WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.320 --> 00:00:03.839 Katie r h. Garden Line does not necessarily endorse any of the products or 2 00:00:03.879 --> 00:00:09.759 services advertised on this program. Welcome to Katie r H Garden Line. With 3 00:00:10.039 --> 00:00:21.280 Skip rictor it's crazy gas can you trim? You just watch him as we 4 00:00:27.600 --> 00:00:47.759 suppotasys gass back again, not a sign gas sun beamon of Welcome to Garden 5 00:00:47.799 --> 00:00:52.799 Line. We are glad you're listening this morning. Hey, we got another 6 00:00:52.920 --> 00:00:56.119 gardening weekend. I tell you we have been fortunate and so far this spring. 7 00:00:56.159 --> 00:01:00.640 Let's hope this holds up that on these weekends, we just are having 8 00:01:00.719 --> 00:01:04.120 some unbelievably good weather. You know. I as long as it's not raining, 9 00:01:04.319 --> 00:01:07.599 I am happy. On a weekend that is for sure. We get 10 00:01:07.599 --> 00:01:11.599 a little cloud cover, that's okay, that's okay, temperatures are mild. 11 00:01:11.599 --> 00:01:15.640 It's good to get outside there. This past week I've been visiting some garden 12 00:01:15.680 --> 00:01:19.840 centers, driving around, just checking things out, visiting some suppliers and things, 13 00:01:19.840 --> 00:01:26.840 and oh my gosh, it is color color color all over the place. 14 00:01:26.879 --> 00:01:32.000 If you haven't gotten your vegetable transplants yet this weekend, that's the time 15 00:01:32.040 --> 00:01:34.680 to do it, you know, things like tomatoes. We have this little 16 00:01:34.719 --> 00:01:40.280 game we play It's like when will the last frostby game? And you know, 17 00:01:40.319 --> 00:01:44.200 if I were saying aside from frost wind to planet Tomato, I'd say 18 00:01:44.239 --> 00:01:49.000 plant them in February, back in February, mid February. But most years 19 00:01:49.000 --> 00:01:53.159 we're going to get a frost after that. I plant mine early because I 20 00:01:53.239 --> 00:01:55.959 cover mine up. I don't mind covering them. I want a good early 21 00:01:56.040 --> 00:02:00.799 start. But we're hitting the point now where you know, on the average 22 00:02:00.840 --> 00:02:04.640 we should be done with this. I look ten days ahead in the weather 23 00:02:05.280 --> 00:02:09.400 and don't see anything close to a drop into frosty temperatures. So I'm making 24 00:02:09.439 --> 00:02:14.599 an official call. I could be wrong. You know, there are exceptions 25 00:02:14.680 --> 00:02:19.159 to the weather. It's only a guess. The past does not dictate the 26 00:02:19.199 --> 00:02:23.080 future. Let that soak in for a minute. When it comes to the 27 00:02:23.120 --> 00:02:28.439 weather. The past does not dictate the future. Okay, But when we 28 00:02:28.520 --> 00:02:31.680 are looking at getting things going in the spring, getting tomatoes in as soon 29 00:02:31.719 --> 00:02:37.240 as we can is important. And here's why summer's coming. When we get 30 00:02:37.719 --> 00:02:43.159 daytimes up in the nineties, nighttimes in the upper seventies. The pollen, 31 00:02:43.280 --> 00:02:46.439 the way the pollen works in the flower, it doesn't it doesn't pollinate the 32 00:02:46.439 --> 00:02:51.039 flower correctly. And that's why you don't get good fruit set on your big 33 00:02:51.080 --> 00:02:53.960 slicer tomatoes when it comes to summertime. So get them in now. You 34 00:02:54.120 --> 00:03:00.400 just have Every day you get them in earlier is another day you're going to 35 00:03:00.479 --> 00:03:04.639 have a tomato production before we hit the time when fruit doesn't set. So 36 00:03:04.759 --> 00:03:07.360 get them in now. Choose fast varieties too. By the way, there 37 00:03:07.400 --> 00:03:12.759 are one thousand great tomatoes out there, lots of great tomatoes. And I 38 00:03:12.800 --> 00:03:16.120 wouldn't diss any tomato when it comes to to you know, going out and 39 00:03:16.159 --> 00:03:21.520 picking a fresh tomato and enjoying it and eating it. But here's what I 40 00:03:21.520 --> 00:03:24.319 would say. If you can get tomatoes that reach days to harvest faster, 41 00:03:24.479 --> 00:03:29.240 you're going to get more You're going to get more fruit. You've heard me 42 00:03:29.240 --> 00:03:34.719 talk about a'smite before, but I don't often talk about it from a vegetable 43 00:03:34.719 --> 00:03:38.840 garden standpoint. Now. It's primarily when we think of azmite, we think 44 00:03:38.840 --> 00:03:40.560 about put it out in the yard. You get it out once a year. 45 00:03:42.199 --> 00:03:44.479 A sole test will tay if you need it more often than that, 46 00:03:45.280 --> 00:03:47.800 But get it out there, apply it, don't put it in the hopper 47 00:03:47.840 --> 00:03:52.319 with your fertilizer spreader. But apply it in a separate application. You can 48 00:03:52.360 --> 00:03:54.319 do it the same day and get it out there and get it watered in. 49 00:03:54.479 --> 00:03:58.000 That's what we're doing now in the yard. But what about the vegetable 50 00:03:58.039 --> 00:04:00.080 garden. I like to use it in a vegetable garden. And here's why. 51 00:04:01.240 --> 00:04:06.240 When you eat produce, you want a good stock of all kinds of 52 00:04:06.319 --> 00:04:12.080 quality nutrients in your produce as well. And so the more we build up 53 00:04:12.080 --> 00:04:14.520 our soil number one, the better our plants are going to be, the 54 00:04:14.560 --> 00:04:18.040 more productive our plants are going to be. But also the produce we eat 55 00:04:18.319 --> 00:04:23.800 is chock full of all the things that our body needs. Now, for 56 00:04:24.000 --> 00:04:27.839 azamite in my garden, I'd put it out about ten pounds per thousand square 57 00:04:27.839 --> 00:04:31.319 feet or a pound per hundred square feet and just mix it into the soil, 58 00:04:31.360 --> 00:04:34.399 because in a vegetable garden, unlike a lawn, you can just spade 59 00:04:34.519 --> 00:04:39.040 or roto till it in and get it right down into the soil zone. 60 00:04:39.360 --> 00:04:42.879 Putting it on top is just fine too, But in the vegetable garden, 61 00:04:42.879 --> 00:04:46.360 I generally use a spade and just kind of scratch up the soil a little 62 00:04:46.360 --> 00:04:47.040 bit to get it in there, and it works. Well, you can 63 00:04:47.040 --> 00:04:51.680 go to Azmitetexas dot com find out more about it. But it is this 64 00:04:51.759 --> 00:04:56.680 is the time. You should always have a bag on hand because there's always 65 00:04:56.720 --> 00:05:00.519 a time to use it. Enhancing your flower beds, enhancing your vegetable garden, 66 00:05:00.639 --> 00:05:04.360 enhancing your lawn, however you want to go about that, there's always 67 00:05:04.360 --> 00:05:08.759 a time. In fact, I always have a couple of bags on hand 68 00:05:08.800 --> 00:05:11.920 ready to go, so that way, whatever I'm going to do, it's 69 00:05:12.600 --> 00:05:15.319 time and with as might, you know, unlike our fertilizing schedule, with 70 00:05:15.439 --> 00:05:18.720 ays of might you can put down any time you want. There's not you 71 00:05:18.800 --> 00:05:23.839 need to get it down right now. If your soil is deficient in micronutrients, 72 00:05:24.000 --> 00:05:27.439 then now is the time you have to get it down. But otherwise, 73 00:05:27.800 --> 00:05:30.639 just when you can, when you get around to it, go ahead 74 00:05:30.680 --> 00:05:33.560 and do that. A couple of weeks ago, I was out at Ana 75 00:05:33.639 --> 00:05:39.319 Plants and Produce, and I love going out there. It's just I don't 76 00:05:39.360 --> 00:05:42.519 know, you know, I've watched that place grow over the years, and 77 00:05:42.560 --> 00:05:45.759 I remember when it was a lot smaller than it is today. Well now 78 00:05:45.759 --> 00:05:49.199 it's sprawling all over the place, and boy are they loaded up. They've 79 00:05:49.279 --> 00:05:56.240 gotten in some new shipments of color they've gotten in their citrus trees and lots 80 00:05:56.240 --> 00:05:59.839 of color for the landscape, and it just looks good. If you live 81 00:06:00.079 --> 00:06:02.040 up there on one oh five, by the way, they're on the east 82 00:06:02.079 --> 00:06:08.639 side of Montgomery, So all you folks up at Lake Conroe, this is 83 00:06:08.759 --> 00:06:11.680 the backyard nursery for you. I mean, just drive around the corner and 84 00:06:11.720 --> 00:06:15.319 they're there. They can do some work you need. Some still need early 85 00:06:15.360 --> 00:06:17.519 clean up out around your house. You know, the landscape, the beds 86 00:06:17.519 --> 00:06:21.759 and things. They hire an expert. They have an expert landscape crew you 87 00:06:21.759 --> 00:06:26.360 can hire to come out and do that. Ask them for a copy in 88 00:06:26.399 --> 00:06:29.959 my garden schedules. I'm a lawn care schedules. When you go, they 89 00:06:29.959 --> 00:06:31.680 have one there at the counter. I would say, just print it up 90 00:06:31.720 --> 00:06:35.639 yourself and go in. And if you need nitrophoss, if you need Nelson, 91 00:06:35.680 --> 00:06:39.839 if you need microlife, you talk about airloom, soil, nature's way 92 00:06:39.879 --> 00:06:44.920 resources. They carry all of that and ana plants and produce and in fact 93 00:06:45.480 --> 00:06:48.800 they have one of those little dispensers where you can bring your old jugs of 94 00:06:48.879 --> 00:06:56.240 microlife and Nelson's and refill them at a very considerable cost savings. It's very 95 00:06:56.279 --> 00:06:59.600 worthwhile to hang on with those plastic jugs. We got enough plastic in the 96 00:06:59.600 --> 00:07:01.879 world. Just bring your old jug back and they can pull it up right 97 00:07:01.879 --> 00:07:05.360 there at A and A. I think that's a good idea. I wish 98 00:07:05.720 --> 00:07:09.879 more products in life for that way. I'd be willing to go to the 99 00:07:09.879 --> 00:07:14.279 grocery store, you know, take hands soap or I don't know, just 100 00:07:14.360 --> 00:07:16.959 whatever kinds of products you buy in the house, just be able to refill 101 00:07:17.000 --> 00:07:20.439 them right there take it back home. I know that's a complication, but 102 00:07:20.600 --> 00:07:24.279 hey, I'd be willing to do it. Like I said, got enough 103 00:07:24.319 --> 00:07:27.639 plastic out there in the world, so every a little bit that we can 104 00:07:27.680 --> 00:07:30.800 say is important. I was looking at a tree that blew over the other 105 00:07:30.879 --> 00:07:36.079 day right outside the radio station here, and it just soil was soggy, 106 00:07:36.120 --> 00:07:39.560 wet, got a little bit of wind and there, you know, just 107 00:07:39.759 --> 00:07:43.040 finally reached a point where the tree went over, and it just reminded me 108 00:07:43.519 --> 00:07:47.120 that now's the time to make sure your trees are ready for the summer season 109 00:07:47.319 --> 00:07:50.360 that's coming ahead. It's always a good time to have your trees taken care 110 00:07:50.360 --> 00:07:56.560 of. But Martin Spoon Moore is our local expert in that Marn's been doing 111 00:07:56.600 --> 00:08:00.560 this for many, many years, decades as a matter of fact, and 112 00:08:00.600 --> 00:08:03.399 it's time to call a professional like Martin to come out. He'll tell you 113 00:08:03.399 --> 00:08:05.600 if you need pruning or if you don't, and if you do, what 114 00:08:05.720 --> 00:08:11.399 to do. I looked at a pruning job yesterday. That was a butcher 115 00:08:11.519 --> 00:08:15.560 job. That what they did to those trees will never be outgrown, and 116 00:08:15.600 --> 00:08:18.920 I just looked at it just thinking, man, we got to get away 117 00:08:18.920 --> 00:08:24.800 from that stuff. Affordable Tree Service does it right? Afftree Service dot com 118 00:08:26.079 --> 00:08:31.199 or call Martin, either he or his wife Joel'll answer seven one three, 119 00:08:31.480 --> 00:08:35.799 six nine nine twenty six sixty three and he'll come out for one hundred and 120 00:08:35.799 --> 00:08:39.720 fifty dollars and do a consultation. I mean, if you just need somebody 121 00:08:39.759 --> 00:08:41.799 to come out and look. Now, if you end up going ahead and 122 00:08:41.879 --> 00:08:46.519 you know, going for the job, well that'll apply. You've already paid 123 00:08:46.519 --> 00:08:48.600 for part of the cost. But it can't run around everywhere just looking at 124 00:08:48.639 --> 00:08:52.799 every tree a person has a question about. But have him come out and 125 00:08:52.840 --> 00:08:54.600 take a look. He knows what he's doing. We're going to take a 126 00:08:54.639 --> 00:09:00.000 break. We'll be right back. Welcome back to the garden line. Hey, 127 00:09:00.080 --> 00:09:01.279 we're glad you're listening today. Boy, do we have a lot to 128 00:09:01.279 --> 00:09:05.840 talk about. It is spring and there is plenty to be doing in the 129 00:09:05.879 --> 00:09:09.120 garden. Let's start by heading straight off to the phones. We're going to 130 00:09:09.200 --> 00:09:13.360 talk to Pete in Spring. Hello, Pete. Hey, how are you 131 00:09:13.559 --> 00:09:18.840 happy Saturday? Thank you. My favorite thing about this show on Saturday meets 132 00:09:18.879 --> 00:09:24.000 that I'm off work and going home. That's a good thing. That's a 133 00:09:24.039 --> 00:09:31.039 good thing. Got a question about dragon flies. I have a ton of 134 00:09:31.080 --> 00:09:35.720 them, and I've never seen this bending but the yard, around the door, 135 00:09:37.840 --> 00:09:39.960 everywhere, and I used to try to save them so they would eat 136 00:09:41.080 --> 00:09:45.279 mesquitos. Well, I'm sorry, the mosquito hawks, not the dragon flies 137 00:09:45.840 --> 00:09:52.399 hawks. Oh okay, huh yeah, and they are everywhere, Okay, 138 00:09:50.879 --> 00:09:56.679 what to do? Not a problem? I mean, it's really nothing you 139 00:09:56.720 --> 00:10:01.480 need to worry about. They they're just not a big concern in my opinion. 140 00:10:01.960 --> 00:10:05.519 And if you to do something about it would be going out and just 141 00:10:05.600 --> 00:10:09.679 basically nuke and everything so that when they land on anything or whatever, and 142 00:10:09.960 --> 00:10:13.600 that's just unnecessary. You know, you don't need to go through that. 143 00:10:13.159 --> 00:10:18.720 It's just they're just there. Yeah. Well, and they'll they'll not be 144 00:10:18.000 --> 00:10:22.559 like they are now the whole time there. Their numbers are going to drop 145 00:10:22.559 --> 00:10:24.399 down pretty quick here. I don't know when, but yeah, they come 146 00:10:24.440 --> 00:10:31.840 and go because the freeze or the brain or a lack of brain or yeah, 147 00:10:31.200 --> 00:10:35.320 it could be a lot of things. It depends on the insects specifically. 148 00:10:35.639 --> 00:10:39.720 But yeah, insects are that way. You know, we we go 149 00:10:39.759 --> 00:10:43.039 through Remember well you know about love bugs, right that that show up. 150 00:10:43.519 --> 00:10:48.759 Yeah, so that's a seasonal thing. And they live in decaying organic matter 151 00:10:48.840 --> 00:10:52.240 on the soul surface, and the larva do feeding in that, and then 152 00:10:52.240 --> 00:10:56.200 here come the adults. And so again don't don't worry about those the crane 153 00:10:56.240 --> 00:11:03.200 flies. And you bet, Pete, Yes, I appreciate your call. 154 00:11:03.360 --> 00:11:09.440 Thanks a lot. I was busying with Mike over at microlife. By the 155 00:11:09.480 --> 00:11:13.559 way, Mike and micro that micro doesn't come from Mike. Mike talk about 156 00:11:13.559 --> 00:11:18.360 Mike's around micro life fertilizers. They've got a wide range organic fertilizer. I 157 00:11:18.360 --> 00:11:24.000 got them on the on the the sheet, the lawn care sheet that I 158 00:11:24.000 --> 00:11:28.279 have out, you can find all the microlife that uh you need to get 159 00:11:28.320 --> 00:11:31.480 your lawn in good shape. We're talking about the humates plus. You know 160 00:11:31.679 --> 00:11:35.320 humates. So if you start with organic matter, polygrass, kipling, crip 161 00:11:35.639 --> 00:11:39.399 clippings, pollow leaves, something like that, you compost it down. Now 162 00:11:39.440 --> 00:11:45.080 you got compost in a much smaller volume. You take compost and let it 163 00:11:45.159 --> 00:11:52.120 continue to decompose down to the stage we call humus. And humus is only 164 00:11:52.159 --> 00:11:56.559 a fraction of the amount that was in the compost because you've taken it all 165 00:11:56.600 --> 00:12:01.519 the way down to that final stage. Microlife, you mate, is concentrated 166 00:12:01.759 --> 00:12:05.519 compost in a bag. You buy a bag of microlite HU makes plus that's 167 00:12:05.519 --> 00:12:09.039 a purple bag, and you basically are getting a truckload of compost. I 168 00:12:09.039 --> 00:12:15.320 mean you're getting a lot of material that has been decomposed down and decomposed down 169 00:12:15.320 --> 00:12:18.919 and decomposed down to that final state. Okay, And so when you put 170 00:12:18.960 --> 00:12:24.320 that out, that works its way into the soil and it improves soil structure. 171 00:12:24.519 --> 00:12:28.360 It is also helpful for the beneficial organisms that are in the soil. 172 00:12:28.360 --> 00:12:31.919 In fact, that has those on it itself when you buy it from microlife, 173 00:12:31.360 --> 00:12:33.519 and you just need to put that out, and you need to do 174 00:12:33.600 --> 00:12:39.279 that on a regular basis over a period of years. And as you do 175 00:12:39.360 --> 00:12:43.679 that soil gets better and better and better. I mean, you'll see results 176 00:12:43.799 --> 00:12:48.960 the first year, but I'm just saying nature builds soil slowly. Over time. 177 00:12:48.279 --> 00:12:52.639 Anything that was once alive becomes part of the soil again. And when 178 00:12:52.639 --> 00:12:58.679 it becomes part of the soil, it's part of building better soil, more 179 00:12:58.759 --> 00:13:05.120 air rated, higher microbial activity, better water infiltration with our clays. That's 180 00:13:05.159 --> 00:13:11.320 really important. Microlife humates plus. I would remember that because when you fertilize, 181 00:13:11.320 --> 00:13:13.919 this isn't and in place a fertilizer. This would be something you would 182 00:13:13.960 --> 00:13:20.720 do as an additional application. The composted or concentrated compost in a bag for 183 00:13:20.879 --> 00:13:26.440 Microlife humants plus widely available. Go to Microlife Fertilizer dot com. You'll find 184 00:13:26.480 --> 00:13:30.360 out exactly where you can get it, which is pretty much everywhere. I 185 00:13:30.399 --> 00:13:33.279 want to head out now and talk to Linda in Memorial. Hello, Linda, 186 00:13:35.360 --> 00:13:37.159 Hi, Skip, how are you? I'm well? How are you? 187 00:13:39.519 --> 00:13:43.039 I'm good? I stay up so that I can talk with you early. 188 00:13:45.120 --> 00:13:48.799 All right, I need some help. I need to be able to 189 00:13:48.960 --> 00:13:52.440 plan a gardenia without killing it. I kill four of them already, Okay, 190 00:13:52.600 --> 00:13:56.399 all right, I don't know two of them. I planted in the 191 00:13:56.480 --> 00:14:01.759 ground and they started having yellow leaves, and I thought it's because they need 192 00:14:01.799 --> 00:14:05.600 iron, so I dump a bunch of iron on it. Okay, now 193 00:14:05.679 --> 00:14:11.360 that the Cornelius people told me that I was drowning them. Okay, so 194 00:14:11.480 --> 00:14:16.320 they die and the two that I turned it in pots, I didn't wanter 195 00:14:16.480 --> 00:14:20.720 them that much, but they still die anyway, and I have Okay. 196 00:14:20.799 --> 00:14:24.159 I don't know if you can remember back to when you saw the yellow leaves. 197 00:14:24.600 --> 00:14:28.519 You know, that may probably was last season, probably, but anyway, 198 00:14:28.720 --> 00:14:33.159 do you remember if it was the new leaves at the ends of the 199 00:14:33.240 --> 00:14:37.360 shoots that were yellow, or was it the older leaves further back down the 200 00:14:37.399 --> 00:14:43.120 shoote that was yellow the older older? Okay, so that's not an iron 201 00:14:43.200 --> 00:14:46.399 problem. Your iron is not the concern, so we can eliminate that one. 202 00:14:48.200 --> 00:14:50.600 It could be a lack of water. I don't know. If you've 203 00:14:50.720 --> 00:14:54.639 got like apotheos ivy in the house and you forget to water it and it 204 00:14:54.720 --> 00:14:58.600 starts to will and then you water it and it perks up, but then 205 00:14:58.639 --> 00:15:01.799 the old leaves turn yellow. The response to that going through the drought stress 206 00:15:01.879 --> 00:15:07.080 can cause old leaves to turn yellow. On some plants that could be a 207 00:15:07.080 --> 00:15:13.960 problem or excess water that actually is starting to stress or kill roots where the 208 00:15:13.039 --> 00:15:18.759 roots can't get oxygen, but that typically leads to a root rot that kills 209 00:15:18.759 --> 00:15:26.480 the whole plant. So it guardinas like that because those two that are planted 210 00:15:26.519 --> 00:15:35.240 on the ground tongue yellow after lots of rain. And they also happened to 211 00:15:35.279 --> 00:15:39.360 be right where the sprinkle system. Just don't water on them, okay, 212 00:15:39.480 --> 00:15:43.759 and I didn't realize that, I know that they were. Yeah, And 213 00:15:43.799 --> 00:15:48.440 if you're not sure anybody listening has garninas or really other plants as well like 214 00:15:48.480 --> 00:15:52.960 that, just take a trial and dig down somewhere near the bottom of the 215 00:15:52.960 --> 00:15:56.600 bush. Doesn't have to be right against the bush, but a little bit 216 00:15:56.600 --> 00:16:00.960 further out. Tag down about four inches and feel the soil with your hands. 217 00:16:00.960 --> 00:16:04.600 And you can feel when soil is mucky wet, or when it's moderately 218 00:16:04.639 --> 00:16:10.559 moist, or when it's still a little dry. And that's really what matters 219 00:16:10.679 --> 00:16:11.759 is how wet is it at the root zone. You know, we could 220 00:16:11.799 --> 00:16:15.639 say water this much or this often or whatever. You may have a clay 221 00:16:15.679 --> 00:16:19.240 soil, you may have a sandy soil. I like the feel the soil 222 00:16:19.320 --> 00:16:23.279 test because that way you know for sure, because we do have rain. 223 00:16:23.399 --> 00:16:26.720 Like you said, there are areas that are load lying and tend to collect 224 00:16:26.720 --> 00:16:32.039 and hold water, and so there's a lot of factors. But too wet 225 00:16:32.159 --> 00:16:34.919 or too dry is a problem for plants in general. And I think your 226 00:16:34.960 --> 00:16:40.879 Guardena's either on the dry side or the wet side, or that fluctuation is 227 00:16:40.879 --> 00:16:44.879 probably what's going on. I would something else that can cause older leaves to 228 00:16:44.960 --> 00:16:48.960 turn yellow, but not just suddenly a leaf turns all yellow, but gradually 229 00:16:49.039 --> 00:16:52.919 losing their color is a lack of nitrogen, and you might want to get 230 00:16:52.960 --> 00:17:00.960 an azalea camellia type acidic fertilizer for that. Have you ever tried fertilizing them. 231 00:17:02.080 --> 00:17:10.119 I have been fertilizing them with the miracle growth. Okay, okay, 232 00:17:10.200 --> 00:17:15.319 the liquid the liquid. No, oh, the granary. Why don't you 233 00:17:15.359 --> 00:17:18.920 switch over? Why don't you switch over? We've got the folks at Microlife 234 00:17:18.960 --> 00:17:23.880 make an excellent acidic fertilizer for azaleas. You can do that for Nelson and 235 00:17:23.960 --> 00:17:29.480 nitrophoss both. You can get fertilizers all three really that are that are good 236 00:17:29.599 --> 00:17:33.200 for acidic loving plants. So when you go in somewhere to shop. Switch 237 00:17:33.319 --> 00:17:38.160 over to one of those fertilizers and say, I want the fertilizer for azalias. 238 00:17:38.519 --> 00:17:44.200 Uh. And if you if you go online to my schedule online the 239 00:17:44.319 --> 00:17:51.400 lawn care schedule at gardening with skip dot com, you can get the lawn 240 00:17:51.440 --> 00:17:55.000 schedule and if you look at the bottom, it's got the names of the 241 00:17:55.039 --> 00:17:57.920 companies and the products that they have. Now, those are lawn fertilizers, 242 00:17:59.240 --> 00:18:03.799 but each of those companies has a fertilizer for acid loving plants like blueberries and 243 00:18:03.839 --> 00:18:10.079 azaleas and camellias and gardenias, all of those kinds of plants. Paris is 244 00:18:10.119 --> 00:18:15.279 another one, and I would ask where you shop for the acid loving plant 245 00:18:15.319 --> 00:18:22.119 fertilizer. Okay, all right, okay, But now I am just about 246 00:18:22.160 --> 00:18:26.039 to plan the fifth one. Okay, how do I prepare the soil so 247 00:18:26.160 --> 00:18:29.880 that it is to be Okay? It could be that I didn't know how 248 00:18:29.920 --> 00:18:33.440 to plan the other one. Either, get you a good quality mix, 249 00:18:33.640 --> 00:18:40.000 a good quality mix for it's called a bed mix, and Heirloom Soils makes 250 00:18:40.359 --> 00:18:44.599 a number of different blends for your beds, and you buy it by the 251 00:18:44.640 --> 00:18:48.359 bag. You're not going to need a lot, so with what you know 252 00:18:48.440 --> 00:18:52.160 planting one plant. So just get you some bags of an heirloom soil mix 253 00:18:52.759 --> 00:18:57.319 and mix it into the soil as best you can, and in as wide 254 00:18:57.319 --> 00:19:00.599 of an area as you can, not just a little in the hole, 255 00:19:00.680 --> 00:19:04.000 but you know, if you can get it six feet wide even or so, 256 00:19:04.519 --> 00:19:07.960 mix it in really well, and then add a little more up on 257 00:19:07.039 --> 00:19:11.079 top of the soil of the same bags and then dig the hole in plant 258 00:19:11.680 --> 00:19:15.960 and that will get you set up. And in memorial there you've got You've 259 00:19:15.960 --> 00:19:21.599 got some ace hardware stores near you that will have those products that I'm talking 260 00:19:21.599 --> 00:19:29.839 about. Okay. It's called airloom soil mix, heirloom heirloom soil, and 261 00:19:30.119 --> 00:19:33.640 they have a number of different soils. Any of them will help. Any 262 00:19:33.720 --> 00:19:38.480 of them will work well for the blend that you would need to get your 263 00:19:38.519 --> 00:19:41.279 plant going. So you don't have to find just a certain one. If 264 00:19:41.319 --> 00:19:45.920 they do, if where you shop has one that's more for acidic type plants, 265 00:19:47.000 --> 00:19:49.799 then go for that. But otherwise it may say vegetables and herbs on 266 00:19:49.839 --> 00:19:56.720 it. You can still use it for that guardina okay, okay. And 267 00:19:56.759 --> 00:20:00.039 they can as make a hole as possible, uh, a little bigger than 268 00:20:00.079 --> 00:20:04.240 the pot would be helpful. But the main thing is you're loosening up the 269 00:20:04.240 --> 00:20:08.480 soil in a big white area, mixing the good soil in with what's there 270 00:20:08.759 --> 00:20:12.960 on the site already, and then you're digging the hole and it doesn't really 271 00:20:14.000 --> 00:20:17.200 matter how big the hole is because you've already loosened the soil in a big 272 00:20:17.279 --> 00:20:21.240 area to plant it. Okay, okay, okay, good luck with it. 273 00:20:22.400 --> 00:20:26.279 Thank you very much, you bet, thank you. I appreciate I 274 00:20:26.319 --> 00:20:30.799 appreciate your call very much. Yeah, it's you know that taking care of 275 00:20:30.880 --> 00:20:34.119 these acid loving plants, we just have to remember where they're from and what 276 00:20:34.200 --> 00:20:37.880 they like. Hey, for those of you added in Channed Forest, I 277 00:20:37.880 --> 00:20:41.119 want to remind you today that's in Richmond, by the way, and Channed 278 00:20:41.160 --> 00:20:45.400 Forest is the one. If you're in Richmond heading forward sugar Land, it's 279 00:20:45.480 --> 00:20:49.279 off to the right if you go down FM twenty seven fifty nine two seven 280 00:20:49.440 --> 00:20:53.400 five nine, that's the road head down and you'll get to in Channed Forest 281 00:20:53.440 --> 00:20:56.920 and you will be so impressed when you get there. By the way, 282 00:20:56.960 --> 00:21:03.880 today, justin Oak and also Jay White from Texas Gardener are going to be 283 00:21:03.880 --> 00:21:06.559 there giving a talk at ten am this morning. Run over there and do 284 00:21:06.640 --> 00:21:08.960 that. Right after this show's over. They'll be talking. They have got 285 00:21:10.160 --> 00:21:14.440 all kinds of color. Ask them to see the proven winner's table. It 286 00:21:14.519 --> 00:21:18.160 is amazing. Also, by the way, if you've never planted a Texas 287 00:21:18.240 --> 00:21:21.880 Mountain Laurel, that is an amazing tree. It's a native tree to Texas, 288 00:21:22.000 --> 00:21:23.519 native of the Texas hill country. So what we've got to do is 289 00:21:23.559 --> 00:21:27.799 we've got to give it a soil that drains really, really well and it 290 00:21:29.119 --> 00:21:33.119 has a fragrant boom you won't believe. We'll be right back, Welcome back 291 00:21:33.119 --> 00:21:37.319 to garden Line on what is going to be a banner day to get out 292 00:21:37.319 --> 00:21:41.720 in the garden and get some gardening stuff done. Somebody asked me during break, 293 00:21:41.000 --> 00:21:47.079 what is the web address for the Encended Forest, And I want to 294 00:21:47.119 --> 00:21:51.000 give you that because you really need to see their website. It is amazing 295 00:21:51.160 --> 00:21:53.640 and all the stuff I'm talking about, photos of all the kinds of plants, 296 00:21:53.640 --> 00:21:56.119 what they're getting in, who's going to be there talking, It's all 297 00:21:56.160 --> 00:22:03.200 there. Enchanted Forest, Richmond, TX dot com. Enchanted Forest Richmond, 298 00:22:03.640 --> 00:22:10.720 TX dot com. You can find it right there. Absolutely. Okay, 299 00:22:10.720 --> 00:22:12.680 what I'm going to head out now to Jersey Village and we're going to talk 300 00:22:12.720 --> 00:22:17.200 to George. Good morning, George, Yeah, good morning. So it's 301 00:22:17.279 --> 00:22:21.000 nice to talk to you again. I have two questions for you. A 302 00:22:21.039 --> 00:22:25.720 few weeks ago I asked you about planting potatoes and I got them in the 303 00:22:25.720 --> 00:22:29.119 ground there Yukon gold and some red brand, and I want to take your 304 00:22:29.160 --> 00:22:32.839 crack at sweet potatoes and I get all kinds of opinions out to plant them. 305 00:22:33.119 --> 00:22:36.319 One is that they go there like regular potatoes, and the other one 306 00:22:36.400 --> 00:22:38.759 is no, you can put them on a trellisnil, hang from the leaves 307 00:22:38.799 --> 00:22:41.920 and stuff like that. So that's first question. Okay, Second question is 308 00:22:42.240 --> 00:22:47.839 second question is whenever one planting anything, I saw a well respected gardener say, 309 00:22:48.240 --> 00:22:52.839 put bonemeal and budmeal in the bottom of the plant and that'll be cause 310 00:22:52.880 --> 00:22:56.160 it's a grow, develop roots better and so on like that. So those 311 00:22:56.160 --> 00:23:00.400 are my questions. All right. Sweet potatoes are a root. They're not 312 00:23:00.599 --> 00:23:04.119 a tuber. A regular potatoes grow off the stem of the plant above the 313 00:23:04.160 --> 00:23:08.680 seedpiece you planted. Sweet potatoes grow, and of course they're truly a root. 314 00:23:10.359 --> 00:23:12.680 What you need to do is get good quality we call them slips. 