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For example, if a tree just
bends over, like the trunk is literally

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leaning over, as if you had
a fishing pole pointing straight up and someone

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grabbed the top and pulled it over
around toward the ground. In other words,

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the root systems intact, but the
trunk has bent. Well, that's

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due to the fact that trunk had
not developed good strength yet. And with

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really young trees that's often the case. They may be grown staked very tightly

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to a stake to keep the trunk
nice and straight, and as a result,

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it doesn't bend, it doesn't get
stronger, and then you put it

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out in the wind, and the
whole thing just basically, you know,

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leans over. Sometimes splits or cracks, but just leans over. Those you've

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got to pull back up into place. If you've got a smaller tree and

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you have a tree stabilizer or a
three sixty tree stabilizer and a iron t

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post, you can hammer it in
the ground and use that as your support

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for it. It's going to take
a while for that tree to get strong

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again. What you're going to have
to do is let them wind move it

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around, don't you know, stake
it tightly to the trunk or to the

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post. That way that movement,
that trunk will develop strength and in time

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you won't need that support anymore.
Second thing that I noticed happens is the

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tree itself blows over and the roots
come up out of the ground. If

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it is a tree that's only a
year or too old from planting, then

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you can straighten it back up,
get it staked into place again. Get

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you a three sixty tree stabilizer and
do that. It makes it really fast

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and simple and effective too. By
the way, and you put those roots

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back down in the ground, you
may have to remove a little soil from

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under it that washed in with the
rain that came with the wind, so

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that that tree can stand straight up
and not have this mound underneath it that

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is going to pull up the other
side as you try to straighten it.

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Bottom line is it's going to need
to be staked for a good while because

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those roots have to redevelop and that's
going to take a while. If a

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tree is trying to get back after
being uprooted like that, it takes a

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long time to not only grow roots
that reach out, but that reach a

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diameter and a strength where now they
are supporting the tree again. Now if

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a tree is over five years old, and there's no magic in a specific

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number. It could be the growing
conditions of the site, it can be

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the species of the tree, but
in general, you get an older tree

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like that that falls over and the
roots go up into the air. You

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know, it picks up the sod
and everything, and you see all the

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broken off roots that is never going
to anchor back down again except under crazy

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extra links of staking and waiting,
and even then I have my doubt,

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serious doubts for it. Just the
whole process of straightening a huge tree like

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that, it's not worth trying to
do in my opinion, because in most

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cases it's going to take so long
and being able to have a support strong

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enough to do all of the structural
support for that tree in the meantime,

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it's just not practical to do that. The last thing that I mentioned,

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well actually a couple things. The
split tree trunk. When you have a

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branch that splits off, often at
the top where it broke loose, you'll

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see black which is decaying bark.
If you think of two trunks that are

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growing in a narrow V shape straight
up, you'll picture that with me.

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When those trunks are the size of
golf balls. They may look pretty far

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apart, and then they get bigger
and now they're the size of soft balls,

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and they're pushing together as it gets
larger and larger, as each grow

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in diameter, it's like they're pushing
each other apart with that growth, and

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you get included bark and it's a
very weak branch angle, very likely to

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split, and we saw a lot
of that in this storm. When you

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get a split tree, then there's
not a lot to do to prune that

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all off is it's going to leave
a huge wound and it's going to be

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very difficult for it ever to heal, and in the meantime, over the

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years, you'll get interior decay that
occurs under minor splits. Sometimes arborists will

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use a bolt to go through to
hold it back together, or go further

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out on the branch and connect a
cable between two branches to provide that same

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structural support. That's a touch and
go thing, and you need a professional

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arbist to make the assessments of what
should be done and secondly, where should

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that be done. You know,
where would you put that structural support?

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Doing it yourself, while possible,
I wouldn't advise it. I would have

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someone who knows what they're talking about
come in and fix that. The split

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tree trunk. Final thing just to
mention is when you're removing broken branches.

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When you're removing broken branches, you
want to cut the branch off back near

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where it attaches to the trunk or
another branch, but not flush up against

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that trunk. So if you imagine
a tree branch and you're following it down

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toward the trunk, it's a certain
diameter, and right before it attaches,

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it flares out. Not every species
does this, but a lot of them

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flare out in that attachment. If
you were to cut all the way against

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the trunk, that's a huge wound. If you come out just to where

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it hits its sigh the size that
you had as you're following it down and

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cut it off there, that's a
very small wound. And you're leaving the

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branch collar, which has the tissues
that heal the fastest for that tree.

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So basically what I'm saying is look
at where it attaches, if there's any

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ridge around it around the base,
just outside of that is where you cut

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further. You leave a stub the
stub dies and now the wound cannot close

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back over with kellis. So those
are a few tips for taking care of

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your trees. Don't be afraid to
bring a professional arborist in because that is

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very, very important. That's why
we recommend Martin Spoonmore from a His Tree

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Service. There's a how do I
put it, there's a line between people

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that know what they're doing and don't
when you pune a tree, and when

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you hire an arboris like Martin from
Affordable Tree Service, you're going to get

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somebody who understands what to do properly
with it. U there are a lot

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of people that look around at what
everybody else has done and they mimic that.

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And that's what gets us great murder
where we think we have to chop

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every crape murdle off at just above
head high every year. It's not a

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good practice, but it's because that's
what other people do. You want an

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arboris that knows what they're doing.
An Affordable Tree is that kind of service.

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If you like to contact them,
it's afftre Service dot com. That'll

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get you to Martin's website. If
you want to give them a call.

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It's seven one three six nine nine
twenty six sixty. That's seven one three

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six' nine nine two six six
three. And you do want to call,

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you do want to tell him?
You listen to garden line. That

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gets you to the front of his
line and he stays busy, and so

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talk to him about booking something out
there to come in and get your trees

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ready for the next hurricane or some
other summer storm. Well, I'm going

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to take a little break here and
I'll be right back. Our phone number

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is seven three two and two kt
RHO. Welcome back to oad line.

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Well, we're just talking about some
common issues with the trees that we're seeing

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now with the storm having passed through
and done its work, there's a lot

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we can do over the course of
time to help our trees. I was

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just talking earlier before break about some
of the broken limbs, uprooted, bent

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trunks, all of those kinds of
things, and how to make a proper

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cut. It's also important for us
to talk a little bit about what do

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we do to prevent problems going down
the line, and not just problems from

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a storm. And listen, there
are storms that are going to take down

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a tree no matter what you do
that if everything is right, the winds

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be and whatnot. I mean,
it's not like we just prevent that tree

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from having any damage, but we
want to do everything we can to make

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it as strong as we can,
to provide a structure for that tree that

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can take the weight of the wind, that can take the weight of branches

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as the tree grows older and older. And one of that, one of

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the first steps is choosing good varieties, good species of trees that want to

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grow here. That's important. Remember
the instinct of I want a fast growing

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tree as one you need to put
a little bit of a damper on.

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We have some trees that grow at
a very good pace if you will water

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and fertilize them, get them going. But the fastest growing trees are generally

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the worst choices to plant growth.
I like to say, grow fast,

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die young, because the bottom line
is it just falls apart. Arizona ash

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trees used to be the thing planted
everywhere in the nineteen sixties and seventies,

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and you come back maybe twenty five
years after that, and you were seeing

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entire neighborhoods where they're having to take
them down because this tree or that tree

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was broken or split or whatever.
Not a good tree. Not a good

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tree. But we do have some
excellent trees that you can speed up considerably

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and have a very good, strong, long term tree. Pick the right

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species. Second thing you want to
think about is you want to make sure

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that when you choose your tree,
you plant it properly to give it the

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best chance of good long term success
and fast anchorage, good strong development of

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root system outward in all directions to
give it a good anchorage anchoring that is

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important. Just some things to be
thinking about. Those of you who did

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go through the storm that have been
dealing from with everything from power out to

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you name it. Ace Hardware Store
has got you covered with everything that you

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might need, especially when it comes
to hurricane preparing preparation. You know,

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you might be thinking, what it
just went by, why are we preparing?

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Was not the last one. They're
predicting this to be one of the

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one of the more plentiful hurricane seasons
of the year in terms of number of

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storms, and so we're just gonna
have to watch and see on that.

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But there's a lot you can do
to get ready. You know, everything

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from uh, you know, flashlights
and batteries to a little gas power generator

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just to be able to run your
Maybe you got a freezer in the in

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the garage. You just need to
keep that thing going. So there's a

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lot of possibilities. But ACE has
window units that you can plug into the

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generator keep those things going when the
power goes out. You know how it

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gets round here, gas cans,
operative cooling systems for summer. For the

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beautiful little systems that put out a
missing that really is is nice. It

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really makes a I don't know ten
fifteen degree difference in the field of their

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around you. Anyway, make your
list and stop by ACE while you're there.

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Pick up some fertilizer for your lawn. They've got everyone I talk about

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on guardline. Pick up some fire
ant control, and definitely all the things

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you're gonna want from mosquitoes, you
know, from the dunks to other types

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of products at ACE Hardware. Aceharware
dot COM's their website. By the way,

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It's easy to find the store locator
on there, and then you know

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exactly what it is that you are
gonna where it is that you're going to

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shop. I like going to ACE
Hardware's because you know they're each independently owned,

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so each one has its own,
its own feel, its own personality,

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if you will. And you know, some owners go into some extra

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additions of different kinds of products or
different kinds of services, and it's just

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kind of fun. I enjoy doing
it. Of course I like going to

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hardware, so that's that's a that's
easy and fun for me. Landscaper's Pride

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is a purveyor of quality products for
our plants, for the brown stuff that

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I talk about all the time.
Get that right right, Get the soil

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mixes right. Well. They have
slow mixes, a number of them.

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But they also have something I want
to focus on now, and that's quality

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mulches. They've had a pine bark
molt, probably the most popular one they

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have. It's locally sourced and it
decomposes a little slower than some other mulches,

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so people kind of like that,
so you're not having to add mulch

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as much. They have cedar and
cypress mulches that are wonderful in their qualities.

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And you know, cedar smells good
initially it has a lot of time

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to age out there about a beautiful
red streaking in it. But it's a

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quality melt. Cypress sticks down kind
of a heaviness, if you will,

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and a durability is it sticks down
and stays in place even when it's wet.

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And nice light colored molts. And
there's on the other end there's black

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velvet, which is they're naturally dark
colored mults of very velvety, dense,

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beautiful, beautiful mult and then of
course hardwood bark is a great multch.

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When you grind up hardwood materials and
make a mulch out of them, you're

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going to have well, it's kind
of what nature does, right. Nature

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drops things in the forest to cover
the surface of the soil, and Landscaper's

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Pride can help you do that.
Go to Landscaperspride dot com ful and learn

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more. There's there's plenty of plenty
of good products that I didn't even have

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time to talk about here, and
you're going to find them in a lot

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of places, very widely available,
so it's easy, easy to get a

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hold of. You were listening to
garden Line. The number is seven one

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

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eight seventy four. I had an
email come in from someone who sent me

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a picture of some grass that they
were indicating looks kind of like a thick

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crab grass, and what it is
is doveweed. And for those of you

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that don't know doveweed, doveweed sort
of looks like Saint Augustine initially when it's

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growing in it it's got a fat, wide blade like Saint Augustine, fatter

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and whiter than Saint Augustine. But
it produces a little tiny flower, very

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tiny flower. But it also is
very invasive and when you it recedes profusely,

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and when you have a wet area, doveweed is going to be really

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happy there. So number one avoiding
extra wetness in this lawn. Being a

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remunalaw it could go a little on
the dryer side between waterings and that would

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be helpful. But there are also
some products out there that will kill doveweed

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if you've got little spots of it. There is a cinnamon based powder product

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that you can find at our garden
centers that will you sprinkle it on wet

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doveweeds. Another way, turn on
the sprinkler, just wet the dove weed,

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then wrinkle that summon product on it
and it just turns it black.

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Pretty quickly actually, and that's a
natural way to do it. If you

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got big areas of it, that
gets a little pricey, and so you

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may want to shift to something like
a celsius as an herbicide that can help

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with that as well as a post
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and do it early in the morning
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so that as it dries off and
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weather than some of the other broad
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just assume it can be one hundred
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of the day and that's not gonna
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But anyway that should be able to
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a lot of you probably have that
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appearances, inevitably I'll see doveweed come
in a little plastic bag as people show

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up to say what's the and what
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That is you know, we have
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are the problem child of the lawn. We have weeds that are easy to

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control. You know, things like
even cribgrass, you just put a pre

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emergent down and it never comes up. You get a good dunse lawn.

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It can't get light, it doesn't
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but when you're dealing with stuff like
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those you kind of got to get
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to use on them. And some
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going to take more than one application
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But on all three of those weeds, doveheat, dollar weed, Virginia

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button weed, when you keep your
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It's like you're creating Disneyland for that
weed. And don't do that. Let

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it dry out well and then water
a good deep soaking, let it dry

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out again. That's not gonna make
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down the spread. And it makes
sense to always start with cultural controls before

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we go grabbing for something to spray
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time for another break here. I'll
be right back if you'd like to call

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Chris and get on the board.
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too, Gary mack Hey, couple
of things going on. Good Sunday to

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you. Road debris on our northwest
side in a right lane to ninety northwest

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freeways east bound around Skinner Rag.
All right, we're back back on Garden

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Line. Welcome back. We are
going to head straight out to the phones

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right now and start off with Travis
out in Schulenburg and Travis him there we

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go. Welcome to garden Line.
Okay, I'm gonna have to put Travis

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back on hold for some reason we're
not getting hold of. I'm gonna try

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Kathy in Northwest Houston. Hello,
Kathy, Welcome to garden Line. Hello,

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Hey Keathy, good to have you
with us. Hey, I thought

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the gremlins had invaded our electronics again. I didn't they have already out here.

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I've been going almost a week without
power. Oh my gosh. Sorry,

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Oh it's hard when you have septic
systems, you know, you're sort

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of self contained. Power is the
only thing I need and I ain't getting

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it. So anyway, yeah,
right around the corner, I send you

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to Quality Home. They sell generacs
and they're excellent. Anyway. Oh really,

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well, the Genera, the actual
company is right around the corner,

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all right, little yeah, So
what I want to ask you about poison

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ivy. It is prolifically political,
raking, excuse me, everywhere, and

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I can't get control of it.
And I have a son who's highly allergic.

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Okay, do you have like poison
ivy trunks going up the side of

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a tree something, you know,
larger stands, the sides of trees,

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the ground, It's going everywhere.
Okay. So poison ivy is best controlled

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with a product that contains trichlo peer
and I'll spell that. Do you have

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a pen pencil handy? Yes,
I'm ready, all right, t R

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I C l O E y R
try clove here. It's in a lot

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of products. You may say that
when you go to a garden center shelf

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and you look or ace hardware wherever
you're getting it. You look right there

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and you see it may say poison
ivy killer, or it may say stump

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and brush killer or something, but
the ingredient is trico peer. You want

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to get it just on the poison
ivy, not on anything desirable, because

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it kills broadly plants and it's really
hard on Saint Augustine to the point of

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I wouldn't. Oh, I don't
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lot of treaties and a lot of
poison ivy that's just getting bigger and bigger

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and bigger, and it's going on. Yeah. So where it's going up

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a tree, all you have to
do, and you can take a little

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like a hatchet or a saw or
whatever work and just cut the stem off

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against the tree trunk. I'd take
two cuts and make take a little section

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out and to that fresh cut surface
it's going down in the ground. You

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paint that tricle pare right on it. Paint meaning get a little spongebrush and

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just dip it in the product straight
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probably less than a teaspoon is needed. On that fresh cover of the poison

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of a poison ivy stump, and
you stay with it and it will you

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will win. Well, there's a
patch, and I say patch, Yes,

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it is a patch under some oak
trees that I have, or pecan

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is one of the other That's all
I thought is pecan oak tree. Fortunately,

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I'm not allergic to poison ivy.
I can grab it, and but

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I can't burn it. I know
that I put in a plastic bag and

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buried in a are I don't have
service. So what are you asking me?

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Now? What is your okay?
So I'm just saying I can actually

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I have to pull it out of
the ground or dig it out, because

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what's not going up the tree?
I can rip that off. But what's

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in the ground. Ah, when
when it's sprung it? Yeah, and

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you can. That's why I ask
if it was. You know, if

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there's any desirable plant and you get
tricle peer on it, you're probably going

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to be in trouble with that.
Oh No, I don't have a no,

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I'm on property. All right,
You got okay, Kevin? Well,

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I appreciate it. Thank you.
Trickle pere is your answer, and

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good luck with that. Thank you
appreciate, appreciate your calling in the garden

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line. We're going to go now
to Travis and Schulenberg. Hey, Travis,

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are you there? Yes, sir? Can you hear me? Now?

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I can? I can? How
can we help? Yes, sir,

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I've got a pecan tree, full
well established contree, great shade for

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the house. It's low close to
the car port. You know, I'm

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wanting to put a live oak tree
where I need to put the live oak

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tree to wor set best and not
mess with the foundation kind of thing,

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or I need a planet would put
it just outside basically the canopy of that

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established pecan tree. Can I plan
it now? Let it get it established?

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Do I need to trim the limbs
off of that one side where that

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live oaks should go? Do I
need to just completely take out that pecan

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tree from the start? Okay,
Well, if you wanted to work your

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way into this, you could take
out some limbs over there. But when

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trees grow close together, they they
block each other's light, and so when

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you take one away after they've grown
that way for a while, now you

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have a tree. This looks like
it was cut in half because nore inches

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going out in that direction. So
the sooner if you're gonna get rid of

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the pecan, the sooner you do, the more the live oak can grow

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into more natural shape and form.
Perfect. Thank you very much, sir.

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if you if you don't want to

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do it all at once, I
certainly understand that maybe you could do some

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partial printing on the pecan as you're
giving the live oak time to grow kind

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of heading on. All right,
all right, thank you. I appreciate

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appreciate your call very much. The
summertime is the time when our lawns need

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good nutrition. Actually all year it
is, but this is when they're actually

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growing the fastest, and so providing
good nutrition that's moderated out to feed that

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lawn is important. And here's what
I'm talking about. If you dump a

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whole bunch of nitrogen at once,
you're going to get a lot of top

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growth. So you get to mow
a lot and actually have a less root

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growth than a wealth that early fed
lawn. That that is the fact's been

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determined by research. I see pictures
in ages past where they grew long and

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no hardly no nitrogen medium, and
then excess and crocs and they pick them

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up and you see the root systems, and like in decent fertilization, it's

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kind of nice root system, but
when you overdo it, it's a reduce.

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So what happens when a chinchbug comes
along or a grub comes along to

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eat, or it gets dry and
hot and you're trying to water enough?

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Do you see what I'm saying?
You want to moderate it out and Nitroflass

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Superturf is a product that does that
for you. You put it out now

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and for the coming months up until
fall. Now it will gradually feed that

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long over time, and I appreciate
the way that works. I think that's

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a great way to go in summertime. Slow release fertilizer. You can get

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it at D and D feed up
in Tomball. You can get it at

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Fissures Hardware, both the one South
Houston on Southomore and in Laporte on Broadway

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Street. That one's in Broadway Street. Easy to find those products. We're

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gonna take a little break and when
we come back, we got I see

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Gary and Ken and a no name
color. We'll be right back. Have

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you with us this morning. We're
gonna jump right out here and go to

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let's see this is a situation where
it's not giving me a name. So

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welcome to garden Line. Who am
I talking to? Good morning? This

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is John. I didn't get to
talk to anybody to give my name,

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but this is John. I'man bel
Air. Yeah, we got a little

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glitch in the system, but we're
getting through it. Welcome John and Bellair.

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Thank you. So I'm building a
pool. I'm building a pool.

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I've got a the the link to
my battery. The width in my backyard

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got about twelve feet between the pool
and the fence. I'm looking for some

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trees to put there that don't get
too big. I don't really like the

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palm tropical look. I was looking
more for hill country. I wanted to

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know what you thought about maybe some
Bradford pears or red butts. Learn about

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the pears was after this storm.
I see how easy they break apart,

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and just kind of want to know
what you thought about some trees didn't get

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too big. Yeah, I'm no
fan of bread for pair. I could

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gripe about it for an hour,
but don't do that one. The red

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bud is okay if you get it
in a lot of full sun. Then

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if you can hunt down a red
bud that is a Texas red bud.

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There are three kinds of red buds
we have around here. One is the

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Eastern redbud. That's what ninety percent
of the planets you see around town are.

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It's from the eastern forests and stuff. If you're going west, there

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is a Texas version of that same
genus and species that has glossier leaves that

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tend to be a little rounder with
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the leaf, and it's much more
tolerant in sun in our planet when you're

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trying to go western from here.
The third is a Mexican red Bud's another

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one, but a very different kind
of plant. Anyway, that that would

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be an option you might want to
try. When when you're saying you want

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a tree, how tall do you
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tall because I've got some power lines
that run the back. Yeah, and

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so you know, something bigger than
a bush. But I certainly can't take

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a big oak tree or anything.
Oh yeah, yeah, for sure.

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Well, Chinese let's see, probably
Chinese fringe tree would be an option.

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It would do well. It grows
at a moderately slow rate and it doesn't

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get huge over time. It has
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If you want again to go back
western, there's oh gosh, Desert Museum,

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Colo Verde, and that is a
very different kind of tree. It's

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it's you see it as you go
in south southeast Texas. Related versions called

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retama, but the trunks are green, and it's got thorns on the leaves

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and it produces very wispy leaves with
yellow flowers that are attracted. But it

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has a good Western kind of appearance
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way. And then there's Anacaca orchid, which is a type of ahinea with

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white flowers in the spring. Another
very tough tree. And when you plant

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those things you can kind of quit
worrying about having to water them. Make

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sure they do have good drainage.
Though for all all of these species,

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I was writing them down. What
was the Chinese when you said Chinese fringe,

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there is also a native fringe.
Chinese fringe is showier. But whichever

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way you want to go on that, go online, look up some pictures

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of these and see which one fits
you best. That's all. Do that

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Chinese fridge. Worry about the bare
feet around the pool. Don hody toward

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or anything? Does it none?
And even the PalaVerde that has thorns,

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it doesn't drop thorns. You know
what I'm saying that it's yeah, okay,

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so unless a branch fell on the
ground and stepp okay, we'll go

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look at them. Thank you very
much. There's a bunch of palp.

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Yeah, okay, you take care, appreciate the call. Al Right here,

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let's see, I want to just
mention one thing before we go any

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further. When we get wet weather
and then dry weather, which is what

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happens all the time. You know, this hurricane just drenched us and it's

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going to dry out again. And
when that happens, that move that causes

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clay soils to shrink and swell,
which is why you see all of the

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damage that we see from foundation damage
to driveway damage to sidewalk damage. Yeah,

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tree roots can get under and lift
up a sidewalk, but basically it's

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the shrinking and swelling of the soil
that cracks our foundations. Tree roots take

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water away, which makes it dried
even faster. And fix. My slab

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is here to make sure your foundation
is properly assessed. And then properly fixed.

