WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.160 --> 00:00:04.080 Kat r H Garden Line does not necessarily endorse any of the products or services 2 00:00:04.120 --> 00:00:10.519 advertised on this program. Welcome to kt r H Garden Line with Skip Richter's 3 00:00:10.599 --> 00:00:26.960 shoes mill, Crazy Trim. Just watch him as we may. Thanks to 4 00:00:27.039 --> 00:00:46.640 suppot crazy business was not a sign credits the sun Beamon of Well. Good 5 00:00:46.679 --> 00:00:52.520 morning, Good morning on what is going to be the best weekend we have 6 00:00:52.640 --> 00:00:57.960 had yet. Oh my gosh, the weather is unbelievable. Everybody should be 7 00:00:58.000 --> 00:01:03.560 a gardener this weekend. Sunshine, find wonderful mild temperatures, and our garden 8 00:01:03.600 --> 00:01:07.359 centers are stocked up. I've been running around looking at some of the different 9 00:01:07.400 --> 00:01:11.840 places in town and it's just, oh my goodness. You got to get 10 00:01:11.840 --> 00:01:15.640 in there and halsome stuff because they are busting at the seams with beauty and 11 00:01:15.719 --> 00:01:19.959 bounty and all kinds of cool things. You're listening to Garden Line. I'm 12 00:01:19.959 --> 00:01:23.519 your host, Skip Richter, and our phone number if you would like to 13 00:01:23.519 --> 00:01:25.560 give us a call. By the way, this is a call in sho 14 00:01:26.159 --> 00:01:30.799 seven one three two one two five eight seven four seven one three two one 15 00:01:30.840 --> 00:01:36.680 two fifty eight seventy four. I am looking forward today to visiting with you 16 00:01:36.719 --> 00:01:40.560 about whatever is of interest to you. I've definitely got some things I'd like 17 00:01:40.640 --> 00:01:42.959 to talk about today. I'll be doing that. But what kind of questions 18 00:01:42.959 --> 00:01:47.680 do you have. Let's talk about that. Let's find out if we can 19 00:01:47.719 --> 00:01:51.480 help you have a more beautiful garden, a more bountiful garden, and certainly 20 00:01:51.480 --> 00:01:55.840 a more beautiful landscape out there. You know, if you have not tried 21 00:01:55.879 --> 00:02:00.280 containers on your patio. Maybe everybody's got a container or two, I guess, 22 00:02:00.319 --> 00:02:05.359 but if you've not really come up with some beautiful containers to just really 23 00:02:05.400 --> 00:02:07.919 be showstoppers, you ought to consider it. Because here's the deal about containers. 24 00:02:08.560 --> 00:02:13.479 Containers are portable, so you can move wherever you want. You know, 25 00:02:13.479 --> 00:02:15.879 if a plant wants a little break from the hot afternoon sun, you 26 00:02:15.919 --> 00:02:19.759 can put the container in a spot like that. You don't always have a 27 00:02:19.800 --> 00:02:23.080 spot like that in a flower bed maybe, depending on your yard and trees 28 00:02:23.199 --> 00:02:27.840 and all of that. But with a container, you can when a plant 29 00:02:27.879 --> 00:02:30.680 starts not looking so good, put it out, put any one in the 30 00:02:30.719 --> 00:02:34.240 container, or move the container. I have a thing called the hospital. 31 00:02:34.319 --> 00:02:38.960 It's like where the containers go sit while I recuperate them, and so they're 32 00:02:39.000 --> 00:02:43.919 back there getting back in, you know, back in good shape, and 33 00:02:43.960 --> 00:02:46.280 while I put some other container in a nice spot to view, so there 34 00:02:46.319 --> 00:02:49.479 you can trade them like that. You can. You don't have room for 35 00:02:49.479 --> 00:02:53.560 a vegetable garden, why not a container, but certainly for flowers spilling over 36 00:02:53.639 --> 00:02:58.280 the sides and everything. Jungle Land is a product by nitrofoss It is a 37 00:02:58.479 --> 00:03:02.719 soil product, should say, media growing media potting soil. And if you 38 00:03:02.879 --> 00:03:08.560 really want to ignite some beautiful solid color and really support good growth in your 39 00:03:08.599 --> 00:03:14.319 container plants, jungle end can do that. It's called jungle end flour and 40 00:03:14.439 --> 00:03:19.400 vegetable potting soil or planting soil. And the reason is because you can grow 41 00:03:19.680 --> 00:03:23.800 pretty much anything you want in it, including flowers and Vegetables's got Canadian blompede, 42 00:03:23.840 --> 00:03:29.400 it's got four sources of age, organic materials, micarizal fungi. It 43 00:03:29.479 --> 00:03:31.479 just gets you set up, if you know what I mean. And indoors, 44 00:03:31.560 --> 00:03:36.360 why not try jungle lands water saving potting soil. It's got these little 45 00:03:36.400 --> 00:03:39.400 crystals in it that soak up water and hold on to it and gradually are 46 00:03:39.400 --> 00:03:43.960 going to release it over time. Even when the soil begins to dry out, 47 00:03:43.960 --> 00:03:47.840 those crystals are a source of moisture for your plants to help them extend 48 00:03:47.960 --> 00:03:53.039 a little further between waterings. Now, where do you find jungle land their 49 00:03:53.080 --> 00:03:58.199 outdoor flour and vegetable or their indoor jungle land water savor, potting soil. 50 00:03:58.280 --> 00:04:00.560 Well, you can find it a Bearing's hard where both the one on Bisonette 51 00:04:00.599 --> 00:04:03.840 and the one on West tim Or habit. You go out to the Richmond 52 00:04:03.919 --> 00:04:10.800 Rosenberg area plantation. Ace Hardware carries those and then hiden and feed on Stupient 53 00:04:10.840 --> 00:04:16.839 Airline also carries these jungle at as well as other nitroposs products. I have 54 00:04:17.480 --> 00:04:23.639 been doing repotting. I've been doing some bumping up of plants, and I've 55 00:04:23.759 --> 00:04:27.199 not started my outdoor planning, but that is next week. I'm going to 56 00:04:27.240 --> 00:04:30.680 get some plants this weekend, and I have a few in mind. I 57 00:04:30.759 --> 00:04:32.839 like things that trail over the side of a big container. I like things 58 00:04:32.879 --> 00:04:39.120 that you know, fill in with flowers beautifully, and then certain certainly something 59 00:04:39.240 --> 00:04:44.600 very upright that's kind of striking. Ornamental grasses. Some of the ornamental grasses 60 00:04:44.680 --> 00:04:48.360 work really well for that because they have an upright growth habit. They call 61 00:04:48.439 --> 00:04:54.120 that combo a thriller, filler and spiller, thriller meaning it sticks up in 62 00:04:54.199 --> 00:04:58.000 the air, thriller or filler it fills in around the sides, and then 63 00:04:58.079 --> 00:05:01.000 spiller it spills over the side. That's just one way to remember a thriller, 64 00:05:01.120 --> 00:05:04.879 filler, spiller. So if you're looking at a pot going I don't 65 00:05:04.879 --> 00:05:09.000 know what to put here, well, either put one nice plant that'll fill 66 00:05:09.079 --> 00:05:12.759 the whole thing that's very legit, or if it's a really big pot, 67 00:05:13.560 --> 00:05:16.480 consider doing the thriller, filler and spiller. And if you go to a 68 00:05:16.480 --> 00:05:19.439 good garden center where they know what they're talking about, they're going to be 69 00:05:19.439 --> 00:05:23.319 able to tell you here would be a good plant to put in the center, 70 00:05:23.360 --> 00:05:26.120 Here would be some good plants to fill in around the sides. And 71 00:05:26.160 --> 00:05:30.360 here's some good ones for trailing. I love the trailing petunias that we have 72 00:05:30.519 --> 00:05:36.519 now, just beautiful, beautiful. Bubble gum is just one of many great 73 00:05:36.680 --> 00:05:42.839 trailing petunias, and they just bloom themselves to death. And I tell you 74 00:05:43.160 --> 00:05:47.199 another good one is Lobularia. It's basically a lissum, that white flower that 75 00:05:47.279 --> 00:05:51.279 spills over the sides, but it's a type. There's one called white stream. 76 00:05:51.319 --> 00:05:56.360 And there's some other good hardy ones that go into summer really really well. 77 00:05:56.399 --> 00:06:00.480 They laugh at the summer heat. So why not set up a like 78 00:06:00.519 --> 00:06:02.480 that, make plans to water it too. Uh. You know, containers 79 00:06:02.519 --> 00:06:08.360 do need more frequent watering than plants in the ground. I'm setting up at 80 00:06:08.360 --> 00:06:10.759 I did it last year, and I'm adding some to it this year. 81 00:06:10.759 --> 00:06:15.000 A little drip irrigation system on a faucet timer, and it has a little 82 00:06:15.040 --> 00:06:18.000 line that runs along the edge of the patio and a tube comes up from 83 00:06:18.079 --> 00:06:21.759 it to each of the containers. So that set it and forget it, 84 00:06:21.839 --> 00:06:24.959 I mean, and you don't have to remember to go out and water the 85 00:06:25.000 --> 00:06:28.360 things. It takes care of it for you. I think that works good. 86 00:06:28.560 --> 00:06:30.800 Hey, if you'd like to give us a call, the number is 87 00:06:30.879 --> 00:06:34.360 seven one three two one two five eight seven four. It's always good to 88 00:06:34.480 --> 00:06:39.199 call early in the day because things tend to be a little quieter at that 89 00:06:39.319 --> 00:06:42.199 time, so we can get you right on right now. If you'd like 90 00:06:42.560 --> 00:06:48.480 to ask a question. Uh, I uh, let's see. Let's go 91 00:06:48.560 --> 00:06:53.079 on out to the phones here. I'm gonna go to Katie and we're going 92 00:06:53.120 --> 00:06:57.800 to talk to Ralph. Hello, Ralph, do we have Ralph? Yes? 93 00:06:57.879 --> 00:06:59.959 Sir, can you hear me? Yes, sir, now I can't. 94 00:07:00.120 --> 00:07:06.319 Okay, fantastic. Have a question. I just did the aeration this 95 00:07:06.439 --> 00:07:14.160 week and was curious, I haven't started putting anything down. What kind of 96 00:07:14.319 --> 00:07:18.959 order would you recommend? Well on my lawn care schedule which is on the 97 00:07:18.959 --> 00:07:25.519 website at gardening with Skip dot com. It now is the time, especially 98 00:07:25.560 --> 00:07:28.680 out there in your Katie area. Now would be a good time to go 99 00:07:28.800 --> 00:07:31.480 out and go ahead and do your early green up if you want to do 100 00:07:31.519 --> 00:07:34.800 one of those now. This is it's still cool, the soil is still 101 00:07:34.800 --> 00:07:38.720 cool out there, and the grass is kind of a sleepyhead right now. 102 00:07:38.959 --> 00:07:42.360 But when you put that down you'll get an early greening of the grass. 103 00:07:42.439 --> 00:07:46.759 And then once we get into April, we begin to do our series of 104 00:07:46.800 --> 00:07:49.839 summer fertilizations to carry it on through the year. But this is a fast 105 00:07:49.920 --> 00:07:55.839 release early green up product, so you want you want the nutrients to be 106 00:07:56.000 --> 00:08:01.079 available right away. Okay, And I do you have the barricade and the 107 00:08:01.199 --> 00:08:07.480 as and might yeah? Can those all be put down not in the same 108 00:08:07.720 --> 00:08:13.519 spreader, but at the same time, But yes, would you do it 109 00:08:13.759 --> 00:08:18.000 the same day or over a period of time you could do it all the 110 00:08:18.040 --> 00:08:20.079 same day. If you want to knock it all out A's and MT you 111 00:08:20.120 --> 00:08:24.680 can do anytime. We don't worry about timing on it. You pretty much 112 00:08:24.680 --> 00:08:30.319 can do it whenever you want. The barricade, timing is very important and 113 00:08:30.360 --> 00:08:33.799 you need to get it out asap, water it in, you know, 114 00:08:33.919 --> 00:08:37.720 make sure it gets into the soil. You know, if you the barricade, 115 00:08:37.720 --> 00:08:41.480 another nitroposs product, is there, Imperial, that's the red bag. 116 00:08:41.519 --> 00:08:46.320 It's a fifteen to five to ten nitrophile. I have that, yeah, 117 00:08:46.399 --> 00:08:50.120 nitrophos, Yeah, the Imperial. So what I would do is I would 118 00:08:50.120 --> 00:08:56.600 put the nitroposs Imperial out and then or the barricade, or vice versa. 119 00:08:56.720 --> 00:09:00.600 But put them both out before you water, and then put about a half 120 00:09:00.639 --> 00:09:05.200 inch of water, and that moves the barricade into the soil's surface and it 121 00:09:05.279 --> 00:09:09.480 dissolves the Imperial and gets it going down in the soil as well. So 122 00:09:09.639 --> 00:09:11.519 if you put them both out, then you can just do the half inch 123 00:09:11.639 --> 00:09:16.440 and move them both into the soil. And that's okay. To put the 124 00:09:16.639 --> 00:09:20.759 A's of mid in also, right, Yes it is. And I've got 125 00:09:20.799 --> 00:09:24.120 a hard break here, Ralph. But the A's Mike could also be done 126 00:09:24.159 --> 00:09:28.320 at the same time, and don't worry about watering it in at any particular 127 00:09:28.360 --> 00:09:31.000 thing. Hey, thank you very much for the call. Sorry, we 128 00:09:31.080 --> 00:09:33.279 got to run. We'll be right back. Our number is seven one three 129 00:09:33.399 --> 00:09:39.840 two one two fifty eight seventy four. Welcome back to garden Line. Glad 130 00:09:39.840 --> 00:09:43.039 you're with us today. We've got a lot to talk about. And if 131 00:09:43.080 --> 00:09:48.480 they're If there's such a thing as a traffic jam in the in the landscaping 132 00:09:48.559 --> 00:09:52.039 garden, we are at the very beginning of it right now. It is 133 00:09:52.399 --> 00:09:56.919 fixing to get crazy out there. Everything wants to grow, as things green 134 00:09:58.039 --> 00:10:01.639 up and flowers pop up, and people start to get gardening fever, and 135 00:10:01.840 --> 00:10:07.600 here we go. We are on the run for sure. Last summer was 136 00:10:07.600 --> 00:10:13.480 such a dry one that our landscapes took a really serious beating. It was 137 00:10:13.519 --> 00:10:16.039 hot and it was dry, and it was dry for a long time, 138 00:10:16.080 --> 00:10:20.960 and it was very hot for a long time, and that causes all kinds 139 00:10:20.960 --> 00:10:24.440 of issues because plants can't get the moisture they need. But another issue it 140 00:10:24.480 --> 00:10:28.200 causes is we have a lot of clay soil around here, and clay soil 141 00:10:28.240 --> 00:10:31.840 has a factor that is called shrink and swell. And what that means is 142 00:10:31.879 --> 00:10:35.639 it gets wet, it swells, it gets dry, it shrinks, And 143 00:10:35.679 --> 00:10:37.440 that's a lot of movement. You may not think of it as such, 144 00:10:37.519 --> 00:10:41.080 but when you have you ever seen clay soils in like a two inch gap 145 00:10:41.120 --> 00:10:43.480 in the backyard when it gets dry, I mean you could lose a small 146 00:10:43.519 --> 00:10:48.120 toddler in the backyard running around. Well, that's an issue for our foundations, 147 00:10:48.120 --> 00:10:52.159 for our driveways, for our sidewalks, everything. And that's why fix 148 00:10:52.279 --> 00:10:56.759 my slab foundation repair is there. I mean, we are going to have 149 00:10:56.799 --> 00:11:01.279 those problems in this area because if it's the soil we have and it's the 150 00:11:01.320 --> 00:11:03.759 weather we have. And Ty Strickland knows what he's doing. He's been doing 151 00:11:03.799 --> 00:11:07.360 this for twenty three years, and he can come out. You know, 152 00:11:07.440 --> 00:11:09.039 if you look up and you got a crack in the sheet rock, cracking 153 00:11:09.080 --> 00:11:13.080 the brick, that kind of movement, doors are sticking, that would be 154 00:11:13.120 --> 00:11:16.879 a time to have him come out, take a look see what the situation 155 00:11:16.120 --> 00:11:20.039 is. Don't be an ostrich put your head in the sand. It doesn't 156 00:11:20.080 --> 00:11:22.799 get better, it just gets worse. So check things out early. Now 157 00:11:22.879 --> 00:11:26.279 you can go to the website. It's fixedmyslab dot com, or you can 158 00:11:26.279 --> 00:11:31.519 give Ty a call two eight one two FI five forty nine forty nine. 159 00:11:31.519 --> 00:11:35.360 That's two eight one two five five forty nine forty nine. Listen. He 160 00:11:35.399 --> 00:11:39.240 shows up on time, he does the job right, and he gives you 161 00:11:39.279 --> 00:11:41.120 a fair price. Tell him that you are a guardenline listener and you get 162 00:11:41.120 --> 00:11:46.279 a free estimate with fix my slab again. Two eight one two FIY five 163 00:11:46.639 --> 00:11:50.519 forty nine forty nine. Want to head up to Centerville now and talk to 164 00:11:50.559 --> 00:11:54.399 Craig. Hey, Craig, how are things up in the northern hinterlands of 165 00:11:54.480 --> 00:12:03.000 Centerville. They're fine. I called last week and ask you about a spreading 166 00:12:03.000 --> 00:12:07.519 the oak pond that had been cut already, and I got a newion of 167 00:12:07.440 --> 00:12:11.799 opinions on using remedy. You gave me yours, and that's the one we're 168 00:12:11.799 --> 00:12:13.879 going with my next. My only other question I had is it has been 169 00:12:13.960 --> 00:12:18.759 cleared land and it's pretty much dirt and it's a lot of sand, a 170 00:12:18.759 --> 00:12:22.840 lot of sandy soil. What kind of grass would you recommend just broadcast spreading 171 00:12:22.840 --> 00:12:24.840 out there? And I'm not looking for a man. If you're lawn like 172 00:12:24.840 --> 00:12:31.559 Saint Augustine or something like that just something so I'm not basically mowing over dust 173 00:12:31.039 --> 00:12:35.039 and dirt. You got something that grows in real sandy soil, or can 174 00:12:35.080 --> 00:12:39.279 recommend something well, And this is this is almost it's not real lawn. 175 00:12:39.399 --> 00:12:43.519 It's more just kind of like a little short meadow kind of look is what 176 00:12:43.559 --> 00:12:48.000 you're going for? Correct, correct time? Three times a year or something. 177 00:12:48.000 --> 00:12:50.399 We're not we don't have a house built on the property yet. It's 178 00:12:50.399 --> 00:12:54.960 just right now. What I would reckons, Yeah, what i'd recommend you 179 00:12:54.000 --> 00:12:58.879 do. There's a company called Native American Seed in Junction, Texas, Native 180 00:13:00.080 --> 00:13:03.879 American Seed, and you can go online look at the website, and you 181 00:13:03.919 --> 00:13:07.399 can call them and say, here's where I live, here's the kind of 182 00:13:07.399 --> 00:13:09.919 soil I have, and here's what I want. And they have seed blends 183 00:13:09.960 --> 00:13:15.399 for all over the state, for all the regions and everything, and they 184 00:13:15.440 --> 00:13:18.919 could get you a good seed blend that you could put out there, get 185 00:13:18.919 --> 00:13:22.720 it watered in with with some rainfall, because it's probably too big of an 186 00:13:22.720 --> 00:13:28.399 area to irrigate and get that thing started and sooner rather than later. But 187 00:13:28.440 --> 00:13:33.559 that you can buy it in bulk, and and I think that's probably going 188 00:13:33.639 --> 00:13:37.600 to be your best bet. Okay, and the name of the company games 189 00:13:37.639 --> 00:13:45.120 are Native American seed in junction at injunction in the whole country. All right, 190 00:13:45.519 --> 00:13:48.240 Well, every time you call somebody, you get a different opinion. 191 00:13:48.240 --> 00:13:50.320 But I'll give them a call. We'll stick with. Well, we give 192 00:13:50.360 --> 00:13:54.799 you, we give you the right opinion, or at least we try. 193 00:13:54.120 --> 00:13:58.200 Now, I've known many people over the years that work with them, and 194 00:13:58.559 --> 00:14:05.960 I've seen their blends and their work and talk to them and uh, they 195 00:14:05.080 --> 00:14:09.440 know what they're talking about. So I for a pasture situation. I'm going 196 00:14:09.519 --> 00:14:11.639 to call it a pasture situation like that. I think that's what I would 197 00:14:11.679 --> 00:14:16.200 do. Sounds like a perfect fit. Thank you so much for your time. 198 00:14:16.279 --> 00:14:18.360 Have a great day, you bet, Craig, take care, Thanks 199 00:14:18.360 --> 00:14:22.919 for the call. Appreciate that. Our phone number is seven one three two 200 00:14:22.000 --> 00:14:28.360 one two five eight seven four seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy 201 00:14:28.399 --> 00:14:31.399 four. If you'd like to give a call and talk about what is of 202 00:14:31.480 --> 00:14:35.720 interest to you. You know, it's time for spring fertilizing, and that 203 00:14:35.000 --> 00:14:39.759 is you know that's upon us and uh, but you know, when you 204 00:14:39.840 --> 00:14:43.440 take care of your soil, it's more than just putting a fertilizer nutrient on 205 00:14:43.480 --> 00:14:48.879 your soil. Uh, there are things that improve the soil itself, and 206 00:14:48.000 --> 00:14:56.480 humates is one of those examples. Humates humus is basically when organic matter decomposes, 207 00:14:56.559 --> 00:15:00.440 it becomes compost, and then when it decomposes more it becomes humus. 208 00:15:00.480 --> 00:15:03.879 Think of it that way, just to simplify it. It's the final kind 209 00:15:03.879 --> 00:15:07.919 of stage as it breaks down. Humus improves your soil. It is very 210 00:15:09.360 --> 00:15:13.799 very good for stimulating the biological activities in the soil, for hanging on to 211 00:15:13.919 --> 00:15:18.039 the nutrients that you put down, for opening up the soil. And mean 212 00:15:18.120 --> 00:15:20.279 when we say opening up, we mean taking a dense, dense, heavy 213 00:15:20.320 --> 00:15:24.919 clay and improving that soil structure which gets water and oxygen and everything in the 214 00:15:24.960 --> 00:15:30.279 soil and microlife has a product called humates plus. It's a it's a purple 215 00:15:30.320 --> 00:15:33.759 bag, purple and it's the numbers on the bag are zero zero four, 216 00:15:33.840 --> 00:15:37.840 So it's got some potassium in it. But the real thing that it has 217 00:15:37.840 --> 00:15:43.399 in it is loads of many, many, many different types of microbes and 218 00:15:43.080 --> 00:15:48.840 that humus base that over time just improves your soil. You know, in 219 00:15:48.879 --> 00:15:54.679 a natural system like nature or like an organic growing system, we build the 220 00:15:54.679 --> 00:15:58.720 soil slowly over time, little by little. That's how nature makes the best 221 00:15:58.720 --> 00:16:03.000 soil on earth. And that's how you can make your lawn better with Microlife 222 00:16:03.600 --> 00:16:07.279 or humates plus the hum mats plus. For Microlife, you can go to 223 00:16:07.320 --> 00:16:11.279 Microlife Fertilizer dot com find out where to get it. I can just tell 224 00:16:11.279 --> 00:16:14.759 you this, it's pretty much available everywhere. If I talk about a feedstore 225 00:16:14.960 --> 00:16:18.679 and you know the Southwest Fertilizer and all of our great garden centers around, 226 00:16:18.799 --> 00:16:22.440 they're going to have Microlife hum Mates plus. Just give them a call, 227 00:16:22.720 --> 00:16:27.279 check it out, and check that product out and get on that schedule of 228 00:16:27.360 --> 00:16:33.720 putting that down on a regular basis each year, just maybe twice a year, 229 00:16:34.000 --> 00:16:37.320 to make sure and get your soil over time built better and better and 230 00:16:37.360 --> 00:16:41.159 better. Let's head out to the woodlands and we're going to talk to Mark. 231 00:16:41.720 --> 00:16:48.159 Hello Mark, Hello, Skip, good morning morning. Hey hey Skip. 232 00:16:48.200 --> 00:16:51.600 The other day I was listening to you talk about you're giving some people 233 00:16:51.600 --> 00:16:56.840 some advice on putting sad down on a piece of land that already had the 234 00:16:56.879 --> 00:17:00.559 pre emerging down. Yes, and you had mentioned and you didn't need it 235 00:17:00.600 --> 00:17:04.400 to wait till probably May. And I was always thought that the pre emergent 236 00:17:04.519 --> 00:17:11.680 stopped the seeds from growing and not necessarily sod from grilling. Well, the 237 00:17:11.720 --> 00:17:15.839 way most pre emergents work, and we're talking about a lot of different chemistries 238 00:17:15.839 --> 00:17:19.640 here, but the way most of them work is when the root of the 239 00:17:19.680 --> 00:17:26.359 seed tries to go down and establish the plant, it prevents that, and 240 00:17:26.400 --> 00:17:33.440 so the the it either kills the seedling out right or it free you know, 241 00:17:33.519 --> 00:17:37.400 stops the root development and growth. And so when you put new sid 242 00:17:37.599 --> 00:17:41.200 down and you've put a pre emergent on the surface and now you're laying the 243 00:17:41.279 --> 00:17:45.119 sod on top of that, that side is going to have trouble rooting in 244 00:17:45.400 --> 00:17:48.440 until that pre emergent breaks down, and it will break down over time. 245 00:17:49.200 --> 00:17:52.759 And so I wouldn't do a pre emergent and then try to lay fresh new 246 00:17:52.839 --> 00:17:56.519 sid on it. I would I would lay the sid and then do the 247 00:17:56.519 --> 00:18:00.599 pre emergent, or if you've already put it down, actually if you put 248 00:18:00.599 --> 00:18:03.640 it down a little on the heavy side, I would give it some time 249 00:18:03.319 --> 00:18:07.039 before and it's not you know exactly, you know this many weeks and it's 250 00:18:07.119 --> 00:18:12.160 gone, but it's a gradual thing. But yeah, can I I'm a 251 00:18:12.200 --> 00:18:18.240 little impatient here, Can I dig it up? Did take an enter too 252 00:18:18.480 --> 00:18:21.599 out and then put some new top soil down and then put it on. 253 00:18:21.920 --> 00:18:25.319 That's a lot of work. What I would do is get a rototiller and 254 00:18:26.279 --> 00:18:32.160 just as best you can break that surface up and mix the soil up a 255 00:18:32.200 --> 00:18:37.440 little to spread that product where it's not just a force field sitting on top 256 00:18:37.480 --> 00:18:40.400 of the soil surface, which is how we normally want it to be for 257 00:18:40.480 --> 00:18:45.039 weed control. But mix it up and that would probably help out in terms 258 00:18:45.079 --> 00:18:48.799 of your grasp being able to get some rooting done. Okay. And then 259 00:18:48.839 --> 00:18:55.480 still you need but you don't need a pre emergent underneath your side anyway. 260 00:18:55.519 --> 00:18:57.920 But if it's already there, I would do the rototill. I think that's 261 00:18:59.079 --> 00:19:04.599 much less work than trying to dig it up. Okay, okay, all 262 00:19:04.680 --> 00:19:07.759 right, thank you very much. Appreciate it, Yes, or Mark, 263 00:19:07.960 --> 00:19:12.799 I appreciate appreciate your call very much. Uh yeah, that something we just 264 00:19:12.839 --> 00:19:18.880 have to watch for, you know. Let me just say this about products 265 00:19:18.880 --> 00:19:25.599 in general. Chemicals in general, each product has a purpose and it works 266 00:19:25.799 --> 00:19:30.839 very well for that purpose when you follow the label instructions. If you go 267 00:19:32.079 --> 00:19:34.799 under the label, then you're probably not going to get the full result you 268 00:19:34.839 --> 00:19:38.920 were looking for if you go over the label. There's often consequences for that. 269 00:19:40.000 --> 00:19:44.000 And I'm speaking general here. I'm talking about there's fungicides, there's insecticides, 270 00:19:44.119 --> 00:19:48.279 there's herbicides, growth regulators, there's a lot of products out there. 271 00:19:48.680 --> 00:19:53.680 But we have a tendency and I think I'll just pick on guys here. 272 00:19:53.759 --> 00:19:59.359 I think we guys are a little worse. You know, we No problem 273 00:19:59.559 --> 00:20:03.119 we've ever is insurmountable. If you don't get a big enough hammer, right, 274 00:20:03.240 --> 00:20:07.759 guys, Well, if you think that a tablespoon is better than a 275 00:20:07.759 --> 00:20:12.240 teaspoon when the label says teaspoon, you're making a mistake. Don't do that. 276 00:20:12.440 --> 00:20:17.599 There's a reason the label is there. And we often blame products for 277 00:20:17.680 --> 00:20:23.079 problems when in fact it's operator error that created the problem. But just reckonize. 