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

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advertised on this program. Welcome to
kat r H Garden Line with skip rictor

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its rim. Just watch him as
so many things to see again. Sure,

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hey, welcome to Garden Line.
We're glad you're with us today.

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Looking forward to talking about all kinds
of things. Plans. Boy, have

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we had some weather. Yeah,
we got to talk about that too,

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and I'm sure we will probably quite
a few calls about that if you would

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like to give us a call.
Hey, by the way, we're here

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to answer gardening questions and help you
I have a more bountiful garden, more

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beautiful landscape. You can just give
us a college seven one three two one

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

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Yep. The elephant in the room
is the weather. Wow. Our

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hearts go out to a lot of
folks who just got hammered by this crazy

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weather that blasted through here and just
destroyed a lot of trees. And we

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talk a lot about pruning trees to
help them become more sturdy in the storm,

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to help do what we can to
help control that takeout trees that are

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dangerous and stuff. Well, then
the weather comes along and just kind of

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kind of proves itself on that.
Of course, sometimes when you got winds

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and tornadoes and stuff, don't matter
how you put in a tree. If

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it's gonna it's gonna go, it's
gonna go. But there's a lot we

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can do for that. Maybe I'll
talk about that a little bit more later,

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but there's a number of homes and
buildings and people equipment property that was

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damaged in this, So we're going
to talk about it from a landscape standpoint.

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There's a lot of things to discuss
right now. It's been a wet,

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very wet spring so far. Spring
to early summer. I used to

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call used to call maya summer month, And I tell you this, we're

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just about hitting it. With the
temperatures getting up in the nineties. When

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you start to see the transition from
spring into summer, we're transitioning our landscapes

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as well. For those of you
who have had you've been hanging on to

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some of your flowers that are a
little bit on the wimpy side, They're

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going to hang on and not go
all the way into summer. It's time

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definitely to switch those out for some
very heat tolerant flowers. Remember that when

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summer comes, we do have a
number of things that will bloom and look

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good in the heat. But we
also need to remember foliage. Foliage is

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very important when it comes to summertime
here in Texas. The number of bloom

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options, blooming options that we have
in the spring is huge. In the

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summer, we got a lot of
them, but not like spring, But

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in summer, foliage can really shine. You can take foliage that's light colored

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like Aztec grass, which is just
think of it as a white and green

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striped loiope. It sort of looks
like that, and you can put it

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in shady areas to draw the eye
around a bed, to line a bed,

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or along a pathway to light that
up. Other things in shade and

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include one called beef steak plants,
a deep, deep red colored foliage.

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It's real attractive. There are certainly
the variegated types of plants. We have

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a number of those for sun and
some for shade as well. Cannas,

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the yellow and green stripe cannas,
the Bengal tiger pretoria. There's a number

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of different types of cannas that have
that really attractive bold foliage. One of

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my favorite plants for a very bright, semi shady area is persian shield.

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It has a purplish colored foliage and
you can nip back, you can prune

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the tips out. It's in the
it grows like like Salvia's do that,

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and in that you can tip and
prune and shear and it just produces more

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branches and more foliage. But it
looks really good. It's a it's a

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very attractive plant. Another canon for
sun that still probably my favorite one when

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it comes to foliage is one called
phasion are. The common trade name now

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is Tropicana. Tropicana. I can't
even describe the colors. There's a coral

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in there. They're just it just
you need to go online to look at

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it, or go to a garden
center. Just check it out. Tropicana

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is a gorgeous foliage plane, even
if they're not blooms on top, and

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these cannon's bloom, but even if
they're not blooms on top, when you

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have foliage like that, it's awesome
in the sunny areas. Uh copper plant

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is a beautiful one. Joseph's Coat
is a beautiful one. And I could

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just go on and on go to
a local garden center and talk to and

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say, what do you got that's
foliage? It looks good because our summer

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foliage plants they are out standing.
When it's blazing hot, they're very happy

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to be out there and they just
really light up the landscape. So you

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don't have to have blooms to have
color. I'm going to go out now.

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We're going to start in Katie this
morning talking to Glenn. Hello,

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Glenn, Hi, good morning,
Thank you for taking my call. So

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I have a oak for you at
about thirteen years old, and the roots

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have started to come up out of
the ground and are buckling a little bit

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of the sidewalk. Okay, you
know, cut that out or what's the

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best way to handle that? Yeah, well, you know the general super

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general guideline. Every situation is unique. But as you take out a one

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route a year on a tree and
you can kind of work your way through

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it like that. There is probably
as many exceptions to that rule is not,

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but that is a possibility. I
would definitely in this last storm really

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reminded us of this. I would
definitely talk to us a very very knowledgeable

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tree person and have them come look, because depending on the setting and the

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kind of tree, the kind of
the size of the roots, and how

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far away from the sidewalk it is
and all of that, they're gonna have

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an opinion on that. And so
I would not do radio advice only on

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that one. Somebody needs to see
who knows what they're talking about. We

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talk about Martin spoon Moore an affordable
tree service. You know that Martin,

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He's he just has decades of experience
here in the Greater Houston area. He

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knows what he's doing. I would
highly recommend him. Okay, yeah,

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well, thank you very much for
the advice, and I will take that

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to heart. You have a fantastic
Yeah, before you go, let me

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let me give you a phone number
and a website just if you decide to

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make that call. It's a seven
one three six sixty three seven six nine

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twenty six sixty three in the webs
easy. It's aff Tree Service dot com.

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All right, got it? All
right, sir? Thank you a

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lot. Take care you bet.
Yeah, I tell you that we're gonna

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talk about trees a lot. I
guess today based on what just happened.

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But Martin is out now. He's
when I say now, I mean these

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months getting trees ready into the storm
season. And this one came kind of

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quick on us. You know,
we have hurricane season starts in June and

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goes through November. There's a lot
of reasons to have somebody look at your

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trees. And it's not just somebody
coming out there cutting limbs off, saying

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well that helps the wind blow three. It's somebody that knows what they're doing.

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They know what limbs to remove and
how if you got any dead trees

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from last summer, that's especially get
those things down. Sometimes branch angles are

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not not very strong and they need
to be removed. There is a dan

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of course, the property. Gosh, I just keep saying these things and

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you turn on the news and you're
seeing what I'm saying. But Martin stays

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busy. He does a good job. He charges one hundred and fifty bucks

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to come out and give you a
consultation. He'll take a look at what

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he sees is going on and he'll
advise you on the next steps. And

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if you choose to have him do
some work that one fifty it just goes

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right into the price of the work
so you don't lose that one fifty at

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all. I would definitely have somebody
knowledgeable come out because I'm tell you right

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now, there's gonna be a lot
of people running around. I call them

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the two jerks on a chainsaw tree
service. They have a chainsaw and they

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have a pickup, and therefore they're
an expert knocking on doors, putting business

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cards out. You can do a
lot of damage to a tree, a

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lot when you don't know what you're
doing. In fact, it's permanent.

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I've seen pruning jobs where it's like
that tree will never be the same,

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it will never recover and be a
good, strong tree. So I know

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I'm on a soapbox right now,
but that is important, and so please

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these are extremely valuable things in your
lands if they had a lot of value

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to your home, plus the summer
shade, don't mess around with those.

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Get a job as something knows what
they're doing. We're all gotting out to

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Katie and talk to Ralph. Hello, Ralph, Hey, skip, good

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morning. We have a hey.
I put down early part of this week

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the second fertilization the super turf,
and since we had all this successive rain,

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did I just waste that or do
you think it's okay? Just unclear

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you said, do you use super
turf? Yes, I went through.

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Yeah, you should go again.
You should be fine unless you just had

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water that literally was sheeting over the
surface of the lawn picking up granules and

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taking them off in the flood.
If it was that, well, then

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you're gonna put some more fertilizer down. But as far as the fertilizer dissolving

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and releasing the nutrient and them being
washed away, don't worry about that.

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That's why we do superterverse very slow
release. You're gonna lose some, but

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there's still gonna be some there to
carry you on. And as far as

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now coming in to do the second
pre emergent and post emergent, yeah,

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should we hold off a few more
days? Yeah, let it let it

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dry out just a little bit.
Let's make sure we at least have a

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week before we're going to rain again, it looks like, and then you

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can put that down, because you're
gonna want to put a half inch of

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water on it to water it in, and in order to do that,

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we don't want to put a half
inch of water on the ground right now.

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It's just already too wet. All
right, can you put the Hey,

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Rob, I'm gonna get you to
hold if you got some follow up

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here, I have got to run. I'm way past the break. All

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right, We'll be right back seven
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That is your wake up call this
morning. Media. Come on, let's

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go. Let's talk about gardening our
phone number seven one three two one two

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fifty eight seventy four. And we're
going to go back to Ralph here.

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Okay, Ralph, let's uh,
let's go back to where we were on

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the on the discussion of the fertilizer
or I think that's what you're right.

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No, the you address the fertilizer, and I'm good with that. I

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had sent your pictures last week,
and you have suggested putting down the post

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in the preum post herbicide, and
what I wanted to ask you, when

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would you recommend, with all this
ring to come in and do that on

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the dollar weed and whatnot? The
post on the dollar weed as soon as

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long as we know it's not going
to rain in the next six hours or

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so, I would you could go
ahead and do it? It would be

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better to have it a couple of
days where we had clearing because you wanted

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to be able to soak into the
tissues and do the work it's going to

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do. That's a post emergent herviside
as far as the pre emergency again,

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you just got it waterman with about
half inch a third of an inch half

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inch of water just to get them
into the surface like the barricade by nitrophus

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and so I just our ground is
already soggy, so you can just hold

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off a little bit. And since
it's the second application anyway of the year.

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Got it. Thank you, Skip
a good one. Thank you.

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Appreciate appreciate that call. Yeah,
the nitrophile superturf that Ralph was asking about,

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that is a slow release. Half
of the nitrogen is available in a

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very slow release form. It's the
silver bag. So it makes it easy.

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You just walk in look for the
silver bag nineteen four ten or the

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numbers on the bag. By gradually
releasing, it's going to give the lawn

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a long term green and it's also
going to moderate the growth rate. Rather

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than dumping all the nutrient in at
once to get that nitrogen and push fast,

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fast growth. It's going to moderate
it out, which is what you

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want. So walk in go to
a place like Plants for All Seasons.

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For example, they've got super Turf, the Silver Bag nineteen four ten.

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Plants for All Seasons. For those
of you who haven't been there, by

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the way, it's on two forty
nine, which is tom Ball Parkway.

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A lot of you know it already, but if you haven't, you need

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to go check it out. It's
a cool place. And my favorite thing,

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Oh gosh, I can I say
one thing I would say in the

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top five favorite things of plant about
Plants for All Seasons is the knowledge of

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the staff. You know, the
Flowery family is there. It's been a

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family operation since nineteen seventy three,
and boy do they know the plants.

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But they know this area and they
garden in this area, they have landscapes

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in this area. They're extremely knowledgeable. I've gone in and talked to them

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a number of times about technical things
and they are always at top speed.

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And so you're gonna get great plants, but you're also going to get great

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advice, which is very important,
and a lot of places cannot give you

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great advice, but that's important.
Two eight, one, three, seven,

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six sixteen forty six or Plants for
All Seasons dot com. Let's go

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now to Katie and talk to Malcolm. Hey, Malcolm, good morning,

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Good morning. How are you appreciate
your show? Yeah, I'm doing good.

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I'm doing good. What can we
do today? Yeah? You were

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just talking about the uh you know, two guys in a pickup truck and

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trim and oak tree. Yeah,
and two jerks on a chainsaw tree service.

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Yeah yeah, yeah, uh no, I was just you know,

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in the neighborhood, if you will, everybody you know has these guys come

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out and turns the oak trees.
Yeh. And to me, they all

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look like a a bouquet of roses. Okay where they start. They start

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out narrow and you know, it
just kind of goes up. Yes,

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and you don't and you don't see
anybody let their trees, uh and grow

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to where you know, I think, you know, I look at an

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oak tree and I want to see
something that looks gnarly and nothing is symmetric.

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Yeah, and it looks natural.
Yeah. And I just want to

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get your opinion on you know,
out of those two is trimming your trees

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to where they only go straight up? That is that better for the tree

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or should you let them do more
natural? Now, each tree has a

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different growth habits. All use pine
as an example. Obviously that's a straight

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up tree, but most trees are. When they're printed like you're describing,

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it's not a good idea. We
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is to strip out all the interior
of the of the growth, and that

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tree should have growth all through the
tree, not just long branches with a

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poof of leaves at the end.
They call that lion tailing. For obvious

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reasons. It's not a good idea. It's not good for the people.

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Do it in part for landscape lighting, so you can hang lights up in

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there and have them shine down without
hitting leaves. But well that's not a

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good idea. No good, good
tree tremor would would do that kind of

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thing except for that one purpose,
which you're having to trade off between what's

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what's best for the tree and what's
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I guess I don't know, Okay, okay, But the short answer is

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the the more you can leave the
tree looking natural is probably better. The

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short answer is friends don't let friends
l in tail trees. Remember remember that

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commercial. All right, one other
question for you. I'm trying to grow

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some burroke. You know, I've
germinated the acorns and there's they're sickly looking,

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okay, And I did some checking
in it. I think it may

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be burroke blight. Have you ever
heard of that? Is it? Never

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heard of that? Now? What
what are you seeing? Tell me what

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you're saying? Oh, it's you
know, the leaves are look rusty and

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you know it just you know,
kind of yellow oranges and brown around the

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edges. That that sounds like there
is a rust type disease that will attack

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some some oaks. There's there's also
some other fungal disease. Sounds like one

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of one of those kind of things. But again you'd have to send me

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a picture of the top of the
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me to assess it. But I
can tell you this, even if it's

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on there, you're not going to
try to spray a giant post oak or

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any oak really for that kind of
thing. It just it's just not practical,

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okay, Okay, okay, all
right, all right, thanks sir.

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Appreciate it, you bet, I
appreciate, appreciate your call a lot,

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Thanks a lot for that. Uh. You know, the folks at

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Wilbirds Unlimited are experts when it comes
to birds. And when I say experts,

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I mean they're they are extremely knowledgeable. But they also have the type

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of products that work best. For
example, I've talked last week about the

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high perch hummingbird feeder that is a
unique feeder, and I have probably four

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hummingbird feeders at home. This is
the best one. It just is.

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I can just tell you that it
has a number of features that just make

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it better for bringing in the hummingbirds
and making your work a little bit easier.

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Also, they have things like quality
feeds. They have the no waste

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types of feeds, meaning your birds
aren't going to kick those little red bebes

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out on the ground because birds don't
like them. Most of our birds we're

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trying to bring in don't like those, and then they end up sprouting on

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the ground and it's a mass.
They even have a hold of sunflower and

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other types of hulled seed in the
mix if you want, so that means

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that you absolutely have no debris on
the ground whatsoever, and that's kind of

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cool. They have high quality feed
for each kind of bird you would want.

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They have high quality bird houses and
bird feeders and on and on.

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When you go into a wild Birds, check it out, go check one

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of them. We have six of
them here, six Wildbirds unlimited here in

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the Houston area. So all you
have to do is go to WBU dot

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com forward slash Houston and Wildbirds is
always a good place for gifts. I

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mean, if you're looking for a
gift for somebody, maybe a housewarming,

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you know, we were doing that
for Mother's Day. That's a great time

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to give a gift, even just
for no reason at all, check in

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at a Wildbird's and let them show
you the kinds of things they have.

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Maybe someone is a bird lover,
They've got some really cool stuff for that.

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Maybe someone isn't, and they would
just like a beautiful feeder or house

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or something on the property. Wildbirds
can get you fixed up. Let's see

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here I was talking, Let's see
when when was it? Earlier this week?

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I was visiting with someone about a
problem they were having on their on

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their property. It was a it
was some plants that were just kind of

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looking yellow. They just weren't growing
well. They were struggling and they were

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down in a clay heavy clay soil, which you have a lot of around

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here, and a clay soil without
additional organic matter, it absolutely tightens up

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and it would make a very good
fish pond, which is what you know.

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They even put clay in farm ponds
in the bottom to seal the bottom

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so it holds water better. A
bent and night clay. Well, what

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do you do when you're trying to
grow a garden in that, Well,

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what you do is you put a
quality soil mix in it. You go

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to a place like Heirloom Soils,
And I say, go to their heirloom

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soil places all over the Houston area. If you're hearing my voice, there's

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an Airloom Soil provider somewhere near you. They have things like the fruit berry

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and citrus mix. They have the
veggie and herb mix, which, by

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the way, I was just using
this past week. My wife and I

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were putting together a Vego garden bed
and filling it up and stuff, and

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we were using that veggie and her
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have works potting soil, but they
also have something called expanded shale. Expanded

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shale think of it as like the
old gray kitty litter. That's as close

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as I can get on a visual
for you, But imagine it fired to

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a super high temperature so that it
swells up and gets poorous, like a

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lava rock under a microscope that's expanded
shale. You put that in a clay,

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It holds the clay open and internal
drainage is improved. And when you

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get oxygen down into the root system, you have more of the soil volume

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for the plant to take advantage of
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Com, We'll be right back.
Welcome back to the Guardline. Good to

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have you with us today. What
do you want to talk about? I

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bet the weather has something to do
with it, and we certainly would be

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doing that. You know, the
with the rain we've had, mosquitos are

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going crazy. I was outside this
week trying to work building those beds and

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things, and I'm telling you,
they're eating us up, absolutely eating us

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up. They like all this rain. All it takes is like a thumbleful

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of water sitting there for a couple
of weeks, and you've got new mosquitos

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that have hatched out and are going
I mean, their life cycle is fast

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and it doesn't take much so a
saggy gutter. The water in your bird

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bath needs to be blasted out about
once a week. The water under the

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catch basins, under your pots and
on the patio that dump that out because

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if it sits there for a while, mosquitos are going to breed in it,

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reproduce, and oh boy, they
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Well, I think my suggestion right
now, if anyone is in charge

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of this, maybe we need to
load crop dusters with mosquito dunks and fly

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over Houston drop their granules of the
dunks all over town and landing in gutters

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and everything else. That might be
a little bit of an interesting operation.

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I think people may have an opinion
about it, but I'll tell you what.

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What we have right now is a
mess. Mosquito dunks are great.

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I mean, it's almost like the
perfect product. Because people that are concerned

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about chemicals, yes, and don't
worry about that. You don't have to

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worry about it's a disease of mosquitos. Birds can drink out of the water,

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the family cat and dog can drink
out of the water. It will

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not hurt them. It won't hurt
anything but a larva of the mosquito.

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That's what it's designed for. It's
actually you hear me talk about BT that's

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a caterpillar control. It's a type
of bacillusthern Gensis that's for mosquitoes. Isn't

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that cool? Yeah, a microbe, same genus and species. A microbe

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that's a different strain, but this
one goes after mosquito larva. Mosquito dunks

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are easy, small bage doughnut.
Toss them in the pond. One hundred

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square one hundred square feet of water
for each dunk lasts a whole month.

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And you just can't get a better, more effective, less toxic way of

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dealing with mosquitos than that. So
number one, empty those water standing areas

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out. Number two, get you
some mosquito to just have them on hand

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because you're gonna need them. We
always have issues where we're having to deal

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with things like that. If you
want to use small amounts of it,

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you can crack up a dunk,
you know, just hit it with a

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hammer, break it up, throw
a little bit up into a small water

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area where you don't need a whole
dunk. It's Okay, you can do

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it that way as well. Available
at all our garden centers, our independent

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nurseries that is, our feed stores, ace hardware stores you know, Southwest

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meet and fertilizer. Everybody carries these
things. Mosquito dunks easy to find.

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Please, if all the neighbors in
a whole neighborhood would consciously deal with things

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like this, it would affect,
it would affect significantly the quality of life

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outdoors in that neighborhood. You don't
want mosquitos flying from your house over to

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your neighbors. Certainly you don't want
them going vice versa. Having this kind

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of a weather event reminds us of
the importance of having a generator. There

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are a bazillion people without power.
It's this kind of event has been devastating.

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And now is that reminder as if
we needed one, that you need

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to standby home generator. And the
folks at Quality Home Products of Texas have

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that they carry the generator Generaic generator. Generak is a very effective, very

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popular brand. But I want to
tell you something. If you're going to

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buy a Generaic generator, you need
to get it from Quality Home. And

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here's why. Number One, any
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end of this month get five hundred
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eighteen months with approoved credit. And
of course the terms and conditions apply to

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this. But when you talk about
the kind of loss of power that we've

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had, wouldn't it be nice to
have a general automatically come on and take

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care of it. The reason I
say Quality Home is they take care of

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their customers from the very beginning and
the planning and helping you get the generator

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in with your HOA or any regulations
on doing this, Pour in the pad,

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getting the pad there for your generator
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that ever a timely thing. We
still have a lot of storm season to

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go. We're going to head out
to Cold Springs now and talk to Charles.

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Hello, Charles, Hello, Skip, good morning morning. The reason

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for my call is I sent a
soul samp off to Texas A and M.

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Wanted to get your recommendation of fertilizer
or maybe one, two or three?

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All right? Both the result results
were go ahead, go go ahead

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and tell me what the results in
the big three were. Nitrogen, phosphorus,

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nitrate was one, phosphorus was eighteen, potassium seventy six. But how

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did they rate those? They rate
them based on your soul type and things.

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Did they say high, medium,
low? Or yeah they were?

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Most of them were in the medium
range. The only one that was off

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the chart was a sodium so extremely
high. Okay, okay, you must

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have high sodium water, do you
there? Uh? Maybe is it hard

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to get the soap off your hands
when you wash your hands? No?

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No, not really. I tell
you what you know, Charles, I

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can't wait. I was gonna say
I can shoot from the hip on an

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answer, but I could give you
the best answer. If you would send

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me a copy of that to my
email, I will answer you today with

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a better answer that I can just
give you. Trying to imagine what you're

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reading off the sheet, and I'll
be happy to do that. Well I

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can. But the one one point
four on the nitrate was recommended, a

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one point nine on the phosphorus,
and potassium was a two point two.

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Well you need a little bit that
was recommended. That's how many pounds,

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right? Yeah? Okay? And
what are you growing a Zelia's Okay.

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I would not do the potassium that
high. I would take it down probably

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about a half of that or less. But everything else sounds good. Go

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with an acidic fertilizer. And Microlife, for example, is an organic brand.

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They make a pink bag for acid
loving plants and it's going to have

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a six two four ratio and I
like that. Based on your soil test

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and based on the crop that you're
growing, meaning azalias, I think that

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would be a better mix for you
for that plant. All right, all

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right, Well that's really what I
was looking That's really what I was looking

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for. I didn't want to over
do something. Phosphorus builds up. It

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also ties up nitrogen and acid.
Living nitrogen iron and acid living plants are

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already prone toward iron chlorosis as a
pH goes up and phosphorus goes up.

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So I would that's what what is
ironsis. It's when the newest growth on

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your azaleas looks yellow and the old
leaves look decently green. And that all

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right, there you go, So
we're clairvoyan here. You can also get

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a kelated iron product and put that
down if you've got it right now.

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Don't wait on the fertilizer to you
know, turn all that around over time.

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Go ahead and do a kelated iron, but then do the fertilizer.

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I just mentioned Charles, what cand
iron? Just wherever you buy your gardening

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supplies up there in your area cold
Spring, I'm trying to think where Hold

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on just a second half. What's
what's the next close Livingstone and new Whereverly?

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Yeah, New Avery has a feed
store. I know there's Bobo's Nursery.

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Uh, probably at further north than
you. Uh, you're just going

408
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to have to go where you go
and ask for kelated iron. I'm shooting

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by it online, but it there
is iron that's immediately available. And then

410
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there's iron that is kelated that doesn't
tie up as fast. You probably have

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enough iron in your soil, but
it's not available, and that's why we

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recommendklated iron. Okay, all right, Well just to let you know,

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I've just over the past sixteen days
dumped out thirty seven inches run. Oh

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my gosh, holy mackerel. That's
amazing. Hey, Charles, thank you

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for the call. Appreciate very much
having you on. The Folks at Landscaper's

416
00:31:25.640 --> 00:31:33.400
Pride they have a mix of different
ingredient products, like twenty seven different products

417
00:31:33.400 --> 00:31:36.240
that they have. For example,
they have the Gardener's Magic Soil. It's

418
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a pine based blend. It's got
humus, it's got screened composted pine bark,

419
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it's got composted rice holes, and
even a chicken pellet fertilizer that extends

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the nutrient release up to three months. They've got pine bark malts. The

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most popular one, very beautiful,
decomposes very slowly. It's just an attractive

422
00:31:53.759 --> 00:31:59.440
multch hardwood mults, and I mean
really hard wood shredded hardwood maults, not

423
00:32:00.079 --> 00:32:02.880
ground up palettes. They've got the
quality hardwood molts. They've got black velvet,

424
00:32:04.359 --> 00:32:09.480
not dyed naturally black molds just beautiful
and enriches the soil as it ages.

425
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It helps insulate the roots when we
get into these really high summer temperatures,

426
00:32:14.240 --> 00:32:19.039
and it's just attractive all from Landscapers
Pride. Go to Landscaperspride dot com

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find out where the local suppliers are
for it in your area, and there's

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going to be some because it is
very widely available. The other day I

429
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was out at RCW nurses a couple
a couple of weeks ago, I guess,

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and just looking at the stock they
have of all kinds of plants,

431
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and they are they always say,
stocked up. And in fact, I

432
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call them get It, Got It
Nursery because if they don't have something,

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they'll try their best to get it
for you, and they almost always can.

434
00:32:49.599 --> 00:32:51.759
If it's available, if there's a
way to get it, they'll they'll

435
00:32:51.799 --> 00:32:54.640
get it for you. They carry
the Nitrofizz, Microlife, turf Star,

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00:32:54.799 --> 00:32:59.160
Landscapers Pride, all these products you
hear me talking about, they've got them

437
00:32:59.160 --> 00:33:01.880
there at rca W Nursery. Uh, they still have a good stock of

438
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roses. I mean that is kind
of almost a specialty for them. If

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you go by there. It's a
good time still to plant roses. You

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can you can container grown roses will
go in the ground and do just fine.

441
00:33:13.759 --> 00:33:16.079
Give them a little TLC for a
little bit get them going. But

442
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r CW Nurseries is at the corner
of Tambo Parkway to forty nine and belt

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Way eight. It's truly easy to
get down to h R Cwnurseries dot com.

444
00:33:27.680 --> 00:33:29.880
And when you go by there,
take a look at their hibiscus.

445
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They have an outstanding selection. And
when summer comes and it's blazing hot,

446
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if you give it a little bit
of water, a hibiscus just laughs at

447
00:33:37.839 --> 00:33:44.119
the summer and gives you blazing beauty, beautiful color on into the summer season.

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We're going to take a little break
here seven one, three, two,

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two, fifty eight, seventy four. You wants to give me a

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well, come back to the guarden
line. Good to have you with us

451
00:33:59.279 --> 00:34:06.279
today. I was looking at a
bag of sweet green. I got a

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bag of sweet green at the house
I'm about to put out here on my

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00:34:08.400 --> 00:34:14.679
lawn, and it just had to
laugh. The stuff smells good, it

454
00:34:14.840 --> 00:34:17.440
just does. And you know,
normally we don't think of perfume and fertilizer

455
00:34:17.480 --> 00:34:22.519
in the same sentence. Although I
like the natural, earthy smells of a

456
00:34:22.559 --> 00:34:25.159
lot of these products. But sweet
Green is just a it's sweet. It's

457
00:34:25.159 --> 00:34:30.159
because it's made from molasses. It's
a it's a product that microbes working with

458
00:34:30.320 --> 00:34:36.559
molasses creates this wonderful organic It's an
eleven percent nitrogen fertilizer. By the way,

459
00:34:36.559 --> 00:34:39.599
that's about as hi as you're going
to get with an organic nitrogen source,

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00:34:40.039 --> 00:34:45.719
and it dissolves away and the bacteria
and the soil just go nuts.

