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KTRH Garden Line does not necessarily endorse
any of the products or services advertised on

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this program. Welcome to ktr H
Garden Line with skip rictor it's smell just

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watching as wooden. So many Well, good morning. We are glad you're

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listening to garden Line today. I'm
glad to be here, looking forward to

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visiting with you about whatever you're interested
in related to gardening. Our phone number

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

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If you're looking outside, it's already still

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dark outside. The sun hadn't even
begun to shine over the ridges. While

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you're looking out, check your neighbor's
lights. If they're not on, go

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

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up and call you blessed. Maybe
not today, but they will eventually help

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them have a more beautiful law.
In fact, look for your neighbor that

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is not taking care of their yard. I don't know. We don't need

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to make little things you put in
the door. You know how people put

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their business cards in the door.
Just say hey, here's a tip.

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Listen to garden Line. Just listening. I'm told some people have said that

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just listening to Garden Line, they've
noticed their house plants that are in the

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same room are just greener and vigorous
and seem to just have a better sense

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of well being as a result.
As a result, All right, enough

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nonsense for this morning. We are
going to be visiting about a lot of

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things today, a number of things
that are very timely and related to some

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of the stuff we can be doing
should be doing in our lawns and gardens

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right now. First thing I'm gonna
do, though, is we're gonna head

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right out to the phones and we're
gonna talk to Mike in Hello, Mike,

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how you doing today? I'm good. What's up. I've got a

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halipenal plant that they grow little peppers, maybe an is song and they grow

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upwards in a cluster and they have
a white flower. They turn green and

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then they turn red. And I
tried to look them up online and there's

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like seventeen different varieties. Uh,
you know, a few of them I

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can cut out. But I was
curious if you might know the actual name

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of this thing. It's been bothering
me. Actually, they're not halopenias with

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that growth habit the there's a group
of peppers that point upward. Then there's

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most peppers hang downward, halipenias being
a downward and you know as most of

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the ones bell peppers, halipenas an
cho peppers, all that kind of stuff.

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But the ones at point up that
A lot of those are ornamental,

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but not all And as far as
you know, just guessing at which variety

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you have, I can't tell you
which one, but I can't tell you

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from that group, there's one called
mirrorsoul m i r asol as in see

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the sun in Spanish. But it
has more color than you're describing you should

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be seeing some Usually with peppers like
that, you get an orange and are

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a yellow and then an orange and
then a red stage sometimes purple. But

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you're saying yours just go from green
to red. H I looked it up.

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It was like seventeen varieties, and
the closest one I could find.

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They call it a Christmas pepper because
it does go green and then turns red.

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Okay, And they're good. They're
tasty. I mean, they're not

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real hot. I just call them
like a dinner pepper because they're small.

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You don't have a big chunk left
over, and they're just they're real tasty,

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I mean, not real hot,
but they do have sort of a

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hollow, hollow penial sort of a
flavors. Okay, but they're called ornamental

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then, huh. Usually, but
there are some edibles that that point upward,

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but in general they're they're more more
of an ornamental. Well, here's

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the thing. You can eat an
ornamental pepper. There's nothing wrong with eating

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an ornamental. They just don't tend
to have as media flesh. Some of

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them are very very hot and uh, you know, they tend to be

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thinner walled, and so they're not
ones that generally are considered great culinary peppers.

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But you can eat any better.
Just be better to hang up from

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the Christmas tree then, huh,
I guess so, or have a little,

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have a little. Maybe you could
shape it as it's growing and then

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bring it inside during the holiday.
I wish I could give you the exact

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exact name of yours, but yeah, I just couldn't. There's some really

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good websites out there though. For
peppers. There's a lady called the pepper

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gal U. There is another one, uh, it's called totally tomatoes.

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And then there's another one that's tomatoes, but they have a lot of pepper

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info in them. You might check
some of those out. I sure will,

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I sure will. Thank you very
much, all right. I appreciate

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you man. You do it a
good job. Just keep all keeping all

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all right. We'll have fun with
your peppers, Mike. Thanks for the

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call, sir, Thank you,
bye bye. Oh boy, that's interesting.

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Lots of lots of fun peppers.
Peppers have been a crazy for a

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while now, and for good reason. They're really cool plants, really cool

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plants. I My heat tolerance is
up to about a hallopeeno. That's about

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as far as I go now.
I you know, I can eat a

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serano, but I don't enjoy it
because it's so blazing hot. And some

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people can go all the way,
you know, they laugh at that.

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They just about put a ghost pepper
in their mouth. They're so tough.

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But not me, not me.
But interestingly, I Texas A and M

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released or had a heatless haban narrow, and there's another habban narrow out on

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the market that's heat let's called Habanada
is in not a no way, not

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heat, not hot, and it
has a wonderful hobby Narrow flavor, which

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I had not renoticed the flavor before
because my tongue was on fire and I

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was worried about putting the fire out. But when you take the heat out,

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hobby narrow is a wonderful flavor.
And these heatless ones like Hobba Nada

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are pretty interesting. If you want
heat, you can just add a little

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heat by putting a hot pepper or
two into the mix, and that way

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you kind of can control it a
little bit. Hey, you know,

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I want to tell you about Quality
Feed and Garden Kennon Cress. I need

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to get back by there. It's
been a little while since I've been back

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in there, but I always love
to go. I used to go all

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the time when they were at their
old location. Now they're on Luzon Street

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l u z O m Lozon,
near the intersection where equipment and a lea

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should come together, kind of north
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Friday nine to six, Saturday nine
to four, so there'll be a plenty

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of time to get by there today
and tomorrow eleven thirty to four pm.

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They've been a tradition since nineteen twenty
eight. And boy do they ever have

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a wide variety of stuff. All
the fertilizers I talk about, and then

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some you know, if you need
soils, they've got everything anything you need

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for gardening there. They're ready to
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a cool antique seed rack from nineteen
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have a whole nother rack just the
airloom vegetables. So if you're if you're

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looking for airloom vegetables, you're not
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at Quality Feed and Garden Center.
Of course, they have plenty in the

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way of backyard chicken supplies and they
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Ken and Chris have really done a
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thirty two years now and it is
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It's one of those old time feed
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supplies of everything. Quality feed co
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Well, boy, that first segment
went kind of quick. Today we're

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about to take a little break here. We will be right back with your

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gardening questions. If you'd like to
give Josh a call seven one two one

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two fifty eight seventy four. Hey, good Saturday morning. You are listening

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to Garden Line and we're here to
talk about gardening. Give us a call.

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Seven one three two one two fifty
eight seventy four. You know,

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our lawns have come out of one
heck of a tough summer. Oh my

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gosh it is. It's been rough. It's been it's been really rough on

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them, and we need to be
taking care of them. There's a lot

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of things to be doing. October
is the big magic month when it comes

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to lawns. It's probably the most
important month of the year for your lawn

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and I'll tell you why as we
go through the show to dam and be

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talking about different aspects of that.
But basically, we just got to get

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them back to health after what they've
been through. And one of the things

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they need is nutrients. Now we
know about fertilizing, it's important to fertilize,

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but there's also the trace minerals.
And trace minerals are essential to the

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plant, the grass plant. They're
not needed in large quantity. In fact,

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they're needed in very very low quantities. But when we don't have a

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particular mineral that limits the ability of
the grass plant to grow and thrive and

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do well. And so we need
to make sure that our soils have what

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they need. And azamite is a
product that's that's created just for that.

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It's actually mined out of the ground
that and it is just chock full of

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all kinds of trace elements, trace
elements that are essential. Asomite goes a

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long way, you know, a
forty four pound bag of it six twelve

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thousand square feet covers a long wide
area because it's needed in small amounts,

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but don't let the small fool use
it is still essential. And these these

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minerals that we need are essential,
and Asomite provides those. You can go

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to asomite Texas dot com. Just
remember when you're fertilizing, if you haven't

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done it already this year, consider
an application of azamite following your application of

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what you think of as your standard
fertilizers that you like to use. That

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is something that's important. I was
I was out at Brazoria County yesterday.

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Kimberly Mayor, the hoard agent out
in Brassoria, had put together a wonderful

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program on strawberry growing and I don't
know how she did it, but she

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got our best strawberry expert in Olive
out her life extension across Texas to come

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down and speak. That was great. There was the folks from Froberg Farm

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where they're giving a really good talk. It was just if you're interested in

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strawberries, or even if you weren't, you would be by the end of

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the day. It was an excellent
program. But while I was there,

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I was visiting with someone and Shelby
from Nelson Plant Food was out there and

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we were talking about fertilizers and she
was asking about, well, what do

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we do, not Shelby this other
person, what do we do for fertilizer

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in the fall time? And I
just walked right over there and I said,

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here it is. It's called carbo
load. Carbo loads a ten ten

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twenty fertilizer. It's got a pre
emergent herbicide in it to stop some of

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the winter weeds. So when you
put something like that down, you want

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to be very careful to use it
at the right rate and then watered in

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when you get done. And with
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of potassium and a little nitrogen.
We want our nitrogen lower in the fall,

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but we do want that punch of
potassium because that helps number one with

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drought stress and it also helps with
winter heartiness. And you're not going to

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do better than that. And Nelson
has a lot of different products. They

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have color Star, turf Star,
Nutrastar, Nature Stars are organic line.

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They have a lot of different products
out there, but right now, the

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one product you need to know about
most of all is carbo Load ten twenty.

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Really important for our grass. And
we're talking about getting the minerals down

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like azamite, the trace, we're
talking about the fertilizers. Well, there

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you have it. And if you
go online to my schedule online, you

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can go to Skip our Gardening with
skip dot com and find the schedule on

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there and it'll list exactly when and
what you apply and be very helpful,

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I hope for you. But don't
forget the importance of this fall feeding.

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Cannot overstress it. Fall is the
most October is the magic month for lawns

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when it comes to lawn health and
when it comes to next spring. What

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you do in October will determine what
your lawn looks like in March. And

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April will It's the biggest single factor
as to how your lawn comes out of

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winter and how it looks and grows
its overall health at that point in time.

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So don't think, well, I'm
gonna wait until spring and I'll fertilize

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my lawn and everything will look good. Well, yes, we fertilize in

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spring, but fall, fall,
fall, October's the magic month. Do

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not forget that. Make sure you
take care of your lawn this month.

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We're gonna head out to Missouri sitting
now, and we're gonna talk to Faye.

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Hello, Faye, good morning,
skit. Thank you for taking my

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call. Well, thank you.
How can we help? I sent you

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a text and also sent you an
email and your spind it to my email

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yesterday. Oh yeah, and and
so I did send you a photo of

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what's going on in my little rose
bush. It's got some muti grants.

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It's growing right in the center of
it. See that. Yes, yes,

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it must be afraid of you,
because it's really doing a good job

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hiding right around the base, isn't
it. Isn't it just wonderful? And

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I pull it as close as I
can get to the thorns, and that's

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as far as I can go.
All right, Well this this is an

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easy one, Fay. There are
good There are two ingredients out there that

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are found in various products, and
either one of them will kill grass without

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killing your rose bush. Okay.
One of them is. You'll see them

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in products. They'll have names like
grass killer or grassby gone kinds of names

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that they kill grass. Well,
one of them, and I'm not going

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to say the whole name on the
air. It just gets confusing spelling out

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a chemical name. But if it
begins with seta, like the boy's name

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Seth seth okay, seth and then
O x Y sethoxy, that's one of

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them. The other one is begins
with f l u a Z flu as.

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If you see either sethoxy or flu
as is the start of a name,

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those are grass only killers. You
don't purposefully spram all over the rosebush,

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but you get down in there and
spram and they're going to get on

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the rose and it won't hurt it. Okay, Okay, would you would

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you stat that second one for me
again? I want to make sure I've

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got it correct. F l U
A Z. I need to put a

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fact sheet on my website. About
those that would be a good, good

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new thing. A f L A
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like you're sick flu as a z
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okay, And the words get longer, but nothing else starts with those those

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two sethoxy and flu as and and
okay, I'll make it. I'll take

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it over to Southwest Fertilizer today.
Well, and they'll have about eight hundred

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versions of both of those. Are
they have everything? I was over there

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the other day and oh my gosh. In fact, I put a video

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on on my Facebook page of the
eighty foot wall of tools. I just

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walked down the whole wall and took
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Well, I'll tell you what I
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that was just right on my property
line and say, the reserve of where

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I live, because I live on
a golf course and uh and and I

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had put in some artificial turf in
my and my gated and my fenced in

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area right there under the anti quake
Merlin and it was just I mean I

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had to go out there twice a
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So I had it. I had
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but you know, those little those
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started coming back up. And I
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twenty five bucks. We're a very
small bottle of these to kill these little

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startups, and I'm telling you it
did the jobs. Jobs. Way to

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do it, you get you gotta
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for sure, exactly exactly. Well, thank you so much, Skip for

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your information. You bet I love
your shows. Well, thank you,

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Kay, I appreciate that, appreciate
the call very much. Yeah, Southwest

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Fertilizer. For those of you who
have not been there, I don't know

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if you've been living under a rock
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around for a very long time.
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Runwick for those of you don't know, but you can go find their website

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Southwest Fertilizer dot com. You will
not find a better selection of everything herbicide,

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fungicide and secticite UH fertilizers for sure, and if you're organic, they've

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got a wide probably the best selection
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fact, if they don't have something
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what that's what it comes down to. Southwest Fertilizer dot Com. Yeah,

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I love going in there. That's
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gonna head out to Jim and Montgomery. Now, Hello, Jim, Hey,

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good morning, good morning. It's
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today. That guy that had the
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I've grown peppers a lot, and
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they're not the little bird eyes,
you know what I mean. There's it

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seems to be two kinds. Yeah, there's the bird eye what some people

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call because they look kind of like
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he's talking about are also called chili
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little group like that, and but
they're really hot. I don't know his

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is aren't really hot and that maybe
they're a different kind. But I tie

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peppers that grow up straight up like
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long when they're when they turn red. Right, Yeah, And that's a

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good point. I know, the
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morton and set of the little oval
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but still. Yeah, it looks
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like a hollo opinion, but it's
skinnier and and then it stands straight up.

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close and smell the blooms, it
smells like fresh cut watermelon. Well,

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I'm gonna have to try that.
I've never tried that one before. That's

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interesting. Down real low. I've
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couple of times to reach down low, and I could smell watermelon, and

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I thought, what is that?
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But thanks, what I was going
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I appreciate that extra inside. We
always get good information from your or

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listeners like you, thank you,
thank you very Okay, you do you

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take care? Yeah, that gardening
is fun and it is just fun.

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Speaking of gardening and being fun,
they are aspects of gardening that a lot

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of people just haven't gotten into yet. They don't think about it. And

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one of the aspects is birds.
Yeah, birds are part of gardening.

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Birds collect insects, they help us
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the beauty, the song. It's
just it's amazing. And that's why one

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of the reasons why I like wildbirds
so much is no matter what kind of

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bird information, what kind of birds
supplies, equipment, anything you need bird

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feed, they've got it and beyond
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Every time I walk into I was
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I hadn't seen one of those before. We got seven wild birds unlimited

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around here. I mean they're all
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one. But right now, the
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they're stock enough to get ready to
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and we need to be feeding them. If you're making your own nectar,

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which you can do, it's parts
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And while you're at wilbirds grab their
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water sitting out in warm weather from
going bad and one to two days it

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keeps it up to ten days in
the heat, and that is a really

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good thing. While you're there,
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I've got several feeders. High perch
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absolutely is really cool. Now where
do you find Wilbirds. We'll just go

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to w b U dot com forward
slash Houston WBU dot com slash Houston.

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You can find the ones near you
and they're all over town. Wildbird's unlimited.

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You will enjoy them, I promise. And while you're there, grab

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a gift for somebody. I cannot
think of a better place to grab a

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gift, even for non gardeners.
Oh yes, and this is the time

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to start shopping early for Christmas.
It absolutely is. Yeah, why not

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just a surprise gift? You know
we always have to have these big Oh

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it's your birthday, Oh it's Christmas? Yes? Have you ever got NICs

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as a gift? Is the out
of the blue and it's like whoa,

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Well, I like you, here's
the gift. Yeah, that's a good

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idea. Well, good morning and
welcome to garden Line. We're glad you're

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listening today. Hope you give us
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the things that are of interest to
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calling. It's time to get over that

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we were. We are kind and
gentle, and we will help you through

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the phone call. If it's your
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It's issuing me, that's all.
So just go ahead and give us

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a call. Let's talk about about
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I know that the vast majority of
people that listen to garden Line don't call

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in, and I'd like to visit
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that. Fall the October the magic
month for lawns. I was just talking

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about that. I mentioned the importance
of trace minerals and that those are important

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to have in the soil and adequate
apply to supply the plant. And I

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mentioned the fall fertilizing that when you
put down a fertilizer that is the right

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ratio of nutrients for fall, it
gets your lawn ready for winter. Think

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of it as putting antifreeze in your
lawn, because here's what happens. You

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get the right nutrients in their Potassium
is very important, and when we go

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into fall, we like to see
the nitrogen come down a little bit,

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and we like to see the potassium
come up a little bit or them come

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closer to a one to one ratio
somewhere in that range. And the reason

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is we need a little nitrogen,
but we don't want to overstimulate the grass

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with nitrogen because that leads to more
issues with brown patch, for example,

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in the lawn. So a moderate
amount, it could be a gradual release,

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that's fine, but generally in the
fall we don't worry about that as

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we do so much during the summertime. Potassium is very important and it gets

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that lawn strong and ready to go
because when the potassium's there, the plant

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takes it up with the little bit
of nitrogen and it creates carbohydrates, and

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carbohydrates are essentially like antifreeze. Here, here's a simple way to think about

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it. Have you ever made homemade
popsicles? You know, you put the

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sugary water coolate or whatever in the
little containers and you put it in the

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freezer. And if you ever noticed
when it freezes that you have like pure

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water that freezes, and then right
up at the top it ends up with

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this frozen but almost sticky kind of
substance. That's the sugar. It's the

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last to freeze. It It sugar
water is slower to freeze than just pure

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water would be. And so when
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sugar is an example of that kind
of compound. It It is like an

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antifreeze in the in the plant,
and it helps in other ways too.

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But that's an oversimplification. But I
think everybody who's ever made a popsicle can

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realize what I'm talking about when I
say that. So that's why we utilizing

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the vault. The next thing that
we want to think about when we're going

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into fall is the issue with weeds. If your lawn is thin, you're

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going to have weed issues sooner or
later. Wherever sunlight hits the soil,

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nature plants of weed, and so
a thin lawn is an invitation to weeds

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to germinate. I had a section
of my lawn this summer while I was

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gone. I was talking about this
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It had chinch bugs come in,
and it basically killed a sectional lawn.

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And I am seeing weeds coming up
that I never knew were in the lawn,

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nuts, edge and other things that
were there, but they just weren't

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noticeable. Well now they are and
a pre emergent. Herbicide can help prevent

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that. And you know, if
you're looking for all these kinds of products,

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you're not going to find a better
place than Ace Hardware. And it's

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because it's so convenient. There's thirty
nine Ace Hardware stores here in Houston.

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So wherever you love, there is
an Ace. You can go to Ace

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Hardware dot Com, look on the
store locator and find your local Aces,

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because there will be more than one
near you. And they're gonna have fertilizer,

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they're gonna have fungicide and secticide.
We control all of that and a

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lot lot more for your lawn.
That's what ACE does. That's what they

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specialize in, is having everything that
you need to have a beautiful lawn as

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well as a beautiful outdoor area in
general. But Ace Hardware is a place

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where you can go and you know
you're gonna find it all right there in

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one spot. We're gonna head out
now to Cyprus and talk to Sandy.

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Hello, Sandy. Oh well,
you know it would help if I'd made

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it where you could actually talk.
Thank you, good good morning. It's

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okay, I don't know what I'm
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this. I hope you can tell
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like little black spots, but there's
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baby just flower fell off my Ora
baby okra and they's just covering the entire

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ocra. I don't see any on
the leaves per se, but I see

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them on my actual ocra on the
pods. Yeah, not on all of

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them, but just the little baby
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it when it's a baby, because
I've got some that are bigger that have

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nothing that are good, and they're
they're not little things sitting on the ochre

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pod. There are things that it's
a black that's part of the okra pod

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itself, like the pod is discolored. No, no, no, it's

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some kind of bug or something.
Okay, you know what. I could

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sit here and guess, and that
would not be very fruitful. Sandy,

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I'm gonna put you on hold,
and will you give let Josh give you

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an email, and will you take
some close up pictures, make sure they're

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in really good sharp focus and attach
them to the email. If you attach

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them, it's much easier for me
to zoom in. And look, I'll

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take a look at it and maybe
even have an answer later today on the

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show if I can, If you
can get them up fast. If not,

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I'll talk about him another day.
Yeah. Now, I'll take them

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as soon as the light, as
soon as a daylight comes. Yeah,

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everything's black right now. Yeah,
but I have I have your email address

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gifts Okay, all right, I've
emailed you before. Okay, thank you

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so much. I'll get that to
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right. Thank you, appreciate that, Sandy, thank you for the call.

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You know, the the email thing. I am covered up with emails.

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There's no way I can answer all
the emails that come in. And

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so what I ask of you if
you'll help me here. If you want

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to email me something, send me
a good quality photo. That's fine,

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but I'm not going to be able
to reply to the email with an answer.

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I just literally cannot get that done
at all, not even close.

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And so if you will do that
and then call into the show on Saturday,

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your Sunday, refer to the email
and we'll talk about it. And

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that way other people will gain the
benefit of it too, because if you've

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got a question somebody else has that
same question. So that is what I

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ask in order to be able to
help folks with the emails as best we

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can. Right now, I talked
about our lawns coming out of summer.

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Our trees are having a hard time
coming out of summer. And we're fortunate

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here in the Houston area to have
Affordable tree Service. That's Martin spoonmore.

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All you have to do is give
him a call. It's seven one,

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three, six, nine nine twenty
six sixty three. Now when you do

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that, you're either going to have
Martin or his wife Joe answer the phone.

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And isn't that amazing the owner,
the owners of a company actually answer

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their own phones. Yeah, well
that's how it is. If you don't

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hear Martin or Joe, it's some
other There are other people that put affordable

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in the name. We're talking about
Affordable Tree Service Martin and Joe Spoonmore.

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So, if it's not Martin or
Joe answering, you hang up, check

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the number or go online a f
tree service dot com. Aff Tree Service

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dot com. They've been doing this
for thirty years, taking care of Houston

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trees. Martin knows how to keep
a tree healthy, very important time to

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be doing that, So call now
and get on the schedule. Listen October

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November very important prune times. Do
not delay because they buck up fast.

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Martin Spoonmore seven one three, six
nine nine twenty six sixty three. Let's

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take a break. We'll be right
back if you'd like to give Josh a

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call seven one three two one two
fifty eight seventy four. Hell, good,

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good, Saturday morning. We are
glad you're listening. We are going

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to talk gardening all day oil until
ten o'clock. That's that's when it ends

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today. By the way, when
it's over, I am heading up to

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Nature's Way Resources today. That's up
toward Conro. If you go up forty

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five, get to about where fourteen
eighty eight comes in to forty five,

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just south of Conro, turn right, go across railroad tracks. You're at

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Nature's Way. They are having one
heck of ashndick. I'm pretty ex at

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about this one today. It is
their Fall Garden Festival. They're gonna have

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Latin food, live music, local
vendors, adult beverages. They'll be scavenger

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hunts for the kids. Before I
even get there, nine o'clock in the

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morning, they're gonna have a Creating
Enchanting fairy Gardens demonstration class, so you'll

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you'll learn how to make those little
miniature gardens. If you've never seen a

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ferry garden before, they are so
cool. You could live on the one

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hundredth floor of some high rise building
in downtown downtown Houston and have a little

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ferry garden out there on your outdoor
patio. It's that simple and it's cool.

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By the way, you can give
him a call at nine three six

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three two one sixty nine ninety,
but it's today. I'll be there from

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eleven thirty to one thirty, so
please stop by all of you up in

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Montgomery County, North Harris County,
all through that region. I'd love to

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meet you, and it is going
to just be a blast. Lots going

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on there. I hope you can
be part of that. I was talking

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about tree Stress and you know Affordable
Tree Service Martin Spoon Moore in the importance

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of getting them out to get those
trees pruned. I mean, this is

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a this is a tough time and
as we tell people, I've got a

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lot of calls by our trees have
taken a hit. The magnolia trees,

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really lots of brown magnolias. And
here's the deal. If it's brown,

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take it down. It's not going
to come back. And it has gone

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to a point where the whole system
collapsed, it could not supply. The

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tree died, and you need to
get it out. You don't want to

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delay. And of course Martin can
do that and a lot more, you

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know, deep root feeding and watering, all kinds of things they take care

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of trees. I've got something I
put on my website that's gardening with skip

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dot com called stress related Tree decline
and Death. And if you go to

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the website, what are they what
are I call it over there? It's

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something about and go back to the
homepage. Yeah, helping your trees in

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a drought. Well that's what it
says on the web when you click on

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it. It's all about stress and
trees, and it's it's very helpful to

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read. If you're going to be
doing construction around trees going forward, or

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any other things as stress trees,
you need to go look at this little

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free publication up there. You can
download it if you want. It's got

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like links to five different great websites
on dealing with drought and trees as well.

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So I hope you'll check that,
check that out. Talking about trees,

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we got to also talk about lawns. It's two ts that make the

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phone ring at the Extension office and
here on garden Line and the lawns.

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They've kind of got a trifect of
things going on when it comes to fall

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and nitrophoss. Is put together a
three step program called the Texas three Step

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kind of like the Dance, except
with an extra step involved that fixes just

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that. Step one is their fall
Special Winterizer fertilizer. That is a fertilizer

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that is has a good concentration of
phosphorus in the fertilizer, a little lower

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nitrogen. It's also got some some
I said, phosphorus. It's all it

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has phosphorus to promote a healthy root
system. But it's all it's got the

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potassium. That is what I keep
saying is most important going into winter.

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Step two is nitrofoss barricade. That
is their pre emergent weed control barricade prevents

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broad leaf weeds and grassy weeds.
And now that we're hitting on October,

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that's the big month where the cool
season weeds are starting to germinate. To

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get success, you have to put
it down before they germinate. So it's

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time to get that product and get
it down. Number three is Eagle Turf

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fungicide that is to control diseases in
your lawn. It's systemic product soaks into

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the tissues of the turf and helps
prevent diseases like brown patch going into fall,

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like take all root rot, which
is also going to be infecting as

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well in the fall. So where
do you get this Texas three step?