278 00:20:23.079 --> 00:20:26.680 I mean, think about anything you use in your life, household chemicals 279 00:20:26.759 --> 00:20:30.880 or anything like that. There is a proper and an improper use, and 280 00:20:30.960 --> 00:20:37.319 so keep that in mind to avoid creating even more problems than you would need 281 00:20:37.400 --> 00:20:44.279 to be facing and more challenges for your plants and your gardening activities. Have 282 00:20:44.359 --> 00:20:47.119 you been out the arbor Gate. They have a brand new parking lot. 283 00:20:47.359 --> 00:20:49.079 I don't know if you've been out there recently, but they have a brand 284 00:20:49.119 --> 00:20:52.839 new lot. It's been around a few months, but most people just aren't 285 00:20:52.880 --> 00:20:56.839 aware of it. But it's Trashel Road. It goes behind the arbor Gate. 286 00:20:56.920 --> 00:21:00.920 So whether you're coming from east or west, when you get before you 287 00:21:00.960 --> 00:21:03.039 get to the Arborgate, Tresher Road is going to head to the south, 288 00:21:03.119 --> 00:21:07.559 go around behind Arburgate and come back to twenty nine twenty, so you can 289 00:21:07.599 --> 00:21:11.400 go either way, come in before it or after it. That lot is 290 00:21:11.440 --> 00:21:15.039 wonderful. It's all weather. It's it's you get you walk in. They've 291 00:21:15.039 --> 00:21:18.160 got wagons and stuff there for you. You're ready to go, you can 292 00:21:18.200 --> 00:21:19.720 shop and head right back out to your car, as simple as that. 293 00:21:21.160 --> 00:21:25.240 And let me tell you, the arbor Gate is loaded with blooms right now. 294 00:21:25.400 --> 00:21:33.079 The color is unbelievable. It is just outstanding. The camellias, azaleas, 295 00:21:33.279 --> 00:21:37.119 all the different kinds of flowers that you need. And of course Arburgate 296 00:21:37.160 --> 00:21:41.519 has shrubs, they've got trees, they've got vegetables and herbs and on and 297 00:21:41.559 --> 00:21:44.200 on and on, and lots of cool garden bling too. By the way, 298 00:21:44.480 --> 00:21:48.000 but just try check them out and check out that new parking lot. 299 00:21:48.079 --> 00:21:51.640 You will be very impressed. I know the Arborgate is out on twenty nine 300 00:21:51.640 --> 00:21:53.640 to twenty just west of tom Ball. Well, we're going to take a 301 00:21:53.640 --> 00:21:57.039 break here. It's time for Nicky in the news and I'll hand the baton 302 00:21:57.079 --> 00:22:00.400 over or maybe the golden microphace. Is it golden, Nikky, it's a 303 00:22:00.440 --> 00:22:04.400 golden microphone over to you and we'll be right back if you'd like to give 304 00:22:04.440 --> 00:22:07.680 us a call. Seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four. 305 00:22:10.160 --> 00:22:14.519 Welcome back to garden Line. We got a lot to talk about today. 306 00:22:14.759 --> 00:22:17.799 Listen, if you if you do not have gardening fever, you need to 307 00:22:17.880 --> 00:22:22.720 check your pulse because it spring is here. I mean it is. What 308 00:22:22.799 --> 00:22:29.000 do they say, Spring is busting out all over. We are looking forward 309 00:22:29.039 --> 00:22:32.039 to getting a lot of flowers in the ground this week. I've got a 310 00:22:32.200 --> 00:22:34.559 number of projects in the backyard that I want to start doing a little bit 311 00:22:34.599 --> 00:22:40.119 of drainage stuff. We got some I need to do some preparation putting in 312 00:22:40.160 --> 00:22:45.079 a new lawn area from some losses last year due to two different things. 313 00:22:45.119 --> 00:22:48.519 Take all root right and chinchbugs. I left for a couple of weeks, 314 00:22:48.559 --> 00:22:52.559 and when I came back, it's like they were hiding around the corner, 315 00:22:52.599 --> 00:22:55.839 and when I drove down the road, they ran to the yard and took 316 00:22:55.880 --> 00:23:00.839 off and did their damage. What a mess? What a mess? Do 317 00:23:00.880 --> 00:23:03.480 you live down in the League City area? I want to tell you about 318 00:23:03.480 --> 00:23:07.599 your hometown feed store. That is League City Feed, And we love feed 319 00:23:07.599 --> 00:23:11.079 stores here on Guardline. League City Feed is one of those, been around 320 00:23:11.200 --> 00:23:15.359 forty years and yes, it's that great old time. I just love going 321 00:23:15.400 --> 00:23:18.160 into one of the old time feed stores. You know. The Thunderbergs have 322 00:23:18.240 --> 00:23:22.680 been running that store for a long time now. Of course their dad or 323 00:23:22.759 --> 00:23:27.240 grandfather actually built it. Wes and Madison now take care of the place and 324 00:23:27.559 --> 00:23:32.240 it just keeps getting better. They've got all the products I talk about in 325 00:23:32.279 --> 00:23:36.640 terms of fertilizers and soils and whatnot. Do you need to control insects, 326 00:23:36.680 --> 00:23:40.279 disease or weeds. They can set you up there. Quality pet food, 327 00:23:40.440 --> 00:23:42.599 they've got it. So do you live anywhere in that region? And I'm 328 00:23:42.599 --> 00:23:47.319 talking about down there on Highway three, just a few blocks south of ninety 329 00:23:47.400 --> 00:23:49.880 six in League City. But if you're in Santa Fe or Dickinson or Bay 330 00:23:49.880 --> 00:23:53.039 Cliff or Webster, El Comuna, Rial, Lamark, Clair Lake City. 331 00:23:53.079 --> 00:23:56.480 You get the idea, all those communities down there, this is your hometown 332 00:23:56.519 --> 00:24:02.160 feed store. Give them a call two eight one three three two, sixteen 333 00:24:02.240 --> 00:24:06.200 twelve. They're Monday through Saturday nine to six, closed on Sunday. Two 334 00:24:06.279 --> 00:24:10.680 eight one three three two, sixteen twelve. I want to head out to 335 00:24:10.759 --> 00:24:14.640 Conro now and we're going to talk to John. Hello, John, good 336 00:24:14.680 --> 00:24:18.200 morning, Skip. How are you doing. I'm well, thank you well, 337 00:24:18.200 --> 00:24:21.319 thank you for taking my call, and I just got a quick question 338 00:24:21.480 --> 00:24:23.519 for you. I've been in my house to new home, I say a 339 00:24:23.559 --> 00:24:26.960 new home my body when it was new. I've been in about twelve years. 340 00:24:27.039 --> 00:24:32.640 And the builder, of course, planted a couple of nice live oaks 341 00:24:32.680 --> 00:24:36.240 out front, and one of them doing real good, nice and healthy. 342 00:24:36.359 --> 00:24:38.880 The other one, which is not too far from it, it's losing a 343 00:24:38.880 --> 00:24:41.680 lot of its leaves, and you know those stay green typically all year, 344 00:24:41.799 --> 00:24:45.440 but it's getting real thin on the leaves. It looks like it's not doing 345 00:24:45.480 --> 00:24:51.319 too well. And I don't know. The bark has a little different look 346 00:24:51.400 --> 00:24:55.000 to it as well, But I don't know if there's something I can put 347 00:24:55.160 --> 00:24:57.480 in the ground for fertilization purposes or whatever to get it kind of back to 348 00:24:59.240 --> 00:25:03.000 some better health because I'm worried about losing it. Okay, now are you 349 00:25:03.119 --> 00:25:08.079 talking about a How long has that tree do you think been in the ground. 350 00:25:08.200 --> 00:25:14.079 Roughly I've brought at twelve years. Well, okay, yeah, it 351 00:25:14.160 --> 00:25:18.279 definitely should have established by now. I would dig down around the base of 352 00:25:18.359 --> 00:25:22.960 the trunk and look to see if there is a root that had encircled the 353 00:25:22.039 --> 00:25:26.920 trunk and gotten bigger as the trunk got bigger, and now the root is 354 00:25:26.960 --> 00:25:30.920 strangling the trunk, it's wrapped around it. It will be embedded into the 355 00:25:30.960 --> 00:25:33.000 trunk. I don't mean just a circle you see out away from the trunk. 356 00:25:33.039 --> 00:25:38.119 I mean literally embedded into the trunk. Look for that. That's the 357 00:25:38.200 --> 00:25:41.640 first thing. If you find it, as best you can with a hammer 358 00:25:41.640 --> 00:25:44.920 and chisel, try to get it out of there. It may not be 359 00:25:45.000 --> 00:25:47.799 practical to get that done, but if you find it, that could be 360 00:25:47.839 --> 00:25:52.160 one of the cause of a tree over time not getting better but getting worse. 361 00:25:52.119 --> 00:25:56.359 And the other thing. If you don't find that, then I think 362 00:25:56.440 --> 00:26:00.640 we just need to look at giving it a boost with some fertilizer. Get 363 00:26:00.680 --> 00:26:06.240 your good a good mix. You know, microlife has a six four six. 364 00:26:07.839 --> 00:26:11.400 It's an organic fertilizer, and you're not going to burn the tree with 365 00:26:11.480 --> 00:26:14.119 it. And I would I would sprinkle it around, work it into the 366 00:26:14.200 --> 00:26:18.920 surface. If you can make the mulched area around it as big as possible. 367 00:26:18.119 --> 00:26:21.440 If you ask the tree, it would want mulch all the way out 368 00:26:21.440 --> 00:26:25.000 to the edge of the branches. Now that may not esthetically be okay in 369 00:26:25.039 --> 00:26:29.039 your yard, but more than just a foot or two of mult we want 370 00:26:29.039 --> 00:26:33.240 to make it think it's living in a forest, and so put the microlife 371 00:26:33.240 --> 00:26:37.240 out underneath the branch. Bread. So take your thumb and go up to 372 00:26:37.279 --> 00:26:40.279 the trunk. And for every inch of trunk diameter I think, did you 373 00:26:40.279 --> 00:26:45.119 say it was an eight inch trunk or I'd say, I'd say it's probably 374 00:26:45.119 --> 00:26:48.440 eight to ten inches maybe yeah, we're there, Yeah, So I would 375 00:26:48.440 --> 00:26:56.599 give it probably let's see pints for six I'd give it about two quartz of 376 00:26:56.799 --> 00:27:00.839 microlife spread around underneath the branches, right, okay, and work it into 377 00:27:00.839 --> 00:27:04.839 the soil, into the mult or whatever. Expand that multary if you can 378 00:27:06.359 --> 00:27:08.440 water it in well, and then do that again twice more this summer, 379 00:27:08.519 --> 00:27:11.960 about two or a month from now, and then about two months later, 380 00:27:12.440 --> 00:27:17.319 and then make sure it gets a good soaking. And I think that's doing 381 00:27:17.359 --> 00:27:21.160 all you can do to try to get it back on its feet. Well, 382 00:27:21.200 --> 00:27:23.160 I appreciate that. I didn't know what to use, and so I 383 00:27:23.200 --> 00:27:26.200 thought who else to call of it? Skill. I'm glad you did. 384 00:27:26.279 --> 00:27:30.240 Thank you for the call, John, and good luck with that tree. 385 00:27:30.440 --> 00:27:33.920 Thank you, sir. All Right, you take care. Yeah, you're 386 00:27:33.920 --> 00:27:37.720 talking about trees and planting and stuff. Just reminded me. A tree stabilizer 387 00:27:37.759 --> 00:27:42.000 product is just available now in more and more places. And if you're not 388 00:27:42.039 --> 00:27:48.119 familiar with tree stabilizer, think of it as a bar that attaches to the 389 00:27:48.200 --> 00:27:52.559 tree and attaches to a post. It's made so it'll attach to those little 390 00:27:52.599 --> 00:27:57.119 tea posts, those iron t posts you drive in. And unlike wires guy 391 00:27:57.240 --> 00:28:00.559 wires that are going from the tree down to the bottom, it doesn't cut 392 00:28:00.599 --> 00:28:04.799 into the trunk. It's got a soft rubber strap that allows movement in the 393 00:28:04.839 --> 00:28:11.359 tree, and that's important. Movement strengthens a trunk, Movement strengthens any plant. 394 00:28:11.440 --> 00:28:14.920 It's like our muscles. The more you stress them and stretch them at 395 00:28:14.960 --> 00:28:18.960 the gym, the more strong they get. And that is the same thing 396 00:28:18.000 --> 00:28:21.799 with tree trunks. And that's why I like tree stabilizers so much. That 397 00:28:21.960 --> 00:28:26.240 in the fact that you're not tripping over wires and you can just use one 398 00:28:26.400 --> 00:28:32.039 post or you can do two at ninety degree angles. Two stabilizers grabbing onto 399 00:28:32.079 --> 00:28:34.359 the tree, so north southeast west, whichever way the wind blows, it 400 00:28:34.400 --> 00:28:37.759 holds on to it very well. You can find them at RCW. You 401 00:28:37.759 --> 00:28:41.799 can find them at Buchanans and arbor Gate and Plants for all seasons. Down 402 00:28:41.920 --> 00:28:48.400 south at jorgesid and Gardens they have them. Southwest Fertilizer Southwest Fertilizer has them 403 00:28:48.440 --> 00:28:52.039 now as well, and I even saw them out at Verdant Tree Farm. 404 00:28:52.359 --> 00:28:56.160 So not hard to find those things. Very valuable product and you can use 405 00:28:56.200 --> 00:28:59.640 it over and over and over again. It's fast and simple to set up. 406 00:29:00.599 --> 00:29:04.160 Forget those guy wires. Just gets you a three sixty tree stabilizer and 407 00:29:04.319 --> 00:29:07.079 it will do the job for you, and it'll do it right. That's 408 00:29:07.319 --> 00:29:11.640 that is very important. Hey, our phone number is seven one three two 409 00:29:11.680 --> 00:29:18.200 one two five eight seven four seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy 410 00:29:18.240 --> 00:29:22.559 four. I was visiting with David up at RCW Nurseres yesterday, just planning 411 00:29:22.599 --> 00:29:27.119 a trip up to go see the tree farm they have up in a Plannersville 412 00:29:27.200 --> 00:29:32.160 area. RCW has every kind of plant you can imagine. Right now, 413 00:29:32.240 --> 00:29:36.279 that place is busting with roses and shrubs and trees. You know, they 414 00:29:36.279 --> 00:29:38.920 grow all the best kind that belong here. They can come out and plant 415 00:29:38.960 --> 00:29:41.519 them for you too. By the way, But if you've been thinking about 416 00:29:41.559 --> 00:29:45.279 putting out a rose, or if you just need any kind of plants, 417 00:29:45.559 --> 00:29:48.680 rcw's got it. And that's that nursery. You may not be familiar with 418 00:29:48.680 --> 00:29:52.839 it, it's it's RCW is where Tombo Parkway comes into belt Wag eight. 419 00:29:53.279 --> 00:29:56.039 Just do this. Just go to the website and you can find out everything 420 00:29:56.039 --> 00:30:02.200 you need to know. R c W Nursery dot com. Well, we're 421 00:30:02.279 --> 00:30:04.240 hitting the brake here. We're gonna have this stop and we'll be right back. 422 00:30:04.319 --> 00:30:08.000 Our phone number is seven to one three two one two K T R 423 00:30:08.400 --> 00:30:14.240 H. Welcome back to Garden Line. Glad to have you with us today. 424 00:30:14.319 --> 00:30:17.119 Boy, do we have a lot to talk about and if you have 425 00:30:17.240 --> 00:30:21.839 something you want to ask about, you'll need this number seven one three two 426 00:30:21.960 --> 00:30:26.720 one two k t RH seven one three two one two k t RH. 427 00:30:26.880 --> 00:30:30.640 That makes it easy to get a hold of us. If you're out and 428 00:30:30.720 --> 00:30:34.119 about stocking up getting the things you need, you need to include a stop 429 00:30:34.160 --> 00:30:40.119 at Southwest Fertilizer. Southwest Fertilizer is on the corner of Byssinet and Runwick in 430 00:30:40.480 --> 00:30:44.960 Southwest Houston. And what do you need? Do you need fertilizer? They 431 00:30:45.000 --> 00:30:48.640 have everything that is on my list, my lawn care schedule, and then 432 00:30:48.799 --> 00:30:55.160 some Do you need stuff to control pest diseases or prevent weeds, They've got 433 00:30:55.200 --> 00:30:57.759 it. You know, we were talking about barricade earlier, the nitrofoss product, 434 00:30:57.880 --> 00:31:02.680 they've got it, they absolutely do, and then many other products by 435 00:31:02.759 --> 00:31:07.480 night fast. As a matter of fact, Southwest Fertilizer just keeps you stocked 436 00:31:07.559 --> 00:31:11.720 up. Whether you like synthetic products or whether you're an organic gardener. They 437 00:31:11.759 --> 00:31:15.680 have a complete line and if they don't have it, you don't need it 438 00:31:15.720 --> 00:31:19.079 because they have everything that you could possibly need at Southwest Fertilizer. You can 439 00:31:19.119 --> 00:31:25.440 go to the website Southwest Fertilizer dot com. Southwest Fertilizer dot com. By 440 00:31:25.480 --> 00:31:30.200 the way, I was just mentioning earlier talking about the three sixty tree stabilizer. 441 00:31:30.319 --> 00:31:33.759 Yep, they've got those now too. They've got that kneeling bench that 442 00:31:33.839 --> 00:31:36.839 I think is so nice, a folding kneeling bench. You can use it 443 00:31:36.839 --> 00:31:38.160 as a seat, you can flip it upside down and kneel on it, 444 00:31:38.200 --> 00:31:41.640 and it got the legs become handles to help you get back up again. 445 00:31:42.559 --> 00:31:45.880 Listen. If they don't have it, you don't need it, and they 446 00:31:47.000 --> 00:31:49.119 really really do. If you got a problem, bring a sample, bring 447 00:31:49.160 --> 00:31:52.960 a picture. They can direct you to a product that works, and they 448 00:31:52.960 --> 00:31:56.880 won't steer you wrong because they know what they're talking about. Southwest Fertilizer, 449 00:31:56.039 --> 00:32:00.000 if you'd like to have McCall seven to one three to give me seven one 450 00:32:00.039 --> 00:32:07.359 three six six six seventeen forty four seven one three six sixty six seventeen forty 451 00:32:07.400 --> 00:32:13.319 four. You're listening to garden Line, and we let's call this the spring 452 00:32:13.519 --> 00:32:19.119 edition of garden Line. Oh my, listen, I say this all the 453 00:32:19.160 --> 00:32:22.640 time. I'm a broken record and I'm going to continue to be a broken 454 00:32:22.680 --> 00:32:27.200 record. And that is that if you want to have success with your plants, 455 00:32:27.519 --> 00:32:30.319 the first thing you do is build the soil and I like to put 456 00:32:30.359 --> 00:32:35.960 it this way, brown stuff before green stuff. That's how it works. 457 00:32:36.319 --> 00:32:38.279 What is brown stuff, Well, it's the compost that you put in the 458 00:32:38.279 --> 00:32:44.240 soil. It's the soil bed mixes. It's the container plant mixes that are 459 00:32:44.319 --> 00:32:49.480 quality that you put in containers. It's the fertilizers that add the nutrients. 460 00:32:49.839 --> 00:32:52.880 In the case of a lawn, it could be something you know, like 461 00:32:52.920 --> 00:32:58.400 an azumite application to get the mic micronutrient, the trace minerals down in the 462 00:32:58.440 --> 00:33:01.200 soil. You know, most product. All of those things are part of 463 00:33:01.240 --> 00:33:06.640 the brown stuff that sets the stage, that builds the foundation. How many 464 00:33:06.640 --> 00:33:10.319 analogies do I need in one sentence for a success with plants? I don't 465 00:33:10.359 --> 00:33:13.799 care if it's a vegetable plant, an herb, a flower, a tree 466 00:33:13.839 --> 00:33:19.400 or shrub, a lawn. Bronze stuff is very very important. And I 467 00:33:20.160 --> 00:33:23.480 then comes the wonderful fun green stuff with the blooms and the tomatoes and all 468 00:33:23.599 --> 00:33:29.079 the cool above ground things that we enjoy. But you want to start with 469 00:33:29.119 --> 00:33:34.880 the brown stuff. The folks that enchanted gardens really know how to provide that 470 00:33:35.000 --> 00:33:39.359 complete package. Do you need fertilizers they carry them. Do you need quality 471 00:33:39.440 --> 00:33:45.440 soil products we talk about here. They carry them. Go to Enchanted Gardens 472 00:33:45.920 --> 00:33:50.119 Richmond dot com. They're the one on the Katie Fullsher side of Richmond. 473 00:33:50.119 --> 00:33:53.279 So if you're in Richmond, you head up in the direction of Katie or 474 00:33:53.400 --> 00:34:00.359 Katie Fullsher Well that is in Chenny Gardens. They're on FM three fifty nine 475 00:34:00.640 --> 00:34:06.559 and they have everything that you can imagine. They are stocked up on everything 476 00:34:06.599 --> 00:34:12.159 from shrubs and teas and roses and vegetables and herbs and flowers and all the 477 00:34:12.199 --> 00:34:15.199 bling you need to go with the garden. It's just a fun place. 478 00:34:15.239 --> 00:34:17.840 It's a destination. Why not make a day of it when I get out 479 00:34:19.079 --> 00:34:23.559 this weekend and visit in Chenny Gardens in Richmond. They're open today from eight 480 00:34:23.599 --> 00:34:30.199 to five and tomorrow from ten am to four pm. I love to go 481 00:34:30.280 --> 00:34:32.840 out there every time I go. It's like cool stuff, new stuff to 482 00:34:32.920 --> 00:34:38.760 see and to play with. Hey seven two two KTRH is the phone number 483 00:34:38.760 --> 00:34:43.119 if you want to give us a call. I want to talk just a 484 00:34:43.159 --> 00:34:46.000 little bit about general lawn care. This is a time when we're diving big 485 00:34:46.039 --> 00:34:50.599 into it, and that's why I put the lawn care schedule online at my 486 00:34:50.679 --> 00:34:54.199 website again, that's Gardening with Skip dot Com. And what you'll see when 487 00:34:54.199 --> 00:34:59.159 you look there is like, oh, it's time to start the spring greenup. 488 00:34:59.239 --> 00:35:01.199 If you're gonna do early green up, now's the time to do it. 489 00:35:01.280 --> 00:35:07.119 Now. That's an optional fertilizer, but it will make your lawn greener 490 00:35:07.320 --> 00:35:12.119 early on, it looks better. And when we really kick into fertilization is 491 00:35:12.159 --> 00:35:15.079 through the warmer months like April, May, June, July. That's the 492 00:35:15.159 --> 00:35:20.840 time when we get those fertilizers down for an extended feed. It's always a 493 00:35:20.840 --> 00:35:24.079 good time to put down a tracemental supplement like the azemiit I mentioned while ago. 494 00:35:24.800 --> 00:35:30.079 If you're doing an organic fertilizer, everything synthetic and organic are on both 495 00:35:30.079 --> 00:35:34.760 of my lists. One list is Lawn Care Schedule. One list is Lawn 496 00:35:34.880 --> 00:35:39.239 Pest Disease and Weed Management Schedule. They're both free. They're both at Gardening 497 00:35:39.320 --> 00:35:43.800 with Skip dot Com and when you see them, just print them out. 498 00:35:43.920 --> 00:35:45.880 Print your copy out. You can have it there as a reference, or 499 00:35:45.920 --> 00:35:49.719 you take it with you when you go shopping and point at something say hey, 500 00:35:49.760 --> 00:35:52.400 I need one of these, You got it, and pick up the 501 00:35:52.000 --> 00:35:55.199 supplies that you need it's always a good time to get sold testing done. 502 00:35:55.599 --> 00:36:00.679 Don't soil test right after you fertilize, for you fertilized, because once you've 503 00:36:00.719 --> 00:36:06.199 fertilized, you've kind of messed with the results of what the soil test is 504 00:36:06.239 --> 00:36:08.400 going to say. So do that before you fertilize. But it's always a 505 00:36:08.440 --> 00:36:12.199 good time to do that as well. If you're trying to take care of 506 00:36:12.239 --> 00:36:15.480 your trees, and I hope you are, because the most valuable plant in 507 00:36:15.519 --> 00:36:20.400 your landscapes. Affordable tree service, that's what they're all about. Martin spoon 508 00:36:20.440 --> 00:36:24.000 Moore has thirty years of experience. He knows how to take care of a 509 00:36:24.039 --> 00:36:30.800 tree, from minor pruning to major pruning, to advising you on selecting and 510 00:36:30.920 --> 00:36:34.840 planting, caring for trees, taking care of the roots you're going to do, 511 00:36:34.840 --> 00:36:37.719 any trenching or any put in a new sidewalk or driveway or something, 512 00:36:38.039 --> 00:36:40.719 or a house lab. Maybe about a piece of property you're gonna put a 513 00:36:40.719 --> 00:36:44.360 house lab on it. You need to get him out there to look because 514 00:36:44.400 --> 00:36:46.599 I'm telling you this, when damage is done to a tree, it is 515 00:36:47.000 --> 00:36:53.079 almost impossible to completely fix it. Bad pruning is for life on a tree, 516 00:36:53.480 --> 00:36:57.920 and once you've cut roots. Once you've damaged the tree that way with 517 00:36:58.039 --> 00:37:00.760 construction, it's hard to get out of it. But Marden knows what he's 518 00:37:00.760 --> 00:37:05.760 talking about. Give him a call at seven one three, six nine nine, 519 00:37:06.000 --> 00:37:12.159 twenty six sixty three, seven one three six ninety nine two six six 520 00:37:12.719 --> 00:37:17.880 three. Affordable Tree Service Martin Spoon, Moore if you like websites, afftree 521 00:37:17.920 --> 00:37:24.800 Service dot com aff tree Service dot com. He stays busy because he does 522 00:37:24.840 --> 00:37:28.599 things right. So tell him you're a garden line listener and get at the 523 00:37:28.599 --> 00:37:30.599 front of the line. Make sure you get on his schedule. He'll get 524 00:37:30.599 --> 00:37:34.199 around to it. He'll come over and he'll take care of things. He'll 525 00:37:34.199 --> 00:37:37.280 make sure your trees are taken care of right, because listen, it is 526 00:37:37.400 --> 00:37:43.679 the most important plant in terms of value to your home. In a landscape 527 00:37:43.719 --> 00:37:49.039 and in hot Texas Summer's big, beautiful, healthy, strong, storm resistant 528 00:37:49.079 --> 00:37:53.760 trees are essential. That is for sure. Anybody's lived through one Texas summer 529 00:37:53.880 --> 00:37:59.840 knows how much a good shade tree can make life a little bit better. 530 00:38:00.400 --> 00:38:05.199 Our phone number is seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four seven 531 00:38:05.239 --> 00:38:07.559 one three two one two five eight seven four. By the way, today 532 00:38:07.639 --> 00:38:10.320 after the show, I'm going to jump in the car and make a b 533 00:38:10.480 --> 00:38:15.800 line for Ana Plants and Produce in Montgomery. Ana Plants and Produce is there 534 00:38:15.840 --> 00:38:19.760 on Highway one oh five, just on the east side of Montgomery. So 535 00:38:19.800 --> 00:38:22.960 all of you listening from Montgomery, from the whole Lake Conroe area or Conroe, 536 00:38:22.960 --> 00:38:28.159 even the Woodlands if you on't drive up and how about this, maybe 537 00:38:28.199 --> 00:38:30.800 somebody is over in Navasota, Texas or one of those little communities out that 538 00:38:30.840 --> 00:38:34.920 way. This is about as close as I'm going to get as far as 539 00:38:34.960 --> 00:38:37.519 an appearance to where you are. I hope you'll come out and see me. 540 00:38:37.599 --> 00:38:40.480 Bring a sample, Bring you know, a bag with a diseased or 541 00:38:40.679 --> 00:38:46.880 insect plant infested plant, or a maybe just something you want identified. Uh, 542 00:38:47.639 --> 00:38:52.079 bring me some pictures, show me things in the landscape that you have 543 00:38:52.199 --> 00:38:54.960 questions about. We'll just sit there to I I'm going to be given away 544 00:38:55.119 --> 00:39:01.920 eight bags eight bags of Nelson's turn star weedinator, and you need to get 545 00:39:01.920 --> 00:39:06.280 that down soon. Now would be the time to get that done. We're 546 00:39:06.280 --> 00:39:08.039 gonna be giving away a bag about every fifteen minutes, we'll give away another 547 00:39:08.079 --> 00:39:12.199 bag of it. I'm going to have a few Texas Gardener magazines to give 548 00:39:12.199 --> 00:39:14.960 away while you're up there. It's just going to be a really, really 549 00:39:15.199 --> 00:39:20.840 fun time. If you are looking for an organic fertilizer for your lawn, 550 00:39:21.159 --> 00:39:28.199 nitrofas Sweet Green is awesome. It is a eleven percent nitrogen product that gradually 551 00:39:28.280 --> 00:39:34.719 releases over time. It's some molasses based product that just stimulates the microbial activity. 552 00:39:34.760 --> 00:39:37.320 Microbes love sugars and it kicks them into high gear. And a Sweet 553 00:39:37.360 --> 00:39:42.360 Greens one of the highest analysis for any organic product that you're gonna find. 554 00:39:42.840 --> 00:39:45.360 You know, people ask me sometimes where do I get Where do I get 555 00:39:45.440 --> 00:39:49.960 nitrofoss? Well, go out to Chended Forests done in Richmond, maybe growers 556 00:39:50.000 --> 00:39:53.599 outlet up in Willis or RCW Nursery out there on Tombail Parkway and Beltway eight. 557 00:39:54.119 --> 00:39:58.239 Lots of places you can get nitrofross product. We're gonna take a little 558 00:39:58.280 --> 00:40:01.320 break and we will be back to answer your phone questions. Our phone number 559 00:40:01.480 --> 00:40:06.159 is seven one three two one two ive eight seven four. I hope you'll 560 00:40:06.159 --> 00:40:08.280 give us a call and we can talk about that kind of thing. There's 561 00:40:08.320 --> 00:40:12.079 a lot of stuff going on around town, you know, way down south 562 00:40:12.119 --> 00:40:16.559 at Moss Nursery. Uh Andy chid Ester who is with Medina Ag Products. 