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Ktr H Garden Line does not necessarily
endorse any of the products or services advertised

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on this program. Welcome to ktr
H Garden Line with Skip Rictor, It's

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smell the Crazy Trip. Just watch
him as Wood tell us so many teas

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to see crazy lubs kicking. We're
not a good Saturday morning. We are

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glad you're listening to garden Line and
we're looking forward to having a good day

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talking about gardening. You'd like to
give us a call. Our phone number

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is seven one three two one two
five eight seven four seven one three two

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one two KTRH. If you like
to dial by letters, give Josh you

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call. He'll get you on the
board and we'll talk about the gardening topics

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you are interested in. How about
that sounds like a good deal. Hey,

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Well, before we even get started, I want to let you know

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that today I will be out at
Lake Conro at the Home and Garden and

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Boat show and that is Margaritaville.
Yeah, be at Margaritaville for that show.

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And that's an also outdoor living all
kinds of great information there. There's

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a lot going on. I'm going
to be doing a seminar. I'm getting

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your lawn and garden ready for the
fall season. And then I'll be hanging

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around to answering your gardening questions.
And I have got some fertilizer to give

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away. Nelson's Plant Food donated some
products for us, and we've got some

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little two pound jars and a couple
of four pound jars we're gonna be given

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away to folks that come up and
take part in the seminar. Stop in

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visit with me at the booth.
So here's your chance to get a little

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sample of a quality fertilizer to take
home and try out. See how you

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like it. Actually, I already
know how you like it. You're gonna

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love it. But all you have
to do is show up at Margaritaville out

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on Lake Conro and we'll talk about
that a little bit more later. Well,

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let's see, I guess we need
some like ding ding ding ding.

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Just this just in background music here
today, I'm here for the first time

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to announce that our new lawn care
schedule is out. I know I've been

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talking about it for a while and
hopefully you've been waiting on it. The

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lawn care schedule is it covers fertilizing
and it does it by organic options and

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synthetic options. Talks about doing your
core aeration and top dressing important a practice

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to do. It, talks about
the trace mineral supplements that we put on

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a lawn when we might do that, and then it goes into a little

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bit about mowing and believe it or
not, there's quite a bit to say

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about how to mode. You know, the single most important thing we do

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for a dense lawn is proper mowing
schedule and then watering. And believe it

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or not, I know you think
turn on the water, it comes on,

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grass grows right. Well, there's
a little more to it than that.

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If you want to have success and
avoid problems, then there's a long

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list of your fertilizer options for each
of those. Now this has got a

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lot more information than the previous schedule, so when you first look at it,

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it may be like, oh my
gosh, that's a lot on one

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schedule. But if you just take
a line at a time, it's real

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simple. It tells you each month
of the year what to do when it

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comes to fertilizing, aerating, mowing, watering, and the other schedule coming

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out it's not quite out yet,
is the pest, disease and weed management

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schedule and it goes through every month
of the year. What kind of insects

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might you be seeing and what do
you do about it? What kind of

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diseases and what do you do about
it? And how do you prevent weeds

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and how do you control weeds?
It are already growing, so I think

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you're going to like these. Just
take some time. You can get them.

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You can get the schedule for free
on the web. I just put

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up a new website and basically it's
just housing the schedule. Right now.

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We're going to be adding a lot
of content to the website on all aspects

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of gardening. But right now,
if you go to gardening with Skip dot

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com Gardening with Skip dot com,
then you go there and pretty much the

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schedule is the website right now.
You can click on it. It's a

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PDF. You can download it,
you can print it. You can tape

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it to your refrigerator or put a
magnet on refrigerator. You probably wouldn't be

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popular in the family if you taped
it to the refrigerator unless you're going on

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living there, but anyway, you
get the idea. It's available, so

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take a look at it. Look
through it, and I think I think

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you'll be very pleased and find that
there is a lot of great information.

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I want to tell you. I
put a lot of time into this one,

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basically asking myself the question at the
start, Okay, what is the

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latest information that we have from research
across the country, especially across the south

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in our zone on proper fertilizing,
proper mowing, watering, so on.

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Because we wanted this to be as
up to date as we can. So

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anyway, check it out. Gardening
with Skip dot com. Let's go ahead

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and go to the phones again our
phone number seven one three two one two

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five eight seven four, and we
are going to go to Alvin and talk

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to Helen. Good morning, Helen, good morning. How can we help?

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I was wondering. I had a
fig leaf planned in the house.

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It's about three feet tall, okay, and I have at work and get

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some through patio door. But I
just think that there's some type something I

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could put with the water, because
our water, you know, has chlorine

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and it is different. Ellen,
that's in it. So what I've heard

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you say, garden gardening with is
it kit kit? Skip my name gardener

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with Okay, that's okay, gardening
with skip you bet so? Okay,

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Well, the chlorine is not that
big of a deal. In fact,

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it's I think probably chlora means actually
they've they've changed the product that they are,

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the chemicals that they use to protect
our water from microbial issues and things

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over the years. But in general, I have not found a big problem

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without I have a fiddle e fig
and and uh it's those can be a

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little persnicketty, But I don't think
you need to worry about the water.

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If you have rain water, it'll
be happier, you know, if you

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have that. Even to still water
is fine if you want to use that.

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But I just use regular tap water
with mine. You wouldn't add anything

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to it, didn't. Oh,
yes, yes, absolutely, dude.

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You got two options. You can
put a fertilizer in the container and then

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every time you water, it's dissolving
and releasing that. It's best if it's

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a very slow release fertilizer when you
do that, because the way you avoid

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burning it. You know, you
dump a bunch of salt based fertilizer in

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a pot and you can really fry
a plants roots and their leaves. I

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also use liquid products you know,
the Microlife makes a really nice seven one

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four. It is biomatrix is what
they call it. It's an orange bottle.

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I use that. Medina has a
nice fertilizer as well. They're they're

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low host to grow. That works
very well for houseplants. So you got

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some options out there. But well, I really appreciate that. Yeah,

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follow the label always, you know, make sure you know, we tend

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to think if a teaspoon's good,
a tablespoon's better, and when it comes

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to gardening, that is not true. That's true, so true. I

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appreciate your program, and thank you
for your help. Thank you, Helen.

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I appreciate that. We're and take
a break here now, Tom and

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Angelo, we see you out there. You'll be first when we come up

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

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ball, Well, good morning on
a great Saturday morning to talk about gardening.

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In fact, look out the windows
dark outside. If you the neighbors

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lights aren't on, go bang on
the door, tell them they're missing guarden

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line. They will rise up and
call you something today, but eventually they

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will call you blessed for turning them
onto the show. Hey, we are

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in that season where here comes the
tropical storms. Right now. Whenever there's

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roof damage, you know that the
fly by nighters are going to come in

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from out of town wherever the last
storm was, put a business card in

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your door and tell you they're going
to help you get your insurance claim to

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fix your roof. Don't go with
those, I mean, they don't live

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here. They are gone, and
if something's wrong, you're up a creek.

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Brinkman Roofing that's our hometown roofer.
They've been doing this for fifty years,

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and you don't stick around fifty years
unless you're doing it right now.

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You can go to Brinkman Quality dot
com and learn more about them, give

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them a call two eight one four
eight zero seventy six sixty three. They

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do standard types of shingle. They
do standing metal seams. I mean they

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can literally put together the metal roof
on your property so that it is custom

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fit to fit perfectly. And they
have a solar shingle, which I think

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is really cool. It's called Timberline
solar shingle, so they're a it's not

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a solar panel above your roof,
it is your roof. So called Brinkman

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find out more about that. Two
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three. Let's head out now to
Cyprus and we're going to visit with Tom.

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Good Morning, Tom, Good Morning. My problem is I was here

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in your show last Saturday. Somebody
was talking about you were talking about armadillas,

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and the guy mentioned something about macaroni
and cheese, and my radio went

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dead. I'd like to get what
was the clarification on that conversation. Okay,

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well, we're not feeding them like
pets outside, but here's what I

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said. Armadillas. You know,
they're bumbling little things going along tearing up

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the yard because they're just looking for
soft dirt with something they can dig up

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and eat, like a grub or
earthworm or anything like that. And so

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they're a problem. Now. The
best way to manage them is to get

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a little live trap and set two
boards. Think of it as shape like

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a v going out like you're funneling
them into the trap, because that's just

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how they operate. Typically, they'll
bounce along a privacy fence, you know,

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or along the side of the house, and so you set the trap

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up to just kind of get in
front of them and direct them in.

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And if you boil elbow macaroni and
beef bullyon, I guess it makes it

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like little grubs to them or something. But just drop a few of those

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and that kind will help lead them
into the trap. And that's how you

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do it, so you can relocate
them somewhere else, all right. The

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second question is suckers on crepe myrtle, how do you keep them from coming

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back? Cut them off as close
as you can, almost to the point

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of gouging them out where they're coming
out, because at the base of the

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sucker there's a whole bunch of buds. So I mean, if you cut

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it off an inch long, you're
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shoots right there where you cut it
off. So get as much of that

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as you can out. There is
a product out there called sucker Stopper sucker

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stopper, and it's a hormone and
you spray it on the cut after you

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make it, and it tells the
plant don't put out a shoot here,

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and it works a little will works
pretty good. But some crepes are really

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prone to that. Some are not. But I can tell you this.

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Once you start that process, of
cutting them off and getting more suckers.

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It just seems to get worse and
worse. So that would be my recommendation.

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All right, thank you very much, Thank you, Tom. I

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appreciate that call very much. Hey, if you're doing any transplanting this fall,

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and boy, I hope you are, because this is the time to

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plant, like right now, your
tomato plants. You can plant pepper plants

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still, we're coming up on broccoli
and all the cool seasoned vegetables. Has

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to grow six twelve six. That
is an outstanding product for watering your transplants

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in I mean, it has a
lot of good uses. That's my favorite

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use for it, but has to
grow six twelve six. Has the six

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percent nitrogen twelve phosphorus. That phosphorus
number being higher is important for root development

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and other activities in the plant that
it needs phosphorus for. And then six

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percent potassium. It's got Medina soil
activator to stimulate biological activity. It's got

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hum humic acid, it's got seaweed
extract. This is quite a concoction.

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I mix it in a watering can
and drench it on the plant that I

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just planted. This could be a
rosebush, too. I mean, it

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doesn't have to be a little annual
plant and then about a week later,

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do it again, about a week
later, do it again, and by

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then your plant is well on its
way to success and we need to give

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them that extra boost. And that
is exactly what you can do with the

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hasterbro six twelve six. We are
going to head out now to Kingwood and

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talk to Angelo. Hello. Angelo, Hey, how you doing today,

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sir? I'm well, thank you. Okay, here's a thing. I

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got maybe half a dozen well established
primaria plants, about two of them now

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I'm guessing My question is to the
watering schedule. Okay, with the extreme

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heat, I would soak them with
the water hose in the dirt. And

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here it looks like they're some are
dying. You're just the leaves are drooping.

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The other ones I do the same
thing and it's they don't droop at

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all. So my question is do
primarias need a lot of water they don't

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like in a wintertime. I know
they hardly need any. But now what

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the drought can do? Am I
watering them too much? Or is just

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a thing or what? I don't
know what it is because this has never

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happened before, and they're about three
years old and six feet tall. Yeah,

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that's very interesting. So the real
question is why with the same care

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to some droop and some not.
And that's either going to be the soil

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doesn't hold water as well with one
or maybe the soil doesn't drain well.

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And the ones that are drooping is
because the roots are sitting in soggy wet

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conditions which will damage roots and therefore
show wilting. It's kind of weird that

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a plant and standing water wilts,
but that's what can happen. So I

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would you know as far as what
they need. They're not a succulent,

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but they have storage tissues in the
trunk and branches and so they can go

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without watering you in the wintertime.
We hang them upside down the garage if

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you want. They wait for spring, so of course they don't have leaves

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on them then and all that,
but I don't want to infer that they're

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drought resistant. You do need to
water them periodically to keep them happy.

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The question on yours, though,
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know this not being there on site, but is why with the same care

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or some Okay, and some not. And I would just dig down about

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three or four inches, feel the
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about six inches or eight inches or
tea around the bay away from the

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plant, and if if it's moist
to the touch, then they ought to

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be okay. If it's a little
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And if it's soggy, there's your
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it's all on containers, it's all
the same soil type, it's all

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like water all the like. Could
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because the one is, like I
said, six foot tall, but it

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just looks like it's ready to die, like I overwatered it. So okay,

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doing everything right, I would,
I would say not so much.

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Well, the bigger the plant,
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going to need to supply it.
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small area instead of a larger area, that could be a factor. As

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the plant gets older, the root
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the root sysm isn't as well established. So consider how wet wide of

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an area you're wedding on that big
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in the soil to find out is
there water there or not? Or is

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there too much? And okay,
my last quick question. If those leaves

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like they're drooping now, they just
look like they've been in a flood.

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If they fall off, does that
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leaves set is dead. It means
that leaf set is dead. Now if

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they don't throw away the plant,
pardon, don't throw away the plant.

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If the leaves off all off?
No, not yet, not yet,

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And I am not I'll just tell
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a Plumaria expert, so we may
need to get somebody from the Plumarius Society

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to call in on some of this
as well a horticulturist. But yeah,

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they can drop leaves and they can
put new leaves on if they drop leaves.

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Because let's just say you had a
root route that killed all the roots,

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just an example, Well, then
it's probably in big trouble. But

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you know, plumeria is you can
cut a branch off a plant and it's

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just a dormant stick and you stick
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So it had no roots to begin
with at all. So there's there's probably

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a way to save those plants.
If okay, well, thank you very

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much. I appreciate your information.
I have a good day. Hey Angelo,

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thank you. I appreciate your call
very much. Good to always visit

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with you. Hey, if you're
up in the Lake Conro area, your

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hometown nursery is Ana Plants and Produce. They are on the east side of

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Montgomery, just Highway one oh five
that goes to Conro, just on the

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east side of Montgomery. Now they've
been around for thirty years. This place

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is three acres of everything you can
imagine. So those of you in Lake

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Conro De Lago April Sound, you
know, even over Magnolia willis certainly Conro,

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you can head over to Ana Plants
and find all kinds of things you

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need. They carry all the products
that we talked about. So if I

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talk about a fertilizer, you're going
to find it there at Ana Plants.

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They certainly have soils like quality soils. Some of those folks here locally that

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produce the quality soils we talk about, they're going to have that. By

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the way, today it'd be a
good day to go buy because I'm going

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to be up at the Lake Conro
Home and Garden and boat show up at

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Margaritaville on Lake Conro and so I
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So come up and see me there. Let's visit. I'm gonna do a

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program for about an hour on all
kinds of things about getting ready for your

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fall season in your lawn and garden. And then I'll be there at a

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table where we can you can come
up and ask questions. I'm gonna be

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given away some fertilizer samples from Nelson
Plant Food. When we're done there,

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just are before just head over to
Ana Plants maybe after, because you don't

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want your plants sitting in the car
in this hot weather. Head over to

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Ana Plants and see what they have. They're open seven days a week from

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nine to five. Yeah. I
look forward to you folks coming up and

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let's visit. Well, we're up
there. We're gonna head out now to

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Pleasantville and talk to Deborah. Well, hello, Deborah, Good morning,

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Skip, good morning. Okay,
check out my email on brown patch question

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mark which I think I got it? You think? Yeah? Brown patch?

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Okay, well I can tell you
this. I'm almost pit. Well,

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you've got something. Brown Patch is
a disease. The genus is raise

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octonia, and there are other riise
octonias, but the one we've always called

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brown patch, they now call it
large patch. And it only is going

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to occur when it cools off.
We get into that, you know,

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cool fronts of fall come through,
get a little bit of rain, get

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a break in the temperatures. That's
when you see the big circles. If

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you're seeing something now, first of
all, is it nice defined circles or

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is it just kind of areas all
over going down? The most areas going

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down. If you look at the
picture that I sent you, okay,

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email that I sent you, I
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the first one, okay, and
the whole yard on the second one,

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and then the little strip grafted the
sidewalk is the current one. The last

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is a weed. Did I reply
to your email last night? Yes?

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You did? Oh, thank you
so much. Well, I'm gonna have

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to find I'm to find oh,
I remember that email that I think that

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is either a drought damage issue,
just couldn't get enough water to supply the

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plant, or it could be a
disease called take all root rot. I'm

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about twenty seconds out from having to
take a break here. If you want

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to hang on, we'll talk to
you when we come right back and we

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can kind of continue this just a
little bit. Okay, hang on,

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all right, thank you, Deborah. I appreciate that. All right,

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Well, it is time for the
Nikki News Network. I know you haven't

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left the house yet because you first
got to hear what's happening in Houston before

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you head out down the road.
Right. Well, good morning. You

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are listening to Gardenline, and we're
here to talk about all kinds of things

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gardening. Hey, if you were
looking for a fun thing to do,

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and I would suggest get some friends
and go out to check out a bee

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tour out at the Bee Supply and
Dayton. Now, I know you're thinking,

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okay, don't I don't do bees. I don't if you see what

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they have to show you, I
mean, the fascinating world to bees.

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It is really cool, especially if
you have kids or grandkids or anything they

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really need to learn all about the
fascinating world to bees. You also get

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free tastings about a half dozen different
types of honey. If you are at

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all interested in keeping backyard bees,
and you should be because they helped pollinate

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our plants, you'll have more success
in your fruiting vegetables like squash and cucumbers

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and things. If you have a
good supply bees right there on hand,

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plus you get the honey that's an
extra. You can go to the b

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supply dot Com online. The b
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beginners classes once a month out there
in Dayton. You can learn all aspects

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of beekeeping and you will find it
very interests, a lot of a lot

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of learning in a wonderful classroom that
they have a lot of hands on learning

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as well. It's about a six
hour class that includes lunch too. So

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thebe supply dot Com is where both
groups those who want to keep bees or

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maybe just curious about it, and
those who just want to learn about bees

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and kind of have a fun,
cool thing that probably I bet you've never

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done before. Check it out at
the b supply dot Com. We're gonna

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go back to Deborah now, Hey, Deborah, when we had a little

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break, it gave me a chance
to look at those pictures again. What

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it looks like to me. It's
either the lawn got too dry for a

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little while, and you know,
started you start to get some die back,

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but it's still hanging on or the
disease called take all root rot has

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moved in. It is not.
It's definitely not brown patch or large patch.

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It's not subul worms on your lawn. Looking at the condition of the

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grass up close, noticing how across
the sidewalk the grass where the water runs

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off the sidewalk is nice and green
and pretty, but out in the lawn

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it's not quite so much. So
you might check your sprinkler system make sure

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that it is equally wetting all areas
of the lawn. That often doesn't happen

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with sprinkler systems. So it could
be stand out there and I'll walk around

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with it. Oh you do.
Oh okay, so you're the water the

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required water of my yard. That's
what the sprinkle only requiring one of my

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yard acing Ya, I go around
in a hand doomed corners. Okay,

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so you're you're taking care of it. Yeah, just make sure it's getting

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a good soaking. You know,
when we water a little bit every other

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day, we're not wetting the soil
deep at all. A good sofa to

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try to get an inch down when
you water, you don't have to water

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is often and in the long term
it saves water because every time you wet

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the soil, when the water goes
off, everything on the grass, blades

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and thatch evaporates away. And that
was water you didn't get. And so

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a good soaking gets enough down in
the soil. So I would do that.

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As far as the take all,
you could send a sample into the

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state lab or we could just you
know, in the fall, go to

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a a fungicide treatment. I hate
to send people out to treat things,

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and we're not when we're not sure
what you have. But so those are

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your options. Just do a funchal
October. That's your October. I put

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down the whole yard of heirloom soils, compost the age leaf compost. Yeah,

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that can't get any better, not
lose great. Yeah, yeah,

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okay, And do you look at
that last picture. That's that weed.

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I think you told me it was
a fall aster. Yes it is.

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It's a fall master. And if
you know, we're at a horrible time

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to be spraying broadly weed control on
our lawns. But if you get out

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really early in the morning before it
gets too hot, let's say, before

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it gets above eighty five, so
that means early, right, you can

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spot spray those with a post emergent
broad leaf weed control. They're going to

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be blooming soon in the next month
or two or three, and so at

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once they start blooming, there's no
spray in them. They they're not going

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to respond what I do with mine. As you can see from your photo,

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they have a single tap root.
So wet the soil deeply so that

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it's soft, and then I get
out there with a five gallon bucket on

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my hands and knees and I just
pull a few. I do it early

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in the morning, and then another
day I'll get out and do a few

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and do a few. And you
can take a big, old wide fall

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aster plant and you just you find
the base of it, grab it tight,

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shake it a little bit and it
pops right up. Or you can

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use a weeding fork. So you
know, I just have one area in

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my yard where my neighbor doesn't take
care of their weeds, and fall aster

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keeps coming into my yard, and
so I keep it managed that way.

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But spraying is the other way.
Just be careful because those products will hurt

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your Saint Augustine. When it's above
eighty five, okay, I'll call it

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tomorrow. About a Lazella Papa.
All right, thank you, ma'am.

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Appreciate that call. Very much.
Good to visit with you. You know,

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if you are if you are looking
for a quality product for your cacti

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and your succulents, you know those
are real popular right now, cacti and

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succulents. And with one hundred degrees
and head and rained and I don't know

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how many days, I guess cacti
and succulents would be popular. Nature's Creation

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has a cacti in succulent mix.
It's got microhizal fungi both endo and ecto.

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What does that mean, Well,
it means it means there are fungi

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that are inside the root and outside
the route that reach out, protect the

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route from problems and bring nutrients to
the plant. Pretty cool stuff right now.

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This product drains well, maintains a
good soil moisture. It's just an

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excellent product. It's Natchers Creation Organic
Cactus and succulent Mix with Michael Eislfungi.

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You're gonna find it at Moss Nursery, at RCW Wabash Feed, Sweet Organic

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Solutions, Houston Garden Centers, I
mean the place. It's sold all around

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town. And if you have cactine
succulents. It is a product that if

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I were repotting some more, I
would give this one very serious close look,

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because I think you will find that
it will give you good success.

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We're gonna head out now to Santa
Fe and talk to John. Hello John,

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Good morning, sir. Good morning
taking my call. Yes, sir,

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I have two questions. I seated
put some beats in some potting soil,

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and I put some Brussels sprouts in
and they're both starting to poke their

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little heads up. Okay, when
do I When do I want to get

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those into the ground. Oh boy, Well, the the beats are a

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little bit of a challenge because there
are root so you can't leave them too

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long in a container. Probably got
a little bit of an early start on

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those. You may end up having
to do a recede a little bit later.

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Beats are essentially the same plant as
Swiss chard. I mean, they're

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so closely related. Uh, and
so those kinds of things we would plant

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probably in September. Uh, you
know, start to seat them out as

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we get a little bit later in
the month. The Brussels sprouts too,

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that's a cool season crop. And
it's going to take a little while to

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grow transplants, probably about six weeks
to get a good Brussels sprouts transplant,

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and so you know, I would
say probably towards the end of September,

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let's see year out in Santa Fe. Yeah, you could even go a

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little bit later than that, probably
too. They take a while. So

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when you plan them out, if
you can give them any kind of a

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little bit of a break from the
sun, it could be a shade,

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are okay, Well, when you
put them in the garden too, uh,

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you know, they're going to be
exposed to the full brunt, and

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so any kind of a little temporary, not deep shade, but just a

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little break from the sun for the
first few weeks. That gives it time

408
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to cool off, maybe get a
cofrun in here, and helps them make

409
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that adjustment from living the life O'Riley
in your little transplant pots to being stuck

410
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out there in the full brunt of
the sun. All right, good,

411
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yes, sir. The second question
is, Hey, John, I'm gonna

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have to stop you on that.
Hang on. I have to go to

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a break and we'll take your second
question when we come back. If you

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can hang on you are listening to
garden Line. Our phone number seven one

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three two one two fifty eight seventy
four. All thettle birds on Deep Birth

416
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Street don't do it. The Robin
Bull tweeting Robby Well, good morning.

417
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We are talking gardening as we always
do here on garden Line. Our phone

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number if you'd like to be part
of the talking gardening is seven one three

419
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two one two fifty eight seventy four. That's two one two kat r H.

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When was the last time you were
at Buchanan's Plants? Talking about Buchanan's

421
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Plants. It's in the Heights on
Eleventh Street up in the Heights kind of

422
00:30:17.039 --> 00:30:22.400
north central Houston. You can find
their website at Buchanan's Plants dot com and

423
00:30:22.440 --> 00:30:26.559
you need to check that out.
That is a wealth of information on that

424
00:30:26.720 --> 00:30:30.599
website. Also subscribe to their newsletter
where you're there because you find out everything

425
00:30:30.640 --> 00:30:33.680
going on, and you know,
sales and new plants that just came in,

426
00:30:33.759 --> 00:30:37.200
and all kinds of cool stuff.
Right now, they're loaded up with

427
00:30:37.240 --> 00:30:41.640
all kinds of Halloween decor indoors and
outdoors. You know, they've got a

428
00:30:41.680 --> 00:30:45.240
new shipment of camellias. It just
came in and if you have not tried

429
00:30:45.279 --> 00:30:51.960
grown a chamelion. Those are really
beautiful plants. What blooms in December or

430
00:30:51.960 --> 00:30:56.119
in January. You depending on the
kind of camelia you have. Well they're

431
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not a lot, but camellias do
and they are absolutely beautiful. They got

432
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communions, they got the fertilizers to
go with them. You know, with

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Buchanans, we think native plants because
that's what they specialize in. I mean,

434
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they actually have natives that are native
just to here, to the Houston

435
00:31:11.319 --> 00:31:15.920
Harris County area specifically, and then
natives to the region or to the state

436
00:31:15.960 --> 00:31:18.680
as well. You're going to find
every product that I talk about when it

437
00:31:18.720 --> 00:31:23.240
comes to fertilizing adding you know,
soil mixes and composts and things. They're

438
00:31:23.240 --> 00:31:26.920
going to have it there at Buchanans. It's a fun place to shop and

439
00:31:26.960 --> 00:31:30.880
with those big trees, even a
hot day like we're having these days,

440
00:31:32.039 --> 00:31:37.279
it's a pleasant time to be out
walking around checking out what's going on at

441
00:31:37.359 --> 00:31:41.960
Buchanan's Native Plants. It's one of
those destination garden centers that when guests come

442
00:31:41.000 --> 00:31:45.079
to town, you gotta take them
there because if they have one ounce of

443
00:31:45.160 --> 00:31:49.440
gardening or blood in them at all. They will absolutely love Buchanan. Do

444
00:31:49.440 --> 00:31:53.079
you know what, even if they
don't take them and show them the amazing

445
00:31:53.119 --> 00:31:57.319
gift shops that are there on site, pretty cool stuff. We're gonna go

446
00:31:57.359 --> 00:32:01.240
back out to Santa Fe. We
were having a discussion. I think you

447
00:32:01.279 --> 00:32:07.240
had a follow up question. Yes, sir, I do. I have

448
00:32:07.440 --> 00:32:13.640
several large trees in my yard and
I'm worried about them. I'm concerned about

449
00:32:13.680 --> 00:32:17.559
them. How do you go about
watering them? And number two part of

450
00:32:17.559 --> 00:32:23.440
the question is if I can capture
the gray water the washing machine and the

451
00:32:23.480 --> 00:32:30.079
shower water and use them for use
that as water for these trees. Is

452
00:32:30.519 --> 00:32:34.519
the soap and detergents in the in
the gray water going to hurt these trees?

