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Kat 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 scip Ricter.

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It's crazy. Just watch him as
many bats back again not a sign.

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Good morning, Glad you're off listening
to garden Line this morning. Congratulations

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your cup of coffee or tea or
maybe you just naturally are an early riser.

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No, no liquids needed. Well
either way, We're looking forward today

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to talking about the things that help
you have a more beautiful garden, to

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help you have a more bountiful landscape. You know, our landscapes and our

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gardens are a source of not only
value for our home, but a source

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of a lot of enjoyment and satisfaction
for us. Whenever you create something that

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looks beautiful, there's just a sense
of accomplishment in it. I've been working

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in my garden, cleaning some things
up a little by little. There was

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a couple of beds that I just
hadn't gotten around to you yet and getting

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them ready for spring, and it's
just nice looking out there. It's one

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of the few places in life,
seems like, where you do a little

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bit of work on something, you
turn around and look at it and you

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see the difference. You know,
there are a lot of things where we

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throw ourselves into it. Maybe your
job is a little bit this way.

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You know, at the end of
a day, you go, Okay,

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I worked all day, but I'm
not really sure what I got accomplished today.

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But I'll tell you when you pull
weeds in a garden bed, or

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you plant a garden bed, or
redo the soil to take it up,

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and not much, you just look
back and see the results, and that's

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a comforting thing. I'm going to
be talking about all kinds of things today

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to take care of, and I
want to kind of tell you the time

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for our broad leaf we control our
lawns is we're kind of there those lawn

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weeds that are broad leaf. They
are blooming, they're setting seeds, and

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we need to get them out of
there. You can approach that a couple

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of ways. Some people get out
and just do a lot of hand pulling.

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Well, if that's not your your
gig, or if you got a

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huge area and you just don't want
to try to go through it like that.

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Nitruss has a product that's an early
spring green up type fertilizer. It's

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got the fifteen to five to ten. When I say spring green up type,

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I mean it releases fast. You
put it down, you get it

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quick, and that would be Nitrophoss
fifteen five to ten with the Trimac in

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it. Now. Trimac is a
three way broad leaf weed killing product.

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And when you put it down,
you want to put it down on wet

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weeds. So turn on the sprinkler
just long enough to wet the weed,

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put it down, sticks to the
weeds, moves in, does the trick.

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That's how that works. After about
a day watered in, get that

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fifteen five to ten in the soil
and kick those turf grass plants into high

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gear. As it's warming up,
they're ready to go. Where do you

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get it? Well, you can
get fifteen five ten with trimec by Nitrofosh.

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You can get it at Plantation Ace
Hardware out there in Katie, Texas,

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Hiding and feed on. Stubner Airline
has it and Bearings Hardware. Both

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the Bissinette and the Westheimer stores had
that Trimeac fifteen to five to ten available

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for you. I I working out
in the lawn area right now. My

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lawn is all dirt. I think
I mentioned this more than once on the

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show, but last year took a
major hammer on my lawn. I took

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a little trip away, and I
had the trifecta of drought because irrigation didn't

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come on for some reason, the
chinchbugs and take all root rot, and

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those three together just basically rent it
a mass very low grass left not worth

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trying to keep and bring back.
So that whole thing has been renovated.

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I've got put some sandaloam soil down, mixing it in with what I've got.

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That's what I'll be doing on Monday
and then Tuesday planting grass. And

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I've got several I'm trying. You
know, for me, everything's an experiment

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because I want to learn, I
want to have some hands on so I'm

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trying some different things. A couple
of types of Saint Augustine, a couple

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of types of Zoetia in the backyard, and so we're just gonna get it

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all planted on Tuesday, And if
I'm alive and well and can still move

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to crawl up to the microphone,
I'll be back next next Saturday to talk

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to you about that. If you
are planting grass, you want to make

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sure and water it in well.
And here's what I would do. I

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would number one, water the area
just a few days before you're going to

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plant. Just get some moisture in
the soil. If you don't already have

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moisture in the soil, then you
lay your grass down and you water it

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immediately. When I say immediately,
I don't mean two hours later. If

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it's a sunny, hot day,
go ahead and get water on it.

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As you move to another area,
plant more. Just keep that sprinkler going.

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You don't need a lot of water, but you need frequent water.

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It's the opposite of how we normally
water our lauwns, because that grass is

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coming in from the soil from where
they grew it from the side company with

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just a little thin layer of soil, clay soil on the bottom, usually

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clay there. Sometimes it's different.
And that's a very little root system,

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and that grass has got to get
a root down fast. But in the

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meantime you got to keep what roots
it has moist So I put on about

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a quarter of an inch of water, maybe a half inch initially, and

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then if it were summertime and hour
planting, I would say water in the

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morning, water in the afternoon,
with just enough to get that little surface

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moist to keep it going. By
the preplant watering. In other words,

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I said, I wedded a couple
of days ahead. As those roots go

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down, there's already moisture down there, so you're not trying to wet the

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soil eight inches deep or six inches
deep when you lay your new side.

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But you are watering frequently this time
of year. I'll probably water it once

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maybe twice a day for the first
couple of days, and then once a

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day, just you know, a
good soaking middle part of the day,

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and then if the weather gets up
in the mid upper eighties, I might

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do a little more often than that. After about a week you figure,

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okay, we're getting some roots going
here. Then maybe go to a day

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if you haven't already gone to once
a day. And then after about two

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weeks you figure, okay, this
grass is getting going. You don't forget

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watering, but you're not having the
water every day. You can back after

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every other day, and you just
want it to hit the ground running.

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Can you get by with less,
yeah, But will the grass be stressed,

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yes? Will some areas die?
Maybe your sprinkler system isn't fully efficient,

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and so where you think you've given
a good even application, you haven't.

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It's just the way sprinklers work.
So take good care of it.

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That way, When do you fertilize, When it has reached to take up

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fertilizer, that's going to be at
least a couple of weeks after planting,

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you can begin to put a little
bit on. I might use a little

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fast release at that time. You
know, nitros has one called Imperial.

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Imperial is a fifteen to five to
ten. That's a three one two ratio.

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And the three one two ratio is
what turf scientists from across the country

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really but certainly through our southern states, from Texas on across. That's what

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they have determined is the nutrient ratio
that grass takes up the nutrients. And

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so that's why you will see fertilizers
like nitrofoss Imperial fifteen five to ten and

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that kind of application, a light
application, give it a little immediate nutrients,

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get it going. After you do
that, I'd probably wait about a

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month and then I start my long
term fertilization schedule, the slow release fertilization

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schedule. But initially let it get
some roots and then give it something that's

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a little faster released to give it
a boost, and then we move on

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to the other that's kind of a
kind of a schedule for that in that

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Imperial You know, just like all
night fross products, you're going to find

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them everywhere out in Channey Forest in
Richmond, they carry the nitrofoss products up

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in Willis up at Growers Outlet you
can get them. Or maybe you're a

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I forty five direction of Tumble RCW
Nursery's got night fuss products. You can

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get those there, including the fertilizers
and other things as well. So getting

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that grass established. Now, if
your lawn just has some areas that are

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areas that are dead, but there's
little sprigs of grass or little sections of

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grass in it, you can just
let that cover back over. If you've

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got let's say, between two decent
little plugs of grass that are growing,

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it can cover over about a foot
by midsummer pretty easily if it has water

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and fertilizer, and if your lawn
isn't struggling with a disease which shuts things

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down. Otherwise you're looking at larger
areas you're going to have to either put

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some sod in it or just resaiwed
the whole section, which is the route

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I decided to go, and plus
I wanted to try some some new types

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of turf grass. It's kind of
a, like I said, an experiment.

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We're going to watch it and see. I've got some fairly some stuff

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that's been around a little while but
it's just been proven to do well,

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and then some that's that's really brand
new, and so we're going to see

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how that goes. But however you
go about it, this is the season

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to get that lawn going, get
it in good shape you want to,

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and if you haven't mowed it yet, I usually on the initial mowing mow

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down pretty short and then that gets
rid of a lot of the dead debris

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up on top, you know,
so you've got dead leaves and stuff from

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the winter season. I put a
bagger on at that time, especially if

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there are any weeds, because you
want to capture as many of those seeds

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as you can. Don't recycle clippings
full of weed seeds. Just try to

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get them out of there and get
them off the property and it'll do pretty

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well. Well. We're going to
take a little break here. We will

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be back. Our phone number is
seven one three two one two fifty eight

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seventy four. When I come back, we'll start heading toward your calls to

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see the things you have questions about, or you'd like some advice on take

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care of Thanks for listening to garden
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be right back. Welcome back in
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you about the things that interest you
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You got things about lawns, maybe
things about the herb garden, or maybe

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you'd like to put in a herb
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Fruit, trees, vegetables. We'll
talk about whatever you want to talk about,

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even house plants. We can do
that to Hey, that's gardening,

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that's indoor gardening, so that certainly
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one two KTRH. We love feed
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Feed up there in Magnolia is an
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better. They've really expanded their garden
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got certainly all the products you hear
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nine seventy eight, So all of
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just minutes away by the way from
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so you need to swing by there
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all your livestock feeds and all the
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store, but you're going to find
it to be surprisingly expensive indoor decorations and

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other things. It's it's a fun
place to visit, allow yourself a little

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bit of time. Every time I
go in visiting with the folks, I

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just I end up realizing, oh
my god, I've been in here for

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a while. That's because it's fun. Let's got to conro We're going to

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talk to Cheryl this morning. Hello, Cheryl, Hi, I was wondering.

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You know, I have my high
business that I started in the tray

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and it's been about a month now. There all there may be a little

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more tall, and I'm wondering,
what can you recommend as far as transplanting

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him to the next slice of What
kind of soil do I use? Because

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everything that I've read says not to
use garden soil, right, so I'm

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not garden soil, I mean cotting
soil. But I'm not sure what to

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Okay, Well, that's that's an
easy one. I think a real simple

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thing would be be to grab you
some jungle Land jungle lens product that night

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Foster distributes it, so it's going
to be widely widely available. But get

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the flower and vegetable version. There's
an indoor version and a flower and vegetable

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version for outdoors. I would do
that. And when you get that material

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and you're gonna pot your hibiscus up
into a larger container, use that,

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but mix in with it. Nelson's
Genesis Genesis is a six one four,

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six one two, I believe is
the number on it. Anyway, Genesis

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products, let me find that right
now, six one three. Thank you.

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There we go, six one three, and it releases the nutrients,

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it's loaded with all kinds of microbes, and it's got you know, the

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endo and ectomycorrhizal that connect with the
roots and help make the roots more efficient.

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But that's the combo that I would
suggest to use the jungle land with

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the Nelson. Genesis comes in.
Genesis comes in a little jar. You

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don't need much of it, just
follow the label and mix it in.

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And we had some caller last weekend
that was just raving about how how fast

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and well his plants performed on it. Okay, good because my least that

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I actually have now we're real pretty
green. But now they're starting to turn

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like a light green, and I'm
afraid they're not getting enough patrious. So

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it's you know, I need to
edit fertilizer and move them up to your

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next Okay, it could be that, but it also could be too much

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water. Be real careful not to
over water them. Keep them, don't

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keep them soggy wet. Okay,
okay, yes, sir, thank you

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so much for your health this morning. You bet you take care and good

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look with those. Send me a
picture of them when they finally bloom someday.

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Okay, I will do that,
thank you. We that stage that

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stage at RYL is talking about where
you've got a seedling and it's up.

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Okay, it's going now, don't
leave it there too long and that container,

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move it up to the next one
and give it a quality saw mix

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with a nutrient boost in it.
And that that's why I recommended that to

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her. You'll just see those things. They'll sit there for about a day

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or two and all of a sudden, you're going, wow, they are.

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It's like they hit the ground running
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or on the accelerator, if you
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That sure works. Well. You
are listening to Garden Line and I am

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your host, Skip Richter, What
do you want to talk about? Seven

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one three two one two fifty eight
seventy four. I was taking care of

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the some herbs that I have and
I we have an herb bed and in

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the bed we've well, we've planned
a lot of different things over the years

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in there, but right now the
chives are going crazy. And it just

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reminded me chives, garlic chives and
onion chives. But when they go to

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seed last year, I did not
clip the little seed heads off, and

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now that her bed looks like a
chive chia pet. I mean there is

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chides coming up everywhere. So just
remember your chives do receed. And so

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I'm gonna have to get in there
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a little hardware cloth screen just to
get all those little chip bulbs out of

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there, because I like chives,
but I don't need a whole herb bed

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full of chives. But boy,
the blooms are really popular with pollinators,

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they really are. Pollinators love chives. That whole alien family is a popular

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one. It's important, you know, if you want to attract pollinators,

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to plant things that draw them in. And there are a lot of great

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plants for that. I mean,
I just go on and on and on.

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And when we say pollinators, we're
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about honey bees, We're talking about
native bees, talking about there are a

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lot of different creatures that will do
the pollination for some better than other's.

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No, butterflies can do a little
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it is with bees. But anyway, pollinator gardens are a fun way to

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go. And you know, we
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garden, for example, some plants
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that would be things like in the
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watermelons, candalopes, musk melons,
that whole group of plants in that family.

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They have to get pollen from one
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have male and female flowers separate.
So you always want plenty of pollinators hanging

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around so that your plants just do
super well. That is important and it's

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easy to take care of them.
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is by providing water for them.
And you don't just have like a swimming

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pool sitting there. They need to
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So you may have a bird bath
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there's really shallow edge to the water
and they can get They can walk right

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down there without drowning and just get
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an important thing to keep in mind
as well. We're gonna now go to

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beat Eyes and talk to Dane.
Well, hello, Dane, how are

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things? And beat Eyes? That
skip's nice? Good say it again.

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I got three briskets on the pit
for you. Oh my gosh, hang

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on, I'll be right there.
A good deal, hey, I was,

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I'm doing a raised garden, and
I was talking to a place in

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the cells soil. It's a rose
mixed soil, but they made the commet

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that it was not fertilized. I
didn't understand that. And if I need

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to fertilize it, what would you
recommend to put in it? What are

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you going to grow in the garden. It'll be a tomatoes, halipenias,

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onions, potatoes squashed, you know, the whole the gamut. Yeah,

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and is this a pretty large garden
day? It's four feet wide, sixteen

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feet long, okay, and about
three feet high. Yeah. Well,

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you know there's a lot of you
can buy fertilizers in the little canisters and

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there you have organic and synthetic choices
depending on how you want to go.

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Microlife is an excellent product for mixing
in for an organic. You're out there

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and beat eye, so you're going
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and they may have the canisters of
microlife in there. It's been a while

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since I looked at the shelves inside. I think they have the canisters of

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microlife, but I know they have
the bags of microlife. Then from a

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synthetic standpoint, again, just a
good lawn fertilizer is what I use for

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most of my vegetable garden. And
I realize, you know, we have

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a lot of different ratios and stuff, but in the absence of a soil

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test, I would just use a
good term fertilizer for it. So and

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there's there's a number of those out
there. You know. If you fertilize

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your lawn with something like let's say
nitrofos Imperial fifteen five to ten, that

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would be a good one to using
the vegetable garden as well. Yeah,

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I use All's lan program for the
fertilizing on the lawn. Okay, well

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what kind of what kind of fertilizer
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one you'll recommend? I think it's
not just sas well, we got it.

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Yeah, we have several nitrofoss on
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fifteen five to ten uh. And
then there is a slow release for the

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vegetable garden. I wouldn't use slow
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know, the regular fertilizers just because
you've got a short term crop uh,

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and so you want when you fertilize
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and get that boost pretty quick,
makes sense. Yeah, fifteen five ten

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impierlet's a red bag by Nitrofoss that
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And then the micro life it's a
green bag as well. Wonderful. All

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right, Well that's what I do, man, I appreciate it. All

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right. Say hi to the folks, say say that again. How does

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the good work? Thank you?
Say hi to the folks that the roy's

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over at a Spring Creek feed When
you're out there, we'll do all right.

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Take care. Yeah, Spring Creek
Feed Center, it's it's a fun

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place. And you know that country
beat Eyes and Curtain and Anderson all through

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that region. Spring Creek Feeds your
hometown feed center. And they carry the

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fertilizers that I talk about here.
They carry a lot of other things for

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past diseases and weed management for those
of you and king Oaks and your wood

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that that. Those are some lovely
new neighborhoods out that way after towards Carlos,

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Texas. It's just it's easy to
get too easy to find them,

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and they're going to have what you
need when you go back. Let's see

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here. I am going to go
now to Cyprus and talk to Terry.

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Hello, Terry, good morning,
Skip. How are you this morning?

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I'm good? How are you?
Oh? About a B plus? I

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guess okay, I've got a real
problem with clover. About a month ago,

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I put my early fertilizer, the
fifteen five ten nitrofalls on it,

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and I didn't use the one that's
got the weed and feed the other.

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Anyway, It's greened up real good. It's tall and everything. But I've

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got a whole lot of clover everywhere, and I'm just wondering, it's been

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a month, can I come back
with that fifteen five ten that's got the

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wed killer in it. Now,
you you said you did not use that

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the first time, You just use
fertile Well, right, I just use

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a regular fifteen five. That's what
I've always used, and I've always had

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good success for it. But for
some reason or another, I've just got

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tremendous of out of clover. Yeah. Well, if it's been a month,

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you could fertilize again. It's a
little early, but not too early.

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You could. You could fertilize again
with the nitropos. You were referring

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to the nitrophus with the trimech in
it. But you have to get the

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leaves of the weeds wet so it
sticks. That's an alternative. Another is

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just to go in with a spray
specifically to go after those. Either way

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you go is fine. I you
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the other it may be since you
just fertilized a month ago, So maybe

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you would just go with a spray
and then come back with something that's slow

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released to carry you on into the
summer, like Nitropuss's Imperial Silver Bag.

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Okay, and what kind of spray
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Eyed weed Beater Ultra and do it
before the temperatures get up in the mid

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eighties. Do it in the morning, but before we're up in the mid

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upper eighties every day. That would
be a good one. Fertilo makes another

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one called weed Free Zone, and
that that would also work fine. Just

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mix it according to the label and
make sure you get just get the leaves

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wet. You don't have to drench
them, just spot spray the weeds that

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you have. Hey, I got
to go to a break, but thank

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you sir for the call. I
appreciate that. It's time for NICKI in

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the news our phone number seven one
three two one two fifty eight seventy four.

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Well, come back to Guardline.
Hey, it's good to have you

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with us today. I enjoy talking
to gardeners and answering gardening questions and helping

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you with By the way, Dane, whenever that brisket is ready, you

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can just drop some off here at
the station. It's not too far of

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a drive from bet. I was
talking to Dane and I mentioned Grimes County

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Feed. You know, they're up
there on Highway thirty in Carlos and Grimes

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County Feed is going to have everything
you would expect the feed store to have.

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I mean you're talking about livestock food
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from a gardening and landscaping standpoint,
the fertilizers that I recommend, they carry

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in the pesticides and things. But
they also have supplies for your pond.

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You know, you get do you
know ponds get weeds they do, and

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aquatic herbicides for weeds. They even
do fish stocking. I believe they do

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it about twice a quarter. But
you just need to stop in talk to

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the roy family and find out,
you know, when are you going to

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do that again? They're two miles
west of FM two forty four, two

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miles west of FM two forty four
State Highway thirty. For anybody up in

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that region that needs maybe some stocking
of your ponds or supplies, take care

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of your garden and your ponds.
They're going to take care of you,

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that is for sure. I wanted
to mention today that I think I talked

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about this last week, but OBA, the Organic Horticulture Benefits Alliance is having

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the Soil Science Conference at the United
Way of Greater Houston on wad Drive.

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That's Wednesday, April third, and
then Thursday, April fourth, the program

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continues out at Nature's Way Resources.
Now this program is it's gonna be amazing.

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Doctor Tom Dishri is going to talk
about energy levels and plants, how

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to manipulate your crops to bulletproof them
against pest insects. And what they do

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is they use an instrument called a
bricks instrument. What that means is it

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measures sugar levels, carbohydrate levels in
the plants app and when you do a

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bricks measurement, it can guide you. Also, doctor Adam Cobb's going to

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talk about the latest in soul microbiology. Adams from the Soil Food Web school

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now. If you want to register
for it, go to obaonline dot org

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slash register, HbA online dot org
slash register. There is a fee for

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these, you get meal with it, but either way you go about it,

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you just need to check this out
if you really want to nerd out

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on creating and building a quality,
quality soul mix. We're going to head

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out now to Manville and talk to
Adolf. Hello Adolf, Yes, sure,

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good morning. I have a question
in the larns to mysteria. Yes,

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it hasn't been blooming very much.
As a matter of fact this year,

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you're hardly at all. Okay,
and they were small. I don't

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know what the problem is. It's
been there for at least thirty five years.

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Okay. Well, with steria,
if it gets a little luxurious,

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you know, lots of nitrogen kind
of fertilizing and watering it stuff. Sometimes

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it does vines at the expense of
setting the bloom buds. If you don't

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see many blooms, it's because not
many bloom buds set on the plant going

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into winter. So that whisteria plant
is doing its bloom buds setting in late

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summer and early fall, and so
that's a key time to have success with

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it. If you pruned during the
winter, you're pruning away those bloom buds,

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and so that's another reason for reduced
bloom on a whisteria. And then

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finally, as the shade grows,
if it's in shade more and more hours

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of the day, you're going to
see a reduction in those blooms as well.

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Okay, all right, yeah,
in the beginning, I'm telling you

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that they were just beautiful large and
they actually look like grapes. Yeah,

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that's the other largeous plant. Yeah, it is. The other thing is

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uh, the blackberries bed. I
would just use a standard uh terf fertilizer,

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but not any weed control in it, just fertilizer, uh and the

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one you use for your lawns.
I would use it for your BlackBerry row.

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it as well. Blackberries generally have

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decent vigor. If you're in a
very sandy soil, a little more fertilizing

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is needed to maintain that vigor,
but in general doesn't take a whole lot

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to keep blackberries happy. Okay,
good, What is that? Why is

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there bags of of soil for raised
beds? What? What is that?

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What? I'm sorry, I've seen
I've seen bags, as a matter of

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fact, about two of them.
Two bags of soil for raised beds.

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Okay, it's confusing. I don't
know what that is. That what that

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is is a special blend of soil
that you put in and you just grow

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right in it. The alternative to
that is you would go and purchase composts

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and things and mix it into the
soil that you have. But you know,

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if you if you want instead of
that to just you know, create

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or create an instant bed, you
would you would do it the way you

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were talking about there, Okay.
And then water moon and cucumbers is you

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can make a pat seed. No
good time right now to do both of

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those. Hey, Adolf, I'm
gonna have to run, but feel free

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to all any time look forward to
you, Yes, sir, good luck

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with all that that. That sounds
like a really good deal. Hey,

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if you've been to the Antique rosen
for him, they're up in Independence,

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Texas, just north of Brenham.
You really need to go. Antiq Rosenporium

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is the kind of place where it's
like you've entered another time. You know,

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the buildings, the pathways, the
plants, and of course antique Roses.

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I mean that's taking you back in
time. It's a beautiful show place,

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and I would encourage you to grab
a bunch of people and go go

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out there and visit with them.
On the thirtieth the Easter or on the

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thirtieth, they're having their Easter egg
hunt, so just check them out find

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out more about them. Antique Rosenporum
can tell you more about it. It

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starts at eleven fifteen. It's broken
down by age group on Saturday, March

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thirtieth, and every time you go
out there, you're going to find a

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lot more information than you could imagine
from both the staff and just learning about

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the roses. Do this go to
the website antiqu rosenporim dot com or callum

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ninety seven nine eight three six fifty
five forty eight. We are let's see

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here. I'm gonna I wanted to
Mary. I'm going to have to hold

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you until right after the break to
have enough time to help with the question.

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But you'll be the first one we
come back. For those of you

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that are interested in honeybees, I
talked about pollinators and how do we attract

419
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pollinators? How about putting some beehives
in the backyard. You can actually do

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that. And no that doesn't mean
you walk out the door and the bees

421
00:32:21.039 --> 00:32:24.000
attack. Bees are very docile,
but they sure do the work for you

422
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in your gardens. Plus you get
honey. What a deal. The Bee

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Supply is having classes. Those classes
will help you learn about bees how to

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take care of them. You can
go. The next one's April thirteenth.

425
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There's one on April twenty seventh as
well. And if you just want to

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go and learn about bees, how
about going to the honey Tour where you

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00:32:45.039 --> 00:32:52.079
get to learn a lot and taste
the honey as well. Vbsupply dot comvbsupply

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dot com. That's how to find
out more. They're out in Dayton and

429
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I can tell you this. Go
see the indoor Observational high where you can

430
00:33:00.079 --> 00:33:02.720
and watchbees work. It is amazing. We're going to take a little break.

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When we come back, we'll talk
to Mary our phone number seven one

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three two one two fifty eight seventy
four. Welcome back to garden Line.

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Good to have you with us.
For those of you out in Richmond,

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you've probably already been to in Chenni
Gardens. You know about it. I

435
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mean it's a It is a showplace. It's a destination. People come from

436
00:33:22.519 --> 00:33:25.640
all over to go see that place
because there's not anything you need for your

437
00:33:25.640 --> 00:33:30.880
garden and landscape that they don't have
every kind of plant, I mean,

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00:33:30.000 --> 00:33:34.920
and when you talk about the accessories
and whatnot, they've got you covered.

439
00:33:35.319 --> 00:33:37.720
In Chenni Gardens. It's on the
Katie Fulsher side of Richmond, So as

440
00:33:37.720 --> 00:33:44.519
you're heading up north toward Katie direction, that's in Chenni Gardens FM three fifty

441
00:33:44.599 --> 00:33:50.880
nine that's the road. The website
enchanted Gardens Richmond dot com. They're open

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00:33:50.920 --> 00:33:55.119
today eight am to five pm,
Tomorrow ten am to four pm. It's

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00:33:55.240 --> 00:34:00.680
always a good time to visit because
they always have new selections of everything you

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00:34:00.720 --> 00:34:05.960
can imagine. I mean, every
time I go there, it takes a

445
00:34:05.960 --> 00:34:09.400
while to wander through. It's a
beautiful spread out place, quality staff that

446
00:34:09.519 --> 00:34:13.880
know what they're talking about. They're
not going to steer you wrong. Another

447
00:34:13.960 --> 00:34:16.559
reason I like to go. We're
going to I want to go out to

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00:34:17.199 --> 00:34:22.079
Mary in southwest Houston. Now,
Hello Mary, Hey, good morning.

