to get

571
00:41:10.880 --> 00:41:15.880
to r c W Nursries. I'm
going to be giving away four bags,

572
00:41:15.199 --> 00:41:20.119
four forty four pound bags of as
Andi. I'm going to give them away

573
00:41:20.159 --> 00:41:23.320
four of those three sixty three stabilizers. Just come by and look at one.

574
00:41:23.400 --> 00:41:27.400
You just need to see what I
keep trying to describe them to you

575
00:41:27.440 --> 00:41:29.920
on the air. Come look at
one. They're going to be given.

576
00:41:30.000 --> 00:41:32.559
We're going to be getting four of
those away. Twenty percent off Roses,

577
00:41:32.719 --> 00:41:37.519
Japanese Maples by Techs, Cajun,
Hibiscus, Citrus. Register to win a

578
00:41:37.599 --> 00:41:43.880
one hundred dollars gift certificate and a
lot more. KTRH Garden Line does not

579
00:41:43.960 --> 00:41:49.840
necessarily endorse any of the products or
services advertised on this program. Welcome to

580
00:41:50.039 --> 00:42:07.440
KTRH Garden Line with scip Rictre.
It's so trim, just watching as so

581
00:42:07.599 --> 00:42:22.199
many things. The supers not a
side. Alrighty, we're back here on

582
00:42:22.559 --> 00:42:25.119
Garden Line. I'm your host,
Skip Richter. What are we going to

583
00:42:25.119 --> 00:42:30.519
talk about today? You tell me
that's what this is about. This is

584
00:42:30.559 --> 00:42:32.800
a call in show. You get
to decide what we're going to talk about

585
00:42:32.840 --> 00:42:36.159
today. But so do I.
I've got a few things I want to

586
00:42:36.440 --> 00:42:43.800
I want to visit about. I
was looking through some of the past products

587
00:42:43.880 --> 00:42:46.199
that I've used and different things that
I've done, and stuff you know in

588
00:42:46.239 --> 00:42:50.840
the art. I always experiment with
the folks that want to be a garden

589
00:42:50.840 --> 00:42:53.280
line retailer. I take the products, try them out, see how they're

590
00:42:53.320 --> 00:42:57.679
working, get experience with them.
Because if I'm going to sit here and

591
00:42:57.679 --> 00:43:00.559
tell you that something works, well, I gotta know that it works,

592
00:43:01.119 --> 00:43:04.519
you know, I need there's a
different way. I mean, I can

593
00:43:04.559 --> 00:43:07.760
look at research that has been done
that shows something works. I can look

594
00:43:07.880 --> 00:43:12.639
at my own experiences with it,
try it out, get a feel for

595
00:43:12.719 --> 00:43:15.719
it. I'm doing that with a
bunch of different products right now and just

596
00:43:15.760 --> 00:43:19.480
seeing how they do. Because I'm
not gonna put my name on it in

597
00:43:19.559 --> 00:43:23.320
terms of saying I recommend this if
I don't think that it is, if

598
00:43:23.400 --> 00:43:27.960
I don't know that it's going to
do well for you, I also talk

599
00:43:28.000 --> 00:43:32.119
to other people that I trust,
your friends and others who I know will

600
00:43:32.159 --> 00:43:37.079
take a good, appropriate look at
something and make sure that it does work.

601
00:43:37.960 --> 00:43:42.320
You know, it's important when we're
evaluating things that we evaluate them with

602
00:43:42.400 --> 00:43:46.159
a clear, open mind, and
we do it in a way that helps

603
00:43:46.199 --> 00:43:50.960
us compare apples to apples rather than
apples to oranges, as they say.

604
00:43:51.719 --> 00:43:55.159
So for example, if you went
out and you had three tomato plants,

605
00:43:55.199 --> 00:43:59.639
and this year you decided, you
know what, I'm gonna let me say,

606
00:43:59.639 --> 00:44:02.000
I'm gonna take some vanilla extract and
I'm going to squirt it on this

607
00:44:02.079 --> 00:44:07.880
one plant, but on the other
two and that plant that year produced more

608
00:44:07.920 --> 00:44:10.039
than the other two, or maybe
it died. Are you going to blame

609
00:44:10.079 --> 00:44:14.880
the vanilla extract on that? Well, most people would, but that's not

610
00:44:15.159 --> 00:44:20.559
a replicated trial. I mean,
there are enough variations doing nothing to those

611
00:44:20.599 --> 00:44:22.960
three plants. You're going to see
variations in how they perform and how they

612
00:44:23.000 --> 00:44:27.360
produce and so on. You need
to do it in ways that help you

613
00:44:27.400 --> 00:44:31.039
really evaluate is the product I'm looking
at or the home remedy in that case

614
00:44:31.440 --> 00:44:36.559
I'm looking at is that is what
causes the difference. And that has always

615
00:44:36.639 --> 00:44:40.519
been my approach, coming from a
horticulture background TEXA, A and M University

616
00:44:42.039 --> 00:44:45.760
and all my time with a Your
Life extension dealing with researchers and whatnot.

617
00:44:45.239 --> 00:44:49.920
It's let's look at things and make
sure they're going to work. Let's make

618
00:44:49.960 --> 00:44:52.840
sure that the product itself does what
it says it's going to do. And

619
00:44:53.119 --> 00:44:59.519
that is very important because listen,
your gardening dollars are not unlimited. You

620
00:44:59.559 --> 00:45:04.000
earn the and you need to apply
them to a product that's going to give

621
00:45:04.039 --> 00:45:07.960
you the goals you want. Whether
it's more bountiful flowers, whether it's more

622
00:45:07.280 --> 00:45:12.639
bountiful produce, whether it's a more
beautiful lawn or landscape. That is all

623
00:45:12.760 --> 00:45:15.960
very important. And so that's just
a little bit of a soap box there,

624
00:45:15.000 --> 00:45:19.280
but I think that that is important
to keep in mind. I'm going

625
00:45:19.320 --> 00:45:21.800
to head out now to the Woodlands
and we're going to talk to Mike.

626
00:45:22.000 --> 00:45:27.519
Hello, Mike A good morning,
Skip. I have a couple of questions.

627
00:45:28.239 --> 00:45:32.360
One is about my lawn. Get
a lot of poe antigraphs every year,

628
00:45:34.199 --> 00:45:37.440
and it seems like it just keeps, you know, every year it's

629
00:45:37.480 --> 00:45:43.920
worse and worse. But I've been
putting out the barricade and things like that

630
00:45:45.480 --> 00:45:52.199
twice a year and it just doesn't
seem to go away at all. What

631
00:45:52.239 --> 00:45:54.000
I'm wondering, too, is when
it's going to die back, because I'm

632
00:45:54.039 --> 00:45:59.280
getting ready to fertilize, and I'm
just wondering if I'm going to be fertilizing

633
00:45:59.360 --> 00:46:01.440
the Poeanna. No, it's it's
on its way out pretty quick. Here.

634
00:46:01.599 --> 00:46:06.199
It's already done its seeds, which
is going to mean you've got even

635
00:46:06.239 --> 00:46:09.960
more of it next year. As
a result, I think the key on

636
00:46:12.280 --> 00:46:16.760
controlling it. Barricade is a good
pre emergent for broad leaf and grassy weeds.

637
00:46:19.199 --> 00:46:22.880
Timing is very critical on all of
these things, and that's why I

638
00:46:22.960 --> 00:46:28.239
put my two schedules online at gardening
with Skip dot com. Have you seen

639
00:46:28.320 --> 00:46:32.000
the lawn pest disease and weed management
schedule that's up there? Yes, Yeah,

640
00:46:32.000 --> 00:46:37.079
I have both fertilization and the other
one. Good good. Yeah,

641
00:46:37.199 --> 00:46:39.199
that in what you'll see is the
pre emergence in the fall. That's an

642
00:46:39.199 --> 00:46:45.840
October maybe early November thing. Some
weeds you can apply things a little bit

643
00:46:45.920 --> 00:46:52.320
later, but for Poanna, I
would get out in probably first week or

644
00:46:52.360 --> 00:46:54.880
two of October to just make sure
you get ahead of it. And you

645
00:46:55.000 --> 00:47:01.840
may have to do a reapplication later. It just depends on when that problem

646
00:47:01.880 --> 00:47:07.039
is shown up. Generally, we
don't have to reapply for that. One

647
00:47:07.119 --> 00:47:10.239
other thing though, Mike, is
we are starting to see resistance in a

648
00:47:10.280 --> 00:47:16.800
lot of different products to the poa
Ana resistance, and so it could be

649
00:47:17.039 --> 00:47:19.960
that could be it. I don't
want you you know, I don't want

650
00:47:19.960 --> 00:47:22.639
to jump to SAand oh it's resistant
to barricade. I'm just saying that golf

651
00:47:22.639 --> 00:47:27.880
courses deal with that. It is
a bane of golf courses and they have

652
00:47:27.960 --> 00:47:31.159
access to a lot more products than
you and I do, and they have

653
00:47:31.239 --> 00:47:37.840
to really, you know, work
at it to avoid developing that resistance.

654
00:47:37.119 --> 00:47:42.679
And so that may be what's going
on. If you're doing the timing right,

655
00:47:42.719 --> 00:47:45.440
if you're watering it in to move
it into the soil before the poeanic

656
00:47:45.480 --> 00:47:51.639
can germinate, and it's still germinating, then you probably need to switch to

657
00:47:51.679 --> 00:47:57.280
a different product. Okay, well
I'm getting ready to fertilize today with the

658
00:47:57.320 --> 00:48:02.119
silver bag of microfoss and putting,
putting, putting out the barricade. Also,

659
00:48:02.360 --> 00:48:08.519
yeah, okay, well another barricade
now you want to go. Have

660
00:48:08.639 --> 00:48:15.239
you done it already this year?
I did it early or like in February.

661
00:48:15.280 --> 00:48:21.159
I think, yeah, I'd see
I would hold off until maybe next

662
00:48:21.199 --> 00:48:23.559
month to do it. That stuff
lasts you're going to get. You should

663
00:48:23.599 --> 00:48:29.559
get sixty days out of the barricade
pretty easily, maybe even ninety. And

664
00:48:29.559 --> 00:48:32.760
it just depends on how much you
put out and the weather conditions and things.

665
00:48:32.760 --> 00:48:37.239
But I just want to be real
careful not to overdo a pre emergent

666
00:48:37.320 --> 00:48:40.559
herbicide in your lawn. You know, you wanted to use the right amount

667
00:48:40.639 --> 00:48:44.599
at the right rate, but don't
you know, you get them too close

668
00:48:44.639 --> 00:48:47.320
together and you can run into some
issues with that. So but yeah,

669
00:48:47.719 --> 00:48:52.239
I thought it was I thought it
was on the schedule for for this month

670
00:48:52.480 --> 00:48:55.840
to do. Yeah, And here's
the problem. Here's the problem on that

671
00:48:55.880 --> 00:49:01.079
schedule. If you look, I've
got this wide from mid January through February

672
00:49:01.119 --> 00:49:05.719
for doing a pre emergent, and
then I've got a wide band from about

673
00:49:05.760 --> 00:49:08.400
mid April through the end of June
for doing it again. But it kind

674
00:49:08.400 --> 00:49:13.400
of depends the reason there's that band
there. Like you if you didn't put

675
00:49:13.440 --> 00:49:16.639
the first one out until let's say
the end of February, well, then

676
00:49:16.679 --> 00:49:22.280
you wouldn't do the next one in
mid April. You see what I'm saying.

677
00:49:22.280 --> 00:49:24.559
Those are too close together. So
where in the first band do you

678
00:49:24.599 --> 00:49:28.679
apply it? You apply it that
then again in the second band. That

679
00:49:28.719 --> 00:49:31.199
way, That's what I'm trying to
say. So okay, all right,

680
00:49:31.280 --> 00:49:36.840
yeah, I can hold up on
that. But the sixth the Silver Bag

681
00:49:36.960 --> 00:49:42.119
nineteen four ten, that's an excellent
choice. Okay, good, all right.

682
00:49:42.719 --> 00:49:46.400
My next question was about a magnolia
tree that I have. It was

683
00:49:46.440 --> 00:49:52.320
planted we bought a new house and
it was planted by the builder. Which

684
00:49:52.519 --> 00:49:58.239
it's been going real well, okay, very tall and looking. It looked

685
00:49:58.280 --> 00:50:01.119
good for many years, but now
it seems like it's losing a lot of

686
00:50:01.199 --> 00:50:06.320
lead and I'm seeing some some bare
branch. Yeah, I know, I've

687
00:50:06.320 --> 00:50:08.280
had it fertilized. Yeah, I
know what you're saying, Like, Hey,

688
00:50:08.639 --> 00:50:10.480
Mike, I'm sorry, I've got
to go to a break, but

689
00:50:10.599 --> 00:50:15.559
let's pick that up. This is
your story on the Magnolia is a familiar

690
00:50:15.559 --> 00:50:17.480
one, and we'll let's talk about
that right after the break. Thank you

691
00:50:19.159 --> 00:50:22.400
for be impatient on this, and
we'll be right back. Welcome back to

692
00:50:22.440 --> 00:50:24.559
Guardenline. Good to have you with
us. Hey, we're going to go

693
00:50:24.559 --> 00:50:30.039
straight back to visit with Mike about
Uh let's see, what were we switching

694
00:50:30.079 --> 00:50:37.800
over to Mike. A Magnolia tree. Okay, man, Yeah, you

695
00:50:37.840 --> 00:50:43.159
know, last summer the heat and
the drought was unbelievable on Magnolia's. I've

696
00:50:43.159 --> 00:50:45.840
never seen the amount of magnolia loss
we had that we did last summer.

697
00:50:46.519 --> 00:50:52.280
Uh, entire trees gone, sections
of trees gone. In some cases.

698
00:50:52.760 --> 00:50:57.639
Uh. Sometimes it's minor and the
tree recovers and you're okay. Sometimes it's

699
00:50:57.679 --> 00:51:01.039
so disfiguring that you kind of go, ok well, I have life there,

700
00:51:01.079 --> 00:51:05.199
but is that going to be an
acceptable tree when I get through printing

701
00:51:05.239 --> 00:51:08.440
all the dead out? And that's
that's the tough call at this point.

702
00:51:08.639 --> 00:51:13.199
So, well's got moisture, We've
been getting some rain, so we're kind

703
00:51:13.199 --> 00:51:15.559
of out of the woods. It's
just a matter of the tree being able

704
00:51:15.599 --> 00:51:20.239
to get back on its feet.
Though again it's this isn't a particular disease

705
00:51:20.320 --> 00:51:25.199
or insect causing what you're describing.
Okay, yeah, it's just losing a

706
00:51:25.239 --> 00:51:30.119
lot, a lot of leaves.
Yep. Yeah, well now you say

707
00:51:30.199 --> 00:51:37.800
losing, uh, it's still leaves
that are out are dropping now, yes,

708
00:51:37.960 --> 00:51:42.639
okay, there is a Yeah,
there is a spring drop that happens

709
00:51:42.639 --> 00:51:46.239
on magnolias, and that's where older
leaves fall off as new growth comes on.

710
00:51:46.800 --> 00:51:52.039
Are you seeing new shoots and new
leaves coming on or is or is

711
00:51:52.079 --> 00:51:54.320
that not happening? I believe I
am. It's even blooming some. I'm

712
00:51:54.360 --> 00:51:59.039
getting some big white ballooms on it. Okay, yeah, that's what made

713
00:51:59.079 --> 00:52:02.480
me think it was, you know, probably healthy. Yeah, but well,

714
00:52:02.639 --> 00:52:06.840
the amount of leaves that are coming
off is just more than I've seen,

715
00:52:07.199 --> 00:52:10.159
yeah, in the past. Sometimes
when a plant gets weakened, it

716
00:52:10.280 --> 00:52:15.519
leads to other issues coming in.
And now maybe a secondary issue has come

717
00:52:15.519 --> 00:52:19.360
in and is affecting it. But
there's not something that I can tell you

718
00:52:19.400 --> 00:52:23.559
go spray this, go fertilize with
that or anything. Just adequate soil moisture

719
00:52:23.599 --> 00:52:28.800
for now, moderate amount of fertilizer
is fine. Just use a lawn fertilizer

720
00:52:28.880 --> 00:52:34.400
that does not have a weed control
in it, like that nineteen four ten

721
00:52:34.840 --> 00:52:37.559
super turf that you're talking about.
That that would be a good one to

722
00:52:37.559 --> 00:52:42.159
put out because it's going to gradually
feed that tree over time. You can

723
00:52:42.199 --> 00:52:46.079
take your thumb and about waist high. How thick is the trunk if it's

724
00:52:46.199 --> 00:52:51.920
you know whatever, the number of
inches thick that the trunk is, that's

725
00:52:52.239 --> 00:52:55.559
how many cups of that fertilizer to
put out for if you're using the nineteen

726
00:52:55.599 --> 00:53:00.760
four ten. Okay, okay,
I'll keep an eye on it and see.

727
00:53:01.199 --> 00:53:04.840
Yeah, I'll keep an eye on
it and see how it's doing.

728
00:53:04.840 --> 00:53:08.159
But I see more and more dead
branches, and you know, places where

729
00:53:08.199 --> 00:53:12.000
there's no leaves on it anymore where
there used to be. Well, take

730
00:53:12.000 --> 00:53:15.760
a thumbnail on the small branches or
a little knife blade as they get a

731
00:53:15.760 --> 00:53:19.280
little larger, straight back, just
the surface and look underneath it it on

732
00:53:19.440 --> 00:53:22.960
me, creamy white or light green. If it's not, that branch is

733
00:53:22.000 --> 00:53:25.440
not coming back to life. So
go ahead and take it out. Yeah,

734
00:53:25.599 --> 00:53:29.039
most of them are too high to
work. Yeah, okay to them

735
00:53:29.159 --> 00:53:31.719
all right, let's give it a
little more time. I think hopefully I'll

736
00:53:31.760 --> 00:53:35.760
do that all right, Thank you, Mike, appreciate that call. Yeah,

737
00:53:35.800 --> 00:53:38.599
that's super curved from nitrofoss is excellent
as a lawn fertilizer, but it's

738
00:53:38.639 --> 00:53:43.599
just a good fertilizer. It's got
half the nitrogen in that slow release form,

739
00:53:43.719 --> 00:53:45.760
so you know, you put it
out and you get a gully washer

740
00:53:45.880 --> 00:53:50.840
rain, it's not all gone.
I mean, the particles don't just dissolve

741
00:53:50.880 --> 00:53:54.199
away like you know salt or sugar, wood and water and just wash away.

742
00:53:54.840 --> 00:53:59.400
They're going to be there and that
product is going to be continuing to

743
00:53:59.400 --> 00:54:01.599
feed your lawn over time, including
with a little bit of iron. A

744
00:54:01.639 --> 00:54:06.599
four percent iron I think is what
they put in there. That helps with

745
00:54:06.679 --> 00:54:12.079
the greening as well. And you
can find this product and many night Fosh

746
00:54:12.119 --> 00:54:15.400
products. It plants for all seasons. On two forty nine. You're going

747
00:54:15.480 --> 00:54:19.079
to find about in Brenham if you're
out that way at plants and things in

748
00:54:19.079 --> 00:54:23.079
that direction. Ospose As up in
the Woodlands also carries night Fosh products like

749
00:54:23.400 --> 00:54:30.320
the silver bag the super turf.
Our phone number is seven one three two

750
00:54:30.440 --> 00:54:34.480
one two fifty eight seventy four seven
one three two one two, five,

751
00:54:34.719 --> 00:54:38.719
eight, seven four. For those
of you anywhere around the Heights, you

752
00:54:38.800 --> 00:54:45.880
already know about Buchanan's plants. Buchanans
has been one of our destination garden centers

753
00:54:45.960 --> 00:54:51.599
for a very long time in the
Heights. The description to me as you

754
00:54:51.679 --> 00:54:54.880
drive up there, it's on Eleventh
Street. You drive in and it's like,

755
00:54:55.719 --> 00:54:59.079
I think of a term bungalow,
you know where you have a little

756
00:54:59.119 --> 00:55:02.400
house that's kind of secluded in,
And I think this is like a bungalow

757
00:55:04.199 --> 00:55:07.239
of a center where you walk in
and it's like you've entered another world,

758
00:55:07.440 --> 00:55:12.760
and you know, the beautiful shade
trees and things, and just so many

759
00:55:12.840 --> 00:55:15.960
kinds of plants. They buchan As
native plants. They specialize in native plants.

760
00:55:16.440 --> 00:55:22.000
That is what they absolutely are most
known for. But listen, by

761
00:55:22.039 --> 00:55:25.880
the way, they're having an Earth
Day weekend sale thirty percent off all their

762
00:55:25.920 --> 00:55:31.760
Texas native trees. They're all the
native Texas trees thirty percent off. They

763
00:55:31.920 --> 00:55:37.239
absolutely have the best selection you're going
to find. I mean, I you

764
00:55:37.280 --> 00:55:40.239
know, the roughly dogwood for example, that's not when you see a lot

765
00:55:40.400 --> 00:55:45.639
some of the native types of the
a sycamore and the pine for example,

766
00:55:45.679 --> 00:55:51.199
and then red oaks and just many, many many options there. At Buchanans

767
00:55:51.400 --> 00:55:55.000
you can also find shade plants.
Gosh, their collection of kalladiums right now

768
00:55:55.119 --> 00:55:59.800
is unbelievable. You want to brighten
the shade, that'll do it for you

769
00:55:59.880 --> 00:56:02.719
for sure. If I talk about
a fertilizer on garden Line, they're going

770
00:56:02.800 --> 00:56:07.599
to have it there. If I
talk about a soil type of a soil

771
00:56:07.679 --> 00:56:10.639
blend on Gardenline, they're going to
have those there as well. It just

772
00:56:10.880 --> 00:56:16.199
it's your one stop shop. Go
to Buchanansplants dot com Buchanans Plants dot com

773
00:56:16.519 --> 00:56:21.639
and check them out. You're going
to find everything you need to have success,

774
00:56:21.920 --> 00:56:27.719
as well as very knowledgeable staff that
will guide you to exactly the plant

775
00:56:28.039 --> 00:56:31.960
to fit the situation that you need. Love that about them, love that

776
00:56:32.039 --> 00:56:37.840
about them. You're listening to Gardenline. Our phone number is seven one three

777
00:56:37.920 --> 00:56:43.800
two one two fifty eight seventy four
seven one three two one two five eight

778
00:56:44.239 --> 00:56:47.360
seven four and that makes it real
easy. Give us a call. Let's

779
00:56:47.400 --> 00:56:53.079
talk about what you are interested in. If you're doing containers outdoors or indoors.

