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Welcome to Katie r h Garden Line
with skip rictorhoes mill crasy, gas can

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trim. Just watch him as well. Bidasso many good things to seep back

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basin way. The basses like gas
and again you das glubs back tacking not

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a sound glassies like gas. The
sun beamon of tweeting the gassis gas you

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starting and treaties like gasca. You
good morning, good Saturday morning. You've

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got it tuned to the right place. You're listening to the garden line and

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we're here to help you have a
more beautiful garden, more bountiful garden.

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Certainly a more beautiful landscape and lawn. That's what we're here for. As

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I like to say, there's no
such thing as brown thumbs. There are

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uninformed thumbs, and we're going to
inform your thumb. You just hang with

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us today. We're here till ten
am today. After that, by the

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way, I'm going to be going
to Ace Hardware, Langham Creek, the

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Langham Creek Ace Hardware that's over in
the Copperfield neighborhood. I'll give you some

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more details on that, but north
West Houston, that whole quadrants. My

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last appearance of the spring season,
so I hope you will come on over.

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We'll be given away products from Microlife, products from Nitroposs. I'll be

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doing diagnostics on any kind of plant
you want to bring in or identifications on

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those plants. So stay tuned.
We'll talk about it more in a minute

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a minute, but for now,
I just want to kind of get a

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give you a heads up on what
is coming up here. Some folks have

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asked about insects in the lawn.
I've had a number of questions about,

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you know, I saw a moth
in my lawn and do I need to

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spray for it? And some other
questions like that, and let me just

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let me address that. But if
you go to my schedule online at gardening

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with Skip dot com, that's my
website, Gardening with Skip. Whenever I

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create something new, I'll post it
to there, and we're slowly but surely

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getting stuff built up there. But
if you go there, there's two free

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schedules. One is the lawn care
schedule and one is the lawn pest,

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Disease and weed management schedule. That's
a lot of words I should have just

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called them. How to take care
of your lawn? How to prevent the

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things that want to eat your lawn
or whatever. That's kind of what the

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two schedules amount to. If you
look at the one on pest disease and

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weed management, it talks about insects, and you'll see on there that in

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June, July, August, September, or all months that chinchbugs and or

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soid webworms could be present in your
lawn. So we're in the season where

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we can begin to see those kinds
of pasts. Now typically we're going to

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see them a little bit later,
especially at chinchbugs, but you know,

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got to keep your eyes open.
We are also in the time to treat

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for grubs, and there's two different
bars on there, and you need to

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check those out because the products we
use in June, which is when we

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primarily begin our grub treatment, the
best time to treat for grubs. So

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I guess you could still say we're
in June now are different than what we

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would use as we look at July
and August. Of course, it doesn't

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change overnight from the end of June
to the first of July, but those

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are the two general ranges, and
we use different treatments because of the age

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of the grubs and typically the depth
of the grubs in the soil. But

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it's on the schedule. I won't
read the whole schedule to you, but

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you need to check that out.
And when you're looking at pests in your

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lawn. Nitroposs has a product called
bug out Max. It's a granular you

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put it out over your lawn and
it is a persistent product. In other

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words, persistent meaning it's going to
go through the entire summer season, so

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you don't have to apply it over
and over and over again at once.

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Do it now and as we go
through the next month July, August and

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even early September. That product is
there around helping out controlling ants, fleas,

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ticks, chinchbugs, sod web worms, the different insects that we have

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in the lawn. It's very effective
product and you're going to find bug out

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Max at a lot of places,
you know how it is with Nitroposs products.

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Their ubiquitous plantation ace hardware out there
in Richmond. Rosenberg Bearings hardware both

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on Bissonette and on Westheimer are places
you can get that as well as hide

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and Feed on stubenor hide and end
feed on stubenor airline. We're going to

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go to the phones now and talk
to Don. Good morning, Don,

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you're our first caller today. Hello, hey Don, I'm here. Let's

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talk. How you doing? You
know I am? I am doing very

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well. Thank you for asking.
I hope you are too. Yes I

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am, sir, Yes I am. I have a quick coret. I

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wanted to know when it's the best
time that I could start shaping my roses

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and my plate myrtle. I want
to try to they've been going. I

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have never trimmed them back, but
shaped him. All right, well,

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let's talk about those in that order. Roses. I will do my rose

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prunting at the end of the winter. Typically it's easy to think of thanks

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of Valentine's Day, that's the end
of the that's a February event, so

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we often think about planting or pruning
roses, and you can print them a

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little earlier than that. Though sometimes
you're down in Parland and you know,

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we get a little warm winter and
they may already be pushing out pretty good.

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So anytime when it's winter January February, you can do rose pruning.

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Typically February is when we aim for
then after the spring bloom, typically April.

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Around April is just a great month
where roses are blooming like crazy.

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When that bloom starts to fade,
we'll do a light shearing. Assuming this

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is a shrub rose as opposed to
a cutflower, long stem rose, we'll

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do a light shearing with fertilizing and
watering to get another flush of growth.

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And often I will do that light
shearing again don at the end of August,

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because October is a big month for
rose blooming too, so we want

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to stimulate some fresh new growth as
we go into fall for a beautiful show

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there. So I need to put
something online about all that. But anyway,

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that's the over overall look. Crp
myrtles primarily were pruning in the winter

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when they're dormant before they begin to
grow in the spring. But you can

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prune a crape myrtle at any time
you need to. I prune some just

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the other day, and it is
not the ideal time to prune, but

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they needed to be pruned, and
I didn't want them to continue growing in

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the wrong way for another few months
until we get back to next winter or

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this coming winter. So little pruning
here and there, if needed, can

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be done at any time of the
year. Well, okay, thank you

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sir. All right, good luck
with that. Just remember, don't look

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at commercial landscapes and even some home
landscapes when it comes to how to print

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a crpe myrtle, because people are
just traditionally butcher the heck out of them,

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and they don't need to be butchered. They're a beautiful plant form that

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we can we can train them into
that form and they just look great.

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So all right, thank you,
all right, thank you, appreciate appreciate

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your call very much. Yes,
sir, we do appreciate that call.

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You know, now that we're in
summer. Mulching is very, very important.

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It is important that we cover the
surface of the soil. When you

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cover the soil surface with mulch,
it does a number of things. Number

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one, it keeps the soil cooler, and that is huge. You will

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not believe how hot the surface inch
and even three inches down can get when

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the sun is baking down on uncovered
soil. Huge event, huge benefit for

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the roots. Secondly, a huge, huge benefit for the roots is that

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it prevents the crusting and erosion of
the crusting of the soil surface, erosion

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of the soil away exposing roots.
Mulch prevents that third thing. It does

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a third thing. There's the number
of things mulching does. But it also

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decomposes slowly over time to release nutrients
into the soil, and it creates thiss

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perfect roots on And think about this. Think about a forest floor, leaves

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rotting, more leaves on top,
more leaves on top rotting year after year,

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and that surface of the soil in
a forest is just the richest stuff

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on earth. You can do that
in your landscape by multching. And Landscaper's

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Pride has a number of products that
you can use for multing. For example,

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the black velvet. For those of
you who like a dark black mulch,

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don't buy something dyed. I just
don't care for that. I mean,

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I know people and stuff, but
black velvet is naturally that color,

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and I really like the look of
it. I think it works super super

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well. Beautiful velvety, dense excellent
molts. Hardwood multes shredded up hard hardwood

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trees makes an excellent maltz that locks
together, doesn't wash away very good.

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Pine park molt is probably the most
popular one because of the visual of it

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in the slow decomposition rate and cedar
and cypress. Those two, both cedar

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and cypress a little bit slower to
decay away, so you don't melt as

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often, but they will in time
decay. They there's an aroma to cedar,

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especially when it's fresh, it's excellent. And then the cypress as well,

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it just kind of hangs it.
It's heavier, when it gets wet,

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it just sort of sticks in place. A very light colored molts to

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very beautiful all from Landscaper's Pride.
Landscaper's Pride dot Com is their website if

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you want to learn more about their
products and where to get them. But

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I can tell you this Landscaper's Pride
is widely available. A very beautiful economical

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mults that just does everything a mulch
does for your plants. And I'm telling

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you do not leave the soil bear. If you leave the sowl a bear,

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you are inviting a number of different
problems, including the one I haven't

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already mentioned, weeds. Wherever sunlight
hits a soil, nature plants a weed.

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Save yourself, some work, save
your plants, some competition, Get

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your soul mulcht. That's important.
We're gonna go now to Tom Ball and

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talk to Mel. Good morning,
Mel, Good morning, I Morney Skip.

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I just sent you some pictures on
email of a weed that I have

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and i'd kind of like to talk
about that critter. All right, well,

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i'd like to do that. I'm
up on a break, So what

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I'm gonna do during breaks, I'm
gonna look at your pictures and when we

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come back, we'll tackle your question. Thank you, Mel, I appreciate

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that. For those of you who'd
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welcome back to dark Line'm good to
have you with us. We're gonna head

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back out now and talk to Mel. Mel. Thank you, thanks for

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hanging on. I had I did
have a chance to look at your weeds.

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There's a lot going on there,
and actually I'm having a little trouble.

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Some of it looks like a sedge
to me, like that sedge or

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kalinga. It's not kalinga, but
that's also a sedge, but it looks

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sort of like a sedge. But
then I see some runners that remind me

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of torpedo grass or bermuda grass.
One. I think you probably know what

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bermuda grass looks like, so,
oh yeah, do you think it's not

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bermuda when you look at the lawn
itself and see the weed right when,

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I don't think it's I don't think
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on top. I know you saw
those projects. Okay, No, I

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can't see that's part of the deal. I couldn't make that out in the

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in the photo, thank you.
If it has stickers on top, it

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is definitely a sedge. The little
bird, the soft birds, I mean,

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they're not going to get in your
foot. Yeah, but yeah,

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that's a sedge. You need to
do something that contains set. That's called

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sedge hammer or sedge ender. Both
of those are effective against sedge. Image

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is also pretty effective against sedges.
Okay, now by my next question is

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I had already put down probably a
couple of months ago, sub Spectra side

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weed stop things, Okay, stop
now, I don't know if that's part

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of what if that contains it,
that contains it or not. Evidently not,

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because that's definitely just just settled down
right in the middle of all my

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Saint Augustine. Yeah, but edge
hammer or what else would the other one?

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Well, sedge ender or two ended. There's also uh, just one

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blank on the next one. I
was going to tell you, gosh,

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I'll think of it in a second. Just keep listening, say it when

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it comes to mind. I'm with
you. It's uh, it just jumped

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out of my mind. Oh my
gosh. Well, anyway, if I

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sit here, it's dead airspace.
So let me let me think about it

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a second. Off, I'll tell
you it's the one I normally say first,

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Okay, do early in the morning. I guess my brain hadn't.

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I did have two cups of coffee, so it ought to be fired up

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pretty good. Well, I'm seventy
nine years old, so I know about

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all those brain freezer. Yeah,
that's it, brain freezer. That's a

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nice way to put it. Yeah, yeah, that's a nice way.

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Yeah, we're on the air.
Yeah, there you go. There you

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go. But the the weed stop
spect fraed we'ed stop is not going to

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control this. It's basically a broad
leaf weed control. Got a whole bunch

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of well real quickly. Now,
since I did that, is putting this

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stuff stage hammer or stage ender or
image? Is that going to put a

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lot of stress on my saint Augustine. No, but you want to use

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it. You want to use it
according to the label. Very very careful,

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Yeah, very careful to follow the
label because if you if you don't

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do that, you're going to end
up you can damage with a lot of

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different things, especially when the temperature
is really hot. So follow the label.

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Make your application early in the morning. Early in the morning is always

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better. It's it's the coolest time
of day, maybe eighty degrees, which

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is typically where we see our days. But it's still going to be a

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lot better than it's when it gets
really hot. That there's a lot of

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factors that make that not not really
good. Well, I broke into a

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train of phone. I'm sorry.
Have you come up with that first idea

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you were telling you about. I'm
sorry, it's just not coming to mind.

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It will it will here in a
second. I can't think. I

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can't talk and think at the same
time. All right, Wait, yeah,

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yeah, that's funny. Sedge hammer, I said, No, I

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said sedgehammer. I'm sorry. Sedge
hammer and sedge gender. Those are the

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two. I guess there is one
other one, but it's just oh image,

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I think I mentioned that one.
So I think that covers any of

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those of work. They're all widely
available. You're going to find them,

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you know, you're up there on
the tombol area. I think you're going

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to find them. Both the plans
for Seasons and the Arbigate Garden Center nursery

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is going to carry those. You're
going to find them out there at the

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feedstore just we yes, definitely have
them out there. These products are easy

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to find because a lot of people
have sedge issues. Very good, all

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right. And if it calls sedge
hammer or is that sedge hammer is a

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brand name, it is a brand
name. Sedge Hammer and sedge Ender are

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both brand names, as is Image. But if you buy Image, make

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sure it says image for nuts Edge. One thing these companies do that drives

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me nuts is to take a famous
name, whether it's round Up or Image

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or whatever, and start putting different
chemicals under that name that have a very

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different effect. And so make sure
it says image for Nutsedge. Okay,

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well, I want to look.
I'm gonna look at such first, all

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right. I'm gonna hit on over
to D and D as soon as we

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open up. I appreciate it.
I am sure I know it well,

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but be ready to stay with it. It's not easy to control, but

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just stay with it. Start next
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would be even better too. All
right, all right, I appreciate you,

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sir, Yes, sir, thank
you appreciate the call very much.

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Uh. We're going to run out
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Hey, Tim, Yes, sir. You know what I'm interested in is

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what can I use to get rid
of poison ivy? Okay? And also

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the next question is is what I
used to I'm make sure I creer a

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libelt tree for the forms that scab
over. He's the wound. Where's the

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poison ivy growing? What? What's
the good stuff that's by the poison ivy?

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Lawns or flowers or pardon flave oak
and long okay? Uh, you

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know tree long? Yeah. Is
there a big trunk going up the live

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oak, the poison ivy trunk?
Or is it just like small stuff coming

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up all out of the ground.
But the trunks are okay. So there's

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an ingredient called trichlow pier t r
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And when you go buy it off
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garden center and nursery and a hardware
store Southwest feed and fertilized all those places.

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It's gonna it's gonna say triclo pier
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product may be called something like brush
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like that. Or sometimes it says
stump uh control brush and stump control or

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something tri cloap here, that's the
ingredient. You want to take that and

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if you if it were a larger
trunk, you could cut the trunk off

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and then paint that product straight with
a little foam brush like you would use

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it a paint store, you know, those little foam wood handled brushes.

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Yeah. Absolutely, dab it right
on the fresh cut surface after you make

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it. If it is coming up
as leaves and you don't have a trunk

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to work with, then you're gonna
have to spray it on the leaves.

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But don't get it on any desirable
broad leaf plants. And know that areas

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of the lawn where you spray it
on you're probably gonna have problems with the

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lawn right there. But the lawn
can come back in, but would it

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won't. It will not kill the
tree. If it's an old tree and

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you've got bark on the outside,
you know, a brand new tender tree

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with paper thin bark, no furrowed
old bark, that would be a problem

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on but not on an older tree. So walk around, make sure there's

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root sprocks coming up from the tree. And even that, you're probably not

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going to kill the whole tree,
but it would it would damage it a

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little bit. But but the trico
peer is very effective on poison ivy okay.

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And it's like you're saying tralo pure
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y r try clow p y r
pure. All right, okay, all

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right, And what about the when
your trim the libel tree to where it

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scams over. The best healing occurs
in spring. The second best healing occurs

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in fall. So if you wanted
to make a cut and then healing kicks

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in quickly, that's why we prune
at the end of winter because we're entering

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our spring season. You can February, yeah, February, January or February.

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The one is fine. But when
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season, that's a fast healing time
too. You can make a cut here

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and there any time you want.
But those are the best times. If

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you can wait and have a choice, that's the best time. If you

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need to get it prone prone whenever
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at the end of February or the
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at the beginning. Okay, all
right, I appreciate it. All right,

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thank you, appreciate the call.
Well, we're gonna take a little

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break mark when we come back.
You're the first up our phone number seven

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one three two one two kt r
H and welcome back to guard Line.

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Glad you're with us today. Got
a lot of things we can talk about

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today. I want to mention plants
for all seasons. That's one of our

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just stellar garden center sure in the
greater Houston area. And by the way,

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if you've moved to Houston from anywhere, you welcome. But you're in

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a place that has more outstanding garden
centers than any place I've ever seen.

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And I've been to a lot of
cities, certainly across the state of Texas,

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and I'm just you we are rich
with garden centers, north, south,

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east, west, central, wherever
you are, there are garden centers

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near you, and their garden centers
were driving across town to see they're so

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awesome, that is true. And
Plants for All Seasons is one of these

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kinds of places. They always have
color in stock. They always have,

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you know, whether you're looking for
shrubs or trees, or annuals or perennials,

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or ornamental grasses or vegetable transplants,
herbs, on and on house plants,

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even they've got it all there,
beautiful baskets right now, lots of

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color. And listen, just because
we're entering summer does not mean you can't

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plant color. You can. There
are a lot of outstanding plants that can

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take this heat. And so don't
let the heat stop you from getting some

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quality plants, getting up early in
the morning when it's cooler, getting out

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there and getting them established, because
when you do that, you're going to

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have color in July and in August
and in September. It's going to carry

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you all the way into the fall. And Plants are All Seasons has excellent

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options for that. For example,
they have they have a plant called pirates

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pearl and think of it as just
a little moundy bush with white daisy like

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flowers. All over it, and
I mean all over it. It is

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a beautiful plant. I don't know
why we don't plant that more here.

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I put one in my yard and
just you can't catch it out of bloom.

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It is just always looking good.
And so it's a nice little medium

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size plant, an annual plant for
our area. It does really really well.

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Pirates Pearl, just go ahead and
ask them, say I want to

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see your Pirates Pearl, and they
can show you a lot of other good

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color plants. At Plants for All
Seasons. Remember they are on to forty

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nine Tombol Parkway, just north of
Luetta. Just north of Luetta Plants for

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All Seasons dot com phone number two
eight one three seven six, sixteen forty

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six. We're gonna now head to
Tennessee and talk to Mark. Am I

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really in Tennessee? Mark? Yes? All right, Middle, all right?

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How can we help? Yeah?
Around my house, we've got some

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akers and I wouldn't say it's a
back forty but I have these huge crabgrass.

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Now. I try to treat them
with the bone eye pre emergence.

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I did it in the fall.
I did it twice in the spring,

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and they're just huge. And if
I dig them out. They're going down.

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I do not believe they freeze over
to. I think they just come

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back. And besides using them round
up and wiping with the sponge, is

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there a product with celsius or fahrenheit? Could I just spray that those would

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not work on a grassy weed like
that? If it if it does,

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truly, if the plant really survives
winter and Tennessee and comes back, it's

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not crabgrass now it could recede absolutely
new seedlings come up. Yes, but

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if that plant survives, we're talking
about a different grass. So killing a

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grass in a grass? So is
your lawn like fescue or is it a

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Kentucky bluegrass or what kind of looks
you fresh q And then I've sought at

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some areas along the dry wet or
dryway put in with permuted because we actually

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kind of have drought kind of in
the summer here, we don't get much

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rain, Okay, so I want
to permut it. Yeah, it's hard

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to kill a grass, and the
grass there are a few exceptions, but

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the things that will kill the grass
that's coming up won't kill or can also

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kill you your bermuda. So this
grass is like the type of grass when

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when the seeds come out, they
get real tall and it grows faster than

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the rest of it. So would
that be Johnson grass or something? Not

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Johnson? Uh, it's you know
what you don't have. Do you have

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some seed heads on it right now? I just mowed yesterday. But I

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can say when you get some seeds, I'm going to put you on hold,

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and I'm pretty sure I'll give you
an email and we use that four

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phone questions, not just you know, general back and forth. But if

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you want to send me some cloth
photos, pick those seedheads and lay them

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on like a white piece of paper
or something so you can get up close

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and take a picture. Because a
picture of just grass it's hard to see

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the seedheads and a photo with grass
behind it. So let me see the

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seaedheads if you if you pull it
up and you see it kind of has

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runners or it's a clump, show
me that too in the photo and I'll

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get a good idea and then we'll
try to help you with it from there.

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But if it's crabgrass, then I
would use instead. I don't know

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that you have nitroposs products up there. Okay, Well, you're gonna need

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a grass pre emergent, and Tennessee
has a really good extension service. And

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whatever county you're in, you've got
an extension office. You can call and

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say, what are some pre emergence
you would recommend, and when do I

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apply them? Here and explain here's
my lawn types, and you know so

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on. But if you see me
the picture, I'll I do it for

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you. Okay, yes, sir, and I've been listening since the nineties,

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back back when. So well,
thanks for sticking around. I appreciate

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that. Glad to thank you.
You take care. I was talking to

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somebody the other day and they were
lamenting their landscape appearance, you know,

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going, man, it just doesn't
inspire me. You know, it's not

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I don't know what do I do. I don't know what to do.

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I go to the nursery, I
see all these pretty plants, but I

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don't know what to do with them, and so on. Well, here's

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one thing you can do. You
can call puer Scapes, which they do

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landscaping, but they do a lot
lot more. For example, they do

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have a quarterly maintenance program where they'll
come into your beds and they'll plant the

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plants for the seasons. You can
have them do two color changes a year

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or four color changes a year.
They'll do the mulching, they'll make sure

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that things are trimmed and fertilized,
the weeds are controlled. They'll check the

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irrigation, make sure it's working.
You can get on their quarterly maintenance and

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do that now. If you want
to redesign, and I would say that's

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a good thing, you ought to
start talking to them now. Get those

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design planned out, drawn out and
when fall comes. There is not a

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better season of the year to plant
than fall. And you can plan any

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month of the year here in our
area, but there's not a better one

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than fall. And so, but
get with Pierscapes now so you can get

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those designs drawn, get on the
schedule to have them come in and renovate.

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And if you want to see the
kind of work that Peerscapes can do,

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go to pierscapes dot com and you're
going to see hard escaping, landscape

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lighting. Uh, just on and
on and on. Drainage problem, you

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got drainage problems. Perscapes can fix
that. They can do anything that's amazing

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two eight, one, three,
seven, fifty sixty. If you want

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to give them a call two eight
one three seven o five zero six zero.

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That is peerscapes. Yeah, makes
it really easy when you're doing that.

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Uh. I was talking with someone
the other day about the generators that

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you put outside your house that come
on, and most people when they think

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of a generator think, oh,
it's a little gas engine. I got

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to you know, fuel it up
and pull the lever and pull the rope

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and get it going and that.
Well, yeah, those are generators too

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if you want to run a little
power saw out on a job site or

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something. But what about your whole
house? What about the freezers? What

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about keeping the electricity on everywhere in
the house so that you've got an online

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job, You've got to be on
the internet. You got to have twenty

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four to seven covered well. Quality
Home Products of Texas can come out and

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set up a generator for you.
Though you use a I would recommend you

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get one of their Generat generators.
By the way, they're three hundred and

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fifty dollars off all the generators that
they have, a quality home and a

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free ten year warranty if it's an
air cooled generator unit. But these once

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they get set up and there's a
process to that. Quality Home handles the

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whole process. I mean, it's
so easy when they do it for you,

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and they when that's set up up, if the power goes out,

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the generator comes on. You don't
have to run around the house and look

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for a gas can and you know, try to get your generator going.

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It just stays on. And they're
excellent products. But the main reason I

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recommend them Generak is awesome generator.
Absolutely when you need you know, no

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problem recommending Generac at all. But
Quality Home is where you get them,

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and that, I would say,
is at least as important as the generator

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that you buy. And here's your
reason. Twenty four to seven three sixty

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five customer service. From the time
you contact them and say, hey,

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I'm thinking about a generator, They're
helping you find the right one. They're

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helping you get set up out,
even putting a slab out at your place

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outside the house so you can put
the generator on it, Handling all the

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hoops you got to jump through with
regulations or whatnot, if you've got hoa

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or something. They handle all this
for you. And after the sale,

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their service is immaculate. That is
why they eight times now have won the

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Better Business Bureau's most prestigious Customer Service
Award. Listen, that doesn't come easy.

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Neither do fourteen thousand and five star
reviews. Quality tx dot com.

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Write that website down and just go
check it out. You're just doing some

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initial shopping Quality tx dot com or
give them a call. It's seven to

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one to three quality I. You
know, we when we choose our sponsors

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here on garden Line, and we
sometimes have companies we say no, I'm

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not going to promote that. I'm
just not u. When it comes to

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a place like quality home Products,
it is easy, easy, no question

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whatsoever. In my mind. We
look for people that give good quality service

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and have good quality products that are
proven. When you hear me do a

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read, it's I'm putting my name
on it, so I believe with all

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my heart it's gonna help you in
whatever way that product helps. And quality

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home products. That's that's easy.
Low hanging fruit. We're gonna take a

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00:31:02.400 --> 00:31:03.559
little break right here. When we
come back, Lee, you will be

425
00:31:03.640 --> 00:31:08.160
the first up seven to one three
two one two KTRH. Welcome back to

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00:31:08.240 --> 00:31:12.839
guarden Line. Been heavy with us
today. If you have not done summer

427
00:31:12.880 --> 00:31:18.160
fertilization, yet you need to go
ahead and get that done. Summer fertilization

428
00:31:18.319 --> 00:31:22.000
provides the nutrients your grass needs to
maintain good health and density through the summer,

429
00:31:22.400 --> 00:31:25.960
and even though it's hot outside,
your grass is growing if you give

430
00:31:26.000 --> 00:31:27.759
it water and a little bit of
nutrition to help it go in. A

431
00:31:27.880 --> 00:31:34.440
Nitrofuss superturf, that's a silver bag
that is an outstanding slow release fertilizer.

