WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.120 --> 00:00:03.640 Katie r h. Garden Line does not necessarily endorse any of the products or 2 00:00:03.680 --> 00:00:10.279 services advertised on this program. Welcome to Katie r h Garden Line with Skip 3 00:00:10.400 --> 00:00:36.039 rictor it's crazy a trim just watch him as many things to Superzy not a 4 00:00:36.280 --> 00:00:44.159 sun Well, good morning and welcome to garden Line. Glad you're listening. 5 00:00:44.159 --> 00:00:47.359 Congratulations, you're an early bird. You got your eyes open. Maybe a 6 00:00:47.359 --> 00:00:50.320 cup of coffee or something else to get you fired up and go in this 7 00:00:50.439 --> 00:00:53.840 morning. We're ready to go. Let's let's talk about gardening. What do 8 00:00:53.840 --> 00:00:55.719 you want to what do you want to talk about? By the way, 9 00:00:55.759 --> 00:00:58.560 look out the window. If your neighbors like gorn On, go bang on 10 00:00:58.600 --> 00:01:02.200 the door, tell them they're missing garden Line, they will so appreciate that. 11 00:01:03.039 --> 00:01:06.640 And plus you have a more beautiful yard next door eventually, at least 12 00:01:06.640 --> 00:01:10.280 we hope. So. I've heard rumors that just playing garden Line around your 13 00:01:10.280 --> 00:01:15.359 houseplants causes them to thrive. Now that's just that's just me, But I 14 00:01:15.400 --> 00:01:19.239 could be wrong anyway. All right, enough fun enough funniness of that sort. 15 00:01:21.000 --> 00:01:22.959 What do we want to talk about today? I want to talk a 16 00:01:22.959 --> 00:01:25.920 little bit about turf, and I want to talk a little bit about some 17 00:01:25.959 --> 00:01:30.560 flowers. I'd like to cover a few vegetables and a couple of herb things. 18 00:01:30.599 --> 00:01:33.959 But this show is a call in show. So what's your question? 19 00:01:34.359 --> 00:01:38.120 What kind of plants do you need identified? What kind of issues do you 20 00:01:38.200 --> 00:01:42.040 need diagnose? Maybe some suggestions for a good plant to go in a certain 21 00:01:42.079 --> 00:01:45.799 spot, something you haven't tried before. Here's how you get a hold of 22 00:01:45.799 --> 00:01:51.200 me, just dolls seven one three two one two five eight seven four seven 23 00:01:51.239 --> 00:01:56.079 one three two one two fifty eight seventy four and we can talk about the 24 00:01:56.079 --> 00:01:59.480 things that interest you. Had a really good time out at M and D 25 00:01:59.599 --> 00:02:02.799 Supply Ace in clear Lake yesterday. Wow, thanks for everybody that came out. 26 00:02:02.840 --> 00:02:07.519 That was a blast. I hope that you guys had as much fun 27 00:02:07.560 --> 00:02:09.280 as I did. I think we did. We've got a lot of folks 28 00:02:09.360 --> 00:02:14.400 come in with samples and questions and pictures to look at this and that and 29 00:02:14.400 --> 00:02:16.759 the other, and it was just good. I appreciate the folks at M 30 00:02:16.800 --> 00:02:23.479 and D Ace Supply and clear Lake there for hosting us. The store was 31 00:02:23.919 --> 00:02:28.960 really in beautiful shab me. Just after I got through, I hung around 32 00:02:29.039 --> 00:02:31.080 for another thirty minutes, just kind of walking through and looking at all things 33 00:02:31.080 --> 00:02:34.879 I had, and even picked up a couple of things that I needed. 34 00:02:35.479 --> 00:02:38.319 When I get back to the house, I've got some things I need to 35 00:02:38.360 --> 00:02:42.479 take care of this weekend as well. I want to remind you or tell 36 00:02:42.520 --> 00:02:47.479 you that next Saturday, that is the thirteenth of April, I will be 37 00:02:47.520 --> 00:02:54.400 at Enchanted Forest down in the Richmond Rosenberg area eleven thirty am to one thirty 38 00:02:54.439 --> 00:02:59.039 pm Chanted Forest. If you've never been to Enchanted Forest, I don't care 39 00:02:59.039 --> 00:03:01.719 where you live around the great here scenario, here's your excuse to come down 40 00:03:01.759 --> 00:03:05.719 and let's do that. We do the things we always do. We talk, 41 00:03:05.840 --> 00:03:10.280 I give it advice, do diagnosis, do identifications, make suggestions for 42 00:03:10.360 --> 00:03:15.120 plants, whatever whatever is that you need, or just come and meet. 43 00:03:15.240 --> 00:03:19.400 And I always like to meet the folks that are listening to the show. 44 00:03:19.520 --> 00:03:23.039 And I guess it allows you to put a face with a with a sound 45 00:03:23.280 --> 00:03:27.759 over the radio as well. But that's in Chanted Forest this coming Saturday, 46 00:03:28.680 --> 00:03:34.479 April thirteenth, from eleven thirty to one thirty pm. They'll have a they 47 00:03:34.520 --> 00:03:37.879 always have, like a food truck or I think this one's a donut truck, 48 00:03:38.280 --> 00:03:42.599 which I love that idea that'll be out there, and it'll give you 49 00:03:42.599 --> 00:03:46.560 a chance to see that place. And Jenny Forest is an amazing, amazing 50 00:03:46.599 --> 00:03:51.639 place to go visit and shop if you are interested in butterflies and things like 51 00:03:51.680 --> 00:03:53.520 that, if you're iNeST in pollinators. You got to see the some of 52 00:03:53.520 --> 00:03:58.639 the selection of plants that they keep out there. But you'll be surprised when 53 00:03:58.639 --> 00:04:01.560 you go. It'll be it will be one of those oh my gosh, 54 00:04:01.599 --> 00:04:04.439 I didn't know they had all this. Well I do, so hope you 55 00:04:04.439 --> 00:04:10.280 come out and see us out there. This is a season to get your 56 00:04:10.319 --> 00:04:15.280 trees planted before summer gets here. We've been saying plant trees since last I 57 00:04:15.319 --> 00:04:19.439 don't know last fall really, But any time that you get a chance to 58 00:04:19.480 --> 00:04:25.000 put in a quality tree, you were setting your landscape up for success, 59 00:04:25.839 --> 00:04:30.160 and for your home, you're setting it up for long term value. And 60 00:04:30.199 --> 00:04:34.000 here's what I mean by this. A quality tree enhances the beauty of your 61 00:04:34.000 --> 00:04:40.240 home. It makes it more enjoyable. A quality shade tree takes that blasting 62 00:04:40.519 --> 00:04:46.240 Southeast Texas hot summer sun and it just softens it up a little bit where 63 00:04:46.240 --> 00:04:49.480 we can actually be outside and enjoy it. I've got a beautiful cypress in 64 00:04:49.519 --> 00:04:56.079 my backyard. That the shade is just wonderful when it comes to summertime. 65 00:04:56.480 --> 00:04:59.199 Well, in order to get to shade, you got to get it planted 66 00:04:59.240 --> 00:05:01.480 soon. They say the best time to plant a tree is forty years ago. 67 00:05:01.560 --> 00:05:05.480 The second best time is today. Well, today is here. You 68 00:05:05.519 --> 00:05:09.720 want to get that tree planted. You want to select a quality tree. 69 00:05:10.240 --> 00:05:15.240 There are a number of places where you can get a tree that will fit 70 00:05:15.319 --> 00:05:19.439 your area, but do some investigating before number one. Go to a place 71 00:05:19.480 --> 00:05:25.319 that only sells stuff that belongs here, that'll grow here. And Verdant Tree 72 00:05:25.319 --> 00:05:29.519 Farm is an example of a place like that. Verdon Tree Farm has several 73 00:05:29.560 --> 00:05:32.279 locations around the Greater Houston area. I don't know if you've ever been to 74 00:05:32.279 --> 00:05:35.600 any of them, but there's one down in Pearland, there's one out on 75 00:05:35.759 --> 00:05:40.519 West Barker, Cyprus and West Houston. There's one in the Heights at Yale 76 00:05:41.000 --> 00:05:44.680 Street. And Verdant Tree Farm is going to make sure your tree gets planted 77 00:05:44.759 --> 00:05:48.639 right, and that is very very important. I have seen a lot of 78 00:05:48.639 --> 00:05:54.480 tree planting jobs that were botched. The people didn't know what they were doing. 79 00:05:56.680 --> 00:06:00.639 One of the most common things that happens when people are planting a tree 80 00:06:00.639 --> 00:06:03.439 and they don't know what they're doing. Is they put things like gravel in 81 00:06:03.480 --> 00:06:09.040 the bottom of the hole. If gravel caused a clay hole to drain, 82 00:06:09.439 --> 00:06:14.480 then an aquarium wouldn't hold water. If you think of it that way, 83 00:06:14.759 --> 00:06:17.160 Just putting gravel in the bottom of an aquarium make the water drain out, 84 00:06:17.279 --> 00:06:21.600 No, because the water's being held by the glass of the aquarium. If 85 00:06:21.639 --> 00:06:25.319 you got a clay hole that's hold in water, putting gravel on the bottom 86 00:06:25.360 --> 00:06:29.079 doesn't do anything. It doesn't do anything. Don't do that. The folks 87 00:06:29.120 --> 00:06:32.639 at Verdant know how to plant a tree. You can go their website verdanttreefarm 88 00:06:32.720 --> 00:06:35.839 dot com. I like the fact that you can go there. They'll advise 89 00:06:35.879 --> 00:06:39.800 you to on which tree you might want which does well for you. They 90 00:06:39.839 --> 00:06:46.639 have a long large list of cold hardy trees, drought resistant types of species. 91 00:06:46.680 --> 00:06:50.279 They have palms. Verdant Treefarm dot com. That's the website. Go 92 00:06:50.399 --> 00:06:53.680 pick your tree out, they'll tag it, they'll bring it to you and 93 00:06:53.720 --> 00:06:58.879 they'll plant it right so that you have success. Very very important. You 94 00:06:58.920 --> 00:07:00.839 know, a tree is a bike part of the landscape. You need to 95 00:07:00.839 --> 00:07:03.839 get those planted today. And by the way, when you plant a tree, 96 00:07:04.240 --> 00:07:08.800 you need to get you one of those three sixty tree stabilizers. It's 97 00:07:08.839 --> 00:07:13.319 like an arm that grabs a tree and grabs a steak and it allows the 98 00:07:13.360 --> 00:07:15.240 tree to move, which is important. You know, to use those guy 99 00:07:15.319 --> 00:07:19.720 wires and honker a tree down where it can't move it all. It strengthens 100 00:07:19.720 --> 00:07:23.879 a tree to move in the wind a little bit. So three sixty tree 101 00:07:23.879 --> 00:07:29.279 stabilizers are going to allow that movement. And they last and last and last, 102 00:07:29.399 --> 00:07:31.560 and you just put a post close to the tree and hook up that 103 00:07:31.600 --> 00:07:35.160 little arm to grab the tree and there you go. You're ready to go 104 00:07:35.279 --> 00:07:39.519 set it where we'll move a little bit. You can find these at Southwest 105 00:07:39.560 --> 00:07:44.839 Fertilizer, RCW Nursery down in Alvin, at Orges Head and Gardens, Buchanans 106 00:07:44.839 --> 00:07:47.720 and the Heights Arburgate and Tomball Plants for all seasons Highway two forty nine. 107 00:07:47.759 --> 00:07:50.639 They all carry you the three sixty tree stabilizer. But when you put a 108 00:07:50.680 --> 00:07:54.600 young tree in, I mean, if it's not a huge giant tree, 109 00:07:55.000 --> 00:07:58.720 get one of those to grab onto it and make sure that it is kept 110 00:07:58.720 --> 00:08:01.040 stable. And if you do that right, and it's planted right, which 111 00:08:01.120 --> 00:08:05.000 Verdant will do. By the way, you were going to have success. 112 00:08:05.040 --> 00:08:07.759 You're not gonna have to keep it staked for years. I mean, just 113 00:08:07.759 --> 00:08:11.759 a few months or six months maybe of good, good staking and it'll be 114 00:08:11.800 --> 00:08:13.959 good to go. Well, we're gonna take a little break. Our phone 115 00:08:13.040 --> 00:08:16.759 number seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four. I'll be right 116 00:08:16.800 --> 00:08:20.759 back. Welcome back to the garden line. I guess our music is all 117 00:08:20.800 --> 00:08:24.319 things eclipse today, or at least a lot of stuff about the eclipse. 118 00:08:26.160 --> 00:08:31.000 I just was thinking during the break that if you want an eclipse every summer 119 00:08:31.120 --> 00:08:35.559 day in your backyard patio, the way to do it is to plant a 120 00:08:35.559 --> 00:08:37.399 tree. I don't know. That just occurred to me. And we sure 121 00:08:37.440 --> 00:08:41.919 do want something to block the sun when it gets really, really hot. 122 00:08:41.960 --> 00:08:48.639 Here. We are now officially in big time lawn season. We've been taking 123 00:08:48.639 --> 00:08:50.960 care of our lawns since back in February, putting down things to prevent weeds 124 00:08:52.000 --> 00:08:56.639 from coming up and whatnot. But now it's warming up enough where the grass 125 00:08:56.919 --> 00:09:00.720 is growing, and when the grass is actively growing, then we began, 126 00:09:00.759 --> 00:09:05.600 of course the mowing schedule. But we also need to be putting down nutrients 127 00:09:05.840 --> 00:09:09.679 to help support that growth. Now, a lawn will grow without being fertilized. 128 00:09:11.039 --> 00:09:15.360 It'll live without being fertilized, but it will not be an attractive dark 129 00:09:15.399 --> 00:09:18.200 green color, and it also will not be dense. It'll be thin, 130 00:09:18.679 --> 00:09:24.639 and so you're forever fighting weeds. So why do we fertilize. Were fertilize 131 00:09:24.639 --> 00:09:28.879 to keep our lawns healthier, But we fertilize also to build density. And 132 00:09:28.919 --> 00:09:33.159 the whole reason you have that beautiful outdoor green carpet is the beauty of it. 133 00:09:33.159 --> 00:09:39.960 It also, did you know that your lawn contributes significantly to lowering the 134 00:09:39.000 --> 00:09:45.200 ambient air temperatures around you. You compare a lawn to like an asphalt parking 135 00:09:45.240 --> 00:09:48.960 lot. That's there's something in the big city called the heat island effect, 136 00:09:48.080 --> 00:09:54.639 right where all the parking lots and buildings and stuff that are absorbing and radiating 137 00:09:54.679 --> 00:09:58.679 heat. It makes a significant difference. Well around your home. A lawn 138 00:09:58.879 --> 00:10:01.039 is like having a big, black, green air conditioner all over the place, 139 00:10:01.159 --> 00:10:05.279 because that is exactly what it does. It literally cools the air around 140 00:10:05.320 --> 00:10:09.879 you, the reflective heat especially, and plus it's just fun fun to have 141 00:10:09.919 --> 00:10:13.679 a lawn to get out there and walk on to enjoy, for the kids 142 00:10:13.679 --> 00:10:16.320 to play on. Well, if you want to have that kind of lawn 143 00:10:16.440 --> 00:10:20.279 nitrofoss superturf, it is nineteen four to ten. That's the three numbers on 144 00:10:20.320 --> 00:10:24.200 the bag. Nineteen four ten. It's the silver bag. Let's make it 145 00:10:24.240 --> 00:10:30.600 easy. The silver bag nitrofass superturf will provide a gradual release of nitrogen over 146 00:10:30.600 --> 00:10:35.039 the next two maybe three months. Really it is. It doesn't contain a 147 00:10:35.120 --> 00:10:39.440 herbicide in it. It's strictly a lawn fertilizer. And when you put it 148 00:10:39.480 --> 00:10:41.519 down, it also has some iron. I was looking at a picture someone 149 00:10:41.559 --> 00:10:46.000 sent me some pictures or actually brought some to the event M and dastn a 150 00:10:46.039 --> 00:10:50.840 Clare Lake yesterday, and the lawn had these yellowing areas, and I was 151 00:10:50.840 --> 00:10:54.879 telling them that is iron deficiency. And you put on a superturf has like 152 00:10:54.919 --> 00:11:00.399 four percent iron in it to promote that good green color as well. So 153 00:11:00.480 --> 00:11:03.320 it's just a win way to go about it. Follow follow the instructions on 154 00:11:03.360 --> 00:11:05.639 how to apply it, but go ahead and get it down watered in. 155 00:11:05.879 --> 00:11:09.320 Just a little bit of water moving into the soil and you're off to the 156 00:11:09.399 --> 00:11:13.480 races. Now you can find nitrofoss products in a lot of different places. 157 00:11:13.639 --> 00:11:16.080 They're widely available here in the Greater Houston area. You can find them at 158 00:11:16.080 --> 00:11:20.240 the Arbor Gate up in Tombole. You can find them at Kingwood at the 159 00:11:20.240 --> 00:11:24.360 Ace Hardware there in Kingwood as well, and Shades of Texas which is on 160 00:11:24.480 --> 00:11:28.919 Genoa Red Bluff in south east Houston. Yep, all of those places, 161 00:11:28.000 --> 00:11:33.480 Carrie nitofoss products. We are talking about lawns today because this is a time 162 00:11:33.519 --> 00:11:37.080 of year when we do want to make sure that we're getting our lawns off 163 00:11:37.080 --> 00:11:41.000 to a good, quick, early start. We've done things like prevent weeds. 164 00:11:43.080 --> 00:11:46.039 It seems like every day somebody asked me about weeds in the lawn, 165 00:11:46.120 --> 00:11:48.480 How to deal with weeds in the law, What to do about weeds in 166 00:11:48.519 --> 00:11:52.960 the lawn. And it's more complicated than that. There are a lot of 167 00:11:54.000 --> 00:11:58.519 good products out that will kill a weed or prevent a weed, and the 168 00:11:58.639 --> 00:12:03.120 key is your time and choosing the product that's going to work on the weed 169 00:12:03.159 --> 00:12:07.639 that you have. For example, using a broad leaf herbicide, it works 170 00:12:07.679 --> 00:12:11.279 on broad leaf weeds, but it doesn't work on grass seaweeds. If you 171 00:12:11.320 --> 00:12:15.919 have a grass only herbicide. It's not going to work on broad leaf weed. 172 00:12:16.000 --> 00:12:18.960 So you need to choose the right one and find the right timing. 173 00:12:18.039 --> 00:12:22.039 And that's one of the things you can call here to garden Line and we 174 00:12:22.080 --> 00:12:26.480 can help you with. Especially when I see pictures that is really helpful. 175 00:12:26.519 --> 00:12:28.759 Someone brought me pictures yesterday. We looked at it and it's like, oh, 176 00:12:28.919 --> 00:12:31.919 okay, you've got this weed, and then we could actually talk more 177 00:12:31.919 --> 00:12:37.120 intelligently about what to do successfully with that weed. A lot of our cool 178 00:12:37.159 --> 00:12:41.519 season weeds are about to go out. They've done their thing. They sprouted 179 00:12:41.519 --> 00:12:46.120 in the fall. I always compare cool season lawn weeds to blue bonnets because 180 00:12:46.120 --> 00:12:48.600 everybody understands the blue bonnet life schedule. You don't see blue bonnets in the 181 00:12:48.639 --> 00:12:52.759 summer. They sprout in the fall, they sit there through the winter, 182 00:12:52.879 --> 00:12:56.399 growing dist a little bit, and spring they take off growing. They bloom, 183 00:12:56.480 --> 00:13:00.320 set seed, fling the seed everywhere, and they're gone. That's what 184 00:13:00.440 --> 00:13:03.679 your cool season weed are doing. And we're at the point where they're about 185 00:13:03.720 --> 00:13:09.080 to be gone. Chickweed and hendbed and carpet weed, cleavers, velcroed, 186 00:13:09.519 --> 00:13:13.000 all of those weeds are on their way out. So anything you can do 187 00:13:13.039 --> 00:13:16.879 to get the weed seeds out of there is a good idea hand pulling. 188 00:13:16.960 --> 00:13:22.399 I know you don't hear that hand pulling is helpful in mowing very low with 189 00:13:22.519 --> 00:13:26.000 a bagger to capture as much seed as you can. Don't rich. It's 190 00:13:26.000 --> 00:13:28.639 the one time when I say don't return the clippings is when you have a 191 00:13:28.720 --> 00:13:33.039 lawn full of weed seeds. But that will help too. While you're at 192 00:13:33.080 --> 00:13:37.440 it, it's time to spruce up the flower beds, and that means bringing 193 00:13:37.480 --> 00:13:41.639 in some color, some color that will look good in spring if you can 194 00:13:41.679 --> 00:13:46.279 plant things that'll do well in summer. There are so many color options that 195 00:13:46.279 --> 00:13:54.559 we have. I was just checking out plant frall seasons yesterday and the shipments 196 00:13:54.559 --> 00:13:58.759 of color that they've gotten in are amazing. I mean, I think they 197 00:13:58.759 --> 00:14:01.919 were saying that basically people got to get over here and haul these out because 198 00:14:01.919 --> 00:14:03.200 you don't have enough room for everything. And I believe it. I mean, 199 00:14:03.240 --> 00:14:07.600 it was just carts and carts of color coming through there, beautiful beautiful 200 00:14:07.600 --> 00:14:11.320 plants. Everything you can imagine, you know, Salvia's and all the annuals 201 00:14:11.360 --> 00:14:16.360 and perennials and ornamentals, grasses and it's just a lot, a lot of 202 00:14:16.399 --> 00:14:20.279 beautiful color, and that's what you would expect for Plants for All Seasons. 203 00:14:20.320 --> 00:14:22.879 You know when you walk in there, people love to go, and they 204 00:14:22.919 --> 00:14:28.519 love to go because you walk in and you're greeted by friendly, knowledgeable people, 205 00:14:28.840 --> 00:14:31.720 and you walk out into the garden center and you see everything you need. 206 00:14:33.559 --> 00:14:37.440 Right in front of the store are all the bags of mulch and composts 207 00:14:37.480 --> 00:14:41.919 and things. And right inside the building there you've got all the fertilizers that 208 00:14:41.000 --> 00:14:45.559 I recommend on garden line. And that's the brown stuff, right, and 209 00:14:45.600 --> 00:14:48.399 you've got to go home with some brown stuff. But when you go home 210 00:14:48.440 --> 00:14:52.000 with the green stuff, so you can have success. So grab some of 211 00:14:52.039 --> 00:14:58.879 their composts and bags of soiled product, grab the fertilizer when you get all 212 00:14:58.919 --> 00:15:01.320 those plants, and you're going to go home and have success. Plants for 213 00:15:01.360 --> 00:15:03.480 All Seasons is easy to get to. It's on two forty nine Tomball Parkway, 214 00:15:05.240 --> 00:15:07.480 just north of Luetta, right there on the side of Tomball Parkway. 215 00:15:07.759 --> 00:15:11.559 You can go to the website Plants for All Seasons dot com, or you 216 00:15:11.559 --> 00:15:16.399 can call them two eight one, three seven six sixteen forty six. If 217 00:15:16.440 --> 00:15:20.039 you've got a green thumb, You got to go there because this is the 218 00:15:20.080 --> 00:15:24.720 place for green thumbs. If you got a brown thumb, you absolutely have 219 00:15:24.799 --> 00:15:28.120 to go there because they are the folks that help turn it green. Remember 220 00:15:28.279 --> 00:15:31.279 there's no such thing as brown thumbs, just uninformed thumbs. Go to plants 221 00:15:31.320 --> 00:15:35.840 for all seasons and they will help inform that thumb and put the right plants 222 00:15:35.840 --> 00:15:39.159 in your hands so you can have success. You are listening to Gardenline. 223 00:15:39.200 --> 00:15:41.679 I'm your host, Skiperrector. If you'd like to give us call today, 224 00:15:41.720 --> 00:15:48.000 our number is seven one three two one two five eight seven four seven one 225 00:15:48.080 --> 00:15:54.159 three two one two fifty eight seventy four. I was out in my garden 226 00:15:54.720 --> 00:15:58.720 this past week and just looking over some things. I've got some sweet peas 227 00:15:58.759 --> 00:16:03.480 growing. Oh my gosh, they're producing like crazy. We planted too many, 228 00:16:03.759 --> 00:16:07.399 but that's okay. I love fresh sugar snap type peas, and boy, 229 00:16:07.480 --> 00:16:11.480 they are producing like crazy. But while I was out looking at some 230 00:16:11.519 --> 00:16:12.919 of the plants, the bees were just all over them, and I was 231 00:16:12.919 --> 00:16:18.600 just thinking about that free pollination service that I'm getting. And if you're growing 232 00:16:18.639 --> 00:16:22.279 things like cucumbers and watermelons and cantalopes and squash, you have to have good 233 00:16:22.320 --> 00:16:26.519 pollination, and honey bees will do that. Native bees will do that. 234 00:16:26.759 --> 00:16:29.919 Have you ever thought about keeping honey bees having a hive in the backyard. 235 00:16:30.759 --> 00:16:33.120 The folks that these supply on and Dayton can help get you set up. 236 00:16:33.440 --> 00:16:38.200 They have training classes that are going on all through spring. The next training 237 00:16:38.240 --> 00:16:41.240 class that they're having is on the thirteenth of April. Then there's one on 238 00:16:41.279 --> 00:16:44.879 the twenty seventh of April, and there's a couple in May after that. 239 00:16:45.519 --> 00:16:48.840 You can go learn even if you decide not to do bees, it'll be 240 00:16:48.960 --> 00:16:51.919 fascinating and you'll get to do the hands on and everything. And I can 241 00:16:51.960 --> 00:16:55.159 tell you this, it's addictive. When you get out there and start doing 242 00:16:55.200 --> 00:16:57.840 it. It's like, oh wow, this is easier than I thought. 243 00:16:57.919 --> 00:17:03.159 It's simpler, and it's fun. It's just it's an agricultural endeavor. It 244 00:17:03.240 --> 00:17:07.640 really is, because you're raising livestock basically. When you've got bees out there 245 00:17:07.759 --> 00:17:11.839 and you get honey, that's the cool part too. If you just want 246 00:17:11.839 --> 00:17:15.559 to go learn about bees, take the kids, the garden club, the 247 00:17:15.880 --> 00:17:18.759 church group, whatever you got, and go out to the bee supply and 248 00:17:19.000 --> 00:17:23.519 just go to one of their interactive honey tours. They will teach you all 249 00:17:23.559 --> 00:17:27.880 about things about bees that are just mind blowing. You actually get to sample 250 00:17:27.920 --> 00:17:32.240 a whole bunch of different kinds of honey. They'll even let you go to 251 00:17:32.279 --> 00:17:36.519 the They have an observation hive inside the building that is really cool where you 252 00:17:36.519 --> 00:17:41.519 can watch the bees work. All of that at thebsupply dot com. That's 253 00:17:41.519 --> 00:17:48.759 the website. Check it out vbsupply dot com. I planted a load last 254 00:17:48.799 --> 00:17:53.960 week, and boy was that ever an endeavor because I did a lot, 255 00:17:55.000 --> 00:17:59.440 a lot. I think at eleven pallets of grass, and everything for me 256 00:17:59.519 --> 00:18:03.160 is an ex you know, because I'm when I'm on guard line answering your 257 00:18:03.240 --> 00:18:07.680 questions, I'm not just pulling answers out of the air. It's like I've 258 00:18:07.720 --> 00:18:11.319 grown that plant, or I've studied that plant, or I know somebody and 259 00:18:11.359 --> 00:18:15.920 we you know, we've worked together on fire beds or something they're doing, 260 00:18:15.200 --> 00:18:18.480 and I have familiarity with it. So for me, I've got like four 261 00:18:18.519 --> 00:18:23.200 different grasses now in different sections of the property, and so that was a 262 00:18:23.240 --> 00:18:26.839 lot of work getting it all down, But oh my gosh, it looks 263 00:18:26.839 --> 00:18:30.440 so good. If you're planting a lawn, you need to make sure and 264 00:18:30.880 --> 00:18:34.799 water it regularly when you plant it. I saw some pictures yesterday at M 265 00:18:34.799 --> 00:18:40.240 and Dace down in Clear Lake from folks that came in of lawns that were 266 00:18:40.279 --> 00:18:44.640 struggling, and they clearly it was dropped damage and they'd been planted, you 267 00:18:44.640 --> 00:18:48.559 know, a week or more ago, but they just didn't get watered in 268 00:18:48.960 --> 00:18:52.599 really good. And when that grass comes in, it's got you know, 269 00:18:52.680 --> 00:18:55.759 like three quarters of an inch of root on the grass. That's it because 270 00:18:55.799 --> 00:18:59.759 it was sliced off to get that soil that comes with the grass with the 271 00:19:00.720 --> 00:19:03.799 and now you plant it and that's all the root it has. So you 272 00:19:03.880 --> 00:19:08.079 can't just think normal watering is adequate. You water eye water twice a day 273 00:19:08.119 --> 00:19:11.559 in the morning and in the evening just a little bit. Or you water 274 00:19:11.680 --> 00:19:15.200 once really good, but it's better to keep that top part a little moist, 275 00:19:15.240 --> 00:19:18.079 keep some water on it. And I do that for about a week, 276 00:19:18.119 --> 00:19:21.640 and then I go to about every once a day maybe for about a 277 00:19:21.680 --> 00:19:25.559 week, and by then you're in good shape and it's ready to go. 278 00:19:26.039 --> 00:19:27.359 But take care of your lawns. If you're planting, you need to go 279 00:19:27.440 --> 00:19:33.599 through that schedule. Those of you who live up toward the conro direction or 280 00:19:33.599 --> 00:19:38.480 fortunate because you're in the backyard of nature's way resources. They really John Ferguson 281 00:19:38.720 --> 00:19:45.000 started that a long time ago, and he has developed some beautiful soil mixes. 