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

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advertised on this program. Welcome to
kat r H Garden Line with Skip Ricord.

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It's crazy gas trim. You just
watch him as us so many things

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to supop basic, not a sad
Hey, Welcome to garden Line. Good

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morning, Good Saturday morning. You
got plans today, maybe plans to get

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outside and threw things up a little
bit. There's some fertilizing. If you

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haven't gotten that done, make sure
that you've replenished your mom. Maybe we'll

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talk about that a little bit more, a little bit later. That is

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very very important. You know,
it's easy to get excited about vegetables and

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fruits and flowers and beautiful lawns and
all of the things that we enjoy in

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terms of creating a little piece of
eden around our property. But I tell

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you what, sometimes people don't get
too excited about the brown stuff, the

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dirt, the maltz, the things
like that that go into the ground that

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set the stage for success and that
help prevent extra work. I think I

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got your attention with that one.
At least I would have gotten my attention

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with that one. Nobody likes to
be out there doing extra work, especially

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when it's one hundred degrees outside and
now you got knee high weeds you're trying

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to deal with in the garden or
something that that's no fun at all.

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But we can avoid that. We
can avoid that with a good quality application

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of malts and just constantly keeping it
on the surface of the soil. Nature

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abhors bear soil. It just it's
if you scratch open a piece of bear

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dirt and leave it, Nature's gonna
fill it with weeds. The way I

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like to put it is, wherever
sunlight hits the soil, nature plants a

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weed. So how do we use
that to our advantage. Well, don't

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let sunlight hit the soil in your
lawn. Make a dense healthy lawn.

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Create a dense healthy lawns through proper
mowing, watering, and fertilizing. My

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schedules are online and they're free at
gardening with skip dot com. You can

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find out how to create a dense, healthy lawn and that chokes out the

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majority, not all, but the
majority of your weed problems. How about

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in the garden, the vegetables,
the flowers keep mulch over the surface of

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the soil. Why deal with weeds? Why get down on your hands and

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knes pulling weeds. If you are
pulling weeds, one of two things has

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happened. Either you didn't mulch,
and now they've gotten ahead of you,

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So here we go catch them back
up again, as we say, regaining

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lost ground right. Or it's a
perennial weed, things like nut said and

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bermuda grass. It comes crawling in
and it just takes over. And so

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those have to be dealt with in
a different way than just mulch. But

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staying ahead of them is important because
I don't know. My opinion is that

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I don't put in flower beds so
I can pull weeds in them. I

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put in flower beds I can enjoy
flowers, and I know you do too.

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So how do we do that?
Will we do that by keeping a

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mulch covering over the swell about three
inches deep. It depends on the material

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you use. Some mulches are very
dense, they block light very well,

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even at a more shallow depth.
Others a little more chunkier, open,

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looser. You need them a little
thicker in order to accomplish the same thing.

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But however you go about it,
go about it. That is how

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nature takes care of the soil,
and that's how we should too. Well,

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you're listening to Garden Line and this
is a call in show. If

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you'd like to give us a call, how about I give you a number

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

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two fifty eight seventy four. If
you've not done your summer fertilizing, get

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out there and do that, because
a good slow release fertilizer application right now

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will carry you all the way in
to our fall application. A fertilizer,

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a good quality product like nitrofoss Is
Superturf. That's a silver bag. Nitrofos

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Superturf, the silver bag. It's
nineteen four ten. Those are the three

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numbers. You don't need to know
the numbers. If you can just remember

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nitrofoss silver bag. That'll do it
now. It's designed the chemistry, and

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this product is designed to release the
right amount of nitrogen over time, for

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a very long time, for several
months out there, and when you apply

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it properly at the proper rate right
now, it's going to give you gradual

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feeding through the year. Avoid those
spurts of growth, and you know,

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extra mowing and grass getting top heavy, meaning it's lots of top growth not

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as much root growth, which is
not a good thing for summer nitrophs.

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Superturf feeds gradually to help avoid that. You can find it at a number

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of places. You've got to single
ranch at the ace out there, they've

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got it out there. You can
go to a Tascasita ace and they've got

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it there. Our Lake Hardware in
Clute in Lake Jackson. Lake Hardware Clute

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and Lake Jackson, our Gym's Hardware
up in Montgomery. Those are all places,

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just examples of the many places you
can get nitrofoss super turf. We're

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gonna I think we'll just go straight
onto the phones now. We're going to

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head out to Katie and talk to
Ralph. Hello, Ralph, skip your

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morning. Morning. Hey, quick
question. I had my sprinkler guy come

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out and adjust the heads and some
other items, and he suggested having the

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sprinkler set for about ten minutes a
day, six seven days a week.

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Yeah, I'm thinking he said that
a little bit of water instead of heavy

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water a couple of times a week
might improve the yard. Besides everything else

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I'm doing for your schedule. What
are your thoughts? I disagree with that

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strongly. And here's why. When
you put a squirt of water out there

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and then the water goes off,
a good part of that water with the

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grass blades and the thatch and very
little got down into the ground, and

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if it did, it only got
down an inch or so deep, and

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that just promotes disease. It wastes
water because everything that evaporates away after the

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water goes off is lost, and
it doesn't wet the soil volume. If

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you were to take all those little
squirts of water and put them down in

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one or at most two applications per
week, then after it wet the leaves

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and that that's the additional sprinkling that's
going to continue on, is putting water

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down in the soil, and so
you actually get more of your water when

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you give it a good soaking.
The other reason is when you keep it

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wet right at the surface, it
doesn't allow oxygen down in the soil as

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well. You can't breathe underwater,
and so if you give it a good

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soaking and then let it dry out
for a week or at least a half

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a week, then it pulls oxygen
back down in the soil. As that

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soil, water moves into the plant
and out of the soil and opens up

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space for air to move in.
You see what I'm saying. Sure,

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So, a couple of good soakings
a week, it's what you would recommend.

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Yeah, I would say a half
inch twice a week. I try

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to go one inch a week when
I can. And sometimes, you know,

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the shade versus sun clasoil versus sand, there's a variation there, but

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in general, the less often you
can water, but a good soaking when

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you do, you should apply about
an inch of water. If you're going

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to do it once a week,
you should apply about one inch of water

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in order to consider the soil soaked
properly. All right, Ralph, I

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need to add one little thing to
that for you. You're not going to

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be able to put an inch on
at one time. So what you do

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is you run the sprinkler for however
long it can run before you start going

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to get run off, and then
have it go off and sit for forty

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five minutes and then cycle back on
again, and it may take two or

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three cycles. Let's say Monday morning
is when you're watering early first thing Monday

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morning. It may take two or
three cycles on that Monday morning, but

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it gets the water in the soil
that way. It's called cycle and soak.

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Okay, okay, thank you all
right, Ralph, appreciate it.

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Yeah, that is watering properly is
really really important. And I hope those

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hope those thoughts made sense. I'll
repeat them as we go through the summer.

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We're going to take a little break
right now for a little bit of

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information and news, and I'll be
right back. Our phone number, if

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you'd like to get on the boards
is seven to one three two one two

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KTRH. Welcome back to Guardline.
Good to have you with us. We

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are talking gardening today, all kinds
of things. How do we help you

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have a more bountiful garden and a
more beautiful landscape. That's kind of what

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we're here for. You can give
us a call. It's seven one three

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

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seven four and we can do just
that. Plants for All Seasons is a

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garden center you've heard me talk about
many times before, and it's it's one

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of those independent garden centers you can
call them a mom and pop, you

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can call them an independent garden center. It's also a full service garden center.

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And what do I mean by that, Well, for example, not

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only do they have plants, they
have full service advice for you. You

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can bring a sample in, you
can bring a picture in. You could

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say, hey, what is this? Can you identify it? Or my

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neighbor has this flower, I want
one, what is it? You can

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take a picture of a bug or
whatever. They do that, but they

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also deliver if you need. Maybe
you don't have a vehicle that can haul

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some of the a tree or a
shrub a home. They do that.

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They will deliver within a certain range, certain charge. Of course, they

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can bring the plants to you,
so you don't have to worry about going

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to buy a truck. So you
can go buy some plants they plant.

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They do tree planting services as well. And then they do something that I

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think surely you need call custom potting. So if you go there and you

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buy a pot or you can bring
one in and buy some plants from them,

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and they will put it all together
into a beautiful little mixed arrangement.

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Planting one of those gorgeous things you
look and you see them, and you

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know they sell them to by the
way, hanging baskets and containers. You

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see that and you want one of
those, will build it yourself or have

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them build it for you. That's
just examples of what I mean by a

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full service garden center. You know, they've been around since nineteen seventy three.

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The Flowery family has been advising gardeners
in that region for a very very

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long time. Really, the whole
Houston area. A lot of people go

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from some distance to get there.
So all you have to do is go

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to Plants for All Seasons. They
are on just a bus Luetta if you're

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heading up Tambo Parkway to forty nine
crossover exit Luetta Crossover Luetta, and they're

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right there. Plants for All Seasons
dot Com. Here's a phone number.

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You're gonna write this down. Two
eight one, three seven six sixteen forty

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six. We're gonna go out to
Magnolia now and talk to Jeff. Hello,

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Jeff Skip, good morning. How
are you. I'm good, sir,

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I'm good good. I need your
help. I get a couple of

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large pine trees that have died.
They're probably seventy eighty feet tall, maybe

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foot and a half two foot in
diameter at least, and I need somebody

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that can take those down from the
top. They're just too big to you

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know, to cut down with the
chainsaw myself. Anybody that you could recommend

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in that area that you know,
license bonded and could safely do that.

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Let me let me give you a
phone number and name here. You got

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a pin er pencil handy, I
do, give me just a second.

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Yeah, that's fine. So it
is important whenever, yeah, whenever you're

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gonna have somebody work in your trees, is very important to get somebody that

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knows what they're doing, that does
good work, but knows what needs to

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be prune, what does need to
be truned. I know when you're removing

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a tree, that is first of
all, it is very smart of you

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to get those done soon because hurricane
season is here now, and uh,

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there's nothing those old pines they rot
fast and they get weak and they become

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a major hazard. All right.
So the name is Martin Spoon, Martin

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Spoon More. The company is Affordable
Tree Service. The website is a fftree

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Service dot com, a f F
Tree Service dot com. And then here's

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the phone number. Seven one three
six nine nine twenty six sixty three,

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seven one three six nine nine twenty
six sixty three. Have Martin come out

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and take a look at it,
telling me you heard it on guard line

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and just see what what is needed. He may notice some things you're not

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seeing right now that he can point
out to you as well. Skip can

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give me that phone number one more
time, please, I sure can,

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I sure can seven one three six
nine nine twenty six sixty three, seven

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one three six nine nine two six
sixty three. That's it. Thank you

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so much. I appreciate all right. Sorry about loss of those trees.

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But those, I tell you pines
are tricky. They grow in kind of

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a spiral shape as they go up
and you start cutting the pine, you

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don't know which direction it goes.
You need a professional, so you're wise

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to seek that out. Thanks for
the call, Joe, Yes, thank

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you, skipping Yeah YouTube, Bye
bye. Our phone number is seven one

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three, two one two five eight
seven four seven one three two one two

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fifty eight seventy four. I uh
was looking at my lawn fertilizer spreader I

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have. I've got one of the
push behind kinds and looking at some of

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the settings and I'm about to be
putting out some other things. I haven't

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done azimite this year yet. I'm
going to put some azamite out on the

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lawn, but also some fertilizing and
whatnot. And I got this at Southwest

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Fertilizer. I got it from Bob
down a Southwest Fertilizer which is on the

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corner of Businet and Runwick for those
of you who haven't been there, And

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by the way, if you haven't
been there, you really need to go.

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You will see what I mean when
I always say this about Southwest Fertilizer.

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If they don't have it, you
don't need it, because they have

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it anything you need and then something. They've got their fertilizers and pesticide,

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anything to control. If you're an
organic gardener, they've got the best selection

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of organic fertilizers, organic insecticide,
disease control, weed control, they have

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it right there. But anyway,
I got this fertilizer spreader from them and

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it works really well. And I
also have one of the little hang crank

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types. That's what I used to
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to get that done as well.
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You're gonna you're gonna be pleased with
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helpful, very friendly, carry stuff
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easy. It makes it easy to
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really cool new tools. They've always
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of the kind of tools you need, like the one that I keep talking

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about, and you may not think
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the folding seat, the kneeling bench. That's another way to put it.

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Imagine something that folds up and when
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one way and sit on it.
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the right height. You flip it
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so you can kneel down to the
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was the legs of the bench or
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that is so convenient, especially you
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with the joints, or if you're
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down and up and down a bunch
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on a Saturday like today. Uh
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trust me, you will love it. I want. I bought one originally

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for my my older sister who is
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like to point out as often as
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got to looking at it, I
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need one of those. You don't
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years to benefit from one of those
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Bob's got them there. It's Southwest
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If you'd like to give him a
call seven to one three six six six

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one seven four four seven to one
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four to go to the website Southwest
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there. But anyway, I'm getting
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some different products and things on the
lawn. And I'm always experimenting. You

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know, you've heard me say this
before, but if you hear me talk

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about a sponsor and a product,
it's something that I've used because I'm not

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going to promote something if I don't
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needs. I'm really good serious,
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or having done it myself, or
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I know they know how to apply
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you know, if they're telling me
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give it a shot because I believe
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to find a new thing that is
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of gardening. We want to we
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want our plans to do better,
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and we want it to be more
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find that when you when you get
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simple principles we talk about on garden
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when you drive up and you see
beauty and color and you know you did

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that. When you go out to
the backyard garden, like I was cleaning

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up some old beds in my garden
this week, and you get them cleaned

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up, and there's just a gratification
seeing that you got it cleaned up,

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and now here comes something else that's
producing and it's providing fruit. By the

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way, We picked all our paste
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bunch of them. They tend to
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ripen pretty much all at once close
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all that picked so we could do
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never taken a paste tomato like Aroma
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quarter inch thick, just a little
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want. I mean, I've used
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and garlic only you know what do
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some dried basil on the tomato,
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in a food dryer or an oven. You can figure out how to do

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that. And I'm telling you it
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it concentrates the flavor down. So
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My wife made some tomato soup as
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and enjoying the garden. Remember that
just because it's summer doesn't mean you have

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to quit gardening. We've got a
lot, a lot of gardening still to

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do this year. We can create
the flower beds that have plants that laugh

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at our sultry Southeast Texas summers that
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that takes a special plant. But
we've got those kind of plants that we

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can do. I was visiting a
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the seed selections that they have,
and they have a wide variety of seeds.

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At Wadbirds Unlimited, you're going to
be able to find the product that

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fits the birds you're wanting to bring
in. It's not like every product has

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just one bird that it brings in. But whether you're looking for finches or

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whether you're looking for like a little
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in some cardinals or things. They
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wild Birds Unlimited is the kind of
place you want to go because when you

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buy a pound of seed, you
get a pound of bird food. They

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don't kick out the little red bebies
like cheap bird feed. Nope, they

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have quality stuff. Six stores around
the Greater Houston area. Take a little

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break here for the news and I'll
be right back. I want to talk

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about birds a little bit more when
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guardenline. Good to have you with
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talk about? Well, we'll just
make this a show about the things that

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you're interested in, and in the
meantime, I'm going to talk about some

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of the things that I'm interested in. You can give us a call it

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seven one three two one two fifty
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birds going into break there and right
now is an excellent time to get out

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and do the kinds of things that
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water Now, I know we've had
rain this spring, but that's not

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going to continue the whole time.
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important as the weather heats up.
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living things have to have water.
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place, especially if there's a sound
of water. Number one, it's so

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soothing to sit out and enjoy the
sound of water. But that also attracts

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the birds in and they will come
to your place for that. Now,

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you can also put out quality feeds
like I was talking about from Wildbirds Unlimited.

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They have the blends. They even
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sunflowers for example, they love sunflowers, crack them open, drop the shells,

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but then eat the inside. Well. You can buy hullless blends from

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Wildbirds so you don't have any mess
at all, and which is pretty nice.

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But they also have quality feeders and
bird houses. In fact, you

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know what, it is, time
for Father's Day shopping, right, and

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I think an excellent option would be
to purchase Dad a quality bird feeder from

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Wallbirds Unlimited. They have the kind
for hummingbirds, They've got the kind for

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every kind of bird you can imagine. I like the Cadillact feeder that they

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have. That's what I call it
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It is a squirrel proof feeder.
You just have to go in.

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Say I want to see your squirrel
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squirrels try to get into it,
they can't, and squirrels are pretty

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darn smart. But I'm telling you
this stuff works. I've yet to have

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a squirrel get into my feeder that
I got from Wallbirds, and it's just,

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you know, a quality built thing. If anything goes wrong, you

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can get parts for it to fix
it and stuff. It's not one of

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those cheap oot things you end up
throwing away when it breaks. This is

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quality, which is what you get
from Wallbirds Unlimited. It's quality types of

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things. By the way, on
Saturday the fifteenth, guess when that is?

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A week from today, I'm going
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Air, bel Air, southwest Houston. I'll be at the Wildbirds in bel

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Air from eleven am to one pm
next Saturday. You got samples of plants

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you want to bring in. You
got pictures of plants or areas of the

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landscape you want to ask questions about. Get them on the phone, check

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them, make sure they're in good
sharp focus. I'm going to have to

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identify something. Make sure it's close
up and the sharp focus and we'll get

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to the bottom of it. Come
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We're gonna be given some things away
there. I know that Medina is going

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to be providing some giveaways and we
just I just got a lot. I'm

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going to give away Texas Gardener magazines
too. I've got a little box of

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text Gardener magazines. They provide it
for us and everybody who shows up.

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If you're not a Texas Gardener,
subscriber already, come by. Let me

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put a magazine in your hand.
I think you will be soon after that.

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At least let me say this while
supplies last. I only have one

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box. We're going to head out
now to Siena and talk to Romy.

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Hello, Ronny nice Ski, thanks
for taking my call. Yes, sir,

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I have a question about groundcovers.
I'm looking at three different types of

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groundcovers. One I think is really
pretty. I want to use, but

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I just don't know if it's going
to do well in this area. It's

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a lemon coral seedum. Okay,
I don't know if it will do well

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in this area. You know,
I haven't grown that particular and there's a

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lot of seedums, and they vary
a lot, but most of them do

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well here if you have decent drainage. You know, if it's a thick

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clay spot a little on the low
side so it stays soggy, they will

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not do well. But if you
if you get good drainage, they do.

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They most of them want a lot
of sun too, Okay. The

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other two I was looking at where
it was a creeping jenny and a sweet

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potato vine. My only concern with
the creeping jenny is that it's really expressive.

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So well, have have you had
it before? I have not?

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it's real simple to trim. It's
not like going underground and popping up in

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flower beds everywhere like bermuda grass or
anything. It spreads on the surface real

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nice and low and flat, and
it's got a attractive look to it.

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bounds. The creeping jenny would be fine

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again, decent drainage for it to
do well. What was the other one

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that you just mentioned, the sweet
potato mine. Yeah, sweet potato vine

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does fine. And the shark cruise
type is very very light green in color

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and it actually helps brighten a shady
area. It will grow in sun,

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but it was also growing shade and
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to remember about it is where it
is a sweet potato, it just happens

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to be ornamental foliage. So wherever
it gets roots in the ground, you're

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going to get little finger sized sweet
potato swellings that next year will pop back

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up and you'll it'll kind of come
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perennial plant and forget it. But
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that it, you may be pulling
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okay, where these are perennials,
those are well, sweet potato. We

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think of it as an annual,
but it it will behave as a perennial.

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Like if next year you wanted the
sweet potato back, you probably would

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still want to plant it because it
probably wouldn't fill in it fill in as

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nice and pretty and evenly as you
want. This Jenny mine came back year

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after year that I had. Well, okay, okay, well I'll try

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to see them. If that doesn't
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the other two. Yeah, that
that's what I would do. And uh,

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A lot of it on the Jenny
two is going to depend on on

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your your weather and your you know
what kind of winter we have and all

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that kind of stuff. Okay,
all right, thank you very much.

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All right, have a beautiful time
out there in the garden. Appreciate your

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call. Our phone number is seven
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four seven one three two one two
fifty eight seventy four. When you're thinking

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about supplies, for your guard.
Ace Hardware is the place you need to

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think about because there are forty Ace
Hardware stores in the Greater Houston area,

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so it's easy to find one.
You can find them by going to the

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website acehardware dot com. Can it
get any more simple than that? Acehardware

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dot Com. There's a store locator
if you tell them, can I use

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your location to say? Yeah?
Let me Yeah, you can use my

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location and it'll just give you a
map and you'll have all the all the

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lower red dots of the places you
can go. So what do we need

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to be doing now? We need
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that we need to be doing fire
ant control. Now. ACE has that

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you want to put a good quality
bait out at a very low rate.

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Follow the label, cover the whole
area of your property. You can get

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your neighbors to do it to at
the same time. By the way,

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it works even better. The larger
of an area that uses a bait,

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whether it's an organic or synthetic bait, whatever kind you go about, the

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larger of an area that does it, the better and longer lasting the suppression

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will be. So just keep that
in mind. Have a neighborhood party.

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Maybe be a good thing for homeowners
association to get together. And I don't

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know you guys figured that out anyway. Mosquitoes, Oh my gosh, do

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you need mosquito dunks? You do? You do? If you got any

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kind of standing water? Do you
need a fogger to kind of clear out

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that patio area so you can actually
get out there and enjoy some time in

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the late day with family and friends. Ace Hardware has all of that.

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Acehardware dot Com. Check it out. We're gonna take a little break right

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now. We'll be right back.
Our phone number if you'd like to get

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on the board to be first up
when we come back. Seven one three

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two one two KTRH. Welcome back
to It's good to have you back with

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us on Guardline. We got sunshine
out there, folks, and a bright,

407
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beautiful sky. What a good day. What a great day actually to

408
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be out gardening. Let's head up
to Tomball and talk to David. Now,

409
00:28:53.359 --> 00:28:57.359
Hello David, good morning, sir. Hey, I got two questions

410
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for you. One, back in
the spring, you kind of spoke about

411
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a particular plant or flower that put
off of a really nice aroma and that's

412
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all I can tell you. Yes, hopefully that'll drinking your brain. And

413
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then the second question is I've got
a patch of grass that between the driveway

414
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and property line and not really doing
anything with it. Yeah, and uh,

415
00:29:25.440 --> 00:29:27.880
my wife she wants a blue bonnet
patch. I know it's kind of

416
00:29:27.960 --> 00:29:32.519
late, but what do I need
to do to prepare that land for next

417
00:29:32.599 --> 00:29:36.279
year to cover that little area with
blue bonds? All right, let's do

418
00:29:36.319 --> 00:29:38.359
those in a reverse order. Blue
bonnets you need to plant in the fall.

419
00:29:38.400 --> 00:29:41.519
I would plant them in September.
Uh, and get them in the

420
00:29:41.519 --> 00:29:45.960
ground, and then when we get
some rain on them, they'll they'll start

421
00:29:45.960 --> 00:29:48.640
to sprout. Sit there through the
winter and come up in the spring.

422
00:29:48.720 --> 00:29:51.720
Don't don't plant them now, or
you won't you won't get to enjoy them.

423
00:29:51.799 --> 00:29:53.279
Do I need to feel the soil
or just throw the seeds out there

424
00:29:55.039 --> 00:29:59.119
wild? Yeah? If you can
mowlo break out the debris and put the

425
00:29:59.160 --> 00:30:02.400
seeds out there, that would be
best. Uh. They do grow wild

426
00:30:02.480 --> 00:30:04.960
out there. Uh and and uh, but they need to have a little

427
00:30:04.960 --> 00:30:07.599
bear spot of soil. When you
put the seeds out, they kind of

428
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sink in and as you water it, you know, the soil settles in

429
00:30:11.200 --> 00:30:15.480
around them. A little scratching up
of that area is fine, but roto

430
00:30:15.559 --> 00:30:21.640
tilling is not necessary. Okay,
So that's that's that's blue bonnets. Uh.

431
00:30:21.759 --> 00:30:23.240
Now, as far as fragrant shrubs, goodness, there's so many.

432
00:30:23.359 --> 00:30:26.559
I may have been talking about Texas
Mountain Laurel. That is one that has

433
00:30:26.599 --> 00:30:32.839
a great bubblegum fragrance. It grows
very slow. Yeah, okay, well

434
00:30:33.079 --> 00:30:34.359
you got to give it good drainage. You know, it grows out of

435
00:30:34.359 --> 00:30:38.680
a crack in a limestone rock in
Central Texas, so it will grow here

436
00:30:38.759 --> 00:30:41.720
and bloom here, but you need
to get it very high and dry so

437
00:30:41.759 --> 00:30:49.519
that it doesn't sit in a clay
swamp. Texas Laurel. What Texas Mountain

438
00:30:49.960 --> 00:30:56.279
Laurel. The cliffs grow the like
you grow them, like in big pots

439
00:30:56.319 --> 00:31:00.640
with a hole in the bottom or
something. I've never seen one in a

440
00:31:00.720 --> 00:31:03.799
pot. I think that it would
not be very happy in a pot.