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Ty Strickland has been doing this twenty
three years telling me your guardline listener

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free estimates for guardenline listeners. But
if you see a crack in the in

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the bricks on the outside, a
crack in the sheet rock inside, door

409
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sticking, all of those are signs
that you may have a foundation that's moving.

410
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And the sooner you deal with it, the better. Don't wait,

411
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it doesn't get better, it gets
worse. So call tie two eight one

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two five forty nine, or just
visit fixmislab dot com. Fixmislab dot com

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and you can get it taken care
of. Good assessment. All right,

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We're gonna go out now to Tumball
and talk to Ken. Hello. Ken,

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Okay, dud, good morning.
Quick question for you. I'm thinking

416
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about replacing a driveway that's over top
of some roots of some oak trees,

417
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and so I'm just wondering, is
there something I can do to help protect

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the trees when they pour the new
concrete, because I understand that's it's a

419
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cidic or it has some something in
it that can damage the roots. Well,

420
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the concrete just yeah, and if
you're pouring it right over roots too,

421
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that that's probably not a good idea. They're going to continue to grow

422
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and expand and everything. You know, I would I would call Martin spoon

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Moore and have him come out and
do a side analysis and give you advice

424
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on what he would recommend. I
can't see what you're seeing there at the

425
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house, so I can't just say, oh, we'll put some of this

426
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down and so many inches and then
put the driveway on top of that.

427
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You need to be out there to
take a look at it, and he

428
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can. He can make a trip
out and take a look and see that

429
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you can put on a little bit
of a base and then go ahead and

430
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do the poor. Or it may
be that some roots need to be cut

431
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or removed, which which is unfortunate
and something we don't like to do unless

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we have to. Yeah, and
what was that name again, Martin spoon

433
00:33:02.640 --> 00:33:08.920
More And the business is Affordable Tree
Service. Okay, all right, thank

434
00:33:08.920 --> 00:33:14.839
you very much. Yeah, if
you go to afftree Service dot com.

435
00:33:15.319 --> 00:33:20.519
That's the that's his website. Would
you like a full seven one three sure

436
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six six twenty six sixty three seven
one three six nine nine two six sixty

437
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three. All right, thank you
very much. Yet thanks for the call.

438
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I appreciate that a lot. By
all right. Uh, you know,

439
00:33:36.240 --> 00:33:39.200
one of my favorite new products on
the market is a new product by

440
00:33:39.480 --> 00:33:44.440
Medina. It's part of their Hastra
gro line. It's called Supergrow Plus.

441
00:33:45.160 --> 00:33:49.119
This I like it for several reasons. Number one, it's a good ratio

442
00:33:49.759 --> 00:33:53.039
for about ninety percent of the lawns
out there. It's a sixteen zero two

443
00:33:53.559 --> 00:33:58.319
fertilizer ratio. Number two, it
hooks up to a garden hose, covers

444
00:33:58.359 --> 00:34:00.599
about four thousand square feet for the
work bottle that hooks to the hose,

445
00:34:01.000 --> 00:34:05.400
and it takes what ten minutes to
go over your lawn and just do this.

446
00:34:05.880 --> 00:34:08.199
Plus, in addition to nutrients,
it's got a kelated form of iron,

447
00:34:08.360 --> 00:34:12.280
which is important. That is a
nutrient by the way. It's got

448
00:34:12.320 --> 00:34:16.960
molasses, it's got humic acid.
It even has some seaweed in a seaweed

449
00:34:17.039 --> 00:34:22.440
extract. So it just really gives
a fast response and a good response,

450
00:34:22.480 --> 00:34:24.320
and a little bit of that nitrogen
is slow release too, so it's not

451
00:34:24.480 --> 00:34:29.159
just you know, dumps it all
at once and now there's nothing left.

452
00:34:29.199 --> 00:34:31.800
It does provide that if you return
your clippings, you can probably do the

453
00:34:31.840 --> 00:34:37.199
supergol once or twice a year.
If you don't return your clippings and you

454
00:34:37.239 --> 00:34:38.960
bag them, well, first of
all, why are you throwing away for

455
00:34:39.039 --> 00:34:44.079
a fertilizer. But you're just gonna
have to up them out of any fertilizer

456
00:34:44.199 --> 00:34:51.119
that you use a look for We
are going to take a break here at

457
00:34:51.199 --> 00:34:52.960
the top of the hour. Put
our first hour in the books. Today

458
00:34:53.440 --> 00:34:57.440
you are listening to garden Line and
I'm your host, Skip Richer. If

459
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you would like to do on there
and ask for questime seven one three two

460
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one two KTRH seven one three two
one two KIPR eight don't forget. But

461
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if you go online to my website
here, y'all always should listen to guarden

462
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Line with a paper and a pencil
or pen in hand because we're always giving

463
00:35:15.960 --> 00:35:20.719
your information. Not you know right
now, Well, just go to gardening

464
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with Skip. That's me gardening with
Skip dot com. Gardening with Skip dot

465
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com. There's the lawn care schedule, it's free, download it, you

466
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for it. It's there's also the
lawn pest Disease and wead Manners and schedule,

467
00:35:34.679 --> 00:35:37.159
same thing. Go check them out. A lot of the answers to

468
00:35:37.199 --> 00:35:45.480
these questions are on. There a
lot of need, a lot of folks

469
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out there. Probably sixty of the
people in the crossbing Arrette Station area are

470
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still without power. Centerpoint estimates eighty
five percent of customers will be restored by

471
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the end of the weekend. Rangers
beat the Astros two to one last nine

472
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and ten innings. The two will
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473
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474
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at krh dot com. Our next
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475
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Jarret Lewis. Houston's news, weather
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476
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Garden Line does not necessarily endorse any of

477
00:36:19.280 --> 00:36:24.360
the products or services advertised on this
program. Welcome to kt r H Garden

478
00:36:24.400 --> 00:36:42.920
Line with Skip Rictor It's trip.
Just watch him as us. So many

479
00:36:43.039 --> 00:36:54.199
good things to sup by Sun Well, welcome back to garden Line. We

480
00:36:54.400 --> 00:36:59.119
are glad that you were with us
this morning. Uh, what do you

481
00:36:59.119 --> 00:37:01.559
want to talk about? You got
questions about lawns or trees, or shrubs,

482
00:37:01.639 --> 00:37:06.840
or tomatoes or house plants. We
can talk about just about anything that

483
00:37:06.960 --> 00:37:10.000
is of interest to you. I
want to tell you that now is still

484
00:37:10.039 --> 00:37:14.599
a time to be planting, and
I realized for a lot of people it's

485
00:37:14.599 --> 00:37:15.320
like, oh, it's hot now, I shouldn't be plan. I'm not

486
00:37:15.360 --> 00:37:20.639
going to plan. And no,
we've got decent weather in the morning to

487
00:37:20.679 --> 00:37:24.400
get out and get some planting done. And by planting things now that are

488
00:37:24.440 --> 00:37:30.119
heat tolerant, the only key thing
right now for success with this is for

489
00:37:30.239 --> 00:37:35.599
you to water them a little bit
each day to keep them adequately moist.

490
00:37:35.800 --> 00:37:37.880
That's all it takes, because that
little root ball that you put in the

491
00:37:37.880 --> 00:37:43.280
ground is going to dry out faster
than it would have back in March when

492
00:37:43.280 --> 00:37:46.239
we were doing spring planting. And
so right now you can do it.

493
00:37:46.360 --> 00:37:50.800
Just get out there and do it. And you know, I said the

494
00:37:50.840 --> 00:37:52.960
other day, our landscape has become
a sea of green in the summer,

495
00:37:53.039 --> 00:37:58.559
green grass, green ground cover,
green trees, green shrubs, and we

496
00:37:58.599 --> 00:38:01.119
can add color to that a lot
of good plants that do really well.

497
00:38:01.159 --> 00:38:06.400
For example, in the shade,
Terurinia, which is wishbone flower is a

498
00:38:06.480 --> 00:38:12.280
nice, very nice plant. The
Hedicium or white butterfly ginger will be blooming

499
00:38:12.360 --> 00:38:15.800
well as we get into late summer
and into the early fall, especially Another

500
00:38:15.840 --> 00:38:21.559
one is kalladiums. You're familiar with
those kalladiums. The wishbone flower impatients.

501
00:38:21.960 --> 00:38:27.679
Impatients are another good one that does
very well in hot weather and shade and

502
00:38:27.840 --> 00:38:32.199
just keeps on performing. We have
many many other plants, and so I

503
00:38:32.199 --> 00:38:35.480
would suggest you get out and do
that. You know, for example,

504
00:38:35.559 --> 00:38:38.360
right now out at Plants for All
Seasons that they're having a sale on a

505
00:38:38.480 --> 00:38:44.159
number of different kinds of roses,
knockout roses, drift roses, really a

506
00:38:44.159 --> 00:38:47.800
lot of kinds, except not the
Lady Banks. The Lady Banks is not

507
00:38:49.159 --> 00:38:53.119
part of that. But talking about
those flowers, you can get those also

508
00:38:53.199 --> 00:38:58.000
at Plants for All Seasons on an
incredible sale. I mean, like the

509
00:38:58.079 --> 00:39:00.960
roses are like fifteen bucks. In
many cases, that's more than half off

510
00:39:01.639 --> 00:39:06.679
the annual flowers. You can buy
the individual little flowers for a four inch

511
00:39:06.719 --> 00:39:08.800
pot for a dollar, or you
can get a flat of eighteen for fifteen

512
00:39:08.800 --> 00:39:14.039
bucks. Why not do that and
put color in your landscape that is going

513
00:39:14.119 --> 00:39:16.239
to carry you all the way to
frost. This is about as good a

514
00:39:16.280 --> 00:39:20.639
deal as you're going to find,
and I would just encourage you to think

515
00:39:20.679 --> 00:39:22.280
about it. Also, Angelonia,
you know. It's probably one of my

516
00:39:22.360 --> 00:39:28.400
top five plants for the bedding plants
for hot sunny areas. Oh by the

517
00:39:28.400 --> 00:39:30.480
way, I didn't mention geraniums and
colias. I believe they have those on

518
00:39:30.559 --> 00:39:35.599
sale too, But yeah, Angelonia
is a super super plant Plants for all

519
00:39:35.599 --> 00:39:38.360
seasons. That's a garden center up
there on two forty nine Tombol Parkway.

520
00:39:38.840 --> 00:39:46.079
So as you're heading up toward tombaal
exit Luetta crossover Luetta and just hop skipping

521
00:39:46.119 --> 00:39:50.280
a jump right further down the street, the side street is there. It

522
00:39:50.360 --> 00:39:53.039
is Plants for all seasons. I
said that in a way, there's probably

523
00:39:53.039 --> 00:39:59.159
confusing a further down the access road
that you're driving on. Plansform. You'll

524
00:39:59.199 --> 00:40:01.800
see it and when you pull in
you will see why people love to go

525
00:40:01.840 --> 00:40:07.480
there. Plants for all seasons.
You're listening to Garden Line. I'm your

526
00:40:07.480 --> 00:40:12.599
host, Skip Richter, and we
are now going to head out to Manville

527
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and talk to Adolf. Follow Adolf, Yes, good morning, And I

528
00:40:19.599 --> 00:40:29.559
have a question for you about cherry
plum seats. Is it seeds? How

529
00:40:29.639 --> 00:40:38.119
do I plant those? So you
have a cherry plum tree and I bought

530
00:40:38.199 --> 00:40:45.199
cherry clowns at the store. I
want to at the plant the seed.

531
00:40:45.519 --> 00:40:50.280
Okay, well, let me first
tell you why you may not want to,

532
00:40:50.519 --> 00:40:52.039
and then I'll tell you how to
do it, so you get to

533
00:40:52.119 --> 00:40:57.119
choose. I'm not telling you what
to do. I'm telling you. Uh,

534
00:40:57.840 --> 00:41:04.320
whenever you take a a variety or
a cultivar that has been bred and

535
00:41:04.400 --> 00:41:07.440
developed of any kind of a fruit
or a vegetable, especially if it's a

536
00:41:07.519 --> 00:41:16.199
hybrid of vegetables or these fruit,
the individual blooms were pollinated and therefore there's

537
00:41:16.280 --> 00:41:22.000
two parents for that plant, so
you don't get exactly that parent's fruit.

538
00:41:22.079 --> 00:41:27.159
In other words, if you planted
the cherry plum seed, you might have

539
00:41:27.199 --> 00:41:30.519
some plums that are in it that
are a different color because in the breeding

540
00:41:30.559 --> 00:41:34.719
line that was there, you may
have some plums that are larger, more

541
00:41:34.760 --> 00:41:38.480
susceptible to disease, or there's other
issues. And then you don't have the

542
00:41:38.599 --> 00:41:45.440
rootstock because you're planting a seed,
so you're seedling is its own rootstock.

543
00:41:45.840 --> 00:41:51.559
So those are the reasons why we
generally don't just buy a wonderful tasting peach

544
00:41:51.880 --> 00:41:53.920
and try to grow it at home, because it doesn't end up being the

545
00:41:54.039 --> 00:41:58.719
woman in the store if you want
to do it, and it's fun.

546
00:41:58.800 --> 00:42:02.800
It's your yard as you wish.
I would take those plum seeds and I

547
00:42:02.800 --> 00:42:08.079
would put them in either some moist
spagmum, peat moss or a little bit

548
00:42:08.079 --> 00:42:13.079
of moist sand or maybe even you
know what, a moist paper towels,

549
00:42:14.039 --> 00:42:17.840
put them in a closed like a
zip lock in the refrigerator and leave them

550
00:42:17.840 --> 00:42:22.320
there for about a month. Uh, and then take them out and put

551
00:42:22.320 --> 00:42:25.280
them in the ground, and they
will sprout and begin to grow. That

552
00:42:25.719 --> 00:42:32.400
breaks down a dormancyed that those seeds
have. Plums, peaches, apricots,

553
00:42:32.559 --> 00:42:39.119
neck gerens all have that dormancy.
Okay, So you're telling the seeds that

554
00:42:39.159 --> 00:42:44.760
they went through winter when they didn't, right, Okay, So after a

555
00:42:44.800 --> 00:42:50.239
month then I can plant in the
dirk. Yeah, a month of refrigerator

556
00:42:50.239 --> 00:42:52.920
temperature is usually adequate to do that. You drive a little longer if you

557
00:42:52.960 --> 00:42:57.800
want. But we also have fall
coming and you know you don't want to

558
00:42:57.840 --> 00:43:01.440
seed the sprout and a month later
have a first so okay, yeah,

559
00:43:01.639 --> 00:43:07.119
okay, So I guess probably be
best for me to just order the tree

560
00:43:07.239 --> 00:43:13.880
on online. Yeah, you probably
could. I don't know. On the

561
00:43:13.960 --> 00:43:15.800
cherry plum. I don't know what
the real variety is, and I'd have

562
00:43:15.840 --> 00:43:20.880
to look that up. You need
to make sure whatever you plant peaches,

563
00:43:20.920 --> 00:43:24.840
plums, nectars, that their chilling
hours is right for our area. That

564
00:43:24.920 --> 00:43:30.000
would be one other tho. We
are far south for a lot of kinds

565
00:43:30.079 --> 00:43:37.880
of traditional fruit, apples and peaches
and things. But there are varieties that

566
00:43:37.880 --> 00:43:39.559
will do well here. But a
lot of things, a lot of times

567
00:43:39.599 --> 00:43:44.840
that's in the store has to be
grown further north than us, where instead

568
00:43:44.880 --> 00:43:49.159
of getting let's say you're medd mid
part of Easton or something, five hundred

569
00:43:49.159 --> 00:43:54.239
hours or so of chilling, they're
getting probably eight hundred nine hundred hours in

570
00:43:54.280 --> 00:44:00.559
some places. Okay, I get
so I'm looking for. When I was

571
00:44:00.599 --> 00:44:06.039
a kids, there were plum trees
in the neighborhood. Would go over and

572
00:44:06.079 --> 00:44:13.440
borrow some. Yeah uh, but
they they were the trees were full of

573
00:44:13.519 --> 00:44:15.679
those plums. They were tark.
That's really what I'm looking for. And

574
00:44:15.760 --> 00:44:22.400
this cherry plung is pretty close to
what I was looking for. So well,

575
00:44:22.440 --> 00:44:25.360
it's there a Texas variety, you
know the let me let me give

576
00:44:25.400 --> 00:44:31.599
you some another idea. If you
go online, there is a horticulture department.

577
00:44:31.760 --> 00:44:36.639
Website up at a n M called
Aggie Horticulture, and if you go

578
00:44:36.719 --> 00:44:39.800
to Agi Horticulture, it's Aggie Dash
Horticulture. But you can just google it

579
00:44:39.840 --> 00:44:45.079
too. From the front page,
you'll see you can click on fruits and

580
00:44:45.199 --> 00:44:50.079
nuts and when we get there,
you'll have a free publication full color on

581
00:44:50.920 --> 00:44:54.840
everything from avocados to I don't know
what's other into the alphabet line. But

582
00:44:55.159 --> 00:45:00.920
they have plums, peaches, apples, pears, just on a BlackBerry,

583
00:45:00.920 --> 00:45:04.440
strawberries, blueberry. There's a lot
of publications on there that are free.

584
00:45:04.599 --> 00:45:07.000
You might want to print out the
stone fruit when that would include peaches and

585
00:45:07.039 --> 00:45:13.239
plums, Okay, which one?
I'm sorry? Which one of the best.

586
00:45:14.320 --> 00:45:17.320
We call them stone fruit because they
have a pit inside, you know

587
00:45:17.360 --> 00:45:22.840
how it is with apricots, peaches
and plums and nectare stone fruit, so

588
00:45:22.880 --> 00:45:30.199
they're different apples, So they have
their own publication. Alady, all right,

589
00:45:30.280 --> 00:45:36.760
thank you, good luck with that. Good luck. Appreciate your call.

590
00:45:36.800 --> 00:45:39.239
If you're fertilizing your lawn and you
want something to give a real quick

591
00:45:39.320 --> 00:45:46.480
release, but to be a pleasant
just in general, just a pleasant smelling

592
00:45:46.599 --> 00:45:52.559
and a very effective type of fertilizer. Sweet Green from nitrofoss is one that

593
00:45:52.599 --> 00:45:55.519
will give you that it's about eleven
percent nitrogen, which about the highest nitrogen

594
00:45:55.559 --> 00:46:00.519
analysis for any organic plant food.
Sweet Green. I would take the application

595
00:46:00.639 --> 00:46:04.880
of it. It's going to be
at ten pounds per thousand square feet that

596
00:46:04.880 --> 00:46:07.480
you apply it, and I would
put five pounds down now, and then

597
00:46:07.519 --> 00:46:10.639
I take the other five pounds and
I'd put it down about six to eight

598
00:46:10.639 --> 00:46:15.840
weeks from now and spread your feeding
all the way out that way. Sweet

599
00:46:15.880 --> 00:46:20.360
Green is available in many places,
being a nitroposs product. So you're going

600
00:46:20.400 --> 00:46:22.320
to find it at D and D
Feed up in Tombole. You're going to

601
00:46:22.360 --> 00:46:27.679
find it at Fisher's Hardware, both
the one in South Houston on Sophomore and

602
00:46:27.880 --> 00:46:30.960
in the Port on Broadway Street.
We're going to take a little break right

603
00:46:30.000 --> 00:46:34.000
now. If you have us a
call and talk about questions that you might

604
00:46:34.039 --> 00:46:36.719
have about your lawn, your garden, your landscape. Well we're here to

605
00:46:36.880 --> 00:46:39.760
help you have a more bountiful garden
and a more beautiful landscape. And our

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phone number is seven to one three
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one three two one two kt r
H. You know, Ace hardware stores

608
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are kind of the one stop shop. Their motto thing is what ACE is

609
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the place. ACE is a place
for and you fill in the blank.

610
00:47:00.320 --> 00:47:04.920
Ace is a place for storm recovery, all kinds of things from me.

611
00:47:04.960 --> 00:47:08.360
You need a little air conditioning unit, you need a little gas power generator,

612
00:47:08.360 --> 00:47:13.840
you need to get some gas cans. Do you need a chainsaw?

613
00:47:13.840 --> 00:47:15.840
Do you see what I'm saying?
And anything you might need for storm recovery,

614
00:47:15.960 --> 00:47:19.639
they've got it at ACE Hardware.
In fact, they're stocked up even

615
00:47:19.679 --> 00:47:24.239
ACE Hardware stores. If you know
lost power, they're finding ways to continue

616
00:47:24.239 --> 00:47:28.199
going so you can get in and
get the supplies you need. Well.

617
00:47:28.239 --> 00:47:30.760
ACE is also the place for fertilizers, all the fertilizer I talk about on

618
00:47:30.800 --> 00:47:35.679
guardlines at ACE Hardware store. It's
as simple as that. If you need

619
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fire at control, I encourage you
to start with a bait rather than an

620
00:47:38.360 --> 00:47:43.960
individual mountain treatment. Ace Hardware has
got a wide variety of bait options for

621
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you. Do you need mosquito repellent? Do you need a fogging machine?

622
00:47:46.000 --> 00:47:49.679
Do you need mosquito dunks? The
ones we talk about all the time.

623
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You put in water to kill the
mosquito larvae. Ace Hardware has got it

624
00:47:53.519 --> 00:47:59.280
just go to Acehardware dot com,
look for the store locator and you'll see

625
00:47:59.280 --> 00:48:02.760
there's four stores in the Greater Houston
area that you can choose from. ACE

626
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Hardware is the place that you're going
to get everything you need for a beautiful

627
00:48:07.239 --> 00:48:13.800
garden, a bountiful garden, a
beautiful landscape. I was taking care of

628
00:48:13.920 --> 00:48:17.079
some items that have been on my
to do list. I you know,

629
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we all have to do lists,
right, and trying to get some things,

630
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you know, knocked out and done. And I was in the garden

631
00:48:24.440 --> 00:48:29.280
digging around in an area where I
had planted okra a couple of years ago,

632
00:48:30.239 --> 00:48:32.559
and I found a patch of nematodes. Now how they got there,

633
00:48:32.960 --> 00:48:37.440
I don't know. Maybe they came
in with some of the soil mix.