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00:34:22.960 --> 00:34:30.199
My question is regarding a rental property
we own here in Houston that the large

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00:34:30.280 --> 00:34:35.719
lot in the lawn just didn't get
maintained like it should have during the summer,

451
00:34:35.760 --> 00:34:37.920
and so we just have a lot
of weeds. And with the cost

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00:34:38.000 --> 00:34:44.000
of Saint Augustine, I was wondering
if fermuda grass seeds would be a good

453
00:34:44.039 --> 00:34:49.880
alternative, and if so, how
do you do that? Will it's less

454
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expensive than sodding. But when you
plant those little tiny seeds, they come

455
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up in their spindly little seedlings until
they finally get established. And in the

456
00:34:59.599 --> 00:35:04.280
meantime here comes the weed seeds as
well, and so it's a little bit

457
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of a challenge to plant from seed, but you can. You can plant

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00:35:07.519 --> 00:35:14.239
from seed. There are Finding the
seeds of varieties is sometimes a little bit

459
00:35:14.239 --> 00:35:17.239
of a challenge too. I wouldn't
do the old common bermuda, although you

460
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could, but I'd try to get
something a little more compact. There's a

461
00:35:21.800 --> 00:35:25.239
variety called Sahara, I believe that's
still on the market. But anyway,

462
00:35:25.320 --> 00:35:30.039
are you going in and out?
Okay? Yes, you can plant from

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00:35:30.039 --> 00:35:34.559
seed. It's a little bit of
a challenge to get them established because when

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00:35:34.559 --> 00:35:37.079
you do, first of all,
you're gonna have to kill everything and make

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00:35:37.119 --> 00:35:40.760
the dirt bear and then plant the
bermuda seed and hope that they get established

466
00:35:40.800 --> 00:35:45.199
before the weeds come right back.
Wow. Okay, Yeah, Well we

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saw a product that has mulch and
fertilizer in with the seeds. Would that

468
00:35:53.760 --> 00:35:58.280
be a good option. No,
I don't know what that is. I

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00:35:58.280 --> 00:36:01.519
wouldn't. I wouldn't go that route. Bermuda spreads fast though. I mean

470
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if you wanted to buy some sod
and cut it up in pieces and plant

471
00:36:06.639 --> 00:36:12.039
little strips of it to make your
dollar go further, it'll spread pretty fast

472
00:36:12.519 --> 00:36:15.280
and you would just you would just
mow it and control the broadly weeds that

473
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are coming into it. Okay,
thank you so much, Thank you,

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00:36:21.159 --> 00:36:23.599
Mary. I appreciate appreciate your call
a lot. Yeah, when it comes

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00:36:23.639 --> 00:36:29.519
to controlling weeds, night frost barricade
is your pre emergent, and you get

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00:36:29.519 --> 00:36:31.559
it down ahead of the weeds.
That's very important. Get it down before

477
00:36:31.599 --> 00:36:37.159
the weeds sprout, watered in,
and it forms a barricade over the soul

478
00:36:37.239 --> 00:36:39.679
surface for grass weeds and broadleaf weeds. Now, if you were going to

479
00:36:39.760 --> 00:36:45.440
plant a bermuda lawn, you would
not use barricade before that because it controls

480
00:36:45.480 --> 00:36:49.280
bermuda seeds. It's a seed,
right, so don't do that. But

481
00:36:49.360 --> 00:36:52.480
an established turf. Yeah, you
can do that. And where do you

482
00:36:52.519 --> 00:36:57.440
find barricade? Well, all over
the place. I'll tell you this specifically

483
00:36:57.480 --> 00:37:01.880
speaking, barricade is just widely available
number of different Ace Hardware stores. For

484
00:37:01.920 --> 00:37:07.800
example, you can go to Ausbahls
Ace up in the Woodlands. They've got

485
00:37:07.840 --> 00:37:13.079
that. Also Plants for all seasons
on Highway to forty nine carries and you

486
00:37:13.119 --> 00:37:17.159
can also find the barricade as well
as other night Foss products at Plants and

487
00:37:17.239 --> 00:37:22.280
things up there in Brenham. I
was talking about Ace Hardware. I'm going

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00:37:22.360 --> 00:37:25.880
to be doing an appearance at Ace
Hardware on April sixth, that's next Saturday.

489
00:37:25.920 --> 00:37:29.480
I hope you can make it.
I'll be at M and d Ace

490
00:37:29.559 --> 00:37:34.000
on clear Lake, but at the
same weekend. Next weekend for those of

491
00:37:34.039 --> 00:37:37.039
you down anywhere in the Wharton area, they're opening up a store on April

492
00:37:37.079 --> 00:37:42.840
fifth and sixth. Now, the
fifth and sixth is going to be at

493
00:37:43.360 --> 00:37:47.239
the Wharton store. Okay, I
don't want to confuse you and too much,

494
00:37:47.280 --> 00:37:51.760
but there's kind of two things going
on. On the sixth, I'll

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00:37:51.760 --> 00:37:54.360
be at M and d Ace,
which is in clear Lake, but at

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00:37:54.360 --> 00:37:58.719
the same time those of you done
in Wharton. They have Wharton Feed and

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00:37:58.760 --> 00:38:01.559
ACE Hardware on rich And Road by
the way down in Wharton, and they'll

498
00:38:01.599 --> 00:38:05.719
be doing their shindig at the same
time. You know, when you go

499
00:38:05.760 --> 00:38:08.440
to ACE, you're always going to
find anything you need. They carry it

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00:38:08.679 --> 00:38:13.320
all Ace. You can just say
ACE is the place because no matter what

501
00:38:13.320 --> 00:38:19.320
it is, they're gonna they're definitely
gonna have it. Someone's asked me the

502
00:38:19.360 --> 00:38:22.320
other day, where can I get
Where can I get this aer ration you're

503
00:38:22.360 --> 00:38:27.320
talking about? And where can I
get the accompost top dressing done? I

504
00:38:27.360 --> 00:38:30.800
don't want to go through all the
mess and work and haul and equipment around.

505
00:38:30.840 --> 00:38:35.880
Well, if you are down south, down south and a little to

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00:38:35.920 --> 00:38:39.599
the west, B and B turf
Pros covers your region. For example,

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00:38:39.679 --> 00:38:45.400
Missouri City, sugar Land, and
then let's head southeast from there to Fresno,

508
00:38:45.599 --> 00:38:49.639
Siena, Arcola, maybe down Iowa
Colony. You were just heading down

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00:38:49.679 --> 00:38:53.079
Highway six there Manville and as far
east as Pearland. They'll cover it.

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00:38:53.440 --> 00:39:00.239
Now you just need to write down
this website. It's B B Turfpros dot

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00:39:00.280 --> 00:39:05.800
com. Now the company is B
and B. The website is BB turf

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00:39:05.800 --> 00:39:09.719
Pros dot com, bb turfpros dot
com seven to one, three two three

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00:39:09.800 --> 00:39:16.440
four fifty five ninety eight. They
are all about customer satisfaction. They do

514
00:39:16.519 --> 00:39:22.159
high quality work and they use quality
products. They only use products and companies

515
00:39:22.480 --> 00:39:25.960
that I recommend here on garden Line. They can do the aeration, they

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00:39:27.039 --> 00:39:30.960
can do the compost top dressing,
and they certainly can do both, and

517
00:39:30.079 --> 00:39:36.440
that is a huge thing for getting
your lawn looking good, getting it rejuvenated.

518
00:39:36.519 --> 00:39:39.119
You know those old height clay soils. Well, when you compost top

519
00:39:39.159 --> 00:39:44.480
dress with aeration, you get oxygen
in the soil, you get organic matter

520
00:39:44.519 --> 00:39:47.840
done in the soil, and it
just rejuvenates very good for your lawn and

521
00:39:47.920 --> 00:39:51.880
you see a lot of results from
that. It's you know, it's not

522
00:39:51.960 --> 00:39:54.920
inexpensive having come out and do it, because you're hauling equipment, you're hauling

523
00:39:54.960 --> 00:39:59.639
compost and all kinds of things.
But I'm telling you it's it's cheaper than

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00:39:59.639 --> 00:40:04.199
doing an new lawn by far,
that is for sure. And if you

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just want to see your lawn rejuvenated, that's what I would do. That's

526
00:40:07.400 --> 00:40:16.320
what I would do. Spring fertilizing
of our lawns in this season. Microlife

527
00:40:16.559 --> 00:40:24.199
fertilizers provide you that option for a
organic fertilizer that's loaded not just with nutrients,

528
00:40:24.239 --> 00:40:30.719
but you've got the microbial content as
well, and that is huge.

529
00:40:30.199 --> 00:40:35.760
I would say, if I were
doing a spring lawn fertilization, which when

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I have a lawn I will be
but I no helpe right now, I

531
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would do the six two four green
bag for my microlife. I would also

532
00:40:45.000 --> 00:40:50.119
then follow it with Microlife Humates plus. Now that has a four percent of

533
00:40:50.159 --> 00:40:52.880
the potassium in it, but we're
really putting it down because it's humus.

534
00:40:52.880 --> 00:40:59.920
It's concentrated compost in a bag and
it works over time to build your soil

535
00:41:00.079 --> 00:41:06.320
structure and enhance the microbial content of
the soil. Microlife humhs plus and the

536
00:41:06.360 --> 00:41:09.280
green bag regular Microlife fertilizer, which
by the way, we talk about it

537
00:41:09.320 --> 00:41:13.679
like a turf fertilizer, but you
can put the green bag on anything you

538
00:41:13.760 --> 00:41:17.039
got it just I use it on
a lot of different things as well.

539
00:41:17.360 --> 00:41:21.880
If you want more information on these
and other products from Microlife, just go

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00:41:21.920 --> 00:41:28.800
to the website. It's Microlife Fertilizer
dot com. Microlife Fertilizer dot com makes

541
00:41:28.800 --> 00:41:32.159
it real easy, easy to find
all the products, and boy, they

542
00:41:32.159 --> 00:41:36.519
have a nice selection, a wide
so I'll talk about some others as we

543
00:41:36.559 --> 00:41:40.440
go through spring. They have a
wide selection of products choose from. If

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00:41:40.480 --> 00:41:44.880
you'd like to give us a call. We're going to be going to a

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00:41:44.920 --> 00:41:46.159
break here in just a bit,
but I want to give you the phone

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00:41:46.199 --> 00:41:49.840
number. You can get on the
boards with Josh wall Wear at break and

547
00:41:49.920 --> 00:41:53.360
that way you can be up right
away when we come back from break seven

548
00:41:53.440 --> 00:41:59.559
one three, two, one two
five eight seven four seven one three seventore

549
00:41:59.599 --> 00:42:01.519
write that down, keep it handy. Who knows you may have a question

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00:42:01.599 --> 00:42:05.559
that pops up in the middle of
listening. You can just jump right on

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00:42:05.599 --> 00:42:10.840
the lines and there we go.
Have you been to RCW Nursery. RCW

552
00:42:10.920 --> 00:42:15.840
is that nursery where two forty nine, which is Tomball Parkway, comes into

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00:42:15.840 --> 00:42:17.880
Beltway eight. So it's real easy
to get to. No matter where you

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00:42:17.920 --> 00:42:21.719
are, you can jump on two
forty nine, you can jump on BELTWAYA

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00:42:22.199 --> 00:42:24.880
a lot of ways to get there. You need to check out their website.

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00:42:24.920 --> 00:42:31.840
It's rcwnurseries dot com. They're open
today from eight am to five pm

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00:42:31.960 --> 00:42:37.400
and tomorrow from ten am to five
pm. This nursery's been open since nineteen

558
00:42:37.480 --> 00:42:44.000
seventy nine. The Williamson family still
runs the place. They've been advertisement guardenline

559
00:42:44.039 --> 00:42:45.519
for a very long time. I
call them to get it, got it

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00:42:45.679 --> 00:42:50.559
nursery. If they don't have it, they'll find it. They absolutely will

561
00:42:50.559 --> 00:42:52.920
find it. They carry the fertilizers. You hear me talk about. They

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00:42:52.920 --> 00:42:57.000
have the biggest selection of roses I've
ever seen anywhere, and I don't mean

563
00:42:57.079 --> 00:43:00.599
just Houston, I mean anywhere.
Pages of nursery options. They have trees

564
00:43:00.639 --> 00:43:05.400
that they grow themselves up in Plannersville. So you know you're getting a species

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00:43:05.840 --> 00:43:10.159
that belongs here and that it's going
to do well here. That is very

566
00:43:10.280 --> 00:43:15.079
very important. And if you buy
a tree, you want to get it

567
00:43:15.119 --> 00:43:17.760
planted as soon as possible. You
know, RCW can get you set up

568
00:43:17.760 --> 00:43:20.800
with the tree, but you got
to get that thing planted, and you

569
00:43:20.800 --> 00:43:23.679
want to get it staked too,
so that it does real well and it

570
00:43:23.960 --> 00:43:29.119
holds, you know, stake it
loosely so it can move around. RCW

571
00:43:29.199 --> 00:43:32.760
will say the products you need as
you plant that tree to help it during

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00:43:32.840 --> 00:43:37.159
its early growth. They have roote
stimulators. They have the fertilizers like the

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00:43:37.199 --> 00:43:40.039
Microlife green bag that I was just
talking about they got all that stuff ready

574
00:43:40.079 --> 00:43:45.159
to go RCW nurseries dot com.
Well, here we go. We're putting

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00:43:45.400 --> 00:43:50.320
another hour in the books this morning, our first hour. We will be

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00:43:50.360 --> 00:43:53.400
here until ten am. So I
hope you keep listening. It's dark outside,

577
00:43:53.480 --> 00:43:57.079
but you know, if your neighbor's
lights aren't on, go bang on

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00:43:57.119 --> 00:44:00.440
the door, tell them they're missing
guardline and they'll rise. A can call

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00:44:00.519 --> 00:44:04.079
you bless it. I'll be so
happy, so so grateful, at least

580
00:44:04.159 --> 00:44:09.440
in time. Maybe not the first
thing this morning I mentioned the micro the

581
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Oba Organic Cordic Culture benefits Alliance Soul
Science Conference that's April third and fourth.

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You can find out more at Oba
o HbA online, forward slash or obaonline

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dot org, forward Slash Register.
Guess where I'm going to be today and

584
00:44:27.039 --> 00:44:31.079
I hope you too. At CNA
Mulch. They are having their spring Fling.

585
00:44:31.320 --> 00:44:36.800
It's down at Cenamulch on FM five
twenty one and Rose Sharon, I'm

586
00:44:36.800 --> 00:44:40.719
going to be given away just a
ton of different products. Please come out,

587
00:44:40.920 --> 00:44:45.360
let's get some in your hands.
KTRH Garden Line does not necessarily endorse

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00:44:45.400 --> 00:44:51.920
any of the products or services advertised
on this program. Welcome to kt r

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00:44:52.079 --> 00:45:10.840
H Garden Line with Skip Rictor.
It's so crazy you just watching as wos

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00:45:17.320 --> 00:45:27.159
again not a sign and credits.
Welcome back to guarden Line. Good to

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00:45:27.199 --> 00:45:32.239
have you with us today. We
are discussing things to do in the spring.

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00:45:32.320 --> 00:45:36.800
There's a lot of things to do
to take care of in the spring.

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00:45:37.639 --> 00:45:40.199
Our shrubs are going to be starting
to grow, so you need to

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00:45:40.239 --> 00:45:45.079
get out there and be ready to
do some sharing. The more you share

595
00:45:45.079 --> 00:45:47.760
a shrub, the densert is.
That's how that works. That doesn't mean

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00:45:47.800 --> 00:45:51.239
you need to share them every day. It just means that if you only

597
00:45:51.239 --> 00:45:53.920
share them once a year, you're
not going to have the density that you

598
00:45:53.960 --> 00:45:59.559
would hope to have. But as
new growth is about to begin, let

599
00:45:59.559 --> 00:46:02.840
that grow go for a little bit, not long, and then just go

600
00:46:02.840 --> 00:46:07.159
ahead and share it. And what
will happen is every terminal that you cut

601
00:46:07.159 --> 00:46:12.480
off, you're going to have at
least two sprouts that come out from behind

602
00:46:12.519 --> 00:46:15.079
it, and now you have an
even denser shrub as you go. That's

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00:46:15.119 --> 00:46:20.719
true of the evergreen shrubs, which
are the primary ones that we're sharing at

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00:46:20.719 --> 00:46:24.119
that time. A while ago,
I was talking about RCW growing their own

605
00:46:24.559 --> 00:46:28.119
trees, and I was saying,
you know, when you plant a tree,

606
00:46:29.159 --> 00:46:32.320
you need to support it somehow,
a brand new tree, and if

607
00:46:32.360 --> 00:46:37.599
it's a well grown tree, it's
not as wobbly. If you will in

608
00:46:37.639 --> 00:46:40.719
the ground. Sometimes you get these
trees and I know how it goes.

609
00:46:40.800 --> 00:46:44.840
You're thinking, I'm going to get
a good deal and buy some cheap tree

610
00:46:44.880 --> 00:46:49.480
somewhere, and the thing it moves
at the bottom. Here's what I mean.

611
00:46:50.000 --> 00:46:52.480
If a tree is well grown when
you put it in the ground,

612
00:46:52.559 --> 00:46:54.280
if you were to grab the top
and pull it towards you, it should

613
00:46:54.320 --> 00:46:58.199
ben like a fishing pole. You
know, a fishing pole bends up.

614
00:46:58.880 --> 00:47:00.360
Further up you get the more where
it bends, and then as you get

615
00:47:00.360 --> 00:47:05.320
toward the bottom, it's not bending
at all. But a lot of times

616
00:47:05.400 --> 00:47:08.760
they instead, they're like they're hinged
at the bottom. The whole straight trunk

617
00:47:08.880 --> 00:47:12.960
just kind of bends towards you when
you pull on it. That's not all

618
00:47:13.480 --> 00:47:17.079
a well grown tree, really.
But you can help a tree get established

619
00:47:17.079 --> 00:47:21.119
by supporting it. Now, the
old way is to use the wires,

620
00:47:21.440 --> 00:47:23.280
you know, and you got to
buy wire. You got to cut off

621
00:47:23.280 --> 00:47:27.800
sections of garden hose to put around
the wire so it doesn't cut into the

622
00:47:27.840 --> 00:47:31.480
tree limb. You're tripping over the
wires because they're going in three different directions

623
00:47:31.519 --> 00:47:37.519
coming out of the tree. Instead
just gets you a three sixty tree stabilizer.

624
00:47:37.559 --> 00:47:42.960
That's a straight stiff arm that grabs
the tree and then it grabs a

625
00:47:43.039 --> 00:47:45.559
post. You just stick a it's
made in fact in the end. You

626
00:47:45.599 --> 00:47:47.440
can put it on any kind of
post, but you can put it on

627
00:47:47.440 --> 00:47:52.760
a T post also. It's made
for that too. And the other end

628
00:47:52.760 --> 00:47:55.639
that holds the tree is a rubber
strap and you just strap it loosely allow

629
00:47:55.679 --> 00:48:00.960
it to move a little bit.
That's very important. Three sixty tree stabilizers

630
00:48:00.960 --> 00:48:05.400
are widely available all over the place. Buchanans has them done in the Heights

631
00:48:05.480 --> 00:48:12.360
Arborgate up in Tomball RCW Nursery where
Tomball Parkway comes into Belwa eight plants for

632
00:48:12.400 --> 00:48:15.679
all seasons on Tomball Parkway has them. Southwest Fertilizer, well, of course

633
00:48:15.679 --> 00:48:21.440
they have them. They have everything
Southwest Houston and Hare Sidden Gardens down in

634
00:48:21.599 --> 00:48:25.519
Alvin, they all carry this three
sixty tree stabilizer. They last, and

635
00:48:25.599 --> 00:48:30.920
last and last. This is an
investment that will be around anytime you need

636
00:48:30.960 --> 00:48:34.039
to get a tree steaked, or
maybe someone in the family loan in your

637
00:48:34.039 --> 00:48:40.000
tree stabilizer to do that same thing. Makes it really easy. You heard

638
00:48:40.000 --> 00:48:45.039
me probably talking about jungle land potting
soil, and I was mentioning the outdoor

639
00:48:45.119 --> 00:48:50.400
soil. Someone was going to plant
some flowering materials outside. They also have

640
00:48:50.440 --> 00:48:54.079
an indoor the jungle land water saving
potting soil. Now, how does this

641
00:48:55.280 --> 00:48:59.679
potting soil save water? Well,
it holds onto water because as these little

642
00:48:59.679 --> 00:49:05.039
crys in it, these little crystals
are polymers that absorb many times their weight

643
00:49:05.119 --> 00:49:07.719
in water. And as your potting
soil gets a little dry, the roots

644
00:49:07.760 --> 00:49:12.960
are growing up up against that crystal. They'll find it and grow up against

645
00:49:13.039 --> 00:49:17.559
it, and you can draw moisture
that's still around. When your regular other

646
00:49:17.599 --> 00:49:21.960
part of your potting mix, the
organic part of the potting mix, starts

647
00:49:21.960 --> 00:49:24.519
to get a little on the dry
side, those crystals are an ongoing source

648
00:49:24.559 --> 00:49:29.159
of water, making it a little
more forgiving. And it's a jungle Land

649
00:49:29.159 --> 00:49:30.760
distributed product, so it's going to
be easy to find. You know,

650
00:49:30.800 --> 00:49:38.760
whenever you're talking about doing any kind
of an application of a product or anything

651
00:49:38.800 --> 00:49:44.280
from nitroposs including this jungle and you're
going to find it so easy. Go

652
00:49:44.320 --> 00:49:49.239
to Katie that Ace Hardware out in
Katie, they've got it. For those

653
00:49:49.280 --> 00:49:52.760
of you living in Memorial area,
Memorial Drive, Ace Hardware City has got

654
00:49:52.760 --> 00:49:58.320
it. If you're down in alvin
Stanton Shopping Center also carries the Jungle Land

655
00:49:58.719 --> 00:50:02.119
product. It makes it easy to
find what you need to get that job

656
00:50:02.199 --> 00:50:05.559
done. Hey, if you'd like
to give us a call, our phone

657
00:50:05.639 --> 00:50:10.920
number is seven one three two one
two fifty eight seventy four seven one three

658
00:50:12.440 --> 00:50:19.119
two one two five eight seven four. I was visiting with Jason's at Jason

659
00:50:19.159 --> 00:50:23.400
at Peerscapes the other day and you
know, just talking to how are things

660
00:50:23.440 --> 00:50:28.400
going, what's up? And I'm
telling you they are staying busy. They

661
00:50:28.440 --> 00:50:30.679
you know, when you do a
good job, you do quality work,

662
00:50:30.719 --> 00:50:34.480
you stay busy. So if you
would like to get some work done,

663
00:50:34.800 --> 00:50:39.159
and this could be a total rent
landscape renovation, it could be just working

664
00:50:40.000 --> 00:50:44.920
in a specific area, maybe a
little patio area in the backyard to get

665
00:50:44.960 --> 00:50:47.440
that done, give them a call
now. You need to call them now

666
00:50:47.559 --> 00:50:54.079
because a good reputable landscaper like Jason's
at Peer Scapes, they're busy and they're

667
00:50:54.119 --> 00:50:59.280
booking weeks, if not months in
advance some of these types of jobs.

668
00:50:59.480 --> 00:51:01.360
But give them a call now.
Now something else they offer. I haven't

669
00:51:01.360 --> 00:51:06.679
told you about this before. They
have a quarterly maintenance for the landscape beds.

670
00:51:07.079 --> 00:51:08.440
So what does that mean. Well, once a quarter they're going to

671
00:51:08.480 --> 00:51:12.559
come. They're going to do trimming, they're going to do weeding, they'll

672
00:51:12.599 --> 00:51:16.880
fertilize, they'll check the irrigation system
just to make sure things are functioning right.

673
00:51:17.360 --> 00:51:22.400
They'll do a neration. They can
do that as well. The seasonal

674
00:51:22.480 --> 00:51:25.960
color changes. You know, the
pansies that you had in the winter aren't

675
00:51:27.000 --> 00:51:30.960
for late spring and summer, so
you need to have new color come in.

676
00:51:30.320 --> 00:51:34.320
And then they'll do mulching. All
of that is part of the quarterly

677
00:51:34.400 --> 00:51:37.119
maintenance for beds. So you sign
on the line and say, look,

678
00:51:37.239 --> 00:51:39.840
you guys, take care of it, and you know they're going to keep

679
00:51:39.880 --> 00:51:44.880
things looking good now. Pierce Caapes, they've been around a while, they've

680
00:51:44.880 --> 00:51:47.280
been doing good work for a while. That's why they stay busy. Look,

681
00:51:47.440 --> 00:51:51.159
get on the phone and make a
call. You don't have to get

682
00:51:51.159 --> 00:51:54.079
the work done right away. In
fact, a good landscaper, like I

683
00:51:54.119 --> 00:51:58.719
said, stays busy, but get
on the list so that you can make

684
00:51:58.760 --> 00:52:02.199
sure and have your beds in top
shape. Here's the number two eight one

685
00:52:02.400 --> 00:52:07.519
three seven oh fifty sixty two eight
one three seven oh fifty sixty or just

686
00:52:07.559 --> 00:52:15.400
go to piercescapes dot com pierscapes dot
com. That makes it really really easy.

687
00:52:16.239 --> 00:52:21.679
If you've looked out in your lawn
and you see all these broad leafweeds,

688
00:52:21.719 --> 00:52:23.599
those are cool season weeds. So
what are you going to do about

689
00:52:23.639 --> 00:52:28.679
them? Well, one thing you
can do about them is you can get

690
00:52:28.719 --> 00:52:30.880
out there and hand pull them,
take the weed and its seeds and everything,

691
00:52:30.920 --> 00:52:34.599
put it in the trash and get
rid of it. A lot of

692
00:52:34.599 --> 00:52:37.400
people aren't willing to do that.
Another option is when you mow, mow

693
00:52:37.440 --> 00:52:40.639
low and get those weed seeds out
of there as best you can that way.

694
00:52:42.199 --> 00:52:45.960
But another way would be to use
a spring green up fertilizer with Trimec.

695
00:52:46.000 --> 00:52:53.800
And that's what that is exactly what
Nitrofoss has created Nitrofoss Weed Control product.

696
00:52:54.000 --> 00:53:00.760
It's like a fifteen five ten fertilizer
with TRIMEC. Trimec is three different

697
00:53:00.800 --> 00:53:05.360
broad leaf we control ingredients mixed into
one. You have to wet the weeds.

698
00:53:05.360 --> 00:53:08.480
Because you want the granules to stick
to the weed. So just a

699
00:53:08.760 --> 00:53:14.199
sprinkling of water just to get the
weed surfaces wet, put out the the

700
00:53:14.320 --> 00:53:17.800
nitrofosh product and give it a day
or so, let it move into those

701
00:53:17.840 --> 00:53:22.800
tissues and then watered in to get
the fifteen five to ten part done in

702
00:53:22.840 --> 00:53:27.159
the soil to help you out and
night foss being widely available, is going

703
00:53:27.199 --> 00:53:30.800
to be available in Montgomery at Gem's
Hardware. For example, a task a

704
00:53:30.880 --> 00:53:35.039
Seeda ace has it, as does
the ace out and Sinco Ranch. We're

705
00:53:35.039 --> 00:53:38.239
going to take a little break.
Seven one three two one two KTRH is

706
00:53:38.280 --> 00:53:42.880
the number. Welcome back to Guardenline. Good to have you with us today.

707
00:53:43.920 --> 00:53:46.880
Today's a day to get outside and
do some things in the yard.

708
00:53:47.000 --> 00:53:51.239
It's a day to pick up some
good products to fertilize your lawn, take

709
00:53:51.280 --> 00:53:53.039
care of weeds. It's a good
day to pick up plants to get those

710
00:53:53.159 --> 00:53:58.079
established. Any kind you want to
go about, go for it, get

711
00:53:58.079 --> 00:54:01.920
that done. If you're on Way
two forty nine up toward tom Ol direction

712
00:54:02.519 --> 00:54:07.079
plants for all seasons. That is
a place, it is well known and

713
00:54:07.119 --> 00:54:12.480
the people throughout that community love it. I mean that place is always busy

714
00:54:13.039 --> 00:54:15.960
because they know when they go there, they're going to get the plants they

715
00:54:15.000 --> 00:54:19.760
need, and they're going to get
expert advice and listen. That is so

716
00:54:19.800 --> 00:54:22.800
important, you know, to go
to a place where they don't know what

717
00:54:22.840 --> 00:54:28.440
they're talking about. You may buy
a plant that really doesn't grow here and

718
00:54:28.480 --> 00:54:31.800
they don't know. You may find
a problem on that plant. Now,

719
00:54:31.800 --> 00:54:35.679
what are you going to do?
They certainly don't know their products to take

720
00:54:35.679 --> 00:54:39.480
care of it. And plants for
all seasons? Does I mean you walk

721
00:54:39.519 --> 00:54:43.400
in with a picture, you walk
in with a sample? What is this?

