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

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

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Ricord. It's crazy Trim. Just
watch him as us so many good pleased

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to see crazy gables not a sound
good Sunday morning. Welcome to garden Line,

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and congratulations on being awake this morning. We are happy to have you

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here, looking forward to a good
day, talking about all kinds of things

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that are of interest to you.
About your plants, whether it's vegetable gardens,

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herb gardens, your flower beds,
maybe some perennial flowers, ornamental grasses,

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shrubs, trees, vines. Do
you have bugs that are bugging you?

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Do you have diseases that are infecting
your plants and causing problems? Do

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you wonder what plant is that?
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It is dark outside. If you
look outside and you see your neighbor's lights

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uh well, maybe not today.
They may call you something else today,

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But eventually, as their yards become
greener and they become more astute at putting

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plant life together in terms of fertilizing, watering, and caring for them and

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choosing goodness, they'll be so grateful
that you turn them on the garden line.

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Okay, well, that's enough fun
for right now. Hey, I

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wanted to talk about a few things
today. I got a little fun fact

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for you, and this is This
is the reward for actually getting up early

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in the morning at least. I
find this interesting. Every now and then

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I like to go a little bit
nerdy, but I think it's interesting.

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Have you ever noticed, especially in
the summertime, not this time of the

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year so much, but in the
summertime when it's hot and dry, the

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ground's hot and dry, and you
get those first drops of summer rain that

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fall on the ground. Have you
ever noticed that really distinctive odor that comes

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up? You know, you know
what I'm talking about. It's like you

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can smell rain, Well, rain
doesn't smell what are you smelling? Well?

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What's happening is a substance called petrochlore
permeates the air with a fresh kind

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of a musky smell. That's what
we say, we're smelling rain. It

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was discovered back in nineteen sixty four. Australian scientists discovered it and then at

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MIT back in twenty tens. I
believe they studied the mechanics of the process.

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And here's what's happening. It's done
in large part by plants and bacteria.

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Isn't that interesting? I always tell
you they ruled the world. Well,

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here we go again. It's a
combination of some oils that plants make

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and then a particular type of bacteria
call it an actinobacteria. These are really

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important in our soils for decomposing organic
matter. They're used to make the organic

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insecticide spinosid. That's an actinomycet a
type of bacteria that creates that substance.

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But anyway, they create a compound
called geosman and that is like a type

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of alcohol. And you know alcohols
can have a very strong fragrance. Well,

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it moves up in the air when
rain drops hit the ground, it

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like stirs up those organic compounds,
and they are our noses are super sensitive,

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like a few parts per trillion in
the atmosphere and we can pick it

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up. They blow along, and
that's why even before the rain drops hit

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you may be smelling the petrochlor coming
up because they move so readily on the

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ground. I don't know. I
think that's pretty cool. That's why you

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can smell rain. And again you
can thank your plants and you can think

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the fact that these microbes in the
soil are part of that, like they're

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part of just about everything else we
enjoy. Speaking of microbes in the soil

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and soil, let's talk about one. Jungle Land is a product this distributed

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by Nitrophoss. It's a potting soil. Now you can use it outdoors on

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your plants to really push them toward
a really beautiful growth. And here's how.

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It's made up of a combination of
Canadian blond peate. It's got four

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different sources of aged organic matter and
microhizal fungi, and it drains well so

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you don't get the water logging problem. It also holds moisture, so you

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always have some moisture in it.
That's how it works. Now indoors,

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there's the indoor water saving potting jungle
land version, and that one holds the

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moisture and crystals so that when you
forget to water, it's still there.

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Now, all these nitrofos products,
you're widely available lots of different places.

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You're going to find a bearing's hardware
about the Bissinet and the west Timer one

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had that plantation ace out there in
Richmond Rosenberg area. Yep, they've got

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it too, and hiding and feet
on stupid airline. They will carry jungle

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in another nitrofost products. I'm gonna
start off by going straight to the phones

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and welcoming our early bird today,
Cheryl and Conro. Hey Cheryl. Hello,

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Hello, do we have Cheryl there? All right? I'm going to

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put Cheryl on hold while we figure
out what's going on and we'll come back

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to Cheryl. I uh oh,
she's ready. Okay, here we go.

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Hello Cheryl. All right, we
got a little glitch in the system.

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We'll eventually get her back on the
thing. About this whole idea of

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microbes and microbes ruling the world,
I find it to be fascinating because the

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more you learn about almost every aspect
of life, microbes are part of that.

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For example, we have more cells
that are in us than cells that

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are us. So if you look
at all the cells in your body,

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and then you look at all the
cells that aren't you in your body,

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which are basically tiny, tiny microbes. There's more them than there are you,

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And that's kind of an interesting thought
right there. Hey, do we

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have Cheryl on? Hello Cheryl,
Hi, how you doing this morning?

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Well? I'm doing well. Glad
to finally get you on. Welcome to

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you're the early bird today. Okay, so my question for you is I

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have some high business that I bought. I bought a pack of thirty and

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I had about twenty of them rout. They're about take such your soul right

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now in the in the ceiling trees. Okay, when do I transplant them

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into the next five spot? And
also do I need to some fertilizer on

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them where there's a smaller will fertilizer
Bernal? Yeah? Sure absolutely? Uh

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you said it was hibiscus, right. Is that the the perennial southern hibiscus

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with the big dinner plate sized blooms
or is this the tropical the first one

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the tropical the tropical? Okay,
so six inches high, it's time to

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bump them up. You could bump
them up straight to about a six inch

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container or you could bump them on
up into a gallon. I usually do

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it a little bit in stages because
it takes a little less space up in

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the process. In case one were
to die. You know that you're gonna

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end up making them a bigger and
bigger containers as they grow up high.

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But it's time to do that,
and the weather is is pretty favorable.

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Hibiscus is not really wanting to grow
right now much because of the temperatures,

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but it will and it's slowly waken
up, so you can put them outside

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where you get really good light for
them if they're not already outside. Okay,

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and what about the fertile ize,
Yes, and then go ahead,

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and then the fertilizers. Do I
fertilize from there that smaller? Do I

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just continue to your little points?
No? No, you do fertilize them.

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You definitely want to fertilize them when
they're that small. Uh. There

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is a product that Nitrofoss makes and
it is a hibiscus fertilizer. And the

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thing about the one I'm talking about
right now is that it is a soluble

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liquid. I mean, it's a
you mix it in water. It's called

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space space City hibiscus. You mix
it in water and you water the plants

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with that. I'm gonna have to
take a break. I want you to

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hold on because I got a little
more I want to tell you about this.

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Okay, okay, we'll be right
back. Our phone number is seven

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one three two one two K t
R H. Welcome back to the Garden

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Line on Saint Patrick's Day. Happy
Saint Patrick's Day. Everybody out there.

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Well, we are visiting with a
Cheryl up in Conro, Texas. And

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do I have you back? Cheryl? All right, we're going to put

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it on hold and we're going to
just find another way in there. There

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we go, Hey Cheryl, good
morning. We're back when we finish finish

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that question we had. I was
suggesting that did you get a Nelson has

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a soluble plant food called space city
hibiscus, and it dissolves very quickly in

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water and then you water with it. Now, when you repot something that

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I do when I'm moving plants from
a smaller container up to a bigger container,

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is all right? Is that any
better? Oh? Yes, all

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right? Good. When you move
plants from a smaller container to a bigger

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container, you want to mix some
nutri Star genesis transplant mix in that soil.

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That's a Nelson's product. It's a
six one three. And so here's

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what I did. I was like
bumping up some tuppers from little cell pots

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like you're describing, up to larger
containers to grow out. And I mixed

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the six one three and the label
tells you how much to use. And

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it is just loaded with all kinds
of bacteria and the different kinds of fungi

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that will help the plant roots establish
better. And so it's just part of

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the soil mix. But then the
soluble fertilizing is something you would do as

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you water to keep the plants growing
over time. Okay. And then space

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yea space city hibiscus, and again
that dissolves in water, the nutristar genesis.

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Okay, just remember, just remember
genesis. That's from no Okay.

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I appreciate all your health this morning. Thank you so much, you bet,

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you bet, glad to help,
good luck. Hey, you know

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that when hibiscus are seeds that no
matter what variety they came from, they

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are now genetically different than their mother. So they're a new variety, a

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new type. Every seedling is different, and so oh wow, I did

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not. Yes, So you pick
the one you like best and you name

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it the Sheryl Hibiscus. Well,
I wanted a blue one, and I

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find to be blue ones that were
already in the pod, so I had

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to order some seats in order to
get the blue one. So hopefully out

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of these that I got to sprout, I'll find the blue one in there,

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all right, we hope. So
well, thanks for the call.

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Thank you. You take care.
I appreciate that a lot, a lot.

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You know, with all this rain
that's going on out there, we

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are seeing quite a bit today.
H Arbigate Nurseries new parking lot is the

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first thing that came to mind this
morning when I was thinking about the rain

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and getting out and visiting garden centers. You know, they put this new

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lot in in the back and it
is a porous material, so when water

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falls on it, it's only concrete
or asphalt where the water runs off somewhere.

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It goes right down through the parking
lot down below, which I think

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is pretty cool. And it's an
all weather surface, so I mean,

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you can drive out there. The
men at the rain stops, you head

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out there and drive in the back, and that's where the parking lot is.

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There's a road called Trishel Road.
It starts before Arburgate, it comes

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around behind Arburgate and goes comes back
to twenty nine to twenty. So if

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you miss Trishel on your way to
Arburgate from either way, just go a

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little further and watch a little closer
and you'll see the road and you can

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go right around the back. And
it's really easy. You don't have to

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park out on the road, you
know, park out on twenty nine to

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twenty, just go go around the
back and makes that's the easiest way to

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get in and out of Arburgate.
Of course, when you're there, what

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are you going to do? The
Number one make sure your car's empty,

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because there are gonna be so many
plants you can't live without. At least

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that's how I feel when I go
there. I was just talking about hibiscus

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with Cheryl. Yeah, they got
hibiscus. They got plenty of hibiscus.

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They got shrubs and trees and annuals
of perennials and vegetables and herbs and everything

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else. And while you're there,
remember your plants are only going to be

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as happy as the soil. They're
growing in is providing for that. And

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the way to provide for your plants
is to do Arbigates one two three.

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That's an organic food, that's an
organic soil complete, and it's also an

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organic compost complete. Just go say
I want your one two three and they'll

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put it all together. It's got
everything you need to keep your plants happy

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and growing, no matter what the
way they put it there is. It's

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for anything with the roots. That's
the organic food complete, and it will

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enhance a lot the growth when you
put those plants in the ground and you've

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done that for your soil. You're
listening to garden Line and I'm your host

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today and i'm your host every day, and therefore, what do we want

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to talk about? You and me? We can talk about your vegetables or

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your lawn or whatever. We talk
about the rain. You know how it

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is when you're in agriculture and horticulture, you always gripe about the weather.

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It's either too rainy or not rainy
enough. It's either too hot or not

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hot enough. And that gives us
something to talk about. But the good

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news is we always need rain.
And remember when when it does rain and

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we get a good soaking of the
soil. That is a bank account that

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will carry your plants on into summer. We need a spring that keeps our

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soul moist so that we can as
it starts to dry out in the summer,

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we have that bank account for our
trees and shrubs that have a deep

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and extensive, extensive root system.
Now is the time if you look at

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my lawn care schedule at gardeningwith Skip
dot com, Gardening with Skip, you're

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gardening with me, Gardeningwithskip dot com. The law care schedule, what does

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it say right now? It says
it's still time to put your early greenups

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out and you can get that done. You know, Nitrofoss has a product

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that is called Imperial. It is
a red bag and it is a fifteen

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five to ten ratio. That ratio
was determined by turf scientists at Texas A

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and M and other universities tension services
of their langrete universities across the country really

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as being the ideal for that turf
grass and nitrofives fifteen five ten Imperial red

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bag. That one will release the
nutrients to your plants pretty quickly, which

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is why we say spring green up
your lawn is not growing fast right now,

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but it can take up nutrients and
it can turn green and the grass

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can get stronger. So as the
weather warms, it's already got something to

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get it going. We'll talk about
slow release as we come to them a

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little bit later, but for right
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this. The Imperial out there in
Richmond, Rosenberg, Willis up, the

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Growers Outlet up in Willis they have
it as well as does RCW Nursery were

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I forty five comes in to belt
Way eight so it's easy to find.

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But the Imperial gives that early quick
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green and pretty. It's not essential
fertilizing on the schedule. We don't say

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you have to do this, but
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early green up and get things going, and that is very very important.

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Nights Fuss products are going to work
very well for exactly that you're listening to.

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Garden Line. Our phone number is
seven one three two one two fifty

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eight seventy four. If you want
to get in, we got an open

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line right now, so you can
call in. We'll be glad to visit

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with you about anything that's of interest
to you. Regarding gardening, It's always

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interesting because things start off a little
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A lady yesterday said to me that
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and I pointed out that that's something
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different reasons. But it's not that
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just there's some times that are a
little bit easier than others, and you

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can do that. We try to
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as fast as we can so that
it's a little bit easier easier for

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you. For those of you down
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El, Camino, Reale, Bay
Cliff all through their webster all of those

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areas. League City Feed is your
hometown feed store. Now they're closed on

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Sunday, but they're open Monday through
Saturday nine to six, so it's easy

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to find time to get by there
and grab what you need. If I

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talk about a fertilizer, you're going
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You're going to find things like the
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microlife, the Nilson plant food.
They're going to be easy to find there.

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They also, of course have premium
pet food and everything else for your

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backyard chickens and whatnot. But if
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diseases, League City Feed has it. The Thunderberghs have been doing this for

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over forty years. The family has
and here's the phone number. Write this

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down so you can give them a
call. Two eight one three three two

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one six one two two eight one
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They're on Highway three, just a
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League City. I I always enjoyed
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you can catch the dalmatian, their
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His name is Rorshchak. I think
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You stare at the dog and a
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in these spots? Sounds kind of
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I'm easily amused. Easily amused.
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microbes and how they rule the world. And there's more microbe cells in you

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than there are cells of you,
and what are they doing us? The

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one thing they do in us they
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produce the feel good chemical serotonin.
That's a great thing to fight depression,

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for example. Microbes are doing that
for us. What do microbes do for

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our food? We could talk all
day without microbes. You can't have cheese,

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you can't have beer without microbes.
You can't have kim chi or other

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kinds of fermented food sauer kraut and
whatnot. They play a part in everything.

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I'm going to keep talking microbes today
as we go through the day,

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but I just have to brag on
them a little bit. Let's go out

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to Fairfield right now, and we're
going to talk to Marty. Do we

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have Marty or were we gonna have
to do it the other way? All

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right? Get Marty on here and
we will. Hey Marty, how are

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you today? Good morning? Can
you hear me? I can. We've

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got a little glitch, but we
figured out a way around it. Okay,

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I know we're up against it,
bright, but you can put me

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on hold. Okay. I have
a little buy a runner. Underneath it's

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a weed. It has a little
tiny yellow flower and small strawberries. And

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you've talked about it before, but
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Yeah, here's what can I put
on it? You need to use

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a post emergent broad leaf weed control
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Yes? You have? Okay,
I would go out and find something

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like b Nid's Weed Beater Ultra or
Ferbicomes weed free Zone. Spray it on

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those plants. You don't have to
treat everything in the yard, and that

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will take it down. Don't wait
until it heats up, because it's better

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to use those while it's not so
hot. We are going to go to

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a break, Marty, and if
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we'll be happy to do that.
Well, it's time for Nicky and the

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news. Here's our phone number seven
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four. Welcome back to the garden
Line. All right, for those of

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you who were on hold, we
fix the phone system and it made you

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go away. Please call back and
we'll be happy to get back with you.

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That it would be Marty, and
I saw Bobby up there, and

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I can't remember there's a third person. But if you just if you just

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lost us, just call back Josh. You'll get you up right. In

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the order you were, you won't
have missed out on anything talking about bacteria

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and microbes and the way they benefit
us. Nature's Way Resources is built all

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around the fact that there are microbes. I mean, think about that for

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just a minute. Everything that's organic, a tree leaf, a grass clipping,

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a tree trunk, on and on
and on. Everything that was alive

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and is now dead. Microbes turn
it back into soil. And when you

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know how to harness the power of
that, from beneficial fungi, to bacteria,

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to you name it. When you
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can create some wonderful products, the
products that make jungles become huge and beautiful.

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How did that happen? Nobody fertilize
that. Microbes did that? Microbes

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rule the world. Nature's Way Resources
uses those microbes to create rose, soil,

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to create leaf, mold, compost, to create all kinds of products

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and product blends that will help your
plants be successful. John Ferguson is a

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longtime lead in this industry, and
he absolutely knows how to create things to

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make your plants do their best.
No matter what kind of plant, you

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just tell them here, here's what
I got, Here's what I need to

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do, and they will put you
in touch with the right product. They

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have bags, they have bulk.
By the way, every Friday is Fungal

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Friday, which means ten percent off
their bagged fungal products and twenty percent percent

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off their bulk fungal products you can
get. You can reach Nature's Way by

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phone at nine three six three two
one sixty nine nine either on Interstate forty

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five North before you get to Conro
on the right hand side. All right,

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we've got some callers back here,
Marty, welcome back. Hold on,

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hey, are you there, I'm
here, hear, yes, I

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can, Okay, go ahead,
Okay. I put the bond down a

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couple of days before any rain came, so I think I'm good there,

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okay, good, Yeah, two
days dollar, I'm sorry, two days

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is perfect. That'll work. Oh
my gosh, all right, lost Marty.

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We'll get her back in a minute. This is actually gonna be fixed.

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We we're gonna settle it down here. We just had a system crash.

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We'll get them back. It's okay. But let's see where was I

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to Oh? I was talking about
microbes and things and how they rule the

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world. It's so so interesting to
think about the contributions that microbes make,

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and it really does go on and
on and on. When kids are growing

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up, you know, not raising
them in a sterile environment, let them

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go out and play in the dirt
and stuff. Their health later in life

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will be improved by that. And
sciences many research projects have shown that very

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fact, just that interaction and exposure
with the microbes that are there. There's

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another thing, how about the fact
that we enjoy food that only microbes can

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make happen. You know, you
can't eat grass, right, I mean,

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you eat it, but you're not
gonna get much out of it.

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Do you know? Cattle cannot digest
grass, But in their four stomachs along

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the way, I believe it's four
stomachs along the way, they have tons

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of microbes that turn grass into stuff
cows can use, and the cows turn

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that into meat and milk and cheese
and leather. You're getting the idea,

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on and on and on. Throughout
everything that we enjoy in life, there's

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probably a way that some microbe is
involved in the process. And I just

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find that fascinating. I think it's
cool. It's why you hear me constantly

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talking about But if you want beautiful
gardens and landscapes. Take care of the

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brown stuff, and then the green
stuff will thrive. And when I say

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brown stuff, I'm talking about the
soil and the fertilizers and the microbes that

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are involved in them. And when
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the plants that we enjoy. We
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We picture the tomatoes when we buy
a tomato plant, and the lawns and

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everything. The bottom line is that
we absolutely can grow pretty much whatever we

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want to grow as long as the
weather allows that plant by just creating the

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perfect environment make them happy. For
those of you trying to call, please

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stick with us for a little while. We're still having some glitches on the

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phone. We will eventually figure this
one out and get back to it.

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I apologize for the hassle and the
difficulty trying to get through, but we'll

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fix it here. This shows all
about the callers. You know, when

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we talk about trees, there's a
saying that the best time to plan a

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tree was forty years ago. The
second best time is today, And I

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like that singing one time a master
gardener up in Montgomery County, Jim Smith

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showed me a picture of a house
that he and his wife, Fukumi,

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another one of our master gardeners.
Such special people they were, that they

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had back I don't know, nineteen
forties, it was a long time ago.

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And as a little bitty house.
There's a little bit tree they had

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in the front yard. And then
he showed me a picture of it today

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and it's like, the same little
house is there. It wasn't where they

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lived. The Samuel house is there, but the tree is just this beautiful

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giant oak. And that happened because
two things happened. Number one, he

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planted a tree, and number two, he planted an adapted tree. When

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people want to buy a tree,
they say, what's fast growing? Well,

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don't do that. Grow fast,
die young. Remember that grow fast,

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die young. And that is not
universally applied to trees, but it

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is a pretty darn good rule of
thumb. Now you can take a tree

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that's a long lived tree, let's
say a red oak, and you can

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give it the care you need to
speed its growth up to a nice pace,

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a very good pace. But the
fast growing trash trees, the Arizona

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ashes, those used to be the
tree to have and they're just junk.

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And about the time that Jim took
that photo and that gorgeous tree was there,

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about halfway to that picture, an
Arizona ash would have fallen apart and

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they'd had to start all over.
Quality trees are important, and Verdant Tree

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Farm knows how to choose the species
that are going to do best here.

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Whether it's a palm and you need
heartiness in a palm tree, they can

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provide that for you, or if
you want some other type of palm,

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they can. If you want a
quality tree, they can plant it.

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They do a good job, they
plant it right, and they help you

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have success. And they can get
you on your waist with a smaller tree

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or a large shrub. They can
also get you on your way there with

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a tree as big as seven hundred
gallons, a seven hundred gallon root ball

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tree that's a big instant tree.
Well they can do that at Verdant Tree

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Farm. Now there's three locations,
so wherever you live, there's one that's

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done in Paerland. There's one where
in the Heights area where Yelle comes into

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Iten, and then one out of
barker Cypress on the west side of town.

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Verdanttreefarm dot com. Verdant Treefarm dot
com. Get a quality tree,

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get a quality grown tree, and
then get somebody that knows what they're talking

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about and how to do it to
plant it for you, and that'd be

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Verden Tree Farm. So trees.
Everybody loves trees. We love the shade

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of trees, we love the blooms
of trees. And I think by the

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way kind of wandering off here on
trees, but I think it's important to

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provide a variety of trees in your
landscape. Now, one giant live oak

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is fine. It'll probably cover the
whole property in your neighbors as well in

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time they get huge. But having
some smaller trees or medium sized trees that

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are attractive is nice. One of
my favorite trees now is that Chinese fringe.

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There's a native version of fringe as
well, a native one we tend

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to call Grancy gray beard. It's
an East Texas tree. They grow very

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well here. The Chinese fringe is
a little billow we are meaning the billowy

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blooms. There's a little more of
them, larger clusters, whiter and just

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has a nice fragrance. And I
love that tree. But a Chinese fringe

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is a small tree. That small
to medium size tree grows a little slow,

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and so if you don't have room
for a big tree, you have

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room for one of those red buds
and other spring blooming tree. That's a

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nice one to have around. We
have things that are shrubs that can be

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pruned into many ni mini tree farm
form. I've seen a Southern wax myrtle

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pruned into that. I've seen yo
ponds pruned into a series of trunks with

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a little green up on top,
creating the little miniature tree. There's a

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lot of ways to go about it, but there's a There is essentially a

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tree for every kind of situation that
you might have, and always remember to

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consider. If you can get fall
color, get it. But if you

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can get blooms, get that too. It's time for us to take a

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break. Our phone number is seven
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four. We're going to chip away
at this and see if we can solve

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this phone problem and we'll be right
back. Welcome back to Guardenline on a

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Saint Patrick's Day. Happy Saint Patrick's
Day, all of you. I hope

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you remember to wear green today.
That was kind of the tradition that we

406
00:30:04.839 --> 00:30:11.759
usually follow. Right, I've been
talking about timeliness of things, and especially

407
00:30:11.759 --> 00:30:15.559
with fertilizing, getting the right fertilizers
on at the right time. That is

408
00:30:15.640 --> 00:30:19.599
important. It's also important when you're
controlling weeds, especially important now if you

409
00:30:21.200 --> 00:30:26.799
are wanting to stop the warm season
weeds, the grasspurs and the crab grass

410
00:30:26.960 --> 00:30:32.680
and all the other warm season weeds. Barricade by nitroposs provides a barricade over

411
00:30:32.720 --> 00:30:37.480
the soil. You apply it at
the label rate. Please listen to me

412
00:30:37.519 --> 00:30:41.200
on this one. Always apply a
pesticide at the rate on the label.

413
00:30:41.640 --> 00:30:45.920
Don't double up, don't triple up. Don't think you're killing weed deader than

414
00:30:45.000 --> 00:30:49.759
dead. Do the right rate.
It's important. It's important for the success

415
00:30:49.799 --> 00:30:55.079
whether it's an insecticide of fungicide,
herbicide. But on the barricade, follow

416
00:30:55.119 --> 00:30:57.000
the label rate and then watered in
about a half inch of water. That

417
00:30:57.160 --> 00:31:00.279
is what you need to do.
That moves it to the soil surface where

418
00:31:00.279 --> 00:31:03.640
it can do what it does,
where it can do what we put it

419
00:31:03.720 --> 00:31:07.759
on to achieve. And barricade is
available in a lot of different places,

420
00:31:07.799 --> 00:31:12.599
like nitrofus products are two forty nine
highway Tomball Parkway. How about plants for

421
00:31:12.599 --> 00:31:17.319
all seasons? They have it there
down or up in the woodlands. Aspa

422
00:31:17.480 --> 00:31:21.440
Ace has barricade up there, and
plants and things out in Brenham can carry

423
00:31:22.000 --> 00:31:29.319
carry the barricade as well as other
types of nelson or nitrofus products. Well,

424
00:31:29.440 --> 00:31:33.839
I think we got the gremlin's fixed. Let's go out to Grove,

425
00:31:33.000 --> 00:31:37.039
Texas and talk to Bobby. Is
it working, Bobby, yes, sir,

426
00:31:37.400 --> 00:31:42.200
wonderful. How can we help.
I have two plumb trees. They

427
00:31:42.240 --> 00:31:45.359
have a black song is Actually I
saw it in the end of the year

428
00:31:45.440 --> 00:31:49.440
last year that they have a black
fungus underneath the leaves that kind of in

429
00:31:49.480 --> 00:31:55.599
a close up picture that may have
little white flakes. Yeah, that is.

430
00:31:55.880 --> 00:32:00.000
That is the fungus is city mold. It's growing on a sugary substanct

431
00:32:00.799 --> 00:32:05.519
and we have several pests that create
sugary substances. Scale, certain kinds of

432
00:32:05.559 --> 00:32:08.480
scale can do it. Aphids can
do it, mealybugs, white flies can

433
00:32:08.480 --> 00:32:12.759
all do it. When you mentioned
the little white I think what you're seeing

434
00:32:12.920 --> 00:32:16.839
is the cast skins of aphids as
they molt and shed their old skin.

435
00:32:17.559 --> 00:32:22.000
That's one of the signs that aphids
been around for a while on that plant.

436
00:32:22.759 --> 00:32:27.119
The easiest thing to do is just
to get some insecticidal soap. Mix

437
00:32:27.160 --> 00:32:30.720
it according to the label not too
strong, follow the label, and spray

438
00:32:30.880 --> 00:32:36.519
upward from underneath the plum tree.
Because these pests are primarily on the bottom

439
00:32:36.640 --> 00:32:39.039
sides of the leaves, gravity tends
to have the spray drift back down on

440
00:32:39.079 --> 00:32:44.319
the top side of the leaves,
but primarily getting that soap spray under because

441
00:32:44.480 --> 00:32:46.960
only way that it kills an aphid
is by giving it a bath in soap.

442
00:32:47.480 --> 00:32:51.920
So if they don't encounter the soapy
water, it's not going to work

443
00:32:51.960 --> 00:32:57.519
on them. And the insecticide soap
is something I get from a A oh

444
00:32:57.599 --> 00:33:00.440
yeah, yeah, yeah. Insecttione
of it really easy to find. It's

445
00:33:00.480 --> 00:33:05.920
easy to come by out there.
You're out and grove. Let's say I'm

446
00:33:05.920 --> 00:33:08.799
trying to find the local ace that's
around the Beaumont Port Arthur area. We

447
00:33:08.880 --> 00:33:15.400
have supplying, Yes, you do
you have in the in in Beaumont itself.

448
00:33:15.480 --> 00:33:19.880
Yeah, and if that's a close
absolutely, M and dy in Beaumont

449
00:33:19.960 --> 00:33:22.519
right in the big middle of town. That one all that one, Yes,

450
00:33:22.759 --> 00:33:24.759
Oh thank you. Yes, sir, Yeah, they will definitely have

451
00:33:25.119 --> 00:33:30.720
insexie soap. Okay, good hill, Thank you for your hill. All

452
00:33:30.799 --> 00:33:35.359
right, thank you. I appreciate
appreciate your call very much. Uh.