461
00:34:45.000 --> 00:34:49.840
That's why organic gardeners a lot of
times we use molasses in their gardening,

462
00:34:50.159 --> 00:34:53.199
because that sugar is a stimulate,
it's an energy, it's carbon, and

463
00:34:53.239 --> 00:34:57.800
the microbes need that, and so
the sweet Green works just that way,

464
00:34:57.880 --> 00:35:00.039
and it is very effective. And
you're going to find sweet Green at a

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lot of places. You know.
Nitroposs products are carried by Hiding and Feed

466
00:35:04.239 --> 00:35:07.760
up on Stubner Airline. They're carried
by plantation ace hardware out there in the

467
00:35:07.840 --> 00:35:12.800
Richmond Rosenberg area, as well as
Bearings hardware. Both the Bissonette and the

468
00:35:12.800 --> 00:35:17.880
Westheimer locations all carry that nitrofoss sweet
green. A lot of ACE hardware is

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00:35:17.920 --> 00:35:22.440
do too. By the way,
I was telling you last week that I

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00:35:22.559 --> 00:35:25.920
was going to be at the Langham
Creek ACE Hardware today, Well that event

471
00:35:27.079 --> 00:35:29.360
has been canceled. I just want
to let you know that we're going to

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try to reschedule it for another time. But for now, they have their

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hands full. I mean, the
weather has all the devastation of the weather

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00:35:37.159 --> 00:35:42.400
has them scampered to try to help
folks out and get the things they need.

475
00:35:42.440 --> 00:35:46.280
They've got shipments of generators, They've
got batteries, they've got tarps,

476
00:35:46.280 --> 00:35:51.320
they've got mosquito repellents, all the
kinds of things that you would be thinking

477
00:35:51.360 --> 00:35:54.159
about right now where there might have
been water damage where a tree went through

478
00:35:54.159 --> 00:35:58.199
a roof. You know, you
need a dehumidifier, you need fans,

479
00:35:58.239 --> 00:36:02.079
you need all bleach and they've got
that all and they are just they're stocked

480
00:36:02.119 --> 00:36:07.000
up, and they're basically they're scampering
to try to get enough product in and

481
00:36:07.039 --> 00:36:08.400
help folks, and they're doing a
heck of a good job at that.

482
00:36:08.800 --> 00:36:14.480
By the way, they are adding
additional stock all the time to help you

483
00:36:14.519 --> 00:36:16.039
with your needs. And so you
know, when you go to an ACE

484
00:36:16.079 --> 00:36:21.320
Hardware and we got a bunch of
them forty plus over the Greater Houston area.

485
00:36:21.360 --> 00:36:23.840
Here you're going to find whatever you
need. That's why they say ACE

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00:36:23.960 --> 00:36:28.960
is the place, and you just
fill in the blank. After that Acehardware

487
00:36:29.000 --> 00:36:34.239
dot Com. Go to the store
locator, find the stores plural near you,

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00:36:34.360 --> 00:36:37.719
because there will be. They're all
over the Greater Houston area. And

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00:36:37.800 --> 00:36:39.559
for those of you who are dealing
with this mess, number one, our

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00:36:39.599 --> 00:36:43.360
hearts go out to you. Number
two. You know, when you go

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00:36:43.480 --> 00:36:46.000
there, you're going to find the
supplies you need to try to recover and

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00:36:46.039 --> 00:36:52.039
come back. And that is quite
a challenge. I know we've been there.

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00:36:52.280 --> 00:36:55.239
I remember when the floods came through
a good while back, when we

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had the big floods, the major
floods that we had. That was who

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00:37:01.280 --> 00:37:06.440
that was a mess. Well,
hopefully this bad weather is done for now

496
00:37:06.480 --> 00:37:09.960
and we can move on with things. If you are looking to plant a

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00:37:09.960 --> 00:37:15.079
tree, and based on the number
of trees down over the area, suspect

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00:37:15.159 --> 00:37:20.079
some people will be soon. The
folks at Verdant Tree Farm have excellent trees.

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00:37:20.079 --> 00:37:23.199
They've got the cultivars, the varieties, the species in other words,

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that do well here. And if
you go to the website Verdant Treefarm dot

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00:37:29.000 --> 00:37:32.760
com. Verdant Treefarm dot com.
You will find they have a list of

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00:37:32.800 --> 00:37:36.840
the trees with a lot of information
on each tree. By the way,

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00:37:36.920 --> 00:37:38.719
the same is true with the palm
trees. They've got a list of those

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00:37:38.800 --> 00:37:43.400
with a description. Do you need
one that's very hearty, they have them.

505
00:37:43.440 --> 00:37:47.960
They have very hearty palm trees the
right pump really for any budget.

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00:37:49.239 --> 00:37:52.360
Just go to Verdant Treefarm dot com. The locations in West Houston on Barker,

507
00:37:52.400 --> 00:37:58.159
Cyprus, there's one in Central North
Central where Yale and I ten come

508
00:37:58.199 --> 00:38:02.119
together, and down in AirLand on
Broadway Street there's also a Burdant tree Farm

509
00:38:02.159 --> 00:38:06.639
down there. Makes it easy to
get one and quality trees. They know

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00:38:06.679 --> 00:38:08.719
how to plan them and they can
get you back in business. I mean,

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00:38:08.760 --> 00:38:12.519
if you want to get a quick
bounce back of a tree, you

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00:38:12.639 --> 00:38:15.800
want something broomstick's I sitting out there. They go all the way up to

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00:38:15.800 --> 00:38:19.639
seven hundred gallons, I believe,
and that is a They almost ought to

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00:38:19.679 --> 00:38:22.679
give you a hammock with that tree, because it's about ready for a hammock

515
00:38:22.719 --> 00:38:27.039
at that size. You're listening to
the guardline, I'm your host skip Richter

516
00:38:27.159 --> 00:38:30.719
and our phone number if you would
like to give us a call seven one

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00:38:30.840 --> 00:38:36.559
three two one two fifty eight seventy
four seven one three two one two five

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00:38:36.800 --> 00:38:43.199
eight seven four. I was talking
to Ian at Nature's Way Resources. Just

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00:38:43.760 --> 00:38:46.760
yes, let's see, Yes,
it was yesterday. We're talking trying to

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00:38:46.840 --> 00:38:50.119
arrange a time for me to go
out there. I always like to visit

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00:38:50.719 --> 00:38:53.079
our sponsors, check out what's going
on, find out what products they have,

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00:38:53.239 --> 00:38:58.119
and all that kind of thing.
And that he made a point that

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I want to remind you. They
changed their summer hours Now. Summer hours

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00:39:00.400 --> 00:39:06.599
are from from eight am to five
pm Monday through Friday. They're closed on

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00:39:06.679 --> 00:39:10.280
Sunday, but on Saturday they're open
from eight am to two pm, eight

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00:39:10.280 --> 00:39:14.360
to two, eight to five during
the week, eight to two on Saturday.

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00:39:14.760 --> 00:39:16.440
And you know when you go to
Nature's Way Resources, you're going to

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00:39:16.480 --> 00:39:23.000
get quality products, absolute quality products. They were the creator of rose soil,

529
00:39:23.280 --> 00:39:28.840
they were the creator of the leaf
mold compost that we keep saying you

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00:39:28.880 --> 00:39:31.400
need to top dress your lawns with. It works very well for that.

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Every Friday is Fungal Friday at Nature's
Way Resources. What does that mean?

532
00:39:36.800 --> 00:39:42.440
Ten percent off the bagged fungal based
products and twenty percent off the bulk fungal

533
00:39:42.679 --> 00:39:45.920
based products. They're stocked up.
They're ready for you to come by and

534
00:39:45.960 --> 00:39:47.920
pick it up. They'll deliver bulk. You can go there and get it

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00:39:49.000 --> 00:39:52.039
bulk. You can buy bags at
garden centers. You can buy bags right

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00:39:52.079 --> 00:39:55.960
there on site up at Nature's Way
which is on I forty five north on

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00:39:57.000 --> 00:40:00.719
the way to Conro right where fourteen
eighty eight comes in. Turn right,

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00:40:00.800 --> 00:40:06.320
go across the tracks and there you
are at Nature's Way Resources. I find

539
00:40:06.559 --> 00:40:08.719
that you know when you've got somebody
that knows what they're doing. And John

540
00:40:08.719 --> 00:40:14.480
Ferguson was doing this for years,
one of the leaders in getting out there

541
00:40:14.519 --> 00:40:19.199
and doing this kind of thing.
You get quality products and they take their

542
00:40:19.239 --> 00:40:22.559
time and they do it right,
and that is important. You want a

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00:40:22.679 --> 00:40:28.639
quality compost mix that's done right.
I see stuff that gets rushed out the

544
00:40:28.679 --> 00:40:32.840
door and their issues with those kind
of products, but not when you deal

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00:40:32.840 --> 00:40:37.400
with Nature's Way Resources. Simple as
that. Yeah, just a reminder again,

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00:40:38.239 --> 00:40:44.159
I will not be at Langham Creek
Ace today. Unfortunately. They right

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00:40:44.199 --> 00:40:47.719
now the focus is on the recovery
and they are hop skipping and jumping to

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00:40:47.800 --> 00:40:52.280
try to keep up with that.
We'll try to do that some other time.

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00:40:52.639 --> 00:40:55.119
For those of you who have not
been online and seeing my schedules,

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00:40:55.159 --> 00:40:59.239
I would encourage you to check them
out. I've got a website. We'd

551
00:40:59.320 --> 00:41:05.119
slowly get stuff up there. It
includes timely things, little publications you might

552
00:41:05.159 --> 00:41:07.599
be interested in, or I hope
you will. Uh. It includes my

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00:41:07.679 --> 00:41:12.639
lawn care schedule, which is basically
the things you do to grow on low

554
00:41:12.719 --> 00:41:17.000
water and fertilized. It includes my
lawn pests, disease and we'd management schedule,

555
00:41:17.039 --> 00:41:22.000
which is basically the things that can
go wrong with the lawn and what

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00:41:22.039 --> 00:41:24.159
to do about them. It takes
you January through December. It gives you

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00:41:24.199 --> 00:41:30.119
the organic options. It gives you
synthetic options as well. Very informative,

558
00:41:30.159 --> 00:41:31.639
very hopeful. You need to print
them out and keep them on the hands

559
00:41:31.679 --> 00:41:36.079
on them. We'll be right back
seven one three, two, one two,

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00:41:36.559 --> 00:41:37.920
fifty eight seventy four. If you've
got to get on the board.

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00:41:42.800 --> 00:41:55.760
Welcome to KTRH guarden Line with scamp
Richter's so crazy, just watch him as

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00:41:55.880 --> 00:42:17.159
the world many things to see,
not a sign. Welcome back to garden

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Line. Great to have you with
us today, got all kinds of topics

564
00:42:22.559 --> 00:42:27.679
to talk about. You have a
question you would like some assistance with,

565
00:42:27.960 --> 00:42:30.519
feel free to give me a call. Seven one three two one two five

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00:42:30.679 --> 00:42:37.400
eight seven four seven one three two
one two fifty eight seventy four. This

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00:42:37.559 --> 00:42:43.519
past week, I just re well
took out a planter that was basically for

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00:42:43.639 --> 00:42:46.000
herbs. We were we were replacing
it with a different kind of planter and

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00:42:46.159 --> 00:42:50.599
turning it into more of a flower
planting and things. Uh, And I'm

570
00:42:50.679 --> 00:42:52.360
pulling some of the different herbs out
of there, the chives we had in

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00:42:52.480 --> 00:42:58.480
there, and it just reminds me
that herbs are probably one of the more

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00:42:58.599 --> 00:43:01.039
underutilized plants in our life. Escape
you know, if you get if you

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00:43:01.159 --> 00:43:07.559
want something that is a drought hardy
shrub, then rosemary is a good option

574
00:43:07.760 --> 00:43:12.880
for that. There's trailing types and
upright types, trand types of bloom actually

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00:43:12.960 --> 00:43:17.599
pretty well, things like chives that
make a nice little clumping border plant.

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00:43:19.159 --> 00:43:22.840
There's another excellent use of herbs.
I like the Mexican met marigold. That

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00:43:23.119 --> 00:43:25.719
is the one that blooms in late
summer and fall, so you have the

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00:43:25.800 --> 00:43:30.119
blooms and beauty. By the way, another one is pineapple sage. It's

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00:43:30.119 --> 00:43:34.599
a salvia with red tubular blooms that
hummingbirds like, and it blooms late in

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00:43:34.639 --> 00:43:37.559
the season too. I mean,
we can just go on and on and

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00:43:37.679 --> 00:43:43.599
on on herbs. And the folks
that enchanted forest have a beautiful new stock.

582
00:43:43.719 --> 00:43:47.679
I mean everything from one gallon and
three gallons at herbs. They it's

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00:43:47.880 --> 00:43:52.280
just it's just pretty. They're beautiful
plants. A lot of them bloom,

584
00:43:52.400 --> 00:43:57.639
a lot of them attract beneficials.
Some of them attract the food source for

585
00:43:57.800 --> 00:44:01.159
the butterfly larva, certain kinds of
butterfly larva, for example. Attractive herbs

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00:44:01.440 --> 00:44:05.880
not an enchantede. You're gonna find
everything. You're going to find flowers.

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00:44:05.920 --> 00:44:07.480
I mean, do you want something
that can take the heat. How about

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00:44:07.920 --> 00:44:12.519
Indian blanket Firewell, they even have
a yellow type out there that's kind of

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00:44:12.599 --> 00:44:19.360
cool, beautiful bling glass type mushrooms
and some little curved glass. It reminds

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00:44:19.400 --> 00:44:23.599
me of some of the Chiluli art
exhibit. I saw it one time out

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00:44:23.679 --> 00:44:29.800
of the Atlanta Botanical Garden. They
have another herb that I don't talk about

592
00:44:29.880 --> 00:44:32.199
much. It's called snake herb,
and it is it's not an edible herb,

593
00:44:32.559 --> 00:44:37.199
but it's one that grows along the
ground and it has beautiful little kind

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00:44:37.239 --> 00:44:43.920
of violet colored flowers. They're real
attractive. It gets about probably four inches

595
00:44:44.000 --> 00:44:45.920
to a foot and a half tall, somewhere in that range. It gets

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00:44:45.920 --> 00:44:50.719
about three feet wide, and it's
extremely drought tolerant. It can take it.

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00:44:50.960 --> 00:44:53.480
Just give it good drainage, give
it, you know, at least

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00:44:53.559 --> 00:44:58.159
parts son, even better, full
sun, and it'll do real well.

599
00:44:58.280 --> 00:45:00.559
All that's in a channet for us. More and more and more and more.

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00:45:00.599 --> 00:45:04.800
Of course, they have plenty of
things in stock. And if you're

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00:45:04.840 --> 00:45:08.519
looking to do bougainvillias, oh my
gosh, their display is outstanding. If

602
00:45:08.559 --> 00:45:13.280
you're looking to do a butterfly garden, they can get you fixed up with

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00:45:13.400 --> 00:45:15.880
the things that attract the adults,
that is, the flowers that attract the

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00:45:15.920 --> 00:45:22.039
adults, as well as the plants
that feed the larva, because each of

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00:45:22.079 --> 00:45:25.719
those beautiful butterflies has a larva that
feeds on some plant that you can grow

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00:45:25.760 --> 00:45:30.239
in your garden, and therefore you
just attract them in. Now where is

607
00:45:30.360 --> 00:45:34.159
enchanted forest, Well, it's in
Richmond, Texas. It's actually on FM

608
00:45:34.280 --> 00:45:37.440
twenty seven fifty nine. If you're
heading up towards sugar Land direction. It's

609
00:45:37.480 --> 00:45:42.400
off to the right FM twenty seven
fifty nine. Always something going on there

610
00:45:42.559 --> 00:45:49.079
on Saturdays in the springtime, and
always beautiful things that you absolutely will fall

611
00:45:49.119 --> 00:45:51.199
in love with. I love it
every time I go out there. It's

612
00:45:51.239 --> 00:45:54.679
just a fun place to visit.
Well, let's see here talking about all

613
00:45:54.760 --> 00:45:58.159
kinds of herbs and plants and things. I'm going to give you our phone

614
00:45:58.199 --> 00:46:00.039
number if you'd like to give us
a call seven one one three two one

615
00:46:00.159 --> 00:46:06.719
two five eight seven four seven one
three two one two fifty eight seventy four,

616
00:46:06.719 --> 00:46:07.800
and i'd be a good time to
call. If you're one of the

617
00:46:07.880 --> 00:46:12.440
first few to get right on,
I'll get a little opening in the boards

618
00:46:12.480 --> 00:46:16.960
here. I talked about nitrophos Superturf
earlier. Superturf is the silver bag,

619
00:46:17.079 --> 00:46:22.679
the nineteen four ten fertilizer. Someone's
asking is like, did my did my

620
00:46:23.000 --> 00:46:28.639
superturf wash away? Well? The
one of the things I like about slow

621
00:46:28.639 --> 00:46:34.239
release fertilizers is they don't just dissolve
away immediately and release all their nutrients.

622
00:46:34.400 --> 00:46:37.880
Now, they do give you some
feeding, you know, as you go

623
00:46:37.039 --> 00:46:42.760
through early on, but over time
half of the nitrogen, and Superturf is

624
00:46:42.800 --> 00:46:45.800
slow release. It's just going to
gradually feed your lawn over time. That

625
00:46:46.000 --> 00:46:51.360
slows the growth. That makes a
more balanced grass plant. Did you know

626
00:46:51.480 --> 00:46:55.519
that if you push a turf grass
with too much nitrogen at one point in

627
00:46:55.599 --> 00:47:00.199
time, you just nuke it with
nitrogen, Well, it's going to get

628
00:47:00.239 --> 00:47:01.440
a lot of top growth. You're
going to get to mo a lot too,

629
00:47:01.519 --> 00:47:05.480
by the way, but at the
expense of root growth. The root

630
00:47:05.559 --> 00:47:09.960
system is actually less when you do
too much nitrogen at one time. That's

631
00:47:10.000 --> 00:47:15.280
why a slow release source is important. Or if you use a fast release

632
00:47:15.320 --> 00:47:19.880
you should at least split that application
up into a couple of applications to kind

633
00:47:19.880 --> 00:47:22.719
of gradually spread it out a little
bit over a longer period of time.

634
00:47:23.280 --> 00:47:30.119
Nitropus Superturf excellent product. It's easy
to find. I mean pretty much everybody

635
00:47:30.239 --> 00:47:32.280
carries it. You're going to find
it a lot of different ACE hardware stores.

636
00:47:32.440 --> 00:47:36.360
You're going to find it at the
ACE down in Single Ranch, for

637
00:47:36.480 --> 00:47:39.360
example. You're going to find it
at the ACE Hardware store out in a

638
00:47:39.480 --> 00:47:45.079
Tasca Sita, or the Lake Hardware
down in Lake Jackson include Lake Hardware,

639
00:47:45.119 --> 00:47:50.239
Clute, They all carry the Nitropus
super turf. We're going to go to

640
00:47:50.239 --> 00:47:53.159
the phones now and talk to John
and Katie. Hello John, Hey,

641
00:47:53.239 --> 00:47:57.880
good morning, Skip, Good morning. I'm just curious. I'm looking to

642
00:47:58.000 --> 00:48:00.480
plant some peach trees that are good
in this area. Found one called the

643
00:48:00.519 --> 00:48:06.679
red barren that's like a mid season
peach. I'm looking for. Where can

644
00:48:06.760 --> 00:48:10.360
I find peaches or peach trees,
not the bear root ones. They're actually

645
00:48:10.400 --> 00:48:14.719
good for this area that don't require
too many chill hours. A number of

646
00:48:14.800 --> 00:48:17.239
our garden centers that you hear me
talk about here on garden Line will carry

647
00:48:17.320 --> 00:48:23.119
those. They so depending on where
you live. I know Arburgate carries fruit

648
00:48:23.159 --> 00:48:27.119
trees year round. For them,
it's a it's a year round thing,

649
00:48:28.039 --> 00:48:30.679
and so I would What I would
do, though, is if you're going

650
00:48:30.760 --> 00:48:34.119
to drive a distance, and you
know Houston's a big place, just call

651
00:48:34.239 --> 00:48:37.000
them first and make sure they have
what you're looking for. Red barren is

652
00:48:37.039 --> 00:48:42.599
a nice one. It's a medium
chill and it has those beautiful red flowers

653
00:48:42.679 --> 00:48:47.840
as opposed to the typical pink peach
flower, and so it's both ornamental and

654
00:48:49.119 --> 00:48:54.119
edible. Sounds good, all RIGHTY
appreciate it. Thank you all right,

655
00:48:54.239 --> 00:49:00.039
you bet, thank you. We're
going to go now to Stephen in Houston.

656
00:49:00.519 --> 00:49:05.760
Stephen, how are you this morning? I'm good, Harry, I'm

657
00:49:05.800 --> 00:49:07.719
well, thank you. How can
I help? So? I've got two

658
00:49:07.920 --> 00:49:12.679
trees that were given to us to
plant at our property in the country,

659
00:49:12.880 --> 00:49:15.559
but I think it's too late to
plant them out there because we're not going

660
00:49:15.639 --> 00:49:20.280
to be there. It's the water
like they need. So I'm going to

661
00:49:20.360 --> 00:49:23.440
try to sustain them over the summer
here at our house in sugar Land in

662
00:49:23.599 --> 00:49:30.480
pots. Okay. So right now
they're very small, probably half inch cowiper

663
00:49:30.880 --> 00:49:37.519
size tree, and they're in small
pots. I'm going to transplant them over

664
00:49:37.599 --> 00:49:39.519
the summer to the next sized pot, to the next sized pot, and

665
00:49:39.639 --> 00:49:45.639
try to should the pot go be
wider or deeper from the next size up.

666
00:49:47.960 --> 00:49:55.280
What kind of tree is it?
One of them's a shademaster thornless honeylocust,

667
00:49:55.559 --> 00:50:00.599
oh wow, okay, and the
other one's an autumn blaze red oh

668
00:50:00.679 --> 00:50:02.760
boy. So what I would do
is, when you take them out of

669
00:50:02.800 --> 00:50:07.960
the little pot they're in, any
roots that are circling cut them. I

670
00:50:07.199 --> 00:50:12.320
use a box cutter knife and slice
vertically down through that root cylinder in about

671
00:50:12.360 --> 00:50:15.719
three or four places, and they
within a couple of weeks are going to

672
00:50:15.760 --> 00:50:19.840
be branching out new growth out into
the next pot size. And if you

673
00:50:20.000 --> 00:50:22.360
do that maybe a couple of times
during the summer, you're going to have

674
00:50:22.400 --> 00:50:27.320
a much more robust root system unless
wound up in the pot, and the

675
00:50:27.400 --> 00:50:30.760
tree will establish better. You also
want to do that when you finally take

676
00:50:30.800 --> 00:50:34.079
it out to plant it for sure. Okay, okay, all right,

677
00:50:34.360 --> 00:50:37.400
all right, appreciate it. I
appreciate your call. Thank you very much.

678
00:50:37.559 --> 00:50:39.960
Let's see here. We're going to
run to a break and we will

679
00:50:40.000 --> 00:50:55.440
be right back. Welcome back to
the Guardline. Good to have you with

680
00:50:55.599 --> 00:51:00.599
us today. We are discussing a
lot of things, certainly to the weather,

681
00:51:00.159 --> 00:51:07.079
which is the elephant in the room
after the bizarre hammering that so many

682
00:51:07.159 --> 00:51:12.920
areas took these last days. I
hope things are going okay at your house,

683
00:51:12.960 --> 00:51:15.199
those of you who are crawling out
of the debris. Our hearts go

684
00:51:15.280 --> 00:51:20.719
out to you, certainly do wish
you, wish you very well with that.

685
00:51:21.320 --> 00:51:27.800
There's just no there's no description or
no nothing like it, and when

686
00:51:28.320 --> 00:51:32.599
until you experience it, it's it's
it's just hard to imagine how shocking and

687
00:51:32.679 --> 00:51:37.679
devastating that can be for for folks. So would you care about those of

688
00:51:37.679 --> 00:51:42.599
you who are out there dealing with
that? The folks at Southwest Fertilizer,

689
00:51:43.000 --> 00:51:49.280
Bob I've been. I talk about
him a lot because Bob is he just

690
00:51:49.599 --> 00:51:53.079
makes sure he keeps things in stock
that you might need when they're new products,

691
00:51:53.119 --> 00:51:55.400
and he and I talk periodically,
you know, about what's going on.

692
00:51:55.559 --> 00:51:58.920
I always go by there to see, you know, what is new,

693
00:51:58.960 --> 00:52:00.280
because Bob's going to have it.
The way I would like to put

694
00:52:00.320 --> 00:52:04.599
it is, if Southwest Fertilizer doesn't
have it, you don't need it,

695
00:52:04.800 --> 00:52:08.639
because they have every single thing you
can imagine for the you know, for

696
00:52:08.719 --> 00:52:12.920
example, all the fertilizers I talk
about on garden Line, everything on my

697
00:52:13.000 --> 00:52:15.159
schedule, they're going to have it
at Southwest. That includes the fertilizers,

698
00:52:15.199 --> 00:52:20.280
that includes pest control, that includes
disease control, that includes weed control.

699
00:52:20.599 --> 00:52:23.079
They're going to have all of that
and a lot lot more. They for

700
00:52:23.199 --> 00:52:28.559
example, Southwest Fertilizer has got an
eighty foot wall of tools. They've got

701
00:52:28.599 --> 00:52:30.960
a shop where you can get things
sharpened up and ready to go, and

702
00:52:31.159 --> 00:52:36.960
your your small equipment and things like
that. I brag about that kneeling bench.

703
00:52:37.079 --> 00:52:39.280
You gotta have one. Listen.
I was doing a bed on concrete

704
00:52:39.519 --> 00:52:43.880
on top of concrete, putting in
a bed. Uh. And if I

705
00:52:44.000 --> 00:52:46.039
hadn't had my kneeling bench, I
would not have knees today. I can

706
00:52:46.119 --> 00:52:50.840
just tell you that my knees long
ago lost the padding I used to have

707
00:52:51.039 --> 00:52:53.559
in the day. And so the
kneeling bench is wonderful. Bob's got them.

708
00:52:53.639 --> 00:52:55.440
Just go by there and say I
want to see the kneeling bench they

709
00:52:55.480 --> 00:52:59.719
talk about on guardenline. He'll show
you which one it is. He also

710
00:52:59.760 --> 00:53:04.800
has Nitrofus bug Out Max. Bug
Out max by Nitrofos is an insecticide.

711
00:53:04.840 --> 00:53:09.280
It's an insecticide that is designed to
manage the things that are messing with your

712
00:53:09.360 --> 00:53:13.960
lawn. It is a product it's
going to last a while in the lawn,

713
00:53:14.039 --> 00:53:16.159
so whether you're dealing with ants or
fleas, or ticks, or grubs

714
00:53:16.239 --> 00:53:20.880
or chinchbugs or side web worms.
I mean it controls up to one hundred

715
00:53:20.920 --> 00:53:23.880
and thirty different insects actually, and
it lasts for a couple of days out

716
00:53:23.920 --> 00:53:27.239
there. So if you got fire
ants, for example, and you do

717
00:53:27.639 --> 00:53:32.239
right Now, Nitrofos fire ant killer
is an excellent product. I'll tell you

718
00:53:32.320 --> 00:53:37.599
this. The bugout Max also works
to control the fire ants as they're crawling

719
00:53:37.679 --> 00:53:43.840
through and they encounter that particular product. But Nitrofus is just they're geared up

720
00:53:44.159 --> 00:53:47.199
to manage the pests that you might
have out there in your lawn and in

721
00:53:47.320 --> 00:53:52.679
your garden. So if you're looking
to really do a good job on shutting

722
00:53:52.719 --> 00:53:57.320
these things down, well, Nitrofus, bug out Max and yep, Bob's

723
00:53:57.320 --> 00:54:00.840
got it Southwest Fertilizer. It's also
widely available. Many different places carry the

724
00:54:00.960 --> 00:54:06.119
Nitrofoss products, and so it makes
it easy for you to find a quality

725
00:54:06.199 --> 00:54:09.719
product and then be able to find
a place close by you to be able

726
00:54:09.760 --> 00:54:15.679
to pick it up. Our phone
number is seven one three two one two

727
00:54:15.039 --> 00:54:21.639
fifty eight seventy four seven one three
two one two five eight seven four.