315 00:23:12.839 --> 00:23:17.400 It's a section of vine and they're not out yet because it's a little too 316 00:23:17.400 --> 00:23:19.599 cool to be planting sweet potatoes. They come a little bit later in the 317 00:23:19.640 --> 00:23:22.880 season. You want to get those slips. You put them right into the 318 00:23:22.920 --> 00:23:29.400 ground and they root so fast they are you know, they're easy to take 319 00:23:29.440 --> 00:23:32.720 an unrooted slip in the ground. Keep it moist and it'll root and survive 320 00:23:32.759 --> 00:23:37.559 and grow. You want to follow carefully along, keeping the water even if 321 00:23:37.599 --> 00:23:41.440 you can. I can't control the rain, but as you are taking care 322 00:23:41.440 --> 00:23:45.759 of it, make sure that it has plenty of soil moisture but not soggy 323 00:23:45.759 --> 00:23:48.599 wet. If your soil is a heavy, heavy clay, you definitely want 324 00:23:48.640 --> 00:23:52.759 to mix in some compost and things to loosen that up a bit. Sweet 325 00:23:52.759 --> 00:23:57.720 potatoes, if you look commercially at where they're grown, they're grown in sandy 326 00:23:57.920 --> 00:24:03.960 sandy loam types of soil in East Texas primarily, but they can be grown 327 00:24:03.000 --> 00:24:08.160 anywhere in the state in a backyard garden. The key to sweet potatoes is 328 00:24:08.319 --> 00:24:15.200 good sunlight and consistent soil moisture and moderate fertilizer, not too much, just 329 00:24:15.359 --> 00:24:21.480 moderate. Now, if you go online to the Aggie Horticulture website, you 330 00:24:21.519 --> 00:24:26.119 can do a search for that. The Aggie Horticulture website has a vegetable section 331 00:24:26.400 --> 00:24:30.359 with a publication on how to grow sweet potatoes. It's only a few pages 332 00:24:30.400 --> 00:24:34.440 of full color and it will walk you through every step of exactly how to 333 00:24:34.480 --> 00:24:37.759 do it. More detail that I can get on the air. I would 334 00:24:37.839 --> 00:24:41.680 encourage you to get that. Either look at it on your computer or print 335 00:24:41.720 --> 00:24:45.640 it out and follow it carefully, because it is important that we do that. 336 00:24:45.200 --> 00:24:49.720 The potatoes do grow again underground, not up on the vines themselves. 337 00:24:52.720 --> 00:24:56.160 You could trellis the vine to try to save space, but that's quite a 338 00:24:56.279 --> 00:25:00.160 job, and most people don't go through that. They just kind of let 339 00:25:00.240 --> 00:25:03.599 them sprawl. But if you needed to save space, you could try trellising 340 00:25:03.680 --> 00:25:07.920 the vine. But you're going to be out there every day grabbing a vine. 341 00:25:08.000 --> 00:25:11.119 Sticking it up on the trellis kind of winding it through a little bit, 342 00:25:11.160 --> 00:25:15.680 so it hangs on because sweet potatoes don't have tendrils to grab onto things. 343 00:25:18.119 --> 00:25:22.920 Thank you, all right, good luck? You know the bone meal, 344 00:25:22.160 --> 00:25:26.440 no bone but blood, no, just use regular fertilizers on those. 345 00:25:26.559 --> 00:25:30.359 Yeah, there's nothing wrong with bone meal. It's it's phosphorus. There's nothing 346 00:25:30.400 --> 00:25:34.920 wrong with blood meal. It's primarily nitrogen. But just get with a good 347 00:25:36.000 --> 00:25:40.119 balanced fertilizer. You know, if if you're if you're insured in organic or 348 00:25:40.160 --> 00:25:44.440 synthetic, I can direct you to some good options for that. But just 349 00:25:44.480 --> 00:25:47.359 a moderate amount of fertilizing. And when you look at that publication, it'll 350 00:25:47.359 --> 00:25:51.200 tell you exactly how much to put out to good Thank you very much. 351 00:25:51.319 --> 00:25:52.799 All right, all right, now, all I ask you, I don't 352 00:25:52.839 --> 00:25:56.440 know if you listen to guardline much, but all I ask of these kind 353 00:25:56.440 --> 00:25:59.599 of calls is you bring me half the sweet potatoes you grow. Drop them 354 00:25:59.640 --> 00:26:03.880 off at the station. We'll call it even all right. It's Lusashia whatever 355 00:26:03.960 --> 00:26:07.720 is the Japanese. And my wife loves those things so good good. We'll 356 00:26:07.720 --> 00:26:11.240 see, we'll have fun with them, yes, sir, you bet. 357 00:26:11.720 --> 00:26:14.519 Yeah. See. The reason I ask everybody to bring me half their produce 358 00:26:14.680 --> 00:26:18.200 is because I'm spending all my time helping other people garden, and so you 359 00:26:18.240 --> 00:26:23.279 know, you gotta help me offset that because I'm not home right now getting 360 00:26:23.279 --> 00:26:29.319 my own garden in order. So hey, that's fair, right at least 361 00:26:29.319 --> 00:26:33.960 to some people that people be of me. Spring Creek feed is up there 362 00:26:33.960 --> 00:26:37.359 in the Magnolia area, and if you're looking for your hometown feed store, 363 00:26:37.359 --> 00:26:42.200 if you're up around Grand Parkway, Hiaby two forty nine. You know Magnolia 364 00:26:42.359 --> 00:26:49.319 on FM twenty nine seventy eight. That's way up north from for people in 365 00:26:49.440 --> 00:26:55.759 downtown Houston, Magnolia in twenty nine seventy eight. That whole area is served 366 00:26:55.799 --> 00:26:59.640 by Spring Creek Feed. They have everything you need. They've got every fertilizer 367 00:26:59.680 --> 00:27:02.839 I'm talking about there. They got the pest and weed and disease control. 368 00:27:03.039 --> 00:27:04.599 If you have back your chickens, they got supplies for that. Do you 369 00:27:04.720 --> 00:27:08.039 need things to take care of your pond, you know, any kind of 370 00:27:08.079 --> 00:27:12.079 a herbicide, fungicide, pesticide for your garden and landscape, they got it. 371 00:27:12.640 --> 00:27:17.920 If you are an FFA or four h or if you're military senior citizens, 372 00:27:18.079 --> 00:27:22.079 there's discounts for those of you out there and they'll leaven special order. 373 00:27:22.240 --> 00:27:26.119 So go in visit with the folks. They're friendly, they don't bite. 374 00:27:26.240 --> 00:27:29.119 In fact, they are some of the nicest folks you're going to run into 375 00:27:29.200 --> 00:27:33.319 at Sprint Greek Feed and you can get everything you need, including really quality 376 00:27:33.400 --> 00:27:38.519 stuff for your pets as well. So Sprink Greek feed up there in the 377 00:27:40.960 --> 00:27:44.839 I don't know why, I always want to say location up in the Magnolia 378 00:27:44.960 --> 00:27:48.880 area. They're on FM twenty nine seventy eight, makes it easy to find 379 00:27:48.920 --> 00:27:53.559 them. The other day I was out visiting with some of our garden centers 380 00:27:53.599 --> 00:27:57.039 and things, and I did a little spot on things that you put down 381 00:27:57.200 --> 00:28:02.200 in your lawn right now. Fertilizers and the weed control products, just some 382 00:28:02.319 --> 00:28:06.079 of the options that are out there put on our Facebook page, and one 383 00:28:06.119 --> 00:28:14.319 of those is nitrofoss barricade. Nitrofoss barricade is designed to stop weed seeds from 384 00:28:14.599 --> 00:28:19.200 establishing in your lawn. So follow me on this one. There are two 385 00:28:19.279 --> 00:28:26.240 ways we approach weed problems other than growing good grass so it's dense and you 386 00:28:26.319 --> 00:28:30.200 know it chokes out weeds. When it comes to a product approach, either 387 00:28:30.319 --> 00:28:33.880 you put on a pre emergent so that when the seeds try to sprout, 388 00:28:33.160 --> 00:28:40.759 and right now, crab grass, grasspur all the warm season, weeds are 389 00:28:40.880 --> 00:28:44.640 ready to sprout right now, and you need if you're going to use a 390 00:28:44.680 --> 00:28:48.359 pre emergent, you got to do it now or you'll wait too long. 391 00:28:48.519 --> 00:28:52.640 It'll be too late for a pre emergent. There's also post emergent that kills 392 00:28:52.680 --> 00:28:55.720 weeds that are existing. Okay, that's the weed. Everything you see, 393 00:28:55.799 --> 00:28:59.839 that's all my lungs full of weeds. Those are winter weeds that are have 394 00:29:00.160 --> 00:29:03.160 grown up and you see them. It's the pre emergence. The barricade goes 395 00:29:03.200 --> 00:29:07.160 after, and so that's going to give you protection your lawn. If it's 396 00:29:07.279 --> 00:29:11.839 thin and sunlight hits the soil, you're gonna get weeds, and barricade helps 397 00:29:11.960 --> 00:29:15.680 shut them down. You put it down at the label rate. Follow the 398 00:29:15.799 --> 00:29:22.240 label that is the right rate to use. You go over doing any pesticide 399 00:29:22.440 --> 00:29:26.599 and you're asking for trouble. Okay, follow the label. Half inch of 400 00:29:26.680 --> 00:29:32.599 water to water it in. That dissolves that product into the soil surface where 401 00:29:32.640 --> 00:29:36.880 it does its job and it works super super well. It's easy to find 402 00:29:36.960 --> 00:29:41.759 nitrofoss products. You can get nitrofas at Plantation Ace Hardware out there in Richmond 403 00:29:41.839 --> 00:29:45.640 Rosenberg. You can get it at Bearings Hardware both on Businet and West Teimer. 404 00:29:45.720 --> 00:29:48.680 By the way, if you want a head maybe you for example, 405 00:29:49.000 --> 00:29:55.680 or are living out in the RCW nursery area, and I know Tombol Parkway, 406 00:29:56.000 --> 00:30:00.119 they've got all these kind of products as well from nitrofos yep, don't 407 00:30:00.279 --> 00:30:03.880 delay. Remember if you're going to use a pre emergent, now's the time 408 00:30:04.640 --> 00:30:08.079 it get it done, or it'll be too late. We're going to take 409 00:30:08.119 --> 00:30:11.440 a break. We'll be right back. Our phone number if you'd like to 410 00:30:11.440 --> 00:30:12.640 give us a call, it might be helped. I'll give that out today 411 00:30:14.000 --> 00:30:18.960 seven to one three two one two fifty eight seventy four. Hey, welcome 412 00:30:18.000 --> 00:30:22.799 back to garden Line. I have a little public service announcement for those of 413 00:30:22.920 --> 00:30:26.160 you out in the Kingwood area. You know you got Warrens Southern Guardens in 414 00:30:26.240 --> 00:30:30.839 Kingwood Garden Center. Their Leap your Sale ends tomorrow, so you got today 415 00:30:30.920 --> 00:30:36.079 and tomorrow left. And here's what you can do with the Leap your sale. 416 00:30:36.480 --> 00:30:41.640 Heirloomsas rosoil, for example, that two or three, you purchase two 417 00:30:41.720 --> 00:30:45.480 or three, the savings is huge on those asamite. I was just talking 418 00:30:45.480 --> 00:30:48.240 about that. This is a great time for their ten pound bag of azamite, 419 00:30:48.400 --> 00:30:52.279 which is what I would use for the vegetable garden, especially for that 420 00:30:52.480 --> 00:30:57.119 size. The sale on that again, there's a sale on both one or 421 00:30:57.200 --> 00:31:00.039 two if you're going to purchase them. And then Nelson, plant food and 422 00:31:00.160 --> 00:31:04.400 microlife in the jars. Okay, there's sales on those. It's a three 423 00:31:04.599 --> 00:31:08.079 four. Okay, save on the rose soil, save on asmites, save 424 00:31:08.119 --> 00:31:11.960 on Nelson and microlife. I guess that's a four four. But anyway, 425 00:31:12.119 --> 00:31:15.079 it ends tomorrow, So get out there today. Go ahead and get some 426 00:31:15.359 --> 00:31:19.640 and pick it up. They have got a great selection still of red buds 427 00:31:19.720 --> 00:31:25.799 and Chinese fringe and saucer Magnolia's three of the best spring blooming trees in the 428 00:31:25.839 --> 00:31:29.200 world. Listen, if you want a beautiful spring blooming tree at your house, 429 00:31:29.599 --> 00:31:32.720 now's the time to plant it. Take care of it this year and 430 00:31:33.480 --> 00:31:37.599 for years you're going to have the blooming dividends to enjoy. There's a lot 431 00:31:37.680 --> 00:31:41.200 of stuff going on out there. It's a beautiful color day at Warren's and 432 00:31:41.359 --> 00:31:45.680 a Kingwoock Garden Center. Get out there and enjoy it, have some fun. 433 00:31:45.119 --> 00:31:48.000 That's right. We're going to go out now to let's see, we're 434 00:31:48.000 --> 00:31:52.000 gonna head down to sugar Land and we're going to talk to Michael. Hello, 435 00:31:52.119 --> 00:31:56.039 Michael, good morning, Skid. I need your help. I follow 436 00:31:56.119 --> 00:32:00.160 the schedule. I've already put down the barricade. I'll already put down the 437 00:32:00.240 --> 00:32:05.200 fifteen five ten? Okay, when should I put down the blue label? 438 00:32:05.680 --> 00:32:07.359 And what can I put on top of that? Once I put the blue 439 00:32:07.400 --> 00:32:13.960 label down to kind of give the yard extra boost? Something maybe something organic 440 00:32:14.039 --> 00:32:16.000 that I can top it off. I've got about twenty twenty one hundred square 441 00:32:16.000 --> 00:32:20.559 footage and I don't want to spend a whole bunch of money, would you 442 00:32:20.599 --> 00:32:25.319 suggest? So, So when you say there's there's a number of different blue 443 00:32:25.359 --> 00:32:30.039 labels products out there, what product are you talking about? Well, I'm 444 00:32:30.160 --> 00:32:39.640 using exclusively, I'm using the the nightro fous oh nitropos. Okay, well 445 00:32:40.279 --> 00:32:45.079 that would be for controlling weeds. So what what? Yeah, it's got 446 00:32:45.240 --> 00:32:51.240 let's the ingredient that tremak? Is that what it is? I'm sorry said 447 00:32:51.240 --> 00:32:53.960 I didn't hear what you said. Say that again. The ingredient in the 448 00:32:54.279 --> 00:33:00.880 blue level blue label is it? We could trimac trimeac. Trimeac is a 449 00:33:01.079 --> 00:33:05.960 post emergence. So the barricade you put out prevents weed seeds from coming up 450 00:33:06.640 --> 00:33:12.440 the weed and feed combo and the blue label from nitrofoss is trimac and it 451 00:33:12.559 --> 00:33:16.000 kills existing weeds. So you need to wet your lawn barely just get the 452 00:33:16.079 --> 00:33:21.240 foliage wet of the grass and the weeds. You put the nitrofuss the blue 453 00:33:21.279 --> 00:33:25.119 label out and it soaks into the tissues of those weeds and kills them. 454 00:33:25.640 --> 00:33:30.559 After you've had it on for about twenty four to forty eight hours, you 455 00:33:30.599 --> 00:33:35.160 can go ahead and water it and that moves the fertilizer itself down into the 456 00:33:35.240 --> 00:33:39.799 surface of the soil. But that is a fast releasing fertilizer that you would 457 00:33:39.880 --> 00:33:45.720 use for early green up in that blue label nitroface. After I've done that, 458 00:33:46.319 --> 00:33:50.880 Dan, what type of art? I mean, something really organic. 459 00:33:51.160 --> 00:33:52.960 I don't want to put out cap manure somebody that's going to have the heart 460 00:33:53.039 --> 00:33:55.880 SMUK. I want to put something on top of it to give it that 461 00:33:57.359 --> 00:34:00.400 Last year I had a little bit of a problem give that extra hit. 462 00:34:00.519 --> 00:34:04.519 Start. Well, if you've done the fertilizer, it's an immediately available so 463 00:34:04.839 --> 00:34:07.599 you don't really need another nutrient boost. Now, if you've got the schedule, 464 00:34:07.679 --> 00:34:12.360 you see all the fertilizing we do through the year. I would consider 465 00:34:12.440 --> 00:34:15.599 a compost top dressing. You can spread that out and you're only putting it 466 00:34:15.719 --> 00:34:19.519 like a quarter inch deep. I mean it's just a little bit over the 467 00:34:19.599 --> 00:34:23.679 surface and that does a number of beneficial things for the soil, especially as 468 00:34:23.719 --> 00:34:28.000 you do that each year over time, it just gets better and better. 469 00:34:28.400 --> 00:34:30.719 But the compost top dressing would be the next thing that you might want to 470 00:34:30.800 --> 00:34:35.639 consider. You can do that yourself with a rake. It's quite a bit 471 00:34:35.679 --> 00:34:38.079 of work, a little bit messy, or you can hire somebody to come 472 00:34:38.519 --> 00:34:43.400 and do that for you. You're in the Sugarland area, right, yes, 473 00:34:43.599 --> 00:34:45.599 yes. And when you say the compost top dressing, is there a 474 00:34:45.639 --> 00:34:52.159 specific brand or that you suggest that I have a garden center deck right down 475 00:34:52.199 --> 00:34:58.360 the street. Yeah, I would prefer just a leaf mold compost. You 476 00:34:58.480 --> 00:35:01.320 can find that from air soils, you can find it from Nature's Way and 477 00:35:01.400 --> 00:35:05.280 the bags you can buy at bulk and have it delivered, or you can 478 00:35:05.320 --> 00:35:07.360 also call. We had a somebody I met the other day. I really 479 00:35:07.480 --> 00:35:12.800 like this B and B turf Pros. They're family owned business. They're down 480 00:35:12.840 --> 00:35:19.000 there in your area and they service sugar Land and they do compost top dressing. 481 00:35:19.679 --> 00:35:22.400 Let me give you can I give you a phone number in an email? 482 00:35:22.519 --> 00:35:27.320 I mean a website forum? Yes, all right, because BnB turf 483 00:35:27.400 --> 00:35:31.039 Pros they can do that, and they they cover that whole area down there. 484 00:35:31.079 --> 00:35:35.360 I mean if you live in Missouri City or sugar Land or Fresno, 485 00:35:35.440 --> 00:35:38.840 even over to Pearland down in our Cola, Iowa colony, Menvilciena, all 486 00:35:38.920 --> 00:35:43.480 that area down there south. Now, we have a compost top dressing company 487 00:35:43.800 --> 00:35:46.000 that can cover that area. All right, you got your pen I'm ready, 488 00:35:46.079 --> 00:35:52.559 yes, seven one three two three four fifty five ninety eight seven one 489 00:35:52.679 --> 00:35:58.039 three two two three four five five nine eight. And the website's really easy. 490 00:35:58.199 --> 00:36:04.360 It's a b B turf Pros with an S on the end. Bbturfpros 491 00:36:05.039 --> 00:36:10.039 dot com. Family owned business. Had a really good conversation visiting with those 492 00:36:10.079 --> 00:36:15.159 folks the other day, and I would highly recommend that you just go ahead 493 00:36:15.159 --> 00:36:17.679 and give them a call because they have the equipment that can do it right. 494 00:36:17.920 --> 00:36:21.920 It does it fast, it gets it done, and it's just I 495 00:36:22.079 --> 00:36:24.480 just think that's the best way to go. All right, Hey, thanksgivings 496 00:36:24.519 --> 00:36:27.800 always. We appreciate you. Have a great day. Man. All right, 497 00:36:27.960 --> 00:36:31.719 thank you, I appreciate that call. If you're looking for equality soil 498 00:36:32.039 --> 00:36:37.719 for containers, don't you don't have to looking further in jungle Land jungle land 499 00:36:37.000 --> 00:36:42.559 is distributed by nitrophos fertilizers, and it's got an outdoor and an indoor version. 500 00:36:42.599 --> 00:36:46.159 The outdoors called flour and vegetable planting soil. The indoor is called water 501 00:36:46.320 --> 00:36:51.119 saving potting soil because it has little crystals in it that hold onto water. 502 00:36:51.480 --> 00:36:54.039 So if you forget, I know, you don't forget. Some people forget 503 00:36:54.360 --> 00:36:59.639 to water their plants. Those crystals have some extra water to help extend. 504 00:37:00.599 --> 00:37:02.519 Let's just say it makes it a little more forgiving if you forget a little 505 00:37:02.519 --> 00:37:07.760 bit to water. They have wonderful blends of all kinds of organic materials in 506 00:37:07.960 --> 00:37:14.039 these you know, aged decomposing materials, Canadian blond pede, micaro isiel, 507 00:37:14.119 --> 00:37:16.840 fungi, all of that in those jungle land products. And you know, 508 00:37:17.039 --> 00:37:22.440 like any nitrofoss product, you can find jungle land everywhere. For example, 509 00:37:22.760 --> 00:37:25.960 in Janet Forest down in Richmond, Rosenberg has it, growers outlet up in 510 00:37:27.039 --> 00:37:31.800 Willis has it hiding and feed up in North I thirty five. Actually they're 511 00:37:31.920 --> 00:37:37.800 on a stupor airline up north. They've got it. Those nitrofoss products makes 512 00:37:37.840 --> 00:37:40.880 it really easy to do that. Let's head out to West Houston and we're 513 00:37:40.880 --> 00:37:45.840 going to talk to John. Hello John, Hey, good morning, Skip 514 00:37:45.199 --> 00:37:51.719 and thanks for your program. I have a question about my Saint Augustine yard 515 00:37:51.800 --> 00:37:55.119 and I've been following the schedule for several years and it's I've had great results. 516 00:37:57.039 --> 00:38:00.079 But I've got a section of the yard in the front that the wife 517 00:38:00.119 --> 00:38:04.599 and I were going to rake, well, really rake the whole yard to 518 00:38:04.719 --> 00:38:08.199 de thatch a little bit. Last week seemed like we had a lot of 519 00:38:08.280 --> 00:38:14.400 thatch. Well, this particular area looked kind of unusual in that it was 520 00:38:14.719 --> 00:38:20.119 just full of runners and I would reach down and grab a handful and it 521 00:38:20.320 --> 00:38:24.639 was like a carpet or canopy of runners, and you pulled them up and 522 00:38:24.719 --> 00:38:30.360 they'd be three and four feet long, just a big mesh. And when 523 00:38:30.400 --> 00:38:34.239 you pulled them up, there was pretty much bared hert underneath. And it 524 00:38:34.880 --> 00:38:39.360 just didn't seem like the grass was growing. There were no roots going from 525 00:38:39.400 --> 00:38:45.239 the runners into the ground. Very little, very very little. There was, 526 00:38:45.519 --> 00:38:50.199 you know here and there. Another little bit piece of history is, 527 00:38:50.440 --> 00:38:54.760 you know, we went through the flood a few years back, and I 528 00:38:54.960 --> 00:38:59.920 think that side of the yard it's where the sheet rock was piled up. 529 00:39:00.039 --> 00:39:01.760 All right, Hey, John, I'm running short on time, so I 530 00:39:01.880 --> 00:39:05.440 want to be able to have time to answer, so I'm gonna I'm unfortunately, 531 00:39:05.639 --> 00:39:08.599 I'll cut you there. When you see grass runners that are not pegging 532 00:39:08.679 --> 00:39:15.760 down roots and grabbing the soil and pushing roots down, that often is caused 533 00:39:15.840 --> 00:39:21.639 by excessive applications of fertilizers that prevent seeds from germinating the pre emergent types of 534 00:39:21.719 --> 00:39:25.559 things. When you overdo them, it has the same effect on those grass 535 00:39:25.599 --> 00:39:30.719 runners, So you want to try to avoid that. That is going to 536 00:39:30.760 --> 00:39:34.440 go away in time. I wouldn't worry about it right now. Proper mowing, 537 00:39:34.559 --> 00:39:37.559 proper watering, proper fertilizing, especially the water and the fertilizer. We've 538 00:39:37.599 --> 00:39:43.480 been getting decent rain, but a good fertilizer. I would consider doing a 539 00:39:45.000 --> 00:39:50.800 deep time aerration, core aeration and compost top dressing on it. That would 540 00:39:50.880 --> 00:39:53.880 give you another boost in that area of the lawn. If you want to 541 00:39:53.880 --> 00:39:55.760 send me a photo of it, I'm gonna put you on hold here. 542 00:39:55.800 --> 00:39:59.480 As we hang up, maybe Josh can get to you and you can send 543 00:39:59.519 --> 00:40:01.840 me some photo at a distance and close up. I may see something else, 544 00:40:01.920 --> 00:40:07.159 but right now I think i'd start with just going cultural with fertilizer and 545 00:40:07.320 --> 00:40:09.280 proper care. Sorry to have to run short here, but we do. 546 00:40:09.719 --> 00:40:15.400 We do have that that break coming up. Josh will pick up the phone 547 00:40:15.599 --> 00:40:17.639 and get you information on how to get a hold of me. If you 548 00:40:17.679 --> 00:40:22.239 want to do that, well, here we go, first hour in the 549 00:40:22.280 --> 00:40:25.320 books. We'll be right back. Katie r H. Garden Line does not 550 00:40:25.480 --> 00:40:31.280 necessarily endorse any of the products or services advertised on this program. Welcome to 551 00:40:31.559 --> 00:40:45.159 Katie r H. Garden Line with Skip rictor It's crazy Trim just watch him 552 00:40:45.440 --> 00:41:02.400 as so many pleas. Supt. Bazy, welcome back to guarden Line. 553 00:41:04.480 --> 00:41:07.159 Good to have you back today. Of course, this is a day for 554 00:41:07.280 --> 00:41:09.199 gardening. This is a day to talk about gardening. And remember there are 555 00:41:09.400 --> 00:41:15.599 no brown thumbs. There's only uninformed thumbs. And that's what we do for 556 00:41:15.719 --> 00:41:20.480 four hours on Saturday and Sunday mornings here on garden Line. We help inform 557 00:41:20.559 --> 00:41:23.519 your thumb. By the way, I'm always curious how people listen to garden 558 00:41:23.559 --> 00:41:27.039 Line, and there are a lot of different ways. You can listen live 559 00:41:27.280 --> 00:41:30.119 on the radio. People driving around in the car, that's an easy time 560 00:41:30.199 --> 00:41:35.320 to listen. Just flip it over to katr eight seven forty am and you're 561 00:41:35.360 --> 00:41:37.760 there. You can listen on your computer if you wish to do that at 562 00:41:37.800 --> 00:41:42.880 the house, and you can also listen on a app. For example, 563 00:41:43.000 --> 00:41:46.760 the iHeartMedia app is one of the places where you can listen to garden Line. 564 00:41:46.760 --> 00:41:51.159 You can listen to past podcast shows. When we finish a show, 565 00:41:51.760 --> 00:41:53.960 it's put up online as a podcast you can listen to you but you can 566 00:41:54.000 --> 00:41:58.320 also listen live that way. So stick your phone in your pocket and head 567 00:41:58.360 --> 00:42:00.280 out and get some gardening done and we'll talk you through it as we go 568 00:42:00.440 --> 00:42:05.559 through the morning. Don't forget about that not everybody has radio in the house 569 00:42:05.599 --> 00:42:07.280 these days. If you notice that, not everybody just has them listening, 570 00:42:07.599 --> 00:42:10.639 but you sure can listen. I listened to a lot of things by podcast, 571 00:42:10.760 --> 00:42:15.519 and I listen to a lot of live radio through those apps as well, 572 00:42:15.960 --> 00:42:17.719 and that just makes it convenient. I turned my phone upside down you 573 00:42:17.760 --> 00:42:20.880 and get a speaker on the bottom, and they just keep it in my 574 00:42:20.920 --> 00:42:22.719 pocket and I'm just walking around listening to the radio. It's kind of cool. 575 00:42:22.840 --> 00:42:25.639 I enjoyed doing that, So don't forget to listen to Gardline that way 576 00:42:27.159 --> 00:42:30.159 as well. I thought it plants for all seasons. Yesterday visiting with Sherry 577 00:42:30.360 --> 00:42:36.000 and just checking out all the buzz of activity out there. Boy, they 578 00:42:36.280 --> 00:42:39.400 have a excellent supply of all kinds of things. Do you need peppers or 579 00:42:39.480 --> 00:42:45.800 do you need tomatoes, for example, now's the time, especially the tomatoes. 