432
00:31:34.680 --> 00:31:37.680
That doesn't mean you don't get anything
when you apply it. You get some

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then, but let's just say it's
smart enough to hang on to some nutrients

434
00:31:41.559 --> 00:31:48.200
and gradually release that nitrogen over the
coming three months or more. Nitrofuss Superturf

435
00:31:48.319 --> 00:31:52.720
again, the silver bag widely,
widely available. Like nitro Fuss products.

436
00:31:52.759 --> 00:31:55.480
Are you going to find it out
the ace hard restauring Kingwood, You're gona

437
00:31:55.480 --> 00:31:57.119
find it up at the Arborgate,
You're gonna find it in shades of Texas.

438
00:31:57.240 --> 00:32:04.759
Nitrofuss superturf are available in a wide
wide range of places. Excellent,

439
00:32:04.920 --> 00:32:07.160
excellent product, and it works well. But get it down now, get

440
00:32:07.200 --> 00:32:13.359
it going, and it will prevent
that super fast growth that makes you Mowmomo.

441
00:32:13.480 --> 00:32:16.160
Water water water it'll give you a
gradual release, and that is the

442
00:32:16.200 --> 00:32:19.759
beauty of the product. Works very
well. You can find it at Ana

443
00:32:19.880 --> 00:32:22.400
Plants and Produce too. By the
way, if you're up there in the

444
00:32:22.480 --> 00:32:27.559
Montgomery area. Ana Plants and Produce
they carry every single fertilizer you hear me

445
00:32:27.680 --> 00:32:31.240
talk about on Guardline. They carry
every kind of pest, weed and disease

446
00:32:31.359 --> 00:32:37.200
control thing you're going to need to
have maybe a more beautiful, less pest

447
00:32:37.359 --> 00:32:42.799
plagued or disease or weed plagued landscape. They also, of course have beautiful

448
00:32:42.839 --> 00:32:47.039
plants. They've got some cigar plant, a Kufia ignia. I think firecracker

449
00:32:47.119 --> 00:32:52.519
plant's a better name for it,
but a Kufia ignea. My hummingbirds love

450
00:32:52.599 --> 00:32:54.440
that plant, and if you just
provide a little bit of water, it

451
00:32:54.759 --> 00:32:59.240
just blooms and blooms and blooms,
these tiny little tubular blooms. That's why

452
00:32:59.279 --> 00:33:02.759
they call it fire record plant that
are red and it's just beautiful. They

453
00:33:02.799 --> 00:33:07.440
also have another one if you like
hummingbirds. At A and A ask them

454
00:33:07.440 --> 00:33:09.720
about their turk's cap and take a
look at that. I mean that is

455
00:33:09.960 --> 00:33:16.920
a tough plant grows in sun,
grows in bright shade and just has beautiful

456
00:33:16.960 --> 00:33:22.279
little red flowers again that are hummingbird
magnets, na plants and produce that are

457
00:33:22.319 --> 00:33:25.480
on the east side of Montgomery And
you just need to go by there and

458
00:33:25.599 --> 00:33:29.519
check that place out. And I
can tell you this for any of you

459
00:33:29.680 --> 00:33:34.279
up there in the Lake Conroe area, this is your hometown garden center and

460
00:33:34.519 --> 00:33:38.279
it is an outstanding place to find
all kinds of things that are going to

461
00:33:38.359 --> 00:33:44.079
do well here. Listen, the
Floors family has been running that garden center

462
00:33:44.119 --> 00:33:46.720
for a long time. They know
what works here and that is what they

463
00:33:46.839 --> 00:33:52.559
buy bring in to sell to you
so you can have success. Let's take

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00:33:52.599 --> 00:33:57.319
a run now out to talk to
Lee. Hello, Lee, good morning,

465
00:33:57.400 --> 00:34:01.000
Welcome to guard Line. You mommy
Bob flag. Oh My question is

466
00:34:02.079 --> 00:34:07.519
my question? Is I bought the
Shelca if you told me to. I

467
00:34:07.640 --> 00:34:10.559
want to know if I put down
a first application, can I put down

468
00:34:10.639 --> 00:34:15.360
the second application before six to eight
weeks? What do you recommend? What

469
00:34:15.480 --> 00:34:22.119
did you say that you bought Selsius
for button weeds? Yeah, I would

470
00:34:22.159 --> 00:34:28.599
give it about six weeks. You
just don't with any product, just kind

471
00:34:28.639 --> 00:34:31.440
of hitting your grass over and over
with it can be a problem for the

472
00:34:31.559 --> 00:34:36.440
grass. Also on celsius, if
you look at the label, it's going

473
00:34:36.480 --> 00:34:38.559
to tell you how much you can
use over the course of a year.

474
00:34:38.639 --> 00:34:43.199
Even I mean, we can't just
use these things indiscriminately, So I would

475
00:34:43.239 --> 00:34:47.400
give it six weeks and always make
sure your button weed is healthy and in

476
00:34:47.519 --> 00:34:52.519
actively growing state when you use it, because it works better. That's true

477
00:34:52.519 --> 00:34:55.519
of many herbicide products that the weed
is actively growing. So if we go

478
00:34:55.639 --> 00:35:00.360
into a summer drought and you've kind
of cut back on the water a lot,

479
00:35:00.719 --> 00:35:05.360
you're probably not going to get as
effective of a control with any product

480
00:35:05.960 --> 00:35:09.320
as you would give it a good
water and get that grass or weed growing

481
00:35:09.440 --> 00:35:15.440
and then apply it again. Well, thank you, I appreciate it,

482
00:35:15.559 --> 00:35:17.360
all right. I don't know what
it means that I sound like Bob Flag,

483
00:35:17.519 --> 00:35:22.519
but I'm assuming that may be a
compliment because he was twenty compliment.

484
00:35:22.960 --> 00:35:25.880
He was a gardener, just like
you had his own show, Okay,

485
00:35:27.280 --> 00:35:30.440
on your radio show that's years ago. All right, Well, Lee,

486
00:35:30.599 --> 00:35:35.159
thank you for being a listener still
after all these years. I appreciate that.

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Right bybee bye bye. Take care
if you are done in the League

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00:35:40.239 --> 00:35:44.679
City area, In fact, if
you're anywhere around that area like Dickinson,

489
00:35:44.880 --> 00:35:46.880
Lamark, Baycliffe, Clare, Lake
City. Oh, come into Reale,

490
00:35:47.880 --> 00:35:52.599
maybe Santa Fe or sant Leone.
I've got your hometown feed store. It's

491
00:35:52.599 --> 00:35:55.480
called League City Feed and they are
right there on Highway three, just a

492
00:35:55.760 --> 00:36:00.079
few blocks south of Highway ninety six
in League City. League City Feed is

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00:36:00.119 --> 00:36:04.719
open Monday through Saturday nine to six, are closed tomorrow, closed on Sundays,

494
00:36:05.280 --> 00:36:07.159
but being open till six even after
work. You can swing by there

495
00:36:07.239 --> 00:36:10.280
and grab what you need. And
they're going to carry the fertilizers I talk

496
00:36:10.320 --> 00:36:14.239
about, as well as a lot
of the soil products you hear me talk

497
00:36:14.239 --> 00:36:16.079
about here on garden Line. Of
course, you're a feed store, so

498
00:36:16.159 --> 00:36:20.679
if you need pet feed, they've
got high quality ones, a number of

499
00:36:20.760 --> 00:36:24.280
options for you there. They also
have things for your backyard, chicken needs

500
00:36:24.480 --> 00:36:28.960
or other kinds of feed you're looking
for. It's an old time feed store.

501
00:36:29.000 --> 00:36:31.280
What does that mean, Well,
that means that they take care of

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00:36:31.320 --> 00:36:35.440
you. They carry the stuff out
for you. It makes you feel like

503
00:36:35.519 --> 00:36:40.480
family to go buy League City Feed
two eight one three three two sixteen twelve

504
00:36:40.679 --> 00:36:45.960
two eight one three three two sixteen
twelve. You swing by there on a

505
00:36:46.039 --> 00:36:51.280
Saturday. You might even you might
even find Rorshack the Dalmatian. I guess

506
00:36:51.320 --> 00:36:54.079
the mascot there on this so you
can you can look at the spots and

507
00:36:54.199 --> 00:37:00.440
decide what you see in Rorshack.
I like that name for a dalmatian leg

508
00:37:00.559 --> 00:37:05.760
City Feed. That's funny. I
like when people are creative with their pet

509
00:37:06.079 --> 00:37:10.239
names. I knew someone one time
that named their dog dog and it was

510
00:37:10.360 --> 00:37:15.960
basically spelling dog d og dog the
dog. Yeah, that's that's creative.

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That's good. Well, here we
are, time for the music, Time

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00:37:22.559 --> 00:37:24.039
for us to take a little break
from the top of the hour news.

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00:37:24.679 --> 00:37:31.000
Don't forget today. Today we finally
arrived June twenty ninth. I'm going to

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00:37:31.039 --> 00:37:37.639
be at Langham Creek ACE Hardware.
Langham Creek ACE Hardware is it's real easy

515
00:37:37.679 --> 00:37:40.159
to find, you know, Ace
Hardware. You have to do is go

516
00:37:40.239 --> 00:37:45.159
to Acehardware dot com and find their
store locator and you can find the store

517
00:37:45.320 --> 00:37:49.840
that is closest to you, so
it makes it really easy. Langham Creek

518
00:37:50.000 --> 00:37:53.480
is out there in the Copperfield neighborhood, so if you're out, you know,

519
00:37:53.719 --> 00:37:58.760
just just south of Cypress area,
that's where we're going. To they

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00:37:58.880 --> 00:38:05.159
are where Barker's viprus and two five
twenty nine five twenty nine which is also

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00:38:05.199 --> 00:38:07.960
called Spencer Road. That's where they
come together. I'm gonna be there.

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00:38:07.039 --> 00:38:10.960
We'll be given away microphone, micro
life products are rep there, micro clost

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00:38:12.039 --> 00:38:15.320
products. I'll be answering your gardening
question. Come on out to sing eleven

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00:38:15.440 --> 00:38:22.519
thirty to one thirty. Today's advertised
on this program. Welcome to kat r

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H Garden Line with Skip Rictor,
It's Shoesmi Crazy, Gas can Trim just

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watch him as well. Many good
thanks to seep back Basic in great season,

527
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Gas Davos back taking not sad credits, Gas the Sun Beaman of between

528
00:38:59.320 --> 00:39:04.679
movies. Well, welcome back to
the garden Line. Take a look outside.

529
00:39:05.000 --> 00:39:08.239
Oh it's just a good day.
We got sun coming out, we

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00:39:08.360 --> 00:39:15.000
got closcott. Always good to get
out a little earlier and get the work

531
00:39:15.039 --> 00:39:16.920
done. You know, you can
take your phone with you and listen to

532
00:39:17.039 --> 00:39:23.440
garden Line on your iHeartMedia app.
Listen to it live really on there so

533
00:39:23.800 --> 00:39:29.119
you can also listen to past shows
on whatever kinds of apps you have for

534
00:39:29.360 --> 00:39:35.440
doing podcasting. I Heart Media app
Live garden Line, I Know Gardeners tell

535
00:39:35.480 --> 00:39:37.400
me all the time they have put
my phone in my pocket and get out

536
00:39:37.440 --> 00:39:40.119
there early because it's time to get
the work done for it gets hot.

537
00:39:40.760 --> 00:39:44.440
And they just carry guardline with them. Who knows you may run across a

538
00:39:44.519 --> 00:39:47.039
bug or a plant or a question
that you have and you got your phone

539
00:39:47.079 --> 00:39:51.480
right there. If you'd like to
call in our phone number seven to one

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00:39:51.639 --> 00:39:55.559
three two to one two k t
RH seven one three two to one two

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00:39:57.320 --> 00:40:01.800
k t r H. Have you
been to RCW Nursery lately? RCW is

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00:40:01.920 --> 00:40:07.000
the garden center that is right there
where Tamball Parkway Hoyway two forty nine comes

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00:40:07.000 --> 00:40:12.119
into boat Way eight, and it's
easy to get to and when you get

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00:40:12.159 --> 00:40:17.000
in there, you're going to find
all kinds of plants with just really quality

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00:40:17.079 --> 00:40:22.320
selections, things that do well very
well here. Now RCW they lead the

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00:40:22.360 --> 00:40:27.440
way when it comes to options for
roses. They I don't know how long

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00:40:27.519 --> 00:40:30.599
the rose list is. I think
it's four pages single space that they can

548
00:40:30.679 --> 00:40:35.440
get and so they've always got roses
on hand. It's a great place to

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00:40:35.519 --> 00:40:38.400
go. But they also grow trees
and shrubs and things up at their property

550
00:40:38.559 --> 00:40:43.760
up in the Plantersville area, and
so when you go to RCW and have

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00:40:43.920 --> 00:40:45.920
them you purchase a plant and have
them planet for you. You're going to

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00:40:45.960 --> 00:40:51.239
get a quality species, one that
wants to grow here. Listen, they've

553
00:40:51.280 --> 00:40:55.199
been doing this for decades. I
think RCW really opened that, like nineteen

554
00:40:55.280 --> 00:41:02.280
seventy nine. Williamson family still runs
RCW Nurseries. Those plants, those shrubs

555
00:41:02.320 --> 00:41:05.519
and trees, they know how to
plan them. They'll come out, but

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00:41:05.719 --> 00:41:09.039
it's going to be excellent because you
got options from fifteen gallons up to two

557
00:41:09.119 --> 00:41:12.760
hundred gallons. Do you want an
ornamental blooming tree? Do you want a

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00:41:12.800 --> 00:41:15.039
shade tree? Whatever? They can
get you set up with that, and

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00:41:15.280 --> 00:41:20.280
they also have the products necessary to
go along with it, including every fertilizer

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00:41:20.320 --> 00:41:24.119
I talk about here on garden Line. So stop by RCW nurses again,

561
00:41:24.440 --> 00:41:30.639
tomball Park win beout Way eight.
The website RCW Nurseries dot com. If

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00:41:30.639 --> 00:41:34.000
you want to find out more information, I would highly recommend you do that.

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00:41:35.320 --> 00:41:39.320
We're going to head now out to
Katie and talk to Todd. Well,

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00:41:39.360 --> 00:41:45.480
Hello, Todd, how you doing
well? Thank you? I was

565
00:41:45.559 --> 00:41:50.519
just trying to see like a granular
insecticide or liquid insecticide right now. Somebody

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00:41:50.599 --> 00:41:53.280
told me that the liquid insecticide.
It's so hot outside, you know it

567
00:41:53.360 --> 00:42:00.280
can burn all the grass. Okay, yeah, well not the right mix

568
00:42:00.760 --> 00:42:07.280
right there. If you o anything
you do from a dry granular synthetic fertilizer

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00:42:07.360 --> 00:42:14.199
salt based fertilizer to a pesticide product, you put it out according to the

570
00:42:14.280 --> 00:42:16.400
label and you're fine, there's not
a problem. But you overdo something and

571
00:42:16.519 --> 00:42:22.920
you can cause problems. But I
wouldn't worry about using either way. The

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00:42:22.039 --> 00:42:25.320
granule the benefits of it. It's
easy to get out there. You just

573
00:42:25.440 --> 00:42:30.159
use your fertilizer spread on a different
setting to follow the label to put it

574
00:42:30.239 --> 00:42:34.320
out. You need to make sure
you get good even coverage. If you

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00:42:34.440 --> 00:42:38.400
want to do the liquid spray to
kill insects. There are advantages to each

576
00:42:38.800 --> 00:42:44.119
one of those. The advantage you
know, to the granulars is the ease

577
00:42:44.199 --> 00:42:47.440
of application, and it washes off
the granule and it's present. One of

578
00:42:47.519 --> 00:42:52.199
the advantages to liquid. If you're
spraying something that's up there chewing on a

579
00:42:52.280 --> 00:42:55.920
grass blade, like a sod web
worm, you can with the spray you're

580
00:42:57.000 --> 00:43:01.719
coating those plant parts that the bug
is and it's a little more effective that

581
00:43:01.880 --> 00:43:07.760
way. On those that particular pest
for example. But they all work.

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00:43:07.039 --> 00:43:12.000
They all work well. Okay,
thank you so much. All right,

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00:43:12.199 --> 00:43:15.719
Todd, take care, appreciate your
call. Yeah, lots of lots of

584
00:43:15.760 --> 00:43:22.360
different options out there, you know. When it comes to options for granular

585
00:43:22.639 --> 00:43:29.360
liquid, you name it. Southwest
Fertilizer is the place if you want the

586
00:43:29.480 --> 00:43:32.639
most options, the most product options, of any place in this region.

587
00:43:34.559 --> 00:43:37.079
I like to say, if Southwest
doesn't have it, you don't need it,

588
00:43:37.400 --> 00:43:40.639
because they have it. They have
everything. If anything is new on

589
00:43:40.719 --> 00:43:44.480
the market, Bob's going to be
bringing it in. He and I talk

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00:43:44.599 --> 00:43:49.079
periodically about this new product. How
do we deal with this particular problem?

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00:43:49.199 --> 00:43:52.000
What are we what are we going
to be recommending and telling people that's going

592
00:43:52.079 --> 00:43:54.119
to work and stuff, And he's
just always on top of it. And

593
00:43:55.079 --> 00:44:00.400
Bob at Southwest Fertilizer is going to
have any product that you're looking for,

594
00:44:00.559 --> 00:44:05.480
granular liquid, you name it,
any fertilizer I talk about on guardline and

595
00:44:05.639 --> 00:44:08.960
then some are you do you look? Are you looking for synthetic products?

596
00:44:09.239 --> 00:44:14.159
Again, he's got a wider selection
than anybody I know. Are you looking

597
00:44:14.199 --> 00:44:19.239
for organic products? Probably the widest
selection of organic products that you're going to

598
00:44:19.320 --> 00:44:23.280
find anywhere. And that includes for
weeds, for bugs, for diseases,

599
00:44:23.480 --> 00:44:28.559
for fertilizing your lawn, you name
it, and then the equipment you need.

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00:44:28.599 --> 00:44:30.599
Do you want a really quality fertilizer
spreader? Is it time to get

601
00:44:30.639 --> 00:44:35.280
one of those one of those hand
spreaders to put out your fire at bait

602
00:44:35.400 --> 00:44:39.559
and things like that. Bob's got
it corner of Bissinet and Runwick in Southwest

603
00:44:39.599 --> 00:44:45.119
Houston. Southwest Fertilizer dot Com is
a website. You need to go by

604
00:44:45.159 --> 00:44:47.559
there and check it out just to
see what is it that I talk about

605
00:44:47.599 --> 00:44:51.559
when I say things like this,
or when I talk about that eighty foot

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00:44:51.679 --> 00:44:57.639
wall of tools. Oh man,
I love it when you can go into

607
00:44:57.679 --> 00:45:01.480
a place and as like they got
everything. Thing well that that's Southwest Fertilizer.

608
00:45:04.480 --> 00:45:07.519
Let's see here. You're listening to
Guardline. Our phone number is seven

609
00:45:07.519 --> 00:45:13.480
to one three two one two fifty
eight seventy four seven one three two one

610
00:45:13.559 --> 00:45:17.960
two five eight seven four easy.
Easy to give us a call and talk

611
00:45:17.960 --> 00:45:21.320
about the things that are of interest
to you. Don't forget. I'm going

612
00:45:21.360 --> 00:45:25.760
to be at the Ace Hardware Langham
Creek Ace Hardware, which is where Barker

613
00:45:25.840 --> 00:45:30.440
Cypress and FM five point twenty nine
also called Spencer Road where they come together

614
00:45:30.639 --> 00:45:36.880
up in northwest Houston's my last appearance
of the spring season, so it won't

615
00:45:36.920 --> 00:45:39.800
be until fall that I'll start doing
this stuff again. And so here's your

616
00:45:39.880 --> 00:45:44.039
chance. Come on out, let's
meet. Let's talk about things. We

617
00:45:44.199 --> 00:45:47.000
can help you identify, we can
help you diagnose. I'm going to talk

618
00:45:47.000 --> 00:45:51.239
a little bit more about taking a
sample of your lawn a little bit later,

619
00:45:51.360 --> 00:45:53.719
so stay tuned for that. Right
now, let's run out to Kingwood

620
00:45:53.719 --> 00:45:57.960
and we're going to talk to Fred. Hello, Fred, good morning.

621
00:45:58.440 --> 00:46:01.719
Skip. A week or two ago, you were talking about a a brew

622
00:46:01.920 --> 00:46:07.599
a tea that I can make that
I can put water of my house plants

623
00:46:07.679 --> 00:46:14.039
with and get rid of the gnats. Can't remember what that was, Okay,

624
00:46:14.599 --> 00:46:17.360
it is, Well, there's a
couple of ways to do it if

625
00:46:17.400 --> 00:46:22.639
you There's a product called Mosquito dunks
that we talk about all the time that

626
00:46:22.880 --> 00:46:30.039
I know that. There's also the
same company makes something called mosquito bits.

627
00:46:30.079 --> 00:46:34.840
It's a little it looks like grape
nuts if you remember that cereal little crumbles,

628
00:46:35.320 --> 00:46:38.119
and that's what Bill Spent was talking
about. When we had him on

629
00:46:38.199 --> 00:46:42.280
the on the show the other day. His wife just takes I don't I

630
00:46:42.360 --> 00:46:44.480
think what she's I'm trying to remember
what she said. I think is a

631
00:46:44.519 --> 00:46:46.840
teaspoon and puts it in a quart
of water or something, lets it soak

632
00:46:46.880 --> 00:46:53.000
a while. And the disease of
fungus gnats. The product controls both fungus

633
00:46:53.039 --> 00:47:00.320
gnats and mosquitoes the same ingredient because
they're both in the fly family and see

634
00:47:00.480 --> 00:47:05.159
waters or plants with that, and
so those fungus gnats then are going to

635
00:47:05.199 --> 00:47:07.840
pick that disease up, just like
the mosquite as well when they get in

636
00:47:07.920 --> 00:47:12.599
the water with the same product.
And those fungus gnats, I guess lay

637
00:47:12.639 --> 00:47:16.119
their eggs deep in the soil somehow
and not that's why you've got it.

638
00:47:16.199 --> 00:47:20.920
They're up near the surface. Yeah, okay, okay. But another thing

639
00:47:21.000 --> 00:47:22.320
you can do for those, Fred
is just let it dry out a little

640
00:47:22.320 --> 00:47:27.280
bit. Yeah, if you keep
it wet, that makes fungus nats really

641
00:47:27.360 --> 00:47:32.920
happy. So let's disappoint disappoint them
today. Thank you again, all right,

642
00:47:32.960 --> 00:47:36.280
Fred, thank you very much for
the call. Hey, it's time

643
00:47:36.320 --> 00:47:38.360
for a quick break Mike in the
woodlands. You'll be first when we come

644
00:47:38.679 --> 00:47:42.679
up. We'll be right back.
The phone number, by the way is

645
00:47:43.159 --> 00:47:47.199
seven one three two one two kt
R. Welcome back, Welcome back to

646
00:47:47.280 --> 00:47:51.519
Guardenline. Good to have you with
us. We are gonna run right to

647
00:47:51.599 --> 00:47:53.760
the phones. We've got a lot
to talk about this morning. I think

648
00:47:53.800 --> 00:48:00.599
we'll start up in the woodlands with
Mike. Hello, Mike Hello, still

649
00:48:00.880 --> 00:48:05.079
call from last week. I called
because I put a Bonnie wheat beater on

650
00:48:05.239 --> 00:48:08.679
some chamber bitterer right before you know, a hard rain, and you said

651
00:48:08.760 --> 00:48:12.360
not to apply it, and you
were correct. It's uh, it did

652
00:48:12.400 --> 00:48:15.719
its job. The call, uh
today is what do I do now?

653
00:48:15.760 --> 00:48:17.639
Because I realized that chamber bitterer was
was more than the grass there? Do

654
00:48:17.719 --> 00:48:23.440
I just resawed that area or just
adds in some soil or what would you

655
00:48:23.480 --> 00:48:27.679
do? Well? How far apart
are the sprigs of Saint Augustine that are

656
00:48:27.679 --> 00:48:32.760
still alive? Uh? I don't
know. A couple of inches, It's

657
00:48:32.840 --> 00:48:36.519
it's okay, it's pretty thick on
here. Yeah. If if you've got

658
00:48:36.599 --> 00:48:38.880
them just a few inches, like
lessen the width of your hand or something

659
00:48:38.920 --> 00:48:43.679
apart, they're going to fill back
in. We just got to mow water

660
00:48:43.800 --> 00:48:49.000
and fertilize properly to get that grass
uh in full swing. So I would

661
00:48:49.079 --> 00:48:53.079
just say continue to provide good care
for it. Uh. If you if

662
00:48:53.119 --> 00:48:57.920
you wanted to do something like a
compost top dressing, a leaf mold compost

663
00:48:58.000 --> 00:49:04.519
top dressing over that area, that
would be a pretty good idea actually because

664
00:49:04.679 --> 00:49:07.400
it does cover the surface of the
soil, blocks a little bit of light

665
00:49:07.440 --> 00:49:10.639
out, but it really benefits that
grass trying to grow back in as well.