728
00:54:21.719 --> 00:54:23.079
Feel free to give us a call
to be happy to help you with the

729
00:54:23.159 --> 00:54:29.239
kind of gardening questions that you might
be dealing with. I was talking to

730
00:54:29.880 --> 00:54:34.719
Jim Moss done at Moss Nursery just
recently, and we were just discussing all

731
00:54:34.840 --> 00:54:37.599
kinds of things. When I visit
with Jim the conversation tends to wander over

732
00:54:38.239 --> 00:54:42.599
everything under the sun. I mean, the guys like a renaissance man.

733
00:54:42.679 --> 00:54:45.920
He's been there, done that,
and got the stories to prove it.

734
00:54:45.239 --> 00:54:47.760
And when you walk in the nursery
you can kind of see that. I

735
00:54:47.800 --> 00:54:52.239
mean, it's eight acres. This
is a this is a garden center that

736
00:54:52.519 --> 00:54:55.639
is seventy years old, the family
operated garden center. You wander through eight

737
00:54:55.679 --> 00:55:00.119
acres and you turn a corner and
you see this, you know, this

738
00:55:00.320 --> 00:55:05.400
ethnic wooden mask carved out that you
hang in your garden, or a canoe

739
00:55:05.639 --> 00:55:09.000
hanging, or some kind of metal
artwork or pottery. Oh gosh, Gem

740
00:55:09.119 --> 00:55:14.280
brings all kinds of pottery and all
the time. And the stock they have

741
00:55:14.760 --> 00:55:17.440
is always good. I mean they
were loaded with hanging baskets when I was

742
00:55:17.480 --> 00:55:22.079
there. We're just admiring some of
those, some of the the cacti and

743
00:55:22.199 --> 00:55:24.159
succulents, always a good supply of
that. And of course the house plan

744
00:55:24.280 --> 00:55:28.360
house, that alone is worth the
price of admission. You got to go

745
00:55:28.440 --> 00:55:31.280
in and see Moss Nursery's house plan
house. If you like succulents, or

746
00:55:31.320 --> 00:55:35.840
if you like any kind of an
indoor plant, they are going to get

747
00:55:35.880 --> 00:55:39.000
you fixed up with that. They
even had some of those tree hadrangas and

748
00:55:39.280 --> 00:55:43.679
what does that mean. Well,
it's you trim a hadrangja to create a

749
00:55:43.800 --> 00:55:47.079
single trunk that has all the foliage
and flowers up on top, and they

750
00:55:47.320 --> 00:55:51.880
call that a tree hydraanja. There's
some beautiful ones that were heading out the

751
00:55:51.960 --> 00:55:54.000
door with happy customers when I was
by there. By the way, they're

752
00:55:54.000 --> 00:55:58.800
in Seabrook, Seabrook, Texas.
If you've not been there before, you

753
00:55:59.639 --> 00:56:01.440
really to go. I don't care
where you're driving from. That is a

754
00:56:01.639 --> 00:56:06.920
fun outing to get out with the
family and to go see and allow time

755
00:56:06.960 --> 00:56:09.639
because you're gonna need time to wander
through there. It's on Toddville Road in

756
00:56:09.880 --> 00:56:16.400
Seabrook. Here's the website m a
A S Nursery dot com m aa S

757
00:56:16.599 --> 00:56:22.960
Nursery dot com. Check them out. We're going to go now to Paarland

758
00:56:23.079 --> 00:56:28.679
and talk to Mark. Hello Marky
Tiger morning. I'm just curious where the

759
00:56:28.760 --> 00:56:32.000
best place for me to get the
two year old at leave most of todd

760
00:56:32.079 --> 00:56:35.800
draping that is close to me in
Parland. I want to air you get

761
00:56:35.840 --> 00:56:42.360
that down? Uh you you probably
by the bag you can get it at

762
00:56:42.440 --> 00:56:46.320
your Ace Hardware stores down there.
I know Paarland Ace Hardware has probably got

763
00:56:46.360 --> 00:56:51.199
it there on North Main Street.
As far as bulk in that area,

764
00:56:51.400 --> 00:56:55.199
I don't know for sure. I
may have to let me check into that

765
00:56:55.400 --> 00:56:59.760
kind of look around a little bit, but I know they do have it

766
00:56:59.800 --> 00:57:02.440
there at the Paarland Ace Hardware.
Yeah, I definitely will need to have

767
00:57:02.519 --> 00:57:05.960
a delivery. I've got quite a
bunch of square foot as you drop it.

768
00:57:06.039 --> 00:57:07.960
Oh, you're gonna do a lot
of it. Okay, let's let's

769
00:57:08.039 --> 00:57:15.239
do this. Go to Heirloom Soils
off Texas dot com and find a find

770
00:57:15.280 --> 00:57:17.039
the contact info there and reach out
to them and say, look, I

771
00:57:17.119 --> 00:57:21.159
need bulk. I'm in Paarland.
What can you do? Uh? And

772
00:57:21.280 --> 00:57:24.599
the Heirloom Soils Texas dot JOm airlom
Soils of Texas. Now, I know

773
00:57:25.280 --> 00:57:31.280
that down at Ciena Mulch they do
carry some of the leaf mold composts there.

774
00:57:31.440 --> 00:57:35.960
I'm ninety nine percent sure, And
you could give them a call.

775
00:57:36.039 --> 00:57:39.800
They do about a twenty mile delivery
radius. But I don't you're you're kind

776
00:57:39.800 --> 00:57:43.280
of on the line there. But
give them, give them a call and

777
00:57:43.400 --> 00:57:46.119
see if they are able to do
that, that would be and that in

778
00:57:46.199 --> 00:57:53.079
that website one more time, please
Heirlooms Soils off Texas dot com. Got

779
00:57:53.159 --> 00:57:59.719
it? Okay, Hi, very
good, Thank you you bet appreciate appreciate

780
00:57:59.800 --> 00:58:05.039
that call very much. Okay.
With this rain, needless to say,

781
00:58:05.360 --> 00:58:10.400
our clay soils have swelled a lot. That is what clay does when you

782
00:58:10.559 --> 00:58:14.280
have a lot of rain, especially
the kinds of clay we have here.

783
00:58:14.920 --> 00:58:17.039
When it gets dry, and it's
going to get dry summer's coming, they're

784
00:58:17.119 --> 00:58:21.599
gonna shrink. And that movement,
believe it or not, it is a

785
00:58:22.280 --> 00:58:25.159
very powerful movement. Powerful enough to
crack a slab, a concrete slab in

786
00:58:25.199 --> 00:58:30.880
your home, definitely enough to heave
your sidewalks and your driveways and break those

787
00:58:30.960 --> 00:58:37.000
apart. Fix my lab Foundation Repair
has been doing concrete repair for twenty three

788
00:58:37.079 --> 00:58:42.239
years. Tystrickland is an expert at
it. He absolutely knows what to do.

789
00:58:42.360 --> 00:58:45.199
And here's what I would like you
to do. Go look around the

790
00:58:45.239 --> 00:58:47.480
house. Do you have crack sheet
rock? Go walk around the outside of

791
00:58:47.519 --> 00:58:51.800
the house. Do you have cracked
bricks? Do you have any doors that

792
00:58:51.880 --> 00:58:55.000
are sticking? Those are all signs
that something is going wrong down in the

793
00:58:55.039 --> 00:59:00.400
foundation. I know we like to
put our heads in the sand and go

794
00:59:00.960 --> 00:59:04.400
Manyana. I'll deal with this to
Manya. But you don't do that,

795
00:59:04.719 --> 00:59:07.079
it doesn't get better. You need
to go ahead and have somebody that knows

796
00:59:07.119 --> 00:59:10.920
what they're doing look at it.
Ty gives free estimates for gardenline listeners,

797
00:59:10.960 --> 00:59:16.840
so definitely tell him you're guardline listener. He absolutely does the job right.

798
00:59:17.360 --> 00:59:22.639
He shows up on time, and
he fixes it right, and he has

799
00:59:22.679 --> 00:59:27.480
a fair price. And those three
on time, fair price and fixed That's

800
00:59:27.519 --> 00:59:31.280
all I asked for in a in
a good service job. Now, if

801
00:59:31.320 --> 00:59:36.360
you give them a call two eight
one, two five five forty nine forty

802
00:59:36.480 --> 00:59:38.480
nine, they'll get by check out
what's going on. Or you can go

803
00:59:38.559 --> 00:59:45.159
to the website fix myslab dot com, fixmslab dot com and take a look.

804
00:59:45.280 --> 00:59:47.239
But believe me on this one,
Ty knows what he's doing, he's

805
00:59:47.320 --> 00:59:52.559
got the experience, and he does
it right for a fair price. That

806
00:59:52.840 --> 00:59:57.119
is why I, without hesitation,
would recommend you call fix my Slab Foundation

807
00:59:57.239 --> 01:00:00.039
Repair. We're going to go out
now to Anna Base City. Hello,

808
01:00:00.119 --> 01:00:07.079
Anna, Hi, good morning,
good morning. I am I have an

809
01:00:07.199 --> 01:00:10.440
acre, maybe a little over an
acre, and I'm wondering, just lavender

810
01:00:10.519 --> 01:00:15.440
grow down here. I wanted to
plant the whole acre with it. It

811
01:00:15.599 --> 01:00:19.320
doesn't I mean that now people are
listening, going, well, I've got

812
01:00:19.400 --> 01:00:22.519
some in a pod. It's you
know, but lavender wants to live in

813
01:00:22.679 --> 01:00:29.599
a very well drained soil in an
area that isn't prone to be in a

814
01:00:29.679 --> 01:00:35.239
swamp. And so if you gave
it, if you created a bed that

815
01:00:35.639 --> 01:00:37.840
was high, as we say,
high and dry, meaning the water all

816
01:00:37.920 --> 01:00:43.960
drains away. It's got a very
good internal drainage in the soil, you

817
01:00:44.039 --> 01:00:46.400
could probably get some types of lavender
to grow for a while. But to

818
01:00:46.519 --> 01:00:52.559
do an acre of it, it
would be a waste of money. Okay,

819
01:00:52.079 --> 01:00:54.400
okay, well, thank you so
much. All right, Sorry,

820
01:00:54.960 --> 01:01:00.239
sorry to disappoint, but I'd rather
me disappoint you than lavender break your art.

821
01:01:00.519 --> 01:01:05.280
So yeah, thank you, all
right, bye bye, thank you

822
01:01:05.400 --> 01:01:10.119
for that call. Sweet Grain by
nitrophos it is a natural fertilizer or organic

823
01:01:10.159 --> 01:01:17.679
fertilizer. It's eleven percent nitrogen and
it is a packed fertilizer with benefits for

824
01:01:17.760 --> 01:01:21.800
the soil. And here's why.
Number one eleven percent nitrogen that's going to

825
01:01:21.880 --> 01:01:23.159
release into the soil. It's going
to feed your lawn. You're going to

826
01:01:23.159 --> 01:01:27.280
have a beautiful lawn as a result
of it. But it's a it's a

827
01:01:27.559 --> 01:01:32.639
molassic spaceed fertilizer that really stimulates the
biological activity in the soil. You know,

828
01:01:32.840 --> 01:01:37.079
organic gardeners put molasses on the soil
because they know that, especially the

829
01:01:37.119 --> 01:01:43.079
beneficial bacteria just love that and they
go crazy for that. That's like feeding

830
01:01:43.119 --> 01:01:47.360
them. They need a carbon They
need a carbon source. Only plants can

831
01:01:49.039 --> 01:01:53.199
make organic carbon, right, They
take carbon dioxide from the air and they

832
01:01:53.400 --> 01:01:59.840
make a carbon product with it.
Bacteria can't, and they need that,

833
01:02:00.280 --> 01:02:02.559
and so what do they need.
They need plant based materials, and they

834
01:02:02.639 --> 01:02:07.679
need things that are high in carbon, and that is exactly what sweet green

835
01:02:07.159 --> 01:02:10.239
is. You're gonna find sweet Green
a lot of different places. A Gym's

836
01:02:10.239 --> 01:02:14.679
Hardware up in Montgomery they carry it
there. A task to Seat of Ace

837
01:02:14.719 --> 01:02:15.920
Hardware is going to have it.
You're going to go out to as at

838
01:02:15.960 --> 01:02:19.800
Sinco Ranch. You're gonna find it
out there as well. Sweet grain,

839
01:02:20.000 --> 01:02:23.320
like many nitropost products, is widely
available and it's also very effective, and

840
01:02:23.440 --> 01:02:28.599
it moves into the soil and it'll
give you a pretty quick response with the

841
01:02:28.639 --> 01:02:32.599
sweet green. Let's go now out
to forest in the Galleria area. Hey

842
01:02:32.679 --> 01:02:38.760
forest, Hey, good morning Skip. During the storm, I had a

843
01:02:38.960 --> 01:02:44.559
branch, an oak tree branch fall
on my peppermint peach tree, and it

844
01:02:44.840 --> 01:02:49.960
created a kind of a scab,
kind of ran down the trunk of my

845
01:02:50.079 --> 01:02:54.639
peppermint peach and took off a pretty
good swath of outer bark on the trunk

846
01:02:54.679 --> 01:02:59.719
of the peppermint peach. Oh boy, Yeah, I know it doesn't look

847
01:02:59.760 --> 01:03:02.800
good, but I'm not I don't
have high expectations, but wondering if you

848
01:03:02.880 --> 01:03:07.679
had a recommendation on trying to repair
it. Yeah, just cleaning out the

849
01:03:07.800 --> 01:03:12.559
dead bark and keeping that tree as
healthy and vigorous as you can. Peaches,

850
01:03:13.119 --> 01:03:17.480
what's a trunk diameter on that tree
right now? It's probably about it's

851
01:03:17.480 --> 01:03:22.239
probably about five six inches. But
it's not a it's not a fruit tree.

852
01:03:22.679 --> 01:03:25.079
It's a flowering tree. Yeah.
Well, it's the same with either

853
01:03:25.159 --> 01:03:31.800
one, though it will close over
depending on how wide the area is and

854
01:03:31.880 --> 01:03:36.840
how vigorous the tree is, and
so like, if you've lost half the

855
01:03:36.920 --> 01:03:38.400
tree, that's going to be a
little bit of a challenge. It's going

856
01:03:38.440 --> 01:03:42.480
to take some time and you'll probably
get some internal decay in the meantime.

857
01:03:42.880 --> 01:03:45.039
But hey, I got to run
to a break if we want to continue

858
01:03:45.079 --> 01:03:47.920
this. I'm just looking at the
clock and going, hey, I'm talking

859
01:03:47.960 --> 01:04:06.599
into the news. Hang on for
us. We'll be right back. Well,

860
01:04:06.840 --> 01:04:10.159
well, welcome back to the garden
line. Good to have you with

861
01:04:10.280 --> 01:04:13.719
us. We're going to go right
back to forest in the galley. Of

862
01:04:13.840 --> 01:04:16.519
course, we're talking about that stripped
off bark on your tree, And I

863
01:04:16.679 --> 01:04:19.440
was just saying that if if it's
not too wide of an area, the

864
01:04:19.519 --> 01:04:24.559
tree will close it over in the
next season or two. If it's wider,

865
01:04:24.599 --> 01:04:28.000
it's going to take a little longer, and then the interior wood is

866
01:04:28.159 --> 01:04:33.559
subject to decomposition, to rotting essentially. But if your tree is in good

867
01:04:33.639 --> 01:04:36.800
health in general, and you're giving
it a little bit of nutrient, little

868
01:04:36.800 --> 01:04:41.639
fertilizer to keep it growing, I
think that you're probably gonna be okay.

869
01:04:43.639 --> 01:04:47.800
So no external spray, paint or
a kind of wrap or anything. Just

870
01:04:47.920 --> 01:04:51.239
let it right repair it. Yeah, let that be exposed. You do

871
01:04:51.360 --> 01:04:57.119
not want to cover the wood because
it decays faster underneath, because it says

872
01:04:57.239 --> 01:05:01.360
moist. You'd rather have it dry
out quickly after a rain and that that's

873
01:05:01.440 --> 01:05:04.480
important to do that. Yeah,
don't wrap it, don't paint it.

874
01:05:05.320 --> 01:05:10.559
It'll it'll be all right on that. Just maybe, uh, you know,

875
01:05:10.760 --> 01:05:14.840
for every inch of trunk diameter,
give it one or two cups of

876
01:05:14.920 --> 01:05:20.920
a quality lawn fertilizer that the scratch
into the soil surface around it if you

877
01:05:21.000 --> 01:05:24.280
can. If it's got grass around
it, you probably can't do that.

878
01:05:24.519 --> 01:05:28.280
But then watered in really well,
So one to two cups per inch of

879
01:05:28.320 --> 01:05:31.840
trunk diameter, spread it as far
as the branches go out and watered in

880
01:05:32.159 --> 01:05:38.119
to that area. That'll give you
a boost. Okay, I will do

881
01:05:38.199 --> 01:05:40.599
that. I appreciate your help.
Thank you all right, First, thanks

882
01:05:40.599 --> 01:05:43.760
for having through the break. Appreciate
that. Yep, yep, yep.

883
01:05:45.559 --> 01:05:48.880
Talking about trees and planting trees and
things, which I know a lot of

884
01:05:48.960 --> 01:05:55.000
you will be planting trees after losing
trees in your yard or maybe having them

885
01:05:55.760 --> 01:05:59.000
essentially be damaged to the point where
it's you just want to pull them out

886
01:05:59.039 --> 01:06:05.519
because they're they're slightly run safe.
The three sixty tree stabilizer is very important

887
01:06:06.599 --> 01:06:14.559
for stabilizing your tree during the the
or after the transplant process. During the

888
01:06:14.719 --> 01:06:18.039
rooting end, process. You know, we get these trees in cylinder containers

889
01:06:18.079 --> 01:06:21.159
and we put them in the ground
and the whole root system is in that

890
01:06:21.280 --> 01:06:26.079
small cylinder. That's what they were
growing it in at the grower. Well,

891
01:06:26.159 --> 01:06:29.599
when you put it in the ground, that cylinder pumps dry real quick,

892
01:06:29.639 --> 01:06:31.480
and you got to keep it moist
to help it get established. But

893
01:06:31.599 --> 01:06:33.679
you don't want it moving around a
lot. You know, you get a

894
01:06:33.719 --> 01:06:38.280
win like we had. Oh my
gosh, I mean that game over.

895
01:06:39.039 --> 01:06:42.440
With the tree stabilizer. It grabs
onto the tree and grabs onto the post,

896
01:06:43.440 --> 01:06:45.880
and you can use it with any
kind of post. I would suggest

897
01:06:45.119 --> 01:06:48.159
the iron t posts. They they're
easy to drive in. They work well.

898
01:06:48.559 --> 01:06:50.840
You put that tea post about a
foot and a half from the tree

899
01:06:51.199 --> 01:06:55.960
and the tree stabilizer. It's adjustable
in distance, but it grabs both and

900
01:06:56.079 --> 01:06:59.960
it holds that tree very well.
The strap a lot. You can hook

901
01:07:00.079 --> 01:07:02.280
the strap a little loose so the
tree moves just a little bit. That's

902
01:07:02.440 --> 01:07:10.559
also important in strengthening. It's a
process of nature that when we stress and

903
01:07:10.960 --> 01:07:14.880
stretch plant tissues, they get stronger. I'll talk about that in just a

904
01:07:14.960 --> 01:07:18.800
minute, but anyway, tree stabilizers
available at RCW Nursery, Buchanan's Nursery,

905
01:07:18.800 --> 01:07:23.440
if you go down to Alvin Jorges
Hidden Gardens has it. Over I was

906
01:07:23.440 --> 01:07:26.760
talking about Bob, a Southwest fertilizer
business at and Renwick. They have it.

907
01:07:27.320 --> 01:07:30.159
Arborgate has it. Din I say, Buchanans Plants for all seasons has

908
01:07:30.199 --> 01:07:32.360
it. It's easy to find,
it's easy to find, and it's a

909
01:07:32.440 --> 01:07:38.280
quality product that will last, last
and last. So you plant a tree

910
01:07:38.400 --> 01:07:40.960
and then you know later you're going
to plan another one a few years from

911
01:07:41.000 --> 01:07:44.119
now. Just grab your tree stabilizer
out of the garage and go out there

912
01:07:44.119 --> 01:07:46.800
and do it. You can buy
a couple of them from different angles.

913
01:07:46.920 --> 01:07:50.039
Hold a tree so whether the wind
blows north, southeast or west, you

914
01:07:50.159 --> 01:07:56.159
got good support there that way.
And just remember that even with multi trunk

915
01:07:56.199 --> 01:08:00.440
trees like a crape myrtle, a
couple of tree stabilizers will provide this for

916
01:08:00.519 --> 01:08:06.519
that overall plant that you need.
Yes, talking about strengthening plants. Okay,

917
01:08:06.960 --> 01:08:11.079
nerd alert, I don't do this
very often. Somebody the other day

918
01:08:11.119 --> 01:08:13.719
when I was out at Arbor Gates
that I ought to do it more often.

919
01:08:14.440 --> 01:08:21.279
But nerd alert Horticulture, nerd Alert
there is principle implants that when you

920
01:08:21.520 --> 01:08:28.279
bend and stretch, that plant gets
stronger. So if you're growing little seedlings,

921
01:08:28.359 --> 01:08:31.439
maybe you've grown tomato seedlings in the
window at home before, and they're

922
01:08:31.479 --> 01:08:34.560
stretching toward the light, and you
keep turning them around trying to get them

923
01:08:34.600 --> 01:08:38.479
to grow straight up, and they're
kind of spindling, and then you put

924
01:08:38.520 --> 01:08:41.880
them outside and they snap off in
the first wind. Well, if you

925
01:08:41.920 --> 01:08:45.520
will brush your hands over those seedlings
about twice a day, just gently brush

926
01:08:45.600 --> 01:08:48.600
them, just move them as if
the wind were blowing. I know people

927
01:08:48.640 --> 01:08:51.600
that have a little fan that comes
on and off and goes on them just

928
01:08:51.680 --> 01:08:56.479
to move them around a little bit. That actually causes a stem to get

929
01:08:56.520 --> 01:08:59.880
stronger. And that's true with tree
trunks. You got a tree that's been

930
01:09:00.920 --> 01:09:04.680
long, skinny, tall trunks attached
to a posts, that a little steak

931
01:09:04.800 --> 01:09:08.359
that they had in the pot,
and you put it out there, and

932
01:09:08.479 --> 01:09:11.920
it does not have the tree strength, the trunk strength, But as it

933
01:09:12.079 --> 01:09:15.760
bends in the wind, the tissues
get stronger. As that tree trunk develops

934
01:09:15.840 --> 01:09:20.119
and it gets very resilient where it
can take the wind. And here is

935
01:09:20.199 --> 01:09:25.119
the fancy name I always listen to
garden Line with a pen and paper handy.

936
01:09:25.159 --> 01:09:28.319
If you want to be the Cliff
Claven of your neighborhood garden club,

937
01:09:28.760 --> 01:09:32.479
you need to know this word.
You can impress your friends. Thigmo morphogenesis

938
01:09:33.760 --> 01:09:41.079
is that nerdy or what fig mo
morphogenesis? Basically that means you move it,

939
01:09:41.279 --> 01:09:44.880
it gets stronger. That basically is
what happened. But it's true.

940
01:09:45.119 --> 01:09:47.880
But you know, aside from the
nerd evert, it's important to know those

941
01:09:47.920 --> 01:09:50.920
things. You're growing seedlings, now
you know something to make them stronger.

942
01:09:51.000 --> 01:09:54.640
You're putting the little tree out there. You don't want it to bend and

943
01:09:54.760 --> 01:09:59.479
snap and stretch. It's got to
have a little movement in order to strengthen

944
01:09:59.560 --> 01:10:01.560
that. We're the same way,
right, You want your muscle stronger,

945
01:10:01.600 --> 01:10:04.239
You go to the gym, you
work them out, give them time to

946
01:10:04.319 --> 01:10:06.279
rest. You go to the gem, you work them out, and it

947
01:10:06.319 --> 01:10:10.920
gets stronger and stronger. Plants are
that way too. It's a principle of

948
01:10:11.039 --> 01:10:13.760
nature. All right, Enough of
that nerdy. Yeah, I was out

949
01:10:13.800 --> 01:10:17.159
at the arbor Gate and I had
a great time out there. They always

950
01:10:17.199 --> 01:10:20.159
have a good time at the arbor
Gate. We had a lot of folks

951
01:10:20.239 --> 01:10:24.399
come by. Thank you for everybody
that's stopped in and asked the questions.

952
01:10:25.119 --> 01:10:29.239
You know, the Arborgate is one
of those destination garden centers that people come

953
01:10:29.279 --> 01:10:34.039
from all over to go to because
number one, they've got unbelievable plant selection.

954
01:10:34.479 --> 01:10:39.640
Yes that's important. Number Two,
they have very trained staff that can

955
01:10:39.720 --> 01:10:43.920
help you not only find the plant
you need, make suggestions, but also

956
01:10:43.960 --> 01:10:45.159
how do you care for it?
Or if you have an issue with a

957
01:10:45.199 --> 01:10:48.319
plant, get a hold of them. They will help you with that.

958
01:10:48.439 --> 01:10:51.239
They want you to have success.
Now. They're out on twenty nine to

959
01:10:51.239 --> 01:10:55.840
twenty just west of Tomball and they
have a brand new parking lot in the

960
01:10:55.920 --> 01:11:00.640
back and if you got to use
that one, it is easy, convenient,

961
01:11:00.800 --> 01:11:05.000
it's close, it's safe. Go
down Trischel Road, which starts basically

962
01:11:05.159 --> 01:11:10.560
is a loop behind Arborgate and whether
you you know, if you miss Trischel

963
01:11:10.600 --> 01:11:14.279
the first time you pass by Arburgate, just start looking because it's going to

964
01:11:14.319 --> 01:11:15.880
be real quick. You're going to
see at the other end of it.