453
00:32:35.559 --> 00:32:37.359
No, it kind of you know, we don't know what all's going

454
00:32:37.400 --> 00:32:40.759
down the drain, so I kind
of can't quite give a carte blanche.

455
00:32:40.880 --> 00:32:45.799
But when it comes to graywater that's
generally good for plants, it's okay because

456
00:32:45.839 --> 00:32:51.759
the dilution of it is it's pretty
deluded. And when it comes to the

457
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to the water. So if you're
just trying to save on water, that's

458
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one of the things you can do
certain cities have regulations on what you can

459
00:32:58.599 --> 00:33:01.359
and can't do. But you know, growing up, we had gray water

460
00:33:01.400 --> 00:33:05.400
from the kitchen sink. They went
right out the back, you know,

461
00:33:05.440 --> 00:33:10.440
and watered some plants. So it's
certainly something you can do, okay.

462
00:33:10.480 --> 00:33:17.480
I was just wondered about the detergents
in laundry detergent and dish soap and yeah,

463
00:33:19.079 --> 00:33:22.039
laboratory and so yeah, not a
problem. In the old days,

464
00:33:22.039 --> 00:33:24.839
there was a lot of phosphates in
the soap and we'd get a build up.

465
00:33:24.880 --> 00:33:29.759
But that's not the case anymore.
So much so I wouldn't worry about

466
00:33:29.759 --> 00:33:30.279
it. But I tell you what
I would do. I don't know how

467
00:33:30.319 --> 00:33:34.680
big these trees are, but you
hear me talk about tree hugger sprinklers all

468
00:33:34.680 --> 00:33:37.720
the time. But I like them
because you can put them around the base

469
00:33:37.759 --> 00:33:39.960
of the tree. They have different
sizes and you can turn them on to

470
00:33:40.119 --> 00:33:44.640
water a small area if it's a
small tree, or a large area if

471
00:33:44.640 --> 00:33:49.440
it's a large tree, and you
get the water right there beneath the branch

472
00:33:49.440 --> 00:33:52.640
spread and that you know, if
you're trying to rescue a tree, the

473
00:33:52.720 --> 00:33:55.640
area from the outer branch spread in
toward the trunk. That's the most important,

474
00:33:55.799 --> 00:34:00.319
especially the outer third of the branch
spread. If you can get a

475
00:34:00.359 --> 00:34:04.240
good soaking on that, you can
keep that tree out of major stress.

476
00:34:04.319 --> 00:34:07.920
We're not trying to have them little
talking about what you're talking about. What

477
00:34:08.000 --> 00:34:10.519
I know is the drip line.
Drip line, Yes, sir, that's

478
00:34:10.559 --> 00:34:15.800
it. That's it. Okay,
Yeah, just out there and in from

479
00:34:15.800 --> 00:34:21.159
there a little bit. But if
you can focus on that area, the

480
00:34:21.199 --> 00:34:24.239
tree gets enough water to hang on
and not go into major stress. You

481
00:34:24.280 --> 00:34:30.079
know, we can't supply every drop
the tree needs, but we can hold

482
00:34:30.119 --> 00:34:32.639
it off until we get another rain. And that's what you're aiming for.

483
00:34:34.920 --> 00:34:37.159
Correct. All right, thank you
sir, Thank you for your time.

484
00:34:37.400 --> 00:34:42.599
All right, thank you. I
appreciate that call very much. Yeah.

485
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You know, when it comes to
watering, if you want to make watering

486
00:34:45.719 --> 00:34:52.440
your lawn easy, here's a freeway
that you have access to the full extent

487
00:34:52.760 --> 00:34:58.000
of the science of lawn watering.
Can you imagine that the full extent at

488
00:34:58.039 --> 00:35:01.239
your fingertips, delivered to you for
free. That's called water my Yard.

489
00:35:01.920 --> 00:35:07.360
Water my yard dot Org is the
website. You can go to the Apple

490
00:35:07.400 --> 00:35:09.000
app Store, you can go to
Google Play. If you have an Android

491
00:35:09.320 --> 00:35:13.760
and download the apps for free.
You tell them where you live. They

492
00:35:13.760 --> 00:35:16.559
find the nearest weather station. And
there are little weather stations all around you

493
00:35:16.559 --> 00:35:20.199
don't even know they're there. They're
all over the place here in this Greater

494
00:35:20.239 --> 00:35:22.480
Houston area, and they find the
nearest one to you, and they take

495
00:35:22.599 --> 00:35:27.960
all the data from sunlight, solar
intensity, windspeed, humidity, everything that

496
00:35:28.000 --> 00:35:30.760
makes grass use water, and they
tell you at the end of the week,

497
00:35:31.119 --> 00:35:36.079
your grass is used this much water. Maybe it's point seven five inches,

498
00:35:36.159 --> 00:35:38.079
maybe it's an inch, maybe it's
a half inch, and you know

499
00:35:38.239 --> 00:35:43.679
exactly how much to apply, so
you don't waste water. You don't overwater,

500
00:35:43.760 --> 00:35:46.760
you don't underwater water myyard dot org, you're just not going to get

501
00:35:46.760 --> 00:35:53.519
any any better than that. I
was walking around the landscape yesterday looking at

502
00:35:54.119 --> 00:36:00.320
some of the turf and how it's
doing, and it just reminded me that,

503
00:36:00.519 --> 00:36:02.360
you know, we talk about fertilizers
all the time, and those are

504
00:36:02.360 --> 00:36:07.920
the big three numbers, typically the
nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium, but the

505
00:36:07.960 --> 00:36:13.280
trace elements are really important too.
The trace elements aren't needed in large quantities

506
00:36:13.320 --> 00:36:15.159
at all. In fact, you
don't want them in super high quantities.

507
00:36:15.679 --> 00:36:21.000
But if you don't have them,
the grass can't perform well. It's limited

508
00:36:21.320 --> 00:36:24.960
by the most limiting nutrient and the
soil. So if it needs, you

509
00:36:24.960 --> 00:36:30.880
know, twenty nutrients to do well, well, if one of them is

510
00:36:30.920 --> 00:36:35.119
in low supply, that's going to
limit how the terp performs. And azamite

511
00:36:35.519 --> 00:36:38.199
is the product we talk about just
for that. Azamite is mined out of

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00:36:38.199 --> 00:36:43.159
the ground. It's a mineral that
is ground up. The different forms of

513
00:36:43.159 --> 00:36:46.320
it there's a micronized, a granular
form, and so on, but you

514
00:36:46.360 --> 00:36:52.199
put it out on the lawn and
it provides that extra nutrient to just enrich

515
00:36:52.280 --> 00:36:55.960
the soil because you want your grass
roots when they go looking for all the

516
00:36:57.079 --> 00:37:00.079
nutrients that are essential for growth,
you want those nutrients to be available.

517
00:37:00.119 --> 00:37:04.400
And that's what asamite does. I
use it in vegetable gardens too, by

518
00:37:04.440 --> 00:37:07.639
the way, because I want my
produce to have all the nutrients that my

519
00:37:07.719 --> 00:37:12.880
body needs. And you know,
we need the nutrients plants need, but

520
00:37:13.039 --> 00:37:15.719
we need a few others as well, and so with asamite you can have

521
00:37:16.079 --> 00:37:22.800
that kind of supply. Well,
you're listening to Gardenline this morning and we're

522
00:37:22.840 --> 00:37:25.119
about to take a little break here
in a bit. But if you happen

523
00:37:25.199 --> 00:37:30.480
to be out in the Kingwood area, you are fortunate to have two wonderful

524
00:37:30.519 --> 00:37:37.360
garden centers Warren's Garden Center, Warren's
Southern Gardens it's called and Kingwood Garden Center.

525
00:37:37.599 --> 00:37:40.800
Now they have azamite as their product
spotlight this week, and so you

526
00:37:40.800 --> 00:37:44.519
can go right there. They've got
it on hand. They have plenty of

527
00:37:44.519 --> 00:37:46.880
it. Grab your azamite to do. There's no magic, you have to

528
00:37:46.880 --> 00:37:50.920
do it right on this day or
anything. You just want to get it

529
00:37:50.960 --> 00:37:54.039
down each year so you can provide
those extra nutrients that I was talking about.

530
00:37:54.400 --> 00:38:00.280
Now they are loaded up with tomatoes
and pepper's beautiful little plants. It's

531
00:38:00.320 --> 00:38:02.480
ready to go. Now's the time
you got to get that done. Hey,

532
00:38:02.599 --> 00:38:06.840
go to Kingwood Garden Center dot com
if you want to find out more

533
00:38:06.840 --> 00:38:09.119
about Kingwood Garden Center. Hey,
by the way, at Kingwood, they're

534
00:38:09.159 --> 00:38:15.599
having a Fall into Prosecco event.
This is a mixology where you learn about

535
00:38:15.599 --> 00:38:22.119
herb infused drinks. And this will
be September twenty first at six pm.

536
00:38:22.159 --> 00:38:24.079
They are gonna tell you about how
to grow the herbs, how to harvest

537
00:38:24.159 --> 00:38:29.440
the herbs and how to infuse spirits
with the herbs. Now at both places,

538
00:38:29.480 --> 00:38:34.360
they've got their composts. Selle three
bags of heirloom soils age composts,

539
00:38:34.480 --> 00:38:37.800
and you buy three, you get
one for free. You're not gonna do

540
00:38:37.840 --> 00:38:40.159
any better than that. I mean
Warren's Garden Center, Kingwood Garden Center.

541
00:38:40.519 --> 00:38:46.199
Knowledgeable folks. Give them a checkout. All your friends are jealous, said

542
00:38:46.199 --> 00:38:50.880
you. By the way, you
got those centers right in your backyard too,

543
00:38:51.000 --> 00:38:52.840
great garden centers. Hey, just
a reminder. I'm going to be

544
00:38:53.000 --> 00:39:00.320
at the Margaritaville Resort today at Lake
Conro at the Lake Conro Home and Outdoor

545
00:39:00.400 --> 00:39:04.039
Living and Boat Show out there,
I'll be doing a seminar on getting your

546
00:39:04.079 --> 00:39:07.480
lawn and garden ready for fall.
And then I'll be sitting at a table

547
00:39:07.480 --> 00:39:10.800
where we'll answer your gardening questions.
I've got some fertilizer to give away,

548
00:39:10.840 --> 00:39:15.000
some nice little two pound and four
pound jars from Nelson's Plant Food for people

549
00:39:15.039 --> 00:39:20.360
that show up as ask questions during
the seminar. Stop by the booth and

550
00:39:20.400 --> 00:39:23.880
ask questions. We'll get your nice
sample the quality fertilizer. I hope you

551
00:39:23.960 --> 00:39:27.880
come out there and join me.
Hey, we'll be right back seven one

552
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three two one two fifty eight seventy
four. KTRH Garden Line does not necessarily

553
00:39:34.400 --> 00:39:39.639
endorse any of the products or services
advertised on this program. Welcome to KTRH

554
00:39:39.760 --> 00:39:59.440
Garden Line with skip rictor. It's
so just as so many good preas to

555
00:39:59.519 --> 00:40:12.920
see. We're good morning. It
is a good day for gardening, because

556
00:40:12.920 --> 00:40:15.800
every day's a good night gardening.
We're glad you're listening to Garden Line.

557
00:40:15.840 --> 00:40:20.800
If you would like to visit with
me about things related to your garden,

558
00:40:20.880 --> 00:40:24.760
give us a call. Seven one
three two one two five eight seven four

559
00:40:24.840 --> 00:40:30.679
seven one three two one two k
t r H. You know, when

560
00:40:30.719 --> 00:40:37.400
it comes to fertilizing and making sure
your lawn has the nutrients that it needs,

561
00:40:37.519 --> 00:40:42.679
you are going to find the silver
bag to be a magical product for

562
00:40:42.760 --> 00:40:45.159
your lawn. And what am I
talking about. I'm talking about nitrofoss Super

563
00:40:45.199 --> 00:40:51.960
Turf nineteen four ten. Nitrofis super
first night super turf can't even talk this

564
00:40:52.000 --> 00:40:55.800
morning, nineteen four ten has the
right blend of nutrients. Got plenty of

565
00:40:55.800 --> 00:41:00.760
that nitrogen, but it's not all
available at immediately, just a little bit

566
00:41:00.800 --> 00:41:06.639
and it gradually feeds over time,
which is exactly how lawns eat. It's

567
00:41:06.639 --> 00:41:08.519
how we eat. Right. Imagine
if someone walked up and said, here's

568
00:41:08.639 --> 00:41:13.840
your September food supply, eat it
all on September first. Good luck.

569
00:41:14.000 --> 00:41:17.679
Well, that's ridiculous. Right.
When it comes to fertilizers, you need

570
00:41:17.760 --> 00:41:22.119
something that's going to gradually feed your
lawn over time, and that's nitro FoST

571
00:41:22.199 --> 00:41:27.760
Super super Turf nineteen four ten.
You're gonna find Nitrofos Superturf all the places

572
00:41:27.800 --> 00:41:30.400
we talk about here on guard Line. You know, the Ace Hardware stores,

573
00:41:30.880 --> 00:41:32.599
some of our great feed stores,
a lot of our garden centers are

574
00:41:32.599 --> 00:41:37.800
going to carry Nitrofost Superturf. It's
a silver bag. That's an easy way

575
00:41:37.800 --> 00:41:40.280
to remember it. Follow the label
instructions for how you put it down.

576
00:41:40.280 --> 00:41:44.800
It takes about five pounds per thousand
square feet to do it, and you

577
00:41:44.840 --> 00:41:49.519
will see results in your lawn as
it just gets stronger and stronger over time

578
00:41:49.559 --> 00:41:52.719
as those nutrients get released to the
lawn. We're going to head out now

579
00:41:52.800 --> 00:41:57.800
to Spring Branch and we're gonna talk
to Morgan this morning. Hello Morgan,

580
00:41:58.880 --> 00:42:00.840
Hey, there, So I've got
I've got a bunch of dis clean that

581
00:42:00.880 --> 00:42:05.880
I can that that. I'm not
sure if I should or should not use

582
00:42:05.960 --> 00:42:09.599
it in my gardens. Okay,
Uh, do you know how many is

583
00:42:09.639 --> 00:42:15.239
like a blast a black plastic sheeting, like a black garbage bag material.

584
00:42:15.400 --> 00:42:20.679
Yeah? About how many mill thick
is it? I don't even know.

585
00:42:20.880 --> 00:42:23.119
I was in my I would say
that it's thick. I mean it was

586
00:42:23.119 --> 00:42:24.920
in my attic. I don't know
how old it is. I don't Okay,

587
00:42:25.000 --> 00:42:29.920
go back it in. Well,
you can use it as a temporary

588
00:42:30.000 --> 00:42:34.960
mulch, just to keep you know, the moisture in the soil, to

589
00:42:35.039 --> 00:42:38.559
keep weeds from coming up, getting
sunlight on them and coming up. Those

590
00:42:38.599 --> 00:42:45.239
products are that products probably not at
all treated with anything to prevent degradation in

591
00:42:45.280 --> 00:42:50.639
the sun. So at the most
you're going to get part of a season

592
00:42:50.719 --> 00:42:53.320
out of it, maybe a year, but probably not even definitely, I

593
00:42:53.320 --> 00:42:58.320
would say not even a year being
untreated. So it's probably a lot of

594
00:42:58.320 --> 00:43:00.159
work for not a lot of benefits
it. And then you're picking it up

595
00:43:00.159 --> 00:43:04.000
and now you've got a product,
What how are you going to dispose of

596
00:43:04.039 --> 00:43:07.199
it? I think I might look
for other uses for it, But as

597
00:43:07.239 --> 00:43:14.079
far as could you absolutely you could
within the negative things I just mentioned being

598
00:43:14.199 --> 00:43:17.519
part of reality. Okay, well
let me ask your second follows follow up

599
00:43:17.599 --> 00:43:22.239
question. Then I've got some of
those, uh, some packing blankets.

600
00:43:22.239 --> 00:43:25.000
Did you use that those flues that
if people used to wrap furiture with.

601
00:43:25.400 --> 00:43:31.480
Would that be a good alternative?
Well, I mean, yeah, you

602
00:43:31.519 --> 00:43:36.519
know, they're gonna last a while. I don't know how esthetic that would

603
00:43:36.559 --> 00:43:40.199
be. You know, I've had
those left over and around, and I

604
00:43:40.280 --> 00:43:44.599
just find other uses for them.
Seems like I always need to wrap something

605
00:43:44.679 --> 00:43:46.639
up for a trip or in the
back of the truck or whatever you got.

606
00:43:49.000 --> 00:43:52.000
But just know, on any kind
of things like that, as a

607
00:43:52.119 --> 00:43:55.960
decompose, it kind of becomes a
mess, and so it's not something you're

608
00:43:55.960 --> 00:43:59.920
going to mix into the soil like
you would if it was a paper mall

609
00:44:00.079 --> 00:44:04.519
LT or something like that. So
I don't know, I think I would

610
00:44:04.559 --> 00:44:07.440
find some other good uses for those. Okay, Well, I appreciate the

611
00:44:07.480 --> 00:44:09.920
insight. Thanks so much. Hey
Morgan, thanks for the call. I

612
00:44:09.960 --> 00:44:15.400
appreciate that very much. You are
listening to garden Line our number seven one

613
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three, two, one two five
eight seven four. Hey, have you

614
00:44:20.960 --> 00:44:25.480
been out to enchanted gardens and Richmond. Now if you live anywhere from Katie

615
00:44:25.480 --> 00:44:29.119
down to Richmond, because that's where
they are. They're kind of if you're

616
00:44:29.159 --> 00:44:31.840
in Richmond and you head north toward
Katie, that's in Chanted Gardens. It's

617
00:44:31.840 --> 00:44:37.480
on FM three fifty nine. The
website. Write this down because you should

618
00:44:37.559 --> 00:44:39.719
check it out. You'd be amazed
at what all is on their website.

619
00:44:40.119 --> 00:44:46.360
Enchanted Gardens Richmond dot com. That's
the website. They've been around since nineteen

620
00:44:46.440 --> 00:44:52.280
ninety five. This is one of
the destination garden centers. They have absolutely

621
00:44:52.360 --> 00:44:54.760
everything you can imagine. If you
go out there right now, you will

622
00:44:54.800 --> 00:44:59.559
be wowed by the color that you
just got in some and theoriums and if

623
00:44:59.559 --> 00:45:00.800
you don't know what that is,
I'm not going to describe it on the

624
00:45:00.800 --> 00:45:06.039
air. Go to their social media, go to their website. Are just

625
00:45:06.280 --> 00:45:10.079
better yet, get out there today
and check them out. Their beautiful plants.

626
00:45:09.800 --> 00:45:14.000
Once you see them, I think
you'll fall in love with them.

627
00:45:14.159 --> 00:45:16.760
And they have glazed pottery, Oh
my gosh. The gift shop is amazing

628
00:45:16.760 --> 00:45:20.840
out there, and pretty much any
kind of plant you would want, you're

629
00:45:20.880 --> 00:45:25.079
going to find an Enchanted Gardens Richmond. They've got antique roses, hybrid roses,

630
00:45:25.119 --> 00:45:30.199
herbs, vegetables, specimen trees.
I mean they carry all the fertilizers

631
00:45:30.199 --> 00:45:34.679
I talk about here on Garden Line, they carry the soils we talk about

632
00:45:34.679 --> 00:45:38.400
here on garden Line, and they
have much much more. They're open Monday

633
00:45:38.400 --> 00:45:43.639
through Saturday eight am to five thirty
pm, and on Sunday, yes Tomorrow,

634
00:45:44.000 --> 00:45:47.239
ten am to four pm. Enchanted
Gardens, Richmond. Check it out.

635
00:45:47.280 --> 00:45:51.119
When you drive up, your jaw's
gonna hit the ground and you're gonna

636
00:45:51.119 --> 00:45:54.559
know what I'm talking about when I
say this is a destination garden center.

637
00:45:55.599 --> 00:46:00.199
Let's go now out to Bridge City
and we're gonna talk a tree. Hello,

638
00:46:00.280 --> 00:46:06.639
Trey, Yes, sir, how
can we help you? I haven't.

639
00:46:06.800 --> 00:46:09.800
It's a live oak tree and it's
probably eighty years old. It's the

640
00:46:09.880 --> 00:46:15.440
base is about probably almost three foot
around and ten foot up where all the

641
00:46:15.440 --> 00:46:22.320
main branches start splitting off. I've
noticed some little sapling trees growing inside out

642
00:46:22.360 --> 00:46:25.719
of the inside of the trunk and
then where it be is and I pulled

643
00:46:25.760 --> 00:46:29.440
them out and they weren't oak trees. There are nothing. They were like

644
00:46:29.480 --> 00:46:34.559
the neighbor's trees. But there's earthworms
inside there and it's I could dig them

645
00:46:34.559 --> 00:46:37.000
out, and it was. They
were probably three inches long. I mean,

646
00:46:37.000 --> 00:46:42.199
they were junior nightcrawlers. I'm wondering
if the tree isn't rotting from the

647
00:46:42.239 --> 00:46:46.960
inside out like they do around here
a lot. Wow, that's a new

648
00:46:47.000 --> 00:46:52.840
one. I have no idea how
those earthworms got up there. Possibly,

649
00:46:52.119 --> 00:46:57.000
but again, I've never heard of
an earthworm crawling up through a rotting wooden

650
00:46:57.039 --> 00:47:00.760
interior of the tree and coming out
on the branch where the crotch of a

651
00:47:00.840 --> 00:47:07.480
branch comes together. You got me
on that one. Yeah, I would

652
00:47:07.719 --> 00:47:08.639
like, I said, I'd dig
my hand in there, and of course

653
00:47:08.639 --> 00:47:14.159
it's you know how that be if
it can hold old leaves and decay over

654
00:47:14.239 --> 00:47:17.880
time. Yeah, but it's dug
pretty far down and it and they were

655
00:47:17.920 --> 00:47:22.280
just squirms amples of work. So
if you could, if you could literally

656
00:47:22.360 --> 00:47:25.360
dig down in there any distance at
all, that sounds like there may be

657
00:47:25.400 --> 00:47:30.880
some decay. What happens is branches
come in and they're at a little bit

658
00:47:30.880 --> 00:47:34.639
too narrow of an angle, and
then as each branch, let's say,

659
00:47:34.679 --> 00:47:37.599
the trunk and the branch or two
branches, as they each get bigger and

660
00:47:37.639 --> 00:47:42.039
bigger and bigger, it presses that
outer bark together, there's nowhere for it

661
00:47:42.119 --> 00:47:45.280
to go, and you get decay
of that external outer bark. But it

662
00:47:45.320 --> 00:47:50.840
doesn't mean there's a decay of the
interior wood. It just is an area

663
00:47:50.880 --> 00:47:53.840
that stays wet and decays away.
Hey, Trey, I don't know what

664
00:47:53.960 --> 00:47:57.519
on that one. What today,
I'm gonna have to run to a break.

665
00:47:58.119 --> 00:48:00.280
I would just kind of keep an
eye on it. It does doesn't

666
00:48:00.320 --> 00:48:02.400
sound like a problem to me,
but just kind of watch it. You

667
00:48:02.440 --> 00:48:06.280
may want to have an arborist come
out and look at it. But if

668
00:48:06.320 --> 00:48:07.960
you want to hang on for after
break, we'll talk Otherwise. I'm gonna

669
00:48:08.039 --> 00:48:12.719
go ahead and head on out here
our phone number seven one three two one

670
00:48:12.760 --> 00:48:28.960
two fifty eight seventy four. Holy
well, good morning. You are listening

671
00:48:29.000 --> 00:48:32.239
to Guardline this morning, and we
are here to talk about whatever is of

672
00:48:32.320 --> 00:48:37.440
interest to you when it comes to
success in the garden. And speaking of

673
00:48:37.519 --> 00:48:43.360
success in the garden, I brag
about ACE hardware all the time for several

674
00:48:43.360 --> 00:48:45.280
reasons. Number one, there's thirty
nine of them in the Houston area.

675
00:48:45.360 --> 00:48:47.840
So you throw a rock and you
hit one. No matter where you live,

676
00:48:49.400 --> 00:48:52.039
it's easy to find when you get
there. They have everything we talk

677
00:48:52.079 --> 00:48:55.239
about. They have everything you need
for your lawn and garden. They've got

678
00:48:55.239 --> 00:48:59.840
the fertilizers, they've got the soils. They've got insecticides for fun, just

679
00:49:00.239 --> 00:49:06.679
herbicides. They have the tools,
they have hole garden hos, I mean,

680
00:49:07.039 --> 00:49:09.280
everything you can imagine. And then
for the outdoor living, the barbecue

681
00:49:09.280 --> 00:49:15.039
pit, the outdoor settings and where
you can enjoy things. It is going

682
00:49:15.079 --> 00:49:16.639
to cool off, by the way, and we can go back outside and

683
00:49:16.800 --> 00:49:21.360
enjoy it. Will They have everything
you need for that too. You know.

684
00:49:21.639 --> 00:49:24.159
Ace Hardware First of all, go
to ACE hardware dot Com, find

685
00:49:24.159 --> 00:49:29.280
the store locator, find the one
near you. You're going to be greeted

686
00:49:29.280 --> 00:49:34.480
by friendly associates. And if you
want to save your lawn this summer by

687
00:49:34.519 --> 00:49:38.440
giving the kinds of products and the
kinds of care that it needs, that's

688
00:49:38.480 --> 00:49:42.960
what you're going to find at your
ACE Hardware. I mean we I can't

689
00:49:43.000 --> 00:49:45.480
tell you how many people have emailed
me about my lawn is dying. Or

690
00:49:45.920 --> 00:49:50.920
we just released our schedule and someone
said, well, you know, I'd

691
00:49:50.920 --> 00:49:54.119
be fertilizing dead grass right now if
I fertilized Hey, I get it.