453
00:33:35.480 --> 00:33:38.039
You know, in sexisice soap.
It's so easy to use. But what

454
00:33:38.160 --> 00:33:43.160
people have to remember, it's not
a poison. It kills by dissolving the

455
00:33:43.200 --> 00:33:46.839
waxy cuticle layers. It causes problems
for the aphid, but it's a physical

456
00:33:47.039 --> 00:33:52.799
killer, not a poison type killer. So any spider mite or aphid that

457
00:33:52.880 --> 00:33:58.000
doesn't get a soap bath is not
going to be killed. Coverage is very

458
00:33:58.039 --> 00:34:01.799
important, very important. Uh have
you been out to Warren's Southern Gardens recently?

459
00:34:02.480 --> 00:34:07.799
I tell you Warrens has always been
just a show stopping place and it

460
00:34:07.839 --> 00:34:10.679
still is absolutely And you're also out
there. You have Kingwood Gardens. Both

461
00:34:10.719 --> 00:34:16.199
are really cool to go to.
They've got all kinds of very interesting things

462
00:34:16.559 --> 00:34:22.159
on hand. Right now. The
color is just through the roof, I

463
00:34:22.159 --> 00:34:27.000
mean it is through anything you want
to color up your garden. Do you

464
00:34:27.119 --> 00:34:30.559
need stuff for shade? Do you
need stuff for sun? Do you need

465
00:34:30.639 --> 00:34:34.880
flowers? Do you need foliage?
They can do that. They even you

466
00:34:34.920 --> 00:34:38.480
know, they even got in some
spring. Well, you know what a

467
00:34:38.559 --> 00:34:44.519
Christmas cactus is or a Thanksgiving cactus. There's also an Easter cactus, and

468
00:34:44.559 --> 00:34:49.239
it's called that because it blooms around
Easter time. So the little it looks

469
00:34:49.360 --> 00:34:52.760
just the same, except does have
the little points on the little pads that

470
00:34:52.800 --> 00:34:55.079
are the stems that look like leaves, I guess on them. But they

471
00:34:55.119 --> 00:34:59.320
have those as well, and so
how cool to you know, how it's

472
00:34:59.360 --> 00:35:02.400
fun to have a Christmas cactus?
So Thanksgiving cactus, Well, what about

473
00:35:02.400 --> 00:35:07.280
an Easter coc They've got those out
there. But for your landscape, they

474
00:35:07.320 --> 00:35:12.880
are absolutely loaded up. A gorgeous
salvius, gorgeous bougainbilias. You just need

475
00:35:12.920 --> 00:35:15.480
to go. Absolutely, you need
to go. We're in seven Garden and

476
00:35:15.599 --> 00:35:21.039
Kingwood Garden Center all out there in
Kingwood. You're fortunate to have those around

477
00:35:21.039 --> 00:35:24.840
those of you who live out in
that area. Whenever you are putting a

478
00:35:24.880 --> 00:35:30.960
plant in the ground, I recommend
that you water it in with a soluble

479
00:35:30.119 --> 00:35:35.760
plant food solution, something that at
least has nutrients in it, but even

480
00:35:35.840 --> 00:35:40.840
better that has biological activity. Biological
life microbes, the ones that rule the

481
00:35:40.840 --> 00:35:45.800
world that has to grow six twelve
six is just that it's got a six

482
00:35:45.920 --> 00:35:51.400
twelve six nutrient content level in it. But it also has a Medina soil

483
00:35:51.480 --> 00:35:55.320
activator to stimulate biological activity. It's
got humic acid, it has seaweed extract,

484
00:35:57.199 --> 00:35:59.880
and you can use it as a
folio spray. It's not going to

485
00:36:00.079 --> 00:36:04.039
earn very low salt content in that
it's not going to burn your plants.

486
00:36:04.119 --> 00:36:07.119
I just mix it in water according
to the label. When you plant the

487
00:36:07.159 --> 00:36:09.920
plant watered in with that solution,
do the same a week later, the

488
00:36:09.960 --> 00:36:15.920
same a week later, and those
three applications over a couple of week period

489
00:36:15.360 --> 00:36:19.159
will help your plant get off to
a good start. It's as simple as

490
00:36:19.199 --> 00:36:22.880
that. I'm going to go back
out to the phones now and Marty,

491
00:36:22.159 --> 00:36:28.199
you are a persistent. Congratulations your
garden line. We got you back the

492
00:36:28.280 --> 00:36:34.320
gremlins. Gremlins have fled. So
we were talking about you said you had

493
00:36:34.320 --> 00:36:38.159
spread the bonnight weed beater ultra and
you had a couple of days before rain

494
00:36:38.280 --> 00:36:40.280
or a couple of hours before rain. I believe, I can't remember.

495
00:36:40.440 --> 00:36:44.480
I had a couple of days,
so I can go out and pull some

496
00:36:44.559 --> 00:36:47.840
of it. But and then the
other question was my dollar weed that I

497
00:36:47.920 --> 00:36:53.480
thought I had gotten under control is
now back and I can't remember I used

498
00:36:53.480 --> 00:36:59.320
all the image. But what kind
of image was it that I used on

499
00:36:59.440 --> 00:37:04.599
dollar weed? I call it a
quarter weed because a dollar is made out

500
00:37:04.639 --> 00:37:10.280
of paper quarter it's a silver dollar. Oh well, it's not that big.

501
00:37:10.639 --> 00:37:15.599
Okay, I'm trying to remember which
one that is, and I'll get

502
00:37:15.599 --> 00:37:21.960
it here just a second. If
if you if you sprayed it with image

503
00:37:22.000 --> 00:37:25.480
this year or that a previous year
that you did, yeah, last year,

504
00:37:25.559 --> 00:37:30.000
okay, okay, well, let
me let me find out. It's

505
00:37:30.039 --> 00:37:35.840
the image that that is for weeds
as opposed to like the image that is

506
00:37:35.880 --> 00:37:40.039
for nutsedge. So I'm just going
to confirm. Oh we just okay that

507
00:37:40.159 --> 00:37:44.400
hold on, j just a second. I'll tell you what. I'm gonna

508
00:37:44.400 --> 00:37:46.320
have to hunt that down. I
don't want to hold them on the air

509
00:37:46.719 --> 00:37:51.920
doing it. I will come back
and talk about that specific Okay, I'll

510
00:37:51.920 --> 00:37:57.239
listen. Thank you, Yeah,
and uh, just continue to do the

511
00:37:57.320 --> 00:38:01.199
cultural things too, Marty. If
the area stays foggie wet, Virginia button

512
00:38:01.239 --> 00:38:06.000
wheat and dollar weed are going to
be a perennial problem. If you can

513
00:38:06.079 --> 00:38:08.559
understand it dry out some, that
sure helps you have to spray less.

514
00:38:09.639 --> 00:38:15.199
And what did I just do that? Because I have a prolific area of

515
00:38:15.239 --> 00:38:22.000
the wet stuff where my Virginia button
wheed is. Okay, not yet,

516
00:38:22.159 --> 00:38:25.840
hadn't come up yet, but it
will just you know, subsurface drains getting

517
00:38:25.840 --> 00:38:29.920
the water out of there. Not
most people run their irgrigation too much.

518
00:38:30.239 --> 00:38:35.280
That certainly don't want to do that. But it's where my vegetable garden are.

519
00:38:35.960 --> 00:38:38.320
Okay, I'm putting in a drip
system though I'm working on it.

520
00:38:38.559 --> 00:38:44.280
Okay, Well, I think you're
doing everything you can do, you know,

521
00:38:44.360 --> 00:38:47.239
for right now, By the way, it is the one that it

522
00:38:47.360 --> 00:38:53.159
says image kills nutsedge. That's what
it says on the label, image kills

523
00:38:53.199 --> 00:38:59.320
the nutsedge. And so that would
be the one that has the amazing quin

524
00:38:59.480 --> 00:39:01.760
I believe is the ingredient. And
I'm just about to tell it to you

525
00:39:01.880 --> 00:39:07.599
right now. Scrolling through these labels
on the air is kind of a tough

526
00:39:07.599 --> 00:39:09.840
thing. I can't get zoomed in
just one second. Well, I had

527
00:39:09.960 --> 00:39:14.119
I thought I had sprayed the one
that I had, which was image for

528
00:39:14.280 --> 00:39:17.639
nuts edge, and I thought I
had put that. That's on the front.

529
00:39:17.960 --> 00:39:22.360
That's it, That's the one for
dollar weed too. Image okay kills

530
00:39:22.400 --> 00:39:24.559
and I said for dollar it's amazing, Quinn, that's the ingredient that i'd

531
00:39:24.559 --> 00:39:30.440
said, well a minute ago,
spell that A N I M A M

532
00:39:30.519 --> 00:39:36.119
A Z A q U I N
I believe is how that's spelled U I

533
00:39:36.280 --> 00:39:37.719
N very good. I'll look for
it. And if you're not getting good

534
00:39:37.719 --> 00:39:40.400
success with that, there are other
products that will kill dollar weed. So

535
00:39:40.760 --> 00:39:44.639
you may want to switch if you're
not having the success you want, but

536
00:39:44.719 --> 00:39:47.239
that should work. I'll go to
your website and look, thank you,

537
00:39:47.480 --> 00:39:53.639
I thank you very much. I
appreciate very much. Yeah, well,

538
00:39:54.199 --> 00:40:00.239
you know I we're talking about microbes
today and fighting with the gremlins on the

539
00:40:00.280 --> 00:40:02.719
phone and whatnot. I we got
them all fixed, by the way,

540
00:40:02.719 --> 00:40:06.199
if you'd like to give us to
call the phone number seven one three two

541
00:40:06.320 --> 00:40:12.360
one two fifty eight seventy four seven
one three two one two five eight seven

542
00:40:12.679 --> 00:40:17.719
four. There are so many things
that microbes do to make your plants happy.

543
00:40:19.079 --> 00:40:23.679
For example, there are microbes that
get on the roots of the plant

544
00:40:24.360 --> 00:40:30.039
and they signal the plant to fight
disease and insect problems. Up on the

545
00:40:30.039 --> 00:40:34.280
plant, they cause a change in
the way the plant grows. Is that

546
00:40:34.360 --> 00:40:39.599
amazing? Is that that is very
amazing. There's a type of bacillus that

547
00:40:39.920 --> 00:40:45.039
is the strain is D seven forty
seven, like the like the airplane,

548
00:40:45.480 --> 00:40:52.119
and it is Bacillus. Here here's
a nerdy word, Amilia lico phatis.

549
00:40:52.000 --> 00:40:54.880
But you can buy it in products. They actually have products that you buy

550
00:40:54.880 --> 00:40:58.519
on the shelf now, and it
has that strain in it. You put

551
00:40:58.559 --> 00:41:01.599
it on the plant and it affects
it fights disease of the roots, but

552
00:41:01.679 --> 00:41:06.480
it also signals the plant. So
something that's going wrong up on the top,

553
00:41:06.840 --> 00:41:10.119
the plant changes its growth in some
way that helps it resist and fight

554
00:41:10.199 --> 00:41:15.760
that problem. Microbes did that.
Isn't that amazing? Very cool? Hey,

555
00:41:15.800 --> 00:41:21.000
I had a good time yesterday out
at Buchanan's Nursery. By the way,

556
00:41:21.039 --> 00:41:23.360
thanks for having us out there and
everybody that came out. It was

557
00:41:23.440 --> 00:41:27.760
wonderful. The rain even cooperated and
held off for us. It was a

558
00:41:27.800 --> 00:41:32.280
great day. Thanks to Kennanch for
having me out. Katie r H.

559
00:41:32.360 --> 00:41:37.239
Garden Line does not necessarily endorse any
of the products or services advertised on this

560
00:41:37.280 --> 00:41:45.719
program. Welcome to kat r H. Garden Line with Scamp Richter's so crazy

561
00:41:51.960 --> 00:42:07.599
just watch him as Worlds. Welcome
back to Garden Line on what's going to

562
00:42:07.679 --> 00:42:10.800
be a decent Sunday to get outside
and get some stuff done. I know

563
00:42:10.920 --> 00:42:15.719
we got some rain forecasts, you
know, yesterday is supposed to be a

564
00:42:15.800 --> 00:42:17.760
real rainy, and I wanted to
be cannons and had a great time out

565
00:42:17.760 --> 00:42:22.719
there. And boy, the people
came out like crazy and the rain held

566
00:42:22.760 --> 00:42:25.679
off. They cooperated, and so
I got to run around, do some

567
00:42:25.800 --> 00:42:30.079
shopping, have a good time.
I had a lot of good folks come

568
00:42:30.119 --> 00:42:34.119
by and say Hi, bring some
samples in. I just love that,

569
00:42:34.239 --> 00:42:37.920
love getting out and talking to people
that garden. It's just fun. And

570
00:42:38.199 --> 00:42:42.639
you know, I even learned stuff
from folks because I hear your stories,

571
00:42:42.679 --> 00:42:45.760
what you've tried, what's worked,
what didn't work, and things, and

572
00:42:45.800 --> 00:42:49.400
that's always really helpful to do as
well. By the way, if you

573
00:42:49.480 --> 00:42:52.639
have got your calendar out there,
I would hope that you would put down

574
00:42:52.719 --> 00:42:57.760
on it. Next weekend up in
the Sci Fi area at the Home and

575
00:42:57.800 --> 00:43:00.400
Garden Show. I'll be there at
the Scifeair Home and Garden Show. I'll

576
00:43:00.400 --> 00:43:05.840
be there from noon twelve o'clock to
two, and I'm going to be I'll

577
00:43:05.880 --> 00:43:08.360
be talking a little bit about some
things related to gardening, but mostly just

578
00:43:08.440 --> 00:43:14.880
visiting with you and answering questions.
I find that when I give talks they

579
00:43:14.920 --> 00:43:17.360
kind of turn into q and as
anyway, but that's a lot of fun,

580
00:43:17.440 --> 00:43:21.159
and so come on out. I'll
also have a little table there where

581
00:43:21.159 --> 00:43:23.760
I'll set up and look at samples
and just visit with whoever. That's always

582
00:43:23.760 --> 00:43:27.840
a great home and garden show,
Slife Hair, Home and Garden Show.

583
00:43:28.360 --> 00:43:32.440
We'll be giving one giving away some
Nelson plant Food products too, so there's

584
00:43:32.480 --> 00:43:37.920
a chance for you to get some
of the real cool stuff that Nelson Plant

585
00:43:37.920 --> 00:43:43.360
Food provides. That's next Saturday,
the twenty third of March, twelve pm

586
00:43:43.400 --> 00:43:47.559
twelve pm noon to two pm.
I don't know. It always throws me

587
00:43:49.159 --> 00:43:53.519
that noon is twelve pm instead of
AM because we've been counting AM numbers ten,

588
00:43:53.800 --> 00:43:57.840
eleven, twelve, but twelve is
not a number, and then the

589
00:43:57.920 --> 00:44:00.800
same thing in midnight. There's a
reason for that. It just throws me.

590
00:44:01.000 --> 00:44:07.719
I always have to stop and think
about it. This rain is I

591
00:44:07.760 --> 00:44:10.960
can tell you for sure something that
it's doing, and that is causing our

592
00:44:12.599 --> 00:44:15.800
black clay heavy soils, any kind
of a clay soil to swell. That

593
00:44:15.960 --> 00:44:22.039
means that it actually gets larger and
then when it dries out, it shrinks.

594
00:44:22.519 --> 00:44:24.480
That's why have you ever been walking
around through the yard and like you

595
00:44:24.519 --> 00:44:30.639
see cracks that are huge in a
droughty time and a clay soil so huge

596
00:44:30.639 --> 00:44:34.239
you could lose your small fuf fu
dog down in the crack in the backyard.

597
00:44:34.960 --> 00:44:37.400
Well, that is the shrink swell
potential of clays, and when that

598
00:44:37.559 --> 00:44:44.440
happens, it wrecks havoc on sidewalks
and driveways. It wrecks havoc on our

599
00:44:44.480 --> 00:44:49.599
home foundations. And that crack you
see in the sheet rock, or the

600
00:44:49.639 --> 00:44:52.519
crack in the bricks outside, or
the door that's sticking because things have shifted

601
00:44:52.559 --> 00:44:57.599
a little bit, those are all
signs that you need to have your foundation

602
00:44:57.760 --> 00:45:01.880
checked. And Ty Strickland Fix that's
my slab foundation repair, is a professional

603
00:45:02.039 --> 00:45:05.440
at doing that. He's been doing
for twenty three years here in the greater

604
00:45:05.480 --> 00:45:09.119
Houston here I think maybe twenty four
years about now. But anyway, fixmslab

605
00:45:09.199 --> 00:45:14.920
dot com. That's his website,
Real Easy fixmslab dot com. The phone

606
00:45:15.000 --> 00:45:19.719
number two eight one two five five
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611
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612
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621
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626
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627
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628
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629
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630
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631
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things. It is an excellent pod
Dirt's excellent because it's got a lot of

632
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nutrients in it because it comes from
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633
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whatnot. It's got good drainage.
It's just an outstanding product for a container.

634
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635
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change. You know you're pulling out your

636
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your cool season plants, you're putting
in your warm season color. Great time

637
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to spread some pot dirt and put
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638
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good product. It's got fresh pine
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639
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slow release fertilizer in it, so
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640
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bet, it's a good mix for
that. They've got rose soil, a

641
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rose mix rather that is just outstanding
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642
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things that like a little bit more
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643
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lot of our plants are happy with
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644
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need to go. Landscaperspride dot com. You can find out where you can

645
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get it, and it is very
widely available, so you are not going

646
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to have to drive at all to
find Landscapers Pride here in the Greater Houston.

647
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Greater Houston area. You're listening to
the Garden Line. I'm your host,

648
00:48:07.480 --> 00:48:09.760
Skip Richter, and we're here to
answer your gardening questions if you have

649
00:48:09.840 --> 00:48:15.480
a question. First of all,
the gremlins we were talking to break and

650
00:48:15.119 --> 00:48:19.960
Josh was saying, well, maybe
it's leprechauns today work that We've got them

651
00:48:19.960 --> 00:48:22.199
all run out of the system,
so they're off bugging somebody else at this

652
00:48:22.320 --> 00:48:25.880
moment. Calls are working and we've
got an open board if you'd like to

653
00:48:25.920 --> 00:48:29.639
call. It's a rare sight to
look up there and see an open board.

654
00:48:29.960 --> 00:48:30.920
So this would be a good time
if you want to get a quick

655
00:48:31.119 --> 00:48:37.320
question in to give us a call
here. The spring is here, and

656
00:48:37.480 --> 00:48:44.880
I know with spring the scissitudes of
nature come in where we have rainy days

657
00:48:45.000 --> 00:48:47.960
on a day when we're wanting to
get something done, and that just happens,

658
00:48:49.000 --> 00:48:52.519
and that's okay. But I would
encourage you, even though it's a

659
00:48:52.599 --> 00:48:54.960
rainy day, get out and visit
some of the garden centers. This rain's

660
00:48:55.000 --> 00:48:59.480
going to be spotty, it's going
to be off and on and check out

661
00:48:59.519 --> 00:49:02.400
the gardens, pick up the supplies
that you need and pick up the plants

662
00:49:02.440 --> 00:49:05.800
that you want. And it's a
good day for doing that. By the

663
00:49:05.840 --> 00:49:09.559
way, RCW Nurseries, which is
the nursery right there. We're Beltway eight

664
00:49:09.599 --> 00:49:15.679
and two forty nine also called Tomball
Parkway where they come together. It's the

665
00:49:15.719 --> 00:49:20.840
website and you want to write this
one down is RCW Nurseries dot com.

666
00:49:21.000 --> 00:49:29.280
RCW Nurseries dot com. RCW they
have they're known for trees because they grow

667
00:49:29.320 --> 00:49:32.239
their own trees, have a huge
supply wonderful trees. They're also known for

668
00:49:32.320 --> 00:49:36.639
the roses. They had them send
me the rose list one times, like

669
00:49:36.639 --> 00:49:40.280
four pages long small print, that's
how many roses that they have now.

670
00:49:40.519 --> 00:49:46.079
RCW Nursery has a lot of other
things too. The color is outstanding out

671
00:49:46.119 --> 00:49:50.440
there at RCW Nursery. You know, they've been a sponsored garden Line since

672
00:49:50.519 --> 00:49:53.039
back in the bill Zach John Burrow
days and of course through the twenty six

673
00:49:53.079 --> 00:49:59.800
plus years of Randy lemonhost in the
show here and it's just we call it

674
00:49:59.840 --> 00:50:02.800
the get it, Got It Nursery
because if they don't have it, they'll

675
00:50:02.960 --> 00:50:07.440
do their best to find it for
you. RCW nursries dot Com. Let's

676
00:50:07.480 --> 00:50:09.920
take a little break. We'll be
right back. Here's the phone number if

677
00:50:09.920 --> 00:50:15.159
you'd like to get on the boards. Seven one three two one two KTRH.

678
00:50:15.280 --> 00:50:19.480
Welcome back to Garden Line on a
Saint Patrick's day. Good to have

679
00:50:19.559 --> 00:50:22.360
you with us today. I'm your
host, Skip Ricker. And what are

680
00:50:22.360 --> 00:50:24.599
we here for? To answer your
gardening questions? That is what we're here

681
00:50:24.639 --> 00:50:30.800
for, to help you have a
more bountiful garden, a more beautiful landscape.

682
00:50:31.440 --> 00:50:35.639
And all that takes is some information. Like I like to say,

683
00:50:35.639 --> 00:50:38.599
there's no such thing as a brown
thumb. There's only uninformed thumbs. So

684
00:50:38.719 --> 00:50:43.760
thanks for being a listener. That's
informing your thumb, and thanks for being

685
00:50:43.760 --> 00:50:46.719
a caller too, that also informs
your thumb. You know. For our

686
00:50:46.800 --> 00:50:52.039
lawns, everybody wants a beautiful green, just a gorgeous, healthy looking lawn,

687
00:50:52.239 --> 00:50:53.960
and we do a lot of things
for that. You know, we

688
00:50:54.000 --> 00:50:59.159
improve the soil in various ways.
And one of the things we can do

689
00:50:59.239 --> 00:51:01.519
for our law is, especially in
a heavy clay soil, you get this

690
00:51:01.679 --> 00:51:06.599
compaction, you know, from walking
through it, and aeration helps that.

691
00:51:07.119 --> 00:51:12.400
But aeration in really any clay soil, even if it's not severely compacted,

692
00:51:12.719 --> 00:51:17.000
will benefit from an occasional aeration of
the ground. The folks at Greenpro do

693
00:51:17.119 --> 00:51:21.599
two things. Number One, they
go out and they will punch a hole

694
00:51:21.639 --> 00:51:24.679
into the ground, punch a hole
into the ground, and then they pull

695
00:51:24.760 --> 00:51:30.199
the plug of soil out of that. Okay, then when you pull the

696
00:51:30.239 --> 00:51:34.679
plug of soil out of that,
you end up creating a hole where oxygen

697
00:51:34.840 --> 00:51:38.760
can come can move into the root
system, very important, where organic matter

698
00:51:38.840 --> 00:51:44.159
can fall down in the hole,
very important. Where your nutrients from the

699
00:51:44.159 --> 00:51:46.960
fertilizers can move down into the hole
as well, to get them down through

700
00:51:46.960 --> 00:51:51.320
the root system. Green Pro does
just that. You can go to the

701
00:51:51.360 --> 00:51:57.480
website greenpro dot net. Now,
if your lawn took a hammering last summer,

702
00:51:57.519 --> 00:52:00.360
but you still have a good amount
of lawn, that's a lot out

703
00:52:00.400 --> 00:52:06.119
there. You can save yourself the
whole resorting thing by going in and taking

704
00:52:06.159 --> 00:52:08.599
care of it. Let's fertilize it
right. Let's have Greenpro come out do

705
00:52:09.039 --> 00:52:14.480
a core aeration, pulling the cores
out and leaving them on the surface of

706
00:52:14.519 --> 00:52:19.960
the ground, and then follow that
with a very fine screen compost top dressing,

707
00:52:20.000 --> 00:52:22.199
which is what they use now.
They serve the Springs, the Spring

708
00:52:22.280 --> 00:52:25.960
area and Cyprus, the Woodlands,
Conroe, Willis, Magnolia, Montgomery,

709
00:52:27.400 --> 00:52:30.840
Katie, West Houston, Central Houston, and North kind of the Northwest quadrant

710
00:52:30.840 --> 00:52:36.880
about forty five minutes from the Magnolia
Area's kind of what they serve up in

711
00:52:36.920 --> 00:52:39.039
that area. Give them a call, but first go to the website greenpro

712
00:52:39.639 --> 00:52:44.840
dot net and find out more about
it. They can get your schedule once

713
00:52:44.880 --> 00:52:46.000
it drives out a little bit,
and then get in there and do the

714
00:52:46.039 --> 00:52:51.840
work. You can begin that process
and you can do compost top dressing and

715
00:52:51.920 --> 00:52:53.480
narration at any time. You do
an April and do it in May.

716
00:52:54.440 --> 00:52:58.920
There's plenty of time to get that
done. But get on the schedule because

717
00:52:58.960 --> 00:53:01.119
they do stay busy. Like I
said before, they stay busy because they

718
00:53:01.119 --> 00:53:05.559
do things right. I want to
go to Cyprus and we're going to talk

719
00:53:05.599 --> 00:53:12.639
to Melanie. Now, Hello,
Melanie, good morning morning. Can you

720
00:53:12.639 --> 00:53:15.440
hear me? Yes, ma'am,
go for it. Well, good,

721
00:53:15.920 --> 00:53:20.440
I'm working on my beds, my
flower beds, getting the weeds out.

722
00:53:20.559 --> 00:53:24.400
And my question is that you know
those pods that fall down from the oak

723
00:53:24.480 --> 00:53:29.280
trees that are all in the beds, now, do they compost dinner?

724
00:53:29.320 --> 00:53:31.920
Is it better to take them out? They're fine, leave them going.

725
00:53:32.719 --> 00:53:37.440
They just kind of make it in
and mix it up. Some of the

726
00:53:37.480 --> 00:53:40.119
old maults. Did you just kind
of break it all up or pull some

727
00:53:40.159 --> 00:53:44.679
of that out. I'm going to
put new mults in. I always suggest

728
00:53:44.800 --> 00:53:47.480
you leave the old mulch and put
new mulch on top of it, because

729
00:53:47.559 --> 00:53:52.960
well, really, what plants if
you think about nature without us involved,

730
00:53:52.639 --> 00:53:57.480
Organic matter falls on the ground and
it starts to rot, and organic matter

731
00:53:57.559 --> 00:54:00.039
falls on top of that fresh and
then fresh, and as it does that,

732
00:54:00.039 --> 00:54:06.320
that lower level is decomposing. Even
faster because it's staying moister, and

733
00:54:06.559 --> 00:54:10.320
that top down decomposition that works its
way into the soil, that is what

734
00:54:10.599 --> 00:54:15.239
really makes them thrive. So never
throw away the old mulch. Just get

735
00:54:15.239 --> 00:54:17.400
fresh and put it in on top
of it. All right, I'll do

736
00:54:17.480 --> 00:54:21.599
that. And it seems like even
though I'll put it like about three inches

737
00:54:21.639 --> 00:54:25.280
of mulch and all on, there's
still some very tough weeds that pop through.

738
00:54:25.599 --> 00:54:31.360
Yes, so is there what should
I put you on those? Right

739
00:54:31.360 --> 00:54:37.639
now? I'm digging everything up from
the roots. Okay, But can you

740
00:54:37.719 --> 00:54:40.719
just spray in with something or somebody
told me about cream, but I didn't

741
00:54:40.760 --> 00:54:45.360
know if that would hurt. That's
a pre emergent. That's a pre emergent

742
00:54:45.599 --> 00:54:51.239
and it can work. But when
we go into flower beds and disturb the

743
00:54:51.280 --> 00:54:54.719
soil, we break up the benefit
of that which is sitting on the surface

744
00:54:54.760 --> 00:55:00.400
of the soil. And so you
can do it. I generally don't recommend

745
00:55:00.440 --> 00:55:02.679
it. I recommend mulching. Now, it depends on what weed you're talking

746
00:55:02.679 --> 00:55:08.639
about. But if it's a it's
a perennial type weed, you can wipe

747
00:55:08.840 --> 00:55:13.840
a product on it. If it's
a grassy weed, wipe a grass killer.

