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

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

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It's crazy Trim just watch him as
well that so many got supt Basic gas

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Club back again, not a salad
glass. So hey, good morning,

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welcome to garden Line. We're glad
to have you with us today. Got

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a early early Saturday. Congratulations for
those of you who are up and at

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him, maybe with a cup of
coffee or tea or whatever wakes you up

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in the morning. I always enjoy
the first thing being able to visit with

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people that are interested in gardening,
talk about gardening, maybe kind of quiet

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first thing in the morning sometimes,
so it gives me a chance to talk

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about a few things that I am
interested in specifically. For example, I'd

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like to be the first to acknowledge
that yesterday we didn't have a show.

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Yesterday, so here one day late
was a National ag Day celebrating our bountiful

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food supply. You know, over
the decades here in America, the development

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of agriculture has really changed the face
of society in so many ways. In

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fact, including around the world because
of the innovations that were developed here.

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Beginning years ago, our leaders in
Congress President had the wisdom to set up

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a system of research, evaluation,
and education to get the information from the

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university to the people. That was
basically it. Things like hybrid corn,

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things like how to prepare and protect
the soil. Certainly after the dust bolt,

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we learned one there, but so
many innovations. Abraham Lincoln was one

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of the ones that signed in to
practice or to law, the act that

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created the Agrolife Extension Service and every
other extension service. First of all,

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every university has a lang Grant institution. I mean every state has a lang

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Grant university, a Lagrant institution,
and that created a university. Then they

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created research and extension to reach out
from those universities. The eighteen seventy institutions

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as well were created during as that
time evolved through the years. So for

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example, a place like here in
Texas is Texas and m Oklahoma State,

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New Mexico State, Louisiana, LSU
all through the country. Every eight has

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one up in New York it's Cornell
University and Rutgers in New Jersey, and

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a lot of places you heard of, of course, are those lang grane

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universities. The extension service is in
every state. It's a little different in

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every state, but there's research and
extension. What does research do well?

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It finds out the newest, the
latest, how to protect the environment,

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how to increase yields for farmers,
but for those of us gardeners, things

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that are useful to us as well. I was just visiting with someone about

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some turf grass research this past week
and what are turf researchers working on.

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They're working on grasses that do better
with less water. That is a huge

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thing, right, We certainly know
that after last summer, and new varieties

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are coming out all the time,
new ways. I remember when I was

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fairly young in my extension career,
the Don't Bag It program was created and

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that basically was an educational outreach of
extension to teach people, hey, you

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don't have to beg clippings and put
them at the curbside and have them end

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up in a landfill somewhere, and
why that's important to return the clippings and

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how that helps your grain. It's
a win win, It helps your grass

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and it also avoids just adding more
garbage trucks around town to get everything to

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the hole in the ground somewhere.
And those kind of innovations have changed America

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when it comes to food supply.
Though. Back in the day where a

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farmer could support eight people with what
he was able to grow, now we're

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looking at farmers supporting way over forty
people with what they're able to grow.

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The innovations and things, and I
think that's something to be grateful for because

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food supply affects everything. Certainly it
affects our health, our well being.

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We don't have to deal with issues
like famine here in the US and in

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countries that have there's constantly work being
done. Why you can't control weather,

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you can control a lot of other
things that help avoid famine. And I'll

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tell you this, one of the
biggest things to cause peace to happen is

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to provide food for people when people
are starving. Trouble naturally and logically follows.

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And the innovations that have occurred not
just in America but here beginning with

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our lan Grant universities, the research
and then the extension taking the university of

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the people. That's what we call
Agrolfe extension. And in every state that

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same thing happening that has changed the
world. In fact, the first extension

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agent was here in Texas, a
guy named seman Nap. He would take

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and load up his information and wagons
and go out to the farmers, gather

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all the farmers in a whole region
together. They he would pass out some

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new type of corn, for example, there's more productive, or say hey,

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why don't you do to row cotton
out in West Texas because that'll absorb

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more of the be able to take
up more soul and moistue. You don't

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have to irrigate it. All kinds
of innovations. If farmers try it,

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and when you try it and you
see it, it changes how you think.

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You know. A lot of us
are skeptical. But siemen Napp says,

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what a man hears, he may
or may not believe. What he

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sees, he may or may not
believe. But what he does himself,

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he cannot help but believe. And
that's a little adjusted quote from him there.