965
01:11:16.119 --> 01:11:19.000
Just go around behind back in park. When you're at Arburgate, you can

966
01:11:19.039 --> 01:11:24.079
get their one two three easy system. What is a one two three easy

967
01:11:24.119 --> 01:11:29.000
system? It's an organic food complete
four four three plus calcium feeds anything with

968
01:11:29.159 --> 01:11:35.079
roots. It's an organic soil complete, high quality soil that has expanded shale

969
01:11:35.439 --> 01:11:43.159
included in it. Expanded shale holes
clay soils open and helps the internal drainage

970
01:11:43.199 --> 01:11:47.000
in an organic compost complete, which
again is a high quality compost with the

971
01:11:47.119 --> 01:11:50.399
expanded shail in it as well.
You get those three bags when you get

972
01:11:50.439 --> 01:11:54.560
a plant, and you're on your
way to success because, as I always

973
01:11:54.600 --> 01:11:59.760
say on guard Line, brown stuff
before green stuff. You make the plant

974
01:12:00.199 --> 01:12:03.600
a foundation where it's going to have
success, good drainage, good nutrients,

975
01:12:03.640 --> 01:12:06.680
et cetera. And then you put
a good plan in it, and you're

976
01:12:06.720 --> 01:12:10.680
on your way. And everyone thinks
you have a green thumb just because you

977
01:12:10.760 --> 01:12:14.640
did things the way you're supposed to
do and cooperation with the play with the

978
01:12:14.720 --> 01:12:20.920
way plants want to want to grow. You're listening to garden Line and uh

979
01:12:21.079 --> 01:12:24.880
if you would like to give us
a call seven one three two one two

980
01:12:25.039 --> 01:12:29.319
fifty eight seventy four By the way
out at the Bee Supply in Dayton,

981
01:12:29.439 --> 01:12:31.960
Texas. They have a thing and
I've talked about it for a little while

982
01:12:31.960 --> 01:12:35.399
where it's fairly new though it's called
the b Rental Program. So if you've

983
01:12:35.439 --> 01:12:40.479
got five to twenty acres of land
and you're within fifty miles of Dayton,

984
01:12:40.560 --> 01:12:45.520
Texas fifty mile radius any direction Dayton, Texas, they will come out and

985
01:12:45.600 --> 01:12:47.079
do all the bee work. In
other words, they bring the bees out,

986
01:12:47.479 --> 01:12:50.600
they take care of the bees for
you, and harvest the honey and

987
01:12:50.680 --> 01:12:55.439
do all of that. You can
find out more information on the website,

988
01:12:55.520 --> 01:13:00.760
which is thebsupply dot com. If
you've thought about beekeeping, you know,

989
01:13:00.840 --> 01:13:04.119
maybe you're not committed yet, but
you're kind of looking into it, take

990
01:13:04.159 --> 01:13:09.680
one of their beginning beekeeping classes.
It's a strong foundation for the first year

991
01:13:09.720 --> 01:13:12.439
of beekeeping. They start at nine
thirty in the morning. They go till

992
01:13:12.479 --> 01:13:15.279
three thirty. You'll spend the entire
time in the classroom going over beekeeping,

993
01:13:15.439 --> 01:13:20.159
and then you will go out in
the b yard weather permitting to let to

994
01:13:20.359 --> 01:13:27.279
let the whole group really get a
hands on experience doing hive inspections. Uh.

995
01:13:28.079 --> 01:13:30.439
Even if you choose to not go
into beekeeping, you will love that

996
01:13:30.640 --> 01:13:38.159
class. It will be incredibly informative
and I gotta tell you you'll get hooked.

997
01:13:38.520 --> 01:13:41.159
You just are I used to have
bees myself when I lived up in

998
01:13:41.159 --> 01:13:44.520
the Willis, Texas area many years
ago. Uh and it's just a lot

999
01:13:44.560 --> 01:13:48.199
of fun. Dbsupply dot com.
We're gonna take a little break here.

1000
01:13:48.479 --> 01:13:51.600
We'll be right back. Our phone
number is seven one three two one two

1001
01:13:53.079 --> 01:13:58.960
five eight seven four and Kenneth and
Tumble you'll be our first up a crackling

1002
01:14:01.439 --> 01:14:10.680
We got a radiate. No more
taking it slow. It's been a while,

1003
01:14:11.199 --> 01:14:15.520
Neil Diamond. What a voice,
What a voice? Hey, welcome

1004
01:14:15.560 --> 01:14:17.199
back to the Garden Line. Good
to have you with us today. We're

1005
01:14:17.199 --> 01:14:20.920
here to answer your gardening questions.
We want you to have success. It's

1006
01:14:20.920 --> 01:14:26.640
as simple as that. One way
that you have success is to use quality

1007
01:14:26.720 --> 01:14:30.359
products. A fertilizer like Microlife,
for example, Microlife has a wide variety

1008
01:14:30.399 --> 01:14:34.479
of products. I was telling someone
earlier to get their acidic fertilizer the pink

1009
01:14:34.560 --> 01:14:40.279
bag, the one that is for
acid loving plants. Well, the green

1010
01:14:40.319 --> 01:14:45.479
bag is the standard that's kind of
like the basic Microlife fertilizer, wide variety

1011
01:14:45.800 --> 01:14:50.560
of options. When you use Microlife's
green bag, it's for lawns, but

1012
01:14:50.680 --> 01:14:55.119
it's I use it for I use
in the vegetable garden. I using the

1013
01:14:55.159 --> 01:14:57.960
flower I use in a lot of
different places. Just a good fertilizer,

1014
01:14:58.079 --> 01:15:02.880
absolute good fertilizer. What people don't
really think about is the need for a

1015
01:15:02.960 --> 01:15:09.680
supplementation with humates plus. That's the
purple bag of microlife. Humates plus is

1016
01:15:09.800 --> 01:15:13.279
concentrated compost in a bag. So
what does that mean? Okay, well,

1017
01:15:13.359 --> 01:15:15.760
let's do it this way. If
you take grass, clippings and leaves,

1018
01:15:15.920 --> 01:15:19.560
that's organic matter, you pile it
up and you decompose it. You

1019
01:15:19.680 --> 01:15:25.439
have compost. If you take that
compost and let it decompose all the way

1020
01:15:25.520 --> 01:15:30.039
down to its final stage, that's
called humus. And humates are actually a

1021
01:15:30.119 --> 01:15:34.000
product that's mined out of the ground
ancient you know what do you call them?

1022
01:15:34.520 --> 01:15:41.720
The little ribbons of material underground like
coal and stuff. They It is

1023
01:15:41.840 --> 01:15:45.520
a concentrated compost. And what happens
is when you put it down, the

1024
01:15:45.640 --> 01:15:50.840
fulvic acids in it, the humic
acids in it, they all enhance the

1025
01:15:50.920 --> 01:15:57.319
soil microbiology, the release of nutrients
in the soil. They improve soil structure.

1026
01:15:57.560 --> 01:16:00.680
Over time. As you use a
product like humus humates plus the purple

1027
01:16:00.760 --> 01:16:04.399
bag in the soil, you're going
to continue to make the soil better and

1028
01:16:04.520 --> 01:16:09.279
better, and organic gardening is all
about making the soil better. That's the

1029
01:16:09.439 --> 01:16:15.279
foundation. Organic gardening didn't start with
organic pesticides. It started with soil and

1030
01:16:15.439 --> 01:16:19.239
that still is the foundation of success
in it. And microlife helps you have

1031
01:16:19.479 --> 01:16:25.079
success in that way. That is
really really important. Now you're gonna find

1032
01:16:25.119 --> 01:16:29.039
microlife a lot of places. You
can go to microlife furlizure dot com find

1033
01:16:29.079 --> 01:16:32.000
out all the different kinds of places
that you can get it. I tell

1034
01:16:32.000 --> 01:16:35.119
you this, you can get at
ACE Hardware stores. Widely available at ACE

1035
01:16:35.159 --> 01:16:40.840
Hardware's and there's a whole bunch of
those forty plus here in the Greater Houston

1036
01:16:40.880 --> 01:16:43.840
area. By the way, while
I'm talking about ACE, I just want

1037
01:16:43.880 --> 01:16:48.479
to remind you that after these storms, ACE Hardware is their trucks moving in

1038
01:16:48.600 --> 01:16:53.279
and out so fast, stocking up. I'm talking about generators, I'm talking

1039
01:16:53.359 --> 01:16:58.479
about batteries, I'm talking about tarps. You know why we need those,

1040
01:16:58.640 --> 01:17:03.039
covering up exposure, US, mosquito
repellence, all the things you deal with

1041
01:17:03.159 --> 01:17:08.399
and water damage, you know,
like bleach and like dehumidiflyers and fans and

1042
01:17:08.520 --> 01:17:13.199
whatnot. ACE is the place,
and they are stocked up to help you

1043
01:17:13.880 --> 01:17:16.439
have success. Just a quick reminder, since I'm talking about ACE, I'm

1044
01:17:16.479 --> 01:17:20.439
not going to be at Langham Creek
ACE today as we had planned. All

1045
01:17:20.560 --> 01:17:25.319
hands on deck. This is to
help people in the area get the products

1046
01:17:25.359 --> 01:17:27.479
they need. We don't have time
for me to go by there and just

1047
01:17:27.640 --> 01:17:30.920
you know, stop and visit with
gardeners. We'll do that another time.

1048
01:17:30.600 --> 01:17:34.000
We're putting that one off. Hopefully
we'll be able to come back and reschedule

1049
01:17:34.079 --> 01:17:38.760
that one. But get out to
your local ACE Hardware. Go to Acehardware

1050
01:17:38.760 --> 01:17:42.640
dot com, find the store locator, find the one near you. We're

1051
01:17:42.720 --> 01:17:46.439
now going to go to let's see
Kenneth and Tomball. Hello Kenneth, Hello,

1052
01:17:47.079 --> 01:17:49.239
how are you doing. I'm well, sir. How can I help?

1053
01:17:50.560 --> 01:17:54.600
I have crapgrass in my yard and
I just wonder how to get rid

1054
01:17:54.640 --> 01:17:58.159
of that. Well, once you
have grass and grass, it's hard to

1055
01:17:58.159 --> 01:18:02.880
get rid of because the things that
kill crabgrass kill long grass. You can

1056
01:18:03.079 --> 01:18:08.600
use a pre emergent herbicide in the
spring. We would start doing that in

1057
01:18:08.760 --> 01:18:14.159
February. That's on my schedule at
Gardening with Skip dot Com gives you the

1058
01:18:14.319 --> 01:18:16.640
timing of it. Those can if
you go to the schedule. They can

1059
01:18:16.680 --> 01:18:21.520
also be repeated, and we do
the second pre emergent applications. Kind of

1060
01:18:21.600 --> 01:18:26.199
right now, we're kind of at
the big time where the first application is

1061
01:18:26.239 --> 01:18:29.800
starting to wind down a little bit, and just to extend that we control

1062
01:18:29.920 --> 01:18:34.359
to the second. But the existing
crabgrass that's not going to kill it pre

1063
01:18:34.439 --> 01:18:41.319
emergent prevents it doesn't kill, so
handpling, mowing regularly to get the before

1064
01:18:41.319 --> 01:18:45.800
it gets the seed heads up there
to make the situation worse. That all

1065
01:18:45.920 --> 01:18:50.039
helps. Other than that, just
know that the more you build long density,

1066
01:18:50.159 --> 01:18:54.239
the more you grow yourself out of
the crabgrass problem. And I don't

1067
01:18:54.279 --> 01:18:57.079
mean to be, you know,
to make light of a weed problem,

1068
01:18:57.159 --> 01:18:59.720
but a friend of mine says,
you make all your weeds go away by

1069
01:18:59.760 --> 01:19:04.399
taking off your glasses. Meaning what
crabgrass is green, Saint Augustine is green.

1070
01:19:04.920 --> 01:19:10.039
You mow it and you you know
you you be patient and in time

1071
01:19:10.119 --> 01:19:13.399
you get ahead of it. That
way with the pre emergence and with building

1072
01:19:13.439 --> 01:19:16.199
a dense lawn. Uh So when
we don't have a spray to kill it

1073
01:19:16.720 --> 01:19:21.800
in the lawn once it's up,
we do have that strategy, okay,

1074
01:19:23.600 --> 01:19:26.439
okay, And I have your schedule, so I'll go in there and look

1075
01:19:26.479 --> 01:19:29.840
at it and fumble that. Damn. All right, Kenneth, good luck

1076
01:19:29.920 --> 01:19:32.239
with that, take care okay,
thank you, you bet good to have

1077
01:19:32.399 --> 01:19:38.600
you. Good heavy with us today. Let's go now to Nancy in I

1078
01:19:38.640 --> 01:19:43.239
don't know where. Hello, Nancy, where are you as I'm in Richmond?

1079
01:19:44.560 --> 01:19:47.159
All right? I've got a quick
question for you. My husband and

1080
01:19:47.199 --> 01:19:53.119
I have grown tomatoes for forty years. This year when I picked the beautiful

1081
01:19:53.159 --> 01:19:56.760
tomatoes, bring him in, put
them on the counter. They start within

1082
01:19:56.840 --> 01:20:00.760
two or three days they start getting
little brown Colca dots all over. And

1083
01:20:01.239 --> 01:20:05.039
we've never had that before. So
I haven't seen any bugs out there.

1084
01:20:06.399 --> 01:20:11.960
Can you tell me what's doing?
That's a good question. Brown polka dots?

1085
01:20:12.119 --> 01:20:16.720
Now, I'm probably not little tiny, little tiny like pinhole five brown

1086
01:20:16.760 --> 01:20:19.840
dot. Okay. And if I
peel the skin off, it does go

1087
01:20:20.000 --> 01:20:26.159
below the skin, okay. What
it may be there are piercing sucking insects

1088
01:20:26.359 --> 01:20:30.239
called stink bugs and leaf footed bugs, and they put their mouth into your

1089
01:20:30.279 --> 01:20:32.399
tomato and spit and dissolve the cells
in there. And it could be that

1090
01:20:32.520 --> 01:20:38.760
you're just getting a little decay that's
following that feeding based on them being tiny

1091
01:20:38.840 --> 01:20:43.920
spots and going down deeper. That
may be what you're seeing. It's not

1092
01:20:44.079 --> 01:20:47.520
a common thing to have that with
stink bugs. But I don't know if

1093
01:20:47.600 --> 01:20:53.840
tomato disease that will cause what you
just described. Okay, well, we've

1094
01:20:53.920 --> 01:20:57.880
never had it. We've had we've
had the bugs. I've seen their damage

1095
01:20:57.920 --> 01:21:01.920
before, but we've just never had
this domenon and I'm having I love homegrown

1096
01:21:01.960 --> 01:21:04.399
tomatoes. I like to share them, but I feel like I can't share

1097
01:21:04.439 --> 01:21:10.159
them because don't decay before people ever
eat them. All right, maybe I

1098
01:21:10.239 --> 01:21:13.359
could avoid it by putting them in
the refrigerator, but I don't like the

1099
01:21:13.439 --> 01:21:15.399
taste once they're refrigerated. Well,
I tell you one thing. If you

1100
01:21:15.520 --> 01:21:19.359
will refrigerate them and bring them out
to room temperature, give them a little

1101
01:21:19.399 --> 01:21:23.640
time to warm up. Good,
You're not going to find the taste is

1102
01:21:23.720 --> 01:21:28.479
affected, like when you eat a
cold tomato. Oh okay. I did

1103
01:21:28.520 --> 01:21:31.039
a trial one year with the Harris
County Master Gardeners and we took a bunch

1104
01:21:31.079 --> 01:21:35.239
of tomatoes and we cut vertically from
the stem to the blossom end, so

1105
01:21:35.399 --> 01:21:40.920
the two halves are identical, and
we put celifi in or surround wrap over

1106
01:21:40.960 --> 01:21:43.920
each one. I left one overnight
on the counter. I put the other

1107
01:21:44.000 --> 01:21:47.159
in refrigerator overnight. Then in the
morning we took them out and we let

1108
01:21:47.199 --> 01:21:50.760
them warm up to room temperature,
and we did a taste, a blind

1109
01:21:50.840 --> 01:21:55.600
taste test, and people couldn't tell
the difference. All right, that's the

1110
01:21:55.680 --> 01:21:58.800
secret. I will do that now. A lot of tomato growers are out

1111
01:21:58.840 --> 01:22:01.520
there screaming haresy. Heretic off with
his head. But I'm telling you that

1112
01:22:01.720 --> 01:22:04.199
was a trial we did. All
right, Thank you, Nan, Would

1113
01:22:04.359 --> 01:22:10.560
one of them thank you your pet? Thank you very much. Yeah,

1114
01:22:10.680 --> 01:22:13.600
that's kind of cool. By the
way, I should have I should have

1115
01:22:13.720 --> 01:22:16.079
mentioned this to Nancy. You need
to stick around for the first bumper song

1116
01:22:16.399 --> 01:22:20.119
if you like tomatoes of the next
hour, first bumper song coming up.

1117
01:22:20.720 --> 01:22:26.800
Nelson water Garden. Nelson Water Garden
out in Katie is a destination you need

1118
01:22:26.880 --> 01:22:29.960
to go to. It's actually nursery
and water garden. And boy did they

1119
01:22:30.159 --> 01:22:34.399
ever stock up on plants. Now. They became famous with their water gardens,

1120
01:22:34.439 --> 01:22:38.560
which are outstanding. I mean,
do you want do you want fountains

1121
01:22:38.560 --> 01:22:42.119
at your house? Do you want
disappearing fountains? Waterfalls? They had all

1122
01:22:42.199 --> 01:22:44.279
that. They can do it,
or they can help you do it.

1123
01:22:44.319 --> 01:22:45.800
If you don't do a little,
do it yourself or yours. They can

1124
01:22:45.920 --> 01:22:49.279
do that. But they have rangoon
creepers in stock out there, and if

1125
01:22:49.319 --> 01:22:54.720
you've never seen a rangoon creeper,
uh, the it comes out and has

1126
01:22:54.760 --> 01:22:59.680
these clusters of pink and ballooms.
They change color. In fact, I

1127
01:22:59.720 --> 01:23:02.880
think the scientific name of it is
quiz qualis, which in Latin means which

1128
01:23:02.920 --> 01:23:06.319
what it's like? You look at
that bloom and you go which what it's

1129
01:23:06.359 --> 01:23:10.439
got? Different color? You're changing
each day from pink and white. Oh,

1130
01:23:10.720 --> 01:23:14.640
beautiful, beautiful. Lots of different
kinds of plants, the vitex and

1131
01:23:14.760 --> 01:23:19.560
so on, beautiful hedranges and watergarden
plants, things you've never seen before,

1132
01:23:19.760 --> 01:23:27.119
like the mosaic plant. All right, Nelsonwatergardens dot com. Nelson Watergardens dot

1133
01:23:27.199 --> 01:23:30.000
Com. Out there, and Katie, you gotta go check them out.

1134
01:23:30.039 --> 01:23:32.119
It is a destination. Take your
friends too, by the way. You'll

1135
01:23:32.159 --> 01:23:36.520
wander through it, and I promise
you'll be inspired. I was so impressed

1136
01:23:36.560 --> 01:23:42.079
first time I went there. Well, we're putting another hour in the books.

1137
01:23:42.119 --> 01:23:45.680
Here we go. I hope that
you've enjoyed listening so far. If

1138
01:23:45.720 --> 01:23:47.960
you'd like to give us a call, be part of the part of the

1139
01:23:48.000 --> 01:23:53.600
show. Seven one three two one
two five eight seven four seven one three

1140
01:23:53.640 --> 01:24:18.359
two one two fifty eight seventy four. I'll be right tacked. Welcome to

1141
01:24:18.600 --> 01:24:39.119
kt r H Garden Line with Skip
Rictor show Crazy just watching as many thanks

1142
01:24:39.159 --> 01:24:48.159
to stray. Hey, welcome back
to guarden Line. Good to have you

1143
01:24:48.279 --> 01:24:51.119
with us today. I'm your host, Skip Rictor, and we're here to

1144
01:24:51.159 --> 01:24:56.199
answer your gardening questions. What kind
of questions do you have? What are

1145
01:24:56.239 --> 01:25:00.039
you interested in? We will talk
about that our phone umber seven one three

1146
01:25:00.239 --> 01:25:06.079
two one two five eight seven four
seven one three two one two fifty eight

1147
01:25:06.439 --> 01:25:11.800
seventy four. Let's head out to
spring and talk to Rich. Hello,

1148
01:25:11.960 --> 01:25:15.520
Rich, good morning, Skip,
thanks for taking my call. Uh.

1149
01:25:15.720 --> 01:25:20.279
There's there's a product that I've used
to help neighbors that have been infested with

1150
01:25:20.800 --> 01:25:27.840
basket grass as well as existing crabgrass. And it's the agril On crab grass

1151
01:25:27.960 --> 01:25:33.680
Killer, Yes, with the active
ingredients cinnamon that knocks out basket grass and

1152
01:25:33.840 --> 01:25:40.600
crabgrass without hurting any Saint Augustine.
The issue is, yeah, the issue

1153
01:25:40.680 --> 01:25:43.840
is it's very expensive. You don't
get a lot of coverage. So if

1154
01:25:43.880 --> 01:25:46.319
you're doing spot treatments at works,
if you need a whole yard, yeah,

1155
01:25:46.520 --> 01:25:50.279
probably cost prohibitive. Yeah, and
I should I should have thought of

1156
01:25:50.359 --> 01:25:55.720
that one when fell a call while
ago. It is it is, it's

1157
01:25:55.840 --> 01:25:58.439
it's some when you sprinkled on,
I'm going to ask stuff turned? It

1158
01:25:58.560 --> 01:26:01.199
just turns black, doesn't it?
Pretty quick? Yes? Very quick?

1159
01:26:01.319 --> 01:26:05.279
Works works very well and basket grass
is not an easy one to kill with

1160
01:26:05.439 --> 01:26:10.279
conventional herbicides. So that's good,
an amazing thing. All right, Hey,

1161
01:26:10.359 --> 01:26:13.399
thanks for bringing that up. I
should have thought of that one,

1162
01:26:14.119 --> 01:26:15.880
but it is a good you're right, you're right. It is pricey.

1163
01:26:15.920 --> 01:26:18.279
They're talking about putting out, in
fact, they have, I think put

1164
01:26:18.319 --> 01:26:24.479
out a bigger container of it.
That little round cylinder doesn't hold a whole

1165
01:26:24.520 --> 01:26:27.119
lot, and I think they're talking
about putting out a bigger one if they

1166
01:26:27.159 --> 01:26:32.800
haven't already. So it's a little
more economical for a larger area. Alrighty,

1167
01:26:33.880 --> 01:26:38.880
hopefully they do, because the two
pounds is about twenty five bucks and

1168
01:26:39.000 --> 01:26:44.359
it doesn't go very far. Okay, well that would be a quick fix

1169
01:26:44.479 --> 01:26:46.520
though. While we do the things
we're talking about and trying to build a

1170
01:26:46.560 --> 01:26:50.119
dense lawn to choke it out.
So that's good. Thanks, Thanks Rich,

1171
01:26:50.159 --> 01:26:55.680
I appreciate that call. Always good
to be reminded of some of those

1172
01:26:55.760 --> 01:26:59.760
things. When it comes to dealing
with the weeds in the lawn, you

1173
01:26:59.880 --> 01:27:04.159
just have to remember that mow water, fertilized. Those are the three best

1174
01:27:04.239 --> 01:27:10.399
herbicides in town. Now, what
I mean by that, I mean when

1175
01:27:10.439 --> 01:27:15.840
you create a dense lawn weed seeds. Now, not talking about perennial weeds,

1176
01:27:15.920 --> 01:27:19.399
not talking about dollar weed or a
Virginia button weed or some of these

1177
01:27:19.479 --> 01:27:23.800
that can survive in the grass even
when it's dense. We're talking about the

1178
01:27:23.840 --> 01:27:27.560
weeds coming from seed. They can't
get light and they can't germinate. That's

1179
01:27:27.600 --> 01:27:30.399
why you melt your garden beds so
that it keeps the light off the soil

1180
01:27:30.399 --> 01:27:34.880
and the weed seeds don't germinate.
Well, we can mulch our lawns with

1181
01:27:35.119 --> 01:27:39.399
lawn. Do you see what I'm
saying. We create density in the lawn.

1182
01:27:39.479 --> 01:27:42.960
We return our clippings to fall down
on the surface and every little bit

1183
01:27:43.239 --> 01:27:46.760
helps. And when you create that
kind of environment, you choke out ninety

1184
01:27:46.800 --> 01:27:53.000
percent of your weed problems. So
that should be if you're organic, if

1185
01:27:53.039 --> 01:27:58.800
you're synthetic, whatever you are,
that should be step one in weed control.

1186
01:27:58.920 --> 01:28:02.119
And if you go to my schedule
online, my lawn management schedule,

1187
01:28:02.560 --> 01:28:05.520
I talk about that. In fact, I think I put it in.

1188
01:28:05.840 --> 01:28:11.239
Yeah, it's definitely in there.
But it's very very important to do that.

1189
01:28:12.199 --> 01:28:15.560
So the weed management schedule says the
I'm going to read it to you

1190
01:28:15.960 --> 01:28:20.479
say this here it is horse's mouth. The first and most important step in

1191
01:28:20.600 --> 01:28:28.000
weed control is to build a dense, healthy turf over time through proper fertilizing,

1192
01:28:28.479 --> 01:28:33.279
mowing, and watering. Remember,
wherever sunlight hits a soil, nature

1193
01:28:33.359 --> 01:28:38.920
plants a weed. Nature does not
like bear soil, and if you won't

1194
01:28:38.960 --> 01:28:41.079
take care of it, it's going
to throw weeds on it. To cover

1195
01:28:41.159 --> 01:28:44.720
that soil. Protect the soil,
build the soil. Even weeds, yes,

1196
01:28:44.800 --> 01:28:47.199
when they decompose away, they build
the soil. Nature does that.

1197
01:28:47.399 --> 01:28:51.000
So anyway, something to think about. Hey, folks at A and A

1198
01:28:51.119 --> 01:28:57.439
plants and produce up in Montgomery,
they have an outstanding selection of plants and

1199
01:28:57.640 --> 01:29:02.920
I just absolutely outstanding beautiful lantanna.
And if you've only had the yellow lantana,

1200
01:29:03.079 --> 01:29:05.560
the new gold, which is pretty
If you only had that kind,

1201
01:29:05.600 --> 01:29:09.920
you got to go buy Ana and
check out some of the colors in Lantana

1202
01:29:10.000 --> 01:29:15.479
that they have many kinds of plants. Of course beyond Lantana. Today out

1203
01:29:15.560 --> 01:29:18.239
at Ana Plants and Produce May eighteenth, the less things have changed since I

1204
01:29:18.319 --> 01:29:25.039
last talked to them. Andy Chidester. Andy Chadester with Medina Products is going

1205
01:29:25.119 --> 01:29:30.479
to be out there at Ana from
twelve noon to two pm today free gardening

1206
01:29:30.560 --> 01:29:34.399
workshop. Andy is extremely knowledgeable.
You will thoroughly enjoy her out there.

1207
01:29:35.319 --> 01:29:39.800
You just go out there and check
it out. She gonna be talking about

1208
01:29:39.840 --> 01:29:45.800
soul remediation, getting our water log
plants growing again and again. I've known

1209
01:29:46.560 --> 01:29:53.600
Andy since years ago and we both
were in Austin, Texas was extension age

1210
01:29:53.640 --> 01:29:57.279
over there. You will not be
disappointed. Head out to Ana, and

1211
01:29:57.359 --> 01:30:00.960
when you're there, you're going to
find lots of plants and broadus beautiful beautiful

1212
01:30:02.600 --> 01:30:05.920
yard I just say yard art,
but things like you know, an arbor,

1213
01:30:06.039 --> 01:30:13.039
a row of metal structure I'm without
words today, a metal structure that

1214
01:30:13.119 --> 01:30:15.640
goes over the top. You walk
through those kind of things, an archway

1215
01:30:15.720 --> 01:30:19.399
there you go, uh, and
you're also gonna find every fertilizer I talk

1216
01:30:19.439 --> 01:30:24.920
about on Guardenline. They keep them
all they're there, including the soil products

1217
01:30:24.960 --> 01:30:28.199
I talk about on guarden Line.
All right, let's head out to Chapel

1218
01:30:28.239 --> 01:30:30.720
Hill now and we're going to talk
to Rachel. Hell old, Rachel,

1219
01:30:30.800 --> 01:30:35.920
beautiful, beautiful, Hey, Rachel, can you hear me? Need to

1220
01:30:36.039 --> 01:30:42.279
turn that radio down? All right, I'm gonna put Rachel on hold and

1221
01:30:42.840 --> 01:30:45.880
we'll come back and check on her
hair in just a second. Dandy Feed

1222
01:30:45.960 --> 01:30:51.720
and Tomball is your hometown feed store. Dandy Feed carries the fertilizers you hear

1223
01:30:51.840 --> 01:30:57.640
me talk about here on guardline,
absolutely all of them. I mean they

1224
01:30:57.720 --> 01:31:00.359
do. And they also have soil
blends like you've heard me talk about age

1225
01:31:00.439 --> 01:31:03.960
leaf, mole, compost, heirlooms, rose soil, or their fruit berry

1226
01:31:04.000 --> 01:31:08.920
and citrus mix, or they're Veggie
and herbmex. All of that is at

1227
01:31:09.000 --> 01:31:13.279
D and D Feed. D and
D Feed just a few miles west of

1228
01:31:13.560 --> 01:31:17.359
two forty nine in Tumble, a
few miles west on twenty nine to twenty.