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Well, anywhere Nitrofoss is sold,
but plans for all seasons on two forty

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nine has it. Enchanted Gardens out
there in Enrichment has it, and Lake

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Hardware in Angleton has it as well. The Nitrofoss three step. It's as

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simple as that. One two three
fertilizer. We control fun decided to protect

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against diseases. Let's head out to
Baytown now and we're going to talk to

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Gilbert. Good morning, Gilbert,
good morning. How you guys doing well?

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We're well today? What's up out
in Baytown? Well, other than

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thank God for the rain and getting
everything going again, I've got it persistent

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problem. Okay. The wife and
I decided to put a swimming pool,

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and we went with salt water.
And again as far as landscaping around it,

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we can't seem to keep anything alive
long enough to enjoy any kind of

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blooms or anything. Yeah, So
I didn't know there was a special line

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of plants or something in particular that
had some color in it that we could

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either put in pots or plant around
the Yeah, the pool. Our last

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try was daylilies, and they lasted
for a little while, but they succumb

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later. Yeah. I don't know
if it's salt coming off the pool of

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what. Yeah, it could be. I mean, it could be a

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lot of reasons. Plants don't grow
but the salt. If pool water is

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getting on, I'm and they're getting
salty. There are plants that are more

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tolerant of that. I'm off the
top of my head, I cannot tell

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you where to find a list.
There used to be one at the Extension

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office in Corpus Christy that they had
on their website, and I think Galveston

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County Extension may have something like that. What I'm gonna do, Gilbert,

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is when I get a break here
in between segments, I will take a

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look and see if I can find
any of that, and I will mention

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it on the air. Off the
top of my head, I just can't

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remember where those kind of lists are, but you would want to focus on

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that. You also will want to
occasionally drench the heck out of those beds,

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and I mean just to rent away
as much of the salts as you

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can. That would be very helpful. Not not regularly, but just occasionally

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good drench. Now, you know, we do have grass going around it,

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and it's nice, thick and green, but I do I do know

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we've got different, you know,
decorations hanging around, and you can see

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a little bit of a salt coating
around it. But as far as the

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plants and stuff, it's it's not
like to get the pool water. It's

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almost like the evaporation coming off the
pool seems to be the culprit. Well,

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if it's not pool water, then
then don't worry about the evaporation.

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That's not it at all. That's
pure water that's evaporating. It leaves the

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salt behind. I would say,
look at drainage in those beds. Make

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sure that it's not staying too wet
or staying too dry, and that is

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probably where you're going to find the
problem and one of those types of things

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or some other thing with a bad
bed mix or saw mix or something.

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But that that's a lot as best
as I can guess for you there.

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But I'm I'm leaning now away from
the salt being the problem. Okay,

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okay, Well, I appreciate it. I know we've tried and where at

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the point where yeah, we're gonna
buyoplastic points. We got forgive it.

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Don't give up on it yet.
Thank hey, thanks for the call.

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I appreciate and I understand that that
concerned. You know, we're in the

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season where we think about storms and
we think about power going out. Well,

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it doesn't take a storm. Our
grid is unreliable. Quality Home Products

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need to buy a Generac automatic standby generator.

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It sits outside, it comes on
automatically even if you're not at home.

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That freezer full of food, it's
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Check them out. You will be as

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a first rate genera automatic standby generator
that they will put you in the right

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one that you need for your house. They won't oversell, They'll tell you

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what you need for your house because
they have a wide variety of them as

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well. Fun. You've been listening
to garden Line, We're having a heck

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of a good time today. Help
you are too. I'm gonna be out

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just another reminder. I'm going to
be out at Nature's Way today up toward

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con Row off Interstate forty five.
We'll be doing their Fall Garden Festival,

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and this is one heck of a
shin digg. They're going to have Latin

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00:38:35.000 --> 00:38:38.800
food, live music, local vendors. They'll even be adult beverages and scavenger

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hunt for the kids. That this
is a lot of fun. I hope

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you'll be there. I'll be there
from eleven thirty to one thirty. Please

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00:38:45.119 --> 00:38:51.400
come on out, bring me some
samples. We'll also do some diagnosis KTRH.

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

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this program. Welcome to KTRH Garden
Line with Skip Ricord. Just watch him

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as well. Good Saturday morning,
there is a glow in the eastern sky.

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We're about to kick off this day
and it is going to be a

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good one, a good one to
get out and about. Hopefully a good

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00:39:30.760 --> 00:39:34.800
one for you to come up and
see me at Nature's Way today eleven thirty

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00:39:34.840 --> 00:39:37.239
to one thirty. After the show, I'll be heading that way for the

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Big Shindegg with their Fall Garden Festival. Really important to come out and have

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a chance to visit. If you
like something diagnosed or identified, bring it

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00:39:49.079 --> 00:39:51.159
with you. We'll take a look
at it. Be happy to take a

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00:39:51.199 --> 00:39:52.559
look at it. See what we
can do to kind of, you know,

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help out on that. I've been
talking about Launch today and the importance

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of taking care of our launch,
pro biding the things that they need,

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00:40:01.079 --> 00:40:07.000
getting them back on their feet.
And our lawns are in deep, deep

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00:40:07.079 --> 00:40:10.559
stress in many cases. Even if
you got a little bit of rain that

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helps. Rain is important, but
it goes beyond rain. You know,

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they need the nutrients, they need
healthy roots, and there's diseases that attack

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them. There's insects, that attack
them. I'm still still got a few

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chinch bugs running around my yard and
I need to knock those out. But

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you might get out and check,
get on your hands and knees and kind

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of pull apart the grass where the
grass is alive. Don't do it where

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they're dead. They're not going to
hang out there. They'll starve to death.

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They move out into the living grass
and keep taking it down. Figure

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go online, do a little search, figure out what a chinch bug looks

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like, and then get on your
hands and knees and part it. And

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if you see them, go ahead
and deal with it. It's time to

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take care of them. We're toward
the end of chinch bug season, but

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you know, if we continue to
have warm weather for another three weeks or

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so, they're gonna stick around.
And they still are doing damage. And

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after what our lawns went through,
I don't think we can afford any more

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damage. They are ready or in
pretty pretty good stressed state as a result.

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Hey, plants for all seasons.
You know, that is the place

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00:41:12.599 --> 00:41:15.679
if you want expert advice, if
you want people that know what they're talking

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00:41:15.719 --> 00:41:20.960
about. They carry the products that
you need and that will point you to

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00:41:21.079 --> 00:41:22.960
the products you need, and that
includes plants. You know, you walk

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in and go, I got this
area over here, and it's a little

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00:41:25.119 --> 00:41:29.480
shady, but I mean and you
just describe it, they'll point you to

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the plants that you need for that
that that's the kind of expertise they have.

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You know, the family has been
doing this since nineteen seventy three.

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I mean that is a that is
a long time. And you don't stick

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around that long without providing quality products, quality service with knowledgeable, friendly staff

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to help people. And that's how
the Flowerties are. I mean it's always

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been that way. One of the
plants that they have, for example,

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that I think you need to go
by and check out it's it's the blue

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00:41:57.840 --> 00:42:04.920
angel. Althea is a shrub in
the Hibiscus family, and it has beautiful

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blooms. It's an old southern shrub, been around for ages, but blue

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00:42:07.719 --> 00:42:14.960
angel is beautiful. It takes the
normal althea colors toward a blue direction.

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You just have to see it.
You can go online and look at pictures,

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but pictures do not capture the color
of blue that blue angel althea has.

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There's just there's this thing between pink
and blue that photography just doesn't seem

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to do a good job of capturing
blue angel althea and fall is the time

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to plant. It's the best time. So go by there, grab you

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one. You've got a good sunny
spot and it just blooms and blooms and

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00:42:37.880 --> 00:42:42.480
blooms all through the warm season.
Plans for all seasons dot com. That's

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a website. Plans for all seasons
dot com. Or two eight, one,

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three, seven, six, sixteen
forty six. Going out to Richmond

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now and talk to Kay. Hello, okay, hi, thank you for

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taking my call. You bet I
got a mode of new dirt Distroy And

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00:43:00.719 --> 00:43:06.239
these swedes they look like spaghetti.
They're green with little white flowers, and

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00:43:06.280 --> 00:43:09.599
they're just taking over everything. They
don't seem to need water. How do

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00:43:09.719 --> 00:43:15.239
I get rid of them? They
have little the white flowers like four petals,

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00:43:15.360 --> 00:43:22.159
like a cross. Yeah, like
a cross. That's Virginia buttonweed.

606
00:43:22.480 --> 00:43:25.559
And Virginia buttonweed is a very difficult
weed to control. First of all,

607
00:43:25.679 --> 00:43:31.280
it loves wet soil, so if
you overwater you make it a lot worse.

608
00:43:31.599 --> 00:43:36.280
If you cut back to just a
good soaking in frequently to keep your

609
00:43:36.360 --> 00:43:39.239
long going, it is not as
bad. It won't kill the Virginia buttonweed.

610
00:43:39.280 --> 00:43:43.920
It just keeps it from proliferating as
bad. There are products, there's

611
00:43:43.960 --> 00:43:49.360
one called Celsius out there like Fahrenheit
and Celsius. Celsius does a pretty good

612
00:43:49.440 --> 00:43:52.519
job on Virginia buttonweed. But you
need to go ahead and get that sprayed.

613
00:43:52.639 --> 00:43:55.239
Now. The other thing to think
about, and you're not gonna like

614
00:43:55.360 --> 00:44:00.639
this, is it's got a lot
of seeds. Those little pods along the

615
00:44:00.679 --> 00:44:05.119
vine, those are seeds. It'll
be back next year. So to get

616
00:44:05.159 --> 00:44:07.039
down in hand pull it. You're
not going to get the weed out,

617
00:44:07.079 --> 00:44:10.679
it'll break off. But what you
have in your hand is that little vine

618
00:44:10.679 --> 00:44:13.840
with all the seeds on it,
and throw it in a five gallon bucket

619
00:44:13.880 --> 00:44:16.639
and get rid of it. If
you can do the hand pulling first,

620
00:44:17.159 --> 00:44:22.360
that is really probably at this point
in the season, the best thing you

621
00:44:22.440 --> 00:44:25.159
can do to cut down on next
year. Next year it will be back,

622
00:44:25.320 --> 00:44:29.079
and when it does come back,
Celsius is going to be a product

623
00:44:29.199 --> 00:44:34.280
that you can use. Thank you
very much. All right. Remember it's

624
00:44:34.320 --> 00:44:37.880
a tough weed and no product will
kill it with one application, So follow

625
00:44:37.920 --> 00:44:42.400
the label very carefully and you're's going
to take more, maybe take two,

626
00:44:42.480 --> 00:44:45.360
maybe take three to really knock it
back, and you just got to keep

627
00:44:45.400 --> 00:44:52.559
an eye out because it's notorious for
sneaking back in. Thank you, all

628
00:44:52.679 --> 00:44:57.039
right, I'm go okay. Yeah, there's probably a picture of Virginia buttonweed

629
00:44:57.119 --> 00:44:59.920
hanging on the wall of a post
office, you know, as public Enemy

630
00:45:00.159 --> 00:45:05.639
number one or something something along those
lines. If you that is just a

631
00:45:05.719 --> 00:45:09.159
fact. Hey, if if your
lawn is struggling, or if it's not,

632
00:45:10.000 --> 00:45:14.360
now is the time to make sure
and apply the products that are going

633
00:45:14.400 --> 00:45:17.639
to help it not only get healthy
but stay healthy. And Microlife has a

634
00:45:17.760 --> 00:45:22.599
combo that I really really like,
and it's their brown Patch. It's the

635
00:45:22.719 --> 00:45:25.599
orange bag. It's called brown Patch. What it is though, it's a

636
00:45:25.679 --> 00:45:31.280
fertilizer. It's got a good concentration
of potassium in it, that's the third

637
00:45:31.400 --> 00:45:35.400
number, and a little bit lower
on the nitrogen, which is what we

638
00:45:35.480 --> 00:45:38.159
look for going into fall. Microlife
is going to gradually release that a little

639
00:45:38.199 --> 00:45:42.000
over time. You're not going to
get this boost of nitrogen all of a

640
00:45:42.079 --> 00:45:45.920
sudden, but Microlife brown Patch just
think of it as your fall fertilizer.

641
00:45:45.920 --> 00:45:51.119
I put it on my schedule online
as a fall fertilizer application for organic option.

642
00:45:51.239 --> 00:45:54.159
It's an excellent one for that.
They also have the bioinoculant. Now

643
00:45:54.239 --> 00:46:01.039
that's kind of a violet colored bag. Bioinoculant is put out to add microbial

644
00:46:01.239 --> 00:46:06.559
content to the surface of the grass
plants when you spread it. Now,

645
00:46:06.639 --> 00:46:09.639
you can use it in things other
than grass, but bioinoculant is used in

646
00:46:09.719 --> 00:46:14.719
a small rate because you're putting it
out there and you want to populate the

647
00:46:14.840 --> 00:46:20.440
surfaces of a grass plant with good
microbes. It crowds out disease problems.

648
00:46:20.480 --> 00:46:23.719
That's one way that good microbes help. Number two. Some good microbes just

649
00:46:23.840 --> 00:46:29.039
literally fight disease directly. But that
combo right now, in the fall,

650
00:46:29.159 --> 00:46:34.320
coming out of what we just went
through, Microlife brown Patch, Microlife Bioinoculant,

651
00:46:34.440 --> 00:46:37.719
those two together, now's the time
to do it. Don't delay anymore.

652
00:46:37.960 --> 00:46:40.679
Right now, today or the next
week will be the best time in

653
00:46:40.719 --> 00:46:44.360
the world to get out there and
put those two products down. You can

654
00:46:44.400 --> 00:46:49.239
go to Microlife Fertilizer dot com find
out more information about Microlife, about these

655
00:46:49.320 --> 00:46:52.119
products and where to get them.
We're going to take a break right now.

656
00:46:52.360 --> 00:46:55.559
Our phone number is seven one three
two one two fifty eight seventy four.

657
00:46:55.679 --> 00:47:00.519
We'll be right back. Welcome to
Garden Line, and we are talking

658
00:47:00.719 --> 00:47:05.280
all kinds of things you need to
be doing right now today, especially with

659
00:47:05.400 --> 00:47:08.199
your lawns, with your trees and
things like that. You know, if

660
00:47:08.280 --> 00:47:12.800
you live out in the Kingwood area, you are fortunate because you've got to

661
00:47:13.519 --> 00:47:17.199
awesome garden centers just right there in
your backyard. You got you've got Warren

662
00:47:17.280 --> 00:47:22.280
Southern Gardens and you've got Kingwood Garden
Center. Both and they're both available open,

663
00:47:22.480 --> 00:47:27.599
by the way, available today.
They have a stock of color that

664
00:47:27.800 --> 00:47:31.559
is just outstanding. The mums really
look good. I am very impressed with

665
00:47:31.639 --> 00:47:36.000
the mums selection they have, and
it's time to get those. Hey we're

666
00:47:36.079 --> 00:47:38.440
calling it October. I know today's
not October first, but it is to

667
00:47:38.519 --> 00:47:43.280
me. It's time to go out
there and think fall and start planting and

668
00:47:43.960 --> 00:47:47.719
purchasing things for the fall. And
of course moms are the traditional flowers of

669
00:47:47.800 --> 00:47:52.679
fall. But while you're out there, grab some of their ask them to

670
00:47:52.800 --> 00:47:58.480
show you their Dianthus, the Amazon
Dianthus. They've got the Jolt series,

671
00:47:58.519 --> 00:48:01.920
they've got the Amazon series, and
then even the smaller types, the Amazon's

672
00:48:01.920 --> 00:48:05.760
amaze me. I mean they're just
like Neon and they get up, they

673
00:48:05.840 --> 00:48:08.519
get up pretty tall, like knee
high beautiful bloomstocks, which, by the

674
00:48:08.559 --> 00:48:10.760
way, that's a good cut flower. I leave them in the yard because

675
00:48:10.760 --> 00:48:15.199
I want them to keep looking good. But they are just beautiful and they'll

676
00:48:15.199 --> 00:48:17.559
go all the way through winter for
you. I mean they are really really

677
00:48:17.760 --> 00:48:22.639
gorgeous, and they come in colors
that are just showstoppers. So when you're

678
00:48:22.639 --> 00:48:23.599
out at Warren's, just ask them
and say, hey, show me the

679
00:48:23.679 --> 00:48:29.039
show me your Amazon and the Jolt
Dianthus that you have. It's really cool.

680
00:48:29.400 --> 00:48:31.880
Yeah, they have a special going
right now where you purchase a forty

681
00:48:31.920 --> 00:48:35.639
four pound bag of azamite and I
was just talking about that a minute ago,

682
00:48:36.199 --> 00:48:38.599
and you get three dollars off each
bag of leaf mold composts. There's

683
00:48:38.639 --> 00:48:45.199
no limit on the composts that you
purchase, thirty dollars off each bag leafmo

684
00:48:45.320 --> 00:48:47.559
compost. It every day of the
year is a good time to put out

685
00:48:47.639 --> 00:48:53.119
leafmo compost. And azamite is that
micro nutrient, the trace mineral that is

686
00:48:53.199 --> 00:48:58.000
so important for your lawns. And
I put it in my vegetable gardens because

687
00:48:58.360 --> 00:49:01.599
I want the produce that I eat
to be chuck full of every nutrient that

688
00:49:01.679 --> 00:49:06.039
my body may need as well.
And that's just one of the ways that

689
00:49:06.159 --> 00:49:09.280
I accomplished that. But three bucks
off each bag a leakmo compost at Warren's

690
00:49:09.719 --> 00:49:15.440
and that is also true at Kingwood
Garden Center. And when you purchase a

691
00:49:15.519 --> 00:49:21.159
forty four pound bag of the aismite, that is a good deal. Let's

692
00:49:21.159 --> 00:49:24.280
head out to Cyprus now and we're
going to talk to Charlie. Hello,

693
00:49:24.440 --> 00:49:29.639
Charlie Hello. I was just calling. We have lost so many of our

694
00:49:30.000 --> 00:49:34.760
borrowing plants, and in the fall
I always planted plants on the side of

695
00:49:34.840 --> 00:49:37.800
my walk way up to the front
door, and I was wondering what she

696
00:49:37.880 --> 00:49:40.519
might recommend. I can't remember what
I planned now, Ben, I just

697
00:49:40.639 --> 00:49:45.599
don't I did not go to a
recommended store, which I won't do that

698
00:49:45.719 --> 00:49:49.039
again. But every man die.
Yeah, Well, you know I always

699
00:49:49.079 --> 00:49:52.119
tell people that some people go to
these places where you think you're going to

700
00:49:52.199 --> 00:49:55.280
save a buck on something, and
you don't save a dollar when it dies

701
00:49:55.360 --> 00:49:59.320
or when it doesn't do good or
you know those kinds of things. Is

702
00:49:59.440 --> 00:50:02.480
you know, are you looking for
like an annual color plant for fall.

703
00:50:02.639 --> 00:50:06.440
Is that is that the goal?
Yeah? Yeah, just an annual plant.

704
00:50:06.519 --> 00:50:07.960
Usually I plant a new one in
the spring and a new one in

705
00:50:08.000 --> 00:50:12.079
the fall, because you know,
spring fall have different coloring plants, and

706
00:50:12.400 --> 00:50:15.119
they've always just been great right there
as you walk into the front door.

707
00:50:15.280 --> 00:50:19.599
But this year it's just dirt there. Yeah. I like, I was

708
00:50:19.679 --> 00:50:23.639
just talking about the dianthus that they
had out at Warren Southern Gardens, that

709
00:50:24.119 --> 00:50:30.159
the dianthus is one of my favorites. I just think that you're gonna not

710
00:50:30.360 --> 00:50:35.599
go wrong with dianthus and being up
in the Cypress area, I don't know,

711
00:50:36.000 --> 00:50:37.800
you know, you're close to plants
for all seasons on two forty nine

712
00:50:38.000 --> 00:50:42.519
or Arbigade up in Tomball, that
you got some of the best nurseries in

713
00:50:42.559 --> 00:50:45.639
the world right up there, and
they're going to carry those kind of plants

714
00:50:45.239 --> 00:50:50.039
I would consider dianthus. Uh,
snap dragons are pretty good. They come

715
00:50:50.079 --> 00:50:52.880
in very tall cut flower types as
well as short, more bedding plant types.

716
00:50:53.480 --> 00:50:58.360
When it gets really cool, then
we think about things like pansies and

717
00:50:58.559 --> 00:51:01.239
violas. It's a little for those
right now, but not for the dug

718
00:51:01.280 --> 00:51:07.559
anthus and not not for the snap
dragons. So pansies are for the more,

719
00:51:07.639 --> 00:51:10.800
for less, for fall, for
cool, for winter, for cool

720
00:51:10.840 --> 00:51:15.679
season. I would yeah, I
wouldn't plant pansies until the end of October

721
00:51:15.840 --> 00:51:21.039
probably personally, I'm kind of looking
at that's when I usually did it.

722
00:51:21.800 --> 00:51:24.079
The vinca or those of the spring
plants, the vincas, Yeah, vinca

723
00:51:24.199 --> 00:51:28.599
can't take cold. It cannot take
cold. Okay, do your dianthus,

724
00:51:28.840 --> 00:51:31.679
your dianthus, your snap dragons,
and your pansies and violas are gonna all

725
00:51:31.719 --> 00:51:37.159
take cold. Pansies and violas are
the cold heartiest. But I'm telling you

726
00:51:37.360 --> 00:51:40.559
the you need to go look at
some of these dianthus and see what you

727
00:51:40.639 --> 00:51:45.559
think. I think you're gonna like
them. Okay, And you say the

728
00:51:45.639 --> 00:51:49.039
vincas then would be for spring,
for for warm season, Yeah, let

729
00:51:49.119 --> 00:51:52.239
it warm up, you know April
may even. You know, you can

730
00:51:52.280 --> 00:51:54.760
plant vinca all through the summer,
but that would be the one for the

731
00:51:54.960 --> 00:52:01.000
for the hot season. And Angelonia
sounds like angel and alonia that's another summer

732
00:52:01.840 --> 00:52:07.199
plant, like vinca. Okay,
but when you go to eat, when

733
00:52:07.199 --> 00:52:09.079
you go to any of these gardens
centers, they are going to have a

734
00:52:09.320 --> 00:52:13.480
wide variety. I'm giving you two
or three ideas. They're gonna have a

735
00:52:13.559 --> 00:52:16.800
lot of other great ideas too.
Okay, well that sounds good and I

736
00:52:16.840 --> 00:52:20.719
appreciate your help. Thank you all
right, Charlie, thank you for the

737
00:52:20.760 --> 00:52:25.119
call. Appreciate that very much.
Talking about tom Ball a minute ago.

738
00:52:25.159 --> 00:52:30.000
You know, D and D Feed
is your hometown feed store up there in

739
00:52:30.079 --> 00:52:32.880
Tomball. They're on FM twenty nine
twenty about three miles west of two forty

740
00:52:34.000 --> 00:52:37.440
nine. The Dover family has been
operating it since oh, nineteen eighty nine,

741
00:52:37.480 --> 00:52:42.679
I believe, and they just created
that big, beautiful extra space and

742
00:52:42.920 --> 00:52:46.280
they are so they were already stock
full of product, but all the fertilizers

743
00:52:46.320 --> 00:52:49.320
I talk about are going to be
there. You know, do you need

744
00:52:49.679 --> 00:52:53.320
soils, you know the quality mixes
like the heirloom soil mixes. They carry

745
00:52:53.400 --> 00:52:58.360
those. For example, they're gonna
have some flats of vegetables, vegetable seeds

746
00:52:58.400 --> 00:53:02.119
and things, quality dog food,
quality livestock food. If you need to

747
00:53:02.199 --> 00:53:07.960
control pests and rodents, they just
have it all there. Mosquito products they

748
00:53:07.079 --> 00:53:12.079
carry those as well. It's just
easy. It's easy, easy to get

749
00:53:12.159 --> 00:53:15.760
in, easy to get out.
A D and D Feed and supply always

750
00:53:15.800 --> 00:53:17.559
has everything you need. They just
do. Go buy and see them.

751
00:53:19.440 --> 00:53:22.400
Check it out. See what I'm
talking about. Go into let's say you

752
00:53:22.000 --> 00:53:27.880
check out that new area. I
mean, the stock that they carry is

753
00:53:28.280 --> 00:53:30.679
very impressive. You're fortunate, if
you live anywhere in the Tomball area to

754
00:53:30.760 --> 00:53:36.519
have DND feed as your hometown feed
store. They're very, very good about

755
00:53:36.559 --> 00:53:40.800
that. Talking about cool season flowers, it's kind of hard to imagine,

756
00:53:40.840 --> 00:53:44.639
you know what I mean, ninety
five degrees or something here this week and

757
00:53:45.159 --> 00:53:49.760
we're thinking, what on earth am
I talking about cool season flowers for once

758
00:53:49.840 --> 00:53:52.599
we get past that. Once we
have gotten now past that one hundred degree

759
00:53:52.719 --> 00:53:57.800
days and just the blazing heat.
If you get these things planted and you

760
00:53:57.960 --> 00:54:01.159
water them, take care of them, they're gonna be okay. And don't

761
00:54:01.239 --> 00:54:06.440
wait, don't wait until you know
you have to put a sweater on it.

762
00:54:06.559 --> 00:54:09.840
It feels like fall. You can
plant then, but there's no need

763
00:54:09.920 --> 00:54:14.760
to wait. Go ahead and get
your fall planting done now. Broccoli,

764
00:54:14.920 --> 00:54:19.320
cabbage, cauliflower in the vegetable garden. Get those planted. Your flowers,

765
00:54:19.440 --> 00:54:24.559
like I mentioned, dianthus A listen
the snap dragons and all you know,

766
00:54:24.639 --> 00:54:30.280
those cool season things. Go ahead, and getting planted now that it's time,

767
00:54:30.400 --> 00:54:35.159
and you'll just have a more beautiful
setting when the fall weather does arrive

768
00:54:35.280 --> 00:54:37.360
and you do want to put that
sweater on, you'll be ready to go

769
00:54:37.519 --> 00:54:40.840
and your plants will be okay.
They we are, we're dropping down.