580 00:42:45.360 --> 00:42:49.039 You got to get those things in right away. Let's do it. 581 00:42:49.199 --> 00:42:52.159 And they've got you set up. They have cherry tomatoes, they have paste 582 00:42:52.199 --> 00:42:55.000 tomatoes, they have slice or tomatoes, they have grape tomatoes. They got 583 00:42:55.599 --> 00:43:01.360 everything you need. Herbs, my goodness, their herbs is out standing out 584 00:43:01.400 --> 00:43:06.039 there, it really is. And seed the seed rag wall. I just 585 00:43:06.159 --> 00:43:07.480 love sitting there. In fact, I have to wear a bib because I 586 00:43:07.559 --> 00:43:12.320 sit there staring at all these seeds and I drool just starts to come the 587 00:43:12.440 --> 00:43:15.119 car. It's like, oh boy, here we go. We're going to 588 00:43:15.199 --> 00:43:20.360 grow some stuff this year. So yeah, they can fixure up with everything 589 00:43:20.400 --> 00:43:22.320 at Plants for All Seasons. They're easy to find. First of all, 590 00:43:22.480 --> 00:43:27.920 the phone number two eight one, three, seven six, sixteen forty six, 591 00:43:28.480 --> 00:43:34.079 the website it's easy. Plants for all seasons dot com. Plants for 592 00:43:34.159 --> 00:43:38.480 all Seasons dot com. They will turn your brown thumb green for sure because 593 00:43:38.559 --> 00:43:43.320 they have staff that knows what they're talking about. The direction to the right 594 00:43:43.400 --> 00:43:45.079 plant tells you how to take care of him. You got a problem, 595 00:43:45.480 --> 00:43:49.119 bring it in, bring a sample or a photo. They'll direct you the 596 00:43:49.199 --> 00:43:53.599 product you need that's gonna work. And that alone is worth going to a 597 00:43:53.719 --> 00:43:59.519 quality place with knowledgeable staff like plants for all seasons. You're listening to garden 598 00:43:59.559 --> 00:44:01.320 line and our phone number, which I should be giving out all the time, 599 00:44:01.360 --> 00:44:07.119 and I just haven't done that today is seven to one three two one 600 00:44:07.199 --> 00:44:13.639 two five eight seven four seven one three two one two kt r H makes 601 00:44:13.719 --> 00:44:17.800 it easy to dial in and do that. You know, honey bees make 602 00:44:17.880 --> 00:44:27.440 our landscapes more productive, but they also help pollinate our blooms and help set 603 00:44:27.519 --> 00:44:30.000 fruit. So, for example, if you have fruit trees, if you've 604 00:44:30.039 --> 00:44:34.639 got vegetables in the garden, you will see better production, especially things like 605 00:44:34.760 --> 00:44:39.599 qukurbits that would be squash and cucumbers and melons that they help make sure you 606 00:44:39.719 --> 00:44:44.119 get good fruit set. Why not put some bees in your backyard If you'd 607 00:44:44.280 --> 00:44:46.519 like to look into that, you should call the folks at the bee Supply 608 00:44:47.039 --> 00:44:52.280 out in Dayton, Texas. Now the Bee Supply they are experts in bees 609 00:44:52.400 --> 00:44:59.519 and they have outstanding trainings. They for example, they're beginning bee keeping glasses. 610 00:45:00.239 --> 00:45:04.400 Bee keeping glass is March ninth, about every two weeks, then March 611 00:45:04.480 --> 00:45:07.800 twenty third April thirteenth. You see what I'm talking about. Go to the 612 00:45:07.840 --> 00:45:15.280 website vbsupply dot com thebsupply dot com. If you don't want to enter into 613 00:45:15.320 --> 00:45:16.599 the world to be keeping, you still need to go. They have an 614 00:45:16.639 --> 00:45:21.719 observation hive. Take your kids. They got to see this. You can 615 00:45:21.800 --> 00:45:27.239 watch the bees in action from behind a plate glass or plexiglass window and you 616 00:45:27.360 --> 00:45:30.519 get right up close to it. Is amazing cool. They also have the 617 00:45:30.679 --> 00:45:35.280 b Tours, the honey tours rather out at the bee Supply, where you 618 00:45:35.360 --> 00:45:37.760 get to taste all these different kinds of honey and you learn all about bees. 619 00:45:37.840 --> 00:45:40.599 Again. Kids have got to go and do this. If you've got 620 00:45:40.639 --> 00:45:45.639 a garden club, if you've got a church group, pacific organization, get 621 00:45:45.719 --> 00:45:47.599 your friends and go out there. Find out when these are going to be 622 00:45:47.840 --> 00:45:53.599 at thebesupply dot com and make it just a fun trip with a group of 623 00:45:53.679 --> 00:45:59.199 friends. I've been out there a few times. I just love going to 624 00:45:59.320 --> 00:46:02.159 the be Supply. It is so cool. It really is it really is? 625 00:46:04.599 --> 00:46:07.239 Well, you're listening to the guardline. Number of things I wanted to 626 00:46:07.360 --> 00:46:09.400 visit about today. One of the things that I like to touch base on. 627 00:46:10.679 --> 00:46:14.960 We're talking a lot about taking care of your lawns and getting all that 628 00:46:15.119 --> 00:46:17.400 right. It is also time to take care of the soil and your flower 629 00:46:17.440 --> 00:46:22.159 beds and your vegetable gardens. If you have not started your warm season planting 630 00:46:22.239 --> 00:46:27.159 yet, you need to. But first you want to make sure those soils 631 00:46:27.519 --> 00:46:31.639 look good and they perform well. That is very important. That's the foundation 632 00:46:32.280 --> 00:46:37.480 and Nature's way resources. They've been specializing in this. I don't know for 633 00:46:37.880 --> 00:46:43.639 ages. They're the originators of leaf more composts that we talk about all the 634 00:46:43.719 --> 00:46:46.519 time. They're the originators of roast soil that we talk about all the time. 635 00:46:47.079 --> 00:46:52.800 They have a number of different blends and products for whatever plants you're growing, 636 00:46:52.880 --> 00:46:54.599 whatever situation you have, you got to get the soil ready first, 637 00:46:54.599 --> 00:47:00.760 So make sure your vegetable garden mix in some mix for vegetables, for herbs, 638 00:47:00.840 --> 00:47:02.920 or for flowers or whatever you're growing. They can direct you to the 639 00:47:04.000 --> 00:47:06.280 right one. They got about a bag, and they got about the bulk. 640 00:47:06.719 --> 00:47:10.559 And if you're looking for an excuse. March ninth is the Spring Garden 641 00:47:10.679 --> 00:47:15.480 Festival. Go out there, pick up your bags while you're there, or 642 00:47:15.559 --> 00:47:19.119 give them a call and have them deliver a bulk load to your house. 643 00:47:19.199 --> 00:47:22.159 But March ninth they're going to have gardening education. They're going to have vendors, 644 00:47:22.280 --> 00:47:25.840 all kinds of things, some sangria to sip as you wander around and 645 00:47:27.000 --> 00:47:31.840 learn. There's activities for the kids. It is quite the shindig at Nature's 646 00:47:31.880 --> 00:47:36.639 Way Resources. Now, if you're heading north on Interstate thirty five toward Conro 647 00:47:37.079 --> 00:47:39.960 where fourteen eighty eight comes in from the left, you just turn right across 648 00:47:40.000 --> 00:47:45.719 over the railroad tracks. The actual address is Sherbrooks Circle, but it's really 649 00:47:45.800 --> 00:47:49.599 easy to get to. You can give them a call. Nine three six 650 00:47:50.159 --> 00:47:55.760 two seven three twelve hundred nine three six two seven three twelve hundred. But 651 00:47:55.960 --> 00:48:00.199 remember brown stuff before green stuff. Get the soil all right, then put 652 00:48:00.239 --> 00:48:05.920 your seeds and plants in. We're gonna we're gonna take a little break here. 653 00:48:06.039 --> 00:48:08.400 It's about time for that. Our phone number again seven to one three 654 00:48:08.639 --> 00:48:13.920 two point two fifty eight seventy four. I'll be right back. Welcome back 655 00:48:13.920 --> 00:48:15.440 to the garden. Line. Good to have you with us today. Hey, 656 00:48:15.519 --> 00:48:19.719 I want to mention something to you. I am going to be up 657 00:48:20.000 --> 00:48:25.800 at the Montgomery County Outdoor Home and Outdoor Living Show today. After the show, 658 00:48:25.920 --> 00:48:30.519 I'm gonna jump in a car here but head up to Montgomery County to 659 00:48:30.760 --> 00:48:36.039 Conro to the Lone Star Convention Center and I'm going to be giving a talk 660 00:48:36.320 --> 00:48:38.880 at the Home and Outdoor Living Show. I will also be there to answer 661 00:48:38.880 --> 00:48:44.079 your gardening questions. And as if that's not enough, I'm going to give 662 00:48:44.079 --> 00:48:47.960 them away some products from Nelson Fertilizers, the Genesis Transplant Mix. That's our 663 00:48:49.000 --> 00:48:51.960 prime product. I'm gonna give away some others as well, but that's the 664 00:48:52.000 --> 00:48:55.000 one I want to talk about because I used it recently. What Here's what 665 00:48:55.159 --> 00:48:58.559 you do. You got a tomato you want to bump it up. You 666 00:48:58.639 --> 00:49:02.159 got a plant you want to mix in or mix in some quality materials in 667 00:49:02.239 --> 00:49:07.039 the soil and then plant your plant. Nelson Genesis Transplant Mix is just that. 668 00:49:07.199 --> 00:49:10.920 It's a six to one three fertilizer. It's designed to aid in getting 669 00:49:12.000 --> 00:49:15.400 that plant relocated, getting the new roots stimulated, and getting them growing. 670 00:49:15.519 --> 00:49:21.760 It's got beneficial bacteria, it's got endo and ectomycorrhizal fungi. It has humates 671 00:49:21.800 --> 00:49:27.159 to condition the soil, other nutrients to encourage just the health of the soil 672 00:49:27.440 --> 00:49:31.599 and the proficiency of the plant's systems. So you get good growth, you 673 00:49:31.679 --> 00:49:37.599 get early establishment. Basically you're enhancing the biology of the soil and you're providing 674 00:49:37.079 --> 00:49:39.960 some nutrients. I'm going to give away several jars of that as well as 675 00:49:40.000 --> 00:49:45.199 a number of other jars of Nelson products today, So if you come, 676 00:49:45.639 --> 00:49:50.199 you're going to go home with something. I've got something there at least let 677 00:49:50.280 --> 00:49:52.239 me put it this way until as long as supplies last. But I got 678 00:49:52.239 --> 00:49:55.719 a lot of supplies, so you should be okay, come on out and 679 00:49:55.760 --> 00:49:59.760 see me. I'll be there from twelve to one. I'm going to be 680 00:49:59.760 --> 00:50:05.000 give in my presentation, starting off at twelve, and then hanging around answering 681 00:50:05.039 --> 00:50:07.960 your guarding questions. Bring me pictures of plants that are having problems. Bring 682 00:50:08.079 --> 00:50:12.599 me things you need identified. If you put them in a little bag, 683 00:50:12.760 --> 00:50:15.679 bring them in there. We will get it fixed and you will be ready 684 00:50:15.679 --> 00:50:19.760 to go. It is time to be ready to go. I'm going to 685 00:50:19.840 --> 00:50:23.599 head out now to run in Cleveland, Texas. Hello, Ron Good morning, 686 00:50:24.039 --> 00:50:28.920 Good morning. I got a Texas Mountain Laurel. It's been in the 687 00:50:29.000 --> 00:50:32.320 ground well, actually I talked to Randy Lemon and then I had put it 688 00:50:32.360 --> 00:50:36.000 in the ground and he passed away not long after that, so it's been 689 00:50:36.079 --> 00:50:38.320 in the ground for a few years. I guess, Okay, put out 690 00:50:38.400 --> 00:50:44.880 these seed pods and I was wondering if I can propagate those seed pods, 691 00:50:44.960 --> 00:50:49.159 and any tips on it, you can. You can. Those pods have 692 00:50:49.239 --> 00:50:53.320 a very strong leathery coat. So if you have a red seed that's the 693 00:50:53.400 --> 00:50:58.320 fully mature seed that's kind of begun to dry out of the pod, you 694 00:50:58.519 --> 00:51:01.199 can nick it with a knife to break through that outer coat. You don't 695 00:51:01.199 --> 00:51:05.840 want to cut into the seed inside the coat, but just nick it with 696 00:51:05.960 --> 00:51:09.320 a knife. That will allow moisture to get in and start the germination process 697 00:51:09.480 --> 00:51:12.840 better. Now, I want to give you a tip though, Ron, 698 00:51:13.679 --> 00:51:17.840 if you will let the pods get full sized but not dried, the seeds 699 00:51:17.880 --> 00:51:22.119 inside will not be red yet, but they fully have matured. You know, 700 00:51:22.199 --> 00:51:27.119 they're not halfway grown. They're full sized seeds. It just hasn't aged 701 00:51:27.159 --> 00:51:30.480 and dried and the seed turn red. They germinate right away, very easy, 702 00:51:30.920 --> 00:51:35.519 but that's a tough Central Texas native. It's designed for all the seed 703 00:51:35.639 --> 00:51:38.320 not to germinate right away in a year, but to last through the years 704 00:51:39.039 --> 00:51:44.559 and eventually germinate. But if you catch it early, you can do it 705 00:51:44.719 --> 00:51:49.599 and that that mature but still green stage and it'll just it'll sprout right away 706 00:51:49.679 --> 00:51:52.840 for you. Well, I didn't catch them early because I left them on 707 00:51:52.000 --> 00:51:55.239 there. Okay, see if they'll drop or what they're going to do. 708 00:51:55.400 --> 00:51:59.039 So I left them on there, so you're pretty dry. Yeah, crack 709 00:51:59.119 --> 00:52:01.440 the pods open, nick the coat like I told you. Yeah, and 710 00:52:01.639 --> 00:52:06.079 just put them in some good soil. Yeah, any kind of a mix, 711 00:52:06.519 --> 00:52:08.679 any any kind of a mix will be good. I would make sure 712 00:52:08.760 --> 00:52:14.119 the container has a little bit of size to it because that's going to want 713 00:52:14.119 --> 00:52:16.920 to send down roots. You also want if you can use a container that 714 00:52:17.719 --> 00:52:22.360 you know is square, so the roots just don't go around and around in 715 00:52:22.440 --> 00:52:25.679 it. That's good. There's a lot of ways to go about it. 716 00:52:27.079 --> 00:52:30.400 Bottom line is just get them in and get them going. It's a slow 717 00:52:30.480 --> 00:52:35.119 growing plant, but it is a wonderful plant. Oh yeah, it is. 718 00:52:35.519 --> 00:52:37.880 Yeah, Well I appreciate it, all right. Thank you for those 719 00:52:37.920 --> 00:52:43.599 of you have never smelled a Texas Mountain, Laurel Bloom. Think back to 720 00:52:43.800 --> 00:52:47.239 your childhood days when you got that big old super bubble bubble gum, the 721 00:52:47.440 --> 00:52:52.519 grape flavored one. That's what these smell like. I mean they are you 722 00:52:52.599 --> 00:53:00.440 know. The term gaudie is usually something that we use for visual opinion. 723 00:53:00.559 --> 00:53:04.639 I would say this has a gaudy fragrance if you can, If you can 724 00:53:04.760 --> 00:53:06.960 use the term that way, this would be a good way. It is 725 00:53:07.039 --> 00:53:12.000 a strong, I love it, good fragrance, really nice. Uh hey, 726 00:53:12.239 --> 00:53:16.480 have you been to the Antique Rosenporium lately? The Rosenporium is an outstanding 727 00:53:16.559 --> 00:53:20.519 place to go, viz. It is just fun. I mean you need 728 00:53:20.760 --> 00:53:23.679 an outing, you know, take some time and take your friends and go 729 00:53:23.800 --> 00:53:28.280 out there and see it. It is in on FM fifty in a north 730 00:53:28.360 --> 00:53:31.000 of Brenham, Texas. Okay, you head north out of Brenham on FM 731 00:53:31.039 --> 00:53:34.199 fifty. By the way, swing by and get you some blue belt laying 732 00:53:34.199 --> 00:53:37.760 around the way out there. Blue bonnet season is coming up. What a 733 00:53:37.880 --> 00:53:42.440 great time to head out there. Let me give you their their website go 734 00:53:42.639 --> 00:53:49.480 to Antique Roseimporium dot com. That's easy. Antique Rosenporium dot com. Here's 735 00:53:49.480 --> 00:53:54.639 the phone number nine seven nine eight three six fifty five forty eight nine seven 736 00:53:54.719 --> 00:54:00.800 nine eight three six five five four eight. The March event that you need 737 00:54:00.920 --> 00:54:04.280 to know about. There's always something going on at Anti Grows Imporium, but 738 00:54:04.400 --> 00:54:08.519 the March event is the ninth and tenth. That's the spring celebration. I 739 00:54:08.599 --> 00:54:13.000 will be there on Saturday the ninth. I'll be giving a talk. There'll 740 00:54:13.000 --> 00:54:17.440 be other talks. The place will look unbelievable. They're gonna have an artisan 741 00:54:17.559 --> 00:54:22.559 market, They're gonna have speakers like myself, food trucks, and then all 742 00:54:22.639 --> 00:54:25.280 the plants and listen. Any kind of anti grows you can imagine, this 743 00:54:25.519 --> 00:54:30.920 is the place to get them, and also anything out There are roses, 744 00:54:30.000 --> 00:54:35.320 but there's so much more. Perennials, boogainvillias, gerber daisies. Do you 745 00:54:35.400 --> 00:54:39.719 need stuff for the shade? They have it all the Antique Rose Emporium again 746 00:54:39.960 --> 00:54:44.679 Antiqurosimporium dot com. Just go to the website. You can learn about everything 747 00:54:44.760 --> 00:54:47.000 you need to know right there. Boy am I looking forward to heading out 748 00:54:47.039 --> 00:54:51.679 there being part of that. We're going to go to Old River and talk 749 00:54:51.719 --> 00:54:54.800 to Patrick Patrick. Congratulations as far as I know you the first person I've 750 00:54:54.800 --> 00:55:00.400 talked to from Old River. Good morning. Yes, that was out in 751 00:55:00.519 --> 00:55:07.360 the yard yesterday and I noticed some sawdust coming from one of my pine trees. 752 00:55:07.800 --> 00:55:12.000 Okay, and I'm suspicious that it might be pine bark beetles. Yes, 753 00:55:12.360 --> 00:55:15.320 if it's up sawdust, it probably can do for that. Uh. 754 00:55:15.480 --> 00:55:19.639 Do you see where it's coming out? Yes? Is there a globa sap 755 00:55:19.760 --> 00:55:25.480 there? It's just around the bottom of the tree. Not too bad yet, 756 00:55:25.719 --> 00:55:31.440 Okay, it's worse my experience if it if the if the beetle entry, 757 00:55:31.800 --> 00:55:36.800 there's usually a glob of sap where they go in. Isn't as like 758 00:55:36.920 --> 00:55:40.800 from eight foot down? That is that the black turpentine beetle. Uh? 759 00:55:42.039 --> 00:55:45.719 And then there's there's like five different kinds of bark beetles we deal with here 760 00:55:45.760 --> 00:55:51.599 in Texas on pine trees. Okay. Usually when it's drought, why they 761 00:55:51.679 --> 00:55:58.800 can get in. And then if it's moist, why the pine sap will 762 00:55:58.880 --> 00:56:02.360 keep them out. The pine tries to, but when the pine is weak, 763 00:56:02.639 --> 00:56:07.760 the beetles take over. You can almost guarantee when you have like a 764 00:56:07.840 --> 00:56:13.280 lightning strike on a pine, beetles follow in that stressed damaged tree. Drought 765 00:56:13.360 --> 00:56:16.360 can effect. Anything I can apply to the bottom of the tree is let 766 00:56:16.519 --> 00:56:21.400 the roots take it up into the tree. Now, there's not a systemic 767 00:56:21.480 --> 00:56:24.559 that works on that. In the old days, we took and sprayed a 768 00:56:24.760 --> 00:56:30.199 very strong, persistent insecticide on the trunk and into the crevices, and then 769 00:56:30.239 --> 00:56:34.519 when the beetle tried to go in, it had to chew through that insecticide. 770 00:56:35.039 --> 00:56:38.000 Those products are very damaging to your eyes, for example, and when 771 00:56:38.039 --> 00:56:42.679 you're trying to get you'd like to be able to cover eighty percent of the 772 00:56:42.760 --> 00:56:46.920 tree trunk height when you spray, Well, how do you spray up like 773 00:56:47.039 --> 00:56:51.159 that and not get stuff drifting down in your eyes and stuff? It just 774 00:56:51.400 --> 00:56:55.159 impractical to do. It is possible to do, but I would say I 775 00:56:55.280 --> 00:57:01.519 generally I just wouldn't recommend it because of the safety and practically. All right, 776 00:57:01.920 --> 00:57:05.840 well, thank you very much, you bet. I hope that tree 777 00:57:05.880 --> 00:57:08.000 turns out okay. If it's a turpentine that tends to not be as bad, 778 00:57:08.199 --> 00:57:12.079 and that would also be one that be more practical. You stand back 779 00:57:12.119 --> 00:57:15.599 and spray the trunk, you know, from let's just say ten foot down 780 00:57:15.880 --> 00:57:19.320 and you'd be all right. Appreciate your time. All right, Patrick, 781 00:57:19.360 --> 00:57:24.599 thank you appreciate the call very much. Are you looking for a product that 782 00:57:25.360 --> 00:57:30.039 is organic but that has a lot of nitrogen in it? That would be 783 00:57:30.239 --> 00:57:35.679 sweet Green. Sweet Green is by Nitroposs and it is it is like eleven 784 00:57:35.760 --> 00:57:42.199 percent nitrogen fertilizer. It's very high in that it's biologically the molasses has been 785 00:57:42.320 --> 00:57:47.360 biologically affected. The microbes turn molasses into sweet green in a sense if you 786 00:57:47.440 --> 00:57:51.960 want to look at it that way. It releases in water. It is 787 00:57:52.119 --> 00:57:54.159 very good for the soil, very good for microbes. Microbes love sugar. 788 00:57:54.239 --> 00:57:59.800 That's why people put molasses on the soil to increase microbe activity and population. 789 00:58:00.039 --> 00:58:04.679 Sweet greens smells wonderful. The name, it's a good name. It smells 790 00:58:04.840 --> 00:58:07.840 sweet because it comes from molasses. Really easy, easy to do. Hey, 791 00:58:08.159 --> 00:58:12.679 where do you get it? Woodlands? All small hardware has got it 792 00:58:12.800 --> 00:58:15.800 in the Woodlands if you were, you know on two very nine plants for 793 00:58:15.840 --> 00:58:20.320 all seasons, carries Nitrofoss Sweet Green. I was in there just the other 794 00:58:20.400 --> 00:58:22.800 day. It's also night Fross sweagering out in Brenham. When you're on your 795 00:58:22.800 --> 00:58:29.800 way up to antique crows and bo plants and things. Carrie Nitrofuss sweet Green. 796 00:58:29.960 --> 00:58:32.079 So it's easy to find night Foss products round town. Those are just 797 00:58:32.119 --> 00:58:37.440 a few of the places that you can find it. I have a bag 798 00:58:37.519 --> 00:58:38.519 of it I'm gonna put out this year. I always, you know, 799 00:58:38.760 --> 00:58:44.599 here's one thing about Guardline that I want you to know. I talk about 800 00:58:44.679 --> 00:58:49.199 products that I've used or that I've seen research on, some way that I 801 00:58:49.440 --> 00:58:53.480 feel confident this stuff works. And always when you hear me talk about something, 802 00:58:53.639 --> 00:58:57.400 either I've seen research on it, I've talked to people, I've seen 803 00:58:57.480 --> 00:59:00.679 the work that they do, I've used the product, I see how it 804 00:59:00.800 --> 00:59:07.440 works. So that's how this works here, don't There's some types of advertisers 805 00:59:07.480 --> 00:59:08.880 that would like to advertise and we don't take We're just not going to do 806 00:59:09.000 --> 00:59:14.440 that. I'm not going to recommend something that I personally am not willing to 807 00:59:14.480 --> 00:59:16.880 put my name on that I believe in. And so you can just know 808 00:59:17.039 --> 00:59:22.719 that I hope you already do. But you can know that Wilbirds Unlimited is 809 00:59:22.960 --> 00:59:30.079 wanting you to know right now that the hummingbirds are here. They are arriving. 810 00:59:30.800 --> 00:59:35.199 Early March is the time when the hummingbirds in their migration are starting back 811 00:59:35.239 --> 00:59:37.920 through you need to get the hummingbird houses out. There are feeders out there. 812 00:59:39.559 --> 00:59:44.000 They have the products you need that have beautiful hummingbird feeders. By the 813 00:59:44.039 --> 00:59:47.840 way, they have the material that you can put in the feeder to feed 814 00:59:47.920 --> 00:59:51.599 the hummingbirds, or you can make your own. They'll give you the right 815 00:59:51.679 --> 00:59:54.000 recipe to do it. But listen, when you put stuff in a hummingbird 816 00:59:54.039 --> 00:59:59.320 feeder in our hot Texas weather, you got to change it out every couple 817 00:59:59.360 --> 01:00:01.079 of days because you don't want it to ferment. You don't want mold to 818 01:00:01.119 --> 01:00:04.480 grow. If you've had a feeder, you've probably seen a little black mold 819 01:00:04.599 --> 01:00:08.039 around where the hummingbirds are feeding. Clean it out, Clean it out. 820 01:00:08.360 --> 01:00:13.320 You don't want to give diseases to those birds. Now. Wibirds Unlimited as 821 01:00:13.360 --> 01:00:17.440 six stores all over all over the place. Easy to find them wbu dot 822 01:00:17.800 --> 01:00:24.079 com. Also, don't forget bluebirds are looking for nests Purple Martins. Back 823 01:00:24.119 --> 01:00:29.559 in February, they began returning looking for a place to stay, and you 824 01:00:29.639 --> 01:00:32.000 put their house up. They find it. They go tell their friends it's 825 01:00:32.079 --> 01:00:36.960 a sweet gig you got going there. Whether they say sweet digs or whatever. 826 01:00:37.440 --> 01:00:39.840 They'll come and set off shop at your house wildbirds fixes you up on 827 01:00:39.960 --> 01:00:46.320 all that bird seed and mainly important accurate knowledge to help you have success, 828 01:00:46.360 --> 01:00:51.360 because that's why we do that. I love having birds out in the yard 829 01:00:51.639 --> 01:00:54.880 and in the landscape. That is one of my favorite things that I do 830 01:00:55.519 --> 01:01:01.800 is take care of the wildbirds. Fun. Hey, I'm happy to announce 831 01:01:02.039 --> 01:01:06.480 Grime County. Grimes County Feed is back for those of you up there in 832 01:01:06.559 --> 01:01:10.639 the Navisota area. Grimes County Feed is raring to go. I mean it 833 01:01:10.840 --> 01:01:15.679 is spring and they are stocked up and ready to go. They carry the 834 01:01:15.719 --> 01:01:19.800 fertilizer products that you hear me talk about here on guard Line. By the 835 01:01:19.840 --> 01:01:23.559 way, I just want to again congratulate the folks at Grimes County On last 836 01:01:23.639 --> 01:01:29.079 year they did their fifth year anniversary. And you know, I love going 837 01:01:29.119 --> 01:01:32.800 in there, love visiting with Chris and the whole gang there at Grimes County 838 01:01:32.840 --> 01:01:36.960 Feed. If you'd like to give them a call, it's two eight one 839 01:01:37.559 --> 01:01:44.920 eight one four twenty four ninety four eight one four twenty four ninety four. 840 01:01:45.320 --> 01:01:50.239 The roy family has been in that community for number of years. All of 841 01:01:50.320 --> 01:01:53.159 you out there in all the little communities of beat Eyes and Richards and Anderson 842 01:01:53.239 --> 01:01:58.760 and Shiro and Rodes Prairie and even College Station they're just a hop skipping or 843 01:01:58.840 --> 01:02:04.159 jump out Highway thirty outside of College Station as well. Well, I'm going 844 01:02:04.239 --> 01:02:12.760 to turn the magic microphone over to the magical I'm sorry, I humoring myself. 