692
00:49:54.519 --> 00:49:59.599
ACE Hardware's got sprinklers. Do you
want to have a beautiful lawn, go

693
00:49:59.639 --> 00:50:05.159
to a hardware and find the products
and find the educated associates that can help

694
00:50:05.199 --> 00:50:09.920
you get the product you need.
And that is how you go from hey,

695
00:50:09.960 --> 00:50:14.119
I'm about to lose it, to
hey, it looks really beautiful because,

696
00:50:14.199 --> 00:50:16.639
believe it or not, cool weather's
coming, rain is coming. Our

697
00:50:16.760 --> 00:50:21.119
lawns are coming back. Just take
care of them. Now. Let's get

698
00:50:21.159 --> 00:50:24.119
them to hang on and we will
get there. We can relax and know

699
00:50:24.800 --> 00:50:28.800
that this is not forever. I
know it seems like it, but it's

700
00:50:28.840 --> 00:50:31.960
not. Let's go out to Cyprus
and talk to Cindy this morning. Good

701
00:50:31.960 --> 00:50:37.480
morning, Cindy. Hi there,
Hi, Hey. What would cause a

702
00:50:37.639 --> 00:50:44.199
crepe myrtle and establish crepe myrtle to
begin die back? This has happened in

703
00:50:44.280 --> 00:50:50.320
the last week to two. They're
four in the yard and two of them

704
00:50:50.360 --> 00:50:57.800
that are not close together have it
like over a three day period, the

705
00:50:57.880 --> 00:51:04.360
branches have begun dying back. It's
getting plenty of water. It consistent water

706
00:51:04.519 --> 00:51:09.280
through the summer. M No.
I noticed that there is some scale on

707
00:51:09.320 --> 00:51:15.199
them. Okay, typically scale doesn't
kill crape myrtles. It looks ugly,

708
00:51:15.400 --> 00:51:20.079
it's certainly sapping the plant of energy. It's not doing any good. And

709
00:51:20.199 --> 00:51:22.880
I guess you could say it could
be part of a series of things that

710
00:51:23.039 --> 00:51:28.840
combine to kill a grepe myrtle,
but typically scale doesn't. When you say

711
00:51:28.880 --> 00:51:30.800
getting plenty of water, you're pretty
sure you're given a good soaking when you

712
00:51:30.880 --> 00:51:36.880
water, or just just frequent watering. They've been on a sprinkler, but

713
00:51:36.920 --> 00:51:42.039
they've it's been consistent, you know, all all summer. Okay. Well,

714
00:51:43.079 --> 00:51:46.199
the only other thing is we did
have some damage from last December's freeze,

715
00:51:46.199 --> 00:51:52.239
and I've noticed some plants where the
tissues were damaged, but the plant

716
00:51:52.280 --> 00:51:58.519
looked okay. But as we got
into just weeks of hot, demanding weather,

717
00:51:59.039 --> 00:52:00.840
it was just kind of like a
collapse of the system. And suddenly

718
00:52:00.920 --> 00:52:06.800
a branch that looked okay now is
just just browning and dying back. And

719
00:52:06.840 --> 00:52:09.039
so okay, I think what you're
looking at, Cindy, is a combination

720
00:52:09.119 --> 00:52:15.639
of things going on with those The
other thing is they were cut back severely

721
00:52:15.760 --> 00:52:22.639
like crepe murder last whenever spring,
okay, and so all of these small

722
00:52:22.719 --> 00:52:28.320
branches are the ones coming growing out
of the ends of those cut ends.

723
00:52:29.400 --> 00:52:34.320
Would that be does it add anymore
to your assessment. Well, you know,

724
00:52:34.440 --> 00:52:38.039
typically as much as we hate poor
pruning practices on a crepe myrtle,

725
00:52:38.320 --> 00:52:42.719
that they typically are not something that
kills the plant. But what they can

726
00:52:42.840 --> 00:52:49.559
do is those vigorous regrowth shoots all
coming from one point basically on the end.

727
00:52:50.239 --> 00:52:54.800
They're not well anchored and so it's
easy for them to sort of be

728
00:52:55.199 --> 00:53:00.239
broken or to you know, fall
out if typically we see that in a

729
00:53:00.320 --> 00:53:02.480
storm and a lot of rain,
just the weight of that, just those

730
00:53:02.519 --> 00:53:07.400
tender shoots just break loose because they
don't have good anchorage there. That could

731
00:53:07.440 --> 00:53:09.519
be part of it. Perhaps there
was some sort of a canker that came

732
00:53:09.559 --> 00:53:15.159
in after the pruning that is working
its way through there. But I think

733
00:53:15.159 --> 00:53:19.840
it's going to be related to the
flow of moisture through the plant some some

734
00:53:19.880 --> 00:53:23.960
work along the line. Something's going
wrong there. What do you have a

735
00:53:24.000 --> 00:53:30.519
suggestion for, you know, just
let it go till fall and see what

736
00:53:30.559 --> 00:53:34.800
they do next spring. Yeah,
right now, there's nothing miraculous that you

737
00:53:34.840 --> 00:53:38.719
could do. Certainly no spray,
fungicide, insecticide, whatever. It's not

738
00:53:38.760 --> 00:53:43.800
a lack of fertilizer that they're dying
at all. So that's not what they're

739
00:53:43.880 --> 00:53:46.840
needing right now. In terms of
trying to stop the dieback, I just

740
00:53:47.000 --> 00:53:52.480
I would go out and sometimes I'll
use a long handle screwdriver and push it

741
00:53:52.519 --> 00:53:59.039
into the soil because when it's going
through soft when it's going through wet soil,

742
00:53:59.079 --> 00:54:00.880
it's soft, and just push it
down. And then when you hit

743
00:54:00.920 --> 00:54:05.039
a dry spot, I mean it's
like you hit a concrete sidewalk underneath the

744
00:54:05.039 --> 00:54:08.760
soil somewhere, and just check the
depth of the moisture. I just want

745
00:54:08.800 --> 00:54:14.880
to be sure because the demands are
so high now that it's hard to get

746
00:54:15.000 --> 00:54:20.320
enough water to the roots to keep
up with what the plant needs. That

747
00:54:20.400 --> 00:54:22.760
doesn't mean over water, doesn't mean
it creates a swamp. It just means

748
00:54:23.760 --> 00:54:28.480
it dries out faster than you think. So you know, if I told

749
00:54:28.480 --> 00:54:31.480
you water once a week for this
many minutes, it would probably be misleading

750
00:54:31.519 --> 00:54:36.480
you. It's it's a matter sure
what does your soil have in it moisture

751
00:54:36.519 --> 00:54:38.760
wise, and how fast is it
going out and how fast you need to

752
00:54:38.800 --> 00:54:43.400
replenish it. So I would just
check that that would be something in your

753
00:54:43.400 --> 00:54:45.920
power right now. Otherwise I think
you're gonna have to wait and watch,

754
00:54:45.039 --> 00:54:50.679
and it sounds like you're going to
tolerate a little bit of not so great

755
00:54:50.800 --> 00:54:54.800
conditions in terms of die back,
because I would you try anything like super

756
00:54:54.800 --> 00:55:00.719
thrive any of these organic Yeah,
you you can put those on there.

757
00:55:00.800 --> 00:55:05.119
I don't I don't know that that's
going to help at this point, but

758
00:55:05.400 --> 00:55:09.679
there's no there's no harm to give
it a try. All right, all

759
00:55:09.760 --> 00:55:13.599
right, thank you, you bet, Thank you, Cindy. I appreciate

760
00:55:13.719 --> 00:55:19.760
that very much. You know,
we brag about the importance of quality soils

761
00:55:19.840 --> 00:55:23.159
and our quality soil providers around the
Greater Houston area. If you live down

762
00:55:23.239 --> 00:55:29.920
south, you know ro Sharon direction
that way. CNA Maltch is exactly that.

763
00:55:30.119 --> 00:55:34.039
Cnamulch has soil in bulk, they
have soil in bags, they've got

764
00:55:34.039 --> 00:55:37.280
composts, they've got soil mixes.
They have mulches of every type that you

765
00:55:37.320 --> 00:55:42.039
can imagine. I mean, they've
got a native hardwood mulches, a double

766
00:55:42.079 --> 00:55:45.840
ground. They've screened them properly,
beautiful color. Uh smells good because there's

767
00:55:45.880 --> 00:55:50.079
no manure in them. I mean
it, it's just a quality product.

768
00:55:50.960 --> 00:55:53.480
All the fertilizers I talk about,
in addition to all the soils I just

769
00:55:53.559 --> 00:55:58.800
mentioned are gonna be there at CNA
Malts. They're on FM five twenty one

770
00:55:59.119 --> 00:56:01.159
near where Highway six and two eighty
eight come together, just north of ro

771
00:56:01.280 --> 00:56:07.119
Sharon. So those folks out in
Iowa Colony, Sienna Plantation, Meridian First

772
00:56:07.119 --> 00:56:12.440
Colony, or maybe pear Land anywhere
out near Brazispin State Park, this is

773
00:56:12.480 --> 00:56:15.320
your local soil yard and they will
deliver within a twenty mile radius. There

774
00:56:15.519 --> 00:56:20.119
a little charge for delivery. Of
course, it's big bulky items to be

775
00:56:20.199 --> 00:56:24.400
bringing out. They are open Monday
through Friday seven thirty to five and Saturday

776
00:56:24.440 --> 00:56:28.920
seven thirty to two. They're closed
on Sunday, so today would be a

777
00:56:28.960 --> 00:56:34.480
good day to go. Sienna Mulch
dot com is a website. When you

778
00:56:34.559 --> 00:56:37.599
go out there, you will see
what I'm talking about and check out their

779
00:56:37.920 --> 00:56:42.079
rock supplies. Oh, I've never
seen so many different kinds of gorgeous rock

780
00:56:42.559 --> 00:56:46.199
for flagstone or maybe river rock or
whatever you need, you're gonna find it

781
00:56:46.360 --> 00:56:50.519
right out there at Sienna Maulch.
I always love to visit, and in

782
00:56:50.599 --> 00:56:52.440
fact, later this fall I will
be out there and I'll tell you about

783
00:56:52.480 --> 00:56:58.119
that more as we get a little
bit closer to that let's go out to

784
00:56:58.320 --> 00:57:01.559
Rosenberg now and we're going to talk
to Tom. Hello, Tom, Good

785
00:57:01.599 --> 00:57:07.840
morning morning. I tuned in right
at the end of somebody that sounded like

786
00:57:07.920 --> 00:57:10.119
they have a dying tree. I
have a silver leaf maple, Okay,

787
00:57:10.320 --> 00:57:16.840
that's about thirty three years old,
and all the leaves have now turned brown.

788
00:57:19.079 --> 00:57:22.079
Sum are still on the tree,
or most are still on the tree.

789
00:57:22.559 --> 00:57:28.280
I heard the recommendation water my yard, and I'll go there, but

790
00:57:30.000 --> 00:57:36.480
I missed what to do. I've
been watering about an hour on each side

791
00:57:36.480 --> 00:57:42.719
of the tree a day in the
morning. Is there something else I can

792
00:57:42.760 --> 00:57:45.639
do to try to save it?
Well? You know, you need to

793
00:57:45.679 --> 00:57:49.039
wet the largest volume of soil you
can, reaching out as far as the

794
00:57:49.079 --> 00:57:52.480
branch spread of the tree if possible. That's why I like the tree hugger

795
00:57:52.480 --> 00:57:54.719
sprinklers. You put them around the
tree, you hook them to the hose,

796
00:57:54.800 --> 00:57:58.440
you turn them on. You can
water a very large area all at

797
00:57:58.480 --> 00:58:00.760
one time. You can turn them
on high and water a large area low

798
00:58:00.800 --> 00:58:06.199
and water smaller area. But you
want a volume of soil to be wet,

799
00:58:06.239 --> 00:58:08.119
because if you just have a hose
run in one spot, there are

800
00:58:08.159 --> 00:58:14.519
not enough roots there to take up
the volume of water fast enough to supply

801
00:58:14.639 --> 00:58:16.519
the tree. And I hate to
tell you this, but silver leaf maple

802
00:58:16.679 --> 00:58:21.599
is one of those trees we generally
don't recommend. They grow fast, then

803
00:58:21.599 --> 00:58:24.440
they die young, and it's not
unusual to have these kind of problems with

804
00:58:24.480 --> 00:58:30.639
silver leaf maple. Okay, it's
a memorial tree, is why we have

805
00:58:30.719 --> 00:58:34.440
that one. I understand. I
understand. Then you want to do everything

806
00:58:34.480 --> 00:58:38.239
can take care of it. Yeah? Will deep will deep root watering help

807
00:58:38.280 --> 00:58:44.360
at this point out the Yes it
can if the damage is not too severe

808
00:58:44.400 --> 00:58:47.519
already and there's something left to save, Yes it can. But I would

809
00:58:47.880 --> 00:58:51.960
whether whether you have someone come out
and do deep root watering, stick and

810
00:58:52.039 --> 00:58:55.159
something in the ground, or whether
you just turn on a you know,

811
00:58:55.320 --> 00:59:00.800
tree hugger sprinkler water until you've caught
at least an bunch of water, and

812
00:59:00.840 --> 00:59:02.800
that may require water in a while, turning it off, letting it soak,

813
00:59:02.920 --> 00:59:06.760
watering a wall, turning it off, letting it soak to get a

814
00:59:06.960 --> 00:59:09.440
good deep soaking. You don't need
to do that every day, once a

815
00:59:09.480 --> 00:59:15.639
week or ten days. There's plenty
on getting that tree through, all right,

816
00:59:15.719 --> 00:59:20.159
all right, Well, I appreciate
it and I'm sorry I tuned in

817
00:59:20.159 --> 00:59:22.480
a little late, but I appreciate
all your work you're doing there, no

818
00:59:22.599 --> 00:59:28.159
problem, Thank you, Tom.
I appreciate that call very much. You

819
00:59:28.199 --> 00:59:34.079
know, the folks out at Nature's
Way resources up toward Conro, they know

820
00:59:34.280 --> 00:59:38.039
how to make composts, I mean
Nature's Way, They've got they're the originators

821
00:59:38.079 --> 00:59:40.840
when it comes to rose soil,
when it comes to leaf mold compost that

822
00:59:40.920 --> 00:59:45.920
we talk about being such a high
quality product. They've got it ten percent

823
00:59:45.000 --> 00:59:51.360
off their bag product and twenty percent
off their bulk products on fungal Friday sales.

824
00:59:51.400 --> 00:59:54.320
Ever Friday, lots of plenty,
lots of good stuff out there there

825
00:59:54.519 --> 00:59:59.239
on Highway forty five where fourteen eighty
eight comes in, just where you get

826
00:59:59.280 --> 01:00:04.199
to Conro Rosster Railroad tracks on the
right to Nature's Way. Check out their

827
01:00:04.280 --> 01:00:08.599
nursery while you're out there. It
is amazing. Also, well, we're

828
01:00:08.639 --> 01:00:12.920
gonna take a break right quick.
Our phone number seven one three two one

829
01:00:13.000 --> 01:00:22.800
two fifty eight seventy four. It's
not us you want it's not us you

830
01:00:22.920 --> 01:00:29.719
want to We want to see you. Well, good morning. You are

831
01:00:29.800 --> 01:00:32.320
listening to garden Line and we are
here to talk gardening. That makes sense,

832
01:00:32.400 --> 01:00:37.320
doesn't it? Seven one three two, one two five eight seven four

833
01:00:37.400 --> 01:00:40.159
seven one three two one two fifty
eight seventy four. Just reminding you that

834
01:00:40.239 --> 01:00:45.079
I will be out at the Lake
Conro Home and Garden and Boat Show today

835
01:00:45.280 --> 01:00:49.480
at Margaritaville on Lake Conro. I'm
gonna be given a presentation here. I

836
01:00:49.480 --> 01:00:52.559
think I'll be there from eleven thirty
to one thirty and I'm given a presentation.

837
01:00:52.599 --> 01:00:55.159
Then I'll be at a table where
you can come up and ask questions,

838
01:00:55.199 --> 01:01:00.000
we'll visit. I'm gonna have some
Nelson Plat food on hand two pounds

839
01:01:00.119 --> 01:01:04.159
jars, four pound jars to give
away. So if you want to get

840
01:01:04.199 --> 01:01:07.519
ahold of a quality product to take
home and try out, well that's just

841
01:01:07.639 --> 01:01:12.440
another reason to come out to the
Lake Cronrow Home and Garden in Boat Show

842
01:01:12.480 --> 01:01:16.320
at Margaritaville. Where's Margaritaville. Well, it's not in Florida. It seemed

843
01:01:16.360 --> 01:01:20.280
like that'd be a place that'd be
in Florida and the Bahamas or something.

844
01:01:20.639 --> 01:01:22.760
No, it's on Lake Conrow.
If you're on one oh five, let's

845
01:01:22.760 --> 01:01:28.880
say you're coming from Conro heading toward
Montgomery. You go past April Sound a

846
01:01:28.880 --> 01:01:31.239
little past that, you'll see a
Walmart tuper center on the right hand side

847
01:01:31.360 --> 01:01:36.440
and Walden Road, and you just
follow Walden Road back and it'll take you

848
01:01:36.480 --> 01:01:39.639
back to Margharita. That's a pretty
cool place, by the way. A

849
01:01:39.880 --> 01:01:44.159
lot's going to be going on out
there, by the way. Now this

850
01:01:44.239 --> 01:01:46.360
is I'm getting way ahead of myself
here, but I just won't tell you

851
01:01:46.400 --> 01:01:52.880
about it. Two weeks from today, that's September ninth. Next week is

852
01:01:52.239 --> 01:01:55.119
Labor Day weekend. The next week, September ninth, I'm going to be

853
01:01:55.119 --> 01:02:00.480
a Plantation Ace Hardware out in the
Richmond are I'll be talking a lot about

854
01:02:00.519 --> 01:02:06.119
that next week and the following Saturday. But Plantation Ace Hardware, I'll be

855
01:02:06.400 --> 01:02:08.159
out there for a couple of hours
again, eleven thirty to one thirty.

856
01:02:08.400 --> 01:02:10.920
Put that down on your calendar.
I hope you'll come out and see me

857
01:02:12.000 --> 01:02:14.760
there. You know how I brag
on Ace all the time. I mean,

858
01:02:14.880 --> 01:02:17.840
And if you are trying to get
your lawn spruced up and fixed up,

859
01:02:17.840 --> 01:02:21.559
they're gonna have everything you need out
there, and we'll be there to

860
01:02:21.599 --> 01:02:27.320
answer your questions as well. But
today Lake Conro at the Home and Garden

861
01:02:27.360 --> 01:02:30.760
Show out at Margueriteaville. Let's head
to the phones and we're going to go

862
01:02:30.800 --> 01:02:37.000
to Northwest Houston now and talk to
Ed. Hello, Ed, Good morning,

863
01:02:37.039 --> 01:02:40.599
sir. Morning. I'm gonna start
with a question. Did you say

864
01:02:40.639 --> 01:02:45.119
five eight four or did you say
five seven four D for the last four

865
01:02:45.119 --> 01:02:49.440
digits of the number A while ago? Five eight seven four? Boy?

866
01:02:49.480 --> 01:02:53.440
If I said the other, I
misspoke five eight seven four seven one three

867
01:02:53.599 --> 01:02:58.920
two one two fifty eight seventy four
are are? You can just use the

868
01:02:59.000 --> 01:03:02.239
letters ktr A each for those last
sports. Okay, yeah, I think

869
01:03:02.280 --> 01:03:07.400
I die five seven four Oh,
but anyway, never left I need yes,

870
01:03:07.480 --> 01:03:13.920
sir, That's what matters I have. I went organic about three years

871
01:03:13.920 --> 01:03:17.599
ago, been very, very pleased
compared to all the years I was with

872
01:03:17.719 --> 01:03:22.199
the other stuff. Okay, Now, the one thing I can't seem to

873
01:03:22.280 --> 01:03:31.159
get comfortable that I know enough about
is bad preparation and bad maintenance. Okay,

874
01:03:32.599 --> 01:03:43.400
we have boxwoods bordering our driveway and
the bed around the front of the

875
01:03:43.440 --> 01:03:51.000
house on one side of the front
door. The bad must be in good

876
01:03:51.000 --> 01:03:58.519
shape because everything we've ever planted there
After we had some trouble with Indian Hawthorn's

877
01:03:58.599 --> 01:04:03.079
dying out after by twenty five years
has just taken off and just caught up

878
01:04:03.119 --> 01:04:10.559
and to pass the height of the
box woods in break of time. I

879
01:04:10.599 --> 01:04:15.519
guess the other bed they're healthy,
they're green looking and everything, but they

880
01:04:15.559 --> 01:04:19.880
just don't grow anywhere near that same
pace. So I'm thinking I didn't have

881
01:04:20.000 --> 01:04:27.159
the same kind of soil preparation when
I went through getting the hot thorns out

882
01:04:27.199 --> 01:04:30.400
of the air, Okay, and
consequently I don't know what to do now

883
01:04:30.440 --> 01:04:34.000
to try to have them catch up, although they look like they're healthy.

884
01:04:34.280 --> 01:04:38.000
Yeah, I just want to know
if there's something I should be putting in

885
01:04:38.079 --> 01:04:42.280
that soil to maybe help them catch
up with the other side. Okay.

886
01:04:42.320 --> 01:04:45.199
Now, how long have the plants
been in on the side that's not doing

887
01:04:45.280 --> 01:04:50.199
as well? Just about two years
now? Okay. Well, I wouldn't.

888
01:04:50.280 --> 01:04:56.320
I wouldn't say unless it was just
an extremely poor situation, I wouldn't

889
01:04:56.360 --> 01:05:00.360
say it's worth you know, digging
them up, fixing the bed. No,

890
01:05:00.440 --> 01:05:03.000
I wouldn't do that. I wouldn't
do that, Okay. I just

891
01:05:03.039 --> 01:05:05.760
wanted to know if it was something
I could add, like an amendment,

892
01:05:06.000 --> 01:05:10.239
yes of some sort. Yeah,
I eat some kind of soil, not

893
01:05:10.320 --> 01:05:14.440
just I would fertilize the type stuff. Yeah, I would use. Is

894
01:05:14.480 --> 01:05:17.039
it a heavy clay soil on the
bed or not? No, man,

895
01:05:17.119 --> 01:05:24.280
I when I took those hot thorns
out, I dug down probably fourteen sixteen

896
01:05:24.320 --> 01:05:28.360
inches to get as much clay out
of there as I could. But then

897
01:05:28.400 --> 01:05:30.760
I came back and I don't know
that I put the good mix that I

898
01:05:30.800 --> 01:05:34.280
should have in the start with.
Got you all right? So here's what

899
01:05:34.320 --> 01:05:39.159
you need to do. You need
to get about two inches a compost and

900
01:05:39.199 --> 01:05:41.960
spread it over the bed. That's
a lot, but spread it over the

901
01:05:41.960 --> 01:05:45.719
bed, and then I would if
you wanted to kind of get it down

902
01:05:45.719 --> 01:05:48.440
in the soil, I would take
like a spading fork and just push it,

903
01:05:48.639 --> 01:05:53.159
wiggle it straight down and wiggle it
a little bit, and then pull

904
01:05:53.199 --> 01:05:56.119
it straight up out. Don't you're
not turning over the soil and ripping up

905
01:05:56.159 --> 01:06:00.840
roots or anything. You're just create
wallowing out some nice holes and the compost

906
01:06:00.920 --> 01:06:03.760
will fall down in those holes.
In fact, i'd probably do the holes

907
01:06:03.800 --> 01:06:06.480
and then add the compost to the
top, rake it over and it'll go

908
01:06:06.559 --> 01:06:10.960
down in there. And if you
do that about once or twice a year.

909
01:06:11.079 --> 01:06:15.719
Each time you do it. You're
moving a little little cylinder of composts

910
01:06:15.719 --> 01:06:18.719
down into the soil like a little
fingers going straight down, and you can

911
01:06:18.800 --> 01:06:23.320
improve that soil over time that way. Plus the compost left on the top

912
01:06:23.400 --> 01:06:26.760
makes a good mulch. Whenever it
rains or you water, it's going to

913
01:06:26.840 --> 01:06:30.960
wash nutrients that are decomposing out of
that compost into your soil. I think

914
01:06:30.960 --> 01:06:32.119
that's what I would do, and
I think that'll take care of it.

915
01:06:33.440 --> 01:06:39.199
Now. Compost to me has scared
me because some of what I've seen have

916
01:06:39.440 --> 01:06:42.559
so much wood stuff in it.
No, I'm thinking, I'm putting down

917
01:06:43.519 --> 01:06:46.800
what kind of composts? Is the
leafmol compost better? But that are not

918
01:06:47.000 --> 01:06:50.599
the good, not the way leafmol
compost is a Cadillac, it would be

919
01:06:50.599 --> 01:06:57.559
fine, but any good if you
buy a compost from like Heirloom Soils or

920
01:06:57.639 --> 01:07:00.840
Nature's Way. Heirloom has theirs and
bags all over the place, is probably

921
01:07:00.880 --> 01:07:03.400
easy to find in your area.
But either of those they know how to

922
01:07:03.400 --> 01:07:06.239
make quality. And if they say
it's a compost, it's screened in a

923
01:07:06.280 --> 01:07:11.360
bag, it's going to be first
class and you're not gonna have wood chunks

924
01:07:11.519 --> 01:07:15.000
that people are saving a few bucks
by buying cheap composts. And life's too

925
01:07:15.000 --> 01:07:19.079
short to use cheap compost. Yeah. I've been using the leak mode since

926
01:07:19.119 --> 01:07:21.599
I went organic, and boy,
I tell you what it is, a

927
01:07:21.679 --> 01:07:25.880
duel. I'll go up to con
and get it. Yeah. Well now,

928
01:07:26.960 --> 01:07:30.519
yeah, I go up to Nature's
Way John John and Eve and Ferguson.