780
00:56:53.760 --> 00:57:01.400
Jungle Land is a soil blend that
absolutely provides. It's the key components

781
00:57:01.519 --> 00:57:06.039
of success in a container, and
that is it needs to drain away the

782
00:57:06.079 --> 00:57:08.880
excess water, but it also needs
to hold water well, not just drain

783
00:57:08.960 --> 00:57:14.880
everything away. And jungle land,
whether it's the outdoor vegetable and flour planting

784
00:57:14.920 --> 00:57:20.760
soil or the indoor potting soil that
has water saving crystals in it, the

785
00:57:20.880 --> 00:57:24.760
jungle land water saving potting soil for
indoor plants, both of them work very

786
00:57:24.880 --> 00:57:29.000
very well. I like the crystals
inside because you know how it is,

787
00:57:29.000 --> 00:57:30.639
you got a plant off er on
the corner and you forget the water and

788
00:57:30.679 --> 00:57:34.719
next thing you know, it's kind
of wilting. Well, this kind of

789
00:57:34.760 --> 00:57:38.000
helps make it a little more forgiving. Let's say the soil's got your back

790
00:57:38.199 --> 00:57:42.679
when you forget the water for a
little bit. You can get jungle land

791
00:57:42.800 --> 00:57:46.239
and other types of nitrophus products at
many places. For example, up in

792
00:57:46.280 --> 00:57:50.280
Kingwood at the ACEH Hardware Store,
they've got it there. Up in Tombol

793
00:57:50.679 --> 00:57:54.880
at the arbor Gate Shades of Texas, out in southeaston on Genoa Red Bluff,

794
00:57:55.159 --> 00:58:01.440
all examples of places where you can
find your jungle land product. I

795
00:58:01.480 --> 00:58:06.639
am re potting some things that I
have at the house right now. We've

796
00:58:07.079 --> 00:58:09.320
got a number of plants that are
kind of on hold, waiting on me

797
00:58:09.400 --> 00:58:14.639
to get a bid ready for them, and so some of them I'm having

798
00:58:14.639 --> 00:58:19.400
to bump up a little bit because
I don't know, they just go dry

799
00:58:19.519 --> 00:58:22.199
every day before I can get water
to them again, because a big plant

800
00:58:22.239 --> 00:58:27.400
and a small container and that's not
a good combination. So they're probably at

801
00:58:27.400 --> 00:58:30.199
home right now, going to get
off the radio and get home and take

802
00:58:30.239 --> 00:58:32.239
care of us for crying out loud, or we're going to start telling people

803
00:58:32.280 --> 00:58:36.239
what we look like at your house
when you don't take care of us.

804
00:58:37.320 --> 00:58:39.440
If you live down in League City, your hometown feed store is a League

805
00:58:39.480 --> 00:58:45.000
City feed. League City Feed has
been around for over forty years. The

806
00:58:45.039 --> 00:58:47.960
Thunderbergs have run that. I think
we're on the third generation of Thunderbergs now

807
00:58:49.760 --> 00:58:53.480
running it. You know, Wes
and Madison and they just really a family

808
00:58:53.559 --> 00:58:59.400
deal there at League City Feed.
It's that hometown feed store where you find

809
00:58:59.480 --> 00:59:04.000
every product you're gonna need. And
that includes all the fertilizers I talk about.

810
00:59:04.039 --> 00:59:07.280
It includes all the things you need
for pest disease and weak control.

811
00:59:07.960 --> 00:59:13.400
It includes premium pet food. It
includes things for your backyard chickens you need.

812
00:59:13.559 --> 00:59:17.000
You need feed or feeders or waters
or bedding. They've got it there

813
00:59:17.039 --> 00:59:22.480
at League City feed They are on
and you need to note this Highway three,

814
00:59:22.719 --> 00:59:27.480
just a few blocks south of ninety
six. So whether you live in

815
00:59:27.679 --> 00:59:30.360
clear Lake City, League City,
Dickinson, San leonned Baycliff, Webster,

816
00:59:30.440 --> 00:59:35.679
Lamark, that whole region down there, League City Feeds your hometown feed store.

817
00:59:35.719 --> 00:59:38.280
They're open Monday through Saturday. Yes, today, nine am to six

818
00:59:38.360 --> 00:59:42.360
pm. Closed on Sunday. Here's
a phone number you want to write now.

819
00:59:42.880 --> 00:59:46.920
Two eight one three three two one
six one two two eight one three

820
00:59:46.960 --> 00:59:52.599
three two one six one two.
I know I was in League City the

821
00:59:52.599 --> 00:59:58.440
other day visiting with Madison, and
I noticed that they have a really good

822
00:59:58.639 --> 01:00:02.800
stock of micro life right now.
You know that includes the humans plus sets

823
01:00:02.800 --> 01:00:07.480
a zero receiver for the purple bag
that we put out to help with the

824
01:00:07.519 --> 01:00:12.719
soil. It's concentrated compost in a
bag. It's the humus, the final

825
01:00:13.159 --> 01:00:19.599
decomposition stage of organic matter. And
that's why we say concentrated compost in a

826
01:00:19.639 --> 01:00:22.920
bag. They've got the green bag, the six two four, that's the

827
01:00:22.920 --> 01:00:25.519
one you need to be putting on
your lawns now if you haven't fertilized already.

828
01:00:27.239 --> 01:00:32.039
Microlife six two four organic source of
nutrients for your lawn. It just

829
01:00:32.280 --> 01:00:38.519
stocked full of microbial activity in the
product itself, but it also feeds the

830
01:00:38.559 --> 01:00:45.440
microbes, because microbes are what takes
the nutrient in a microlife product and unlocks

831
01:00:45.440 --> 01:00:50.440
it and releases it to the growing
plants, to the soil itself. Microlife

832
01:00:50.480 --> 01:00:57.039
products are widely available here. You
can go to the website Microlife Fertilizer dot

833
01:00:57.079 --> 01:00:59.800
com and find out where to get
it. But I can just say this,

834
01:01:00.079 --> 01:01:02.039
it's pretty much everywhere if I talk
about it, you know, feed

835
01:01:02.159 --> 01:01:08.840
stores and ACE hardware stores and Southwest
Fertilizer and just all the garden centers,

836
01:01:08.840 --> 01:01:14.360
and think MICROLFE fertilizer. Super easy
to find, widely available, and it

837
01:01:14.400 --> 01:01:16.519
works. And I can say that
because I've used it on my own lawn

838
01:01:17.079 --> 01:01:22.800
and I know that it works.
Our phone number is seven one three two

839
01:01:22.920 --> 01:01:29.960
one two five eight seven four seven
one three two one two fifty eight seventy

840
01:01:29.960 --> 01:01:32.280
four. I want to remind you
I'm going to be at RCW Nursery today

841
01:01:32.440 --> 01:01:37.000
after the show eleven thirty to one
thirty and you do not want to miss

842
01:01:37.039 --> 01:01:40.719
this. Listen. This is first
of all, it's an appearance where you

843
01:01:40.719 --> 01:01:45.679
can bring samples, you can bring
pictures of things you want identify, that

844
01:01:45.719 --> 01:01:47.599
you want diagnosed. We'll do that. But I'm going to be giving away

845
01:01:47.679 --> 01:01:52.159
four bags of azimite. I'm going
to be giving away four of the three

846
01:01:52.239 --> 01:01:57.039
sixty tree stabilizers. They're having a
sale. This is incredible, this is

847
01:01:57.199 --> 01:02:01.760
significant. Their metal size, their
yard art, their roses, they're Japanese

848
01:02:01.760 --> 01:02:06.599
Maples, Cajun, Hibescas, Citrus, Vitechs, all twenty percent off.

849
01:02:06.880 --> 01:02:09.239
They're going to be doing giveaways.
They're going to give away a one hundred

850
01:02:09.360 --> 01:02:14.960
dollars gift certificate. Now. RCW
Nurseries dot com is a website. This

851
01:02:15.079 --> 01:02:17.599
is the garden Center. That's where
two forty nine comes into belt Wag eight.

852
01:02:17.760 --> 01:02:21.920
I two forty nine comes into belt
Wait eight. Come out and see

853
01:02:22.000 --> 01:02:24.079
me to dad. Love to meet
you. I'd love to talk. I'll

854
01:02:24.079 --> 01:02:27.639
help you find some plants. I
mean, if you look at you walk

855
01:02:27.719 --> 01:02:30.199
up and say I need a plant
for this or that, we'll point you

856
01:02:30.239 --> 01:02:31.760
to the right one and get you
set up. And what a great sale

857
01:02:31.800 --> 01:02:36.199
they're having it's time for Nikki in
the news. Seven one three two one

858
01:02:36.239 --> 01:02:40.079
two kt r H. I'll be
right back. Welcome back to garden Line.

859
01:02:40.320 --> 01:02:43.679
Good to have you with us today. What do we want to talk

860
01:02:43.679 --> 01:02:47.039
about? Our phone number seven one
three two one two fifty eight seventy four.

861
01:02:47.320 --> 01:02:52.079
I want to tell you something I've
talked about Peerscapes for a while now

862
01:02:52.239 --> 01:02:57.599
and the unbelievable design that they can
do. If you go to the website

863
01:02:57.840 --> 01:03:01.679
puerscapes dot com you will see what
I'm talking about. They can do anything.

864
01:03:01.760 --> 01:03:05.360
I mean, do you need outdoor
lighting? Do you need hard scapes

865
01:03:05.480 --> 01:03:07.840
done? It just goes, it
goes on and on. Do you have

866
01:03:07.840 --> 01:03:12.360
an area that didn't drain, well, maybe that's an issue. Is your

867
01:03:12.400 --> 01:03:15.760
irrigation system efficient and running? They
need to come out and check it,

868
01:03:15.760 --> 01:03:17.719
because listen, you're fixing to run
that thing a lot and you're about to

869
01:03:17.719 --> 01:03:22.639
spend money on drinking water to keep
your plants alive this summer. Why not

870
01:03:22.760 --> 01:03:25.760
make sure it's efficient. Have Pure
Scapes come and look at it. While

871
01:03:25.760 --> 01:03:30.199
you're talking to them, you think
about this. They do a really cool

872
01:03:30.280 --> 01:03:35.840
quality maintenance package that you can call
them up and you can kind of design

873
01:03:35.880 --> 01:03:38.000
it for what you need. But
basically they're going to come out there,

874
01:03:38.079 --> 01:03:42.519
are going to do seasonal color changes
in the bed. Do you want to

875
01:03:42.559 --> 01:03:45.159
do two a year, four a
year? I mean they do. You

876
01:03:45.239 --> 01:03:49.599
tell them they're going to put mults
down, fresh molts, keep those weeds

877
01:03:49.639 --> 01:03:52.000
down, They're going to fertilize,
They're going to do any weeding that's necessary.

878
01:03:52.280 --> 01:03:58.239
They'll inspect the irrigation make sure everything's
working right, because that is critical

879
01:03:58.280 --> 01:04:02.119
in a Houston summer that needs to
be done. The quarterly maintenance is a

880
01:04:02.119 --> 01:04:08.079
great program. And listen, Peer
Scapes is a top quality landscaper. And

881
01:04:08.119 --> 01:04:12.480
when you do quality work, you
stay busy. So don't mess around,

882
01:04:12.480 --> 01:04:17.559
don't delay. Give them a call
and let's get this set up. If

883
01:04:17.559 --> 01:04:20.360
you want to do a revamp,
maybe you want to redo a bet or

884
01:04:20.360 --> 01:04:25.440
create that patio I was talking about
that hard escape get on the schedule.

885
01:04:25.840 --> 01:04:28.360
It's going to take them. You
know, it's going to take depending on

886
01:04:28.440 --> 01:04:30.639
If it's a small job, they
can probably get out a little faster.

887
01:04:30.679 --> 01:04:32.239
If it's a pretty big deal,
it's going to take a little while to

888
01:04:32.280 --> 01:04:36.639
get on the schedule. Because they
do it right there. People know the

889
01:04:36.719 --> 01:04:42.239
quality work that they do and that
is very very important to them. Peerscapes,

890
01:04:42.559 --> 01:04:47.960
peerscapes dot com, pierscapes dot com. Here's the number two eight one

891
01:04:48.760 --> 01:04:55.800
three seven fifty sixty two eight one
three seven oh five zero six zero.

892
01:04:56.199 --> 01:04:59.079
We're going to go now out to
Katie and talk to Doug. Hello,

893
01:04:59.159 --> 01:05:02.880
Doug, good morning. Quick question
for you, sir. I'm sure you've

894
01:05:02.880 --> 01:05:08.679
addressed this in the past. I've
got a large areas in the backyard out

895
01:05:08.679 --> 01:05:14.519
here in the Kadi I'm in the
Kadi area where what used to be grass

896
01:05:14.559 --> 01:05:17.920
evolved. The grass blades just kind
of term, kind of a hay looking

897
01:05:18.039 --> 01:05:23.079
color, and we're laid down and
when you rake that up, there's nothing

898
01:05:23.159 --> 01:05:28.119
left but dirt, no runners,
no living runners. Well, what's what?

899
01:05:28.239 --> 01:05:30.360
No no living runners? What's there? It just looks like, you

900
01:05:30.400 --> 01:05:34.800
know, dead stuff got you?
Okay, Uh, it could be different

901
01:05:34.840 --> 01:05:41.039
things. Are these areas irregular or
is there some shape to them? To

902
01:05:41.119 --> 01:05:45.679
the to the bear areas, Yes, I'd say it's. Looking at it,

903
01:05:45.760 --> 01:05:50.199
there's there's somewhat irregular, but but
there, but there. It's not

904
01:05:50.840 --> 01:05:54.880
a bunch of small areas. There's
like one big, large area and it

905
01:05:55.000 --> 01:05:59.639
seems like it might be slowly expanding. All right, so a couple of

906
01:05:59.719 --> 01:06:02.400
things. Chinch bugs will kill grass
and they can give that effect. They

907
01:06:02.440 --> 01:06:08.239
typically those areas are going to start
off adjacent to some sort of masonry,

908
01:06:08.320 --> 01:06:14.280
whether it's concrete or curbs or sidewalks
or rock or something like that. In

909
01:06:14.360 --> 01:06:17.000
the sun, you may have take
our root rot. That's another thing.

910
01:06:17.199 --> 01:06:23.000
And then drought. Drought itself can
be damaging. You just need to get

911
01:06:23.039 --> 01:06:27.239
that diagnosed in order to be able
to know what to do so you don't

912
01:06:27.280 --> 01:06:31.119
waste money on product and time.
I know Katie's not super close by,

913
01:06:31.599 --> 01:06:36.119
but I'm going to be at RCW
Nurseries today from one thirty or from eleven

914
01:06:36.159 --> 01:06:41.679
thirty to one thirty. If you
could take some samples of the zone between

915
01:06:41.800 --> 01:06:45.480
healthy and dead. So go in
to the edge where the grass is in

916
01:06:45.519 --> 01:06:49.320
between healthy and dead and get a
four by four inch plug, slip it

917
01:06:49.360 --> 01:06:53.000
in a ziplock, get some a
little bit of soil with the roots,

918
01:06:53.800 --> 01:06:57.280
and if you could do that in
maybe two or three places, bring it

919
01:06:57.320 --> 01:07:00.840
in. I've got a little pocket
lens that I can look at it with

920
01:07:00.039 --> 01:07:02.280
and I can tell you if it's
got to take our root rot on it

921
01:07:02.400 --> 01:07:05.559
or not, and then we can
prescribe the product you need for that.

922
01:07:06.159 --> 01:07:10.920
Well, that the large area in
the back, it's it's not adjacent to

923
01:07:11.000 --> 01:07:16.239
any any concrete, Okay, it's
it most likely take all would be what

924
01:07:16.360 --> 01:07:18.800
does that? But there are a
number of things that can kill grass,

925
01:07:18.960 --> 01:07:24.800
like drought, like compacted soil,
and like misuse of certain kinds of herbicides.

926
01:07:24.880 --> 01:07:29.760
And you know, so just in
general, there's too many possibilities for

927
01:07:29.800 --> 01:07:32.079
me to say, go buy this
product and spray it just yet. But

928
01:07:32.119 --> 01:07:36.599
I'm happy to diagnose it for free
for you. And and okay, in

929
01:07:36.639 --> 01:07:40.159
what hours are you going to be
at arthy, I'll be at RCW from

930
01:07:40.159 --> 01:07:43.440
eleven thirty to one thirty. Okay, well, I'll definitely try and make

931
01:07:43.480 --> 01:07:45.679
it by that. Yeah, and
you get there early so you can get

932
01:07:45.719 --> 01:07:48.599
you some barbecue there. It's gonna
be a good time out there. So,

933
01:07:48.800 --> 01:07:50.760
yes, sir, I appreciate that, all right, Doug, thank

934
01:07:50.800 --> 01:07:57.079
you, Yes, you take care. Our trees are very valuable parts of

935
01:07:57.119 --> 01:08:00.199
our landscape. You know, when
you look at the value of a quality

936
01:08:00.239 --> 01:08:03.400
shade tree to a home, it's
huge. And it's not just the dollar

937
01:08:03.519 --> 01:08:06.239
value. It's the fact that like
if you're going to sell a home.

938
01:08:08.400 --> 01:08:11.480
What are the first houses to go? The ones people drive up and they

939
01:08:11.480 --> 01:08:15.360
go, wow, that that's cool. And a shade tree is part of

940
01:08:15.440 --> 01:08:17.159
the wow. It's like, look
at that shade on the roof to help

941
01:08:17.199 --> 01:08:21.600
with the the summertime air conditioner.
Look at that shade tree in the backyard

942
01:08:21.600 --> 01:08:25.600
and that's sitting area. Look at
the blooming tree in the front. You

943
01:08:25.640 --> 01:08:30.000
see what I'm saying. Don't trust
your trees to anyone but Affordable Tree Care.

944
01:08:30.319 --> 01:08:33.279
Martin spoon Moore has been doing this
for a very long time. He

945
01:08:33.479 --> 01:08:38.279
knows what he's doing. Martin and
his wife Joe, the owners. They

946
01:08:38.319 --> 01:08:43.000
answer their own phone. Here's the
number seven one, three, six nine

947
01:08:43.119 --> 01:08:47.640
nine twenty six sixty three. If
you want to go to the website Afftree

948
01:08:47.680 --> 01:08:51.640
Service dot com. Aff Tree Service
dot com. Martin's gonna charge one hundred

949
01:08:51.640 --> 01:08:56.079
and fifty bucks. Come out for
a consultation. That's because he can't drive

950
01:08:56.079 --> 01:08:59.720
all over town just because people are
curious about stuff. But you come out,

951
01:08:59.800 --> 01:09:02.039
he'll he'll look at it, he'll
say what is and is not needed,

952
01:09:02.159 --> 01:09:04.840
what he would recommend, and if
you hire him to do work,

953
01:09:04.880 --> 01:09:08.840
that one just goes into the cost
of doing the work, so you get

954
01:09:08.880 --> 01:09:13.960
the money back essentially. But don't
trust your lawn to or to your lawn,

955
01:09:14.159 --> 01:09:16.239
your tree to some guy that takes
care of the lawn or some guy

956
01:09:16.279 --> 01:09:19.560
that sticks a business card in your
mailbox or on your door. You need

957
01:09:19.600 --> 01:09:24.000
someone that knows what they're talking about, whether it's tree pruning, deep root

958
01:09:24.119 --> 01:09:28.800
feeding, any kind of thing,
consulting on you know, how do I

959
01:09:28.840 --> 01:09:32.119
take care of this tree better?
Martin is the guy a ff tree service

960
01:09:32.159 --> 01:09:35.840
dot com. That's the way to
get hold of him. We're gonna go

961
01:09:35.880 --> 01:09:40.920
now to the galley and talk to
Ron. Hello Ron, Good morning Ron.

962
01:09:41.239 --> 01:09:45.439
I've got a question. I'm trying
to find a wood groundcover plants.

963
01:09:45.479 --> 01:09:53.640
Where would be the resource to that
would deal GALLEYA trying to think of the

964
01:09:53.720 --> 01:09:58.159
closer you. You're not too terribly
far away from Buchanans. They probably have

965
01:09:58.199 --> 01:10:01.560
wideal you up there. I would
I would expect that they do. I

966
01:10:01.600 --> 01:10:05.720
know most of our good Garden centers
are going to carry it. I would

967
01:10:05.720 --> 01:10:11.399
do a quick call to be sure, because you know, even if someone

968
01:10:11.479 --> 01:10:15.000
has something they could have gotten cleaned
out yesterday, you know by somebody that

969
01:10:15.039 --> 01:10:17.840
bought a bunch of it, so
just make sure that it's that you have

970
01:10:17.920 --> 01:10:21.880
it around. RCW Nursery probably has
it. You want to give them a

971
01:10:21.920 --> 01:10:25.520
call, and I'm going to be
up there at eleven thirty to one thirty

972
01:10:25.560 --> 01:10:30.279
today and that is not a far
drive from the Galleria area, so those

973
01:10:30.319 --> 01:10:33.319
would be a couple of options for
you. Okay, very good, Thank

974
01:10:33.319 --> 01:10:36.479
you very much. Thanks the help. Yep. Maybe one thing about Wadlia.

975
01:10:38.159 --> 01:10:42.960
It is an enthusiastic grower, so
just remember that you have things called

976
01:10:43.000 --> 01:10:46.000
this is the border to the bed. Wadilia does not recognize that, so

977
01:10:46.399 --> 01:10:49.159
you're going to be trimming it as
it takes off to keep it in bounce,

978
01:10:49.239 --> 01:10:54.159
kind of like that Asian jasmine.
Right, Thank you very much.

979
01:10:54.399 --> 01:10:58.279
All right, Ron, thanks for
the call. Wouldn't it be nice if

980
01:10:58.319 --> 01:11:04.600
plants just understood what we where we
want them to stop. I get questions

981
01:11:04.640 --> 01:11:08.560
a lot of times, and you
know where people ask for a plant for

982
01:11:08.600 --> 01:11:13.199
a certain purpose, and by the
time they get through asking the question,

983
01:11:13.239 --> 01:11:15.760
they've eliminated every plant, Like I
want it to grow fast, and then

984
01:11:15.800 --> 01:11:18.760
I wanted to stop growing right where
I wanted to grow. I wanted to

985
01:11:18.800 --> 01:11:21.359
bloom all year, twelve months out
the year I went to be Evergreen.

986
01:11:21.720 --> 01:11:25.439
I wanted to blah blah blah.
And you know it's like, oh my

987
01:11:25.479 --> 01:11:29.399
gosh, but we do is a
great groundcover. It just is an enthusiastic

988
01:11:29.439 --> 01:11:31.319
groundcover. Let's take a little break. We'll be right back. Seven to

989
01:11:31.319 --> 01:11:36.439
one three two one two KTRH.
Welcome back to Guardenline. Good have you

990
01:11:36.479 --> 01:11:42.239
with us today? Hey, Moss
nursery is loaded with plants. The other

991
01:11:42.359 --> 01:11:45.319
nursery down in Seabrook, you've been
there before probably if you haven't, you

992
01:11:45.319 --> 01:11:53.319
you got to go eight acres eight
acres of wonderfulness in wandering. That's that's

993
01:11:53.479 --> 01:11:56.840
I guess one way I would put
it. You go down to Toddville Road

994
01:11:56.840 --> 01:12:00.039
and Seabrook. You get out of
the car and just plan on space and

995
01:12:00.159 --> 01:12:03.680
in some time. Because it is
a tropical paradise down there. They're gonna

996
01:12:03.720 --> 01:12:08.560
have elephant ears. You had ten
to twelve different kinds of elephant ears.

997
01:12:08.720 --> 01:12:11.920
They're gonna have five to six kinds
of bananas. Yes, there are that

998
01:12:12.000 --> 01:12:15.560
many and more kinds of bananas that
you can grow. Bird of paradise,

999
01:12:15.560 --> 01:12:17.800
you know, the orange and the
blue one, really cool tropical they've got

1000
01:12:17.800 --> 01:12:21.239
that too. You want to shady. You got a shady air and you

1001
01:12:21.279 --> 01:12:27.079
want a really cool tropical for some
greenery into there. The legular area that

1002
01:12:27.359 --> 01:12:30.960
think of it isn't as a terrestrial
lily pad, meaning not in the water,

1003
01:12:31.039 --> 01:12:34.439
but up on ground. These big
old lily pad things come up and

1004
01:12:34.439 --> 01:12:38.199
they're big round leaves on top.
Some of them have a little spots on

1005
01:12:38.239 --> 01:12:42.840
them. It's cool, it's beautiful
and takes deep deep shade. They've got

1006
01:12:42.880 --> 01:12:49.560
that gingers my favorite of all the
tropical reblooming perennials. Oh love that.