845 01:02:12.800 --> 01:02:17.199 I can't even finish the magical Nikki to give us the info on the 846 01:02:17.280 --> 01:02:22.480 news that we can't live without. Well, let's make your gardening dreams come 847 01:02:22.599 --> 01:02:25.039 true today. And how do we do that? Well, we start with 848 01:02:25.119 --> 01:02:29.119 the brown stuff. We get the soil right. We go to a quality 849 01:02:30.039 --> 01:02:32.800 garden center knows what they're talking about, and we get the right plants to 850 01:02:32.920 --> 01:02:37.000 plant in our area. We get the instruction on how to do it right, 851 01:02:37.239 --> 01:02:38.559 and then we take care of them. We build the soil. Part 852 01:02:38.559 --> 01:02:43.679 of the brown stuff is fertilizing. Mixing nutrients in the soil is a bank 853 01:02:43.719 --> 01:02:49.079 account. Every moment of every day, that plant is taking up water and 854 01:02:49.159 --> 01:02:53.480 nutrients, and it needs the bank account to have everything. It needs nitrogen, 855 01:02:53.679 --> 01:03:00.480 phosphorus, potassium, calcium, magnesium, sulfur, manganese, zinc, 856 01:03:00.079 --> 01:03:05.679 iron, boron. Do you hear what I'm saying? Everything? There's like 857 01:03:05.840 --> 01:03:08.639 twenty roughly about twenty nutrients that the plant is going to need to take up 858 01:03:09.280 --> 01:03:12.920 and they got to be in the bank account. That's part of taking care 859 01:03:12.960 --> 01:03:15.360 of the brown stuff so your plants can thrive. That's the whole idea that 860 01:03:15.559 --> 01:03:20.480 makes your dreams come true. It really really does. Listen. When you 861 01:03:20.599 --> 01:03:24.840 buy a pack of seed or a plant, you are investing in hope. 862 01:03:25.239 --> 01:03:31.000 You are investing in future beauty and bounty. That's what you're doing. Will 863 01:03:31.000 --> 01:03:35.199 you buy a tomato plant? Don't you just see the tomato? Can't you 864 01:03:35.320 --> 01:03:37.920 just taste it? When you buy that plant and you're bringing it home, 865 01:03:38.039 --> 01:03:42.559 you already know it's gonna be good. You're gonna have slices on the burgers, 866 01:03:42.599 --> 01:03:45.800 You're gonna have cherries to throw in a salad. You're gonna make sauce 867 01:03:45.880 --> 01:03:47.920 with the paste type for me. You already know what you want to do 868 01:03:49.000 --> 01:03:52.719 with it. We want you, We want that dream to be reality. 869 01:03:52.880 --> 01:03:55.199 And that's why we give advice here on Guarden Line. You can give us 870 01:03:55.199 --> 01:04:00.199 a call ite seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four seven three 871 01:04:00.280 --> 01:04:04.400 two fifty eight seventy four and we will be happy to visit with you. 872 01:04:04.559 --> 01:04:08.679 Talk about the clownd of questions. You have help in whatever way we can. 873 01:04:09.199 --> 01:04:12.679 For those of you down south and east, and actually for those of 874 01:04:12.800 --> 01:04:15.639 you anywhere listening to my voice, if you've not been to Moss Nursery, 875 01:04:16.000 --> 01:04:20.840 you need to go. It is a wonderland to walk through, to stroll 876 01:04:20.960 --> 01:04:26.280 through. I mean it's just acres of every turn around, every corner. 877 01:04:26.360 --> 01:04:32.320 Who knows what you're going to see? Plants, containers, cool unusual artifacts 878 01:04:32.480 --> 01:04:36.039 that they have gathered from around the world and brought back to display there. 879 01:04:36.480 --> 01:04:41.559 It is just a fun place to go to right now. They have got 880 01:04:41.800 --> 01:04:45.239 all kinds of containers available. They've got plants and all kinds of container sizes. 881 01:04:45.599 --> 01:04:48.800 Do you need stuff for your patio? Do you want to see a 882 01:04:49.360 --> 01:04:55.480 hanging basket on that back porch area where you at wherever you have a hanging 883 01:04:55.599 --> 01:04:59.280 basket, they've got that. They have common varieties, they have exotic varieties, 884 01:04:59.639 --> 01:05:02.519 and they're your greenhouse is loaded. I mean there's stuff on the tables, 885 01:05:02.559 --> 01:05:05.079 on the shelves, on the ground. They even hang them from the 886 01:05:05.199 --> 01:05:09.639 rafters in there. Listen. If you are into succulents, which a lot 887 01:05:09.719 --> 01:05:13.480 of people are, you're not gonna find a better selection. Then they've got 888 01:05:13.480 --> 01:05:15.360 it. Moss Nursery. If you're into all kinds of tropical sprind doors, 889 01:05:16.079 --> 01:05:19.920 it is amazing what they have there. But it's not just that it is 890 01:05:20.400 --> 01:05:25.440 bedding plants for color. It is fruiting plants, it is vegetable plants. 891 01:05:25.880 --> 01:05:28.920 Everything you can imagine and the products to go with it that I talk about 892 01:05:28.960 --> 01:05:35.760 on Guardline at Moss Nursery Moss Nursery maas nursery dot com, or you can 893 01:05:35.840 --> 01:05:41.840 give them a call two eight one four seven four twenty four eighty eight, 894 01:05:42.039 --> 01:05:44.280 and you need to go check it out if you haven't been. It is 895 01:05:44.840 --> 01:05:47.400 really really worth the drive for wherever you're coming from. Those of you who 896 01:05:47.440 --> 01:05:51.480 live southeast, you already know it's in your backyard. You're listening to Guardline. 897 01:05:51.519 --> 01:05:56.280 Our phone number is seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four 898 01:05:56.599 --> 01:06:00.800 seven one three two one two five eight seven four. So what do you 899 01:06:00.840 --> 01:06:05.000 want to talk about today? You know, the elephant in the room this 900 01:06:05.159 --> 01:06:09.719 time of the year is your lawn. Taking care of your lawn, making 901 01:06:09.760 --> 01:06:13.880 sure it looks good. Last summer was brutal. Lawns are thin. I'm 902 01:06:13.920 --> 01:06:17.119 having to replace some sections of lawns from when I was away last summer. 903 01:06:17.280 --> 01:06:21.800 Water didn't come on for whatever reason. Chinch bugs invaded, take all root 904 01:06:21.880 --> 01:06:26.360 rod invaded. It was like they wanted to mock me. It's like this 905 01:06:26.440 --> 01:06:29.719 guy's on the radio talking about knowing what he's talking about, and we're just 906 01:06:29.800 --> 01:06:32.840 gonna kill all the lawn in his house. Ah boy, I never had 907 01:06:32.880 --> 01:06:35.800 those problems before, but I did last year. So let's just say I 908 01:06:35.880 --> 01:06:39.760 can feel your pain. So what do you gotta do. You gotta get 909 01:06:39.800 --> 01:06:42.800 out there and take care of it now. If you go to my gardening 910 01:06:42.920 --> 01:06:47.400 schedule for lawn care, this is online at gardening with Skip dot com. 911 01:06:47.559 --> 01:06:50.760 It's the lawn care schedule. By the way, there's also a lawn pest 912 01:06:50.880 --> 01:06:56.920 disease and weed management schedule. Both are free. They last January through February. 913 01:06:57.119 --> 01:07:00.559 What do you do? Okay, January through febru What do you do? 914 01:07:00.719 --> 01:07:04.239 And then what products will do that? It's across the bottom. You 915 01:07:04.920 --> 01:07:09.119 got synthetics, you got organics, it's all all the options are there on 916 01:07:09.199 --> 01:07:11.239 the schedule. You need to print it out and take it with you. 917 01:07:11.519 --> 01:07:15.519 What you're gonna find on the schedule is Nitro Fross Imperial, the fifteen five 918 01:07:15.679 --> 01:07:20.320 ten, the red bag, Red Bag Nitrofoss Imperial. It will give you 919 01:07:20.480 --> 01:07:25.320 a fast green up. The fifteen five ten is based on research done at 920 01:07:25.360 --> 01:07:30.400 Texas A and M a long time ago and now any extension service across the 921 01:07:30.480 --> 01:07:34.079 South, any urf researcher across the South will tell you three one two fertilizer 922 01:07:34.519 --> 01:07:41.559 is the best blend for your lawn. And that's why Nitrofoss formulated fifteen five 923 01:07:41.719 --> 01:07:45.280 ten for just that. Now, where do you get Nitrofos products. Well, 924 01:07:46.239 --> 01:07:49.000 I don't care where you live. You can find them locally. They're 925 01:07:49.039 --> 01:07:54.519 available everywhere. For example, you can find nitropas at Katie Hardware. Ace 926 01:07:54.880 --> 01:07:59.039 Yeah, out there and Katie you can find it at Ace Hardware in Memorial 927 01:07:59.119 --> 01:08:02.679 on Memorial Drive. You can find Nitrofoss products at Stanton Shopping Center out there 928 01:08:02.920 --> 01:08:08.079 down in Alvin, for example. Widely available. Look for fifteen top five 929 01:08:08.079 --> 01:08:10.679 to ten for the early green up. And now's the time do it. 930 01:08:10.840 --> 01:08:14.440 Now, you know for too long we're gonna be putting on summer fertilizations. 931 01:08:14.880 --> 01:08:18.880 Early green up Nitrofoss fifteen five ten, simple as that. Let's go out. 932 01:08:20.520 --> 01:08:26.560 See we're gonna go. I'm gonna go to Richmond, Texas. We're 933 01:08:26.560 --> 01:08:29.640 gonna talk to Tom. Hello, Tom, Hey, good morning. How 934 01:08:29.680 --> 01:08:31.960 you doing. I'm good. I'm pretty fast saying. I am a landscaper, 935 01:08:32.119 --> 01:08:35.039 been in the business, family business for fifty years. I have a 936 01:08:35.359 --> 01:08:41.800 brutal time explain my customers the difference between over and underwatering and watching them kill 937 01:08:41.840 --> 01:08:46.199 their container trees. Okay, so to the end of the season and I 938 01:08:46.279 --> 01:08:49.079 was wondering if there were any just general kids. I'm always trying to find 939 01:08:49.119 --> 01:08:54.039 new tips on how to explain the difference and the severe damage from overwatering and 940 01:08:54.119 --> 01:08:58.800 how quickly it could destroy a tree because people kind of think, come, 941 01:08:59.079 --> 01:09:02.439 I'm gonna sprinkle. Oh I uh, you know, I went to vacation, 942 01:09:02.560 --> 01:09:04.840 came back on just dump tumbel or water at the point. Yeah, 943 01:09:04.880 --> 01:09:11.039 I know. But spotting the difference is the key. And it's even hard, 944 01:09:11.199 --> 01:09:14.479 you know, in what I do to tell them the exact answer. 945 01:09:14.520 --> 01:09:18.920 There's no science to it, youtil the soil conditions surrounding it. But it's 946 01:09:18.960 --> 01:09:23.119 something that with these extreme heats, especially like last year and a few years 947 01:09:23.159 --> 01:09:26.520 ago where we were one hundred and five hundred and ten for forty days straight, 948 01:09:27.359 --> 01:09:30.880 people just were killing things left and right after they paid for these things. 949 01:09:30.920 --> 01:09:33.840 And I think, you know, since it's spring now, when people 950 01:09:33.840 --> 01:09:38.279 are going out and buying stuff, I think that is probably the most important 951 01:09:38.359 --> 01:09:40.399 thing. Is you know, how long do I have to water for and 952 01:09:40.520 --> 01:09:45.439 how do I recognize and just just wasting money? Yeah, I agree, 953 01:09:45.479 --> 01:09:48.039 I agree, it's it's commonly, it's a common problem. You know, 954 01:09:48.119 --> 01:09:51.520 with a new tree, the roots are all still in that little cylinder for 955 01:09:51.640 --> 01:09:54.720 a good while after you put in the ground. It takes time to get 956 01:09:54.920 --> 01:09:58.439 an established root system. Takes several years really, as a tree is doing 957 01:09:58.520 --> 01:10:01.720 that, and so targeting the water different in a new tree, and then 958 01:10:02.079 --> 01:10:05.439 as a tree becomes more established, or watering a larger area and not having 959 01:10:05.479 --> 01:10:10.239 the water as much. You know, trees are so resilient. And yeah, 960 01:10:10.359 --> 01:10:15.119 we do overwater. We kill more house plants with overwatering than underwatering. 961 01:10:15.239 --> 01:10:19.039 And it just I tell people, roots have have to have oxygen, and 962 01:10:19.199 --> 01:10:23.199 if you make the soil soggy, they can't breathe. It's like me shoving 963 01:10:23.239 --> 01:10:26.000 you underwater and saying good luck breathing. You know you're not going to do 964 01:10:26.039 --> 01:10:29.840 it. And for some people it sinks. In for some it doesn't, 965 01:10:30.319 --> 01:10:32.960 I'll tell them put out a tuna fish can or a cat food can and 966 01:10:33.119 --> 01:10:36.760 water until you fill it up and then stop and that's enough. Or I'll 967 01:10:36.760 --> 01:10:41.159 tell them go out and dig around the tree, dig down about four inches 968 01:10:41.239 --> 01:10:45.039 and feel the soil. For some people that seems to work is yeah, 969 01:10:45.079 --> 01:10:46.640 this soil is still wet. I don't need to I don't need to water. 970 01:10:46.800 --> 01:10:51.079 But you're right about the problem. Do you have a general rule of 971 01:10:51.159 --> 01:10:55.239 thumb that you tell people based on the size of the container? You know, 972 01:10:55.560 --> 01:10:59.800 the fifteen gallon thirty yl and you know x amount of water and all. 973 01:11:00.199 --> 01:11:03.199 It's pretty different. Yeah. Yeah, it's something per day, per 974 01:11:03.279 --> 01:11:08.239 week, you know something ill. I have a little schedule that I have 975 01:11:08.359 --> 01:11:11.359 out there. I need to put it online. But it's based on some 976 01:11:11.479 --> 01:11:15.119 research done by one of the best trees specialists in the country in Florida, 977 01:11:15.920 --> 01:11:18.560 and they have clay sails and they have sandy soils and things that we deal 978 01:11:18.600 --> 01:11:24.479 with here. But it's establishing trees. Basically, you're looking at how big 979 01:11:24.680 --> 01:11:27.920 was the pot fills a gallum pot or fills a ten gallum pot, whether 980 01:11:27.920 --> 01:11:30.640 then it gets a gallon of water or ten gallons of water when you water 981 01:11:30.840 --> 01:11:35.279 and you're water in the base and on an early tree. This time of 982 01:11:35.439 --> 01:11:38.960 year, you don't need water much, but you do need to keep it 983 01:11:39.039 --> 01:11:42.640 moist once we get hot. We're probably watering twice a day during that or 984 01:11:42.680 --> 01:11:45.000 twice a week during that first year, with a good, good amount. 985 01:11:45.920 --> 01:11:50.680 And I've talked about doing drip irrigation. I talked about doing a burm. 986 01:11:50.960 --> 01:11:54.239 Hey, I've run into a hard break here. I'm gonna have to go, 987 01:11:54.359 --> 01:11:56.760 Tom, But thanks for bringing that up. I'll make some more comments 988 01:11:56.960 --> 01:11:59.720 when we come back. Phone number is seven to one, three two, 989 01:11:59.760 --> 01:12:03.279 one to five eight seven four. Hey, welcome back to guard Line. 990 01:12:03.399 --> 01:12:06.279 Thanks for joining us today. We got a lot to talk about today. 991 01:12:06.600 --> 01:12:12.560 First of all, I wanted to say congratulations to Beverly and the folks at 992 01:12:12.680 --> 01:12:17.319 Arburgate Nursery. This is a twenty eighth year anniversary. Can you believe that? 993 01:12:17.880 --> 01:12:20.479 When I think back, that makes there's no way it could have been 994 01:12:20.520 --> 01:12:25.079 around twenty It was just the other day, right, Well, that's how 995 01:12:25.119 --> 01:12:32.000 life goes, right. Congratulations on having a absolute showplace. Those folks have 996 01:12:32.279 --> 01:12:36.239 put together a place that it is just a pleasure to walk through. Just 997 01:12:38.159 --> 01:12:42.439 one scene unfolds into the next You go through the vegetables and the herbs and 998 01:12:42.520 --> 01:12:45.720 the flowers, and the groundcovers the whole section for shade loving plants, and 999 01:12:45.800 --> 01:12:47.560 you wander into the gift shops, and you wander into the house plant shop. 1000 01:12:47.880 --> 01:12:50.279 You get back in the back where they're the shrubs and things, and 1001 01:12:50.479 --> 01:12:56.159 oh, by the way, the best thing, the newest best thing at 1002 01:12:56.239 --> 01:13:00.119 Arburgate Nursery is the parking lot in the back. It is outside Trischel Road 1003 01:13:00.840 --> 01:13:06.039 leaves twenty nine twenty. As you are coming either way west or east into 1004 01:13:06.079 --> 01:13:11.680 the Arborgate, Trisher Road will take off to the south and it will come 1005 01:13:11.720 --> 01:13:15.840 back in again after the Arborgate, So either way you're coming. If you 1006 01:13:15.119 --> 01:13:17.720 miss it on the way in and it's like ooh, there's Arbigate, I 1007 01:13:17.760 --> 01:13:20.560 miss Traischel Road, just travel a little further and you can catch it and 1008 01:13:20.640 --> 01:13:27.000 swing around to the back. It is weather proof parking, a wonderful little 1009 01:13:27.119 --> 01:13:30.800 internally drained parking area, not just concrete and n asphalt. It's really cool 1010 01:13:31.119 --> 01:13:33.600 and you go in there. You go in the back and you just begin 1011 01:13:33.680 --> 01:13:35.920 your shopping from that end, or walk all the way to the front if 1012 01:13:35.920 --> 01:13:40.600 you want. But it is the best new thing that they've done. And 1013 01:13:40.640 --> 01:13:44.640 boy, they've done a lot of good things. Congratulations since Beverley and all 1014 01:13:44.720 --> 01:13:46.760 of you out at the Arbigate for doing that. They are stocked up now 1015 01:13:46.960 --> 01:13:54.520 on camellias. Camellia is a wonderful plant for blooming during December January. Depends 1016 01:13:54.560 --> 01:13:57.720 on what kind of community you buy, and it does really well. And 1017 01:13:58.079 --> 01:14:02.760 their selection, their selection of saucer magnolias is unbelievable. You need to go 1018 01:14:02.960 --> 01:14:06.119 now and see them because they're blooming right now. It's one of the first 1019 01:14:06.199 --> 01:14:10.760 bloomers we have in the spring is a saucer magnolia. And if you don't 1020 01:14:10.800 --> 01:14:13.760 have one in your yard, you are missing out. And the folks at 1021 01:14:13.840 --> 01:14:16.239 Arburgate will get you set up. And that for those of you who have 1022 01:14:16.319 --> 01:14:20.119 been living under a rock or just moved here and don't know where Arburgate is, 1023 01:14:20.359 --> 01:14:24.800 it's on twenty nine twenty. It is just a little bit west of 1024 01:14:24.960 --> 01:14:28.600 Tombull on twenty nine to twenty. It's easy to find, easy to get 1025 01:14:28.680 --> 01:14:34.279 there, and remember take advantage of that parking lot. Here's the website arburg 1026 01:14:34.319 --> 01:14:40.159 Gate dot com Arburgate dot com. When you go out there, your jaw's 1027 01:14:40.199 --> 01:14:42.920 going to drop when you see all the stuff that they have right now. 1028 01:14:43.640 --> 01:14:46.319 Really cool. Let's head out to Full Sure. Now we're going to talk 1029 01:14:46.359 --> 01:14:50.560 to Ann. Hello, Anne, Good mornings. Get morning. I'm trying. 1030 01:14:50.720 --> 01:14:55.239 Good morning. I'm trying to help a friend who used a national yard 1031 01:14:55.319 --> 01:14:59.239 care service for the last few years and it has just ruined his yard. 1032 01:14:59.359 --> 01:15:02.920 Okay, he has a bermuda yard. I have never had a bermuda yard 1033 01:15:03.560 --> 01:15:06.840 right now. His yard has a lot of weeds in it. Okay, 1034 01:15:06.960 --> 01:15:14.359 the soil looks compacted to me, and there's very little green bermuda growing. 1035 01:15:14.720 --> 01:15:18.760 Where can I start to help him? Okay? Full Sure Texas Well, 1036 01:15:19.000 --> 01:15:24.720 I tell you when you are when you're dealing with bermuda the keys. Of 1037 01:15:24.800 --> 01:15:27.680 course, it needs moisture. It's drought tolerant. But if you want it 1038 01:15:27.760 --> 01:15:30.039 to look good, you got to water it or it has to rain. 1039 01:15:30.000 --> 01:15:36.039 That's one thing. Secondly, it needs nitrogen and small amounts regularly over time. 1040 01:15:36.640 --> 01:15:42.159 The best look in green bermuda that has density which fights the weeds for 1041 01:15:42.319 --> 01:15:45.479 you, is a lawn that's been fertilized regularly. And then the more often 1042 01:15:45.520 --> 01:15:48.840 you mow, the better, and the lower you mow the denture it a 1043 01:15:48.920 --> 01:15:53.119 look. Now, you can have a Bermuda lawn that's two and a half 1044 01:15:53.159 --> 01:15:57.399 inches high, that's fine, but generally when you get down in the one 1045 01:15:57.439 --> 01:16:00.479 and a half to two inch range, you're gonna have the best looking Bermuda 1046 01:16:00.640 --> 01:16:04.119 from that. So mow water, fertilized. My lawn care schedule at gardening 1047 01:16:04.239 --> 01:16:10.079 with Skip dot Com goes into all of that mow water and fertilized. It 1048 01:16:10.119 --> 01:16:13.600 tells you what products do you use, when to apply them, and that's 1049 01:16:13.720 --> 01:16:17.000 the that's the secret to getting bermuda looking good. There's not a better looking 1050 01:16:17.159 --> 01:16:21.520 turf for our area than bermuda when it's properly cared for. I mean, 1051 01:16:21.560 --> 01:16:26.319 think of a golf course green. Who's who has seen anything as beautiful and 1052 01:16:26.399 --> 01:16:30.760 dense as that? To start for a first feeding? Since it does have 1053 01:16:30.920 --> 01:16:35.560 so many weeds? Should I use we donator? Should I put down barricade? 1054 01:16:35.600 --> 01:16:40.560 But he already has weeds and a fertilizer? What would you recommize if 1055 01:16:40.600 --> 01:16:44.199 the lawn is then I would do barricade right now, immediately, right now, 1056 01:16:44.319 --> 01:16:47.000 especially out there in fullshure. You're a little south and so you're gonna 1057 01:16:47.199 --> 01:16:50.079 you're gonna have weeds that are trying to germinate here, So get it down, 1058 01:16:50.359 --> 01:16:56.520 watered in with a half inch of irrigation after you apply it, because 1059 01:16:56.800 --> 01:16:59.479 that moves it to the soil where it can do the work that it's going 1060 01:16:59.560 --> 01:17:02.000 to do. Uh. And then it is also time for the spring green 1061 01:17:02.079 --> 01:17:09.600 up. So you know, nitrophoss makes the barricade. Uh the I'm sorry, 1062 01:17:09.640 --> 01:17:12.880 did you say barricade or weedinator? I mised you. Yeah, I 1063 01:17:13.079 --> 01:17:15.960 was wondering should I use the wheedonator so I would have the fertilizer and the 1064 01:17:16.159 --> 01:17:21.199 okay together, my brain went sideways on that. I'm sorry. Barricade is 1065 01:17:21.239 --> 01:17:26.000 the pre emergent, and you would you should use that. The weed nator 1066 01:17:26.279 --> 01:17:30.159 will kill the weeds that are growing by soaking into the leaves of the weeds. 1067 01:17:30.199 --> 01:17:33.319 So you have to wet on that one first. You turn on the 1068 01:17:33.399 --> 01:17:38.640 water just enough to wet the surface of the grass plants and the weed plants. 1069 01:17:39.239 --> 01:17:43.439 Then put the weedinator out and the granules stick better to the leaves of 1070 01:17:43.479 --> 01:17:46.359 the weed. Give it about a day or two to really soak in, 1071 01:17:47.039 --> 01:17:53.560 and then water and that would move everything to the soil surface. But the 1072 01:17:53.600 --> 01:17:58.640 barricade, it would move the the night. The Weedonator's granules of fertilizer to 1073 01:17:58.720 --> 01:18:02.640 the sole surface. Weedenator is going to feed for at least two months, 1074 01:18:02.800 --> 01:18:08.039 even longer probably, but it'll feed for a long time and that'll get you 1075 01:18:08.159 --> 01:18:11.880 set up to go, Okay, touch it, thank you. That's different 1076 01:18:11.960 --> 01:18:16.800 than the spring green up with Nitrofoss's red bag the fifteen five to ten that 1077 01:18:16.960 --> 01:18:20.960 gives you the immediate right now. But what you're doing is you're juggling all 1078 01:18:21.039 --> 01:18:24.439 these I want to prevent weeds. I want to kill weeds. I want 1079 01:18:24.479 --> 01:18:28.560 to make the grass grow. And so you know you have a product range 1080 01:18:28.600 --> 01:18:30.520 to help you out with that. Okay, perfect, thank you, all 1081 01:18:30.600 --> 01:18:36.399 right, thank you very much. So three sixty Tree Stabilizers a new product 1082 01:18:36.479 --> 01:18:41.119 on the market. It grabs onto a post, it grabs onto the tree, 1083 01:18:41.640 --> 01:18:45.359 and it holds it. No messy guy wires to trip over. All 1084 01:18:45.479 --> 01:18:49.239 those days are gone. The thing I like best about the three sixty tree 1085 01:18:49.319 --> 01:18:54.640 Stabilizer, in addition to it being a very strong, sturdy product, is 1086 01:18:54.720 --> 01:18:58.680 that it has a soft strap that holds the tree but allows it to move. 1087 01:18:59.359 --> 01:19:03.079 Movement is important to develop trunk strength. You don't want to honker a 1088 01:19:03.159 --> 01:19:06.079 tree down where it can't budge. You wanted to wiggle a little bit, 1089 01:19:06.239 --> 01:19:10.119 move a little bit in the wind. That creates strength. Where do you 1090 01:19:10.239 --> 01:19:14.159 get a three sixty tree stabilizer? You get them at Jorges Hidden Gardens down 1091 01:19:14.239 --> 01:19:16.880 south. You get them at Southwest Fertilizer, which is Southwest. Misn't it 1092 01:19:16.960 --> 01:19:25.279 and Runwick Go up two ninety and go up Tomball Parkway, RCW Nursery, 1093 01:19:26.520 --> 01:19:30.760 Buchanan's Native Plants in Central Town, Arbor Gate up in Tomball Plants for all 1094 01:19:30.840 --> 01:19:33.600 seasons up going up to forty nine. Easy to find them, Easy to 1095 01:19:33.720 --> 01:19:39.680 find the tree three sixty tree stabilizer. Just saw some at Southwest Fertilizer yesterday. 1096 01:19:40.079 --> 01:19:43.560 A very very good product that works really well. Now, earlier on 1097 01:19:43.720 --> 01:19:47.319 I was talking to you about the Microlife hummates. Microlife humits is an organic 1098 01:19:47.399 --> 01:19:53.399 fertilizer that is basically concentrated compost in a bag. Now, it's not in 1099 01:19:53.600 --> 01:19:58.199 place of fertilizing because it has a zero zero four numbers on the bag. 1100 01:19:58.680 --> 01:20:03.880 You're putting it down because of the humates. Humates are the final decomposition stage 1101 01:20:04.000 --> 01:20:10.079 of compost. And so when you look at a bag of microlife humates plus 1102 01:20:10.840 --> 01:20:15.640 It took a ton of compost to make that little bag of Microlife Humates Plus, 1103 01:20:15.000 --> 01:20:17.960 so you're getting the benefit of the full process. You put it out 1104 01:20:18.000 --> 01:20:21.279 there. It gets on the soil, it improves the soul structure, It 1105 01:20:21.399 --> 01:20:28.880 improves internal drainage. Therefore it improves rooting depth. It improves water infiltration, 1106 01:20:29.439 --> 01:20:31.359 so the water you do have doesn't just run off, it gets into the 1107 01:20:31.399 --> 01:20:39.640 bank account for the plants. Microlife Humates Plus. Wherever you find Microlife microlifefertilizer 1108 01:20:39.960 --> 01:20:43.680 dot com, that'll tell you. Go there microlifefertilizer dot Com. You learn 1109 01:20:43.720 --> 01:20:47.720 about all of their products, and you'll also learn at microlifefertilizer dot Com where 1110 01:20:47.800 --> 01:20:51.039 you can find the things and pretty much if I'm talking about a place, 1111 01:20:51.520 --> 01:20:56.920 they carry Microlife because it did very widely available. Well, we put another 1112 01:20:57.039 --> 01:21:00.840 hour in the books. I want to remind you that I am going to 1113 01:21:00.960 --> 01:21:04.560 leave after the show today and head straight to Conrod, Texas to the Montgomery 1114 01:21:04.640 --> 01:21:10.640 County Home and Outdoor Living Show. I'll be there giving a talk at twelve 1115 01:21:10.640 --> 01:21:14.800 o'clock, twelve to one probably about that time, and I'll be around for 1116 01:21:14.880 --> 01:21:17.159 your questions. Bring me samples, bring me pictures, let's talk about it. 1117 01:21:17.319 --> 01:21:21.079 This is your opportunity for one on one, eye to eye with me 1118 01:21:21.600 --> 01:21:27.920 to talk about whatever you're interested in regarding making your landscape and your garden more 1119 01:21:27.960 --> 01:21:32.960 beautiful and more bountiful. I'm going to be giving away jars of Nelson fertilizer 1120 01:21:33.079 --> 01:21:39.439 products, for example, the new Genesis product that you mix in with the 1121 01:21:39.960 --> 01:21:42.880 media or the soil where you're going to be transplanting. I'll have that. 1122 01:21:43.039 --> 01:21:46.239 I have a lot of other Nelson products, probably enough for everybody, but 1123 01:21:46.399 --> 01:21:50.119 we'll give them away until they're all gone. I got plenty of I'm bringing 1124 01:21:50.199 --> 01:21:55.359 with me. Remember you go out to the Lone Star Convention Center. It's 1125 01:21:55.439 --> 01:22:00.640 kind of northeast side of Conra. We'll be right back. Katie r h. 1126 01:22:00.760 --> 01:22:04.479 Garden Line does not necessarily endorse any of the products or services advertised on 1127 01:22:04.520 --> 01:22:11.600 this program. Welcome to Katie r H. Garden Line with Skip Rictor. 