563 00:40:16.559 --> 00:40:21.760 She's going to be out there today from nine am to four pm. Now 564 00:40:21.800 --> 00:40:23.960 you can't leave, you can take the radio with you, but I hope 565 00:40:23.960 --> 00:40:30.199 you'll hope you'll keep listening to garden Line nine am to four pm. Andy 566 00:40:30.320 --> 00:40:34.079 is a wealth of information that she'll be out at Moss Nursery and Seebrook to 567 00:40:34.159 --> 00:40:37.920 day. Those of you way down south and east, well you don't want 568 00:40:37.920 --> 00:40:43.639 to miss that. Katrh Garden Line does not necessarily endorse any of the products 569 00:40:43.719 --> 00:40:50.320 or services advertised on this program. Welcome to kat RH Garden Line with Scipe 570 00:40:50.400 --> 00:41:07.280 Richter. It's so crazy exist as the world go, so many give things 571 00:41:07.320 --> 00:41:22.880 to suppos A sad welcome back to Guardline. Glad to have you listening today. 572 00:41:22.119 --> 00:41:25.239 What do you want to talk about? Let's talk about it. Anything 573 00:41:25.280 --> 00:41:32.280 related to plants, plant problems, fertilizing. I don't know what's of interest 574 00:41:32.320 --> 00:41:37.039 to you. Give us a call it seven one three two one two five 575 00:41:37.280 --> 00:41:42.519 eight seven four seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four. I 576 00:41:42.639 --> 00:41:45.199 want to mention today I was talking a little bit earlier about lawns and lawn 577 00:41:45.199 --> 00:41:50.960 timing and everything. If you are going to prevent weeds, if you're going 578 00:41:51.039 --> 00:41:55.280 to prevent weeds with the pre emergent application, now's the time that you need 579 00:41:55.320 --> 00:42:00.599 to get that done. Because here's here's how that works. These products go 580 00:42:00.679 --> 00:42:04.440 down, you water them into the cell surface, and then when the weed 581 00:42:04.519 --> 00:42:09.480 tries to germinate, When it tries to germinate, this prevents it from germinating 582 00:42:09.960 --> 00:42:14.760 successfully. It can't get a root down, it can't get established. And 583 00:42:15.000 --> 00:42:19.719 the folks at Nelson have a fertilizer called turf Star Weedinator, and here's how 584 00:42:19.800 --> 00:42:22.639 it works. It's got a product in it that will prevent weed seeds from 585 00:42:22.679 --> 00:42:29.440 germinating. Now. It also has a very slow release combination of forms of 586 00:42:29.559 --> 00:42:32.519 nitrogen. So you're going to get a release of a little bit of nutrient 587 00:42:32.719 --> 00:42:37.000 early on, and then over time it's just going to continue and continue on 588 00:42:37.400 --> 00:42:45.440 through late spring releasing those slowly available forms of nitrogen to your growing grass. 589 00:42:45.559 --> 00:42:49.639 And that kind of makes sense because your grass has grown up waking up slowly, 590 00:42:50.079 --> 00:42:52.079 and as it wakes up and more and more it's continued to release. 591 00:42:52.119 --> 00:42:57.039 So that's turf Star Weedinator. I'm gonna be giving away eight bags of that 592 00:42:57.119 --> 00:43:00.519 at A and A Plants and produce today after the show, I'll be there 593 00:43:00.519 --> 00:43:05.039 between twelve and two. You come every fifteen minutes, will you given away 594 00:43:05.119 --> 00:43:07.880 bag? And if you happen not to win one, well they'll have plenty 595 00:43:07.920 --> 00:43:12.719 on hand as well. Just turf Star weedinat. Remember that that's a very 596 00:43:12.840 --> 00:43:17.039 very effective product. But like any pre emergent, and like any fertilizer, 597 00:43:17.199 --> 00:43:20.719 after you apply it, you want to water it in. In this case, 598 00:43:20.719 --> 00:43:22.639 I put about a half inch of water, get it moved down into 599 00:43:22.639 --> 00:43:27.400 the soil surface, and that way the product in it that prevents the weeds 600 00:43:27.760 --> 00:43:34.119 can actually do the work that it's supposed to do. I was earlier in 601 00:43:34.559 --> 00:43:38.719 the week getting ready to plant up a raised garden bed. I've got a 602 00:43:38.800 --> 00:43:44.800 rolling vego bed that I've just been needing to get around to getting planted. 603 00:43:44.840 --> 00:43:47.639 In fact, today and tomorrow I'm going to be picking up some plants at 604 00:43:47.639 --> 00:43:52.639 a couple of our great local garden centers to go in that thing and really 605 00:43:52.719 --> 00:43:59.239 turn it into a showpiece. I love raised beds. Raised beds on the 606 00:43:59.280 --> 00:44:01.440 ground make it to work. You can get down in them and get your 607 00:44:01.440 --> 00:44:07.320 work done. And they're nice because you don't have to plow up the back 608 00:44:07.360 --> 00:44:10.440 forty for a garden or a flower bed. You just put the bed on 609 00:44:10.480 --> 00:44:15.239 the ground and fill it up with a super high quality growing mix. And 610 00:44:15.320 --> 00:44:17.679 we'll say you so to speak, you hit the ground running. And there's 611 00:44:17.719 --> 00:44:23.159 a lot a lot to be said for getting going with a really quality mix 612 00:44:23.199 --> 00:44:25.920 and getting started in that bed. And then a raised bed, it's the 613 00:44:25.960 --> 00:44:29.760 same thing, you put a quality mix in it. I'm going to be 614 00:44:29.840 --> 00:44:32.800 using kind of a veggie and herb mix. That's one of the many products 615 00:44:34.239 --> 00:44:40.039 that the folks at Heirloom Soils heirloom soils that they carry, and it's excellent 616 00:44:40.360 --> 00:44:45.000 for any kind of vegetables or herbs. But I got to tell you something, 617 00:44:45.360 --> 00:44:49.199 it's good for all kinds. I'd plant flowers in the thing. I 618 00:44:49.199 --> 00:44:52.159 mean, they've got a wide range of mixes. They've got stuff for fruit 619 00:44:52.639 --> 00:44:58.880 and acid loving plants like azalias and camellias. They've got the potting soils like 620 00:44:58.920 --> 00:45:02.760 the works Potting soil oil, which is an outstanding soil for putting in your 621 00:45:02.800 --> 00:45:07.440 outdoor containers. By the way, you can find that at places like aspas 622 00:45:07.480 --> 00:45:12.639 Ace in the Woodlands. Kingwood Garden Center's got it over Nelson Watergarden over in 623 00:45:12.760 --> 00:45:15.480 Katie, they've got it. Mid County feed way up in needer or way 624 00:45:15.480 --> 00:45:20.440 out in Neederland, they've got that as well. Warren's Southern Gardens. Easy 625 00:45:20.480 --> 00:45:23.320 to find the cocktail mix. But whether you're looking for that or for their 626 00:45:24.119 --> 00:45:29.000 veggie and herb mix, like I was talking about putting in my rolling bed, 627 00:45:29.920 --> 00:45:35.880 just check it out at Airlooms Soilsoftexas dot com. They're available all over 628 00:45:35.920 --> 00:45:38.920 the place. Go to air Loomsoils Off Texas dot com. You can find 629 00:45:39.000 --> 00:45:43.119 maybe you need a lot of soil mix, maybe not just a few bags, 630 00:45:43.159 --> 00:45:46.239 but you're you're really creating some big beds, or you need to cover 631 00:45:46.280 --> 00:45:51.800 a large area. Well Heirlooms Soils Off Texas dot com find out more. 632 00:45:51.960 --> 00:45:54.199 You can go pick it up at the porter location. You can you can 633 00:45:54.280 --> 00:45:59.519 have it delivered. It's just how do you need it. They can provide 634 00:45:59.559 --> 00:46:01.639 it that way. And when you start with the good stuff, you know 635 00:46:01.760 --> 00:46:07.239 the mantra on garden line, brown stuff before green stuff. Well, Airloom 636 00:46:07.280 --> 00:46:12.079 Soils can get you started with an awesome foundation for those plants. We're going 637 00:46:12.159 --> 00:46:15.360 to go out to Manivel now and we're gonna talk to Adolf. Hey eight 638 00:46:15.400 --> 00:46:20.760 off, Yes, good morning, and I'm going to ask you about is 639 00:46:20.800 --> 00:46:27.599 it okay to plant potatoes seventy year in the race beds? Yes, it's 640 00:46:27.639 --> 00:46:31.800 an excellent time to plant potatoes. People started it a while back. But 641 00:46:32.000 --> 00:46:36.880 if you haven't gotten them planted, and you want to go ahead and get 642 00:46:36.920 --> 00:46:38.719 it done, now, you're going to cut those you know how to plant 643 00:46:38.800 --> 00:46:44.239 potatoes to cut the seed pieces right right? Okay, Yeah, I'm gonna 644 00:46:44.280 --> 00:46:49.599 buy them from stamps in the alban Okay, well, then go ahead and 645 00:46:49.679 --> 00:46:52.119 do that. I'd get them today, get them cut today, so that 646 00:46:52.199 --> 00:46:54.639 in two or three days you can go ahead and get them in the ground. 647 00:46:55.760 --> 00:47:07.199 Okay. And one war a what about BlackBerry uhcis? Yes, now's 648 00:47:07.239 --> 00:47:09.559 a good time to plant those. And a lot a lot of our garden 649 00:47:09.599 --> 00:47:15.880 centers are loading up on you know, really quality uh plants, the fruit 650 00:47:15.920 --> 00:47:21.239 plants that is, like the blackberries, and so I would I would definitely 651 00:47:21.880 --> 00:47:27.679 or definitely get that done as well. I want to prepare a couple of 652 00:47:27.960 --> 00:47:32.000 spots in the backyard, but it's kind of low. When it rains, 653 00:47:31.760 --> 00:47:37.639 it floods there. So I wanted to raise you know, put some more 654 00:47:37.679 --> 00:47:45.039 dirty would I use is it rows? So you could use? Yeah, 655 00:47:45.079 --> 00:47:46.960 you could. I would use a rosemex for a big bed like that. 656 00:47:47.920 --> 00:47:51.440 I think that I think you're going to do. I think you're going to 657 00:47:51.519 --> 00:47:55.239 do the best. You're going to do the best with that. Okay, 658 00:47:55.039 --> 00:48:00.000 So you know, just down the road from you Jehes Hidden Gardens. They've 659 00:48:00.119 --> 00:48:02.719 got a good selection of fruit including I believe they got some good blackberries too. 660 00:48:02.760 --> 00:48:06.639 The last time I was out there. Uh, they are down in 661 00:48:07.159 --> 00:48:10.159 Alvin, Texas. So that's just down the street from you. Just passed 662 00:48:10.159 --> 00:48:14.880 Alvin. Actually, if you're heading for met you said, Sienna, No 663 00:48:15.440 --> 00:48:19.840 Jorges, I'm talking about buying the BlackBerry plants. Jorges Hiden Gardens. Yes, 664 00:48:19.960 --> 00:48:22.400 Sienna will get you fixed up on the mixes. They got those blends. 665 00:48:23.159 --> 00:48:30.639 You never heard him, ye or something. He is on Elizabeth Street 666 00:48:30.880 --> 00:48:35.519 in Alvin, Texas. Elizabeth Street. So you're you're just going to head 667 00:48:35.559 --> 00:48:39.119 down Highway six, go past Alvin and a little further out. I believe, 668 00:48:39.679 --> 00:48:43.360 just do a it's j. O. R. G. E. 669 00:48:44.199 --> 00:48:49.400 Jorges Hidden Gardens and he's going to have everything that you might need out there. 670 00:48:49.480 --> 00:48:52.000 Okay, got you very much. All right, you take care. 671 00:48:53.639 --> 00:48:58.440 Yeah, the blackberries are a great, great plant. They they do very 672 00:48:58.559 --> 00:49:01.039 very well here. And and uh, you know when I was at at 673 00:49:01.079 --> 00:49:07.760 Hoges recently, good night, they had they had fruit trees. Oh my 674 00:49:07.920 --> 00:49:10.400 gosh, go lower, just all kinds of peaches, and he carries a 675 00:49:10.480 --> 00:49:14.760 kind that do well and lower chill. You know that down that far south. 676 00:49:15.679 --> 00:49:17.840 It's one thing if you're up in the Conroe or Huntsville area and just 677 00:49:17.960 --> 00:49:22.079 to which peaches do best. But when you get down south of Houston, 678 00:49:22.119 --> 00:49:25.199 you need lower chill for sure. Peaches and or has plenty of those, 679 00:49:25.559 --> 00:49:29.880 plenty of them on hand. It was a sea of them, as well 680 00:49:29.920 --> 00:49:34.199 as a lot of other plants that they carry out there. I'm going to 681 00:49:34.239 --> 00:49:37.360 take a little break right now and we will be back. The number if 682 00:49:37.360 --> 00:49:39.000 you'd like to give us a call and get on the board for Josh seven 683 00:49:39.039 --> 00:49:45.119 one three two one two fifty eight seventy four. All right, little sock 684 00:49:45.159 --> 00:49:49.719 hot music there, get you dancing on a Saturday morning, by the way, 685 00:49:49.960 --> 00:49:57.159 look outside, that's called a good day, a good good day for 686 00:49:57.280 --> 00:50:00.920 gardening. The temperatures are just it's going to be mild today and wonderful. 687 00:50:01.039 --> 00:50:05.679 I hope you will get out and start transforming that place. Hey, it's 688 00:50:05.719 --> 00:50:08.599 springtime, let's have some fun out in the garden, right, that's important. 689 00:50:09.159 --> 00:50:15.760 I was just visiting with Adoff from out in Menville and he was mentioning 690 00:50:15.880 --> 00:50:21.119 Siena malt You know, Ciena Mulches is real close, real close to them. 691 00:50:21.599 --> 00:50:22.920 They don't have to go very far at all. It's north of Roe 692 00:50:23.000 --> 00:50:28.599 Sharon Highway six and two eighty eight that area. It's on FM five twenty 693 00:50:28.679 --> 00:50:35.280 one. And Ciena Mulch has got the blends of everything that you would need 694 00:50:35.320 --> 00:50:37.960 to have success with your with your gardens. We're talking about quality compost, 695 00:50:38.039 --> 00:50:43.400 we're talking about mixes, we're talking about mulches to go on the surface. 696 00:50:43.840 --> 00:50:46.119 They have all the fertilizers that I talk about on guarden Line. They carry 697 00:50:46.159 --> 00:50:51.719 those. So where you're there, it is like brown Stuff City at Siena 698 00:50:51.800 --> 00:50:55.360 Maltz. Everything you need to build the foundation. I call it the brown 699 00:50:55.480 --> 00:50:59.559 stuff. And then when you put a plant in, it hits the ground 700 00:50:59.639 --> 00:51:04.880 running because you've you've set the stage for success. And I would tell you 701 00:51:05.400 --> 00:51:08.679 if you live down south of the Houston area, they deliver within twenty miles 702 00:51:08.880 --> 00:51:12.639 of their area too. By the way, you can go to the website 703 00:51:12.840 --> 00:51:17.039 Ciena Molts dot com. But to set the stage for success with Ciena Maltz 704 00:51:17.400 --> 00:51:22.039 is always a good idea, a good start, a very very good idea. 705 00:51:22.239 --> 00:51:25.079 They're open today, by the way, from seven thirty to two pm, 706 00:51:25.320 --> 00:51:28.679 so don't delay. Let's go ahead and give them a call, or 707 00:51:28.719 --> 00:51:30.159 go out there and grab it yourself. They got bags, and they've got 708 00:51:30.280 --> 00:51:35.440 bulk and they have While you're there, check out their selection of stone and 709 00:51:35.559 --> 00:51:39.840 rock. It is really really impressive. You need a patio, trust me, 710 00:51:40.000 --> 00:51:43.840 you need one of those patios. We're going to go to friends with 711 00:51:44.000 --> 00:51:47.199 now and talk to Ed. Hello. Ed, Hey, good morning. 712 00:51:47.239 --> 00:51:52.880 How are you doing one? I'm well, thank you. I talked to 713 00:51:52.920 --> 00:51:59.000 you right before the freeze. And we have three three date palms and they're 714 00:51:59.000 --> 00:52:04.599 probably about three foot diameter. And the freeze got to the fronds, but 715 00:52:04.719 --> 00:52:07.079 it didn't do as bad as it did in the past years, because you 716 00:52:07.159 --> 00:52:12.519 can still see some green towards the middle of the tree. Okay, And 717 00:52:14.719 --> 00:52:20.039 when would it be safe to go in and start trimming the front the fronds? 718 00:52:20.480 --> 00:52:23.639 You can trim them now if you want, so when a palm tree 719 00:52:23.719 --> 00:52:29.639 loses fronds. That's the only way that tree can make carbohydrates to support growth 720 00:52:29.719 --> 00:52:32.400 and good health. So if there's a little bit of green left on a 721 00:52:32.480 --> 00:52:37.519 frond, I would leave that green. Trim away the outsides, if you 722 00:52:37.559 --> 00:52:39.920 will, but just leave them. Think of it as a nurse limb or 723 00:52:39.920 --> 00:52:45.440 a nurse frond that's just helping it. And as that palm gets new fresh 724 00:52:45.559 --> 00:52:49.199 growth on it, new fronds, you can take the old ones off. 725 00:52:49.719 --> 00:52:52.239 But any green that you could leave for now, I think would be important 726 00:52:52.360 --> 00:52:59.119 to help it sustain itself until it can get some Okay, So anything green, 727 00:52:59.159 --> 00:53:05.199 and there's probably orbing's sun and absorbing energy, and you absolutely absolutely it's 728 00:53:05.320 --> 00:53:12.239 doing photosynthesis and making the fuel that supports that plant's growth and health. Okay, 729 00:53:12.840 --> 00:53:15.280 And I was thinking about fertilizing tomorrow. It's okay, it's good and 730 00:53:15.320 --> 00:53:19.360 fertilized. Yeah, it is. The palm's probably not going to do a 731 00:53:19.400 --> 00:53:22.400 lot of growing because it's still a little on the cool side, but you 732 00:53:22.480 --> 00:53:25.519 can put some product like that out. And did you already have some product? 733 00:53:25.679 --> 00:53:30.280 Do you already have some stuff on hand? I'm talking about the grass. 734 00:53:30.320 --> 00:53:31.519 I'm sorry, Oh, the grass oh yeah, yeah, sure, 735 00:53:31.639 --> 00:53:37.079 absolutely, Yeah, do you have that on hand or not? No? 736 00:53:37.280 --> 00:53:39.559 Not not at this time. I was going to go buy some today. 737 00:53:39.760 --> 00:53:44.320 Okay, Well you're you know where you are in friends with You've got a 738 00:53:44.360 --> 00:53:46.480 lot of great options, a lot of there's some good good ace hardware stores 739 00:53:46.519 --> 00:53:50.760 near you too, by the way down there that carry all the ones. 740 00:53:51.519 --> 00:53:54.400 Have you? Have you gone online to check out my schedule gardening with skip 741 00:53:54.480 --> 00:53:58.400 Stock? I haven't, and I'll have time to do that today. Yeah, 742 00:53:58.400 --> 00:53:59.960 I would. I would encourage you to do that. Go ahead, 743 00:54:00.119 --> 00:54:05.840 plant it out because there's a lot of good product on them. Sort putting 744 00:54:05.880 --> 00:54:10.000 down malts we should be put Hell, yes, you're kind of cutting out 745 00:54:10.039 --> 00:54:16.199 on me. Go ahead, Ed, I think I may have lost you 746 00:54:16.320 --> 00:54:21.280 there? Are you there? All right? Well, I think he was 747 00:54:21.280 --> 00:54:22.800 talking about putting out malts. Now's a good time to put out malt. 748 00:54:22.920 --> 00:54:27.320 It's always a good time to put out malts. Uh. You just the 749 00:54:28.119 --> 00:54:31.519 moult serves our gardens in a lot of ways. It makes sure that the 750 00:54:31.760 --> 00:54:35.960 sunlight doesn't hit the soil, so it cuts down on weed problems. It 751 00:54:36.119 --> 00:54:39.880 protects the soil surface from eroding and crusting, and does many other really really 752 00:54:39.960 --> 00:54:45.960 good things. Speaking about doing really good things, jungle Land from nitrofoss does 753 00:54:45.079 --> 00:54:51.639 really good things for your plants. If you want to ignite beautiful color in 754 00:54:51.760 --> 00:54:58.239 those outdoor containers, jungle nds flour and vegetable potting soil, we'll do just 755 00:54:58.360 --> 00:55:01.880 that. Jungle Lens flow and vegetable potting soilt for outdoors. It's got a 756 00:55:01.960 --> 00:55:07.639 blend of peat with four different sources of aged organic materials mygarizal fungi. It 757 00:55:07.800 --> 00:55:12.760 just makes sure you have long lasting, vibrant color. That's basically what it's 758 00:55:12.880 --> 00:55:17.400 for. Holds water well but also drains well. Then indoors, Jungle Lens 759 00:55:17.440 --> 00:55:22.480 water saving potting soil is a great solution for all your indoor plants. When 760 00:55:22.519 --> 00:55:27.039 you put a product like when you put not a product like, but when 761 00:55:27.079 --> 00:55:31.760 you put jungle land indoor potting soil, it's called the water savor potting soil, 762 00:55:32.360 --> 00:55:36.679 you're going to have good water retention. But again when it gets dry, 763 00:55:36.800 --> 00:55:40.320 those crystals that are in there hold onto the water to release it to 764 00:55:40.440 --> 00:55:45.039 plants. So if you do miss a little bit of a watering schedule, 765 00:55:45.480 --> 00:55:47.800 well it makes it more forgiving. It works out really well for that. 766 00:55:49.239 --> 00:55:50.920 Now, where do you get that, well, you can get it to 767 00:55:50.920 --> 00:55:53.159 alspas ace up in the woodlands. You can get it at Plants for All 768 00:55:53.199 --> 00:55:58.159 Seasons on Highway two forty nine, or maybe out in Brennam Plants and Things, 769 00:55:58.519 --> 00:56:02.239 one of many many places carries jungle land products as well as all of 770 00:56:02.320 --> 00:56:08.239 the products from nitroposs. We're going to go now out to Southwest Houston and 771 00:56:08.360 --> 00:56:15.440 talk to Sandy. Hello, Sandy, Hi, I have an anna apple 772 00:56:15.599 --> 00:56:20.039 in my backyard I planted a few years ago, and now I got an 773 00:56:20.119 --> 00:56:27.679 Einzheimer Einsheimer. Yeah, And how far a part should I plant them? 774 00:56:29.079 --> 00:56:32.960 It depends on the rootstock that they're on, but I would say probably about 775 00:56:34.840 --> 00:56:37.639 eight feet apart would probably be Okay. You can put them further than that, 776 00:56:38.320 --> 00:56:43.519 but I wouldn't get much closer than eight because they will they'll grow together 777 00:56:43.639 --> 00:56:47.679 at eight feet. Okay, okay, have I bought the Have you bought 778 00:56:47.719 --> 00:56:54.519 the Einsheimer yet? Yeah? Uh huh okay, I got it from Oh 779 00:56:55.159 --> 00:57:02.320 I can't remember is up in? Uh? Yeah? Yeah? Good? 780 00:57:02.599 --> 00:57:07.159 Well, good, good, good luck with those. If you want more 781 00:57:07.199 --> 00:57:12.000 information on apples, you can go to the Aggie Horticulture website and there's a 782 00:57:12.079 --> 00:57:15.519 fruit section, and there's a whole publication just about apples, how to prune 783 00:57:15.559 --> 00:57:20.239 them, how to fertilize them, the varieties and all that. I would 784 00:57:20.320 --> 00:57:24.280 encourage you to check that out and that'll help you have success. Okay, 785 00:57:24.320 --> 00:57:29.119 it's free, but yeah, okay, all right, Sandy, thank you 786 00:57:29.239 --> 00:57:32.000 very much, appreciate that call. I was visiting with Patrick a while back 787 00:57:32.039 --> 00:57:36.639 out at Verdant Tree Farm. You know, Verdont has three locations there. 788 00:57:36.800 --> 00:57:40.119 I was out at the West Houston location off Parker Cyprus. They're down in 789 00:57:40.199 --> 00:57:44.400 Parlant on Broadway Street for those of you down south, for those of you 790 00:57:45.079 --> 00:57:49.960 in Houston, especially up toward north of downtown. Well, they've got the 791 00:57:50.159 --> 00:57:53.159 location there where Yale and I ten come together. So it's not hard to 792 00:57:53.199 --> 00:57:58.280 get to a Verdant Tree Farm. You can go to their website Verdant Treefarm 793 00:57:58.360 --> 00:58:01.119 dot com. Now they have all sizes of plants, I mean up to 794 00:58:01.320 --> 00:58:07.880 like seven hundred gallon trees, huge shrubs, huge trees, beautiful, beautiful. 795 00:58:07.920 --> 00:58:09.599 They got the right palm for any budget. And we're just talking about 796 00:58:09.679 --> 00:58:14.679 palms, Verdant nose palms. And if you say, look, I want 797 00:58:14.719 --> 00:58:16.639 a palm, but I don't want one that's going to freeze. They can 798 00:58:16.760 --> 00:58:22.079 give you one that unless we just well we had that February twenty one freeze 799 00:58:22.079 --> 00:58:27.400 where it went down so cold. Their Texas sables made it through now, 800 00:58:27.559 --> 00:58:30.920 so that's a record type free That's the kind of plants that they can provide 801 00:58:30.960 --> 00:58:36.760 you with all the way down to other things that are just very very interesting 802 00:58:36.880 --> 00:58:38.480 and different. You know, have you ever done a Pindo palm, for 803 00:58:38.599 --> 00:58:42.960 example, that's a very unique kind of palm as well. They'll help you 804 00:58:43.039 --> 00:58:49.920 with in office design consultations. Just go to Verdant treefarm dot com. Talk 805 00:58:50.000 --> 00:58:52.719 to them, Talk to them about a tree. What do you need, 806 00:58:52.119 --> 00:58:55.360 because now's the time to get it planted. Listen, summer's coming, and 807 00:58:55.519 --> 00:59:00.719 every day that you give it between now and summer, there's another day to 808 00:59:00.760 --> 00:59:05.119 get a root system spreading out to make that tree more resilient in the summertime. 809 00:59:05.239 --> 00:59:09.039 So get Burden a call pretty quick here, don't delay that. For 810 00:59:09.119 --> 00:59:14.440 those of you that are up on two forty nine in the Lueta area, 811 00:59:14.639 --> 00:59:17.000 well you already know about plants for all seasons. They've plants for all season 812 00:59:17.039 --> 00:59:22.039 has been around a long time. The Flowerty family, I believe opened that 813 00:59:22.159 --> 00:59:24.840 up back in nineteen seventy three. They just had their fiftieth year anniversary. 814 00:59:25.360 --> 00:59:30.639 By the way, congratulations again, folks, for that is a It is 815 00:59:30.719 --> 00:59:34.920 a wonderful place. And you know what I like When you walk into Plants 816 00:59:34.960 --> 00:59:37.440 for All Seasons, you know that if they sell a plant, it's a 817 00:59:37.480 --> 00:59:40.559 plant that belongs here and will grow well here, and I'll do well here. 818 00:59:42.000 --> 00:59:44.880 And when you talk to somebody, it could be you know, Sherry, 819 00:59:45.000 --> 00:59:47.719 one of the family members, it could be someone else that they have 820 00:59:47.840 --> 00:59:51.079 working there, and you ask them a question, you're going to get an 821 00:59:51.159 --> 00:59:53.800 accurate answer, and you're going to help. They'll help you with a diagnosis, 822 00:59:53.840 --> 00:59:58.960 they'll help you with an identification, they'll hope you have success. Now, 823 00:59:59.000 --> 01:00:01.440 you can buy plants a lot lot of places, but when you go 824 01:00:01.840 --> 01:00:05.880 to Plants for All Seasons and you come back and you've got a question and 825 01:00:05.960 --> 01:00:08.079 I'm having a problem with it or what do I do here, They'll take 826 01:00:08.159 --> 01:00:12.920 the time to help you have success. That's why they've been around for fifty 827 01:00:13.000 --> 01:00:15.079 years, and that's why they're going to be around for another fifty. Plants 828 01:00:15.159 --> 01:00:20.519 for All Seasons dot Com is the website two eight, one, three, 829 01:00:20.639 --> 01:00:25.719 seven, six sixteen. Excuse me, yeah, sixteen forty six. My 830 01:00:25.880 --> 01:00:31.719 numbers crossed in my head there two eight one three seven six one six four 831 01:00:31.960 --> 01:00:35.920 six. How about that. If you got a brown thumb, they'll make 832 01:00:35.960 --> 01:00:37.440 it green. If you got a green thumb, will you probably already grow 833 01:00:37.480 --> 01:00:40.800 to plants for all season. That's one of the reasons why why it's green. 