1007
01:12:49.680 --> 01:12:54.840
Moss Nursery and just another garden center. It's been around for seventy years.

1008
01:12:55.199 --> 01:13:00.119
It is a family operated eight acre
source of whatever you need. I love

1009
01:13:00.159 --> 01:13:04.239
going to Moss recently. I was
just looking at all of the blooming cactiet.

1010
01:13:04.359 --> 01:13:09.319
Listen. They have got cactus,
all kinds of cactus. It's blooming

1011
01:13:09.399 --> 01:13:14.119
right now, buds and blooms,
and they are just gorgeous. You need

1012
01:13:14.119 --> 01:13:15.800
to go by there and check it
out again. They're on Toddville Road,

1013
01:13:15.840 --> 01:13:20.399
done in Seabrook area. Go to
Mos Nursery. You see what I'm talking

1014
01:13:20.399 --> 01:13:24.479
about. Let's it out now to
Beaumont. We're going to talk to Brian.

1015
01:13:24.560 --> 01:13:29.960
Hello, Brian, Yes, sir, I've been battling stinging grass for

1016
01:13:30.000 --> 01:13:33.159
several years and had it under control, and things like this spring, I've

1017
01:13:33.199 --> 01:13:38.039
got a huge amount of it.
I was wondering how to control it.

1018
01:13:38.199 --> 01:13:41.079
When you say stinging grass, is
it more of a kind of a broad

1019
01:13:41.159 --> 01:13:46.960
leaf plant, Yes, sir,
it's said I've got the hairy fringe on

1020
01:13:47.079 --> 01:13:53.000
it. We always just called stinging
grass or stinging netle. Okay, there's

1021
01:13:53.039 --> 01:13:56.760
several plants that could fit that bill, but they all are controlled by broad

1022
01:13:56.840 --> 01:14:01.560
leaf post emergent weed killers. So
you get your product that's designed to kill

1023
01:14:01.680 --> 01:14:05.840
broadly feeds after they're up, and
follow the label. Spray it. Do

1024
01:14:05.920 --> 01:14:10.600
it in the morning when the temperatures
are cooler. A lot of these products,

1025
01:14:10.680 --> 01:14:14.159
once we get up in the upper
eighties, they start stressing the grass,

1026
01:14:14.239 --> 01:14:17.000
especially in the nineties. So just
do it early in the morning,

1027
01:14:17.000 --> 01:14:20.079
and do it sooner rather than later, Brian, because the weather's only going

1028
01:14:20.159 --> 01:14:26.279
to get hotter and hotter as we
go forward. Here sounds good, thank

1029
01:14:26.359 --> 01:14:29.039
you, yes, sir. Uh
huh. You take care. You're gonna

1030
01:14:29.039 --> 01:14:31.119
have an You got an ace hardware
too, out there by the way out

1031
01:14:31.159 --> 01:14:35.399
in the Beaumont area. That will
get you set up on those kind of

1032
01:14:35.399 --> 01:14:39.640
things. All right, all right, thank you, I enjoy your show.

1033
01:14:39.800 --> 01:14:43.760
Thank you. I appreciate that you
take care. See in a Maltz

1034
01:14:43.920 --> 01:14:49.800
down south of Houston is the source
for quality soil materials, member brown stuff,

1035
01:14:49.920 --> 01:14:54.920
for green stuff. Ciena malt has
roast soil, They've got leaf mol

1036
01:14:55.000 --> 01:14:58.840
composts. They have a variety of
different kinds of products, including mulches.

1037
01:14:59.520 --> 01:15:02.359
They've got every fertilizer I talk about
on garden line, they have them there

1038
01:15:02.840 --> 01:15:08.880
at Cienamulch. So when you leave
Ciena Maltch, you are ready to set

1039
01:15:08.960 --> 01:15:13.640
your plants up for success. They
deliver within about twenty miles of their location,

1040
01:15:13.720 --> 01:15:15.640
which is kind of nice. I
mean, that is nice bill have

1041
01:15:15.720 --> 01:15:19.720
them drop it off out there for
a delivery fee, of course. But

1042
01:15:19.840 --> 01:15:24.800
Ciana Maltch is just north of Roach
Sharon. They're off on FM five twenty

1043
01:15:24.840 --> 01:15:28.439
one. That's kind of close to
where Highway six and Highway two eighty eight

1044
01:15:28.439 --> 01:15:33.359
come together. The website just go
here Cienamultch dot com Cinmultch dot com Monday

1045
01:15:33.359 --> 01:15:41.159
through Friday seven thirty to five Today
Saturdays seven thirty to two closed on Sunday,

1046
01:15:41.479 --> 01:15:45.560
so make sure and get by there
and get everything you need so that

1047
01:15:45.760 --> 01:15:47.960
whether you pick it up yourself or
whether you have them deliver it, whether

1048
01:15:48.000 --> 01:15:51.119
you buy it by the back or
by the boat, they are going to

1049
01:15:51.199 --> 01:15:55.840
make sure that your plants are happy
when you bring them home and plant them.

1050
01:15:56.000 --> 01:16:00.079
That is Cienamulch. You can count
on that list in the guarden line.

1051
01:16:00.399 --> 01:16:03.520
We're about to take a little break
here in a bit, but we

1052
01:16:03.720 --> 01:16:06.920
are looking forward to your calls and
if you want to give us a call

1053
01:16:08.000 --> 01:16:12.000
seven one three two P one two
fifty eight seventy four. That is our

1054
01:16:12.800 --> 01:16:15.760
phone number, feel free to do
that. I'm stucking to the folks at

1055
01:16:15.760 --> 01:16:19.880
the Bee Supply and they have a
cool thing. First of all, you

1056
01:16:19.920 --> 01:16:25.239
know the bee Supplies out in Dayton. They've got the beginning bee keeping classes

1057
01:16:25.279 --> 01:16:28.159
that go from like ninety eight to
thirty in the morning till three point thirty

1058
01:16:28.159 --> 01:16:32.560
where you get hands on experience plus
lots of in classroom knowledge. They've got

1059
01:16:32.600 --> 01:16:35.720
a lot of of the classes coming
up. They got one on honey extracting,

1060
01:16:35.760 --> 01:16:40.520
how to pull the honey soopers and
uncap them and spin that honey out.

1061
01:16:40.600 --> 01:16:43.159
I have you ever wondered how we
got honey from a beehive. Well,

1062
01:16:43.279 --> 01:16:46.000
they can tell you that. They
also have a b rental program for

1063
01:16:46.119 --> 01:16:53.960
customers with five to twenty acres now
within a fifteen mile fifteen fifteen mile radius

1064
01:16:53.960 --> 01:16:56.720
of Dayton, Texas, you can
have them come out and put bees on

1065
01:16:56.760 --> 01:17:00.600
your place. That's right, that
put the bees out there. They take

1066
01:17:00.640 --> 01:17:02.680
care of the bees for you.
I mean, whoa is that a deal?

1067
01:17:03.279 --> 01:17:10.319
You can even get the egg text
benefits from that as well. Also

1068
01:17:10.800 --> 01:17:16.000
this just in. They have leaf
cutter bees where you can buy them.

1069
01:17:16.119 --> 01:17:20.680
Now, what are leaf cutter bees? These are bees that are solitary bees.

1070
01:17:21.119 --> 01:17:25.520
They have a little leaf cutter bee
home that you can buy, the

1071
01:17:25.600 --> 01:17:30.000
little collection of about one hundred leaf
cutter bee cocoons. You put them out

1072
01:17:30.199 --> 01:17:33.760
and they are excellent pollinators. They
work and whether that honey bees don't even

1073
01:17:33.800 --> 01:17:38.520
want to work out, I mean
they're really hard working. They pollinate.

1074
01:17:39.479 --> 01:17:43.880
A good leaf cutter being pollinate the
equivalent almost twenty honey bees. Is that

1075
01:17:44.000 --> 01:17:46.159
amazing. You don't have to feed
them, you don't have to supplement them

1076
01:17:46.199 --> 01:17:50.079
like you're taking care of a honeybee
hive. They're not that aggressive. They're

1077
01:17:50.079 --> 01:17:54.600
only going to sting you if you
grab them and mess with them and jostle

1078
01:17:54.640 --> 01:18:00.319
them around or something. They're just
excellent, they really really are. And

1079
01:18:00.399 --> 01:18:04.399
if you have a home garden landscape
and you would like to bring in a

1080
01:18:04.439 --> 01:18:09.479
cool kind of bee, you need
to consider the leaf cutter bees and they

1081
01:18:09.520 --> 01:18:15.359
can get you set up with that
at thebesupply dot com the b Supply dbsupply

1082
01:18:15.800 --> 01:18:21.239
dot Com out in Dayton, Texas. I was so excited when they told

1083
01:18:21.239 --> 01:18:25.720
me they had leafcutter bees because that
is a that is a super cool thing

1084
01:18:26.119 --> 01:18:30.960
for home pollination for folks that don't
want to get into tending bees. And

1085
01:18:30.000 --> 01:18:32.720
of course you don't get the honey
out of the deal, but they sure

1086
01:18:32.760 --> 01:18:38.680
do work hard for you when it
comes to quality materials for your soil.

1087
01:18:39.119 --> 01:18:42.680
For those of you who have not
been up to Nature's Way up almost to

1088
01:18:42.880 --> 01:18:46.319
Conro, it's up a highway forty
five where fourteen eighty eight comes in.

1089
01:18:46.359 --> 01:18:50.520
You just turn right and go across
the tracks and you're there Nature's Way resources.

1090
01:18:50.680 --> 01:18:55.079
You know, Nature's Way has been
a leader for a very long time.

1091
01:18:55.399 --> 01:18:59.359
When it comes to who first created
rose sooil, When it comes to

1092
01:18:59.439 --> 01:19:03.079
who first created leaf more composts.
That's Nature's Way. John Ferguson has been

1093
01:19:03.079 --> 01:19:06.079
doing this for a long time.
He and his son Ian now running the

1094
01:19:06.079 --> 01:19:12.520
place quality types of native plants as
well. So when you go up to

1095
01:19:12.600 --> 01:19:15.840
Nature's Way, you need a very
empty car, pickup and trailer, all

1096
01:19:15.880 --> 01:19:20.319
of the above because you're going to
bring home a lot of things from bags

1097
01:19:20.359 --> 01:19:25.199
to bulk. You can have them
deliver it. It's really easy. Here's

1098
01:19:25.199 --> 01:19:30.760
the phone number nine three six three
two one sixty nine ninety. Don't forget

1099
01:19:30.760 --> 01:19:33.680
that. Every Friday is Fungal Friday. There's a sale ten percent off bagged

1100
01:19:33.720 --> 01:19:39.039
fungo product, twenty percent off bulk, and they have plenty of it on

1101
01:19:39.159 --> 01:19:41.760
hand. You can have them deliver
it to your house if you'd like to

1102
01:19:41.800 --> 01:19:45.199
do that. And you know,
with Nature's Way you are getting a high

1103
01:19:45.319 --> 01:19:51.319
quality, high quality compost, not
junk that's been rushed through and has issues.

1104
01:19:51.800 --> 01:19:56.239
No, this is going to be
a very high quality compost that your

1105
01:19:56.239 --> 01:19:59.159
plants are going to hit the ground
running. They're going to do really,

1106
01:19:59.239 --> 01:20:04.760
really well with. I want to
remind you that today from eleven thirty to

1107
01:20:04.800 --> 01:20:10.199
one thirty, I'm going to be
at r CW nursery. That's the nursery

1108
01:20:10.239 --> 01:20:15.960
where Tomol Parkway almost went blank.
There Tambo Parkway, which is FM two

1109
01:20:15.960 --> 01:20:18.119
forty nine. It comes into belt
WAA. It's really easy to get to

1110
01:20:18.720 --> 01:20:23.920
RCW Nursery. I'm going to be
giving away things like the three sixty tree

1111
01:20:23.960 --> 01:20:28.720
stabilizer. By the way, they
carry those there at RCW Nursery. I'll

1112
01:20:28.760 --> 01:20:31.960
be given away four of those today. So if you have not seen this

1113
01:20:32.000 --> 01:20:34.319
little gadget, you need to come
by. Let me show you what it

1114
01:20:34.359 --> 01:20:40.279
looks like, that three sixty tree
stabilizer. You just put a steak in

1115
01:20:40.359 --> 01:20:44.520
a metal steak right close to the
tree and put on the stabilizer. It

1116
01:20:44.600 --> 01:20:47.319
allows a little bit of movement,
which is ness important to do that.

1117
01:20:47.800 --> 01:20:51.640
Not much though you can do.
If you've got a larger tree, you

1118
01:20:51.680 --> 01:20:57.079
can do multiple ones on it that
you're trying to establish. If you are

1119
01:20:57.119 --> 01:21:00.279
having win coming from all different directions, you can do two of the tree

1120
01:21:00.760 --> 01:21:03.439
stabilizers, one nor south, one
east west, for example, so that

1121
01:21:03.520 --> 01:21:08.680
they support it every which way.
It's a quality product that lasts a long

1122
01:21:08.720 --> 01:21:11.479
time. You don't have to buy
cables, you don't have to cut up

1123
01:21:11.520 --> 01:21:15.239
garden hose to go around the branches. You don't have steaks to trip over

1124
01:21:15.359 --> 01:21:19.279
in the ground. It's it's fast, it's easy, and it really really

1125
01:21:19.359 --> 01:21:23.479
works. The first time I saw
this thing, I thought, Man,

1126
01:21:23.600 --> 01:21:29.479
this this is cool stuff. It
is three sixty tree stabilizer. Come out

1127
01:21:29.479 --> 01:21:32.960
and see me by the way out
there at RCW. They're going to have

1128
01:21:33.000 --> 01:21:39.119
barbecue and stuff to drink out there
too. All kinds of a shinda going

1129
01:21:39.159 --> 01:21:44.920
on. I'll answer your gardening questions, identify things, but you got to

1130
01:21:44.920 --> 01:21:48.079
come out and see all the things
on sale. This is a great time.

1131
01:21:48.159 --> 01:21:51.279
If you've thought about planning a rose
bush, today's the day to buy

1132
01:21:51.279 --> 01:21:57.279
it twenty percent off. If you've
thought about putting in some citrus, today's

1133
01:21:57.359 --> 01:22:00.680
the data buy twenty percent off out
there or she did it. That includes

1134
01:22:00.800 --> 01:22:06.279
Japanese maples and bitechs, and that
wonderful cajun hibiscus. I cannot begin to

1135
01:22:06.319 --> 01:22:10.960
describe the color of cajun hibiscus.
There are several versions of it out there.

1136
01:22:11.479 --> 01:22:15.640
They are stunningly beautiful. They'll be
giving away a lot of other giveaways,

1137
01:22:15.680 --> 01:22:19.720
including that one hundred dollars gift certificate. Oh my gosh, turn me

1138
01:22:19.840 --> 01:22:24.079
loose one hundred dollars gift certificate.
I didn't have a lot of fun.

1139
01:22:24.239 --> 01:22:29.960
I hope you join us out there. Eleven thirty to one thirty. Kt

1140
01:22:30.199 --> 01:22:33.199
r H Garden Line does not necessarily
endorse any of the products or services advertised

1141
01:22:33.199 --> 01:22:40.079
on this program. Welcome to kt
r H Garden Line with Scip Richard.

1142
01:22:40.159 --> 01:23:09.199
It's so crazy just watch him as
world say not a sid Hey, welcome

1143
01:23:09.199 --> 01:23:13.960
back to Garden Line. Glad to
have you back with us. Looking forward

1144
01:23:14.000 --> 01:23:16.840
to talking to you about the things
that are of most interest to you.

1145
01:23:17.560 --> 01:23:20.960
What is of interest to you,
by the way, what kinds of gardening

1146
01:23:21.039 --> 01:23:24.920
questions might you have? That's what
we're here for. We're here to answer

1147
01:23:25.000 --> 01:23:29.520
your gardening questions to make sure that, as best we can, we help

1148
01:23:29.560 --> 01:23:32.319
you to have success. What does
that mean? That means a beautiful lawn,

1149
01:23:32.680 --> 01:23:36.600
That means a beautiful landscape, That
means a bountiful garden of flowers and

1150
01:23:36.720 --> 01:23:42.680
vegetables and herbs. What does interest
you? You know? One cool thing

1151
01:23:42.680 --> 01:23:45.119
about gardening. It's not a one
size fits all, that is for sure.

1152
01:23:45.560 --> 01:23:49.960
I know people that they just grow
orchids. They grow the indoors,

1153
01:23:49.960 --> 01:23:55.039
they grow them little enclosures they've created
that is all they're into, or bones

1154
01:23:55.119 --> 01:23:58.960
Eye bonees Eye is another example,
by the way, if you are interested

1155
01:23:59.000 --> 01:24:04.600
in bones Eye. Visiting with Ken
the other day we found out Ken Casino.

1156
01:24:04.720 --> 01:24:09.039
That is, by the way,
that is quality feed. You've heard

1157
01:24:09.079 --> 01:24:12.359
me talk about them in the past. Well, Ken is a Bonesye expert,

1158
01:24:12.479 --> 01:24:17.319
and he was telling us about the
upcoming Bonesye on the Bayu twenty twenty

1159
01:24:17.359 --> 01:24:24.000
four. That is the Bonesie Club's
international event. It's on March, and

1160
01:24:24.039 --> 01:24:27.199
I see you not March. It's
on April twenty fifth through twenty eighth.

1161
01:24:27.239 --> 01:24:30.279
Bonesye on the Bayou. It's an
international Bonesye Convention. It'll be at the

1162
01:24:30.319 --> 01:24:36.920
Marriott Hotel at West Chase Marriott hot
Houston, West Chase on Briar Park Drive

1163
01:24:38.159 --> 01:24:42.439
in Houston again April twenty fifth through
twenty eight. Now, the best days

1164
01:24:42.520 --> 01:24:45.640
to take it in is going to
be on Friday the twenty sixth and Saturday,

1165
01:24:45.680 --> 01:24:47.880
April twenty seventh. Those are the
two key days, twenty sixth and

1166
01:24:47.960 --> 01:24:54.479
twenty seventh. You're going to find
nearly one hundred different bones Eye tree displays

1167
01:24:54.760 --> 01:24:58.920
right there. There is going to
be a ton of information. You can

1168
01:24:59.000 --> 01:25:04.399
purchase Bonesye materials and supplies and everything
else. It's just gonna be a great

1169
01:25:04.399 --> 01:25:10.600
deal. It is a celebration of
Bones Eye in every way, shape and

1170
01:25:10.680 --> 01:25:15.000
form. You're going to see expert
demonstrations, there's gonna be hands on workshops.

1171
01:25:15.119 --> 01:25:18.640
So if you've ever thought about getting
involved in Bonesie, here is the

1172
01:25:18.680 --> 01:25:24.159
best time of the that I've ever
seen. Really. The Houston Boneseye Society

1173
01:25:25.000 --> 01:25:29.680
they're the host of this and there's
going to be so much going on.

1174
01:25:29.760 --> 01:25:33.199
So I would encourage you write this
date down. This is April the twenty

1175
01:25:33.279 --> 01:25:36.079
sixth and twenty seventh. Those are
the two days that you want to know

1176
01:25:36.159 --> 01:25:41.239
about it. If you like more
information, you can give Ken a call

1177
01:25:41.439 --> 01:25:48.399
at eight three two four eight three
sixty thirty six eight three two four eight

1178
01:25:48.520 --> 01:25:55.560
three six zero three six. And
there is a lot more information we could

1179
01:25:55.600 --> 01:25:58.760
say about it, but just know
this, if you want more information,

1180
01:25:58.880 --> 01:26:03.520
give Kenn a call and find out. He's also available over there at the

1181
01:26:03.640 --> 01:26:10.840
Quality Feed Store on Luzon Street are
in Houston. He is He is quite

1182
01:26:10.880 --> 01:26:14.279
the Bones Eye enthusiast and he can
get you all set up everything you need

1183
01:26:14.319 --> 01:26:16.640
to know. And if you've ever
thought about it, here's your chance.

1184
01:26:16.840 --> 01:26:20.520
I think you will find it fun
warning warning bones eye. Like any kind

1185
01:26:20.520 --> 01:26:27.119
of plant collecting thing can sure be
addictive, but what a wonderful addiction that

1186
01:26:27.119 --> 01:26:30.479
that is. Hey. Our phone
number is seven one three two one two

1187
01:26:30.640 --> 01:26:34.560
fifty eight seventy four seven one three
two one two five eight seven four.

1188
01:26:35.199 --> 01:26:41.800
It is time to put down your
Nitroposs superturf. The silver bag makes it

1189
01:26:41.800 --> 01:26:46.359
easy. Silver nineteen four to ten
that's the blend half that nitrogen. Half

1190
01:26:46.359 --> 01:26:51.239
of that nineteen percent nitrogen is in
a slow release form to gradually release over

1191
01:26:51.319 --> 01:26:56.880
time. It also has four percent
iron. When your grass is your little

1192
01:26:56.920 --> 01:27:00.840
yellow areas in it, that most
likely is a due to some sort of

1193
01:27:00.840 --> 01:27:04.359
an iron deficiency. And with that
extra boost of iron in there, that

1194
01:27:04.560 --> 01:27:10.399
just makes it an even better fertilizer. Nitrofoss super Turf, like all Nitrofuss

1195
01:27:10.439 --> 01:27:14.760
products, very widely available. You're
going to find it in shades of Texas.

1196
01:27:14.840 --> 01:27:16.439
Up in the woodlands. It's easy
to find. You go down in

1197
01:27:16.600 --> 01:27:21.319
Chanted Gardens down in Richmond Rosenberg area
and you can find Nitrofoss products here as

1198
01:27:21.319 --> 01:27:27.760
well as well as down South Houston
on Southmore Fishers Hardware. There's another Fisher's

1199
01:27:27.760 --> 01:27:31.960
Hardware and Laporte on Broadway Street.
All these places carry the Nitrofoss Super Turf

1200
01:27:32.079 --> 01:27:42.960
another nitrofs products as well. I
was this past week doing some planning for

1201
01:27:43.039 --> 01:27:45.000
a garden bed that I'm doing out
front where I want some color, but

1202
01:27:45.039 --> 01:27:50.359
I also want to bring in some
hummingbirds. Hummingbirds are just a really cool

1203
01:27:50.399 --> 01:27:55.159
addition. All kinds of birds are
a really cool addition. But by planting

1204
01:27:55.199 --> 01:27:59.479
certain kinds of Salvia's, especially the
Salvia garnittick of the black and blue,

1205
01:27:59.640 --> 01:28:05.159
and there's other varieties or cultivars of
that, it just does so well.

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01:28:05.199 --> 01:28:11.439
But when you do those kind of
plantings, whether it's berries or blooms or

1207
01:28:11.439 --> 01:28:15.039
whatever, you're going to bring birds
in. And when you bring birds in,

1208
01:28:15.439 --> 01:28:18.600
it just adds to the beauty of
the landscape, makes it really a

1209
01:28:18.800 --> 01:28:23.319
nice, nice place to want to
be. You know the folks that Wildbird's

1210
01:28:23.399 --> 01:28:29.279
Unlimited, they are the experts when
it comes to all kinds of things birds.

