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

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advertised on this program. Welcome to
kt r H Garden Line. With skip

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rictor it's trim just watch him as
maybe thanks to spy bowers not a sign.

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Good morning, welcome to garden Line. We're glad to have you with

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us this morning. I UH looking
forward to visiting with you about the things

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that are of interesting regarding gardening,
vegetables or herbs, flowers or trees or

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shru house plants. What what do
you want to talk about? You would

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like to give us a call our
phone number. I want to write this

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

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two one two five eight seven four. Well, things are warming up outside

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and that is just what happens around
here this time of the year. We

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got a good bit of summer to
go, and it just reminds us how

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important it is to take care of
the plants that we have and to set

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them up for success. And there's
a there's a couple of things that we

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need to be doing in order for
our gardens to continue to thrive. You

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know, if you put the right
plants in they can take the heat and

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the humidity that we have down here. They can take it. But they

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do require certain kinds of care in
order to be able to do well.

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For example, they need to be
watered adequately, and adequately is an important

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word. We tend to overwater.
We think, well, it's a hundred

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degrees outside, so I'm going to
water it three times today and drench it.

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Well. You know, the actual
fact is plant need moist soil so

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they can take up water. They
do not need to sit in submerged water

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tables underground. When you dig a
clay hole, it's like a underground bathtub.

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You can fill it full of all
of your composts and all the good

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stuff that we want to put in
the soil and whatnot. But when you

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do that and you overwater, that
hole holds water, and now you've got

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submerged organic matter and roots that are
being drowned. And that is a quick

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recipe for success, whether it's a
houseplant or a plant out there in the

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landscape or the garden. You know. So our goal is to give it

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a good soaking and then let it
dry out, bring some oil or oil,

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bring some air back into the soil
and the roots can thrive because roots

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need oxygen. So instead of a
little squirt every day on your lawn or

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on your flower beds, or you
know, whatever area you're water instead of

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a squirt a day that barely what's
a surface, but does frequently wet the

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foliage, increasing disease problems because you're
watering so off. Instead of that a

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good soaking with the soil about eight
ten inches deep, and then don't water

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and let it dry out and air
will be pulled into the soil. And

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how does that work? Well,
if you ever drank a coke out of

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a straw, for example, when
you took your mouth off the straw,

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the coke falls down in the straw, and what goes behind it? Air

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pulls the air in behind it.
When you have a full soil volume of

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water and that water begins to evaporate
take up by roots, drain away downward,

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however it moves, air comes in
behind it, and that helps roots

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thrive. Good watering followed by a
drying out period, that's the way to

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do it. Now. Some plants
like Azila's, for example, they're not

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going to want to dry out as
long as something else, like of course

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in Agavi would be an example.
But the idea is a good soaking followed

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by a drying out period and that
is the best way to have a lawn,

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to have a vegetable garden, to
have flower beds, whatever you would

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like, as simple as that.
That is one tip for success. Another

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tip that I would give you for
success during the hot summer season is maultch.

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Maulching is so very important. You
know, when we apply a malt

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to the soil, we are blocking
out sunlight, which helps weed seeds to

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get established. Sunlight does so when
we block the sunlight, a weed seed

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germinates thinking okay, it's dark,
shirt, it's dark, I'm underground.

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It sproughts up. But if you
can't get to sunlight, it dies because

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it doesn't have the energy to keep
going. And that's why a mulch works

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so well. Some weeds are even
stimulated to sprout by the presence of sunlight,

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certain waves of sunlight hitting the soil. So a good thick mault is

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just a no brainer. It's what
nature does in every natural setting. It

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drops organic matter on the soil and
it creates a covering over the soil.

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You can do that in your gardens
as well. We do that by creating

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a dense lawn to block light.
We do that by returning our grass clippings

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to fall down to the lawn surface. No matter what the garden area is,

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you need to make sure that you
keep the sunlight from hitting the soil

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because wherever sunlight hits a soil,
nature plants of weed. And when sunlight

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hits the soil in the summer,
it gets hot, hot, hot,

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really hot, blistering hot, and
that is just really difficult for roots.

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Down deeper, the deeper you go, the less effect that surface heating has.

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But even down three or four inches
on a summer day, that soil

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temperature can be up twenty degrees or
more higher than it should be down deep

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like that, and that is just
not good for roots. Molt fixes that

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too. There you got molts Moltz
part of that brown stuff that we talk

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about all the time being primary and
the first thing we worry about, and

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then the green stufe is the second
thing we worry about. If you live

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down in the League City area,
League City Feed is your hometown feed store.

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It is. It's just right there
on Highway three, just a few

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blocks south of Highway ninety six in
League City. Now, this is one

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of those great feed stores where you
get the old time service. They carry

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your bags out for you. But
this is a place where you can go

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and get quality products for your lawn, garden and landscape. Things to control

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paster diseases or weeds, fertilizers to
stimulate proper growth, healthy plants and production.

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If you hear me mention a fertilizer
on Guardline, you're going to find

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it at League City Feed. They
carry the things we talk about here.

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Of course, they also have everything
you need for feeds and feeders and waters

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and bedding for your animals. Yeah, and of course chicken feed. A

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lot of people are in the backyard
chickens. Now, League City's got you

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covered there Monday through Saturday nine to
six pm, so to swing by after

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work if you're busy during the day
and then closed on Sunday. Here's a

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phone number two eight one three three
two sixteen twelve. Two eight one three

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three two sixteen twelve. League City
Feed, your own hometown feed store for

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all of you. Done in dicketson
San Leon, Lamark Baycliff, Webster,

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Elkamina, Reale, Clear Lake,
Santa Fe League City. Oh my gosh,

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League City feed great place. We're
going to take a little break here.

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I want to mention that next Saturday, Next Saturday, I'm going to

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be at Langham Creek Ace Hardware that's
over in the Copperfield neighborhood West West Houston.

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And I say in the copper Field, it's near the Copperfield neighborhood.

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Langham Creek Ace Hardware is one of
our great Ace hardware stores that just has

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everything you might possibly need for anything
you're doing regarding your garden and landscape,

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and a lot more. But I'll
be there from eleven thirty to one thirty.

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I'll tell you more about it today
as we go through the day.

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I hope you will put it on
your calendar. It's my last appearance of

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the year, June twenty ninth,
next Saturday, Langham Creek A for the

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year the spring. I'll be back
in the fall doing things like that.

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Let's take a little break here our
number seven one three, two, one,

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two fifty eight seventy four. Welcome
back to Garden Line. Good to

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have you joining us today. We've
got a lot of things to talk about

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today. First of all, I
want to remind you if you have not

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done your summer fertilizing of your lawn, go ahead and get that done now.

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Now is the time, and it's
best if you will use a slow

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release fertilizer that just takes care of
fertilizing all the way through the summer season

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and that way, the next time
we talk about fertilizing for you would be

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in the fall. Nitropos superturf,
the silver bag that's an example of one

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of those nitrofos superturf is a top
quality. It was designed to provide the

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chemistry balance of nutrients in the soil
that helps our turf do very very well,

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especially here along the Gulf coast.
You know, we got this rising

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summer heat on that demands are on
our on our turf and we want to

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provide a regular supply nutrients. Not
too much though, and that's a nice

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thing about superturf. It gradually releases
them over time to nineteen percent nitrogen product.

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But that nineteen percent is gradually released
over time, and then we have

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of course four percent phosphorus, ten
percent potassium. Where can you find it.

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You can find it at enchanted gardens
out in the Richmond Rosenberg area at

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Shades of Texas up in the woodlands. Easy to find Nitrofoss superturf Fishers hardware.

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Both the one in South Houston on
Southomore and the one in Laporte on

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Broadway Street carry that as well.
We're going to go to the phones now

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and head out to Crosby to talk
to Joe. Hello, Joe, good

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mornings. Morning you do. You're
doing a fine jobbs and she took over.

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Thank you. I appreciate that.
I drive all over the South and

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you don't find a lot of dry
humor in garden shows, but you managed

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to inject it and I enjoy it
all right. We try here and there,

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Annie, are you talking about?
Most brought up a question I've had

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and ever spring. I go,
oh, there's a big yard over here.

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It's kind of close to that b
place that you ever dose. And

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of course the most expensive most on
the yard is cedar, and I buy

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that thinking that it termites won't live
in it and maybe the smell repel mosquitos.

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Am I am I wasting my money? Or should I keep going to

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doing that's around the house or reb
Foundation flower beds? Well? Cedar does

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have a nice fragrance initially of course, as it ages, you know,

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that kind of dissipates. Uh.
It also is resistant to things like termites

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and whatnot. But any mulch at
some point in time is going to decompose

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away. Uh. So it's a
matter. It's a matter of personal preference,

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both aesthetics. That was my thinking. It was lasts longer, termites

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wouldn't live in it, and it
would last longer. Is that true?

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It could, Yeah, it could. It could last a little bit longer,

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but it kind of depends on longer
than what. There's a lot of

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other mulches that are somewhat resistant to
decay as well, But I would I

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would say it's more of an aesthetics. And then the texture. You know,

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you've got things like pine bark nuggets, those chunks all the way down

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to really stringy shredded material reels,
uh and and cedar has its own you

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know, unique texture there. And
so if you like that, then there's

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no wrong nothing wrong with Yeah,
I think, yeah, the aesthetics of

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it is not important to me.
Is not making a buffet for urmis to

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make the way into my house?
Okay, well, the termites they get

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in our they're in nature. Everywhere
there's wood, and especially wood touching the

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ground, there's good likelihood done in
this part of the country. We got

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termites in it just because it's it's
very uh, they're very prevalent. But

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the problem is when they get in
the wheepholes from the outside. So keeping

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that multi level well below the wheepholes. If you have a brick sighting house

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lab that way you can see the
holes and anybody coming through to do an

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inspection or you just checking it out
as you walk around the house. Yeah,

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they won't have a hidden way of
getting in. You know that multipoly

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over the week right that way,
you can see that little tunnel that they

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make to get up to your Yeah, if they do that, and because

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they may be done in the soil, but you don't want them going up

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in and that's how they get in. That's one of the main ways they

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get in, not the only way. Yeah, I've already had a problem

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for us. Why I'm paranoid about
it. Hey, I want to I

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appreciate you, and I want to
tell you that that teach stores you advertise

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in Mount bev Yeah, I'll drive
past three feet stores to get to that

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with those are the nicest people.
They got the young kids that carry your

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stuff out the truck for you because
I'm old, I don't want to.

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They're very very nice, very nice
folks. Yes, they are good people.

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Thank you, hey, Joe,
thanks a lot. Appreciate your call.

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Take care all right, our phone
number seven one three two one two

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five eight seven four. What do
you want to talk about this morning?

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Got a question we can help you
with or something we can kind of guide

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you on. I was at Wallbird's
Unlimited, the Memorial store just oh gosh.

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Actually I've been a Memorial store and
I was several different Wallbirds Unlimited lately.

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I just like going in and checking
out the things that are going on,

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you know, at the different stores, and what I'm always amazed at

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just the range of products they have. You know, seed cylinders for example.

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Now, if you've never done bird
feeding before, a seed cylinder,

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think of it like one of those
large candles, the candles you know that

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are as big around as your fist
and taller, and it's all the seeds

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and the mixes and everything glued in
if you will, not with glue,

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but put in together and to form. This cylinder looks just like a candle

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to me. But you can get
them with the heat in them so that

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squirrels will leave it alone. You
know, the pepper capsation that doesn't bother

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birds, but it sure bothers mammals
with lips like us and squirrels. And

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it works really well, and it's
one of the easiest, longest lasting,

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convenient ways you can feed birds.
And while Birds Unlimited has a wide range

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of cylinders, many kinds of blends, and like I said, with or

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without the added heat, if you
want to go that route, it just

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takes them a while. They got
to kind of work on them because very

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tightly packed in there in those seeds. Now they also have plenty of other

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supplies. They've got the nesting super
blend. I know we have some nesting

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birds at our house. Every season
turn around, there's something going on with

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the birds. Well, the super
blend is outstanding. It's got that protein,

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it's got the calcium and things that
the birds need in order to be

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able to raise a good, strong
nest of young. And then there's the

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molting super blend. That's a good
one. As birds begin to molt,

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they most birds only molt once a
year, some two or three times.

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cover. They don't fly around as
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in place yet with that transition of
their feathers. So as a result,

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having a pretty close by reliable food
source is important and wabbirds unlimited six different

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locations. Just go to WBU dot
com forward slash Houston WBU dot com forward

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slash Houston you can find out the
wallbirds stores near you, and there are

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a lot of good ones, a
lot of good ones around here. This

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past week done. Some of the
activities I was doing was mulching in a

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new flowerbed that we've been putting in
in the front yard, and it's just

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so nice, you know, you
do all the work. I had a

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lot of work to do in there, getting bad soil out. I just

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had the stickiest worst clay you've ever
seen, and it just I might as

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well have made a farm pond out
of it. It would hold water so

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well. But we got some of
that out of there, got some quality

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material in, raised it up into
a raised bed area so it drained super

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well. And then you do that
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it just looks so good. And
you know, we're just visiting with Joe

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about mulches, and you know cedar
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things like that. Well, you
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way. The faster something decomposes,
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Put it on Excuse me, I
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decomposes, it more often you're having
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mulch is the surface covering that decomposes, a way to feed the soil,

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to become soal, to improve soil
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it doesn't rebother me to have to
replenish it a little bit. But always

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throw the new mulch on top and
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because what does nature do. Nature
drops leaves in the forest and branches,

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but leaves, and then they just
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through the forest, you see all
the driver they're not decomposing hardly at all

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at that stage. Then they get
covered with next year's leaves. Now they're

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staying wet, and now they're starting
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year, you just end up with
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active, decomposing compost material of decomposed
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Can you imagine going in and raking
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putting fresh leaves on each year,
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leaves on. There's no need to
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your new mulch on top of the
old malt, and it just helps keep

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the layer thick and it helps improve
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if it's a flower bed, you're
going to be when you take out

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your winter flowers and put in spring
flowers or whatever transition you're doing, you're

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kind of working the bed. You're
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fertilizers and whatnot, and then mulching. But when it's a perennial bed,

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or whether it's perennials like the plants
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to the ground and come back each
year, or a perennial like a shrub

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a rose for example. Those you're
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they already have their permanent root systems
in place. That's where that surface mulching

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and continuing to do that just helps
the soil in many many ways, many

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many ways. You know, when
where when we're wanting to improve and make

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our beds look better, we can
get out there and we can do that

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kind of work. And I actually
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necessarily when it's one hundred degrees outside, but I do enjoy doing it.

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But if you're looking for a way
to have your beds looking top notch and

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you're not having to get out there
and do it, you know, you

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may think, I don't know what
flowers to put in. That looks good.

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I know good when I see it, but I don't know how to

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make that happen. Well, call
the folks at Peerscapes. Peerscapes does a

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quarterly maintenance of beds. Now,
what they'll do is they'll come out and

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they'll do trimming and weeding and fertilizing. They'll check your irrigation system, make

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sure things are functioning, because you
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They'll do air rating if needed,
they'll do the seasonal color changes and

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the mult additions in your bed,
so no matter what month of the year

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it is, you can have somebody
who knows what they're doing come in and

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take care of it make it look
top notch. Now, fear Scapes does

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a lot. They do landscape installations. They do incredible work when it comes

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to landscape lighting and hard escapes and
all kinds of things that turn the outdoors

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into the polace you most want to
be. But Pierscapes many services, including

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that quarterly maintenance. You can go
to pierscapes dot com. That's your website,

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piercescapes dot com, or you can
give them a call two eight one

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three seven oh fifty sixty two eight
one three seven oh five zero six zero

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check it out. I go to
the website Peers Scapestart. Look at the

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kind of work they can do.
I mean, you're going to just be

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really really impressed. They are professionals, but I don't care whether you have

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a taj mahal or a double wide, it is going to be. They're

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the kind of company that can turn
a landscape into something really really special and

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also keep your bets in order with
their quarterly maintenance. I was busying with

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someone the other day about Microlife fertilizer. Microlife is our hometown Houston organic fertilizer,

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bent born and raised. I guess
if you will hear Microlife Humates is

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the purple bag that contains concentrated composts
in a bag. I mean, if

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you were to take a big bunch
of bags at compost and take them down

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to their final stage, that's humus
and humus. Humus holds nutrients, it

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holds moisture, It helps bacteria and
other beneficial credits of the soil to thrive.

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Now, the green bag is the
standard fertilizer from Microlife. It's the

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one we think of as a lawn
fertilizer. It's a six x two four

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outstanding. As it decomposes, it
releases all of its nutrients back into the

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soil. Go to Microlife fertilizers dot
com and find out about all of the

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many, many fertilizers that you can
get both liquid and dry from Microlife and

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they work with nature to help you
have a more beautiful landscape. Take a

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little break here, it's time for
the news. Seven fifty eight seventy four.

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Welcome back to guard Line. Glad
to have you with us. Today.

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I have a nice little day to
day. I'm looking forward to getting

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out this afternoon, getting a couple
things done about town that I need to

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take care of. Right now,
we're going to just head straight to the

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phone, so talk to Kathy in
Houston. Hello, Cathy, Hello,

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good morning. Yes, as you
were talking about soil and dirt, they're

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the same thing. I don't think
a lot of people understand that soil can

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be amended or dirt can be amended. Dirt is dried out, defecated,

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uh and no nutrients. Soil is
the opposite. You add the nutrients through

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the compost with the microbes in it
and everything. And I don't think people

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really understand when you say soil and
dirt. And then you have the manufacturer

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type which you call top soil well
understanding that yeah, actually, well the

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terms are used interchangeably. But if
you talk to soil scientists, they'll tell

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you that dirt is soil out of
place. Dirt is what you sweep off

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the floor in the house because it
ain't supposed to be there. That that's

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how they distinguish between soil and dirt. But soil is you know, with

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a lot of things in gardening we
have terms that aren't always technically correct,

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but we go with it anyway.
Calling insects bugs only only certain types of

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insects or bugs. The rest aren't
bugs. And but we see bugs.

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Anybody knows what we're talking about.
And so that's kind of how it is.

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With the soil and dirt. I
don't worry about it a whole lot.

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But yeah, truetop soil is a
natural product, I mean is it

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is made by nature. Over time
we can create some wonderful blends. We

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often call those media soil lists,
media or media that contains soil. But

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that's what we often talk about here, you know, like a veggiean herb

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mix or a rose soil, those
kinds of things. That basically is just

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talking about a highly compost content media
that we're growing things, kind of like

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with your introduction, where sunlight hits
soil, nature plants the weed, right,

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Well, yeah, it's all connected, it all off one another,

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you go, and so the seed
needs the sun to wake up and start

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growing. There we go, Hey, Kathy covers it no light, it

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doesn't grow. Yeah, hey,
I appreciate you calling in, and because

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you know how much I like to
talk about the brown stuff, the dirt.

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So thanks a lot. You have
a good rest of your day.

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I appreciate that. Thank you,
thank you very much. Yeah, you

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know it. I've sitt here actually
looking on my computer at a picture of

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flowers in a garden center, and
I'm just looking at it, and I'm

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thinking, when I walk into a
place like that, I am just going

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like a kidney candy shop. It's
like, yeah, I need one of

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everything. This is gorgeous. But
if you look at a pile of dirt

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or soil or media, whatever whatever
it specifically is, it's hard to get

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so excited about it. But some
people do. I do. You know

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some people dirt is just soil is
just yeah, the stuff you got to

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do so you can have vegetable and
flowers. But I see it as even

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an end. Compost is an end
in itself, I think. But of

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course, I'm a guy that would
probably be laying out there making compost angels,

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laying on my back, waving my
hands around, because I think so

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much of the fact that that drives
the entire process of our lives. Do

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you know that if it wasn't for
a six inch layer atop soil and the

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fact that it rains. As a
civilization, we could not exist. Our

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food comes from there. It is
part of the whole cycle of the cycle

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of water as rainfalls, and it
percolates through the soil, and whether it

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runs off into streams or whatnot,
whether it goes into an aquifer through other

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means, soil is just it's just
the blanket over the surface of the earth

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that makes life happen. It really
is. And so I think right now

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it would be appropriate I'll pause for
just a moment for us all to go

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outside. Let's grab a handful of
soil and hug it and thanks soil for

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being there, and apologize for the
way we just take advantage of it,

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call it dirt and stomp on it
for crying out loud. All right,

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that's enough sillyness about all that.
But I am totally serious when I come

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to the fact that it is absolutely
something that we depend on for our entire

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lives, to our lives if you
have. One time I was discussing this

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with somebody, that our entire existence
is centered around to six inch of our

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top soil and the fact that it
rains. And by the way, if

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you had six inches as the topsail, that would be very rare and pretty

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much too rare, but they were. I was just saying, think about

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that everything that we enjoy, our
way of life comes from plants, because

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plants are one of the few things
that can capture sunlight and make food out

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of it. All the rest of
us eat, all the rest of us

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creatures eat plants to get that energy, and maybe we eat you know,

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you go, well, I like
steak. Well, okay, the only

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reason you have a steak is because
a cow was able to feed on grass,

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grass that grew in soil, and
grass that captured sunlight to make food

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for the cow. And so we
get leather and meat and milk and cheese

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and everything like that. And if
you think about it long enough, I'm

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getting philosophical here, but I think
this is a good cause for pause.

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If you think about it long enough, all aspects of life are just centered

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around that one and dependent upon in
so many ways that one simple little fact.

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I was talking to this person.
I go, even even the house

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you live in, you know,
the two bay fours, even the the

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clothes on your back, And they
go, well, you know what if

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I wear polyester? Say, well, where does polyester come from? Petroleum.

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Okay, where where did petroleum come
from? And you see where we're

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going at one point in time.
Even the gas in your car, in

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some ways it is its existence to
a six inch of or top saw on

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the fact that it rains. So
if you start thinking about this enough,

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I mean we could go on.
I could go on and on about it,

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because I have thought about it a
lot, and it really is an

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amazing thing, this fact that we
got this burning ball in the sky called

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the sun, and we got these
green things here on earth that know how

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to use the sun that drives so
much that we have so much that we

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enjoy. All right, Well,
there you go. There was a little

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soapbox for you. Ace Hardware stores, you know there the place to go.

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Ace is the place, And that
would be true if anything really that

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you need around your home, garden
landscape the whole nine yards. ACE carries

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the fertilizers that I talk about on
garden Line. They carry the products to

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control pest weeds and diseases. They
carry things that you need right now,

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like mosquito dunks to stop the mosquitos
and that are out there because we have

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rain and water stands. They carry
the fire ant control that we need to

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be putting out as a bait.
Bait is the best way to control fire

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ants. Our number one goal is
to try to get as many as we

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can with bait because we use very
little. Chemical scattered out very sparsely is

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not an environmentally less toxic way.
You can go about something other than using

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the bait as opposed to just the
direct mound treatments. They also have the

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fertilizers as I mentioned, but Ace
also has things to make that backyard patio,

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that sitting area, that enjoyable area
where you can go out and just

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really enjoy yourself. They may get
a better place. Ace Hardware stores all

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over the Houston area about forty stores
in this area. You can go to

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Acehardware dot com and when you go
to the store locator, it says,

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hey can I use your location?
Just say yes, you can use it

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this time, and there you go. You get a map of every place

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you need to go to get everything
that you need from Ace. Ace Hardware

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stores. I always love going into
an ACE. And on Saturday, this

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coming Saturday, that would be the
June twenty ninth, I'll do my last

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appearance of the spring and that is
at Langham Creek Ace Hardware. Langham Creek

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Ace Hardware. You probably have heard
me talk about ACE on many, many

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times. Langham Creek is over in
kind of the Copperfield neighborhood, just south

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of Cypress there on FM five twenty
nine. Kind of It's easy to get

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to by the way, and if
you haven't been there, you need to

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come by and see me. Even
if you have any you can bring me

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samples and plants there right there on
Bark or Cypress Road, So easy to

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go. Langham Creek Ace Hardware.
Let's let's talk next Saturday. It's the

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last chance we have to wait until
fall to have another chance to get out

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and meet folks. So looking forward
to that, we're going to take a

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little break right now. Our phone
number is seven one three two one two

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fifty eight seventy four. Welcome back
to guard Line. Good morning on a

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beautiful Saturday morning. Looking outside,
it's pretty inviting. You know. It's

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good to get out early in the
morning and get our work done while it's

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still cool. We can get a
whole lot of things done. It's out

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downright pleasant to be outside right now. That's why I always tell people if

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you don't listen to guard line,
just do it on your phone to get

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your iHeart Media app or whatever app
you use, and iHeart Media, just

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look for garden line. I listened
the different things like that on my phone

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all the time when I'm out in
the garden. Just turn upside down.