929
01:07:30.559 --> 01:07:33.360
They've got a high quality leak mode. Go for that. That's only

930
01:07:33.440 --> 01:07:39.079
place I go buy. I did
from cycles are Now one other question about

931
01:07:39.199 --> 01:07:47.760
beds. I have backwoods box woods
bordering around the driveways edge and on that

932
01:07:47.960 --> 01:07:54.719
in that bed, we've got about
a eighteen inch wide strip that we like

933
01:07:54.880 --> 01:08:00.280
to plant flowering stuff in. And
I have obviously missed the I think the

934
01:08:01.400 --> 01:08:05.079
getting that's all where I need to
get it. I want to pull out

935
01:08:05.119 --> 01:08:10.000
what we've got there now because we
had pretty good luck with some stuff that

936
01:08:10.079 --> 01:08:14.559
we had for the past several months. But hey, Ed, I'm sorry,

937
01:08:14.719 --> 01:08:15.560
Ed, I'm sorry to have to
cut in. I'm gonna have to

938
01:08:15.600 --> 01:08:18.920
go to a break. Uh,
just get your thoughts there and when we

939
01:08:19.000 --> 01:08:23.720
come back, I'll try to continue
to help with this one. You were

940
01:08:23.760 --> 01:08:27.920
listening, If you were listening to
garden Line, our phone number seven one

941
01:08:28.079 --> 01:08:34.239
three two one two fifty eight seventy
four, will be right back. I

942
01:08:34.399 --> 01:08:41.279
had everybody's head about the bed bed
badman. When I went to bed badmand

943
01:08:41.560 --> 01:08:44.680
bed is away, I went a
bad badband. When a bed is away,

944
01:08:44.840 --> 01:08:48.520
I went a bad badman. And
that's for your listening pleasure. This

945
01:08:48.560 --> 01:08:51.560
morning you were listening to garden Line. I am your host, skip Rictor

946
01:08:51.640 --> 01:08:56.680
and our phone number seven one three
two one two fifty eight seventy four.

947
01:08:57.079 --> 01:09:02.600
Hey, if you are looking for
another one of those amazing destination garden centers

948
01:09:03.000 --> 01:09:08.199
and you live anywhere up near the
Tomball area down you know, down two

949
01:09:08.319 --> 01:09:12.680
forty nine. Plants for All Seasons? Is that kind of place? You

950
01:09:12.720 --> 01:09:15.439
know? When you go into Plants
for All Seasons? You know you know

951
01:09:15.560 --> 01:09:18.560
two things. You know that you're
going to be greeted by somebody that knows

952
01:09:18.600 --> 01:09:25.079
what they're talking about, so your
questions are answered correctly. You receive the

953
01:09:25.119 --> 01:09:29.560
plant or the product that fits the
situation you have. Number two, you

954
01:09:29.600 --> 01:09:32.720
know that you're going to have an
amazing selection of some really cool things.

955
01:09:32.720 --> 01:09:35.880
For example, they I'd never seen
this before, but they got in some

956
01:09:36.039 --> 01:09:42.880
double rangoon creepers not too long ago
now rangoon creepers are really cool, vigorous

957
01:09:42.960 --> 01:09:47.359
vine with beautiful kind of goes from
white and pink and reddish blooms all in

958
01:09:47.439 --> 01:09:51.439
clusters are gorgeous. They have a
double type flower. It's really different,

959
01:09:51.520 --> 01:09:55.680
really cool. That's an example of
what I'm talking about. They've been around

960
01:09:55.680 --> 01:09:59.880
since nineteen seventy three. You can
go to Plants for All Seasons dot com,

961
01:10:00.680 --> 01:10:02.000
or you can give them a call
two eight, one, three,

962
01:10:02.079 --> 01:10:06.920
seven six sixteen forty six. Now
they are on Highway to forty nine,

963
01:10:08.520 --> 01:10:13.399
just north of Louetta Road. Plants
for All Seasons. Go by there and

964
01:10:13.439 --> 01:10:16.439
you'll see why I brag on the
place. It is amazing the plants,

965
01:10:16.960 --> 01:10:21.239
the service, the knowledge at Plants
for All Seasons. We're gonna head back

966
01:10:21.279 --> 01:10:26.399
out here, say ed if I'm
gonna have to wrap this up pretty quick,

967
01:10:26.439 --> 01:10:28.840
so if we can. If you
got a quick question, let's go

968
01:10:28.880 --> 01:10:31.800
ahead and do that. Yes,
if I want to add about two or

969
01:10:31.840 --> 01:10:35.880
three inches to that bay and around
those box woods, what kind of sauce

970
01:10:35.920 --> 01:10:40.359
should I put on before I plant
back in it? I would use a

971
01:10:40.520 --> 01:10:45.319
rose soil. And where you were
told you were talking about getting that fungal

972
01:10:45.359 --> 01:10:49.680
compost or the leafmo compost rose soil
for the same place. It's high quality.

973
01:10:49.720 --> 01:10:54.520
That's what I would do. Hey, I appreciate your call very much,

974
01:10:54.720 --> 01:10:58.000
Yes, sir, good good luck
with that. Good luck with that.

975
01:10:58.319 --> 01:11:01.560
You know, we got a tropical
storms brewing and the Gulf and this

976
01:11:01.600 --> 01:11:05.880
is the season for that kind of
thing. And that's why it's important to

977
01:11:05.960 --> 01:11:10.359
know about affordable tree care. Well, it's one of the reasons why affordable

978
01:11:10.399 --> 01:11:14.119
tree care. They do quality work. They know what to do. Whether

979
01:11:14.159 --> 01:11:17.279
you need a deep watering, they
can do deep root watering. And you've

980
01:11:17.319 --> 01:11:20.720
heard a deep root feeding, but
there's also deep root watering. Our trees

981
01:11:20.760 --> 01:11:25.720
are using a ton of water just
to stay alive right now, forget growing,

982
01:11:25.840 --> 01:11:29.279
just to stay alive. They can
provide that service. Martin spoon Moore

983
01:11:29.359 --> 01:11:31.960
and his wife Joe, they answer
their own phone and that number that they

984
01:11:32.000 --> 01:11:38.680
answer seven one three six nine nine
twenty six sixty three seven one three six

985
01:11:38.840 --> 01:11:44.279
nine twenty six sixty three. Gardenline
customers are their priority. Just tell them

986
01:11:44.319 --> 01:11:46.680
you know you gardenline listeners, So
you go to the front of the line.

987
01:11:47.039 --> 01:11:49.560
They will take care of you there. I don't care what kind of

988
01:11:49.600 --> 01:11:54.600
work you need. Maybe maybe you've
got some limbs that need some pruning before

989
01:11:54.640 --> 01:11:58.640
a storm hits and really makes a
mess of things or does damage to your

990
01:11:58.640 --> 01:12:02.479
home. Affordable Treecare they can do
that and anything else that you need done

991
01:12:02.800 --> 01:12:06.439
with your trees. Let's head up
to Northwest Houston. Now we're going to

992
01:12:06.520 --> 01:12:12.479
talk to Paula. Hello, Paula, good morning. Whenever I go to

993
01:12:12.600 --> 01:12:15.640
Nature's Way to buy the leap Mo
compost, they always ask me if I

994
01:12:15.720 --> 01:12:20.720
want fine or course, and I
don't know the difference. I always get

995
01:12:20.760 --> 01:12:26.640
fine just because it sounds more logical. But can you explain the difference between

996
01:12:26.640 --> 01:12:30.039
them. If I were doing like
aerating of the lawn and you want the

997
01:12:30.079 --> 01:12:33.600
composts to fall down in the aeration
holes, right, and because that that

998
01:12:33.680 --> 01:12:38.359
helps get organic matter done in the
soil, that would be a fine,

999
01:12:38.520 --> 01:12:42.720
finer texture would be better for that. The products are the same product,

1000
01:12:42.760 --> 01:12:45.800
it's just a different particle size.
Well, this is going to be for

1001
01:12:45.800 --> 01:12:48.359
grow boxes. I would just use
the course. I mean, you could

1002
01:12:48.479 --> 01:12:51.800
use the fine, it doesn't really
matter. It's just the fine has been

1003
01:12:51.880 --> 01:12:58.520
screened a little to small particle sizes, So you know that makes sense,

1004
01:12:58.560 --> 01:13:01.039
okay, And I wouldn't just put
leaf mold in a growbox. I would

1005
01:13:01.119 --> 01:13:04.319
use it as part of a mix. So oh do yeah, yeah,

1006
01:13:04.439 --> 01:13:08.600
yeah, all right, I'll learn
that through a master orders. Well there

1007
01:13:08.640 --> 01:13:11.920
you go, Paula. All right, okay, thank you, call.

1008
01:13:12.000 --> 01:13:16.319
I appreciate that very much. You
know, our lawns, our landscapes,

1009
01:13:16.600 --> 01:13:20.880
they are taking a hit in this
incredible heat. Plants are stressed. I

1010
01:13:20.880 --> 01:13:24.439
mean you look at a plant that's
watered out there in the landscape and it's

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01:13:24.720 --> 01:13:28.199
it's got a yellow eat tint to
it. It's like it's just it's just

1012
01:13:28.279 --> 01:13:30.840
like the life's being sucked out of
it by all this heat and the stresses.

1013
01:13:31.239 --> 01:13:38.399
Well, microlife products are designed to
feed the soil, which feeds the

1014
01:13:38.439 --> 01:13:42.399
plants. They are also if you
if you get the Ocean Harvest that's the

1015
01:13:42.439 --> 01:13:45.319
blue label. It's the fish based
fertilizer. You can spray it on foliage

1016
01:13:45.439 --> 01:13:49.880
as a liquid feed. Just follow
the label and how dilute it in sprays,

1017
01:13:50.039 --> 01:13:54.600
not going to burn your plants.
The humates plus, that's a purple

1018
01:13:54.600 --> 01:14:00.640
bag that provides not just the h
humus content, the organic our content.

1019
01:14:00.000 --> 01:14:06.359
It's basically it's concentrated compost in a
bag. It also provides the microbial boost

1020
01:14:06.640 --> 01:14:11.560
that our soils need in order for
plants to survive and do well. Six

1021
01:14:11.640 --> 01:14:15.680
to four. That's their green bag. That is a quality fertilizer. It

1022
01:14:15.760 --> 01:14:21.119
contains many types of nutrients, many
types of microbes. This is all important

1023
01:14:21.319 --> 01:14:27.840
because right now we need our minerals
and the soil replenished. We need plants

1024
01:14:27.880 --> 01:14:31.159
to have the microbial content they need
that enhances what the roots are trying to

1025
01:14:31.199 --> 01:14:35.239
do in the soil. And even
the sugars that are involved in these products

1026
01:14:35.279 --> 01:14:41.720
will help with stimulating that microbial content. I guess you know. One way

1027
01:14:41.720 --> 01:14:45.319
to think about the liquid is just
like kind of a gatorade for plants.

1028
01:14:45.399 --> 01:14:47.960
You know, that boost the I
don't know if plant electrolytes is a good

1029
01:14:48.079 --> 01:14:51.520
term or not, but that's one
way to think about it. I think

1030
01:14:51.600 --> 01:14:57.840
right now, keeping your plants adequately
watered, but also making sure they have

1031
01:14:57.880 --> 01:15:01.239
the nutrients, the microbes, the
compounds and things that are part of good

1032
01:15:01.279 --> 01:15:08.319
health during really really stressful times.
I just want to remind you again today

1033
01:15:08.359 --> 01:15:11.760
I'm gonna be out at Lake Conro
at the Home and Garden show out at

1034
01:15:11.800 --> 01:15:15.800
Margaritaville. Where's Margaritaville? Where if
you're on one oh five, you're coming

1035
01:15:15.840 --> 01:15:19.760
from con Road toward Montgomery past April
Sound. There's a big Walmart supercenter a

1036
01:15:19.800 --> 01:15:24.640
little further down on the right,
and turn right down the street there.

1037
01:15:24.760 --> 01:15:30.119
Let me just turn right down on
Walden excuse me, on Walden Road and

1038
01:15:30.199 --> 01:15:33.800
you will get to Margaritaville. I'm
gonna be talking for about an hour all

1039
01:15:33.920 --> 01:15:38.000
kinds of things you need to know
about getting your lawn, your garden and

1040
01:15:38.039 --> 01:15:41.720
everything ready for fall. So that'll
be a fun time. I'll be giving

1041
01:15:41.760 --> 01:15:45.119
away some Nelson plant food and two
pound jars, four pound jars. Awesome

1042
01:15:45.119 --> 01:15:48.479
plant food. Great little sample there. In fact, it's more than a

1043
01:15:48.520 --> 01:15:53.720
sample. You can apply it even
have some for like indoor plants and other

1044
01:15:53.760 --> 01:15:57.039
things. Got a wide variety of
things. As you come and ask questions,

1045
01:15:57.039 --> 01:15:59.840
you'll get some of that, and
then i'll be at a table and

1046
01:16:00.279 --> 01:16:04.600
your gardening questions as well. Now
I want to talk about a new sponsor

1047
01:16:04.680 --> 01:16:09.359
we have, and that is an
Antique Rosemporium. And this is one that

1048
01:16:09.479 --> 01:16:13.840
I actually pursued them. I have
wanted to brag on Antique Rosemporium on this

1049
01:16:13.840 --> 01:16:19.359
show for a long time. They
have been a destination for rose enthusiasts since

1050
01:16:19.479 --> 01:16:24.079
nineteen eighty three. In fact,
when I was finishing my master's degree,

1051
01:16:24.560 --> 01:16:29.479
I was already going out there to
Antique Rose Emporium working with a previous owner

1052
01:16:29.520 --> 01:16:32.199
out there. Now there got a
new owner, and I mean it is

1053
01:16:32.279 --> 01:16:38.319
just not missing a beat, full
fledge going forward. Of course, roses

1054
01:16:38.399 --> 01:16:42.640
or what they're all about, but
they are about so much more perennials,

1055
01:16:42.800 --> 01:16:45.720
native herbs, all kinds of plants. They have a wonderful gift shop too,

1056
01:16:45.720 --> 01:16:49.399
by the way, and they have
educational workshops throughout the season. So

1057
01:16:49.560 --> 01:16:54.479
I mean, just keep going out
there to learn more. Follow Antique ROSEMPOORIM

1058
01:16:54.479 --> 01:16:58.680
on your social media, get on
their email list, and so you know

1059
01:16:58.800 --> 01:17:01.800
when things are coming up. For
example, the Fall Festival of Roses.

1060
01:17:02.319 --> 01:17:09.039
Antique Rose Emporium's Fall Festival of Roses
is something you do not want to miss.

1061
01:17:09.239 --> 01:17:14.199
It is coming up before we get
to further along here on November third

1062
01:17:14.399 --> 01:17:15.840
through fifth. Now I know that's
the ways out, but get it on

1063
01:17:15.880 --> 01:17:20.840
your calendar. There's going to be
outstanding speakers one right after another, and

1064
01:17:20.920 --> 01:17:27.399
the place will look amazing at that
time because that is the kind of place

1065
01:17:27.399 --> 01:17:31.479
it has Antique Rose Emporium dot com
or give them a call nine seven nine

1066
01:17:31.680 --> 01:17:38.239
eight three six fifty five forty eight
nine seven nine eight three six five five

1067
01:17:38.680 --> 01:17:42.760
four eight. You've got to go
out. It is like you've entered a

1068
01:17:42.800 --> 01:17:45.920
whole new world when you drive on
the property. The beauty, the plantings,

1069
01:17:46.000 --> 01:17:49.319
the building, it is just really
really cool. In fact, my

1070
01:17:49.439 --> 01:17:54.880
new website, Gardening with Skip dot
com. That banner across the top,

1071
01:17:55.159 --> 01:17:59.359
that's me on the porch at one
of the buildings out at the Antique Rose

1072
01:17:59.399 --> 01:18:03.399
Emporium. Any excuse to go out
there is a good excuse to have a

1073
01:18:03.439 --> 01:18:08.880
fun day out in the country.
Well, you've been listening to garden Line.

1074
01:18:08.920 --> 01:18:13.359
We are putting another hour in the
books. Appreciate you listening. We

1075
01:18:13.439 --> 01:18:17.920
always enjoy getting to visit with our
listeners on garden Line. I hope you

1076
01:18:17.960 --> 01:18:20.880
tell your friends and family about it. By the way, just a reminder

1077
01:18:20.960 --> 01:18:28.439
again, my new website, Gardening
with Skip dot com is up and running.

1078
01:18:28.560 --> 01:18:31.119
Basically, what the website is right
now is it's the lawn care Schedule.

1079
01:18:31.159 --> 01:18:33.600
We're going to be putting a lot
more stuff on there as time goes

1080
01:18:33.640 --> 01:18:38.399
on, but the new lawn care
schedule is up on the website. When

1081
01:18:38.439 --> 01:18:41.199
you look at it first thing,
you're going to say, that's a lot

1082
01:18:41.239 --> 01:18:44.439
of information, because it is.
But if you just look at it a

1083
01:18:44.439 --> 01:18:47.399
minute, it's very simple. It's
color coded, so if you're using synthetic

1084
01:18:47.439 --> 01:18:53.560
fertilizers or organic fertilizers. January through
December tells you everything you need to do,

1085
01:18:53.840 --> 01:18:57.000
tells you about trace minals, tells
you about air raiding, how to

1086
01:18:57.039 --> 01:19:00.880
properly mow, how to properly water, and every quality fertilizer that you would

1087
01:19:00.880 --> 01:19:08.319
want to know about. KTRH Garden
Line does not necessarily endorse any of the

1088
01:19:08.319 --> 01:19:15.159
products or services advertised on this program. Welcome to ktr H Garden Line with

1089
01:19:15.399 --> 01:19:36.239
Scared Rictor. It's smell the crazy
trip. Just watch him as so many

1090
01:19:31.800 --> 01:19:43.920
to come with my chicken, but
not a sign. All right, go

1091
01:19:44.000 --> 01:19:48.560
to the window, look outside.
It is a gorgeous day, a gorgeous

1092
01:19:48.640 --> 01:19:51.359
day for gardening. Now's a good
time to get out there. I hope

1093
01:19:51.399 --> 01:19:55.000
you take the radio with you,
though, if you would listen to it

1094
01:19:55.079 --> 01:19:59.439
on your ear pods or whatever.
We are here to talk about gardening,

1095
01:19:59.479 --> 01:20:02.359
and we got lot to talk about
today, a whole lot to talk about

1096
01:20:02.399 --> 01:20:09.159
today. Hey, if you are
looking for a garden center that has a

1097
01:20:09.199 --> 01:20:15.439
little bit of everything and just quality
plants, quality products, and convenient to

1098
01:20:15.479 --> 01:20:20.239
get to. Really, that's RCW
Nurseries. You can go to RCW Nursery

1099
01:20:20.279 --> 01:20:25.079
dot com. Now that's the nursery
that's as you come down Tomball Parkway towards

1100
01:20:25.119 --> 01:20:28.279
Houston, right at the Beltway,
there too, forty nine at the Beltway.

1101
01:20:28.359 --> 01:20:32.840
That's where they're located. Now RW
I'll look at them as they get

1102
01:20:32.840 --> 01:20:36.279
it got at nursery. If they
don't have it, then they'll get it.

1103
01:20:36.439 --> 01:20:39.840
That's kind of how that works.
They'll do their best to find it.

1104
01:20:39.840 --> 01:20:42.479
If it's out there, they'll bring
it in for you. They carry

1105
01:20:42.479 --> 01:20:45.760
those fertilizers that we talk about that
we brag on all the time. You

1106
01:20:45.760 --> 01:20:48.399
know, they've got everything you need
to go with your plants to have success.

1107
01:20:48.880 --> 01:20:51.720
If you were into roses. By
the way, you can plant roses

1108
01:20:51.720 --> 01:20:58.520
twelve months of the year, but
fall is this coming season is the prime

1109
01:20:58.520 --> 01:21:00.479
time of the year to plant roses, and plant them tomorrow if you want.

1110
01:21:00.800 --> 01:21:02.960
Just gotta take care of them.
If you do, they have the

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01:21:03.000 --> 01:21:06.960
biggest selection I've ever seen, like
four pages, single space, small font

1112
01:21:08.000 --> 01:21:12.399
of roses. I've never seen so
many varieties of roses available at one garden

1113
01:21:12.479 --> 01:21:15.680
center. Is that they have trees
fifteen gallons up to two hundred gallons,

1114
01:21:15.800 --> 01:21:20.600
ornamental trees, shade trees, fruit
trees. It just it's a pleasure to

1115
01:21:20.640 --> 01:21:25.760
go out there and enjoy seeing all
the different things that are always around at

1116
01:21:25.760 --> 01:21:29.560
our CW nurseries. You know that
right now they're loaded up on what we

1117
01:21:29.600 --> 01:21:32.920
would say fall bling, Halloween bling. You know that metal yard art and

1118
01:21:33.079 --> 01:21:36.800
all the kind of cool and crazy
stuff that you put out in the yard.

1119
01:21:38.159 --> 01:21:41.039
Boy, do they ever a good
supply of that as well. I

1120
01:21:41.079 --> 01:21:46.720
always like going out, I mean
the bougainville is and the tropical hibiscus and

1121
01:21:46.800 --> 01:21:50.479
other kinds of things, annual plants, bedding plants, just to everything.

1122
01:21:50.640 --> 01:21:55.399
Just go see see what I'm talking
about our CW Nurseries. I'm I'll be

1123
01:21:55.439 --> 01:21:57.680
out there this fall later on.
I'll tell you about that more as we

1124
01:21:57.720 --> 01:22:00.760
get close to it, but definitely
worth a stop to check it out.

1125
01:22:00.960 --> 01:22:03.920
Those of you who've been going you
know what I'm talking about. Well,

1126
01:22:03.960 --> 01:22:06.840
let's see, we're gonna go out
to Northwest Houston now and we're gonna talk

1127
01:22:06.880 --> 01:22:11.760
to Tom. Hello, Tom,
Hey, good morning, thanks for taking

1128
01:22:11.800 --> 01:22:15.600
my call. Yes, sir,
I've got a long issue that I hope

1129
01:22:15.600 --> 01:22:17.359
and maybe you can give me some
pointers on. I've got spurge in my

1130
01:22:17.479 --> 01:22:21.880
grass. It actually started a couple
of years ago. I think my neighbor

1131
01:22:21.920 --> 01:22:25.000
got mad at me. He had
it in his and as they got it

1132
01:22:25.039 --> 01:22:28.399
cleared up by digging it up.
I'm I always joking to say you do

1133
01:22:28.399 --> 01:22:32.119
it in my yard, but it
has kind of taken off. Trying to

1134
01:22:32.119 --> 01:22:36.439
figure out how to control this and
kill it off without killing the grass itself,

1135
01:22:36.720 --> 01:22:40.000
all right. Thoughts on that,
Well, I just want to make

1136
01:22:40.039 --> 01:22:42.600
sure we're talking about spurge. When
you break the plants, a little white,

1137
01:22:42.600 --> 01:22:46.800
milky sap comes out. Hadn't noticed
that. The only reason I'm calling

1138
01:22:46.800 --> 01:22:49.439
it spurge is because my neighbor had
it and he said it's the same thing

1139
01:22:49.479 --> 01:22:54.119
he had. Okay, maybe he
was saying the scourge. It's the scourge

1140
01:22:54.119 --> 01:22:58.800
of his landscape. No, I
don't know. I don't I'd like to

1141
01:22:58.840 --> 01:23:01.399
know the weed for sure to be
able to tell you spurge. Typically you

1142
01:23:01.439 --> 01:23:06.199
find it on compacted soils or really
any kind of soil, but where sunlight

1143
01:23:06.279 --> 01:23:11.920
hits the soil just bare areas.
You don't typically see it becoming a problem

1144
01:23:11.920 --> 01:23:15.439
in lawns unless the lawn is pretty
thin. So maybe we need to take

1145
01:23:15.479 --> 01:23:18.479
a closer look before I send you
out to waste time and money on the

1146
01:23:18.479 --> 01:23:23.479
wrong product. I do know my
lawn is I do you know my lawn

1147
01:23:23.560 --> 01:23:28.039
is stin and it's in bare It's
in bare areas, okay, and you

1148
01:23:28.039 --> 01:23:30.920
know so that I do know that, and I don't love that health here

1149
01:23:30.920 --> 01:23:32.239
to think, Well, where would
you suggest I clipped some of this to

1150
01:23:32.279 --> 01:23:35.000
take it to actually figure out exactly
what it is? Well, I mean

1151
01:23:35.039 --> 01:23:40.920
you can you know, you can
see you're out there in the West Houston

1152
01:23:41.000 --> 01:23:46.000
area. Uh, like you north
or south of I ten south of you

1153
01:23:46.039 --> 01:23:49.640
may take it down to Southwest Feed
and Fertilizer. Uh. Those folks at

1154
01:23:49.680 --> 01:23:55.840
Southwest Feed, Bob and his team, they really know what they're talking about.

1155
01:23:55.920 --> 01:23:59.960
And just just pull some of it
out and put it in a ziplock

1156
01:24:00.079 --> 01:24:02.600
bag and take it down to Southwest
Fertilizer. They are on the corner of

1157
01:24:02.880 --> 01:24:09.199
Bissonette and Renwick and South Houston.
The good thing about that is after you

1158
01:24:09.239 --> 01:24:12.600
get it identified, they're gonna tell
you exactly which of their products goes with

1159
01:24:12.680 --> 01:24:16.439
the weed that you've brought them.
Okay, okay, so you can go

1160
01:24:16.479 --> 01:24:23.560
to Southwest Fertilizer dot com to get
it identified and again corner Bisnett and Renwick.

1161
01:24:24.960 --> 01:24:28.880
I've never seen a place with so
many different products and tools and everything

1162
01:24:28.880 --> 01:24:31.439
else you might need. But I
would let's start with making sure we have

1163
01:24:31.479 --> 01:24:34.880
the right ID, because there's going
to be a pre emergent and a post

1164
01:24:34.920 --> 01:24:40.039
emergent option depending on the time of
year and depending on the weed. And

1165
01:24:40.439 --> 01:24:44.479
like I said, I don't want
to just guess and assume right now,

1166
01:24:44.479 --> 01:24:45.920
I said, I appreciate you all. Yeah, sure, thank you for

1167
01:24:45.960 --> 01:24:50.399
that call very much. I appreciate
that. Yeah. Southwest Fertilizer, gosh,

1168
01:24:50.399 --> 01:24:54.720
they've been around since nineteen fifty five. I mean that is like the

1169
01:24:55.520 --> 01:25:00.560
institution when it comes to everything you
need. If you're organ at gardener,

1170
01:25:00.640 --> 01:25:03.960
if you don't care, you just
whatever it works, gardener. They've got

1171
01:25:03.960 --> 01:25:09.199
everything you can imagine in the largest
selection in the whole city. That's absolutely

1172
01:25:09.199 --> 01:25:13.600
true. Eighty foot wall full of
tools. And yeah, when you're in

1173
01:25:13.640 --> 01:25:15.760
there, go take your more blade. Let them get it sharpened, because

1174
01:25:15.800 --> 01:25:20.199
that helps make a more beautiful lawn
as well. And also, hey we're

1175
01:25:20.319 --> 01:25:25.439
gonna you know, it's always a
good time to fertilize something. And Southwest

1176
01:25:25.439 --> 01:25:28.640
Fertilizer Bob has a soul probe and
he'll check it out to you for free.