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01:28:29.640 --> 01:28:32.760
Do you need bird feeders? For
example, here's an ideal Mother's Day's

1212
01:28:32.800 --> 01:28:38.920
coming up. I cannot think of
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1213
01:28:39.039 --> 01:28:43.239
than something from Wildbirds Unlimited. If
your mom likes to feed birds, They've

1214
01:28:43.239 --> 01:28:47.680
got the Eco Tough, Tough Classic
feeder. It is very environmentally friendly,

1215
01:28:47.720 --> 01:28:51.960
high quality made from recycled plastic milk
jugs, and it's a beautiful lild feeder.

1216
01:28:53.239 --> 01:28:56.199
They've got the high perch humming bird
feeder. It's the best humming bird

1217
01:28:56.199 --> 01:29:00.640
feeder I've seen or used. High
perch hummingbird feeder. Have to go by

1218
01:29:00.680 --> 01:29:05.600
there and ask them about it.
And I have the scirlproof bird feeder that

1219
01:29:05.760 --> 01:29:11.600
is called the Eliminator Scroll of bird
feeder those that's a catalog. It is

1220
01:29:11.800 --> 01:29:15.640
really cool. A book like the
Joy of bird Feeding, or some other

1221
01:29:15.760 --> 01:29:18.520
type of feeder, like the cylindrical
feeder. We call it the flying Bistro.

1222
01:29:18.960 --> 01:29:24.439
You put this whole cylinder of food
in it. Mom will love that,

1223
01:29:25.359 --> 01:29:29.039
she will. I've purchased those kinds
of things as gifts before and they

1224
01:29:29.039 --> 01:29:31.960
are awesome. Mother's Day's coming up. Don't delay. Hey, go to

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01:29:32.039 --> 01:29:39.159
Wildbirds. How do you find one? WBU dot com forward slash Houston.

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01:29:39.279 --> 01:29:44.680
WBU dot com forward slash Houston.
You can find all the wildbirds near you.

1227
01:29:44.760 --> 01:29:47.720
They've got one in Cyprus and Memorial
Lot in ben bel Air. There

1228
01:29:47.800 --> 01:29:53.680
is in Pairland over up in Kingwood. And clear Lake as well. Easy

1229
01:29:53.680 --> 01:29:59.920
to find wildbirds wbu dot com,
Forward Slash Houston. Don't delay Mother's Day

1230
01:30:00.159 --> 01:30:03.680
coming and you are. I promise
you're going to find some really nice gifts

1231
01:30:04.039 --> 01:30:10.359
for mom at Wilberds. I'm going
to go now to Cyprus and we're going

1232
01:30:10.399 --> 01:30:16.800
to talk to Cindy. Hello,
Cindy, Hi. Hi. So my

1233
01:30:16.960 --> 01:30:23.960
question is I've been told that you
have been endorsing Weedonator, a weed and

1234
01:30:24.039 --> 01:30:29.880
feed product, And one I'm just
wondering is it too late to put it

1235
01:30:29.920 --> 01:30:33.119
on? And two why are you
recommending a weed and feed when you always

1236
01:30:33.760 --> 01:30:39.119
have recommended not using them? Well, you know, in general, my

1237
01:30:39.119 --> 01:30:44.359
my number one preference is that you
fertilize when it's time to fertilize, and

1238
01:30:44.399 --> 01:30:47.359
you when you have a weed problem, you pick a product that fits that

1239
01:30:47.399 --> 01:30:53.000
weed to use to control it.
The thing I like about the weedinator is

1240
01:30:53.279 --> 01:30:58.319
it instead of thinking of it as
just a weed and feed, it's like

1241
01:30:58.359 --> 01:31:02.960
a weed now and later. So
early on we were talking about weed Enator

1242
01:31:03.439 --> 01:31:10.199
when our broad leaf weeds were younger, more susceptible, and we were putting

1243
01:31:10.199 --> 01:31:14.720
it down then knowing that the nutrient
was going to really be released gradually over

1244
01:31:14.800 --> 01:31:17.079
a very long time, so it
wasn't like you're getting all the dump of

1245
01:31:17.600 --> 01:31:21.439
the product of nutrient at the same
time you're trying to control the weed.

1246
01:31:23.600 --> 01:31:27.239
I think that at this point in
time, it's probably better to just shift

1247
01:31:27.319 --> 01:31:31.520
over to a fertilizer product. You
know, the same folks that make the

1248
01:31:31.520 --> 01:31:36.199
weed enater Nelson Nelson plant food has
the slow and easy, and I would

1249
01:31:36.239 --> 01:31:41.880
be doing that rather than weedinator now. And if you've got weed problems,

1250
01:31:41.920 --> 01:31:47.479
then let's specifically recommend a product for
those particular weeds. Okay, well,

1251
01:31:47.680 --> 01:31:54.560
I do have weeds, but it's
a large section that never got watered last

1252
01:31:54.640 --> 01:32:01.640
year when a sprinkler was destroyed,
so it's it would almost have to be

1253
01:32:01.680 --> 01:32:04.800
a kill a whole large area to
get rid of the weeds. Okay,

1254
01:32:04.920 --> 01:32:10.600
well, uh yeah, you know, to each his own and how you

1255
01:32:10.720 --> 01:32:14.159
want to go about it. But
yeah, yeah, it's a as long

1256
01:32:14.199 --> 01:32:15.800
as you got weeds, it's harder
for grass to get established. But a

1257
01:32:15.840 --> 01:32:19.359
lot of people take the slower approach
and sounds like maybe this would be the

1258
01:32:19.359 --> 01:32:25.279
one that fits your situation better,
Cindy, and that is to grow yourself

1259
01:32:25.279 --> 01:32:29.520
out of the weed problem with proper
mowing, watering, and fertilizing using a

1260
01:32:30.000 --> 01:32:32.239
slow release like that Nelson's. I
would do the slow and easy now or

1261
01:32:32.279 --> 01:32:36.359
you could do the Bruce's brew now
too. Either one, but uh and

1262
01:32:35.920 --> 01:32:40.960
going back to weed nat or just
to clarify, I looked it up online.

1263
01:32:40.960 --> 01:32:45.119
It says it's got a growth regulator, a pre emergent, and a

1264
01:32:45.159 --> 01:32:49.439
post emergent. Yeah, so it
sounds like something I could consider for next

1265
01:32:49.520 --> 01:32:55.800
year. But so it's early spring
March. Cindy, I'm up against a

1266
01:32:55.880 --> 01:32:58.079
real hard break here. If you
I'm going to put you on hold.

1267
01:32:58.079 --> 01:33:00.239
If you want to hang on,
go ahead and we'll come back to it.

1268
01:33:00.479 --> 01:33:03.439
We're going to take a little break. We'll be right back. Well,

1269
01:33:03.680 --> 01:33:05.960
we're back to Guardline. I'm your
host, Skip Richter. Good to

1270
01:33:06.000 --> 01:33:09.920
have you with us. Our phone
number is seven one three two on two

1271
01:33:10.079 --> 01:33:14.119
KTRH. You know, Cindy brings
up a good question, and that is,

1272
01:33:14.279 --> 01:33:18.600
what about when we have combination products
that control weeds and that fertilize and

1273
01:33:18.680 --> 01:33:23.239
things. You know, there's no
it's not a black and white world out

1274
01:33:23.239 --> 01:33:28.119
there when it comes to gardening in
general. My preference is to use quality

1275
01:33:28.159 --> 01:33:31.600
fertilizers. At the right time and
to use the right weed control products for

1276
01:33:31.640 --> 01:33:35.760
whatever the issue is at the right
time. There's times when we prevent weeds,

1277
01:33:36.000 --> 01:33:42.000
and sometimes there are combo products that
have a fertilizer and a weed prevention

1278
01:33:42.159 --> 01:33:46.600
in them. If the time to
fertilize and prevent weeds overlaps, then use

1279
01:33:46.640 --> 01:33:51.079
those products. That's fine. Otherwise
you may have to go separate. The

1280
01:33:51.119 --> 01:33:56.600
same is true with products that have
fertilizer and that have post emergent weed control

1281
01:33:56.680 --> 01:34:00.600
kill existing weeds. When those times
overlap, you can use the combination products,

1282
01:34:00.640 --> 01:34:03.800
and when they don't, you shouldn't. You should use a quality fertilizer.

1283
01:34:04.520 --> 01:34:09.640
And in these brands that produce those
combos, they also produce just the

1284
01:34:09.640 --> 01:34:13.760
individual fertilizers as well, so you
can go either way. I like to

1285
01:34:13.800 --> 01:34:18.399
take it a little bit kind of
a higher level question and say what is

1286
01:34:18.479 --> 01:34:21.520
the weed that you have that's plaguing
your ground. That's why I like to

1287
01:34:21.520 --> 01:34:25.920
do these things like at RCW today, where people can bring me their weeds,

1288
01:34:26.720 --> 01:34:29.640
thank you very much, in a
ziploc bag. We can look at

1289
01:34:29.680 --> 01:34:32.600
them and I can talk about the
strategy for those because you know, we've

1290
01:34:32.640 --> 01:34:38.239
got cool season weeds and warm season
weeds, annual weeds and perennial weeds.

1291
01:34:38.680 --> 01:34:43.479
Annuals come from seed perennials primarily,
or problem because they come back from plants

1292
01:34:43.479 --> 01:34:45.560
that live a year after year after
year, and we can prescribe the right

1293
01:34:45.640 --> 01:34:49.359
thing for them. So there's a
place in time for everything. But just

1294
01:34:49.600 --> 01:34:54.960
carte blanche, just to always be
com combining things is not a good idea.

1295
01:34:55.039 --> 01:34:59.199
You're not going to hear me talking
about using a post emergent fertilizer combo

1296
01:34:59.279 --> 01:35:01.960
at this point the year because it's
getting a little bit warm for those things,

1297
01:35:01.960 --> 01:35:05.640
and I don't want people using them
at a time when it's stressful of

1298
01:35:05.680 --> 01:35:09.680
the turf grass. Those are used
at a time when it's not as stressful.

1299
01:35:10.399 --> 01:35:15.000
Hopefully that's not confusing. Just know
that, like anything, the devil's

1300
01:35:15.000 --> 01:35:17.680
always in the details, and so
I will try to guide you as best

1301
01:35:17.680 --> 01:35:21.000
I can according to your wishes.
Some people want organic, some people want

1302
01:35:21.039 --> 01:35:28.279
synthetic. That's why my lawn care
schedule online at gardening with Skip dot com

1303
01:35:28.279 --> 01:35:32.159
Gardening with Skip dot Com, it
has both organic and synthetic options when it

1304
01:35:32.159 --> 01:35:36.239
comes to fertilizers and also when it
comes to pest disease and weed management.

1305
01:35:36.640 --> 01:35:43.439
Now we talked about Slow and Easy. That's Nelson's gradual release product, and

1306
01:35:43.520 --> 01:35:45.680
it will feed for a very long
time. If you do Slow and Easy

1307
01:35:45.720 --> 01:35:49.960
now, your next fertilization is probably
going to be in the fall that you

1308
01:35:50.039 --> 01:35:54.439
actually do it again. I mean
it does. It does feed for a

1309
01:35:54.640 --> 01:35:58.640
very very long time. They also
have Bruce's Brew. Now, Bruce's Brew

1310
01:35:59.239 --> 01:36:03.359
is a I'll say it's a fast
release because about you know, it's got

1311
01:36:03.359 --> 01:36:06.520
a good amount of nitrogen for a
quick green up that's going to come out.

1312
01:36:06.840 --> 01:36:12.159
But it also has some slow release
in it, so it's not just

1313
01:36:12.359 --> 01:36:15.960
all of it immediately available. It's
not as slow as Slow and Easy.

1314
01:36:16.359 --> 01:36:21.920
But it's a good combination and for
people for whatever reasons, if you want,

1315
01:36:23.000 --> 01:36:26.279
you could use a Bruce's Brew application
now, you could do about half

1316
01:36:26.319 --> 01:36:28.479
of it now, and then you
could do about half of it a little

1317
01:36:28.520 --> 01:36:31.079
bit later and spread it out over
time. There's no one way to skin

1318
01:36:31.119 --> 01:36:35.239
a cat. But both of those
products are excellent. They're both part of

1319
01:36:35.279 --> 01:36:40.640
that turf Star line, the bruce
Is Brew and the Slow and Easy.

1320
01:36:40.760 --> 01:36:45.560
Both of them are a good blend
of nutrients and both of them will give

1321
01:36:45.600 --> 01:36:49.920
you very good results. And I
like the slow and easy especially because of

1322
01:36:49.960 --> 01:36:55.000
the way it releases slowly. You
get good even slow growth over time,

1323
01:36:55.399 --> 01:36:58.439
so you get a good root system
on the plants, not just all top

1324
01:36:58.479 --> 01:37:02.680
growth real fast. And it's even
beneficial by acidifying the soil somewhat. It

1325
01:37:02.760 --> 01:37:08.119
is an acidifying fertilizer. It you
know, one application doesn't turn your soil

1326
01:37:08.159 --> 01:37:12.680
from high pH to acid, but
it moves it in that direction gradually over

1327
01:37:12.720 --> 01:37:15.960
time as you use it. Quality
products from Nelson Nelson Plant Food. Let's

1328
01:37:15.960 --> 01:37:19.239
go out to southeast Houston and we're
going to talk to Leo. Leo,

1329
01:37:19.359 --> 01:37:23.960
thanks for patiently hanging on there.
Good morning, Skip. How are you

1330
01:37:23.960 --> 01:37:27.960
doing. I'm well, sir,
Thank you great. I've been real loyal

1331
01:37:28.000 --> 01:37:31.119
with the nitrofills fertilizer and I use
the pre emergent one this year, but

1332
01:37:31.279 --> 01:37:39.760
I think with the freeze that occurred
last winter, I have sat augustine grass.

1333
01:37:39.800 --> 01:37:43.680
However, I'm having patches of what
appears to be a centipede grass,

1334
01:37:43.680 --> 01:37:45.279
and I'm trying to get rid of
it because it sounds like it looks like

1335
01:37:45.359 --> 01:37:50.960
it's trying to dominate and take over
my Saint augustine grass. How do I

1336
01:37:50.960 --> 01:37:54.640
get rid of it? Have you
ever planned it? Centipede in the yard?

1337
01:37:55.760 --> 01:38:00.920
Never? And it's what's a little
nuts to me? Is I understand

1338
01:38:00.960 --> 01:38:04.960
around hurricane seasons or birds and so
forth. Perhaps may have planted it just

1339
01:38:05.119 --> 01:38:10.439
third items appere on the lawn.
Yeah, and I try to pull off

1340
01:38:10.439 --> 01:38:14.479
and obviously use pre emergence or use
of the image products. But yeah,

1341
01:38:14.600 --> 01:38:17.439
trying to get rid of it,
and it's just just well growing high wife

1342
01:38:17.600 --> 01:38:21.279
Leo, I really I don't think
it's centipede, but let's just say it

1343
01:38:21.319 --> 01:38:26.720
could be. Centipede does not like
a lot of fertilizer. Uh, And

1344
01:38:26.800 --> 01:38:30.359
so as you use a higher nitrogen
fertilizer like we do for our Saint Augustine,

1345
01:38:30.640 --> 01:38:35.520
it gives Saint Augustine the upper hand
over centipede. It's centipede is kind

1346
01:38:35.520 --> 01:38:41.159
of a Shartrouche green rather than the
emerald greens you can get with Saint Augustine.

1347
01:38:41.560 --> 01:38:45.079
So I would I would say,
if it's centipede, just fertilize it

1348
01:38:45.119 --> 01:38:48.359
well, continue, continue to take
good care of it like that, and

1349
01:38:48.399 --> 01:38:53.399
the Saint Augustine should have the upper
hand on that. I don't know a

1350
01:38:53.479 --> 01:38:57.199
herbicide that will kill centipede, but
not Saint Augustine. I'm thinking, what

1351
01:38:57.239 --> 01:39:01.000
about out the side of vitegarth,
well, anything like that. Any not

1352
01:39:01.079 --> 01:39:06.680
apple cider that's not strong enough.
But vinegar products will burn green growth of

1353
01:39:06.800 --> 01:39:11.319
anything you spray them on. So
you have dead spots in your Saint Augustine

1354
01:39:11.600 --> 01:39:14.840
if you spray the vinegar on it. Yeah, the paint Augustine is under

1355
01:39:14.880 --> 01:39:17.479
on the bottom layer, and it's
very healthy along the entire yart. I

1356
01:39:17.520 --> 01:39:20.000
just have patches of it and just
frustrating because I can't get rid of it.

1357
01:39:20.079 --> 01:39:24.000
Out of it. So this this
something. Put this stuff you're calling

1358
01:39:24.079 --> 01:39:28.279
centipede sticks up above the Saint Augustine. It does, Okay, then that

1359
01:39:28.439 --> 01:39:33.359
is not centipede. That's some other
weed. Boy. The only approach to

1360
01:39:33.399 --> 01:39:38.159
that I can suggest to you is
there are wiper applicators. They could be

1361
01:39:38.279 --> 01:39:42.359
sponges. There's all kinds of devices
made for that. One looks like a

1362
01:39:42.399 --> 01:39:46.840
hockey stick. I make my own
homemade ones with the little those grabber tools,

1363
01:39:46.960 --> 01:39:51.520
putting sponges on the end. But
you can then wipe that on the

1364
01:39:51.640 --> 01:39:57.800
taller grass and not spray it so
that it gets on the your Saint Augustine,

1365
01:39:57.840 --> 01:40:00.520
but you wipe it onto the taller
grass, and if you stay diligent

1366
01:40:00.560 --> 01:40:04.159
with that, you can get rid
of weeds that stay up above the Saint

1367
01:40:04.159 --> 01:40:08.880
Augustine, that come up higher faster
than the Saint Augustine. That's correct.

1368
01:40:08.880 --> 01:40:14.399
That's what's so frustrating. And I'm
thinking, yeah, okay, yeah right,

1369
01:40:15.960 --> 01:40:19.800
you bet Leo, thank you,
take care you as well. Uh

1370
01:40:19.880 --> 01:40:25.159
yeah, I uh. It's always
a challenge controlling grasses and grasses. We

1371
01:40:25.239 --> 01:40:28.279
got to get a little bit on
the creative side when we do that.

1372
01:40:28.680 --> 01:40:32.800
Hey, the antique rosen pium up
there in Independence, Texas is a destination.

1373
01:40:33.079 --> 01:40:36.880
It would be worth going just to
see the place. I really mean

1374
01:40:36.920 --> 01:40:41.239
it. But they have roses and
roses and roses. They grow them in

1375
01:40:41.279 --> 01:40:45.000
two gallon containers. They're all thirty
bucks twenty nine to ninety five. Uh,

1376
01:40:45.039 --> 01:40:48.159
And it's a it's a high quality
a rose because they do grow it

1377
01:40:48.199 --> 01:40:53.159
a little bit larger container and it
just makes for a more robust plant.

1378
01:40:53.239 --> 01:40:59.000
Now they've got their nurse nursery,
their display gardens, which again that alone

1379
01:40:59.039 --> 01:41:02.800
is worth the price or dry up
there, they're just loaded with all kinds

1380
01:41:02.840 --> 01:41:06.880
of blooms. The pollinators are going
crazy out there because they always have ballooms

1381
01:41:06.920 --> 01:41:12.800
at it antiq Rose Imperium. I
took a bunch of pictures of some hoverflies

1382
01:41:12.880 --> 01:41:15.039
or surfit flies, which is a
beneficial a while back up there, just

1383
01:41:15.039 --> 01:41:19.039
because they always got them. They
have lots of new offerings in the nursery.

1384
01:41:19.159 --> 01:41:24.079
There's herbs and flowers, fruit trees, lots of native species and of

1385
01:41:24.119 --> 01:41:29.600
course roses. That is important to
know now today at ten am. Of

1386
01:41:29.640 --> 01:41:31.760
course that's going on right now.
They were having their beekeeping one on one

1387
01:41:31.880 --> 01:41:35.399
class. But they've always got stuff
going on out there, so you need

1388
01:41:35.439 --> 01:41:39.760
to Here's what you need to do. You need to write down the website

1389
01:41:39.880 --> 01:41:45.359
Antique Rowsanporium dot com, Antique Rosanmporium
dot com. You need to write down

1390
01:41:45.399 --> 01:41:49.479
the phone number nine seven nine eight
three six fifty five forty eight. They'll

1391
01:41:49.520 --> 01:41:55.199
host a garden tour. They'll if
you want to bring in a master gardener

1392
01:41:55.199 --> 01:41:58.840
group, if you want to bring
in a homeschool group with kids learning about

1393
01:41:58.880 --> 01:42:03.039
plants. They will do lunch and
learns. They can do gardencraft workshops during

1394
01:42:03.079 --> 01:42:08.359
the week and on Sundays during the
spring. It's really cool. You can

1395
01:42:08.439 --> 01:42:14.279
go email them if you want at
events at Wereroses dot com to get more

1396
01:42:14.319 --> 01:42:17.000
information. Don't just drive out there
by yourself. Take your friends with you,

1397
01:42:17.159 --> 01:42:20.439
because again, this is like going
to a botanical garden. I mean

1398
01:42:20.479 --> 01:42:26.039
it is just fun and cool and
a great, great place to go.

1399
01:42:27.520 --> 01:42:30.159
I was thinking, we're going to
hopefully be having a little bit of rain

1400
01:42:30.239 --> 01:42:32.800
here coming later in the day to
day. Whatever it rains and the soil

1401
01:42:32.800 --> 01:42:36.720
gets wet, the soil swells.
Whenever it gets dry, it shrinks,

1402
01:42:36.960 --> 01:42:42.560
and that wrecks havoc on foundations,
driveways, sidewalks, you name it.

1403
01:42:43.159 --> 01:42:46.479
Ty Strickland, fix my slab foundation
repair. That's all you need to know.

1404
01:42:46.880 --> 01:42:50.840
Fixmslab dot com. As a website, Ty can get in there.

1405
01:42:50.920 --> 01:42:54.720
Tell them you are a garden line
listener. If you see a crack in

1406
01:42:54.760 --> 01:42:58.199
the sheet rock or cracking the brick, if you have any kind of issues

1407
01:42:58.279 --> 01:43:00.159
like that, he'll show up on
time. I'll give you a fair price

1408
01:43:00.199 --> 01:43:04.479
and he'll fix it, right,
Ty Strickland, That's how he does business.

1409
01:43:04.560 --> 01:43:11.279
Fixmislab dot com two eight one two
FI five forty nine forty nine.

1410
01:43:11.359 --> 01:43:13.319
We're going to get out of here
for the news. If you want to

1411
01:43:13.359 --> 01:43:18.439
give us a call seven one three
two one two KTRH. Welcome back to

1412
01:43:18.520 --> 01:43:21.479
Gardenline. Good to have you with
us today. What are we going to

1413
01:43:21.520 --> 01:43:26.800
talk about? You tell me seven
one three two one two five eight seven

1414
01:43:27.159 --> 01:43:31.680
four. If you are looking for
a natural fertilizer with a very high concentration

1415
01:43:31.960 --> 01:43:38.399
of nitrogen, Sweet Green from nitrofoss
is that fertilizer. It's eleven percent nitrogen.

1416
01:43:38.760 --> 01:43:42.199
Now this is based on a molasses
base, so it's going to make

1417
01:43:42.760 --> 01:43:46.640
microbes very happy in your soil.
Uh. The the molasses is one of

1418
01:43:46.680 --> 01:43:51.520
the things in organic systems we often
add to the soil to increase microbial activity.