834 01:00:42.559 --> 01:00:45.280 Oh my, you're listening to garden Line and our phone number is seven 835 01:00:45.320 --> 01:00:50.880 one three two one two five eight seven four. Listen. I potted up 836 01:00:50.920 --> 01:00:52.800 some plants. I just put this on our Guardline Facebook page the other day. 837 01:00:52.840 --> 01:00:58.159 I potted up some peppers and in the new potting soil. To move 838 01:00:58.280 --> 01:01:04.639 the plants up to a larger pot I used Nelson's Nutral Star Genesis transplant mix 839 01:01:05.039 --> 01:01:09.079 Nutristar Genesis Transplant Mix. It's a six to one three. I did it 840 01:01:09.119 --> 01:01:13.360 about two weeks ago. You need to go to the garden Line facebook page 841 01:01:13.440 --> 01:01:16.280 and look at my pepper plants. That is not color enhanced. They are 842 01:01:16.519 --> 01:01:20.800 deep green. They already have little pepper blooms on them and they haven't even 843 01:01:20.840 --> 01:01:23.760 gone out in the yard yet. That's the kind of work that Nutristar Genesis 844 01:01:23.840 --> 01:01:29.280 will do. I was so impressed with it. It's got beneficial bacteria, 845 01:01:29.320 --> 01:01:35.199 it's got the endo micurizo and the ectomcoryzol fungi that helped that plant take up 846 01:01:35.280 --> 01:01:38.519 nutrients. It contains humates of course, it has a six y one three 847 01:01:38.800 --> 01:01:44.519 fertilizer as well. It just enhances the biology of the soil. And if 848 01:01:44.559 --> 01:01:47.480 you're gonna bump something up, you're gonna pot something up into a container whatever 849 01:01:47.920 --> 01:01:52.480 you need some nutri Star Genesis transplant mix, the six to one three from 850 01:01:52.519 --> 01:01:54.920 Nelson. Well, here comes Niki. We're gonna turn the baton over and 851 01:01:55.079 --> 01:02:02.320 we'll be right back. Well, come back to arden line. Look outside, 852 01:02:02.679 --> 01:02:07.519 I'm telling you this is You're not gonna get a better day than this. 853 01:02:07.800 --> 01:02:09.960 I can get a better weekend than this. And the garden centers are 854 01:02:10.039 --> 01:02:13.800 ready, they're chocked up. Somebody's got to get those plants out of the 855 01:02:13.840 --> 01:02:15.639 way so and get the new ones in. So that would be you and 856 01:02:15.840 --> 01:02:19.199 me. I'm going to be heading out myself that if. By the way, 857 01:02:19.199 --> 01:02:21.840 I'm going to going to go up to A and A Plants after the 858 01:02:21.960 --> 01:02:24.320 show today. Ana Plants and Produce, which is on the east side of 859 01:02:24.400 --> 01:02:28.639 Montgomery, Texas, on Highway one oh five. I'll be giving away eight 860 01:02:28.719 --> 01:02:34.000 bags of turch Star Weedenator and answering your gardening questions. Answer your gardening question, 861 01:02:34.079 --> 01:02:38.280 bring me samples, bring me pictures. I guess like the M. 862 01:02:38.320 --> 01:02:43.320 E. Lazareth poem, Bring me You're tired, You're huddled, your masses 863 01:02:43.400 --> 01:02:45.719 yearning to breathe free. I'll see if I can identify them at least and 864 01:02:45.840 --> 01:02:50.880 prescribe something to keep them going and keep them alive. Let's go up to 865 01:02:50.960 --> 01:02:53.840 North Houston. We're going to talk to Mark. Hello. Mark, all 866 01:02:53.880 --> 01:02:59.880 right, question about I'm trying to clarify between the using the Wheedonator, which 867 01:03:00.119 --> 01:03:05.559 as the website appears to indicate if the pre emergent post emergent plus an early 868 01:03:05.639 --> 01:03:12.880 greenup in one product, versus using barricade and Imperial and or weed Beater Ultra. 869 01:03:13.039 --> 01:03:16.199 I've got a terrible weed problem from the last year. I put out 870 01:03:16.199 --> 01:03:21.119 a pre emergent back and I think it was November barricade and I'm ready to 871 01:03:21.280 --> 01:03:24.239 start for the spring, and wanted to know about those two different methods of 872 01:03:25.480 --> 01:03:30.159 acting this problem. Well, they you know, each of the companies has 873 01:03:30.400 --> 01:03:36.280 has an approach that can do the things you're talking about trying to do so 874 01:03:37.440 --> 01:03:44.480 basically the weedinator. The weedinator is a post emergent product, so it's going 875 01:03:44.559 --> 01:03:47.559 to kill the weeds that are existing as opposed to pre emergent. If I 876 01:03:47.639 --> 01:03:52.199 said it the other way around, I misspoke it. But it's a post 877 01:03:52.320 --> 01:03:58.320 emergent product. And the folks that nitrophos they have a post emergent. They 878 01:03:58.360 --> 01:04:01.360 have the Imperial that's just the fertilizer, and then they also have a version 879 01:04:01.400 --> 01:04:06.000 of Imperial that has a post emergent it's called trimec in it that will work 880 01:04:06.400 --> 01:04:10.880 as well for that. So you know, you have your preference as to 881 01:04:10.960 --> 01:04:15.920 which way you want to go there. Excellent products all the way around the 882 01:04:15.000 --> 01:04:19.960 barricade. Now that would be a pre emergent product, and you're putting it 883 01:04:20.119 --> 01:04:24.599 down to prevent the weed seeds from getting a foot and up there in North 884 01:04:24.639 --> 01:04:28.199 Houston. I wouldn't delay much longer. I'd go ahead and get that down 885 01:04:28.320 --> 01:04:32.800 because as the soil warms a bit, once it hits about fifty five degrees, 886 01:04:32.880 --> 01:04:35.960 we're going to start to see weed seed germination, and you want your 887 01:04:36.039 --> 01:04:42.000 barricade to be ahead of that. Okay, okay, So I would you 888 01:04:42.079 --> 01:04:46.159 know, if you're concerned about weeds, the summer weeds that are coming, 889 01:04:46.719 --> 01:04:53.280 then I would get the Imperial and the barricade together. Those are two different 890 01:04:53.320 --> 01:04:58.760 products, put them both down in separate applications, and then water with a 891 01:04:58.840 --> 01:05:02.360 half inch of water. Okay, I think and that that was my original 892 01:05:02.400 --> 01:05:09.760 plan. And then I was reading the Bearing Hardware's description of weed NAT and 893 01:05:09.840 --> 01:05:14.400 it indicates pre and post plus the early greenup. I thought that sounded too 894 01:05:14.440 --> 01:05:17.079 good to be true. We're gonna go ahead and do the barricade plus imperial. 895 01:05:17.159 --> 01:05:19.719 That's tried and true. I'm want to stick with that for this time 896 01:05:19.800 --> 01:05:21.960 and see how it goes. Yeah, and it, I mean, and 897 01:05:23.079 --> 01:05:25.920 it. You know, it's widely available. The Imperial is the red bag 898 01:05:26.000 --> 01:05:30.280 you've you've used it before, I'm sure. Uh. And then the barricade 899 01:05:30.360 --> 01:05:35.199 is the pre emergent. Those are easy to find, you sir. Oh, 900 01:05:35.199 --> 01:05:39.079 okay, yeah, you bet, you bet. Yeah, I'll tell 901 01:05:39.119 --> 01:05:41.960 you. With those nitrofuss products, they're not hard to find. You know, 902 01:05:42.039 --> 01:05:44.679 you're up in North Houston area, so you already know where you can 903 01:05:44.719 --> 01:05:47.280 get those all days hardware. Oh yes, sir, all right, right 904 01:05:47.320 --> 01:05:50.000 around the corner, All right, good all right, well, this is 905 01:05:50.039 --> 01:05:54.199 a weekend to get it done. Don't delay. Make sure to add that 906 01:05:54.360 --> 01:05:58.800 half inch of water too. Thank you, Mark, appreciate appreciate your call 907 01:05:58.960 --> 01:06:02.199 very much. Let's see, we're gonna go to La Porte and talk to 908 01:06:02.320 --> 01:06:06.840 Randy. Hello, Randy, Hello, I got a new sawd put down 909 01:06:06.960 --> 01:06:12.239 yesterday, and I wanted to see if you had a fertilization and or watering 910 01:06:12.360 --> 01:06:15.840 schedule that you could recommend. Yes, I absolutely do so if you go 911 01:06:15.000 --> 01:06:20.440 to gardening with Skip dot com, that's me gardening with Skip dot com. 912 01:06:20.840 --> 01:06:26.320 The fertilizer schedule is on there now for new SOD. I would let it 913 01:06:26.920 --> 01:06:30.719 have a couple of weeks. Actually, we're kind of in the cool end 914 01:06:30.760 --> 01:06:34.119 of the season. I'd probably give it three or four weeks before I fertilize. 915 01:06:35.400 --> 01:06:39.880 You want the roots to get down and get established in the soil and 916 01:06:40.000 --> 01:06:45.360 stuff. Let's focus on that, and then an application of fertilizer put down 917 01:06:45.360 --> 01:06:48.360 will be just fine. It's not gonna be too late for anything. It 918 01:06:48.559 --> 01:06:53.239 needs to be kept moist because you know it came in with that what a 919 01:06:53.360 --> 01:06:57.599 half inch of black clay on the bottom, and that's the whole root system, 920 01:06:57.679 --> 01:07:00.760 right there that came off the pallette, and so those roots have got 921 01:07:00.840 --> 01:07:03.199 to get in the ground. So the watering is touching go early on. 922 01:07:03.440 --> 01:07:06.760 Fortunately, it's it's cool now, the demands are low. It's not like 923 01:07:06.880 --> 01:07:13.519 you're sodding in July. But I would water it probably once a day with 924 01:07:13.639 --> 01:07:16.079 a really light application. We're not talking about an inch of water. We're 925 01:07:16.119 --> 01:07:19.440 just talking about about third of an inch or something, just to kind of 926 01:07:19.519 --> 01:07:24.519 keep it moist as it gets its its roots down into the ground. Maybe 927 01:07:24.599 --> 01:07:28.800 initially a little bit better soaking and then and then just kind of keep it 928 01:07:28.880 --> 01:07:33.239 going for about a week and then maybe every other day and then you know, 929 01:07:33.360 --> 01:07:35.920 you see what I'm saying, you're kind of weaning it off the water 930 01:07:36.039 --> 01:07:41.119 hose. Okay, awesome, very much. Good luck. Mow it in 931 01:07:42.119 --> 01:07:45.519 two three weeks. Yeah, probably, I would say two weeks, but 932 01:07:45.800 --> 01:07:48.320 again we're on the early side, so that rooting is gonna it's gonna be 933 01:07:48.400 --> 01:07:51.400 going a little slower than it would when the weather warms up a little bit. 934 01:07:53.000 --> 01:07:56.519 But you want it if you reach down and grab a sod piece and 935 01:07:56.679 --> 01:07:59.480 kind of just gently kind of tug on it, wiggle it a little bit. 936 01:08:00.000 --> 01:08:02.480 If it's stuck to the ground, then you can mow and fertilize and 937 01:08:02.559 --> 01:08:06.639 other things. If it just kind of is not, then it needs to 938 01:08:06.679 --> 01:08:10.800 get those roots down a little bit before you start running mowers over it. 939 01:08:11.679 --> 01:08:14.840 Appreciate it. I'll tell you this though, Randy, just now that I'm 940 01:08:14.840 --> 01:08:17.399 thinking about it this way, You're not going to need to mow it before. 941 01:08:17.920 --> 01:08:20.720 If you get grass, you know, if the grass gets up about 942 01:08:21.039 --> 01:08:25.520 two and a half inches high, well then it's going to have some roots 943 01:08:25.560 --> 01:08:29.399 in the ground. All right, Thank you, sir, Thank you. 944 01:08:29.520 --> 01:08:32.880 Appreciating you better. I appreciate your call very much. Hey, have you 945 01:08:33.279 --> 01:08:39.560 been out to the Cadi area to visit Neilson Water Garden and Nursery. I 946 01:08:39.680 --> 01:08:44.800 went out recently and I'm telling you it is unbelievable. It is a show 947 01:08:44.840 --> 01:08:47.119 place. It's the kind of place you go and you take your family and 948 01:08:47.199 --> 01:08:54.399 friends to. Uh. They originated the container water garden, disappearing fountain, 949 01:08:54.560 --> 01:08:57.920 the container disappearing fountain. That, by the way, they have everything for 950 01:08:58.039 --> 01:09:00.039 water gardens. Do you need coyfish, do you need lily padge, do 951 01:09:00.079 --> 01:09:04.079 you need every kind of aquatic plant? They'll get you set up on all 952 01:09:04.119 --> 01:09:06.439 that. But right now, I want to talk to you about these disappearing 953 01:09:06.479 --> 01:09:15.319 fountains. Imagine a beautiful tall vase that is just gorgeous. That water is 954 01:09:15.439 --> 01:09:19.000 flowing out of the tops and it goes down to the ground to a better 955 01:09:19.079 --> 01:09:25.199 gravel and disappears where it's recirculated back through the fountain. That's what it is. 956 01:09:25.920 --> 01:09:30.359 Birds, well, thank you. Beneficial insects need a little source of 957 01:09:30.439 --> 01:09:33.199 water as well. But what you need is the beauty and the sound of 958 01:09:33.279 --> 01:09:39.840 water just changes. The vint is so calming to have. And there's nobody 959 01:09:40.159 --> 01:09:43.920 that know. I mean, they're the original. They're world renown for water 960 01:09:44.079 --> 01:09:48.439 gardening and their expertise through the decades. Really now Nelson Water Garden and nurseres 961 01:09:48.479 --> 01:09:54.279 in Katie. It's just north of Iten on Katie Fort Ben Road. Whatever 962 01:09:54.399 --> 01:09:59.239 you need there handful their pots or containers are from around the world and they 963 01:09:59.399 --> 01:10:02.479 have containers there's that nobody else carries out at Nelson Water Garden and by the 964 01:10:02.520 --> 01:10:08.520 way and Nursery. Lots of beautiful plants out there as well. Go out 965 01:10:08.680 --> 01:10:13.600 and get inspired and then talk to them about helping you turn your backyard, 966 01:10:13.680 --> 01:10:17.800 patio area or anywhere around the house into a beautiful garden of Eden. They 967 01:10:17.880 --> 01:10:20.439 know they know how to do that. We're going to take a little break 968 01:10:20.600 --> 01:10:25.960 our phone number seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four. I'll 969 01:10:26.000 --> 01:10:30.359 be right back. Welcome back to garden Line. We are glad you are 970 01:10:30.479 --> 01:10:34.439 listening. And boy, do we ever have a lot to talk about today. 971 01:10:34.520 --> 01:10:40.880 This is definitely a day to get some discussions done about all the things 972 01:10:40.960 --> 01:10:43.359 you need to be doing in the garden. By the way, Uh, 973 01:10:44.600 --> 01:10:46.960 honey bees are out and about. They're busy. Have you noticed them on 974 01:10:47.039 --> 01:10:50.680 your flowers? You know, honey bees pollinate our gardens, and having a 975 01:10:50.760 --> 01:10:56.560 beehive in a backyard is a really number one. It's fun, it's kind 976 01:10:56.560 --> 01:11:00.039 of cool you get your own honey, but also it helps you gardens polony. 977 01:11:00.239 --> 01:11:03.199 That's important. And the folks at the bee Supply can get you set 978 01:11:03.319 --> 01:11:08.199 up for that. I mean they absolutely they got orders of bees coming in 979 01:11:08.800 --> 01:11:11.680 and all the way up until I think mid May that you can do the 980 01:11:11.760 --> 01:11:14.880 pre orders now. By the way, the pickup dates are going to go 981 01:11:14.960 --> 01:11:17.479 from about April eleventh through May twenty fourth. What you need to do, 982 01:11:17.600 --> 01:11:21.640 though, is you need to do a beginning beekeeper class now there is a 983 01:11:21.720 --> 01:11:26.119 class that is coming up on March and ninth. In fact, they're having 984 01:11:26.159 --> 01:11:30.479 one today, but there's one on March ninth, and then on March twenty 985 01:11:30.600 --> 01:11:33.680 third, or the next two classes they'll continue on into May. You get 986 01:11:33.720 --> 01:11:36.680 to learn about bees. You get to go out and handle the bees, 987 01:11:36.760 --> 01:11:40.720 work the bees with them. They suit you up and everything ready to go. 988 01:11:41.159 --> 01:11:44.319 And this is a significant class begins at nine thirty in the morning, 989 01:11:44.560 --> 01:11:47.399 it ends in three thirty in the afternoon. They provide you a lunch and 990 01:11:48.159 --> 01:11:51.640 it's just fun and it'll help you learn about Hey, is bee keeping for 991 01:11:51.760 --> 01:11:55.359 me? And how do I do it? You're not going to find better 992 01:11:55.439 --> 01:11:59.560 experts than the folks at the Bee Supply. I'm telling you they are a 993 01:11:59.720 --> 01:12:02.119 wealth of information. Hey, if you're not interested in keeping bees and you 994 01:12:02.279 --> 01:12:05.560 just want to learn about honey and stuff, have you thought about doing one 995 01:12:05.640 --> 01:12:10.520 of their interactive honey tours. Get your friends, your garden club, your 996 01:12:10.560 --> 01:12:14.640 master gardener group, your organization, church group, whatever, head out there 997 01:12:15.159 --> 01:12:17.560 and give them a call first, make sure you're all signed up, ready 998 01:12:17.600 --> 01:12:24.199 to go, and you can go and learn all about honey tastes and sample 999 01:12:24.359 --> 01:12:28.840 lots of different kinds. Of honey. See they're super cool observational beehive, 1000 01:12:29.520 --> 01:12:36.039 really really cool. Just go to the bsupply dot com dbsupply dot com and 1001 01:12:36.159 --> 01:12:40.560 they'll get you all set up with that. Let's head out now to Pleasant 1002 01:12:40.640 --> 01:12:44.079 Villa and talk to Deborah. Hello Deborah, all right, no morning, 1003 01:12:44.119 --> 01:12:50.079 skipt question about my what is Flora tiam? Say Augustine? The blue bottle 1004 01:12:50.279 --> 01:12:55.119 says you can put it kills your weeds that you're on, but not that 1005 01:12:55.319 --> 01:13:00.079 Saint Augustine. How do I know if I had it? Well, nothing 1006 01:13:00.479 --> 01:13:05.319 Russian roulette with the with the chemicals. Flora tam is unique looking and that 1007 01:13:05.479 --> 01:13:11.399 it is a I say, a rangeer plant. It's coarser textured. Uh 1008 01:13:11.920 --> 01:13:19.199 it the uh it's it's not as kind of compact and dense maybe or as 1009 01:13:19.319 --> 01:13:24.479 dark green as some of the other Saint Augustine's can be. Uh. It 1010 01:13:24.640 --> 01:13:28.720 is awesome for drought tolerance. It is also resistant to chinch bugs, but 1011 01:13:28.920 --> 01:13:33.359 some of the herbicide products are especially hard on Flora tam. It was released 1012 01:13:33.560 --> 01:13:38.399 years ago by text A and M and the University of Florida, and that's 1013 01:13:38.439 --> 01:13:43.159 why it says Flora tam. Uh. But uh, it would just be 1014 01:13:44.680 --> 01:13:46.119 I don't know how to describe it other than the way I described it. 1015 01:13:46.840 --> 01:13:53.399 Uh, did you plant your lawn or did someone else? My mother planted 1016 01:13:53.439 --> 01:13:58.079 it many years ago, but I've had to resawd because I used that product 1017 01:13:58.159 --> 01:14:00.520 once a long time ago. Okay, And I don't know what the what 1018 01:14:00.680 --> 01:14:05.000 the what they're selling in Houston. You know, if you're buying just from 1019 01:14:05.319 --> 01:14:10.279 the big box stores or Houston Guardians, it is what kind of Saint Augustinea 1020 01:14:10.399 --> 01:14:14.039 is selling. They don't even know well. And that's why that's why I 1021 01:14:14.079 --> 01:14:17.760 don't send people to those places. But I doubt I doubt it those places 1022 01:14:17.840 --> 01:14:21.960 are selling you Flora tam That would be my best guess, and it is 1023 01:14:23.039 --> 01:14:29.439 a guess, but that is a special Saint Augustine that definitely has its place 1024 01:14:29.520 --> 01:14:33.399 in the industry. But yeah, yeah, if someone had a big, 1025 01:14:33.479 --> 01:14:38.479 old giant yard and they couldn't get it all watered well, and you know, 1026 01:14:38.600 --> 01:14:41.760 but they wanted to have a good tough grass or they deal with chinch 1027 01:14:41.840 --> 01:14:44.800 bugs all the time, Flora tawn would be a it would be you know, 1028 01:14:45.000 --> 01:14:47.680 a very good option for that. So it's not a common grass in 1029 01:14:47.720 --> 01:14:53.399 the Houston area, then it is not as common as Raleigh and many of 1030 01:14:53.479 --> 01:14:57.600 the others, Raleigh, Palmetto. There's a lot of varieties of Saint Augustine 1031 01:14:57.680 --> 01:15:01.600 that do very very well here. U. So I'm guessing about this new 1032 01:15:01.680 --> 01:15:08.560 pro Vista. Provista is a grasp by Scott's. Scott's and Texas A and 1033 01:15:08.760 --> 01:15:14.560 M developed pro Vista and Provisa is really unique. It has a less of 1034 01:15:14.600 --> 01:15:18.720 a vertical growth habit, so you're not mowing it as often, and it 1035 01:15:19.000 --> 01:15:24.680 is it's a good solid grass. I am actually going to try planting a 1036 01:15:24.720 --> 01:15:28.520 little bit of it this year. I've not grown it. I've not grown 1037 01:15:28.560 --> 01:15:31.039 it. I've seen it at the A and M turf field days, but 1038 01:15:31.800 --> 01:15:35.439 I've not tried it before. All right, Well, last question, I'd 1039 01:15:35.479 --> 01:15:41.000 like permission to send it an email. I've got a question about my gass 1040 01:15:41.119 --> 01:15:43.399 and so we'll just send me to Josh and we'll send it and you could 1041 01:15:43.479 --> 01:15:45.960 do it on the radio. You don't have to talk to me about it. 1042 01:15:45.039 --> 01:15:47.800 All right. Well, I'm put you on hold. Josh will pick 1043 01:15:47.920 --> 01:15:50.399 up and he will get you the email that you can send it to. 1044 01:15:50.840 --> 01:15:54.279 Thank you very much, Deborah, and good luck, good luck with your 1045 01:15:54.319 --> 01:15:58.399 turf. For those of you out in Kingwood area. You're fortunate you got 1046 01:15:58.479 --> 01:16:01.640 Kingwood Garden Center and worn in Southern Gardens right there, and I'll tell you 1047 01:16:01.760 --> 01:16:06.840 what. Drive up and look. It is a riot, riot of color 1048 01:16:06.920 --> 01:16:13.000 out there by the way. They have those spring blooming trees that you just 1049 01:16:13.119 --> 01:16:15.079 need to have. Do you need something that's a little smaller, but you 1050 01:16:15.159 --> 01:16:17.920 want blooms in the spring, how about a red bud? They have a 1051 01:16:18.039 --> 01:16:25.680 huge selection. Chinese friends, Chinese fringe tree is one of my absolute favorite 1052 01:16:25.720 --> 01:16:29.119 trees. It doesn't get as large as a lot of trees do. When 1053 01:16:29.159 --> 01:16:32.479 it blooms in the spring, it is billowing with white, shaggy blooms that 1054 01:16:32.560 --> 01:16:39.000 have a beautiful fragrance. Chinese fringe grows an immediate growth rate, so it 1055 01:16:39.039 --> 01:16:41.520 doesn't again, it doesn't get too big. It fits a lot of our 1056 01:16:41.600 --> 01:16:44.600 modern lots, but oh my gosh, in the spring it's awesome. And 1057 01:16:44.640 --> 01:16:47.239 then how about saucer magnolia. You know the magnolias had come out before there's 1058 01:16:47.279 --> 01:16:50.039 a single leaf on it. They're deciduous, they're bear in the winter, 1059 01:16:50.560 --> 01:16:55.279 and then in spring they're one of the first plants to go. It's spring. 1060 01:16:55.800 --> 01:17:01.119 Let's party, and they send out these beautiful pink blooms that and pink 1061 01:17:01.199 --> 01:17:05.199 doesn't fully describe them well, but they send out these pink blooms early on 1062 01:17:05.840 --> 01:17:10.560 that just say spring is here, folks, and they are so gorgeous. 1063 01:17:10.680 --> 01:17:14.640 Yeah, Warrens has plenty of those on hand, and now it's the time 1064 01:17:14.720 --> 01:17:18.159 to get them so because every spring then you'll just reap the benefits of the 1065 01:17:18.279 --> 01:17:23.199 rewards I'll say, the dividends of that investment you made in the Red Bud, 1066 01:17:23.279 --> 01:17:26.840 the Chinese Fringe, or that saucer Magnolia as well. By the way 1067 01:17:26.880 --> 01:17:30.640 their leap Your Sale continues, it's a combination of different product it's going to 1068 01:17:30.680 --> 01:17:34.319 go on until March third, so you definitely need to check that out when 1069 01:17:34.359 --> 01:17:40.640 you're out at Warren's Southern Gardens. It's a combination of products that really is 1070 01:17:41.319 --> 01:17:45.399 just all products that they have in the Leapier sale or products you absolutely need 1071 01:17:45.479 --> 01:17:49.479 anyway, So why not take advantage of picking them up now and getting them 1072 01:17:49.800 --> 01:17:54.960 going again. It's only open, it's only going on till March third, 1073 01:17:55.039 --> 01:18:00.279 so don't delay anymore before you go ahead and do that. I mentioned earlier, 1074 01:18:00.479 --> 01:18:05.479 I was talking about nitrofuss sweet Green and someone had asked me about it, 1075 01:18:05.520 --> 01:18:08.840 Well, what is it? And as you say, it's an organic 1076 01:18:08.920 --> 01:18:13.520 plant food, Yes it is. It's based on a molosses type base and 1077 01:18:13.760 --> 01:18:19.159 the way it's microbially very very active fertilizer, so microbes. You know, 1078 01:18:19.239 --> 01:18:23.439 you've heard people say, well, put molasses on the soil and enhance the 1079 01:18:23.520 --> 01:18:27.560 microbes, because it does, especially some of the beneficial bacteria they love, 1080 01:18:27.640 --> 01:18:32.039 the simple sugars and that, and the sweet Green product itself is one of 1081 01:18:32.079 --> 01:18:36.800 the highest concentrations of an organic plant food and nitrogen. Then you're going to 1082 01:18:36.880 --> 01:18:42.840 have. It's got a really good content. It's smellst wonderful, and you 1083 01:18:42.920 --> 01:18:45.640 put it out and let it do what it's going to do to your lawn 1084 01:18:45.760 --> 01:18:48.600 and you will see the results of It's got a very unique level of organic 1085 01:18:48.720 --> 01:18:56.319 compounds that aid both of all in helping your soil and revitalizing your grass plants 1086 01:18:56.359 --> 01:19:00.479 as well. It reacts with the water and it, like all nitrofus products, 1087 01:19:00.640 --> 01:19:03.359 is available in a bazillion places around town. One of the easiest things 1088 01:19:03.399 --> 01:19:06.079 to find, Uh, if you were to go, for example, to 1089 01:19:06.199 --> 01:19:11.880 Katie Ace Hardware out there, you're going to find nitrofoss Sweet Green. If 1090 01:19:11.920 --> 01:19:15.359 you go to Ace Hardware City on Memorial Drive, you're going to find Nitrofas 1091 01:19:15.439 --> 01:19:21.359 Sweet Green, or maybe down Stanton Shopping Center in Alvin Nitrofoss Sweet Green. 1092 01:19:21.760 --> 01:19:25.039 If you've not tried it out before, you need to try it out. 1093 01:19:25.039 --> 01:19:29.720 It's one of the excellent products from Nitrofus and the results are awesome. I've 1094 01:19:29.800 --> 01:19:32.640 got it. I've used it before. I find it to be everything they 1095 01:19:32.720 --> 01:19:38.119 promise that it will be. You're listening to Guardenline and my gosh, we're 1096 01:19:38.119 --> 01:19:41.159 about to put an hour in the books. If you would like to give 1097 01:19:41.239 --> 01:19:44.079 us a call, give Josh a call and get on the boards when we 1098 01:19:44.199 --> 01:19:45.760 come back. You can be the first stop. We've got a clear board 1099 01:19:45.840 --> 01:19:50.079 here, so we'll come to you first. Seven one three two one two 1100 01:19:50.720 --> 01:19:57.800 fifty eight seventy four seven one three two one two five eight seven four. 1101 01:19:59.119 --> 01:20:01.520 I don't know if you've been out to war in Southern Gardens, but you 1102 01:20:01.760 --> 01:20:04.520 really need you need to go out there. If you haven't, it is 1103 01:20:05.439 --> 01:20:08.800 it's been a while since it was. I need to get back out there 1104 01:20:08.840 --> 01:20:12.720 again because it has been a while. But been that leapier the leapier sale. 1105 01:20:12.720 --> 01:20:14.560 I don't think I told you what was in it, but it's got 1106 01:20:14.600 --> 01:20:17.600 the rose soil on a very special deal. You buy two or you buy 1107 01:20:17.680 --> 01:20:24.600 three. They make it an incredible deal. Asmite. I've talked about azmite 1108 01:20:24.640 --> 01:20:28.319 before and the importance of getting as mite out. Well, you can get 1109 01:20:28.359 --> 01:20:31.640 it worn Southern Gardens on their Leapier sale. They have a special price for 1110 01:20:31.800 --> 01:20:35.560 one or two bags of the asumite. And if you're not familiar with as 1111 01:20:35.640 --> 01:20:41.039 mite, it is a trace mineral element. Now, we have a lot 1112 01:20:41.079 --> 01:20:45.199 of minerals that are essential trace minerals. We need small amounts of them and 1113 01:20:45.319 --> 01:20:47.680 amite is good for that. I put it in my garden too because it 1114 01:20:47.920 --> 01:20:53.840 enhances the mineral content, which means the produce I'm eating is even better packed 1115 01:20:53.920 --> 01:20:59.479 with the nutrients. And then another part of that Leapier sale is Nelson plant 1116 01:20:59.520 --> 01:21:04.199 Food four pound jars and Microlife. The seven pound jars are also part of 1117 01:21:04.279 --> 01:21:06.800 the leap your sal See what I mean. You need all those things, 1118 01:21:08.199 --> 01:21:13.039 the rose soil from Airlin, the asamite, the micro Life seven pound contended 1119 01:21:13.239 --> 01:21:17.119 containers, the Nelson four pound containers. All there part of the super sale 1120 01:21:17.319 --> 01:21:21.359 going on at Warren's. I just want to remind you that I'm going to 1121 01:21:21.399 --> 01:21:25.079 be at A and A Plants and Produce today. I hope all of you 1122 01:21:25.199 --> 01:21:30.560 listening anywhere up in the Lake Conroe area, Montgomery, Conroe out even Navisota, 1123 01:21:30.600 --> 01:21:34.199 all the communities out that direction. I'm heading your way, and I 1124 01:21:34.239 --> 01:21:39.199 hope you'll come see me at A and A Plants. Bring me a sample 1125 01:21:39.359 --> 01:21:44.039 in a ziplock bag to identify or to diagnose. Bring me pictures on your 1126 01:21:44.119 --> 01:21:46.199 phone. Let's talk about, Hey, look at this corner back here, 1127 01:21:46.680 --> 01:21:49.039 not a little bit shady. What can I put back there? That'll look 1128 01:21:49.119 --> 01:21:53.760 at. A and A is set up with all kinds of products. They 1129 01:21:53.840 --> 01:21:57.680 carry the fertilizers and talk about here on guarden Line. They carry a wide 1130 01:21:57.800 --> 01:22:01.840 variety of everything you need, including some really cool bling for the landscape. 