666
00:49:12.400 --> 00:49:15.280
And you can get you a product
like that, I know the the

667
00:49:15.039 --> 00:49:22.639
heirloom soils folks have a leaf more
compost for compost top dressing that you can

668
00:49:22.719 --> 00:49:27.719
put down. Perfect. That's what
I'll do. Thank you. And you're

669
00:49:27.760 --> 00:49:30.760
not you're not too far away from
oh actually you're in the woodlow job.

670
00:49:30.079 --> 00:49:34.519
Yeah you're also Yeah, I've been, I've been there. I just I

671
00:49:34.559 --> 00:49:37.559
should have looked where you were from
before, because you're just a cross the

672
00:49:37.599 --> 00:49:40.199
street from Nature's Way as well.
If you want to run down to south

673
00:49:40.199 --> 00:49:45.280
of Conro right there, Nature's Way
is on the right hand side and they've

674
00:49:45.320 --> 00:49:46.639
got it by the bag to or
by the bulk if you're going to do

675
00:49:46.679 --> 00:49:51.480
a large area. So yeah,
that's what I would do for right now.

676
00:49:52.559 --> 00:49:55.079
I think that that's probably your best
step, and just take it a

677
00:49:55.119 --> 00:49:59.320
step at a time. Watch how
things go. If you haven't fertilized recently,

678
00:49:59.400 --> 00:50:01.519
go ahead and get them down so
that the grass that's there has a

679
00:50:01.559 --> 00:50:06.400
little extra boost, and then just
don't let it dry out, just keep

680
00:50:06.440 --> 00:50:10.239
it just moderately. Most silver bag
or the red bag, I can't remember.

681
00:50:10.920 --> 00:50:14.360
You could do the one, but
I would do this silver right now

682
00:50:14.840 --> 00:50:17.280
because it's a it'll carry you all
the way through summer if you've not we're

683
00:50:17.320 --> 00:50:21.719
talking about nitrofosh products. When you
say silber bag, i'll carry all the

684
00:50:21.760 --> 00:50:24.480
way through the summer. All right, I probably did it, I don't

685
00:50:24.480 --> 00:50:30.480
know six weeks ago. Okay,
so is the time to do it again.

686
00:50:31.719 --> 00:50:35.400
If you did the silver bag six
weeks ago, don't you don't need

687
00:50:35.480 --> 00:50:37.519
to do it again. It's it. If you did it six weeks ago,

688
00:50:37.719 --> 00:50:40.599
that's going to carry you at least
into August, if not longer.

689
00:50:40.960 --> 00:50:45.480
Yeah, okay, just return your
clippings. Let them decompose this summer.

690
00:50:45.920 --> 00:50:50.519
Okay, thank you you bet,
Mike, thanks a lot. Appreciate your

691
00:50:50.639 --> 00:50:53.280
call very much. Let's run now
out to Katie and talk to Dan.

692
00:50:53.400 --> 00:51:00.559
Hello, Dan, Hey, how
you doing. I've gotta with all the

693
00:51:00.719 --> 00:51:06.320
range that we've had lately. I
like, you have my grandkids playing out

694
00:51:06.360 --> 00:51:10.639
in the backyard, and last week
I noticed I've got a lot of mud

695
00:51:10.719 --> 00:51:15.840
dobbers out there, and actually my
grandson got stoned. How best can I

696
00:51:15.920 --> 00:51:22.639
get rid of those mud dobber stung? Your grandson, sir? That is

697
00:51:22.760 --> 00:51:24.360
unusual for them to stay. I
mean, if you grab one by in

698
00:51:24.480 --> 00:51:28.679
your hand or step on one with
the bare foot, I can understand it.

699
00:51:28.760 --> 00:51:32.119
But they are not like red wasps
and other wasps that are so aggressive.

700
00:51:32.119 --> 00:51:37.000
But that's interesting interesting to hear.
So you're not going to be able

701
00:51:37.039 --> 00:51:42.199
to just like nuke the place with
an insecticide so that wherever a mud dabber

702
00:51:42.320 --> 00:51:46.159
ends up, it's going to kill
him. Not having mud is a is

703
00:51:46.199 --> 00:51:50.239
a good start. Any if they
have access to mud, that they need

704
00:51:50.360 --> 00:51:53.679
that to build their homes and things, and and so just kind of minimizing

705
00:51:54.400 --> 00:51:59.880
that to whatever degree you can.
When you see them under the eaves building

706
00:52:00.039 --> 00:52:05.239
their nests, just knock those nests
down. I use just a flat piece

707
00:52:05.239 --> 00:52:09.480
of metal. Yeah, I actually
saw them flying. They were actually coming

708
00:52:09.599 --> 00:52:16.000
up out of almost like crowded holes
back on the back corner. Are these

709
00:52:16.159 --> 00:52:22.800
really big insects compared to it like
a wasp? Okay, is that now

710
00:52:22.880 --> 00:52:27.559
we're making sense? That is actually
not a mud dabber. That is called

711
00:52:27.559 --> 00:52:32.360
a cicada killer, and any and
especially bear soil areas. They live individually.

712
00:52:32.960 --> 00:52:37.440
They're one of the not social wasps
and bees that we have. And

713
00:52:37.639 --> 00:52:40.519
most bees and wasps, you know, live as a group. These live

714
00:52:40.599 --> 00:52:44.800
individually. But you'll have a whole
bunch of holes in an area where different

715
00:52:45.599 --> 00:52:50.639
cicada killers have their little single nest
where they're raising their young. You can

716
00:52:50.760 --> 00:52:53.760
put an insecticide down in that nest
so that they have to crawl through it.

717
00:52:54.159 --> 00:52:58.280
There's different ways to go about it. One simple thing would be to

718
00:52:58.400 --> 00:53:00.920
dust a little seven dust in into
the hole and around the hole, because

719
00:53:00.920 --> 00:53:04.800
they've got to crawl in and out
of there several times a day. Yes,

720
00:53:05.280 --> 00:53:07.639
and that would be one way to
individually hit them. So, yes,

721
00:53:07.719 --> 00:53:10.840
I'm glad we got that clarified,
because yes, cicada killers are very

722
00:53:10.840 --> 00:53:15.559
different again those two though, although
they'll buzz you, they generally aren't as

723
00:53:15.599 --> 00:53:21.639
aggressive as other wasps are. Alrighty, well, thank you very much.

724
00:53:21.679 --> 00:53:23.440
I appreciate it, you bet,
Dan, thanks a lot. I appreciate

725
00:53:23.519 --> 00:53:30.719
that a lot. You know,
the Buchanans in the Heights, they are

726
00:53:30.960 --> 00:53:34.559
an outstanding garden center for finding any
kind of thing you're looking for. Really,

727
00:53:35.159 --> 00:53:38.719
they specialize in natives. It's Buchanans
Native Plants, that's the official name.

728
00:53:38.760 --> 00:53:43.800
They're on Eleventh Street in the Heights
and you're just driving down Eleventh Street

729
00:53:43.880 --> 00:53:45.159
through the Heights and all of a
sudden you look over the side and there's

730
00:53:45.199 --> 00:53:51.239
this really cool garden center right there, and you need to go by there

731
00:53:51.280 --> 00:53:52.880
and wander through. I mean,
I can sit here and try to describe

732
00:53:52.920 --> 00:53:58.400
it to you. But their native
plant selection is second to none. It

733
00:53:58.719 --> 00:54:02.440
is divide it up even to like
if, okay, there's native Texas plants,

734
00:54:02.480 --> 00:54:07.519
but then there's native Southeast Texas plants. There's native plants to Harris County

735
00:54:07.599 --> 00:54:12.960
to the Houston area, and they
have those even a table that's like if

736
00:54:13.039 --> 00:54:15.639
you want something that truly is from
right here where we live, they've got

737
00:54:15.679 --> 00:54:20.400
those kind of natives as well,
and it just makes it really easy to

738
00:54:20.480 --> 00:54:23.000
do. When it comes to pollinator
gardens, when it comes to shade trees,

739
00:54:23.039 --> 00:54:27.760
when it comes to any plant that
you want to enhance your landscape with,

740
00:54:28.280 --> 00:54:31.280
Buchanans Plants has got it. They
keep an excellent selection. The gift

741
00:54:31.320 --> 00:54:37.159
shops wonderful the products that they carry, wide variety of products. You know,

742
00:54:37.280 --> 00:54:39.320
if you're looking for a fertilizer I
talk about here on Guardline, they're

743
00:54:39.360 --> 00:54:44.360
going to have it at Buchanan's Plants
And the website is buchanans Plants dot com.

744
00:54:44.760 --> 00:54:49.000
Buchanans Plants dot com makes it real
easy. Buchanans Plants dot com.

745
00:54:49.639 --> 00:54:52.719
Please when you go to their website, sign up for the newsletter, get

746
00:54:53.000 --> 00:54:58.599
the notifications they send out. It's
excellent, and poke around the website at

747
00:54:58.639 --> 00:55:01.960
the educational material that have on there. It's outstanding. It really is outstanding.

748
00:55:02.239 --> 00:55:06.360
I would encourage you to do that, and then while you're there,

749
00:55:06.639 --> 00:55:08.679
check out the soils I talk about. The fertilizers I talk about, for

750
00:55:08.760 --> 00:55:13.840
example, Microlife. They have an
excellent selection of Microlife products. If you

751
00:55:13.960 --> 00:55:17.119
need the green bag, the sixty
four for fertilizing your lawn or anything in

752
00:55:17.239 --> 00:55:21.960
your yard, they've got it.
If you need humates plus the Purple bag

753
00:55:22.840 --> 00:55:27.480
that is concentrated compost in a bag. Do you need a liquid Microlife product.

754
00:55:27.519 --> 00:55:30.760
There are a number of those too, you know. Microlife MICROLFE has

755
00:55:30.800 --> 00:55:34.800
a wide range of things. Things
that are based on fish emulsion, things

756
00:55:34.840 --> 00:55:37.760
that are based on seaweed, things
that are fertilizers, like the orange label

757
00:55:37.840 --> 00:55:43.320
liquid that I like to use on
indoor plants. It's a seven percent nitrogen

758
00:55:43.559 --> 00:55:47.079
one percent posters. I think it's
three or four three percent four percent potassium.

759
00:55:47.480 --> 00:55:51.360
Excellent product, works really well.
You can mix it up and use

760
00:55:51.400 --> 00:55:54.480
it on your plants. Go to
Buchanus Plants and find them. Microlife is

761
00:55:54.519 --> 00:55:59.840
available all over. You don't have
to drive from Galveston to get to Microlife

762
00:56:00.400 --> 00:56:04.480
products, but just widely available.
You can go to Microlife Fertilizer dot com

763
00:56:04.599 --> 00:56:07.239
check out all the different products that
they have online. I think you'll be

764
00:56:07.840 --> 00:56:10.119
very impressed. And I've tried a
number of their products. I'm still working

765
00:56:10.199 --> 00:56:14.440
my way through because I have so
many of them. But every time I've

766
00:56:14.519 --> 00:56:20.039
used a micro Life product, I've
had good results, good success. Let's

767
00:56:20.079 --> 00:56:23.119
go. Now we're gonna head to
else here in Houston. Talk to Kevin.

768
00:56:23.199 --> 00:56:27.679
Hello, Kevin, Hey, good
morning. How are you doing.

769
00:56:28.000 --> 00:56:32.079
I'm good sir. How can we
help today? So my Saint Augustine grass

770
00:56:32.280 --> 00:56:37.079
is started to turn like a light
green color and like the root runners,

771
00:56:37.480 --> 00:56:40.559
the runners, you know, they
weren't really rooting into the grass anymore.

772
00:56:40.599 --> 00:56:45.360
And I did a little research and
here's what I think they call it,

773
00:56:45.519 --> 00:56:50.800
like take out root rot or take
all root rot. Okay, all right,

774
00:56:51.400 --> 00:56:55.280
So any Kevin, what part of
Houston are you in? Garden Oaks

775
00:56:57.519 --> 00:57:01.480
kind of more inside town downtown clothes? Is that right? Correct? Okay,

776
00:57:02.039 --> 00:57:07.000
yeah, it's like, oh,
okay, well, it'd be easy

777
00:57:07.039 --> 00:57:09.480
for you to get to me today. I'm going to be at Langham Creek

778
00:57:09.519 --> 00:57:14.360
Ace Hardware, which is out in
the Copperfield area just south. It's south

779
00:57:14.400 --> 00:57:20.360
of Cypress on Barker, Cypress and
H. Spencer five twenty nine, northwest

780
00:57:20.480 --> 00:57:24.320
Houston. If you will take a
plug of your grass about four inches wide,

781
00:57:24.760 --> 00:57:29.599
maybe four by six inches. Let's
say, go down. I use

782
00:57:29.599 --> 00:57:34.199
a butcher knife, just cut out
a little square and uh I use I

783
00:57:34.320 --> 00:57:37.239
use my wife's butcher knife, but
I clean it and get it back quickly

784
00:57:37.320 --> 00:57:39.559
so she doesn't know. Just a
little tip from one guy to another.

785
00:57:40.239 --> 00:57:44.840
Slip it right into a ziplock bag
and zip it up. And if you'll

786
00:57:44.840 --> 00:57:47.039
bring it to me. I'll do
a free diagnosis on it and make sure

787
00:57:47.119 --> 00:57:50.840
we are dealing with take a root
rot. You know, I'd hate to

788
00:57:50.880 --> 00:57:53.119
say, well go spray this on
it when I'm not sure what the disease

789
00:57:53.280 --> 00:57:57.920
is. There are things that work
on take All, but you gotta,

790
00:57:58.440 --> 00:58:00.719
you know, you to know you
have it. So do you do you

791
00:58:00.760 --> 00:58:05.000
think you might be able to get
out eleven thirty to one thirty today to

792
00:58:05.079 --> 00:58:10.920
do that. If not, we
I've actually headed down the yeah right now,

793
00:58:12.000 --> 00:58:15.559
all right, well that sounds fun. All right, Well, if

794
00:58:15.639 --> 00:58:17.280
you can find a if you think
that's what you have, go to my

795
00:58:17.639 --> 00:58:25.079
schedule online at Skiperchter dot com get
the lawn pest Disease and weed management schedule

796
00:58:25.559 --> 00:58:30.159
and thunder diseases at take All,
and there's a list of all your herbicide

797
00:58:30.360 --> 00:58:36.639
or funge a side options for controlling
that disease. I would recommend that you

798
00:58:36.800 --> 00:58:40.119
look at those and follow that schedule. It's not take All spray time,

799
00:58:40.519 --> 00:58:44.639
but if you've got a significant amount
of it, I would go ahead and

800
00:58:44.760 --> 00:58:47.920
spray them anyway now and then fall
is going to be the most important application

801
00:58:49.079 --> 00:58:52.199
time for you. In October?
Okay, all right, and what's the

802
00:58:52.239 --> 00:59:00.199
website again? Gardening with Skip dot
com? Right, okay, thank you,

803
00:59:00.320 --> 00:59:01.400
all right, Ben, you take
care. Hey, it's time take

804
00:59:01.440 --> 00:59:05.159
a Break's time for the news.
We'll be right back, Mike and Andy.

805
00:59:05.239 --> 00:59:08.039
We'll get to you when we come
back, but today, thank you

806
00:59:08.320 --> 00:59:13.320
for listening. We're always happy to
have you here as a listener. I

807
00:59:13.519 --> 00:59:16.280
am going to head straight out to
friends Wood and talk to Andy. Hello,

808
00:59:16.400 --> 00:59:20.880
Andy, Hey, Skip, how
are you this morning? Well,

809
00:59:21.199 --> 00:59:23.239
sir, how can we help?
Thank you? Well, I'm a longtime

810
00:59:23.960 --> 00:59:30.360
serial listener and a schedule follower.
I got a problem with some Saint Augustine

811
00:59:30.400 --> 00:59:35.519
in the front yard. Okay,
I've got a patch Skip that late in

812
00:59:35.599 --> 00:59:40.119
the winter got overtaken. Basically,
this broad area got overtaken by dollar weed

813
00:59:40.199 --> 00:59:45.280
and I didn't get around to treating
it. I figured, well, we're

814
00:59:45.320 --> 00:59:50.199
going to mow and Saint Augustine will
take over. It's about a ten foot

815
00:59:50.280 --> 00:59:54.320
diameter patch that the Saint Augustine is
not thriving. There's runners going across it.

816
00:59:55.800 --> 00:59:59.960
Obviously, I still got dollar weed
in it, which signals a problem.

817
01:00:00.599 --> 01:00:08.000
I'm self medicated with leaf compost,
mulch, microlife humates. I've treated

818
01:00:08.119 --> 01:00:15.480
for grubs, it's been fertilized and
the water's addicted. I'm out options here

819
01:00:15.159 --> 01:00:21.039
needs your advice. Okay. So
bottom line is your your lunch thin and

820
01:00:21.119 --> 01:00:23.960
you need to get it to grow
back in. Yeah, in a particular

821
01:00:24.079 --> 01:00:30.599
area. I'm certain it's soil related. Okay. Well, the first thing

822
01:00:30.639 --> 01:00:35.760
I would do is do a soil
test. Just take a sample from about

823
01:00:35.880 --> 01:00:39.960
five or six or more different spots
throughout that area. Just that way.

824
01:00:40.079 --> 01:00:43.880
You know, like if it was
a spot where let's say the dog stopped

825
01:00:43.960 --> 01:00:47.719
and pooped last year, you'd have
a very inaccurate soil test reading if you

826
01:00:47.800 --> 01:00:51.840
just took one little sample from one
spot. So that's why we take a

827
01:00:51.840 --> 01:00:53.519
whole bunch of them and mix them
together, and then it takes about a

828
01:00:53.559 --> 01:00:59.000
pint of soil that you send to
the lab. The website is easy.

829
01:00:59.079 --> 01:01:04.960
It's soil Test one word sol testing
dot t A, m U, dot

830
01:01:05.079 --> 01:01:07.559
E d U. So that's soil
testing dot texas A and M University dot

831
01:01:07.760 --> 01:01:12.360
Educate education ed U. Uh.
And if you go there, there's a

832
01:01:12.480 --> 01:01:16.599
farm uh to do you want to
use the urban soil test form and let's

833
01:01:16.679 --> 01:01:21.400
look and see what your nutrient levels
are. Maybe something's really out of whack.

834
01:01:21.679 --> 01:01:23.400
Maybe the pH is really out of
I don't know, but that the

835
01:01:23.480 --> 01:01:27.480
only thing I thought about. The
only thing I thought about is about ten

836
01:01:27.599 --> 01:01:30.159
years ago we had a tree removed
m hm uh, and we round the

837
01:01:30.199 --> 01:01:36.039
stump and and after you know,
after the it settled in. We didn't

838
01:01:36.039 --> 01:01:38.119
have any problems. But that's the
only thing I can It's the exact same

839
01:01:38.199 --> 01:01:42.639
area. Okay, So I think
something's going on with that, you know,

840
01:01:42.960 --> 01:01:45.920
years later. But that's a good
idea. Tell me, tell me

841
01:01:45.960 --> 01:01:50.000
again what happened years ago. I
missed that we lost a tree, okay,

842
01:01:50.159 --> 01:01:53.000
and we took it out, and
we had the stump ground you know

843
01:01:53.559 --> 01:01:59.639
basically blow dirt level okay uh,
and new grass grew over the top of

844
01:01:59.719 --> 01:02:02.760
We did have any problems, But
this area is the exact area where that

845
01:02:02.920 --> 01:02:10.840
tree was. Okay, Well you
know it could be that that was years

846
01:02:10.880 --> 01:02:14.559
ago. Though there shouldn't be a
problem with the wood chips and the soil

847
01:02:14.679 --> 01:02:16.880
now from years ago. But let
me let me just here. Here's what

848
01:02:17.639 --> 01:02:22.639
I would recommend is doing this old
test just to check that, but getting

849
01:02:22.800 --> 01:02:27.400
getting some aeration done. If it's
not a big enough area to hire somebody

850
01:02:27.440 --> 01:02:30.559
to come out or rent an equipment
to do it yourself. If you're a

851
01:02:30.679 --> 01:02:34.239
do it yourself, or then at
least take you know, like a spading

852
01:02:34.400 --> 01:02:37.039
fork and go straight down in the
soil and then wiggle it a little bit

853
01:02:37.400 --> 01:02:39.960
to kind of wiggle out a hole
and then come up and go do it

854
01:02:40.039 --> 01:02:44.599
again, and do that as close
together and as much as you can through

855
01:02:44.639 --> 01:02:47.760
that area, and then top dress
it with some leaf more composts, which

856
01:02:47.800 --> 01:02:52.639
you can buy by the bag.
You're out there, you know, in

857
01:02:52.679 --> 01:02:55.039
the Friends with area, So you're
going to have a hardware stores that you

858
01:02:55.119 --> 01:03:00.599
may find that carry it out in
your area. There's a lot of places

859
01:03:00.679 --> 01:03:02.880
you can get those kind of products. But I would do that, and

860
01:03:04.039 --> 01:03:09.000
then always if you haven't fertilized,
then a little fertilization in that area just

861
01:03:09.039 --> 01:03:14.320
to stimulate the growth with a good
terf fertilizer. That would kind of be

862
01:03:14.400 --> 01:03:19.800
the full package, along with watering
enough to get it to stay moist so

863
01:03:19.960 --> 01:03:22.159
it can fill in a little faster. All right, it's time for my

864
01:03:22.400 --> 01:03:27.239
midsummer fertilization anyway. So okay,
all right, that's I'm gonna try the

865
01:03:27.440 --> 01:03:31.480
aeration and I'll do the soil test. That's interesting. Yeah, so maybe

866
01:03:31.519 --> 01:03:37.119
it's a little compaction, maybe not. But anytime you open up oxygen into

867
01:03:37.199 --> 01:03:43.039
the soil and provide some organic matter, decomposed organic matter like the fungal leaf

868
01:03:43.119 --> 01:03:47.000
mold compost on top, it stimulates
the grass, it helps, and it

869
01:03:47.119 --> 01:03:53.400
makes the root system more extensive and
more effective. And that is what's going

870
01:03:53.480 --> 01:03:57.079
to be, along with sunlight,
the key to getting that grass to grow

871
01:03:57.159 --> 01:03:59.880
back in. All right, Thank
you, sir, Good luck with that.

872
01:04:00.039 --> 01:04:01.519
Thank you, Indy. I appreciate, appreciate your call very much.

873
01:04:02.280 --> 01:04:05.199
You know, he's talking about taking
out a tree, affordable tree service,

874
01:04:05.800 --> 01:04:10.199
Martin Spoon Moore. You hear me
talk about Martin all the time. Martin's

875
01:04:10.239 --> 01:04:14.960
been doing lon trees around this area
for a very long time. I mean,

876
01:04:15.039 --> 01:04:18.280
his experience is extensive. He knows
what he's doing. He does a

877
01:04:18.400 --> 01:04:21.440
good job, and he'll come out. It costs about one hundred and fifty

878
01:04:21.480 --> 01:04:26.159
bucks have him come out and look
at the situation. He'll assess it and

879
01:04:26.280 --> 01:04:29.519
then any work that needs to be
done that one fifty You've already paid one

880
01:04:29.599 --> 01:04:32.320
hundred and fifty dollars towards the work
that you will actually have done. Do

881
01:04:32.400 --> 01:04:36.920
you need pruning done, Do you
need trees to be trained young trees,

882
01:04:38.039 --> 01:04:41.800
planting pruning? Do you have issues
with the roots on the surface. Do

883
01:04:41.960 --> 01:04:46.000
you need deep root feeding or for
a water There's just whatever you need,

884
01:04:46.159 --> 01:04:49.519
Martin can do it. But the
big thing right now is we're in storm

885
01:04:49.599 --> 01:04:53.880
season. We're in a hurricane season, and it doesn't take a hurricane,

886
01:04:53.920 --> 01:04:56.920
by the way, as we learned
a few weeks ago, to cause major

887
01:04:57.000 --> 01:05:00.000
tree problems. Let Martin look at
those trees, make sure that they're prune

888
01:05:00.039 --> 01:05:03.280
in a way that's going to give
them the best chance possible to survive through

889
01:05:03.320 --> 01:05:12.880
the storms. Afftree Service dot com. AFF stands for Affordable aff Tree Service

890
01:05:13.199 --> 01:05:18.079
dot com. Or call him seven
one three six nine nine twenty six sixty

891
01:05:18.239 --> 01:05:25.679
three. That's seven one three six
nine nine twenty six sixty three Affordable Tree

892
01:05:26.119 --> 01:05:30.239
Service. We're going to head out
now to Montgomery and talk to Clay.

893
01:05:30.320 --> 01:05:33.599
Hello, Clay, Hey, how's
it going. I'm well, thanks?

894
01:05:38.239 --> 01:05:43.760
How can I help? Yeah,
I've got a weed. It's in my

895
01:05:44.000 --> 01:05:46.400
yard for oh gosh, I don't
know how long I've been trying to get

896
01:05:46.440 --> 01:05:50.760
it out. Uh, and I
can't seem to get it out and I

897
01:05:50.880 --> 01:05:55.239
sent you some pictures of it yesterday. Yes, sir, I've looked at

898
01:05:55.280 --> 01:05:59.639
those, and I just want to
congratulate you that you did pick one of

899
01:05:59.639 --> 01:06:04.280
the most difficult weeds to manage,
so a lot of people have to do.