1128 01:22:11.720 --> 01:22:28.880 It's crazy Trim. Just watch him as so many teas to seep out. 1129 01:22:28.960 --> 01:22:44.800 Jazy gas taking not a sign. Welcome to garden Line. Glad to have 1130 01:22:44.920 --> 01:22:48.319 you listening today. Listen, this is a banner weekend to get gardening done. 1131 01:22:49.119 --> 01:22:51.600 There is so much it needs to happen in your yard and in your 1132 01:22:51.640 --> 01:22:55.239 garden. If you're going to put on a pre emergent, you gotta get 1133 01:22:55.239 --> 01:22:59.239 it done now because the weeds are starting their germination and we got to get 1134 01:22:59.279 --> 01:23:02.520 ahead of those. You want to get ahead of those, it's time to 1135 01:23:02.600 --> 01:23:05.239 do that. If you are going to fertilize with a spring green up, 1136 01:23:05.399 --> 01:23:09.800 now is the time to put that down. That's not going to make the 1137 01:23:09.880 --> 01:23:12.760 lawn just take off and grow real fast. It's going to turn it green. 1138 01:23:13.000 --> 01:23:15.039 That's why we call it green up. As the weather warms, the 1139 01:23:15.159 --> 01:23:19.319 grass begins to grow more and that nutrient that you put down's going to be 1140 01:23:19.359 --> 01:23:24.680 available to the plant to help with that early growth. That is why we 1141 01:23:24.760 --> 01:23:27.000 do it. At this time of the year. It's time to build the 1142 01:23:27.039 --> 01:23:30.800 soil and your landscapes, your vegetable gardens, flower beds, if you're going 1143 01:23:30.840 --> 01:23:33.600 to put in an herb garden, it's time for everything. Time to get 1144 01:23:33.640 --> 01:23:38.880 a good container and get some color out there. We're done with winter. 1145 01:23:39.039 --> 01:23:44.079 I'm officially saying spring is here. The weather could prove me wrong, but 1146 01:23:44.199 --> 01:23:45.600 I don't think so. I think I'm right on this one. I look 1147 01:23:46.039 --> 01:23:51.560 weather ten days out, nothing close to a frost. So hey, let's 1148 01:23:51.640 --> 01:23:58.079 do it. It's spring. Let's party. Robin Williams used to say that 1149 01:23:59.039 --> 01:24:02.000 spring is Nate's way of saying, let's party. And that is right. 1150 01:24:02.359 --> 01:24:05.399 It is time to get out there and then party. So if you're going 1151 01:24:05.439 --> 01:24:11.399 to do an early early application, maybe you want to do the barricade. 1152 01:24:11.880 --> 01:24:15.680 You want to get that down and water it in well. Or you want 1153 01:24:15.720 --> 01:24:19.279 to put your Nitrofoss Imperial fifteen five to ten down to get that early green 1154 01:24:19.399 --> 01:24:23.399 up. Now's the time to do it. And these products work well. 1155 01:24:23.560 --> 01:24:26.600 Remember here, if you're going to do both, here's what I would recommend. 1156 01:24:27.239 --> 01:24:30.840 Put out either one first, the barricade or the Knight Foss Imperial. 1157 01:24:30.159 --> 01:24:33.439 Then come back, fill up your fertilizer spreader, don't mix them together, 1158 01:24:33.800 --> 01:24:38.479 and go back over the lawn with the other one. Put them both down, 1159 01:24:38.680 --> 01:24:42.319 and then apply one half inch of water. Just turn on your sprinklers 1160 01:24:42.439 --> 01:24:45.119 enough. Put a little rain gage, straight sided container like a tunic can, 1161 01:24:45.239 --> 01:24:50.319 coffee, tuna, fish can, catfood can, those kind of things, 1162 01:24:50.800 --> 01:24:54.600 and when you caught about a half inch, that's enough and it washes 1163 01:24:54.680 --> 01:24:57.479 them all down to the soul surface and they go to work and they get 1164 01:24:57.520 --> 01:25:00.840 to business and you're going to find these products. All nitrofoss products, a 1165 01:25:01.039 --> 01:25:06.359 wide variety and a lot a lot of different places. For example, Shades 1166 01:25:06.399 --> 01:25:11.600 of Texas up in the Woodlands is going to carry these products. You can 1167 01:25:11.680 --> 01:25:15.199 find them at Fisher's Hardware, both the one in Southeastern on Southomore and the 1168 01:25:15.279 --> 01:25:20.079 one on Broadway Street in Laporte. Both of those places are going to carry 1169 01:25:20.359 --> 01:25:23.880 these products. You're going to find them at the Arbor Gate. Go up 1170 01:25:23.880 --> 01:25:29.239 to the Arbor Gate and Tomball Texas and you'll find these nitrofos products. Easy, 1171 01:25:29.279 --> 01:25:33.600 easy to find them. Let's head out now to a Corpus Christy and 1172 01:25:34.000 --> 01:25:38.600 we are going to talk to Jim. Good morning, sir. How are 1173 01:25:38.640 --> 01:25:42.840 you. I'm well, sir, how are you? I'm doing good except 1174 01:25:42.920 --> 01:25:46.960 for all the weeds in my yard. Okay, So I've lived in this 1175 01:25:47.119 --> 01:25:51.079 house like three and a half years now, and the grass has always been 1176 01:25:51.119 --> 01:25:56.439 pretty good, not a lot of weeds. But over the winter, it's 1177 01:25:56.560 --> 01:26:00.640 just it's crazy how much weeds I have right now. I know, I 1178 01:26:00.720 --> 01:26:03.640 know it's because the long got thin and wherever sunlight hits the soil, nature 1179 01:26:03.680 --> 01:26:08.880 plants weed gym. You're in Corpus Christie down the coast right, yes, 1180 01:26:09.199 --> 01:26:14.920 okay, so the weeds that are there need to be killed with a post 1181 01:26:15.199 --> 01:26:19.199 emergent weed killer, and they're probably already down that far south. They're probably 1182 01:26:19.239 --> 01:26:24.359 already going to seed and blooming. Is that what you're finding. Yeah, 1183 01:26:25.079 --> 01:26:29.760 you can try using a post emergent product on them once the weeds start to 1184 01:26:29.840 --> 01:26:32.439 set seed. It's a little late to gain much from that, but you 1185 01:26:32.520 --> 01:26:36.279 can. You could. Still, it's worth a try. But I would 1186 01:26:36.479 --> 01:26:41.520 I would get the mower out and I would start with a bagger on it, 1187 01:26:42.560 --> 01:26:45.640 getting as much of those weed seeds and stuff out as you can. 1188 01:26:45.920 --> 01:26:49.840 That's your best effort right there. So if you want to use a product 1189 01:26:50.359 --> 01:26:56.119 as that would fertilize and kill those weeds, yet to wet the lawn and 1190 01:26:56.199 --> 01:27:02.960 then Nelson Plant Food makes a product called weed Nator and it has a slow 1191 01:27:03.079 --> 01:27:06.439 lease fertilizers can feed your lawn for another two or three months. But it 1192 01:27:06.520 --> 01:27:12.520 also has the exist but you have to have a wet weed leaf for that 1193 01:27:12.960 --> 01:27:15.279 granule to stick to. So that would be the approach I would take. 1194 01:27:15.840 --> 01:27:19.039 After you've put it on, give it a day or two and then watered 1195 01:27:19.119 --> 01:27:24.119 in to get the fertilizer down. Then when you mow, I would still 1196 01:27:24.600 --> 01:27:29.239 I would give it probably about a week before I mow, after you apply 1197 01:27:29.359 --> 01:27:32.560 it, because you want it to move down into the weed so that it 1198 01:27:32.680 --> 01:27:36.399 can prevent it from re sprouting. So well, after you mow, mow, 1199 01:27:36.640 --> 01:27:41.199 and you've already got your fertilizer down and you've done the first best step 1200 01:27:41.319 --> 01:27:44.880 right there. That's good. Yeah, and that was my next question is 1201 01:27:44.960 --> 01:27:49.720 should I mow it before I put this stuff on or after? Definitely definitely 1202 01:27:49.840 --> 01:27:56.840 after every drop of every square inch of weed surface you can leave on there 1203 01:27:56.960 --> 01:28:00.159 before you apply the product is better because it's more places granule to land. 1204 01:28:01.159 --> 01:28:05.079 All right, that sounds good, all right, sir, I really appreciate 1205 01:28:05.119 --> 01:28:06.920 it. Enjoy your show. Thank you, sir. Hey, let me 1206 01:28:06.920 --> 01:28:10.439 ask you a question, Jim, are you listening on radio or are you 1207 01:28:10.560 --> 01:28:15.880 listening via computer app? On the radio? Right? I listened to Randy 1208 01:28:15.960 --> 01:28:20.840 for years, and then I remember the first day you started. And uh, 1209 01:28:21.239 --> 01:28:25.039 I don't get to listen as much on Saturdays as I used to, 1210 01:28:25.319 --> 01:28:30.119 but every chance I get, I love I love the show. Thank you. 1211 01:28:30.000 --> 01:28:34.720 It's very helpful, all right. Yeah, it's really good and all 1212 01:28:34.800 --> 01:28:39.159 right. Well, I'm getting my feet underneath me, so it's a little 1213 01:28:39.199 --> 01:28:43.840 better than the first day. But thanks Jim, I appreciate that. Thanks 1214 01:28:43.880 --> 01:28:46.399 for being a listener. You take care. Yeah, that's that's how it 1215 01:28:46.520 --> 01:28:53.880 goes, isn't it. If you are interested in roses, if you're interested 1216 01:28:54.000 --> 01:28:58.880 in trees and shrubs, now's the time to get them planted. Every day 1217 01:28:59.000 --> 01:29:02.880 we give ornamental plant, tree or shrub or woody vine. Between now and 1218 01:29:02.960 --> 01:29:09.159 the heat of summer is helpful because it's getting a truth's established. You can 1219 01:29:09.239 --> 01:29:12.800 plan in August if you want to, or July, but that's a touch 1220 01:29:12.840 --> 01:29:15.800 and go time. Let's make it easier on ourselves and plant now. Rcw's 1221 01:29:15.840 --> 01:29:18.199 got you covered on all that. It's got you covered on the roses. 1222 01:29:18.239 --> 01:29:21.640 Oh my gosh. Their selection of roses is a mile long. I mean 1223 01:29:21.840 --> 01:29:26.039 every kind of hybrid d even old rose, and they got them all right 1224 01:29:26.079 --> 01:29:29.840 there at RCW. When you go to RCW, though, I want you 1225 01:29:29.960 --> 01:29:34.399 to tell them show me your hibiscus. Show me show me the hibiscus that 1226 01:29:34.560 --> 01:29:39.880 you have. It is incredible. They carry a series called Cajun Hibiscus. 1227 01:29:40.399 --> 01:29:45.680 I cannot describe the picture. Go to their website. RCW nurseres dot com. 1228 01:29:45.840 --> 01:29:47.439 Find out how to get there. They are where two forty nine comes 1229 01:29:47.479 --> 01:29:50.880 into beout Way eight. Easy to find them. You gotta go. You 1230 01:29:51.039 --> 01:29:57.399 got to see the Cajun hibiscus. I got some last year. It's just 1231 01:29:58.840 --> 01:30:02.560 I don't know a plan that is that amazing and beautiful and gaudy and everything 1232 01:30:02.720 --> 01:30:05.920 under the sun as those cage and hibiscuits that they have. By the way, 1233 01:30:05.960 --> 01:30:09.119 of course, they have out the color plants, and they got shrubs 1234 01:30:09.159 --> 01:30:12.760 and trees, and they have vegetables and all kinds of things like that at 1235 01:30:12.880 --> 01:30:16.359 RCW Nurseries. It's always a good day to visit over at RCW. Let's 1236 01:30:16.359 --> 01:30:20.000 take a little break here. Our phone number is seven one three two one 1237 01:30:20.079 --> 01:30:25.159 two five eight seven four. When I come back, Ray and Dane, 1238 01:30:25.199 --> 01:30:28.439 you'll be the first two up. Welcome back to the garden line. Good 1239 01:30:28.479 --> 01:30:31.119 to have you with us today. We are talking about all the things you 1240 01:30:31.319 --> 01:30:34.640 need to know about gardening. Hey, if you are going to put out 1241 01:30:34.760 --> 01:30:39.920 some containers of color, both in the house or outside the house, really 1242 01:30:40.079 --> 01:30:45.640 containers jungle Land jungle Land product distributing nitrophospholks. It is a quality soil for 1243 01:30:45.760 --> 01:30:51.319 your outdoor plants. It's the outdoor version is called flower and vegetable planting soil. 1244 01:30:51.760 --> 01:30:57.279 The indoor version is called water saving potting soil. They're both jungle land 1245 01:30:57.359 --> 01:31:00.680 jungle and water saving potting soil. It's got the crystal that hold extra water. 1246 01:31:01.319 --> 01:31:05.279 And those crystals then as your soul gets dry, the roots go up 1247 01:31:05.279 --> 01:31:11.079 against the crystal and they are able to draw water, draw moisture from those 1248 01:31:11.199 --> 01:31:14.159 water saving crystals. It makes it a little more forgiving. Now, I 1249 01:31:14.239 --> 01:31:16.000 know you don't forget the water, but your neighbor does, and so tell 1250 01:31:16.079 --> 01:31:19.279 them because they'll need this for sure. Yeah, I know you do too, 1251 01:31:19.399 --> 01:31:25.079 so do I sometimes. But jungle land products by Nitrofoss superquality, you're 1252 01:31:25.119 --> 01:31:30.079 gonna have excellent color outdoors just because they're designed for that. They've got various 1253 01:31:30.119 --> 01:31:34.640 types of aged organic matter. They got micro hizel fungi, Canadian blomb peat 1254 01:31:34.760 --> 01:31:40.279 all together in those products. And where do you get nitrofoss products? So 1255 01:31:40.279 --> 01:31:43.439 I've been telling you all day to day. They're available everywhere. You can 1256 01:31:43.520 --> 01:31:47.279 get nitrophus anywhere you go. A task Asida Ace hardware is a place you 1257 01:31:47.319 --> 01:31:51.319 can get nitropus ace hardware. Sinkle Ranch is a place that you can get 1258 01:31:51.439 --> 01:31:56.680 nitropas Lake Go down Lake Jackson. How about Lake Hardware and Clute Yep, 1259 01:31:56.840 --> 01:32:00.319 they've got it as well. Easy to find nitro foss product like these anywhere 1260 01:32:00.359 --> 01:32:03.880 you go. Let's head out to Missouri City and we're going to talk to 1261 01:32:03.960 --> 01:32:09.119 Ray. Hello. Ray, Hey, Skip, thanks for taking my call. 1262 01:32:09.439 --> 01:32:15.399 Yes, sir, you may have answered my question with the gentleman from 1263 01:32:15.479 --> 01:32:23.319 Corpus Christy, but my question was what weed killer do you recommend that will 1264 01:32:23.479 --> 01:32:29.840 kill the weeds but not the grass and does not contain Glyco's sake. Well, 1265 01:32:29.960 --> 01:32:33.239 no weed killer for your lawn should contain glaph of sake. That is 1266 01:32:33.319 --> 01:32:38.680 a It kills everything. So none of them are going to carry that for 1267 01:32:38.800 --> 01:32:42.800 the lawn. Uh. You you've you've got some options if you've got to 1268 01:32:43.159 --> 01:32:45.560 do you have existing weeds you're killing or are you trying to prevent weeds that 1269 01:32:45.720 --> 01:32:49.720 might be coming law? I have existing weeds. Unlike the guy from Corpus, 1270 01:32:49.800 --> 01:32:54.039 I had a nice lawn, but it's just full of weeds. Yeah, 1271 01:32:54.199 --> 01:32:57.960 you can. You can use a product. H Nelson Plant Food makes 1272 01:32:58.000 --> 01:33:04.880 one called weed nat Weed and it has fertilizer and it has the post emergent 1273 01:33:04.920 --> 01:33:09.319 weed killer in it. You got to get the weeds wet, the granule 1274 01:33:09.399 --> 01:33:12.880 sticks to the weed leaf, give it a day or two and then water 1275 01:33:13.000 --> 01:33:15.920 it in to get the fertilizer down on the ground. And that particular fertilizer 1276 01:33:15.000 --> 01:33:17.840 is going to last you for a long time. Now if you're if you're 1277 01:33:17.880 --> 01:33:24.560 just looking for a green up, a fast, immediately available fertilizer, then 1278 01:33:24.800 --> 01:33:29.880 the folks at nitroposs make one of those that contains a post emergent weed killer 1279 01:33:29.880 --> 01:33:32.840 as well. It's in a blue bag, and that again got to get 1280 01:33:32.840 --> 01:33:36.079 the weeds wet, got to get the granules on the weeds. But that 1281 01:33:36.239 --> 01:33:40.479 one is going to give you a fast, early greenup, whereas the Nelson 1282 01:33:40.520 --> 01:33:44.640 product is going to give you several months of feeding going out from that, 1283 01:33:44.760 --> 01:33:47.479 and both of them work very well. So with the weed Nata, do 1284 01:33:47.600 --> 01:33:53.439 you mow first and then you wet the lawn. No, anytime you're killing 1285 01:33:53.520 --> 01:33:58.000 a weed that exists, you want as much weed leaf area out there as 1286 01:33:58.079 --> 01:34:01.520 you can because you're dropped been that granule and you wanted to stick to the 1287 01:34:01.640 --> 01:34:05.600 wet weed leaf. So if you chop off a bunch of the weeds with 1288 01:34:05.680 --> 01:34:10.600 a mower. You don't have leaves for the granules to stick to, So 1289 01:34:10.960 --> 01:34:15.720 don't mow first, Wet it, then apply it, wait a day or 1290 01:34:15.760 --> 01:34:18.239 two, and then you can water and mow and do whatever you want. 1291 01:34:18.279 --> 01:34:24.640 I'd water first and then I'd mow later. Okay, The Southwest carry this 1292 01:34:24.760 --> 01:34:29.680 product? Oh yeah, yeah, Southwest carries every product absolutely, Yeah, 1293 01:34:30.399 --> 01:34:34.479 Bob Scott, South Southwestern, Well, you're you're fortunate. Are You're fortunate 1294 01:34:34.600 --> 01:34:41.319 there? Southwest carries nitrofoss, they carry microlfe, they carry Nelson products, 1295 01:34:41.399 --> 01:34:46.079 they carry Medina products, they have it all. Yeah. I was in 1296 01:34:46.239 --> 01:34:48.399 yesterday. I took a video. I was going to put that on our 1297 01:34:48.439 --> 01:34:51.239 Facebook page. I just walked through the store and show you what all they 1298 01:34:51.319 --> 01:34:55.439 have. It is just like people walk in there and they can't believe that 1299 01:34:55.520 --> 01:34:59.680 there's a place that has that much stuff. You're fortunate to live close, 1300 01:34:59.760 --> 01:35:06.399 right. Okay, So all products are going to contain the glyco see no 1301 01:35:06.960 --> 01:35:14.720 product. Labels for spraying on a lawn contains glyphissay, Yeah, no product 1302 01:35:14.800 --> 01:35:18.359 because glyphis kills green things, and so you would never spray it on a 1303 01:35:18.439 --> 01:35:25.000 green thing unless it's a weed you're trying to kill. Is this product sprayed 1304 01:35:25.079 --> 01:35:30.279 on or is it granule? The weed Nator is a granule, just like 1305 01:35:30.880 --> 01:35:38.439 the product that I mentioned from Nitrophoss is a granule. The blue bag for 1306 01:35:38.560 --> 01:35:42.079 nitrate is also a granule. And that's why you have to wet the weeds 1307 01:35:42.119 --> 01:35:46.680 first, just to wet the surface and then immediately head across the lawn with 1308 01:35:46.800 --> 01:35:53.199 that spreader put the granules out. Okay, that will help a lot. 1309 01:35:53.399 --> 01:35:55.880 I appreciate it. Good luck with that. Thank you for the call, 1310 01:35:56.359 --> 01:36:00.800 Thank you you bet yes. Southwest Fertilizer, My gosh. I was in 1311 01:36:00.920 --> 01:36:04.079 the just yesterday visiting with Bob. Bought some stuff and we're talking about some 1312 01:36:04.159 --> 01:36:08.920 new products and some new strategies for dealing with some old problems and things. 1313 01:36:09.000 --> 01:36:11.439 And I just took a video of the whole store I walked through. I'm 1314 01:36:11.439 --> 01:36:13.840 gonna post that to Facebook. See you can see it. If it'll let 1315 01:36:13.920 --> 01:36:15.520 me post a video that long. I was trying to make a short one, 1316 01:36:15.720 --> 01:36:19.640 but you can't take a short video of Southwest Fertilizer. I can pay 1317 01:36:19.640 --> 01:36:25.079 you four short videos to try to include all the different things that they carry 1318 01:36:25.119 --> 01:36:28.119 there. They're on the corner of Businet and Runwick. For those of you 1319 01:36:28.239 --> 01:36:32.000 who don't live like Ray right next door to the businet and Runwick Southwest Houston 1320 01:36:32.079 --> 01:36:34.840 Southwest for leisure dot Com. Those of you who are hearing that, going, 1321 01:36:34.920 --> 01:36:39.119 hey, I want to know about that place. That's it. Let's 1322 01:36:39.159 --> 01:36:42.319 head up now to beat Iyes, Texas and talk to Dane. Hello, 1323 01:36:42.520 --> 01:36:50.920 Dane, I'm well sir. How are things up in beat Eyes? I 1324 01:36:51.079 --> 01:36:57.000 bet it is? You're in God's country up there. That is so beautiful 1325 01:36:57.039 --> 01:37:02.960 out through that region likes. Yes, you got a little topography where a 1326 01:37:03.000 --> 01:37:05.520 lot of places you don't have that. That's right. Yeah. When you 1327 01:37:05.600 --> 01:37:09.159 come down to Houston, you the only the only way you can get up 1328 01:37:09.199 --> 01:37:12.760 and down is to go in an overpass over the highway. That's That's the 1329 01:37:12.800 --> 01:37:16.359 biggest mountain in town is the overpasses. I know it well. I grew 1330 01:37:16.439 --> 01:37:19.439 up in friends with there you go, how can I help you to do? 1331 01:37:20.920 --> 01:37:26.479 Man? Skip. I'm building an above a race garden and I'm building 1332 01:37:26.479 --> 01:37:29.279 it out of center blocks. I'm going to build it about three blocks high. 1333 01:37:29.840 --> 01:37:33.880 And I was pricing road soil, yes, by the ball, yes, 1334 01:37:34.039 --> 01:37:36.960 and it ain't it ain't the cheapest flag in the world. No, 1335 01:37:38.279 --> 01:37:43.039 And I was wondering is there something I could fill the bottom of that raise 1336 01:37:43.159 --> 01:37:47.239 bed up with to produce some of the cost and it So what would you 1337 01:37:47.319 --> 01:37:51.840 recognize? Yeah, Well, the reason that any kind of a quality product 1338 01:37:51.920 --> 01:37:56.720 has a price is it it's a blend of a lot of different good things 1339 01:37:56.920 --> 01:38:00.079 and you're getting it all combined into one product. And you could use just 1340 01:38:00.359 --> 01:38:05.279 compost. You could use some compost. I would I think if I were 1341 01:38:05.359 --> 01:38:10.239 doing that, I would probably kind of mark out where roughly where the beds 1342 01:38:10.279 --> 01:38:12.560 are. You can use a spray paint on the ground if you want to 1343 01:38:12.600 --> 01:38:15.560 do that before you put the cinder block down, and I would throw the 1344 01:38:15.600 --> 01:38:18.319 compost down about three inches thick, and I would rot a till or spade 1345 01:38:18.359 --> 01:38:23.600 it into the where the beds are going to be. Then you set your 1346 01:38:23.640 --> 01:38:27.520 cinder blocks down, and then you fill those up with another kind of mix. 1347 01:38:27.840 --> 01:38:31.439 You can add some more compost inside. But creating a transition from the 1348 01:38:31.640 --> 01:38:38.640 quality saw mix to whatever is in your property right now, that little blending 1349 01:38:38.720 --> 01:38:42.520 I mentioned initially kind of helps you just don't go It's not like you're putting 1350 01:38:42.600 --> 01:38:48.279 quality soil right down on concrete or asphalt or a poor quality soil. Yeah. 1351 01:38:48.359 --> 01:38:51.239 Certain, Well, I can tell you the dark quality of good. 1352 01:38:51.439 --> 01:38:55.560 Yeah. Yeah, Well, all you need really is if you can even 1353 01:38:55.600 --> 01:38:58.520 get it up eight inches. Now, those cinder blocks are eight inches high. 1354 01:38:58.680 --> 01:39:01.000 I would mound them a lit lot with soil. I wouldn't just put 1355 01:39:01.039 --> 01:39:05.159 it flat because they will sink down in the weeks and months to come. 1356 01:39:05.760 --> 01:39:12.720 Uh So start with a little bit of a mound. All right, And 1357 01:39:13.079 --> 01:39:20.600 here's what I go ahead there, which you'll always recommend for no roasmix is 1358 01:39:20.680 --> 01:39:26.680 fine rose mix or you know the let's see beat eyes. I'm trying to 1359 01:39:26.680 --> 01:39:29.840 think of who's close to you. The problem with getting organic material to you 1360 01:39:30.239 --> 01:39:32.560 is the distance. It costs as much to drive it as it costs for 1361 01:39:32.640 --> 01:39:36.640 the stuff when you've got to go a long, long distance. So uh 1362 01:39:38.199 --> 01:39:44.279 yeah, you might. There is a soil yard that I think has the 1363 01:39:44.359 --> 01:39:47.600 heirloom products, or they will soon in South College station up there where you 1364 01:39:47.600 --> 01:39:53.279 can get heirloom type products. But they have a the uh site one is 1365 01:39:53.640 --> 01:39:58.880 the name of it. Uh And you might find that a little closer. 1366 01:39:58.920 --> 01:40:03.640 In fact, I think you would to beat yes or won't have trailer move 1367 01:40:03.720 --> 01:40:06.680 travel, have trailer will trouble there, you go then just run down to 1368 01:40:06.760 --> 01:40:11.119 porter and grab you some stuff, be done with it. They're closed, 1369 01:40:11.279 --> 01:40:14.199 I tell you what. It's also pretty close to you. But but Nature's 1370 01:40:14.239 --> 01:40:16.880 Way is right there on Interstate forty five, just south of Conro. So 1371 01:40:17.000 --> 01:40:19.920 if you got the trailer, you can run down and get it bulk right 1372 01:40:20.000 --> 01:40:25.760 there too. You might talk to them. Oh yeah, they got every 1373 01:40:25.960 --> 01:40:29.960 Nature's Way has everything. They originated a bunch a bunch of those kinds of 1374 01:40:30.039 --> 01:40:33.079 things. I man, I've been going out to Nature's Way for a long 1375 01:40:33.199 --> 01:40:36.560 long time. They've been around a long time. Let me give you a 1376 01:40:36.560 --> 01:40:41.520 phone number. Let me give you phone number eight. Yeah. Uh, 1377 01:40:42.119 --> 01:40:46.560 give them a call at nine three six two seven three twelve hundred nine three 1378 01:40:46.640 --> 01:40:50.359 six two seven three twelve hundred and talk to him, talk to John or 1379 01:40:50.399 --> 01:40:54.279 talk to Ian and say, look, here's the deal. I got to 1380 01:40:54.319 --> 01:40:58.079 fill up some beds, but I just don't want to spend all the money's 1381 01:40:58.079 --> 01:41:00.479 gonna take to go all the way. Like, what would you suggest? 1382 01:41:00.640 --> 01:41:04.479 And they're going to have a suggestion to save you some money, but that 1383 01:41:04.560 --> 01:41:08.159 will also make you a good bed. I would just talk to them. 1384 01:41:09.960 --> 01:41:13.880 Oh good, all right, appreciation hey, and you're fortunate, man, 1385 01:41:13.920 --> 01:41:18.039 You just live down the street from Grimes County feed. Yeah, they got 1386 01:41:18.680 --> 01:41:24.159 they got good man. They need to start having deliveries of molts there where 1387 01:41:24.199 --> 01:41:27.520 you can go pick it up. I bet they don't want to hear that. 1388 01:41:27.640 --> 01:41:30.640 They got their hands full with all the different stuff they carry already. 1389 01:41:31.159 --> 01:41:33.760 No, and then they got that place in Montgomery, an A. They 1390 01:41:33.840 --> 01:41:38.239 just don't carry the ball. Yeah, yeah, that's right. Yeah, 1391 01:41:39.319 --> 01:41:44.560 he's a good place though, good good place is very nice. All right, 1392 01:41:44.640 --> 01:41:48.159 sir, Hey, thank you, thank you. You take care of 1393 01:41:48.239 --> 01:41:51.359 there. And beat Eyes, Texas. Uh have you ever been done to 1394 01:41:51.439 --> 01:41:55.880 Jorge hid and Gardens. That's one of our newert sponsors here on garden Line. 1395 01:41:55.960 --> 01:42:00.279 And Jorge is he just keeps growing the place. You know, he's 1396 01:42:00.359 --> 01:42:04.479 got vision on where he wants that place to go. And when you go 1397 01:42:04.640 --> 01:42:08.800 there, this is, you know, just a nursery cares a little everything. 