1131 01:22:01.880 --> 01:22:05.079 You'll see what I'm talking about when you get out there and then plants. 1132 01:22:05.560 --> 01:22:10.840 The place is just a wash of color. Come see me today. We'll 1133 01:22:10.840 --> 01:22:16.399 be there from twelve pm to two pm today after the show. Katie r 1134 01:22:16.560 --> 01:22:20.359 H. Garden Line does not necessarily endorse any of the products or services advertised 1135 01:22:20.399 --> 01:22:27.560 on this program. Welcome to kat r H. Garden Line with Escape Richtor 1136 01:22:27.920 --> 01:22:45.279 So Crazy Trim. Just watch him as gods many bird things to say. 1137 01:22:50.199 --> 01:22:55.680 Welcome back to garden lines. Man. Am I glad you're listening today, 1138 01:22:56.039 --> 01:23:02.560 and I'm also glad that spring is here this weekend. I hope you are 1139 01:23:02.600 --> 01:23:08.239 spending some time out getting some beautiful plants a member of the brown stuff first, 1140 01:23:08.399 --> 01:23:11.439 that would be the composts, the soul mixes, and the fertilizers. 1141 01:23:12.000 --> 01:23:15.359 Set that foundation up because it's time to plant. It is time to get 1142 01:23:15.439 --> 01:23:19.039 things going out there now. I'm not saying nobody is going to have another 1143 01:23:19.119 --> 01:23:23.600 frost anytime. I cannot predict that. I can tell you I want that, 1144 01:23:24.039 --> 01:23:28.119 and I can tell you I think we're Our chances are getting lower and 1145 01:23:28.239 --> 01:23:30.640 lower and lower each day that comes. That's what we call the average frost 1146 01:23:30.720 --> 01:23:35.720 day right whatever areas. But listen, it is. The weather is beautiful, 1147 01:23:35.920 --> 01:23:39.600 and it's time to start getting stuff out there and getting it going. 1148 01:23:39.680 --> 01:23:43.039 And we are passing the last average frost date for a lot of the listening 1149 01:23:43.119 --> 01:23:45.159 area. We have folks listening all the way down to the Gulf of Mexico, 1150 01:23:45.720 --> 01:23:49.319 although up to Huntsville and then some east and west as well, so 1151 01:23:49.399 --> 01:23:53.960 it's kind of hard to make sweeping statements for everybody listening, But you know 1152 01:23:54.039 --> 01:23:56.800 where you live, you know how things are there, and you also know 1153 01:23:56.920 --> 01:24:00.359 that when you look outside. Today's a day to get outside and start getting 1154 01:24:00.359 --> 01:24:03.479 things done. This week, I'm going to be preparing my soil for replacing 1155 01:24:03.800 --> 01:24:06.880 the yard. I've got some low areas that need to fill in. Randy 1156 01:24:06.960 --> 01:24:12.399 used to talk about the kill phil until, no kill till and phil. 1157 01:24:12.600 --> 01:24:15.920 Right. I think that's it, that meaning you you know, you get 1158 01:24:15.000 --> 01:24:19.439 rid of whatever weeds and grass are there. That would include especially the noxious 1159 01:24:19.520 --> 01:24:23.640 weeds that don't go away once your grass is in. It's easier to get 1160 01:24:23.720 --> 01:24:27.760 rid of them beforehand, and then loosen up the soil, till it up, 1161 01:24:27.840 --> 01:24:30.239 loosen up, getting ready to lay that sod. Fill in any low 1162 01:24:30.359 --> 01:24:34.319 areas too, any divots or whatnot. In my case, I've got some 1163 01:24:34.520 --> 01:24:40.119 cypress trees that think they need to stick their knees up through my clay soil 1164 01:24:40.199 --> 01:24:43.359 that can stay a little on the wet side sometimes, and so I got 1165 01:24:43.479 --> 01:24:47.039 to pop those cypress knee tops off to get things leveled out really good so 1166 01:24:47.119 --> 01:24:50.439 I can lay that sod. Coming up here pretty soon, not too far 1167 01:24:50.520 --> 01:24:54.960 away from that, we're going to head out to League city right now, 1168 01:24:55.039 --> 01:25:00.079 and we're going to talk to Stephanie. Hello, Stephanie, Hi, what 1169 01:25:00.199 --> 01:25:04.039 a question. I had put some pre emergent out lists last weekend. I 1170 01:25:04.159 --> 01:25:09.560 have a lot of weeds, okay, and I was wondering if you would 1171 01:25:09.640 --> 01:25:15.560 recommend me to put the post emergent out next or as a m I or 1172 01:25:15.760 --> 01:25:18.520 what would you suggest? Well, those aren't ores, those are ants, 1173 01:25:18.840 --> 01:25:25.079 and as far as post emergent, yes, asap. Your broadleaf weeds are 1174 01:25:25.119 --> 01:25:29.119 already starting to put out blooms and set seeds, and they're tougher to kill 1175 01:25:29.199 --> 01:25:31.479 the further along they go. So if you're going to use a post emergent 1176 01:25:31.640 --> 01:25:36.640 to shut down things like chickweed and henbit and cleavers and all the other broadleaf 1177 01:25:36.680 --> 01:25:42.079 weeds that are the ones you see now in your landscape, you got to 1178 01:25:42.159 --> 01:25:45.760 do it really soon. And then the pre emergent you put out that's going 1179 01:25:45.800 --> 01:25:48.840 to take care of the summer weeds that are starting to germinate as little tiny 1180 01:25:48.960 --> 01:25:56.079 seeds now. So I can do the post emergent and ASAM and do them 1181 01:25:56.119 --> 01:25:59.680 both together. Yes you can don't put them in the same hopper, but 1182 01:26:00.119 --> 01:26:04.840 but do them together, so that that would be that would be a good 1183 01:26:05.079 --> 01:26:11.479 a good example of that. The azamite is a smaller particle, so you 1184 01:26:11.560 --> 01:26:15.239 need to set the you know, your spread are different, and you could 1185 01:26:15.279 --> 01:26:17.640 do one and then the other and then uh, if you're if you're doing 1186 01:26:17.800 --> 01:26:20.960 like for a post emergent, did you have a product you were going to 1187 01:26:21.079 --> 01:26:25.439 use for that or do you need a suggestion or what worry? Well, 1188 01:26:25.479 --> 01:26:29.800 I use the nitropos for the pre emergent. Huh. Okay, So I 1189 01:26:29.880 --> 01:26:34.880 get if you like the nitrofoss products, which you should. Uh, then 1190 01:26:35.439 --> 01:26:41.600 they have something that contains trimac. It's a fertilizer that contains trimex, so 1191 01:26:41.720 --> 01:26:47.199 you'd be getting your early green up plus that post emergent weed control. So 1192 01:26:47.319 --> 01:26:54.800 you want to water your lawn and put the product out right away while the 1193 01:26:55.039 --> 01:26:58.680 when I say watered, I mean just barely wet the surface so it sticks 1194 01:26:58.720 --> 01:27:02.159 to the weed seeds. That that or we'd leaves rather, I'm sorry, 1195 01:27:02.479 --> 01:27:06.760 we'd leaves and then leave it about a day and then go ahead and water 1196 01:27:06.840 --> 01:27:12.119 it in. Okay, And what's the name of that one. It's a 1197 01:27:12.520 --> 01:27:16.319 it's like the Imperial It's it's a fifteen five to ten, but it also 1198 01:27:16.520 --> 01:27:23.199 has the weed control product in it contained called trimec. You're down in League 1199 01:27:23.239 --> 01:27:26.640 City. You got a great ace feed. Ace Hardware is down in your 1200 01:27:26.720 --> 01:27:30.600 area, and they're going to carry the nitropos and just tell them you need 1201 01:27:30.039 --> 01:27:35.319 you need the nitropus fifteen five to ten with Trimec in it. That's actually 1202 01:27:35.439 --> 01:27:41.000 on my way. Did the grounds keepers undering they might have it. I 1203 01:27:41.119 --> 01:27:43.960 don't know them, so I don't know whether they carry it or not. 1204 01:27:44.159 --> 01:27:47.560 They might, Okay, but that would be the post emergent now not the 1205 01:27:47.680 --> 01:27:51.920 pre Okay, okay, okay, thank you very much. All right, 1206 01:27:53.079 --> 01:27:56.479 you take care, thank you. I appreciate that. Thank you. Yeah, 1207 01:27:56.600 --> 01:28:00.600 the the U nitrofos, the Imperial is their red bag. It's a 1208 01:28:00.640 --> 01:28:02.880 fifteen to five to ten. We use it for an early green up. 1209 01:28:03.399 --> 01:28:08.000 And in the case of you know, if you're trying to kill a weed 1210 01:28:08.039 --> 01:28:10.880 and you're already going to use the Imperial, then just go ahead and get 1211 01:28:10.920 --> 01:28:13.960 the one with the trimach in it and that'll that'll knock it out to you. 1212 01:28:14.079 --> 01:28:16.079 It's a broad leaf we control product. It works very well. You 1213 01:28:16.159 --> 01:28:19.159 just have to follow the label. Always follow the label, don't put it 1214 01:28:19.239 --> 01:28:24.960 out, and then just do a gully washer irrigation because you're washing the product 1215 01:28:25.119 --> 01:28:29.560 off. You want to you wanted to encounter those moist or wet if you 1216 01:28:29.640 --> 01:28:35.239 will weed leaves so it sticks and does a little bit better job. We're 1217 01:28:35.239 --> 01:28:39.640 going to go now to a test casita and talk to Cheryl. Hello Cheryl, 1218 01:28:41.079 --> 01:28:45.920 Hi, Yes, good morning. I have a question about what price 1219 01:28:45.039 --> 01:28:51.279 of native shrugs could I put on my It's facing west next to the front 1220 01:28:51.319 --> 01:28:57.399 of the house. All my aralias died during the summer. They were very 1221 01:28:57.479 --> 01:29:02.000 old, so I need some suggestions to go look at today to wrange. 1222 01:29:02.560 --> 01:29:06.359 Okay, Well, there's a lot of different shrubs. You could choose from 1223 01:29:06.520 --> 01:29:12.279 a couple of them that are real popular, or the dwarf yo ponds that 1224 01:29:12.520 --> 01:29:15.800 is a native shrub. It's a very compact plant, doesn't get that that 1225 01:29:16.000 --> 01:29:20.239 tall. And then there's the southern wax myrtle. Southern wax myrdle there's a 1226 01:29:20.319 --> 01:29:25.039 more compact form of it, and they'll have that at warrants. Uh and 1227 01:29:25.399 --> 01:29:28.680 uh, you just share it to keep it the size you want. It's 1228 01:29:28.720 --> 01:29:31.640 a native shrub uh. And it does very very well. And as you 1229 01:29:31.920 --> 01:29:38.039 anytime you shear a shrub, you create more density, and so just kind 1230 01:29:38.079 --> 01:29:41.479 of keep it, keep it compact, and keep it the size you want 1231 01:29:41.640 --> 01:29:48.199 with some periodic shearing back. Okay, And would any hollies or sunshine ugusts 1232 01:29:48.279 --> 01:29:53.079 also work there too, you could, you could use those. They both 1233 01:29:53.119 --> 01:29:57.560 would work, but neither of them is native. Well, actually there are 1234 01:29:57.800 --> 01:30:00.239 there American hollies native. But the kinds of holly you would put are going 1235 01:30:00.319 --> 01:30:03.319 to make a little bit bigger plant, you know, like a Burford holly 1236 01:30:03.399 --> 01:30:08.119 for example, is not a real small shrub. But but it would it 1237 01:30:08.159 --> 01:30:11.239 would do fine, It would do. And just talk to the folks at 1238 01:30:11.279 --> 01:30:14.079 Warren's when you're out there. They're gonna be able to show you each of 1239 01:30:14.119 --> 01:30:16.199 the plants they carry and tell you the pros and cons that, you know, 1240 01:30:16.279 --> 01:30:19.479 what they like, what they don't like, the plant likes or doesn't 1241 01:30:19.600 --> 01:30:24.479 like that is and uh, and they can get you steered in the right 1242 01:30:24.560 --> 01:30:30.479 direction. Hey, thanks, thank you. Is this is this a western 1243 01:30:30.640 --> 01:30:35.520 wall of your house a brick wall, Yes, it's western. Yeah. 1244 01:30:35.680 --> 01:30:41.079 So getting a shrub that gets up maybe you know, six feet or so 1245 01:30:41.439 --> 01:30:45.119 would be good because then that western sun doesn't bake the side of the house 1246 01:30:45.199 --> 01:30:54.079 and heat up the interior causing your summer electric I have low windows, okay, 1247 01:30:54.239 --> 01:30:58.479 anything that three t you know are going to find the windows, Okay, 1248 01:30:58.560 --> 01:31:01.920 I'd put it. I'd put you o palm underneath the windows, and 1249 01:31:02.119 --> 01:31:05.520 then I would put taller shrubs in between the windows. That's how I would 1250 01:31:05.560 --> 01:31:10.279 do it. Okay, right, Okay, thanks you bet, Cheryl. 1251 01:31:10.600 --> 01:31:13.239 I'm gonna go ahead and take a break here, folks, our phone number 1252 01:31:13.279 --> 01:31:15.720 seven one three two one two k t RH. I'll be right back. 1253 01:31:16.920 --> 01:31:20.359 Welcome back to guarden Line. Hey, we're glad you're listening today. I 1254 01:31:20.600 --> 01:31:25.039 hope that you will give us a call if you have a question. So 1255 01:31:25.359 --> 01:31:28.000 how do you do that? Well, here's a number seven one three two 1256 01:31:28.039 --> 01:31:32.920 one two five eight seven four seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy 1257 01:31:32.960 --> 01:31:35.319 four. Listen, when you head out to a garden center, you're going 1258 01:31:35.359 --> 01:31:38.880 to see a lot of color and you're gonna want to bring it home to 1259 01:31:38.960 --> 01:31:42.800 put in flower bed, to put in containers on the patio. And if 1260 01:31:42.840 --> 01:31:45.319 you're going to do that, you need to know about jungle land. Nitroposs 1261 01:31:46.159 --> 01:31:50.520 offers jungle land in both an outdoor and and indoor version. The outdoor is 1262 01:31:50.560 --> 01:31:56.720 called jungle land flower and vegetable planning soil, and the indoor is called jungle 1263 01:31:56.800 --> 01:32:00.000 land water saving potting soalt because it's got these little crystals in it. If 1264 01:32:00.039 --> 01:32:02.439 you get to water your house plants and they get a little on the dry 1265 01:32:02.600 --> 01:32:08.800 side, those water saving crystals absorb extra moisture, hold on to it and 1266 01:32:08.920 --> 01:32:12.399 make it available for the plants later. Both of them are going to help 1267 01:32:12.439 --> 01:32:16.800 you have beautiful, vibrant growth, beautiful color on those outdoor containers that you 1268 01:32:16.920 --> 01:32:20.479 have, and you know it, just when you take care of the root 1269 01:32:20.600 --> 01:32:26.159 system, the plant thrives in jungleland does just that. Now where do you 1270 01:32:26.239 --> 01:32:31.560 get nitrofoss products? Well, everywhere? I mean they are available, widely 1271 01:32:31.640 --> 01:32:36.560 available in all kinds of different locations. All the ACE hardware stores are going 1272 01:32:36.600 --> 01:32:42.199 to be great places to get your nitrofoss products. For example, I know, 1273 01:32:42.399 --> 01:32:45.159 you go out to a place like I don't know, Plantation ACE hardware 1274 01:32:45.279 --> 01:32:50.119 out in the Richmond Rosenberg area, you're going to find nitro frost products. 1275 01:32:50.159 --> 01:32:56.439 You go up to plants for all seasons up on two forty nine, you're 1276 01:32:56.479 --> 01:32:59.920 going to find nitrofoss products. You see what I'm talking about. Just why 1277 01:33:00.199 --> 01:33:03.720 be widely available, I want to head out now. I'm going to talk 1278 01:33:03.800 --> 01:33:10.520 to David out in Cleveland. Hello, David, good morning. I have 1279 01:33:10.640 --> 01:33:16.199 a quick question. I put my pepper seeds in my incubator to kind of 1280 01:33:16.279 --> 01:33:21.720 make a hot box, and it worked perfect that they sprouted in about five 1281 01:33:21.880 --> 01:33:27.760 days. But I have no light in there. And my question is if 1282 01:33:27.840 --> 01:33:31.720 I just put those seedlings out in room temperature so I can get my light 1283 01:33:31.800 --> 01:33:34.239 on them, will they be okay? Or do I still need to keep 1284 01:33:34.279 --> 01:33:39.439 them much warmer than just room temperature. Now, room temperature is perfect, 1285 01:33:39.600 --> 01:33:43.479 go ahead and get them. The minute a seedlings starts to break the surface, 1286 01:33:43.560 --> 01:33:46.479 you need to get it into good sunlight because it will stretch fast if 1287 01:33:46.520 --> 01:33:50.640 you don't right right, Yes, sir, I understanding that this morning was 1288 01:33:50.680 --> 01:33:55.600 the first time I haven't seen anything break the surface, so that when I 1289 01:33:55.720 --> 01:33:59.520 was falling, well, it worked out good that it's today rather than a 1290 01:33:59.560 --> 01:34:01.359 weekday. Yeah, but you know what I would do. I would I 1291 01:34:01.359 --> 01:34:06.800 would move them straight outside into a bright, not direct sun because you don't 1292 01:34:06.840 --> 01:34:11.520 want to make that change. So suddenly today's going to be a nice mile 1293 01:34:11.680 --> 01:34:15.680 day, and just let let those seedlings get some light and then bring them 1294 01:34:15.680 --> 01:34:20.359 in this evening. Put them back out tomorrow. Another great day light is 1295 01:34:20.479 --> 01:34:25.800 the most important thing at this stage with those seedlings, because that'll keep them 1296 01:34:25.880 --> 01:34:30.880 compact and healthy. All right, I appreciate it very much, sir. 1297 01:34:30.159 --> 01:34:32.960 All right, yeah, even when we put them by a window indoors, 1298 01:34:33.399 --> 01:34:38.039 we just don't get the light levels that they want. Hey, David, 1299 01:34:38.119 --> 01:34:41.840 thank you, thank you for the call. I appreciate appreciate that very much. 1300 01:34:42.600 --> 01:34:46.600 Have you been to Buchanan's plants lately, because they are busting at the 1301 01:34:46.720 --> 01:34:53.039 seams with all kinds of cool stuff. For example, for example, spring 1302 01:34:53.159 --> 01:34:56.600 blooming native trees like a red bud, like a Mexican plum. Have you 1303 01:34:56.640 --> 01:35:00.000 ever seen a Mexican plum? Beautiful little trees, very beautiful little tree, 1304 01:35:00.399 --> 01:35:03.119 white blooms in the spring. And then Texas Mount Laurel. Oh, my 1305 01:35:03.199 --> 01:35:10.640 gosh, the fragrance is intoxicating. It looks like giant clusters of grapes. 1306 01:35:10.720 --> 01:35:14.359 The blooms do in the spring. It's a very slow growing tree or a 1307 01:35:14.520 --> 01:35:17.239 plant. I think of them almost as a shrub slash tree. They can 1308 01:35:17.319 --> 01:35:24.239 get big in time, but in the spring they have a great bubblegum fragrance. 1309 01:35:24.279 --> 01:35:28.880 It's amazing, absolutely amazing. They got roughly dogwood and Buchanans too, 1310 01:35:29.000 --> 01:35:32.920 and they have Mexican buckeye. You need an understory shrub that it gets quite 1311 01:35:33.000 --> 01:35:39.279 tall, that multi stem shrub. Mexican buckeye is an excellent choice for that 1312 01:35:39.479 --> 01:35:44.199 with the spring blooms. Again, another Texas native plant that you can find 1313 01:35:44.279 --> 01:35:48.479 there. They are loaded up on things like the bedding plants like geraniums in 1314 01:35:48.640 --> 01:35:56.159 calibracoa. If you've not seen a Calibrica, picture something like a small petunia. 1315 01:35:56.560 --> 01:36:00.720 But just go buy there. Go buy Buchanans and ask ask them about 1316 01:36:00.920 --> 01:36:03.159 the caliber costs. I want to see one of those. The colors are 1317 01:36:03.239 --> 01:36:08.520 outstanding. They trail over the sides of the pot. Beautiful. They're on 1318 01:36:08.640 --> 01:36:13.159 Eleventh Street in the Heights. For those of you who don't know, Buchanansplants 1319 01:36:13.359 --> 01:36:16.479 dot com. Easy, easy, easy to get to and you're going to 1320 01:36:16.560 --> 01:36:20.439 find a lot of cool stuff at Buchanans plant I always do. I always 1321 01:36:20.479 --> 01:36:24.720 love going there. Let's head out to friends with Now we're going to talk 1322 01:36:24.760 --> 01:36:30.479 to Joe. Hey, Joe. Yes, last summer I lost about ninety 1323 01:36:30.560 --> 01:36:36.199 five percent of my San Augustine grass and of course mostly it's weeds. Now, 1324 01:36:36.239 --> 01:36:40.000 I've been cutting in real shorts just because I can't stand the book of 1325 01:36:40.079 --> 01:36:45.000 it. What do you think I should do going forward? I think you're 1326 01:36:45.000 --> 01:36:49.199 going to need to reside. I was in the same situation in my front 1327 01:36:49.279 --> 01:36:55.119 yard of all places, due to drought, due to chinchbugs, and due 1328 01:36:55.159 --> 01:36:59.520 to disease. I just it was a perfect storm last summer. I've never 1329 01:36:59.560 --> 01:37:01.640 had a problem with those, and boy, it took it out. I'm 1330 01:37:01.720 --> 01:37:04.680 residing. I'm going to get rid of a little bit of grass. It's 1331 01:37:04.720 --> 01:37:09.479 there. It's not worth trying to mess with and get your good quality grass, 1332 01:37:09.680 --> 01:37:13.039 put it down, side, it in and you'll be back in business. 1333 01:37:13.319 --> 01:37:16.439 That's kind of when it's ninety five percent loss, that's about all you 1334 01:37:16.479 --> 01:37:20.680 can do, Joe. Now, what should I do to prepare for the 1335 01:37:20.800 --> 01:37:25.159 news size? Okay, you want to get rid of all the old plants. 1336 01:37:25.399 --> 01:37:28.720 That would include old sod, that would include weeds. If you've had 1337 01:37:28.800 --> 01:37:33.359 a like a bermuda grass invading your Saint Augustine problem, has that been a 1338 01:37:33.439 --> 01:37:39.079 problem before or not? Oh? Yeah? Okay, Well then I'm going 1339 01:37:39.159 --> 01:37:42.880 to ask you to wait a little bit. Let's let it warm up enough 1340 01:37:42.960 --> 01:37:45.880 and get that bermuda grass growing, and when it comes up, you're going 1341 01:37:45.920 --> 01:37:50.000 to want to spray it and kill it and then give it another week or 1342 01:37:50.079 --> 01:37:54.720 so. You may get some more coming up and spray it again because you 1343 01:37:54.840 --> 01:37:59.279 want to eradicate the bermuda before you put Saint Augustine down, or it will 1344 01:37:59.520 --> 01:38:02.920 just come back and you you would just always be fighting it unless you put 1345 01:38:02.960 --> 01:38:08.880 in a bermuda on. But uh, that that is not going to grow 1346 01:38:09.199 --> 01:38:13.560 now. The bermuda is not going to grow now. So if you plant 1347 01:38:13.640 --> 01:38:16.479 your sod now, you're just going to have to deal with the bermuda in 1348 01:38:16.640 --> 01:38:20.000 the Saint Augustine is part of life. Uh, if you can wait, 1349 01:38:20.079 --> 01:38:28.880 what I use? Would I use a round up type product? Yeah? 1350 01:38:29.239 --> 01:38:34.920 You would. There are grass only killers. Uh They're not as effective as 1351 01:38:35.079 --> 01:38:39.800 round up in killing bermuda, but they are pretty effective. So if you 1352 01:38:40.000 --> 01:38:45.239 if you don't want to use a Glypho SAT product, then a grass killer 1353 01:38:45.399 --> 01:38:49.359 And if you go to you know, like your ACE hardware store nearby there 1354 01:38:49.720 --> 01:38:53.199 dine friends with it, and you were to say, hey, I need 1355 01:38:53.279 --> 01:38:58.279 a I need a grass only killer, they can provide you with one of 1356 01:38:58.319 --> 01:39:02.479 those products too. That would be another option. Okay, is there a 1357 01:39:02.560 --> 01:39:06.920 waiting period after I do that spray? No, even with the even with 1358 01:39:08.039 --> 01:39:12.079 glyphosate products, you spray them, it needs about a week to kind of 1359 01:39:12.159 --> 01:39:15.000 move down. And because it kills thoroughly by going down into the plant, 1360 01:39:15.520 --> 01:39:18.479 it needs about a week. And then by then, if you just kind 1361 01:39:18.520 --> 01:39:20.960 of scratch up the soil, you can lay the grass on it and it'll 1362 01:39:21.000 --> 01:39:26.439 be just fine. It will not be a problem. All right, Well, 1363 01:39:26.520 --> 01:39:28.840 thank you so much. All right, good luck with that. Sorry 1364 01:39:28.960 --> 01:39:31.600 you're in that situation. But I feel your pain, that is for sure. 1365 01:39:33.319 --> 01:39:36.000 You know, I always learn a lot every year in the garden, 1366 01:39:36.079 --> 01:39:40.439 and every year is different. I have never had chinchbugs take out long before. 1367 01:39:41.039 --> 01:39:43.640 I've never had the degree of take holl root rot that I had last 1368 01:39:43.680 --> 01:39:47.000 year either, So that's that's kind of interesting to know. You know. 1369 01:39:47.039 --> 01:39:51.560 I was talking to him mentioning ACE Hardware stores. Wherever you live around this 1370 01:39:51.760 --> 01:39:56.760 listening area, you've got an ACE Hardware store near you. If you there's 1371 01:39:56.840 --> 01:40:00.800 forty of them in the Greater Houston area. Go to ACE Hardware dot com. 1372 01:40:01.279 --> 01:40:05.560 Acehardware dot com. Every fertilizer you hear come out of my mouth is 1373 01:40:05.640 --> 01:40:10.920 at ACE Hardware store. Anything you need for controlling pests, weeds, and 1374 01:40:11.000 --> 01:40:14.600 diseases, they got it at ACE Hardware store. Stuff like asamite, for 1375 01:40:14.680 --> 01:40:18.279 example, They've got it at ACE Hardware stores. The soil products, the 1376 01:40:18.359 --> 01:40:23.479 bags of soil and molten things, you can find them at your ACE Hardware 1377 01:40:23.479 --> 01:40:27.560 store. And every kind of tool and supply you need to have a beautiful, 1378 01:40:27.800 --> 01:40:30.640 beautiful landscape and a bountiful garden, You're going to find it at ACE 1379 01:40:30.720 --> 01:40:34.960 Hardware. Just go to Acehardware dot Com, find the store locator, find 1380 01:40:35.039 --> 01:40:40.119 the store near you, and the rest, as they say, is not 1381 01:40:40.359 --> 01:40:44.680 history, but a future of beautiful, beautiful landscapes. We're going to go 1382 01:40:44.720 --> 01:40:48.840 out to Dan in Beaumont, Texas. Now. Hello, Dan, Hey, 1383 01:40:49.000 --> 01:40:51.479 good morning. How are you doing. I'm well, sir, what's 1384 01:40:51.560 --> 01:41:00.279 up in Beaumont? Hey? I just planted some hascinator seeds and I'm trying 1385 01:41:00.319 --> 01:41:06.319 to get them to germinate. And what I'm trying to do is eventually get 1386 01:41:06.399 --> 01:41:11.880 those seeds to produce more seeds, so that way next year the seeds won't 1387 01:41:11.920 --> 01:41:16.319 be so hard to locate. But what do I How do I get seeds 1388 01:41:16.319 --> 01:41:19.119 out of that? Do I just leave the tomatoes? On the mine and 1389 01:41:19.199 --> 01:41:24.600 then just let them rot off. Or yeah, what tell me again, 1390 01:41:25.079 --> 01:41:29.439 it sounds like you said hascinator. What were you saying? Yes, it 1391 01:41:29.560 --> 01:41:33.600 is the hascinator tomato plant. Okay, So with tomatoes, you do want 1392 01:41:33.640 --> 01:41:40.960 to let the plant for the fruit fully mature, bring it inside, and 1393 01:41:42.000 --> 01:41:45.479 you can do a couple of things. This is a little gross, but 1394 01:41:45.600 --> 01:41:49.840 some people get that all that jelly and seeds out of the cavities. Kind 1395 01:41:49.880 --> 01:41:53.680 of wash it, clean it up as best you can. Put it in 1396 01:41:53.760 --> 01:41:57.760 a glass of water, put a little cover over it, and just let 1397 01:41:57.840 --> 01:42:02.319 it essentially almost ferment. It'll rot, it'll decay away some of the debris 1398 01:42:02.399 --> 01:42:06.880 around the seeds. You'll see the seeds falling down from the surface where they're 1399 01:42:06.920 --> 01:42:12.159 floating down into the material. And then you can just strain it out real 1400 01:42:12.239 --> 01:42:15.960 good. Let the seeds dry and they're ready to store. I would store 1401 01:42:15.000 --> 01:42:20.119 them in the refrigerator after they have thoroughly dried for a couple of weeks, 1402 01:42:20.840 --> 01:42:25.039 you know, just sitting on I don't know, it could be wax paper 1403 01:42:25.239 --> 01:42:29.680 or just cardboard or whatever. Just let them fully dry and then store them 1404 01:42:29.720 --> 01:42:35.560 in the refrigerator so the viability is best. Okay, those seeds are very 1405 01:42:35.640 --> 01:42:42.640 difficult to locate, and so I was trying to at least have another supply. 