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

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advertised on this program. Welcome to
kt r H Garden Line with Skip Richter's

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crazy trim. Just watch him as
many give things the super basics. Well,

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good Saturday morning. We are glad
you're listening to garden Line because we

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got a lot to talk about today. I bet you got some questions if

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you'd like to call in. Our
phone number is seven one three two one

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two five eight seven four. Uh
yeah, I got to tell you up

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front the earlier this week, I
was dealing with some respiratory things, and

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whenever I do that, I have
this lingering, a little tiny nagging cough

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that when I talk it just rex
avoc. So if you hear some silent

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periods, it's because I've had to
mute so you don't have to listen to

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me cough. But Colin anyway,
we're looking forward to talking to you today

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and we're going to find a way
to get through this foreshore. You know,

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the fall season, as we've talked
about in the last few weeks,

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it's here. We are enjoying wonderful
weather. This week has got some excellent

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weather coming the last time I glanced
at the news in terms of the weather

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news, it looked like we might
be getting a little bit of rain later

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in the upcoming week, and that
just reminds me of something. October is

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the most important month of the year
for your lawn. It really is for

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a number of reasons. It's when
our cool season, weeds sprout. And

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if you've got a lawn where sunlight
gets through due to a thin lawn or

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just dead areas from this summer,
you're going to see weeds sprouting in those

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areas, and we need to take
care of those weeds and prevent them until

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we can get our lawn really dense
and thick. And you know, we

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have a lot of different kinds of
approaches to gardening. Some people organic,

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some people don't really have a preference
one way or another. And so when

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you're going out, whether you're organic
or not, the goal is to minimize

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the amount of times you have to
spray a bug or treat a disease or

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things like that, and so things
like building a dense, healthy lawn are

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really critical, really critical. And
if you go online to my website,

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it's Gardening with Skip dot com.
Gardening with Skip dot Com. The Lawn

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Care Schedule is there and it tells
you how much or how to fertilize in

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terms of what time of the year
and the products that you are able to

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get I think the best results from. Also there's the lawn Pest Disease and

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Weed Management Schedule that talks about lot
pests, diseases, and weeds in the

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lawn and gives you timing and product
suggestions for that as well. And I

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would encourage you to do that,
to go check those out because that is

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really important. With the rain coming
later this week and we got some milder

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temperatures, now we're getting close to
starting to see those big brown circles in

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the yard from brown patch, and
you definitely want to get ahead of it.

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If you're going to do a treatment
for it, then you have to

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do it, or you best should
do it before the circles appear. If

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they appear, you can shut down
additional circles showing up. But those ugly

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brown circles just keep there in the
lawn all through the winter time until spring

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green up comes back again. So
it's important to do things timely. It's

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time to fertilize, absolutely, time
to fertilize and if you are going to

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prevent those diseases, well, then
that's something you need to do. Now.

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A lot of lawns don't see brown
patch every year. The way we

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care for our lawn can predispose it
to those big bronze circles or can help

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the lawn to avoid those problems.
And so cultural care is just critical.

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I'll talk about that a little bit
more as we go through the day,

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but I think you need to just
keep that in mind because it is a

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very very important thing, you know. I think I've told you before that

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I love backyard birds, and I
didn't always I wouldn't always a bird person,

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but I've really discovered that when you
go out in the morning and hear

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the songs of birds, or just
watch their antics, or the beautiful colors

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of some of the birds that come, and definitely the songs of the birds,

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it enhances your garden. And while
Birds Unlimited has everything that you need

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for birds, I want you to
be very aware of this that from now

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through October sixteenth, which is almost
no time away, they are giving a

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deal where you bring in an old
feeder or a part of a feeder,

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or a broken feeder and you can
trade it in to get twenty percent off

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a new feeder. Do you have
two you want to bring in, bring

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them in twenty percent off both buying
two new feeders. There's seven Wallbirds stores

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bel Air, clear Lake, Cypress, Memorial, up in Parland and or

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down in Paarland, Katie and Kingwood. They're all there. It's easywbu dot

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com, Forward Slash Houston. We'll
find you your local Wallbirds store. Don't

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miss out. And I'm talking about
any kind of feeder, any kind of

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feeder they have, it's going to
be available on this deal. Uh.

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You are listening to garden Line.
Our number is seven one three two one

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two fifty eight seventy four. I'm
going to head out to sugar Land now

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and talk to Mike. Hello Mike, good morning, Skip, thanks for

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taking my call. You bat Hey, good question I've gotten And you actually

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touched on this in your introduction.
The question I have relates to I believe

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it's take all patch I've got.
It's the segment of the lawn that is

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between the sidewalk and the street.
It's a patch of about five feet by

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fifteen feet. But initially it started
out as about the size of basketball,

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and then all summer long, I
just watched it continue to expand and grow,

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even though I put down some anti
fungus, and most of the fungus

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products anti fungus products I looked at
said that they were preventative and they would

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also work as a cure. I've
never had a good experience with it ever,

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curing fungus. Once it starts,
it's like you have to wait until

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the next spring. So that's kind
of where I'm at. And that's my

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question to you. Is the winter
weather the spring, is that something that

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just pretty much resolves the fungus issue
and then probably put out a good preventative

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product to keep the fungus at bay. Well, that is a that's a

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broad you know, a broad question
really. And by the way, we've

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got about forty five seconds where I
have to go to a break. But

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let me give you the quick answer. First of all, if you would

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like to send me some photos of
that, I'm going to put you on

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hold at the end of this and
you can talk to Josh and find out

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how to send me some good photos
from different angles. And let's make sure

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we're talking about what we think we
are. You don't want to use a

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fungr side if the problem's an insect
for example, or drought damage or whatever.

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But the bottom line is if it's
takeof rot the prime times to treat

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or in the spring or yeah,
in the spring, that's very important,

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and then of course in the fall
you can do that as well. Those

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are two times of infection. So
let's look at those photos to be sure.

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And then if you go to my
schedule on gardening with Skip dot com,

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you can see exactly the product's organic
synthetic approaches. Both trying to deal

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with this disease. I'm gonna have
to run to the break bomb. We'll

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put you on hold and I look
forward to seeing your pictures. You're listening

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to garden Line. Our phone number
seven one three two one two fifty eight

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seventy four, and we'll be right
back. Well, welcome to garden Line.

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We are looking forward to talking to
you today, and if you'd like

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to give us a call and ask
a question, our phone number is seven

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one three two one two five eight
seven four. You know, if you

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need any kind of supplies for your
lawn, I'm tucking fertilizers. If you're

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dealing with weeds or diseases or insects. ACE Hardware's got you covered. You

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know. There's thirty nine of them
here in the Greater Houston area, so

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it's not our to find one near
you. By the way, I'm going

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to be at an ACE Hardware today
after the show up in Magnolia, Texas.

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I if you're anywhere up there,
are you going to drive from somewhere

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else? I would love to meet
you. Please come. Let's talk about

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whatever is of interest. Maybe you
want to bring us sample in, put

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it in a plastic bag and bring
it in. Perhaps there's some photo that

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you can take of your landscape.
You want to bring those in and ask

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some questions. That's why I'm there. We'll be given away nitroposs fertilizers Texas

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three step. We're going to do
that several times through the course of the

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time. From eleven thirty to one
thirty. They're gonna have some food going

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on. There's some outdoor barbecue cooking
going on out there, and they're gonna

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have food available. It's just gonna
be a good time. And that is

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the Ace Hardware story Magnia. It's
called All Star ACE Hardware in magnoill you

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hope you can make it. But
you know, wherever you live in this

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whole area, Ace Hardware has got
you covered. I was thinking earlier about,

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you know, the different things going
on with our plants this time of

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the year, and I'm gonna talk
about that a little bit in just a

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moment. But fall is a time. It's really a unique time for our

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plants. It's an important time.
It's a time when we can really help

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our plants, but it's also a
time we want to watch out for certain

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kinds of pests and problems that we
might have. So example, fall is

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the time when our lawns are getting
ready for winter. And I know we

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don't have much of a winter here, but still there's a period of time

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where our lawns just really shut down
and they don't go fully dormant. We

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have our warm, seasoned turf grasses
will continue to grow if temperatures and soil

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temperature especially is right, but they
need that rejuvenation time. The most important

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fertilization of the year is the fall
one. And here's why our number one,

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especially this year, our lawns have
been through one brutal summer and they

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need to get some leaves up in
the sun make carbohydrates to get ready for

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winter. And the way they do
that is by a proper fall fertilization with

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a product that especially has that third
number potassium and a little lower nitrogen.

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So why do we do that in
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we've been talking about higher nitrogen,
Well, we're bringing the nitrogen down because

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we don't want to invigorate the lawn
to grow because that kind of situation high

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nitrogen push it along, get some
water on it or rainfall. Brown patch

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goes crazy in those kind of conditions, and we're not trying to get the

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lawn in a succulent growth state.
We're trying to help it produce carbohydrates.

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And so we put the right nutrition
down, it's able to prepare itself for

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winter and come out in spring.
Spring. The early initial spring growth is

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based on your fall fertilization, meaning
it's based on what the lawn went into

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winter with. And so if you
can strengthen your lawn now, it comes

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out stronger in the spring, and
it's just overall better, much much better

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to do the fall fertilization. The
diseases I was talking about the big large

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patch circles or brown We now used
to always call it brown patch, and

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now I'm caught between the two.
I know the new name, but I

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also know you all know the old
name, and so I'm going to keep

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using the old name just because that
way we communicate better. But those circles

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are aggravated when we over water and
when we overfertilize, and plus they show

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up better in a nice green lawn. But seriously, moderate fertilization is important.

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You need a little bit of nitrogen, but you don't want to overdo

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it. That is the key to
that. And it's so easy to take

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care of a lawn when you follow
a simple schedule and you do things on

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time, and you do things with
products that are let's say, made for

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the purpose you're putting them down.
So let's think of it this way.

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Not every insecticide kills every insect,
not every fung aside kills every disease.

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If you go the doctor and you
are ill, you know there's just not

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one medicine that fixes everything you might
walk in with. And that's why with

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my lawn schedule, I've specified some
things that are helpful. I've also specified

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and this is important for those of
you who are want to garden organically,

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the proper nutrition and the other things
we do that help that lawn grow and

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become dense and strong, because our
goal in lawn care is not to play

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whack a mole with weed pests and
diseases. You know, where one pops

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up over here, we do it
and the one pops up over Our goal

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is to get that long, strong, healthy, and dense and minimize the

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times that we have to fight those
pests of the lawn. And getting in

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that mindset is very important, and
that's why the lawn care schedule on gardeningwith

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Skip dot Com is the starting point. If you want to know how do

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I deal with weeds, mow,
water, and fertilize, right, that's

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number one. Now we have all
kinds of good products that will control weeds

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before they sprout up and establish and
after they're up. But the first step

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is cultural always same thing with diseases. Don't predispose your lawn or and for

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that matter, any of your plants
to stresses and you minimize it. Didn't

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mean you never get a disease,
but it just means you lessen the number

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that you have. If you would
like to give us a call. Our

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phone number is seven to one three
two one two five eight seven four.

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I want to talk a little bit
about fall planting. Fall is the best

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time of the year for a lot
of different kinds of plants. In fact,

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it's a good time for pretty much
every kind of plant you're going to

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water plant vegetables and flowers and shrubs, trees, vines, everything like that,

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but especially for woody ornamentals. Fall
is an important time to do that.

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And for example, this is a
time when a lot of the folks

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around town that are our best plant
purveyors are bringing in some quality plants that

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are adapted to here, and so
don't miss this window. For example,

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the Arbrogate they've got a shipment of
old roses in, so you're think about

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plane in an old garden rose.
Arborgate has got a brand new shipment in.

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They also have a shipment of heirloom
bulbs. Now there are a lot

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of bulbs, and you see them
in catalogs, you know, the tulips

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and the highest than the crocus and
things. They just don't do well here.

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We call them one shot wonders.
You plan them. They look good

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the first time, but they don't
replenish and become a perennial bulb for you.

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But the kind that they're carrying now
at Arburgate from Southern Bulb Company.

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Those guys, those are top rated. They are They have been proven for

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decades if not more here in Texas, and it absolutely makes sure that that

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investment. You're going to go buy
that bulb at Arburgate, you put it

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in the ground and you're gonna get
year after year after year of dividends in

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the form of flowers on those kinds
of bulbs. You know. The Arburgate

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dot COM's the website, their location
if you haven't been out there one and

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a half miles west of two forty
nine on twenty nine to twenty out in

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Tomball, And while you're out there, grab a bag of each of their

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one two three completely easy system.
That's an organic food, an organic soil

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material, a very well blended soil, by the way, and then an

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organic compost, again a blend,
and both the soil and the compost also

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throw in a little expanded shale,
which is important. But if you are

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thinking about planting bulbs, this is
the season and go there and get those

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quality bulbs that are proven here in
Texas. That's only kind that the Southern

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bulb folks carry are produced, and
they're just so so good. Year after

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you. I was driving past a
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day. It was actually a couple
of years ago, and the place had

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been abandoned, I don't know,
looked like decades ago, and here here

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were these bulbs popping up out of
the parched earth with the fall rain.

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That's the kind of bulbs you want
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Don't forget. Also, if you
haven't applied asmite this year. As

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mite is a trace mineral product.
It's not you know, the nitrogen phos

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first potassium that we put on as
fertilizers, but it is nutrient and it's

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essential nutrients. And you can go
to azimite Texas dot com. But after

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you do your fertilization, get that
same hopper, change the setting for the

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asamite and go to town and get
that down because it will also help build

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that soil. And remember, it's
cultural first, and as mite can provide

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that same kind of thing. We
are we're in the season where you know

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we've been in the hurricane season where
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through. But you know, it
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at your house. I mean,
our grid isn't always reliable. A lot

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of things can happen, and maybe
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power goes down and all that food
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because they set it up. It's
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that's okay. But why do I
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want to protect everything? Do you
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right generator that's set up right,
that you also have something that's going to

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give you years of service. Again, really really important. Our phone number

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We can talk to you about whatever
you're interested in. We're talking about

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plants and plant health and plant care
and whatnot this morning. It's it's really

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important when we get into the fall
season to get these kinds of plants I've

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been talking about planted because of the
root system. Do you remember this past

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summer that you'd do Any plant that
was planted within the last year was especially

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hard hit because it just doesn't have
the root system. So we want to

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give our plants every possible week that
we can of getting established, getting established,

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getting a root system established so when
tough times come, they're more or

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resilient. And fall planting does that. If you're thinking about a tree,

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if you're thinking about a shrub,
if you're thinking about a woody vine or

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a perennial any of those fall.
Planting is the head start that they need.

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And so I can't recommend it enough
to you. If you've been thinking

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about planting anything like that, now's
the time to get it done. And

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we got some great providers of those
kinds of products all over the Greater Houston

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area. And when you plant now, your plants in spring are going to

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be our next summer are going to
be way ahead of a plant that you

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planted, let's say at the end
of spring. Well, it's time for

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us to take a break. If
you'd like to get on the boards our

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phone number seven one three two one
two fifty eight seventy four sign for the

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Nicky News Network. Well, good
Saturday morning. We are glad you're listening

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to Garden Line. I hope you
and all your neighbors are as well.

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In fact, if you look next
door and the lights aren't on, go

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bang on the door and tell them
they're missing garden Line. They will rise

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up and call you blessed. Maybe
in time. In time, you know,

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I was just talking about before we
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planting things like woody ornamentals. Now
it's not just woodies, it's annuals and

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perennials and on and on down the
line ornamental grasses, but woodies especially they

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need time to get established and RCW
Nursery is going to make it easy for

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you. They are doing a fifteen
percent discount on all trees, on all

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trees to spruce up your outdoor space. So if in RCW they grow their

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own trees up there in Plantersville,
and they have a wide variety of the

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best varieties or best species for our
area. So there you go, fifteen

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percent discount on all of their trees. Now you are familiar with our CW.

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They're the nursery where two forty nine
we call it Tomball Parkway comes into

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belt Way eight. Easy to find
them easy. If you want more information,

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just go online r CW Nurseries dot
com and why year out there listen.

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They are having every weekend in October
they're having a fall celebration where there's

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funning games for the family. They
have these little photo things set up where

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you can set the kids up with
a fall arrangement, or maybe maybe you

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want to just get there and have
someone to take your picture. They got

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refreshments and snacks and everything. It's
they call it the Autumn Extravaganza, and

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that's exactly what it is. Just
another reason to head out there to the

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RCW. We're going to head down
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Good morning, David, Well,
good morning, sir. You might have

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just answered my question in your advertisement. I used to have a real nice

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now I think it was called a
Myer's lemon tree, and that thing it

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put out the best, fattest,
sweetest lemons and great lemonade and everything,

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and I lost it to the hard
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When is the best time to plant
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you can plant those pretty much in
the time of the year, but you

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could plant them now. You just
want to make sure this first winter.

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Should we have one of those really
rough times that you get that you get

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to cover over that thing to protect
it because it's in the process of establishing

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and things. A lot of times
I'll plant those also in spring when when

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we come out of winter. But
either way is going to be okay with

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that lemon tree. And you're right, Mari, lemon is a great one.

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It does so well here alrighty have
a good day. Yeah, you

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bet. Are you up in the
Tomball area? I am. You were

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talking about RCW. I know exactly
where it's at, and I'm I'm on

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two forty nine now I'll pass it
in about a mile. All right,

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Well check them out and see what
they got. All right, appreciate it

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the call, you bet, Thank
you. Appreciate that very much. If

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you live in downtown Houston area or
north central, especially Quality Feed and Garden

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Center, that that is your hometown
feed store. And we love home on

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feed stores here on garden Line.
We love the service that the place is

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like Quality Feed provide, and boy
do they ever provide service. When you

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walk in there, Ken or Chris
or they're going to greet you, They're

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going to take you right to the
product. And they have an unbelievable supply.

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I was just looking on their social
medias a couple of weeks ago and

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just at the all the fertilizers I
talk about are right there at Quality Feed.

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You know, all the different things
that you might need for your lawn

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and other plants to control past or
diseases or weeds or whatever. They got

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it right there. They got antique
seed rack that is really cool. But

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their seed stock of airlooms is about
as good as you're going to find anywhere.

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So if you're thinking about doing some
fall gardening, some winter gardening,

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some spring gardening, let them set
you up. They also carry the great

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products for building your soil, which
is so critical. If you're going to

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plant a flower bed, make sure
you take care of your soul first before

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you put the flowers in. They
can take care of you like that Equality

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Feed. They're on eighteen thirteen Louzon
Street, so that's near the intersection of

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Equipment and Alesion. They're open today
from nine to four, Tomorrow from eleven

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thirty to four, and Monday through
Friday nine am just six pm. If

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you've got chickens, boyd. They
get chickens in regularly. If you ever

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thought about doing backyard chickens Quality feed, just give them a call and check

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it out. See when the next
shipment is coming in. They'll get you

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set up with not only the chicks, but also for the feed and all

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of the equipment you're like a feeder, a waterer or something like that.

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They've got it all. Just go
check it out. You'll see what I'm

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talking about. Love that place I've
had a number of questions come in about

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something called dove weed. It's a
little weed that kind of looks like Saint

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Augustine a little bit, and if
your area is wet, if it's shady,

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if it's especially wet, this dove
weed just takes off and it's a

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pain to try to get rid of. And so I'm going to answer a

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whole lot of questions here that have
come in with one and that is the

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doveweed is best prevented with a pre
emergent product to keep it from coming up.

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But in a post emergent way.
There is actually a cinnamon based products

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from Agrillon and it is basically it
is cinnamon and you sprinkle it on it

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and it doesn't hurt your grass.
But these weeds, in fact, more

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than just doveweed. The weeds take
it up and it just burns the weeds,

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I mean just like you fried them
with a flamethrower and it works really

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well. And so it's a way
to kind of get back on, you

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know, ahead of things, so
you're Saint Augustine has the time to be

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able to come back in and try
to fill in against this weed because it's

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a pain in the neck, and
a lot of people have been complaining about

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it. And remember I keep saying
cultural first. Cultural first, Well,

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if you keep your lawn too wet, number one, you're wasting water,

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wasting money in the process. But
doveweed, Virginia button weed, they're the

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dollar weed. Those three love wet
soil, and you're just making them happy

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by creating that kind of condition.
Your lawn does not need that much water.

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It needs water, it needs moisture, it needs moist soil. But

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the what are you the soil is
and some of it may be out of

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your control from rainfall or the lay
of the land where water tends to gather.

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But anything you can do culturally to
help that grass be strong and to

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avoid making these three weeds happy is
going to be time well spent. And

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that way the battle you have to
try to deal with these weeds is much

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easier. Just remember the premiers is
probably the best way to start with those.

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But don't forget that cinnamon based product. I've been amazed at how well

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that works in the times that I've
seen it. If you'd like to be

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on guarden line, ask a question
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As I mentioned earlier on I Am
I'm dealing with the leftovers of being

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sick earlier this week, some respiratory
stuff, and I you know, I

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don't know if you're this way,
but when I am going through something like

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that, I can get well and
for five days afterwards. I'm dealing with

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this little nagging cough. That's just
they're tickling enough to irritate you and make

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you try to cough at it to
fix it, and it it's an annoying

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thing, and I'm doing the best
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But if you hear a little quiet
spot, it's because I needed to

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pull away for a minute, and
you guys don't want to listen to me

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cough on the air. I'm sure. Well, it's time for another break,

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so we're going ahead and take a
break now. We'll be back with

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the phones a little bit later.
Number is seven one three, two one

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two five eight seven four. Well, good Saturday morning. We are glad

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you're listening this morning. We're talking
about a lot of things regarding lawns and

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gardens and the importance of the month
of October. Especially for your lawns,

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but for really the whole landscape there. There's just this is this is a

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great month. Number one. We're
glad that we're through with all that heat.

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Right. You know, I've talked
about the importance of fertilizing your lawn

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with the proper kind of fertilizers,
and Nelson Plant Food provides that. You

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know, Nelson's has been around.
I think it was forty years ago October

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fourteenth, nineteen eighty three. That's
when Nelson Plant Food opened its doors for

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business. And since then they have
just created one line after another, one

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excellent type of fertilizer after another.
You know, They've got their Turf Star

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line, their Nutra Star line,
their Color Star line, Nature Star line.

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But since its fall and it's lawn
time, I want to recommend that

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you consider their carbo Load. It's
a ten ten twenty. I've got it

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in a must schedule if you are, if you're one of the folks it's

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been to the website with skip dot
com and you look at the schedule and

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you're looking at fall fertilization, right
there is carboload. Carbload also includes a

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pre emergent herbicide. But I want
you to especially note this for this fall

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fertilization season. Every time you buy
a bag of carbo load, d Nelson

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and Nelson folks are going to donate
two dollars to Randy's memorial scholarship Randy Lemon,

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the host of Garden Line for the
past twenty six or seven years.

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To what a good cause. It
goes to helping a horticulture student at Texas

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A and M and I know Randy
would love that. So if you're ever

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going to buy a bag of that
carbo load, now is the time to

408
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do it, because this is the
time to put it down, and you

409
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need to do that soon because it
has a pre emergent and you want to

410
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get ahead of the weeds too.
But also it's a great cause. Two

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00:30:49.799 --> 00:30:56.000
dollars a bag, and let's really
load that up and make sure a significant

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contribution goes up there for Randy's scholar
memorial. Skill show great costs. We're

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going to head out now to sugar
Land and talk to Mike. Hello,

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Mike, Good morning, Skip,
good morning. I have love you show.

415
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I have two Boogavilia's. They're in
pots in the front of my home

416
00:31:18.200 --> 00:31:25.039
and I need to know when when
to bring those in from the winter,

417
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whether and how to keep them,
you know, during the winter time when

418
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it's cold. So what do you
what do you suggest how low can the

419
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temperatures go? And then all I
have is a garage storage area, so

420
00:31:44.519 --> 00:31:48.880
I don't know how long they go
without sunshine, yes, sir, okay,

421
00:31:48.920 --> 00:31:52.480
Mike. The the the answer to
that is a fuzzy one. And

422
00:31:52.559 --> 00:31:56.079
here here's why I'm saying that the
condition of the plant, whether it's in

423
00:31:56.119 --> 00:32:00.599
a container of large size or small
size, or you know, whatever condition

424
00:32:00.720 --> 00:32:04.079
the plant is in is a big
thing. Booga and beas can take a

425
00:32:04.079 --> 00:32:07.920
little bit of cold and it doesn't
just automatically kill the whole plant. But

426
00:32:07.920 --> 00:32:09.319
I would say, if you're going
to get down, you know, anywhere

427
00:32:09.359 --> 00:32:14.440
close to freezing, I would just
let's be safe. Those are valuable plants

428
00:32:14.480 --> 00:32:15.720
and just go ahead and break it
in, get it in a garage.

429
00:32:15.920 --> 00:32:19.200
If you can give it some light, you know, if it's in a

430
00:32:19.240 --> 00:32:22.839
pot and you can roll it out
in the driveway or whatever you know,

431
00:32:22.920 --> 00:32:24.799
during the day and let it have
some light. As long as it has

432
00:32:24.839 --> 00:32:29.279
foliage on it, then go ahead
and do that through the cool season.

433
00:32:29.359 --> 00:32:32.160
It just helps keep it you know
strong, you can hold back a little

434
00:32:32.240 --> 00:32:37.440
bit on the moisture. Don't let
it stay very very dry for long,

435
00:32:37.799 --> 00:32:40.240
but you can hold back a little
bit on the moisture. And while it's

436
00:32:40.279 --> 00:32:44.400
in the storage, and it should
be in good shape for you when you

437
00:32:44.440 --> 00:32:47.200
bring it back out next spring.
I just wouldn't gamble, you know,

438
00:32:47.240 --> 00:32:52.880
in the cold. Yeah, so
I have it in large pots and it's

439
00:32:52.880 --> 00:33:00.480
got potted soil. So soil is
excellent for it. Matter of fact,

440
00:33:00.599 --> 00:33:04.559
Yeah, it's getting too large.
The branches are beginning to kind of take

441
00:33:04.640 --> 00:33:08.279
over. Okay, I'm going to
eventually have to prune it back, so

442
00:33:08.359 --> 00:33:13.079
you should. When should I do
that? Well, I hate to prune.

443
00:33:13.359 --> 00:33:15.440
Printing is a stimulating process. I
don't think in the middle of winter

444
00:33:15.559 --> 00:33:21.519
pruning is gonna make shoots up here. But we try not to stimulate plants

445
00:33:21.519 --> 00:33:24.240
to grow right before we go into
really cold weather. But since you're bringing

446
00:33:24.279 --> 00:33:28.400
it in, you need to prune
it to make it easier to get it

447
00:33:28.440 --> 00:33:31.799
inside. You can pull those those
branches up and time together, you know,

448
00:33:31.920 --> 00:33:36.200
just to make the plant not so
wide. But any kind of pruning

449
00:33:36.200 --> 00:33:39.200
you're going to do, let's wait
until you get some good cold on it

450
00:33:39.359 --> 00:33:44.759
and then we'll go ahead and get
do the pruning and bring it inside.

451
00:33:45.000 --> 00:33:46.640
Okay, all right, thank you
very much. Well, good luck with

452
00:33:46.720 --> 00:33:52.680
that. Those are gorgeous plants,
absolutely beautiful plants. Hey, if you

453
00:33:52.680 --> 00:33:55.440
would like to be on the air
talking with me about any kind of gardening

454
00:33:55.480 --> 00:33:59.400
question you might have, well let's
do that. It's seven to one to

455
00:33:59.480 --> 00:34:04.359
three two one two fifty eight seventy
four. I know we have a lot

456
00:34:04.400 --> 00:34:09.159
of folks listening that don't quite want
to call in. Don't don't be shy.