748
00:55:13.880 --> 00:55:16.599
They are products that just kill grass. You're up in the cypress area,

749
00:55:16.800 --> 00:55:22.000
you know you've got two or three
great ace hardware stores near you,

750
00:55:22.440 --> 00:55:25.639
and they will carry grass killers at
those stores. If it's a broad leaf

751
00:55:25.639 --> 00:55:30.719
weed, you can use a glyphosate
type product, but wipe it on because

752
00:55:30.719 --> 00:55:35.400
those glyphisate around it will kill your
plants if you get it on them,

753
00:55:35.760 --> 00:55:37.519
and so you're going to be careful. So you just wipe it on the

754
00:55:37.559 --> 00:55:42.639
weed. And here's what I do, and you may want to try this.

755
00:55:43.360 --> 00:55:45.960
You get one of those things that
grabs a jar off the shelf.

756
00:55:45.039 --> 00:55:49.719
They're about three feet long. Sometimes
they have suction cups on the end.

757
00:55:49.840 --> 00:55:52.599
Sometimes they have pads on the end, but a little pistol grip on the

758
00:55:52.639 --> 00:55:58.159
other end. And I put sponges
on those grabbers and you put a few

759
00:55:58.239 --> 00:56:02.880
drops of the let's say grass killer
or life sit on there, and you

760
00:56:02.960 --> 00:56:07.760
just squeeze it on the weed and
then pull it up and wipe that product

761
00:56:07.800 --> 00:56:09.400
onto the weed surface. And you
haven't put it on the soil, you

762
00:56:09.440 --> 00:56:15.800
haven't put it on the plant.
It's very very easy to do without damaging

763
00:56:15.920 --> 00:56:21.400
things. But that moves down in
a perennial weed. Like let's say it

764
00:56:21.480 --> 00:56:27.039
is bermuda grass that's come in.
That's a booger anytime it sticks its head

765
00:56:27.119 --> 00:56:30.320
up, gets it gets wiped with
something. Do you think of a name

766
00:56:30.400 --> 00:56:36.000
of one of those killers, one
of those tools? Oh, no,

767
00:56:36.119 --> 00:56:42.039
one of those one of those.
The most of the over the counterweed killers

768
00:56:42.039 --> 00:56:46.400
you find have an ingredient called the
foxidim And I'm going to only give you

769
00:56:46.440 --> 00:56:51.519
the first four letters. It's a
boy's name, Seth set H. It's

770
00:56:51.519 --> 00:56:53.840
the only chemical I know of that
begins with seth. And if you just

771
00:56:53.920 --> 00:56:59.679
say I need a grass killer,
the ingredient is Seth starts with seth.

772
00:57:00.639 --> 00:57:05.639
That it'll get you the right one
without computing. Oh, they'll have it,

773
00:57:05.880 --> 00:57:08.400
absolutely have it. I know the
Jones Road one has on a little

774
00:57:08.400 --> 00:57:13.440
further north than that. There's an
M and D up in there, an

775
00:57:13.519 --> 00:57:16.559
ace that that has it as well. Uh, it's easy, easy to

776
00:57:16.639 --> 00:57:21.800
find the one when I was thinking
of that, M and D is up

777
00:57:21.800 --> 00:57:27.920
on Luetta Street, just just north
in a little bit to the that's close

778
00:57:27.960 --> 00:57:30.880
to me. Yeah, easy,
easy, okay, I'll do it.

779
00:57:30.920 --> 00:57:34.400
Thank you so much. All right, you take care, good, good

780
00:57:34.440 --> 00:57:38.800
to have your call hopefully. Yeah, those wiper applicators, I think they

781
00:57:38.800 --> 00:57:43.039
really make sense. And I know
some people are gardening organically and they're not

782
00:57:43.079 --> 00:57:45.239
going to use a week killer like
that, and that's fine. Your option

783
00:57:45.360 --> 00:57:49.880
then is to hand dig it out, and that's a chore, but it's

784
00:57:49.920 --> 00:57:52.559
one of the reasons why it's always
best to get it all out before you

785
00:57:52.639 --> 00:57:59.519
plan a vegetable garden bed or a
flower bed, because it will those kind

786
00:57:59.559 --> 00:58:01.719
of knocks. Weeds will invade and
be a problem. You know, we're

787
00:58:01.800 --> 00:58:07.960
kind of in that zone now of
the season where we're still dueing the early

788
00:58:08.039 --> 00:58:12.639
green up if you want to do
that. But it's about time to do

789
00:58:12.840 --> 00:58:16.480
as well. This slow release fertilizers. I usually start those on my schedule

790
00:58:16.480 --> 00:58:20.079
about April first, but if you
put it on now, it's fine too.

791
00:58:20.559 --> 00:58:23.079
You can go a little earlier.
Plants do not know the difference between

792
00:58:23.159 --> 00:58:27.400
March thirty first and April first,
they tell I mean, it's the same

793
00:58:27.559 --> 00:58:30.239
almost to them, So don't think
about it as a black and white line.

794
00:58:30.400 --> 00:58:35.519
But Nitrovius has superturf. Superturf is
a silver bag and that's a good

795
00:58:35.599 --> 00:58:38.639
name for it. Super turf.
It's a nineteen four to ten fertilizer that

796
00:58:38.880 --> 00:58:45.760
is designed to take half the nitrogen
in that product and to gradually release it

797
00:58:45.800 --> 00:58:47.159
over time. And when I say
overtime, I'm talking about a month,

798
00:58:47.199 --> 00:58:50.960
a two month, three month.
You know, it goes out there pretty

799
00:58:50.960 --> 00:58:53.920
good. It depends on the weather
and the temperature and whatnot, rainfall,

800
00:58:54.360 --> 00:59:00.960
but nitropas superturf the silver bag will
give you consistence the long term results in

801
00:59:01.000 --> 00:59:05.920
your summer lawn. And it's available
out there right now. And where do

802
00:59:05.960 --> 00:59:07.199
you get it? Well, we're
just talking about Ace Hardware stores. Ace

803
00:59:07.239 --> 00:59:13.519
Hardware stores carry superterurb it's a nitroposs
product or widely available. I mean you

804
00:59:13.559 --> 00:59:15.880
can find them. Maybe live down
in Alvin, Texas well, go to

805
00:59:15.960 --> 00:59:20.280
Stanton Shopping Center. You'll get it
there. If you live up in the

806
00:59:20.320 --> 00:59:23.719
Memorial area, Memorial Drive, Ace
Hardware City is going to have it out

807
00:59:23.760 --> 00:59:29.880
in Katie Ktieace Hardware just another Ace
that has it. You know with Ace

808
00:59:29.880 --> 00:59:34.639
stores, they carry such a wide
variety of products. If I recommend a

809
00:59:34.679 --> 00:59:37.199
fertilizer, it's at Ace Hardware.
I can tell you that they do strive

810
00:59:37.280 --> 00:59:42.559
to carry everything that I recommend,
whatever the brand is. If you're looking

811
00:59:42.679 --> 00:59:45.199
for tools and gardening tools. By
the way, it's raining today. Do

812
00:59:45.199 --> 00:59:50.440
you need a poncho? Do you
need some rubber boots or as some people

813
00:59:50.480 --> 00:59:54.679
call them, goloshes. Ace Hardware
has that too. ACE is theplace dot

814
00:59:54.719 --> 00:59:58.559
dot dot you fill it in.
It's a place for all of that,

815
00:59:58.639 --> 01:00:02.800
but especially it's a place for a
bountiful garden and a beautiful landscape. The

816
01:00:02.800 --> 01:00:07.840
fertilizers, the products that control pest, weeds and diseases, everything that you

817
01:00:07.920 --> 01:00:10.880
might need to have success. You're
going to find an ACE Hardware. And

818
01:00:12.039 --> 01:00:15.119
we were just talking about where's the
ACE Hardware up there in the Cypress area.

819
01:00:15.199 --> 01:00:20.320
Well, go to Acehardware dot com, aceharbare dot com. It may

820
01:00:20.360 --> 01:00:22.800
ask you can I can I use
your location? Just say yes, or

821
01:00:23.239 --> 01:00:28.480
find the store locator. It's on
the page, and you'll find one or

822
01:00:28.480 --> 01:00:30.920
two, or three or four of
the forty ACE Hardware stores that are close

823
01:00:31.039 --> 01:00:36.199
enough to you to go and get
whatever you need to make your beautiful garden

824
01:00:36.199 --> 01:00:39.920
and bountiful garden as well. Let's
see here we are going to go to

825
01:00:40.320 --> 01:00:45.920
League's City now and talk to Lowell. Hello, Lowell good all right,

826
01:00:45.960 --> 01:00:53.599
sir, morning yesterday morning, you
had a collar asking about pineapple plants.

827
01:00:54.559 --> 01:01:00.280
I've been raising them for about eight
to nine years, and they're difficult to

828
01:01:00.199 --> 01:01:09.440
raise in this climate. I made
the mistake early on of trying to play

829
01:01:09.559 --> 01:01:14.800
them in the ground. They do
not like cold weather at all. No,

830
01:01:14.880 --> 01:01:17.599
they don't, you know they and
you can't cover them up. I

831
01:01:17.599 --> 01:01:22.199
don't care what you do. You
know they turned the mush. All right,

832
01:01:22.840 --> 01:01:25.760
Hey, loel I'm gonna cut I
need to cut in. I'm about

833
01:01:25.760 --> 01:01:29.920
to hit a break here, so
I need you to kind of get to

834
01:01:29.559 --> 01:01:34.480
the question that you have. Okay, Well, you said, yes,

835
01:01:35.079 --> 01:01:42.039
something about putting an apple in the
plant or something to to to release ethylene,

836
01:01:42.159 --> 01:01:45.800
to release ethne ethylene to initiate the
bloom formation. That was what that

837
01:01:46.000 --> 01:01:49.599
was about. So where do you
put it? Just in the in the

838
01:01:49.599 --> 01:01:51.400
center of the planet. Yeah,
I just sat it in the top,

839
01:01:51.440 --> 01:01:52.960
but I put it like a dry
cleaner bag over it, just to all

840
01:01:53.000 --> 01:01:55.760
that gas in there. You know, if you have an apple and you

841
01:01:55.760 --> 01:02:00.920
have bananas that are enclosed place,
it makes the bananas right and faster too.

842
01:02:00.320 --> 01:02:02.719
I am absolutely out of time,
lot. I appreciate your call.

843
01:02:02.760 --> 01:02:06.719
Thank you very much. We're going
to have to go to a break seven

844
01:02:06.800 --> 01:02:10.719
one three two on two fifty eight
seventy four. Welcome back to Guardline and

845
01:02:10.880 --> 01:02:16.159
Happy Saint Patty's Day for those of
you out there celebrating today. It is

846
01:02:16.280 --> 01:02:22.119
a good day to be outside getting
a couple of things fixed and a couple

847
01:02:22.119 --> 01:02:28.360
of things in the For example,
your soil it's too wet to work right

848
01:02:28.400 --> 01:02:30.840
now, but you can purchase the
products and be ready to go when it

849
01:02:30.920 --> 01:02:37.119
dries out enough. Now that would
include composts, that would include bed mixes

850
01:02:37.119 --> 01:02:43.039
like roast soil or vegetable and herb
mixes and whatnot. You want your clay

851
01:02:43.039 --> 01:02:50.840
soil to be in a moist state
for the best effective amendment activity. For

852
01:02:50.880 --> 01:02:53.159
example, here's what I'm saying.
If clay soil is very, very wet,

853
01:02:53.280 --> 01:02:58.400
it is like think of just warm
butter and you just put a knife

854
01:02:58.400 --> 01:03:00.880
through it, and you put knife
goes through it, and the butter just

855
01:03:00.880 --> 01:03:04.519
closes in behind the knife. I
mean, it's a mess. It's sticky.

856
01:03:04.800 --> 01:03:08.599
The clay soil is sticky, and
it just destroys structure even more to

857
01:03:08.719 --> 01:03:14.000
work it when it's wet. Plus
things come up so much you spade and

858
01:03:14.079 --> 01:03:16.159
forks. You can't get the soil
to let go of the times you know

859
01:03:16.159 --> 01:03:20.480
what I'm talking about. If it's
too dry, well you don't need a

860
01:03:20.559 --> 01:03:23.440
rototiller or a spading fork. You
need a jackhammer to get that clay to

861
01:03:23.480 --> 01:03:27.719
break up. It's too dry to
work. But right in between is a

862
01:03:27.719 --> 01:03:30.599
sweet spot. And if you can
let the soil dry out a little bit

863
01:03:30.719 --> 01:03:35.440
to that point, putting compost on
mixing it up work. Now, if

864
01:03:35.519 --> 01:03:37.960
you need to get a bed put
in, then I recommend you just buy

865
01:03:38.159 --> 01:03:43.960
the material you need for the bed
and build the bed on top of the

866
01:03:43.960 --> 01:03:49.559
ground. If you can mix a
little bit that zone between wonderful beautiful bed

867
01:03:49.599 --> 01:03:52.199
mix and clay soiled. If you
can just blend it a little bit,

868
01:03:52.639 --> 01:03:55.119
it works a little bit better.
But don't. If you can't, you

869
01:03:55.159 --> 01:03:58.360
can't. And I know for some
of you you want to plant and the

870
01:03:58.400 --> 01:04:01.039
soil is too wet to work.
So that's one thing you can do.

871
01:04:01.079 --> 01:04:05.360
And it's always a good idea to
add bed mixes of various types to the

872
01:04:05.400 --> 01:04:10.239
soil in order to have the best
situation that you can have. Now,

873
01:04:10.280 --> 01:04:15.679
I'll tell you the folks at Airloom
Soils, they have created some outstanding,

874
01:04:15.119 --> 01:04:21.239
outstanding bed mixes. For example,
do you need a rose blend, a

875
01:04:21.400 --> 01:04:27.119
rose soil they have that. Do
you need, for example, a veggie

876
01:04:27.119 --> 01:04:30.719
and our mix, They have one
designed just for that. Do you need

877
01:04:30.760 --> 01:04:35.280
this regular compost? What do you
need? They have it all and they

878
01:04:35.400 --> 01:04:39.800
always have a good price. The
rose soil has been I don't know if

879
01:04:39.840 --> 01:04:44.400
it's still on special but they had
it on a special light, something like

880
01:04:44.599 --> 01:04:48.320
seventy dollars a yard or whatnot.
And it's easy to find airloom soils.

881
01:04:48.719 --> 01:04:54.719
Airloom soils are available at over eighty
stores in the Greater Houston area, so

882
01:04:55.800 --> 01:04:59.119
it's easy to find an airloom soil. What I would recommend is you go

883
01:04:59.119 --> 01:05:08.559
to the website Heirlooms Soils Soils that's
Pluralsoilsoftexas dot com Heirloomssoilsoftexas dot com and look

884
01:05:08.559 --> 01:05:12.280
at the products that they have.
They have products that they can deliver and

885
01:05:12.320 --> 01:05:15.159
drop off. They have bags you
can buy just about anywhere. And they

886
01:05:15.199 --> 01:05:18.000
also have something called a supersack.
It's a cubic yard in a giant sack

887
01:05:18.239 --> 01:05:21.840
that can be unloaded and just set
on your driveway, you know, rather

888
01:05:21.880 --> 01:05:26.320
than I had some soil dumped at
my yard, actual soil dumped at my

889
01:05:26.440 --> 01:05:30.079
yard the other day and it just
kind of went I wanted in a certain

890
01:05:30.119 --> 01:05:32.679
spot, but when they dumped it, it went out on the grass,

891
01:05:32.760 --> 01:05:36.760
just a mass. Well, a
supersack can help you avoid that, and

892
01:05:36.920 --> 01:05:44.159
airloom soils can provide that for you
as well. So airloomsolso Texas dot com.

893
01:05:44.159 --> 01:05:46.400
That's where you go. And again, if you need to get in

894
01:05:46.440 --> 01:05:49.159
and get a bed created, you
can drop it on the Do you want

895
01:05:49.159 --> 01:05:54.400
a vegetable garden, get you a
box, get you a Bego gardenbed box

896
01:05:54.519 --> 01:05:57.440
or whatever kind you want to use, and just drop your mix right in

897
01:05:57.519 --> 01:06:01.440
there. Just drop it right in
the the box and you're gardening the same

898
01:06:01.559 --> 01:06:06.920
day that you set the box on
the ground or put it together and drop

899
01:06:08.000 --> 01:06:11.760
the soil. And it makes it
really, really easy. And remember it's

900
01:06:11.840 --> 01:06:16.239
all about the brown stuff. It's
all about creating the foundation for success in

901
01:06:16.280 --> 01:06:19.719
a garden that helps them. By
the way, when you're doing that,

902
01:06:19.800 --> 01:06:26.960
you ought to describe you some microlife
fertilizer. Microlife fertilizer is an organic product

903
01:06:27.079 --> 01:06:32.000
that will in many ways help your
plants. Now there's the standard that I've

904
01:06:32.000 --> 01:06:35.880
always used. That's the green bag. It's a six two four, excellent

905
01:06:35.880 --> 01:06:41.039
for lawns. I use it for
everything I know. The bag doesn't say

906
01:06:41.119 --> 01:06:45.119
tomatoes or what I'll put on whatever
I got. It works very well.

907
01:06:45.480 --> 01:06:49.760
They also have the humates Now.
Humates is the final stage of decomposition of

908
01:06:49.880 --> 01:06:55.920
organic matter. It is concentrated compost
in a bag. It's a purple bag.

909
01:06:56.559 --> 01:07:00.440
The purple bag is hum mates plus. It's zero zero four on the

910
01:07:00.440 --> 01:07:04.960
bag. We're putting it on there
because it enhances your soil structure and it

911
01:07:05.119 --> 01:07:11.039
also is very helpful with all of
the soil life. You know today we've

912
01:07:11.039 --> 01:07:15.880
been talking about microbes all day.
Well, it humates is just its very

913
01:07:15.920 --> 01:07:24.840
helpful for creating the structure and the
enhanced microbe populations that help plant roots roots

914
01:07:25.039 --> 01:07:31.119
to thrive because microbes and plants go
together in very close, dependent, intimate

915
01:07:31.159 --> 01:07:35.039
relationship. And maybe I'll talk about
that in a little bit too. Today's

916
01:07:35.079 --> 01:07:39.320
Microbe Day. I think it seems
to be at least the direction we're going

917
01:07:39.360 --> 01:07:44.119
here on Garden Line. But microlife
products are easy to find. You can

918
01:07:44.199 --> 01:07:46.199
just if you want to go to
the website. That's probably the easiest way

919
01:07:46.239 --> 01:07:48.800
to find it. But walk into
any store and you're going to find it.

920
01:07:48.800 --> 01:07:55.679
But go to microlifefertilizer dot com.
Microlifefertilizer dot com very widely available here

921
01:07:55.719 --> 01:07:59.599
and for a good reason. You
listen to garden Line. Our phone number

922
01:07:59.679 --> 01:08:03.119
is one three two one two five
eight seven four. It is safe to

923
01:08:03.199 --> 01:08:08.320
call. There are no leprechauns or
gremlins in our phone systems right now.

924
01:08:08.360 --> 01:08:12.119
The phone, the phone is working
just fine. If you'd like to call

925
01:08:12.159 --> 01:08:15.079
and ask about a question. I
want to mention something that I find a

926
01:08:15.279 --> 01:08:20.319
very very interesting and that is this
is the year of the angelonia. Now

927
01:08:20.319 --> 01:08:25.319
there's a National Garden Bureau, and
yes there is. Each year they give

928
01:08:25.439 --> 01:08:29.439
a year of plant. Twenty twenty
four is a year of a angelonia.

929
01:08:29.920 --> 01:08:33.000
Some people call them summer snapdragons.
I usually don't like when we name a

930
01:08:33.000 --> 01:08:36.960
plant something that it's not. It's
not a snap dragon, but I understand

931
01:08:36.960 --> 01:08:42.199
why they do that. Nice spires
of color coming up just look beautiful.

932
01:08:43.279 --> 01:08:46.079
You're going to find these. They're
easy. They're available in garden centers.

933
01:08:46.479 --> 01:08:51.680
The angelonias will take you into the
heat way better than even petunias will.

934
01:08:51.720 --> 01:08:56.760
Petunias look great now and they look
good for a long time. But angelonia

935
01:08:56.880 --> 01:09:00.600
is just it's tough. When we
get into summer, you get different heights

936
01:09:00.640 --> 01:09:02.800
of it, different colors of it, from a white to a purple,

937
01:09:02.960 --> 01:09:06.159
to a pink to a color that
I can never say what color it is

938
01:09:06.199 --> 01:09:10.199
because it's sort of pink, kind
of purple, kind of Yeah, you

939
01:09:10.279 --> 01:09:13.680
probably are saying it yelling it at
the radio right now. I can't say.

940
01:09:13.720 --> 01:09:15.279
I don't know what that is,
but it's beautiful. I do know

941
01:09:15.359 --> 01:09:18.840
that. So I would suggest if
you're doing a bed and you need a

942
01:09:18.880 --> 01:09:21.840
plant that comes up and you know, gets a little over a foot high

943
01:09:21.880 --> 01:09:26.800
two feet somewhere in there. It
depends on the type of angelonia you get,

944
01:09:27.279 --> 01:09:30.159
it's an outstanding option for that and
it's a good good thing to choose

945
01:09:30.520 --> 01:09:34.560
for our year of this year.
And you're going to find that at a

946
01:09:34.600 --> 01:09:38.199
lot of garden centers, but on
nowhere you can find it. You can

947
01:09:38.239 --> 01:09:41.319
find it Plants for all seasons,
And I can know that without even going

948
01:09:41.359 --> 01:09:45.640
there and looking for them. Plants
for all seasons carries the top plants that

949
01:09:45.760 --> 01:09:49.880
do best here in the Greater Houston
area. And that's why people go there,

950
01:09:49.960 --> 01:09:53.439
because they know when they go they're
going to get stuff that when they

951
01:09:53.439 --> 01:09:57.279
take it home, it's happy to
be here in your yard, in this

952
01:09:57.439 --> 01:10:00.720
climate, in the soils of the
Greater Houston area. That's what Plants for

953
01:10:00.720 --> 01:10:06.479
All Seasons does. Very trained staff, very knowledgeable staff. The Flowerty family

954
01:10:06.640 --> 01:10:10.960
has always done it that way,
and you know when you go in there,

955
01:10:11.439 --> 01:10:15.199
they're going to give you an answer, whether it's identifying something or suggesting

956
01:10:15.239 --> 01:10:17.159
a plant, or telling you how
to take care of it. Go to

957
01:10:17.199 --> 01:10:21.319
the website Plants for All Seasons dot
com. Call them two eight one,

958
01:10:21.560 --> 01:10:28.039
three, seven six, sixteen forty
six, or why not today just run

959
01:10:28.079 --> 01:10:30.920
out there and check it out.
Plants for All Seasons is just north of

960
01:10:30.960 --> 01:10:35.000
Lueta on Highway two forty nine Tombo
Parkway. Really easy to get to.

961
01:10:35.880 --> 01:10:40.600
We're going to take a little break
right here and when we come back we

962
01:10:40.640 --> 01:10:43.960
will jump on the phones. Our
phone number is seven one three two one

963
01:10:44.079 --> 01:10:50.319
two five eight seven four. Welcome
back to your guarden line on Saint Patrick's

964
01:10:50.439 --> 01:10:55.079
Day, and I think the music
has reflected that today we're glad to have

965
01:10:55.159 --> 01:10:59.800
you with us, happy to answer
your gardening questions. If you are wanting

966
01:10:59.840 --> 01:11:03.039
to to renovate your landscape in any
way, shape or form. Look out

967
01:11:03.079 --> 01:11:08.039
the window this afternoon when are training, do you see water gathering in an

968
01:11:08.079 --> 01:11:12.920
area that needs to have the drainage
improved. And they can do that.

969
01:11:13.079 --> 01:11:16.239
They be in the people at Pierscapes. You go down, create a trench

970
01:11:16.479 --> 01:11:20.199
and you drain the water away either
by gravity or put a sum pump in

971
01:11:20.279 --> 01:11:25.680
there. But they can turn a
soggy wet spot that does where plants just

972
01:11:25.880 --> 01:11:30.279
can't thrive, into a well drained
spot where they can thrive. They can

973
01:11:30.319 --> 01:11:33.479
do that for you. They can
fixturer irrigation systems and when summer's coming.

974
01:11:33.840 --> 01:11:36.880
I hope we don't need to water
today. Summer's coming, though, and

975
01:11:36.920 --> 01:11:41.439
when those things pop up, if
they're not distributing efficiently, if you've got

976
01:11:41.439 --> 01:11:45.199
broken heads, misaligned heads, whatever, you're gonna have problems. Plants are

977
01:11:45.239 --> 01:11:47.000
not going to do well. They're
gonna die if it's hot enough and dry

978
01:11:47.119 --> 01:11:50.680
enough. But you got to get
that fixed and Peerscapes can do that.

979
01:11:51.199 --> 01:11:57.399
Pierscapes stays busy because they do good
work, and so call them and get

980
01:11:57.439 --> 01:12:00.239
on the schedule. There's you know, you've got time to get some of

981
01:12:00.279 --> 01:12:03.479
these things done. But you don't
have time to wait until it's actually time

982
01:12:03.520 --> 01:12:06.680
to do the project that you're trying
to do, because by then they're gonna

983
01:12:06.720 --> 01:12:09.960
be booked up with somebody else.
I mean, they stay busy, they

984
01:12:10.000 --> 01:12:12.279
do the work right, and you
want to hire them to do the work

985
01:12:12.279 --> 01:12:15.560
because of that very fact. Now, Pierscapes has been around a good while

986
01:12:15.600 --> 01:12:20.359
here in the Greater Houston area and
they have been doing that kind of quality

987
01:12:20.399 --> 01:12:26.800
work for that time. If you
need something designed, that beautiful backyard oasis,

988
01:12:27.079 --> 01:12:31.239
peer Scapes can do it. Here's
the website Piercescapes dot com. Here's

989
01:12:31.279 --> 01:12:38.960
the phone number two eight one three
seven oh five zero six zero. We're

990
01:12:38.960 --> 01:12:43.680
going to go now up to full
or out to full sure and talk to

991
01:12:43.760 --> 01:12:49.720
Kim Hey, Kim hi skip.
My husband put down some of the early

992
01:12:49.800 --> 01:12:56.319
greenup, the nitrofoss early greenup that
you're yes, exactly. He did that

993
01:12:56.399 --> 01:12:59.920
on Friday. And he also did
the asamite. I believe it's some kind

994
01:12:59.920 --> 01:13:04.239
of micronutrient and you recommend it as
well. Yes, he did watered in

995
01:13:04.399 --> 01:13:09.560
like this said right after it.
But then we got rains on Saturday,

996
01:13:09.640 --> 01:13:14.279
and we've gotten rains this morning.
It's stopped now. But my question is

997
01:13:14.319 --> 01:13:16.720
do you think we've wasted our money? Did it all wash away or do

998
01:13:16.760 --> 01:13:19.760
you think any of it got into
the soil. No, it didn't all

999
01:13:19.880 --> 01:13:23.760
wash away, and it did get
into the soil. When we have the

1000
01:13:23.800 --> 01:13:28.640
gully washers, you know where in
the afternoon you get three inches of rain,

1001
01:13:28.920 --> 01:13:31.039
a lot of stuff's going to get
washed away, including nutrients you already

1002
01:13:31.079 --> 01:13:36.479
had there that were up near the
surface. And so but I don't think

1003
01:13:36.560 --> 01:13:40.800
you did, and I think you'll
see the green up from it and you'll

1004
01:13:40.840 --> 01:13:44.039
be just fine. You don't want
to reapply it because we're really close to

1005
01:13:44.119 --> 01:13:47.920
the season where we begin our slow
release fertilizers in the summer. Right since

1006
01:13:47.960 --> 01:13:53.800
you applied it recently, I would
say probably way toward the end of April.