282 00:19:45.319 --> 00:19:49.240 When we talk about rose soil, and you know the compost top dressings, 283 00:19:49.359 --> 00:19:55.200 the leaf mold compost top dressings, he helped develop those there on his 284 00:19:55.319 --> 00:20:00.440 property. And you can also find there every kind of compost blend you might 285 00:20:00.519 --> 00:20:03.519 need for success with your plant. You can buy bulk, you can buy 286 00:20:03.920 --> 00:20:06.839 by the bag, you can have them deliver it if you want to do 287 00:20:06.920 --> 00:20:11.200 that, just call them at nine three six three two one sixty nine ninety 288 00:20:11.720 --> 00:20:17.759 nine three six three two one sixty nine ninety Remember every Friday is Fungal Friday. 289 00:20:17.839 --> 00:20:22.640 Ten percent off bag fungo products, twenty percent off bulk. We're going 290 00:20:22.680 --> 00:20:25.039 to take a little break. It's time for Nicky and the news. Our 291 00:20:25.119 --> 00:20:27.160 number if you'd like to call Josh and get on the board seven one three 292 00:20:27.359 --> 00:20:33.039 two one two KTRH. Welcome back to garden Line. Good to have you 293 00:20:33.079 --> 00:20:34.519 with us. I'm your host, Skip Richter, and hey, what do 294 00:20:34.519 --> 00:20:37.759 you want to talk about? Give us call seven one three two one two 295 00:20:38.319 --> 00:20:42.480 five eight seven four. We're talking plants today. I saw a lot of 296 00:20:42.480 --> 00:20:48.279 pictures of weeds yesterday. I'm telling you, weeds, weeds, weeds when 297 00:20:48.400 --> 00:20:52.480 uh, whenever we have a lawn, we want to be beautiful and pretty. 298 00:20:52.799 --> 00:20:55.519 And we got a couple of options there. One is to deal with 299 00:20:55.559 --> 00:20:57.480 the weeds, prevent them. The other is to control them after they come 300 00:20:57.559 --> 00:21:00.359 up. It's easier to prevent them to control them after they come up. 301 00:21:00.440 --> 00:21:03.680 But either way you can go. You can do that, you can hand 302 00:21:03.720 --> 00:21:07.240 pull them, you can use products to control them. But everybody wants to, 303 00:21:07.000 --> 00:21:10.519 you know, get those things out of the lawn. You just need 304 00:21:10.559 --> 00:21:12.559 to remember. And if you go to my schedule, and by the way, 305 00:21:12.640 --> 00:21:18.440 my gardening schedule is on gardening with Skip dot com. I say gardening 306 00:21:18.480 --> 00:21:22.960 schedule, my lawn schedule gardening with skip dot com. If you go there 307 00:21:23.240 --> 00:21:27.559 under the weed section, there's red letters and basically what they say is the 308 00:21:27.640 --> 00:21:30.880 number one step in controlling weeds is to have a dense, healthy lawn. 309 00:21:30.960 --> 00:21:34.920 That's that's the gist of it. And so for you just to depend on 310 00:21:36.000 --> 00:21:41.240 products to kill weeds without building the lawn, you're you're like fighting an uphill 311 00:21:41.279 --> 00:21:44.839 battle. Both are very very important. We do need to control weeds, 312 00:21:44.880 --> 00:21:48.519 but we also need to make sure we build that lawn. And turf Star 313 00:21:48.559 --> 00:21:52.119 Weedonator is kind of a combo product like that. Nelson Nelson created this product. 314 00:21:52.799 --> 00:21:56.960 It's part of their turf Star line, which is all the fertilizers for 315 00:21:56.039 --> 00:22:00.559 your lawn, but the Weedonator has a product it to help manage the broadly 316 00:22:00.720 --> 00:22:04.920 weeds that you may have in there. And so what they've done is they 317 00:22:06.039 --> 00:22:10.279 put that product into control the weeds that are there now, but they've also 318 00:22:10.400 --> 00:22:17.119 got a slow release type of nitrogen that gradually feeds over time. So what 319 00:22:17.240 --> 00:22:22.839 happens is you put the Turfstar Weedinator down and that's dealing with the weeds, 320 00:22:23.119 --> 00:22:29.200 but over the next couple of months, you're getting that gradual release of nutrients. 321 00:22:29.240 --> 00:22:32.720 Three two or three months. That is, the soil warms and the 322 00:22:32.759 --> 00:22:37.799 microbes become more and more and more active. That available, the nitrogen that 323 00:22:37.839 --> 00:22:41.799 wasn't available starts to become available, and your lawn just continues to grow with 324 00:22:41.839 --> 00:22:44.920 a nice even growth rate, which is which is kind of nice. That's 325 00:22:44.960 --> 00:22:49.079 important. Turf Star Weedenator is widely available. The folks at Nelson's have really 326 00:22:49.119 --> 00:22:55.279 created a wonderful line of nutrition for your lawn and nutrition for your plants. 327 00:22:55.279 --> 00:22:57.799 You know, they've got the Color Star line, They've got the Nature Star 328 00:22:57.880 --> 00:23:02.799 line of a nat organic type product. They just have a wide range of 329 00:23:02.839 --> 00:23:06.920 things that are available. But this Turf Star, the Turf Star line for 330 00:23:06.920 --> 00:23:11.640 your lawn is very important in the weedon Eator. It does work. I 331 00:23:11.839 --> 00:23:17.079 was yesterday when I was on my way out to go to the appearance. 332 00:23:17.160 --> 00:23:22.440 We did. We. I always like to drive through neighborhoods, and so 333 00:23:22.559 --> 00:23:27.720 going through neighborhoods is my way of seeing what's going on. You know. 334 00:23:29.039 --> 00:23:32.000 I'll drive by and go, whoa, what is that blooming plant that looks 335 00:23:32.039 --> 00:23:33.720 new? And have to stop and check it out. But that's kind of 336 00:23:33.759 --> 00:23:37.039 the way I like to do, and I hate to take the beaten path. 337 00:23:37.559 --> 00:23:40.359 I'll tell you what. I'm gonna take a break here and go to 338 00:23:40.400 --> 00:23:42.720 the phones. How about we go out ton Avasota and talk to Rodney? 339 00:23:42.799 --> 00:23:47.160 Hello, Rodney? Hello, how you doing. I'm well, sir, 340 00:23:48.079 --> 00:23:52.400 good, good good. I have a question. I take care of my 341 00:23:52.559 --> 00:23:56.000 cousin's ranch in Avasota. And are you familiar with the thistle? Yes? 342 00:23:56.880 --> 00:24:02.319 Oh, it's last year. I dug it up, put it in a 343 00:24:02.359 --> 00:24:04.279 trailer on my four wheeler and run it to the other side. It's a 344 00:24:04.319 --> 00:24:08.960 small farm, run it to the other side to a burn pile, and 345 00:24:11.519 --> 00:24:14.039 I figured I would do that, try to get the seeds away, get 346 00:24:14.119 --> 00:24:17.200 rid of it or whatever. Well, this year it come up even worse. 347 00:24:17.279 --> 00:24:19.640 It starts in the same area and now it's spread. But where I 348 00:24:19.799 --> 00:24:23.400 burned it in the back, nothing came up over there, and it doesn't 349 00:24:23.440 --> 00:24:29.079 come up in the yard around the house. So this year I dug it 350 00:24:29.160 --> 00:24:32.839 up with a spade about four or five six inches and just laid it over 351 00:24:32.920 --> 00:24:34.799 on the ground and left it laid there. Is there any I think last 352 00:24:34.880 --> 00:24:37.400 year I might have sprayed some of it with round up. Is there any 353 00:24:37.440 --> 00:24:42.160 other I mean, I know it's evasive, and the neighbors have it on 354 00:24:42.240 --> 00:24:45.480 there. They've got four or five hundred acres next door to us. And 355 00:24:45.559 --> 00:24:48.920 I don't know if it's if the wind is blowing the seeds and it's coming 356 00:24:48.960 --> 00:24:52.359 over there. Probably, but I burned it last year. Now this year 357 00:24:52.400 --> 00:24:56.880 it's worse, and I don't know if carrying it back this is a twenty 358 00:24:56.920 --> 00:25:00.400 one acre place, is carrying it back to the back on a trailer. 359 00:25:00.440 --> 00:25:03.880 If that made it, I don't know. Yeah, I don't know if 360 00:25:03.039 --> 00:25:07.400 well, yeah, there's some other products, the broad leaf weed control products 361 00:25:07.680 --> 00:25:11.559 that can control it. Which probably need to do is go over to Grimes 362 00:25:11.559 --> 00:25:14.960 County Feed. Have you ever been over there in Carlos Oh? Yeah, 363 00:25:15.000 --> 00:25:18.880 yeah, that's where I get fished to stock upon with. Yeah. Isn't 364 00:25:18.920 --> 00:25:22.119 that cool? They do that? I think it's pretty often. But just 365 00:25:22.200 --> 00:25:26.799 go in there and talk to the roys and find out, you know what, 366 00:25:26.799 --> 00:25:29.279 what do you have on hand that will control thistle. They're going to 367 00:25:29.359 --> 00:25:33.400 have some sort of a you know, a two four D type broad leaf 368 00:25:33.480 --> 00:25:36.559 post emergent control. But you want to catch them early. Don't wait until 369 00:25:36.559 --> 00:25:38.839 they got the flower. Is this a thistle that has the white flowers on 370 00:25:38.920 --> 00:25:44.319 top? Yes, and then it turns purple. Okay, yeah, you 371 00:25:44.400 --> 00:25:47.720 have a white ball and then it gets real. Some of them get pretty 372 00:25:47.759 --> 00:25:52.440 tall. Yeah, they do. They do well, you know that's the 373 00:25:52.640 --> 00:25:55.799 probably the best thing. And here's the deal. Once they produce seed, 374 00:25:55.880 --> 00:25:59.279 you're going to have to deal with those seed for a few years. You 375 00:25:59.279 --> 00:26:00.960 know, as the seed comes up, not all come up next year. 376 00:26:02.480 --> 00:26:06.039 But if you get ahead of it. And every time we start to see 377 00:26:06.079 --> 00:26:08.920 those plants, those plants show up real well, even before they get tall, 378 00:26:10.720 --> 00:26:14.599 you can you can spot treat them and never let them produce seed, 379 00:26:14.720 --> 00:26:18.519 and you will catch up on it. But you just can't once they go 380 00:26:18.559 --> 00:26:21.799 to seed. Then you just sentenced yourself to a whole bunch of more thistles 381 00:26:21.839 --> 00:26:25.559 to have to control. But run over to run over to grinds cunty feet 382 00:26:25.759 --> 00:26:29.160 and they can get you set up with something like that, okay, and 383 00:26:29.200 --> 00:26:32.240 then then spray them before it gets the white ball on it or whatever that. 384 00:26:33.000 --> 00:26:37.319 Yeah, at this point with the right ball, with the seed heads 385 00:26:37.319 --> 00:26:41.319 and stuff, just cutting the seed heads off although crazy tedious on twenty something 386 00:26:41.319 --> 00:26:48.000 makers, that would at least prevent it. Once those things get seeds on 387 00:26:48.039 --> 00:26:52.559 them, Trying to spray the plant is not going to be as effective because 388 00:26:52.720 --> 00:26:56.240 number one, the products don't work as well when the when the plants are 389 00:26:56.279 --> 00:27:00.480 we say reproductive, they're bloomin and setting seeds. But also you've already got 390 00:27:00.519 --> 00:27:03.440 the seed and so at this point about all that's in your powers to get 391 00:27:03.519 --> 00:27:07.839 rid of those seeds, and unless you can devise a way to do that. 392 00:27:07.240 --> 00:27:11.799 So the minute I see it coming up. I know what it looks 393 00:27:11.880 --> 00:27:14.799 like when it starts coming up, you know this time the spray it then 394 00:27:14.920 --> 00:27:17.759 right, yeah, just go through you know whatever. I don't know if 395 00:27:17.759 --> 00:27:19.680 you're out there working on a Saturday, whenever you find time to get that 396 00:27:19.799 --> 00:27:23.039 done and go through and just you know, this morning, I'm going to 397 00:27:23.079 --> 00:27:26.519 go through and sprail the thistles. I'll see, don't worry about trying to 398 00:27:26.559 --> 00:27:30.079 get every single one, and then next week go check them out. Some 399 00:27:30.119 --> 00:27:33.920 of those products will work really fast. You'll see the effects pretty quick on 400 00:27:33.960 --> 00:27:37.200 the weed. Okay, yes, yes, sir, Hey, I appreciate 401 00:27:37.240 --> 00:27:40.559 your I appreciate your information. All right, Ronnie, thank you. I 402 00:27:40.599 --> 00:27:42.839 appreciate that. I appreciate that call. For those of you anywhere out there 403 00:27:42.920 --> 00:27:48.640 around Avinesota, Brian College Station, even or out in Carlos and Anderson and 404 00:27:48.680 --> 00:27:52.640 beat Eyes and Shiro all those communities, Grind's County Feed is your hometown feed 405 00:27:52.640 --> 00:27:57.119 store. You know they are. They are just i mean just really close 406 00:27:57.160 --> 00:28:00.599 out there to Carlos and it's easy to get to, easy to find. 407 00:28:00.640 --> 00:28:06.200 They've always got the products on hand. By the way, any of y'all 408 00:28:06.200 --> 00:28:08.079 that got to see the Little Car Show they did. They had yesterday. 409 00:28:08.079 --> 00:28:11.240 They had their old truck, the flatbed truck. I say old, it's 410 00:28:11.519 --> 00:28:15.319 an old truck, but it looks good. They've really really restored it. 411 00:28:15.359 --> 00:28:18.680 Well. Anyway, you're going to find the fertilizers. I talk about it. 412 00:28:18.759 --> 00:28:22.000 Grimes County feed too. It's just a great place to serve, a 413 00:28:22.119 --> 00:28:26.240 very large region up there, a beautiful countryside. I always like to go 414 00:28:26.279 --> 00:28:30.000 out and visit with the Roys. Good folks, very very active in their 415 00:28:30.039 --> 00:28:34.759 community too. If you are doing any kind of transplanting, and I hope 416 00:28:34.759 --> 00:28:38.319 you are, because it's time for that, you want to grab a hold 417 00:28:38.359 --> 00:28:48.200 of some Nelson's Nutristar Genesis transplant mix. Nutristar Genesis is a particularly effective product. 418 00:28:48.279 --> 00:28:52.799 It's a six' one to three natural type of fertilizer. It's got beneficial 419 00:28:52.799 --> 00:28:57.559 bacteria endo and ectomiciza. And you here's what I do with it, and 420 00:28:57.559 --> 00:29:00.640 here's what you should do with it. Is I got this plant. Maybe 421 00:29:00.680 --> 00:29:03.640 I just bought a plant. I'm bringing it home. I'm gonna put it 422 00:29:03.640 --> 00:29:07.319 in a container. Maybe I grew my own ceilings. Maybe I got a 423 00:29:07.400 --> 00:29:10.640 rosebush and I'm put it in the ground. You take the soil that is 424 00:29:10.759 --> 00:29:15.160 going to be around this new plant, and you mix the genesis in that 425 00:29:15.279 --> 00:29:18.920 and plant into it. So if I'm putting in a container, I got 426 00:29:18.960 --> 00:29:22.839 my potting soils for the container, the plant I mixed into that potting soil 427 00:29:22.920 --> 00:29:26.759 nutri Star genesis and then plant in it. I'm telling the results are dramatic. 428 00:29:26.880 --> 00:29:32.960 It really really works. Nutri Star genesis from Nelson's very very effective and 429 00:29:33.039 --> 00:29:37.039 really enhancing the biology of the soil. We're going to take a little break 430 00:29:37.079 --> 00:29:41.039 here. Our phone number is seven one three two one two five eight seven 431 00:29:41.240 --> 00:29:45.920 four. Welcome back to garden Line. Good to have you with us today. 432 00:29:45.400 --> 00:29:49.440 We are looking forward to talking to you and answering your questions on gardening. 433 00:29:49.440 --> 00:29:53.200 How can we help you have a more bountiful garden, a more beautiful 434 00:29:53.279 --> 00:29:59.599 landscape. That is the goal, you know. We get the opportunity to 435 00:29:59.759 --> 00:30:07.440 create eight gardens and greenery horticulture paradise around our house and whatever type we like. 436 00:30:07.640 --> 00:30:11.720 Some people are lawn rangers. They absolutely that is the deal wald of 437 00:30:11.759 --> 00:30:18.200 Walter, beautiful, pristine, that makes them happy. Other people like cottage 438 00:30:18.200 --> 00:30:25.160 gardens. Cottage gardens. I kid people that like cottage gardens sometimes about saying, 439 00:30:25.160 --> 00:30:27.079 you know, that's just a term they define to excuse a mess. 440 00:30:27.640 --> 00:30:33.480 But because the cottage gardens are just kind of growing wild but under some type 441 00:30:33.480 --> 00:30:36.440 of control. You know, you have a little bit of management, but 442 00:30:36.480 --> 00:30:40.079 it just has a wilder look. Hey at your yard. Have fun. 443 00:30:40.359 --> 00:30:42.279 It's seeing you in the hoa. I guess, do what you want to 444 00:30:42.319 --> 00:30:45.920 do. Some people are into vegetables. I mean they just want walda basically 445 00:30:45.960 --> 00:30:51.240 a farm out there in the back because they love to grow and eat healthy 446 00:30:51.359 --> 00:30:53.960 things. And so most people are kind of a mix of all of that. 447 00:30:55.000 --> 00:30:56.839 Would do what you want to do. But here's the deal. Have 448 00:30:56.960 --> 00:31:00.640 fun doing it. Absolutely, have fun. Don't worry about the rules. 449 00:31:00.759 --> 00:31:04.519 Yes, there are certain rules that you need to follow if you want success, 450 00:31:06.079 --> 00:31:11.200 but don't worry about getting it just right. Nature is a unique thing 451 00:31:11.400 --> 00:31:15.359 in that you never know from one year to the next is going to be 452 00:31:15.400 --> 00:31:21.440 hotter, colder, rainier, drier. We did that. It just changes 453 00:31:21.519 --> 00:31:25.759 the vicissitudes of nature. If you will, are always out there throwing us 454 00:31:25.799 --> 00:31:29.039 a curve. But we're having fun and you're not going to fail at gardening. 455 00:31:29.079 --> 00:31:33.079 You can only give up. Don't give up. I mean really all 456 00:31:33.200 --> 00:31:40.119 the time. Every year I have things that I learn because nature threw me 457 00:31:40.160 --> 00:31:42.519 a curve that I hadn't dealt with before, a plant hadn't grown before. 458 00:31:42.880 --> 00:31:47.519 That's okay, have fun doing it. I like to say that our gardens 459 00:31:47.519 --> 00:31:49.440 and landscapes are like etches. Sketches. Some of you are old enough to 460 00:31:49.440 --> 00:31:53.200 remember those. But you t had two knobs, where one knob you drew 461 00:31:53.279 --> 00:31:59.319 left and right, and the other knob you drew up and down, And 462 00:31:59.359 --> 00:32:02.599 so trying to draw a circle with an edge of sketch, it's impossible, 463 00:32:02.880 --> 00:32:07.440 and inevitably you'd think you were going one way, and your brain misfired and 464 00:32:07.440 --> 00:32:09.839 you went the other, and now you got a mess. What do you 465 00:32:09.880 --> 00:32:13.640 do? You turn the edge of sketch upside down, You shake it, 466 00:32:13.839 --> 00:32:16.480 and you get to start all over again. In gardening, that's called a 467 00:32:16.599 --> 00:32:22.279 rototiller. That's called a spading fork. It is okay to redo things, 468 00:32:22.359 --> 00:32:29.039 it's okay to change things. No landscape is permanent. No landscape really is 469 00:32:29.079 --> 00:32:30.640 permanent. We think, okay, I got this beautiful landscape, and that's 470 00:32:30.640 --> 00:32:34.119 how it's always going to be. No, those shrubs are going to get 471 00:32:34.160 --> 00:32:37.599 too large in time, A lot of them will. Or that tree that 472 00:32:37.759 --> 00:32:40.000 was just a broomstick when you planted it out there in the in the yard. 473 00:32:40.440 --> 00:32:45.440 Now is some giant spreading thing covering the whole landscape. And now we're 474 00:32:45.440 --> 00:32:49.400 switching over to shade loving plants beneath it. Do you see what I'm saying? 475 00:32:49.720 --> 00:32:54.519 Landscapes evolve and so we're forever changing things and it's okay. It's okay 476 00:32:54.559 --> 00:32:59.000 to do that. This this is it's like your house. Do you ever 477 00:32:59.079 --> 00:33:02.880 change Maybe it's time to paint. Let's change the color, or let's go 478 00:33:02.960 --> 00:33:07.880 from carpet to hardwood floor or some vinyl floor, whatever, or vice versa. 479 00:33:08.440 --> 00:33:12.279 You can change things, and that's how it is in the landscape. 480 00:33:12.319 --> 00:33:16.079 That's what makes it fun. So don't worry about failing. You don't fail. 481 00:33:16.160 --> 00:33:19.680 You just give up. If you plant something and it doesn't grow, 482 00:33:20.079 --> 00:33:23.279 that's okay. There's a famous horticulturist I want to I can't remember if it's 483 00:33:23.960 --> 00:33:28.960 J. C. Ralston who said this, but probably somebody like him. 484 00:33:29.279 --> 00:33:31.880 He said, to be a great horticulturist, you got to kill a lot 485 00:33:31.880 --> 00:33:37.720 of plants. That is true. If you saw all the plants over the 486 00:33:37.799 --> 00:33:40.839 years that I have not been successful with, you quit listening to garden line 487 00:33:40.880 --> 00:33:46.160 and go find something else. No, seriously, really it's okay. Give 488 00:33:46.200 --> 00:33:51.640 it a try, try something new. Have fun. That's the bottom line. 489 00:33:51.720 --> 00:33:54.440 Have fun. Find the kind of gardening that makes you happy and go 490 00:33:54.559 --> 00:34:00.440 for it. Do that, but I always suggest you try some the new. 491 00:34:00.839 --> 00:34:02.880 Have you ever grown a vine on a trellis? Have you ever had 492 00:34:02.920 --> 00:34:07.559 an arbor over your patio? Why not try one of those? Those are 493 00:34:07.640 --> 00:34:12.320 kind of cool, that's really nice. There's roses that are wonderful for every 494 00:34:12.400 --> 00:34:15.719 kind of years, little dwarf types of roses, shrub types of roses, 495 00:34:15.760 --> 00:34:20.440 cut flower types of roses, the vining, climber types of roses. Have 496 00:34:20.719 --> 00:34:25.360 fun. That is the most important thing, because gardening is fun as long 497 00:34:25.400 --> 00:34:29.679 as you don't worry about getting everything right. If somebody tells you you got 498 00:34:29.679 --> 00:34:31.360 to use the color wheel and pick colors that are on this side, that 499 00:34:31.400 --> 00:34:36.039 and the other, tertiary, all that kind of stuff, just tell them 500 00:34:36.039 --> 00:34:39.960 to go do something else and leave you alone that If you don't do that, 501 00:34:39.960 --> 00:34:44.920 that's fine and idiot. Yes, aesthetically it's pleasing. Plant the flowers 502 00:34:44.920 --> 00:34:49.079 you like. Have fun. And one place you can go and get things 503 00:34:49.159 --> 00:34:52.199 like the flowers and whatnot is Jeges Hiding Gardens. He's got a bunch of 504 00:34:52.320 --> 00:34:55.480 roses in stock. Jorge is down in Alvin, Texas, Alvin, Texas, 505 00:34:55.559 --> 00:35:00.519 so it's just head down to Alvin. Jorges Hidden Gardens is going to 506 00:35:00.599 --> 00:35:05.440 be a great place to get citrusy. They've got setsuma oranges, They've got 507 00:35:05.480 --> 00:35:08.639 limes, they've got mired lemons if you like fruit. They've also got blueberries 508 00:35:08.679 --> 00:35:14.199 and thornless blackberries and real cool thornless blackberries down there. Jorhe also has that 509 00:35:14.480 --> 00:35:19.000 three sixty tree stabilizer in stock down there, as well as some really cool 510 00:35:19.000 --> 00:35:22.079 fertilizer products. It's just a good place to go. And you know, 511 00:35:22.320 --> 00:35:25.480 just just check them out. See what you think. I think you're going 512 00:35:25.559 --> 00:35:29.519 to enjoy it. Every time I go down, every time I talk to 513 00:35:29.599 --> 00:35:32.480 them or see why, kind of follow them on social media too. I 514 00:35:32.559 --> 00:35:36.440 just see the things that they're up to. It's like they just keep growing 515 00:35:36.519 --> 00:35:40.519 and getting better and better. Yesterday, being out at M and D Ace 516 00:35:40.599 --> 00:35:45.559 Hardware, I did kind of wander through the store. I always like to 517 00:35:45.599 --> 00:35:49.519 do that and all these Ace hardware because you know, each one is independently 518 00:35:49.559 --> 00:35:52.239 owned, so the each is going to be a little bit different. There's 519 00:35:52.280 --> 00:35:57.360 certainly standards that all aces are going to have. For example, all aces 520 00:35:57.360 --> 00:36:00.679 are going to be the place for un name it. If you want fertilizer. 521 00:36:00.800 --> 00:36:05.000 ACE is a place. Do you need pest control? Weed control? 522 00:36:05.159 --> 00:36:07.960 Ace is the place do you need tools for your garden? Ace is the 523 00:36:08.000 --> 00:36:12.800 place and everything else. I was looking at some of the patio enhancements, 524 00:36:12.840 --> 00:36:15.280 like those strings of lights that you put out to create that ambiance out on 525 00:36:15.320 --> 00:36:19.599 the back patio for the evenings, you know, in summer evenings, for 526 00:36:19.719 --> 00:36:22.599 the safe time to go outside because the sun's not blazing down. ACE is 527 00:36:22.639 --> 00:36:28.320 a place fire ant control. They've got great selection of fire ant baits and 528 00:36:28.440 --> 00:36:34.079 individual mountain treatments at ACE. They have mosquito control products at ACE. And 529 00:36:34.119 --> 00:36:37.159 we are in fire ant and mosquito season, so you do need to make 530 00:36:37.199 --> 00:36:42.360 sure that you're stocked up and ready to go. By the way, always 531 00:36:42.400 --> 00:36:47.639 start with a fire ant bait. That's first, and that suppresses our flat 532 00:36:47.760 --> 00:36:52.920 kills. Most of the ants in your yard baits are used at super low 533 00:36:52.000 --> 00:36:59.679 rates, so you're not just dumping tons of chemical on the yard. One 534 00:37:00.199 --> 00:37:04.199 of something like amro can cover an acre, and think about that an acre. 535 00:37:04.320 --> 00:37:07.079 You got a grain granule here or granule there. You don't dump baits 536 00:37:07.079 --> 00:37:12.360 on a mound, You just lightly scatter them. They work very very slowly 537 00:37:12.400 --> 00:37:15.079 because if the first ant that picked it up died, if they were that 538 00:37:15.199 --> 00:37:20.280 toxic, well they would never make it to the mound. So they do 539 00:37:20.480 --> 00:37:23.840 carry them to the mound where it affects a queen and all the rest of 540 00:37:23.880 --> 00:37:28.599 the mound, and so baits work really well. And this the most environmentally 541 00:37:28.639 --> 00:37:32.119 sound way I know to manage fireance is through primarily the use of bait and 542 00:37:32.119 --> 00:37:36.400 then the mound treatments. If you miss a few, and you always miss 543 00:37:36.440 --> 00:37:38.719 a few, there's always some fire ants coming in and whatnot. Like that. 544 00:37:39.800 --> 00:37:44.880 I just want to remind you again that if you're dealing with the warm 545 00:37:44.920 --> 00:37:50.800 seasoned weeds which are coming up in our lawns, barricade can be used to 546 00:37:50.920 --> 00:37:54.320 move into the soil and form a barricade to stop grass and broad leaf weeds 547 00:37:54.360 --> 00:38:00.760 from getting established. But it's very important on using any that you do it 548 00:38:00.880 --> 00:38:05.599 right. So how would that apply to barricade. That means follow the label. 549 00:38:06.079 --> 00:38:09.320 The amount you use on the label is the amount that works. You 550 00:38:09.320 --> 00:38:13.599 know, don't use enough it doesn't work. Use too much of any product 551 00:38:14.000 --> 00:38:16.519 and you can have secondary negative effects and you don't want to do that. 552 00:38:16.639 --> 00:38:21.280 Follow the label so it works right. Secondly, it's got to be watered 553 00:38:21.280 --> 00:38:23.800 in u for well. First, it's got to be. Secondly, it's 554 00:38:23.840 --> 00:38:30.960 got to be spread evenly. You know, the control by barricade is going 555 00:38:30.960 --> 00:38:34.960 to be dependent on you putting a good even coverage out there because if you 556 00:38:35.320 --> 00:38:37.719 miss spots, well, weeds are going to come up there. That's not 557 00:38:37.840 --> 00:38:42.760 barricade's fault, that's yours. So even coverage and then watered in with about 558 00:38:42.760 --> 00:38:45.960 a half inch of water. It moves it into the surface where it ties 559 00:38:45.079 --> 00:38:49.840 up. It's designed to not just wash through the soil, but to tie 560 00:38:49.920 --> 00:38:52.599 up in the surface. That's where the weed seeds are germinating, and that 561 00:38:52.800 --> 00:38:58.800 then prevents them. And it's going to give you easily sixty days ninety days 562 00:38:58.880 --> 00:39:04.639 of protection I would I would say for sure sixty of protection against those weeds 563 00:39:04.679 --> 00:39:07.360 coming up. So later in the summer, if you look at my schedule, 564 00:39:07.400 --> 00:39:09.760 we've got a second application that can come on later in the summer. 