457
00:34:09.559 --> 00:34:13.960
If you've listened to if you've listened
to me for even a month,

458
00:34:14.159 --> 00:34:16.679
you know this is a safe place
to give us a call. We will

459
00:34:16.719 --> 00:34:21.079
be happy to help you with your
question. I've said this a long time

460
00:34:21.079 --> 00:34:23.559
ago, and I've been saying it
lately, but uh, I like to

461
00:34:23.559 --> 00:34:28.639
put it this way. There aren't
any stupid questions. There's just stupid answers.

462
00:34:28.679 --> 00:34:30.920
So the pressure's on me all right
now, I realize you know,

463
00:34:30.960 --> 00:34:34.199
we all know, yeah, there
are stupid questions, but we're not going

464
00:34:34.280 --> 00:34:37.599
to treat them that way. You
give us a call, we'll work through

465
00:34:37.639 --> 00:34:42.440
it. And something that is important
to remember is if you're wondering about it.

466
00:34:42.559 --> 00:34:45.960
In a Houston size area, there
are a lot of other people wondering

467
00:34:46.039 --> 00:34:50.559
about the same thing. So let's
go ahead and give them a call.

468
00:34:50.639 --> 00:34:53.880
They will enjoy. They will enjoy
getting to hear an answer to the question

469
00:34:54.119 --> 00:35:00.559
as well. Down in the southwest
part of Houston is a really spec place,

470
00:35:00.719 --> 00:35:04.199
and that Southwest Fertilizer. They're on
the corner of Bissinet and Renwick,

471
00:35:04.239 --> 00:35:08.280
by the way. They have everything
you can imagine needing for your lawn and

472
00:35:08.320 --> 00:35:14.920
garden, from tools, to fertilizers, to pesticides, weed controlled, you

473
00:35:14.960 --> 00:35:17.639
know, disease insect all of that, they've got it. Whether you're an

474
00:35:17.760 --> 00:35:22.920
organic gardener or I don't know if
there's such a thing as saying a synthetic

475
00:35:22.920 --> 00:35:25.320
garden. However, you want a
garden, they can get you fixed up

476
00:35:25.360 --> 00:35:29.760
and they've got the best selection of
organics of anybody in town. I really

477
00:35:29.920 --> 00:35:35.199
really do. Southwest Fertilizer dot Com
is the website. While you're there,

478
00:35:36.239 --> 00:35:39.119
you need to have Bob or one
of the folks show you their kneeling benches.

479
00:35:39.159 --> 00:35:44.719
It's a folding kneeling bench that it's
one of my favorite new tools of

480
00:35:44.760 --> 00:35:49.199
the last three or four years.
It is you can get down and up

481
00:35:49.239 --> 00:35:52.519
easy because when you turn it upside
down to kneel on it, it's got

482
00:35:52.559 --> 00:35:54.519
those handles to get back up.
And if you want to just sit and

483
00:35:54.559 --> 00:36:00.199
do some work and not stoop and
have those back and leg issues from going

484
00:36:00.360 --> 00:36:02.760
up and down and up and down. Kneeling bench of work on that had

485
00:36:02.800 --> 00:36:06.280
him show you that, by the
way, that is an awesome gift for

486
00:36:06.320 --> 00:36:09.079
a gardener in your list. So
I'm just saying it's a little ahead of

487
00:36:09.079 --> 00:36:13.480
the holidays, but yeah, not
too early to go ahead and get a

488
00:36:13.559 --> 00:36:17.519
wonderful gift like that from Southwest Fertilizer. I love my kneeling bench. My

489
00:36:19.440 --> 00:36:22.320
sister who is older than me,
a fact which I love to point out

490
00:36:22.320 --> 00:36:25.559
to her every opportunity that I get, I got her one, and she's

491
00:36:25.559 --> 00:36:29.800
significantly older than me, by the
way, and thinking, you know,

492
00:36:29.880 --> 00:36:32.280
this will help her. And then
one day I went out and I worked

493
00:36:32.280 --> 00:36:37.320
in the yard on Saturday. Any
of you north of forty can probably relate

494
00:36:37.360 --> 00:36:42.000
to this. And I woke up
the next day, oh my gosh,

495
00:36:42.079 --> 00:36:45.639
i'd like the pre natal position,
couldn't get a bed, just so sore,

496
00:36:45.679 --> 00:36:49.760
And I thought, why am I
so sore? All over. And

497
00:36:49.800 --> 00:36:53.000
then I realized it's because I probably
got up and down a thousand times doing

498
00:36:53.039 --> 00:36:58.639
my Saturday work out in the lawn
and garden and whatnot. I got that

499
00:36:58.719 --> 00:37:02.119
kneeling bench. Oh, oh my
gosh, it will change your life.

500
00:37:02.480 --> 00:37:07.599
It really really is convenient. I
love those things. Hey, if you're

501
00:37:07.639 --> 00:37:10.159
up in the Tombowl area and you
need a feed store, I got one

502
00:37:10.199 --> 00:37:15.039
for you. It's D and D
Feed there on twenty nine to twenty west,

503
00:37:15.079 --> 00:37:17.679
about three miles west of Highway two
forty nine out there on the left.

504
00:37:19.280 --> 00:37:22.880
The dovers have expanded that store and
they've got all kinds of things.

505
00:37:23.079 --> 00:37:28.199
Quality dog food, quality livestock food. If you're dealing with things like rats

506
00:37:28.199 --> 00:37:30.679
and things this winter time, they
love to come into your attic thing.

507
00:37:30.760 --> 00:37:35.199
Find a way in there. They've
got the products to deal with that too.

508
00:37:35.599 --> 00:37:38.119
But all of the fertilizers I talk
about, and all of the products

509
00:37:38.159 --> 00:37:42.159
to deal with insects, diseases and
weeds for your lawn, you're going to

510
00:37:42.199 --> 00:37:45.960
find it at D and D Feed. Go by there and check them out.

511
00:37:45.519 --> 00:37:50.000
You will really enjoy it. And
with the newly expanded shore store,

512
00:37:50.480 --> 00:37:54.639
boy is that ever really really cool? Well, you've been listening to garden

513
00:37:54.679 --> 00:37:59.039
Line, I want to remind you
that I am going to be at the

514
00:37:59.119 --> 00:38:05.519
All Star Ace Hardware in Magnolia today
from eleven thirty to one thirty after the

515
00:38:05.599 --> 00:38:08.760
show, So I hope you'll come
up and see me. Anyone up north

516
00:38:08.880 --> 00:38:15.199
direction of Houston, All Star Ace
Hardware and Magnolia. They're going to have

517
00:38:15.280 --> 00:38:20.400
some outdoor cooking going on and food
available too, by the way, that's

518
00:38:20.920 --> 00:38:22.880
in and of itself is the reason
to show up. We're going to be

519
00:38:22.880 --> 00:38:29.480
giving away nitrofoss Texas three Step.
That's three different products. I'll talk about

520
00:38:29.519 --> 00:38:32.000
those in a little bit later.
Have we given away several sets of those

521
00:38:32.039 --> 00:38:36.400
today? So I hope you'll come
out. I'd also love to meet you,

522
00:38:36.639 --> 00:38:39.320
take a look at any photos on
the phone of the yard you'd like

523
00:38:39.400 --> 00:38:44.679
some advice with or anything related to
gardening. Come on out and see me,

524
00:38:44.760 --> 00:38:49.599
and again All Star Ace Hardware up
there in Magnolia one of our great

525
00:38:49.679 --> 00:38:53.880
Ace Hardware stores. By the way, Ace Hardware dot Com find their store

526
00:38:53.960 --> 00:38:59.559
locator and you can find All Star
Ace Hardware and Magnolia and every other Ace

527
00:38:59.599 --> 00:39:08.280
store. Really, we'll be right
back. Katie R. H. Garden

528
00:39:08.280 --> 00:39:15.000
Line does not necessarily endorse any of
the products or services advertised on this program.

529
00:39:15.039 --> 00:39:20.119
Welcome to Katie r. H.
Garden Line with Skip Ricter. It's

530
00:39:21.000 --> 00:39:38.480
crazy. Yes, we can just
watch him as we may supt Crazy gas

531
00:39:42.559 --> 00:39:47.119
Baga. Good Saturday morning. We
are glad you're listening today. Our phone

532
00:39:47.159 --> 00:39:52.360
number seven one three two one two
fifty eight seventy four. If you want

533
00:39:52.400 --> 00:39:55.639
to join in on the action,
we'd love to visit with you. I've

534
00:39:57.639 --> 00:40:01.199
I was talking about the importance of
all planting and when it comes to gardens

535
00:40:01.239 --> 00:40:05.320
like annuals and perennials, they're not
going to be around for more than a

536
00:40:05.360 --> 00:40:07.360
year. That's why we call it
annuals. Annuals perennials are going to be

537
00:40:07.440 --> 00:40:12.679
around year after year. But if
you were looking at putting in some kind

538
00:40:12.679 --> 00:40:16.760
of garden, maybe even never vegetable
garden grown vegetables before our herbs, vego

539
00:40:16.880 --> 00:40:21.639
garden is the bed you need.
And here's why I say that. Number

540
00:40:21.679 --> 00:40:30.320
one it is it's been its metal
that has been protected with a special let's

541
00:40:30.360 --> 00:40:36.400
just say anti rust, anti corrosion
treatment that will make sure it lasts forever.

542
00:40:36.440 --> 00:40:38.840
It'll outlast the treated wood that you
might have used putting it in your

543
00:40:38.880 --> 00:40:43.119
garden. They tested it at Texas
A and M and made sure that it

544
00:40:43.159 --> 00:40:49.320
was absolutely trustworthy. They also found
that the paint they put on USDA certified

545
00:40:49.960 --> 00:40:53.360
beautiful colors, and it is just
it helps them last forever and ever,

546
00:40:53.440 --> 00:40:58.079
along with some really special boats.
They're modular. You put them together like

547
00:40:58.159 --> 00:41:01.679
that. It's really easy to do. And maybe you've got a little narrow

548
00:41:01.800 --> 00:41:05.199
area and you want a long,
skinny bed. Maybe you want a bed

549
00:41:05.239 --> 00:41:08.079
that's C shaped, or you want
a bed of eleven inches high or something

550
00:41:08.159 --> 00:41:12.760
higher than that. They can fix
you up with all of that. Vego

551
00:41:12.800 --> 00:41:16.079
Garden, by the way, the
website vegogarden dot com Vego v e g

552
00:41:16.239 --> 00:41:22.440
ogarden dot com. It's a Houston
company. Don't be fooled there. There

553
00:41:22.559 --> 00:41:27.840
are what do we call pretenders out
there on the market, uh, Vego

554
00:41:27.840 --> 00:41:30.119
Garden, and if there's some that
even try to use a similar name,

555
00:41:30.199 --> 00:41:34.360
shame on them for doing that.
But if you're an organic gardener, this

556
00:41:34.559 --> 00:41:38.880
absolutely is a bed you need because
it is absolutely gonna last you a long

557
00:41:38.920 --> 00:41:42.840
time and you're not using a treated
wood or something else like that. Some

558
00:41:42.880 --> 00:41:49.119
people have real concerns about that Vego
Garden Vego Garden dot com. Uh,

559
00:41:49.199 --> 00:41:52.679
let's head out to Rosheron and we're
going to talk to Texas garden guy.

560
00:41:52.880 --> 00:41:57.679
Hey, what's happening in Desson?
What's long? Skip? I got one

561
00:41:57.760 --> 00:42:02.280
question for you this morning? Yes
you dig? Can you dig it?

562
00:42:04.519 --> 00:42:07.840
Hey? I tell you what does
Bigo Vego like? I gotta make sure

563
00:42:07.840 --> 00:42:09.880
I say it right. Vego garden
beds are amazing. I got a couple

564
00:42:09.960 --> 00:42:15.800
of them out of mine house.
You know. Yeah, I'm actually out

565
00:42:15.880 --> 00:42:20.000
here in Simonton, Texas. I
got a big old they got the fall

566
00:42:20.039 --> 00:42:24.360
fling. I'm gonna be out here
at fred Rad's greenhousees all day long today.

567
00:42:25.559 --> 00:42:30.679
And I got a question for you
about my pomegranate tree. Well,

568
00:42:31.000 --> 00:42:35.119
so I've been telling everybody, you
know, if you're tired of replacing your

569
00:42:35.159 --> 00:42:38.559
citrus trees and losing them every year
in the fall and you're not gonna be

570
00:42:38.559 --> 00:42:42.639
able to bring them in, you
know, switch to like apples and palms.

571
00:42:42.679 --> 00:42:46.639
And in my case, I really
like the pomegranate trees. The problem

572
00:42:46.760 --> 00:42:51.400
is it's been so dry and hot
during the spring and summer that I never

573
00:42:51.440 --> 00:42:55.679
got any blooms up until about two
weeks ago. And uh, I'm told

574
00:42:57.039 --> 00:43:00.400
that like in the first two years
or so, like the pomegran it's aren't

575
00:43:00.400 --> 00:43:04.559
going to be very good and on
young trees, to go ahead and pinch

576
00:43:04.599 --> 00:43:07.280
them off. Do you know anything
about that? You know, I've I've

577
00:43:07.320 --> 00:43:12.840
not gotten into the removing them from
young trees, but I can tell you

578
00:43:12.920 --> 00:43:16.400
this, anytime we do that,
all those carbohydrates went into that pomgranite fruit

579
00:43:16.840 --> 00:43:22.280
go into branches and leaves, and
that's what we need the first few years

580
00:43:22.960 --> 00:43:24.760
so we can have a tree big
enough to hang a whole lot of fruit

581
00:43:24.840 --> 00:43:30.880
on. Absolutely, yeah, that's
asolutely Yeah. Yeah, I'm thinking about

582
00:43:30.920 --> 00:43:34.360
bringing to my greenhouse. I don't
know if it's gonna ripen, and I

583
00:43:34.360 --> 00:43:36.800
know it takes a while for a
pomegranate. It's rip you can eat it,

584
00:43:36.880 --> 00:43:38.000
Yeah, yeah, they do.
And a greenhouse would be nice too,

585
00:43:38.000 --> 00:43:40.599
because that keeps kind of the rain
off of them and when we go

586
00:43:40.719 --> 00:43:45.719
through long, rainy, rainy periods
that palm grandits aren't real crazy about that.

587
00:43:45.840 --> 00:43:49.239
And so right, I've been told
to get like a mildew or a

588
00:43:49.239 --> 00:43:52.920
fungus on them. Yeah, it
can get on the fruit, It absolutely

589
00:43:52.920 --> 00:43:58.719
can. Good drainage so important on
those I hate. I do know you

590
00:43:58.840 --> 00:44:01.000
like those vego beds by the you
like the ones on rollers too, I

591
00:44:01.039 --> 00:44:05.880
think, right, Oh, that's
that's that's where all my citrus are going

592
00:44:05.920 --> 00:44:09.960
in this year, my citrus and
my and my row and my dragon fruit

593
00:44:10.039 --> 00:44:14.079
or all in those dego rolling beds. Yeah, I should I should have

594
00:44:14.159 --> 00:44:16.639
mentioned that while ago. Oh they
are the best. So right now,

595
00:44:16.719 --> 00:44:21.079
all these so right now is the
best time to buy fruit trees. A

596
00:44:21.159 --> 00:44:23.480
lot of people think the spring is
one of the best times to buy fruit

597
00:44:23.559 --> 00:44:27.880
trees. Now is the best time
to buy fruit trees. Not only because

598
00:44:27.920 --> 00:44:30.280
those fruit trees, if you're going
to put them in the ground, they're

599
00:44:30.280 --> 00:44:34.360
gonna have all winter to kind of
make those root systems and produce blooms in

600
00:44:34.400 --> 00:44:38.360
the spring and produce the fruit during
the summer. But also the greenhouses don't

601
00:44:38.400 --> 00:44:42.800
want to storm over winter. Yeah, so they're going to have all kinds

602
00:44:42.800 --> 00:44:46.400
of sales of these greenhouses. So
especially at fred Rays, they got sales

603
00:44:46.400 --> 00:44:51.360
on all their citrus today thirty eight
ninety nine. Hey, I appreciate it.

604
00:44:51.480 --> 00:44:53.880
Go it's so good to talk to
you again. Anytime you have a

605
00:44:53.880 --> 00:44:57.960
good one. You have a great
day out there. Yeah, you know

606
00:44:58.039 --> 00:45:01.440
those rolling beds, that's just I
forgot to mention those, but I've got

607
00:45:01.440 --> 00:45:05.199
one myself, and oh my gosh, for Citrus, that'd be a great

608
00:45:05.199 --> 00:45:09.480
thing. If you have seen or
seen cracks in your brick the outside of

609
00:45:09.480 --> 00:45:14.000
your home or the sheet rock on
the inside of your home, that could

610
00:45:14.000 --> 00:45:16.480
be pointing to a foundation issue and
you don't need to let that go.

611
00:45:16.559 --> 00:45:21.679
You need to deal with it right
away before the problem gets really a lot

612
00:45:21.719 --> 00:45:28.440
worse. Who does that fix my
slab foundation repair fixmyslab dot com, Simple

613
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as that. Ty Strickland is the
owner. They've been doing it twenty three

614
00:45:30.480 --> 00:45:34.639
years. Here tell them regardline listener. You get a free estimate. And

615
00:45:35.000 --> 00:45:37.320
the nice thing I like, well, one of the nice things I like

616
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is that they show up when they
say they're going to show up. That's

617
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just good business. That's that old
fashioned type of business. They're on time,

618
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they have a fair price, and
they fix it right. Thy Strickland's

619
00:45:50.519 --> 00:45:52.920
a native Ustonian, fifth generation Texan. As a matter of fact, if

620
00:45:52.960 --> 00:45:57.800
you'd like to give them a call
two eight one two five five forty nine

621
00:45:58.119 --> 00:46:00.360
forty nine. We're going to head
back of the phones now and talk to

622
00:46:00.480 --> 00:46:05.280
Doug. Hello, Doug, Hello, Skip, how are you this morning?

623
00:46:05.519 --> 00:46:07.840
I'm doing all right, hanging in
there. What's up? Well,

624
00:46:07.880 --> 00:46:13.280
I'll tell you back years ago,
we used to just put a shredded cedar

625
00:46:13.360 --> 00:46:16.719
bark mulch on all our beds in
the front, including around our heritage live

626
00:46:16.760 --> 00:46:22.000
oak trees. We never got to
the mult volcano stage, but we had

627
00:46:22.119 --> 00:46:27.159
thick stuff and it kept building up
because we didn't ever do any work out.

628
00:46:27.199 --> 00:46:30.400
There was always a yard guy.
When COVID came up. I was

629
00:46:30.480 --> 00:46:35.119
listening to Randy, and Randy suggests
that at some point that you could use

630
00:46:35.159 --> 00:46:39.800
a double screened compost as a bed
dressing, which I did, and over

631
00:46:39.880 --> 00:46:45.199
time all the bark malts disintegrated the
way he suggested, and now I've got

632
00:46:45.199 --> 00:46:52.679
a really nice, even layer of
compost. But when the mulch went down

633
00:46:52.719 --> 00:46:55.440
on the trees, I discovered I
had some girdling roots on the heritage live

634
00:46:55.480 --> 00:46:59.679
oaks. Huh, And I wonder
how important is it to get rid of

635
00:46:59.679 --> 00:47:01.320
those? I mean, all right, well, here here's what we're going

636
00:47:01.360 --> 00:47:05.360
to do. Yeah, we're gonna
We're gonna let that be those teasers that

637
00:47:05.440 --> 00:47:07.519
everybody is oh, man, but
I gotta go to commercial. Hang on.

638
00:47:07.599 --> 00:47:10.159
When we come back, I'll talk
about just that. I appreciate this

639
00:47:10.280 --> 00:47:15.119
call. Just hang on seven one
three two one two five eight seven four.

640
00:47:15.119 --> 00:47:19.000
Give Josh a call and we will
talk to you when we come back.

641
00:47:22.639 --> 00:47:27.320
Well, good morning. I see
a beautiful glowing eastern sky. Oh

642
00:47:27.360 --> 00:47:29.760
my gosh, is this ever going
to be a good day to get out

643
00:47:29.800 --> 00:47:32.440
and do some gardening? You're listening
to garden Line. Our phone number is

644
00:47:32.480 --> 00:47:37.519
seven one three two one two fifty
eight seventy four. Uh. If you

645
00:47:37.519 --> 00:47:40.840
know this is the time to do
your fall fertilization, and if you are

646
00:47:40.880 --> 00:47:46.079
interested in taking care of your property
in an organic way, in a way

647
00:47:46.159 --> 00:47:51.719
that uh you know, builds the
soil, that deals with nature, in

648
00:47:51.760 --> 00:47:55.320
a way that utilizes nature to have
success with your lawn and your garden,

649
00:47:55.480 --> 00:48:00.199
well, microlife products are going to
be an excellent option for that and specifically

650
00:48:00.199 --> 00:48:05.119
for that lawn this fall. There
brown patch. Now, I know it

651
00:48:05.159 --> 00:48:08.519
says it's like it just just for
disease. Well, it does help with

652
00:48:08.639 --> 00:48:15.159
brown patch, but it also helps
prepare your lawn to be strong for the

653
00:48:15.159 --> 00:48:19.960
spring. That's what organics are all
about. It's building a strong plant to

654
00:48:20.000 --> 00:48:24.360
try to do everything we can to
get that patient in a condition that helps

655
00:48:24.360 --> 00:48:29.400
it fight off insects and disease.
And that's how nature works. Microlife brown

656
00:48:29.400 --> 00:48:32.480
Patch is a five to one three. It's got that important third element that

657
00:48:32.679 --> 00:48:37.519
potassium in it to help with good
winter hardiness. And by the way,

658
00:48:37.559 --> 00:48:43.199
potassium also helps with drought resilience.
I would follow that with Microlife or micro

659
00:48:43.360 --> 00:48:46.119
grow. It's the bioinoculant. It's
more of a violet colored bag. The

660
00:48:46.159 --> 00:48:51.760
brown patch product is an orange bag
bioinoculant, a violet colored bag. You

661
00:48:51.800 --> 00:48:54.159
just put a little bit out.
You're inoculating about ten pounds per thousand square

662
00:48:54.159 --> 00:48:58.800
feet. And that also helps put
good guys out there, if you will,

663
00:48:58.840 --> 00:49:01.719
if we can call microbes guys because
they are and it helps when the

664
00:49:01.760 --> 00:49:07.039
disease issues come along. You've got
a very populated plant surface, and you've

665
00:49:07.079 --> 00:49:10.400
got things that can help fight against
some of the things that cause problems in

666
00:49:10.440 --> 00:49:17.480
your lawn. One two step of
Microlife brown Patch and Microlife bio inoculant for

667
00:49:17.559 --> 00:49:22.880
your lawn. Now just go to
Microlifefertilizer dot com and you'll find out where

668
00:49:22.880 --> 00:49:25.400
you can buy it. Which is
everywhere, and you'll also find out more

669
00:49:25.400 --> 00:49:30.039
about these and other great products.
I'm going to head back now to Doug

670
00:49:30.159 --> 00:49:34.360
in Richmond, and Doug, I
think we left it that you've got a

671
00:49:34.440 --> 00:49:37.800
tree with a circling root. Is
that correct? That's correct? And is

672
00:49:37.840 --> 00:49:43.559
this root already embedded into the trunk
or do you just see it going around

673
00:49:43.679 --> 00:49:49.440
outside of the trunk area. It's
outside the trunk. Okay, you need

674
00:49:49.480 --> 00:49:52.559
to cut it, and if you
can, I would get a good strung

675
00:49:52.599 --> 00:49:55.039
water hose and blast out so you
can figure out where it actually comes out

676
00:49:55.079 --> 00:49:59.360
of the trunk if you can't already
see that, and I would cut it

677
00:49:59.400 --> 00:50:02.400
there. And I know that sounds
drastic, but as the root gets bigger

678
00:50:02.480 --> 00:50:06.679
and the trunk gets bigger, the
two are going to come together and the

679
00:50:06.800 --> 00:50:10.599
root will be a giant anaconda wrapped
around that trunk and you have major tree

680
00:50:10.679 --> 00:50:15.239
problems. So you've caught it at
a stage where you can still do something

681
00:50:15.280 --> 00:50:20.039
about it. Okay, so you
recommend getting rid of it though, Oh

682
00:50:20.079 --> 00:50:22.559
absolutely yes, And now's a good
time because it's a little bit of a

683
00:50:22.639 --> 00:50:27.559
root loss for the tree. It's
not as much as you may fear it

684
00:50:27.599 --> 00:50:32.639
is, but it has all winter
and spring, you know, to continue

685
00:50:32.639 --> 00:50:38.000
to grow good, strong roots to
replace the one that they'd lost. Well,

686
00:50:38.159 --> 00:50:43.519
this tree is twenty years old,
okay, it's it was covered with

687
00:50:43.639 --> 00:50:47.079
mulch, and when the mults disappeared, the roots appeared. Yeah, they

688
00:50:47.079 --> 00:50:51.400
were there. So it is this
a live oak or do you know which?

689
00:50:51.800 --> 00:50:53.559
Okay, yeah, it's a heritage
live oak. Okay, Well,

690
00:50:53.719 --> 00:50:58.920
live oaks, they you know,
twenty years is a very young tree.

691
00:50:59.239 --> 00:51:01.840
And I just if it were me, I would look at those. I

692
00:51:01.880 --> 00:51:06.400
would look at those that root size, and I'd look at the trunk size,

693
00:51:06.719 --> 00:51:09.519
and you know, if it's far
enough out where it can go a

694
00:51:09.519 --> 00:51:15.400
long long time and before it embeds
in. Okay. But I just think

695
00:51:15.559 --> 00:51:17.760
when we think of the life history
of a live oak, it would be

696
00:51:17.800 --> 00:51:22.000
good to go ahead and get that
removed. If it looks like it's close

697
00:51:22.079 --> 00:51:24.360
enough to you know, in the
next ten years or so, be a

698
00:51:24.400 --> 00:51:30.719
problem. Very good, all right, dud. Yeah, And I do

699
00:51:30.800 --> 00:51:34.320
have a question about citrus. Okay, let's do that real quick. I

700
00:51:34.360 --> 00:51:39.199
have three young citrus trees. All
three of them survived the freeze last winter,

701
00:51:40.280 --> 00:51:45.519
but they all kind of went into
shock. They grew some greenery,

702
00:51:45.199 --> 00:51:50.280
but they basically got kind of stunted. Okay, then about six weeks ago,

703
00:51:50.800 --> 00:51:53.719
all three of them, one is
a rio red grapefruit, one as

704
00:51:53.760 --> 00:51:59.599
a Persian lime, one is a
frost Eureka lemon. Okay, all three

705
00:51:59.639 --> 00:52:02.920
of them send up central shoots straight
up in the air, and they're going

706
00:52:04.000 --> 00:52:12.639
like crazy. The Frostyureka lemon is
it's gone from about waist hie to over

707
00:52:12.760 --> 00:52:15.800
my height with these three single shoots. Okay, what's the deal with that?

708
00:52:16.719 --> 00:52:22.320
It could be the not doing well
for a while is probably just remnants

709
00:52:22.320 --> 00:52:27.199
of that initial freeze damage. I
think you may also have a rootstock that's

710
00:52:27.239 --> 00:52:30.559
taken off. I actually I've checked
that out very closely. It's not roots.