634
00:48:37.599 --> 00:48:40.199
You know, when you have especially
when sandy soils are mixed in, you

635
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often bring in nema toads, not
just sand, but that they love sandy

636
00:48:45.199 --> 00:48:49.719
soils. They proliferate there. Maybe
it came in with a transplant on some

637
00:48:49.800 --> 00:48:52.719
plant that I put in. I
usually checked the roots on transplant, you

638
00:48:52.719 --> 00:48:54.159
know, lift them up out of
the container and just make sure there's a

639
00:48:54.159 --> 00:48:59.159
little knots, not any little knots
on them and things. But I've got

640
00:48:59.199 --> 00:49:01.480
them, and so what I do
now, Well, number one, I'm

641
00:49:01.519 --> 00:49:07.559
not going to plan anything that I
know gets nematodes in that spot. I'm

642
00:49:07.559 --> 00:49:09.880
not because then I just build their
numbers up higher and you have to hunt

643
00:49:09.880 --> 00:49:13.639
around Online. You can see a
list of different things you can grow that

644
00:49:13.679 --> 00:49:17.239
are not prone to nematodes. I'm
going to do solarizing this summer, where

645
00:49:17.239 --> 00:49:22.960
I put clear plastic over that bed
area and I let it get as hot

646
00:49:22.000 --> 00:49:25.800
as it possibly can. Just like
when you walk out on a hot sunny

647
00:49:25.880 --> 00:49:30.880
day and you get in your car
and the steering wheel and seat buckle both

648
00:49:30.000 --> 00:49:36.079
brand your hand and your lap as
you're getting in blistering hot. Well,

649
00:49:36.159 --> 00:49:37.920
you can do that in a garden
bed, buppeting clear plastic over it.

650
00:49:37.960 --> 00:49:43.039
That's called solarizing. That's another step. I've got a couple of products I'm

651
00:49:43.039 --> 00:49:45.079
trying out to see if they work. They claim to work, but you

652
00:49:45.079 --> 00:49:50.119
know that doesn't necessarily mean anything.
But if they work, I'll tell you

653
00:49:50.159 --> 00:49:55.519
more about them later we'll see.
But also planting crops that trap the nematodes

654
00:49:55.559 --> 00:50:00.679
in their roots. The nemotodes go
in the roots, they cannot rep and

655
00:50:00.760 --> 00:50:05.199
so it shuts them down that way, and in summertime, the little French

656
00:50:05.280 --> 00:50:09.199
marigals are excellent. Maragals come in
basically two types. One is the pom

657
00:50:09.320 --> 00:50:15.079
palm type I call it. That
would be something like golf ball or excuse

658
00:50:15.079 --> 00:50:17.679
me, tennis ball size. And
then there's the little French maragals that are

659
00:50:17.719 --> 00:50:23.280
typically little single flowered daisy flower looking
maragoles that are about the size I don't

660
00:50:23.320 --> 00:50:27.880
know, a little bigger than a
quarter maybe that is the other type,

661
00:50:27.960 --> 00:50:30.559
And those seem to be the best
at trapping nematodes in the roots. So

662
00:50:30.599 --> 00:50:36.519
I'm gonna have a wall to wall
planting of those this summer as well.

663
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And then when the cool season comes, I'm gonna plant cereal rye. That's

664
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not the rye you put in your
bond to make it green in the winter.

665
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It is the cereal rye, the
grain type of rye. There's a

666
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variety called Elbon Elbon, there's some
others out there, and in the cool

667
00:50:52.159 --> 00:50:55.199
season you plant that and it does
the same thing. Also in the cool

668
00:50:55.239 --> 00:51:01.320
season, you can plant a cruciferous
vegetables that would be things in the coal

669
00:51:01.480 --> 00:51:07.880
crop group, so broccoli, cabbage, kale, mustard, coorabie, especially

670
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the mustard. I'll probably solid seeds
some mustard in there, and then when

671
00:51:13.480 --> 00:51:16.920
you chop it up and mix it
into the soil, that decomposing mustard top

672
00:51:17.000 --> 00:51:24.639
growth releases chemicals that are that have
nomaticidal properties. They can can kill nematodes.

673
00:51:25.760 --> 00:51:29.639
There's a fantas like you know,
I give you the fancy word of

674
00:51:29.679 --> 00:51:32.880
the day here. It is isothiocyanate. That is the name of a chemical

675
00:51:32.920 --> 00:51:37.920
that comes out of a plant that
fumigates the soil and kills maricle, kills

676
00:51:37.920 --> 00:51:43.480
nematodes in that cool So it's an
organic fuma gun. You don't usually see

677
00:51:43.480 --> 00:51:45.840
those two words together in a sentence, but it works. It works pretty

678
00:51:45.840 --> 00:51:51.280
well. But all these suppressed nematodes, nothing eradicates them. So once you

679
00:51:51.360 --> 00:51:54.119
have them, you kind of got
them. Uh. There was a time,

680
00:51:54.320 --> 00:51:58.960
day and time where there were very
powerful fumaguins that were put out to

681
00:51:59.039 --> 00:52:01.159
kill things like that. Those are
gone now and you wouldn't want to use

682
00:52:01.199 --> 00:52:07.920
them anyway. So those are some
strategies. Another strategy is to rototill in

683
00:52:07.960 --> 00:52:13.440
the summer, bring moist soil from
below the surface to the surface and let

684
00:52:13.480 --> 00:52:16.920
it dry out. Do that repeatedly, and that will help reduce their numbers

685
00:52:16.920 --> 00:52:21.840
and not good for the soil,
but it's going after nematods. That's an

686
00:52:21.880 --> 00:52:27.599
option. Those are a few things
you can do. Planting nematoad resistant plants

687
00:52:27.679 --> 00:52:31.199
is also important, so they're more
something we manage than something we control.

688
00:52:31.360 --> 00:52:36.159
But I feel your pain if you
have them, because I've had them on

689
00:52:36.199 --> 00:52:38.920
more than one occasion, and now
I just discovered them and where I like

690
00:52:39.000 --> 00:52:42.880
to plant okra, but I guess
I won't be in that spot for a

691
00:52:42.920 --> 00:52:46.920
while because okra. You know,
if nematods go to a restaurant, they

692
00:52:46.960 --> 00:52:50.760
open the menu and they say do
you have any fig or any okra?

693
00:52:50.880 --> 00:52:53.960
Because they love to attack those plants, but they attack a lot of other

694
00:52:54.039 --> 00:52:59.599
species. All right, Well,
our phone number if you'd like to give

695
00:52:59.679 --> 00:53:04.280
us a call, is seven one
three two one two fifty eight seventy four

696
00:53:04.440 --> 00:53:14.679
seven to one three two one two
five eight seven four. I was just

697
00:53:15.199 --> 00:53:21.440
the other day outside looking at some
beds that I had mulched and mult with

698
00:53:21.519 --> 00:53:24.679
a really good quality mulch uh,
and I put this down. I think

699
00:53:24.760 --> 00:53:30.960
I think this was nature's way shredded
hardwood malts that I put in these beds,

700
00:53:30.039 --> 00:53:34.920
and it works great, except I
see little weeds coming up here and

701
00:53:34.960 --> 00:53:37.760
there, and as sure enough,
when you go up to it and you

702
00:53:37.840 --> 00:53:40.840
kind of move, it's like the
mult is either not over that area,

703
00:53:40.880 --> 00:53:46.039
there's a little beer soil exposed.
That's my job operator error. Or it's

704
00:53:46.119 --> 00:53:50.559
just too thin and sunlight gets through
and here comes up a few little weeds.

705
00:53:50.599 --> 00:53:52.800
So jump on them, pull those
up, throw the mult down a

706
00:53:52.840 --> 00:53:57.880
little heavier over those areas. Because
mulch works, it blocks the surface of

707
00:53:57.920 --> 00:54:01.519
the soil, the sun from reaching
the surface of the soil, slows down,

708
00:54:01.599 --> 00:54:07.519
rain, reduces erosion, decomposes over
time to release nutrients. I mean,

709
00:54:07.599 --> 00:54:13.840
the list of mulch's attributes is a
mile long. It's very beneficial to

710
00:54:13.920 --> 00:54:15.159
happen. You got to keep it
out there, and you got to keep

711
00:54:15.199 --> 00:54:20.599
it thick enough. So there was
my little Maya kulpas story. As you

712
00:54:20.639 --> 00:54:22.159
know, I thought it had.
I thought I had it all mult right,

713
00:54:22.320 --> 00:54:25.719
and sure enough I had missed some
spots. And that's not a problem.

714
00:54:25.800 --> 00:54:29.440
Just go in and throw mulch on
top of it. It'll do just

715
00:54:29.519 --> 00:54:34.239
fine. Star of Hope mission is
one you've heard me talk about here on

716
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Guardline before. It is something my
wife and I have believed in for a

717
00:54:37.280 --> 00:54:45.039
very long time. Back years ago, years ago we started we actually with

718
00:54:45.079 --> 00:54:49.679
the churcher and we went and helped
work at Star of Hope mission as volunteer,

719
00:54:50.360 --> 00:54:52.039
and then we moved away. It
spent a long time and coming back

720
00:54:52.079 --> 00:54:58.960
to the Houston area now we are
just all in to Star Hope having seen

721
00:54:59.039 --> 00:55:01.599
the work that they do. And
listen, we get a lot of requests

722
00:55:01.679 --> 00:55:05.639
for will you donate to this cause
or will you donate to that cause?

723
00:55:05.840 --> 00:55:08.920
And I understand that and many good
causes out there. When I donate,

724
00:55:09.239 --> 00:55:15.679
I want to know that the money
I donate is going to actually helping people

725
00:55:15.960 --> 00:55:20.199
as much as possible. I want
to know that. I also want to

726
00:55:20.239 --> 00:55:23.280
know that it's helping them in a
meaningful way to change lives. And that

727
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is Star Hope. When you think
about a woman that's on the streets with

728
00:55:28.280 --> 00:55:31.559
their kids, living in a car, how on earth would that person get

729
00:55:31.599 --> 00:55:37.159
a job, hold a job,
where's childcare? They're with the paycheck and

730
00:55:37.960 --> 00:55:40.559
Star Hope they bring people in,
they give them housing, they give them

731
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food, they give them training,
and they help them get a job.

732
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They give them both spiritual training job
related training, and it's amazing the difference

733
00:55:52.159 --> 00:55:54.199
that it makes. And it does
make a difference. And it's not just

734
00:55:54.760 --> 00:55:59.760
that you made a difference for maybe
the mom in that case, you certainly

735
00:55:59.800 --> 00:56:02.199
did, but you made a difference
in the lives of those kids and you

736
00:56:02.199 --> 00:56:07.199
gave them a future. And listen
that. In my opinion, even even

737
00:56:07.280 --> 00:56:12.159
if it is pocket change, anything
we can do to help Starve Hope is

738
00:56:12.199 --> 00:56:15.400
something we should do because you know, like I think, two dollars and

739
00:56:15.440 --> 00:56:19.800
eighty cents will provide someone a meal
at star Hope because they use their money

740
00:56:19.960 --> 00:56:27.519
very wisely. Shmission dot org.
Shmission dot org. That's how you find

741
00:56:27.559 --> 00:56:30.840
out more. Take a little break, I'll be back shortly. Thanks for

742
00:56:30.880 --> 00:56:37.519
being a Guardenline listener. Welcome back
to the garden Line. Good to have

743
00:56:37.599 --> 00:56:39.760
you with us. You'd like to
give us a call and talk about plants

744
00:56:39.760 --> 00:56:45.280
and gardening and anything you care to
talk about, from seed starting indoors to

745
00:56:45.039 --> 00:56:50.519
indoor house plants. It's nice time
to be working indoors, especially during the

746
00:56:50.559 --> 00:56:53.960
hot part of the day. Seven
one three two one two k t r

747
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H seven one three two one two
k T r H. We're glad you're

748
00:57:00.079 --> 00:57:02.840
listening today, and I love to
visit with you about the things that are

749
00:57:02.840 --> 00:57:07.400
of most interest to you. And
I think right now kind of the elephant

750
00:57:07.400 --> 00:57:09.559
in the rooms of storm that just
went by. That was a bit of

751
00:57:09.599 --> 00:57:14.920
a doozy right hurricane, a lot
of people out of power, a lot

752
00:57:14.920 --> 00:57:19.079
of extra rainfall, probably more than
we would have liked to have had right

753
00:57:19.119 --> 00:57:22.880
at that point in time. But
it's good that we got the rainfall,

754
00:57:22.920 --> 00:57:27.199
it's bad that we've got everything else
that went with it. If you've got

755
00:57:27.239 --> 00:57:31.719
areas of your lawn or your landscape
that aren't draining well, getting that fixed

756
00:57:31.880 --> 00:57:42.159
is important and making sure that you
provide the type of drainage system that's going

757
00:57:42.239 --> 00:57:45.880
to work. That's what I'm trying
to say, is there you can either

758
00:57:45.039 --> 00:57:51.480
take water and drain it away with
gravity to a lower area, or if

759
00:57:51.480 --> 00:57:54.280
you've got a lower area and there's
nowhere to drain too, you can have

760
00:57:54.559 --> 00:58:00.280
a some pump type pump put down
in the ground in a container and ump

761
00:58:00.320 --> 00:58:04.440
that water out and essentially pump it
out up to the street or wherever you're

762
00:58:04.480 --> 00:58:07.440
going to move that excess water.
Piercescapes can do that kind of work and

763
00:58:07.480 --> 00:58:12.039
they know how to do it.
And so if you've got areas that just

764
00:58:12.159 --> 00:58:17.679
aren't draining well, you know,
for maybe days after a rain, there's

765
00:58:17.719 --> 00:58:22.639
still standing water that is that's rough. That's rough for most plants. There

766
00:58:22.639 --> 00:58:27.079
are some plants that can take it, but most plants need good drainage.

767
00:58:27.280 --> 00:58:30.360
Why not let Piercecapes fix that for
you? Do you need landscape lighting?

768
00:58:30.480 --> 00:58:36.159
Would you like some stonework some hard
scape done for walkways or a patio.

769
00:58:36.840 --> 00:58:39.239
Do you want to see, you
know, maybe lighting along a pathways for

770
00:58:39.320 --> 00:58:44.440
example. They know it all.
They also know how to fix an irrigation

771
00:58:44.599 --> 00:58:47.719
system. And right now we're entering
a season where once this dries out from

772
00:58:47.760 --> 00:58:52.199
the hurricane, we're going to be
watering again quite a bit. And union

773
00:58:52.320 --> 00:58:57.559
system that is efficient and that works
right where there aren't areas that aren't being

774
00:58:57.920 --> 00:59:00.960
that failed to be covered by irrigation. So Pierce Scapes is the one to

775
00:59:01.000 --> 00:59:04.360
do all of that, and they
do more. They also have a quarterly

776
00:59:04.400 --> 00:59:07.920
maintenance of the landscape beds. That's
a very helpful thing. Just if they

777
00:59:07.920 --> 00:59:12.000
come out and they do the color
changes, they do the mulching and just

778
00:59:12.079 --> 00:59:14.880
all the things you need to make
spruce up a bed and make sure it's

779
00:59:14.880 --> 00:59:21.320
looking its best. Piercescapes dot com
is the website piercescapes dot com. The

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00:59:21.320 --> 00:59:27.159
phone number two eight one three seven
oh fifty sixty two eight one three seven

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zero five zero six zero. We're
going to head now out to the phones

782
00:59:34.360 --> 00:59:37.519
and bring someone on. I can't
see the name on this, but welcome

783
00:59:37.519 --> 00:59:44.679
to gardenline. Who am I talking
to? May Cayrol Well, May welcome,

784
00:59:45.199 --> 00:59:49.239
what's up? Thank you? Well? I live in Bay Vista,

785
00:59:49.320 --> 00:59:55.239
which is real near Galbuston and Headwater. You know, brackish water all over

786
00:59:55.320 --> 01:00:00.440
my yard front and back of the
house. What do I need to put

787
01:00:00.480 --> 01:00:07.039
on that in order to make sure
that the grass doesn't die. You're talking

788
01:00:07.039 --> 01:00:12.599
about your lawn, right, Yes, well, I would do a couple

789
01:00:12.639 --> 01:00:15.719
of things. First of all,
when you can, when it's not wet

790
01:00:15.840 --> 01:00:22.039
still, a good drenching with water
helps wash salt salts away. Salts dissolve

791
01:00:22.119 --> 01:00:25.559
easily in water. That's how they
got there to your place with the brackish

792
01:00:25.599 --> 01:00:30.800
water, and so drenching it really
good, not just light waterings, but

793
01:00:31.039 --> 01:00:36.719
good drenching that helps move the salts
out of the area, out of the

794
01:00:36.719 --> 01:00:40.239
sort zone moves them down or move
them off surface either way. The other

795
01:00:40.280 --> 01:00:45.000
thing you can do is you could
apply a fuliar spray or the hose en

796
01:00:45.079 --> 01:00:52.440
spray of products that contain things like
seaweed, fish emotion products like the has

797
01:00:52.440 --> 01:00:59.480
to grow from me dina and those
types of products very helpful in doing a

798
01:00:59.559 --> 01:01:05.320
number of itself. But I would
first do the drenching to try to get

799
01:01:05.360 --> 01:01:08.519
as many salts as you could away, and then apply the products as a

800
01:01:08.599 --> 01:01:17.880
surface application. What about gypsum.
If your soil is clay, and if

801
01:01:17.880 --> 01:01:23.519
the clay is very tight, it
doesn't drain well at all, then gypsum

802
01:01:24.000 --> 01:01:30.519
would be helpful because sodium is what
causes soils, clay soils to lose their

803
01:01:30.559 --> 01:01:37.119
structure and drain well and be tight, and gypsum knocks the sodium off the

804
01:01:37.159 --> 01:01:42.760
soil particle. So if you don't, if it's not a sodium related issue,

805
01:01:42.840 --> 01:01:52.280
gyps right, the property here in
the vista was all clay sum step

806
01:01:52.440 --> 01:02:00.880
to make canals. Okay, Okay, yeah, go ahead. I was

807
01:02:00.519 --> 01:02:06.719
just thinking that that might be appropriate
for our yards anyway. Well it might

808
01:02:06.760 --> 01:02:09.719
be, but again it comes down
to the sodium part. You know some

809
01:02:09.880 --> 01:02:13.840
areas have high sodium in the water, so every time you irrigate, you're

810
01:02:13.880 --> 01:02:20.280
adding sodium to this. Other places
don't have that problem, but so practice

811
01:02:20.320 --> 01:02:22.719
it's going to add some sodium.
But usually, you know, one flooding

812
01:02:22.960 --> 01:02:27.159
is not the end of the world. You got to do something. It's

813
01:02:27.239 --> 01:02:31.400
just the repeated application and build up
over time. But there's a problem with

814
01:02:31.639 --> 01:02:37.559
gps. Gypsum basically is calcium sulfate, so the calcium moves the pH up,

815
01:02:37.599 --> 01:02:40.679
the sulfur moves pH down, so
it's kind of a PhD neutral application.

816
01:02:43.159 --> 01:02:46.679
But yeah, that's that would be
the difference. You're trying to get

817
01:02:46.719 --> 01:02:53.079
rid of sodium the problem. Okay, right, okay, alright, thank

818
01:02:53.119 --> 01:03:00.280
you very much. Thanks, I
appreciate you. It's uh, yeah,

819
01:03:00.320 --> 01:03:04.599
that is something that you may have
heard that in going away in a minute.

820
01:03:04.679 --> 01:03:07.840
I haven't heard that before. I
thought gypsum fixed clay soil, and

821
01:03:08.119 --> 01:03:15.880
you just heard me say why.
It's the sodium that ruins the soil structure

822
01:03:16.400 --> 01:03:22.840
and causes it to get very tight
into hole water and not drain well and

823
01:03:22.880 --> 01:03:27.400
not let oxygen in. And you
know up in the College Station area,

824
01:03:27.519 --> 01:03:31.639
the water is very high in sodium
and it is a big problem up there,

825
01:03:31.679 --> 01:03:36.840
and gypsum is a good solution.
If you have a clay soil and

826
01:03:36.880 --> 01:03:43.639
it's not excessively high in sodium,
then gypsum is not going to change your

827
01:03:43.639 --> 01:03:45.599
sol structure. It's not going to
help much, if any at all.

828
01:03:46.320 --> 01:03:52.000
Organic matter and air rating, core
aerating, deep time core aerating, those

829
01:03:52.159 --> 01:03:55.719
help with a compost stop dressing because
now you're getting holes in the ground,

830
01:03:55.760 --> 01:04:01.039
you're getting organic matter down into the
soil, bringing oxygen down into the root

831
01:04:01.119 --> 01:04:08.639
system. And coreration with compost hop
dressing will help a lot for any clay

832
01:04:08.679 --> 01:04:12.159
soil. And I would say that
would be where I would put my money

833
01:04:12.360 --> 01:04:16.639
as opposed to a gypsum application,
unless you know that it is a sodium

834
01:04:16.639 --> 01:04:19.840
issue and you have a soil test
done to find that out. If you

835
01:04:19.960 --> 01:04:24.119
go to a website and I should
have mentioned this to the color when I

836
01:04:24.159 --> 01:04:28.880
was just on lot, if you
go to a website called It's Soil Testing

837
01:04:29.800 --> 01:04:35.159
dot t, a MU, dot
edu. Soil testing is one word at

838
01:04:35.199 --> 01:04:40.559
dot TAMU, dot edu. It's
an A and M statesoil lab. When

839
01:04:40.599 --> 01:04:44.679
you get there, you want to
find the urban soil test form. Now,

840
01:04:44.679 --> 01:04:48.719
this is something I wish they hadn't
used the term urban because really what

841
01:04:48.760 --> 01:04:55.920
it should be called is the garden
and landscape and lawn soil test form.

842
01:04:56.159 --> 01:05:00.880
So vegetables, fruit trees, your
lawn, the trees are in your house,

843
01:05:01.480 --> 01:05:05.400
those kinds of plants, rose bushes, that's the soil test for all

844
01:05:05.440 --> 01:05:10.440
of those. It's a horticultural soil
test, not the one for pastures.

845
01:05:10.480 --> 01:05:13.679
So why am I talking about it
so much? Because just know when you

846
01:05:13.719 --> 01:05:16.199
go there, you want the urban
soil test form, and you'll see when

847
01:05:16.239 --> 01:05:18.280
you look at the forum. I
mean, you can check a box this

848
01:05:18.320 --> 01:05:21.639
is a rose bad or this is
a vegetable garden, and you get your

849
01:05:21.760 --> 01:05:27.039
recommendations and everything made accordingly, which
is very helpful. It's not very expensive

850
01:05:27.039 --> 01:05:30.280
to have a soil test. But
I'm telling you this, all our fertilizer

851
01:05:30.719 --> 01:05:36.119
recommending is based on standard general principles
of what plants use and take up.

852
01:05:36.599 --> 01:05:43.079
But everybody's lawn could be a little
different. Your lawn may be very low

853
01:05:43.320 --> 01:05:45.639
in an ingredient that some other lawn
is very high end. So as a

854
01:05:45.679 --> 01:05:51.199
result, having a soil test gives
you the best, most scientifically accurate way

855
01:05:51.519 --> 01:05:57.320
of knowing how to fertilize what do
you use for your particular situation. Otherwise,

856
01:05:57.800 --> 01:06:00.760
our standard recommendations are just they are
rules of thumb. They're not come

857
01:06:00.840 --> 01:06:04.480
messing anything up. But it's always
better to have a soult test. We're

858
01:06:04.480 --> 01:06:08.840
gonna take a little break and I'll
be right back the phone number seven one

859
01:06:08.960 --> 01:06:15.000
three two one two KTRH enjoy talking
about all things gardening, anything related to

860
01:06:15.039 --> 01:06:20.159
plants and helping you have success and
helping have more fun. You know,

861
01:06:20.280 --> 01:06:26.320
gardening is a hobby, and it
is. It is a wonderful hobby.