770
00:54:40.920 --> 00:54:45.360
Our nighttimes are cooling off enough.
And when you know, when we talked

771
00:54:45.360 --> 00:54:47.119
about heat this summer, you may
have heard me say this, but it's

772
00:54:47.199 --> 00:54:52.440
not just the daytime highs. It's
the nighttime lows not getting low enough.

773
00:54:52.679 --> 00:54:58.320
It's just too blazing hot twenty four
seven during those days for our plants to

774
00:54:58.519 --> 00:55:02.159
thrive. And so now we've got
cooler nights already, we've dropped that temperature

775
00:55:02.239 --> 00:55:06.840
down into a good range, and
the daytimes are not that not that bad,

776
00:55:07.000 --> 00:55:09.880
they're okay, and it's just going
to get better week after week after

777
00:55:10.000 --> 00:55:15.280
week. I'm excited about fall.
I mean, this is after what we

778
00:55:15.400 --> 00:55:19.320
went through, here we go let's
have some fun and get out there and

779
00:55:19.599 --> 00:55:23.800
enjoy it in the fall. Yesterday
I was coming back from that program down

780
00:55:23.880 --> 00:55:29.000
in Brazoria County, the Strawberry program, and I was talking about it earlier

781
00:55:29.400 --> 00:55:31.960
and I stopped in at seeing a
maltch. You see in a Maltch.

782
00:55:32.000 --> 00:55:37.719
I always love visiting there. They
they have the supplies ever fertilizer I talk

783
00:55:37.760 --> 00:55:43.519
about they it's amazing the fertilizer selection
that they've put together. But what are

784
00:55:43.559 --> 00:55:45.840
they about, Well, they're about
malts, They're about soil mixes, bed

785
00:55:45.960 --> 00:55:50.559
mixes. You can buy them bulk, have them deliver them within about twenty

786
00:55:50.599 --> 00:55:53.119
miles. We're a small delivery fee. They'll they'll drop it off for you,

787
00:55:53.559 --> 00:55:55.920
or you can just pick it up
in bags. They have that as

788
00:55:55.960 --> 00:56:01.320
well. So if you live anywhere
out near the Rose Sharon area, Siena

789
00:56:01.360 --> 00:56:05.840
Maltch is your place. Siena Multch
dot com. They've got it all.

790
00:56:06.320 --> 00:56:12.039
I just posted something to my Facebook
Gardenline Facebook the other day showing their rock

791
00:56:12.320 --> 00:56:15.599
products. Have you thought about doing
a flagstone patio or walk away? Maybe

792
00:56:15.880 --> 00:56:22.280
a dry you know, not cemented
in a little walk away with some aggregate

793
00:56:22.400 --> 00:56:25.400
between the walk flagstones and things.
They've got it. They will set you

794
00:56:25.599 --> 00:56:29.679
up. So Siena Maltz is a
place you need to know about it.

795
00:56:29.760 --> 00:56:34.639
You need to go there. Good
products, good selection and great folks to

796
00:56:35.000 --> 00:56:42.000
to help you as you get going
on that. I was looking at a

797
00:56:42.320 --> 00:56:47.039
sidewalk the other day, and it
was it was heaving from some tree roots

798
00:56:47.079 --> 00:56:50.400
that had gone up underneath it and
cracked it. And I mean it's like

799
00:56:50.519 --> 00:56:53.280
you went over a mountain range riding
a bike down the sidewalk there. But

800
00:56:53.400 --> 00:56:58.599
there are other things that move the
soil around, and that is castal moisture.

801
00:56:59.119 --> 00:57:01.760
When it's dry, our soul shrinks. When it's wet, it swells,

802
00:57:01.920 --> 00:57:07.719
and that shrinks swell rex havoc on
concrete. I don't care if it's

803
00:57:07.760 --> 00:57:12.199
a driveway, a sidewalk, or
the worst of all, your home slab

804
00:57:12.320 --> 00:57:15.480
foundation. Do you see cracks in
the brick do you see cracks in the

805
00:57:15.559 --> 00:57:21.840
sheet rock inside? Those are all
signs of a foundation problem. And it

806
00:57:22.000 --> 00:57:24.159
doesn't get better, it only gets
worse, and you need to not delay.

807
00:57:24.599 --> 00:57:30.400
Fix my slab. Foundation Repair is
the company that we recommend. Ty

808
00:57:30.480 --> 00:57:39.239
Strickland has a excellent approach I would
say to service and quality. When Ty

809
00:57:39.360 --> 00:57:43.559
tells you he's going to be there, he shows up at that time.

810
00:57:43.719 --> 00:57:46.079
He's on time. When he gives
you a price, it's a fair price.

811
00:57:46.239 --> 00:57:51.960
And when he fixes your slab or
foundation, he absolutely does it right

812
00:57:52.199 --> 00:57:58.000
and that is important. Fix my
slab foundation repair. That's fix myslab dot

813
00:57:58.039 --> 00:58:02.800
com two eight one two forty nine
forty nine to eight one two five five

814
00:58:04.280 --> 00:58:08.599
forty nine forty nine. Don't delay
if you see any of those signs,

815
00:58:08.639 --> 00:58:10.840
and by the way, tell them
you're a garden Line lister and you get

816
00:58:10.840 --> 00:58:15.760
a free estimate as a result of
that too. So make sure and mention

817
00:58:15.920 --> 00:58:19.639
that if you give McCall and have
them come out. And I know it's

818
00:58:19.679 --> 00:58:21.639
not good news. I know,
I know we don't want to have to

819
00:58:21.719 --> 00:58:24.639
deal with foundation problems, but it
is what it is. And if you've

820
00:58:24.719 --> 00:58:30.599
got it, don't delay get it
fixed. It only gets worse. Very

821
00:58:30.840 --> 00:58:38.760
important to keep that in mind.
I was mentioning things about about flowers and

822
00:58:38.880 --> 00:58:43.119
things to plant earlier. The fall
is also a good time to plant perennial

823
00:58:43.159 --> 00:58:45.119
flowers, any kind of a perennial
flower that you want to put in the

824
00:58:45.159 --> 00:58:51.440
ground. In fact, perennial period, perennial herbs. We're in the big

825
00:58:51.519 --> 00:58:55.039
middle of the best time to get
that done. Really really important to get

826
00:58:55.119 --> 00:58:59.440
ready to garden. I mean,
don't look at the temperature today. It's

827
00:58:59.480 --> 00:59:02.280
going to be okay, it's gonna
be okay. It's not too blazing hot.

828
00:59:02.360 --> 00:59:07.079
We can live with this. It
feels like air conditioning today compared to

829
00:59:07.239 --> 00:59:09.679
what we went through. Hey,
if you live up in the Grimes County

830
00:59:09.760 --> 00:59:15.239
area, Grimes County Feed that's your
hometown feed store, and you were fortunate

831
00:59:15.360 --> 00:59:21.280
because Grimes County Feed the folks there. You know, it's a different kind

832
00:59:21.320 --> 00:59:23.719
of company here. Here's what I
mean. Chris and the Roy family.

833
00:59:23.840 --> 00:59:30.239
They get back to the local community, whether it's Iola fa Iola schools,

834
00:59:30.360 --> 00:59:35.360
the four h departments, Anderson Volunteer
Fire Department. Although they support those,

835
00:59:35.519 --> 00:59:38.880
the family has their Polish background in
agriculture, in fire service, in the

836
00:59:38.920 --> 00:59:44.559
Houston Fire Department, law enforcement,
the Houston Police Department. That goes way

837
00:59:44.639 --> 00:59:47.360
way back, and that is still
how they live. They reinvest in the

838
00:59:47.480 --> 00:59:52.719
well being of Grimes County future.
That comes before profit. At Grimes County

839
00:59:52.760 --> 00:59:57.480
Feeding Farm, all the fertilizers I
talk about, you're going to find them

840
00:59:57.519 --> 01:00:00.519
there, and everything you would expect
from a feed store, you're going to

841
01:00:00.559 --> 01:00:04.039
find it there. They're on State
Highway thirty in Carlos, Texas, two

842
01:00:04.079 --> 01:00:07.480
miles west of two forty four.
Please stop by and check them out.

843
01:00:07.559 --> 01:00:09.119
You'd be glad you did. Well. It's time to take a break.

844
01:00:09.199 --> 01:00:14.679
Time for Nicky News seven one three
two one two fifty eight seventy four.

845
01:00:15.920 --> 01:00:20.199
Well, good morning, you're listening
to garden line. The sun is now

846
01:00:20.480 --> 01:00:22.199
shining. We got a little bit
of light coming across the tops of the

847
01:00:22.280 --> 01:00:25.719
trees as I look out the window, and that makes me happy. A

848
01:00:25.880 --> 01:00:29.880
new day, you know, a
new day is always the best day.

849
01:00:30.039 --> 01:00:32.400
Right. It's a day you haven't
lived yet, but it is a day

850
01:00:32.440 --> 01:00:37.360
full of possibilities, full of promise. And you know, I'm not just

851
01:00:37.480 --> 01:00:40.000
being philosophical here. I mean,
think about it. Go out and look

852
01:00:40.039 --> 01:00:43.400
at your yard, Go out and
look at your landscape. What do you

853
01:00:43.480 --> 01:00:45.360
want it to look like? You
got a new start. I mean,

854
01:00:45.440 --> 01:00:51.039
this fall is here. We are
going to just get cooler, and we're

855
01:00:51.039 --> 01:00:52.840
gonna get some more rain, and
it's just going to get better. What

856
01:00:52.960 --> 01:00:55.679
do you want it to look like? And if you know what you wanted

857
01:00:55.719 --> 01:00:59.079
to look like, you can go
make that happen. Do you want some

858
01:00:59.199 --> 01:01:02.199
mums at the front steps? Let's
go get them. They're there, they're

859
01:01:02.199 --> 01:01:06.760
at the garden center. You can
make it look beautiful. Do you want

860
01:01:06.880 --> 01:01:08.679
to redo a landscape bed? Do
you want to put in some flowers.

861
01:01:08.960 --> 01:01:13.360
How about the vegetable garden. You
know that you can grow your own healthy,

862
01:01:13.559 --> 01:01:19.559
fresh produce. And there's no better
season for planting than fall. Everything

863
01:01:19.800 --> 01:01:23.199
we plant is better planted in the
fall. For example, herbs. This

864
01:01:23.679 --> 01:01:27.119
is herb season. Oh and I
got to tell you, by the way,

865
01:01:27.280 --> 01:01:30.679
the Enchanted Forest. The folks out
there at Richmond Enchanted Forest Nursery,

866
01:01:30.880 --> 01:01:35.519
they have an unbelievable new herb selection
in. You know, they built the

867
01:01:35.559 --> 01:01:38.320
new structure that is really cool.
In fact, all the buildings out there

868
01:01:38.360 --> 01:01:42.239
are called I always love. I
feel like I've gone to an old Western

869
01:01:42.360 --> 01:01:45.800
town or something, you know,
with all these great rustic kinds of buildings

870
01:01:45.920 --> 01:01:51.000
that it's just it's cool. I
love it. But they've got their fall

871
01:01:51.119 --> 01:01:55.159
herb selection in, and oh my
gosh, they have a wide selection.

872
01:01:55.679 --> 01:01:59.440
Now's a great time to do that. Would you like an herb garden,

873
01:01:59.719 --> 01:02:01.719
maybe just a container with herbs,
or maybe you want to put herbs in

874
01:02:01.760 --> 01:02:06.000
your vegetable garden. I mixed mine
up. Hey, I'm gonna eat herbs.

875
01:02:06.039 --> 01:02:07.400
I'm gonna eat vegetables. Why can't
they grow together? Well, they

876
01:02:07.440 --> 01:02:12.880
sure can. Now you can go
Enchanted Forest if you're in Richmond, and

877
01:02:12.920 --> 01:02:15.760
you're heading toward sugar Land. They're
off to the right down south of fifty

878
01:02:15.880 --> 01:02:22.320
nine on FM twenty seven fifty nine, wrote FM twenty seven fifty nine out

879
01:02:22.360 --> 01:02:25.480
there in Richmond, go check them
out. There's all kinds of things going

880
01:02:25.559 --> 01:02:30.480
on. In fact, today,
let's see today. Yeah, today,

881
01:02:30.159 --> 01:02:34.760
at ten am, Andy chad Ester
with Medina is going to be out there.

882
01:02:34.800 --> 01:02:38.159
Andy as a wealth of knowledge and
organic agriculture in general, and she's

883
01:02:38.199 --> 01:02:42.800
going to be sharing that information as
well as fall tips and tricks with you.

884
01:02:42.920 --> 01:02:45.360
So a good reason just to run
out there today as well. Always

885
01:02:45.400 --> 01:02:50.039
a good time to go out and
visit Enchanted Forest. We're gonna head up

886
01:02:50.079 --> 01:02:53.599
to Tomball now and talk to Mike. Hello, Mike, Hey, Skip,

887
01:02:53.800 --> 01:02:55.960
good morning. How are you.
I'm well, how are you this

888
01:02:57.079 --> 01:03:00.320
morning? I'm good? Thank you. First, I just want to say

889
01:03:00.400 --> 01:03:07.480
that I really love your little inspirational
talks. Those are very encouraging on Saturdays.

890
01:03:07.559 --> 01:03:10.320
I'm a guy that travels a lot
during the week with my business,

891
01:03:10.400 --> 01:03:15.079
and I just really look forward to
the weekends and getting outside and getting a

892
01:03:15.079 --> 01:03:19.480
little working around my yard. And
I put you on and you just hate

893
01:03:19.880 --> 01:03:22.960
those those little talks. Pet me
up for the weekend. Well, good,

894
01:03:22.960 --> 01:03:24.239
I'm glad to hear that. You
know, this summer, we were

895
01:03:24.280 --> 01:03:28.559
all so depressed. We'd cried every
tier. Our bodies were as dry as

896
01:03:28.599 --> 01:03:30.880
our lawns. People were trying to
hang themselves with their garden hose and fall

897
01:03:31.000 --> 01:03:35.360
on their gardening knife. And we
were just trying to talk people off the

898
01:03:35.480 --> 01:03:38.599
cliff at that time, for sure. And I think that's what happened to

899
01:03:38.679 --> 01:03:44.800
this tree that I'm calling about.
We we live in a house that we

900
01:03:44.920 --> 01:03:46.519
bought about three years ago, and
it's it's one of these where you get

901
01:03:46.880 --> 01:03:50.880
three trees in the back in the
front yard and two trees in the back,

902
01:03:51.639 --> 01:03:55.039
so they're still kind of small.
And this one died about a year

903
01:03:55.239 --> 01:04:00.239
into us living here, just turned
brown overnight and then it sp and so

904
01:04:00.360 --> 01:04:02.800
I let it grow back. I
encouraged it. I put a steak and

905
01:04:03.039 --> 01:04:06.199
all that, and it grew back
to about eight feet tall, and then

906
01:04:06.360 --> 01:04:12.000
last weekend to leave this brown overnight. Yeah, and I don't know if

907
01:04:12.000 --> 01:04:14.119
it's dead. I sent you a
picture with an email. I don't know

908
01:04:14.159 --> 01:04:17.280
if you got it. I looked
at it and it does look dead to

909
01:04:17.320 --> 01:04:24.440
me. Unfortunately, I don't occasionally, leaves can brown and a plant can

910
01:04:24.480 --> 01:04:29.519
bown, can regrow. I would
go take your fingernails and kind of scratch

911
01:04:29.639 --> 01:04:32.320
the branch twigs and stuff, and
look. But I would say ninety five

912
01:04:32.400 --> 01:04:38.280
percent chance, maybe ninety eight percent
chance that tree has gone unfortunate. Okay,

913
01:04:38.360 --> 01:04:41.679
Yeah, I started bending the branch
and they're already very brittle, and

914
01:04:42.039 --> 01:04:45.480
you know, leaves come up,
and there's a potted plant sitting next to

915
01:04:45.559 --> 01:04:46.760
it. That's what I was going
to cut it down this morning to stick

916
01:04:46.840 --> 01:04:49.960
that pot there where where that tree
was. What is that potted plan?

917
01:04:50.079 --> 01:04:54.920
I'm looking at it. I don't
know. My wife and I got it

918
01:04:55.039 --> 01:05:00.079
last weekend. I can't remember what
it was called. Uh yeah, I

919
01:05:00.159 --> 01:05:04.800
can't Japanese something. Oh is it
a clay era? Do you know?

920
01:05:04.960 --> 01:05:10.360
Does that that? Okay? Yeah? Interesting? Well cool? Well yeah,

921
01:05:10.400 --> 01:05:14.880
I mean I think it's time to
pull it and call it unless you

922
01:05:14.960 --> 01:05:17.400
just want shade and want to put
another tree in there. But that's too

923
01:05:17.440 --> 01:05:21.320
bad, because that's a beautiful little
red oak. Yeah yeah, I know,

924
01:05:21.599 --> 01:05:24.840
yeah, No, it's it's good. I think we're gonna we're doing

925
01:05:24.880 --> 01:05:30.920
a little I've got some raised gardens
just behind there and I'm gonna put that

926
01:05:30.079 --> 01:05:33.360
potted plant there and kind of do
a little rock skate. So all right,

927
01:05:33.400 --> 01:05:36.039
there you go. I'm gonna let
the tree go. But thanks for

928
01:05:36.079 --> 01:05:39.840
it helps get well. Thank you
for the call. I appreciate that very

929
01:05:39.920 --> 01:05:44.760
much. Mike. You take care. Let's see, I want to mention

930
01:05:44.880 --> 01:05:47.159
Oh, you know, I forgot
to mention this when I was talking about

931
01:05:47.199 --> 01:05:50.119
lawns earlier. We were talking about
lawns and you know, maybe a chinch

932
01:05:50.159 --> 01:05:54.039
bug. Still a few of them
around. We got disease and insects and

933
01:05:54.119 --> 01:05:57.440
fertilizing and things to do. One
of the best things you can do for

934
01:05:57.480 --> 01:06:00.679
your lawn to get them back in
shape is a deep core aeration, the

935
01:06:00.760 --> 01:06:03.599
kind where they pop the little plugs
out of the ground and leave them on

936
01:06:03.679 --> 01:06:09.480
the surface, followed by a compost
top dressing, ideally leafmo compost, but

937
01:06:09.559 --> 01:06:14.920
a good quality compost top dressing is
really important and Greenpro does exactly that.

938
01:06:15.119 --> 01:06:18.159
You can call the folks at Greenpro. Their prices start at five ninety nine

939
01:06:18.199 --> 01:06:23.480
plus tax depending on the location and
the size, but they bring in some

940
01:06:23.840 --> 01:06:28.360
very nice, expensive equipment and they
go through your lawn and they do the

941
01:06:28.599 --> 01:06:31.559
right kind of aeration the kind that
it really reaches down deep and gets that

942
01:06:31.639 --> 01:06:34.920
plug up out of the ground,
drops it down and then with that compost

943
01:06:34.920 --> 01:06:39.480
stop dressing. Your lawn is going
to be in great shape. You alas

944
01:06:39.519 --> 01:06:43.199
want to follow after the aeration,
that's when you do the top dressing.

945
01:06:43.320 --> 01:06:45.880
That's, of course, the fertilizing
is done after that as well, and

946
01:06:46.360 --> 01:06:50.280
it just gets your long going.
You can go to greenpro dot net greenpro

947
01:06:50.679 --> 01:06:56.000
dot net, or you can call
them two eight one three five one forty

948
01:06:56.119 --> 01:07:00.159
seven thirty three. But don't delay. The time to get this done is

949
01:07:00.239 --> 01:07:02.079
now. You don't wait. Don't
wait until November to get this done.

950
01:07:02.119 --> 01:07:05.599
You need to get it done as
soon as possible. This is the time

951
01:07:05.639 --> 01:07:11.679
because our lawn has about a month
of great weather for recovery here and this

952
01:07:11.920 --> 01:07:15.079
is the time to get it set
up for success. We're gonna head out

953
01:07:15.159 --> 01:07:20.639
now to Missouria and talk to Randy. Hello Randy, Thanks Kip, I've

954
01:07:20.679 --> 01:07:25.280
heard you talking about fall gardens.
I decided I wanted to try to grow

955
01:07:25.360 --> 01:07:30.400
some garlic for the first time ever, and I looked online and most of

956
01:07:30.440 --> 01:07:33.599
the information comes from on how to
grow it comes from up north someplace.

957
01:07:33.679 --> 01:07:40.119
You got any tricks or tricks or
suggestions or no, no, it does.

958
01:07:40.280 --> 01:07:43.119
It does well. Here At this
point, you probably want to plant

959
01:07:43.159 --> 01:07:47.360
the clothes. You buy individual clothes
and put them in the ground and get

960
01:07:47.440 --> 01:07:51.039
them watered in and they get going, and then just start fertilizing them plenty

961
01:07:51.159 --> 01:07:57.239
of nitrogen. You're not burning them
a nitrogen, You're just you're providing a

962
01:07:57.360 --> 01:08:02.280
constant supply of nitrogen that is portant
for him to get good growth. One

963
01:08:02.320 --> 01:08:06.519
of the suggestions that was was blood
meal. Is that is that a good

964
01:08:06.599 --> 01:08:10.880
part of It's fine, it's an
organic, it's about I believe it's about

965
01:08:10.920 --> 01:08:14.519
twelve percent nitrogen and blood meal that
would be fine. Just scratch it into

966
01:08:14.559 --> 01:08:16.239
the soil because if you've got any
pets around, they will definitely want to

967
01:08:16.279 --> 01:08:20.239
come sniff around that, right.
Yeah. Yeah, And also, what's

968
01:08:20.840 --> 01:08:26.520
aren't you talking about er new yard? Yeah? I have armadillos that do

969
01:08:26.640 --> 01:08:30.359
that for me. I hear you
can eat armadilla. I've no, I

970
01:08:30.359 --> 01:08:34.319
don't have any recipes, but hey, just come out and do it for

971
01:08:34.399 --> 01:08:38.199
me, all right, Randy.
Hey, I'm hitting a hard break here,

972
01:08:38.239 --> 01:08:40.560
but thank you so much for your
call. Good luck with that garlic.

973
01:08:40.600 --> 01:08:44.119
I appreciate that. Our phone number
is seven one three two one two

974
01:08:44.279 --> 01:08:46.279
fifty eight seventy four, and John, you'll be first up when we come

975
01:08:46.319 --> 01:08:51.880
back. Well, good morning on
a great morning for gardening. We're glad

976
01:08:51.880 --> 01:08:56.279
you're listening to Garden Line. Our
phone number is seven one three two one

977
01:08:56.439 --> 01:09:00.960
two fifty eight seventy four seven one
three two one to fifty eight seventy four.

978
01:09:01.399 --> 01:09:05.079
Listen. If your lawn is looking
rough coming out of the summer we

979
01:09:05.199 --> 01:09:12.520
just had, or even if it's
not really nitrofoss is three step. That's

980
01:09:12.560 --> 01:09:16.239
the Texas three step is a package
that will get your lawn in better shape.

981
01:09:16.520 --> 01:09:19.800
It's just as simple as that.
First step is the fertilizer. It's

982
01:09:19.840 --> 01:09:24.560
a fall fertilizer design for Houston soils
and designed for fall. It's got a

983
01:09:24.640 --> 01:09:29.039
good component of the potassium, the
third number in it a little bit lower

984
01:09:29.119 --> 01:09:31.279
on the nitrogen, which is how
we like it going into fall. It's

985
01:09:31.319 --> 01:09:35.600
got phosphated it too to promote healthy
roots systems. But that potassium for winter

986
01:09:35.680 --> 01:09:42.399
heartiness and drought resilience is just really
important. Secondly, Step two barricade pre

987
01:09:42.479 --> 01:09:46.239
emergent herbicide. In October, the
cool season weeds are going to begin germinating,

988
01:09:46.479 --> 01:09:48.800
and you don't want to delay.
You got to get the pre emergent

989
01:09:48.840 --> 01:09:51.800
down ahead of that, So now's
the time to do it. Pre embergen

990
01:09:51.840 --> 01:09:58.640
herbicidebe barricade controls broad leaf and grassy
weeds in your lawn by preventing them forever

991
01:09:58.760 --> 01:10:02.399
getting established in the first place.
Third step Eagle turf fungicide. Now that

992
01:10:02.560 --> 01:10:06.760
is a systemic. It gets into
the plant and it protects if you're dealing

993
01:10:06.840 --> 01:10:11.439
with brown patch. If your lawn
has had brown patch every year, it's

994
01:10:11.479 --> 01:10:15.159
probably coming back again there. It's
just part of the deal. But Eagle

995
01:10:15.239 --> 01:10:19.279
turf fungicide helps prevent that. It
also helps with things like take all root

996
01:10:19.359 --> 01:10:23.760
rot that can get into the grass
as well. It loves to in fact,

997
01:10:23.840 --> 01:10:27.680
during cooler times of the year.
The Texas three step from Nitrofoss is

998
01:10:27.720 --> 01:10:31.680
available anywhere you buy nitrofoss products,
but you can get it at all Spas

999
01:10:31.720 --> 01:10:36.720
hardware, ace hardware in the woodlands, you can get it at the Plants

1000
01:10:36.760 --> 01:10:43.399
and Things and Brenham and Bearing's hardware
on Bussinett all carry the Nitrofoss three step

1001
01:10:43.479 --> 01:10:46.960
as well as other nitrofost products not
hard to find, locally easy to find,

1002
01:10:47.119 --> 01:10:53.399
and it works, absolutely works.
We're going to head out now to

1003
01:10:53.720 --> 01:10:58.319
Belleville and we're gonna talk to John. Hello, John, Hello, Skip.

1004
01:10:58.439 --> 01:11:00.039
How are you doing this on?
Well? I'm doing okay? What's

1005
01:11:00.119 --> 01:11:04.840
up with you? And Belleville?
Okay? Well, listen, about four

1006
01:11:04.960 --> 01:11:12.079
years ago I rested my front yard, and I guess that was the year.

1007
01:11:12.199 --> 01:11:15.720
It was perfect timing because we had
so much rain that summer and Harley

1008
01:11:15.760 --> 01:11:21.239
didn't even have the water. And
ever since then, I've been following Randy

1009
01:11:21.319 --> 01:11:28.000
Lemon's fertilizer schedule. Yes, and
just I mean, I don't miss a

1010
01:11:28.079 --> 01:11:30.600
month or whenever you know it's time
to put something out, I do.

1011
01:11:31.399 --> 01:11:39.159
But my problem is this, I've
got a bad problem with this horse herb.