711
00:52:30.679 --> 00:52:34.440
It is not rootstock. All right, Well, I guess it just

712
00:52:34.480 --> 00:52:37.840
got it its feet under it and
it's taken off growing. I would probably

713
00:52:37.920 --> 00:52:40.760
leave it for now, don't do
any pruning on it right now, going

714
00:52:40.800 --> 00:52:45.519
into the cool season, and when
we come out in spring, then you

715
00:52:45.559 --> 00:52:49.760
may need to do some topping of
that to get it to branch out.

716
00:52:49.800 --> 00:52:52.719
Normally, citrus, you don't have
the top it. It branches out naturally

717
00:52:52.840 --> 00:52:55.440
just fine. But I would just
probably wait and watch it. If you're

718
00:52:55.440 --> 00:53:00.840
pretty sure that it's not a rootstock, then that would be my explanation for

719
00:53:00.880 --> 00:53:04.280
it. Very good. Well,
thank you very much. All right,

720
00:53:04.360 --> 00:53:07.159
Doug, thank you for the call. I appreciate that very much. If

721
00:53:07.199 --> 00:53:12.880
you live down in the League City
area, League City Feed is your hometown

722
00:53:12.880 --> 00:53:16.920
feed store, the Thunderbergs. They
started that store over forty years ago and

723
00:53:17.239 --> 00:53:22.360
it is still going strong. And
just looking at the products. Do you

724
00:53:22.400 --> 00:53:25.400
need any of the fertilizers I recommend
you need airroom soil products for example.

725
00:53:25.679 --> 00:53:30.400
Do you need anything to control pests, weeds, diseases around your plants?

726
00:53:30.840 --> 00:53:36.079
And they have a great supply of
those kind of products. I just really

727
00:53:36.119 --> 00:53:40.440
impressed walking in and seeing the variety
and the amount of product that they do

728
00:53:40.559 --> 00:53:45.519
carry. And they have that old
time service, you know, carry your

729
00:53:45.519 --> 00:53:49.800
bags out when you buy feed or
something like that for you. They have

730
00:53:49.880 --> 00:53:52.800
premium pet foods, They've got everything
for those backyard chickens that you might have.

731
00:53:53.840 --> 00:53:57.559
It's just a great place to go. And where is it, by

732
00:53:57.599 --> 00:54:00.440
the way, Well, I'll tell
you it's on Highway three blocks south of

733
00:54:00.519 --> 00:54:06.400
Highway ninety six, So folks out
in El Camino Real Santa Fe Bay,

734
00:54:06.400 --> 00:54:09.519
Cliff Webster, San Leone. You
get the idea certainly League City as well.

735
00:54:09.719 --> 00:54:14.440
This is your feed store, the
phone number two eight one three three

736
00:54:14.519 --> 00:54:19.599
two sixteen twelve. Now they're closed
on Sunday, so Monday through Saturday nine

737
00:54:19.639 --> 00:54:22.199
to six, this would be a
good time to get out there and get

738
00:54:22.199 --> 00:54:24.719
the supplies that you need. This
weekend, we're going to go back to

739
00:54:24.760 --> 00:54:29.360
the phones again and we're going to
talk to Alan in Sugarland. Hello,

740
00:54:29.400 --> 00:54:32.639
Alan cool Skiff, Good morning,
how are you. I'm well this morning.

741
00:54:32.960 --> 00:54:37.039
Thank you, glad to hear it. Hey, I during the summer,

742
00:54:37.079 --> 00:54:43.719
I had some trouble with knockout roses. They got really spindley, and

743
00:54:44.079 --> 00:54:49.760
I'm wondering what's the recommended procedure at
this point to try to get them.

744
00:54:49.800 --> 00:54:52.119
I know they're entering the dormant season, but what do I need to do

745
00:54:52.159 --> 00:54:54.960
with them right now to help them
get prepared for growth when they think comes

746
00:54:54.960 --> 00:54:59.239
on. Yeah, I would probably
you know, I don't normally recommend lawn

747
00:54:59.320 --> 00:55:02.039
for elizer f roses, but just
to make sure that you got a good

748
00:55:02.079 --> 00:55:07.719
potassium level in the soil, I
would probably use one of the lawn fertilizers

749
00:55:07.760 --> 00:55:12.719
that has the lower nitrogen because we
aren't trying to push them right now.

750
00:55:12.920 --> 00:55:15.320
Normally we do push them a little
bit with nitrogen for vigor and growth and

751
00:55:15.400 --> 00:55:19.880
better blooming. But we're going into
winter. They've been through a tough summer,

752
00:55:20.280 --> 00:55:22.599
so I would probably use one of
those kinds of fertilizers that I've been

753
00:55:22.639 --> 00:55:29.119
mentioning that the lower nitrogen a good
potassium on them. I'm not a member

754
00:55:29.119 --> 00:55:32.679
of the Houston Rose Society, and
they definitely are going to have their experienced

755
00:55:32.719 --> 00:55:37.199
opinions on things they've used through the
years and found to be best. But

756
00:55:37.320 --> 00:55:42.519
our roses took one heck of a
difficult hit this summer and I just have

757
00:55:42.599 --> 00:55:45.519
seen a lot of issues with roses. I think they're going to come out

758
00:55:45.559 --> 00:55:47.800
fine in the spring, and when
they do, that's when you want to

759
00:55:47.880 --> 00:55:52.159
kick back into the good fertilization schedule
and get that vigor back into the planets.

760
00:55:53.400 --> 00:55:58.800
Okay, Yeah, I've been following
brown Patch necrolives so good some of

761
00:55:58.800 --> 00:56:01.400
that on there would probably do well. Yeah, that'd be fun. Yeah,

762
00:56:01.519 --> 00:56:05.480
another question for you, if I
could, I know what all Sister

763
00:56:05.719 --> 00:56:13.440
Lover says that pecans are only really
productive one every three years they go really

764
00:56:13.480 --> 00:56:16.320
strong a year they're kind of medium
in their terrible year. The pecans in

765
00:56:16.360 --> 00:56:21.880
our neighborhood just are really not producing. It seems like this year. Is

766
00:56:21.920 --> 00:56:23.800
that Is that true or is it
just a bad year for bore? Well,

767
00:56:24.159 --> 00:56:28.199
it's true, ish, but she
got she has the numbers off.

768
00:56:28.280 --> 00:56:31.840
It's every other year typically. But
here's why. When a pecan has a

769
00:56:31.840 --> 00:56:37.079
heavy crop, all the carbohydrates go
into the pecan kernels. That takes a

770
00:56:37.239 --> 00:56:40.360
lot of carbohydrates and the tree doesn't
set buds for next year's crop as much.

771
00:56:42.440 --> 00:56:45.599
And then next year there's no crop, so that tree is growing and

772
00:56:45.679 --> 00:56:49.719
setting buds, and the year after
that here comes another good crop. So

773
00:56:49.760 --> 00:56:54.119
that alternate bearing is something pecannguors have
to deal with. But the bottom line

774
00:56:54.199 --> 00:56:59.599
is you need good vigor, you
need good leaf cover, so diseases and

775
00:57:00.000 --> 00:57:05.239
black aphids on pecan's take away leaf
area. You can't make carbohydrates without leaves,

776
00:57:05.679 --> 00:57:07.880
so it's going to be a combination
of those kinds of things. That's

777
00:57:07.920 --> 00:57:13.400
the principles and how that works.
Well, it's good to hear. I

778
00:57:13.400 --> 00:57:15.920
appreciate that. Listen. I also
want to tell you I'm an old Moses

779
00:57:15.960 --> 00:57:20.159
Hall friend of yours. Oh my
god, I'm really glad to talk to

780
00:57:20.199 --> 00:57:27.360
you. Ellen. Huh, hey, I don't know. Pardon a fourth

781
00:57:27.400 --> 00:57:32.039
floor you, crom and I did
a program one year is a dorm little

782
00:57:32.119 --> 00:57:37.880
routine so you may remember, Oh
my gosh, yeah, it's a small

783
00:57:37.920 --> 00:57:42.639
world that Randy lived in and Moses
as well. I remember that routine prom

784
00:57:42.760 --> 00:57:46.360
you're talking about from Fort ben County, from Sugarland, Richmond Rosenberg. Absolutely,

785
00:57:46.440 --> 00:57:49.719
oh my gosh, oh my god. Well, we can't do this

786
00:57:49.760 --> 00:57:52.719
on the air, but thanks for
mentioning that. It does bring back good

787
00:57:52.760 --> 00:57:55.320
memories. You take care, Ellen, think that. Oh my wow,

788
00:57:55.480 --> 00:58:00.519
that's that is amazing. Hey,
if you need any kind of tree work

789
00:58:00.559 --> 00:58:02.400
done, you need to call Affordable
Tree, and you need to do it

790
00:58:02.480 --> 00:58:06.719
soon because they book up pretty fast. Now, always tell them your guardenline

791
00:58:06.760 --> 00:58:10.719
caller, because that helps you get
to the front of their line. Their

792
00:58:10.760 --> 00:58:16.679
website is Afftree Service dot com.
Aff Tree Service dot com. The phone

793
00:58:16.760 --> 00:58:22.039
number seven one three six twenty six
sixty three. Either Martin or Joe's going

794
00:58:22.079 --> 00:58:24.920
to answer that phone, and if
they don't, you've got the wrong company.

795
00:58:24.960 --> 00:58:29.159
Something with affordable in the name.
But it's not affordable tree service.

796
00:58:29.400 --> 00:58:31.960
Hang up and call back the correct
number and make sure you get a hold

797
00:58:31.960 --> 00:58:35.840
of them. They'll come out.
They will take a look at your plants.

798
00:58:35.800 --> 00:58:39.679
They do consultations. They'll make sure
that anything your trees need. Maybe

799
00:58:39.719 --> 00:58:44.320
it is a problem that needs pruning, they can take care of that.

800
00:58:44.440 --> 00:58:46.920
You want to get on his schedule, so don't delay. Seven one,

801
00:58:47.000 --> 00:58:52.239
three, six, nine, nine, twenty six sixty three and a critical

802
00:58:52.280 --> 00:58:54.719
time for you to make sure you're
getting a hold of someone that knows what

803
00:58:54.760 --> 00:59:01.559
they're doing and doing good work.
I have got a let's see and we're

804
00:59:01.559 --> 00:59:05.760
gonna in in Aniwak. We're going
to start off this call, but I'm

805
00:59:05.760 --> 00:59:07.840
not gonna be able to finish it
due to a commercial. But let's see

806
00:59:07.880 --> 00:59:14.159
how far we can get. Okay, I have a very large yard,

807
00:59:14.280 --> 00:59:21.719
probably two to three tennis ball fields. I've got large circular growth. It

808
00:59:21.800 --> 00:59:27.079
seems to be taking over most of
my yard. Okay. When I feed

809
00:59:27.119 --> 00:59:30.239
my yard, I have to do
hose ina it is so large I walk

810
00:59:30.280 --> 00:59:36.719
it. Okay. When I pull
up these reads, they're their very circular

811
00:59:36.760 --> 00:59:40.199
and they're sticky and they leave my
hands black. But they're taking over interesting.

812
00:59:42.320 --> 00:59:44.760
Okay, Well, I'm gonna have
to go to break. I'm gonna

813
00:59:44.760 --> 00:59:47.599
put you on hold and we'll come
right back right after break to continue with

814
00:59:47.679 --> 00:59:53.159
that question. Thank you our phone
number seven fifty eight seventy four, and

815
00:59:53.199 --> 00:59:58.760
we're going to turn it over to
the Nicky News Network. Welcome back to

816
00:59:58.840 --> 01:00:00.920
garden Line. I'm your host,
skip director, and we're here to answer

817
01:00:01.039 --> 01:00:07.079
questions. Our phone number seven one
three two one two fifty eight seventy four.

818
01:00:07.360 --> 01:00:08.679
Hey, do you have a little
piece of property and you've been looking

819
01:00:08.679 --> 01:00:12.639
for a tractor or thinking about you
know I need to get a tractor.

820
01:00:12.719 --> 01:00:15.760
Well, now's the time and I've
got the one for you. Pick a

821
01:00:15.840 --> 01:00:22.320
Keboda tractor, the L twenty five
oh two from Lansdown Moody. It's as

822
01:00:22.360 --> 01:00:24.559
simple as that, and it's what
we like to say is pick, click

823
01:00:24.599 --> 01:00:28.960
and go Orange. Pick the Kbota
you want L twenty five oh two,

824
01:00:29.280 --> 01:00:34.119
that is the workhorse. I highly
recommend it. Click on a package deal

825
01:00:34.199 --> 01:00:37.360
at tractor package dot com. Tractor
package dot com. You know a box

826
01:00:37.400 --> 01:00:40.320
blade, rotary cutter? Do you
need a postholdegger, maybe a front end

827
01:00:40.400 --> 01:00:45.719
loader? And then finally go Orange
with a great financeman, listen to this.

828
01:00:45.719 --> 01:00:50.880
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from up to eighty four months interest

829
01:00:50.920 --> 01:00:53.239
free. You can't beat that.
I mean Lansdown Moody. They're a Houston

830
01:00:53.280 --> 01:00:58.320
company. They've been here since nineteen
thirty six. This isn't some big giant

831
01:00:58.400 --> 01:01:02.760
out of town corporation. LANSDOWNE Moody
is hometown through and through nine locations,

832
01:01:02.760 --> 01:01:07.480
so it's easy to find one near
you. Just go to l M tractor

833
01:01:07.679 --> 01:01:10.440
dot com l M tractor dot com. It's as simple as that, and

834
01:01:10.559 --> 01:01:15.000
I know you'll be impressed as the
first time I jumped up on a comboter

835
01:01:15.159 --> 01:01:19.039
tractor. As I was, we're
gonna head now back, let's see where

836
01:01:19.079 --> 01:01:22.199
were we? We were too?
Who was I talking to you just a

837
01:01:22.280 --> 01:01:28.920
minute ago? Uh? And there
we go? And I had to search

838
01:01:28.960 --> 01:01:31.000
them notes to figure out who I
was talking to you. So when you

839
01:01:31.039 --> 01:01:36.280
say a circular sticky weed, first
of all, you're talking about the leaves

840
01:01:36.360 --> 01:01:44.519
or circular. The plant is circular
four inches across. It's here, okay.

841
01:01:45.800 --> 01:01:49.480
And when you say sticky, you
do you mean like like glue or

842
01:01:49.480 --> 01:01:58.159
do you mean like thorns glue?
Glue? I tell you when I'm gonna

843
01:01:58.199 --> 01:02:00.440
give you my best shot, but
I would like you to email me a

844
01:02:00.440 --> 01:02:05.360
photo of this weed, several up
close, and let me make sure I've

845
01:02:05.360 --> 01:02:09.840
got the right one. There is
something called catchweed bedstraw that is very sticky.

846
01:02:09.840 --> 01:02:14.039
It's almost a velcrow like weed.
It sticks to your hands. I'm

847
01:02:14.079 --> 01:02:17.159
a little surprised you've got a significant
amount of that at this time of the

848
01:02:17.239 --> 01:02:23.320
year. So I would really like
to look at a picture to be sure.

849
01:02:23.880 --> 01:02:27.440
It's going to be a broad leaf
weed for sure, and that would

850
01:02:27.440 --> 01:02:30.320
be no. It's very very very
very tiny, little bigger than the head

851
01:02:30.320 --> 01:02:37.480
of I mean the top of a
pin. The leaves are tiny, very

852
01:02:37.599 --> 01:02:43.679
tiny. All right, I'm okay, I probably should be able to picture

853
01:02:43.679 --> 01:02:46.400
what you're describing. I'm going to
put you on hold. Please send me

854
01:02:46.480 --> 01:02:50.760
some photos close up, maybe the
whole yard, but then close up in

855
01:02:50.800 --> 01:02:53.320
real sharp focus, and I will
get back to you with the right answer.

856
01:02:53.360 --> 01:02:58.480
Otherwise I'm not sure I'm gonna to
send you the right direction. Thank

857
01:02:58.519 --> 01:03:02.079
you. I appreciate that call very
much. And you know it is time

858
01:03:02.239 --> 01:03:08.000
to do our fertilization in the lawns
and nitrofoss those folks have put together the

859
01:03:08.039 --> 01:03:15.559
Texas three step What are the three
steps? Fertilizer, we'd prevention and fungicide

860
01:03:15.559 --> 01:03:20.280
for disease control. Now, the
Nitrofoss Fall Special is an excellent fertilizer.

861
01:03:20.599 --> 01:03:24.000
It's going to help prepare your plant
for winter and for coming out in spring.

862
01:03:24.079 --> 01:03:29.280
Its designed for our soils and our
climate here on the Gulf Coast.

863
01:03:29.280 --> 01:03:36.000
Secondly, nitrofoss barricade weed control controls
both broad leaf and grassy weeds. When

864
01:03:36.039 --> 01:03:39.840
they try to come up, they
can't because barricade has formed a barricade on

865
01:03:39.920 --> 01:03:45.880
the surface of your soil. That
is an important factor to remember. Anytime

866
01:03:45.000 --> 01:03:47.639
you're putting out a pre immersion,
you want to water it in about a

867
01:03:47.679 --> 01:03:53.719
half inch of water. You want
to make sure that it is going to

868
01:03:53.760 --> 01:03:59.360
move into the soil surface. Third
the fungicide, now that's a nitrofoss Eagle.

869
01:04:00.079 --> 01:04:02.199
We got brown pat season coming,
we got take all rot that's going

870
01:04:02.280 --> 01:04:08.559
to be reinfecting again in the fall
or and also in the spring. And

871
01:04:08.679 --> 01:04:13.000
the nitrofoss Eagle helps to suppress that, to shut it down, to prevent

872
01:04:13.039 --> 01:04:15.920
it from being able to create a
problem. But these are all timely things.

873
01:04:16.119 --> 01:04:19.880
Fall fertilizer needs to be put on
this month. The ugly weeds that

874
01:04:19.920 --> 01:04:24.639
you're dealing with that are trying to
prevent the cool season weeds, you need

875
01:04:24.679 --> 01:04:27.440
to get ahead of them sprouting with
that barricade, So go ahead and get

876
01:04:27.440 --> 01:04:30.320
that done now because they'll be sprouting
soon. And then finally the fung aside.

877
01:04:30.360 --> 01:04:33.239
If you wait until you got big
brown circles, well, the fungicide

878
01:04:33.239 --> 01:04:38.400
works and preventing additional ones. But
what about the ugly You got to look

879
01:04:38.400 --> 01:04:41.679
at all winter. Do it ahead
of time, so don't delay that.

880
01:04:41.920 --> 01:04:44.360
You can find where can you find
this stuff? You can find it in

881
01:04:44.440 --> 01:04:47.440
Chenney Gardens out in Richmond. You
can find it at Lake Hardware in Angleton.

882
01:04:47.840 --> 01:04:51.000
You can find it at Plants for
All Seasons up on two forty nine.

883
01:04:51.440 --> 01:04:54.920
By the way, if you haven't, if you haven't been to Plants

884
01:04:54.920 --> 01:04:58.000
for All Seasons, you need to
go check out the color that they have

885
01:04:58.119 --> 01:05:00.559
now. It is, Oh my
gosh, it is outstanding. I don't

886
01:05:00.559 --> 01:05:04.679
care if you look at hanging baskets
or moms or flowers for the flower bed.

887
01:05:04.760 --> 01:05:10.480
You know we can have beautiful,
beautiful flowers, beautiful beds all through

888
01:05:10.519 --> 01:05:13.960
the winter season just by putting the
right kind of plants in. There's no

889
01:05:14.079 --> 01:05:17.119
reason for winter to be a drab. Plants for All Seasons can help make

890
01:05:17.199 --> 01:05:24.320
your lawn and your landscape beautiful.
Now their website just Plants for All Seasons

891
01:05:24.400 --> 01:05:28.000
dot com. Diking it easier than
that phone number two eight one, three

892
01:05:28.039 --> 01:05:31.480
seven six sixteen forty six. They're
out there on Highway two forty nine,

893
01:05:31.519 --> 01:05:36.559
Tomball Parkway, just north of where
Loretta Luetta Road comes in. And when

894
01:05:36.599 --> 01:05:41.000
you're in there anytime, you know
you're going to talk to staff that know

895
01:05:41.239 --> 01:05:45.039
what they're doing. One of the
many reasons I love to go Plant for

896
01:05:45.079 --> 01:05:49.159
All Seasons. I'm going to head
back now to Kitty. This is this

897
01:05:49.239 --> 01:05:53.920
is a wed Day. We're going
to go talk to Kitty in Jersey Village.

898
01:05:53.920 --> 01:05:57.519
How are you doing, Kitty,
Hey, good morning. Well I

899
01:05:57.599 --> 01:06:00.239
am not a gardener. I'm just
a girl who likes flowers, and I'm

900
01:06:00.280 --> 01:06:04.239
spending way more time in the garden
that I want to. Oh, no,

901
01:06:04.480 --> 01:06:12.119
we need more time. That's therapy
is going to help. Well,

902
01:06:12.280 --> 01:06:15.760
my dear husband, I love flowers, and I think instead of buying me

903
01:06:15.840 --> 01:06:19.360
flowers, you just put in a
flower garden to had it done professionally.

904
01:06:19.559 --> 01:06:26.360
But I have so many weeds no
matter how I mean, it's it's too

905
01:06:26.480 --> 01:06:29.880
arduous to be out here. I
don't know what to do. Should I

906
01:06:29.960 --> 01:06:35.880
just scrap it and start from scratch? It depends on the weeds you have.

907
01:06:36.280 --> 01:06:41.519
Now, most weeds are going to
be coming from seed as an annual

908
01:06:41.719 --> 01:06:45.360
weed, and those you a mulch. You put a mulch down two or

909
01:06:45.360 --> 01:06:49.239
three inches of mulch on the surface
of the soil and they can't get light

910
01:06:49.360 --> 01:06:53.800
and they can't germinate and establish,
And you took your weed problems down.

911
01:06:53.880 --> 01:06:59.280
Ninety nine percent of the annual weeds
like that. Other weeds like nutgrass and

912
01:06:59.280 --> 01:07:03.199
bermuda grass us they're perennials and a
little multch they'll they'll just push up through

913
01:07:03.239 --> 01:07:09.159
it. And those if you're going
to revamp your your color beds, when

914
01:07:09.199 --> 01:07:13.159
you go to revamp, you've got
to put something on those weeds to kill

915
01:07:13.199 --> 01:07:16.840
them before you go in and revamp
everything. But remember when you plant the

916
01:07:16.880 --> 01:07:21.159
flowers, part of the planting of
the flowers is putting down two or three

917
01:07:21.199 --> 01:07:25.840
inches of mulch. Do you happen
to know if you have bermuda grass or

918
01:07:25.920 --> 01:07:30.599
nutsedge or something like that, there
is some of that, and that doesn't

919
01:07:30.599 --> 01:07:34.199
bother me. It's on the edge. I can mow that and have that

920
01:07:34.400 --> 01:07:40.159
edged. What's really getting me is
the stuff that's underneath the roses, the

921
01:07:40.199 --> 01:07:44.840
stuff that's underneath the gardenias, and
I'm having to pull it out, get

922
01:07:44.920 --> 01:07:48.400
underneath the stuff that's under the fox
ferns that it hurts my arms. Yeah,

923
01:07:48.679 --> 01:07:53.719
oh okay, uh, well,
you know now that they're there,

924
01:07:53.840 --> 01:07:58.039
it's it's a little difficulty dealing with
them. Most of those weeds are going

925
01:07:58.079 --> 01:08:00.840
to be broad leaf weeds and the
products to control them after they're up.

926
01:08:01.599 --> 01:08:05.760
They also will kill your roses and
other things like that that are broadly plants.

927
01:08:06.639 --> 01:08:12.559
I would you know, other than
hiring somebody to come out and get

928
01:08:12.599 --> 01:08:16.039
that done for you, and then
put the mulch down and then keep that

929
01:08:16.159 --> 01:08:20.560
maulch, maintain that mulch over the
soil surface. That's your best bet to

930
01:08:20.600 --> 01:08:27.119
avoid work. You can put a
pre emergent down in flower beds, but

931
01:08:27.720 --> 01:08:31.279
they I don't think you're going to
be happy with the long term results of

932
01:08:31.319 --> 01:08:38.039
that, and so I would I
would suggest that, however, you have

933
01:08:38.119 --> 01:08:40.920
to deal with the weeds that you
got out there. You know, if

934
01:08:40.960 --> 01:08:45.319
they're annual weeds. Just I don't
know how far aparture plants are. But

935
01:08:45.359 --> 01:08:47.239
if you could, if you could
weed eat or whatever and get the weeds

936
01:08:47.239 --> 01:08:50.119
at least knocked down and then throw
a multa over the top of them them,

937
01:08:50.359 --> 01:08:54.119
that might help as well. Hey, you know I have to go

938
01:08:54.199 --> 01:08:57.920
in by hand and pull them out. Well, I'm up against a hard

939
01:08:57.960 --> 01:09:00.760
break and I'm gonna have to move
on. But I hope that helps.

940
01:09:00.800 --> 01:09:03.159
And good luck up there in Jersey
Village. Our phone number is seven one

941
01:09:03.199 --> 01:09:06.359
three two one two fifty eight seventy
four. And I'll be right back,

942
01:09:06.399 --> 01:09:10.920
Bob your first stop. All right, y'all can keep dancing, but I'm

943
01:09:10.920 --> 01:09:13.800
gonna go on with the show.
You're listening to Garden Line. I'm your

944
01:09:13.800 --> 01:09:16.960
host, Skip Richter, and our
phone number is seven one three two one

945
01:09:17.000 --> 01:09:21.920
two five eight seven four. Hey, if you are out in the Mont

946
01:09:23.039 --> 01:09:27.479
Bellevue area, and I'm including Baytown
when I say this, your hometown feed

947
01:09:27.520 --> 01:09:30.840
store is Texas Feed Stop. It's
as simple as that. They're just a

948
01:09:30.960 --> 01:09:34.920
few minutes north of Ien on Highway
one forty six in Mont Bellevue. You're

949
01:09:34.960 --> 01:09:39.880
not gonna find better customer service than
Texas Feed Stop. Of course they carry

950
01:09:39.920 --> 01:09:42.840
the bags out for you, but
we're talking about being greeted, We're talking

951
01:09:42.880 --> 01:09:46.359
about being treated like family. That's
what Brian and Hope Roads do that that

952
01:09:46.479 --> 01:09:50.840
is exactly it's the culture of the
whole place. It really is. I

953
01:09:50.880 --> 01:09:55.319
mean, hiring local kids to help
work in the feed store and things,

954
01:09:55.359 --> 01:10:00.520
and it's just a it's a pleasure
to go in and you will feel family

955
01:10:00.520 --> 01:10:02.199
when you go in there. You're
also going to find all the fertilizers I

956
01:10:02.279 --> 01:10:05.439
talk about here on guarden Line.
You're going to find things like heirloom soil

957
01:10:05.479 --> 01:10:09.439
for example, the mosquito dunks.
A lot of the products we talk about

958
01:10:09.479 --> 01:10:13.680
here on guarden Line, in fact, not all Texas feed Stop. They

959
01:10:14.399 --> 01:10:16.760
are the place, they're the source
out there, and we love feed stores

960
01:10:16.800 --> 01:10:20.119
out there. Texas feed Stop is
one of those. Do you want to

961
01:10:20.159 --> 01:10:24.920
get some of the products to control
paests, or to control diseases, or

962
01:10:24.960 --> 01:10:28.960
to prevent weeds and things, they
have an outstanding selection of those. Again,

963
01:10:29.720 --> 01:10:33.479
Bellevue Baytown, that whole area.
Texas Feed Stop is your place.