1406 01:42:43.119 --> 01:42:45.520 Yeah, I can create on my own. Yeah, I think, 1407 01:42:45.760 --> 01:42:46.840 you know, I think that's a gooda. That's the way to do it. 1408 01:42:47.199 --> 01:42:50.920 You know, it's not that difficult to do tomato seeds. They're pretty 1409 01:42:51.000 --> 01:43:01.800 pretty simple. How do you spell that hascinator h oss oh from hass okay 1410 01:43:02.239 --> 01:43:05.439 tools host tools. Yeah, I know those guys. Okay, Hey, 1411 01:43:05.479 --> 01:43:09.920 I got to run for a commercial, but break here in the news. 1412 01:43:10.119 --> 01:43:13.800 But thanks for your question, and good luck. We're doing that. Yeah, 1413 01:43:13.840 --> 01:43:17.000 we're just talking a while ago with Joe Adam friends with losing his lawn 1414 01:43:17.000 --> 01:43:20.520 and a lot of you've lost a lot of plants, and maybe you just 1415 01:43:20.640 --> 01:43:23.960 want to give Pierscapes a call. You know, they can come in. 1416 01:43:24.520 --> 01:43:29.880 They can they can revent renovate your landscape. They can fix your irrigation systems, 1417 01:43:29.920 --> 01:43:32.520 they can fix the drainage problems you have. Piercecapes does it all. 1418 01:43:32.720 --> 01:43:36.680 I mean, they really do do it all. Go to pierscapes dot com 1419 01:43:36.840 --> 01:43:41.039 check out the beautiful work that they do. Give them a call. Two 1420 01:43:41.119 --> 01:43:45.039 eight one, three, seven oh five oh six oh two eight one three 1421 01:43:45.159 --> 01:43:50.159 seven o five zero six zero. They also will do some spring clean up 1422 01:43:50.600 --> 01:43:55.279 the landscape, getting things ready to go in a new bed, doing a 1423 01:43:55.319 --> 01:43:59.960 new design, just whatever it's going to take to have a beautiful, beauty 1424 01:44:00.279 --> 01:44:03.000 place. Let them get you set up and ready to go. That's what 1425 01:44:03.119 --> 01:44:06.000 they specialize in. We're going to take a break for the news. Here's 1426 01:44:06.079 --> 01:44:13.760 Nicky our phone number seven one three two one two. Katrh Well, say, 1427 01:44:13.880 --> 01:44:16.560 LEVI, it's time for a wonderful gardening weekend. And if you look 1428 01:44:16.600 --> 01:44:21.079 out the window there it is. I could not be more excited. I'm 1429 01:44:21.119 --> 01:44:27.039 telling you this is it's about killing me to be in a radio studio right 1430 01:44:27.119 --> 01:44:30.920 now to do a show when I want to be out there rolling in the 1431 01:44:30.079 --> 01:44:34.680 dirt and having some fun with plants. Hey, this is the weather and 1432 01:44:34.840 --> 01:44:39.119 this is the time. It is spring, and you need to be in 1433 01:44:39.479 --> 01:44:43.520 full swing right now, because well, I'm just telling you it's time to 1434 01:44:43.600 --> 01:44:45.800 do it. Last week I was potting up some plants. In fact, 1435 01:44:45.880 --> 01:44:49.399 I've been potting up plants for the last four weeks really, but a couple 1436 01:44:49.439 --> 01:44:54.840 of weeks ago I was moving some peppers from the little containers they started in 1437 01:44:55.039 --> 01:44:59.479 into a much larger container, and I used some of Neilson plant food. 1438 01:44:59.520 --> 01:45:03.239 They've got a nutri Star Genesis. It's a transplant mix. It's a six 1439 01:45:03.640 --> 01:45:09.680 one three fertilizer. It contains microbes and humates and it just really enhances the 1440 01:45:09.760 --> 01:45:13.800 soil. It's got the ectra microhizal and endo microizal fungi to help the plants 1441 01:45:13.880 --> 01:45:16.560 take up nutrients. You mix it in with the potting soil or growing mix 1442 01:45:16.600 --> 01:45:20.880 you're about to transplant into, whether it's an outdoor pot or an indoor container. 1443 01:45:21.000 --> 01:45:24.840 In my case, just bumping up some peppers. Did it two weeks 1444 01:45:24.840 --> 01:45:29.359 ago. Go to the garden Line facebook page. Guardenline facebook page and look 1445 01:45:29.399 --> 01:45:31.920 at the peppers that I bumped up. They already got bloom buds on them 1446 01:45:32.000 --> 01:45:35.800 and they are so dark green. That is not an enhanced photo. That 1447 01:45:36.000 --> 01:45:42.439 is the benefit of nutri starjenf Genesis transplant mix. The six one three. 1448 01:45:42.960 --> 01:45:45.720 Follow the label. Mix it in the soil, put your put the soil 1449 01:45:45.800 --> 01:45:49.279 in the pot, add your transplant into their fill in around it with the 1450 01:45:49.359 --> 01:45:55.840 blended compost t em mix with this Nutristar genesis in it. Water it in 1451 01:45:56.359 --> 01:46:00.359 and this stem bac and watch it is outstanding and the results are outes and 1452 01:46:00.439 --> 01:46:03.479 you can see that an only little trial I did for it there testing it 1453 01:46:03.560 --> 01:46:06.840 out, and wow, really really good. In fact, by the time 1454 01:46:06.880 --> 01:46:10.760 I get home today, I bet there's peppers ray to pick. Maybe not, 1455 01:46:11.119 --> 01:46:15.239 but it seems it seems like it's moving that fast. Hey, our 1456 01:46:15.279 --> 01:46:16.640 phone number. Would you like to give us callege? You got a question 1457 01:46:16.920 --> 01:46:21.720 seven one three, two, one two five eight seven four seven one three 1458 01:46:21.840 --> 01:46:27.920 two one two fifty eight seventy four. Give Josh a call and have him 1459 01:46:27.960 --> 01:46:30.439 get you on the board so we can discuss the things that are of most 1460 01:46:30.600 --> 01:46:35.640 interest to you, those of you that are out south and east of town. 1461 01:46:35.760 --> 01:46:41.840 You know, I always brag about our lensk excuse me, garden centers 1462 01:46:41.880 --> 01:46:45.520 here in the Greater Houston area. I'm telling you, this town has the 1463 01:46:45.600 --> 01:46:48.319 best garden center I've seen anywhere I've been in the country. Certainly anywhere around 1464 01:46:48.359 --> 01:46:54.319 Texas north, south, east, west, Central, We've got garden centers 1465 01:46:54.479 --> 01:46:58.960 any direction you want to go that are showstopper places worth taking your family and 1466 01:46:59.039 --> 01:47:02.439 friends to. And Moss Nursery is exactly that kind of place. They're down 1467 01:47:02.520 --> 01:47:10.399 there in Seabrook on Toadville Toddville Road in Seabrook and their cacti and succulent greenhouse. 1468 01:47:10.479 --> 01:47:14.840 In fact, the whole house plant greenhouse is unbelievable. My wife got 1469 01:47:14.960 --> 01:47:17.760 some string of tears and I don't know what else she got out there, 1470 01:47:17.800 --> 01:47:20.960 and she was just going crazy in the greenhouse with the cact iron succulents. 1471 01:47:20.960 --> 01:47:25.279 A while back, they've got you know, the two inch three inch, 1472 01:47:25.359 --> 01:47:28.279 four inch, five or six inch, ten inch, eight inch, all 1473 01:47:28.359 --> 01:47:32.479 those pots, all the at fifteen gallons, beautiful pots with houseplants. You 1474 01:47:32.560 --> 01:47:36.880 can find every kind of houseplant you're imagining. I've never seen a selection as 1475 01:47:36.920 --> 01:47:42.319 good as what they have at Moss Nursery out in Toddville on Toddville Road in 1476 01:47:42.399 --> 01:47:45.760 Seabrook. Now you can get them a call. Two eight one four seven 1477 01:47:45.880 --> 01:47:49.680 four twenty four forty eight two eight one four seven four twenty four forty eight. 1478 01:47:50.159 --> 01:47:55.159 The whole back third of the greenhouse is stocked full of cactirons. I 1479 01:47:55.159 --> 01:47:58.079 mean they're on tables, they're on shelves, on the ground, they're even 1480 01:47:58.159 --> 01:48:01.119 hanging from the rafters in there. It takes time just to go through that 1481 01:48:01.239 --> 01:48:04.680 greenhouse. There's so much. And let me tell you this now I'm in 1482 01:48:04.760 --> 01:48:09.159 talking about the greenhouse and all that. You need to look at their vegetable 1483 01:48:09.279 --> 01:48:15.960 selection too. It is unbelievable, beautiful selection of peppers and things. And 1484 01:48:15.079 --> 01:48:19.079 they've got the coolest, coolest peppers. I'm trying. They have fool you 1485 01:48:19.239 --> 01:48:23.399 jalapeno. It has no heat. I've grown it before. It's great, 1486 01:48:23.720 --> 01:48:27.199 it's wonderful. You can add the heat as you want it and it just 1487 01:48:27.319 --> 01:48:30.479 get that beautiful flavor. They have the mucco nacho jalapeno. Is that a 1488 01:48:30.520 --> 01:48:34.760 good name for a klopeno. It is a huge, thick, thick walled 1489 01:48:34.800 --> 01:48:38.840 pepper. Oh my gosh, my mouth. I'm gonna have to go get 1490 01:48:38.920 --> 01:48:43.880 chips and cheese after this muccho nacho. When you go by there, say 1491 01:48:43.880 --> 01:48:46.159 I want to see those klopennos, they'll show them to you. Oh my 1492 01:48:46.239 --> 01:48:50.880 gosh. All of that moss nursery in Seabret. We're going to go now 1493 01:48:50.960 --> 01:48:56.880 to Spring Branch and talk to Herta. Hello, Herta, good morning. 1494 01:48:57.000 --> 01:49:03.359 Skip. My question is about a night blooming jasmine. Now it's my own 1495 01:49:03.479 --> 01:49:11.439 fault, but it's in one of the nursery black pots. I guess what 1496 01:49:12.319 --> 01:49:20.640 seven eight inches in diameter? The smaller one. But anyway it has the 1497 01:49:20.800 --> 01:49:28.399 roots have gone down through the holes in the pot. I want to move 1498 01:49:28.520 --> 01:49:35.479 it, but I plan to cut the pot off of it. Also. 1499 01:49:38.560 --> 01:49:42.640 It made it through the freeze. You know, I could scratch the little 1500 01:49:42.760 --> 01:49:48.199 stems and it had green, But now the top part is dead. Should 1501 01:49:48.239 --> 01:49:53.319 I snap those top parts off? If they're brown and dead, they're not 1502 01:49:53.399 --> 01:49:55.520 going to come back to life. So yes, go ahead and take it 1503 01:49:55.600 --> 01:49:58.039 out if you want to get a little bit more time. Make sure there's 1504 01:49:58.079 --> 01:50:00.479 not life in them. But if they're brown, think they're gone. Yeah, 1505 01:50:00.560 --> 01:50:09.079 all right, now I think how tender are they? Can they take 1506 01:50:09.239 --> 01:50:13.359 more cold? Not? I wouldn't give them. I wouldn't expose them to 1507 01:50:13.479 --> 01:50:15.680 cold. They don't. They don't like that, and they yeah, that's 1508 01:50:15.720 --> 01:50:19.560 what I was afraid of. Well, I think I may put it into 1509 01:50:19.680 --> 01:50:25.159 one of the gallon pots, you know, the bigger black pots. Well, 1510 01:50:25.319 --> 01:50:28.760 if you know, you want to match your pot to your plant size, 1511 01:50:28.880 --> 01:50:31.239 and so if you've got a little plant that's just having to come back 1512 01:50:31.279 --> 01:50:34.960 out again and stuff, and maybe a little early to move it. Once 1513 01:50:35.000 --> 01:50:41.359 you get a plant and it's you know, certainly when it's about maybe three 1514 01:50:41.439 --> 01:50:44.720 times the size of the pot, then it needs to be moved to the 1515 01:50:44.840 --> 01:50:49.600 next size up. Okay, and what would be the better thing to feed 1516 01:50:49.720 --> 01:50:55.000 it with? Uh? Really, you can't go wrong on that one. 1517 01:50:55.079 --> 01:50:58.279 You're gonna gradually feed it. You're not gonna put a lot out over time, 1518 01:50:59.119 --> 01:51:03.199 so you can you can use one of the granular products that uh, 1519 01:51:03.920 --> 01:51:10.439 there are a number of really good products. Uh. Nitrophos has a beautiful 1520 01:51:10.560 --> 01:51:15.319 kind of a uh geared toward color plants. They have to have more than 1521 01:51:15.359 --> 01:51:17.880 one, by the way, and little canisters. You get those little canisters 1522 01:51:18.439 --> 01:51:24.239 and any of the ones that they have really will work on that particular plant. 1523 01:51:25.800 --> 01:51:30.560 I do have the mineral stuff. I believe that's the Is that correct? 1524 01:51:30.640 --> 01:51:33.560 Yeah, But you're not going to need that in a container all right? 1525 01:51:33.800 --> 01:51:36.239 Okay, Yeah, you're not gonna you're not gonna need that. That'd 1526 01:51:36.279 --> 01:51:41.319 be more for your garden and for your yard. All right. All right, 1527 01:51:41.800 --> 01:51:44.960 Well, thank you very much, Skip, all right, thank you 1528 01:51:45.039 --> 01:51:49.119 appreciate the call. You take care. Uh. You know, I uh, 1529 01:51:49.600 --> 01:51:54.960 I've told you about Medina before. Medina has so many wonderful products. 1530 01:51:54.960 --> 01:51:59.880 They've got. They've got the Medina Soil Activator, they got the horticulture molasses. 1531 01:52:00.039 --> 01:52:02.840 The hum a tumic acid I like the has to grow six twelve sex. 1532 01:52:02.960 --> 01:52:08.079 I use that when I transplant into the ground a plant I'll watered in 1533 01:52:08.199 --> 01:52:12.399 with the solution of has to grow six twelve six. It's got humic acid 1534 01:52:12.479 --> 01:52:15.199 in it, it's got seaweed extracts, it's got medina soil activator, and 1535 01:52:15.800 --> 01:52:21.600 six twelve six nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium, all from medina has to grow 1536 01:52:21.960 --> 01:52:26.199 six twelve six. Whenever you put a transplant in the ground, tomato or 1537 01:52:26.319 --> 01:52:30.479 rose bush watered in with medina has to grow six to twelve six. We're 1538 01:52:30.479 --> 01:52:32.239 going to take a little break here and we will be back our phone number 1539 01:52:32.319 --> 01:52:38.039 seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four. When we come back, 1540 01:52:38.119 --> 01:52:43.560 Anthony, you'll be our first stop. Welcome back to garden Line on 1541 01:52:43.880 --> 01:52:49.439 a outstanding day for gardening. Please get outside today, do your health some 1542 01:52:49.600 --> 01:52:54.399 good. Do you know gardening is good for every aspect of your health. 1543 01:52:54.880 --> 01:52:58.199 It gives you exercise, you get up, you walk around. I'm not 1544 01:52:58.239 --> 01:53:01.079 talking about necessarily hard labor. You know, we're not digging rocks out of 1545 01:53:01.119 --> 01:53:05.640 the ground and excavating kinds of work. We're talking about just getting around to 1546 01:53:05.720 --> 01:53:11.359 make it up, get down, doing some planting, walking, breathing fresh 1547 01:53:11.680 --> 01:53:15.319 clean air, just enjoy and be with and they do. There's a psychological 1548 01:53:15.439 --> 01:53:19.520 connection that's been proven over and over and over again with research that when you're 1549 01:53:19.560 --> 01:53:25.359 in nature and you're interacting with nature and interacting with plants, it affects things 1550 01:53:25.800 --> 01:53:33.279 from dementia to ADHD to depression, anxiety, all kinds of issues. Are 1551 01:53:33.880 --> 01:53:39.880 you benefit from the effects of gardening when you're dealing with those kinds of things, 1552 01:53:40.840 --> 01:53:44.079 And it just goes on and on. I could spend the rest of 1553 01:53:44.119 --> 01:53:47.319 the show just talking about, case by case by case, every benefit of 1554 01:53:47.359 --> 01:53:50.119 gardening, and I hope you'll take advantage of that. If you've never garden 1555 01:53:50.199 --> 01:53:54.760 before, for crying out loud, go get a houseplant, bring it home 1556 01:53:54.880 --> 01:53:57.760 and start messing with it. Learn to propagate it, learn to grow it, 1557 01:53:57.880 --> 01:54:00.920 and learn to enjoy it. Make your home have a more earthy, 1558 01:54:01.159 --> 01:54:08.560 warm, inviting setting than something kind of sterile on the stail side, if 1559 01:54:08.600 --> 01:54:13.079 you will a lot of modern design and stuff ivings a little on the steril 1560 01:54:13.159 --> 01:54:16.880 side, Bringing plants in makes a big, big, big, big difference, 1561 01:54:17.000 --> 01:54:23.239 that's for sure. If you have some trees and shrubs and other things 1562 01:54:23.279 --> 01:54:26.680 in your landscape, you need to take good care of them. When you 1563 01:54:26.760 --> 01:54:29.600 talk about a woody ornamental, you're talking about something that is going to be 1564 01:54:29.880 --> 01:54:33.319 valuable for years, especially a tree. There's no more valuable part of your 1565 01:54:33.399 --> 01:54:40.560 landscape than a single plant than a tree. The tree adds hundreds, if 1566 01:54:40.600 --> 01:54:44.560 not thousands of dollars to the valua your home. It makes a home sellable 1567 01:54:44.760 --> 01:54:46.319 too, as opposed to how long is it going to sit on the market. 1568 01:54:46.800 --> 01:54:49.479 A tree is valuable for that. You need to take care of your 1569 01:54:49.520 --> 01:54:51.560 trees. You need to plant good ones, you need to take care of 1570 01:54:51.640 --> 01:54:58.760 them. And I can without question recommend Martin spoon Moore at Affordable Tree Service 1571 01:54:58.960 --> 01:55:01.439 for taking care of your tree. I've seen the work done by the guy 1572 01:55:01.479 --> 01:55:06.520 who drives down the street with a credit business card, a pickup and a 1573 01:55:06.680 --> 01:55:10.960 chainsaw. Two jerks on a chainsaw tree service, that's what we call them. 1574 01:55:11.439 --> 01:55:14.119 And they put a card in your door, and when they leave, 1575 01:55:14.319 --> 01:55:18.079 your tree's ruined and it will not recover from a bad butcher prune job. 1576 01:55:18.159 --> 01:55:23.479 They don't know what they're doing. Martin does. He's been doing this for 1577 01:55:23.760 --> 01:55:27.000 thirty years. Here in the Greater Houston area. Tell him you're from you 1578 01:55:27.159 --> 01:55:29.800 heard him on Guarden Line, and you'll get to the front of the line. 1579 01:55:30.199 --> 01:55:33.199 Martin stay's busy because he does good work. And that's that's what happens. 1580 01:55:33.359 --> 01:55:36.680 That's why a company lasts for that long, and that's why a company 1581 01:55:38.359 --> 01:55:41.880 is popular and stays busy because they trust Martin to take care of their trees. 1582 01:55:41.920 --> 01:55:45.960 And you should too. Seven one three six nine nine twenty six sixty 1583 01:55:46.079 --> 01:55:54.119 three seven one three six nine nine twenty six sixty three Martin Spoon more and 1584 01:55:54.199 --> 01:55:59.439 Affordable Tree Service, or if you like the website, approach Afftree Service dot 1585 01:55:59.560 --> 01:56:01.880 com. Talk to him, get on get on the list, make sure 1586 01:56:01.960 --> 01:56:04.760 you get him out there to take a look at your trees, and don't 1587 01:56:04.800 --> 01:56:09.960 do anything around those trees, including trenching, without having him come and advise 1588 01:56:10.000 --> 01:56:13.079 you first. We're going to go now out to Spring and we're going to 1589 01:56:13.119 --> 01:56:16.199 talk to Anthony this morning. Good morning, Anthony, Hey, good morning. 1590 01:56:17.079 --> 01:56:19.279 How can we help? How are you sir? I'm gread. Yeah, 1591 01:56:19.279 --> 01:56:24.279 I had a similar had a similar problem that you and the thriller Color 1592 01:56:24.319 --> 01:56:27.920 had with Mice in Augusty in the backyard. Just died again, and this 1593 01:56:28.039 --> 01:56:30.119 already has a problem. It's really shady. So we bought the low We 1594 01:56:30.239 --> 01:56:34.199 just saw it last year with the low lower lights in Augustine. And my 1595 01:56:34.359 --> 01:56:39.720 question is is there a different grass we can grow in the backyard than Augustine? 1596 01:56:39.800 --> 01:56:43.199 But it just every year. We we saw this lot three times already, 1597 01:56:43.279 --> 01:56:47.079 so it's just it's just just too much trouble. Okay, uh are 1598 01:56:47.159 --> 01:56:51.840 you having to reside because too much shade or not enough water or pest and 1599 01:56:51.920 --> 01:56:56.399 diseases? What's what's causing the What do you think is the main cause? 1600 01:56:56.840 --> 01:57:00.239 We've started part of it a number of times because there's too much shape in 1601 01:57:00.319 --> 01:57:04.359 the in the Saint Augustine didn't grow and the last year we did almost most 1602 01:57:04.399 --> 01:57:08.840 of it. The higher part of it does better with the there's more light 1603 01:57:08.920 --> 01:57:12.479 that gets there near the pool. But last year, with the draft and 1604 01:57:12.680 --> 01:57:16.720 like you had, everything just died. So so okay, I was wondering, 1605 01:57:17.039 --> 01:57:19.279 you know, do we resort to Saint Augustine again and bring it all 1606 01:57:19.359 --> 01:57:23.359 back or some of the grass? Yeah? I tell you that. That's 1607 01:57:23.399 --> 01:57:27.319 why I asked that though if it's too much shade, Saint Augustine is as 1608 01:57:27.399 --> 01:57:30.399 good as it gets for shade. There are some really good zoysis that come 1609 01:57:30.520 --> 01:57:34.640 really close to Saint Augustine. But if you can't grow Saint Augustine be cause 1610 01:57:34.720 --> 01:57:40.119 of shade, you're probably not going to do well with soisy either. Uh. 1611 01:57:40.399 --> 01:57:44.359 If you know, if it's foot traffic issues, is going to be 1612 01:57:44.479 --> 01:57:47.399 more resilient to that. Uh, it's it's a great grass. I like 1613 01:57:47.479 --> 01:57:51.800 it. I'm putting some in in my backyard this summer. Uh to put 1614 01:57:51.960 --> 01:57:57.439 put some soisy in for for the wear tolerance that it has. But I 1615 01:57:57.520 --> 01:58:01.880 would, yeah, I don't know. I think i'd want to analyze this 1616 01:58:01.960 --> 01:58:05.560 a little bit further. You know, what are all the causes to this 1617 01:58:05.840 --> 01:58:11.000 problem and make sure we get a grass and then we change any kind of 1618 01:58:11.079 --> 01:58:15.880 cultural activities you're doing to improve the chances of grass success. Mowing, watering, 1619 01:58:15.920 --> 01:58:20.479 and fertilizing being the three big ones. But Saint Augustine is the most 1620 01:58:20.479 --> 01:58:24.720 shade tolerant that you're going to have. A Palmetto would be a good variety 1621 01:58:25.119 --> 01:58:30.039 for that area. As far as shade tolerance and whatnot, I would there 1622 01:58:30.039 --> 01:58:36.119 are actually several good varieties out there. I don't know. It kind of 1623 01:58:36.119 --> 01:58:39.920 depends on what you like the looks of too. Saint Augustine's got a big 1624 01:58:40.000 --> 01:58:45.279 broad leaf. It's a very open type plant. Grass plant Zoisia makes a 1625 01:58:45.359 --> 01:58:47.520 very dense plant, and the lower and more often you mow it, the 1626 01:58:47.640 --> 01:58:54.479 denser it is and more beautiful it is. Yeah. No, I pretty 1627 01:58:54.479 --> 01:58:57.880 sure appreciate it. We saw it right before that weather got bad and that 1628 01:58:58.079 --> 01:59:00.800 killed it as soon as we rested it. So I guess we're going to 1629 01:59:00.840 --> 01:59:03.479 reside this year to get it back up. What's the right we do that? 1630 01:59:03.760 --> 01:59:08.520 Again? Like you mentioned earlier about taking the other grass outing, you 1631 01:59:08.600 --> 01:59:12.520 know, the grass that's kind of maybe grown in. Do we do we 1632 01:59:12.600 --> 01:59:15.159 turn it up and add sand to make it, you know a little better 1633 01:59:15.239 --> 01:59:18.560 underneath? How do we do? You have a clay soil? Is that 1634 01:59:18.680 --> 01:59:23.800 what you're dealing with? Yeah, but it's not it's not about which maybe 1635 01:59:23.880 --> 01:59:27.119 had an inch of top soil in the backyard. It's not too bad there. 1636 01:59:27.199 --> 01:59:30.439 Yeah, well I would uh, I would get rid of whatever is 1637 01:59:30.560 --> 01:59:34.640 green that's growing there now, that includes grass and weeds, because you want 1638 01:59:34.680 --> 01:59:41.840 to set your sod pieces on soil, not on organic matter mulch and dead 1639 01:59:42.159 --> 01:59:45.359 organic matter or grass or whatever. So get rid of everything, Get rid 1640 01:59:45.399 --> 01:59:50.039 of all of it, and then uh do any kind of filling in of 1641 01:59:50.199 --> 01:59:55.039 low areas that you might have. If you've got a low spot or if 1642 01:59:55.119 --> 01:59:58.479 you you know, got a tree root that's sticking up it and you can't 1643 01:59:58.560 --> 02:00:01.439 lay sod over it, then bring in little soil to kind of level that 1644 02:00:01.560 --> 02:00:05.159 area out a little bit. Get all that ready, and then if any 1645 02:00:05.439 --> 02:00:10.359 soil is kind of compacted and whatnot, a little tilling here and there would 1646 02:00:10.399 --> 02:00:14.119 be helpful. Usually with trees around which you have. Obviously if you have 1647 02:00:14.239 --> 02:00:18.279 shade, year's gonna be very hard impossible to try to rototill with those tree 1648 02:00:18.359 --> 02:00:23.760 roots, but at least fill it up, fill it in the low areas 1649 02:00:23.800 --> 02:00:28.279 and smooth it out, and then lay the sod down. Get good sod 1650 02:00:28.680 --> 02:00:33.319 to soil contact. I lay the sod. Typically I will water the bear 1651 02:00:33.560 --> 02:00:38.840 area right before I'm in the day or two before I'm going to put the 1652 02:00:38.920 --> 02:00:43.560 sod down, and then I'll put the sod down and water and step on 1653 02:00:43.680 --> 02:00:47.840 it. Or you can rent a long roller to press good contact between the 1654 02:00:47.960 --> 02:00:54.119 sod and the soil and then water it once or twice a day if it's 1655 02:00:54.199 --> 02:00:57.039 hot weather, twice a day. If it's cool weather, once a day 1656 02:00:57.119 --> 02:01:00.520 for about a week, very light application. Don't turn it into a swamp. 1657 02:01:00.560 --> 02:01:03.159 We're just talking about a third of an inch of water, just enough 1658 02:01:03.720 --> 02:01:08.960 to keep that sod alive until they can get roots in the soil. And 1659 02:01:09.079 --> 02:01:13.520 then after a couple of weeks if the weather warms up, especially maybe three 1660 02:01:13.600 --> 02:01:16.119 weeks. If you plant it now because it's still cool, you can start 1661 02:01:16.199 --> 02:01:19.119 to mow, you can start to fertilize and do other things like that. 1662 02:01:19.880 --> 02:01:25.079 But those steps will help you get off to a good start. If you 1663 02:01:25.199 --> 02:01:29.279 feel like you may have too much shade, you can do some trimming on 1664 02:01:29.439 --> 02:01:33.600 trees to brighten the shade, but that is a temporary fix and you're going 1665 02:01:33.680 --> 02:01:38.279 to have to do it periodically because the tree just gets denser and denser over 1666 02:01:38.439 --> 02:01:43.920 time, and it may be that those deeply shaded areas need to be transformed 1667 02:01:44.119 --> 02:01:48.840 into a shade, living groundcover, or something other than lawn. All right, 1668 02:01:49.319 --> 02:01:51.279 all right, hey, thanks sir, I really appreciate it. All 1669 02:01:51.359 --> 02:01:57.279 right, thank you, I appreciate that very much. Yeah, we redoing 1670 02:01:57.399 --> 02:02:02.560 sod, making sure you know you get it in properly is very important to 1671 02:02:02.600 --> 02:02:06.359 have success, and we want you to have success. I mean, our 1672 02:02:06.439 --> 02:02:11.760 landscapes ought to be places we want to be out and enjoy. A lot 1673 02:02:11.800 --> 02:02:15.399 of people plant sod everywhere. If they own the property, they plant it 1674 02:02:15.439 --> 02:02:17.640 everywhere. And you don't have to do that and put it where you're going 1675 02:02:17.720 --> 02:02:21.399 to most enjoy it and where it's going to thrive best. If you're struggling 1676 02:02:21.439 --> 02:02:25.760 and struggling to keep a lawn going in a spot because let's say it's too 1677 02:02:25.840 --> 02:02:29.239 shady, well that's no fun and you're not going to get a good lawn 1678 02:02:29.359 --> 02:02:32.279 in deep, deep, deep shade anyway. So put in a shade. 