1177
01:25:28.760 --> 01:25:31.039
Yet to leave a deposit so the
soul probe doesn't walk off, if

1178
01:25:31.079 --> 01:25:34.359
you know what I mean. But
bring it back and get your deposit back.

1179
01:25:34.479 --> 01:25:39.279
And it allows you to take an
accurate soil sample so you will know

1180
01:25:39.439 --> 01:25:44.800
exactly which fertilizer blend is going to
be the right one for the plant you're

1181
01:25:44.800 --> 01:25:47.359
trying to grow. I think it's
a great deal while you're out there to

1182
01:25:47.520 --> 01:25:51.600
ask them, ask to see their
kneeling benches. That is probably my latest

1183
01:25:51.680 --> 01:25:56.119
greatest. Can't live without a tool
Bob. Last time I check, they

1184
01:25:56.119 --> 01:26:00.279
had a good supply of those still
on hand. Let's see gonna let's head

1185
01:26:00.279 --> 01:26:03.199
out to Deer Park, Charley.
I've got about a minute. Let's see

1186
01:26:03.239 --> 01:26:05.600
if we can get it done.
If not, we'll hang over the break.

1187
01:26:06.560 --> 01:26:13.239
Okay. I have a orange normally
a sendro that I purchased an HGP

1188
01:26:13.520 --> 01:26:16.239
and I don't know anything about it. It's still a pot's about footing the

1189
01:26:16.239 --> 01:26:21.520
half tall. It's beautiful booms,
but I don't know how to careport or

1190
01:26:21.560 --> 01:26:27.039
if it freezes or whatdu and tell
me again the name of the plant,

1191
01:26:28.039 --> 01:26:34.039
orange mormally crescendra. Okay, that
plant. It does well here. It

1192
01:26:34.119 --> 01:26:42.079
needs a soil with good organic u
matter in it, like compost. It's

1193
01:26:42.119 --> 01:26:45.720
basically what I'm talking about. You
want to keep it adequately moist. It's

1194
01:26:45.760 --> 01:26:49.159
not extremely drought tolerant, but it
does really well here. And you will

1195
01:26:49.159 --> 01:26:54.920
see those things. You'll see them
growing all around the area. Uh,

1196
01:26:55.199 --> 01:26:58.560
it's it's Do they freeze during the
winter? Do you have to protect they

1197
01:26:58.640 --> 01:27:00.479
can? They can freeze in the
winter? Yep, they are not.

1198
01:27:00.960 --> 01:27:05.520
They are not completely cold hearty.
It just depends on the weather. We

1199
01:27:05.600 --> 01:27:10.560
have there a zone nine plant,
not a week all right, we are

1200
01:27:10.640 --> 01:27:14.640
in June nine. We're are in
zone nine. But you know when we

1201
01:27:14.680 --> 01:27:16.039
have a cold winter, it can
do some damage. You have to cover

1202
01:27:16.119 --> 01:27:20.000
them up, all right, rich? Can do I keep it in the

1203
01:27:20.079 --> 01:27:26.800
sun partial shade or what do they
like? Water or dried soil? I

1204
01:27:26.880 --> 01:27:30.800
put them in partial shade morning sun
would be fine. I wouldn't want to

1205
01:27:30.840 --> 01:27:35.239
have them in hot, hot afternoon
sun. For best results, and just

1206
01:27:35.279 --> 01:27:40.399
fertilize them moderately and they'll do fine. Hey, I've got a run to

1207
01:27:40.439 --> 01:27:44.479
another break, but I hope that
helps. And that is a beautiful plant.

1208
01:27:44.520 --> 01:27:48.279
Congratulations on getting that one. You're
listening to garden Line our phone number

1209
01:27:48.359 --> 01:28:09.039
seven one three two one two fifty
eight seventy four. How many of you

1210
01:28:09.159 --> 01:28:12.359
remember Abba? I mean, really
remember Abba? You know? I mean

1211
01:28:12.359 --> 01:28:15.920
you could be ten years old and
saw a movie with Abba music in it,

1212
01:28:15.000 --> 01:28:19.239
but really remember Abba. That was
some different stuff when it hit the

1213
01:28:19.239 --> 01:28:23.439
ground, pretty cool stuff. Hey, you're listening to garden Line. I'm

1214
01:28:23.479 --> 01:28:28.159
your host, Skipwrecter seven one three
two one two fifty eight seventy four.

1215
01:28:28.199 --> 01:28:30.760
That's our phone number. If you'd
like to give us a call, We'll

1216
01:28:30.800 --> 01:28:34.760
be happy to visit with you about
whatever is of interest to you. I

1217
01:28:34.840 --> 01:28:39.399
bet you when you look outside,
let me put it this way, when

1218
01:28:39.439 --> 01:28:42.319
you drive up to your house,
do you close one eye because you just

1219
01:28:42.359 --> 01:28:46.279
can't stand to look at the escape
anymore. It's struggling. Or maybe it's

1220
01:28:46.319 --> 01:28:51.760
just that sea of green that our
landscapes become in the summer. Pierscapes can

1221
01:28:51.800 --> 01:29:00.359
fix that. We're talking about professional, experienced well trained employees, outstand ending

1222
01:29:00.359 --> 01:29:02.880
designers. You walk in with some
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1223
01:29:02.920 --> 01:29:05.800
look, this is what I got. I need some help here.

1224
01:29:05.880 --> 01:29:10.439
What can we do? Maybe get
some new beds installed, Maybe move some

1225
01:29:10.520 --> 01:29:15.000
things around, do some renovations.
Maybe your irrigation system needs repair. Would

1226
01:29:15.000 --> 01:29:17.479
you like a new hardscape in the
backyard, maybe a patio for enjoying with

1227
01:29:17.520 --> 01:29:21.159
your friends when it cools off,
and yes it is going to cool off.

1228
01:29:21.199 --> 01:29:25.079
You need to call them now because
it's time to get this thing started.

1229
01:29:25.119 --> 01:29:28.439
So I can get designed, It
could get planned, and it can

1230
01:29:28.479 --> 01:29:34.079
get installed so you have a beautiful
outdoor fall gathering area with your friends.

1231
01:29:34.079 --> 01:29:36.720
In fact, I say fall.
You know you can gather in the winter

1232
01:29:36.840 --> 01:29:41.920
here. It's a mild here.
What is winter three days a year something

1233
01:29:42.000 --> 01:29:45.600
like that in the Houston area.
Anyway, you get the idea, Pierscapes,

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peerscapes dot com or call them two
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1235
01:29:53.000 --> 01:30:00.840
six zero. They will turn your
ordinary into extrordinary. That is beer escapes.

1236
01:30:01.239 --> 01:30:04.880
That's what it's all about. Let's
see, We're going to head out

1237
01:30:04.920 --> 01:30:13.000
to Deer Park and talk to Shirley. Hello Shirley, Yes, I'm still

1238
01:30:13.039 --> 01:30:15.880
here. Okay, I need to
know. I'm getting ready a planet.

1239
01:30:15.000 --> 01:30:19.359
It was about it in a hanging
basket. I need to know if how

1240
01:30:20.199 --> 01:30:26.159
how big it gets to the shrubs, to the plant we're talking about the

1241
01:30:26.199 --> 01:30:30.279
cressandra again. Yes, uh huh, you you know a hanging basket is

1242
01:30:30.319 --> 01:30:34.800
fine. It needs to be a
pretty big one because that plant will grow

1243
01:30:34.880 --> 01:30:40.079
to some size and so I might
put it in a container. Uh.

1244
01:30:40.239 --> 01:30:45.279
It in our climate, in our
conditions, we typically think of it more

1245
01:30:45.840 --> 01:30:48.279
of as an annual or perennial as
opposed to a shrub. But it can

1246
01:30:48.319 --> 01:30:54.279
get it can get larger in time. The nice thing about a container is

1247
01:30:54.720 --> 01:30:58.680
when we do have a frosty night
where it's going to froster freeze, you

1248
01:30:58.720 --> 01:31:01.439
can move it into the garage with
a little dolly or hand truck, just

1249
01:31:01.479 --> 01:31:06.159
to move it in the garage and
protect it that way. Is it a

1250
01:31:06.239 --> 01:31:11.960
ceasfold rumor it looks something like to
reminds me something like alon heads, like

1251
01:31:12.039 --> 01:31:18.239
a a zenia or a miragold rum. To it's a beautiful blue, but

1252
01:31:18.640 --> 01:31:24.479
it is just something like firebler.
Uh did you say, is it a

1253
01:31:24.479 --> 01:31:30.399
what kind of bloomer? It's it
just remind you of a fire bler.

1254
01:31:30.720 --> 01:31:34.159
It's kind of beautiful. Belief to
it. It does. Yeah, it's

1255
01:31:34.239 --> 01:31:36.880
I think it's probably and I'm not
certain of this, but I think it's

1256
01:31:36.920 --> 01:31:43.600
probably more kinda like shrimp plants with
just the flower form. But I need

1257
01:31:43.640 --> 01:31:45.880
to check that. That is me
just looking at it and saying that looks

1258
01:31:45.880 --> 01:31:48.840
like it be kind to shrint plants. I may be. Yeah, it

1259
01:31:48.920 --> 01:31:55.159
won't be a treated or a shrub. It's going to be a plant.

1260
01:31:55.359 --> 01:31:59.199
No. Yeah, it's anywhere from
one foot to three feet tall, about

1261
01:31:59.199 --> 01:32:03.800
a foot or two in excellent growing
conditions. But yeah, you can do

1262
01:32:03.880 --> 01:32:06.600
it in a container. Just don't
let it dry out. It is not

1263
01:32:08.000 --> 01:32:12.479
a drought tolerant plant, so take
care of it. Okay. I do

1264
01:32:12.560 --> 01:32:15.560
appreciate it, and you have a
wonderful day. Thank you for helping well.

1265
01:32:15.560 --> 01:32:17.399
Thank you, Charlotte. I appreciate
I appreciate that call very much.

1266
01:32:17.760 --> 01:32:19.880
You know, we're talking about putting
it in a container. When you put

1267
01:32:19.920 --> 01:32:24.479
something in a container, you need
a quality soil mix for it to do

1268
01:32:24.560 --> 01:32:27.119
well. I mean, you need
quality soil mix when you plant it in

1269
01:32:27.159 --> 01:32:31.920
the ground. But if the folks
at Heirloom Soils, they have so many

1270
01:32:31.960 --> 01:32:35.920
blends that I mean there's a blend
for everything. There's a fruit berry and

1271
01:32:36.039 --> 01:32:41.199
citrus blend, there's an herb and
veggie blend, a cactus and succulent blend.

1272
01:32:41.520 --> 01:32:44.960
And then they have something called the
works potting soil. That's what I'd

1273
01:32:44.960 --> 01:32:49.680
put that Cassanda in Cassandrian. The
works Potting soil is an all purpless purpose

1274
01:32:49.760 --> 01:32:54.560
blend. It's ideal for flowers.
You can grow herbs in it, you

1275
01:32:54.600 --> 01:32:58.720
can grow veggies in it. But
it's designed for being in a container,

1276
01:32:58.880 --> 01:33:02.840
draining well but holding moisture. That's
what you're looking for. And you're going

1277
01:33:02.880 --> 01:33:08.039
to find heirloom soil products pretty much
all over the place. I mean,

1278
01:33:08.039 --> 01:33:13.640
they're widely available here in the Greater
Houston area. I love the fact that

1279
01:33:13.680 --> 01:33:17.560
they deliver supersacks to your driveway.
If you're going to do some outdoor landscape

1280
01:33:17.560 --> 01:33:21.920
work, you know, want to
create some beds, a qbicyard superstack dropped

1281
01:33:21.960 --> 01:33:25.920
right off on your driveway, or
you can have it delivered and dumped,

1282
01:33:26.079 --> 01:33:29.159
or you can go get it yourself. I mean, however you want to

1283
01:33:29.159 --> 01:33:32.319
go about it. Heirloom soils is
the place that you need to go and

1284
01:33:32.359 --> 01:33:35.920
I encourage you to give him a
call. Check them out drop by.

1285
01:33:36.319 --> 01:33:40.520
But wherever you shop, ask them
do you have heirloom soils? And I

1286
01:33:40.560 --> 01:33:44.239
bet they do and a bag.
And that is the kind of quality stuff.

1287
01:33:44.279 --> 01:33:48.880
Don't skimp when it comes to getting
quality soil because that determines your success

1288
01:33:48.960 --> 01:33:54.319
or not. And you don't buy
vegetables and herbs and flowers for them to

1289
01:33:54.439 --> 01:34:00.119
survive. You buy them for them
to be very high and the wow factor,

1290
01:34:00.439 --> 01:34:04.720
very beautiful, very productive, very
impressive. Let's head out to Richmond

1291
01:34:04.720 --> 01:34:09.399
and we're going to talk to Terry. Now, Hello Terry, Yes,

1292
01:34:09.520 --> 01:34:15.000
sir, actually skip. What my
problem is. I've got these oak trees

1293
01:34:15.039 --> 01:34:18.319
out in my front yard, pretty
pretty large, you know, probably thirty

1294
01:34:18.920 --> 01:34:25.920
feet tall. In they've got this
web all around the trunk, running up

1295
01:34:25.960 --> 01:34:29.560
the truck and on the limbs.
And yeah, so I didn't know what

1296
01:34:29.640 --> 01:34:32.960
I should do. Need to do, well, no problem at all.

1297
01:34:33.000 --> 01:34:36.880
Just get you some outdoor lighting to
shine from the ground up on the web

1298
01:34:36.920 --> 01:34:41.479
and you'll be ready for Halloween when
the kids come through. Yeah. That

1299
01:34:41.600 --> 01:34:45.760
stuff is called bark lice. Bark
lice, and they are no problem to

1300
01:34:45.800 --> 01:34:49.760
the planet at all. Think of
them as little vacuum cleaners running along the

1301
01:34:49.800 --> 01:34:56.640
plant, chewing up the detritus and
I don't know, algae or lichens or

1302
01:34:56.680 --> 01:35:00.439
whatever's on the trunk. And they
spend that web to protect the themselves.

1303
01:35:00.800 --> 01:35:04.520
And it looks weird, but it's
it's not hurting anything, and you can

1304
01:35:04.560 --> 01:35:06.960
blast it off with water if you
don't want to look at it. But

1305
01:35:08.399 --> 01:35:12.279
they're not they're not a problem.
That's that's an easy one, you can

1306
01:35:12.359 --> 01:35:17.239
rest assured. Yeah, yeah,
yeah, just getting ready for Halloween.

1307
01:35:17.319 --> 01:35:21.279
Ask the lights to hang around because
that's some pretty you know, people pay

1308
01:35:21.319 --> 01:35:26.640
for that angel hair like stuff to
droop around and make it look like spiderwebs.

1309
01:35:27.159 --> 01:35:30.960
All right, thank you very much, you bet, thank you.

1310
01:35:30.039 --> 01:35:34.520
I appreciate that call very much.
Hey, if you are up in the

1311
01:35:34.600 --> 01:35:42.079
area where let's say FM twenty nine
seventy eight Magnolia direction right, Spring Creek

1312
01:35:42.119 --> 01:35:46.359
Feed, Spring Creek Feed, that's
your hometown feed store. Spring Creek Feed

1313
01:35:46.520 --> 01:35:50.479
has everything you need for your horses, for your cattle, for your dogs,

1314
01:35:50.520 --> 01:35:55.199
your cats. I mean, if
if if you've got a critter that

1315
01:35:55.239 --> 01:35:59.840
eats stuff, Spring Creek Feed has
the stuff they need. Maybe you're into

1316
01:35:59.840 --> 01:36:02.279
backyard chickens, you know that a
lot of people are into that right now.

1317
01:36:02.359 --> 01:36:06.319
That's pretty cool. Spring Creek Feed
has friendly, courteous staff. Again,

1318
01:36:06.359 --> 01:36:11.840
they're just minutes away from Graham Parkway
and Highway two forty nine in Magnolia.

1319
01:36:11.960 --> 01:36:15.680
On FM twenty nine seventy eight.
I'm amused when I go in there

1320
01:36:16.000 --> 01:36:19.680
at all the different feed products the
other day and this cracks me up.

1321
01:36:20.000 --> 01:36:26.479
But there is a freeze dried menow
treats for cats. Now to me,

1322
01:36:26.640 --> 01:36:30.159
that sounds like it ought to be
a control substance in the feline world,

1323
01:36:30.600 --> 01:36:36.039
because I would think that it's catcracked
to have freeze dried mennows available as a

1324
01:36:36.079 --> 01:36:40.479
snack. Well, they have everything
else your plants need, but they also

1325
01:36:40.520 --> 01:36:45.560
have the fun stuff for your little
furrier feathered friends. Spring Creek Feed that's

1326
01:36:45.600 --> 01:36:49.119
a one stop shop for whatever you
need when it comes to feeding the two

1327
01:36:49.199 --> 01:36:54.960
legs and the fore legs running around
the property. You're listening to Garden Line.

1328
01:36:55.000 --> 01:36:59.119
I'm your host, Skip Ricter.
Our phone number is nigh Let's seven

1329
01:36:59.479 --> 01:37:04.760
three two one two five eight seven
four seven one three two one two fifty

1330
01:37:04.840 --> 01:37:11.479
eight seventy four. You've got a
little piece of property out there in the

1331
01:37:11.520 --> 01:37:15.359
country, and you've been thinking about
getting a tractor, don't delay any longer.

1332
01:37:15.479 --> 01:37:19.640
I've got the one you need,
and that is the Lansdown Moody Caboda

1333
01:37:19.920 --> 01:37:26.359
twenty five o one, the l
twenty five oh one. They've extended the

1334
01:37:26.359 --> 01:37:28.880
deal on it, and the deal
is I don't know how they do this,

1335
01:37:28.960 --> 01:37:31.560
but it's you don't pay anything down, you don't pay any interest for

1336
01:37:31.640 --> 01:37:38.319
seven years. That's called eighty four
months. If you're doing the math this

1337
01:37:38.359 --> 01:37:42.880
particular tractor hydrostatic transmission. It is
just a really sweet ride and you can

1338
01:37:42.920 --> 01:37:45.560
check it out and you can get
your front end loader, you're shredder on

1339
01:37:45.600 --> 01:37:50.600
the back or whatever you need.
Lansdowne Moody and Cauboda what a great combination.

1340
01:37:50.640 --> 01:37:57.279
You can go to LM tractor dot
com LM tractor dot com and find

1341
01:37:57.279 --> 01:38:00.439
out more about this. I would
encourage you to find there all over the

1342
01:38:00.479 --> 01:38:02.880
place here in the greater Houston area. Find the nearest lands down to you,

1343
01:38:03.239 --> 01:38:05.560
go by and tell them I want
to ride that thing. I want

1344
01:38:05.560 --> 01:38:08.560
to check it out, I want
to sit on it. And you'll see

1345
01:38:08.560 --> 01:38:12.319
what I'm talking about. You can
picture yourself out there on that piece of

1346
01:38:12.319 --> 01:38:16.039
property getting work done and don't tell
anybody, but and having a heck of

1347
01:38:16.079 --> 01:38:20.439
a lot of fun in the meantime. You know, you gotta you gotta

1348
01:38:20.560 --> 01:38:24.880
kind of explain that this is an
important piece of equipment you have to have.

1349
01:38:25.000 --> 01:38:27.960
This is not just for fun,
even though just twein you and me

1350
01:38:28.319 --> 01:38:31.319
it's a blast. At the same
time, we're gonna let's see, I'll

1351
01:38:31.319 --> 01:38:35.039
tell you what I'm gonna Curtis,
I see out there. We're gonna come

1352
01:38:35.079 --> 01:38:40.800
to you when we come back from
break and we will be going to break

1353
01:38:40.840 --> 01:38:43.199
here. And just a little bit
for those of you who'd like to get

1354
01:38:43.239 --> 01:38:46.960
on the line. Seven one three
two one two five eight seven four is

1355
01:38:47.000 --> 01:38:51.000
the number you need. We're about
to head to the Nikki News. Neber

1356
01:38:51.119 --> 01:38:54.800
Nikki just walked in the room.
Yes, I don't know. Do you

1357
01:38:54.800 --> 01:38:59.279
have any gardening news today or sort
of kind of kind We're in a special

1358
01:38:59.319 --> 01:39:01.159
time of year, we are.
You need to go to Wildbird's unlimited.

1359
01:39:01.359 --> 01:39:03.880
Oh, I'm gonna be talking about
them in a little bit. I'm gonna

1360
01:39:03.920 --> 01:39:08.239
be bragging on them in just a
little bit. It's hummingbird season, you

1361
01:39:08.279 --> 01:39:11.399
know, time to get those feeders
out. You took my feet and you

1362
01:39:11.439 --> 01:39:14.960
took my lead. Oh I did, well, if you were something.

1363
01:39:15.079 --> 01:39:17.840
What about the size of how big
is a hummingbird? They're tiny. You

1364
01:39:17.840 --> 01:39:23.000
had to fly all the way across
the Gulf of Mexico with wings beating at

1365
01:39:23.079 --> 01:39:26.680
sixty beats a second. Do you
think you might need a little bit of

1366
01:39:26.720 --> 01:39:30.199
a food supply before you head out? Isn't that amazing? It is amazing.

1367
01:39:30.239 --> 01:39:35.439
They drink sugar water. I couldn't
I couldn't make it to South America

1368
01:39:35.520 --> 01:39:40.039
if I walked by lamb and I
don't see how they do it. But

1369
01:39:40.199 --> 01:39:43.319
it's a miracle that they can even
do that sort of thing. It's that

1370
01:39:43.439 --> 01:39:46.279
time of year they are. They're
cool. I love I love hummingbirds,

1371
01:39:46.560 --> 01:39:48.800
and you would too. I mean, I got I got a couple little

1372
01:39:48.800 --> 01:39:51.840
feeders out. In fact, I
got one of those a little high what

1373
01:39:51.960 --> 01:39:56.159
they call them high perch mounted feeders
that they have that are really cool at

1374
01:39:56.199 --> 01:40:23.039
wellbirds. So I'll tell more about
that later. Okay, Well, good

1375
01:40:23.079 --> 01:40:28.399
Saturday morning. You are listening to
garden Line and Elton John at the same

1376
01:40:28.399 --> 01:40:31.720
time. Here we are here to
answer your gardening questions. Seven one three,

1377
01:40:31.720 --> 01:40:36.800
two one two fifty eight seventy four
seven one three two one two fifty

1378
01:40:36.840 --> 01:40:43.000
eight seventy four. Let's head out
now to Full Sure and we're gonna talk

1379
01:40:43.039 --> 01:40:46.000
to Curtis. Hello, Curtis,
Patty Skip, how are you doing.

1380
01:40:46.239 --> 01:40:50.079
I'm well? Thanks, Hey,
great, Thanks so much for taking the

1381
01:40:50.119 --> 01:40:55.159
call and for replying to my email
last night. So I sent you some

1382
01:40:55.199 --> 01:41:00.920
photos over on our front lawn here
in Western Eggs. And we've got a

1383
01:41:00.920 --> 01:41:05.520
pretty healthy Saint Augustine lawn that we've
you know, done the schedule on for

1384
01:41:05.640 --> 01:41:11.039
years. But we've got a lot
of blow over from some of the adjacent

1385
01:41:11.800 --> 01:41:14.960
neighbors, the long guys, blowing
things over into the yard. And so

1386
01:41:15.000 --> 01:41:19.359
we've got this two particular weeds that
we've been kind of wrestling with, and

1387
01:41:19.920 --> 01:41:25.479
aside from continuing to sit out in
the lawn and pull the weeds, just

1388
01:41:25.600 --> 01:41:30.359
wondering if you had some advice on
some next steps for attacking these things.

1389
01:41:30.680 --> 01:41:32.560
Okay, I see, I've got
a couple of curtises. Here. Is

1390
01:41:32.600 --> 01:41:36.680
this a dark green weed that's in
your lawn? Yeah, there's one dark

1391
01:41:36.720 --> 01:41:42.199
green, and then there's one that's
it's dark green but with some little white

1392
01:41:42.199 --> 01:41:46.680
blossoms on it. The one with
dark green and white blossoms is called Virginia

1393
01:41:46.760 --> 01:41:51.520
buttonweed, and it's a problem.
It is a problem. Yeah. The

1394
01:41:51.560 --> 01:41:57.079
stuff that kills it hurts your Saint
Augustine. And in fact, I say

1395
01:41:57.119 --> 01:42:00.640
stuff that kills it. It takes
about two or three applications of a good

1396
01:42:00.680 --> 01:42:06.079
broad leaf post emergent weed killer to
knock Virginia buttonweed out. I would probably

1397
01:42:06.520 --> 01:42:15.319
go with something called celsius, like
fahrenheit and celsius. Celsius is a little

1398
01:42:15.319 --> 01:42:19.079
bit more forgiving when it comes to
hot weather. I've still would use it

1399
01:42:19.159 --> 01:42:24.960
early, early in the day,
and you know, when the temperature is

1400
01:42:25.359 --> 01:42:29.239
a low eighty five. It can
be used when the temperature is ninety,

1401
01:42:29.319 --> 01:42:32.479
but you know, let's just get
it on and avoid that. You're probably

1402
01:42:32.520 --> 01:42:35.760
going to have to retreat about two
or three weeks later, and maybe even

1403
01:42:35.800 --> 01:42:39.600
a third time. It is a
it's a tough weed. You can't pull

1404
01:42:39.640 --> 01:42:43.720
it because it just breaks off,
and so you got to do the treatment.

1405
01:42:43.760 --> 01:42:46.760
Yours seems to be kind of,
you know, all integrated with the

1406
01:42:46.800 --> 01:42:50.399
grass, which is kind of how
that darn thing grows. But yeah,

1407
01:42:50.560 --> 01:42:55.199
that's it. The other thing about
Virginia buttonwheed is don't water so much.

1408
01:42:55.319 --> 01:42:59.960
It loves it when you over water
and stays too wet and so a dead

1409
01:43:00.039 --> 01:43:03.960
and kill it to you know,
water deepen and frequent, but it just

1410
01:43:04.119 --> 01:43:09.039
keeps it from proliferating if you keep
it soggy. Virginia button weed gets the

1411
01:43:09.119 --> 01:43:14.800
upper hand even more the other weed, the other one. I am it

1412
01:43:14.880 --> 01:43:18.159
looks like some sort of a day
flower like plant, but I can't tell

1413
01:43:18.199 --> 01:43:23.119
for sure. It's a very unusual
little weed. It's not basket grass.