964
01:10:33.600 --> 01:10:39.119
Just a few minutes north of Ian
on Highway one forty six. We're going

965
01:10:39.199 --> 01:10:43.039
to head now up to Walkert County
and talk to Bob. Bob, thanks

966
01:10:43.079 --> 01:10:50.319
for your patient waiting. Hey is
this this is Robert Ron, This is

967
01:10:50.359 --> 01:10:58.439
garden Line. Okay. I have
two related questions about grass weeds. First

968
01:10:58.439 --> 01:11:04.760
of all, I have a growing
infestation of button weed in Saint Augustine grass.

969
01:11:05.319 --> 01:11:08.960
Is it too late to treat weeds
like that? And what do you

970
01:11:09.000 --> 01:11:13.800
do for that other than just pull
it? Yeah, it's gonna be difficult

971
01:11:13.840 --> 01:11:17.279
getting an effective treatment down this late. But pulling it, you know,

972
01:11:17.399 --> 01:11:21.800
doesn't make it go away. But
I would if to the degree you can,

973
01:11:23.039 --> 01:11:25.680
I would pull as much of it
as I can to get all those

974
01:11:25.760 --> 01:11:30.600
little weed seed buttons out of there, because that just is increasing your problem

975
01:11:30.640 --> 01:11:33.720
for next year if you leave them
behind. So I would start with that.

976
01:11:33.800 --> 01:11:36.760
Then next year when it comes out, you're gonna need to hit it

977
01:11:36.800 --> 01:11:42.840
with a couple of applications of a
product. Celsius works pretty good for that.

978
01:11:43.880 --> 01:11:47.079
Let's see Bonde's weed beater. Ultra
works pretty good on button weed.

979
01:11:47.159 --> 01:11:51.239
I would probably, you know,
either one or the other. Probably Celsia

980
01:11:51.319 --> 01:11:56.199
is my first choice on Virginia button
weed, but no one herbicide is just

981
01:11:56.199 --> 01:12:00.199
gonna kill it and you're all done, and you know one kind of thing,

982
01:12:00.840 --> 01:12:03.880
so you have to stay with it. Remember it loves wet areas,

983
01:12:04.119 --> 01:12:10.279
so where it's in your control and
your irrigation system, don't make that button

984
01:12:10.319 --> 01:12:14.439
weed happy by keeping it too wet. That would be one thing also culturally

985
01:12:14.479 --> 01:12:16.760
that we can do for it.
But it is a problem. But if

986
01:12:16.760 --> 01:12:20.520
you stay with it, you can
get ahead of it. How about I

987
01:12:20.960 --> 01:12:29.800
also have I have a patch of
grass that keeps getting infested and it's almost

988
01:12:29.840 --> 01:12:36.000
been taken over by nuts edge.
I've treated spot treats it before with I

989
01:12:36.039 --> 01:12:40.319
forget what the product was, but
you buy it and mix it in water

990
01:12:40.439 --> 01:12:44.680
and crate on it. Actually you
have to do it a couple of times,

991
01:12:44.720 --> 01:12:49.199
but it does a reasonable job.
But I have such a a severe

992
01:12:49.239 --> 01:12:56.560
infestation in this area, I may
just kill everything. You treat it well.

993
01:12:56.680 --> 01:13:00.760
The question is can you treat it
this late again? Yeah? Yes,

994
01:13:00.880 --> 01:13:03.479
no, no, you absolutely can. And it's storing up carbohydrates for

995
01:13:03.479 --> 01:13:06.720
a winter. So why don't you
send a little bit of nutsedge killer down

996
01:13:06.800 --> 01:13:12.800
those leaves the end of that storage
organs and stuff. You'll you'll give a

997
01:13:12.880 --> 01:13:16.600
good a good knockback on it.
I don't know whether you used image or

998
01:13:16.760 --> 01:13:23.119
manage or sedge ender. There's another
one that it's not coming to my brain

999
01:13:23.239 --> 01:13:27.039
right now. But go to a
quality place that sells the right kinds of

1000
01:13:27.039 --> 01:13:30.279
products and make sure you're getting a
product for nuts edge. It's labeled for

1001
01:13:30.319 --> 01:13:32.640
the lawn, by the way,
and do that good. Like if you

1002
01:13:32.720 --> 01:13:35.640
hit it with round up right now, that would not do it. It

1003
01:13:36.479 --> 01:13:41.319
would You may kill the top right
now on it. But go for a

1004
01:13:41.319 --> 01:13:45.159
product that needs earth, that needs
that's made for the nuts edge, and

1005
01:13:45.199 --> 01:13:48.159
then you're going to just have to
stay with it and never let it up.

1006
01:13:48.199 --> 01:13:51.960
Pra aier. When it gets three
to five leaves and starts capturing sunlight,

1007
01:13:53.439 --> 01:13:57.079
you're heading backwards. It's building nuts
that are going to re sprout,

1008
01:13:57.199 --> 01:14:00.520
and you're increasing your problems. So
the bottom line is essentially never let it

1009
01:14:00.600 --> 01:14:03.920
up for air. Got it?
Thank you sir? All right, Bob,

1010
01:14:04.039 --> 01:14:09.520
thank you. I appreciate that call
very much. You know, Nelson

1011
01:14:09.560 --> 01:14:15.000
Plant Food started forty years ago October
fourteenth, nineteen eighty three. Is that

1012
01:14:15.119 --> 01:14:19.640
amazing. They've been making quality products
that whole time, and they keep increasing

1013
01:14:19.680 --> 01:14:24.199
the lines. I mean, they've
got color Star, nutristar Turfstar, Nature

1014
01:14:24.199 --> 01:14:30.720
Star excellent, excellent products. You
know it's time for your fall fertilization and

1015
01:14:30.000 --> 01:14:34.000
carbo load. Their product carbo Load
is an excellent one for that. If

1016
01:14:34.039 --> 01:14:39.520
you go to my lawn care schedule
at Gardening with Skip dot com, you'll

1017
01:14:39.560 --> 01:14:43.399
find it right there on the schedule. It also has a pre emergent herbicide

1018
01:14:43.399 --> 01:14:47.279
in it, so use it soon
rather than later to prevent those weeds that

1019
01:14:47.359 --> 01:14:51.119
are going to be sprouting soon.
Every bag, listen to this, every

1020
01:14:51.199 --> 01:14:58.000
bag of carbo Load. Nelson's is
donating two dollars to Randy Lemon's Memorial Scholarship,

1021
01:14:58.640 --> 01:15:00.760
which is for horticulture students up at
A and M. And I know

1022
01:15:00.840 --> 01:15:05.920
that would make Randy so very very
proud. Two dollars a bag. So

1023
01:15:06.199 --> 01:15:10.520
now's the time to grab the carbo
Load. Now's the time to get it

1024
01:15:10.560 --> 01:15:15.880
down and you will find that it
works very well because it's designed for this

1025
01:15:15.000 --> 01:15:19.199
season, for our soils, for
our region. Let's go out to Cyprus

1026
01:15:19.319 --> 01:15:24.399
and talk to Sandy. Hey,
Sandy, Hi, good morning Skip.

1027
01:15:25.279 --> 01:15:31.920
I had a question about my blueberries
and my bell peppers and my hell opinions.

1028
01:15:31.920 --> 01:15:39.000
Should I be pruning those right now? I would not prune the peppers.

1029
01:15:39.039 --> 01:15:41.479
Now, what you're going to try
to get out of the peppers is

1030
01:15:41.520 --> 01:15:47.479
everything they can produce until frost shuts
them down. And so no need to

1031
01:15:47.479 --> 01:15:50.720
prune those. I've got some long, lanky peppers, and I just put

1032
01:15:50.720 --> 01:15:56.039
a steak in to keep that limb
from breaking off, just because this is

1033
01:15:56.079 --> 01:15:59.960
the last shot and it's really falls
the best shot of pepper production I think

1034
01:16:00.079 --> 01:16:02.439
of the whole year. But as
far as the blueberries, wait until the

1035
01:16:02.560 --> 01:16:08.159
end of winter and you and how
old are your plants. By the way

1036
01:16:09.840 --> 01:16:15.319
I planted them. They're in containers
number one and they were just planted this

1037
01:16:15.399 --> 01:16:20.000
spring. Okay, Yeah, blueberry
bush is so bid. It's in a

1038
01:16:20.000 --> 01:16:25.359
big plot, but it's huge.
Okay, Well, if you want to

1039
01:16:25.359 --> 01:16:27.960
bring the heights down at the end
of winter, you can do that,

1040
01:16:28.920 --> 01:16:31.960
bring the come down to a lower
heights. Cut those lanky ones off.

1041
01:16:32.520 --> 01:16:36.479
But remember that the buds are there
for your fruit crop next year. So

1042
01:16:36.560 --> 01:16:43.760
it's also okay after you take the
fruit crop out and your harvest to then

1043
01:16:43.840 --> 01:16:46.840
do the pruning. After that,
you'll learn to tell the look of a

1044
01:16:46.880 --> 01:16:53.560
bud that's going to have fruit.
It's it's typically on wood that's about is

1045
01:16:54.159 --> 01:16:58.319
the diameter is maybe a little bigger
than an ice picks diameter, and it's

1046
01:16:58.399 --> 01:17:00.800
reddish wood and the budge are and
plump, and when you see those,

1047
01:17:00.960 --> 01:17:03.960
that's going to be fruit. So
don't prune that off, just shit the

1048
01:17:04.000 --> 01:17:08.119
rest of it. You can cut
back a little bit as you need to

1049
01:17:08.239 --> 01:17:11.640
take out all the little tiny twiggy
growth that's not going to be productive.

1050
01:17:12.159 --> 01:17:15.479
You can do that now. But
as far as the other pruning, let's

1051
01:17:15.479 --> 01:17:20.439
wait till the underwinter, okay.
And I did the Texas three step,

1052
01:17:20.800 --> 01:17:27.600
yes, except my ace didn't have
the the one that you said, the

1053
01:17:27.600 --> 01:17:30.960
weed thing that The third one was
the barricade, probably because people rushing in

1054
01:17:31.000 --> 01:17:33.600
there to get it. It's a
popular thing this time here. So I

1055
01:17:33.640 --> 01:17:38.079
got the weed beater and I put
that down, okay, which they said,

1056
01:17:38.239 --> 01:17:42.600
they said, that's what they carry, So I put that down.

1057
01:17:43.800 --> 01:17:48.039
Can I still use celsius or no? What weeds are you going after right

1058
01:17:48.079 --> 01:17:53.319
now? Are you trying to put
dollar? Oh? Yeah, yeah,

1059
01:17:53.359 --> 01:17:57.800
okay, yes you could use You
could use those on the dollar weed or

1060
01:17:57.840 --> 01:18:00.199
the dichondri it's gonna be one of
those two. Probably you could do that

1061
01:18:00.239 --> 01:18:02.760
now if you want to do them. That would be fine. Even if

1062
01:18:02.840 --> 01:18:10.640
I just put the other step down
last weekend. Well, assuming you got

1063
01:18:11.079 --> 01:18:15.520
a good application down, it should
start. You should be seeing pretty quick

1064
01:18:15.560 --> 01:18:20.680
here the signs of having been sprayed. If you don't see that, then

1065
01:18:20.720 --> 01:18:25.399
you could come back with the other. But we don't recommend two post emergent

1066
01:18:25.439 --> 01:18:29.520
products like that, one right after
another, that close together. I just

1067
01:18:29.560 --> 01:18:31.079
want to be clear about one last
thing. I hear the music saying it's

1068
01:18:31.079 --> 01:18:36.479
about time to go. The barricade
is a pre emergent, and you need

1069
01:18:36.600 --> 01:18:42.640
something that prevents weeds from coming up. Now, you got some great ace

1070
01:18:42.680 --> 01:18:45.840
hardware stores in the Cypress area there. I would go back and check and

1071
01:18:46.279 --> 01:18:51.840
find some barricade to put down to
prevent the weeds. The the things you're

1072
01:18:51.880 --> 01:18:56.880
talking about, like dichondra or dollar
weed, those kind of things. Now,

1073
01:18:58.039 --> 01:19:00.079
that is the post emergent that you
put in for those. So those

1074
01:19:00.119 --> 01:19:03.680
are two different things. Those are
warmer season weeds. We're trying to prevent

1075
01:19:03.760 --> 01:19:09.479
the cool season weeds. Okay,
so bear K, yeah, that's it.

1076
01:19:09.760 --> 01:19:12.640
Okay, thank you, all right, thank you appreciate that call.

1077
01:19:12.760 --> 01:19:16.039
Rament Hey, we're having a good
time on garden line. I hope you

1078
01:19:16.039 --> 01:19:19.920
stick around. We will be right
back seven one three, two, one

1079
01:19:20.039 --> 01:19:25.960
two, fifty eight seventy four.
Katie r. H. Garden Line does

1080
01:19:26.000 --> 01:19:31.199
not necessarily endorse any of the products
or services advertised on this program. Welcome

1081
01:19:31.319 --> 01:19:42.680
to Katie r H. Garden Line
with Skip Richard. It's crazy here gus

1082
01:19:41.800 --> 01:20:00.640
you trim. You can just watch
him as many super bazy gas cusicking not

1083
01:20:00.119 --> 01:20:06.560
sad wealth good Saturday morning on what
is going to be an outstanding day to

1084
01:20:06.600 --> 01:20:13.319
be outside doing some gardening, doing
some gardening shopping. Remember, October is

1085
01:20:13.560 --> 01:20:16.600
the big month, perhaps one of
the biggest months of the year. I

1086
01:20:16.640 --> 01:20:20.079
know, in spring we get spring
fever, gardening fever, and a lot

1087
01:20:20.159 --> 01:20:23.800
of people, you know, coming
out of winter ready to go plant and

1088
01:20:23.840 --> 01:20:26.760
do things. And boy, there's
a lot to do in spring. But

1089
01:20:26.840 --> 01:20:30.720
don't forget fall. Fall is equally
important, if not in some cases,

1090
01:20:31.000 --> 01:20:35.319
with some situations more important, like
with our lawns making sure they recovered from

1091
01:20:35.319 --> 01:20:42.159
the summer and going into the wintertime
strong. Making sure anything that's perennial or

1092
01:20:42.199 --> 01:20:45.359
woody ornamentals, tree shrubs, woody
vines gets in the ground to get those

1093
01:20:45.439 --> 01:20:49.520
roots growing. Because gosh, I
hope next summer is not like this one.

1094
01:20:49.880 --> 01:20:54.840
But if it even is a normal
summer, that's the first summer is

1095
01:20:54.880 --> 01:20:59.279
a stressful thing for our woody plants. Give them a head start, and

1096
01:20:59.640 --> 01:21:03.319
it's just it's really a no brainer. It's easy to do. And when

1097
01:21:03.359 --> 01:21:06.800
you plant a plant right like that
and you get it established, get it

1098
01:21:06.880 --> 01:21:12.640
going, you are well on your
way to having the beauty, the shade,

1099
01:21:12.760 --> 01:21:15.319
whatever you planted it for. You're
well on your way to achieving that.

1100
01:21:17.279 --> 01:21:23.119
You know, the sea a multch
down in south of Houston. It's

1101
01:21:23.159 --> 01:21:28.800
near brasis Been State Park, specifically
north of Road Sharon on Highway, close

1102
01:21:28.800 --> 01:21:31.840
to where Highway six and twenty two
eighty eight come together, but it's on

1103
01:21:31.920 --> 01:21:41.000
Highway five twenty one. They provide
unbelievably high quality products for making your soil

1104
01:21:41.039 --> 01:21:43.760
the best it can be. So
we're talking about mulches, we're talking about

1105
01:21:43.760 --> 01:21:48.359
composts, other soil amendment type products. Now you can buy them in bulk,

1106
01:21:48.439 --> 01:21:51.439
you can buy them in bags.
They will deliver within twenty miles for

1107
01:21:51.479 --> 01:21:57.199
a reasonable little delivery fee while you're
in there. They got all of the

1108
01:21:57.199 --> 01:22:01.000
fertilizers we talk about on garden Line. And they also are going to make

1109
01:22:01.039 --> 01:22:06.159
sure that you have specifically the ones
you need to have success. So it's

1110
01:22:06.199 --> 01:22:11.199
kind of a one stop shop.
Remember, soil comes before plants, and

1111
01:22:11.239 --> 01:22:15.800
so when you're doing that, they
can supply both the nutrients that you need

1112
01:22:15.840 --> 01:22:19.920
to add to your soil and those
organic, decomposed products that make your soil

1113
01:22:20.199 --> 01:22:25.720
wonderful. You can go to Siena
multch dot com. You can find them,

1114
01:22:26.000 --> 01:22:30.119
find more information about them right there. But if you live out in

1115
01:22:30.479 --> 01:22:34.000
let's say Lake Pomona or Lake Olympia
or Pomona, I'm putting two together there

1116
01:22:34.239 --> 01:22:38.880
Quil Valley for as No, that
whole area, that whole region. This

1117
01:22:38.920 --> 01:22:41.920
is your multi supplier. They deliver
within twenty miles by the way of their

1118
01:22:41.960 --> 01:22:47.920
location sienamultch dot com. Let's head
out to a Tescacita. Now we're going

1119
01:22:47.960 --> 01:22:54.439
to talk to Cheryl. Hello,
Cheryl hi Kiss. I have a question

1120
01:22:54.720 --> 01:23:00.319
about fertilizer. I recently purchased a
microlife round patch, but I also got

1121
01:23:00.399 --> 01:23:06.640
barricade and that's not organic. And
I have a in my front yard.

1122
01:23:06.920 --> 01:23:14.119
I have a large section of Virginia
button weed. It just it just appeared

1123
01:23:14.199 --> 01:23:18.239
on nowhere. It's about three feet
by two feets. It probably is a

1124
01:23:18.239 --> 01:23:23.479
low lying area, and I'm wondering
whether I should just keep that round patch,

1125
01:23:24.079 --> 01:23:30.479
the Microlife round patch and get Nitrofly
Fall Special with everything, and so

1126
01:23:30.520 --> 01:23:34.399
I have to get rid of the
Virginia button weed also. Yeah. So

1127
01:23:34.399 --> 01:23:39.800
so both those are good fertilizer products. You know what you just to say,

1128
01:23:39.800 --> 01:23:42.880
if you're going to go organic direction, the Microlife is going to be

1129
01:23:42.880 --> 01:23:49.479
that product. And if you want
to stay within the you know, gosh,

1130
01:23:49.560 --> 01:23:54.399
I can't even talk this more nitro
fosh group of products, then the

1131
01:23:54.479 --> 01:23:57.279
Fall Special would be the one for
that. You kind of got a lot

1132
01:23:57.319 --> 01:24:00.359
of things going on. The button
weed is a difficul you said button weed,

1133
01:24:00.439 --> 01:24:05.760
right, Virginia button on. But
yeah, that's a difficult one to

1134
01:24:05.920 --> 01:24:11.319
manage at this point in the season. You're not gonna want to hear this,

1135
01:24:11.520 --> 01:24:15.039
but I would pull up as much
as you can get get it out

1136
01:24:15.039 --> 01:24:17.079
of there as best you can to
try to get those those buttons, those

1137
01:24:17.119 --> 01:24:21.439
pods and things from adding those seeds
back in for you to deal with next

1138
01:24:21.520 --> 01:24:26.279
year. Next year when it comes
out, that's when early on, when

1139
01:24:26.319 --> 01:24:29.319
you see it, you need to
begin to treat it. And it's going

1140
01:24:29.399 --> 01:24:34.039
to take more than one treatment spread
out over a few weeks to really knock

1141
01:24:34.079 --> 01:24:39.039
that back down. In the meantime, anything you can do to keep that

1142
01:24:39.399 --> 01:24:45.119
soil just moish, not soggy wet
helps because the Virginia button weed loves it

1143
01:24:45.119 --> 01:24:49.159
when we overwater. Right, okay, all right, thanks so much,

1144
01:24:49.239 --> 01:24:53.840
all right, good luck with that. I appreciate that very much. Hey,

1145
01:24:53.920 --> 01:24:58.840
you live up in central north central
part of Houston. Have you ever

1146
01:24:58.840 --> 01:25:02.479
been to Buchanans. I suspect you
have, well, Buchanan's Plants, by

1147
01:25:02.479 --> 01:25:08.159
the way, the websites easy buchanans
plants dot com. They've got everything you

1148
01:25:08.199 --> 01:25:13.399
need right now there. You know. Their herbs selection is unbelievable. Perennial

1149
01:25:13.439 --> 01:25:15.479
herbs need to be planted now,
and almost all the herbs are perennials.

1150
01:25:15.479 --> 01:25:18.319
We have things like basil that are
not, and you don't plant basil now.

1151
01:25:18.720 --> 01:25:23.319
But all those perennial herbs. Has
a great time to get them started.

1152
01:25:23.520 --> 01:25:26.399
They'll be way ahead of something you
wait until next spring, later,

1153
01:25:26.520 --> 01:25:30.399
especially later spring to plant. They
have restocked their native plants. They specialize

1154
01:25:30.399 --> 01:25:34.520
in native plants, including plants native
to Harris County right here, as well

1155
01:25:34.560 --> 01:25:39.600
as other Texas Natives. Maybe you
thought about putting a chimnea out there,

1156
01:25:39.640 --> 01:25:43.279
Well they have it and they even
have some pinion pine wood to go along

1157
01:25:43.319 --> 01:25:45.880
with it to burn in the chiminea. I mean, you see what I'm

1158
01:25:45.920 --> 01:25:50.000
talking about, from house plants to
groundcovers, to shade plants, especially with

1159
01:25:50.039 --> 01:25:57.000
the native plants. Buchanans Native Plants. Has you covered Buchanans Plants dot Com.

1160
01:25:57.000 --> 01:26:00.479
It's as simple as that. Buchanans
Plants dot Com. They are on

1161
01:26:00.520 --> 01:26:04.720
Eleventh Street up in the Heights,
and I just highly recommend you check them

1162
01:26:04.760 --> 01:26:09.840
out because when you walk in there, you're going to find everything that you

1163
01:26:09.920 --> 01:26:13.880
need, including all the fertilizers that
I talk about here on garden Line and

1164
01:26:13.920 --> 01:26:17.359
the soil products that we talk about
as well. Okay, let's see,

1165
01:26:17.399 --> 01:26:21.279
David, we are really close to
a break, and so I'm going to

1166
01:26:21.359 --> 01:26:26.560
hold and take you first after the
break. A couple of things I did

1167
01:26:26.600 --> 01:26:29.039
want to discuss though, before we
go into that. Right. First of

1168
01:26:29.079 --> 01:26:32.800
all, don't forget to day to
day after the show, eleven thirty to

1169
01:26:32.800 --> 01:26:38.399
one thirty, I'll be at All
Star Ace Hardware up in Magnolia, and

1170
01:26:38.479 --> 01:26:41.079
I hope you're going to see me
up there. Anyone, especially those of

1171
01:26:41.119 --> 01:26:45.279
you listening up you know in the
north region of the listening area. Come

1172
01:26:45.319 --> 01:26:47.960
out to ACE Hardware, the All
Star Ace and Magnolia if you want to

1173
01:26:47.960 --> 01:26:51.000
find it. You know the best
way to do and you need this bookmarked

1174
01:26:51.039 --> 01:26:57.079
on your computer anyway, Acehardware dot
Com and then look for their store locator

1175
01:26:57.359 --> 01:27:00.359
and you can see a map of
the Houston area in every ACE where.

1176
01:27:00.359 --> 01:27:04.720
It's really simple. I'm going to
be giving away Nitrofossis Texas three step several

1177
01:27:04.800 --> 01:27:09.359
times during the time that I'm there. If you've got plants to diagnose or

1178
01:27:09.399 --> 01:27:12.039
identify, bring them out. If
you want us to talk about, you

1179
01:27:12.119 --> 01:27:15.960
know, what's going on in the
landscape that you could maybe improve on and

1180
01:27:15.000 --> 01:27:18.000
beautify, we can talk about that
too. We're going to go to a

1181
01:27:18.000 --> 01:27:23.399
commercial. Josh is going to be
ready for your call at seven one three

1182
01:27:23.479 --> 01:27:29.479
two one two fifty eight seventy four. Good morning on a beautiful Saturday,

1183
01:27:29.640 --> 01:27:32.239
and thanks for listening to garden Line. We're here to answer your gardening questions.

1184
01:27:32.279 --> 01:27:36.800
Our phone number is seven one three
two one two fifty eight seventy four.

1185
01:27:38.479 --> 01:27:41.960
We are going to go out to
Clear Lake now and visit with Stephen.

1186
01:27:42.119 --> 01:27:45.520
Hello Stephen, good morning, sir. This is a beautiful day to

1187
01:27:45.520 --> 01:27:49.399
be outside. Oh man, oh
man. I'm just wondering if we are

1188
01:27:49.439 --> 01:27:57.119
able to grow Compari tomatoes in Houston. You can I Compari as one of

1189
01:27:57.119 --> 01:28:00.039
those little slid abts, right,
Yeah, it's about of a golf ball

1190
01:28:00.039 --> 01:28:05.560
a little bigger. Yeah. I
don't know the days to harvest. I'd

1191
01:28:05.600 --> 01:28:09.880
have to pull up a company that
sells them and look at the seed packet.

1192
01:28:10.720 --> 01:28:14.319
We like to have tomatoes that are
let's say, seventy five or less

1193
01:28:14.520 --> 01:28:18.920
days to harvest, just because it
goes from the last freeze to too hot

1194
01:28:18.960 --> 01:28:23.760
to set fruit fast around here and
in the fall we have the same kind

1195
01:28:23.800 --> 01:28:27.079
of thing, and so we like
tomatoes that move a little faster. But

1196
01:28:27.159 --> 01:28:29.960
if you started them as a transplant, even if it is a longer day

1197
01:28:29.960 --> 01:28:32.279
to harvest, you could probably cheat
on that a little bit. I've just

1198
01:28:32.319 --> 01:28:36.520
not grown Compari, you know,
vaguely familiar with with what it is,

1199
01:28:38.560 --> 01:28:43.359
so that would be my only concern
is days to hard. I just ate

1200
01:28:43.399 --> 01:28:46.560
a few of them again after having
eaten them for a while, and you

1201
01:28:46.600 --> 01:28:50.680
know, they're almost bite sized,
So yeah, they're great for salas or

1202
01:28:50.760 --> 01:28:55.079
just a little pop in your mouth
snack. That's true. That is true.

1203
01:28:55.119 --> 01:28:59.079
Absolutely. I saved some of the
seeds from a couple of them,

1204
01:28:59.119 --> 01:29:00.560
so I thought it, I've got
to give that a shot. Well,

1205
01:29:01.119 --> 01:29:06.239
now, again, I need to
research compari specifically. A lot of modern

1206
01:29:06.279 --> 01:29:11.199
tomatoes are hybrids. And if it
is a hybrid, it may not be,

1207
01:29:11.359 --> 01:29:15.079
but if it is, then it's
going to have a combination of parentage

1208
01:29:15.399 --> 01:29:19.319
such that when it mixes to form
that Compari tomato, the seeds in campari

1209
01:29:19.439 --> 01:29:25.640
are going to give you all different
kinds of let's say, examples from the

1210
01:29:25.680 --> 01:29:30.359
genetic background. In other words,
they won't be identical to compari, but

1211
01:29:30.520 --> 01:29:33.039
just something to think about. Okay, well I will think about that.