441
00:31:04.000 --> 00:31:08.359
To be honest, you might give
it a try. There are some other

442
00:31:08.440 --> 00:31:12.880
fragrant shrubs out there. Almond verbina
is one of the most fragrant shrubs.

443
00:31:12.880 --> 00:31:17.640
But it's a big, gangly thing, so you know it's going to get

444
00:31:17.640 --> 00:31:21.480
ten feet tall and you can do
the trimming on it. But boy,

445
00:31:21.519 --> 00:31:29.519
when it blooms, it's got this
these white blooms that are strong vanilla flavor.

446
00:31:30.960 --> 00:31:36.400
Does your website have shrubs that shown? I don't, but that would

447
00:31:36.400 --> 00:31:37.400
be a good thing for me to
add. Yeah, that would be a

448
00:31:37.440 --> 00:31:41.039
good one. Okay, Hey,
but you're up there and you're up in

449
00:31:41.119 --> 00:31:44.680
Tomball, why don't you just go
by Arburgate and say what are the most

450
00:31:44.680 --> 00:31:48.119
fragrant plants you got? Because they're
going to have some other things up there

451
00:31:48.160 --> 00:31:52.319
too. There's a number of excellent
you know, I don't have time on

452
00:31:52.359 --> 00:31:55.359
the call to go through all the
different ones, but just go by and

453
00:31:55.359 --> 00:31:59.079
talk to Beverly or Kennon there at
Arburgate, you know where they are,

454
00:31:59.160 --> 00:32:02.319
right on the way side of top. Yeah, go by, go by

455
00:32:02.359 --> 00:32:07.359
there, and they have I've been
in there a lot of times, and

456
00:32:07.519 --> 00:32:09.799
every time there's some new plant they've
gotten in, it's like, oh,

457
00:32:09.920 --> 00:32:15.559
now they carry this here, so
yeah, you should try that. All

458
00:32:15.640 --> 00:32:16.599
right, Well do man? Thank
you? All right, thank you,

459
00:32:16.680 --> 00:32:22.039
David. I appreciate your call very
much. Yeah, Arbrogate has got so

460
00:32:22.359 --> 00:32:25.279
many kinds of things, and with
that new parking lot in back off Trishel

461
00:32:25.359 --> 00:32:30.839
Road just twenty nine to twenty Highway
twenty nine to twenty go west of Tomball,

462
00:32:30.000 --> 00:32:34.519
not very far out on the edge
of town. There on the left

463
00:32:34.720 --> 00:32:37.279
you will see Trishall Road as you're
heading away from Tomball and it goes around

464
00:32:37.319 --> 00:32:42.359
behind Arburgate and it makes it so
convenient and easy to park. Some of

465
00:32:42.440 --> 00:32:44.960
the best new things that's happened there, and there's been a lot of cool

466
00:32:45.000 --> 00:32:49.559
things happening. It's always something happening
at the arbor Gate. Let's let's go

467
00:32:49.720 --> 00:32:54.440
to Anna and Laporte. Hello,
Anna, good morning, Skip Skip.

468
00:32:54.480 --> 00:32:59.519
We need some help over here in
Laporte. We have been bombarded with the

469
00:32:59.720 --> 00:33:04.519
way worms. Yes, the waves
are all over their trees. The worms

470
00:33:05.079 --> 00:33:09.119
are eating all my plants. Yes, and so what can we do well?

471
00:33:10.119 --> 00:33:14.480
First of all, the earlier you
do something when webworms attack, the

472
00:33:14.480 --> 00:33:17.480
better. The young small caterpillars are
easier to kill than the old ones that

473
00:33:17.519 --> 00:33:24.359
are about to become moths again,
but spraying is probably your best option.

474
00:33:24.599 --> 00:33:30.519
There are organic sprays that are very
low toxicity. There are some synthetic sprays

475
00:33:30.559 --> 00:33:35.680
that are also low in toxicity that
will work pretty well on the webworms,

476
00:33:35.720 --> 00:33:39.440
but you have to get any spray
you use on the foliage they're eating because

477
00:33:39.440 --> 00:33:45.240
they eat the poison and that's what
kills them. So sometimes if it's not

478
00:33:45.359 --> 00:33:49.599
a big, big plant, you
can use a strong stream of water or

479
00:33:49.640 --> 00:33:53.160
a long pole to break open the
webs and then spray. But if it's

480
00:33:53.200 --> 00:33:57.319
too high for that, you either
have to hire somebody to do it or

481
00:33:57.440 --> 00:34:00.440
just ignore it. They eat the
leaves off the plants tend to come back

482
00:34:00.720 --> 00:34:05.759
and it weakens them a little bit, but you know, their nature is

483
00:34:05.799 --> 00:34:08.320
able to bounce back from that.
It just looks like, yeah, looks

484
00:34:09.239 --> 00:34:13.960
one of our problems is I have
a fruitless smawberry that is oh yeah,

485
00:34:14.239 --> 00:34:19.039
so full of leaves, you know, just beautiful in now they just covered

486
00:34:19.079 --> 00:34:22.519
with the webs. Mulberry is one
of their top five favorite. They love

487
00:34:22.639 --> 00:34:27.079
mulberry. They love mulberry's, they
love pecans. You know, there are

488
00:34:27.119 --> 00:34:30.079
some others that they love. But
I've seen them on all kinds of things

489
00:34:30.079 --> 00:34:31.960
this year. But yeah, that's
that's what you do. But just remember

490
00:34:32.000 --> 00:34:36.639
and they'll be back again later in
the summer. So watch for them.

491
00:34:36.679 --> 00:34:38.920
And at the first sign of them, that's when they get out you can

492
00:34:38.960 --> 00:34:42.880
spray. It's easier to get the
spray of the foliage because they haven't built

493
00:34:42.880 --> 00:34:47.239
those big webs yet. Okay,
so what what do you suggest as far

494
00:34:47.280 --> 00:34:52.639
as spraying If you want to do
something organic spinosaid s p I M.

495
00:34:54.320 --> 00:34:58.639
Yeah, yes, and you're gonna
have to do it about once a week

496
00:34:58.840 --> 00:35:01.639
until you've gotten rid of But okay, but remember, I don't think I

497
00:35:01.639 --> 00:35:06.000
can get rid of them. They're
all over their breaks of the house.

498
00:35:06.199 --> 00:35:08.360
Yeah, it's just horrible. Well, we're getting towards the end of the

499
00:35:08.480 --> 00:35:13.639
time, and I think that our
spraying is going to be less effective because

500
00:35:13.679 --> 00:35:16.920
now they're they're dropping out of there. They're crawling around looking for a place

501
00:35:16.960 --> 00:35:20.639
to go. Pupaid so they can
become a moth and do it all again

502
00:35:20.760 --> 00:35:23.039
later in the summer. Oh so
do's become moss. Yeah, they'll become

503
00:35:23.079 --> 00:35:28.280
little moths that that lay eggs and
they'll be back. Yeah. Oh I

504
00:35:28.280 --> 00:35:32.039
don't want them on my Yeah.
And I've just recovered my yard from in

505
00:35:32.039 --> 00:35:37.960
my yard, you know, the
previous year, and so I'm dealing with

506
00:35:37.039 --> 00:35:40.039
all stuff. I got it.
I got it. Thank you, you,

507
00:35:40.119 --> 00:35:43.440
bet, thank you, thank you
Anna, thank you. I appreciate

508
00:35:43.480 --> 00:35:45.239
that call very much. Let's see, we're going to run here to pair

509
00:35:45.360 --> 00:35:49.920
Land and talk to Kay. Hello, Okay, good morning, Skip,

510
00:35:50.039 --> 00:35:53.440
thanks for taking my call. I
have a question. My daughter in law

511
00:35:53.519 --> 00:36:00.239
has has a what was about a
six foot tall, gorgeous fig okay,

512
00:36:00.480 --> 00:36:07.280
and it lived under an oak tree
in their front yard and it was too

513
00:36:07.320 --> 00:36:10.639
heavy. My son was she couldn't
talk him into moving it into the garage,

514
00:36:10.800 --> 00:36:16.800
so it didn't make it. And
we actually covered it with freeze blankets

515
00:36:16.840 --> 00:36:21.079
and put Christmas lights in it and
everything, but it didn't. It didn't

516
00:36:21.079 --> 00:36:23.440
survive, and after a couple of
weeks she was ready to trash it,

517
00:36:23.480 --> 00:36:25.760
and I said, no, no, no, don't do that. Yeah,

518
00:36:27.079 --> 00:36:30.480
k kay, I'm just letting you
know. We're just a few seconds

519
00:36:30.480 --> 00:36:32.199
away from music, so we'll see
if we can help. But you may

520
00:36:32.199 --> 00:36:37.239
have to hang on to the next
hour. That's okay, okay, No,

521
00:36:37.400 --> 00:36:39.880
but I just it's coming back.
I talked to her. I said,

522
00:36:39.920 --> 00:36:43.800
no, it'll take two to three
months okay for it to show any

523
00:36:43.840 --> 00:36:46.119
signs. And it's coming back.
And I wanted to know, should it

524
00:36:46.199 --> 00:36:52.039
fertilize it, should I do anything? Yeah? Modern moderate amounts of fertilizer.

525
00:36:52.440 --> 00:36:57.679
Get you a good quality mix,
just on small doses, give it

526
00:36:57.719 --> 00:37:00.199
a little bit. You can use
a slow release of course Star color Star

527
00:37:00.280 --> 00:37:04.960
bey excellent. It would be fine. That will be just fine. If

528
00:37:05.000 --> 00:37:07.719
you got someone hand, go ahead
and use that, but just small amounts.

529
00:37:07.800 --> 00:37:12.119
Don't overdo it, okay, just
once a month or so? Yeah,

530
00:37:12.159 --> 00:37:17.519
probably so, it just depends how
big is the container. I don't

531
00:37:17.559 --> 00:37:22.280
know. It's it's a pot of
don't I don't know, pretty good size,

532
00:37:22.440 --> 00:37:28.079
well I get okay, Yeah,
I would just do like a couple

533
00:37:28.119 --> 00:37:30.320
of teaspoons of color Star about once
a month in there, and that ought

534
00:37:30.320 --> 00:37:34.239
to be pretty good. Great,
all right, hey, thank you so

535
00:37:34.360 --> 00:37:37.320
much. All right, you bet, thank you. Hey, folks,

536
00:37:37.360 --> 00:37:39.280
Matthew and Marty. You'll be the
first two up when we come back.

537
00:37:40.119 --> 00:37:51.280
Just ran out of time this segment. We'll be right back. Welcome to

538
00:37:51.480 --> 00:38:16.679
kt r H guarden Line with Scared
Rict. It's just watching as Welcome back,

539
00:38:16.800 --> 00:38:22.360
Welcome back to guard Line. Good
to have you with us today.

540
00:38:22.559 --> 00:38:24.880
We're talking about all kinds of things
gardening, and I'm gonna run right out

541
00:38:24.880 --> 00:38:30.599
to the phones. Uh. We're
gonna start off with Matthew and Northwest Houston.

542
00:38:30.840 --> 00:38:35.000
Welcome to garden Line, Matthew.
Good morning, Skip. How are

543
00:38:35.039 --> 00:38:38.119
you doing on this wonderful Saturday.
I'm doing wonderful. It's a great day,

544
00:38:39.519 --> 00:38:45.119
fantastic. I had two questions I
was hoping you could help me with.

545
00:38:45.639 --> 00:38:50.239
Okay, the first off, so, after this last rain we had,

546
00:38:50.800 --> 00:38:52.920
I was looking at my flower beds, looking at the damage, seeing

547
00:38:52.920 --> 00:38:59.559
what had been done, and I
noticed all these runners that looked like many

548
00:38:59.639 --> 00:39:07.079
ature like gopher runners. It was
like a small child had gone into the

549
00:39:07.119 --> 00:39:13.559
flower bed and created a scene from
caddy shack. And I can't tell what

550
00:39:13.639 --> 00:39:16.480
it was, and it didn't look
like it was coming from the plants.

551
00:39:16.519 --> 00:39:22.960
And when I went on Google,
the closest thing I could come to was,

552
00:39:23.800 --> 00:39:29.199
I believe it's called a mule cricket. Oh you're talking about little You're

553
00:39:29.199 --> 00:39:32.719
talking about little bitty, little bitty
tunnels, like smaller than your little finger.

554
00:39:32.880 --> 00:39:37.159
Okay, yes, okay, yeah, perfect, Yeah. Moul cricket

555
00:39:37.320 --> 00:39:40.840
is probably it that tunnels right under
the ground. It tends to push the

556
00:39:40.880 --> 00:39:45.119
swell up a little bit. You
see these little raised crumbly mounds trails.

557
00:39:45.599 --> 00:39:51.559
That's mold crickets and they do feed
on plant roots. Uh, generally we

558
00:39:51.559 --> 00:39:53.480
don't worry about them a lot.
It's not a common thing that every year

559
00:39:53.519 --> 00:39:58.840
we're treating our beds for mole crickets. But they can cause trouble for I

560
00:39:58.920 --> 00:40:01.280
know, golf cour just have to
deal with them and things like that.

561
00:40:01.360 --> 00:40:07.039
But yeah, they're they're controllable with
any any kind of an insecticide is going

562
00:40:07.119 --> 00:40:12.440
to be pretty effective against them.
So I just picked up the nitrofoss bug

563
00:40:12.440 --> 00:40:15.639
out Max take care of that.
Oh yeah, do you put that out

564
00:40:15.639 --> 00:40:21.639
at the rate that they recommend and
wateredn real good and it'll it'll control uh

565
00:40:22.360 --> 00:40:24.920
pest, especially one like that down
in the ground because it's a granule.

566
00:40:27.320 --> 00:40:32.760
Perfect. Perfect. The second and
last issue I had since with all this

567
00:40:32.880 --> 00:40:38.719
rank, we have just been inundated
with black flies, just the your common

568
00:40:38.800 --> 00:40:47.519
household black fly. What can I
do to help treat and kind of manage

569
00:40:47.599 --> 00:40:52.400
that because it's just made sitting out
on our patio or being out in the

570
00:40:52.440 --> 00:40:57.960
garden just yeah, deep nightmareage.
Do you have some Do you have some

571
00:40:58.559 --> 00:41:02.920
pets around out there? Yes?
A small dog, a small dog.

572
00:41:02.960 --> 00:41:08.159
Okay, there are some fly baits
that work really well. They're little granules

573
00:41:08.199 --> 00:41:12.199
and you put them in a little
tray and the flies get them and it

574
00:41:12.559 --> 00:41:15.039
poisons the flies. I wouldn't want
to get that bait anywhere where the dogs

575
00:41:15.039 --> 00:41:19.760
could get to it. I don't
know how toxic it is the dogs,

576
00:41:19.760 --> 00:41:24.800
but you definitely don't even want to
find out, so just keep them away.

577
00:41:24.840 --> 00:41:29.159
The other thing would be sprays that
you put out, But the problem

578
00:41:29.199 --> 00:41:32.119
there is, you know, the
flies fly away and then they spray drives

579
00:41:32.159 --> 00:41:37.480
and they fly back, and some
sprays are persistent enough, but in general

580
00:41:37.559 --> 00:41:39.840
that's not a very effective way to
try to control flies. So the baits

581
00:41:39.880 --> 00:41:45.679
are really your better option if you
can find a way to, you know,

582
00:41:45.719 --> 00:41:51.880
put a little tiny tray of something
on a shelf. Okay, do

583
00:41:51.920 --> 00:41:57.440
you have a name or a brand
that you recommend or a chemical? Yeah,

584
00:41:57.559 --> 00:42:00.559
de bait go into your up in
north west Houston. You've got several

585
00:42:00.719 --> 00:42:05.039
ace hardware stores. I don't know
what part of northwest Houston you're in.

586
00:42:05.079 --> 00:42:09.960
Are you by Cyprus or Overclimb?
I am? I am half mile west

587
00:42:10.119 --> 00:42:15.800
of Arbor Gate? Oh okay,
well half min right there. Half mile

588
00:42:15.880 --> 00:42:20.079
west of Arbor Gate is D and
D feed out of twenty nine to twenty

589
00:42:20.119 --> 00:42:24.360
and they definitely are going to have
lots of fly control stuff because they're dealing

590
00:42:24.440 --> 00:42:28.480
with people with you know, a
horse barn and oh my gosh, you

591
00:42:28.480 --> 00:42:35.280
talk about fly heaven. They will
have They'll also have little bags that it's

592
00:42:35.400 --> 00:42:38.719
like a bag of some smelly stuff, but the flies go in and drowned

593
00:42:38.719 --> 00:42:44.039
in it, so then you just
throw the whole thing away. Those are

594
00:42:44.079 --> 00:42:46.360
also effective, as are the baits, and that may be with a little

595
00:42:46.400 --> 00:42:50.199
pet around, a little bit safer
thing. Just remember, if you do

596
00:42:50.239 --> 00:42:52.679
the baits, don't put them in
like a little paper plate or something,

597
00:42:52.719 --> 00:42:55.280
because the wind will blow and it'll
just blow it off on the ground.

598
00:42:57.000 --> 00:43:02.840
So be a little extra careful with
that. Perfect Yeah you know, oh

599
00:43:02.880 --> 00:43:07.440
absolutely, yeah, I'm literally next
door to them. Oh well, they

600
00:43:07.800 --> 00:43:13.159
definitely are going to have you set
up for everything you need. Okay,

601
00:43:13.920 --> 00:43:15.559
it sounds perfect. Thank you very
much for your help. Skip, you

602
00:43:15.639 --> 00:43:19.719
wonderful morning, and you as well. Thank you very much. I appreciate

603
00:43:19.760 --> 00:43:22.800
that. Let's go now to Marty
and Fairfield. Hello Marty, good morning

604
00:43:24.000 --> 00:43:29.239
money. Skip. They have a
Cherry laurel and it's not happy where I've

605
00:43:29.239 --> 00:43:32.159
got it, and I wonder if
I could a pluit out a ground chance

606
00:43:32.280 --> 00:43:37.519
planet. I can put it in
a pot if I need to, but

607
00:43:37.599 --> 00:43:42.519
I'd rather put it in the ground. It's my variegated privet kind of took

608
00:43:42.519 --> 00:43:46.320
over its sunshine. Oh okay,
so this is a pretty small cherry laurel.

609
00:43:46.360 --> 00:43:51.159
Then, huh, it's very small. Okay, baby, I just

610
00:43:51.239 --> 00:43:53.360
planted it like a year and a
half ago. A year and a half,

611
00:43:54.880 --> 00:44:00.599
you know, moving it now is
probably possible that its like it.

612
00:44:00.480 --> 00:44:06.719
And if I were you, I
would wait until probably early November and dig

613
00:44:06.800 --> 00:44:12.039
and move it. Then you can
do some root pruning where you take a

614
00:44:12.119 --> 00:44:15.280
shovel and go straight down in the
ground, maybe a foot out from the

615
00:44:15.360 --> 00:44:21.280
cherry laurel and maybe four sides of
it. So if you can just imagine

616
00:44:21.679 --> 00:44:23.760
a bird's eye view looking down at
the cherry laurel, like you shove the

617
00:44:23.920 --> 00:44:28.360
shovel in straight down on the north
side, and then you shove it in

618
00:44:28.400 --> 00:44:31.280
on the south side and east and
west, so you're not completely digging it

619
00:44:31.320 --> 00:44:36.599
out, but you're just cutting some
roots out. It's not that big.

620
00:44:36.880 --> 00:44:39.079
It's not that yeah, it's not
that big. Okay. Well, I

621
00:44:39.079 --> 00:44:44.320
could probably spoil it out by hand. Oh this is small. Okay.

622
00:44:44.360 --> 00:44:46.360
In that case, it just doesn't
like where it is, all right,

623
00:44:46.400 --> 00:44:50.039
so dig it up. What I
would do is I would slide a shovel

624
00:44:50.079 --> 00:44:53.360
down and I'd go underneath it.
Even if you could only get about maybe

625
00:44:53.559 --> 00:44:59.320
six inches or so below it,
just go underneath it and then slide it

626
00:44:59.360 --> 00:45:01.880
onto any kind of a tarp where
you could drag it to your new spot

627
00:45:02.039 --> 00:45:07.159
to minimize disturbance of the soil when
you try to reach over, and if

628
00:45:07.199 --> 00:45:09.760
it's very much so volume picking it
up number one, it's it's hard on

629
00:45:09.800 --> 00:45:14.159
your back, but it all falls
off the roots anyway. So I like

630
00:45:14.239 --> 00:45:16.320
to use a tarp to drag things
around, but maybe it's too small for

631
00:45:16.400 --> 00:45:22.920
that too. What is the best
type of location? Full sun? It

632
00:45:23.119 --> 00:45:27.760
likes sun. It'll put up with
some shade, but it likes sun.

633
00:45:28.519 --> 00:45:31.239
And the more sun you get,
the denser it'll be. But when you

634
00:45:31.239 --> 00:45:36.880
put it in its new spot,
go ahead. Well, I thought I

635
00:45:36.920 --> 00:45:40.079
had it in pretty good sun,
but it's it's not happy. Well,

636
00:45:40.079 --> 00:45:45.760
it's a it's related to peaches and
plums, and those plants hate wet feet.

637
00:45:46.360 --> 00:45:51.519
So if the spot it's been in
underground, it tends to be a

638
00:45:51.519 --> 00:45:55.400
little saturated after rains and stuff that
could be part of the reason why it

639
00:45:55.480 --> 00:46:00.599
wasn't happy, because those plants love
good drainage. So uh, when you

640
00:46:00.639 --> 00:46:05.320
move it to the new spot,
just make sure that it's it does have

641
00:46:05.360 --> 00:46:09.000
good internal drainage of the soil too, Okay, and how big should it

642
00:46:09.039 --> 00:46:17.199
be getting I put it in there
as a screen between my names. Yeah,

643
00:46:17.239 --> 00:46:22.599
the standard Cherry Laurel gets pretty big. Probably, I'd have to check

644
00:46:22.679 --> 00:46:28.159
it's been ages since I look,
but probably fifteen twenty feet, potentially more

645
00:46:28.239 --> 00:46:32.119
like fifteen. But there's a variety
called bright and tight, and there's some

646
00:46:32.199 --> 00:46:38.559
other varieties that are more compact.
They're not dwarf, but the density the

647
00:46:38.639 --> 00:46:43.880
distance between leaves on a stem is
more compact, and so they're going to

648
00:46:43.920 --> 00:46:46.519
grow slower, but they'll also still
get up to about twelve feet in time.

649
00:46:47.800 --> 00:46:51.440
Okay, all right, I'll just
get it moved. Take you all

650
00:46:51.519 --> 00:46:53.679
right, Marty. Good luck with
that. Thank you, all right,

651
00:46:53.679 --> 00:46:57.800
thank you, bye bye. All
right, you're listening to garden Line.

652
00:46:57.800 --> 00:47:00.599
Here's our phone number seven one three
two one two fifty eight seventy four.

653
00:47:00.639 --> 00:47:04.599
I'll be right back. Welcome back
to Guardline. Good to have you with

654
00:47:04.679 --> 00:47:09.280
us today. Hey, have you
been to Orges Hidden Gardens. Orges Hidden

655
00:47:09.280 --> 00:47:15.000
Gardens is down in Alvin, Texas. Now, this is a garden center

656
00:47:15.159 --> 00:47:19.519
that is south the words south of
the Houston area, So any of you

657
00:47:19.639 --> 00:47:22.679
down in that whole region you need
to swing by there and check it out.

658
00:47:22.800 --> 00:47:27.320
They are on Elizabeth Road in Alvin
Texas. Elizabeth Road in Alvin,

659
00:47:27.360 --> 00:47:30.440
Texas. You go down, you
can check out the website if you like.

660
00:47:30.639 --> 00:47:37.039
His website is tech txgrounds dot com, txgrounds dot com. But Hoorhes

661
00:47:37.079 --> 00:47:42.119
Hidden Gardens is going to have an
excellent supply right now. There are the

662
00:47:42.119 --> 00:47:45.639
amount of crape myrtles and the sizes
of cratemurdles. There a lot of variety

663
00:47:45.719 --> 00:47:50.199
multi stem whatever you're looking for,
they've got plenty of them on hand.