1398 01:42:08.840 --> 01:42:11.439 You're gonna you're gonna have your vegetable plant, your herb plants. You're 1399 01:42:11.439 --> 01:42:15.680 gonna really good selection of fruit trees. You know, people haven't cleaned them 1400 01:42:15.720 --> 01:42:18.159 out yet. I mean they had avocado, they had blackberries, blueberry, 1401 01:42:18.159 --> 01:42:23.840 strawberries, raspberries, elderberries, mulberries. I saw peaches a while back there, 1402 01:42:24.279 --> 01:42:27.960 and plums and apples and pears, and they had all of that. 1403 01:42:28.199 --> 01:42:30.960 And again people that are finding out about it are starting to go there and 1404 01:42:31.239 --> 01:42:34.880 find some really quality stuff. Earlier, I was telling you about that three 1405 01:42:35.000 --> 01:42:42.279 sixty tree stabilizer. Orce got it down at Horages Gardens. They're on Elizabeth 1406 01:42:42.399 --> 01:42:45.840 Street in Alvin. That's south of Highway six. So if you live in 1407 01:42:45.920 --> 01:42:51.039 Alvin or Santa Fe or Dickinson or Hillcrest, or I'll go or Arcadia or 1408 01:42:51.079 --> 01:42:56.560 what's the other Alta Loma down in that area. Horayes your backyard nursery and 1409 01:42:56.600 --> 01:42:59.359 garden center. You need to go by and check them out and see the 1410 01:42:59.439 --> 01:43:02.359 kinds of stuff they have. And again it's always changing. They're growing, 1411 01:43:02.840 --> 01:43:10.119 They're just continuing to add more and more cool stuff at Hoorges Gardens down down 1412 01:43:10.520 --> 01:43:14.239 south, well, let's see here. I want to remind you that I'm 1413 01:43:14.319 --> 01:43:18.319 going to be at the Home and Garden show up in Conro It's the Montgomery 1414 01:43:18.319 --> 01:43:24.760 County Home and Outdoor Living Show. I will be there on this afternoon from 1415 01:43:24.880 --> 01:43:28.159 twelve to two. I'll be given a talk for an hour and then I'll 1416 01:43:28.199 --> 01:43:31.279 be answering your questions, and I'm going to be given away a truckload of 1417 01:43:32.079 --> 01:43:35.560 various kinds of products from Nelson's like their new Genesis and a lot of you 1418 01:43:35.600 --> 01:43:40.840 have little fertilizer canisters that Nelson's has. So here's a chance to get some 1419 01:43:40.920 --> 01:43:44.439 free product and hopefully it will some free and good information. You know that 1420 01:43:44.520 --> 01:43:46.880 garden show is free. It doesn't cost anything to get in, free parking, 1421 01:43:47.319 --> 01:43:50.000 free admission. You're not going to talk them down on that price. 1422 01:43:50.279 --> 01:43:54.880 Here's NICKI welcome back to guard Line. Hey, we're glad to have you 1423 01:43:54.960 --> 01:43:59.680 with us today. Listen, I'm talking about Jorges Hidden Gardens being down south. 1424 01:44:00.239 --> 01:44:05.239 Another place that is outstanding that is down south Houston is Ciena malt Ciena 1425 01:44:05.359 --> 01:44:14.000 Maltz has quality soul mixes. Cienamultchs. Quality mixes include composts, they include 1426 01:44:14.039 --> 01:44:16.880 bed mixes. They've got mulches, They've got stone, all kinds of landscape 1427 01:44:16.920 --> 01:44:21.119 stones, flat stones and rocks and things like that. They carry every fertilizer 1428 01:44:21.159 --> 01:44:26.600 I'm talking about on guard Line. They carry those there. Ciena Maltch is 1429 01:44:26.640 --> 01:44:30.439 the place where you go to get the brown stuff right before you put in 1430 01:44:30.479 --> 01:44:34.000 the green stuff. That's what that's exactly what I'm talking about. Super super 1431 01:44:34.079 --> 01:44:39.880 high quality stuff that works. You can go to Siennamultz dot com, CNA 1432 01:44:39.960 --> 01:44:44.119 Moltch dot com, or you can just go buy there FM five point twenty 1433 01:44:44.159 --> 01:44:46.560 one. They're near Highway six and to eighty eight, just north of Rose 1434 01:44:46.640 --> 01:44:54.640 Sharon Ciena Mulch. In fact, Ciena Mulch's products or what BnB Turf Pros 1435 01:44:54.720 --> 01:44:57.640 used when I was talking earlier about accompost top dressing. For those of you 1436 01:44:57.760 --> 01:45:03.760 down south, BnB Turf is our southern supplier of compost top dressing and aeration, 1437 01:45:04.239 --> 01:45:09.800 and they use they know Siena works. They use Cienamal's the top quality 1438 01:45:09.920 --> 01:45:14.840 products. I want to head to Brenham, Texas now and talk to Leonard. 1439 01:45:15.039 --> 01:45:18.600 Hello Leonard, good morning. This this is the Old Rooster and Brenham. 1440 01:45:18.640 --> 01:45:27.000 And I've got a problem with grass and weeds, especially the weeds. 1441 01:45:27.119 --> 01:45:31.960 I have pastures around me. I wondered if the pastures and the cows and 1442 01:45:32.079 --> 01:45:39.039 everything is help is keeping my yard which is fenced around my house? And 1443 01:45:39.840 --> 01:45:44.680 uh, it just constantly with the weeds and the and the bad summer that 1444 01:45:44.760 --> 01:45:49.600 we had killed everything. I'm past eighty. I don't have the energy or 1445 01:45:49.680 --> 01:45:56.720 the money to spend on a carpet of grass or even the six fertilizer that 1446 01:45:56.960 --> 01:46:00.600 kills the weeds. So I was wondering if I can just take like we 1447 01:46:00.760 --> 01:46:04.239 did when we were kids, dig a little holeless maybe three inches wide, 1448 01:46:04.760 --> 01:46:11.680 and h and our four inches wide and two inches deep, cut the Saint 1449 01:46:11.720 --> 01:46:15.319 Augustine and pieces that will match that hole, and just put it in there 1450 01:46:15.359 --> 01:46:19.279 and stamp some fresh soil around it and watered in and keep watering it. 1451 01:46:19.520 --> 01:46:26.560 Yes, and it'll eventually take over the weeds. Yes, I think if 1452 01:46:26.600 --> 01:46:29.479 I were doing that, I'd to mend it one way. Uh. So 1453 01:46:29.640 --> 01:46:32.159 you have a lawn area and that's weed, not weedy, and then you 1454 01:46:32.279 --> 01:46:35.439 have lawns that have weeds in it. Right, is that what you're saying? 1455 01:46:35.479 --> 01:46:40.520 Well, everything now has got weeds in because it's spread into my lawn. 1456 01:46:40.840 --> 01:46:44.840 Well, I was wondering if those pastures are what's blowing the weed seeds 1457 01:46:44.920 --> 01:46:46.960 in there or something well, who knows, who knows? I mean it 1458 01:46:47.199 --> 01:46:50.600 could be coming from a lot of places. But you know, to get 1459 01:46:50.680 --> 01:46:56.520 rid of weeds, there's only two approaches. One is to do the mow, 1460 01:46:56.600 --> 01:47:00.640 water fertilized and get your lawns so dense that it shows the weeds. 1461 01:47:00.279 --> 01:47:03.199 The second is to spray them with something, And you're kind of saying you 1462 01:47:03.239 --> 01:47:08.039 don't want to do the second one, so uh, at least get a 1463 01:47:08.079 --> 01:47:12.640 good quality fertilizer and keep that lawn as healthy as you can when we get 1464 01:47:12.720 --> 01:47:15.000 into summer drought. Or do you have the ability to get watered all those 1465 01:47:15.119 --> 01:47:20.079 places or not? Yes, okay if you can, but yes, if 1466 01:47:20.159 --> 01:47:25.039 you can keep the grass healthy. Doesn't have to be watered every day. 1467 01:47:25.079 --> 01:47:29.199 Once a week's enough, probably maybe twice a week and the worst of conditions. 1468 01:47:29.279 --> 01:47:31.720 But uh, if you can at least get a once a week good 1469 01:47:31.840 --> 01:47:39.279 soaking of water on it and then fertilize it. And you can use immediately 1470 01:47:39.479 --> 01:47:42.920 release products and use them small doses over time. You can buy a slow 1471 01:47:42.960 --> 01:47:46.600 release and let it do the small doses over time itself. But mow, 1472 01:47:46.720 --> 01:47:51.279 water, fertilized. Those three things are the secret to getting rid of the 1473 01:47:51.479 --> 01:47:56.199 vast majority of your weeds. There are a few that will live despite you 1474 01:47:56.319 --> 01:48:00.399 doing everything right, But those plugs will eventually over if you take care of 1475 01:48:00.520 --> 01:48:03.680 them, if you help them water in And I would start doing it right 1476 01:48:03.760 --> 01:48:08.800 now and then continue to do it because once we get into July, you 1477 01:48:08.880 --> 01:48:12.199 can still put plugs in, but then you got to go water that spot 1478 01:48:12.319 --> 01:48:15.119 regularly and it's going to take about a week of daily water on that plug 1479 01:48:15.720 --> 01:48:20.279 to get it soaked in so that you know what I'm saying, We've got 1480 01:48:20.920 --> 01:48:26.640 clay soil here and it isn't bear. Yeah, Now that are to help 1481 01:48:26.680 --> 01:48:31.000 the oak trees that I'm real concerned about, also a good soaking. Generally 1482 01:48:31.199 --> 01:48:34.279 when we water our grass though, we don't water the soil deep enough to 1483 01:48:34.560 --> 01:48:42.039 really provide the volume of water and oak would need if it's oh yeah, 1484 01:48:42.399 --> 01:48:46.119 oh yeah, those trees absolutely. Hey, you've answered my question again. 1485 01:48:46.239 --> 01:48:49.600 So I thank you very much. All right, you take care of Thanks 1486 01:48:49.720 --> 01:48:55.319 Leonard. I appreciate appreciate that call a lot. Yeah, you know, 1487 01:48:55.640 --> 01:48:59.319 we run into a lot of different kinds of questions on guarden Line and a 1488 01:48:59.399 --> 01:49:01.760 lot of different roaches people take. You know, some people it's like, 1489 01:49:02.600 --> 01:49:05.399 hey, I'll do whatever it takes, you know, line up the products, 1490 01:49:05.479 --> 01:49:09.039 line up the services. We're going to get it all done. We're 1491 01:49:09.079 --> 01:49:12.039 going to do that. And other people it's like, no, I'm not 1492 01:49:12.119 --> 01:49:14.479 gonna I'm not gonna be able to do all that. I just need to 1493 01:49:14.560 --> 01:49:16.159 know what are my best options and how to get it done. We're happy, 1494 01:49:16.239 --> 01:49:19.479 happy to answer it either way. For those of you who are looking 1495 01:49:19.600 --> 01:49:24.399 at a landscape that was hammered by the drought, you need to call the 1496 01:49:24.479 --> 01:49:30.159 folks at Piercescapes. And here's why. They specialize in turning what is and 1497 01:49:30.239 --> 01:49:33.640 pretty into something that's gorgeous. They do that. Do you need shrubs replaced? 1498 01:49:33.800 --> 01:49:36.640 Call them out and say, look, I need some drought resistant shrubs 1499 01:49:36.680 --> 01:49:40.640 to go back in here. Do you want to go all out and I 1500 01:49:40.840 --> 01:49:45.560 mean create a beautiful backyard setting. We're talking about the hard escapes, the 1501 01:49:45.680 --> 01:49:49.640 fountains, the landscape lighting. They can do that. They do drainage problems 1502 01:49:49.960 --> 01:49:54.000 for a lot of you. When it rains, it stays two wet in 1503 01:49:54.079 --> 01:49:58.640 places and it's a mess. Piercescapes can fix that. They know what they're 1504 01:49:58.680 --> 01:50:01.279 doing, They know how to that kind of thing. Their phone number is 1505 01:50:01.399 --> 01:50:06.239 two eight one three seven fifty sixty two eight one three seven fifty sixty. 1506 01:50:06.840 --> 01:50:12.600 Whatever's wrong in the landscape, you call them. You want something beautiful built, 1507 01:50:12.920 --> 01:50:16.319 You want to have your sprinkler system evaluated and fixed. That's been one 1508 01:50:16.359 --> 01:50:19.800 of the biggest problems we had last year. We had drought. It was 1509 01:50:19.840 --> 01:50:25.079 a problem, and then on top of it, our irrigation systems were very 1510 01:50:25.159 --> 01:50:29.359 inefficient. So you're spending all this money on water and you're not getting the 1511 01:50:29.439 --> 01:50:32.119 full benefit of it because some places are getting too wet and other places are 1512 01:50:32.119 --> 01:50:38.640 too dry. Pierce Scapes can fix that. Piercescapes dot Com makes it real 1513 01:50:38.720 --> 01:50:41.439 easy. We're going to go out to Lake Jackson. Now, I'm going 1514 01:50:41.479 --> 01:50:45.880 to talk to Joanna. Hello, Joanna, Hey, how are you. 1515 01:50:45.159 --> 01:50:48.159 I'm well, ma'am, how are you? I'm good good. I have 1516 01:50:48.319 --> 01:50:51.520 a question, probably everybody else does, about the weeds that came from the 1517 01:50:51.640 --> 01:50:58.199 drought. I already purchased this Scott's bonus is and I probably shouldn't have, 1518 01:50:58.359 --> 01:51:01.800 but I'm kind of confused on to do it because I've got like lots of 1519 01:51:01.920 --> 01:51:09.000 dandelions and you're saying don't cut them and infertilize and wet. Do you have 1520 01:51:09.159 --> 01:51:14.159 any It's hard to get the information off the internet on that. Yeah, 1521 01:51:14.439 --> 01:51:17.880 the dandelion go ahead. Why I say, when do you recommend I do 1522 01:51:18.039 --> 01:51:21.279 it? And when should I water it and cut it? And such? 1523 01:51:23.119 --> 01:51:27.840 Well, the dandelions we usually treat with the post emergent weed killer one that 1524 01:51:27.960 --> 01:51:31.239 kills weeds that are already growing. That would be the kind of thing that 1525 01:51:31.399 --> 01:51:35.359 you would that you would want to do. Now you're going to find that 1526 01:51:36.520 --> 01:51:40.800 those can be spot sprayed. You don't have to treat the whole lown if 1527 01:51:40.880 --> 01:51:44.119 because dandylions tend to be kind of here and there. Most people don't have 1528 01:51:44.239 --> 01:51:47.279 wall to wall dandelions. But that that will do it for you. I 1529 01:51:47.439 --> 01:51:53.319 generally don't recommend the bonus S. I just don't care for the ingredient that's 1530 01:51:53.359 --> 01:51:57.800 in it, and that's been my problem with that. But you know you 1531 01:51:57.920 --> 01:52:00.359 can if you got on hand, you use it. But I think you're 1532 01:52:00.359 --> 01:52:04.359 going to do better with a spot spray of a post emergent broad leaf killer 1533 01:52:04.960 --> 01:52:10.600 on that dandelion. That's going to give you better results the bonus SS. 1534 01:52:11.199 --> 01:52:15.840 UH. Well, what you know, what's what would you recommend? Uh? 1535 01:52:16.000 --> 01:52:18.199 You could do if you're going to spray up like that. I would 1536 01:52:18.239 --> 01:52:24.720 get a see Boneyed has a weed beater ultra that you can buy and it 1537 01:52:24.840 --> 01:52:28.159 works very well. Your Ace Hardware stores are going to carry it down in 1538 01:52:28.199 --> 01:52:31.760 the Lake Jackson region. UH and UH that would be one fertilough makes a 1539 01:52:31.800 --> 01:52:36.479 weed free zone. That's also a post emergent you spot treat Joan. I'm 1540 01:52:36.479 --> 01:52:41.279 sorry, but I've got to leave for another commercial break here, but hopefully 1541 01:52:41.359 --> 01:52:44.520 that'll get you off to the Yes, ma'am, all right, we'll be 1542 01:52:44.600 --> 01:52:48.039 right back. Welcome back to Guarden Line. Glad you're with us today. 1543 01:52:48.399 --> 01:52:53.399 We're going to talk to you about what you are interested in if you just 1544 01:52:53.439 --> 01:52:57.520 give us a call seven to one three two one two five eight seven four 1545 01:52:57.600 --> 01:53:02.560 seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four. I it's one of 1546 01:53:02.640 --> 01:53:06.319 the easiest things for me and recommending things for people is to tell them about 1547 01:53:06.359 --> 01:53:12.279 ACE Hardware because ACE hardware is everwhere. Ace hardware carries the fertilizers I talk 1548 01:53:12.319 --> 01:53:15.520 about. ACE Hardware carries soul mixes, blends, bags of those for you. 1549 01:53:16.000 --> 01:53:21.760 They carry insecticide, pesticide in general, fungicides. We control all these 1550 01:53:21.760 --> 01:53:25.880 things people keep calling about. Today. You're going to find it your local 1551 01:53:25.920 --> 01:53:29.399 Ace Hardware. There's a ton of ACE hardware. They're all over the place. 1552 01:53:29.520 --> 01:53:33.840 Easy to find. Just go to acehardware dot com. Acehardware dot com 1553 01:53:33.960 --> 01:53:39.479 find the store locator to find the store nearest jew With forty of them around, 1554 01:53:39.720 --> 01:53:43.039 you're not going to have trouble finding an ACE Hardware. And when you 1555 01:53:43.199 --> 01:53:45.520 walk in there, in addition to everything we're talking about for your lawn and 1556 01:53:45.600 --> 01:53:50.079 garden, they've got everything for outdoor living and they have everything for indoor living 1557 01:53:50.159 --> 01:53:55.640 as well. It's just a beautiful place full of great ideas to help you 1558 01:53:55.760 --> 01:54:00.640 turn your place indoors or outdoors into a much more warm and inviting, an 1559 01:54:00.800 --> 01:54:06.119 enjoyable place. Can you smell barbecue right now? Can just imagine the wonderful 1560 01:54:06.399 --> 01:54:11.920 imagine you're grilling on your own pit, and ACE Hardware has the highest quality 1561 01:54:12.520 --> 01:54:15.560 of barbecue pits that you can get things like Big Green Egg and Trager. 1562 01:54:15.640 --> 01:54:18.600 They're gonna have Weber pits. They're gonna everything you need for that backyard patio, 1563 01:54:18.720 --> 01:54:21.640 and this summer you're gonna need one to do the kind of grilling that 1564 01:54:21.760 --> 01:54:28.720 you're gonna do. Acehardware dot Com just go and see what I'm talking about, 1565 01:54:29.079 --> 01:54:30.479 and you'll know why I brag on them all the time and why I 1566 01:54:30.560 --> 01:54:35.960 always love going in myself to an ACE Hardware store. I am gonna head 1567 01:54:36.079 --> 01:54:40.960 out now to Beach City and we're gonna talk to Dwayne. Hello Dwayne, 1568 01:54:42.279 --> 01:54:44.560 Hey, good morning, Rick. How are you they? I appreciate you 1569 01:54:44.640 --> 01:54:47.520 taking my calls. Hopefully you can point me in the right direction. I 1570 01:54:47.720 --> 01:54:51.239 was looking to get a fig tree, and I live outside of Baytown, 1571 01:54:51.640 --> 01:54:55.880 and I was wondering what's the best type of fig tree I should plan. 1572 01:54:56.560 --> 01:54:59.640 Oh, there's a lot of good ones, lots of good figs to choose 1573 01:54:59.680 --> 01:55:04.039 from. I personally like Celeste a lot. Celeste is a good fig. 1574 01:55:04.880 --> 01:55:10.319 There is a Louisiana Purple and a Louisiana Gold. Those are two different figs 1575 01:55:10.560 --> 01:55:14.840 that obviously are going to do well in our climate because they're bred just across 1576 01:55:14.920 --> 01:55:18.720 the river there in Louisiana at LSU. Those are excellent figs as well. 1577 01:55:19.239 --> 01:55:26.439 But there are many, many other cultivars to choose from. Okay, do 1578 01:55:26.520 --> 01:55:30.760 you know any location around the Baytown area that would sell those? Baytown area 1579 01:55:30.920 --> 01:55:34.000 specifically, Let's see you got a little drive to go up to Moss Nursery 1580 01:55:34.039 --> 01:55:38.439 and Seabrook, but not too bad. They would have them up there. 1581 01:55:39.000 --> 01:55:43.880 I think Jorges Hidden Gardens has them as well. I'm pretty sure they do 1582 01:55:44.079 --> 01:55:48.159 the last time I checked. You might try Hoorges Hidden gardens over in Alvin 1583 01:55:48.760 --> 01:55:55.399 and see if they have the varieties that you want. But they I could 1584 01:55:55.439 --> 01:55:58.960 just almost guarantee you where he is going to happen because he carries a wide 1585 01:55:59.079 --> 01:56:03.520 stock of things. Figs are super popular along the Gulf coast. Okay, 1586 01:56:03.680 --> 01:56:08.640 so one more question. Whenever I plan them, should I mix two to 1587 01:56:08.800 --> 01:56:13.119 one row soil and a leaf mulch? You keep boast with it? You 1588 01:56:13.279 --> 01:56:15.520 can, you can, It's always good to improve the soil on plants. 1589 01:56:15.560 --> 01:56:20.239 But I'm telling you this, there was a fig industry, hundreds of acres 1590 01:56:20.279 --> 01:56:25.680 of figs grown along the southe Houston area in the Gulf Coast area, and 1591 01:56:26.119 --> 01:56:30.239 on a heavy black soils, and nobody was running through there with compost. 1592 01:56:30.560 --> 01:56:32.960 You know, the figs are just a very forgiving plant. But if you 1593 01:56:33.079 --> 01:56:36.279 do themend the soil, you help any plant a little bit. And so 1594 01:56:36.840 --> 01:56:41.479 I would mix a compost in or something along those lines. But just know 1595 01:56:41.520 --> 01:56:47.479 they're pretty pretty forgiving. All right, I appreciate it. Okay, thanks 1596 01:56:47.479 --> 01:56:49.960 a lot, good luck, good luck. Figs are wonderful. All I 1597 01:56:50.039 --> 01:56:55.520 ask is that when your tree starts producing, bring half of what you grow 1598 01:56:56.319 --> 01:56:59.479 to me at the radio station, and we will be happy to call that. 1599 01:56:59.680 --> 01:57:02.000 Even that sounds reasonable, doesn't it? I think it does. At 1600 01:57:02.079 --> 01:57:06.239 least it sounds reasonable to me. Hey, have you been to Buchanans in 1601 01:57:06.479 --> 01:57:14.039 the Heights. They are loaded with plants. The color they have is outstanding. 1602 01:57:14.439 --> 01:57:18.880 The native plant selection is unbelievable. I mean that Buchanan's native plants. 1603 01:57:19.079 --> 01:57:24.319 That's part of their name, and they have all kinds of good natives. 1604 01:57:24.359 --> 01:57:27.079 Every time I go by there, it's like I didn't know that native was 1605 01:57:27.159 --> 01:57:30.560 in the trade. Yep, it is. If it is, it's going 1606 01:57:30.640 --> 01:57:33.920 to be a Buchanans, they're going to have it. One of my favorite 1607 01:57:33.960 --> 01:57:41.520 little trees is Anakatcha orchid. It's a little white Bohinia tree and you just 1608 01:57:41.640 --> 01:57:45.720 have to go see one as little white blooms. It's a small tree and 1609 01:57:45.840 --> 01:57:49.319 it's a blooming tree that flowers in spring and summer. What a good thing. 1610 01:57:50.359 --> 01:57:54.279 Very tough, I mean, we used to grow those in Central Texas 1611 01:57:54.359 --> 01:57:58.760 when I was over there. They're very drought resilient. Give it a little 1612 01:57:58.800 --> 01:58:01.680 good drainage. You'll put the mound if you need to. But it's native 1613 01:58:01.720 --> 01:58:06.640 to the Anacolta Mountains and it also all through Southwest Texas. There Anococha Orchid's 1614 01:58:06.720 --> 01:58:10.880 just one of the many, many, many native plants that they have at 1615 01:58:10.960 --> 01:58:14.800 Buchanan's Plants. Now. If you're looking for vegetables, herbs, they got 1616 01:58:14.880 --> 01:58:16.640 them. If you're looking for shade plants, they've got them. Do you 1617 01:58:16.720 --> 01:58:21.640 need a vine, do you need a tropical houseplant? You're gonna find it 1618 01:58:21.680 --> 01:58:27.079 all there. You need to go to the website Buchanansplants dot com. And 1619 01:58:27.960 --> 01:58:30.359 when you go to Buchanan's Plants dot com, you see what I'm talking about. 1620 01:58:30.359 --> 01:58:33.840 Sign up for their newsletter. Lots of good information and it keeps you 1621 01:58:34.000 --> 01:58:40.680 up to date on everything that is happening at Buchanan's Plants. Find good success 1622 01:58:40.840 --> 01:58:43.520 with that. We're going to head out to the Woodlands now and talk to 1623 01:58:43.600 --> 01:58:47.920 Andy. Hello. Andy, Yes, sir, I've got a bunch of 1624 01:58:48.319 --> 01:58:54.000 coral setum growing as kind of a groundcover, and it looks really nice. 1625 01:58:54.000 --> 01:58:57.720 It's a nice green color. It spreads out real quick. But I've also 1626 01:58:57.760 --> 01:59:01.760 got a bunch of clover that's growing inside it, and I mean I try 1627 01:59:01.800 --> 01:59:05.279 to pull out the clover. I'll spend all day pulling clover and then the 1628 01:59:05.319 --> 01:59:09.600 next day is back again. Yeah, is there a way to eliminate the 1629 01:59:09.680 --> 01:59:15.279 clover without killing all the coral? Set them number one. I doubt you're 1630 01:59:15.319 --> 01:59:19.439 going to find a herbicide with set them on the label, and I don't 1631 01:59:19.520 --> 01:59:24.960 know. I wouldn't try it unless you just want to test it on a 1632 01:59:25.000 --> 01:59:28.319 little spot to see how it does. It may be that the setum is 1633 01:59:28.439 --> 01:59:31.359 resistant to some of these broad leaves, but I'm not going to take you 1634 01:59:31.359 --> 01:59:38.920 to go go do it because I don't know. Mulching underneath the settum. 1635 01:59:38.960 --> 01:59:42.279 I know setum is. You know, normally we don't worry about mulching plants 1636 01:59:42.319 --> 01:59:46.359 that are succulum because they're so tough, but you might try mulching underneath there. 1637 01:59:46.640 --> 01:59:53.119 Clover sprouted in the fall, so late September early October in your area. 1638 01:59:53.279 --> 01:59:56.520 Even late September, you need to have a mulch down to prevent the 1639 01:59:56.600 --> 01:59:59.479 cool season weed seeds. So if you can get some mulch up under the 1640 01:59:59.560 --> 02:00:04.760 settum, that would be one strategy on minimizing clover and other cool season weeds 1641 02:00:04.840 --> 02:00:10.319 that you're going to see sprouting in early fall. Okay, because one of 1642 02:00:10.359 --> 02:00:16.159 the things I've read is that clover really doesn't like nitrogen. It doesn't. 1643 02:00:16.359 --> 02:00:20.560 But yeah, but you could try that. I don't think that's going to 1644 02:00:20.640 --> 02:00:25.520 eradicate it, but you could. You could try that. I think you're 1645 02:00:25.520 --> 02:00:28.239 still going to have clover. It's it's not going to be thriving as well. 1646 02:00:29.680 --> 02:00:31.479 Okay, So all right, I was hoping there might have been some 1647 02:00:31.640 --> 02:00:35.640 sort of weed killer that attacks clover. I'll look into it, Andy. 1648 02:00:35.760 --> 02:00:39.239 I off top of my head, I don't know of one, but I 1649 02:00:39.359 --> 02:00:43.199 do appreciate the call. I need to run, but I will see if 1650 02:00:43.239 --> 02:00:45.159 I can find something on that. That's a unique question. But thanks for 1651 02:00:45.239 --> 02:00:48.760 that, and I'll see what I can find out. Hey, if you 1652 02:00:48.840 --> 02:00:53.199 need a tree, Verdant Tree Farm has got you set up. I mean, 1653 02:00:53.319 --> 02:00:59.640 their selection of the palm trees is unbelievable. And you need a hearty 1654 02:00:59.680 --> 02:01:00.840 palm, they can get you one of those too. Do you need a 1655 02:01:00.920 --> 02:01:04.319 large shrub like an Eaglesoon holly or you know one of Nelie Stevens or one 1656 02:01:04.359 --> 02:01:08.520 of those kind of hollies. They carry large shrubs. Do you need a 1657 02:01:08.640 --> 02:01:13.079 beautiful tree that is large? They have seven hundred gallon trees up to that 1658 02:01:13.359 --> 02:01:15.760 size. You pick them out, they plant them. If they plant them 1659 02:01:15.880 --> 02:01:19.319 you get a one year warranty on the tree as well. You're not gonna 1660 02:01:19.319 --> 02:01:26.039 find better quality trees and a good selection like you'll find at Verdant Treefarm dot 1661 02:01:26.159 --> 02:01:29.840 com. They're in West Houston on Parker Cyprus, or in Perland on Broadway 1662 02:01:29.880 --> 02:01:32.880 Street. They're in the Heights where YO comes into it. In all places 1663 02:01:33.039 --> 02:01:38.880 you're gonna find Verdant Treefarm dot com. I just wanted to tell you that 1664 02:01:39.039 --> 02:01:45.279 I'm gonna be today out at the Montgomery County Outdoor Living, Home and Garden 1665 02:01:45.319 --> 02:01:50.239 Show that's just up in Conrod, Texas at the Lone Star Convention Center. 