722
00:54:43.559 --> 00:54:45.639
They'll say, here's what it is. You know you just break with

723
00:54:45.719 --> 00:54:47.199
that. That's not a problem,
or yes you do, and here's a

724
00:54:47.239 --> 00:54:52.480
product that takes care of it.
It makes it easy. Listen with your

725
00:54:52.519 --> 00:54:55.440
plants. You're getting expertise. If
you got a brown thumb, you got

726
00:54:55.480 --> 00:55:00.519
to go there. If you have
a green thumb, they will make it

727
00:55:00.559 --> 00:55:04.760
greener because they give you the information
and the plants and products you need.

728
00:55:05.159 --> 00:55:07.760
Plants for all seasons dot com where
are they? Well, if you're going

729
00:55:07.800 --> 00:55:13.800
up Tomball Parkway, exit Luetta and
it's just past Luetta right there on the

730
00:55:13.840 --> 00:55:17.440
right hand side. Two eight one, three, seven six, sixteen forty

731
00:55:17.519 --> 00:55:22.159
six. We're going to go now
up to Tomball and talk to Alan.

732
00:55:22.360 --> 00:55:25.639
Hello, Alan, Hey, good
morning. How you doing. I'm well,

733
00:55:25.679 --> 00:55:31.679
thank you. I'm looking for a
shrub that can do some sunshade that

734
00:55:31.760 --> 00:55:37.599
would have a flower on it.
Do you have any recommendations a shrub.

735
00:55:37.920 --> 00:55:42.760
When you say sunshade you mean half
and half or what? Yeah, I've

736
00:55:42.760 --> 00:55:46.960
got a shady it it's a long
afternoon sun. But I'm looking with some

737
00:55:47.039 --> 00:55:53.159
shrubs in that area. Okay,
We've got a number of shrubs depending on

738
00:55:53.239 --> 00:55:59.920
the light intensity, that'll do pretty
good for you there. If you get

739
00:56:00.079 --> 00:56:05.239
east four hours of sunlight, that
opens a door to a lot more options.

740
00:56:06.000 --> 00:56:08.840
Generally when yeah, I do,
oh you do? Okay, well,

741
00:56:09.159 --> 00:56:13.000
yeah, you're going to need a
little more than four for roses,

742
00:56:13.039 --> 00:56:17.079
for example, to do really good. As we go into the shade areas,

743
00:56:17.119 --> 00:56:22.880
headranges or a really good shrub for
bright shade. Now, and if

744
00:56:22.880 --> 00:56:24.920
it's hot, hot afternoon sun,
you have to really be extra careful to

745
00:56:25.000 --> 00:56:31.280
keep them moist. The head ranges
can be an ongoing summer blooming shrub that

746
00:56:31.480 --> 00:56:36.760
looks looks really good. You might
want to try that one Guardena is another

747
00:56:36.840 --> 00:56:40.199
example. If you have an acidic
type soil. If not, yeah,

748
00:56:40.239 --> 00:56:45.519
when you fertilize fertilized with an acid
loving fertilizer, make sure you have a

749
00:56:45.559 --> 00:56:51.559
good high compost content soil a bed
mix that you're growing them in, you're

750
00:56:51.559 --> 00:56:55.639
going to have success. I think
with that as well. See I'm living

751
00:56:55.679 --> 00:57:02.679
for more of an evergreen shrub that
will last you know at the Yeah,

752
00:57:02.800 --> 00:57:07.840
well, alias and in guardenia's camellias
are all evergreen shrubs that are in a

753
00:57:07.880 --> 00:57:12.159
good bright amount of light are going
to do okay for you. Uh.

754
00:57:12.360 --> 00:57:15.800
Now getting something that blooms all year, that's are all season, that's going

755
00:57:15.880 --> 00:57:24.440
to be a little bit more difficult. Uh see evergreen about like what about

756
00:57:24.559 --> 00:57:29.679
like red tips? Are they any
that they're all years? They're a year

757
00:57:29.760 --> 00:57:34.880
round plant, correct, right,
but they don't bloom. Uh they have

758
00:57:35.000 --> 00:57:39.320
some issues that kind of caused them
to fall from popularity. Uh. Another

759
00:57:39.360 --> 00:57:45.719
plant that can also get that same
leaf spot is indian hawthorn. And indian

760
00:57:45.760 --> 00:57:50.039
hawthorne will put up with some shade, but it likes to have good sun

761
00:57:50.400 --> 00:57:52.639
and it has some blooms on it, and it's an evergreen that would be

762
00:57:52.639 --> 00:58:00.320
a possible. How tall is the
all that type of type. There's a

763
00:58:00.360 --> 00:58:04.239
bunch of type. I was talking
about the big old mophead types of hydranges

764
00:58:04.239 --> 00:58:07.559
that are common. Listen, you're
up there in the Tombol area. I'd

765
00:58:07.599 --> 00:58:10.440
recommend you just swing by Arborgate.
Uh. They they're up there in Tombul,

766
00:58:10.559 --> 00:58:13.639
just west of town. Oh yeah, yeah, I go, yeah,

767
00:58:13.679 --> 00:58:16.719
I go. I go to them
all the time. Well, if

768
00:58:16.760 --> 00:58:21.280
you talk to Beverly or talk to
Kennon or any of the folks out there

769
00:58:21.840 --> 00:58:24.960
and just describe they're going to carry. They carry a wide variety of shrubs,

770
00:58:25.000 --> 00:58:28.719
and they can kind of go,
well, here's your options, and

771
00:58:28.760 --> 00:58:30.480
here's the pros and cons, and
you get this munch of bloom out of

772
00:58:30.480 --> 00:58:34.320
this one and that much out of
that one, and I would just let

773
00:58:34.360 --> 00:58:38.159
them kind of guide you through it. Okay, Yeah, Yeah, that's

774
00:58:38.199 --> 00:58:42.039
my that's kind of my go to
place anyway. Well, good okay.

775
00:58:42.119 --> 00:58:44.559
And so, but you want to
when you go home, go home with

776
00:58:44.599 --> 00:58:49.400
one of their three bag completely easy
system. It's the food for anything with

777
00:58:49.519 --> 00:58:53.360
roots, it's the compost product,
and it's the soil product and all three

778
00:58:53.519 --> 00:58:58.159
and that sets it up to where
whatever you plant is going to do better?

779
00:58:59.360 --> 00:59:04.880
What is that? It's their completely
easy system, that's what they call

780
00:59:04.920 --> 00:59:08.239
it at Arbrogate. It's the one
two three steps. So there's a fertilizer

781
00:59:08.519 --> 00:59:13.400
that's a fertilizer for anything with roots. It's a four four to three plus

782
00:59:13.400 --> 00:59:17.599
calcium. They've got the organic soil
complete and the organic compost complete and those

783
00:59:17.719 --> 00:59:23.800
last two have uh the expanded shale
in them which helps, especially with clay

784
00:59:23.840 --> 00:59:29.880
soils, to keep them open.
Oh okay, good deal. Yeah say

785
00:59:29.920 --> 00:59:32.039
that al if you listen to Guardenline
at all, you know, I always

786
00:59:32.039 --> 00:59:36.760
say brown stuff before green stuff.
So don't just go home with a good

787
00:59:36.800 --> 00:59:40.800
plant, go home with some soil
enhancing product. Yeah. Yeah, I

788
00:59:40.920 --> 00:59:45.079
watched my everything I can from them
anyway, So well, good, thank

789
00:59:45.119 --> 00:59:50.400
you, thanks for the call man. All right, you bet, good

790
00:59:50.679 --> 00:59:55.199
luck. Yeah. Arburgate is they've
got a wide variety. By the way,

791
00:59:55.239 --> 00:59:59.840
at Arburgate, they got this really
cool new parking lot in back.

792
01:00:00.199 --> 01:00:04.320
Yay, you're not gonna park out
on twenty nine to twenty. Just take

793
01:00:04.360 --> 01:00:07.079
Tresher Road. It goes around behind
Arburgate and comes back into twenty nine to

794
01:00:07.119 --> 01:00:09.599
twenty. So if you miss it, just catch it on the other side

795
01:00:09.599 --> 01:00:13.719
of Arburgate. Go in the back, check out the parking lot. You're

796
01:00:14.159 --> 01:00:17.199
you're really really gonna love that.
I'm gonna go out to Pasadena now and

797
01:00:17.199 --> 01:00:22.159
we're going to talk to Eddie.
Hello, Eddie very stiff, Good morning,

798
01:00:22.760 --> 01:00:25.679
Good morning. Hey, if I
just had a question, I ended

799
01:00:25.719 --> 01:00:30.159
up sending you a picture last night
via email. So I had a question

800
01:00:30.239 --> 01:00:32.920
about my lime tree. Yes,
I did a buy lime tree last February

801
01:00:34.000 --> 01:00:37.519
for my wife from Buchanans and they
ended up potting it in a big,

802
01:00:37.599 --> 01:00:42.440
pretty, big, pretty uh pot. And initially when I got it,

803
01:00:42.559 --> 01:00:45.280
you know, the white flowers came
out and I saw that it was kind

804
01:00:45.280 --> 01:00:49.199
of growing. But I think about
last fall, all the leaves kind of

805
01:00:49.199 --> 01:00:53.159
fell off in a little I guess
you can call a little leg from the

806
01:00:53.159 --> 01:00:58.280
ground cards coming up, and I
kind of just left that grow. But

807
01:00:58.960 --> 01:01:00.480
the main trunk, I guess this
is not really growing, and I'm trying

808
01:01:00.519 --> 01:01:04.199
to decide what do I need to
do. Maybe it's root bound or something

809
01:01:04.239 --> 01:01:07.960
else. Yeah, I looked at
I looked at your picture, and you're

810
01:01:07.960 --> 01:01:15.079
not gonna like You're not going to
like my comment on it. That tree

811
01:01:15.400 --> 01:01:22.679
is the grafted part is dead and
what you're seeing is you're seeing the rootstock

812
01:01:23.679 --> 01:01:27.639
and it's a good picture, thank
you. By the way it shows up.

813
01:01:27.679 --> 01:01:31.679
Well, that is a specific rootstock
called flying dragon. The flying dragon,

814
01:01:32.000 --> 01:01:36.400
So you got two options. You
can replace it with another one,

815
01:01:36.400 --> 01:01:38.880
which is what I would recommend,
go ahead and get that done. Or

816
01:01:39.000 --> 01:01:44.559
if some people will try their hand
at tea budding or grafting and you got

817
01:01:44.559 --> 01:01:47.559
to go find the right kind of
lime that you want, get some wood

818
01:01:47.599 --> 01:01:52.760
and get home, I would recommend
just replacing it. But at this stage,

819
01:01:52.119 --> 01:01:58.880
all that's going to be is a
very contorted thorny thorny thorny bush.

820
01:01:58.960 --> 01:02:01.400
Okay, all right, I'll go. I'll probably go ahead and replace it.

821
01:02:01.480 --> 01:02:05.519
But I guess what, do you
know what might have killed it?

822
01:02:05.599 --> 01:02:08.440
Because I was feeding it and watering
it fine, it was good throughout the

823
01:02:08.480 --> 01:02:14.039
summer. Yeah, I don't know. You know, cold weather, a

824
01:02:14.079 --> 01:02:20.400
good coal snap can kill a plant. It could be that. I can't

825
01:02:20.440 --> 01:02:22.639
tell from looking at the picture.
I just see there's no life and the

826
01:02:22.679 --> 01:02:28.719
original scion that grew from the graft, But I do see the stock from

827
01:02:28.760 --> 01:02:31.920
below the graft. If you follow
that original one down and you can see

828
01:02:31.960 --> 01:02:37.559
the graft line and you have even
one living bud above that cut off all

829
01:02:37.639 --> 01:02:42.239
the rootstock, and you should and
that bud should grow. Maybe there's a

830
01:02:42.360 --> 01:02:45.920
chance there, but from what I
can visually see, I don't see living

831
01:02:45.960 --> 01:02:50.159
buds. Okay, sound good,
all right, sir, Thank you,

832
01:02:50.280 --> 01:02:54.280
Thank you appreciate that very much.
Yeah, that is a that's a common

833
01:02:54.360 --> 01:03:00.599
thing that happens with our citrus and
stuff. Just more often than not,

834
01:03:01.199 --> 01:03:05.400
a little shoot will sneak out of
the bottom, even if the top doesn't

835
01:03:05.440 --> 01:03:07.039
die, it'll sneak out and it'll
say I'm part of the bush. But

836
01:03:07.159 --> 01:03:10.880
you notice it's extra thorny, and
you just want to go down and cut

837
01:03:10.880 --> 01:03:16.119
that off as close as you can
get to it. Landscaper's Pride has been

838
01:03:16.159 --> 01:03:22.239
around for a while and they've been
making quality products for your soil. For

839
01:03:22.280 --> 01:03:25.880
example, they have a Premium potting
soil. It's a sphagnum based all purpose

840
01:03:25.960 --> 01:03:30.480
potting soil for indoor and outdoor plants. It's got pearlite but also has color

841
01:03:30.559 --> 01:03:35.840
Star, which is a slow release
fertilizer that'll feed up to three months.

842
01:03:36.159 --> 01:03:40.800
They have something called pot Dirt,
which is actually organic certified soil It provides

843
01:03:42.239 --> 01:03:46.360
just that potency that you need for
your flowering plants because it's packed with worm

844
01:03:46.440 --> 01:03:52.519
casting sand, vermaculi. It's got
the nutrients that they need. So if

845
01:03:52.519 --> 01:03:55.079
you've got an annual bed where you're
going to do some color out, this

846
01:03:55.800 --> 01:04:00.599
color changes pot dirt would be an
excellent choice for that. They have a

847
01:04:00.679 --> 01:04:05.880
rosemix. They have Gardener's Magic soil
that is also high quality with nutrients added

848
01:04:05.920 --> 01:04:13.480
to it in the form of chicken
pellet fertilizer April. Let's see Landscaper's Pride.

849
01:04:13.679 --> 01:04:19.679
Landscaperspride dot com. Landscaperspride dot com
twenty seven products available at that website.

850
01:04:19.679 --> 01:04:26.519
You'll see everywhere you can get it, which is almost everywhere. We're

851
01:04:26.519 --> 01:04:30.440
going to go now to Ralph in
Northwest Houston. Hello Ralph, good morning,

852
01:04:30.480 --> 01:04:34.119
good show. I got looking at
my butter beans. I put them

853
01:04:34.159 --> 01:04:41.239
out and they got a big venable
Gordon and they're just not coming up and

854
01:04:41.599 --> 01:04:47.519
now looking an they're way in my
box here that I got them in from

855
01:04:47.880 --> 01:04:55.000
Louisianna. But anyway, it's what
they is not germinating the war. Yeah,

856
01:04:55.000 --> 01:04:57.320
they're not germinating. I don't know
why. Here's what I would do,

857
01:04:57.400 --> 01:05:00.760
Ralph, do you have any extra
seed leftover? Any actually, what

858
01:05:01.039 --> 01:05:05.119
any extra butterbean seed? Yes,
I'm looking at them now. Okay.

859
01:05:05.480 --> 01:05:11.039
I take ten seeds, soak them
in water overnight and then put them in

860
01:05:11.039 --> 01:05:15.320
a wet paper towel, put it
in a plastic bag and check it every

861
01:05:15.400 --> 01:05:18.000
day for the next three days.
And if they haven't sprouted, it's bad

862
01:05:18.079 --> 01:05:23.199
seed. If half of them have
sprouted, you got a double plant the

863
01:05:23.280 --> 01:05:27.400
amount in order to get the stand
you want. But I think that's it.

864
01:05:27.400 --> 01:05:31.000
It could be coal soil, but
it's not really cold soil. Butterbeans

865
01:05:31.039 --> 01:05:36.119
ought to be sprouting right now.
Everythings come up with you. You've got

866
01:05:36.119 --> 01:05:41.360
a good answer there, Thank you
all, Thank you, sir. I

867
01:05:41.400 --> 01:05:48.280
got to bind it to be coming
over from a little crosst my but I

868
01:05:48.880 --> 01:05:53.320
know going on how to it would
get rid of them from coming over from

869
01:05:54.400 --> 01:05:58.519
it's mine, right, Yes,
okay, I got like ten seconds.

870
01:05:58.920 --> 01:06:05.239
Look for a product called that has
triclop here t R I cl o p

871
01:06:06.039 --> 01:06:11.119
y R. It may be called
uh poison, ivy killer or brush killer.

872
01:06:11.159 --> 01:06:13.760
Whatever that'll get you going. I
got it. I gotta run for

873
01:06:13.800 --> 01:06:16.760
the news. Turn it over to
Nikki seven one three two one two ktr

874
01:06:16.960 --> 01:06:23.079
H Welcome back to the yard line. What kind of questions do you have?

875
01:06:23.239 --> 01:06:26.480
You can give us a call seven
one three two one two fifty eight

876
01:06:26.639 --> 01:06:30.480
seventy four. Now's the time to
get your spring fertilization done. If you

877
01:06:30.480 --> 01:06:34.480
want to do a little bit early
quick, green up well, Nitroposs Imperial

878
01:06:34.559 --> 01:06:39.280
fifteen five to ten. I'll make
it easy for you. It's the red

879
01:06:39.519 --> 01:06:44.039
bag Nitroposs Imperial fifteen five to ten. It's got that ratio of nutrients that

880
01:06:44.079 --> 01:06:47.119
you want to have success with your
lawn. That's fifteen five to ten ratio.

881
01:06:47.280 --> 01:06:53.000
That is what grass takes up and
it does super super well. You

882
01:06:53.000 --> 01:06:56.599
can get it out there in Katie
at Ktace Hardware. You can get it

883
01:06:56.719 --> 01:07:00.840
at Ace Hardware and City up in
the Memorial area. You can find that

884
01:07:00.119 --> 01:07:05.280
in Fishers Hardware, both the one
on Southmoor down in the Southeastern area or

885
01:07:05.400 --> 01:07:11.440
Broadway over in Laporte. They've all
got that Nitroposs Imperial fifteen five to ten.

886
01:07:11.480 --> 01:07:14.840
By the way, when you put
the fertilizer down, you also want

887
01:07:14.880 --> 01:07:19.400
to make sure that your micronutrients are
doing as well too, that the levels

888
01:07:19.440 --> 01:07:21.559
are there. You don't need a
lot of them. You just need a

889
01:07:21.639 --> 01:07:27.480
tiny amount, but they are essential
and that's what azemite's all about. A

890
01:07:27.559 --> 01:07:31.519
micro nutrients supplement. Put on the
fertilizer and then follow with the azamite in

891
01:07:31.599 --> 01:07:35.639
a separate spreading. Don't mix them
together. Particle size is different. You

892
01:07:35.719 --> 01:07:40.800
don't get good even distribution, So
don't mix them. But put them in

893
01:07:40.960 --> 01:07:45.480
same day, put them in different
day, doesn't matter. Asmite is something

894
01:07:45.519 --> 01:07:47.239
we try to do about once a
year. You can do it more often

895
01:07:47.280 --> 01:07:51.239
depending on if you have a soil
test and it shows nutrient micros that are

896
01:07:51.280 --> 01:07:55.760
really low, you may want to
do that twice a year on it.

897
01:07:56.360 --> 01:07:59.880
A little bit goes a long way. A forty four pound bag six thousand

898
01:08:00.119 --> 01:08:05.239
to twelve thousand square feet as amite
fertilizer. Excuse me, as Mite Texas

899
01:08:05.679 --> 01:08:10.559
dot com. Asimite Texas dot com. We're going to head up to Spring

900
01:08:10.639 --> 01:08:16.640
and talk to Robert. Hello,
Robert are you there? Hello? Yeah?

901
01:08:16.680 --> 01:08:24.560
Sorry, I've got a Saint Augustine
yard and I've got patches of bermuda

902
01:08:24.560 --> 01:08:28.079
that are popping up here and there, and they seem to be getting bigger.

903
01:08:28.439 --> 01:08:34.319
I demo high and just wondering what
options do I have to try to

904
01:08:34.359 --> 01:08:45.720
control that? Uh? Are they
broadleaf type weeds that you're seeing bermuda grass?

905
01:08:45.640 --> 01:08:48.800
Oh? The bermuda. I'm sorry, the bermuda is in the Saint

906
01:08:48.800 --> 01:08:55.039
Augustine correct. Oh boy, okay, there is not a good over the

907
01:08:55.119 --> 01:09:02.800
counterway to control bermuda and Saint Augustine. Mowing high is helpful. Making sure

908
01:09:02.840 --> 01:09:06.800
it doesn't go into drought stress,
which gives the bermuda the advantage is helpful.

909
01:09:08.560 --> 01:09:11.399
The more shade you have, the
better off Saint Augustine does. In

910
01:09:11.479 --> 01:09:15.079
comparison to bermuda grass. It can
take shade better. But there's just not

911
01:09:15.159 --> 01:09:20.279
a product that goes in and kills
one without killing them both. I guess

912
01:09:20.319 --> 01:09:26.640
I was reading a little bit about
I'm not sure how you pronounce is f

913
01:09:26.640 --> 01:09:34.760
fosse late two a herbicide. Can
you spell that or f s in frank

914
01:09:35.640 --> 01:09:42.800
U f I L I know what
you're talking about. That's fis ofl aide.

915
01:09:43.239 --> 01:09:45.760
Pis ofl aid is a grass only
killer, but it'll kill Saint Augustine

916
01:09:45.800 --> 01:09:56.039
too, so it's not selective like
that. Okay, I'll got the bummer.

917
01:09:56.640 --> 01:10:00.279
Yeah, it is about the only
thing you could do, and the

918
01:10:00.039 --> 01:10:03.159
is the bermuda in a large area
through the yard or is it kind of

919
01:10:03.479 --> 01:10:13.159
localized? Well, it's localized to
several different areas, Okay, So the

920
01:10:13.199 --> 01:10:18.039
alternative, the only option I see, would be to just kill everything in

921
01:10:18.079 --> 01:10:23.800
those areas and wait a little while. Makes you bermua you probably not cann't

922
01:10:23.800 --> 01:10:27.119
get it all or let it reach
brout and then kill it again, uh,

923
01:10:27.239 --> 01:10:30.520
and then resought it with the Saint
Augustine. That would be one approach.

924
01:10:30.760 --> 01:10:34.079
If you can say it's localized,
you know, if it's here and

925
01:10:34.119 --> 01:10:38.800
there all through the yard, well, that would mean killing the whole yard,

926
01:10:38.840 --> 01:10:45.479
which is probably not acceptable. All
right, Well, thank you sir.

927
01:10:45.600 --> 01:10:47.239
All right, sorry to be the
bearer of bad news. That is

928
01:10:47.279 --> 01:10:53.199
for sure that I have dealt with
it myself. I can feel your pain

929
01:10:54.239 --> 01:10:57.760
for sure. Hey, do you
need a quality, quality saw mix.

930
01:10:57.960 --> 01:11:02.640
I'm talking about something that helps your
plants just to thrive. If you build

931
01:11:02.640 --> 01:11:06.319
it, you will have success.
And Nature's way has already built it for

932
01:11:06.399 --> 01:11:11.520
you. They've got rose soil.
Uh, They've got the leaf mold compost.

933
01:11:11.680 --> 01:11:15.680
They have fungal based compost. By
the way, they have something called

934
01:11:15.760 --> 01:11:19.960
Fungal Fridays. Every Friday, ten
percent off the bag products, twenty percent

935
01:11:19.960 --> 01:11:24.159
off the bulk. Yeah, they
can deliver for you, just give them

936
01:11:24.159 --> 01:11:29.119
a call. Nine three six three
two one sixty nine ninety nine three six

937
01:11:29.159 --> 01:11:32.880
three two one six nine nine zero. It's important to get that long top

938
01:11:33.000 --> 01:11:38.800
dressed if you're having a lawn that's
struggling. Especially when you put that leaf

939
01:11:38.800 --> 01:11:44.079
mold compost on. You're adding a
bazillion microbes in the process, and it

940
01:11:44.199 --> 01:11:47.279
makes it a place where maybe a
disease like brown patch that you know,

941
01:11:47.800 --> 01:11:50.520
when we go through mild rainy weather, you could have some of that.

942
01:11:51.079 --> 01:11:56.920
It helps prevent that by just out
competing in that particular area. By the

943
01:11:56.960 --> 01:11:59.800
way, when you're in Nature's Way, check out all of the plants at

944
01:11:59.800 --> 01:12:02.399
the head. They really have a
lot of natives, but not just natives,

945
01:12:02.399 --> 01:12:05.880
So make sure there's plenty of room
in the car before you head out

946
01:12:05.920 --> 01:12:12.159
there, that is for sure.
Hey Charlie in Cyprus, how's it going

947
01:12:12.159 --> 01:12:15.239
today, Well, it's good.
I'm trying to find out it seems like

948
01:12:15.279 --> 01:12:18.760
we've lost a whole lot of our
yard. We have a small front yard

949
01:12:18.800 --> 01:12:23.319
but a large backyard. We're in
a coldly sac and I was just wondering

950
01:12:23.479 --> 01:12:28.399
about is there anything you can recommend. My husband did plant some get some

951
01:12:28.479 --> 01:12:30.479
grass and put it around the edges, but the inside of it where we

952
01:12:30.520 --> 01:12:34.039
should we mow it low? What
should we do because it's all just looked

953
01:12:34.039 --> 01:12:40.279
like bermuda grass or weeds. It's
just it's horrible and green. Is your

954
01:12:40.359 --> 01:12:45.439
lawn Saint Augustine? Yes, okay, well the bermuda as I was just

955
01:12:45.840 --> 01:12:49.840
talking with Robert about if you got
Saint Augustine and bermuda, you can't kill

956
01:12:49.880 --> 01:12:55.399
one without killing the other. So
he oh, he said, My husband

957
01:12:55.399 --> 01:12:59.920
said, it's chick weed clover.
Oh okay, mow it low, capture

958
01:12:59.920 --> 01:13:05.720
the clippings and don't don't return them
during that time because those both have lots

959
01:13:05.720 --> 01:13:10.239
of seed on them. Get them
out of there and they're going to die

960
01:13:10.279 --> 01:13:15.000
out pretty soon anyway. The alternative
to that would be to apply a product

961
01:13:15.119 --> 01:13:18.640
to kill those weeds, and you
could do that, so just a matter

962
01:13:18.720 --> 01:13:23.640
of how patient are you on it. If you wanted to use a broad

963
01:13:23.720 --> 01:13:27.359
leaf herbicide spray, you could do
that. If you want to use something

964
01:13:27.439 --> 01:13:32.399
like nitrofoss has the fifteen to five
Y ten with the trimech in it if

965
01:13:32.439 --> 01:13:35.600
the weeds are wet, it'll stick
to them and that works too. So

966
01:13:35.640 --> 01:13:41.479
you kind of have three options there. Mow and throw it away and just

967
01:13:41.560 --> 01:13:46.560
wait, or spray it with the
broad leaf killer something that kills many types

968
01:13:46.600 --> 01:13:50.479
of broad leaf weeds. Or use
the fertilizer with the trimec in it,

969
01:13:51.479 --> 01:14:00.720
with the trimech t r I MC. It is a kind of off a

970
01:14:00.000 --> 01:14:03.680
blue bag. It's not blues nights, more of a teal kind of bag.