664
00:47:50.239 --> 00:47:53.480
They also have some gorgeous eagleson hollies. If you're looking for a really tall

665
00:47:53.480 --> 00:47:58.519
screen, Eagleston makes a very good
screen. Ores got plenty of those on

666
00:47:58.599 --> 00:48:05.079
hand as well. And also citrus
trees. Citrus in very impressive containers of

667
00:48:05.079 --> 00:48:07.400
a variety of different things. Are
you're looking for kumquats for example, there

668
00:48:07.639 --> 00:48:12.679
they've got a kumquat tree that they're
going to raffle for father's day. So

669
00:48:12.800 --> 00:48:15.519
you just have to go to you
know, go check it out, give

670
00:48:15.559 --> 00:48:17.239
them a call on and find out. How do you how do you you

671
00:48:17.280 --> 00:48:22.079
know, get involved or sign up
for the raffle and he'll tell you how

672
00:48:22.119 --> 00:48:25.280
to do it. But Orges Hidden
Gardens with all your citrus. If you're

673
00:48:25.280 --> 00:48:29.639
looking for a quick way to get
into citrus, grab one of his fifteen

674
00:48:29.679 --> 00:48:32.400
gallon citrus trees. We're talking about
meri, lemon, we're talking about limes

675
00:48:32.400 --> 00:48:37.079
and oranges, satsumas. Got it
all there, Just Orges Hidden Guardens again,

676
00:48:37.280 --> 00:48:42.039
if you are looking for how to
get there. It is on Elizabeth

677
00:48:42.119 --> 00:48:47.159
Road in alvin Texas. We're going
to head out now to Montgomery and talk

678
00:48:47.199 --> 00:48:52.320
to Terry. Hello, Terry,
good morning, Thank you for taking my

679
00:48:52.440 --> 00:48:58.280
call today. Sure, I have
a very large mature oak in my backyard,

680
00:48:59.079 --> 00:49:07.599
and several weeks ago I noticed a
pussy like white substance substance oozing out

681
00:49:08.119 --> 00:49:14.280
at the base of the trunk,
and I'm just wondering if you know what

682
00:49:14.360 --> 00:49:16.840
that is. I do, I
actually do. It is a It is

683
00:49:17.000 --> 00:49:27.599
called slime flux or sometimes sime slime
flux fl ux okay, and it's also

684
00:49:27.679 --> 00:49:35.440
sometimes called bacterial what would What happens
is bacteria get inside the trunk the outer

685
00:49:35.559 --> 00:49:38.280
tissues, maybe crack a little bit
or something that allows them in, and

686
00:49:38.320 --> 00:49:44.639
they get into that sweet sap material
that's inside and they ferment it, and

687
00:49:44.719 --> 00:49:50.199
that pressure of fermentation causes it to
push out and leak down the side of

688
00:49:50.280 --> 00:49:54.559
the trunk. And so sometimes it's
it's kind of a dark, slimy looking.

689
00:49:54.920 --> 00:50:00.119
Sometimes it's white and frothy looking.
But that's just the bubble bubbling out,

690
00:50:00.880 --> 00:50:05.440
and it's not a disease of the
tree. It's just an infection that's

691
00:50:05.480 --> 00:50:07.119
under the bark, and that build
up of pressure can kind of lift the

692
00:50:07.159 --> 00:50:12.119
bark up off the inner inner wood
a little bit, So sometimes the wound

693
00:50:12.119 --> 00:50:15.320
gets a little bit bigger. But
a good healthy tree is able to we

694
00:50:15.400 --> 00:50:20.920
say, wall that off and close
it back over with callous and time.

695
00:50:21.320 --> 00:50:23.760
If it's a very old tree and
it's not very vigorous, it's not growing

696
00:50:23.840 --> 00:50:28.920
much, sometimes that will be a
little bit of a nagging problem, but

697
00:50:29.039 --> 00:50:32.960
it's not something that's going to infect
the whole tree and kill it. Okay,

698
00:50:34.000 --> 00:50:37.800
So I could just leave it alone, I treat it with something.

699
00:50:37.920 --> 00:50:42.079
Well, there's no there's no treating
it. You can't get a product to

700
00:50:42.239 --> 00:50:46.960
the bacteria in there, and you
may find certain kinds of butterflies and wasps

701
00:50:47.079 --> 00:50:52.920
will hang out because that that basically
is like a little wasp beer joint on

702
00:50:52.960 --> 00:50:57.119
the side of the tree, so
they can sit there and and drink from

703
00:50:57.119 --> 00:51:00.320
the fermented sap. Okay, well, well, as long as they don't

704
00:51:00.400 --> 00:51:04.320
drive, I'm okay, that's it. That's it. Don't don't drink and

705
00:51:04.360 --> 00:51:10.639
fly, all right? Aye,
Yeah, that's kind of interesting. We

706
00:51:10.679 --> 00:51:15.960
see that a lot, and uh, people get very alarmed, especially when

707
00:51:15.000 --> 00:51:19.559
you start seeing all the bugs on
it and things. But it's more of

708
00:51:19.599 --> 00:51:27.400
a physical damage than a disease kind
of effect. Uh. Earlier I was

709
00:51:27.440 --> 00:51:31.360
talking who is it telling with somebody? Excuse me? That was had a

710
00:51:31.559 --> 00:51:35.519
container tree of fudd leaf and stuff. We're talking about fertilizing and things.

711
00:51:36.119 --> 00:51:38.960
One of the things that if you've
got some container plants and you were looking

712
00:51:39.039 --> 00:51:44.559
just to give them a quick boost, you ought to look into Microlife's Ocean

713
00:51:44.599 --> 00:51:49.400
Harvest and they're super seaweed. Those
are two products. Ocean Harvest is a

714
00:51:49.440 --> 00:51:52.000
blue container you can buy by the
gallon, bye by the court, and

715
00:51:52.039 --> 00:51:58.280
it's a four two three fertilizer,
a fish based fertilizer. You would want

716
00:51:58.320 --> 00:52:00.719
to use that outdoors, not inside
the house. They've got other fertilizers you

717
00:52:00.880 --> 00:52:05.960
use inside the house, but this
one outdoors because it is fish based.

718
00:52:07.000 --> 00:52:10.559
And then the super seaweed is just
exactly that seaweed. It's in a green

719
00:52:10.679 --> 00:52:15.960
container again a galloner quart, and
both of these contain all kinds of minerals,

720
00:52:16.599 --> 00:52:22.159
hormones of plants, plant vitamins.
There's a lot of plant activity in

721
00:52:22.239 --> 00:52:27.519
things like seaweed extract and certainly with
fish and mulsion. That's one of the

722
00:52:27.599 --> 00:52:34.800
standard liquid feeds for organic gardeners.
So if you're wanting to fertilize liquid organically

723
00:52:35.199 --> 00:52:38.639
a combination, I actually would use
a combination of the super seaweed and the

724
00:52:38.679 --> 00:52:45.280
fish and mulsion. Or it's called
Microlife Ocean Harvest four two three. Again,

725
00:52:45.440 --> 00:52:49.639
like all Microlife products, high quality, readily absorbed, and easy,

726
00:52:49.679 --> 00:52:52.320
easy to use, just two ounces
in a gallon of water, so you

727
00:52:52.320 --> 00:52:54.119
can use it as a foli or
spray, or you can just drench your

728
00:52:54.199 --> 00:52:59.000
containers with it every one, two
or four weeks, depending on what you're

729
00:52:59.039 --> 00:53:02.159
growing and how much nutrient boost it
needs. All from Microlife. If you

730
00:53:02.239 --> 00:53:08.119
have more information on Microlife, Microlife
Fertilizer dot com is the website Microlife Fertilizer

731
00:53:08.480 --> 00:53:12.239
dot com. It's really easy to
find, gosh, that stuff is for

732
00:53:12.280 --> 00:53:15.239
sale everywhere, easy easy, and
it works. I've used it myself,

733
00:53:15.800 --> 00:53:22.320
absolutely does work very very well.
You're listening to Gardenline. Our phone number

734
00:53:22.360 --> 00:53:25.800
is seven one three two one two
fifty eight seventy four seven one three two

735
00:53:25.840 --> 00:53:30.280
one two five eight seven four.
Give us a call. Let's talk about

736
00:53:30.320 --> 00:53:37.199
the things that are of interest to
you. I earlier was discussing the importance

737
00:53:37.480 --> 00:53:45.039
of planting things that do well in
our climate here and for summer, that

738
00:53:45.079 --> 00:53:49.039
means vegetables and flowers and herbs that
can take the heat. And we have

739
00:53:49.079 --> 00:53:52.559
a lot of good options for that. You know, Zenias is certainly an

740
00:53:52.079 --> 00:53:57.199
excellent option. Angelonia is a beautiful
One of my favorite summer flowers now,

741
00:53:57.239 --> 00:54:00.360
I think is probably angelonia. I
love that thing. It's so many color

742
00:54:00.440 --> 00:54:05.760
options, a little bit of ranges, and size. Lantanas. They the

743
00:54:05.800 --> 00:54:09.719
breeders just keep coming up with more
lantanas. Some are so compact they barely

744
00:54:09.719 --> 00:54:14.719
get a foot tall. Others get
waist high and above you know, you

745
00:54:15.000 --> 00:54:19.360
have a wide range with lantanas and
in colors, and they do so well,

746
00:54:19.480 --> 00:54:22.039
so very well. Here. Mexican
heather is a little dainty little flower,

747
00:54:22.079 --> 00:54:25.440
but it makes a little We use
ours at my house as a border

748
00:54:25.440 --> 00:54:29.199
shrub. I just put in a
bed, or I'm putting in a bed

749
00:54:29.639 --> 00:54:32.840
that kind of curves around the driveway
and I'm using the the Mexican heather as

750
00:54:32.920 --> 00:54:37.159
the initial border plant, and then
it'll have taller things going in behind it.

751
00:54:37.639 --> 00:54:43.199
And by the way, it is
an excellent plant for bees. Bees

752
00:54:43.320 --> 00:54:47.159
love the little Mexican heather blooms and
in the summertime there aren't as many flowers

753
00:54:47.159 --> 00:54:51.880
for bees, so it's always good
to have something that's blooming that can help

754
00:54:51.920 --> 00:54:55.679
them out. Have you been you
know, I talk about these garden centers

755
00:54:55.719 --> 00:54:59.960
and I tell you you really need
to go. You need to need to

756
00:55:00.119 --> 00:55:02.239
check it out. But if you've
been out to Nilsen Water Garden out there

757
00:55:02.280 --> 00:55:08.280
in Katie, Texas, Nelson Water
Garden and Nursery is it's just an outstanding

758
00:55:08.400 --> 00:55:13.679
nursery. I don't think I've ever
mentioned before the houseplants that they have indoors,

759
00:55:13.800 --> 00:55:17.400
but they have indoor plants that are
just gorgeous. In the indoor part

760
00:55:17.519 --> 00:55:22.079
of the garden center and then outdoors, you've got everything you can imagine.

761
00:55:22.119 --> 00:55:25.159
Do you need herbs? They have
all the standard herbs and they have unusual

762
00:55:25.199 --> 00:55:30.760
herbs like, for example, have
you ever tried cuban variegated oregano? Looks

763
00:55:30.760 --> 00:55:35.559
almost like a little colius type leaf, but yeah, it's a very fragrant

764
00:55:35.559 --> 00:55:40.119
little herb. They have beautiful hibiscus, some with just deep burgundy foliage like

765
00:55:40.159 --> 00:55:45.000
the starry, starry night hardy hibiscus
series. These aren't the tropical hibiscus.

766
00:55:45.079 --> 00:55:47.880
He's the kind that die of the
ground and then come back again. Big

767
00:55:47.920 --> 00:55:52.000
old dinner plate sized blooms. They've
got plenty of that. They've got grapefruits

768
00:55:52.079 --> 00:56:00.199
and lemons and limes and pomelos and
satsumas, tangilos. They have figs like

769
00:56:00.239 --> 00:56:04.400
the lsu gold and the purple and
a rappah and Natchez blackberries. I mean.

770
00:56:05.119 --> 00:56:08.400
Nelson Water Garden and Nursery is very
stock full of the kinds of things

771
00:56:08.679 --> 00:56:13.960
you really would want to find in
a garden center to have success at home

772
00:56:13.960 --> 00:56:16.480
with that. That is the bottom
line on it. While you're there,

773
00:56:16.960 --> 00:56:22.800
you gotta go just to see too
the beautiful water gardens that they have all

774
00:56:22.840 --> 00:56:28.360
the supplies from fish to plants to
actually constructing the gardens themselves. How about

775
00:56:28.400 --> 00:56:32.199
starting with just a disappearing fountain coming
out of a big, beautiful ceramic container.

776
00:56:32.920 --> 00:56:37.039
Go buy Nelson Watergarden, and Katie, you'll see what I'm talking about.

777
00:56:37.119 --> 00:56:38.199
And when I went there, it
is like my job spent half the

778
00:56:38.199 --> 00:56:45.360
time hanging down because I was really
surprised at the beauty and just the inspirational

779
00:56:45.440 --> 00:56:49.519
layout of the whole thing. When
you walk through there, you will definitely

780
00:56:49.519 --> 00:56:52.760
want to bring water home with you
to add beauty and that wonderful sound of

781
00:56:52.760 --> 00:56:58.639
water to the backyard. By the
way, Nelsonwatergardens dot com. That's the

782
00:56:58.679 --> 00:57:02.679
website out there in Kate our West
Houston Nursery, Nelson Watergardens dot com.

783
00:57:04.599 --> 00:57:07.679
We are going to go now to
Spring Branch and talk to Robert. Hello,

784
00:57:07.800 --> 00:57:12.599
Robert, good morning, skipt Hey. I know you've covered this before,

785
00:57:12.639 --> 00:57:15.639
and I did the right thing.
I've got web worms and they ate

786
00:57:15.840 --> 00:57:20.000
ninety nine point two four percent of
the leaves off of my tree. I've

787
00:57:20.000 --> 00:57:22.800
got sparse here and there. I
broke up, broke up, the webs.

788
00:57:22.880 --> 00:57:27.639
Hit them with the spinosat through the
water hose because it's a reasonably tall

789
00:57:27.679 --> 00:57:31.000
tree. But now that the worms
have kind of run their course, and

790
00:57:31.039 --> 00:57:36.360
I think I got rid of most
of them. Man, it was like

791
00:57:36.440 --> 00:57:39.000
a savage attack on my house.
They went through everything. So I threw

792
00:57:39.039 --> 00:57:45.039
the spinosat on everything from the yard
to the bushes, to the lilies,

793
00:57:45.280 --> 00:57:49.679
to wherever they could go, and
then I hit the house with the home

794
00:57:49.719 --> 00:57:54.159
defense type chemical. So I think
I basically eradicated to them. I don't

795
00:57:54.159 --> 00:57:58.079
see any live ones now, but
I need to know what can I do

796
00:57:58.239 --> 00:58:00.880
to this tree to help it recover, because as much as I broke up

797
00:58:00.920 --> 00:58:06.480
the webs, I've still got web
remnants and a multi million car guy up

798
00:58:06.519 --> 00:58:08.360
in the yeah, in the tree. What can I do to help the

799
00:58:08.360 --> 00:58:12.679
tree recover? At this points,
sir, it is going to bounce back

800
00:58:12.719 --> 00:58:15.639
itself. You know, it's got
plenty of nutrient in the ground. I

801
00:58:15.679 --> 00:58:20.239
mean, if the tree was let's
say, not very vigorous going into the

802
00:58:20.280 --> 00:58:22.519
problem, then you might want to
do some fertilizing of it. But in

803
00:58:22.559 --> 00:58:27.360
general, the trees were okay going
into this, and they're going to bounce

804
00:58:27.440 --> 00:58:30.880
back. So The main thing is
just now start watching the trees carefully over

805
00:58:30.880 --> 00:58:36.000
the coming weeks and months, because
we should have another one or two webworm

806
00:58:36.039 --> 00:58:38.760
attacks. Hey, Robert, I
am hitting a break I have to take

807
00:58:38.840 --> 00:58:42.480
right now. If you want to
hang on, we can continue this discussion.

808
00:58:42.480 --> 00:58:45.239
I'm going to put you on hold
in the meantime, Murray, you'll

809
00:58:45.239 --> 00:58:47.800
also be first up when we come
back. Welcome back to Cardline. Good

810
00:58:47.800 --> 00:58:51.960
to have you with us. Let's
see here, we were in the big

811
00:58:52.039 --> 00:58:55.119
middle of a conversation with Murray,
and we're going to hop right back in

812
00:58:55.199 --> 00:58:59.280
there. Murray, I think we
were talking about the tree had been hammered

813
00:58:59.320 --> 00:59:02.679
pretty good, and I'm basically saying
that it'll be fine, it'll come back.

814
00:59:02.719 --> 00:59:07.079
If it was a little week going
into the web worm problem, then

815
00:59:07.079 --> 00:59:13.199
maybe a little fertilizer would would be
helpful. Are you there? Yeah?

816
00:59:13.239 --> 00:59:20.400
I think you. We were both
calling about webworms. Pardon, Oh did

817
00:59:20.840 --> 00:59:24.320
I have the Do I have the
wrong? Okay, go ahead, sorry,

818
00:59:24.440 --> 00:59:29.000
but we're both I'm calling about web
worms. Also, my phone is

819
00:59:29.079 --> 00:59:32.400
just webworm in today. Let's talk
about your web worms. You got to

820
00:59:32.599 --> 00:59:36.679
you got a mulberry tree, I
think right, Yeah, yes, sir,

821
00:59:36.920 --> 00:59:39.960
Okay, it's about it. It's
only a few years old. It's

822
00:59:39.960 --> 00:59:44.360
about fifteen foot tall. But and
this year it's completely covered up with web

823
00:59:44.360 --> 00:59:47.679
worms. Yeah, yeah, you
know, it's it's that kind of year.

824
00:59:49.239 --> 00:59:52.599
It's been a bad one, and
I expect there'll be another round or

825
00:59:52.599 --> 00:59:55.519
two, and so I think most
importantly, it can afford to lose its

826
00:59:55.599 --> 01:00:00.239
leaves and it'll bounce back. It's
not going to kill the tree, but

827
01:00:00.199 --> 01:00:05.480
we could have two more waves of
webworms this summer, so I would be

828
01:00:05.519 --> 01:00:08.679
extra diligent and at the first sign
of a little bit of activity. After

829
01:00:08.719 --> 01:00:14.719
this tree releaves out, you really
want to protect that second set of foliage.

830
01:00:14.760 --> 01:00:17.840
You don't want it to have to
releaf out twice during the summer seasons

831
01:00:17.880 --> 01:00:22.480
too. That's too much stress.
So be extra diligent to just watch and

832
01:00:22.519 --> 01:00:28.440
catch them as early as possible.
So I didn't catch what you said to

833
01:00:28.440 --> 01:00:30.800
put on them to get the worms
alved. Okay, there are a lot

834
01:00:30.800 --> 01:00:37.320
of insecticides that will work for that. I generally recommend spinosid because it is

835
01:00:37.320 --> 01:00:42.320
an organic product, not very high
in toxicity, and it lasts for about

836
01:00:42.360 --> 01:00:45.039
a week out there on the foliage, which is a little bit of an

837
01:00:45.039 --> 01:00:49.800
advantage over BT lasts a little bit
longer. But there are many other there's

838
01:00:49.880 --> 01:00:53.239
a number of synthetic perithoid products.
Pretty much. If it says it's an

839
01:00:53.280 --> 01:00:59.639
insecticide for use on your trees and
shrubs and plants, it'll control webworms.

840
01:01:00.760 --> 01:01:06.199
Okay, I should be got to
get something like this at Yes, excuse

841
01:01:06.239 --> 01:01:10.599
me, Yes, you can get
it at feed stores. ACE Hardware stores

842
01:01:12.440 --> 01:01:16.239
have it. Well, where are
you located in Dayton? Okay, yeah,

843
01:01:16.320 --> 01:01:20.199
you're a little bit further out there. I know we got an ACE

844
01:01:20.199 --> 01:01:25.079
hard rover in Crosby area, but
yeah, you probably have some places out

845
01:01:25.119 --> 01:01:29.960
a little closer to you. Okay, So I should go ahead and get

846
01:01:29.960 --> 01:01:32.960
them off now, then I would, And just remember the earlier you treat

847
01:01:34.039 --> 01:01:37.679
them, the more effective the treatment
is. Number one, you protect the

848
01:01:37.760 --> 01:01:39.119
leaves that the tree has. You
know, if you don't treat them,

849
01:01:39.199 --> 01:01:44.039
it's going to lose all those leaves. So getting something on it is good

850
01:01:44.079 --> 01:01:47.000
for that reason. But also it's
just when they're young, they're easy to

851
01:01:47.079 --> 01:01:52.199
kill. When they get older,
not so much. Okay, Okay,

852
01:01:52.760 --> 01:01:57.119
all right, thank you sir,
Thank you appreciate the call. Murray appreciate

853
01:01:57.159 --> 01:02:00.559
that very much. I talk a
lot about the importance of building your soil,

854
01:02:00.800 --> 01:02:06.880
about the importance of doing the brown
stuff, the setting the stage,

855
01:02:07.000 --> 01:02:08.639
getting the soil ready so when you
put a plant in, you're going to

856
01:02:08.719 --> 01:02:13.679
have success. But equally important it
is putting something on top of the soil

857
01:02:13.960 --> 01:02:16.880
because we're entering the summer season,
and when you have bear soil, you

858
01:02:16.920 --> 01:02:22.480
have weeds. When you have bear
soil, the soil temps can skyrocket and

859
01:02:22.559 --> 01:02:24.920
it makes a huge difference for the
plat roots up in the top maybe three

860
01:02:24.960 --> 01:02:29.239
or four inches of soil for sure, where it just gets too hot.

861
01:02:29.480 --> 01:02:37.400
Well Louisiana, Louisiana Landscaper Landscaper's Pride
has got a quality group of mulches that

862
01:02:37.519 --> 01:02:42.119
go on the surface and they all
do really, really well. For example,

863
01:02:42.159 --> 01:02:45.199
the black velvet molts, that's not
a dyed molts, that's a naturally

864
01:02:45.360 --> 01:02:50.440
dark molts that they have a very
beautiful black velvety look just like the name

865
01:02:50.480 --> 01:02:52.960
implies. They have a hardwood molts. It's an organic base. It's not

866
01:02:53.159 --> 01:02:58.199
ground up pellets like some cheap old
things that you see in certain stores will

867
01:02:58.239 --> 01:03:02.599
be no. This is truly hardwood
materials from land clearing kite, you know,

868
01:03:02.760 --> 01:03:07.280
removing hardwood materials, very very high
quality, holds together well, it

869
01:03:07.360 --> 01:03:12.239
locks up, it doesn't float away. Pine bark malts probably the most popular.

870
01:03:12.480 --> 01:03:15.760
Very beautiful, very beautiful, slow
decomposition with the pine bark malts,

871
01:03:15.760 --> 01:03:20.079
so it lasts a little bit longer. Cedar malts there's another one. It's

872
01:03:20.079 --> 01:03:23.519
gonna take a little longer to decompose
again. It locks together really well and

873
01:03:23.639 --> 01:03:29.440
doesn't float away. And then the
Cypress Molt cypersmultch is locally sourced from Cypress

874
01:03:29.480 --> 01:03:34.960
Logs, very durable and it you
know, when it gets set in place,

875
01:03:35.119 --> 01:03:39.039
it tends to hold its spot pretty
well too. The Cypress Mults works

876
01:03:39.119 --> 01:03:43.079
really well and it has a nice
light color. So those are just some

877
01:03:43.280 --> 01:03:47.639
examples of the many twenty seven different
products at Landscaper's Pride. Go to Landscaperspride

878
01:03:47.639 --> 01:03:52.679
dot com and you can find out
more about every one of them and also

879
01:03:52.800 --> 01:03:54.960
where to get them, and they
are very widely available. We're going to

880
01:03:55.039 --> 01:04:00.079
now run to Lamarck and talk to
Desmond. Hello Desmond, Yes, good

881
01:04:00.079 --> 01:04:02.519
morning, yeah, yeah, good
morning, Yeah, thanks for taking my

882
01:04:02.599 --> 01:04:08.159
call. Sure, I've got two
questions for you. In the Lamarck area

883
01:04:08.559 --> 01:04:14.440
and also up around clear like especially
there's some kind of remediad thing that is

884
01:04:14.480 --> 01:04:18.039
in all the crape myrtle trees and
some of the oak trees, especially ones

885
01:04:18.079 --> 01:04:24.280
that are a little bit distressed,
and it's killing all of the crape myrtles.