1419
01:43:53.079 --> 01:43:56.800
Sweet Green is you take molasses,
you turn some microbes loose on it

1420
01:43:56.920 --> 01:44:01.680
to create this wonderful product, Sweet
Green eleven nitrogen widely available. You put

1421
01:44:01.720 --> 01:44:04.600
it out on the soil, you
water it, it dissolves into the soil.

1422
01:44:04.640 --> 01:44:08.279
By the way, it smells great. In fact, if you're bringing

1423
01:44:08.319 --> 01:44:11.560
a bag home from shopping, you
just kind of want to make an extra

1424
01:44:11.560 --> 01:44:15.920
trip around town just to enjoy the
smell while you're driving. Who on earth

1425
01:44:15.960 --> 01:44:18.239
would ever drive more miles than they
have to in Houston? I don't know.

1426
01:44:18.319 --> 01:44:23.279
Maybe Sweet Green will do that for
you. Oh gosh, okay,

1427
01:44:23.319 --> 01:44:26.840
that's crazy. Where do you get
it? Kingwood? That's hardware out there

1428
01:44:26.840 --> 01:44:30.439
in Kingwood on Kingwood Drive. They've
got it Arbigate up and Tomball carries it.

1429
01:44:30.680 --> 01:44:34.520
Shades of Texas out on Genoa,
Red Bluff carries the Sweet Green,

1430
01:44:34.960 --> 01:44:43.319
one of the quality products from Nitrofoss
Fertilizers. Let's head out now to sugar

1431
01:44:43.399 --> 01:44:45.119
Land. If I can find the
right button, We're going to talk to

1432
01:44:45.199 --> 01:44:51.640
Paddy. Hello, Patty, Hello, Skip, good morning morning. Yesterday

1433
01:44:54.039 --> 01:45:00.960
my lemon tree, which is about
two years old now, it was looking

1434
01:45:00.079 --> 01:45:04.960
great. I mean it was putting
out some little flowers and and so yesterday

1435
01:45:05.000 --> 01:45:10.960
I noticed these little white spots.
I'm one about five leaves, okay,

1436
01:45:11.359 --> 01:45:14.159
And I didn't I didn't know what
it was. I was gonna call you

1437
01:45:14.199 --> 01:45:20.239
today. And today it's worse,
and I think it's powdery mildew. It

1438
01:45:20.279 --> 01:45:24.960
looks bad. And it's on half
the tree. Is it on the top

1439
01:45:25.079 --> 01:45:31.319
end or is it on the underside
too, No, it's not on the

1440
01:45:31.399 --> 01:45:35.079
underside. I see no evidence of
any kind of bugs. That's what I

1441
01:45:35.119 --> 01:45:39.399
looked for first. And I thought
this is so weird. It just looks

1442
01:45:39.439 --> 01:45:45.359
like somebody had spray paint on one
side of the tree. Have you have

1443
01:45:45.520 --> 01:45:48.720
you done any spraying around the tree? Is the tree near the eaves of

1444
01:45:48.760 --> 01:45:55.119
your house? Yes? Have you
have you sprayed wasp nests up under there

1445
01:45:55.199 --> 01:46:00.039
or anything like that? No?
Okay, hmmm, well, Patty,

1446
01:46:00.079 --> 01:46:04.600
I hate to make a guess without
being sure. This is an unusual thing.

1447
01:46:04.800 --> 01:46:09.479
I'm trying to figure out. Why
is it on one side but not

1448
01:46:09.640 --> 01:46:15.720
the other? Could could you take
a picture of it of the tree,

1449
01:46:15.800 --> 01:46:19.000
and then a couple of photos of
the leaves up close as close as you

1450
01:46:19.039 --> 01:46:24.239
can get but still have really good
sharp focus and send those to me.

1451
01:46:24.399 --> 01:46:28.399
Let me take a look at them
so that I'm sure before I send you

1452
01:46:28.439 --> 01:46:30.000
out to buy this, that or
the other and put it on the tree.

1453
01:46:30.439 --> 01:46:34.039
It may not even be necessary at
all, So let me take a

1454
01:46:34.079 --> 01:46:38.760
look at that. If you,
let's say you're in Sugarland, you're a

1455
01:46:38.760 --> 01:46:42.720
little ways away from RCW Nursery today, you could bring some leaves up up

1456
01:46:42.800 --> 01:46:45.520
to and I can take a look
at them today while I'm up there.

1457
01:46:45.520 --> 01:46:47.439
But that's if that's more of a
drive than you want, then I'll put

1458
01:46:47.439 --> 01:46:50.479
you on hold. You can just
take the pictures and send them to me.

1459
01:46:50.560 --> 01:46:55.680
How about that? Absolutely good?
All right, here you go,

1460
01:46:56.199 --> 01:46:59.319
Josh, we'll pick it up.
He will give you the information you need.

1461
01:47:00.880 --> 01:47:03.159
Yeah, that is unusual, you
know. I have, in many

1462
01:47:03.239 --> 01:47:08.640
decades now of doing this kind of
thing, I have often found that when

1463
01:47:08.680 --> 01:47:13.239
I hear a description and then I
see a sample, oftentimes what I pictured

1464
01:47:13.279 --> 01:47:16.000
in my mind's eye is not what
I'm seeing when I look at the sample.

1465
01:47:16.039 --> 01:47:19.760
So I always want to be a
little careful there to make sure that

1466
01:47:19.800 --> 01:47:25.840
I've got the right problem before we
start trying to solve it. As Mite

1467
01:47:25.920 --> 01:47:31.600
fertilizer is a product that you put
on for trace minerals. Now I called

1468
01:47:31.600 --> 01:47:34.960
it a fertilizer, and I know
oftentimes I say, don't think of this

1469
01:47:35.079 --> 01:47:38.840
as a fertilizer. Well, it's
nutrients that go on the ground, So

1470
01:47:39.920 --> 01:47:44.520
do it however you want. But
trace minerals are required by plants in tiny

1471
01:47:44.560 --> 01:47:49.239
amounts, but they're essential and as
mite provides trace minerals to your turf.

1472
01:47:49.960 --> 01:47:54.760
Asmite products are easy to find.
They're available in a lot of different areas.

1473
01:47:54.800 --> 01:47:59.319
I'm going to be given away four
bags of azimite at RCW Nursery today

1474
01:47:59.359 --> 01:48:01.640
so there's a good start. Come
out and see me maybe a win one.

1475
01:48:02.159 --> 01:48:06.399
As mite can be combined with composts
as you're mixing it into the soil.

1476
01:48:06.479 --> 01:48:10.000
I mean, there's a lot of
different ways to use it. Typically

1477
01:48:10.039 --> 01:48:13.439
we apply it to our lawns at
a very very low rate. It takes

1478
01:48:13.960 --> 01:48:16.479
one of those forty four pound bags
will cover six to twelve thousand square feet

1479
01:48:16.520 --> 01:48:20.039
long area. Now, it's not
the kind of fertilizer that makes your grass

1480
01:48:20.119 --> 01:48:24.560
just take off growing in green.
That's like nitrogen, that's the big three

1481
01:48:24.640 --> 01:48:29.039
nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium in those
This is a tracemental supplement, so you

1482
01:48:29.119 --> 01:48:32.079
don't need much of it, but
it is beneficial to building the bank account.

1483
01:48:32.119 --> 01:48:34.479
You know, our goal on plants
is not to have them on an

1484
01:48:34.520 --> 01:48:39.439
iv where we have to feed them
every day to keep them alive. Our

1485
01:48:39.479 --> 01:48:44.039
goal on plants is to build a
bank account of nutrients in the soil that's

1486
01:48:44.119 --> 01:48:48.720
balanced, that's in the right amounts. So any time of any day that

1487
01:48:48.760 --> 01:48:53.000
plant route wants to take up a
nutrient, it's there and it's available.

1488
01:48:53.359 --> 01:48:58.640
That's why we do this. Asmite
Texas dot com is a website that'll help

1489
01:48:58.840 --> 01:49:02.800
direct you to more formation. We're
going to go now to Cookdale, Tennessee

1490
01:49:02.960 --> 01:49:08.760
and talk to bout Bob. Is
that Cookdale or Cookville, cook Veal,

1491
01:49:09.279 --> 01:49:15.960
cook Veil? Okay, Okay,
Natal on the black Doe, my sister

1492
01:49:16.279 --> 01:49:25.000
has papias and bengos. He's raised
it in a pot and it's supposed to

1493
01:49:25.000 --> 01:49:28.039
be about thirty six degrees to No. She's kind of worried that they won't

1494
01:49:28.079 --> 01:49:31.319
survive unless he puts them back in
the green house. Well, they won't

1495
01:49:31.359 --> 01:49:35.800
like it at all. I don't
think it'll kill them. But if at

1496
01:49:35.840 --> 01:49:40.399
that temperature, you can get a
frost, and frost does kill tissues,

1497
01:49:41.000 --> 01:49:45.720
so that's a severe burnback. So
are these they're in pots? Can you

1498
01:49:45.800 --> 01:49:49.079
lay the pots over and like just
throw a tarp over them or something?

1499
01:49:50.600 --> 01:49:55.039
They probably could, yes, So
that'd be another option. You know,

1500
01:49:55.079 --> 01:49:58.439
you're at a marginal temperature there.
If you could put a tarp over them

1501
01:49:58.479 --> 01:50:01.960
and kind of weigh it down.
Just the warmth of the soil, you

1502
01:50:02.000 --> 01:50:05.079
know, keeps them from getting to
thirty six degrees or whatever it's going to

1503
01:50:05.159 --> 01:50:10.560
get to tonight. It's a little
easier maybe than moving them in the greenhouse.

1504
01:50:10.600 --> 01:50:13.039
If not, if you can move
men i'd move men, just to

1505
01:50:13.079 --> 01:50:15.760
be careful, because it's not a
matter of will they survive, it's a

1506
01:50:15.760 --> 01:50:19.880
matter of will they suffer damage.
And that's a gamble I wouldn't take.

1507
01:50:21.560 --> 01:50:25.640
Okay, all right, Bob,
did you used to live down in Houston

1508
01:50:25.720 --> 01:50:29.920
or what makes you a garden line
listener in Tennessee? Oh? Yes,

1509
01:50:29.960 --> 01:50:32.399
I used to live here. I
retired about a week ago and moving up

1510
01:50:32.439 --> 01:50:34.760
this direction now. Used to listen
to you all the time. Well,

1511
01:50:34.760 --> 01:50:42.359
I'm glad you do. Keep doing
it. Yeah, Tennessee Radio, here

1512
01:50:42.439 --> 01:50:45.399
you go. It makes it easy. Anybody can listen. And you got

1513
01:50:45.439 --> 01:50:49.439
a lot of big old wholesale nurseries
up in Tennessee, mcmhnville, some of

1514
01:50:49.479 --> 01:50:54.720
those parts of town, I mean
the state. They've got huge nurseries.

1515
01:50:54.720 --> 01:50:58.960
A ship all over the country.
Oh yeah, that Storil down there,

1516
01:50:59.039 --> 01:51:01.159
McMahon was a little bit for those
routes. And so they make a lot

1517
01:51:01.199 --> 01:51:04.239
of nursers down there. Yeah,
they do, they do. But that'd

1518
01:51:04.279 --> 01:51:08.479
be my suggestion. And good luck. And by the way, congratulations,

1519
01:51:08.520 --> 01:51:14.680
anybody can grow mango or papaya northe
Houston is doing something there you go,

1520
01:51:16.439 --> 01:51:19.319
yes, sir, thank you.
I appreciate the call. Good good to

1521
01:51:19.359 --> 01:51:24.520
have you with us. Uh Arburgate
Nursery up in tom Ball. I was

1522
01:51:24.560 --> 01:51:28.279
out there just oh gosh, less
than a week ago. Uh, just

1523
01:51:28.359 --> 01:51:30.920
admiring the parking lot. In fact, Uh, that is one of the

1524
01:51:30.960 --> 01:51:34.199
coolest new things going on at Arburgate. Now you've been to Arburgate, you

1525
01:51:34.399 --> 01:51:39.520
know that any month of the year
you go there, there is the wide

1526
01:51:39.600 --> 01:51:44.159
selection of everything that you'd want.
Uh. They've also got their special uh

1527
01:51:44.600 --> 01:51:48.159
home blend of It's called one two
three completely easy system. It's an organic

1528
01:51:48.239 --> 01:51:54.279
food A four four three plus calcium. It is an organic soil with expanded

1529
01:51:54.319 --> 01:51:58.960
shaiale. It's an organic compost with
or expanded shale. Remember brown stuff before

1530
01:51:59.000 --> 01:52:02.319
green stuff. Don't go from Arbor
Gate without one of those one each of

1531
01:52:02.359 --> 01:52:06.000
that one two three blend to make
sure when you put the plant in the

1532
01:52:06.039 --> 01:52:11.359
ground, it's gonna do well.
Check out the new parking lot Trasher Road.

1533
01:52:11.840 --> 01:52:14.880
It goes or it's a loop,
goes round behind Arbor Gate. It's

1534
01:52:14.960 --> 01:52:17.119
easy to get to. The parking
lot is awesome. I mean it can

1535
01:52:17.159 --> 01:52:21.640
be pouring rain and that parking lot
just literally drinks the water because it absorbs

1536
01:52:21.680 --> 01:52:26.039
it is that cool or what I
mean, it just it's the best new

1537
01:52:26.079 --> 01:52:29.119
thing to happen out there at Arburgate
in a long time. While you're out

1538
01:52:29.119 --> 01:52:31.319
there, you're gonna find every plant
you can imagine, and then some and

1539
01:52:31.479 --> 01:52:35.840
staff that are knowledgeable that don't sell
you stuff that doesn't grow here, that

1540
01:52:36.079 --> 01:52:41.520
do sew you things that fit exactly
what you tell them you want out of

1541
01:52:41.520 --> 01:52:45.439
a plant. We're going to take
a little break for another news break our

1542
01:52:45.439 --> 01:52:49.560
phone number seven one three two one
two fifty eight seventy four. Boy,

1543
01:52:49.560 --> 01:52:53.880
if that doesn't get your feet moving
and your hips swam, I don't know

1544
01:52:53.920 --> 01:52:59.039
what does. It's always always fun
to have some Kinney logs. Oh man,

1545
01:52:59.079 --> 01:53:02.000
that's right, gosh, just tell
me the Kenny log Footloose. Now,

1546
01:53:02.039 --> 01:53:06.319
I'm pretty sure that you don't even
need to hook some up someone up

1547
01:53:06.359 --> 01:53:10.920
to a heart monitor or check their
pulse. Just play Footloose and if the

1548
01:53:10.960 --> 01:53:15.199
toast starts tapping their life. If
it doesn't, they're gone. No use

1549
01:53:15.239 --> 01:53:17.680
even trying to get the pedals out
there. They're a goneer that song.

1550
01:53:18.079 --> 01:53:21.479
It is impossible for me to not
tap my foot or start dance and run

1551
01:53:21.520 --> 01:53:26.960
the studio when I hear footloose,
you're listening to garden Line and other than

1552
01:53:27.039 --> 01:53:30.000
rambling about music, we answer gardening
questions. Our phone number is seven one

1553
01:53:30.039 --> 01:53:38.439
three two one two k t rh
So. Secrets to success is quality soil,

1554
01:53:38.720 --> 01:53:42.279
right, that's the blend. That's
the secret. That's what's important.

1555
01:53:42.720 --> 01:53:47.319
Nature's Way Resources has got you covered. John Ferguson long time ago made a

1556
01:53:47.319 --> 01:53:53.680
commitment to do two things. Number
one, to learn soil science and he

1557
01:53:54.000 --> 01:54:00.479
probably reads more about soil and nature
and all that type of thing that anybody

1558
01:54:00.520 --> 01:54:04.479
on. No. Number two,
to make top quality resources that you can

1559
01:54:04.520 --> 01:54:11.960
depend on to enhance anything you want
to do regarding plants anywhere around the landscape.

1560
01:54:12.079 --> 01:54:15.520
That is Nature's Way. They created
the first roll, so they created

1561
01:54:15.760 --> 01:54:20.720
the first fungal, the leith mol
compost. Specifically, by the way,

1562
01:54:20.760 --> 01:54:24.039
now's a good time to get that
and put it out on your garden,

1563
01:54:24.119 --> 01:54:29.640
especially or on your lawn, especially
if you can also do a deep time

1564
01:54:29.920 --> 01:54:33.079
erration on the lawn. Super quality
sup A limo compost can be used in

1565
01:54:33.119 --> 01:54:36.800
a lot of different ways. Just
go to Nature's Way and check it out,

1566
01:54:38.000 --> 01:54:41.760
or drive by or go to the
website. I mean, the website's

1567
01:54:41.800 --> 01:54:47.159
easy Nature'sway resources dot com. They're
on Sherbrooks Circle. The address is Conro,

1568
01:54:47.319 --> 01:54:50.319
but it's actually you go up forty
five. When you get to where

1569
01:54:50.359 --> 01:54:55.760
fourteen eighty eight comes in from Magnolia
into forty five, turn right across the

1570
01:54:55.800 --> 01:55:00.560
tracks, you're at Nature's Way.
Nature's Way has a wide variety of I

1571
01:55:00.560 --> 01:55:02.239
mean, we talk about things like
rose soil, but they have a garden

1572
01:55:02.239 --> 01:55:05.920
and flower bed mix, a landscaper's
mix, a mix for blueberries, for

1573
01:55:06.039 --> 01:55:12.560
cactus and desert type plants, a
citrus mix, a potting soil, a

1574
01:55:12.600 --> 01:55:18.199
container soil, fungal compost, leaf
mow compost, lots of quality multz,

1575
01:55:18.239 --> 01:55:23.000
the compost native maultz. We like
so much. Nature's Way has it all.

1576
01:55:23.119 --> 01:55:27.880
It makes it really easy for one
stop shopping. Nine three six three

1577
01:55:27.920 --> 01:55:32.279
two one sixty nine ninety nine three
six three one sixty nine ninety don't forget.

1578
01:55:32.760 --> 01:55:39.560
Every Friday is fungal Friday. Ten
percent off bagged fungal compost products twenty

1579
01:55:39.560 --> 01:55:42.840
percent off the bulk. You can
buy it by the bag, you can

1580
01:55:42.880 --> 01:55:45.079
have them deliver it, you can
go pick it up. Nature's Way makes

1581
01:55:45.079 --> 01:55:48.920
it easy to have success, but
it's up to you to start with the

1582
01:55:48.960 --> 01:55:53.760
soil before you start putting the plat
roots in the ground. We're going to

1583
01:55:53.840 --> 01:55:58.520
go now to mop Bellvue and talk
to Duane. Hello, Dwayne, I

1584
01:55:58.560 --> 01:56:01.079
didn't Morris scop. Thanks for taking
the call. Hey, I had a

1585
01:56:01.159 --> 01:56:05.359
question about my flower bed. It
looks like overt night. There's something that's

1586
01:56:05.439 --> 01:56:11.720
growing in it and it's yellow,
about the size of a small saucer and

1587
01:56:11.840 --> 01:56:15.680
about a half inch to one inch
tall. Okay, And I was wondering

1588
01:56:15.760 --> 01:56:19.880
if you could tell what that is. Yes, that is a decomposer fungi.

1589
01:56:20.960 --> 01:56:25.680
It grows on the mulch because it's
decomposing organic matter. It is not

1590
01:56:26.000 --> 01:56:29.840
a disease of plants. You can
if you don't like it, take a

1591
01:56:29.880 --> 01:56:32.680
little shovel scoop it up. It's
only surface deep, and throw it out.

1592
01:56:32.880 --> 01:56:34.880
If you don't want to just break
it up, or if you want

1593
01:56:34.880 --> 01:56:39.039
to ignore it, it doesn't matter. It's it's not a problem at all.

1594
01:56:39.079 --> 01:56:43.239
It's part of why the forest is
not a mile deep in tree trunks

1595
01:56:43.880 --> 01:56:48.159
because all the trees fell in the
forest, different kinds of fungal decomposers have

1596
01:56:48.239 --> 01:56:53.640
taken them out. And that's just
one of many. Yeah, we see

1597
01:56:53.640 --> 01:56:57.279
it here with rain and weather changes
and stuff. If you often get that

1598
01:56:57.359 --> 01:57:00.199
popping up, that's one of several
that appear in our our mulches and flower

1599
01:57:00.199 --> 01:57:04.079
beds. Okay, so it's nothing
to worry about. Okay, Well I

1600
01:57:04.159 --> 01:57:09.520
appreciate it. You bet, take
a picture of it and tell tell your

1601
01:57:09.520 --> 01:57:14.039
friends that you have a very unusual
fungal growth and they all have to come

1602
01:57:14.079 --> 01:57:19.560
over and see it. Sell tickets, sell tickets. I know my wife

1603
01:57:19.600 --> 01:57:24.239
was paranoid when she saw it this
morning. So all right, well it's

1604
01:57:24.239 --> 01:57:27.119
all, it's all good. We're
good to go. Thank you, Joane.

1605
01:57:27.199 --> 01:57:30.640
Okay, thank you, you bet. Bye bye. That is true.

1606
01:57:30.840 --> 01:57:33.479
Let's head out now to northwest Houston. Talk to Steve. Hello Steve,

1607
01:57:34.880 --> 01:57:39.760
good morning, sir. Yes,
I have a mole and a squirrel

1608
01:57:39.800 --> 01:57:44.960
problem. The squirrels are going through
my wife's plants and potted plants and she's

1609
01:57:45.039 --> 01:57:47.119
driving me nuts about it. What
can I get to stop him from doing

1610
01:57:47.159 --> 01:57:55.640
that? Well, that's a good
question. Squirrels are a pill. I

1611
01:57:55.680 --> 01:58:00.920
don't know a good squirrel repellent that
you putt im potted plants and things.

1612
01:58:02.239 --> 01:58:11.600
Oh boy, you might want to. Well here's the problem, you know,

1613
01:58:11.720 --> 01:58:14.520
I've used where squirrels are digging and
messing around, I put a little

1614
01:58:14.520 --> 01:58:16.520
hardware cloth over it. But if
I tell you go out there and buy

1615
01:58:16.560 --> 01:58:19.840
hardware cloth and cut a circle to
put in the top of every plotted plant,

1616
01:58:19.920 --> 01:58:25.600
that's not practical, you know,
to do that. They you know,

1617
01:58:25.680 --> 01:58:28.800
when they're eating stuff, we put
hot pepper oil on it. I

1618
01:58:28.880 --> 01:58:32.079
don't think the digging is going to
really help on that. I could ask

1619
01:58:32.119 --> 01:58:35.560
you to go out and buy a
miniature fox terrier and turn him loose out

1620
01:58:35.600 --> 01:58:40.680
there to terrorize him, but that's
that's an added expense you don't need,

1621
01:58:40.800 --> 01:58:44.560
so you kind of you know all. I know. I do have one

1622
01:58:44.560 --> 01:58:45.960
thing I can do for you.
I can bring up some of my best

1623
01:58:46.000 --> 01:58:51.880
squirrel recipes because with dumplings and other
things like that. But that's why I

1624
01:58:51.920 --> 01:58:58.159
hesitate, Steve. None of those
answers were going to be acceptable. Somebody

1625
01:58:58.159 --> 01:59:02.920
had mentioned that putting moss balls,
and that's a good that is a good

1626
01:59:02.920 --> 01:59:08.760
idea. I know we do that
and it keeps cats, especially because that

1627
01:59:09.199 --> 01:59:14.520
mothball is a strong smell that they
hate. You could try that. Try

1628
01:59:14.560 --> 01:59:17.000
a few of them, just put
them around the pot, maybe put one

1629
01:59:17.039 --> 01:59:21.199
in the pot, put in a
little tray in there. I don't know

1630
01:59:21.239 --> 01:59:24.319
if you put a whole bunch of
them and then it rains on it,

1631
01:59:24.359 --> 01:59:27.800
I don't know the effect of that
on the plant. So be a little

1632
01:59:27.800 --> 01:59:30.000
careful with that. Maybe put them
in a tray, but that may work.