1679 02:02:32.319 --> 02:02:36.640 Love and groundcover. But lawns are the carpets of the landscape, and a 1680 02:02:36.720 --> 02:02:42.079 lot of times lawns get dissed because they use water, and we use different 1681 02:02:42.159 --> 02:02:45.800 kinds of products and things on them keeping them going. But there is a 1682 02:02:45.920 --> 02:02:51.640 significant benefit to having a plant covering over the soil like a lawn can give. 1683 02:02:51.800 --> 02:02:56.720 It makes a difference when it comes to reflective heat too. Hey, 1684 02:02:56.760 --> 02:02:59.119 we're going to take a break here for the news. We'll be right back. 1685 02:03:00.920 --> 02:03:03.960 Katie r. H. Garden Line does not necessarily endorse any of the 1686 02:03:04.000 --> 02:03:11.039 products or services advertised on this program. Welcome to kat r h garden line 1687 02:03:11.319 --> 02:03:27.840 with skip rictor. It's essays a trip. You just watch him as so 1688 02:03:28.039 --> 02:03:44.520 many takes the soup hout basic quassa's not a side glass gas the sun beam. 1689 02:03:45.840 --> 02:03:48.800 We errupt this bumper music with a special announcement. Spring is here, 1690 02:03:49.399 --> 02:03:54.760 Look outside, Spring is here. Do you want a vegetable garden? You 1691 02:03:54.800 --> 02:03:57.720 want a herb garden? You want flowers? Do you want a beautiful lawn? 1692 02:03:58.359 --> 02:04:00.239 You don't plant some shrubs and tree? How about a spring bloomer. 1693 02:04:00.279 --> 02:04:03.760 Do you have a spring blooming tree in your landscape? We need one. 1694 02:04:04.399 --> 02:04:09.640 We need to have a beautiful landscape as many months of the year as possible. 1695 02:04:09.920 --> 02:04:13.000 So let's talk about it. Give us a call. Seven one three, 1696 02:04:13.079 --> 02:04:16.560 two one two five eight seven four. Talking about your lawns. You 1697 02:04:16.760 --> 02:04:20.720 know how summer weeds can be a problem, right, we're talking about grass 1698 02:04:20.760 --> 02:04:26.720 bergs. We're talking about crab grass and all the other kinds of things broad 1699 02:04:26.800 --> 02:04:30.239 leaf and grassy that can get in your lawn. Well, last summer was 1700 02:04:30.359 --> 02:04:33.520 hard on our lawns. That heat and drought. It was brutal. We 1701 02:04:33.640 --> 02:04:38.520 got some thin spots and wherever sunlight hits the soil, nature plants a weed. 1702 02:04:39.119 --> 02:04:43.640 Well, Nitropuss has got you covered with their product barricade. Barricade's a 1703 02:04:43.680 --> 02:04:46.199 good name for it because it forms a barricade over the soil surface. When 1704 02:04:46.199 --> 02:04:50.520 a weed tries to germinate, it can get a root down and get established, 1705 02:04:50.880 --> 02:04:54.359 and it shuts it down. You never even see the weed. You 1706 02:04:54.439 --> 02:04:57.800 didn't know what happened, but barricade was working at the soil surface to do 1707 02:04:57.960 --> 02:05:02.319 that. Barricade is a pre emergent and one ten pound bag of Nitrofoss barricade 1708 02:05:02.319 --> 02:05:05.800 will cover up to five thousand square feet a lawn you want to spread out 1709 02:05:05.840 --> 02:05:12.520 relievingly at the proper rate, always at the proper rate, watered in about 1710 02:05:12.520 --> 02:05:15.319 a half inch of water just to move it too the salt surface, and 1711 02:05:15.520 --> 02:05:20.479 boom you are in business. Barricade is available everywhere you find Nitrofos products, 1712 02:05:20.520 --> 02:05:26.359 which is pretty much everywhere. Enchanted gardens out there in Richmond area, they've 1713 02:05:26.399 --> 02:05:30.760 got barricade. Shades of Texas up in the woodlands has got barricade. You 1714 02:05:30.840 --> 02:05:34.079 can find it down at Kingwood Ace Hardware for example. A lot of Ace 1715 02:05:34.159 --> 02:05:41.039 hard stores carry barricade. Easy to find another product by Nitrofos that will help 1716 02:05:41.119 --> 02:05:45.119 you to have that beautiful lawn that you're looking for in the springtime. Boy, 1717 02:05:45.199 --> 02:05:47.680 summer was hard on lawns, all right. Like I said earlier, 1718 02:05:47.720 --> 02:05:51.800 I had to replant. I'm having to replant a couple of big sections of 1719 02:05:51.920 --> 02:05:56.840 lawn. Let's head out to Brenham, Texas. First, we're going to 1720 02:05:56.880 --> 02:06:02.279 talk to Leonard. Hello, Leonard, good morning morning. My wife is 1721 02:06:03.800 --> 02:06:10.760 cut some potatoes with a large night and then I throw them into the fields 1722 02:06:10.840 --> 02:06:15.159 into my must piles and that and low and behold is growing potatoes. I 1723 02:06:15.239 --> 02:06:19.239 guess I don't know if they'll make potatoes or not. They will pull them 1724 02:06:19.279 --> 02:06:23.560 out of there if they're If they're growing, you're talking about a green stem 1725 02:06:23.680 --> 02:06:28.840 coming out right, Yeah, playing it some just in case I didn't know 1726 02:06:28.880 --> 02:06:31.000 if I was wasting my time. And now you're not wasting your time planning 1727 02:06:31.000 --> 02:06:34.880 them. Let them get going, and uh then you want to as they 1728 02:06:35.000 --> 02:06:39.359 get up about you know, six eight inches hiphe you want to pull soil 1729 02:06:39.520 --> 02:06:44.000 or compost around them or mulch and just keep piling it up as the potato 1730 02:06:44.119 --> 02:06:47.039 grows up out through the top, because that's where all the potatoes are going 1731 02:06:47.119 --> 02:06:51.000 to form, is between where the roots are on this they're going to form 1732 02:06:51.079 --> 02:06:56.399 off the stem above where the roots start. So yep, great, you 1733 02:06:56.520 --> 02:07:00.680 got free potatoes. I guess with the best green bean to grow on a 1734 02:07:00.800 --> 02:07:08.000 fence. I like big ones, if possible. The broad leaf. Oh 1735 02:07:08.159 --> 02:07:13.840 god, well big my beans are not growing large enough for me. I 1736 02:07:13.960 --> 02:07:16.760 just seem like maybe they're deficient and fertilizer. I don't know, you know 1737 02:07:16.840 --> 02:07:20.800 about the pods or not, or the plants or not. The pods the 1738 02:07:20.920 --> 02:07:29.199 pods, look for one called the castlein mc c as l a n. 1739 02:07:29.920 --> 02:07:33.399 There are other good pole beans that are big, flat potted pole beans. 1740 02:07:34.319 --> 02:07:39.079 The rattlesnake is one that has round pods with a little bit of a kind 1741 02:07:39.119 --> 02:07:42.359 of a stripe, light stripe on them. There's a lot of good ones 1742 02:07:42.399 --> 02:07:45.479 out there. But when you're looking for a pole bean, Leonard, look 1743 02:07:45.560 --> 02:07:50.840 for one that's going to reach harvest in let's say seventy two days or less. 1744 02:07:51.880 --> 02:07:56.479 That's that's your goal. Because it gets hot here in our beans quit 1745 02:07:56.600 --> 02:08:01.439 setting, So aim for seventy two days or less. But Aslin will definitely 1746 02:08:01.600 --> 02:08:03.800 do that. I've got beans. A lot of mine are down in the 1747 02:08:03.920 --> 02:08:11.439 sixties and even fifties, so upper mid fifties. Actually, okay, is 1748 02:08:11.600 --> 02:08:18.880 airloom tomatoes worth the searching for? It? Seems like you can always find 1749 02:08:20.800 --> 02:08:24.439 the I guess the Highbridge, okay, and it seems like I have pretty 1750 02:08:24.439 --> 02:08:30.960 good results. I like the heirloom because they're disease for you well or so 1751 02:08:31.239 --> 02:08:35.279 not always heirlooms are fine and they make a good tomato. The problem with 1752 02:08:35.359 --> 02:08:39.520 heirlooms is, first of all, their heirlooms from somewhere else. When a 1753 02:08:39.600 --> 02:08:43.720 lot of these tomatoes, like brandywine, they're not It's not a Texas heirloom. 1754 02:08:43.880 --> 02:08:46.920 It's an heirloom somewhere else that we now plan in. I haven't had 1755 02:08:46.960 --> 02:08:52.079 the best results for those. But the other thing with heirlooms is most of 1756 02:08:52.159 --> 02:08:54.359 them take too long to reach harvest, and we need a tomato to get 1757 02:08:54.399 --> 02:08:58.399 it done before seventy two days, if possible seventy five. It's stretching it. 1758 02:09:00.319 --> 02:09:05.880 And most of the heirlooms have too many days to harvest. But Cherokee 1759 02:09:05.239 --> 02:09:09.680 purple is a good one. I've got some brand new wine. I'm putting 1760 02:09:09.680 --> 02:09:11.840 a brand new one in this year. But I'm I started at super early 1761 02:09:13.000 --> 02:09:16.039 and my plant's going to have blooms on it for I even planet just to 1762 02:09:16.119 --> 02:09:18.520 try to get ahead of that. Hey, Leonard, I got to run, 1763 02:09:18.119 --> 02:09:20.920 but thank you and good luck with that. All I ask is that 1764 02:09:22.000 --> 02:09:24.199 you bring me some of your potatoes or we'll settle for a half gallon of 1765 02:09:24.239 --> 02:09:28.439 bluebell cent here and Brennam. Thank you, sir. Can you plug Saint 1766 02:09:28.479 --> 02:09:31.960 August thing? Yes, you sure can. Thank you. Thanks sir. 1767 02:09:33.520 --> 02:09:37.039 Uh if you are, if you've never been speaking of Brenham, if you've 1768 02:09:37.039 --> 02:09:41.640 never been out to Antique Rose Imporium, they're just north of Brenham. Uh, 1769 02:09:41.840 --> 02:09:46.159 the website. You'll want to write this down because everything you want to 1770 02:09:46.199 --> 02:09:52.680 know is on the website Antique Roseemporium dot com, Antique Rosanmporium dot com. 1771 02:09:54.199 --> 02:09:56.880 They are roses, but they are so much more. They've got daluas and 1772 02:09:58.039 --> 02:10:01.439 gerber daisies and booga and vie is and ferns and other shade loving plants and 1773 02:10:01.600 --> 02:10:05.279 salvia is and all kinds of things that you need out there. There's always 1774 02:10:05.279 --> 02:10:07.760 something going on at Anti rosing for him. I mean, really, you 1775 02:10:07.840 --> 02:10:11.960 need to go to the website and see everything that's going on and follow them 1776 02:10:11.000 --> 02:10:15.880 on social media. I'm going to be out there March tenth, ninth and 1777 02:10:16.000 --> 02:10:20.800 tenth weekend is the Spring celebration. I'm going to be heading out on Saturday 1778 02:10:20.359 --> 02:10:24.920 after the show, do a little bit of a time out. I'll be 1779 02:10:24.960 --> 02:10:26.279 giving a little talk out there. I'll tell you more about that as we 1780 02:10:26.319 --> 02:10:31.199 get closer. Just remember Anti Crosimporium dot com or just give them a call 1781 02:10:31.279 --> 02:10:37.880 at ninety seven nine eight three six fifty five forty eight. And remember it 1782 02:10:37.039 --> 02:10:43.079 is always a good time to go out there, and spring is unbelievable. 1783 02:10:43.720 --> 02:10:46.520 Pile up a bunch of friends, garden club group, whatever, go out 1784 02:10:46.560 --> 02:10:50.720 there, crawl through the blue bonnets on the way as you had out that 1785 02:10:50.920 --> 02:10:54.640 direction in April, but go out now and just see everything in spring that 1786 02:10:54.840 --> 02:10:58.880 is busting loose at the antiqu rosing for him. We're going to take a 1787 02:10:58.880 --> 02:11:03.960 little break and I'll be right back seven three two one two KTRH. If 1788 02:11:03.960 --> 02:11:09.199 you'd like to give us a call, welcome back to garden Line. Glad 1789 02:11:09.279 --> 02:11:11.319 to have you with us today. Hey, you know, gardening is more 1790 02:11:11.399 --> 02:11:15.760 than just blooms. It's more than just produce. It's more than just a 1791 02:11:15.840 --> 02:11:20.399 beautiful landscape. It has something for all the senses and that includes sound, 1792 02:11:20.520 --> 02:11:24.800 and that includes movement, and that includes fragrances. Well, think about birds. 1793 02:11:26.279 --> 02:11:28.520 I love watching the bird early in the morning. I watch them go 1794 02:11:28.560 --> 02:11:31.560 to the feed or I'm sitting there having a cup of coffee, and birds 1795 02:11:31.920 --> 02:11:37.199 just adds something to the landscape, not just their antics. And we have 1796 02:11:37.319 --> 02:11:39.640 a bird bath I got recently. I'm trying to get set up out in 1797 02:11:39.720 --> 02:11:45.239 the backyard. While Birds Unlimited can get you set up on anything. With 1798 02:11:45.399 --> 02:11:48.359 birds, they have the top quality feed. I'm talking about feed where when 1799 02:11:48.399 --> 02:11:52.279 you buy a pound of feed, you get a pound in a bird's stomach. 1800 02:11:52.439 --> 02:11:56.600 If you know what I'm saying. Those little red bebies birds kick them 1801 02:11:56.640 --> 02:12:01.279 out. Those cheap bird feeds are not cheap because you don't get a pound 1802 02:12:01.359 --> 02:12:05.720 of feed from a pound you purchase. A lot of it gets wasted. 1803 02:12:05.880 --> 02:12:09.560 Not with wildbirds. They've got quality feed. Hey, it's time to get 1804 02:12:09.560 --> 02:12:13.560 your bluebird houses out. It's time for sure to get your purple Martin houses 1805 02:12:13.600 --> 02:12:18.159 out. The scouts are out, they're looking for a place. If they 1806 02:12:18.279 --> 02:12:22.159 see a house on your property, they're very likely to stop in check it 1807 02:12:22.199 --> 02:12:24.600 out, and especially if it's a wildbird house. I was looking at some 1808 02:12:24.840 --> 02:12:28.199 at a whalbird store a couple of weeks ago, and it's like I want 1809 02:12:28.239 --> 02:12:33.199 to move into the thing. It's like the taj Mahal. Just go by 1810 02:12:33.279 --> 02:12:37.079 and say, let me see your purple Martin houses and show me how that 1811 02:12:37.239 --> 02:12:41.399 works and everything. They're so easy to clean and take care of, and 1812 02:12:41.479 --> 02:12:46.960 purple Martins well birds in general. Really they help control insects and pests that 1813 02:12:46.079 --> 02:12:50.000 we have around the garden. Just another reason to have them. But I 1814 02:12:50.159 --> 02:12:52.840 like to have them for the sound, the songs, the beauty and Wildbird's 1815 02:12:52.880 --> 02:13:01.079 Unlimited is the place wb U dot com WBU dot com, and that is 1816 02:13:01.159 --> 02:13:03.720 how you find the walldbirds. And they're six of them around the Houston area, 1817 02:13:03.920 --> 02:13:07.600 six of them near you. Let's got to Conroe. We're going to 1818 02:13:07.640 --> 02:13:13.199 talk to Carol. Hey, Carol from Conroe. Hello, Hello, And 1819 02:13:13.399 --> 02:13:16.880 last week you were talking about a tomato little I think it was a small 1820 02:13:16.960 --> 02:13:20.600 tomato that you've had done a study and you thought it would be a good 1821 02:13:20.680 --> 02:13:24.039 one for us to grow here. Do you remember which one that was a 1822 02:13:24.279 --> 02:13:28.800 small tomato that I talked about last week that you had done it a study 1823 02:13:28.840 --> 02:13:33.039 of different kinds? Oh oh, oh, well, that one's a hard 1824 02:13:33.079 --> 02:13:39.199 one to find that was tumbling tom and where was it? Somebody? Who 1825 02:13:39.399 --> 02:13:41.760 was it that had hanging basket. I'm gonna have to hunt that down. 1826 02:13:41.840 --> 02:13:45.560 I can't remember who it was had hanging baskets a tumbling tom and we don't 1827 02:13:45.680 --> 02:13:48.560 usually see that tomato variety, but it's a good one. But hey, 1828 02:13:48.760 --> 02:13:52.239 any cherry tomato is going to be good sun gold. You would not plant 1829 02:13:52.239 --> 02:13:56.239 it in a hanging basket to put it in the ground. It's a wonderful 1830 02:13:56.319 --> 02:14:01.439 tomato does really really well if you like. Grape tomatoes is a very common 1831 02:14:01.560 --> 02:14:05.640 variety, but it is very productive. It's an all America selection, so 1832 02:14:05.960 --> 02:14:09.520 you got a lot of good options out there. Okay, thanks, Hey 1833 02:14:09.600 --> 02:14:11.520 Carol, I'm going to be at A and A Plants and Produce after the 1834 02:14:11.600 --> 02:14:16.119 show today. If you or any of your friends are interested, come on 1835 02:14:16.239 --> 02:14:18.119 out and see me. We're out in Montgomery at Ana Plants and Produce, 1836 02:14:18.199 --> 02:14:22.319 not too far away from you, guys, right, I'll be there all 1837 02:14:22.399 --> 02:14:24.079 right, Thank you. I appreciate that. Thanks a lot. Yeah. 1838 02:14:24.119 --> 02:14:31.159 A and A is stocked full of all kinds of flowers and vegetables and herbs 1839 02:14:31.239 --> 02:14:35.479 and shrubs and trees and roses and all the landscape bling we're talking about. 1840 02:14:35.520 --> 02:14:41.840 While you're there, you can pick up fertilizers for your garden and soil blends 1841 02:14:41.880 --> 02:14:45.159 for your garden because Ana carries the stuff I talk about on garden line. 1842 02:14:45.239 --> 02:14:46.640 So if you hear me say something, it's like, what is it? 1843 02:14:46.720 --> 02:14:50.399 Where I where did he say to get that? Goat a anda. They've 1844 02:14:50.479 --> 02:14:52.479 got it. They've got him there and I'll be there today, so bring 1845 02:14:52.560 --> 02:14:56.960 me some pictures. Let's uh, let's take a look at things in your 1846 02:14:56.000 --> 02:15:00.640 garden you need identified or you need some help with, and talk about that. 1847 02:15:00.760 --> 02:15:03.079 There. A and A is on the east side of Montgomery, on 1848 02:15:03.159 --> 02:15:07.800 the east side of Montgomery, So by the way, you can also hire 1849 02:15:07.840 --> 02:15:11.800 their A and A landscape crew to do early cleanup at your homes out there 1850 02:15:11.840 --> 02:15:16.520 around Lake Conroe. And they almost have a copy of my lawn care schedule 1851 02:15:16.560 --> 02:15:18.560 there at the counter. I'm going to bring a few of those with me 1852 02:15:18.680 --> 02:15:22.600 as well when I go out there today. Let's go to Spring Branch. 1853 02:15:22.680 --> 02:15:26.680 We're going to talk to Amy. Hello, Amy, Okay, Hi, 1854 02:15:28.239 --> 02:15:33.960 I was calling them. I've got a spot to put a crape myrtle because 1855 02:15:33.000 --> 02:15:37.960 where two pine trees were there for fifty years. Okay, And then we 1856 02:15:39.079 --> 02:15:43.199 had sidewalks put in, and I was wondering that we had a subs ground 1857 02:15:43.199 --> 02:15:46.479 about four years ago when they came out and the elliots that were planting around 1858 02:15:46.520 --> 02:15:50.439 them have been dying office the big freeze. Okay, So is there any 1859 02:15:50.479 --> 02:15:56.439 special soil prep that we need to do, because I'm always done? Is 1860 02:15:56.560 --> 02:15:58.560 like little flowers on the top of it. Are you Are you wanting saw 1861 02:15:58.560 --> 02:16:03.199 prep for the crape myrtle or for the azalea? No, that's a great 1862 02:16:03.239 --> 02:16:11.000 myrtle. The old You want to get you some rose soil, and you 1863 02:16:11.079 --> 02:16:13.239 want to get a good blend of that, and you want to make sure 1864 02:16:13.479 --> 02:16:18.319 and spread it out through the area. Make as wide of a bed as 1865 02:16:18.359 --> 02:16:20.239 you can, because those crape myrtles have roots that go far and wide. 1866 02:16:20.680 --> 02:16:24.359 Mix it a little bit with the soil you got, and just keep piling 1867 02:16:24.399 --> 02:16:26.720 the rose soil up because it's going to settle down. So I'd start off 1868 02:16:26.800 --> 02:16:31.479 with it a foot high because it will definitely settle way down from there over 1869 02:16:31.640 --> 02:16:37.879 time. But that ought to get you and nature's way resources up there. 1870 02:16:37.040 --> 02:16:41.879 They're located up forty five, just where you get to Conro, where fourteen 1871 02:16:41.920 --> 02:16:46.520 eighty eight comes in they're the originators of rose soil, and they do deliveries, 1872 02:16:46.840 --> 02:16:50.040 so you can buy it by the bag, but you can also have 1873 02:16:50.200 --> 02:16:54.120 them do a delivery and just drop it off right there at your place and 1874 02:16:54.280 --> 02:16:58.319 they can get you set up on that. They also they actually created a 1875 02:16:58.399 --> 02:17:03.559 lot of things like the leaf mole compost and the roast soil being two examples 1876 02:17:03.719 --> 02:17:07.360 of it. If you want to if you wanted to give them a call, 1877 02:17:07.479 --> 02:17:13.520 it's nine three six three two one sixty nine ninety or just go to 1878 02:17:13.600 --> 02:17:18.440 their website. It's Nature's Way Resources dot com. Talk to John Erian and 1879 02:17:18.600 --> 02:17:22.799 just tell them what you're looking for. H okay, And I was the 1880 02:17:24.000 --> 02:17:26.159 type I was hoping for, you know when I got online. They have 1881 02:17:26.239 --> 02:17:31.000 all different sizes and the way they grew up yes years ago boxwoods that were 1882 02:17:31.040 --> 02:17:35.520 the little miniature one, so it wasn't quite what I wanted. So we 1883 02:17:35.559 --> 02:17:39.079 were hoping to get twenty to thirty feet. So do you have like a 1884 02:17:39.399 --> 02:17:43.200 specific type? Yes. Off off the top of my head, I'm not 1885 02:17:43.319 --> 02:17:46.719 going to do a good job of naming varieties. So here's what I want 1886 02:17:46.760 --> 02:17:52.399 you to do. Go to your web search engine like Google and type in 1887 02:17:52.879 --> 02:17:58.440 skip Richter and type and then crape myrtle. And one of the top things 1888 02:17:58.479 --> 02:18:03.319 that appears is a listing that I did with doctor jer Parsons from Extension in 1889 02:18:03.479 --> 02:18:07.680 San Antonio, and it's a list of varieties from three feet high to thirty 1890 02:18:07.719 --> 02:18:11.520 feet high and it has pictures of them. It shows you know, if 1891 02:18:11.600 --> 02:18:16.479 you want white, red, pink, lavender, all the colors are there. 1892 02:18:18.559 --> 02:18:22.280 It has disease resistance, which you want to find one that is and 1893 02:18:22.440 --> 02:18:28.159 if some of them have beautiful cinnamon colored exfoliating bark. Now that's an older 1894 02:18:28.280 --> 02:18:31.479 list. There'll be some newer ones on the market that need to be added 1895 02:18:31.520 --> 02:18:35.200 to it, but at least that'll give you a place to start. Well 1896 02:18:35.319 --> 02:18:39.719 wonderful. And my husband I wanted to know about the root ball. When 1897 02:18:39.760 --> 02:18:41.520 we do get it, does that have to be broken up or do we 1898 02:18:41.879 --> 02:18:45.879 slice it? Yeah? I would When you get it out of the container, 1899 02:18:46.799 --> 02:18:48.440 you want to turn it over on each side and any roots that are 1900 02:18:48.520 --> 02:18:52.840 circling, go ahead and cut them. You know, if they're smaller than 1901 02:18:52.879 --> 02:18:54.920 a pencil, you can just take a box cutter knife and make a vertical 1902 02:18:56.000 --> 02:18:58.239 slice in three or four places around the ball and cut them that way. 1903 02:19:00.079 --> 02:19:03.520 They will within two weeks they will have already started sprouting fresh new white roots 1904 02:19:03.559 --> 02:19:07.600 to go out into the soil. It makes it establish so much faster. 1905 02:19:07.920 --> 02:19:11.799 If it's bigger, just use little handprinters to cut them. Okay, well, 1906 02:19:11.879 --> 02:19:13.920 wonderful, thank you. And then also there are some of jelias that 1907 02:19:15.000 --> 02:19:18.319 are a good twenty five years old that did not get cut the last two 1908 02:19:18.399 --> 02:19:22.399 seasons. Yeah, I've heard cut them back at anytime you want. Yeah, 1909 02:19:22.760 --> 02:19:26.559 cut you can cut them back now, but that will be removing your 1910 02:19:26.639 --> 02:19:31.600 spring bloom because all those buds are set and ready to go. You can 1911 02:19:31.639 --> 02:19:35.399 wait until after the spring broom bloom and start to do some cutting back on 1912 02:19:35.520 --> 02:19:39.120 them at that time as well. Okay, thank you very much. Ski. 1913 02:19:39.280 --> 02:19:41.719 All right, Amy, thank you for the call. I appreciate that. 1914 02:19:43.280 --> 02:19:46.280 Appreciate that. You know, we love feed stores here on Guarden Line 1915 02:19:46.319 --> 02:19:50.399 and in Tomball. D and D Feed that is your hometown feed store up 1916 02:19:50.440 --> 02:19:54.920 in the Tomball area. They're west of Tomball on twenty nine to twenty. 1917 02:19:56.799 --> 02:19:58.600 D and D Feed has everything you're going to need. Of course, they 1918 02:19:58.639 --> 02:20:03.520 have all the quality feeds, they've got the pest control, disease control products. 1919 02:20:03.959 --> 02:20:07.920 They carry a wide variety of quality products. You know, y'all, 1920 02:20:07.000 --> 02:20:11.840 the nitroposs fertilizers are there. They've got them. They've got the Sweet Green 1921 02:20:11.959 --> 02:20:15.479 and the super turf, you know kinds of stuff. They've got the Imperial 1922 02:20:15.680 --> 02:20:18.319 and whatnot. They have barricade too, by the way. They've got rose 1923 02:20:18.399 --> 02:20:22.760 soil that I was just talking about in bags, and fruit berry and citrus 1924 02:20:22.840 --> 02:20:26.639 mix from heirloom soils. They carry those things. They're going to be getting 1925 02:20:26.799 --> 02:20:30.799 fruit trees. In fact, I believe they've already got some fruit and citrus 1926 02:20:30.799 --> 02:20:33.639 trees. They've always got chicks coming in. I don't know, I don't 1927 02:20:33.680 --> 02:20:37.000 have my list in front of me, but about every few weeks here they've 1928 02:20:37.040 --> 02:20:39.760 got a whole new shipment of chicks coming in. So just give them a 1929 02:20:39.840 --> 02:20:43.559 call two eight, one, three, five, one seventy one forty four, 1930 02:20:45.159 --> 02:20:46.799 and you're gonna find everything you're looking for to take care of your lawn 1931 02:20:46.879 --> 02:20:52.440 and your garden and your landscape. Pest control, disease control, fertilizers, 1932 02:20:52.479 --> 02:20:54.879 you name it there, D and D feed and Humble makes it really easy, 1933 02:20:56.120 --> 02:21:01.000 easy easy. Let's go to mic in Base City. Hello, Mike, 1934 02:21:01.040 --> 02:21:03.719 Hello Aler Skip, how are you doing? I'm good sir, how 1935 02:21:03.760 --> 02:21:07.600 can I help? I guess you. I guess you said enough. This 1936 02:21:07.719 --> 02:21:13.120 morning I read a little thing about no till gardening, okay, and it 1937 02:21:13.280 --> 02:21:16.639 kind of sounded okay, And I just was wondering if you're familiar with that, 1938 02:21:16.799 --> 02:21:20.639 and you know, what, if, what your thoughts are on it, 1939 02:21:20.760 --> 02:21:22.319 whether it's a good way to go or not. I'm anxious to get 1940 02:21:22.319 --> 02:21:26.280 after and start tilling. But yes, I was reading that. It sounded 1941 02:21:26.360 --> 02:21:28.479 pretty reasonable. I am familiar with it, and for the most part, 1942 02:21:28.520 --> 02:21:33.440 I do that that there's more than one that weigh to skin a cat, 1943 02:21:33.479 --> 02:21:35.920 as they say, and so it's not like everybody has to garden in one 1944 02:21:37.000 --> 02:21:43.479 way. But the old days of rototilling, it canned starts to destroy the 1945 02:21:43.559 --> 02:21:48.159 sil structure, the little internal size and particles and things, especially when the 1946 02:21:48.200 --> 02:21:50.879 soil is a little too moist, too wet. Rototilling can do that. 1947 02:21:52.559 --> 02:21:56.760 Uh. And I just no till is just it's how nature does it. 1948 02:21:56.920 --> 02:22:01.239 You know, there's no standing forks in nature, and so hear you talk 1949 02:22:01.280 --> 02:22:03.280 about the forest and floor. You know, with hamil on the radio, 1950 02:22:03.600 --> 02:22:07.239 you can do that. You can do that. There's a book called Let's 1951 02:22:07.239 --> 02:22:11.639 see Weed Free Gardening I believe by Lee Reisch it's R. I C. 1952 02:22:13.000 --> 02:22:16.120 H. That's really good on a top down gardening method, and that's what 1953 02:22:16.200 --> 02:22:20.719 we're talking about, decaying organic matter on the surface. There's a little tool. 1954 02:22:20.840 --> 02:22:24.239 If your garden's very bit small, you can use a spading fork to 1955 02:22:24.280 --> 02:22:28.639 occasionally push it straight in the ground, lean back, and I say, 1956 02:22:28.760 --> 02:22:33.000 crack the soil open. You're not bending over and lifting soil and turning it 1957 02:22:33.120 --> 02:22:37.840 over. You're just cracking it open, and compost falls down in there and 1958 02:22:37.000 --> 02:22:41.000 it loosens it up and it aerates, especially a clay. As your garden 1959 02:22:41.079 --> 02:22:45.479 gets bigger, there's a tool called a broad fork, and it's like a 1960 02:22:45.680 --> 02:22:50.200 spading fork on steroids. You it's it's a bar with giant times and two 1961 02:22:50.319 --> 02:22:54.399 big handles, and you stand in the middle and your weight wiggles it down 1962 02:22:54.440 --> 02:22:58.239 in the soil and you just lean back and it cracks the soil open. 1963 02:22:58.280 --> 02:23:01.319 And people with law big beds and things use those. I've got one of 1964 02:23:01.360 --> 02:23:05.600 those myself. But no till is a good a good way to go, 1965 02:23:05.680 --> 02:23:09.799 and it just avoids some of the issues that tilling can create. And I 1966 02:23:09.840 --> 02:23:13.760 don't have time to go into each of them, but yeah, you're saying 1967 02:23:13.799 --> 02:23:16.639 a lot of the things that I was reading, which it sounds really interesting 1968 02:23:16.719 --> 02:23:18.879 to me. Yeah. The one thing that I didn't like is said, 1969 02:23:18.959 --> 02:23:22.719 don't walk on the garden. Well, hey, mine's like you know, 1970 02:23:22.879 --> 02:23:26.040 sixteen by sixteen. And then I got some other gardens too. Well, 1971 02:23:26.120 --> 02:23:28.159 the idea you have to walk in there. Yeah, and you need a 1972 02:23:28.239 --> 02:23:35.959 broad fork by the way and this, but you don't you walk on the 1973 02:23:35.040 --> 02:23:39.520 walkways, but you don't walk on the planting bed area. So there where 1974 02:23:39.559 --> 02:23:43.920 you're planting, you don't compact. You walk on the walkways. I always 1975 02:23:43.959 --> 02:23:48.200 throw leaves and stuff in the walkways. That way you have an hot weather 1976 02:23:48.319 --> 02:23:52.040 pathway, and then just just use that broad fork. I wish I could 1977 02:23:52.079 --> 02:23:56.680 think of a name of the brand. Oh my god, Yeah, I'll 1978 02:23:56.680 --> 02:23:58.319 think of it in a minute. I'll say it on there. They're not 1979 02:23:58.399 --> 02:24:01.719 a sponsor of the show, but they may the best broadfark I've ever seen, 1980 02:24:01.040 --> 02:24:05.719 and I own one of them. Well tell me the tell me again 1981 02:24:05.799 --> 02:24:11.319 that book. Uh, no weed, we'd free guard, We'd free gardening. 