886
01:04:24.320 --> 01:04:28.079
And I didn't know if there was
anything that you could spray on on

887
01:04:28.119 --> 01:04:30.920
a crepe myrtle tree that would get
rid of that. Yeah, so that's

888
01:04:30.960 --> 01:04:36.039
called ball moss. There's also one
called Spanish moss. Ball moss is little

889
01:04:36.119 --> 01:04:42.280
balls that are in the tree,
spiky balls, and the Spanish moss just

890
01:04:42.360 --> 01:04:46.960
hangs down in long sheets or ribbons
hanging down right, which is okay,

891
01:04:47.480 --> 01:04:51.239
So okay, does men believe it
or not? It's not killing the tree.

892
01:04:51.599 --> 01:04:56.400
What happens is the tree gets weak
and it starts to thin out,

893
01:04:56.599 --> 01:05:00.239
and that's whatever is the problem with
the tree. It could be so something

894
01:05:00.320 --> 01:05:03.280
wrong in the roots. It could
be poor soil compaction. It just could

895
01:05:03.280 --> 01:05:06.280
be a lot of things. The
tree starts to thin, it's cannot be

896
01:05:06.320 --> 01:05:11.440
a little and the light comes through
and the ball moss proliferates. But I've

897
01:05:11.440 --> 01:05:15.400
seen bal moss growing on power lines. So if it was a parasite,

898
01:05:15.519 --> 01:05:18.360
needing the juices of the tree.
It wouldn't grow on a power line.

899
01:05:18.599 --> 01:05:23.440
I've seen it on fence posts too, So it's along for the ride.

900
01:05:23.519 --> 01:05:27.800
And it's more a sign that the
tree is weak and thinning and they're the

901
01:05:27.800 --> 01:05:31.679
bal moss proliferates. It loves that
humid environment. You can spray it in

902
01:05:31.800 --> 01:05:38.239
the spring before the tree leaves out
with a copper based spray. You don't

903
01:05:38.239 --> 01:05:41.920
want to do that right now.
Copper sprays will burn foliage of a lot

904
01:05:41.960 --> 01:05:45.519
of different kinds of plants depending on
the copper. But a good quality copper

905
01:05:45.519 --> 01:05:50.159
based spray sprayed on it in the
spring, just you know, as we're

906
01:05:50.159 --> 01:05:55.519
getting into that cool, mild rainy
period in the spring, those sprays at

907
01:05:55.519 --> 01:05:58.920
that time are effective. What will
happen is ball mus will die and dead.

908
01:05:58.960 --> 01:06:01.760
Baal moss looks a lot like living
boss and it eventually just rots and

909
01:06:01.800 --> 01:06:05.519
falls out of the tree. Yeah. Does it spread by a spore because

910
01:06:05.519 --> 01:06:10.280
it does have small flowers. It's
a it's a little it's it's more like

911
01:06:10.440 --> 01:06:14.000
a little you know how like dandelions
have these little things that float out there

912
01:06:14.639 --> 01:06:17.440
and right, and it's more something
like that. It lodges in the bark

913
01:06:18.000 --> 01:06:24.039
and then it gets its start and
again it doesn't have It's not like mistletoe

914
01:06:24.159 --> 01:06:27.519
that has roots in the tree as
a parasite. It's it's more just hanging

915
01:06:28.079 --> 01:06:32.559
on the outer bark. It'll also
grow and get its roots underneath the shingles

916
01:06:32.599 --> 01:06:36.320
on your roof too. It can
Yeah, I mean it'll grab on to

917
01:06:36.440 --> 01:06:41.280
whatever whatever it has. But yep, that that would be what I would

918
01:06:41.360 --> 01:06:47.159
use. Okay, so it's called
BOMs then ball b A L L ball

919
01:06:47.280 --> 01:06:53.639
moss yep. Okay, all right. And my other question is is there

920
01:06:53.719 --> 01:06:58.360
anything you've come up with that will
get rid of doveweed? Yes. After

921
01:06:58.440 --> 01:07:03.360
Howard and Harvey went through, my
place was in undated with doveweed, and

922
01:07:03.400 --> 01:07:10.559
I've been spraying. I started off
using Blindside and that I would have to

923
01:07:10.719 --> 01:07:15.920
spray it twice and that's got control
of some of it. And now I've

924
01:07:15.920 --> 01:07:20.480
been recommended a product called Celsius.
Yes, and I wondered if you'd had

925
01:07:20.480 --> 01:07:25.559
any success with that, because doveweed
is really really difficult to get rid of.

926
01:07:25.679 --> 01:07:29.239
Yeah, sure is absolutely So let
me ask you this, do you

927
01:07:29.280 --> 01:07:31.880
have a lot of it or just
a small area of doveweed? No,

928
01:07:32.119 --> 01:07:36.079
I've got well. On the front
lawn, I've got to where I can

929
01:07:36.119 --> 01:07:41.840
just spot spray now okay, But
on the back I virtually spray the whole

930
01:07:41.880 --> 01:07:45.119
lawn. Mm okay, well yeah
you could. You could do the you

931
01:07:45.159 --> 01:07:48.760
could do the celsius on it.
Did you say Blindside was the other one

932
01:07:49.039 --> 01:07:54.360
that you did. Yes, Yeah, Blindside is very effective. It's just

933
01:07:54.440 --> 01:07:59.280
a one that's a little harder to
find for most people. But there's also

934
01:07:59.639 --> 01:08:02.239
for people that just have a little
bit of doveweed. There is a cinnamon

935
01:08:02.280 --> 01:08:06.440
based product, and our garden centers
carry it. It's it's just a cinnamon

936
01:08:06.480 --> 01:08:11.519
based and you sprinkle on it and
it just turns it black and it really

937
01:08:11.599 --> 01:08:15.480
knocks it out well. But it's
a little pricey, and so to go

938
01:08:15.599 --> 01:08:18.399
dusting cinnamon on weeds. If you've
got a big area, it's not practical

939
01:08:18.439 --> 01:08:23.479
to use the cinnamon approach. So
the others that you're that we've been talking

940
01:08:23.520 --> 01:08:27.439
about, they're they're probably the better
way to go. Right, where would

941
01:08:27.479 --> 01:08:31.279
the cinnamon be available most garden centers, I've seen them in ace hardware stores,

942
01:08:31.800 --> 01:08:36.760
I've seen them, you know,
just your mom and pop kind of

943
01:08:36.760 --> 01:08:42.199
garden centers that we look at and
it's called Agra Lawn a g R I

944
01:08:42.479 --> 01:08:45.239
l A W n Agri lawn.
And I'm trying to think of what else

945
01:08:45.319 --> 01:08:48.439
is part of the name. It's
got picture of a little fist that's pounding,

946
01:08:49.319 --> 01:08:54.800
pounding a weed on the cover.
But yeah, but again that that's

947
01:08:55.039 --> 01:08:57.399
the little dusting here and there.
If you've got a big yard full of

948
01:08:57.399 --> 01:09:00.479
doveweed, you're going to need to
use these other products. Yeah, well

949
01:09:00.640 --> 01:09:05.359
on the instructions on both of them
actually even recommends that for doveweed and one

950
01:09:05.439 --> 01:09:09.239
or two other weeds. Okay,
you'll have to probably have to do it

951
01:09:09.279 --> 01:09:11.960
at least twice. Yes, that's
true. That is just going to be

952
01:09:12.000 --> 01:09:15.560
true. And the more you can
keep it dry by avoiding overwatering, uh,

953
01:09:16.199 --> 01:09:18.199
the better off you are. Hey, I got to run for a

954
01:09:18.199 --> 01:09:21.600
commercial Desmond, but good luck with
that. I appreciate your call very much.

955
01:09:21.800 --> 01:09:25.920
Our phone number seven one three two
one two k t R H Steve.

956
01:09:25.960 --> 01:09:29.319
You'll be first up when I come
back. Welcome back to garden Line.

957
01:09:29.840 --> 01:09:32.439
Thanks for listening today. You'd like
to give us a call and maybe

958
01:09:32.479 --> 01:09:38.760
ask a gardening question. Seven one
three two one two kt RH seven one

959
01:09:38.800 --> 01:09:44.880
three two one two kt R h
H. If you are interested in a

960
01:09:45.159 --> 01:09:49.279
natural based product fertilizer for your lawn
that has a very high nitrogen level,

961
01:09:49.760 --> 01:09:54.560
that would be Sweet Green high.
I mean eleven percent nitrogen, which for

962
01:09:54.600 --> 01:09:59.000
an organic type product is very very
high. Sweet Green is a molasses based

963
01:09:59.079 --> 01:10:00.960
product. When you put a on
the soil, that melts away down into

964
01:10:00.960 --> 01:10:08.439
the soil, releasing the nitrogen through
biological activity. Microbes love sugary substances.

965
01:10:08.479 --> 01:10:12.920
They need that carbon, and basically
Sweet Green is loaded with the kind of

966
01:10:12.960 --> 01:10:15.479
carbon that they need. Now,
Sweet Green is a nitrofoss product, so

967
01:10:15.520 --> 01:10:19.159
it's available in a number of different
places. It smells wonderful too. By

968
01:10:19.159 --> 01:10:24.199
the way, Sweet Green is available
if you got to Katie, Ace Hardborough

969
01:10:24.199 --> 01:10:27.920
and Pinoak, they've got it out
there. Ace Hardware CITYO Memorial Drive is

970
01:10:27.960 --> 01:10:31.199
another place. Or go down to
Stanton Shopping Center and Alvin or North Taylor.

971
01:10:31.319 --> 01:10:36.720
You can find Sweet Green and nitrofoss
products there as well. Sweet Green

972
01:10:38.800 --> 01:10:42.359
ted out Now to Deer Park and
we're going to talk to Steve. Hello,

973
01:10:42.439 --> 01:10:48.359
Steve, good morning. Well,
I've got a quite a few ag

974
01:10:48.399 --> 01:10:58.159
of panthers in the front yard and
last year none of them bloomed, and

975
01:10:58.239 --> 01:11:03.119
this year one of them bloomed.
Can you recommend anything I could do for

976
01:11:03.159 --> 01:11:09.479
that? That's a good question.
Agapanthus is one of those frustrating plants for

977
01:11:09.520 --> 01:11:13.840
me. It sometimes it just blooms
and blooms and people aren't doing anything to

978
01:11:13.880 --> 01:11:15.840
it, and it's just happy in
blooming. And other times it's doing what

979
01:11:15.880 --> 01:11:19.640
you described. It needs sunlight.
Doesn't have to have full sun. It

980
01:11:19.800 --> 01:11:24.840
likes a break from the full sun. But it needs good lighting in order

981
01:11:24.920 --> 01:11:28.800
to bloom well in a deep deep
shade. It's not It needs to be

982
01:11:28.840 --> 01:11:31.960
a good, healthy plant and not
over fertilized. You want to go a

983
01:11:32.000 --> 01:11:38.199
little easy on the nitrogen for agapanthos. Don't just push it like you're going

984
01:11:38.279 --> 01:11:41.840
to create a lot of vegetative leafy
green growth. You know you want it,

985
01:11:43.000 --> 01:11:45.439
You want it to settle in a
little bit. I would use something

986
01:11:45.520 --> 01:11:50.479
like a color Star fertilizer. Nelson's
color Star would be a good choice for

987
01:11:50.720 --> 01:11:57.600
agapanthos. But just watch the overdoing
of that first number, and then of

988
01:11:57.640 --> 01:12:04.560
course keep it keeping it moist adequately
more. Okay, is there much chance

989
01:12:04.600 --> 01:12:09.479
of getting at the bloom at this
late neat season or well? I would.

990
01:12:09.479 --> 01:12:12.800
I would hope so, but I
don't know all the specifics of you

991
01:12:12.840 --> 01:12:15.800
know, the soil in sight and
what it's what all it's struggling with there.

992
01:12:16.079 --> 01:12:19.319
I just kind of threw out some
general ideas, but uh, I

993
01:12:19.319 --> 01:12:24.279
would. I wouldn't give up on
it just yet. Yeah, well I

994
01:12:24.319 --> 01:12:28.039
don't mind even just the leaves are
kind of pretty, but yeah they are.

995
01:12:28.279 --> 01:12:31.600
But you sure would like those beautiful
blue uh oh yeah, like blue

996
01:12:31.600 --> 01:12:36.760
fireworks going off above the plants.
Yeah, I think they're really pretty.

997
01:12:36.800 --> 01:12:43.199
Another question I heard you talking earlier
about webworms. Yes, if you can

998
01:12:43.239 --> 01:12:47.640
see when they're just starting, can
you just trim off that branch or a

999
01:12:47.800 --> 01:12:51.039
part of that branch. Yes,
you can. If there are a lot

1000
01:12:51.119 --> 01:12:56.279
of them, you know, that's
maybe more pruning than you want to do

1001
01:12:56.359 --> 01:12:59.119
to a plant, but yes you
can. It is also an option.

1002
01:12:59.520 --> 01:13:01.239
But I tell you, if you
catch them when they're really early, it

1003
01:13:01.359 --> 01:13:05.000
is easy just to squirt the foliage
because they don't have that big web built

1004
01:13:05.039 --> 01:13:09.439
all around a big large area of
leaves, and you can just squirt the

1005
01:13:09.479 --> 01:13:14.000
foliage with all kinds of different insecticides
and it will be very effective on shutting

1006
01:13:14.079 --> 01:13:17.479
them down. Okay, I had
one more question that you got time.

1007
01:13:17.920 --> 01:13:27.039
Okay, I've seen on YouTube where
they deadhead roses and they say cut them

1008
01:13:27.079 --> 01:13:32.239
back to five leafs instead of three
leaves because the five leaves make more flowers.

1009
01:13:32.760 --> 01:13:35.880
Okay, you agree with that.
Well, yeah, it's cutting them

1010
01:13:35.920 --> 01:13:41.920
back a little bit further back from
the end there's more vigor and that bud,

1011
01:13:42.680 --> 01:13:45.960
you know, like the five leaf
leaflet that you're referring to, there's

1012
01:13:45.000 --> 01:13:48.640
a bud at the base of it
that will vigorously push out new growth and

1013
01:13:48.680 --> 01:13:53.000
then have flowers on the end of
that shoot that comes from that bud.

1014
01:13:53.159 --> 01:13:57.840
That's why they say that. Okay, and I got another rose is kind

1015
01:13:57.840 --> 01:14:03.680
of a climb and type rose,
and I kind of tried to s play

1016
01:14:03.880 --> 01:14:09.439
how we pronounced it on the fence, you know, had the three rails

1017
01:14:09.479 --> 01:14:15.000
and I'm trying to run it out
on each rail. That Is that a

1018
01:14:15.520 --> 01:14:18.319
mistake or is that? Will it
work? Like, tell me what kind

1019
01:14:18.319 --> 01:14:23.239
of rose it is? Again,
it's a climbing rose. I don't know

1020
01:14:23.720 --> 01:14:27.760
the variety of Yeah, you can
do that. Climbing roses in general do

1021
01:14:27.880 --> 01:14:32.199
better when the canes the shoots are
oriented horizontally. So if you let them

1022
01:14:32.199 --> 01:14:35.880
go like and I know you're talking
about going horizontally, but if they go

1023
01:14:35.960 --> 01:14:39.159
straight up, you end up with
blooms up at the top, but no

1024
01:14:39.279 --> 01:14:42.119
blooms up and down the shoots.
There's actually a type or two of rows

1025
01:14:42.119 --> 01:14:45.359
that will bloom better on the shoots
like vertically, but in general we run

1026
01:14:45.399 --> 01:14:48.439
them like back and forth, you
know, go left or right across the

1027
01:14:48.479 --> 01:14:53.760
trellis, back and forth because that
horizontal orientation you get a better bloom set

1028
01:14:53.800 --> 01:14:56.920
in there. And so, yes, you could do that, but it's

1029
01:14:56.960 --> 01:14:59.399
going to be a job because there's
going to be a lot of new shoots

1030
01:14:59.399 --> 01:15:01.760
forming and you're kind of having to
bundle them together and get them on those

1031
01:15:02.399 --> 01:15:06.800
those rails of the fence, you
know, to create the look you're looking

1032
01:15:06.840 --> 01:15:10.479
for there. I guess I should
let it get a little bit bushy,

1033
01:15:10.560 --> 01:15:14.319
huh, or on each each runner, or well you could, you know,

1034
01:15:14.479 --> 01:15:16.760
you just kind of have to.
Some roses are not as vigorous as

1035
01:15:16.800 --> 01:15:19.800
others, and so it depends on
the kind of roads you're trying to do

1036
01:15:19.920 --> 01:15:24.600
that too. Some of them will
work out trying to keep up with them,

1037
01:15:24.880 --> 01:15:28.640
okay, and you can continue to
fertilize them through the summer or not.

1038
01:15:29.479 --> 01:15:32.359
Yes, you can, you should
small amounts. Okay, okay,

1039
01:15:32.439 --> 01:15:34.840
okay, Well thank you for those
answers. I appreciate it all right,

1040
01:15:34.880 --> 01:15:40.840
thank you appreciate the call very much. Well let's see here, we are

1041
01:15:40.920 --> 01:15:45.359
running out of time for this hour. That one went fast. Archie in

1042
01:15:45.399 --> 01:15:48.199
Paarland and Robert up on the northwest
side. You'll be our first up when

1043
01:15:48.239 --> 01:15:54.039
we come back. By the way, if anybody is familiar with when the

1044
01:15:54.079 --> 01:15:59.159
plumerius sale is out in clear like
the Plumarous Society, would you give me

1045
01:15:59.199 --> 01:16:00.840
a call here on Garden Line and
you can just tell the producer if you

1046
01:16:00.840 --> 01:16:04.000
don't want to be on the air. But we I need that information.

1047
01:16:04.079 --> 01:16:09.000
I've been having people ask about that
and I do not know the answered that

1048
01:16:09.079 --> 01:16:13.359
question. So Archie, if you
have a follow up to that, stick

1049
01:16:13.399 --> 01:16:15.399
around. If not, the minute
I find out something, I will let

1050
01:16:15.439 --> 01:16:20.000
you know. Don't forget Next Saturday, I'll be at wall Bird's Unlimited in

1051
01:16:20.199 --> 01:16:25.920
bel Air, Southwest Houston, eleven
am to one pm right after garden Line

1052
01:16:26.199 --> 01:16:44.920
next Saturday to fifty Welcome to k
r H Garden Line with scamp Ricard's just

1053
01:16:45.119 --> 01:17:00.560
watch him as World. Welcome back
to garden line, Well, wellcome back.

1054
01:17:00.600 --> 01:17:02.560
Good to have you with us,
Good to have you with us.

1055
01:17:04.119 --> 01:17:08.279
Well, I have a guardline quiz. If you listen to guarden line more

1056
01:17:08.319 --> 01:17:10.479
than one time, you oughtn't know
the answer to this. What is the

1057
01:17:10.520 --> 01:17:15.119
most important thing you do if you
want to have success with a new planting?

1058
01:17:15.239 --> 01:17:20.520
The answer is, prepare the soil
first. Yes, soil type is

1059
01:17:20.560 --> 01:17:25.920
important, Yes, drainage is important, Yes, sunshine is important. All

1060
01:17:25.960 --> 01:17:30.880
of those things. But I'm telling
you the foundation for success is the soil.

1061
01:17:30.960 --> 01:17:34.000
Plants live in the soil. They
do. The top sticks up and

1062
01:17:34.159 --> 01:17:40.000
its job is to grab sunlight to
fuel the plant. But the roots are

1063
01:17:40.039 --> 01:17:43.760
taking up the water, they're taking
up the nutrients that the leaves used to

1064
01:17:43.800 --> 01:17:46.720
make everything that plant needs and that
you want. Maybe what you want is

1065
01:17:46.760 --> 01:17:53.079
beautiful foliage, maybe it's fruit,
maybe it's flowers. That all happens if

1066
01:17:53.159 --> 01:17:59.760
you've got good soil. And Heirloom
Soils has put together a combination of options

1067
01:17:59.840 --> 01:18:04.399
for quality soil mixes that are like
none other. They're fruit berry and centrismex.

1068
01:18:04.439 --> 01:18:08.880
For example, you're gonna plant anything
that's going to grow fruit there it

1069
01:18:08.960 --> 01:18:12.800
is fruit berry, et cetera.
SMEs veggie and herb mix. The name

1070
01:18:12.880 --> 01:18:15.680
tells it, Cacti and succulent mix. The cactine cyce very gritty. It

1071
01:18:16.000 --> 01:18:20.319
drains well. So if you're gonna
do plants that don't like to have mukys

1072
01:18:20.920 --> 01:18:27.119
wet soil conditions, cact Insculent is
designed just for those kind of plants.

1073
01:18:27.319 --> 01:18:30.560
They got their works potting soil.
They have the roses and bloomers blend.

1074
01:18:30.840 --> 01:18:35.800
It's like talking about it. It's
a multipurpose rose soil, very very effective.

1075
01:18:35.840 --> 01:18:40.439
Not just roses, but anything that
you're going to grow that is a

1076
01:18:40.479 --> 01:18:44.960
shrub or putizelias and the roses and
bloomers blend. They do very well in

1077
01:18:45.000 --> 01:18:48.279
that as well. Heirloom Soils of
Texas. That's the website, Airloom Soils

1078
01:18:48.319 --> 01:18:51.399
of Texas. Go check it out. You're going to find these products all

1079
01:18:51.439 --> 01:18:54.720
over the place. You can buy
them by the bag, you can buy

1080
01:18:54.800 --> 01:18:58.000
them by the bulk, you can
have them deliver it. Just go to

1081
01:18:58.039 --> 01:19:02.760
Heirloom Soils of Texas com and find
out more information. But whatever you do,

1082
01:19:03.159 --> 01:19:06.760
get that soil ready so that when
you put that wonderful new plant you

1083
01:19:06.840 --> 01:19:11.000
just bought in the ground, it
hits the ground running. That's the goal.

1084
01:19:11.319 --> 01:19:13.840
We're going to go now to the
northwest side and talk to Robert.

1085
01:19:13.920 --> 01:19:20.319
Hello, Robert, do we get
you there? Robert? Oh, yes,

1086
01:19:20.359 --> 01:19:25.119
sir, How can we help you? Hey? Hey, I got

1087
01:19:25.119 --> 01:19:29.640
a question about our trees and have
broken during the storm a couple of weeks

1088
01:19:29.640 --> 01:19:35.000
ago. I had a big limb
on a Chinese elm laid over okay and

1089
01:19:35.720 --> 01:19:41.000
big star right where there where the
tree was. Luckily it didn't tear the

1090
01:19:41.039 --> 01:19:44.800
whole tree down or nothing, but
uh, it didn't feel any park.

1091
01:19:45.319 --> 01:19:47.279
I was able to cut it right
where it bent down, you know,

1092
01:19:47.399 --> 01:19:49.920
and good. But what I put
on that? What do I cover that

1093
01:19:50.000 --> 01:19:56.800
up with to protect that tree from
you know, getting any diseases or anything

1094
01:19:56.800 --> 01:20:00.680
else. You know. For for
many years now, research and our rubriculture

1095
01:20:00.800 --> 01:20:03.479
has been telling us that we don't
need to be painting wounds on trees.

1096
01:20:03.720 --> 01:20:09.600
It's better to let it be open
and dry out those wound paints. You

1097
01:20:09.640 --> 01:20:12.720
know, it seems logical that they
would help, but actually they end up

1098
01:20:12.720 --> 01:20:15.840
holding moisture behind them, and you
get more decay behind them, and there

1099
01:20:15.880 --> 01:20:19.720
are other issues that they can cause. The only exception of that, Robert,

1100
01:20:19.720 --> 01:20:23.520
would be if you had an oak
tree and you were in an area

1101
01:20:23.640 --> 01:20:28.000
with oak wilt, then we would
paint the wounds immediately. But that is

1102
01:20:28.039 --> 01:20:30.880
not for the sake of healing.
That's for the sake of keeping the bugs

1103
01:20:30.880 --> 01:20:34.920
out that spread that disease. So
just a good clean cut and made it,

1104
01:20:35.000 --> 01:20:38.880
making it at the right spot.
You don't want to leave a stub

1105
01:20:38.920 --> 01:20:43.119
because that'll die and then you have
this dead piece of wood that prevents the

1106
01:20:43.279 --> 01:20:46.880
tree from putting callous over to close
up that wound. On the other hand,

1107
01:20:46.920 --> 01:20:49.880
you don't want to print it right
flush up against the trunk, because

1108
01:20:49.880 --> 01:20:56.199
that just makes a bigger wound.
All right, Chip, I appreciate it.

1109
01:20:56.239 --> 01:20:59.680
I almost send you a picture maybe
talking about it next weekend to her

1110
01:21:00.800 --> 01:21:04.199
and just make sure that what I'm
seeing is exactly what you're describing, all

1111
01:21:04.319 --> 01:21:06.479
right, appreciate it. All right, Robert, I'm gonna put you on

1112
01:21:06.560 --> 01:21:14.560
hold and my producer is gonna give
you my email to send that picture too.