1633
01:59:30.600 --> 01:59:33.199
If it does, I hope you
give me a call because I've never

1634
01:59:33.760 --> 01:59:38.159
heard that for squirrels, but we
have used it for other plants that or

1635
01:59:38.199 --> 01:59:44.399
other pests that have sensitive noses.
Okay, now how about moles moles?

1636
01:59:45.119 --> 01:59:46.479
Are you talking about moles or are
we talking about gophers. Do you have

1637
01:59:46.479 --> 01:59:50.600
a little raised mounds of dirt around
or just tunnels? Yes? Okay,

1638
01:59:50.640 --> 01:59:54.920
the gophers you need to go to. I'm gonna give you a website.

1639
01:59:54.960 --> 01:59:58.840
Do you have a pencil handy?
Yeah? Ahead, Agra Life A g

1640
01:59:59.239 --> 02:00:06.000
R I L I F E learn
l E A r N dot dot t

1641
02:00:06.119 --> 02:00:14.000
A m U dot e ed U
Texas and m University Agrolife learn dot TAMU

1642
02:00:14.039 --> 02:00:17.119
dot edu type in gophers. You
can also do molds, but I think

1643
02:00:17.159 --> 02:00:20.119
what you have as gophers. If
there's mounted dirt, it will give you

1644
02:00:20.159 --> 02:00:24.039
the ways to trap on if there's
any kind of a poisoning or anything.

1645
02:00:24.079 --> 02:00:27.520
It'll get you set up on that
sounds good. Have bus day, Thank

1646
02:00:27.560 --> 02:00:30.399
you you too, Thank you very
much. If you're looking for a quality

1647
02:00:30.760 --> 02:00:35.760
organic fertilizer, Microlife's got you covered. You know. Microlife has a wide

1648
02:00:35.880 --> 02:00:41.079
variety of all kinds of different fertilizers. Of course, right now, the

1649
02:00:41.199 --> 02:00:44.800
elephant in the room is the big
green bag. The green bag of Microlife

1650
02:00:44.880 --> 02:00:48.560
sixty four is a standard for lawn
fertilization. It works super well. I

1651
02:00:48.640 --> 02:00:51.399
use it on things that aren't launch
too, by the way. It works

1652
02:00:51.560 --> 02:00:56.880
very very well. It's got billions
of beneficial microbes in it. Absolutely safe.

1653
02:00:56.960 --> 02:01:00.359
You're not going to burn your plants
with microlof organic fertilize. There's not

1654
02:01:00.399 --> 02:01:02.319
a salt based thing. Even if
you over apply it in what you don't

1655
02:01:02.319 --> 02:01:05.359
want to do, You're not gonna
burn your plants. It's got over one

1656
02:01:05.439 --> 02:01:10.800
hundred plus. It's got minerals,
stimulators, of vitamins, all kinds of

1657
02:01:10.800 --> 02:01:15.399
things in it. One hundred percent
slow release, not gonna burn. It

1658
02:01:15.439 --> 02:01:17.680
works on all kinds of things.
You can use it on your lawn,

1659
02:01:17.760 --> 02:01:23.039
of course. You can use it
on ornamentals, on perennials and flowers,

1660
02:01:23.039 --> 02:01:27.640
and vegetables about twenty pounds per thousand
square feet. And you're gonna repeat it

1661
02:01:27.680 --> 02:01:30.399
about every say quarterly, about every
quarter. You can go a little less

1662
02:01:30.439 --> 02:01:33.079
often than that, but I think
quarterly is a good rate to do.

1663
02:01:33.119 --> 02:01:38.680
While you're at it, put out
the purple bag the Humanates plus zero four,

1664
02:01:38.760 --> 02:01:44.680
which is concentrated compost in a bag. That is excellent because what it

1665
02:01:44.760 --> 02:01:46.960
does is it helps build the soil
over time. Every time you put it

1666
02:01:47.000 --> 02:01:53.159
out, you're putting that humous material, which helps with soul structure, certainly

1667
02:01:53.279 --> 02:01:58.920
stimulates the microbial activity that's out there
already going on in your lawns. Works

1668
02:01:58.960 --> 02:02:02.640
super well. Well, we're heading
out another hour here. Gosh, this

1669
02:02:03.079 --> 02:02:06.239
morning's going fast. Often they do
that. They say time flies when you're

1670
02:02:06.279 --> 02:02:10.279
having fun. By the way,
coming at the frog says times fun when

1671
02:02:10.279 --> 02:02:15.079
you're having flies. But that's that's
just I don't know why that went through

1672
02:02:15.079 --> 02:02:18.840
my head. I'm gonna be at
RCW Nursery at eleven thirty this morning,

1673
02:02:18.920 --> 02:02:21.439
and I'll be there till one thirty. And what am I gonna do.

1674
02:02:21.520 --> 02:02:26.600
I'm gonna answer gardening questions. I'm
gonna meet people that listen to garden I

1675
02:02:26.600 --> 02:02:29.520
and I'd love to meet you.
If you live anywhere in the Houston area,

1676
02:02:29.520 --> 02:02:32.479
come on out to RCW today.
Let's meet. If you want some

1677
02:02:32.600 --> 02:02:38.119
help with your landscape, bring me
pictures, bring me samples for identification,

1678
02:02:38.279 --> 02:02:42.359
for diagnosis. I'm gonna be given
away stuff. I'm gonna giving away four

1679
02:02:42.399 --> 02:02:46.279
bags of azamite. I'm gonna be
giving away four tree stabilizers. But when

1680
02:02:46.359 --> 02:02:51.880
you come, come with an empty
car. ARCW is having a crazy sale.

1681
02:02:53.000 --> 02:02:55.000
By the way, they're gonna have
barbecue and drinks too. There.

1682
02:02:55.920 --> 02:03:00.159
They're gonna have roses, Japanese maples, citrus trees, cajuns by text,

1683
02:03:00.640 --> 02:03:04.439
all on sale. Twenty percent off
their metal signs. If you haven't seen

1684
02:03:04.479 --> 02:03:10.039
their yard art medals, Oh my
gosh, cool cool stuff. Make room

1685
02:03:10.079 --> 02:03:12.319
in the car. You're going to
want to go home with it. Maybe

1686
02:03:12.319 --> 02:03:15.479
you'll win a one hundred dollars gift
certificate. Yes, they are given one

1687
02:03:15.560 --> 02:03:18.960
hundred dollars gift certificate away today and
then a lot of other giveaways going on.

1688
02:03:19.079 --> 02:03:21.680
It's going to be fun. It's
always fun out at RCW Nursery.

1689
02:03:23.039 --> 02:03:27.479
You don't know where they are.
That's the garden Center where to forty nine

1690
02:03:27.560 --> 02:03:32.880
Tombo Parkway comes into belt Way eight
RCW Nurseries dot Com. Hope you'll come

1691
02:03:32.920 --> 02:03:36.960
out today. Let's help you have
a beautiful on and a bountiful landscape.

1692
02:03:38.359 --> 02:03:45.000
Hope to see. The KTRH Garden
Line does not necessarily endorse any of the

1693
02:03:45.039 --> 02:03:51.840
products or services advertised on this program. Welcome to KTRH Garden Line with Skip

1694
02:03:51.920 --> 02:04:10.880
Director. It's so crazy Trim.
Just watch him as the world maps.

1695
02:04:15.399 --> 02:04:17.159
Hey, welcome back to the Garden
Line. We got a lot to talk

1696
02:04:17.199 --> 02:04:19.640
about today, so we're going to
jump right into this. Got about an

1697
02:04:19.680 --> 02:04:24.960
hour left in the show today.
Don't forget Garden Lines available to you twenty

1698
02:04:25.000 --> 02:04:27.560
four to seven. If you want
to listen to the podcast, just get

1699
02:04:27.600 --> 02:04:31.159
your I Heart Media app or whatever
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1700
02:04:31.159 --> 02:04:34.199
past shows. You can listen to
us live. We had a call today

1701
02:04:34.279 --> 02:04:42.439
from Tennessee. Somebody bob up in
Tennessee was excuse me? Listening on iHeart

1702
02:04:42.520 --> 02:04:45.039
Media app or online. Either way, you can do it live at the

1703
02:04:45.079 --> 02:04:49.760
kid Your website makes it easy,
easy, easy to listen to Garden Line.

1704
02:04:49.920 --> 02:04:55.119
Listen. If you haven't fertilized your
lawn, get it done. Now

1705
02:04:55.640 --> 02:05:00.880
it the grass is growing faster and
faster with each degree that warms up.

1706
02:05:00.439 --> 02:05:03.439
And it is warming up a little
bit, and we're not complaining yet,

1707
02:05:03.479 --> 02:05:08.079
but we will later. Not yet, but the grass has grown faster.

1708
02:05:08.199 --> 02:05:11.800
So get that nutrient down. When
you do it, I would recommend going

1709
02:05:11.840 --> 02:05:16.000
with a slow release product. And
that is exactly what nitrophoss has created in

1710
02:05:16.239 --> 02:05:21.520
Superturf. Nitrophos Superturf, the silver
bag has proven itself here in the Greater

1711
02:05:21.560 --> 02:05:29.520
Houston area for many, many years
now. Years ago, Extension University research

1712
02:05:29.640 --> 02:05:35.479
throughout the South determined that many your
scote determined that grass needs nutrients with a

1713
02:05:35.600 --> 02:05:40.560
lot of nitrogen level, a low
phosphorus level, and a medium amount of

1714
02:05:40.560 --> 02:05:44.720
potassium. That's kind of how grass
takes up nutrients. If you cut off

1715
02:05:44.720 --> 02:05:47.399
grass clippings and send them to a
lab and say analyzes what's the nutrients in

1716
02:05:47.439 --> 02:05:49.760
them, You're going to see a
three one two or a four to one

1717
02:05:49.840 --> 02:05:54.840
two ratio of nutrients in those clippings. Okay, So when you put on

1718
02:05:54.960 --> 02:06:00.199
nitropos Superturf nineteen four ten, you've
got a combination of nutrients. That's what

1719
02:06:00.399 --> 02:06:05.520
grass takes up. It releases gradually
half the nitrogen slowly over time. Half

1720
02:06:05.520 --> 02:06:11.039
of that nineteen percent is going to
release gradually over time. Then you've got

1721
02:06:11.079 --> 02:06:14.720
iron in it to help with greening
up areas that are a little on the

1722
02:06:14.800 --> 02:06:18.640
yellowish side. It's a high quality
product available all over the place. You

1723
02:06:18.720 --> 02:06:25.520
got to a task Asida the Ace
Hardware there has got Nitrofoss superturf. You

1724
02:06:25.600 --> 02:06:29.319
go. Let's say over to Katie
the Ace Hardware and single Rant has got

1725
02:06:29.399 --> 02:06:33.159
Nitrofoss Superturf. Go to Jim's Hardware
up in Montgomery. They've got the nitrophos

1726
02:06:33.159 --> 02:06:38.279
superturf in stock and ready to go
for you. We're going to head straight

1727
02:06:38.319 --> 02:06:42.520
to the phones now. Our first
call is Steve from East Houston. Hello

1728
02:06:42.640 --> 02:06:49.000
Steve, Hi, good morning.
Osalis eradication in my lawn. Okay,

1729
02:06:50.159 --> 02:06:56.239
how do I get rid of it? I've put down the pre emergent herbicide

1730
02:06:56.600 --> 02:07:01.439
twice a year and it just really
that nothing really stops it. Oxalice is

1731
02:07:01.479 --> 02:07:09.920
a pill. It casts its seeds
far and wide. It is amazing.

1732
02:07:09.960 --> 02:07:14.680
I've seen oxalis Steve on the ground
in a greenhouse, throw seeds up in

1733
02:07:14.720 --> 02:07:17.920
the pots on top of the tables. I mean it literally is and they

1734
02:07:17.960 --> 02:07:21.600
come up everywhere. Pre Emergents are
helpful, Yes, you can do that.

1735
02:07:21.600 --> 02:07:26.600
You got to get them down ahead
of the axalas sprouting and maintain that,

1736
02:07:27.359 --> 02:07:30.680
but that will be helpful for them. But you can also use a

1737
02:07:30.720 --> 02:07:35.039
post emergent and just spray it after
it's up. Normally, I would say

1738
02:07:35.359 --> 02:07:40.560
grow a thicker densure lawn, and
oxalis tends to just kind of go away

1739
02:07:40.960 --> 02:07:44.720
when you notice exalice is when your
lawn is a little on the thin side.

1740
02:07:45.199 --> 02:07:47.960
Sunlight hits the soil. Though,
seedlings can sprout and they can get

1741
02:07:48.119 --> 02:07:53.079
established because they're getting sunlight, they're
not being choked out of light by the

1742
02:07:53.119 --> 02:07:57.800
grass. So I would work your
way toward the mow water fertilized. Part

1743
02:07:57.920 --> 02:08:01.000
of my schedule online by the way, if you haven't seen it, it's

1744
02:08:01.000 --> 02:08:03.640
at gardening with Skip dot com.
It's a free schedule you can download,

1745
02:08:05.000 --> 02:08:09.800
and then there's also a section a
different schedule on that same website for dealing

1746
02:08:09.800 --> 02:08:13.439
with weeds both pre emergent and post
emergent. But my suggestions to you would

1747
02:08:13.439 --> 02:08:16.880
be, if you want to treat
what's there now, go ahead and do

1748
02:08:16.920 --> 02:08:20.119
that with a post emergent broad leaf. But mainly focus through the course of

1749
02:08:20.159 --> 02:08:26.560
the season on getting that turf denser
and denture. Okay, But the problem

1750
02:08:26.600 --> 02:08:33.359
I find is when I put down
the post emergent herbicides that I have to

1751
02:08:33.680 --> 02:08:37.359
put a like kind of a sticker
spread or a surf BacT and on it,

1752
02:08:37.399 --> 02:08:41.479
and then it winds up killing the
Saint Augustine. Also, okay,

1753
02:08:41.880 --> 02:08:46.079
well, you want to use any
kind of a post emergent, you want

1754
02:08:46.119 --> 02:08:50.680
to do it before the temperature gets
up above the upper eighties. So like

1755
02:08:50.840 --> 02:08:52.239
right now, I don't know what
the temperature is going to be. Let's

1756
02:08:52.279 --> 02:08:56.600
just say today was going to get
up to eighty seven degrees or something.

1757
02:08:56.039 --> 02:09:00.840
Well, if it is, then
spray it this morning opposed to that,

1758
02:09:01.560 --> 02:09:05.760
and do it sooner rather than waiting
like until July trying to fight it at

1759
02:09:05.760 --> 02:09:09.800
that time. The spreader sticker is
fine. Those products are not going to

1760
02:09:09.880 --> 02:09:13.279
hurt the Saint Augustine if the temperature
is too high. But I tell you

1761
02:09:13.279 --> 02:09:20.119
what, I would switch to something
called celsius. Celsius like the temperature fahrenheit

1762
02:09:20.159 --> 02:09:26.279
and cia celsius is less damaging when
the weather warms up a little bit than

1763
02:09:26.319 --> 02:09:31.640
most of the other post emergent broad
leaves, and so that would be one

1764
02:09:31.680 --> 02:09:33.880
thing I would try to do.
You just need to make sure you get

1765
02:09:33.880 --> 02:09:37.479
good coverage. It sticks to the
leaves. Oxalis does not have a particularly

1766
02:09:39.039 --> 02:09:46.039
waxy leaf coating or anything for the
product or wash off of so the surfactant

1767
02:09:46.159 --> 02:09:50.640
is as isn't as important as it
is on some weeds. But surfactants always

1768
02:09:50.640 --> 02:09:56.319
help. Oh okay, all right, and Celsius and I can pick that

1769
02:09:56.439 --> 02:10:03.079
up at yeah Cannons or uh Ace
Hardware something someplace like that. Absolutely,

1770
02:10:03.159 --> 02:10:05.039
yeah, yeah you can, and
uh, you know, go to Ace

1771
02:10:05.079 --> 02:10:11.600
Hardware uh dot com and find the
store locator to find the ones near you.

1772
02:10:11.720 --> 02:10:16.319
I don't know exactly what part of
East East Houston you're in, but

1773
02:10:16.399 --> 02:10:22.800
you know there's an there's the Ace
Hardware in Galena Park that's on Holland Street.

1774
02:10:22.880 --> 02:10:26.720
There's one out in the Cloverleaf area
on Uvaldi. Uh So it's easy

1775
02:10:26.760 --> 02:10:31.920
to find Ace Hardwar's. There's there's
a number of them around that area.

1776
02:10:31.840 --> 02:10:35.960
Sure. Yeah, I always wind
up going west anyway, there's a lot

1777
02:10:35.000 --> 02:10:39.680
more retails. Okay, okay,
well in buchanan Buchanan's probably has it column

1778
02:10:39.720 --> 02:10:43.880
first though. Before you head over
there, I just haven't checked every garden

1779
02:10:43.920 --> 02:10:48.640
center to check for every product,
but but they may wait. And plus

1780
02:10:48.680 --> 02:10:52.800
it's a fun day to go to
Buckinnon's on any day. Okay, all

1781
02:10:52.880 --> 02:10:56.520
right, thanks, thanks for your
health skipp you've got thank you, Thank

1782
02:10:56.560 --> 02:10:58.159
you for that call. I appreciate
that. If you've been out to in

1783
02:10:58.239 --> 02:11:03.039
Channet Gardens out in Richmond, in
Channi Gardens, and Richmond is always a

1784
02:11:03.079 --> 02:11:09.039
wonderland right now. The thing that
recently has really impressed me is their containers.

1785
02:11:09.319 --> 02:11:13.239
Whether you get a big, ire, big wire basket with a cocoa

1786
02:11:13.239 --> 02:11:16.960
fiber in it and then all kinds
of things planted in it. They have

1787
02:11:16.000 --> 02:11:20.840
the hanging type, they have the
kind that are freestanding, whether you get

1788
02:11:20.840 --> 02:11:26.920
a big beautiful urn type container,
the ceramic, the glaze, ceramic,

1789
02:11:26.960 --> 02:11:31.159
and plant that. Oh my gosh. They have an unbelievable selection. It

1790
02:11:31.239 --> 02:11:33.680
is super super cool to go out
there. I love going out there.

1791
02:11:33.720 --> 02:11:37.239
They've got Texas primrose. That's one
I bet you haven't grown before. It's

1792
02:11:37.239 --> 02:11:43.119
a yellow flowering perennial. They've got
Texas go Columbine, Go Columbine reseeds.

1793
02:11:43.159 --> 02:11:46.319
And once you get established in a
shady area, even a dry shade.

1794
02:11:46.399 --> 02:11:50.520
It will do really, really well
for you. It's a good day to

1795
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go to in Chenny Gardens on any
day. Here's the website in Chennigardens Richmond

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02:11:56.680 --> 02:12:00.479
dot com. They're on the Katie
Folscher side of Richmond. On FM three

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02:12:01.000 --> 02:12:05.119
fifty nine. We'll be right back. Welcome back to the Guardline. Good

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to have you with us today.
Oh my gosh, we have got so

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much to talk about. First of
all, I want to talk about fire

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02:12:11.960 --> 02:12:15.239
ants. It is fire ant season
and when we get these rains, they

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02:12:15.319 --> 02:12:18.720
come up and they show us their
little mounds of dirt and we know we

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02:12:18.760 --> 02:12:22.279
got them. But do you know
fire ants are there underground before they even

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02:12:22.279 --> 02:12:26.439
boil to the surface. If you
will, there's colonies that you can't see,

1804
02:12:26.479 --> 02:12:28.439
and they're out foraging. They have
workers, the guy to eat that

1805
02:12:28.600 --> 02:12:31.800
workers going out and getting stuff.
You always will start with the fire ant

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02:12:31.800 --> 02:12:37.520
bait. Bait is number one.
It gets most of the mounds for you.

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02:12:37.760 --> 02:12:39.399
After two weeks you'll know if they
got them or not. Bait takes

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02:12:39.439 --> 02:12:43.800
a little while to work, but
it works right. Individual mound treatments follow

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02:12:43.880 --> 02:12:46.560
that you hit the mounds that they
missed. But I want to tell you

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02:12:46.640 --> 02:12:50.239
something. If you just use individual
mountain treatments, you're playing whack a mole

1811
02:12:50.279 --> 02:12:54.199
with fire ants. You kill that
mound because it popped up, and there's

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02:12:54.239 --> 02:12:56.640
another one over there. You didn't
know, so you didn't treat it.

1813
02:12:56.800 --> 02:13:00.920
Now it's up. Start with a
bait, then go the mound treatments a

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02:13:00.920 --> 02:13:03.880
couple of weeks later and ACE Hardware
can get you fixed up on all that.

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02:13:03.960 --> 02:13:07.680
They've got a number of different brands
of fireant baits. By the way,

1816
02:13:09.920 --> 02:13:13.359
they also have mosquito control products.
Do you need those mosquito ducks to

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02:13:13.399 --> 02:13:16.680
put in water to control them?
Naturally? They have that. Do you

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02:13:16.720 --> 02:13:20.520
need a fogger with some product to
use to kill the mosquitoes around the property?

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02:13:20.560 --> 02:13:24.760
Spray those shrubs where they're hiding during
the day so they can come out

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and spoil your garden party at night. Ace Hardware's got you covered on that.

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02:13:28.000 --> 02:13:31.760
ACE is a place. Do you
need the fertilizer I talk about.

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02:13:31.920 --> 02:13:35.720
Ace is the place dean pest control, disease control, weed control aces a

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02:13:35.720 --> 02:13:41.000
place I just went over to.
My daughter and her husband bought a new

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02:13:41.039 --> 02:13:43.840
house recently, and I was just
over there the other They got a little

1825
02:13:43.840 --> 02:13:46.560
outdoor patio, and they got a
little string of lights going over the top,

1826
02:13:46.600 --> 02:13:48.079
and they were wondering if those things
still work because they hadn't turned them

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02:13:48.079 --> 02:13:52.159
on yet. And I was just
thinking, ACE is a place they're going

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02:13:52.239 --> 02:13:54.279
to have that little we call them
beer lights because it's like a little one

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02:13:54.279 --> 02:13:58.159
of those little uh you know,
outdoor settings where they got the lights and

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02:13:58.199 --> 02:14:05.279
the little tables outside the anyway,
Ace is the place for anything you need

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02:14:05.319 --> 02:14:09.640
for lawn garden, and then some
new barbecue pit would be nice too.