1007
01:13:54.439 --> 01:13:58.439
And then if you're going to get
a nitroposs there, a silver Bags

1008
01:13:58.520 --> 01:14:00.600
super turf would be the one to
but I would wait on that because you're

1009
01:14:00.600 --> 01:14:04.000
going to get the benefits of this
for a while. Okay, well,

1010
01:14:04.000 --> 01:14:08.800
thank you so much. Is that
it? That's it? All right?

1011
01:14:08.880 --> 01:14:13.039
Thanks for the question. I appreciate
that very much. Yeah, that is

1012
01:14:13.159 --> 01:14:19.560
a fact. Nutrients are they move
some like phosphorus stick there and they don't

1013
01:14:19.560 --> 01:14:24.520
go anywhere, and they build up
over time. Some like nitrogen, they

1014
01:14:24.760 --> 01:14:27.920
dissolve easily. They can wash down
through the soil. If the soil has

1015
01:14:27.960 --> 01:14:30.960
good internal drainage, they can wash
off the surface and they volatilized as a

1016
01:14:31.000 --> 01:14:35.119
gas up into the air. They're
part of that cycle of microbes that's doing.

1017
01:14:35.199 --> 01:14:39.840
All kinds of microbes help change the
form of nitrogen and the soil so

1018
01:14:39.880 --> 01:14:44.560
your plants can get to it easily. It's amazing what they all do.

1019
01:14:44.600 --> 01:14:46.680
I've been bragging on them all day. By the way, have you been

1020
01:14:46.840 --> 01:14:53.199
out to Enchanted Gardens that's in Richmond
Rosenberg. That nursery is a showstopper.

1021
01:14:53.439 --> 01:14:58.800
I mean, you go and it's
unbelievable. They even have something called green

1022
01:14:58.960 --> 01:15:03.239
Glow ornamental clover for Saint Patrick's days. You just have to go see it.

1023
01:15:03.239 --> 01:15:06.319
It's a little planet. It's really
cute. It's got four it's four

1024
01:15:06.399 --> 01:15:10.399
leaves, so I guess it would
be lucky right to have some on hand.

1025
01:15:10.439 --> 01:15:13.119
Do you need cannas? What do
you need out there? They've got

1026
01:15:13.720 --> 01:15:17.720
beautiful succulents, cacti, all kinds
of the out Talking about Angelonia's Yeah,

1027
01:15:17.760 --> 01:15:21.760
they got that stuff. Do you
need house plants? Their bugain villias look

1028
01:15:21.960 --> 01:15:27.159
like you know. The place is
ablaze with color, and it'll do the

1029
01:15:27.199 --> 01:15:30.880
same thing for you at your house. It's always fun to go out there.

1030
01:15:30.880 --> 01:15:33.399
It's one of those showstopper nurseries that
we send people to. I take

1031
01:15:33.439 --> 01:15:38.800
family to nurseries here in the Houston
area. I love to go to Chenni

1032
01:15:38.880 --> 01:15:45.199
Gardens it because it's just so impressive. Enchented Gardens Richmond dot com. That's

1033
01:15:45.239 --> 01:15:47.840
the website if you want to give
them a call two eight one three four

1034
01:15:47.960 --> 01:15:51.399
one twelve oh six. And when
you're there, grab all the fertilizers and

1035
01:15:51.439 --> 01:15:56.079
soil products we talk about on guardline. They're going to have them there as

1036
01:15:56.119 --> 01:16:00.520
well. I'm going to go now
to Tescassita and talk to share. Hello,

1037
01:16:00.680 --> 01:16:04.800
Cheryl, I didn't worry, Skiff. I have a question about the

1038
01:16:04.920 --> 01:16:10.079
order of the following products I'm going
to put down. I've bought some humates

1039
01:16:10.119 --> 01:16:15.520
plus and I have some areas in
the grass that are really light green,

1040
01:16:16.039 --> 01:16:21.079
and I did what you recommended to
a fellow last week about checking pulling the

1041
01:16:21.239 --> 01:16:26.359
leap out and seeing if that striped
underneath. I bought some were a lone

1042
01:16:27.399 --> 01:16:31.039
related iron, Okay, And I
want to know, you know, can

1043
01:16:31.119 --> 01:16:35.279
I put them down on the same
day like tomorrow? Yes you can.

1044
01:16:35.640 --> 01:16:39.279
And then when you do the keylated
iron, don't just put it on the

1045
01:16:39.359 --> 01:16:45.279
yellow spots. Put it evenly throughout
that area because it will be available to

1046
01:16:45.359 --> 01:16:48.880
the plant and help green it up
and you'll see the benefit. But if

1047
01:16:48.880 --> 01:16:51.960
you just put iron down in one
spot, then you're going to have a

1048
01:16:53.000 --> 01:16:57.640
splotchy, splotchy look to the lawn. So go ahead and try to spread

1049
01:16:57.640 --> 01:17:00.880
it out as evenly as you can
through that area. Okay. Because the

1050
01:17:00.000 --> 01:17:04.399
hu made plus is you know,
I put it down dry, and then

1051
01:17:04.680 --> 01:17:10.720
before I water it in, could
I put the keylated iron on it?

1052
01:17:10.840 --> 01:17:14.159
Yes you can. You can do, and then water everything else. And

1053
01:17:14.359 --> 01:17:16.680
I'm going to answer more than you
ask because there are other people wondering these

1054
01:17:16.720 --> 01:17:21.600
same things. You could if you
wanted to put down a fertilizer and then

1055
01:17:21.680 --> 01:17:28.960
put down barricade pre emergent, and
then put down azamite and then your iron

1056
01:17:29.159 --> 01:17:31.279
keylated iron. I mean you could
do all of those. Just don't do

1057
01:17:31.399 --> 01:17:36.479
any two of them in the same
spreading the same hopper because they have different

1058
01:17:36.520 --> 01:17:41.840
hopper settings because the particle size is
different. But you could do one right

1059
01:17:41.880 --> 01:17:45.199
after the other and that would be
just fun. Okay, great, but

1060
01:17:45.520 --> 01:17:50.239
telated iron is liquid anyway, Yes, yeah, and that's the form.

1061
01:17:50.279 --> 01:17:54.720
That's the best form that you want
to use. Okay, thank you.

1062
01:17:55.439 --> 01:17:58.239
Does the bottle have a hose in
sprayer? Is it on? It?

1063
01:17:58.279 --> 01:18:01.359
Is that? No? I couldn't
find any it a's during so I had

1064
01:18:01.560 --> 01:18:06.760
order from Amazon and it's no.
Okay, so I have to mix it

1065
01:18:06.800 --> 01:18:10.800
myself. Well, look at the
mixture. Maybe it has a setting for

1066
01:18:10.840 --> 01:18:14.319
hose inspiras, because that's the easiest
way to put on iron. Doing a

1067
01:18:14.319 --> 01:18:17.119
little pump up sprayer with iron that
is difficult. And be careful when you

1068
01:18:17.239 --> 01:18:24.159
use iron. Don't get it on
your sidewalks, driveways because iron stains concrete

1069
01:18:24.720 --> 01:18:29.199
and so it stains it a reddish
color, a rusty color. So keep

1070
01:18:29.199 --> 01:18:33.199
it, keep it off your surfaces
like that. Okay, thanks you,

1071
01:18:33.319 --> 01:18:38.520
bet, thank you for the call. Appreciate that very very much. I

1072
01:18:38.520 --> 01:18:42.319
was talking earlier about the best time
planet tree is today and when you planet

1073
01:18:42.359 --> 01:18:46.760
tree, the best way to secure
it during its early months as it gets

1074
01:18:46.800 --> 01:18:53.159
well established is with the three sixty
tree stabilizer. Now you've seen everybody uses

1075
01:18:53.199 --> 01:18:55.640
the guy wires, the little wires
that go attached to the tree, and

1076
01:18:55.640 --> 01:18:58.720
then they go all the way down
to the ground and you trip over them,

1077
01:18:58.840 --> 01:19:00.880
and you have to put pretty far
from the tree to get the right

1078
01:19:00.920 --> 01:19:05.279
angle there on them. That is, that's just a mess to deal with.

1079
01:19:05.399 --> 01:19:10.399
Three sixty. Tree stabilizer is a
product. Think of it as like

1080
01:19:10.439 --> 01:19:15.319
an arm, a very strong stiff
arm that grabs onto the tree and grabs

1081
01:19:15.359 --> 01:19:17.560
onto a post. It's designed to
go into an iron post, one of

1082
01:19:17.560 --> 01:19:21.239
the little t posts you hammer in, and I'd recommend going with that route.

1083
01:19:21.880 --> 01:19:25.479
But you can put those posts pretty
close to the plant because the tree

1084
01:19:25.479 --> 01:19:30.920
stabilizer not that long, but it
attaches to the post and it'll also attach

1085
01:19:30.960 --> 01:19:33.479
the regular round fence post if you
want. But the other end has this

1086
01:19:33.680 --> 01:19:38.239
rubber strap. When it attaches to
the tree. You can set it a

1087
01:19:38.239 --> 01:19:41.600
little loose, which you should,
and allow it to move just a little

1088
01:19:41.600 --> 01:19:45.199
bit. That's important. If you
were worried about winds going north, south,

1089
01:19:45.239 --> 01:19:50.760
east west directions, then use two
tree stabilizers, one going at a

1090
01:19:50.840 --> 01:19:55.039
right angle to the other one,
and that way, no matter which way

1091
01:19:55.079 --> 01:19:59.319
the wind blows. Your tree is
secure and they last a long time and

1092
01:19:59.359 --> 01:20:02.760
they're not hard to find. RCW
Nurseries has got them. Arbigates got them

1093
01:20:02.760 --> 01:20:08.319
plants for all seasons. Buchanan's Native
Plants down in the Heights Southwest Fertilizer,

1094
01:20:08.359 --> 01:20:12.920
of course they have them. Horae
Sidden Gardens down in Alvin also has the

1095
01:20:13.000 --> 01:20:21.239
three sixty tree stabilizer. Good product
works very very well. So who is

1096
01:20:21.279 --> 01:20:26.119
telling me? The other day they
were talking about something about honey. Oh,

1097
01:20:26.359 --> 01:20:30.560
they're talking about honey being something that
helps heal. And I won't go

1098
01:20:30.600 --> 01:20:36.119
into the specific stories, but there
are components in honey that are very helpful

1099
01:20:36.560 --> 01:20:42.079
for healing of certain kinds of issues
that you might have as a healing would

1100
01:20:42.079 --> 01:20:45.640
occur. And some people use it
for that purpose. I use it for

1101
01:20:45.680 --> 01:20:49.039
the purpose of putting in my mouth
because I love it. And the folks

1102
01:20:49.119 --> 01:20:56.079
at the bees Supply. Maybe you
want to just try and learn about bees

1103
01:20:56.279 --> 01:21:00.439
and honey and taste some honey.
That's called the bee keeping tour, the

1104
01:21:00.520 --> 01:21:03.520
honey tour. Excuse me, I
said, beekeeping, it's the honey tour.

1105
01:21:04.039 --> 01:21:09.880
You go and you learn and you
taste and it's just fun. But

1106
01:21:09.960 --> 01:21:12.880
maybe you want to have bees.
You know, bees help pollinate your garden

1107
01:21:13.359 --> 01:21:16.720
and they help hollinate the fruit trees
that need cross pollination. They're the ones

1108
01:21:16.760 --> 01:21:20.119
that are going to do that for
you. Well, they do bee keeping

1109
01:21:20.159 --> 01:21:24.720
classes and they're underway right now.
They've been going on for a little while

1110
01:21:24.760 --> 01:21:27.920
now. I think the next one
it is March twenty third. Then there's

1111
01:21:27.960 --> 01:21:30.800
one April thirteenth, April twenty seventh, there's a couple in May, about

1112
01:21:30.840 --> 01:21:35.960
two weeks apart. In general,
those classes are a great way to not

1113
01:21:36.039 --> 01:21:41.760
only learn about bees, but to
have a hands on working the hive itself.

1114
01:21:41.800 --> 01:21:44.439
They get y'all suited up and everything. It's a lot of fun.

1115
01:21:44.560 --> 01:21:47.399
Be Supply is everything you need to
have bees, and you can have them

1116
01:21:47.399 --> 01:21:51.439
in your backyard. And honey bees
do not want to run around and sting

1117
01:21:51.520 --> 01:21:55.399
you. And you know, you
go swat a bee or grab it with

1118
01:21:55.479 --> 01:21:59.000
your hand or something. Yeah,
but or go to the hive and start

1119
01:21:59.079 --> 01:22:02.239
kicking on that. They'll defend their
home. But honeybees are very docile and

1120
01:22:02.279 --> 01:22:06.560
they have several strains that they sell
at the Bee Supply that have been bred

1121
01:22:06.920 --> 01:22:11.960
to be docile and productive, and
that is really important at the Bee Supply.

1122
01:22:12.079 --> 01:22:15.479
Now they're out in Dayton, Texas. But here's the website, thebsupply

1123
01:22:15.880 --> 01:22:19.239
dot com. I've been there,
and I'm telling you the place is fascinating

1124
01:22:19.279 --> 01:22:24.159
and I would highly recommend that you
go out and check it out just for

1125
01:22:24.239 --> 01:22:28.199
the fascination and learning. They have
a hive where you can walk right up

1126
01:22:28.199 --> 01:22:31.720
close. Your kids can walk up
close and behind plexiglass watch the bees work

1127
01:22:31.760 --> 01:22:34.720
in the hive. And it's long
tube that goes from inside the store to

1128
01:22:34.760 --> 01:22:40.399
outside. It is, as the
kids used to say, way cool,

1129
01:22:41.000 --> 01:22:44.439
way cool. You don't want to
miss that. Well, you've been listening

1130
01:22:44.479 --> 01:22:46.359
to Garden Line, I'm coming back. We got a couple more hours in

1131
01:22:46.399 --> 01:22:50.319
the books today. Glad to have
you. By the way, don't forget

1132
01:22:50.479 --> 01:22:57.640
that next week on Saturday, that
is March twenty third, is the Sci

1133
01:22:57.760 --> 01:23:01.319
Fi Home and Garden Show. Now, I'll be there from twelve o'clock noon

1134
01:23:01.520 --> 01:23:05.399
to two pm, twelve to noon
to two pm. I'll be talking a

1135
01:23:05.399 --> 01:23:10.279
little bit about some things you need
to know about plants and having success this

1136
01:23:10.359 --> 01:23:14.119
time of year. And I'll also
be answering your gardening questions. And I

1137
01:23:14.199 --> 01:23:18.279
find my talks tend to evolve into
Q and as as time goes on Nelson

1138
01:23:18.319 --> 01:23:24.239
Plant Foods donating some really cool Nelson
products that will be given away. Another

1139
01:23:24.319 --> 01:23:28.479
reason to come. I'll be at
a table answering gardening questions. You can

1140
01:23:28.520 --> 01:23:32.880
bring me samples. Next Saturday,
twelve to two Sci Fi Home and Garden

1141
01:23:32.880 --> 01:23:40.279
Show kat RH Garden Line does not
necessarily endorse any of the products or services

1142
01:23:40.319 --> 01:23:45.920
advertised on this program. Welcome to
kt RH Garden Line with skin Richt.

1143
01:23:46.079 --> 01:24:01.960
It's so please the crazy trip.
Just watch him as world us so many

1144
01:24:02.039 --> 01:24:19.600
fiftiest sign Welcome back to guarden Line. Good to have you with us today.

1145
01:24:19.760 --> 01:24:25.199
As all where to answer your gardening
questions and that can happen if you

1146
01:24:25.239 --> 01:24:30.840
give a skull seven to one three
two one two fifty eight seventy four seven

1147
01:24:30.920 --> 01:24:34.640
one three two one two five eight
seven four simple as that. Uh.

1148
01:24:34.840 --> 01:24:39.760
Here on Guardline, we like to
help you have success. And all it

1149
01:24:39.800 --> 01:24:44.279
takes is a few simple facts which
we can provide. I follow along some

1150
01:24:44.439 --> 01:24:46.720
simple guidelines and you can have success
with plants. You know, those people

1151
01:24:46.760 --> 01:24:49.680
you think have a green thumb,
they just happen to be doing things right.

1152
01:24:50.199 --> 01:24:54.000
There's no such thing as a thumb. That's green. A thumb that's

1153
01:24:54.039 --> 01:24:56.319
brown. But if you want to
talk about it that way, well,

1154
01:24:56.399 --> 01:24:59.640
let's put it this way. You
turn a brown thumb green by informing that

1155
01:24:59.720 --> 01:25:03.319
thumb how to grow plants the simple
principles plants need. And that's what we

1156
01:25:03.359 --> 01:25:06.439
do here on garden Line to help
you have success because we want you to

1157
01:25:06.479 --> 01:25:13.479
have success. Of course, it
is important to enjoy your garden and landscape.

1158
01:25:13.840 --> 01:25:17.640
And I was visiting with someone I
see yesterday or day before. We

1159
01:25:17.640 --> 01:25:24.039
were talking about the fact that in
gardening there are all these rules. At

1160
01:25:24.119 --> 01:25:26.520
least people look at them as rules, like, for example, if you're

1161
01:25:26.520 --> 01:25:31.039
going to plant a flower bed,
you choose flowers that have colors from opposite

1162
01:25:31.119 --> 01:25:35.279
sides of the color wheel because they
complement each other they go together better.

1163
01:25:35.760 --> 01:25:42.479
Or there's also kind of a tertiary
color concept where you take like a triangle

1164
01:25:42.560 --> 01:25:45.279
across the color wheel three different points, like in a triangle shape across the

1165
01:25:45.279 --> 01:25:48.000
wheel. That's fine, I get
it, I look at that. I

1166
01:25:48.039 --> 01:25:51.560
see what they're talking about. But
at your yard, what do you want

1167
01:25:51.640 --> 01:25:55.760
to look at? That's what you
do? I mean if you don't,

1168
01:25:55.880 --> 01:25:59.560
if you just like roses and nothing
else, then you don't have to have

1169
01:25:59.600 --> 01:26:02.880
annual flowers or vegetables or even a
lawn. I mean, you see what

1170
01:26:02.920 --> 01:26:05.520
I'm saying, it's your yard.
Now. There is such a thing as

1171
01:26:05.560 --> 01:26:11.560
the hoa, and they have an
opinion about things. If you live with

1172
01:26:11.560 --> 01:26:15.000
an hoa, of course, But
the point I'm making is this, do

1173
01:26:15.079 --> 01:26:19.560
what makes you happy, what you
like. That's why we're out there gardening.

1174
01:26:20.439 --> 01:26:26.760
If you like growing fresh food and
coming in and eating something that's fifteen

1175
01:26:26.840 --> 01:26:30.119
hundred miles fresher than something you would
buy in the store, then go for

1176
01:26:30.159 --> 01:26:35.800
it that grow that. If you
are just the lawn ranger of the neighborhood

1177
01:26:35.880 --> 01:26:41.000
and you've got expenses of turf that
are green, and it makes you happy

1178
01:26:41.039 --> 01:26:45.319
to see that and feel like you're
almost living on a golf course. Okay,

1179
01:26:45.439 --> 01:26:48.319
it's your yard. Do that.
Have fun, enjoy that. Don't

1180
01:26:48.359 --> 01:26:54.239
worry so much about the rules now
principles where you know you're going against nature,

1181
01:26:54.279 --> 01:26:59.159
you're going against you know what it
is that makes a plan happy?

1182
01:26:59.279 --> 01:27:02.000
I am, of course, But
have fun. That is very important in

1183
01:27:02.039 --> 01:27:06.840
gardening. A lot of people don't
like weeds in the lawn, and barricade

1184
01:27:06.880 --> 01:27:12.560
is designed to stop weeds from starting, so we'd see tries to sprout when

1185
01:27:12.600 --> 01:27:15.479
the temperature's right for that species,
and as it tries to put a root

1186
01:27:15.520 --> 01:27:20.439
down. Barricade is a barricade that
shuts the thing down and you never get

1187
01:27:20.439 --> 01:27:24.119
the weed in the first place.
And it's easier to prevent a weed than

1188
01:27:24.119 --> 01:27:28.119
to kill it after it's growing,
because once it starts growing and the weather

1189
01:27:28.159 --> 01:27:30.000
gets hot, some of the products
we can't use on them, especially Saint

1190
01:27:30.039 --> 01:27:33.800
Augustine lawns, because they'll damage it. Well, barricade will work for this.

1191
01:27:34.000 --> 01:27:38.079
Now. Barricade is widely available.
You put it down, follow the

1192
01:27:38.159 --> 01:27:42.600
label and watered in about a half
inch of water and you're going to find

1193
01:27:42.640 --> 01:27:46.159
barricade again. It's easy to find
Inchenny Gardens down in Richmond they have barricade.

1194
01:27:46.159 --> 01:27:50.000
Shades of Texas up in the woodlands
they have barricade as well. And

1195
01:27:50.119 --> 01:27:54.800
of course the Fissures Hardware, both
the one in Southeastern and Southmore and the

1196
01:27:54.840 --> 01:27:59.800
one in Laport on Broadway Street are
going to have the barricade as well as

1197
01:27:59.800 --> 01:28:03.840
other nitropost products. We're going to
go now to Paula in northwest Houston.

1198
01:28:03.880 --> 01:28:11.439
Hello, Paula, good morning.
Last week we were driving going somewhere,

1199
01:28:11.600 --> 01:28:15.359
and I didn't get to hear all
the question all the answer. Somebody had

1200
01:28:15.720 --> 01:28:26.239
called in and asked about using compost
as mulch, and yes, and that's

1201
01:28:26.239 --> 01:28:29.640
what I was wondering about, because
I've really had never done that before.

1202
01:28:30.439 --> 01:28:36.439
And well it's not a common practice. Number One, past is a higher

1203
01:28:36.800 --> 01:28:43.359
priced product than just shredded hardwood mulch
for example, especially like the leaf molds,

1204
01:28:43.520 --> 01:28:47.000
right qbityard compost is yeah, because
it's a prime product. But if

1205
01:28:47.039 --> 01:28:50.880
you put composts on top of the
ground, it will work its way into

1206
01:28:50.920 --> 01:28:56.039
the ground and the naturants will wash
into the ground from it. And if

1207
01:28:56.079 --> 01:29:00.520
you think about nature picture of forest, there there's the soil oil, and

1208
01:29:00.560 --> 01:29:06.079
then this layer of decomposed leaf which
is leaf mold compost, which is why

1209
01:29:06.199 --> 01:29:10.560
so, and then there's the dry
leaves on top, and so that's how

1210
01:29:10.680 --> 01:29:15.319
nature feeds the plants. Is that
way? So you can use it as

1211
01:29:15.359 --> 01:29:17.239
a multi it's expensive. You can
also put it on the surface and then

1212
01:29:17.319 --> 01:29:23.079
put regular mult on top of it
as well. Oh okay, I'm not

1213
01:29:23.399 --> 01:29:29.199
I'm just saying that anything on the
soil that blocks the soil the light from

1214
01:29:29.239 --> 01:29:31.039
hitting the soil is going to help
with weed control. But yeah, you're

1215
01:29:31.119 --> 01:29:35.880
right. I would not say just
use compost as a general practice, well,

1216
01:29:35.880 --> 01:29:42.319
because we have I have tomato plants
and grow boxes, and I was

1217
01:29:42.359 --> 01:29:46.600
wondering about using that leaf mold compost. I've got it mixed into the soil,

1218
01:29:46.680 --> 01:29:49.319
but I was wondering about putting it
on top. If you've already got

1219
01:29:49.359 --> 01:29:54.000
it mixed in, you're probably okay. But there's nothing wrong, nothing wrong

1220
01:29:54.039 --> 01:29:57.680
with putting it on top to Yeah, okay, can I behind for a

1221
01:29:57.760 --> 01:30:03.640
minute, Can I cry wine for
a minute? Sure? A fellow gardeners.

1222
01:30:04.000 --> 01:30:09.079
We had three we had three days
the chances of rain. Right.

1223
01:30:09.720 --> 01:30:13.319
I got a quarter of an inch
the first day. I got nothing yesterday,

1224
01:30:13.520 --> 01:30:15.239
and I got an eighth of an
inch today, So I'm probably gonna

1225
01:30:15.279 --> 01:30:18.239
have to get out more water.
Well, okay, that's it. I

1226
01:30:18.359 --> 01:30:23.760
want to get that off. We
do allow belly aching sometimes, Paula.

1227
01:30:23.840 --> 01:30:29.239
But I'll tell you this, there
are other gardeners out there like myself.

1228
01:30:29.359 --> 01:30:33.920
I'm planting. I'm trying to plant
some turf this week, and I can't

1229
01:30:33.920 --> 01:30:39.199
be rototillying or doing things like that
when the soil is so soggy, wet

1230
01:30:39.279 --> 01:30:42.920
so I trade places with you for
that particular practice. But I understand what

1231
01:30:42.960 --> 01:30:48.399
you're talking about. All right,
thank you, out of trouble. That's

1232
01:30:48.439 --> 01:30:54.920
good. Do you need a supply
for your garden of filling the blank,

1233
01:30:55.279 --> 01:31:03.000
mulch, compost, fertilizer, disease
control control, insect control tools. Ace

1234
01:31:03.039 --> 01:31:08.199
Hardware stores they're everywhere, forty of
them around the Houston area. Ace Hardware

1235
01:31:08.359 --> 01:31:11.960
dot Com and they got it all. They've got what you need there.

1236
01:31:12.680 --> 01:31:15.399
We've been talking to people all day. They're asking about this and that and

1237
01:31:15.399 --> 01:31:16.800
the other, and I just keep
thinking, Okay, Ace carries out.

1238
01:31:16.840 --> 01:31:20.560
Ace carries out. Ace carries out, and on rainy days like today,

1239
01:31:20.600 --> 01:31:26.560
they even have galoshes, rubber boots
and park. The rain park is whatever

1240
01:31:26.720 --> 01:31:30.399
ring I got rain park, I
guess is the term you use. Some

1241
01:31:30.640 --> 01:31:32.720
doesn't sound right about that. Anyway, They've got it all out there.

1242
01:31:32.760 --> 01:31:35.399
You want to beautify, you've got
a little porch or patio. You want

1243
01:31:35.439 --> 01:31:39.239
to hang some of those lights,
those strings of lights that go around and

1244
01:31:39.359 --> 01:31:43.520
just create that evening, warm ambience
glow. Ace. We'll fix you up

1245
01:31:43.560 --> 01:31:45.439
on that. Go to Ace Hardware
dot Com, find the store locator,

1246
01:31:45.800 --> 01:31:50.079
find the store near you, and
you have got it done. I'm gonna

1247
01:31:50.079 --> 01:31:53.640
go now. No, got to
take a break. Okay, when I

1248
01:31:53.680 --> 01:31:56.880
come back from break Ray and Raymond
and Blake, you'll be the first two

1249
01:31:57.000 --> 01:32:00.800
up. And here we go our
phone number seven one three two one two

1250
01:32:00.960 --> 01:32:04.680
k t r H. Time to
dance a jig. There we go Little

1251
01:32:04.960 --> 01:32:12.279
Saint Patti's day music for you here
on Garden Line. It is just a

1252
01:32:12.279 --> 01:32:15.399
pleasure to go out and visit nurseries. I love doing that. It's my

1253
01:32:15.479 --> 01:32:20.399
favorite thing to do. And every
time I go, I'm amazed at the

1254
01:32:20.479 --> 01:32:25.680
nurseries you have in the greater of
your scenario. They are outstanding their showplaces.

1255
01:32:25.880 --> 01:32:28.680
And I want to tell you about
a showplace that's down in the Seabrook

1256
01:32:28.760 --> 01:32:31.079
area. That is Moss Nursery.
Now, a lot of you from down

1257
01:32:31.079 --> 01:32:33.880
that region, I mean, you
practically live at Moss Nursery. You know

1258
01:32:34.000 --> 01:32:38.039
about the place, and you know
why it is so awesome to go to.

1259
01:32:38.720 --> 01:32:41.079
But a lot of you haven't been
yet, and you need to because

1260
01:32:41.079 --> 01:32:44.159
people drive a long way to go
to this place. It's very special.