1012
01:11:39.680 --> 01:11:45.760
Yes, and I've got I looked
it up. I've got three things

1013
01:11:45.880 --> 01:11:50.119
here. It's called green light wipe
out, fertile fertile home weed out,

1014
01:11:50.960 --> 01:11:59.600
and boatie or boat iron weed beater
for southern lawns. Well, is there

1015
01:11:59.720 --> 01:12:04.039
one better than the other to treat
this? You know, I'm gonna have

1016
01:12:04.199 --> 01:12:08.560
to. I'm gonna have to go
look up the ingredients. I know,

1017
01:12:08.760 --> 01:12:13.399
bonid weed beater, Uh see green
light wipe out. What was the middle

1018
01:12:13.439 --> 01:12:17.800
one that you said, fertilone wheat
out. Yeah, you know, I'm

1019
01:12:17.800 --> 01:12:25.399
gonna have to look at that because
that's a tough weed to kill. One

1020
01:12:25.479 --> 01:12:30.319
time I saw someone spray horse herb
with round up and the horse eat.

1021
01:12:30.439 --> 01:12:32.720
You would think, okay, that's
the end of anything green, right.

1022
01:12:33.119 --> 01:12:36.800
The horse got some brown spots and
powdered for a while and bounced back.

1023
01:12:38.359 --> 01:12:42.920
I was like, oh my,
we've we've got a doozy on our hands

1024
01:12:43.079 --> 01:12:47.359
now. So that's not an easy
one to just spray with it with anything

1025
01:12:47.960 --> 01:12:53.000
that might be be out there.
I'm trying to look at fertiloam's wheat out.

1026
01:12:53.000 --> 01:12:56.119
I'm trying to find the ingredient in
that one. If I can get

1027
01:12:56.159 --> 01:13:00.279
to oh it's got trimac in it. Yeah, that any of those would

1028
01:13:00.279 --> 01:13:02.880
be worth a try. I would
have to take some time to really research

1029
01:13:03.479 --> 01:13:09.199
john against that specific weed, which
one would be better. But those are

1030
01:13:09.279 --> 01:13:14.439
all three designed to control broad leaf
weeds after they've come up and grown,

1031
01:13:14.680 --> 01:13:18.359
and so I think you could go
with any of those. It's as far

1032
01:13:18.479 --> 01:13:23.159
as let me go ahead. What
about you know, I've got a place

1033
01:13:23.239 --> 01:13:28.920
in the country now, I have
some stuff called Grayson. Yes, I

1034
01:13:29.039 --> 01:13:31.800
wonder if I had to loot that. You know, you put a little

1035
01:13:31.800 --> 01:13:36.319
bit of grays on in a spray
er bottle. I wonder if that would

1036
01:13:36.319 --> 01:13:42.960
work. That stuff kills? Do
you do you do you have? Do

1037
01:13:43.079 --> 01:13:48.199
you have Saint Augustine grass growing amidst
that horseyes? I think it'd be too

1038
01:13:48.279 --> 01:13:54.079
hard on it. The ingredient.
The ingredient and grayson would be very effective

1039
01:13:54.560 --> 01:13:59.399
against the weed, but I'm afraid
the patient would take a too heart of

1040
01:13:59.439 --> 01:14:02.520
a hit. Okay, okay,
all right at the end, Well,

1041
01:14:02.520 --> 01:14:09.439
I'll just try one of these,
and now the temperature cannot be what's got

1042
01:14:09.479 --> 01:14:13.720
to be in mid eighties? Yeah, in mid eighties are below for the

1043
01:14:13.800 --> 01:14:15.239
high. You know, if we're
gonna if you want to hit it in

1044
01:14:15.319 --> 01:14:19.439
the morning with one of those on
a day that's gonna get above eighty five,

1045
01:14:19.520 --> 01:14:23.560
that's okay. You just get it
done early in the morning so it

1046
01:14:23.640 --> 01:14:27.279
has time to dry up and everything
before it gets warmer. But you might

1047
01:14:27.399 --> 01:14:30.439
wait just a little bit longer,
just to be a little extra, a

1048
01:14:30.520 --> 01:14:36.520
little extra careful with that. Okay. Yeah, And I'll tell you one

1049
01:14:36.560 --> 01:14:41.960
other thing. If you want to
hold on I'll have Josh get your give

1050
01:14:42.039 --> 01:14:46.920
you an email, and if you
will forward me those three products with that

1051
01:14:47.119 --> 01:14:51.800
question, with mentioning the weed again, I'll pick it up and look at

1052
01:14:51.840 --> 01:14:55.600
it and see if I can do
a little bit better. Then yeah,

1053
01:14:55.680 --> 01:14:59.319
those are all broadly weed control and
maybe drill down a little bit better to

1054
01:14:59.399 --> 01:15:01.960
that particular weed if I can.
Okay, well, great, all right,

1055
01:15:02.000 --> 01:15:03.880
well thank you, all right,
mom, I'll go ahead and put

1056
01:15:03.880 --> 01:15:10.359
you on hold. Uh yeah,
the dealable weeds that can be a problem.

1057
01:15:10.479 --> 01:15:14.720
And you know, the funny thing
about orserb is worserb folks that like

1058
01:15:14.920 --> 01:15:18.560
native plants. The orserb is a
great ground cover and it grows in shade.

1059
01:15:18.640 --> 01:15:21.600
I mean, I you know,
grows in shade pretty well. Actually,

1060
01:15:21.600 --> 01:15:26.319
if it's a bright shade. It
doesn't make the densest of ground covers,

1061
01:15:26.439 --> 01:15:28.800
but it will make one. And
for a lot of people it's like,

1062
01:15:28.960 --> 01:15:31.319
well, when life gives you lemons, make lemonade, and that certainly

1063
01:15:31.439 --> 01:15:38.439
is an option. But I just
it, just it. I grew up

1064
01:15:38.439 --> 01:15:41.119
with it in South Texas, you
know, under mesquite trees and things.

1065
01:15:41.199 --> 01:15:43.880
It was a beautiful otle ground cover
down there. But I understand when it

1066
01:15:43.920 --> 01:15:45.800
gets in a lawn. Its not
gonna be real easy to get rid of,

1067
01:15:46.079 --> 01:15:53.479
that is for sure. If today
is is just it's just a great

1068
01:15:53.600 --> 01:15:56.600
day to get out and start your
fall gardening. And I keep talking about

1069
01:15:56.640 --> 01:15:59.560
that and fallows the best time to
plant. Fallows the best time to plant

1070
01:15:59.600 --> 01:16:02.439
trees for sure. I mean,
you've got a woody ornamental, you want

1071
01:16:02.439 --> 01:16:06.720
to give it every day you can
before next summer arrives. So now is

1072
01:16:06.760 --> 01:16:11.600
it time to get it done.
And Williamson Tree Farm, that is the

1073
01:16:11.680 --> 01:16:16.760
folks with our CW Nursery. They're
growing a lot of trees right up there

1074
01:16:16.760 --> 01:16:21.800
in Plantersville, and they have an
awesome selection, lots and lots of options,

1075
01:16:21.880 --> 01:16:27.439
hollies and cypress and crape myrtles and
elms and just on and on and

1076
01:16:27.600 --> 01:16:30.680
on a long list. And you
can go right to r CW Nursery and

1077
01:16:30.720 --> 01:16:33.319
by m it's as simple as that. They also have the products that you

1078
01:16:33.399 --> 01:16:36.560
need when you plant a tree.
You know, the fertilizer put in as

1079
01:16:36.640 --> 01:16:42.159
you're planting, the roots stimulator that
you're putting in to help it establish and

1080
01:16:42.279 --> 01:16:45.199
to grow. They'll come out and
plant for you. That's RCW Nurseries dot

1081
01:16:45.239 --> 01:16:50.079
Com. That's the Garden Center on
Tomball Parkway two forty nine where it comes

1082
01:16:50.119 --> 01:16:54.239
into belt Way eight. They're right
there, easy to get to. They're

1083
01:16:54.239 --> 01:16:59.119
open to day till five o'clock tomorrow
from ten am to five pm. RCW

1084
01:16:59.239 --> 01:17:02.119
Nurshery. Simple as that. Well, Paul, you are going to be

1085
01:17:02.199 --> 01:17:05.920
the first up when we come back. We are working our way through calls

1086
01:17:06.000 --> 01:17:12.159
today and look forward to visiting with
you more about the questions that you have.

1087
01:17:12.640 --> 01:17:15.520
If you would also like to call
in seven one three two one two

1088
01:17:15.960 --> 01:17:20.560
fifty eight seventy four seven one three, two one two five eight seven four,

1089
01:17:20.680 --> 01:17:25.079
Josh will get you up on the
boards and we'll be ready to rock

1090
01:17:25.159 --> 01:17:29.399
and roll and talk whatever you're interested
in when we come back. Don't forget

1091
01:17:29.680 --> 01:17:35.119
that. Today at eleven thirty,
I'm gonna be at the Nature's Way Resources,

1092
01:17:35.239 --> 01:17:39.640
which is on Highway forty five North. As you head up toward conro

1093
01:17:39.760 --> 01:17:43.640
About where fourteen eighty eight comes in, you just turn right across the railroad

1094
01:17:43.680 --> 01:17:45.840
tracks in your Nature's Way. They
are having one heck of a shindig.

1095
01:17:46.319 --> 01:17:50.760
You don't want to miss. Ball
Garden Festival, food, music vendors,

1096
01:17:50.920 --> 01:17:56.359
beverages, scavengers for the kids,
and I'll be there eleven thirty to one

1097
01:17:56.560 --> 01:18:01.439
thirty. Ktr H Garden Line not
necessarily endorsed any of the products or services

1098
01:18:01.479 --> 01:18:10.920
advertised on this program. Welcome to
KTRH Garden Line with Skip rictor it's smell

1099
01:18:11.359 --> 01:18:30.479
crazy, just watching as good Saturday
morning, A beautiful Saturday morning out there,

1100
01:18:30.640 --> 01:18:33.840
A good day to get out and
do some gardening. Do good day

1101
01:18:33.880 --> 01:18:38.359
to go out and do some shopping
too for gardening. Lots of good supplies

1102
01:18:38.399 --> 01:18:43.319
available, lots of things you need
to purchase and get ready to go.

1103
01:18:43.520 --> 01:18:46.560
We need some fresh stuff going on
in the lawn and garden and landscape because

1104
01:18:46.640 --> 01:18:50.199
this has been a tough summer and
it is just it's a time of hope.

1105
01:18:50.279 --> 01:18:55.239
You know. That's a good thing
about gardening is gardening is a hobby

1106
01:18:55.439 --> 01:18:58.399
of hope. It really is.
I mean you, when you put a

1107
01:18:58.520 --> 01:19:00.680
seed in the ground this dry,
I'd better to try to us that you're

1108
01:19:00.720 --> 01:19:05.279
sticking in the soil and in your
mind's eye you see fresh tomatoes or you

1109
01:19:05.399 --> 01:19:11.239
see flowers or whatever you're planted,
you can picture that that is hope.

1110
01:19:11.600 --> 01:19:17.800
That is absolute hope, and it
just is rejuvenating and gardeners, gardeners in

1111
01:19:17.920 --> 01:19:20.800
many ways are optimists. I know, we gripe about the weather and all

1112
01:19:20.880 --> 01:19:28.880
kinds of stuff like that, but
gardeners just have a upbeat. I just

1113
01:19:29.119 --> 01:19:32.119
enjoyed being around garden There's just a
sense of yeah, we can do this,

1114
01:19:32.319 --> 01:19:35.279
Yes, this can You know,
it's a good thing to be a

1115
01:19:35.359 --> 01:19:39.680
gardener. And I encourage more people
to do it. I know that's a

1116
01:19:39.760 --> 01:19:43.800
hard cell. Some people just don't
think they're dirt people. Well you are,

1117
01:19:44.159 --> 01:19:45.399
trust me, you are. It's
in you. It's in you.

1118
01:19:45.880 --> 01:19:49.119
You know. There's no such thing
as the cubicle of Eden. It was

1119
01:19:49.279 --> 01:19:53.640
the garden of Eden. We're supposed
to be in a garden, I'm telling

1120
01:19:53.680 --> 01:19:56.960
you. And when you get out
and start messing with plants, messing with

1121
01:19:57.079 --> 01:20:00.199
the soil, doing stuff and seeing
the results of it. There are very

1122
01:20:00.239 --> 01:20:04.279
few places in life, even weed
control. For example, when I go

1123
01:20:04.439 --> 01:20:08.720
home and if I've got a bed
full of weeds or something, and I

1124
01:20:08.840 --> 01:20:11.359
get to work on that, and
you know, get that done. I

1125
01:20:11.439 --> 01:20:15.319
get a lot of thinking done,
and I can stand up after thirty minutes

1126
01:20:15.359 --> 01:20:18.560
of that and look and see the
results. And there are a lot of

1127
01:20:18.640 --> 01:20:23.199
things in life with work where you
get through the end of the day and

1128
01:20:23.279 --> 01:20:26.640
you go, I don't even know
what I accomplished today. It was just

1129
01:20:27.159 --> 01:20:30.279
like I was trying to sweep water
uphill or something. Now with gardening,

1130
01:20:31.079 --> 01:20:33.800
Hey, if you've got a little
piece of property and you would like to

1131
01:20:33.880 --> 01:20:38.920
have a tractor to take care of
that, I've got the deal for you.

1132
01:20:39.239 --> 01:20:42.039
It is the orange. It is
the orange, the color of fall.

1133
01:20:42.079 --> 01:20:46.720
That's Landsdowne Moody's new Caboda tractor.
Whether it's your first Caboda or if

1134
01:20:46.720 --> 01:20:50.680
you've had one before, you can
do It's it's real simple. It's pick,

1135
01:20:50.920 --> 01:20:55.000
click and go Orange. You pick
the Caboda you want. I'd recommend

1136
01:20:55.039 --> 01:20:58.680
the L twenty five O two.
It's the Caboda workhorse. Excellent deal.

1137
01:20:58.960 --> 01:21:02.279
You can go to tractor package dot
com tractor package dot com and click on

1138
01:21:02.359 --> 01:21:06.119
your package deal. A box blade, a rotary cutter, a front end

1139
01:21:06.159 --> 01:21:11.399
loader, a posthal digger. All
that equipment can be put into a package

1140
01:21:11.439 --> 01:21:15.399
to go with your new Caboda and
then you go Orange with a great finance

1141
01:21:15.560 --> 01:21:20.840
plan. Now they've extended again this
unbelievable deal. Eighty four months, no

1142
01:21:21.000 --> 01:21:25.840
money down, you buy the tractor, eighty four months to pay. I

1143
01:21:25.920 --> 01:21:30.920
mean that for eighty four months.
That is a long time. You're not

1144
01:21:30.960 --> 01:21:34.199
gonna find a best, a better
financing deal with anything than that. Lansdowne

1145
01:21:34.239 --> 01:21:39.039
Moody is locally owned, They're locally
operated. They're a Houston company. They

1146
01:21:39.079 --> 01:21:44.079
have been since nineteen thirty six.
This isn't a big out of town giant

1147
01:21:44.840 --> 01:21:50.159
corporation owner group LM. Lansdowne Moody
their hometown through and through nine locations on

1148
01:21:50.239 --> 01:21:56.680
the Gulf Coast. LM tractor dot
Com do the pick, click and go

1149
01:21:56.880 --> 01:22:01.039
orange with Caboda and Lansdowne Moody twenty
five oh two is the one you need

1150
01:22:01.119 --> 01:22:04.159
to check out. Stop, buy
a Landsdowne Moody, sit on one,

1151
01:22:04.640 --> 01:22:08.399
just kind of get the fuel for
it. You'll see what I'm talking about

1152
01:22:08.439 --> 01:22:12.560
when that is one sweet ride.
For sure. We're gonna head out to

1153
01:22:13.239 --> 01:22:16.119
Magnolia now or no, to the
Woodlands now and talk to Paul. Hey,

1154
01:22:16.199 --> 01:22:20.920
Paul, thanks for waiting. Amount
of problems yip, good morning.

1155
01:22:21.520 --> 01:22:27.720
A quick question for you, Yes, sir, my twenty foot Magnolia is

1156
01:22:27.920 --> 01:22:32.039
one third green, one third excuse
me, two thirds brown. Is that

1157
01:22:32.199 --> 01:22:38.640
gone? Well? The one third
green may keep going. Generally speaking,

1158
01:22:38.920 --> 01:22:42.560
the when when a magnolia turns brown, you take it down, it's not

1159
01:22:42.640 --> 01:22:45.560
gonna come back. Now if you
look at it and it's like, well,

1160
01:22:45.600 --> 01:22:49.159
if I could keep that one third
green alive, would it be worth

1161
01:22:49.279 --> 01:22:54.279
having the tree? That's the decision. It may be so disfigured that it's

1162
01:22:54.439 --> 01:22:58.399
ruined, but if not, you
could wait, give it a little time

1163
01:22:58.439 --> 01:23:02.960
to wait and see. But in
general, this summer has literally killed magnolia's

1164
01:23:03.079 --> 01:23:06.159
all over the place. I was
visiting with folks at RCW Nursery the other

1165
01:23:06.199 --> 01:23:11.720
day Williamson Tree Farm, and they
were just talking about how much death and

1166
01:23:12.680 --> 01:23:15.359
we just haven't seen this kind of
death on magnolia's in a very long time.

1167
01:23:17.600 --> 01:23:21.319
Yeah, okay, well I think
I'm going to give it a chance.

1168
01:23:21.359 --> 01:23:26.439
Well, let me ask you this, Yes, is the brown port

1169
01:23:27.039 --> 01:23:31.600
uh huh? How white cap it? The top of the magnolia? Is

1170
01:23:31.680 --> 01:23:36.840
the brown porky cap it? You
mean cut the top out and leave the

1171
01:23:36.880 --> 01:23:41.479
bottom of it's green. Yeah,
you could. It's gonna be a very

1172
01:23:41.560 --> 01:23:46.319
It'll be the only magnolia it looks
like that in the country. But other

1173
01:23:46.399 --> 01:23:49.159
than you know, just kind of
picture. I mean, it's gonna read

1174
01:23:49.359 --> 01:23:54.520
if it's alive and if it survives
down there, if it could be that

1175
01:23:54.560 --> 01:23:58.520
it just hadn't turned brown yet,
it's already lost its its connection, you

1176
01:23:58.600 --> 01:24:01.319
know, to good healthy roots and
whatnot. But if it does survive,

1177
01:24:01.399 --> 01:24:05.760
it's going to reach sprout and it'll
become more of a magnolia bush of some

1178
01:24:05.960 --> 01:24:12.720
sort. So okay, you know, if you want to get if you

1179
01:24:12.760 --> 01:24:16.640
don't want to water here, yeah, well, if you don't want to

1180
01:24:16.640 --> 01:24:19.119
pull the trigger, I mean,
wait, there's no harm in waiting.

1181
01:24:19.640 --> 01:24:23.479
The brown is gone, but the
rest if you don't give a little more

1182
01:24:23.479 --> 01:24:26.199
time and see, you can always
make a decision later. Just remember,

1183
01:24:26.199 --> 01:24:28.760
if you want to replace it,
that falls the best time in the world

1184
01:24:28.800 --> 01:24:31.079
to replace it. So that would
be the only reason to pay a trigger

1185
01:24:31.159 --> 01:24:35.800
sooner raven later. Okay, okay, thank you, you bet, thank

1186
01:24:35.880 --> 01:24:42.720
you. I appreciate that very much. You know, the enchanted gardens Dannil

1187
01:24:42.840 --> 01:24:45.920
Richmond, that nursery. When you
drive up, you look at it and

1188
01:24:46.079 --> 01:24:50.159
you just go wow. I mean
it's it's almost like, as far as

1189
01:24:50.199 --> 01:24:53.960
the eye can see, you have
just got color, color, color,

1190
01:24:54.359 --> 01:24:57.479
And no matter what kind of plants
you're looking for, do you want herbs?

1191
01:24:57.520 --> 01:25:00.319
It's talking about herbs early. Do
you want annual fly hours? Do

1192
01:25:00.359 --> 01:25:03.640
you need vegetables? Do you want
to create a little ferry garden for example?

1193
01:25:03.680 --> 01:25:08.520
Do you need shrubs, trees,
roses, vines. Everything is there.

1194
01:25:08.720 --> 01:25:12.079
They carry the products. We talk
about, the fertilizers, we talk

1195
01:25:12.119 --> 01:25:15.359
about the soil products, we talk
about you know, I brag on the

1196
01:25:16.359 --> 01:25:20.079
oh gosh, what Vego garden beds? I saw Vego garden beds there in

1197
01:25:20.159 --> 01:25:26.439
Chanted Gardens the other day Enchanted Gardens
Richmond dot com. That's the website in

1198
01:25:26.479 --> 01:25:30.319
Enchanted Gardens Richmond. They're on three
fifty nine. So if you're in Richmond,

1199
01:25:30.399 --> 01:25:33.319
head up toward Katie from three fifty
nine. You come to Enchanted Gardens,

1200
01:25:33.640 --> 01:25:38.079
You're not going to find a better
selection. It's one of those places

1201
01:25:38.159 --> 01:25:41.520
where you love to take friends and
family when they visit, because they ain't

1202
01:25:41.520 --> 01:25:44.479
got anything like that at home.
I can tell you that there are hours

1203
01:25:44.600 --> 01:25:48.399
or Monday through Saturday eight to five. On Sunday Tomorrow ten am to four

1204
01:25:48.520 --> 01:25:54.680
pm, good time to visit in
Enchanted Gardens. We are gonna now,

1205
01:25:54.880 --> 01:25:56.720
let's see. I gotta take a
break. I was ready to go to

1206
01:25:56.760 --> 01:25:59.640
another call. Cheryl and Ed you
were the first two up. When we

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01:25:59.720 --> 01:26:03.119
come, our phone number is seven
one three two one two fifty eight seventy

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01:26:03.159 --> 01:26:10.239
four. Welcome to Garden Line.
You are listening in today and we are

1209
01:26:10.359 --> 01:26:13.199
going to talk about all kinds of
things coming up. I am going to

1210
01:26:13.279 --> 01:26:17.600
first talk about lawns. Taking care
of your lawns is important and Nitrofossis Texas

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01:26:18.199 --> 01:26:24.920
three Step is a three step package
designed for our soils, for our climate,

1212
01:26:25.239 --> 01:26:30.359
for this season of the year.
Three steps fertilizer week control, disease

1213
01:26:30.439 --> 01:26:36.199
control. Simple as that fertilizer Nitrofoss
Fall Special Winter Riser. It's got the

1214
01:26:36.359 --> 01:26:43.279
high potassium levels a little lower nitrogen
that help not only fight or make a

1215
01:26:43.359 --> 01:26:46.720
plant more resilient to drought, but
especially going into this fall season, to

1216
01:26:46.840 --> 01:26:53.079
make it more cold hearty and to
strengthen the grass plant. Going into fall,

1217
01:26:53.199 --> 01:26:56.640
our grass is weak. We need
to get it stronger. This kind

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01:26:56.720 --> 01:27:01.960
of product does just that. Nitrofoss
Fall Special is excellent for doing exactly that

1219
01:27:02.279 --> 01:27:09.119
and making your grass greener and healthier
next spring. October is the magic month

1220
01:27:09.239 --> 01:27:14.239
for lawns here. It just is
a lot happens now and what you do

1221
01:27:14.439 --> 01:27:16.960
now affects your lawn in the spring. It's as simple as that, and

1222
01:27:17.039 --> 01:27:20.680
I can talk about more in detail
sometime, but just know that that's the

1223
01:27:20.720 --> 01:27:26.600
case. Secondly, nitrofuss barricade that's
the weed control controls grassy weeds, broad

1224
01:27:26.680 --> 01:27:29.279
leaf weeds. You put it down
before the weeds come up, which means

1225
01:27:29.359 --> 01:27:31.840
put it down now, do not
delay. We get a cool front end

1226
01:27:31.920 --> 01:27:35.640
here. We get some days where
it's only up in the mid eighties or

1227
01:27:35.720 --> 01:27:40.239
lower eighties, and the nights cool
off. We're gonna start seeing cool season

1228
01:27:40.279 --> 01:27:43.560
weed germination, and we need to
get down ahead of it. And nitrofuss

1229
01:27:43.600 --> 01:27:47.119
barricade does that. Secondly, or
thirdly, nitrofuss turf eagle that's the fungi

1230
01:27:47.239 --> 01:27:53.840
side that fights take all root rot
and large patch or now we used to

1231
01:27:53.840 --> 01:27:57.680
always call it brown patch. That's
what everybody knows it by nitrofuss eagle.

1232
01:27:58.159 --> 01:28:00.800
You put it down. It's best
to do it of time because it's the

1233
01:28:00.880 --> 01:28:03.199
stomach. It soaks in the plant
and when the disease tries to hit,

1234
01:28:03.880 --> 01:28:08.880
it's there to protect the plant.
If you wait until the big circles appear

1235
01:28:09.159 --> 01:28:12.239
is too late. You're gonna I
mean, you may kill the disease,

1236
01:28:12.439 --> 01:28:15.439
but you're gonna have brown circles all
winner. So you got to get ahead

1237
01:28:15.560 --> 01:28:18.279
with the Texas three step from nitro
Foss. Where do you get the Texas

1238
01:28:18.359 --> 01:28:21.439
three step from Nitrofoss. I'm glad
you asked. You can get it at

1239
01:28:21.479 --> 01:28:25.640
war in Southern Garden out in Kingwood. You can get it at Sinko Ranch.

1240
01:28:26.039 --> 01:28:28.640
You can get the ace hardware at
Sinko Ranch. You can get it

1241
01:28:28.680 --> 01:28:31.840
at the Grower's Outlet in Willis.
All places where you can buy this quality

1242
01:28:32.199 --> 01:28:39.760
combo of three products for the fall
season. We are gonna now head too.

1243
01:28:39.880 --> 01:28:42.640
I can't remember who I talked to
first, Cheryl. We're gonna have

1244
01:28:42.720 --> 01:28:47.560
to Cheryl and a TASCASEDA. Hey
Cheryl, thanks kid. I wanted to

1245
01:28:47.640 --> 01:28:51.279
send you some pictures, but Josh
said I need to talk to you first.