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You got the sound there? You're
working? Who knows you may be run

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across something you want to give us
squad call just to ask about while you're

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out and about, But don't let
these wonderful hours get away. If nothing

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00:31:04.839 --> 00:31:08.200
else, a cup of coffee and
a walk around just to see what's going

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on in your landscape. Let's go
to Spring Branch now and we're going to

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talk to Carrie. Hello, Carrie, hi there, what's up? Well?

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Would you please talk about as dahlias
undergrowing under oak tree's very difficult spotty

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sunlight, sporadic feeding. The free
really did a number. I cut some

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back, but I have found when
you cut his values back, they just

435
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don't grow back. I don't know
what to do. I need help,

436
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Okay, Well, as elias,
you know they like to be in shade,

437
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of course, but they do need
light and so dapple sun or you

438
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know, just a kind of a
partial sun provides that solar energy for them,

439
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that provides the vigor that helps them
grow and be denser and whatnot.

440
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And so when you cut them back, if they're not growing back, either

441
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the light levels are just very very
low and the plants are weak from that

442
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or something else is going on.
Usually with the zelias it's down in the

443
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root system soggy conditions they hate.
Of course they hate drying out as well.

444
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When a true wet they can get
root rots, which also add to

445
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problems. So I don't know what
all you're seeing going on, but you

446
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know, we have a lot of
zoias growing around live oaks here in the

447
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Greater Houston area, and I think
it's just gonna be a matter of light

448
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intensity and then adequate water and nutrition. Hello, yes, can you hear

449
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me? Yeah, you could speak
up a little bit more. Okay,

450
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what is it seems like if I
don't keep them watered all the time,

451
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I mean, they just they turn
limp, and it seems like the more

452
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water they get, the better they
are. Okay, So you know,

453
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then in that case, you must
have good drainage carry for sure, And

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that's kind of a sign that they
probably need to be watered a little more.

455
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Azilias are interesting. They have hair
like roots. If you ever dig

456
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up an azalea, the roots are
just like a wat of hair, but

457
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they don't have what's called root hairs, which is what other plants have that

458
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makes them much more efficient in taking
up water and nutrients and things. So

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with azilias, we do have to
pamper them a little bit by a little

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more frequent watering than we would some
of the other plants that we have.

461
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And can you recommend a fertilizer.
A lot of good ones you might want

462
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to consider. I was talking earlier
about the Microlife fertilizer, and they have

463
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a one that's kind of a pinkish
colored bag. I'm somewhat colored challenge,

464
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so you have to use take the
word pink with the color with a grain

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of salt, but it's like that
color and it's for acid loving plants.

466
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So azalea's, camellias, blueberries,
those are all acid loving plants. That

467
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and how often should I feed them
with the Microlife for acid loving plants,

468
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it's it's not a salt based fertilizer, and so you're not going to hurt

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the plants by overdoing it, so
I but I would give them a feeding

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about four times during the growing season
with that to continue to provide a release

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of nutrients. Uh. So you
might do that and coming out of in

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the spring as you begin to see
new growth occurring. Uh, and then

473
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probably about three more times I would
space them out, probably two months apart

474
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something like that. Uh. And
then just feed them again and watch your

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plants. If you're getting really good
vigor and whatnot on them, then you

476
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can hold off just a little bit, okay, And then when I you

477
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know, they have gotten real and
then when I cut them back, U

478
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don't do well. I mean,
I just I don't ever come back.

479
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I mean, is there a secret
to make them come back. No,

480
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it's just a matter of the plant
having the energy. You know, any

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plant and Azalia's just as an example, but when you cut it back below

482
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where you cut it, there's buds
that you don't know are there that suddenly

483
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pop out and now you have all
these new branches growing. And if you're

484
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not seeing that, it just sounds
to me like the plant is just lacking

485
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the stored energy it needs to provide
that regrowth. That goes again back to

486
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the amount of life that they're getting. Probably, probably, But there's no

487
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secret to here's how you cut a
plant back when it comes to an azelia.

488
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It's to make it re sprout.
Okay, well it's probably I'm probably

489
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not feeding them benet. That's probably
what I'm doing wrong. Okay, I

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don't know they've gotten when they get
real leg yeah, will I mean when

491
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I get real luggy, they just
don't. I don't blow any leaves on

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those long stalks that are leggy.
Yeah. Is their secret to make them

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bloom lanes? Or did they just
not do that? You know? It

494
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should be that you cut them back
and they re sprout and they do.

495
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Okay, So I like I said, that takes us back to why are

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they lacking the energy to do that? Uh? Okay, okay, yeah,

497
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so all right, it may mean
leaving them uncut for now. I

498
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know that leggy is not what you
want. I guess you can get some

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more energy in those plants with some
light and get them They may be a

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little stress. You know what you
described about watering, Maybe they just need

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maybe they just need to be water
a little bit more and fertilized a little

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bit more, and we would see
a change in how they respond to pruning.

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Okay, all right, well,
thank you so much. All right,

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Kerry, thank you very much.
I appreciate appreciate your call very much.

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Uh you were talking about Azelia's and
shade and trees and whatnot. We

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have so many beauty trees here in
the Greater Houston area. It's just it

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is just a wonderful, wonderful place
in terms of being able to get away

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from that summer heat. You know, when you have a high quality tree

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that is the right species, so
it does well and it's been taken care

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of right and when it comes to
that, all aspects really of that.

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Martin Spoon more to Affordable Tree Service, He's got your number. I mean,

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he knows how to do it.
Martin has been the Affordable Tree I

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believe they're bott in their twenty fifth
year, all right, I'll be close

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to the twenty fifth anniversary time for
them here in Greater Houston. Of course,

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Martin's been doing this for almost fifty
years himself. You can give him

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a call seven to one three six
nine nine twenty six sixty three seven one

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three six nine nine two six six
three, or go to his website.

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Afftree Service dot com. Aff Tree
Service dot com. You need to get

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those trees looked at, if they
need any pruning, if they need any

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training, removal of dead but whatever
you need to get done to him.

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As we enter the summer season and
the what we referred to as hurricane season

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June through November here, you need
to have your trees that are ready for

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that. And Martin is the guy
to get it done. He knows what

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he's doing, he does things right. Aff Tree Service dot Com. Here's

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the number one more time seven one
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Well, we are about to hit
a break here. When we come

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back, Jerry, you will be
our first up. And I just want

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to remind you that I'm going to
be at while the Langham Creek Ace Hardware

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almost said Wildbird' unlimited in bel Air. That's where I was just the other

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day. Langham Creek Ace Hardware in
bel Air, Langa Creek Hardware. If

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you haven't been there and you live
in that area, you need to come

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00:38:49.119 --> 00:38:51.760
by and see me. You need
to see the hardware store. It's it

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is a really really special place.
They just they are doing some major work.

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They got a lot more things they're
going to be doing to enhance it

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even further as we go through this
summer season coming up here, if they

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have all the supplies you're going to
need, and I'll be there answering your

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00:39:07.159 --> 00:39:10.639
questions. I'm going to get there
at about eleven thirty and I'll be there

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until one thirty next Saturday and again, so last chance for an appearance.

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They get a chance to kind of
look eye to eye and look at your

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photos and your samples and healthier things
until we get back into the follow season

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much later on Numbye a fine Barker
Sarpush Road. Kat Rh Garden Line does

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not necessarily endorse any of the products
or services advertised on this program. Welcome

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00:39:37.000 --> 00:39:50.920
to kat Rh Garden Line with scamp
Rictor. It's so crazy just watch him

544
00:39:51.159 --> 00:40:14.280
as so many good things to see. Welcome back to the guard Line.

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Take a look outside. It is
a good day for gardening. I'm telling

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you. The sun is shining,
the sky is clear. Uh, temperature

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is not too bad out there.
Right now. We're going to enjoy ourselves

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as the temperatures heat up a little
bit through the day. I've kind of

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gotten to where I'm doing most of
my gardening work now before noon. Got

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a lot of things I'm trying to
get done, so as a result,

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I'm staying out a little longer than
i'd like to, but I can get

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most done by late late morning,
by about lunch, and then work on

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things inside after that. Take a
little break from being out in that heat.

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I want to head out. We're
going to go straight out to the

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phones to Spring and we're gonna talk
to Jerry. Hello, Jerry, Hi

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Skip. I really love your show, and I find that you have a

557
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very enjoyable calming plant side manner that
I think it's great. Anyway, I'm

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made it two and I've always done
my own yard. I've kind of developed

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some back issues and decided to retire
my mower. And I know, I

560
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know when I say the word bagging
that you are cringing, because I've heard

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your your feelings on bagging versus mulching, and I appreciate them. But I've

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always bagged the clippings due to something
I heard Randy say years ago. A

563
00:41:44.719 --> 00:41:51.039
guy said he he was he started
melting and now he's got this thatch build

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up and he wonders if he's going
to have to rake it out and Randy

565
00:41:53.960 --> 00:41:57.119
said, well, of course you're
going to have to rake it out,

566
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you know, and that kind of
defeats my purpose. And I was wondering

567
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if you could kind of expand on
this. Yeah. So, first of

568
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all, nature never bags. Not
any grassland, native grassland or anywhere in

569
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the world bags so and Saint Augustine
is native somewhere in the world. So

570
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it's just native somewhere. You see
what I'm saying. I mean, evergrass

571
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is not. Now here's the way
that I like to put it. Grass

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clippings are not what causes that.
Over fertilizing and in some cases overwatering causes

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that. So here here's what that
means. Grass clippings are like a let

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us leave. You throw it out
there on the ground, and I mean

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it just trivels and rots away pretty
fast. But when you get into the

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runners of the grass and the roots
those are they're not woody, but they're

577
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well on the way toward woody,
if you will, compared to a grass

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clipping. So when you push that
grass to grow really asked and to keep

579
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growing and keep growing, then you
end up with a lot of runners that

580
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are all mixed in and entangled.
And when they die, they will be

581
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there for a while. That is
the primary component of thatch or those higher

582
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and lignin type materials that don't decompose
very well. So that's where we get

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into doing core eration and accompo stop
dressings and other things to help those decomposable

584
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faster. But if you are watering
properly, and if your mow fertilizing very

585
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moderately, appropriately following the label but
not overdoing it, then you should not

586
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have enough grass clippings to be a
concern. The exception is when we get

587
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a long rainy period when it's going
to be you know, just days and

588
00:43:45.639 --> 00:43:50.639
days before you can get back into
mow. That's where I would probably bag

589
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the clippings unless you just have one
heck of a chop them up mower,

590
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which mine is not mine multi is, but not well, and so that's

591
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where I would back, and I
did. In fact, I've bagged several

592
00:44:01.679 --> 00:44:06.519
times recently because of that reason.
But all those clippings in the bag then

593
00:44:06.599 --> 00:44:10.239
went into a flower bed about an
inch or too deep to just be a

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mulch on top of it, because
that's they're rich and nutrients and I don't

595
00:44:14.840 --> 00:44:19.440
want to pay somebody to haul them
away. Yeah, well I had done

596
00:44:19.840 --> 00:44:22.360
yesterday for the first time. That
gentleman was zipping around on one of these

597
00:44:22.599 --> 00:44:29.559
zero turned tanks, you know,
and not not bagging. Not got my

598
00:44:29.639 --> 00:44:34.239
attention. But I do follow your
schedule, of your organic schedule, and

599
00:44:34.840 --> 00:44:40.119
try to water once or twice deep
watering and so well, and that maybe

600
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I won't have the problem. The
laune's looking good now except for having the

601
00:44:45.000 --> 00:44:47.599
spot treat a few dollars week here
and there. But yeah, anyway,

602
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well, just good. Just know
that, you know, in nature,

603
00:44:52.320 --> 00:44:54.000
grass is growing at a moderate rate. We don't have a lot of foot

604
00:44:54.039 --> 00:44:59.880
traffic on it. Nobody's mowing it
other than the occasional wandering deer, sheep

605
00:45:00.159 --> 00:45:02.800
or goat or cow or whatever it's
chew in the grass at that moment.

606
00:45:05.079 --> 00:45:08.079
But in our lawns are higher maintenance. So that's just where we we have

607
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to be careful. One last thing
about it, Jerry, is if you

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were to take all the clippings from
your lawn over the course of a year,

609
00:45:15.679 --> 00:45:20.679
you would have more nutrients in those
dried clippings than you put on when

610
00:45:20.679 --> 00:45:25.760
you fertilize through the year. So
I've heard you say that you are recycling

611
00:45:25.960 --> 00:45:30.880
nutrients. Yeah, we're recycling,
and so that you know, maybe it's

612
00:45:30.920 --> 00:45:32.480
like, well, fertilizer costs is
not an issue for me, and you

613
00:45:32.519 --> 00:45:36.880
know, well that's fine. But
I'm just saying, if you are doing

614
00:45:36.920 --> 00:45:42.920
things at all organically, nature's clippings
or nature's own natural slow release fertilizer,

615
00:45:43.320 --> 00:45:47.440
not that you wouldn't also fertilize.
But what I'm saying is close the loop.

616
00:45:47.599 --> 00:45:51.760
Instead of coming in in a bag, going onto the ground growing grass

617
00:45:51.760 --> 00:45:53.480
clippings, putting them in a bag
to head back out down the street,

618
00:45:54.159 --> 00:46:00.360
keep that loop in your yard.
That that would be my recommendation. Okay,

619
00:46:00.039 --> 00:46:07.519
No, I said, I'm following
your organic schedule. You said maybe

620
00:46:07.079 --> 00:46:14.639
you can overfertilizer or overfertilizer. I
would. I would still follow the schedule

621
00:46:14.719 --> 00:46:19.440
as published. Yes, follow it, follow it as published. There's there's

622
00:46:19.440 --> 00:46:22.880
some sometimes, you know, we
we have fertilizations that are optional, the

623
00:46:22.920 --> 00:46:28.840
one in early early spring. That
one is very optional, very aesthetic optional,

624
00:46:28.880 --> 00:46:31.840
early on. Uh. And I
would on an organic schedule, I

625
00:46:31.880 --> 00:46:36.920
don't even have that spring fertilization on
in March. I have it. I

626
00:46:36.960 --> 00:46:39.960
have the first one in April when
our grass is growing. Okay, okay,

627
00:46:40.079 --> 00:46:43.559
well, thank you, thank you
so much again. Skip. I

628
00:46:44.039 --> 00:46:46.039
just think you are the greatest show. I just really thank joy. I

629
00:46:46.119 --> 00:46:50.760
appreciate that. Tell your family friends, especially that guy that won't take care

630
00:46:50.760 --> 00:46:54.000
of his property. Maybe. Okay, all right, thank you, Skip,

631
00:46:54.079 --> 00:46:57.960
All right, take care, Jersey. I appreciate the call very much.

632
00:46:58.559 --> 00:47:01.039
Uh it is. It's always good
to kind of clarify some things.

633
00:47:01.079 --> 00:47:08.519
And I hope that did that little
kind of spiel about nutrients and cycling and

634
00:47:08.559 --> 00:47:15.559
whatnot. A lot of times,
you know, people get to thinking,

635
00:47:15.559 --> 00:47:16.920
well, if I have a lot
of if I have clippings, then I'm

636
00:47:17.119 --> 00:47:21.280
they're going to be sitting there and
they just get thicker and thicker and thatch.

637
00:47:21.360 --> 00:47:25.199
And just remember that if clippings were
part of that, that definitely means

638
00:47:25.239 --> 00:47:31.079
you're way overwatering and overfertilizing. Probably
not mowing often enough. That's another thing.

639
00:47:31.199 --> 00:47:36.079
Every time you the more frequently you
mow, the shorter the clipping you're

640
00:47:36.119 --> 00:47:42.159
creating, and the easier it is
to mulch and chop up inside the housing

641
00:47:42.199 --> 00:47:45.800
of your mulching mower. It makes
it much easier to go down in the

642
00:47:45.800 --> 00:47:50.079
ground. But you know, I
understand, there's like two times when I

643
00:47:50.119 --> 00:47:54.519
would not return the clippings. One
is when it's been too long, the

644
00:47:54.559 --> 00:47:58.760
grass has gotten big and it's going
to look like a hayfield if you don't

645
00:47:58.760 --> 00:48:02.440
pick those clippings up. That's one. The second time is if weeds got

646
00:48:02.440 --> 00:48:07.719
ahead of you, and the weeds
bloomed and had seeds on them, then

647
00:48:07.880 --> 00:48:10.599
I would bag that to get as
much of the seeds as I could out

648
00:48:12.599 --> 00:48:17.559
and out of the lawn. But
that is those are two very special situations,

649
00:48:17.639 --> 00:48:24.079
and other than that, why not
recycle them. I have a T

650
00:48:24.159 --> 00:48:28.960
shirt effect I almost wore it today. It's a shirt I had made years

651
00:48:29.039 --> 00:48:32.960
ago when I was up in Conro, and it's a picture of a meadow

652
00:48:34.159 --> 00:48:36.920
and a forest. They're kind of
side by side, but it looks like

653
00:48:36.920 --> 00:48:43.400
a Gary Larson cartoon. And it's
got a whole seene cows that are riding

654
00:48:43.480 --> 00:48:49.760
lawnmowers across the pasture with bagging,
and they're setting their little black plastic bags

655
00:48:49.800 --> 00:48:52.639
out at the roadside across the fence, and there's a deer in the forest

656
00:48:52.760 --> 00:48:55.800
raking up leaves into a bag to
put out at the curb as well.

657
00:48:55.840 --> 00:49:00.679
And it says nature recycles naturally you
can too, don't bag it. And

658
00:49:00.840 --> 00:49:06.280
I like that visual picture, but
I need to make those, make those

659
00:49:06.280 --> 00:49:10.519
shirts and make them available to folks. I think it's a really fun shirt.

660
00:49:10.639 --> 00:49:15.519
Anyway, Point made, Point made
our phone number if you'd like to

661
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give a skull seven one three two
one two five eight seven four seven one

662
00:49:20.320 --> 00:49:23.079
three two one two fifty eight seventy
four. Hey, have you been down

663
00:49:23.119 --> 00:49:29.039
to Jose's Hidden Gardens Josees Orges good
night or hey. I was talking to

664
00:49:29.079 --> 00:49:31.360
Jegey a while back and we were
just you know, I was there.

665
00:49:31.480 --> 00:49:36.440
We were walking through looking at the
different kinds of things that they had on

666
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hand, and I was just really
impressed with how they just keep stalking up

667
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and essentially growing growing. The place
Horace Hidden Gardens is in Alvin, Texas.

668
00:49:47.000 --> 00:49:52.679
It's it's on Elizabeth in Alvin,
Texas. And when you go there,

669
00:49:52.760 --> 00:49:57.599
you're going to find seasonally the different
things you're looking for, from vegetables

670
00:49:57.639 --> 00:50:00.960
to herbs to whatnot. They're they
fruit trees right now, they got roses

671
00:50:01.039 --> 00:50:06.800
right now, really nice selection of
citrus as well. But in general,

672
00:50:07.199 --> 00:50:09.639
do you need small trees and shrubs
like a crape merle for example, they've

673
00:50:09.639 --> 00:50:15.880
got those the different kinds of roses, beautiful roses that they had a little

674
00:50:15.880 --> 00:50:21.679
spaliers a while back that I was
impressed with. They carry that three sixty

675
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tree stabilizer, which I highly recommend. They have those on hand there,

676
00:50:25.039 --> 00:50:30.920
and they're open on Friday from nine
to three, nine am to three on

677
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Friday, today, Saturdays eight to
four, and tomorrow Sunday eight to four.

678
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So Friday, Saturday and Sunday nine
to three, Friday eight to four

679
00:50:39.320 --> 00:50:42.800
and eight to four. That's how
to know where they are, just south

680
00:50:42.800 --> 00:50:45.079
of Highway six. So all of
those of you out there are now go

681
00:50:45.119 --> 00:50:51.000
on Arcadia and Alta Loma, Dickinson
Hillcrest, Santa Fe Alvin. This is

682
00:50:51.000 --> 00:50:52.880
your backyard garden center. You need
to go by and check them out.

683
00:50:53.039 --> 00:50:59.119
Sanpristy quick break, I'll be right
back, all right, Welcome back to

684
00:50:59.239 --> 00:51:02.239
garden Line. Who can tell me
who the guy was and who the girls

685
00:51:02.239 --> 00:51:06.440
were singing in that song right there? I'll be curious. Everybody knows that

686
00:51:07.440 --> 00:51:09.159
well, so I'll just wait.
That was maybe one of my callers knows.

687
00:51:09.320 --> 00:51:15.480
We're gonna go now to talk to
Elizabeth. Hello, Elizabeth, Hello,

688
00:51:15.400 --> 00:51:19.480
I'm well I'm well, how are
you doing good? And I just

689
00:51:19.519 --> 00:51:22.880
broke the cardinal rule asking how you
are? I know it's okay, time

690
00:51:23.159 --> 00:51:27.360
listen. I've been listening to this
show since I was a tiny tot and

691
00:51:27.360 --> 00:51:32.880
it was Dewey Compton. Oh boy, wow, a third generation as Aliat

692
00:51:32.920 --> 00:51:38.559
grower here, Yeah, wow,
I was. I wanted to address the

693
00:51:39.039 --> 00:51:43.360
collar about the reazillion and I'll just
say what I have to say and then

694
00:51:43.440 --> 00:51:45.360
leave you. But I just appreciate
you so much, all right, go

695
00:51:45.440 --> 00:51:53.719
for it, all right. I
believe it's soiled sunlight and the oak leaves,

696
00:51:53.800 --> 00:51:59.800
the oak trees. Okay, half
those five had five yards myself with

697
00:52:00.039 --> 00:52:05.199
the valias. And the worst experience
I've had was a similar situation. So

698
00:52:05.320 --> 00:52:08.199
much shade, too much, too
many oak leaves, so wreaked out the

699
00:52:08.400 --> 00:52:15.039
oak leaves, replace them with pine
mulch or pine needles, and they need

700
00:52:15.079 --> 00:52:20.920
more acids. And the only trim
only cut them back after they bloom,

701
00:52:22.000 --> 00:52:24.280
and you can cut them back very
severely. But they need a little bit

702
00:52:24.280 --> 00:52:29.840
of water, sorry, sunlight,
a little bit of staffled dabbled. I

703
00:52:29.840 --> 00:52:35.000
think they're reaching for sunlight and they
are struggling in the soil. That's overdone

704
00:52:35.079 --> 00:52:38.199
with oak. All right, that
sounds good, and I agree about the

705
00:52:38.480 --> 00:52:43.760
especially the sunlight part is uh,
you've got to have energy. Even even

706
00:52:43.800 --> 00:52:47.039
plants that grow in the shade have
got sunlight to grow, and so there

707
00:52:47.119 --> 00:52:53.719
is too much I have. I've
inherited my mom's house and there's fifty year

708
00:52:53.719 --> 00:53:00.519
old civilios that were just stunning but
died in the last few years, well

709
00:53:00.800 --> 00:53:06.079
almost died. I've put them back
down to a flot and I'm whirling them

710
00:53:06.079 --> 00:53:09.000
back there, coming back. It
takes a few years, and I root

711
00:53:09.079 --> 00:53:14.679
them all the time. It's super
easy, and he can make it work.