1261
01:32:44.279 --> 01:32:46.399
First of all, I'm going to
give you the phone number and the website

1262
01:32:46.760 --> 01:32:54.600
Moss Nursery maas nursery dot com two
eight one seven four seven four twenty fourth

1263
01:32:54.720 --> 01:32:59.680
eighty eight. I'll do that one
again two eight one four seven four twenty

1264
01:32:59.680 --> 01:33:04.079
four. Moss Nursery had just they
get shipment. The trucks are lined up

1265
01:33:04.119 --> 01:33:08.880
all the time bringing stuff in there. But they've gotten shipments of you know,

1266
01:33:09.079 --> 01:33:14.399
the cacti that is just it's incredible. It is really beautiful. Have

1267
01:33:14.479 --> 01:33:17.239
you ever thought about growing like a
staghorn fern? Yes, they have that

1268
01:33:17.359 --> 01:33:20.920
too. They have like a hundred
of men. I mean it go in

1269
01:33:20.960 --> 01:33:26.479
their houseplanting greenhouse. If you like
houseplants of any kind or succulens, you'll

1270
01:33:26.520 --> 01:33:29.720
be amazed. I mean they're they're
hanging from the ceat there, they're on

1271
01:33:29.800 --> 01:33:32.039
shelves, they're on tables, they're
on the floor. Just they have so

1272
01:33:32.800 --> 01:33:38.319
many plants and they're always getting something
new. I was bragging about that Chinese

1273
01:33:38.359 --> 01:33:41.560
fringe tree or earlier, say how
much I like it. Yep, they've

1274
01:33:41.560 --> 01:33:45.399
got those at Moss Nursery. You're
always going to find what you want.

1275
01:33:45.399 --> 01:33:48.359
You're always going to find the whimsicle
too. Moss Nursery is not just another

1276
01:33:48.399 --> 01:33:53.640
garden center. It is going to
have things you would never expect. Every

1277
01:33:53.680 --> 01:33:57.760
time you turn a corner in that
place, it's like, WHOA, what

1278
01:33:58.039 --> 01:34:00.960
is that? I've never seen that
before. You know, I carved with

1279
01:34:00.239 --> 01:34:06.239
actual wooden canoe, A carved an
African mask, one of these giant like

1280
01:34:06.520 --> 01:34:13.039
you know, face things that have
been carved. They're always Jim is always

1281
01:34:13.039 --> 01:34:15.840
bringing stuff back. You never know
what he's going to buy, and that

1282
01:34:15.239 --> 01:34:18.680
just makes it more fun to go
to Moss. Have a good time there,

1283
01:34:18.960 --> 01:34:23.079
but I guarantee you will enjoy it. You gotta go. It's on

1284
01:34:23.119 --> 01:34:27.119
Toddville Road in Seabrook. Check out
my nursery. I need to get back.

1285
01:34:27.199 --> 01:34:29.079
There's been a little while for I've
been there. I need to get

1286
01:34:29.079 --> 01:34:31.479
back over there and check that out. We're going to go now to Raymond

1287
01:34:31.520 --> 01:34:35.000
in Santa Fe. Hey, Raymond, how are you today? Hey?

1288
01:34:35.159 --> 01:34:39.760
Thanks taking my call, doing wonderful. Thank you. I have two questions.

1289
01:34:39.840 --> 01:34:43.000
One is I was starting to prepare
my little raised bed for vegetables and

1290
01:34:43.560 --> 01:34:46.000
ants have decided to take it residence
here. What's the best way to get

1291
01:34:46.079 --> 01:34:49.079
rid of thoat or a victim that
moved or somewhere else in the yard.

1292
01:34:50.359 --> 01:34:54.600
And the other question I have well, go ahead, well, no,

1293
01:34:54.680 --> 01:34:57.600
go ahead, guess both of them. We're gonna say. The other one

1294
01:34:57.640 --> 01:35:00.039
was my other question was I don't
live anywhere near water. How come my

1295
01:35:00.159 --> 01:35:04.520
yard is just filled with crowdeds?
Okay, because you have a water table

1296
01:35:04.840 --> 01:35:09.560
under the ground. Uh, there
may not be water sitting on the surface,

1297
01:35:09.640 --> 01:35:13.039
but if they have water down a
few inches below, they like that.

1298
01:35:13.760 --> 01:35:16.079
And uh, you know that's that's
an issue. We don't have a

1299
01:35:16.119 --> 01:35:21.680
great spray for crowd ads you can
eat. I was thinking about flooding my

1300
01:35:21.760 --> 01:35:26.159
yard and just selling crowded since the
cost win so up. Well, either

1301
01:35:26.239 --> 01:35:29.760
that, you know, either that, or import some Cajuns from Louisiana and

1302
01:35:29.880 --> 01:35:31.800
just had them sit there and wait
because they love those things. I love

1303
01:35:31.840 --> 01:35:35.079
them too. I grew up with
those kind of crowd heads, catching them

1304
01:35:35.079 --> 01:35:40.000
out a little, you know,
ditches and stuff like that. Piss the

1305
01:35:40.039 --> 01:35:43.199
string and with bacon on it,
you can get some good crowded. They're

1306
01:35:43.199 --> 01:35:45.920
a little tiny ones, though not
not necessary worth eating. I don't know

1307
01:35:45.920 --> 01:35:49.039
how to take to get rid of
those things, but it is the water

1308
01:35:49.119 --> 01:35:53.359
table that they Oh, okay,
well, I wouldn't necessarily worry about getting

1309
01:35:53.399 --> 01:35:55.439
rid of I just want to know
how they only get here? I'm sorry,

1310
01:35:55.439 --> 01:35:59.079
how in the world do they get
here if they're you know, if

1311
01:35:59.119 --> 01:36:01.439
I'm nowhere near? So they come
up to the water table, I guess

1312
01:36:01.479 --> 01:36:04.760
they crawl and then they set up
house there. And yeah, but that

1313
01:36:04.760 --> 01:36:08.399
that is the deal. Let's go
back to the answer. They fire ants,

1314
01:36:09.359 --> 01:36:13.520
Yes, okay. I would get
a product called come and get it.

1315
01:36:14.199 --> 01:36:17.199
Come and get it. It's best
and get it fertile, and it

1316
01:36:17.319 --> 01:36:21.720
is an organic fire ant bait.
And you don't have to dump it on

1317
01:36:21.800 --> 01:36:28.079
a pot with crodit with those ants
in it. You can just spread it

1318
01:36:28.119 --> 01:36:30.760
around. They'll pick it up and
bring it back and it'll kill any ants

1319
01:36:30.800 --> 01:36:32.720
in that area. That that includes
out in your yard. You get a

1320
01:36:32.760 --> 01:36:36.000
little bit out there, other pots
and plants, those plant those ants have

1321
01:36:36.079 --> 01:36:40.800
to go out to look for food, and they're coming. They're crawling all

1322
01:36:40.840 --> 01:36:43.800
around, and they'll find the bait
and take it back. That's the safest

1323
01:36:43.840 --> 01:36:46.079
product that I know that you can
use. Come and get it. Okay.

1324
01:36:46.239 --> 01:36:49.439
Well, you can drench a pot, you know, with a with

1325
01:36:49.520 --> 01:36:55.560
a chemical to kill them that way, quicker that way, But I would

1326
01:36:55.560 --> 01:36:57.720
just try to come and get it. I think you'll you'll be good with

1327
01:36:57.760 --> 01:37:00.119
that. Yeah, well, since
plants and veggie did in there, I

1328
01:37:00.159 --> 01:37:02.800
didn't want to put any kind of
chemical poisons down in there to get rid

1329
01:37:02.840 --> 01:37:05.800
of themself. Yeah, that's right, all right man, Thank you for

1330
01:37:05.840 --> 01:37:10.479
the call. Thank you appreciate that. And take care. If you have

1331
01:37:10.600 --> 01:37:13.520
a tree, you need to take
care of that tree because it is valuable.

1332
01:37:13.520 --> 01:37:17.560
Remember my story earlier about the pictures
Jim Smith showed me of his tree

1333
01:37:17.600 --> 01:37:21.399
back in the forties and then his
tree back in I don't think that was

1334
01:37:21.439 --> 01:37:27.840
probably the nineties when we talked to
him big and beautiful. Well, you

1335
01:37:27.960 --> 01:37:30.159
got to get a tree that's going
to be a long lived tree, and

1336
01:37:30.199 --> 01:37:32.840
you got to take care of it. And Affordable Tree Service is who you

1337
01:37:32.840 --> 01:37:36.039
want to call. Listen, when
you have someone come in and prune your

1338
01:37:36.079 --> 01:37:40.159
tree and they don't know what they're
doing, the damage they do is for

1339
01:37:40.239 --> 01:37:45.079
life. They you can mess up
a tree such that you're always going to

1340
01:37:45.119 --> 01:37:48.239
have issues where you're worried about a
limb breaking and falling, where it just

1341
01:37:48.479 --> 01:37:53.399
looks horrible and doesn't get better over
time. Affordable Tree doesn't do that.

1342
01:37:53.920 --> 01:37:56.680
Martin's been doing this. Martin Spoon
Moore. He's been doing this a long

1343
01:37:56.760 --> 01:38:00.000
time. He knows how to do
it. It costs one hundred and fifty

1344
01:38:00.319 --> 01:38:02.359
to have him come out and do
a consultation. If you hire him to

1345
01:38:02.399 --> 01:38:05.199
do the work, you've already paid
one hundred and fifty dollars of what is

1346
01:38:05.239 --> 01:38:09.039
going to cost to do the work. It just it just folds right into

1347
01:38:09.079 --> 01:38:14.479
that. The phone number is seven
one three six nine nine twenty six sixty

1348
01:38:14.560 --> 01:38:20.880
three seven one three six nine nine
twenty six sixty three. Aff Tree Service

1349
01:38:21.039 --> 01:38:25.960
dot com. That's the website,
aff Tree Service dot Com. Call him.

1350
01:38:26.039 --> 01:38:30.600
Either he or his wife Joe will
answer the phone and they can help

1351
01:38:30.680 --> 01:38:32.359
guide you. If you're gonna do
anything around a tree, like trenching or

1352
01:38:32.359 --> 01:38:36.840
putting in a sidewalk or anything,
call Martin first because you can do damage

1353
01:38:36.880 --> 01:38:40.840
that way too, and that is
unnecessary, and he can guide you on

1354
01:38:40.880 --> 01:38:44.520
what you actually need to be doing. I'm gonna go out to Kingwood now

1355
01:38:44.520 --> 01:38:47.439
and we're gonna talk to Blake.
Hello, Blake, let's go on skip.

1356
01:38:47.880 --> 01:38:51.600
Always listen to you Saturday Sunday mornings. I appreciate your show and thank

1357
01:38:51.680 --> 01:38:57.640
you. Happy uh almost said Valentine's
Day, but happy Saint Patty's Day.

1358
01:38:58.159 --> 01:39:00.800
Okay, we'll go. I'll be
sick. I'll be sixty on this Saturday

1359
01:39:00.880 --> 01:39:04.359
before East or So. Walk into
a room and I forget while I walk

1360
01:39:04.359 --> 01:39:06.439
in there. You know what I
mean. You're preaching to the choir.

1361
01:39:06.640 --> 01:39:10.760
How can I help you today?
Well, I'm just wondering tonight. I

1362
01:39:10.840 --> 01:39:13.239
live in apartment. I just wanted
to get the best soil I want to.

1363
01:39:13.479 --> 01:39:15.880
I like growing. I like eating
avocados like every other morning. But

1364
01:39:16.000 --> 01:39:18.680
the seeds I like to to playing
every once in a while. And I've

1365
01:39:18.680 --> 01:39:21.119
got a couple of them growing out
of my patio. But they just look

1366
01:39:21.159 --> 01:39:25.600
a little yellow, kind of not
real green. And I'm wondering, what's

1367
01:39:25.600 --> 01:39:28.600
the best soil, you know,
since the living kingwod is? I mean,

1368
01:39:28.680 --> 01:39:31.199
can you recommend something? And how
should I plant it? I mean,

1369
01:39:31.199 --> 01:39:34.039
I know they don't produce a tree. I just like to see they

1370
01:39:34.039 --> 01:39:36.399
grow tall. You just like looking
at them. Are you wanting a soul

1371
01:39:36.479 --> 01:39:40.880
for containers or for the ground?
Yes, a soul for containers, Well

1372
01:39:40.920 --> 01:39:44.520
you got There's there's very good options
out there. One of them that's pretty

1373
01:39:44.520 --> 01:39:49.119
easy to find is jungle Land Distribute
of my nitrofis uh jungle jungle land land

1374
01:39:49.840 --> 01:39:54.000
you've got. They have two versions. One is indoor that has water crystals

1375
01:39:54.159 --> 01:39:57.119
in it, water holding crystals in
it. The other, the outdoor one

1376
01:39:57.239 --> 01:40:00.119
is called jungle land flour and vegetable. But don't let the flower and vegetable

1377
01:40:00.439 --> 01:40:04.560
throw you. It is a good
potting salt for growing stuff yet, and

1378
01:40:04.600 --> 01:40:10.479
so I would try that, and
then I would use some sort of supplemental

1379
01:40:10.920 --> 01:40:15.000
nutrition to keep a good steady growth
on those plants. Put it in a

1380
01:40:15.119 --> 01:40:18.279
large enough pot that you're not gonna
have to water it trice a day to

1381
01:40:18.359 --> 01:40:21.680
keep it out of drought stress,
because that plant's going to get pretty large.

1382
01:40:23.439 --> 01:40:28.119
And you know, eventually some people
try planting them out the weather.

1383
01:40:28.199 --> 01:40:30.079
We'll catch up to you on that
here. We just don't. We can't

1384
01:40:30.119 --> 01:40:35.079
go ten years without an avocado freezing
back, or at least not most locations

1385
01:40:35.079 --> 01:40:39.000
are not gonna be able to pull
that off. But yep, that's what

1386
01:40:39.039 --> 01:40:41.760
I would do. Okay, I
appreciate it. See if I have a

1387
01:40:41.760 --> 01:40:44.279
blast week you take care of all
right, Thank you, Blake. I

1388
01:40:44.279 --> 01:40:46.359
appreciate that. And you're lucky being
out there in Kingwood. By the way,

1389
01:40:46.399 --> 01:40:51.000
you've got a couple of great nurseries. I love going out to Warren's

1390
01:40:51.079 --> 01:40:56.720
and kingw Garden Center up in that
area. Well, you're listening to Garden

1391
01:40:56.760 --> 01:40:59.800
Line. Our phone number if you
would like to give us a call is

1392
01:41:00.439 --> 01:41:04.359
seven one three two one two fifty
eight seventy four seven one three two one

1393
01:41:04.439 --> 01:41:11.000
two five eight seven four. We've
had people calling a lot about what I

1394
01:41:11.039 --> 01:41:13.399
do at the weeds and milan.
What I do at the weeds in the

1395
01:41:13.399 --> 01:41:17.199
milan, Well, if you've got
existing weeds, those weeds are cool season

1396
01:41:17.239 --> 01:41:21.840
weeds. They sprouted back last fall
October maybe November, and they've grown through

1397
01:41:21.840 --> 01:41:26.000
the winter. They've been very small, and then they take off growing.

1398
01:41:26.039 --> 01:41:30.000
They bloom and set seed, and
now you're sentenced to years of dealing with

1399
01:41:30.000 --> 01:41:34.039
those weed seeds and your lawn.
Well, the way we deal with that,

1400
01:41:34.640 --> 01:41:38.600
we got a couple of ways.
Number One, back or in the

1401
01:41:38.640 --> 01:41:43.039
fall, we can put on a
pre emergent product like the barricade from nitropas

1402
01:41:43.239 --> 01:41:45.279
to prevent them from ever getting started. But you got them now, it's

1403
01:41:45.319 --> 01:41:50.039
too late for barricade on those weeds, so you can use another nitrofass product

1404
01:41:50.079 --> 01:41:56.319
and it is their weed and feed
trimech nitrofos. It's a fifteen five ten

1405
01:41:56.560 --> 01:41:59.359
just like the Imperial, but this
isn't the Imperial. It's a light blue

1406
01:41:59.359 --> 01:42:04.239
bag and it has a post emergent
weed killer in. It actually has three

1407
01:42:04.319 --> 01:42:08.600
different ingredients that kill weeds. So
what you want to do is you want

1408
01:42:08.600 --> 01:42:14.159
to get the lawn weed surfaces moist
or wet. You don't have to water

1409
01:42:14.239 --> 01:42:18.720
enough to water the soil. Just
wet the leaves, spread the nitrofoss weed

1410
01:42:18.720 --> 01:42:23.680
and feed fifteen five to ten with
trimac on it. Those particles stick to

1411
01:42:23.720 --> 01:42:27.600
the leaves and they will soak into
the leaf tissues won't hurt your grass at

1412
01:42:27.600 --> 01:42:30.640
this time of year, and you
can put that down and it will move

1413
01:42:30.680 --> 01:42:33.560
in, and then a day or
two later you can water it in because

1414
01:42:33.560 --> 01:42:38.399
it will have already gone into the
weed leaves. Watered in to get the

1415
01:42:38.439 --> 01:42:43.159
fertilizer as an early greenup fertilizer because
it is fifteen five to ten, it's

1416
01:42:43.199 --> 01:42:46.079
not slow release. It's an early
greenup. It releases right away when it

1417
01:42:46.119 --> 01:42:50.119
gets wet into the soil. It
works really well and it is available all

1418
01:42:50.159 --> 01:42:55.279
over the place. We talk about
all the time how nitrofoss products are easy

1419
01:42:55.319 --> 01:42:57.319
to find. You can find them
at the arbor Gate. You can find

1420
01:42:57.359 --> 01:43:01.399
them up in Tombole Shades of Texas
down south Eton on Genoa Red Bluff Road.

1421
01:43:01.520 --> 01:43:05.840
You've probably been by there. Kingwood
the Ace Hardware and Kingwood also has

1422
01:43:06.159 --> 01:43:12.199
these nitropost products available. It makes
it easy to find them when you can

1423
01:43:12.239 --> 01:43:16.720
get them anywhere you look and everywhere
you go. Someone was talking to me

1424
01:43:17.000 --> 01:43:20.840
about earlier. You may have heard
the call. We were looking at putting

1425
01:43:20.840 --> 01:43:25.079
out different kinds of things and can
you put them out on the same day,

1426
01:43:25.119 --> 01:43:27.359
And I said, yes, you
can do all these things on the

1427
01:43:27.399 --> 01:43:31.840
same day. You just don't do
them in the same fertilizer spreading that same

1428
01:43:31.920 --> 01:43:38.119
time. And it's because you set
the fertilizer spreader on a certain number so

1429
01:43:38.199 --> 01:43:42.720
that whatever fertilizer you're putting out,
or whatever material you're putting out is put

1430
01:43:42.720 --> 01:43:45.720
out at the right rate. Well, you've got something like a barricade that's

1431
01:43:45.760 --> 01:43:50.359
pretty fine, fine particle size,
then you've got something big, like a

1432
01:43:50.439 --> 01:43:54.560
chunky fertilizer. You know, microlife
would be an example of that. Well,

1433
01:43:54.600 --> 01:43:58.760
azemite is another one, and azamite
we put out for the micro nutrients,

1434
01:43:58.800 --> 01:44:03.079
the trace minerals the plants need to
grow. It's not a fertilizer in

1435
01:44:03.119 --> 01:44:08.039
the sense of making your long term
green and grow fast. It's a fertilizer

1436
01:44:08.079 --> 01:44:12.640
in the sense of giving the grass
plant a bank account for the essential things

1437
01:44:12.640 --> 01:44:16.000
that are required for growth and health
of the grass plant. That's what azemite

1438
01:44:16.000 --> 01:44:21.560
does. Azamite Texas dot com.
That is their website. It doesn't take

1439
01:44:21.720 --> 01:44:28.439
much, So do your fertilizing and
then come back, change your settings and

1440
01:44:28.880 --> 01:44:30.720
do the asamite. You can do
both of those in the same day,

1441
01:44:30.840 --> 01:44:34.960
or you can do fertilizing today and
wait till summer. Put the asimite on.

1442
01:44:35.279 --> 01:44:39.079
Doesn't matter what time of year,
but if you haven't done it in

1443
01:44:39.119 --> 01:44:41.479
a while, this would be a
good time to go ahead and get that

1444
01:44:41.640 --> 01:44:48.640
done. Yesterday at a Buchanan's Nursery
answering gardening questions, people coming by.

1445
01:44:48.760 --> 01:44:53.239
It was a blast, but we
had a blast out there. Really enjoyed

1446
01:44:53.520 --> 01:44:58.600
being out of Buchanan's Garden Center.
They always it's just always a place to

1447
01:44:58.600 --> 01:45:00.159
go and see all kinds of things. I was when I walked in,

1448
01:45:00.319 --> 01:45:04.239
I saw the coral vine that they
had around the parking lot, and it

1449
01:45:04.359 --> 01:45:08.880
just reminded me, now'd be a
great time to go by there and buy

1450
01:45:08.920 --> 01:45:13.680
a coral vine. They are beautiful
spring blooms. They're not fully evergreen,

1451
01:45:13.760 --> 01:45:16.319
but they drop some leaves, but
it's just a gorgeous vine. And then

1452
01:45:16.479 --> 01:45:21.159
the milkweed, so many selections of
milkweed. Do you want monarch butterflies?

1453
01:45:21.399 --> 01:45:25.760
You gotta go buy Buchanons, which
is on eleven Street in the Heights and

1454
01:45:25.800 --> 01:45:29.680
get you some of that milkweed.
Well, I'm talking into the news time,

1455
01:45:29.760 --> 01:45:31.439
so I'm going to pass the baton
to Nikki. Will be right back.

1456
01:45:32.000 --> 01:45:35.960
Well, welcome back to Guardline on
Saint Patrick's Day. Happy Saint Patrick's

1457
01:45:36.000 --> 01:45:40.119
Day for those of you out there. We are going to go straight to

1458
01:45:40.159 --> 01:45:45.479
the phones and we're going to talk
to Suzanne in League City. Hello Suzanne,

1459
01:45:45.239 --> 01:45:49.239
A hi. I have two questions. The first one is the what

1460
01:45:49.520 --> 01:45:57.239
is the stuff that's dropping from the
oak trees. It's funny kind of stuff.

1461
01:45:57.760 --> 01:46:02.800
Those are called catkins. That is
the catkins K C A T K

1462
01:46:03.000 --> 01:46:08.880
I N S. It's it's Is
that good for the compost pile? Perfect?

1463
01:46:09.239 --> 01:46:14.439
Just fine? Okay? Forrest the
soil gets covered with catkins and the

1464
01:46:14.439 --> 01:46:19.800
oak forests just thrive because they've become
part of the soil. Okay, fantastic.

1465
01:46:19.880 --> 01:46:26.000
Now I'm trying to think of my
second question. Okay, oh yeah,

1466
01:46:26.079 --> 01:46:30.239
yeah, I'm growing spinach. I
have a pretty big garden and I'm

1467
01:46:30.279 --> 01:46:34.479
growing spinach and it's been the first
time I've ever grown it, and it's

1468
01:46:34.520 --> 01:46:44.279
it's producing like mad. But in
between my rose is a mossy's uh flat

1469
01:46:44.920 --> 01:46:48.760
weed. I haven't done anything about
picking it up or trying to scrape it

1470
01:46:48.880 --> 01:46:54.640
up, but it's slow, it's
flat to the ground, but it's just

1471
01:46:54.640 --> 01:46:57.800
just crazy. Well, there are
some types of mosses that kind of fit

1472
01:46:57.880 --> 01:47:01.119
that description, uh, and they
like wet, and they like the kind

1473
01:47:01.119 --> 01:47:04.720
of like acidic environments that are wet. I wouldn't worry about them in your

1474
01:47:04.720 --> 01:47:09.479
spinach patch. Just okay, because
spinach is going to be bolting and going

1475
01:47:09.520 --> 01:47:13.159
out here in a little while,
and you can just turn up the soil

1476
01:47:13.279 --> 01:47:17.359
and when you're well, you got
some beautiful sound singing birds there in the

1477
01:47:17.399 --> 01:47:25.319
background. Yeah I do. Yeah, But you say my spinach is going

1478
01:47:25.399 --> 01:47:29.560
to stop growing now, Well,
when it heats up, the cool seasoned

1479
01:47:29.600 --> 01:47:34.079
greens like spinach and a regular,
so I shouldn't plan it anymore. Now.

1480
01:47:35.319 --> 01:47:39.359
If you want some baby spinach,
you probably could, but it's it's

1481
01:47:39.399 --> 01:47:43.159
going to be bolting fairly soon.
I don't I think I would just keep

1482
01:47:43.159 --> 01:47:46.840
harvesting leaves off the plants that you
have as long as okay, I will,

1483
01:47:46.880 --> 01:47:49.560
and thank you so much, Thank
you, Susan. I appreciate you.

1484
01:47:50.600 --> 01:47:56.960
Bye bye bye bye. Yeah.
We love our feed source here on

1485
01:47:57.039 --> 01:48:00.760
garden line. Got some great feed
source around the Greater Hue scenario. If

1486
01:48:00.760 --> 01:48:02.399
you're up in the Tomball area,
you've got D and D Feed. It's

1487
01:48:02.439 --> 01:48:05.680
out there on twenty nine to twenty
just to the west of Tomball a little

1488
01:48:05.680 --> 01:48:12.840
bit. Dandy Feed prides himself in
carrying the products you need for your lawn

1489
01:48:12.840 --> 01:48:15.439
and garden. Right now. They
got a load of plants out front.

1490
01:48:15.439 --> 01:48:16.840
You have to swing by there and
check it out. All kinds of different

1491
01:48:16.840 --> 01:48:20.720
plants that are out front, and
that is in and of itself worth going

1492
01:48:20.760 --> 01:48:25.960
by. But they have Nitropos fertilizer. They've got the other brand, for

1493
01:48:26.039 --> 01:48:30.199
example, the Microlife. They carry
that and on and on down the line.

1494
01:48:30.359 --> 01:48:32.840
Do you need barricade, We've been
talking about that. Do you need

1495
01:48:32.880 --> 01:48:39.039
the super turf, that nitropossmate they
got that they It just goes on and

1496
01:48:39.079 --> 01:48:43.079
on. They have things like age
leaf, more compost and heirloom rose soil,

1497
01:48:43.199 --> 01:48:46.680
the fruit berry citrus soil, the
vegetable and herb soil. And they're

1498
01:48:46.680 --> 01:48:51.199
always getting chicks in baby chick spring
is the time for that, and just

1499
01:48:51.239 --> 01:48:54.840
give them a call. One are
the next group of chicks coming in?

1500
01:48:54.840 --> 01:48:58.399
Two eight, one, three,
five, one seventy one forty four.

1501
01:48:58.439 --> 01:49:01.000
I will say that number again,
always listening to guard line with a pen

1502
01:49:01.079 --> 01:49:06.079
in your hand. Two eight,
one three five one seven to one four

1503
01:49:06.399 --> 01:49:10.920
four. Of course their feed store
they got everything else you would expect from

1504
01:49:10.960 --> 01:49:15.720
a feed store. It's just a
fun place to go. Let's see.