862
01:06:26.440 --> 01:06:31.320
It gives you outdoor exercise, little
sunshine, just fresh air. It gives

863
01:06:31.400 --> 01:06:36.280
you mental health benefits that are very
significant. I'm telling you, it's a

864
01:06:36.320 --> 01:06:43.239
peace of mind thing. There's a
reason why things like nature, what do

865
01:06:43.280 --> 01:06:45.639
they call it forest bathing? You
know, people going for a walk in

866
01:06:45.679 --> 01:06:49.000
the forest are getting out and just
being in nature. It really makes a

867
01:06:49.000 --> 01:06:53.400
difference, and gardening allows us to
do that. And the more you create

868
01:06:53.920 --> 01:06:58.360
that outdoor scape around your property that
you want to get out into that you're

869
01:06:58.400 --> 01:07:01.719
proud of, the more fun it
is and we can help you have success

870
01:07:01.800 --> 01:07:06.000
with that. That's what we want
to do. But never be afraid to

871
01:07:06.079 --> 01:07:10.760
fail at gardening, because you don't
fail at gardening, you just give up,

872
01:07:10.880 --> 01:07:14.840
and don't give up. You see
what I'm saying, Gardening is I

873
01:07:14.960 --> 01:07:17.760
like to compare it to the etch
of sketches that some of you remember growing

874
01:07:17.840 --> 01:07:21.000
up with. You had to draw
with two little knobs. One went up

875
01:07:21.039 --> 01:07:26.039
and down, one went sideways.
And if you tried to draw anything like

876
01:07:26.119 --> 01:07:30.159
a curve or a circle, it
was very hard, and inevitably you would

877
01:07:30.199 --> 01:07:32.639
go left when you wanted to go
right, or up when you wanted to

878
01:07:32.679 --> 01:07:35.719
go down. And now you've messed
up your picture. And what did you

879
01:07:35.760 --> 01:07:39.239
do? You took the etch of
sketch, held it over your head and

880
01:07:39.280 --> 01:07:41.840
you shook it. And then when
you put it down, you had a

881
01:07:41.840 --> 01:07:45.039
blank slate. You got to start
over in a garden. That's called a

882
01:07:45.119 --> 01:07:51.039
rototiller, that's called a hoe,
that's called a spading fork. You get

883
01:07:51.119 --> 01:07:55.760
to start over. And it's okay, there's no problem with that at all.

884
01:07:55.800 --> 01:08:00.320
Listen, the best horticulturist in the
world that I know all will tell

885
01:08:00.320 --> 01:08:04.000
you they've killed a lot of plants
over their lifetime. And I'll tell you

886
01:08:04.000 --> 01:08:08.280
that for sure. Uh. And
someone once said, you can't be a

887
01:08:08.320 --> 01:08:11.199
good horticulture. So if you don't
kill a lot of plants, and the

888
01:08:11.239 --> 01:08:14.760
point is get out there, try
it, do it, learn, get

889
01:08:14.800 --> 01:08:18.000
better. It's okay. All right, there's your permission to fail, but

890
01:08:18.079 --> 01:08:20.159
you're not going to really fail.
You're just going to get out and have

891
01:08:20.239 --> 01:08:25.439
fun. That's what we hope.
Well, we're glad you're listening to us

892
01:08:25.479 --> 01:08:28.600
on guardline. Hey, by the
way, the phone number seven one three

893
01:08:28.880 --> 01:08:32.760
two one two fifty eight seventy four
seven one three two one two five eight

894
01:08:32.800 --> 01:08:35.800
seven four. If you've got a
question and we can help you with it,

895
01:08:35.880 --> 01:08:41.520
we are more than happy to do
just that. Nelson Plant Food has

896
01:08:41.640 --> 01:08:45.119
so many quality products on the market. They've got the color Star line,

897
01:08:45.520 --> 01:08:50.439
which is a very famous line here. Lots of people use it, professionals,

898
01:08:50.880 --> 01:08:55.600
you know, in the industry use
it for color beds to create a

899
01:08:55.680 --> 01:09:00.319
real pop of color in the landscape. Then they have the nutri Star line.

900
01:09:00.880 --> 01:09:04.600
There's the hibiscus food that is also
for anything that is kind of a

901
01:09:04.640 --> 01:09:12.760
tropical plant that flowers, so things
like for example, I can't say the

902
01:09:12.800 --> 01:09:15.439
name of it, just blank.
Oh some of the mallows, you know,

903
01:09:15.520 --> 01:09:18.560
and the Texas sage is not tropical, but that's a good plant for

904
01:09:18.600 --> 01:09:24.039
it. It does well with ex
ra, with hollyhawks, alfia's any kind

905
01:09:24.079 --> 01:09:27.279
of a tropical as well. They've
got the indoor food. I was just

906
01:09:27.279 --> 01:09:32.560
talking to one of my daughters about
the indoor plant food of called nutristar indoor

907
01:09:32.640 --> 01:09:36.319
plants. So whatever kind of fold
that you have inside, whether it's a

908
01:09:36.359 --> 01:09:43.119
fiddlely fig, a monstera philodendrons,
rubber tree, schafflara, snakeplant, you

909
01:09:43.159 --> 01:09:46.800
get the idea of Chinese evergreen.
One of my favorite agema. The allocation

910
01:09:46.960 --> 01:09:50.680
of the elephant ears that are often
usually outside. It does well for them

911
01:09:50.720 --> 01:09:55.880
as well. Turf Star Slow and
Easy is their fertilizer. That is the

912
01:09:56.079 --> 01:10:00.319
slow release, and boy is it
ever. It's designed in a way where

913
01:10:00.239 --> 01:10:08.000
that nutrient doesn't come off the particle
until some sort of a biocological process happens

914
01:10:08.039 --> 01:10:13.119
to that particle, and so just
a gush of water doesn't dissolve it all

915
01:10:13.119 --> 01:10:15.159
and wash it away. It is
going to be there and it's going to

916
01:10:15.199 --> 01:10:18.439
feed for three or four months.
So you do it now if you haven't

917
01:10:18.439 --> 01:10:23.239
done it already, and you're good
all the way until your fall. Fertilization.

918
01:10:23.920 --> 01:10:28.880
It's got a slight acidification effect,
which is important for diseases like take

919
01:10:28.920 --> 01:10:33.359
all root rot that do love a
high pH condition. So by acidifying a

920
01:10:33.399 --> 01:10:38.079
little bit the plant, the soil
surface, the plant runner and root zone,

921
01:10:38.800 --> 01:10:42.319
that helps a lot with that.
But that's turf star slow and easy,

922
01:10:42.560 --> 01:10:49.279
one of many many products. By
now some plant food this coming week.

923
01:10:49.640 --> 01:10:55.319
One of the projects that I have
is getting some more planting done in

924
01:10:55.399 --> 01:11:00.159
the vegetable garden. And when it
comes to summer, a lot a lot

925
01:11:00.239 --> 01:11:05.359
of Texas gardeners just sort of lose
their imagination. There's a few vegetables that

926
01:11:05.359 --> 01:11:11.000
get planted in summer, but not
as many as should be because summer is

927
01:11:11.039 --> 01:11:15.319
a great season for the garden too. So I know a lot of things

928
01:11:15.319 --> 01:11:20.239
that do what it did well in
spring from the summer squash, tomatoes,

929
01:11:21.079 --> 01:11:26.239
pepper setting and things. A lot
of that dwindles when we get into eat

930
01:11:26.279 --> 01:11:30.319
cucumbers. Another one that when it
gets blazing hot, it just doesn't pollinate

931
01:11:30.359 --> 01:11:34.159
well and doesn't do well. But
we have plants that do easy easy,

932
01:11:34.199 --> 01:11:40.680
low hanging fruit would be sweet potatoes, black eyed peas, purple whole peas,

933
01:11:40.760 --> 01:11:43.680
crowded peas. Those are all called
southern peas. The ones you shell

934
01:11:43.760 --> 01:11:48.279
out and another good product or another
good plant for that. Okra of course

935
01:11:48.439 --> 01:11:51.800
is a good one for summer.
But there's more. I've got some melowbar

936
01:11:53.039 --> 01:11:58.119
out in the garden. I found
a variety called large round leaf I believe

937
01:11:58.199 --> 01:12:01.720
is what it was called, and
it has very large leaves that are more

938
01:12:01.840 --> 01:12:08.720
rounded, and it really does well
for me. I some people let malabar

939
01:12:08.880 --> 01:12:13.319
climb up a fence or a structure
like a tomtic age or something to grow

940
01:12:13.319 --> 01:12:15.720
on. Once it starts vining,
the leaves get smaller, and now you

941
01:12:15.760 --> 01:12:20.079
start to get all these little seed
pods produced, which turns your garden area

942
01:12:20.159 --> 01:12:27.560
into a malivar wheat patch because it
readily volunteers and comes back. But it's

943
01:12:27.560 --> 01:12:33.720
a good vegetable to use. The
malabar that I like, the large round

944
01:12:33.800 --> 01:12:38.319
leaf types. I just pinch them
back and so they're only about a foot

945
01:12:38.319 --> 01:12:41.319
tall, and when a shoot comes
out about six eight inches, it gets

946
01:12:41.399 --> 01:12:45.600
cut off and I use that tender
shoot to grow and now I have more

947
01:12:45.640 --> 01:12:50.000
of a low growing malabar bush than
a vine with the smaller leaves. Just

948
01:12:50.000 --> 01:12:54.199
something you may want to think about
and growing it. Another great one is

949
01:12:54.279 --> 01:13:01.159
Molochia Molochia is an excellent, excellent
product or an excellent vegetable for summer growing.

950
01:13:01.279 --> 01:13:08.600
It's popular a lot in Mid Eastern
dishes and really arrange all around the

951
01:13:08.640 --> 01:13:15.039
Mid East or different kinds of culture
cultural cuisine where molechia is very popular.

952
01:13:15.359 --> 01:13:19.680
But that would be another very summer
proof one. There are some silosia types

953
01:13:20.119 --> 01:13:26.279
that can be used. They generally
call those Egyptian spinach. They're not spinach,

954
01:13:26.359 --> 01:13:29.960
but that's what they call it.
And so the other one that I

955
01:13:30.000 --> 01:13:33.079
just would say you ought to try
growing is a vegetable type of person lane.

956
01:13:33.119 --> 01:13:35.840
Now perslane is a weed in our
gardens. By the way, you

957
01:13:35.840 --> 01:13:42.680
can eat the weed. Perslaine is
the colorful hanging baskets of flowers. But

958
01:13:42.800 --> 01:13:48.239
percelaine also has varieties called like Mithra
is a good one. In fact,

959
01:13:48.279 --> 01:13:54.039
there's a number of different personalaane varieties. Gold gelber is another good one.

960
01:13:54.159 --> 01:14:00.920
Red grower. Those have large freshing
ds and they are high in Omega three

961
01:14:00.000 --> 01:14:04.319
fatty acid's very important for our health. Has a little bit of a lemonee

962
01:14:04.359 --> 01:14:09.840
tang to it, but it loves
to grow in summertime, and there's others.

963
01:14:10.079 --> 01:14:13.239
So we had to get out there
and do a little investigating and find

964
01:14:13.279 --> 01:14:17.039
somethings to do well in the garden
to keep you eating very healthy. And

965
01:14:17.520 --> 01:14:20.960
these plants are tough. You give
them water and they're happy. That's about

966
01:14:21.319 --> 01:14:26.399
what it takes not gave the disease
and insect or problems at all. So

967
01:14:27.159 --> 01:14:30.800
just a few things to think about. Well, you've been listening to the

968
01:14:30.840 --> 01:14:32.199
Guardline. I'm your host, Skip
rich Or. We're about to take a

969
01:14:32.359 --> 01:14:35.560
top of the hour break. If
you would like to get on the board.

970
01:14:35.920 --> 01:14:39.920
The phone number. Give Chris a
call, it's seven one three two

971
01:14:40.000 --> 01:14:43.439
one two kat rich and get on
the phone board. We'll talk to you

972
01:14:43.920 --> 01:14:46.560
first up when you come back.
Debra out in Montgomery, we're looking to

973
01:14:46.560 --> 01:15:10.319
talk to you first. So many
a. Welcome back, Welcome back to

974
01:15:10.359 --> 01:15:14.039
the Garden Line. Let's get going
again. We got plenty of things we

975
01:15:14.039 --> 01:15:18.319
can talk about today regarding things out
in the garden and the landscape. First

976
01:15:18.319 --> 01:15:23.560
of all, I think we will
run right out here to Deborah in Montgomery.

977
01:15:23.760 --> 01:15:27.199
Hello, Deborah, welcome to garden
Line. Good morning scape. How

978
01:15:27.199 --> 01:15:33.279
are you. I'm well, Thank
you great. I have fifty shades of

979
01:15:33.319 --> 01:15:42.680
gray and green in my front yard. It is lacking. I was reaching.

980
01:15:42.880 --> 01:15:47.840
I was reaching for the button.
Deborah, go ahead, we'll just

981
01:15:47.880 --> 01:15:53.880
have a laughing go on. Fifty
shades of fifty shades of green in my

982
01:15:54.000 --> 01:15:57.359
front yard, I thought. And
then when I said gray, well that's

983
01:15:57.399 --> 01:16:01.039
where my hair is going naturally.
So there you go. I feel you.

984
01:16:01.560 --> 01:16:13.319
Okay, let's get back to the
exactly I attended to your Marguerite Deville

985
01:16:14.920 --> 01:16:17.720
event I've been to. I've been
to the plant store here in Montgomery,

986
01:16:18.119 --> 01:16:26.840
Kathy Steward, and I put some
weed meter down as instructed by you.

987
01:16:27.399 --> 01:16:34.439
That's really working. Great, it's
a great product. Now on my on

988
01:16:34.560 --> 01:16:41.079
my calendar. I did the last
the last time you told me to do

989
01:16:41.119 --> 01:16:44.079
the weed meter, So I'm done
with that for the summer. Would that

990
01:16:44.119 --> 01:16:47.640
be correct? Yes? Okay,
Now what can I do to get those

991
01:16:47.760 --> 01:16:51.800
greens? I do have some photos
of it, But if you could just

992
01:16:51.920 --> 01:17:00.239
imagine, is it lacking iron?
Is it? So you're getting yellowing occurring

993
01:17:00.279 --> 01:17:04.920
on your learn a little bit of
yellow, but mostly just different beautiful shades

994
01:17:04.960 --> 01:17:11.760
of green. Okay, Well,
if you're happy with the color, that's

995
01:17:11.800 --> 01:17:15.520
fine. You know, Saint Augustine
is not normally like emerald green. It

996
01:17:15.560 --> 01:17:20.920
has a towards chartruche green kind of
coloring to it naturally, and yeah,

997
01:17:21.039 --> 01:17:25.600
make it beautiful, but you don't
have to. I mean, you know,

998
01:17:26.079 --> 01:17:29.239
if you see it losing enough color, you know that it needs definitely

999
01:17:29.359 --> 01:17:32.359
use nitrogen. And even though the
color may be acceptable, you may want

1000
01:17:32.399 --> 01:17:36.399
to have more nitrogen in order to
fill in faster make a denser lawn.

1001
01:17:36.520 --> 01:17:43.279
So that's a possibility. Okay,
has to grow. I was blessed to

1002
01:17:43.359 --> 01:17:46.640
be to be a winner of the
weed nat Or, so we'll purchase more

1003
01:17:46.680 --> 01:17:50.479
of that next time I go to
see Kathy has to grow. We're some

1004
01:17:50.680 --> 01:17:58.479
samples that you shared with me.
Would that be a product to put on

1005
01:17:58.640 --> 01:18:02.880
the grass to give it the right
amount of iron needs? And do you

1006
01:18:03.479 --> 01:18:06.399
do you know which has to grow
product you have, because they have a

1007
01:18:06.479 --> 01:18:10.560
number of them that are in the
has to go line. There's regular has

1008
01:18:10.600 --> 01:18:14.640
to grow, there's has to grow. I think it's the six six twelve

1009
01:18:14.760 --> 01:18:20.319
six. I was looking at this
product twelve four eight liquid Lawns, which

1010
01:18:20.359 --> 01:18:28.439
one, Yeah, definitely the twelve
four eight of That's what I was thinking.

1011
01:18:28.800 --> 01:18:33.119
Okay, but they also have supergrow
has to grow Supergrow that's also good

1012
01:18:33.159 --> 01:18:38.319
for lawns. So you can go
either way. Oh good, okay,

1013
01:18:38.439 --> 01:18:42.159
well great, well you've been a
big help, all right, And what

1014
01:18:42.199 --> 01:18:46.319
about what about what's the name of
that Azel Mike? Would that be a

1015
01:18:46.439 --> 01:18:51.039
product you would grow on there?
Also? If you haven't or in the

1016
01:18:51.079 --> 01:18:56.159
past year, I would you could
do that? You know how to do

1017
01:18:56.199 --> 01:18:59.199
it a bunch because you don't need
a lot of it. If you'll notice

1018
01:18:59.239 --> 01:19:03.680
on the bag the rate is very
low. Uh, and so a bag

1019
01:19:03.720 --> 01:19:09.640
goes a long way because trace mineral. It's not like the big three numbers

1020
01:19:09.680 --> 01:19:12.640
on the bag that we need on
great where you have a great Sunday.

1021
01:19:12.720 --> 01:19:17.039
I appreciate you so much. You're
so educated and you're just a wonderful person.

1022
01:19:17.800 --> 01:19:21.319
Love to spend the time. Yeah, thanks for the call, Debrah.

1023
01:19:21.359 --> 01:19:24.840
I appreciate that a lot. If
you'd like to be on guard Line,

1024
01:19:24.960 --> 01:19:29.760
our phone number is seven one three
two one two fifty eight seventy four.

1025
01:19:29.960 --> 01:19:32.039
Or for those of you who like
to hunt down the letters seven one

1026
01:19:32.119 --> 01:19:36.680
three two one two k t R
H. We had to have a poll

1027
01:19:36.800 --> 01:19:41.279
sometime. Do you prefer dialing by
letters or by numbers? And see what

1028
01:19:41.319 --> 01:19:45.119
people think? I know what I
prefer. But anyway, Uh, you

1029
01:19:45.159 --> 01:19:47.000
are listening to guard line. I'm
your host and we're to answer your gardening

1030
01:19:47.079 --> 01:19:51.039
questions. I want to remind every
buddy again that if you go online to

1031
01:19:51.079 --> 01:19:59.359
my website Gardening with Skip dot com
Gardening with Skip dot Com, you will

1032
01:19:59.359 --> 01:20:02.439
find on there a number of things, but I keep adding little bits and

1033
01:20:02.560 --> 01:20:06.319
pieces to it here and there,
but you'll find my lawn care schedule and

1034
01:20:06.359 --> 01:20:12.560
the lawn pest Disease and weed management
schedule. They're both on there. They're

1035
01:20:12.560 --> 01:20:15.039
both multicolored, they're both free.
You can print them out, you can

1036
01:20:15.119 --> 01:20:17.960
just look at them on the computer
if you want. But what you'll see

1037
01:20:18.199 --> 01:20:21.800
is, for example, on the
lawn care schedule, you'll see if you're

1038
01:20:21.800 --> 01:20:26.239
going to fertilize with a synthetic product
or if you're going to fertilize with an

1039
01:20:26.319 --> 01:20:30.439
organic product, exactly what you put
on and when, and it has all

1040
01:20:30.880 --> 01:20:36.479
a list of example quality example fertilizers
that you can use. Then there's a

1041
01:20:36.640 --> 01:20:41.359
line on aeration that talks about aerating
and what to do, a line on

1042
01:20:41.479 --> 01:20:44.399
mowing, and believe it or not, mowing is one of the most important

1043
01:20:44.479 --> 01:20:47.920
things. Most people don't give it
the value that it really has, but

1044
01:20:48.039 --> 01:20:50.960
one of the most important things you
can do to have a dense, beautiful

1045
01:20:51.039 --> 01:20:57.319
lawn is to mow often. That
is key, and as my case in

1046
01:20:57.359 --> 01:21:02.760
point, the golf course green being
the ultimate, it's mote every day,

1047
01:21:03.399 --> 01:21:06.680
just barely cutting off any grasp mote
every day, and boy is that ever

1048
01:21:06.720 --> 01:21:11.199
a dense, healthy, beautiful lawn
surface. So of course your lawn ain

1049
01:21:11.279 --> 01:21:13.680
gonna be a golf course s green. But it just points out that the

1050
01:21:13.720 --> 01:21:15.720
more often you mow, the better
it looks. Also on that schedule is

1051
01:21:15.800 --> 01:21:21.159
watering, and I give you how
many historically how many inches of water a

1052
01:21:21.159 --> 01:21:25.000
week do you need to apply to
the lawn. Now we can say apply

1053
01:21:25.079 --> 01:21:29.000
one inch a week. Well that's
true May, June, July, and

1054
01:21:29.079 --> 01:21:33.800
August, but April and September is
three quarters of an inch, March,

1055
01:21:33.960 --> 01:21:42.000
October and November are half an inch, and December and January and February or

1056
01:21:42.079 --> 01:21:46.520
zero inches historically because we get some
natural rainfall and in those cooler months the

1057
01:21:46.600 --> 01:21:51.000
lawn is just not using much water
at all. So that schedule helps you,

1058
01:21:51.039 --> 01:21:54.840
and that way. The other schedule
is a lawn past disease and week

1059
01:21:54.880 --> 01:22:00.520
management schedule, and that particular one
has a line for insects. So it'll

1060
01:22:00.520 --> 01:22:03.800
tell you when do we treat for
chinchbugs and soid webworms, when do we

1061
01:22:03.840 --> 01:22:08.800
treat for grubs. If you miss
that first treatment, when do you do

1062
01:22:08.920 --> 01:22:12.800
this second treatment? Because the products
change on the second treatment, and then

1063
01:22:12.880 --> 01:22:16.319
diseases take all root, rot,
large patch, or people call it still

1064
01:22:16.319 --> 01:22:21.319
brown patch, gray leaf spot.
When to do those kinds of things,

1065
01:22:21.399 --> 01:22:28.840
as well as tips to reduce disease
attack then under weeds and big red letters.