971
01:14:05.399 --> 01:14:11.319
Okay, so what's the brand name? Nitro foss not your fault,

972
01:14:11.439 --> 01:14:15.279
okay, all right, Well,
so the first thing goes to it's low

973
01:14:15.359 --> 01:14:18.199
and throw away the things. But
the other grass is not that we've planned

974
01:14:18.199 --> 01:14:21.880
on the side. It's really not
planning. We just brought a bunch of

975
01:14:23.199 --> 01:14:27.640
things from the grass place included on
the it. So that's doing okay,

976
01:14:27.880 --> 01:14:30.399
okay, it's not growing in that
area. Well, and let me just

977
01:14:30.439 --> 01:14:32.880
be real clear. If you mow
low, then don't try to spray it

978
01:14:33.000 --> 01:14:39.079
or put a trimac nitro trim on
it because there's no leaves for that products

979
01:14:39.119 --> 01:14:43.319
to stick to either way spray,
So either spray one or the other.

980
01:14:43.640 --> 01:14:45.880
If yeah, if you mow low, it's going to go downhill as your

981
01:14:46.159 --> 01:14:49.600
grass comes on. Hey, Charlie, I'm I have to run for a

982
01:14:49.600 --> 01:14:54.520
break. But good luck with that. That is that's certainly an issue that

983
01:14:54.640 --> 01:14:57.680
a lot of people are dealing with. Well, here we go. We're

984
01:14:57.680 --> 01:15:00.000
going to take a little break for
some information. Seven on one three two

985
01:15:00.000 --> 01:15:03.000
one two k t R H is
the number, and Marty, you'll be

986
01:15:03.079 --> 01:15:06.439
first when we come back. Welcome
back to the guarden line. Good to

987
01:15:06.479 --> 01:15:13.319
have you with us today. We
are looking forward to any kinds of discussions

988
01:15:13.359 --> 01:15:16.680
you'd like to have to have a
more beautiful garden, a more bountiful landscape.

989
01:15:16.680 --> 01:15:19.760
And I want to tell you if
you are interested in a beautiful garden

990
01:15:19.800 --> 01:15:24.439
and a bountiful landscape, you need
to go out to Warren's Southern Gardens.

991
01:15:24.600 --> 01:15:28.399
Out there in Kingwood. There's Warren
Southern Gardens. There's Kingwood Garden Center.

992
01:15:28.560 --> 01:15:32.760
Both excellent places to visit. And
it's just color, color color. Someone

993
01:15:32.800 --> 01:15:36.880
called earlier about some blooms for a
mostly shady area, uh, and it

994
01:15:38.640 --> 01:15:42.600
was looking for an evergreen shrub.
And I was just thinking what would be

995
01:15:42.600 --> 01:15:45.359
a good thing, And then I
realized, well, this isn't an evergreen,

996
01:15:45.520 --> 01:15:50.039
but a shrimp plant is wonderfully colored, very interesting. They got that

997
01:15:50.119 --> 01:15:54.920
out there. It does it does
well in a quite a bit of shade,

998
01:15:55.039 --> 01:15:59.880
quite a bit of shady area.
So what about Abelia's in the Sun

999
01:16:00.079 --> 01:16:02.439
for a shrub, there's one called
Kaleidoscope. You just got to go see

1000
01:16:02.439 --> 01:16:06.760
it. It is beautiful. The
new growth is just beautiful. The older

1001
01:16:06.800 --> 01:16:12.800
growth has kind of a variegation in
the leaves. It's attractive. Warrens has

1002
01:16:12.800 --> 01:16:15.479
that all. I mean, do
you need boogavillias, Yes, they got

1003
01:16:15.520 --> 01:16:17.800
them. Do you want annual flowers? Do you want perennials like lantana,

1004
01:16:18.000 --> 01:16:21.600
Oh, they have them as well. And if you've never seen the flamethrower

1005
01:16:21.760 --> 01:16:26.680
red bud, just got to look
it up. Just check it out.

1006
01:16:26.720 --> 01:16:31.840
Warrens has got it and it is
beautifully like. The older foliage is kind

1007
01:16:31.840 --> 01:16:36.680
of a yellowish orange color. The
new growth it just has a beautiful burgundy

1008
01:16:36.720 --> 01:16:42.279
red. It's really beautiful, excellent
plant. So Warren's Garden Center, by

1009
01:16:42.279 --> 01:16:46.079
the way, they are, their
prices are have been dropped. They have

1010
01:16:46.239 --> 01:16:50.439
new lower prices. That is just
outstanding. And if you were going to

1011
01:16:50.479 --> 01:16:54.960
plant a bunch of vegetables and herbs, go ahead, and buy a flat

1012
01:16:55.039 --> 01:16:59.479
of eighteen plants. That's an additional
discount that you get for eighteen plants,

1013
01:16:59.520 --> 01:17:01.399
and you can and matcham. You
don't have to buy eighteen tomatoes. You

1014
01:17:01.439 --> 01:17:04.920
can buy some tomatoes, some eggplants, some peppers. You see what I'm

1015
01:17:04.960 --> 01:17:10.439
talking about, some herbs, warrens
and Kingwood Garden Center. Go check them

1016
01:17:10.439 --> 01:17:13.880
out. We're going to go to
Fairfield now and talk to Marty. Hello

1017
01:17:13.960 --> 01:17:19.399
Marty, good morning, skip morning. I have a little winding area.

1018
01:17:19.840 --> 01:17:27.520
It's a walkway in between a west
wall of my house and a fence,

1019
01:17:28.199 --> 01:17:31.119
and it's a kind of a very
small, maybe fourteen to eighteen inches.

1020
01:17:32.159 --> 01:17:35.399
And you said something about a shirt
plant. I think I'm going to look

1021
01:17:35.439 --> 01:17:40.680
at that, but I was wondering
if you could give me some other suggestions.

1022
01:17:41.159 --> 01:17:47.159
On the other side of the gate, there isn't a fence, and

1023
01:17:47.199 --> 01:17:53.000
so I'm thinking about putting some sunshine
lau gustrum there. Okay, but once

1024
01:17:53.039 --> 01:17:59.600
you walk inside the gate then it
doesn't have full eight hour sun How wide

1025
01:17:59.720 --> 01:18:04.439
is this area you want to plant
along the walkway? Well, it's about

1026
01:18:04.479 --> 01:18:08.880
fifteen to eighteen inches. It's not
wide. I mean, I had a

1027
01:18:08.920 --> 01:18:12.279
bunch of yeah, I had all
my sweet potato mines in there, but

1028
01:18:12.279 --> 01:18:15.520
I don't want to grow those again. Okay, I'm not sure I'm picturing

1029
01:18:15.600 --> 01:18:21.039
it a boy. A photo would
be helpful because what you're describing in my

1030
01:18:21.079 --> 01:18:26.319
brain picture is jumping around. I
can't quite see it. The shrip plant

1031
01:18:26.359 --> 01:18:30.159
gets taller, you know, it'll
get up waist home and it does spread.

1032
01:18:30.399 --> 01:18:35.680
So that's not something for a fifteen
to eighteen inch wide Well, I'm

1033
01:18:35.720 --> 01:18:40.319
sorry, there's fifteen to eighteen inches
on each side of the walkway. Okay,

1034
01:18:40.479 --> 01:18:44.920
at least maybe more, maybe twenty
to twenty four. Yeah, I

1035
01:18:44.920 --> 01:18:47.479
would go something that's a lower,
a little more compact. There actually are

1036
01:18:47.560 --> 01:18:53.800
some beautiful antennas that are very compact
that would be good if it gets a

1037
01:18:53.840 --> 01:18:56.680
decent amount of sunlight. I realize
it's going to have shade part of the

1038
01:18:56.760 --> 01:19:01.560
day from the house probably, or
is a fence of privacy fence, Yes,

1039
01:19:02.119 --> 01:19:08.079
yeah, that so I would do
that. A more compact salvia like

1040
01:19:08.600 --> 01:19:13.840
Mystic spires might be a good choice
for that area. Or you could do

1041
01:19:14.079 --> 01:19:16.880
you know, some annual color just
go with some manual color plants in the

1042
01:19:16.880 --> 01:19:23.239
area, or you could do a
walkway lining plant you know, theriope is

1043
01:19:23.279 --> 01:19:28.720
an example as tech grass if the
area is not too sunny, especially late

1044
01:19:28.800 --> 01:19:33.079
day, as tech grass, which
is white type of it's a mondo cousin.

1045
01:19:35.079 --> 01:19:39.439
Yeah, I was thinking about putting
my veggies back in there, but

1046
01:19:39.840 --> 01:19:43.760
I'm just not having success on that
side. Okay. Do you think it's

1047
01:19:43.840 --> 01:19:47.840
lack of sunlight? Probably like I
didn't. I got a whole lot of

1048
01:19:47.920 --> 01:19:51.399
vines for the sweet potatoes, but
not a lot of produce. Okay,

1049
01:19:51.760 --> 01:19:56.920
yeah, I get it. Well, those would be some things that I

1050
01:19:56.960 --> 01:20:00.880
would try. I think as far
as veggies, if you do things that

1051
01:20:00.960 --> 01:20:03.239
are more of a leafy green,
they're going to do good if they don't

1052
01:20:03.279 --> 01:20:09.199
get as much sunlight as a fruit
or a root crop would want. So

1053
01:20:09.239 --> 01:20:14.159
there's yeah, well yeah, not
for summer, but yes, leafy green.

1054
01:20:14.520 --> 01:20:16.960
Also, you might want to consider
herbs. There's some herbs that do

1055
01:20:17.039 --> 01:20:21.439
okay in a little bit of shade. So just another thing to think about.

1056
01:20:23.199 --> 01:20:26.680
Idea, great idea, Well,
the great idea. Thank you appreciate

1057
01:20:26.760 --> 01:20:30.560
the call very much. Have you
ever been up to Nelson Water Garden and

1058
01:20:30.640 --> 01:20:33.359
Katie They are on Katie Fort Ben
Road, So if you're heading not iten

1059
01:20:33.439 --> 01:20:36.359
when you get to Katie Fort Ben
Road, you turn right and it's just

1060
01:20:36.399 --> 01:20:41.560
a stone's throwaway on the right hand
side. Now they are a garden center,

1061
01:20:41.600 --> 01:20:44.279
so you're going to get all the
different kinds of garden plants that you

1062
01:20:44.359 --> 01:20:48.760
want. They also that especially they
specialize in water gardens and water features.

1063
01:20:49.239 --> 01:20:54.479
So do you want a little pond
with lily pets? Do you want some

1064
01:20:54.560 --> 01:20:58.399
fish like a choir or shabunk and
things like that. They've got it.

1065
01:20:58.680 --> 01:21:03.039
They're disappearing. Fountains are so cool. Imagine a big, beautiful, gorgeous,

1066
01:21:03.079 --> 01:21:08.600
beautiful piece of pottery and the water
is spilling out over the top and

1067
01:21:08.720 --> 01:21:13.399
down to the bottom where it just
is recirculated back through the system. They

1068
01:21:14.239 --> 01:21:18.680
created that system of a big pottery
with a recycling water. They do that,

1069
01:21:18.800 --> 01:21:23.279
they know how to do that.
They are the place to go.

1070
01:21:23.359 --> 01:21:28.119
It's a showplace and listen to this. You need to go just for inspiration.

1071
01:21:30.000 --> 01:21:33.079
You walk through and you just see
all this stuff. It's stuff that

1072
01:21:33.159 --> 01:21:35.960
you may not have been thinking I
would like one of these, and then

1073
01:21:36.039 --> 01:21:39.960
you see it and you go,
oh, man, that's the answer to

1074
01:21:40.000 --> 01:21:44.039
this spot we haven't known what to
do with. Well, that's Nelson Watergarden

1075
01:21:44.319 --> 01:21:51.720
the website Nelson Watergardens Plural dot com
Nelson Watergardens Plural. They are nationally recognized

1076
01:21:51.760 --> 01:21:57.319
as water garden experts. And when
you get there you'll see why I love

1077
01:21:57.399 --> 01:22:01.640
to visit. Today, I'm going
to be out at Santa Mulch when I

1078
01:22:01.680 --> 01:22:04.680
get through with the show today,
I'm heading out to Siena Moltch. They're

1079
01:22:04.720 --> 01:22:11.159
having their spring fling and that means
there'll be a lot of folks out there.

1080
01:22:11.399 --> 01:22:16.079
Andy, you know, and you
know Andy said good night Chidester.

1081
01:22:16.640 --> 01:22:21.239
Andy Chidester with the Medina folks.
Now, Andy is an expert on all

1082
01:22:21.319 --> 01:22:25.199
kinds of things, just fun to
talk to, very knowledgeable. She'll be

1083
01:22:25.359 --> 01:22:30.520
there. We're going to have Jay
White from Texas Gardener Nursery there with us.

1084
01:22:30.680 --> 01:22:34.760
Also today, Luis from Heirloom Soils
is going to be there. There'll

1085
01:22:34.800 --> 01:22:39.399
be someone from Nelson Plant Food as
well. Now, Sanna is going to

1086
01:22:39.479 --> 01:22:45.359
give away a palette of Landscaper's Pride
to some fortunate person. I'm going to

1087
01:22:45.439 --> 01:22:49.199
be given away five pound bags and
Medina Growing Green organic fertilizer. I'm going

1088
01:22:49.239 --> 01:22:53.800
to be giving away the Medina Plus
and be given away the liquid Fish blend

1089
01:22:54.239 --> 01:22:59.039
liquid. Seaweed has to grow.
My gosh, the heirloom will be given

1090
01:22:59.079 --> 01:23:02.119
with azemite, sent be given away
all at Ciena Molts. What is Ciena

1091
01:23:02.119 --> 01:23:09.319
Malts. That is the yard soil, excuse me, the soil yard that

1092
01:23:09.520 --> 01:23:13.079
has the brown stuff to make your
green stuff thrive. What do you find

1093
01:23:13.119 --> 01:23:15.119
at Siena. You find compost,
you find rose, soil, you find

1094
01:23:15.199 --> 01:23:19.319
mulches, you find rock, you
find every fertilizer I talk about on here.

1095
01:23:19.600 --> 01:23:23.800
So when you drive off the lot
at Ciena Malts, you have got

1096
01:23:23.880 --> 01:23:28.840
everything to make sure the brown stuff
is set and ready for the green stuff

1097
01:23:28.920 --> 01:23:31.800
you're going to plant. It's it's
easy, easy to find them. They're

1098
01:23:31.880 --> 01:23:36.279
down south, down south, just
north of Roach Sharon on FM five twenty

1099
01:23:36.399 --> 01:23:43.479
one near Highway six and two eighty
eight. Now cienamultch dot com. That's

1100
01:23:43.520 --> 01:23:46.880
the website they deliver within about twenty
miles of that location. Come out and

1101
01:23:46.920 --> 01:23:50.039
see me today, Bring me some
samples, bring me some pictures. Let's

1102
01:23:50.039 --> 01:23:56.039
talk about what's going on with your
landscape and help you have success. And

1103
01:23:56.079 --> 01:24:00.479
I'll tell you this, the products
that Ciena Molts carry are high quality and

1104
01:24:00.600 --> 01:24:08.760
they work. They absolutely work.
I when was the last time I was

1105
01:24:08.800 --> 01:24:11.359
out there. It was not too
long ago. I was out there and

1106
01:24:11.399 --> 01:24:15.520
I was just so stunned by the
beauty of the rock products that they carried.

1107
01:24:15.840 --> 01:24:18.399
And you know, you think about
it's a rock. Oh no,

1108
01:24:18.399 --> 01:24:23.640
no, no, if you want
a flagstone, how many kinds of flagstone

1109
01:24:23.680 --> 01:24:27.680
do they have? I don't know, but it's a bunch river rocks and

1110
01:24:27.800 --> 01:24:30.840
all kinds of hardscape type materials.
They'll get you set up for it.

1111
01:24:30.920 --> 01:24:35.479
But mainly, we got to make
that brown stuff good so that our plants

1112
01:24:35.520 --> 01:24:43.119
thrive. So they do very very
well. If you did a spring green

1113
01:24:43.239 --> 01:24:46.840
up at least a month ago,
or if you have not done a spring

1114
01:24:46.880 --> 01:24:54.119
green up. Nitrofiz Super Turf nineteen
four ten, nineteen four ten. It's

1115
01:24:54.119 --> 01:24:59.800
a silver bag that will feed your
lawn for several months into the summer season

1116
01:25:00.119 --> 01:25:03.239
or three months. I would expect
easily two or three months out of the

1117
01:25:03.359 --> 01:25:10.000
Nitrofos Super Turf silver bag. It
is the right ratio. It's got a

1118
01:25:10.039 --> 01:25:14.479
good amount of nitrogen, a little
higher than you may think. Nineteen percent.

1119
01:25:14.600 --> 01:25:16.439
That's a lot. Well, you
use less of it, but it's

1120
01:25:16.439 --> 01:25:20.520
going to feed over time. It's
going to gradually release those nutrients over It

1121
01:25:20.560 --> 01:25:27.479
doesn't dump nineteen percent nitrogen writ down
on your plant in one spot. Now,

1122
01:25:27.520 --> 01:25:30.079
it'll feed gradually over time. Works
super well, and you're going to

1123
01:25:30.159 --> 01:25:33.720
find nitrofoss all over the place.
One of the easy ways to say where

1124
01:25:33.720 --> 01:25:39.000
to get nitrofoss is just to go
to ACE Hardware. ACE Hardware carries a

1125
01:25:39.199 --> 01:25:45.399
lot of micro microface products like the
Silver Bag, the Super Turf nineteen four

1126
01:25:45.520 --> 01:25:51.279
ten. ACE hardwarees are widely available
forty stores here in the Greater Houston area,

1127
01:25:51.439 --> 01:25:55.920
and everything I talk about on garden
line, from fertilizers and so on,

1128
01:25:56.239 --> 01:25:59.239
you're going to find there at ACE
Hardware, bags of soil and mults

1129
01:25:59.279 --> 01:26:02.560
and whatnot. Next weekend I'll be
out at the ACE M and d ACE

1130
01:26:02.680 --> 01:26:08.439
in Clearelake, and i'll talk about
that more tomorrow. And also next weekend

1131
01:26:08.520 --> 01:26:12.720
for those of you down anywhere around
the region around Wharton, well, they're

1132
01:26:12.760 --> 01:26:17.439
opening their new store down there,
Wharton Feed and ACE Hardware, and it's

1133
01:26:17.479 --> 01:26:21.359
on Richmond Road, North Richmond Road
in Wharton, Texas. So I hope

1134
01:26:21.399 --> 01:26:26.000
you'll get out there, say hi
to them and check it out. But

1135
01:26:26.840 --> 01:26:30.159
on Saturday, the sixth, I'll
be M and Dace out on clear Lake.

1136
01:26:30.840 --> 01:26:31.840
When you go into ace, you
know you're going to go home with

1137
01:26:32.000 --> 01:26:38.319
everything you need to have success with
your plants. Absolutely everything you need to

1138
01:26:38.359 --> 01:26:43.439
have success with your plants. For
those of you who have not downloaded my

1139
01:26:44.359 --> 01:26:51.199
fertilizer, lawn care schedule, and
my weed disease insect type schedule, you

1140
01:26:51.239 --> 01:26:58.600
can go to skip Gardening with skip
dot com. Gardening with Skip dot Com.

1141
01:26:58.600 --> 01:27:02.199
That's the website. On there you'll
find the lawn care schedule. What

1142
01:27:02.239 --> 01:27:09.000
do you fertilize with and when it's
synthetic, if it's organic, it's there.

1143
01:27:09.680 --> 01:27:13.520
When do you apply trace minerals?
Pretty much anytime, but it's on

1144
01:27:13.560 --> 01:27:17.399
there. About aeration, core,
aeration, compass, top gust, mowing

1145
01:27:17.479 --> 01:27:21.479
and watering, it's all on there
with the products that you need. Now.

1146
01:27:21.560 --> 01:27:27.439
The lawn pest, Disease and weed
management schedule talks about insect control.

1147
01:27:27.840 --> 01:27:31.039
When do chinchbugs and sod web worms
and grubs occur where you would when's the

1148
01:27:31.079 --> 01:27:35.720
time to treat for them? How
About diseases like take our root rot and

1149
01:27:36.279 --> 01:27:41.880
gray leaf spot and brown patch,
it's all on there. How about weeds,

1150
01:27:41.920 --> 01:27:45.479
when do you put pre emergence down. When do you put post emergence

1151
01:27:45.560 --> 01:27:49.840
down? What are the synthetic and
organic options for each one? It's all

1152
01:27:49.880 --> 01:27:59.439
there. Gardening with Skiff dot Com
KTRH Garden Line does not necessarily endorse any

1153
01:27:59.479 --> 01:28:04.479
of the products services advertised on this
program. Welcome to Katy r H Garden

1154
01:28:04.520 --> 01:28:35.640
Line with skip rictor it's crazy just
watching as us so many supposas says you.

1155
01:28:36.399 --> 01:28:41.279
Welcome back to guarden Line. Thanks
for listening in today. What do

1156
01:28:41.319 --> 01:28:44.119
you want to talk about? Give
us a call. We'll talk about that.

1157
01:28:44.800 --> 01:28:47.279
Well, we'll talk about that.
If it's related to plants, I'd

1158
01:28:47.279 --> 01:28:50.239
be happy to help you with that. Uh. If it's related to the

1159
01:28:50.239 --> 01:28:55.640
fact that your spouse doesn't want to
get out there and pull weeds or mow,

1160
01:28:56.119 --> 01:29:00.239
or plant or do the other chores
you haven't mind for them to do,

1161
01:29:00.119 --> 01:29:01.880
I can't help you. Well,
I can't help you with that,

1162
01:29:02.119 --> 01:29:08.800
but marriage counseling is eight hundred dollars
an hour. Horticulture advice is free.

1163
01:29:09.039 --> 01:29:13.359
How about that. We'll go about
it that way. I went to one

1164
01:29:13.359 --> 01:29:16.680
time when I was agrlife extension agent. I went to a site. Someone

1165
01:29:16.720 --> 01:29:20.880
called and they had this alleged question
they needed some help with and it did

1166
01:29:20.960 --> 01:29:23.760
make sense. I thought, well, I'll go out there and take a

1167
01:29:23.800 --> 01:29:26.000
look at it. I went on
to take a look. When I got

1168
01:29:26.039 --> 01:29:29.800
there, the husband and the wife
were sitting there and one of them says

1169
01:29:29.840 --> 01:29:34.079
to me, will you please tell
the other one that they need to,

1170
01:29:34.479 --> 01:29:38.960
you know, do whatever. And
it's like, okay, I didn't really,

1171
01:29:39.359 --> 01:29:42.800
I was brought out here under false
pretenses, so I can't. That's

1172
01:29:42.920 --> 01:29:45.399
I did tell them that I said
marriage advice is a hundred dollar I think

1173
01:29:45.399 --> 01:29:49.279
I said one hundred dollars an hour. Horticulture advice is free, which they

1174
01:29:49.319 --> 01:29:56.079
laughed at. Thank goodness. At
least I thought it was funny. If

1175
01:29:56.079 --> 01:30:01.359
you have weeds growing in your lawn
right now, the cool season weeds.

1176
01:30:01.520 --> 01:30:05.720
We're talking about chick weed and hendnt
bit and clover and on and on down

1177
01:30:05.800 --> 01:30:10.840
the line. Well, turf star
weedinator by Nelson's is made for that.

1178
01:30:11.279 --> 01:30:15.039
You wet your weeds and you put
out the turf star weedinator. The granules

1179
01:30:15.119 --> 01:30:17.479
stick to the weeds, and when
it sticks to the weeds, you want

1180
01:30:17.520 --> 01:30:21.279
to give it about a day or
so to soak into those weeds. It'll

1181
01:30:21.319 --> 01:30:25.119
do that. The weeds will take
it up if they're wet and they hold

1182
01:30:25.159 --> 01:30:29.840
onto the granule and then water it
in and get that product down in the

1183
01:30:29.880 --> 01:30:33.600
lawn. What you're going to find
is you have really a cool chemistry combo

1184
01:30:33.680 --> 01:30:41.800
in there where the nitrogen is in
forms that are some available right now and

1185
01:30:41.880 --> 01:30:45.920
some not available for a month or
two or even three months from now.

1186
01:30:45.960 --> 01:30:50.319
It can still be feeding as the
soil warms up and the microbes become active.

1187
01:30:51.000 --> 01:30:58.239
Turf Star Weedinator, that's the product
from Nelson's Plant Food nitrogen in it,

1188
01:30:58.600 --> 01:31:02.520
and again not all at once.
It's gonna gradually gradually feed your plants

1189
01:31:02.560 --> 01:31:08.800
over time. Church Star Weedenator works
well against broadleaf weeds and certainly is an

1190
01:31:08.840 --> 01:31:14.960
outstanding product for having a beautiful lawn. I've tried a number of the Nelson

1191
01:31:15.000 --> 01:31:19.000
plant Food products and I've yet to
run into any that didn't do exactly as

1192
01:31:19.079 --> 01:31:25.800
advertised and above. Let's go out
to Huntsville. Now we're going to talk

1193
01:31:25.800 --> 01:31:29.640
to Wanda. Hello, Wanda,
good morning, how are you. I'm

1194
01:31:29.640 --> 01:31:33.239
well? Thank you? Okay.
I have about a four to five year

1195
01:31:33.239 --> 01:31:36.560
old per cemetry. The first year
it didn't produced, didn't expect it to.

1196
01:31:38.159 --> 01:31:41.600
Second year, it's got quite a
few simmons on it, but it

1197
01:31:41.760 --> 01:31:46.239
dropped all the persimmons before the even
started to ripen. Last year it had

1198
01:31:46.359 --> 01:31:53.880
more per simmons and we got about
four or five off of it. This

1199
01:31:54.000 --> 01:31:56.680
year, it looks like it's going
to be absolutely loaded. What can I

1200
01:31:56.840 --> 01:32:00.640
do to keep it from dropping?
The persimmons are real bad about dropping the

1201
01:32:00.680 --> 01:32:03.960
fruit when they're young. Once they
make it a little further down the line,

1202
01:32:03.960 --> 01:32:10.479
they don't drop. But things that
cause it Number one a young tree

1203
01:32:10.479 --> 01:32:14.239
that doesn't have the root system yet
to really support it. That is the

1204
01:32:14.319 --> 01:32:17.079
thing which you're kind of getting past
that now or getting close to past it.

1205
01:32:18.119 --> 01:32:23.600
Number two. Excessive amounts of nitrogen
fertilizer can do that as well.

1206
01:32:24.039 --> 01:32:28.840
Issues and the roots, soggy wet
soil, dry conditions in the roots,

1207
01:32:29.520 --> 01:32:33.760
and some percimons. What variety is
your percimon? I know it's not the

1208
01:32:33.760 --> 01:32:41.199
food, but I can't remember.
Okay, some varieties can set without the

1209
01:32:41.199 --> 01:32:45.880
pollination, but some of them do
a little bit better if you have the

1210
01:32:45.920 --> 01:32:50.479
pollination. I think yours apparently,
since you've gotten some fruit from it,

1211
01:32:50.560 --> 01:32:56.640
the pollination is not an issue at
all with it. But I would house

1212
01:32:56.680 --> 01:33:01.319
the sunlight is it getting plenty of
sunlight all day? Okay, well,

1213
01:33:03.520 --> 01:33:06.479
I guess it just needs to settle
down a bit. Don't push it with

1214
01:33:06.880 --> 01:33:15.079
nitrogen fertilizer. They do pretty well
without a lot of additional supplemental feeding.