1212
01:29:33.279 --> 01:29:36.000
Well, thank you very much,
sir I. I appreciate thank you for

1213
01:29:36.079 --> 01:29:41.239
the call. I appreciate that.
Yeah, very good. Hey, follows

1214
01:29:41.239 --> 01:29:44.079
for planting, right, I keep
talking about that. You got a plant

1215
01:29:44.119 --> 01:29:47.760
in the fall. When you plant, gets you a bottle of hash to

1216
01:29:47.840 --> 01:29:53.199
grow six twelve six, Hash to
grow six twelve six. It's got,

1217
01:29:53.239 --> 01:29:56.640
of course the nutrients in it that's
on the label there. It also has

1218
01:29:56.720 --> 01:30:00.359
medino soil activator to simulate some biological
activity. It's got humic acid that helps

1219
01:30:00.359 --> 01:30:06.159
with soil structure. It's got seaweed
extracts. It's a great product. When

1220
01:30:06.199 --> 01:30:10.760
I plant, I would put the
plant down and water it in with a

1221
01:30:10.800 --> 01:30:13.039
has to grow. Put it in
a watering can, mix it up like

1222
01:30:13.039 --> 01:30:15.600
it's supposed to be and just water
it in really well. That's how I

1223
01:30:15.640 --> 01:30:18.720
do it, and then but I
do it twice more at five to seven

1224
01:30:18.760 --> 01:30:24.000
day intervals. So just think of
it as a week planting, a week

1225
01:30:24.079 --> 01:30:26.800
later, another drenching. A has
to grow, a week later, another

1226
01:30:26.880 --> 01:30:30.800
drenching. That will get those plants
in the ground and support the root growth

1227
01:30:30.800 --> 01:30:33.800
and support good establishment. You can
use it as a folier with a watering

1228
01:30:33.800 --> 01:30:36.439
can I just go over the plant, the whole thing, but you can

1229
01:30:36.439 --> 01:30:41.079
spray it on. It's not gonna
burn. Doesn't have that salt and chemical

1230
01:30:41.119 --> 01:30:44.840
build up and things that some products
could if especially when you mix those things

1231
01:30:44.840 --> 01:30:48.359
too strong. But has to grow
six twelve seconds. It's easy, easy,

1232
01:30:48.439 --> 01:30:54.279
easy, And with weall planting on
hand really all year, you need

1233
01:30:54.319 --> 01:30:57.279
to have some has to grow that
you can reach far on the shelf.

1234
01:30:58.000 --> 01:31:03.279
We're going to now go to David
in the Woodlands. Hello David. Hello,

1235
01:31:03.560 --> 01:31:10.439
Hey, I had green Pro Area
eight and top dress my yard in

1236
01:31:10.479 --> 01:31:14.880
the early spring and it made it
through the summer fantastic. And so I

1237
01:31:14.920 --> 01:31:18.760
saw your uh Fer fertilization schedule.
So I'm using brown Patch for my Warner

1238
01:31:18.800 --> 01:31:24.279
fertilizer. But I also what about
funge Side and Barri Katee if I put

1239
01:31:24.319 --> 01:31:28.760
that down to that kind of counteract
the organic stuff that I'm doing, or

1240
01:31:28.840 --> 01:31:30.800
you know, because I'd like to
kind of move more towards organic than the

1241
01:31:30.840 --> 01:31:38.159
previous schedule. Well, you can
use a mix of organic and synthetic products.

1242
01:31:38.640 --> 01:31:42.840
The thing you're trying to do with
your organics is build up the biological

1243
01:31:42.880 --> 01:31:46.159
activity in the soil. And so
if you're going to go organic, then

1244
01:31:46.279 --> 01:31:51.319
go organic and use those products follow
you know, the instructions we give here

1245
01:31:51.359 --> 01:31:55.720
on garden Line, or you can
get it directly from the company you're you're

1246
01:31:55.720 --> 01:32:00.159
purchasing from, maybe Microlife. That's
a that's a probably the most common when

1247
01:32:00.199 --> 01:32:03.680
you have here in town. And
would I would do that, I would

1248
01:32:04.199 --> 01:32:10.119
wouldn't do the mix, although again
you can do a mixture of organic and

1249
01:32:10.159 --> 01:32:14.399
synthetic in general, and gardening and
get by with that. So I don't

1250
01:32:14.399 --> 01:32:17.119
know if that's a clear enough answer
for you, but it's not a black

1251
01:32:17.159 --> 01:32:23.399
and white on all situations. Okay, great, all right, all right,

1252
01:32:24.159 --> 01:32:27.000
okay, thank you, well,
thank you, David. I appreciate

1253
01:32:27.319 --> 01:32:30.880
that call very much. Hey,
where do you live up in the Montgomery

1254
01:32:30.920 --> 01:32:35.640
area. If you do, I
highly recommend that you check out an a

1255
01:32:35.760 --> 01:32:39.479
plant and produge probably already have.
And if you're thinking where is it,

1256
01:32:39.520 --> 01:32:42.399
well, you must close your eyes
driving in and out of town from the

1257
01:32:42.439 --> 01:32:45.760
east because it's right there on the
east side of town, right on one

1258
01:32:45.800 --> 01:32:49.039
oh five, so that whole Lake
Conroe area, all the neighborhoods up there.

1259
01:32:49.119 --> 01:32:53.039
This is a hometown garden center for
you. It's been around for thirty

1260
01:32:53.119 --> 01:32:56.279
years and they just keep growing.
I think there are over three acres now

1261
01:32:56.600 --> 01:33:00.399
of plants, seven days a week, nine to five. I mean,

1262
01:33:00.079 --> 01:33:03.119
you know, they're they're open all
the time there. They carry all the

1263
01:33:03.119 --> 01:33:08.880
products I talk about, the fertilizers
and the soil type products that we talk

1264
01:33:08.920 --> 01:33:11.960
about here, and then they have
everything else you need for your lawn.

1265
01:33:12.000 --> 01:33:15.640
You know, if you need a
fungicider, insecticider, or something to deal

1266
01:33:15.680 --> 01:33:18.079
with weeds. They've got that.
It's all there. You're going to be

1267
01:33:18.119 --> 01:33:24.720
really impressed with the collection of outdoor
I'll call it bling, but we're talking

1268
01:33:24.720 --> 01:33:30.680
about outdoor furniture Chimenea's Mexican tera talavera, terra cotta, as well, by

1269
01:33:30.720 --> 01:33:34.640
the way, gazebos and arches and
on right now, mums, all kinds

1270
01:33:34.640 --> 01:33:38.520
of decor for the fall. Oh
my gosh, you got to go by

1271
01:33:38.560 --> 01:33:41.479
there and check it out. It
is. It is really really cool.

1272
01:33:41.800 --> 01:33:45.560
They are set up to take care
of you in every way. And if

1273
01:33:45.560 --> 01:33:47.000
you hear me talk about it,
you're on garden line taking care of that

1274
01:33:47.079 --> 01:33:50.520
lawn. They're going to have it
there at Ana Plants and Produce on the

1275
01:33:50.560 --> 01:33:57.640
east side of Montgomery Highway one oh
five. Let's head out to Spring.

1276
01:33:57.720 --> 01:34:01.960
Now we're going to talk to Judy. Hello, Judy, Hi, Okay.

1277
01:34:02.760 --> 01:34:08.800
About three years ago, I had
four citrus trees and the freeze got

1278
01:34:08.840 --> 01:34:15.479
them. One actually just died,
but three of them have growth coming from

1279
01:34:15.479 --> 01:34:23.319
below the original graft. And my
thought is, maybe I can redeem them

1280
01:34:23.399 --> 01:34:29.880
if I could locate someone who could
put a graft on there for me,

1281
01:34:30.680 --> 01:34:34.119
or is it possible for me to
do it myself. And where would I

1282
01:34:34.159 --> 01:34:40.039
get the I guess, the bud
To make them the bud would You'd have

1283
01:34:40.079 --> 01:34:44.319
to find a neighbor that had a
shoot of let's say you wanted a mar

1284
01:34:44.479 --> 01:34:46.960
lemon or a certain kind of satsuma. You'd have to find someone with that

1285
01:34:47.039 --> 01:34:51.319
tree. They're just not a good
like go to this website and buy budwood

1286
01:34:51.359 --> 01:34:56.159
for citrus. I wouldn't recommend trying
to do that. You can learn how

1287
01:34:56.199 --> 01:35:00.520
to do it. Just to be
real fast with that answer. If you

1288
01:35:00.560 --> 01:35:05.600
go to the Aggie Horticulture website,
there's information on propagating plans and it tells

1289
01:35:05.600 --> 01:35:10.680
you how to do cuttings and how
to I mean well rooting from cuttings.

1290
01:35:10.680 --> 01:35:14.279
It tells you how to bud,
how to graft, and with citrus you

1291
01:35:14.319 --> 01:35:17.039
can either do a tea bud or
you can do what they call a cleft

1292
01:35:17.279 --> 01:35:21.960
graft where you cut it off and
well, just go to the website and

1293
01:35:23.039 --> 01:35:26.319
learn more about it. It can
be done. It's not that hard,

1294
01:35:26.359 --> 01:35:30.600
but you do have to follow the
instructions to have success. Okay, do

1295
01:35:30.640 --> 01:35:34.319
you have a person that do you
know of a service that does that?

1296
01:35:34.760 --> 01:35:39.239
I do not. I would call
let's see you are here in spring.

1297
01:35:39.279 --> 01:35:44.000
I'd call the Harris County Extension Office
and see if they know of anyone I

1298
01:35:44.039 --> 01:35:47.600
know down in the Fort Ben direction. There's there's a lot of citrus growing

1299
01:35:47.640 --> 01:35:51.319
down there, so you might try
Fort Ben County Extension Office as well.

1300
01:35:53.359 --> 01:35:57.600
But either of those a master gardner
program. Someone may know of someone,

1301
01:35:57.680 --> 01:36:01.279
and there's some people I'm pretty sure
down for Benway that do that kind of

1302
01:36:01.279 --> 01:36:04.119
thing, but I can't tell you
who that is right now, okay.

1303
01:36:04.239 --> 01:36:08.960
And the time to do that it
depends on the kind of graph that you're

1304
01:36:08.960 --> 01:36:13.720
doing, but typically you want to
do it when the citrus is going to

1305
01:36:13.760 --> 01:36:17.279
be growing so that it can form
the callus and that it can heal over

1306
01:36:17.399 --> 01:36:21.359
and be ready to go. But
with different types of grafting or budding,

1307
01:36:21.439 --> 01:36:25.960
we're going to include it all together. The timing is a little bit different.

1308
01:36:25.960 --> 01:36:29.600
But that Aggie Horticulture website where I'm
talking about propagating it can help you

1309
01:36:29.680 --> 01:36:31.680
with that kind of thing as well. But I would find the person that

1310
01:36:31.760 --> 01:36:35.039
knows what they're doing and let them
tell you because they may have a certain

1311
01:36:35.079 --> 01:36:39.560
way they prefer to do it,
all right, And would you please give

1312
01:36:39.560 --> 01:36:43.680
me your website where I could get
the lawn skilled. Yes, it's gardening

1313
01:36:44.000 --> 01:36:48.640
with Skip dot com, simple as
that, gardening with Skip dot com.

1314
01:36:48.840 --> 01:36:53.439
The lawn schedules on there, the
pest disease and we'd management schedules on there.

1315
01:36:53.479 --> 01:36:59.000
There's some good information on drought,
some videos and info fact sheets that

1316
01:36:59.000 --> 01:37:01.039
I'll put together, and we got
a whole lot more stuff coming. It's

1317
01:37:01.039 --> 01:37:04.920
not quite up yet. Okay,
thank you so much. I appreciate thank

1318
01:37:05.000 --> 01:37:10.199
you. I appreciate your call very
much. Judy. If you live up

1319
01:37:10.239 --> 01:37:15.039
in Grimes County, Grimes County feeds
your hometown feed store, and you're thinking

1320
01:37:15.239 --> 01:37:19.079
which directions Grimes County, just think
up in Nevisodaway. Grimes County feed is

1321
01:37:19.119 --> 01:37:23.239
on Highway one point thirty in Carlos, Texas, just a couple of miles

1322
01:37:23.279 --> 01:37:29.000
west of FM two forty four.
Now, the roy family has been operating

1323
01:37:29.039 --> 01:37:31.920
Grimes County feed the way the way
let me put this week. They operate

1324
01:37:31.960 --> 01:37:38.119
the place the way they live.
We're talking about retired firefighters from the Houston

1325
01:37:38.239 --> 01:37:42.960
Fire Department, retired law enforcement from
the Houston Police Department. We're talking about

1326
01:37:43.159 --> 01:37:48.279
a Polish family's agricultural past. People
who know how to be part of the

1327
01:37:48.319 --> 01:37:53.479
community and to support the community.
Public service is what their family was founded

1328
01:37:53.520 --> 01:37:57.000
on a long, long time ago, and that's how they run the place.

1329
01:37:57.800 --> 01:38:01.319
It will always be important to them. Reinvestment in the well being of

1330
01:38:01.399 --> 01:38:05.319
their communities is very, very important. You can give them a call at

1331
01:38:05.319 --> 01:38:10.880
two eight one eight one four twenty
four ninety four. Two eight one eight

1332
01:38:10.920 --> 01:38:14.520
one four eighty four ninety four.
And by the way, when you go

1333
01:38:14.600 --> 01:38:16.560
by there, all these fertilizers I'm
talking about, and many of the other

1334
01:38:16.600 --> 01:38:23.920
products as well, are available at
Grimes County Feet Let's see, we are

1335
01:38:24.079 --> 01:38:28.039
going to go out now to southwest
Houston and talk to Sandy. Hello,

1336
01:38:28.199 --> 01:38:33.840
Sandy, I'm high. I just
want to know I have a lot of

1337
01:38:33.920 --> 01:38:40.000
nut grass, and you know it
comes up in my vegetable garden. Can

1338
01:38:40.159 --> 01:38:45.119
I can I spray that, you
know, to kill it? Or will

1339
01:38:45.159 --> 01:38:48.800
that be bad for my vegetables?
I you know, have some tomato plants,

1340
01:38:48.800 --> 01:38:53.960
some broccoli. Yeah. Well,
the way I deal with it in

1341
01:38:54.000 --> 01:38:57.680
my vegetable garden is every time I
get a chance, when I'm going from

1342
01:38:57.720 --> 01:39:00.079
a warm season crop to a cool
season or whatever, I always get a

1343
01:39:00.079 --> 01:39:03.000
spade and fork in there. And
pull up any nuts I can get,

1344
01:39:03.159 --> 01:39:06.880
just physically take them out. That's
fast and easy. There are sproducts you

1345
01:39:06.920 --> 01:39:11.119
can spray on it that go down
in and they will kill the nut,

1346
01:39:11.119 --> 01:39:15.920
but typically one shot doesn't do it, and some of those products will also

1347
01:39:15.079 --> 01:39:19.079
kill your vegetables if you accidentally spray
them on the leaves. So I like

1348
01:39:19.159 --> 01:39:23.119
the ham digging and a vegetable garden. If you can get it where it's

1349
01:39:23.159 --> 01:39:29.239
not near a vegetable, then the
spray options might be something, but remember

1350
01:39:29.319 --> 01:39:31.199
you got to stay with it,
never let it up. Prayer. When

1351
01:39:31.279 --> 01:39:36.319
nut sedge gets three to five leaves, it's making carbohydrates and making more underground

1352
01:39:36.359 --> 01:39:41.720
babies. So if you had one
nut coming out of winter sandy, and

1353
01:39:42.920 --> 01:39:45.560
you waited until May instead of doing
it right in spring, for example,

1354
01:39:45.760 --> 01:39:48.479
you'd have ten gems and nuts SAIDs
that you had coming out of winter.

1355
01:39:48.840 --> 01:39:53.800
That's how prole. I have a
lot and I've hand pulled them a lot.

1356
01:39:54.199 --> 01:39:57.199
Yeah, I was just wondering about
spray. Yeah, you can do

1357
01:39:57.279 --> 01:40:00.079
that. There are sprays that will
do it, but more than one application

1358
01:40:00.239 --> 01:40:03.239
is going to be necessary. Hey, I appreciate that. Called good luck

1359
01:40:03.279 --> 01:40:06.319
with the war. I feel like
I need to give you a patent speech

1360
01:40:06.319 --> 01:40:11.239
because you are heading to war with
this little wheat. Hey, you're listening

1361
01:40:11.279 --> 01:40:15.720
to garden Line seven one three two
one two fifty eight seventy four. Here's

1362
01:40:15.000 --> 01:40:19.359
nicky, Hey, good Saturday morning. Welcome to garden Line. I'm your

1363
01:40:19.359 --> 01:40:24.119
host, Skip Richter, and we
are here to answer your gardening questions.

1364
01:40:24.199 --> 01:40:29.520
So give us call seven one three
two one two five eight seven four and

1365
01:40:29.680 --> 01:40:31.960
we will be happy to visit with
you about whatever you want to know.

1366
01:40:32.319 --> 01:40:35.199
And I can tell you this,
the answer to a lot of questions that

1367
01:40:35.279 --> 01:40:40.800
come in starts with the soil.
You get the soil right, and plants

1368
01:40:40.840 --> 01:40:44.640
thrive. That's what nature does.
Nature builds soil over time. It's you

1369
01:40:44.640 --> 01:40:46.960
know, the leaves on the forest
floor that rot and more leaves year after

1370
01:40:47.079 --> 01:40:50.960
year, and it just gets richer
and richer and richer. Well, you

1371
01:40:51.000 --> 01:40:55.000
can, you can, you know, cheat on that a little bit by

1372
01:40:55.039 --> 01:40:58.840
actually purchasing the compost already done.
And you're not going to find a better

1373
01:40:58.840 --> 01:41:02.039
place than Nature's where resources. Nature's
ways up. It's up there on Interstate

1374
01:41:02.079 --> 01:41:04.479
forty five. If you're going to
Conroe, on the right hand side,

1375
01:41:04.560 --> 01:41:11.680
right where fourteen eighty eight comes in
the Magnolia fourteen eighty eight. Cross over

1376
01:41:11.720 --> 01:41:14.720
the railroad tracks to the right,
and you're at Nature's Way if you like

1377
01:41:14.760 --> 01:41:16.199
to give Nature's Way a call.
By the way, it's nine three six

1378
01:41:16.640 --> 01:41:23.359
three two one sixty nine ninety ninety
three six three sixty nine ninety Every Friday

1379
01:41:23.479 --> 01:41:29.239
is Fungal Friday. Ten percent off
bagged fungal products and twenty percent off bulk,

1380
01:41:29.319 --> 01:41:31.039
and they got plenty of it on
hand. Uh. They of course

1381
01:41:31.079 --> 01:41:35.319
they're the originator of the rose soil
and leaf mole compost. Lots lots of

1382
01:41:35.359 --> 01:41:40.439
good good products there. Uh.
They've got a nursery that just keeps getting

1383
01:41:40.439 --> 01:41:44.640
bigger and bigger, and it just
has fruit trees and perennials and house just

1384
01:41:45.079 --> 01:41:47.680
all kinds of stuff that you're going
to find in Nature's Way and one of

1385
01:41:47.680 --> 01:41:51.239
the best selections of native plants that
you're going to find around two. Uh.

1386
01:41:51.479 --> 01:41:58.159
You know Ian and really Ian,
just what he's doing inside that nursery

1387
01:41:58.279 --> 01:42:00.600
is just amazing. You know.
John Ferguson has been making these kind of

1388
01:42:00.640 --> 01:42:05.359
products for a long long time that
enhance your plants. And you're not going

1389
01:42:05.439 --> 01:42:11.319
to go wrong with anything that comes
out of Nature's Way resources. Well,

1390
01:42:11.319 --> 01:42:15.399
we're going to head now up to
Porter and we're going to talk to Bob.

1391
01:42:15.920 --> 01:42:19.880
Hello, Bob, Hey ski enjoy
show. Thanks. Hey, Yeah.

1392
01:42:19.880 --> 01:42:28.399
I got me about six Primark Freedom
and six Triple crown Berry planters are

1393
01:42:28.399 --> 01:42:33.199
and these little sail uh from for
each pods. My question is, do

1394
01:42:33.319 --> 01:42:41.119
I need to probably a root stimulator
or I've got microlife uh the six four

1395
01:42:41.119 --> 01:42:45.439
to two and I bought some Living
Girls compostion. I'm on till in in

1396
01:42:45.560 --> 01:42:50.479
the soul. Would I still need
roots stimulatories lake or mo. I would

1397
01:42:50.560 --> 01:42:55.399
use the hash to grow when I
plant anything in the ground. It's just

1398
01:42:55.479 --> 01:42:58.840
a good start for your plants to
get those here. You get us all

1399
01:42:58.920 --> 01:43:01.079
confined, confined in greet system is
trying to get out there in the soil,

1400
01:43:01.159 --> 01:43:03.600
and you want that to happen soon
and you want the plant to be

1401
01:43:03.640 --> 01:43:09.039
strong going in. So I would
do that for anything. Now, which

1402
01:43:09.039 --> 01:43:13.199
of the micro life products did you
say had six two for yes, I

1403
01:43:13.239 --> 01:43:17.560
got sixty more granular and I also
I also have the liquid to the gallon

1404
01:43:17.640 --> 01:43:21.920
that you make I make story tables
move the gallon. Is this is a

1405
01:43:23.119 --> 01:43:27.199
label blue or is it orange?
Or what color is the lamy on that

1406
01:43:28.119 --> 01:43:33.479
it's the label blue or hard momb
on the Microlife liquid. Okay, I

1407
01:43:33.520 --> 01:43:38.800
believe it's okay, well that would
be believe that's a fish based product and

1408
01:43:38.960 --> 01:43:41.600
it's an excellent product. You can
fold your feed with it. You can

1409
01:43:41.640 --> 01:43:45.039
also drench the roots with that as
well. I would I would use make

1410
01:43:45.079 --> 01:43:47.600
sure and use it on the foldier. Even if it drips down on the

1411
01:43:47.640 --> 01:43:51.840
roots. You get the double benefit
of it. But those are great products,

1412
01:43:51.880 --> 01:43:56.680
and you ought to be off to
a good start. I'm start off

1413
01:43:56.720 --> 01:43:59.439
with but did you say, go
ahead, give me some mask or group.

1414
01:44:00.000 --> 01:44:02.720
I would get the hash to grow
six twelve six to drench into the

1415
01:44:02.760 --> 01:44:10.199
ground. But I'm telling you that
you have little more quickly. Sure one,

1416
01:44:10.760 --> 01:44:14.680
I bought some multiplyn onions at Montgommer
County last last week. Okay,

1417
01:44:14.960 --> 01:44:16.279
you should I put a little bit
of that that has to grow on those

1418
01:44:16.399 --> 01:44:23.880
twods, you could. I you
know those are gonna slowly be getting roots

1419
01:44:23.920 --> 01:44:27.279
down in the ground and getting going. Just remember on any kind of an

1420
01:44:27.319 --> 01:44:30.239
onion, having a good amount of
nitrogen to kind of help them along as

1421
01:44:30.239 --> 01:44:34.560
they grow is helpful, not at
all. In one big giant dose but

1422
01:44:34.760 --> 01:44:41.319
gradually over time, I would do
that. Okay, well I've been using

1423
01:44:41.319 --> 01:44:45.199
micro lef on those two. Well
there you go. Six four. Well,

1424
01:44:45.319 --> 01:44:47.680
you know they have a lot of
great product, but I use six

1425
01:44:47.760 --> 01:44:49.880
to four on a lot of things. And we think of it as a

1426
01:44:49.920 --> 01:44:54.520
lawn fertilizer, but I use it
on free use it vegetables and you know,

1427
01:44:54.680 --> 01:44:58.760
other things as well. Okay,
Skip, I appreciate you so thank

1428
01:44:58.800 --> 01:45:01.760
you so much, Stark preciate your
phone call. I appreciate that very very

1429
01:45:01.960 --> 01:45:06.520
much. You know, if you're
tired of looking at the landscape that summer

1430
01:45:06.920 --> 01:45:11.960
just about killed or maybe in some
cases did kill, and you want to

1431
01:45:12.039 --> 01:45:15.319
change things, I would call Pierscapes
Peerscapes. They've got designers on hand that

1432
01:45:15.399 --> 01:45:18.479
can create beautiful beds. Maybe you
just need a little bit of a redesign.

1433
01:45:18.520 --> 01:45:23.600
Maybe you want to outdoor backyard sitting
area. They can do that.

1434
01:45:23.800 --> 01:45:27.560
Is your irrigation system on the blank
or do you need one? They can

1435
01:45:27.600 --> 01:45:32.399
do that. They absolutely their experience, they're professional, they're well trained,

1436
01:45:32.479 --> 01:45:38.319
they know what they're doing. The
certifications, the licenses just go to piercescapes

1437
01:45:38.479 --> 01:45:43.079
dot com two eight one, three, seven oh fifty sixty and they will

1438
01:45:43.079 --> 01:45:45.640
get you going again. By the
way. You know, maybe when you're

1439
01:45:45.640 --> 01:45:46.800
talking to them, you want to
go, hey, I need to redesign

1440
01:45:46.880 --> 01:45:50.000
here. I lost some plants.
What do you have that's more drought resilient.

1441
01:45:50.039 --> 01:45:53.880
What would you suggest? Well,
they've got an eye for that sort

1442
01:45:53.920 --> 01:45:57.760
of thing, and they can really
help out with it as well. Let's

1443
01:45:57.760 --> 01:46:00.800
see, we're going to go to
Laporte and talk to April. Hello,

1444
01:46:00.880 --> 01:46:04.640
April, Hello, how are you? And well, thank you. I

1445
01:46:04.680 --> 01:46:12.119
have an aphids problem with a couple
of high businus plants that I have in

1446
01:46:12.239 --> 01:46:17.479
pots. Okay, one one in
particular has been extremely problematic and I have

1447
01:46:17.600 --> 01:46:25.199
tried everything, washing them off,
kneem oil, seven, dust, seven,

1448
01:46:25.279 --> 01:46:28.640
spray, everything you can think of, and they'll go away for about

1449
01:46:28.640 --> 01:46:30.479
a week. And oh and the
ants too. We had a little ant

1450
01:46:30.520 --> 01:46:34.680
farm going on there. They apparently
farm aphid too, new that's how that

1451
01:46:34.840 --> 01:46:39.319
fits. Get up on your plants, and that's how they carry them up

1452
01:46:39.319 --> 01:46:44.199
there. They also will do that. Think of antswer dairy farmers. Aphids

1453
01:46:44.199 --> 01:46:46.880
are cows. So what does a
dairy farmer do? He takes his cows

1454
01:46:46.880 --> 01:46:49.920
from one pasture to another. He
makes sure the wolves don't get a hold

1455
01:46:49.960 --> 01:46:54.880
of the cows. You get the
idea. Yes, I didn't know that

1456
01:46:55.039 --> 01:46:58.239
till recently. Yeah, but I
keep I mean I think I have.