712
00:53:14.920 --> 00:53:17.800
There you go. There, that's
an encouraging word. Thank you,

713
00:53:17.880 --> 00:53:24.559
Elizabeth. Appreciate that. Appreciate you
providing that encouraging word out there. Yeah,

714
00:53:24.639 --> 00:53:28.559
that is true. That is certainly
true. Let's go to the woodlands

715
00:53:28.559 --> 00:53:31.599
now. We're going to talk to
Mike. Hello, Mike, Hello,

716
00:53:32.239 --> 00:53:37.440
Skip. I talked to you last
year at Margueriteville about I think it's called

717
00:53:37.519 --> 00:53:43.320
chamber bitter in my lawn and I
put a bone eyed wheat beter on it

718
00:53:43.559 --> 00:53:45.719
yesterday morning. We had a pretty
good ring last night. So I don't

719
00:53:45.719 --> 00:53:51.440
know if I need to reapply that. Oh boy. Uh, you know,

720
00:53:52.119 --> 00:53:57.559
I hate I hate to re I
hate to double up on any kind

721
00:53:57.599 --> 00:54:02.320
of a pesticide application. Uh.
When you put the the weed beater out,

722
00:54:02.400 --> 00:54:07.800
were you using the granular form or
the liquid form? Yeah? It

723
00:54:07.880 --> 00:54:15.960
was a a a handsprayer, hand
sprayer. Okay. Uh. How much

724
00:54:16.039 --> 00:54:21.159
rain did you get last night?
And how how many hours did it have

725
00:54:21.480 --> 00:54:25.599
from when you sprayed it, or
how many days or hours sprayed until six

726
00:54:25.679 --> 00:54:29.960
thirty in the morning. The rain
was around four it was. It was

727
00:54:30.000 --> 00:54:32.599
a hard rain, but it wasn't
very long. Yeah. I think I

728
00:54:32.599 --> 00:54:37.320
would wait and watch and you know, after about five days, you should

729
00:54:37.360 --> 00:54:43.239
be seeing something going on with that
chamber better certainly by seven. Uh.

730
00:54:43.280 --> 00:54:45.920
And if you don't, then I
would hit it again. I just want

731
00:54:45.920 --> 00:54:50.280
to be really careful. Some of
these products, you get them over applied,

732
00:54:50.320 --> 00:54:54.199
you get them down in a root
system, or your lawn itself just

733
00:54:54.719 --> 00:54:59.199
can get overdosed. And so I
just want to be careful. And we're

734
00:55:00.280 --> 00:55:02.280
If it were mine, I would
give it about five seven days just looking

735
00:55:02.320 --> 00:55:07.559
at it, and then I would
do it again. Great, thank you.

736
00:55:07.760 --> 00:55:10.840
And you may find that that product
isn't working as well. That is

737
00:55:10.880 --> 00:55:17.480
one of the weeds that Celsius is
very good to control, so you may

738
00:55:17.639 --> 00:55:24.440
want to consider switching if you don't
get good, good results. Where can

739
00:55:24.480 --> 00:55:29.239
I find selfish? I look it
up on Amazon and think myself, big

740
00:55:29.280 --> 00:55:32.639
amounts of that stores or yeah,
you should find it. You should find

741
00:55:32.679 --> 00:55:39.000
it up in maybe feedstore. Mic
carried a really really good feed store not

742
00:55:39.119 --> 00:55:45.519
too far from you is spring Creek
Feed on twenty nine to twenty. But

743
00:55:45.599 --> 00:55:47.800
I would call them first. I
know they can get it for you,

744
00:55:47.920 --> 00:55:51.280
but call them, just make sure
they have it for you. Run down

745
00:55:51.280 --> 00:55:53.320
there you might find it. I
don't know how far it is for you

746
00:55:53.360 --> 00:55:59.679
to get out to Montgomery. Over
to Montgomery. That may be a little

747
00:55:59.679 --> 00:56:01.559
bit too much of a dry but
A and A may may have that as

748
00:56:01.599 --> 00:56:06.800
well. And again I would call
before I head that way. Okay,

749
00:56:06.920 --> 00:56:09.400
thank you. Yeah, And a
lot of our ace hardware stores are going

750
00:56:09.440 --> 00:56:14.960
to carry it. Great. Thanks
all right, good luck, good luck

751
00:56:14.960 --> 00:56:17.800
with that, Mike, thanks for
the call. Yeah. Chamber bitter is

752
00:56:17.840 --> 00:56:22.199
an interesting little weed. It looks
like a little I don't know, mimosa

753
00:56:22.239 --> 00:56:25.480
tree or whatever, but it has
a little seed or a little flowers which

754
00:56:25.559 --> 00:56:31.159
then turn into seeds. That are
underneath the leaves of the along the little

755
00:56:32.679 --> 00:56:37.440
the petiole that's holding the leaves themselves. Very unusual looking flower. You just

756
00:56:37.480 --> 00:56:39.639
have to kind of see it to
understand what I'm talking about. But it

757
00:56:40.360 --> 00:56:44.440
can be a problem, and it
loves hot weather, and it's sprouting up

758
00:56:44.519 --> 00:56:47.360
right now, So little mimosa looking
thing coming up out of the ground.

759
00:56:47.360 --> 00:56:52.039
That's probably chamber bitter at this season. At least our phone number is nine

760
00:56:52.119 --> 00:56:57.800
seven or nine seven eight. Let
me try one more time. How about

761
00:56:57.800 --> 00:57:00.599
this? How many times have I
said this number? Seven one three two

762
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one two fifty eight seventy four seven
one three two one two five eight seven

763
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764
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But you don't have to have hurricane
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765
00:57:16.840 --> 00:57:22.199
was around what three weeks four weeks
ago whenever it hit, you know what

766
00:57:22.199 --> 00:57:24.880
I'm talking about. That was serious
stuff around the greater Houston area. Lots

767
00:57:24.880 --> 00:57:29.000
of people without power for a very
long time. When you got a refrigerator

768
00:57:29.000 --> 00:57:32.000
full of food, that food can
go bad and that's a significant cost,

769
00:57:32.039 --> 00:57:35.800
not to mention the work. And
I've had to do that kind of thing

770
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before it is a mess, or
maybe you work from home and you need

771
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772
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773
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774
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775
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776
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777
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778
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779
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780
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781
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795
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796
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break here for the news. Seven
one three two one two fifty eight seventy

797
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four. I'll be right back.
Welcome back to Guardline Live from Houston this

798
00:59:39.280 --> 00:59:44.519
morning. We're looking forward to visiting
with you about the things that interest you.

799
00:59:44.599 --> 00:59:47.199
Seven one three two one two fifty
eight seventy four. If you'd like

800
00:59:47.280 --> 00:59:51.559
to give me a call, please
do that. Hey, uh, we

801
00:59:51.639 --> 00:59:54.199
are starting to dry out a little
bit and as the temperature goes up and

802
00:59:54.280 --> 00:59:58.679
gets hotter and hotter month by month. This summer, it's going to get

803
00:59:58.760 --> 01:00:00.840
drier on us. You know,
we get rain, but there's so much

804
01:00:00.880 --> 01:00:05.519
of a demand that the soil just
dries out in those hot temperatures. And

805
01:00:05.559 --> 01:00:07.400
what happens when the soil dries out. We had a wet spring, and

806
01:00:07.440 --> 01:00:10.719
when we did, the soil swells
up. That's what happens to wet soil,

807
01:00:10.920 --> 01:00:15.119
clay soil. When it gets dry, it shrinks, and that's why

808
01:00:15.119 --> 01:00:17.239
you get the cracks. In fact, I was just looking on the side

809
01:00:17.280 --> 01:00:21.239
of my house and I already saw
some cracks in an area where I've got

810
01:00:21.239 --> 01:00:25.480
some pretty crummy clay soil, which
I'm about to do something too. But

811
01:00:25.559 --> 01:00:31.320
those big cracks put pressure on sidewalks, on driveways, on foundations. And

812
01:00:31.400 --> 01:00:36.440
if you see cracks in the brick
or inside in the sheet rock, if

813
01:00:36.480 --> 01:00:39.519
you got a door that's sticking,
that's a sign things are shifting and that's

814
01:00:39.599 --> 01:00:45.880
not a good thing for your slab. Fix my Slab foundation Repair. They've

815
01:00:45.920 --> 01:00:50.639
been doing this Tai Strickland for twenty
three years now. Fix my Slab is

816
01:00:50.920 --> 01:00:58.400
a very professional, very dependable.
It's the old fashioned service and quality that

817
01:00:58.920 --> 01:01:01.719
we many of us grew up with
and have come to expect. But it's

818
01:01:01.760 --> 01:01:07.039
not a common thing unfortunately in this
day and time. I'm talking about somebody

819
01:01:07.119 --> 01:01:09.599
who shows up when they say they're
going to show up. That's Tie Strickland.

820
01:01:09.599 --> 01:01:14.679
It fixed my slab. Somebody who
prices it fair, that's Tie Strickland.

821
01:01:14.960 --> 01:01:19.079
Fix my slab. And somebody get
this fix. Is it right?

822
01:01:19.320 --> 01:01:22.079
That's what all. That's what we're
asking for. Right, show up when

823
01:01:22.079 --> 01:01:23.000
you tell me, give me a
fair price, and do it right.

824
01:01:23.199 --> 01:01:27.599
Do it once, do it right, Tie Strickland, fix my slab,

825
01:01:27.639 --> 01:01:31.880
foundation repair twenty three years now.
Here's the website. Fixmyslab dot com.

826
01:01:32.000 --> 01:01:36.280
Can't get easier than that. Fix
myslab dot com. Here's the phone number

827
01:01:36.320 --> 01:01:39.920
you want to write this down.
Two eight one, two five five forty

828
01:01:40.000 --> 01:01:44.480
nine, forty nine. If you
start to see signs of this, have

829
01:01:44.639 --> 01:01:47.360
them come out and take a look. Tell them you're a garden line listeners,

830
01:01:47.360 --> 01:01:51.000
free estimates for you. If you're
a guardline listener, just tell them

831
01:01:51.039 --> 01:01:53.119
that. Have them come out and
take a look. Don't wait. It's

832
01:01:53.119 --> 01:01:57.519
not going to get better. It
will get worse, and you need to

833
01:01:57.559 --> 01:02:00.559
take care of these things soon.
Even though we don't want to see them.

834
01:02:00.800 --> 01:02:02.760
It's better to just have Tie come
out, take a look, and

835
01:02:02.840 --> 01:02:07.000
let's let's see where we go from
there. I'm going to head now to

836
01:02:07.440 --> 01:02:13.840
Seabrook, Texas and talk to Lisa. Hello, Lisa, good morning.

837
01:02:13.920 --> 01:02:17.840
Do you know anything about a heat
tolerant tomato called the Phoenix. I have

838
01:02:17.920 --> 01:02:21.639
heard of the Phoenix, but I
don't know anything about it, and I

839
01:02:21.639 --> 01:02:25.440
haven't grown it. Phoenix. That's
the cult of our name variety name Phoenix,

840
01:02:25.559 --> 01:02:30.199
right right right? Where did you
hear about that? I just saw

841
01:02:30.239 --> 01:02:32.920
it in a nursery. I was
traveling and we saw a couple and it

842
01:02:34.000 --> 01:02:36.360
just said they were heat tolerance.
So I got a couple. I mean,

843
01:02:36.480 --> 01:02:39.400
okay, I'll see how they do
that. I was just curious.

844
01:02:39.679 --> 01:02:44.800
Yeah, that's interesting. I'd have
to go look into it. In fact,

845
01:02:44.800 --> 01:02:45.639
I was trying to pull it up
right here, just to see if

846
01:02:45.639 --> 01:02:51.639
I could see something that told more
about it. If it's brand new,

847
01:02:51.719 --> 01:02:54.039
that that would be one reason why
I haven't seen it or grown it before.

848
01:02:54.599 --> 01:02:58.159
Okay, it's supposed to be.
Yeah, they claim it's heat tolerant.

849
01:02:58.159 --> 01:03:00.639
I wonder where this was, you
know, heat tolerant in Ohio and

850
01:03:00.679 --> 01:03:07.239
heat tolerant in Houston is a little
bit different thing. Yea. My other

851
01:03:07.320 --> 01:03:09.400
question is the nursery you mentioned it, Alvin. We tried to look up

852
01:03:09.400 --> 01:03:14.119
the number. It's Can you tell
me the name of it again? Yes,

853
01:03:14.519 --> 01:03:17.239
Jorges Hidden Gardens A J. O. L. G. E.

854
01:03:17.599 --> 01:03:25.000
Hoorce Hidden Gardens. Yeah, I
think that. Give give that a try

855
01:03:25.039 --> 01:03:30.119
and see, uh see if you
can. If you see anything by looking

856
01:03:30.119 --> 01:03:35.039
for Horace Hidden Gardens, you can
also go to tell you what do this?

857
01:03:35.800 --> 01:03:39.559
Do you do Facebook? Facebook?
No? But I just I'll google

858
01:03:39.599 --> 01:03:43.559
it. I did see Es,
I didn't. I didn't understand that that

859
01:03:43.679 --> 01:03:46.239
was what you were saying. Yeah. Yeah, it's a Hoores and it's

860
01:03:46.920 --> 01:03:52.079
his his. The other company has
called Texas grounds Keepers. We don't we

861
01:03:52.320 --> 01:03:55.760
talk about the garden center. But
if you look for Texas grounds Keepers down

862
01:03:55.800 --> 01:04:00.760
there, that's the same place.
It's it's on U seventeen seventy one Elizabeth

863
01:04:00.840 --> 01:04:05.280
Road. Thank you, all right, Thank you appreciate it. Well,

864
01:04:05.320 --> 01:04:10.599
tell me call us back sometime when
you find out how that Phoenix tomato does

865
01:04:11.119 --> 01:04:14.760
and let me know my hesitation.
I had something pull up about it is.

866
01:04:14.840 --> 01:04:19.480
It is a long time to harvest
like ninety two days is what the

867
01:04:19.559 --> 01:04:24.880
thing I pulled up said, which
is incredibly long, so you may not

868
01:04:25.079 --> 01:04:29.239
see some yels until much later.
But actually that would that would actually be

869
01:04:29.239 --> 01:04:33.559
okay at this point in the season
because it started getting hot. Thank you,

870
01:04:33.679 --> 01:04:39.000
all right, thanks a lot,
take care. Good to visit with

871
01:04:39.039 --> 01:04:43.679
you. Let's see here now,
let's go to Matt in Victoria, Texas.

872
01:04:43.679 --> 01:04:47.559
Hello, Matt, hey, skip, good morning. I am in

873
01:04:47.639 --> 01:04:51.639
Victoria, Texas. We've got a
lot of black dirt over there, and

874
01:04:51.960 --> 01:05:00.360
I am wanting to give my landscaping
more of a tropical tropical feel with you

875
01:05:00.360 --> 01:05:04.639
know, something like birds of Paradise, some banana trees, something, you

876
01:05:04.679 --> 01:05:10.440
know, a real tropical look.
Okay, what advice would you give me

877
01:05:10.599 --> 01:05:14.719
on plants for that, you know, South Texas area, And what do

878
01:05:14.760 --> 01:05:17.719
I need to do to the soil
to maybe make it more conducive for a

879
01:05:17.760 --> 01:05:21.360
tropical type of plant? Right,
well, for for any kind of plant.

880
01:05:21.400 --> 01:05:28.039
The tropical itself is not a distinction
that changes the soil recommendations I would

881
01:05:28.079 --> 01:05:32.519
give you, but good drainage so
that when it rains too much for too

882
01:05:32.559 --> 01:05:36.000
long, the access has somewhere to
go, you know it drains away.

883
01:05:36.039 --> 01:05:39.679
It could be that could be a
raised bed, that could be anything you

884
01:05:39.719 --> 01:05:44.159
do to improve the drainage. But
certainly bringing if you've got a heavy clay.

885
01:05:45.400 --> 01:05:50.679
The expanded shale is a kiddy letter
looking material that you mix down in

886
01:05:50.760 --> 01:05:56.639
the soil and it helps hold that
clay open you need it. You need

887
01:05:56.800 --> 01:06:00.199
two or three inches of expanded shale
in a bed to get its full effect,

888
01:06:00.239 --> 01:06:02.679
but it will do that and it
lasts a very very long time.

889
01:06:03.639 --> 01:06:08.119
Of course, compost itself is always
good to add. Any kind of a

890
01:06:08.159 --> 01:06:12.440
bed mix is always good to add. And then just making sure you provide

891
01:06:12.480 --> 01:06:15.360
adequate moisture through the summer heat.
We have a lot of good heat tolerant

892
01:06:15.440 --> 01:06:18.599
plants, but they have to have
water to survive in the heat. So

893
01:06:19.880 --> 01:06:23.760
you know one thing to think about
too, Matt, as you're doing that.

894
01:06:24.440 --> 01:06:29.039
You certainly bringing in tropicals is fun
and a good idea, but think

895
01:06:29.079 --> 01:06:32.559
about things that may not actually be
tropicals, but may look like tropicals.

896
01:06:32.599 --> 01:06:39.000
And an example I would use would
be like cannas. For example, the

897
01:06:39.039 --> 01:06:45.280
beautiful multicolored phasion or tropic cana.
It's called the Bengal tiger with yellow and

898
01:06:45.320 --> 01:06:49.199
green stripe leaves. Those are big, bold, tropical looking leaves, and

899
01:06:49.480 --> 01:06:54.320
that plant is so hardy it never
gets too cold for cannas here. So

900
01:06:54.719 --> 01:06:59.639
think about things that look tropical in
addition to things that actually are truly tropical,

901
01:06:59.679 --> 01:07:02.400
meaning it can't take down. That's
a good idea, that's a really

902
01:07:02.440 --> 01:07:08.000
great idea. Yeah yeah, all
right, all right, well we'll get

903
01:07:08.039 --> 01:07:10.519
that taken care of and give you
a shout back. Thank you very much,

904
01:07:10.960 --> 01:07:13.880
you bet, and I always remember
Matt too. In summertime, big

905
01:07:13.920 --> 01:07:18.360
bold, colorful foliage is a great
way to have that beautiful color even when

906
01:07:19.199 --> 01:07:23.719
the number of things that bloom are
more limited than they would be in spring.

907
01:07:25.519 --> 01:07:28.960
All right, I appreciate you Colin
very much. Good luck. Hey,

908
01:07:29.000 --> 01:07:31.400
while you're out there, have you
ever been out to the Extension office

909
01:07:32.519 --> 01:07:38.880
in Victoria and the master gardeners have
a little demonstration garden out there. No,

910
01:07:39.079 --> 01:07:41.280
I can't say that I have.
You should. It's out there as

911
01:07:41.320 --> 01:07:45.400
you're coming in from Houston. It's
turn right, it's kind of close.

912
01:07:45.760 --> 01:07:48.320
It's a little airport, I believe
out there. It's been a while since

913
01:07:48.320 --> 01:07:53.880
I've been out there. Okay,
I know exactly wh I think that's that's

914
01:07:54.039 --> 01:07:58.320
anyway, if you just look it
up County Extension Office. Matt, there's

915
01:07:58.360 --> 01:08:04.519
another map that's the countyag agent out
there, so Matt will get y'all set

916
01:08:04.559 --> 01:08:06.599
up. But the master gardeners have
a nice little demo. You can go

917
01:08:06.639 --> 01:08:10.400
by and pick their brains too,
see what kinds of things they got growing.

918
01:08:11.519 --> 01:08:13.920
You sure, all right, we'll
look them up, all right,

919
01:08:13.960 --> 01:08:16.439
sir, Thank you very much for
the thank you, Bye bye bye,

920
01:08:17.319 --> 01:08:20.159
all right, time for another little
break here, we'll be back. Seven

921
01:08:20.199 --> 01:08:25.840
one three two one two fifty eight
seventy four is our number. If you'd

922
01:08:25.880 --> 01:08:29.199
like to give Chris a call,
get on the boards and we'll talk to

923
01:08:29.239 --> 01:08:31.640
you when we come back. And
there's a blast from the past. Hey,

924
01:08:31.800 --> 01:08:34.880
you're listening to garden Line. I
am your host, Skip Richtor,

925
01:08:34.880 --> 01:08:38.720
and we're here to answer your gardening
questions. Feel free to give us a

926
01:08:38.720 --> 01:08:43.119
call if you got one seven one
three two one two k t r H

927
01:08:43.520 --> 01:08:48.840
seven one three two one two k
t r H makes it easy if you

928
01:08:48.880 --> 01:08:56.520
are looking for an organic type fertilizer, a natural based fertilizer that is high

929
01:08:56.600 --> 01:09:00.640
end nitrogen. Sweet green is one
that I think you need to take a

930
01:09:00.640 --> 01:09:03.760
real close look at Sweet Green is
made with a molasses based which means it's

931
01:09:03.760 --> 01:09:11.439
got lots of carbon sugary material that
makes microbes really happy. That's organic Gardeners

932
01:09:11.439 --> 01:09:15.359
add molasses to the soil because of
the benefits that it has through a biological

933
01:09:15.359 --> 01:09:21.319
process with microbial activity, that Sweet
Green is releasing the nitrogen to your lawn.

934
01:09:21.439 --> 01:09:26.640
And it's an eleven percent nitrogen product. So if you're just wanting to

935
01:09:26.680 --> 01:09:30.479
add some little boosts along the way, it's an excellent product for doing that.

936
01:09:30.560 --> 01:09:31.960
You can do it a little here, a little there. It doesn't

937
01:09:32.119 --> 01:09:34.239
just have to be used in lawn. You can use it anywhere you want

938
01:09:34.279 --> 01:09:39.920
to use it. But it is
from Nitrofoss and it's widely available as a

939
01:09:39.920 --> 01:09:42.760
result of that. For example,
you got to Katie to the A's Hardware

940
01:09:42.800 --> 01:09:46.680
store out there, the Ace Hardware
City in Memorial They've got it there as

941
01:09:46.720 --> 01:09:51.119
well, Stanton Shopping Center down and
Alvin's got it Lake Hardware in Lake Jackson's

942
01:09:51.119 --> 01:09:56.079
called Lake Hardware Clute on Dixie Drive. You're going to find Nitrofoss products many

943
01:09:56.119 --> 01:10:00.279
places, including this Sweet Green.
Sweet Green is one that I would put

944
01:10:00.319 --> 01:10:03.279
out and do if I were going
to use Sweet green for the summer.

945
01:10:03.319 --> 01:10:06.039
I would do. I would go
ahead and do it now, and in

946
01:10:06.119 --> 01:10:10.920
a moderate amount, don't don't go
full fledged on it, just a modern

947
01:10:10.920 --> 01:10:15.640
amount, and then come back in
about let's say six eight, maybe ten

948
01:10:15.720 --> 01:10:18.359
weeks somewhere in there and do it
again, and in the meantime return those

949
01:10:18.399 --> 01:10:23.359
clippings and that should carry you on
into the fall season. As far as

950
01:10:23.399 --> 01:10:28.640
the nutrients that you might find that
you need. Uh, well, let's

951
01:10:28.640 --> 01:10:31.359
see here. We're gonna head out
to the phones now and talk to Greg.

952
01:10:31.399 --> 01:10:34.640
Hello, Greg, Hey, how
you doing this morning? I'm good,

953
01:10:34.720 --> 01:10:40.439
sir. What's up? Well?
I walk these bulbs and I can't

954
01:10:40.479 --> 01:10:45.840
think of the name exactly kuatia coasha
there. They're like elephant ears. They

955
01:10:45.840 --> 01:10:50.479
get really lost. They set bulbs. Yes, huh? Can I plan

956
01:10:50.600 --> 01:10:54.560
them in a pot now? Or
do I need to wait till next year?