565 00:39:10.119 --> 00:39:14.440 Just because every product does break down. Microbes get a hold of them and 566 00:39:14.480 --> 00:39:19.199 they start taking them apart. But barricade works very effectively. Being a night 567 00:39:19.280 --> 00:39:22.440 Frost product, it's going to be widely available. So where do you get 568 00:39:22.480 --> 00:39:25.599 barricade. Well, A task Asida Ace has Barricade Lake hardware in Clute on 569 00:39:25.679 --> 00:39:31.719 Dixie Drive. They've got Barricade Jibs hardware up in Montgomery on Liberty Liberty FM 570 00:39:31.800 --> 00:39:36.880 fourteen ninety seven, they've got barricade as well, makes it easy easy to 571 00:39:36.920 --> 00:39:43.320 find it. Oh my, well, I am gonna. I wanted to 572 00:39:43.400 --> 00:39:47.239 remind you that next Saturday, I'm going to be an Enchanted Forest. Enchanted 573 00:39:47.280 --> 00:39:51.559 Forest out in Richmond, Texas. Now, if you've never been to Enchanted 574 00:39:51.599 --> 00:39:54.360 Forest, you got to go. They have, first of all, all 575 00:39:54.440 --> 00:39:58.559 the Easter decors forty percent off, So if you're looking to pick up some 576 00:39:58.719 --> 00:40:01.199 a really good deal on that, you need to check out there. Also, 577 00:40:01.199 --> 00:40:04.599 while you're out there, you need to check out their books for gardeners. 578 00:40:04.599 --> 00:40:07.480 They have book books, pet lovers, and the gift shop is just 579 00:40:07.679 --> 00:40:12.039 I always enjoy going in to visit it. I'm always amused at the amount 580 00:40:12.039 --> 00:40:16.320 of pollinator and butterfly plants that they had Last year. They had caterpillars on 581 00:40:16.360 --> 00:40:20.559 some of the larval food source plants and you could get the plant. They'd 582 00:40:20.559 --> 00:40:23.559 give you a caterpillar to take home, so you could like import the butterflies 583 00:40:23.599 --> 00:40:29.039 into your yard. That's intended forest. Hey. They are on FM twenty 584 00:40:29.039 --> 00:40:34.559 seven fifty nine, twenty seven to fifty nine just outside Richmond Rosenberg. But 585 00:40:34.679 --> 00:40:38.320 come see me next Saturday. I'll be there from eleven thirty to one thirty, 586 00:40:38.440 --> 00:40:45.320 eleven thirty to one thirty at Enchanted Forest Nursery. When we're out there, 587 00:40:45.400 --> 00:40:47.159 you can bring me pictures. You can bring samples in a little ziplock 588 00:40:47.239 --> 00:40:52.360 bag if you want. Leave room in your car. When you get there, 589 00:40:52.400 --> 00:40:54.559 you're going to see what I'm talking about when I say they have a 590 00:40:54.559 --> 00:40:58.840 little of everything and it's fun. It is the kind of place you just 591 00:40:58.880 --> 00:41:00.599 want to wander and hang out. Well, come hang out with me next 592 00:41:00.599 --> 00:41:07.840 Saturday, eleven thirty to one thirty Enchanted Forest down in Richmond Rosenberger. Look 593 00:41:07.880 --> 00:41:09.480 forward to seeing you. I always love to get out and do these appearances, 594 00:41:09.800 --> 00:41:14.039 get to meet some of the gardeners that listen to Garden Line. We're 595 00:41:14.039 --> 00:41:16.199 going to take a break. Here's the number seven one three two one two 596 00:41:16.719 --> 00:41:20.480 k t R H give josh a callum and get on the board. We 597 00:41:20.559 --> 00:41:23.320 can talk to you when we come back. Kat r H Garden Line does 598 00:41:23.320 --> 00:41:29.679 not necessarily endorse any of the products or services advertised on this program. Welcome 599 00:41:29.840 --> 00:41:40.920 to kat r H Garden Line with Skip Rictor. It's the crazy Trim. 600 00:41:40.960 --> 00:42:01.440 Just watch him as God. So many Spazya say, welcome back to the 601 00:42:01.480 --> 00:42:05.880 Garden Line. Good to have you. We're starting to get a little glow 602 00:42:05.920 --> 00:42:09.159 in the sky on this What's gonna be a nice Sunday. I love you. 603 00:42:09.239 --> 00:42:13.639 Know, some people worry about the weather all the time. I always 604 00:42:13.679 --> 00:42:16.480 are gonna rain, it's gonna be hot. I understand that. I understand 605 00:42:16.519 --> 00:42:20.800 that, but I tell you it don't matter what the weather. There's something 606 00:42:20.840 --> 00:42:24.079 you can do gardening. You can get outside, you can do work outside. 607 00:42:24.159 --> 00:42:29.239 You can go into the garage and start seeds. I'm while back. 608 00:42:29.320 --> 00:42:32.239 I built a seed starting stand out of wood. That's something you do with 609 00:42:32.320 --> 00:42:37.440 it's raining or freezing outside. You can just go in and create something like 610 00:42:37.559 --> 00:42:42.840 that. If you are looking forward to having a beautiful color patio, well 611 00:42:42.880 --> 00:42:45.400 how about potting up some plants. I mean, you can do containers in 612 00:42:45.519 --> 00:42:50.320 a garage even if it is raining outside and get them ready to go. 613 00:42:50.440 --> 00:42:53.039 Once you get them built, just take a dolly and wheel them out there 614 00:42:53.159 --> 00:42:57.199 and driveway or whatever. Let them get a little bit of rain, and 615 00:42:57.280 --> 00:42:59.480 then move them to where they go. By the way. For those of 616 00:42:59.559 --> 00:43:04.639 you who are not familiar with this, when you have big containers, which 617 00:43:04.679 --> 00:43:07.199 you should have here in the southeast Texas area because it's so hot, we 618 00:43:07.280 --> 00:43:10.960 need lots of soil for our plants, and containers, not tiny containers. 619 00:43:12.039 --> 00:43:14.880 Bump them up a size. When you have a container like that, you 620 00:43:14.960 --> 00:43:17.639 can't pick it up, at least not without putting your chiropractors kids through college. 621 00:43:19.039 --> 00:43:21.719 So what do you do. You get your little dolly, You slip 622 00:43:21.800 --> 00:43:24.480 the lip underneath the side of the container, and then you take a strap 623 00:43:24.719 --> 00:43:29.320 and from one side of the dolly you strap that thing right up tight against 624 00:43:29.320 --> 00:43:32.000 the dolly, and with your foot against the base and one hand, you 625 00:43:32.079 --> 00:43:37.599 can move a very heavy container to a new location and it doesn't require all 626 00:43:37.679 --> 00:43:40.760 the stooping and bending and lifting and anything like that. So containers are a 627 00:43:42.239 --> 00:43:46.239 very versatile way to garden. Makes it really easy. And what I'm talking 628 00:43:46.239 --> 00:43:50.960 about containers, if you haven't been to moss and Nursery in a while. 629 00:43:51.000 --> 00:43:54.840 You need to go out there. It is amazing the stock that they have. 630 00:43:55.760 --> 00:44:00.079 It just every time I go to Moss, I'm just stunned. I 631 00:44:00.119 --> 00:44:05.360 mean that lately some of the roses they've gotten in is just gorgeous roses I've 632 00:44:05.400 --> 00:44:09.760 never seen before. It's just like wow, that is amazing. Colorful hanging 633 00:44:09.840 --> 00:44:14.920 baskets, do you know, like new guinea impatiens we talk about regular impatients, 634 00:44:15.519 --> 00:44:20.519 New guinea impatients or more vibrant. In my opinion, they're more beautiful, 635 00:44:21.320 --> 00:44:23.800 and they have them been hanging baskets. They're at Moss so it's a 636 00:44:23.880 --> 00:44:30.679 shade loving plant. So a hanging basket typically is gonna hang by something that's 637 00:44:30.760 --> 00:44:34.000 creating shade, whether it's a porch or whether it's a limb on a tree 638 00:44:34.159 --> 00:44:37.920 or whatever. Try those out. Check them out, check out their house 639 00:44:37.000 --> 00:44:42.360 plant house. It is excellent. One of my favorite bright shade plants is 640 00:44:42.400 --> 00:44:46.360 Persian shield and they have a good stock of those as well at Moss Nursery. 641 00:44:46.519 --> 00:44:51.000 They've got the combo pots, they've got azaleas, all kinds of shrubs, 642 00:44:51.039 --> 00:44:54.320 really trees if you want that summer. What are the two plants probably 643 00:44:54.400 --> 00:44:59.280 the scream summer, the loudest here, hibiscuits and Boogainville. Yep, they've 644 00:44:59.320 --> 00:45:01.239 got both of those. You can get them, native plants, plants for 645 00:45:01.360 --> 00:45:07.440 butterflies. Listen, this is eight acres of a destination nursery. It's not 646 00:45:07.719 --> 00:45:10.039 just your average garden center. You need to go check out Moss Nursery. 647 00:45:10.519 --> 00:45:15.679 They are easy to find. I mean they're out there in Seabrook, Texas, 648 00:45:15.119 --> 00:45:20.159 and it just just set it on your map and go check them out. 649 00:45:20.400 --> 00:45:23.679 Moss Nursery is really really worth a wander, allow yourself some time, 650 00:45:23.719 --> 00:45:27.920 though it takes a while to wander through and see everything that they have there. 651 00:45:30.440 --> 00:45:35.360 I was doing my landscape renovent. I'm doing a landscape renovation. I 652 00:45:35.480 --> 00:45:37.960 just finished the lawn. I'm about to do some hardscape work. I've got 653 00:45:38.000 --> 00:45:42.079 little patio over putting in on, trying to do some things like that, 654 00:45:42.719 --> 00:45:45.800 and I just have some plants that I want to move. Somebody planted one 655 00:45:45.920 --> 00:45:51.239 that wants to be about eight feet wide in a spot that's about three feet 656 00:45:51.280 --> 00:45:57.280 wide before we bought our house a couple of years ago, and that plant 657 00:45:57.360 --> 00:46:00.519 has to go. I need to renovate it. Maybe you've got plants that 658 00:46:00.760 --> 00:46:05.039 struggles with last summer's brutal heat or maybe the cold, the cold snaps you've 659 00:46:05.079 --> 00:46:09.480 had over the last few years that have just been excessive. Why not call 660 00:46:09.800 --> 00:46:15.360 Jason at Pierscapes or to the team anybody on the team there. Jason and 661 00:46:15.480 --> 00:46:21.559 his team, they're professional designers. They know how to create a beautiful homescape 662 00:46:21.639 --> 00:46:24.360 for you. Whether it's a patio. Maybe you've got an area that's too 663 00:46:24.480 --> 00:46:28.960 low and soggy. They can put drainage in it to get that out of 664 00:46:29.000 --> 00:46:31.599 there and make it where you can grow more different kinds of plants. Maybe 665 00:46:31.599 --> 00:46:36.280 you have an area where you need to move water from one area to another 666 00:46:36.519 --> 00:46:38.639 on the surface. How about a dry creek bed. You should see some 667 00:46:38.760 --> 00:46:43.760 of the ones that they designed with rock and stone. It just the way 668 00:46:43.840 --> 00:46:49.760 that when they get through it is like wow, it is amazing. While 669 00:46:49.760 --> 00:46:53.559 you're talking to Pierscapes, ask them about their quarterly maintenance for your beds, 670 00:46:53.679 --> 00:46:59.119 your landscape beds. Landscape beds require maintenance and Pierscapes will come in. You 671 00:46:59.159 --> 00:47:01.239 can sign up for them, come trim, have them do weeding, have 672 00:47:01.400 --> 00:47:07.239 them fertilize, make sure that they are changing out seasonal color according to the 673 00:47:07.360 --> 00:47:10.199 number of times you would like to have it done, so there's always something 674 00:47:10.239 --> 00:47:13.880 beautiful going on in I bet, and of course molts of the beds. 675 00:47:14.360 --> 00:47:16.519 They'll even check the irrigation, make sure it's working right now. If it 676 00:47:16.679 --> 00:47:21.800 requires repairs, that's a different thing. They can do that too. And 677 00:47:21.920 --> 00:47:24.519 by the way, I would suggest you have them right now check the irrigation 678 00:47:24.679 --> 00:47:28.599 as soon as you can get them out there, and they do stay busy. 679 00:47:28.679 --> 00:47:31.239 That's what happens when you're a good landscaper, You stay busy. Have 680 00:47:31.360 --> 00:47:36.239 them come out and check your irrigation efficiency because we're going to start running that 681 00:47:36.360 --> 00:47:39.320 water a lot as it heats up in the next few months, and our 682 00:47:39.599 --> 00:47:45.440 systems are typically very inefficient. They need head realignment, they may need heads 683 00:47:45.480 --> 00:47:51.920 replaced because the coverage is inadequate. Talk to Peerscapes. They're professionals, they 684 00:47:52.159 --> 00:47:54.239 know how to do it, and they do a very good job of what 685 00:47:54.400 --> 00:47:59.639 they do. I would suggest, just as a start, go to the 686 00:47:59.679 --> 00:48:05.039 websit site piercescapes dot com. Check out the kind of work they do. 687 00:48:05.159 --> 00:48:07.920 You can give them a call two eight one three seven oh fifty sixty, 688 00:48:08.000 --> 00:48:14.719 but listen please listen to me right now. You got a call now because 689 00:48:15.159 --> 00:48:19.239 it they they are booking out weeks or months I had depending on the size 690 00:48:19.280 --> 00:48:22.679 of the job. That's what happens when you're a good landscaper. So don't 691 00:48:22.719 --> 00:48:24.559 wait like, oh, next week can you come do No, they can't. 692 00:48:25.519 --> 00:48:29.719 They can't. But they're the ones you want to hire, So go 693 00:48:29.719 --> 00:48:31.400 ahead and call them now. Even if you're going to hire the work done 694 00:48:31.519 --> 00:48:36.239 out into the summer, just go ahead and get on the line, get 695 00:48:36.320 --> 00:48:39.239 on their schedule, because they do the work that you want to have done. 696 00:48:40.719 --> 00:48:45.920 Our phone number is seven to one three two one two fifty eight seventy 697 00:48:45.960 --> 00:48:52.239 four seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four. They if you 698 00:48:52.320 --> 00:48:54.480 give us a call here on guard and I we can answer the questions that 699 00:48:54.599 --> 00:48:59.800 you have. I was looking at some of the pictures that they had on 700 00:49:00.159 --> 00:49:04.800 line and some of the jobs. It's just like, man, I gotta 701 00:49:04.880 --> 00:49:07.280 do that in my yard. We're going to take a little break here. 702 00:49:07.039 --> 00:49:10.400 Our phone number seven one three two one two KTRH. Give us a call 703 00:49:10.480 --> 00:49:14.880 and we'll talk to you when we come back. Welcome back to Garden Line. 704 00:49:15.519 --> 00:49:17.880 Good to have you back with us. Today our phone number seven one 705 00:49:17.960 --> 00:49:22.920 three two one two fifty eight seventy four. If you live down south of 706 00:49:22.159 --> 00:49:27.920 Houston, you're fortunate when it comes to the brown stuff, the malt the 707 00:49:28.039 --> 00:49:32.880 foundation, the soils, the fertilizers that create that foundation for success because you 708 00:49:32.920 --> 00:49:37.320 have Ciena Multch right there in your backyard. Ciena Maltch is done in the 709 00:49:37.440 --> 00:49:40.280 Ciena area. I mean, so anybody who lives down you know, Bras's 710 00:49:40.320 --> 00:49:45.119 Ben State Park out there in Siena, Arcola, Sandy Point, Pomona, 711 00:49:45.239 --> 00:49:50.360 First Colony, on and on and on even Pearland. Uh. They deliver 712 00:49:50.480 --> 00:49:53.960 by the way within twenty miles of their location. Their location is FM five 713 00:49:54.119 --> 00:49:58.239 twenty one, kind of close to where Highway six and two eighty eight are 714 00:49:58.800 --> 00:50:02.679 just north of ro Sharon. There's the website Sienna mulch dot com. They're 715 00:50:02.719 --> 00:50:07.079 open Monday through Friday from seven thirty to five and on Saturday from seven thirty 716 00:50:07.159 --> 00:50:10.880 to two pm. Closed on Sunday. But there you're going to find every 717 00:50:12.000 --> 00:50:16.119 kind of soil amendment that you might need to have success, including things like 718 00:50:16.280 --> 00:50:20.719 mulches to go on top of the soil. The fertilizers that I talk about 719 00:50:20.760 --> 00:50:23.280 every single fertilizer you hear me talk about on guardenline is that's Ciena Maltch. 720 00:50:23.400 --> 00:50:29.000 They stalk at all. They also have a wonderful selection of gravel and sand 721 00:50:29.079 --> 00:50:36.239 and pebbles and riverstone and flat you know, the patio type rock, flagstone. 722 00:50:36.280 --> 00:50:38.880 That's the word I couldn't think of. Cienamultch. It's the place for 723 00:50:38.960 --> 00:50:43.079 all of it. And you really need to check them out. Last time 724 00:50:43.119 --> 00:50:46.159 I was there, I'm just I'm always surprised at the quality and the amount 725 00:50:46.239 --> 00:50:51.920 of products that they stock. I'm going I head now to Pearland and we're 726 00:50:51.920 --> 00:50:55.119 going to talk to Greg. Hello. Greg, Hey, Skip, I 727 00:50:55.280 --> 00:51:01.199 heard your commercial for Moss Nursery and they are excellent. Jim Boss is a 728 00:51:01.239 --> 00:51:08.159 great guy. Yes, and I bought and in fact I bought a Yucca 729 00:51:08.920 --> 00:51:16.719 Tompsoniana from them, and it's similar to a Yuka rostrata blue blue beet yuka 730 00:51:17.480 --> 00:51:22.480 and it's I need to get it in the ground, but it's about four 731 00:51:22.519 --> 00:51:27.320 and a half feet tall. The trunk is with about a three foot plume 732 00:51:28.199 --> 00:51:34.119 and it came in a wooden container about a two foot cube. And one 733 00:51:34.199 --> 00:51:37.519 thing I need to know is how big do I need to dig that hole. 734 00:51:38.159 --> 00:51:42.760 I was planning on maybe thirty six inches by thirty six inches. But 735 00:51:43.639 --> 00:51:47.119 yeah, I'm worried about rot because I know those roots can't you know, 736 00:51:47.320 --> 00:51:51.679 handle water for a long time. And I just kind of wanted to see 737 00:51:51.719 --> 00:51:53.800 what you thought. Yeah, So just a hole a little bit bigger than 738 00:51:53.840 --> 00:51:59.519 the root ball on that particular plant, and it'll be fine. The thing 739 00:51:59.559 --> 00:52:04.840 about the rot is making sure the water drains away from the plant. So 740 00:52:06.760 --> 00:52:12.760 or is your soil of clay soil? It is. It is sandy, 741 00:52:13.079 --> 00:52:15.199 it's sandier than I thought it would be. One of dug holes for some 742 00:52:15.360 --> 00:52:19.760 barrel cactus and stuff, so it's not as bad as I thought it would 743 00:52:19.760 --> 00:52:22.599 be. Yeah, Well, if you, if you ever have any doubt, 744 00:52:23.159 --> 00:52:28.079 went in doubt, build up a raised bed and get you a good 745 00:52:28.440 --> 00:52:30.519 you know, a good quality mix, a top sail type mix to bring 746 00:52:30.639 --> 00:52:36.559 in and do a raised bed. Normally we're putting all kinds of fancy composts 747 00:52:36.599 --> 00:52:39.599 and things like that in. But this is a plant that is native basically 748 00:52:39.760 --> 00:52:46.400 to the western wing of Texas. You know that whole section from Odessa out 749 00:52:46.480 --> 00:52:51.079 Del Paso and down to Big Ben Park and so on. So there's not 750 00:52:51.119 --> 00:52:54.039 a lot of composts in the soil out there, so they don't have to 751 00:52:54.159 --> 00:52:59.519 have all that fancy soil to do well. Yeah, and that's the other 752 00:52:59.679 --> 00:53:06.280 thing. I bought airloom, cactus and succulent soil and the first ingredient. 753 00:53:06.679 --> 00:53:09.679 And I'm sure it's great. All their products I think are, but the 754 00:53:10.039 --> 00:53:17.519 first ingredient was aged leaf mold compost. Yeah. Yeah, And I didn't 755 00:53:17.519 --> 00:53:21.760 know if that would be of course it's got perlite and all sorts of other 756 00:53:21.960 --> 00:53:23.880 well draining things in it, yes, And I didn't know if that would 757 00:53:23.880 --> 00:53:28.079 be okay or if I needed to mix in gravels. Well, you don't 758 00:53:28.119 --> 00:53:30.800 need to mix in gravel. It's a good soil. And if you're growing, 759 00:53:30.920 --> 00:53:35.480 like in containers cactus and succulents or even little beds, that's fine. 760 00:53:35.559 --> 00:53:38.559 This is a big plant and you know it's going to get what six twelve 761 00:53:38.559 --> 00:53:45.079 feet high somewhere in there. Yeah, So I would create a little bit 762 00:53:45.239 --> 00:53:49.519 larger bed and probably use you know, just a quality If you can find 763 00:53:49.559 --> 00:53:52.239 a sandy loam type top soil, use that and mix it in with the 764 00:53:52.440 --> 00:53:58.480 cactus and succulent. And here's the thing with the organic materials, they're good, 765 00:53:58.800 --> 00:54:02.199 they work well. All organic matter decomposes away. It's just what it 766 00:54:02.320 --> 00:54:06.360 does. That's why. Yeah, that's why I pot on your patio. 767 00:54:06.519 --> 00:54:09.800 Three years later the soils like half full instead of full. Where did it 768 00:54:09.880 --> 00:54:15.440 go? That's what happens. So I'm concerned about drainage and keeping that plant 769 00:54:15.639 --> 00:54:17.880 up. So if you make a bed and then the bed sinks down, 770 00:54:19.400 --> 00:54:22.000 you haven't gained a lot a few years down the line. So yes, 771 00:54:22.320 --> 00:54:27.840 is that's that blend. But make sure and have something that is just basically 772 00:54:27.960 --> 00:54:31.119 sandy loam is a base for it. And now sandy loam, if I 773 00:54:31.239 --> 00:54:37.280 if I bought something from landscaper's pride or or heirloom, what what would what? 774 00:54:37.559 --> 00:54:40.639 What would I be looking for in a bag to do? You know? 775 00:54:42.559 --> 00:54:47.199 Uh, I you may need to have a bulk rather than bags. 776 00:54:47.679 --> 00:54:52.559 But call you know what, let me give you Let me give you another 777 00:54:53.039 --> 00:54:59.400 another number here just one second. There's a place out there. It's connected 778 00:54:59.599 --> 00:55:04.159 with airlom sooids. It's called Warrens Rock and Molt. It's out in Porter, 779 00:55:04.320 --> 00:55:07.599 Texas. And if you if you call Warrens, I'm gonna give you 780 00:55:07.599 --> 00:55:10.199 the number here in just a second. I don't have it off the top 781 00:55:10.239 --> 00:55:14.079 of my head. If you call Warrens and say, here's what I'm wanting 782 00:55:14.119 --> 00:55:15.920 to do. I'm want a part of yuca. I need a quality sandy 783 00:55:16.000 --> 00:55:21.440 loam. You can also use expanded hiale in the mix. But the number 784 00:55:21.559 --> 00:55:28.840 out there and porter is two eight one three five four nineteen fifty two eight 785 00:55:28.880 --> 00:55:32.480 one three five four nineteen fifty. They also have a location in Humble, 786 00:55:32.559 --> 00:55:37.159 which is a little closer to you. But either way, just give them 787 00:55:37.199 --> 00:55:40.039 a call and tell them what you're looking for. They do have what they 788 00:55:40.119 --> 00:55:45.400 call top soil, and so you might want to kind of start with that, 789 00:55:45.679 --> 00:55:50.480 but also include that that cactus material in it. That's good, you 790 00:55:50.519 --> 00:55:52.119 know, put some bags of that out there and include that in it as 791 00:55:52.159 --> 00:55:58.960 well. Okay, I thought I would try to have it for the I 792 00:55:59.000 --> 00:56:01.760 would kind of mound maybe six or eight inches to get it a little bit 793 00:56:01.840 --> 00:56:07.199 higher. Does that sound right? Yeah? I would actually probably say, 794 00:56:07.440 --> 00:56:12.800 you know, mounted ten or twelve inches, because it's going to settle. 795 00:56:12.920 --> 00:56:15.800 You know, if you've ever if you've ever dug a trench and filled it 796 00:56:15.920 --> 00:56:19.360 in and then you come back later and it's sunken down below the level you 797 00:56:19.480 --> 00:56:25.039 had soil salt, even just regular soil dirt settles, and so you want 798 00:56:25.079 --> 00:56:28.800 to make sure when you're done, it's going to be six or eight inches 799 00:56:28.920 --> 00:56:31.679 high at least. So, yeah, what it came in in the pot, 800 00:56:31.920 --> 00:56:37.599 it looks like crushed concrete and sand primarily, Okay, And I guess 801 00:56:37.639 --> 00:56:40.519 I just try to leave that all intact when I get it, put it 802 00:56:40.599 --> 00:56:43.880 in the ground. Does that sound right? Yeah, if you can. 803 00:56:44.000 --> 00:56:46.079 I mean, it doesn't hurt to mix it a little bit, you know, 804 00:56:47.159 --> 00:56:52.360 But yeah, that's basically good luck with that. Hey, thanks a 805 00:56:52.400 --> 00:56:54.800 bunch. I sure appreciate it, all right, Greg, you take care 806 00:56:54.920 --> 00:56:58.800 and I sent you an email, so just disregard it, okay, thank 807 00:56:58.840 --> 00:57:05.440 you. Bobby. Ana Plants and Produce up in Montgomery. They are continuant 808 00:57:05.559 --> 00:57:08.239 to stock up on all kinds of beautiful things. You know. You always 809 00:57:08.280 --> 00:57:12.400 know you can go there and you can get the fertilizers we talk about, 810 00:57:12.480 --> 00:57:16.400 like nitrofoss and Nelson's and microlife like the heirloom soil product, Nature's Way, 811 00:57:16.480 --> 00:57:21.079 leaf mol composts. They've got all that out there. They do. If 812 00:57:21.119 --> 00:57:23.559 you live near the lake, their landscape crews can come out. They can 813 00:57:23.639 --> 00:57:28.360 do some bed work and things for you. Just call them and tell them 814 00:57:28.400 --> 00:57:30.960 what you have in mind, see what they can do. But that's what 815 00:57:30.079 --> 00:57:34.559 they do. They run around Lake Conroe and that whole area up there, 816 00:57:35.400 --> 00:57:40.760 and they do really cool and effective and beautiful work on landscapes. Ana Plants 817 00:57:40.800 --> 00:57:45.039 and Produce is going to have a wide variety of products that you would want 818 00:57:45.159 --> 00:57:49.440 to have to have success in your garden and in your landscape. They just 819 00:57:49.559 --> 00:57:54.159 got in a big shipment of roses. It is. They are beautiful, 820 00:57:54.639 --> 00:58:00.480 just really unusual flower forms. Looking at the flowers on the the ones that 821 00:58:00.559 --> 00:58:04.199 I saw, it's almost like the David Austin types of roses, you know, 822 00:58:04.280 --> 00:58:07.559 in just that flower form. But I don't know specifically the kinds of 823 00:58:07.599 --> 00:58:13.079 habit I'm telling you. They are very very pretty. But that's just like 824 00:58:13.199 --> 00:58:15.719 Ana Plants and Proudues. They're always going to get new things and very involved 825 00:58:15.719 --> 00:58:21.239 in the community. They have all kinds of activities for kids learning about gardening 826 00:58:21.280 --> 00:58:24.760 and whatnot. Always active in the community up there in the Montgomery area, 827 00:58:24.880 --> 00:58:30.639 just on the east side of Montgomery at Ana Plants and Produce. I want 828 00:58:30.679 --> 00:58:35.039 to go now to Sunny in Cleveland. Hello, Sonny. Yes, sir, 829 00:58:35.159 --> 00:58:37.239 good morning. Are you got to say? I'm well, sir, 830 00:58:37.519 --> 00:58:44.239 So I have questions plants. One of them is a miniature ruse, and 831 00:58:44.840 --> 00:58:46.360 this time, you know, and of course they all come back. When 832 00:58:46.400 --> 00:58:50.280 he came back, there are no leaves at all. And then I did 833 00:58:50.440 --> 00:58:55.079 fertilizer and now I see a lot of tooth like sellingate the buds, flowering 834 00:58:55.119 --> 00:59:00.639 buds, but no leaves. And then the other one has other bush is 835 00:59:01.320 --> 00:59:06.840 has a lot of black leaves or turning black. Okay, what type of 836 00:59:07.119 --> 00:59:10.000 I didn't catch the kind of rose you said it was. One was a 837 00:59:10.239 --> 00:59:14.679 minie rose and that I planted in the ground last year. It was being 838 00:59:14.719 --> 00:59:16.320 good last year. Another one is, uh, you know, the one 839 00:59:16.360 --> 00:59:20.599 that the flowers like well, you know, forgot the term, you know, 840 00:59:20.639 --> 00:59:25.400 the a lot of flowering. Okay, okay, Well, just based 841 00:59:25.480 --> 00:59:29.199 on that, it's kind of hard to know what's wrong. I'm wondering if 842 00:59:29.239 --> 00:59:34.440 something's going on in the soil, poor drainage, lack of light, uh 843 00:59:34.960 --> 00:59:38.280 for the rose, or in the soil poor drainage, or I guess it 844 00:59:38.360 --> 00:59:42.599 could be lack of moisture, but I doubt it's the lack of moisture right 845 00:59:42.639 --> 00:59:45.159 now, Uh, something's gone wrong, you know, Sonny, I think 846 00:59:45.239 --> 00:59:49.800 I probably need to see a picture of those to be able to help you 847 00:59:49.920 --> 00:59:59.280 more accurately with a With a photo, I probably can tell a little bit 848 00:59:59.360 --> 01:00:01.000 more. I mean, you know, there's diseases, little leaves like black 849 01:00:01.039 --> 01:00:06.159 spike said, leaves returning kind of black, but just the lack of coming 850 01:00:06.239 --> 01:00:09.000 out. A rose should be putting on new growth now, and so if 851 01:00:09.039 --> 01:00:14.840 it hasn't put on any new growth, something's wrong down in the soil with 852 01:00:15.000 --> 01:00:19.519 that plant. Now, maybe it tried to put out foliage and they got 853 01:00:19.679 --> 01:00:22.559 diseased or something happened to it. I don't know, but let me take 854 01:00:22.599 --> 01:00:25.159 a look at a picture. I'm going to put you on whole sunny and 855 01:00:25.400 --> 01:00:30.199 Josh will give you an email and if you'll send me some close up pictures 856 01:00:30.239 --> 01:00:32.840 in good sharp focus, we'll see what we can do. Appreciate it. 857 01:00:32.920 --> 01:00:37.079 Thank you so much, yes, sir, all right, Josh, we'll 858 01:00:37.119 --> 01:00:42.360 take care of that. Help that guy have some success with those roses. 