1113
01:21:15.000 --> 01:21:17.199
I unless there's something different, I
won't comment back on it if you

1114
01:21:17.199 --> 01:21:20.399
don't hear from me that it was
kind of what we had said. But

1115
01:21:20.439 --> 01:21:27.520
thank you very much. I do
appreciate the call. Yeah, when whenever

1116
01:21:27.640 --> 01:21:33.600
trees whenever they break and storm,
typically the wound is one that is not

1117
01:21:33.720 --> 01:21:38.640
going to heal well at all,
very very slow, if at all.

1118
01:21:38.680 --> 01:21:44.520
And then whether that tree lives another
decade or ten decades, it just is

1119
01:21:44.600 --> 01:21:48.840
going to be a weak spot that
more and more rots away interior and causes

1120
01:21:48.840 --> 01:21:54.800
a weak spot. We say it
weakens the structural integrity of the tree.

1121
01:21:54.960 --> 01:21:58.720
There's the fancy way to put it, but the bottom line is you want

1122
01:21:58.720 --> 01:22:00.760
to get in there and make a
good clean and you wanted to close over.

1123
01:22:00.840 --> 01:22:03.000
And there's a proper way to prune. For those of you who are

1124
01:22:03.000 --> 01:22:08.560
doing it yourselfers learn how to prune
properly. Do a Google search for something

1125
01:22:08.600 --> 01:22:13.199
called three point cut. Look at
how to do a three point cut.

1126
01:22:13.800 --> 01:22:16.880
That is the best way to make
the pruning cuts where you don't end up

1127
01:22:16.920 --> 01:22:20.399
causing problems. And better yet,
how's somebody that knows what they're doing.

1128
01:22:20.880 --> 01:22:25.439
And that's why we're always talking about
affordable tree. Martin spoon Moore here on

1129
01:22:25.520 --> 01:22:30.239
garden line seven one three six nine
nine twenty six sixty three. That's his

1130
01:22:30.359 --> 01:22:32.880
number, seven one three sixty nine
nine two six sixty three. Go to

1131
01:22:32.920 --> 01:22:38.079
the website aff Tree Service dot com. But Martin knows how to do this.

1132
01:22:38.319 --> 01:22:41.600
And so if you're at all in
doubt or you don't maybe have quite

1133
01:22:41.600 --> 01:22:45.279
the equipment, don't risk going up
on a ladder and holding a chainsaw on

1134
01:22:45.279 --> 01:22:49.000
one hand for crying out loud trying
to do pruning. How's somebody come in

1135
01:22:49.039 --> 01:22:53.800
that knows what they're doing, uh, and can do it right and safely.

1136
01:22:55.720 --> 01:22:58.520
A lot of things do not end
well when you go up on a

1137
01:22:58.600 --> 01:23:04.119
ladder and start stretching the limits of
safety a little bit. We love feed

1138
01:23:04.119 --> 01:23:10.359
stores here on Garden Line and League
City Feed is an outstanding feed store down

1139
01:23:10.399 --> 01:23:13.800
in League City. When I say
outstanding, I like the old time feed

1140
01:23:13.880 --> 01:23:15.840
stores. You know, I want
to go in and I want several things.

1141
01:23:15.920 --> 01:23:20.520
I want to find the products that
I need. And at Leake City,

1142
01:23:21.119 --> 01:23:25.439
if you hear me talk about fertilizer, it's at League City they carry

1143
01:23:25.439 --> 01:23:29.800
that. They're at League City.
Do you need stuff to control diseases or

1144
01:23:29.800 --> 01:23:31.920
insects or weeds, They've got all
of that at League City Feed. Of

1145
01:23:31.960 --> 01:23:34.239
course it's a feed store. They
got all the feed things. I'm talking

1146
01:23:34.279 --> 01:23:39.760
more from a gardening standpoint, but
whatever you need, they're going to have

1147
01:23:39.760 --> 01:23:42.840
copies of it. They have air
copies. They're gonna have products of it,

1148
01:23:43.239 --> 01:23:45.039
airloom soils. They carry that there. That's just an example. The

1149
01:23:45.079 --> 01:23:48.560
asimitostombout earlier today. They carry that
there, and on and on down the

1150
01:23:48.600 --> 01:23:53.560
line. Now, Leake City feed
is just three blocks, just a few

1151
01:23:53.600 --> 01:23:58.319
blocks actually, south of Highway three. Are on Highway three, south of

1152
01:23:58.399 --> 01:24:00.199
Highway ninety six. Let me say
that again. You're in League City.

1153
01:24:00.760 --> 01:24:04.000
You go south of Highway ninety six
on Highway three, just a few blocks

1154
01:24:04.000 --> 01:24:08.359
and you're right there. So for
all of you and all those communities clear

1155
01:24:08.439 --> 01:24:12.479
Lake and Webster and Santa Fe and
Lamark and Baycliff, San Leone, this

1156
01:24:12.640 --> 01:24:15.399
is your hometown feed store. It's
open Monday through Saturday nine to six,

1157
01:24:15.520 --> 01:24:18.680
closed on Sunday. So today would
be a good day to get by there

1158
01:24:18.960 --> 01:24:21.880
and get what you need. They
carry it out to the to the car

1159
01:24:21.920 --> 01:24:26.319
for you too, or the pickup. So that just makes it even better.

1160
01:24:26.479 --> 01:24:30.560
Two eight one three three two one
six one two two eight one three

1161
01:24:30.640 --> 01:24:35.960
three two one six one two.
We are now going to go here to

1162
01:24:36.399 --> 01:24:42.359
Kim, Hello, Kim, Hi
Skip. I was just wondering if I

1163
01:24:42.399 --> 01:24:47.239
could do a little plug for our
Maria sail today out here in clear Lake.

1164
01:24:47.439 --> 01:24:50.640
Well, we had a caller earlier
that was wanting to ask about that,

1165
01:24:50.760 --> 01:24:54.760
so go ahead and just tell folks, uh, you're having the show

1166
01:24:54.840 --> 01:24:58.479
too, right, Yeah, well
yes there, Well there's a lot of

1167
01:24:58.520 --> 01:25:00.920
Plamerius here and then of course we
we have our balloom table that has all

1168
01:25:00.920 --> 01:25:04.600
the balloons on it that people can
take a look at. We're out here

1169
01:25:04.640 --> 01:25:09.920
at clear Lake Park at the Bay
Area Community Center at five thousand and two

1170
01:25:10.239 --> 01:25:15.319
East Nasa Road in Seabrooks. Seven
seven, five eighty six is the actual

1171
01:25:15.760 --> 01:25:20.239
address. Well, the simple way
is is Bay Area Community Center on Nasa

1172
01:25:20.359 --> 01:25:25.920
Road. That's absolutely yes, thank
you so much, And it's from nine

1173
01:25:26.000 --> 01:25:30.359
to one today and we have about
we have twenty five cellars, and we

1174
01:25:30.439 --> 01:25:36.119
have everything from you know, the
novice up to a serious collector. So

1175
01:25:36.159 --> 01:25:41.279
we'd love to have people come out. Like I said, the doors open

1176
01:25:41.319 --> 01:25:45.039
at nine for people to purchase plants, and we've got other merchandise and T

1177
01:25:45.159 --> 01:25:51.800
shirts and beautiful tumblers and things like
that. So any listeners who loves Flumerius

1178
01:25:51.880 --> 01:25:55.239
or maybe even wants to just learn
more about and we'd love to have you

1179
01:25:55.279 --> 01:25:57.560
out here. Well, good,
that sounds fun. One of these days

1180
01:25:57.560 --> 01:26:00.039
I'm going to get out there.
I have I have do not have Plummerius

1181
01:26:00.079 --> 01:26:02.960
and I need to get some and
so one of these days I'm going to

1182
01:26:03.039 --> 01:26:05.760
head out and join y'all out there
as well. But I know you guys

1183
01:26:05.760 --> 01:26:11.439
have a wide variety. Well that
would be fabulous. And thank you so

1184
01:26:11.520 --> 01:26:15.520
much for letting us, letting us
get the word out and hopefully we'll see

1185
01:26:15.560 --> 01:26:16.920
some of the listeners out here today. All righty, thanks a lot.

1186
01:26:16.920 --> 01:26:21.399
Appreciate the call, Kim little public
service announcement there for those of you who

1187
01:26:21.479 --> 01:26:30.600
were asking me about it earlier on
that is going on today. There are

1188
01:26:30.640 --> 01:26:36.560
always new products and new things coming
on the market, and I'm typically skeptical

1189
01:26:36.840 --> 01:26:41.439
upfront. I just am because you
know, there's always some new thing you

1190
01:26:41.439 --> 01:26:45.199
can't live without out there, no
matter what the category is. Gardening just

1191
01:26:45.359 --> 01:26:48.920
is one example. But Medina came
out with a new product that before I

1192
01:26:48.960 --> 01:26:53.720
even tried it, I was excited
about it. And it's super Grow Plus.

1193
01:26:53.760 --> 01:26:57.680
It's part of their hast Grow series. It's a court bottle that hooks

1194
01:26:57.800 --> 01:27:01.119
up to your garden hose. Ever's
about four thousand square feet. It takes

1195
01:27:01.119 --> 01:27:04.960
about ten minutes to do your lawn, but you just took it to a

1196
01:27:04.960 --> 01:27:09.319
garden hose and you just like your
water in the lawn very very lightly.

1197
01:27:09.640 --> 01:27:12.640
It's a sixteen zero two. And
the reason I was excited about it is

1198
01:27:12.640 --> 01:27:15.560
that zero, that low middle number. That is a good thing if you

1199
01:27:15.680 --> 01:27:19.439
have a lawn that's been fertilized year
after year after year after year. A

1200
01:27:19.479 --> 01:27:23.680
lot of the nutrients can be volatile. They can wash away, they can

1201
01:27:24.159 --> 01:27:28.520
nitrogen can go off as a gas. They don't stick around, but phosphorus

1202
01:27:28.560 --> 01:27:30.640
does. That's a middle number,
and so a lot of parts of the

1203
01:27:30.680 --> 01:27:38.039
country now are limiting phosphorus and fertilizers
to protect surface water. And so there

1204
01:27:38.079 --> 01:27:43.399
are places where you just can't use
any particular thing you want without special In

1205
01:27:43.520 --> 01:27:48.479
some cases it's a prescription even but
getting back to the Houston area, supergril

1206
01:27:48.520 --> 01:27:51.960
plus is a great way to green
up a lawn quickly. Now it's not

1207
01:27:53.119 --> 01:27:56.880
all fast release. About a fifth
of the nitrogen is slow release to it.

1208
01:27:56.880 --> 01:28:00.840
It also has some other things to
help green up, like the keylated

1209
01:28:00.920 --> 01:28:05.399
form of iron that helps with that
yellowing that we typically see in our Saint

1210
01:28:05.439 --> 01:28:12.279
Augustine lawns. It's got things like
molasses and humic acid in it and seaweed

1211
01:28:12.319 --> 01:28:16.319
extract even so, it's just a
great concoction. Has to grow super grow

1212
01:28:16.399 --> 01:28:19.239
plus. I'm going to be given
away some of that at one of our

1213
01:28:19.319 --> 01:28:23.159
upcoming appearances and I'll tell you more
about that when we get a little bit

1214
01:28:23.199 --> 01:28:28.399
closer to it. But has to
grow supergrow plus by Medina high quality,

1215
01:28:29.079 --> 01:28:33.560
very high quality product. You are
listening to Gardenline. Our phone number is

1216
01:28:33.600 --> 01:28:40.600
seven one three two one two fifty
eight seventy four seven one three two one

1217
01:28:40.640 --> 01:28:45.840
two five eight seven four. Don't
forget that. Next Saturday, I'm going

1218
01:28:45.920 --> 01:28:49.840
to be at Wallbirds Unlimited in bell
Air, Texas Wilbirds in bel Air.

1219
01:28:50.159 --> 01:28:57.600
I was talking earlier about some Father's
Day gifts and the squirrel excluder feeder I

1220
01:28:57.640 --> 01:29:00.439
think is one of the best Father's
Day gifts. If dad likes to,

1221
01:29:00.720 --> 01:29:03.359
you know, get out and enjoy
a cup of coffee early in the morning

1222
01:29:03.479 --> 01:29:06.920
and listen to the birds and watch
the birds and things. This feeder is

1223
01:29:06.960 --> 01:29:10.279
cool. It's my favorite feeder that
I've got, and I've got a lot

1224
01:29:10.319 --> 01:29:15.600
of different kinds of feeders around the
house, but Wibird's Unlimited. The squirrel

1225
01:29:15.720 --> 01:29:17.560
excluding feeder is a really cool one. Now, they got a lot of

1226
01:29:17.600 --> 01:29:21.840
other things here. They've got feeders
for every particular kind of bird and seed

1227
01:29:21.840 --> 01:29:26.800
that you might have. But come
out and see me at bell Air Wildbird's

1228
01:29:26.840 --> 01:29:30.640
Unlimited in bell Air. It's one
of the six stores here in the Greater

1229
01:29:30.680 --> 01:29:33.159
Houston area. By the way,
if you looking for a Wildbirds near you

1230
01:29:33.159 --> 01:29:38.800
go to WBU dot com forward slash
Houston and that's where you can find out

1231
01:29:38.840 --> 01:29:43.600
more about them. WBD dot com
forward slash Houston. Let's go out to

1232
01:29:43.680 --> 01:29:46.399
Mansfield now and talk to Martha.
Oh, I tell you what, Martha,

1233
01:29:46.439 --> 01:29:48.880
I'm sorry, I pull the call
up and I might put your right

1234
01:29:48.960 --> 01:29:51.760
back on hold because I just saw
I let a brake slip by here.

1235
01:29:51.800 --> 01:29:55.479
We'll be right back. Welcome back
to the guard Line. Hey, good

1236
01:29:55.560 --> 01:29:59.640
have you with us today? We
are going to head out now to let's

1237
01:29:59.640 --> 01:30:01.760
see where we want to go.
I think I went to Brenda and Woodville.

1238
01:30:02.079 --> 01:30:09.199
Hello Brenda, Hello, how can
we help? Well, we've had

1239
01:30:09.560 --> 01:30:13.439
Encore Sobias for about two years and
they've not done well. Okay, they

1240
01:30:13.479 --> 01:30:18.399
did bloom a little bit earlier this
year. But they're real tall and scraggly,

1241
01:30:18.560 --> 01:30:24.000
and we were wondering if it's too
late to prune them. It is

1242
01:30:24.119 --> 01:30:27.159
not too late to prune them,
but go ahead and get it done.

1243
01:30:27.640 --> 01:30:31.000
They need to be able to regrow
new shoots after your pruning and set the

1244
01:30:31.039 --> 01:30:34.800
bloom buds for next spring, and
it'll they'll be doing that by the time

1245
01:30:34.840 --> 01:30:39.079
we get into mid to late summer. So you need to go ahead and

1246
01:30:39.119 --> 01:30:42.560
get them prune now so they have
time to grow and set the buds.

1247
01:30:43.079 --> 01:30:45.960
Okay, when we prune them,
do we also need to fertilize them or

1248
01:30:45.000 --> 01:30:47.720
just let that go for a while. Uh, you know it kind of

1249
01:30:47.720 --> 01:30:50.920
looking how are they looking? If
they're looking like they could use a little

1250
01:30:50.960 --> 01:30:55.600
boost, I'd give them a boost
that there's nothing wrong with that gets you

1251
01:30:55.640 --> 01:30:59.520
a good product for acid loving plants. If you have a particular brand do

1252
01:30:59.560 --> 01:31:03.279
you like to use, but something
for acid loving plants would be a good

1253
01:31:03.359 --> 01:31:08.399
choice. Okay, well, thank
you very much. All right, thank

1254
01:31:08.399 --> 01:31:10.800
you very much. I appreciate that. Brenda. Thanks for the call.

1255
01:31:12.119 --> 01:31:15.279
Now we're going to run out to
Vents in the Woodlands. Hello Vents,

1256
01:31:16.680 --> 01:31:19.399
good morning, Thanks for taking my
call. How are you going this morning.

1257
01:31:19.680 --> 01:31:23.760
I'm good, I'm good. How
are you today? Well? Thank

1258
01:31:23.760 --> 01:31:28.680
you. I am calling because it
seems as though we've got a phenomenon going

1259
01:31:28.720 --> 01:31:34.000
on in our particular subdivision where a
lot of trees are beginning to get just

1260
01:31:34.319 --> 01:31:44.000
enveloped in these spider web type of
masses that just envelop entire branches. And

1261
01:31:44.079 --> 01:31:47.319
I was wondering, what is that? And because it's all so high up,

1262
01:31:47.840 --> 01:31:51.079
what do you have to do?
Do you cut down that branch?

1263
01:31:51.720 --> 01:31:58.399
Is if it's left to go without
any kind of action on our part?

1264
01:31:58.600 --> 01:32:00.800
Yeah, does it eventually take the
tree? Okay, you're talking about webbing

1265
01:32:00.840 --> 01:32:03.800
on the outer branches right, Just
to be clear, Yes, okay,

1266
01:32:03.840 --> 01:32:10.960
that's webworms. And I just posted
something a while back to our Guardenline Facebook

1267
01:32:11.000 --> 01:32:15.479
page on it webworms or we're having
one of the worst years we've had in

1268
01:32:15.520 --> 01:32:19.279
a while for this early in the
year. Normally they aren't a big problem

1269
01:32:19.359 --> 01:32:24.600
until a big problem until later in
the summer, but this year came early

1270
01:32:24.760 --> 01:32:28.960
and you can spray them. There
are a number of products that will kill

1271
01:32:29.000 --> 01:32:32.199
them. They're just caterpillars, and
so you just have got to get the

1272
01:32:32.239 --> 01:32:36.000
spray to the foliage they're feeding on, and that's the challenge. If you

1273
01:32:36.039 --> 01:32:40.399
can use a long pole to break
up the webs, or if you have

1274
01:32:40.479 --> 01:32:44.159
a spray stream that's strong enough that
will kind of cut through the web a

1275
01:32:44.199 --> 01:32:47.319
little bit and get it on the
foliage inside. You can control them with

1276
01:32:47.399 --> 01:32:50.600
that. They're not hard to kill. You just got to get the product

1277
01:32:50.600 --> 01:32:57.199
to them. That's the war.
In the event that you cannot. I

1278
01:32:57.239 --> 01:33:00.760
mean, this is pretty high up. I would imagine we'd need bring out

1279
01:33:00.760 --> 01:33:04.640
a tree service or something to climb
on up there. Will it eventually take

1280
01:33:04.680 --> 01:33:10.439
the tree? No? Well,
okay, now this year we're seeing plants

1281
01:33:10.479 --> 01:33:14.199
where all the foliage was lost,
but the tree can bounce back and grow

1282
01:33:14.279 --> 01:33:16.760
new foliage. But when it's doing
that, you really want to watch it

1283
01:33:16.800 --> 01:33:19.600
because you don't want it to do
that two or three times in the course

1284
01:33:19.640 --> 01:33:25.479
of the year, and we could
have another two generations still here in the

1285
01:33:25.520 --> 01:33:30.520
greater Houston area. So just watch. If the new foliage comes out and

1286
01:33:30.560 --> 01:33:33.000
you start to see the very first
signs of it, go ahead and get

1287
01:33:33.000 --> 01:33:36.079
sprays on it. However, you
have to go about doing it to protect

1288
01:33:36.119 --> 01:33:42.079
that new set of foliage. Okay, well, I appreciate the info.

1289
01:33:42.199 --> 01:33:45.319
Thanks very much. All right,
thank you very much. Vince appreciate the

1290
01:33:45.359 --> 01:33:50.560
call very much for sure. Let's
see, we're going to now go to

1291
01:33:50.960 --> 01:33:57.159
talk to Jim. Hello, Jim, Hey, good morning. Hope you're

1292
01:33:57.199 --> 01:34:01.159
doing just fine. I am,
sir, Thank you good. I've got

1293
01:34:01.199 --> 01:34:09.560
some live oaks that need trimming up, and I mean because they hang down

1294
01:34:09.600 --> 01:34:13.399
a bit. Okay, what's the
best time of year to do that?

1295
01:34:13.720 --> 01:34:15.760
Well, winter, late winter is
the best time to do the majority of

1296
01:34:15.800 --> 01:34:19.000
tree pruning. If you need to
do a cut here and there and yonder,

1297
01:34:19.279 --> 01:34:23.279
you know, you can do two
or three cuts anytime of the year,

1298
01:34:23.720 --> 01:34:25.920
but if you're going to do quite
a better pruning, we try to

1299
01:34:25.960 --> 01:34:29.399
get most of that done in the
winter because spring is the time of fastest

1300
01:34:29.439 --> 01:34:32.720
wound healing. But it's not a
black and white thing like, if you

1301
01:34:32.800 --> 01:34:35.119
got pruning needs to be done,
now, go ahead and get some of

1302
01:34:35.119 --> 01:34:41.920
it done. Don't wait until next
winter to do it. Okay, very

1303
01:34:41.920 --> 01:34:45.039
good, thank you. Okay,
and just where you located, by the

1304
01:34:45.039 --> 01:34:50.439
way, Jim, I'm on the
energy corridor. Oh okay, all right,

1305
01:34:50.520 --> 01:34:54.199
yeah, that's fine. I just
was checking. If you're in an

1306
01:34:54.239 --> 01:34:58.640
area with oak wilt, that's a
different thing. But we don't have as

1307
01:34:58.680 --> 01:35:00.159
much of it here as they do
in Central Texas, that's for sure.

1308
01:35:01.680 --> 01:35:03.960
Okay, all right, sir,
good, thanks a lot, Thank you,

1309
01:35:04.000 --> 01:35:09.159
sir. Take care. Now we're
going to go out to La Bark

1310
01:35:09.319 --> 01:35:13.479
and talk to Gail. Hello,
Gail, Hi, good morning. I

1311
01:35:13.520 --> 01:35:18.399
have I sent a picture yesterday which
I think is called turkey tail fun guy.

1312
01:35:19.199 --> 01:35:24.640
Oh my huge hackberry tree, and
I want to know if it's going

1313
01:35:24.680 --> 01:35:28.199
to kill it or not. I
did not get an email from you.

1314
01:35:29.600 --> 01:35:32.960
I sent it from my phone yesterday. Okay, I don't I don't see

1315
01:35:33.000 --> 01:35:39.159
it here. Could you resend No, I'm driving right now, Okay,

1316
01:35:39.199 --> 01:35:43.319
yeah, don't do that. Don't
do that. What are the first few

1317
01:35:43.399 --> 01:35:46.399
letters of the email or would it
come from a phone number? You're saying,

1318
01:35:48.640 --> 01:35:56.720
I can M G O N.
Okay, uh yeah, I'm sorry.

1319
01:35:56.760 --> 01:36:04.720
I don't see it here for some
reason. Yeah, well it's as

1320
01:36:04.760 --> 01:36:09.720
I googled, I mean, I
sent. I had that app on where

1321
01:36:09.760 --> 01:36:13.520
you can take a picture what you're
looking at to identify it. Yes,

1322
01:36:13.560 --> 01:36:17.039
and it came a turkey tail fung
guy. Okay, well it could be,

1323
01:36:17.199 --> 01:36:20.479
but let me let's whenever you're at
a place where you can stop and

1324
01:36:20.880 --> 01:36:27.359
resend. Maybe use your email and
attach it to an email and email it

1325
01:36:27.399 --> 01:36:30.159
to me. I'm going to put
you on hold and I'm going to get

1326
01:36:30.199 --> 01:36:33.600
the producer to make sure you have
the right email address. Okay, so

1327
01:36:33.760 --> 01:36:38.319
just hang on. He's going to
pick up. All right, Thank you

1328
01:36:38.399 --> 01:36:43.000
very much for that call. Yeah. We try to do as best we

1329
01:36:43.039 --> 01:36:46.000
can with emails, especially when you're
described. People are describing something and I

1330
01:36:46.119 --> 01:36:49.600
may not picture what you're seeing U, and so the email is a good

1331
01:36:49.640 --> 01:36:54.640
way to confirm that I just am
not able to in general open up the

1332
01:36:54.680 --> 01:36:58.840
emails to just all the questions people
would have. There's just absolutely no way

1333
01:36:58.880 --> 01:37:01.640
I could begin to to answer those. So we try to connect the emails

1334
01:37:01.680 --> 01:37:04.239
to a call. So if you
email me, well, I'm going to

1335
01:37:04.279 --> 01:37:08.439
ask that you follow up with a
call to garden Line. Or sometimes it

1336
01:37:08.479 --> 01:37:10.640
goes the other way. You call
me and then I say, hey,

1337
01:37:10.760 --> 01:37:13.039
I need to see a picture.
Go ahead and send me an email.