1457
01:46:58.479 --> 01:47:01.479
So I started treating the ants around
the pots and in the pots, and

1458
01:47:01.479 --> 01:47:04.720
that seems to have help, but
they still keep coming back. So I'm

1459
01:47:04.760 --> 01:47:08.439
looking for any kind of thing.
Yeah. There. Normally I don't go

1460
01:47:08.479 --> 01:47:12.079
out and kill an ants because there's
only a few ants that really are a

1461
01:47:12.119 --> 01:47:15.000
concern. But when it comes to
this, the answer keeping the some of

1462
01:47:15.000 --> 01:47:18.640
the beneficials away from your a fens. They're they're protecting them and stuff,

1463
01:47:18.680 --> 01:47:24.000
so that may be valid. I
would just use insecticidal soap mixed at the

1464
01:47:24.079 --> 01:47:27.560
label rate. Make sure you give
the aphis a bath. If there's some

1465
01:47:27.680 --> 01:47:30.359
hiding in a leaf or in a
leaf, you know, node, or

1466
01:47:30.640 --> 01:47:33.760
around a bud where you're you got
to give them a bath with soap.

1467
01:47:33.800 --> 01:47:38.680
Any that you don't give a bath
will not be killed by soap. I

1468
01:47:38.680 --> 01:47:43.439
would do that probably about ever two
weeks. Just check it over, put

1469
01:47:43.439 --> 01:47:45.600
it in a little spray bottle.
I mean, it's real simple, it's

1470
01:47:45.600 --> 01:47:48.199
super low talks, and it's just
it's a good way to go. You're

1471
01:47:48.199 --> 01:47:53.239
talking about one one plant, right, well, one plant, but then

1472
01:47:53.279 --> 01:47:56.199
the aphids kind of jump over to
the other plant, but they always come

1473
01:47:56.239 --> 01:47:59.720
back to this one plant. So
I had to put some mulch on top

1474
01:47:59.760 --> 01:48:02.119
of the soil during the drought,
try and keep those moisture in there.

1475
01:48:02.159 --> 01:48:05.760
Could they be hiding down in there? The aphids aren't hiding. No,

1476
01:48:06.000 --> 01:48:09.960
no they're not. But I would
just I would stay with that technique.

1477
01:48:10.039 --> 01:48:14.159
Just realize it's nature, so things
do come back and uh in such acid

1478
01:48:14.319 --> 01:48:16.640
soapy kind catch them, yeah,
catch them early, catch them early with

1479
01:48:16.720 --> 01:48:19.119
it. Hey, I got to
run to a break. Thank you very

1480
01:48:19.159 --> 01:48:24.119
much for the call, and good
luck with that aphid control. Sounds like

1481
01:48:24.159 --> 01:48:28.760
you're on the right foot. Seven
one three two one two fifty eight seventy

1482
01:48:28.760 --> 01:48:30.279
four is the number if you'd like
to give us a call. Here we

1483
01:48:30.319 --> 01:48:35.520
go, we'll be right back.
Good morning, and welcome back to garden

1484
01:48:35.520 --> 01:48:41.159
Line. We are looking forward to
visiting with you more about the different calls

1485
01:48:41.159 --> 01:48:45.039
and questions you might have. Hey, seven one three two one two five

1486
01:48:45.119 --> 01:48:47.000
eight seven four. Write that number
down, keep it handy. Who knows

1487
01:48:47.039 --> 01:48:50.600
you may something you hear on guard
line may pique your interest and you think

1488
01:48:50.640 --> 01:48:54.880
of something you really need to ask
and talk about. And that's why we're

1489
01:48:54.920 --> 01:49:00.479
here. You know, I was
out an Enchanted Forest a back and for

1490
01:49:00.520 --> 01:49:03.479
the weekend a couple Saturday or two
ago. I kind of lose track of

1491
01:49:03.479 --> 01:49:06.640
time. But boy, is that
ever a beautiful nurcery out there. I

1492
01:49:06.680 --> 01:49:12.279
mean it is gorgeous. It's on
FM twenty seven fifty nine outside of Richmond.

1493
01:49:12.319 --> 01:49:14.720
If you're in Richmond, you're heading
sugar Land Way. It's off to

1494
01:49:14.800 --> 01:49:19.079
the right to the south of fifty
nine. And they are stocked up with

1495
01:49:19.399 --> 01:49:24.439
all kinds of great products. You
know, I saw I was looking at

1496
01:49:24.439 --> 01:49:28.920
a bunch of Chinese fringe trees.
Oh those are beautiful, and they're let's

1497
01:49:28.920 --> 01:49:32.720
say small to medium sized trees in
general, and so far a lot sizes

1498
01:49:32.760 --> 01:49:35.079
that are a little more limited.
Right now, that's a great tree.

1499
01:49:35.119 --> 01:49:39.520
And oh, the spring blooms are
unbelievable on it. They got sunshine,

1500
01:49:39.600 --> 01:49:43.239
lagustrums and lananas and all the stuff
you need to be planting in the fall.

1501
01:49:43.479 --> 01:49:46.600
Hey, by the way, today, Lewis Tomorrow of Heirloom Soils is

1502
01:49:46.640 --> 01:49:53.479
going to be at Enchanted Forest at
ten am. Now, Luis is absolutely

1503
01:49:54.319 --> 01:49:59.439
he knows his soils and one of
the reasons why Heirloom soils is such a

1504
01:49:59.560 --> 01:50:02.600
quality product and a success. In
fact, later in the afternoon, Dan

1505
01:50:02.720 --> 01:50:06.760
Slider with nitrophos is going to be
there from two to five to discuss everything

1506
01:50:06.840 --> 01:50:12.920
about Nitrophix. You can pick up
your one two three step system right there.

1507
01:50:12.439 --> 01:50:15.359
When you're listening to Dan, he
can tell you everything you need to

1508
01:50:15.399 --> 01:50:18.319
know about it. But take an
opportunity this afternoon and head out there to

1509
01:50:18.520 --> 01:50:24.159
Enchanted Forest again. They're on FM
twenty seven fifty five outside of Richmond,

1510
01:50:24.520 --> 01:50:27.640
Enchanted Forest. When you get out
there, you'd see why they call it

1511
01:50:27.720 --> 01:50:30.960
enchanted. It is a beautiful place
with everything that you might need right now

1512
01:50:31.079 --> 01:50:36.920
for your plants, absolutely everything you
know talking about Luis and heirlooms. Heirloom

1513
01:50:38.600 --> 01:50:41.960
by the way, I got a
note from them. Are they are offering

1514
01:50:42.000 --> 01:50:46.840
an unbelievably big fall special and what
it is is there veggie and herb soil,

1515
01:50:46.960 --> 01:50:50.319
which is an outstanding mix. And
by the way, not just for

1516
01:50:50.439 --> 01:50:53.920
veggies and herbs. If you want
to put it in a flower bet it'll

1517
01:50:53.920 --> 01:50:56.319
do okay for that too. I
mean, it's a great product. It's

1518
01:50:56.840 --> 01:50:59.760
you know, sometimes we see the
names on things we think they have to

1519
01:50:59.800 --> 01:51:01.640
be for that. Well, they're
good for that, but no, you

1520
01:51:01.640 --> 01:51:05.159
can use them in other ways.
And they're rose sooil again, same thing.

1521
01:51:05.319 --> 01:51:09.399
If you're not planting roses or planting
shrubs, use rose soil. I

1522
01:51:09.399 --> 01:51:13.039
mean it's good for that. Both
of those are on special now, the

1523
01:51:13.159 --> 01:51:17.680
veggie and herb you can either have
them bulk deliver, but the bulk price

1524
01:51:17.760 --> 01:51:24.359
of it is one hundred and nineteen
dollars per cubic yard. That is a

1525
01:51:24.880 --> 01:51:27.960
very good deal, probably eighty percent
less than what you're going to pay for

1526
01:51:28.279 --> 01:51:32.199
a lot of products like that are
on town and the supersack one hundred and

1527
01:51:32.199 --> 01:51:38.039
forty eight dollars for a supersack neat
clean delivered set on your driveway right there.

1528
01:51:38.079 --> 01:51:40.720
Of course, you can go out
to the site in Porter. You

1529
01:51:40.760 --> 01:51:44.119
can pick it up yourself out at
the heirloom site. If you want more

1530
01:51:44.119 --> 01:51:47.279
information on heirloom by the way,
Heirloomsoils off Texas dot com. That's what

1531
01:51:47.359 --> 01:51:51.600
you need to look at. Now. The rose sooil again, unbelievable deal.

1532
01:51:51.920 --> 01:51:57.439
Seventy dollars bulk per cubic yard,
ninety nine dollars for the supersack.

1533
01:51:58.680 --> 01:52:01.640
Listen, you don't get an opery
for this price, for this quality of

1534
01:52:01.680 --> 01:52:05.720
Really, in my opinion, two
of my favorite products that Airloom Cells makes,

1535
01:52:05.720 --> 01:52:11.279
the Veggie Nerb and the Rose Saul
both this fall special. Do not

1536
01:52:11.600 --> 01:52:14.920
delay, don't don't mess around with
this. Now's the time to get your

1537
01:52:14.960 --> 01:52:17.079
soil ready, especially if you're planting. Maybe you're going to put in a

1538
01:52:17.079 --> 01:52:20.520
bed for spring, Well, why
not get it ready now. Who knows

1539
01:52:20.560 --> 01:52:25.720
it may be soggy wet raining and
won't stop in the spring. Get that

1540
01:52:25.800 --> 01:52:28.560
done now, get it ready,
get it done. And all of that

1541
01:52:28.640 --> 01:52:31.680
is from Airloom Soils again, Veggie
Nerd Fall Special one hundred nineteen book or

1542
01:52:31.680 --> 01:52:36.520
one hundred and forty eight for the
supersac roast soil, seventy dollars bulk ninety

1543
01:52:36.600 --> 01:52:41.199
nine dollars for the supersac of the
roast soil. And you know those are

1544
01:52:41.359 --> 01:52:44.720
like other Airloom products, they're available
by bag as well. Around town.

1545
01:52:45.159 --> 01:52:47.840
A lot of our good retailers carry
those things. But boy, for a

1546
01:52:47.920 --> 01:52:54.359
bulk special, you're not going to
do better then what Airloom Sails is offering.

1547
01:52:54.439 --> 01:52:58.479
Right now, when you listening to
Garden Line, our phone number is

1548
01:52:58.560 --> 01:53:03.920
seven one three two one two five
eight seven four seven one three two one

1549
01:53:04.039 --> 01:53:10.800
two fifty eight seventy four. I
talked about that Nitrofoss three step earlier and

1550
01:53:10.840 --> 01:53:13.880
I just want to tell you about
it again in case you missed it.

1551
01:53:14.479 --> 01:53:17.439
The Texas three step is a fertilizer, it's a weed product control product,

1552
01:53:17.640 --> 01:53:20.920
and it is a turf funder side. And I said weed control, I

1553
01:53:20.960 --> 01:53:26.159
should say it's a weed prevention product. You know, there's things we put

1554
01:53:26.239 --> 01:53:30.439
down to stop weed seats from establishing. Boy, that's easy. I mean,

1555
01:53:30.479 --> 01:53:32.800
you get that done and you don't
even deal with the weeds. Then

1556
01:53:32.840 --> 01:53:38.039
there's weed control afterwards, where you
spray on existing weeds, and those we

1557
01:53:38.039 --> 01:53:41.199
are always kind of wondering is it
okay to use on my turf grass at

1558
01:53:41.199 --> 01:53:44.119
this time of year and so on. It's just easier to prevent them.

1559
01:53:44.520 --> 01:53:48.239
Well, the product nitrophosphall special that
is the winner riser, That is the

1560
01:53:48.279 --> 01:53:53.960
one that has the right blend of
nutrients, especially that potassium then includes some

1561
01:53:54.039 --> 01:53:58.439
important phosphate two for red growth.
Uh, but the potassium for winter hardiness

1562
01:53:58.439 --> 01:54:02.079
and for even drought resilience. And
when you do it now you make your

1563
01:54:02.079 --> 01:54:05.119
turf stronger. So when spring comes, it's going to come out better and

1564
01:54:05.159 --> 01:54:11.520
greener in the spring. Just to
say it again, these are turf grass

1565
01:54:11.520 --> 01:54:15.720
plants. They don't use what the
roots are taking up right away to get

1566
01:54:15.760 --> 01:54:19.239
growing. They use what they've got
stored. And then as they begin growth,

1567
01:54:19.520 --> 01:54:23.479
roots begin to get in the ground
and more and more as time goes

1568
01:54:23.520 --> 01:54:27.600
into spring. There you've got a
good root system that's taking up our spring

1569
01:54:27.600 --> 01:54:31.239
fertilizers and nutrients. But it's important
to have that fall fertilizer. The barricade

1570
01:54:31.279 --> 01:54:35.760
prevents broadly weeds, grassy weeds.
You put it down half inch of water

1571
01:54:35.840 --> 01:54:40.359
watered into the ground, get into
the surface. It is a barricade a

1572
01:54:40.359 --> 01:54:43.399
weeds. He tries to come through
and it can't. It knocks it out.

1573
01:54:43.800 --> 01:54:45.720
Very easy to do, but you
want to do it before the seeds

1574
01:54:45.760 --> 01:54:50.000
germinate, which is happening later in
October and in November as well. In

1575
01:54:50.000 --> 01:54:54.359
fact, it can happen on through
the winter when mild temperatures occur. But

1576
01:54:54.479 --> 01:54:57.239
get that barricade down now and they'll
carry all the way to spring. And

1577
01:54:57.279 --> 01:55:01.640
then the third step is a nitroposs
eagle that is a fungicide that is a

1578
01:55:01.640 --> 01:55:09.000
protectant it's a systemic So here comes
large patch brown patch. Don't wait till

1579
01:55:09.000 --> 01:55:13.079
the circles appear. Let's prevent them
from even appearing. If that's been an

1580
01:55:13.159 --> 01:55:16.239
ongoing problem in your lawn every year
you got these brown patch circles. You

1581
01:55:16.239 --> 01:55:19.560
can get ahead of it and prevent
it. And in the meantime, we're

1582
01:55:19.600 --> 01:55:23.520
going back next year to all the
cultural things we talk about to get that

1583
01:55:23.640 --> 01:55:27.439
lawn as strong and healthy and dense
as you can, to choke out weeds,

1584
01:55:27.439 --> 01:55:30.600
and to help it fend against other
issues that it deals with. Nitrophoster

1585
01:55:30.640 --> 01:55:34.159
three step. That is a simple, easy way to go about it.

1586
01:55:34.199 --> 01:55:38.479
You can find it in Cyprus,
Ace Hardware, Fisher's Hardware out and the

1587
01:55:38.600 --> 01:55:43.560
port Or Plantation eight Ace Hardware down
in Richmond. They all carry the nitrofoss

1588
01:55:43.640 --> 01:55:47.079
products, as do many other areas
in the many other stores in the Greater

1589
01:55:47.319 --> 01:55:53.479
Houston area. Our phone number,
let's see, we're getting a little short

1590
01:55:53.520 --> 01:55:56.159
on time here for a call,
but if you'd like to give us one,

1591
01:55:56.520 --> 01:55:58.960
we'll hold you and you'll be the
first up when we come back.

1592
01:55:59.000 --> 01:56:02.039
By the way after the hour.
I just want to remind you that Ace

1593
01:56:02.119 --> 01:56:08.000
Hardware carries everything that you're going to
need not just for your home, but

1594
01:56:08.039 --> 01:56:13.119
I'm speaking specifically for your gardens,
your lawns, your landscapes. That fertilizer,

1595
01:56:13.159 --> 01:56:17.600
I'm talking about, the weed prevention, the disease prevention. All the

1596
01:56:17.600 --> 01:56:20.680
brands that you hear on garden Line, you're going to find them there at

1597
01:56:20.720 --> 01:56:25.840
ACE Hardware. That's what they do. They carry those at Acehardware dot COM's

1598
01:56:25.840 --> 01:56:30.479
the website, find the store locator. Thirty nine stores in the Houston area.

1599
01:56:30.520 --> 01:56:31.800
You're going to find one near you. And when you go in,

1600
01:56:32.199 --> 01:56:35.239
you're going to have knowledgeable people that
can point you to the products you need

1601
01:56:35.319 --> 01:56:40.680
for the issue you're dealing with,
especially now that fall fertilization of the lawn

1602
01:56:41.239 --> 01:56:44.680
very very important. Don't delay sign
up, by the way, for their

1603
01:56:45.600 --> 01:56:47.680
ACE Rewards program. You get money
back. I belong to it myself.

1604
01:56:47.880 --> 01:56:51.039
Get money back every time or as
you purchase, you gained the points to

1605
01:56:51.079 --> 01:56:56.159
get that back. If you're going
to go in there and buy the quality

1606
01:56:56.199 --> 01:57:00.439
products they carry, why not be
part of the ACE Rewards program as well.

1607
01:57:00.279 --> 01:57:02.720
Well, it looks like we're about
to put another hour in the books.

1608
01:57:02.840 --> 01:57:08.319
Wow, that was that seemed fast
to me. I don't know they

1609
01:57:08.479 --> 01:57:12.600
maybe time flies when you're having fun. That's what they say, you know,

1610
01:57:12.680 --> 01:57:15.640
Kermit the frogcess times fun when you're
having flies. But sorry, I'm

1611
01:57:15.680 --> 01:57:19.680
a dad. Dad jokes. I
used to can knock them out by the

1612
01:57:19.720 --> 01:57:24.000
way, Hey have you You know
when the kids are under six years old,

1613
01:57:24.119 --> 01:57:27.039
I say, under seven years old, you are hilarious. You rule

1614
01:57:27.079 --> 01:57:30.840
the room. By the time you
hit the teens, you see rolling eyes

1615
01:57:30.880 --> 01:57:35.359
and people leaving the room. That
is just how it goes with being a

1616
01:57:35.479 --> 01:57:40.520
dad. I don't forget Today after
the show, I'm going to be at

1617
01:57:40.600 --> 01:57:45.399
eight All Star Ace Hardware out in
Magnolia. Now. All Star Ace Hardware

1618
01:57:45.800 --> 01:57:48.720
is one of the great Ace stores
we have here. I hope you'll come

1619
01:57:48.800 --> 01:57:51.640
up and see us. If you
have samples, put them in a plastic

1620
01:57:51.640 --> 01:57:55.359
bag. Let's look at them.
Do we need to identify, do we

1621
01:57:55.399 --> 01:57:59.760
need to diagnose? Do you just
want advice on garden areas? Come on

1622
01:57:59.800 --> 01:58:01.439
out, bring me some photos of
the area. We'll take a look at

1623
01:58:01.520 --> 01:58:04.439
them. They're gonna have food going
out there, some outdoor cooking going on.

1624
01:58:05.279 --> 01:58:09.960
And I'm going to be given away
the nitrofis three step several times during

1625
01:58:09.960 --> 01:58:13.880
the time that I'm out there,
and so it's your chance to win that

1626
01:58:13.920 --> 01:58:16.760
one two three step program that they've
put together out there. I hope you'll

1627
01:58:16.840 --> 01:58:20.520
join us out for ACE hardware.
Also, don't forget if you go to

1628
01:58:20.560 --> 01:58:28.359
my website Gardening with Skip gardeningwiskip dot
com, simple as that, you can

1629
01:58:28.359 --> 01:58:31.800
find my lawn care schedule that tells
you about mowing, about watering, and

1630
01:58:31.840 --> 01:58:36.680
about fertilizing, about air raiding,
about providing even the trace mineral that are

1631
01:58:36.720 --> 01:58:41.760
important for your lawn. Out there. It lists both the synthetic and the

1632
01:58:41.880 --> 01:58:45.199
orthentic options, so however you want
to go about your gardening, you're going

1633
01:58:45.279 --> 01:58:47.600
to find what you need. There
also talks about soul testing, by the

1634
01:58:47.600 --> 01:58:53.920
way, which is important if you
are dealing with problems in the lawn like

1635
01:58:54.079 --> 01:58:58.039
pests, disease and weeds. Well, my lawn pest, disease and weed

1636
01:58:58.159 --> 01:59:02.399
management schedule is on the same way
website Gardening with Skip dot com. Go

1637
01:59:02.439 --> 01:59:05.439
there, print it out, by
the way, check back periodically because I'm

1638
01:59:05.520 --> 01:59:10.279
always enhancing these, making them a
little better, a little better as we

1639
01:59:10.359 --> 01:59:14.880
learn new things, And I just
really encourage you to get these printed out,

1640
01:59:15.039 --> 01:59:16.199
take them with you when you're gonna
go buy something. That way,

1641
01:59:16.239 --> 01:59:18.920
you don't get in there and wonder
what was that thing on the schedule.

1642
01:59:19.159 --> 01:59:23.359
You can just pull it right out
and you've got it right there. The

1643
01:59:23.359 --> 01:59:28.319
Pest, Disease and Weed schedule deals
with the cultural things that help prevent these

1644
01:59:28.359 --> 01:59:30.640
issues. And if we need to
spray the things that we can use,

1645
01:59:30.840 --> 01:59:38.079
we'll be right back. Kt r
H Garden Line does not necessarily endorse any

1646
01:59:38.119 --> 01:59:43.960
of the products or services advertised on
this program. Welcome to kt r H

1647
01:59:44.119 --> 01:59:56.760
Garden Line with Skip Ricter. It's
so crazy just watch him as well.

1648
02:00:00.760 --> 02:00:15.479
Many spots they're not a sid well. Good morning. We are entering our

1649
02:00:15.600 --> 02:00:20.119
last segment of the morning today on
a beautiful Saturday, a beautiful saturday to

1650
02:00:20.159 --> 02:00:24.159
get out and about, and a
beautiful saturday to get out in the yard

1651
02:00:24.680 --> 02:00:28.520
and do a little bit of gardening. While you're out there, Hey,

1652
02:00:28.600 --> 02:00:30.800
have you got any pest problems you've
been dealing with? You know that cockroach

1653
02:00:30.880 --> 02:00:35.079
running across the yard? The yard, well that too, but the living

1654
02:00:35.159 --> 02:00:41.760
room or maybe you find some other
pest indoors or outdoors. Scott McGrath has

1655
02:00:41.800 --> 02:00:45.039
got you covered. McGrath Pest Control. You can go to the website metgrath

1656
02:00:45.159 --> 02:00:49.840
Pestcontrol dot Com two eight one four
six nine eighty two forty. Now they've

1657
02:00:49.840 --> 02:00:56.119
been doing this for over forty almost
fifty years. Actually started back in nineteen

1658
02:00:56.159 --> 02:01:00.640
seventy four, started by Scott's dad. Still family run. It's the old

1659
02:01:00.720 --> 02:01:04.079
fashioned stuff, like they don't say, well block your whole Saturday, we

1660
02:01:04.159 --> 02:01:09.039
may or may not show up like
service companies do. Nope, they give

1661
02:01:09.079 --> 02:01:11.880
you an actual time and they show
up then. That's why. One of

1662
02:01:11.880 --> 02:01:15.680
the reasons why they're highly rated.
The owners involved in the day to day

1663
02:01:15.720 --> 02:01:20.319
operations. So throughout the whole Houston
area, McGrath Pest Control is available to

1664
02:01:20.359 --> 02:01:24.640
help you. Now it doesn't matter
the pests. I mean, maybe you

1665
02:01:24.720 --> 02:01:28.319
got rodents in the attic, maybe
you've got you know, the issues in

1666
02:01:28.359 --> 02:01:30.479
the pantry, or any kind of
paths that you're dealing with. They can

1667
02:01:30.520 --> 02:01:36.239
cover it all modern technology and techniques
with old fashion customer service. That's the

1668
02:01:36.239 --> 02:01:41.760
way you do it at Mcgrathpestcontrol dot
Com two eight one four six' nine

1669
02:01:41.800 --> 02:01:46.479
eighty two forty It's as simple as
that. I always enjoy visiting with Scott.

1670
02:01:46.760 --> 02:01:50.840
He's really a wealth of knowledge.
I mean, the guy he knows

1671
02:01:51.039 --> 02:01:56.880
his pests and he knows how to
deal with them. If you happen to

1672
02:01:56.880 --> 02:02:00.640
be out in the Enchanted Gardens area, which what does that mean? Well,

1673
02:02:00.640 --> 02:02:04.159
that means Richmond, just north of
Richmond toward Katie. You know,

1674
02:02:04.199 --> 02:02:09.680
you go up what is it three
fifty nine FM three fifty nine and Jenny

1675
02:02:09.720 --> 02:02:14.359
Gardens is they are set up,
They're loaded with product, they are ready

1676
02:02:14.399 --> 02:02:15.439
to go. And anytime you go
there, that's the way it is.

1677
02:02:15.439 --> 02:02:19.439
I mean the place always looks like
they're just having their grand opening or something.

1678
02:02:19.479 --> 02:02:25.520
It's amazing, really nice invented nursery. People drive from far and wide

1679
02:02:25.520 --> 02:02:30.119
to go there. They're open Mondays
through Saturdays from eight to five and on

1680
02:02:30.199 --> 02:02:33.159
Sundays from ten am to four pm. It's always a good time. And

1681
02:02:33.199 --> 02:02:36.399
when you go, take people with
you, maybe you got family visiting or

1682
02:02:36.439 --> 02:02:41.760
something like that. Do it because
they will really be impressed. I've taken

1683
02:02:41.800 --> 02:02:45.359
people there several times myself, and
their jaws open every time they walk in

1684
02:02:45.640 --> 02:02:48.479
because it's all there. I mean, this is false. So yep,

1685
02:02:48.520 --> 02:02:51.359
they got moms. Yes, they
have all the fall color, the cool

1686
02:02:51.359 --> 02:02:55.399
season color that you're going to be
planting, the vegetables and herbs, that

1687
02:02:55.399 --> 02:02:59.119
you're going to be planting, and
all the products we talk about, the

1688
02:02:59.159 --> 02:03:03.279
fertilizers, the soil blends that are
so important to get ready for those beautiful

1689
02:03:03.319 --> 02:03:06.279
plants that you're going to put in. If you do you need a woody

1690
02:03:06.359 --> 02:03:10.359
ornamental, a rose, a tree, something along those lines, they have

1691
02:03:10.800 --> 02:03:15.039
plenty of that. It's loaded up
out there. Go to Enchanted Gardens Richmond

1692
02:03:15.359 --> 02:03:20.000
dot com. Enchanted Gardens Richmond dot
com. Again, head north toward Katie

1693
02:03:20.000 --> 02:03:25.199
from Richmond FM three point fifty nine
and you will know it when you arrive.

1694
02:03:26.640 --> 02:03:30.720
I love visiting garden centers. I
do that all the time. And

1695
02:03:30.159 --> 02:03:33.680
I will tell you something I know. I'm a host of a radio show.

1696
02:03:33.680 --> 02:03:38.960
I've been a county agroa life extension
agent and horticulture for thirty four years,

1697
02:03:39.039 --> 02:03:41.880
answering gardening questions. So you'd think
I'd heard it all by now.

1698
02:03:42.000 --> 02:03:46.439
Nope. There's always a new plant. There's always a new something to learn

1699
02:03:46.520 --> 02:03:49.000
and to deal with. And every
time I go to a garden center like

1700
02:03:49.039 --> 02:03:54.079
our wonderful mom and Pops here in
the Houston area, I see a plant

1701
02:03:54.520 --> 02:03:57.960
I don't know anything about. It's
new, it's different, it's a new

1702
02:03:58.039 --> 02:04:01.079
variety. It's just hard to keep
up with everything, but I love to

1703
02:04:01.159 --> 02:04:04.119
go out and do that. We're
going to head up. Speaking of going

1704
02:04:04.119 --> 02:04:08.199
out, we're going to go out
to Conroe right now on the radio and

1705
02:04:08.239 --> 02:04:14.520
we're going to talk to Bill.
Hello, Bill, if you't goring A

1706
02:04:14.520 --> 02:04:18.840
couple of questions on the lawn right
now, I've been doing it all season

1707
02:04:18.880 --> 02:04:25.640
at the highest level of my lawmarwer
the Augustine. What kind of height should

1708
02:04:25.680 --> 02:04:29.279
I go to? So I cut
it that bound to like three inches two

1709
02:04:29.319 --> 02:04:31.439
and a half inches. What's the
lowest side should go before it goes dormant?