1215
01:33:16.039 --> 01:33:20.079
It's just that early on period when
they try to set too many and then

1216
01:33:20.119 --> 01:33:25.640
they start a boarding. I'm just
kind of wondering out loud here if removing

1217
01:33:25.680 --> 01:33:30.079
some of the fruit would help the
other to set. And I've never heard

1218
01:33:30.119 --> 01:33:34.079
that being a recommendation, so I'm
gonna avoid saying, yeah, go do

1219
01:33:34.159 --> 01:33:39.640
that, it'll work. But I
do know that those trees know when they

1220
01:33:39.640 --> 01:33:43.399
have too much fruit and they throw
it, throw it off. Okay,

1221
01:33:43.479 --> 01:33:45.199
all right, well thank you?
Oh oh, good luck with them.

1222
01:33:45.920 --> 01:33:53.960
Isn't an astringent per someone When you
bite into it, does your mouth pucker

1223
01:33:54.079 --> 01:33:58.359
up? No? Not if they're
right, Not if they're right? Okay,

1224
01:33:58.359 --> 01:34:00.439
good, Yeah, well that's good. I love per Simmons. It

1225
01:34:00.960 --> 01:34:04.319
ought to be a more popular fruit
than it is. I love it.

1226
01:34:05.199 --> 01:34:10.359
Yeah, all right, And all
I ask if it sets fruit well this

1227
01:34:10.479 --> 01:34:13.560
year and you get quite a bit
more, is just make me some percimon

1228
01:34:13.640 --> 01:34:16.039
bread, drop it off at the
studio and we'll call it even all right,

1229
01:34:17.359 --> 01:34:24.279
Okay, thank you, Wanda.
Appreciate that per simmons are great.

1230
01:34:24.319 --> 01:34:27.399
I think the way to eat a
per semon is just to get in the

1231
01:34:27.399 --> 01:34:31.000
bathtub and take a good, old, soggy, baggy per semon, you

1232
01:34:31.000 --> 01:34:33.840
know that, like a bag full
of jelly, and go after it.

1233
01:34:33.880 --> 01:34:36.720
And that way you can just clean
yourself up when you're done, because they

1234
01:34:38.520 --> 01:34:42.239
are It's like eating a bagful of
jelly. They are so so good.

1235
01:34:42.680 --> 01:34:45.640
Hey, it is important to take
care of your trees. It is very

1236
01:34:45.680 --> 01:34:50.560
important. They're worth something to your
landscape and they provide shade and all the

1237
01:34:50.640 --> 01:34:56.279
other amenities. Affordable Tree Service can
take care of them, and they do.

1238
01:34:56.880 --> 01:35:00.319
Afftree Service dot com. That's the
website, the phone number seven one

1239
01:35:00.479 --> 01:35:05.760
three six nine nine twenty six sixty
three. Seven one three six nine nine

1240
01:35:05.760 --> 01:35:11.039
twenty six sixty three. Martin Spoon
Moore has been doing this for a long

1241
01:35:11.119 --> 01:35:15.199
time. He charges one hundred and
fifty dollars to come out for a consultation.

1242
01:35:15.119 --> 01:35:18.640
He'll tell you exactly what he sees
and what might need to be done

1243
01:35:19.039 --> 01:35:23.000
if you choose to hire him to
do that work, which I hope you

1244
01:35:23.079 --> 01:35:26.760
would, and to be smart to
Uh. That one fifty goes right into

1245
01:35:26.760 --> 01:35:31.760
the cost of the job being done. So don't trust anybody with your trees.

1246
01:35:31.920 --> 01:35:38.920
I mean, Martin knows what he's
doing. Bad tree work is permanent,

1247
01:35:39.159 --> 01:35:43.000
it's for life on those trees,
and don't do that. Get on

1248
01:35:43.039 --> 01:35:46.560
his schedule for pruning or any kind
of work you need done. Affordable Tree

1249
01:35:46.600 --> 01:35:53.520
Service Afftree Service dot Com seven one
three, six nine nine twenty six sixty

1250
01:35:53.600 --> 01:35:56.079
three. We're going to take a
break, Trish, she'll be first when

1251
01:35:56.119 --> 01:35:59.479
we come back for the rest of
you. Just still seven one three two

1252
01:35:59.520 --> 01:36:02.920
p one two kat r h Hey, welcome about your garden line. What

1253
01:36:03.000 --> 01:36:05.439
are we going to talk about today? Well, we got a few collars

1254
01:36:05.439 --> 01:36:10.159
online here and we'll find out what
they want to talk about today. We're

1255
01:36:10.159 --> 01:36:15.600
going to start off by going to
Trish in Liverpool. Trish, where's living?

1256
01:36:15.840 --> 01:36:21.479
Morning? Where is morning? We're
in between Alvin and Angleton. Okay,

1257
01:36:21.640 --> 01:36:25.760
all right, it's a little little
sleepy, a little old town.

1258
01:36:26.000 --> 01:36:29.960
Wow. I didn't think you were
over there with the beetles somewhere in England.

1259
01:36:30.000 --> 01:36:32.119
So that's it. No, not
quite. Uh. I have a

1260
01:36:32.199 --> 01:36:38.239
problem with my tomato plants. I
have a raised bed. And you know,

1261
01:36:38.279 --> 01:36:42.800
when we got all that rain,
it got pretty saturated, and the

1262
01:36:42.800 --> 01:36:46.960
plants that I had transplanted, I
planted them pretty deep because they were getting

1263
01:36:47.000 --> 01:36:53.800
a little leggy. And now they're
turning yellow. I mean that ground's still

1264
01:36:53.960 --> 01:36:58.359
wet. Yeah. Is this it's
been over a week. Is the whole

1265
01:36:58.399 --> 01:37:02.760
plant turning yellow or just older leaves
or just younger leaves. It's a younger

1266
01:37:02.840 --> 01:37:06.399
leaves, Okay. I mean I
did take a picture of it because it

1267
01:37:06.439 --> 01:37:14.000
looks like maybe they've got some kind
of a fertilizing fertilizer deficiency or maybe I

1268
01:37:14.039 --> 01:37:16.399
need to add some bone meal.
And I wasn't sure because I'm really getting

1269
01:37:16.399 --> 01:37:21.399
prepped the soil like I should have. Okay, well, just for right

1270
01:37:21.439 --> 01:37:26.800
now with this crop. Long term, you need to get in there and

1271
01:37:26.880 --> 01:37:31.680
really prep that soil, like I'm
always harping about on guardline, But for

1272
01:37:31.800 --> 01:37:36.159
right now, you need to make
sure it's not over soggy soil. That's

1273
01:37:36.319 --> 01:37:41.640
the problem. If that's an ongoing
problem, you got to find some way

1274
01:37:41.800 --> 01:37:45.720
to let that dry out a little
bit. But before the plant's going to

1275
01:37:45.720 --> 01:37:50.479
pick up and go nutrient wise,
you can just you can do a couple

1276
01:37:50.479 --> 01:37:56.199
of things. You can provide a
dry granular fertilizer that you wash in,

1277
01:37:56.960 --> 01:38:01.359
or you could which means adding water, or you could do a liquid that

1278
01:38:01.439 --> 01:38:05.680
you spray on, which is adding
some water, but at least trying to

1279
01:38:05.680 --> 01:38:10.479
get them the nutrients that they need. Not knowing what's going on, it's

1280
01:38:10.560 --> 01:38:14.479
kind of hard for me to tell
you which way to go. Just something

1281
01:38:14.600 --> 01:38:16.960
right in mind, though, is
when you add organic matter and compost and

1282
01:38:17.039 --> 01:38:20.640
you build up a raised bed,
then you don't have soggy you do have

1283
01:38:20.800 --> 01:38:25.359
every nutrients you can imagine that's coming
out of that compost too. Well.

1284
01:38:25.399 --> 01:38:30.279
I did put an I did do
a soil amendment. I put a raised

1285
01:38:30.319 --> 01:38:33.840
bed soil mixture in there, okay
with it to help, you know,

1286
01:38:33.920 --> 01:38:41.319
give it some uh substance because it
was seemed a little sandy. Yeah,

1287
01:38:40.479 --> 01:38:49.319
I would just get a good quality
fertilizer mix. You you might say liquid,

1288
01:38:49.359 --> 01:38:54.920
either a liquid that you spray on, or do you do you garden

1289
01:38:55.039 --> 01:39:00.680
organically? I try to, but
sometimes you know, stink bugs don't allow

1290
01:39:00.720 --> 01:39:05.800
that. Yeah, I understand my
micro life green bag sixty four is excellent

1291
01:39:05.840 --> 01:39:10.199
for tomatoes. You could try just
putting some of that in mix it into

1292
01:39:10.239 --> 01:39:14.079
the soil around them and water it
in really good. And I do have

1293
01:39:14.199 --> 01:39:17.920
some miracle growth for a folier spread. If you've got it on hand,

1294
01:39:18.279 --> 01:39:21.359
just try that, mix it and
try that on the plants and might as

1295
01:39:21.439 --> 01:39:25.880
I use it. Okay, what's
on there? I would direct you longer

1296
01:39:26.000 --> 01:39:29.319
term in other directions, but go
ahead and try that. Make follow the

1297
01:39:29.359 --> 01:39:32.640
label very carefully. Well, let
me ask you one more question about it.

1298
01:39:32.720 --> 01:39:36.560
Okay, if I dig down,
say you know, just about a

1299
01:39:36.600 --> 01:39:40.840
foot away from one of the plants, and I dig down where I think

1300
01:39:40.880 --> 01:39:45.640
that the base of the plants are, and it's and it's really like like

1301
01:39:45.720 --> 01:39:51.720
a mud bog. Yeah, did
I dig those plants up? And maybe?

1302
01:39:53.000 --> 01:39:56.760
Uh, okay, would that be
too much stress? Real quick?

1303
01:39:56.800 --> 01:40:01.279
How long ago did you plant them? At least two weeks ago? Well,

1304
01:40:01.920 --> 01:40:05.600
we got all that rain in an
extreme situation. That might be good.

1305
01:40:05.680 --> 01:40:09.920
It's going to really set them back. But if you find out it's

1306
01:40:09.920 --> 01:40:12.920
in a swamp, they're not going
to get better. So I'd recommend that,

1307
01:40:13.079 --> 01:40:15.880
Hey, I got a run trash, but good luck with getting those

1308
01:40:15.880 --> 01:40:20.960
tomatoes back on their feet. Buchanus
plants in the Heights is they specialize in

1309
01:40:21.039 --> 01:40:26.920
natives that's why the actual name is
not Buchanan's Plants, it's Buchana's Native plants.

1310
01:40:27.560 --> 01:40:29.680
And you're going to find all kinds
of things. Do you want to

1311
01:40:29.720 --> 01:40:33.239
spring bloomer? How about partially hawthorn? That is one and not a lot

1312
01:40:33.279 --> 01:40:36.479
of people are aware of. But
Buchana's just going to have a lot of

1313
01:40:36.479 --> 01:40:43.359
things you're not aware another great bloomer
through the summertime. Even the button bush,

1314
01:40:43.720 --> 01:40:45.800
button bush, if you got a
wet, saggy area, what am

1315
01:40:45.840 --> 01:40:48.239
I going to do with this?
I need a plant and I want to

1316
01:40:48.279 --> 01:40:54.760
support pollinators. Button bush is an
excellent one. And that's the Buchanan's Plants.

1317
01:40:54.840 --> 01:40:59.880
Don't forget that. This next Saturday
coming up here, the thirtieth,

1318
01:41:00.119 --> 01:41:03.560
which is today, I'm sorry,
next Saturday today they are having their Easter

1319
01:41:03.640 --> 01:41:06.760
egg hunt, so you may want
to get out there so your kids can

1320
01:41:06.920 --> 01:41:12.319
enjoy that. While you're out there, check out the Plumeria's. They got

1321
01:41:12.319 --> 01:41:15.119
a whole bunch of the jungle job
Plumeria is in. They got bougain villas

1322
01:41:15.119 --> 01:41:19.680
and mandavilla, and mandavilla is one
that's an underplanted vine. It's a tropical

1323
01:41:19.760 --> 01:41:25.319
vine. It does so well Buchanan's
is on East eleventh Street in the Heights.

1324
01:41:25.479 --> 01:41:29.520
Easy to find them. Let's go
to Oak Forest now and talk to

1325
01:41:29.600 --> 01:41:36.079
Larry. Hello, Larry, good
morning, my neighbor. This contractor used

1326
01:41:36.079 --> 01:41:40.720
part of my yard to do some
to get to the neighbor's backyard. And

1327
01:41:40.760 --> 01:41:43.560
when there, when they repair the
soil, what should I have them do?

1328
01:41:43.640 --> 01:41:47.720
It's kind of got compacted down a
bit. Well, the main thing

1329
01:41:47.760 --> 01:41:51.760
they need to do is air rate
it to loosen that up. And I

1330
01:41:51.800 --> 01:41:56.520
don't know if they're going to have
an air raider machine that'll do a good

1331
01:41:56.600 --> 01:42:00.079
job. They could hire somebody to
come in and do it. But that

1332
01:42:01.119 --> 01:42:04.640
you know, you're just talking about
a little pathway right that it's going through

1333
01:42:04.640 --> 01:42:10.359
the yard, correct, So you
know you can stick spading fork down in

1334
01:42:10.399 --> 01:42:13.479
the ground, just wiggle a crack
it open, you know, don't turn

1335
01:42:13.520 --> 01:42:15.520
over the soil, but just for
a little area you can do it like

1336
01:42:15.560 --> 01:42:18.960
that. It's probably not worth bringing
a machine in to try to do it

1337
01:42:19.000 --> 01:42:24.359
and then top dress it with a
leaf mold compost. Don't let them put

1338
01:42:24.399 --> 01:42:29.760
some old, chunky, woody compost
with chunks of wood in it out there.

1339
01:42:29.800 --> 01:42:33.319
You want a very finely screened leaf
mold compost for that area. Okay,

1340
01:42:34.159 --> 01:42:42.079
okay, that's that's the best thing. Putting down some microlife humates plus

1341
01:42:42.279 --> 01:42:47.520
would be another good idea on that. So that's the purple bag from Microlife

1342
01:42:47.680 --> 01:42:51.039
hum mates plus. You get that
down in the soil and on the surface

1343
01:42:51.079 --> 01:42:57.319
even and it's going to help with
your soil structure over time too. Okay,

1344
01:42:58.039 --> 01:43:00.079
all right, Larry, okay,
thanks much, all right, good

1345
01:43:00.199 --> 01:43:04.279
luck with that. I wish I
wish you well that that is for sure.

1346
01:43:04.399 --> 01:43:09.600
Yeah. The leaf more compost Nature's
Way resources they invented it, they

1347
01:43:09.640 --> 01:43:13.680
created I mean, you know,
it's been around in nature for since the

1348
01:43:13.720 --> 01:43:18.479
beginning, but leaf more compost from
Nature's Way is a product that they perfected

1349
01:43:18.479 --> 01:43:25.079
there. John Ferguson has been a
leader soul scientists and leader in when it

1350
01:43:25.159 --> 01:43:30.079
comes to taking care of the brown
stuff, which is a basis for all

1351
01:43:30.119 --> 01:43:34.319
success in plants. They also have
the rose soil, which is a good

1352
01:43:34.359 --> 01:43:39.279
bed soil for all kinds of plants, not just roses. If you want

1353
01:43:39.279 --> 01:43:44.840
to get McCall nine three six three
two one sixty nine ninety, they're up

1354
01:43:44.880 --> 01:43:48.000
there on the way to come on
the way to conro If you're going up

1355
01:43:48.039 --> 01:43:53.119
forty five. When fourteen eighty eight
comes in. If you went left on

1356
01:43:53.199 --> 01:43:57.199
fourteen eighty eight you go to Magnolia, just turn right instead and you'll go

1357
01:43:57.239 --> 01:44:00.319
across the tracks and you're right there
at Nature's Way. Got roses. They

1358
01:44:00.319 --> 01:44:03.880
have a lot of nice native plants
too. They sell stuff by the bag.

1359
01:44:04.159 --> 01:44:06.640
You can go pick it up,
all right. They sell up bulk.

1360
01:44:06.800 --> 01:44:11.199
Bring your trailer. They'll put it
on the trailer, or call them,

1361
01:44:11.319 --> 01:44:15.600
have them deliver it for a delivery
feet to where you live, and

1362
01:44:15.640 --> 01:44:17.319
you can get a bulk come out. So if you need lives, better

1363
01:44:17.359 --> 01:44:21.520
to go bulk than just bags.
But either way, they got you covered

1364
01:44:21.520 --> 01:44:27.399
a Nature's Way. Okay, let's
go out to Pasadena and we're going to

1365
01:44:27.439 --> 01:44:32.359
talk to Frida. Hello, Frida, good morning. How can I help?

1366
01:44:33.600 --> 01:44:41.119
I live in the condo and it
borders a school, and last summer

1367
01:44:42.000 --> 01:44:45.800
they put weed killer along the pencil
line, and I'm telling you it went

1368
01:44:45.840 --> 01:44:51.000
about a foot into my back little
yard here and behind my condo, and

1369
01:44:51.079 --> 01:44:58.800
then the hot summer just inundated the
grass. They finished it off. So

1370
01:44:59.520 --> 01:45:03.199
that's the way I had someone come
in and dig up all the weeds because

1371
01:45:03.199 --> 01:45:10.520
that's all of us left there.
And they broke up the soil and then

1372
01:45:10.520 --> 01:45:15.439
the soil looked real good. It
looked loose and black, and they brought

1373
01:45:15.479 --> 01:45:25.119
in some sand mixed with some some
some soil and then put grass, you

1374
01:45:25.159 --> 01:45:30.359
know, the sod. So I
am fortunately in that I have a watering

1375
01:45:30.399 --> 01:45:35.760
system here in the back, and
so they told me that water it once

1376
01:45:35.840 --> 01:45:41.399
a day for fifteen minutes, and
that's what I've been doing. So I

1377
01:45:41.439 --> 01:45:45.039
wanted to confirm that with you.
And also I want to know what I

1378
01:45:45.079 --> 01:45:51.600
need to do for weed killer in
the future and to help my grass grow

1379
01:45:51.800 --> 01:45:56.439
with you know, what fertilizer or
what I need to do. Yeah,

1380
01:45:56.520 --> 01:46:00.439
okay, well so you've got you've
got some options there. As far as

1381
01:46:00.520 --> 01:46:01.800
the twice a day, that's good. I'd do that for about a week,

1382
01:46:01.920 --> 01:46:05.319
and then I'd go to once a
day for about another week and then

1383
01:46:05.560 --> 01:46:11.920
move to every other day, and
that way you're working your way toward just

1384
01:46:12.000 --> 01:46:15.359
a regular once a week of watering
schedule. That would be okay, I'm

1385
01:46:15.399 --> 01:46:20.119
sorry. Would you repeat that twice
a day for a week, once a

1386
01:46:20.239 --> 01:46:27.880
day, once a day for another
week, and then you're gradually weaning it

1387
01:46:27.920 --> 01:46:31.600
off by going to twice every two
days and so on. But the first

1388
01:46:31.600 --> 01:46:34.560
week's the most important. One second
week, stay with it. It's not

1389
01:46:34.640 --> 01:46:38.800
well rooted in yet by the time
you get to the third week. You

1390
01:46:38.840 --> 01:46:42.119
ought to have some pretty good root
system that's down in there. Okay,

1391
01:46:41.760 --> 01:46:45.079
okay. Now for fertilizing, I
would go ahead and put down you can

1392
01:46:45.119 --> 01:46:48.720
do one or two things. You
can put down a Nitrophsi's Imperial that's a

1393
01:46:48.840 --> 01:46:54.279
red bag fifteen to five to ten, or you could go ahead and move

1394
01:46:54.359 --> 01:46:58.840
straight to the summer fertilizer, which
is super turf. Super Turf as a

1395
01:46:58.920 --> 01:47:04.640
slow release fertilizer. So I think
with new turf like that, I would

1396
01:47:04.720 --> 01:47:12.159
probably I would go ahead and put
the super turf out after a couple of

1397
01:47:12.159 --> 01:47:15.079
weeks. Normally I don't start fertilizing
a new lawn until it's been in for

1398
01:47:15.159 --> 01:47:19.039
two weeks. Since superturf is a
slow release, you're not going to get

1399
01:47:19.079 --> 01:47:23.720
too much immediate nitrogen out of it, and you could you could cheat on

1400
01:47:23.760 --> 01:47:27.800
that and start a little earlier if
you want. It's the silver bag,

1401
01:47:28.039 --> 01:47:32.119
silver bag from Nitrophoss. Now,
now you're down there, you're down there

1402
01:47:32.119 --> 01:47:36.520
in Pasadena, right right, Okay, Well, you're not going to have

1403
01:47:36.720 --> 01:47:43.319
any trouble, any trouble at all
finding the super turf or the Imperial the

1404
01:47:43.359 --> 01:47:46.640
red bag if you choose to go
that way. Uh, it's it's easy,

1405
01:47:46.720 --> 01:47:50.680
easy to find. All the Ace
hardware stores for example, they are

1406
01:47:50.720 --> 01:47:56.479
they're going to have it. So
that's one way I go about finding Okay,

1407
01:47:56.600 --> 01:48:00.479
okay, weed killer. Uh,
you know, I wouldn't worry about

1408
01:48:00.479 --> 01:48:04.640
weed killer. Now, let's get
that turf. Let's get that turf rooted

1409
01:48:04.680 --> 01:48:12.279
in really good before we start thinking
about weed killer. Yeah, some of

1410
01:48:12.279 --> 01:48:16.520
the weed killers are a little stressful
for those plants, and so I just

1411
01:48:16.560 --> 01:48:21.880
wouldn't Yeah, I wouldn't want to
just okay, jump on that just yet.

1412
01:48:24.279 --> 01:48:27.960
Okay, so when do when do
I start thinking about that? And

1413
01:48:28.000 --> 01:48:30.399
when I see give me, give
me a call it a couple of Are

1414
01:48:30.399 --> 01:48:34.039
you seeing weeds in it? You
shouldn't because it's brand new. Yeah.

1415
01:48:34.399 --> 01:48:41.319
So what you could do is you
could do an application of barricade, but

1416
01:48:41.520 --> 01:48:45.000
you don't want to do that the
first three or four weeks after the turf

1417
01:48:45.119 --> 01:48:47.039
is in. And I can go
into more detail, but I'm just out

1418
01:48:47.079 --> 01:48:51.079
of time on it. Hold off
of the weed killer for now that turf

1419
01:48:51.159 --> 01:48:56.119
needs to root in. Well,
okay, we don't want to inhibit that.

1420
01:48:56.520 --> 01:49:00.800
Okay, thank you very much.
I appreciate your call. Well,

1421
01:49:00.840 --> 01:49:03.319
here we are time for Nikki in
the news, and I'm gonna pass the

1422
01:49:03.359 --> 01:49:08.039
microphone over there. Our phone number
is seven to one three two one two

1423
01:49:08.479 --> 01:49:12.600
KTR eight. There we go a
little bit of Eagles music for us today.

1424
01:49:13.520 --> 01:49:19.399
Don't forget Eagles, Oh my gosh, Beatles. Wow. Well,

1425
01:49:19.640 --> 01:49:24.479
thinking about two things at once,
I'm going to be at Cinemulch. Speaking

1426
01:49:24.600 --> 01:49:29.920
of things coming up, I'll be
at Cinemltch today after this radio show.

1427
01:49:30.000 --> 01:49:32.319
Sienna is having their Spring Fling.
This is the second time. What was

1428
01:49:32.359 --> 01:49:35.840
there last year too, is a
great event. I mean, they got

1429
01:49:35.960 --> 01:49:39.880
food truck. You know, they
have all kinds of folks. I'll be

1430
01:49:39.920 --> 01:49:44.359
out there. Jay White from Texas
Gardener magazine, he'll be out there.

1431
01:49:44.439 --> 01:49:48.800
You can meet Andy from Medina,
and you can meet Louis from Heirloom Soils,

1432
01:49:48.840 --> 01:49:53.439
and there'll be someone from Nelson's also
out there. I mean it,

1433
01:49:53.520 --> 01:49:55.960
it's gonna be a lot of folks. I'm going to be given away a

1434
01:49:56.079 --> 01:50:00.159
lot of stuff, a lot of
stuff Medina products. Oh my gosh grow

1435
01:50:00.199 --> 01:50:06.560
green organic fertilizer. Five pound bags, quart bottle of Medina plus three bottles

1436
01:50:06.600 --> 01:50:12.039
of fish blend for medina, three
bottles of the seaweed, three bottles of

1437
01:50:12.079 --> 01:50:15.279
medina. Has to grow. There's
a ready to spray, has to grow.

1438
01:50:15.319 --> 01:50:18.000
You just hook up the hose and
you take off heirloom soil. You

1439
01:50:18.039 --> 01:50:24.640
get away samples of that too as
well, and heirloom or heirlom and azemite

1440
01:50:24.680 --> 01:50:30.119
also some samples. But bring me
some sample of your plant. Anything you

1441
01:50:30.199 --> 01:50:33.600
want identify it, Anything that's not
doing well that you want me to take

1442
01:50:33.600 --> 01:50:36.239
a look at. Maybe it's a
bug, maybe it's a spot on a

1443
01:50:36.359 --> 01:50:40.720
leaf, maybe whatever. Just bring
it out there, let's talk about it.

1444
01:50:40.760 --> 01:50:45.119
I always love to meet the gardening
listeners and Ciena Maltsa down south.

1445
01:50:45.239 --> 01:50:48.159
Now you've been there before, Sia, I hope you've been there before,

1446
01:50:48.199 --> 01:50:56.159
at least I'm looking forward to going
myself today. Ciena Maltch is the place

1447
01:50:56.199 --> 01:51:00.920
where you get every kind of soil
material that you might need. So for

1448
01:51:00.960 --> 01:51:02.760
those of you who live down south, you know, we're talking about our

1449
01:51:02.840 --> 01:51:09.359
cola and we're talking about Siona and
that whole region out there, brasismin State

1450
01:51:09.439 --> 01:51:15.079
Park is also out there. It
All you gotta do is just show up,

1451
01:51:15.239 --> 01:51:17.000
let's talk, let's find out what's
going on. Let's get some good

1452
01:51:17.000 --> 01:51:20.359
products in your hand as well.
It's going to be a good day for

1453
01:51:20.479 --> 01:51:25.439
that too, looking forward to it. Let's see, We're going to go

1454
01:51:25.439 --> 01:51:29.840
out now to Memorial Area and talk
to a lane. Hello, Elayne,

1455
01:51:30.680 --> 01:51:35.039
Good morning, Skip morning. I
have been fought. We have been fighting

1456
01:51:38.680 --> 01:51:43.640
days wower weed. I think it's
also called scurvyweed, and it's also called

1457
01:51:44.079 --> 01:51:49.159
Coma linga cyanea. And it's got
that pretty blue flower on it, yes,

1458
01:51:49.359 --> 01:51:55.279
wide wide leaf blade. And several
years ago we just decided to go

1459
01:51:55.359 --> 01:51:59.960
with the flow and we choked it
out with Asian jasmine in a flower.