1338
01:37:13.399 --> 01:37:15.680
We're gonna take a break here,
it's time for the news our number seven

1339
01:37:15.760 --> 01:37:19.680
one three two one two kt r
H. I'll be right back and John,

1340
01:37:19.720 --> 01:37:24.279
you'll be first up. We go
back to the garden Line. We

1341
01:37:24.359 --> 01:37:28.800
are gonna head straight to the phones. Here. We got John in Galveston.

1342
01:37:28.880 --> 01:37:31.239
First up. Hello John, Hey
sir, how are you. I'm

1343
01:37:31.279 --> 01:37:35.800
good? Thank you. Yeah.
So, four or five years ago and

1344
01:37:36.159 --> 01:37:42.039
there was we had an outbreak in
our lawns here in South Texas of something

1345
01:37:42.039 --> 01:37:48.439
called a sod webworm with with everybody
talking about you know these this webworm problem

1346
01:37:48.479 --> 01:37:55.880
that we're having right now kind of
in every tree we see it's the same

1347
01:37:55.920 --> 01:38:02.239
bug and we need to start looking
at treating form already or not or okay,

1348
01:38:02.560 --> 01:38:05.880
looking for it. That's a good
question. No, it's not the

1349
01:38:05.920 --> 01:38:13.359
same bug, completely different. The
soid webworm doesn't build these big old webs

1350
01:38:13.399 --> 01:38:15.840
like you're seeing the fall webworm,
which is what tree is in your trees

1351
01:38:16.520 --> 01:38:19.359
doing right now. It has a
little bit of webbing down in the thatch

1352
01:38:19.479 --> 01:38:25.239
of the grass. But if you
go online, I have a website gardening

1353
01:38:25.359 --> 01:38:30.039
with skip dot com and on there
are two schedules. One is the lawn

1354
01:38:30.119 --> 01:38:33.239
care schedule. One is the lawn
pest Disease and weed management schedule. On

1355
01:38:33.279 --> 01:38:38.640
the second one the pest disease and
weed in the insect row. From January

1356
01:38:38.720 --> 01:38:43.159
through December. It shows when chinchbugs
and sod webworms can appear, and then

1357
01:38:43.199 --> 01:38:47.640
when we treat for grubs also and
so soid webworms typically come later in the

1358
01:38:47.720 --> 01:38:53.800
year. We can get them earlier
in the summer, but typically you don't

1359
01:38:54.199 --> 01:38:59.239
really see the big outbreaks until we
get in around August, maybe even September,

1360
01:39:00.239 --> 01:39:03.920
but we start watching for them in
June. Just repeat the website a

1361
01:39:04.079 --> 01:39:13.520
please. Gardening with skip dot com
makes it easier to remember. Yeah,

1362
01:39:13.600 --> 01:39:17.000
you bet you got Those are free
to download. All right, there you

1363
01:39:17.000 --> 01:39:19.840
go. Yeah, good question.
Webworm and webworm, we have a lot

1364
01:39:19.880 --> 01:39:25.159
of confusion. There's also something called
a bagworm that's different than what we're dealing

1365
01:39:25.159 --> 01:39:28.319
with now, So I'm not going
to confuse the issue by describing it.

1366
01:39:28.359 --> 01:39:31.960
But yeah, that is that is
a factor. Uh, let's see.

1367
01:39:31.960 --> 01:39:36.399
We're going to go now to Lake
Jackson and talk to Doug. Hello,

1368
01:39:36.479 --> 01:39:46.359
Doug, Hey, good morning.
I have a Saint Augustine yard and I

1369
01:39:46.560 --> 01:39:55.880
have what it seems to be a
very active weed that seems to be outgoing

1370
01:39:55.960 --> 01:40:00.199
my Saint Augustine. It's kind of
a tear drop on each side. It's

1371
01:40:00.239 --> 01:40:11.640
like a fern, but it's very
small. Okay, okay, okay,

1372
01:40:12.079 --> 01:40:15.880
it's not it's not a bern.
It kind of looks like a large fern,

1373
01:40:16.880 --> 01:40:23.439
but it's very small. But okay, kind of the end is like

1374
01:40:23.479 --> 01:40:30.439
a reverse tear drop. And okay, boy, it could be several things.

1375
01:40:30.479 --> 01:40:31.800
I really need to see a picture
to know for sure, but I

1376
01:40:31.800 --> 01:40:34.600
can tell you this, if I
were you, I would get a product

1377
01:40:34.640 --> 01:40:41.560
called Celsius. Now that the temperature
has heated up, Celsius is a little

1378
01:40:41.600 --> 01:40:45.680
safer to use. Still apply it
early in the morning before the weather really

1379
01:40:45.720 --> 01:40:49.079
heats up. Good, but it
is good against a wide variety of weeds.

1380
01:40:49.760 --> 01:40:54.880
And I you know, you could
be talking about a lawn ber weed.

1381
01:40:54.960 --> 01:41:00.479
You could be talking about even what's
the Virginia button weed? That the

1382
01:41:00.560 --> 01:41:03.680
little teardrop thing sounds more like Virginia
button weed. But anyway, whatever it

1383
01:41:03.840 --> 01:41:08.560
is, the Celsius would be a
good place to start in shutting that down.

1384
01:41:08.640 --> 01:41:13.600
You mix it out and spray it
target directly to the weeds. And

1385
01:41:13.680 --> 01:41:15.880
what is the name of that product? Again, I'm sorry, celsius like

1386
01:41:15.960 --> 01:41:24.439
temperature cel si U s celsius and
it's just celsius. And I can get

1387
01:41:24.439 --> 01:41:27.760
that at any loads or I don't
know about that. I don't about loads.

1388
01:41:27.840 --> 01:41:30.359
If you go to a if you
go to like an ACE Hardware store,

1389
01:41:30.479 --> 01:41:33.319
you're going to find it. It's
a little bit of a drive for

1390
01:41:33.359 --> 01:41:38.479
you to come up to Southwest Fertilizer
up in Southwest Houston, but they have

1391
01:41:38.560 --> 01:41:42.720
it there. But you should be
able to Cornelius have it. They might.

1392
01:41:42.960 --> 01:41:45.359
You just have to try, just
have to call around. It's not

1393
01:41:45.520 --> 01:41:49.079
the most common of the products out
there, but most of our good garden

1394
01:41:49.159 --> 01:41:54.760
centers we'll be carrying it as well
as Ace Hardware, and some other places

1395
01:41:54.800 --> 01:41:59.479
like the feed stores sometimes do too. Okay, thank you very much.

1396
01:41:59.600 --> 01:42:02.800
All right, thanks done, appreciate
that call. Okay, somebody left the

1397
01:42:02.800 --> 01:42:06.039
gate open. Here we go.
We'll going to Crystal Beach and talking to

1398
01:42:06.159 --> 01:42:11.720
Riley. Hello, Riley, Hi, Hello, good morning. I have

1399
01:42:11.840 --> 01:42:15.680
recently moved down to Crystal Beach and
not used to all the sandy soil so

1400
01:42:16.239 --> 01:42:21.880
and I have four dogs who are
inundated their poor fur with these burrs.

1401
01:42:23.720 --> 01:42:27.920
And I researched too late because I
realized just recently that I should have taken

1402
01:42:27.920 --> 01:42:31.920
care of that in the winter.
What can I do to get rid of

1403
01:42:31.960 --> 01:42:38.439
these dang birds? Okay? Is
this a grassy plant that the birds are

1404
01:42:38.479 --> 01:42:43.800
on? It's just like, I
don't even know what kind of I think

1405
01:42:43.840 --> 01:42:46.800
I have a I think I have
a lawnful of just weeds that I'm ow

1406
01:42:46.880 --> 01:42:49.680
and pretended to out. Okay,
there you go. That's fair enough,

1407
01:42:49.960 --> 01:42:53.399
fair enough, it's great, and
take off here. But the whole thing

1408
01:42:53.479 --> 01:42:58.640
is these furs. Yeah, well, so send me a picture. I'm

1409
01:42:58.680 --> 01:43:00.720
gonna put you on hoe when we're
done with this talk. Send me a

1410
01:43:00.760 --> 01:43:02.680
picture. Let me look and make
sure I got the right plant. But

1411
01:43:02.720 --> 01:43:08.199
are a pre Well, I'm driving
at the moment and I'm not at home,

1412
01:43:08.279 --> 01:43:10.680
so I don't have a picture.
I don't worry about that. Don't

1413
01:43:10.680 --> 01:43:15.039
worry about it. Pre Emergent harbicide, the products called barricade barrack. Oh,

1414
01:43:15.079 --> 01:43:18.000
that's right, pre emergent. Yeah, it's called barricade. Yes.

1415
01:43:18.039 --> 01:43:23.640
But here's here's what you need to
do. Just if you can remember gardening

1416
01:43:23.920 --> 01:43:28.720
with Skip dot com, that's me
with skip dot com. When you go

1417
01:43:28.800 --> 01:43:31.199
there, click on the schedules.
Look at the weeds schedule, the one

1418
01:43:31.199 --> 01:43:34.760
that has weeds on it. It
lists the products, it tells you when

1419
01:43:34.800 --> 01:43:38.439
to apply them. It's all there. You don't have to remember anything.

1420
01:43:38.479 --> 01:43:42.159
You just print it out. It's
free and and get ahead of them.

1421
01:43:42.439 --> 01:43:46.119
The more you fertilize, if it's
truly grass birds that you have, the

1422
01:43:46.119 --> 01:43:51.000
more you fertilize, the more the
grass birds don't have the upper hand.

1423
01:43:51.680 --> 01:43:56.560
They like drug. The more I'm
repeat, I'm sorry, repeat that,

1424
01:43:56.600 --> 01:44:00.640
the more I fertilize, the grass
birds don't thrive. When you fertilize the

1425
01:44:00.680 --> 01:44:08.800
low it oh day like dry,
drowdy, poor sandy soil. And so

1426
01:44:08.920 --> 01:44:12.600
when you start making the soil where
your lawn is going to be happy,

1427
01:44:12.640 --> 01:44:15.840
the grasspurs will be less happy.
But you got to do the barricade.

1428
01:44:15.960 --> 01:44:18.960
Got it to prevent the seeds from
coming up. And it's on the schedule

1429
01:44:19.000 --> 01:44:21.279
when to apply it, so I
won't go into it on the air.

1430
01:44:21.399 --> 01:44:25.840
You can just look at the schedule. Okay. Now, so am I

1431
01:44:25.920 --> 01:44:30.680
actually making mistake? I'm mowing down
as far down as possible so that my

1432
01:44:30.720 --> 01:44:33.680
dogs don't get all these birds in
their fur. But they're am I making

1433
01:44:33.720 --> 01:44:39.199
a mistake because it's only they're getting
the so called grass is getting quite brown?

1434
01:44:39.560 --> 01:44:43.000
Yeah? Well, it's not great
for your grass to mow low.

1435
01:44:43.039 --> 01:44:46.079
And the grass bur is capable of
just setting its burrs down lower when you

1436
01:44:46.119 --> 01:44:50.760
mow it low instead of the grasspurs
can be almost knee high. But they

1437
01:44:50.800 --> 01:44:55.960
can also set birds down in the
two inches above the ground. And if

1438
01:44:55.960 --> 01:44:59.000
you know it, so the mowing
is not going to make them quit setting

1439
01:44:59.039 --> 01:45:02.880
burds. Okay, okay, so
it was gardening Skip dot Com. That's

1440
01:45:02.920 --> 01:45:09.199
it, got it awesome. Thank
you so much, Thank you you take

1441
01:45:09.199 --> 01:45:12.600
care. Well, here we are, time for another quick break. Let's

1442
01:45:12.600 --> 01:45:15.479
see when we come back, Dan
and Steve and Ken you'll be the first

1443
01:45:15.560 --> 01:45:19.119
up. We'll be right back.
Good to have you back on garden Line.

1444
01:45:19.159 --> 01:45:21.960
I'm your host, Skip Richter,
and we're here to answer your gardening

1445
01:45:23.640 --> 01:45:30.119
questions. If you are thinking about
maybe taking that backyard and turning it into

1446
01:45:30.199 --> 01:45:32.880
a beautiful outdoor gathering area. Maybe
you got a little bit of a patio,

1447
01:45:32.960 --> 01:45:38.199
but you'd really like to expand the
heart scape, put out some landscape

1448
01:45:38.279 --> 01:45:42.960
lighting, perhaps some the sound of
running water. That'd be a nice addition

1449
01:45:43.039 --> 01:45:45.520
to it. Puercecapes can do all
of that, and I want you to

1450
01:45:45.560 --> 01:45:48.720
go to their website. I want
you to see the work that they're capable

1451
01:45:48.720 --> 01:45:51.840
of doing. You may not have
a taj mahal out there, but I

1452
01:45:51.880 --> 01:45:57.359
mean They can do anything from you
name it from A to Z, whether

1453
01:45:57.439 --> 01:46:00.159
you need any of the things I
just mentioned, whether you're looking at maybe

1454
01:46:00.199 --> 01:46:05.000
some custom sprinkler work, checking out, making sure that the system is working

1455
01:46:05.079 --> 01:46:10.600
right, landscape lighting. I think
I mentioned that they've got their certifications,

1456
01:46:10.680 --> 01:46:14.760
they got their licenses, they've got
their experience, Their employees have been with

1457
01:46:14.800 --> 01:46:16.439
them for a long time and they
know how to do it right. And

1458
01:46:16.479 --> 01:46:21.680
you can see that at piercescapes dot
com pierscapes dot com. You can also

1459
01:46:21.720 --> 01:46:27.920
give them a call at two eight
one three seven oh fifty sixty and while

1460
01:46:27.920 --> 01:46:30.680
you're there, ask them about their
quarterly maintenance for the beds. They come

1461
01:46:30.720 --> 01:46:34.800
in every quarter. They do the
color changes, like hey, this old

1462
01:46:34.840 --> 01:46:38.319
plant is worn out, time to
put in a new one. They do

1463
01:46:38.399 --> 01:46:42.399
that. They do weeding, they
do fertilizing, They top off the malts,

1464
01:46:42.520 --> 01:46:45.560
they make sure that the irrigation is
working right. In other words,

1465
01:46:45.720 --> 01:46:53.079
quarterly maintenance at pier Scapes two eight
one three seven oh five zero six zero.

1466
01:46:53.319 --> 01:46:57.800
Let them make having a beautiful place
easy for you. We're going to

1467
01:46:57.920 --> 01:47:00.760
now go to Nadville and talk to
Dan. Hello, Dan, Hell,

1468
01:47:00.800 --> 01:47:03.079
let's skip part of you this morning. I'm good, sir. How can

1469
01:47:03.159 --> 01:47:09.359
we help great? Listen. I
planted a couple of cypress trees about fifteen

1470
01:47:09.479 --> 01:47:15.279
years ago at my home and they
have grown beautifully until this year. One

1471
01:47:15.319 --> 01:47:19.640
of the trees it started to set
leaves, the leaves to come out,

1472
01:47:19.760 --> 01:47:25.199
or the pines, whatever you call
the things, and it just looks like

1473
01:47:25.439 --> 01:47:30.000
has stopped and it's starting to turn
brown, where the other tree is growing

1474
01:47:30.079 --> 01:47:32.600
beautifully. And I don't know what
to expect out of this tree. Now.

1475
01:47:32.800 --> 01:47:36.840
Wow, I didn't know you could
kill a cypress tree. They're tough

1476
01:47:36.880 --> 01:47:43.000
old trees. I got knees everywhere. Hey, yeah, I feel your

1477
01:47:43.039 --> 01:47:47.119
pain on that one. You know, if the whole tree is doing that,

1478
01:47:47.359 --> 01:47:53.319
something's wrong in the root system.
And cypress can take soggy wetsil,

1479
01:47:53.439 --> 01:47:57.039
so it's not that it's right and
poorly drained. They can take that.

1480
01:47:57.880 --> 01:48:01.279
They actually do okay. On drought. Uh. Typically, you know,

1481
01:48:01.359 --> 01:48:04.239
we get toward the end of August
and it's hot and dry. They may

1482
01:48:04.279 --> 01:48:08.840
turn bronze and drop leaves and then
come out with fresh foliage in this and

1483
01:48:09.079 --> 01:48:13.239
again in the fall. But right
now there's no reason why they should be

1484
01:48:13.239 --> 01:48:15.760
browning leaves. So I don't know
what to tell you on that. One.

1485
01:48:16.359 --> 01:48:19.720
Probably ought to have a tree person, you know, take a look

1486
01:48:19.720 --> 01:48:23.760
at it. You know, Martin
Spoon Moore would be one I would.

1487
01:48:24.159 --> 01:48:28.119
I would talk to about it and
see what he thinks. Okay, okay,

1488
01:48:28.239 --> 01:48:30.479
do you have a contact for him
or no, I don't. Would

1489
01:48:30.479 --> 01:48:33.640
you have that handy? Yeah?
Yeah I do. His phone number is

1490
01:48:33.680 --> 01:48:40.479
seven one three six twenty six sixty
three. I'll say that again, seven

1491
01:48:40.520 --> 01:48:46.000
to one three six nine nine twenty
six sixty three. Have him come out

1492
01:48:46.039 --> 01:48:48.600
on site and look at it.
You know, he charges his feet to

1493
01:48:48.640 --> 01:48:53.359
come out. But any work you
have done that, he goes right into

1494
01:48:53.399 --> 01:48:57.279
the work. So that's his name, as mark. His name is Martin

1495
01:48:57.359 --> 01:49:00.520
us it. Yeah, Martin Spoon
Moore Affordable trees. Yeah either here his

1496
01:49:00.520 --> 01:49:04.520
wife will answer the phone. Yeah
kind of business. All right, Well

1497
01:49:04.560 --> 01:49:08.560
I appreciate that. All right,
Dan, good luck, good luck with

1498
01:49:08.640 --> 01:49:12.680
that. Yeah wow, what a
challenge. Now we're gonna go to Steve

1499
01:49:12.840 --> 01:49:17.640
and Cyprus. And how you doing
today, Steve? Good good? Gonna

1500
01:49:17.640 --> 01:49:23.079
be a hot one today. Oh
boy, here we go. So anyway,

1501
01:49:23.119 --> 01:49:29.239
I've got some crape myrtles. I've
got three full grown crape myrtles that

1502
01:49:29.279 --> 01:49:32.760
I transplanted about fifteen years ago.
Randy Lemon helped me get those going.

1503
01:49:33.239 --> 01:49:39.840
And now the leather on them,
their skin on them is turned black and

1504
01:49:39.880 --> 01:49:44.319
it's and they're peeling off. But
my question is how how do I get

1505
01:49:44.760 --> 01:49:48.399
get these things to bloom? Beautiful
canopies? Yeah, just no blooms at

1506
01:49:48.399 --> 01:49:51.399
all, and I don't want to
butcher them. Yeah, well, full

1507
01:49:51.439 --> 01:49:56.800
sign is what they want. If
it's lest the blooming typically is last.

1508
01:49:57.119 --> 01:50:01.159
There is a variation between cultivars or
variety on how well and how early they

1509
01:50:01.199 --> 01:50:06.079
bloom, So that could be it
anything stressing the plant and just keeping it

1510
01:50:06.119 --> 01:50:10.520
from having good health and vigor.
When you have good vigor, you're gonna

1511
01:50:10.520 --> 01:50:14.720
have good bloom production out on it. So you might dig around the plant,

1512
01:50:14.760 --> 01:50:17.880
look at the base, see if
you see anything binding the trunk,

1513
01:50:18.159 --> 01:50:23.199
wrapped around it, strangling it.
You might also want to just get you

1514
01:50:23.199 --> 01:50:26.920
a good quality turf type fertilizer and
put it out all around that plant and

1515
01:50:26.960 --> 01:50:29.199
water didn't really good, and get
a little bit of vigor in it.

1516
01:50:29.640 --> 01:50:33.720
That would be helpful. Some selective
pruning is fine, but pruning isn't the

1517
01:50:33.800 --> 01:50:38.720
problem. And you're right you don't
want to butcher it. That is true.

1518
01:50:39.840 --> 01:50:42.640
Okay, I did you know I
did trim him last year and they

1519
01:50:42.760 --> 01:50:47.319
and they bloomed better. Yeah,
I mean they bloomed better. But yeah,

1520
01:50:47.319 --> 01:50:51.680
I'll try to fertilize it. And
they look healthy as salting as can

1521
01:50:51.720 --> 01:50:57.479
be to me. But hopefully some
fertilized will kick the in I think.

1522
01:50:57.520 --> 01:51:00.800
So you mentioned, you know the
black peel off bark. That city mold

1523
01:51:00.920 --> 01:51:06.720
is either coming from aphids or from
great myrtle bark scale and those kinds of

1524
01:51:06.760 --> 01:51:12.560
things can also take some energy out
of the plant and reduce the bloom production.

1525
01:51:13.239 --> 01:51:15.600
So when you see all that city
on there, you got some kind

1526
01:51:15.640 --> 01:51:19.560
of insect that's causing that. Okay, all right, okay, thank you

1527
01:51:19.600 --> 01:51:25.239
sir. Thanks Steve, appreciate that
call. You know, it is storm

1528
01:51:25.279 --> 01:51:29.000
season, it is hurricane season,
and when a storm comes through, it

1529
01:51:29.039 --> 01:51:31.359
doesn't have to be a hurricane and
shuts down power. As we just learned,

1530
01:51:31.439 --> 01:51:35.800
right over one hundred thousand people lost
power in this last storm. That

1531
01:51:36.159 --> 01:51:40.560
you have got to you've got to
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1532
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finding out how to protect your home
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1547
01:52:51.279 --> 01:52:57.600
to you as well. Well.
We are right up against a break time.

1548
01:52:58.079 --> 01:53:00.720
Ken and Tom Ball and Susan,
you'll be my free two when I

1549
01:53:00.720 --> 01:53:04.520
come back. I just don't have
enough time to do justice to your call

1550
01:53:04.600 --> 01:53:08.079
right now. So we're gonna we're
gonna hold you over if you can hang

1551
01:53:08.119 --> 01:53:12.039
on just a little bit, a
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1553
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1554
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Your mosquito control products, whether it's the

1555
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1556
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Today's the fertilizers I talk about on
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1558
01:53:35.000 --> 01:53:40.399
you here find the one near you. I always love going by ACE Hardware

1559
01:53:40.439 --> 01:53:44.199
store. You know, each of
them is independently owned. You know that,

1560
01:53:44.800 --> 01:53:46.680
so it is. It is a
brand ACE, and there's a lot

1561
01:53:46.720 --> 01:53:50.920
of similarities, but there's also some
differences because the owner of the store can

1562
01:53:51.199 --> 01:53:55.720
choose to do some very unique things. And that's some of the coolest parts

1563
01:53:55.720 --> 01:54:00.600
of us. All right, Well, top of the night, nine o'clock

1564
01:54:00.920 --> 01:54:04.159
here about to enter our last hour
for the day. If you'd like to

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K T r H will be right
back. Welcome to Katie r h.

1567
01:54:29.720 --> 01:54:41.880
Garden Line with Skip Rictor. It's
crazy gas Trim just watch him as

1568
01:54:42.119 --> 01:54:50.640
well, gall Us, so many
good things to see that crazy in ways,

1569
01:54:51.119 --> 01:55:08.800
gassa not a sun, incredible class
Gas. Welcome back to the guard

1570
01:55:08.920 --> 01:55:13.199
Line. Glad to have you with
us today. What are we going to

1571
01:55:13.239 --> 01:55:15.319
talk about? Well, let's go
to the phones and find out. We're

1572
01:55:15.319 --> 01:55:19.039
going to start off with Ken and
Tom Ball. Hey Ken, thanks for

1573
01:55:19.079 --> 01:55:25.039
holding on and let's see how we
can help today. Good morning. Question

1574
01:55:25.119 --> 01:55:30.399
for you. I was gonna do
some fertilizing of some uh some as okay,

1575
01:55:30.439 --> 01:55:36.039
and I was wondering if that arbor
Gate has that chicken poop fertilizer.