1505
01:49:15.760 --> 01:49:18.279
I believe we're heading to Leak City
next to talk to Greg. Hello,

1506
01:49:18.359 --> 01:49:27.760
Greg Skip. I got a question
to ask about whenning's a good time to

1507
01:49:27.880 --> 01:49:33.960
put a root barrier down to protect
your foundation from oak trees. Anytime,

1508
01:49:34.439 --> 01:49:40.800
anytime you can get in there and
create a trench where you can put that

1509
01:49:40.960 --> 01:49:45.880
wall of barrier vertical wall down into
the soil to keep the oak trees from

1510
01:49:45.920 --> 01:49:49.159
coming up close. You want to
do that far enough away from the foundation

1511
01:49:49.399 --> 01:49:54.159
where it can benefit most. Here's
the thing people don't realize. And I

1512
01:49:54.279 --> 01:49:59.680
was talking, oh gosh, the
other day, I was visiting with a

1513
01:50:00.199 --> 01:50:06.960
fix my slab, and we were
just discussing the thing about trees and foundations,

1514
01:50:08.479 --> 01:50:12.039
and you know, I was amazed, number one, at the knowledge

1515
01:50:12.159 --> 01:50:18.720
level that Tie had. He knows
this stuff. But it's not trees going

1516
01:50:18.880 --> 01:50:25.399
under your foundation and lifting it up
like they do your sidewalks and like they

1517
01:50:25.439 --> 01:50:30.319
do your driveways. With the foundation, tree roots proliferate right there because it's

1518
01:50:30.359 --> 01:50:34.600
for the water runs off the roof
and it's always moist, and so your

1519
01:50:34.680 --> 01:50:39.760
ground swells up when it's moist,
and then tree roots are pumping that area

1520
01:50:39.840 --> 01:50:44.159
around the foundation dry and the soil
is shrinking, and that is how the

1521
01:50:44.199 --> 01:50:47.119
tree roots damage your foundation. So
if you're going to do a barrier,

1522
01:50:47.279 --> 01:50:51.159
don't do it right beside the foundation, because it's essentially the same thing's going

1523
01:50:51.239 --> 01:50:55.319
to happen. You got to get
out away from it as far as it's

1524
01:50:55.359 --> 01:50:59.439
practical, at least a couple of
feet out there away from it, preferably

1525
01:50:59.520 --> 01:51:03.399
a little bit. Do you do
it under the drift line of the tree

1526
01:51:03.680 --> 01:51:09.720
or out away from the drift line? Well, I wouldn't limit the tree

1527
01:51:09.760 --> 01:51:13.560
by doing barriers that close to the
tree, unless you have to to protect

1528
01:51:13.600 --> 01:51:16.079
the foundation. I would say,
you know, if a tree, I'll

1529
01:51:16.119 --> 01:51:19.399
just if a tree is fifty yards
out there away from the house, well

1530
01:51:19.720 --> 01:51:24.720
it's gonna not be a problem,
and you don't have to worry about getting

1531
01:51:24.720 --> 01:51:27.960
by the drip line. But as
you get closer and closer, you do

1532
01:51:28.079 --> 01:51:32.000
have to have the wall to protect
the soil under and around your foundation.

1533
01:51:32.800 --> 01:51:39.560
So that's where you're and what kind
of wall works the best. You know

1534
01:51:39.920 --> 01:51:43.600
that I'm not an expert in I
would if I were you, I would

1535
01:51:43.760 --> 01:51:46.239
let me let me give you a
number. I don't. I don't think

1536
01:51:46.319 --> 01:51:48.920
Ty does this kind of work,
but you need to call him and ask

1537
01:51:49.000 --> 01:51:55.279
him about it. It's two eight
one two five five forty nine forty nine.

1538
01:51:55.399 --> 01:52:00.199
His website is fixedmyslab dot com.
Fix myslab dot com. He could

1539
01:52:00.239 --> 01:52:02.680
probably direct you to it. What
they make is a very very thick,

1540
01:52:03.159 --> 01:52:09.680
plastic tight barrier that creates that wall. It doesn't decay in the soil like

1541
01:52:09.840 --> 01:52:15.800
metal, will rouster, corodea away
and and whatnot. And he could probably

1542
01:52:15.840 --> 01:52:17.920
tell you where to get it or
who to have do it. It's a

1543
01:52:18.039 --> 01:52:20.920
chance he does it himself. I
don't think he does that kind of work.

1544
01:52:23.399 --> 01:52:29.479
It's nine yes, that's it.
And another you know, another practice

1545
01:52:29.520 --> 01:52:34.079
would be just occasionally to run a
root trencher through there and just cut off

1546
01:52:34.079 --> 01:52:38.520
all the roots that are going past
the point where you would have put the

1547
01:52:38.520 --> 01:52:42.479
barrier. Well, I got a
sprinkler system, so that's kind of not

1548
01:52:42.600 --> 01:52:45.199
an option. Yeah, it'd be
kind of interesting. Well, you get

1549
01:52:45.199 --> 01:52:50.000
to play tacker toys with PVC when
you break the sprinkler line. All right,

1550
01:52:50.520 --> 01:52:54.600
Hey, thank you, Greg,
I appreciate I appreciate you giving us

1551
01:52:54.600 --> 01:52:57.520
a call. Good luck with that, all right, thank you, Matt.

1552
01:52:57.760 --> 01:53:00.319
Take care. Yeah, that's a
foundation an issue, but most people

1553
01:53:00.399 --> 01:53:05.159
do not realize how the trees and
why the trees affect the foundation. That

1554
01:53:05.199 --> 01:53:11.039
way, Hey, if you're looking
to do some super turf on your lawn,

1555
01:53:11.079 --> 01:53:15.399
that's the slow release nineteen four to
ten fertilizer that Nitrofoss makes. It's

1556
01:53:15.399 --> 01:53:21.000
their silver bag. Now you put
that down and normally I begin those about

1557
01:53:21.119 --> 01:53:26.600
the first of April. But listen, if you unless you just did recently

1558
01:53:27.199 --> 01:53:32.720
a fast growth greenup like Nitrofoss Imperial, you can do the super turf now

1559
01:53:32.960 --> 01:53:35.520
and just put it down. And
I just said, D and D carries

1560
01:53:35.560 --> 01:53:40.560
everything they've got that. You can
find super turf at a lot of different

1561
01:53:40.640 --> 01:53:45.399
places. Again, it is a
nitrofoss product. So Lake Hardware and Angleton's

1562
01:53:45.439 --> 01:53:46.800
gonna have it. D and De
Feed and Tombal as I said, they

1563
01:53:46.840 --> 01:53:50.000
are going to have it. Fisher's
Hardware down in Baytown they're going to have

1564
01:53:50.079 --> 01:53:54.119
it as well. We'll time for
us to take another break and we'll be

1565
01:53:54.199 --> 01:53:58.399
right back with your gardening questions.
Welcome back to the garden Line, and

1566
01:53:58.560 --> 01:54:01.359
happy Saint Patrick's Day everybody out there. We're glad to have you listening to

1567
01:54:01.439 --> 01:54:04.920
us. We're going to jump right
to the phone to the number by the

1568
01:54:04.960 --> 01:54:10.520
way seven one three two one two
fifty eight seventy four if you'd like to

1569
01:54:10.520 --> 01:54:13.960
give us a call. We're going
to go out to Friendswood and talk to

1570
01:54:14.039 --> 01:54:17.520
Kathy. Hello Kathy, Yes,
good morning. We enjoy your program.

1571
01:54:17.560 --> 01:54:25.399
Thank you. My question today is
about johnsngrass that's overtaken a garden that had

1572
01:54:25.439 --> 01:54:30.680
to be left alone due to a
family illness. Is there. I was

1573
01:54:30.680 --> 01:54:35.520
told a product called Eraser might do
that, but I'm afraid of what's going

1574
01:54:35.560 --> 01:54:39.880
to happen to the soil after I
put it on there. Okay, do

1575
01:54:39.920 --> 01:54:45.399
you have any desirable plants growing around
the johnsngrass? No? Now that eraser

1576
01:54:45.439 --> 01:54:48.840
will do it, and you want
to get it on the foliage. You

1577
01:54:49.000 --> 01:54:53.199
don't need to drench the plants,
just a little bit on the foliage,

1578
01:54:53.199 --> 01:54:56.520
but getting on as much of the
foliage as you can. Johnson grass has

1579
01:54:56.600 --> 01:55:00.840
underground rhizomes that store energy and help
it sprought back, and the erasure will

1580
01:55:00.880 --> 01:55:04.800
go down into those rhizomes and it
will kill them. Now you may have

1581
01:55:05.159 --> 01:55:09.640
to do a second time later in
case you don't get it all. Sometimes

1582
01:55:09.640 --> 01:55:13.159
with a lot of Johnson grass,
the spray coverage isn't quite what you need

1583
01:55:13.199 --> 01:55:16.199
it to be. But yes,
that'll work if you spray. Give it

1584
01:55:16.239 --> 01:55:21.279
a week to work before you chop
it down or till up the soil or

1585
01:55:21.279 --> 01:55:26.479
whatever you're going to do, and
you can plant even seedlings without any any

1586
01:55:26.520 --> 01:55:30.680
problem. Oh okay, okay.
Johnson grass is a booger. I used

1587
01:55:30.720 --> 01:55:34.119
to have to grub that out as
a kid, and that is hard to

1588
01:55:34.119 --> 01:55:39.279
get all those rhizomes out of the
ground. Yeah, it was. It

1589
01:55:39.359 --> 01:55:42.960
was unfortunate because it was an illness, so we couldn't. I couldn't.

1590
01:55:43.239 --> 01:55:46.279
E didn't take the time to get
out there. So yeah, those so

1591
01:55:46.439 --> 01:55:51.760
I really don't have to put anything
else afterwards. It's going to be okay,

1592
01:55:53.000 --> 01:55:57.239
that is so awesome. Yeah it
will and that that'll work fine,

1593
01:55:57.439 --> 01:56:00.079
okay, all right, so much, all right, bad eat Johnson grass

1594
01:56:00.119 --> 01:56:08.920
because it's all right. Let now, I know you appreciate me helping you

1595
01:56:08.960 --> 01:56:11.560
with that answer. So all you
have to do here on Guardline, here's

1596
01:56:11.560 --> 01:56:14.560
the policy. Advice is free,
but you need to bring half your produce

1597
01:56:14.960 --> 01:56:17.000
drop it off at the radio station
that we'll call it even Thank you,

1598
01:56:17.079 --> 01:56:19.720
ken, Okay, sounds good,
okay, bye bye, bye bye.

1599
01:56:20.279 --> 01:56:25.760
We're going to go now out to
Katie and talk to Evelyn. Hello Evelyn,

1600
01:56:26.439 --> 01:56:30.800
good morning, Skip morning. I
have my fruit trees, my plumb

1601
01:56:30.800 --> 01:56:34.239
and peach trees have finished blooming,
and I have a lot of tiny fruit

1602
01:56:34.399 --> 01:56:39.079
on them. What can I spray
them with to keep the insects from eating

1603
01:56:39.119 --> 01:56:43.600
them? Tell me what kind of
fruit you have? I have plumb I

1604
01:56:43.600 --> 01:56:45.239
can't tell you the name of them, and I have some peach trees.

1605
01:56:45.359 --> 01:56:50.680
Okay. In the past years,
have you had problems on those trees with

1606
01:56:50.800 --> 01:56:55.640
insects. Yes, I had,
but I was out of the country and

1607
01:56:55.760 --> 01:56:59.279
when I came back, I didn't
spray them, and the books got in

1608
01:56:59.359 --> 01:57:01.279
them and made, you know,
made worms and things in them, so

1609
01:57:01.319 --> 01:57:04.800
I wasn't able to eat them.
So now this year I'm home and I

1610
01:57:04.880 --> 01:57:09.439
want to make sure that that doesn't
happen. Okay, there's an insect called

1611
01:57:09.439 --> 01:57:15.319
the plum cerculio that is doing that. It cuts a little tiny crescent shaped

1612
01:57:15.319 --> 01:57:17.520
flapp in the skin of the fruit, lays an egg under that flap,

1613
01:57:17.960 --> 01:57:21.479
and the larva hatches and tunnels to
the seed, which is where you encounter

1614
01:57:21.720 --> 01:57:28.800
that worm. Fruit. They begin
actually about now, or even tadbit before

1615
01:57:28.840 --> 01:57:30.760
now. But it's not like your
fruit's all infested. Don't worry about that.

1616
01:57:30.840 --> 01:57:35.640
But you start spraying now then for
them. And there are fruit sprays

1617
01:57:35.760 --> 01:57:41.079
that you can use. There are
different brand, different ingredients. You just

1618
01:57:41.199 --> 01:57:44.680
need to go to an ACE hardware, like you got an ACE hardware,

1619
01:57:44.760 --> 01:57:48.960
Katie Ace. That's an easy one. It's on Pinoak Street out there in

1620
01:57:49.079 --> 01:57:55.600
Katie. And I just say,
I need a fruit spray that's labeled labeled

1621
01:57:55.600 --> 01:57:59.000
for peach. I need fruit tree
spray for insects and make sure it's label

1622
01:57:59.079 --> 01:58:01.399
for peaches. For you know,
there's insecticide you don't want to use on

1623
01:58:01.479 --> 01:58:05.600
your edibles, so they'll get you
that, and then follow the label.

1624
01:58:05.760 --> 01:58:13.199
Start today and about every depending on
what the ingredients are, follow the label,

1625
01:58:13.239 --> 01:58:15.239
but in general we say about every
ten days to two weeks. You

1626
01:58:15.279 --> 01:58:18.920
would want to spray again, Probably
two weeks would be fine. And I

1627
01:58:18.920 --> 01:58:23.439
can use the saying spray on both
the peach and the plum, yes beautiful,

1628
01:58:23.560 --> 01:58:27.760
because that insect attacks both those are
called stone fruit because they have a

1629
01:58:27.840 --> 01:58:31.199
pit inside. Peaches, plums,
apricots, and nectarines, those are all

1630
01:58:31.239 --> 01:58:35.720
stone fruit and they all have this
past problem. Now, if you have

1631
01:58:35.800 --> 01:58:41.720
any fruit that falls like a worm
gets it, you didn't kill the worm

1632
01:58:41.880 --> 01:58:45.159
on that one. Pick those up
and get rid of them because they pupate

1633
01:58:45.159 --> 01:58:47.640
and go in the ground. Then
they come back or they go off somewhere

1634
01:58:47.720 --> 01:58:54.520
and over winter. But when we've
lost the last bit of blooms fallen off,

1635
01:58:54.560 --> 01:58:59.760
that's when you need to start those
for plum curculia beautiful. Okay,

1636
01:59:00.239 --> 01:59:04.239
do that, thank you, bet, thank you, Kate Elvik. Yeah,

1637
01:59:04.439 --> 01:59:08.680
that that is a past I have
dealt with those before. I don't

1638
01:59:08.680 --> 01:59:11.600
have a peach tree right now.
In fact, we're talking about planting some

1639
01:59:11.640 --> 01:59:15.159
fruit trees where we move to a
little while back. I just haven't gotten

1640
01:59:15.199 --> 01:59:23.399
around to getting that done. But
that plum curriculo is the number one insect

1641
01:59:23.720 --> 01:59:28.520
that deal that we deal with in
peaches, plums, apricots, cherries,

1642
01:59:28.520 --> 01:59:30.119
which those last two you don'tant to
try to grow here. They're not going

1643
01:59:30.199 --> 01:59:35.039
to do well here. But any
of the stone fruit that plum curc likes

1644
01:59:35.079 --> 01:59:39.760
them. And it's the worm and
the fruit. And anytime let me use

1645
01:59:39.760 --> 01:59:44.680
this to make a point, anytime
that we have a problem in the orchard

1646
01:59:45.279 --> 01:59:48.279
orchard being one tree, if need
be in the backyard, you want to

1647
01:59:48.319 --> 01:59:54.520
practice sanitary measures. So that worm
in the fruit, the fruit's gonna fall

1648
01:59:54.560 --> 01:59:57.239
to the ground, or you're gonna
throw it away somewhere. Well, that

1649
01:59:57.279 --> 02:00:01.239
worm's gonna finish. That's that's worm
and it's going to finish its life cycle.

1650
02:00:01.319 --> 02:00:05.359
And then you have adults that'll be
back laying eggs next year. So

1651
02:00:05.800 --> 02:00:10.680
get rid of those fallen fruit.
If you see fruit that shrivels and dries

1652
02:00:10.720 --> 02:00:14.640
and gets a powder on it,
that's brown rot, which attacks stone fruit.

1653
02:00:15.439 --> 02:00:18.199
Pick those off and get them out
of there early on, as soon

1654
02:00:18.239 --> 02:00:20.479
as you see it. Get them
out of the orchard. You can bury

1655
02:00:20.520 --> 02:00:23.920
them, you can put them in
the trash and just get them away from

1656
02:00:23.960 --> 02:00:28.039
there. When you see fireblight,
kill a pear branch and it turns chocolate

1657
02:00:28.119 --> 02:00:33.880
brown the new growth and just shrivels
up. Cut about six inches below into

1658
02:00:33.920 --> 02:00:38.880
the green, below the dead area
into the green. Cut it, get

1659
02:00:38.920 --> 02:00:42.000
it out of there, and then
spray lesol on your pruners before you go

1660
02:00:42.079 --> 02:00:47.880
make another cut, because you can
spread back fungal farblight from one cut to

1661
02:00:47.920 --> 02:00:51.680
another, and so sanitation center it
makes a lot of sense. Make it

1662
02:00:51.720 --> 02:00:56.680
easier on yourself. We're going to
go to Montgomery now and talk to Elaine.

1663
02:00:56.680 --> 02:01:00.560
Hello Elaine, good morning Ski,
thanks for taking my glad to have

1664
02:01:00.600 --> 02:01:03.319
you. I have a question about
my lemon tree. This is the third

1665
02:01:03.399 --> 02:01:08.039
year I've had it, and for
the first two years, like Randy said,

1666
02:01:08.159 --> 02:01:12.239
I took all the blooms off of
it, and this year should be

1667
02:01:12.279 --> 02:01:16.720
the first year for it to fruit. But all of the blooms and the

1668
02:01:16.760 --> 02:01:23.039
flowers are just falling off, and
I have fertilized it. But maybe I

1669
02:01:23.039 --> 02:01:26.640
don't have a good fertilizer, so
what can I do to make this thing

1670
02:01:26.680 --> 02:01:30.520
bear some fruit? It's probably not
the lack of fertilizer. A lot of

1671
02:01:30.560 --> 02:01:34.479
times citrus and persimmons do this too. They'll cast their fruit early on.

1672
02:01:34.720 --> 02:01:38.560
You give it a big, heavy
load and they just cast their fruit.

1673
02:01:39.000 --> 02:01:41.319
It could be two things. Remember
when it could be a heavy load on

1674
02:01:41.680 --> 02:01:45.640
a small plant, a young plant
which you have. It could also be

1675
02:01:45.720 --> 02:01:47.880
a lack of pollination. So if
bees don't get in there and do their

1676
02:01:47.960 --> 02:01:53.319
work, your lemon fruit is not
going to set and the blooms fall off,

1677
02:01:53.319 --> 02:01:56.920
and then the little green fruit turns
yellow and falls off. So it's

1678
02:01:56.960 --> 02:02:00.439
going to be one of those two
things, the lack of pollinators or just

1679
02:02:00.520 --> 02:02:05.760
that heavy load. Excessive nitrogen can
be a problem for getting good fruit set

1680
02:02:06.199 --> 02:02:10.840
also, so you don't want to
do excessive But it's not a lack of

1681
02:02:10.920 --> 02:02:15.279
fertilizer. Most likely that that cause. Do you have like no set at

1682
02:02:15.319 --> 02:02:25.239
all? Or there are some that
stay, but the little kimdrils maybe they

1683
02:02:25.319 --> 02:02:30.680
just fall off to the ground and
then and then that's it, okay,

1684
02:02:30.880 --> 02:02:35.399
So well the tree will will self
then and and so I think as that

1685
02:02:35.439 --> 02:02:39.199
tree gets bigger, more established,
and you get in plenty of good sized

1686
02:02:39.199 --> 02:02:44.560
pot to avoid stresses from lack of
soil volume. Uh, then it's to

1687
02:02:44.640 --> 02:02:49.199
be I haven't put it in the
ground. Should I put it in the

1688
02:02:49.239 --> 02:02:55.800
ground. It's in quite a large
container. It's going to be best to

1689
02:02:55.800 --> 02:02:59.199
put it in the ground. No. I mean, the tree would rather

1690
02:02:59.239 --> 02:03:03.439
be in the ground. But Montgomery
is far enough up there where he's going

1691
02:03:03.520 --> 02:03:06.920
to have to go to heroic measures
to not have it freeze. And a

1692
02:03:06.960 --> 02:03:12.439
container you can get you a dolly
put a strap around it. And I

1693
02:03:12.439 --> 02:03:15.920
think that's exactly what I did this
last winter, was I trucked everything into

1694
02:03:15.960 --> 02:03:18.800
the garage and left it in there. Would I would leave it in a

1695
02:03:18.840 --> 02:03:23.760
container? I would? Yeah,
okay, okay, all right now,

1696
02:03:23.880 --> 02:03:26.840
thank you so much. Now,
if my advice works and you do get

1697
02:03:26.920 --> 02:03:30.720
good lemon set next year, bring
half the lemons to the radio station.

1698
02:03:30.880 --> 02:03:34.199
We'll call it even you got it. And I want to tell you I

1699
02:03:34.239 --> 02:03:41.479
took your advice about trying something new, and so this year I am growing

1700
02:03:41.520 --> 02:03:45.840
all of my vegetables from seeds.
And I have to tell you it's really

1701
02:03:45.880 --> 02:03:51.119
fun, is fun, and it's
really fun and I look at it every

1702
02:03:51.199 --> 02:03:57.640
day, and just just yesterday the
last one sprouted, and so in the

1703
02:03:57.680 --> 02:04:00.479
next couple of weeks, I'm going
to be putting everything into the bed and

1704
02:04:00.520 --> 02:04:02.119
I'm very excited about that. Well, good for you, Good for you.

1705
02:04:02.199 --> 02:04:04.920
I'm glad, glad to hear that. Hey have fun out there in

1706
02:04:05.000 --> 02:04:10.560
Montgomery. And thank you very much
for that call. Listening to that call

1707
02:04:10.560 --> 02:04:15.600
a while ago, I had the
lady had the birds that were just singing

1708
02:04:15.039 --> 02:04:18.920
in the background. I love birds, and wild birds is a place where

1709
02:04:18.960 --> 02:04:23.039
you find out all about birds.
They're so knowledgeable, and they have quality

1710
02:04:23.039 --> 02:04:26.199
of food. Right now, your
birds are nesting and they need high protein

1711
02:04:26.239 --> 02:04:30.319
food. They don't need the little
red bebies and the old cheap o bird

1712
02:04:30.319 --> 02:04:35.079
feed nesting super blend, that's the
one I'm telling you. You will see

1713
02:04:35.119 --> 02:04:40.239
a huge difference. And we need
to support our songbirds. I mean,

1714
02:04:40.279 --> 02:04:44.239
have you heard about the decline in
numbers of songbirds in community. Well,

1715
02:04:44.560 --> 02:04:45.920
when we come back from break,
I'm going to talk about this a little

1716
02:04:45.920 --> 02:04:50.279
bit more. But that is an
issue, and so just stay tuned for

1717
02:04:50.359 --> 02:04:54.319
that. I want to give you
some more information. I want to remind

1718
02:04:54.359 --> 02:04:58.479
you next Saturday, I will be
at the Sci Fi Home and Garden Show.

1719
02:04:59.039 --> 02:05:01.319
Now I'm going to be give and
away some Nelson products they're providing for

1720
02:05:01.399 --> 02:05:04.640
giveaways there, so that's a cool
reason to come. I'm giving a little

1721
02:05:04.640 --> 02:05:10.119
talk about some things you might need
to know about success in the garden and

1722
02:05:10.239 --> 02:05:15.479
answering your gardening questions. I'll be
there again twelve to two. Did I

1723
02:05:15.479 --> 02:05:18.000
say talge with one while ago?
I'll be there from twelve to two and

1724
02:05:18.199 --> 02:05:23.720
it is at the Berry Center on
Barker Cypress Road, the Berry Center twelve

1725
02:05:23.760 --> 02:05:30.119
to two next Saturday. Please come
by, love to meet you. Katie

1726
02:05:30.199 --> 02:05:32.680
r H. Garden Line does not
necessarily endorse any of the products or services

1727
02:05:32.680 --> 02:05:40.920
advertised on this program. Welcome to
Katie r h. Garden Line with Skip

1728
02:05:41.000 --> 02:05:58.279
Rictor. It's so crazy just watch
him as so many things to see.

1729
02:06:00.239 --> 02:06:02.000
Well, I'm just gonna jump on
right here. We are. Glad you're

1730
02:06:02.000 --> 02:06:04.760
listening to garden Line. If you'd
like to give me a call, maybe

1731
02:06:04.760 --> 02:06:08.760
you have a question. Seven one, three, two, fifty eight,

1732
02:06:08.880 --> 02:06:13.520
seventy four. I just looked outside
and the sky I see blue all over

1733
02:06:13.560 --> 02:06:16.359
the place. This is amazing.
That is so nice to see that move

1734
02:06:16.439 --> 02:06:23.079
through. I love on an afternoon
Sunday afternoon, Saturday afternoon, get out,

1735
02:06:23.399 --> 02:06:26.560
enjoy the garden, enjoy the landscape. Go buy get some products you

1736
02:06:26.640 --> 02:06:30.479
need to make sure you have a
beautiful lawn, bountiful landscape, healthy garden.

1737
02:06:31.039 --> 02:06:33.279
Uh. Before we went to break, I was talking about birds and

1738
02:06:33.960 --> 02:06:38.600
love in the sound of birds.
That is just an aspect of being out

1739
02:06:38.640 --> 02:06:42.720
in nature in the garden. It
is awesome. In our landscapes are pretty

1740
02:06:42.800 --> 02:06:48.199
much uh, dominated by plants from
somewhere else that often don't get past,

1741
02:06:48.640 --> 02:06:54.880
like a waxy flagustrum, like a
nandina, like a red to plutina,

1742
02:06:55.079 --> 02:07:00.720
like a petisporum. And when you
don't have caterpillars, the birds don't have

1743
02:07:00.920 --> 02:07:04.920
the most important food they need in
the springtime. Insects and caterpillars have high

1744
02:07:04.960 --> 02:07:10.439
protein content, especially the caterpillars,
and that is what they use to feed

1745
02:07:10.439 --> 02:07:14.319
their young. When you're having some
bouncing baby boys growing up there in the

1746
02:07:14.359 --> 02:07:17.159
nest baby boys and girls, you
got to feed them some good quality food

1747
02:07:17.239 --> 02:07:23.079
and nature provides that in most landscapes, but not our landscapes. In many

1748
02:07:23.119 --> 02:07:29.319
cases, Warbirds Unlimited produces something called
nesting super blend. It's got dried meal

1749
02:07:29.399 --> 02:07:35.079
worms and peanuts and sunflower chips,
tree nuts. It's got safflow I can't

1750
02:07:35.079 --> 02:07:41.840
say safflower. Safflower nuts that little
bark butter bits super high energy for them.

1751
02:07:41.880 --> 02:07:45.600
Calcium carbonate too. By the way, now this blend is perfect for

1752
02:07:45.640 --> 02:07:50.199
this time of year, and every
bit of material in that blend is something

1753
02:07:50.239 --> 02:07:54.960
birds you're going to eat, and
that means you're getting your money's worth out

1754
02:07:55.000 --> 02:07:59.600
of what you're buying. Very important. Wabird's unlimited as available all around town.

1755
02:08:00.560 --> 02:08:03.319
There's about six stores all around the
greater Houston area. So go to

1756
02:08:03.600 --> 02:08:11.159
w b U dot com, WBU
dot com, forward slash Houston and find

1757
02:08:11.359 --> 02:08:16.359
the store nearest Hugh. Also,
while you're about out and about hummingbirds flying

1758
02:08:16.439 --> 02:08:20.319
through they come here. The ruby
throwed it. They're on pause here for

1759
02:08:20.359 --> 02:08:24.760
a little while where they had even
further north. And it's a good time

1760
02:08:24.800 --> 02:08:28.000
to get those speeders out while birds
can get you set up on all that

1761
02:08:28.199 --> 02:08:31.000
as well. One stop shopping and
trust me, when you go in there,

1762
02:08:31.920 --> 02:08:35.520
it's addictive. You are going to
start. I never consider myself a

1763
02:08:35.560 --> 02:08:39.079
birder a bird person. I guess
I really in some ways or not compared

1764
02:08:39.119 --> 02:08:43.119
to the true birders, but I
love to track them to the landscape.

1765
02:08:43.439 --> 02:08:48.640
We're gonna go Tomball now and talk
to David Hey, David, good morning,

1766
02:08:48.720 --> 02:08:52.079
sir. Hey. I got a
weed problem. About three weeks ago.

1767
02:08:52.199 --> 02:08:56.399
I put down barricade and nitrophiles,
the fertiliars of the red bag,

1768
02:08:56.159 --> 02:09:01.520
and unfortunately for me, the we
he said, started to already germinate a

1769
02:09:01.560 --> 02:09:03.880
little bit. And with that fertilizer, I've got the beautiful I got the

1770
02:09:03.880 --> 02:09:07.960
prettiest weeds in the neighborhood right now, okay, and they're plentiful, and

1771
02:09:09.000 --> 02:09:13.079
I don't I bought a bag of
Nelson Whedonator from D and D. And

1772
02:09:13.159 --> 02:09:16.199
they said, wait a little bit, because I just put that fertilizer down.