1710
02:04:31.479 --> 02:04:34.520
Well, there's nothing wrong with leaving
it as it is. You can

1711
02:04:34.600 --> 02:04:38.199
you can cut down a little bit
more if you want, but don't cut

1712
02:04:38.199 --> 02:04:43.239
down too much because, uh,
you know, the the leaves themselves,

1713
02:04:43.319 --> 02:04:46.279
they help a little bit when it
comes to slowing cooling, and you know,

1714
02:04:46.319 --> 02:04:48.720
as the wind blows over the lawn
and stuff. Should we have a

1715
02:04:48.760 --> 02:04:53.439
really really bad cold spell, I'd
say, what do you want to look

1716
02:04:53.439 --> 02:04:57.680
at? But I wouldn't go too
low. Saint Augustine is not made for

1717
02:04:57.800 --> 02:05:00.359
golf course greens, to say the
least, and so people when they mow

1718
02:05:00.439 --> 02:05:06.159
it low you're going to have more
problems with something like brown patch, for

1719
02:05:06.199 --> 02:05:11.199
example, if you go too low
on that. By the way, overwatering

1720
02:05:11.239 --> 02:05:15.760
and overfertilizing with nitrogen both contribute to
that as well. But I wouldn't go

1721
02:05:15.800 --> 02:05:20.479
too low on that, all right. I have an opposite problem in the

1722
02:05:20.479 --> 02:05:27.119
front yard where it's just beautiful and
following a protocol, but it's really sick.

1723
02:05:27.239 --> 02:05:30.359
Do I ever defatch it if it's
getting thick? First of all,

1724
02:05:30.439 --> 02:05:35.760
you probably are over pushing it with
nitrogen, so I would whatever you've been

1725
02:05:35.800 --> 02:05:40.119
doing, i'd back off that a
little bit. We still need the fertilizers

1726
02:05:40.159 --> 02:05:44.039
at the right times. You're probably
returning the clippings, which is adding those

1727
02:05:44.159 --> 02:05:46.840
nutrients right back in and it's recycling
them, and that's good. Yes,

1728
02:05:48.279 --> 02:05:55.840
you do need to have someone come
out and do a defat well, we

1729
02:05:55.880 --> 02:06:00.840
don't defach Saint Augustine, and you
need a cororation and the core aeration pulls

1730
02:06:00.840 --> 02:06:02.479
a little plugs out and drops them
on the ground. And when you get

1731
02:06:02.479 --> 02:06:06.880
that soil up there, it helps
speed up the decomposition of the runners.

1732
02:06:08.279 --> 02:06:14.079
Grass blades decompose fast runners roots,
grass nodes on the stolons, they're slow

1733
02:06:14.119 --> 02:06:18.000
to decompose, and that's why we
want to be extra sure that we're putting

1734
02:06:18.079 --> 02:06:23.760
that compost top dressing, doing the
deep core aeration to it. Those two

1735
02:06:23.760 --> 02:06:30.720
in combination will help speed that decomposition
of thatch because that creates several different problems

1736
02:06:30.720 --> 02:06:33.640
you want to avoid. Okay,
and now the right time. If I'm

1737
02:06:33.640 --> 02:06:36.439
going to add a little bit of
dirt to some depressions in the area,

1738
02:06:36.640 --> 02:06:40.039
do I do that now or do
I do that in spring? You know

1739
02:06:40.079 --> 02:06:42.560
I would do it. I would
do it let the grass get growing good,

1740
02:06:42.680 --> 02:06:45.600
and then I'd throw that in there
because you want it to get growing

1741
02:06:45.720 --> 02:06:47.600
and fill in fast. You could
do it now, but you're gonna have

1742
02:06:47.640 --> 02:06:50.359
all those little dirt spots and I
don't know, maybe a few weeds come

1743
02:06:50.439 --> 02:06:55.479
up in them. There's nothing wrong
with it now. I would probably wait

1744
02:06:55.560 --> 02:06:59.479
until spring when it's actively growing and
do it at that time. But it's

1745
02:06:59.560 --> 02:07:03.199
not a huge difference. So what's
most convenient for you? And what do

1746
02:07:03.199 --> 02:07:06.960
you want to look at? Yeah, a good point. And one last

1747
02:07:08.039 --> 02:07:12.640
question. How many applications I've got
brown patch and stuff in my backyard and

1748
02:07:13.600 --> 02:07:15.199
maybe takeoff patch. I don't know
which one it is, but anyway,

1749
02:07:15.359 --> 02:07:18.359
how much how many times do I
got to apply fungus side to know that

1750
02:07:18.359 --> 02:07:21.119
I've killed it? I know I'm
not going to turn it green till spring,

1751
02:07:21.199 --> 02:07:25.159
But how many times do I need
to go? Well, I think

1752
02:07:25.159 --> 02:07:28.840
I've done it three times over six
weeks. Yeah, well that's with fung

1753
02:07:28.920 --> 02:07:34.000
your side. Yeah, oh that's
plenty one. Good application should be fine

1754
02:07:34.039 --> 02:07:36.800
in the spring. If you do
have the take off root rot, you're

1755
02:07:36.840 --> 02:07:40.119
going to need to probably do it
again. Hey, if you want to

1756
02:07:40.159 --> 02:07:42.680
continue the discussion, I need to
run to a break. I'm gonna put

1757
02:07:42.680 --> 02:07:45.600
you on hold them all good.
Thank you for the call. I appreciate

1758
02:07:45.680 --> 02:07:48.920
that very much. You know,
we were talking about deep or deep core

1759
02:07:49.039 --> 02:07:55.159
aeration. Greenpro does that. Greenpro
dot net is the website. But if

1760
02:07:55.199 --> 02:08:00.479
you've got that issues, especially if
your lawn just needs some rejuveniate. Maybe

1761
02:08:00.479 --> 02:08:05.600
it's a heavy clay, maybe it's
compacted deep core aeration followed by a compost

1762
02:08:05.600 --> 02:08:09.119
stop dressing, we'll do it all. Green pros the company that's the one

1763
02:08:09.159 --> 02:08:13.359
you need to call. Two eight
one three five one forty seven thirty three

1764
02:08:13.439 --> 02:08:16.560
two eight one three five one forty
seven thirty three, or just go to

1765
02:08:18.079 --> 02:08:22.439
greenpro dot net. And it will
help your lawn recover from a lot of

1766
02:08:22.479 --> 02:08:26.039
the diseases and issues that they have. They know what they're doing. They

1767
02:08:26.039 --> 02:08:30.119
bring out some expensive equipment. I
know, you can go try to do

1768
02:08:30.159 --> 02:08:33.039
a do it yourself job, but
you don't have access to the equipment that

1769
02:08:33.079 --> 02:08:37.960
they do, and they know how
to do it right greenpro greenpro Texas dot

1770
02:08:39.000 --> 02:08:41.720
com. We're going to take a
break seven one three two one two fifty

1771
02:08:41.720 --> 02:08:48.960
eight seventy four. Well, good
morning on a beautiful Saturday, beautiful saturday

1772
02:08:48.000 --> 02:08:52.399
for gardening, garden shopping, taking
care of the lawns, brucing things up,

1773
02:08:52.439 --> 02:08:56.279
getting those beds ready. H and
you know, especially taking care of

1774
02:08:56.279 --> 02:09:00.680
that lawn. October is the biggest
lawn month of the year. We have

1775
02:09:00.760 --> 02:09:03.520
other months. We do a lot
of important things. They're important, yes,

1776
02:09:03.960 --> 02:09:07.119
but Octrover is big. It's when
our cool season weeds are germinating.

1777
02:09:07.239 --> 02:09:11.840
It's when we're preparing to go into
fall. We've got to have a strong

1778
02:09:11.880 --> 02:09:15.960
plant to do that. It's also
when we are dealing with the disease things

1779
02:09:16.119 --> 02:09:18.039
like large patch and take all root
rot that are going to be out there

1780
02:09:18.119 --> 02:09:22.319
and we have to deal with Well, you know, the folks at Microlife,

1781
02:09:22.640 --> 02:09:24.760
they have a ton of great product. I mean a lot of great

1782
02:09:24.840 --> 02:09:28.439
options that do well. It's kind
of hard for me to decide, well,

1783
02:09:28.479 --> 02:09:31.720
which one do I talk about.
I like the blue and blue combination.

1784
02:09:31.000 --> 02:09:33.520
We're just going to talk about that
for a little bit here. You

1785
02:09:33.560 --> 02:09:39.239
know what I mean by blue and
blue, Well, blue is the Microlife

1786
02:09:39.279 --> 02:09:43.560
Ultimate. The Microlife Ultimate is a
fertilizer that is packed with nutrients and it's

1787
02:09:43.600 --> 02:09:46.319
good for everything. I mean,
I don't care if you're fertilizing your lawn

1788
02:09:46.399 --> 02:09:50.800
or trees or shrubs, or vegetables
or flowers. It's a good product for

1789
02:09:50.880 --> 02:09:54.359
that. The blue liquid is the
Ocean Harvest. The Ocean Harvest is a

1790
02:09:54.399 --> 02:10:00.439
fish based product that has all the
nutrients that come along with a quality product

1791
02:10:00.479 --> 02:10:05.520
like that. And with Microlife,
you're always also getting microbial content in the

1792
02:10:05.520 --> 02:10:09.920
fertilizers that you put out there.
And that is important because microbes rule the

1793
02:10:09.920 --> 02:10:15.560
world and it's microbes that take care
of trees and shrubs and grass plants and

1794
02:10:15.640 --> 02:10:18.680
other things. They protect against diseases, they help enhance the root system.

1795
02:10:18.800 --> 02:10:22.840
That's one of the biggest things that
they do is build that root system and

1796
02:10:22.880 --> 02:10:26.000
when you go organic month after month, year after year, you just more

1797
02:10:26.079 --> 02:10:33.520
and more and more turn your lawn
into that native type of habitat that nature

1798
02:10:33.600 --> 02:10:37.840
provides, where it's full of organic
matter, it's full of microbial activity,

1799
02:10:39.159 --> 02:10:41.800
and things just get better and better
over time. So consider that blue and

1800
02:10:41.840 --> 02:10:48.960
Blue, the Microlife Ultimate the Microlife
Ocean Harvest Liquid, both have many uses

1801
02:10:48.159 --> 02:10:52.319
and both work really really well,
and they will help build what you right

1802
02:10:52.399 --> 02:10:56.880
now in your minds I see as
your goal for your lawn, your landscape.

1803
02:10:56.159 --> 02:10:58.840
They will help build that as you
go along. You go to Microlife

1804
02:10:58.840 --> 02:11:03.359
for Fertilizer dot com find out more
about those products, or find out where

1805
02:11:03.399 --> 02:11:07.199
you can give Microlife, which is
basically everywhere. It's a great product.

1806
02:11:07.840 --> 02:11:11.680
Uh, let's see. I'm gonna
go now to Northwest Houston. We're gonna

1807
02:11:11.680 --> 02:11:16.640
talk to Marene. Hello Marine,
Hi, good morning. I appreciate all

1808
02:11:16.680 --> 02:11:22.439
your information. And this is the
first time I've called congratulations welcome. Yeah,

1809
02:11:22.479 --> 02:11:26.039
you're doing a beautiful job. I
mean, it keeps me focused.

1810
02:11:26.039 --> 02:11:35.000
Anyways, here's my question. I
have a front yard and uh saying aldustine

1811
02:11:35.279 --> 02:11:41.680
is growing in the middle, but
in some areas it's totally like straw and

1812
02:11:41.720 --> 02:11:46.199
what And like I go out there
and I try to pull at some of

1813
02:11:46.239 --> 02:11:50.680
the and there's I think there's there's
like moth I see in my backyard.

1814
02:11:50.600 --> 02:11:56.439
And do I have just the drying
out from the result of the weather?

1815
02:11:58.279 --> 02:12:01.560
Uh? Or do I have uh, you know, brown patch or something?

1816
02:12:01.560 --> 02:12:09.239
I see some green growing in.
But that's where I'm at because I

1817
02:12:09.319 --> 02:12:11.560
thought this. There's just a lot
of mosquitoes here, and I think there's

1818
02:12:13.720 --> 02:12:16.479
something maybe that I need to put
on to control the insects. Wow.

1819
02:12:16.560 --> 02:12:20.279
That well, you got a lot
of questions in one there. Insects in

1820
02:12:20.279 --> 02:12:26.279
general is a big, big category
which includes a lot of beneficials as well.

1821
02:12:26.359 --> 02:12:28.199
Let's pass. Uh, let's start
with the lawn. You said,

1822
02:12:28.239 --> 02:12:31.279
straw. Is that a dead lawn? Are you talking about the Saint Augustine's

1823
02:12:31.319 --> 02:12:37.560
dead? Not all over? In
certain spots it is. But then you

1824
02:12:37.680 --> 02:12:41.159
see green growing in, and you
know what I wanted to do, To

1825
02:12:41.199 --> 02:12:43.319
be honest with you, I've been
in Texas a lot of years, but

1826
02:12:43.439 --> 02:12:48.880
when I first moved here a long
time ago, I used to see people

1827
02:12:48.000 --> 02:12:56.520
burning these little spots. Is that
no, no doubt? So many layers

1828
02:12:56.520 --> 02:13:00.800
of no on that one. So
what I would do is make sure you

1829
02:13:00.840 --> 02:13:05.279
get on a good lawn schedule.
And I've got that one at Gardeningwithskip dot

1830
02:13:05.319 --> 02:13:07.560
Com. Look at that. It'll
tell you the products, it'll tell you

1831
02:13:07.600 --> 02:13:11.039
when, and I would just stay
with that. I would make sure that

1832
02:13:11.159 --> 02:13:16.880
you follow its instructions on watering and
fertilizing and everything like that and deal with

1833
02:13:16.000 --> 02:13:22.439
Okay, well, go ahead,
Okay, my husband is not here presently.

1834
02:13:22.119 --> 02:13:26.800
I mean he's on but anyways,
like he won't be here for like

1835
02:13:26.840 --> 02:13:31.840
another month. What I'm saying is
he puts on like a fall fertilizer.

1836
02:13:33.039 --> 02:13:37.600
Should I put that on? Or
should I focus on these this brown and

1837
02:13:37.640 --> 02:13:41.199
try and dig it out so there
can be air there. Well, they're

1838
02:13:41.239 --> 02:13:43.640
not mutually exclusive. Yes, your
lawn, the parts of it that are

1839
02:13:43.680 --> 02:13:48.319
alive need the fall fertilizer. And
again that's on the schedule. So yes,

1840
02:13:48.439 --> 02:13:52.960
okay, So what kind of fertilizer
would you suggest? Sir? Well,

1841
02:13:52.199 --> 02:13:58.640
go to Gardening with Skip dot Com
and it tells you if you want

1842
02:13:58.640 --> 02:14:01.319
to go organic, it gives you
your options if you if you don't go

1843
02:14:01.439 --> 02:14:05.279
synthetic, it gives you your options. They're all good fertilizers. I don't

1844
02:14:05.279 --> 02:14:09.560
put them on the schedule. If
they're not good fertilizers and so that would

1845
02:14:09.600 --> 02:14:13.960
be that would be up to you. Okay, Now in that area,

1846
02:14:13.239 --> 02:14:18.279
if I see where there would be
insects, where they have grown in the

1847
02:14:18.399 --> 02:14:22.840
moth, what does that mean?
You see insects that have gone to moths,

1848
02:14:22.880 --> 02:14:26.600
It may mean nothing. Most moths
that you see are not a problem.

1849
02:14:26.680 --> 02:14:31.960
Yeah, here's the thing I'm gonna
I'm going to have to go to

1850
02:14:31.079 --> 02:14:35.680
some other callers, but I'm going
to put you on hold. And if

1851
02:14:35.680 --> 02:14:39.720
you see some if you have some
questions, if you can capture a moth

1852
02:14:39.840 --> 02:14:41.439
or something, take a picture,
you can email it to me, but

1853
02:14:41.520 --> 02:14:45.600
always connect that with a phone call. I'm not able to keep up with

1854
02:14:45.680 --> 02:14:48.840
the volume of emails that come in
if I try to answer each one with

1855
02:14:48.880 --> 02:14:52.239
my little slow typing fingers. But
if you send an email and then call

1856
02:14:52.279 --> 02:14:58.319
back on a Saturday or Sunday and
let's talk about it, we we can

1857
02:14:58.359 --> 02:15:01.239
do that. Okay, Okay,
thank you, you've got I'm gonna put

1858
02:15:01.239 --> 02:15:05.119
your on hole there. Yeah,
that's important. You know. Fall planting

1859
02:15:07.439 --> 02:15:11.479
of trees, as I've said over
and over again today, is really important.

1860
02:15:11.520 --> 02:15:16.159
And Verdant Tree Farm has got a
wide selection of trees. Verdant Tree

1861
02:15:16.159 --> 02:15:20.199
Farm has locations. It's got the
West location out on Barker, Cyprus.

1862
02:15:20.199 --> 02:15:24.239
There's one in pair Land on Broadway
Street, and there's one in the Heights

1863
02:15:24.279 --> 02:15:28.159
area kind of where Iten and Yo
come together right there. They have a

1864
02:15:28.199 --> 02:15:33.319
fall tree Planning special twenty percent off
all trees on the farm that they have

1865
02:15:33.439 --> 02:15:39.199
located on the farm there at all
three locations, but it ends tomorrow,

1866
02:15:39.680 --> 02:15:43.640
October fifteenth, So today would be
a good day to get out there,

1867
02:15:43.079 --> 02:15:46.039
look at your trees, talk to
them, take them pictures. They're really

1868
02:15:46.039 --> 02:15:50.399
good at consulting and helping you find
the right tree and answering your questions and

1869
02:15:50.720 --> 02:15:54.319
pick it out, tag it and
then they'll you purchase it. You save

1870
02:15:54.399 --> 02:15:56.880
the money on the sale, and
then they'll bring it out and plant it

1871
02:15:56.920 --> 02:16:01.760
right for you. Verdant Tree Farm
is their website. They have a wide

1872
02:16:01.840 --> 02:16:07.239
variety of selections, so don't delay. The best time to Planet Tree is

1873
02:16:07.239 --> 02:16:11.399
forty years ago. Next best time
is today, And here we are at

1874
02:16:11.479 --> 02:16:16.159
today. We're going to go now
to West Houston and doctor Karen. Hello

1875
02:16:16.399 --> 02:16:22.720
Karen, hi there, thanks for
taking a call. I have an area

1876
02:16:22.800 --> 02:16:26.760
of my yard I've been struggling with
for many years. It's a front in

1877
02:16:26.800 --> 02:16:31.800
the front yard by there's a circular
drive, and so it's the area that's

1878
02:16:31.840 --> 02:16:35.280
inside of that that fronts on the
street, and it's about sixty feet wide,

1879
02:16:35.360 --> 02:16:39.760
maybe twenty five feet at the widest
point. But there's also two huge

1880
02:16:39.879 --> 02:16:46.479
old live oaks there that have been
competing with trying to have grat because it

1881
02:16:46.559 --> 02:16:50.799
had grass there originally, yes,
and I really really struggled that, all

1882
02:16:50.879 --> 02:16:54.920
kinds of fertilizer, watering, everything
I could do, and the San Augustine

1883
02:16:54.959 --> 02:17:00.360
just didn't want to happen very well. So I finally about this time last

1884
02:17:00.399 --> 02:17:03.920
year, I gave up on that
and get rid of the grass and put

1885
02:17:03.959 --> 02:17:11.440
in some Asian jasmine. Ok But
my problem now is the Asian jasmine,

1886
02:17:11.479 --> 02:17:13.920
even after all this time. Well, okay, part of it's me.

1887
02:17:15.040 --> 02:17:16.840
I have kind of neglected it.
I haven't fertilized it. I know I

1888
02:17:16.879 --> 02:17:22.280
should, but I just was hoping
it would be so thriving and no problem.

1889
02:17:22.440 --> 02:17:26.719
But it's it's not. And so
now now we've got good weather,

1890
02:17:26.760 --> 02:17:28.959
I really have no excuse I want
to do something. Some of it has

1891
02:17:30.040 --> 02:17:31.360
died, maybe a third of it
has died, and the rest of it

1892
02:17:31.399 --> 02:17:35.200
is just like the same little size
that it was because I planted it like

1893
02:17:35.239 --> 02:17:41.399
at eighteen inch centers or something or
whatever, and so it looks pretty bad.

1894
02:17:43.079 --> 02:17:46.040
Yeah, I understand. I plant
more osan jasmine and put in some

1895
02:17:46.079 --> 02:17:48.920
fertilizer or that's a good one.
It's a good one. You said sixty

1896
02:17:48.959 --> 02:17:54.079
feet. What's the other dimension?
Sixty ft by about twenty five twenty Okay,

1897
02:17:54.079 --> 02:17:56.959
that's a big area. There's a
lot of great shade loving groundcovers and

1898
02:17:58.239 --> 02:18:03.040
under a live oak tree because it
keeps its leaves essentially all year in terms

1899
02:18:03.120 --> 02:18:07.479
of shady all year. It's just
hard for things to get going and you

1900
02:18:07.639 --> 02:18:11.959
make something very shade loving, and
so I think Asian jasmine is an option.

1901
02:18:13.079 --> 02:18:15.639
It does need a little more sun. There are some other things you

1902
02:18:15.680 --> 02:18:18.559
can put in there. They tend
to be clumping, so planting an area

1903
02:18:18.639 --> 02:18:22.760
that big would be cost prohibitive.
So I think you're doing the right thing.

1904
02:18:22.079 --> 02:18:26.959
You might want to call someone like
Affordable Tree, have them have Martin

1905
02:18:28.000 --> 02:18:30.559
come out just take a look at
it and see what he can do to

1906
02:18:30.600 --> 02:18:33.239
the tree. Maybe they can brighten
things up again for next spring and give

1907
02:18:33.280 --> 02:18:37.920
that jasmine a little more light intensity. Doesn't need direct sun, but a

1908
02:18:37.920 --> 02:18:41.479
little more light intensity to be able
to get growing. And that. Yeah,

1909
02:18:41.520 --> 02:18:46.840
so about about two months ago I
actually did have the trees print.

1910
02:18:48.040 --> 02:18:52.719
Okay, but so at this point, yeah, I'm trying to do I

1911
02:18:52.760 --> 02:18:56.200
and I agree it does more sun
always helps, but then it seems like

1912
02:18:56.200 --> 02:19:05.760
it only encouraged we Well, yeah, jasmine isn't doing much. Maybe so

1913
02:19:05.000 --> 02:19:09.920
was there a fertilizer that would be
good or absolutely? What kind of fertilizer

1914
02:19:09.959 --> 02:19:16.799
do you use in your lawn?
Well, so I've been real I've been

1915
02:19:16.840 --> 02:19:22.399
real bad the last Okay, some
good things in the past. Let me

1916
02:19:22.399 --> 02:19:26.440
recommend that there you go use that. I've only used it like on plants

1917
02:19:26.440 --> 02:19:30.520
and the on the yard. It's
good for everything. It's good for everything.

1918
02:19:30.719 --> 02:19:33.559
If you've got microlife, then just
use that on the area and see

1919
02:19:33.600 --> 02:19:39.079
if you can give a little extra
nutritional you know, boost to it as

1920
02:19:39.120 --> 02:19:41.520
you go under there. I would
do that probably three or four times during

1921
02:19:41.639 --> 02:19:45.559
next year. You can do it
now, but again through next year to

1922
02:19:45.680 --> 02:19:48.959
keep going, keep providing that.
Make sure it doesn't lack for water,

1923
02:19:48.479 --> 02:19:52.280
because that's another issue that groundcovers can
have when they're trying to get started,

1924
02:19:52.959 --> 02:19:58.079
and hopefully with a little more light
from that printing you did, it'll help

1925
02:19:58.120 --> 02:20:01.440
out. Okay, hey, I'm
gonna have to run. I'm gonna have

1926
02:20:01.479 --> 02:20:05.399
to run. But I hope that's
helpful for you, and we look forward

1927
02:20:05.440 --> 02:20:07.319
to talking to you again. If
you have other questions. You take care.

1928
02:20:09.879 --> 02:20:13.159
You know, I was talking about
planting trees and stuff. I think

1929
02:20:13.159 --> 02:20:16.840
you should always have a tree hugger
sprinkler hanging there in the garage, just

1930
02:20:16.920 --> 02:20:18.559
considered as a tool, just like
you have a water hose, just like

1931
02:20:18.639 --> 02:20:24.600
you have other tools treo or sprinkler. Whenever you plant a tree, you

1932
02:20:24.639 --> 02:20:26.879
can take care of that tree from
the day you plant it all the way

1933
02:20:28.000 --> 02:20:31.479
to I don't know it gets twenty
feets or thirty feet across. Trehog or

1934
02:20:31.520 --> 02:20:35.200
sprinkler will get you through that next
summer too. It's always good to have

1935
02:20:35.239 --> 02:20:39.239
one hand and it just because it
says tree hugger, think of it as

1936
02:20:39.280 --> 02:20:43.200
woody ornamental hugger. Is it a
shrub, It'll do great for them?

1937
02:20:43.319 --> 02:20:48.559
Is rosebush? Yes, treogg or
sprinkler treehuggersprinkler dot com, simple as out,

1938
02:20:48.680 --> 02:20:52.000
available almost everywhere. I mean,
I see those things all the time

1939
02:20:52.280 --> 02:20:56.440
when I'm going out and about and
around. We're about to have to turn

1940
02:20:56.520 --> 02:21:01.879
things loose and let the nicky news
network take it from here. I uh,

1941
02:21:03.799 --> 02:21:07.840
you know, Nikki, you we
were talking the other day about houseplants,

1942
02:21:07.840 --> 02:21:09.680
and you're talking about how your houseplants
are doing. I always like to

1943
02:21:09.760 --> 02:21:16.680
check in on them because they you
know, they they appreciate that. I

1944
02:21:16.680 --> 02:21:20.159
think. Well, but if you
have not planted the Chinese evergreen, the

1945
02:21:20.200 --> 02:21:22.879
aglionema, did you plant some of
those? Do you remember if you did?

1946
02:21:24.079 --> 02:21:26.239
I don't. Oh, it's a
great one. It has color in

1947
02:21:26.319 --> 02:21:30.600
it has colors like coral and red
and things in it, and so it

1948
02:21:30.680 --> 02:21:35.000
really brightens up. It takes light. What about shade can it take?

1949
02:21:35.040 --> 02:21:37.879
It can take lower light than most
plants. Now, there are a few

1950
02:21:37.879 --> 02:21:41.920
houseplants that can go lower than an
agulanema, but not many. And it's

1951
02:21:41.959 --> 02:21:45.000
a good one. It's just a
really good, beautiful plant. Uh.

1952
02:21:45.159 --> 02:21:46.959
And I like the red because you
know you're gonna bity points that is to

1953
02:21:46.959 --> 02:21:50.959
put in the house and make it
all Christmas. Well, put a red

1954
02:21:50.959 --> 02:21:52.639
agglanema in there too, and you
got Christmas all year. I don't know,

1955
02:21:52.719 --> 02:21:56.280
that just came mine. But oh
wow, well, I'm finding that

1956
02:21:56.360 --> 02:22:01.479
the ones that required more light are
not doing well where I've placed them,

1957
02:22:01.600 --> 02:22:03.360
So I'm learning that relation. We
need to get your list to the others.