900
01:06:04.360 --> 01:06:09.639
That's called Virginia button weed. Virginia
button weed is a perennial weed and

901
01:06:09.800 --> 01:06:12.559
it crawls through the grass. And
you know how I always talk about create

902
01:06:12.599 --> 01:06:15.239
a dense, healthy lawn to choke
out most weed problems. The reason I

903
01:06:15.320 --> 01:06:19.239
happen to say most and not all
is because of weeds like Virginia buttonweed and

904
01:06:19.320 --> 01:06:24.920
dollar weed that are going to survive
in a well dense, well mode,

905
01:06:24.960 --> 01:06:30.480
well fertilized lawn. Virginia button weed
loves wet areas, so it proliferates faster

906
01:06:31.079 --> 01:06:34.360
when you have a lot of soil
moisture. So if you're over irrigating,

907
01:06:35.039 --> 01:06:40.320
back off that you can't control rainfall. But sometimes areas are poorly drained,

908
01:06:40.400 --> 01:06:45.199
and even improving the drainage in that
area will help keep kind of suppressed the

909
01:06:45.320 --> 01:06:50.199
Virginia button weed. But you're gonna
have to spray. And the best product

910
01:06:50.400 --> 01:06:57.480
for Virginia button weed by far is
one called Celsius like the temperature Celsius.

911
01:06:58.400 --> 01:07:01.800
You can buy Celsius a lot of
different places. You know you were in

912
01:07:01.920 --> 01:07:05.599
the Montgomery area, so I would. I can give them a call out

913
01:07:05.679 --> 01:07:09.920
there at A and A Plants and
Produce. They may carry it. I

914
01:07:10.000 --> 01:07:12.840
haven't looked for it in there before, but they may carry it. If

915
01:07:12.880 --> 01:07:15.360
not, I bet they can get
it for you. But anyway, Celsius

916
01:07:16.079 --> 01:07:23.320
is also one that we don't worry
as much about when it's hot. Still

917
01:07:23.440 --> 01:07:26.960
spray it in the morning, but
a lot of these other products will hurt

918
01:07:27.079 --> 01:07:30.039
your lawn when it's hot. That's
why I like Celsius, plus the fact

919
01:07:30.079 --> 01:07:33.119
that it's the best one you can
use. Follow the label, be ready

920
01:07:33.199 --> 01:07:36.679
to do it again six to eight
weeks later. This is a tough weed,

921
01:07:36.760 --> 01:07:42.760
but Celsius is excellent. Okay,
okay, thank you all. I

922
01:07:42.840 --> 01:07:45.960
appreciate it. You bet we're going
to take a little break for again here,

923
01:07:46.480 --> 01:07:48.719
Hurta. When we come back,
you will be our first up.

924
01:07:54.239 --> 01:07:57.320
Oh my gosh, I hate to
cut in on journey here. We should

925
01:07:57.400 --> 01:08:00.400
just let me shut up and listen
to music, but we got a show

926
01:08:00.480 --> 01:08:04.079
to do here, garden Line.
Listen to those of you up in the

927
01:08:04.159 --> 01:08:08.199
Tomboldt area. You got a hometown
feed store out on the west side of

928
01:08:08.280 --> 01:08:11.079
Tomball called D and D Feed.
And I don't know if you've been there

929
01:08:11.159 --> 01:08:14.639
lately, you need to go.
If you haven't. D and D has

930
01:08:14.920 --> 01:08:17.479
an excellent supply of everything I talk
about. Of course, they're a feed

931
01:08:17.520 --> 01:08:20.439
store. You're gonna get feed.
You're going to get super quality pet feed

932
01:08:20.479 --> 01:08:24.880
as well in there. But when
it comes to fertilizers, if I talk

933
01:08:24.920 --> 01:08:27.760
about it on guarden Line, they've
got it at D and DE Feed.

934
01:08:27.920 --> 01:08:30.439
Same thing with soils. You hear
me talk about soils like maybe an heirloom

935
01:08:30.479 --> 01:08:34.560
blend or something. They've got those
at D and DE Feed, for example.

936
01:08:34.640 --> 01:08:39.880
On the fertilizers and nutrients, excellent
selection of all the Medina products.

937
01:08:39.920 --> 01:08:43.039
You know, the soil activator,
the Medina plus the Medina has to grow

938
01:08:43.119 --> 01:08:46.439
for lawn. There has to grow
for lawn. Is the eight excuse me,

939
01:08:46.600 --> 01:08:51.720
twelve four eight. It's a three
one two ratio a fertilizer, excellent

940
01:08:51.800 --> 01:08:55.800
product, hooks up to garden hose, easy to use. Go buy D

941
01:08:55.880 --> 01:08:58.119
and D and get it. I
mean, whatever kind of fertilizer you're going

942
01:08:58.199 --> 01:09:01.880
to buy that I've talked about here
need some plants that they've got those as

943
01:09:01.960 --> 01:09:05.960
well. D and D Feed is
stocked up and ready easy to get to.

944
01:09:06.119 --> 01:09:10.079
Twenty nine to twenty west of Tumbull. You gonna give them a call.

945
01:09:10.159 --> 01:09:15.119
Two eight one three five one seventy
one forty four two eight one three

946
01:09:15.239 --> 01:09:19.359
five one seventy one forty four.
D and D Feed your hometown feed store

947
01:09:19.399 --> 01:09:24.039
out there on the west side of
tumble. We're going to head up to

948
01:09:24.079 --> 01:09:29.000
Spring Branch now and talk to Herta. Well, Herta, good morning.

949
01:09:29.359 --> 01:09:32.880
How are you doing. I'm doing
well, man, Thank you good My

950
01:09:33.119 --> 01:09:41.600
questions about my cheffalera. It was
kind of injured in the big storm when

951
01:09:42.079 --> 01:09:47.640
they came with their big tractors and
took my cut my trees that needed cutting.

952
01:09:47.920 --> 01:09:55.159
Okay, but anyway, I put
it in this structure so I could

953
01:09:55.319 --> 01:10:00.840
stand the branches up again. But
uh, warm little twig of it.

954
01:10:01.119 --> 01:10:06.560
It has about five leaves they turned
yellow. Okay. Now, I put

955
01:10:06.920 --> 01:10:15.159
asimi on there, just a handful
sprinkled and I watered in with rainwater.

956
01:10:15.399 --> 01:10:20.119
Okay, what else can I do
to help it? Oh? It has

957
01:10:20.279 --> 01:10:26.359
poison ivy growing at the bottom.
Also, Oh my gosh, yeah,

958
01:10:26.640 --> 01:10:32.840
around it big chefflearra that you've got, uh it is it's almost four feet

959
01:10:32.960 --> 01:10:39.359
tall. Okay, Well, the
poison ivy around it. The way to

960
01:10:39.479 --> 01:10:44.119
deal with that is not easy.
But you got to get some type of

961
01:10:44.199 --> 01:10:49.359
a sponge type applicator that you can
put a product on and squeeze the poison

962
01:10:49.439 --> 01:10:53.680
ivy leaves to put that product on
the leaves, because if you get any

963
01:10:54.000 --> 01:10:58.600
let's say, I would use something
containing trichlope here and I'll spell that in

964
01:10:58.760 --> 01:11:02.159
just a moment, but if you
get that on your chefflara, it'll kill

965
01:11:02.239 --> 01:11:06.720
it. And so rather than spray
it, I use you know what I've

966
01:11:06.840 --> 01:11:10.920
used before too, and this may
be doable for you is those big old

967
01:11:11.439 --> 01:11:15.439
sheep like barbecue tongs but not the
nice ones. Just something that's just that,

968
01:11:16.039 --> 01:11:23.600
you know, metal tongues that are
very inexpensive, and you attach a

969
01:11:23.720 --> 01:11:28.399
sponge to each on the inside of
each side of that and you can wet

970
01:11:28.439 --> 01:11:31.520
that sponge and then you reach under
there and with that tongue just squeeze those

971
01:11:31.680 --> 01:11:35.920
leaves and do it several of the
leaves, and that way it doesn't hurt

972
01:11:36.000 --> 01:11:41.119
your plants, but it moves down
in poison iety. Well, suppose I

973
01:11:41.239 --> 01:11:47.520
put rubber gloves on and pull it
out. Well, you can try.

974
01:11:47.640 --> 01:11:50.640
You may not get it all,
but be extra careful because you don't want

975
01:11:50.640 --> 01:11:56.640
to grab it and have it get
on your forearms or something. You gotta

976
01:11:56.680 --> 01:12:00.479
be careful. I put it in
a bag. Even dry poison ivy has

977
01:12:00.560 --> 01:12:02.720
got that oil on it. So
if you want to go that route,

978
01:12:02.920 --> 01:12:08.199
that's fine. I have done something
like that before. Just know that that

979
01:12:08.319 --> 01:12:11.039
oil is now in the rubb gloves, so be careful when you take them

980
01:12:11.119 --> 01:12:13.680
off that you don't you know,
grab a glove, yes, yeah,

981
01:12:13.800 --> 01:12:16.319
okay, I might even just throw
them. Boy. The other thing I

982
01:12:16.560 --> 01:12:25.000
thought maybe I can take a long
pair of channel lock friars to pull it

983
01:12:25.159 --> 01:12:31.319
with. With you gloves on,
you wouldn't need channel lot but yeah,

984
01:12:31.560 --> 01:12:33.800
I don't know. There's different ways
to get under there and do it.

985
01:12:33.960 --> 01:12:39.079
Whatever works for you. Just be
safe because okay, all right, Well,

986
01:12:39.239 --> 01:12:41.800
thank you very much, Thank you
her, thank you for being there.

987
01:12:42.039 --> 01:12:44.960
I appreciate you. Hey, you're
over in the Neck of the Woods.

988
01:12:44.960 --> 01:12:46.920
I'm going to be in today at
the Langham Creek Ace Hardware. If

989
01:12:46.920 --> 01:12:49.600
you aren't doing anything between eleven thirty
and one thirty. Come out and see

990
01:12:49.680 --> 01:12:56.239
me. Okay, Langham Creek Hardware, Langham Creek Ace Hardware. It's in

991
01:12:56.399 --> 01:13:02.079
northwest Houston where Barker Cypress and FM
five twenty nine come together. They call

992
01:13:02.159 --> 01:13:06.199
the neighborhood copperfield around there. Oh
oh, I'm familiar with it. Just

993
01:13:06.279 --> 01:13:11.880
think a copper field. But it's
if you're on Barker Cyprus, you'll you'll

994
01:13:11.920 --> 01:13:15.560
go pretty close to five twenty nine. You'll find them. But anyway,

995
01:13:15.640 --> 01:13:17.000
if you make it, come on
out, we'll look. Look, we'll

996
01:13:17.039 --> 01:13:20.960
be giving away some stuff to happen. Thank you, thank you you did

997
01:13:23.760 --> 01:13:26.800
you know when it comes to success
in your plants, I always say brown

998
01:13:26.880 --> 01:13:30.279
stuff before green stuff. What does
that mean? That means the foundation of

999
01:13:30.439 --> 01:13:36.279
success in gardening comes by building the
soil. You wouldn't put a house on

1000
01:13:36.439 --> 01:13:41.560
the ground without a foundation under it. Not if you want to last well,

1001
01:13:42.119 --> 01:13:45.199
if you want success with plants.
Cienamultch down south Houston, those of

1002
01:13:45.279 --> 01:13:48.479
you down in that area near Row
Sharon, just north of Roach Sharon,

1003
01:13:48.640 --> 01:13:54.520
really a highway six and two eighty
eight. They're actually on FM five twenty

1004
01:13:54.600 --> 01:13:58.399
one. But Ciena Maultch has got
the Mulchus. It's got the soil blends.

1005
01:13:58.479 --> 01:14:00.840
You know, we talk about the
heirloom soils, veggie and urb mix.

1006
01:14:00.920 --> 01:14:05.119
They've got that. At Ciena Maltch. Everything they carry super high quality

1007
01:14:05.199 --> 01:14:08.439
and when you get there you'll see
it. When you take it out of

1008
01:14:08.479 --> 01:14:11.680
the bag, you'll see what we're
talking about here. If you have a

1009
01:14:11.760 --> 01:14:15.319
bulk delivery, they'll do a delivery
within twenty miles of Ciena Maltch down there.

1010
01:14:15.399 --> 01:14:18.760
Just give them a call, stop
by. Here's the website. This

1011
01:14:18.920 --> 01:14:21.600
is how you find out everything you
need to know from the phone number to

1012
01:14:21.680 --> 01:14:28.560
the location Sienna Multch dot com.
And while you're there taking care of your

1013
01:14:28.600 --> 01:14:32.159
brown stuff. They have every fertilizer
I talk about on garden Line everyone.

1014
01:14:32.680 --> 01:14:36.760
So it's the way to get everything
ready so you can have success with your

1015
01:14:36.840 --> 01:14:42.119
plans. And the folks at Ciana
Maltz will treat you right to very friendly,

1016
01:14:42.319 --> 01:14:45.319
very helpful, just a pleasure to
be around. Speaking of pleasure,

1017
01:14:45.920 --> 01:14:51.000
I like going out to Nelson Watergarden
and Nursery. Nelson Watergarden is out there,

1018
01:14:51.159 --> 01:14:56.039
and let's think of it this way, it's your West Houston Garden Center.

1019
01:14:56.159 --> 01:15:00.279
They're in Katie, so if you
go out ten to Katie, get

1020
01:15:00.319 --> 01:15:03.560
to Katie Fort Ben Road, turn
north, they're just a hop skipping or

1021
01:15:03.600 --> 01:15:09.439
jump up there on the right hand
side. They have got unbelievable nursery.

1022
01:15:09.479 --> 01:15:12.640
Really, I'm always amazed at the
plants that they carry because they have a

1023
01:15:12.840 --> 01:15:15.640
lot, a lot of stuff.
And when it comes to water gardens.

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01:15:15.840 --> 01:15:19.319
Oh, I just posted something to
our Gardenline Facebook page the other day,

1025
01:15:19.319 --> 01:15:21.840
which, by the way, you
ought to follow that we have a lot

1026
01:15:21.920 --> 01:15:26.479
of good stuff we put up there, but just the sound of water.

1027
01:15:27.319 --> 01:15:30.520
Take some friends go out to Nelson
Nursery and water Gardens. Check out the

1028
01:15:30.600 --> 01:15:34.560
nursery, but just allow yourself some
time to sit out there and enjoy the

1029
01:15:34.680 --> 01:15:40.840
sound of the water. That is
so therapeutic. And they do that better

1030
01:15:40.880 --> 01:15:44.600
than just to put anybody I know
when it in fact, Nelson Water Garden

1031
01:15:44.640 --> 01:15:47.479
and Nursery is better than anybody I
know here in the Texas area. They're

1032
01:15:47.560 --> 01:15:54.680
even nationally known. They've been a
leader for a long time. Well,

1033
01:15:55.199 --> 01:15:59.680
the music means I quit talking.
It's time for the top of the arrow

1034
01:15:59.720 --> 01:16:01.680
break. We will be back though
you're listening to garden Line. I'm your

1035
01:16:01.680 --> 01:16:05.319
host, Skip Richtor. Thanks for
listening. Just another reminder. I'll be

1036
01:16:05.359 --> 01:16:11.800
at Ace Hardware, the Langham Creek
Ace Hardware, Northwest Houston. I hope

1037
01:16:11.800 --> 01:16:15.319
you'll come out. It's over kind
of where the neighborhood called Copperfield is Barker

1038
01:16:15.439 --> 01:16:18.840
Cypress Road, south of the Berry
Center. Am I making it easier to

1039
01:16:18.880 --> 01:16:24.520
get to Highway five twenty nine,
which is FM Spencer Road out there,

1040
01:16:25.119 --> 01:16:28.560
easy to find Langham Creek. We're
going to be given away. We got

1041
01:16:28.640 --> 01:16:32.520
reps from Microlife and from Nitrofoss giving
away fertilizers out there every thirty minutes.

1042
01:16:33.079 --> 01:16:38.119
Bring me samples in bags. Let's
identify things. You got a turf sample.

1043
01:16:38.439 --> 01:16:41.239
Here's what you do. You need
to take a four by four or

1044
01:16:41.319 --> 01:16:45.319
four by six plug of turf,
slip it in a zip lock bag from

1045
01:16:45.399 --> 01:16:48.000
the area between healthy and dead.
I can diagnose, but I can't do

1046
01:16:48.159 --> 01:17:01.600
autopsies. It's on this program.
Welcome to kt r H garden Line with

1047
01:17:01.840 --> 01:17:32.239
Skip Rictor it's Trim. Just watch
him as welcome back, Welcome back to

1048
01:17:32.319 --> 01:17:38.920
guarden Line. Good to have you
with us. You are listening to garden

1049
01:17:38.960 --> 01:17:42.399
Line. I'm your host's Skip Richter, and we're here to answer gardening questions.

1050
01:17:42.560 --> 01:17:45.279
That's what we do. We turn
brown thumbs green at least that's our

1051
01:17:45.399 --> 01:17:49.520
goal. So uh, give us
a call seven one three two one two

1052
01:17:50.039 --> 01:17:54.600
K t R H. And that
will do the trick. We'll have you

1053
01:17:54.680 --> 01:17:57.520
on here. We'll answer your questions. What are you wondering about? Launch,

1054
01:17:57.600 --> 01:18:01.960
trees, vegetables, flowers, house
all all is fair game long as

1055
01:18:02.000 --> 01:18:06.319
it's plants. We don't do marriage
advice, but we do we do help

1056
01:18:06.359 --> 01:18:10.319
you with plants. Oh, I
guess we could say plant advice is free.

1057
01:18:10.399 --> 01:18:13.680
Marriage advice is three hundred dollars an
hour, and you probably wouldn't want

1058
01:18:13.720 --> 01:18:17.920
take it anyway. But joking aside, we love to talk to you here

1059
01:18:17.960 --> 01:18:20.920
on garden Line and find out what
your questions are. I guarantee you this.

1060
01:18:21.720 --> 01:18:26.359
I've learned this over thirty five years
of doing this. If you have

1061
01:18:26.439 --> 01:18:29.319
a question, there are a lot
of other people that have the same question.

1062
01:18:29.920 --> 01:18:33.000
It's just how things go through the
seasons. Someone was asking me the

1063
01:18:33.039 --> 01:18:36.119
other day about various kinds of products, and it just kind of got me

1064
01:18:36.239 --> 01:18:42.079
thinking. There are always new products
coming on the scene. Sometimes they're good,

1065
01:18:42.239 --> 01:18:45.479
sometimes they're not good. Sometimes they're
just a gimmick. But sometimes they're

1066
01:18:45.560 --> 01:18:50.279
very effective. Medina. They're one
of their most recent editions, if not

1067
01:18:50.479 --> 01:18:55.199
the most is super grow Plus.
It's one of the hash to grow line

1068
01:18:55.319 --> 01:19:00.560
of products from Medina. Super Grow
Plus. It's a sixteen ze z to

1069
01:19:00.800 --> 01:19:02.960
fertilizer, but it's more than the
fertilizer. It hooks up to a garden

1070
01:19:03.000 --> 01:19:06.199
hose, covers about four thousand square
feet, so ten minutes you can do

1071
01:19:06.279 --> 01:19:12.000
your whole lawn. It has,
of course that sixteen percent nitrogen, about

1072
01:19:12.000 --> 01:19:15.000
a fifth of the sixteen percent is
slow release in it. It also has

1073
01:19:15.039 --> 01:19:19.760
a kelated iron form in it,
so that yellowing of your grass that typically

1074
01:19:19.920 --> 01:19:24.880
is an iron efficiency symptom, and
Medina has to Grow has got you covered

1075
01:19:24.920 --> 01:19:29.560
on that. With the super grow
Plus. You're also going to find molasses

1076
01:19:29.640 --> 01:19:32.760
in it which stimulates microbial activity in
the soil, Humic acid in it,

1077
01:19:33.520 --> 01:19:39.159
which is another beneficial thing for the
roots and the soil zone of the plant.

1078
01:19:39.880 --> 01:19:43.119
So it just makes it really easy
to use. Oh, seaweed extractor,

1079
01:19:43.159 --> 01:19:45.680
forgot to tell you about that one. And this is quite the concoction.

1080
01:19:45.399 --> 01:19:50.039
Supergrow Plus from a Dina widely available
here in the Greater Houston area,

1081
01:19:50.800 --> 01:19:54.640
and I would encourage you to give
it a try. Hook cap that quirt

1082
01:19:54.840 --> 01:19:58.920
bottle and try it out on your
lawn. By the way, it's not

1083
01:19:59.159 --> 01:20:02.520
just lawns. I've seen people use
it on their vegetable garden and it does

1084
01:20:02.680 --> 01:20:06.239
pretty good for that as well.
It's some awesome tomatoes as a result.

1085
01:20:08.279 --> 01:20:10.720
Let's go out to Jersey Village.
We're going to talk to George now.

1086
01:20:10.800 --> 01:20:14.159
Hello, George, Hey, Skip, how're they're going with you? I'm

1087
01:20:14.199 --> 01:20:17.239
well, sir, how can we
help today? My blueberry plant said the

1088
01:20:17.439 --> 01:20:20.279
leaves are turning brown on them,
and I read work said that that.

1089
01:20:20.680 --> 01:20:27.399
He said more of an acidic soil. So I tried pouring some some the

1090
01:20:27.600 --> 01:20:31.600
rose fertilizer or some zatia fertilizer.
Didn't seem to make any difference, and

1091
01:20:31.680 --> 01:20:36.920
so I thought I would test it
with this handheld meter that's supposed to check

1092
01:20:38.039 --> 01:20:43.000
the pH factor, and it doesn't. It always says seven no matter what

1093
01:20:43.159 --> 01:20:46.600
I do. So meters are not
always that accurate, but go ahead.

1094
01:20:47.039 --> 01:20:50.319
So there's eight hardware cellos where you're
going to be today? Do you know

1095
01:20:50.600 --> 01:20:56.159
the meters? Yeah? You know, I haven't. I was at Lingham

1096
01:20:56.199 --> 01:20:58.520
Creek a while back, but I
didn't happen to look for that, so

1097
01:20:58.640 --> 01:21:01.920
I can't tell you for sure.
I can tell you this though. If

1098
01:21:02.000 --> 01:21:11.359
your blueberries are turning brown, that's
almost certainly not a pH problem. If

1099
01:21:11.520 --> 01:21:15.680
the new growth on your blueberries is
turning yellow or is coming out yellow and

1100
01:21:15.800 --> 01:21:20.039
not developing a good green color on
the new shoots at the ends, that's

1101
01:21:20.119 --> 01:21:26.279
an iron problem that could be related
to phs as well. If they're turning

1102
01:21:26.359 --> 01:21:30.960
brown, something is killing roots,
and it could come from temporary drought,

1103
01:21:30.319 --> 01:21:35.359
It could come from physical damage to
the roots. It could come from soggy

1104
01:21:35.760 --> 01:21:41.640
oversaturated soil. Roots can't get oxygen
and they die. But the browning.

1105
01:21:42.119 --> 01:21:45.479
The only other thing that would cause
browning is if you put a whole lot

1106
01:21:45.560 --> 01:21:47.720
of as salt based fertilizer on and
you burned roots with it. But it

1107
01:21:47.760 --> 01:21:54.039
would take up a big over application
to cause that. Okay, so what

1108
01:21:54.119 --> 01:21:59.479
should I do? Well, how's
your watering been? Are you giving it

1109
01:21:59.600 --> 01:22:03.039
a how often do you water?
You know, tell me a little bit,

1110
01:22:03.399 --> 01:22:06.159
very often, once a week something
like that. Okay. Well,

1111
01:22:06.560 --> 01:22:13.319
and how long have these been in
the ground, Oh, three months something

1112
01:22:13.399 --> 01:22:16.159
like that. Okay, they still
have somewhat of a limited root system.

1113
01:22:16.319 --> 01:22:21.479
I would water this twice a week, and I would apply it to the

1114
01:22:21.880 --> 01:22:27.119
entire area around the plant. If
you've got an autoratic sprinkler that comes on

1115
01:22:27.720 --> 01:22:31.800
sometimes something amat. Oh it's you
hand water? Yes, okay, good,

1116
01:22:31.960 --> 01:22:36.560
that's that's actually better, so give
it a good soaking. What you'll

1117
01:22:36.640 --> 01:22:40.399
find, you know, when I
hand water, I've sat there and watered

1118
01:22:40.479 --> 01:22:44.359
until there was puddles and it was
running off. And then I come back

1119
01:22:44.399 --> 01:22:47.079
a little bit later and I dig
down and I only wet the soil about

1120
01:22:47.079 --> 01:22:51.880
an inch deep because it takes time
for it to soak in. So when

1121
01:22:51.960 --> 01:22:56.239
you're water, depending on the soil
type you have, you may need to

1122
01:22:56.279 --> 01:22:59.359
water for a little bit, go
to another area and water something else,

1123
01:22:59.479 --> 01:23:01.880
come back again. I've got some
areas in my garden that I water three

1124
01:23:02.000 --> 01:23:05.840
times like that, just to get
a good soaking down in the soil.