1773
02:09:16.760 --> 02:09:18.600
How do I get rid of When
do I put it down? How

1774
02:09:18.600 --> 02:09:22.000
do I get rid of it?
Do I mow it first? And do

1775
02:09:22.079 --> 02:09:24.479
I I'm afraid to do that.
And once I get it down, what

1776
02:09:24.520 --> 02:09:28.359
can I expect? Well, I'll
tell you what I really need to know

1777
02:09:28.479 --> 02:09:33.000
is what the weed is that you're
dealing with. It's got a bull it's

1778
02:09:33.039 --> 02:09:37.039
got bull nettle, it's got some
other stuff. It's just just it's a

1779
02:09:37.079 --> 02:09:41.720
small hodgepodge of stuff. Yeah,
so most of the weeds you see now,

1780
02:09:43.159 --> 02:09:46.399
those are cool cool season weeds.
They sprouted last fall and they're just

1781
02:09:46.479 --> 02:09:50.560
now taken out. They're like our
blue bonnets. You don't notice bluebonet's all

1782
02:09:50.600 --> 02:09:54.520
winter, but the plants are there, but in spring they take off growing.

1783
02:09:54.640 --> 02:09:58.039
The plants are big and the flowers
are there. That's how our cool

1784
02:09:58.079 --> 02:10:01.279
season weeds do. The Of course
the barricade is not going to stop those,

1785
02:10:01.760 --> 02:10:07.560
but it will help prevent them season
weed seeds coming on the if you

1786
02:10:07.000 --> 02:10:11.560
if you use if you use the
weed Nator by Nelson, that is a

1787
02:10:11.680 --> 02:10:18.720
very slow release fertilizer. So even
though you did a quick green I think

1788
02:10:18.760 --> 02:10:22.840
you could probably still get away with
doing that because a lot of the product

1789
02:10:22.880 --> 02:10:24.760
in that is going to come a
little bit later. Normally I wouldn't say

1790
02:10:24.840 --> 02:10:28.880
do a green up and then do
the you know, the Nelson weed Nator

1791
02:10:28.000 --> 02:10:33.479
right away. But I think you're
talking about cool season weeds and what you're

1792
02:10:33.479 --> 02:10:37.159
seeing now, things like bullnetal and
whatnot. That's a perennial coming from underground

1793
02:10:37.560 --> 02:10:43.720
as well as it can come from
seed. But that put down, well,

1794
02:10:43.000 --> 02:10:46.760
you could also spray them, like
if you just want to do something

1795
02:10:46.800 --> 02:10:50.920
right now, you could spray them
with a product that controls broadly we now

1796
02:10:52.000 --> 02:10:54.279
bull netle. I'm gonna have to
consider that one a little bit. That

1797
02:10:54.399 --> 02:11:00.439
is not a normal yard weed,
and so I can't promise you that our

1798
02:11:00.520 --> 02:11:03.760
yard broadleaf we control post emergent products
are going to kill it. They might,

1799
02:11:03.880 --> 02:11:07.319
but you may have to go with
something a little bit stronger on that

1800
02:11:07.359 --> 02:11:11.119
particular way. Should I mow before
I put it down? No, you

1801
02:11:11.159 --> 02:11:16.000
want to get as much leaf surface
as you can. Put it down,

1802
02:11:16.239 --> 02:11:18.199
wait about a week, if you
wait five days. Even if you put

1803
02:11:18.199 --> 02:11:22.439
it down and wait five days,
then you can mow because it will have

1804
02:11:22.479 --> 02:11:26.600
moved down into the plant. It'll
start moving in right away. Whether you

1805
02:11:26.720 --> 02:11:31.399
use the whedonator it sticks to the
wet leaves, or whether you end up

1806
02:11:31.439 --> 02:11:37.079
just spraying a product that has a
blend of broad leaf weed control post emergent,

1807
02:11:37.159 --> 02:11:41.760
isn't it okay? Thank you?
All right, yep, thank you?

1808
02:11:41.920 --> 02:11:43.439
Good luck up. You must have
sandy soil, do you, David?

1809
02:11:45.399 --> 02:11:50.199
I do? Yeah, very to
dig in well nettle it loves sandy

1810
02:11:50.239 --> 02:11:54.119
soils, and so do There's a
type of flocks of pink flocks that loves

1811
02:11:54.119 --> 02:11:58.520
this kind of soucet. Well,
they put out a flower that my wife

1812
02:11:58.640 --> 02:12:03.279
loves like that. I hate it. But yeah, well, if it's

1813
02:12:03.399 --> 02:12:07.640
true bull netal. Now one of
them produces a big, old, fat

1814
02:12:07.680 --> 02:12:11.159
white petal flower at the top.
The other one produces cluster of little,

1815
02:12:11.199 --> 02:12:16.000
small white flowers. Which which one
are we dealing with here? Oh?

1816
02:12:16.079 --> 02:12:20.399
Yeah, I got Well. I
knew someone once at eight that eats bull

1817
02:12:20.479 --> 02:12:26.640
netal seeds and he said they're very
tasty. I leathered gloves and plyers.

1818
02:12:26.680 --> 02:12:28.920
I don't know what I would want
to use to try to get seeds out

1819
02:12:28.960 --> 02:12:31.800
of bull netal. But that's the
whole nother thing. Hey, thanks for

1820
02:12:31.840 --> 02:12:37.520
the call, appreciate it. You
take care. You know. Another another

1821
02:12:37.600 --> 02:12:43.199
option for your weed control is nitrophos
weed and feed with trimec. It is

1822
02:12:43.239 --> 02:12:46.800
a fifteen to five to ten.
It's an immediate release. And I didn't

1823
02:12:46.800 --> 02:12:52.119
mention this one just a second ago
with David because he's already put down Nitrophoss's

1824
02:12:52.319 --> 02:12:56.159
quick release the imperial on the ground. So to come right back again and

1825
02:12:56.159 --> 02:13:00.000
fertilize again, Well, yeah,
I wouldn't double up on something that's immatia

1826
02:13:00.319 --> 02:13:03.199
available like these. But if you
need a green up, a spring green

1827
02:13:03.279 --> 02:13:07.640
up, and you have broad leaf
weeds in your yard. This will work.

1828
02:13:07.720 --> 02:13:09.640
You put down a little bit of
moisture on the surface to get the

1829
02:13:09.680 --> 02:13:16.439
leaves wet. Just the surface of
the leaves spread the trimech contained in this

1830
02:13:16.560 --> 02:13:18.600
fifteen five ten out. It sticks
to the leaves, it goes into the

1831
02:13:18.640 --> 02:13:24.560
plant. A couple of days later, you can really wash it off the

1832
02:13:24.600 --> 02:13:28.760
plant by moving that fertilizer into the
ground with a little irrigation. It doesn't

1833
02:13:28.880 --> 02:13:33.720
need to sit a super long time, but that will work. And it's

1834
02:13:33.760 --> 02:13:37.600
a nitroposs weed and feed fifteen five
to ten. Now, I don't want

1835
02:13:37.640 --> 02:13:43.479
to confuse you with these products.
The Imperial just the plain spring green up

1836
02:13:43.520 --> 02:13:46.800
product is in a red bag.
This one is in a light blue bag,

1837
02:13:46.960 --> 02:13:50.640
very light blue color bag. But
you'll see on there it'll have the

1838
02:13:50.680 --> 02:13:54.560
trimec in it. And that's a
very different kind of product. But it'll

1839
02:13:54.600 --> 02:13:56.640
work and as a good time to
do that as well. And you're going

1840
02:13:56.720 --> 02:14:00.920
to find it at Fisher's Hardware in
Baytown. You're going to find it at

1841
02:14:01.199 --> 02:14:03.600
for example, Shades of Green Down
in South Houston on Genoa Red Bluff.

1842
02:14:03.640 --> 02:14:07.760
They're going to have it you can
find it at Lake Hardware in Angleton.

1843
02:14:07.880 --> 02:14:11.119
They also have it, and D
and D Feed and Humbal too will carry

1844
02:14:11.119 --> 02:14:13.760
this product. We're going to take
a break. We'll be right back.

1845
02:14:13.920 --> 02:14:18.840
Nice little tune there on Saint Patrick's
Day. Welcome back to Guardline. Good

1846
02:14:18.840 --> 02:14:22.000
to have you with us today.
We love talking about things that are of

1847
02:14:22.039 --> 02:14:26.680
interest to you, that you enjoy
in your garden. And you know,

1848
02:14:26.720 --> 02:14:28.960
that's the cool thing about horticulture is
there's so many plants. It's also for

1849
02:14:30.600 --> 02:14:35.079
someone like myself and an extension horticulturists
for thirty five years and now continuing on

1850
02:14:35.199 --> 02:14:39.840
as a horticulturist after retirement. A
little bit frustrating, because you know,

1851
02:14:41.399 --> 02:14:43.600
it's funny on Guardline when the phone
rings. Someone could be asking me about

1852
02:14:43.640 --> 02:14:48.079
their lawn. They could be asking
me about a new variety of orchid that

1853
02:14:48.239 --> 02:14:52.319
a they've encountered out there. They
could be talking about how do you propagate

1854
02:14:52.399 --> 02:14:56.319
a arborviety. I mean, you
know, the questions are all over and

1855
02:14:56.560 --> 02:15:01.199
horticultures all over it. You never
learned it all. Someone once said,

1856
02:15:01.239 --> 02:15:05.000
half of being smart is knowing what
you're dumb at. I'm becoming quite aware

1857
02:15:05.359 --> 02:15:07.399
of all the things I'm dumb at. The older you get, the more

1858
02:15:07.439 --> 02:15:11.640
you realize, yeah, I didn't
know as much as I thought I did

1859
02:15:11.680 --> 02:15:15.439
when I was younger. That's a
good good way to look at it.

1860
02:15:16.399 --> 02:15:22.279
Southwest Fertilizer is a supplier of everything
you can imagine needing for your lawn and

1861
02:15:22.319 --> 02:15:24.039
guard. I mean they even have
like a shop in the back where you

1862
02:15:24.079 --> 02:15:31.479
can purchase equipment for taking care of
your plants, lawn mowing and all that

1863
02:15:31.560 --> 02:15:33.600
kind of stuff. But they also
have a shop to fix all that.

1864
02:15:33.680 --> 02:15:37.000
To sharpen your morbiliders, by the
way, get them sharp. A sharp

1865
02:15:37.039 --> 02:15:43.119
mower blade is very important for having
less strain on your mower, a cleaner

1866
02:15:43.159 --> 02:15:46.960
cut, and a more attractive lawn
overall, because you're truly slicing through the

1867
02:15:46.960 --> 02:15:52.319
blades, not just bashing the ends
of the blades off and you end up

1868
02:15:52.319 --> 02:15:56.960
with a frayed surface surface. But
when you think about Southwest Fertilizer, I

1869
02:15:58.039 --> 02:16:01.199
usually think about that they have ever
fertilizer under the sun, certainly all the

1870
02:16:01.199 --> 02:16:05.680
ones I recommend. They have every
soil product under the sun. They have

1871
02:16:05.720 --> 02:16:11.840
every insecticide, fungicide and herbicide to
kill weeds. Everyone everything you hear me

1872
02:16:11.880 --> 02:16:15.000
talk about is going to be a
Southwest Fertilizer and a lot more options.

1873
02:16:15.199 --> 02:16:18.680
They have knowledgeable staff that will point
you to the product that works. That

1874
02:16:18.880 --> 02:16:24.439
is very very important to have.
And you know something else about Southwest Fertilizer

1875
02:16:24.960 --> 02:16:30.520
is when you go there, you
know that when they direct you to something,

1876
02:16:30.760 --> 02:16:35.920
they know what they're talking about and
they are accurate in their diagnosis.

1877
02:16:35.959 --> 02:16:37.799
And so you bring in a sample, you know, talk to Bob,

1878
02:16:37.959 --> 02:16:41.159
talk to Aaron, talk to one
of the staff there. They can point

1879
02:16:41.200 --> 02:16:45.000
you to the right thing. Do
you need tools, Yeah, they got

1880
02:16:45.040 --> 02:16:48.200
those two, I mean potting soils. You just name it. If you

1881
02:16:48.200 --> 02:16:50.319
haven't been to Southwest, I don't
care where you live, you ought to

1882
02:16:50.399 --> 02:16:54.959
drive over there just to see this
place. It truly is a one stop

1883
02:16:54.000 --> 02:16:58.760
shop. It's on Bisonette Street,
near the corner of Bisonett and Runwick in

1884
02:16:58.920 --> 02:17:05.399
Southwest Houston. The website write this
down Southwest Fertilizer dot com. Southwest Fertilizer

1885
02:17:05.879 --> 02:17:11.000
dot com very important to know.
We're gonna go out to Conro now and

1886
02:17:11.040 --> 02:17:16.200
talk to Jimmy. Hello, Jimmy, Hello, how are you today?

1887
02:17:16.319 --> 02:17:20.120
I'm doing good? How'd you say, well, I'm doing good. How

1888
02:17:20.120 --> 02:17:24.559
can we help today? I got
a mold problem in the backyard. I

1889
02:17:24.680 --> 02:17:31.079
was looking to treat those that Japanese
beetle or those grubs, and I was

1890
02:17:31.079 --> 02:17:35.559
wander with you would suggest to use
Well, first of all, we don't

1891
02:17:35.600 --> 02:17:41.559
have Japanese beetles down here, but
we do have grubs and uh uh varmets

1892
02:17:41.559 --> 02:17:46.360
from armadillas to you know, moles
and things. They're gonna they're gonna feed

1893
02:17:46.399 --> 02:17:52.719
on insects in the soil as well. Uh you would need to use a

1894
02:17:52.920 --> 02:17:58.319
insecticide that goes into the soil to
kill the young larvae when they're growing.

1895
02:17:58.760 --> 02:18:01.440
Now, well, to me,
you're going to need to do this.

1896
02:18:01.879 --> 02:18:09.120
Go to my website. It is
gardening with Skip dot com. Gardening with

1897
02:18:09.479 --> 02:18:13.319
Skip dot Com. If you look
at that, there's two schedules. There's

1898
02:18:13.360 --> 02:18:18.799
a lawn care schedule and then a
lawn pest, disease and weed management schedule.

1899
02:18:18.239 --> 02:18:22.760
The second one has got insects,
diseases and weeds on it. If

1900
02:18:22.760 --> 02:18:26.120
you follow that schedule across from January, you will see that in June we

1901
02:18:26.200 --> 02:18:31.440
treat for grubs in our in our
lawns. Then now, okay, if

1902
02:18:31.479 --> 02:18:35.840
you and there's it has a little
number two by it, and if you

1903
02:18:35.879 --> 02:18:41.680
go to the bottom and look at
the insecticides, you can find the important

1904
02:18:41.719 --> 02:18:45.639
information. But you also can see
at the bottom treat if these pests are

1905
02:18:45.639 --> 02:18:50.159
found in turf. So not everybody
in the listening area doesn't treat for grubs

1906
02:18:50.200 --> 02:18:52.719
every year, but if you have
a lot of grubs, that's when you

1907
02:18:52.760 --> 02:18:58.399
treat for them. And it lists
the products both organic and synthetic that your

1908
02:18:58.440 --> 02:19:03.520
options there. Then we come back
between July and August. If you missed

1909
02:19:03.680 --> 02:19:07.239
some the grubs that you missed will
be a little older, and you can

1910
02:19:07.280 --> 02:19:11.440
also use the same products to treat
again at that time. But the products

1911
02:19:11.440 --> 02:19:16.840
sometimes it's a little more difficult to
control the grubs that have grown a little

1912
02:19:16.840 --> 02:19:20.799
older. And down on the schedule
at the bottom, it gives you the

1913
02:19:20.840 --> 02:19:24.559
product to use in June and the
product to use in July and August.

1914
02:19:24.520 --> 02:19:28.719
All right, sounds good. Thanks
a lot too early to treat for them

1915
02:19:28.760 --> 02:19:33.399
now as the bottom line, all
right, thank you appreciate that, Yes,

1916
02:19:33.440 --> 02:19:37.000
sir, you as well. Grubs
are a little bit tricky. You

1917
02:19:37.040 --> 02:19:43.399
know. It takes five to seven
grubs per square foot to warrant treatment.

1918
02:19:43.959 --> 02:19:48.719
Everybody has got grubs in their lawn. There's a grub here, there's a

1919
02:19:48.719 --> 02:19:52.319
grub there. You know, you
go out to dig up a new garden

1920
02:19:52.319 --> 02:19:54.559
area and if you got a little
grassy weeds out there, you're going to

1921
02:19:54.600 --> 02:19:58.520
turn some grubs over. When you
turn over the soil, grub being there

1922
02:19:58.559 --> 02:20:01.760
is not the problem. When you
get over five to seven grubs, then

1923
02:20:03.000 --> 02:20:07.159
they're eating enough grass to where they're
really causing problems for your lawn. But

1924
02:20:07.559 --> 02:20:11.799
you know, on the call from
Jimmy, we're talking about the varmints that

1925
02:20:11.879 --> 02:20:13.840
come in after the grubs. Well
that's true, but know this too.

1926
02:20:13.840 --> 02:20:18.959
I should have added this. Those
barmits can go after earthworms and a lot

1927
02:20:18.959 --> 02:20:20.840
of other things too in the soil. So just getting rid of the grubs

1928
02:20:20.879 --> 02:20:24.840
may not in and of itself be
you know, enough of a difference for

1929
02:20:24.879 --> 02:20:30.000
you. Have you been to Nelson
Water Gardens out in Katie. If you

1930
02:20:30.040 --> 02:20:35.159
go out to Katie on iten,
you just look for the road is called

1931
02:20:35.239 --> 02:20:39.600
Katie Fort Bend Road and you turn
right, you go north and it's just

1932
02:20:39.639 --> 02:20:43.440
a stone's throw up there. Nelsonwatergarden
dot com. That's our website. You

1933
02:20:43.520 --> 02:20:48.719
need to go now. They're Watergarden
but they're also a nursery. They have

1934
02:20:48.920 --> 02:20:52.879
a wonderful supply of They lots of
beautiful shade loving foliage right now, like

1935
02:20:52.479 --> 02:20:58.959
kalladiums and different types of colias for
example. There they have a good selection

1936
02:20:58.040 --> 02:21:01.920
of urbs. But here here is
their absolute specialty, and that is water

1937
02:21:03.040 --> 02:21:09.559
gardens. That includes the tropical lilies
that bloom in the watergarden. That includes

1938
02:21:09.959 --> 02:21:13.479
the hardy lilies. They can go
through the winter here and just and be

1939
02:21:13.600 --> 02:21:16.559
just fine. The bloom in the
garden. It includes a fish that go

1940
02:21:16.639 --> 02:21:22.319
in those ponds. And it includes
the fountains, the little waterfall fountains.

1941
02:21:22.319 --> 02:21:26.639
It includes the large disappearing fountains with
a beautiful vase, you know, a

1942
02:21:26.719 --> 02:21:30.760
glazed vase. They have all that
and they go out and do work for

1943
02:21:30.840 --> 02:21:31.920
you at your house. They'll come
right out and do it. They'll get

1944
02:21:31.920 --> 02:21:35.200
it all set up. You don't
have to go through all the back breaking

1945
02:21:35.239 --> 02:21:41.559
stuff of doing something. Nelson Watergardens
now Nelsonwatergarden dot com. That's the website.

1946
02:21:41.559 --> 02:21:43.120
Go there. There, you find
the phone number. There you find

1947
02:21:43.280 --> 02:21:48.040
inspiring pictures, and there you'll find
everything you need to get set up to

1948
02:21:48.120 --> 02:21:52.559
make sure by this summer you have
one heck of a show place. I'm

1949
02:21:52.559 --> 02:21:58.159
gonna go now to North Houston and
talk to Jason. Hello Jason, say

1950
02:21:58.280 --> 02:22:01.920
good morge you men. How you
doing well? I'm well, thank you

1951
02:22:03.000 --> 02:22:07.639
Alrighty, just got a couple of
questions for you, mainly around past management.

1952
02:22:07.239 --> 02:22:11.719
One of the biggest challenges I have
is the spider might get known like

1953
02:22:11.799 --> 02:22:16.440
some of my vegetables, and then
also like these ant pals, Man,

1954
02:22:16.479 --> 02:22:20.920
they just keep popping up, and
it just like one of the biggest issues

1955
02:22:20.959 --> 02:22:22.280
I'm trying to figure out is how
do I get you know, how do

1956
02:22:22.319 --> 02:22:26.040
I get rid of those in a
natural way? We're not any using any

1957
02:22:26.120 --> 02:22:28.799
chemicals or anything of that nature.
All right, are the are you talking

1958
02:22:28.799 --> 02:22:33.360
about fire ants? Er, you're
talking about just ants in general? Most

1959
02:22:33.399 --> 02:22:37.719
cases it is fire ants, but
ants in general would probably be something good

1960
02:22:37.760 --> 02:22:41.600
to know as well. Yeah,
you know every ant. The approach to

1961
02:22:41.680 --> 02:22:45.600
some of these is going to be
different. Like something that controls fire ants

1962
02:22:45.680 --> 02:22:48.200
is probably not going to control some
of the other answers. But in general

1963
02:22:48.280 --> 02:22:52.520
answer not a problem. They don't
in general, ants don't eat your plants.

1964
02:22:52.600 --> 02:22:54.520
Fire answer a problem, But I'm
separating them out. We'll talk about

1965
02:22:54.520 --> 02:22:58.200
them in just second. But other
ants are very helpful. The only thing

1966
02:22:58.239 --> 02:23:05.479
ants do that I don't like is
they will actually take care of aphids so

1967
02:23:05.520 --> 02:23:09.760
that they can get the honeydew from
aphids. It's like a dairy farm.

1968
02:23:09.760 --> 02:23:15.200
Maybe I'll have time later to talk
about that, but so it's just fire

1969
02:23:15.239 --> 02:23:18.120
ants for me that I worry about. I mean, there's leaf cutter ants,

1970
02:23:18.159 --> 02:23:22.239
and there's carpenter ants that go into
wood and weaken it. But what

1971
02:23:22.280 --> 02:23:24.639
you're seeing on the ground is either
fire ants or another small ant that's not

1972
02:23:24.719 --> 02:23:31.639
that bad. There's a product you
have a pin or pencil handy, Yes,

1973
02:23:31.639 --> 02:23:33.360
sir, I'm getting them together all
right while you're getting it. This

1974
02:23:33.520 --> 02:23:39.559
product is by Fertilo and it's called
come and get it like your serving dog,

1975
02:23:39.879 --> 02:23:43.319
Come and get it, and it's
it's an organic bait. You sprinkle

1976
02:23:43.360 --> 02:23:48.799
it around like it says to do. But fire ants aren't always out and

1977
02:23:48.920 --> 02:23:52.639
active. So what I like you
to do is get you like some potato

1978
02:23:52.719 --> 02:23:56.600
chips and toss them around the yard. Some people, you know, will

1979
02:23:56.600 --> 02:24:00.879
put slices of a hot dog on
a little one of those little ground flags

1980
02:24:00.920 --> 02:24:05.200
wire flags that they used to mark
lines, and then they'll come back in

1981
02:24:05.200 --> 02:24:09.280
fifteen minutes. And if fireants had
found it and they're on it, it's

1982
02:24:09.319 --> 02:24:13.040
time debate. If they haven't hold
off, they like oil, oily protein

1983
02:24:13.040 --> 02:24:16.680
food. But that tells you when
debate. And this in the summertime,

1984
02:24:16.760 --> 02:24:20.479
they tend to not be out as
much during the day as they are in

1985
02:24:20.520 --> 02:24:24.559
the cool times of the day.
So that's your fyan situation. Spider mites,

1986
02:24:24.719 --> 02:24:28.760
you can use blasts of water from
underneath the leaves to just blast them

1987
02:24:28.760 --> 02:24:33.600
off and keep them in bounds,
or you can use an insecticyital soap spray

1988
02:24:33.959 --> 02:24:39.760
the same application direction spring upward from
under the plant, and that is you

1989
02:24:39.799 --> 02:24:43.200
know soap. We give our bodies
baths and soap. It's a very safe

1990
02:24:43.200 --> 02:24:50.799
product, but not for spider mites
or aphens. Copy that all right,

1991
02:24:50.879 --> 02:24:54.639
thank you so much. You bet
good luck. They're in North Houston.

1992
02:24:56.120 --> 02:25:01.319
It's fertilizer season, right, talk
about microlife and microlife fertilizer products. They

1993
02:25:01.319 --> 02:25:05.360
have fertilizers for everything. You know. For acid loving plants, do you

1994
02:25:05.440 --> 02:25:11.440
have an azalea, Camellia guardina blueberry, they're red bag for our pickbag.

1995
02:25:11.840 --> 02:25:16.360
Acid living plants does really well for
that green bag for fertilizing your lawn.

1996
02:25:16.360 --> 02:25:18.559
That's a six two four. And
then the purple bag the hum mats plus,

1997
02:25:18.559 --> 02:25:22.719
and that's something you need to put
out periodically. You're not putting it

1998
02:25:22.760 --> 02:25:26.040
out to make the grass grow like
the green bag would with the nitrogen to

1999
02:25:26.120 --> 02:25:31.280
support a lot of new growth.
You're putting it out to create better soil.

2000
02:25:31.479 --> 02:25:35.639
It's humates, the final product of
compost. It's compost that's been concentrated

2001
02:25:35.680 --> 02:25:39.959
into a bag. Think of it
that way you put it out and improves

2002
02:25:39.959 --> 02:25:46.079
your sol structure. It also is
a very good thing for the beneficial creat

2003
02:25:46.399 --> 02:25:52.120
critters. Thank you. That's easy
for you to say beneficial critters. The

2004
02:25:52.200 --> 02:25:54.360
microbes. They will just do that
that are in the sid that help your

2005
02:25:54.360 --> 02:25:58.959
plants thrive. That's the purple bag
Microlife humates plus and I would do that

2006
02:26:00.079 --> 02:26:05.040
too, not in place of fertilizing, but in addition to the fertilizing microlife

2007
02:26:05.040 --> 02:26:09.520
fertilizer. Colm. You can find
more information, and I think I just

2008
02:26:09.559 --> 02:26:13.959
should stop talking and give it to
you, Nikki, because I can't even

2009
02:26:15.000 --> 02:26:18.639
say my name right now. But
we'll do that. Micro Life. I'm

2010
02:26:18.680 --> 02:26:22.639
just going to practice life seventy one
three r. If you want to give

2011
02:26:22.719 --> 02:26:28.399
us a call. Here's NICKI welcome
back to guarden Line on a beautiful Saint

2012
02:26:28.440 --> 02:26:31.120
Patty's day. Oh my gosh,
look outside, folks. If you've got

2013
02:26:31.159 --> 02:26:35.559
one drop of gardening blood in you, this is a day for you.

2014
02:26:35.399 --> 02:26:41.520
Got some sunshine out there, the
clouds blowing out. It's just weather is

2015
02:26:41.680 --> 02:26:45.760
pleasant too outside. Good day this
afternoon. Get out there, get some

2016
02:26:45.799 --> 02:26:48.719
gardening done. Go by and pick
up your supplies. We're talking about all

2017
02:26:48.799 --> 02:26:50.879
kinds of things need to be done. Now. You got to be fertilizing,

2018
02:26:50.879 --> 02:26:52.680
You got to be take care weed
issues that you might have. It's

2019
02:26:52.760 --> 02:26:56.760
time to plant a warm, seasoned
crops still going full strong. Let's get

2020
02:26:56.799 --> 02:27:01.079
them planted. If you want to
have a vegetable garden or a vegetable growing

2021
02:27:01.079 --> 02:27:05.559
in a container, it's important for
that. So don't delay. Listen,

2022
02:27:05.639 --> 02:27:09.959
You delay and you're going to have
problems. I know that when if you

2023
02:27:11.040 --> 02:27:15.200
lived up north and you move down
to Houston, you used to have plant

2024
02:27:15.239 --> 02:27:18.280
You used to be planting tomatoes in
April, and may probably don't do that

2025
02:27:18.360 --> 02:27:22.799
here. You'll have tomato plants,
but no tomatoes when it gets so blazing

2026
02:27:22.920 --> 02:27:26.719
hot for so long get them in
soon, get them in early. That

2027
02:27:26.920 --> 02:27:31.479
is very very important. And you
know, if you're looking for flowers,

2028
02:27:31.520 --> 02:27:35.159
if you're looking for plants, the
sooner you get them in the better they're

2029
02:27:35.200 --> 02:27:39.000
going to have a root system and
get established and bloom, bloom, bloom

2030
02:27:39.200 --> 02:27:41.520
up a storm for you. And
that's what you want, right We want

2031
02:27:41.559 --> 02:27:46.639
to get the best performance that we
can for those of you living up in

2032
02:27:46.760 --> 02:27:50.399
the Lake Conroe area or up in
Montgomery. You've got a and a plants

2033
02:27:50.399 --> 02:27:56.040
and produce right in your backyard,
and they have a wide variety of things.