1246
01:28:51.359 --> 01:28:56.039
Okay. I have in the front
of my house in a flower there

1247
01:28:56.159 --> 01:29:03.000
that's facing west. I have about
eight azilia summer died about about the three

1248
01:29:03.119 --> 01:29:06.399
or four died in the low growing
evergreens in front of that. And I

1249
01:29:06.479 --> 01:29:12.479
don't know whether I have a disease
in the soil that's or are the azaleas

1250
01:29:12.600 --> 01:29:18.119
and evergreens are too old. They're
all about over fifteen years old, so

1251
01:29:18.960 --> 01:29:21.920
well, they obviously are happy with
the site. If they lived for fifteen

1252
01:29:23.039 --> 01:29:27.199
years, I was going to ask
about is it well drained? Does it

1253
01:29:27.279 --> 01:29:30.239
tend to be soggy? Then that
could be a problem for them, But

1254
01:29:30.319 --> 01:29:34.079
if they've been there fifteen years,
that shouldn't be the case unless you change

1255
01:29:34.199 --> 01:29:39.239
something like gutters on the house,
gutters taken off the house, you know,

1256
01:29:39.319 --> 01:29:44.119
something that would change the soil moisture
levels dramatically. If it's not that,

1257
01:29:44.479 --> 01:29:47.800
I doubt it's a disease that's doing
it. It could just be struggling

1258
01:29:47.920 --> 01:29:54.399
with the drought that we had that
that's been hard on A lot of shrubs

1259
01:29:54.439 --> 01:29:58.279
have been dying back from that,
and azaleas they have hair like roots,

1260
01:29:58.319 --> 01:30:01.119
but they don't have root hairs,
So what that means is they're just not

1261
01:30:01.279 --> 01:30:04.600
as efficient at taking up water and
nutrients and we got to keep them moist

1262
01:30:04.800 --> 01:30:09.199
in order for them to be happy. So that could be a factor,

1263
01:30:11.359 --> 01:30:15.800
you know, other than other than
that, any other symptoms as to them

1264
01:30:15.960 --> 01:30:17.680
dying or how they died, or
did you know, did start at one

1265
01:30:17.800 --> 01:30:20.159
end of the row and go all
the way to down the road or did

1266
01:30:20.199 --> 01:30:25.840
it all kind of hit at once
or how would you describe that. Well,

1267
01:30:26.239 --> 01:30:31.600
there about eight or nine adelias on
one side of the porch and about

1268
01:30:31.640 --> 01:30:39.279
three or dead intermittently intermittent, and
then then and then the low growing evergreen.

1269
01:30:39.359 --> 01:30:45.880
I noticed that that they're getting brown
and the spreading. So yeah,

1270
01:30:45.199 --> 01:30:48.399
I had no idea. Okay,
the low growing evergreen. This is kind

1271
01:30:48.439 --> 01:30:53.079
of like a juniper type thing that's
flat on the ground. Though, Yes,

1272
01:30:53.319 --> 01:30:57.399
okay, those a couple of things. Frequent wedding of the foliage from

1273
01:30:57.399 --> 01:31:01.000
your sprinkler or rain or whatever it
can and set things up for a disease

1274
01:31:01.079 --> 01:31:05.520
to move in and kill large sections
of it of the plant. That's a

1275
01:31:05.600 --> 01:31:12.760
fungal problem brought on by the cultural
issue of two wet too much. They

1276
01:31:12.880 --> 01:31:15.800
also get spider mites, and this
summer it would be a great summer for

1277
01:31:15.880 --> 01:31:19.600
spider mites to be a problem that
they will cause them to lose color and

1278
01:31:19.760 --> 01:31:25.119
turn brown and die out. And
then also the two wet is another thing

1279
01:31:25.439 --> 01:31:28.800
that gets those. So I know, I'm giving you kind of a wide

1280
01:31:28.920 --> 01:31:32.479
range of things, but based on
the the you know, the information I've

1281
01:31:32.520 --> 01:31:36.239
gotten, that is kind of the
range of what I would look at if

1282
01:31:36.279 --> 01:31:40.119
I were you, it's going to
be something in one of those things that

1283
01:31:40.199 --> 01:31:45.279
I just described. Okay, great, thank you, all right, thank

1284
01:31:45.279 --> 01:31:49.319
you sir. I appreciate I appreciate
your call very much. You know,

1285
01:31:49.359 --> 01:31:53.119
in order to have success with your
fall planting, you need to have a

1286
01:31:53.239 --> 01:31:57.479
quality soil to plant them in.
That it's as simple as that. You

1287
01:31:57.600 --> 01:32:00.840
can go to the nursery and fall
in love with plants all day long,

1288
01:32:00.960 --> 01:32:02.159
bring them all home, put them
in the ground, and they may be

1289
01:32:02.279 --> 01:32:05.079
the best plant in the world.
But if you haven't prepared the soil,

1290
01:32:05.319 --> 01:32:11.000
they're not going to thrive. It's
as simple as that. Airloom Soils makes

1291
01:32:11.239 --> 01:32:15.880
a wide variety of soils, many
many options available by bag, available by

1292
01:32:15.960 --> 01:32:17.840
bulk. You can go out to
the porter location and pick it up.

1293
01:32:18.239 --> 01:32:21.119
You can have them deliver it,
or you can just go to the many

1294
01:32:21.199 --> 01:32:25.960
places where airloom soils are sold,
which is all over town, and you

1295
01:32:26.039 --> 01:32:30.079
can find your soil by bag.
There. Go to Airloom Soils of Texas

1296
01:32:30.159 --> 01:32:33.279
dot com Airloom Soils of Texas dot
Com. If you're gonna do a bed,

1297
01:32:33.319 --> 01:32:35.600
I would put in the rose soil. That's just a good one.

1298
01:32:35.600 --> 01:32:39.479
If you're gonna do vegetables and herbs. I'd use of edge and herb mix,

1299
01:32:39.920 --> 01:32:44.199
but that is just two of many
many products that they have at Heirloom

1300
01:32:44.239 --> 01:32:47.560
Soils, and all of them make
your plants happy by making a root zone

1301
01:32:47.760 --> 01:32:51.119
where the roots can thrive, and
when the roots are thriving, the plants

1302
01:32:51.159 --> 01:32:56.000
are going to thrive. It's as
simple as that. We're going to go

1303
01:32:56.119 --> 01:33:00.920
now to Cypress and talk to Ed. Hello, Ed, good morning,

1304
01:33:00.000 --> 01:33:10.399
sir morning. Been waiting around to
do the aeration, et cetera, to

1305
01:33:10.520 --> 01:33:15.960
my lawn the cypress area. I
started about two and a half three years

1306
01:33:15.039 --> 01:33:21.800
ago going organic and got away from
the the synthetic stuff. I've done a

1307
01:33:21.880 --> 01:33:27.680
lot for my sail, but the
one thing that still remains, that saw

1308
01:33:28.279 --> 01:33:32.560
at its very core or top is
so hard that it's hard to get down

1309
01:33:32.680 --> 01:33:36.680
and bring it back to where it
could have been if I started ten years

1310
01:33:36.720 --> 01:33:43.159
ago. Yes, aeration, I've
never done, yes, never, as

1311
01:33:43.239 --> 01:33:45.399
in never been in the yard,
been in the house thirty years, all

1312
01:33:45.520 --> 01:33:50.359
right, So I need the real
I need the real airation this time,

1313
01:33:50.520 --> 01:33:54.720
right, Yeah, you do?
You do some of the old arrators,

1314
01:33:54.800 --> 01:33:58.319
they just punch a hole in the
soil, which basically squeezing the hole open.

1315
01:33:58.920 --> 01:34:01.039
Core narrator. Pop. It looks
like you had a little dog convention

1316
01:34:01.119 --> 01:34:03.680
on the yard a week ago.
When you get through core aerating, there's

1317
01:34:03.720 --> 01:34:09.439
these little little plugs of soil everywhere. Uh, and that is the fast

1318
01:34:09.600 --> 01:34:11.960
way to get where you're trying to
go. You're trying to go organic,

1319
01:34:12.359 --> 01:34:15.880
you're trying to build the soil.
There's ways to build a soil slowly over

1320
01:34:15.960 --> 01:34:19.399
time through use of humates and other
things. But start off with a good

1321
01:34:19.479 --> 01:34:25.640
aeration and a compost top dressing and
that just gets you the head start there

1322
01:34:25.840 --> 01:34:29.199
and then you from there you continue
to improve your soil. You may aerate

1323
01:34:29.279 --> 01:34:32.079
again in a year or two,
or you may you know, just switch

1324
01:34:32.319 --> 01:34:36.520
you've switched over to organic fertilizers and
humates and things. You may just continue,

1325
01:34:38.399 --> 01:34:41.600
Yeah, just continue, But to
aeration just to start is good.

1326
01:34:41.640 --> 01:34:45.800
And you know, we talk about
green Pro that's our recommended here company around

1327
01:34:45.840 --> 01:34:48.279
here for doing that. They will
come out and they'll do the whole nine

1328
01:34:48.359 --> 01:34:51.760
yards for you. You can rent
aerators. It's a lot of work,

1329
01:34:51.880 --> 01:34:57.439
it's passy. Oftentimes the equipment you
get won't do the job like Greenpro can

1330
01:34:57.560 --> 01:35:00.279
do it. So if they're going
to do that, yeah, you can

1331
01:35:00.319 --> 01:35:02.159
go to green pro Texas dot com
or just call them if you want to

1332
01:35:02.199 --> 01:35:06.880
write down the number. It's two
eight one three, five one seven thirty

1333
01:35:06.960 --> 01:35:13.920
three. One more question, Yes, sir, when I aerate, is

1334
01:35:14.000 --> 01:35:21.159
there a point worth doing putting some
kind of top soil or more than just

1335
01:35:21.359 --> 01:35:30.279
leak mold compost to try to get
me some good soil up top. I

1336
01:35:30.319 --> 01:35:33.960
wouldn't do that. You can do
it, but what ends up happening is

1337
01:35:34.039 --> 01:35:38.439
when you put like a quality soil
over just a dense clay, you have

1338
01:35:38.600 --> 01:35:43.079
a transition there that sudden, okay, and that creates what we call a

1339
01:35:43.159 --> 01:35:45.720
perched water table. It's like the
water goes down and hits that clay and

1340
01:35:45.800 --> 01:35:49.399
sits there. And I would avoid
that. I would go with your organic

1341
01:35:49.640 --> 01:35:56.159
materials. Nature builds the best soil
on Earth by dropping organic matter on the

1342
01:35:56.239 --> 01:36:00.239
ground and letting it rot. That's
how nature builds soil. And that's that's

1343
01:36:00.279 --> 01:36:04.159
basic. You're just you're just yeah, you're aerating, and you're buying a

1344
01:36:04.279 --> 01:36:08.399
quality compost to get in and get
it done quick. So that that's what

1345
01:36:08.479 --> 01:36:12.640
I would do. Man. The
leaf mole composts I've been using that from

1346
01:36:12.680 --> 01:36:16.479
mister Ferguson up at Nature's Wait for
the last three years. Yes, that

1347
01:36:16.800 --> 01:36:20.199
that would be what I put after
the aeration, Yes, sir, that's

1348
01:36:20.279 --> 01:36:25.079
the best. That's the best,
right. Yeah, and green Green Pro

1349
01:36:25.319 --> 01:36:28.840
have their own kind, Yeah,
yeah, they do. They do have

1350
01:36:28.920 --> 01:36:31.479
a leaf mo compost. They have
some they have various types of good quality

1351
01:36:31.560 --> 01:36:34.359
compost. But yeah, leaf mold. Leaf mold is a good one.

1352
01:36:34.479 --> 01:36:36.199
That's a good one to go with. Okay, And hey, if you

1353
01:36:36.239 --> 01:36:39.840
get a chance to come see me
up at uh Nature's Way, I will

1354
01:36:39.840 --> 01:36:42.840
be there at eleven thirty today to
one thirty. So, but good luck

1355
01:36:42.880 --> 01:36:45.760
with you invited me. They invited
me two weeks ago when I got some

1356
01:36:45.880 --> 01:36:48.720
salt, but I to day is
not a day. I got soccer with

1357
01:36:48.840 --> 01:36:55.159
two two sets of grand boys today. Oh my gosh. Well via condos,

1358
01:36:55.239 --> 01:36:58.840
my friend, you're good. Good
luck. Thanks for the call.

1359
01:36:58.960 --> 01:37:02.119
Hey, I appreciate that. Yeah, Greenpro five ninety nine plus sales tax

1360
01:37:02.159 --> 01:37:05.600
depending on the size and location that
you know, obviously you've got a huge

1361
01:37:05.640 --> 01:37:09.119
lawn, a small lawn. You
have to drive to ten buck two or

1362
01:37:09.199 --> 01:37:12.239
just around the block. That all
affects the price a little bit, but

1363
01:37:12.560 --> 01:37:14.880
they will do the job and they'll
do the job right. You can go

1364
01:37:14.960 --> 01:37:18.760
to greenpro dot net if you want
to find out more information about them.

1365
01:37:19.359 --> 01:37:23.439
Uh, you know, fall is
the time where we plant trees, and

1366
01:37:23.600 --> 01:37:28.199
tree planting in fall is very very
important. The folks at Verdant Tree Farm

1367
01:37:28.359 --> 01:37:31.960
have an excellent, excellent supply of
trees. You can go to Verdant Treefarm

1368
01:37:32.000 --> 01:37:38.319
dot com v er da nt Verdant
Treefarm dot com. There's a farm in

1369
01:37:38.399 --> 01:37:42.680
West Houston Ombark or Cypress down at
Broadway Street in pair Land, they've got

1370
01:37:42.760 --> 01:37:45.840
a farm. And if you're up
in the heights, there's the farm where

1371
01:37:45.960 --> 01:37:48.840
YO comes into I ten right there. They do turnkey service. You go

1372
01:37:48.960 --> 01:37:51.199
pick your tree out, they plant
it, they do it right, they

1373
01:37:51.279 --> 01:37:57.239
take care of it. They free
in the office for design consultation. They'll

1374
01:37:57.279 --> 01:38:00.479
recommend the plant that you need,
the species that will do best. They've

1375
01:38:00.560 --> 01:38:04.560
got something for every budget and every
size up to seven hundred gallons with a

1376
01:38:04.640 --> 01:38:10.920
one year warranty. You're not going
to do better not Verdant Treefarm dot com.

1377
01:38:11.119 --> 01:38:15.279
And fall is the time to get
your trees planted. If you are

1378
01:38:15.359 --> 01:38:17.479
going to get trees planted this fall. By the way, when you buy

1379
01:38:17.520 --> 01:38:20.720
a tree, or when you have
someone planet tree, get a tree hugger

1380
01:38:20.760 --> 01:38:27.239
sprinkler. Tree hugger sprinklers are insurance
for your new purchase. You just put

1381
01:38:27.319 --> 01:38:30.000
them around the tree, hook them
to a water hose. They can water

1382
01:38:30.079 --> 01:38:32.560
a small area where that new root
ball still is, or they can water

1383
01:38:32.640 --> 01:38:35.760
a very large area. If you've
got tree struggling from drought, tree hugger

1384
01:38:35.840 --> 01:38:40.439
can go out way beyond the tree
and water that nice circular area. Do

1385
01:38:40.600 --> 01:38:45.600
so much better than your lawn sprinkler
system would do. Go to tree Hugger

1386
01:38:45.920 --> 01:38:48.920
sprinkler dot com. You're gonna find
them all over the place. In fact,

1387
01:38:48.920 --> 01:38:53.000
I even saw some at Verdant Tree
Farm the other day. I think

1388
01:38:53.039 --> 01:38:56.720
they may still have some of those
on hand. So that takes care of

1389
01:38:56.800 --> 01:39:00.439
it. Does really well. We're
gonna go to a break here and Ronda

1390
01:39:00.640 --> 01:39:03.039
and John, thanks for hanging on. I know you've been waiting. You

1391
01:39:03.119 --> 01:39:06.039
will be the first up when we
come back. Right now, it's time

1392
01:39:06.079 --> 01:39:11.399
for the Nicki News Network and all
exciting things that are happening around town.

1393
01:39:11.479 --> 01:39:15.640
Nikki, do you have your finger
on the pulse of I do We're watching

1394
01:39:15.680 --> 01:39:19.119
Congress really closely. Today. It's
an interesting day. It's a carnival.

1395
01:39:23.279 --> 01:39:27.600
Ha ha. Well, speaking of
that, we've got a little Latin food

1396
01:39:27.640 --> 01:39:30.640
and live music and local vendors,
adult beverages and all kinds of things going

1397
01:39:30.680 --> 01:39:35.680
on today at the Fall Garden Festival
up at Nature's Way. I'll be there

1398
01:39:35.760 --> 01:39:40.479
from eleven thirty to one thirty,
and I hope you'll stop by if you

1399
01:39:40.560 --> 01:39:43.119
got pictures, if you've got samples
you want to bring by, We'll be

1400
01:39:43.199 --> 01:39:45.479
glad to look at those. I'd
just like to get to meet you find

1401
01:39:45.520 --> 01:39:48.520
out what's going on. So all
you folks in Montgomery County, North Harris,

1402
01:39:48.680 --> 01:39:51.319
or wherever you want to come from, head on up there. It

1403
01:39:51.479 --> 01:39:54.680
is going to be one heck of
a shin dig. By the way,

1404
01:39:54.760 --> 01:39:59.359
that's the official name for what's going
on today, shin dig. We are

1405
01:39:59.399 --> 01:40:02.000
going to headge straight out to southwest
Houston now to talk to John. Hello,

1406
01:40:02.239 --> 01:40:09.520
John, thank you, thank you
for waiting by the way. That

1407
01:40:09.680 --> 01:40:15.560
was a long way. Yes,
hello, he hear me, Yes sir.

1408
01:40:15.880 --> 01:40:18.880
How are you doing this morning?
I'm doing excellent. Skip thanks for

1409
01:40:19.000 --> 01:40:24.000
taking my call. I got it. I got two questions. One I've

1410
01:40:24.000 --> 01:40:28.359
been on the laws a watering schedule
on my lawn. Listen to your show,

1411
01:40:28.960 --> 01:40:31.199
and I've had it at three times
a week, fifteen minutes on each

1412
01:40:31.279 --> 01:40:34.720
cycle. But it wasn't the proper
watering, so I dropped it to two

1413
01:40:34.760 --> 01:40:39.760
times a week, forty minutes for
each watering. And my law, my

1414
01:40:39.880 --> 01:40:43.199
lawn has always looked like and it
does look like a golf course. It

1415
01:40:43.279 --> 01:40:45.479
looks in a in the springtime.
I mean it's perfect. I'm the only

1416
01:40:45.560 --> 01:40:49.159
one in the subdivision with a perfect
lawn probably. Okay. My problem is,

1417
01:40:49.520 --> 01:40:55.760
as my bill jumped up over five
hundred bucks last month. I was

1418
01:40:55.880 --> 01:41:00.760
watering it prior month, uh you
know, about ten I was in gallon

1419
01:41:00.880 --> 01:41:03.439
and I jumped it to by doing
the forty minutes twice a week, it

1420
01:41:03.640 --> 01:41:08.880
jumped up to almost twenty thousand gallon. And I just don't think that that's

1421
01:41:09.159 --> 01:41:14.520
that's highly properable. Okay, all
right, so yeah, well let me

1422
01:41:15.439 --> 01:41:17.640
you know, I when it comes
to how long you run it and all

1423
01:41:17.680 --> 01:41:24.239
that, it's that is not the
way that I can best describe how to

1424
01:41:24.279 --> 01:41:29.439
water the lawn. You want to
apply one half inch of water when you

1425
01:41:29.560 --> 01:41:33.039
water, or up to one inch, but but at least one half inch

1426
01:41:33.319 --> 01:41:38.600
when you water. So if forty
minutes, put some straight sided containers out

1427
01:41:38.640 --> 01:41:41.680
there, tuna, fish cans,
cat food cans, rain gauges, whatever.

1428
01:41:42.159 --> 01:41:45.159
Put them out there and run it
for forty minutes and see how much

1429
01:41:45.199 --> 01:41:47.760
water you caught. If you've caught
at least a half inch, that's a

1430
01:41:47.800 --> 01:41:50.479
good amount of time. If you've
caught over an inch, that's way too

1431
01:41:50.560 --> 01:41:55.399
long. So just just see how
long it takes to catch a half inch.

1432
01:41:56.079 --> 01:41:59.159
We're going to be given off here
pretty quick. And usually I say

1433
01:41:59.239 --> 01:42:02.600
by the time October we should be
putting on a half inch total for the

1434
01:42:02.680 --> 01:42:05.359
week, as opposed to in the
summer when we're trying to get an inch

1435
01:42:05.520 --> 01:42:10.880
down. So do the little measurement
tests that I mentioned, and then you'll

1436
01:42:10.920 --> 01:42:15.880
know exactly how long your laws to
get watered. All right, So an

1437
01:42:15.960 --> 01:42:18.239
inch in the summer and a half
inch in the fall. Yes, And

1438
01:42:18.319 --> 01:42:24.600
if you go to gardening with Skip
dot com, my lawncare guide is there,

1439
01:42:24.720 --> 01:42:28.600
and I talk about watering schedules each
month through each month of the year

1440
01:42:29.560 --> 01:42:35.680
gardening Skip dot com. Gardening with
skip dot com Gardening, that's one question,

1441
01:42:35.840 --> 01:42:41.600
real quick, Okay, I've got
two paprietaries and they look fan past

1442
01:42:41.800 --> 01:42:44.760
had them water them every day,
and I'm a pride in them. But

1443
01:42:44.880 --> 01:42:48.960
the problem is they have not flowered, no fruit. Okay, now I'm

1444
01:42:49.000 --> 01:42:54.279
wondering it. Was it because of
the heat, or was it because I

1445
01:42:54.399 --> 01:42:58.319
have a non pollinating tree, which
I would be very upset about if I

1446
01:42:58.840 --> 01:43:00.680
paid for one and didn't get it. Did you buy the plant or did

1447
01:43:00.720 --> 01:43:04.640
you plant a seed? No?
No, no, I bought a self

1448
01:43:04.760 --> 01:43:11.039
pollinating plant. Okay, So yeah, Papaya john comes in three forms.

1449
01:43:11.159 --> 01:43:15.359
There's a female, there's a male, and then there's both and so but

1450
01:43:15.680 --> 01:43:19.680
any any of those three you should
be seeing flowers. It may be male

1451
01:43:19.720 --> 01:43:23.800
flowers, it may be female flowers. It maybe both. But the fact

1452
01:43:23.800 --> 01:43:27.800
that it's not blooming at all isn't
because you bought the wrong kind of plant.

1453
01:43:27.880 --> 01:43:30.399
It just we need to get that
thing blooming. Some of them take

1454
01:43:30.439 --> 01:43:33.399
a while. And if you purchased
it, you know, way back in

1455
01:43:33.479 --> 01:43:36.479
the spring, it ought to be
doing good. Now, if you didn't

1456
01:43:36.479 --> 01:43:41.239
plan until midsummer, it could still
be a little too young to be.

1457
01:43:41.960 --> 01:43:44.880
You know, last year I planted
one and I had blooms all over the

1458
01:43:44.920 --> 01:43:48.279
place. I had fifty fruits.
It fruited twice. I wonder. I

1459
01:43:48.319 --> 01:43:53.640
went back to this same nursery.
Everything was wonderful, and I was told

1460
01:43:53.680 --> 01:43:59.000
I went to uh Nature's way and
they told me and I and they're great

1461
01:43:59.079 --> 01:44:01.079
by the way, and they told
me, hey, let's get over a

1462
01:44:01.159 --> 01:44:05.680
little push. I think they gave
me some microlife, some type of furlive

1463
01:44:05.720 --> 01:44:10.600
that would give a push to the
bloom. I use that still no bloom?

1464
01:44:11.079 --> 01:44:15.439
Okay, Well, the microlife fertilizers
are quality products and they will put

1465
01:44:15.479 --> 01:44:17.840
the nutrients out there, but they
do it in a more gradual way because

1466
01:44:17.840 --> 01:44:23.800
they are an organics, so microbes
get involved and they release the nutrients for

1467
01:44:23.880 --> 01:44:28.199
your plants. UF does a planet
look good overall? Just the health of

1468
01:44:28.279 --> 01:44:31.079
the planet, The plant looks fantastic. I have got one in the pot

1469
01:44:31.199 --> 01:44:35.560
and one in the ground and the
same the same spot that the one last

1470
01:44:35.640 --> 01:44:41.600
year. That was just amazing.
And last year I had two sets of

1471
01:44:41.640 --> 01:44:45.279
fruits. I had fruits in the
summer and fruits in the fall. And

1472
01:44:45.560 --> 01:44:48.600
I've had, you know, three
sets of blooms on the tree in December,

1473
01:44:49.159 --> 01:44:55.560
and I went and it's the same
brother of plants supposedly, but it's

1474
01:44:55.600 --> 01:44:59.399
just weird that it's just not none
of them is blooming. Zo you know,

1475
01:44:59.720 --> 01:45:00.720
John, I don't know what tell
you on this. Uh, it

1476
01:45:00.840 --> 01:45:03.880
ought to be blooming. And you
know, if it looks good, if

1477
01:45:03.920 --> 01:45:08.840
it's healthy, obviously you're watering it, well, you've fertilized it, You've

1478
01:45:08.880 --> 01:45:12.479
done everything you can do. Time. I don't know. I don't know

1479
01:45:12.640 --> 01:45:17.199
why yours is not blooming. Full
sunlight. That's important too. I would

1480
01:45:17.239 --> 01:45:21.119
just hold what you got and you
can keep those plants through the winter if

1481
01:45:21.159 --> 01:45:25.800
you the one and container, but
I just bring it in, give it

1482
01:45:25.880 --> 01:45:29.640
as much light as you can in
the winter time. But but definitely don't

1483
01:45:29.720 --> 01:45:31.039
don't let it be out in a
freeze. But John, I think that's

1484
01:45:31.039 --> 01:45:34.600
why. That's why I yet,
and that's why I put one in a

1485
01:45:35.359 --> 01:45:38.800
pot this year, so I can
drag that one inside and keep it.