957
01:10:54.600 --> 01:10:56.800
Do I need to put them in
a freezer? No? No,

958
01:10:56.800 --> 01:10:59.239
no, no, put them in
now. They are summer bulbs. And

959
01:10:59.560 --> 01:11:04.680
the name you're hunting for there is
called Colocasia col o, like you're gonna

960
01:11:04.680 --> 01:11:12.239
say Colorado colo and then casia colocacias
or elephantears. They got the big old

961
01:11:12.680 --> 01:11:16.640
When people think of elephantaires. They're
usually thinking of colocacious. Yeah, I'm

962
01:11:16.640 --> 01:11:19.760
gonna try a couple of bulbs in
a pot and a couple in the ground.

963
01:11:19.920 --> 01:11:24.279
Just see what that gets me.
They will give them plenty of water.

964
01:11:24.560 --> 01:11:27.640
They like a lot of water.
Make sure they get good, good

965
01:11:27.760 --> 01:11:30.920
light. They need good light to
do their best. Good lighting. They

966
01:11:30.960 --> 01:11:33.079
don't have to be in full sun, but they need light and keep the

967
01:11:33.560 --> 01:11:39.760
soul moist. They are not one
that's set up to just be treated like

968
01:11:39.800 --> 01:11:43.960
a drought plant. They need to
get moisture so you get more growth,

969
01:11:44.000 --> 01:11:46.159
bigger leaves. The clump gets bigger, and by the end of the season

970
01:11:46.199 --> 01:11:49.399
you should have a nice little,
nice little clump of them. Now those

971
01:11:49.399 --> 01:11:58.039
are rhizome. It's more colocasia.
It's not a bulb. I would say

972
01:11:58.039 --> 01:12:00.600
a tuber might be a better term
for it. But I need to go

973
01:12:00.640 --> 01:12:02.159
look that. I need to go
look that up and see technically, what

974
01:12:02.319 --> 01:12:06.800
is that underneath the colocasia. My
guest is gonna be to They could spread

975
01:12:09.000 --> 01:12:12.840
well, yeah, gradually over time. It's not like bermuda grass that pops

976
01:12:12.920 --> 01:12:16.119
up everywhere around them, you know
it. But but the clump gets bigger,

977
01:12:17.039 --> 01:12:19.479
all right, Hey, Thanks for
your help. I enjoyed the show,

978
01:12:19.640 --> 01:12:23.600
you bet, thanks for the call. Appreciate that. Greg. All

979
01:12:23.720 --> 01:12:27.039
right, we're just gonna keep moving
here. We got some other callers on

980
01:12:27.079 --> 01:12:30.000
hold here. I think next we're
going to Spring to talk to Bill.

981
01:12:30.079 --> 01:12:34.880
Hello. Bill, Hey, yep, got a couple of questions for you.

982
01:12:34.960 --> 01:12:41.720
I've got some couple of live oaks
in the yard. About one of

983
01:12:41.760 --> 01:12:46.079
them is a seventeen inch calibrat there's
toelve and they have a lot of surface

984
01:12:46.199 --> 01:12:51.720
roots that are on top of the
ground. Uh, what do I do

985
01:12:51.840 --> 01:12:56.239
about it? And how can I
what causes it and how do I correct

986
01:12:56.279 --> 01:13:00.279
them? What did you say was
the size of the of the oak the

987
01:13:00.319 --> 01:13:04.159
trunk diam or maybe one of them
is seventeen and one of them is twelve

988
01:13:04.199 --> 01:13:11.560
seventeen twelve? Okay, technically you
can remove a route a year if you

989
01:13:11.640 --> 01:13:15.680
need to, but I would save
that more for Hey, it's about to

990
01:13:15.720 --> 01:13:18.720
go under a sidewalk here or something
like that. As far as the roots

991
01:13:18.840 --> 01:13:21.439
just been up high, you can
add a little bit of soil around them

992
01:13:21.680 --> 01:13:26.720
over time, maybe put an inch
and a half or so at any one

993
01:13:26.800 --> 01:13:30.399
time, and then just continue maybe
six eight months later do it again,

994
01:13:30.079 --> 01:13:33.640
and you can bring the soil up
around them a little bit, or you

995
01:13:33.680 --> 01:13:38.199
could decide, you know, with
live oaks, not much grows underneath the

996
01:13:38.239 --> 01:13:43.319
live oak when especially as it gets
bigger, and so maybe make that area

997
01:13:43.439 --> 01:13:48.079
into a bed where you would either
just have mulch only, or where you

998
01:13:48.119 --> 01:13:51.880
may plant some things that are very
shade tenlerant, like a bunch of ferns,

999
01:13:51.920 --> 01:13:57.640
for example, or something else that
could take the live oak shade underneath.

1000
01:13:57.680 --> 01:14:01.399
There. It's in the middle of
my yard, so it's you know

1001
01:14:01.720 --> 01:14:06.399
it not conduce it to a flower
bed. Okay, well, yeah,

1002
01:14:08.560 --> 01:14:11.600
it's just your grass is just gonna
go downhill in time. But I would

1003
01:14:11.600 --> 01:14:15.319
say adding some soil then, or
just create that round mulched better around it.

1004
01:14:15.359 --> 01:14:20.039
Either way, whatever esthetically you want
to look at. Hey, thank

1005
01:14:20.039 --> 01:14:24.239
you very much. I appreciate having
all right, thank you appreciate. I

1006
01:14:24.279 --> 01:14:28.199
appreciate your call very much. Let's
see here, we've got a few callers.

1007
01:14:28.279 --> 01:14:30.600
I'm gonna go quick here, Edward, I've got a little bit of

1008
01:14:30.600 --> 01:14:33.000
time. Let's see if we can
get your answer before we have to go

1009
01:14:33.039 --> 01:14:38.239
to break. Yes, with all
this rain, the grass is taken over

1010
01:14:38.319 --> 01:14:41.560
my garden, and I was going, and there's something I can use that

1011
01:14:41.680 --> 01:14:46.960
will kill the grass but not harm
the okre. Is it annual grasses or

1012
01:14:47.000 --> 01:14:51.199
is it like bermuda grass or what's
moving in whatever the wind blew in.

1013
01:14:51.359 --> 01:14:56.760
Whatever the wind blew in. There
are grass only weed killers. You're gonna

1014
01:14:56.760 --> 01:15:00.239
have to look at labels to see
if they're labeled for use in a vegetable

1015
01:15:00.279 --> 01:15:04.920
garden. They are two different ingredients
that kill grass but not broad leaf plants,

1016
01:15:05.359 --> 01:15:09.920
And if you can find one that's
labeled for the okra patch, then

1017
01:15:10.279 --> 01:15:15.000
it's allowed to be used in that
setting. The alternative to that would be

1018
01:15:15.359 --> 01:15:19.600
to cut it down to the ground
with mower weed eater, be careful not

1019
01:15:19.680 --> 01:15:25.000
to hit your okra, and then
to put a real big thick mulch over

1020
01:15:25.039 --> 01:15:28.640
it. Sometimes I'll use like six
sheets of newspaper and throw some grass on

1021
01:15:28.680 --> 01:15:31.199
top of it, or chips or
whatever. So that would be more of

1022
01:15:31.239 --> 01:15:34.720
a physical way of blocking it out, mulching it out and gets you through

1023
01:15:34.720 --> 01:15:39.840
this season at least. Other than
that, your only option would be to

1024
01:15:39.880 --> 01:15:44.439
wipe a herbicide on the grass,
not spray it. That way, you

1025
01:15:44.479 --> 01:15:45.760
don't get it on the okra,
You just get it on the grass,

1026
01:15:46.479 --> 01:15:54.000
and there are wiper applicators for doing
that. It. Okay, yeah,

1027
01:15:54.079 --> 01:15:58.359
that's that's it. Ocre is pretty
tolerant, though I don't know how big

1028
01:15:58.399 --> 01:16:03.039
the how big is your ochre patch? How figure I got like two rows

1029
01:16:03.079 --> 01:16:09.520
out there out one long? Yeah, I think I'd be inclined to try

1030
01:16:09.520 --> 01:16:12.119
to cut it down as much as
I could and just throw a whole bunch

1031
01:16:12.119 --> 01:16:15.520
of mulch over at leaves and things. But any of those three ways I

1032
01:16:15.600 --> 01:16:20.920
mentioned should should be your better options. All right, thank you, thank

1033
01:16:20.920 --> 01:16:24.600
you, appreciate that very much.
All right, Well, as you'all here,

1034
01:16:24.640 --> 01:16:27.640
there's music going on. So when
we come back, we're going to

1035
01:16:27.720 --> 01:16:30.600
talk to Anne, we're gonna talk
to Lee, and we're gonna talk to

1036
01:16:30.600 --> 01:16:40.960
Anthony. Y'all hang on. I'll
be right back. Kt r H Garden

1037
01:16:40.960 --> 01:16:47.039
Line does not necessarily endorse any of
the products or services advertised on this program.

1038
01:16:47.079 --> 01:17:00.640
Welcome to kt r H Garden Line
with scip Rickard. Just watch him

1039
01:17:00.840 --> 01:17:12.680
as word. Hey, welcome back
to guard Line. Good to have you

1040
01:17:12.720 --> 01:17:15.520
with us today. We're gonna head
out and talk to Lee right now.

1041
01:17:15.560 --> 01:17:20.880
Hello, Lee, Hi, I
have Virginia button weed in my yard and

1042
01:17:20.960 --> 01:17:24.920
I don't know what to do with
it. I keep pulling it, and

1043
01:17:24.960 --> 01:17:27.760
I've been fighting this for years,
but I don't know what to do with

1044
01:17:27.840 --> 01:17:31.079
it. All Right, here's the
quick answer to Virginia button weed. It

1045
01:17:31.119 --> 01:17:38.000
loves wet, So the first thing
is anything you can do to reduce soil

1046
01:17:39.399 --> 01:17:44.880
being oversaturated for longer periods of time
is helpful. It thrives when it stays

1047
01:17:44.920 --> 01:17:47.000
too wet, so watch that irrigation. You can't control the rainfall, but

1048
01:17:47.039 --> 01:17:51.199
you can't control the irrigation. Watch
that. As far as a product,

1049
01:17:51.439 --> 01:17:59.119
there's one that I generally recommend called
Celsius, like the temperature Celsius. Celsius

1050
01:17:59.479 --> 01:18:02.199
is a little packet that you mix
in water, and you need to get

1051
01:18:02.199 --> 01:18:06.119
it on the Virginia button weed,
preferably a little earlier than now. But

1052
01:18:06.159 --> 01:18:10.920
go ahead and do it now.
You may want to reapply it again in

1053
01:18:11.000 --> 01:18:15.199
six to eight weeks. Virginia button
weed is not something we kill with one

1054
01:18:15.279 --> 01:18:20.840
spray application, and so just stay
on it. But Celsius I recommend it

1055
01:18:20.880 --> 01:18:25.000
for this time of year because it
can be a little bit warmer and not

1056
01:18:25.159 --> 01:18:30.600
damage your lawn like some of the
products that will kill or at least work

1057
01:18:30.640 --> 01:18:33.199
pretty well against Virginia button weeed.
When it gets hot, those products are

1058
01:18:33.239 --> 01:18:39.920
too hard on your grass, so
spray it. ACE Hardware stores should have

1059
01:18:39.960 --> 01:18:44.199
it Southwest Fertilizer. What part of
town are you in, I'm in Umble,

1060
01:18:44.279 --> 01:18:46.600
te oh and Humble. Okay,
you got some ACE hardware stores out

1061
01:18:46.640 --> 01:18:49.840
in that area, I would probably, you know, go talk to them

1062
01:18:49.920 --> 01:18:56.960
and see if they have it there. You might call Worren Southern Gardens in

1063
01:18:57.279 --> 01:19:00.520
Kingwood. I think I saw it
there, but I'm not sure, but

1064
01:19:00.520 --> 01:19:04.159
but give them a call and see. Uh. You ought to be able

1065
01:19:04.159 --> 01:19:08.119
to you ought to be able to
find it. You know, it's not

1066
01:19:08.199 --> 01:19:12.159
that hard to find. You know, it's not just anywhere, but in

1067
01:19:12.239 --> 01:19:15.000
general, it's not that hard to
come up with. Well, thank you,

1068
01:19:15.199 --> 01:19:19.000
yeah, appreciate So just as a
direct example, like the ACE and

1069
01:19:19.039 --> 01:19:23.920
on Timber Forest Drive and Humble,
that probably be the closest one to you.

1070
01:19:25.199 --> 01:19:29.520
Yes, all righty, good luck
with it, you bet, take

1071
01:19:29.560 --> 01:19:38.479
care? All right, let's see
here. We're gonna go now and talk

1072
01:19:38.520 --> 01:19:42.880
to Anthony. Hello, Anthony,
why are you doing? I'm well,

1073
01:19:42.920 --> 01:19:46.600
sir, how can we help?
Okay? And it's not about a plant,

1074
01:19:46.680 --> 01:19:53.479
it's about nets, Okay, all
of a sudden last week, I

1075
01:19:53.600 --> 01:19:58.199
see one or two and now there's
nets in the house. How do I

1076
01:19:58.279 --> 01:20:00.479
get rid of it? You know? There did the home bring? Yeah?

1077
01:20:00.520 --> 01:20:06.399
I put the apple cider dishworks in
plate. Okay, plates, that's

1078
01:20:06.640 --> 01:20:11.359
doing something. But where are they
coming from? They could be coming from

1079
01:20:11.399 --> 01:20:15.479
the drain. There's something called a
drain fly that will actually live in that

1080
01:20:15.560 --> 01:20:19.439
gooey mess down in your drain there. That's a possibility, so you may

1081
01:20:19.520 --> 01:20:25.560
want to deal with that. They
some types of nats, fungus gnats come

1082
01:20:25.560 --> 01:20:30.119
out of soil and when you keep
your houseplants too wet on the surface,

1083
01:20:30.920 --> 01:20:34.479
the fungus gnats they eat that decomposing
organic matter and you'll have them around the

1084
01:20:34.479 --> 01:20:38.880
house from that. And let's see
what other kind of gnats do we have

1085
01:20:38.960 --> 01:20:43.119
indoors there? There's fruit flies that
that are going to be attracted to the

1086
01:20:43.199 --> 01:20:46.960
vinegar, for example. They're a
little gnat like creature. There's gonna be

1087
01:20:46.960 --> 01:20:55.439
one of those things. So what
can I get rid of the drain fly

1088
01:20:55.720 --> 01:21:00.000
or whatever? Yeah, I would
I have put really really hot water down

1089
01:21:00.039 --> 01:21:03.640
or drain before to kind of flush
and get it out of there. You

1090
01:21:03.680 --> 01:21:08.760
don't have to spray a pesticide in
your sink. Just know that wherever there

1091
01:21:08.840 --> 01:21:13.159
is some food decomposing and sitting,
that that kind of environment is going to

1092
01:21:13.159 --> 01:21:16.479
attract one or more of those kind
of gnat like creatures. Okay, now

1093
01:21:16.520 --> 01:21:20.880
that they're here, I can boil
some water, put it down the sink.

1094
01:21:21.399 --> 01:21:26.600
What do I do after that?
You shouldn't have to do anything after

1095
01:21:26.640 --> 01:21:30.319
that. Just make sure it really
rents a sink out real good periodically.

1096
01:21:31.000 --> 01:21:35.479
Okay, yeah, sometimes here right
around my kitchen sink. Okay, well

1097
01:21:35.640 --> 01:21:40.760
that's that's probably it. I think
your little trap is fine and it'll catch

1098
01:21:40.800 --> 01:21:45.079
some, but it's not going to
eradicate him. I appreciate you, all

1099
01:21:45.159 --> 01:21:47.479
right, I enjoy your shoot.
Yes, sir, thank you appreciate that,

1100
01:21:47.560 --> 01:21:50.239
Anthony. I tell what we're going
to do right now. I'm going

1101
01:21:50.319 --> 01:21:54.560
to head out and I'm going to
bring a fellow in here that I would

1102
01:21:54.600 --> 01:21:56.960
like you. I want to pick
his brain. I want you guys to

1103
01:21:57.000 --> 01:22:00.720
be able to be part of this. Bill stay go. Bill is the

1104
01:22:00.800 --> 01:22:05.079
fellow who is our connection to the
mosquito dunks you hear me talk about all

1105
01:22:05.119 --> 01:22:09.520
the time. Remember how we always
say you got to you got standing water

1106
01:22:09.600 --> 01:22:12.359
you got to use Mosquito dunks.
Well, we're going to get the guy

1107
01:22:12.439 --> 01:22:15.880
himself here. Bill, are you
there, I am here, Welcome to

1108
01:22:15.960 --> 01:22:18.920
Garden Line. Good to have you
with us. Well, thank you,

1109
01:22:18.960 --> 01:22:23.800
Skip, it's good to be here. Okay. Well, I am looking

1110
01:22:23.880 --> 01:22:28.800
forward to kind of picking your brain
about the Mosquito dunks and or the granules

1111
01:22:28.840 --> 01:22:32.359
and the different things that you guys
provide and how they work. So why

1112
01:22:32.399 --> 01:22:35.800
don't you just tell us a little
bit about about the product and the company.

1113
01:22:38.279 --> 01:22:44.760
Sure. So the company is Summer
Chemical and we're actually celebrating our sixty

1114
01:22:44.840 --> 01:22:51.000
fifth anniversary this year. Oh wowrats. Yeah, and Mosquito Dunks is our

1115
01:22:51.159 --> 01:22:58.840
flagship product. Okay. And for
those people that haven't seen it, don't

1116
01:22:58.880 --> 01:23:00.760
know what it is, don't don't
know what it looks like. It looks

1117
01:23:00.840 --> 01:23:04.960
like a small doughnut. It's got
a hole in the center. It's it's

1118
01:23:05.000 --> 01:23:11.479
a whitish beige color. About the
size of those little little Debbie donuts that

1119
01:23:11.560 --> 01:23:15.680
are white powdered that we have those
stories down here about that size donut.

1120
01:23:15.800 --> 01:23:19.800
Not a big donut, No,
not a big donut. Yeah. And

1121
01:23:20.279 --> 01:23:29.159
it's designed to be placed in standing
water because standing water is where mosquitoes breed.

1122
01:23:29.960 --> 01:23:35.560
Mosquitoes lay their eggs in standing water, the eggs hatch out to become

1123
01:23:35.800 --> 01:23:42.720
adult mosquitoes. But in that process
they go through four different stages, and

1124
01:23:42.760 --> 01:23:48.159
one of those stages is the larval
stage. So mosquito larvae in standing water

1125
01:23:48.279 --> 01:23:56.279
they look like just little think of
the letter S. I mean, that's

1126
01:23:56.319 --> 01:24:00.760
the kind of shape. They are
swimming around. And as they're swimming in

1127
01:24:00.800 --> 01:24:04.359
that water, they are feeding.
They're they're filter feeders. They're sucking in

1128
01:24:04.960 --> 01:24:12.039
everything they possibly can because they like
stagnant water. They liked the food source

1129
01:24:12.079 --> 01:24:15.600
of stagnant water. And they'll swim
around and they'll suck this stuff up until

1130
01:24:15.640 --> 01:24:24.600
they eventually become a pupa stage and
then after that they turn into a wonderfully

1131
01:24:24.720 --> 01:24:28.960
biting, yeah, deadly mosquito adult. Boy, that's the truth. I

1132
01:24:29.039 --> 01:24:31.960
posted something to our garden line facebook
page a couple of weeks ago, I

1133
01:24:31.960 --> 01:24:35.840
guess. And it was a bird
bath that was stagnant and had not been

1134
01:24:35.840 --> 01:24:39.760
cleaned out or anything, and you
know, you see the algae in it,

1135
01:24:39.840 --> 01:24:44.000
and boy, and we call those
we call those larva wrigglers because they

1136
01:24:44.000 --> 01:24:46.920
wiggle. They really, oh they
did that's kind of their way of swimming,

1137
01:24:47.359 --> 01:24:50.760
and the video showed them in it, and so that's that's exactly what

1138
01:24:50.800 --> 01:24:54.479
you're talking about, you know right
now, Bill, I saw just the

1139
01:24:54.479 --> 01:24:58.239
other day the Houston Chronicle. We
have an increase in our number of West

1140
01:24:58.279 --> 01:25:02.239
now cases already this summer. But
we have other things like the Zeka virus,

1141
01:25:02.319 --> 01:25:06.840
and you know, mosquitoes are They're
an annoyance for sure, but potentially

1142
01:25:08.359 --> 01:25:12.479
there are a lot more of a
problem than just an annoyance because of the

1143
01:25:12.520 --> 01:25:17.800
diseases that they carry well throughout the
world. They are actually the deadliest animal

1144
01:25:17.920 --> 01:25:21.720
in the world. Well, that's
something worth observing right there. Yeah,

1145
01:25:21.800 --> 01:25:30.880
oh yeah, and that's due primarily
to malaria, the anophilies. Mosquito carries

1146
01:25:30.960 --> 01:25:38.439
malaria. Fortunately, malaria in the
US is virtually unheard of, but in

1147
01:25:39.399 --> 01:25:45.920
some of the African countries it runs
rampant and it just kills so many people.

1148
01:25:45.079 --> 01:25:47.199
Yeah. You know, if you
were to ask people what is the

1149
01:25:47.239 --> 01:25:50.479
most dangerous animal in the world,
Yeah, I believe you could ask a

1150
01:25:50.520 --> 01:25:56.319
thousand and no one would say mosquito, that's right, But it is the

1151
01:25:56.319 --> 01:26:00.000
most deadly Yeah, the most deaths. Wow, Well, that's good information.

1152
01:26:00.159 --> 01:26:04.159
To know now that when you toss
a dunk out there, it lasts

1153
01:26:04.159 --> 01:26:10.640
about a month, right, Yeah, it'll last yeah, thirty forty days.

1154
01:26:10.680 --> 01:26:15.239
You know. It slowly, slowly
dissolves, and as it dissolves,

1155
01:26:15.359 --> 01:26:20.520
it's releasing a bacteria into the water, and it's a naturally occurring bacteria.

1156
01:26:21.960 --> 01:26:27.039
So it's so it's it's not something
somebody dreamed up in a chemical lab,

1157
01:26:27.399 --> 01:26:34.760
right. It was actually discovered back
back in the in in a desert in

1158
01:26:34.880 --> 01:26:42.399
Israel. So you know, a
scientist saw that there was a pool of

1159
01:26:42.439 --> 01:26:48.399
water that had mosquito activity in it, and then close by was another pool

1160
01:26:48.439 --> 01:26:54.039
of water that had no mosquito activity, and you know, he was he

1161
01:26:54.119 --> 01:27:01.279
took samples and determined that this bacteria
that he named basil terensiensis is really ensis,

1162
01:27:02.279 --> 01:27:09.159
was actually killing the mosquito larvae that
was in that one pool, and

1163
01:27:09.920 --> 01:27:15.159
that bacteria was not present in the
other pool of water. I think that's

1164
01:27:15.159 --> 01:27:17.159
a great thing, you know,
just the idea that I would be tossing

1165
01:27:17.199 --> 01:27:24.800
the bubonic plague out there on mosquitoes
makes me really happy deep inside. Now,

1166
01:27:24.840 --> 01:27:27.399
we get a lot of people that
I say a lot I have collars

1167
01:27:27.399 --> 01:27:30.560
from time to time that are like, is this safe to use? And

1168
01:27:30.720 --> 01:27:33.520
I'm going to let you answer that. We tell them yes, but we

1169
01:27:33.640 --> 01:27:39.520
explain to folks why these are so
incredibly safe to use in any water,

1170
01:27:39.600 --> 01:27:44.680
no matter what's going to drink that
water. So it is very interesting.

1171
01:27:44.920 --> 01:27:53.880
It was discovered that this particular bacteria
only affects a specific insect class called Diptera,

1172
01:27:54.800 --> 01:28:02.159
and in that class are mosquitos,
fungus n black fly, drain fly.