2034
02:27:56.120 --> 02:28:01.040
I mean, always have good color
there. You're always having excellent color

2035
02:28:01.120 --> 02:28:05.079
there. They are always going to
provide you with all kinds of bling for

2036
02:28:05.159 --> 02:28:07.959
your landscape. I mean, you
know, do you need timinea for the

2037
02:28:09.000 --> 02:28:13.639
back patio or are all kinds of
other decorative things that you would put out

2038
02:28:13.680 --> 02:28:18.040
in the landscape or around your outdoor
sitting areas. They've got that. And

2039
02:28:18.079 --> 02:28:20.760
then they have the fertilizers that I
talk about here on guard Line. They

2040
02:28:20.799 --> 02:28:24.600
do have that. They have a
great supply of those, and you can

2041
02:28:24.719 --> 02:28:28.319
just make sure that we're taking care
of that brown stuff. Like I always

2042
02:28:28.360 --> 02:28:33.239
talk about the soil, so that
the green stuff. Your plants look good.

2043
02:28:33.879 --> 02:28:37.799
Always have a good supply, easy
to get to, right on the

2044
02:28:37.840 --> 02:28:41.920
side of one oh five on the
east side of Montgomery. Those of you

2045
02:28:41.959 --> 02:28:43.719
that live up live up at the
lake, you may want to givem a

2046
02:28:43.760 --> 02:28:48.280
call to have their landscape crew come
out and do some early cleanup of your

2047
02:28:48.280 --> 02:28:50.840
home around the Lake Conro area.
They do that, Yes, they do

2048
02:28:52.079 --> 02:28:54.000
also do that as well. But
go buy and see them, say hi.

2049
02:28:54.360 --> 02:28:58.959
They generally keep my long cair schedule
there at the front desk, so

2050
02:28:58.159 --> 02:29:03.200
I would recommend that you asked them
about that if you haven't already printed yourself

2051
02:29:03.639 --> 02:29:07.040
up a copy. If you'd like
to have us call today, our phone

2052
02:29:07.120 --> 02:29:13.959
number is nine or seven one three
two one two five eight seven four seven

2053
02:29:13.040 --> 02:29:20.200
one three two one two fifty eight
seventy four really easy, right, very

2054
02:29:20.239 --> 02:29:22.879
easy to dial in. Some people
like to dial by letters, so seven

2055
02:29:22.879 --> 02:29:26.920
one three two one two k t
RH if you want to go that route,

2056
02:29:26.920 --> 02:29:33.559
we can do that as well.
The folks at Nelson's have a product

2057
02:29:33.639 --> 02:29:39.319
called turf Star Weedinator. Another lawnline
is called turf Star Right we donateor is

2058
02:29:39.440 --> 02:29:43.680
a combination of a product that will
kill the broad leaf weeds you have now

2059
02:29:45.479 --> 02:29:50.840
and will also put a fertilizer in
the ground to over time feed your lawn.

2060
02:29:50.079 --> 02:29:54.680
It's a slow release, so the
turf star weedonator. Here's what you

2061
02:29:54.719 --> 02:29:58.520
have to do. You want to
wet the weeds leaves. You don't have

2062
02:29:58.520 --> 02:30:01.680
to water your soiler. Just wet
the leaves so the grain you'll stick to

2063
02:30:01.719 --> 02:30:07.159
the leaves some. You put it
out onto the turf with wet leaves so

2064
02:30:07.200 --> 02:30:09.959
don't wet, and then five hours
later go put it out. That leaves

2065
02:30:11.000 --> 02:30:13.319
won't be wet anymore. Put it
out, let it sit for a couple

2066
02:30:13.360 --> 02:30:18.840
of days, and that after a
day or two it'll be soaked in to

2067
02:30:18.040 --> 02:30:22.280
the tissues of the weed. Then
water and move it just enough, move

2068
02:30:22.280 --> 02:30:26.520
it down into the soil surface and
that slow release fertilized. They have several

2069
02:30:26.920 --> 02:30:33.159
so release chemistries that release nitrogen over
time, and as it warms up and

2070
02:30:33.200 --> 02:30:37.200
the microbes get active in things,
certain chemistries will release the nutrients and you'll

2071
02:30:37.200 --> 02:30:41.280
get two or three months of feeding
out of this product in your lawn.

2072
02:30:41.840 --> 02:30:46.559
It's a twenty percent nitrogen, which
is a very good strong amount, but

2073
02:30:46.840 --> 02:30:50.000
it's not all going to get released
at once. It's going to be released

2074
02:30:50.040 --> 02:30:56.280
gradually over time, and turf Star
weenaor is widely available also wherever you find

2075
02:30:56.319 --> 02:31:00.120
the Nelson products that are sold.
I want to go out now to Crosby

2076
02:31:00.159 --> 02:31:03.040
and talk to Gerald. Hello,
Gerald, good morning, how you doing.

2077
02:31:03.200 --> 02:31:07.200
I'm well sir. How can we
help today? Yeah? I know

2078
02:31:07.520 --> 02:31:13.879
Randy always said you don't use the
dyed mulch. So what do you recommend

2079
02:31:15.040 --> 02:31:18.879
to natural like theedar? Can you
get cedar or what you can? Sometimes

2080
02:31:20.959 --> 02:31:26.799
Landscaper's Pride has a maultch they call
black velvet, and black velvet is not

2081
02:31:26.040 --> 02:31:31.399
dyed. It's naturally that dark,
and so if you want that look,

2082
02:31:31.920 --> 02:31:37.239
black velvet would be your choice to
make from Landscaper's Pride. You can go

2083
02:31:37.239 --> 02:31:39.840
to Landscaper's Pride dot com. Their
website, you can find all the places

2084
02:31:39.719 --> 02:31:43.840
that sell it. You're up in
the Crosby area. I can't tell you

2085
02:31:43.879 --> 02:31:46.120
off the top of my head who
has it over in that region. The

2086
02:31:46.200 --> 02:31:50.760
Landscaper's Pride can just go to their
website and I think you'll be pleased with

2087
02:31:50.840 --> 02:31:56.559
the look of it. And I
agree with Randy. The dies it's just

2088
02:31:56.680 --> 02:32:00.799
not a good thing, you know. I walked around Apollo died mulch the

2089
02:32:00.840 --> 02:32:03.719
other day, and you know it, just like, why do you even

2090
02:32:03.799 --> 02:32:07.399
do this? But anyway, to
each his own, Okay, I have

2091
02:32:07.479 --> 02:32:13.479
one more question, Yes, sir, is it okay if I put that

2092
02:32:13.479 --> 02:32:18.680
that raised bed soil in my flower
beds? Oh? Yes, absolutely,

2093
02:32:20.200 --> 02:32:24.319
it's actually excellent. I can't.
I'll called the dirt place out here in

2094
02:32:24.360 --> 02:32:26.879
Crowsby and they don't have composts,
which I really wanted. But yees,

2095
02:32:28.319 --> 02:32:31.840
so I thought I'd go with that
raised bed stuff. You can do that.

2096
02:32:31.879 --> 02:32:35.559
A raised bed mix will work just
fine, you know I. I,

2097
02:32:35.639 --> 02:32:39.840
yeah, I. You're going to
get good results. So the main

2098
02:32:39.879 --> 02:32:43.399
thing is that you're building the soil. And if you're building the soil,

2099
02:32:43.680 --> 02:32:48.559
then you're going to have good results
of plants. We always want to be

2100
02:32:48.000 --> 02:32:52.280
working to build the soil. You
know, you're not that You're not too

2101
02:32:52.399 --> 02:32:58.239
terribly far away from the heirloom soils
up there in the Porter area and they've

2102
02:32:58.280 --> 02:33:01.360
got a wide right, they're really
quality soils and they'll truck it down and

2103
02:33:01.719 --> 02:33:03.920
drop it off, or you can
go pick it up there if you want.

2104
02:33:05.239 --> 02:33:09.559
What was the name of that heirloom
soils, Yeah, the one in

2105
02:33:09.680 --> 02:33:16.079
Porter Airloom sols is the company.
The product itself. H Warren's Rock and

2106
02:33:16.239 --> 02:33:18.959
Mulch is in Porter, Texas,
and there you can you can call them

2107
02:33:20.000 --> 02:33:24.440
and they can get you set up
with deliveries in the bolt. Okay,

2108
02:33:24.760 --> 02:33:26.280
all right, all right, well
thank you much, you bet, thank

2109
02:33:26.319 --> 02:33:31.200
you. I appreciate the call very
very much. Okay, where are we

2110
02:33:31.319 --> 02:33:35.120
going now? Let's see it is? Uh, let me do I tell

2111
02:33:35.159 --> 02:33:37.280
you what. I'm going to hold
off so I have time for you that

2112
02:33:37.360 --> 02:33:43.000
are waiting on the calls. Here
in Chanted Forest Nursery is an awesome place

2113
02:33:43.200 --> 02:33:48.600
down in the Richmond area. Their
website write this down Enchanted Forest, Richmond,

2114
02:33:48.639 --> 02:33:52.479
TX dot com. Enchanted Forest,
Richmond, TX dot com. They

2115
02:33:52.520 --> 02:33:56.479
have a lot of good information online. But they're out there on FM twenty

2116
02:33:56.520 --> 02:33:58.440
seven fifty nine. So if you're
at Richmond going up to sugar Land,

2117
02:33:58.440 --> 02:34:01.959
they're on the right handside on the
left M twenty seven to fifty nine.

2118
02:34:03.000 --> 02:34:05.920
This is a beautiful nursery and they
have all kinds of it always looks good.

2119
02:34:05.959 --> 02:34:09.920
I've never been there that it didn't
look awesome. And my gosh,

2120
02:34:09.920 --> 02:34:13.079
it's spring. I can't imagine.
If you like pollinator plants, they have

2121
02:34:13.159 --> 02:34:20.440
a whole section of those super super
vegetables, herbs, everything you can imagine.

2122
02:34:20.479 --> 02:34:24.799
Just trust me on this one.
Go visit Enchanted Forest. You will

2123
02:34:24.879 --> 02:34:28.600
be very very impressed. I could
sit here for an hour and not name

2124
02:34:28.680 --> 02:34:33.399
everything that we have to that they
have on hand as they carry it in

2125
02:34:33.440 --> 02:34:39.000
Clay and Danny just experts at all
kinds of things. They can guide you.

2126
02:34:39.000 --> 02:34:41.719
You get good advice by people who
know what they're talking about. I

2127
02:34:41.799 --> 02:34:48.159
find that to be very very important. So in Chanted Forest, Yeah,

2128
02:34:48.200 --> 02:34:52.920
in Richmond, go by there and
check them out, but mainly check out

2129
02:34:52.959 --> 02:34:56.799
that website Enchanted Forest Richmond, TX
dot com. That'll get you set up.

2130
02:34:56.799 --> 02:34:58.520
You'll be able to look, you'll
be able to see if there's a

2131
02:34:58.559 --> 02:35:03.040
special on something going on, some
event. Every Saturday, there's something going

2132
02:35:03.079 --> 02:35:09.079
on and Enchanted Forest out there in
the Richmond area. And so for example,

2133
02:35:09.600 --> 02:35:13.399
next Saturday, they're going to have
garden Marcus out there talking about nurturing

2134
02:35:13.520 --> 02:35:18.559
the garden within and they typically have
a food truck out there too. So

2135
02:35:18.600 --> 02:35:20.959
it just makes it fun. You
know, go out, have a very

2136
02:35:22.200 --> 02:35:24.799
very good time. We're going to
take a break. I'll be right back.

2137
02:35:24.680 --> 02:35:28.399
Well, when you hear bagpipes,
what do you think, yeah,

2138
02:35:28.520 --> 02:35:33.799
that's right, it's Saint Patty's Day. Absolutely. You know, the fertilizers

2139
02:35:33.799 --> 02:35:39.399
and things that we put on our
turf, they provide nutrients and turf needs

2140
02:35:39.760 --> 02:35:43.920
especially nitrogen. That's the number one. But phosphorus and potassium are important.

2141
02:35:45.159 --> 02:35:48.719
But it really needs that nitrogen this
summ of year to support good growth.

2142
02:35:48.239 --> 02:35:52.559
And if you think about it,
turf does not eat everything you put down

2143
02:35:52.760 --> 02:35:56.079
on the first day you put it
down. I eat is a not accurate

2144
02:35:56.079 --> 02:36:00.840
word, but you get what I'm
talking about. It takes up new gradually

2145
02:36:00.840 --> 02:36:05.520
over time, and some nutrients are
released quickly and we have times for that.

2146
02:36:05.520 --> 02:36:09.719
That's the early green up type thing. But as we go through the

2147
02:36:09.760 --> 02:36:13.680
long growing season, we want nutrients
that release slowly, and superturf by nitroposs

2148
02:36:13.719 --> 02:36:20.559
does just that. Super turf is
the silver bag and it will release the

2149
02:36:20.639 --> 02:36:24.319
nutrients over time. The chemistries of
the ingredients in it, some of them

2150
02:36:24.479 --> 02:36:28.520
the microbes will break them down and
help with that release. So as the

2151
02:36:28.559 --> 02:36:33.200
soil warms, that increases. But
you get with super turf, you're going

2152
02:36:33.239 --> 02:36:37.079
to get two or three months a
fertilization benefit from that application. And you

2153
02:36:37.120 --> 02:36:41.040
can do that now now is okay
to go ahead and do that and start

2154
02:36:41.079 --> 02:36:45.600
that process. Now, if you
just did recently the spring green up like

2155
02:36:45.639 --> 02:36:48.319
the Imperial, well don't do super
Turf. Now, wait until sometime maybe

2156
02:36:48.360 --> 02:36:50.959
mid late April, and put it
down at that time. Depending on when

2157
02:36:50.959 --> 02:36:54.200
you put the Imperial down, I
say about a month later, and then

2158
02:36:54.239 --> 02:36:58.840
put that down and you're going to
find really good results. And super Turf's

2159
02:36:58.840 --> 02:37:01.879
widely available. One of these his
ways to find. Nelson Brid's just got

2160
02:37:01.000 --> 02:37:05.399
these hardware stores. They're all over
the place and they carry Nelson products and

2161
02:37:05.479 --> 02:37:09.920
it works really really well. But
super Dark. The time for that is

2162
02:37:09.959 --> 02:37:13.799
for the whole summer season. We're
going to start now. You'll make another

2163
02:37:13.840 --> 02:37:18.719
application later on, but for now, that's the good way to begin,

2164
02:37:18.120 --> 02:37:22.319
and it works super well. Let's
go out to Waller, Texas and talk

2165
02:37:22.360 --> 02:37:26.559
to Jim. Hey, Jim,
good morning. How are you. I'm

2166
02:37:26.559 --> 02:37:33.159
well, sir. How can we
help today? Well, I have one

2167
02:37:33.200 --> 02:37:39.120
side of my yard. It's about
sixty foot by nine foot. It's bermuda

2168
02:37:39.200 --> 02:37:43.840
grass. A house is about two
years old. I know that's a lot

2169
02:37:43.879 --> 02:37:50.559
of clay, but it's become hard
packed. The rest of the yard is

2170
02:37:50.639 --> 02:37:54.520
fine, but this one side just
seems to be kind of hard packed,

2171
02:37:54.559 --> 02:37:58.200
and I was wondering if I could
figure out a way to treat that as

2172
02:37:58.280 --> 02:38:03.120
opposed to get machinery in there to
do it. Machinery, Well, there's

2173
02:38:03.200 --> 02:38:09.440
not There's some products that over a
long time are going to benefit your soil

2174
02:38:09.520 --> 02:38:13.879
structure and fix that. But you
probably don't want to wait and develop over

2175
02:38:13.000 --> 02:38:18.159
years that sol structure. It's good
to do that anyway as a general practice,

2176
02:38:18.200 --> 02:38:20.719
but it's not going to fix it
quick enough for you. You're going

2177
02:38:20.799 --> 02:38:24.879
to have to use some sort of
aeration. How big is this area?

2178
02:38:24.079 --> 02:38:31.360
Would you say? Roughly? Very
roughly? It's nine foot by sixty foot.

2179
02:38:31.479 --> 02:38:33.639
Okay, I tell you what I
would do. You can buy a

2180
02:38:33.680 --> 02:38:39.159
little aerators to step on. They
have like two little tubes and you step

2181
02:38:39.200 --> 02:38:41.959
on them. And if you go
through there and just take your time,

2182
02:38:41.360 --> 02:38:46.000
do it when the soil is moderately
moist and go through. You can punch

2183
02:38:46.120 --> 02:38:50.239
quite a few holes and just periodically
do that. It's not a whole lot

2184
02:38:50.280 --> 02:38:52.479
of work. You just have a
handle and you step on it and push

2185
02:38:52.520 --> 02:38:56.040
it down the ground. You can
do a lot of that aeration yourself,

2186
02:38:56.079 --> 02:39:00.159
and for that big of an area. You can get that done pretty quick

2187
02:39:00.680 --> 02:39:05.479
actually, so that would be an
option. I've myself in the yard.

2188
02:39:05.479 --> 02:39:07.840
I've even taken like a spading fort
and wiggled it down in the soil,

2189
02:39:09.239 --> 02:39:11.200
just kind of moved it around a
little bit to crack open a hole and

2190
02:39:11.239 --> 02:39:15.639
then done it again and again.
Either way you want to go about it,

2191
02:39:15.719 --> 02:39:20.840
you're physically creating a hole that composts
can be dropped into. Nutrients like

2192
02:39:20.920 --> 02:39:24.520
fertilizers will go down into, oxygen
goes down into and I think all of

2193
02:39:24.559 --> 02:39:28.520
that over time is going to be
what you need to do. Compost top

2194
02:39:28.600 --> 02:39:31.040
dressing is another part of helping that, and you can do that yourself in

2195
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a small area like that. So
the spike will work. Is that as

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good as the plug? No,
it is much better to do core aeration.

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But kind of going off your statement
about not having to use equipment,

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that's where I went into the hand
by hand doing it. That's a relatively

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small area. I know it's bigger
than you want it to be for had

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02:40:00.360 --> 02:40:03.079
work, but those are your options. Otherwise, having someone come in like

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02:40:03.120 --> 02:40:07.040
Greenpro, they'll come in and do
the job for you to do the they

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02:40:07.040 --> 02:40:11.280
can do the Holy Yard and top
rested too. But you can also rent.

2203
02:40:11.639 --> 02:40:13.799
If you're a little small area like
that may be good just to rent.

2204
02:40:15.600 --> 02:40:20.280
I know there are rentals. Unfortunately
a lot of the rentals just push

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02:40:20.280 --> 02:40:22.959
a whole open. I'd rather they
take the core out. But if you

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02:40:24.000 --> 02:40:28.159
can find one that takes the core
out, that's better. Okay, Well,

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02:40:28.200 --> 02:40:30.479
I appreciate it, Thank you very
much, great day. Yeah,

2208
02:40:30.639 --> 02:40:35.040
just remember Jim to add that compost
because that's part of this process of improving

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02:40:35.079 --> 02:40:39.600
the soil and fixing that over a
long period of time. Appreciate your call.

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02:40:39.680 --> 02:40:45.040
Thank you, Cinamlts. We're talking
about compost, importance of it.

2211
02:40:45.079 --> 02:40:48.399
If you live down south of Houston, Cina, Maltz is your supplier for

2212
02:40:48.479 --> 02:40:54.959
all kinds of quality compost materials.
We're talking about stuff. They carry landscapers,

2213
02:40:54.000 --> 02:40:58.520
pride, they carry airloom soils.
They have all the fertilizers that I

2214
02:40:58.559 --> 02:41:03.799
recommend. You can get Moltz.
You can get compost, you can get

2215
02:41:03.840 --> 02:41:07.479
bed mixes, you can get landscape
stones. Uh, just on and on.

2216
02:41:07.879 --> 02:41:11.479
They have it. And you know, I always say, take care

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02:41:11.520 --> 02:41:15.200
of the brown stuff the soil before
you worry about the green stuff. The

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02:41:15.239 --> 02:41:20.799
plants. Well they'll be the one
that'll make your soil so good that your

2219
02:41:20.840 --> 02:41:26.239
plants just naturally thrive better. They
are at near north of Rosher near Highway

2220
02:41:26.239 --> 02:41:31.799
six and two eighty eight on FM
five point one. Here's the website.

2221
02:41:31.840 --> 02:41:35.639
Just use the website. Sienna multch
dot com makes it really easy. Cienamulch

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02:41:37.079 --> 02:41:39.079
dot com. We're gonna go out
to Tomball now and talk to Matt.

2223
02:41:39.159 --> 02:41:43.479
Hello, Matt, hey, scip
I have a question about I'm trying to

2224
02:41:43.520 --> 02:41:48.719
clear up some bermuda grass and then
I'm going to plant New Saint Augustine side.

2225
02:41:50.079 --> 02:41:52.479
So I was wondering if it's safe
to use a grass and weed killer

2226
02:41:52.799 --> 02:41:58.319
near a I planted a Sanfelive red
maple about six weeks ago. Yes,

2227
02:41:58.360 --> 02:42:03.360
and this'll be could I still you
Is that gonna harm the tree? No?

2228
02:42:03.680 --> 02:42:07.319
But when you use those products,
you don't drench the soil with them.

2229
02:42:07.360 --> 02:42:09.280
You barely with the foliage of the
plant. That's all it takes to

2230
02:42:09.360 --> 02:42:13.319
work. Now, here's what you
need to do. Though sometimes on young

2231
02:42:13.399 --> 02:42:18.399
trees got thin bark, you may
have a little shoot coming up or anything

2232
02:42:18.520 --> 02:42:22.639
green. I would just to be
extra safe, I would take some aluminum

2233
02:42:22.639 --> 02:42:26.559
foil and just tear off a long
strip, and they say the bottom three

2234
02:42:26.600 --> 02:42:31.120
feet two or three feet of the
trunk. Just put aluminum foil around it

2235
02:42:31.200 --> 02:42:35.479
for the spraying, just to keep
anything from getting on it. A normal

2236
02:42:35.600 --> 02:42:39.399
tree trunk with old bark, it's
not a problem, but let's just be

2237
02:42:39.479 --> 02:42:45.719
extra safe. Don't spray when the
wind is blowing, because it'll blow the

2238
02:42:45.840 --> 02:42:50.719
drift onto the foliage of desirable plants. And when I say wind blow,

2239
02:42:50.760 --> 02:42:54.680
I mean even five over five miles
an hour. That's that's too much.

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02:42:54.360 --> 02:42:58.079
So early in the morning is usually
a good time. And then finally,

2241
02:42:58.799 --> 02:43:03.079
when you're gonna apply, don't pump
up the sprayer too high pressure because that

2242
02:43:03.280 --> 02:43:11.200
ends up creating a mist that floats
away. Less pressure creates droplets that tend

2243
02:43:11.239 --> 02:43:15.159
to stay in place, and it'll
work fine for you. Okay, great,

2244
02:43:15.200 --> 02:43:18.000
thank you so much. Appreciate it
all right, Matt, good luck

2245
02:43:18.040 --> 02:43:20.600
up there in Tombo with that.
When was the last time you were at

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02:43:20.639 --> 02:43:24.399
the Anti g Rosenporium. I went
just a couple of weeks ago, and

2247
02:43:24.399 --> 02:43:28.200
I'm going to tell you the place
was gorgeous, and the highways. You

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02:43:28.280 --> 02:43:33.360
know, that's blueberry country, blueberry
blue bonnet country, our state flower.

2249
02:43:33.799 --> 02:43:39.440
Our state flower out there just explodes
this time of the year. And their

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02:43:39.520 --> 02:43:41.799
trails people, you can go on
look it up, a blue bonnet trail

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02:43:41.959 --> 02:43:46.559
up through the Brenna Mary and all
throughout their chapel hill and whatnot. It's

2252
02:43:46.600 --> 02:43:50.280
just all on the way to go
to Anti Rosenporium. When you get there,

2253
02:43:50.319 --> 02:43:54.000
you're going to find everything you imagined. I mean antiq roses. Of

2254
02:43:54.079 --> 02:44:00.680
course they for a long they ship
all over the people from far away have

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02:44:01.040 --> 02:44:05.559
them ship roses to them because they
know how good Antique Rosenporium products are.

2256
02:44:05.959 --> 02:44:09.360
They also have a nursery display garden
where you can see everything from herbs,

2257
02:44:09.520 --> 02:44:15.440
houseplants, fruit, trees, flowers, and you name it. They always

2258
02:44:15.479 --> 02:44:20.120
have good product projects going on out
there, different events and things, so

2259
02:44:20.600 --> 02:44:26.600
check out their website Antique Roseemporium dot
com or give them a call nine seven

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02:44:26.719 --> 02:44:33.760
nine eight three six five five four
eight nine seven nine eight three six five

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02:44:33.879 --> 02:44:37.959
five four eight. Next weekend they'll
be doing a beneficial Insects presentation on March

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02:44:39.040 --> 02:44:43.000
twenty third at ten am. Then
later that day at four pm they're going

2263
02:44:43.079 --> 02:44:46.360
to have a gardening, a children
in the garden activity that's all about Ladybugs.

2264
02:44:46.360 --> 02:44:48.120
I'll leave it, the kids will
leave and get to be part of

2265
02:44:48.159 --> 02:44:52.200
a Ladybug release that's at four pm
out there. If you want to look

2266
02:44:52.200 --> 02:44:56.200
a little further out in the future, you know when Easter is blue bonnet

2267
02:44:56.280 --> 02:45:00.639
season here, right, So they
have their Easter egg hunt March thirtieth,

2268
02:45:01.280 --> 02:45:03.799
various time frames for different age groups. I wonder if they have one from

2269
02:45:03.840 --> 02:45:09.360
my age group because I used to
like to do that as well. They'll

2270
02:45:09.360 --> 02:45:13.879
be posting stuff on their social media
about it. Antik Rosenporium dot com nine

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02:45:13.959 --> 02:45:16.159
seventy nine, eight three six,
five, five four eight Take friends when

2272
02:45:16.159 --> 02:45:22.799
you go. I'm serious, Really, this is an event. It's a

2273
02:45:22.879 --> 02:45:28.920
special trip. We are so fortunate
to have just like an hour but forty

2274
02:45:28.920 --> 02:45:31.959
five minutes away from a lot of
Houston. I mean that's not a drive

2275
02:45:31.000 --> 02:45:35.600
at all. Some of you even
lessen that. Hey, next week and

2276
02:45:35.959 --> 02:45:41.120
on Saturday, after the show,
I am going to head over to Cyprus,

2277
02:45:41.559 --> 02:45:46.799
Texas to the Barry Center. The
Barry Center is on Barker Cypress Road

2278
02:45:46.200 --> 02:45:52.319
and they have the annual seventeen ninual
sci Fair Home and Outdoor Living show.

2279
02:45:52.680 --> 02:45:56.479
It's free. Parking is free.
You're not gonna be able to talk them

2280
02:45:56.520 --> 02:46:00.840
down on those prices. Free admission, free parking. I'll be there giving

2281
02:46:00.879 --> 02:46:05.360
a talk on gardening, and then
I will answer your gardening questions about everything

2282
02:46:05.360 --> 02:46:09.680
you might happen. Given away free
Nelson fertilizer products too, so you don't

2283
02:46:09.680 --> 02:46:11.000
want to miss out. Hey,
it's been a good weekend. I hope

2284
02:46:11.040 --> 02:46:13.399
you've enjoyed it. Get out and
garden this afternoon.