1229
01:31:18.000 --> 01:31:21.279
You also at D Anddfeed are going
to find selection of plants. They

1230
01:31:21.359 --> 01:31:26.319
keep plants out there in the front, always some new things coming in changing

1231
01:31:26.760 --> 01:31:30.640
if you'd like to give them a
call two eight one three five one seventy

1232
01:31:30.680 --> 01:31:32.680
one forty four. When you get
inside, you're going to find products for

1233
01:31:32.800 --> 01:31:36.079
everything you need to take care of
your lawn, your landscape, and your

1234
01:31:36.119 --> 01:31:42.199
garden, from insects to diseases to
weeds to just good fertilizers, D and

1235
01:31:42.279 --> 01:31:45.279
D feed out there in Tumble.
I'm going to head back now, I'll

1236
01:31:45.319 --> 01:31:49.119
tell you what we are hitting up
against, a hard break. I'm going

1237
01:31:49.159 --> 01:31:53.439
to come back and Rachel and Jim, you'll be my first two up.

1238
01:31:53.840 --> 01:31:56.560
We'll be right back in just a
moment, if you'd like to give us

1239
01:31:56.640 --> 01:32:00.640
a call and get on the boards. Seven one three five eight seven four

1240
01:32:00.720 --> 01:32:23.159
seven one three two one two kt
r H. Welcome back to the guard

1241
01:32:23.239 --> 01:32:27.000
Line. Thanks for being with us
today. We are here to talk about

1242
01:32:27.119 --> 01:32:32.199
the things that interest you, so
you can whatever your question is, if

1243
01:32:32.359 --> 01:32:35.880
related to gardening, we'll give it
our best shot and try to help with

1244
01:32:36.000 --> 01:32:42.159
that. Nitrophis Superturf is the silver
bag. It's the nineteen four ten.

1245
01:32:42.680 --> 01:32:46.800
It's the slow release product that we've
been talking about from Nitrophos. Now half

1246
01:32:46.840 --> 01:32:50.399
the nitrogen is slow release, so
you put it down, you put on

1247
01:32:50.560 --> 01:32:55.840
NITROPHSS superturf watered in, you're going
to get a release of nitrogen. Then

1248
01:32:56.119 --> 01:32:59.640
over time you're going to get a
release of more and more and more nitrogen.

1249
01:32:59.720 --> 01:33:00.960
That's how it works, and that's
how it should work. That is

1250
01:33:01.039 --> 01:33:05.319
a very effective way to fertilizer lawns
here in the summertime. That nineteen four

1251
01:33:05.399 --> 01:33:10.199
ten is a good ratio for nutrients. It's very similar to the ratio that

1252
01:33:10.319 --> 01:33:13.880
you would expect if you were to
send a grass clipping to the lab and

1253
01:33:14.000 --> 01:33:17.520
say what's in this? It's going
to be a ratio like nitrofoss superturf.

1254
01:33:17.600 --> 01:33:21.640
Now where do you buy it?
Well, widely available and chanted forest down

1255
01:33:21.760 --> 01:33:28.359
in the Richmond Rosenberg area. Growers
outlet up in the Willis area RCW Nursery.

1256
01:33:28.720 --> 01:33:30.880
Yep, that's the one where Tombo
Parkway comes into belt Way eight.

1257
01:33:31.000 --> 01:33:36.119
They're going to have NITROFOS superturf there
as well. We're going to now head

1258
01:33:36.239 --> 01:33:42.039
out to Rachel and Chapel Hill.
Hello Rachel, Hi, how are you

1259
01:33:42.119 --> 01:33:45.239
doing. I'm good, I'm good. What's up? I wanted to put

1260
01:33:45.319 --> 01:33:48.760
down some molts around my trees.
I have lots and lots of trees.

1261
01:33:48.800 --> 01:33:53.479
I wanted to put molts around them
so we don't have to mow so close

1262
01:33:53.560 --> 01:33:57.680
to the base of the tree.
And I was wondering, can I kill

1263
01:33:57.760 --> 01:34:00.319
the grass under the tree first and
then put the mulch down? You can

1264
01:34:01.800 --> 01:34:04.279
what kind of what would you recommend? What kind of grass is it?

1265
01:34:05.720 --> 01:34:13.319
Oh? Just a variety, anything
from bermuda. Yeah, yeah, you're

1266
01:34:13.319 --> 01:34:16.720
definitely gonna want to kill it first. And as far as grass killers,

1267
01:34:16.880 --> 01:34:21.039
there you got two options. One
is something that just kills grass and there's

1268
01:34:21.079 --> 01:34:25.159
a couple of ingredients, but when
you go to the store to buy it,

1269
01:34:25.279 --> 01:34:29.920
it'll say it's for grass only,
just for killing grass. Uh,

1270
01:34:30.079 --> 01:34:32.840
there's there's two ingredients in that.
If you're having to shop. One is

1271
01:34:33.000 --> 01:34:39.479
the that begins with the boys name
SETH s c t H, and the

1272
01:34:39.840 --> 01:34:42.920
other one I instead of spelling all
these out on the air, I just

1273
01:34:42.960 --> 01:34:46.000
give you the first few letters because
no other product has these first few letters

1274
01:34:46.560 --> 01:34:51.880
s C t H for killing grass
and then F l U A Z flu

1275
01:34:53.000 --> 01:34:57.399
ads for killing grass. Then the
other alternative would be glypha say, which

1276
01:34:57.479 --> 01:35:00.680
is a product in Roundup and many
other brands now of it, and that

1277
01:35:00.920 --> 01:35:04.920
won't hurt the tree. It will
not hurt the tree if you don't over

1278
01:35:04.960 --> 01:35:08.760
apply it and drench it down into
the soil, which would be a waste

1279
01:35:08.800 --> 01:35:12.960
of product and money. Or make
sure the tree doesn't have any little sprouts

1280
01:35:13.039 --> 01:35:16.079
coming out of the bottom because glefas
kills green, green things. So if

1281
01:35:16.159 --> 01:35:19.119
you have some sucker sprouts out of
the base and got that on it,

1282
01:35:19.199 --> 01:35:21.279
well yeah, I mean, it
wouldn't kill the tree, but it would

1283
01:35:21.319 --> 01:35:25.119
it would make it would weaken it, it would hurt it. So be

1284
01:35:25.279 --> 01:35:29.399
careful with that. Okay, great, thank you very much, you met

1285
01:35:29.479 --> 01:35:33.520
Rachel. Good luck with that.
Wish you well on that. I was

1286
01:35:33.600 --> 01:35:38.720
talking with Jason at Pearscapes a good
while back and we were just we were

1287
01:35:38.800 --> 01:35:43.880
just talking about the business and the
industry and and how landscapers that are good,

1288
01:35:44.159 --> 01:35:47.399
that are reputable, they stay busy
and they I mean they book weeks

1289
01:35:47.560 --> 01:35:51.399
ahead of time, if not months
in some cases for big jobs, and

1290
01:35:51.520 --> 01:35:56.640
it's so important to call and get
set up, get on the schedule.

1291
01:35:56.840 --> 01:36:00.359
So in this case, so Pierscapes
can come out and help you because they

1292
01:36:00.399 --> 01:36:04.479
are professional, they do excellent work. If you want proof of that,

1293
01:36:05.039 --> 01:36:09.920
go to pierscapes dot com. Pierscapes
dot com. That's our website. You

1294
01:36:09.960 --> 01:36:14.039
will see some of the most beautiful
landscape jobs you've ever seen. Their phone

1295
01:36:14.119 --> 01:36:17.119
number, by the way, is
two eight one three seven oh fifty sixty.

1296
01:36:17.239 --> 01:36:20.680
Two eight one three seven fifty sixty. Do you need hardscapes? Do

1297
01:36:20.720 --> 01:36:27.399
you need your irrigation system worked on? Do you need drainage? How many

1298
01:36:27.439 --> 01:36:30.680
people need drainage right now? You
know you need drainage. When we get

1299
01:36:30.760 --> 01:36:33.520
rain like this, they can move
that water to another location. They know

1300
01:36:33.760 --> 01:36:36.800
how to get that done. They
also do quarterly maintenance, and this is

1301
01:36:36.840 --> 01:36:41.920
something most people don't think about.
They will come out every quarter and they'll

1302
01:36:42.000 --> 01:36:45.960
trim, they'll weed, they'll fertilize, they'll check the irrigation, they'll do

1303
01:36:46.239 --> 01:36:51.000
a multch, refresh new mulch on
top of the old mault. They will

1304
01:36:51.039 --> 01:36:56.359
do seasonal color changes. So whether
you do two changes a year or four

1305
01:36:56.479 --> 01:36:59.800
changes, they can come out and
they can do that. You just have

1306
01:37:00.119 --> 01:37:02.920
to go and check out the website, give them a call and get set

1307
01:37:03.039 --> 01:37:08.840
up again. Pierscapes dot com is
a website. Two eight one three seven

1308
01:37:08.920 --> 01:37:13.359
oh fifty sixty. That's the phone
number. You need. Let's go now

1309
01:37:13.439 --> 01:37:17.319
to Jim and New Vienna, Ohio. Hello Jim, good morning, Skip.

1310
01:37:17.399 --> 01:37:21.079
How are you, sir? I'm
well, thank you. I'm thinking

1311
01:37:21.159 --> 01:37:26.640
of bringing some tomato plants in the
five gallon buckets. What's the best type

1312
01:37:26.680 --> 01:37:30.439
of potting soil or guarding soil or
what's we used for that type of book?

1313
01:37:31.039 --> 01:37:34.880
Well, a real good one is
Airline Soils Veggie and herb Mex.

1314
01:37:34.920 --> 01:37:39.880
It's made for that and it would
do really well. There are a number

1315
01:37:39.960 --> 01:37:43.840
of other good quality soil mixes out
there for that. But when you're talking

1316
01:37:43.840 --> 01:37:46.840
about vegetables and things and in a
bucket that would that would be a good

1317
01:37:46.920 --> 01:37:56.199
choice. I copy. If a
plant is severely root bound with a ton

1318
01:37:56.279 --> 01:38:00.119
of roots at the very bottom,
is it okay to cut off? It's

1319
01:38:00.159 --> 01:38:04.920
like the bottom quarter inch of those
little six Yeah, it is. When

1320
01:38:04.960 --> 01:38:09.439
you cut roots, the roots branch
and sprout and grow back out, and

1321
01:38:09.680 --> 01:38:13.479
so whenever you just have a wad
of roots like that, it's always good

1322
01:38:13.520 --> 01:38:15.600
to cut them. If the sides
of your container, you know, is

1323
01:38:15.680 --> 01:38:19.800
just white with a mass of roots, take a box cutter knife and just

1324
01:38:19.920 --> 01:38:25.760
slice downward through that cylinder of soil
that came out of the pot in about

1325
01:38:25.800 --> 01:38:30.560
three or four places, and it
will it will make a difference along the

1326
01:38:30.680 --> 01:38:33.039
side, like from top to bottom
down, Yeah, top to bottom,

1327
01:38:33.079 --> 01:38:36.680
slice down that way all the circling
roots you cut. Now, you know

1328
01:38:38.880 --> 01:38:43.279
if the if the container is like
a one gallon container, well you don't

1329
01:38:43.279 --> 01:38:46.000
want to slice in Well, I
mean you could, but those box cutter

1330
01:38:46.079 --> 01:38:49.119
knives are about a one inch blade. But you're just trying to get through

1331
01:38:49.159 --> 01:38:55.760
that outer wrapping of roots. That's
what the goal is, right, Okay,

1332
01:38:55.920 --> 01:38:58.880
thank you so much. All right, Jim, thanks appreciate that call

1333
01:38:59.199 --> 01:39:03.199
very much. Buchanans and the Heights
is one of the garden centers here that

1334
01:39:03.279 --> 01:39:08.119
we call a destination. It's one
of the ones that people love to go

1335
01:39:08.560 --> 01:39:12.600
and shop. It's on eleven Street. Most of you probably been there.

1336
01:39:12.600 --> 01:39:17.079
I hope you have eleven Street in
the Heights. The website is Buchanansplants dot

1337
01:39:17.159 --> 01:39:19.359
com. You need to go to
the website and you need to sign up

1338
01:39:19.399 --> 01:39:24.399
to get their newsletter. It is
outstanding. You also need when you're on

1339
01:39:24.479 --> 01:39:28.920
the website to look at the educational
materials they have on there. There is

1340
01:39:29.039 --> 01:39:32.920
a lot of good stuff from written
to video do you name it? Excellent?

1341
01:39:33.039 --> 01:39:36.640
Excellent stuff. Now Buchanans, they
took a pretty good hit during these

1342
01:39:36.680 --> 01:39:42.239
storms and they've already gotten out there. They've getting things cleaned out, and

1343
01:39:42.359 --> 01:39:46.000
they are back open for business.
I was shocked to see what they've been

1344
01:39:46.039 --> 01:39:51.520
able to accomplish. You need to
get by there check them out. It's

1345
01:39:51.600 --> 01:39:56.479
one of the destinations that we love
to send people to, and we love

1346
01:39:56.600 --> 01:40:00.640
to go to because the quality of
products they have, the rain products are

1347
01:40:00.640 --> 01:40:04.479
having. Especially when you're looking for
things for pollinators or you're looking for native

1348
01:40:04.520 --> 01:40:11.359
plants, well that's the place to
go. They just really shine in many

1349
01:40:11.479 --> 01:40:15.920
categories, but those certainly are two
of the ones. Buchanans Plants dot Com

1350
01:40:15.039 --> 01:40:17.279
on Eleventh Street in the Heights.
Go by, say hi, I give

1351
01:40:17.319 --> 01:40:20.840
them some encouragement from you know,
like a lot of you taking a good

1352
01:40:20.920 --> 01:40:25.720
storm hit the other day. But
I'm telling you they are back up and

1353
01:40:25.840 --> 01:40:29.079
running and going, so it'd be
a good day to get out to Buchanan's

1354
01:40:29.119 --> 01:40:31.600
Plants. We are going to now
go to Santa Fe and talk to Terry.

1355
01:40:31.720 --> 01:40:35.239
Hello, Terry, Hi, Skip, how's it going, good,

1356
01:40:35.319 --> 01:40:40.520
sir, good sir? Hey,
I have a peach tree. It's sloaded

1357
01:40:40.560 --> 01:40:44.960
with peaches and they look like grapes. There's so many of them. But

1358
01:40:45.119 --> 01:40:51.720
there's black specks coming out from the
stem and all the way around the white

1359
01:40:51.800 --> 01:40:55.920
side of the peach. You know. The other side is pink looking,

1360
01:40:56.159 --> 01:41:01.800
but the white size full of little
black spots. Okay, it coming out

1361
01:41:02.000 --> 01:41:06.000
meaning it's sticking out above the skin
of the peach. Yeah, from the

1362
01:41:06.039 --> 01:41:11.920
stem, huh. On the skin
of the peach, it's a little black

1363
01:41:12.000 --> 01:41:17.319
looking specks on every one of them. Are they round? Yeah, they're

1364
01:41:17.439 --> 01:41:23.359
kind of, well, there's the
other round. I'll tell you what they

1365
01:41:23.479 --> 01:41:27.520
run together. Yeah, it could
be several things. There's a disease called

1366
01:41:27.640 --> 01:41:31.239
scab that makes round spots on the
peach skin. It's only skin deep.

1367
01:41:31.399 --> 01:41:34.199
If you get it bad enough,
the skin can crack a little bit,

1368
01:41:34.600 --> 01:41:40.439
but it's only skin deep, and
I wouldn't worry about it. I don't

1369
01:41:40.560 --> 01:41:44.439
know some of what you're describing isn't
I'm not picturing it. And so if

1370
01:41:44.479 --> 01:41:46.680
you'd like to send me a photo, I can put you on hold and

1371
01:41:47.720 --> 01:41:51.279
Produci will give you an email to
do that. Make sure it's up close,

1372
01:41:51.359 --> 01:41:56.079
good shop focus. Just to be
sure that we're talking about the same

1373
01:41:56.159 --> 01:42:00.720
thing, all right, Okay,
I mean I don't seeing war or anything

1374
01:42:00.800 --> 01:42:04.000
on it's curious, but the pink
side is nothing on the pink side,

1375
01:42:04.119 --> 01:42:12.199
just the white area. Okay,
huh yeah, kind of need to see

1376
01:42:12.239 --> 01:42:14.960
it. So I'm gonna put you
on hold and if you want to hang

1377
01:42:15.079 --> 01:42:16.159
up, you can. If you
want to hang around and get an email,

1378
01:42:16.720 --> 01:42:20.000
they'll they'll pick up and give you
that. Okay, Terry, all

1379
01:42:20.079 --> 01:42:24.880
right, thank you, bet bye
bye. Yeah. When it comes to

1380
01:42:24.960 --> 01:42:29.319
peaches, the common most common insect
pests, we have two things big deals.

1381
01:42:30.119 --> 01:42:34.640
One is scale on the stems.
That is a game changer, it's

1382
01:42:35.079 --> 01:42:42.039
serious. Another one is the plumb
curculio. Plumb curculios they're named after plums,

1383
01:42:42.119 --> 01:42:45.479
but all stone fruit, peaches,
plumb and apricot, all of those.

1384
01:42:45.600 --> 01:42:47.479
They can go into the fruit and
create the worm at the base of

1385
01:42:47.520 --> 01:42:53.439
the fruit. That's a base meaning
I'm sorry, at the seed at the

1386
01:42:53.520 --> 01:42:58.880
pit inside the peach. Those two
are very significant. We have some other

1387
01:42:58.960 --> 01:43:01.399
things that can affect them. Stink
bugs, leaf footed bugs can affect them,

1388
01:43:01.439 --> 01:43:04.199
and some other pists, but that's
the big When it comes to the

1389
01:43:04.720 --> 01:43:11.800
folier diseases, we've got scab which
is a low, round bb shaped spots

1390
01:43:11.840 --> 01:43:16.039
on the peach. There are some
other foliage type diseases. Brown rot is

1391
01:43:16.119 --> 01:43:19.359
the number one that causes the whole
fruit to rot, and you just have

1392
01:43:19.520 --> 01:43:26.319
to preventatively spray with that. By
the way, that's a reminder sanitation is

1393
01:43:26.399 --> 01:43:30.640
important in our gardening. And what
do I mean by sanitation, I mean

1394
01:43:30.039 --> 01:43:35.159
don't bring a problem in and if
it's in, get it out. So

1395
01:43:35.319 --> 01:43:40.159
for example, you bring a plant
home as there's nematodes on the roots in

1396
01:43:40.239 --> 01:43:42.359
the pot, but you didn't lift
it up and look at that. But

1397
01:43:42.439 --> 01:43:45.159
you're bringing it home. Now you've
introduced that problem and there is not an

1398
01:43:45.239 --> 01:43:49.000
ematode eradicator out there. We just
have to end up living with it and

1399
01:43:49.279 --> 01:43:54.600
coming up with some strategies. So
don't bring the problem in. Number two,

1400
01:43:56.000 --> 01:43:59.319
if you've got a problem, get
it out. When you have a

1401
01:43:59.439 --> 01:44:02.479
fruit that dries and turns into a
mummy on the tree, When you have

1402
01:44:02.560 --> 01:44:06.640
a fruit that falls off the tree, oftentimes it may have like a plumb

1403
01:44:06.720 --> 01:44:11.279
curculio in it that's going to pupate. Go into the ground and guess what's

1404
01:44:11.319 --> 01:44:14.479
gonna happen next spring. It's going
to come out as an adult, and

1405
01:44:14.560 --> 01:44:17.079
you're going to have a whole lot
more fruit that are lost to that pest.

1406
01:44:17.479 --> 01:44:19.800
So you pick those up, you
pick those off. If you have

1407
01:44:19.960 --> 01:44:28.119
a pear tree with far blight,
that's the chocolate brown leaves that just die

1408
01:44:28.239 --> 01:44:30.199
on the tree and just stay there, chocolate brown. The ends of the

1409
01:44:30.239 --> 01:44:35.199
shoots that are tender tend to bend
over into a shepherd's crook look. And

1410
01:44:35.680 --> 01:44:38.760
so what do you do with that? Will you print it out? You

1411
01:44:38.840 --> 01:44:42.800
go below the infected part and cut
those out. Every time you make a

1412
01:44:42.880 --> 01:44:46.000
cut, you spray your prunters with
lysol to kill the bacteria that might be

1413
01:44:46.159 --> 01:44:48.880
on the prunter, so that when
you make your next cut, you're not

1414
01:44:49.039 --> 01:44:55.199
introducing the problem to that. And
it's Lysol's it's a brand, I know.

1415
01:44:55.399 --> 01:44:58.880
But there's a good product. Is
something like that that's going to kill

1416
01:44:58.920 --> 01:45:02.199
all the the germs and things on
it. That's sanitation, and that's just

1417
01:45:02.319 --> 01:45:05.960
a good practice that applies in many
different ways. We're gonna take a break

1418
01:45:06.039 --> 01:45:09.960
here for the news seven one,
three, two, two, fifty eight

1419
01:45:10.159 --> 01:45:15.359
seventy four. I'll be right back. I forget all about the sweating and

1420
01:45:15.479 --> 01:45:19.279
digging every time I go out and
pick me up the homegrown to maidos,

1421
01:45:19.399 --> 01:45:26.319
homegrown tomatoes. Would life be without
homegrown tomatoes? Only two things? Money

1422
01:45:26.399 --> 01:45:32.600
came bye and that's true love grown. Oh yeah, homegrown tomatoes. You

1423
01:45:32.840 --> 01:45:39.079
cannot eat it. That's why the
tomatoes or the queen of the vegetable garden

1424
01:45:41.159 --> 01:45:45.199
used to work in for agger life
extensions say the three things that make our

1425
01:45:45.199 --> 01:45:47.199
phone ring or the three t's,
and it's true on garden Line too.

1426
01:45:47.399 --> 01:45:53.039
Trees, turf, and tomatoes.
Probably should say turf, trees, and

1427
01:45:53.119 --> 01:45:56.680
tomatoes, because I think turf is
probably the number one phone ringer here on

1428
01:45:56.760 --> 01:46:00.479
garden Line. Trees definitely also.
And when it comes to the vegables,

1429
01:46:00.560 --> 01:46:05.560
no one calls me about their Cole
Robbie. It's it's tomatoes. We obsess

1430
01:46:05.920 --> 01:46:11.840
over the perfect tomata and hopefully we
can have you help you have some success

1431
01:46:11.960 --> 01:46:15.680
with that. It's it's not that
difficult to do. Welcome back to Gardenline.

1432
01:46:15.680 --> 01:46:18.800
I'm your host, Skip Richter,
and we're here to help you have

1433
01:46:19.039 --> 01:46:23.239
success with your gardening. So just
give us a call seven one three two

1434
01:46:23.279 --> 01:46:27.479
one two KTRH if you have a
question and we could help you with that.

1435
01:46:28.520 --> 01:46:31.880
It's summer fertilizing time, and if
you have not fertilized your lawn this

1436
01:46:32.000 --> 01:46:36.600
summer, or if maybe you used
a fast release product and then here come

1437
01:46:36.680 --> 01:46:42.560
the gully washers, well you ought
to consider something that's going to stretch it

1438
01:46:42.600 --> 01:46:45.720
out a little bit. And Nelson
Plant Food has two products that both have

1439
01:46:45.800 --> 01:46:49.439
a slow release in them. The
first is Bruce's Brew. Now, Bruces

1440
01:46:49.479 --> 01:46:54.159
Brew has an immediate release, but
it also has two different kinds of a

1441
01:46:54.239 --> 01:46:58.600
slow release nitrogen in it that's going
to gradually feed over time. So if

1442
01:46:58.640 --> 01:47:02.199
you want a quick yes, it
can absolutely give you that and then continue

1443
01:47:02.239 --> 01:47:06.520
to feed as well. The other
is slow and Easy, and this is

1444
01:47:06.760 --> 01:47:13.239
really a state of the art slow
release fertilizer. It will release nutrients for

1445
01:47:13.880 --> 01:47:17.039
two, three, four, even
more months down the line. It really

1446
01:47:17.479 --> 01:47:21.000
stretches it out. In fact,
if you do that now, if you

1447
01:47:21.159 --> 01:47:27.000
use nitrovass slow and Easy right now, you won't have to fertilize again until

1448
01:47:27.000 --> 01:47:30.560
we get to fall because it'll still
be releasing your nutrients on through all the

1449
01:47:30.600 --> 01:47:34.279
summer months. It's really amazing and
good for that. It's also a little

1450
01:47:34.279 --> 01:47:38.279
bit ofcidifying for the soil, which
is a good thing. A good thing

1451
01:47:38.560 --> 01:47:41.600
when it comes to diseases such as
take all root rot, for example,

1452
01:47:41.640 --> 01:47:45.359
which prefers higher pH soil. It's
going to give you that gradual growth,

1453
01:47:45.840 --> 01:47:49.680
so you're not going to have the
same You know, you fertilize with too

1454
01:47:49.760 --> 01:47:54.199
much nitrogen, you get to mow
a lot more. It doesn't do that,

1455
01:47:54.439 --> 01:47:57.880
gives you a nice gradual growth.
Nelson plant food both the bruce is

1456
01:47:57.920 --> 01:48:02.199
Brute and the slow and Easy Holiday
plant foods widely available throughout the Houston area.

1457
01:48:03.600 --> 01:48:06.399
Went a head over to single Ranch
and talk to Charlie. Hey,

1458
01:48:06.520 --> 01:48:12.039
Charlie, good morning. How are
you? I'm well, thank you?

1459
01:48:12.239 --> 01:48:15.880
How can we help you today?
Can even get my words? Well,

1460
01:48:15.960 --> 01:48:19.359
I'm actually actually live in Fort Worth
and I'm a baby boomer and I'm responsible

1461
01:48:19.399 --> 01:48:23.359
for a lot of environmental damage.
So I'm doing everything i can to try

1462
01:48:23.399 --> 01:48:28.279
to clean that up. And one
of them is replacing our high water use

1463
01:48:28.560 --> 01:48:32.920
Saint Augustine with something we've just been
hearing about a mixture of red and white

1464
01:48:33.000 --> 01:48:36.640
clover. And you don't have to
dig anything up. What we've been told

1465
01:48:36.760 --> 01:48:41.239
is you just toss it out there
and it kind of grows. It looks

1466
01:48:41.399 --> 01:48:45.680
very similar to a lawn and although
you do have pretty flowers, sometimes it's

1467
01:48:46.800 --> 01:48:51.680
just a really nice alternative if you
can go and shade sun any of those

1468
01:48:51.760 --> 01:48:56.720
kind of things. Is that.
What would you think about that? I'm

1469
01:48:56.920 --> 01:49:04.319
very I question the success of that. I don't have hard research. I've

1470
01:49:04.399 --> 01:49:10.520
not dealt with it personally, so
I'm not going to be too absolute in

1471
01:49:10.640 --> 01:49:13.119
what I say. But i can
tell you this that clovers, when you

1472
01:49:13.199 --> 01:49:15.800
look at clovers here in Texas,
when you get into the heat of summer,

1473
01:49:16.199 --> 01:49:20.159
they're not a lot of the clover's
looking good around and about. And

1474
01:49:20.399 --> 01:49:24.880
I know that when it comes to
foot traffic clover it's going to have a

1475
01:49:24.960 --> 01:49:28.800
problem with that as well. I'm
not saying don't try it, check it

1476
01:49:28.840 --> 01:49:30.520
out. I need to look into
it more. I've heard this from someone

1477
01:49:30.640 --> 01:49:36.680
else, but I'm a little hesitant
about that. There are some grasses that

1478
01:49:36.760 --> 01:49:42.399
are a little bit more resilient out
there and that help in terms of not

1479
01:49:42.640 --> 01:49:47.000
needing water so much, and so
that would be an option. But without

1480
01:49:47.159 --> 01:49:49.960
just saying no, don't do it, it won't work, I'm just saying

1481
01:49:50.000 --> 01:49:57.479
I'm skeptical. Okay, okay,
Well, I appreciate that you're We've heard

1482
01:49:57.560 --> 01:50:01.600
kind of both sides, but the
extra are telling us try it someplace where

1483
01:50:01.600 --> 01:50:04.560
it doesn't matter and let me know
how it goes. That's exactly. That's

1484
01:50:04.680 --> 01:50:10.119
exactly. Yeah, and I'll let
you know. I'm really enjoying this.