1173
01:28:02.960 --> 01:28:09.279
Uh. It's it's a very small
class of insect and for that particular

1174
01:28:09.319 --> 01:28:16.039
insect, they must ingest it and
it reacts to the alkalinity of their stomach,

1175
01:28:18.680 --> 01:28:23.439
becomes a gut disruptor. It actually
puts a hole in the in the

1176
01:28:23.479 --> 01:28:29.159
gut of the mosquito larva or fungus
net larva or black fly larva. It

1177
01:28:29.239 --> 01:28:34.239
only affects the larval stage and so
it kills them. But it is absolutely

1178
01:28:34.279 --> 01:28:40.479
harmless to everything else, you know. It's it's it's harmless to people,

1179
01:28:40.720 --> 01:28:47.079
pets, dish, birds, bees, that covers anything else. Yeah,

1180
01:28:47.159 --> 01:28:53.279
anything else in the water it's harmless
too. So it's really really a miracle

1181
01:28:53.319 --> 01:28:55.680
bacteria. Yeah, it really is
kind of cool. And you know,

1182
01:28:56.119 --> 01:29:00.159
BT gardeners know about BT. We
talk about spray beat on your plants to

1183
01:29:00.239 --> 01:29:04.239
kill caterpillars. That's a that's not
the same BT, but it is the

1184
01:29:04.279 --> 01:29:10.439
same genus and species as this product
mosquitoes. And they keep finding new strains

1185
01:29:10.439 --> 01:29:13.600
of b T. There's a strain
of BET that just works on leaf feeding

1186
01:29:13.640 --> 01:29:17.439
beetles. It's a San Diego strain. And this this israeli Ensis, is

1187
01:29:17.479 --> 01:29:21.439
as you pointed out the history of
it, that just works on this small

1188
01:29:21.479 --> 01:29:27.199
group of in the fly in the
of the flies. And a minute ago

1189
01:29:27.199 --> 01:29:30.119
before you came on, I had
Anthony called in and he had some little

1190
01:29:30.119 --> 01:29:34.159
gnats around the house and we were
trying to determine those fruit flies or those

1191
01:29:34.840 --> 01:29:40.119
drain flies or whatever. I think
we may need a version of this to

1192
01:29:40.199 --> 01:29:45.640
squirt down the drain occasionally whenever,
whenever those are popping up. But I

1193
01:29:45.640 --> 01:29:48.039
wouldn't drop a dunk down there.
But it just made me think about your

1194
01:29:48.079 --> 01:29:53.880
product because it's kind of going after
a similar type insect. Oh, yes,

1195
01:29:54.119 --> 01:29:59.159
absolutely, that's cool. Now those
dunks are gonna float and last for

1196
01:29:59.239 --> 01:30:02.439
about a month, and they cover
about one hundred square feet per dunk.

1197
01:30:02.640 --> 01:30:08.680
Is that what you each duncle corrupt
to one hundred square feet. So you

1198
01:30:08.800 --> 01:30:14.199
mentioned earlier about a bird bath,
and we get calls from people all the

1199
01:30:14.239 --> 01:30:16.720
time, Wow, you know my
bird's not one hundred square feet. Well,

1200
01:30:17.520 --> 01:30:21.600
just just break the dunk into smaller
pieces and it works just fine.

1201
01:30:21.760 --> 01:30:26.039
There you go, you can it's
okay to break the doughnuts. Yeah.

1202
01:30:26.159 --> 01:30:30.239
I talked to somebody the other day
that had rainwater barrels that he was capturing

1203
01:30:30.319 --> 01:30:34.239
rainwater in and he didn't have me
sealed upright to keep the mosquitoes out.

1204
01:30:34.720 --> 01:30:38.119
But he just said, yeah,
I just got there about once a month

1205
01:30:38.159 --> 01:30:42.760
and throw some mosquito stuff in there, mosquito dunks in there, and that's

1206
01:30:42.800 --> 01:30:45.560
how he keeps them out of his
rainwater, which is a smart idea.

1207
01:30:46.800 --> 01:30:54.399
Oh definitely. And for people that
use that rainwater to irrigate their vegetables,

1208
01:30:54.119 --> 01:31:00.479
there's no issues. I mean,
mosquito dunks are proof for use inorganic production,

1209
01:31:00.720 --> 01:31:04.239
so okay, if you're watering your
plants with it, have no fear.

1210
01:31:04.880 --> 01:31:09.319
Well there you go. Well that
that. I don't know what else

1211
01:31:09.359 --> 01:31:14.560
to say. It works, it's
easy, it's safe. Uh, and

1212
01:31:14.600 --> 01:31:18.720
we you know mosquito I don't you
probably know this but Houston is the number

1213
01:31:18.800 --> 01:31:25.960
one city in the entire world for
mosquitoes to vacation. They get on they

1214
01:31:26.000 --> 01:31:30.840
come here just to hang out in
vacation because of our climate, our humidity,

1215
01:31:30.520 --> 01:31:34.600
our rainfall, all that kind of
stuff. And were joking, are

1216
01:31:34.720 --> 01:31:40.319
they aren't they aren't they building some
mosquito condos in Houston. I think they

1217
01:31:40.359 --> 01:31:44.960
probably probably are. Yeah, they're
mosquitos in Calcutta that say we got to

1218
01:31:44.960 --> 01:31:47.560
get out of here and go to
Houston someplace more hospitable for us. So

1219
01:31:49.279 --> 01:31:51.760
unfortunately we have to live with them. And boy, I've had them in

1220
01:31:51.760 --> 01:31:56.520
my backyard and I know all it
takes. You know, they say that

1221
01:31:56.840 --> 01:32:00.680
even in a bottle capful of water, a mosquito can produce lay an egg

1222
01:32:01.000 --> 01:32:04.279
through the larvae and come out.
And then you think about our rain gutters

1223
01:32:04.279 --> 01:32:08.960
that are up there and sometime they
sag or they definitely have leaves that get

1224
01:32:09.000 --> 01:32:14.439
in them and start to decay and
just create mosquito heaven. Oh yeah,

1225
01:32:14.479 --> 01:32:18.720
exactly. And that's probably one of
the primary places where mosquitoes are breeding because

1226
01:32:18.840 --> 01:32:25.279
people aren't really looking up and the
gutter. Just as you said, you

1227
01:32:25.319 --> 01:32:28.439
get a few leaves in the gutter
a few pine needles in the gutter,

1228
01:32:28.880 --> 01:32:32.800
anything that's stopping that water from completely
flowing down the dawn spout. Yeah,

1229
01:32:32.840 --> 01:32:39.119
and it only takes a symbol full
Yeah. Yeah, that's a breeding ground

1230
01:32:39.159 --> 01:32:42.199
for mosquitos. All right, Hey, Bill, I've gotten so excited talking

1231
01:32:42.239 --> 01:32:45.800
to you about mosquitos. I have
gone past a break, So we're gonna

1232
01:32:45.800 --> 01:32:47.199
take a little break here. Can
you hang around and come back for one

1233
01:32:47.239 --> 01:32:50.119
more segment at least? Yeah,
I'd love to. All right, hang

1234
01:32:50.159 --> 01:32:53.800
on, We'll be right back.
Folks. By the way, if you

1235
01:32:53.800 --> 01:32:58.600
have questions about Mosquitos, give us
a call. Welcome back to the garden

1236
01:32:58.640 --> 01:33:02.720
Line back with a little bit of
smash mouth there. Well, you are

1237
01:33:02.760 --> 01:33:05.039
listening to Guardline our phone number.
If you'd like to give us a call

1238
01:33:05.079 --> 01:33:10.560
and talk about mosquitos, we are. We got Bill Stingle here with us

1239
01:33:10.560 --> 01:33:13.720
today. Uh talking. He's fella
from Mosquito Dunks. You heard me talk

1240
01:33:13.760 --> 01:33:16.520
about them all the time, and
uh, he's gonna We're just picking his

1241
01:33:16.520 --> 01:33:19.600
brain basically, is what we're doing. I want to take a moment just

1242
01:33:19.640 --> 01:33:24.079
to go out here and grab a
phone call. Uh, and you've been

1243
01:33:24.079 --> 01:33:26.920
waiting none. I wanted to see
if we could assist you with your question.

1244
01:33:28.159 --> 01:33:32.079
Ah, Yes, we built a
home and the pad that they put

1245
01:33:32.119 --> 01:33:39.279
it on as hard as rock.
Okay, And I need to I want

1246
01:33:39.279 --> 01:33:44.880
to put in a flower garden.
And uh a few colors ago, you

1247
01:33:44.960 --> 01:33:47.880
had mentioned expanded shale, yes,
and so I was wondering if that was

1248
01:33:47.920 --> 01:33:55.079
something that I should uh kill up
into the into the soil that's tear along

1249
01:33:55.119 --> 01:34:00.199
with some other quality soil. Right, if your soil is a heavy clay,

1250
01:34:00.399 --> 01:34:03.960
expanded shale helps with that. Yeah, I'm not I'm guessing that's what.

1251
01:34:04.520 --> 01:34:08.640
Okay. So if you get a
little bit of that based soil that

1252
01:34:09.039 --> 01:34:13.119
is not great, and you pick
it up and wet it and then it

1253
01:34:13.359 --> 01:34:15.880
kind of mash it around in your
hand. If it's of course, sand,

1254
01:34:15.920 --> 01:34:19.359
it just crumbles apart. And if
it's a loam, it's kind of

1255
01:34:19.359 --> 01:34:23.560
in between. And then a clay
it's like you can take your thumb and

1256
01:34:23.680 --> 01:34:27.000
forefinger just squeeze a ribbon of it
out. You know. It's just it's

1257
01:34:27.039 --> 01:34:30.600
a very sticky, stuck together kind
of soil. That kind of soil.

1258
01:34:31.039 --> 01:34:39.680
About three inches of expanded shale mixed
in deeply as is practical would help.

1259
01:34:40.039 --> 01:34:43.119
Otherwise your main thing is going to
be to bring in a quality bed mix,

1260
01:34:43.199 --> 01:34:46.920
a rose blend something for like a
rose soil type mix, and that

1261
01:34:47.319 --> 01:34:53.640
would be my recommendation for that for
a flower. Okay, alrighty, all

1262
01:34:53.720 --> 01:34:59.079
right. And then yes, and
then also where we're going to put grass,

1263
01:34:59.199 --> 01:35:04.359
if I just put in maybe an
inch of enriched top soil, would

1264
01:35:04.399 --> 01:35:10.239
that be good? Very yeah,
A nice loamy soil mixed in with it

1265
01:35:10.520 --> 01:35:13.199
would be good. I mean,
it doesn't hurt to have a little bit

1266
01:35:13.199 --> 01:35:15.600
of a compost mixed in as well. So if you haven't planted the grass

1267
01:35:15.680 --> 01:35:19.119
yet, and you can, you
can rototill it. Usually there's so many

1268
01:35:19.199 --> 01:35:24.000
roots around that it's hard to mix
anything into the soil. But if you

1269
01:35:24.119 --> 01:35:28.760
can then mix in a little bit
of a composted material as well in that,

1270
01:35:29.159 --> 01:35:33.000
okay, okay, alrighty get it. I might even put a bit

1271
01:35:33.000 --> 01:35:41.079
of a little little bit of Microlife's
purple bag, the the humate material purple

1272
01:35:41.079 --> 01:35:45.840
bag. Go a little extra heavy
on it as you're preparing the soil and

1273
01:35:45.880 --> 01:35:49.560
get those hum mates down in the
soil and they'll really benefit there. Okay,

1274
01:35:49.640 --> 01:35:55.159
Okay, thanks a lot, thank
you. Better take care. I'm

1275
01:35:55.159 --> 01:35:58.840
going to bring Bill back here now. If you have a question about mosquitoes

1276
01:35:59.760 --> 01:36:01.960
or the product or how it's used
or anything like that, feel free to

1277
01:36:01.960 --> 01:36:06.760
give us a call. Seven one
three two one two KTRH seven one three

1278
01:36:06.840 --> 01:36:12.720
two and two kt r H.
Bill, welcome back. I would like

1279
01:36:12.840 --> 01:36:16.199
to have you talk a little bit
more about, you know, the mosquito

1280
01:36:16.279 --> 01:36:20.720
management with the dunks and some of
the some of the things that you think

1281
01:36:20.760 --> 01:36:27.079
are important for people to know.
Oh, definitely, thank you for that.

1282
01:36:28.960 --> 01:36:33.199
You know, what we recommend to
people all the time is before you

1283
01:36:33.319 --> 01:36:38.960
start treating an area, if you
think you have mosquitoes, or you know

1284
01:36:39.000 --> 01:36:45.760
you have mosquitoes, walk around your
yard and take an inventory of what's laying

1285
01:36:45.800 --> 01:36:49.479
around your yard that could possibly be
holding water. Because, as we as

1286
01:36:49.520 --> 01:36:55.079
we talked earlier, a symbol full
of water that sits around for a week

1287
01:36:55.279 --> 01:37:01.319
is a prime mosquito breeding area.
Okay, So so look for places where

1288
01:37:01.319 --> 01:37:04.680
there are water. Bill. You
know, I I hate to have to

1289
01:37:04.720 --> 01:37:09.199
do this, but I talked along
in that first segment. I got to

1290
01:37:09.239 --> 01:37:13.520
take the quick break. You can
you hold off, we pay the bills

1291
01:37:13.520 --> 01:37:17.119
around here, and go ahead.
I know what's important, Okay, hold

1292
01:37:17.159 --> 01:37:19.920
that thought in the meantime, while
you're waiting, go out and check for

1293
01:37:20.000 --> 01:37:23.479
water around your property. We're going
to pick that up in just a moment.

1294
01:37:24.079 --> 01:37:27.119
Welcome back to your garden life.
Good to have you with us.

1295
01:37:27.119 --> 01:37:33.119
And we are visiting today with Bill
Stingle from the Mosquito Dunks some responsible solutions.

1296
01:37:33.680 --> 01:37:36.159
They are the ones that create the
Mosquito Dunks. And Bill, this

1297
01:37:36.199 --> 01:37:41.439
time I actually have some time to
actually let you talk. Sorry about that

1298
01:37:42.159 --> 01:37:44.920
you were talking. We were talking
about the fact that you kind of got

1299
01:37:44.920 --> 01:37:48.439
to go on a mosquito safari to
walk around looking where in my yard could

1300
01:37:48.479 --> 01:37:55.039
these things be breeding? Right?
Oh, definitely. And again it's anywhere

1301
01:37:55.079 --> 01:37:59.640
where water stands for more than a
few days of the time, and it

1302
01:37:59.720 --> 01:38:06.079
does have to be much so.
If you have some kids toys laying outside,

1303
01:38:08.000 --> 01:38:13.279
if you have a wheelbarrow sitting in
the cornerard, I mean, any

1304
01:38:13.319 --> 01:38:15.199
anything that can hold water, you
want to look and dump it. Just

1305
01:38:15.800 --> 01:38:20.479
get rid of it as soon as
you can. And and and some of

1306
01:38:20.479 --> 01:38:25.920
the places that you may not even
think of. We talked about your roof

1307
01:38:25.960 --> 01:38:30.159
gutters. If you have trees on
the property, chances are there in one

1308
01:38:30.159 --> 01:38:34.000
of those trees, there's a tree
hole, or some of the trees have

1309
01:38:35.479 --> 01:38:41.079
crotches where water is gonna sit for
a while. So you look at those

1310
01:38:41.159 --> 01:38:45.520
kind of areas drain pipes, those
corrugated drain pipes that you see all the

1311
01:38:45.560 --> 01:38:54.199
time. Those corrugations hold water and
it's just enough where those mosquitoes move in,

1312
01:38:54.359 --> 01:38:59.479
and you know that's their little homestead. That's true. I boy knows,

1313
01:38:59.520 --> 01:39:00.920
you know, like an old tire
sitting out there. First of all,

1314
01:39:00.960 --> 01:39:04.520
it's almost impossible to get the water
out of an old tire, picking

1315
01:39:04.520 --> 01:39:08.039
them up and throwing them around trying
to get all the water out. You

1316
01:39:08.079 --> 01:39:12.279
know, something I had not really
thought about before, But I was in

1317
01:39:12.319 --> 01:39:15.520
my garden a good while back,
and I had some bags of leaves and

1318
01:39:15.520 --> 01:39:18.399
I was emptying the leaves and spreading
them as a mulch and as walkway materials.

1319
01:39:18.880 --> 01:39:21.920
And one of the bags, I
guess I just kind of threw off

1320
01:39:21.960 --> 01:39:25.640
to the side and it was just
laying there and it was kind of around

1321
01:39:25.640 --> 01:39:28.920
behind a bush. I didn't re
see it. Two weeks ago, I

1322
01:39:28.920 --> 01:39:30.880
was walking through the garden. I
looked and there was that bag, and

1323
01:39:31.199 --> 01:39:35.479
went had rained and every there were
like four or five little pockets where there

1324
01:39:35.520 --> 01:39:41.960
was water now to breed mosquitos in. And that's something that I wouldn't that

1325
01:39:42.039 --> 01:39:43.920
wasn't on the top of my list. I know, to look at the

1326
01:39:43.960 --> 01:39:48.079
gutters and the you know, the
bird water and devices and things. Well

1327
01:39:48.119 --> 01:39:53.119
that that's all all good information.
I think you guys have some other products

1328
01:39:53.520 --> 01:39:58.199
that are helpful when it comes to
mosquitalm with mosquitos, Well we do.

1329
01:39:58.279 --> 01:40:02.319
We have another product called mischie Quito
bits, and mosquito bits the same active

1330
01:40:02.479 --> 01:40:08.199
ingredient as the dunks, but it's
a granular form that it won't it won't

1331
01:40:08.319 --> 01:40:13.159
last a month. But what it
does it can be broadcast over areas that

1332
01:40:13.359 --> 01:40:15.800
are difficult to treat with the dunks. So if you have a low lying

1333
01:40:15.920 --> 01:40:21.239
area that collects a lot of water, it's great to spread it out in

1334
01:40:21.279 --> 01:40:28.640
that area. You can scatter it
and yeah, yes, yes, And

1335
01:40:28.880 --> 01:40:33.479
and for all of your listeners that
have house plants, and I heard you

1336
01:40:33.520 --> 01:40:42.920
talk about gnats earlier today, So
the mosquito bits, because as I mentioned

1337
01:40:42.920 --> 01:40:45.279
before, they're in the same family
fungus. Gnats and mosquitoes are actually in

1338
01:40:45.319 --> 01:40:50.720
the same family and house plants you
get that moist soil and all of a

1339
01:40:50.760 --> 01:40:57.520
sudden you have these gnats flying everywhere. You can. You can make a

1340
01:40:57.600 --> 01:41:03.279
tea with the mosquito bit a tablespoon
per cord of water. Let it sit

1341
01:41:03.359 --> 01:41:08.119
for a little bit, and then
what are your plants with it? So

1342
01:41:08.199 --> 01:41:15.319
the material, the bacteria gets down
into the plant in soil and the fungusnat

1343
01:41:15.439 --> 01:41:18.000
larva, which you're down there.
You fungusnts fly around, they lay the

1344
01:41:18.039 --> 01:41:21.960
eggs on the soil, eggs hatch
out into larva and they're down in the

1345
01:41:21.960 --> 01:41:31.000
soil. So it will h those
gnats in the soil will ingest the bacteria

1346
01:41:31.359 --> 01:41:35.600
and it'll be lethal to them.
So you will end up breaking that fungus

1347
01:41:35.720 --> 01:41:40.520
nat life cycle. Yeah, because
they're eating that organic matter and you've just

1348
01:41:40.600 --> 01:41:45.600
soaked the organic matter with a disease
that wipes out. That's cool. Yeah.

1349
01:41:45.640 --> 01:41:48.359
Now now give that amount again,
the amount of bits and the amount

1350
01:41:48.359 --> 01:41:54.840
of water that you recommend what one
tablespoon per cort tablespoon and a quart,

1351
01:41:54.960 --> 01:42:00.479
and you let it sait a while. You get all those naturally occurring microbes,

1352
01:42:00.640 --> 01:42:03.800
the bt I the celisther In gensis
is really ins. You get them

1353
01:42:03.800 --> 01:42:08.800
down in that water and then you
just go to town that's that's a great

1354
01:42:08.880 --> 01:42:12.880
yea great idea. Yeah, all
right, well, and uh yeah,

1355
01:42:12.960 --> 01:42:17.359
on the package it says here,
just do it every uh repeat every three

1356
01:42:17.399 --> 01:42:23.359
weeks or is needed. And to
be honest with you, my wife,

1357
01:42:23.399 --> 01:42:29.239
who has more houseplants than I can
count, she just religiously waters houseplants all

1358
01:42:29.279 --> 01:42:30.840
the time with this, she said, Nope, not worrying about it,

1359
01:42:30.960 --> 01:42:34.119
not having any more nats, just
be done watering with this. There you

1360
01:42:34.159 --> 01:42:38.840
go. Not a bad idea,
not a bad idea at all. Uh

1361
01:42:39.199 --> 01:42:43.239
yeah. I know Summit has a
number of different kinds of products and things,

1362
01:42:43.279 --> 01:42:45.000
and so I just kind of wanted
to while I got you on,

1363
01:42:45.279 --> 01:42:48.760
just keep picking your brain on any
other kinds of things that you think folks

1364
01:42:48.760 --> 01:42:54.039
ought to be aware of that that
will be helpful, especially with mosquito as

1365
01:42:54.079 --> 01:42:58.039
well, but in general. Yeah, Well, something new that we have

1366
01:42:58.199 --> 01:43:03.039
fairly new. We have a product. It's an insect repellent, but it's

1367
01:43:03.199 --> 01:43:08.479
not the insect repellent that you put
on your skin. You can go out

1368
01:43:08.520 --> 01:43:13.319
and you can get deep or prepared
in or some other nice insect repellants to

1369
01:43:13.359 --> 01:43:18.640
put on your skin so that your
exposed skin doesn't get bitten but if mosquitoes

1370
01:43:18.680 --> 01:43:25.159
can bite through clothing, and certainly
ticks, tiggers and other insects are going

1371
01:43:25.199 --> 01:43:30.680
to bite through clothing. So we
have a repellent that gets applied to clothing.

1372
01:43:30.640 --> 01:43:35.279
It stays in your clothing for up
to six weeks, even after washing.

1373
01:43:35.720 --> 01:43:42.600
Okay, after washing, so okay, yeah, and is that about

1374
01:43:42.600 --> 01:43:45.039
the barrier. No, that's not
the barrier. What is that? No?

1375
01:43:45.199 --> 01:43:49.439
No, this this this is called
Green Armor Insect Repellant for clothing and

1376
01:43:49.520 --> 01:43:54.920
gear. Okay, So if you're
if you're a hiker, a hunter,

1377
01:43:55.159 --> 01:44:00.000
a tamper, a gardener, a
landscaper, if you're outside and you want

1378
01:44:00.000 --> 01:44:06.239
to keep these insects off of you, get the repellent for your skin.

1379
01:44:06.399 --> 01:44:12.079
This one's not for your skin.
It specifically says do not apply to skin,

1380
01:44:12.199 --> 01:44:15.720
but apply to and gear. So
you treat your skin with the one

1381
01:44:15.800 --> 01:44:20.399
repellent, you treat your clothing and
gear with this repellent, and you will

1382
01:44:20.439 --> 01:44:27.840
have a bug free time and green
armor right, yes, okay, let's

1383
01:44:28.319 --> 01:44:31.439
let's be looking for that one that's
pretty persistent. If you can wash clothing

1384
01:44:31.760 --> 01:44:36.640
and it's still you know, it's
still present and working for you a little

1385
01:44:36.640 --> 01:44:43.640
bit. Yeah, it actually binds
to the fabric fibers. Now, the

1386
01:44:43.640 --> 01:44:47.159
more you wash, the less effective
it's going to be. But it will

1387
01:44:47.279 --> 01:44:53.239
last up to six weeks even after
wondering green armor insect repellent. All right,

1388
01:44:53.399 --> 01:44:56.760
very good. Well, As someone
who works in the art a lot,

1389
01:44:57.640 --> 01:45:00.640
that is very interesting to me,
I think that also helps with chiggers

1390
01:45:00.680 --> 01:45:03.880
and ticks as well. Right,
yes, yes, you got some.