1666 02:01:50.880 --> 02:01:56.279 This home and Garden show is free and free parking too. That is a 1667 02:01:56.319 --> 02:01:59.680 good deal. I'll be there at twelve o'clock twelve noon. I'm going to 1668 02:01:59.720 --> 02:02:02.880 give a about an hour talk answer your gardening question. I'll be giving away 1669 02:02:02.960 --> 02:02:09.600 a lot of different kinds of nitropos nitrophos, Nelson fertilizer. I've been saying 1670 02:02:09.600 --> 02:02:13.920 all these names all day and coming together in my head at once. Nelson's 1671 02:02:13.920 --> 02:02:19.439 got the genesis. That's a great mix for blending in to your transplant mix 1672 02:02:19.600 --> 02:02:24.600 before you transplant a plant into the soil or into a container. I've got 1673 02:02:24.680 --> 02:02:28.239 a lot of A Nelson products on many dinnerway, answering questions, and then 1674 02:02:28.319 --> 02:02:30.359 after that, just one on one. This is your eye to eye time 1675 02:02:30.439 --> 02:02:33.760 with me. Bring me pictures, bring me samples, Let's talk about it. 1676 02:02:33.960 --> 02:02:38.319 Let's figure out how to have a more beautiful on and a more bountiful 1677 02:02:38.399 --> 02:02:43.119 landscape. I'll be there from twelve to two pm today. All of you 1678 02:02:43.279 --> 02:02:46.640 up there willis Conroe Lake, Conro, the Woodlands. Come on up and 1679 02:02:46.680 --> 02:02:51.880 see me. KATRH Garden Line does not necessarily endorse any of the products or 1680 02:02:51.920 --> 02:03:00.920 services advertised on this program. Welcome to KTRH Garden Line with Scipe Directores, 1681 02:03:00.199 --> 02:03:15.880 Mill, Crazy trim. Just watch you as a word us so many give 1682 02:03:15.920 --> 02:03:27.960 it set crazy bubbles troubles again. Welcome back to garden Line. I am 1683 02:03:28.039 --> 02:03:31.119 your host, Skip Richter, and we're here to answer gardening question. That's 1684 02:03:31.600 --> 02:03:35.760 what we do. My goal is to turn brown thumb's green, because there's 1685 02:03:35.840 --> 02:03:41.119 no such thing as a brown thumb. There's only uninformed thumbs. And that 1686 02:03:41.760 --> 02:03:45.439 is what we will do. We will teach your thumb how to grow plants 1687 02:03:45.760 --> 02:03:48.600 and it'll turn green in the process. Our phone number seven one three two 1688 02:03:48.680 --> 02:03:54.560 one two five eight seven four seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy 1689 02:03:54.920 --> 02:03:58.159 four. Reel free to give us a call if you have a gardening question. 1690 02:03:58.720 --> 02:04:00.199 Uh. For those of you that out in the Richmond area, you 1691 02:04:00.359 --> 02:04:03.640 already know about in Chenna Gardens. You've been there before. If you haven't, 1692 02:04:05.279 --> 02:04:10.000 crawl out from under the rock and go, because listen, this is 1693 02:04:10.079 --> 02:04:14.399 a showplace. It is a beautiful place, and today and tomorrow are both 1694 02:04:14.520 --> 02:04:16.960 going to be excellent days to be at in Chened Gardens. When you go 1695 02:04:17.119 --> 02:04:23.279 to Enchanted Gardens, you just find what you're looking for. Do you want 1696 02:04:23.399 --> 02:04:28.439 vegetables or herbs or flowers, or do you want containers for plants or container 1697 02:04:28.680 --> 02:04:31.600 plants growing and already planted in containers. Do you want shrubs, trees, 1698 02:04:31.800 --> 02:04:36.399 roses, It's all there. And do you want people that know what they're 1699 02:04:36.439 --> 02:04:41.319 talking about? Of course you do. This is one of those destination nurseries 1700 02:04:41.359 --> 02:04:46.439 in Chanded Gardens Richmond. By the way, the website is enchanted Gardens Richmond 1701 02:04:46.920 --> 02:04:51.159 dot com in Chanted Gardens Richmond dot com. They're open money through Saturday eight 1702 02:04:51.199 --> 02:04:56.359 to five today. As a matter of fact, they are open or tomorrow. 1703 02:04:56.560 --> 02:05:00.319 Rather they'll be open from ten am to four pm. So this weekend 1704 02:05:00.479 --> 02:05:04.159 is a time to get out to ingended gardens. You're going to find educated 1705 02:05:04.279 --> 02:05:10.680 folks who shoot straight and direct you to the right plant for your situation. 1706 02:05:11.039 --> 02:05:15.239 Take them a picture of the landscape, take them a sample of something to 1707 02:05:15.359 --> 02:05:17.439 look at, and say, what would you recommend. Maybe you're just going 1708 02:05:17.479 --> 02:05:20.000 out there and you're wanting to put in a bed of color and you just 1709 02:05:20.079 --> 02:05:25.079 want to know. Okay, there's plants everywhere with flowers, but I don't 1710 02:05:25.079 --> 02:05:28.079 know how to put them together. Talk to them, say you know, 1711 02:05:28.159 --> 02:05:31.000 what do you have? I'd like to do this, and they can put 1712 02:05:31.039 --> 02:05:35.560 together the plants that you need to have success. That's what they do at 1713 02:05:35.600 --> 02:05:41.920 in Genda Gardens Richmond. You can always depend on good information, quality plants, 1714 02:05:42.319 --> 02:05:45.079 and plus it is just fun to go through that place. By the 1715 02:05:45.079 --> 02:05:46.840 way, they do have the fertilizers I talk about here on garden Line. 1716 02:05:47.239 --> 02:05:53.520 They have products from Nature's Way, for example Landscaper's Pride and heirloom soils for 1717 02:05:53.640 --> 02:05:57.239 taking care of the brown stuff. Remember, don't go home with just a 1718 02:05:57.359 --> 02:06:00.960 plant, go home with something to build and improve your soil to make that 1719 02:06:01.199 --> 02:06:06.119 plant happy. That is important. Probably one of the key things people fail 1720 02:06:06.199 --> 02:06:11.119 to do. James and Allen, Texas. How are you today, and 1721 02:06:11.199 --> 02:06:14.680 welcome to Garden Line. Hey, your morning, skip, it's a Alvin 1722 02:06:14.760 --> 02:06:18.720 Texas. Alvin okay, right yep, Alvin manble area. I'm looking for 1723 02:06:18.880 --> 02:06:24.560 some expanded Shelle in my area without having to drive an hour away to the 1724 02:06:24.640 --> 02:06:29.680 other side of Houston. Expanded shale in Allen, Texas. Let me see 1725 02:06:29.680 --> 02:06:31.840 if I can come up with something like that down there, I think, 1726 02:06:33.880 --> 02:06:38.319 okay, all right, just hang on one second. Let me get my 1727 02:06:39.159 --> 02:06:43.399 lo cater here out and see what I can find. Expanded shell is pretty 1728 02:06:43.399 --> 02:06:46.359 widely available at the quality nurseries you know that we talk about here on Guarden 1729 02:06:46.439 --> 02:06:50.159 Line. I mean they, yes, they absolutely. You know, we'll 1730 02:06:50.199 --> 02:06:55.880 get you you squared up with that Alvin you're gonna have. I bet you 1731 02:06:56.000 --> 02:07:00.239 can get expanded shale at Patco Hardware and Lumber. That's an ACEE heart ware 1732 02:07:00.279 --> 02:07:04.359 store. I would talk to them and see. Ace Hardware usually will carry 1733 02:07:06.000 --> 02:07:12.600 something along those lines. If you can't find it, there would be the 1734 02:07:12.720 --> 02:07:16.920 next place that I would go to. You're a ways away from some of 1735 02:07:17.000 --> 02:07:26.880 the big nurseries that carry a lot yeah, those products, I guess Ace 1736 02:07:27.039 --> 02:07:31.720 is the place I would I would suggest to start with on that. Other 1737 02:07:31.880 --> 02:07:34.880 than that, you're going to need to go some distance and it's worth the 1738 02:07:34.960 --> 02:07:40.319 trip. I mean, you're not that far away from Moss Nursery over at 1739 02:07:40.399 --> 02:07:44.479 Seabrook. It's a little drive, but not as far as a lot of 1740 02:07:44.520 --> 02:07:46.479 the other places that I probably would say, go look there and see what 1741 02:07:46.600 --> 02:07:48.840 they have. You know, where they're going to have it. I just 1742 02:07:49.159 --> 02:07:51.720 can't believe it any I wasn't. I was looking to the right and not 1743 02:07:51.800 --> 02:07:56.920 to the left. Siena Mulch, I bet has it. Give the folks 1744 02:07:57.000 --> 02:08:01.920 at Ciena maltchakal and see. I'll bet you that they carry expanded shale. 1745 02:08:03.000 --> 02:08:05.439 I'll say, I'll check it out. Yeah. Do you are you able 1746 02:08:05.479 --> 02:08:09.439 to get in touch with them? Yes, sir, I'll find them on 1747 02:08:09.479 --> 02:08:13.119 the on the internet. I just I wasn't finding the keywords during my searches 1748 02:08:13.159 --> 02:08:16.960 on Google yesterday at all the places. Okay, well, let me let 1749 02:08:16.039 --> 02:08:20.479 me make it easy. I'm just going to give you the website Ciena multch 1750 02:08:20.600 --> 02:08:24.359 dot com, Ciena multch dot com. Talk to them. I'll bet you 1751 02:08:24.439 --> 02:08:28.159 your dollar donut that they've got that. All right, awesome. I appreciate 1752 02:08:28.199 --> 02:08:33.039 it's good. Yeah, you bet you two. You know, expanded shale 1753 02:08:33.079 --> 02:08:35.800 is great, folks for opening up a heavy clay soil. You need to 1754 02:08:35.840 --> 02:08:39.279 put a lot of it down because you're not just having a granular or two 1755 02:08:39.399 --> 02:08:43.359 here in this soil. You know, I would I would recommend if you 1756 02:08:43.399 --> 02:08:46.039 could put on about three inches of it and mix it in as deeply as 1757 02:08:46.079 --> 02:08:50.319 you can. If you use less, that's fine, but the more you 1758 02:08:50.520 --> 02:08:54.479 use, the better it is. The more shale to clay content you have, 1759 02:08:54.079 --> 02:08:58.600 the better off it's going to be. And it really does help with 1760 02:08:58.720 --> 02:09:03.840 that kind of thing. Sweet Green is that organic product by nitrofos. It's 1761 02:09:03.920 --> 02:09:11.439 eleven percent nitrogen, one of the highest organic fertilizers that in terms of nitrogen 1762 02:09:11.880 --> 02:09:18.159 content that you're going to find wonderful fragrance because it's made from a molasses base. 1763 02:09:18.600 --> 02:09:22.560 Microbes have a part in creating Sweet Green, and when you put it 1764 02:09:22.640 --> 02:09:28.079 down, it dissolves the way well it moves into the soil. It's transitioned 1765 02:09:28.079 --> 02:09:31.520 into forms that the plants can easily take up. And you know, as 1766 02:09:31.560 --> 02:09:35.520 simple as that Sweet Green is an excellent product, you will find that it 1767 02:09:35.680 --> 02:09:39.760 will green up your lawn, and I just think is a really good product 1768 02:09:39.800 --> 02:09:46.000 to use. Sweet Green from Nitrofoce is available everywhere nitroface is sold like D 1769 02:09:46.119 --> 02:09:50.920 and D feed Up there in Toambol, you're going to find Sweet Green Lake 1770 02:09:50.960 --> 02:09:54.319 Hardware, and Angleton you're going to find Sweet Green Fisher's Hardware. Down in 1771 02:09:54.399 --> 02:09:58.319 Baytown, You're going to find sweet Green sweet Green products. Pretty much your 1772 02:09:58.319 --> 02:10:03.000 ace hardware stores are going to carry that as well as other quality products from 1773 02:10:03.039 --> 02:10:05.399 nitrofos. Now's the time to get it out. Go ahead and put it 1774 02:10:05.479 --> 02:10:09.279 out, now, get it down. It's not going to be as immediate 1775 02:10:09.439 --> 02:10:16.760 release as like the nitrofoss Red Bag the Imperial, but it will release and 1776 02:10:16.159 --> 02:10:18.960 your plants will take it up and they will thank you for it. And 1777 02:10:20.000 --> 02:10:22.239 you don't just have to put it on launch. You can use it on 1778 02:10:22.319 --> 02:10:24.840 anything you want to give a little nitrogen boost too. Let's head out to 1779 02:10:26.000 --> 02:10:28.079 Liberty. I tell you what, Rick in Liberty, I am running out 1780 02:10:28.079 --> 02:10:31.840 of time for this segment, so I'm going to hold you. You will 1781 02:10:31.880 --> 02:10:35.560 be absolute first up when we come back. Our phone number seven one three 1782 02:10:35.680 --> 02:10:41.159 two one two fifty eight seventy four. I'm sorry, I just keep listening 1783 02:10:41.199 --> 02:10:43.520 to the song. I love that song. Kind of fun. Some of 1784 02:10:43.600 --> 02:10:48.359 you may remember it as a matter of fact, you know Landscaper's Pride, 1785 02:10:50.199 --> 02:10:54.159 you may not be aware of the breadth of products that they offer. I 1786 02:10:54.239 --> 02:10:58.640 mean, they have everything that you can imagine that you might need any kind 1787 02:10:58.720 --> 02:11:03.960 of a mix for growing plants in twenty seven different bag products. You can 1788 02:11:03.000 --> 02:11:07.520 go to Landscaperspride dot com and see more about it. But I just want 1789 02:11:07.520 --> 02:11:11.359 to tell you about the pot Dirt. The pot Dirt is an OMRI certified 1790 02:11:11.520 --> 02:11:16.279 organic soil super packed with nutrients, got worm casting sand, vermiculite, all 1791 02:11:16.399 --> 02:11:20.279 kinds of I mean, it's really a quality mix. Great for annual beds, 1792 02:11:20.439 --> 02:11:24.119 for seasonal color changes where you just want a fast popa color, They've 1793 02:11:24.199 --> 02:11:28.279 got it. Landscapers Mix help you renew the old beds. It's a good 1794 02:11:28.439 --> 02:11:31.960 blend of fresh pine bark, rice holes, pearlite, slow release fertilizer. 1795 02:11:33.199 --> 02:11:35.640 Excellent for improving your drainage. By the way, and then they're forty pound 1796 02:11:37.439 --> 02:11:41.600 forty pound a potting soil bag. That is I like it. You can 1797 02:11:41.720 --> 02:11:43.960 use it as is, or you can amend it to kind of go in 1798 02:11:45.000 --> 02:11:48.000 different directions. Maybe you're growing a succulent and you want to add some grit 1799 02:11:48.079 --> 02:11:50.359 and grain to it. You know, the expanded jail we were just talking 1800 02:11:50.399 --> 02:11:54.800 about, for example, could be added to that to make it even a 1801 02:11:54.880 --> 02:12:01.239 better product for things like a cactus or a succulent. Very available, very 1802 02:12:01.359 --> 02:12:05.000 versatile. That's just how it is with Landscapers Pride again Landscaperspride dot com. 1803 02:12:05.159 --> 02:12:09.520 Check out their products and when you're there you can find out exactly where to 1804 02:12:09.600 --> 02:12:13.239 find them in your area. And they are very widely available here in the 1805 02:12:13.279 --> 02:12:18.520 Greater Houston area. I want to head now to Liberty to talk to Rick. 1806 02:12:18.800 --> 02:12:22.319 Hello, Rick, Hello skip from Thanks for taking look call. Yes, 1807 02:12:24.960 --> 02:12:31.399 I'll tell him give a little information, uh like on tomatoes. That 1808 02:12:31.520 --> 02:12:35.520 guy called in last week and he was wanted to take I think it was 1809 02:12:35.600 --> 02:12:39.960 a helf variety. It's pretty sure what he was talking about is that today 1810 02:12:41.199 --> 02:12:48.279 it's a hybrid. Okay, I think he said he yeah. And if 1811 02:12:48.319 --> 02:12:52.600 he takes the seeds and you know, the way you were talking about is 1812 02:12:52.600 --> 02:12:56.279 a proper way to preserve him. But if he plans over, he's probably 1813 02:12:56.319 --> 02:13:00.520 going to get a cherry tomato. Whatever the base was the hybrid was bred 1814 02:13:00.600 --> 02:13:03.000 with, it won't be the same thing. And if you do try to 1815 02:13:03.039 --> 02:13:09.279 grow tomatoes or anything, are the airlines. You got to keep myolator from 1816 02:13:09.319 --> 02:13:13.640 being a cross Polemators fast with tomatoes because they poleerate through the air. All 1817 02:13:13.720 --> 02:13:16.680 right, Yeah, well we would have to isolate that tomato, probably in 1818 02:13:16.760 --> 02:13:20.760 the greenhouse or something. Yeah, I don't I don't know what what the 1819 02:13:20.840 --> 02:13:24.560 tomato type was. I just know it was from hot seed. Yeah, 1820 02:13:24.680 --> 02:13:30.119 I think they call it. From what he was saying, I'm it's it's 1821 02:13:30.159 --> 02:13:33.920 a hybrid. Well, it could be. That could be also with tomatoes. 1822 02:13:33.960 --> 02:13:35.600 I was going to give a few corners on them. Well, rick 1823 02:13:35.880 --> 02:13:39.439 I'm not I'm not gonna have time for that. But did you have a 1824 02:13:39.520 --> 02:13:45.479 question. No, it was just I just wanted to get that out there 1825 02:13:45.560 --> 02:13:50.079 and waite people try to pick okrus you know, you know well Ricky, 1826 02:13:50.960 --> 02:13:54.600 Yeah, Rick, You're correct, hybrid tomatoes are going to come any hybrid 1827 02:13:54.600 --> 02:13:56.359 plants going to not come back true from sea. But thank you very much. 1828 02:13:56.399 --> 02:14:03.199 I appreciate appreciate you taking time on that. RCW Nurseries I've talked about 1829 02:14:03.199 --> 02:14:05.880 them earlier today, but they're the garden center that's right where two forty nine 1830 02:14:05.920 --> 02:14:11.800 comes into Belt way eight and RCW is going to have number one. They 1831 02:14:11.840 --> 02:14:16.159 have one of the most wide varieties of roses I've ever seen. I mean 1832 02:14:16.520 --> 02:14:20.039 pages and pages of roses that you can get from RCW. I was telling 1833 02:14:20.039 --> 02:14:26.399 you earlier. Their Cajun hibiscus series is just I can't describe it, but 1834 02:14:26.520 --> 02:14:28.880 let me just say that you're going to look at it and go, that's 1835 02:14:28.920 --> 02:14:33.079 a lot of color for a hibiscus, and that is exactly what it is. 1836 02:14:33.239 --> 02:14:35.960 It is a wonderful plant. I've got one myself at the house. 1837 02:14:35.039 --> 02:14:39.319 In fact, mine is waiting for it to warm up a little more where 1838 02:14:39.359 --> 02:14:41.800 it can really take off and put on the show that those Cajun hibiscus have. 1839 02:14:41.920 --> 02:14:45.479 By the way, the ones RCW has they already got blooms on them. 1840 02:14:45.680 --> 02:14:48.880 They look really, really good. They have a good selection of trees. 1841 02:14:48.920 --> 02:14:52.439 They grow trees themselves. They grow only the kinds of trees that belong 1842 02:14:52.560 --> 02:14:56.920 here, that do well here at RCW. That's the garden center where two 1843 02:14:56.960 --> 02:15:00.159 forty nine comes into belt wag eight. Here's the website. This is what 1844 02:15:00.239 --> 02:15:05.680 you need to write down. R CW Nurseries dot com, r CW Nurseries 1845 02:15:05.199 --> 02:15:09.159 dot com, and that I'll get you right there to it. Let's head 1846 02:15:09.159 --> 02:15:13.399 out. How let's feel now and talk to Gianna. Hello, Jianna, 1847 02:15:13.319 --> 02:15:16.399 Hi, how are you, sir? I'm well, Yes, I have 1848 02:15:16.680 --> 02:15:20.119 a large live oak tree, it's got to be hundred fifty two hundred years 1849 02:15:20.119 --> 02:15:26.359 old in our front yard and we have birds or stickers in our yard with 1850 02:15:26.479 --> 02:15:30.560 the weeds, and we're putting down barricade and I have not put it on 1851 02:15:30.680 --> 02:15:33.520 the side where the live oak tree is, and I was wondering, will 1852 02:15:33.600 --> 02:15:37.359 that harm the live oak tree if we put it around the area that its 1853 02:15:37.520 --> 02:15:41.840 root system is. Barricade will not. But here's what you here is. 1854 02:15:43.119 --> 02:15:46.680 This is I'm saying this about barricade, but it's true of any product like 1855 02:15:46.760 --> 02:15:48.560 that you're going to put out. You follow the label, you put the 1856 02:15:48.640 --> 02:15:52.640 right amount down, you put about a half inch of water to move it 1857 02:15:52.680 --> 02:15:56.279 into the soil, So just a little water to wet it and move it 1858 02:15:56.319 --> 02:15:58.920 in the soil. And those products are made to tie up in the surface 1859 02:16:00.079 --> 02:16:03.399 of the soil because that's where they do their work. If they just washed 1860 02:16:03.479 --> 02:16:07.119 right through the soil easily, they wouldn't be where they need to be. 1861 02:16:07.359 --> 02:16:09.840 When the weed starts to germinate, and so if you use it right, 1862 02:16:11.399 --> 02:16:15.439 it is safe to use and around your trees. Well good. Can I 1863 02:16:15.479 --> 02:16:18.600 ask you one more question about that a tree we would like to put just 1864 02:16:18.880 --> 02:16:22.920 mulch under it, would that be okay? For the tree itself, it 1865 02:16:24.000 --> 02:16:28.319 would absolutely be okay. Every tree drops its leaves on the ground to not 1866 02:16:28.439 --> 02:16:33.280 only does it shade out grass with its canopy, but it drops the leaves 1867 02:16:33.360 --> 02:16:37.159 on the ground to create a mulch and to decompose over time. And trees 1868 02:16:37.360 --> 02:16:41.079 love to have their leaves on the ground underneath them. One final question, 1869 02:16:41.280 --> 02:16:46.079 is there any time specifically that we should trim back the liva tree during the 1870 02:16:46.159 --> 02:16:50.360 year? I mean, should it be in the either early spring or early 1871 02:16:50.479 --> 02:16:54.399 fall? Or can it be done anytime? The best time is toward the 1872 02:16:54.520 --> 02:16:58.040 end of winter. That's the best you can trim a tree. Anytime you 1873 02:16:58.239 --> 02:17:01.440 have to trim a tree, like if there's a need to get a branch 1874 02:17:01.520 --> 02:17:05.040 off, you can do that anytime of the year. I don't know. 1875 02:17:05.000 --> 02:17:11.520 The oak quilt, and regarding Hallettsville, you're pretty far to the west of 1876 02:17:11.639 --> 02:17:13.879 us here in Houston, but you always want to be careful with that. 1877 02:17:15.120 --> 02:17:18.399 If you've got oak quilt centers near you, and you can go to texasoak 1878 02:17:18.479 --> 02:17:22.959 wilt dot org and find out if you do UH. Then the minute you 1879 02:17:24.040 --> 02:17:26.600 make a cut, you want to paint that cut. So the way I 1880 02:17:26.680 --> 02:17:31.040 put it is cut prune with a saw in one hand and pruning paint in 1881 02:17:31.120 --> 02:17:35.799 the other, just to create the mental image of I cut, I paint, 1882 02:17:35.120 --> 02:17:37.639 then I make another cut, and I paint it. Then I make 1883 02:17:37.680 --> 02:17:41.360 another cut, because if you leave those cuts open, even for a few 1884 02:17:41.399 --> 02:17:45.840 hours, there's the potential of a beetle coming in. They smell that cut 1885 02:17:46.319 --> 02:17:48.959 and they infect the tree with oak quilt, and you don't want that. 1886 02:17:50.559 --> 02:17:54.120 Wonderful Thank you so much. You've been so kind. I appreciate it all 1887 02:17:54.200 --> 02:17:56.399 right. Have fun out there in Hallettsville. Thank you a lot. I 1888 02:17:56.399 --> 02:18:01.399 appreciate your call very much. Heirloom Souls makes a something called a cocktail mix 1889 02:18:01.719 --> 02:18:07.639 and it is just outstanding. And they made it and they ran out of 1890 02:18:07.719 --> 02:18:11.200 it because all of you went out there and cleaned them up. But you 1891 02:18:11.280 --> 02:18:13.760 know what it is. It's a mix of different things that are quality, 1892 02:18:13.920 --> 02:18:18.239 high quality that airloom soel sells. But you can get all those other products 1893 02:18:18.280 --> 02:18:22.600 still and you can use them. Leaf mold compost one of the hottest products 1894 02:18:22.680 --> 02:18:28.000 on the market, and Airroom Soils has a quality version of it. Heirloom 1895 02:18:28.079 --> 02:18:35.559 Soils has things like the rose soil, things like the vegetable and herb mix, 1896 02:18:35.799 --> 02:18:37.719 and on and on. I could sit here all day just naming all 1897 02:18:37.760 --> 02:18:41.600 the mixes that they have, the fruit and berry and citrus mix, for 1898 02:18:41.680 --> 02:18:45.040 example, the leaf mol compost. You're gonna get airloom cells all over. 1899 02:18:45.120 --> 02:18:48.680 They've also got the Works which is a potting soil. The Works is excellent 1900 02:18:48.840 --> 02:18:52.360 for any kind of plants you're putting in a container. The Works will work. 1901 02:18:52.840 --> 02:18:56.840 It's just that's probably the easiest way that I could put it is the 1902 02:18:58.000 --> 02:19:01.319 Works Works. It makes it really real simple to know what's going on. 1903 02:19:03.040 --> 02:19:07.799 You know, the folks at Heirloom they have the expanded shale in bulk and 1904 02:19:07.959 --> 02:19:11.200 bagged. So a while ago, who was it? Look at James and 1905 02:19:11.239 --> 02:19:16.280 Alvin was looking for expanded shale, so way down there. If you Ace 1906 02:19:16.319 --> 02:19:20.360 Hardware carries oldroom products, talk to your Ace Hardware store and say, hey, 1907 02:19:20.399 --> 02:19:22.920 can you get me some of the expanded shail. They probably already have 1908 02:19:22.079 --> 02:19:26.000 it, but if they don't, they're going to have the heirloom expanded bulk 1909 02:19:26.200 --> 02:19:30.680 or maybe they can get it for you. That would be another good choice 1910 02:19:31.040 --> 02:19:35.719 as well. So just get out there and check out the products that they 1911 02:19:35.760 --> 02:19:39.000 have. You can order bulk, you can order them to deliver it, 1912 02:19:39.079 --> 02:19:41.879 you can go and get it from their location up there in Porter. I 1913 02:19:41.959 --> 02:19:46.239 mean, it makes it really really simple. All Right, we're going to 1914 02:19:46.280 --> 02:19:50.200 head now, let's see where we're going to go next. Well, I'll 1915 02:19:50.239 --> 02:19:54.760 tell you what I want to talk. Just talk about plants for a little 1916 02:19:54.799 --> 02:19:58.920 bit. I think that the most important thing you do, of course, 1917 02:20:00.120 --> 02:20:03.520 just take care of the brown stuff. But the one thing that people don't 1918 02:20:03.600 --> 02:20:09.319 think about in spring is the fact that summer is coming. And so we 1919 02:20:09.440 --> 02:20:13.520 have a lot of wonderful flowers that light up spring. We have flowers that 1920 02:20:13.600 --> 02:20:16.639 can take the summer. We have flowers that do well in fall and in 1921 02:20:16.799 --> 02:20:20.680 winter. And it comes down to how many color changes do you want to 1922 02:20:20.799 --> 02:20:24.000 do. If some people do four color changes a year, some do three, 1923 02:20:24.360 --> 02:20:28.200 some do two. They do a cool spring change and then they do 1924 02:20:28.440 --> 02:20:31.680 a fall change or for a cool season. If you're going to do some 1925 02:20:31.840 --> 02:20:37.479 summer planting, their plants like angelonia, summer snapdragon, they look good now 1926 02:20:37.959 --> 02:20:41.920 plant them now. They look good in spring, but they'll go through summer 1927 02:20:41.040 --> 02:20:46.000 too, and you get more time of color as a result of that. 1928 02:20:46.520 --> 02:20:48.920 I think that really is a good idea to be able to provide that. 1929 02:20:50.799 --> 02:20:54.000 So we want to get plenty of color. Whenever we're putting things out. 1930 02:20:54.239 --> 02:21:00.559 We don't use enough color. One last tip about the color is the you 1931 02:21:00.719 --> 02:21:03.159 want if you're going to view it up close. A lot of colors is 1932 02:21:03.360 --> 02:21:07.280 very interesting. You can sit there and just say, oh, look at 1933 02:21:07.280 --> 02:21:11.479 all those pretty colors. As you back away from a mix of one hundred 1934 02:21:11.479 --> 02:21:16.799 different colors, it melts together into kind of one look. It's like pixelated 1935 02:21:18.200 --> 02:21:22.159 TV screens used to be, or the news print that was pixelated. You 1936 02:21:22.239 --> 02:21:24.319 get a magnifying glass and it's like, oh, I didn't know that. 1937 02:21:24.440 --> 02:21:28.399 Have they made that color? Because they take all the colors and combine them 1938 02:21:28.440 --> 02:21:33.959 for that effect. Well, pixelate your landscape for up close, but use 1939 02:21:33.200 --> 02:21:37.840 large, wide swaths of color. Buy a bunch of it, use a 1940 02:21:37.000 --> 02:21:41.760 section or a swath or a band, and as you get further away, 1941 02:21:41.840 --> 02:21:46.440 like out at the street, it's going to look really really good. Just 1942 02:21:46.520 --> 02:21:48.680 a little bit of a strategy there to kind of help you along in that. 1943 02:21:50.479 --> 02:21:52.879 You've heard me talk about talk about turf Star products from Nelson's before. 