1485
01:50:10.520 --> 01:50:13.520
I'm actually driving down the corpus and
I'm just loving all of this. This

1486
01:50:13.680 --> 01:50:15.680
is great. Thank you so much. Well, good, good, And

1487
01:50:15.800 --> 01:50:19.439
yeah there's some there's some a lot
of cool new options out there if you

1488
01:50:19.520 --> 01:50:27.119
want like a groundcover that would give
you the heat tolerance and some drop tolerance

1489
01:50:27.159 --> 01:50:32.359
too. There's something called frog fruit
that is it's actually a weed, but

1490
01:50:32.479 --> 01:50:38.079
it makes a groundcover. People that
sell garden centers that sell native plants often

1491
01:50:38.119 --> 01:50:42.079
will have it, and it spreads. It has little tiny flowers that are

1492
01:50:42.159 --> 01:50:45.800
very popular with certain pollinators, and
it makes a nice little, nice little

1493
01:50:45.880 --> 01:50:49.640
dense area. It can put up
with a little shade, but especially in

1494
01:50:49.760 --> 01:50:54.119
the sun it does very very well. So that's just another thing to consider.

1495
01:50:54.239 --> 01:50:58.600
That's a little more Texas Native.
Thank you so much. I really

1496
01:50:58.600 --> 01:51:01.079
appreciate that. We will definitely,
all right, Charlie, thank you appreciate

1497
01:51:01.199 --> 01:51:06.560
that. Yeah, that is the
case. Interestingly, Texas A and M

1498
01:51:06.720 --> 01:51:15.359
released a Saint Augustine just recently h
and it is reported to be it's reported

1499
01:51:15.479 --> 01:51:20.520
to approach Bermuda grass when it comes
to drought tolerance. That is, that

1500
01:51:20.720 --> 01:51:26.920
is saying something The turf grass breeder
Texas A and M has really focused on

1501
01:51:28.000 --> 01:51:33.560
grasses being more resource efficient, more
in this case with Saint Augustine, water

1502
01:51:34.079 --> 01:51:39.680
efficient, and when when you create, when you do your breeding, and

1503
01:51:39.760 --> 01:51:43.960
when you point toward a particular goal
in time, you're going to achieve that.

1504
01:51:44.600 --> 01:51:48.119
And I'm pretty I was pretty excited
to see this come out. I

1505
01:51:48.239 --> 01:51:53.800
think that I think we're going to
end up being really really impressed with it.

1506
01:51:53.920 --> 01:51:57.960
I put some in my yard this
year, and of course right now

1507
01:51:58.199 --> 01:52:01.960
everything looks good. It's raining and
the temperatures aren't that bad and stuff.

1508
01:52:02.520 --> 01:52:05.479
When it heats up, I'm going
to pull back the water really hard on

1509
01:52:05.640 --> 01:52:09.399
it and see how it does.
I know right now, it's happy,

1510
01:52:09.960 --> 01:52:15.560
it's doing very very well. And
yeah, so we'll just see. I'll

1511
01:52:15.640 --> 01:52:18.720
let you know as we get a
little further into it, make some more

1512
01:52:18.800 --> 01:52:24.800
comments on it as well. If
you live done in the League City area,

1513
01:52:25.039 --> 01:52:29.640
your hometown feed store is League City
Feed So if you need that fertilizer

1514
01:52:29.720 --> 01:52:32.399
you know I've been talking about fertilizers
this morning. Well they've got it.

1515
01:52:32.600 --> 01:52:38.520
They carry a wide variety. If
you need soils, quality soil blends like

1516
01:52:38.560 --> 01:52:42.680
the heirloom soils we were talking about, they've got those down there as well.

1517
01:52:43.479 --> 01:52:46.119
League City Feed stocks up all the
things you need to control pests,

1518
01:52:46.159 --> 01:52:50.039
weeds and diseases. But they're feed
store and you get good service, the

1519
01:52:50.119 --> 01:52:55.439
old time service. We carry the
sacks out for you. It's just a

1520
01:52:55.680 --> 01:52:59.319
good place to go. And you
know, they're open from nine am to

1521
01:52:59.520 --> 01:53:02.359
six pm Monday through Saturday. Closed
on Sunday, but nine am to six

1522
01:53:02.439 --> 01:53:04.920
pm. So if you have to
run by after work, they're still there

1523
01:53:05.119 --> 01:53:10.600
and they can help you out.
Two eight one three three two sixteen twelve.

1524
01:53:10.880 --> 01:53:14.920
Anyone down around League City, we're
talking about Santa Fe, Dickinson,

1525
01:53:15.000 --> 01:53:18.600
Lamark Baycliff, Webster, Clear Lake
City, El Camino Real, San Leone,

1526
01:53:18.920 --> 01:53:23.039
all of you. This is your
hometown feed store. League City Feed

1527
01:53:23.640 --> 01:53:28.760
just a few blocks south of Highway
ninety six on Highway three in League City.

1528
01:53:29.560 --> 01:53:33.600
Premium pet Foods two by the way. Uh you're listening to garden Line

1529
01:53:33.680 --> 01:53:35.760
and our phone number if you would
like to get on the call by the

1530
01:53:35.760 --> 01:53:39.560
way. We're gonna take a little
break here and we'll be back. You

1531
01:53:39.640 --> 01:53:42.600
can get on the board and you
will be first up when we come back.

1532
01:53:42.960 --> 01:53:47.279
Seven one three two one two five
eight seven four seven one three two

1533
01:53:47.359 --> 01:53:59.159
one two fifty eight seventy four.
I'm just handle back now your panzel say,

1534
01:54:02.600 --> 01:54:05.760
welcome back to guard Line. Good
to have you with us today.

1535
01:54:06.960 --> 01:54:12.800
We're going to head straight out to
copper Field and talk to Donna this morning.

1536
01:54:12.840 --> 01:54:15.319
Hello, Donna, good morning.
I was going to come see you

1537
01:54:15.399 --> 01:54:20.680
this morning at ACE Hardware, but
I don't have power since Thursday. All

1538
01:54:20.760 --> 01:54:25.560
right, really, thank you,
but we had to cancel that. Aces

1539
01:54:25.640 --> 01:54:30.560
well, I understand, and I
understand. Yeah. I have a almost

1540
01:54:30.600 --> 01:54:33.880
a half acre here in Copperfield,
and the last two years I have had

1541
01:54:34.000 --> 01:54:41.720
a weed that is very skinny leafed, like a grass type thing. It

1542
01:54:41.800 --> 01:54:46.199
gets about twelve inches tall when it's
mature. It makes clumps everywhere. I've

1543
01:54:46.279 --> 01:54:51.000
got hundreds of it, seems like
in the backyard, and I used to

1544
01:54:51.199 --> 01:54:54.880
always dig them up or pull them
up. They're easy to pull up when

1545
01:54:54.920 --> 01:55:00.359
the ground is wet, but that
doesn't do my hands very well. But

1546
01:55:00.640 --> 01:55:03.760
I have a problem of finding out
what it is and how to treat it.

1547
01:55:04.680 --> 01:55:10.279
At the end of the tiny little
grass blade, it has like a

1548
01:55:10.319 --> 01:55:13.039
little seed pod on the end.
It almost looks like a bird, but

1549
01:55:13.119 --> 01:55:17.640
it's the seed pod type looking.
Okay, like it's it's tiny, like

1550
01:55:17.880 --> 01:55:21.439
size of an English pe or something
real small. Right, it's even Yeah,

1551
01:55:21.479 --> 01:55:25.880
the seed pod is even tinier than
that. It's very small. Yeah,

1552
01:55:26.239 --> 01:55:30.159
Okay, that is a sedge,
and there there's a product. There's

1553
01:55:30.199 --> 01:55:33.279
a weed. There are a number
of sedges, nutsedge or yellow and purple

1554
01:55:33.399 --> 01:55:39.159
nutsedge or sedges. It's not that, but there sedges. There's also something

1555
01:55:39.239 --> 01:55:43.720
called kai linga. Ki linga is
another weed like that. And you're gonna

1556
01:55:43.720 --> 01:55:47.880
have to go with a product for
sedges. So you have things like manage

1557
01:55:48.560 --> 01:55:55.199
is one product. Image is another
product. Sedge hammer. That makes sense,

1558
01:55:55.479 --> 01:55:59.880
sedge hammer to hammer those sedges.
Those will all work. If you

1559
01:56:00.159 --> 01:56:06.039
go to a ACE hardware store in
your neighborhood, you're going to be able

1560
01:56:06.119 --> 01:56:12.640
to find the products that are going
to work quite well actually against sedges,

1561
01:56:12.720 --> 01:56:15.199
and they're gonna they're gonna carry those. So the closest to you is probably

1562
01:56:15.359 --> 01:56:20.600
going to be the one on Highway
six North Hamilton, hardware on Highway six

1563
01:56:20.720 --> 01:56:25.560
North is up there. We were
talking about, you know, you coming

1564
01:56:25.640 --> 01:56:30.359
over to see me at Langham Creek. ACE hardware that is very close to

1565
01:56:30.479 --> 01:56:32.560
you. It just kind of depends
on exactly right where you are, but

1566
01:56:32.680 --> 01:56:38.079
Langham Creek would be a great one. On five twenty nine f five twenty

1567
01:56:38.159 --> 01:56:42.319
nine. Yeah. Is there are
these spray said you sprayed? Well,

1568
01:56:42.359 --> 01:56:46.680
they are spray's uh there, some
are powder, some are liquid. Uh.

1569
01:56:47.359 --> 01:56:50.800
Sedge Hammer is gonna come as a
little packet of powder that you mix

1570
01:56:51.239 --> 01:56:55.880
into water. But there are other
brands on there. And that's why when

1571
01:56:55.880 --> 01:56:58.039
you go to ACE, just just
ask them saying, hey, I need

1572
01:56:58.239 --> 01:57:02.600
sedge control. Absolutely. My land
backs up to the bayou and along that

1573
01:57:02.720 --> 01:57:06.520
back part of the fence. It's
just almost solid with these things, Okay.

1574
01:57:06.640 --> 01:57:10.640
I mean I've just got so many
of them, so all start attacking

1575
01:57:10.680 --> 01:57:12.520
them. Well, if you want
to be true, if you want to

1576
01:57:12.520 --> 01:57:14.760
be triple Share, I'm going to
put you on hold. You can either

1577
01:57:14.840 --> 01:57:18.960
hang up or if you want to
give get my email address from the producer

1578
01:57:19.479 --> 01:57:23.960
and send me a close up picture
so I can be triple Share. But

1579
01:57:24.119 --> 01:57:29.520
I'm I'm ninety percent sure you're talking
about Kai Linga are a very closely related

1580
01:57:29.640 --> 01:57:33.760
sedge. Okay, well, and
we all enjoy your show in our neighborhood.

1581
01:57:33.840 --> 01:57:36.960
All right, Donna, thank you
very much, appreciate those those kind

1582
01:57:38.079 --> 01:57:45.319
words. Kingwood Garden Center and Warren's
Southern Gardens out in Kingwood, they're outstanding

1583
01:57:45.399 --> 01:57:47.840
places to go. And the reason
is when you go there, you're going

1584
01:57:47.920 --> 01:57:53.039
to find all the different plants,
and you know that you're looking for all

1585
01:57:53.159 --> 01:57:59.039
the unusual varieties and cultivars and colors. Right now is a summer season coming

1586
01:57:59.079 --> 01:58:01.680
on. We need to get our
color out there, and we need to

1587
01:58:01.720 --> 01:58:05.840
get it established now so when the
hot weather arrives, it just bounces right

1588
01:58:05.920 --> 01:58:10.119
in there and takes off growing and
does very well. And you can do

1589
01:58:10.239 --> 01:58:13.359
that. You can do that at
Kingwood Gardens. There they are experts.

1590
01:58:13.680 --> 01:58:17.000
Do you want something kind of unique
like plumbago, the Hawaiian lay flower,

1591
01:58:17.399 --> 01:58:24.439
our beautiful, beautiful perennial hibiscus,
Yes, they have those as well.

1592
01:58:25.880 --> 01:58:29.880
I find that anytime you go to
worn Southern Gardens, you're going to find

1593
01:58:29.920 --> 01:58:34.199
everything you need, including the fertilizers, including the heirloom soil blends and things

1594
01:58:34.319 --> 01:58:41.479
like that, and including every kind
of plant, cacti, vegetables, herbs,

1595
01:58:41.880 --> 01:58:46.319
flowers, shrubs, trees. The
new Supergrow Plus from Medina they have

1596
01:58:46.479 --> 01:58:51.359
that out there too. That's a
sixteen zero four sixteen zero four from Medina

1597
01:58:51.439 --> 01:58:56.279
Supergrow Plus, an excellent product and
they have it. You expect that when

1598
01:58:56.319 --> 01:58:59.319
you go to Warrens Garden Center for
them to have the supplies you need and

1599
01:58:59.439 --> 01:59:02.079
the plants that you want to have. We're going to now go to Bill

1600
01:59:02.279 --> 01:59:09.960
in Conro Hello, Bill high Skip. Hey. I have dug out a

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bunch of my grass because it was
from last year. It was just not

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01:59:14.800 --> 01:59:18.640
doing well. And then also I
had a lot of unwanted weeds and other

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01:59:18.760 --> 01:59:24.239
grass permunity in it. Anyway,
my point is so and I killed it,

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01:59:24.640 --> 01:59:27.279
and I'm now pulling it up and
kind of digging it in. But

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I'm realizing that the soil is really
kind of obviously the rains made it kind

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01:59:33.520 --> 01:59:38.319
of it's just really i'll call it
tight, but it's not very light.

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01:59:38.880 --> 01:59:43.000
I'm just trying to think of what
amendment can I use to lighten it up.

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01:59:43.039 --> 01:59:46.720
I know there's expanded sail, there's
sand, there's deconstructed granite, there's

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01:59:47.399 --> 01:59:51.319
yeah, looking through the Nature's wave
resources for different kinds of soils. It

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01:59:51.439 --> 01:59:56.920
seems like they use mortar, saying
a lot. Uh you can uh,

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01:59:57.600 --> 02:00:01.880
but you have a heavy clay,
right, it's not heavy clay because I

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know heavy clay where it's just really
it's just like god a cement when it

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02:00:06.279 --> 02:00:11.720
dries. This is not that Okay, Well, in general, I don't

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02:00:11.800 --> 02:00:17.000
recommend mixing sand in. It takes
a lot of sand to make a significant

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02:00:17.159 --> 02:00:21.319
textural difference to use, you know, clay as an example. I realize

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02:00:21.359 --> 02:00:26.800
you're not talking about heavy but when
you if you had modeling clay and you

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02:00:27.039 --> 02:00:30.199
put a bunch of sand in it
and then mashed it around, you would

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02:00:30.239 --> 02:00:32.760
have modeling clay with sand in it. You know what I'm saying. It

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02:00:32.800 --> 02:00:38.319
would take a lot of sand to
actually loosen that up. And so I

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02:00:38.399 --> 02:00:41.239
think you would do I think you
would do better. What are you going

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02:00:41.319 --> 02:00:43.920
to grow? Are you going to
go back with lawn in that area or

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02:00:44.000 --> 02:00:48.880
what? Yes, okay, yeah
you could use a expanded shale product.

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02:00:49.319 --> 02:00:54.000
But I'm telling you of all the
plants out there, turf our Saint Augustine

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02:00:54.039 --> 02:00:57.720
turfs and stuff, they can take
a clay. I mean they're grown along

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02:00:57.800 --> 02:01:02.520
the Gulf Coast of Texas in former
rice patties where it's a heavy clay and

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02:01:02.600 --> 02:01:05.760
that's easy to slice right under it. And that's when you buy the side

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02:01:05.840 --> 02:01:10.359
you get that real sticky, heavy
clay. Grass grows in that, so

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02:01:10.760 --> 02:01:13.159
I'm not you know, if you
were growing some other kind of plant,

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02:01:13.239 --> 02:01:15.279
I'd be more a litter really,
am ind the soil a lot. I

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02:01:15.319 --> 02:01:18.439
don't know that you need to worry
about it so much in the clay because

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it's tolerant. Now, if you
got a drainage problem, I would fix

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02:01:21.760 --> 02:01:27.359
that for sure with a French drain
or whatever you need before you put the

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02:01:27.479 --> 02:01:30.720
lawn in. I am working on
that. I had done some of that

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02:01:30.800 --> 02:01:33.800
already, and I'm expanded a little
bit, and that doesn't really get it

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02:01:33.880 --> 02:01:38.079
off. Okay, all right,
well, good luck with that. Wish

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02:01:38.159 --> 02:01:40.399
you all right? Well, thanks
a love for that, Yeah, wish

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02:01:40.439 --> 02:01:45.960
you will. Speaking of soils and
improvement and stuff, green Pro green Pro

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when it comes to aeration and compo
stop dressing. Green Pro is an expert

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at that. They are up in
the Magnoia area and they serve kind of

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the northwest quadrant of Houston. You
know, they have wonderful equipment that does

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02:02:00.239 --> 02:02:05.279
an excellent job. You can go
to their website greenpro dot net, greenpro

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02:02:05.960 --> 02:02:12.439
dot net and find exactly, you
know, the kinds of products you need,

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02:02:12.960 --> 02:02:15.520
kinds of services, where they reach
and so on. For example,

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02:02:15.720 --> 02:02:19.279
they cover spring and Cyprus and woodlands
and Conro and Willis. Those are all

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02:02:19.399 --> 02:02:23.800
north. They go over to Magnoia, Montgomery. They come down to Kadie,

1646
02:02:23.880 --> 02:02:27.960
West Houston, Central Houston in North
Houston area. That kind of Northwest

1647
02:02:28.000 --> 02:02:31.720
Cot quadrant is what they serve.
They bring a top quality compost to spread

1648
02:02:31.760 --> 02:02:35.479
over the top. They do that
aeration that is so important. Even though

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02:02:35.520 --> 02:02:39.399
it's a clay soil and the grass
can grow in a clay, They do

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02:02:39.560 --> 02:02:44.159
that aeration that gets the hole down
in the ground. Compost falls into the

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02:02:44.239 --> 02:02:49.800
hole and it just creates increased oxygen
levels and increased root enhancement in those areas.

1652
02:02:49.840 --> 02:02:55.159
That's why Greenpro is such an important
service to having a beautiful, beautiful

1653
02:02:55.239 --> 02:03:00.880
lawn. Also, earlier I was
talking about bugout Max and someone had been

1654
02:03:00.920 --> 02:03:03.039
asking me about, well, what
can you what does it kill? Well?

1655
02:03:03.079 --> 02:03:08.680
It kills insects period, I mean
like one hundred and thirty different insects

1656
02:03:09.479 --> 02:03:13.399
within forty eight hours, it has
done its job. I mean it's not

1657
02:03:13.640 --> 02:03:16.319
like it takes it ten days to
kill something. It does its job and

1658
02:03:16.439 --> 02:03:21.359
it lasts. When you do a
Nitrofoss bug Out Max application, you're going

1659
02:03:21.439 --> 02:03:28.119
to kill insects for the entire summer
season. The product works well in that

1660
02:03:28.279 --> 02:03:30.720
way. Now what you're going to
find is ants and fleas and ticks,

1661
02:03:30.800 --> 02:03:35.560
and you know we're coming up on
chinchbug and possibly soid webworm season. It's

1662
02:03:35.640 --> 02:03:40.439
going to be effective against all of
those different kinds of pests. It's available

1663
02:03:40.800 --> 02:03:44.760
many places, like Nitrofoss products are. You're going to find it at Fisher's

1664
02:03:44.760 --> 02:03:49.119
Hardware both in South Houston on Southmore
and in Laporte on Broadway Street. They

1665
02:03:49.359 --> 02:03:54.399
carry it. You're going to find
it at Kingwood Ace Hardware they carry it

1666
02:03:54.439 --> 02:03:59.359
out there as well. I want
to go now to the phones and uh,

1667
02:04:00.159 --> 02:04:02.000
talk to David. David, I've
got a little bit of time,

1668
02:04:02.079 --> 02:04:04.439
but let's get a start on it
and then I'm going to hold you over

1669
02:04:04.520 --> 02:04:09.359
to finish up. We might be
able to finish it quickly. I've got

1670
02:04:09.439 --> 02:04:14.039
a Sago palm out front and it's
been there for years and it has these

1671
02:04:14.079 --> 02:04:16.680
little sprouts, these little baby sprouts
that come up from the base of it.

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02:04:16.920 --> 02:04:21.359
Yes, and for many years I've
cut them off because if I remember

1673
02:04:21.479 --> 02:04:26.399
correct, if somebody told me that
that hurts the mother plant. But number

1674
02:04:26.439 --> 02:04:30.399
one, is it okay to cut
them off? And number two, they

1675
02:04:30.439 --> 02:04:40.159
are sprouting out of us cylindrical can
shaped patch of stem. I guess that's

1676
02:04:40.159 --> 02:04:42.960
about the size of a soup can. And is it okay to cut those

1677
02:04:43.439 --> 02:04:45.960
and remove those as well? Yes? Now, quick answer. You can

1678
02:04:46.079 --> 02:04:48.600
leave them. You can cut them. If you leave them, you have

1679
02:04:48.920 --> 02:04:54.159
a little clump of sago palms that
doesn't hurt the plant. That's their natural

1680
02:04:54.359 --> 02:04:57.319
state. If you want to cut
them off and have a single trunk,

1681
02:04:57.479 --> 02:05:00.239
you can do that too. The
smaller they are you remove them, the

1682
02:05:00.359 --> 02:05:03.319
more likely you can root them.
You can just set them on the ground.

1683
02:05:03.319 --> 02:05:05.680
It's gonna take them a while.
They don't root fast, but in

1684
02:05:05.760 --> 02:05:11.640
a number of weeks they will develop
roots and those baby pumps can be additional

1685
02:05:11.720 --> 02:05:16.279
sago palm plants. Thank you very
much, you show Oh well, thank

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02:05:16.319 --> 02:05:23.159
you. I appreciate the call.
All right, by bye YouTube. All

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02:05:23.239 --> 02:05:27.960
right, here's the music that means
we are heading to another top of the

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02:05:28.039 --> 02:05:30.720
hour break, but that also means
we're going to be coming back. I

1689
02:05:30.760 --> 02:05:32.680
got another hour in me today.
I hope you do too. Our phone

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to dial by letters kt r H, I should just choose that. That'd

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be a lot easier for me.
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It's crazy just watching as many good
things. Welcome back to guard Line.

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Good to have you with us today. What are we going to talk

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02:06:44.000 --> 02:06:46.760
about? You tell me what's your
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or Dane fertilizer brands in the whole
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different products and a lot of people
just love to use the products because they

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02:07:10.920 --> 02:07:13.920
work. That's the bottom line.
Now, the green bag, the six

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02:07:14.039 --> 02:07:16.720
two four, that's the standard for
our lawns and can be used for other

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02:07:16.800 --> 02:07:21.520
things as well. But you apply
that, it goes into the ground surface

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02:07:21.720 --> 02:07:26.399
and that's where microbes get a hold
of it and they break those nutrients out

1710
02:07:26.479 --> 02:07:30.399
of it down, they bring they
turn them loose. If you will release

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02:07:30.479 --> 02:07:33.880
them into the soil where the plant
roots can get them, and it's a

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02:07:33.960 --> 02:07:38.840
gradual feed over a period of time. You don't have to wait for it.

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02:07:38.880 --> 02:07:41.439
It's going to give you some pretty
quick results, but it's going to

1714
02:07:41.520 --> 02:07:45.760
gradually over time release more and more
of those nutrients and that helps your lawn

1715
02:07:45.920 --> 02:07:48.439
to grow at a nice, steady, even pace. It helps the soil

1716
02:07:48.920 --> 02:07:54.720
to remain in a healthy state or
even to get better. Whenever you put

1717
02:07:54.840 --> 02:07:59.319
organic matter in the soil and organic
products by microlife they are or they are

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02:07:59.479 --> 02:08:05.000
organic man, it's going to enhance
the soil microbial activity. Plus they even

1719
02:08:05.359 --> 02:08:11.359
come chalk with a lot of those
additional microbial organisms that are helpful for plant

1720
02:08:11.479 --> 02:08:16.199
roots. You know, plant roots
and microbes they live together. It's a

1721
02:08:16.760 --> 02:08:22.079
coexisting not just getting along, but
helping each other, enhancing each other.

1722
02:08:22.760 --> 02:08:24.399
And we don't think about that a
lot, but that is a big part

1723
02:08:24.479 --> 02:08:30.960
of plant life is having those microbial
friends in the soil that help the plant

1724
02:08:31.039 --> 02:08:35.720
roots, and microlife helps enhance that. The purple bag is the humans plus

1725
02:08:35.399 --> 02:08:41.279
concentrated compost in a bag. It
does help with your soil structure as it

1726
02:08:41.359 --> 02:08:45.479
works its way down into the soil. It does help with microbial activity.

1727
02:08:46.319 --> 02:08:50.880
Humus is what nature does with organic
matter in its ultimate final form. That

1728
02:08:52.479 --> 02:08:56.479
is how the world is run since
the beginning. Humus gets into the soil

1729
02:08:58.119 --> 02:09:03.520
and it enhances the soil that carbon
that is real high levels in humans.

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02:09:03.319 --> 02:09:09.119
That's very important for microbes and for
soil health in general. Microlife products are

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02:09:09.279 --> 02:09:11.479
widely available. You can find out
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02:09:11.479 --> 02:09:18.079
because there's a lot of miamuven talked
about yet Microlife Fertilizer dot com Microlife Fertilizer

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02:09:18.279 --> 02:09:24.920
dot com. That'd be a good
place to start if you are dealing with

1734
02:09:26.439 --> 02:09:30.520
a challenge in your landscape and you're
thinking, you know, I just need

1735
02:09:30.920 --> 02:09:33.800
color. It's it's kind of blah. I've tried some things but I haven't

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02:09:33.840 --> 02:09:39.159
had success. Why don't you just
run out to Injene Gardens Nursery en Richmond.

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02:09:39.199 --> 02:09:43.479
That is a It is a showplace
and if you've never been, when

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02:09:43.520 --> 02:09:48.279
you go, you're going to see
why I like it so much. Angenet

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02:09:48.399 --> 02:09:54.640
Gardens has an extremely extremely wide pallid
of plants. There's not gonna be things

1740
02:09:54.720 --> 02:09:58.720
you want that they're not going to
have there. They just they just do

1741
02:09:58.439 --> 02:10:01.960
knowledgeable staff to help you find the
right plants that you want. But if

1742
02:10:03.039 --> 02:10:05.960
you walk in and you say,
hey, look i've got flower beds and

1743
02:10:05.039 --> 02:10:09.720
I need them to look good all
summer. I need a combination of plants

1744
02:10:09.840 --> 02:10:11.199
that's going to do that? What
do you got? They're gonna be able

1745
02:10:11.199 --> 02:10:15.199
to tell you. If you say, I'd like to put a beautiful container

1746
02:10:15.279 --> 02:10:18.239
on my patio and I want to
have a bunch of different kinds of flowering

1747
02:10:18.680 --> 02:10:22.439
and color plants in it, what
should I do? They can show you.