1125
01:23:06.359 --> 01:23:13.039
My guest, George is the soil
is not wet enough for them. Having

1126
01:23:13.239 --> 01:23:15.920
said that, we don't want it
soggy wet. But when you get through

1127
01:23:15.960 --> 01:23:17.760
watering, you ought to be able
to dig down about three or four inches

1128
01:23:17.960 --> 01:23:21.960
and feel good moisture in the soil
at that depth. All right, Let

1129
01:23:23.000 --> 01:23:26.560
me try that. I think that's
my best guess on it. You're gonna

1130
01:23:26.560 --> 01:23:30.319
be up there in Jersey Village.
I'll be at the Langham Creek Ace Hardware

1131
01:23:30.359 --> 01:23:32.239
over in the Copperfield area, which
isn't far from you, right around the

1132
01:23:32.239 --> 01:23:35.399
corner. I'll be there from eleven
thirty to one thirty. If you want

1133
01:23:35.479 --> 01:23:40.319
to stop by, bring me some
pictures of the blueberries or anything. I'll

1134
01:23:40.359 --> 01:23:43.720
be happy to look at it.
And also we're going to be giving away

1135
01:23:43.760 --> 01:23:47.039
some fertilizers and maybe I can direct
you to a couple of products. You're

1136
01:23:47.079 --> 01:23:50.760
going to want to go acidic on
everything you do on those blueberries, and

1137
01:23:50.920 --> 01:23:57.119
so there are some quality products by
our fertilizer folks that can help with that

1138
01:23:57.359 --> 01:24:00.600
as well. All Right, i'll
see you ladies, got a chance,

1139
01:24:00.640 --> 01:24:02.880
all right, look forward to it. Thanks, Thanks, good luck with

1140
01:24:02.960 --> 01:24:05.920
that. Yeah, I think that
watering is probably gonna be the best thing

1141
01:24:06.000 --> 01:24:10.439
I can suggest. You know,
we talk about fertilizing your lawn, and

1142
01:24:10.560 --> 01:24:13.600
you hear me also talk about azamite, and some people get confused. It's

1143
01:24:13.680 --> 01:24:15.920
like, well I fertilized, do
I need to use azimite? And the

1144
01:24:15.119 --> 01:24:21.000
enters yes. Generally speaking, Azimite
is a trace mineral supplement that we put

1145
01:24:21.039 --> 01:24:26.680
in the soil to build the bank
account of all those obscure little trace minerals

1146
01:24:27.079 --> 01:24:30.960
that although they're only needed in tiny
amounts, they are essential for plant growth

1147
01:24:31.079 --> 01:24:34.079
and you can put them on your
Put azamite on your lawn. I would

1148
01:24:34.079 --> 01:24:36.640
say about once a year is usually
adequate. You can do a soul test

1149
01:24:36.760 --> 01:24:40.039
to see if you need to do
it more often or if you're good to

1150
01:24:40.079 --> 01:24:43.640
go with as it is, but
ASMI quality product. You can go to

1151
01:24:43.680 --> 01:24:47.479
Azmite Texas dot com. You're gonna
find azamite most of the garden centers I

1152
01:24:47.560 --> 01:24:53.720
talk about, if not all the
feed stores, the Southwest fertilizer ace hardware

1153
01:24:53.800 --> 01:24:58.039
stores. Azmite is widely available and
that is what we use it for to

1154
01:24:58.199 --> 01:25:01.600
get the bank account of micronutrient.
It's trace minerals to a level where they're

1155
01:25:01.680 --> 01:25:06.640
always available in good quantity for the
plants that are off from It's time for

1156
01:25:06.720 --> 01:25:10.279
me to take a little break.
Our phone number is seven to one three

1157
01:25:10.439 --> 01:25:14.399
two one two k t r H. Seven one three two one two k

1158
01:25:14.560 --> 01:25:18.119
t r H. I'll be right
back. Welcome back to guard Line.

1159
01:25:18.279 --> 01:25:23.239
Good to have you with us today. We do feel life today and look

1160
01:25:23.319 --> 01:25:28.479
outside it is beautiful, little breeze, clear skies. Oh my goodness,

1161
01:25:29.000 --> 01:25:30.960
now's the time to be listening to
guard Line with that phone in your pocket

1162
01:25:31.039 --> 01:25:33.760
while you're out in the garden.
This is a good time to get that

1163
01:25:33.960 --> 01:25:39.760
done. By the way. Uh. We we talk about birds a lot,

1164
01:25:39.840 --> 01:25:45.159
and I have continued to build stuff
into my landscape for birds. I'm

1165
01:25:45.399 --> 01:25:49.319
planting plants for birds, things that
attract hummingbirds for example. Uh, the

1166
01:25:50.520 --> 01:25:55.680
feeders that I have out there.
My stuff comes from all Birds Unlimited.

1167
01:25:55.840 --> 01:26:00.239
I love wild Birds Unlimited. They're
six stores in the Houston area. Yeah.

1168
01:26:00.239 --> 01:26:06.279
Just if you hear nothing else,
write this down WBU dot com Forward

1169
01:26:06.359 --> 01:26:13.079
slash Houston, WBUS and Wilbirds Unlimited
dot Com Forward slash Houston. No matter

1170
01:26:13.159 --> 01:26:15.720
what you need, they've got it. You're gonna go on vacation this summer.

1171
01:26:15.079 --> 01:26:18.880
Get one of their seed cylinders.
It's like one of those big candles

1172
01:26:18.920 --> 01:26:23.000
that you see. They're shape like
that. They're round and flat topped.

1173
01:26:23.439 --> 01:26:29.039
It's squeezed together seeds and products that
birds love. But they're so tightly packed

1174
01:26:29.159 --> 01:26:30.399
the birds have to stay a little
longer to get a bite, So you

1175
01:26:30.439 --> 01:26:34.680
get to enjoy watching them from the
feeder. They don't just grab a seed

1176
01:26:34.720 --> 01:26:40.840
and run away or fly away.
These seed cylinders are excellent and if you're

1177
01:26:40.840 --> 01:26:44.399
gonna go on vacation, it's a
great way. They'll be seed there all

1178
01:26:44.479 --> 01:26:46.560
the time you're gone. The birds
are being taken care of. I just

1179
01:26:46.640 --> 01:26:53.159
put up a bird bath a little
actually it's a little fountain, but it's

1180
01:26:53.319 --> 01:26:55.840
the birds enjoy it. They get
in there and do that. They love

1181
01:26:55.920 --> 01:26:59.680
that sound. And let me tell
you, you cannot believe the change in

1182
01:27:00.000 --> 01:27:02.399
I put up some new feeders and
this bird bath that has a splash of

1183
01:27:02.520 --> 01:27:05.600
water sound, and the number of
birds we have in our landscape is like

1184
01:27:05.840 --> 01:27:13.079
fourfold what it was before. At
grab some wildbirds. Nesting super Blend that

1185
01:27:13.279 --> 01:27:16.319
is an excellent product. We are
still in nesting season and birds are going

1186
01:27:16.359 --> 01:27:20.079
to be molting here where they shed
their feathers and get new feathers. And

1187
01:27:20.279 --> 01:27:24.119
when they're in that situation, they
don't fly all over the place so much.

1188
01:27:24.199 --> 01:27:27.840
They kind of tend to hang out
a little bit. Nesting super Blend

1189
01:27:28.119 --> 01:27:33.479
excellent for that as well. Wabirds
Unlimited quality feeds. Quality products turn your

1190
01:27:33.560 --> 01:27:40.840
backyard into just a pleasureful sanctuary,
the sound of water, the sound of

1191
01:27:40.920 --> 01:27:44.600
birds, the ant watching birds and
their antics. And you know birds are

1192
01:27:44.640 --> 01:27:47.600
eating bugs for you too. Most
birds are feeding on insects as well.

1193
01:27:48.159 --> 01:27:53.119
Wabirds Unlimited, WBU dot Com,
Forward Slash Houston. You got to check

1194
01:27:53.199 --> 01:27:56.279
those out. We're going to go
now to Dickinson and talk to Karen.

1195
01:27:56.319 --> 01:28:03.720
Hello, Karen, Oh hey,
Karen, can you hear me? All

1196
01:28:03.800 --> 01:28:10.000
right? I can. I've got
a question with my fruit trees. They're

1197
01:28:10.000 --> 01:28:14.439
about three feet maybe four feet high, and we get ant cinema, and

1198
01:28:14.560 --> 01:28:16.000
so we've been putting ant killer around
and trying to get to get rid of

1199
01:28:16.000 --> 01:28:19.560
the ants and stuff. But doesn't
I get into the fruit the poisonous stuff.

1200
01:28:19.600 --> 01:28:23.560
I mean, how do you deal
with fire ants and around your fruit

1201
01:28:23.600 --> 01:28:26.279
trees and stuff? Okay, well, if it's fire ants, you do

1202
01:28:26.439 --> 01:28:30.119
need to use a bait, and
you scatter it according to the label.

1203
01:28:30.399 --> 01:28:32.800
And the reason I like baits.
You don't take a spoonful and dump it

1204
01:28:32.880 --> 01:28:40.239
on a mound. You put it
everywhere because antswer foraging everywhere. For example,

1205
01:28:40.760 --> 01:28:44.680
Andro is just one example of a
number of good fire baits. But

1206
01:28:44.880 --> 01:28:49.680
Andro can be applied at a rate
of one pound per acre. That's a

1207
01:28:49.840 --> 01:28:54.680
granule here, a granule there.
It's very scattered out. And when you

1208
01:28:54.880 --> 01:28:58.439
do that, no matter where the
ant colonies are, they're going to have

1209
01:28:58.560 --> 01:29:03.560
foragers and you're gonna suppress greatly the
ends on your property. If any escape

1210
01:29:03.640 --> 01:29:09.760
that bait treatment, you can do
individual mound treatments, But to just do

1211
01:29:09.880 --> 01:29:13.840
the mound treatments is to play whackam
mole. A mountain pops up, you

1212
01:29:14.199 --> 01:29:15.960
treat it, you kill it.
Another mount pops up, you treat it,

1213
01:29:16.000 --> 01:29:18.239
and you kill it. It's playing
wack a mole with fire ants.

1214
01:29:18.279 --> 01:29:23.920
So use the baits around your fruit
trees for fireant. I got you,

1215
01:29:24.640 --> 01:29:27.399
I got you. I have one
other question. If you don't line,

1216
01:29:27.600 --> 01:29:30.560
you probably talked about it earlier,
but uh, you know it's high as

1217
01:29:30.600 --> 01:29:33.840
to getting this stuff in your grass
and stuff. You know, I've got

1218
01:29:33.840 --> 01:29:40.399
a real large lawn and stuff,
and I worry it's going to dry on

1219
01:29:40.600 --> 01:29:45.279
stuff. And I don't know if
it's a time of fertilize right now or

1220
01:29:45.319 --> 01:29:48.479
put some on it. Now's a
good time to fertilize if you've not fertilized

1221
01:29:49.079 --> 01:29:53.720
since, let's say earlier in the
spring. Now's the time to put your

1222
01:29:53.840 --> 01:29:58.399
summer fertilizations down. Karen, you
want to make sure and follow the label

1223
01:29:58.439 --> 01:30:01.479
as to how much you apply.
But if you put down a slow release,

1224
01:30:01.680 --> 01:30:06.439
choose a product that is slow release
and that will feed your lawn all

1225
01:30:06.479 --> 01:30:10.680
the way up until it's the fall
time. But you need to write down

1226
01:30:10.760 --> 01:30:15.039
my website because all of the instructions, the charts that take you from January

1227
01:30:15.159 --> 01:30:19.760
through December in your lawn are on
the website. They're free. It's gardening

1228
01:30:19.960 --> 01:30:25.520
with Skip dot com. Yeah,
all right, I appreciate it. Yeah,

1229
01:30:25.560 --> 01:30:27.520
go to Gardening with Skip and I'll
tell you the price. If you

1230
01:30:27.560 --> 01:30:29.800
want to do it synthetic, if
you can do it organic, it's all

1231
01:30:29.880 --> 01:30:32.760
at Gardening Withiskip dot com. Both
options. Okay, all right, thank

1232
01:30:32.760 --> 01:30:35.399
you so much. Thank you appreciate
your call. We're going to go now

1233
01:30:35.479 --> 01:30:43.800
to Mike. Hello. Mike Hello, A question for you, actually two

1234
01:30:43.920 --> 01:30:54.760
questions. Is it possible to over
apply barricade and the amami? I'm not

1235
01:30:54.840 --> 01:30:59.159
saying it right, but I know
I put it down following your schedules,

1236
01:30:59.199 --> 01:31:02.399
So is it possible to over apply
those? You have a weed question.

1237
01:31:02.800 --> 01:31:10.079
It is possible to over apply almost
anything that we use insecticide, fungicide,

1238
01:31:10.119 --> 01:31:15.039
herbicide, weed control, all of
that. The thing with you ask about

1239
01:31:15.079 --> 01:31:19.640
azamite specifically, So those are micronutrients, you know, and if you over

1240
01:31:19.800 --> 01:31:26.479
applied to a point where let's say
your iron was through the roof way too

1241
01:31:26.560 --> 01:31:31.720
much iron, it affects the uptake
of other positively charged nutrients. Iron is

1242
01:31:31.760 --> 01:31:36.680
a positively charged nutrient, and so
too much phosphorus, which is not in

1243
01:31:36.800 --> 01:31:43.000
azamite. Too much phosphorus causes iron
that's in the soil to become unavailable,

1244
01:31:43.520 --> 01:31:47.640
and so it yes, that'll you
know, you always have to follow the

1245
01:31:47.720 --> 01:31:53.279
label. I recommend a soil test
as the best way to know exactly what

1246
01:31:53.520 --> 01:31:56.520
your lawn needs. I give you, I give out you know, the

1247
01:31:56.640 --> 01:32:02.039
general recommendations here all the time.
In specifics. It is possible that an

1248
01:32:02.119 --> 01:32:08.520
individual's yard would have too much of
something that we didn't expect. That's not

1249
01:32:08.720 --> 01:32:12.279
normal in a lawn, and that's
why a soil test helps you make sure

1250
01:32:12.319 --> 01:32:15.600
you're fertilizing what's best for your lawn. But in the meantime, following the

1251
01:32:15.640 --> 01:32:18.960
schedule is the best way to go. Okay, all right, so it's

1252
01:32:19.760 --> 01:32:27.239
yeah, that's good. I'm eighty
percent ahead on the weed game. But

1253
01:32:27.319 --> 01:32:31.840
I've got this one particular weed,
for lack of a better term, it's

1254
01:32:32.560 --> 01:32:38.680
it's a it's a knot smaller than
your fist when you dig one up.

1255
01:32:38.800 --> 01:32:42.239
When you dig it up, but
the blades come out like they look like

1256
01:32:42.439 --> 01:32:45.560
big blades of grass, but they're
skinny, and sometimes they grow a foot

1257
01:32:45.640 --> 01:32:49.680
two foot tall. And there's just
these little clumps coming up out of my

1258
01:32:50.239 --> 01:32:55.520
uh, out of my lawn.
And I've put a couple of different weed

1259
01:32:55.600 --> 01:32:59.399
killers out there, and nothing really
seems to work on it. I don't

1260
01:32:59.399 --> 01:33:01.600
even know what you can. Yeah, that's not ringing a bell, mike.

1261
01:33:01.680 --> 01:33:05.279
What part of Houston are you in
or the area? Uh? Si

1262
01:33:05.359 --> 01:33:11.800
fair? Oh my gosh, could
you dig one up and bring it today?

1263
01:33:11.800 --> 01:33:15.159
I'm going to be I'm going to
be in the Copperfield neighborhood today,

1264
01:33:15.840 --> 01:33:18.520
Yeah, Copperfield. I'll be there
from eleven thirty to one thirty at Langham

1265
01:33:18.560 --> 01:33:23.119
Creek Ace Hardware, which is by
Copperfield. You know that's close to you,

1266
01:33:23.840 --> 01:33:27.279
where it is to you. If
you'll if you can't dig it up,

1267
01:33:27.560 --> 01:33:30.119
then bring me the cutover. You
can dig them up. I did

1268
01:33:30.199 --> 01:33:31.680
a bunch yesterday. Well bring it
already, dug up? All right,

1269
01:33:31.760 --> 01:33:35.640
good, bring me let me look
at those because right now my brain is

1270
01:33:35.760 --> 01:33:40.279
not picturing what you're talking about.
But if I look at it, I

1271
01:33:40.319 --> 01:33:42.479
can tell you what it is and
tell you what to do. And they're

1272
01:33:42.520 --> 01:33:45.399
going to have the product, whatever, the whatever is needed to kill it,

1273
01:33:45.439 --> 01:33:47.680
They're gonna have it there at the
ACE Hardware stores. Okay, and

1274
01:33:47.760 --> 01:33:51.039
what time? What time will you
be there starting eleven thirty to one thirty

1275
01:33:51.560 --> 01:33:55.439
today eleven thirty, ok. Yeah, I'll get out there. And for

1276
01:33:55.520 --> 01:34:00.079
anybody listening, eleven thirty one thirty
today, you can bring me samples of

1277
01:34:00.159 --> 01:34:02.760
whatever you got to identify or to
diagnose or whatever we need. Hey,

1278
01:34:02.920 --> 01:34:06.840
Mike, thank you for the call. I appreciate good questions. Sure bye

1279
01:34:08.159 --> 01:34:16.079
bye bye bye. Yeah for sure. Listen, folks, there is an

1280
01:34:16.119 --> 01:34:20.399
adage out there in people's minds that
if a teaspoon's good, a tablespoon's better.

1281
01:34:21.079 --> 01:34:26.319
And that's true when it comes to
a fungicide you bought, an insecticide,

1282
01:34:26.399 --> 01:34:30.399
you bought, a weed killer,
you bought, a fertilizer you bought,

1283
01:34:30.239 --> 01:34:35.920
and it is untrue that if a
teaspoon's good at tablespoons better. These

1284
01:34:36.039 --> 01:34:41.359
products have labels to tell you how
much to put out there, and when

1285
01:34:41.399 --> 01:34:45.159
you don't follow that, you will
cause problems. Weed control products that are

1286
01:34:45.239 --> 01:34:50.760
fairly safe to use in your lawn
will hurt your lawn if you don't apply

1287
01:34:50.920 --> 01:34:55.319
them at the right rate. Think
about this. If you're a company selling

1288
01:34:55.439 --> 01:35:00.439
a weed control product, or selling
a fertilizer, or selling an insect side,

1289
01:35:00.000 --> 01:35:03.880
wouldn't you want people to use as
much of your product as possible because

1290
01:35:03.920 --> 01:35:06.680
that's going to make you more money. Right, So, if it says

1291
01:35:06.720 --> 01:35:12.600
on the label, use a teaspoon, don't put down a tablespoon, because

1292
01:35:12.680 --> 01:35:16.119
a teaspoon is enough to do whatever
it is you're wanting to do with that

1293
01:35:16.279 --> 01:35:20.800
product. If it wasn't, they
would tell you a tablespoon because they're going

1294
01:35:20.880 --> 01:35:26.319
to sell more product. Follow the
label. The label not only is the

1295
01:35:26.399 --> 01:35:29.880
label of the law, but the
label is common sense. And you know

1296
01:35:30.119 --> 01:35:33.399
it just the call. You know
we were just talking about with Mike.

1297
01:35:33.640 --> 01:35:36.560
You know, the asmid is an
example, and I use nutrients as an

1298
01:35:36.600 --> 01:35:41.399
example of that. Iron is a
good thing. Too much iron is not

1299
01:35:41.520 --> 01:35:44.039
a good thing, zinc is a
good thing. Too much sink is not

1300
01:35:44.119 --> 01:35:47.479
a good nitrogen is a good thing. You overdo the nitrogen in your lawn,

1301
01:35:47.600 --> 01:35:51.159
you're going to get faster growth,
have to mow, mow more,

1302
01:35:51.439 --> 01:35:55.239
water more, and you're going to
end up with a smaller root system,

1303
01:35:55.279 --> 01:36:00.359
believe it or not, an over
fertilized with nitrogen lawn. That's why say

1304
01:36:00.399 --> 01:36:02.800
slow release in the summer, because
you can put out enough that will release

1305
01:36:02.920 --> 01:36:08.800
all the way out until the fall
and you get the right amount a little

1306
01:36:08.800 --> 01:36:12.239
bit at a time. It's the
way to go about it. It's the

1307
01:36:12.399 --> 01:36:16.199
way. If a teaspoon is good, apply a teaspoon. A tablespoon is

1308
01:36:16.279 --> 01:36:19.520
not better. And you can get
into problems on all these products, and

1309
01:36:19.840 --> 01:36:24.119
it just kind of got me thinking
about that. There. That's I guess

1310
01:36:24.159 --> 01:36:26.479
your tip of the day. We're
going to take a little break here.

1311
01:36:26.560 --> 01:36:29.159
It is time for the news.
I see a lot of folks out there

1312
01:36:29.199 --> 01:36:31.359
that are hanging on. Hang on. I'll get to you. Raphael,

1313
01:36:31.800 --> 01:36:35.399
you will be the first up when
we come back, as well as Steve

1314
01:36:35.720 --> 01:36:39.439
in East Houston. All right,
welcome back to Guardline. Good to have

1315
01:36:39.560 --> 01:36:43.840
you with us. Nike Foss has
a product called Sweet Green. I don't

1316
01:36:43.840 --> 01:36:46.600
know if you've encountered it before,
but it is well named. Sweet Green

1317
01:36:46.680 --> 01:36:53.039
is a molasses base product that's actually
eleven percent nitrogen fertilizer for your lawn.

1318
01:36:53.119 --> 01:36:57.399
It dissolves away, of course,
the sugary substance of molasses. That reason.

1319
01:36:57.520 --> 01:37:01.119
Organic gardeners use molasses because stimulates biological
activity in the soil. Bacteria.

1320
01:37:01.319 --> 01:37:06.560
Beneficial bacteria really love it. Sweet
Green is easy to apply, smells wonderful

1321
01:37:08.279 --> 01:37:11.720
you carried around. I jokingly say
when you put sweet Green in the back

1322
01:37:11.760 --> 01:37:14.199
of the car, you want to
make an extra loop around town before you

1323
01:37:14.279 --> 01:37:17.960
go home. Just enjoy it the
smell. But it is a very effective

1324
01:37:18.000 --> 01:37:21.960
product. It'll give you a quick
release, and so if you're going to

1325
01:37:23.079 --> 01:37:27.359
use it in summer, don't overdo
it. Just apply some now and then

1326
01:37:27.520 --> 01:37:30.119
about six weeks later, apply again, or eight weeks later, apply it

1327
01:37:30.199 --> 01:37:33.159
again and get another little dose of
it out there and you can kind of

1328
01:37:33.199 --> 01:37:36.359
gradually feed your lawn over time.
It works really well. You're gonna find

1329
01:37:36.359 --> 01:37:41.199
sweet Green an enchanted forest and in
the Richmond Rosenberg area if you're up in

1330
01:37:41.239 --> 01:37:45.560
Willis, grows out like carries it. RCW Nursery which is Tomboldt Parkway Highway

1331
01:37:45.560 --> 01:37:49.279
two forty nine where it comes into
beout Way eight. RCW carries Sweet Green,

1332
01:37:49.439 --> 01:37:53.840
as well as do many other places
easy to find here in the Greater

1333
01:37:53.920 --> 01:37:57.640
Houston area. We're going to go
now to Raphael out of Montgomery. Hey.

1334
01:37:57.720 --> 01:38:00.479
Raphael, Hey, how are you
doing this morning? I'm well,

1335
01:38:00.520 --> 01:38:06.079
sir, thank you. Okay.
My question is I've got a small fig

1336
01:38:06.159 --> 01:38:13.680
tree that I had bought here probably
about six months ago, and we put

1337
01:38:13.720 --> 01:38:15.239
it in the pot, and of
course it was small. It's one of

1338
01:38:15.279 --> 01:38:19.840
these seedlings, I guess, and
it was doing great. We transplanted it

1339
01:38:20.079 --> 01:38:25.359
about I don't know, maybe three
months ago. It was doing great.

1340
01:38:25.439 --> 01:38:28.520
I had it out in the sun
and the leaves were nice and green,

1341
01:38:28.680 --> 01:38:31.279
and even got some figs on it
that are now, you know, getting

1342
01:38:31.279 --> 01:38:36.800
a little bigger. But what started
happening was that the leaves started turning yellow,

1343
01:38:38.479 --> 01:38:42.399
then they would turn brown, and
then they would fall off. Okay,

1344
01:38:42.439 --> 01:38:45.960
And I'm just wondering if there's something
maybe I don't know, if it's

1345
01:38:45.079 --> 01:38:48.520
rude bound, if it needs to
be put in the ground, or can

1346
01:38:48.600 --> 01:38:54.159
I put some type of maybe fertilizer
that will help it, you know,

1347
01:38:54.359 --> 01:38:59.680
maintain I guess the healthy fig tree. So it's still in the container,

1348
01:38:59.800 --> 01:39:03.039
right, yes, Okay, So
there are two things that can do that.

1349
01:39:03.159 --> 01:39:08.239
There is a disease called rust that
affects figs normally. It becomes more

1350
01:39:08.279 --> 01:39:12.560
of a problem as we get later
into the season, but that will cause

1351
01:39:12.880 --> 01:39:16.399
some spots on the leaves, some
yellowing and browning of the leaves, and

1352
01:39:16.560 --> 01:39:20.399
loss of foliage. It doesn't kill
the tree, but it certainly takes its

1353
01:39:20.680 --> 01:39:26.560
food production factories the leaves off of
it, which doesn't do it any good.