859 01:00:42.400 --> 01:00:45.000 We got to fix that. Do you want a nice spring green up for 860 01:00:45.079 --> 01:00:52.119 your lawn. The folks in Medina have created a product called hastro Grow has 861 01:00:52.199 --> 01:00:55.800 to grow twelve four eight. And it is a lawn food okay, a 862 01:00:55.920 --> 01:01:00.800 lawn food plus so has to grow twelve four liquid lawn food plus. You 863 01:01:00.880 --> 01:01:05.719 look it up to your garden hose. It makes it real convenient and easy 864 01:01:05.800 --> 01:01:07.239 to go over the garden. I'll go over the garden, go over the 865 01:01:07.320 --> 01:01:10.559 lawn with it. You could use it on a garden too, now that 866 01:01:10.639 --> 01:01:14.559 I'm thinking about it, that wouldn't be a bad idea. But it's made 867 01:01:14.599 --> 01:01:16.880 for the lawns and so it didn't take very long. I mean not ten 868 01:01:16.920 --> 01:01:22.400 minutes and you got the whole lawn done. But it's got the lawn food 869 01:01:22.480 --> 01:01:25.559 supplements and that's the twelve four to eight wonderful ratio for turf. And it's 870 01:01:25.599 --> 01:01:30.360 got Medina soil activator in it. It also has humate liquid humus in it. 871 01:01:30.440 --> 01:01:32.480 It's just good for the lawn and it helps you have success. And 872 01:01:32.559 --> 01:01:37.960 now I encourage you to return your grass clippings when you mow. And if 873 01:01:37.000 --> 01:01:40.199 you do that, you're only going to do the has to go twelve four 874 01:01:40.280 --> 01:01:45.119 eight about four times a year through the growing season that is. And if 875 01:01:45.119 --> 01:01:49.199 you're going to take the clippings off, well you just took away nutrients. 876 01:01:49.239 --> 01:01:52.119 So you're going to do it about every month in order to make up for 877 01:01:52.199 --> 01:01:55.639 those missing nutrients. But for an easy quick let's get out there. Let's 878 01:01:55.639 --> 01:02:00.239 put something on the lawn and get some results. Has to grow to twell. 879 01:02:00.280 --> 01:02:04.719 Four to eight lon food from Medina Agriculture products will really really work very 880 01:02:04.760 --> 01:02:07.920 well. Well, you're listening to guard Line and we're here to answer your 881 01:02:07.960 --> 01:02:10.159 gardening questions. If you'd like to give us a call, we're about to 882 01:02:10.159 --> 01:02:15.199 take a low break for the news here. Just dial seven one three two 883 01:02:15.280 --> 01:02:20.519 one two fifty eight seventy four. I just said dial, Nikki, and 884 01:02:20.719 --> 01:02:24.039 I when I said it, I thought that was back when you had the 885 01:02:24.119 --> 01:02:29.400 little round spain on the phone and you have to dial a phone. We 886 01:02:29.480 --> 01:02:32.960 don't dial anymore. We push them. Yeah, that's okay, Well that's 887 01:02:34.079 --> 01:02:39.199 funny. No, I I don't, but I did get rid of my 888 01:02:39.239 --> 01:02:44.840 abaccus and bought a little henheld calculator. Seven one three two one two fifty 889 01:02:44.880 --> 01:02:47.679 eight seventy four. Welcome back to guard Line. Good to have you with 890 01:02:47.800 --> 01:02:51.840 us today. Whatever we want to talk about, give us a call seven 891 01:02:51.880 --> 01:02:54.920 one three two one two fifty eight seventy four. Long as it's related to 892 01:02:55.039 --> 01:02:59.119 plants. We'll see if we can help you with that. Now, if 893 01:02:59.119 --> 01:03:01.119 you've got a spouse it will not get out and do the yard work for 894 01:03:01.320 --> 01:03:06.760 you, then I can't help with That's that's outside of the horticulture advice. 895 01:03:07.000 --> 01:03:12.000 But if I saw a story the other day, well gosh, where was 896 01:03:12.039 --> 01:03:17.039 it somewhere in some newsfeed thing, and it was talking about somebody that had 897 01:03:17.679 --> 01:03:24.559 their spouse. It was a guy and his wife had gotten really into gardening 898 01:03:24.639 --> 01:03:29.519 and become a master gardener, and now she wanted him to work out in 899 01:03:29.599 --> 01:03:32.119 the yard because she just loved being out there in the yard. And he 900 01:03:32.639 --> 01:03:35.719 was like, hey, I've reached a point in life where I'm going to 901 01:03:35.760 --> 01:03:37.559 write a check and somebody else is going to go out and do that for 902 01:03:37.800 --> 01:03:42.360 me. It was just it was kind of interesting seeing the dynamic of how 903 01:03:42.400 --> 01:03:45.880 that works. Oh well to each his own. I guess you are listening 904 01:03:45.960 --> 01:03:51.840 to Garden Line and our number seven three two and two kt r H. 905 01:03:52.079 --> 01:03:57.639 I keep saying that I think you should have more containers on your patio, 906 01:03:57.880 --> 01:04:00.280 and more containers in the driveway wherever you to put a container, because they're 907 01:04:00.320 --> 01:04:04.440 so versatile. I love containers, you know, years ago I did not 908 01:04:04.599 --> 01:04:09.039 grow many things in containers. I don't know why I just didn't, But 909 01:04:09.800 --> 01:04:12.920 more and more now I'm always you know, I'll go somewhere to a garden 910 01:04:12.960 --> 01:04:15.679 center and I'll see a container and it's like, hmmm, I got to 911 01:04:15.719 --> 01:04:17.760 have that one. I could grow something in that. Well. When you 912 01:04:17.920 --> 01:04:21.280 have a container, you need a container that has good drainage toils. That's 913 01:04:21.440 --> 01:04:26.119 very important. You need the excess water to drain away. And then you 914 01:04:26.199 --> 01:04:30.199 need a quality mix. You know, quality mix means that it holds moisture. 915 01:04:30.559 --> 01:04:33.840 You don't want it to be just like big chunky sand granules of water 916 01:04:33.960 --> 01:04:38.519 runs right through, but you want to hold some moisture. Butt you want 917 01:04:38.559 --> 01:04:42.440 it to drain adequately. You don't want it to stay mucky and soggy wet. 918 01:04:42.960 --> 01:04:46.039 Jungle Land is designed to do that. Jungle Land there are two versions. 919 01:04:46.039 --> 01:04:49.440 There's an indoor and an outdoor version. The outdoor version is called flour 920 01:04:49.519 --> 01:04:55.400 and Vegetable Planting Soil, and it does drain well and it has like four 921 01:04:55.480 --> 01:04:59.360 different sources of decomposed organic matter, and it's got the micro hizal fungi that 922 01:04:59.440 --> 01:05:02.920 works with the plant roots to help them have success. And when you use 923 01:05:02.960 --> 01:05:06.119 the jungle land, put your plants in it, whether it's vegetables, whether 924 01:05:06.159 --> 01:05:11.840 it's flowers, you are just going to have more more productivity. It's going 925 01:05:11.920 --> 01:05:15.440 to enhance the growth of the plant. That, along with some nutrient fertilization 926 01:05:15.840 --> 01:05:23.039 to keep it stimulated, can turn a container into really just a bountiful container, 927 01:05:23.679 --> 01:05:28.039 and a beautiful container lots of beautiful color coming outside jungle in. Now, 928 01:05:28.119 --> 01:05:30.559 where do you get jungle l in? Well, night fresh products are 929 01:05:30.599 --> 01:05:32.000 sold all over the place, so it's not hard to find it. You 930 01:05:32.000 --> 01:05:35.239 can go to Bearings Hardware, both the one on Bissinet and the one on 931 01:05:35.360 --> 01:05:41.519 Westheimer. Our plantation Ase Hardware out there in Richmond Rosenberg is going to have 932 01:05:41.960 --> 01:05:49.039 jungle in and other nitroposs products as well. If if your lawn is struggling, 933 01:05:49.239 --> 01:05:56.599 and I guess saying if they just are. Most lawns right now are 934 01:05:56.679 --> 01:06:02.840 really struggling. We have things like heavy clay soils that are predominant here throughout 935 01:06:02.880 --> 01:06:08.400 the Gulf Coast region. And when a heavy clay soil gets compacted, it 936 01:06:08.519 --> 01:06:14.480 is hard for roots to get down and to effectively create that extensive root system 937 01:06:15.000 --> 01:06:16.800 that helps the plant be healthier. In this case, the plant being a 938 01:06:16.880 --> 01:06:20.159 lawn, compaction is very difficult on them. So what do we do well, 939 01:06:20.159 --> 01:06:25.000 We airate, We punch holes in the ground. We pop soil cores 940 01:06:25.119 --> 01:06:28.599 out of the ground and leave them on the surface. Don't just squeeze a 941 01:06:28.639 --> 01:06:31.480 hole open, but pop those out and then follow that with a compost top 942 01:06:31.559 --> 01:06:36.400 dressing. Now, the folks at BnB turf Pros they are our go to 943 01:06:38.400 --> 01:06:43.800 aeration and compost top dressing company for those of you who live down south and 944 01:06:44.079 --> 01:06:48.320 a little to the west. So we're talking a region like Sugarland, Missouri 945 01:06:48.480 --> 01:06:53.440 City, moving south and east from there, Fresno, or Cola Siena, 946 01:06:54.039 --> 01:06:58.079 Iowa colony, even all the way down in Manville on over as far as 947 01:06:58.199 --> 01:07:00.400 Pearland. They service that area. Now, they got a whole equipment and 948 01:07:00.519 --> 01:07:04.119 a lot of compost around to do these jobs. So they do have that 949 01:07:04.320 --> 01:07:10.760 region that they try to stay within. They will put down a nice quality 950 01:07:11.239 --> 01:07:14.320 compost on the surface, the kind we talk about here on garden Line. 951 01:07:14.679 --> 01:07:17.039 They're gonna errate. By the way, they can also fertilize. They can 952 01:07:17.119 --> 01:07:21.320 do top dressing of that. And when you do aeration followed by top dressing, 953 01:07:21.360 --> 01:07:26.239 it moves its way down into the soil and it helps that root zone 954 01:07:26.679 --> 01:07:29.880 of the grass to thrive. Their website, you need to write this down 955 01:07:30.559 --> 01:07:35.320 b B Turfpros dot com. Bbturfpros dot com. You can give them a 956 01:07:35.400 --> 01:07:41.239 call at seven one three two three four fifty five ninety eight. Seven one 957 01:07:41.360 --> 01:07:46.079 three two three four fifty five ninety eight. They are a service company. 958 01:07:46.119 --> 01:07:51.559 They focus this is important and this is why we have them as a sponsor 959 01:07:51.599 --> 01:07:57.719 here on Guardenline. Customer satisfaction and high quality work and quality products. That's 960 01:07:57.800 --> 01:08:01.039 at the center of everything that they do. They only use products that we 961 01:08:01.239 --> 01:08:05.199 talk about here on garden Line, so they really focus on that. They 962 01:08:05.320 --> 01:08:10.000 go above They make a personal connection with you, their their client, their 963 01:08:10.079 --> 01:08:14.760 customer, and make sure that you are satisfied. BMB turf Pros seven one 964 01:08:14.840 --> 01:08:18.119 three two three four five five nine eight. I want to go over to 965 01:08:19.039 --> 01:08:25.279 Gordon now in Cloverlea. Hello, Gordon, Hey, good them on skiff. 966 01:08:25.279 --> 01:08:29.319 How you doing. I'm good? How are you well? I'm fine. 967 01:08:29.760 --> 01:08:32.119 A couple of weeks back, I heard a man mentioned on your show 968 01:08:32.640 --> 01:08:40.119 something about the june bug thing. So my question is I have like thousands 969 01:08:40.199 --> 01:08:44.000 of these june bugs show up on my driveway and stuff. I have a 970 01:08:44.079 --> 01:08:48.920 light that lights it up. So am I going to be concerned with grubworms 971 01:08:50.319 --> 01:08:54.800 after all the I mean thousands of them, I'll sweep them off my driveway 972 01:08:54.840 --> 01:08:58.399 with a broom. Uh yeah, you shaid. They're they're gonna they do 973 01:08:58.479 --> 01:09:01.000 their mating fly We call them jim are. They're really May bugs here. 974 01:09:01.560 --> 01:09:05.920 They come a little earlier than June. But May is a time when they're 975 01:09:05.920 --> 01:09:11.319 doing a lot of mating flights and they lay eggs on the surface and those 976 01:09:11.359 --> 01:09:15.239 eggs hatch into the grubs. Yes, and we have a window where we 977 01:09:15.359 --> 01:09:19.399 can treat them. Have you been to my website Gardening with Skip dot Com 978 01:09:20.119 --> 01:09:25.439 by any chance? I have not, But I'll just put down some whedonator. 979 01:09:26.079 --> 01:09:29.359 Okay, so I didn't want to put down any bugginator because it also 980 01:09:29.520 --> 01:09:32.319 contains fer alz. It's not time. It's not time. So if you 981 01:09:32.399 --> 01:09:38.520 go to Gardening with Skip dot com the website, there is a lawn pest 982 01:09:38.840 --> 01:09:43.920 disease and weed management schedule and it's free. It's a pdf you just downloaded. 983 01:09:43.960 --> 01:09:45.319 We look at it on your computer and if you look at it, 984 01:09:45.439 --> 01:09:49.479 it'll say June is the time when we first treat for grubs, and then 985 01:09:49.640 --> 01:09:54.640 as we get into July and August, the grubs go down deeper and we 986 01:09:54.840 --> 01:09:58.319 can treat again. Then if you're you know, if you feel like you 987 01:09:58.399 --> 01:10:00.760 didn't get them all the products you use it. Those two times are different, 988 01:10:00.920 --> 01:10:05.079 and they're on my schedule. So go to gardening liskip dot com get 989 01:10:05.119 --> 01:10:09.920 the lawn pest, Disease and weed management schedule and it'll tell you right when 990 01:10:10.000 --> 01:10:12.800 you need to do that, and timing is important. Don't treat now. 991 01:10:14.600 --> 01:10:16.760 Okay. So one of the question is I just heard you mention somebody with 992 01:10:16.960 --> 01:10:21.840 aerration and compost the top dressing. Yes, huh. Is there anybody in 993 01:10:21.920 --> 01:10:26.119 my area channel view that you might recommend that would do something like that. 994 01:10:26.279 --> 01:10:30.399 I do not know anyone that far over. You might you might talk to 995 01:10:30.520 --> 01:10:33.560 BB turf Pros and see if they're aware of a company that they would recommend 996 01:10:33.600 --> 01:10:40.159 over there, But I'm not connected to any company that serves that that area. 997 01:10:40.239 --> 01:10:43.920 So I just don't have a good suggestion for you. Okay, So 998 01:10:44.039 --> 01:10:46.520 what would I put on? As far as I got some spots when I 999 01:10:46.600 --> 01:10:51.560 planned my soide last year, that little holds the fill in Okay, so 1000 01:10:51.720 --> 01:10:55.319 I use top soil to do that. Yeah, I would use a top 1001 01:10:55.359 --> 01:10:58.520 soil type mix of sandy loam soil mix. Hey, I'm up against a 1002 01:10:58.600 --> 01:11:00.359 hard break here. If you want to hang on, you can talk a 1003 01:11:00.359 --> 01:11:02.760 little more. But I'm gonna have to run to a commercial board. Uh 1004 01:11:02.920 --> 01:11:06.239 well, I can hang on all right, all right, we'll be right 1005 01:11:06.279 --> 01:11:11.439 back seven one, three, two, fifty eight seventy four. Welcome back 1006 01:11:11.439 --> 01:11:14.039 to garden Line. Good to have you with us today. Hey, if 1007 01:11:14.079 --> 01:11:18.159 you live out in the Kingwood area, Warrens Southern Gardens and Kingwood Garden Centers, 1008 01:11:18.439 --> 01:11:23.399 both of them in that same area, wonderful places to go. And 1009 01:11:23.520 --> 01:11:27.199 the shop they always have new things going on. They've got, for example, 1010 01:11:27.319 --> 01:11:30.439 vinka, you know the Madagascar periwinkle, the vinka, the flowers that 1011 01:11:30.560 --> 01:11:33.079 go through summer. How you can throw those things on a barbecue pit, 1012 01:11:33.560 --> 01:11:36.079 close the lid, leave them five minutes and open it and I think they'd 1013 01:11:36.119 --> 01:11:41.159 still be blooming and looking good. That is one tough plant. They've got 1014 01:11:41.199 --> 01:11:44.159 the upright types of standard types, and then the trailing types. You can 1015 01:11:44.159 --> 01:11:46.000 put them over the side of a container or put them in a hanging basket. 1016 01:11:46.560 --> 01:11:51.520 They've got the butterfly candy series of Boodleia Boudia also called butterfly bush. 1017 01:11:51.680 --> 01:11:56.600 Boodleias are wonderful old plant. They get kind of big, but this butterfly 1018 01:11:56.800 --> 01:12:01.479 candy stays about three feet high. It's got flowers. There's three types that 1019 01:12:01.600 --> 01:12:04.319 they carry there. It's a raspberry, the coconut, and the grape. 1020 01:12:04.680 --> 01:12:09.079 So imagine the color of raspberry, the color white of a coconut, and 1021 01:12:09.159 --> 01:12:12.079 then the purple of the grape. That that's the colors. They have. 1022 01:12:12.399 --> 01:12:15.920 Butterfly magnets, absolute butterfly magnets. Do you need native milkweed? Do you 1023 01:12:16.000 --> 01:12:21.960 need some of those? Encore or bluemuthon Azilia's the Hollywood hibiscus, the Eclipse 1024 01:12:23.000 --> 01:12:27.479 adraja and by the way, they're having an eclipse adranga sale because we're having 1025 01:12:27.520 --> 01:12:31.199 an eclipse right. Eclipseadrangas are five dollars off at Warren's at the Warrants only. 1026 01:12:31.520 --> 01:12:33.880 They also have by the way, you need to go check out their 1027 01:12:33.960 --> 01:12:39.479 vanilla brandy Abelia. That is a where you know, back in the day, 1028 01:12:39.760 --> 01:12:42.760 oh, we had one kind of abelia, glossy abelia. There was 1029 01:12:42.840 --> 01:12:46.199 one kind. Now we got a lot of different cultivars and vanilla brandy has 1030 01:12:46.279 --> 01:12:51.239 little white margins on the leaves and kind of reddish brown stems that are really 1031 01:12:51.399 --> 01:12:56.399 attractive, really beautiful, And then in the fall when it cools off, 1032 01:12:56.640 --> 01:13:00.199 the leaf margins turned kind of a pinkish color. It's just cool. Go 1033 01:13:00.359 --> 01:13:03.000 by and see it. Ask them to show you their vanilla brandy abilia. 1034 01:13:03.079 --> 01:13:09.520 At the Warren's Garden Center, I was visiting with Gordon out here in clover 1035 01:13:09.640 --> 01:13:12.880 Leaf. Gordon, I think you had a one more question on something about 1036 01:13:12.880 --> 01:13:18.920 the lawn. Yeah, you said you to fill in some low spots topsoil 1037 01:13:19.000 --> 01:13:23.399 or sandy loam. Yeah, sandy loam type top soil is usually a good 1038 01:13:23.439 --> 01:13:28.640 one rather than just using sand. Yeah, if you can find something for 1039 01:13:28.760 --> 01:13:30.960 me, you can purchase their calling topsail, and you look at it and 1040 01:13:31.039 --> 01:13:33.680 it looks decent to you, we'll go ahead and just fill in with that, 1041 01:13:33.760 --> 01:13:39.479 Okay. The sandy loam is the same as topsoil basically. Well, 1042 01:13:40.319 --> 01:13:44.800 the word topsoil can mean anything the people selling it to you want it to 1043 01:13:44.920 --> 01:13:49.279 mean. Really, Unfortunately, it's not a lot of things sold as topsoil 1044 01:13:49.479 --> 01:13:57.479 or just soil. But sandy loam is a good quality type of topsoil and 1045 01:13:57.640 --> 01:14:00.880 it works really, well, it's a bla. Where can I get that? 1046 01:14:00.000 --> 01:14:04.039 By a bag? Around me? Because my nearest place to meet is 1047 01:14:04.680 --> 01:14:09.079 Houston Garden Centers. They don't have it. The too Ace Hardware is one 1048 01:14:09.119 --> 01:14:12.600 in Crosby and want you all the road? They don't have it. And 1049 01:14:13.079 --> 01:14:16.680 you said, hang on just saying you said that. Where are you located 1050 01:14:16.720 --> 01:14:25.199 again, Cloverly, It's right about Beltway eight and Wallaceville Road area. Yeah, 1051 01:14:25.279 --> 01:14:28.439 you know Warren's Rock and mult is up there. There's one in Humble, 1052 01:14:28.520 --> 01:14:31.680 and one importer is not too terribly far away from you. That might 1053 01:14:31.800 --> 01:14:35.399 be you may want to call them and find out where they where they stock 1054 01:14:35.800 --> 01:14:40.840 their materials. Are you talking about needing like cubic yards of it or just 1055 01:14:40.880 --> 01:14:45.079 a few bags. I don't have a means to carry bulk. I have 1056 01:14:45.199 --> 01:14:47.880 to do bags, Okay, I would, I would probably, I would 1057 01:14:47.920 --> 01:14:50.800 just talk to the folks at Warren's Rock and Maults. Do you need a 1058 01:14:50.880 --> 01:14:56.159 number for the one in Humble? Yeah? I think I tried to visit 1059 01:14:56.239 --> 01:14:59.399 you there one day, but you were stuck in traffic. Okay, all 1060 01:14:59.479 --> 01:15:03.399 right, I think you said there in Kingwood, right, Yeah, Well, 1061 01:15:04.119 --> 01:15:10.359 but this is Humble a little south of Kingwood So two eight one eight 1062 01:15:10.479 --> 01:15:15.720 five to two seventy four hundred two eight one eight five two seventy four hundred 1063 01:15:15.800 --> 01:15:20.399 Gordon and good luck with that. Yeah, just ask them about that Monday. 1064 01:15:20.560 --> 01:15:23.359 All right, all right, thank you for your help, Thanks for 1065 01:15:23.399 --> 01:15:26.880 the call. Appreciate that. Uh, if you have not done a fertilization 1066 01:15:27.000 --> 01:15:30.279 in your lawn and you would like to get some quick results, uh, 1067 01:15:30.880 --> 01:15:35.439 nitropous red bag, that's the Imperial Nitrofus Imperial Plant FT. It is a 1068 01:15:35.960 --> 01:15:41.920 fifteen five to ten. It's a fifteen five ten fertilizer that releases those nutrients 1069 01:15:42.199 --> 01:15:45.319 quickly. When you get it wet, they're going to go into solution and 1070 01:15:45.399 --> 01:15:48.279 be available for the plant roots and you can get a nice quick greenoup with 1071 01:15:48.439 --> 01:15:51.680 that. Now you want to put it out at a rate of about seven 1072 01:15:51.760 --> 01:15:57.000 pounds per thousand square feet. It works, It works very well. It's 1073 01:15:57.159 --> 01:16:03.079 designed based on research by university across the South Langre Universities a turf scientist with 1074 01:16:03.199 --> 01:16:08.399 that three one two ratio of nutrients. That works really well for our turf. 1075 01:16:08.680 --> 01:16:11.239 And you're going to find it an enchanted forest, which I'm going to 1076 01:16:11.319 --> 01:16:15.439 be at next Saturday. Next Saturday, be out enchanted forest out in Richmond 1077 01:16:15.520 --> 01:16:18.760 Rosenberg area. You're going to find it up in Willis at Growers Outlet. 1078 01:16:19.199 --> 01:16:24.199 You can also find it at RCW Nursery, Tumbo Parkway and Beltway eight. 1079 01:16:24.319 --> 01:16:29.000 Right there the Nitroposs Imperial, the red Bag fifteen five ten. You're listening 1080 01:16:29.039 --> 01:16:32.159 to Guardenline. Our phone number is seven one three two one two five eight 1081 01:16:32.479 --> 01:16:39.039 seven four seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four. If I 1082 01:16:39.119 --> 01:16:44.279 could talk you into doing one thing that maybe you haven't done before, uh 1083 01:16:44.520 --> 01:16:48.399 for your outdoor enjoyment this year, I think I would tell you take on 1084 01:16:49.199 --> 01:16:55.840 some activities, get some products to bring birds to your landscape to be able 1085 01:16:55.880 --> 01:17:00.399 to enjoy them more. I just find that to be really enjoyable. You 1086 01:17:00.479 --> 01:17:03.079 know, you're out working. We garden, we plant flowers, we grow 1087 01:17:03.199 --> 01:17:06.159 vegetables. We do a lot of wonderful things out in the garden. But 1088 01:17:06.239 --> 01:17:11.479 when you're sitting and just enjoying not just the view, but you're getting to 1089 01:17:11.520 --> 01:17:14.800 hear the sound of birds or watch their antics with a bird bath, with 1090 01:17:14.960 --> 01:17:18.920 bird feeders, with bird houses, wild birds unlimited. That is the place, 1091 01:17:19.159 --> 01:17:24.000 the best place, and I mean this hands down the best place to 1092 01:17:24.119 --> 01:17:29.239 get everything to create that bird paradise out in the backyard. Our birds right 1093 01:17:29.279 --> 01:17:33.760 now, they're still in their nesting season and nesting Superblend by wild Birds is 1094 01:17:33.960 --> 01:17:42.319 a very well formulated It's a very well formulated bird food for that stage of 1095 01:17:42.439 --> 01:17:46.960 the bird's annual life. They're raising young. They need that high protein of 1096 01:17:47.079 --> 01:17:53.039 dried mealworms and sunflowers and peanuts and safflower tree nuts and others. It's all 1097 01:17:53.159 --> 01:17:57.079 in there. They have a bird seed for each group of birds, for 1098 01:17:57.239 --> 01:18:01.079 each situation, and it's all no waste seed. They have quality feeders like 1099 01:18:01.159 --> 01:18:05.119 the Scuroll proof feeder that I love so much, and many others too, 1100 01:18:05.199 --> 01:18:10.880 by the way. They have houses from purple Martins and bluebirds and all the 1101 01:18:10.960 --> 01:18:14.199 different things you would want for birds. Is it Walberds And they're just fun 1102 01:18:14.279 --> 01:18:17.439 to go into. Six different stores, six different wallbird stores in the Houston 1103 01:18:17.520 --> 01:18:24.439 area. WBU Houston dot com. That's the website. Now, excuse me, 1104 01:18:25.479 --> 01:18:29.720 WBU dot com Forward slash Houston. We'll say that one more time. 1105 01:18:30.760 --> 01:18:35.840 WBU Walbert's unlimited. WBU dot com Forward slash Houston. That'll get you to 1106 01:18:35.960 --> 01:18:39.560 the six stores that are in our area, so you can find the one 1107 01:18:39.640 --> 01:18:43.000 nearest you. I would really encourage you to check it out, even if 1108 01:18:43.039 --> 01:18:46.279 you just started with one little feeder. I've about to get a little feeder 1109 01:18:46.319 --> 01:18:50.720 for my mother in law who wants to have some birds to see just outside 1110 01:18:50.760 --> 01:18:55.520 the window. We're gonna put a little little shepherd cruckhangers outside the window and 1111 01:18:55.560 --> 01:18:58.840 hang a little bird feeder on it. And I know she's going to really 1112 01:18:59.000 --> 01:19:01.880 enjoy that. I'm looking for getting that set up for her. We gave 1113 01:19:01.880 --> 01:19:08.920 her a hummingbird feeder one time that it just beautiful and it's fun. Birds 1114 01:19:08.960 --> 01:19:13.279 are cool. You'd add those to the landscape. A while back, I 1115 01:19:13.399 --> 01:19:16.319 was up at the anti ros and Porium up in Independence, Texas. You 1116 01:19:16.359 --> 01:19:20.039 know where that is, what's north of Brenham. And I love going out 1117 01:19:20.119 --> 01:19:24.520 there because when you go to the anti ros in Porium, it's like you 1118 01:19:24.640 --> 01:19:29.640 go back in time and it's another one of those destination garden centers. Listen, 1119 01:19:29.720 --> 01:19:32.760 they've been doing this since nineteen eighty three, growing the anti croses and 1120 01:19:32.920 --> 01:19:38.600 selling them. People all over the country have purchased their anti crosies. They 1121 01:19:38.680 --> 01:19:41.159 do ship, yes, by the way, and they grow them in like 1122 01:19:41.239 --> 01:19:45.800 a three gallon bucket, which makes a better, more robust rose plant. 