1460
01:52:00.439 --> 01:52:04.199
Okay, and okay, it has
come up in another bed that's rather virgin

1461
01:52:04.319 --> 01:52:11.840
right now. And I have I
have had some success in Harris thirty percent

1462
01:52:11.960 --> 01:52:17.079
vinegar diluted with water and that gets
rid of it. But there's I mean,

1463
01:52:17.239 --> 01:52:21.399
it's got to be very herbicide specific
if I'm not going to go organic.

1464
01:52:23.079 --> 01:52:28.640
And my question is if I get
rid of the patches that we have

1465
01:52:28.840 --> 01:52:32.399
now, am I going to be
able to plant anything in there for a

1466
01:52:32.399 --> 01:52:38.239
bit. Well, the vinegar should
just be a temporary you're kind of burning

1467
01:52:38.319 --> 01:52:44.239
the top of it back, so
that probably something you I don't know.

1468
01:52:44.640 --> 01:52:48.239
I would you could do it,
but it's going to burn back anything that's

1469
01:52:48.319 --> 01:52:54.279
up there, so you would kill
your grass, or you would kill a

1470
01:52:54.319 --> 01:52:57.800
flower that you got it on,
or something like that. So I would

1471
01:52:58.119 --> 01:53:00.720
try to avoid that. Those plans
are kind of I think of them as

1472
01:53:00.760 --> 01:53:04.640
being caught between grasses and broad leaves. They've got the parallel venation of a

1473
01:53:04.720 --> 01:53:11.720
grass, but they're they're not really
true grass, uh and they have rhizomes

1474
01:53:11.800 --> 01:53:16.319
underground, which makes it go back
real easily, very difficult, very difficult

1475
01:53:16.640 --> 01:53:23.239
to manage. Products containing glyphissay can
control that. That would be like a

1476
01:53:23.319 --> 01:53:26.199
round up type thing. They can
control it when it's really small, but

1477
01:53:26.239 --> 01:53:30.239
when they get bigger they tolerate life
as a pretty well. I mean,

1478
01:53:30.279 --> 01:53:33.039
they don't like it, but it
doesn't kill them. The products that have

1479
01:53:33.359 --> 01:53:39.800
two four D and them, for
example, that would do okay some degree

1480
01:53:39.840 --> 01:53:45.520
of efficacy from that. There is
an organic thing called pell organic pel orgonic

1481
01:53:45.720 --> 01:53:50.760
acid p E L A R G
O N I C, and that would

1482
01:53:50.800 --> 01:53:54.800
be a thing like your vinegar that
you spray on and it burns the top

1483
01:53:54.880 --> 01:53:58.359
back. But depending on the growth
stage, the oldier this gets, the

1484
01:53:58.439 --> 01:54:00.520
more problems you're going to have with
it, And so you're kind of left

1485
01:54:00.640 --> 01:54:06.680
with repeated sprays or hand digging or
whatever. Just you know that once it

1486
01:54:06.760 --> 01:54:11.319
goes to flowering, you got to
get those seed heads off there too,

1487
01:54:11.399 --> 01:54:16.600
because that makes it harder. Well, is there any merit in just replacing

1488
01:54:16.600 --> 01:54:24.399
the soil in the bed, Well, that's drastic. I don't think you

1489
01:54:24.399 --> 01:54:28.840
should need to replace the soil.
You should just you know, dig and

1490
01:54:29.199 --> 01:54:31.239
maybe run it through a little bit
of a screen, like a hard half

1491
01:54:31.239 --> 01:54:34.960
inch hardware cloth or something. I've
built a little two by four box.

1492
01:54:35.000 --> 01:54:39.560
It sits on my wheelbarrow, and
I just throw the soil in there and

1493
01:54:39.640 --> 01:54:42.800
just shake that and then you then
pick up all the roots and things you

1494
01:54:42.840 --> 01:54:46.159
get out and then dump that soil
back in the bed. That's easier than

1495
01:54:46.239 --> 01:54:50.479
replacing all the soil probably. Well, I know about the rhizomes, you

1496
01:54:50.520 --> 01:54:56.439
know, because they just if you
try to pull that weed, it breaks

1497
01:54:56.479 --> 01:54:59.439
off, and wherever you break off, it's going to start again. That's

1498
01:54:59.479 --> 01:55:01.520
true. Well, hey, I'm
going to have to run on to some

1499
01:55:01.560 --> 01:55:06.039
other questions and stuff, But that
would be my suggestion for it. You

1500
01:55:06.079 --> 01:55:09.920
may want to try, and I
can't guarantee you this will work, but

1501
01:55:09.960 --> 01:55:15.199
it is a very broad spectrum.
Bone eyed weed beater ultra, the one

1502
01:55:15.239 --> 01:55:18.760
that says ultra, it's a spray, see what it does to it.

1503
01:55:18.760 --> 01:55:24.560
It's going to have some things in
it that should be somewhat effective. But

1504
01:55:24.800 --> 01:55:29.159
I'd like to hear the results you
get from it, because I'm really doubtful

1505
01:55:29.199 --> 01:55:32.640
because so many things have been tried
against it unsuccessfully. But thank you Elaine

1506
01:55:32.680 --> 01:55:36.560
for the call. I appreciate that
very much. If you're trying to prevent

1507
01:55:36.640 --> 01:55:42.039
weeds in your lawn, barricade is
what you do. It's a pre emergent

1508
01:55:42.079 --> 01:55:45.520
herbicide from nitrofoss. You put it
down and you watered it in. You

1509
01:55:45.560 --> 01:55:47.199
have to water it in because you
have to move it down to the soul

1510
01:55:47.279 --> 01:55:51.319
surface where it forms a barricade.
Now, for those of you planting new

1511
01:55:51.439 --> 01:55:56.279
sod, don't do the barricade before
you plant the sod because it works on

1512
01:55:56.319 --> 01:56:00.000
weed roots work and the sod has
to get its roots down. But all

1513
01:56:00.039 --> 01:56:04.720
of you with established lawns, barricade
by nitro foss put down ahead of the

1514
01:56:04.720 --> 01:56:10.239
weeds sprouting will be very effective.
You can get it in Shannon Gardens out

1515
01:56:10.279 --> 01:56:14.319
there in the Richmond Rosenberg area,
Shades of Texas. Up in the woodlands.

1516
01:56:14.439 --> 01:56:18.920
We'll carry barricade and other nitrofoss products. Arburgate up in Tombol, just

1517
01:56:19.000 --> 01:56:23.720
another place where you can get that
product. I want to go now to

1518
01:56:24.079 --> 01:56:30.000
Katie and we're going to talk to
Marcus. Hello, Marcus Hello. Well,

1519
01:56:30.039 --> 01:56:35.119
the reason I'm called I've got concord
grapevine and a seven grapevine which is

1520
01:56:35.199 --> 01:56:40.640
kind of a wild grape, okay, and I don't know how to prune

1521
01:56:40.640 --> 01:56:44.720
them, and then the squirrels get
everything that they produce, okay, and

1522
01:56:44.880 --> 01:56:46.800
I don't know how to deal with
that. I couldn't begin to tell you

1523
01:56:47.239 --> 01:56:50.199
how to prune a grapevine on the
air. So what I want you to

1524
01:56:50.239 --> 01:56:57.520
do is go to the Aggie Horticulture
website. There's a section for fruits,

1525
01:56:57.840 --> 01:57:00.199
nuts, there's a section for grapes
and vegetables. Just click on it,

1526
01:57:00.279 --> 01:57:03.560
get into the grape one and start
looking around in there, and they will

1527
01:57:03.560 --> 01:57:09.840
give you some good guidance on as
far as the squirrels. I don't know

1528
01:57:09.880 --> 01:57:14.439
a good solution. Some people have
tried the little organza bags. I don't

1529
01:57:14.479 --> 01:57:18.439
know that that would even work,
but that it just is what it is

1530
01:57:19.039 --> 01:57:23.880
with the squirrels in our neighborhoods.
But Marcus, I hope that, hope

1531
01:57:23.920 --> 01:57:28.359
that helps. I got a rhyme, but I'll make clear our symmetry too.

1532
01:57:29.119 --> 01:57:32.520
Yeah, I know, I know, I have. I have my

1533
01:57:32.600 --> 01:57:39.479
opinions about squirrels. Accent offer on
the air. There you go, all

1534
01:57:39.560 --> 01:57:42.399
right, Mark, thanks, thank
you, thanks a lot, and good

1535
01:57:42.479 --> 01:57:45.680
luck with that. I do definitely
feel your pain. You've been listening to

1536
01:57:45.760 --> 01:57:49.319
Guardline. We're going to come back
after this little break. Don't forget.

1537
01:57:49.439 --> 01:57:55.079
I will be at Ciena Maltch Ciena
Maltch. That is going to be today

1538
01:57:55.079 --> 01:57:58.000
from eleven thirty to one thirty.
All of you done in that area.

1539
01:57:58.039 --> 01:58:01.920
I hope you come out and see
me. Sleep at the wheel for are

1540
01:58:02.000 --> 01:58:08.279
you on a Saturday morning. If
you're looking for a tree, Verdant Tree

1541
01:58:08.319 --> 01:58:12.920
Farm has an excellent selection. They
also you know, pine palm trees as

1542
01:58:12.920 --> 01:58:15.560
well. They have a number of
different palms. You walk in there and

1543
01:58:15.640 --> 01:58:16.960
say, hey, what's the hardiest
palm you got? And they can do

1544
01:58:17.039 --> 01:58:21.079
that, but if you want all
the others, they they have a good

1545
01:58:21.199 --> 01:58:26.720
variety of things that grow well.
Verden Tree Farm has three locations now there

1546
01:58:26.760 --> 01:58:31.800
and the Heights where Yale and to
Iten come together. They're down in the

1547
01:58:31.840 --> 01:58:36.279
pear Land area on Broadway Street and
then they're in West Houston out on Barker

1548
01:58:36.319 --> 01:58:41.479
Cypress. You're going to find large
shrubs too, like some of the hollies

1549
01:58:41.600 --> 01:58:45.720
for example, they'll carry that.
They do turnkey service. You pick out

1550
01:58:45.760 --> 01:58:49.399
your plant of all the such and
such species on their lot. You go

1551
01:58:49.479 --> 01:58:53.439
pick the one you want and they
tag it, they bring it, they

1552
01:58:53.479 --> 01:58:56.640
plant it, and if they plant
it, they guarantee it. They give

1553
01:58:56.680 --> 01:59:00.560
a guarantee for one year with the
installation, and you need to planet right.

1554
01:59:00.600 --> 01:59:04.399
They know how to plant it right. Verdant Tree Farm Verdant Treefarm dot

1555
01:59:04.439 --> 01:59:13.279
com. I wanted to talk a
little bit about something regarding the soil.

1556
01:59:13.640 --> 01:59:16.439
Now you see mixes when you see
soil for sale, for example, a

1557
01:59:16.439 --> 01:59:21.439
bed mix or something like that.
Heirloom soils get real specific. They have

1558
01:59:21.800 --> 01:59:27.720
a fruit berry and citrus mix for
example. They have a veggie and herb

1559
01:59:27.800 --> 01:59:30.880
mix, which by the way,
is one hundred and nineteen dollars in bulk,

1560
01:59:30.000 --> 01:59:33.600
and they do deliver to delivery comes
at a cost. Of course,

1561
01:59:34.159 --> 01:59:36.279
you can go to the site and
load it up, or you can get

1562
01:59:36.279 --> 01:59:41.119
them to deliver a supersack. Put
a supersac on your trailer if you want.

1563
01:59:41.159 --> 01:59:44.680
It's a cubic yard of soil.
By the way, luis from Heirloom

1564
01:59:44.720 --> 01:59:46.840
Soals will be done at Cieno Mulch
with me today. Will be giving away

1565
01:59:46.840 --> 01:59:50.199
some of their products. So come
on down and meet them and pick his

1566
01:59:50.279 --> 01:59:56.560
brain. He knows a lot about
various kinds of soil. Heirloom is widely

1567
01:59:56.600 --> 02:00:00.680
available, easy to find, easy
to find, works really well. Earlier

1568
02:00:00.760 --> 02:00:10.159
I was talking about be Supply.
I believe be Supply is going to be

1569
02:00:10.199 --> 02:00:15.439
the place where you learn more about
bees than you even knew was to learn.

1570
02:00:16.199 --> 02:00:19.640
Every time I talked Paul and the
guys out there at be Supply,

1571
02:00:20.600 --> 02:00:27.560
it's just mind boggling all the different
stuff that they know about bees. The

1572
02:00:27.600 --> 02:00:31.000
world of bees is astounding. They
can get you set up for a backyard

1573
02:00:31.000 --> 02:00:33.520
beekeeper. Do you want to do
that? They can get you set up.

1574
02:00:33.520 --> 02:00:36.399
They got classes. Maybe just go
take a class and find out if

1575
02:00:36.399 --> 02:00:41.359
it's for you. April thirteenth and
April twenty seventh, or the next two

1576
02:00:41.399 --> 02:00:45.960
classes. You need to go to
vbsupply dot com in order to get signed

1577
02:00:45.039 --> 02:00:47.920
up. If you just want to
learn about bees, if you've got a

1578
02:00:47.960 --> 02:00:53.079
garden club group you want to take
out, or maybe maybe a homeschool group

1579
02:00:53.119 --> 02:00:56.479
of kiddos, oh gosh, they
will love this. And they do a

1580
02:00:56.520 --> 02:01:00.119
thing called the Interactive Honey Tour where
you even get to taste honey and you

1581
02:01:00.239 --> 02:01:06.640
learn a lot at thebsupply dot Com. I would highly highly recommend it one

1582
02:01:06.640 --> 02:01:13.079
of the most interesting things that I
have ever seen before. A little bit

1583
02:01:13.079 --> 02:01:18.680
ago I was discussing RCW nurseries and
talking about the different things that they carry.

1584
02:01:19.439 --> 02:01:27.479
When it comes to quality plants,
they've got you covered. The rose

1585
02:01:27.520 --> 02:01:32.119
selection is it's unlike anything you've ever
seen. And boy, April is the

1586
02:01:32.159 --> 02:01:36.239
big bloom and rosemont it's one of
the best months of the year for rose

1587
02:01:36.239 --> 02:01:43.199
blooms. But RCWI can get you
set up with some of those Ramontant roses.

1588
02:01:43.279 --> 02:01:46.000
That's your horticulture fun fact word for
the day. Ramonta means it re

1589
02:01:46.199 --> 02:01:50.199
blooms. Some roses like Lady Banks
just bloom in the spring and they're done.

1590
02:01:50.399 --> 02:01:54.960
That's still a great rose to have, but some bloom and bloom and

1591
02:01:54.960 --> 02:01:58.800
bloom, that's what you want your
landscape. For sure. RCWI can get

1592
02:01:58.800 --> 02:02:01.880
you set up. I think they
have over two hundred different roses that they

1593
02:02:02.000 --> 02:02:06.239
carry from time to time there at
RCW Nurseries. They're at Tomball Parkway in

1594
02:02:06.279 --> 02:02:10.399
belt Way eight. It's easy to
find them. It's easy to get in

1595
02:02:10.439 --> 02:02:14.039
there and get out. But now's
the time to plant a rose bush.

1596
02:02:14.199 --> 02:02:16.520
Get that thing in the ground,
get it going. You take care of

1597
02:02:16.560 --> 02:02:21.560
it good by watering and fertilizing it
on a regular basis, and your fall

1598
02:02:21.720 --> 02:02:26.960
rose show will be stunning. You
can set yourself up right now for a

1599
02:02:27.000 --> 02:02:35.039
beautiful fall rose show. At RCW
Nurseries, they absolutely just every time I

1600
02:02:35.079 --> 02:02:39.920
go by there, I'm very surprised
at the breadth of the things that they

1601
02:02:40.079 --> 02:02:44.880
carry. That would include herbs and
perennials and annuals and shrubs and native plants.

1602
02:02:44.960 --> 02:02:48.920
Yes, they do have native plants
and certainly trees, but today why

1603
02:02:48.960 --> 02:02:54.119
not put a rose bush in that's
a shrub rose. There would be a

1604
02:02:54.159 --> 02:02:59.640
beautiful plant all the time, not
just something that is for the cutflower garden,

1605
02:03:00.119 --> 02:03:03.119
something that is a landscape plant.
RCW can get you set up.

1606
02:03:03.319 --> 02:03:06.159
They'll give you the products. You'll
give you. They'll say the products that

1607
02:03:06.239 --> 02:03:11.079
you need to get that plant started, roots stimulator and a fertilizer and things

1608
02:03:11.159 --> 02:03:16.079
like that. They carry microlife and
they that's an excellent one for getting things

1609
02:03:16.079 --> 02:03:24.439
started off to do well. Speaking
of the microlife, microlife fertilizers and that

1610
02:03:24.640 --> 02:03:28.920
is plural. They have a wide
variety of things. Do you need seaweed,

1611
02:03:29.159 --> 02:03:34.000
for example, they've got the standard
is the green bag that is the

1612
02:03:34.000 --> 02:03:38.319
one for lawns, but it's also
for a lot of other things. When

1613
02:03:38.720 --> 02:03:43.119
when you go to microlife, you're
going to find that pretty much every kind

1614
02:03:43.119 --> 02:03:45.840
of plant you would want to grow, every kind of way you want to

1615
02:03:45.960 --> 02:03:49.760
enhance it, they're going to have
the products that you need. Say start

1616
02:03:49.760 --> 02:03:54.560
with that sixty four. If you've
got acid loving plants, they have a

1617
02:03:54.640 --> 02:04:00.239
pinkish bag that is for acid loving
plants like blueberries, guardinas camille for example.

1618
02:04:00.600 --> 02:04:05.640
They're going to have the supplemental sprays
for folier feeding. The everything they

1619
02:04:05.680 --> 02:04:13.600
have is loaded with micronutrients, and
micronutrients are absolutely essential. It's also loaded

1620
02:04:13.640 --> 02:04:18.640
with microbes microbes make the world around, They run the world. Absolutely droned

1621
02:04:18.680 --> 02:04:25.680
on about that the other day.
But microhizal, fungib beneficial bacteria, all

1622
02:04:25.800 --> 02:04:29.399
kinds of things like that. For
your spring fertilization of the lawn, let's

1623
02:04:29.439 --> 02:04:32.600
do the green bag sixty four,
and let's do the purple bag humates plus

1624
02:04:33.039 --> 02:04:38.640
concentrated compost in a bag. Two
different products. Apply one, turn right

1625
02:04:38.680 --> 02:04:41.640
around, apply the other one,
and you be off to a good start.

1626
02:04:41.680 --> 02:04:45.000
For more information, all you got
is go to microlifefertilizer dot com and

1627
02:04:45.119 --> 02:04:50.239
you can find out everything that you
want to know and where to get it

1628
02:04:50.319 --> 02:04:55.560
too. By the way, they're
widely available. Our phone number is seven

1629
02:04:55.600 --> 02:05:01.920
to one three two one two fifty
eight seventy four three two one two five

1630
02:05:02.000 --> 02:05:05.399
eight seven four. We have a
rare situation here where we had a blank

1631
02:05:05.479 --> 02:05:10.000
board, So if you would like
to call without waiting, boy, now's

1632
02:05:10.039 --> 02:05:15.560
a time doll it quick seven to
one three two one two five eight seven

1633
02:05:15.800 --> 02:05:21.840
four. Jungle land potting soils and
that is with an s plural distributed by

1634
02:05:21.960 --> 02:05:28.840
nitropost Fertilizer. Well, they have
both the outdoor version that's the flour and

1635
02:05:29.000 --> 02:05:32.960
vegetable jungle land. They have the
indoor version with the water saving crystals.

1636
02:05:33.199 --> 02:05:40.439
That is the water saving version of
jungle land for indoor plants. Widely available.

1637
02:05:40.439 --> 02:05:45.199
Plants are products for your plants.
When we talk about nitrofoss products,

1638
02:05:45.640 --> 02:05:48.119
we mean you can get them pretty
much anywhere that you want to go.

1639
02:05:48.640 --> 02:05:51.760
Uh. You know, they have
them up at plants for all seasons.

1640
02:05:51.760 --> 02:05:57.560
They got a motor arborgate for example. All the Ace hardware stores are great

1641
02:05:57.600 --> 02:06:02.600
places to get those kind of products. And when you're looking at making sure

1642
02:06:03.119 --> 02:06:09.159
that your plants are fed properly,
well, you're going to find a wide

1643
02:06:09.239 --> 02:06:12.760
variety of nitropos for that. But
if you're potting up some things to go

1644
02:06:12.840 --> 02:06:16.239
outside to go on the patio or
redoing. I potted up some houseplants last

1645
02:06:16.279 --> 02:06:23.439
weekend, Mike. The nitropos jungle
land is excellent for that. It drains

1646
02:06:23.439 --> 02:06:27.119
well, but it also holds water
and that's very important. If you go

1647
02:06:27.439 --> 02:06:30.600
out in Kingwood at the Ice Hardware
Store, you can find it there.

1648
02:06:30.079 --> 02:06:33.880
Absolutely you can find it. There
are shades of Texas down on Genoa Red

1649
02:06:33.920 --> 02:06:39.119
Bluff kind of southeast Houston. They
carry it there as well as out in

1650
02:06:39.319 --> 02:06:47.399
Angleton at Lake Hardware in Angleton.
Excuse me, but quality soil is important.

1651
02:06:47.640 --> 02:06:50.760
You hear me say all the time, brown stuff before green stuff.

1652
02:06:50.800 --> 02:06:56.560
I know it's a broken record,
but it is so absolutely true. That

1653
02:06:56.720 --> 02:07:00.000
is the I was going to say, is that the number one mistake,

1654
02:07:00.119 --> 02:07:02.960
it is in the top five mistakes
that people make when they try to grow

1655
02:07:03.039 --> 02:07:08.640
things and don't have success, is
the soil, the lack of preparation.

1656
02:07:08.880 --> 02:07:13.479
You know, you go to a
garden center and you find this beautiful plant

1657
02:07:13.640 --> 02:07:16.560
full of ballooms in a container,
and you just imagine it in your landscape.

1658
02:07:16.600 --> 02:07:20.279
You take it home and you PLoP
the plant in an unprepared plot.

1659
02:07:20.800 --> 02:07:26.399
Say that three times fast, and
it just sit there or it declines,

1660
02:07:26.640 --> 02:07:30.760
and it's because the soil is horrible. It may be a clay that doesn't

1661
02:07:30.880 --> 02:07:34.640
drain well, or you know,
you got to build your soil first.

1662
02:07:34.800 --> 02:07:40.800
Make that plant ready to go,
and it'll hit the ground running when you

1663
02:07:41.239 --> 02:07:45.079
take care of your soil. That's
true of house plant soils, so mixes,

1664
02:07:45.520 --> 02:07:48.439
that's true of containers outside, that's
true of the landscape beds. And

1665
02:07:48.720 --> 02:07:51.880
one of the easiest ways to get
into garden. Maybe you thought about vegetable

1666
02:07:51.920 --> 02:07:58.199
gardening and you haven't you just haven't, you know, pull the trigger on

1667
02:07:58.279 --> 02:08:01.840
it, put a box on the
ground, fill it full of a quality

1668
02:08:01.960 --> 02:08:07.760
veggie nerb mix like heirloom soauce has, for example, and then right after

1669
02:08:07.800 --> 02:08:11.520
it's done, you're rate of plant
and you have absolute success. You're not

1670
02:08:11.600 --> 02:08:16.119
banging your teeth loose with a rototiller
as you're bouncing along hard clay soils.

1671
02:08:16.760 --> 02:08:20.479
You're just putting a box on top
of it all and it makes it really

1672
02:08:20.479 --> 02:08:24.840
easy. But why is it easy. It's because the soil is absolutely wonderful

1673
02:08:26.279 --> 02:08:31.479
for the plants that you're wanting to
grow. Soil soil, soil that's lots

1674
02:08:31.520 --> 02:08:37.079
of microbial activity, soil that drains
well, but also soil that can hold

1675
02:08:37.159 --> 02:08:43.319
some excess moisture very important. That
is one of the top secrets to success

1676
02:08:43.000 --> 02:08:48.560
is make sure when the plant gets
there, you've already prepared for success with

1677
02:08:48.640 --> 02:08:52.800
the soil. You do it the
other way around. I can't help you.

1678
02:08:52.039 --> 02:08:54.640
I mean, it is what it
is, and you just kind of

1679
02:08:54.680 --> 02:09:00.039
have to live with it or pull
up the plant start all over it.

1680
02:09:00.119 --> 02:09:03.680
Well, we don't have to do
that. You're listening to guardline. We're

1681
02:09:03.680 --> 02:09:05.720
about to take a little break at
the top of the hour. Here we

1682
02:09:05.840 --> 02:09:09.680
got another hour in the books today. Our phone number is seven one three

1683
02:09:09.760 --> 02:09:13.880
two point two fifty eight seventy four. At ten o'clock when this show ends,

1684
02:09:15.039 --> 02:09:18.960
I am making a bee line for
Siena mulchis second annual Spring Fling.

1685
02:09:20.000 --> 02:09:22.600
It's from ten am to two pm
today. They're gonna have a lot of

1686
02:09:22.640 --> 02:09:28.720
great folksure I'll be there. They
will have Jay White from Texas Gardener magazine,

1687
02:09:28.800 --> 02:09:33.920
a lot of reps from the companies
like Airloom Soils and Medina for example,

1688
02:09:33.079 --> 02:09:35.880
and now some plant food. We'll
all be there. They'll be giving

1689
02:09:35.880 --> 02:09:43.560
away a palet, a palette of
landscaper's pride to some very fortunate person.

1690
02:09:43.560 --> 02:09:48.960
They're gonna have a food truck out
there. Bring me some plants to look

1691
02:09:48.000 --> 02:09:54.199
at and photos or sample and I'll
be giving away oh oh, probably eight

1692
02:09:54.279 --> 02:09:58.079
or so products. Katrh Garden Line
does not necessarily endorse any of the products

1693
02:09:58.159 --> 02:10:03.920
or services advertise it's on this program. Welcome to Katie r. H Garden

1694
02:10:03.960 --> 02:10:18.920
Line with Scamp Richter's Mill, the
Crazy Gas Trip. Just watch him as

1695
02:10:18.640 --> 02:10:31.560
gas so many do takes the soup
backs, gass, the clubs back chickens,

1696
02:10:31.600 --> 02:10:41.239
not a sound glass and gas the
sun bemon of tweet. Welcome back

1697
02:10:41.279 --> 02:10:45.159
to garden Line, looking forward to
visiting with you today. Uh. You

1698
02:10:45.239 --> 02:10:46.920
know, when it comes to gardening, there are so many different things we

1699
02:10:48.000 --> 02:10:52.279
can talk about, but one of
my favorite things to talk about is the

1700
02:10:52.960 --> 02:10:56.960
garden centers that we have. It. Listen, those of you who live

1701
02:10:56.000 --> 02:11:01.079
in the Greater Houstonnario, you you
may not know just how fortunate you are.