1414
01:43:23.159 --> 01:43:27.319
It's not doveweed. First thing,
I thought it was going to be fall

1415
01:43:27.319 --> 01:43:30.439
aster, but it's not that either. But that is a grassy weed growing

1416
01:43:30.520 --> 01:43:35.680
in a grassy lawn. And that's
that's not a good combination because the products

1417
01:43:35.680 --> 01:43:42.119
at work on one also kill the
other one. So the way that is

1418
01:43:42.199 --> 01:43:45.239
concentrated in your lawn. One option
you're not gonna like this one, but

1419
01:43:46.600 --> 01:43:51.600
is to just spray and kill those
weedspots and then let the long crawlback in

1420
01:43:53.279 --> 01:43:57.560
or replug the lawn in those areas. That would be one way to get

1421
01:43:57.560 --> 01:44:00.880
ahead of it. You'll notice that
it's growing in your law in areas where

1422
01:44:00.920 --> 01:44:05.119
the lawn is thin. So the
more you mow, water and fertilize properly.

1423
01:44:05.760 --> 01:44:11.039
The more density you get and when
those weed seeds try to sprout,

1424
01:44:11.279 --> 01:44:16.680
for this, this dark bluish green
weed that you sent me, it's it's

1425
01:44:16.680 --> 01:44:21.199
going to have trouble sprouting and coming
up through that. Gotcha. Gotcha?

1426
01:44:21.560 --> 01:44:26.520
Okay, that makes good sense,
all right. Yeah, appreciate it.

1427
01:44:26.560 --> 01:44:30.680
Appreciate all you're doing for us.
Thank you. I appreciate that call very

1428
01:44:30.800 --> 01:44:34.199
much as well. Curtis. Yeah, the new lawn care schedule is out.

1429
01:44:34.359 --> 01:44:40.640
I've got it on my website Gardening
with Skip dot com. Gardening with

1430
01:44:40.840 --> 01:44:45.239
Skip dot Com. It's the Lawncare
Schedule. It's got a lot of detail

1431
01:44:45.319 --> 01:44:49.720
on it, a lot of detail
based on research throughout the South on timing

1432
01:44:49.760 --> 01:44:56.520
of fertilizing, nutrients, of mixes
of fertilizing. It's got the synthetic fertilizers,

1433
01:44:56.680 --> 01:45:00.920
organic options, aeration, compost,
top dress, seeing trace, mental

1434
01:45:00.000 --> 01:45:05.239
supplements, information on mowing and watering. And of course it's all color coded,

1435
01:45:05.279 --> 01:45:08.880
so if you're looking through a certain
color, you go to the bottom

1436
01:45:09.000 --> 01:45:14.960
and that color has all the products
that are very high quality and very effective

1437
01:45:15.399 --> 01:45:20.119
for that particular application. So Gardening
with Skip dot Com check it out.

1438
01:45:20.159 --> 01:45:25.039
Print you up a copy of course
it's free and we hope you enjoy that.

1439
01:45:26.560 --> 01:45:30.399
Let's see, I'm going to head
to Katie, Texas next and we're

1440
01:45:30.399 --> 01:45:35.760
gonna talk to Renee. Hello,
Renee, good morning. I have since

1441
01:45:36.199 --> 01:45:44.359
chinch bugs. Okay. I was
looking for the granual biphen thrin and could

1442
01:45:44.399 --> 01:45:49.800
not find any. Okay, so
what they gave me instead was the nitrofoss

1443
01:45:49.840 --> 01:45:55.960
bug out that works. That's an
excellent product. So it is an excellent

1444
01:45:55.960 --> 01:45:59.560
product, Okay. I was just
wondering. I mean, I think my

1445
01:45:59.640 --> 01:46:05.039
infect station is pretty bad. Okay, so I wasn't sure if that was

1446
01:46:05.119 --> 01:46:10.840
going to be an effective product or
not. Yes, it is. Have

1447
01:46:11.000 --> 01:46:16.439
you seen the chinch bugs or you're
just seeing dyeing grass mostly dying grass.

1448
01:46:16.520 --> 01:46:20.520
I believe I have seen them.
Okay, Well, I'm going to assume

1449
01:46:20.600 --> 01:46:25.960
that you're correct about it's a chinch
bug problem. And yes, by Fanthorne,

1450
01:46:26.039 --> 01:46:30.359
follow the label, put it out
watered in. Follow the label and

1451
01:46:30.520 --> 01:46:32.520
that works really well. If you
want to make double sure that you got

1452
01:46:32.560 --> 01:46:38.039
chinch bugs, get you a watering
can and for each gallon of water,

1453
01:46:38.159 --> 01:46:45.760
put a tablespoon of like dish detergent, you know, the liquid dishgent like

1454
01:46:45.880 --> 01:46:48.119
dawn for example. Actually it's better
to use a lemon scented one. I

1455
01:46:48.159 --> 01:46:51.479
don't know why that is, but
a lemon scented dish detergent. Just a

1456
01:46:51.520 --> 01:46:57.760
tablespoon per gallon water over an area
between healthy and dead where the grass is

1457
01:46:57.800 --> 01:47:00.479
declining but not dead, and then
get on on your hands and knees,

1458
01:47:00.520 --> 01:47:03.880
and it irritates the heck out of
them and they'll come crawling up out of

1459
01:47:03.920 --> 01:47:08.079
there. After a few minutes.
You'll see a whole lot of chinch bugs

1460
01:47:08.119 --> 01:47:12.840
if that's what's doing it. Okay, And then I guess my other question

1461
01:47:13.159 --> 01:47:17.479
is when can I reapply or will
I need to reapply the nitroflies. You

1462
01:47:17.560 --> 01:47:21.319
probably don't need to reapply. Apply
it to the entire area that's showing a

1463
01:47:21.399 --> 01:47:26.079
problem, and go about five feet
out into the yard beyond that, just

1464
01:47:26.119 --> 01:47:34.199
to be sure, okay. And
I have like a Scots fertilizer. It's

1465
01:47:34.239 --> 01:47:41.560
an edge edge guard, and I
put it at about four okay, because

1466
01:47:41.920 --> 01:47:45.159
it was hard to read the label. It said anywhere between three and four

1467
01:47:45.199 --> 01:47:48.479
and a half. Yeah, Well, Renee, I'm gonna I'm gonna have

1468
01:47:48.560 --> 01:47:53.079
to go and I don't know the
settings. You just have to you know,

1469
01:47:53.159 --> 01:47:55.720
you just have to do as close
as you can. I would say

1470
01:47:55.760 --> 01:47:59.960
go lighter rather than heavier. And
because you can always go back and read

1471
01:48:00.119 --> 01:48:02.960
do if you and do another lap
if you need to. Okay, okay,

1472
01:48:03.119 --> 01:48:05.880
all right, all right, thank
you, thank you. I appreciate

1473
01:48:05.920 --> 01:48:09.439
that call. Hey, we're going
to take a break. Seven one three

1474
01:48:09.520 --> 01:48:15.560
two one two fifty eight seventy four. We'll be right back the highway.

1475
01:48:21.840 --> 01:48:27.920
Goodbye, Well, good morning,
on a beautiful day for gardening. You

1476
01:48:27.960 --> 01:48:30.840
are listening to garden Line, and
we are excited to be talking about all

1477
01:48:30.920 --> 01:48:33.920
kinds of things gardening today because,
believe it or not, I know it's

1478
01:48:33.920 --> 01:48:39.680
hot outside these I know it's hard
to look at the plants sometimes when they're

1479
01:48:39.680 --> 01:48:42.880
struggling along with the heat. There's
a lot we can do to take care

1480
01:48:42.920 --> 01:48:45.479
of them, and there's a lot
we need to be doing to get ready

1481
01:48:45.479 --> 01:48:47.079
for fault. I'll talk about that
more, perhaps a little bit later.

1482
01:48:47.520 --> 01:48:50.720
Right now, I want to talk
about birds. If you have a garden

1483
01:48:50.760 --> 01:48:57.079
in a landscape and you are not
active in feeding and attracting and enjoying birds,

1484
01:48:57.119 --> 01:49:01.159
you're missing a huge part of the
fun of guard birds. The songs

1485
01:49:01.199 --> 01:49:04.800
of birds are I just I love
them visually. I love their antics,

1486
01:49:04.800 --> 01:49:09.439
you know, watching them come to
the feeders and the little bird watering systems

1487
01:49:09.439 --> 01:49:13.119
and things. But the songs of
birds in the morning are just, oh

1488
01:49:13.159 --> 01:49:17.520
my gosh, it is just like
I don't know, a calming, beautiful,

1489
01:49:17.640 --> 01:49:21.520
enjoyable experience. Where do you find
out about birds? Where you find

1490
01:49:21.520 --> 01:49:25.920
out at wild Birds Unlimited. They
know more about birds than anybody, and

1491
01:49:25.960 --> 01:49:31.039
they have more products for birds than
anybody. Quality feeds like the nesting blend,

1492
01:49:31.199 --> 01:49:35.479
which they still need right now.
It's still going on nesting season and

1493
01:49:36.119 --> 01:49:41.920
the molting season for example. That's
another thing we're in right now. This

1494
01:49:42.199 --> 01:49:45.199
super blend, the nesting super blend
is perfect all the way through the summer

1495
01:49:45.239 --> 01:49:49.039
for feeding wild birds has a blend
for every kind of birds you're looking for.

1496
01:49:49.279 --> 01:49:54.880
I mean, if you want nuthatches, nuthatches or chickadees or whatever the

1497
01:49:54.920 --> 01:49:59.119
bird is, they have a special
blend to attract that. And their blends

1498
01:49:59.239 --> 01:50:03.039
are full of seed. The birds
want to eat. A cheap bird seed

1499
01:50:03.359 --> 01:50:08.319
has tons of those little red beebes
and they are worthless. The birds kick

1500
01:50:08.359 --> 01:50:10.600
it out. They don't want to
eat it. Well, maybe doves eat

1501
01:50:10.640 --> 01:50:14.439
it off the ground. Or something, but don't don't waste your money on

1502
01:50:14.479 --> 01:50:17.199
that. By a quality blend,
you'll use less of it and you'll get

1503
01:50:17.279 --> 01:50:20.840
more out of it. And that
is exactly what Wildbirds has. Now,

1504
01:50:20.880 --> 01:50:24.880
this is hummingbird season, is NICKI, and now we're talking about a minute

1505
01:50:24.880 --> 01:50:29.039
ago. They've got great hummingbird feeders. I like the little high roost feeder

1506
01:50:29.119 --> 01:50:31.880
that they have, and getting those
out now it needs to be done because

1507
01:50:31.960 --> 01:50:36.319
hummingbirds are already in the area and
they're getting ready to fly across the Gulf

1508
01:50:36.399 --> 01:50:43.319
of Mexico to their overwintering locations and
that comes later on. Get those feeders

1509
01:50:43.319 --> 01:50:46.640
out now so you can enjoy them. There's wild Birds Unlimited all over Houston,

1510
01:50:46.920 --> 01:50:53.199
Katie Kingwood, Cypress pair Land,
bel Air, West Houston and clear

1511
01:50:53.279 --> 01:50:58.600
Lake. All you need to do
is go online to w b U dot

1512
01:50:58.600 --> 01:51:03.520
com, Slash Houston, WBU dot
com Forward slash Houston, find the wild

1513
01:51:03.600 --> 01:51:09.000
birds near you and listen. That
is a great gift. If you have

1514
01:51:09.279 --> 01:51:13.880
friends and family, maybe they're not
gardeners, go to Wildbirds and I promise

1515
01:51:14.000 --> 01:51:17.520
you will find a lot of things
that make outstanding gifts for the friends on

1516
01:51:17.600 --> 01:51:20.840
your list. I mean, who
doesn't enjoy looking out the window at hummingbirds.

1517
01:51:20.920 --> 01:51:25.520
Right, who doesn't enjoy the song
of birds? Well, wildbirds will

1518
01:51:25.520 --> 01:51:29.359
get your set up for that.
Let's head out now to Brenham and we're

1519
01:51:29.359 --> 01:51:32.319
going to talk to John. Hello, John, Hey, good morning,

1520
01:51:32.399 --> 01:51:39.000
Skip. I have a plumb cut
tree. It's about ten years old.

1521
01:51:39.800 --> 01:51:43.920
It's been pretty well cared for and
well watered. It's been healthy. It's

1522
01:51:43.960 --> 01:51:47.640
about ten foot tall, about seven
inches in diameter, and it's seeping sat

1523
01:51:48.159 --> 01:51:53.119
down near the base. Okay,
And I just wondered that's something I need

1524
01:51:53.159 --> 01:51:56.560
to be concerned about. I have
not seen it do that before. Yeah,

1525
01:51:56.600 --> 01:52:00.600
it well probably so. Is it
all the southwest side of the tree

1526
01:52:00.680 --> 01:52:06.399
or is it all around the tree? It is on the south side of

1527
01:52:06.399 --> 01:52:12.760
the tree, Okay. It could
be damaged from the December freeze that we

1528
01:52:12.840 --> 01:52:16.199
had, or from the freeze a
while back that got really, really cold

1529
01:52:16.239 --> 01:52:23.760
in February twenty one. That the
bark warms up at the late warmest part

1530
01:52:23.800 --> 01:52:27.800
of the day in the winter and
on that side where the sun is shining,

1531
01:52:28.279 --> 01:52:31.159
and as a result that night it
drops down and freezes, and that

1532
01:52:31.239 --> 01:52:34.880
part those tissues are not fully hardy
like the rest of the tree. Nothing

1533
01:52:34.880 --> 01:52:39.239
you can do about that that will
heal over and be fine. If you

1534
01:52:39.359 --> 01:52:43.039
see little sap areas, take your
knife and scrape them back. If there's

1535
01:52:43.079 --> 01:52:46.399
a tunnel a hole, then that's
a borer and you're gonna need to treat

1536
01:52:46.800 --> 01:52:50.600
with an insecticide that soaks into the
bark, so then when the borer tries

1537
01:52:50.640 --> 01:52:55.000
to complete its life cycle, you
control them. But that would be the

1538
01:52:55.039 --> 01:52:59.359
only two things I would say to
look for right now. Do you ever

1539
01:52:59.439 --> 01:53:03.600
recommend on that infective side, You
need something that's a little bit persistent.

1540
01:53:03.680 --> 01:53:11.000
I would probably use biphent throne,
something with biphentron. But wherever you shop

1541
01:53:11.079 --> 01:53:14.760
for your gardening supplies, go in
there and ask them what do you have

1542
01:53:14.840 --> 01:53:18.159
that's labeled for fruit trees? Because
not all ingredients are labeled for all different

1543
01:53:18.199 --> 01:53:21.039
kinds of plants, of course,
and I don't want to send you out

1544
01:53:21.479 --> 01:53:30.239
doing an application that's not legally on
the label. Okay, okay, but

1545
01:53:30.640 --> 01:53:33.920
check don't don't waste time. Don't
waste your time withinsexicides if you don't see

1546
01:53:33.960 --> 01:53:41.960
sawdust or a hole where the sap
is coming out. Okay. Other than

1547
01:53:42.000 --> 01:53:45.279
that, it's just keep the tree
healthy and it'll close off that infection and

1548
01:53:45.359 --> 01:53:48.800
close it back over again, and
you should be fine. Should I remove

1549
01:53:48.880 --> 01:53:53.479
the sap that's there to look for
the whole bit? If I see it

1550
01:53:53.520 --> 01:53:56.760
again, should I remove it?
Well, just scrape it back so you

1551
01:53:56.800 --> 01:54:00.680
can see is it Is it just
coming out of tissue or is it coming

1552
01:54:00.800 --> 01:54:03.960
from a hole where the borer has
been digging. That's the only reason.

1553
01:54:04.119 --> 01:54:08.279
Okay, good luck with it,
and good luck with that plumb caught?

1554
01:54:08.640 --> 01:54:12.640
Are those are not that common?
So good for you and having one.

1555
01:54:13.359 --> 01:54:17.079
You know, we talk about lawn
fertilizations, we talk about organic fertilizers and

1556
01:54:17.159 --> 01:54:21.520
things, and Nitrofists has a product
called sweet Green. It's an eleven percent

1557
01:54:21.920 --> 01:54:29.479
nitrogen product. Sweet Green is a
high quality product made out of molasses where

1558
01:54:29.520 --> 01:54:34.439
they bring in microbe. They introduce
microbes into the molasses and it creates this

1559
01:54:34.520 --> 01:54:41.560
perfect organic fertilizer that just stimulates microbial
growth. Eleven percent about as high as

1560
01:54:41.560 --> 01:54:45.279
you're going to get on an organic
fertilizer product. Sweet Green smells good.

1561
01:54:45.479 --> 01:54:49.520
I mean you put it in a
car, drive around and you enjoy having

1562
01:54:49.560 --> 01:54:53.800
it in the car, compared to
as some fertilizers can stink up a bit

1563
01:54:53.920 --> 01:54:58.239
especially when they're poultryman or based.
But sweet Green is easy to find all

1564
01:54:58.279 --> 01:55:01.560
over town. Nitrofuss products are everywhere. You're going to find that. It

1565
01:55:01.600 --> 01:55:05.520
produces good quick results and gets you
ready. Actually, if you do it

1566
01:55:05.560 --> 01:55:09.720
now, it gets you ready for
that fall season that's coming up in a

1567
01:55:09.720 --> 01:55:15.159
few months where we put on our
fall applications of fertilizer nitrofoss sweet Green.

1568
01:55:15.239 --> 01:55:18.760
Well, let's see, we're about
out of time here, but I did

1569
01:55:19.039 --> 01:55:21.720
wanna let's see, we got one
more hour in the books, but this

1570
01:55:21.800 --> 01:55:27.479
hour's about gone. If you live
up in the Grimes County area, you

1571
01:55:27.520 --> 01:55:30.199
know we're talking about that place I
call God's Country. You know that's way

1572
01:55:30.279 --> 01:55:34.439
outside Carlos, Texas. Is a
little town out there. That is the

1573
01:55:34.479 --> 01:55:39.800
Grimes County Feed location. Now,
Grimes County Feed is on Highway thirty in

1574
01:55:39.880 --> 01:55:43.399
Carlos, Texas. If you were
in the neighborhood of Kingwood, or if

1575
01:55:43.399 --> 01:55:47.039
you're in Mirrorwood, or if you're
in Iola Bead Eyes, Shiro, Ron's

1576
01:55:47.159 --> 01:55:51.319
Prairie, Anderson Richards, y'all are
sitting here going is what are those towns?

1577
01:55:51.319 --> 01:55:56.439
We'll go drive through. Its beautiful
country out there. But Grimes County

1578
01:55:56.439 --> 01:55:59.000
Feed has all the products we talk
about. You know, they got those

1579
01:55:59.039 --> 01:56:04.479
fertilizers do so well in providing good
quality results with your plants. They also

1580
01:56:04.640 --> 01:56:12.600
have the tree hugger sprinklers. Now, the tree hugger sprinkler I was out

1581
01:56:12.600 --> 01:56:15.439
there not long ago. If you're
if you're in those neighborhoods I was talking

1582
01:56:15.439 --> 01:56:20.119
about, you've got a typically a
sandy loam soil that doesn't hold water as

1583
01:56:20.159 --> 01:56:25.560
well as maybe a clay mite.
And this has been a long, blazing

1584
01:56:25.600 --> 01:56:29.880
hot summer. A TreeHugger could make
the difference between a tree dying or living

1585
01:56:30.119 --> 01:56:34.159
because it waters that entire area beneath
the branch spread of a tree. Unless

1586
01:56:34.159 --> 01:56:36.600
it's just a giant tree, then
you may have to move it a little

1587
01:56:36.600 --> 01:56:43.000
bit. But a good deep soaking
every week ten days at least ever two

1588
01:56:43.000 --> 01:56:46.279
weeks when it's not raining, can
make the difference. And here's the thing

1589
01:56:46.319 --> 01:56:53.000
about this and why I'm so happy
Grime Scanny Feed carries the tree are sprinklers

1590
01:56:53.279 --> 01:56:59.279
is because when you weaken a tree, you introduce diseases, and up in

1591
01:56:59.319 --> 01:57:04.199
that area it's a post oak forest
up around Grimes County Feed, those plants

1592
01:57:04.199 --> 01:57:09.560
will end up with apoxland canker if
they get weakened, and so take care

1593
01:57:09.760 --> 01:57:13.600
of them by watering properly like that. While you're out there, by the

1594
01:57:13.640 --> 01:57:16.600
way, they have a sale ten
percent off tree Huggers and stock ten percent

1595
01:57:16.680 --> 01:57:21.920
off all of the fertilizers you know, the Nelson Medina and nitrofoss Microlife.

1596
01:57:23.279 --> 01:57:26.960
It's a good time to go by
talk to Chris and the team out there

1597
01:57:27.000 --> 01:57:30.800
at Grimes County Feed and you will
see what I'm talking about when I say

1598
01:57:30.840 --> 01:57:36.560
they'll treat you like family, and
they absolutely will. There's another hour in

1599
01:57:36.600 --> 01:57:40.640
the books. We got one more
left today and then I'm going to be

1600
01:57:40.720 --> 01:57:45.439
heading out to Margaritaville. Now I'm
not going with Jimmy Buffett. This is

1601
01:57:45.479 --> 01:57:49.640
the Lake Conro Home and Garden Show
at the Margaritaville Resort out on Lake Conro.

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01:57:50.119 --> 01:57:55.079
And if you're out there on one
oh five heading from Conro toward Montgomery,

1603
01:57:55.399 --> 01:57:59.079
passed by April Sound, we see
a little Walmart supercenter on the right,

1604
01:57:59.239 --> 01:58:03.600
turned down the Walden Drive and you
will get right to the place that

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01:58:03.640 --> 01:58:08.319
we're talking about. I'm gonna be
talking for about an hour out there on

1606
01:58:08.800 --> 01:58:13.239
things to do walden Road, I
said, should have said not Walden Drive.

1607
01:58:13.479 --> 01:58:15.880
I'm gonna be talking about it,
things to do for your garden and

1608
01:58:15.000 --> 01:58:19.399
lawn this fall, things that you
need to be doing now. Then I'm

1609
01:58:19.439 --> 01:58:23.439
going to be at a table and
answering your gardening questions. That's a chance

1610
01:58:23.479 --> 01:58:26.680
to visit one on one. Bring
me some samples of your plants. Let's

1611
01:58:26.720 --> 01:58:30.640
get them identified or diagnose. And
I'm giving away nitrohust fertilizer, So make

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01:58:30.680 --> 01:58:36.399
sure and show up and get some
of that. KTRH Garden Line does not

1613
01:58:36.479 --> 01:58:43.359
necessarily endorse any of the products or
services advertised on this program. Welcome to

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01:58:43.560 --> 01:59:08.720
KTRH Garden Line with Skip Rictor.
So just what a good morning, good

1615
01:59:08.800 --> 01:59:14.119
Saturday morning on a beautiful day outside. You know it's we're gonna get rid

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01:59:14.159 --> 01:59:17.840
of these hundred degree days here eventually, and hopefully it's not too far away.

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01:59:18.079 --> 01:59:20.880
But now's the time to be taking
care of your plants. Because I

1618
01:59:20.920 --> 01:59:27.720
said this earlier when I was talking
about the post oaks up there around Carlos

1619
01:59:27.760 --> 01:59:30.800
area and a Grimes County feed store, and that's post oak forest up there.

1620
01:59:31.199 --> 01:59:34.479
Oak trees when they get stressed a
disease, that's already in the tree

1621
01:59:34.520 --> 01:59:39.279
called apoxlan canker gets the upper hand
causes the bark to fall off. You

1622
01:59:39.319 --> 01:59:43.680
get these olive drab spots on the
tree trunk, on the wood underneath the

1623
01:59:43.680 --> 01:59:46.479
bark, and then it turns gray
and there's black h and it just kills

1624
01:59:46.520 --> 01:59:49.600
trees and there's no fighting it.
There's no fun decide to spray on the

1625
01:59:49.600 --> 01:59:54.319
tree to fix it. What you
do is you spray water on the ground

1626
01:59:54.880 --> 01:59:58.119
to avoid it. That's it.
You stress the plant, the plant gets

1627
01:59:58.119 --> 02:00:01.079
sick. Plants are like us and
that regard. Don't eat right, don't

1628
02:00:01.079 --> 02:00:06.199
sleep right, high stress all the
time, your gonna get sick. And

1629
02:00:06.279 --> 02:00:11.960
so it really is simple. You
know, taking care of plants isn't just

1630
02:00:12.279 --> 02:00:15.319
spraying for disease, is spraying for
insects, spring, you know, all

1631
02:00:15.359 --> 02:00:18.079
that kind of stuff. It's keeping
them as healthy as we can. And

1632
02:00:18.119 --> 02:00:21.600
then when we need a spraying,
spray, But you find that you don't

1633
02:00:21.600 --> 02:00:25.479
need to spray as much when you
keep the plant healthy. And there's a

1634
02:00:25.560 --> 02:00:28.800
lot of ways to keep a plant
healthy, you know, just taking care

1635
02:00:28.840 --> 02:00:33.439
of it and getting good quality nutrition
to the soil. The nitrofosts superturf that

1636
02:00:33.600 --> 02:00:38.119
nineteen four ten. The silver bag
I talk about, that's an example of

1637
02:00:38.119 --> 02:00:40.840
that. And I know it's made
for turf, but don't tell anybody,

1638
02:00:40.840 --> 02:00:44.119
but I use it for other things
as well. I mean, it is

1639
02:00:44.159 --> 02:00:47.800
a quality, slow release product,
and when you put it down on your

1640
02:00:47.880 --> 02:00:51.119
lawn, you're going to get that
gradual feed over a period of time.

1641
02:00:51.720 --> 02:00:56.560
And that's just the way plants need
to be fed. I mean, it

1642
02:00:56.600 --> 02:00:59.920
really is. You don't need all
your nitrogen at one time, you need

1643
02:01:00.079 --> 02:01:03.039
it gradually day by day over time. This does just that. It's got

1644
02:01:03.079 --> 02:01:10.319
the chemistry that knows to release those
nutrients gradually. Nineteen four ten. Nitrofos

1645
02:01:10.359 --> 02:01:14.560
Super Turf silver bag. It's as
simple as that. And you can find

1646
02:01:14.640 --> 02:01:17.720
nitrofoscet these hardware stores. You can
find it a lot of our feed stores,

1647
02:01:17.720 --> 02:01:23.239
a lot of our home and home
garden centers. Nitrofoss is easy to

1648
02:01:23.279 --> 02:01:26.840
find, and the silver bag is
easy to spot and it's easy to use.