1576
01:55:36.239 --> 01:55:41.680
Is that good for the azal?
Yeah? Be fine that Yeah, it's

1577
01:55:41.760 --> 01:55:45.399
anything, it's got roots in it. It's an organic fertilizer, and uh

1578
01:55:45.439 --> 01:55:47.680
it will do. It will do
just fine for your azalias. You can

1579
01:55:47.720 --> 01:55:51.640
do that. You can occasionally,
you know, top it off with something

1580
01:55:51.800 --> 01:55:56.119
a little acidifying, or you can
use a little bit of sulfur. If

1581
01:55:56.119 --> 01:56:00.439
you feel like you need to lower
the p h any of those alias that

1582
01:56:00.479 --> 01:56:08.119
would that would show itself by kind
of some pale color on that material,

1583
01:56:08.600 --> 01:56:11.199
Well, just just ask them what
they have there that's in a set of

1584
01:56:11.239 --> 01:56:15.560
fire. They probably have a sulfur
or something along those lines. But if

1585
01:56:15.600 --> 01:56:20.039
your zalias are not showing yellow or
loss of color in this foliage at the

1586
01:56:20.119 --> 01:56:23.760
ends of shoots, then you're fine. Don't worry about it. Okay,

1587
01:56:24.000 --> 01:56:27.720
Yeah, I know they're green.
Yeah, it's it's it's the their organic

1588
01:56:27.760 --> 01:56:30.479
fertilizer's part of their one two three
completely easy system. Uh. And it

1589
01:56:30.840 --> 01:56:34.359
pretty much the I think the way
they put it is for everything with roots,

1590
01:56:34.359 --> 01:56:41.399
and azelias definitely have roots, so
that work. Yeah, sure on

1591
01:56:41.680 --> 01:56:46.359
our Augustine grass. Uh. And
what height should that be cut? Well,

1592
01:56:47.520 --> 01:56:53.800
ideally about two and a half to
three inches. If you're in shady

1593
01:56:53.840 --> 01:56:57.520
areas and having trouble getting enough sunlight, you can go above three a little

1594
01:56:57.520 --> 01:57:00.520
bit, but at some point it
just is, you know, it's just

1595
01:57:00.600 --> 01:57:04.880
a little too tall. But as
far as the grass is concerned, it

1596
01:57:05.159 --> 01:57:09.760
about two and a half to three
inches is a good height for Saint Augustine

1597
01:57:09.840 --> 01:57:12.920
mowing. Okay, if you go
below that, is it too short?

1598
01:57:12.960 --> 01:57:15.840
I mean, is there a level
that's too short? What happens is the

1599
01:57:15.840 --> 01:57:19.880
way the Saint Augustine plant grows,
it's not made for creating a golf course

1600
01:57:19.960 --> 01:57:26.159
green like bermuda would be real,
real short. So as you go below

1601
01:57:26.239 --> 01:57:29.279
two and a half, at two
you're still okay. At an inch and

1602
01:57:29.319 --> 01:57:32.399
a half you're starting, you're going
to end up having some bare spots and

1603
01:57:32.399 --> 01:57:35.720
you're gonna have more weed problems in
it. The density just won't be there.

1604
01:57:35.800 --> 01:57:41.199
And the shorter you mow, the
less of a root system that it's

1605
01:57:41.239 --> 01:57:44.279
going to be able to have because
you just don't have the talk to support

1606
01:57:44.319 --> 01:57:47.600
it. And is there an issue
with water the shorter you go, is

1607
01:57:47.640 --> 01:57:54.680
it just to take more water or
does it matter? Well, the only

1608
01:57:54.760 --> 01:57:58.920
thing would be if your root system
becomes more limited, then you're going to

1609
01:57:58.960 --> 01:58:02.359
have to water more often for the
root system that's there. If you have

1610
01:58:02.439 --> 01:58:06.159
a deep extensive root system, you
don't have to water often at all.

1611
01:58:06.319 --> 01:58:11.239
In fact, nature takes care of
the majority of our watering when we have

1612
01:58:11.319 --> 01:58:15.960
a good turf with a deep extensive
root system. Okay, well, thanks

1613
01:58:16.039 --> 01:58:18.960
very much, all right, Ken, take care. Thanks lot appreciate the

1614
01:58:19.000 --> 01:58:24.079
call. Now we're going to go
to Susan in Missouri City. I believe,

1615
01:58:25.520 --> 01:58:30.439
yes, thank you. I've got
a sego plane that's planted by twenty

1616
01:58:30.520 --> 01:58:34.680
years so when it's eleven feet tall, okay, and it's always survived the

1617
01:58:34.720 --> 01:58:41.560
winner. But this year it's I
took off the frozen leaves on it,

1618
01:58:41.600 --> 01:58:47.279
but then it's not coming out again. It has two spikes that grew from

1619
01:58:47.319 --> 01:58:55.000
the very top that I fit tall, and now they are bent over like

1620
01:58:55.039 --> 01:58:59.680
there. So I thought it was
dead. Okay, I noticed there's new

1621
01:58:59.760 --> 01:59:04.399
growth at the bottom of the sego
Yes, uh huh? Is it dead

1622
01:59:04.520 --> 01:59:08.399
or what should I do with?
Well, the trunk may be dead,

1623
01:59:08.560 --> 01:59:13.960
I can't tell based on the verbal
description there. But those things at the

1624
01:59:14.000 --> 01:59:17.199
bottom we call pups. They're like
little side shoots that come out and they

1625
01:59:17.279 --> 01:59:20.520
will. You can. You can
let them grow. You can cut the

1626
01:59:20.520 --> 01:59:25.640
trunk off if you need to.
But you still got a sago going down

1627
01:59:25.680 --> 01:59:31.640
there, even if the top was
going to die. Well, I don't

1628
01:59:31.680 --> 01:59:36.119
want to start over with a small
sago again from from what's left of this

1629
01:59:36.159 --> 01:59:40.840
one? Okay, do you think
the trunk is dead? Can you can

1630
01:59:40.880 --> 01:59:44.439
I put you on hold and you
get an email and send me a picture

1631
01:59:44.439 --> 01:59:47.800
of it. Yes, I think
that's better than me guessing trying to picture

1632
01:59:48.199 --> 01:59:50.920
what it might look. Okay,
let's do it that way, Susan.

1633
01:59:51.479 --> 01:59:56.600
Otherwise I could be misleading you with
the best of intentions, and I don't

1634
01:59:56.640 --> 02:00:00.720
want to do that. Okay,
Okay, all right, let's I'm going

1635
02:00:00.760 --> 02:00:02.840
to put you on hold and I'm
pretty sure we'll get a hold of give

1636
02:00:02.880 --> 02:00:06.680
you my email to take it from
there. All right, We're going to

1637
02:00:06.760 --> 02:00:12.239
go now to Betty and Lake Conroe. Were at Lake Conro. Hopefully you're

1638
02:00:12.279 --> 02:00:15.760
not in Lake Conroe right now.
Maybe it would be a good day to

1639
02:00:15.800 --> 02:00:21.960
be in like Conroe. True,
I have a question about venkas. I've

1640
02:00:23.079 --> 02:00:27.760
planted them a couple of times,
and they just some of them keep dying.

1641
02:00:27.960 --> 02:00:30.399
Just the one planet is good and
the next one to it in a

1642
02:00:30.479 --> 02:00:33.960
few days, we'll just turn brown
and die. And I don't know understand,

1643
02:00:33.960 --> 02:00:36.520
because I've had them before and they
were great. Yeah, you're talking

1644
02:00:36.560 --> 02:00:41.479
about the plants that have the red, pink and white flowers. Yes,

1645
02:00:41.640 --> 02:00:45.560
yes, the venkas. So I
can't tell you for sure because I'm not

1646
02:00:45.600 --> 02:00:50.079
seeing the plant. But there's a
disease called aerial fight top through a light.

1647
02:00:50.319 --> 02:00:56.640
That is, it just wipes out
venca. And not everybody has it,

1648
02:00:57.119 --> 02:01:00.000
but if you have it, it's
very persistent and it just builds up

1649
02:01:00.079 --> 02:01:02.399
up, and so next year when
you plant venka, they get it and

1650
02:01:02.439 --> 02:01:11.399
so on. There's a a variety
or a series of vinka called Cora cor

1651
02:01:11.520 --> 02:01:15.039
A, like the girl's name.
There also used to be one called Nirvana.

1652
02:01:15.119 --> 02:01:17.560
I don't think Nirvana is on the
market now. It might be,

1653
02:01:17.640 --> 02:01:23.760
but Cora and Nirvana were bred to
be resistant, so if you plant those

1654
02:01:24.319 --> 02:01:28.680
you should be okay, even though
it has the phytopthor aerio blight present.

1655
02:01:29.720 --> 02:01:32.359
Oh okay, that's good to know. Thank you. That's that's my best

1656
02:01:32.359 --> 02:01:36.119
guest. Not much kills a vinka. I mean, neglect does not kill

1657
02:01:36.199 --> 02:01:42.760
vinka, and so yeah, I
think it's probably that disease. Okay,

1658
02:01:43.039 --> 02:01:45.880
thank you so much. I'll do
that next year, all right, you

1659
02:01:45.960 --> 02:01:48.800
bet, thanks a lot. Appreciate
that call very much. Well, I

1660
02:01:48.840 --> 02:01:53.199
can see we're bumping right here on
a break, so I'm gonna I'm gonna

1661
02:01:53.239 --> 02:01:58.039
hold off and when I come back, let's see we'll talk to Gale and

1662
02:01:58.239 --> 02:02:00.399
Ed and Larry. In just a
mo I want to remind you that I'm

1663
02:02:00.399 --> 02:02:06.279
going to be at wild Birds Unlimited
in bel Air, Southwest Houston next Saturday,

1664
02:02:06.560 --> 02:02:11.199
June fifteenth, So put it on
your calendars. Come on and see

1665
02:02:11.239 --> 02:02:15.359
me, Grab some pictures, grab
some samples. Let's talk about the things,

1666
02:02:15.439 --> 02:02:18.760
the questions you might have. You
got some photos of a garden area

1667
02:02:19.119 --> 02:02:23.600
or a landscape area and you would
like some ideas on how to improve it.

1668
02:02:23.800 --> 02:02:26.279
We'd be happy to help you with
that as well. We'll be right

1669
02:02:26.279 --> 02:02:29.119
back. Welcome back to Guardline.
Good to have you with us today.

1670
02:02:29.880 --> 02:02:32.000
Let's talk about the things that are
of interest to you. First of all,

1671
02:02:32.039 --> 02:02:35.039
I want to make a point,
and that is, if you're dealing

1672
02:02:35.079 --> 02:02:42.319
with any kind of a insect pest
in your lawn, Nitrofoss bug Out Max

1673
02:02:42.520 --> 02:02:45.880
is designed just for that. This
is a granule. You put it out,

1674
02:02:45.880 --> 02:02:48.560
you watered in, and within forty
eight hours it is taking care of

1675
02:02:48.600 --> 02:02:53.399
whatever the pests are there. That
could be firehants crawling around the surface.

1676
02:02:53.479 --> 02:02:56.800
It gets those. It's going to
be chinchbugs. If we are about to

1677
02:02:56.920 --> 02:03:01.199
enter we actually are entering chinchbug season
and we begin to see issues with them,

1678
02:03:01.520 --> 02:03:03.960
and there's a summer goes on,
it just gets worse. Well,

1679
02:03:03.960 --> 02:03:08.079
with the Nitrofoss bug Out Max,
it just keeps working. I mean it'll

1680
02:03:08.119 --> 02:03:11.319
last through the rest of this summer
season. When you put it out.

1681
02:03:11.359 --> 02:03:14.640
It's a persistent product that continues to
work for you. So you don't have

1682
02:03:14.640 --> 02:03:17.239
to apply it and apply it and
apply it now. Soid web worms,

1683
02:03:17.279 --> 02:03:20.880
we're looking at those again being something
to come on as we move on into

1684
02:03:20.880 --> 02:03:26.319
the summer season. Well, Nita
Fuss Bugout Max is also effective for that.

1685
02:03:26.880 --> 02:03:30.199
So night Fuss Bugout Max is easy
to find. All you have to

1686
02:03:30.239 --> 02:03:33.000
do is go to one of the
many places it carries Nita Foss products like

1687
02:03:33.079 --> 02:03:38.319
the East Hardbor and Kingwood. The
Arborgate up in Tomball Shades of Texas,

1688
02:03:38.399 --> 02:03:43.600
which is in South Houston on Genoa
Red Bluff, Alvin, Texas has Stanton

1689
02:03:43.640 --> 02:03:47.239
Shopping Center, than on North Taylor
and Baytown has Fisher's Hardware for example,

1690
02:03:47.720 --> 02:03:53.359
one of many many places where you
can find Nitrofoss products like their Bugout Max.

1691
02:03:53.840 --> 02:03:57.560
We are going to now go to
Ed in Cyprus. Hello, Ed,

1692
02:03:58.680 --> 02:04:02.680
good morning morning. Did you get
those pictures that I sent you of

1693
02:04:02.720 --> 02:04:11.399
the trees? I did? Okay, two of them are river birch,

1694
02:04:11.920 --> 02:04:16.760
and I called you about those earlier. And then the other two are rosebuds,

1695
02:04:16.800 --> 02:04:23.520
even though one doesn't look like a
rosebud. Okay, the river birch.

1696
02:04:23.760 --> 02:04:28.920
You know, three trunks, and
you can see by that photo they

1697
02:04:28.960 --> 02:04:35.119
didn't come back very well after I
guess the drought and everything else. What

1698
02:04:35.239 --> 02:04:44.159
should I My question is the I
read your online, your deal about trees

1699
02:04:44.199 --> 02:04:47.079
and drought, et cetera. So
I think that's what the problem is.

1700
02:04:48.279 --> 02:04:53.159
The edges, the top edges and
the outer edges of the limbs have not

1701
02:04:53.319 --> 02:04:59.600
come back. So I've got what
do I do with the trunks that are

1702
02:05:00.119 --> 02:05:03.399
likely did? How do I prune
those back? And if I do prune

1703
02:05:03.399 --> 02:05:09.319
those back, is another trunk going
to come out? I'd like the three

1704
02:05:09.520 --> 02:05:12.600
trunks, you know the look of
that. Yeah, And if I'm going

1705
02:05:12.640 --> 02:05:15.560
to have one or two, I
don't know if I want it right.

1706
02:05:15.640 --> 02:05:18.600
Well, you will get some other
sprouting, you know, it'll be way

1707
02:05:18.640 --> 02:05:25.239
behind the one that's left the remaining
trunk. So I don't know the aesthetics

1708
02:05:25.239 --> 02:05:30.359
if you'll appreciate that or not.
But they can re sprout from the base

1709
02:05:30.439 --> 02:05:32.920
and you can get some more up
from the bottom. It could be drought

1710
02:05:33.039 --> 02:05:39.159
issues, especially if the tree hadn't
been fully rooted in, hadn't had several

1711
02:05:39.199 --> 02:05:44.640
seasons to fully root in. Well, that drought's even worse on the river

1712
02:05:44.720 --> 02:05:46.800
birch like that. They like to
be where they have a dependable water supply,

1713
02:05:47.560 --> 02:05:50.920
so that's a possibility. It also
could be cold injury. We've had,

1714
02:05:51.359 --> 02:05:54.560
you know, we had a real
bad cold here a few years ago,

1715
02:05:54.640 --> 02:05:58.199
and then we had two Decembers ago. We had a time when the

1716
02:05:58.239 --> 02:06:00.840
cold came too early and it wasn't
such a severe call, but it was

1717
02:06:00.880 --> 02:06:03.920
too early and we saw some damage. Like I said, I think they've

1718
02:06:03.920 --> 02:06:08.159
been in the ground a couple of
years. Yeah, okay, so they

1719
02:06:08.199 --> 02:06:12.800
were big when we started, but
they've grown more, you know, up

1720
02:06:12.800 --> 02:06:16.840
to they're about fifteen foot tall now. But you know, maybe it was

1721
02:06:16.880 --> 02:06:19.840
a combination of those things because it
you know, I don't know, two

1722
02:06:19.920 --> 02:06:25.640
years is enough to get rooted yep. Well, well good, Yeah.

1723
02:06:25.680 --> 02:06:29.520
And as far as the red bud
is concerned, the red buds look okay

1724
02:06:29.560 --> 02:06:31.199
to me. I don't do you
see a problem with them or they look

1725
02:06:31.239 --> 02:06:38.279
okay? Well, My question is
the one red bud that is sprouting from

1726
02:06:38.319 --> 02:06:44.359
the ground. Yes, that one. It must have had a wound or

1727
02:06:44.359 --> 02:06:48.640
something when it was put in,
because in a strong wind several months ago,

1728
02:06:49.119 --> 02:06:54.239
you know, it was greening up
and then it broke about two foot

1729
02:06:54.239 --> 02:06:59.760
above the ground. And what I
found in there was the It was green

1730
02:07:00.239 --> 02:07:04.520
kind of on the outer edges,
but inside it had an iridescent green beetle.

1731
02:07:05.079 --> 02:07:11.199
Okay, so you know, I
kind of just gave it up or

1732
02:07:11.439 --> 02:07:14.039
dead, and I was going to
pull it out, but then it started

1733
02:07:14.079 --> 02:07:16.840
sprouting. And what I'm noticing is
the leaves from the sprout are so much

1734
02:07:16.840 --> 02:07:20.079
bigger, yeah then the other one. So I was thinking, well,

1735
02:07:20.119 --> 02:07:24.880
maybe it's come in. Do they
grab those trees? Oh, they can

1736
02:07:25.079 --> 02:07:29.399
if you have a variety. There's
just the standard red buds and then sometimes

1737
02:07:29.439 --> 02:07:33.560
there's varieties. But it's not unusual. A sprout from the bottom is called

1738
02:07:33.680 --> 02:07:42.439
immature wood, and it is not
well it Typically the leaves will be larger

1739
02:07:42.520 --> 02:07:45.960
on immature wood when a sprout is
coming, that tree will grow up and

1740
02:07:46.000 --> 02:07:50.239
it will get older and it will
bloom. I would tip the two shoots

1741
02:07:50.279 --> 02:07:54.279
that you're not going to keep that
are down low, Okay, just cut

1742
02:07:54.319 --> 02:07:57.560
the last six inches out, but
leave those leaves on them. Those leaves

1743
02:07:57.560 --> 02:08:01.000
are making carbohydrates and that tree needs
some help right now. And you might

1744
02:08:01.079 --> 02:08:07.720
want to steak loosely the one that's
coming upward because it's pretty pretty slender and

1745
02:08:07.880 --> 02:08:11.920
could easily get blown over. Don't
stake it tight. You want it to

1746
02:08:11.960 --> 02:08:13.760
move around, but you just don't
want it to blow over, you know,

1747
02:08:13.960 --> 02:08:18.439
forty five degree angle or something.
Okay, and then it'll be the

1748
02:08:18.479 --> 02:08:22.479
ones that are I'll get the one
that's coming up straight. Then there's I

1749
02:08:22.479 --> 02:08:28.199
think a couple or more that are
going out sideways. Yeah, or just

1750
02:08:28.279 --> 02:08:31.439
tip them, yeah, just cut
off at base. No, cut six

1751
02:08:31.479 --> 02:08:35.079
inches out of the end of them, and leave the leaves that are on

1752
02:08:35.119 --> 02:08:39.000
them. That'll stop them from being
dominant by cutting the tips out. But

1753
02:08:39.079 --> 02:08:41.079
you'll leave those leaves. At the
end of this winter, you can cut

1754
02:08:41.079 --> 02:08:45.560
those branches off where they attach,
but let's leave them for now. We

1755
02:08:45.640 --> 02:08:50.359
call that nurse limbs. We're leaving
them because they are providing carbohydrates to support

1756
02:08:50.399 --> 02:08:54.760
the growth of that tree. Okay, Well, I appreciate that. I

1757
02:08:54.800 --> 02:09:00.399
also appreciate your show. I mean
the I am a novice guard, so

1758
02:09:00.960 --> 02:09:05.479
everything you say is really interesting.
Well, good, Well, I'm glad

1759
02:09:05.560 --> 02:09:07.000
you enjoyed it, and that's why
we're here. Thanks a lot for the

1760
02:09:07.039 --> 02:09:11.600
call. Appreciate that very much.
We're going to go now to Larry and

1761
02:09:11.680 --> 02:09:16.079
Bastrop. Is this bass drop Texas? Yes it is. Are you listening

1762
02:09:16.279 --> 02:09:22.359
on your computer or phone or on
the radio on the computer, okay,

1763
02:09:22.479 --> 02:09:28.880
I'm just curious. How can we
help, Larry? Okay, I have

1764
02:09:28.920 --> 02:09:39.159
a severe infestation of pepperbine. My
front law has approximately about one hundred shoots

1765
02:09:39.199 --> 02:09:41.960
that come up in different lengths.
Some of them are one or two foot

1766
02:09:43.000 --> 02:09:46.960
tall. Yeah, and I've tried
just about everything. But last week I

1767
02:09:48.039 --> 02:09:52.520
read online your idea about the little
plastic bags with rush killer in it,

1768
02:09:54.560 --> 02:10:01.000
and so I put out about twenty
of those little plastic bags with the weed

1769
02:10:01.119 --> 02:10:05.840
killer just a little bit in the
bottom, and it seems to be working.

1770
02:10:05.760 --> 02:10:09.560
That's why I'm calling. I have
a question. I don't Larry,

1771
02:10:09.600 --> 02:10:13.159
I don't remember writing about plastic bags. What what? What is what is

1772
02:10:13.199 --> 02:10:20.880
that about? Well, I thought
it was on your website. You put

1773
02:10:20.920 --> 02:10:26.640
brush killer into a little plastic bag, or maybe a tint of it,

1774
02:10:26.039 --> 02:10:31.680
pull and then you wrap it around
the vine pepper vine and you leave it

1775
02:10:33.439 --> 02:10:39.399
and yeah, now that that wasn't
me. Now what I have talked about

1776
02:10:39.479 --> 02:10:46.199
is putting it on a sponge and
wiping it on there using those little grabber

1777
02:10:46.279 --> 02:10:48.640
tools where you you get a jar
off the shelf, you know, but

1778
02:10:48.920 --> 02:10:52.520
instead of section cups or whatever on
them, you replace it with a sponge.

1779
02:10:54.199 --> 02:10:56.000
You can do that, or you
can cut them off, or you

1780
02:10:56.039 --> 02:11:01.439
can just spot spray them with triclop
here tr r I c l O P

1781
02:11:01.680 --> 02:11:07.520
y R. That's the brush killer. Try close here. But tracopere will

1782
02:11:07.600 --> 02:11:09.920
hurt Saint Augustine. So you're gonna
some little dead spots if you spray it.

1783
02:11:11.159 --> 02:11:13.520
But if you use a wiper applicator, you you don't get it on

1784
02:11:13.560 --> 02:11:16.800
your grass. You just wipe it
onto the foliage of that pepper vine.

1785
02:11:18.000 --> 02:11:24.600
Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah, good luck getting into getting ahead of

1786
02:11:24.600 --> 02:11:30.359
it. It is a booger,
isn't it? All right? All right,

1787
02:11:30.399 --> 02:11:33.840
Larry, thank you appreciate the call. Thanks for listening out there in

1788
02:11:33.279 --> 02:11:39.680
bash Drop, Texas. Let's see, we are now heading to Missouri City

1789
02:11:39.720 --> 02:11:48.119
to talk to Linda. Hey,
Hi, good morning. Well we were

1790
02:11:48.279 --> 02:11:58.079
out town and last week before we
left our painfull tree, which is old,

1791
02:11:58.840 --> 02:12:05.840
but it's so tall all and beautiful, and the princes are even it's

1792
02:12:05.920 --> 02:12:11.079
just a gorgeous tree. Well,
excuse me. We came back last night

1793
02:12:11.920 --> 02:12:24.000
and one of our cars is covered
with webworms from these bags of I don't

1794
02:12:24.039 --> 02:12:31.479
know what they're called webwork that we're
in the tree, and all over our

1795
02:12:31.600 --> 02:12:37.520
glass, all over and driveway,
the sidewalk, the front door, easily

1796
02:12:37.840 --> 02:12:46.760
over a thousand of these caterpillars crawling
everywhere. We're concerned that our tree it's

1797
02:12:46.880 --> 02:12:54.159
just decimated. If it's going to
die, and these critters have gone to

1798
02:12:54.520 --> 02:13:00.800
our pear trees, Okay, well
it will, it will read The tree

1799
02:13:00.800 --> 02:13:05.479
will grow new leaves they lived with
webworms. In some years they get completely

1800
02:13:05.520 --> 02:13:09.399
defoliated by webworms, and you don't
want it to happen. It looks ugly,

1801
02:13:09.479 --> 02:13:13.319
but it's not going to kill the
tree. Now the webworms are going

1802
02:13:13.399 --> 02:13:16.520
to have another generation. These caterpillars
will turn into moths that lay eggs,

1803
02:13:16.560 --> 02:13:20.279
and there'll be more caterpillars. So
you just want to watch a tree that's

1804
02:13:20.359 --> 02:13:26.279
lost its foliage and make sure when
you first start to see them again after

1805
02:13:26.319 --> 02:13:30.079
it regrows new foliage, you want
to be ready to spray early, because

1806
02:13:30.119 --> 02:13:33.359
that's when you can shut it down
before it loses another set of leaves,

1807
02:13:33.399 --> 02:13:39.239
which that's starting to get too stressful
when it's tried to leave out twice and

1808
02:13:39.279 --> 02:13:43.840
had to eetn off twice. So
once is okay, let's try to avoid

1809
02:13:43.880 --> 02:13:52.039
the second one. So two,
you spread with any kind of an insecticide

1810
02:13:52.119 --> 02:13:54.800
labeled for controlling insects on your plants. There's a lot of good ones out

1811
02:13:54.800 --> 02:14:01.000
there. I generally recommend spinosa because
it's an organic product. Uh and it

1812
02:14:01.159 --> 02:14:03.199
lasts about a week out there on
the foliage. But you have to you

1813
02:14:03.279 --> 02:14:09.119
have to spray what the caterpillars you're
eating. That's why starting early before there's

1814
02:14:09.159 --> 02:14:15.439
big webs you can't get spray inside
of. Starting early is important. Okay,

1815
02:14:15.880 --> 02:14:20.439
so we should spray the pair of
trees since we see they have moved.