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02:10:22.600 --> 02:10:24.720
I mean, they have ones they
put together there, but they can

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02:10:24.840 --> 02:10:31.439
help you create whatever it is you
want. The color pattern or palette that

1750
02:10:31.520 --> 02:10:35.640
you would put together. They're experts
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02:10:35.760 --> 02:10:39.199
and the soils that I talk about
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Richmond. It's Enchanted Gardens Richmond dot
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Sunday ten to four. Go check
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If you'd like to give us a
call, now would be a good

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02:11:05.079 --> 02:11:09.479
time. You can get on the
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If you'd do all quick, that
would be That would be what I would

1759
02:11:13.359 --> 02:11:18.039
recommend if you would like to ask
a question. Nitrofuss's bug Out Max is

1760
02:11:18.239 --> 02:11:22.159
an insecticide that you put down and
with thein forty eight hours it has gone

1761
02:11:22.199 --> 02:11:28.359
to work and it is already getting
the job done, total control and forty

1762
02:11:28.359 --> 02:11:31.880
eight hours of whatever kinds of pastu're
dealing with. Is it ants? Is

1763
02:11:31.920 --> 02:11:35.800
it flees? Is it ticks?
Fleas is a big one. You know,

1764
02:11:35.920 --> 02:11:39.479
the dog goes out and the fleas
get in the in the yard and

1765
02:11:39.600 --> 02:11:41.359
then when the dog goes back out, please are jumping on the dog to

1766
02:11:41.439 --> 02:11:46.479
come back. In Part of flea
control is controlling them out in the thatch

1767
02:11:46.640 --> 02:11:50.600
in your yard as well, ticks, chinchbugs and sod web worms. Sod

1768
02:11:50.640 --> 02:11:54.439
web worms and chinchbugs are going to
be kicking in here pretty soon. Hopefully

1769
02:11:54.520 --> 02:11:56.239
we'll not have a bad sod web
worm year, but you never know.

1770
02:11:56.880 --> 02:12:01.319
But this product, Nitropuss bug Out
Max, is going to give you control

1771
02:12:01.399 --> 02:12:05.520
through the whole summer season. It
lasts out there. It's easy to find.

1772
02:12:05.680 --> 02:12:09.239
You're going to find night to Foss
bug Out Max for insect control at

1773
02:12:09.760 --> 02:12:16.199
the Encented Gardens down in Richmond Rosenberg. You're going to find it at Shades

1774
02:12:16.239 --> 02:12:22.039
of Texas up in the Woodlands area. You're going to find this also in

1775
02:12:22.199 --> 02:12:24.119
Kingwood Ace Hardware. You're going to
find it at the Arbor Gate. You're

1776
02:12:24.119 --> 02:12:28.159
going to find it at Shades of
Texas and South Houston Fisher's Hardware both in

1777
02:12:28.319 --> 02:12:33.840
South Houston and Laporte locations. Easy
to find. Night Foster products very widely

1778
02:12:33.920 --> 02:12:41.239
available and in this case, very
very effective. I was working on some

1779
02:12:41.399 --> 02:12:43.920
things at the house. I was
talking about putting that bed in a little

1780
02:12:43.920 --> 02:12:48.079
bit earlier. There are a number
of things, you know, as a

1781
02:12:48.159 --> 02:12:52.880
gardener you never finish. I don't
know if you know that, but you

1782
02:12:52.079 --> 02:12:58.479
don't. And there's always an what's
my next task, what's my next endeavor,

1783
02:12:58.560 --> 02:13:01.439
what's my planting. I'm about to
put in a little orchard on the

1784
02:13:01.520 --> 02:13:05.560
side of the house, and I
got to get that area ready. I've

1785
02:13:05.600 --> 02:13:07.039
got a lot of different things I
want to do to it to get ready

1786
02:13:07.079 --> 02:13:11.039
to go. I've got some beds
coming in, and I've got some of

1787
02:13:11.039 --> 02:13:16.800
the little eleven inch veggo beds coming
in to get me drainage. Fruit trees

1788
02:13:16.960 --> 02:13:22.800
need drainage, and peach trees and
plum trees. In fact, they actually

1789
02:13:22.920 --> 02:13:28.640
the roots produce hydrogen cyanide in a
water logged location, and that just they

1790
02:13:28.760 --> 02:13:31.720
can't tolerate that. So this is
a heavy clay soil. I used to

1791
02:13:31.840 --> 02:13:37.880
have a fig tree there, and
when it had some issues, I didn't

1792
02:13:39.039 --> 02:13:41.560
care for the kind of fig.
I pulled it up. But when I

1793
02:13:41.720 --> 02:13:46.239
did, the root system was five
inches deep. I'm not kidding. It

1794
02:13:46.600 --> 02:13:50.239
was like you put five inches of
soil on top of a concrete driveway and

1795
02:13:50.359 --> 02:13:54.800
grew a fig tree in it.
It just hit the ground and it went

1796
02:13:54.880 --> 02:13:58.279
sideways five inches deep and wide,
and it was doing really good because it

1797
02:13:58.319 --> 02:14:01.760
was a clay soil old water.
Figs are happy with that, but not

1798
02:14:01.920 --> 02:14:05.119
with the kind of fruit I'm in
a plant. So I'm putting in a

1799
02:14:05.119 --> 02:14:07.800
little eleven inch raised bed just to
get some soil there with some good drainage.

1800
02:14:09.239 --> 02:14:13.439
I'll be doing a constant mulch all
around those beds so that I have

1801
02:14:13.520 --> 02:14:16.920
an all weather pathway. But also
that mulch is decomposing and creating a really

1802
02:14:18.039 --> 02:14:22.039
nice root environment for those trees.
So even an area that doesn't drain well

1803
02:14:22.359 --> 02:14:24.840
can be improved on in this way. And so if you'd like to grow

1804
02:14:26.039 --> 02:14:28.000
fruit trees but you feel like you
don't have the area for it, can

1805
02:14:28.039 --> 02:14:31.439
you call let's talk about it.
I think we can walk you through that

1806
02:14:31.600 --> 02:14:35.520
and help you have success. We're
going to go now, Actually we're going

1807
02:14:35.600 --> 02:14:39.199
to go right now to a break. Teresa and Lauren, I've tucked my

1808
02:14:39.279 --> 02:14:41.560
way all the way up to break. You'll be the first two when I

1809
02:14:41.640 --> 02:14:48.199
come back. One that farmer Brown
is taking the air locked up the barnum

1810
02:14:48.239 --> 02:14:54.000
with the greatest of care do the
hand hold something? Stir wo's there?

1811
02:14:54.640 --> 02:15:01.079
This is somebody there? Nobody here
about? Ain't nobody here at all?

1812
02:15:01.399 --> 02:15:07.359
Oh yeah, I got to have
that Western swind but my fix stupid.

1813
02:15:07.600 --> 02:15:13.199
Welcome back to Guarden Line our phone
number seven one three two one two KTRH

1814
02:15:13.239 --> 02:15:16.159
if you'd like to give us a
call. If you are looking for quality

1815
02:15:16.600 --> 02:15:22.319
soil, blends and mulches and you're
down Southeuston, Ciena malt is a place

1816
02:15:22.359 --> 02:15:26.119
you need to go. They're down
just north of Ruth Sharon near where Highway

1817
02:15:26.159 --> 02:15:28.039
six and two eighty eight are,
you know down there for FM five twenty

1818
02:15:28.079 --> 02:15:31.840
one. That's the actual road they're
on FM five twenty one. The website

1819
02:15:31.920 --> 02:15:37.399
is cienamultch dot com. That's easy, easy to remember for all of you

1820
02:15:37.520 --> 02:15:39.520
in that area. You know,
they deliver within about twenty miles. There's

1821
02:15:39.560 --> 02:15:43.640
a delivery fee for big bulky things, of course, but they deliver about

1822
02:15:43.640 --> 02:15:48.640
twenty miles. So Siena Plantation,
Iowa Colony, are Coola Sandy Point like

1823
02:15:48.760 --> 02:15:54.239
Olympia, Pomona First Colony, Meridian, Russia and Manul Riverstone twelve Valley,

1824
02:15:54.319 --> 02:15:56.760
Fresno. Let's just go through all
of them here. Sweetwater, Pearland sun

1825
02:15:56.840 --> 02:16:01.920
Creek estates aren't anywhere out near the
Brazer Spen State Park. This is your

1826
02:16:01.960 --> 02:16:05.359
place to go. And you know, brown stuff comes before green stuff.

1827
02:16:05.760 --> 02:16:11.399
Get the soil right when you drive
out of Cienamals. You've got a compost

1828
02:16:11.560 --> 02:16:20.800
or a soil blend or a finely
screened leaf compost quality for top dressing too.

1829
02:16:20.000 --> 02:16:22.760
That stuff, by the way,
You've got mulches to go on top

1830
02:16:22.840 --> 02:16:26.960
of the soil. You have the
fertilizers. If I talk about a fertilizer

1831
02:16:26.039 --> 02:16:31.079
on Guardline, it's at Ciena Malts. You've got that, and you are

1832
02:16:31.199 --> 02:16:35.200
set up to set that stage,
that foundation in the brown stuff the soil

1833
02:16:35.760 --> 02:16:41.440
so that the plants just have success. So Cienamals don't forget it. Every

1834
02:16:41.479 --> 02:16:45.639
fertilizer I talk about on Guardline is
going to be down there, and a

1835
02:16:45.760 --> 02:16:52.000
wide variety of many products, including
some gorgeous, very cool landscape rocks as

1836
02:16:52.040 --> 02:16:56.799
well. We're going to go out
to bel Air now and talk to Teresa.

1837
02:16:56.040 --> 02:17:03.120
Hello, Teresa, I have a
Branford pair in the backyard. It

1838
02:17:03.360 --> 02:17:07.799
is a gorgeous tree and the I
think there's year too that there's clusters of

1839
02:17:07.959 --> 02:17:11.920
leaves that look dead. Okay,
what can I do to help this tree

1840
02:17:13.200 --> 02:17:16.319
that is fire blight? Are they
kind of a chocolate dark brown? And

1841
02:17:16.479 --> 02:17:22.079
the leaves you're hanging on the branches? Yeah, A bacteria attacks that branch

1842
02:17:22.200 --> 02:17:26.920
in the spring when we're having rainy
weather, and it moves pretty quickly through

1843
02:17:26.000 --> 02:17:28.799
the branch. It cuts off all
the flow of water and nutrients, and

1844
02:17:28.879 --> 02:17:33.920
the whole leaf turns chocolate brown and
dies. Typically the tip, which is

1845
02:17:33.360 --> 02:17:37.079
sort of succulent, bends over and
we call it a shepherd's crook effect.

1846
02:17:37.760 --> 02:17:41.879
But what you got to do?
How big is this tree? It's a

1847
02:17:43.280 --> 02:17:46.159
gosh, it's taller than our house
and we are we have a two story

1848
02:17:46.200 --> 02:17:48.680
home. You have a good reeltor
could you move? Because you're not going

1849
02:17:48.760 --> 02:17:52.239
to want to You're not going to
want hit. I'm kidding. I was

1850
02:17:52.319 --> 02:17:56.000
going to say, you want to
go out and print all those fire blight

1851
02:17:56.399 --> 02:18:03.600
strikes out, but that is totally
impractical. You just it work and I

1852
02:18:03.639 --> 02:18:07.520
couldn't even put it down in it. That's why I was going to go

1853
02:18:07.639 --> 02:18:13.040
straight to, hey, you need
to move. So just Lida that anything

1854
02:18:13.120 --> 02:18:16.159
you do that encourages vigor in that
tree is going to make it worse.

1855
02:18:16.520 --> 02:18:22.000
So don't do extra fertilizing around that
tree. If it's a little dry,

1856
02:18:22.120 --> 02:18:24.959
that's okay. You don't have to
push it into a lot of you know,

1857
02:18:26.040 --> 02:18:28.719
with extra water for the tree's sake. You gotta do what you gotta

1858
02:18:28.760 --> 02:18:33.440
do for your lawn. But in
general, just hold back. It's part

1859
02:18:33.520 --> 02:18:37.959
of the game with pairs, and
Bradford is no exception to that. For

1860
02:18:37.079 --> 02:18:41.440
smaller trees, you can print it
out. There are some sprays you can

1861
02:18:41.520 --> 02:18:45.479
put on, but on a tree
that size, it is completely not practical

1862
02:18:45.600 --> 02:18:50.399
and probably not going to be very
effective. Okay, will it ever stop

1863
02:18:50.680 --> 02:18:54.200
or will it always? This is
the way it's going to be for the

1864
02:18:54.280 --> 02:18:58.159
rest of the duration. Kind of
the way it's going to be each year

1865
02:18:58.239 --> 02:19:01.559
is different. Some years are really
bad depending on the temperatures and the rainfall

1866
02:19:01.680 --> 02:19:05.440
in the spring. But now that
you have those strikes in there, the

1867
02:19:05.520 --> 02:19:09.879
bacteria is present. So here comes
from rain when the tree is blooming,

1868
02:19:11.319 --> 02:19:15.719
and it splashes those bacteria all over
the place, and then here comes the

1869
02:19:15.799 --> 02:19:20.040
fire blight as a result right behind
that. Okay, all right, in

1870
02:19:20.239 --> 02:19:24.360
the spring next year, should I
try to cut back a little bit or

1871
02:19:24.440 --> 02:19:26.760
in the winter. I mean in
the winter, maybe try to cut a

1872
02:19:26.799 --> 02:19:30.079
little bit if I can. Or
is it just fruitless? I mean that's

1873
02:19:30.399 --> 02:19:33.639
not I mean it's such a big
tree. It's it's impossible to get it

1874
02:19:33.719 --> 02:19:35.799
all. Yeah. I just don't
think you're going to see a benefit that

1875
02:19:35.959 --> 02:19:41.120
warrants the effort that's going to be. Yeah, okay, thank you,

1876
02:19:41.680 --> 02:19:43.799
Yeah you bet all right, take
care, Thank you for the call.

1877
02:19:43.879 --> 02:19:50.840
Appreciate that very much. Medina has
a new product that I'm really excited about,

1878
02:19:50.239 --> 02:19:54.520
and this is called Supergrow Plus.
It's one of their has to grow

1879
02:19:54.559 --> 02:19:56.959
products, you know, they have
they have a hash to grow, they

1880
02:19:56.959 --> 02:20:00.399
have a has to grow for lawns
and so on. The super Grow Plus

1881
02:20:00.639 --> 02:20:03.799
is the latest and it is a
sixteen zero two fertilizer, which is a

1882
02:20:03.920 --> 02:20:09.360
good blend, especially for lawns that
have been fertilized over the years that you're

1883
02:20:09.440 --> 02:20:15.120
returning the clippings to that middle number
is not very important for lawns success.

1884
02:20:15.239 --> 02:20:16.760
Now. Of course, you can
have levels that are so low that you

1885
02:20:16.879 --> 02:20:20.600
need it. But I did a
study one time where I looked at two

1886
02:20:20.680 --> 02:20:24.440
hundred lawns in a black clay soil, and not one lawn had a phosphorus

1887
02:20:24.520 --> 02:20:30.520
efficiency because they'd been fertilized for the
years and phosphorus doesn't wash away easily.

1888
02:20:30.879 --> 02:20:33.760
It sticks around, and so supergril
plus is an ideal thing. Now,

1889
02:20:33.799 --> 02:20:37.600
it's got great stuff in it.
You know, it's got half about a

1890
02:20:37.639 --> 02:20:41.360
fifth of the nitrogen is going to
be in a slow release form. It's

1891
02:20:41.440 --> 02:20:46.760
going to have seaweed extract in it. It's going to have a keylated form

1892
02:20:46.840 --> 02:20:50.040
of iron which helps it helps it
to stay green. The yellowing of your

1893
02:20:50.079 --> 02:20:54.120
Saint Augustine typically is due to an
iron deficiency. It's got humic acid,

1894
02:20:54.319 --> 02:20:58.040
it's got molasses in it. It's
just a quality product. You hook it's

1895
02:20:58.079 --> 02:21:01.479
a quart bottle, hook up to
your hose, takes about ten minutes to

1896
02:21:01.559 --> 02:21:05.840
do your whole lawn if you it'll
cover about four thousand square feet too,

1897
02:21:07.239 --> 02:21:11.319
So I would encourage you to give
it a try. The combo of products

1898
02:21:11.360 --> 02:21:15.520
in this ought to be ideal for
graining up a lawn, providing a little

1899
02:21:15.559 --> 02:21:20.239
bit of an extended feed as well, and it's all for Medina has to

1900
02:21:20.360 --> 02:21:26.239
grow. Super grow Plus sixteen zero
two again widely available like Medina products are.

1901
02:21:26.520 --> 02:21:28.200
We're going to go now to spring
and talk to Lauren. Hello,

1902
02:21:28.399 --> 02:21:33.040
Lauren, Hi, Yeah, good
morning. How are you doing. I'm

1903
02:21:33.040 --> 02:21:37.920
will sir great. We have an
issue on the front lawn by our curb.

1904
02:21:39.120 --> 02:21:43.600
We have a sinkhole that's been there
for over two years, ideas,

1905
02:21:43.280 --> 02:21:48.760
and we've done all kinds of things. We've put dirt, packed it up,

1906
02:21:48.799 --> 02:21:56.239
We've put rocks, small rocks,
bigger rocks, and they've all gone

1907
02:21:56.280 --> 02:22:00.360
away and it just keeps getting bigger. Right now, it's about maybe a

1908
02:22:00.399 --> 02:22:05.920
little a little over two feet by
two feet by two feet deep. And

1909
02:22:07.159 --> 02:22:11.959
so we've you know, I've looked
online for solutions, and everybody has a

1910
02:22:13.000 --> 02:22:16.399
different opinion. Do this, No, don't do this, do this,

1911
02:22:16.959 --> 02:22:22.520
And I've tried to call different places, you know, around town, and

1912
02:22:22.680 --> 02:22:26.040
no, we don't do that or
this and that. So I thought i'd

1913
02:22:26.120 --> 02:22:31.120
call it. Yeah, my favorite
dirt guy. I see what you have

1914
02:22:31.200 --> 02:22:33.159
to say. That's good. Well, I'm going to not add to the

1915
02:22:33.280 --> 02:22:37.040
do this is. I am not
a sinkhole expert, but i do know

1916
02:22:37.159 --> 02:22:41.399
this. It's going somewhere, and
I'm curious as to where it's going.

1917
02:22:43.200 --> 02:22:46.120
Hopefully it's not one of those big
old giants sinkhole kinds of things. You

1918
02:22:46.200 --> 02:22:52.360
hear about eventually happening, but somewhere
that is washing and going. And I

1919
02:22:52.600 --> 02:22:58.559
tell you, I don't know where
to begin. Yeah, well, I

1920
02:22:58.680 --> 02:23:01.959
just really don't know where to begin
to tell you, and who would be

1921
02:23:03.040 --> 02:23:05.559
able. I first discovered it.
The I first discovered it, I was

1922
02:23:05.639 --> 02:23:09.280
walking out to my curb and at
the time I didn't know it was there

1923
02:23:09.319 --> 02:23:13.559
because it's kind of behind some bushes
or whatever, you know, but close

1924
02:23:13.600 --> 02:23:16.159
to the and it's covered with it
was covered with glass grass, so I

1925
02:23:16.239 --> 02:23:20.079
didn't see it. I stepped into
it and fell over like a dead tree

1926
02:23:20.120 --> 02:23:26.559
and broke my hand. So yeah, so I but do you have any

1927
02:23:26.639 --> 02:23:30.799
idea like who I could? I
wonder if it's close enough to the curb

1928
02:23:31.360 --> 02:23:35.799
for you know, the city maintenance
or something to at least come out and

1929
02:23:35.959 --> 02:23:39.280
check it out. I don't know, is it it's not affecting the integrity

1930
02:23:39.319 --> 02:23:43.760
of the sidewalk or the street right
now, it's not the sidewalk, but

1931
02:23:43.879 --> 02:23:50.120
there's close to it is a lightful
and so uh. I've reached out to

1932
02:23:50.239 --> 02:23:54.600
our homeowners and they said, well, we'll to contact our grounds keep a

1933
02:23:54.639 --> 02:24:00.360
guy, which I've were several times. Nobody's ever come out yeah. Yeah,

1934
02:24:00.479 --> 02:24:03.680
boy, I tell you, I'm
like I said, I'm not going

1935
02:24:03.760 --> 02:24:05.239
to add to the do this.
I don't know what to tell you on

1936
02:24:05.360 --> 02:24:13.440
that because landscapers that typically isn't their
forte right. You know that you've already

1937
02:24:13.520 --> 02:24:16.719
put stuff down in the hold,
You've tried rocks, you've tried other things.

1938
02:24:16.799 --> 02:24:22.719
Yeah, that water's going somewhere,
so I'm kind of concerned about where

1939
02:24:22.840 --> 02:24:26.879
is all that's going and why what's
going on there? Who knows? Right,

1940
02:24:26.079 --> 02:24:31.200
My best thing that I found on
the internet was to pour, like

1941
02:24:31.120 --> 02:24:35.479
dig it out a little bit and
then pour about a third of the way

1942
02:24:35.879 --> 02:24:41.719
with the cement and then put dirt
and grass on top of that. Yeah,

1943
02:24:41.799 --> 02:24:46.479
which sounds good. But if underneath
the cement it's being sucked out too,

1944
02:24:46.760 --> 02:24:50.760
yeah yeah, and as water washes
over that cement around the edges,

1945
02:24:50.799 --> 02:24:52.879
it's going to be taking soil and
just eating away around the sides of the

1946
02:24:52.959 --> 02:24:58.799
cement. I mean that does make
sense, but right, Yeah, I

1947
02:24:58.840 --> 02:25:01.760
don't know, And I don't mind
saying I don't know, And this is

1948
02:25:01.840 --> 02:25:05.719
a big I don't know. Sorry, I don't know what else to suggest

1949
02:25:05.840 --> 02:25:11.079
to you, you know this,
Yeah, maybe because I haven't really called

1950
02:25:11.120 --> 02:25:15.079
the city. I just call it
the homemoks people. So because it's next

1951
02:25:15.120 --> 02:25:18.360
to a light pole, maybe they'll
be right more concerned. Well, get

1952
02:25:18.440 --> 02:25:20.799
somebody out possibly, So it's going
to be a while though. I can

1953
02:25:20.840 --> 02:25:24.079
tell you this. The city has
their hands full for a long time after

1954
02:25:24.159 --> 02:25:28.959
these last few nights, and so
nobody's gonna come out, nor should they

1955
02:25:28.719 --> 02:25:33.479
right now. But you can try
later on, uh you know, talking

1956
02:25:33.559 --> 02:25:39.879
to them. Maybe get somebody in
the engineering department. Uh, yeah,

1957
02:25:39.319 --> 02:25:41.840
don't I don't even know. You
know, the county deals with stuff like

1958
02:25:41.959 --> 02:25:46.600
roads and bridges and creeks and stabilizing
soil for those kinds of things. There

1959
02:25:46.719 --> 02:25:50.399
may be somebody who could at least
point you in the right direction. They're

1960
02:25:50.399 --> 02:25:56.760
not going to come out extra problem, but they have expertise in things similar

1961
02:25:56.879 --> 02:26:01.360
to that. So you might try
calling Harris County Commissioner's office and saying,

1962
02:26:01.440 --> 02:26:05.600
hey, any place you can direct
me to here for some help and see

1963
02:26:05.639 --> 02:26:09.319
what they can exactly. That I
guess is the closest to an answer I

1964
02:26:09.440 --> 02:26:13.000
got for you, Lauren. Lauren, Okay, sorry, very good.

1965
02:26:13.600 --> 02:26:18.879
I appreciate it. You bet take
care. RCW Nurseries, which is the

1966
02:26:20.000 --> 02:26:22.760
Garden Center up there where a belt
Way eight two forty nine come together.

1967
02:26:22.959 --> 02:26:26.799
Highway two forty nine goes to tom
ballon belt Way eight RCWS to get a

1968
02:26:26.840 --> 02:26:30.200
got it nursery. If they don't
have it, they're going to do their

1969
02:26:30.239 --> 02:26:33.239
best to find it. At RCW, you're going to find the fertilizers that

1970
02:26:33.319 --> 02:26:37.360
I talk about on garden Line.
They've got them there. They're in stock.

1971
02:26:37.440 --> 02:26:39.239
They have In fact, they have
an excellent stock of a lot of

1972
02:26:39.319 --> 02:26:43.680
different kinds of things. RCW has
been around since nineteen seventy nine when them

1973
02:26:43.680 --> 02:26:48.479
Williamson family opened it. They still
have the Williamson Tree Farm, which is

1974
02:26:48.479 --> 02:26:52.399
where they get their trees from.
At RCW quality trees, they can come

1975
02:26:52.440 --> 02:26:54.200
out, they can do the planting
for you. That's what I would recommend,

1976
02:26:54.280 --> 02:26:58.399
especially if it's a good sized tree. But it's going to be the

1977
02:26:58.520 --> 02:27:00.760
species that do well here. If
you tell them, hey, I got

1978
02:27:00.799 --> 02:27:03.239
a little bit of a wet spot, what kind of oak would do best?

1979
02:27:03.319 --> 02:27:07.040
They know they know the answer to
that, and that way that investment

1980
02:27:07.239 --> 02:27:11.239
is going to be there fifty years
from now looking better than ever for you

1981
02:27:11.639 --> 02:27:15.280
or or you know, your kids
if they end up in the house someday

1982
02:27:15.799 --> 02:27:18.680
that is the way to go.
You don't want to mess around with cheap

1983
02:27:18.719 --> 02:27:22.040
trees with species that don't grow here. If someone says this is a fast

1984
02:27:22.120 --> 02:27:26.440
growing tree, what do they say, don't don't look a gift horse in

1985
02:27:26.479 --> 02:27:28.040
the mouth. Well you better look
that one in the mouth. You want

1986
02:27:28.079 --> 02:27:33.079
a quality tree grows at a moderate
rate. Narcyw can get you fixed up

1987
02:27:33.120 --> 02:27:35.760
with that. Hey, it's time
for a break in the news. Seven

1988
02:27:35.840 --> 02:27:56.319
one three two one two katrh my
sentiments exactly. I appreciate rainfall, but

1989
02:27:58.000 --> 02:28:03.959
okay, uncle, enough bottle it
up. I'll call you back in June

1990
02:28:05.040 --> 02:28:09.079
and July and August and probably ask
for a little bit of it at that

1991
02:28:09.239 --> 02:28:11.760
time. Welcome back to Guardenline.
Good to have you with us today.

1992
02:28:11.840 --> 02:28:15.840
Our phone number if you'd like to
call in and ask a question seven one

1993
02:28:15.959 --> 02:28:20.040
three two on two KTRH seven one
three two and two KTRH. We're going

1994
02:28:20.079 --> 02:28:24.520
to head out to Mott Bellevue now
and talk to Dwine. Hello, Duane,

1995
02:28:26.159 --> 02:28:28.639
Hey, Skip, thanks for taking
my call. I guess you know

1996
02:28:28.719 --> 02:28:31.479
with the recent weather we had,
the bad weather. I have an oak

1997
02:28:31.559 --> 02:28:37.440
tree in the front yard. I'm
fifteen years old. It's probably fifty sixty

1998
02:28:37.479 --> 02:28:41.799
feet tall. When the tree was
younger, it started splitting at the bottom.