1354
01:39:27.319 --> 01:39:30.319
I think, though, Raphael,
my best guess is you're probably looking

1355
01:39:30.359 --> 01:39:36.279
at a water problem in the soil. Figs need to have moist soil to

1356
01:39:36.439 --> 01:39:42.239
do their best, and in a
container, the whole root system is confined,

1357
01:39:42.479 --> 01:39:46.520
and a container can dry out in
a day depending on the size of

1358
01:39:46.560 --> 01:39:50.319
the tree and the size of the
container, and so you may need to

1359
01:39:50.359 --> 01:39:54.800
water a little more often. Also
check the drainage make sure if you do

1360
01:39:55.000 --> 01:39:58.479
a water too much that it's running
out the drainage holes, that they're not

1361
01:39:58.560 --> 01:40:01.800
plugged up or something. That would
be the other thing to watch. But

1362
01:40:02.199 --> 01:40:05.560
I'm thinking maybe we had a little
bit of droughty conditions due to the fact

1363
01:40:05.600 --> 01:40:12.319
that it's confined roots and a container. Okay, do you suggest maybe putting

1364
01:40:12.399 --> 01:40:16.319
it into the ground keep it in
moist or yeah, figs will be much

1365
01:40:16.359 --> 01:40:19.439
happier in the ground. Yes,
sir, you're correct about that, because

1366
01:40:19.479 --> 01:40:24.159
they can spread that root system out, they can get established, and then

1367
01:40:24.840 --> 01:40:28.359
they are very resilient once they have
had, you know, a year or

1368
01:40:28.439 --> 01:40:33.960
so to spread that root system out
and really get established. Well, okay,

1369
01:40:34.079 --> 01:40:38.479
good, I'll definitely do that.
I've got another question. I want

1370
01:40:38.520 --> 01:40:42.720
to hit and I had two apple
trees that I bought here probably about four

1371
01:40:42.800 --> 01:40:47.039
months ago, and I planted them
and I want to hit it in water

1372
01:40:47.159 --> 01:40:50.600
and they're doing great, They've got
new leaves that are coming up. But

1373
01:40:50.720 --> 01:40:56.960
I want to hit and put this
sparked molt around it. How much mulch

1374
01:40:57.079 --> 01:41:02.239
do I need to keep, I
guess on top of those trees to keep

1375
01:41:02.560 --> 01:41:06.640
everything moist. Yeah, So the
answer is enough to effectively block out the

1376
01:41:06.760 --> 01:41:12.199
sunlight. So if your mulch was
real, big, chunky woody things,

1377
01:41:12.439 --> 01:41:15.600
then you know you have to put
a little thicker because there's a lot of

1378
01:41:15.680 --> 01:41:19.239
space in there for sun to shine
through. If it's a finer textured mult

1379
01:41:19.439 --> 01:41:24.119
not as much. In general,
about three inches should be good. And

1380
01:41:24.520 --> 01:41:27.840
the wider you mulch around them,
the better those trees are going to do.

1381
01:41:28.279 --> 01:41:30.079
So if you can at least get
it out as far as the branch

1382
01:41:30.119 --> 01:41:34.000
spread, but it is even better
if you can go a little further inches

1383
01:41:34.000 --> 01:41:38.039
to always keep a mulch down to
keep the weeds away, keep the sill

1384
01:41:38.119 --> 01:41:44.319
temperature cooner, holding extra moisture,
you know, and so on. All

1385
01:41:44.399 --> 01:41:47.359
right, okay, well, thank
you very much for the info. Good

1386
01:41:47.439 --> 01:41:49.880
luck with that. You take care. I appreciate the call. We're gonna

1387
01:41:49.920 --> 01:41:54.439
go out to East Houston and talk
to Steve. Hello, Steve, Hi,

1388
01:41:55.039 --> 01:42:03.600
good morning. Any suggestion on leaf
mold, compost, additions, additives

1389
01:42:03.640 --> 01:42:08.520
and such. Yeah, leaf will
compost for a lawn we're talking about,

1390
01:42:08.600 --> 01:42:12.279
or a garden or what. Uh? Yeah, I just I just have

1391
01:42:12.479 --> 01:42:16.239
exclusively leaves and then I just layer
on dirt and then a layer of leaves

1392
01:42:16.319 --> 01:42:19.920
and so forth. Okay, okay, so you're making it yourself, is

1393
01:42:19.960 --> 01:42:24.399
what you're telling me, right?
Yes? Okay, yes, So whenever

1394
01:42:24.720 --> 01:42:31.760
you decompose leaves, as they decompose, they turn chocolatey brown and they become

1395
01:42:31.920 --> 01:42:36.720
very crumbly. You can tell their
leaves. But they're decomposing to a point

1396
01:42:36.760 --> 01:42:42.279
where they just fall apart, and
that we often refer to that as like

1397
01:42:42.479 --> 01:42:46.600
leaf mold. It's a compost,
but it's not all the way composted,

1398
01:42:47.079 --> 01:42:53.680
but it's it's it's well composted,
but still there's you can kind of tell

1399
01:42:53.760 --> 01:42:56.960
it it was made from leaves.
And if you can get your compost to

1400
01:42:57.039 --> 01:43:00.760
that level and then spread it out, that would be the true leaf mold

1401
01:43:00.920 --> 01:43:05.000
compost area. Now you can put
whole leaves on the ground uncompost it as

1402
01:43:05.039 --> 01:43:09.840
a mulch. But if you want
to get the benefits of the nutrient release,

1403
01:43:10.039 --> 01:43:15.119
the biological activity, increase and stuff, that would be leaf mold compost.

1404
01:43:15.239 --> 01:43:18.159
And you can make it yourself.
Yeah, hard to make enough of

1405
01:43:18.239 --> 01:43:24.720
it, but you can make it
yourself, okay. And would I add

1406
01:43:24.760 --> 01:43:30.640
anything to it other than just the
dirt and then the water too for the

1407
01:43:31.479 --> 01:43:35.720
Yeah. So when you're putting out
compost, if you put about an inch

1408
01:43:35.880 --> 01:43:41.760
down and mix it into the soil
as deep as is practical to do,

1409
01:43:41.920 --> 01:43:45.239
you know, which is probably gonna
be about four to six inches. If

1410
01:43:45.279 --> 01:43:47.600
you mix it in about an inch
deep, that's probably about enough. And

1411
01:43:47.720 --> 01:43:50.720
most soils if it's a really heavy
clay. You might need a little more

1412
01:43:50.800 --> 01:43:56.000
than that. You don't need to
add other things to it as far as

1413
01:43:56.319 --> 01:44:00.520
what it needs. But the leaf
mold compost will vibe nutrients but also be

1414
01:44:00.680 --> 01:44:05.479
ready to still fertilize depending on the
plant you're growing and what its fertilizer needs.

1415
01:44:05.520 --> 01:44:11.800
Are okay, all right, thank
you, Yeah, you bet,

1416
01:44:12.359 --> 01:44:15.359
Thanks for the call. Appreciate appreciate
you calling very much. We're going to

1417
01:44:15.439 --> 01:44:19.720
go now to the galleria and talk
to Forest. Hello, Forest, Hey,

1418
01:44:19.840 --> 01:44:26.079
good morning to get I've got a
pretty serious investation of mealy bugs on

1419
01:44:26.199 --> 01:44:30.520
my lacey verbina okay, and I'm
wondering if you could tell me the most

1420
01:44:30.560 --> 01:44:41.600
effective chemical to hit them with.
Anything that is going to be systemic within

1421
01:44:41.720 --> 01:44:45.920
the plant will be helpful. There's
different products that will move into the plant.

1422
01:44:46.000 --> 01:44:50.000
Because the meai bugs are sucking the
juices out of the plant, it's

1423
01:44:50.079 --> 01:44:55.279
hard to get pesticides on them.
They got that melely protective coating, and

1424
01:44:55.359 --> 01:44:59.199
it's hard to get a pesticide on
the bug itself. But if you get

1425
01:44:59.239 --> 01:45:01.760
it in the and on the plant
and it soaks in or in the soil

1426
01:45:01.840 --> 01:45:09.640
and it's taken up so something like
acephate would be a systemic that will move

1427
01:45:09.720 --> 01:45:15.399
into the plant, something like oh
gosh, I just emit. A cloprid

1428
01:45:15.000 --> 01:45:18.439
is an ingredient that is used as
a systemic to be taken up by the

1429
01:45:18.560 --> 01:45:23.520
plant. Either way, you can
get in there and as the media bugs

1430
01:45:23.600 --> 01:45:30.800
drink the sap, they're going to
get the poison. Well, it's that

1431
01:45:30.000 --> 01:45:35.880
simple. The only reminder is verbena
flowers and anything that likes to come to

1432
01:45:35.960 --> 01:45:41.079
those flowers. When you have a
systemic, there's potential for that product to

1433
01:45:41.159 --> 01:45:45.720
be in the in the nectar as
well. So you know, getting ahead

1434
01:45:45.720 --> 01:45:49.399
of the meada bugs is job one. You might cut some flowers off in

1435
01:45:49.479 --> 01:45:55.840
the meantime just to get the plants
through that and then then let them flower

1436
01:45:56.279 --> 01:45:58.880
themselves. But media bugs are hard
to control, as you probably know.

1437
01:45:59.800 --> 01:46:02.239
That is the approach I would take
to them. Okay, the second,

1438
01:46:02.319 --> 01:46:06.840
the second chemical you mentioned, amid
a cloak bred. Yeah, amid a

1439
01:46:06.960 --> 01:46:14.039
cloaprid is in a lot of products
for grub control and lawns, for scale

1440
01:46:14.159 --> 01:46:18.319
control in trees and other things.
It's I am I it's spilled just like

1441
01:46:18.439 --> 01:46:24.359
it sounds. Emid dough clo prid
C l O p R. I D

1442
01:46:25.279 --> 01:46:29.119
A meadow CLO Prid. And if
you go to you know, go to

1443
01:46:29.640 --> 01:46:32.439
an ACE hardware store in your area. You're out there and here in the

1444
01:46:32.520 --> 01:46:36.520
gallery area, and there's going a
lot of people will carry these kinds of

1445
01:46:36.560 --> 01:46:41.319
products. But I would try and
I always thought that Southwest Fertilizer I'm assuming

1446
01:46:41.359 --> 01:46:45.039
they would have these products. Absolutely, they're gonna have tons of products like

1447
01:46:45.119 --> 01:46:46.239
that. And you can tell them
you got meelely bugs and they'll point you

1448
01:46:46.319 --> 01:46:49.800
to what they have. Okay,
all right for us, thanks a lot,

1449
01:46:50.039 --> 01:46:53.000
Hey, folks, I got to
take a quick break here. Norm

1450
01:46:53.359 --> 01:46:56.359
Montgomery, I see you're holding.
Thanks for holding this long. You will

1451
01:46:56.399 --> 01:47:01.560
be the first up when we come
back. All right, Welcome back to

1452
01:47:01.640 --> 01:47:08.239
guard Line on a beautiful, beautiful
Saturday morning. Great time to be out

1453
01:47:08.239 --> 01:47:11.520
there getting stuff done in the landscape, picking up some plants. How about

1454
01:47:11.560 --> 01:47:14.239
going out to Arburgate today. Have
you been out to Arburgate in a while.

1455
01:47:14.279 --> 01:47:19.319
They're on twenty nine to twenty just
west of Tumbull and oh but if

1456
01:47:19.359 --> 01:47:21.840
you haven't been there in no good
while, you got to check out this

1457
01:47:21.960 --> 01:47:26.399
new parking lot in the back.
There's no worry about parking out on the

1458
01:47:26.520 --> 01:47:29.760
road or anything like that. They
got the front parking lot still, but

1459
01:47:29.880 --> 01:47:34.640
in back off Trashel Road, which
starts before Arburgate, goes around behind Arburgate

1460
01:47:34.680 --> 01:47:40.000
and comes back into twenty nine twenty
after Arburgate, So either way you're coming

1461
01:47:40.079 --> 01:47:45.039
at it Trasher Road around the back
parking lot. Arburgate has got that one

1462
01:47:45.199 --> 01:47:48.079
two three completely easy system. What
is that. That's a fertilizer for anything

1463
01:47:48.119 --> 01:47:53.479
with roots, an organic fertilizer or
anything with the roots. It is a

1464
01:47:53.920 --> 01:48:00.880
compost product that contains decomposed or excuse
me expanded, which helps keep a clay

1465
01:48:01.399 --> 01:48:06.760
open long after the compost decomposes away. And it's got also from Arburgate the

1466
01:48:08.960 --> 01:48:12.600
soil complete, so the compost complete, soil complete, and then the fertilizer

1467
01:48:12.760 --> 01:48:16.640
complete, and again in the soil
is also decomposed grantite for the same reasons.

1468
01:48:17.159 --> 01:48:20.199
Arborgate selection of plants. I was
out there the other day visiting with

1469
01:48:20.279 --> 01:48:25.039
Beverly about plants and what's new and
what's going on and stuff, and oh

1470
01:48:25.119 --> 01:48:29.279
my gosh, they are loaded up
and don't forget just because it's getting hot

1471
01:48:29.319 --> 01:48:32.399
in the summer. We got all
the way until October November, when we're

1472
01:48:32.439 --> 01:48:38.760
thinking about fall gardening and fall flowers
and things. Get something planted now.

1473
01:48:39.359 --> 01:48:43.760
They have a lot of plants at
Arburgate that will laugh at summer weather.

1474
01:48:43.880 --> 01:48:46.640
That'll keep you inside in the air
conditioning. Get it planted now, get

1475
01:48:46.680 --> 01:48:49.840
it watered in, just take good
care of it, getting it established,

1476
01:48:50.279 --> 01:48:55.159
and you got color. And there's
no reason for summer to be a sea

1477
01:48:55.239 --> 01:48:59.680
of green in your landscape. When
you go to Arburgate and pick up dependable

1478
01:48:59.720 --> 01:49:04.279
full legion flowers for summer color.
It's as simple as that. Today would

1479
01:49:04.319 --> 01:49:08.920
be an excellent day to get by
there and do that. We're going to

1480
01:49:08.960 --> 01:49:13.560
go now to Montgomery and talk to
Norm. Hello. Norm, good Laura,

1481
01:49:13.560 --> 01:49:16.239
and Skip. Thanks for taking my
call. You easy question, easy

1482
01:49:16.359 --> 01:49:19.319
question. It's according to the schedule. It's time to put that fertilizer down.

1483
01:49:19.359 --> 01:49:23.279
I got the silver nitro fauce,
but it says not to put it

1484
01:49:23.359 --> 01:49:27.279
down if it's ninety degrees or greater. That's kind of tough. So is

1485
01:49:27.279 --> 01:49:30.399
there a plan that I can use? Put it down in the morning,

1486
01:49:30.640 --> 01:49:32.880
and then immediately after you put it
down, water and in you'll be okay,

1487
01:49:34.039 --> 01:49:39.640
okay, And you mentioned sweet green
earlier. Should I alternate or rotate

1488
01:49:39.720 --> 01:49:42.199
that in to try and get a
little bit more of that nutrient. Because

1489
01:49:42.199 --> 01:49:45.760
I've only been using the nitro foss
according to that schedule, I haven't really

1490
01:49:45.800 --> 01:49:48.359
been doing anything else to build up
the soil. Sweet Green is a nitrofoss

1491
01:49:48.439 --> 01:49:53.479
like the silver bag the super turf
does, right. I would prefer the

1492
01:49:53.600 --> 01:49:58.079
silver bag super Turf because it's going
to give you three plus months of feeding

1493
01:49:58.279 --> 01:50:01.239
gradually through the summer. Now,
if you want to do something that's more

1494
01:50:01.399 --> 01:50:09.319
organic type product, the Sweet Green
from Nitrofoss would be their product that can

1495
01:50:09.439 --> 01:50:14.000
do that, and it's going to
be more immediately available. So just don't

1496
01:50:14.079 --> 01:50:17.079
overdo it. Maybe go a little
lighter on the application, and then come

1497
01:50:17.159 --> 01:50:20.159
back in a couple of months and
do it again. And that's going to

1498
01:50:20.239 --> 01:50:25.279
give you that It's like you're turning
it into a slow release by you're the

1499
01:50:25.359 --> 01:50:28.640
one releasing it slowly out into your
lawn. Do you see what I'm saying.

1500
01:50:29.479 --> 01:50:30.600
Yeah, that would just get up
in the morning, get up in

1501
01:50:30.600 --> 01:50:32.560
the morning, and do it when
it's cooler, so it has nothing to

1502
01:50:32.640 --> 01:50:36.239
do with the soil temperature during the
middle of the day. So no,

1503
01:50:36.520 --> 01:50:40.319
no, it's you know, you
get you get any kind of a salt

1504
01:50:40.399 --> 01:50:42.399
bay and this is going back to
the super different. Any kind of a

1505
01:50:42.439 --> 01:50:45.760
salt based fertilizer product out there on
a leaf, and you know, it

1506
01:50:46.159 --> 01:50:51.680
dissolves and it's a concentration and it
can burn a leaf. But I would

1507
01:50:51.760 --> 01:50:57.000
not worry about doing this anytime during
the summer. I need to go look

1508
01:50:57.039 --> 01:51:00.000
at what you're talking about on the
bag and see if there's some other explanation.

1509
01:51:00.199 --> 01:51:01.119
But I can tell you this.
You can apply it, and you

1510
01:51:01.159 --> 01:51:04.640
can water it in right away and
you'll be fine. Don't worry about that.

1511
01:51:04.720 --> 01:51:06.960
Thank you, SKIP appreciate your time. Have a great day, all

1512
01:51:08.000 --> 01:51:12.399
right, Nor thank you. I
appreciate your call very much. Let's see

1513
01:51:12.479 --> 01:51:15.359
here. We are going to go
now to Johnny and Sugarland. Hey Johnny,

1514
01:51:17.119 --> 01:51:19.000
Yes, sir, how you doing
it? I'm good, sir.

1515
01:51:19.079 --> 01:51:23.359
How are you? Thanks for taking
my call. And have a couple of

1516
01:51:23.520 --> 01:51:28.840
questions. I'm putting a new slide
down today over dirt. I know water

1517
01:51:29.000 --> 01:51:31.800
is the best, but is there
anything else that I could do to help

1518
01:51:31.880 --> 01:51:36.760
it green up? And you know, take root Johnny waters number one.

1519
01:51:38.479 --> 01:51:42.920
I would, I would if the
soil is moist to begin with. That's

1520
01:51:42.960 --> 01:51:45.680
hopeful. They don't have to be
wet but moist. But if you're going

1521
01:51:45.720 --> 01:51:48.600
to apply it today, before you
finish applying the side, start putting water

1522
01:51:48.800 --> 01:51:55.279
on what you've already applied, because
crying out is the number one enemy.

1523
01:51:55.359 --> 01:51:58.880
That side you've got has barely got
a half inch of roots on it,

1524
01:51:59.479 --> 01:52:02.560
and you need to keep it moist. And so I would water it in

1525
01:52:02.680 --> 01:52:06.159
the next week. I'd water it
twice a day. That doesn't mean you

1526
01:52:06.239 --> 01:52:11.520
need to put no food or no
feed or anything like that. Number one,

1527
01:52:11.600 --> 01:52:14.520
it's got the nutrients already in the
side when it comes to you,

1528
01:52:15.079 --> 01:52:18.119
and it doesn't have the root system
really, So a month from now we'll

1529
01:52:18.159 --> 01:52:21.479
talk about fertilizing that new lawn you
got, but for the first week,

1530
01:52:21.600 --> 01:52:26.159
twice a day watering, for the
second week, once a day watering,

1531
01:52:26.319 --> 01:52:29.039
and by then you ought to be
able to back off to twice a week

1532
01:52:29.880 --> 01:52:34.319
as it gets fager and better established. But water is ninety eight percent of

1533
01:52:34.439 --> 01:52:39.920
what it takes to have a good
lawn establishment. Okay, and I had

1534
01:52:40.000 --> 01:52:44.479
one other question. Okay, last
week you mentioned about great myrtles that that

1535
01:52:44.880 --> 01:52:50.279
you like the concept of white purple
red or pink cluster where they grow together.

1536
01:52:50.479 --> 01:52:56.760
You can do that. You can. Can you plant the root ball,

1537
01:52:57.000 --> 01:53:00.680
the the part that's in the container, all plos together or should you

1538
01:53:00.760 --> 01:53:04.760
separate them out? Well, I
mean you could put them together, but

1539
01:53:05.199 --> 01:53:10.199
I would probably separate them apart so
you have a little bit bigger area so

1540
01:53:10.279 --> 01:53:13.600
each can make a nice little plant
on its own. Otherwise it's going to

1541
01:53:13.640 --> 01:53:15.119
be all a mix. But there's
nothing wrong with that. This is up

1542
01:53:15.199 --> 01:53:18.640
to you. It's your yard.
You're the king. You go with it.

1543
01:53:18.720 --> 01:53:24.479
However you want. What brand would
you recommend that would only grow like

1544
01:53:24.600 --> 01:53:27.399
twelve foot tall? Because I know
you said there were some that go thirty

1545
01:53:27.439 --> 01:53:30.479
feet, but I'm looking at something
that will not go above the roof.

1546
01:53:30.560 --> 01:53:32.479
I'm gonna give you a quick I
got to give you a quick answer because

1547
01:53:32.479 --> 01:53:39.039
I have to stop here. Go
to gardening, Go to Google and type

1548
01:53:39.119 --> 01:53:44.399
in skip Richter and crate myrtle and
the chart will be available that gives you

1549
01:53:44.560 --> 01:53:46.600
all the sizes, all the colors, everything you need to know. Okay,

1550
01:53:47.000 --> 01:53:50.560
sorry to have to run jot it, but yeah, crpe myrtle,

1551
01:53:50.640 --> 01:53:54.279
Skip Richter. That'll do it.
Hey, folks, I'm going to be

1552
01:53:54.319 --> 01:53:58.119
at ACE Hardware. You know,
ACE Hardware is all over Houston, forty

1553
01:53:58.199 --> 01:54:03.479
stores Ace hardware dot Com. Go
to the store locator find the one near

1554
01:54:03.560 --> 01:54:06.439
you. When you're at ACE,
you're going to find everything for summer,

1555
01:54:06.520 --> 01:54:12.079
from barbecue pits to those outdoor strings
of lights, to fire ink control,

1556
01:54:12.479 --> 01:54:17.800
to mosquito repellence, to fogging machines, to just everything to make your landscape

1557
01:54:17.840 --> 01:54:23.439
a place you want to enjoy and
hang out. Is ACE Hardware. I'll

1558
01:54:23.479 --> 01:54:27.880
be at the one at Langham Creek. Langham Creek. ACE Hardware's up on

1559
01:54:29.000 --> 01:54:34.479
Barker Cypress really close to where five
point twenty nine across this Barker Cypress there

1560
01:54:34.800 --> 01:54:40.159
in the Copperfield area in northwest Houston. I'll either from eleven thirty to one

1561
01:54:40.279 --> 01:54:44.960
thirty. Bring me some samples,
Let's identify things, let's diagnose things.

1562
01:54:45.079 --> 01:54:47.960
What kind of questions? You want
to take some pictures of things in your

1563
01:54:48.039 --> 01:54:53.079
lawn and landscape to have them identified
or diagnosed. Bring me your pictures.

1564
01:54:53.199 --> 01:54:56.800
Just make sure they're in sharp focus, because I need to be. You

1565
01:54:56.920 --> 01:54:59.680
give me a fuzzy picture, I'll
give you a fuzzy answer. Neither of

1566
01:54:59.760 --> 01:55:02.000
us want that, so get a
good picture. Come by, Just come

1567
01:55:02.079 --> 01:55:05.439
by and say hi, this is
my last appearance of the spring. Uh

1568
01:55:05.600 --> 01:55:10.199
and I'll be glad to diagnose your
lawn. Take a four inch by six

1569
01:55:10.319 --> 01:55:14.479
inch plug of soil, put it
in a ziplock bag from the affected area.

1570
01:55:14.560 --> 01:55:25.680
I need to see sick turf not
dead. Welcome to kzy r H

1571
01:55:25.840 --> 01:55:43.800
Garden Line with Skip Ricard. It's
crazy trip. Just watch him as many

1572
01:55:44.159 --> 01:56:04.479
things to supposing not a sid gas
sud Welcome to garden Line. Welcome back

1573
01:56:04.520 --> 01:56:09.720
to garden Line. We're about to
enter our last hour of the day,

1574
01:56:09.960 --> 01:56:13.600
so we'll be back tomorrow morning six
am to ten am. Every Saturday and

1575
01:56:13.640 --> 01:56:16.239
Sunday. By the way, if
you have friends and neighbors that own a

1576
01:56:16.399 --> 01:56:20.520
lawn or a house plant, tell
them about Garden Line. Get them in

1577
01:56:20.680 --> 01:56:26.880
as listeners as well. We continue
to spread the word about the fact that

1578
01:56:27.319 --> 01:56:30.439
we've got advice here to turn your
brown thumb green. And that is what

1579
01:56:30.560 --> 01:56:32.640
we're all about. And who knows. Every now and then we have some

1580
01:56:32.800 --> 01:56:36.600
fun, try to be a little
bit entertaining, maybe with some strange music

1581
01:56:36.720 --> 01:56:43.479
that we put on or or me
just I don't know, using a somewhat

1582
01:56:44.119 --> 01:56:47.520
weird sense of humor, at least
that's what I've been told. But we

1583
01:56:47.600 --> 01:56:49.479
have a good time, and I
hope you do too. By the way,

1584
01:56:50.479 --> 01:56:54.439
you know, one of my mantras
on garden line, the things you

1585
01:56:54.600 --> 01:56:59.399
probably hear me say over and over
and over again, is brown stuff before

1586
01:56:59.439 --> 01:57:05.119
green stuff. And the reason is, I cannot over state the importance of

1587
01:57:05.399 --> 01:57:12.439
having the place prepared before you plant
the plant, whether you're putting out seeds

1588
01:57:12.520 --> 01:57:19.199
or transplants or whatever. Quality soil
organic matter additions into the soil. Purchasing

1589
01:57:19.479 --> 01:57:25.680
a soil blend, like a blend
that's designed for, for example, vegetables

1590
01:57:25.720 --> 01:57:28.560
and herbs if that's what you're growing, or a veget or one that's good

1591
01:57:28.600 --> 01:57:30.520
for flour bed, or a roast
soil, a rose blend, which,

1592
01:57:30.640 --> 01:57:33.640
by the way, it's got rose
in the name, but any kind of

1593
01:57:33.680 --> 01:57:39.119
a blooming shrub or a shrub in
general would do well in a rose soil.