1958
02:22:03.479 --> 02:22:05.200
Okay, Hey, I don't want
to cut into your time, but

1959
02:22:05.280 --> 02:22:07.920
if you want to get on garden
line, call seven one three, two

1960
02:22:09.479 --> 02:22:13.959
fifty eight seventy four. All right, boy, Josh stumped me with that

1961
02:22:13.000 --> 02:22:16.920
one. That was the first time
I've ever heard that song. That's a

1962
02:22:16.959 --> 02:22:20.760
good thing to uh spread out our
mix. I know I'm probably disappointing you

1963
02:22:20.799 --> 02:22:24.280
admitting my ignorance there, Josh,
but it is what it is. Uh,

1964
02:22:26.280 --> 02:22:31.159
you know it. The folks out
at Kingwood Kingwood Garden Center and Warren's

1965
02:22:31.159 --> 02:22:33.959
Garden Center, both of those,
Wow, I still can't get over both

1966
02:22:33.000 --> 02:22:37.799
of those are in the same town. Uh. They have got a featured

1967
02:22:37.879 --> 02:22:41.079
Native of the Month this month,
and that's pink mewlely grass golf Muley.

1968
02:22:41.319 --> 02:22:43.719
I don't know if you've seen that, but it is beautiful when it has

1969
02:22:43.760 --> 02:22:48.319
the little seaedheads and the light comes
through them, it just lines it just

1970
02:22:48.079 --> 02:22:54.520
beautiful pink billows above the plant.
Awesome plant. They have got a whole

1971
02:22:54.639 --> 02:22:58.399
row of native plants coming up to
feature as we go through this season.

1972
02:22:58.760 --> 02:23:01.079
And boy, that's a good one. You're not going to go wrong with

1973
02:23:01.120 --> 02:23:03.920
that one. By the way,
they have a special out there both places.

1974
02:23:05.440 --> 02:23:07.399
You can buy a forty four pound
bag of asamite and get three dollars

1975
02:23:07.399 --> 02:23:13.920
off per bag, no limit of
their heirloom soils, Aged leaf compost.

1976
02:23:13.159 --> 02:23:16.600
The age leaf compost super high quality
product, good for top dressing, good

1977
02:23:16.680 --> 02:23:22.600
for pretty much anything you want to
use composts for what a deal? You

1978
02:23:22.639 --> 02:23:24.840
buy the as a mite and you
get three dollars off, no limit on

1979
02:23:24.920 --> 02:23:28.879
those other products. They've got all
kinds of trees and shrubs and things.

1980
02:23:28.879 --> 02:23:31.799
They got their spring bulbs out there, onions and garlic are all available.

1981
02:23:31.840 --> 02:23:35.719
I mean, my goodness, it
is just going and going and going.

1982
02:23:35.159 --> 02:23:39.719
And by the way, when when
we talk about events and things, there

1983
02:23:39.719 --> 02:23:43.239
are annual fall festivals going on out
at Warren's Garden Center. Go to their

1984
02:23:43.280 --> 02:23:50.040
website to learn more about that.
But when you are out there, you're

1985
02:23:50.079 --> 02:23:52.239
going to find products, You're going
to find knowledgeable staff, You're going to

1986
02:23:52.280 --> 02:23:56.079
find everything that you're looking for when
you head out to those places. Because

1987
02:23:56.280 --> 02:24:03.479
both Kingwood and Warren's Garden Center.
They have outstanding supply, never to disappoint.

1988
02:24:03.559 --> 02:24:07.079
By the way, tomorrow is a
Native Plant Week fifteenth through the twenty

1989
02:24:07.120 --> 02:24:11.399
first, and they're going to be
featuring those native plants. So keep your

1990
02:24:11.399 --> 02:24:15.520
eyes open when you're out and about
and always a good time to step in

1991
02:24:15.719 --> 02:24:20.600
at Warren's or Kingwood Garden Center.
Let's head to pair Land now and talk

1992
02:24:20.639 --> 02:24:24.319
to Archie. Hello Archie, morning, beautiful morning. Out of here,

1993
02:24:24.360 --> 02:24:30.280
oh man. One question, I'm
heading to Ace and I'm I'm gonna get

1994
02:24:30.280 --> 02:24:33.840
some of the false special that not
the false yes it's putting out. But

1995
02:24:35.200 --> 02:24:39.079
on the barricade. Would I be
better off going with the weed beat or

1996
02:24:39.120 --> 02:24:43.079
complete no, rather than the barricade? If I already have weeds, Well,

1997
02:24:43.479 --> 02:24:46.680
the barricade is not going to kill
an existing weed that's up there in

1998
02:24:46.719 --> 02:24:52.040
your lawn. But if there's an
existing weed in your lawn, we're heading

1999
02:24:52.159 --> 02:24:54.639
fall and it's going to be dying
anyway, unless it's a perennial weed.

2000
02:24:56.280 --> 02:25:01.239
And got some clover and I've got
some other stuff you know product, Yeah,

2001
02:25:01.280 --> 02:25:05.079
that clover looking things, probably one
of the medics or something like that.

2002
02:25:05.200 --> 02:25:09.239
And yes, using a like a
weed beater ultra spray on that weed

2003
02:25:09.360 --> 02:25:13.639
would be helpful. Now, if
you're trying to prevent clover from coming up

2004
02:25:13.680 --> 02:25:16.360
in the cool season, then the
bona I mean sorry, then the night

2005
02:25:16.399 --> 02:25:20.239
frost barricade would be what you want
to use. So we're kind of talking

2006
02:25:20.239 --> 02:25:24.559
about apples and oranges there, right. Okay, see you said just go

2007
02:25:24.719 --> 02:25:31.479
with barricade for preventing future weed.
Yes, and once once our warm season

2008
02:25:31.559 --> 02:25:35.760
weeds which the medic and some other
things that could be looking sort of like

2009
02:25:35.799 --> 02:25:41.600
clover are like our silas. Once
they're growing, uh, and they become

2010
02:25:41.639 --> 02:25:45.000
reproductive, is very hard to kill
them with a post emergent product. It

2011
02:25:45.360 --> 02:25:50.200
just can I go with that weed
beater for the fall and just spray it

2012
02:25:50.479 --> 02:25:56.399
the weed beater to kill existing weeds? Right? Yes, it's in the

2013
02:25:56.399 --> 02:26:01.280
grass, Yes you can. It's
just if they're blooming and setting sea it's

2014
02:26:01.360 --> 02:26:03.360
it's hard to kill them. It
would be better like next year if you're

2015
02:26:03.399 --> 02:26:07.239
in that same problem way or yeah, next spring or way earlier in the

2016
02:26:07.280 --> 02:26:11.000
fall to get that done before they
start doing that. But good question,

2017
02:26:13.159 --> 02:26:16.840
okay, good question. That was
it? All right? Thank you?

2018
02:26:16.920 --> 02:26:20.799
I appreciate that that call very much. Let's see, we're going to go

2019
02:26:20.000 --> 02:26:26.719
to Peggy in Port Arthur. Hello, Peggy, Hello, I have a

2020
02:26:26.840 --> 02:26:31.280
question. Is there a fruit tree
that I can plant in my front yard

2021
02:26:31.479 --> 02:26:35.639
that gets north in exposure. I
have a choice of planting it either full

2022
02:26:35.719 --> 02:26:39.319
sun or where it gets sun half
a day. You want full sun for

2023
02:26:39.440 --> 02:26:45.040
fruit because it takes okay, yeah, it takes sun to make carbohydrates and

2024
02:26:45.159 --> 02:26:50.840
carbohydrates or what we have fruit for, right, Yeah, absolutely, And

2025
02:26:50.920 --> 02:26:54.040
you know it depends on what you
like to eat as far as what you

2026
02:26:54.079 --> 02:26:58.120
would plant. Well, I don't
want sag. I know that, Okay,

2027
02:26:58.360 --> 02:27:01.159
Okay, Well, I mean could
be a centrist, it could be

2028
02:27:01.200 --> 02:27:05.360
a peach. Those are two good
ones we got. I had. I

2029
02:27:05.399 --> 02:27:11.719
had one Scott's Southern exposure freeze the
last couple of years. So this is

2030
02:27:11.040 --> 02:27:16.040
going to get full north wind and
cold. Yeah, I'm wondering what I

2031
02:27:16.079 --> 02:27:20.239
could do there. Well, you
get a peach tree established, and it

2032
02:27:20.280 --> 02:27:24.360
should take it would take a rare
year for peach to get cold damage like

2033
02:27:24.399 --> 02:27:28.360
that, and yeah, that just
doesn't happen much. So we don't worry

2034
02:27:28.399 --> 02:27:31.600
about their heartiness. They're fine.
Peaches would be fa pea cher don't last

2035
02:27:31.760 --> 02:27:37.360
long though, do they they only
last four or five years? Lasts longer?

2036
02:27:37.479 --> 02:27:41.239
Oh no, no, peaches,
they should go fifteen years for you

2037
02:27:41.760 --> 02:27:45.600
could go could go longer under conditions. But yeah, they should last.

2038
02:27:45.719 --> 02:27:48.120
They're not going to start producing well
until about three years, so yeah,

2039
02:27:48.200 --> 02:27:52.319
oh really absolutely. I haven't had
that experience before. That's why I was

2040
02:27:52.360 --> 02:27:54.600
wondering, Well, we need to
figure that out. How it could be

2041
02:27:54.680 --> 02:28:01.159
drainage If the site is soggy when
it rained a lot, that almost well,

2042
02:28:01.239 --> 02:28:05.680
almost all fruit's gonna have a problem
with that. Okay, all right,

2043
02:28:05.200 --> 02:28:07.760
yeah, I do have a drainage
problem. We get a lot of

2044
02:28:07.879 --> 02:28:13.280
rain here. Okay, on,
don't you consider putting in a raised bed

2045
02:28:13.319 --> 02:28:16.959
area, you know where you think
of a picture's mound like a baseball where

2046
02:28:16.000 --> 02:28:20.040
you bring in and create a mound
it's at least a foot high at the

2047
02:28:20.079 --> 02:28:24.200
top and then goes down, or
a bordered bed if you want that that

2048
02:28:24.440 --> 02:28:28.520
works well. I've seen round beds
for fruit trees where they had a big

2049
02:28:28.559 --> 02:28:31.920
white, ten foot wide bed and
they planted a tree in the middle.

2050
02:28:31.959 --> 02:28:37.680
It did real well, right right, Okay, I've been told once that

2051
02:28:37.760 --> 02:28:41.959
you need to make them high enough
to the height of ant belt ant mounds.

2052
02:28:43.399 --> 02:28:46.319
Does that tell well? I like
that, I said a foot because

2053
02:28:46.319 --> 02:28:50.600
that foot is going to settle a
lot, and so I guess it end

2054
02:28:50.680 --> 02:28:56.360
up maybe liking that mon Well,
they dideen inches here, so well,

2055
02:28:58.319 --> 02:29:01.680
Hey, the tree will not complain
about having more soil over over soggy than

2056
02:29:01.799 --> 02:29:05.360
less, so it'll it'll do.
Pear tree would be another good example.

2057
02:29:05.399 --> 02:29:11.719
You might want to try that one. But do they have a pear tree?

2058
02:29:13.159 --> 02:29:18.760
Do you know a name of one
that doesn't get one or twelve feet?

2059
02:29:18.159 --> 02:29:20.639
Oh, there's a lot. There's
a lot of great, great pear

2060
02:29:20.680 --> 02:29:24.200
trees out there, acres homes a
good par tree. There's a whole bunch

2061
02:29:24.200 --> 02:29:28.719
of good ones. Hey. If
you go to the Aggie Horticulture website,

2062
02:29:28.920 --> 02:29:33.319
they have a publication on pears and
it lists varieties and it tells you all

2063
02:29:33.360 --> 02:29:37.319
about how to plan them, how
to prune them. And that's true with

2064
02:29:37.399 --> 02:29:39.479
peaches too. There in fact,
any fruit is on that website. I

2065
02:29:39.479 --> 02:29:43.840
would recommend you do that and do
a little learning about it. With pears,

2066
02:29:43.879 --> 02:29:48.399
you're going to need to varieties for
pollination in most cases, with peaches

2067
02:29:48.399 --> 02:29:52.719
you don't. And so those kind
of questions they'll they'll answer all those.

2068
02:29:52.760 --> 02:29:56.680
But hey, I'm up against a
heartbreak, Peggy. Thank you for you

2069
02:29:56.200 --> 02:30:00.479
bet. Good luck, good luck
with that. When we i'm back from

2070
02:30:00.479 --> 02:30:03.319
break, Melissa, you will be
the first one up. Seven to one

2071
02:30:03.399 --> 02:30:07.280
three two one two five eight seven
four. Welcome back to Garden Line.

2072
02:30:07.360 --> 02:30:11.159
We are going into our last segment
of the day, and we got some

2073
02:30:11.200 --> 02:30:15.479
phone calls up here. We're gonna
get on those. Let's see where are

2074
02:30:15.479 --> 02:30:18.559
we going to begin. Who's first
up on the line. We've got Melissa

2075
02:30:18.719 --> 02:30:24.840
in South Houston. Hello, Melissa, Hi, skip actually at Southside Place.

2076
02:30:26.040 --> 02:30:30.680
Oh okay, that's okay. I
have two questions. One's about nut

2077
02:30:30.719 --> 02:30:35.360
grass and the others about Dahlia's on
the nut grass. We use sledgehammer.

2078
02:30:35.440 --> 02:30:37.760
You know, we know how to
try to get rid of it. But

2079
02:30:37.239 --> 02:30:41.639
my question is I have some flagstones, and I know before when I've lifted

2080
02:30:41.719 --> 02:30:48.760
up my flagstones you could see the
white What are they the roots or the

2081
02:30:48.840 --> 02:30:54.280
runners for the nuts edge? Yes, so you know you can't dig them

2082
02:30:54.280 --> 02:30:56.200
out. You can try, but
you know if you leave just a little

2083
02:30:56.239 --> 02:31:01.920
bit it'll it won't do any good. But if I spray that the roots,

2084
02:31:03.079 --> 02:31:05.760
would that kill it? No,
you have to spray green stuff.

2085
02:31:05.200 --> 02:31:09.159
Yeah, spray the green stuff,
and some of those products like image actually

2086
02:31:09.479 --> 02:31:13.159
or active in the soil as well, gets done in the soil will also

2087
02:31:13.200 --> 02:31:18.040
have some effect. But in general
I would look for the green stuff.

2088
02:31:18.079 --> 02:31:22.440
But here's the deal with nut said
it comes out of the ground using stored

2089
02:31:22.559 --> 02:31:26.159
energy from the nut that's underground,
right, and it opens up and once

2090
02:31:26.200 --> 02:31:31.760
it gets three to five leaves,
it's making those carbohydrates and it's replenishing the

2091
02:31:31.840 --> 02:31:35.159
reserves. So when you spray it, every time it gets up a little

2092
02:31:35.159 --> 02:31:37.959
bit, you spray it. Just
have it on hand. I mean,

2093
02:31:37.000 --> 02:31:41.239
you could do it every Saturday,
you know, for a while and just

2094
02:31:41.559 --> 02:31:45.239
keep knocking it back. You will
win the battle. But the problem is

2095
02:31:45.319 --> 02:31:48.399
people, you know, take it
all out or try to dig out as

2096
02:31:48.479 --> 02:31:50.959
much as they can, and then
they forget about it for two or three

2097
02:31:50.000 --> 02:31:54.360
months and it's worse than it was
when they started. Well, can you

2098
02:31:56.200 --> 02:32:00.559
keep the solution and if we make
up the solution for the switch them,

2099
02:32:00.719 --> 02:32:03.760
can you keep it in the can
or do you have to discard it every

2100
02:32:03.799 --> 02:32:07.799
time? Yeah? Generally, when
you mix up a spray with water,

2101
02:32:07.959 --> 02:32:09.120
you need to go ahead and use
it, it's not going to last.

2102
02:32:09.159 --> 02:32:13.399
There's different reasons. One of them
is the pH of the water. If

2103
02:32:13.399 --> 02:32:16.040
you buy a ready to use now, the way they've mixed it there as

2104
02:32:16.079 --> 02:32:20.040
such that it is going to be
pretty stable and you could keep using that

2105
02:32:20.600 --> 02:32:24.879
hand ready to use spray. So
it just depends on which way you purchase

2106
02:32:24.959 --> 02:32:30.280
the product, right, Okay,
okay, Now for the dahlias. I've

2107
02:32:30.319 --> 02:32:33.879
just fallen in love with dahlias.
I ordered some, you know, from

2108
02:32:33.879 --> 02:32:39.239
a magazine catalog and first time planning
on this. When did I plan them?

2109
02:32:39.239 --> 02:32:43.559
I guess this spring? Okay,
and I guess My question is I

2110
02:32:43.559 --> 02:32:48.559
think I've read different things where uh, for the winner, you take them

2111
02:32:48.600 --> 02:32:52.399
out of the ground or you leave
them. That's what I don't know what

2112
02:32:52.520 --> 02:32:54.840
to do. I'm going to give
you a quick answer to that because I

2113
02:32:54.879 --> 02:32:58.200
want to get dead bites on the
boards today. For amount of time you

2114
02:32:58.319 --> 02:33:03.120
can leave them daluas. We're a
little far south for making them happy all

2115
02:33:03.200 --> 02:33:05.920
year, but you can do that. Are you You can dig and you

2116
02:33:05.959 --> 02:33:09.639
get these little sweet potato like roots
down there and then you you plant those

2117
02:33:09.680 --> 02:33:13.719
back in. Either way we'll work. I've seen them grown up in Nenesota

2118
02:33:13.799 --> 02:33:18.360
area. Someone was growing them as
cut flowers in a greenhouse. But there's

2119
02:33:18.399 --> 02:33:20.559
certain varieties that do better down here. I can't name off the top of

2120
02:33:20.600 --> 02:33:24.799
my head, but that's kind of
the deal. In a nutshell on the

2121
02:33:24.840 --> 02:33:26.280
Daluas. And again, Melissa,
I'm sorry to have to run in you,

2122
02:33:26.360 --> 02:33:31.920
but no, thank you very much
for that call. By the way,

2123
02:33:31.079 --> 02:33:33.559
let's go to the heights and talk
to Mike. Hello, Mike.

2124
02:33:35.680 --> 02:33:39.440
Hey, Jim got an area that
I had to take a tree out of

2125
02:33:39.079 --> 02:33:50.959
the age and now it's completely study. I'm thinking about planning asiatic jazz this

2126
02:33:52.079 --> 02:33:58.920
area, and my question is what
is the proper play to plant asiatic jazz?

2127
02:33:58.520 --> 02:34:01.920
Yeah, fertilizer to the hole or
yeah, tell me what's doing?

2128
02:34:01.959 --> 02:34:05.120
All right? In a nutshell,
you want to break up the soil as

2129
02:34:05.159 --> 02:34:07.920
best you can. If you can
mix some compost maybe an inch or to

2130
02:34:07.959 --> 02:34:13.040
a compost in the soil throughout the
whole area, not just the planting hole,

2131
02:34:13.799 --> 02:34:16.000
to get ready. And then when
you plant, just plant it with

2132
02:34:16.200 --> 02:34:20.600
no fertilizer in the hole. Make
sure the soil firms in watered in really

2133
02:34:20.600 --> 02:34:24.479
well, give it. You know, you could go ahead and put a

2134
02:34:24.479 --> 02:34:26.559
fertilizer down. But I would give
it a few weeks and let it get

2135
02:34:26.559 --> 02:34:31.479
some roots going coming out of those
little planting you know, four inch pots

2136
02:34:31.520 --> 02:34:35.879
or however you bought it, and
uh, and then the fertilizer would be

2137
02:34:35.920 --> 02:34:39.239
helpful. And I would use any
of the lawn fertilizers. I recommend on

2138
02:34:39.440 --> 02:34:45.399
jasmine. Yeah, I have my
browed eyes one of the pas like that.

2139
02:34:46.559 --> 02:34:50.000
Okay, that would be perfect.
It would do well, just with

2140
02:34:50.040 --> 02:34:52.479
the microlife. I would probably do
it about four times next year. If

2141
02:34:52.479 --> 02:34:56.559
you're planting this fall, do it. You could do it after, you

2142
02:34:56.600 --> 02:34:58.559
know, this fall, just to
have some nutrients as a roots for getting

2143
02:34:58.559 --> 02:35:03.879
going through winner. But four times
next year, just gradually giving it a

2144
02:35:03.959 --> 02:35:07.760
nutrient as you go through the season. Okay, right right, thank you

2145
02:35:07.879 --> 02:35:13.079
very much. I appreciate that.
All right, let's see here we are

2146
02:35:13.159 --> 02:35:18.159
going to now go to Sean and
Katie. Hey Sean, Hey, Sean,

2147
02:35:18.639 --> 02:35:22.360
how are you? I'm good?
What's up? Okay? I got

2148
02:35:22.399 --> 02:35:28.040
a san augustine that has that has
become strong basically ninety percent of it and

2149
02:35:28.280 --> 02:35:33.879
the rest of them it has dark
weed, which is weed all over patches

2150
02:35:33.920 --> 02:35:39.040
of weed. And I yesterday went
down to the single ranch ace hardware,

2151
02:35:39.159 --> 02:35:41.639
and I had bought the Texas three
step. Along with that, I had

2152
02:35:41.639 --> 02:35:46.200
bought as a might and bug out. Okay, Now my question is with

2153
02:35:46.319 --> 02:35:52.760
that take care of this yard,
because I was planning to put the barricade,

2154
02:35:52.799 --> 02:35:58.239
first the fertilizer and then the fung
guy fung aside, and then as

2155
02:35:58.280 --> 02:36:01.639
a might and bug out. Okay, are these steps or would take care

2156
02:36:01.680 --> 02:36:03.399
of it? Hold on to the
bug out. We don't have a big

2157
02:36:03.639 --> 02:36:09.520
insect problem right now. Hold on
to it and next next year, whether

2158
02:36:09.520 --> 02:36:15.200
you're dealing with fall webworms or chinchbugs
or us fall webworms, side webworms or

2159
02:36:15.280 --> 02:36:18.360
chinch bugs or grubs, you know
it can be helpful for those. Okay,

2160
02:36:18.399 --> 02:36:20.719
so hold on to that one.
Are you going to be residing,

2161
02:36:20.719 --> 02:36:24.520
because it sounds like you lost most
of the lawn, right yeah, I

2162
02:36:24.760 --> 02:36:30.680
lost most of the lawn. I
don't know what the best, okay step

2163
02:36:30.719 --> 02:36:35.360
would be. Well, you can
go ahead with those things you're talking about,

2164
02:36:35.600 --> 02:36:39.639
you know, if you're residing,
you know, putting down things right

2165
02:36:39.680 --> 02:36:43.000
now, I don't know you could
do it. You could do it,

2166
02:36:43.040 --> 02:36:46.760
but you're about to just redo the
place anyway. So I'm a little bit

2167
02:36:46.840 --> 02:36:52.079
at in a limbo there on those, But just go ahead and use those

2168
02:36:52.120 --> 02:36:54.040
products if you're going to leave it
at least for now, because you need

2169
02:36:54.079 --> 02:36:58.159
to wait to reside at this point, I'd probably wait until spring to do

2170
02:36:58.239 --> 02:37:01.520
it, and you could do the
earlier in the month. Follow the instructions

2171
02:37:03.399 --> 02:37:07.280
and that should work fine for you. Okay, Do I space it out

2172
02:37:07.680 --> 02:37:13.280
every day, like, not put
them all at once. No, you

2173
02:37:13.319 --> 02:37:16.959
can use all of those one right
after the other. The only thing you

2174
02:37:16.040 --> 02:37:20.360
don't do is put them all in
the same fertilizer hopper at the same time.

2175
02:37:20.200 --> 02:37:24.280
Okay, all right, thank you. You've got good luck with that

2176
02:37:24.399 --> 02:37:26.639
out there, and Katie, hope
you recover. I know what that's like.

2177
02:37:26.719 --> 02:37:31.840
I lost a section alon myself this
summer. It's no fun to have

2178
02:37:31.879 --> 02:37:35.719
to deal with that. You know. You talk about the nitrophiles. That

2179
02:37:35.760 --> 02:37:41.959
three step is. It's really a
good combination. It does what it's supposed

2180
02:37:41.959 --> 02:37:43.639
to do, and what is it
supposed to do. Well, fall fertilizer

2181
02:37:45.040 --> 02:37:48.200
is supposed to get your lawn ready
for winter, so it comes out stronger

2182
02:37:48.200 --> 02:37:52.840
in spring, so it's more cold
hearty, so it's more drought resistant.

2183
02:37:52.000 --> 02:37:58.000
That's what it does. What does
the barricade do. It prevents the germination

2184
02:37:58.159 --> 02:38:03.959
and establishment of so all those winter
weeds hanbit, chickweed, clover, annual

2185
02:38:03.959 --> 02:38:11.440
bluegrass, what beggars, cleavers,
ved straw, all that stuff. Those

2186
02:38:11.479 --> 02:38:15.239
are close season weeds and they're going
to be coming up later in October or

2187
02:38:15.760 --> 02:38:20.120
November, or they can sprout through
the winter season and it'll carry all the

2188
02:38:20.120 --> 02:38:24.879
way into spring. As a pre
emergent preventative of those weeds. Now,

2189
02:38:24.920 --> 02:38:28.079
the third step is an eagle fung
aside that soaks in. It soaks in,

2190
02:38:28.200 --> 02:38:31.559
it's taken into the plant tissues.
It's like a systemic It doesn't move

2191
02:38:31.600 --> 02:38:35.959
all over the place, but it's
taken in and moves around that area.

2192
02:38:35.440 --> 02:38:39.399
And when a disease tries to attack
the grass, you've already got the fungicide

2193
02:38:39.440 --> 02:38:43.360
in there that's helping out. It
also works on the surface as well,

2194
02:38:43.879 --> 02:38:48.559
and so here comes large patch or
brown patch this fall. If you've had

2195
02:38:48.600 --> 02:38:52.520
a problem with the year after year, you're probably going to have a problem

2196
02:38:52.520 --> 02:38:56.200
with it again, and the three
step process takes care of it. You

2197
02:38:56.239 --> 02:39:01.000
can buy it at Gym's Hardware in
Montgomery, Ace Hardware and City Memorial or

2198
02:39:01.120 --> 02:39:07.840
Lake Hardware. Out include speaking of
Ace Hardware, I'm going to be at

2199
02:39:07.879 --> 02:39:13.680
Ace Hardware in Ooh about an hour
and a half eleven thirty to one thirty.

2200
02:39:13.719 --> 02:39:18.000
I'll be at All Star Ace Hardware
and Magnolia. I hope all of

2201
02:39:18.040 --> 02:39:20.440
you from that area will come out. Bring your neighbor that doesn't take care

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of his lawn. He can ask
me questions too. We're going to answer

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your questions. We're going to identify
plants, We're going to diagnose problems.

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We're going to make suggestions for beautifying
your landscape. This summer has been a

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brutal one, and I bet there's
a few plants you need to replace,

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or maybe something you just want to
add to the landscape. Let's talk about

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it. I'm going to be given
away Nitrofuss three step several times during my

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two hours there at at the table
at Ace Hardware in Magnolia eleven thirty to

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one thirty. I hope to get
to see you. I always love meeting

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folks that listen to the show.
Hey, we'll be back tomorrow morning six

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to ten am.