1391
01:45:04.039 --> 01:45:08.239
You have some tiggers down in your
neck of the woods. We do,

1392
01:45:08.600 --> 01:45:15.039
I'm telling you, yeah, And
that that make you miserable. Those are

1393
01:45:15.159 --> 01:45:18.439
nasty. They are they are,
yeah, But but any tiggers that get

1394
01:45:18.479 --> 01:45:23.760
on your clothing then it will kill
them. Alrighty well, good well,

1395
01:45:23.760 --> 01:45:28.760
Bill, thank you so much for
taking time out and uh answering those questions

1396
01:45:28.840 --> 01:45:30.399
kind of giving us some insight.
And I learned about a new product today,

1397
01:45:30.399 --> 01:45:34.119
So that's a that is a it's
a good thing. I really appreciate

1398
01:45:34.159 --> 01:45:39.760
it. I know your product is
so widely available all our good garden centers

1399
01:45:39.800 --> 01:45:43.000
we talk about on guarden line,
the feed stores we talk about on guardline.

1400
01:45:43.239 --> 01:45:45.720
Yeah, yeah, Southwest fertilized all
the East hardware stores. We got

1401
01:45:45.720 --> 01:45:49.439
almost forty ACE hardware stores in the
Greater Houston area that carry your products,

1402
01:45:49.439 --> 01:45:54.600
so uh, they would have to
try really hard not to find your products

1403
01:45:54.640 --> 01:46:00.000
wherever they go to shop. Because
it's all right, Thanks a bill again,

1404
01:46:00.039 --> 01:46:03.199
thanks for taking the time out.
I appreciate it, giving a chance,

1405
01:46:03.319 --> 01:46:05.720
giving us a chance to kind of
pick your brain here a little bit

1406
01:46:06.640 --> 01:46:10.000
that. It was great, Skip, it was fun being here, all

1407
01:46:10.119 --> 01:46:12.800
right. Well you heard it.
The mosquito dunks. You hear me talk

1408
01:46:12.840 --> 01:46:15.319
about them all the time. Now
you also got a way to take the

1409
01:46:15.359 --> 01:46:18.840
mosquito bits. A quart of water, a tablespoon of mosquito bits, let

1410
01:46:18.880 --> 01:46:23.399
them soak a while, and you
have got some good stuff to spray for

1411
01:46:23.479 --> 01:46:28.239
fungus nats on your houseplant surfaces,
or I say, spray just watered in

1412
01:46:28.439 --> 01:46:30.840
and it works. All right,
guy. Well I'm going to run off

1413
01:46:30.840 --> 01:46:35.399
and talk to some gardening callers here, but thanks one last time. Appreciate

1414
01:46:35.439 --> 01:46:39.119
it. Oh, thank you very
much. Skip. It was great,

1415
01:46:39.119 --> 01:46:44.319
all right, take care, all
right, Well there you go. Certainly

1416
01:46:44.399 --> 01:46:47.960
mosquitos are a timely topic when it
comes to the Greater Houston area. Like

1417
01:46:48.479 --> 01:46:53.479
we were joking about, this is
where mosquitos loves to love to come in

1418
01:46:53.680 --> 01:46:56.880
vacation. We're going to take a
break right now, Greg and Dayton,

1419
01:46:56.920 --> 01:46:59.239
you'll be our first up for the
rest of you if you'd like to get

1420
01:46:59.279 --> 01:47:03.239
on the board. One three two
one two KTRH. Welcome back to garden

1421
01:47:03.279 --> 01:47:05.399
Line. Good to have you with
us. Yeah, we were just talking

1422
01:47:05.399 --> 01:47:10.960
about Bill Stengle from a mosquito dunks
from Summit Solutions, who are the makers

1423
01:47:11.079 --> 01:47:15.399
of mosquito dunks, and UH learned
a lot about the things we need to

1424
01:47:15.439 --> 01:47:18.199
be doing to manage mosquitoes. You
know, I mentioned you're going to find

1425
01:47:18.199 --> 01:47:21.960
these dunks in a lot of places
like Ace Hardware. Ace Hardware has got

1426
01:47:23.439 --> 01:47:27.000
everything you need for whatever season you're
in. When it's time to fertilize your

1427
01:47:27.039 --> 01:47:30.720
lawn, they've got every fertilizer I
talk about on garden Line. When it

1428
01:47:30.800 --> 01:47:33.079
is time to control weeds, whether
it's a pre emergent or a post emergent,

1429
01:47:33.319 --> 01:47:36.920
you're going to find it at Ace
Hardware. If it's insects in your

1430
01:47:38.000 --> 01:47:42.880
lawn that you're dealing with, diseases
the whole nine yards, Ace Hardware's got

1431
01:47:42.960 --> 01:47:45.800
you covered when it comes to mosquito
dunks, for example, Ace Hardware's got

1432
01:47:45.800 --> 01:47:48.680
mosquito foggers too. If you're getting
out there and you want to, you

1433
01:47:48.680 --> 01:47:54.000
know, just kind of control the
whole general area because you're gonna get out

1434
01:47:54.000 --> 01:47:57.039
on the patio. They can provide
that as well. They got the fire

1435
01:47:57.079 --> 01:48:00.840
ants supplies. It's time to manage
fire ants. Always a good time.

1436
01:48:00.199 --> 01:48:03.359
Now's a good time to put a
bait out. And by the way,

1437
01:48:03.479 --> 01:48:08.199
real quick tip on fire ant bait. Go outside if you're not sure if

1438
01:48:08.199 --> 01:48:11.079
fire inch are actively foraging, and
when it's blazing hot in the middle of

1439
01:48:11.119 --> 01:48:15.520
the day, they often are not
actively foraging. Throw a potato chip on

1440
01:48:15.560 --> 01:48:17.800
the ground, anything oily. I
knew a guy who would take a hot

1441
01:48:17.840 --> 01:48:21.199
dog winers and cut them up and
put them on a little one of those

1442
01:48:21.239 --> 01:48:26.279
little pin flags, the flags that
they used to mark like a power line

1443
01:48:26.319 --> 01:48:29.039
underground or something. They'd stick a
hot dog on it, stick it in

1444
01:48:29.079 --> 01:48:30.279
the ground, and the flag told
you were to go look for the hot

1445
01:48:30.319 --> 01:48:34.399
dog and walk back up there fifteen
minutes. If they're fire ant's on it,

1446
01:48:34.399 --> 01:48:39.359
it's a good time to bait because
you want them to find that bait

1447
01:48:39.600 --> 01:48:43.239
and to pick it up quickly.
Ace Hardware's got the bait. They can

1448
01:48:43.279 --> 01:48:46.000
get you set up on that while
you're there you got to check out the

1449
01:48:46.079 --> 01:48:53.199
barbecue. The barbecue section is so
cool on ACE. From Webers to Traggers

1450
01:48:53.199 --> 01:48:56.800
to Big Green Eggs, you name
it. All the stuff you need to

1451
01:48:56.800 --> 01:49:00.680
go along with barbecue, and ACE
Hardware has got you cut. Like I

1452
01:49:00.720 --> 01:49:03.239
said, no matter what the season
or what you need, ACE is the

1453
01:49:03.279 --> 01:49:09.199
place forty ACE Hardware stores, Acehardware
dot Com find the store locator and the

1454
01:49:09.199 --> 01:49:12.079
ones near you. We're gonna head
out and out of Dayton, Texas and

1455
01:49:12.079 --> 01:49:15.920
talk to Greg. Hello. Greg, Yes, sir, good morning.

1456
01:49:15.399 --> 01:49:19.159
I was calling about I have some
crape myrtles and this a couple of them

1457
01:49:19.159 --> 01:49:23.920
in a particular corner in my yard, and they have a black fungus on

1458
01:49:24.000 --> 01:49:28.680
them, and it's actually getting on
the plants underneath, and I think the

1459
01:49:28.760 --> 01:49:34.319
grass underneath that is also affected.
Can you help me with that. Describe

1460
01:49:34.359 --> 01:49:39.840
the fungus if you would for me
again. Oh, it just looks like

1461
01:49:39.920 --> 01:49:45.560
a black coating almost covering all the
leaves and most of the trunk. Okay,

1462
01:49:45.079 --> 01:49:48.239
So what that is, Greg,
is that is sooty mold, and

1463
01:49:48.319 --> 01:49:56.680
city mold grows on sugary water,
and so what happens is aphids will drink

1464
01:49:56.840 --> 01:50:01.119
sap and They basically are peeing out
a sugar substance and the mold grows on

1465
01:50:01.199 --> 01:50:06.720
that scale. Crate myrtle bark scale
is probably the number one insect on crape

1466
01:50:06.800 --> 01:50:13.319
myrtles that also produces a sugary substance. We call that honeydew. It falls

1467
01:50:13.359 --> 01:50:16.600
down and sticks to the trunks,
to the leaves. If you got a

1468
01:50:16.600 --> 01:50:20.399
picnic table underneath, you'll find city
mold on the picnic table from that sugary

1469
01:50:20.439 --> 01:50:25.399
substance. So we got to figure
out which insect it is. My best

1470
01:50:25.439 --> 01:50:28.640
guess is it's going to be crepe
myrtle bark scale, which shows up as

1471
01:50:28.640 --> 01:50:31.760
a little tiny white things up and
down the trunk here and there. It

1472
01:50:31.760 --> 01:50:35.960
could also be aphids, and then
you've got to control that insect and that

1473
01:50:36.159 --> 01:50:40.720
stops the city mold. The city
mold it. You know, in the

1474
01:50:40.760 --> 01:50:44.840
insects themselves are not killing crp myrtles, but they sure make things look ugly.

1475
01:50:46.000 --> 01:50:50.680
Right, So how do I do
that? Well, if you see

1476
01:50:50.880 --> 01:50:55.560
take some leaves, turn the leaves
over, especially new growth, and look

1477
01:50:55.600 --> 01:50:58.840
for little aphids underneath the leaf,
that would be the way to That's where

1478
01:50:58.880 --> 01:51:01.640
you're going to find aphids on a
crape. If they're doing it as far

1479
01:51:01.640 --> 01:51:05.800
as the other look for little white
flex, small white flex on the trunk

1480
01:51:05.880 --> 01:51:10.960
and branches of the crape. And
if you see those, that is the

1481
01:51:11.039 --> 01:51:15.720
bark scale. There is not a
great way to control them that doesn't have

1482
01:51:15.840 --> 01:51:19.720
secondary problems. If you put a
systemic on the ground for the tree to

1483
01:51:19.760 --> 01:51:24.239
take up, it ends up in
the foliage and you end up hurting bees.

1484
01:51:24.279 --> 01:51:29.199
And so we try to avoid that
unless we just absolutely have to treat

1485
01:51:29.279 --> 01:51:33.640
that way. Otherwise, we do
oil treatments of the trunk. We can

1486
01:51:33.680 --> 01:51:41.920
do sprays of insecticide on the trunk
and the branches. In the springtime,

1487
01:51:42.039 --> 01:51:45.720
those scale are crawling out as little
tiny babies, and that's a good time

1488
01:51:45.760 --> 01:51:48.239
to hit them. Other than that, you know, we kind of tend

1489
01:51:48.319 --> 01:51:51.000
to just live with it. Some
I've known people that got out there with

1490
01:51:51.039 --> 01:51:55.159
a soft brush and just kind of
scrub the trunk up. It's a lot

1491
01:51:55.159 --> 01:51:58.600
of work, and I don't know
that's something most people don't want to do.

1492
01:52:00.000 --> 01:52:01.800
Your name will be one if it's
on the scale. If it's on

1493
01:52:01.840 --> 01:52:08.439
the trunk, name pretty much it
is. It's okay. Oils are okay

1494
01:52:08.520 --> 01:52:12.039
on the scale, especially if you
catch the scale when they're in the young

1495
01:52:12.199 --> 01:52:16.399
stage, the unprotected stage. Once
you get these things honkering down and they've

1496
01:52:16.439 --> 01:52:20.119
got their protective coating on them,
the knem oil and the other oils just

1497
01:52:20.199 --> 01:52:25.880
aren't working as effective as they do
on a lot of other types of scale.

1498
01:52:26.079 --> 01:52:30.079
But it doesn't hurt to try.
Okay, even if it's there,

1499
01:52:30.399 --> 01:52:33.640
it's a little benefit that's helpful,
But it's not like here's a silver bullet.

1500
01:52:34.800 --> 01:52:38.479
Okay, And what about it?
If it was the apid's underneath the

1501
01:52:38.560 --> 01:52:44.119
leave, I would spray with an
insecticidal soap spray upward from underneath the foliage

1502
01:52:44.479 --> 01:52:46.479
and just blast them with an insect
sitle soap spray. Do it early in

1503
01:52:46.520 --> 01:52:50.119
the morning before the sun comes out
and starts baking down. Uh. And

1504
01:52:50.479 --> 01:52:57.039
that usually is enough one application.
You may have to come back and a

1505
01:52:57.079 --> 01:53:01.760
week or two later do it again. Just any any insects you don't hit

1506
01:53:01.840 --> 01:53:06.479
with that insect dicidle soap are gonna
not be killed. It's not a poison.

1507
01:53:06.560 --> 01:53:14.000
It literally washes the waxy coating off
their bodies. Okay, all right,

1508
01:53:15.119 --> 01:53:16.159
Okay, Well you have a great
day, and thank you for your

1509
01:53:16.199 --> 01:53:18.920
help. Thank you, Greg.
Appreciate, appreciate that call very much.

1510
01:53:19.960 --> 01:53:24.079
Let's see here, Wow we are
we are already time for the end of

1511
01:53:24.079 --> 01:53:26.159
the hour again. Okay, we've
got a lot of folks up there on

1512
01:53:26.199 --> 01:53:29.159
the lines. Hang on, guys, I will get to you. We

1513
01:53:29.279 --> 01:53:31.039
just got to take it one at
a time. Here, it's about time

1514
01:53:31.079 --> 01:53:35.000
for us to take a little break
for the top of the hour news.

1515
01:53:35.279 --> 01:53:42.239
Don't forget that. On next Saturday, I'll do my final appearance of the

1516
01:53:42.239 --> 01:53:46.479
spring season, and it'll be at
Langam Creek Ace Hardware. Langam Creek Ace

1517
01:53:46.520 --> 01:53:50.920
Hardware is just south of Cyprus.
It's over in the Copperfield area. For

1518
01:53:51.000 --> 01:53:56.039
those of you who are familiar with
that area. If you just think of

1519
01:53:56.199 --> 01:54:00.560
FM five twenty nine where FM five
twenty nine comes in to Barker Cypress,

1520
01:54:01.680 --> 01:54:05.880
zoom zim endo the map and you'll
see Marker Cypress Road FM five point I

1521
01:54:05.880 --> 01:54:11.439
have which also called Spencer Road up
there, just west to Copperfield. All

1522
01:54:11.520 --> 01:54:13.520
right, well, we're going to
have all kinds of things you are given

1523
01:54:13.560 --> 01:54:17.479
away. I know they're talking about. They got ups from nitrofoss and micro

1524
01:54:17.560 --> 01:54:21.880
Life that are coming giving away fertilizers
out there. We'll be doing a lot

1525
01:54:21.880 --> 01:54:26.800
of question answering and just a chance
to pick my brain. Look forward to

1526
01:54:26.840 --> 01:54:30.039
it. I hope you can be
there next Saturday, eleven thirty to one

1527
01:54:30.159 --> 01:54:33.439
thirty. Kat r H Garden Line
does not necessarily endorse any of the products

1528
01:54:33.520 --> 01:54:40.840
or services advertised on this program.
Welcome to kt r H Garden Line with

1529
01:54:41.039 --> 01:55:00.920
Skip Rict It's crazy. Just watch
him as well. Hey, welcome back,

1530
01:55:01.760 --> 01:55:03.920
Welcome back to the Garden Line.
Good to have you with us.

1531
01:55:04.279 --> 01:55:09.520
We're here to help you have a
more bountiful garden, a more beautiful landscape.

1532
01:55:09.560 --> 01:55:14.479
That is our goal, and part
of the wonder of gardening is being

1533
01:55:14.520 --> 01:55:19.920
able to just enjoy nature itself.
You know we I guess maybe you grew

1534
01:55:20.000 --> 01:55:23.920
up this way, but you looked
at it like there's the plant, there's

1535
01:55:23.960 --> 01:55:27.119
the pest here, I am.
I can spray and kill the pest,

1536
01:55:27.560 --> 01:55:31.520
you know what. It's kind of
like me versus the world. And then

1537
01:55:31.560 --> 01:55:35.119
you start to learn about things like
beneficial insects that eat other insects, and

1538
01:55:35.159 --> 01:55:39.359
you realize when I spray and kill
something, I'm probably killing something else.

1539
01:55:39.359 --> 01:55:42.760
When I was a kid, there
was a poem that was I know an

1540
01:55:42.760 --> 01:55:45.520
old lady who swallowed a fly.
I don't know why she swallowed the fly.

1541
01:55:45.560 --> 01:55:47.319
I think she'll die. Then she
swallowed a spider to catch the fly.

1542
01:55:47.439 --> 01:55:50.359
Then she swallowed a bird to catch
the spider. And it's a kid

1543
01:55:50.399 --> 01:55:53.720
point. It goes on and on. It ends with a horse, and

1544
01:55:53.760 --> 01:55:57.760
of course that's the end of the
lady. But we find out we've got

1545
01:55:57.760 --> 01:56:00.680
a lot of beneficials. They help
us pollinate, they help us in terms

1546
01:56:00.720 --> 01:56:06.600
of controlling other pests. And I've
asked Zach A Buchanan for Buchanan's Nursery to

1547
01:56:06.600 --> 01:56:10.720
sit in here with me a little
bit today and kind of pick his brain

1548
01:56:10.760 --> 01:56:15.279
and hear a little bit about some
of the different kinds of plants that they

1549
01:56:15.319 --> 01:56:20.359
find are very helpful and attracting and
supporting pollinators specifically, but other beneficials as

1550
01:56:20.359 --> 01:56:24.800
well. Zach, welcome to guard
Line. Yeah, good to have you

1551
01:56:24.840 --> 01:56:27.479
here. Definitely good to have you
here. Well, tell us a little

1552
01:56:27.520 --> 01:56:30.079
bit about for people that haven't been
to Buchanans, where are you and what

1553
01:56:30.079 --> 01:56:34.520
do you guys do there? So
we're a garden center located in the Heights

1554
01:56:34.680 --> 01:56:43.000
on eleven Street, and we've been
around since nineteen eighty six. My mom

1555
01:56:43.039 --> 01:56:49.399
started it. Then and me and
my wife have taken over and we focus

1556
01:56:49.600 --> 01:56:56.800
primarily on native plants. We like
to promote those as much as we can,

1557
01:56:57.199 --> 01:57:01.960
and as well as organic gardening.
So promoting those is a kind of

1558
01:57:01.960 --> 01:57:06.880
a passion of ours. We do
carry other things, but that's definitely where

1559
01:57:06.880 --> 01:57:15.079
we want to steer customers is towards
native plants, beneficial plants, and organic

1560
01:57:15.119 --> 01:57:17.840
gardening. Good. Oh, very
good. Well, this is the end

1561
01:57:18.199 --> 01:57:23.119
of Pollinator Week and we've been celebrating
it all week. And I know you

1562
01:57:23.159 --> 01:57:26.680
guys, I've seen a lot of
your stuff online. You really are promoting

1563
01:57:27.279 --> 01:57:30.680
some of the pollinator plants that you
have and some of the options, especially

1564
01:57:30.760 --> 01:57:33.800
the native ones. And I think
having native plants as a pollinator source,

1565
01:57:34.199 --> 01:57:36.840
it just kind of makes sense.
And I'm gonna let you tell a little

1566
01:57:36.840 --> 01:57:42.359
bit about why why would a native
plant be something especially important for a pollinator

1567
01:57:42.399 --> 01:57:47.640
garden. Well, I think it's
you know, native plants. What that

1568
01:57:47.760 --> 01:57:53.800
means is it is native to our
area, grows naturally, it's best suited

1569
01:57:54.039 --> 01:57:57.560
for our area. Some of the
plants we carry, we have a table

1570
01:57:57.640 --> 01:58:05.079
dedicated to Harris County Natives. That. Yeah, but the benefits of native

1571
01:58:05.720 --> 01:58:13.720
plants is that they cater to native
insects and wildlife. They grew up together,

1572
01:58:13.920 --> 01:58:16.479
Yes, exactly, they and they
have a kind of a symbiotic relationship

1573
01:58:16.880 --> 01:58:25.960
where bringing in a plant that's native
to like China, that's gonna cater to

1574
01:58:27.119 --> 01:58:32.119
different insects, insects that might come
into our area and then explode in population

1575
01:58:33.239 --> 01:58:42.079
or so really it's it's catering to
our native wildlife and then those benefits,

1576
01:58:42.119 --> 01:58:45.840
like you were talking about beneficial insects. There's this balance that you strike with

1577
01:58:45.960 --> 01:58:51.560
native plants where native insects are feeding
on those plants, which is an okay

1578
01:58:51.600 --> 01:58:56.720
thing because they're not destroying the plant. They're they're working together, and then

1579
01:58:57.239 --> 01:59:01.760
native birds might come and eat those
native and because that's what their diet consists

1580
01:59:01.800 --> 01:59:05.800
of mainly. Yeah, when I
first read Doug Talmy's book Bringing Nature Home,

1581
01:59:05.880 --> 01:59:10.880
it was an eye opener for me
because you have all these oak trees

1582
01:59:11.079 --> 01:59:13.720
and you don't know this, but
up in the oaks, I say you

1583
01:59:14.079 --> 01:59:15.479
people don't know. They walk out
in the yard, there's an oak tree.

1584
01:59:15.479 --> 01:59:17.880
They don't realize there's caterpillars up there. Right. They're feeding on the

1585
01:59:17.880 --> 01:59:21.520
oaks, but they're not doing enough
damage to even think about. And yet

1586
01:59:21.680 --> 01:59:26.159
when birds are looking for a high
protein, high fat source for food to

1587
01:59:26.239 --> 01:59:29.399
raise young, that is critical.
It is. And you're right, a

1588
01:59:29.399 --> 01:59:33.000
lot of our staples of the landscape
over decades now, from red to petinias

1589
01:59:33.079 --> 01:59:38.119
to pit a sporum to the peach
trees and the orchard are all from Asia.

1590
01:59:38.359 --> 01:59:43.319
Yeah, and so they came here
separate from all the bugs they grew

1591
01:59:43.399 --> 01:59:46.119
up with over there, right.
No, Doug Tellomy's one of his favorite

1592
01:59:46.159 --> 01:59:54.399
examples is like the the ever blooming
pear or the pear trees and bringing them

1593
01:59:54.439 --> 02:00:00.319
over and that they were seen as
this like this solution to all our tree

1594
02:00:00.359 --> 02:00:02.520
problem. Yeah. The Bradford Yeah, the Bradford pear. Yeah. I

1595
02:00:02.880 --> 02:00:08.119
have a special printing regimen for Bradford
pear. It's about one inch off the

1596
02:00:08.119 --> 02:00:12.800
ground. That's the best place to
print in Bradford. Right, we won't

1597
02:00:12.840 --> 02:00:15.319
get it. That's a whole nother
discussion. Hey, I need to run

1598
02:00:15.319 --> 02:00:17.560
out here. We got Glenn out
here on the phones. Hey, Glenn,

1599
02:00:17.560 --> 02:00:20.920
welcome to garden Line. How can
we help? Good morning Skip.