1594
01:57:39.359 --> 01:57:42.479
It just does. And Nature's Way
resources, by the way, that's

1595
01:57:42.520 --> 01:57:47.199
where roast oil was invented. That's
where the leaf mold composts that we talk

1596
01:57:47.239 --> 01:57:51.399
about a lot was invented, and
many other products as well. Nature's Way

1597
01:57:51.399 --> 01:57:57.199
has been leading the way in soil
products for a very long time. And

1598
01:57:57.399 --> 01:58:00.279
right now they have got two sales. Two things you need to know about.

1599
01:58:00.359 --> 01:58:05.960
One thirty percent off most plants.
Thirty percent of most plants, but

1600
01:58:06.119 --> 01:58:12.279
it ends July first, So this
now's the time to go ahead and make

1601
01:58:12.319 --> 01:58:15.920
those purchases Nature's Way. Did you
know they have a lot of native plants

1602
01:58:15.920 --> 01:58:23.000
their Nature's Way Now, I say
most because the native sun perennials are excluded

1603
01:58:23.039 --> 01:58:26.079
from that, but all the other
kinds of plants they have, that's part

1604
01:58:26.119 --> 01:58:30.000
of it, including a lot of
Texas natives, a lot of plants for

1605
01:58:30.119 --> 01:58:32.880
pollinators. They have a huge selection. Also, that's thirty percent off.

1606
01:58:33.119 --> 01:58:40.479
Also again it ends July first,
unless they tell me otherwise. Twenty percent

1607
01:58:40.600 --> 01:58:47.000
off all compost, multch and soil
blends. And they have anything you could

1608
01:58:47.000 --> 01:58:49.840
possibly need there at Nature's Way,
no matter what you're growing, they've got

1609
01:58:49.880 --> 01:58:54.520
a blend for it. Now,
you got to tell them that you heard

1610
01:58:54.520 --> 01:58:59.159
about it on Guardenline. So when
you go or call Nature's Way Resources,

1611
01:59:00.279 --> 01:59:02.680
go ahead. You can go get
bags of it. You can have you

1612
01:59:02.760 --> 01:59:06.920
can go pick up bulk, you
can have them deliver bulk product. Bulk's

1613
01:59:06.960 --> 01:59:12.560
more economical you're purchasing a larger amount
of it, but either way, twenty

1614
01:59:12.640 --> 01:59:16.119
percent off if you tell them you
heard about it on Garden Line. Nature's

1615
01:59:16.159 --> 01:59:23.119
Ways summer hours Monday through Friday nine
to five, Monday through on Saturday eight

1616
01:59:23.159 --> 01:59:27.640
am. Wait a minute, let
me say that again. Monday through Friday

1617
01:59:27.760 --> 01:59:30.399
eight to five, Saturday eight to
two. That would be to day.

1618
01:59:30.439 --> 01:59:32.800
You got until two o'clock to day
to get by there or give them a

1619
01:59:32.840 --> 01:59:38.119
call, and then they're closed on
Sunday. Now, Nature's Way Resources is

1620
01:59:38.319 --> 01:59:42.920
on the way to Conroe off forty
five to the right, right where fourteen

1621
01:59:42.960 --> 01:59:46.119
eighty eight comes in from the left. You turn right and go into Nature's

1622
01:59:46.199 --> 01:59:50.039
Way. It's called Shrbooks Sure Brooks
Circle. That's the street one on one

1623
01:59:50.079 --> 01:59:57.319
shore Brook Circle. Go to the
website Nature'sway Resources dot com. You can

1624
01:59:57.359 --> 02:00:00.199
find out more about it there.
But here's the thing. Don't delay,

1625
02:00:00.319 --> 02:00:03.439
because you're gonna need to prefict.
You're gonna need to prepare your soul,

1626
02:00:03.520 --> 02:00:06.600
to fix things up to get ready
for plants, even for fall planting.

1627
02:00:08.199 --> 02:00:11.039
Get those products now way you can
get that kind of a deal. Thirty

1628
02:00:11.039 --> 02:00:15.560
percent off most of the plants,
twenty percent off all compos molt and soil

1629
02:00:15.640 --> 02:00:20.680
blends up until July first, So
this weekend I've sat today. Actually,

1630
02:00:21.000 --> 02:00:26.359
you need to make that call.
You need to get that done. You're

1631
02:00:26.439 --> 02:00:30.159
listening to Gardenline. I'm your host, Skip Richtor. Our phone number if

1632
02:00:30.199 --> 02:00:33.159
you would like to give us a
call is seven one three two one two

1633
02:00:33.760 --> 02:00:42.479
KT right seven to one three two
one two kt rh Now Dan Nelson folks

1634
02:00:42.560 --> 02:00:46.760
out at Nelson plant Food. They've
been producing quality plant food for a long

1635
02:00:46.840 --> 02:00:51.560
time. UH, quality products.
They've got several different lines. You probably

1636
02:00:51.600 --> 02:00:56.399
have heard of. The color Star
lines, very famous for the ability to

1637
02:00:56.720 --> 02:01:01.039
just take a bed full of flowers
and make them fluoriferous. That's the magical

1638
02:01:01.079 --> 02:01:05.359
word of the day, floor rifferous. They excellent for color plants, but

1639
02:01:05.479 --> 02:01:12.199
they have many other kinds of fertilizers. There's products for Plumeria and other tropical

1640
02:01:12.319 --> 02:01:17.840
plants. There's products for bougainvillia and
other vining types of plants. For your

1641
02:01:17.920 --> 02:01:21.319
lawn. I would recommend you go
ahead and get the slow and Easy now

1642
02:01:21.359 --> 02:01:26.159
if you haven't fertilized this summer.
Slow and Easy will last four months or

1643
02:01:26.239 --> 02:01:30.439
more. Really out there in the
landscape, it's got the exact right blend

1644
02:01:30.560 --> 02:01:35.439
for what turf takes up. So
you're you're putting a balance of nutrients out

1645
02:01:35.479 --> 02:01:42.760
there in the soil. Being slow
release means you're going to gradually release those

1646
02:01:42.840 --> 02:01:46.199
nutrients to avoid you know, burning
from an over application of a salt type

1647
02:01:46.239 --> 02:01:50.279
fertilizer. It's going to gradually I'm
talking about four months now. It's going

1648
02:01:50.319 --> 02:01:55.680
to feed the microbes in the soil. It's going to help push the soil

1649
02:01:55.880 --> 02:02:00.760
toward acidification. It's got it is
an acidifying type of fertilizer. So each

1650
02:02:00.840 --> 02:02:03.640
time you're using it, you are
bringing pH down just a little bit and

1651
02:02:03.760 --> 02:02:09.119
you're helping your plants out to do
better and better and better. By gradually

1652
02:02:09.239 --> 02:02:13.399
releasing, you're cutting down on watering
needs, you're cutting down on mowing needs.

1653
02:02:14.359 --> 02:02:17.600
Slow and Easy part of the Turf
Star line by Nelson Plant Food.

1654
02:02:17.680 --> 02:02:20.439
You need to check it out.
If you've not tried it before, summer

1655
02:02:20.439 --> 02:02:24.399
would be a good time to do
that. We're going to head out now

1656
02:02:24.840 --> 02:02:30.479
to Brenham and talk to April.
How about April? Bye hie? Oh

1657
02:02:30.560 --> 02:02:36.720
no, hi, good morning.
I have a question. I have about

1658
02:02:36.760 --> 02:02:43.079
three acres that we mow. I'm
live on some property, and I have

1659
02:02:43.279 --> 02:02:46.840
these in the yard. They're stickers. I don't know what they are.

1660
02:02:48.359 --> 02:02:54.880
They're kind of on a like a
stock amostin the top of them has a

1661
02:02:54.960 --> 02:03:00.199
bunch of Okay, you're really bad. You walk through the grass if it

1662
02:03:00.279 --> 02:03:04.439
hasn't even after mowing. They stick
to your shoes, bomb of your your

1663
02:03:04.520 --> 02:03:08.520
socks, your bomby your pantles.
Whatever they are, they're terrible. Yeah,

1664
02:03:09.199 --> 02:03:11.680
how do I do? You know
what those are and how to get

1665
02:03:11.760 --> 02:03:14.600
rid of them? I do,
And April, I'm right on a break.

1666
02:03:14.760 --> 02:03:16.159
You hang on. When I come
back, I'm gonna talk about how

1667
02:03:16.199 --> 02:03:20.239
to prevent them and uh, you
know what to do when you're dealing with

1668
02:03:20.319 --> 02:03:24.439
them and why they become a problem. But just hang on a little bit.

1669
02:03:24.520 --> 02:03:28.439
I'll be right back. You are
listening to garden Line seven one three

1670
02:03:28.520 --> 02:03:31.439
two one two k t R eight. All right, here we are back

1671
02:03:32.039 --> 02:03:34.439
with garden Line. I'm your host, Skip Richter, and we're here to

1672
02:03:34.479 --> 02:03:39.600
answer your gardening questions. Help you
have a more bountiful gardener, more beautiful

1673
02:03:39.680 --> 02:03:42.920
landscape. We're gonna go right back
to Let's see, I was talking to

1674
02:03:43.039 --> 02:03:47.279
April in Brenham and we were April
I think the plant you were describing.

1675
02:03:47.399 --> 02:03:51.159
The weed you're describing called grass burr. Uh. Some type of people call

1676
02:03:51.199 --> 02:03:56.640
them sticker birrs, but grass birds
the name uh, sandburr is another name

1677
02:03:56.720 --> 02:04:00.640
that they're called by. Uh.
The best way to deal with that is

1678
02:04:00.960 --> 02:04:03.920
first step one, is this in
a lawn or I think you said a

1679
02:04:04.000 --> 02:04:10.359
pasture, right, yeah, well
yeah, but it's the lawn. Okay.

1680
02:04:11.800 --> 02:04:17.720
We know about three acres of okay, and it's in the park where

1681
02:04:17.760 --> 02:04:20.680
we live and walk in. So
got you gotcha? All right? So

1682
02:04:21.239 --> 02:04:27.119
the best step one is to create
a good dense lawn with proper mowing,

1683
02:04:27.199 --> 02:04:31.159
watering, and fertilizing, especially as
you fertilize and as you you know,

1684
02:04:32.079 --> 02:04:38.720
provide water is needed. Grass burds
they thrive in very poor soils where other

1685
02:04:38.840 --> 02:04:44.680
things are struggling, droughty soils,
things like that. So getting the things

1686
02:04:44.760 --> 02:04:50.600
you would do to make your lawn
better helps with suppressing somewhat the grassburg growth.

1687
02:04:51.640 --> 02:04:57.319
An important first step is to put
down a pre emergent product to prevent

1688
02:04:57.439 --> 02:05:00.800
the grasspur seeds from coming up and
growing, and that would be something called

1689
02:05:00.920 --> 02:05:08.199
barricade by nitrofoss. Barricade. If
you're wanting barricade. If you go out

1690
02:05:08.239 --> 02:05:13.119
to the Ace Hardware Brenham on North
Austin Parkway and Brenham, they're going to

1691
02:05:13.199 --> 02:05:18.159
have barricade there and so but now
you've got graspers. You can't put barricade

1692
02:05:18.159 --> 02:05:23.319
down and kill what you have.
You want to follow my schedule and if

1693
02:05:23.359 --> 02:05:29.760
you go to Gardening with Skip that's
my website, Gardeningwithskip dot com. I

1694
02:05:29.840 --> 02:05:33.520
have two schedules that are free to
look at online to download print up and

1695
02:05:33.640 --> 02:05:36.720
they tell you the products you need
and you're going to see barricade on there,

1696
02:05:36.800 --> 02:05:41.159
but it'll tell you when to apply
those because you have to put it

1697
02:05:41.239 --> 02:05:44.479
down before they germinate. So you're
going to be putting it down in your

1698
02:05:44.560 --> 02:05:49.680
area in probably early to mid February. Mid February will be adequate. Actually

1699
02:05:49.760 --> 02:05:56.359
for grasper, mid February what it
needs to get watered in by irrigation or

1700
02:05:56.479 --> 02:06:01.479
rainfall. And the graspers aren't able
to terminate and make a plant because once

1701
02:06:01.560 --> 02:06:06.560
they're in, anything that would kill
the grassber plant would kill the lawn grass

1702
02:06:06.920 --> 02:06:14.319
as well. Okay, so what
do you do at this stage? There's

1703
02:06:14.399 --> 02:06:17.920
not a lot people do some you
know, kind of strange things trying to

1704
02:06:17.960 --> 02:06:21.680
pick up the burs to get the
birds the seeds themselves out of there.

1705
02:06:23.760 --> 02:06:30.159
But I've talked to people that have
put burr lap down and drug it across

1706
02:06:30.239 --> 02:06:32.319
the lawn because the birds get caught
up in it, and you can get

1707
02:06:32.319 --> 02:06:34.960
a bunch of the grass bur out
that way. I don't know. That's

1708
02:06:35.079 --> 02:06:40.199
not necessarily a practical approach, but
it helps a little bit. But other

1709
02:06:40.359 --> 02:06:44.279
than that, just mow water,
fertilize and improve that grass, improve the

1710
02:06:44.359 --> 02:06:50.479
soil, and then be ready to
do the grassburer preventative with the barricade by

1711
02:06:50.560 --> 02:06:58.560
nitrofoss in again about mid February,
and I would repeat that again about sixty

1712
02:06:58.720 --> 02:07:02.800
days later, so mid February and
then again, let's say in May,

1713
02:07:04.520 --> 02:07:10.039
mid to late May would be probably
a target time to go for that second

1714
02:07:10.079 --> 02:07:15.079
application. Okay, all right,
perfect, Thank you very much. You

1715
02:07:15.239 --> 02:07:16.920
bet, good luck, Thank you, appreciate the call. We're going to

1716
02:07:16.960 --> 02:07:20.119
go now to Willison. Talk to
Jimmy. Hey, Jimmy, how you

1717
02:07:20.239 --> 02:07:25.600
doing Skip, I'm doing well?
How are you? Okay, I'm good.

1718
02:07:25.960 --> 02:07:30.159
I'm wanting to know the pros and
cons the grass clippings in your flower

1719
02:07:30.199 --> 02:07:36.720
beds. The only con would be
if you treated the lawn with broad leaf

1720
02:07:36.840 --> 02:07:43.880
weed control products, it would be
present potentially on that grass clipping, and

1721
02:07:43.960 --> 02:07:49.520
you'd be bringing that into the flower
bed that's full of broad broad leaf desirable

1722
02:07:49.560 --> 02:07:55.399
plants flowers. So if you haven't
done that, there are only other possible

1723
02:07:55.439 --> 02:08:00.800
would be stacking them too deep.
I put grass clippings whenever I need to

1724
02:08:00.880 --> 02:08:03.439
collect them. I put them in
a flower bed all the time. Normally

1725
02:08:03.560 --> 02:08:07.640
I return the clippings to the turf
because they help the turf. But if

1726
02:08:07.680 --> 02:08:11.039
I put them more than about let's
say I put them two inches deep or

1727
02:08:11.119 --> 02:08:15.640
so, and you come back a
week later and it's all dry on top,

1728
02:08:15.760 --> 02:08:20.600
and you pull them back and you've
got still plump, decomposing clippings underneath

1729
02:08:20.640 --> 02:08:24.039
the surface. So you don't want
to get them too deep in there.

1730
02:08:24.399 --> 02:08:28.279
But if you put them out in
small amounts over time, that's just fine.

1731
02:08:28.079 --> 02:08:31.000
Oh that's gonna be perfect. Then, all right, I've been I've

1732
02:08:31.000 --> 02:08:33.760
been hauling Bartmoll. It's all of
my big old giant flower beds. I

1733
02:08:33.760 --> 02:08:37.119
said, I'm gonna use grass clippings. Now. Yeah, Well, the

1734
02:08:37.159 --> 02:08:39.680
clippings don't last as long they do. Matt down a little more, and

1735
02:08:39.880 --> 02:08:43.359
so you know you want good oxygen
down to the soul surface. Just don't

1736
02:08:43.399 --> 02:08:48.399
overdo it. But I use I
use it in my beds all the time.

1737
02:08:48.680 --> 02:08:52.880
Listen, if it's organic, it's
going to decompose and build the soil.

1738
02:08:52.199 --> 02:08:56.159
So don't ever let grass clipping leave
your property. That'd be a law.

1739
02:08:56.439 --> 02:08:58.600
Oh boy, here I go.
There ought to be a law against

1740
02:08:58.600 --> 02:09:03.279
putting back grass clippings at the curb
because there's too many good uses for them.

1741
02:09:03.319 --> 02:09:05.880
You paid money to go to those
clippings buying fertilizer, So why I

1742
02:09:05.960 --> 02:09:11.359
send that fertilizer out to the street. That's it, brother, I appreciate,

1743
02:09:11.199 --> 02:09:13.880
I love you all right, thank
you for letting me round just a

1744
02:09:15.079 --> 02:09:18.680
tiny little bit right there. We're
gonna go now to Wellis again and talk

1745
02:09:18.760 --> 02:09:24.600
to Walter. Hello Walter, Hi, hi, as I was tuning in

1746
02:09:24.680 --> 02:09:28.560
in the last hour, I think
you had a guy call in about ants

1747
02:09:28.640 --> 02:09:33.560
and his fruit trees. Yes,
there used to be a product called tanglefoot.

1748
02:09:35.000 --> 02:09:39.239
Yes, you would paint it in
a band about one to two inches

1749
02:09:39.159 --> 02:09:43.720
around the trunk, about a foot
up from the ground, and the ants

1750
02:09:43.039 --> 02:09:46.439
can't get past it. Yes,
there still is that product. You know,

1751
02:09:46.600 --> 02:09:52.479
and that way you don't have to
try the impossible task killing all the

1752
02:09:52.520 --> 02:09:56.880
ants in your yard. Yeah.
Well, and his works. His question

1753
02:09:56.159 --> 02:10:01.119
was, you know about fire ants, and I probably should have took a

1754
02:10:01.119 --> 02:10:07.319
little more time to go into it. But ants themselves, other than carpenter

1755
02:10:07.359 --> 02:10:09.720
ants, which will eat the wood
of a tree trunk if they can get

1756
02:10:09.760 --> 02:10:13.720
to it, ants are not a
pest of your trees, your fruit trees

1757
02:10:13.840 --> 02:10:18.079
or others now fire ants, you
know, anything that has you know,

1758
02:10:18.199 --> 02:10:22.119
sugar and proteins and water. They
might be interested in getting in the fruit

1759
02:10:22.119 --> 02:10:24.039
a little bit like they do that
to Okrah, I know. But in

1760
02:10:24.199 --> 02:10:30.239
general, the only thing ants do
is they carry aphits up on your plants,

1761
02:10:30.359 --> 02:10:33.000
and they answer the dairy farmers and
the aphids of the dairy cows.

1762
02:10:33.039 --> 02:10:37.399
And that's how that works. And
so the tanglefoot that you described, you're

1763
02:10:37.479 --> 02:10:41.960
correct about that, Walter that it's
a sticky substance you painted around the tree

1764
02:10:43.000 --> 02:10:46.720
and the ants can't climb it.
You just have to occasionally redo it because

1765
02:10:46.800 --> 02:10:50.399
it gets dust on it and stuff
like that. Yeah. Well, we

1766
02:10:50.520 --> 02:10:54.760
lived in California. We had an
apricot tree, and if we didn't put

1767
02:10:54.800 --> 02:10:58.960
tanglefoot around the trunk there would be
ants and all the apricots as they got

1768
02:10:58.039 --> 02:11:01.880
right, Okay, well really what
kind of I wonder what kind of ants

1769
02:11:01.920 --> 02:11:07.520
that was? Well, there was
It was San Francisco Bay area, so

1770
02:11:07.319 --> 02:11:11.039
fire ants had not made it up
there yet. It was just I don't

1771
02:11:11.039 --> 02:11:16.079
know, routine. Interesting Okay,
interesting things, but it's annoying to be

1772
02:11:16.239 --> 02:11:20.720
picking fruit and they're full of ants. Yeah, I'd be curious what kind

1773
02:11:20.760 --> 02:11:24.279
of ant that that would be out
there? Well, anyway, the tagle

1774
02:11:24.319 --> 02:11:26.199
foot really worked. Yeah, it
does on a lot of things that would

1775
02:11:26.199 --> 02:11:30.560
climb up the tree. That is
true. Hey, thanks for that reminder.

1776
02:11:30.640 --> 02:11:33.199
I appreciate the call. Appreciate that
very much. We're going to go

1777
02:11:33.279 --> 02:11:39.600
now to sugar Land and talk to
Susan. Susan pay skip quick question.

1778
02:11:41.560 --> 02:11:46.399
I work at a church and our
preschool has a beautiful oak tree on the

1779
02:11:46.079 --> 02:11:52.479
on the their playground area and we
put apparently pulled all we took all the

1780
02:11:52.560 --> 02:11:56.039
mulch out, put we block down, put rubber mulch on. We have

1781
02:11:56.119 --> 02:12:01.880
all these suckers coming up all over
the place. And I read where you

1782
02:12:01.960 --> 02:12:05.520
know sometimes that happens with some types
of live oak trees. But what is

1783
02:12:05.560 --> 02:12:09.720
a solution. They said, took
groundcover underneath it to kind of and we

1784
02:12:11.159 --> 02:12:13.520
you know, we whack it back
because there's really nothing you can do but

1785
02:12:13.640 --> 02:12:16.960
go to You got to dig down
to the root and clip those Yeah,

1786
02:12:18.079 --> 02:12:22.840
and they're going to come right back. There's a product called sucker stopper that

1787
02:12:22.119 --> 02:12:28.079
if you spray it it kind of
it's a hormone type thing that naturally suppresses

1788
02:12:28.359 --> 02:12:33.399
sucker regrowth. But oftentimes the live
oaks are coming up, they're not coming

1789
02:12:33.439 --> 02:12:35.560
out of the base of the trunk
like with a crpe myrtle. They're more

1790
02:12:35.680 --> 02:12:39.800
coming out in the soil around the
tree. And so I don't know if

1791
02:12:39.840 --> 02:12:45.399
that would work acceptably well for you
or not, but that is an Martan

1792
02:12:45.479 --> 02:12:50.640
sucker stopper. Yeah, putting an
Asian jasmine groundcover around it. You know

1793
02:12:50.800 --> 02:12:52.800
when this, when the shoots come
up in it, you don't really notice

1794
02:12:52.800 --> 02:12:58.199
them because they Asian jasmine looks a
lot like the live oak suckers that are

1795
02:12:58.239 --> 02:13:01.560
coming up and then you see a
weed eater to keep them under control.

1796
02:13:01.880 --> 02:13:05.720
There's just not a really good way. And you're correct that it is a

1797
02:13:05.800 --> 02:13:09.399
certain type of life oak that tends
to do that more than others. It's

1798
02:13:09.520 --> 02:13:13.640
real. It's a beautiful oak tree. It's kind of short and squatty and

1799
02:13:13.800 --> 02:13:16.239
wide, and I mean it's a
beautiful tree. But this has just happened,

1800
02:13:16.279 --> 02:13:20.319
like in the last maybe spider six
years. We've never had this problem,

1801
02:13:20.359 --> 02:13:22.479
and then all of a sudden,
all these things are coming up.

1802
02:13:22.920 --> 02:13:28.000
Yeah. Well, the more the
more you disturb the soil around, like

1803
02:13:28.079 --> 02:13:31.439
people that go in and do to
rototeller, which is nicking the roots,

1804
02:13:31.079 --> 02:13:35.560
causing wound on the roots, and
then adding all the water that a flower

1805
02:13:35.600 --> 02:13:41.319
bed would get. That makes oak
trees that are prone to this problem even

1806
02:13:41.439 --> 02:13:48.399
worse. So disturb in the soil
that sucker stopper won't damage the tree.

1807
02:13:48.560 --> 02:13:50.560
Not at all, correct, not
at all? Okay, Okay, well

1808
02:13:50.760 --> 02:13:54.359
I will try a little bit of
that. We'll just I think Asian jasmine

1809
02:13:54.439 --> 02:13:58.600
is the answer. Yeah. My
hesitation on the sucker stopper is, you

1810
02:13:58.680 --> 02:14:01.319
know, again using mertle as an
example, you see where the sucker is

1811
02:14:01.359 --> 02:14:05.800
attaching down there, you can cut
it off and then squirt that wounded spot

1812
02:14:07.000 --> 02:14:11.119
with sucker stopper to prevent the root
growth that comes from printing any woody ornamental

1813
02:14:11.199 --> 02:14:18.079
bag. I don't know. Yeah, it happened when I put a root

1814
02:14:18.119 --> 02:14:20.239
barrier in around my crape myrtle.
All of these crape myrtles started coming up

1815
02:14:20.319 --> 02:14:24.560
like crazy, and I assuming that's
what it's trying to do, is stay

1816
02:14:24.560 --> 02:14:28.039
alive. Ah yeah, it could
be good, well be, but good

1817
02:14:28.119 --> 02:14:33.119
luck with that. Thank you so
much, enjoin your show. Thank you.