1066
01:22:28.880 --> 01:22:30.920
I'm going to read it out loud. The first and most important step

1067
01:22:30.920 --> 01:22:34.760
in weed control is to build a
dense, healthy turf over time through proper

1068
01:22:35.000 --> 01:22:40.520
fertilizing, mowing, and watering.
Remember, wherever sunlight hits a soil,

1069
01:22:40.720 --> 01:22:45.359
nature plants a weed. There you
go and there's post emergent controls. There's

1070
01:22:45.479 --> 01:22:48.159
pre emergent controls on there, and
every product, whether you want to do

1071
01:22:48.199 --> 01:22:54.439
it synthetically organically, is listed.
It makes it so easy. I encourage

1072
01:22:54.439 --> 01:22:57.359
you to print those outs to come
on the fridge or put them out in

1073
01:22:57.359 --> 01:23:00.119
the garage by the fertilizer spread or
whatever you want to do. Just print

1074
01:23:00.159 --> 01:23:03.880
those out. We're going to take
a break right now and I will be

1075
01:23:03.960 --> 01:23:08.800
back. The number is seven one
three, two one two five eight seven

1076
01:23:08.920 --> 01:23:13.640
four about them birds. You know, I think I've told you before.

1077
01:23:14.079 --> 01:23:16.840
I used to not be much of
a bird watcher or a bird feeder and

1078
01:23:16.880 --> 01:23:20.840
so on. It just wasn't part
of a hobby that I ever was into.

1079
01:23:21.159 --> 01:23:26.880
And I got me some really good
quality equipment and in terms of bird

1080
01:23:26.920 --> 01:23:30.840
feeders, that that type of thing, and now I just love it more

1081
01:23:30.840 --> 01:23:33.760
and more. We got it.
We have a little bird watering fountain out

1082
01:23:33.800 --> 01:23:38.960
there and some other things. It
is just so pleasurable to sit and watch

1083
01:23:39.000 --> 01:23:41.800
the different kinds of birds. I
had no idea what kinds of birds we

1084
01:23:41.880 --> 01:23:45.159
had around here. I knew there
were a thing called birds, that's about

1085
01:23:45.159 --> 01:23:46.840
it. And so now I'm watching
the feeder, going, oh, what

1086
01:23:46.960 --> 01:23:49.479
is that? And there's some really
cool apps out there too, one called

1087
01:23:49.479 --> 01:23:54.319
the Merlin like the Merlin the Magician, Merlin app. It's out of Cornell.

1088
01:23:55.039 --> 01:24:00.920
And if you that thing is so
cool. If you hear birds singing

1089
01:24:00.920 --> 01:24:02.159
in your yard and you can't see
the bird and you want to know what

1090
01:24:02.199 --> 01:24:05.159
it is, you go to the
Merlin app and it will listen and it

1091
01:24:05.159 --> 01:24:10.159
will tell you what bird that is? Is that cool or what there's also

1092
01:24:11.039 --> 01:24:14.439
you know, different ways that will
help you identify birds and other stuff.

1093
01:24:14.800 --> 01:24:18.840
But we just really enjoy the birds
in our landscape and why Birds Unlimited is

1094
01:24:18.920 --> 01:24:26.479
an absolute just wonderland of cool things
when it comes to birds. I for

1095
01:24:26.560 --> 01:24:31.640
example, I've told you about the
squirrel proof bird feeder, the squirrel eliminator.

1096
01:24:31.680 --> 01:24:36.520
It's called that one is awesome and
I just my favorite one that I

1097
01:24:36.560 --> 01:24:41.479
have. There's a lot of other
super quality feeders. But remember, whenever

1098
01:24:41.600 --> 01:24:45.960
we're dealing with feeding birds, we
have options. We have the dry of

1099
01:24:45.960 --> 01:24:48.439
course, granular bird seed that you
put in feeders, but then there's birds

1100
01:24:48.479 --> 01:24:55.760
cylinders that's compacted bird seed kind of
glued together, if you will, by

1101
01:24:55.840 --> 01:25:00.000
natural substances, and it forms this
cylinder kind of like one of the larger

1102
01:25:00.079 --> 01:25:02.319
little candles you might buy in light. And you put that out there and

1103
01:25:02.399 --> 01:25:04.680
it takes the birds a while to
peck it out, and so you get

1104
01:25:04.720 --> 01:25:08.319
to watch them for longer. They
don't just grab a byte and fly away.

1105
01:25:08.720 --> 01:25:11.560
It takes them a little while.
But also if you go on vacation,

1106
01:25:11.800 --> 01:25:14.479
you put a cylinder out there and
there's still going to be bird seed

1107
01:25:14.479 --> 01:25:18.239
available when you come back from vacation
because it feeds them over a period of

1108
01:25:18.279 --> 01:25:24.119
time. Just a really good job
too. Wabird's Unlimited. Here's the website,

1109
01:25:24.159 --> 01:25:30.159
WBU dot com forward slash Houston.
WBU dot com forward slash Houston.

1110
01:25:30.520 --> 01:25:34.840
While you're there, find the Warbird's
Unlimited store near you. You're going to

1111
01:25:34.920 --> 01:25:39.000
find there's a number of options or
six of them here in the greater Houston

1112
01:25:39.039 --> 01:25:44.640
area. Clearlake Cypress on bel Air
in Memorial Drive in Houston, up in

1113
01:25:44.760 --> 01:25:48.199
Kingwood on Kingwood Drive, and down
in Parland on Broadway Street. And just

1114
01:25:48.319 --> 01:25:54.159
click on their website and you can
actually shop online. If you just wanted

1115
01:25:54.159 --> 01:25:56.560
to have them deliver something, well, you could do that. You go

1116
01:25:56.640 --> 01:26:00.720
to that particular store and you can
shop for poles and by affles and other

1117
01:26:00.760 --> 01:26:03.840
hobby products, for gifts and books, bird baths, bird houses, bird

1118
01:26:03.840 --> 01:26:09.000
feeders, bird food, even a
gift card. Maybe you know someone who

1119
01:26:09.479 --> 01:26:13.119
loves birds and I'm telling you a
bird lover would love a gift card to

1120
01:26:13.159 --> 01:26:16.720
All Birds Unlimited. But get their
food because it is high quality. I

1121
01:26:16.920 --> 01:26:21.399
don't deal with messes. Their food
doesn't have you know, some foods have

1122
01:26:21.479 --> 01:26:27.960
up to seventy plus percent of the
Little Red beeby filler type of seed that

1123
01:26:28.000 --> 01:26:32.239
they don't like to eat, and
quality feed from wild birds. You get

1124
01:26:32.399 --> 01:26:35.319
what you pay for. You buy
a pound of feed, the birds get

1125
01:26:35.359 --> 01:26:41.039
a pound of food. That's how
that works. W dot Com Forward Slush

1126
01:26:41.039 --> 01:26:46.720
Houston. I was enjoying. We
had something go wrong with a breaker and

1127
01:26:46.000 --> 01:26:53.359
my bird fountain that normally is working
really well, I just suddenly went off

1128
01:26:53.399 --> 01:26:59.920
and so I'm doing some electrical Sherlock
Holmes thing around. I've got several things

1129
01:27:00.039 --> 01:27:02.680
I've tried by time to have to
hire an electrician to come in to fix

1130
01:27:02.720 --> 01:27:04.880
that, because that fountain is cool. By the way. You know,

1131
01:27:04.920 --> 01:27:12.039
with fountains, anything that moves the
water surface, mosquitos will not be able

1132
01:27:12.079 --> 01:27:16.439
to lay their eggs and have the
larva survive and then become an adult.

1133
01:27:16.439 --> 01:27:21.000
Mosquito aren't able to go through their
life cycle and moving water as much,

1134
01:27:21.479 --> 01:27:26.640
and so ad a fountain that's moving
water will do it. There's even little

1135
01:27:26.680 --> 01:27:30.760
devices or some that are solar,
but you put them in your bird bath

1136
01:27:30.399 --> 01:27:35.479
and they just create little tiny waves
moving the water around in there, and

1137
01:27:35.520 --> 01:27:40.319
that works well too. Of course, you can also throw mosquito dunks in

1138
01:27:40.319 --> 01:27:43.640
there. Those don't hurt the birds
at all at all. If it's a

1139
01:27:43.640 --> 01:27:45.960
little shallow fountain, you can just
blast it out with a water hose every

1140
01:27:45.960 --> 01:27:49.199
few days. Just don't get them
too long, because in about a week

1141
01:27:50.039 --> 01:27:55.239
you can end up with mosquito larva
that are becoming adults. And now we've

1142
01:27:55.279 --> 01:27:58.800
got a whole new situation. And
that's happening right now too, by the

1143
01:27:58.840 --> 01:28:01.239
way. Around town. We just
had all that rain. Some areas I

1144
01:28:01.239 --> 01:28:05.479
think got nine inches of rain.
And when you have standing water, you

1145
01:28:05.560 --> 01:28:12.399
will have mosquitoes. There are several
different species. They each of them prefers

1146
01:28:12.479 --> 01:28:16.359
a little bit different environment for how
it it would raise its young. Some

1147
01:28:17.640 --> 01:28:24.560
would live in just a real stagnant, dirty water that's real common for mosquitos.

1148
01:28:24.560 --> 01:28:29.359
They love that decomposing leaves and organic
matter and stuff. That's a mosquito

1149
01:28:29.399 --> 01:28:33.439
happy place. Others are more of
a stormwater species and they come and go

1150
01:28:33.640 --> 01:28:39.640
in accordance with a schedule like a
stormwater event. So a lot we can

1151
01:28:39.680 --> 01:28:44.520
do to control them, and especially
if you have birds and bird baths and

1152
01:28:44.560 --> 01:28:46.880
things, it's easy to keep them
out of there. Don't be a skeeter

1153
01:28:46.960 --> 01:28:50.560
breeder. That's how I like to
put it. Well, you're listening to

1154
01:28:50.600 --> 01:28:55.840
Guardline. Our phone number is seven
one three two one two five eight seven

1155
01:28:56.000 --> 01:29:01.600
four seven one three two one two
fifty eight seventy four. I have told

1156
01:29:01.640 --> 01:29:06.600
you about Southwest Fertilizer many times before, but if you've not been there,

1157
01:29:06.640 --> 01:29:11.199
you need to go, you really
do, just to see the place.

1158
01:29:11.920 --> 01:29:17.680
Southwest has the most complete supply of
everything you could want for your garden and

1159
01:29:17.760 --> 01:29:21.479
your landscape. If you hear me
talk about a fertilizer on guard Line,

1160
01:29:23.079 --> 01:29:28.199
Southwest has that fertilizer they do,
they carry them all. If you need

1161
01:29:28.239 --> 01:29:33.479
a pest control, a disease control, a weed control, Southwest has that

1162
01:29:33.920 --> 01:29:40.000
also and every version you need.
Most importantly, they have people in the

1163
01:29:40.039 --> 01:29:44.279
store that know how to advise you. You bring in a bug, you

1164
01:29:44.319 --> 01:29:46.680
bring in a weed, you bring
in a picture of something, and you

1165
01:29:46.720 --> 01:29:48.600
go, how do I get rid
of this? And they're going to show

1166
01:29:48.640 --> 01:29:51.600
you here's your options, here's what
you can do, here's how you do

1167
01:29:51.680 --> 01:29:56.279
it, and they walk you through
the process. Because I can't tell you,

1168
01:29:56.680 --> 01:30:00.880
over my years as a County Eager
Life Extension horticulture agent, how many

1169
01:30:00.960 --> 01:30:04.920
times someone calls up or emails me
and they say, well, I use

1170
01:30:05.039 --> 01:30:10.279
this and this and this, and
it's just like they're throwing the kitchen sink

1171
01:30:10.359 --> 01:30:13.840
at a problem. But they're not
using the right products. And that's a

1172
01:30:13.880 --> 01:30:18.840
waste of money. It's unnecessary environmental
degradation. We don't want that. So

1173
01:30:19.199 --> 01:30:23.439
get a good diagnosis so that you
can get a good product. And in

1174
01:30:23.560 --> 01:30:26.560
Southwest you're going to get that kind
of thing. And I hope you'll call

1175
01:30:26.600 --> 01:30:30.560
here, and if need be,
we go through email to look at photos.

1176
01:30:30.600 --> 01:30:33.960
Because you need to buy one thing
and use it once and be done.

1177
01:30:34.239 --> 01:30:39.079
You don't need to waste your time
and money guessing at what to do

1178
01:30:39.199 --> 01:30:43.199
to control the problem. Southwest Fertilizers
in the corner of Businett and Runwick and

1179
01:30:43.239 --> 01:30:47.479
Southwest Houston the website Southwest Fertilizer dot
com. If you haven't been there,

1180
01:30:47.560 --> 01:30:51.199
I highly recommend you go check that
place out. I'm going to go now

1181
01:30:51.319 --> 01:30:56.760
out to Katie, Texas and talk
to Doug. Hello, Dougkop, Good

1182
01:30:56.760 --> 01:31:00.399
morning, sir. Say a quick
one for you. I've got a medium

1183
01:31:00.439 --> 01:31:06.920
sized pot that I'm growing mint in
and it's been invaded by ants. I

1184
01:31:06.960 --> 01:31:11.479
don't know if the answered detrimental,
but I'd like to get rid of them,

1185
01:31:11.479 --> 01:31:15.680
but I don't want to render the
mint unedible. Okay, do you

1186
01:31:15.720 --> 01:31:19.399
think do you think their fire?
Answer is it's just ants and you don't

1187
01:31:19.399 --> 01:31:25.159
know what. Oh, I'm pretty
sure they're fire. Inch Okay, Well,

1188
01:31:25.159 --> 01:31:27.800
if you're not sure, you can
put a potato chip in there and

1189
01:31:28.159 --> 01:31:31.359
within about five or ten minutes they
ought to be crawling all over that potato

1190
01:31:31.399 --> 01:31:34.199
chip if they find it. I
got you. They love they love that

1191
01:31:34.520 --> 01:31:40.560
ly material. So you got a
couple of options. How big is this

1192
01:31:40.680 --> 01:31:43.439
pot? You said, medium of
like, what's the diama? Oh,

1193
01:31:43.560 --> 01:31:47.840
it's it's it's it's actually more of
kind of a bowl shape. It's probably

1194
01:31:47.920 --> 01:31:51.760
about I don't know, foot and
a half two foot in diameter, maybe

1195
01:31:51.800 --> 01:31:59.399
about eight inches deep. Okay,
Well, so one option would be to

1196
01:31:59.439 --> 01:32:02.079
put a bay and around that pot. You could sprinkle a little bit in

1197
01:32:02.119 --> 01:32:09.760
the pot, but baits are super
super low quantities of an insecticide that works

1198
01:32:09.960 --> 01:32:15.159
very slow in the end, and
that would be effective. You could also

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01:32:15.560 --> 01:32:24.239
do just a drench with something that
contains lemon lemonine, lemonine L I M

1200
01:32:24.279 --> 01:32:28.359
O N and I believe as I
spell it, and it's it's a it's

1201
01:32:28.359 --> 01:32:32.119
a citrus oil. Product that's used
as a mound drench, and you would

1202
01:32:32.159 --> 01:32:36.800
just drench that in and that would
be another option. I would mostly try

1203
01:32:36.800 --> 01:32:41.119
to keep it off of the foldage
of the Minnesota I've can talk. It's

1204
01:32:41.119 --> 01:32:45.159
going to come right back anyway.
I don't think it'll burn it. But

1205
01:32:45.199 --> 01:32:48.880
I've never used it on that before. But that is a mound treatment that's

1206
01:32:48.960 --> 01:32:55.199
organic to use. Okay, well, great, well I'll certainly consider both

1207
01:32:55.199 --> 01:32:58.600
of those options and give them a
try. Yeah good, all right,

1208
01:32:58.640 --> 01:33:01.520
Well thanks. Parents aren't any fun, are they? Oh? No,

1209
01:33:01.600 --> 01:33:05.560
they're not, especially when they get
on you. I had a lady call

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01:33:05.680 --> 01:33:10.359
my office one time and she was
in tears. I'm not making fun of

1211
01:33:10.399 --> 01:33:12.600
her. I'm just telling you how
it was. She was in tears,

1212
01:33:12.680 --> 01:33:15.560
and she said, is there anything
in Texas that doesn't bite? She had

1213
01:33:15.600 --> 01:33:19.800
just moved here from another state,
and I think between fiants and mosquitoes and

1214
01:33:19.880 --> 01:33:25.000
rotten snakes, and she was pretty
much getting the creepy crawly there. Get

1215
01:33:25.039 --> 01:33:29.800
her understood down that all right?
So hey, thanks for going. We'd

1216
01:33:29.840 --> 01:33:32.520
appreciate your call dog very much.
We're gonna take a little break right now.

1217
01:33:33.319 --> 01:33:35.880
You come back if you'd like to
be First up, we got an

1218
01:33:35.880 --> 01:33:39.960
open board. Uh, you just
give us a call at seven one three

1219
01:33:40.039 --> 01:34:09.680
two one two k t r H. The kinds of things that we need

1220
01:34:09.720 --> 01:34:13.720
to be doing out in the landscape, by the way, after a lot

1221
01:34:13.760 --> 01:34:16.840
of the things your plants have been
through. Certainly the storm itself was pretty

1222
01:34:16.840 --> 01:34:20.800
tough for a lot of plants.
For those of you who've had maybe issues

1223
01:34:20.880 --> 01:34:26.279
with bad water flood coming up into
your area and moving out and trying to

1224
01:34:26.279 --> 01:34:29.640
figure out what do I do now? Well, Microlife has got a wide

1225
01:34:29.760 --> 01:34:35.159
range of organic products that you can
use to control or to enhance your soil,

1226
01:34:35.600 --> 01:34:39.680
so that a lot of the problems
that you would otherwise have to figure

1227
01:34:39.720 --> 01:34:42.960
out, how do I control it? Well? By just growing good healthy

1228
01:34:43.000 --> 01:34:46.119
plants, you avoid some of those
issues, and that is something well need

1229
01:34:46.119 --> 01:34:49.760
to do. We always start cultural
and then go with any kind of a

1230
01:34:49.800 --> 01:34:57.079
product, spray or whatever we might
need to do well with organics like Microlife,

1231
01:34:57.079 --> 01:35:00.920
you've got heumates plus that's a purple
bag. That's like cont traded compost

1232
01:35:00.960 --> 01:35:04.720
in the bag. Anytime use something
like that, you make the soil better

1233
01:35:04.840 --> 01:35:10.880
over time, and good healthy soil
means good healthy plant growth. They've got

1234
01:35:10.920 --> 01:35:14.880
the six two four that is their
fertilizer. That's kind of the standard one

1235
01:35:15.199 --> 01:35:18.279
for the things that you might want
to do like a lawn. I would

1236
01:35:18.359 --> 01:35:23.079
use it on a lot of other
plants as well, especially something you're growing

1237
01:35:23.600 --> 01:35:27.319
primarily for the grainery around it.
It'll work good on that, but I

1238
01:35:27.359 --> 01:35:30.840
even use it on things like fruit
and vegetables. It's widely, widely available

1239
01:35:30.880 --> 01:35:35.720
and widely effective really when it comes
to the range of plants that you can

1240
01:35:35.760 --> 01:35:40.960
have success with it on. Now, Microlife has their liquid products too,

1241
01:35:40.960 --> 01:35:45.119
and that's one that's something i'd like
to just discuss real briefly with you here.

1242
01:35:45.760 --> 01:35:50.279
With Microlife liquids, you've got things
like the fertilizer that I really enjoy,

1243
01:35:50.359 --> 01:35:57.399
the orange label Biomatrix. It's a
seven to one three fertilizer works good

1244
01:35:57.399 --> 01:36:00.880
for anything loaded with microbes. So
if you're putting in a transplant, you

1245
01:36:00.920 --> 01:36:05.359
can water it in with Biomatrix water
from Microlife. You can get the Humans

1246
01:36:05.439 --> 01:36:10.159
plus as a liquid. You can
get seaweed super seaweed it's called. You

1247
01:36:10.199 --> 01:36:14.760
can get Ocean Harvests, which is
a fisher mulsion. Those kinds of combinations.

1248
01:36:14.840 --> 01:36:20.359
Things like additional ones like Microlife's molasses
or micro microlife excuse me, humic

1249
01:36:20.399 --> 01:36:25.439
acid complex. It's got humic and
foldic acid both in it. Those are

1250
01:36:25.520 --> 01:36:28.680
very helpful for the plant. And
there's other products for microlife like that.

1251
01:36:28.760 --> 01:36:30.319
And I would encourage you if you
have questions, you want to know what

1252
01:36:30.359 --> 01:36:32.520
can I do for it? Well, how about hooking it up to hoose

1253
01:36:32.560 --> 01:36:36.000
inspiring going over the lawn. How
about using it in your flower beds or

1254
01:36:36.000 --> 01:36:40.560
your vegetable gardens or other things.
These are all going to be good for

1255
01:36:40.640 --> 01:36:45.479
the soil and good for the plant. Microlife Fertilizer dot com. Microlife Fertilizer

1256
01:36:45.520 --> 01:36:47.720
dot com. That's how you find
out where to buy it. It's widely

1257
01:36:47.760 --> 01:36:53.000
available. That's also how you find
out what products are out there that I

1258
01:36:53.079 --> 01:36:59.279
even had time to get around to
talking about from Microlife. Let's head out

1259
01:36:59.319 --> 01:37:02.319
to the phones now, and I'm
bringing on new collar. I don't have

1260
01:37:02.399 --> 01:37:09.199
your name, So who am I
talking to today? Missus? Kevin Fredell?

1261
01:37:10.319 --> 01:37:15.600
Hi, Kevin? How can I
help? Well? I sent an

1262
01:37:15.600 --> 01:37:23.359
email yesterday regarding a spot in my
front lawn that will not grow grass okay,

1263
01:37:23.399 --> 01:37:30.039
and sent some photos, And since
since then, I've realized that my

1264
01:37:30.239 --> 01:37:36.920
lawn is basically just clay, and
the parts that have grass growing just have

1265
01:37:38.000 --> 01:37:45.079
a very thin top soil. And
so I'm thinking that's probably why there's no

1266
01:37:45.279 --> 01:37:48.800
grass growing in that spot, but
I can't say for sure. I don't

1267
01:37:48.800 --> 01:37:53.279
know if you had a chance to
look at the photos yet I have looked

1268
01:37:53.319 --> 01:37:57.760
at the photos. So that almost
looks like where a tree was that got

1269
01:37:57.840 --> 01:38:00.800
dug out or something. It's so
round, yeah, I know, and

1270
01:38:01.239 --> 01:38:06.840
it's not. Okay. Well,
let me say this first. Clay is

1271
01:38:06.880 --> 01:38:12.760
not a problem for Saint Augustine.
The sod producers along the Gulf Coast grow

1272
01:38:12.800 --> 01:38:15.720
it and that black clay soil that
sod comes in with, right, and

1273
01:38:15.760 --> 01:38:20.279
so that is a soil where grass
is thriving. Because if a grower didn't

1274
01:38:20.319 --> 01:38:26.039
have thriving grass, they couldn't make
cuts and make money by selling the sod.