1999
02:28:41.879 --> 02:28:48.200
So I took a boat or a
tie rod and put through the trunk

2000
02:28:48.559 --> 02:28:52.600
about three or four feet from the
ground to bring it back together so it

2001
02:28:52.600 --> 02:28:56.399
would grow back together. Okay,
And it looks like one of the branches

2002
02:28:56.479 --> 02:29:01.680
on top split, but I noticed
it had had some black in the middle

2003
02:29:01.799 --> 02:29:05.920
of it. And they had another
brand that was about ten inches wide.

2004
02:29:05.000 --> 02:29:09.879
They had another one about six inches
wide that split, but they didn't have

2005
02:29:09.959 --> 02:29:13.799
any black in it. And my
question was, is there's something wrong with

2006
02:29:13.920 --> 02:29:16.879
that tree it needs to be cut
down? Or is that normal in live

2007
02:29:16.959 --> 02:29:22.079
oak trees? And you're talking about
black being inside sort of right inside the

2008
02:29:22.200 --> 02:29:26.280
v yeah, so in the very
middle of it. Yeah. This is

2009
02:29:26.799 --> 02:29:31.600
this is an example of why when
we're planting young trees, we want to

2010
02:29:31.680 --> 02:29:37.799
train them right a good branch angle
of let's say forty five degrees sixty degrees

2011
02:29:37.920 --> 02:29:45.719
somewhere in there, those branches develop
without pushing bark together. When you have

2012
02:29:45.840 --> 02:29:50.079
a narrow v angle, if you
can hold up two fingers like you're saying

2013
02:29:50.159 --> 02:29:56.079
number two in between your two fingers, as each of those fingers gets bigger,

2014
02:29:56.600 --> 02:30:01.239
it presses the bark together and it
can't form a strong union. It's

2015
02:30:01.360 --> 02:30:05.719
dead bark in there, and so
then when that branch splits, you see

2016
02:30:05.760 --> 02:30:09.600
all that dead interior, black rotting
outer bark, which also then leads to

2017
02:30:09.680 --> 02:30:16.280
black rotting interior inside the tree.
And that's why it's like that. It's

2018
02:30:16.319 --> 02:30:18.840
the narrow branch angle. Once you've
got a big tree and it's already happening,

2019
02:30:20.079 --> 02:30:22.319
it's kind of hard to do a
whole lot for it. It's something

2020
02:30:22.399 --> 02:30:26.600
that happens in the training. But
you need to watch those angles. And

2021
02:30:26.680 --> 02:30:31.040
that's why having a good quality tree
person like Martin Spoon Moore with affordable tree

2022
02:30:31.440 --> 02:30:35.959
as important because they can see those
and recognize those and make the recommendations on

2023
02:30:35.079 --> 02:30:41.120
what might need to be done in
preparation for stormy weather like we just had.

2024
02:30:43.479 --> 02:30:46.319
Okay, so would you say the
tree is okay or should it be

2025
02:30:46.479 --> 02:30:50.280
replaced? Well, I'd have to
look at it. You know, when

2026
02:30:50.360 --> 02:30:54.600
you when at a certain degree of
damage, it's like it's so esthetically unacceptable

2027
02:30:54.719 --> 02:31:01.440
that it's never going to become a
beautiful tree. Right lopsided, or maybe

2028
02:31:01.280 --> 02:31:07.920
if there's interior decay. Now you've
got this big area of interior wood exposed

2029
02:31:07.520 --> 02:31:13.559
where it'll never close over, it
will never heal over that with callous and

2030
02:31:13.680 --> 02:31:16.159
in that case, it's like,
well it may be okay today, but

2031
02:31:16.440 --> 02:31:20.159
not for long. I tell you. I did take a picture of it,

2032
02:31:20.239 --> 02:31:22.879
a close up with the whole tree, and you can see where one

2033
02:31:22.959 --> 02:31:26.680
of the branches is, you know, regular wood color, that snapping.

2034
02:31:26.760 --> 02:31:30.840
The other one has the black.
Okay, Duane, you want to send

2035
02:31:30.840 --> 02:31:33.399
me those pictures? Sure, Okay, I'm gonna put you on hole right

2036
02:31:33.440 --> 02:31:37.040
now. Send me the pictures as
much as you can show me in the

2037
02:31:37.120 --> 02:31:41.719
photos, and I'll make a comment
on it and we'll go from there.

2038
02:31:41.559 --> 02:31:46.399
All right, Just hang on.
My producer is going to give you my

2039
02:31:46.600 --> 02:31:52.440
email address, so we will get
that done. Let's see here. We

2040
02:31:52.559 --> 02:31:58.600
are now going to go to Katie
and talk to Diane. Hello, Diane,

2041
02:32:00.079 --> 02:32:03.799
how are you? I'm well,
how are you fine? Listen?

2042
02:32:03.000 --> 02:32:07.959
I was listening to the gentleman talking
about filling the sink coat for two years

2043
02:32:09.079 --> 02:32:13.479
with every kind of imaginal thing.
Yeah, And I walked my dog a

2044
02:32:13.559 --> 02:32:16.280
lot, and there was a neighbor
who was doing this, and everyone was

2045
02:32:16.360 --> 02:32:20.719
watching the sink cooat grow and fill
it in. It turns out there was

2046
02:32:20.840 --> 02:32:26.399
a manhole cover underneath, and the
city had to come out and dig down

2047
02:32:26.559 --> 02:32:30.079
and do some work too. Obviously
there was a leak or something. It

2048
02:32:30.239 --> 02:32:33.719
was going somewhere, but you didn't
know there was a manhole cover under it

2049
02:32:33.920 --> 02:32:37.680
because it had been playing it over. Wow. Wow, who to think?

2050
02:32:37.799 --> 02:32:41.440
Who to thunk it? Well,
that's good. Good to hear that.

2051
02:32:41.760 --> 02:32:45.000
And I guess so going back to
the old advice of hey, call

2052
02:32:45.040 --> 02:32:46.760
the city or call the county and
see if you can get somebody who can

2053
02:32:46.799 --> 02:32:50.079
help you with that. Yeah,
and I think he had the idea of

2054
02:32:50.200 --> 02:32:54.680
digging it out, and that's what
really happened. I guess this sprinkler guy

2055
02:32:54.040 --> 02:32:56.520
said, well, maybe there's a
leak with a sprinkler, and as he

2056
02:32:56.799 --> 02:33:01.479
was digging out, they said,
oh, surprise, the manhill over there.

2057
02:33:01.600 --> 02:33:03.079
So then the city came in took
caure of the issue. There you

2058
02:33:03.159 --> 02:33:05.840
go. Hey, thanks for letting
us know that, Diane. I appreciate

2059
02:33:05.840 --> 02:33:13.479
what you call you take care.
If you're looking for a product that will

2060
02:33:13.559 --> 02:33:18.920
provide a release of nitrogen into your
plants from a natural base, that would

2061
02:33:18.959 --> 02:33:24.200
be sweet green. Sweet green eleven
percent really high nitrogen content for an organic

2062
02:33:24.280 --> 02:33:30.799
type product. Sweet Green is molasses
base does have high carbon content, which

2063
02:33:30.920 --> 02:33:35.959
really makes microbes happy. That's why
organic gardeners like to put molasses out on

2064
02:33:35.360 --> 02:33:39.559
the soil, because it does enhance
in that way. Sweet Green by nitrofoss

2065
02:33:39.680 --> 02:33:43.559
is widely available here in the area. For example, if you go to

2066
02:33:43.639 --> 02:33:48.239
all spas ace up in the woodlands, or if perhaps you would go down

2067
02:33:48.280 --> 02:33:52.879
to Plants for all seasons on Highway
two forty nine are plants and things at

2068
02:33:52.920 --> 02:33:58.959
in Brennam all places you can get
nitrophos products like the sweet Green Sweet green

2069
02:34:00.040 --> 02:34:03.000
and smells good too. I can
tell you that, so both you and

2070
02:34:03.120 --> 02:34:07.239
your microbes will be happy with that. We are going to go now to

2071
02:34:07.760 --> 02:34:13.600
West Houston and talk to Dave.
Hello, Dave, Yeah, good morning

2072
02:34:13.040 --> 02:34:18.479
morning. It's nice to see the
sun. Yeah, here it is finally.

2073
02:34:18.840 --> 02:34:26.079
I've been out reading, uh some
of my flowers in the front yard

2074
02:34:28.120 --> 02:34:37.319
and on the ground there is a
a little white thing that looks like cotton.

2075
02:34:37.440 --> 02:34:39.639
I mean it's some of them are
small, some of the are a

2076
02:34:39.680 --> 02:34:45.840
little larger, but it's covered it
up like you know, we had a

2077
02:34:46.840 --> 02:34:50.319
a snowshower or something. Have you
any idea of what that is and how

2078
02:34:50.399 --> 02:34:54.040
to get rid of it. It's
on the ground in the weeds, saying

2079
02:34:56.120 --> 02:34:58.680
it's on the ground in between the
flowers. What you said. Some are

2080
02:34:58.719 --> 02:35:01.799
small, some are larger. What
is small and what is larger? Size

2081
02:35:03.120 --> 02:35:11.200
small as a size or a pencil
large, maybe a size the dime or

2082
02:35:11.079 --> 02:35:18.399
maybe it's kind of hard to see
you sometimes there are boy, Well,

2083
02:35:18.479 --> 02:35:22.040
I always uh, don't trust myself
when I'm hearing descriptions and picturing in my

2084
02:35:22.200 --> 02:35:28.159
mind that I'm picturing what you're trying
to describe. Uh. There are some

2085
02:35:28.399 --> 02:35:33.799
flowers that will follow with a cottony
type of material. Well, I take

2086
02:35:33.840 --> 02:35:37.959
a dandelion for example. You know
you have this white, cottony looking thing

2087
02:35:37.040 --> 02:35:41.719
on top, but that it came
from a flower. There are some other

2088
02:35:41.799 --> 02:35:45.120
plants that will do something similar to
that. Those tend to not be white

2089
02:35:45.159 --> 02:35:50.280
though, they're kind of a tan
tannish white color of beige color. I

2090
02:35:50.360 --> 02:35:54.360
think I'm just or cotton white and
it's is it dry or is it wet?

2091
02:35:56.000 --> 02:36:01.600
Well, of course it's hard to
tell because thee uh, Okay,

2092
02:36:01.639 --> 02:36:03.520
I'll tell you what. Let's do
it. Yeah, let's do this,

2093
02:36:03.680 --> 02:36:07.920
Dave, get your camera done in
there, your cell phone and get as

2094
02:36:07.040 --> 02:36:11.120
close as you can, make sure
it's in sharp focus before you send it

2095
02:36:11.159 --> 02:36:13.680
to me, and let me just
see some pictures of this. And I

2096
02:36:13.879 --> 02:36:16.280
know when I see the picture,
I'm probably gonna go, oh, it's

2097
02:36:16.520 --> 02:36:20.200
such and such, but I need
I need to see it. I'm gonna

2098
02:36:20.200 --> 02:36:22.440
put you on hold right now.
They will give you my producer, will

2099
02:36:22.440 --> 02:36:26.879
give you my email address. Okay, all right, well, good luck,

2100
02:36:28.239 --> 02:36:30.319
good luck, and we'll see if
we can get to the bottom of

2101
02:36:30.399 --> 02:36:33.399
this for you. Appreciate, appreciate
your call very much. It is time

2102
02:36:33.799 --> 02:36:37.159
to take a little break. Here
for another break. We got one more

2103
02:36:37.440 --> 02:36:41.399
segment before the end of this morning. If you'd like to call in seven

2104
02:36:41.440 --> 02:36:46.120
to one three. Let's see here
seven one three two one two k t

2105
02:36:46.440 --> 02:36:48.559
R H is the number. When
we come back, Mark and Gid you'll

2106
02:36:48.559 --> 02:37:07.000
be the first ones up Page Blood, Welcome back to the guard Line.

2107
02:37:07.040 --> 02:37:09.799
Good heavy with us today. We
got a little bit of time left today.

2108
02:37:09.920 --> 02:37:13.559
Then get a few more questions in
before he closed things down. I'll

2109
02:37:13.600 --> 02:37:18.360
be back in the morning six am. I hope you get up early with

2110
02:37:18.479 --> 02:37:22.799
me and we'll talk gardening. First
thing. We're right now, I'm gonna

2111
02:37:22.239 --> 02:37:26.079
head out to Cyprus, Texas and
talk to Judy. Hello, Judy,

2112
02:37:28.319 --> 02:37:31.399
Hi, how are you doing.
I'm well, thank you. I ordered

2113
02:37:31.639 --> 02:37:37.879
a red bud online and it arrived
perfectly. It's healthy. I asked the

2114
02:37:39.000 --> 02:37:43.760
yard man to plan it, thinking
he would know, make the whole big

2115
02:37:43.959 --> 02:37:48.120
and deeper than the base. Well, he just basically stuck it in the

2116
02:37:48.200 --> 02:37:54.120
ground and so it's level the them
or the base of it is level with

2117
02:37:54.280 --> 02:37:58.879
the ground. Since it's only been
in for about two weeks. Should I

2118
02:38:00.159 --> 02:38:05.440
dig it up and put it in
an appropriate size hole and a raised bed?

2119
02:38:05.840 --> 02:38:11.760
So I didn't quite follow how it
was planted. Is it you're sending

2120
02:38:11.760 --> 02:38:18.879
too deep or too shallow or it's
just planted even with the You know,

2121
02:38:18.000 --> 02:38:22.319
the base of the trunk is even
with the ground, and I believe it

2122
02:38:22.360 --> 02:38:26.920
should have a be in a raised
bed. Is that so that it can

2123
02:38:26.079 --> 02:38:30.959
drain? Oh? I see,
if the area is poorly drained and tends

2124
02:38:31.040 --> 02:38:33.840
to say soggy wet, even have
water standing, you definitely need a raised

2125
02:38:33.879 --> 02:38:37.799
bed to make it happy. If
the area is well drained, it can

2126
02:38:37.879 --> 02:38:41.719
be at regular level. That's how
red buds in the woods are at regular

2127
02:38:41.840 --> 02:38:46.879
level, so a level cool,
but they don't naturally come up and succeed

2128
02:38:48.040 --> 02:38:50.639
if the area is swampy, so
the only ones you see are at soil

2129
02:38:50.760 --> 02:38:56.200
level, So you could go out, you know what if you I don't

2130
02:38:56.200 --> 02:38:58.319
know, if you probably do not
have a postal digger. If you get

2131
02:38:58.440 --> 02:39:01.600
if you can dig down a little
holes straight down, kind of a cylinder

2132
02:39:01.680 --> 02:39:05.719
hole and fill it up with water
and then see how long it takes to

2133
02:39:05.799 --> 02:39:07.520
drain out after all this rain,
the soil is going to be wet.

2134
02:39:09.159 --> 02:39:13.600
But is if it drains out in
let's say, oh, probably twelve to

2135
02:39:13.760 --> 02:39:18.879
eighteen hours, that's going to be
very good drainage. Considering if it takes

2136
02:39:20.000 --> 02:39:22.440
more than two days to drain out, then that raised bed would be very

2137
02:39:22.520 --> 02:39:26.120
important. That just be a real
quick test for me to be able to

2138
02:39:26.159 --> 02:39:30.399
answer your question a little bit better. But in general, yeah, they

2139
02:39:30.559 --> 02:39:35.159
like to be in a forest floor
in decent drainage. So pulling it out

2140
02:39:35.239 --> 02:39:37.559
right now, getting the bed built
and then getting it right back in would

2141
02:39:37.559 --> 02:39:43.239
be would be worth doing if it's
poor drainage. All right, well,

2142
02:39:43.239 --> 02:39:45.879
I appreciate your help. Thank you
so much. All right, Judy,

2143
02:39:45.959 --> 02:39:50.520
thank you very much, Bye bye
bye bye. Azemite is a product that

2144
02:39:50.680 --> 02:39:56.600
is mined in Utah, and it's
full of trace minerals, and that's why

2145
02:39:56.719 --> 02:40:01.200
you put it down. It's not
a fertilizer like regular lawn fertilizers primarily nitrogen,

2146
02:40:01.239 --> 02:40:05.159
phosphorus, potassium. Now, this
is the tracement, the ones,

2147
02:40:05.719 --> 02:40:09.760
the elements that are needed in tiny
amounts, but that are essential. That's

2148
02:40:09.799 --> 02:40:15.840
what asumite is about. Now you
can when you've got a landscape installer,

2149
02:40:16.000 --> 02:40:18.280
or when you have a maintenance company
coming in, you can ask them to

2150
02:40:18.440 --> 02:40:24.280
do an apple an annual application of
azamite to your landscape. You can do

2151
02:40:24.319 --> 02:40:28.479
it in your in your color beds
too, your flower beds. Primarily we're

2152
02:40:28.479 --> 02:40:31.399
putting it out in the lawn and
you don't need much though, remember that

2153
02:40:31.079 --> 02:40:35.000
very very low rate is what we
put out. Ten pounds of azamite will

2154
02:40:35.040 --> 02:40:39.040
cover about a thousand square feet of
vegetable garden, so that goes a long

2155
02:40:39.559 --> 02:40:43.000
long way. The forty four pounds
bag in your lawn is going to go

2156
02:40:43.319 --> 02:40:48.399
six thy twelve thousand square feet a
lawn. But it's something that you do

2157
02:40:48.479 --> 02:40:50.520
apply. You can do it when
you fertilizer, you can do it in

2158
02:40:50.600 --> 02:40:54.680
between fertilizations. It doesn't matter just
don't put it in the same hopper at

2159
02:40:54.719 --> 02:40:58.399
the same time as your fertilizer.
Particle size of those products is different,

2160
02:40:58.559 --> 02:41:03.559
and you want get a good even
application. We are now going to head

2161
02:41:03.799 --> 02:41:07.959
to Mark and clearly, Hey Mark, good morning, sir, and I

2162
02:41:07.079 --> 02:41:11.479
can promise you I won't be up
as early tomorrow as you are. Oh

2163
02:41:11.600 --> 02:41:13.239
my gosh, you're breaking my heart. All right, Well, well one

2164
02:41:13.319 --> 02:41:16.000
of us is going to do it. I guess i'll show up. Well,

2165
02:41:16.600 --> 02:41:20.120
let me suggest that if I were
to do it, nobody would call

2166
02:41:20.200 --> 02:41:24.559
in. Well, that's funny,
all right. I can I help you,

2167
02:41:24.040 --> 02:41:26.399
I know, squat about what you
know. In fact, I can't

2168
02:41:26.440 --> 02:41:30.440
believe that your heads not three or
four times bigger than mine. It's because

2169
02:41:30.440 --> 02:41:33.719
I'm making everything up. I actually, it's just making it up as I

2170
02:41:33.840 --> 02:41:37.520
go. Okay, let me turn
off the recorder now, thanks, that's

2171
02:41:37.559 --> 02:41:43.239
okay, nobody's listening. Just Jemmy. I've decided I can't do my Steven

2172
02:41:43.280 --> 02:41:46.879
anymore because you believe my cover.
So people are going to know it's me

2173
02:41:46.959 --> 02:41:52.079
asking the dumb questions. Did you
see the picture of the Kaiwa blackberries?

2174
02:41:52.879 --> 02:41:54.360
Let's see, I'll have to go. Look, I do not see a

2175
02:41:54.479 --> 02:42:00.360
picture here, now, let me
see if I can find it. Anyway,

2176
02:42:00.360 --> 02:42:01.639
go ahead and start talking to me
about it while I go looking for

2177
02:42:01.799 --> 02:42:09.840
it. I've had Kayawa, I
can't tell you how many years, eight

2178
02:42:09.000 --> 02:42:13.319
nine or something like that. Very
good producer. This year, it's producing

2179
02:42:13.399 --> 02:42:16.319
more blemished fruit than it has in
the past. Yeah, yeah, I

2180
02:42:16.440 --> 02:42:22.959
see that. Different things can cause
that. Feeding from piercing, sucking mouth

2181
02:42:22.040 --> 02:42:26.799
part insects like a stink bug kind
of thing that can happen where you see

2182
02:42:28.360 --> 02:42:31.360
and for those people listening, going, what are they talking about? Instead

2183
02:42:31.399 --> 02:42:35.799
of all these big, plump,
round little sections of the BlackBerry, there's

2184
02:42:35.879 --> 02:42:39.639
some that are just kind of pink
and never really got full size and develop

2185
02:42:39.760 --> 02:42:43.760
color. And then there's some that
are not even pink. There is tiny

2186
02:42:43.159 --> 02:42:48.159
If it didn't pollinate, then that's
where you have a missing little section that's

2187
02:42:48.200 --> 02:42:54.280
from a lack of pollination, or
actually it's incomplete pollination. The other can

2188
02:42:54.360 --> 02:42:58.280
happen from insect feeding. But some
berries, and I don't know the full

2189
02:42:58.360 --> 02:43:03.920
cause of it, it's more physical
logical. With certain cultivars, you can

2190
02:43:03.040 --> 02:43:07.520
have that kind of thing happen as
well, but there's nothing that you can

2191
02:43:07.600 --> 02:43:11.719
do about that. The insect control
is something you could do. But is

2192
02:43:13.159 --> 02:43:18.120
this extensive or you're just finding the
berries here and there more of them this

2193
02:43:18.200 --> 02:43:24.959
year. I wouldn't call it extensive, but it's much more of the fruit

2194
02:43:24.319 --> 02:43:28.639
is bummish like this though has been
in the past. It doesn't seem to

2195
02:43:28.799 --> 02:43:31.879
change the taste of the root except
for that one little one where you see

2196
02:43:31.920 --> 02:43:35.879
the green parts that never to develop. Yeah, but it's just ugly fruit.

2197
02:43:37.399 --> 02:43:39.319
Yeah, yeah, I get it. It is, and I think

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it's something that you're probably just gonna
need to live with. Other than maybe

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if you get out there and you're
seeing a lot of stink bugs on than

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a treatment would certainly be warranted.
In general, we just don't have to

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spray blackberries hardly at all. They're
just not a not a problem crop.

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02:43:58.719 --> 02:44:01.959
It's a good one for organic gardeners
because you're not having to control all these

2203
02:44:01.000 --> 02:44:03.200
different cults. Well, that's what
we're trying to do, is we don't

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02:44:03.200 --> 02:44:07.520
put anything it's not organic on it. What what would you recommend a neme

2205
02:44:07.719 --> 02:44:11.159
or do you have something else in
your stink bugs? Pyretheran types of sprays

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02:44:11.360 --> 02:44:16.639
or organic they work pretty good on
that. I don't think you're going to

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02:44:16.680 --> 02:44:20.920
have success with name on stink bugs. I don't think it's going to be

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02:44:20.879 --> 02:44:24.639
the level of success you're looking for. So a Pirethern type spray that's label

2209
02:44:24.719 --> 02:44:31.559
for fruit, okay, well,
can damage the beneficial so I should do

2210
02:44:31.600 --> 02:44:35.360
it super early morning or late at
night. Yeah, yeah, you can.

2211
02:44:35.719 --> 02:44:39.079
You're you're targeting your spray really to
the berries. There's no need to

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02:44:39.200 --> 02:44:41.840
treat the whole plant, you know, but you can. You can treat

2213
02:44:41.879 --> 02:44:46.280
the whole plant because it's a little
tedious to try to spray just the berries.

2214
02:44:46.959 --> 02:44:48.719
Yeah. They because they love to
hide under leaves and stuff. Yeah,

2215
02:44:48.840 --> 02:44:52.040
they do. Getting out early in
the morning is better for stink bugs

2216
02:44:52.200 --> 02:44:56.280
if you first. I just want
to stress if you find out you have

2217
02:44:56.479 --> 02:45:00.360
them, and that's the problem,
because it may not be well out there

2218
02:45:00.920 --> 02:45:03.040
tending to them. I never see
a stink bug on Okay. Yeah,

2219
02:45:03.079 --> 02:45:07.000
Well, I think this is physiological
mark. The more we talk about it,

2220
02:45:07.159 --> 02:45:11.479
I just think that's probably what's going
on, and it should be.

2221
02:45:11.879 --> 02:45:15.360
It should be, okay. I
just I think you're going to just suffer

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02:45:15.479 --> 02:45:18.399
some losses here and there, but
overall it should be all right. Okay,

2223
02:45:18.959 --> 02:45:22.639
Well, thanks very much for your
advice. You bet, thank you.

2224
02:45:22.719 --> 02:45:24.760
I appreciate the call very much.
Have you been to the Anti Rosing

2225
02:45:24.799 --> 02:45:31.360
Porium? Anti Grosing Porium out there
in Independence, Texas just north of where

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02:45:31.760 --> 02:45:35.920
north of Brunham, So you just
swing by and get you some bluebellt ice

2227
02:45:35.959 --> 02:45:41.760
cream out to the antiqu Rosing Porium. They have a wide variety of roses.

2228
02:45:41.840 --> 02:45:45.639
Of course they're the Anti g Rosing
Porium. They're nationally known for the

2229
02:45:45.760 --> 02:45:48.959
roses that they have, but they
also have events going on that you don't

2230
02:45:48.959 --> 02:45:52.319
want to mess For example, it's
what have we got another week or so

2231
02:45:52.959 --> 02:45:58.760
of the seven dollars off select roses? It goes from May seventh or Mace

2232
02:46:00.479 --> 02:46:03.760
sixth to May twenty seventh. There
we go May six to May twenty seven,

2233
02:46:05.200 --> 02:46:09.079
seven dollars off select roses such as
Red Cascade, Oh Boys at Ever,

2234
02:46:09.159 --> 02:46:13.559
a beautiful climbing rose, Quietness,
always Hope, and a few others.

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Don't forget next weekend tax free weekends
May twenty fifth and twenty sixth,

2236
02:46:18.600 --> 02:46:24.639
or even more savings every Friday and
Saturday. Every Friday and Saturday, starting

2237
02:46:24.639 --> 02:46:28.239
at one pm is the Tinker Garden
Workshop, which is an outdoor play based

2238
02:46:28.360 --> 02:46:33.040
education curriculum for children age two to
eight. Now, for all these things

2239
02:46:33.120 --> 02:46:37.840
and other events, you just want
to go to the website. That is

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02:46:37.360 --> 02:46:43.000
what is the website Antique Roseemporium dot
com. I was looking at the at

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02:46:43.079 --> 02:46:48.959
the email which you can also contact
events at Wereroses dot com, events at

2242
02:46:50.040 --> 02:46:52.959
Rio Roses dot com. That's what
you would use if you wanted to bring

2243
02:46:52.040 --> 02:46:56.920
your master garden Group, Garden Club, Native Plant Society, herb Society out

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02:46:56.959 --> 02:47:01.959
there. You know, Antique Rose
important for that. And finally, if

2245
02:47:01.000 --> 02:47:05.040
you haven't used your Nelson Plant Food
slow and easy, you need to get

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02:47:05.079 --> 02:47:09.479
that done. It is time.
Get it down and it will fertilize your

2247
02:47:09.760 --> 02:47:18.200
lawn all the way up until the
first fall fertilization. That's a long time.

2248
02:47:18.280 --> 02:47:20.440
It lasts that long. It's a
quality product, many different kinds of

2249
02:47:20.559 --> 02:47:26.520
nitrogen in it to provide that gradual
release over time. Beat your lawn like

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it wants to be fed. Well, we're gonna put this one in the

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02:47:28.440 --> 02:47:33.120
books today. Greg. I see
you out there on If you will hold,

2252
02:47:33.760 --> 02:47:35.479
I will come and take your call. We're gonna have to go to

2253
02:47:35.479 --> 02:47:37.600
a little break here, but I
just hang on. I'll go ahead and

2254
02:47:37.639 --> 02:47:41.280
come back and enter your call after
we're on the air tomorrow morning six am

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02:47:41.399 --> 02:47:46.079
to ten am. Come back see
us again here on garden Line. Thanks

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02:47:46.120 --> 02:47:46.639
for listening.