1123 01:19:45.560 --> 01:19:48.760 They have antig roses, but they have so much more. Do you need 1124 01:19:48.840 --> 01:19:51.720 herbs, do you need perennials? Do you need native types of plants? 1125 01:19:53.199 --> 01:19:56.840 They've got it all out there and always something going on. There's always a 1126 01:19:56.840 --> 01:20:00.720 good reason to run out to antigrosen Porium. For example, Saturday, April 1127 01:20:00.800 --> 01:20:04.600 thirteenth, from ten am to two Native Plant Partner Program is going to bring 1128 01:20:04.640 --> 01:20:10.520 a tent out there to their nursery and display gardens at the antiqu Rosenborium. 1129 01:20:11.239 --> 01:20:15.800 And it's a collaboration between the Native Plant Society and local nurseries around the state. 1130 01:20:15.119 --> 01:20:18.359 They're going to partner with that program the Tinker Garden. Guess what, 1131 01:20:18.680 --> 01:20:24.359 that's a Children in the Garden program venture. You can get your kids ages 1132 01:20:24.439 --> 01:20:27.840 two to eight signed up with that. It's a six week curriculum. It 1133 01:20:27.960 --> 01:20:31.840 starts April nineteenth and twentieth at one pm. It goes to about mid May. 1134 01:20:32.279 --> 01:20:35.119 So you just got to contact them for this. How do you contact 1135 01:20:35.199 --> 01:20:41.159 them? Here's a phone number nine seven nine eight three six fifty five forty 1136 01:20:41.199 --> 01:20:45.560 eight nine seven nine eight three six five five four eight, or the website 1137 01:20:46.039 --> 01:20:51.720 Antique rosanmporium dot com. Write that down Antique roseanmporim dot com. Hey, 1138 01:20:51.760 --> 01:20:56.800 the blue bonnets are blooming. Wonderful time take a little drive through the country. 1139 01:20:56.840 --> 01:21:00.039 Doesn't take long to get there, I mean really doesn't. Little afternoon 1140 01:21:00.239 --> 01:21:04.720 venture today, why not run out the antick Rosevelt. I think you enjoy 1141 01:21:04.840 --> 01:21:11.439 getting out and enjoy it seeing that I always due just a reminder again, 1142 01:21:11.600 --> 01:21:18.880 I'm going to be at the Richmond excuse me hardon me, y goodness, 1143 01:21:20.039 --> 01:21:26.279 all right, I'm going to be an enchanted forest out in Richmond. Enchanted 1144 01:21:26.359 --> 01:21:29.560 Forest Richmond, TX dot com. We're going to be out there. It's 1145 01:21:29.600 --> 01:21:32.920 on FM twenty seven fifty nine twenty seven to fifty nine. So if you're 1146 01:21:32.960 --> 01:21:36.319 in Richmond heading toward sugar Land, it's off to the right FM twenty seven 1147 01:21:36.439 --> 01:21:42.359 fifty nine. Next Saturday at eleven thirty, I'll be doing a springtime question 1148 01:21:42.520 --> 01:21:47.199 and answer with everybody that shows up. KATRH Garden Line does not necessarily endorse 1149 01:21:47.239 --> 01:21:54.560 any of the products or services advertised on this program. Welcome to KTRH Garden 1150 01:21:54.600 --> 01:22:11.520 Line with scip Richter's solease the gas trim. Just watch you as gas us. 1151 01:22:11.600 --> 01:22:19.520 So many good things to superasy gassies and gas baby tables back again, 1152 01:22:20.279 --> 01:22:36.199 not a sign glasses and gas sald bean between gas starting. Welcome back to 1153 01:22:36.279 --> 01:22:39.920 garden line. Good to have you with us this morning. What do you 1154 01:22:39.960 --> 01:22:44.119 want to talk about IM regarding gardening? Give us a call seven one three 1155 01:22:44.359 --> 01:22:48.479 two one two five eight seven four seven one three two one two fifty eight 1156 01:22:48.880 --> 01:22:54.800 seventy four. It is time to be fertilizing your lawn. It's a good 1157 01:22:54.880 --> 01:22:59.479 time to put out your Nitrophis superturf. That's the silver bag. It's a 1158 01:22:59.560 --> 01:23:02.960 nineteen four to ten fertilizer. It has half the nitrogen and a slow release 1159 01:23:03.039 --> 01:23:08.960 for them. It also has iron to help promote good greening. You get 1160 01:23:09.000 --> 01:23:11.960 that out now and for two or three months, your lawn is going to 1161 01:23:12.000 --> 01:23:16.159 have a release of nutrients to promote good, strong, even growth and improved 1162 01:23:16.520 --> 01:23:20.520 turf density. And that is very important if you want to have a beautiful 1163 01:23:20.560 --> 01:23:24.479 one and if you also want to have a lawn that's not plagued by weeds. 1164 01:23:25.079 --> 01:23:27.399 Where can you find this, Well, I'll tell you where you can 1165 01:23:27.439 --> 01:23:32.439 find it. You can find nitrofoss super turf at places like Shades of Texas 1166 01:23:32.520 --> 01:23:36.920 on Genoa Red Bluff, Fisher's Hardware. Both the one South Houston on Southomore 1167 01:23:38.079 --> 01:23:41.359 and the one out in Laporte on Broadway Street is going to have it and 1168 01:23:41.439 --> 01:23:45.000 you can find it at the Arbor Gate Arborgate. By the way, if 1169 01:23:45.039 --> 01:23:47.399 you're at the arbor Gate, you have got to check out the new parking 1170 01:23:47.479 --> 01:23:54.399 lot they have. It is really really nice. I mean you instead of 1171 01:23:54.439 --> 01:23:56.880 having to park out front and then try to find a place on the road 1172 01:23:56.960 --> 01:24:00.800 or something. No that those days are gone turned down something called Trishel Road 1173 01:24:01.159 --> 01:24:04.760 and it goes it leaves twenty nine to twenty and goes around behind Arburgate and 1174 01:24:04.840 --> 01:24:09.279 comes back into twenty nine twenty. So if you're looking for Trashol and all 1175 01:24:09.279 --> 01:24:11.920 of a sudden you're at Arburgate, we'll just keep going. The other side 1176 01:24:11.960 --> 01:24:14.600 of Trishole is going to come in. Just keep watching for it. The 1177 01:24:14.720 --> 01:24:19.720 parking lots behind Arburgate and it's an all weather surface that is it's just a 1178 01:24:19.800 --> 01:24:25.520 wonderful easy, easy, easy access. While you're at Arburgate, pick up 1179 01:24:25.560 --> 01:24:29.720 their one two three completely easy system that is a food to feed anything with 1180 01:24:29.880 --> 01:24:32.960 roots, that is a soil for any application, and a compost that will 1181 01:24:32.960 --> 01:24:39.239 improve any soil that includes sand that includes clay. The one two three easy 1182 01:24:39.319 --> 01:24:42.199 system. Both the soil and the compost, by the way, have expanded 1183 01:24:42.279 --> 01:24:46.359 shale in them, which also helps a lot with improving drainage, and drainage 1184 01:24:46.479 --> 01:24:50.319 is very very important. Let's go now, we're going to head out to 1185 01:24:50.439 --> 01:24:56.319 northwest Houston and talk to Frank. Hello, Frank, great, skip my 1186 01:24:56.439 --> 01:25:01.960 bagyard. I don't know twenty about thirty and they load it with cut worms, 1187 01:25:02.399 --> 01:25:06.119 I mean hundreds of them. Okay, all right. What you need 1188 01:25:06.199 --> 01:25:12.199 to do is there's there's several products that will kill cutworms. Their standard synthetic 1189 01:25:12.319 --> 01:25:17.159 insecticides that will kill cutworms. But I would get a product containing either BT 1190 01:25:18.000 --> 01:25:24.199 or spinosid. Either of those ingredients will kill cutworms. Now, BT is 1191 01:25:24.279 --> 01:25:29.039 only going to last about a day, so you may have to reapply it 1192 01:25:29.720 --> 01:25:34.359 later, but spinosid will last a little bit longer. And a planet sawd 1193 01:25:34.720 --> 01:25:42.399 and each time I planet it sawed, it doesn't develop it. Well, 1194 01:25:42.520 --> 01:25:46.079 that's probably there's two things going on here. When you say cutworms, you're 1195 01:25:46.079 --> 01:25:50.359 seeing caterpillars eating the leaves of the grass, right, correct, Yeah, 1196 01:25:50.880 --> 01:25:56.800 So the sod itself should that's a separate issue. I mean, you watering 1197 01:25:56.880 --> 01:25:59.720 it in and keeping it wet by watering a couple of times a day the 1198 01:25:59.760 --> 01:26:03.239 first week, Yeah, to help it get established. Is it deep deep 1199 01:26:03.319 --> 01:26:10.199 shade or is it full sun? No, it's okay. What kind of 1200 01:26:10.239 --> 01:26:14.800 sad are you planting? I'm Saint Augustine. I don't know. When you 1201 01:26:14.880 --> 01:26:17.399 say doesn't develop? Now, are you talking about this year you planted, 1202 01:26:17.439 --> 01:26:21.000 It's not. I have planted it twice over the last two years. Okay, 1203 01:26:21.159 --> 01:26:25.119 And you know it start it's green up, and all of a sudden 1204 01:26:25.159 --> 01:26:31.560 it start turning brown. Well, when launch turn brown, it's either a 1205 01:26:31.720 --> 01:26:38.479 lack of water or the grass did not root in very well initially, or 1206 01:26:38.640 --> 01:26:42.359 it could be a disease. Uh. And the disease, you know, 1207 01:26:42.479 --> 01:26:46.199 if it's if it's summertime, it could be chinch bugs. If it's anytime 1208 01:26:46.239 --> 01:26:48.680 of the year. Really, it could be taken a root rock that effects 1209 01:26:48.720 --> 01:26:54.520 the lown. There's just too many possibilities, you know, to diagnose it 1210 01:26:54.640 --> 01:26:58.479 accurately. I think what we need to do is when it's happening, let's 1211 01:26:58.680 --> 01:27:01.239 send me a picture. Let's take to look at what's going on and see 1212 01:27:01.279 --> 01:27:05.199 if we can get specific about it. Okay, Well, if I get 1213 01:27:05.359 --> 01:27:11.039 these horns with BT, you think they would get them? Await, yeah, 1214 01:27:11.039 --> 01:27:14.720 it'll it'll kill them when they're actively feeding. Now if you if you 1215 01:27:14.840 --> 01:27:17.880 wait too long and the worms get bigger and they're about to turn into moths, 1216 01:27:18.680 --> 01:27:23.479 well at that stage BT it doesn't work as well. So don't delay. 1217 01:27:24.239 --> 01:27:27.439 So you could you could do You kind of have options here. You 1218 01:27:27.520 --> 01:27:30.279 can do the BT, you can do the spinosa. Both of those have 1219 01:27:30.439 --> 01:27:33.119 to be sprayed on the grass blades so the bugs eat them, so the 1220 01:27:33.199 --> 01:27:39.359 caterpillars eat them. Or if you use the synthetic insecticide there's a lot of 1221 01:27:39.359 --> 01:27:43.159 them out there that'll work just lawn. If it's labeled for long insects, 1222 01:27:43.199 --> 01:27:47.000 it's going to work on grubs, I mean on cutworms. Oh okay, 1223 01:27:47.560 --> 01:27:50.520 you appreciate it all right, sir, you take care. Thanks for the 1224 01:27:50.560 --> 01:27:56.840 call. Creciate that very much, very much. If you're going to fill 1225 01:27:56.840 --> 01:28:01.159 a container on your patio or indoors, jungling and distributed by Nitrophoss, it's 1226 01:28:01.279 --> 01:28:05.000 quality soil mix. It goes in the container for the indoor plant. They 1227 01:28:05.039 --> 01:28:10.279 have jungle land water saving potting soil. It's got crystals in it. These 1228 01:28:10.359 --> 01:28:15.600 crystals absorb water and they swell up. It's almost like they become like little 1229 01:28:15.680 --> 01:28:18.680 chunks of jello if you want to kind of picture that, the roots growing 1230 01:28:18.760 --> 01:28:24.439 through the container can draw water from those crystals even after the soil begins to 1231 01:28:24.479 --> 01:28:27.479 get a little too dry. So the crystals in the soil. The reason 1232 01:28:27.479 --> 01:28:31.720 they're put there is to help extend the availability of water to those plants. 1233 01:28:31.760 --> 01:28:34.600 Should you forget to water the plants. I know you never do that, 1234 01:28:34.720 --> 01:28:40.079 but some people do. Some people do. Where do you get jungle land 1235 01:28:40.199 --> 01:28:43.760 and other nitrofoss products. Well, you can get plants for all seasons Tombol 1236 01:28:43.800 --> 01:28:46.960 Parkway. You can go to allspas as up in the woodlands. They're going 1237 01:28:47.000 --> 01:28:49.600 to have it up there, plants and things out in Brenham it's going to 1238 01:28:49.680 --> 01:28:53.520 have it as well. It's easy, easy to find. We're going to 1239 01:28:53.600 --> 01:28:58.399 go now to Drazoria and talk to Bob. Hello Bob, good morning, 1240 01:28:59.119 --> 01:29:04.680 really too. I wonder why more people don't use a mulching kit on their 1241 01:29:04.760 --> 01:29:11.840 mowers, because you mentioned something about returning the clippings to the soil. Your 1242 01:29:11.920 --> 01:29:15.720 thoughts on it, Uh, why they don't? It's just an extra thing 1243 01:29:15.880 --> 01:29:21.399 that isn't kind of in the forefront of their minds. You know, when 1244 01:29:21.479 --> 01:29:26.960 you mow, there's a lot of different ways to go about melting the clippings. 1245 01:29:27.680 --> 01:29:30.439 One, you mow more often, so you're not cutting a big, 1246 01:29:30.520 --> 01:29:32.800 long clipping off. You're just cutting a short clipping off. That's one thing. 1247 01:29:32.880 --> 01:29:39.319 So anybody can do that. You can buy a multing blade that helps, 1248 01:29:39.640 --> 01:29:42.279 you know, I think that's the kit you're talking about. It helps 1249 01:29:42.920 --> 01:29:46.119 recycle those clippings through the housing as you're mowing, chopping them up a little 1250 01:29:46.199 --> 01:29:50.359 more, and then going all out. There's even mulching mowers that have a 1251 01:29:50.479 --> 01:29:56.800 housing designed to recirculate those clippings as you're mowing to get them chopped up even 1252 01:29:56.880 --> 01:30:00.920 better. So there's several ways to go about it. Yeah, I just 1253 01:30:00.960 --> 01:30:04.840 wonder why more people don't. And one other thing doesn't matter. But a 1254 01:30:04.920 --> 01:30:09.319 couple of years ago, I was in the Dallas area listening to one of 1255 01:30:09.359 --> 01:30:13.880 their garden shows up there, and I've never heard it mentioned down here that 1256 01:30:14.039 --> 01:30:21.239 when people are using their broadcast spreader to wash that fertilizer off of the concrete, 1257 01:30:21.279 --> 01:30:26.359 because it unless you get a good rain to soak it in. If 1258 01:30:26.399 --> 01:30:32.279 you just have high humidity Dallas sometimes has high humidity. That fertilizer will help 1259 01:30:32.359 --> 01:30:39.600 attack and degrade your concrete. That's interesting. I'm not I'm not familiar with 1260 01:30:39.680 --> 01:30:42.079 that degrading part. Hey, I got it. I'm gonna have to run 1261 01:30:42.319 --> 01:30:44.920 take a little break here. Do you want to continue this discussion? Just 1262 01:30:45.000 --> 01:30:47.079 hang on? Uh? If not, okay, thank you. I appreciate 1263 01:30:47.119 --> 01:30:49.479 your call. Yeah, I'm sorry. I run a little along there on 1264 01:30:49.600 --> 01:30:53.920 this. If I seven to one, three, two, fifty eight to 1265 01:30:53.960 --> 01:30:57.359 seventy four, I'll be right back. Welcome back to Guardlinem. Good to 1266 01:30:57.439 --> 01:31:00.199 have you with us today. Hey, if you have ever tried sweet Green 1267 01:31:00.279 --> 01:31:03.560 from Nitrofrosh, you ought to give it a try. It is an eleven 1268 01:31:03.640 --> 01:31:11.600 percent nitrogen natural furlisure organic type furtilisure. It's based on molasses. Microbial activity 1269 01:31:11.760 --> 01:31:17.479 turns it into a really, really valuable source of nitrogen and other nutrients for 1270 01:31:17.680 --> 01:31:21.640 your lawn. Sweet green has a wonderful sweet smell. It's molasses based, 1271 01:31:21.760 --> 01:31:26.199 so it's kind of fun driving around with it in the car with you. 1272 01:31:26.600 --> 01:31:30.399 It works well, and sweet Greens available wherever you get nitrofoss products, which 1273 01:31:30.520 --> 01:31:32.680 is all over the place. You can get it. Plants for all seasons 1274 01:31:32.760 --> 01:31:36.800 up there on Tomball Parkway. You can get sweet Green at Plants and Things 1275 01:31:36.880 --> 01:31:41.840 and Brennam. You can go down to Lake Hardware in Angleton and find it 1276 01:31:41.960 --> 01:31:45.079 down there as well. Sweet greens easy to find, as are all the 1277 01:31:45.159 --> 01:31:50.119 nitrofosh products. I was talking with Bob out in Brazilia here and Bob we 1278 01:31:50.159 --> 01:31:54.279 were talking about mulching and other things. Where do we drop off? I 1279 01:31:54.439 --> 01:31:58.880 lost track? All right, we're talking about and the alkalinity and the acidity 1280 01:31:59.000 --> 01:32:08.319 of your concrete fertilizers. Go talk to your high school science teacher and you 1281 01:32:08.399 --> 01:32:13.039 know, yeah lime lime with an acid on it. That doesn't work well, 1282 01:32:14.159 --> 01:32:18.760 right, Yeah, and uh, for many years I have always gone 1283 01:32:18.920 --> 01:32:25.199 followed my fertilizing by washing the fertilizer off of all my concrete. Yeah, 1284 01:32:25.560 --> 01:32:29.840 and areas where I didn't over years it looked bad. But I'll just let 1285 01:32:29.880 --> 01:32:34.880 you go with that. And I'm a big proponent of the mulching kids. 1286 01:32:34.920 --> 01:32:36.960 I'll let you get to your next color. Thank you for your time, 1287 01:32:38.199 --> 01:32:39.960 Yeah, Hey, thank you, and hang around. I'm gonna make a 1288 01:32:39.960 --> 01:32:43.680 few more comments about all that. Uh, there are other reasons that we 1289 01:32:43.840 --> 01:32:47.319 want to get that fertilizer off if it has iron in it, iron products 1290 01:32:47.399 --> 01:32:50.479 if you're going in to add an iron supplement to your lawn, or furlicures 1291 01:32:50.520 --> 01:32:55.039 than iron. When you get iron on concrete and it gets wet, you 1292 01:32:55.079 --> 01:32:58.560 get a little rust spots or rust stains or rust streaks if there's enough of 1293 01:32:58.640 --> 01:33:00.199 it on there, and so yo want to get it off for that reason. 1294 01:33:00.279 --> 01:33:04.840 Another reason is when fertilizer washes off your driveway, it goes down into 1295 01:33:04.920 --> 01:33:10.119 the drain and it's going to end up in somebody of water somewhere. All 1296 01:33:10.520 --> 01:33:15.199 land drains to somebody of water, and so when you're putting a nitrogen and 1297 01:33:15.439 --> 01:33:19.600 especially also a phosphorus impact into the water solution that's running out into creeks and 1298 01:33:19.720 --> 01:33:26.239 streams and in some parts of the state aquifers, it causes algal blooms. 1299 01:33:26.319 --> 01:33:30.119 Algae takes off, which results in fish kills. It's an environmental degradation. 1300 01:33:30.720 --> 01:33:33.920 And you paid for the fertilizer, So get your little blower and blow it 1301 01:33:34.000 --> 01:33:38.640 onto the lawn. When you get through fertilizing, A lot of spreaders have 1302 01:33:38.760 --> 01:33:42.279 little fins that you drop to the side and it keeps the fertilizer from going 1303 01:33:42.560 --> 01:33:45.920 in that direction. As you're going along the curb side or the driveway side. 1304 01:33:45.199 --> 01:33:49.000 But always finish off with blowing that back end. You paid for it, 1305 01:33:49.239 --> 01:33:53.560 Go ahead and use it to grow a green lawn rather than a green 1306 01:33:53.800 --> 01:33:59.760 creek, if you know what I mean. Absolutely true the case the folks. 1307 01:34:00.000 --> 01:34:03.199 ACE Hardware always have what you need for your lawn and your garden and 1308 01:34:03.239 --> 01:34:08.600 your lands, the whole nine yards, any month of the year, it 1309 01:34:08.680 --> 01:34:12.159 doesn't matter. The ACE is the place right now. ACE is a place 1310 01:34:12.199 --> 01:34:15.600 to get your lawn fertilizers. ACE is a place to get your weed control 1311 01:34:15.680 --> 01:34:19.399 products, your pest control, your disease control products. ACE is a place 1312 01:34:19.520 --> 01:34:24.920 to get fire ant the bait. Always start with a bait and then use 1313 01:34:25.000 --> 01:34:29.880 the individual mound treatment products for any that escape. Give the bait a couple 1314 01:34:29.920 --> 01:34:31.520 of weeks to work and just make sure you know what you got. You're 1315 01:34:31.520 --> 01:34:34.439 going to find that they work very well. Follow the label. Follow the 1316 01:34:34.520 --> 01:34:40.199 label. It's mosquito season. They're already starting to show up. I saw 1317 01:34:40.359 --> 01:34:45.600 what was the human disease? Oh my gosh, there's several mosquita diseases. 1318 01:34:45.720 --> 01:34:51.199 There's nile viruses, malaria. I can't remember the one. They've already discovered 1319 01:34:51.239 --> 01:34:56.239 it in Texas somewhere that's already appearing this year. ACE will give you the 1320 01:34:56.319 --> 01:34:59.600 things to control it, like the low granules that you put out that control 1321 01:34:59.640 --> 01:35:03.079 them, Mista sitas or fogers or however you're going about it. ACE is 1322 01:35:03.119 --> 01:35:09.239 the place for that and ACE Hardware. Just go online and type in ACE 1323 01:35:09.600 --> 01:35:14.720 Hardware dot com and find the store locator and find one of the forty stores 1324 01:35:14.760 --> 01:35:18.119 in the Greater Houston area that's close to you. I think that makes it 1325 01:35:18.199 --> 01:35:25.680 pretty pretty darn easy. Landscaper's Pride has a wide variety of products. Yeah, 1326 01:35:25.720 --> 01:35:28.239 I was surprised as I began talking to them as time a couple of 1327 01:35:28.319 --> 01:35:30.520 years ago, or maybe it's just a year year and a half ago, 1328 01:35:31.159 --> 01:35:35.119 about some of the different products that they carry that I wouldn't aware that they 1329 01:35:35.199 --> 01:35:41.520 carried twenty seven different bag products and they also sell bulk too. You can 1330 01:35:41.680 --> 01:35:47.640 find their store their locations at Landscaperspride dot com meaning what stores carry landscapers Pride 1331 01:35:47.680 --> 01:35:55.199 products. Go to Landscaperspride dot com and you know it's all on there. 1332 01:35:55.279 --> 01:35:58.640 You can find they've been around for twenty years. They're always local, their 1333 01:35:58.720 --> 01:36:03.760 top quality resources and with Landscapers Pride. It's basically a one stop shop when 1334 01:36:03.840 --> 01:36:09.119 you want something to grow your plants in that's going to really create beautiful, 1335 01:36:09.239 --> 01:36:15.239 blooming, beautiful productivity. Premium potting soils, they've got it, for example, 1336 01:36:15.319 --> 01:36:20.079 the product Premium potting soil, Spagnum based compost rich potting soil. It's 1337 01:36:20.119 --> 01:36:24.319 good for indoor and outdoor. Got pear light in it. They got some 1338 01:36:24.439 --> 01:36:28.560 of the Color Store slow release fertilizer that feeds up to three months. And 1339 01:36:28.840 --> 01:36:32.439 so you're going to get an expensive route development and really good success with that 1340 01:36:32.600 --> 01:36:36.159 kind of a combination in one mix for your containers. And then they have 1341 01:36:36.319 --> 01:36:40.920 many, many other products available. Just stick around you hear me talk about 1342 01:36:40.960 --> 01:36:46.279 them a lot because landscapers Pride products work. That is a fact. Let's 1343 01:36:46.279 --> 01:36:49.119 see, We're going to go now up to Huntsville and talk to Wanda. 1344 01:36:49.159 --> 01:36:55.000 Hello, Wanda, Hi, how are you. I'm well. I would 1345 01:36:55.159 --> 01:37:00.479 like to know what lengths to cut and how to root them all very cutting. 1346 01:37:01.359 --> 01:37:06.479 Oooh boy. Mulberry being a tree, a woody ornamental plant is a 1347 01:37:06.560 --> 01:37:13.359 little more challenging to root. You need to use what they call semi hardwood 1348 01:37:13.479 --> 01:37:18.239 cuttings. That means something that's not hardwoody, but is a little more in 1349 01:37:18.279 --> 01:37:21.439 a succulent state, so that's going to be some pretty new growth to do 1350 01:37:21.600 --> 01:37:27.079 well. The problem with our trees is this, they start off as a 1351 01:37:27.199 --> 01:37:31.399 seed and they're in a juvenile state, and the juvenile state roots easily. 1352 01:37:31.840 --> 01:37:35.880 So if you had a little mulberry sapling in the flower bed that was three 1353 01:37:36.039 --> 01:37:41.319 four feet high, it would be easy to root cuttings from. Once they 1354 01:37:41.800 --> 01:37:46.399 get larger, the growth becomes mature, and mature wood is much more difficult 1355 01:37:46.439 --> 01:37:49.439 to root. And I think I would have to probably go online and do 1356 01:37:49.560 --> 01:37:57.560 a little search for mulberry rooting, and then I'll tell you what. I'm 1357 01:37:57.560 --> 01:38:00.000 going to give you a little formula here to type into your search engine to 1358 01:38:00.079 --> 01:38:09.600 get more specific. Okay, it's you type in the word mulberry tree cutting, 1359 01:38:10.720 --> 01:38:15.880 rooting and then and then this is the most important part. Site colon 1360 01:38:16.039 --> 01:38:26.760 dot ed u s I t E colon dot e d U. What that 1361 01:38:26.920 --> 01:38:29.960 does is it tells Google or whoever your search engine is. It says, 1362 01:38:30.039 --> 01:38:33.359 I want you to find me sites that have the words mulberry tree cutting and 1363 01:38:33.479 --> 01:38:38.640 rooting all in them. But I only want you to look in websites that 1364 01:38:38.920 --> 01:38:45.680 end in dot edu and a university research and educational extension type website and somebody 1365 01:38:45.760 --> 01:38:50.279 across the country. You're going to find some extensive information that goes into the 1366 01:38:50.319 --> 01:38:55.359 depth of how do you root a mulberry cutting? And that auto that's the 1367 01:38:55.479 --> 01:38:58.479 best suggestion that I can give you, just off the top of my head. 1368 01:38:59.359 --> 01:39:00.640 All right, all right, want to thank you for the call. 1369 01:39:00.800 --> 01:39:08.279 I appreciate that. If you love to use organic products in your landscape, 1370 01:39:08.359 --> 01:39:12.600 and a whole lot of people do, and very very popular Microlife fertilizers. 1371 01:39:12.720 --> 01:39:15.800 It's a wide range of fertilizers that they have at Microlife. They really fit 1372 01:39:15.880 --> 01:39:19.399 the bill. The green bag six' two four that is a standard for 1373 01:39:19.479 --> 01:39:25.159 lawn fertilization. It works very well. It releases of nutrients slowly over time. 1374 01:39:25.800 --> 01:39:29.840 Not that you don't get some immediately. You do get some pretty quick. 1375 01:39:30.279 --> 01:39:33.119 But it's organic. So what has to happen is microbes grab those particles 1376 01:39:33.159 --> 01:39:36.399 and they chew them up and they release the nutrients. That's a kind of 1377 01:39:38.039 --> 01:39:42.840 fast version of how it works. Microlife Purple bag, the Humates plus that 1378 01:39:43.079 --> 01:39:47.279 is a soil enhancing product. Humate is concentrated compost in a bag and it 1379 01:39:47.399 --> 01:39:51.840 helps build the soil quality and again support that microbial content in the soil. 1380 01:39:53.399 --> 01:39:57.159 Now's the time to get these out. Now is the time they're on my 1381 01:39:57.319 --> 01:40:00.760 schedule. If you go to gardening with Skip dot com, I'm gardening with 1382 01:40:00.920 --> 01:40:02.920 Skip dot com. Look at my lawn care schedule. You'll find Microlife on 1383 01:40:03.000 --> 01:40:06.359 there and it needs to be applied. Now. You can go to Microlife 1384 01:40:06.399 --> 01:40:12.680 Fertilizer dot com Microlife Fertilizer dot com and find out all the stores the carry 1385 01:40:12.760 --> 01:40:16.479 Microlife. It's one of the most widely available fertilizers in the Greater Houston area. 1386 01:40:17.039 --> 01:40:19.960 We're going to go out now to Hockley and talk to Rusty. Hello, 1387 01:40:20.079 --> 01:40:24.960 Rusty, Hello, how you do. I'm good, sir. Got 1388 01:40:25.039 --> 01:40:30.319 a couple questions fire as in my vegetable garden? Okay, how to get 1389 01:40:30.479 --> 01:40:35.920 how to get rid of my tride vinegar and water and borax? And that 1390 01:40:36.760 --> 01:40:41.039 just makes them mad. I think, yeah, don't don't do any of 1391 01:40:41.119 --> 01:40:45.359 those anymore. Uh. What what I would recommend is you want to get 1392 01:40:45.399 --> 01:40:47.239 a bait. Now, there's two ways to go about it. The only 1393 01:40:47.359 --> 01:40:53.119 bait that I know of labeled for vegetable gardens, and there may be some 1394 01:40:53.279 --> 01:40:57.319 I'm not aware of. Is called come and get it, Come and get 1395 01:40:57.359 --> 01:41:00.640 it, let me get it by fertilan. It's a spinosa. It is 1396 01:41:00.720 --> 01:41:05.359 the insecticide, and it's an organic insecticide in it. But it's a bait 1397 01:41:05.520 --> 01:41:09.760 and you can use that all around the vegetable garden. Don't dump it on 1398 01:41:09.920 --> 01:41:13.039 mounds. Use it like a bit, just scatter it loosely. You want 1399 01:41:13.119 --> 01:41:15.560 the workers to go out there and find it and bring it back to the 1400 01:41:15.640 --> 01:41:18.960 mound. But come and get it to work pretty well. Some people. 