1275
01:38:26.560 --> 01:38:30.319
So clay is okay. You just
need adequate soil moisture, and you

1276
01:38:30.439 --> 01:38:36.680
need a good nutrient content. If
it were a compacted clay, then aeration

1277
01:38:38.119 --> 01:38:41.720
is also helpful. You can erate
any clay, but that would be it.

1278
01:38:41.760 --> 01:38:45.800
But the fact that this is around
nothing that you know, it's almost

1279
01:38:45.880 --> 01:38:50.760
like some product's put on the soil
that is still affecting the grass being able

1280
01:38:50.760 --> 01:38:55.159
to grow there. I don't know, but I don't know anything that makes

1281
01:38:55.199 --> 01:38:59.640
a round dead spot. We got
brown patch in the winter, large patch.

1282
01:38:59.680 --> 01:39:02.319
It's all an now caohol which makes
circles. But they don't kill the

1283
01:39:02.399 --> 01:39:06.159
runner. They regreen, they come
back. So I looked at your pictures

1284
01:39:06.199 --> 01:39:10.960
closely, and I don't see a
sign of anything in the photos. It

1285
01:39:10.960 --> 01:39:14.600
looks like the grass is trying to
crawl back in, and I see where

1286
01:39:14.600 --> 01:39:17.359
the old dead grass died out.
I think I might take for a little

1287
01:39:17.399 --> 01:39:26.239
spot like that, Kevin. I
might go ahead and just take a spading

1288
01:39:26.319 --> 01:39:29.920
fork and wiggle it down into the
soil and then just kind of pulling it

1289
01:39:29.960 --> 01:39:32.119
to crack it open a little bit. You're not turning over the soil spading

1290
01:39:32.159 --> 01:39:36.199
it. You're just pushing it straight
down and loosening it up and doing a

1291
01:39:36.239 --> 01:39:41.000
whole bunch of those in there.
I would throw a little leaf mold composh.

1292
01:39:41.079 --> 01:39:43.640
You can buy that in a bag
and a lot of different places.

1293
01:39:43.960 --> 01:39:46.600
Throw a little leaf mold compost on
it and water it in really good,

1294
01:39:46.880 --> 01:39:55.600
and then probably get a hold of
some of Medina's has to grow super grow

1295
01:39:55.680 --> 01:39:59.239
Plus. That's a hose end applicator, and I would apply it to the

1296
01:40:00.119 --> 01:40:02.800
see how it looks and what some
of your photos. The lawn looks a

1297
01:40:02.840 --> 01:40:08.000
little I don't want to say yellow, but it's less green, and so

1298
01:40:08.279 --> 01:40:12.119
I'm wondering if maybe there's not some
issues going on with the roots and being

1299
01:40:12.119 --> 01:40:15.479
able to take up iron. So
I think that I would try the has

1300
01:40:15.560 --> 01:40:19.840
to grow super grow plus supergrow plus. It's a sixteen zero two. I

1301
01:40:19.840 --> 01:40:23.840
believe it's a number. The last
number. Okay, hooks up to a

1302
01:40:23.880 --> 01:40:28.239
garden hose. But first let's get
the soil structure as good as we can

1303
01:40:28.359 --> 01:40:31.279
in there, and hopefully that'll sod
over. Now it's a huge area,

1304
01:40:31.439 --> 01:40:34.640
so if you wanted to buy a
few blocks of sod to put in there

1305
01:40:34.720 --> 01:40:39.079
to speed it up, I think
that'd be better because as long as you

1306
01:40:39.119 --> 01:40:41.600
have bear soil, you're gonna get
a lot of wheat showing up in that

1307
01:40:41.720 --> 01:40:45.880
spot. Okay, Well, we
had planned to do that, and in

1308
01:40:45.920 --> 01:40:54.760
my research on this thing, watching
you tube, they talk about getting like

1309
01:40:54.800 --> 01:40:59.319
a one inch or a two inch
auger bit and every six inches, you

1310
01:40:59.359 --> 01:41:02.680
know, hit get the the uh
hit the lawn with it. Removed the

1311
01:41:02.760 --> 01:41:09.159
clay and then pack those with with
the compost. Would you think that would

1312
01:41:09.159 --> 01:41:14.520
be a good idea. That's even
better than the spading fork. It's just

1313
01:41:14.640 --> 01:41:17.159
most people aren't willing to stoop for
the amount of time it takes to drill

1314
01:41:17.439 --> 01:41:21.279
six inch apart holes through a large
area like that. But yes, I

1315
01:41:21.279 --> 01:41:25.520
don't mind it one. Yeah,
you don't need to get bigger than one

1316
01:41:25.560 --> 01:41:29.239
inch, that's fine. And the
augur bit just get if you can get

1317
01:41:29.279 --> 01:41:33.680
down even six inches, that's enough
with the auger Bet and okay, buy

1318
01:41:33.720 --> 01:41:40.640
able mold compost. You can buy
those nature Sway cells, those heirloom soils

1319
01:41:40.640 --> 01:41:43.640
has a super quality one as well. I don't know what part of the

1320
01:41:43.680 --> 01:41:48.720
area do you live in. I'm
in sugar Land. Cornelius is the closest

1321
01:41:49.079 --> 01:41:54.720
I think that I have. But
I'm soeulthless fertilizers not having a question.

1322
01:41:56.680 --> 01:42:00.800
Yeah, that'd be good. I
you just have to see if they have

1323
01:42:00.840 --> 01:42:02.880
a leaf mo compost on hand.
Off the top of my head, I'm

1324
01:42:02.920 --> 01:42:06.239
not sure seeing them all should be
another good one. They're down the road,

1325
01:42:06.840 --> 01:42:12.119
but they're not far from your area, and they have you can get

1326
01:42:12.159 --> 01:42:16.159
the super quality screen leaf mold composts
down there, but you're not gonna have

1327
01:42:16.159 --> 01:42:21.439
trouble finding it with all those options. Okay, well, I appreciate your

1328
01:42:21.439 --> 01:42:26.439
help. Thank you very much.
Yeah, and hey, just as a

1329
01:42:26.479 --> 01:42:29.520
favor, if you think about it
as we go on down, send me

1330
01:42:29.560 --> 01:42:32.159
a picture a couple of weeks and
we'll take a look, and I'd like

1331
01:42:32.199 --> 01:42:35.640
to see if maybe four weeks from
now you're seeing a benefit. I got

1332
01:42:35.640 --> 01:42:38.800
to run to a break, but
hey, thanks for the call. I

1333
01:42:38.800 --> 01:42:45.640
appreciate that. Folks will be right
back. You're listening to guard Line.

1334
01:42:45.680 --> 01:42:47.920
Good to have you back with us. How can we help you have a

1335
01:42:48.000 --> 01:42:51.680
more bountiful garden, a more beautiful
landscape. That's what we're here for.

1336
01:42:53.079 --> 01:42:56.680
So let's dive right into it.
We're going to go to Pearland and talk

1337
01:42:56.720 --> 01:43:00.199
to Kay. Now. Hello,
okay, welcome to guard Line. Good

1338
01:43:00.239 --> 01:43:05.479
morning, Skip. Thank you and
your crew so much for forging ahead and

1339
01:43:05.520 --> 01:43:12.800
then doing what you can with you
know your problems. We all need you.

1340
01:43:14.600 --> 01:43:20.479
Yes it is now. Guess I
have a simple question. I was

1341
01:43:20.600 --> 01:43:27.119
just wondering about ground up. I
have some areas that have just gotten so

1342
01:43:27.279 --> 01:43:30.439
much weed. I pulled a lot
of it up, but I need to

1343
01:43:30.479 --> 01:43:34.399
spray with round up. How long
do I have to wait before I can

1344
01:43:34.439 --> 01:43:42.439
plant something? Let me ask a
few questions. What what is the what's

1345
01:43:42.479 --> 01:43:50.199
growing in that area that you don't
want to kill anything? Hibiscus ammirellis a

1346
01:43:50.279 --> 01:43:59.760
variety of what am I trying to
say, guardena plant? I mean,

1347
01:43:59.800 --> 01:44:02.800
I have a board that I put
but you know, against everything when I've

1348
01:44:02.880 --> 01:44:06.640
spray. But okay, Well,
if as long as you can protect it

1349
01:44:06.680 --> 01:44:11.600
from the spray, I definitely won't
do that. You can use that around

1350
01:44:11.640 --> 01:44:15.199
them. You just need to barely
get the weeds wet, and after you've

1351
01:44:15.359 --> 01:44:20.479
applied it, it's gonna take it
about five days to really have moved in

1352
01:44:20.520 --> 01:44:24.960
there where you start to see some
symptoms on it really good, right,

1353
01:44:25.319 --> 01:44:29.359
And after that you can just you
know, physically remove the weeds out of

1354
01:44:29.399 --> 01:44:34.600
the area if they're very big,
because anyway, well I've removed a bunch

1355
01:44:34.600 --> 01:44:39.880
of them by hand already. I've
just pulled them up physically and there's just

1356
01:44:40.279 --> 01:44:44.079
little things coming back, and I
want to clear it out and get them

1357
01:44:44.119 --> 01:44:46.319
to the roots. After you do
that, you put seeds in the ground.

1358
01:44:46.319 --> 01:44:51.000
It won't hurt them. It's okay. It's not poisoning the soil to

1359
01:44:51.039 --> 01:44:55.319
where you can't grow something back in
that spot, but you get it on

1360
01:44:55.840 --> 01:44:59.039
green, that's going to kill it. There are other riptions, you know,

1361
01:44:59.079 --> 01:45:01.840
if your wage are all great,
there are grass only killers that would

1362
01:45:01.880 --> 01:45:06.479
be fine with everything you got there, except maybe the ammerillis you mentioned.

1363
01:45:06.640 --> 01:45:12.960
I don't think that would be good
to use a grass killer around, but

1364
01:45:13.000 --> 01:45:17.760
I'm okay, I'm just that's that's
the best guess. Yeah, I think

1365
01:45:17.800 --> 01:45:21.840
those are some good options. Just
be real careful when you use a product.

1366
01:45:21.960 --> 01:45:26.760
Use a coarse spray droplet so you
don't have high pressure and make a

1367
01:45:26.840 --> 01:45:31.640
mist that drifts, right, okay, be real careful. Okay. And

1368
01:45:31.680 --> 01:45:34.920
if it's just weeds here and there, you can make a little wiper applicator,

1369
01:45:35.279 --> 01:45:41.199
so you just well, some of
them are kind of bigger beds,

1370
01:45:41.279 --> 01:45:45.319
maybe twenty feet long, that are
just dirt. You know, there's nothing

1371
01:45:45.399 --> 01:45:51.079
really I've just been trying to decide
what to do with it. And I

1372
01:45:51.159 --> 01:45:56.199
have a big long one forty feet
in the backyard that you know, has

1373
01:45:56.279 --> 01:46:00.720
one high discus on it and it
got blown mostly way. Yeah, make

1374
01:46:00.760 --> 01:46:04.239
sure the weeds are in an actively
growing state, so if they're struggling,

1375
01:46:04.319 --> 01:46:08.439
give them a good ring and getting
them, get them actively growing, because

1376
01:46:08.439 --> 01:46:13.520
then the product really works if it's
stressed. Okay, okay, okay,

1377
01:46:13.560 --> 01:46:15.640
well I'll probably hit it once and
then give them a chance for the ones

1378
01:46:15.680 --> 01:46:19.920
that I've pulled up. Basically,
make every effort to get the roots,

1379
01:46:19.960 --> 01:46:25.000
you know, and then go back
and see if something else comes back.

1380
01:46:25.239 --> 01:46:28.880
Thank you so very much, and
you have a blessed day, you two

1381
01:46:28.960 --> 01:46:31.279
k Thanks for the call. I
appreciate that you've heard me talk about a

1382
01:46:31.279 --> 01:46:34.800
Star of Hope before. By the
way, they just celebrate their one hundred

1383
01:46:34.800 --> 01:46:39.880
and seventeenth anniversary July first. Can
you believe that that is how long they've

1384
01:46:39.920 --> 01:46:45.039
been part of Houston, making Houston
a better place. While they change lives

1385
01:46:45.119 --> 01:46:50.680
one at a time through training,
through guidance, through drug abuse program recovery

1386
01:46:50.720 --> 01:46:57.640
programs, through everything. They take
someone who doesn't have a way to get

1387
01:46:57.640 --> 01:47:03.279
a start now and they set life
up in their system so that that person

1388
01:47:03.760 --> 01:47:08.479
can make a life. For example, if you got kids, who's going

1389
01:47:08.560 --> 01:47:11.560
to take care of the kids?
Star Hope when you standing there? They

1390
01:47:11.600 --> 01:47:15.720
have childcare in some of their facilities
for that, How do I learn a

1391
01:47:15.800 --> 01:47:17.720
job skill, Like, how do
I do an interview some people? That

1392
01:47:17.920 --> 01:47:21.960
is something we need help with and
Star Hope does that. I need food

1393
01:47:23.000 --> 01:47:26.079
in the meantime when it comes time
to go for a job, how about

1394
01:47:26.119 --> 01:47:31.960
a really nice little let's say used
clothing, but almost a boutique kind of

1395
01:47:32.039 --> 01:47:36.319
level where you're getting some quality stuff
to show up for the interview and present

1396
01:47:36.359 --> 01:47:40.560
yourself with. See what I'm talking
about. Star Hope covers the whole thing,

1397
01:47:40.680 --> 01:47:45.600
and in certainly including the spiritual formation
part that is the basis of what

1398
01:47:45.640 --> 01:47:49.399
they do Star Hope Ministries. I
would recommend that you join me and being

1399
01:47:49.520 --> 01:47:57.520
a supporter of Star Hope, you
can go to shmission dot org. Shmission

1400
01:47:57.840 --> 01:48:00.159
dot org. I tell you all
the time that it recommend things that I

1401
01:48:00.199 --> 01:48:03.359
haven't tried or don't know work or
whatever. I can tell you this,

1402
01:48:03.520 --> 01:48:10.000
I have first hand experience and have
seen the results of what Star Hope does

1403
01:48:10.119 --> 01:48:13.720
and it is I can't think of
a better way to put your compassion to

1404
01:48:13.760 --> 01:48:18.319
work than a donation to Star Hope
Mission. We're going to now go buy

1405
01:48:18.319 --> 01:48:21.439
a phone. Let's see here.
Yeah, we're go by a phone out

1406
01:48:21.479 --> 01:48:28.039
here to talk to Anna. Go
hey, Anna, Welcome to garden line.

1407
01:48:28.199 --> 01:48:30.479
We've got about a minute, but
maybe we can get it done.

1408
01:48:31.600 --> 01:48:40.399
Hello. Hi, Hello, Okay, I wasn't sure I was on Skip.

1409
01:48:40.439 --> 01:48:44.640
I have an Eagleston hally that has
just had a major leaf drop,

1410
01:48:45.119 --> 01:48:47.720
and I've got photos of what's going
on with the leaves, and I wondered

1411
01:48:47.760 --> 01:48:51.880
if I could send those in.
I don't know if this thing has a

1412
01:48:51.960 --> 01:48:56.640
fungus or if it's I don't see
how it could be a water problem.

1413
01:48:57.600 --> 01:49:00.800
Right, I'm about to put you
on hold, but when Chris picks up

1414
01:49:00.800 --> 01:49:03.319
the phone, make sure that when
you send the email, he'll give you

1415
01:49:03.359 --> 01:49:06.359
the address. Make sure you send
me photos are a good sharp focus.

1416
01:49:06.760 --> 01:49:10.920
I want to see that they are. Oh, I'm sorry, I just

1417
01:49:11.000 --> 01:49:15.359
realized something. We're not our system
issues. We're not able to do what

1418
01:49:15.439 --> 01:49:25.119
I normally do to fix us.
Okay, Well, the leaves they're getting

1419
01:49:25.239 --> 01:49:32.199
little tiny yellow spots around the outer
edge of the leave. And yeah,

1420
01:49:32.239 --> 01:49:36.600
it's just little spots now looked for
mit so I've read about funguses, you

1421
01:49:36.640 --> 01:49:41.840
know, I cannot figure out.
Uh, and then the leaves just eventually

1422
01:49:41.920 --> 01:49:48.279
turn brown and drop and I'm going
to cut in here. Uh, Chris,

1423
01:49:48.279 --> 01:49:50.920
how's your phone number from calling in. He's going to call you back

1424
01:49:50.960 --> 01:49:55.640
and give you the email. It's
okay, it's that all right, thank

1425
01:49:55.680 --> 01:49:58.600
you, all right, we just
hang on. He'll be with you in

1426
01:49:58.720 --> 01:50:00.880
just a day, all right.
Folks, you're listening to guard Line.

1427
01:50:00.960 --> 01:50:04.319
We are working our way through some
of the issues that have come up with

1428
01:50:04.399 --> 01:50:08.800
all the storms and things we're dealing
with. But the show goes on and

1429
01:50:08.840 --> 01:50:11.880
we're having a good time. I
hope you are if you're listening to it.

1430
01:50:12.800 --> 01:50:15.000
I'll be back after the top of
the hour in the news and we'll

1431
01:50:15.039 --> 01:50:19.520
continue with your questions. We've got
to open board and so if you are

1432
01:50:19.600 --> 01:50:25.840
interested in asking a question or getting
on Guardline, give Chris a call.

1433
01:50:26.359 --> 01:50:30.920
The phone number is seven one three
two one two k t r H seven

1434
01:50:30.960 --> 01:50:45.279
one three two one two K two
are a welcome back to the guard Line.

1435
01:50:45.520 --> 01:50:48.600
Good to have you with us today. Looking forward to helping you have

1436
01:50:48.680 --> 01:50:53.479
a more bountiful garden, a more
beautiful landscape. And how can we do

1437
01:50:53.560 --> 01:50:57.960
that. Maybe maybe a plant recommendation
would be in order or to write,

1438
01:50:58.119 --> 01:51:00.680
well, I tell you what I
elson water garden and nursery out there,

1439
01:51:00.720 --> 01:51:03.479
and Katie, don't if you haven't
been. You need to go, but

1440
01:51:03.600 --> 01:51:05.920
it's out. You got eye town
to Katie. I mean you get to

1441
01:51:06.000 --> 01:51:10.279
Katie four Ben Road, Katie four
Ben Road, you turn right, go

1442
01:51:10.399 --> 01:51:14.319
north, cross over the tracks and
you'll get to it real quick. It's

1443
01:51:14.439 --> 01:51:17.600
right there. And they're a water
gardens specialist company. They have been.

1444
01:51:17.600 --> 01:51:23.359
They're nationally known for their water gardens. They invented the fountain, the disappearing

1445
01:51:23.399 --> 01:51:27.880
fountain that's like a big, tall, skinny vase that water comes down the

1446
01:51:27.960 --> 01:51:30.319
side and goes into pebbles and then
it comes back up through the middle.

1447
01:51:30.720 --> 01:51:34.359
That they should know how to do
that. They're the ones that created it.

1448
01:51:34.680 --> 01:51:39.039
And boy do they ever have beautiful
ones on site. You just got

1449
01:51:39.039 --> 01:51:44.159
to go and walk through the peace
and quiet of a nice cool shaded spot

1450
01:51:44.520 --> 01:51:47.560
with the sounds of water all around
you. That's Nelson Water Garden. This

1451
01:51:47.640 --> 01:51:53.920
is your West Houston nursery and destination
nursery as a matter of fact, for

1452
01:51:54.000 --> 01:51:58.319
all kinds of things. But they're
plants, selections unbelievable. Oh, gorgeous,

1453
01:51:58.399 --> 01:52:01.920
hibiscus, beautiful, the tropicals they
have such gorgeous ones. All the

1454
01:52:02.039 --> 01:52:06.119
roses right now are fifteen percent are
fifteen dollars, which is half price essentially.

1455
01:52:06.720 --> 01:52:10.880
So you're looking time to get a
rose, get it established and stuff,

1456
01:52:10.920 --> 01:52:13.560
you take care of it, get
it in the ground water right You

1457
01:52:13.600 --> 01:52:15.920
can do that right now, and
that would just get you set up for

1458
01:52:16.159 --> 01:52:20.119
a gorgeous rose display, especially this
fall when they put on some of the

1459
01:52:20.119 --> 01:52:25.239
best displays they do of the year, all at Nelson Water Garden and Nursery.

1460
01:52:25.399 --> 01:52:27.640
It's not hard to find them.
Ari told you how to get there.

1461
01:52:27.680 --> 01:52:30.840
If you want to go to the
website, go to Nelson Watergarden dot

1462
01:52:30.880 --> 01:52:36.159
com Nelson Watergardens plural dot com.
It's an excellent site and it will help

1463
01:52:36.239 --> 01:52:41.520
direct you to the many things that
I don't even have time to mention that

1464
01:52:41.560 --> 01:52:45.720
they can do for you there in
terms of creating a more beautiful, beautiful

1465
01:52:45.760 --> 01:52:49.359
setting around your home. I'm going
to go now out to Missouri City and

1466
01:52:49.399 --> 01:52:53.920
we're going to talk to Ruben.
Hello Ruben, good morning, sir.

1467
01:52:54.359 --> 01:52:58.800
This morning I heard you talk about
the nematodes, and I found it rather

1468
01:52:58.880 --> 01:53:03.439
fascinating when I've planted the garden area. Before I even got started, I

1469
01:53:03.479 --> 01:53:10.199
did plant some of that ebon rye, and once it dried up, I

1470
01:53:10.319 --> 01:53:14.319
chilled it in Now just the nematod's
going to the roots. Am I just

1471
01:53:14.439 --> 01:53:19.399
perpetuating them growing? Or what happens
next? They go in and I don't

1472
01:53:19.439 --> 01:53:25.000
know biochemically exactly what's happening in there, but they're not able to reproduce.

1473
01:53:25.079 --> 01:53:29.159
Normally, a female nematod would go
in create a little cyst which eventually becomes

1474
01:53:29.159 --> 01:53:32.880
those nots you see, and she
would create a bunch of eggs that then

1475
01:53:33.239 --> 01:53:36.920
are released out. The little larvae
released out, and the soil is those

1476
01:53:36.920 --> 01:53:41.760
eggs hatch. And when you do
that, it's something about trapping or in

1477
01:53:41.800 --> 01:53:46.039
there, and you're not getting the
reproduction of nematods. And so it's a

1478
01:53:46.079 --> 01:53:49.239
slow way, but it's a one
by one at a time away each roote

1479
01:53:49.239 --> 01:53:54.960
captureum to help rid that soil.
So if you're going to use a nematod

1480
01:53:55.039 --> 01:54:00.600
trap crop like the French margoles in
the summer or the elbow and in the

1481
01:54:00.640 --> 01:54:06.199
winter, you want to plant so
thick that every you know, cubic inch

1482
01:54:06.399 --> 01:54:11.640
of soil is just filled with roots
from those plants, because you want every

1483
01:54:11.640 --> 01:54:15.920
nematode somewhere in the soil to have
a root to try to go into and

1484
01:54:15.960 --> 01:54:18.600
so not just I've seen people say
before a while, you put a mirragold

1485
01:54:18.640 --> 01:54:21.800
on each side of your tomato and
it'll control nematodes, And no, it

1486
01:54:21.840 --> 01:54:28.119
won't. It won't at all.
That's just that's just tomato wheels you got,

1487
01:54:28.560 --> 01:54:30.399
okay, and you got to leave
it in for a period of time,

1488
01:54:30.520 --> 01:54:33.840
let them grow, give it some
time. So you may want to

1489
01:54:33.960 --> 01:54:38.560
rotate and not use this bed for
the first part of the summer season,

1490
01:54:39.279 --> 01:54:43.319
but then stay away from things they
like to eat and plant things that drap

1491
01:54:43.359 --> 01:54:46.680
them. That's kind of what a
lot of that amounted to. Okay,

1492
01:54:46.720 --> 01:54:50.239
And since you had so much information, do you have this on your website?