1486
01:45:39.920 --> 01:45:43.319
But unfortunately, you know, I'm
thinking about pulling them out because you're just

1487
01:45:43.439 --> 01:45:45.560
not doing what I wanted to be
done. Well, I understand, I

1488
01:45:45.720 --> 01:45:49.760
understand. Well I hope that that
turns around. But it is a kind

1489
01:45:49.800 --> 01:45:53.880
of a quirky thing that you're dealing
with. But I appreciate you. I've

1490
01:45:53.920 --> 01:45:57.039
got another I've got another tree that
wants to go into spots. So it's

1491
01:45:57.079 --> 01:45:59.520
got a producer. Get out to
you there, you go there, you

1492
01:45:59.600 --> 01:46:01.479
will go out and tell it that. Take a chainsaw fired up, run

1493
01:46:01.560 --> 01:46:03.640
it and say I'm gonna be back
next week to catch you down. If

1494
01:46:03.640 --> 01:46:09.119
I don't see some papaya is exposure
to I thank you very kind for taking

1495
01:46:09.199 --> 01:46:11.399
a call. You got it?
Yes? Or John? You take care?

1496
01:46:11.920 --> 01:46:14.600
Yeah? You know talking about that
Microlife products, they have a lot

1497
01:46:14.680 --> 01:46:17.760
of quality products. In fact,
they've got a combo that I think is

1498
01:46:17.880 --> 01:46:21.479
really good for plants in general,
and that's a Microlife Ultimate. That's the

1499
01:46:21.600 --> 01:46:25.520
Blue bag. In fact, I'm
going to talk blue plus Blue today.

1500
01:46:26.079 --> 01:46:30.760
The blue bag Microlife Ultimate is a
quality fertilizer there will really feed anything that

1501
01:46:30.880 --> 01:46:33.600
you got. I mean we use
it for lawns, we can use it

1502
01:46:33.640 --> 01:46:38.319
for for vegetables. You can use
it for flowers and shrubs. It's just

1503
01:46:38.479 --> 01:46:42.000
it's just a good fertilizer and it
works. The second thing, the other

1504
01:46:42.079 --> 01:46:45.560
blue is the Ocean Harvest. That's
the liquid product. I've been talking about

1505
01:46:45.600 --> 01:46:48.439
that for a while now. But
you can use it as a foldier feed.

1506
01:46:48.520 --> 01:46:53.359
You can drench it down on plants
to get into the root system.

1507
01:46:53.520 --> 01:46:59.479
It is a fish based product that
just does well. The Ocean Harvest boost

1508
01:46:59.600 --> 01:47:02.079
is a fall lere feed is a
great way to take plants that are struggling

1509
01:47:02.479 --> 01:47:06.560
and get those nutrients right into the
leaf and to help it and then just

1510
01:47:06.920 --> 01:47:10.880
do a little extra let it drip
on the soil because the roots are gonna

1511
01:47:10.920 --> 01:47:14.880
take it up to the Blue plus
blue for microlife, the Microlife Ultimate,

1512
01:47:15.000 --> 01:47:19.880
the Microlife Ocean harvest is a good
combination, especially when you're talking about plants

1513
01:47:20.079 --> 01:47:24.840
that really needs some help and a
boost, and even plants that are healthy.

1514
01:47:24.920 --> 01:47:28.640
It just keeps them going. We're
gonna head out now to Pasadena and

1515
01:47:28.840 --> 01:47:32.279
talk to Ronda. Oh, Ronda, I have taken your call fifteen seconds

1516
01:47:32.319 --> 01:47:34.800
from when I got to take a
break. I thank you for waiting.

1517
01:47:34.800 --> 01:47:38.520
If you will hold on just a
little bit more, you will be first

1518
01:47:38.600 --> 01:47:42.119
up. And my apologies for doing
that. Oh my gosh. Well,

1519
01:47:42.159 --> 01:47:44.680
let's take a break here and when
we come back, we'll go straight to

1520
01:47:44.800 --> 01:47:48.359
Ronda. And wouldn't it be nice
if it would cool off a little bit

1521
01:47:48.439 --> 01:47:54.840
more and start raining again and tell
us that fall is here. I know

1522
01:47:55.000 --> 01:47:57.600
it's here, you know it's here, but it would sure be nice.

1523
01:47:58.199 --> 01:48:00.880
Well, we're going to add straight
out Pasadena. Ronda, you get the

1524
01:48:00.960 --> 01:48:05.720
award for the longest suffering patient caller
I think I've ever had, And they

1525
01:48:05.800 --> 01:48:10.960
even gave you a false hope and
false alarm. My apologies. How can

1526
01:48:11.000 --> 01:48:15.880
we help today? Good morning,
Good morning. I don't bother mind waiting

1527
01:48:15.920 --> 01:48:19.600
at all. Thank you for taking
my call. That's gracious, thank you.

1528
01:48:20.600 --> 01:48:25.479
We have a weed, the mimosa
weed, that has taken over our

1529
01:48:25.560 --> 01:48:30.399
flat lawn, and we've been fighting
it for probably about a year. Yeah,

1530
01:48:30.479 --> 01:48:33.239
we started using the nitro false barricade
at the beginning of the summer,

1531
01:48:33.399 --> 01:48:38.840
but we just cannot seem to get
rid of it. Wondering if you had

1532
01:48:38.880 --> 01:48:44.399
any suggestions that we can do without
actually killing our grass. There is a

1533
01:48:45.319 --> 01:48:48.399
mimosa weed, and there's something called
chamber bidder that looks a lot like that.

1534
01:48:49.279 --> 01:48:55.000
Maybe seeing a good picture of it
might help. I guess it's almost

1535
01:48:55.039 --> 01:48:57.800
like a little sleepy weed. When
you touch it, it folds up and

1536
01:48:57.880 --> 01:49:01.319
have a couple of flowers on in
our yard. Flowers all right, I

1537
01:49:01.479 --> 01:49:05.000
know now what you're talking about.
Uh, yeah, so that one is

1538
01:49:05.479 --> 01:49:11.560
almost a woody weed. It right, it's a vine. It has a

1539
01:49:11.600 --> 01:49:14.840
little cat claws on. It does
have a little clay, yes, okay.

1540
01:49:14.920 --> 01:49:16.600
It's it's almost like a woody weed. And if you pull it up,

1541
01:49:17.039 --> 01:49:21.079
it pulls up like a long vine. Yes, okay, so that's

1542
01:49:21.119 --> 01:49:27.399
a woody vine. It takes a
it takes a pretty powerful post emergent to

1543
01:49:27.560 --> 01:49:30.199
kill that. Uh and post emergent
uh, you know, the barricade's a

1544
01:49:30.239 --> 01:49:34.720
pre emergent. So that works on
weed seeds that like grass and broad leaf,

1545
01:49:35.319 --> 01:49:40.520
and any one product doesn't control every
weed that's out there. I mean

1546
01:49:40.560 --> 01:49:44.479
there's a range, and so sometimes
you do have to switch. Even a

1547
01:49:44.600 --> 01:49:47.079
great product, there may be something
that is not as effective on it.

1548
01:49:47.479 --> 01:49:51.760
But there you're dealing with the you're
dealing with the basically a little woody ground

1549
01:49:51.840 --> 01:49:58.239
cover material and a broad leaf post
emergent product would be the one to go

1550
01:49:58.399 --> 01:50:02.199
with. I would have to check
labels to see on that particular weed what

1551
01:50:02.359 --> 01:50:09.239
the most effective would be. I
know we have the bon Eide weed beater

1552
01:50:09.479 --> 01:50:13.199
Ultra is one that is used on
a lot of broad leaf plants. There

1553
01:50:13.359 --> 01:50:18.399
is the green Light I'm not green
Light fert alone. The name just went

1554
01:50:18.439 --> 01:50:20.560
out of my head. Let me
see what I can think of it here

1555
01:50:20.600 --> 01:50:25.640
in a minute. Fert alone.
It's got a broad leaf control product on

1556
01:50:25.720 --> 01:50:27.800
it. Where you look at it, you're in Pasadena. Oh, good

1557
01:50:27.880 --> 01:50:31.840
for you. Yeah, so,
uh, if you will go to Southwest

1558
01:50:31.920 --> 01:50:36.039
Fertilizer, they're not too far from
you, uh and talk to Bob.

1559
01:50:36.439 --> 01:50:40.079
Take a sample of the weed in
so he knows which when you're talking about.

1560
01:50:40.079 --> 01:50:42.960
You know, I was heading off
in the wrong direction on the description

1561
01:50:43.039 --> 01:50:45.159
initially, so make sure he sees
it. But show him or one of

1562
01:50:45.239 --> 01:50:47.760
his staff there. They know what
they're doing, and say, you know,

1563
01:50:47.840 --> 01:50:51.479
what do you have for this first? I can't think of the name

1564
01:50:51.520 --> 01:50:56.000
of the fertile product off the top
of my head right now, but that

1565
01:50:56.399 --> 01:51:00.279
that kind of of product. It's
wheat free zone. That's when I was

1566
01:51:00.319 --> 01:51:02.880
trying to think of. There's another
product called Celsius that's pretty good on some

1567
01:51:03.079 --> 01:51:06.159
kinds of weeds. But I need
to I would need to do a little

1568
01:51:06.239 --> 01:51:11.079
research to make sure I've got the
right one. And if you I'll put

1569
01:51:11.119 --> 01:51:14.159
you on hold, and if you
will send me a picture of the weed,

1570
01:51:14.319 --> 01:51:16.840
remind me we had this call.
I will look it up and give

1571
01:51:16.880 --> 01:51:20.279
you the one I would recommend most
or you could just go straight to Southwest

1572
01:51:20.359 --> 01:51:24.359
and they could take you too.
Okay, Okay, I can go to

1573
01:51:24.399 --> 01:51:28.399
Southwest and ask for Bob. Yeah, Bob or actually he has staff that

1574
01:51:28.760 --> 01:51:30.359
that know what they're talking about.
I mean, if he's not in at

1575
01:51:30.399 --> 01:51:33.760
the moment, that's fine. I
mean he's got Okay. They they hire

1576
01:51:33.880 --> 01:51:39.119
and train people very well there because
okay, their number one thing is to

1577
01:51:39.159 --> 01:51:42.600
get you the right product and not
waste your money. All right, well,

1578
01:51:42.640 --> 01:51:44.760
thank you so much for your help. All right, Ron, and

1579
01:51:44.840 --> 01:51:46.720
thank you very much for that weed. It is kind of cool vote to

1580
01:51:46.800 --> 01:51:49.960
touch it and watch it close its
sleeves up. It is. That's its

1581
01:51:50.000 --> 01:51:55.920
own only redeeming quality. Right and
in between those, our yard does look

1582
01:51:55.960 --> 01:51:59.520
pretty because it's covered and purple flowers. But I'm tired of the purple flowers.

1583
01:51:59.560 --> 01:52:01.720
And look, yeah, I like
to take all our kids and grandkids

1584
01:52:01.760 --> 01:52:06.680
out there because you can take a
little like a little tiny stick or toothpick,

1585
01:52:08.119 --> 01:52:12.479
and you can touch individual leaves and
just that leaf will will close the

1586
01:52:12.560 --> 01:52:15.439
whole. It's kind of cool.
Once they see that, they'll be out

1587
01:52:15.479 --> 01:52:18.399
playing in the yard all day,
right, all right, Ronda, all

1588
01:52:18.479 --> 01:52:20.600
right, well, thank you for
your help, you bet, thank you

1589
01:52:20.680 --> 01:52:24.960
for your call. I appreciate that
very much. Yeah, that's a pretty

1590
01:52:25.000 --> 01:52:30.560
cool, pretty cool weeat. You
know, the time to deal with pests

1591
01:52:30.039 --> 01:52:34.279
is pretty much January through December.
Welcome to Houston. I mean, if

1592
01:52:34.279 --> 01:52:39.479
it's not cockroaches, it's it's rats
in the attic, it's mosquitoes, it's

1593
01:52:39.520 --> 01:52:43.159
oh my gosh, or they're termites, and on and on and on down

1594
01:52:43.199 --> 01:52:45.199
the line. And McGrath pest Control
they know how to deal with all of

1595
01:52:45.279 --> 01:52:49.119
it. I don't care if it
has four legs, six legs, eight

1596
01:52:49.239 --> 01:52:53.720
legs. They don't deal with two
legged past You're you're gonna have to handle

1597
01:52:53.760 --> 01:52:59.359
that yourself. But anyway, McGrath
Pest Control, Scott McGrath two eight one

1598
01:52:59.520 --> 01:53:03.760
four nine eighty two forty McGrath pest
control dot Com. It's the website,

1599
01:53:03.880 --> 01:53:09.319
been doing this since nineteen seventy four. Family runs still. It's that old

1600
01:53:09.359 --> 01:53:12.079
fashioned service. What am I talking
about? I mean, you don't sign

1601
01:53:12.119 --> 01:53:16.159
a contract. You don't hear Oh
hang out, take your whole Saturday to

1602
01:53:16.199 --> 01:53:19.079
sit around the house in case we
might may show up. No, they

1603
01:53:19.119 --> 01:53:24.239
tell you what time and they show
up at that time, highly rated.

1604
01:53:24.359 --> 01:53:30.000
They serve the entire Houston area modern
technology and techniques with old fashion customer service.

1605
01:53:30.399 --> 01:53:35.279
September through February is rodent peak season. How do you exclude them?

1606
01:53:35.560 --> 01:53:39.560
How do you prevent them from getting
in? How do you control them?

1607
01:53:39.760 --> 01:53:44.079
They can do that no matter what
the pest you're dealing with. It's real

1608
01:53:44.199 --> 01:53:48.399
easy. One place McGrath Pest Control
two eight one four six nine eighty two

1609
01:53:48.479 --> 01:53:51.159
forty. They can take care of
all of it. I remember one time

1610
01:53:51.600 --> 01:53:56.439
when I was in Austin, Texas
at the extension office air we had rats

1611
01:53:56.640 --> 01:54:00.479
all through the roof and someone came
in and they killed the rats and all

1612
01:54:00.560 --> 01:54:03.039
the rats. I don't know if
they got together and decided this, but

1613
01:54:03.119 --> 01:54:08.039
they all went in my wall and
they talked in my wall, and oh

1614
01:54:08.119 --> 01:54:10.479
my gosh, I think that could
have been handled better. I wish I

1615
01:54:10.560 --> 01:54:14.840
had Scott at that time rather than
the folks that we were using at that

1616
01:54:15.000 --> 01:54:20.239
time. I feel about in the
mot Bellevue area, you are really fortunate

1617
01:54:20.399 --> 01:54:25.760
because you have a hometown feed store
that is unique. And what do I

1618
01:54:25.880 --> 01:54:28.399
mean by that, Well, I'm
talking about Texas feed Stop. First of

1619
01:54:28.439 --> 01:54:33.560
all, Texas Feedstop is the kind
of feed store that you think about when

1620
01:54:33.640 --> 01:54:38.399
you think about the old time feed
store. And I don't mean they don't

1621
01:54:38.439 --> 01:54:41.920
carry modern stuff. They do,
But I'm talking about the service. I'm

1622
01:54:41.960 --> 01:54:45.960
talking about greeting you, you feeling
like family. You do not get poor

1623
01:54:46.159 --> 01:54:49.960
customer service at Texas feed Stop.
You don't sit in long lines like you

1624
01:54:50.079 --> 01:54:54.600
might. It's on big box store. Brian and Hope Rhodes. It's a

1625
01:54:54.720 --> 01:54:58.800
family deal, and your family to
them. You know. They hire teams

1626
01:54:58.840 --> 01:55:01.199
from the mot Bellevue Commu Energy to
carry their bags out for you. They

1627
01:55:01.319 --> 01:55:04.600
carry all the fertilizers I'll talk about
on here, They carry the soils I'll

1628
01:55:04.600 --> 01:55:09.800
talk about on here they have seasonally, they may have citrus trees or vegetable

1629
01:55:09.840 --> 01:55:12.960
plants available as well. Do you
need to get rid of chinch bugs?

1630
01:55:13.039 --> 01:55:15.720
Do you need to deal with diseases
in the lawn? Do you have some

1631
01:55:15.880 --> 01:55:19.279
weeds to deal with? Texas Feed
Stop carries all those products on Highway one

1632
01:55:19.560 --> 01:55:25.279
forty six in mob Bellevue, just
a few minutes north of I ten.

1633
01:55:25.720 --> 01:55:28.880
Now, if you're out in you
know, Baytown, same thing, They're

1634
01:55:28.960 --> 01:55:31.399
right around the corner. It's your
hometown feed store. Texas feed stop.

1635
01:55:32.560 --> 01:55:40.159
Well, I wanna mentioned that the
Arburgate, the folks at the arbor Gate

1636
01:55:40.279 --> 01:55:45.319
have got their new parking lot in
and oh my gosh, is it glorious.

1637
01:55:45.640 --> 01:55:50.239
There's a loop called Trishell Road if
you're whichever way you're coming. It

1638
01:55:50.399 --> 01:55:56.000
starts before Arburgate and it comes around
and comes back into twenty nine twenty after

1639
01:55:56.159 --> 01:55:59.840
Arburgate and the parking lots ride in
back. It's just really easy walk,

1640
01:56:00.159 --> 01:56:02.640
easy to get to, nice all
weather thing. And you know when you're

1641
01:56:02.760 --> 01:56:09.039
at Arburgate that you have got to
check out their one two three completely easy

1642
01:56:09.119 --> 01:56:14.119
system. They've got a food for
anything with roots that's an organic four four

1643
01:56:14.359 --> 01:56:17.039
three be a great one to put
on right now for your fall fertilization.

1644
01:56:17.479 --> 01:56:21.560
And then they have a soil that's
organic complete. It's got microbes in it,

1645
01:56:21.680 --> 01:56:27.399
it's got the expanded shale that is
so important in our soils. And

1646
01:56:27.560 --> 01:56:33.560
finally the organic compost complete, Organic
compost complete, also chock full of expanded

1647
01:56:33.640 --> 01:56:39.359
shale, very important, one two
three food, soil, compost, anything

1648
01:56:39.479 --> 01:56:42.720
with roots, They've got you covered. And oh my gosh, I could

1649
01:56:42.720 --> 01:56:45.279
take an hour just talking about all
the plants, the new arrivals out at

1650
01:56:45.359 --> 01:56:51.479
Arburgate. Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful. It will transform your landscape, your

1651
01:56:51.560 --> 01:56:55.640
lawn, your garden, your flowers, your vegetables. They've got it all.

1652
01:56:56.000 --> 01:57:00.720
Just check them out at Arbourgate.
They're just west of Tomball twenty nine

1653
01:57:00.039 --> 01:57:05.800
twenty. You know I've bragged on
Neilson plant Food earlier, but their carbo

1654
01:57:05.880 --> 01:57:12.079
Load ten ten twenty is an awesome
fertilizer for fall. It is designed with

1655
01:57:12.279 --> 01:57:16.319
the ratio of nutrients that we need
for our fall fertilization. It also includes

1656
01:57:16.359 --> 01:57:18.920
a pre emergent herbicide, so when
you put it down, you want to

1657
01:57:18.960 --> 01:57:21.880
water it down. That gets the
nutrients in the soil, but it also

1658
01:57:21.960 --> 01:57:26.520
puts that pre emergent down into the
soul surface where it prevents winter weeds.

1659
01:57:26.560 --> 01:57:30.079
But don't delay. October is when
your fall weeds are germinating. Do it

1660
01:57:30.359 --> 01:57:36.600
now so that you prevent them.
Carbo ten ten twenty. Well, putting

1661
01:57:36.600 --> 01:57:40.520
another hour in the books, You're
got one more left today before I head

1662
01:57:40.560 --> 01:57:45.079
out to Nature's Way Resources for the
Big Shindegg, the Fall Garden Festival.

1663
01:57:45.119 --> 01:57:49.239
I hope you'll come out. I'll
be there eleven thirty to one thirty and

1664
01:57:49.479 --> 01:57:53.760
I'll answer your gardening questions. Just
love to meet you. Always like meet

1665
01:57:53.840 --> 01:57:58.079
Garden Line listeners. Come on out
and see me while you're there, Enjoy

1666
01:57:58.399 --> 01:58:01.479
Latin food, live music, look
vendors, adult beverages. There will be

1667
01:58:01.920 --> 01:58:05.479
a scavenger hunt for the little kids. And if you get there before I

1668
01:58:05.600 --> 01:58:09.960
do nine am, which is pretty
much now, they're gonna be doing a

1669
01:58:10.039 --> 01:58:15.800
little enchanting fairy garden creation workshop.
You'll learn how to make that miniature garden.

1670
01:58:15.840 --> 01:58:17.600
I bet they'll still have a few
of those on hand whenever you get

1671
01:58:17.640 --> 01:58:24.279
there for you to take a look
at. Don't delay though Fall Garden Festival

1672
01:58:24.560 --> 01:58:30.720
today, out it Nature's Way.
KTRH Garden Line does not necessarily endorse any

1673
01:58:30.760 --> 01:58:38.239
of the products or services advertised on
this program. Welcome to KTRH Garden Line

1674
01:58:38.479 --> 01:59:00.760
with scarp Rictords Crazy. Just watch
him as any Good morning, good Saturday

1675
01:59:00.840 --> 01:59:05.279
morning. Oh my gosh, it
is beautiful outside. Look at that sunshine,

1676
01:59:05.319 --> 01:59:09.600
a little bit of a breeze.
It's gonna be a great day.

1677
01:59:09.800 --> 01:59:12.439
It's always a good day for gardening. I don't care if it's raining,

1678
01:59:12.600 --> 01:59:15.159
sunshine, hail, freezing, it
doesn't matter. I mean, if nothing

1679
01:59:15.199 --> 01:59:19.079
else, you got houseplants. If
nothing else you got seed starting indoors if

1680
01:59:19.159 --> 01:59:23.760
nothing else right, Yeah, I
mean you can read about a gardening.

1681
01:59:24.079 --> 01:59:29.119
Your gardening is a constant learning activity, it really is. And the more

1682
01:59:29.199 --> 01:59:30.880
you know, the better you grow. Oo ought to coin that one.

1683
01:59:31.000 --> 01:59:34.239
More you know, better you grow. I like that. It's true.

1684
01:59:34.359 --> 01:59:38.560
There's no such thing as a brown
thumb. There's an uninformed thumb. When

1685
01:59:38.560 --> 01:59:41.800
you inform your thumb, your thumb
gets greener. It's as simple as that.

1686
01:59:42.119 --> 01:59:45.680
Keep learning, and that's why we're
here on garden Line to help you

1687
01:59:45.520 --> 01:59:49.960
make your thumb greener. If you
will buy, helping, educate, helping

1688
01:59:50.560 --> 01:59:54.560
get success. You know, we
don't want to go out, spend money

1689
01:59:54.640 --> 01:59:58.319
on plants, spend time planting them
and not have success. And you may

1690
01:59:58.359 --> 02:00:00.600
have had that happen before, but
let's put a stop to it right now.

1691
02:00:00.800 --> 02:00:04.199
You can give us a call seven
one three two one two fifty eight

1692
02:00:04.520 --> 02:00:09.720
seventy four would be glad to visit
with you about whatever is of interest to

1693
02:00:09.880 --> 02:00:13.640
you. As you're out and about
running around doing some shopping and things.

1694
02:00:13.720 --> 02:00:16.119
This weekend, you need to check
out Buchanan's plants. I don't know when

1695
02:00:16.199 --> 02:00:19.600
the last time you were there was, but boy, do they ever have

1696
02:00:19.800 --> 02:00:27.239
an unbelievable selection of really cool stuff
on hand. I mean Buchanans has always

1697
02:00:27.279 --> 02:00:30.479
been They've always specialized in native types
of plants, for example. I mean,

1698
02:00:30.520 --> 02:00:34.920
they really really excellent selection of natives. By the way, next weekend,

1699
02:00:35.039 --> 02:00:39.319
October seventh, they're having their Fall
Festival. It's a big deal there.

1700
02:00:39.319 --> 02:00:42.960
It's a free event. They're going
to have music, moon bounce,

1701
02:00:43.119 --> 02:00:46.279
crafts, face painting, food trucks, drinks, local vendors, hay rides.

1702
02:00:46.640 --> 02:00:50.760
I mean, Buchanans is on Eleventh
Street in the Heights area of Houston,

1703
02:00:51.199 --> 02:00:54.960
and it's easy to find, easy
to get in, easy to get

1704
02:00:55.039 --> 02:00:59.920
out, and it just their selection
is like none other. I was check

1705
02:01:00.000 --> 02:01:02.199
picking out some of the things that
they just got in and they've got like

1706
02:01:02.319 --> 02:01:06.199
desert mallow. If you've never seen
desert mallow before. That's a really unique

1707
02:01:06.239 --> 02:01:12.399
plant. It's really cool. It
has a little miniature hibiscus like bloom,

1708
02:01:12.760 --> 02:01:18.840
but the blooms are almost in pastel
colors and really really beautiful fall obedient plant.

1709
02:01:19.119 --> 02:01:24.000
That's a good one for fall autumn
sage, Turk's cap, pigeonberry,

1710
02:01:24.119 --> 02:01:29.039
black eyed susan. You can always
count on Buchanans to have a wide variety

1711
02:01:29.079 --> 02:01:33.760
of plants, native plants too,
and even just Houston area natives. So

1712
02:01:34.039 --> 02:01:39.279
you should give give McCall check them
out. Drop by good place to go

1713
02:01:39.439 --> 02:01:44.439
shop, lots of lots of things
that you're not gonna find any place else.

1714
02:01:44.680 --> 02:01:47.119
We're gonna head out to Spring Branch
now and talk to Hurda. Hello

1715
02:01:47.279 --> 02:01:59.439
Hurda, good morning, Good morning, my word. Okay, I have

1716
02:01:59.560 --> 02:02:04.600
a question about my magnolia tree.
Oh it's been there for well, it

1717
02:02:04.760 --> 02:02:10.119
was there when we moved to this
house. I've been here fifty seven years.

1718
02:02:10.439 --> 02:02:17.880
But at any rate, the the
seed pods they are red on it

1719
02:02:18.079 --> 02:02:24.439
now, have I forgotten? Is
that? Okay? Oh? Yes,

1720
02:02:24.760 --> 02:02:29.960
that's normal. Oh okay, good, that is what you want. Okay,

1721
02:02:30.279 --> 02:02:38.920
good. Uh. And the other
thing is I have cut two feet

1722
02:02:39.399 --> 02:02:46.239
off of the branches that I can
reach anything I can reach for years now.

1723
02:02:46.520 --> 02:02:50.039
Is this a good time to do
that? You're you're trimming the branches

1724
02:02:50.159 --> 02:02:57.159
back? Yeah, set Are you
trying to keep it smaller? Well?