1649
02:01:27.039 --> 02:01:30.720
I don't know how you get any
easier than that. You are listening

1650
02:01:30.720 --> 02:01:33.720
to Garden Line and our phone number
is seven one three two one two fifty

1651
02:01:33.800 --> 02:01:41.680
eight seventy four seven one three two
one two five eight seven four if you've

1652
02:01:41.720 --> 02:01:45.359
been thinking about getting a tree established
out there in the lawn, or maybe

1653
02:01:45.479 --> 02:01:49.600
lost a tree and you're looking at
replacing it, the place to go is

1654
02:01:49.720 --> 02:01:57.239
Verdant Tree Farm Verdant Treefarm dot com
v er da nt Verdant Treefarm dot com.

1655
02:01:57.279 --> 02:02:00.800
They got two locations, actually have
three now. There is the farm

1656
02:02:00.840 --> 02:02:04.720
in West Houston that's on Barker Cypress. Down in Paarland on Broadway Street they

1657
02:02:04.760 --> 02:02:09.640
have another farm. And if you're
on I ten about where Yale Street comes

1658
02:02:09.640 --> 02:02:13.920
in at the Heights, there's another
Verdant Verdant Tree Farm there. Now.

1659
02:02:14.840 --> 02:02:17.359
They carry a wide variety of quality
trees. I saw the other day they

1660
02:02:17.399 --> 02:02:23.279
even at pecan trees, nice varieties
of pecans in at Verdant Tree Farm.

1661
02:02:23.319 --> 02:02:26.920
They really are the specialist when it
comes to palms. I mean, if

1662
02:02:27.199 --> 02:02:31.800
you want someone that has a wide
variety of palms and knows how to plant

1663
02:02:31.800 --> 02:02:35.920
them, that's Verdant Tree Farm.
And that extends to all their trees.

1664
02:02:36.000 --> 02:02:40.279
They have not just a palm nursery. I mean they have all kinds of

1665
02:02:40.319 --> 02:02:43.920
things, even up to seven hundred
gallons. You go there, you tell

1666
02:02:43.960 --> 02:02:45.600
them I want that tree, they
put a tag on it. They bring

1667
02:02:45.640 --> 02:02:49.359
it to your house and they plant
it right. And you don't want to

1668
02:02:49.359 --> 02:02:54.520
spend money on a tree that's not
planted right. You also don't want to

1669
02:02:54.560 --> 02:02:58.880
lift something too heavy and spend money
on a cairopractor bill because you try to

1670
02:02:58.880 --> 02:03:02.399
do it yourself. Have the folks
advertent tree Farm Planet for you. They

1671
02:03:02.439 --> 02:03:05.520
will do it right. They offer
a one year warranty. It's included with

1672
02:03:05.600 --> 02:03:12.560
the installation price. And I don't
know if you are looking for shade.

1673
02:03:12.640 --> 02:03:15.279
You know I bet out today with
a hundred degrees in the sun blazing.

1674
02:03:15.439 --> 02:03:18.439
You wish you'd planted a tree fifty
years ago, right, that's what they

1675
02:03:18.479 --> 02:03:23.039
say. The best time is fifty
years ago. Well, the next best

1676
02:03:23.039 --> 02:03:27.880
time is today. Let's get that
done and enjoy not only shade in the

1677
02:03:27.920 --> 02:03:31.199
future, but the value of your
home goes up dramatically when you choose a

1678
02:03:31.319 --> 02:03:36.840
quality tree and planted in your landscape
so that it has decades and decades and

1679
02:03:36.920 --> 02:03:43.720
decades of benefits for you. Let's
go out to Missouri City and we're going

1680
02:03:43.760 --> 02:03:46.600
to talk to Paul. Now.
Hello, Paul, good morning, skip

1681
02:03:46.960 --> 02:03:53.920
listen. I have an issue with
wild bermuda grass, and earlier in the

1682
02:03:54.000 --> 02:03:59.560
year like in February. In March, the lawn was taken off, the

1683
02:03:59.760 --> 02:04:03.840
real, good, strong, with
a good heavy mat of Saint Augustine.

1684
02:04:04.079 --> 02:04:08.880
But I had a strip about two
foot wide and maybe five feet long of

1685
02:04:09.479 --> 02:04:15.600
wild bermuda, and as the early
summer progressed, the Saint Augustine was taking

1686
02:04:15.600 --> 02:04:20.119
it over. So I was really
pleased up until this heavy heat. Now

1687
02:04:20.159 --> 02:04:27.600
my Saint Augustine is barely growing and
the wild bermuda has taken over. Now

1688
02:04:27.640 --> 02:04:31.800
that strip is about four foot wide
and ten feet long. Yeah, Paul,

1689
02:04:31.840 --> 02:04:36.880
there's a there's not a miracle cure
for this situation. They're just not

1690
02:04:38.960 --> 02:04:42.720
you know, there are things that
make Saint Augustine have the upper hand,

1691
02:04:42.760 --> 02:04:45.439
there's things that make bermuda have the
upper hand. But the bottom line is

1692
02:04:45.479 --> 02:04:49.560
they're going to coexist. And I'll
tell you what I do in my yard,

1693
02:04:49.600 --> 02:04:53.840
and you won't like this at all. But I got tired of it

1694
02:04:53.920 --> 02:04:57.119
in an area where I had it, and I just went in and killed

1695
02:04:57.359 --> 02:05:01.920
everything that was there and then reap
plant the Saint Augustine and those areas I

1696
02:05:01.960 --> 02:05:06.279
would I would kill everything that's there, water it good, and wait a

1697
02:05:06.279 --> 02:05:10.520
while, because you're going to get
some resprouting of some bermuda you missed,

1698
02:05:10.920 --> 02:05:14.119
and then do it again, and
after that you're able to go in and

1699
02:05:14.159 --> 02:05:20.239
plant Saint Augustine. Otherwise it's going
to be a coexisting and that just is

1700
02:05:20.279 --> 02:05:23.960
the way it is. Is you
get into more shade, Saint Augustine is

1701
02:05:24.119 --> 02:05:27.520
upper hand. As you get into
more drought, stress and heat, bermudograss

1702
02:05:27.560 --> 02:05:31.479
has the upper hand. Uh and
uh, you know, so I don't

1703
02:05:31.520 --> 02:05:35.880
know a better solution than that,
but that I know that's probably not acceptable,

1704
02:05:35.920 --> 02:05:42.439
but that's what I finally resorted to. Okay, which product would you

1705
02:05:42.479 --> 02:05:46.720
recommend to to kill that griss?
Yeah? There are a number of products

1706
02:05:46.760 --> 02:05:49.560
out there. I mean, you
know there's the products that kill everything.

1707
02:05:50.239 --> 02:05:56.119
You don't want one that that,
you know, keep stuff killed for a

1708
02:05:56.239 --> 02:06:00.960
year. Don't avoid those like the
plague, but products. A lot of

1709
02:06:00.000 --> 02:06:04.239
people have used glyphosa products to kill
everything that would do it. There's also

1710
02:06:04.359 --> 02:06:12.399
two different kinds of grass killers that
would do it. One begins with flua

1711
02:06:12.560 --> 02:06:18.520
z as the ingredient fl like flu
as. The other begins with setch like

1712
02:06:18.640 --> 02:06:24.319
the boy's name Seth. So if
you tell them I want to grass only

1713
02:06:24.439 --> 02:06:28.119
killer, where you go shopping for
yourself. Go into your local. You've

1714
02:06:28.159 --> 02:06:30.840
got some really good ace hardware stores
real close to you there. Go into

1715
02:06:30.880 --> 02:06:34.520
one of those, and you know, just tell them that you need a

1716
02:06:34.560 --> 02:06:39.920
grass only killer as much as you
can spot treat it. But that's going

1717
02:06:40.000 --> 02:06:42.359
to drag the process out. I
mean, you can do the whole thing,

1718
02:06:42.479 --> 02:06:45.239
be done with it. It looks
horrible, You get it replanted,

1719
02:06:45.279 --> 02:06:48.640
and eventually you're back in business.
Or in some areas, I'll just spot

1720
02:06:48.680 --> 02:06:54.079
treat the little spriggs bermuda that I
see taking care to just get it on

1721
02:06:54.119 --> 02:06:57.520
the bermuda, and then you have
all these little dead spots. But it's

1722
02:06:57.560 --> 02:07:00.920
easy for the same augustine to grow
back in around them. Okay, okay,

1723
02:07:01.239 --> 02:07:03.800
one last question. I'm gonna have
to I might have to put you

1724
02:07:03.840 --> 02:07:06.039
on hope of that. I gotta
take a break. I'll come back to

1725
02:07:06.079 --> 02:07:10.119
you when we get back. Hang
on just a second seven one three,

1726
02:07:10.199 --> 02:07:28.359
two, one two fifty eight seventy
four, we'll be right back. Well,

1727
02:07:28.439 --> 02:07:31.399
good morning on a beautiful Saturday morning. Thanks for being a garden Line

1728
02:07:31.439 --> 02:07:35.880
listener. We look forward to visiting
with you. We are here to answer

1729
02:07:35.920 --> 02:07:40.560
gardening questions. That's what we do. Hey. You know, with the

1730
02:07:41.439 --> 02:07:45.039
kind of drought we're having, our
clay soils in the Greater Houston area are

1731
02:07:45.159 --> 02:07:49.000
shrinking a lot, and then it
gets wet and they swell a lot,

1732
02:07:49.119 --> 02:07:56.920
and that movement causes havoc on foundations, on driveways, on sidewalks, tie

1733
02:07:57.000 --> 02:08:01.880
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That's how it works. It Fix
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So if your doors are sticking, if

1739
02:08:20.359 --> 02:08:24.840
you see cracks in the brick or
maybe cracks in the in the sheet rock

1740
02:08:24.920 --> 02:08:30.960
inside, don't delay. Don't wait
until a small problem becomes a huge problem.

1741
02:08:31.039 --> 02:08:35.880
Have them come out. They'll show
up on time and and look at

1742
02:08:35.920 --> 02:08:37.560
what needs to be done and give
you a free estimate. Tell them your

1743
02:08:37.560 --> 02:08:41.560
gardenline listener. They do free estimates
for gardenline listeners. It's two eight one

1744
02:08:41.640 --> 02:08:48.079
two ft nine forty nine. We
are now going to go back to Missouri

1745
02:08:48.159 --> 02:08:52.680
City. Hey, Paul, can
we can we wrap this one up?

1746
02:08:52.720 --> 02:08:56.039
I'd be happy to help you.
I've got some other calls online. Yes,

1747
02:08:56.119 --> 02:09:01.319
so would list the question on the
grass only her side. After the

1748
02:09:01.399 --> 02:09:03.880
grass appears to be dead? How
long do I wait before I read plant?

1749
02:09:05.000 --> 02:09:09.640
Uh? Usually it's going to take
about a week for those things to

1750
02:09:09.720 --> 02:09:15.119
fully work, and then I would
just you know, water it down,

1751
02:09:15.239 --> 02:09:18.640
probably wait another week or two.
It's really hot right now to try to

1752
02:09:18.640 --> 02:09:22.800
get grass going and everything. Anyway, wait another week or two, and

1753
02:09:22.840 --> 02:09:28.960
then if anything sprouts for spraying again, wait about a week, and then

1754
02:09:30.239 --> 02:09:35.439
then lay the grass down so that
that would you just want all the bermuter

1755
02:09:35.560 --> 02:09:39.279
to show its head at the surface
before you put Saint Augustine down, and

1756
02:09:39.319 --> 02:09:43.159
then you're just right back in the
mess, right, Yes, I understand,

1757
02:09:43.279 --> 02:09:46.640
Thank you, Thank you, I
appreciate I appreciate that call a lot.

1758
02:09:48.159 --> 02:09:50.760
Hey. Uh, you know they
say when life gives you lemons,

1759
02:09:50.760 --> 02:09:56.720
make lemonade. How about when life
gives you blazing hot sun, make electricity.

1760
02:09:56.359 --> 02:10:01.520
I'm not talking about solar panels on
your roof. I'm talking about a

1761
02:10:01.680 --> 02:10:07.520
Brinkman Timberline solar shingle. Brinkman Timberline
solar shingles. It's not on the roof,

1762
02:10:07.520 --> 02:10:13.479
it is the roof. They're beautiful
and they truly collect solar energy to

1763
02:10:13.560 --> 02:10:18.279
provide energy for your home. Now. Brickman has been doing roofing here in

1764
02:10:18.319 --> 02:10:22.239
the Houston area for fifty years.
They are a twenty twenty two Better Business

1765
02:10:22.239 --> 02:10:28.720
Bureau Pinnacle Award winner. That's the
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1766
02:10:28.760 --> 02:10:33.039
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1767
02:10:33.439 --> 02:10:35.840
They have every kind of roof you
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1768
02:10:37.039 --> 02:10:41.439
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02:10:41.479 --> 02:10:46.880
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1771
02:10:54.199 --> 02:10:58.399
sixty three. We're going to head
out now to a task acita and talk

1772
02:10:58.439 --> 02:11:03.920
to Greg. Hello, Greg,
Skip, how are you well? Thanks

1773
02:11:03.920 --> 02:11:09.279
excellent. I am kind of going
in the opposite direction from where other folks

1774
02:11:09.279 --> 02:11:13.279
are going. I had been mowing
my lawn every two weeks, trying to

1775
02:11:13.359 --> 02:11:18.800
keep the blades as long as possible
because of the water and the other issues

1776
02:11:18.800 --> 02:11:24.319
that are out there. I am
also fighting against my neighbor who was sculling

1777
02:11:24.399 --> 02:11:31.239
his yard and watering with a with
a circular sprinkler as opposed to using his

1778
02:11:31.239 --> 02:11:37.680
sprinkler system to water his entire yard. So I've I've taken bug out and

1779
02:11:37.720 --> 02:11:43.960
I've I've preemptively hit my yard,
but especially along the border that I share

1780
02:11:43.000 --> 02:11:48.439
with with my neighbor. I wanted
to ask you about the mowing every two

1781
02:11:48.439 --> 02:11:54.039
weeks, if that's helpful or for
it's just overthinking, And then is there

1782
02:11:54.079 --> 02:11:58.640
anything else I need to be doing
to guard against chin and chinch bugs and

1783
02:11:58.039 --> 02:12:01.600
other other credit. Well, if
you put the if you put the bug

1784
02:12:01.600 --> 02:12:05.880
out out, that is going to
kill anything that's there, and it'll stick

1785
02:12:05.880 --> 02:12:09.640
around for a little while to kill
anything that shows up. So you're probably

1786
02:12:09.760 --> 02:12:11.640
okay with that. Just kind of
watch it a little bit. And if

1787
02:12:11.680 --> 02:12:16.720
you see next to a sidewalk,
driveway or curb some area that looks like

1788
02:12:16.760 --> 02:12:18.439
it needs water, you water and
it still look like it needs water,

1789
02:12:20.319 --> 02:12:24.880
that maybe chinch bugs and a chance
to retreat those areas if that happens and

1790
02:12:24.000 --> 02:12:28.439
comes around. As far as a
two week schedule, we like to mow

1791
02:12:30.920 --> 02:12:35.520
often enough that we cut off one
third of the leaf blade with each mowing.

1792
02:12:35.880 --> 02:12:39.079
So if you set your mow or
high, it has to grow more

1793
02:12:39.239 --> 02:12:41.920
before it's time to mow, so
it lengthens the schedule a little bit.

1794
02:12:43.159 --> 02:12:45.680
If you were to go down,
and I hope you wouldn't, No one

1795
02:12:45.720 --> 02:12:48.239
would, but to a one inch
high for Saint Augustine, well, it

1796
02:12:48.600 --> 02:12:52.560
would only have to grow, you
know, like a third of an inch

1797
02:12:52.680 --> 02:12:56.560
or so and or a half an
inch, and you'd be you'd be mowing

1798
02:12:56.640 --> 02:13:01.279
again. So you're mowing very often, So a taller height lengthens it.

1799
02:13:01.439 --> 02:13:05.239
I don't know on two weeks,
you know, if you're watering a lot

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02:13:05.239 --> 02:13:07.640
and fertilizing and everything, two weeks
is probably too long, even at a

1801
02:13:07.720 --> 02:13:11.920
tall height. But in general,
if it if the grass is slowed down

1802
02:13:11.960 --> 02:13:16.560
a little bit and you're just keeping
it alive and decently healthy, that should

1803
02:13:16.560 --> 02:13:20.560
be okay, okay, cool,
alright. Any any thoughts on how I

1804
02:13:20.600 --> 02:13:24.199
can get my neighbor to kind of
change his ways on what he's doing with

1805
02:13:24.239 --> 02:13:30.840
his yard? Uh, that might
tell him be a psychiatrist. Con question.

1806
02:13:31.640 --> 02:13:35.039
We come on at six am,
it's dark, so go bang on

1807
02:13:35.079 --> 02:13:39.199
the door and tell him he's missing
gardening line and he'll be so happy that

1808
02:13:39.279 --> 02:13:43.000
you have turned him onto that and
now his lawn is beautiful, that he

1809
02:13:43.000 --> 02:13:46.960
will be your your favorite neighbor.
So Skip, I will take that into

1810
02:13:48.000 --> 02:13:52.199
consideration. Thank you. Yeah,
and I'm not I'm not responsible for broken

1811
02:13:52.239 --> 02:13:56.239
bones, shot wounds or exactly.
Okay, Hey, take care of Greg.

1812
02:13:56.279 --> 02:14:01.199
Thanks for calling. Alrighty yeah,
gosh. Yeah. When it comes

1813
02:14:01.199 --> 02:14:03.079
to, you know, taking care
of a lawn and making sure that it's

1814
02:14:03.119 --> 02:14:07.840
healthy, that makes it all the
more important to put on a quality fertilizer.

1815
02:14:07.960 --> 02:14:11.800
And Microlife sixty four is just that. I mean, it's gonna release

1816
02:14:11.920 --> 02:14:16.680
gradually over time. It's going to
replenish the minerals in that stressed grass.

1817
02:14:18.079 --> 02:14:22.279
It's going to provide the microbial content
that's necessary for that stressed grass, including

1818
02:14:22.720 --> 02:14:28.520
the sugars that help feed the microbes
in the soil. And when you do

1819
02:14:28.560 --> 02:14:31.960
the combo Microlife sixty four that's a
green bag and the purple bag, which

1820
02:14:31.960 --> 02:14:37.000
is Humates plus, which is concentrated
compost in a bag, you help get

1821
02:14:37.000 --> 02:14:41.920
those plants through it. Now,
whether you're doing your lawn or whether you're

1822
02:14:41.960 --> 02:14:43.159
taking care of all the plants on
the property, you know, when it

1823
02:14:43.199 --> 02:14:48.159
comes to shrubs, and when it
comes to perennials and flowers and vegetables,

1824
02:14:48.560 --> 02:14:56.239
I would consider seriously using the Ocean
Harvest that's the liquid in the blue label.

1825
02:14:56.399 --> 02:15:01.359
It's a fish emotion based product and
it will not burn your plants,

1826
02:15:01.439 --> 02:15:03.319
and you can do a folier feed
with it, you can drench them.

1827
02:15:03.399 --> 02:15:07.640
You're just trying to provide a boost
to help this plant. I mean,

1828
02:15:07.720 --> 02:15:15.600
it needs to have the benefits that
come with these products in order to recover

1829
02:15:15.800 --> 02:15:20.279
from and even to sustain through the
kinds of stresses that they're going through.

1830
02:15:20.359 --> 02:15:24.680
Right now, you can go to
Microlife Fertilizer dot com find out where to

1831
02:15:24.680 --> 02:15:26.640
get them, or just learn more
about the products I just talked about.

1832
02:15:28.960 --> 02:15:33.319
We're gonna head out to Humble now
and talk to Angela. Hello, Angela,

1833
02:15:33.119 --> 02:15:37.399
Hi, good morning, Good morning. Yes, I am going to

1834
02:15:37.399 --> 02:15:45.960
regarding a couple of trees that have
been showing sign of a disease. However,

1835
02:15:46.000 --> 02:15:48.199
I don't know which one is this, and I seen a couple of

1836
02:15:48.199 --> 02:15:56.159
pictures for you. One of them
is at Secamore and it has like brown

1837
02:15:56.279 --> 02:16:01.600
spots in the middle and at the
end. And the other tree is the

1838
02:16:01.680 --> 02:16:07.960
grape myrtle which is behaving the same
way. So I am not aware of

1839
02:16:07.960 --> 02:16:11.600
what that could be. Okay,
well, grete pictures, thank you,

1840
02:16:11.680 --> 02:16:16.439
pictures worth a thousand words. The
crape myrtle is showing signs of drought stress.

1841
02:16:18.680 --> 02:16:20.039
It could be due to a number
of things. It could be due

1842
02:16:20.039 --> 02:16:24.520
to a lack of water in the
soil, which is the most likely cause.

1843
02:16:24.119 --> 02:16:30.239
It could be due to high salt
content in the water, high sodium

1844
02:16:30.279 --> 02:16:35.120
hybicarbonates. You can get that kind
of symptom from that as well, combined

1845
02:16:35.200 --> 02:16:39.120
with heat and dry conditions. But
that just shows plants that are struggling.

1846
02:16:39.799 --> 02:16:43.000
It's the last part of the leaf
to get the water. That's where it's

1847
02:16:43.040 --> 02:16:46.520
turning brown, the tips and the
margins. So just think of it as

1848
02:16:46.559 --> 02:16:50.600
a long tube from the end of
a route to the end of a leaf,

1849
02:16:50.159 --> 02:16:54.239
and the last part is not quite
getting enough, and so that's what's

1850
02:16:54.280 --> 02:16:58.680
turning brown on your crape myrtles.
Now, the branch that you sent.

1851
02:17:00.000 --> 02:17:03.840
If a crape myrtle has lichen on
it, lichen is a little growth that

1852
02:17:03.000 --> 02:17:07.559
is superficial to the plant. It's
not a parasite. It's not like mistletoe

1853
02:17:07.680 --> 02:17:13.040
that's taking energy from the tree.
It just you can just ignore that.

1854
02:17:13.200 --> 02:17:16.719
It's a sign that the crape myrtle
is not very vigorous, and so probably

1855
02:17:16.799 --> 02:17:22.440
could use once we get through this
drought stress, it could use a little

1856
02:17:22.639 --> 02:17:24.879
fertilizer, a little water to you
know, during the drought stress too,

1857
02:17:24.879 --> 02:17:28.280
by the way, to keep it
vigorous. But that's all. Now.

1858
02:17:28.280 --> 02:17:33.799
Your sycamores, on the other hand, they are also showing drought symptoms.

1859
02:17:33.200 --> 02:17:39.399
But the thing that's causing that pattern
is a bacteria that gets in the leaf,

1860
02:17:39.399 --> 02:17:43.680
in the plumbing of the leaf,
and it plugs it up. So

1861
02:17:43.760 --> 02:17:48.200
if you imagine going back on a
vein and just clipping the vein right there,

1862
02:17:48.479 --> 02:17:54.120
everything that that vein supplies will turn
brown. And that's what the bacteria

1863
02:17:54.239 --> 02:17:56.959
doing. They're not clipping it,
but they're plugging it. And so essentially

1864
02:17:56.959 --> 02:18:00.959
it's like hardening of the arteries or
whatever. You know. The blood flow

1865
02:18:01.000 --> 02:18:05.879
can't get through there because the bacteria
are clogging it up, and this plaque

1866
02:18:05.959 --> 02:18:09.239
that forms inside there, like with
the artery situation, Uh, there's no

1867
02:18:09.360 --> 02:18:13.239
curing the bacteria. You just have
to water enough to try to keep it

1868
02:18:13.360 --> 02:18:20.120
hydrated, and the sycamore will be
just fine. Okay, so it does

1869
02:18:20.200 --> 02:18:24.520
seem it's not a punge side.
It looks like it's a a punge side

1870
02:18:24.520 --> 02:18:31.120
around them, correct, right,
Yeah, No, there's no surface sprays

1871
02:18:31.280 --> 02:18:37.920
needed for your crape myrtles or for
your sycamore's. Okay, And what type

1872
02:18:37.920 --> 02:18:43.799
of fertilizer for the crepe myrtles you
would you suggest? I would get a

1873
02:18:43.840 --> 02:18:46.760
quality product, and there there are
a number of quality products out there.

1874
02:18:46.799 --> 02:18:52.680
I know know some plant food makes
a crape myrtle plant food specifically, uh

1875
02:18:52.719 --> 02:18:56.559
and and it it's just designed for
trees and shrubs. But you've got crape

1876
02:18:56.559 --> 02:19:00.399
myrtle on the label. That one
works just just fine. That would be

1877
02:19:00.399 --> 02:19:03.600
a good one to use. I'm
going to be out at Margaritaville today up

1878
02:19:03.799 --> 02:19:09.920
up in the Lake Conro area.
It's a little far for a drive for

1879
02:19:09.959 --> 02:19:11.719
you to go from the Humble area, but I'll be out there given away

1880
02:19:11.719 --> 02:19:16.600
some Nelson plant food this afternoon.
Okay, So yeah, I wouldn't definitely

1881
02:19:16.639 --> 02:19:22.799
go to see you. And so
where's it gonna be? Could you the

1882
02:19:22.799 --> 02:19:28.040
place again? Yes, go to
the Lake Conro Home and Garden show.

1883
02:19:28.200 --> 02:19:31.079
And Margaritaville is the name of the
resort. So from your direction you go

1884
02:19:31.159 --> 02:19:37.440
to Conro, you had west on
one oh five when you pass April Sound

1885
02:19:37.520 --> 02:19:39.520
and you see where the lake comes
up to the road. A little past

1886
02:19:39.559 --> 02:19:45.319
that is Walden Road and it it
leads up to Margaritaville. You can just

1887
02:19:46.159 --> 02:19:48.680
google it on a map and find
it. Okay, perfect, Well,

1888
02:19:48.680 --> 02:19:52.440
thank you for lasting. I appreciate
Eleven thirty to one thirty is the time.