1401 01:41:19.600 --> 01:41:25.279 You can't use things like amdro and extinguish and other fire baits in the vegetable 1402 01:41:25.319 --> 01:41:28.520 garden, but some people will put those around the garden in the yard, 1403 01:41:28.680 --> 01:41:30.640 and you're going to have workers that are going out there and bringing some back. 1404 01:41:31.079 --> 01:41:33.840 But I think I would would go with the come and get it if 1405 01:41:33.880 --> 01:41:38.680 your garden is of a decent size, because that way you know you're getting 1406 01:41:38.680 --> 01:41:42.760 the baits there where they live. And if not, if it's just like 1407 01:41:42.880 --> 01:41:45.119 a four foot wide bed, then just put any kind of fire bait all 1408 01:41:45.199 --> 01:41:51.319 around the garden. I got you. Sound good. One more quick question, 1409 01:41:53.199 --> 01:41:57.439 macubate of plants you're about to flip high? Okay? Trying too trying 1410 01:41:57.479 --> 01:42:02.039 to bloom. I use this market life of them. Visit it'mo can at 1411 01:42:02.920 --> 01:42:09.680 fly Matt when to apply micro life to him? Yeah, I hope they're 1412 01:42:09.680 --> 01:42:12.720 al If they're a flood high, I'm gonna do it too soon. No, 1413 01:42:12.920 --> 01:42:15.760 no, do it now, do it now, and I probably do 1414 01:42:15.840 --> 01:42:18.399 it again like four weeks later. Yeah, you want to keep those scoring 1415 01:42:18.720 --> 01:42:24.319 yep about it? All right? Thank you sir? All right, thank 1416 01:42:24.359 --> 01:42:28.079 you, Rusty. Appreciate. I appreciate you. Take care, appreciate that 1417 01:42:28.199 --> 01:42:31.960 call. Uh. You know, Affordable Tree Service is a company that I 1418 01:42:32.199 --> 01:42:35.920 trust and you should trust too. Martin Spoon Moore and his wife the owners. 1419 01:42:36.039 --> 01:42:39.600 They answer the phone, by the way, the phone number seven to 1420 01:42:39.600 --> 01:42:43.600 one three six nine nine twenty six sixty three. You can go to their 1421 01:42:43.640 --> 01:42:47.399 website aff tree Service dot com. Hire Martin to come out and give you 1422 01:42:47.479 --> 01:42:50.279 a consultation. Cost one hundred and fifty bucks. If you harm to do 1423 01:42:50.359 --> 01:42:54.079 the work, it goes right into the cost of the work. He's a 1424 01:42:54.159 --> 01:42:58.119 professional. He will not mess up your trees. Don't take chances on having 1425 01:42:58.159 --> 01:43:00.640 your yard guy or some guy with business card he's stuck in your door. 1426 01:43:01.000 --> 01:43:06.199 Don't take chances on them on your valuable valuable trees. Call off Martin at 1427 01:43:06.199 --> 01:43:11.319 Affordable Tree Service and get the job done right. He stays busy. Tell 1428 01:43:11.399 --> 01:43:15.439 him your Guardenline listener for a head of the line service time for Nicky in 1429 01:43:15.479 --> 01:43:19.000 the news. We'll be right back. Welcome back to guard Line. Good 1430 01:43:19.039 --> 01:43:23.720 to have you with us today. We are looking forward to talking to you 1431 01:43:23.760 --> 01:43:27.359 about the things that interest you in gardening, and we're going to start off 1432 01:43:27.399 --> 01:43:33.600 by going straight out to Sandy and Cyprus. Hello Sandy, good morning morning. 1433 01:43:33.960 --> 01:43:41.680 I have a question. I had planted some black, beauty and blue 1434 01:43:42.000 --> 01:43:46.520 in my containers and they're doing good. I put a tomato cage around it. 1435 01:43:46.840 --> 01:43:51.680 Was that should I have not done that to put a tomato cage around 1436 01:43:51.720 --> 01:43:56.560 it? No, that's fine, that's fine. And then I've got lots 1437 01:43:56.560 --> 01:44:00.680 of duelings on him, but lots of flowers and stuff on them. But 1438 01:44:01.119 --> 01:44:06.560 there's no egg plant. Absolutely, Yeah, flowers are there for weeks. 1439 01:44:06.800 --> 01:44:12.000 Yeah that you know that happens from time to time. Eggplants not setting really 1440 01:44:12.079 --> 01:44:15.760 well, and there are different possible causes for it. I find that usually 1441 01:44:15.840 --> 01:44:19.479 they settle down and do just fine. Is it getting it's getting adequate sunlight? 1442 01:44:19.560 --> 01:44:26.640 I assume yes, okay. Uh So, I think you're kind of 1443 01:44:26.720 --> 01:44:30.720 doing what you can do, probably providing adequate moisture good for a good uh 1444 01:44:31.319 --> 01:44:34.840 uh fertilization. You know, plenty of nutrientsfer it to do, but not 1445 01:44:34.960 --> 01:44:41.399 excessive amounts of fertilization. I think that that's pretty much the important thing, 1446 01:44:41.720 --> 01:44:45.680 uh to. And I think it'll settle down. I've had flower drop and 1447 01:44:45.720 --> 01:44:48.479 I kind of wonder sometimes, well, you know, where the bees not 1448 01:44:48.600 --> 01:44:51.119 present, you know, some rainy weather, the honey bees didn't want to 1449 01:44:51.159 --> 01:44:55.439 get out and do the work or something. But I think it'll settle down. 1450 01:44:55.479 --> 01:44:59.760 It always has for me, at least. Well, I'm wondering because 1451 01:44:59.840 --> 01:45:05.399 I I fertilized it. Maybe I'm fertilizing it too much because I did it 1452 01:45:06.359 --> 01:45:12.600 last Friday and the friday before, so I was fertilizing it once a week 1453 01:45:13.039 --> 01:45:18.159 like I do. My okra into beltuppers in had opinions. But they're doing 1454 01:45:18.279 --> 01:45:23.000 fine. Yeah, And you shouldn't have to fertilize anything that often unless you're 1455 01:45:23.039 --> 01:45:28.800 just using a tiny amount of fertilizer when you do that. But either way, 1456 01:45:29.439 --> 01:45:31.359 just a moderate amount of fertilizer. Don't push them with too much with 1457 01:45:31.479 --> 01:45:39.560 a lot of our nightshade family plants, that's peppers, tomatoes, eggplant or 1458 01:45:39.640 --> 01:45:44.119 examples. When you push them with too much excessive nitrogen, you end up 1459 01:45:44.159 --> 01:45:48.199 with some problems with fruiting fruit development. I think that possibly could be causing 1460 01:45:48.239 --> 01:45:53.199 it. So let's just hold off. If you fertilize once a month, 1461 01:45:53.439 --> 01:45:58.800 that's enough for a vegetable garden. Okay, all right, that's it. 1462 01:45:58.960 --> 01:46:00.439 Thank you so very much. All right, thank you for the call. 1463 01:46:00.520 --> 01:46:06.399 I appreciate that, aye h. In Chenned Gardens out of Richmond is one 1464 01:46:06.399 --> 01:46:11.359 of those show places. It's one of the destination places. And I've been 1465 01:46:11.399 --> 01:46:13.319 out there. I think I said this before, but I've been out there, 1466 01:46:13.319 --> 01:46:15.279 and there's people from Austin, Texas drove all the way over to a 1467 01:46:15.399 --> 01:46:19.000 Chenni Gardens and Richmond because they love the place. They got to see the 1468 01:46:19.039 --> 01:46:26.039 place. Remember, we were fortunate here to have incredible mom and pop independent 1469 01:46:26.119 --> 01:46:30.520 garden centers, and in Chenna Gardens is just exactly that. They're on three 1470 01:46:30.680 --> 01:46:33.840 fifty nine just north of Richmond. If you're heading up toward Katie fulsher direction 1471 01:46:34.000 --> 01:46:42.239 on FM three fifty nine. The website Enchanted Gardens Richmond dot com Enchanted Gardens 1472 01:46:42.439 --> 01:46:45.880 Richmond dot com. They are going to have every kind of plant you can 1473 01:46:45.960 --> 01:46:48.640 imagine. They're gonna have knowledgeable staff, friendly staff to greet you, to 1474 01:46:48.800 --> 01:46:54.199 help you have success. No matter what you're wanting to grow, they can 1475 01:46:54.319 --> 01:46:57.840 provide it and all the things that go with it, including the fertilizers I 1476 01:46:57.920 --> 01:47:03.319 recommend on guardenline, including gorgeous, beautiful containers. Our gift shop is beautiful. 1477 01:47:04.039 --> 01:47:09.840 It just fairy gardens. I mean, it just doesn't stop at Enchanted 1478 01:47:10.000 --> 01:47:13.960 Gardens Richmond dot com. Go check them out today, be a good day. 1479 01:47:14.000 --> 01:47:16.600 They're open Sunday from ten am to four pm. So go check them 1480 01:47:16.600 --> 01:47:20.520 out this afternoon. You'll see what I'm talking about. Let's go to spring. 1481 01:47:20.600 --> 01:47:25.159 Now we're going to talk to Cindy. Hello, Sindy, Hello, 1482 01:47:25.520 --> 01:47:31.039 good morning. So did you get my pictures and in with the skinny pine 1483 01:47:31.079 --> 01:47:35.720 tree? Let me see. I have to look and see. I don't 1484 01:47:35.880 --> 01:47:43.880 see a picture. When did you send this Sunday exactly? Oh? Let 1485 01:47:43.920 --> 01:47:49.640 me look this morning? No, no, last week, oh, last 1486 01:47:49.680 --> 01:47:56.399 week. Okay, I'm looking as under your name, Sindy. Well, 1487 01:47:56.479 --> 01:48:00.920 let's go ahead and I'm gonna keep looking and you describe the describe what your 1488 01:48:00.319 --> 01:48:04.399 you have to me March thirty first is when I sent it in. Okay, 1489 01:48:04.960 --> 01:48:10.600 April, okay, April. At any rate, you would have to 1490 01:48:10.640 --> 01:48:15.560 look at it. It definitely is visible on the needs. So it's like 1491 01:48:16.319 --> 01:48:24.800 bearing from the base up to about half well about two quarters of the tree, 1492 01:48:25.560 --> 01:48:30.199 well maybe half anyway, it's just dying and then then it's back to 1493 01:48:30.319 --> 01:48:35.680 life at the very tip. It's very interesting. I've sprayed it with bungey 1494 01:48:35.760 --> 01:48:41.640 sides and it's been like this all year. So are you describing that the 1495 01:48:41.760 --> 01:48:45.880 older needles have dropped off and the ends of the branches still have living needles. 1496 01:48:47.439 --> 01:48:51.319 You said a pine tree, right, Well, I'm assuming it's a 1497 01:48:51.359 --> 01:48:58.479 pine tree. It's straight like an arrow, and it definitely has pine needles, 1498 01:48:59.000 --> 01:49:03.960 but it's ornamental. Ornamental. Okay, Well you're for some reason your 1499 01:49:04.000 --> 01:49:11.920 email did not did not come through it. Just resend it and what I'll 1500 01:49:11.960 --> 01:49:14.760 do is I will take a look at it, and then i'll if I 1501 01:49:14.840 --> 01:49:16.319 get it in the email, I'll take a look at and i'll comment on 1502 01:49:16.439 --> 01:49:23.560 the air. But let me double check the email address skip biker at No, 1503 01:49:23.920 --> 01:49:26.239 no, no, not that one. Let me I'm going to put 1504 01:49:26.279 --> 01:49:30.239 you on hold, and uh, Josh, we'll get you an email here. 1505 01:49:30.560 --> 01:49:32.720 Okay, all right, we'll take care of that. Uh. If 1506 01:49:33.119 --> 01:49:38.640 you are looking for one stop shopping for everything that you would need to take 1507 01:49:38.680 --> 01:49:41.479 care of your plants, your gardens, your lawns, all of that, 1508 01:49:42.119 --> 01:49:46.880 Southwest Fertilizer has got to be the ultimate place. Southwest Fertilizer is in southwest 1509 01:49:46.880 --> 01:49:50.279 Houston. Of course, it's on the corner of Bissinette and Runwick. You 1510 01:49:50.319 --> 01:49:54.039 ought to write down the email, excuse me, the email. You ought 1511 01:49:54.079 --> 01:49:59.920 to write down the website Southwest Fertilizer dot com, Southwest Fertilizer dot com. 1512 01:50:00.199 --> 01:50:05.000 And here's the phone number seven one three six six six seventeen forty four. 1513 01:50:06.079 --> 01:50:11.039 If I talk about a fertilizer, it's at Southwest Fertilizer, and they're going 1514 01:50:11.119 --> 01:50:14.760 to have a lot, lot more. If I talk about a pest control, 1515 01:50:15.000 --> 01:50:18.119 a disease control, a weed control, their selection is like none I've 1516 01:50:18.119 --> 01:50:20.960 ever seen. And I don't mean in Houston, I mean anywhere. I've 1517 01:50:21.039 --> 01:50:26.359 never seen a place that stocks as much stuff as Southwest Fertilizer. If you 1518 01:50:26.479 --> 01:50:29.840 need tools, well you got an eighty foot wall of tools to choose from. 1519 01:50:30.439 --> 01:50:31.760 Do you need small engine repair, Yeah, they do that too. 1520 01:50:31.880 --> 01:50:38.039 They have a good old fashioned one of those seed can racks where you go 1521 01:50:38.159 --> 01:50:40.720 in and take a little scoops of seed out. They sell seed by the 1522 01:50:40.800 --> 01:50:43.960 packet too. It's just anything you can think of. Do you need a 1523 01:50:44.039 --> 01:50:46.079 fertilizer spreader. Do you need a spreader to put out fireing bait? Do 1524 01:50:46.159 --> 01:50:50.039 you need fireing bait? They've got all of that at Southwest Fertilizer. It's 1525 01:50:50.399 --> 01:50:55.479 it's just the place you need to stop. Just count on it as being 1526 01:50:55.560 --> 01:50:59.880 the source of anything you need to have a bountiful garden and a beautiful lens. 1527 01:51:00.479 --> 01:51:03.079 They specialize in that. Bob and his team, Aaron and all of 1528 01:51:03.159 --> 01:51:06.640 them very knowledgeable. They can help you. They can direct you to the 1529 01:51:06.800 --> 01:51:10.479 things that you need. They will not send you to sell you something you 1530 01:51:10.520 --> 01:51:13.760 don't need that doesn't work. They know what they're talking about. Its Southwest 1531 01:51:13.800 --> 01:51:16.560 Fertilizer. I highly recommend that. For example, barricade. You know have 1532 01:51:16.680 --> 01:51:21.079 you put out barricade? This spring barricade is a product from nitrofoss. It 1533 01:51:21.159 --> 01:51:26.640 goes down and then you spread it according to the label rate evenly through your 1534 01:51:26.720 --> 01:51:29.399 lawn, watered in with a half inch of water. It soaks in and 1535 01:51:29.479 --> 01:51:32.520 the soil ties it up. It doesn't wash away because the way it works 1536 01:51:32.640 --> 01:51:35.279 is it's got to be there in the soil surface. So when a weed 1537 01:51:35.359 --> 01:51:41.279 seed sprouts, it shuts it down. Barricade keeps you from ever seeing the 1538 01:51:41.319 --> 01:51:45.079 weed in the first place, and Bob carries it Southwest Fertilizer. A lot 1539 01:51:45.119 --> 01:51:48.800 of places carry nitrofoss products. But that's just an example of one of the 1540 01:51:48.880 --> 01:51:53.279 many products that you will find at Southwest Fertilizer. We're going to take a 1541 01:51:53.279 --> 01:51:58.359 little break here. We'll be right back. Welcome back to Guardline. Good 1542 01:51:58.439 --> 01:52:00.640 have you with us? Hey, here's the phone number like you're able us 1543 01:52:00.640 --> 01:52:04.319 to call seven one three two one two five eight seven four seven one three 1544 01:52:04.399 --> 01:52:10.079 two one two fifty eight seventy four. Now have you been to Nelson water 1545 01:52:10.159 --> 01:52:14.439 Garden out in Katie yet? I should say water garden, uh, nursery 1546 01:52:14.479 --> 01:52:16.239 and water garden. You know they do have a nursery. Of course, 1547 01:52:16.840 --> 01:52:19.840 I could just go on and on about the water garden part. I've never 1548 01:52:19.960 --> 01:52:25.319 seen a more beautiful place, a more destination. Gotta go see it, 1549 01:52:25.600 --> 01:52:30.159 inspirational place when it comes to water gardens and Nelson Water Garden. But then 1550 01:52:30.239 --> 01:52:33.640 Nelson Nursery. Oh my goodness, they have a shrub. I don't talk 1551 01:52:33.680 --> 01:52:36.199 about this shrub more and I should. It's a brune Failsa. It's called 1552 01:52:36.920 --> 01:52:42.239 Yesterday, Today, and tomorrow because the flowers change color over three days as 1553 01:52:42.239 --> 01:52:45.279 they come out. It's real cool, old time Southern shrub. They've got 1554 01:52:45.359 --> 01:52:48.399 it. They have things like yarrow plants. They got a good stock of 1555 01:52:48.520 --> 01:52:54.880 salvia's and fire bush, the little compact types of fire bush and porterweed and 1556 01:52:54.960 --> 01:52:58.560 a bill. It's just it's a nursery. They have a nursery. But 1557 01:52:58.680 --> 01:53:02.720 when you get out there and you see the water falls that they can build 1558 01:53:03.079 --> 01:53:09.479 at your place, the disappearing fountains, like the little large container with water 1559 01:53:09.640 --> 01:53:14.159 coming out that they if it wouldn't even have watered it, it'd be gorgeous 1560 01:53:14.199 --> 01:53:16.520 to set out in the landscape. But it's got water circulating which brings in 1561 01:53:16.600 --> 01:53:20.680 the birds and the sound of water, which is so peaceful. Nelson Watergarden 1562 01:53:21.199 --> 01:53:25.800 and nursery. That it's Katie Fort Benroad. So you got to Katie on 1563 01:53:25.880 --> 01:53:29.720 Ien. Turn right on Katie Fort Benroad, just a cross over the oh 1564 01:53:30.000 --> 01:53:33.279 stone's throw from Ien. You gotta go check it out again. It's a 1565 01:53:33.359 --> 01:53:40.199 destination if you want the website Nelsonwatergardens dot com, if you want the email 1566 01:53:40.399 --> 01:53:45.239 or the phone number two eight one thirty nine to one forty seven sixty nine. 1567 01:53:48.159 --> 01:53:51.920 Let's go now out to Clear Lake and we're going to talk to Don. 1568 01:53:53.000 --> 01:53:57.039 Hello, Don, Hi, how you doing. I'm well, sir. 1569 01:53:57.119 --> 01:54:02.319 What's up today? I got two things I've called in before. This 1570 01:54:02.520 --> 01:54:09.439 is my third attempt at an indoor ficus tree, and it's already not going 1571 01:54:09.520 --> 01:54:15.399 so well. So we bought it. We brought it home and immediately started 1572 01:54:15.479 --> 01:54:18.000 dropping leaves. So it was in the house for about a week, and 1573 01:54:18.159 --> 01:54:23.680 my wife went ahead and put it outside yesterday, thinking that maybe it's lack 1574 01:54:23.720 --> 01:54:28.760 of humidity. Now we keep our house at about seventy to seventy five degrees, 1575 01:54:29.239 --> 01:54:34.199 okay, and so, and then we didn't We didn't transplant it. 1576 01:54:34.279 --> 01:54:36.800 We thought, well, we'll just keep it in its pot for a month 1577 01:54:36.920 --> 01:54:41.760 till it's stable until we transplant it. Is there anything here that I'm doing 1578 01:54:41.840 --> 01:54:45.520 wrong? Well? First of all, Ficus. First of all, do 1579 01:54:45.600 --> 01:54:49.880 you have the Fiddley fig or the ficus that has a smaller fig or smaller 1580 01:54:49.960 --> 01:54:56.479 leaves on it. What kind of ficus do you have? The smaller leaves. 1581 01:54:56.600 --> 01:55:00.680 The Fiddley fig is doing fine in the house. Okay, here's the 1582 01:55:00.760 --> 01:55:05.560 thing about vicus. When you change the light intensity pretty significantly, they drop 1583 01:55:05.720 --> 01:55:11.800 leaves. They that's how they adjust to the new location. And so if 1584 01:55:11.880 --> 01:55:14.520 it was growing in low light, now it's in highlight. If it's growing, 1585 01:55:14.680 --> 01:55:17.159 especially growing in better light, and you bring it indoors where it's never 1586 01:55:17.239 --> 01:55:21.720 as good as it is typically where the plants are being grown, they will 1587 01:55:21.800 --> 01:55:26.479 often drop their leaves, but they'll relief. So if that happened pretty quick 1588 01:55:26.560 --> 01:55:30.720 in the first few weeks of that plant being in your house, that's probably 1589 01:55:30.840 --> 01:55:34.319 what it is. Just continue to monitor the soul moisture, keep it adequately 1590 01:55:34.439 --> 01:55:40.640 moist and it'll relief and you should be okay on it. So I should 1591 01:55:40.640 --> 01:55:45.079 go ahead and bring it back into the house. Then, uh, where 1592 01:55:45.119 --> 01:55:47.479 do you want it to be? Outside? Or inside? Longer term? 1593 01:55:47.640 --> 01:55:50.720 Inside? Okay? Inside? Yeah, good, And go ahead and bring 1594 01:55:50.760 --> 01:55:54.560 it back in. It will adjust to that. It's going to grow settle 1595 01:55:54.640 --> 01:55:59.399 lot and go ahead, And is it a good idea? Just to keep 1596 01:55:59.439 --> 01:56:03.800 it in it's container until it, you know, bounces out. Yeah, 1597 01:56:03.840 --> 01:56:08.239 I would. I would. If you want to repot it, you can 1598 01:56:08.319 --> 01:56:10.399 do that. I mean, there's no problem repotting it. Now. Are 1599 01:56:10.439 --> 01:56:13.640 you want to put in a bigger container or just a pretty yer container or 1600 01:56:13.680 --> 01:56:19.960 what a bigger long term you can do that now, there's not a problem 1601 01:56:20.199 --> 01:56:26.199 either way. It's just it's going to go through that reliefing and if you 1602 01:56:26.319 --> 01:56:30.039 have decent light inside, it should be fine. They do like a light. 1603 01:56:31.680 --> 01:56:34.439 Yeah, We've got this one now in a very bright room. So 1604 01:56:34.520 --> 01:56:39.199 okay, I think it's the best chance for we have. This is the 1605 01:56:39.319 --> 01:56:42.000 third attempt, so I don't know. If this one doesn't make it, 1606 01:56:42.399 --> 01:56:46.239 that might be done, but we'll see again. I got another question. 1607 01:56:46.560 --> 01:56:53.119 Okay, we have a peacon tree that's been planted for about five years. 1608 01:56:54.000 --> 01:56:57.880 It's about three and a half feet tall, and we're wanting to move it 1609 01:56:58.000 --> 01:57:02.479 from one house to another house. Okay, is this a good idea and 1610 01:57:03.079 --> 01:57:08.600 should be higher professional? And do you know one that is in the clear 1611 01:57:08.680 --> 01:57:15.000 Lake area? How tall is it? About three and a half feet tall 1612 01:57:15.279 --> 01:57:18.199 and a half You could dig it yourself. Can you wait until fall to 1613 01:57:18.279 --> 01:57:24.439 move it? No? Because what house is being sold next month? Okay? 1614 01:57:26.119 --> 01:57:29.800 If you can dig down it. Is it? Oh boy, was 1615 01:57:30.960 --> 01:57:35.760 it a seedling? Or did you buy it and plant it there? That 1616 01:57:35.880 --> 01:57:40.560 they had bought it and planted it? Okay, if you can dig down 1617 01:57:40.640 --> 01:57:44.239 it, mainly they have kind of a tap type root, and get a 1618 01:57:44.319 --> 01:57:47.880 lot of that root, get some soil with it. You can't just physically. 1619 01:57:48.039 --> 01:57:51.680 The weight of soil is excessive, so it's hard to move much soil. 1620 01:57:53.239 --> 01:57:58.159 But get it up and then wrap it up in like a burlap or 1621 01:57:58.359 --> 01:58:01.560 something even a tarp kind of plastic around the base. Get it to the 1622 01:58:01.640 --> 01:58:06.520 new location, set it at the exact same depth it was before, Settle 1623 01:58:06.600 --> 01:58:10.720 the soil in around it, and then I would throw like a burlap or 1624 01:58:10.800 --> 01:58:14.319 something over it just to give a little shade to the leaves for a little 1625 01:58:14.359 --> 01:58:16.880 while to help it kind of begin to put out new roots. And after 1626 01:58:16.880 --> 01:58:21.199 a couple of weeks pull that off, and I think you can move it 1627 01:58:21.279 --> 01:58:26.359 okay yourself at this time. As far as hiring somebody, that's a pretty 1628 01:58:26.399 --> 01:58:30.359 small job. I don't know how successful you will be. You may have 1629 01:58:30.439 --> 01:58:34.079 a landscaper that comes out and does it, but the value of that plant 1630 01:58:34.680 --> 01:58:40.720 probably wouldn't equal the cost of having somebody move it. Wow, it's a 1631 01:58:40.800 --> 01:58:44.960 sentimental thing. So that's gotcha, got you? Okay? Yeah? Yeah, 1632 01:58:45.319 --> 01:58:48.039 Well you know, you know you could call a landscaper. You could 1633 01:58:48.079 --> 01:58:53.119 talk to Martin spoon more at an Affordable Tree and see what he would charge 1634 01:58:53.199 --> 01:58:57.560 to come out to that location and do the move as well. Okay, 1635 01:58:57.800 --> 01:59:03.439 And what's is how do I get a hold of him? You know? 1636 01:59:03.479 --> 01:59:05.600 In just a second, I'm trying to grab the number. Get it here 1637 01:59:05.640 --> 01:59:10.279 in front of me, Martin spoon Milk. Yeah. The website is aff 1638 01:59:10.439 --> 01:59:15.760 Tree Service dot com. The phone number is seven one three six nine nine 1639 01:59:15.279 --> 01:59:21.680 twenty six sixty three. Yeah, that's it. Hey, I got a 1640 01:59:21.760 --> 01:59:26.960 run. We're bought up against a heart break here. But good luck with 1641 01:59:27.039 --> 01:59:30.920 that. Wish you well, hope that does well. Uh you've heard me 1642 01:59:30.000 --> 01:59:34.840 talk about nutri Star Genesis from Nelson's before. It's a six to one three 1643 01:59:35.000 --> 01:59:41.560 natural fertilizer full of all kinds of microbial activity, bacteria and endo and ectomycorrhizal 1644 01:59:41.640 --> 01:59:45.720 fungi. You put it in the soil you're going to transplant into. Uh 1645 01:59:45.880 --> 01:59:47.359 So, if you're maybe you bought a plant, a little four inch pot 1646 01:59:47.479 --> 01:59:49.640 or a gallon pot and you're going to move it to a bigger container. 1647 01:59:50.119 --> 01:59:54.399 Get that potting soul, put the nutri Star Genesis in it, follow the 1648 01:59:54.479 --> 01:59:57.960 label watered in well, and you're going to see results. I've done it 1649 01:59:58.079 --> 02:00:00.159 when I was bumping up some vegetable I was growing, I've done it. 1650 02:00:00.399 --> 02:00:02.680 You can put it in like you're gonna plant roses. You can put it 1651 02:00:02.680 --> 02:00:09.039 in the soil around roses too. Nutri Star Genesis works very well and it 1652 02:00:09.439 --> 02:00:13.079 is a natural product, and so it's one that I think you are going 1653 02:00:13.159 --> 02:00:16.079 to enjoy. Use. Comes in little canisters, little plastic containers with a 1654 02:00:16.119 --> 02:00:21.399 screw top lid. I keep it on hand because I'm always planting something. 1655 02:00:21.520 --> 02:00:26.239 I mean, aren't you putting in new containers on the patio? Maybe putting 1656 02:00:26.279 --> 02:00:28.680 in a bed and you got a bed and you want to plant a plant 1657 02:00:28.760 --> 02:00:31.199 and get some nutrient around the roots as you do that. It's made for 1658 02:00:31.319 --> 02:00:36.479 transplant. That's why they call it Genesis. Transplant mix works really well. 1659 02:00:36.840 --> 02:00:41.880 You know, we love garden centers here on Garden Line and Spring Creek Feed 1660 02:00:42.000 --> 02:00:46.359 Center is it's a place that you will enjoy going into. It's very beautiful. 1661 02:00:46.399 --> 02:00:49.960 I mean that what they have inside all kinds of things you know. 1662 02:00:50.000 --> 02:00:54.039 Of course they got feed. Of course they have quality dog food, quality 1663 02:00:54.159 --> 02:00:58.600 animal food. In general. Their garden section just continues to get a little 1664 02:00:58.640 --> 02:01:00.720 bit bigger and better. They want a bit more plants this year that they 1665 02:01:00.800 --> 02:01:04.760 have outside at Spring Creek Feed. And then if you hear me talk about 1666 02:01:04.760 --> 02:01:09.119 a fertilizer, they're going to carry it. Do you need disease, insect 1667 02:01:09.199 --> 02:01:12.199 and weed control, They've got it. So where is Spring Creek Feed? 1668 02:01:12.279 --> 02:01:16.399 Well? Spring Creek? I ought to tell you Magnolia FM twenty nine seventy 1669 02:01:16.479 --> 02:01:21.000 eight, just minutes away from Graham Parkway in two forty nine. Magnolia FA 1670 02:01:21.399 --> 02:01:26.000 twenty nine seventy eight, Spring Creek Feed Center. You need to go there. 