1725
02:02:57.279 --> 02:03:00.960
Yeah? In wood in woods?
Yeah okay, all right, yeah,

1726
02:03:00.000 --> 02:03:02.960
I mean you can do that now. I generally don't prune now though,

1727
02:03:03.039 --> 02:03:08.319
because when you prune, it makes
new growth sprout. Out and would go

1728
02:03:08.479 --> 02:03:12.159
a liner. We don't want a
bunch of secculent growth going into winter,

1729
02:03:12.279 --> 02:03:15.000
so I usually wait until the end
of the cool season to do that.

1730
02:03:15.239 --> 02:03:18.359
That would be well, I can
wait. What would you say, in

1731
02:03:18.600 --> 02:03:24.600
winter itself? Yes, okay,
I could do it. I do it.

1732
02:03:24.760 --> 02:03:28.319
Probably I would do it, and
probably sometime in January, maybe late

1733
02:03:28.439 --> 02:03:30.760
January would be a good time you
could prune. You could prune in the

1734
02:03:30.840 --> 02:03:34.319
spring, you know, but I
just wouldn't prune right going into fall.

1735
02:03:35.239 --> 02:03:39.920
All right, thank you so much, Skied Well good, you're to helpful

1736
02:03:40.000 --> 02:03:43.520
to us, and you're kind hurt. I appreciate your call. Thank thank

1737
02:03:43.600 --> 02:03:46.920
you very much. For those of
you who live down south, you know,

1738
02:03:47.000 --> 02:03:50.159
I'm always bragging on our feed stores
because we love feed stores here on

1739
02:03:50.680 --> 02:03:55.720
Garden Line and League City, feed
is the place to go. I mean,

1740
02:03:55.760 --> 02:03:58.880
if you're down in League City,
of course, Santa Fe, San

1741
02:03:59.000 --> 02:04:01.119
Leone, Bay Cliff, Webster,
El Camino, Reale, Claire, Lake

1742
02:04:01.199 --> 02:04:04.359
City, all those places, they're
your hometown feed store. And they're just

1743
02:04:04.479 --> 02:04:10.199
a few blocks south of Highway ninety
six on Highway three. Now, the

1744
02:04:10.279 --> 02:04:13.920
Thunderbergs have been running the store.
I guess their grandfather built it over forty

1745
02:04:14.000 --> 02:04:18.399
years ago, and Wes and his
sister Madison now are running the show and

1746
02:04:18.760 --> 02:04:24.640
they just have that great old time
feed store feel. It just I like

1747
02:04:24.800 --> 02:04:28.119
going into feed store. I love
League City Feed too. You know,

1748
02:04:28.199 --> 02:04:30.800
if you need do you need fertilizers, They got the ones who recommend you

1749
02:04:30.920 --> 02:04:35.159
need soil mixes. Do you need
pesticides maybe in sex side, fungicides,

1750
02:04:35.159 --> 02:04:39.359
herbicide, They carry all of that
stuff. And then of course they're a

1751
02:04:39.359 --> 02:04:44.000
feed store. They carry premium pet
foods. They got everything your backyard chickens

1752
02:04:44.079 --> 02:04:47.680
need feeds, feeders, and so
on. League City Feed easy to find,

1753
02:04:47.760 --> 02:04:51.439
easy to get to, Monday through
Saturday nine to six, and closed

1754
02:04:51.479 --> 02:04:57.000
on Sunday two eight, one,
three, three, two, sixteen twelve.

1755
02:04:57.479 --> 02:05:00.920
Please go by and check them out. We're going to go up to

1756
02:05:00.000 --> 02:05:04.880
the Woodlands now and talk to John. Hello John, Hello, Skip,

1757
02:05:04.960 --> 02:05:08.520
how are you doing this morning?
I'm good, sir. What's up?

1758
02:05:09.640 --> 02:05:15.760
I am? I'm dealing with a
fungus problem of some kind that it maybe

1759
02:05:16.000 --> 02:05:20.560
take all patch it. It sort
of looks like that, except it doesn't

1760
02:05:20.760 --> 02:05:29.319
quite come up in your hand the
way it's described. Anyway. The background

1761
02:05:29.560 --> 02:05:32.239
is that for the last three years. I've been taking care of the lawn

1762
02:05:32.399 --> 02:05:40.159
with Randy Lemon's program, and I
use the microlight products religiously. The lawn

1763
02:05:40.199 --> 02:05:43.920
has been great. No more brown
patch. It's a little bit of gray

1764
02:05:44.000 --> 02:05:48.000
spot I get I handle with Dacanell, but I generally don't use spongeicides anymore.

1765
02:05:48.119 --> 02:05:55.800
Just the microlight products. Good will
they work. I was so I

1766
02:05:57.640 --> 02:06:00.359
was kind of surprised to get this, but I've got three or four good

1767
02:06:00.479 --> 02:06:10.199
sized patches and the lawn is melting
away. I've last used the microlight acid

1768
02:06:10.279 --> 02:06:15.039
a fire six two four and about
August, and when I saw this,

1769
02:06:15.840 --> 02:06:26.560
I used the Microlight innoculants at the
at the maximum dose. And I'm I'm

1770
02:06:26.600 --> 02:06:30.560
really wondering a couple of things.
Is there anything more than I'll just listen

1771
02:06:30.680 --> 02:06:34.880
quick seat and Helen. Is there
anything more that I can do? Is

1772
02:06:34.920 --> 02:06:41.800
there someone I should consult? And
must I go to one of these monthly

1773
02:06:42.000 --> 02:06:45.960
services. I sort of hate to
give up control of the lawn when it's

1774
02:06:46.319 --> 02:06:50.479
doing so well, but I don't
want to lose it and spend thousands to

1775
02:06:50.600 --> 02:06:57.560
try to resought. In all that
point me here, what can we do?

1776
02:06:57.720 --> 02:07:00.159
John, I'm gonna I'm gonna have
to go to a break, but

1777
02:07:00.319 --> 02:07:02.039
you hang on. I've got a
lot to say about that, and we

1778
02:07:02.199 --> 02:07:04.920
can guide you down the way.
Just hang on just a little bit.

1779
02:07:05.159 --> 02:07:08.720
We're going to take a break our
number seven one three, two one,

1780
02:07:08.800 --> 02:07:13.399
two fifty eight seventy four. We'll
be right back. Well, you're listening

1781
02:07:13.439 --> 02:07:17.359
to Garden Line and we are talking
all kinds of things gardening today as we

1782
02:07:17.560 --> 02:07:23.359
enter now our last hour of the
day. You know, if you're doing

1783
02:07:23.399 --> 02:07:25.920
fall planting, and I hope you
are, because there's no better time to

1784
02:07:26.000 --> 02:07:30.000
plant than fall. That hands down, we get spring gardening fever. I

1785
02:07:30.079 --> 02:07:32.760
wish we would get fall gardening fever
to the same degree we get spring gardening

1786
02:07:32.800 --> 02:07:38.399
fever, because fall actually is the
best of all planting seasons that we have.

1787
02:07:39.039 --> 02:07:43.560
And when you're planting, I would
suggest that you consider hast Grow six

1788
02:07:43.960 --> 02:07:46.479
twelve six. Here's how I like
to use it. You put it in

1789
02:07:46.560 --> 02:07:49.720
a watering can, mix it according
to the label with the right amount of

1790
02:07:49.800 --> 02:07:53.840
water, and when you put a
transplant in the ground, you watered in

1791
02:07:53.960 --> 02:07:57.720
with a hast Grow six twelve six. Then a week later you watered again

1792
02:07:58.079 --> 02:08:03.800
with the same concoction, and then
a week later again those three waterings help

1793
02:08:03.960 --> 02:08:05.720
that plant get off to a good
start, hit the ground running. As

1794
02:08:05.720 --> 02:08:09.119
the way I like to put it, that is because it contains the nitron

1795
02:08:09.199 --> 02:08:13.680
phosphors potassium of course, as well
as some micros that are going to come

1796
02:08:13.720 --> 02:08:16.840
with an organic product like that.
You've got mednosoil activator in it to stimulate

1797
02:08:16.880 --> 02:08:22.000
biological activity. You've got humic acid
in it, and you've got seaweed extracts

1798
02:08:22.039 --> 02:08:24.840
in it, and all of those
things are good for plants. Now you

1799
02:08:24.880 --> 02:08:28.359
can use it for a fullier application
a lot of other things. I just

1800
02:08:28.479 --> 02:08:31.880
like to use it for watering in
anything that I'm planting. I don't care

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02:08:31.000 --> 02:08:35.479
if it is a broccoli plant,
if it is some rosemary, or time

1802
02:08:35.560 --> 02:08:39.159
you're putting in the herb garden,
if it's a rosebush or a tree watered

1803
02:08:39.199 --> 02:08:43.720
in with hastragrow six twelve six,
and you're going to see better results.

1804
02:08:43.840 --> 02:08:48.520
It just helps the plant get started, and that is very, very important.

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02:08:48.760 --> 02:08:50.039
We're gonna go back out to John. Now, John, you gave

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02:08:50.079 --> 02:08:54.359
me a lot of good information there, and let me give you some feedback.

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02:08:54.960 --> 02:08:56.960
First of all, as far as
pulling in the grass and coming up

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02:08:58.079 --> 02:09:00.479
or not coming up, take all. The root rot does not make the

1809
02:09:00.560 --> 02:09:05.159
grass come up easier. Uh,
the grub damage will make the grass come

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02:09:05.239 --> 02:09:07.279
up like it's a throw rug.
But take all it will stick down.

1811
02:09:07.399 --> 02:09:11.840
So you you may be dealing with. Take all the products you're using are

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02:09:11.880 --> 02:09:13.920
all good ones. And what I
would do when did you put the bio

1813
02:09:15.159 --> 02:09:20.079
inoculant from microlife on how long ago? It's been a week? About a

1814
02:09:20.119 --> 02:09:22.119
week? Okay, well you're good. Then that is a good move.

1815
02:09:22.279 --> 02:09:28.640
I would use that. I might
even use their their fall the brown patch.

1816
02:09:28.840 --> 02:09:31.680
It's it's the fall fertilizer on my
schedule. If you go to gardening

1817
02:09:31.800 --> 02:09:37.640
with skip dot com, I've got
my fault my fertilizer schedule on there and

1818
02:09:37.800 --> 02:09:39.720
a lot of other information on it. I encourage you to check it out.

1819
02:09:41.119 --> 02:09:45.880
But Microlife's brown patch is the one
I put as the fall fertilizer,

1820
02:09:46.640 --> 02:09:50.560
and it works very well. It
also helps between the bioinoculant and then the

1821
02:09:50.600 --> 02:09:54.560
brown patch itself. What you're doing
is you're putting a lot of microbial activity

1822
02:09:54.640 --> 02:10:00.119
on the surface of those plants,
so that when a disease organism tries to

1823
02:10:00.279 --> 02:10:05.079
land and cause trouble, it is
already a very crowded surface, and there's

1824
02:10:05.199 --> 02:10:09.520
also the presence of things that do
also help fight disease. Now, being

1825
02:10:09.600 --> 02:10:13.279
on the microlife system, you're building
your soil slowly over time, you're making

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02:10:13.319 --> 02:10:16.399
it better and better, and I
think that's good. I think you're looking

1827
02:10:16.399 --> 02:10:20.800
at one of two possible prot WACs. You're one of three. Either those

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02:10:20.840 --> 02:10:24.640
spots are a little drier than others. Maybe the sprinkler system coverage didn't hit

1829
02:10:24.720 --> 02:10:30.439
them as well, so they were
struggling from some drought or was it yes

1830
02:10:30.760 --> 02:10:33.920
or dark chinch bugs. Chinch bugs
you get on your hands and knees,

1831
02:10:35.039 --> 02:10:39.239
get in the area between healthy and
dead part the grass. Figure out go

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02:10:39.359 --> 02:10:43.319
online first look find out what a
chinch bug looks like and see if they're

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02:10:43.359 --> 02:10:46.760
there that can cause browning of the
grass. And then the final thing would

1834
02:10:46.760 --> 02:10:50.960
be take all root rot, which
also causes browning of the grass. Typically

1835
02:10:52.039 --> 02:10:56.399
it occurs in stressed areas, so
it can be worse in shade. I

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02:10:56.520 --> 02:11:01.079
know you're not using the post emergent
weak killers that can stress grass, but

1837
02:11:01.239 --> 02:11:07.000
those could lead to a take all
root rot in certain situations, as could

1838
02:11:07.760 --> 02:11:11.520
drought stress as well. So it's
gonna be one of those three things.

1839
02:11:11.680 --> 02:11:16.079
Hopefully it's just the watering because you
can fix that easy. Yes, yes,

1840
02:11:16.560 --> 02:11:24.680
there's also a a microlife spray on
that soaks into the end of the

1841
02:11:24.840 --> 02:11:35.279
lawn. Is that helpful to get
the organisms below the surface. You mean

1842
02:11:35.560 --> 02:11:37.800
you're spraying them on and then they
go below the surface or or are you

1843
02:11:37.920 --> 02:11:43.479
talking about helping the beneficients that are
in the soil already. It's just trying

1844
02:11:43.520 --> 02:11:52.199
to get microorganisms farther down into the
soil than maybe the surface. They're going

1845
02:11:52.279 --> 02:11:56.520
to be there. The use of
those products and the grass plant itself is

1846
02:11:56.800 --> 02:12:01.279
making sure you have good microbes down
in the soil. So but if you

1847
02:12:01.359 --> 02:12:05.079
wanted to do a top dressing,
I would probably go to the ocean harvest

1848
02:12:05.319 --> 02:12:09.399
that's the blue jug uh and do
and do a little I see top dressing

1849
02:12:09.600 --> 02:12:13.039
top application. It's a liquid and
you could spray it on with a hose

1850
02:12:13.119 --> 02:12:18.600
in sprayer and introduce some of the
compounds that are in that which would also

1851
02:12:18.680 --> 02:12:22.079
be beneficial for microbial activity as well
as the plants, the grass plants themselves

1852
02:12:24.319 --> 02:12:30.239
and over no problem with overloading by
applying these things all. Now, no,

1853
02:12:30.640 --> 02:12:37.239
you're not you're not the brown patch. I believe it's a five one

1854
02:12:37.640 --> 02:12:39.399
three. I want to say,
I need to grab the numbers in front

1855
02:12:39.439 --> 02:12:45.039
of me, but it's something along
those lines maybe five two three, and

1856
02:12:45.680 --> 02:12:48.760
so no, it's not you're not
gonna you're not gonna burn plants with it,

1857
02:12:48.000 --> 02:12:50.640
and it's going to release a little
bit more gradually, so it'd be

1858
02:12:50.720 --> 02:12:54.159
fine. One final thing, John, is if you want to take a

1859
02:12:54.239 --> 02:12:56.800
sample in the zone between healthy and
dead, get about a four by four

1860
02:12:56.960 --> 02:13:01.680
four by six inch square of oil
you take out of the ground, slip

1861
02:13:01.720 --> 02:13:05.119
it right into a ziploc bag and
take it to the Montgomery County Extension Office.

1862
02:13:05.159 --> 02:13:09.119
Michael Potter is the Horde agent up
there, and his master gardeners are

1863
02:13:09.159 --> 02:13:11.199
there. It's a free service.
They'll look at it and tell you if

1864
02:13:11.239 --> 02:13:15.000
it's take all root ride or not. And that way at least you would

1865
02:13:15.039 --> 02:13:18.840
know for sure what you're dealing with. And what's his name again, Michael

1866
02:13:18.880 --> 02:13:22.960
Potter's the hoard agent. Montgomery County
Extension Office is up on Airport Road,

1867
02:13:24.039 --> 02:13:28.520
across from the Lone Star Convention Center, right up there on the northeast side

1868
02:13:28.560 --> 02:13:33.560
of conro. Oh yes, okay, they got good gardens to go visit

1869
02:13:33.640 --> 02:13:37.359
to be a fun tour while you're
out there. Cool all right, man,

1870
02:13:37.640 --> 02:13:41.439
Thanks so much, sir. All
right, good luck, good luck,

1871
02:13:41.760 --> 02:13:46.119
good luck. Dank here. That
one I've talked about Vego for a

1872
02:13:46.199 --> 02:13:48.279
long time. Vego is one of
the companies, one of the few companies

1873
02:13:48.319 --> 02:13:52.199
that I actually went to the company
and said, luck, I want to

1874
02:13:52.239 --> 02:13:56.399
talk about your products on guarden line. I believe in them. They're wonderful.

1875
02:13:56.680 --> 02:14:00.279
Vego's a Houston company. They're made
right here. There's impostors out there.

1876
02:14:00.319 --> 02:14:03.319
They're the first company in a country
as far as I know, this

1877
02:14:03.479 --> 02:14:07.359
whole USA, to make and sell
the garden beds here. And what I

1878
02:14:07.439 --> 02:14:13.640
mean by garden bed this is a
modular metal bed. It is coated with

1879
02:14:13.760 --> 02:14:16.920
a product or treated with a product
to prevent rust and corrosion that was tested

1880
02:14:16.960 --> 02:14:20.760
at Texas A and M University for
effectiveness and found to be very effective.

1881
02:14:22.399 --> 02:14:26.479
And then it's painted with the USD
certified paint for a metal that is beautiful.

1882
02:14:26.560 --> 02:14:30.119
I mean, you can get them
in different colors that are very attractive.

1883
02:14:30.439 --> 02:14:31.840
They're modulars, so you put them
together however you want. Do you

1884
02:14:31.920 --> 02:14:35.600
want a long, skinny one,
a short fat one and L shaped to

1885
02:14:35.680 --> 02:14:39.279
c shape. It's all there.
If you're an organic gardener, you absolutely

1886
02:14:39.359 --> 02:14:41.960
have to use these because you don't
want to use treated wood in your garden.

1887
02:14:41.960 --> 02:14:45.039
If you're an organic gardener, well, Vego does it. You can

1888
02:14:45.079 --> 02:14:48.680
go to vegogarden dot com. Many
of our local garden centers also carry them.

1889
02:14:50.000 --> 02:14:52.840
But they're beautiful. Go to vegogarden
dot com. Take a look.

1890
02:14:52.960 --> 02:14:56.800
You'll see what I'm talking about.
They're easy to do, and they weigh

1891
02:14:56.840 --> 02:15:01.359
out last even a treated wood bed. You're not gonna do better than Vago

1892
02:15:01.520 --> 02:15:05.800
Garden. We're gonna let's see,
We're gonna head out and out a porter

1893
02:15:05.000 --> 02:15:09.840
and talk to Marty. Hello,
Marty or Margie. Excuse me, that's

1894
02:15:09.880 --> 02:15:16.720
okay, Okay, So you answered
my question on the fall fertilization when you

1895
02:15:16.760 --> 02:15:22.000
were talking to John. Okay,
because I thought I'd bought the wrong stuff

1896
02:15:22.079 --> 02:15:24.680
to put down, but apparently not. I'm okay. But I do have

1897
02:15:24.800 --> 02:15:30.159
another question. So I have a
great myrtle that's in my backyard. Not

1898
02:15:30.479 --> 02:15:35.760
all of it, excuse me,
bloomed out this year. I have a

1899
02:15:35.840 --> 02:15:39.720
lot of dead branches in it.
Yes, Can I just cut those off?

1900
02:15:39.960 --> 02:15:43.439
Or do I need to cut them
back? Take the tree down.

1901
02:15:43.640 --> 02:15:46.800
Yep, find a branch with living
leave leaves, and then of course the

1902
02:15:46.880 --> 02:15:50.399
one you're calling dead. Follow them
together, and wherever they joined together,

1903
02:15:50.520 --> 02:15:54.920
cut the dead one off there.
In other words, you're you're you're finding

1904
02:15:54.159 --> 02:15:58.039
the where the dead branch starts and
cutting it off there. And you can

1905
02:15:58.119 --> 02:16:01.760
do that. And if you got
suckers coming out of the bottom, yes,

1906
02:16:01.000 --> 02:16:03.760
I do. Okay, if you
like, if you have enough branches

1907
02:16:03.880 --> 02:16:07.800
that lived that are part of your
original plant, cut all the suckers off

1908
02:16:07.920 --> 02:16:13.880
as close as you can get to
where they attach. Don't leave any stub,

1909
02:16:13.000 --> 02:16:16.720
not even a half inch stub.
And then there is a product called

1910
02:16:16.800 --> 02:16:22.359
sucker stopper, and you could spray
it on there and it'll suppress regrowth of

1911
02:16:22.479 --> 02:16:26.880
suckers. It's not going to be
a one time and work forever, but

1912
02:16:26.000 --> 02:16:31.039
it will suppress for a while those
suckers because the more you cut them off,

1913
02:16:31.119 --> 02:16:35.520
it's like the more that come back. Right, Because I had a

1914
02:16:35.600 --> 02:16:37.959
great girl in my front yard and
I cut it down, but they didn't

1915
02:16:39.000 --> 02:16:41.360
take the roots out. So I
have all these suckers coming up, so

1916
02:16:41.559 --> 02:16:46.040
I can get the sucker spray.
Yeah, but first cut them off and

1917
02:16:46.399 --> 02:16:50.879
again It's important because at the base
of the sucker a whole bunch of buds.

1918
02:16:50.200 --> 02:16:52.479
They can't wait for you to cut
it off and gave a little one

1919
02:16:52.559 --> 02:16:56.760
inch stub so they can grow.
You won't cut it off as close as

1920
02:16:56.840 --> 02:17:01.840
you can and then immediately spray it
with sucker stopper around the root of the

1921
02:17:01.920 --> 02:17:05.319
tree, around the base. Spray
the cuts from the base of the tree.

1922
02:17:05.200 --> 02:17:11.399
Okay, okay, Well, all
these limbs are up in the tree

1923
02:17:11.520 --> 02:17:15.520
itself, so I would have to
get somebody to come out here and cut

1924
02:17:15.600 --> 02:17:18.760
them down, because no way I
can do they out. So okay,

1925
02:17:18.280 --> 02:17:22.680
all right, Well that that ought
to get you off to a good start.

1926
02:17:22.000 --> 02:17:26.280
Some people lost the whole top and
they're they're choosing one or two or

1927
02:17:26.319 --> 02:17:30.520
three or four suckers to be the
stems and cutting everything else off as well

1928
02:17:30.559 --> 02:17:33.360
as cutting the dead top out.
So range there, all right, Marty,

1929
02:17:33.600 --> 02:17:37.079
Margie. Okay, I keep calling
you Marty. I don't know.

1930
02:17:37.159 --> 02:17:41.639
I hope that's okay. Last week
you call me Maggie and that was fine.

1931
02:17:41.840 --> 02:17:48.040
So what I made you were talking
strikes and I'm out. Thanks for

1932
02:17:48.120 --> 02:17:54.920
the call, Margie, thank you. Oh my gosh, you know,

1933
02:17:54.399 --> 02:17:58.239
Margie's talking about losing branches and stuff
on crape merles. You may have noticed

1934
02:17:58.239 --> 02:18:03.559
your landscapes can like, I can't
finish that sentence. It looks bad.

1935
02:18:03.680 --> 02:18:07.799
Pier Scapes just give him a call. You know. If you're doing yourselfware,

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02:18:07.840 --> 02:18:11.159
that's fine. But do you want
somebody who knows how to design coming

1937
02:18:11.200 --> 02:18:16.360
down and fixing things right? Do
you do you need your irrigation system fixed?

1938
02:18:16.399 --> 02:18:18.000
A lot of people do? Do
you need any kind of work done?

1939
02:18:18.360 --> 02:18:22.959
Do you need grass planted and replanted? Do you need new beds designed?

1940
02:18:22.079 --> 02:18:28.159
Pier scapes two eight one three seven
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1941
02:18:28.239 --> 02:18:33.040
seven zero fifty sixty or pierce scapes
dot com. It's as simple as that.

1942
02:18:33.319 --> 02:18:37.120
Have them come out and go from
oh my gosh, I can't bear

1943
02:18:37.239 --> 02:18:39.399
opening my eyes and looking at this
too. Oh it's so beautiful. Let's

1944
02:18:39.440 --> 02:18:45.559
invite friends over. That's what peer
scapes can do. Welcome to garden Line.

1945
02:18:45.680 --> 02:18:48.399
We are having a great time today
talking about all kinds of things gardening

1946
02:18:48.440 --> 02:18:52.639
and hoping. Lee. We are
hoping. We are helping to get you

1947
02:18:52.760 --> 02:18:56.520
off to a good start. Because
fall is here. It is time to

1948
02:18:56.600 --> 02:18:58.639
get going on that. Hey,
by the way, before I forget.

1949
02:18:58.360 --> 02:19:03.680
Earlier today, Sandy called and had
some little black things on her okra and

1950
02:19:03.840 --> 02:19:07.000
sent me some pictures of it.
Sandy, I want to tell you what

1951
02:19:07.079 --> 02:19:09.200
that is is kind of cool,
pretty cool stuff. Those are aphids.

1952
02:19:09.239 --> 02:19:13.239
There's a black type of apid that
will get on okra and it will get

1953
02:19:13.280 --> 02:19:16.959
on them so thick that it kind
of causes the leaves to curl and and

1954
02:19:16.079 --> 02:19:20.120
just really loads up, sucks all
the juices out of the pods, even

1955
02:19:20.159 --> 02:19:22.799
the blooms before they open up.
We'll get them all over them. And

1956
02:19:22.040 --> 02:19:26.440
it tends to happen on one plant
here and there, not just to attack

1957
02:19:26.520 --> 02:19:31.079
the whole patch. Two options.
One you can spray blast of water.

1958
02:19:31.200 --> 02:19:35.600
You can sprays soapy soap and sex
title soap on them and kill apids.