1702
02:11:01.760 --> 02:11:05.399
I've been all over to Texas,
I've been to other states. I

1703
02:11:05.479 --> 02:11:07.760
always have to check out a garden
center everywhere I go. I've never seen

1704
02:11:07.800 --> 02:11:13.840
a place with this many quality garden
centers. And one of the best places

1705
02:11:13.880 --> 02:11:18.520
you're going to go is Enchened Forests
down in Richmond. You walk in there

1706
02:11:18.960 --> 02:11:22.560
and I love the scene. I
love the buildings, I love the setting,

1707
02:11:22.680 --> 02:11:24.159
the shade trees, and the plants, and it just goes on and

1708
02:11:24.319 --> 02:11:31.279
on and on, herbs and vegetables
and flowers. They re specialize in pollinators

1709
02:11:31.399 --> 02:11:35.720
butterfly plants, for example. They've
got an excellent selection of that. They

1710
02:11:35.800 --> 02:11:41.319
can cover your pollinator garden and they
know what they're talking about. It educated

1711
02:11:41.399 --> 02:11:46.199
folks about plants and how to have
success. So you come out and you

1712
02:11:46.399 --> 02:11:52.479
just enjoy pretty much a choice of
whatever you need and someone who can point

1713
02:11:52.520 --> 02:11:56.319
you to the right thing. They
constantly are getting in new things, always

1714
02:11:56.359 --> 02:12:01.159
getting in new things. By the
way, Chended Forest is on FM twenty

1715
02:12:01.279 --> 02:12:05.640
seven fifty nine, So if you're
heading from Richmond to sugar Land, for

1716
02:12:05.680 --> 02:12:09.279
example, it's off to the right
FM twenty seven fifty nine. Go by

1717
02:12:09.439 --> 02:12:15.680
there and check out what's happening.
There's always something going on, always something

1718
02:12:15.720 --> 02:12:20.079
going on there at Enchanted Forests.
And I promise you you will be very

1719
02:12:20.199 --> 02:12:24.239
impressed. Do you need color,
color beds, color shrubs. They've got

1720
02:12:24.319 --> 02:12:30.439
it at Enchanted Forest. I'm just
really impressed with the things that they have

1721
02:12:30.560 --> 02:12:35.239
put together. Always a nice,
nice collection of things. Let's go to

1722
02:12:35.560 --> 02:12:39.239
ray Out in Katie to start off
the r HUD. Right, Good morning,

1723
02:12:39.359 --> 02:12:43.640
Escape morning, Good morning. I
just had a question. I have

1724
02:12:43.840 --> 02:12:48.760
cabbages in my garden and I bought
some mosquito net, you know, the

1725
02:12:48.960 --> 02:12:52.960
really tiny, tiny mosquito net.
Yes, trying to prevent the bugs.

1726
02:12:52.000 --> 02:12:58.640
But there's still there's still holes in
my in the leaves of the of the

1727
02:12:58.800 --> 02:13:01.000
plants, some of the plants.
What can I do to prevent that.

1728
02:13:01.239 --> 02:13:07.359
I was thinking about getting even some
lady bugs, but then the lady bugs

1729
02:13:07.359 --> 02:13:11.560
will fly will fly away. Yeah, what can I use for that?

1730
02:13:11.840 --> 02:13:18.479
Okay, So if you put cabbage
out and before the caterpillars get in there

1731
02:13:18.600 --> 02:13:22.840
to start eating holes in it,
you cover it with that fine screen mesh,

1732
02:13:24.560 --> 02:13:26.760
that will keep them out. But
so if you have them underneath that

1733
02:13:26.920 --> 02:13:31.039
mesh, and you have the mesh
sealed aro on the side so something can't

1734
02:13:31.279 --> 02:13:35.880
fly underneath it, then you're gonna
have to lift off the mesh and spray

1735
02:13:35.000 --> 02:13:41.640
them with one of two products either
bt BE as in boy teas and tom

1736
02:13:41.880 --> 02:13:45.439
that's a caterpillar killer. It only
lasts about a day out there in the

1737
02:13:45.600 --> 02:13:48.960
environment, and then you know,
so a week later you may need to

1738
02:13:48.000 --> 02:13:52.079
spragg and just watch for the appearance
of new holes. That means you need

1739
02:13:52.159 --> 02:13:56.439
to spray. You got to get
it on the foliage. So I would

1740
02:13:56.600 --> 02:14:01.600
use some sort of a spread or
sticker to put it in there with the

1741
02:14:01.680 --> 02:14:05.760
mix to make it stick to the
foliage a little better. Because cabbage leaves,

1742
02:14:05.800 --> 02:14:09.720
the spray rolls right off and big
old it balls up on the water,

1743
02:14:11.640 --> 02:14:16.119
beads up on the plant and rolls
off spinosid s p I n O

1744
02:14:16.560 --> 02:14:20.840
s A D. Spinosid's another one
for that, and then just hand picking.

1745
02:14:20.000 --> 02:14:24.520
Sometimes I'll go through my plants and
turn them over and find the caterpillars

1746
02:14:24.560 --> 02:14:28.560
and smash them. Uh, that's
tedious, but that is also in the

1747
02:14:28.720 --> 02:14:31.560
group of options that you have.
Okay, so it will be it will

1748
02:14:31.600 --> 02:14:35.359
be a bug that I can see. It'll be a caterpillar, but it'll

1749
02:14:35.399 --> 02:14:39.239
be the same color as the cabbage, so it's hard. They can hide

1750
02:14:39.279 --> 02:14:45.000
if you're not looking carefully, and
they're all always underneath the leaves. Okay,

1751
02:14:45.239 --> 02:14:50.279
Okay, beautiful, good, you
bet, you bet appreciate that.

1752
02:14:50.520 --> 02:14:54.039
When you're watering in new plants.
Now it's spring for crying out lead.

1753
02:14:54.119 --> 02:14:58.880
You need to be planting stuff well
has to grow six twelve six from medina.

1754
02:15:00.239 --> 02:15:01.800
You need some of that. You
put it in. I put mine

1755
02:15:01.800 --> 02:15:05.680
in a watering can, mix it
according to the label, and drench in

1756
02:15:05.880 --> 02:15:09.880
the new transplants with hash to grow
six twelve six, and then a week

1757
02:15:09.960 --> 02:15:13.560
later, do it again, a
week later, do it again. Those

1758
02:15:13.640 --> 02:15:18.159
three applications over two weeks helps the
root system get off to a really good

1759
02:15:18.199 --> 02:15:22.560
start. It's got medina sol activator, and it's got a humic acid in

1760
02:15:22.640 --> 02:15:26.479
it. It even has seaweed extracts
in It has to grow six twelve six

1761
02:15:26.600 --> 02:15:31.279
from Medina. And by the way, Andy from Medina will be down at

1762
02:15:31.359 --> 02:15:35.039
Cienamulch today with me and the other
gang down there and we'll be giving away

1763
02:15:35.199 --> 02:15:39.359
a number of the Medina products,
so you don't want to miss that.

1764
02:15:41.319 --> 02:15:46.000
Let's now head out to southwest Houston
and talk to John. Hello, John,

1765
02:15:46.199 --> 02:15:50.039
Hi, stay skeepe. How you
doing today? I'm good, sir.

1766
02:15:50.239 --> 02:15:52.880
What's up in passing? Let's see. No, you're in southwest Houston,

1767
02:15:52.880 --> 02:15:58.840
Okay, southwest Sustina. Have two
questions. Trust eggplants week holes in

1768
02:15:58.960 --> 02:16:03.560
them? Leaves? Yes? And
then the second question is I had a

1769
02:16:05.239 --> 02:16:09.880
you know, a papia plant last
year and he died this winter. And

1770
02:16:09.199 --> 02:16:13.960
I noticed that on the stump above
the ground they have several shoots. What

1771
02:16:15.159 --> 02:16:18.720
should I Should I pick out some
of those shoots or should I just leave

1772
02:16:18.760 --> 02:16:22.039
it to grow until to see which
one is viable? You can wait a

1773
02:16:22.079 --> 02:16:24.760
little while, Yeah, you can
wait a little while, but don't wait

1774
02:16:24.800 --> 02:16:28.479
too long and just take the ones
you're not going to choose, and it'll

1775
02:16:28.520 --> 02:16:33.200
be back in business pretty quick.
The root system didn't freeze, and apparently

1776
02:16:33.319 --> 02:16:35.239
a little bit of the top at
the base didn't freeze, so you ought

1777
02:16:35.280 --> 02:16:39.600
to be good. The eggplant with
holes, John, that is a flea

1778
02:16:39.719 --> 02:16:45.879
beetle. It's a little tiny beetle
and they jump like fleas can hop,

1779
02:16:46.079 --> 02:16:48.760
and so it's kind of hard to
find them, but they're there. You're

1780
02:16:48.840 --> 02:16:52.079
going to need to use if you
can find it. Now, this is

1781
02:16:52.239 --> 02:16:58.440
not easy to find. But if
you can find a type of BT that's

1782
02:16:58.600 --> 02:17:05.559
not caterpillar type. But the type
of BT is called San Diego, like

1783
02:17:05.639 --> 02:17:13.520
the city in California, San Diego
and Diego San Diego BT will control leaf

1784
02:17:13.840 --> 02:17:18.000
feeding beetles. Now, that is
an organic option. It's probably going to

1785
02:17:18.079 --> 02:17:22.559
be hard to find. The other
type of thing to use is spinosid s

1786
02:17:22.719 --> 02:17:28.479
P I N O S A D. It comes in many different brands.

1787
02:17:28.879 --> 02:17:33.520
It seems like every menu, you
know, every company on the shelf at

1788
02:17:33.559 --> 02:17:37.600
the garden center has a version of
spinosid. But spinosid soaks in the tissues

1789
02:17:37.639 --> 02:17:41.200
and it kills things that she leaves. So there you go, all right,

1790
02:17:41.559 --> 02:17:45.799
thank you, yes, thanks so
much. I appreciate I appreciate you

1791
02:17:45.879 --> 02:17:48.680
call very much. Hey, Verdant
Tree Farm. I was telling you about

1792
02:17:48.719 --> 02:17:54.440
them earlier. The website Verdant Treefarm
dot com. Three locations in West easton

1793
02:17:54.680 --> 02:17:58.120
Barker, Cypress, I ten and
Yale in the Heights area, and down

1794
02:17:58.239 --> 02:18:03.239
in Paarland on Broadway Street. They
can fix you up. They have the

1795
02:18:03.360 --> 02:18:07.239
right palm for any budget that you
might have. You can go in sit

1796
02:18:07.319 --> 02:18:11.840
down in the office with them.
It's free for a design consultation. So

1797
02:18:11.360 --> 02:18:16.600
they're not going to draw it a
big, you know, architecture type design

1798
02:18:16.680 --> 02:18:20.079
plant. But what they'll do is
they'll sit there and look at your pictures

1799
02:18:20.159 --> 02:18:22.600
or your landscape or maybe a layout
and say, well, this tree would

1800
02:18:22.600 --> 02:18:26.079
go well here, or that tree
would go well there or whatever. They'll

1801
02:18:26.120 --> 02:18:30.280
help you with that to find the
right palm tree for you, or the

1802
02:18:30.360 --> 02:18:33.639
right of any kind of tree for
you. They offer a one year warranty

1803
02:18:33.719 --> 02:18:41.040
with installation veer Dant Treefarm dot com. Really easy. Take a little break

1804
02:18:41.079 --> 02:18:43.440
here. When we come back,
Tom and Sandy, you'll be the first

1805
02:18:43.559 --> 02:18:50.760
up on no other radio show.
Can you hear music like that? Yodeling

1806
02:18:50.920 --> 02:18:54.920
chickens? Wow? You can thank
me later. We're gonna go to Cyprus.

1807
02:18:56.079 --> 02:18:58.520
And talk to Sandy. Hello,
Sandy, how are you this morning?

1808
02:19:01.959 --> 02:19:05.959
I have a couple of questions.
One of them is, well,

1809
02:19:05.280 --> 02:19:11.760
gentlemen, before the break already passed
you the question about the holes? But

1810
02:19:11.920 --> 02:19:16.559
how do I know when the beetles
are completely gone because I sprayed them.

1811
02:19:16.920 --> 02:19:22.760
My leaves are looking good on my
bell peppers and my eggplants, they're looking

1812
02:19:22.840 --> 02:19:31.120
good. Okay, but just watch
for new holes and remember thus plants can

1813
02:19:31.239 --> 02:19:39.280
take a significant loss of leaves before
it affects them significantly. So just because

1814
02:19:39.360 --> 02:19:41.440
someone has a hole in a leaf, and I know that that's not what

1815
02:19:41.600 --> 02:19:46.639
you're describing, but just because you
see some leaf missing doesn't mean you have

1816
02:19:46.719 --> 02:19:50.360
a crisis. One time years ago, I'll never forget this. They did

1817
02:19:50.399 --> 02:19:54.639
a study on green bean plants bush
beans, how many leaves do we have

1818
02:19:54.760 --> 02:19:58.600
to pull off a bush bean plant
before it affects production? And it was

1819
02:19:58.719 --> 02:20:03.319
like forty percent the leaves before they
saw a significant drop. Now, so

1820
02:20:03.600 --> 02:20:07.280
I guess that's just just say eh, a few a few holes here.

1821
02:20:07.399 --> 02:20:11.159
Don't don't panic. We don't have
to spray everything we see out there.

1822
02:20:11.280 --> 02:20:15.399
But I think you'll probably be okay
if you've done the treatment. Just just

1823
02:20:15.520 --> 02:20:18.920
watch for a lot of new holes
appearing. Okay, one more question my

1824
02:20:20.040 --> 02:20:26.639
blueberry plant when I pune it,
because I puned it during the free last

1825
02:20:26.719 --> 02:20:33.120
year, a lot of the branches
were dead and so I cut them,

1826
02:20:33.479 --> 02:20:39.959
and I've got some new green branches
coming up. But the but the dead

1827
02:20:41.000 --> 02:20:43.079
ones, how do I get those? Like? Do I cut them all

1828
02:20:43.120 --> 02:20:46.239
the way down to the soil or
how do I do that? Well?

1829
02:20:46.440 --> 02:20:52.159
You cut out anything that's dead.
That's for sure is how long have you

1830
02:20:52.239 --> 02:20:56.959
had this blueberry? Just a year? A year? Okay? So as

1831
02:20:58.079 --> 02:21:01.840
the plant gets older, we say
blueberry shoots or canes coming out of the

1832
02:21:01.879 --> 02:21:07.079
bottom. They are on about a
five year life cycle, and then we

1833
02:21:07.239 --> 02:21:13.120
prune them, they'll live longer.
But if you remove any one way to

1834
02:21:13.159 --> 02:21:16.520
look at is remove one fifth of
all of them each year. But you're

1835
02:21:16.559 --> 02:21:20.360
not you still have several years to
go before you hit that stage. Right

1836
02:21:20.479 --> 02:21:24.600
now, I would just focus on
fertilizing and watering it to get good growth

1837
02:21:24.959 --> 02:21:28.600
and anything that was dead. Cut
it all as far back as the living

1838
02:21:28.719 --> 02:21:33.239
tissues. If you scrape them with
the finger nail and you see green,

1839
02:21:33.360 --> 02:21:37.600
well, then you don't have to
cut further back than that okay, all

1840
02:21:37.680 --> 02:21:45.600
right. And the strawberries or strawberries
acid living for they micro Life six kind

1841
02:21:45.639 --> 02:21:52.200
of thing. What was the first
product you said? Are they acid blueberry?

1842
02:21:52.280 --> 02:21:56.479
Oh? Yes, well no,
they can take they can take acid

1843
02:21:56.840 --> 02:22:01.959
or they're they're fairly giving something anywhere
around neutral is going to be okay with

1844
02:22:03.079 --> 02:22:07.799
them. There's no problem with fertilizing
it with a like a Microlife pink bag,

1845
02:22:07.879 --> 02:22:09.840
which is acidic. But if you
just want to use the green bag,

1846
02:22:09.959 --> 02:22:13.479
that's fine too. They'll be fine
on that. Just work whatever you

1847
02:22:13.559 --> 02:22:18.559
apply like that. Those organic fertilizers, you want to work them into the

1848
02:22:18.680 --> 02:22:22.040
soil surface. Don't just let them
sit on top in a garden. If

1849
02:22:22.079 --> 02:22:26.360
you can mulch over them or work
them in the soil surface, I think

1850
02:22:26.440 --> 02:22:33.479
that's a little bit better. Okay, yes, all you too, Thank

1851
02:22:33.520 --> 02:22:39.000
you very much. Appreciate that,
Paul. Birds go with gardening. Do

1852
02:22:39.040 --> 02:22:43.200
you know that birds many things go
with gardening? The sound of water,

1853
02:22:43.440 --> 02:22:46.799
the sound of birds, wa birds
unlimited. They have you set up right

1854
02:22:46.879 --> 02:22:52.760
now we're talking about the ruby throated
hummingbirds coming through. They're going to be

1855
02:22:52.799 --> 02:22:54.760
heading up further north. This is
just kind of a stopping off point for

1856
02:22:54.879 --> 02:23:00.639
them. Get your hummingbird feeders out
there. It is nesting season for a

1857
02:23:00.799 --> 02:23:05.399
lot of birds. So whether it's
bluebirds or pretty much any kind of bird

1858
02:23:05.479 --> 02:23:07.840
you're going to have you're attracting the
yard, you need to feed them a

1859
02:23:07.920 --> 02:23:15.000
high quality feed because this isn't just
bird seed time. This is high quality

1860
02:23:15.600 --> 02:23:20.600
protein and the fats that you're going
to find in things like sunflowers and peanuts

1861
02:23:20.680 --> 02:23:26.680
and dried mealworms and bark, butter
and safflower. All of that is compacted

1862
02:23:26.840 --> 02:23:31.760
into a nesting super blend by wild
birds unlimited. The nesting super blend is

1863
02:23:33.000 --> 02:23:35.520
superfood for the birds. It gets
them ready for the nesting, It helps

1864
02:23:35.559 --> 02:23:39.959
them taking care of their young when
they're growing up. That's important. And

1865
02:23:41.000 --> 02:23:43.200
those birds are out there catching bugs
too. That's a huge part of their

1866
02:23:45.600 --> 02:23:50.159
food supply for a young group of
birds being raised what do they call them

1867
02:23:50.239 --> 02:23:58.559
fledglings. WBU dot com Forward slash
Houston. WBU dot Com Forward slash Houston.

1868
02:23:58.120 --> 02:24:05.840
That's the only place that I've seen
that carries those high quality specialized super

1869
02:24:05.920 --> 02:24:11.719
blend and other bird seed mixes where
you get every bit of the bird seed

1870
02:24:11.879 --> 02:24:15.760
you planted into the bird. A
lot of those. The birds don't like

1871
02:24:15.840 --> 02:24:18.520
the red babies. They kick it
out on the ground. Yes, that

1872
02:24:18.760 --> 02:24:22.559
was cheaper feed when you bought it, but when you look at how many

1873
02:24:22.680 --> 02:24:26.000
pounds of bird food did you get, it's not cheaper feed. Go with

1874
02:24:26.040 --> 02:24:30.600
a quality mix from all birds unlimited. We're going to now go out to

1875
02:24:30.760 --> 02:24:35.079
Jersey Village and talk to George.
Hello George, good morning, skiff.

1876
02:24:35.079 --> 02:24:37.920
How are you doing today. I'm
well, I made a big mistake.

1877
02:24:39.040 --> 02:24:43.799
I just got some Korean squash.
It's a summer squash, about the size

1878
02:24:43.799 --> 02:24:46.479
of a softball, and when I
planted it, I poured some rootstarter and

1879
02:24:46.520 --> 02:24:50.360
now I didn't realize it was a
condensed version, and I should have put

1880
02:24:50.520 --> 02:24:54.719
like two tea spoons per gallon,
and I got the whole thing in there.

1881
02:24:54.799 --> 02:24:58.040
So is there a way I can
rescue the plants? They should be

1882
02:24:58.120 --> 02:25:03.600
okay, just giving them a good
slashing of water kind of rinse it out

1883
02:25:03.600 --> 02:25:05.159
of the system a little bit.
But I think there. I don't know

1884
02:25:05.280 --> 02:25:09.799
exactly what products you use, but
I think in general they're probably going to

1885
02:25:09.840 --> 02:25:13.840
be just fine. Okay, are
you a new present days today? At

1886
02:25:13.879 --> 02:25:18.079
the wherever we are? Remember where
you are to that game remember I'm going

1887
02:25:18.120 --> 02:25:20.559
to be at Ciena Maltch down South. Yeah, I won't be doing a

1888
02:25:20.600 --> 02:25:24.319
presentation. This is an outdoor event
with tables and things and food trucks and

1889
02:25:24.360 --> 02:25:28.920
all kinds of stuff. But people
come by and we just eye to eye,

1890
02:25:28.959 --> 02:25:31.719
one on one. They bring samples, bring pictures. Okay, yeah,

1891
02:25:31.959 --> 02:25:35.360
how about tomorrow, You're can do
the same thing tomorrow. I will

1892
02:25:35.399 --> 02:25:37.559
not be doing that. No,
not tomorrow. Okay, all right,

1893
02:25:37.840 --> 02:25:43.479
thanks very much. GIP somewhere pretty
much every weekend, but not on Sunday.

1894
02:25:43.879 --> 02:25:48.280
Thank you. Okay, thanks again. I appreciate you giving me a

1895
02:25:48.399 --> 02:25:56.280
call. Those of you you hear
me bragging about our garden centers here in

1896
02:25:56.319 --> 02:26:01.120
the Houston area. Well for those
of you really all over town, but

1897
02:26:01.639 --> 02:26:07.719
especially down kind of southwest direction Seabrook. You know that area. Moss Nursery

1898
02:26:09.200 --> 02:26:13.639
is your local garden center. And
I know people that drive there from a

1899
02:26:13.760 --> 02:26:20.239
long distance because they recognize my Moss
Nursery is not just another garden center.

1900
02:26:20.639 --> 02:26:24.000
I mean it is a place where
you're going to find really cool stuff.

1901
02:26:24.040 --> 02:26:28.399
I was just looking the other day. I got a picture from the folks

1902
02:26:28.440 --> 02:26:33.040
there, and they had some beautiful
plants, but in the background, there's

1903
02:26:33.120 --> 02:26:35.239
just like a little totem of carved
wood with a face in it, and

1904
02:26:37.399 --> 02:26:41.399
it's just it's eight acres. People, you walk around eight acres. I've

1905
02:26:41.479 --> 02:26:46.680
never seen a houseplant collection like they
have. Do you want hanging baskets?

1906
02:26:46.879 --> 02:26:50.120
They've got that, veggies and herbs, Yeah, of course they got that.

1907
02:26:50.520 --> 02:26:52.280
A while back. They got some
new shipments of cacti. In fact,

1908
02:26:52.280 --> 02:26:56.959
there's the trucks line up are pretty
much up morning to bring in new

1909
02:26:56.079 --> 02:27:01.120
shipments of things. Do you want
a microlife fertilizer While you're in there,

1910
02:27:01.159 --> 02:27:05.159
remember take care of the brown stuff? Well, they've got that my favorite

1911
02:27:05.159 --> 02:27:09.559
spring tree, Chinese French tree.
They've got that Texas Mountain Lord. I

1912
02:27:09.680 --> 02:27:13.760
mean, I could just go on
all day. Moss Nursery is down in

1913
02:27:13.200 --> 02:27:22.840
Seabrook on Toddville Road. Here's the
website Maas Nursery dot com. Maas Nursery

1914
02:27:22.879 --> 02:27:24.360
dot com. You need to go
see it. That's the bottom I can

1915
02:27:24.440 --> 02:27:28.040
describe it, but you need to
go see it. Allow yourself some time

1916
02:27:28.520 --> 02:27:33.239
to walk through and begin to take
it all in, because it's almost impossible

1917
02:27:33.280 --> 02:27:39.040
to take everything in because there's so
much cool stuff going on. Let's go

1918
02:27:39.200 --> 02:27:41.639
down to Crystal Beach and talk to
Tom. Now, Hello, Tom,

1919
02:27:43.120 --> 02:27:52.239
good morning. Crystal Beach is an
easy place for things to grow. And

1920
02:27:52.440 --> 02:28:01.319
I have an award winning looking lemon
bush in a five gallon bucket that right

1921
02:28:01.440 --> 02:28:09.159
now has hundreds of blossoms on it, and same as last year. Last

1922
02:28:09.239 --> 02:28:13.600
year, they all fell off and
I only got one lam uh huh.

1923
02:28:13.959 --> 02:28:20.639
What am I doing wrong? Is
it the wind that blows them off?

1924
02:28:20.879 --> 02:28:26.559
Or what? Okay, how long
has it been in the container for about

1925
02:28:26.959 --> 02:28:33.399
three years? Okay? Well,
anything that stresses the tree during the bloom

1926
02:28:33.440 --> 02:28:41.000
and post bloom is going to potentially
cause fruit drop. Overloading of blooms that

1927
02:28:41.319 --> 02:28:46.239
the citrus tree is going to produce
more blooms than it can develop fruit,

1928
02:28:46.600 --> 02:28:50.440
and so it has to cast some
of them off. But a stress like

1929
02:28:50.719 --> 02:28:56.040
getting dry for just a short time, the container not being well watered,

1930
02:28:56.079 --> 02:29:01.040
a soggy wet, the holes in
the bottom of the container aren't draining properly,

1931
02:29:01.680 --> 02:29:05.360
those are all stresses of it.
I don't think the wind is a

1932
02:29:05.399 --> 02:29:11.280
big issue, but it definitely any
other kind of a little stress would be

1933
02:29:11.600 --> 02:29:18.959
a contributor to that. Oh well, it happens every year. Yeah,

1934
02:29:20.200 --> 02:29:26.520
I mean every year, and the
plant is beautiful. It's not stressed in

1935
02:29:26.680 --> 02:29:31.959
any way as far as the plant
goes, and I water it. I

1936
02:29:31.159 --> 02:29:39.000
water it regularly, Yeah, along
with everything else. But it is the

1937
02:29:39.159 --> 02:29:43.680
only thing. My onions, my
carrots, everything else grow like crazy.

1938
02:29:43.920 --> 02:29:50.840
Well, let's watch the excess nitrogen
in it too. Fertilizing quite a bit.

1939
02:29:52.399 --> 02:29:56.719
It promotes a lot of vegetative growth, but it's not the best thing

1940
02:29:56.799 --> 02:30:03.799
to do for good fruit set and
development. About fertilizing not enough, You

1941
02:30:03.879 --> 02:30:07.440
would see that your tree wouldn't be
growing and looking good. It would just

1942
02:30:07.600 --> 02:30:09.479
kind of be sitting there, not
putting on new growth. The leaves would

1943
02:30:09.520 --> 02:30:16.879
be turning yellow somewhere on the plant, and so that I don't it doesn't

1944
02:30:16.920 --> 02:30:20.680
sound like that's what's going on there. Okay, one more quick question,

1945
02:30:22.120 --> 02:30:26.600
fleas in the yard? What would
I what do it? Would I spray

1946
02:30:26.680 --> 02:30:31.959
in the yard for fleas? Tom
I would go to your narrostase hardware store

1947
02:30:31.200 --> 02:30:37.159
and ask them that question. You're
gonna want to use an insect growth regulator

1948
02:30:37.079 --> 02:30:41.200
that is labeled for outside use or
even indoors if you have the problem,

1949
02:30:41.520 --> 02:30:46.639
and you definitely want to go to
the vet and get that little oily stuff

1950
02:30:46.719 --> 02:30:50.440
they put you put up on the
top of their haunches behind their head.

1951
02:30:50.879 --> 02:30:54.840
That gets into the pet and kills
any flea that tries to chew on the

1952
02:30:54.920 --> 02:30:58.879
pet. Yeah, one or the
other. I have that. That war

1953
02:31:00.319 --> 02:31:03.840
great. Yeah, so so just
now go out and treat the yard.