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By the way, let's go to
Steve in the Heights. Hey Steve,

1833
02:14:11.479 --> 02:14:16.840
what's up? Hey Steve? I
have a you know, up a cond

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02:14:16.880 --> 02:14:20.000
tree that's probably maybe a year or
so old. It's about four or five

1835
02:14:20.039 --> 02:14:24.600
foot up. And I noticed the
leaves were starting to crimple a couple of

1836
02:14:24.680 --> 02:14:28.680
days ago, and I looked at
it real close this morning. It's got

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02:14:28.680 --> 02:14:31.359
a bunch of these little white things
on it. There can't be any any

1838
02:14:31.680 --> 02:14:35.239
any bigger than eight of an inch. But I hit it, you know,

1839
02:14:35.520 --> 02:14:39.439
just to knock them off. But
is there something I can use to

1840
02:14:39.479 --> 02:14:41.640
spray it where I won't kill the
tree or anything. So when you say

1841
02:14:41.760 --> 02:14:46.600
crimpled, you're talking about kind of
like a crinkled looking leaf or is there?

1842
02:14:46.039 --> 02:14:50.840
Yeah, the leaves started kind of
like crinkling up a couple three or

1843
02:14:50.840 --> 02:14:56.239
four days ago and I and I
didn't really look at the stem that good.

1844
02:14:56.560 --> 02:14:58.199
And then I looked at it this
morning and it's got a bunch of

1845
02:14:58.239 --> 02:15:03.640
these little white things and I think
they move. I mean they're they're less

1846
02:15:03.680 --> 02:15:07.520
than like a sixteen When you hit
it, did the did they fly up

1847
02:15:07.600 --> 02:15:11.399
or around? Did you see a
little It can really fly up. It

1848
02:15:11.520 --> 02:15:13.840
just kind of fell down, Okay, but not all of them, but

1849
02:15:13.960 --> 02:15:18.119
some of them? And is there
something I can spray it? It could

1850
02:15:18.159 --> 02:15:22.600
be aphids, But the white is
the cast skins of aphis eph It's molt,

1851
02:15:22.760 --> 02:15:26.359
just like a snake molts. And
when when an aphed, whether it's

1852
02:15:26.359 --> 02:15:30.880
a pink or a green or whatever
color aphit it is when it sheds its

1853
02:15:30.920 --> 02:15:35.479
skin. That skin is a little
white debris. Excuse me the size you're

1854
02:15:35.520 --> 02:15:41.720
describing behind there could be other things
going on. I would get probably uh

1855
02:15:41.840 --> 02:15:46.800
some insexcidal soap and blast it upward
from underneath the leaves so that you get

1856
02:15:46.840 --> 02:15:52.159
the bottom surfaces of the leaves coated
very well with it. Uh. And

1857
02:15:52.239 --> 02:15:54.840
of course gravity is going to take
care of the top part of the leaves

1858
02:15:54.840 --> 02:15:58.479
as that spray falls back down.
But just give a good coverage with soap,

1859
02:15:58.560 --> 02:16:01.760
do it or in the morning for
the sun's baking down and getting hot

1860
02:16:01.800 --> 02:16:05.720
on the leaves, and I think
that'll do it. So you're sitting just

1861
02:16:05.760 --> 02:16:11.079
like regular dish soap or something like, but made for use implants for insects,

1862
02:16:11.199 --> 02:16:15.840
yeap dish soap. Some of those
can burn, can have issues that

1863
02:16:15.880 --> 02:16:20.640
burn your plants. Okay, So
like buchanans or somebody would have something and

1864
02:16:20.680 --> 02:16:24.039
I can just mix up in a
little bottle and break it with that kill

1865
02:16:24.119 --> 02:16:26.439
the tree. Buchanons is going to
have it. Another thing you could do

1866
02:16:26.560 --> 02:16:31.000
is you could take some leaves in
there to bu Canons in a ziplock bag.

1867
02:16:31.079 --> 02:16:35.000
Don't take your pests to them,
put it in a ziplock and you

1868
02:16:35.040 --> 02:16:39.479
could you could just have them look
at it and in case what I'm picturing

1869
02:16:39.520 --> 02:16:43.440
and you're describing isn't the same thing. Uh, then they could help you

1870
02:16:43.479 --> 02:16:46.559
with that too. Okay, Well, a good deal. Thank you so

1871
02:16:46.639 --> 02:16:50.479
much. Yeah, you bet,
thank you. I appreciate the call very

1872
02:16:50.600 --> 02:16:54.000
much, that's for sure. Uh. Containers. You know, I keep

1873
02:16:54.000 --> 02:16:58.000
talking about how important it is to
have beautiful containers, whether you're growing flowers

1874
02:16:58.079 --> 02:17:01.040
or whether you're growing vetch. By
the way, if you've never grown vegetables

1875
02:17:01.040 --> 02:17:05.079
in a container, or you've only
done it here and there, you ought

1876
02:17:05.120 --> 02:17:07.719
to try some this year. Get
you a big old container. Fill it

1877
02:17:07.799 --> 02:17:11.920
up with jungle Land. Jungle Land
is a product distributed by Nitrofoss. You

1878
02:17:11.959 --> 02:17:16.040
want the one that's called the Flour
and Vegetable Planting Soil. That's it.

1879
02:17:16.120 --> 02:17:20.159
Make sure your container has good drainage. Jungle Land will let the excess water

1880
02:17:20.280 --> 02:17:24.479
go go out the bottom, but
it'll hold onto water to help that plant

1881
02:17:24.799 --> 02:17:28.680
because you know well, plants use
a lot of water in a container.

1882
02:17:28.719 --> 02:17:31.079
They have confined roots. So you
need a big container so you hold more

1883
02:17:31.159 --> 02:17:35.399
soil, and you need to water
it adequately. Jungle Land will do that.

1884
02:17:35.600 --> 02:17:41.319
It is you add a little good
quality plant food to that container into

1885
02:17:41.360 --> 02:17:43.920
the jungle Land soil, and you've
got something that is going to go very

1886
02:17:43.959 --> 02:17:48.479
well. I'd use a slow release
fertilizer. You could use anything you want,

1887
02:17:48.760 --> 02:17:52.159
just as long as it's providing the
nutrients for your plants. Now,

1888
02:17:52.280 --> 02:17:56.920
jungle Land is made of four different
sources of age compost material, including Canadian

1889
02:17:58.000 --> 02:18:03.120
blonde peat and of the micro risal
fungi that help your plans to thrive.

1890
02:18:03.239 --> 02:18:05.680
If you're down in Angleton Lake Hardware's
got it, if you're in Baytown,

1891
02:18:05.959 --> 02:18:11.000
Fisher's Hardware has got it, or
maybe up in Tambala at d and defeed

1892
02:18:11.079 --> 02:18:16.840
you're going to find the jungle and
type nitropost products there as well. I

1893
02:18:16.879 --> 02:18:18.520
want to head out now to bel
Air and we're going to talk to Mary.

1894
02:18:18.959 --> 02:18:22.559
Hello. Mary, Hi, how
are you doing. I'm well,

1895
02:18:22.760 --> 02:18:28.959
how are you good? Thank you, thank you for taking my call.

1896
02:18:28.959 --> 02:18:33.200
My question is a few months ago, and I think it was a rebroadcast.

1897
02:18:33.840 --> 02:18:39.000
You were reading off a list of
the top I don't know, fifty

1898
02:18:39.079 --> 02:18:43.040
or one hundred things you could do
to help your trees. Yes, and

1899
02:18:43.319 --> 02:18:46.920
it was a fascinating list. And
I looked everywhere on the website I couldn't

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02:18:46.920 --> 02:18:48.040
find it. So I was wondering
if you could tell me where to find

1901
02:18:48.079 --> 02:18:56.040
that. I think what you're doing
talking about it wasn't just trees. It

1902
02:18:56.120 --> 02:19:01.000
was a fifty list of oh my
gosh, what was it, fifty things

1903
02:19:01.000 --> 02:19:07.280
of Josh, we were doing fifty
something but yes, yeah, fifty best

1904
02:19:07.319 --> 02:19:11.120
gardening practices I think, and it
probably had three things in it. If

1905
02:19:11.159 --> 02:19:16.399
you go to the website and look
at past shows you can find it.

1906
02:19:16.520 --> 02:19:20.399
It's been a while since I did
it. You can also do the iHeart

1907
02:19:20.840 --> 02:19:24.799
podcast. If you've got the Heart
media app, you can go back and

1908
02:19:24.840 --> 02:19:28.360
listen to podcasts on that as well. But it's back there a while.

1909
02:19:28.479 --> 02:19:35.639
I my price, Yeah, my
producer is telling me December thirtieth, he

1910
02:19:35.760 --> 02:19:39.879
believes is when we put that on. Okay, great, thank you so

1911
02:19:41.000 --> 02:19:43.200
much. It was really good.
I didn't get to listen to all of

1912
02:19:43.200 --> 02:19:46.319
it, and so it was worth
a call. I'm glad to hear that.

1913
02:19:46.600 --> 02:19:50.799
You God great, Thank you so
much. All right, thank you

1914
02:19:50.879 --> 02:19:54.239
very much. I appreciate, appreciate
your co Thank you. Glad to have

1915
02:19:54.319 --> 02:19:58.239
you as a listener, very much. Hey, I want to tell you

1916
02:19:58.280 --> 02:20:03.280
about a new product that Medina has
released. It is part of the has

1917
02:20:03.319 --> 02:20:07.040
to Grow line. You know there's
a number of different has to Grow products

1918
02:20:07.079 --> 02:20:13.079
by Medina. This is called super
Grow Plus super Grow Plus and here's the

1919
02:20:13.159 --> 02:20:20.319
three numbers on it, sixteen zero
two. Now it is formulated to promote

1920
02:20:20.520 --> 02:20:26.120
good growth on your plants. Now
Primarily it hooks up to a garden hose

1921
02:20:26.200 --> 02:20:28.719
by the way and you spray it. Primarily we use it on our lawns.

1922
02:20:30.479 --> 02:20:33.639
If you've got a typically people buy
it by the court. You can

1923
02:20:33.639 --> 02:20:37.000
buy it by the gallon, but
a court will cover about four thousand square

1924
02:20:37.040 --> 02:20:41.520
feet about four thousand. It has
zero phosphorus the middle number. And I

1925
02:20:41.520 --> 02:20:43.680
want to tell you this. I
did a study of years ago. This

1926
02:20:43.799 --> 02:20:46.440
was over in Austin, Texas,
on a black clay soil. We got

1927
02:20:46.520 --> 02:20:50.719
black clay soils here and in a
neighborhood of two hundred homes that have been

1928
02:20:50.799 --> 02:20:52.959
fertilized for years, those two hundred
homes, there was not one home that

1929
02:20:54.000 --> 02:20:58.520
needed phosphorus. Now that doesn't mean
over here in Houston your yard doesn't need

1930
02:20:58.520 --> 02:21:01.600
phosphorus. But I can tell you
this. If you have a clay soil

1931
02:21:01.719 --> 02:21:05.680
and it's been fertilized, the phosphorus
is the one element that most sticks around.

1932
02:21:05.760 --> 02:21:11.840
It literally adheres to the soil particles
just like you drop If you had

1933
02:21:11.840 --> 02:21:15.360
a if your soil was magnets and
you dropped iron filings on it, what

1934
02:21:15.440 --> 02:21:18.520
would happen? They wouldn't even make
it past the surface. They would tie

1935
02:21:18.600 --> 02:21:22.360
right up to those magnets. That's
kind of how phosphorus works. And I

1936
02:21:22.559 --> 02:21:26.440
like this Medina product because we know
we need low phosphilus. It doesn't have

1937
02:21:26.479 --> 02:21:30.280
any in it, and I you
have your soil tested to be sure.

1938
02:21:30.319 --> 02:21:35.239
But it works very very well.
It's got about it's got sixteen percent nitrogen,

1939
02:21:35.399 --> 02:21:41.719
but about about a fifth of that
nitrogen is in a slow release form

1940
02:21:41.040 --> 02:21:46.000
that gradually releases over time. So
just another reason to use it. If

1941
02:21:46.040 --> 02:21:50.120
you are looking for something to get
you a good release and then continue to

1942
02:21:50.200 --> 02:21:54.440
have some available nutrients in a hose
in sprayer, this will do it.

1943
02:21:54.840 --> 02:21:58.280
Now it also has iron in a
chylated form. What does that mean?

1944
02:21:58.399 --> 02:22:03.760
That means the iron has bodyguard around
it that doesn't let the soil lock it

1945
02:22:03.879 --> 02:22:07.040
up and the plant roots come by
and they can get it. That is

1946
02:22:07.079 --> 02:22:11.159
the importance of key leaded iron.
I'm really excited about the has to Grow

1947
02:22:11.600 --> 02:22:16.680
Supergrow plus sixteen zero two as something
that you can get out there. You

1948
02:22:16.680 --> 02:22:20.680
can go over it real quick.
It's got molasses, it's got humic acid

1949
02:22:20.719 --> 02:22:24.840
in it. It's just a great
concoction to help feed the soil and the

1950
02:22:24.879 --> 02:22:28.639
plants. Now I know people that
use it in a garden as well,

1951
02:22:30.040 --> 02:22:33.000
and you have no reason you can't
do that. Spright on the fold,

1952
02:22:33.040 --> 02:22:35.920
it's not gonna burn it, spread
it down on the soil itself, just

1953
02:22:35.959 --> 02:22:39.319
like you would in your lawn.
You decide where you want to go with

1954
02:22:39.399 --> 02:22:43.600
supergrow Plus. Primarily we think of
it as a lawn fertilizer, but as

1955
02:22:43.639 --> 02:22:48.079
we know, with a lot of
fertilizers, that doesn't mean it only has

1956
02:22:48.120 --> 02:22:52.280
to go on the lawn. Everywhere
Medina is sold now supergrow plus is being

1957
02:22:52.360 --> 02:22:58.040
available. Glad they added that to
the list. I think that's a good

1958
02:22:58.159 --> 02:23:01.879
You know, some states now I
have laws, some areas like the Chesapbeake

1959
02:23:01.920 --> 02:23:07.000
Bay up in the DC direction,
that Chesapeake Bay area, they have such

1960
02:23:07.040 --> 02:23:11.120
an issue with phosphorus in the water
and the effects it has on degrading water

1961
02:23:11.200 --> 02:23:18.200
quality, aligal balloons, and other
issues that they ban phosphorus from the fertilizers,

1962
02:23:18.239 --> 02:23:20.319
you know, or maybe some areas
you have to get a prescription literally

1963
02:23:20.399 --> 02:23:24.680
saying your soil needs phosphorus, and
that way they can sell it to you.

1964
02:23:24.079 --> 02:23:30.440
We're not that point in Texas here, but I think Medina is really

1965
02:23:30.479 --> 02:23:35.159
getting ahead of the boat and recognizing
the fact that a product like this will

1966
02:23:35.159 --> 02:23:39.440
have a wide marketability, not just
here but other places, but certainly something

1967
02:23:39.479 --> 02:23:43.680
here. I've got a sample of
it fixing to put it out on the

1968
02:23:43.760 --> 02:23:45.959
lawn. You had to wait and
get my lawn in this year. I

1969
02:23:45.959 --> 02:23:48.479
wanted to use it earlier, but
I'm waiting to get it in a little

1970
02:23:48.479 --> 02:23:50.040
bit later. But I've seen the
results with other folks. I know it's

1971
02:23:50.079 --> 02:23:56.360
going to do very, very well. Have you been to Warren's or Kingwood

1972
02:23:56.399 --> 02:24:01.000
Garden Centers out there in Kingwood,
Texas? If not, you need to

1973
02:24:01.040 --> 02:24:05.959
go Warrens and Kingwood both. They
just have everything that you need. I

1974
02:24:05.959 --> 02:24:11.639
mean, do you need kalladium bulbs
for shade color? Do you need bougainvillias?

1975
02:24:11.840 --> 02:24:16.079
Do you need tropicals like hibiscus or
oleander, passion vine a mandavilla?

1976
02:24:16.200 --> 02:24:20.719
What a beautiful pink vine. Ecera
another good one, lots of color.

1977
02:24:22.040 --> 02:24:24.799
They've got the super turf that I
talk about on garden Line, nitrofive super

1978
02:24:24.879 --> 02:24:30.520
turf. They've got the Nelson Slow
and Easy n stock and listen, you

1979
02:24:30.600 --> 02:24:35.360
need to go look at the salsa
dancer hibiscus out there at Warren's salls a

1980
02:24:35.479 --> 02:24:39.159
dancer, the leaves I don't even
have the color vocabulary to describe them,

1981
02:24:39.200 --> 02:24:43.479
but I'm just going to say pink
with green with a little bit of yellowing

1982
02:24:43.520 --> 02:24:46.840
in it, and then a very
dark burgundy color. Even if the thing

1983
02:24:46.920 --> 02:24:50.840
never bloomed, it would be a
beautiful plant. But it also blooms.

1984
02:24:50.280 --> 02:24:52.920
Salsa dancer, hibiscus, go out
to Warrens and say, I want to

1985
02:24:52.920 --> 02:24:56.879
see your salsa dancer. While you're
out there, pick up some of those

1986
02:24:56.920 --> 02:25:00.879
quality fertilizers and other products. Time
to turn it over to Nikki, will

1987
02:25:00.920 --> 02:25:05.719
be right back. It's seven one
three two one two KTRH. Welcome back

1988
02:25:05.760 --> 02:25:07.239
to Guardline. Good heavy with us
today. What are we going to talk

1989
02:25:07.280 --> 02:25:11.920
about? Well, when you call, that helps determine it. That and

1990
02:25:11.959 --> 02:25:13.959
the fact that I got things I
just have to talk about every day.

1991
02:25:15.840 --> 02:25:18.520
One thing I have to talk about
today is if you want to have a

1992
02:25:18.520 --> 02:25:22.440
beautiful lawn, especially when you're dealing
with a clay soil that's got some compaction,

1993
02:25:24.639 --> 02:25:31.440
deep core aeration along with compost top
dressing. We'll do the trick to

1994
02:25:31.559 --> 02:25:37.319
helping that root system to thrive.
Remember the brown stuff first, the root

1995
02:25:37.399 --> 02:25:43.120
system roots need oxygen. Compacted clay
does not let oxygen down into the root

1996
02:25:43.159 --> 02:25:46.760
system. So when you have the
folks at Greenpro, for example, come

1997
02:25:46.760 --> 02:25:52.879
out and do an aerration on your
lawn and then follow that with the compost

1998
02:25:52.920 --> 02:25:56.760
top dressing, you just open things
up for the roots to thrive and therefore

1999
02:25:56.799 --> 02:26:01.319
for the lawn to thrive. Now
green Pro is up in the Magnolia area

2000
02:26:01.440 --> 02:26:03.760
and their service area is pretty much, you know, kind of from north

2001
02:26:03.760 --> 02:26:09.799
central let's say Interstate forty five to
Interstate ten and that's a rough estimate.

2002
02:26:09.120 --> 02:26:16.399
Basically they go, oh about forty
five minutes from the Montgomery or the Magnolia

2003
02:26:16.520 --> 02:26:20.079
area, So Spring, Cyprus,
the Woodlands, Conroe, Willis, Magnolia,

2004
02:26:20.159 --> 02:26:24.520
Montgomery out west to Katie and West
Houston to Central Houston, North Houston.

2005
02:26:24.680 --> 02:26:28.200
That's your area. Here's what you
need to do. Just go to

2006
02:26:28.239 --> 02:26:35.280
the website greenpro dot net, greenpro
dot net, have them come out take

2007
02:26:35.319 --> 02:26:39.399
care of things. They've been doing
this longer in anybody in the Houston area.

2008
02:26:39.760 --> 02:26:43.239
They really have. And grass benefits
so much from this. This is

2009
02:26:43.280 --> 02:26:46.799
an investment. It is not cheap
to have it done, I'll tell you.

2010
02:26:46.799 --> 02:26:48.200
I'll just tell you that. But
it's cheaper than putting in a new

2011
02:26:48.280 --> 02:26:52.040
lawn and after last summer, we
need to give our lawns all the benefit

2012
02:26:52.319 --> 02:26:58.680
that we can have. It's a
lot less expensive than resodding. Greenpro dot

2013
02:26:58.719 --> 02:27:03.879
net that's the website, and you
want them because they have quality equipment that

2014
02:27:03.920 --> 02:27:07.479
pops a plug out of the ground
and then the finely screen compost that falls

2015
02:27:07.520 --> 02:27:11.840
into those holes and just makes a
lot better. Just as simple as that.

2016
02:27:13.479 --> 02:27:16.200
I'm going to go to port and
that's just and talk to Jenet.

2017
02:27:16.200 --> 02:27:20.959
Hello, Jenet, Hello, scrip, how are you. I'm well,

2018
02:27:20.040 --> 02:27:26.520
ma'am? What's up today? Well? I just bought two cage and habiscuits

2019
02:27:26.040 --> 02:27:31.680
and they're beautiful. Two of them
were blooming and I went out there yesterday.

2020
02:27:31.719 --> 02:27:37.280
You look at them and they had
little bitty black bugs bugs all over

2021
02:27:39.040 --> 02:27:43.360
the blooms and when I touched them, they just slowly crawls off. They

2022
02:27:43.440 --> 02:27:48.600
didn't fly or anything. And they're
real small. Do you know what that

2023
02:27:48.879 --> 02:27:50.280
is? And now I could treat
it. Well, there's a lot of

2024
02:27:50.280 --> 02:27:54.280
little black bugs out there in nature, but it could be there are types

2025
02:27:54.319 --> 02:27:58.360
of aphids that are very dark colored
like that. It could have been one

2026
02:27:58.399 --> 02:28:03.000
of those. What I would do
if they were on there with that description

2027
02:28:03.159 --> 02:28:07.440
there. There's not a good bug
that's a that fits that. I think

2028
02:28:07.520 --> 02:28:11.360
they're probably if it's I would get
you some insecticidal soap. That's about the

2029
02:28:11.479 --> 02:28:16.440
safest product you can buy in terms
of human toxicity or anything, because we

2030
02:28:16.479 --> 02:28:20.479
give our baths, our body of
bath and soap every day. So just

2031
02:28:20.520 --> 02:28:24.000
get some soap. Mix it accordial, the label not too strong, follow

2032
02:28:24.040 --> 02:28:26.520
the label, and in the morning, early or on a cloudy day like

2033
02:28:26.559 --> 02:28:31.040
today, just squirt them with it. And you got to squirt upward from

2034
02:28:31.159 --> 02:28:33.760
underneath because there's a lot of times
they're under the leaves. Sometimes they are

2035
02:28:33.799 --> 02:28:37.280
clustered around the buds. Soap is
not a poison. You got to give

2036
02:28:37.319 --> 02:28:41.399
them a bath in it, So
spray accordingly. Okay, yeah, sure

2037
02:28:41.479 --> 02:28:43.840
do, Thank you. You have
a good gay, all right, and

2038
02:28:43.840 --> 02:28:48.639
then send me a picture. I
love cajun hibiscus. Oh god. They

2039
02:28:48.639 --> 02:29:01.600
are eight inches across there, yellow
with a red throat. Are Yeah.

2040
02:29:01.680 --> 02:29:05.639
I'm gonna be at ARCW today and
you know they've got cajun hibiscus. That's

2041
02:29:05.680 --> 02:29:07.559
part of that twenty percent off sales. So if you've never seen it,

2042
02:29:07.600 --> 02:29:09.760
go online, look at a picture
of them, or just come out to

2043
02:29:09.840 --> 02:29:13.280
arcyw Today, let's get you fixed
up with some of those one of the

2044
02:29:13.280 --> 02:29:18.319
most beautiful biscuits I've ever seen.
We're gonna go now to Tony and mont

2045
02:29:18.360 --> 02:29:20.799
Bellevue. Hello, Tony, Oh, good morning. How you doing.