1889
02:19:52.479 --> 02:19:54.639
I'll be there. Get there at
eleven thirty if you want to hear

1890
02:19:54.680 --> 02:19:58.760
my talk. All right, absolutely, I'll be there. Thank you so

1891
02:19:58.840 --> 02:20:01.799
much for everything. All right,
thank you, Angela. I appreciate that

1892
02:20:01.879 --> 02:20:07.280
call. And with that, I'll
turn the golden microphone over to the Nicky

1893
02:20:07.280 --> 02:20:13.920
News Network. Oh, I love
her at Let's keep tongued Nikki is he

1894
02:20:13.079 --> 02:20:35.680
gives us the news. It's good
morning, beautiful Saturday, beautiful Saturday.

1895
02:20:35.680 --> 02:20:37.399
It's a good day to come out
and see me at the Lake Conro Home

1896
02:20:37.440 --> 02:20:41.959
and Garden and boat show. It
the Martary de Villement Resort. It's out

1897
02:20:43.000 --> 02:20:46.639
there just what east of Montgomery,
on the west side of Lake Conro.

1898
02:20:48.399 --> 02:20:50.920
I don't know. You can google
it and find it. We're gonna be

1899
02:20:50.920 --> 02:20:54.520
out there. I'll be talking for
let's seen from about eleven thirty to about

1900
02:20:54.520 --> 02:20:58.600
twelve thirty given a presentation on all
the stuff you need to know about getting

1901
02:20:58.639 --> 02:21:03.559
your lawn, your garden, whatever
ready to go for fall. And then

1902
02:21:03.600 --> 02:21:07.120
I'll be at a table where I
will be answering your gardening questions. So

1903
02:21:07.200 --> 02:21:09.399
you've got some plant samples, you
want to put them in a bag,

1904
02:21:09.440 --> 02:21:13.840
maybe it's a weed to identify,
or what's wrong with this leaf. Will

1905
02:21:13.120 --> 02:21:16.879
be doing all of that, happy
to do that. And we're also going

1906
02:21:16.959 --> 02:21:22.239
to be giving away free samples of
Nelson plant food. I don't mean just

1907
02:21:22.319 --> 02:21:24.600
little samples. I mean need a
little two pound jars and four pound jars,

1908
02:21:26.360 --> 02:21:28.399
various kinds of mixes. I think
I got some vegetable stuff. I

1909
02:21:28.479 --> 02:21:33.959
got some tomato specifically, even have
one for house plants, some for shrubs,

1910
02:21:35.000 --> 02:21:37.440
and just lots of good stuff out
there. So I hope you'll come

1911
02:21:37.440 --> 02:21:41.200
out and see us. We'd love
to meet you and love to put one

1912
02:21:41.239 --> 02:21:48.319
of those products in your hands.
You know, Ace Hardware is the one

1913
02:21:48.399 --> 02:21:54.360
stop shop for all kinds of things. I mean we brag on everything that

1914
02:21:54.399 --> 02:21:56.559
Ace Hardware has now. I mean, if you have a minute an Ace,

1915
02:21:56.639 --> 02:22:00.559
you just gotta go and see.
It's everything in the world. But

1916
02:22:00.639 --> 02:22:03.760
when it comes to lawn and garden, that is the place that just has

1917
02:22:03.799 --> 02:22:09.079
what you need that It's as simple
as that. So the fertilizers that you

1918
02:22:09.159 --> 02:22:13.760
need for your lawn, the pest
control product, disease control products, weed

1919
02:22:13.799 --> 02:22:18.079
control products for your lawn, everything
for you. The lawn ranger to take

1920
02:22:18.120 --> 02:22:22.399
care of your lawn each and every
weekend and make it look its best.

1921
02:22:22.600 --> 02:22:26.120
You're going to find it there at
ACE. If I'm bragging about a fertilizer

1922
02:22:26.159 --> 02:22:31.399
product, They're gonna have it at
Ace Hardware. It's as simple as that.

1923
02:22:31.959 --> 02:22:37.040
Thirty nine stores through the Houston area. Go to Ace Hardware dot com

1924
02:22:37.079 --> 02:22:41.360
and find the store locator and there
you will be able to find the stores

1925
02:22:41.879 --> 02:22:46.079
plural near you. Yes, there
will be more than one store near you.

1926
02:22:46.520 --> 02:22:50.879
When it comes to ACE Hardware,
I always like going in because I

1927
02:22:50.920 --> 02:22:54.000
never know what they what's the latest, what do they have, what's new?

1928
02:22:54.639 --> 02:22:58.079
You know. It also is good
to get to visit with some of

1929
02:22:58.120 --> 02:23:01.920
the folks work there because they do
have knowledgeable, friendly staff and they can

1930
02:23:03.040 --> 02:23:07.479
help direct you to the products that
you may need. I've mentioned a couple

1931
02:23:07.479 --> 02:23:13.719
of times today I'll mention it again
and that is the new garden schedule or

1932
02:23:13.799 --> 02:23:18.719
lawn schedule is out. I have
finally finished my lawn care schedule. If

1933
02:23:18.760 --> 02:23:22.600
you go to my website, basically, what's on the website right now is

1934
02:23:22.639 --> 02:23:26.479
the garden or the why I keep
saying garden, the lawn schedule is what's

1935
02:23:26.520 --> 02:23:31.799
on the website. I'm going to
be building that website and with lots of

1936
02:23:31.840 --> 02:23:37.799
information, lots of helpful publications and
all kinds of stuff. So keep checking

1937
02:23:37.840 --> 02:23:41.239
back week after week. It's it's
on its way now. But the lawn

1938
02:23:41.440 --> 02:23:46.079
care schedule tells you what to do
each month of the year January through December,

1939
02:23:46.719 --> 02:23:50.760
and it's it's divided up, it's
color coded to make it really simple.

1940
02:23:50.799 --> 02:23:54.200
When you first look at it,
you're gonna go, Okay, that

1941
02:23:54.479 --> 02:23:58.040
is a lot of information. Well, don't you don't read the whole page

1942
02:23:58.040 --> 02:24:03.760
at once. Like the first first
row across is fertilizing synthetic. It's in

1943
02:24:03.920 --> 02:24:09.200
yellow, and so if you're using
a synthetic fertilizer, it tells you when

1944
02:24:09.280 --> 02:24:13.040
to apply what and then you go
down to the bottom in yellow and it's

1945
02:24:13.079 --> 02:24:18.239
all the synthetic fertilizers for various times
of the year. And then there's a

1946
02:24:18.239 --> 02:24:24.159
trace mineral supplement bar with at the
bottom same color the trace minerals that you

1947
02:24:24.159 --> 02:24:28.280
can purchase here in the Uscen area. Then organic fertilizing, all the organic

1948
02:24:28.399 --> 02:24:33.399
fertilizers when you apply them, and
what at the bottom, same color green

1949
02:24:33.760 --> 02:24:39.520
is the organic options here in the
Houston area. Talks about lawn aeration,

1950
02:24:39.680 --> 02:24:41.200
when to do it, how to
do it. It. Talks about mowing.

1951
02:24:41.239 --> 02:24:45.479
Believe it or not, mowing is
more than just far up the mower

1952
02:24:45.520 --> 02:24:48.799
and run over the lawn. It
There's a lot to it, from how

1953
02:24:50.239 --> 02:24:54.399
much you prune off when you mow, keeping the mower, shar Poto collect

1954
02:24:54.479 --> 02:24:58.440
leaves, all kinds of stuff,
and then watering, and again, watering

1955
02:24:58.799 --> 02:25:03.639
is a science. You need to
be able to water properly in order to

1956
02:25:03.680 --> 02:25:05.719
have a successful lawn. You wet
it all the time, you're going to

1957
02:25:05.760 --> 02:25:09.520
have more disease problems. You wet
it too frequently. It's not going to

1958
02:25:09.559 --> 02:25:13.319
wet the soil deep enough. Just
a little squirt every other day is not

1959
02:25:13.479 --> 02:25:18.559
watering the lawn. That's creating humidity
and creating disease. And we talk about

1960
02:25:18.559 --> 02:25:22.520
that on there. Now that's the
first one the lawn care schedule. Coming

1961
02:25:22.600 --> 02:25:30.559
up soon is the pest disease and
weed management schedule, So that has,

1962
02:25:30.600 --> 02:25:33.559
as the title implies, what are
the insects and when do they occur?

1963
02:25:33.879 --> 02:25:37.280
What are the diseases and when do
they occur? What are the weeds?

1964
02:25:37.440 --> 02:25:41.760
And when do you do pre emergent? When do you do post emergent?

1965
02:25:41.159 --> 02:25:45.879
And all of those products again and
a color coded format are going to be

1966
02:25:45.920 --> 02:25:48.559
there. That one's not up on
the web yet, but it will be

1967
02:25:48.639 --> 02:25:54.079
soon. Right now, go to
Gardening with Skip dot com. Gardening with

1968
02:25:54.479 --> 02:25:58.239
Skip dot com and you'll see the
schedule. You can look at it online,

1969
02:25:58.239 --> 02:26:01.399
you can print it out. It's
a PDF document. Make several copies,

1970
02:26:01.440 --> 02:26:03.639
give them to your family, give
them to your friends, or email

1971
02:26:03.719 --> 02:26:07.040
them to your family and friends.
Tell them about gardening with Skip dot com.

1972
02:26:07.079 --> 02:26:11.040
We are going to build one heck
of a website, and you heard

1973
02:26:11.040 --> 02:26:16.479
about it on day one when we
first got the lawn schedule up there.

1974
02:26:18.319 --> 02:26:22.559
You know the tree Hugger sprinkler.
I've talked about them a lot today because

1975
02:26:22.719 --> 02:26:26.559
it is a quality sprinkler. And
tomorrow, I mean tomorrow could be a

1976
02:26:28.079 --> 02:26:31.719
record heat day, and whether it
is or not. It's a two darn

1977
02:26:31.799 --> 02:26:37.040
hot heat day. Tree Hugger allows
you to keep your plants alive. It

1978
02:26:37.079 --> 02:26:41.520
allows you two to keep them out
of stress, because stress leads to problems

1979
02:26:41.600 --> 02:26:45.920
down the line. There's three sizes
of tree Hugger. You can buy them

1980
02:26:45.959 --> 02:26:48.840
all over the place. These these
ace hardware stores, the feed stores,

1981
02:26:48.879 --> 02:26:56.319
the home and garden, the home
mom and pop garden centers are going to

1982
02:26:56.399 --> 02:27:00.319
have the tree Hugger sprinklers and they're
easy to find. I encourage you to

1983
02:27:00.399 --> 02:27:03.639
use them. Trust me. It
is the cheapest insurance you can purchase to

1984
02:27:03.760 --> 02:27:09.680
save a very high value plan.
Let's go out to Porter. We're gonna

1985
02:27:09.680 --> 02:27:11.360
talk to Dave. Hey, Dave, I got about a minute and a

1986
02:27:11.399 --> 02:27:16.239
half. If we can get it
done, then let's do it. Are

1987
02:27:16.280 --> 02:27:20.760
you there, Dave? This Steve
Steve Okay, excuse me, get your

1988
02:27:20.840 --> 02:27:24.719
name wrong. How can we help? Steve? Hey, I've got some

1989
02:27:24.840 --> 02:27:31.559
live oaks. They're about fourteen years
old to twelve intes diameters, and I've

1990
02:27:31.600 --> 02:27:35.840
been watching the surface roots these past
years, yes, and reading up on

1991
02:27:35.879 --> 02:27:41.760
the surface roots. I've got three
of them that have reached one edge of

1992
02:27:41.760 --> 02:27:50.559
my driveway and one edge of my
sidewalk and they're about twelve feet out from

1993
02:27:50.639 --> 02:27:56.680
the tree base itself. And I
don't want to kill the live oaks,

1994
02:27:56.760 --> 02:28:01.399
but how many of those can I
cut back? And how do you feed

1995
02:28:01.479 --> 02:28:05.280
them back? Well, I'm going
to give you a vegu answer, and

1996
02:28:05.280 --> 02:28:09.479
then I'm gonna tell you to get
where to get a specific answer. The

1997
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VEG answer is if you take one
route at a time over you know,

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each year, cut one route here, cut one route there. The tree

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will recover from that. But I
wouldn't do it now when the demands are

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02:28:26.079 --> 02:28:30.319
through the roof on those trees trying
to pump water. Now that that's the

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02:28:30.440 --> 02:28:35.399
VEGU answer. The specific answer is
call a professional tree fellow to come out,

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02:28:35.440 --> 02:28:39.479
like Affordable Tree Care Martin spoon Moore
and have him look at it,

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02:28:39.520 --> 02:28:43.079
because what he may see is,
no, it's just one route, but

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02:28:43.200 --> 02:28:48.079
that one route is a huge part
of what that tree needs, part of

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02:28:48.120 --> 02:28:50.959
anchoring the tree so it didn't fall
over, part of taking up water nutrients.

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02:28:52.479 --> 02:28:58.920
Martin can also look at putting in
a barrier under the ground, a

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02:28:58.040 --> 02:29:03.399
vertical wall so the roots can't go
into the driveway to crack it and make

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02:29:03.440 --> 02:29:07.719
it come up, so that that
would be the best. His number seven

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02:29:07.799 --> 02:29:13.719
one three, six nine nine twenty
six sixty three. Steve or I've got

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to take a break, but I
will come back to you if you want

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to hang around to continue this discussion. Thank you very much. Our phone

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02:29:22.920 --> 02:29:26.120
number is seven one three two one
two fifty eight seventy four. We'll be

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02:29:26.239 --> 02:29:41.959
right back. Well. Good Saturday
morning. We are in our final hour

2014
02:29:41.079 --> 02:29:46.120
of the show today. After the
show at eleven thirty, I'll be at

2015
02:29:46.159 --> 02:29:50.680
the Lake Conro Home and Garden and
Boat Show at in Margariteaville Resort out on

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02:29:50.760 --> 02:29:54.440
Lake Conro. That's on the west
side of Lake Conro. If you're heading

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02:29:54.559 --> 02:29:58.639
on one oh five out, Let's
say you're heading from Conro direction, pass

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02:29:58.680 --> 02:30:01.840
by April sound little for down you
see Walden Road, Turn right there.

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02:30:01.920 --> 02:30:05.879
There's a big Walmart supercenter there where
you turn, and it'll take you out

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02:30:05.959 --> 02:30:11.600
to margaret Ritaville. I'll be given
a talk for about an hour talking about

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02:30:11.600 --> 02:30:13.680
things to do for your lawn,
garden and landscape this fault. Then I'll

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02:30:13.719 --> 02:30:16.840
sit down at a table and we'll
visit. Bring me some samples, bring

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02:30:16.879 --> 02:30:20.520
me some pictures. Make sure the
pictures are in good sharp focus. We'll

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02:30:20.559 --> 02:30:26.040
be happy to identify, diagnose,
recommend whatever it is that you need.

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02:30:26.319 --> 02:30:30.120
I'll be giving out some canisters of
Nelson plant food while I'm there. We

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02:30:30.200 --> 02:30:33.239
got some two pound canisters and four
pound canisters, so it's a nice little

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02:30:33.319 --> 02:30:37.280
supply of fertilizer there on, all
kinds of different things different. You know.

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02:30:37.319 --> 02:30:43.239
Nelson's makes Color Star and Nutral Star
and all kinds of different wonderful plant

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02:30:43.280 --> 02:30:46.840
foods at work very very well in
your lawn and garden. And here's your

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02:30:46.920 --> 02:30:50.959
chance to get a good supply,
really of a sample to go home and

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02:30:52.000 --> 02:30:54.959
try out. I think you'll love
it as much as I do. I'm

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02:30:54.959 --> 02:30:58.239
gonna go out now to Katie and
we're gonna talk to Stephanie. Hello,

2033
02:30:58.280 --> 02:31:03.479
Stephanie, Good morning Skip. I
have a quick question, because I know

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02:31:03.520 --> 02:31:09.680
you're short on time. I have
white fly infestation and I have been alternating

2035
02:31:11.079 --> 02:31:16.239
in Sexicidal Scope soap Spinisad and Pyrenthan, and I've been screened twice a day,

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02:31:16.360 --> 02:31:18.760
early in the morning and late in
the evening, and I just cannot

2037
02:31:20.000 --> 02:31:24.399
knock them down. Is is there
anything else I can't need to be doing,

2038
02:31:24.559 --> 02:31:31.399
you know, Katie or Katie Stephanie
front Katie, your experience is common

2039
02:31:33.079 --> 02:31:35.920
and white flies. We have products
that will kill white flies, but these

2040
02:31:35.959 --> 02:31:41.760
products also kill the natural enemies that
help keep white flies in check, and

2041
02:31:43.280 --> 02:31:46.959
it is not unusual to spray for
white flies and end up with a worse

2042
02:31:48.079 --> 02:31:50.479
problem than you started with, or
at least the same thing that you started

2043
02:31:50.520 --> 02:32:01.559
with. I would probably avoid the
parrethans specifically. The spino said spinosad should

2044
02:32:01.600 --> 02:32:03.520
not be that effective. I'd have
to look at the label. But I

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02:32:03.559 --> 02:32:09.959
think of spinosaid as more for things
that have chewing mouthparts that eat leaves,

2046
02:32:09.959 --> 02:32:13.680
like caterpillars and beetles and whatnot.
That's not the only thing spinosad controls,

2047
02:32:13.719 --> 02:32:18.760
but that's that's what it's best at. And so I don't know if it

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02:32:18.799 --> 02:32:22.399
works on white flies at all.
It may, but but anyway, the

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02:32:22.559 --> 02:32:26.760
soap I don't think so. Yeah, well, the soap is soaps and

2050
02:32:26.799 --> 02:32:33.639
horticultural oils are effective on the larva
and the pupa, and you'll find those

2051
02:32:33.760 --> 02:32:37.159
underneath the leaf. The pupa look
like a little like a fish scale,

2052
02:32:37.360 --> 02:32:41.479
but so small. It's like a
little lowercase tight zero on the bottom of

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02:32:41.520 --> 02:32:46.680
the leaf, sticking to the leaf, and the soap coats. The soap

2054
02:32:46.719 --> 02:32:50.559
and the oil both kind of physically
kill them. They're not a poison,

2055
02:32:50.040 --> 02:32:56.399
so they're not they don't last in
terms of continuing to kill as a poison,

2056
02:32:56.719 --> 02:33:01.000
so they don't hurt the natural enemies
as bad. And I think I

2057
02:33:01.000 --> 02:33:03.760
think I would resort to that.
Now here's the caveat. Both soap and

2058
02:33:03.799 --> 02:33:07.040
oil will burn the heck out of
a plant when it's one hundred of grease

2059
02:33:07.079 --> 02:33:11.920
and the blazing sun. So you
want to get that done really really early

2060
02:33:11.959 --> 02:33:16.559
in the morning. Spray upward from
underneath the leaves of the plant, because

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02:33:16.639 --> 02:33:20.959
that's where the pests are hiding,
the white flies are hiding, and because

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02:33:22.000 --> 02:33:24.879
they have to physically coat them with
soap or oil to kill them. And

2063
02:33:24.920 --> 02:33:30.440
then I think tolerate a little bit
of the white flies around as the natural

2064
02:33:30.559 --> 02:33:33.799
enemies have a chance to kind of
catch back up. That would be my

2065
02:33:33.879 --> 02:33:37.840
approach, based on the experience you've
had already. Okay, I'll switch to

2066
02:33:39.040 --> 02:33:43.159
I guess nime and in sucticidal soap, then yeah, you could, you

2067
02:33:43.200 --> 02:33:46.319
could certainly do that. I know
that my natural thought would be, well,

2068
02:33:46.360 --> 02:33:50.000
let's just put a systemic in the
plant to kill them, but from

2069
02:33:50.040 --> 02:33:54.799
what I've read from some of the
research done in California, those are not

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02:33:54.959 --> 02:33:58.920
that affected either. Okay, okay, all right, well I appreciate it.

2071
02:34:00.000 --> 02:34:01.440
Thank you so much. All right, Stephanie, thank you very much.

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You take care. Have a wonderful, wonderful day. Speaking of having

2073
02:34:07.280 --> 02:34:11.719
a wonderful day, I always have
a wonderful day when I go up to

2074
02:34:11.879 --> 02:34:16.120
the Arburgate Nursery and tombaal. You
know, Arburgade has created one of those

2075
02:34:16.159 --> 02:34:20.159
destination nurseries, and boy, are
aware are blessed in Houston to have some

2076
02:34:20.559 --> 02:34:24.440
awesome just destination nurseries. It's a
kind of place you go and you bring

2077
02:34:24.520 --> 02:34:31.840
friends that aren't even gardeners and they're
just walking around for the wiref wow factor.

2078
02:34:31.639 --> 02:34:35.559
By the way, in the meantime, they're being converted to gardeners.

2079
02:34:35.559 --> 02:34:41.360
They just don't know it. But
Arburgatee has got a grade selection of plans.

2080
02:34:41.399 --> 02:34:45.520
Of course, super helpful staff that
know what they're talking about, that

2081
02:34:45.680 --> 02:34:48.520
greet you, they walk with you, they help you find what you need,

2082
02:34:48.559 --> 02:34:52.920
they answer your questions. That is
what's essential and equality nursery, and

2083
02:34:52.959 --> 02:34:56.159
that's what you're going to get at
Arburgate. You can go on line to

2084
02:34:56.280 --> 02:35:01.479
Arburgate dot com. While are you
there, pick up there three step completely

2085
02:35:01.600 --> 02:35:07.879
easy system. That's three bags organic
food complete that's a four four three plus

2086
02:35:07.920 --> 02:35:15.079
calcium all organic fertilizer. A organic
soil complete that is a quality soil blend

2087
02:35:15.159 --> 02:35:18.959
that has expanded shale in it,
which is important. And then the organic

2088
02:35:18.000 --> 02:35:24.040
compost complete, which is a two
different types of composts blended together, chock

2089
02:35:24.159 --> 02:35:28.520
full of microorganisms that also has expanded
shale in it. You know, compost

2090
02:35:28.600 --> 02:35:33.120
is always good for soils, but
expanded shale sticks around a long long time.

2091
02:35:33.559 --> 02:35:39.479
So think of it as little porous, very very lightweight rock products.

2092
02:35:39.520 --> 02:35:45.280
Think of it as kitty litter that
has been expanded under thousands of degrees of

2093
02:35:45.280 --> 02:35:50.760
temperature into a little pitted, lightweight
material that doesn't break down and helps keep

2094
02:35:50.799 --> 02:35:56.680
that clay open. Very important if
you've got a poorly drained typical black clay

2095
02:35:56.719 --> 02:36:01.239
soil like we have here around the
Greater Houston area in many of the areas

2096
02:36:01.399 --> 02:36:05.840
all at Arburgate. Arburgate, by
the way, for those of you who

2097
02:36:05.920 --> 02:36:07.920
don't know, you must have been
hiding under a rock. Do not know

2098
02:36:07.959 --> 02:36:13.760
where Arburgate is. But if you
go out Highway two forty nine. Excuse

2099
02:36:13.840 --> 02:36:18.159
me from Highway two forty nine on
twenty one, twenty twenty nine, twenty

2100
02:36:18.680 --> 02:36:24.239
west of Tomball. That we'll get
you to the Arbourgate Highway twenty nine,

2101
02:36:24.319 --> 02:36:28.000
twenty a mile and a half west
of two forty nine. Getting towards the

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02:36:28.040 --> 02:36:31.799
end of the show, I'm having
trouble talking here today. Let's go real

2103
02:36:31.920 --> 02:36:35.920
quick here. Let's see we're going
to talk to Wade, and Wade I

2104
02:36:35.959 --> 02:36:39.639
got about thirty seconds. Can we
do it? Get it done in that?

2105
02:36:41.280 --> 02:36:46.799
Oh yeah, a bit morning.
You mentioned a plant in the last

2106
02:36:46.840 --> 02:36:48.920
hour. I think I've had double
ballooms on and everything, and I didn't

2107
02:36:48.920 --> 02:36:52.440
get the name of that plant.
I just wanted that was rangoon creeper,

2108
02:36:52.600 --> 02:36:56.280
and I was talking about plants for
all seasons on Highway two forty nine.

2109
02:36:56.520 --> 02:37:01.200
Royal Louetta comes into two forty nine. All right, right, thank you

2110
02:37:01.239 --> 02:37:05.639
sir, Yes, sir, you
bet hey. I'm going to be out

2111
02:37:05.680 --> 02:37:09.760
at Margaritaville giving away some Nelson plant
food. You know. Nelson makes the

2112
02:37:11.120 --> 02:37:13.799
Slow and Easy twenty two two ten
for summer. They make the Bruce's Brew,

2113
02:37:13.920 --> 02:37:18.079
which is a faster release could be
used anytime a year round on your

2114
02:37:18.159 --> 02:37:22.120
lawn or really on anything. To
be honest, it's a good product.

2115
02:37:22.120 --> 02:37:26.000
In eighteen four nine, and then
they've got their Color Star, their Nutral

2116
02:37:26.040 --> 02:37:30.760
Star, and their Nature Star.
That's the organic line Nature Star. Lots

2117
02:37:30.799 --> 02:37:35.120
of quality fertilizers from Nelson Plant Food. I'll be giving away some of the

2118
02:37:35.120 --> 02:37:39.159
Color Star products as well as some
of the Nature Star out there. Little

2119
02:37:39.159 --> 02:37:41.760
canisters went on at Lake Conra.
I hope you'll come see me. That

2120
02:37:41.920 --> 02:37:46.799
is at the Margaritaville Resort on the
west side of Lake Conro. I'll be

2121
02:37:46.840 --> 02:37:50.600
there at eleven thirty, so I'm
about to jump in a car and head

2122
02:37:50.639 --> 02:37:54.239
that way. Maybe grab a burger
on the way. I'll be talking for

2123
02:37:54.280 --> 02:37:56.879
about an hour on things to do
in your lawn and garden this fall,

2124
02:37:58.600 --> 02:38:03.920
how to have a beautiful guard,
to recover from this infernal gahenna that we

2125
02:38:03.000 --> 02:38:05.799
are living through right now. There's
a new word. Go look that one

2126
02:38:05.879 --> 02:38:11.360
up. Infernal gayhanna that we're living
through right now here in the Greater Houston,

2127
02:38:11.399 --> 02:38:15.440
are in fact all over Texas.
And then I'll be at a table.

2128
02:38:15.879 --> 02:38:18.639
So if you've got some plant samples
you want to identified put them in

2129
02:38:18.719 --> 02:38:22.239
a bag. Keep captive in the
insects that might be involved. Bring me

2130
02:38:22.319 --> 02:38:26.920
some pictures, good quality, close
up pictures. We'll identify that. Hey,

2131
02:38:26.959 --> 02:38:28.760
I can't wait to see you out
there at the Lake Counro Home and

2132
02:38:28.799 --> 02:38:31.719
Garden and boat show, and just
a little bit here