1600
02:00:21.039 --> 02:00:27.960
Hey, I've got a crabgrass problem. Now, I've used different products and

1601
02:00:28.000 --> 02:00:30.800
they're pretty big, you know,
circles of crabgrass, and I put this

1602
02:00:31.239 --> 02:00:35.840
crab gas killer down where you wet
it and sprinkle the powder on them.

1603
02:00:36.079 --> 02:00:40.319
Now, where the powder was sprinkled, it killed it, but it didn't

1604
02:00:40.399 --> 02:00:44.359
kill you. Know, it still
comes back. Was that the cinnamon cinnamon

1605
02:00:44.399 --> 02:00:48.479
product? I can't remember the name. It was a white powder and it

1606
02:00:48.720 --> 02:00:51.560
just said crab grass on it.
I guess that's all it was for.

1607
02:00:51.800 --> 02:00:56.720
Yeah, well the contact killer.
Now is this in your lawn the crabgrass

1608
02:00:56.760 --> 02:00:59.119
or where's it? Yes, it
is, it is in my lawn.

1609
02:00:59.760 --> 02:01:00.880
Well, well, there's a couple
of ways to approach it. It's hard

1610
02:01:00.880 --> 02:01:04.520
to kill grass and grass. In
other words, the grass killers that will

1611
02:01:04.600 --> 02:01:08.960
kill crabgrass, almost all of them
are going to also hurt your lawn grass.

1612
02:01:10.359 --> 02:01:13.640
I'll give you my way of doing
it, and it's very very laid

1613
02:01:13.680 --> 02:01:16.199
back. You can use a pre
emergent to prevent it from coming up in

1614
02:01:16.239 --> 02:01:21.399
the first place, but once you
have it, I'm mow mine and just

1615
02:01:21.600 --> 02:01:26.760
ignore it and just work on building
a dense lawn through proper mowing, watering,

1616
02:01:26.800 --> 02:01:29.319
and fertilizing, which is all on
my schedule, which you can get

1617
02:01:29.359 --> 02:01:32.439
those online, print them out for
free, and as you build the lawn

1618
02:01:32.520 --> 02:01:38.000
density, it goes away. And
I have a friend in Mississippi who says

1619
02:01:38.039 --> 02:01:40.399
the way he gets rid of all
of his weeds is to take off his

1620
02:01:40.479 --> 02:01:45.479
glasses. And so, if you
think about it, mode crab grass in

1621
02:01:45.520 --> 02:01:53.359
Saint Augustine is a beautiful lawn without
your grasses glasses on. So I'm sort

1622
02:01:53.359 --> 02:01:57.439
of saying that tongue in cheek,
but not totally it. Just grow your

1623
02:01:57.479 --> 02:01:59.880
way out of it. Now,
you can go in, you can dust

1624
02:02:00.119 --> 02:02:03.479
with like the cinnamon based product.
There are some others products that you can

1625
02:02:03.640 --> 02:02:09.479
use, but I think the best
ways in this situation grow yourself out of

1626
02:02:09.479 --> 02:02:13.159
it. And then don't forget.
I've got that other schedule online for weeds

1627
02:02:13.239 --> 02:02:18.359
diseases, and you know I did
use your schedule for my lawn. This

1628
02:02:18.560 --> 02:02:25.239
is a strip between two houses,
between two driveways that I kind of you

1629
02:02:25.279 --> 02:02:27.840
know, I ran out. I
said, I'm not going to get another

1630
02:02:27.880 --> 02:02:30.199
bag, but that's coming back to
bite me. So and then yeah,

1631
02:02:30.279 --> 02:02:34.000
that's what I'll do. Yeahb has
a different tolerance to weeds. Some people's

1632
02:02:34.039 --> 02:02:38.239
like one weed in the lawn and
we call a napalm flyover. It's time

1633
02:02:38.279 --> 02:02:41.720
to shut this down other people.
It's kind of like I said, take

1634
02:02:41.720 --> 02:02:44.960
off your glasses and let's grow our
way out of it. And so wherever

1635
02:02:45.079 --> 02:02:46.600
you land on that spectrum, we
want to help you with that. But

1636
02:02:46.720 --> 02:02:50.039
just know this, wherever sunlight hits
a soil, nature plants of weed.

1637
02:02:50.119 --> 02:02:55.319
So crabgrass is a sign that your
lawn's not real dense. And so if

1638
02:02:55.359 --> 02:02:59.600
you focus on building density, you're
going to grow yourself out of a crabgrass

1639
02:02:59.640 --> 02:03:02.520
problem over time. But don't be
afraid to wish the pre emergent if you

1640
02:03:02.560 --> 02:03:10.079
need to. Would it help to
get that? That's an area I don't

1641
02:03:10.119 --> 02:03:13.039
do it, but I was going
to put some leaf mole compost in that

1642
02:03:13.159 --> 02:03:17.840
a full area and air rate it. That would be fine. That does

1643
02:03:17.840 --> 02:03:21.000
a couple of things. Number one, it decomposes and releases nutrients. But

1644
02:03:21.079 --> 02:03:26.279
it also is, in a very
small way, a mulch over your lawn.

1645
02:03:26.399 --> 02:03:28.560
You know, you put the leaf
mole compost. Even though you're not

1646
02:03:28.560 --> 02:03:33.039
putting it thick, it is blocking
some sunlight and so it's like lawn density.

1647
02:03:33.079 --> 02:03:38.720
It's helping a little bit with some
of the weed germination. So yes,

1648
02:03:38.960 --> 02:03:42.439
it's always a good time to do
that. Okay, Well, thank

1649
02:03:42.520 --> 02:03:46.520
you, Skip, I appreciate it. I'll take off my glasses all right.

1650
02:03:46.640 --> 02:03:49.880
I always hesitate to say that because
I saw people that would irritate the

1651
02:03:49.920 --> 02:03:54.159
heck out of me. It's a
lot just taking glasses off of Don't worry,

1652
02:03:55.079 --> 02:03:59.520
okay, ma take it easy,
take care well, Zach. I

1653
02:03:59.520 --> 02:04:04.800
want to get back on the beneficial
the pollinators and things. I think that

1654
02:04:06.640 --> 02:04:10.479
a lot of times, especially in
a city, you've got a lot of

1655
02:04:10.520 --> 02:04:15.159
neighbors and they're probably using products that
may be killing bees on their flowers and

1656
02:04:15.199 --> 02:04:19.399
things. Our landscapes oftentimes are a
sea of green, and Saint Augustine does

1657
02:04:19.479 --> 02:04:25.560
not provide any beneficial insect with any
benefit, you know what I'm saying.

1658
02:04:25.600 --> 02:04:29.159
And so when you've got green grass, green ground cover, green shrubs,

1659
02:04:29.640 --> 02:04:34.439
and ninety percent of it is not
from here, you just we got to

1660
02:04:34.600 --> 02:04:39.439
step in and do some things to
help those that we have. I'm there

1661
02:04:39.479 --> 02:04:41.680
telling me I'm hitting a break here
in my ear, So we're going to

1662
02:04:41.680 --> 02:04:43.840
take a break. But when we
come back, I'd like you to comment

1663
02:04:43.880 --> 02:04:47.399
a little bit about some of the
plants that you might suggest for beginning to

1664
02:04:47.439 --> 02:04:51.199
build that pollinator garden out, and
we can discuss those absolutely, Thanks a

1665
02:04:51.239 --> 02:04:55.319
lot. I appreciate that. We'll
be right back. Welcome back to the

1666
02:04:55.359 --> 02:04:59.199
guard Line. Good to have you
with us today. We are visiting with

1667
02:04:59.279 --> 02:05:03.079
Zagbie Cannon about some pollinators because this
is pollinator Week, uh, and a

1668
02:05:03.079 --> 02:05:06.600
lot of the different kinds of pollinator
plants and whatnot that they have. Let's

1669
02:05:06.600 --> 02:05:13.640
go out and grab a quick call
here from Kim in Parland. Hey Kim,

1670
02:05:13.880 --> 02:05:16.560
how can we help today? Hellot
skip, I got a question.

1671
02:05:16.640 --> 02:05:23.479
I put a new bonn down for
bermuda this winter, and I'm gotten a

1672
02:05:24.119 --> 02:05:25.920
I can't remember the name of the
weed, but I know you got to

1673
02:05:26.000 --> 02:05:30.159
use that sledgehammer type. Okay,
Is it okay to put that down with

1674
02:05:30.199 --> 02:05:34.880
a new bermuda that's coming up?
Uh? This is a sodded bermuda,

1675
02:05:35.000 --> 02:05:39.760
not a seated bermuda. Right,
it is seeded. Oh it's seated.

1676
02:05:39.840 --> 02:05:42.479
How how long has it been in? How long has it been growing?

1677
02:05:44.159 --> 02:05:48.279
Three months or so? I would
say it ought to be okay, I

1678
02:05:48.600 --> 02:05:53.119
bet. I would grab the sedge
hammer. The name of the product you're

1679
02:05:53.159 --> 02:05:56.439
looking for, I would grab the
label and read it carefully, because that's

1680
02:05:56.479 --> 02:05:58.960
the that's the bottom line. As
we say, the labels the law,

1681
02:05:59.520 --> 02:06:02.359
and it'll tell you if they're restrictions, you know, don't use something when

1682
02:06:02.359 --> 02:06:08.119
the temperatures above the mid eighties or
those kinds of things will be on the

1683
02:06:08.199 --> 02:06:12.800
label. I would think three months
from seed. I can't imagine that would

1684
02:06:12.800 --> 02:06:16.119
be a problem, but again,
the product label is what is the final

1685
02:06:16.159 --> 02:06:20.720
word on that. Great. I
appreciate that you bet, take care,

1686
02:06:20.840 --> 02:06:24.760
Thanks for the thank you for the
call. I'm grab another quick call out

1687
02:06:24.760 --> 02:06:28.840
here, Ron from Cleveland. Hey, Ron, good morning, skit morning.

1688
02:06:28.920 --> 02:06:31.720
Hey. I'm calling you because I
want to make sure I make my

1689
02:06:31.760 --> 02:06:35.439
investment before I go screwing up and
doing something wrong. I have a spot

1690
02:06:35.520 --> 02:06:41.239
that I had a three year old
Drummond red maple die out last year and

1691
02:06:41.680 --> 02:06:45.079
it was probably about a two inch
time. I'm thinking about putting three crape

1692
02:06:45.079 --> 02:06:48.680
myrtles in this area, kind of
close together, but not too close,

1693
02:06:49.319 --> 02:06:53.279
like a red, a pink,
and a white one. Yeah, And

1694
02:06:53.319 --> 02:06:56.319
I didn't know if that'd be a
good thing a bad thing, or would

1695
02:06:56.359 --> 02:06:59.920
they compete. But I'm trying to
keep them all over. They'll stay nice

1696
02:07:00.199 --> 02:07:02.239
tall and the same size, so
they all kind of boom out into multi

1697
02:07:02.359 --> 02:07:04.920
colors. I think that's a great
plan. I was just driving through some

1698
02:07:04.960 --> 02:07:11.640
neighborhoods this past week looking at people
that had done combo colors of great myrtles,

1699
02:07:11.760 --> 02:07:14.840
and I think it's fine. Yeah, they do compete, but so

1700
02:07:14.920 --> 02:07:17.039
do ever tree in the forest.
It's growing side by side, trying to

1701
02:07:17.119 --> 02:07:21.960
use the same moisture and whatnot.
I don't think that would be a problem

1702
02:07:23.000 --> 02:07:27.520
at all. I think it's a
good ideah like a red dynamite, a

1703
02:07:27.600 --> 02:07:30.840
white the natus, But I'm not
sure about the pink one. Is there

1704
02:07:30.880 --> 02:07:35.159
a like because I know those will
grow like fifteen or twenty to thirty foot

1705
02:07:35.199 --> 02:07:39.039
high. Is there a pink one? Yeah? And that was the first

1706
02:07:39.039 --> 02:07:45.159
thought I had, is the natches
is going to be huge and dynamite is

1707
02:07:45.199 --> 02:07:48.600
not that big, and so really, yeah, you just need to realize

1708
02:07:48.680 --> 02:07:53.920
that you don't want one overgrowing the
other, because then that defends the purpose.

1709
02:07:54.000 --> 02:07:58.119
So if you go online, it's
an old listing that I did a

1710
02:07:58.159 --> 02:08:00.720
long time ago, but you can
still see it. And if you if

1711
02:08:00.720 --> 02:08:03.600
you search for crape myrtle and skip
Richter in a like a Google search,

1712
02:08:05.199 --> 02:08:07.680
there's a chart that I did and
it's got crape myrtles from three feet to

1713
02:08:07.760 --> 02:08:11.600
thirty five feet, not just being
thirty five uh, And it's got all

1714
02:08:11.600 --> 02:08:16.439
the colors in there. It tells
whether they're resistant to the powdery mildew or

1715
02:08:16.479 --> 02:08:20.039
not, which is an important factor. And then most importantly, I think

1716
02:08:20.079 --> 02:08:24.000
the height. I even comment on
the color of the exfoliating bark and whatnot.

1717
02:08:24.479 --> 02:08:26.319
And I would make sure you pick
three that are going to be the

1718
02:08:26.359 --> 02:08:31.880
same stature, just so that long
term, you know, natchez hasn't shaded

1719
02:08:31.960 --> 02:08:37.199
out some such I was looking for. Okay, so your name and crate

1720
02:08:37.319 --> 02:08:39.960
myrtle. Yeah, that's that's That's
one place. I mean, there's a

1721
02:08:39.960 --> 02:08:43.800
lot of good crape information online.
That's just a chart. A while back,

1722
02:08:43.840 --> 02:08:46.600
I did I need to redo it, but it's a lot of work.

1723
02:08:46.000 --> 02:08:50.800
I just haven't gotten back to everything
I see online. Someone are saying

1724
02:08:50.800 --> 02:08:52.600
there this one was fifteen to twenty
foot. Then another place say, oh,

1725
02:08:52.640 --> 02:08:56.439
this will grow to thirty foot,
you know, like all in the

1726
02:08:56.479 --> 02:09:01.279
same variant. You know. So
I'm not sure, but I trust you.

1727
02:09:01.319 --> 02:09:03.079
So I'm gonna go ahead, and
I'll do that before I go out

1728
02:09:03.119 --> 02:09:07.439
and purchase. Okay, all right, Well, certainly the growing conditions affect

1729
02:09:07.479 --> 02:09:13.199
any plants performance I've got full sun, big open area. Okay, so

1730
02:09:13.840 --> 02:09:16.079
I think it's a good area for
I'm nice, tall and i'd like that

1731
02:09:16.199 --> 02:09:20.439
multi color. So all right,
all right, all right, Ron,

1732
02:09:22.039 --> 02:09:24.079
thanks a lot, appreciate the call. Well, we're here visiting. Was

1733
02:09:24.359 --> 02:09:30.119
Zach bcinnon planning on talking about some
pollinators. We were kind of sidetracking on

1734
02:09:30.159 --> 02:09:33.600
some other topics. But why don't
you tell us some of the plants that

1735
02:09:35.039 --> 02:09:37.479
you would be Like someone walks in
and goes, you know what, I

1736
02:09:37.880 --> 02:09:41.720
do want to transition my garden over
to one that makes pollinators really happy.

1737
02:09:41.760 --> 02:09:45.560
I want them to hang out at
my place. What would you say,

1738
02:09:45.600 --> 02:09:50.479
here's a handful that might be good
places to start. So one of the

1739
02:09:50.520 --> 02:09:54.640
things we kind of try to talk
to customers about when they're doing a pollinator

1740
02:09:54.680 --> 02:10:01.239
garden is you might set aside a
quarter of your plant selection and for host

1741
02:10:01.279 --> 02:10:07.119
plants and making that a variety of
host plants. So these are plants that

1742
02:10:07.119 --> 02:10:13.319
that attract butterflies, moths, skippers, those those butterflies lay their eggs on

1743
02:10:13.359 --> 02:10:20.720
these plants. The plants are eaten
by the caterpillar. But that's that's attracting

1744
02:10:20.760 --> 02:10:26.640
those those insects. That's the food
source exactly, and you want a variety

1745
02:10:26.680 --> 02:10:31.079
of them. You don't want just
exclusively milkweed for monarchs, because that makes

1746
02:10:31.079 --> 02:10:37.880
them an easy target for predators.
I was talking with one of our salespeople,

1747
02:10:39.079 --> 02:10:46.119
where you wanna you want to attract
different ones, different butterflies, because

1748
02:10:46.920 --> 02:10:52.119
then that makes it harder for predators
to kind of like target them and and

1749
02:10:52.840 --> 02:10:56.279
pick them off, and you get
you get kind of a greater chance of

1750
02:10:56.319 --> 02:11:01.000
survival. So a quarter of your
plants are are host plants, then the

1751
02:11:01.039 --> 02:11:05.279
rest three quarters are going to be
nectar plants. But you wanna you want

1752
02:11:05.279 --> 02:11:11.199
to vary those nectar plants with bloom
times, so kind of you want I

1753
02:11:11.279 --> 02:11:15.239
don't want everything to bloom at once, even though that would be really pretty.

1754
02:11:15.840 --> 02:11:20.159
Uh, you wanna you wanna even
consider blooming into fall. We were

1755
02:11:20.199 --> 02:11:28.680
talking about setting these this wildlife up
for success going into winter. So really,

1756
02:11:28.119 --> 02:11:33.039
uh, fall blooming stuff is really
important as a food source to get

1757
02:11:33.119 --> 02:11:39.000
ready for the winter and the cold
weather when most things aren't blooming and there's

1758
02:11:39.039 --> 02:11:41.960
not a lot of food sources out
there. So these are things to consider

1759
02:11:43.000 --> 02:11:48.399
when when making a pollinator garden.
But some of my favorites I like We

1760
02:11:48.520 --> 02:11:54.800
really like frog fruit, which talking
about lawns, frog fruit is an excellent,

1761
02:11:54.920 --> 02:12:01.199
excellent lawn replacement plant. It's a
native, it is indestructible. I

1762
02:12:01.600 --> 02:12:07.600
have mine planted along my driveway where
it like is growing out onto the hot

1763
02:12:07.720 --> 02:12:11.199
pavement and there it goes and it's
just blooming like crazy. It's a great

1764
02:12:11.279 --> 02:12:18.319
nectar source for pollinators. Yeah.
And it is gonna. It's gonna take

1765
02:12:18.359 --> 02:12:22.079
over an area in a good way. And it's not gonna, it's it's

1766
02:12:22.159 --> 02:12:28.359
easily manageable. Yeah. Finding a
native, tough, drob tolerant groundcover that

1767
02:12:28.520 --> 02:12:31.439
is just kind of bulletproof but stays
so low the snake can't hide in frog

1768
02:12:31.479 --> 02:12:35.800
fruit. Yeah, you know what
I'm saying. But yeah, that's a

1769
02:12:35.840 --> 02:12:41.279
good one. Yeah. And and
I'm a big proponent of bringing herbs out

1770
02:12:41.279 --> 02:12:45.800
of the herb garden and into the
landscape, so things like basil. We

1771
02:12:45.800 --> 02:12:52.039
were talking about African blue basil earlier, oregano time. All these herbs are

1772
02:12:52.279 --> 02:12:58.680
useful. You can still cook with
them while also letting them bloom, and

1773
02:12:58.760 --> 02:13:03.439
those flowers are great sources of nectar
for pollinators. That's a good point.

1774
02:13:03.600 --> 02:13:07.960
Yeah, you know, And we're
kind of wandering our way through from butterfly

1775
02:13:07.039 --> 02:13:11.640
gardening to bees to beneficial insects.
But it's all kind of part of the

1776
02:13:11.640 --> 02:13:15.600
big package. But all of them
are pollinators, but they are. Yeah.

1777
02:13:15.880 --> 02:13:18.520
But the first time that I ever
discovered the potter wasp that makes a

1778
02:13:18.520 --> 02:13:24.039
little marble sized mud houses puts caterpillars
in there. It's a preditor. First

1779
02:13:24.079 --> 02:13:26.800
time I saw one, I was
taking pictures of time and there were time

1780
02:13:26.840 --> 02:13:31.640
blooms and there was this wasp going
in and out and I followed it and

1781
02:13:31.720 --> 02:13:35.119
it went over a chain link fence
and some foliage and it was building those

1782
02:13:35.119 --> 02:13:37.439
little nests. I broke the nest
open. I found all these looper caterpillars,

1783
02:13:37.479 --> 02:13:41.479
and it was like revelation right there. But time is good. The

1784
02:13:41.560 --> 02:13:46.000
rosemaries that trail seemed to bloom better
than the upright ones in many cases.

1785
02:13:46.079 --> 02:13:50.319
And boy, the honey bees love
those things. Yeah, yeah, And

1786
02:13:50.399 --> 02:13:56.319
I think honey bees are great.
And I was talking to another employee about

1787
02:13:56.319 --> 02:14:01.760
how this year they seemed to be
doing better than they have in previous years,

1788
02:14:01.760 --> 02:14:05.279
which is I think a great testament
to I think people getting wise to

1789
02:14:05.920 --> 02:14:11.119
the importance of them. But I
think it's important also to think about native

1790
02:14:11.119 --> 02:14:20.359
bee population that kind of gets overlooked
and under publicized in favor of honey bees,

1791
02:14:20.399 --> 02:14:26.920
and I understand it, but the
native bee population is just as important,

1792
02:14:26.960 --> 02:14:33.000
if not more important, to kind
of the general ecosystem. Yeah,

1793
02:14:31.520 --> 02:14:35.560
there are so many bee Everybody knows
bumble bees because they're big and hard to

1794
02:14:35.600 --> 02:14:39.399
miss. That. We've got the
bees that like the leaf cutter bee that

1795
02:14:41.079 --> 02:14:45.800
does almost no damage at all to
plants, but it is a beneficial And

1796
02:14:45.920 --> 02:14:50.399
we have other solitary bees that well, a lot of people wouldn't even recognize

1797
02:14:50.479 --> 02:14:54.159
it, Right, that's a good
idea. Yeah, And plants that attract

1798
02:14:54.199 --> 02:14:58.800
those, Boy, it's easy.
You mentioned African blue basil. I mean

1799
02:14:58.840 --> 02:15:01.640
that is like a graphic jam on
that plant. You get toward the end

1800
02:15:01.640 --> 02:15:05.600
of summer and it's big, and
it's blooming, and it just loaded with

1801
02:15:07.680 --> 02:15:11.880
might we might as well be an
ornamental plant. It's so beautiful and bloom

1802
02:15:11.920 --> 02:15:16.520
so much. I'm pretty sure it's
an entomological crackhouse. That's my opinion of

1803
02:15:16.560 --> 02:15:18.640
it. But we're going to take
a little break here, get some news

1804
02:15:18.680 --> 02:15:24.119
here. We'll be right back talking
to Zach about pollinators seven one three two

1805
02:15:24.199 --> 02:15:26.520
one two Kat r H. If
you'd like to ask a question, pick

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02:15:26.600 --> 02:15:31.279
his brain, ask some pollinator type
information, we'll be happy to help.

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02:15:31.439 --> 02:15:35.840
Welcome back to garden Line on a
beautiful day for gardening. Listen, we

1808
02:15:35.920 --> 02:15:39.600
have talked to the weather man.
They're going to try to hold it to

1809
02:15:39.680 --> 02:15:43.079
ninety degrees today. Here's your chance. Get out there and get you some

1810
02:15:43.159 --> 02:15:46.640
plants. Let's turn that landscape into
something beautiful you can enjoy all summer.