1818
02:14:33.880 --> 02:14:37.800
I appreciate that as well. Uh. You know I mentioned uh Ace

1819
02:14:37.880 --> 02:14:41.960
Hardware uh, and ACE Hardware's are
gonna probably have that sucker stopper. I

1820
02:14:43.000 --> 02:14:45.800
would call them an ass. They
probably have it because I care just about

1821
02:14:45.800 --> 02:14:48.039
everything out there. When you go
to ACE, you know you're going to

1822
02:14:48.119 --> 02:14:50.159
get anything you need for your lawn, your landscape, in your garden.

1823
02:14:50.359 --> 02:14:54.119
Do you do you have vegetables?
Do you have container plants? Do you

1824
02:14:54.279 --> 02:14:56.800
have a flower bed? Do you
have a turf? Do you have trees

1825
02:14:56.920 --> 02:15:01.399
or shrubs? Ace Hardware has got
the supplies for all of that, all

1826
02:15:01.439 --> 02:15:05.000
of that. They've got the fertilizers
that I talk about, every fertilizer I

1827
02:15:05.039 --> 02:15:07.640
talk about on Guardline, a lot
of the soil product you hear me talk

1828
02:15:07.640 --> 02:15:13.800
about fire and control, mosquito repellents, mosquito fogging machines, and its mosquito

1829
02:15:13.880 --> 02:15:18.640
season. Is it not out there? Ace Hardware forty stores around the Greater

1830
02:15:18.720 --> 02:15:24.760
Houston area. Go to Acehardware dot
com and find the store locator, find

1831
02:15:24.840 --> 02:15:28.039
the one near you. You get
a beautiful map with all these red dots

1832
02:15:28.079 --> 02:15:31.399
and you'll go, oh wow,
there's more than one near me. That's

1833
02:15:31.399 --> 02:15:35.239
Ace Hardware. Ace is the piece, as we like to say, you

1834
02:15:35.399 --> 02:15:39.359
fill in the blank and boy right
now, oh my gosh. Check out

1835
02:15:39.399 --> 02:15:43.199
the barbecue equipment and supplies that they've
got. Well, it's time for a

1836
02:15:43.279 --> 02:15:46.239
break for the news. I'll be
right back our number seven one three two

1837
02:15:46.279 --> 02:15:52.840
one two, katrh Sandy your first. Alrighty, welcome back to Garden Line.

1838
02:15:54.079 --> 02:15:56.479
I'm your host, Skip Richter,
and we're here to answer your gardening

1839
02:15:56.600 --> 02:16:01.199
questions to hope you have a more
bountiful garden and a more beautiful landscape.

1840
02:16:01.720 --> 02:16:05.920
I was just talking about different products
that they carry at all these hardware stores.

1841
02:16:05.600 --> 02:16:09.960
Mosquito Dunks is another example of that. You know, Mosquito dunks.

1842
02:16:09.960 --> 02:16:11.279
I don't know if you heard the
other day, but I had Bill on

1843
02:16:13.039 --> 02:16:18.319
from Summit Solutions, some at Responsible
Solutions, which is a company that creates

1844
02:16:18.359 --> 02:16:22.680
our mosquito dunks. Now Mosquito dunks
are little small donuts or about the size

1845
02:16:22.680 --> 02:16:28.199
of those little debbies white dusted sugary
doughnuts, you know what I'm talking about.

1846
02:16:28.199 --> 02:16:31.880
They're small, they're not like a
big donut. We throw one out

1847
02:16:31.920 --> 02:16:37.479
there, covers about one hundred square
feet of wet area like a pond or

1848
02:16:37.520 --> 02:16:41.559
whatever you have, and it lasts
about a month as it dissolves away slowly,

1849
02:16:43.040 --> 02:16:46.040
releasing a disease of mosquitos into the
water. They also have a granular

1850
02:16:46.159 --> 02:16:52.239
product, mosquito bits that you put
out there, and you could put it's

1851
02:16:52.319 --> 02:16:54.840
smaller, so you can put it
in the like the catch basins under a

1852
02:16:54.920 --> 02:16:58.520
flower pot, if you're not going
to empty those out, which you ought

1853
02:16:58.559 --> 02:17:01.159
to empty them out. But if
it's not a bird bath, you know,

1854
02:17:01.399 --> 02:17:05.840
any like a gutter that or maybe
you got a tree with a hole

1855
02:17:05.920 --> 02:17:09.719
in it and water collects. Oh, that is mosquito heaven, all that

1856
02:17:09.799 --> 02:17:13.799
decomposing organic matter in there. You
throw a few mosquito bits up in there,

1857
02:17:13.079 --> 02:17:20.120
and it's diseased water for mosquitoes only
for mosquitos. Your pets can drink

1858
02:17:20.159 --> 02:17:24.639
the water, birds can drink the
water. I mean, it is not

1859
02:17:24.280 --> 02:17:30.399
a problem for anything other than mosquitoes, or as we talked about earlier today,

1860
02:17:30.680 --> 02:17:33.920
fungus, nuts and houseplants. That's
a whole different thing. But basically

1861
02:17:35.159 --> 02:17:39.840
it is a really really safe,
organic product, natural product that does a

1862
02:17:39.879 --> 02:17:45.239
good job. Mosquito Dunk's widely available. I mentioned these hardware stores. You're

1863
02:17:45.239 --> 02:17:48.399
going to find them at feed stores. Independent nurseries. Is a very widely

1864
02:17:48.479 --> 02:17:52.479
available product that works very well.
You should always have it on hand here

1865
02:17:52.559 --> 02:17:56.559
in the greater Houston area because listen, I have talked to mosquitos before,

1866
02:17:56.840 --> 02:18:01.239
and they are willing to take their
vacations from all over the world to come

1867
02:18:01.280 --> 02:18:05.840
to Houston because this is mosquito Heaven. I'm just saying, for example,

1868
02:18:05.799 --> 02:18:09.559
talk to a mosquito. We're leaving
Calcutta, India and coming to Houston because

1869
02:18:09.559 --> 02:18:15.319
it's hotter and humid are there and
we live better there. Oh gosh,

1870
02:18:15.639 --> 02:18:18.079
all right, enough of that nonsense. We're going to go to the woodlands

1871
02:18:18.120 --> 02:18:22.000
and talk to Sandy. Hey,
Sandy high Skip. Yesterday. I've got

1872
02:18:22.079 --> 02:18:26.079
this big oak tree out in front
of my house, and yesterday I noticed

1873
02:18:26.079 --> 02:18:31.079
that some of the bark was like
coming loose. Well, I just started

1874
02:18:31.280 --> 02:18:37.639
peeling it off, and it's like
five feet that it just crumbled right off.

1875
02:18:37.319 --> 02:18:43.360
And I see little holes in the
trunk? Do I have bores?

1876
02:18:43.040 --> 02:18:48.040
So you see holes in the wood
that's beneath it, right the bark.

1877
02:18:48.159 --> 02:18:50.559
Is that what you're saying, Yes, after I've taken the bark off,

1878
02:18:50.799 --> 02:18:56.760
Yeah, but the borers may not
have done that. If you have bores

1879
02:18:56.840 --> 02:19:03.319
that attack living tissues, go that
drilled through the outer bark and in they

1880
02:19:03.440 --> 02:19:05.639
feed, and that what we call
the cambium where all the flowing is going

1881
02:19:05.680 --> 02:19:11.799
on the xylo right under, just
underneath the dead bark. But outside the

1882
02:19:11.920 --> 02:19:16.840
living wood, those bores are a
problem. But there are bors that move

1883
02:19:18.159 --> 02:19:22.520
into move into the interior wood of
the tree, and that's not killing the

1884
02:19:22.600 --> 02:19:26.559
tree. They're just finding a place
to set up shop in there. Do

1885
02:19:26.680 --> 02:19:30.760
what they do certainly doesn't do the
tree any good. Something kill the outer

1886
02:19:30.879 --> 02:19:35.000
bark. If you think about north
south east west, can you tell me

1887
02:19:35.120 --> 02:19:41.559
what side of the tree you're seeing
this on? Yeah, it is,

1888
02:19:43.200 --> 02:19:50.440
that's a that's a tough question to
spring on youtheast northeast. Okay, it

1889
02:19:50.559 --> 02:19:54.399
could be from an old freeze crack
from when we had some really cool weather

1890
02:19:54.440 --> 02:19:58.520
a few years ago. And is
that as that tissue dies and then it

1891
02:19:58.600 --> 02:20:01.120
starts to get loose, and then
eventually it comes off. This has been

1892
02:20:01.200 --> 02:20:03.879
there for a while. This didn't
just happen in the last few months.

1893
02:20:05.840 --> 02:20:11.600
So if you can, if you
can just do what you need to do

1894
02:20:11.719 --> 02:20:16.639
to invigorate the tree, meaning proper
watering during extended heat and drought and then

1895
02:20:16.959 --> 02:20:24.000
fertilizing periodically to provide the nutrients that
tree will get the vigor it needs to

1896
02:20:24.200 --> 02:20:28.360
form callous from the sides of that
wound and cover back over to protect and

1897
02:20:28.520 --> 02:20:35.559
cover over that interior wood. So
no sarcticide treatment is necessary at this point

1898
02:20:35.719 --> 02:20:39.040
or would be effective at this point. It's just about getting the tree as

1899
02:20:39.079 --> 02:20:43.600
strong as it can be, taking
all that old dead bark out so stuff

1900
02:20:43.639 --> 02:20:46.040
can't hide underneath the dead bark.
And you'll see it. By now.

1901
02:20:46.159 --> 02:20:50.600
You already ought to be seeing callous
forming on the edges of what was an

1902
02:20:50.680 --> 02:20:56.760
old wound as it begins. It's
like a lava flow, real gradually coming

1903
02:20:56.840 --> 02:21:05.520
back over. Just time and good
tree health. That's that's okay, because

1904
02:21:05.559 --> 02:21:07.319
the rest of the tree looks great. I mean, the leaves look good,

1905
02:21:07.399 --> 02:21:11.799
the branches look good. It's just
at one spot. Okay, well

1906
02:21:11.879 --> 02:21:15.559
that that helps a lot. Thanks
for your assistance. Yeah. My guess

1907
02:21:15.639 --> 02:21:18.879
is an old freeze crack did that. But well, okay, I think

1908
02:21:18.920 --> 02:21:20.440
it'll it'll do just fine. Thanks
for the call, Sandy, appreciate it

1909
02:21:20.680 --> 02:21:26.079
great you bet Okay, bye bye, take care. Have you ever been

1910
02:21:26.120 --> 02:21:31.959
to Chenned Forest down in the Richmond
Rosenberg area. In Chanted Forest is the

1911
02:21:31.040 --> 02:21:35.959
garden center that if you're let's say
you're in Richmond and you're heading up towards

1912
02:21:35.000 --> 02:21:43.559
sugar Land direction on fifty nine off
to the right fmnine, that is the

1913
02:21:43.680 --> 02:21:48.159
road where you head down and that's
where Intended Forest is. It is one

1914
02:21:48.200 --> 02:21:52.440
of those stellar garden centers, those
kinds of places that people will drive a

1915
02:21:52.559 --> 02:21:54.719
distance to get to. Number one, it's fun to shop, big old

1916
02:21:54.799 --> 02:21:58.040
giant shade trees. Makes it nice
and comfortable even in the summer to goe

1917
02:21:58.040 --> 02:22:03.200
out there and do shopping. And
remember that just because it's heated up doesn't

1918
02:22:03.239 --> 02:22:07.639
mean we can't be planning. Now. We can and you got several months

1919
02:22:07.760 --> 02:22:11.000
until fall planning. Most landscapes become
a sea of green in the summer,

1920
02:22:11.200 --> 02:22:16.200
which is boring, not very attractive. Green grass, green ground covered green,

1921
02:22:16.280 --> 02:22:20.360
shrubs, green trees, right,
how do we break that up with

1922
02:22:20.479 --> 02:22:24.399
summer color. There's a lot of
plants and in Channed Forest has got foliage

1923
02:22:24.440 --> 02:22:28.319
plants that have gorgeous color that take
the heat. And Chanted Forest has got

1924
02:22:28.319 --> 02:22:33.680
the flowering plants that would take the
heat and do well. Things like angelonia

1925
02:22:33.120 --> 02:22:39.879
as a plant, an annual plant
that you put out excellent color, different

1926
02:22:39.959 --> 02:22:41.920
kinds of any it. There's just
a lot of options. When you go

1927
02:22:43.000 --> 02:22:45.719
to in chenned Forest, you're going
to have those options, and you're going

1928
02:22:45.799 --> 02:22:50.000
to find everything that you're looking for, including fertilizers like hear me talk about

1929
02:22:50.040 --> 02:22:54.879
here on guard Line. Certainly they
have houseplants as well. They're vegetable and

1930
02:22:54.959 --> 02:22:58.040
herb section is outstanding, and boyd, now is a great time to get

1931
02:22:58.079 --> 02:23:00.799
some herbs. If you want a
pollinator guard and you're not going to find

1932
02:23:00.799 --> 02:23:05.280
a better place and enchanted forest to
find both the things for the larva such

1933
02:23:05.319 --> 02:23:09.799
as milkweed for monarchs, or pipe
vine for pipe vine swallowtail larva, or

1934
02:23:11.360 --> 02:23:15.520
passion vine for golf riddillary larva.
They've got all that and then the things

1935
02:23:15.559 --> 02:23:20.920
that have blooms that the mama's the
butterflies. I guess Mom's and dad are

1936
02:23:20.000 --> 02:23:26.840
coming to so Enchanted Forest on FM
twenty seven fifty nine outside of Richmond,

1937
02:23:26.159 --> 02:23:31.360
Richmond Rosenberg area. Easy to get. Here's the website. Write this down

1938
02:23:31.440 --> 02:23:35.239
and go go check out the Enchanted. Oh my gosh, I just set

1939
02:23:35.280 --> 02:23:37.520
it aside and I lost it.
I think it's I'm going to give it

1940
02:23:37.559 --> 02:23:39.799
to you in just a minute.
I'm sorry. I had had a piece

1941
02:23:39.799 --> 02:23:43.399
of paper with the written down.
I didn't memorize it. I think I

1942
02:23:43.479 --> 02:23:45.959
know what it is, but I'm
not going to guess. Let's go ahead

1943
02:23:46.079 --> 02:23:48.239
and head out and let's see.
Well, we're going to take a little

1944
02:23:48.239 --> 02:23:52.200
break here for the news and when
we come back, i'll give you the

1945
02:23:52.360 --> 02:23:56.879
enchenda forst website. And also we're
going to go to Katie and talk to

1946
02:23:56.000 --> 02:24:05.079
Forrest. We'll be right back.
Welcome back to Guardline. Good to have

1947
02:24:05.159 --> 02:24:09.559
you with us today. We're going
to head straight out to Katie and talk

1948
02:24:09.639 --> 02:24:15.040
to Forest. Hello, Forest,
Hey, Skip. What I got is

1949
02:24:15.200 --> 02:24:18.000
uh? I got a broad leaf
sec one. I think it's called the

1950
02:24:18.120 --> 02:24:22.719
night Bloomer, and I got something
eating on it, leaving little piece ass

1951
02:24:22.760 --> 02:24:28.799
holes make it look like Swiss cheese. I sprayed meme oil on it.

1952
02:24:28.239 --> 02:24:33.719
That didn't seem to do anything.
Okay, it seems to only happen at

1953
02:24:33.840 --> 02:24:39.120
night and it's outside. I brought
it in last night. It didn't seem

1954
02:24:39.120 --> 02:24:43.000
to It didn't seem to happen again. So the holes are like the size

1955
02:24:43.040 --> 02:24:48.280
of an English pea, right yeah, yeah, that is very interesting that

1956
02:24:50.079 --> 02:24:52.600
right. Well, it could be
a caterpillar, it could be a beetle.

1957
02:24:54.520 --> 02:24:58.719
Both of those can be nocturnal also. Uh, but if you spray

1958
02:24:58.799 --> 02:25:05.079
it with a good persistent insecticide to
be present on the plant, whatever eats

1959
02:25:05.120 --> 02:25:11.479
it should die. So unless a
new one that hasn't eaten it yet then

1960
02:25:11.600 --> 02:25:13.120
comes on and the next day makes
a hole. I mean, you know,

1961
02:25:13.159 --> 02:25:16.600
it doesn't kill them in the minute
their mouth touches the plant, but

1962
02:25:16.799 --> 02:25:22.600
as they eat it, it's going
to start its process. I don't know

1963
02:25:22.680 --> 02:25:28.319
which insect would do that. I
think you may be talking about night blooming

1964
02:25:28.479 --> 02:25:33.760
cirrus. But whatever, it's a
succulent. It has a hole in the

1965
02:25:33.879 --> 02:25:39.079
leaf. So I don't know what
insect would be. Dood yeah, find

1966
02:25:39.680 --> 02:25:43.520
I would get well number one.
I would play Charlock Holmes and I'd go

1967
02:25:43.559 --> 02:25:46.959
out there at night. A couple
times during the night with the flashlight.

1968
02:25:48.559 --> 02:25:50.799
If this is an ongoing process,
you ought to be able to catch something

1969
02:25:50.879 --> 02:25:56.120
in the act. One other thing
you might try during the day is taking

1970
02:25:56.200 --> 02:25:58.520
your finger and digging around the surface
of the soil in the pot. It's

1971
02:25:58.559 --> 02:26:03.760
in a pot, right, yes, Okay, to digger on the surface

1972
02:26:03.799 --> 02:26:07.079
of the soil. See if you
on earth a caterpillar that has crawled just

1973
02:26:07.399 --> 02:26:11.000
a little bit underneath the surface during
the daytime to hide and then come back

1974
02:26:11.040 --> 02:26:16.719
out at night. There are some
caterpillars that are nocturnal like that, and

1975
02:26:16.840 --> 02:26:20.040
we'll do that, and that way
you would know what it is. If

1976
02:26:20.040 --> 02:26:24.319
it's a caterpillar, probably I would
use spinosid on it because it's a little

1977
02:26:24.520 --> 02:26:30.799
more persistent as a spray. If
it were a beetle, you would have

1978
02:26:30.879 --> 02:26:33.920
to go a different route. So
either way, if you went with a

1979
02:26:33.959 --> 02:26:39.239
synthetic parithroid that was a little persistent, then you're going to find that you

1980
02:26:39.440 --> 02:26:46.639
kill kill either type caterpillar or beetle. Okay, okay, all right,

1981
02:26:46.319 --> 02:26:50.639
just a little bit more investigation.
We'll figure it out. Yeah, I

1982
02:26:50.680 --> 02:26:52.200
think so. If you need to
follow up with a call on another show

1983
02:26:54.840 --> 02:26:56.840
future, we can take it from
there, depending on what you find.

1984
02:26:58.159 --> 02:27:03.399
But let's let's start with all right, all right, well I appreciate you,

1985
02:27:03.680 --> 02:27:05.959
all right, Forrest, appreciate your
call. Thank you very much.

1986
02:27:05.920 --> 02:27:09.639
All righty folks, Well we got
a little room here, I got a

1987
02:27:09.760 --> 02:27:13.440
few minutes before we go, and
an open board. So now have ten

1988
02:27:13.520 --> 02:27:16.280
of you call it once or five
you call it once. I'm not gonna

1989
02:27:16.280 --> 02:27:18.479
be able to get to everybody,
but be more than happy to answer your

1990
02:27:18.559 --> 02:27:24.399
question before we go here. Don't
forget today after the show, I'm going

1991
02:27:24.479 --> 02:27:30.959
to head out of here straight for
northwest Houston Langham Creek Ace Hardware. Langham

1992
02:27:31.000 --> 02:27:35.680
Creek Ace Hardware is on Barker Cypress, south of the Berry Center. For

1993
02:27:35.079 --> 02:27:39.680
those of you who are up in
the Copperfield and Cypress and you know that

1994
02:27:39.799 --> 02:27:43.319
whole area up there, you know
about the Berry Center. If he heads

1995
02:27:43.319 --> 02:27:50.360
out to fifty nine excuse me,
five twenty nine, which is also called

1996
02:27:50.399 --> 02:27:54.079
Spencer Road, that's the east west
road that comes real close to where the

1997
02:27:54.799 --> 02:27:58.399
Langham Creek Ace Hardware is right there, so easy to find me either way.

1998
02:27:58.840 --> 02:28:01.399
You can bring me samples. You
got a ziplock bag with some turf

1999
02:28:01.520 --> 02:28:07.600
in it. Here's the key.
I do diagnosis. I don't do autopsies.

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So if you bring me dead turf, I'm going to be able to

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accurately tell you the turf is dead
and nothing else. So bring me turf

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that's sick. That zone between healthy
and dead. I mean, if it

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were a chinchbug in there, when
you take out that four x six inch

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plug of soil with some roots and
plant, slip it into a ziplock,

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They're not going to be able to
escape, and I'll find them. If

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it's a root rot, like take
all root rot, because I can see

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the roots and stuff, I'm going
to find it. If it's from the

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zone between healthy and dead, you
can bring samples of plants, we can

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identify and we can diagnose. Do
whatever you want, or just visit and

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I'm going to be given away.
The reps from microlife and from nitrofoss are

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going to be there giving away every
thirty minutes some really nice quality products that

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you need. So come on out, let's visit and Langham Creek Ace hardware.

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It's going to be a fun day
out there, a good chance to

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visit. I'll have a lot of
information on hand. In fact, I'm

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going to be giving away Texas Gardener
magazines to the first oh about forty folks

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that come out. We will have
some of those on hand. You can

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take a look at it, and
I think when you see it, you're

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gonna want to subscribe because it's an
awesome magazine, one that I write for

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every issue. By the way,
But come on out. We'll get your

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free Texas Gardener in your hand as
well. Well. Let's head out to

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the phones now. We're going to
talk to Jeff in the Rio Grande Valley.

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Hey, Jeff, Hey there,
how you doing good sir? What's

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up? Well? Two oak tree
questions. We've got numerous oak trees in

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our yard. They're probably ten to
twelve years old. I mean they're two

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stories tall. Okay, on one
of them, all of a sudden around

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the tree, especially under the tree, it's like I've got dozens of little

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oak trees coming up, okay,
And it's not from acorns. It looks

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like it's coming from the roots.
Is that possible? Is there any way

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to stop them? Yeah, there's
depending on where they collected the seed to

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grow the live oaks that you purchased. There's a certain type of oak live

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oak that makes suckers really bad.
The more you mess with the soil under

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the oak, like putting in a
flower bed and watering it or rototilling and

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nicking the roots and stuff, the
worse the suckers get. There's not anything

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to make it completely stop. But
you can cut them off. You can

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plant something that sort of hides them, like Asian jasmine and as you you

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know, weed eat the jasmine and
stuff. You don't re see the oak

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seedlings trying to come up in there
because you're knocking the tops off of them.

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That those are options, but there's
you can't spram with something to kill

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them because that'll get into the mother
tree and you don't want that. Gotcha.

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Okay, okay? One other quick
question, when do what causes some

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years to have thousands of acorns and
other years to have absolutely none. It

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is a natural fluctuation that occurs with
oak trees in general, red oaks,

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live oaks, all kinds of oaks. Different ones have different cycles somewhere on

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a two year cycle. But also
the nature, you know, droughts and

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good wonderful rainy years and other things
can affect that crop of acorns. We

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call that the mast that they produce, ast that they produce. There's just

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a natural fluctuation, but combined with
the effects of weather and conditions. Gotcha.

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I mean this year it was just
like bonds away. I understand.

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Hey, Jeff, I got one
more caller in about twenty seconds to help

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us. You bet. Hey,
Now we're going to go to Nick in

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Cyprus. Nick, let's see if
we can get this done in about a

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minute. It should be easy.
The more I have some tomato plants and

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the flowers bloom, they seem to
be healthy throughout the next day, and

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they seem to be missing. Okay, yep. The large slice of tomatoes

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are terrible about not setting fruit when
the days are in the rainies and the

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nights are in the upper seventies,
even which is where we are, and

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so what we Basically you just either
keep the plants and wait for fall when

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they'll start setting again, or pull
them out and replant. The cherry tomatoes

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and the grape tomatoes set better in
the heat. They still don't like it

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and their skin is tough. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I appreciate self

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serve. That's the main thing.
Just adding one thing. Thank you,

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Nick, I appreciate you. Go
adding one thing to Nick's question. If

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you're growing tomato plants in an enclosed
area like a greenhouse or where the wind

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doesn't blow, the plants don't move, they will often not set fruit because

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they're not pollinated by bees carrying pollen
from one flower to another like other flowers

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may be. They're pollinated by the
flowers. Shaking one can do that,

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A bumblebee buzzing the bloom can do
that, but a very still air could

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be another reason. Huh, gotta
go, We're done for today. I'll

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see you and I don't know.
Eleven thirty to one thirty out at Langham

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Creek. Ace Hardware