1982 02:24:11.440 --> 02:24:16.639 It's Lee L E E R E I C. H. Is the 1983 02:24:16.719 --> 02:24:22.040 name. He used to be at Cornell University. He's a hot professional horticulturist. 1984 02:24:22.120 --> 02:24:26.079 And it's very good. Uh and and it basically is a no till 1985 02:24:26.200 --> 02:24:30.440 type of gardening. I wrote an article of Texas Gardener magazine. You might 1986 02:24:30.600 --> 02:24:33.600 find that online. I don't know if they put that on the website as 1987 02:24:33.639 --> 02:24:35.799 a wild Take the magazine, yeah, I take the magazine, all right. 1988 02:24:35.879 --> 02:24:39.159 Well it's it's a back issue, back issue on No. Two gardening. 1989 02:24:39.159 --> 02:24:43.000 All right, all right, I gotta I gotta run, Thank you. 1990 02:24:43.120 --> 02:24:46.040 And if I think of the name of that place, I'll tell you 1991 02:24:46.760 --> 02:24:50.239 on the air. Wow, nigga, it's time for news. I gotta 1992 02:24:50.239 --> 02:24:54.399 take a break. Here our phone number seven one three two one two k 1993 02:24:54.600 --> 02:25:00.000 t r H. Here's NIGGI welcome back to garden Line. Speaking of sunshine, 1994 02:25:00.040 --> 02:25:03.200 I look outside, it is a perfect day. It's real still. 1995 02:25:03.239 --> 02:25:07.360 I don't see the trees blown around much. What a day to be outside, 1996 02:25:07.719 --> 02:25:11.120 What a day to be gardening. And when I get through here, 1997 02:25:11.120 --> 02:25:15.120 I'm gonna head up to A and A Plants and Produce in Montgomery. I'll 1998 02:25:15.120 --> 02:25:18.159 be doing an appearance up there, giving away some turf star Weedenator from night 1999 02:25:18.239 --> 02:25:24.719 Fuss and Nightrofuz from Nelson Plant Food. There I go my brain can only 2000 02:25:24.760 --> 02:25:28.920 hold in three thoughts at one time. I'm not a multitasker. Yeah, 2001 02:25:28.000 --> 02:25:33.120 Nelson's turf Star Weedenator is the kind of product that not only controls the weeds 2002 02:25:33.120 --> 02:25:37.920 are existing now, but it controls the provides a fertilizer in a slow release 2003 02:25:39.040 --> 02:25:41.840 way for going forward. And I'll be giving away back every fifteen minutes while 2004 02:25:41.840 --> 02:25:45.559 I'm up there, be up there for a couple hours. I hope you'll 2005 02:25:45.600 --> 02:25:48.239 come out of a giving away some Texas Gardener magazines as well. So I 2006 02:25:48.280 --> 02:25:52.639 don't know, I just can't beat that as far as I'm concerned. Sounds 2007 02:25:52.680 --> 02:25:58.879 like a good deal to me. If you have been listening to garden Line 2008 02:25:58.920 --> 02:26:05.920 for very long, you've heard me talk about the importance of aerating your lawn 2009 02:26:05.159 --> 02:26:09.319 and of top dressing your lawn, and the folks at Greenpro do just that. 2010 02:26:11.040 --> 02:26:15.879 Now. Green Pro is a service that will come to where you live. 2011 02:26:16.040 --> 02:26:22.200 They are up in the Magnolia area and they stay within about forty five 2012 02:26:22.239 --> 02:26:28.360 miles of the Magnolia area. And so when you're looking at anything north down 2013 02:26:28.399 --> 02:26:33.399 to about central maybe Houston on a crossover toward the Katie direction, and then 2014 02:26:33.520 --> 02:26:37.479 north from there, that's their area, but they'll come out. They'll bring 2015 02:26:37.639 --> 02:26:43.319 their equipment out, which is very excellent equipment for doing deep time core aeration. 2016 02:26:43.840 --> 02:26:46.680 That means reaching into the soil and pulling a plug out of the soil 2017 02:26:46.760 --> 02:26:50.479 and dropping it on the surface. That's how you properly aerate a lawn. 2018 02:26:50.799 --> 02:26:56.280 They follow that with the compost top dressing. The compost top dressing is a 2019 02:26:56.399 --> 02:27:01.319 very finely screened quality compost that also helps build your lawn over time. Some 2020 02:27:01.440 --> 02:27:05.079 of that will wash down in the little holes they create, as with oxygenal 2021 02:27:05.159 --> 02:27:09.440 move down to enhance your grassroots system getting it through that old heavy clay soil 2022 02:27:09.559 --> 02:27:13.760 many of us have, and it's just a great way to go. You 2023 02:27:13.840 --> 02:27:18.360 can go to their website greenpro dot net, or you can call them two 2024 02:27:18.440 --> 02:27:24.200 eight one three five one forty seven thirty three two eight one three five to 2025 02:27:24.280 --> 02:27:31.440 one forty seven thirty three green Pro. Have them come out and take care 2026 02:27:31.639 --> 02:27:41.360 of your place. Lawns so benefit from occasional correoration and the compost top dressing, 2027 02:27:41.799 --> 02:27:45.239 really good combination. Let's head out now to the Woodlands and we're going 2028 02:27:45.280 --> 02:27:48.719 to talk to Ken. Hello, Ken, good morning, Skip. I 2029 02:27:48.959 --> 02:27:54.079 really appreciate all your patients with all of us as we ask our questions, 2030 02:27:54.639 --> 02:27:58.760 there's only only stupid answers, not stupid questions. So the pressures are made 2031 02:27:58.200 --> 02:28:03.719 ken. How come I've got to one I think is pretty easy. The 2032 02:28:03.840 --> 02:28:09.120 other one's more a therapy question for one of my plants. I'm in the 2033 02:28:09.159 --> 02:28:15.120 middle of just spreading my annual three or four inches of hardwood mulch. And 2034 02:28:15.520 --> 02:28:18.319 does it make sense? I know traditionally with the azalea is you wait to 2035 02:28:18.440 --> 02:28:24.120 fertilize after the bloom and you prune after the bloom. Any problem? Would 2036 02:28:24.159 --> 02:28:28.079 just go ahead and throw the fertilizer out before the mult and then put the 2037 02:28:28.200 --> 02:28:33.680 mulch down. You can, you can do that, there's not a problem 2038 02:28:33.760 --> 02:28:37.000 with that. Just follow the instruction. What kind of fertilizer do you use 2039 02:28:37.079 --> 02:28:43.559 for you azaleas? The nitrofoss Azalia chamella mix. Oh, that's there, 2040 02:28:43.760 --> 02:28:48.200 that's the eight twelve ten. That is an excellent, excellent choice, and 2041 02:28:48.520 --> 02:28:52.280 yeah put it down. Used it for years. Yeah, well then there. 2042 02:28:52.479 --> 02:28:56.840 It has great results. It's especially those acid loving plants, guardenias. 2043 02:28:56.879 --> 02:29:00.639 It's it's good for those two. By the way, Yeah, put it 2044 02:29:00.680 --> 02:29:03.120 out at the recommended rate on the label. And then throw your mulch on 2045 02:29:03.239 --> 02:29:07.200 top and water it down. It's not like that nutrient's going to be gone 2046 02:29:07.239 --> 02:29:11.479 tomorrow. You know, it's going to be around for a while and it'll 2047 02:29:11.559 --> 02:29:15.280 release okay, And I mean my question was, really, you know, 2048 02:29:15.360 --> 02:29:18.000 if you throw it on top of the mulch, which is what I've typically 2049 02:29:18.120 --> 02:29:24.559 done, does the mulch you know, you know it just lays on top 2050 02:29:24.639 --> 02:29:30.680 of the hardwood mulch. Does that prevent it from really getting as effective? 2051 02:29:30.920 --> 02:29:33.079 Yeah, it's a soluble product, so when you put the water on it, 2052 02:29:33.200 --> 02:29:37.600 it's going to dissolve the particles and release the nutrients. And if nitrogen 2053 02:29:37.840 --> 02:29:41.239 has to flow through all that woody material, a lot of it is going 2054 02:29:41.319 --> 02:29:46.239 to be taken in that process to help break down the wood mulch. Nitrogen 2055 02:29:46.319 --> 02:29:50.760 and carbon, that's what I was thinking. Nitrogen carbon, that's a combination 2056 02:29:50.920 --> 02:29:54.879 that ends up with compost. And so what if you throw it on the 2057 02:29:54.959 --> 02:29:58.280 mulch. I would just take a rake and rake the mulch a little bit 2058 02:29:58.440 --> 02:30:03.559 and let those particles fall down in between the mulch and then water going really 2059 02:30:03.639 --> 02:30:07.239 well, and that would be fine. You don't have to you don't want 2060 02:30:07.280 --> 02:30:11.680 to remove mult ever really just add fresh new mulch on top of it. 2061 02:30:11.840 --> 02:30:16.200 Yeah, well that's what I was thinking now is this is a perfect time, 2062 02:30:16.280 --> 02:30:18.600 since I don't have it all spread yet, to go ahead and throw 2063 02:30:18.680 --> 02:30:26.680 the furtiledger. Next question. Last year, I've got four Laura pedulum that 2064 02:30:26.840 --> 02:30:35.000 are mature ten plus years old. One of them died just wilted. It 2065 02:30:35.239 --> 02:30:39.840 was getting the same water as the mandina and boxwood and everything else around it. 2066 02:30:41.159 --> 02:30:46.479 Then later another one started wilting further down the bed and I went I 2067 02:30:46.719 --> 02:30:50.920 looked at it. I couldn't see any bugs or problems, and eventually, 2068 02:30:52.200 --> 02:30:56.079 after all the leaves started to wilt and turn brown. I called the master 2069 02:30:56.239 --> 02:31:03.920 gardeners and they gave me a reference for Laura pedalum bacterial gall and sure enough 2070 02:31:05.120 --> 02:31:09.319 I went out there, crawled around, looked at the thing, and yeah, 2071 02:31:09.959 --> 02:31:13.879 that's what I must have had a little bacterial gall on the Laura pedalum. 2072 02:31:15.360 --> 02:31:18.719 Now I don't know it with liquid cop Hey, I'm I'm sorry to 2073 02:31:18.760 --> 02:31:24.120 cut in. Can I'm about to hit a hard break here? But yes, 2074 02:31:24.319 --> 02:31:26.239 following with the thing on that, I wouldn't give up though, on 2075 02:31:26.319 --> 02:31:31.319 the idea that it could be a root rot and the way to tell that 2076 02:31:31.520 --> 02:31:35.040 is when a plant you've seen one die and now the next one's going downhill, 2077 02:31:35.520 --> 02:31:37.399 you can dig them up and send them to the state plant clinic where 2078 02:31:37.440 --> 02:31:41.879 they can do a diagnosis and at least then you know what you're dealing with, 2079 02:31:41.000 --> 02:31:46.719 because those root rots will attack other species as well. But the alternative 2080 02:31:46.760 --> 02:31:50.280 would just speed to a drench with a fungicide to prevent the root rot. 2081 02:31:50.719 --> 02:31:54.159 Okay, that's the first thing I did, was captain. Okay, Well, 2082 02:31:54.520 --> 02:31:58.719 Captain wouldn't be the best one really for that kind of root rot. 2083 02:31:58.840 --> 02:32:03.479 Oh yeah, okay, okay, but yeah, I can't tell you based 2084 02:32:03.520 --> 02:32:09.799 on yeah, just because I just went all right, I'll hold jova, 2085 02:32:09.319 --> 02:32:13.559 I'll hold jover. I understand you, just hang on. If you have 2086 02:32:13.719 --> 02:32:20.079 never purchased a Landscaper's Pride product for improving your soil, you need to give 2087 02:32:20.079 --> 02:32:22.600 them a try. Uh. They have the Landscaper's Mix. It's a great 2088 02:32:22.920 --> 02:32:28.879 mix for excellent drainage, ideal new plantings in existing bed. It's got a 2089 02:32:28.959 --> 02:32:31.440 combo of fresh pine bark, rice salts, pearlite, and even a slow 2090 02:32:31.479 --> 02:32:35.520 release fertilizer. They have a rose mix. It's good for any kind of 2091 02:32:35.920 --> 02:32:41.319 woody ornamental plant. It's just good for that. It's got a combination of 2092 02:32:41.399 --> 02:32:46.399 pine and spagnum and slow release fertilizer. Pot Dirt is an Omni certified organic 2093 02:32:46.559 --> 02:32:50.360 soil. It's packed with nutrients. It's got worm casting sand and vermaky light 2094 02:32:50.479 --> 02:32:54.959 and more so, if you got annual beds or seasonal color changes where you 2095 02:32:54.079 --> 02:32:58.840 really want to pop of color growth pot dirt from Landscaper's Pride. They have 2096 02:32:58.920 --> 02:33:03.159 a lot of products. Go to Landscaperspride dot com and learn about all of 2097 02:33:03.239 --> 02:33:07.680 the different products they have and where you can purchase them. We're going to 2098 02:33:07.719 --> 02:33:11.840 take a break. Our number is seven one three two one two KTRH. 2099 02:33:11.040 --> 02:33:16.760 I'll be right back. I don't know that SNG makes me happy. It's 2100 02:33:16.840 --> 02:33:20.280 just got that kind of happy bounce to it. Welcome back to garden Line. 2101 02:33:20.520 --> 02:33:24.040 We are glad you're listening, and we're happy to visit with you about 2102 02:33:24.040 --> 02:33:26.440 the kinds of questions that you might have, and we want to direct you 2103 02:33:28.040 --> 02:33:31.600 to the places and the products that help you have success as well, because 2104 02:33:31.639 --> 02:33:41.079 that is just really important. And living in this wonderful place rich with nurseries 2105 02:33:41.239 --> 02:33:46.680 and garden centers. We're talking about independent garden centers, not big box stores 2106 02:33:46.920 --> 02:33:50.520 or national chains or things like that. Someone called earlier and said, you 2107 02:33:50.600 --> 02:33:54.600 know, so they went someplace they named a couple and it's like they didn't 2108 02:33:54.639 --> 02:33:58.239 know what they were talking about. Well, okay, but our mom and 2109 02:33:58.280 --> 02:34:01.239 pops, do you go to a like Enchanted Forest, for example, which 2110 02:34:01.280 --> 02:34:07.479 is done in Richmond. Enchanted Forest is absolutely one of the destination places we 2111 02:34:07.680 --> 02:34:13.040 like to talk about here on garden Line Today. In fact, right at 2112 02:34:13.040 --> 02:34:15.239 the end of the show today today, Am Mike Sarant's going to be out 2113 02:34:15.239 --> 02:34:20.040 there talking about organic gardening at down at the Enchanted Forest and Richmond. Now, 2114 02:34:20.079 --> 02:34:22.879 if you're down in the Richmond area and you're going where's Enchanted Forest, 2115 02:34:24.000 --> 02:34:28.239 Well, it is at FM twenty seven to fifty nine. So if you're 2116 02:34:28.239 --> 02:34:31.360 in Richmond and you're heading towards sugar Land, it's off to the right FM 2117 02:34:31.479 --> 02:34:39.639 twenty seven fifty nine Enchanted Forest. And here's the website Enchanted Forest Richmond, 2118 02:34:39.479 --> 02:34:46.040 TX dot com and Chantedforest Richmond, TX dot com. What do they have 2119 02:34:46.239 --> 02:34:50.159 there? Everything? Their selection of vegetables and herbs and the new structures they 2120 02:34:50.239 --> 02:34:56.319 built is outstanding. You're going to see color wall to wall when you go 2121 02:34:56.440 --> 02:34:58.959 to Enchanted Forest, Richmond. You're going to find every kind of place, 2122 02:35:00.079 --> 02:35:03.120 yeah, that you would need at the time you need to plan them. 2123 02:35:03.319 --> 02:35:05.120 And you're going to find people that know what they're talking about. Clay, 2124 02:35:07.159 --> 02:35:11.559 you know, just visiting with him a while back, just very very knowledgeable, 2125 02:35:11.920 --> 02:35:15.280 very very not Danny, very very knowledgeable. They're going to direct you 2126 02:35:15.440 --> 02:35:18.000 to the things you need. By the way, check out their house plants 2127 02:35:18.079 --> 02:35:22.159 and the really cool little pots if you like little indoor plants with unique pots. 2128 02:35:22.840 --> 02:35:26.559 They've got a really nice selection. I always love kind of poking around 2129 02:35:26.600 --> 02:35:31.639 through there and seeing what is the latest. But hey, Enchanted Forrest, 2130 02:35:31.760 --> 02:35:35.959 Richmond, TX dot com. Go check them out. Today'd be a good 2131 02:35:35.000 --> 02:35:39.239 day to get out and visit. We're going to go back now to the 2132 02:35:39.399 --> 02:35:41.760 Woodlands and finish up here with Ken. Ken. I think you had a 2133 02:35:41.799 --> 02:35:46.799 little bit of a follow up. You want to ask, Yes, the 2134 02:35:46.000 --> 02:35:50.440 Laura petalum that had the bacterial gall I treated it with liquid cop yes and 2135 02:35:50.719 --> 02:35:54.920 I was you know it is it's sitting there right now. Got one that's 2136 02:35:56.000 --> 02:36:00.280 beautiful in bloom. The one I'm looking at has you know, the leaves 2137 02:36:00.319 --> 02:36:03.840 are wilted and brown. Okay, I was going to just cut it out. 2138 02:36:03.479 --> 02:36:09.319 It turns out it still has green stems. Now there's no leaves coming 2139 02:36:09.399 --> 02:36:13.760 out yet, but the stems still have the you know, I scratch back 2140 02:36:13.879 --> 02:36:18.760 and it's all green. What would you suggest to try to, you know, 2141 02:36:18.959 --> 02:36:24.319 therapeutically bring that thing back because it's a big bush. Well, I 2142 02:36:24.680 --> 02:36:28.360 got circulation, I guess, yeah, you know, still green, right, 2143 02:36:28.440 --> 02:36:31.719 Well, get all the dead stuff out of there. That that is 2144 02:36:31.840 --> 02:36:37.479 important. If it was indeed bac TiAl gall, which could have been it 2145 02:36:37.520 --> 02:36:41.440 could have been on there. You should see some cankers and things like that 2146 02:36:41.600 --> 02:36:43.959 on the stem. That is one of the things that you will notice when 2147 02:36:45.000 --> 02:36:48.920 you see those. And if you're seeing those, I would if you truly 2148 02:36:50.040 --> 02:36:52.479 have that, it's not going to just go away. I mean, you 2149 02:36:52.559 --> 02:36:56.639 can put the copper on it. But copper is a surface funge you side. 2150 02:36:56.920 --> 02:37:01.000 It doesn't The bac tril gall is getting down into the tissues of the 2151 02:37:01.079 --> 02:37:05.440 plant. And it's like remember the old days of macure comb or they call 2152 02:37:05.479 --> 02:37:07.879 it monkey blood. You'd put over a cut in your hand. Yeah, 2153 02:37:07.360 --> 02:37:11.360 that just that just killed what was on the surface. It wasn't like an 2154 02:37:11.360 --> 02:37:15.920 antibiotic that went in and killed the infection in your arm, and so copper 2155 02:37:16.079 --> 02:37:20.920 is just a surface treatment. Now it would prevent infections and things of it, 2156 02:37:20.079 --> 02:37:24.479 but you may end up needing to pull that plant and get them just 2157 02:37:24.559 --> 02:37:28.760 get it out of there. But I would watch it because we're kind of 2158 02:37:28.840 --> 02:37:31.959 guessing as to what the cause is and I don't want to assume that that's 2159 02:37:33.079 --> 02:37:35.879 for sure, right, So just be a little a little careful there with 2160 02:37:37.040 --> 02:37:41.639 it, but get ready, get ready to pull it out because the copper, 2161 02:37:41.879 --> 02:37:46.600 if it were bacterial gall the copper would not be a cure. Okay. 2162 02:37:46.040 --> 02:37:50.559 Do you have a recommended active ingredient for a root rot drench? Uh? 2163 02:37:52.520 --> 02:37:56.639 There is something called ban rot b A n R O T. That's 2164 02:37:56.239 --> 02:38:03.639 that is a fungicide that's drenched onto the soil that covers more than one kind 2165 02:38:03.719 --> 02:38:05.440 of a root rot. And it's not going to be easy to find. 2166 02:38:05.959 --> 02:38:09.559 You might you know, I know you're up in the woodlands, and probably 2167 02:38:09.600 --> 02:38:13.319 the best places to hunt it down are going to be way down in Houston, 2168 02:38:13.440 --> 02:38:16.639 like Southwest Fertilizer. I don't know up in that area who might carry 2169 02:38:16.639 --> 02:38:20.200 it. That is that is not a typical on the garden shelf product. 2170 02:38:22.079 --> 02:38:24.680 Okay, well, I'll look it up and see if I can find it. 2171 02:38:24.959 --> 02:38:28.559 Yeah, yeah, if it's a root rot. But again, I 2172 02:38:28.040 --> 02:38:31.719 always hesitate to pull out a product unless I'm sure that it's going to go 2173 02:38:31.840 --> 02:38:37.440 after the problem that I have. You know what I mean. Yes, 2174 02:38:37.920 --> 02:38:41.799 a lot of product gets wasted when it's a good product, but it's put 2175 02:38:41.840 --> 02:38:46.760 on something it doesn't it's not for you know what I mean? Right? 2176 02:38:48.000 --> 02:38:50.760 Yeah? Okay, Well, I appreciate all your health, all right, 2177 02:38:50.840 --> 02:38:54.959 Ken, good luck up there in the woodlands. Enjoy that. Good to 2178 02:38:54.040 --> 02:39:00.239 talk to you. Ace Hardware stores are all over the place, all right, 2179 02:39:00.319 --> 02:39:03.479 this do me, do me this favor. I want you to see 2180 02:39:03.520 --> 02:39:09.200 this. Go to ACE hardware dot com and find their store locator. Acehardware 2181 02:39:09.200 --> 02:39:15.559 dot Com find their store locator now if you if you want to just go 2182 02:39:15.680 --> 02:39:18.680 straight to it. It's a longer, you are l I usually don't give 2183 02:39:18.719 --> 02:39:20.920 you the whole nine yards, but we're going to do that right now. 2184 02:39:20.360 --> 02:39:26.760 Ace Hardware dot Com slash store dash locator. I want you to go there, 2185 02:39:28.559 --> 02:39:33.840 head enter and the map pops up and it knows to tell it to 2186 02:39:33.040 --> 02:39:35.799 let find where you are, because I mean you could be in Austin, 2187 02:39:35.879 --> 02:39:39.159 Texas. Doing this. When you do, you're going to see dots all 2188 02:39:39.200 --> 02:39:43.639 over Houston. And those are all the ACE Hardware forty stores in the Greater 2189 02:39:43.760 --> 02:39:48.799 Houston ACE Hardware Group that are all out there, And I mean, wow, 2190 02:39:50.399 --> 02:39:52.879 they they've got everything you need. Do I If you hear me say 2191 02:39:52.920 --> 02:39:58.280 a fertilizer's name, a soil blend, you know, a compost or a 2192 02:39:58.440 --> 02:40:03.239 soil bed mixed blend, They're gonna have it there. Do you need to 2193 02:40:03.360 --> 02:40:07.760 control diseases or weeds or insects, They're going to have those products. At 2194 02:40:07.799 --> 02:40:13.200 ACE Hardware, A knowledgeable staff can come by. They can help you find 2195 02:40:13.280 --> 02:40:16.840 the product that you need. Some of the ACE Hardware stores we'll even have 2196 02:40:16.920 --> 02:40:20.559 some plants on hand. They will have things like tools and garden hoses and 2197 02:40:20.159 --> 02:40:24.319 all kinds of things you need to have a beautiful landscape, a beautiful garden 2198 02:40:26.120 --> 02:40:30.520 for outdoor living. They have all the things you need outside to have a 2199 02:40:30.559 --> 02:40:33.680 beautiful place as well. So I would encourage you to stop buy an ACE 2200 02:40:33.719 --> 02:40:37.479 Harder. You'll be surprised at all the things ACE carries. While are you 2201 02:40:37.559 --> 02:40:41.159 there, make sure and check out the barbecue section. I'm sorry it's addictive, 2202 02:40:41.559 --> 02:40:43.840 but when you go in there. You're going to have to have one 2203 02:40:45.200 --> 02:40:48.639 the big green eggs and the triggers and the webers and all that kind of 2204 02:40:48.680 --> 02:40:54.399 stuff. And then you know, if you enjoy indoor decorations, things to 2205 02:40:54.479 --> 02:40:56.920 beautify the home, they have a whole section like that. Trust me, 2206 02:40:58.040 --> 02:41:03.760 this is not don't think about your Grandpa's hardware store. They have what Grandpa's 2207 02:41:03.799 --> 02:41:07.760 hardware store had, but so much much more. At Aceardware dot Com. 2208 02:41:09.120 --> 02:41:11.559 I always loved going in just to see, like, what in the heck 2209 02:41:11.639 --> 02:41:13.319 do they have that I didn't even know they had. Now you're going to 2210 02:41:13.399 --> 02:41:18.440 find a lot of it at ACE Hardware. Love to go into those places. 2211 02:41:20.120 --> 02:41:22.959 We have been answering gardening questions all day today and a lot of different 2212 02:41:24.000 --> 02:41:26.159 things people are interested in. I'm always amused. You know. We used 2213 02:41:26.200 --> 02:41:31.479 to say when I was Keunnty Extension horticulturist for Texas and m Agrolife Extension, 2214 02:41:31.840 --> 02:41:33.639 we used to say, the three things that made the phone ring are the 2215 02:41:33.799 --> 02:41:41.000 three T's trees, turf tomatoes. Nobody called me about their co Robbie. 2216 02:41:41.120 --> 02:41:43.559 They called me about their tomatoes. And we've held up with that today. 2217 02:41:43.559 --> 02:41:48.639 I mean, we've had several calls on tomatoes. Today, everybody cares about 2218 02:41:48.639 --> 02:41:50.520 their lawn and for good reason, and we want to help you have a 2219 02:41:50.600 --> 02:41:56.600 beautiful lawn. Remember, I've got those schedules online and they're free and in 2220 02:41:56.760 --> 02:42:03.959 January through December on the lawn cair sctof fertilizing, mowing, watering, weed 2221 02:42:03.079 --> 02:42:07.040 control, pest control. It's all on there. If you're organic, if 2222 02:42:07.079 --> 02:42:11.280 you're synthetic, both on that schedule. If you need well I said long 2223 02:42:11.360 --> 02:42:16.159 care schedule. That's mow water, fertilized. The other one has the disease 2224 02:42:16.239 --> 02:42:20.040 and the weeds and the insects. Two different schedules, lots of products. 2225 02:42:20.120 --> 02:42:22.799 Print them out, take them with you when you go shopping so you can 2226 02:42:22.159 --> 02:42:26.719 make sure you get the product that you're looking for. Those are products that 2227 02:42:26.879 --> 02:42:31.680 I've tested. Those are products that I've tried myself. I don't just talk 2228 02:42:31.719 --> 02:42:35.399 about a product that I'm not familiar with, but that there's a process and 2229 02:42:35.559 --> 02:42:39.760 being a sponsor on Guard wording and for me to talk about something like I 2230 02:42:39.840 --> 02:42:46.000 was bragging about the Nelson's fertilizer that you put in with the putting soil. 2231 02:42:46.479 --> 02:42:50.600 I've tried it, I've used it, I know it works and I'm not 2232 02:42:50.719 --> 02:42:56.719 going to tell you something that isn't proven by myself or by research that it's 2233 02:42:56.799 --> 02:43:00.680 going to work. Then a good day. Be back tomorrow, six am,