1944 02:21:54.000 --> 02:22:01.760 Turfstar Weedonator is an outstanding product. Turfstar weedenator will not only feed your lawn, 1945 02:22:01.959 --> 02:22:05.559 but it helps stop the weeds that are existing. So I wouldn't call 1946 02:22:05.600 --> 02:22:09.680 it a weed and feed. I would call it a feed or a weed 1947 02:22:09.879 --> 02:22:13.440 then feed. So here's what you do. You wet your grass and the 1948 02:22:13.520 --> 02:22:16.639 weeds that you have right now. This is for cool season weeds, which 1949 02:22:16.680 --> 02:22:20.120 is the only weed you're seeing right now is cool season weeds. Okay, 1950 02:22:20.479 --> 02:22:22.920 you wet them, you put on the turf Star weedonator. It sticks to 1951 02:22:24.079 --> 02:22:28.319 that wet weed leaf. That's why wedding is so important. So don't wet 1952 02:22:28.360 --> 02:22:31.760 them this morning and go put it out this afternoon. Plants are going to 1953 02:22:31.799 --> 02:22:35.200 be dry. You want them wet, Okay. Then you wait about two 1954 02:22:35.319 --> 02:22:39.040 days and you water it in really well. That gives it time to be 1955 02:22:39.159 --> 02:22:45.040 taken up. Then that nutrient moves to the ground and Turfstar Weedonator is a 1956 02:22:45.120 --> 02:22:50.559 slow release fertilizer that gradually over time over two or three months, is releasing 1957 02:22:50.760 --> 02:22:54.319 your fertilizer to your growing grass as it wakes up and starts to grow. 1958 02:22:54.559 --> 02:22:58.200 It's a good combination. It works very well. Just want you to understand 1959 02:22:58.319 --> 02:23:05.479 how it works. You can use it accordingly. Yeah, that is really 1960 02:23:05.680 --> 02:23:09.840 important to take care of it that way. Well, you know, I 1961 02:23:09.479 --> 02:23:13.200 talking about some tips and some things to kind of help you have success with 1962 02:23:13.360 --> 02:23:18.760 your garden and with your landscape. I just wanted to mention that we don't 1963 02:23:18.799 --> 02:23:24.600 grow enough herbs in our landscapes. And you know there are herb gardens, 1964 02:23:24.639 --> 02:23:28.559 and if you want to make that beautiful geometric herb garden, go for it. 1965 02:23:28.680 --> 02:23:31.600 Those are great. But herbs do well in containers. They do well 1966 02:23:31.760 --> 02:23:37.280 in garden beds. We have herbs like salid burnet that makes a little mounding 1967 02:23:37.399 --> 02:23:41.040 plant that could be used to line a border of a bed, chives or 1968 02:23:41.079 --> 02:23:45.600 the same way lining the border of a bed. We have herbs that are 1969 02:23:45.639 --> 02:23:50.239 groundcovers, like a regano and marjoram and time for example. We have herbs 1970 02:23:50.639 --> 02:23:56.879 that are beautiful bloomers. Copper canyon, well, that is a beautiful bloomer, 1971 02:23:56.920 --> 02:24:01.559 but it's not an herb. Mexican marigold would be a good example of 1972 02:24:01.639 --> 02:24:05.079 that for a fall bloomer. It does super well. As an herb. 1973 02:24:05.399 --> 02:24:11.159 Pineapple sage is a type of salvia that has pineapple scented leaves that people use 1974 02:24:11.239 --> 02:24:15.879 in decorating cakes and things. It blooms with a beautiful red bloom that attracts 1975 02:24:15.920 --> 02:24:18.680 butterflies. Why not put some herbs in your vegetable garden, especially the ones 1976 02:24:18.719 --> 02:24:24.799 that bloom, because blooming herbs bring in small beneficial insects that will be there 1977 02:24:24.959 --> 02:24:30.000 to help you deal with aphids and other pests in the garden. Herbs can 1978 02:24:30.079 --> 02:24:33.239 be used in a strategy. You can do a multi herb container. You 1979 02:24:33.319 --> 02:24:37.879 could have a plant that has a beautiful flower, or a container a beautiful 1980 02:24:37.920 --> 02:24:41.559 flour in the center and an herb like a regano is spilling over the side. 1981 02:24:43.200 --> 02:24:46.200 There's so many types of time. I mean, just there's one called 1982 02:24:46.280 --> 02:24:50.639 silver time that as you would think, it's a silvery color, real beautiful. 1983 02:24:50.639 --> 02:24:54.920 There's a lemon thyme. I just think we need to use more herbs, 1984 02:24:54.159 --> 02:24:58.760 and they have many many benefits and I'm just kind of touching on a 1985 02:24:58.840 --> 02:25:01.559 few, but don't if you like, you have to have an herb garden 1986 02:25:01.719 --> 02:25:05.520 to have herbs. Our garden centers are stocked up with them right now and 1987 02:25:05.639 --> 02:25:09.760 when you go bring some other things home, don't forget to include some herbs. 1988 02:25:09.040 --> 02:25:13.879 Our phone number seven one three two kt r H. I'll be right 1989 02:25:13.959 --> 02:25:16.680 back. Wellcome back to the garden line. Good to talk to you again. 1990 02:25:18.079 --> 02:25:20.799 Uh, let's see, we're gonna I'm just gonna jump right out and 1991 02:25:20.920 --> 02:25:24.159 go to the phone's first thing right off the bat here. We are going 1992 02:25:24.239 --> 02:25:30.239 to go to Cypress and talk to Sandy. Hello, Sandy, Hi, 1993 02:25:30.399 --> 02:25:31.840 good morning, Skip. How are you. I'm well, thank you. 1994 02:25:33.200 --> 02:25:39.000 I have a question. I'm sure you probably have never had this asked. 1995 02:25:39.040 --> 02:25:46.440 I went to my Langham Creek Ace and Cyprus. Yes, and uh, 1996 02:25:46.879 --> 02:25:54.959 I bought some Brussels sprouts. But the plant they're small plants. It's like 1997 02:25:54.000 --> 02:25:58.879 a six pack or something. But I've been doing some research and they say 1998 02:26:00.000 --> 02:26:07.680 Brussels sprouts are cool, like a cool weather vegetable. Okay, So my 1999 02:26:09.000 --> 02:26:16.040 question is is there a reason I know that they changed ownership at Billingham Creek. 2000 02:26:18.280 --> 02:26:22.360 I know they changed ownership like in December, But is there a reason 2001 02:26:22.440 --> 02:26:24.000 why they would sell it? Is it okay for me to plant it? 2002 02:26:24.479 --> 02:26:28.760 Where? Should I plan it? More? Even a shady area? If 2003 02:26:28.840 --> 02:26:31.680 I plan it? All? Right? Well, let me answer all those 2004 02:26:31.760 --> 02:26:37.000 questions. Uh So, Brussels sprouts or a cool seasoned vegetable as is broccoli 2005 02:26:37.079 --> 02:26:41.280 and kale and cabbage and cauliflower, they take a little longer to go from 2006 02:26:41.479 --> 02:26:45.239 seed to harvest. They're a little little like cabbage is a little bit slower. 2007 02:26:45.280 --> 02:26:48.200 Brussels sprouts are a little bit slower. But garden centers will keep them 2008 02:26:48.200 --> 02:26:50.479 on hand because people want to try them and grow them. They're not going 2009 02:26:50.559 --> 02:26:54.239 to be there a long time, much much now that we've hit this point 2010 02:26:54.280 --> 02:26:56.840 in the season, but gordon plant them, plan them in a full sun 2011 02:26:56.959 --> 02:27:01.479 area, and just kind of keep eye on them. And at some point 2012 02:27:03.239 --> 02:27:05.319 if you will cut the top out, not when they're young, but when 2013 02:27:05.360 --> 02:27:09.440 you've got a good stalk and they got the leaves up and down the stalk, 2014 02:27:09.479 --> 02:27:11.600 go ahead and cut the top out of the stalk to force some of 2015 02:27:11.680 --> 02:27:16.319 the side buds to grow a little faster. Normally, that's not how we 2016 02:27:16.479 --> 02:27:18.559 do bustle spouts, but you can do that speed it up a little bit 2017 02:27:18.920 --> 02:27:22.799 and get those little side bulbs that you're gonna want to harvest as you get 2018 02:27:22.840 --> 02:27:26.799 into hotter weather. Any of those cabbage family plants, the flavor becomes a 2019 02:27:26.840 --> 02:27:31.280 little stronger. They're all part of the mustard family. I said cabbage, 2020 02:27:31.360 --> 02:27:37.239 but that's all part of the mustard family. So generally I will plant them 2021 02:27:37.280 --> 02:27:41.520 in the fall just to have it harvest in a real cool time of the 2022 02:27:41.600 --> 02:27:46.200 year. But people do plant them in spring as well. Yeah, and 2023 02:27:46.280 --> 02:27:50.559 since I've already purchased them, there's no reason to return them. So I'm 2024 02:27:50.559 --> 02:27:54.280 gonna see, no need what happens. Yeah, And I'm gonna see what 2025 02:27:54.360 --> 02:27:56.799 happens, and I'll report back to you, all right, let me know, 2026 02:27:58.360 --> 02:28:01.920 you know, let me just tell you this. All of those blue 2027 02:28:03.000 --> 02:28:05.079 leaf vegetables, and I'm going to say the names again. It's kale, 2028 02:28:05.639 --> 02:28:15.319 cabbage, cauliflower, kolrabbie, Brussels sprouts, collars. I'm leaving, but 2029 02:28:15.440 --> 02:28:18.719 yeah, all of those. You can eat the leaves of them if you 2030 02:28:18.799 --> 02:28:24.600 want, and if they're young and tender, they're okay to eat because all 2031 02:28:24.639 --> 02:28:28.920 of those plants are the same plant that were selected for different plant parts. 2032 02:28:28.959 --> 02:28:33.239 With krabi, we got a swollen stem. With broccoli, and cauliflower, 2033 02:28:33.360 --> 02:28:37.799 we got blooms that we're eating with kale, and collars, we're eating the 2034 02:28:37.920 --> 02:28:43.040 leaves with brussels sprouts reading the side bud with cabbage reading the top terminal bud 2035 02:28:43.079 --> 02:28:48.159 on the plant, and it's all edible. You can do that. I 2036 02:28:48.159 --> 02:28:52.040 wouldn't plant Brussels sprouts to eat the leaves, but you can, Okay. 2037 02:28:52.360 --> 02:29:01.120 Can I ask you one more question the Brussels sprouts when I do uh transplant 2038 02:29:01.200 --> 02:29:05.479 it? Yes, I know you. You tell me the youth has to 2039 02:29:05.600 --> 02:29:13.079 grow uh to transplant and stuff? Yeah, uh, And I've got it 2040 02:29:13.159 --> 02:29:16.840 at home. I've been watering with it with my eggplant. Blah bla blah 2041 02:29:16.840 --> 02:29:20.399 all that stuff. But my question is this, when I do plant it, 2042 02:29:22.079 --> 02:29:28.239 do I does it need to be in more sun than okra and tomatoes 2043 02:29:28.639 --> 02:29:33.120 or about the same sun. Remind me what the plant you were saying. 2044 02:29:33.200 --> 02:29:37.719 What did you're asking about? Brussels Russels spread more sun, lots of sun. 2045 02:29:37.959 --> 02:29:41.680 Oh? Now, can you grow them in shade? Yes? All 2046 02:29:41.760 --> 02:29:46.760 the blue lee vegetables in a bright shade will grow. But we're wanting this 2047 02:29:46.959 --> 02:29:52.600 thing to get going and get moving because you're planting it toward the end of 2048 02:29:52.639 --> 02:29:56.760 the season. So I would put it in sun. But normally you could 2049 02:29:56.760 --> 02:30:05.319 grow it in a bright shade or sun. Is that okay? There was 2050 02:30:05.360 --> 02:30:07.040 a pause like that's not the answer you wanted to hear. I can make 2051 02:30:07.079 --> 02:30:13.319 up other ends. Thanks for the calls, Andy, appreciate, appreciate that 2052 02:30:13.479 --> 02:30:18.319 very much. Have you been to Nelson water Garden out in Katie by the 2053 02:30:18.360 --> 02:30:24.120 way? Nelson's Uh, the name is water garden because that's what they know, 2054 02:30:24.399 --> 02:30:26.479 that's what they do, that's what they're national leaders in. Really. 2055 02:30:26.600 --> 02:30:31.719 I mean we're talking about coy Pond's we're talking about a water garden. Plants 2056 02:30:31.840 --> 02:30:33.600 like lilies that are just gorgeous. Yeah, they have all that. They 2057 02:30:33.680 --> 02:30:39.719 originated. The disappearing fountain container imagine a big, tall, beautiful vase, 2058 02:30:39.840 --> 02:30:45.319 one that just the container itself is just worth looking at. It's gorgeous. 2059 02:30:46.079 --> 02:30:48.760 Water coming out of the top, goes to the bottom, goes into some 2060 02:30:48.879 --> 02:30:52.000 pebbles, and it disappears and it's being pumped back up to the top. 2061 02:30:52.799 --> 02:30:56.799 They have the best selection that you're going to find anywhere. It is incredible, 2062 02:30:56.879 --> 02:31:01.479 and it's all set up so that when you walk through, you just 2063 02:31:01.639 --> 02:31:05.680 get one scene after another where you can imagine that in your yard. I 2064 02:31:05.760 --> 02:31:09.079 mean, it's fun just to walk through the place and see what's going on 2065 02:31:09.239 --> 02:31:13.159 there. Now it's a nursery. It's also a nursery, so they have 2066 02:31:13.239 --> 02:31:16.840 all kinds of plants that are really good. By the way, there are 2067 02:31:16.879 --> 02:31:20.959 hours this spring now Monday through Saturday nine to six. That would be today 2068 02:31:22.079 --> 02:31:26.520 nine to six or tomorrow Sunday eleven to four. It's always a good time. 2069 02:31:26.040 --> 02:31:28.799 It's just out and Katie. Just think of it as a West Houston 2070 02:31:28.879 --> 02:31:33.840 nursery that you can get to. Lots to see, lots to do. 2071 02:31:33.239 --> 02:31:37.159 Just head out there. If you want to look online, you can see 2072 02:31:37.280 --> 02:31:43.959 their website at Nelsonwatergardens dot com Nelsonwatergardens dot com. Bring the kids are gonna 2073 02:31:43.959 --> 02:31:48.520 have fun looking at the koi and the shabuken. I just learned how to 2074 02:31:48.600 --> 02:31:50.799 say that word rale was out there, by the way, shabukin to beautiful 2075 02:31:50.879 --> 02:31:56.280 multicolored fish. They'll get you stocked up on all that and more. We're 2076 02:31:56.280 --> 02:31:58.840 going to head out now to Grove, Texas and talk to Julie. Hello, 2077 02:32:00.079 --> 02:32:03.239 Julie, Hi, here are you? I'm good? How can we 2078 02:32:03.360 --> 02:32:09.879 help good? Okay, we are putting up an above ground pool and we 2079 02:32:09.079 --> 02:32:15.239 got a side cutter we rented out and we removed all the grass where the 2080 02:32:15.319 --> 02:32:20.200 pool is going to go okay, And we kind of tried to do our 2081 02:32:20.280 --> 02:32:24.600 research on what we could put down on the dirt for we got moving forward 2082 02:32:24.680 --> 02:32:30.799 to kill the grass okay that could pop up, and my husband bought a 2083 02:32:30.920 --> 02:32:37.239 bag of hydrated lime. All right, We're just kind of wanting to put 2084 02:32:37.319 --> 02:32:41.079 something down that will kill anything that could kind of grow up within the next 2085 02:32:41.319 --> 02:32:43.440 you know, a few months or anything. We just don't want grass growing 2086 02:32:43.520 --> 02:32:48.559 through the liner. So I was wanting, well, if it's in above 2087 02:32:48.600 --> 02:32:50.799 ground pool lineerer, grass isn't going to grow through it. It'll shade it 2088 02:32:50.879 --> 02:32:54.040 out, Okay. I mean if I'm assuming the liner blocks light, so 2089 02:32:54.200 --> 02:32:58.760 that shouldn't be a problem. Hydrated lime is used to stabilize a clay soil 2090 02:32:58.799 --> 02:33:03.719 that move a lot. It's used by the U you know, road departments 2091 02:33:03.799 --> 02:33:07.399 and stuff when they're building. But let me, let me do this. 2092 02:33:07.600 --> 02:33:11.000 I got to take a break here. I'll come back to you and we'll 2093 02:33:11.040 --> 02:33:13.319 finish this conversation, and Kevin, you will be the first up. Our 2094 02:33:13.399 --> 02:33:18.000 number is seven one three two one two k t RHLV. Right back, 2095 02:33:18.079 --> 02:33:22.440 Julie, Welcome back to Guardline. Sometimes I like these songs so much it's 2096 02:33:22.440 --> 02:33:26.040 hard to get going back on the show again, good good, good music. 2097 02:33:26.200 --> 02:33:28.840 Good to hear. Hey, we're going to go back and finish our 2098 02:33:28.920 --> 02:33:33.479 conversation here with Julie. Julie, so you're gonna put the pool liner down. 2099 02:33:33.920 --> 02:33:35.520 I am not that familiar with pool liners, but I would think they 2100 02:33:35.559 --> 02:33:39.200 would stop the light. And if they stop the light, you shouldn't have 2101 02:33:39.239 --> 02:33:43.959 a problem there. There are a few weeds that are pretty punctuary, like 2102 02:33:43.360 --> 02:33:50.200 nuts edge for example. Again, I think I would hope the pool liner 2103 02:33:50.319 --> 02:33:54.360 would give enough. But if you've got nuts edge, that is a problem. 2104 02:33:54.520 --> 02:33:58.360 You don't you don't want that. I would get the strongest, heaviest 2105 02:33:58.520 --> 02:34:03.920 duty landscape fabric as you can get, and I would lay that down underneath 2106 02:34:05.079 --> 02:34:09.719 and so as opposed to like putting some poison down there to kill everything that's 2107 02:34:09.799 --> 02:34:13.520 going to break down in time. Anyway, get a heavy and I don't 2108 02:34:13.600 --> 02:34:18.239 mean just a typical one. I mean go somewhere you know you can. 2109 02:34:20.280 --> 02:34:26.680 You can talk to the folks at Microlife. They it's Sancha sent A supply 2110 02:34:26.760 --> 02:34:31.840 as a company, their wholesale, they don't sell retail, But explain to 2111 02:34:31.920 --> 02:34:37.760 them you need the densest, toughest woven material needs to be a woven material. 2112 02:34:39.360 --> 02:34:41.440 Uh, and they will tell you who they sell to. They can 2113 02:34:41.520 --> 02:34:43.719 do that. You may need to hire somebody to come out, or maybe 2114 02:34:43.760 --> 02:34:48.360 you can find the roles. But the strongest version of that will stop nutsedge. 2115 02:34:48.559 --> 02:34:54.120 The rest of it, the nutsedge pops right through. Yeah, so 2116 02:34:54.399 --> 02:34:56.760 would we do you think we'd be wasting or time putting that line down? 2117 02:34:58.840 --> 02:35:01.280 Yes? Should we not even do that? Okay? Okay? The only 2118 02:35:01.360 --> 02:35:05.840 purpose of lime When you watch them build a new road, you got these 2119 02:35:05.920 --> 02:35:11.719 big giant bulldozer sized machinery that are plowing the soil behind them and you'll see 2120 02:35:11.879 --> 02:35:16.680 white stuff and they're mixing lime into that soil to stabilize it so it doesn't 2121 02:35:16.719 --> 02:35:22.200 move because you don't want it moving when you got you okay, okay, 2122 02:35:22.360 --> 02:35:24.719 Well, thank you so much, you bet, thank you for the call. 2123 02:35:24.840 --> 02:35:28.760 I appreciate that. If you're looking for a quality potting soil, jungle 2124 02:35:28.840 --> 02:35:33.639 land is going to be an excellent choice because it comes in two forms. 2125 02:35:33.760 --> 02:35:37.200 There's the jungle land flower and vegetable potting soil, and then there's a jungle 2126 02:35:37.280 --> 02:35:41.600 land water savor potting soil that we use for indoors, flower and vegetable outdoors 2127 02:35:41.680 --> 02:35:46.520 water saver indoors, and they both work really well. They got a blend 2128 02:35:46.680 --> 02:35:50.399 of organic materials, decomposing organic matuals, microizel fungi, and you're going to 2129 02:35:50.440 --> 02:35:56.959 find them everywhere you would find nitroposs products, which they're available, widely available, 2130 02:35:58.159 --> 02:36:01.120 all across the region. Really, the ACE out there in Single Ranch 2131 02:36:01.200 --> 02:36:05.280 has got those kind of products. The ACE, the Lake Hardware hardware and 2132 02:36:05.399 --> 02:36:09.559 Clute has got those products. In fact, a task a seeta ACE has 2133 02:36:09.600 --> 02:36:13.879 them. You know, with ACE hardware, it's kind of the go to 2134 02:36:13.079 --> 02:36:16.920 place for nitrofoss, but all kinds of other products too. If you hear 2135 02:36:18.000 --> 02:36:20.280 me talk about a fertilizer, ACE has it. If you hear me talk 2136 02:36:20.319 --> 02:36:26.920 about things like soil mixes and sublends and things, they've got it. They 2137 02:36:26.079 --> 02:36:30.760 carry everything. Do you need to control pest weeds or diseases, They've got 2138 02:36:30.840 --> 02:36:31.760 it. Do you need a water hose, do you need some tools? 2139 02:36:33.120 --> 02:36:35.319 Do you want to create a beautiful outdoor setting on your patio. There's a 2140 02:36:35.399 --> 02:36:41.559 lot of blind that ACE hardware carries that really transforms an area like that. 2141 02:36:41.479 --> 02:36:45.959 And I just find that when you walk into ACE Hardware, there is no 2142 02:36:46.120 --> 02:36:48.600 way you're getting out there without finding eight hundred things that you look at and 2143 02:36:48.680 --> 02:36:52.000 you go, oh my gosh, I did not know they had that, 2144 02:36:52.159 --> 02:36:56.000 and I would love to have that for my house. That's Ace Hardware. 2145 02:36:56.280 --> 02:37:01.000 Acehardware dot Com is the website. Just go to that website Acehardware dot Com. 2146 02:37:01.079 --> 02:37:03.559 What you're going to find there when you get there is the Ace Hardware 2147 02:37:03.600 --> 02:37:09.000 stores near you. They have a little store locator on the website and it'll 2148 02:37:09.040 --> 02:37:13.399 take you right too the forty Ace Hardware store so you can see the stores. 2149 02:37:13.000 --> 02:37:16.360 That's wirl because yeah, there are that many of them that are nearest 2150 02:37:16.719 --> 02:37:20.760 to you. And with Ace, they say Ace is the place for I 2151 02:37:20.799 --> 02:37:26.079 would just say ACE is the place because it's got whatever you need. We're 2152 02:37:26.120 --> 02:37:28.959 going to head out now to Paarland and talk to Kevin. Hello, Kevin, 2153 02:37:31.000 --> 02:37:35.959 Hey, good mom kid. That previous caller. She could use synthetic 2154 02:37:37.200 --> 02:37:41.719 roofing underlayment underneath that pool, and I guarantee you there won't be a weed 2155 02:37:41.799 --> 02:37:46.600 that comes through that. Synthetic roofing underlam is that kind of a spun or 2156 02:37:46.719 --> 02:37:52.479 felty kind of product. It's it's felt on one side, but then the 2157 02:37:52.639 --> 02:37:56.719 material on the back side of it is that of like a tarp. Yeah, 2158 02:37:56.600 --> 02:38:00.799 that's what we put down on roofs. I'm a roof for and I 2159 02:38:00.879 --> 02:38:05.040 mean it. We can barely put nails through it much less a week going 2160 02:38:05.079 --> 02:38:07.440 through there? You go, Hey, where do you get it? Where 2161 02:38:07.479 --> 02:38:11.360 do you get synthetic rreer? You could, you know, pick it up 2162 02:38:11.360 --> 02:38:16.239 at Low's a. You know they're going to have a good roll of it. 2163 02:38:16.799 --> 02:38:20.719 That would be my suggestion. Thanks for that tip. Is that why 2164 02:38:20.799 --> 02:38:22.120 you called her? Do you have a question? No? I had a 2165 02:38:22.239 --> 02:38:26.479 question. Man. I was cleaning, cleaning out my little chimney, you 2166 02:38:26.559 --> 02:38:30.879 know from burning, you know, just logs and whatnot, little you know, 2167 02:38:31.000 --> 02:38:35.440 fire stuff. And I've got probably a five gallon bucket of the ash. 2168 02:38:35.239 --> 02:38:39.479 Okay, is it good to just dump in the yard or dumping the 2169 02:38:39.559 --> 02:38:43.399 flower bed? I mean, ash is high and potassium and other minerals, 2170 02:38:43.719 --> 02:38:48.840 and it's okay. But it's also very high in pH. So if you 2171 02:38:48.920 --> 02:38:52.200 already have a high pH soil, you're pushing it the wrong direction. But 2172 02:38:52.479 --> 02:38:56.959 when I used to work in Aggerlife Extension, we had a little sheet that 2173 02:38:56.079 --> 02:39:01.959 said put this many pounds per hundred square feet in the vegetable garden, and 2174 02:39:01.040 --> 02:39:03.959 this many on your lawn, and you just don't want to overdo it. 2175 02:39:05.200 --> 02:39:09.000 So if you want to use it, you can use it. Just spread 2176 02:39:09.040 --> 02:39:11.040 it out very thin, don't dump it in one spot. I don't know 2177 02:39:11.079 --> 02:39:15.920 if you've ever seen the old burn piles and pastures where they burn brush year 2178 02:39:15.959 --> 02:39:20.479 after year and then nothing wants to grow there because it's just super concentrated ash. 2179 02:39:20.840 --> 02:39:24.479 Hey, I appreciate your question very much, but that that's what my 2180 02:39:24.639 --> 02:39:31.040 recommendation would be. Thank you. I appreciate both the comments and the questions 2181 02:39:31.120 --> 02:39:37.920 there. You know, Medina products are a wide variety of quality products that 2182 02:39:39.399 --> 02:39:43.959 absolutely make your plants happy. You've heard me talk about Medina hastro Grow six 2183 02:39:43.079 --> 02:39:48.799 twelve six three products in one Medina Soil Activator. It's got the nitrogen phosphorsassium 2184 02:39:48.840 --> 02:39:54.600 plant food, and it's also got humid humic Acid's got seaweed extracts at me 2185 02:39:54.799 --> 02:39:58.680 all of it folier feeding, drenching in new plants. It works really really 2186 02:39:58.719 --> 02:40:03.760 well. They also have has to Grow twelve four eight. That is a 2187 02:40:03.879 --> 02:40:07.879 lawn food, a liquid lawn food. Plus you hook it up to a 2188 02:40:07.040 --> 02:40:11.520 hose and you just spray it through your lawn. I used some last year. 2189 02:40:11.600 --> 02:40:15.120 It'll give you a nice green up in your lawn. Just follow the 2190 02:40:15.200 --> 02:40:18.000 label. It automatically dilutes it to the rate that you want it to be 2191 02:40:18.159 --> 02:40:22.959 deluded to. Makes it really really easy. Now, if you're gonna leave 2192 02:40:22.959 --> 02:40:26.079 your grass clippings on, you only need to do about four times a year 2193 02:40:26.280 --> 02:40:31.280 with the Medina has to grow twelve four eight liquid lawn food plus. If 2194 02:40:31.319 --> 02:40:35.680 you're going to remove your grass clippings number one, I don't know why you 2195 02:40:35.719 --> 02:40:39.280 would do that, because that is nature's own free, slow release fertilizer that 2196 02:40:39.360 --> 02:40:43.840 you just put nutrients down to grow grass clippings, and now you're taking those 2197 02:40:43.920 --> 02:40:48.680 nutrients and giving them somebody holloway, But I know people do that, So 2198 02:40:48.799 --> 02:40:50.440 if you do, then you're gonna need to do it. The Medina has 2199 02:40:50.520 --> 02:40:56.079 to grow twelve four eight liquid lawn food plus every month. Okay, return 2200 02:40:56.120 --> 02:41:01.399 the clippings four times a growing season. Don't reach in their clippings every month 2201 02:41:01.559 --> 02:41:03.920 during the growing season to use that product. Either way you want to go 2202 02:41:03.959 --> 02:41:07.280 about it, it's gonna work really well. And there are a lot of 2203 02:41:07.319 --> 02:41:13.680 Medina products that have just wonderful seaweed products, fish and motion products. The 2204 02:41:13.920 --> 02:41:20.200 Medina sol Activator I mentioned you're going to find everything that you would need to 2205 02:41:20.280 --> 02:41:24.959 make your plants happy with. The Medina product line works really well. I've 2206 02:41:24.040 --> 02:41:26.319 used it myself. I still do you know. Like I said, if 2207 02:41:26.360 --> 02:41:30.760 I'm going to recommend a product, I'm gonna have tried it. Are scene 2208 02:41:30.840 --> 02:41:33.639 research that proves it one way or the other. I need to believe it. 2209 02:41:33.239 --> 02:41:37.000 Like the guy in Missouri the show me State that says, show me 2210 02:41:37.440 --> 02:41:41.319 well, I'm gonna have to show myself that it works before I talk about 2211 02:41:41.319 --> 02:41:43.639 it. And Medina product work. It's as simple as that. I've tried 2212 02:41:43.680 --> 02:41:48.799 them and I've used them. Well. We put another show of Guardline in 2213 02:41:48.920 --> 02:41:52.719 the books here, don't forget. You can listen to the past shows via 2214 02:41:52.799 --> 02:41:58.440 podcast. You can listen live also on your iHeartMedia app. There's probably some 2215 02:41:58.520 --> 02:42:03.159 other apps to do that as well. Jize iHeartMedia. I And so you're 2216 02:42:03.200 --> 02:42:07.040 out in the garden, turn your phone upside down. The speaker's on the 2217 02:42:07.079 --> 02:42:09.799 bottom side, right, No, it's on the top side. I don't 2218 02:42:09.799 --> 02:42:13.639 know anyway, Stick in your pocket and go out and do your garden work, 2219 02:42:13.840 --> 02:42:16.479 and I'll be coaxing you and directing along the way, telling you what 2220 02:42:16.559 --> 02:42:20.399 I think might work. And if you have a question, you can give 2221 02:42:20.440 --> 02:42:22.719 us a call right there. From out in the garden, Live from the 2222 02:42:22.799 --> 02:42:24.120 garden, I'm sitting here in a bunch of weeds. What do I do? 2223 02:42:24.280 --> 02:42:28.920 Skip? Well, if you'd like to do that today, show up 2224 02:42:28.120 --> 02:42:31.840 at the Montgomery County Home and Garden Show at the Lone Star Convention Center in 2225 02:42:33.079 --> 02:42:37.040 Conroa, Texas. I'm leaving right now, I'm heading up there. I'll 2226 02:42:37.079 --> 02:42:41.360 be there from twelve o'clock to two. First hour talking about gardening, answering 2227 02:42:41.399 --> 02:42:46.600 your questions. Second hour, come up one on one, Bring me samples, 2228 02:42:46.680 --> 02:42:48.159 bring me photos, let's fix things at your house.