2046
02:29:22.000 --> 02:29:28.760
I'm good, sir. What's up? I have a lot of oh pauls

2047
02:29:28.879 --> 02:29:33.959
mav okay holding under my fig trees. Need to know what I spray with,

2048
02:29:35.360 --> 02:29:41.799
okay and not pork the fig trees
is is this is this poison ivy?

2049
02:29:41.360 --> 02:29:46.040
You know, like a really robust
vine that has a little trunk on

2050
02:29:46.079 --> 02:29:48.799
it or is it more just a
whole bunch of it growing almost like a

2051
02:29:48.840 --> 02:29:52.399
ground caffe. Oh but it's where's
some ground cover? All right? So

2052
02:29:52.120 --> 02:29:56.840
the products that work on it will
also kill your fig So you need to

2053
02:29:56.879 --> 02:30:01.399
be careful with this. I if
you you can get a product that contains

2054
02:30:03.159 --> 02:30:11.719
triclop here tri clo p y R, but I don't want you to spray

2055
02:30:11.760 --> 02:30:16.719
it. If possible, if you're
really careful spraying it and you barely get

2056
02:30:16.760 --> 02:30:22.159
a little bit on the poison ivy
and you don't have missed and drift and

2057
02:30:22.200 --> 02:30:24.319
stuff going up and getting on your
fig trees, you can spray it.

2058
02:30:24.879 --> 02:30:28.319
But you can't have any shoots coming
out of the bottom of the fig that

2059
02:30:28.360 --> 02:30:33.399
are green, because you're inevitably going
to get some on it, and you

2060
02:30:33.440 --> 02:30:35.799
don't want to do that. I
would use a wiper type of an applicator,

2061
02:30:35.840 --> 02:30:41.319
and you can figure out a way
to devise it yourself. But anything

2062
02:30:41.639 --> 02:30:46.040
that you have that you could drag
across there that has a triclop pere already

2063
02:30:46.120 --> 02:30:50.239
soaked into it and just wipe it
over the poison ivy and then take that

2064
02:30:50.280 --> 02:30:54.440
thing straight to the trash and drop
it in because it's gonna have poison ivy

2065
02:30:54.440 --> 02:30:58.479
oil all over it too. But
anything you can do to wipe it onto

2066
02:30:58.520 --> 02:31:03.799
that poison ivy that will work,
uh, to translocate down and kill the

2067
02:31:03.840 --> 02:31:07.920
poison ivy. But just remember it
kills brush, and it kills fruit trees,

2068
02:31:07.920 --> 02:31:11.399
and it kills shrubs and other trees
if you get it on the green

2069
02:31:11.479 --> 02:31:13.799
foliage or if you overapply it.
You don't want to overapply it and don't

2070
02:31:13.799 --> 02:31:16.840
do it right before it rains.
So today we're gonna get a little bit

2071
02:31:16.879 --> 02:31:20.040
of rain. Maybe later, let's
get past this. Tomorrow is gonna be

2072
02:31:20.040 --> 02:31:24.200
a better day for that. Uh. And and apply it, okay,

2073
02:31:24.000 --> 02:31:31.280
Yes, track cloth Peer try cloth
pier is the ingredient. You may you

2074
02:31:31.399 --> 02:31:35.000
go shopping, you know out there
in Mont Bellevue. You're gonna maybe you're

2075
02:31:35.040 --> 02:31:37.399
gonna go to a Ace hardware store
or something, uh, you know somewhere.

2076
02:31:37.440 --> 02:31:43.040
Yeah we got we got a fish. Yeah, you absolutely do,

2077
02:31:43.479 --> 02:31:46.879
and so uh just yeah, just
look for that. It may be called

2078
02:31:46.920 --> 02:31:52.399
poison, ivy killer or brush killer
or who knows what, but try clo

2079
02:31:52.600 --> 02:31:56.120
peer is the ing all right,
tony, good luck, all right,

2080
02:31:56.639 --> 02:32:01.920
you bet boys. Ivy that is
a that is a problem, that is

2081
02:32:03.000 --> 02:32:09.360
for sure. You know. The
the folks at Nelson's have created just a

2082
02:32:09.440 --> 02:32:13.319
couple of awesome blends for your summer
lawn care, part of the Turf Star

2083
02:32:13.399 --> 02:32:18.520
line, Bruce's Blue Brew and Bruce's
Brew Is. It's the right ratio.

2084
02:32:18.559 --> 02:32:22.280
It's a three to one to two
ratio. It's it's going to feed your

2085
02:32:22.360 --> 02:32:26.120
lawn quite a bit now, and
it'll feed a little bit gradually over time.

2086
02:32:26.159 --> 02:32:28.399
It's got a little bit of a
slow release in it, although it's

2087
02:32:28.399 --> 02:32:31.040
primarily a fast release now. Slow
and Easy, on the other hand,

2088
02:32:31.239 --> 02:32:35.559
is primarily a slow release, and
it'll feed for a very long time.

2089
02:32:35.600 --> 02:32:37.159
Either way you go, you're not
going to do wrong. I like the

2090
02:32:37.239 --> 02:32:41.799
Slow and Easy it has. It
has an acidifying effect on the soil,

2091
02:32:41.319 --> 02:32:45.879
it's got a gradual release. It
will help feed the microbes in the soil,

2092
02:32:46.040 --> 02:32:50.120
and it also has the nutrient blend
that is just an excellent way to

2093
02:32:50.159 --> 02:32:54.520
create density over time in your lawn. And when you gradually feed a lawn

2094
02:32:54.520 --> 02:32:58.760
over time, you get good root
growth and top growth. When you overdo

2095
02:32:58.760 --> 02:33:03.920
the rogen too much at one time, you get top growth at the expense

2096
02:33:03.959 --> 02:33:07.600
of root growth in the summer.
So slow and Easy or the bruces Brew

2097
02:33:07.719 --> 02:33:11.319
applied in the right way, it's
going to provide exactly what your line needs

2098
02:33:11.319 --> 02:33:13.840
to thrive. And that's just typical
of the products from Nelson Plant Food,

2099
02:33:13.920 --> 02:33:18.360
especially in this turf Star line that
we're talking about right now. We're going

2100
02:33:18.399 --> 02:33:20.000
to take a quick break. We
will be back in just a moment.

2101
02:33:20.000 --> 02:33:22.600
If you'd like to get on the
boards, we got an open board.

2102
02:33:22.639 --> 02:33:26.959
You can actually get a head start
by colling seven one three two one two

2103
02:33:28.239 --> 02:33:31.760
kt r H. Welcome back to
card Line. Good to have you with

2104
02:33:31.840 --> 02:33:33.239
us today. What are we going
to talk about? Well, we're gonna

2105
02:33:33.239 --> 02:33:35.239
find out when we go to the
phones, which we are going to do

2106
02:33:35.360 --> 02:33:39.799
right now. We're going to talk
to Lewis in Galveston. Hey, Lewis,

2107
02:33:41.719 --> 02:33:46.520
good morning, and Lewis or Louise, he's Lewis. Okay. So

2108
02:33:48.520 --> 02:33:52.120
I have I have these boguindas of
which, in fact, were featured in

2109
02:33:52.159 --> 02:33:56.959
Coast magazine a couple of years ago
because they were so bountiful and beautiful colors,

2110
02:33:58.280 --> 02:34:03.840
salmon color, the reds at any
rate, this past winter we had

2111
02:34:03.840 --> 02:34:07.120
a freeze which I didn't consider to
be a hard freeze, that kind of

2112
02:34:07.200 --> 02:34:11.680
mild actually in comparison to the past. However, the bogan pe has suffered.

2113
02:34:11.360 --> 02:34:18.799
So the spring I cut them back
a bit. I'm and I'm noticing

2114
02:34:18.840 --> 02:34:24.200
that the branches in which when I
go to bend, they don't snap,

2115
02:34:24.559 --> 02:34:28.959
and that tells me there's still some
green in there, some light. However,

2116
02:34:30.239 --> 02:34:33.239
they're not flowering yet. They're flowering
at the bottom. I can see

2117
02:34:33.239 --> 02:34:37.680
the green coming up. So my
question to you is should I be cutting

2118
02:34:37.719 --> 02:34:45.239
them all the way down? Of
these what branches appear to be brown and

2119
02:34:45.360 --> 02:34:48.319
dead? But I'm just wondering if
I leave them alone, will the flowering

2120
02:34:48.440 --> 02:34:54.680
catch up with those with the already
growth. That's good. That's a good

2121
02:34:54.719 --> 02:34:58.079
question, Louise Lewis. I can't. I can't take you for sure without

2122
02:34:58.159 --> 02:35:01.920
looking at them and and handling on
myself. But based on what you said,

2123
02:35:03.760 --> 02:35:05.760
I give them a little more time
to see if those come on out.

2124
02:35:07.200 --> 02:35:11.280
My gut feeling is they're not going
to come out and produce for you

2125
02:35:11.360 --> 02:35:15.280
like you want them to. But
I wouldn't give up on them just quite

2126
02:35:15.360 --> 02:35:18.280
yet. You give them a little
bit more time, and then if you

2127
02:35:18.319 --> 02:35:22.280
want to go in and you know, surgically remove those, go ahead and

2128
02:35:22.319 --> 02:35:28.760
do that and cutting back how far
down to the bottom or what are your

2129
02:35:28.840 --> 02:35:31.440
thoughts? Hey, you know you
can do that either way. There's not

2130
02:35:31.680 --> 02:35:33.879
really a right or wrong on it. I mean, if you want to

2131
02:35:33.879 --> 02:35:37.120
shear back and get more branching and
stuff, you can, or you can

2132
02:35:37.159 --> 02:35:39.120
just take them all out. But
again I would scratch the bark a little

2133
02:35:39.159 --> 02:35:45.959
bit too and look underneath the surface. Maybe the color underneath that outer,

2134
02:35:46.440 --> 02:35:50.120
that thin outer bark surface will help
guide you as to whether or not it's

2135
02:35:50.159 --> 02:35:52.040
going to make it. Is it
a creamy, healthy white, light green,

2136
02:35:52.159 --> 02:35:58.159
whatever, or is it a brown
paper sack brown color indicating yeah,

2137
02:35:58.200 --> 02:36:01.879
they may be a little supple,
but they're basically dead, So okay,

2138
02:36:03.920 --> 02:36:09.319
and do it. So I've noticed
that like it's moist when you scratch back

2139
02:36:09.399 --> 02:36:13.280
the bark, there's a little bit
of like moist or wetness to it,

2140
02:36:13.319 --> 02:36:16.840
and it is a creamy white.
Okay. I'm just wondering what's taking so

2141
02:36:16.959 --> 02:36:20.760
long for it to pop? You
know, I don't I don't know that.

2142
02:36:20.799 --> 02:36:24.000
I mean, I could speculate as
different things that might point to that,

2143
02:36:24.159 --> 02:36:28.200
but bottom line is I'd give them
a little more time, give them

2144
02:36:28.200 --> 02:36:31.200
another two three weeks, and then
cut them back if they haven't done something

2145
02:36:31.239 --> 02:36:35.000
by then, thank you very much, appreciate it. They like warm weather,

2146
02:36:35.079 --> 02:36:37.239
so I'm trying to give them a
little time to be sleepy heads and

2147
02:36:37.280 --> 02:36:41.479
go ahead and wake up. Okay, sounds good, all right, Luis,

2148
02:36:41.600 --> 02:36:48.920
thank you, appreciate, appreciate you. Cover. I'll tell you selfless

2149
02:36:48.920 --> 02:36:52.479
fertilizer is a place you hear me
talk about all the time, and it's

2150
02:36:52.520 --> 02:36:56.399
because you know, someone walks out
and says, I need such and such

2151
02:36:56.479 --> 02:37:01.319
product, it's brand new, where
can I get it? Or they'll go

2152
02:37:01.479 --> 02:37:03.879
in and say I've got this really
obscure thing. Do you know where I

2153
02:37:03.920 --> 02:37:07.440
can find it, Well, I
would just say, called Bob Southwest Fertilizer,

2154
02:37:07.719 --> 02:37:09.760
because if they don't have it,
you don't need it. And if

2155
02:37:09.799 --> 02:37:15.799
it exists on the market, they're
going to have it. They specialize number

2156
02:37:15.799 --> 02:37:20.000
one. If I talk about any
product on guardline, they're gonna have it

2157
02:37:20.040 --> 02:37:24.159
at Southwest Fertilizer. They are committed
to that. If you hear about new

2158
02:37:24.200 --> 02:37:30.239
things, you know recently you've heard
me say Celsius as an example of a

2159
02:37:30.280 --> 02:37:33.520
weed control product, Well, that's
just not a real common product. There

2160
02:37:33.520 --> 02:37:37.239
are places you can find it,
but new stuff like that, Bob's already

2161
02:37:37.280 --> 02:37:41.280
going to have it. He just
is. And so every fertilizer we talk

2162
02:37:41.319 --> 02:37:43.360
about they've got. Do you need
a little small engine repair, They got

2163
02:37:43.360 --> 02:37:46.959
a shop in the back. You
need something sharpened, they got a shop

2164
02:37:46.959 --> 02:37:50.239
in the back. Do you want
a quality tool? Eighty foot wall of

2165
02:37:50.319 --> 02:37:54.639
tools eighty feet long. You just
wander down the wall and I mean everything

2166
02:37:54.799 --> 02:37:58.680
you would need is there. You
hear me talk about those little grabber tools

2167
02:37:58.680 --> 02:38:03.959
you grab off a shelf and I
invert them into a weed wiper applicator with

2168
02:38:03.000 --> 02:38:07.280
sponges. Bob's got I think it
has two different kinds of those on the

2169
02:38:07.319 --> 02:38:13.639
shelf. They're at Southwest Fertilizer,
corner of Bissinet and Renwick, Southwest Houston,

2170
02:38:13.920 --> 02:38:18.959
worth of drive from wherever you are. Southwest Fertilizer dot Com highly recommend

2171
02:38:20.000 --> 02:38:24.000
that always I go in there.
You know, sometimes I actually go in

2172
02:38:24.040 --> 02:38:31.479
there just to see what's new,
because there'll be things the companies don't notify

2173
02:38:31.600 --> 02:38:33.120
me. Hey, we hear you're
on the radio. Here's a product we're

2174
02:38:33.120 --> 02:38:37.840
putting. I mean some do,
but basically I got to go into the

2175
02:38:37.879 --> 02:38:41.600
retailers and see what's on the market
now, what's new, and I can

2176
02:38:41.680 --> 02:38:43.239
know when I go to Southwest,
I'm going to find the answer to that

2177
02:38:43.360 --> 02:38:46.879
question. We're going to go to
Clairelake now and talk to Emily. Hello,

2178
02:38:46.959 --> 02:38:54.360
Emily, Hi, good morning,
good morning. How are you well?

2179
02:38:54.399 --> 02:38:56.959
Thank you? We'll good. I
have a besa plant. It's about

2180
02:38:58.000 --> 02:39:01.959
four feet tall, but it's gotten
sticky and I'm looking into the leaves.

2181
02:39:03.079 --> 02:39:09.920
I see these little white bugs.
And I've sprayed it with some insecticidal soap

2182
02:39:09.120 --> 02:39:13.680
and rinsed it off, but it's
still still not doing well. But they

2183
02:39:13.719 --> 02:39:18.079
are they are bugs. They're not
just little things kind of on the leaf,

2184
02:39:18.440 --> 02:39:22.760
but they're actually crawling around. Well
when I go rub it, they

2185
02:39:22.760 --> 02:39:26.719
fly off. Oh okay, well
then now we got white flies. Now

2186
02:39:26.760 --> 02:39:30.559
we know a little more. That's
good to know. You know, white

2187
02:39:30.559 --> 02:39:35.920
flies. You can control them with
certain insecticides. But it's a tricky thing.

2188
02:39:35.959 --> 02:39:39.440
And here's why. When you spray, you kill the things that eat

2189
02:39:39.479 --> 02:39:43.040
white flies, and they have their
pen they have their natural enemies out there,

2190
02:39:43.559 --> 02:39:46.079
and so you kind of get on
a treadmill where you're killing the white

2191
02:39:46.120 --> 02:39:52.239
flies, but they bounce back faster
than the things that we're eating, and

2192
02:39:52.319 --> 02:39:56.120
so you end up then the whole
job is yours, rather than having the

2193
02:39:56.120 --> 02:39:58.680
help of the beneficials. I would
I would try to hold off of that

2194
02:39:58.760 --> 02:40:05.360
as best you can. I know
it's hard to look at, but insecticidal

2195
02:40:05.399 --> 02:40:09.879
soap only works on what you get
it on that you give it a bath

2196
02:40:09.920 --> 02:40:13.280
with. So the white fly of
the adults, it's not going to work

2197
02:40:13.360 --> 02:40:18.360
on those, they fly away.
The pupa look like little tiny scales stuck

2198
02:40:18.479 --> 02:40:24.920
underneath the leaf. I mean tinier
than a slowercase type zero and so or

2199
02:40:24.000 --> 02:40:28.319
typed oh letter O. It's even
smaller than zero. They're smaller than that

2200
02:40:28.959 --> 02:40:33.600
and the soap can help on those, but the larval stage it works,

2201
02:40:33.639 --> 02:40:39.319
is best on those. So I
think maybe living with it would be one

2202
02:40:39.360 --> 02:40:46.959
thing to do and letting the beneficial
insects rebalance nature for you there. Otherwise

2203
02:40:46.120 --> 02:40:50.120
you could also switch to a horticultural
oil, but you know, with basil

2204
02:40:50.200 --> 02:40:54.840
you're wanting to eat the leaves and
everything else, and so we don't want

2205
02:40:54.840 --> 02:40:58.559
to put too much on there,
even if it's safe like oil and soap,

2206
02:41:00.120 --> 02:41:05.799
don't want any kind of flavor changes
to that basil leaf. Okay,

2207
02:41:05.840 --> 02:41:09.840
all right, sir, all right, thank you? Well, yes,

2208
02:41:09.959 --> 02:41:11.600
thank you very much. And how
many basil plants do you have, Emily

2209
02:41:11.719 --> 02:41:16.360
Roughly? Well, I just have
the one, but it's a culstified you

2210
02:41:16.559 --> 02:41:22.639
tall, holy cow. Yeah,
I just take off the leaf when I'm

2211
02:41:22.680 --> 02:41:26.799
cooking or something. Oh you took
it through winter, then, yes,

2212
02:41:26.879 --> 02:41:31.520
I did? Oh wow. Okay, well, congratulations on that. I

2213
02:41:31.559 --> 02:41:33.520
think I would live with it,
and you're still going to get basil out

2214
02:41:33.520 --> 02:41:37.000
of it, and I think in
time it's going to settle in. Otherwise,

2215
02:41:37.239 --> 02:41:39.959
you can try getting out there doing
the spring we talked about. But

2216
02:41:41.959 --> 02:41:45.079
I'll tell you a white flies are
a little bit of a problem. When

2217
02:41:45.120 --> 02:41:50.239
it comes to trying to spray your
round on an adible plan. Yeah yeah,

2218
02:41:50.879 --> 02:41:52.799
all right, sir, Well,
I thank you for your time.

2219
02:41:54.120 --> 02:41:56.920
All right, thank you, appreciate, appreciate the call. Sorry to be

2220
02:41:56.000 --> 02:41:58.520
the bearer of bad news. But
I don't know. I think I think

2221
02:41:58.559 --> 02:42:03.959
you're going to still have a good
basil harvest from it. Anyway. Well,

2222
02:42:05.000 --> 02:42:07.959
you're listening to garden line. We
are about out of time today,

2223
02:42:07.959 --> 02:42:09.840
about put another one in the books. Before you go. I want to

2224
02:42:09.920 --> 02:42:13.680
tell you if you've not been out
to Nelson water Garden, you've got to

2225
02:42:13.719 --> 02:42:18.000
get out there. It is amazing. Now this is Nelson water Garden,

2226
02:42:18.760 --> 02:42:22.879
nursery and water garden, I should
say. And I've bragged about the water

2227
02:42:24.000 --> 02:42:26.680
gardens, about the fact they come
out and they'll build one at your property,

2228
02:42:26.719 --> 02:42:31.920
a little waterfall, or put up
a beautiful container that spills over the

2229
02:42:31.040 --> 02:42:35.799
sides and the fish and the water
plants on it. I've talked about that

2230
02:42:35.879 --> 02:42:41.200
all the time. That is what
they're the national known leader in. They

2231
02:42:41.280 --> 02:42:43.799
really are. They've been doing this
a long time. They aren't new to

2232
02:42:43.879 --> 02:42:48.360
this game. They were water garden
before water garden was cool, let me

2233
02:42:48.440 --> 02:42:52.280
put it that way. But I
won't tell you about the nursery. When

2234
02:42:52.319 --> 02:42:56.200
you think of Nelson Nurshering Water Garden, you think about fruit trees. I'm

2235
02:42:56.239 --> 02:43:01.399
talking about lemon trees, lime trees, mandarins, oranges, navels, Kalamandan's

2236
02:43:01.840 --> 02:43:09.840
tangerines, Buddha's hand are talking about
nectarines and peaches and plums. And how

2237
02:43:09.840 --> 02:43:16.239
about something obscure like an elderberry.
How about a moonglowe pair blueberries, grapes,

2238
02:43:18.000 --> 02:43:20.159
figs. They have all of that
there. They have roses there,

2239
02:43:20.200 --> 02:43:26.239
of course, they have perennials of
all kinds there. Nelson Watergarden always has

2240
02:43:26.360 --> 02:43:28.840
something cool going on, and I'd
encourage you to go check it out.

2241
02:43:30.200 --> 02:43:33.719
Now. This is a destination,
so don't go by yourself. Take your

2242
02:43:33.760 --> 02:43:35.319
friends with you. By the way, they got a good herb selection right

2243
02:43:35.399 --> 02:43:39.920
now, and they just have a
way of having the plant forever situation,

2244
02:43:41.200 --> 02:43:43.040
like you got a wet area that
doesn't drain. Well, go out and

2245
02:43:43.079 --> 02:43:48.399
ask them to see the blue money
work. Blue money work. It's really

2246
02:43:48.479 --> 02:43:52.159
cool when life gives you lemons,
make them. Oh, I ought to

2247
02:43:52.200 --> 02:43:54.639
tell you this. Katie Fort Ben
Road, just north of the Katie Freeway,

2248
02:43:54.840 --> 02:43:58.600
Nelson Watergarden dot com. All is
worth going, But don't go alone.

2249
02:44:00.200 --> 02:44:03.559
Don't go along. Hey, the
show's over. Guess where I'm going.

2250
02:44:03.840 --> 02:44:05.840
RCW Nurseries. Come see me.
We're gonna be giving away so much

2251
02:44:05.879 --> 02:44:11.879
stuff you need extra room in your
car. Twenty percent off metal signs,

2252
02:44:11.079 --> 02:44:16.200
yard ar roses, Japanese maples,
cage and aibiscus. We keep ragging on

2253
02:44:16.719 --> 02:44:22.120
Citrus Street, Vitex, Nelson's gonna
go Nelson's RCP Nursery. I've still got

2254
02:44:22.200 --> 02:44:26.000
water garden on my head. They're
gonna give away one hundred dollars gift certificate,

2255
02:44:26.399 --> 02:44:31.079
Holy mackerel, lots of other giveaways. I'm gonna be giving away Azemitic

2256
02:44:31.159 --> 02:44:35.559
intreace stabilizers and answering your gardening questions, bringing me samples, bring me pictures,

2257
02:44:37.120 --> 02:44:39.120
love to meet you. See,
they aren't just a bit