1493
01:54:53.600 --> 01:54:56.960
You know I don't, And I'm
going to make a note. I

1494
01:54:57.039 --> 01:55:00.600
appreciate you bringing that up, Rooven. I need to take over about Nema

1495
01:55:00.640 --> 01:55:01.760
toads and put it on there and
I'll try to add it and if I

1496
01:55:01.800 --> 01:55:05.520
do, I'll certainly announce it on
the air. That would be great.

1497
01:55:05.840 --> 01:55:10.319
Well, thanks a lot. I
appreciate your information. All right, Ruben,

1498
01:55:10.439 --> 01:55:14.159
I appreciate your call. Thanks a
lot giving us a call. Uh,

1499
01:55:17.359 --> 01:55:20.800
all right, there we go.
Uh, yeah, Nemo toads.

1500
01:55:21.079 --> 01:55:27.840
We have several things in horticulture where
there's really not a you know, silver

1501
01:55:27.920 --> 01:55:31.840
bullet solution to it, and NMA
toads are one of those. If you

1502
01:55:31.840 --> 01:55:34.319
were to ask me how do I
manage NIMA TODs, you're going to get

1503
01:55:34.319 --> 01:55:38.520
about five answers and you need to
do them all. They're all different things,

1504
01:55:38.560 --> 01:55:43.000
but you need to do them all
to stay on it. But they're

1505
01:55:43.039 --> 01:55:46.560
not invincible, and we can keep
them managed so that it's you know,

1506
01:55:47.279 --> 01:55:53.640
a really good NEMA toad free soil. We just have to talk to work

1507
01:55:53.680 --> 01:55:57.800
around it. Let's go back out
to the phones now, and we're going

1508
01:55:57.880 --> 01:56:01.039
to talk to Anna. Hello,
Anna, welcome to Garbline. Yes,

1509
01:56:01.199 --> 01:56:05.800
the email thing did not work.
Are you not able to transfer me over

1510
01:56:05.880 --> 01:56:13.640
to the phone screener? Oh uh
no, that's the problem with our gain.

1511
01:56:14.000 --> 01:56:17.399
Okay, well I'll try again next
week. Did you receive an email

1512
01:56:18.439 --> 01:56:24.279
from him and a call from him
with an email? No? I did

1513
01:56:24.319 --> 01:56:28.840
not get a call. Oh okay, well hang on, I think Chris

1514
01:56:28.920 --> 01:56:33.000
will I'm going to hang up on
you. I'm sorry, I need to

1515
01:56:33.000 --> 01:56:42.680
hear that again. Okay, uh
yeah, I think he will give you.

1516
01:56:42.920 --> 01:56:45.079
He will give you a callback so
he can give Okay, great,

1517
01:56:45.199 --> 01:56:49.000
I'll just email address we were talking
about, so he'll give you a call.

1518
01:56:49.079 --> 01:56:53.880
Just hang on. Okay, thank
you, I appreciate it. All

1519
01:56:53.960 --> 01:56:56.479
right, we're going to go out
to Noah and Lake Jackson. Hey,

1520
01:56:56.560 --> 01:56:59.960
Noah, how are you today?
All right? Good morning, Skip.

1521
01:57:00.199 --> 01:57:04.399
I was calling with a question about
termites and an old oak tree. Is

1522
01:57:04.439 --> 01:57:11.600
there a systemic control or what?
Do you have any advice on a pesticide

1523
01:57:11.600 --> 01:57:15.479
that might treat termites and a tree. Yeah, that's a good question.

1524
01:57:15.600 --> 01:57:20.119
There are a lot of different products
out there on the market. I am

1525
01:57:20.199 --> 01:57:27.079
not what we call a structural pest
experts. That's what termites fall under,

1526
01:57:27.159 --> 01:57:34.039
is structural pest control. You probably
I would think that any kind of a

1527
01:57:34.119 --> 01:57:42.000
persistent product like by fen Thren.
By Fenthren is an ingredient that you find

1528
01:57:42.039 --> 01:57:45.800
in many products. It's a persistent
synthetic perrethroid. And if you could get

1529
01:57:45.800 --> 01:57:49.000
it up in there and soak the
wood, then as they try to come

1530
01:57:49.039 --> 01:57:53.560
back and crawl through it and do
anything, you're going to get some benefit

1531
01:57:53.600 --> 01:57:58.479
from that. But again, I'm
not I don't want to make it like

1532
01:57:58.560 --> 01:58:01.720
I'm an expert in that. I'm
just so that that is what I would

1533
01:58:01.760 --> 01:58:08.199
do is try something along those lines. You're in Where are you located?

1534
01:58:08.800 --> 01:58:13.399
Lake Jacksons? Okay? I was
going to ask you, is there a

1535
01:58:13.479 --> 01:58:17.920
resource I can find an arborist in
Brazoria County with the Brazoria County ag website.

1536
01:58:19.239 --> 01:58:25.600
Have an arborist I could contact?
Yeah, I would call the Brazoria

1537
01:58:25.880 --> 01:58:31.680
County Extension Office. You said you're
in Brazoria County, Yes, sir,

1538
01:58:32.680 --> 01:58:39.239
okay, Yeah, I call your
Brazoria County Extension Office and there's a horticulturist

1539
01:58:39.279 --> 01:58:42.479
and an agriculturist both on staff there, and one or the other ought to

1540
01:58:42.520 --> 01:58:46.279
be able to help you with directing
you to a good termite control for your

1541
01:58:46.359 --> 01:58:51.199
area. Thank you very much.
I appreciate it. All right, you

1542
01:58:51.279 --> 01:58:56.239
take care. I got to run
to a break, folks. We are

1543
01:58:56.239 --> 01:58:59.920
going to do that right now,
and I will be right back with your

1544
01:59:00.119 --> 01:59:05.960
questions. Got a couple of folks
online on guarden Line looking forward to talking

1545
01:59:06.000 --> 01:59:10.520
to you about the things that are
of interest to you, and I think

1546
01:59:10.600 --> 01:59:14.399
that is what we will do.
The first thing here we're going out here.

1547
01:59:14.520 --> 01:59:15.960
I can't see your name, so
tell me who I'm talking to,

1548
01:59:16.079 --> 01:59:25.600
and welcome to garden Line. Hi, Hi, Hi, Hi, Sorry,

1549
01:59:27.119 --> 01:59:30.479
I wasn't screening thought I didn't know. I know we're having trouble.

1550
01:59:31.119 --> 01:59:34.880
We're having trouble on that screen able
to screen like we normally do. So

1551
01:59:35.640 --> 01:59:40.359
tell me who I'm talking to.
I'm so excited. My name is Rebecca.

1552
01:59:40.520 --> 01:59:47.720
I'm insci fare okay, and my
issue is this Our front lawn looks

1553
01:59:47.760 --> 01:59:53.520
like something out of I don't even
know. It's decimated. It has large

1554
01:59:53.880 --> 01:59:59.479
brown areas where all you can see
is dirt, and then it's interspersed with

1555
01:59:59.720 --> 02:00:03.800
we there's really no more grass,
and it's been this way since the last

1556
02:00:03.840 --> 02:00:10.439
freeze that we had. And our
HOA is you know, threatening action against

1557
02:00:10.520 --> 02:00:14.640
us unless we get this remedied.
And I don't know first of all,

1558
02:00:14.720 --> 02:00:17.239
how long that will take to remedy, and then second of all, short

1559
02:00:17.359 --> 02:00:21.359
of spending a lot of money with
a lawn care service, I'm not sure

1560
02:00:21.359 --> 02:00:27.840
what to do to fix this problem
other than just you know, going through

1561
02:00:27.880 --> 02:00:32.520
and chilling everything up and then either
laying down seat or putting in you know,

1562
02:00:33.760 --> 02:00:36.560
patches of new grass. I don't
know what to do, so I

1563
02:00:36.600 --> 02:00:41.840
wanted to get your input on that. Have you tried anything already in that

1564
02:00:41.920 --> 02:00:46.119
area or it just your way.
Yeah. No. The other thing is

1565
02:00:46.119 --> 02:00:50.520
my husband's been very very ill.
So now we haven't really done anything as

1566
02:00:50.560 --> 02:00:54.000
of yet. We're now in a
position where, you know, we want

1567
02:00:54.000 --> 02:00:58.680
to start trying to figure it out. Okay, Well, what I would

1568
02:00:58.720 --> 02:01:02.239
recommend first of all, is it
in full sun, full shade or part

1569
02:01:02.279 --> 02:01:06.760
shade or what? What's it?
Well? One one half of the lawn,

1570
02:01:06.840 --> 02:01:10.840
yeah, one half of the front
lawn is in full sun. The

1571
02:01:10.880 --> 02:01:15.239
other half is partial because there is
a tree on that side. Not a

1572
02:01:15.319 --> 02:01:18.079
very big tree, but you know, a tree nonetheless, all right,

1573
02:01:18.119 --> 02:01:23.239
but it's getting enough sunlight. Oh
yes, oh yes, I would.

1574
02:01:23.680 --> 02:01:27.319
I would go into how big are
these areas in diameter? Like how far

1575
02:01:27.359 --> 02:01:30.960
across? Oh gosh, I'm not
the right person for this. I don't

1576
02:01:31.159 --> 02:01:34.279
honestly know, to be honest with
you, I don't know. I mean

1577
02:01:34.319 --> 02:01:36.640
it's a good size. It's a
good size. It's not huge, but

1578
02:01:36.720 --> 02:01:41.159
it's a good size. I mean
we live on a Our total wat size

1579
02:01:41.439 --> 02:01:45.680
is just under nine thousand square feet, so and we've got a two story

1580
02:01:45.760 --> 02:01:50.079
housed. So okay, Well,
if you if you do a aeration of

1581
02:01:50.119 --> 02:01:55.159
the soil, I would just do
that as an extra precaution. You're not

1582
02:01:55.239 --> 02:01:58.439
gonna for little areas unless you just
want to hire someone to do the whole

1583
02:01:58.479 --> 02:02:01.239
line, which wouldn't be a bad
idea for little areas. You can kind

1584
02:02:01.239 --> 02:02:04.079
of do a hand do it.
I was talking about pushing a spading park

1585
02:02:04.079 --> 02:02:09.399
in the ground and wiggling it and
pulling back up out again. Someone talked

1586
02:02:09.399 --> 02:02:13.399
about a drill with a it's called
an auger, but it's a soil drill.

1587
02:02:13.479 --> 02:02:16.399
It's about an inch across and it
drills one inch holes. And you've

1588
02:02:16.399 --> 02:02:20.079
got a good bower, battery powered
or corded drill. You can just go

1589
02:02:20.199 --> 02:02:25.439
in there and drill holes about every
six inches if you can through those areas,

1590
02:02:25.520 --> 02:02:30.560
and then buy some bags of leaf
mold compost. It's called leaf milk

1591
02:02:30.600 --> 02:02:34.840
compost. It's a fine ground up
material. It can be from airloom soils

1592
02:02:34.960 --> 02:02:42.079
they produced that, it could be
from nature Sway resources up towards Conroe area.

1593
02:02:42.239 --> 02:02:45.760
They produced that. Uh did you
you You said you're in Lake Jackson,

1594
02:02:46.159 --> 02:02:51.520
so you're not, noiair. I'm
sorry that was a pret call.

1595
02:02:51.760 --> 02:02:56.119
Sorry about that. Yeah, So
you're going to have both of those kinds

1596
02:02:56.119 --> 02:02:59.039
of products available, you know,
in the ciphair area. You've got a

1597
02:02:59.119 --> 02:03:03.079
number of different hardware stores are real
close to you can see if they have

1598
02:03:03.119 --> 02:03:08.520
a leaf mold compost in hand or
on stock. That would be a good

1599
02:03:08.600 --> 02:03:11.640
quick thing to do. And if
you're not able to find it there,

1600
02:03:12.239 --> 02:03:16.159
then you could actually purchase it.
Your garden centers and pieces will often carry

1601
02:03:16.159 --> 02:03:20.880
that sciphi. You're close to the
arbigage, you're close to plants for all

1602
02:03:20.920 --> 02:03:26.319
seasons, you're close to RCW tree, You're all close difference. But I

1603
02:03:26.640 --> 02:03:30.079
top it off with about a half
inch of leaf mold compost in those areas

1604
02:03:30.439 --> 02:03:36.520
and then kind of watered and really
good and then lightly just kind of you

1605
02:03:36.520 --> 02:03:41.039
know, scratch that leaf mold into
the soil just a little bit, just

1606
02:03:41.159 --> 02:03:44.439
a little bit, and then lay
your sod down. And when you lay

1607
02:03:44.439 --> 02:03:47.439
your side, you will water it
the first week, every day the first

1608
02:03:47.720 --> 02:03:50.439
week, and I would do it, in fact, every twice a day.

1609
02:03:51.000 --> 02:03:54.479
A little water in the morning,
a little water in the afternoon,

1610
02:03:54.560 --> 02:03:58.640
because that sod has very little roots
and you need to try to, you

1611
02:03:58.680 --> 02:04:03.199
know, keep it constant moist without
just drownding everything. And so that takes

1612
02:04:03.199 --> 02:04:06.920
a late twice a day water after
a week, go to once a day

1613
02:04:08.039 --> 02:04:11.640
for a week, and by then
your grass will be rooted in enough to

1614
02:04:11.680 --> 02:04:16.479
back off toward and a schedule.
Okay, so this is something that we

1615
02:04:16.520 --> 02:04:19.960
could do. We didn't necessarily have
to hire someone to do it. You

1616
02:04:20.319 --> 02:04:25.199
could do it yourself if you choose
to. If you have someone that has

1617
02:04:25.279 --> 02:04:29.439
a good errator, you could do
that as well. Yeah, there's no

1618
02:04:29.560 --> 02:04:31.000
one way to do what we're talking
about, and it kind of gave you

1619
02:04:31.039 --> 02:04:33.640
one way, like, here's something
to do. Do this, But you

1620
02:04:33.680 --> 02:04:39.000
could also put the leaf mold out
and do a light rototilling over the area

1621
02:04:39.159 --> 02:04:43.119
and that would work too. Typically
we run into a lot of tree roots

1622
02:04:43.119 --> 02:04:46.880
and rototilling is not easy to do
in the bond. There's trees around.

1623
02:04:48.359 --> 02:04:51.279
And one last question, if I
could, is this something you're finding that's

1624
02:04:51.319 --> 02:04:55.720
common after this last breeze that we
had. I mean, I've never seen

1625
02:04:55.760 --> 02:04:59.000
any We've lived in this house for
twenty years. We've never had this problem

1626
02:04:59.039 --> 02:05:02.920
ever. Yeah, well, not
really related to the freeze. I haven't

1627
02:05:02.920 --> 02:05:08.079
seen that. But there are a
lot of things that can go wrong with

1628
02:05:08.199 --> 02:05:13.560
the lawn compacted soil to diseases,
to insects. We've got disease. Take

1629
02:05:13.560 --> 02:05:16.680
a root rot that anytime the grass
gets stressed, that disease is likely to

1630
02:05:16.800 --> 02:05:23.840
show up. And eight kills grass. That's emple. Yeah yeah, I'll

1631
02:05:23.880 --> 02:05:29.000
be able to you're not able to
get that back in shape? Okay,

1632
02:05:29.880 --> 02:05:32.760
wonderful lot if you if you if
you wanted to air out the whole lawn,

1633
02:05:33.239 --> 02:05:36.520
there are companies up there that can
do that kind of thing. So

1634
02:05:39.119 --> 02:05:43.079
I don't know what your what's your
long term goals in terms of l care.

1635
02:05:43.119 --> 02:05:45.159
What else do you hope to people
to do well? I mean,

1636
02:05:45.399 --> 02:05:49.439
ultimately we're looking at selling in the
next you know, just say two years

1637
02:05:49.760 --> 02:05:55.880
roughly, So obviously we want to
have that lawn looking one hundred percent better

1638
02:05:55.920 --> 02:05:59.479
than it does now and obviously add
some landscaping in, you know, to

1639
02:05:59.479 --> 02:06:02.840
really help it with its curve appeal. So that's going to be another goal.

1640
02:06:04.000 --> 02:06:09.079
So what I would suggest is,
let me give you a company.

1641
02:06:09.079 --> 02:06:14.720
It's called green Pro and they serve
your area green prow and the website is

1642
02:06:14.840 --> 02:06:23.079
greenpro dot net. Okay, Now, you know, having aeration and compasstop

1643
02:06:23.159 --> 02:06:28.680
dressing guns not cheap, but it
is a very effective practice, and I

1644
02:06:28.680 --> 02:06:33.760
would I would do that before you
plant the sod and that I think overall

1645
02:06:33.800 --> 02:06:38.239
your lawn is just gonna better and
maybe that from the sides will even growing

1646
02:06:38.359 --> 02:06:43.960
faster when better health. Yeah,
yeah, wonderful. I appreciate all of

1647
02:06:44.000 --> 02:06:45.439
this information so much. I'm so
glad to be able to talk to you.

1648
02:06:45.479 --> 02:06:49.279
Normally you calling, you just can't
get through. Well, I'm glad

1649
02:06:49.279 --> 02:06:54.079
you got through, Yes, sir, yes, sir, Well, thank

1650
02:06:54.119 --> 02:06:58.600
you so much. All right,
I have good Sunday. All right,

1651
02:06:58.600 --> 02:07:01.199
you're listening to guard Line. We're
here to help you have a beautiful garden

1652
02:07:01.199 --> 02:07:06.600
and a bountiful landscape, bountiful lands. A bountiful landscape includes a beautiful lawn

1653
02:07:06.680 --> 02:07:13.039
too, right, And turf grass
is interesting. It has its detractors,

1654
02:07:13.199 --> 02:07:17.479
and it has its what aficionados,
I don't know, there's I call them

1655
02:07:17.520 --> 02:07:21.680
lawn lawn rangers. They're the people
that their whole life goal is to have

1656
02:07:21.720 --> 02:07:26.119
a beautiful green lawn and they spend
the weekends making sure they do that.

1657
02:07:26.239 --> 02:07:30.560
And that's fine, you can do
that. You know, Turf can be

1658
02:07:30.119 --> 02:07:38.319
a water use problem, meaning if
you don't get adequate rainfall, and if

1659
02:07:38.359 --> 02:07:41.560
you're having to do all the rain
yourself or watering yourself, if you've got

1660
02:07:41.560 --> 02:07:44.399
something like Saint Augustine and it's in
a very sunny spot, you can't have

1661
02:07:44.439 --> 02:07:47.039
to water to keep it going.
But over here in this region of Texas,

1662
02:07:47.359 --> 02:07:51.439
there's so much natural rainfall that even
if we have some droughty conditions,

1663
02:07:53.000 --> 02:07:58.640
it's it's the exception to have to
do that much supplemental watering. But it

1664
02:07:58.760 --> 02:08:01.880
just makes sense because turf does a
number of things. Do you know it

1665
02:08:01.960 --> 02:08:07.920
has a BTU effect of cooling in
the landscape. If you compare turf to

1666
02:08:09.000 --> 02:08:13.479
a hard escape, whether it's gravel
or concrete, or you name it turf,

1667
02:08:13.439 --> 02:08:16.560
rather than heating up the air,
which is why our cities have a

1668
02:08:16.600 --> 02:08:22.239
heat island effect all the roofs and
concrete and asphalt and everything else, turf

1669
02:08:22.279 --> 02:08:26.800
has a very cooling effect, and
so that's a nice thing out there in

1670
02:08:26.840 --> 02:08:31.680
the landscape. Prevents erosion. It
helps build its own soil because grassroads grassroots

1671
02:08:31.720 --> 02:08:35.159
live about a year and then they
die and the organic matter from them goes

1672
02:08:35.199 --> 02:08:39.399
back into the soil. The chamber
they opened is a way for air to

1673
02:08:39.479 --> 02:08:43.960
move down into the soil better,
and so it takes care of itself.

1674
02:08:43.000 --> 02:08:46.840
But I think overall, turf can
be a wonderful thing. It certainly provides

1675
02:08:46.880 --> 02:08:52.319
that outdoor carpet that the family and
friends enjoy to be able to gather around

1676
02:08:52.359 --> 02:08:56.199
on it, maybe play, let
the kids kick a ball around, and

1677
02:08:56.239 --> 02:09:00.439
other things. So I'm not a
turf detractor, but I reckon guys that

1678
02:09:00.479 --> 02:09:05.079
when mismanaged, there can be issues
that we don't need to have. They're

1679
02:09:05.159 --> 02:09:11.159
unnecessary, and so we can avoid
that with proper care. So anyway,

1680
02:09:11.680 --> 02:09:15.840
that is why I have a turf
schedule online so you can look at it

1681
02:09:15.880 --> 02:09:18.600
and you can see the things that
you might need to do and make sure

1682
02:09:18.600 --> 02:09:22.279
that you're doing them so that you
have the best turf that you can have.

1683
02:09:22.640 --> 02:09:24.279
By the way, you are listening
to Guardline, I'm your host,

1684
02:09:24.319 --> 02:09:28.119
Skip Richter. I'm not to take
a little break here, but if you

1685
02:09:28.119 --> 02:09:30.119
would like to get on the board, that would be a good time to

1686
02:09:30.119 --> 02:09:31.840
call. We got an open board, and so you can give us call

1687
02:09:31.880 --> 02:09:37.319
it seven one three two one two
KTRH. You know we're just talking to

1688
02:09:37.319 --> 02:09:39.399
Rebecca. I had a little trouble
getting through in the past. Well now

1689
02:09:39.479 --> 02:09:41.840
when I say that, if a
million people, I'll call it once.