1671 02:01:27.159 --> 02:01:30.520 You're an f FA or for a traising animals, you're a senior citizen 1672 02:01:30.880 --> 02:01:35.560 or military. They've had discounts for you. You've been listening to Guardline. 1673 02:01:35.560 --> 02:01:39.279 I will come back. We got one more hour today before you have to 1674 02:01:39.319 --> 02:01:42.399 put this one in the books. Don't forget that next week I will be 1675 02:01:42.479 --> 02:01:48.159 an Enchanted Forest Nursery and Richmond. That is on FM twenty seven fifty nine 1676 02:01:48.239 --> 02:01:53.560 in Richmond, Texas. If you're heading towards sugarland direction. Just turn right, 1677 02:01:53.760 --> 02:01:57.479 go down, go down that direction. FM twenty seven to fifty nine. 1678 02:01:57.720 --> 02:01:59.920 I'm going to be answering questions. You're going to do something we can 1679 02:02:00.439 --> 02:02:03.399 springtime, Q and A. Your toughest questions, Let's bring them, bring 1680 02:02:03.520 --> 02:02:08.800 me your samples, bring me pictures. Let's fix that. Get a beautiful, 1681 02:02:08.920 --> 02:02:14.680 beautiful landscape and a bountiful guard. Kat r H Garden Line does not 1682 02:02:14.800 --> 02:02:19.359 necessarily endorse any of the products or services advertised on this program. Welcome to 1683 02:02:19.600 --> 02:02:31.920 kat r H Garden Line with Escape Rictor. It's crazy Trim. Just watch 1684 02:02:32.039 --> 02:02:54.920 him as so many things to stay sire, Welcome back to the Garden Line. 1685 02:02:55.000 --> 02:02:57.800 Good to have you with us today. What are we going to talk 1686 02:02:57.800 --> 02:03:01.760 about this last hour of the garden Line weekend. That's right, we got 1687 02:03:01.880 --> 02:03:05.199 one hour left. If you got some gardening questions you'd like to give us 1688 02:03:05.239 --> 02:03:10.279 a call and talk about, well, here's the number seven one three two 1689 02:03:10.319 --> 02:03:15.960 one two k t RH just want to remind you it is time to put 1690 02:03:15.000 --> 02:03:19.399 out your nitropass superturf. That's the silver bag. The silver bag nineteen four 1691 02:03:19.439 --> 02:03:23.319 to ten. You put that on your lawn and what's going to happen well, 1692 02:03:23.359 --> 02:03:26.560 you're going to get gradual feeding over two to three months. It's going 1693 02:03:26.640 --> 02:03:30.520 to provide those nutrients. Behalf the nitrogen is in a slow release form, 1694 02:03:30.880 --> 02:03:33.560 so it doesn't just wash away or volatilize away. It gradually feeds that lawn 1695 02:03:33.680 --> 02:03:38.960 over time, which is how turf takes up nutrients gradually over time. It's 1696 02:03:38.960 --> 02:03:43.279 also got four percent iron for good dark green color. That's important. A 1697 02:03:43.359 --> 02:03:46.800 lot of times iron gets tied up in our soils, and that supplemental iron 1698 02:03:47.000 --> 02:03:50.720 is very helpful for leaviating some of that light green color that you see or 1699 02:03:50.760 --> 02:03:54.960 even the yellowing that you see on your lawn. Where do you get nitrofos 1700 02:03:55.399 --> 02:03:58.479 super turf. Well, it's so widely available. I mean I could just 1701 02:03:58.520 --> 02:04:00.800 say go everywhere. You know, all the hardware stores probably going to carry 1702 02:04:00.880 --> 02:04:04.640 that. You're going to find it at the Arborgate up in Tumbule, you 1703 02:04:04.760 --> 02:04:08.319 find them D and D feed up a tumble. You're gonna find it hiding 1704 02:04:08.399 --> 02:04:11.720 feed over on Stuben or Airline. You're going to find it in Shades of 1705 02:04:11.800 --> 02:04:15.880 Texas, Shade of Texas up in the Woodlands area. Just many, many 1706 02:04:15.000 --> 02:04:17.920 places where you can get this quality product. Don't delay go ahead and get 1707 02:04:17.920 --> 02:04:23.359 it down because our grass is waking up and it's looking for some nutrient to 1708 02:04:23.520 --> 02:04:28.800 support that fast early growth and good density. Important, have good density if 1709 02:04:28.800 --> 02:04:31.680 you want to fight weeds. We're going to go out to Humboldt, Texas 1710 02:04:31.800 --> 02:04:38.079 now and we're going to talk to Laurence. Hello, Lawrence, I'm good, 1711 02:04:38.159 --> 02:04:43.439 sir. How can we help? So? I sent on some pictures 1712 02:04:43.680 --> 02:04:47.600 of my roses. They're looking kind of unhealthy. I saw those. I 1713 02:04:47.720 --> 02:04:53.000 saw those. Yeah, m hm, I guess some of the leaves have 1714 02:04:53.119 --> 02:04:55.880 a couple of brown spots. But yeah, let me let me go through 1715 02:04:55.960 --> 02:05:01.680 them. Your brown spots is that's brown spot U or black spot on roses. 1716 02:05:02.279 --> 02:05:06.000 Black spots a fungal disease. And a lot of the pictures everything's wet, 1717 02:05:06.199 --> 02:05:10.359 and I know they're not wet constantly, but the more often you wet 1718 02:05:10.439 --> 02:05:14.000 the foliage, the worst black spot is going to be. So if you 1719 02:05:14.239 --> 02:05:19.399 can switch from sprinkler irrigation to a drip irrigation, that helps. Every time 1720 02:05:19.479 --> 02:05:24.079 it rains. You can't control that, but you can't control often you wet 1721 02:05:24.159 --> 02:05:28.840 the foliage. Planting things so densely that the air didn't circulate well, that 1722 02:05:29.359 --> 02:05:32.600 makes black spot worse. I saw that. I also saw on the roses 1723 02:05:32.760 --> 02:05:36.159 a few holes in the leaves where something chomped on them. From what I 1724 02:05:36.239 --> 02:05:41.520 can see from the photos, those are that's older damage. So I don't 1725 02:05:41.600 --> 02:05:45.680 know that you have an active feeding insect. And from what I can see, 1726 02:05:45.720 --> 02:05:49.199 it's also a minimal amount of damage that is not going to affect bloom 1727 02:05:49.239 --> 02:05:53.960 production on the roses. So if it were mine, I wouldn't grab anything 1728 02:05:54.039 --> 02:05:58.079 to spray just yet. I don't think that's it. You got some other 1729 02:05:58.159 --> 02:06:01.119 diseases in there. One calls SIRC spur leaf spot. It's a fungal spot. 1730 02:06:01.880 --> 02:06:04.600 But then the other thing is a lot of your blooms are getting those 1731 02:06:04.680 --> 02:06:10.199 brown tips on the edges, and that is a blight. That's a petal 1732 02:06:10.239 --> 02:06:15.359 blight, and again it can be caused by wet conditions. What happens is 1733 02:06:15.439 --> 02:06:20.880 the petal will if it's bad enough, it's like the petals tissues dye and 1734 02:06:21.159 --> 02:06:26.680 dry and the bloom can open. It's like it's sort of glued closed because 1735 02:06:26.720 --> 02:06:31.439 of those hard dried petals. In the case, it's kind of minor, 1736 02:06:31.600 --> 02:06:36.039 and it may also there may be some thrips involved in some of that. 1737 02:06:36.720 --> 02:06:40.880 A couple of year, roses look a little bit like thrips, but I 1738 02:06:40.960 --> 02:06:45.119 still think petal blight is the main thing. Again, it's a disease that 1739 02:06:45.520 --> 02:06:49.720 is favored by wet, humid conditions. There are many fungicides for roses out 1740 02:06:49.760 --> 02:06:55.560 there on the market. You may want to consider starting a spraying schedule for 1741 02:06:55.680 --> 02:07:01.439 these because they apparently are very susceptible to the black spot. Okay, so 1742 02:07:01.520 --> 02:07:05.000 when it gets through raining, go out and spray. I don't spray before 1743 02:07:05.039 --> 02:07:08.399 a rain because it washes it off, but when it gets through, it's 1744 02:07:08.479 --> 02:07:11.199 like, Okay, they're wet, the disease is going to infect, and 1745 02:07:11.319 --> 02:07:16.840 your spray shuts that down. Is there anything you recommended the rose from, 1746 02:07:16.880 --> 02:07:20.840 like ACE? Just they are a number of good products. You know, 1747 02:07:20.880 --> 02:07:25.720 I could say one or two, but just go and look for when ACE 1748 02:07:26.279 --> 02:07:29.000 ask them for a rose funge aside, they're going to have several that you 1749 02:07:29.119 --> 02:07:32.720 can choose from. Some may have propoconazole in them, or there are several 1750 02:07:32.840 --> 02:07:38.600 different fungicide chemistries that are pretty effective, but you want to get one. 1751 02:07:38.720 --> 02:07:43.920 That's where roses are listed. So the particular diseases that attack roses are going 1752 02:07:44.000 --> 02:07:47.880 to be controlled, Okay, thanks, yes, sir, thank you appreciate 1753 02:07:47.960 --> 02:07:53.800 that call very much. RCW talking about roses reminds me of RCW. Do 1754 02:07:53.840 --> 02:07:56.760 you know that they have the largest election of roses in the whole area. 1755 02:07:57.520 --> 02:08:01.119 I mean literally go to the website RCW Nurseries dot com look at the rose 1756 02:08:01.199 --> 02:08:05.239 list. I think it's four pages single space. I mean it's two hundred 1757 02:08:05.239 --> 02:08:09.119 plus roses that they can get there. It is always a good time to 1758 02:08:09.239 --> 02:08:13.520 go visit RCW Nursery. You know, when you go to RCW, you're 1759 02:08:13.520 --> 02:08:18.079 going to find all the different kinds of plants that you would be, you 1760 02:08:18.119 --> 02:08:22.000 know, wanting to growth, you'd be looking at. They got good information, 1761 02:08:22.359 --> 02:08:26.359 they know what they're talking about. And when it comes to roses, 1762 02:08:26.960 --> 02:08:28.880 you're just not going to find a better selection of the roses and that they 1763 02:08:30.000 --> 02:08:33.520 have there. They grow their own trees out in Plantersville. So remember I 1764 02:08:33.600 --> 02:08:35.079 said, today is the day to plant a tree. Got to get it 1765 02:08:35.159 --> 02:08:39.560 going so we can have some summer shades soon. They'll plant it right. 1766 02:08:39.720 --> 02:08:41.359 First of all, they only grow things that do well here, and they 1767 02:08:41.439 --> 02:08:45.720 plan them right, and then you take care of them right, and you're 1768 02:08:45.760 --> 02:08:50.159 off to a good start to have a beautiful beautiful long term tree that adds 1769 02:08:50.199 --> 02:08:54.079 the value of your house. Every fertilizer you hear me talking about is going 1770 02:08:54.159 --> 02:08:58.359 to be there at RCW Nurseries for your lawn, for your other plants as 1771 02:08:58.399 --> 02:09:05.760 well. They're at the corner where Beltway eight and Tomball Parkway FM two forty 1772 02:09:05.880 --> 02:09:09.880 nine come together, so it's really easy to get to check them out. 1773 02:09:09.000 --> 02:09:11.039 You'll see what I'm talking about. I think that I believe they still have 1774 02:09:11.079 --> 02:09:16.960 a discount going on their roses still this month, about ten percent a discount 1775 02:09:16.000 --> 02:09:20.079 going on their roses. Don't quote me on that, but check that out. 1776 02:09:20.119 --> 02:09:24.560 I'm pretty sure that's right. We're going to go out to Richmond now 1777 02:09:24.560 --> 02:09:28.920 and talk to Marv. Hello, Marv, knock that dust off your crystal 1778 02:09:30.000 --> 02:09:31.560 ball and plug it in, would you? Uh? Oh, what's up? 1779 02:09:35.199 --> 02:09:39.079 It looks like it's going to rain this week for a few days, 1780 02:09:39.399 --> 02:09:48.199 and I have about forty six hundred square foot lawn. I saw in my 1781 02:09:48.319 --> 02:09:54.760 garage I found a gallon bucket jahn can of bermudograss seed. I know it's 1782 02:09:54.880 --> 02:09:58.319 forty years old, and I figured, oh, well, what this stuff 1783 02:09:58.359 --> 02:10:03.479 looks like? So I cranked it open this morning and I'm telling you it 1784 02:10:03.600 --> 02:10:07.159 looks like nice, brown, clean roasted peanuts. I have not looked at 1785 02:10:07.199 --> 02:10:11.960 bermudigrass seed. I don't know if that's what bermudigrass seed looks like when you 1786 02:10:13.039 --> 02:10:16.680 buy it now fresh or what. But it is nice and brown, just 1787 02:10:16.920 --> 02:10:22.239 like a good brown roasted peanut. I have no need for this stuff. 1788 02:10:22.279 --> 02:10:28.000 So I'm wondering what if I just took this and spread it over that forty 1789 02:10:28.159 --> 02:10:31.279 six hundred square foot area, and how much would I use or would I 1790 02:10:31.359 --> 02:10:35.039 need to use at all? Because it might not happen about a ten or 1791 02:10:35.079 --> 02:10:37.840 fifteen percent germination rate. Boy, I'll tell you that is a question that 1792 02:10:39.640 --> 02:10:43.279 I cannot answer. I don't I don't have a crystal ball. I'd be 1793 02:10:43.399 --> 02:10:46.520 surprised if forty yearlo bermuda grass seed still is viable. Number One, I 1794 02:10:46.800 --> 02:10:50.720 seriously doubt that it would come up. Number two, you got to be 1795 02:10:50.760 --> 02:10:54.359 careful what you wish for. I don't know what kind of bermuda it is, 1796 02:10:54.479 --> 02:10:56.760 but it may not be something you really want in your lawn even if 1797 02:10:56.800 --> 02:11:01.159 it did come up, And so I might feeling will be to throw the 1798 02:11:01.239 --> 02:11:05.920 thing away. And when you get what you want for your lawn, that's 1799 02:11:05.039 --> 02:11:09.239 fresh and ready to go and plant that all right, Well, I was 1800 02:11:09.359 --> 02:11:13.439 planting, it's grassy. I don't really take care of them out of the 1801 02:11:13.520 --> 02:11:16.680 country, or I really muwed, so I wouldn't that particular. I got 1802 02:11:16.760 --> 02:11:18.239 you. Hey, I'm up against a heartbreak, marvel. I'm sure I 1803 02:11:18.279 --> 02:11:22.159 got a run. But thanks very much, and I appreciate your humor and 1804 02:11:22.239 --> 02:11:24.720 your call. We're going to take a break. We'll be right back. 1805 02:11:24.520 --> 02:11:26.800 Welcome back to the guarden Line. Good to have you with us today. 1806 02:11:28.680 --> 02:11:31.920 We are talking about all kinds of things that are timely really for the season. 1807 02:11:33.640 --> 02:11:37.039 A lot about when it comes to, you know, taking care of 1808 02:11:37.079 --> 02:11:41.680 your lawns and whatnot. If there's anything you learned from Garden Line, I 1809 02:11:43.640 --> 02:11:46.359 well, I hope you learn a lot of things. But one of the 1810 02:11:46.439 --> 02:11:50.640 most important things for success was a secret of success with plants. The secret 1811 02:11:50.720 --> 02:11:54.840 of success with plants is to make sure that when you put that plant in 1812 02:11:54.880 --> 02:12:01.640 the ground, you've put it into plant root, heaven round stuff, soil 1813 02:12:01.119 --> 02:12:05.640 fertilizer that is the key, and heirloom soils that's what they specialize in. 1814 02:12:05.840 --> 02:12:11.239 I've used a number of different products from heirloom soils over the years, and 1815 02:12:11.720 --> 02:12:15.920 not one has let me down yet. They work very well. The veggie 1816 02:12:15.960 --> 02:12:18.119 and herb mix. That's one I've got in a container. I've got it 1817 02:12:18.439 --> 02:12:24.239 and mixed into a soil bed as well. It works well. Veggie nerd 1818 02:12:24.279 --> 02:12:26.439 mix. They got a special right now and it's one hundred and nineteen bucks. 1819 02:12:28.199 --> 02:12:31.079 It's a bulk price per cubic yard. They can deliver it. You 1820 02:12:31.159 --> 02:12:33.720 can go there, they can load it up for you, or they can 1821 02:12:33.760 --> 02:12:37.239 put it in something called a supersack where they can deliver it. Or you 1822 02:12:37.279 --> 02:12:41.880 can go there and have them put the supersack on your trailer. It's a 1823 02:12:41.960 --> 02:12:46.119 cubic yard now. They've got the fruit berry and citrus mix. That's another 1824 02:12:46.199 --> 02:12:50.920 good one. They've got the really high quality leaf mole compost blend as well. 1825 02:12:50.399 --> 02:12:54.960 Heirloom soils is widely available. You're going to find them in just about 1826 02:12:54.239 --> 02:12:58.319 every time I turn around at a garden center or ace hardware store. South 1827 02:12:58.479 --> 02:13:03.199 was all kinds of places I'm seeing heirloom soils. You can go to the 1828 02:13:03.279 --> 02:13:11.439 website Heirloomsoilsoftexas dot com Heirloomsoilsfoftexas dot com and you're gonna find all the places that 1829 02:13:11.560 --> 02:13:16.560 you can get heirloom soil again. Widely available about the bag and it's easy 1830 02:13:16.680 --> 02:13:18.840 to either go get it up in the porter direction, up in that part 1831 02:13:18.880 --> 02:13:22.640 of the of the listening area, pick it up yourself, or call them 1832 02:13:22.800 --> 02:13:26.399 up, have them bring it to your house, dump it on the driveway, 1833 02:13:26.479 --> 02:13:28.920 or set a supersac on your driveway. We're going to go now out 1834 02:13:30.000 --> 02:13:33.359 to Conroe and talk to Jacob. Hello, Jacob, Hey, skip, 1835 02:13:33.640 --> 02:13:39.159 nice to talk to you. I've got a Saint Augustine on that I recently 1836 02:13:39.239 --> 02:13:43.840 had to resawd part of yes, and I've noticed that the parts that are 1837 02:13:43.079 --> 02:13:46.880 getting the most sunlight, you know, the least amount of shade, are 1838 02:13:46.960 --> 02:13:52.039 starting to kind of brown up a little. Okay, is that I'm looking 1839 02:13:52.079 --> 02:13:56.319 for a fertilizer that's good for Saint Augustine, But that would that also be 1840 02:13:56.439 --> 02:14:01.359 like just a watering issue or yeah, it could be. How long ago 1841 02:14:01.600 --> 02:14:07.640 was the lawn established. It's been a while. I put the no. 1842 02:14:07.039 --> 02:14:09.560 I put the sawt down about a week ago, and I have been watering 1843 02:14:09.600 --> 02:14:13.760 it twice a day. I'm wondering if maybe I just didn't put enough water 1844 02:14:13.840 --> 02:14:18.800 on the sunny parts. It's possible. It's very touch and go when you 1845 02:14:18.840 --> 02:14:20.560 first put that sad out there. I mean, if you were to say, 1846 02:14:20.800 --> 02:14:24.279 take a section of sod and set it on the driveway, and go 1847 02:14:24.319 --> 02:14:28.399 ahead and plant the lawn and water the lawn, and then take that last 1848 02:14:28.439 --> 02:14:31.960 section of sod that had sat in the sun for hours while you're planting the 1849 02:14:33.000 --> 02:14:35.800 rest of it and put it in, it would be very hard to keep 1850 02:14:35.840 --> 02:14:39.880 that thing alive because it dries out so much. It would bounce back eventually, 1851 02:14:39.000 --> 02:14:43.760 but it sure would look horrible for a while. So I think it 1852 02:14:43.880 --> 02:14:48.880 could have been a period where the either the soil underneath the sod or the 1853 02:14:48.000 --> 02:14:54.039 sod itself on the grass itself on top got too dry and I would just 1854 02:14:54.439 --> 02:14:58.039 kind of be a little attentive to light frequent waterings to try to bring it 1855 02:14:58.119 --> 02:15:01.479 back. I think it's going to be okay. That's my gut feeling. 1856 02:15:01.880 --> 02:15:05.640 And once it's been in for a couple of weeks, you grab a piece 1857 02:15:05.680 --> 02:15:07.159 of the sod, kind of tug on it a little, and you can 1858 02:15:07.279 --> 02:15:11.600 tell it's it's rooted in. I mean, it's not that you couldn't rip 1859 02:15:11.680 --> 02:15:13.840 it up, but you know what I'm saying, it there's some resistance there. 1860 02:15:15.359 --> 02:15:18.720 Then you can begin to fertilize, and my SKA, my schedule at 1861 02:15:18.800 --> 02:15:24.960 gardening with Skip dot com tells you exactly the products to use, window plume 1862 02:15:24.039 --> 02:15:28.840 and so on. Okay, and in the Conro area, where would you 1863 02:15:28.880 --> 02:15:33.680 recommend to go get those products? Uh? Conro out at A and A 1864 02:15:33.760 --> 02:15:37.720 Plants and Produce out west of Conroe. Montgomery is going to have them. 1865 02:15:39.520 --> 02:15:43.359 As you come in. Then there's gonna be some ACE hardware stores that carry 1866 02:15:43.399 --> 02:15:46.800 those products as you come in toward the Houston area. I don't know the 1867 02:15:46.880 --> 02:15:52.479 aces up in Conroe specifically. Well okay, I mean yeah, go ahead. 1868 02:15:54.880 --> 02:16:00.159 You said A and H A and A Plants and Produce, and it's 1869 02:16:00.199 --> 02:16:03.359 on the edge of Montgomery. Yeah, okay, all right, Well, 1870 02:16:03.439 --> 02:16:07.479 thank you very much, you bet, you bet? You take care all 1871 02:16:07.560 --> 02:16:11.079 right? Have you good luck with your lawn too. By the way, 1872 02:16:11.399 --> 02:16:16.560 let's see here, Oh he's talking about fertilizers Microlife. Fertilizers. Microlife has 1873 02:16:16.720 --> 02:16:20.680 a wide variety of them. The one that's the fertilizer of the hour right 1874 02:16:20.760 --> 02:16:26.479 now is the green bag, the six two four that is the standard for 1875 02:16:26.680 --> 02:16:31.040 fertilizing your lawn. Now. They have fertilizers for their acidic loving plants in 1876 02:16:31.120 --> 02:16:35.600 a kind of a pinkish red back pink bag. That would be things like 1877 02:16:35.719 --> 02:16:41.600 azilias, camillias, guardenias, blueberries. That particular fertilizer works well for those. 1878 02:16:43.040 --> 02:16:46.440 They've got a fertilizer for just about everything at Microlife. You can go 1879 02:16:46.479 --> 02:16:50.840 to microlifefertilizer dot com and find out all the products. Read a lot about 1880 02:16:50.879 --> 02:16:56.159 them about all the microbial enhanced products that they have. Their products come literally 1881 02:16:56.280 --> 02:17:01.079 teeming with life with beneficial microbes INDO and X micro rise a beneficial bacteria, 1882 02:17:01.159 --> 02:17:05.680 all that kind of thing. And then the purple bag humtes plus. That's 1883 02:17:07.079 --> 02:17:11.079 concentrated compost in a bag. You put it out and as it gets into 1884 02:17:11.120 --> 02:17:16.280 the soil, it improves soil structure and humates. It's the final decomposition of 1885 02:17:16.680 --> 02:17:20.920 organic matter. And microbes just love to be in that kind of an environment 1886 02:17:20.120 --> 02:17:24.559 and we'll thrive in it. All From Microlife. We're going to go now 1887 02:17:24.639 --> 02:17:28.120 to Paarland and we're going to talk to Hal Hall. How are you today? 1888 02:17:28.120 --> 02:17:31.639 I think you may have a question about that last product, Yes, 1889 02:17:31.719 --> 02:17:35.479 sir, I do how you do it? Skip? I'm good? Hey, 1890 02:17:35.360 --> 02:17:39.639 Yeah, listening to you over the years, are in Randy as well, 1891 02:17:41.280 --> 02:17:46.040 talking about inmates plus and also compost top dressing. Would it be fair 1892 02:17:46.120 --> 02:17:54.239 to say that those are interchangeable. Well, there, I wouldn't say they're 1893 02:17:54.280 --> 02:17:58.559 interchangeable. The humates plus is a concentration a compost. It would take a 1894 02:17:58.639 --> 02:18:07.239 lot of of compost top dressing to decompose down into the volume of humates plus. 1895 02:18:07.879 --> 02:18:11.319 You see what I'm saying. So it's just like you take a pile 1896 02:18:11.360 --> 02:18:16.120 of leaves six feet high and you end up with three or four inches a 1897 02:18:16.200 --> 02:18:20.280 compost. When you're done right, you take three or four inches a compost 1898 02:18:20.360 --> 02:18:24.639 and you end up with a fraction of that in humates. So that's one 1899 02:18:24.680 --> 02:18:28.000 big difference between the two. Both products are excellent, the heu mats plus, 1900 02:18:28.159 --> 02:18:33.200 especially for the soil improvement. The top dressing you could mix it in 1901 02:18:33.280 --> 02:18:37.159 the soil too to improve the soil. It's just volume wise, is what 1902 02:18:37.239 --> 02:18:41.639 we're talking about there. Yeah. Well, the reason I ask is obviously 1903 02:18:41.799 --> 02:18:46.200 spreading the hum mats plus is a lot easier than doing the compost top dress. 1904 02:18:46.239 --> 02:18:48.959 And when you're doing it, yoursel I hear what you're saying, So 1905 02:18:48.120 --> 02:18:50.920 in that sense, ILL sorry to cut you off. And in that sense, 1906 02:18:52.399 --> 02:18:56.799 the top dressing is doing some other things for you. You're putting a 1907 02:18:56.840 --> 02:19:00.760 lot of microbes up there on the surface, around the soil, around the 1908 02:19:00.879 --> 02:19:05.840 surface the plant runners and things, And anytime you create a real diverse microbial 1909 02:19:05.000 --> 02:19:09.360 environment, it's a little more antagonistic towards some disease issues that you might have. 1910 02:19:09.639 --> 02:19:13.520 So there's a benefit there that would be with the top dressing. Also, 1911 02:19:15.040 --> 02:19:18.879 it's a somewhat of a mulch in terms of shading the soil a little 1912 02:19:18.879 --> 02:19:24.040 bit, and every light decrease at the soil level decreases your weed issues. 1913 02:19:24.200 --> 02:19:26.479 Just from that. That's why we grow a dense, healthy law. But 1914 02:19:26.600 --> 02:19:31.840 the compost top dressing contributes to that. I got you, I got you. 1915 02:19:33.159 --> 02:19:37.200 So would it be fair to say that he makes plus maybe once a 1916 02:19:37.399 --> 02:19:41.760 year use that yeah only yard, Yeah you could do that. I mean, 1917 02:19:41.959 --> 02:19:46.239 there's not a specific schedule. It's not like we're putting nitrogen out and 1918 02:19:46.319 --> 02:19:50.520 we have a certain schedule because we want to always have active night available nitrogen 1919 02:19:50.600 --> 02:19:56.760 for the plant. So whether you could do it five times a year and 1920 02:19:56.799 --> 02:20:00.399 it wouldn't hurt anything, have just improved more faster. But you know, 1921 02:20:00.680 --> 02:20:05.159 just from an economical standpoint, everything practicality standpoint, if you did it once 1922 02:20:05.200 --> 02:20:07.479 a year, it would be beneficial. Yes, okay, all right, 1923 02:20:07.559 --> 02:20:11.000 thank you, Skip. I appreciate it. All right, Hell thanks for 1924 02:20:11.040 --> 02:20:15.520 the call. Appreciate that very much. Let's see here, who's up next. 1925 02:20:16.040 --> 02:20:20.600 We got Richard in West Houston. Hello Richard, Hey, good morning 1926 02:20:20.840 --> 02:20:26.479 morning. I have a focal point three tiered water fountain that's about four feet 1927 02:20:26.520 --> 02:20:31.600 in diameter the base bowl and yeah, it's pretty big, and the bottom 1928 02:20:31.639 --> 02:20:35.920 bowl is about eight inches up against a nice red brick wall, and there's 1929 02:20:37.040 --> 02:20:41.440 overspray and hard water staining that I can't seem to get clean. I was 1930 02:20:41.520 --> 02:20:46.200 wondering is there a planting that might be suitable to put behind the fountain that 1931 02:20:46.319 --> 02:20:50.920 could shield the view of the stains. How much space do you have between 1932 02:20:50.920 --> 02:20:54.840 the fountain and the wall. Well, the closest point is eight inches, 1933 02:20:56.079 --> 02:21:01.879 and then it's obviously you know, spans out. I've got foot space or 1934 02:21:01.920 --> 02:21:07.239 floor space if you will, to plant, but I don't have much distance 1935 02:21:07.440 --> 02:21:09.239 between the wall and the Yeah, you know, with that, about the 1936 02:21:09.319 --> 02:21:13.399 only thing that comes to mind is to have some a little like a trellis 1937 02:21:13.840 --> 02:21:20.040 back there against the wall and then plant some little tame vine on the trellis 1938 02:21:20.159 --> 02:21:26.520 that doesn't just take over everything. I don't know as far as ahead go 1939 02:21:26.559 --> 02:21:30.600 ahead, well as far as vines go what what could survive the just constant 1940 02:21:30.680 --> 02:21:39.799 flow of water? So oh boy, hmm. I'd have to think about 1941 02:21:39.799 --> 02:21:45.559 that one a little bit. It seems like we're we're trying to force something 1942 02:21:45.680 --> 02:21:50.079 here. I'm just wondering what other option might you have with that? Because 1943 02:21:50.079 --> 02:21:54.040 you're going to have the water splashing. So does the soil stay pretty soggy 1944 02:21:54.239 --> 02:21:58.719 from all that? It does? Pretty close to the fountain now, I 1945 02:21:58.799 --> 02:22:03.040 have these large wide leaf irises about two or three feet away that are doing 1946 02:22:03.159 --> 02:22:07.000 fine, but I don't have anything right next to it. Yeah, I 1947 02:22:07.079 --> 02:22:13.280 know they are pretty Is it wet? Is it somewhat sunny or well drained? 