1959
02:19:35.639 --> 02:19:39.639
Does all work work very well.
But in your case, looking at the

1960
02:19:39.719 --> 02:19:43.760
pictures, you've got some little tiny
white insects on there. They're little white

1961
02:19:46.600 --> 02:19:50.200
things. And what those are is
that's a type of lady beetle called a

1962
02:19:50.399 --> 02:19:56.799
crypt beetle or a skimness beetle,
and they eat aphids. Yeah, that

1963
02:19:56.000 --> 02:20:00.200
is a lady beetle. That is
the larva of the lady beetle. They

1964
02:20:00.200 --> 02:20:01.799
are on there eating your aphids.
Now, those lady bids are never going

1965
02:20:01.879 --> 02:20:05.520
to clean this aphid mess up.
There's way too many aphids for the number

1966
02:20:05.520 --> 02:20:09.280
of lady buidles you have. But
it is a beneficial insect and it'll be

1967
02:20:09.399 --> 02:20:13.920
around. And so if it were
mine, with all the other okre you

1968
02:20:13.040 --> 02:20:16.360
got, I would just leave that
alone and just let them, let them

1969
02:20:16.399 --> 02:20:20.600
be. You're gonna you're gonna lose
some okrah on those plants. But you

1970
02:20:20.719 --> 02:20:24.799
got a lot of ochre plants and
a lot of okra, and you are

1971
02:20:24.920 --> 02:20:28.440
raising a nice crop of the kind
of lady beetles that will help with a

1972
02:20:28.520 --> 02:20:31.680
lot of pests that you have.
Sandy, that would be my take on

1973
02:20:31.799 --> 02:20:35.520
it. You do with that as
you wish. We're gonna head out now

1974
02:20:35.639 --> 02:20:39.959
to Lakeside Estates and talk to Maureen. Hello, Maureen, good morning,

1975
02:20:41.239 --> 02:20:46.600
Good morning. I have two lovely
flowers and I'm looking for them to bloom

1976
02:20:46.760 --> 02:20:54.440
sometime in November December, the Christmas
and the Thanksgiving cactus. They're getting quite

1977
02:20:54.639 --> 02:20:56.440
lanky, and I thought, you
know, I wonder if I could start

1978
02:20:56.520 --> 02:21:00.879
forming back. I'm sure I can, but I want it to get some

1979
02:21:01.040 --> 02:21:05.719
blooms for this coming season, right, What do you think? I would

1980
02:21:05.760 --> 02:21:09.840
not trim them now. If you
want to do some trimming back later,

1981
02:21:09.000 --> 02:21:13.719
you can, but they will naturally
branch. Is those things arch over and

1982
02:21:13.760 --> 02:21:16.319
stuff. You're going to see some
branching occurring. But I would wait until

1983
02:21:16.440 --> 02:21:20.360
next spring before I do any trimming. If you're going to do any what

1984
02:21:20.600 --> 02:21:24.520
we need to do now is keep
them in as good a light as we

1985
02:21:24.639 --> 02:21:26.319
can. They don't need to be
in direct sun, but they need to

1986
02:21:26.360 --> 02:21:31.959
be in plenty of bright light and
keep them adequately moist. Even though the

1987
02:21:31.079 --> 02:21:37.680
name says cactus, they are really
something that lives in an environment where it's

1988
02:21:37.799 --> 02:21:41.399
kept moist, and so we don't
They can tolerate drying out a little bit,

1989
02:21:41.719 --> 02:21:45.559
but you want them to do their
best, and so don't let them

1990
02:21:45.920 --> 02:21:50.520
stay too dry for too long.
When we get a little further and let's

1991
02:21:50.559 --> 02:21:54.440
say probably a little later into October, you can either let nature take its

1992
02:21:54.520 --> 02:22:01.600
course and they will bloom at their
pointed time when the day links get short

1993
02:22:01.760 --> 02:22:05.959
enough. But if you wanted to
speed it up a little bit at some

1994
02:22:05.159 --> 02:22:11.079
point in October, you can start
making it be dark at about five o'clock.

1995
02:22:11.600 --> 02:22:15.920
And so I tell people is you
know, you got one sitting out

1996
02:22:15.959 --> 02:22:20.000
there in the front porch where it
gets good light. And when you come

1997
02:22:20.120 --> 02:22:24.959
home every day from work, throw
an upside down bucket or box over it,

1998
02:22:26.559 --> 02:22:28.559
and then in the morning when you
get up and go to work,

1999
02:22:28.639 --> 02:22:31.040
take the box off. And what
you've done is you've told that plant that

2000
02:22:31.159 --> 02:22:35.879
it is much later in the fall
than it is and it will initiate buds.

2001
02:22:35.920 --> 02:22:39.760
You only have to do that for
about two weeks and then take the

2002
02:22:39.840 --> 02:22:43.559
box off, And especially as we
start getting nights down in the sixties,

2003
02:22:45.399 --> 02:22:50.680
that bud initiation is going to happen
and you'll have a beautiful bloom once they

2004
02:22:50.719 --> 02:22:54.879
set buds, though they cannot dry
out that any kind of a stress will

2005
02:22:54.959 --> 02:23:00.319
cause them to abort those buds.
So should I be missing this oil?

2006
02:23:00.360 --> 02:23:03.280
I don't want to build up like
a crust or anything now that has happened.

2007
02:23:03.479 --> 02:23:05.760
No, I just give mine.
I've got two different plants of it

2008
02:23:05.840 --> 02:23:11.959
here in Houston, at the place
we stay at, and I just occasionally

2009
02:23:11.079 --> 02:23:13.639
give them a good soaking, wet
it really well. When it starts to

2010
02:23:13.639 --> 02:23:16.440
get a little on the dry side, I'll water them again. Just that's

2011
02:23:16.479 --> 02:23:22.920
it, okay, And I shouldn't
throw them outside in a shaded place.

2012
02:23:22.159 --> 02:23:26.000
Just let them stay inside as where
they have been growing. I do put

2013
02:23:26.040 --> 02:23:30.639
mine outside. In fact, I
just moved mine outside last week. And

2014
02:23:31.760 --> 02:23:35.399
that way, when we get the
cooler night temperatures, that helps with that

2015
02:23:35.520 --> 02:23:41.799
bloom initiation. So that is part
of the day length and the temperatures are

2016
02:23:41.879 --> 02:23:45.360
both part of that bloom initiation.
And so you can do that. Just

2017
02:23:45.440 --> 02:23:48.479
don't leave them out. When the
temperatures are going to drop into the you

2018
02:23:48.559 --> 02:23:50.920
know, like the mid fifties or
something, you need to go ahead and

2019
02:23:50.920 --> 02:23:54.600
bring them in. That's a little
too getting below the I only capt okay,

2020
02:23:54.719 --> 02:24:00.600
I kept them inside because a hundred
was not good. Yeah, I

2021
02:24:00.719 --> 02:24:03.719
didn't think so. So now I'm
just trying to ya. I'm just trying

2022
02:24:03.760 --> 02:24:09.159
to get everything equalized and let everybody
live happily. Yeah, and that's fine.

2023
02:24:09.680 --> 02:24:11.879
You know. I put mine maybe
out a little early, but I

2024
02:24:11.920 --> 02:24:15.479
don't know. I have trouble getting
around everything, so when I think of

2025
02:24:15.520 --> 02:24:18.879
it, I do it through.
Okay. Thank you so much, love

2026
02:24:18.959 --> 02:24:22.959
your knowledge. Thank you, Marine, appreciate your call very much. Uh.

2027
02:24:24.239 --> 02:24:28.840
You know, we're talking about products
and things the ACE Hardware stores that

2028
02:24:28.879 --> 02:24:31.959
are here in the Greater Houston area. Everything you need right now to get

2029
02:24:33.000 --> 02:24:35.000
your lawn back on track. And
I've been talking about it all day.

2030
02:24:35.079 --> 02:24:39.079
You know, the fertilizing. Do
you need any weed control? Do you

2031
02:24:39.159 --> 02:24:43.920
need any disease control or insect control? Do you need any kind of product

2032
02:24:43.360 --> 02:24:46.079
for your law and your landscape?
ACE is going to have it. And

2033
02:24:46.200 --> 02:24:50.120
ACE is all over the place,
thirty nine stores. Just go to ACE

2034
02:24:50.239 --> 02:24:54.959
Hardware dot com, Ace Hardware dot
Com, find their store locator, click

2035
02:24:54.040 --> 02:24:56.719
on it, put yours up,
go down. Just it'll tell you all

2036
02:24:56.719 --> 02:25:00.600
the stores around you. And when
you get there, you're going to find

2037
02:25:00.719 --> 02:25:03.920
all of the fertilizers, I recommend
you're going to find a lot more.

2038
02:25:03.520 --> 02:25:07.760
Anything you need for outdoor living is
going to be there, of course,

2039
02:25:07.840 --> 02:25:09.399
certainly indoor living. Hey, it's
a hardware store. I don't have to

2040
02:25:09.440 --> 02:25:13.479
tell you what's in a hardware store. But you don't know everything that's in

2041
02:25:13.520 --> 02:25:16.840
ACE if you haven't been to one, because it will surprise you at the

2042
02:25:18.040 --> 02:25:20.639
wide variety of products. You know. Ea, each ACE is locally owned

2043
02:25:20.639 --> 02:25:26.000
and operated, each individual ACE is
and so they each have their own personality,

2044
02:25:26.280 --> 02:25:30.239
and you know, some of them
do one thing that maybe a different

2045
02:25:30.280 --> 02:25:33.280
one didn't do. But they all
have the list of products we're talking about.

2046
02:25:33.440 --> 02:25:37.879
They all have quality things and everything
you can imagine, from barbecueing outdoors

2047
02:25:39.200 --> 02:25:43.719
to making that new flower bed even
prettier. Ace Hardware dot Com. No

2048
02:25:43.079 --> 02:25:46.719
problem there, that's a no brainer. That is a no brainer. Let's

2049
02:25:46.760 --> 02:25:52.079
head out to let's see what I'm
really looking at. Uh, I'll tell

2050
02:25:52.079 --> 02:25:56.600
you what, tim I am out. I'm just about out of time for

2051
02:25:56.719 --> 02:25:58.479
this segment, so I'm going to
hold you over so I can give you

2052
02:25:58.600 --> 02:26:03.760
the time needed to fully answer your
question. Well, our phone number is

2053
02:26:03.840 --> 02:26:07.040
seven one three two one two fifty
eight seventy four. If you would like

2054
02:26:07.559 --> 02:26:11.840
to give us a call, would
be happy to do that. If you

2055
02:26:11.959 --> 02:26:16.360
have not had your lawn aer rated
and compost top dressed recently, you need

2056
02:26:16.440 --> 02:26:18.360
to go ahead and get that done, and the folks at Greenpro are the

2057
02:26:18.479 --> 02:26:24.079
best ones to do it now.
Five ninety nine plus sales TAC depending on

2058
02:26:24.159 --> 02:26:28.399
the size and location or your lawn. They come out with very expensive equipment

2059
02:26:28.680 --> 02:26:33.040
and do a quality aeration that pulls
plugs out deep puts them on the surface.

2060
02:26:33.159 --> 02:26:37.920
They follow that with quality composts.
That's finally screened to go over the

2061
02:26:37.040 --> 02:26:41.280
top fall down in the holes.
So when you fertilize or anything else,

2062
02:26:41.719 --> 02:26:45.879
you have set your lawn up for
success with a root system that now can

2063
02:26:46.079 --> 02:26:50.000
thrive. That's green pro dot net
if you would like to give to check

2064
02:26:50.079 --> 02:26:54.040
them out for more information or two
eight one four excuse me, two eight

2065
02:26:54.159 --> 02:27:01.520
one three five one forty seven thirty
three. We'll be right back. Wellcome

2066
02:27:01.559 --> 02:27:03.520
back to garden Line. We're in
our last segment of the day. It

2067
02:27:03.719 --> 02:27:09.200
is heading toward ten when we shut
things down and I will head up to

2068
02:27:09.040 --> 02:27:13.879
the Nature's Way Resources. I'll be
there from eleven thirty to one thirty today.

2069
02:27:15.399 --> 02:27:18.360
That is going to be part of
their big Fall Garden Festival, One

2070
02:27:18.399 --> 02:27:22.600
heck of a shin Dig. We
got Latin food, live music, local

2071
02:27:22.719 --> 02:27:26.079
vendors, and no beverages, scavenger
hunts for kids. I mean, it's

2072
02:27:26.079 --> 02:27:28.639
just gonna be a good time.
I look forward to meeting lays, love

2073
02:27:28.719 --> 02:27:31.799
to meet folks that listen to garden
Line. So all those of you up

2074
02:27:31.959 --> 02:27:37.399
there in Montgomery County or northern Harris
County or drive from wherever you want,

2075
02:27:37.760 --> 02:27:39.840
we'd love to have you. And
while you're there, you be able to

2076
02:27:39.920 --> 02:27:43.879
check out Nature's Way. You know, Nature's Way has a quality line of

2077
02:27:43.920 --> 02:27:46.680
products. I mean they basically invented
a lot of the best products that we

2078
02:27:46.760 --> 02:27:50.760
have now. Things like rose soil, things like fungal composts, things like

2079
02:27:50.440 --> 02:27:54.959
leaf mold compost. I mean,
those are all Nature's Way creations and they

2080
02:27:56.000 --> 02:27:58.440
are super quality, and that's what
you expect. They're on their fungal Fridays.

2081
02:27:58.479 --> 02:28:01.120
By the way, the ten percent
off their bag products, twenty percent

2082
02:28:01.159 --> 02:28:05.879
off their bulk products, and they
got plenty of that on hand. Now.

2083
02:28:05.479 --> 02:28:07.760
You know, anytime you're out at
Nature's Where, you've got to check

2084
02:28:07.760 --> 02:28:13.399
out their nursuring garden center. They
just keep making it bigger and better.

2085
02:28:13.559 --> 02:28:18.280
They really specialize in native plants.
They've got certainly fruit trees, seasonal vegetables

2086
02:28:18.360 --> 02:28:22.440
and other things out there. Come
out today and check it out and see

2087
02:28:22.479 --> 02:28:24.000
what I'm talking about. While you're
out there, I hope you take home

2088
02:28:24.120 --> 02:28:28.239
some bags of various products that fit
what you're looking for. We're going to

2089
02:28:28.280 --> 02:28:33.360
be given away a number of different
Nature's Way products today, so I hope

2090
02:28:33.399 --> 02:28:37.040
you'll come out. We'll be given
those away periodically during the time I'm there.

2091
02:28:37.120 --> 02:28:41.639
From eleven thirty to one thirty.
So you definitely want to get there

2092
02:28:41.680 --> 02:28:45.680
and sign up because that is the
good stuff, and you want to be

2093
02:28:45.719 --> 02:28:48.520
able to take that home with you. By the way, good time to

2094
02:28:48.520 --> 02:28:52.120
go ahead and put an order in. Maybe you want a delivery of one

2095
02:28:52.280 --> 02:28:58.040
of their quality products. They can
arrange it. Just show up and they'll

2096
02:28:58.120 --> 02:29:01.000
set you up. It's easy to
do, easy to do. I always

2097
02:29:01.040 --> 02:29:05.559
love going out there and visiting with
John and I and just the place just

2098
02:29:05.680 --> 02:29:07.920
keeps getting better, as you'll see
today when you come out. Let's head

2099
02:29:07.959 --> 02:29:13.639
out to pair Land and talk to
Tim. Hello, Tim, Hello,

2100
02:29:13.760 --> 02:29:16.079
Skip, how are you doing today? Well, I'm doing well. How

2101
02:29:16.159 --> 02:29:20.600
are you great? Hey? Question? I have a start out with.

2102
02:29:20.639 --> 02:29:26.440
It's a red oak tree, okay. I have something that's on a couple

2103
02:29:26.479 --> 02:29:31.959
of limbs eating what I'm gonna call
the meat of the leaf. But it's

2104
02:29:31.040 --> 02:29:37.440
leaving the stem and the veins of
the leaf. Okay. And I don't

2105
02:29:37.520 --> 02:29:41.360
see anything. I looked pretty thorough. I don't see any kind of worm

2106
02:29:41.559 --> 02:29:46.479
or anything of that nature. Do
you know what this might be? Yeah,

2107
02:29:46.680 --> 02:29:50.959
it is a caterpillar, most likely
most likely as a caterpillar, it

2108
02:29:52.079 --> 02:29:56.200
could be a beetle. There are
leaf feeding beetles that will do that.

2109
02:29:56.760 --> 02:30:00.920
But here's what happens. Caterpillars,
little tiny eggs. They had little tiny

2110
02:30:01.000 --> 02:30:05.319
caterpillars, little tiny jaws, and
all they can do is chew that spongy

2111
02:30:05.440 --> 02:30:09.879
mesophill of the leaf away, and
they can't even eat even the tiniest of

2112
02:30:09.000 --> 02:30:13.319
veins. And you're left with this
little almost like a little window that you

2113
02:30:13.399 --> 02:30:16.520
can see through, with a little
patchwork of veins. Then they molt,

2114
02:30:16.600 --> 02:30:20.120
get a bigger set of jaws,
and they eat those little veins, but

2115
02:30:20.200 --> 02:30:22.079
they can't eat the bigger veins.
Then they molt again and they can eat

2116
02:30:22.120 --> 02:30:26.959
the bigger veins, but not the
biggest veins. And so depending on what

2117
02:30:26.159 --> 02:30:30.680
the damage looks like, you can
tell what age, if you will,

2118
02:30:30.959 --> 02:30:35.120
what stage of development that caterpillars in. Now, sometimes they get started and

2119
02:30:35.239 --> 02:30:39.040
then things happen. They have a
lot of natural enemies. They are a

2120
02:30:39.200 --> 02:30:43.200
bird food. Caterpillars are important bird
food. Caterpillars have a number of natural

2121
02:30:43.360 --> 02:30:46.760
enemies that will attack them and get
rid of them. And so you may

2122
02:30:46.840 --> 02:30:50.799
see the damage and go buy there
and there are no caterpillars left. Wasps

2123
02:30:50.920 --> 02:30:56.440
paper wasps love. That's our number
one food as caterpillars, so a lot

2124
02:30:56.479 --> 02:30:58.639
of things can happen. If you
don't see pests. I would say the

2125
02:30:58.719 --> 02:31:03.719
problem probably is already gone. But
even if it's not gone, these trees

2126
02:31:03.760 --> 02:31:07.680
are going to be losing their leaves
soon. There's no need to spray.

2127
02:31:07.799 --> 02:31:11.799
The amount of leaf loss is not
enough to threaten the health of that tree.

2128
02:31:11.399 --> 02:31:16.760
And again, there are so many
good things that come from the fact

2129
02:31:16.879 --> 02:31:20.879
that the caterpillars are out there in
the environment, including feeding our songbirds,

2130
02:31:22.000 --> 02:31:24.200
that unless it's threatening the tree,
I don't worry about him. And in

2131
02:31:24.280 --> 02:31:28.559
this case it's not, okay,
just let it run its course, think

2132
02:31:28.639 --> 02:31:31.120
correct. This would be an easy
one. Like I always tell people,

2133
02:31:31.159 --> 02:31:33.959
you know, we can forget about
this and go work on world peace or

2134
02:31:35.000 --> 02:31:39.760
some other big issue of the day. All right, all right, well

2135
02:31:39.799 --> 02:31:41.559
listen to thank you very much,
Hey, Jim, Thanks and have a

2136
02:31:41.600 --> 02:31:46.879
good time out there in pair Land. Appreciate your call very much. If

2137
02:31:46.959 --> 02:31:52.040
you live up in the Montgomery area, just on the east side of Montgomery

2138
02:31:52.280 --> 02:31:54.879
is a nice little place called Ana
plants and produce, And if you live

2139
02:31:54.959 --> 02:31:58.399
up there, you already know about
it. All you folks are on the

2140
02:31:58.520 --> 02:32:03.280
lake, you know, April Sound, the bent Water, Walden de Lago,

2141
02:32:03.399 --> 02:32:07.319
all those places, but anywhere up
there from Montgomery over to Conro or

2142
02:32:07.360 --> 02:32:11.639
the whole region. This is your
this is your hometown garden center and its

2143
02:32:11.680 --> 02:32:13.719
family owned has been around for thirty
years that Cathy took it over from her

2144
02:32:13.760 --> 02:32:18.399
parents, Adam and Alice Floors.
And what is it now? I think

2145
02:32:18.479 --> 02:32:20.920
three acres filled with shade trees,
fruit trees, not trees, you and

2146
02:32:22.040 --> 02:32:26.719
some pecans, citrus trees, berries, vegetables. Great, great selection by

2147
02:32:26.760 --> 02:32:30.799
the way of mums that they've gotten
in out there, and an a is

2148
02:32:30.840 --> 02:32:35.440
just it's real easy to shop at
Ana. It's easy to find stuff.

2149
02:32:35.440 --> 02:32:37.319
They got stuff. They got folks
on hand that'll take care of you,

2150
02:32:37.479 --> 02:32:41.200
that'll that'll help you find the things
that you need to find. And if

2151
02:32:41.200 --> 02:32:46.360
you're doing any kind of decorations,
oh my gosh, they can load you

2152
02:32:46.559 --> 02:32:50.440
up on landscape bling because they really
have a good supply of it. I

2153
02:32:50.559 --> 02:32:54.520
noticed they got some asmite in,
so if you're going to do your asmite

2154
02:32:54.559 --> 02:32:56.879
this fall, that's a place just
go grab it. They'll have it there

2155
02:32:56.959 --> 02:33:03.120
for you. A and a plants
and produce. They are a fun garden

2156
02:33:03.200 --> 02:33:07.639
center to visit. They are a
well stocked garden center to visit and if

2157
02:33:07.680 --> 02:33:11.200
you are trying to replace anything that
has struggle this summer, or if you

2158
02:33:11.280 --> 02:33:15.600
need products like fertilizers that I talk
about in others, they'll get you set

2159
02:33:15.719 --> 02:33:18.680
up. They've got it all there. It's a one stop, easy shop

2160
02:33:18.799 --> 02:33:22.360
for everybody in that area. Again, just on the east side of Montgomery

2161
02:33:22.760 --> 02:33:26.840
on one oh five, not hard
to find, easy and easy out and

2162
02:33:26.000 --> 02:33:30.719
everything you need while you're there looking
for something. I always love to go

2163
02:33:30.840 --> 02:33:33.000
by and visit Ana. I gotta
tell you, as much as I love

2164
02:33:33.040 --> 02:33:37.680
all their plants and stuff, when
I get into all the bling, it's

2165
02:33:37.760 --> 02:33:43.239
like wow, Wow, they have
got a lot of cool stuff. Well,

2166
02:33:43.280 --> 02:33:46.360
we're going to head out now to
League City and talk to Glenn.

2167
02:33:46.479 --> 02:33:50.840
Hello, Glenn, good morning,
Thank you for taking my call. How

2168
02:33:50.920 --> 02:33:54.479
are you today? I'm well,
thank you. What's happening in League City?

2169
02:33:56.600 --> 02:34:03.520
I had Moon Nurseries come out yesterday
and I'd like to add some shrubs

2170
02:34:03.840 --> 02:34:07.440
and some a couple of trees in
my front yard and some shrubs in the

2171
02:34:07.520 --> 02:34:11.479
back. And I just wanted to
make sure that because it's we're going into

2172
02:34:11.559 --> 02:34:16.840
fall and where the Fumer's Almanac.
We're supposed to have a pretty cold winter,

2173
02:34:18.799 --> 02:34:22.719
but it would be okay. Is
it okay to plant? You're saying,

2174
02:34:24.840 --> 02:34:26.520
yeah, I just want to make
sure that if they if they plant

2175
02:34:28.159 --> 02:34:31.719
plants, and you know, the
plants are in the trees are establishing roots,

2176
02:34:31.280 --> 02:34:35.600
that if we do have a really
cold winter, that they're not going

2177
02:34:35.639 --> 02:34:37.159
to die. Maybe I should wait
until spring. No, no, no,

2178
02:34:37.479 --> 02:34:41.639
no. Now is the best time, hands down to plant any woody

2179
02:34:41.719 --> 02:34:45.719
ornamental in your landscape, tree,
shrubs, woody vines, all of them

2180
02:34:46.399 --> 02:34:50.200
fall fall. Is it Octobers a
great month? Novembers a great month.

2181
02:34:50.920 --> 02:34:54.680
But but go ahead and don't don't
wait till spring, because you see,

2182
02:34:54.719 --> 02:34:58.799
if you plant in the fall,
they have all winter. Whenever the soil

2183
02:34:58.879 --> 02:35:01.559
is about fifty degrees, which it
is here all winter, the roots can

2184
02:35:01.639 --> 02:35:05.920
develop. They're slowly developing, but
it's establishing. And so when next summer

2185
02:35:07.000 --> 02:35:09.200
comes and we go through what we
went through this summer or anywhere close to

2186
02:35:09.280 --> 02:35:13.239
it, your fall plants are way
ahead of anything you plant in the spring.

2187
02:35:15.520 --> 02:35:18.959
Oh that's great, that's really great. And one more quick question.

2188
02:35:20.000 --> 02:35:24.879
I'm going to airate my lawn and
my lawn was hit really hard like everybody

2189
02:35:24.959 --> 02:35:30.079
else's. So I've got some brown
patches because of the hot summer. I

2190
02:35:30.239 --> 02:35:35.479
have Randy Lemon's schedule, yes,
and I'm going to air ate. So

2191
02:35:35.719 --> 02:35:41.040
if I airy the asamite and the
fertilizer, should I put that down before

2192
02:35:41.280 --> 02:35:43.920
I corp airy or after? It
doesn't make a lot of difference. I

2193
02:35:43.959 --> 02:35:48.920
would. I generally do it afterward, but either way is fine. On

2194
02:35:48.079 --> 02:35:52.200
asamite and the fertilizing. Either way
I'll go. Now, if you're going

2195
02:35:52.239 --> 02:35:56.399
to do a compost top dressing,
I do that. Definitely do that afterward,

2196
02:35:56.120 --> 02:35:58.840
but that'll work well. Yeah,
And randy schedule is still up there

2197
02:36:00.040 --> 02:36:01.399
line. You know, I have
my own up there now and if you

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go to gardening with skip dot com, my schedules up there and it's it's

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in many many ways similar to Randy's. I just have a lot of different

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information that I put up on mine, little additional stuff that you might you

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might be interesting. I'll pull yours
down Skip. Yeah, I didn't know

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that, and I'll pull yours down. Yeah. I would really appreciate your

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time. I hope you have a
nice weekend. I hope you have a

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good weekend. Too. Thanks for
that call, and have fun getting that

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planting done. Yeah fall is if
folks, Wow, this morning went fast.

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At least it did for me.
I wouldn't having to listen to myself

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drawn on like you were. But
I'm I'm about to jump in a car

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and make a bee line for Nature's
Way resources up in Conro. If you're

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heading up forty five when you fourteen
eighty eight comes in from the left hand

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side there from the west, turn
right, go across the railroad tracks and

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you're a Nature's Way. Now,
I'm to have an opportunity to answer your

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gardening questions, to look at samples, to identify plants, to look at

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pictures on your phone. So what
do I do with this area? Just

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come on, we'll talk about it
all. They're going to have one heck

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of a shindegg with food, music, vendors, beverages. There's lots and

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lots of fun Nature's Way resources.
Hope to see they're in just a bit