1690
02:09:41.920 --> 02:09:45.920
I guess I was a liar because
it won't be easy to get through,

1691
02:09:46.159 --> 02:09:48.399
but that's usually not the case.
We appreciate you being a listener. We're

1692
02:09:48.439 --> 02:09:52.159
here to give you advice. When
we come back, I want to talk

1693
02:09:52.399 --> 02:09:56.560
just a little bit about some things
that we can be doing right now to

1694
02:09:56.680 --> 02:10:00.800
have more success in our gardens during
a time when it's somewhat difficult to be

1695
02:10:00.960 --> 02:10:05.520
outside. But we'll do that when
we come from come back from break in.

1696
02:10:05.560 --> 02:10:07.600
Just a moment for those of you
tuning in recently and you didn't get

1697
02:10:07.600 --> 02:10:13.680
the website information I gave Gardening with
Skip dot com. That's the website Gardening

1698
02:10:13.800 --> 02:10:18.079
with Skip dot com. Keep checking
back because there's gonna be something new going

1699
02:10:18.199 --> 02:10:26.479
up there. Thanks a lot,
We'll be right back. Plenty of stuff

1700
02:10:26.520 --> 02:10:30.119
to talk about here, and got
a few calls on the board. We've

1701
02:10:30.119 --> 02:10:33.159
got to jump into those pretty quick. Here. I want to mention if

1702
02:10:33.199 --> 02:10:39.640
you are a person who's had to
deal with side by worms or chinchbugs in

1703
02:10:39.680 --> 02:10:43.800
the past, or grubs. It'ses
with grubs and things. Night Fuss makes

1704
02:10:43.800 --> 02:10:48.760
something called bug out Max, and
bug Out Max is an insecticide that stays

1705
02:10:48.760 --> 02:10:52.439
around through the rest of the season. So you apply it now and it's

1706
02:10:52.479 --> 02:10:58.359
going to last you all the way
through the upcoming chinchbug attacks or waves of

1707
02:10:58.039 --> 02:11:03.199
sid weebworm that come in. We
never know each year what's going to happen

1708
02:11:03.239 --> 02:11:05.720
when, because it could be a
bad year, it could be a not

1709
02:11:05.800 --> 02:11:09.800
so bad year. But we do
know in general the times of the year

1710
02:11:09.840 --> 02:11:13.880
that these things attack, and now's
the time to get ahead of that.

1711
02:11:13.159 --> 02:11:18.279
And night Foss bug Out Max will
control ants, ticks please, and it

1712
02:11:18.319 --> 02:11:22.319
does control chinch bugs as well in
the soil. You just have to apply

1713
02:11:22.319 --> 02:11:24.680
it at the right rate, and
it's going to last year a good time.

1714
02:11:24.720 --> 02:11:26.920
Within forty eight hours. It's pretty
much gonna knocked out whatever you're going

1715
02:11:26.960 --> 02:11:31.920
after out there. And you can
get knight Foss bug Out Max at Lake

1716
02:11:31.000 --> 02:11:35.720
Hardware Clue which is in Lake Jackson
on Dixie Drive. You can get it

1717
02:11:35.840 --> 02:11:39.760
Gym's Hardware up in Montgomery or Plants
and Things out in Brenham Growers Outlet in

1718
02:11:39.840 --> 02:11:45.720
willis just another place for nitrofoss products
like bug Out Max. I'm going to

1719
02:11:45.800 --> 02:11:48.960
head out to the phones now,
and so we got mystery callers up here.

1720
02:11:50.439 --> 02:11:52.640
You'll have to tell me your names. Okay, Well, welcome to

1721
02:11:52.680 --> 02:12:00.760
Guarden Line and who am I talking
to this is keing hello again. How

1722
02:12:00.800 --> 02:12:05.319
you doing. I'm good man,
I thanks for asking. I can barely

1723
02:12:05.359 --> 02:12:09.439
hear you. But anyway, I
uh, you know, yes, yeah,

1724
02:12:09.720 --> 02:12:13.600
yes, you know. I know. I noticed. I noticed a

1725
02:12:13.640 --> 02:12:16.680
couple of people called about the Saint
Augustine grass and I talked to you about

1726
02:12:16.800 --> 02:12:20.279
I guess a couple of weeks ago, and right at the end of the

1727
02:12:20.319 --> 02:12:24.119
show we didn't get a chance to
talk much. And uh, I'm having

1728
02:12:24.119 --> 02:12:28.439
the same problem with Saint Augustine grass. I stay in Baytown, and uh

1729
02:12:28.600 --> 02:12:33.960
the grass grass looked good for years, plush grass, green grass. But

1730
02:12:33.079 --> 02:12:39.399
this year, man, I'm getting
some some root rots and you know,

1731
02:12:39.840 --> 02:12:43.800
yellow spots, brown spots, and
Saint Augustine grass and never did that.

1732
02:12:43.119 --> 02:12:48.680
The only difference that I noticed is
I have a big live oak tree there

1733
02:12:48.279 --> 02:12:52.760
and uh, I don't know.
I mean for years it didn't do that.

1734
02:12:52.600 --> 02:12:58.640
Now or I took up all the
dead grass and I put some some

1735
02:12:58.680 --> 02:13:03.439
good composts there and some mossad there
in certain places, and it did good.

1736
02:13:03.479 --> 02:13:07.800
It come back good with all the
rain and everything. But I see

1737
02:13:07.840 --> 02:13:11.920
it study coming back now. I
know. At the time when I talked

1738
02:13:11.960 --> 02:13:16.119
to you, briefly, you said
something about it could be an iron efficiency

1739
02:13:16.239 --> 02:13:18.920
or something. I don't know.
I put some fungal side out and uh,

1740
02:13:20.159 --> 02:13:22.960
that don't seem doing any good.
I don't know what's going on.

1741
02:13:24.079 --> 02:13:26.560
Okay, Well, you know,
it could be a lot of things.

1742
02:13:28.319 --> 02:13:33.640
Grass has a number of It doesn't
like compacted soil done like a tight compacted

1743
02:13:33.680 --> 02:13:37.239
type of clay soil. Uh,
it doesn't. It has chinch bugs.

1744
02:13:37.399 --> 02:13:39.640
They can attack it as grubs that
can eat roots. It's got three or

1745
02:13:39.680 --> 02:13:43.840
four different diseases that can hit it. And then there's the watering issue,

1746
02:13:45.279 --> 02:13:48.359
you know, getting enough water uh
and enough sunlight. If it's in too

1747
02:13:48.439 --> 02:13:52.159
much shade, it doesn't have the
energy to fill back in and so it

1748
02:13:52.279 --> 02:13:54.880
just sort of sits there. So
when you start to get die back,

1749
02:13:56.239 --> 02:13:58.720
it just gets worse. And shade
is one of the stressors that can lead

1750
02:13:58.760 --> 02:14:03.279
to call root rot also, So
that may be what you're seeing as you're

1751
02:14:03.279 --> 02:14:07.359
describing it. But I guess the
bottom line is we got to figure out

1752
02:14:07.359 --> 02:14:11.960
which one so you can do the
right thing to fix it. Right now.

1753
02:14:11.039 --> 02:14:15.079
I've got plenty of sunlight because I
had I got a big live uk

1754
02:14:15.159 --> 02:14:18.079
tree and I had it trimmed up
and you have it. You know,

1755
02:14:18.119 --> 02:14:20.079
all the lamps cleaned up and full
at the top, got plent of sunlight.

1756
02:14:20.159 --> 02:14:24.399
But I just don't know what it
is about the grass dying like it

1757
02:14:24.439 --> 02:14:26.359
is, like I say, every
time it does it, I know,

1758
02:14:26.880 --> 02:14:30.880
take all the dead grass and put
some sal on there. But it keep

1759
02:14:30.920 --> 02:14:33.600
happening in certain places, so I
don't know what's going on. Tell me

1760
02:14:33.640 --> 02:14:45.560
again where you're located, please,
and bytowntown. So I think what I

1761
02:14:45.640 --> 02:14:48.439
might do if I were you,
is send a sample of your lawn to

1762
02:14:48.520 --> 02:14:54.159
the plant clinic up in College Station
and you can go online to Plant Clinic

1763
02:14:54.319 --> 02:14:58.840
dot t A m U dot E
d U and they'll tell you how to

1764
02:14:58.880 --> 02:15:01.680
take a sample, uh and that
way, when they get it in there,

1765
02:15:01.720 --> 02:15:03.840
they're gonna be able to see if
you take the sample right, they're

1766
02:15:03.880 --> 02:15:07.399
gonna be able to see if it's
chinchbugs involved, or if it's uh you

1767
02:15:07.560 --> 02:15:11.520
take a root rod or what they're
finding on it. And I think that's

1768
02:15:11.560 --> 02:15:13.760
the best way I could give you. We'll go try this, then try

1769
02:15:13.800 --> 02:15:18.920
that, then try this. But
we're just sort of you know, throwing

1770
02:15:18.199 --> 02:15:22.920
everything at the at the wall by
doing it that way. So it's probably

1771
02:15:24.000 --> 02:15:28.720
more efficient for you to just have
that sample analyze. Can you say that

1772
02:15:28.720 --> 02:15:33.680
this clinic B what do you say? Uh? Uh, it's the abbreviation

1773
02:15:33.880 --> 02:15:43.560
for Texas A and M University.
It's t A m U clinic dot TAMU

1774
02:15:43.800 --> 02:15:48.880
dot E d U. And they
have a form you fill out and you

1775
02:15:48.920 --> 02:15:52.439
send your your grass in. You're
gonna wanna here's here's how you don't want

1776
02:15:52.439 --> 02:15:56.199
to do it. You want to
take a plug of soil about four by

1777
02:15:56.279 --> 02:16:01.319
four or four by six inches,
a plug of sod in the zone between

1778
02:16:01.359 --> 02:16:05.439
healthy and dead. Of course,
if grass is perfectly healthy, there's nothing

1779
02:16:05.479 --> 02:16:09.000
to see. If it's already dead, they can't do the autopsy, but

1780
02:16:09.079 --> 02:16:11.840
they can't be the diagnosis on sick
grass. So look at this area.

1781
02:16:11.960 --> 02:16:16.000
Go to the edge between healthy and
dead. Take your sample or to there,

1782
02:16:16.560 --> 02:16:20.199
send it to them, and whatever
it cost is on the sheet there,

1783
02:16:20.239 --> 02:16:24.119
and to have them really analyze it
and give you the accurate answer rather

1784
02:16:24.119 --> 02:16:28.520
than guessing over the phone. Oh
cool. See. I think that's a

1785
02:16:28.560 --> 02:16:33.280
lot of problem what people have because
they kind of have the same same thing

1786
02:16:33.440 --> 02:16:35.040
happening. Man. I just I
don't know what's going on. I mean,

1787
02:16:35.079 --> 02:16:37.920
but you know, you don't know. I don't put several things out,

1788
02:16:37.959 --> 02:16:43.000
but he can still happen, you
know, So yeah, I get

1789
02:16:43.040 --> 02:16:45.239
you, I get you. Hey, I'm all run on to another call,

1790
02:16:45.280 --> 02:16:46.239
but good luck with that, and
then call back if we can help

1791
02:16:46.239 --> 02:16:50.959
with anything else on it. All
right, thank you, thank you,

1792
02:16:50.040 --> 02:16:54.520
sir. I appreciate the call.
We're going to run out here again.

1793
02:16:54.959 --> 02:16:58.479
Welcome to garden line. Who am
I talking to? This is Jay and

1794
02:16:58.559 --> 02:17:03.040
Woodland. How are you doing?
I'm good Jay? How can we help?

1795
02:17:03.120 --> 02:17:03.920
I've got a little bit of time
here for I have to go to

1796
02:17:03.959 --> 02:17:11.319
break okay, just very quickly.
Didn't catch the brown patch last fall and

1797
02:17:11.440 --> 02:17:16.879
timely fashion. So now I've got
Virginia button weed coming in. I've got

1798
02:17:16.879 --> 02:17:24.319
another type of weed that grows loads, very dense. And what do I

1799
02:17:24.399 --> 02:17:30.040
do about that? Well, I
think your best approach would be to use

1800
02:17:30.040 --> 02:17:37.399
a product called Celsius. Like the
temperature Celsius, it is less stressful to

1801
02:17:37.479 --> 02:17:41.840
grass than most other good broadleaf weed
control products are during the warm season.

1802
02:17:43.520 --> 02:17:46.000
Most of those, once we get
into the upper eighties, they're going to

1803
02:17:46.120 --> 02:17:50.319
start to do they can start to
do damage. So with Celsius even I

1804
02:17:50.319 --> 02:17:54.280
would still use it first thing in
the morning. I would direct it to

1805
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the weeds as best you can.
Virginia button wheed is tough enough to where

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02:17:58.360 --> 02:18:03.040
you may have to do celsius again
later. It's not often a one off,

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02:18:03.079 --> 02:18:05.760
but it is. It is one
of the best products you can buy

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02:18:05.760 --> 02:18:11.639
over the counter for Virginia button with
celsius spread early that morning, before the

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02:18:11.760 --> 02:18:16.120
before the day heats up at all, and that that's my recommendation, and

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02:18:16.280 --> 02:18:20.600
just have some on hand to be
ready to do it again. Okay,

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And when do I start putting out
for brown patch brown patch? If you

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02:18:26.799 --> 02:18:31.600
if you look at my schedule that's
online at gardening with Skip dot com,

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02:18:31.799 --> 02:18:37.639
you will notice on there that we
start talking about brown patch issues on in

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02:18:37.719 --> 02:18:45.760
October. I have it from October
first is to about the third week of

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02:18:45.840 --> 02:18:50.200
November to do the brown patch control. But remember you're preventing it, you're

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02:18:50.239 --> 02:18:56.399
not curing it. So I would
get out there in early October, not

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02:18:56.680 --> 02:19:01.520
much later than mid October ideally,
to get a head start so that when

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that disease shows up, you get
a cold front in here, you get

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02:19:03.159 --> 02:19:07.840
some rain, and brown patch explodes, and you don't have to wait till

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02:19:07.920 --> 02:19:11.319
after that to treat it. It's
much better to get ahead of it.

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02:19:11.479 --> 02:19:15.920
And those products will last you two
or three weeks outstanding. Well, hey,

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I appreciate it. Thank you,
you bet, thank you for the

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02:19:18.000 --> 02:19:20.000
call. We're going to run to
a break right here, I say,

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02:19:20.000 --> 02:19:24.120
I got another caller, unknown caller
online and we'll come to you right when

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02:19:24.159 --> 02:19:31.079
we get back power line. Good
to have you with a little eagles this

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02:19:31.159 --> 02:19:37.479
morning. Enjoy them a lot.
Actually, this past week we've had family

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02:19:37.639 --> 02:19:41.799
staying at the house all week,
and most of them have headed out,

1828
02:19:43.360 --> 02:19:46.200
so we're kind of an empty nest
right now. But some of our family

1829
02:19:46.280 --> 02:19:50.120
was from Houston because they lost their
power and it was out a long time.

1830
02:19:50.479 --> 02:19:54.559
You know, a while back we
had power out for a very long

1831
02:19:54.600 --> 02:19:58.479
time during some storms we had,
and they came up and we're always glad

1832
02:19:58.520 --> 02:20:01.280
to see them. I mean,
it's wonderful to see, but I'm sure

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02:20:01.319 --> 02:20:05.159
they would like to not lose power. Well. Recently, over two million

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02:20:05.200 --> 02:20:11.200
homes, a record number I think
of homes after Hurricane Barrel have gone without

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02:20:11.200 --> 02:20:15.120
power and several hundred thousand are still
without power. That does not need to

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happen to you. GENERAC is a
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Their offer, by the way,
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percent interest for eighteen months. Or
you can trade in your dusty old portable

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generator for one hundred for fifteen hundred
dollars off. So again, five hundred

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dollars off and zero interest for eighteen
months. Or trade in your old,

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dusty portable generator for fifteen hundred dollars
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The automatic standby is when power goes
out, you don't have to run

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outside and turn the thing on.
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but you cannot buy the customer service
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if you purchase one now there's zero
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The phone number seven one three Quality. Look. We've had two wake

1856
02:21:54.680 --> 02:21:58.719
up calls here, so it doesn't
have to be a hurricane to put out

1857
02:21:58.760 --> 02:22:03.280
power. As we learned from the
last one, Well, why not be

1858
02:22:03.680 --> 02:22:05.799
prepared. If you work from home, you've got to have power all the

1859
02:22:05.840 --> 02:22:11.120
time. If you, you know, have a little generator that keeps a

1860
02:22:11.239 --> 02:22:15.559
refrigerator going or something. That's one
thing, but what about the house being

1861
02:22:15.600 --> 02:22:22.440
so hot and well summertime? Who
wants to be without ac Quality Home Products

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02:22:22.440 --> 02:22:26.239
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go, and Generic Generator is the one

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02:22:26.360 --> 02:22:28.760
that they can get you fixed up
with that you want to look into.

1864
02:22:30.079 --> 02:22:33.159
I kind of feel strongly about that
because I just see so many people going

1865
02:22:33.200 --> 02:22:37.719
through a lot when there are some
ways to help avoid that or at least

1866
02:22:39.159 --> 02:22:43.239
to take When life gives you lemons
and tournament of lemonade, we're going to

1867
02:22:43.280 --> 02:22:46.879
go back out to the phones.
Now and welcome to garden line. Tell

1868
02:22:46.879 --> 02:22:56.799
me who I'm talking to? Hello, Hello, are you there? All

1869
02:22:56.879 --> 02:23:03.680
right, let's see, I'm gonna
I don't have your name, so I

1870
02:23:03.680 --> 02:23:07.079
don't know to tell you to come
to the phone. I'll check back on

1871
02:23:07.159 --> 02:23:11.719
you just a minute. Here.
I wanted to mention a few things that

1872
02:23:11.879 --> 02:23:18.559
are important to me to convey to
you, and I'm going to call it

1873
02:23:18.719 --> 02:23:24.280
four tips for success with plants in
the hot summer weather. Number one,

1874
02:23:24.840 --> 02:23:28.440
when you water, do a deep
soaking. Don't just squirt a little bit.

1875
02:23:30.000 --> 02:23:31.680
I've stood it with my film on
the end of a garden hose and

1876
02:23:31.719 --> 02:23:35.840
wet so much it's like puddles and
running off and then I go do something

1877
02:23:35.879 --> 02:23:39.159
else and I come back and I
dig down and it's what a half inch

1878
02:23:39.239 --> 02:23:43.479
deep? You got to soak the
soil deeply with a gradual deep soaking.

1879
02:23:43.040 --> 02:23:46.639
That is the most efficient way.
That's the way to not waste water,

1880
02:23:48.000 --> 02:23:52.360
and it's the way to build a
deep, healthy, extensive root system on

1881
02:23:52.399 --> 02:23:58.479
your plant. Number two, in
containers plant and larger containers, don't watch

1882
02:23:58.520 --> 02:24:03.159
TV shows from cooler areas of the
country and look at the little containers and

1883
02:24:03.200 --> 02:24:05.920
think that's adequate. For here,
it's not we need to bump our containers

1884
02:24:05.959 --> 02:24:11.639
at least one size up from those
kind of areas because the bigger container,

1885
02:24:11.879 --> 02:24:16.120
the more soil, the more root
volume, the more bank account of nutrients

1886
02:24:16.120 --> 02:24:20.559
and water to draw from. And
in our blazing hot summers, it you

1887
02:24:20.639 --> 02:24:22.159
know, a five gallon bucket with
a tomato in it, well, you're

1888
02:24:22.159 --> 02:24:26.639
going to water it twice a day
to try to keep that thing adequately moist

1889
02:24:26.719 --> 02:24:31.680
and out of stress. Make a
bigger container. Number three. If you

1890
02:24:31.719 --> 02:24:35.559
can move your containers to where they
get less mid to late day sun and

1891
02:24:35.680 --> 02:24:43.840
morning sun, that's even better.
So for example, I like geraniums.

1892
02:24:43.760 --> 02:24:48.920
My life loves duriniums, and so
in the springtime you put geraniums out in

1893
02:24:48.959 --> 02:24:52.280
full sun and they're just happy.
When we get into summer, move those

1894
02:24:52.360 --> 02:24:56.200
geraniums to where they get some morning
sun, because they do need light,

1895
02:24:56.319 --> 02:25:00.239
direct light. But give them some
break from the sun later in the day

1896
02:25:00.319 --> 02:25:03.479
and it's much easier on the plants. And that's just one example. Number

1897
02:25:03.520 --> 02:25:09.840
four, and the final one is
you need to choose quality soil mixes for

1898
02:25:09.959 --> 02:25:16.319
your containers, or improve the soil
in your beds with decomposed compost products with

1899
02:25:16.760 --> 02:25:22.719
bed mixes like rose mix or veggian
herb mix or fruit remix, because when

1900
02:25:22.760 --> 02:25:28.200
you do that again, you create
a deeper effective root zone for your plant.

1901
02:25:28.600 --> 02:25:31.479
You get down deep in a clay
soil, there's no oxygen and very

1902
02:25:31.559 --> 02:25:35.000
little root development down there. When
you improve that soil, you have a

1903
02:25:35.120 --> 02:25:41.200
larger volume now that roots are thriving
in, so that when summer sun says

1904
02:25:41.360 --> 02:25:45.479
I need this many gallons of water
idea day plant, the plant has more

1905
02:25:45.520 --> 02:25:48.319
to draw from and it just does
better. Those are four tips. I

1906
02:25:48.360 --> 02:25:52.120
hope that I hope that helps you. I'm going to now go back out

1907
02:25:52.159 --> 02:25:58.360
to the phones here. Welcome to
garden Line. Who am I talking to?

1908
02:26:01.879 --> 02:26:05.799
You're gonna go all right, I'm
gonna have to on that one and

1909
02:26:05.159 --> 02:26:11.600
let's see here. Well hear the
music plan, folks. I appreciate you

1910
02:26:11.639 --> 02:26:16.239
calling in today. We'll do this
again next weekend when we get back next

1911
02:26:16.319 --> 02:26:20.799
weekend on Saturday at six am to
ten am and on Sunday from six am

1912
02:26:20.879 --> 02:26:24.959
to ten am. That is the
next opportunity to talk live with you.

1913
02:26:26.079 --> 02:26:30.920
In the meantime, you can go
to the kt r H website seven forty

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02:26:31.000 --> 02:26:33.920
am website and you can listen to
past shows. If you've got the iHeart

1915
02:26:35.200 --> 02:26:39.520
media app, you just you know, follow garden line. There's two garden

1916
02:26:39.559 --> 02:26:43.840
lines in the country, not hard
to tell apart. One is a lady

1917
02:26:43.079 --> 02:26:48.959
somewhere up northeast. The other is
this guy down in Houston, and that's

1918
02:26:48.000 --> 02:26:52.840
me. That's the garden line you
want to listen to. I hope you

1919
02:26:52.159 --> 02:26:56.200
listen to pass shows there. If
you heard me say something, you a

1920
02:26:56.280 --> 02:26:58.079
chance to write it down. There's
your chance. But I hope you have

1921
02:26:58.120 --> 02:27:07.159
a wonderful west rest of your Sunday
and a great week this week. M