1954
02:31:03.920 --> 02:31:05.639
Go to ace Hardbro, tell them
what you got. Get something you can

1955
02:31:05.680 --> 02:31:09.520
put in a hose in sprayer because
you got a wet not just the leaves

1956
02:31:09.559 --> 02:31:11.920
of the plant, but you got
to get that spray done in the thatch

1957
02:31:13.000 --> 02:31:16.479
where the the fleas are hiding and
developing. Uh hey, I've got to

1958
02:31:16.600 --> 02:31:20.920
run. I'm against a heartbreak here
for the news, but good luck with

1959
02:31:20.399 --> 02:31:24.319
getting that under control. Our phone
number here if you like to call seven

1960
02:31:24.399 --> 02:31:28.799
one three two one two kt R
H and Jim. Uh no, let's

1961
02:31:28.799 --> 02:31:31.600
see here. We've got somebody else
coming up, but you'll be the first

1962
02:31:31.680 --> 02:31:35.399
up. Welcome back to guard Line. What do we want to talk about

1963
02:31:35.440 --> 02:31:39.440
today? You tell me. I'm
going to start by heading out to Pearland

1964
02:31:39.559 --> 02:31:43.120
and we're going to talk to Jim. Hello, Jim, Hey, good

1965
02:31:43.159 --> 02:31:50.760
morning, Skip almost asking about fuselage
that you spoke earlier today. I've got

1966
02:31:50.799 --> 02:31:54.000
a flower bed that has a lot
of grass in it, And I was

1967
02:31:54.079 --> 02:31:58.719
just wondering if I used that something
that had that product in it, would

1968
02:31:58.760 --> 02:32:05.079
it affect the other plants. I've
got some rose bushes and some other things,

1969
02:32:05.200 --> 02:32:09.079
other annual flowers in there, but
i also got a lot of grass.

1970
02:32:09.200 --> 02:32:13.280
It's got you to pick out,
got you? Uh, it's actually

1971
02:32:13.319 --> 02:32:20.479
a few salade lade Uh. It
in general just kills grasses, but follow

1972
02:32:20.559 --> 02:32:24.799
the label. The label will tell
you if there's any other closely related plants

1973
02:32:24.840 --> 02:32:28.559
that it could damage, so so
be careful with it. If I Fusiladed

1974
02:32:28.719 --> 02:32:33.559
is a brand name, but you
may find it on the shelves as fusilaide.

1975
02:32:33.639 --> 02:32:39.120
You may also find a different chemical
that does the same thing. Grass

1976
02:32:39.239 --> 02:32:45.520
only killer. Uh. And it
is the ingredient begins with the boys name

1977
02:32:45.760 --> 02:32:48.760
Seth s E t H. I
won't spell the whole thing out. It's

1978
02:32:48.799 --> 02:32:54.239
the only grass killer that begins.
The ingredient begins with Seth s ct H.

1979
02:32:54.399 --> 02:32:58.159
Either of those will help clear grass
out of a flower bed. A

1980
02:33:00.920 --> 02:33:05.000
brand product off the shelf that would
have that in there, just you know,

1981
02:33:05.200 --> 02:33:07.399
off the top of your head,
I just I just don't know.

1982
02:33:07.479 --> 02:33:11.479
If you go on to a pair
land A's hardware. They're going to have

1983
02:33:11.799 --> 02:33:13.159
those there. They may have both
of them now, I don't know,

1984
02:33:15.000 --> 02:33:18.840
but just tell them you need a
grass killer post emergent grass killer, and

1985
02:33:18.879 --> 02:33:22.760
it's going to be one of those
two things, the awesome thank you solid

1986
02:33:22.840 --> 02:33:26.319
type stuff or the seth type stuff. Okay, thanks, appreciate that.

1987
02:33:28.680 --> 02:33:33.639
Let's see we are going to now
go to Bill and Conroe. Hello,

1988
02:33:33.799 --> 02:33:41.879
Bill, I skip question about funder
side and till I'm not sure I know

1989
02:33:43.079 --> 02:33:46.600
take all rootbrod is So is the
one that comes in a circle or kind

1990
02:33:46.639 --> 02:33:52.280
of a moon shaped? Is that
brown patch? Typically? Yes, that's

1991
02:33:52.719 --> 02:33:56.920
it's awesome. God it's called a
large patch now, but yes, that's

1992
02:33:56.000 --> 02:34:01.280
a large patch. Write that down. So I have got both, or

1993
02:34:01.319 --> 02:34:05.799
I had both, and so I
want to I'm a little late on treating

1994
02:34:05.879 --> 02:34:09.559
it. I guess at the beginning
of spring, and I know you're supposed

1995
02:34:09.559 --> 02:34:13.719
to do different kinds. I was
looking at this code fourteen versus code three

1996
02:34:13.799 --> 02:34:22.680
code eleven. So if I'm switching, how often should I switch every two

1997
02:34:22.760 --> 02:34:26.559
weeks in the year? Is that
correct? Well, you could do an

1998
02:34:26.600 --> 02:34:31.360
application of one and then the next
time you have to do that switch to

1999
02:34:31.479 --> 02:34:39.159
a different class of fung a side
if you can find. I want to

2000
02:34:39.200 --> 02:34:43.239
give you two ingredients that do a
pretty good job on the take all root

2001
02:34:43.360 --> 02:34:46.479
rot and then therefore they're going to
help with the large patch too. But

2002
02:34:48.559 --> 02:34:56.600
propaconasole is one. It's pr PI
and then co n A z L E

2003
02:34:56.799 --> 02:35:01.200
propacanasole and you'll find it in different
brands. And then the other one is

2004
02:35:01.479 --> 02:35:05.399
a zoxystroban that's going to be harder
to find. There's a productol Heritage that

2005
02:35:05.479 --> 02:35:09.799
has it in it, but it's
very difficult to get a hold of a

2006
02:35:09.959 --> 02:35:16.079
z x Y. Yeah you know
where I found that one, in a

2007
02:35:16.159 --> 02:35:20.680
product called Scott's Disease X. Yes, it isn't that. It isn't that.

2008
02:35:20.360 --> 02:35:26.280
Azoxystroban is better. Probably my first
choice for take all root rot,

2009
02:35:26.319 --> 02:35:28.399
but you've got to get it down
at the right times. If you look

2010
02:35:28.440 --> 02:35:35.040
at my schedule that's online at gardeningwith
Skip dot com. Got it in front

2011
02:35:35.040 --> 02:35:39.000
of me, okay, Well,
you'll find in March is an optional take

2012
02:35:39.040 --> 02:35:43.399
all root rot through early April.
We're in that now and then the most

2013
02:35:43.440 --> 02:35:46.760
important time though for takeoll is to
do it in October and to repeat it

2014
02:35:46.799 --> 02:35:56.399
again in November with the azoxystrobin ingredient. And for large large patch, yes,

2015
02:35:56.799 --> 02:36:00.159
can I should be treating that now
too, Yeah, well yes you

2016
02:36:00.239 --> 02:36:03.079
can. On the schedule, we
actually start large patch treatments at the end

2017
02:36:03.120 --> 02:36:07.719
of January. If the hit lawn
has had a history of those problems,

2018
02:36:07.040 --> 02:36:11.680
if we get a lot of rainy, cool conditions, mild conditions, and

2019
02:36:11.879 --> 02:36:16.479
especially if you've fertilized really early,
you can see some more of the brown

2020
02:36:16.559 --> 02:36:20.159
patch or large patch showing up.
But if you've got the schedule trout there

2021
02:36:20.200 --> 02:36:22.479
in front of you, and then
it lists the products as you know,

2022
02:36:24.920 --> 02:36:30.159
and it's got two different nitropots kinds
of controls, like would alternate those two?

2023
02:36:30.280 --> 02:36:33.959
You think, yes, yes,
the nitrophos well, yes, the

2024
02:36:35.440 --> 02:36:41.760
total brown patch control and nitrophos Eagle
are both going to work. Total patch

2025
02:36:41.879 --> 02:36:46.799
control will be very effective against your
brown patch or large patch, and then

2026
02:36:46.920 --> 02:36:50.559
the Eagle also is going to be
effective on those. So you got a

2027
02:36:50.719 --> 02:36:56.680
number of options down there on those
diseases. Those two that you just mentioned

2028
02:36:56.719 --> 02:37:01.000
have are different classes. So that's
why I like, yes using right and

2029
02:37:01.120 --> 02:37:05.280
the Eagle is it's also listed on
the take all root rock Control so it

2030
02:37:05.360 --> 02:37:09.000
also has efficacy. Good plan.
See it there too. Okay, very

2031
02:37:09.040 --> 02:37:13.319
good. I think I'm a square
away here. A thank thank you.

2032
02:37:13.639 --> 02:37:18.000
You're doing a good job with a
very confusing topic, I know when we

2033
02:37:18.079 --> 02:37:22.680
start talking about all these different products
and things like that. Speaking of the

2034
02:37:22.760 --> 02:37:26.879
nitrophoss, they're super turf. The
silver bag that is a nineteen four to

2035
02:37:28.079 --> 02:37:33.799
ten nineteen four ten. That bag
has a type of nitrogen, has more

2036
02:37:33.879 --> 02:37:37.000
than one type of nitrogen in it. It's got a regular type that it

2037
02:37:37.000 --> 02:37:41.600
would just release fairly soon, and
then it's got a type that releases gradually

2038
02:37:41.920 --> 02:37:46.600
over a period of time, so
it extends the coverage. You don't have

2039
02:37:46.760 --> 02:37:48.639
to do that every month. You
can get two or three months out of

2040
02:37:48.760 --> 02:37:54.200
the super turf. The silver bag
nineteen four tenths also has iron to help

2041
02:37:54.239 --> 02:37:56.520
out on that. Especially in the
spring, we see a lot of the

2042
02:37:56.639 --> 02:38:01.559
iron yellowing going on in the grass
and it'll work well on that. You

2043
02:38:01.600 --> 02:38:05.159
can get it up in the woodlands
at allspa Ace Hardware. You can get

2044
02:38:05.200 --> 02:38:07.719
it a plant for all seasons on
Highway two forty nine down up and Brunham

2045
02:38:07.879 --> 02:38:13.799
over and Brunham whichever way. Brunham
is Plants and things has the nitrophoss products

2046
02:38:13.959 --> 02:38:20.559
like the super Turf, for example. I want to go now to Willis

2047
02:38:20.639 --> 02:38:24.319
and we're going to talk to Mike. Hello, Micah, Hey, we

2048
02:38:24.399 --> 02:38:30.479
get dross speakerphone. Okay, can
you hear me now? Yes, okay,

2049
02:38:30.600 --> 02:38:35.440
I have My question is I have
one very matured freight myrtle in my

2050
02:38:35.520 --> 02:38:43.440
backyard. Huh. It has no
I guess you would call like saplings or

2051
02:38:43.520 --> 02:38:46.479
seedlings popping out of the ground.
Has none of that. Okay. I

2052
02:38:46.559 --> 02:38:54.239
have other freight myrtles in my yard, but they sprout all of these stems,

2053
02:38:54.639 --> 02:38:58.639
yes, splash, yes, yeah. How do I stop that from

2054
02:38:58.719 --> 02:39:03.799
happening? Okay? When you get
a new shoot coming up around the base

2055
02:39:03.879 --> 02:39:07.399
of that shoot, or a bunch
of buds that are hiding, they're sleeping,

2056
02:39:07.959 --> 02:39:11.079
and if you cut that shoot off
and leave about a half inch one

2057
02:39:11.159 --> 02:39:13.680
inch stub, you're going to get
a bunch of new shoots, and it

2058
02:39:13.879 --> 02:39:18.120
just starts a process where you get
more and more. I would go down

2059
02:39:18.200 --> 02:39:22.079
there around the base and do some
surgery, cut as close to where they

2060
02:39:22.159 --> 02:39:28.399
attach as you can and remove them
and then get a product that's called sucker

2061
02:39:28.959 --> 02:39:31.879
stopper because those are called suckers,
say sold on. I got, I

2062
02:39:31.959 --> 02:39:35.840
got my pen, I just dropped
it. Okay, it's easy to remember

2063
02:39:35.879 --> 02:39:41.079
because those are those are called suckers, and you're going to buy something called

2064
02:39:41.239 --> 02:39:46.159
sucker stopper, follow the label and
it will help reduce those. Now,

2065
02:39:46.280 --> 02:39:50.559
nothing is going to eliminate them.
I've noticed some crapes or worse about that

2066
02:39:50.760 --> 02:39:56.479
than others. But the way we
prune them improperly in removing the suckers is

2067
02:39:56.600 --> 02:40:03.879
part of the problem that we have. And also when is the proper time

2068
02:40:05.040 --> 02:40:09.079
to basically prune them, because I
see, you know, running through the

2069
02:40:09.120 --> 02:40:15.000
woodlands and whatnot. Yeah, I
see, they basically chop the top off

2070
02:40:15.079 --> 02:40:18.200
of them, right, And so
if you're driving around seeing stuff that landscape

2071
02:40:18.559 --> 02:40:24.639
care companies do, that's probably not
the practice you want to follow, just

2072
02:40:24.719 --> 02:40:28.680
because for a number of reasons.
But they butcher create myrtles and they shouldn't.

2073
02:40:28.360 --> 02:40:31.159
The best time to prune them is
at the end of the winter.

2074
02:40:31.520 --> 02:40:35.399
Okay, I'm going to have to
go to a hard break here, but

2075
02:40:35.520 --> 02:40:37.360
the end of winter is the time
to get any kind of pruning you need

2076
02:40:37.440 --> 02:40:41.280
to do done. Thank you for
the call, Michael. We're going to

2077
02:40:41.319 --> 02:40:43.200
take a break. We'll be right
back. I bet a bunch of you

2078
02:40:43.319 --> 02:40:48.479
went bump bump bomb. I don't
know why we do that, but we

2079
02:40:48.680 --> 02:40:52.159
like to do that. We're going
to head out now to Ronnie in Lake

2080
02:40:52.280 --> 02:40:58.000
Jackson. Hello, Running, I
appreciate you taking my call this morning.

2081
02:40:58.079 --> 02:41:05.479
Listen calling. Garden was looking good
two weeks ago and got really hammered by

2082
02:41:05.680 --> 02:41:11.559
the hellstorm that came through our area. My question is this. You know,

2083
02:41:11.639 --> 02:41:16.879
we talk all the time about our
Usually I listened about the the roots

2084
02:41:16.120 --> 02:41:20.360
not affected on a freeze. Sometimes
they'll live through it. My question,

2085
02:41:20.479 --> 02:41:24.760
if you had to guess, some
of them are getting leaves coming back,

2086
02:41:24.840 --> 02:41:28.799
and some of them just look still
like they're beat the hell and back.

2087
02:41:30.719 --> 02:41:35.680
How long should it be before I
start seeing new growth? Or in other

2088
02:41:35.719 --> 02:41:39.040
words, if I'm not seeing new
growth, eventually, I'm going back here

2089
02:41:39.120 --> 02:41:43.360
with other plants. You said,
how long do you think I should wait?

2090
02:41:43.680 --> 02:41:46.239
Yeah, Ronnie, you said garden. Are we talking about a vegetable

2091
02:41:46.239 --> 02:41:50.239
garden or what kind of plants?
Vegetable garden? Yes, okay, you

2092
02:41:50.280 --> 02:41:56.760
should see some new growth on most
things within a week or so. It

2093
02:41:56.879 --> 02:41:58.440
ought to be showing a little bit
of new growth. It depends on the

2094
02:41:58.520 --> 02:42:05.680
extent of the damage and the specific
plant, because you know it just something

2095
02:42:05.840 --> 02:42:09.000
like let us is not going to
respond the same as a tomato plant,

2096
02:42:09.079 --> 02:42:16.319
for example, not doing there's nothing. Some of my tomato plants are showing

2097
02:42:16.399 --> 02:42:20.639
a little bit of like you say, e leaks coming out on the bottom.

2098
02:42:20.920 --> 02:42:24.479
Yeah, okay, yeah, well
kind of wait and watch. It's

2099
02:42:24.479 --> 02:42:30.000
a little late to be starting over
again with tomatoes. I mean you can,

2100
02:42:31.120 --> 02:42:33.000
but you'd like to have had that
early start that you already got.

2101
02:42:33.079 --> 02:42:35.760
So I'd give it as much time
as you could. I would say within

2102
02:42:35.840 --> 02:42:41.440
a week. If you're not seeing
some growth starting to come back, then

2103
02:42:43.159 --> 02:42:46.600
I don't know. Hail can at
the top of a plant, but there's

2104
02:42:46.600 --> 02:42:50.639
gonna be buds that will push out
still, even from around the base.

2105
02:42:50.719 --> 02:42:52.879
Yes, sir, that's what I'm
getting. Like said, they just look

2106
02:42:52.959 --> 02:42:56.120
like a little bit of pencil stalks
now nothing on them, but getting a

2107
02:42:56.159 --> 02:43:00.000
little bit of green. Those I
think be fine. And like you say,

2108
02:43:00.040 --> 02:43:01.639
said this late in the season,
I don't know if it'd be work.

2109
02:43:01.879 --> 02:43:05.360
I appreciate you saying that they didn't
think about it. Yeah, I

2110
02:43:05.360 --> 02:43:07.639
don't think they would have time to
do anything before the heat hits. Well,

2111
02:43:07.840 --> 02:43:13.120
it's good. It's not too late
to plant tomatoes, it's just later

2112
02:43:13.280 --> 02:43:18.239
than I like to get them done. So if you want some good tomatoes,

2113
02:43:18.440 --> 02:43:22.280
look for the fastest maturing varieties you
can get and replant. If you

2114
02:43:22.399 --> 02:43:26.239
need to. Cherry type tomatoes hold
up better in the heat, so I

2115
02:43:26.319 --> 02:43:31.239
would consider those for sure. Definitely, Yes, I appreciate it, Thanks

2116
02:43:31.280 --> 02:43:35.479
sir. All right. Sorry to
hear about that hailstorm. A lot of

2117
02:43:35.479 --> 02:43:41.159
people got hit in certain areas up
your direction, or really all through this

2118
02:43:41.360 --> 02:43:43.319
region. It was real heat and
mess, like hailstorms tend to be.

2119
02:43:46.479 --> 02:43:48.920
You hear me on garden line talk
about products all the time. You know,

2120
02:43:48.959 --> 02:43:54.280
I'm saying this fertilizer, that fertilizer, or you need to go buy

2121
02:43:54.399 --> 02:43:58.600
this to kill a weed, or
you hear me say that, Where do

2122
02:43:58.680 --> 02:44:03.159
you go that has all of that
and more and more and more. Well,

2123
02:44:03.200 --> 02:44:09.319
that's Southwest Fertilizer. Southwest Fertilizer on
the corner of Bismitt and Renwick in

2124
02:44:09.680 --> 02:44:15.600
southwest Houston. If you walk in
there, I want you to just start

2125
02:44:15.680 --> 02:44:20.040
walking through up and down the aisles
and look at what they have. I

2126
02:44:20.120 --> 02:44:22.440
mean, like weed control. I
may tell you one thing. We'll go

2127
02:44:22.639 --> 02:44:28.239
get such and such. Well,
when you get there and you show Bob

2128
02:44:28.559 --> 02:44:31.399
or Aaron or the staff there,
here's a weed that I got in my

2129
02:44:31.559 --> 02:44:35.040
yard. What can I use?
Show them a picture, show them a

2130
02:44:35.120 --> 02:44:37.360
sample, samples. Even better,
they're going to take you and they're gonna

2131
02:44:37.360 --> 02:44:41.840
have three or four options for that
one particular treatment that you need. Do

2132
02:44:41.879 --> 02:44:46.360
you need garden tools, Well,
they have an eighty foot wall of garden

2133
02:44:46.440 --> 02:44:50.920
tools at Southwest Fertilizer. That's a
good sized wall of garden tools. They

2134
02:44:50.000 --> 02:44:52.879
have everything. I like to say. If they don't have it, you

2135
02:44:52.959 --> 02:44:56.600
don't need it. A fertilizer spreader
for the fertilizer, Yeah, they had

2136
02:44:56.639 --> 02:45:00.879
that too. Do you like organic
products, Oh my gosh, they have

2137
02:45:01.239 --> 02:45:03.760
micro life, They've got Medina.
They have an excellent selection on all that

2138
02:45:03.920 --> 02:45:09.239
kind of thing. When I recommend
something obscure, well, Bob's going to

2139
02:45:09.280 --> 02:45:11.840
have it at Southwest Fertilizer. It's
just as simple as that. It's real

2140
02:45:11.920 --> 02:45:16.319
easy. It's one stop shopping corner
of Bisnatt and Runwick. The phone number

2141
02:45:16.399 --> 02:45:22.559
if you don't give McCall seven to
one three six six six one seven four

2142
02:45:24.040 --> 02:45:28.840
four seven one three six sixty six
one seven four four, or go to

2143
02:45:28.920 --> 02:45:35.440
the website which is Southwest Fertilizer dot
com Southwest Fertilizer dot com. Those if

2144
02:45:35.440 --> 02:45:41.959
you up around Lake Conroe area,
your backyard hometown garden center is a NA

2145
02:45:41.200 --> 02:45:45.520
Plants and Produce. It's on the
east side of Montgomery on one oh five,

2146
02:45:46.399 --> 02:45:50.399
uh so, just just barely on
the outskirts of Montgomery. They're on

2147
02:45:50.520 --> 02:45:54.319
one oh five. So if you
live in any of those Late Conroe neighborhoods

2148
02:45:54.719 --> 02:46:00.360
like April, sound like, well
you know them all. There's there's a

2149
02:46:00.479 --> 02:46:05.079
bunch of them up there. Maybe
your garden beds aren't looking so great.

2150
02:46:05.399 --> 02:46:09.360
Well. Ana Plants and Produce has
an expert landscaping crew that can come out

2151
02:46:09.440 --> 02:46:13.840
and do work race such as early
cleanup, getting those home beds things cleaned

2152
02:46:13.920 --> 02:46:18.200
up. They can do that.
Usually you'll find my schedules at the counter

2153
02:46:18.280 --> 02:46:22.120
there at Ana Plants and Produce in
Montgomery. But I tell you what,

2154
02:46:22.239 --> 02:46:30.040
you also will find every fertilizer and
related product for such as weed control that

2155
02:46:30.200 --> 02:46:33.600
I recommend, both organic, both
anthetic. You want some Nature's Way leaf

2156
02:46:33.680 --> 02:46:37.799
mold compost, they've got it.
You're looking for heirlooms, they've got it.

2157
02:46:39.239 --> 02:46:43.520
Mean Ana plants and produce, make
sure they stay stocked up. And

2158
02:46:43.600 --> 02:46:46.360
when it comes to color, that
place looks great. You need to go

2159
02:46:46.479 --> 02:46:50.680
by and see it. Warm season
color. You need things for shade,

2160
02:46:50.840 --> 02:46:54.040
you need things for sun A and
a. Plants and produces got you set

2161
02:46:54.120 --> 02:47:01.159
up. They absolutely just continue to
get new stock and it just looks good.

2162
02:47:01.719 --> 02:47:03.920
I love going into a garden.
It's kind of like for me,

2163
02:47:05.840 --> 02:47:07.879
Well they say a kid in a
candy shop, that's kind of how I

2164
02:47:07.920 --> 02:47:11.200
feel when I go into a garden
center. Let me see what's new.

2165
02:47:11.360 --> 02:47:15.360
Every time I walk into one,
I learned about some new plant that I

2166
02:47:15.399 --> 02:47:18.840
hadn't even heard before. Been doing
this thirty six years now, and I

2167
02:47:20.000 --> 02:47:22.559
still hear about Well, new ones
are developed too, so I guess there's

2168
02:47:22.639 --> 02:47:26.200
that, But it just makes it
a lot of fun to go and do

2169
02:47:26.319 --> 02:47:31.280
that. We've talked about a lot
of different things today, a lot of

2170
02:47:31.399 --> 02:47:35.959
things, especially taking care of your
yard. This is a time of the

2171
02:47:37.079 --> 02:47:41.399
season when everybody is hey, il
want green grass and need to get it

2172
02:47:41.079 --> 02:47:46.399
to wake up. Remember that wherever
sunlight hits the soil, nature plants of

2173
02:47:46.479 --> 02:47:50.600
weed. So when your lawn gets
thinned, you will have weed problems.

2174
02:47:50.799 --> 02:47:56.000
Seeds are lying dormant, or seeds
come in however they come in from wind

2175
02:47:56.239 --> 02:47:58.840
or whatever, and they come in, and then now we got a weedy.

2176
02:48:00.879 --> 02:48:03.280
It's easier to prevent them than it
is to control them after they sprout.

2177
02:48:03.440 --> 02:48:07.840
But the number one goal, and
this is on my schedule too,

2178
02:48:07.959 --> 02:48:09.239
by the way, the number one
go. In fact, I'm going to

2179
02:48:09.360 --> 02:48:13.399
read it to you right here,
off the schedule. Here we go.

2180
02:48:13.719 --> 02:48:18.239
Where is it? Where is it? Where is it? Okay, mow

2181
02:48:18.440 --> 02:48:22.760
frequently with the sharp blade to build
turf density. Remove about a third of

2182
02:48:22.799 --> 02:48:28.760
the leap blade each time you mow. Return the clippings to recycle their complete

2183
02:48:28.879 --> 02:48:33.600
balanced nutrient content. Lots of information
that go to the other schedule, the

2184
02:48:33.840 --> 02:48:39.000
lawn pest Disease and weed management schedule
in red right in the big middle.

2185
02:48:39.079 --> 02:48:45.760
Before we even talk about weed prevention
and weed killing existing weeds. The first

2186
02:48:45.959 --> 02:48:52.479
and most important step in weed control
is to build a dense, healthy turf

2187
02:48:52.239 --> 02:49:01.000
over time through proper fertilizing, mowing, and watering. Remember, wherever sunlight

2188
02:49:01.120 --> 02:49:03.719
hits the soil, nature plants a
weed. There. You have it right

2189
02:49:03.799 --> 02:49:07.440
there. We have products that can
prevent weeds. We have products that can

2190
02:49:07.520 --> 02:49:15.639
control weeds. But your number one
weed control in your lawn is mow water

2191
02:49:16.079 --> 02:49:20.399
fertilized properly. You get off to
a good start on that, and you're

2192
02:49:20.440 --> 02:49:26.760
going to find that your weed problems
are significantly reduced mow water and fertilized properly.

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Last summer, we didn't get the
watering done. It was so darn

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hot for so long. Most irrigation
systems are not very efficient. The coverage

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is not completely uniform. Well,
so what do we do get that fixed?

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Make sure that you're getting good coverage
and water with a good soaking on

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an infrequent basis. We'll talk about
that more when things heat up around here.

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But don't underestimate the power of low
water and fertilized when it comes to

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weed controlled that live in a dense
Saint Augustine, they can do that no

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matter how well you mow water and
fertilize Virginia button weed, dollar weed,

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for example. But that's the exception. Most of the weeds are because we

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have thin lawn and sunlight is allowed
to reach the soil. I'm about to

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bolt out of this studio and head
to see animals and what are we going

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to be doing well? I'm gonna
be given away eight different products, including

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a lot by Medina, some heirloom
soils, some asamite. There'll be a

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food truck, Jay from Texas Gardener
will be there, a lot of the

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reps from Heirloom Soils and Nelson's and
Medina are all going to be there to