1816
02:14:20.560 --> 02:14:22.359
John, Yes, you know,
go ahead and spray. Break up

1817
02:14:22.359 --> 02:14:24.960
the webs with a stick and spray
the pair. Linda, I've got a

1818
02:14:24.960 --> 02:14:28.840
heart break coming right this moment.
Show I got to run. But break

1819
02:14:28.920 --> 02:14:31.720
up the webs first, and then
spray the foliage with spinos at S P

1820
02:14:31.880 --> 02:14:35.800
I N O S A D.
All Right, folks, we'll be right

1821
02:14:35.840 --> 02:14:41.680
back seven one three, two one
two five eight seven four. Welcome back

1822
02:14:41.720 --> 02:14:45.800
to garden Line. Ready to go
here, got a call, a board

1823
02:14:45.800 --> 02:14:48.840
full of calls, so we're going
to jump right into the big middle of

1824
02:14:48.920 --> 02:14:52.479
it. We're gonna go out to
Lamark and talk to Gail. Hello,

1825
02:14:52.560 --> 02:14:56.600
Gail, good morning. Okay,
I try to send up pictures again.

1826
02:14:56.640 --> 02:15:01.800
Did you get him? Yil it
not? I don't know. I don't

1827
02:15:01.840 --> 02:15:05.920
know what's going on here. I
don't either. Okay, do you know

1828
02:15:05.960 --> 02:15:11.520
what a turkey tail god looks like? I have. I've never had one,

1829
02:15:11.560 --> 02:15:16.199
but I've heard of them. Yes, So okay, that's that's It's

1830
02:15:16.239 --> 02:15:20.319
exactly what it looks like on the
base of my tree. There's like it's

1831
02:15:20.359 --> 02:15:24.640
on two of them. There's two
of them on one really healthy looking hackberry

1832
02:15:24.680 --> 02:15:28.560
tree. And I wonder, I'm
just hoping that I don't have to take

1833
02:15:28.600 --> 02:15:33.199
it down, that it's it's not
gonna that it's gonna be okay, well,

1834
02:15:33.319 --> 02:15:37.199
turkey tail mushroom. It's it's just
the they describe it because of the

1835
02:15:37.239 --> 02:15:39.359
coloring and stuff, and it it's
real pretty, by the way, but

1836
02:15:39.439 --> 02:15:43.880
it is. Yeah, but it's
a it's because there's a decomposer of fungi

1837
02:15:45.039 --> 02:15:50.840
that's working inside inside of the plant
causing decomposition. You know, you think

1838
02:15:50.840 --> 02:15:54.840
about it. In the forest,
you have trees that fall and die,

1839
02:15:54.479 --> 02:16:00.960
and that wood gets turned back into
dirt by funt fundi basically primarily doing the

1840
02:16:01.000 --> 02:16:03.720
work on it. And so turkey
tail is just an example of one of

1841
02:16:03.800 --> 02:16:09.560
mini fungi that's out there in nature. Uh. And and so I don't

1842
02:16:09.600 --> 02:16:13.880
know that yours is turkey tail.
There are others that have that. As

1843
02:16:13.920 --> 02:16:18.600
you look from the outside towards the
center of those little bands of different coloring

1844
02:16:18.800 --> 02:16:22.319
a little bit, yes, different
shades of coloring. Uh, there are

1845
02:16:22.319 --> 02:16:26.239
other fungi that can do that.
So it may not be turkey tail.

1846
02:16:26.279 --> 02:16:30.600
It may be there are several others. There are some that can be a

1847
02:16:30.600 --> 02:16:37.520
disease. Ganoderma g A n O
D E r M. A ganoderma is

1848
02:16:37.559 --> 02:16:41.280
another one that's not so good.
It is a it is a decay organism

1849
02:16:41.399 --> 02:16:46.319
that we don't want to have.
But you know, I can't I can't

1850
02:16:46.319 --> 02:16:52.760
tell you for sure based on this
the it was talking about the app was

1851
02:16:52.799 --> 02:16:58.920
talking about that the turkey tail is
like a beneficial that I mean, they

1852
02:16:58.040 --> 02:17:03.000
use it for cancer treatments and stuff. Yeah, harmful to the tree.

1853
02:17:05.120 --> 02:17:09.719
So I'm just hoping well in any
kind of a shelf type fungi, which

1854
02:17:09.760 --> 02:17:11.760
is what this is, it's it's
a it's one that sticks out sideways.

1855
02:17:11.799 --> 02:17:15.440
It's not a mushroom that comes up
in your yard. You know it looks

1856
02:17:15.959 --> 02:17:20.239
mushroom shaped. This is a shelf
type of arrangement. And any of that

1857
02:17:20.280 --> 02:17:24.120
means that something's decaying inside. So
if if anything, it's it's the trunk

1858
02:17:24.239 --> 02:17:31.440
is weakening as the wood decays inside
there. But try and spray it or

1859
02:17:31.520 --> 02:17:35.799
no, no that you can't control
it. You can't spray it superficially and

1860
02:17:35.120 --> 02:17:39.440
do anything. I think I think
you would just have to ignore it.

1861
02:17:39.520 --> 02:17:43.200
Watch it. Just recognize that's an
indication that there's a weak spot there.

1862
02:17:43.639 --> 02:17:46.959
So if there's anything that plant can
fall on, that just something to be

1863
02:17:46.959 --> 02:17:50.920
aware of. Okay, Okay,
I appreciate it so much. Thank you

1864
02:17:50.959 --> 02:17:56.440
for the call. You take care
it all. Right. Let's see we

1865
02:17:56.479 --> 02:18:01.079
are now going to go I lost
track of things here. Let's see we're

1866
02:18:01.079 --> 02:18:05.440
going to go to Ken in Spring, Texas. Hey Ken, are you

1867
02:18:05.479 --> 02:18:11.840
there? Ken? I'm good,
sir. Hey listen, So I've had

1868
02:18:11.840 --> 02:18:15.680
this Virginia button weed problem for the
last couple of years. I put down

1869
02:18:15.719 --> 02:18:18.840
some granules at one time, I
don't remember the name of it. I

1870
02:18:18.959 --> 02:18:22.079
tried some spray. What is the
best thing to get rid of Virginia button

1871
02:18:22.120 --> 02:18:31.280
greed? You know, I'm I
generally am recommending the Celsius fungus or herbicide

1872
02:18:31.760 --> 02:18:37.120
it because it's the weather's hot now, and when when the weather gets hot,

1873
02:18:37.200 --> 02:18:41.159
a lot of the more effective broad
leaved weed controls that we spray on

1874
02:18:41.280 --> 02:18:46.639
existing weeds can hurt your Saint Augustine
when the temperatures are in the upper eighties

1875
02:18:46.639 --> 02:18:50.399
and nineties, and so that's why
I would try the celsius. Just know

1876
02:18:50.479 --> 02:18:56.159
that button weed is not going to
be a one spray deal. You're gonna

1877
02:18:56.200 --> 02:18:58.920
have to spray later on. You're
probably have sprayed again. Anything you can

1878
02:19:00.200 --> 02:19:03.360
to drive that area out would be
good. So if you've got an irrigation

1879
02:19:03.520 --> 02:19:07.360
system, be real hesitant to use
it. And very infrequently the wetther it

1880
02:19:07.479 --> 02:19:11.680
is, the happier the button weed
is. And so we do. Yeah.

1881
02:19:11.719 --> 02:19:13.479
Wow, with all the rain,
it really came back with a yes.

1882
02:19:13.520 --> 02:19:16.399
With the storm, with all the
rain going around, I got some

1883
02:19:16.520 --> 02:19:22.120
speci side spray that I went to
home. People. I've tried that because

1884
02:19:22.079 --> 02:19:24.319
I've not got to get up eart
in the morning before it gets hot the

1885
02:19:24.399 --> 02:19:26.239
spray. That's what I've been doing. I've done it twice. Okay.

1886
02:19:26.479 --> 02:19:30.440
I just want to look with there's
something really that will really let me get

1887
02:19:30.479 --> 02:19:33.319
rid of it. Yeah, I
think that Celsius is one that I would

1888
02:19:33.360 --> 02:19:37.000
look for. You're going to have
to probably go to a let's see where

1889
02:19:37.000 --> 02:19:39.920
are you You're in spring there?
Yeah you got some you got some Ace

1890
02:19:39.959 --> 02:19:43.840
hardware stores that are close to you. Yeah, be real, real,

1891
02:19:43.000 --> 02:19:48.239
real easy, you know, to
get to spring Ace on Spring Cypress there

1892
02:19:48.280 --> 02:19:52.479
would would probably. Yeah, I
know that is yeah, all right,

1893
02:19:52.680 --> 02:19:56.520
all right, can have a good
day, yes, sir, you too.

1894
02:19:56.719 --> 02:20:01.000
Thanks a lot. Mary and west
Houston done. Hey Mary, Hey

1895
02:20:01.559 --> 02:20:07.360
Skip. I called about two things, caterpillars and philodendron. Okay. Philadendron

1896
02:20:07.520 --> 02:20:13.200
was zapped by the freeze recent you
know this past a few months, okay,

1897
02:20:15.040 --> 02:20:20.360
and it is I have put a
miracle row and in combination with a

1898
02:20:20.440 --> 02:20:26.959
roots stimulator. How long do I
have to wait before I see any life?

1899
02:20:28.399 --> 02:20:31.639
It was a philodendron that was zap
philodendron that I've had is over twenty

1900
02:20:31.719 --> 02:20:35.479
years old. I had it,
Well, you should, you should be

1901
02:20:35.520 --> 02:20:39.600
seeing life by now. I don't. Well I do. I do.

1902
02:20:39.760 --> 02:20:46.280
There at the root, below the
dirt, below the I see some green

1903
02:20:46.000 --> 02:20:50.680
just there. Yeah, the extra
patient, it's going to have to have

1904
02:20:50.719 --> 02:20:54.040
a living bud, not just living
tissues. But I know I don't see

1905
02:20:54.079 --> 02:20:58.479
any living buds. Well, if
it were mine, I would be patient,

1906
02:20:58.479 --> 02:21:01.440
and I would give it through June, maybe a little into July,

1907
02:21:01.719 --> 02:21:07.360
just because sometimes there's this tiny little
thing that eventually comes back out. But

1908
02:21:07.559 --> 02:21:09.879
what about August. Well, if
you had to wait that long, you

1909
02:21:09.920 --> 02:21:13.879
can. I mean, there's no
harm, no harm waiting right, Sure,

1910
02:21:15.040 --> 02:21:18.280
Sure, I want to try to
sell it because I've had it for

1911
02:21:18.319 --> 02:21:22.200
a long time. The other thing
is I have an epidemic infestation of caterpillars.

1912
02:21:22.319 --> 02:21:26.719
Okay, they're white, they're white, and they're hairy. Okay,

1913
02:21:26.879 --> 02:21:31.479
they're everywhere. Now are they on
plants or are they crawling across your crawling

1914
02:21:31.600 --> 02:21:37.760
on the garbage train trash can They're
calling on my philodendron that I'm trying to

1915
02:21:37.840 --> 02:21:41.719
resurrect. So what that what that
is is, it's webworms that have finished

1916
02:21:41.760 --> 02:21:46.040
eating leaves and they're dropping out.
Now they're they're gonna pupate and become a

1917
02:21:46.040 --> 02:21:50.879
little moth so they can lay more
eggs and do this again. Once they're

1918
02:21:50.920 --> 02:21:54.000
crawling around like that, it's very
difficult. I mean, you can spray

1919
02:21:54.040 --> 02:21:58.040
them with a contact killing pesticide,
but in general that that's not a real

1920
02:21:58.079 --> 02:22:03.360
practical way to go about it.
Catching them earlier is important, okay.

1921
02:22:03.079 --> 02:22:07.079
And to catch them earlier what I
need to spray with you. You can

1922
02:22:07.120 --> 02:22:11.840
spray with a number of things.
Spinosa is an organic product, but then

1923
02:22:11.879 --> 02:22:16.760
there's a lot of insect controls that
are synthetic periphthoids that will also work on

1924
02:22:16.840 --> 02:22:20.559
them. The key is catch them
as soon as you first start to see

1925
02:22:20.559 --> 02:22:24.920
them in the trees and make sure
you get it on the foliage. Mary,

1926
02:22:24.959 --> 02:22:26.360
I've got a heartbreak. I got
it. I leave and go do

1927
02:22:26.479 --> 02:22:30.479
but good good luck for those you
bet. Thank you for the call.

1928
02:22:30.719 --> 02:22:33.319
We'll be right back. Welcome back
to the guard line. Good to have

1929
02:22:33.440 --> 02:22:39.239
you with us today. Let's see
we're going to head out to Charles in

1930
02:22:39.360 --> 02:22:43.280
Spring. Hello Charles, good morning, Skip. How are you sir?

1931
02:22:43.399 --> 02:22:46.200
I'm good, I'm good. Guick
question. I sent you some pictures of

1932
02:22:46.239 --> 02:22:50.399
a I just called it ever again. I finally realized it's a blue ted

1933
02:22:50.559 --> 02:22:54.600
unifer that needs some help. It's
been in the ground about three years.

1934
02:22:56.040 --> 02:22:58.079
It fell over one time it was
chasing the sun. I was able to

1935
02:22:58.120 --> 02:23:01.879
pick it up stake it down,
and it just doesn't look good. Okay,

1936
02:23:03.000 --> 02:23:05.879
if you saw the pictures, well, I got your email. This

1937
02:23:07.120 --> 02:23:09.239
was on Tuesday. I believe you
sent it. Yes, sure, but

1938
02:23:09.280 --> 02:23:13.680
there it says image removed by sender. So I don't have an image.

1939
02:23:13.840 --> 02:23:18.479
But that's okay. I have your
description. I think number one, if

1940
02:23:18.520 --> 02:23:24.120
you can avoid spray in the foliage, that would be a good idea.

1941
02:23:24.239 --> 02:23:26.760
Anytime you get the foliage on those
things wet, we have more problems with

1942
02:23:26.799 --> 02:23:31.959
some blight diseases that can be a
problem, and so I would avoid that.

1943
02:23:31.319 --> 02:23:35.840
If you can change the watering,
if it's been in the ground for

1944
02:23:35.879 --> 02:23:41.959
a while so it's gotten established,
then I don't think. I think you're

1945
02:23:41.000 --> 02:23:46.079
watering it several times a week.
Really at the most, it's in just

1946
02:23:46.120 --> 02:23:50.280
in my sprinklers says it's in a
flower bed, So I'm doing it about

1947
02:23:50.280 --> 02:23:52.719
I think two or three times a
week. We just minimum water. Yeah,

1948
02:23:52.799 --> 02:23:58.920
so a shrub auto need water maybe
once every two weeks, maybe once

1949
02:23:58.959 --> 02:24:03.120
a week if it's fair early young. But in general they've got a good

1950
02:24:03.200 --> 02:24:05.680
root system and they shouldn't need to
water that off. It may be staying

1951
02:24:05.680 --> 02:24:11.159
a little too wet, and junipers, arborvid's that whole group of plants.

1952
02:24:11.200 --> 02:24:13.440
They do not like soggy conditions,
and with all the rain we've had,

1953
02:24:15.239 --> 02:24:18.000
that could be part of the problem
with it. So I'd let it dry

1954
02:24:18.000 --> 02:24:22.280
out a little bit and try to
wean it from three times a week to

1955
02:24:22.319 --> 02:24:26.280
maybe once every ten days eventually.
Okay, what about any I'm not fertilized

1956
02:24:26.319 --> 02:24:30.319
any kind of nutrients that should give
it some kind of food. Ye,

1957
02:24:30.319 --> 02:24:33.760
you know you could, but that's
not the problem right now, that's not

1958
02:24:33.879 --> 02:24:37.719
the need. If you're going to
do that, find a tree and shrub

1959
02:24:37.719 --> 02:24:41.200
type of product, and there's a
number of good ones out there, you

1960
02:24:41.239 --> 02:24:46.719
know, for trees and shrubs.
Nitroposs makes them, Nelson's make them,

1961
02:24:46.239 --> 02:24:50.079
for example, Microlife makes them.
It's easy to it's easy to find a

1962
02:24:50.079 --> 02:24:52.920
tree and shrub fertilizer, just follow
the label on it. But I think

1963
02:24:54.000 --> 02:24:58.840
right now I'm more concerned about the
soul moisture and the fact that maybe it's

1964
02:25:00.559 --> 02:25:03.680
the foliage is getting wet a little
chear. It seems kind of dry,

1965
02:25:03.719 --> 02:25:07.799
but I'll check it out closer.
Next question, real quick. I've been

1966
02:25:07.840 --> 02:25:11.719
plagued over the years with torpedo grass. Okay, so the point that I

1967
02:25:11.799 --> 02:25:15.280
want up killing, getting rid of
well the beds, and reducing my beast

1968
02:25:15.399 --> 02:25:18.760
is a smaller size. I still
get little little one's coming up, but

1969
02:25:18.760 --> 02:25:22.479
they're so deep. Yeah, any
suggestions on what to do besides, there's

1970
02:25:22.479 --> 02:25:28.280
a factor that you that you wipe
on it. Yeah, putting getting a

1971
02:25:28.280 --> 02:25:31.280
wiper type applicator, You're probably gonna
have to do a homemade one with sponges

1972
02:25:31.479 --> 02:25:39.000
and wiping a product. Either I
would you could either use glifas, which

1973
02:25:39.040 --> 02:25:41.120
is the round up product because anything
get it on, or you could use

1974
02:25:41.159 --> 02:25:46.399
a grass only killer, which would
be there's two different chemicals that just kill

1975
02:25:46.479 --> 02:25:50.280
grass. But when you go to
your local ice hardware store or something and

1976
02:25:50.319 --> 02:25:52.680
you say, hey, I need
a grass killer your local feed store,

1977
02:25:54.000 --> 02:25:56.680
they're going to have stuff that's just
killing grass, not broad leaves. But

1978
02:25:56.760 --> 02:26:01.280
you still have to wipe it on
or you'll kill your law on that it

1979
02:26:01.319 --> 02:26:05.959
gets on. Okay, yeah,
torpedo grass is a booger. You got

1980
02:26:05.959 --> 02:26:07.520
your work cut out, no kidding. Oh I know. I've done it

1981
02:26:07.520 --> 02:26:11.040
for years and I finally gave up. But one last question. When I

1982
02:26:11.120 --> 02:26:13.479
if I dig down way down in
the roots, is it safe to put

1983
02:26:13.479 --> 02:26:16.719
anything like a roundup down at the
base of it at all? No?

1984
02:26:16.719 --> 02:26:20.559
No. The only time you put
roundup is when you put it on green

1985
02:26:20.719 --> 02:26:24.879
plant material. Don't don't put it
on your roads, don't put it on

1986
02:26:24.920 --> 02:26:28.799
the trunk. It just it's just
for on the leaves. But be very

1987
02:26:28.840 --> 02:26:31.559
careful, be very careful with because
it kills anything green you get it on.

1988
02:26:33.639 --> 02:26:35.079
Ok thanks so much, sir,
have a good one. Thank you.

1989
02:26:35.159 --> 02:26:41.799
I appreciate it. Thank you you
take care. Thanks all right.

1990
02:26:41.920 --> 02:26:46.120
Well, I may have lost access
yep, I just lost access to the

1991
02:26:46.159 --> 02:26:50.319
phone boards here. Uh I will
I'm gonna try to pull those. I'm

1992
02:26:50.319 --> 02:26:54.120
gonna try to pull those. It
closed. It closed up on me and

1993
02:26:54.159 --> 02:26:56.159
so I'm not to pull it back
up again. I can do that.

1994
02:26:56.399 --> 02:26:58.959
It just take me one second.
I didn't want to mention B and B

1995
02:26:58.079 --> 02:27:03.360
turf Pros be turf Pros is your
go to person if you live South and

1996
02:27:03.399 --> 02:27:07.079
a little bit to the west of
Houston. They're your go to person to

1997
02:27:07.159 --> 02:27:13.319
do compost top dressing and to do
deep time aeration. That's what they do

1998
02:27:13.040 --> 02:27:18.799
and they are excellent at it.
Their goal is customer satisfaction. They do

1999
02:27:18.879 --> 02:27:20.840
high quality work. I've seen the
work they do, I've talked to them,

2000
02:27:22.120 --> 02:27:24.520
and I've seen the ratings. They
are so highly rated online because they

2001
02:27:24.559 --> 02:27:30.079
really go above to make a personal
connection with their clients to ensure that you

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are satisfied. Here's the website bb
Turfpros dot com. Bbturfpros dot com.

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Here's the phone number. Write this
down seven one three two three four fifty

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five ninety eight. Whether you're in
Fresno, Iowa Colony, or coolis Cieno,

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as far north and west as Sugarland
and Missouri City, or as far

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east as Pearland, this is your
local place to get quality work done.

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And I'm telling you, when you've
got an issue with still compaction, when

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you've got a loan that's struggling,
a cor ooration followed by a compost top

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dressing is a quick way to get
that thing turned around and back in business.

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We're going to now go out to
Brenham and talk to Leonard. Hello

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Leonard, good morning. Okay,
I've got a question for you. I've

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got two crape myrtles, one on
each end of the front of my house

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that's got to be pulled because they're
getting into my water system. Okay,

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And I was wondering they're surrounded by
in a circle box would so I'm trying

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to spare them. How deep do
I have to go? How far these

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are twenty year old trees? Yeah, probably more. Try to get as

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far out as you practically can.
If you can get about a foot foot

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and a half away from the trunk
of it, that would be best.

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But just dig it up and then
be ready take all the cuts that you

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make and paint them with a little
ome brush with brush killer on it.

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Triclo peer is the ingredient tri I
c l O underg where you cut the

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roots are still on the ground when
you're cutting close to the base, because

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the crape sometimes can re sprout from
down there. But you just when you

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make the cut, immediately you just
take that spongy brush and dab it in

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Triclo peer and then dab it right
on the fresh cut service. That's all

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don't spray, don't drench, don't
just just dab it on the fresh cut

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service and that helps reduce the re
sprouting. Hey, I've got to run.

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I'm sorry, I run out of
time on us today here Leonard,

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but thank you very much for that
call. You know, when it comes

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to lawn fertilizing, right now,
we need to go to something that's going

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to give you a gradual, slow
feed all the way up until fall,

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and that is Slow and Easy from
Nelson Products. Nelson's Slow and Easy will

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feed for over four months. I
mean it is constantly gradually releasing the nutrients

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to make your lawn successful. It's
easy to find Slow and Easy. Like

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all Nelson products. While you're out
look for their nutri Star Plumeria and all

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flowering Tropicals really Food. It's an
excellent, excellent product. They also have

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a Palm and Ornamental Grass's food.
They've got nutri Star Rose food. Nelson's

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has a wide variety of quality products
that will do an excellent job of providing

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exactly what you need to have success
with your plants. Nelson Plant Food.

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Start with that slow and easy though
on the lawn. You will be very

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impressed with the results. You get
well. I don't know how it happened,

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but today I felt like I jumped
on a roller coaster and after a

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couple of clicks going up the hill, when we at the top and went

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over, it started moving. I
hope you've enjoyed it. I've had a

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good time. We're going to be
back tomorrow morning, six am to ten

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am. Tell your neighbors about garden
Line. Tell your family and friends.

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They may live somewhere far away,
like today, we got a call from

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we out in bass Struck direction.
Tell them about it. They can listen

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in. We happy to help them
as well. Well. I just want

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to remind you next Saturday. Write
it on your calendar. Come see me

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at wild Birds Unlimited in bel Air, Texas, Southwest Houston, six fifteen

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twenty four, Saturday the fifteenth,
eleven am. Bring me some samples,

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and hey, I'm going to be
giving away some really cool fertilizers from the

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folks at Medina