1811
02:15:48.079 --> 02:15:52.199
One of the ways that we keep
our landscapes beautiful is by keeping the soil

1812
02:15:52.359 --> 02:15:56.399
mult Remember wherever sunlight hits the soil
nature plants of weed. The folks at

1813
02:15:56.439 --> 02:16:03.800
Louisiana Pacific are Nicia Pacific, Lanscaper's
Pride. I had the lp right last

1814
02:16:03.880 --> 02:16:07.560
Caper's Pride. I don't know where
that came from. They've got a black

1815
02:16:07.640 --> 02:16:09.720
velvet multch that is naturally black.
It's not dyed. You know, I

1816
02:16:09.720 --> 02:16:13.600
hate dyed mult But they have a
black velvet molt. It is just beautiful,

1817
02:16:15.079 --> 02:16:18.439
very velvety and dense. And when
you put that over the soil,

1818
02:16:18.600 --> 02:16:20.920
it does two things. Number One, it keeps the soil temperatures down.

1819
02:16:22.399 --> 02:16:26.520
The difference in soil temperature an inch
deep even three or four inches deep and

1820
02:16:26.840 --> 02:16:31.319
unmultched versus molt soil is huge and
it gets so hot. Roots have a

1821
02:16:31.359 --> 02:16:35.799
hard time when you have absolutely no
mulch and the sun is just bearing down

1822
02:16:35.840 --> 02:16:39.280
on that bere soil. Black velvet
will do that. Plus it looks beautiful,

1823
02:16:39.600 --> 02:16:43.479
very beautiful. I like the hardwood
malts a shredded hardwood. Now LP's

1824
02:16:43.760 --> 02:16:48.559
shredded hardwoodmultch is not made from paletts. It's truly shredded hardwood materials. They've

1825
02:16:48.600 --> 02:16:52.000
got their pine bark molts probably the
most popular one. They have, very

1826
02:16:52.120 --> 02:16:56.680
very beautiful, locally sourced pine marked
decomposes a little slower than some mulches,

1827
02:16:56.719 --> 02:17:01.959
which is a good thing, as
well as mulches from cedar made from Cyprus.

1828
02:17:01.479 --> 02:17:07.840
All from Louis Escaper's Pride. You
know, landscapers Pride products are widely

1829
02:17:07.840 --> 02:17:11.440
available. You can go to Landscaperspride
dot com and you can find all the

1830
02:17:11.479 --> 02:17:13.479
places that you can get their products. Here in the Greater Houston area.

1831
02:17:13.520 --> 02:17:16.520
Won't be hard to find one.
But I guarantee you this, of like

1832
02:17:16.600 --> 02:17:20.760
twenty something different products they carry,
all of them are going to benefit your

1833
02:17:20.760 --> 02:17:26.959
soil and benefit your plants and the
success that you have out there. Being

1834
02:17:26.040 --> 02:17:31.479
summer season, now is the time
when we focus a lot on our lawns,

1835
02:17:31.559 --> 02:17:33.959
wanting them to look good, wanting
to be beautiful. If you've got

1836
02:17:35.000 --> 02:17:41.920
compacted soil areas where either foot traffic
or just really poor soil conditions have caused

1837
02:17:41.920 --> 02:17:45.479
the grass not to do well,
you ought to consider doing a core aeration

1838
02:17:45.760 --> 02:17:50.239
followed by a compost top dressing.
And BnB turf Pros is a company for

1839
02:17:50.319 --> 02:17:54.079
all of you living kind of down
south into the west. So we're talking

1840
02:17:54.120 --> 02:17:58.120
about an area that goes from sugar
Land and Missouri City all the way across

1841
02:17:58.159 --> 02:18:03.440
to Pearland on the east end of
their range, and then down Fresno's Sienna

1842
02:18:03.600 --> 02:18:07.440
Arcola, Iowa colony Manville, that
whole region down there. BnB turf Pros

1843
02:18:07.559 --> 02:18:13.319
is your family owned service. They
provide honest, quality work. That is

1844
02:18:13.360 --> 02:18:16.399
what they focus on. They only
use products that I talk about here on

1845
02:18:16.479 --> 02:18:22.280
guarden Line, for example Cnamultch down
in that area, super quality products.

1846
02:18:22.520 --> 02:18:26.799
They use those cnmultch products in BMB
turf Pros. You can go to the

1847
02:18:26.799 --> 02:18:31.040
website BnB turf Prosbbturfpros dot com or
give them a call seven one three,

1848
02:18:31.120 --> 02:18:35.040
two, three, four, fifty
five ninety eight. Check out the website.

1849
02:18:35.079 --> 02:18:39.120
They really go above and beyond to
make that personal connection with their clients

1850
02:18:39.680 --> 02:18:45.040
and to make sure that you're satisfied
with the work they do. That is

1851
02:18:45.079 --> 02:18:48.440
what they're all about. That's why
we're more than happy to talk about them

1852
02:18:48.559 --> 02:18:52.559
as a quality provider. They can
take a lawn, maybe it's struggled from

1853
02:18:52.639 --> 02:18:58.520
last summer's drought and heat and it's
just not looking that great. Have them

1854
02:18:58.520 --> 02:19:03.799
come out do a good quality aeration
and a good quality compost top dressing.

1855
02:19:03.879 --> 02:19:07.360
That's what they use, and I
think you will be very pleased with the

1856
02:19:07.360 --> 02:19:11.840
difference that you see. We're talking
with Zich Buchanan from Buchanna's Nursery because there's

1857
02:19:11.879 --> 02:19:15.280
Pollinator Week. It's the end of
Pollinator Week. We're talking about plants that

1858
02:19:15.319 --> 02:19:20.399
attract pollinators. We've kind of gone
through a bunch of different types of plants

1859
02:19:20.399 --> 02:19:24.360
and things. I think there's a
few others, you know. I've noticed

1860
02:19:24.399 --> 02:19:28.719
even things like the Mexican heather,
which I never thought of as a big

1861
02:19:28.840 --> 02:19:31.680
blooming plant. It's got the little
bitty blooms on it. But I see

1862
02:19:31.680 --> 02:19:37.120
bees working those. I just see
bees being very resourceful and finding ways to

1863
02:19:37.440 --> 02:19:41.879
find a meal. I think,
Yeah, Mexican Heather's one that I recommend

1864
02:19:41.959 --> 02:19:48.319
as a great kind of border plant. But yeah, it is it's always

1865
02:19:48.360 --> 02:19:50.239
covered with bees. Whenever we have
it in the nursery, which is pretty

1866
02:19:50.280 --> 02:19:54.959
much all the time and it's blooming, bees are all over it. Sometimes

1867
02:19:56.040 --> 02:20:01.239
that can turn customers off to it. Unfortunately, we try to kind of

1868
02:20:01.120 --> 02:20:07.920
assuage their fears that this is what
this is what all flowers should be doing,

1869
02:20:07.120 --> 02:20:13.479
is attracting pollinators and that they're not
something to be scared of. Yeah,

1870
02:20:13.479 --> 02:20:16.040
if you don't grab the bee and
squeeze it in your hand or something.

1871
02:20:16.079 --> 02:20:20.879
They they will give their life to
protect their babies, but not to

1872
02:20:20.920 --> 02:20:24.799
protect a flower. No, they're
not out there to go, hey,

1873
02:20:24.879 --> 02:20:28.079
leave my plant alone, right and
they and they're they're working, uh,

1874
02:20:28.280 --> 02:20:31.000
and they don't want to be bothered. If we don't bother them, they're

1875
02:20:31.040 --> 02:20:35.799
just going to keep working. That's
it. I think. I think another

1876
02:20:35.840 --> 02:20:39.760
great one that that we love is
kind of any missflower. So Greg's blue

1877
02:20:39.799 --> 02:20:46.559
mist is a great option. We've
got like some blue mist ageratum. These

1878
02:20:48.079 --> 02:20:54.799
these things are huge nectar sources that
just produce so much nectar and can get

1879
02:20:54.840 --> 02:21:00.559
covered with butterflies, bees, anything. Looking for next And Greg's this flower,

1880
02:21:00.559 --> 02:21:03.159
those beautiful light blue blossoms are beautiful. The uh, it's kind of

1881
02:21:03.159 --> 02:21:07.360
almost like a tall ground covered the
way it just sort of spreads out and

1882
02:21:07.399 --> 02:21:11.799
covers. Is it the queen or
the monarch or both? That something that

1883
02:21:11.840 --> 02:21:15.600
looks like a monarch is always loaded
up on those Greg's miss flower. I

1884
02:21:15.600 --> 02:21:18.840
think it may be queen too.
I think you know, I was talking

1885
02:21:18.879 --> 02:21:26.440
with with one of our salespeople about
this blue mystadgeratum that that specifically attracts monarchs

1886
02:21:26.479 --> 02:21:33.000
because it like kind of makes this
smell that where the male thinks there's going

1887
02:21:33.079 --> 02:21:37.120
to be female monarchs on this plant. Oh really, because the plant is

1888
02:21:37.159 --> 02:21:43.000
producing this this fragrance. Well,
we could really get my garden line ratings

1889
02:21:43.120 --> 02:21:46.360
up if I pursued that a little
bit further. But we're going to let

1890
02:21:46.360 --> 02:21:50.559
that one go. Yeah, but
that's unfair. That's that's the great thing

1891
02:21:50.600 --> 02:21:58.479
about about these plants is again like
they're they want to attract native insects.

1892
02:21:58.840 --> 02:22:01.840
They're not They know that they're not
going to be harmed by these insects,

1893
02:22:01.920 --> 02:22:07.079
so they want them to come to
them. Pollinate them and create more more

1894
02:22:07.120 --> 02:22:11.600
plants. That is, it's all. It's all part of the way nature

1895
02:22:11.639 --> 02:22:13.120
works, it is. Yeah,
and if we if we just kind of

1896
02:22:13.440 --> 02:22:18.719
like don't interfere as much, it'll
it'll kind of get by on its own.

1897
02:22:18.799 --> 02:22:20.000
Yeah, do what it's supposed to
do. Yeah. I have a

1898
02:22:20.079 --> 02:22:24.760
I have a talk I do on
attracting beneficial insects. And it's like all

1899
02:22:24.799 --> 02:22:28.680
these key points and the first point
is don't kill them. So you know

1900
02:22:28.760 --> 02:22:31.840
number one's first yea, how you
spray it, don't kill them. Well,

1901
02:22:31.920 --> 02:22:35.719
that's that's all cool stuff. And
I know I could probably have you

1902
02:22:35.760 --> 02:22:37.639
here for ten weeks just talking about
all the plants you guys carry because you

1903
02:22:37.680 --> 02:22:41.120
have such a good list of natives
and non natives. Yeah, that that

1904
02:22:41.239 --> 02:22:46.000
attract the beneficials. So I would
say, probably to people listening, thanks

1905
02:22:46.000 --> 02:22:48.760
first of all for hanging around this
long, Oh my pleasure, Thank you

1906
02:22:48.799 --> 02:22:54.159
for having me. But I would
say go buy there and just start simple

1907
02:22:54.479 --> 02:22:58.959
start. I mean, if you
do nothing other than plants and basil and

1908
02:22:58.040 --> 02:23:03.399
let it bloom, that's a step
forward. But maybe you need some perennials,

1909
02:23:03.479 --> 02:23:05.559
or maybe you need some shrubs and
talk to folks that know, like

1910
02:23:05.639 --> 02:23:09.479
Zach, find out what is the
next thing I can plant and the next

1911
02:23:09.520 --> 02:23:11.639
thing and grow your way into it. You know, you don't need to

1912
02:23:11.639 --> 02:23:16.399
buildoze everything and turn it all into
a garden overnight for pollinators. But little

1913
02:23:16.399 --> 02:23:22.000
by little you can transform your landscape
into a place that birds, butterflies,

1914
02:23:22.120 --> 02:23:26.479
bees, beneficial insects in general just
want to come hang out. And it

1915
02:23:26.520 --> 02:23:28.399
really works. It's like the Baseball
movie. If you build it, they

1916
02:23:28.399 --> 02:23:37.840
will come. Yeah. I pride
our organization on not shaming anybody and trying

1917
02:23:37.040 --> 02:23:46.639
and not being gatekeepers to this the
native world. Like, we want to

1918
02:23:46.639 --> 02:23:48.760
help people, and we want to
help people at any level, whether they're

1919
02:23:50.000 --> 02:23:54.079
beginning or experts. I think there's
always room to learn, and that's what's

1920
02:23:54.079 --> 02:24:00.799
exciting about this is learning new things
and coming to new realisms. And when

1921
02:24:00.840 --> 02:24:05.760
those realizations hit about natives or pollinators, it's it's really eye opening and it

1922
02:24:05.799 --> 02:24:07.799
can change your whole worldview. Really. Yeah, A planet a time?

1923
02:24:09.120 --> 02:24:13.159
Yeah? Is that well? Zach? For those of you who weren't here

1924
02:24:13.200 --> 02:24:16.200
at the very beginning, we're talking
to Zach Buchanan from Buchinish Nursery six eleven,

1925
02:24:18.079 --> 02:24:22.799
six eleven Eleventh Street, Eleventh Street
in the Heights. You got to

1926
02:24:22.840 --> 02:24:26.040
go by there and check it out. It's always like wandering around and chopping

1927
02:24:26.079 --> 02:24:28.840
and seeing what's around the next corner
there. Yeah, thank you very much,

1928
02:24:28.879 --> 02:24:31.719
thanks for hanging out. All right. Well, happy pollinator week for

1929
02:24:31.799 --> 02:24:35.799
all of you. But just because
this was the official pollinator week. Now

1930
02:24:35.879 --> 02:24:39.639
next week's time to get out there
and start actually doing what we've been talking

1931
02:24:39.639 --> 02:24:41.600
about. So I hope you take
advantage of that this weekend. Zach,

1932
02:24:41.639 --> 02:24:45.440
thanks a lot. I might have
to go to another break, but appreciate

1933
02:24:45.479 --> 02:24:46.559
having you on. Yeah, thank
you for having me. All right,

1934
02:24:46.600 --> 02:24:50.520
take care, we'll be right back. All right, we're back on garden

1935
02:24:50.559 --> 02:24:56.239
line on a perfect day for gardening. Look, it's sunny outside, it's

1936
02:24:56.319 --> 02:24:58.239
beautiful. I think the temp's only
going to hit about ninety to day.

1937
02:24:58.360 --> 02:25:03.200
So here's our excuse. We got
to get out there and beautify and just

1938
02:25:03.399 --> 02:25:05.760
enjoy ourselves. You know, it's
not just work in the garden. It's

1939
02:25:05.840 --> 02:25:11.840
enjoying yourself and using a quality product
to help your plants have good nutrition.

1940
02:25:13.040 --> 02:25:16.200
That is key, That is important. Nelson plant Food has a wide variety

1941
02:25:16.360 --> 02:25:20.360
of those products you've heard me talk
about. Turf Star Slow and easy.

1942
02:25:20.680 --> 02:25:24.559
That's the one for summer months and
months and months of feeding all the way

1943
02:25:24.680 --> 02:25:28.399
up to the fall fertilization that you're
going to do in your lawn. Nelson

1944
02:25:28.079 --> 02:25:31.719
Slow and Easy, the turf Star
product, Nelson plant food Slow and easy.

1945
02:25:33.040 --> 02:25:37.559
Excellent product for the lawn. What
about flowering plants like plumeria and tropicals,

1946
02:25:37.559 --> 02:25:41.000
Well, nutral Star Plumeria is excellent
for all kinds of tropicals. You

1947
02:25:41.040 --> 02:25:46.399
know, maybe you've got even things
like a plumbago, which is you know,

1948
02:25:46.680 --> 02:25:50.159
cold hearty here, but it does
very well when you provide even the

1949
02:25:50.159 --> 02:25:54.120
plumeria food for that ground orchids,
etcea fried Japanese you know, desert roses.

1950
02:25:54.159 --> 02:25:58.440
Lots of good plants you can use
that Plumeria product on. If you've

1951
02:25:58.440 --> 02:26:03.600
got rose, is the nutri Star
rows an excellent product for that, The

1952
02:26:03.680 --> 02:26:07.040
nutri Star Booginvilla. Just think of
it this way, booga and villa.

1953
02:26:07.280 --> 02:26:11.559
Think of it as a flowering vine. Anything that's a flowering vine. Boogain

1954
02:26:11.639 --> 02:26:16.520
Villa by neutral Star or Nutristar Boogainvilla
by Nelson is an excellent product to do

1955
02:26:16.600 --> 02:26:18.719
for that. I would use it
on crossvines or Virginia creeper, if you've

1956
02:26:18.760 --> 02:26:24.280
got that with steria, passion vines, trumpet vines, butterfly vines, Carolina

1957
02:26:24.280 --> 02:26:28.680
adjustment, all of those flowering vine
think about the boogainvillia. And of course

1958
02:26:28.719 --> 02:26:33.200
if you've got a crape myrtle or
any flowering tree, nutri star crape myrtle

1959
02:26:33.399 --> 02:26:37.600
from Nelson. All great products and
you can find them all over the place.

1960
02:26:37.639 --> 02:26:43.280
For example, Southwest Fertilizer. Southwest
Fertilizer carries each of these products and

1961
02:26:43.680 --> 02:26:46.959
as well as anything you hear me
talk about on guardline. If I talk

1962
02:26:46.000 --> 02:26:50.879
about any fertilizer, it's at Southwest. If I tell you go buy this

1963
02:26:50.040 --> 02:26:54.479
to kill a bug, or stop
a disease or stop a weed, it's

1964
02:26:54.520 --> 02:26:58.319
at Southwest Fertilizer. They have the
best selection of all kinds of products,

1965
02:26:58.319 --> 02:27:03.600
both syntheta types and organic types that
you're going to find in town. Southwest

1966
02:27:03.600 --> 02:27:09.680
Fertilizers on the corner of Bissinett and
Renwick and it's just Southwest Houston, real

1967
02:27:09.799 --> 02:27:15.319
easy to get to. Southwest Fertilizer
dot Com. That's the that's the website,

1968
02:27:15.360 --> 02:27:20.200
Southwest Fertilizer dot Com. Anything you
need in the way of a tool

1969
02:27:20.479 --> 02:27:24.000
or a product to apply to your
lawn, your garden, your herbs,

1970
02:27:24.000 --> 02:27:28.079
your flowerbeds, whatever it is,
you're going to find it there at Southwest

1971
02:27:28.360 --> 02:27:31.319
Fertilizer. I always love going into
there, and I always learn about new

1972
02:27:31.319 --> 02:27:35.280
products because they always stay up to
date on what the latest products are that

1973
02:27:35.319 --> 02:27:39.399
we have. After I'm done with
the shutter down or run up to Arbrogate,

1974
02:27:39.399 --> 02:27:43.680
I've got some visiting to do up
there with Beverly. But Arburgate Nursery

1975
02:27:43.840 --> 02:27:50.159
outside of Tomball on the West Sides
on twenty nine to twenty has just continued

1976
02:27:50.440 --> 02:27:52.680
to get better and better over the
years. And you think that was hard

1977
02:27:52.719 --> 02:27:54.879
to do. If you saw it
even ten years ago, it's like,

1978
02:27:54.959 --> 02:28:00.719
whoa, we've arrived here. But
no, they just keep going more new

1979
02:28:00.799 --> 02:28:03.760
things, exciting things that you want
to try to grow. Uh. They've

1980
02:28:03.760 --> 02:28:09.680
got the new parking lot around back. Wow, that is wonderful. Just

1981
02:28:09.719 --> 02:28:13.680
turn down Trishel Road before or after
Arborgate, pull around the back and it's

1982
02:28:13.719 --> 02:28:16.879
easy access and I don't care if
it's rained eight inches. You can drive

1983
02:28:16.879 --> 02:28:20.079
in there. You can walk in
there from there from where you park,

1984
02:28:20.360 --> 02:28:24.120
and no mud on your feet.
It's easy, easy to do while you're

1985
02:28:24.120 --> 02:28:28.479
there, grab their one two three
completely easy system. That's a soil for

1986
02:28:28.559 --> 02:28:35.000
anything with roots. That is a
compost product that contains expanded shale in it,

1987
02:28:35.639 --> 02:28:37.520
and that is a fertilizer. Also, by the way, the soil

1988
02:28:37.559 --> 02:28:41.360
also has expanded shale. And then
a fertilizer for anything that you have that

1989
02:28:41.440 --> 02:28:46.719
has roots, an organic fertilizer from
Arburgate part of the one two three easy

1990
02:28:46.760 --> 02:28:50.000
system. Remember brown stuff comes before
green stuff, right you go to Arburgate

1991
02:28:50.000 --> 02:28:54.680
to buy green stuff, make sure
and take home the one two three,

1992
02:28:54.799 --> 02:28:58.680
which is the brown stuff to make
your plants thrive. That's important. Someone

1993
02:28:58.760 --> 02:29:05.959
was out asking me about dealing with
chinchbugs in their lawn. They thought they

1994
02:29:05.959 --> 02:29:09.440
may have had chinchbugs in the lawn
this past week, and we're talking about

1995
02:29:09.440 --> 02:29:13.239
a little bit. It's a little
early for chinchbugs, but they can pop

1996
02:29:13.360 --> 02:29:16.319
up at any point in time.
They have more than one generation a year

1997
02:29:16.399 --> 02:29:20.959
as well, and nitrofoss bug Out
Max is a great way to shut them

1998
02:29:20.000 --> 02:29:26.479
down. Nitrofoss bug Out Max is
an insecticide that goes to work right away.

1999
02:29:26.520 --> 02:29:28.879
Within forty eight hours, it is
killed whatever is out there that is

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in that lawn that is bugging you, whether it's a sod web worm,

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or whether it's a chinchbug, or
whether maybe it's fleas and ticks from your

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pets. They do live in the
thatch as well, and you can shut

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them down right there as well as
ants. Bugout Max available, lots of

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places. Ace Hardware, CITYO Memorial
Drive has got it. Hiding and Feed

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up on I forty five North Stubernor
Airline. They've got RCW Nursery. You're

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gonna find bug out Max plans for
all seasons. Lots of places that you

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can find nitrofoss products, including the
bug out Max product itself works very well.

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If you're looking for your hometown feed
store up there in Tomboil, you're

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looking at D and D Feed.
D and D Feed is out on twenty

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nine to twenty just west of town. They have got all the different fertilizers

2011
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I talk about on guardline. You're
going to find the age leaf, mold,

2012
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compost, heirlooms, the new rose
soil blends that they have there from

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heirloom soils, fruit berry, citrus, the veggie and herb. All those

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soils are there at D and D
Feed. Of course it's a feed store.

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I mean, you're going to get
all the feed you need, high

2016
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quality ones at that, but you're
going to find every other kind of product

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to make your lawn more beautiful in
terms of protecting against pests and problems and

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providing those kinds of nutrient additions or
perhaps in this case, compost additions that

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are needed in it. Medina Supergrow
Plus that's an example of one of those.

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The Medina Supergrow Plus is a sixteen
zero two fertilizer sixteen zero two easy,

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easy to use. You attach it
to a hose, covers four thousand

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square feet and provides the nitrogen that
you need for your lawn and garden to

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be successful. Last week, I
was out at Nelson Nursery and Watergardens,

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which is out in Katie, picking
up some plants. They had a certain

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kinds of things out there that I
was looking for. By the way,

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their plants selections outstanding out there.
At Nelson's. You just set out to

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Katie on Iten you go north,
so it's like Houston's. It's like the

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West Houston Nursery here for garden line
and their selection is unbelievable. The fountains

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is unbelievable. If you go to
the website Nelsonwatergardens dot com, you'll see

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what I'm talking about. Nelson watergarden
dot Com. Out there in the Katie

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area. Of course they got fish
and stuff. When you go out there,

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by the way, take a friend
because it is inspiring to walk through

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all the water. They ought to
charge people to just go sit among all

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the water splashing and the water sounds. That'd be be better therapy than just

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about anything that you could do out
there. Yeah, well you've been listening

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to guard line. We had a
full day with some nice guests and things.

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Don't forget. Next Saturday, on
the twenty ninth of June, my

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last public appearance of the year Langham
Creek Ace Hardware out in West Houston where

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Barker Cypress and Spencer Road, which
is five twenty nine come together. I

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hope you'll make plans to come see
me.