1948 02:22:13.399 --> 02:22:16.680 We get we get some sun and some shade. We have a lot 1949 02:22:16.719 --> 02:22:20.040 of trees behind the wall, but we do get some sun. Some roses 1950 02:22:20.120 --> 02:22:24.319 prosper nearby that time. Well, Louisiana iris could grow there and it gets 1951 02:22:24.399 --> 02:22:28.520 upright, those are going to get not waist high, but they're going to 1952 02:22:28.559 --> 02:22:31.000 get up a little bit. I don't know if that would be high enough 1953 02:22:31.040 --> 02:22:37.159 to accomplish what you want. Well, we have some nearby and they took 1954 02:22:37.239 --> 02:22:39.920 their growl coming back from the freeze. But yeah, they do get pretty 1955 02:22:39.959 --> 02:22:46.079 big. That might be a problem, something somewhat controllable, and that fits 1956 02:22:46.159 --> 02:22:50.520 in that situation that is unique, though. I would have to kind of 1957 02:22:50.600 --> 02:22:52.600 ponder that one a little bit to try to forget what you might be. 1958 02:22:52.840 --> 02:22:56.600 It's just the eight inch of space. That's just so ste's we wish that 1959 02:22:56.760 --> 02:23:00.600 it had been installed a little bit further out. But it's a pretty big 1960 02:23:00.680 --> 02:23:03.319 fountain. I can't move. Just pick it up and carry it over to 1961 02:23:03.440 --> 02:23:07.959 the all the end of me. Yeah, very much, all right, 1962 02:23:09.040 --> 02:23:11.520 Richard, take care, appreciate the call. Wow, time for another break. 1963 02:23:13.079 --> 02:23:16.360 Nikki walks in with the news, and that means I have to shut 1964 02:23:16.440 --> 02:23:18.760 up. I kind of hate that Nick can keep talking to be talking. 1965 02:23:20.000 --> 02:23:24.600 Our phone number is seven one three two one two kt r H seven one 1966 02:23:24.680 --> 02:23:28.920 three two one two k t r H. I'll just use this moment to 1967 02:23:28.000 --> 02:23:31.399 remind you that next Saturday. Write this on your calendar. Next Saturday, 1968 02:23:31.799 --> 02:23:37.600 April thirteenth, Enchanted Gardens, Richmond. I'll be there from eleven thirty to 1969 02:23:37.680 --> 02:23:41.559 one thirty doing what we call springtime Q and a bring me your questions and 1970 02:23:41.760 --> 02:23:46.360 samples and things to diagnose and pictures and all that, and we will figure 1971 02:23:46.399 --> 02:23:52.159 it all out. We'll be right back where other than the guard line on 1972 02:23:52.280 --> 02:23:58.680 KTRH, can you hear stories about cicadas with STDs and chickens that yodel. 1973 02:23:58.760 --> 02:24:03.559 I'm I'm just saying this is a full service, and my gift to you 1974 02:24:03.760 --> 02:24:05.920 is to not make a comment about either one. My wife says that if 1975 02:24:05.959 --> 02:24:11.520 I'm ever wondering should I say something or not, the enters always know because 1976 02:24:13.680 --> 02:24:16.559 my gauge is to, let's just say, I tend to air on the 1977 02:24:16.639 --> 02:24:20.479 side of you should have shut up, Skip, So I'm going to shut 1978 02:24:20.600 --> 02:24:24.719 up on both of those topics right there. Thanks for listening to Gardland. 1979 02:24:24.719 --> 02:24:28.040 I hope you're having fun, I assure him. Today we are going to 1980 02:24:28.079 --> 02:24:33.360 head right out to Deer Park and doctor Richard. Hello Richard, Hello Skip 1981 02:24:33.479 --> 02:24:37.559 Richter, Yes, sir, I just want to ask you about butterflies. 1982 02:24:37.680 --> 02:24:43.319 I had a very few that were hanging around full time during January and February 1983 02:24:43.879 --> 02:24:50.000 and early March until about the time when the Purple Martins came in. And 1984 02:24:50.239 --> 02:24:56.040 right now, right now, I have some plants with the yellow blossoms, 1985 02:24:56.239 --> 02:25:01.600 but I don't have any butterflies. I haven't seen any butterflies in a few 1986 02:25:01.719 --> 02:25:09.000 weeks. Has anybody else called in just mention and are talking anything about the 1987 02:25:09.079 --> 02:25:13.159 butterflies. I know they do migrate. Yeah, they do migrate. Okay, 1988 02:25:13.440 --> 02:25:15.840 I'll be quiet and listen here. Yeah. No, you know what, 1989 02:25:16.040 --> 02:25:18.280 I am not a butterfly expert, Richard, and so I have not 1990 02:25:18.440 --> 02:25:22.479 heard from anybody about butterflies coming or going or whatever. I know we do 1991 02:25:22.600 --> 02:25:26.040 have the migration, like you said, sometimes they hang around, though we 1992 02:25:26.120 --> 02:25:31.399 get some that tend to hang around and not migrate around. But I think 1993 02:25:31.479 --> 02:25:35.200 this should be a fine butterfly year. I don't I don't see what you're 1994 02:25:35.319 --> 02:25:39.040 noticing early on as being a sign of things to come for this year. 1995 02:25:39.920 --> 02:25:43.399 Yes, sir, when I made a few, I mean just maybe three 1996 02:25:43.559 --> 02:25:46.840 or four. They were the orange and the black monarchs. So but anyway, 1997 02:25:48.040 --> 02:25:50.280 that's it. I just wanted to call and I ask, okay, 1998 02:25:50.399 --> 02:25:54.000 okay, yeah, good, I appreciate that call. Yeah, both the 1999 02:25:54.399 --> 02:25:58.319 monarch, the Queen, and the viceroy butterflies, they all look a lot 2000 02:25:58.360 --> 02:26:01.159 ake. I always have to stop and go, Okay, what's the difference. 2001 02:26:01.760 --> 02:26:05.440 It's in the black lines in their wings and some of the white spots 2002 02:26:05.479 --> 02:26:09.040 on the wings and things. But we're going to be okay, We're gonna 2003 02:26:09.079 --> 02:26:11.000 have plenty of butterflies, definitely, for sure. Don't worry about that. 2004 02:26:11.360 --> 02:26:16.200 Hey, when you're doing your lawn nutrient care, when you're building the bank 2005 02:26:16.239 --> 02:26:20.280 account of nutrients in your soil, that's what we do when we fertilize. 2006 02:26:22.440 --> 02:26:26.040 You will also to think about the trace minerals, and that is why we 2007 02:26:26.159 --> 02:26:31.239 have azamite. Azamite is a naturally mined product mind up in Utah that is 2008 02:26:31.319 --> 02:26:37.760 loaded with trace mineral elements. Trace minerals are also essential minerals. Plants need 2009 02:26:37.840 --> 02:26:46.760 to have a lot roughly around twenty or so different nutrient or element compounds in 2010 02:26:46.959 --> 02:26:50.319 order to be successful in all the biological processes a plan has to do. 2011 02:26:50.920 --> 02:26:56.079 So it's not just three NPK, the three numbers on the bag. It's 2012 02:26:56.120 --> 02:26:58.239 about twenty and so they have to be there. Now, we don't have 2013 02:26:58.319 --> 02:27:01.760 to always add every twenty. There may be present in your soil already a 2014 02:27:01.840 --> 02:27:07.200 soil test would tell you that. But by using azamite, by providing it 2015 02:27:07.520 --> 02:27:09.479 as a supplement to your soil, You can do it any time of the 2016 02:27:09.559 --> 02:27:13.559 year you want. If you got the fertilizer spread er out and you're fertilizing, 2017 02:27:13.120 --> 02:27:16.719 just get the azamite out and follow that up with an azamite application. 2018 02:27:18.000 --> 02:27:20.559 Or do it this summer or do it this fall. It doesn't matter what 2019 02:27:20.680 --> 02:27:22.799 time of year you do it. But it is important that you make sure 2020 02:27:22.840 --> 02:27:26.479 your soil has all the nutrients that a plant needs so that your plants can 2021 02:27:26.600 --> 02:27:31.360 have success. That's kind of what we're aiming for, right have success in 2022 02:27:31.479 --> 02:27:35.760 the bank account of the soil. Very important. Let's head out to galve 2023 02:27:35.799 --> 02:27:39.360 the stun and we're going to talk to Bill. Hello. Bill, Hi, 2024 02:27:41.680 --> 02:27:43.159 I don't have a lot. I've got a clover patch, okay? 2025 02:27:43.520 --> 02:27:50.040 And is that on purpose? No? Okay, I'm just checking. No 2026 02:27:50.200 --> 02:27:54.000 way. The question I've got is this, The timing on the schedule is 2027 02:27:54.040 --> 02:27:58.280 to fertilize. But should I fertilize when I've got clover or should I try 2028 02:27:58.319 --> 02:28:01.680 to treat the clover first end of her life? Clover is going to be 2029 02:28:03.600 --> 02:28:05.040 well. The clover is going to be going away on its own when things 2030 02:28:05.120 --> 02:28:11.799 heat up. You have options. If it were my yard and I had 2031 02:28:11.799 --> 02:28:13.680 a little bit of clover, I would go pull them up while the soil 2032 02:28:13.799 --> 02:28:18.200 is moist and soft. Clover has a tap root, and so it's you 2033 02:28:18.280 --> 02:28:20.239 can take a big old patch of clover and pull it up pretty easily because 2034 02:28:20.280 --> 02:28:24.319 it's got that single tap root. If it's too much to do that, 2035 02:28:24.559 --> 02:28:30.000 or just physical limitations or whatever, you can spray it with a broad leaf 2036 02:28:30.000 --> 02:28:35.440 weed control product something that kills broad leaf weed's post emergent and kill it there. 2037 02:28:35.639 --> 02:28:39.520 But if it's already gone to bloom and seed and you already have the 2038 02:28:39.600 --> 02:28:45.239 seeds on it, then you're killing something that's about to die anyway, and 2039 02:28:45.360 --> 02:28:50.399 you're left with the seeds anyway. And so that's where clover is so low 2040 02:28:50.639 --> 02:28:54.760 that trying to mow it and get the seeds out is often difficult to do. 2041 02:28:56.840 --> 02:28:58.760 But if you can get the seeds out, that would be my first 2042 02:29:00.079 --> 02:29:03.399 up because that is stuff you're going to be dealing with next year. So 2043 02:29:03.520 --> 02:29:07.120 that's kind of the trade off there as far as next year. That clover 2044 02:29:07.239 --> 02:29:13.319 will germinate in October and November, so you want to put a pre emergent 2045 02:29:13.440 --> 02:29:18.360 down before the clover germinates, and that way next spring you won't be in 2046 02:29:18.440 --> 02:29:22.000 this same spot. So, so would would the barricade work for that? 2047 02:29:22.200 --> 02:29:26.680 Barricade will work for that? Yeah, that's that's a If you go to 2048 02:29:26.879 --> 02:29:31.920 online to gardening with skip my website, there is a test, pest, 2049 02:29:31.040 --> 02:29:35.840 disease and weed management schedule that's free to download or look at, and it 2050 02:29:35.920 --> 02:29:41.280 tells you exactly when to apply and what to apply. Okay, So do 2051 02:29:41.399 --> 02:29:45.639 I go ahead then fertilized? Yeah? I would, Yeah, I would, 2052 02:29:46.000 --> 02:29:48.479 Actually, I would. Don't worry about that, be just fine to 2053 02:29:48.520 --> 02:29:52.680 go ahead and fertilize. Okay, thank you Skip all right, Bill, 2054 02:29:52.799 --> 02:29:58.840 thank you appreciate the call. M hm. That's interesting. The goomes clover 2055 02:30:00.200 --> 02:30:05.639 lagoome. It even produces not nodules on the roots that have extra nitrogen in 2056 02:30:05.760 --> 02:30:07.520 them. You know, I tell you bacteria rule the world, right I 2057 02:30:07.600 --> 02:30:11.360 say that all the time. And here's just another example of it. There 2058 02:30:11.399 --> 02:30:18.399 are bacteria that live in the soil that can get nitrogen from the air in 2059 02:30:18.600 --> 02:30:22.680 the soil and feed it to the plant. Plants cannot take nitrogen out of 2060 02:30:22.719 --> 02:30:26.719 the air. Right now, take a deep breath. You just breed, 2061 02:30:26.760 --> 02:30:31.319 then about seventy eight percent nitrogen. I know it's oxygen your body once, 2062 02:30:31.399 --> 02:30:35.479 but you just breed. Then about seventy eight percent nitrogen. Now that is 2063 02:30:35.559 --> 02:30:39.280 of no use to a plant. It can't take the end to molecule in 2064 02:30:39.319 --> 02:30:41.719 the air and use it. They're bacteria that can, and they convert it 2065 02:30:41.760 --> 02:30:46.120 to plant food nitrogen. Is that amazing? Or what that's called? Lagomes? 2066 02:30:46.239 --> 02:30:52.559 It's a little nodules on the roots of beans and peas and mesquite tree 2067 02:30:52.680 --> 02:30:56.799 roots and clover and vetch and what else. I mean, there's a lot 2068 02:30:56.840 --> 02:31:01.120 of lagomes in the world. Cool stuff. Let's go out to Laporte and 2069 02:31:01.280 --> 02:31:05.040 talk to Greg. Hello, Greg, Hey, more escape. How you 2070 02:31:05.120 --> 02:31:09.520 doing. I'm well sir. How can we help today? Yes, I'm 2071 02:31:09.920 --> 02:31:13.159 redoing my landscaping beds in the backyard from all these freezes we've had in the 2072 02:31:13.239 --> 02:31:18.760 past, and I'm adding top soil right now. It's a fifty to fifty 2073 02:31:18.879 --> 02:31:22.000 mix I got from a yard. It's called a flower flower bed mix. 2074 02:31:22.360 --> 02:31:28.520 Okay, And I'm fixing the bees, start planning new plants, uh, 2075 02:31:28.920 --> 02:31:33.440 landscaping plants, assortments. Uh. What can I add to that soil that 2076 02:31:33.559 --> 02:31:41.000 will help the plants thrive better? You know? Okay, I mean months 2077 02:31:41.200 --> 02:31:46.079 and whatnot. You use the phrase fifty to fifty mix. It's fifty percent 2078 02:31:46.159 --> 02:31:50.159 top soil and fifty percent what sand I guess? Oh sand, okay, 2079 02:31:50.440 --> 02:31:54.639 all right, right, you want to you want to add organic matter, 2080 02:31:54.840 --> 02:31:58.399 you want to add compost to it. You can use straight you can use 2081 02:31:58.399 --> 02:32:03.360 straight compost, or you can buy a bed mix like a rose soil mix. 2082 02:32:03.840 --> 02:32:09.639 That's a good one. But I would get probably if you can get 2083 02:32:09.680 --> 02:32:13.280 three or four inches of that down and mix it in to the soil you're 2084 02:32:13.319 --> 02:32:16.040 putting down. I think that will it will really enhance it a lot. 2085 02:32:18.120 --> 02:32:22.360 Well, I heard you talking about the he mates. Yeah, bags, 2086 02:32:22.760 --> 02:32:26.520 would that be something that would be good? That's good? Well, yeah, 2087 02:32:26.520 --> 02:32:31.040 it'd be good. You know, it's it's you know, to use 2088 02:32:31.120 --> 02:32:35.680 a volume of humates mixing into the soil. Uh. You know that comes 2089 02:32:35.719 --> 02:32:39.200 with the price tag attached to it, as opposed to sprinkling it out on 2090 02:32:39.239 --> 02:32:41.440 your lawn like fertilizer. You don't put three inches of fertilizer out there on 2091 02:32:41.520 --> 02:32:48.000 the law. So I would yes, you could certainly use that, but 2092 02:32:48.120 --> 02:32:52.239 I would just get a good quality organic compost mix and mix it into the 2093 02:32:52.319 --> 02:32:56.639 soil. Again, just a compost or something called rose soil would be really 2094 02:32:56.680 --> 02:33:00.319 good. Even though you're not maybe going to grow roses in it. It's 2095 02:33:00.360 --> 02:33:05.440 good for group, right, I'm you know, it's an assortment of plants. 2096 02:33:05.559 --> 02:33:09.239 Okay, all right, okay. Uh, when I take these plants 2097 02:33:09.280 --> 02:33:13.719 out of the buckets and start them in the ground, do I, Hey, 2098 02:33:13.879 --> 02:33:16.319 hey, Greg, Greg, I'm sorry to have to stop you. 2099 02:33:16.799 --> 02:33:20.920 Uh, my producers telling me we are way past a break here. Just 2100 02:33:20.040 --> 02:33:22.280 hang on. I'll come back to you when we come back from break. 2101 02:33:22.959 --> 02:33:28.319 All right, we'll be right back. All right, Welcome back to garden 2102 02:33:28.440 --> 02:33:31.559 Line. We love to have you listening in because we love to talk to 2103 02:33:31.559 --> 02:33:35.000 you about what's going on in your landscape. How do we help you to 2104 02:33:35.120 --> 02:33:37.680 have a more bountiful garden and a more beautiful landscape. That's what we're trying 2105 02:33:37.719 --> 02:33:41.319 to do. We're gonna go back to Greg and the port. Hey Greg, 2106 02:33:41.399 --> 02:33:45.440 we kind of got cut short there by the break. But where were 2107 02:33:45.559 --> 02:33:48.120 we? Yes, sir, let's find that's no problem, Yes, sir. 2108 02:33:48.520 --> 02:33:52.520 A quick question, Uh, when I take these plants out of the 2109 02:33:52.680 --> 02:33:56.399 out of the plastic buckets, do I loose it up their root system there 2110 02:33:56.440 --> 02:34:00.920 a little bit too? Yes? Huh, that's a good idea. What 2111 02:34:01.239 --> 02:34:05.440 are you what kind of things are you planting, Oh, like hostas and 2112 02:34:05.879 --> 02:34:09.840 you know those type of plant Okay, yeah, yeah, listen it up 2113 02:34:09.040 --> 02:34:11.959 just a little bit. The root system. If it's kind of a woody 2114 02:34:13.040 --> 02:34:16.639 ornamental thing like a shrub or a rose bush or a tree, you want 2115 02:34:16.680 --> 02:34:22.159 to cut those roots around the outside of that root cylinder that comes out of 2116 02:34:22.200 --> 02:34:26.920 the pot, because typically roots go in a circle, they don't unwind underground, 2117 02:34:26.000 --> 02:34:31.239 and you know, it's one thing for a perennial where the root systems 2118 02:34:31.239 --> 02:34:33.520 are just a little different. But with a shrub, if you do a 2119 02:34:33.639 --> 02:34:37.079 vert take a box cutter knife and just do a one inch deep just slice 2120 02:34:37.239 --> 02:34:41.799 vertically about three places around it. Everywhere you cut a root, it's going 2121 02:34:41.840 --> 02:34:45.760 to within two weeks you're going to have fresh white roots going out into the 2122 02:34:45.840 --> 02:34:50.840 swell and it'll establish faster and better. Oh okay on this rows, well, 2123 02:34:50.879 --> 02:35:00.319 these are mainly perennials, soas more of a the weedy type stuff, 2124 02:35:00.520 --> 02:35:03.559 you know. Yeah, well, just just loosen it up a little bit 2125 02:35:03.719 --> 02:35:05.760 on the outside, some of those roots out with your fingers a little bit 2126 02:35:05.840 --> 02:35:09.280 and it'll be fine. Okay, I'll run down the bottles and give me 2127 02:35:09.319 --> 02:35:13.200 some of that roa so here they have good rows. So all right, 2128 02:35:13.280 --> 02:35:16.680 sir, all right, well you take care, thanks for the call. 2129 02:35:16.760 --> 02:35:20.840 Appreciate that a lot. When was the last time you went to Buchanan's Plants. 2130 02:35:20.159 --> 02:35:24.200 Buchanan's Plants in the Heights, they're on Eleventh Street. That is a 2131 02:35:24.280 --> 02:35:31.040 place that people love to go to. I was down in clear Lake yesterday 2132 02:35:31.120 --> 02:35:33.479 at the M and Dashart. We're talking to somebody, and somebody from way 2133 02:35:33.559 --> 02:35:37.479 down there was talking to me about how much they loved to drive up to 2134 02:35:37.559 --> 02:35:41.440 Buchanan's Plants and the Heights north of downtown. YEP, that's right. Buchanans 2135 02:35:41.479 --> 02:35:46.440 has a following, and there's a reason. Buchanan's Native Plants is their accurate 2136 02:35:46.639 --> 02:35:50.879 full name. And they specialize in natives. So if you want natives to 2137 02:35:52.040 --> 02:35:54.600 Texas natives, specifically the Houston area, they can get you fixed up. 2138 02:35:54.639 --> 02:35:58.840 Do you want a polline or garden that's composed of natives, they can do 2139 02:36:00.120 --> 02:36:05.319 that. Buchanans Plants has a wide variety. Their their houseplant greenhouse is outstanding. 2140 02:36:05.879 --> 02:36:11.879 Their section for fruit trees, for shade loving plants. It's just good. 2141 02:36:11.120 --> 02:36:16.079 And when you go there, you're going to be very inspired to grow 2142 02:36:16.239 --> 02:36:20.760 a lot of different kinds of things because they have stuff that you just haven't 2143 02:36:20.760 --> 02:36:24.319 heard of before. That's what Buchanans does. I go into Buchanans and it's 2144 02:36:24.440 --> 02:36:26.680 like, Okay, there's a new one I did not know that was on 2145 02:36:26.760 --> 02:36:31.600 the market. That's the kind of place Buchanans is. Buchanans Plants dot com. 2146 02:36:31.239 --> 02:36:37.639 Buchanans Plants dot com. See, I'm gonna go out to Parland. 2147 02:36:37.680 --> 02:36:41.799 Now we're going to talk to k Hello. Okay, Hey, good morning 2148 02:36:41.879 --> 02:36:46.719 Skip. I have a question about planting in a pot that has no brain 2149 02:36:46.760 --> 02:36:52.120 eage in it. And it's a kind of in my estimation to me, 2150 02:36:52.280 --> 02:36:58.000 it's all expensive. It's about ten inches tall as a ceramic pot. And 2151 02:36:58.959 --> 02:37:05.239 I'm planning from my daughter gave me. I came across this mother of a 2152 02:37:05.319 --> 02:37:09.840 thousand babies and she brought me some babies to plant, and it's going to 2153 02:37:09.879 --> 02:37:16.319 get big, and so I wanted something kind of heavy and big to put 2154 02:37:16.360 --> 02:37:20.799 it in. Okay, So is there anything I'm put in the bottom of 2155 02:37:20.879 --> 02:37:24.799 it to kind of keep it the roots off of the bottom. No, 2156 02:37:26.000 --> 02:37:28.719 don't worry about the rich being a little bit. Does the pot have drainage 2157 02:37:28.760 --> 02:37:31.280 holes at all? Well, that's what I'm saying. It doesn't have drainage 2158 02:37:31.319 --> 02:37:35.399 holes, and that's what I and I don't want to drill it. I'm 2159 02:37:35.440 --> 02:37:39.440 afraid it might crack the whole thing or you know something. Yeah, there's 2160 02:37:39.520 --> 02:37:43.479 ways to drill pots. I can't go into it on there. I'm not 2161 02:37:43.520 --> 02:37:46.639 an extra. Yeah no, people talking about that. But what I would 2162 02:37:46.719 --> 02:37:52.840 do is I would put some rocks in the bottom and then put the container 2163 02:37:52.280 --> 02:37:58.159 of soil inside that pot. That would be what I would suggest. That 2164 02:37:58.360 --> 02:38:03.760 way, people won't know you've got two containers because you can put a little 2165 02:38:03.159 --> 02:38:09.920 okay, well they're just they're just they're just brawl playing, you know there, 2166 02:38:11.040 --> 02:38:16.440 okay things because they come off and just like a little bitty Yes they 2167 02:38:16.440 --> 02:38:20.360 are. So if it were mind, I would take the nice pot you 2168 02:38:20.600 --> 02:38:24.280 like, and I would set a pot an o ugly plastic pot that's just 2169 02:38:24.360 --> 02:38:28.079 a little bit smaller inside it. Fill it full of a good quality mix, 2170 02:38:28.440 --> 02:38:33.280 and by setting it on the little rocks let's say, yeah, you 2171 02:38:33.319 --> 02:38:37.639 know, rocks the side for a quarter or a golf ball, even something 2172 02:38:37.680 --> 02:38:39.879 to hold it up off the bottom. Then you're okay. If you don't 2173 02:38:39.959 --> 02:38:46.760 do that, you can put some what a charcoal down in the bottom, 2174 02:38:46.280 --> 02:38:50.239 and that kind of helps a little bit with the soil getting all sour and 2175 02:38:50.360 --> 02:38:54.440 soggy done in there. It didn't control the moisture, but I would just 2176 02:38:54.639 --> 02:38:58.879 I would double pot it, and it's so much easier that way. You 2177 02:38:58.959 --> 02:39:01.879 can grab that outside pot and pull it out, you know, if you 2178 02:39:01.000 --> 02:39:05.719 did over water. But it just makes it a little more forgiving. And 2179 02:39:05.760 --> 02:39:07.600 then yeah, I've done that with some other things, you know too, 2180 02:39:07.760 --> 02:39:11.760 So I didn't even think about that. It's not about waddening up some plastic 2181 02:39:11.879 --> 02:39:16.200 bags real tight. Yeah, well I'll get I'll even get get Spanish moss, 2182 02:39:16.479 --> 02:39:18.760 you know, and put it on the top so it's pretty. But 2183 02:39:20.040 --> 02:39:24.200 that hides the fact that you got an ugly pot hiding in your neighbors. 2184 02:39:24.879 --> 02:39:28.639 Yeah, don't let neighbors and family come around be poking around on your pots 2185 02:39:28.959 --> 02:39:37.239 and griping about. Leave you alone. Yes, thank you so much, 2186 02:39:37.399 --> 02:39:39.399 love your show. Take care, have a wonderful day. Ye okay, 2187 02:39:39.559 --> 02:39:43.600 thank you very much. I appreciate that I've talked to you about Sweegen fertilizer 2188 02:39:43.680 --> 02:39:48.559 before Sweet Green. That's from Nitroposs. It is an eleven percent nitrogen, 2189 02:39:50.239 --> 02:39:56.799 very high for an organic nitrogen source. It's basically a molasses base with microbial 2190 02:39:56.840 --> 02:40:00.840 activity that basically turns it into a fertilizer. That's an over set implification of 2191 02:40:00.959 --> 02:40:03.280 it, but that's what we got. So what does that mean. That 2192 02:40:03.399 --> 02:40:07.479 means when you smell it, you will like what you smell if you like 2193 02:40:07.559 --> 02:40:11.159 the smell of molasses, because that's kind of what it smells like to me. 2194 02:40:11.040 --> 02:40:16.559 Sweet Green is a good fertilizer of a natural source that you can put 2195 02:40:16.600 --> 02:40:22.280 out on your lawn and you can really cause it to do what nitrogen does 2196 02:40:22.319 --> 02:40:26.719 to a lawn. That's stimulation of growth, that's greener color. That's an 2197 02:40:26.840 --> 02:40:31.959 excellent option for spring, and you can use it. It's not one that's 2198 02:40:31.000 --> 02:40:35.239 going to last forever. It's not like nitrofoss is super turf that's a very 2199 02:40:35.280 --> 02:40:39.719 slow release. Sweet green is quite different. But for those of you who 2200 02:40:39.719 --> 02:40:45.000 want a natural source of fertilizer and a good high, high level of nitrogen, 2201 02:40:45.440 --> 02:40:46.879 this is a product that'll do that. And where do you get sweet 2202 02:40:46.920 --> 02:40:50.440 Green? Well pretty much everywhere. I mean, you know, nitropus, 2203 02:40:50.520 --> 02:40:54.319 if it's an ace hardware storeage there, if it's a garden center, it's 2204 02:40:54.360 --> 02:41:00.120 probably there. If it's a feed store. It's probably there places like the 2205 02:41:00.200 --> 02:41:03.959 ace at at Sinco Ranch or Shades of Texas up in the Woodlands, or 2206 02:41:05.040 --> 02:41:07.399 Hiding and Feed on Stubner Airline, or I don't know, let's go, 2207 02:41:07.520 --> 02:41:11.360 let's find it out. How about Stanton Shopping Center down in Alvin, yep. 2208 02:41:11.600 --> 02:41:16.760 All of those kind of places carry nitrophoss products, including sweet cream. 2209 02:41:20.000 --> 02:41:24.120 We're I'm not closing the show quite yet, but it's coming pretty quick here. 2210 02:41:24.719 --> 02:41:26.760 We are really glad you listened today. I hope that it was a 2211 02:41:26.840 --> 02:41:30.799 helpful day for you. I did want to kind of close with a couple 2212 02:41:30.840 --> 02:41:33.360 of extra thoughts about taking care of your lawn, having a beautiful lawn, 2213 02:41:33.399 --> 02:41:39.440 a beautiful landscape, and everything like that, and then we'll put it in 2214 02:41:39.479 --> 02:41:43.760 the books until next week next Saturday. We're herever Saturday and Sunday from six 2215 02:41:43.879 --> 02:41:52.280 am until ten am. Both days. You can listen to the podcast as 2216 02:41:52.360 --> 02:41:56.239 well. So just as a closing thought here as we go through, just 2217 02:41:56.399 --> 02:42:01.319 remember that the secret to success with plants is to give them a good soil, 2218 02:42:03.040 --> 02:42:05.920 To choose plants that want to grow where you're going to grow them, 2219 02:42:07.840 --> 02:42:11.719 to fertilize them moderately, and to water them adequately. When it comes to 2220 02:42:11.840 --> 02:42:18.319 pests and diseases, a very strong, healthy plant is often less susceptible to 2221 02:42:18.440 --> 02:42:24.159 pests and diseases. You can even make plants more susceptible by overfertilizing. Doing 2222 02:42:24.239 --> 02:42:30.200 do that, a healthy plant is less susceptible. And we would rather avoid 2223 02:42:30.360 --> 02:42:33.479 problems than have to treat for problems. That's why we say grow a dense, 2224 02:42:33.520 --> 02:42:37.120 healthy lawd It's important when you do all of that, take care of 2225 02:42:37.200 --> 02:42:41.159 them. The last thing is keep an eye on them. The more often 2226 02:42:41.239 --> 02:42:45.200 you check them, the earlier you catch problems. The earlier you catch problems, 2227 02:42:45.639 --> 02:42:48.440 the more good, safe, low tox options you have for getting them 2228 02:42:48.520 --> 02:42:50.360 under control. Hey, thanks for listening.