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But what a concept, what a
simple idea that changed the world.

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So happy, bountiful and beautiful food
supply day as of yesterday. So we're

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just wishing it to you a daylight
you know in our lawns our summer weeds,

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our warm season weeds are germinating,
and if you are going to prevent

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those, product like barricade from nitrofoss
is a good way to do it because

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when you put barricade down and get
it in the soil, it forms a

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barricade over the soil surface, so
that thin lon you got everywhere sunlight hits

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the soil your plants of weed,
and barricade shuts it down. I don't

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care if it's a grassy weed or
broadleaf weed. If you get it down

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before the weed is up and established, barricade prevents that. And that's why

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timely application is important. And barricade
is sold a lot of different places.

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You know, night fass is widely
available here in the Greater Houst scen Aarreia.

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You can find barricade in places like
Enchanted Forest down in the Richmond Rosenberg

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area, Growers Outlet up in Willis, for example, or RCW Nursery which

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is where Highway two forty nine Tomball
Parkway comes into belt Way eight. Barricade

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is widely available. But remember when
you put it down, you need about

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a half inch of rain. Now
be careful, you say, well,

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it's going to rain later. Well, if it rains too much, that's

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not a good thing. You don't
want to wash any kind of product off

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the ground into the drainage areas.
You don't want to wash it just way

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down in the roots. That the
goal is to just moisten it enough to

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get it in the sole surface.
But that is very important, and barricade

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will provide that kind of help for
your lawn as a result. Let's take

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a little break here. I've kind
of done a little monologue to kick things

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off. If you'd like to give
us a call, our phone number is

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seven one three two one two fifty
eight seventy four. I'll be right back.

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Welcome back to garden Line. It
is early, it is dark outside,

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and we got some rain forecasts for
the weekend. We know that,

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but that is no reason not to
get out and get those plants and supply.

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So you're ready to go when this
is over with, I hope you'll

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get out. One great place to
do that would be plants for all seasons.

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You know, they're located so easy
to get to. They're located right

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there on two forty nine Tombo Parkway, just north of Luetta, So they're

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right on two forty nine. And
Plants for All Seasons been around since nineteen

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seventy three, and the Flowery family
has really prided themselves in providing the best

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plants that are very well adapted to
here and the kind of products you need

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to have success. And then on
top of all of that, and this

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may be one of the most important
things to have educated staff that know how

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to help you and how to direct
you. It's not just like, here's

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a plant, and you know there's
some places you go and you don't want

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to go back and ask them for
advice. At least you shouldn't because they

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don't know what they're talking about.
Plants for All Seasons does, and they

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can guide you to products, they
can help diagnose things, bring them a

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sample or a picture, they can
do that. But you know, when

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you go in there, you're always
going to get the plants that you need.

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Do you want a container full of
color? Yeah, they can set

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you up on that. You still
looking at some transplants for your vegetables,

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it's time. Absolutely, tomatoes and
peppers and eggplant and all kinds of other

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things. They've got all of that. They've got the fertilizers that I talk

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about on garden Line. They got
the soils that we talk about, and

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you know how important it is to
get the brown stuff fixed before you put

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in the green stuff. They can
do that plants for all seasons dot Com

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two eight, one, three,
seven, six, sixteen forty six.

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And today it would be a good
day to go buy there and pick up

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those kind of supplies so that you
can have success enjoy that success with your

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plants. You know. For example, a good example of a product to

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always have on hand would be Medina's
has to Grow six twelve six. Now,

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there are a lot of Medina products
out there, and I could sit

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and talk about every single one of
them and why they're helpful for your your

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plants, for your success in gardening, whether it's vegetables or flowers or herbs

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or whatever. I like. The
has to Grow six twelve six as a

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watering end product. Now you can
use it as a foliar spray. You

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can use a lot of things.
But for me, you get it,

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you put it, follow the label, put it in a little watering can

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mix it up with water, and
when you put that plant in the ground,

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whether it's a tomato or a petunia
or herb, or a rose bush

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or a shrub or anything. You
just water it in with that and I'll

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come back about a week later and
that again, and about a week later

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and do that again. And those
three watering. I mean, you can

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do more. You can keep going, but I usually do about three that

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By then that's three weeks and the
plant has established roots. It's got everything

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those new roots need to grow,
things like seaweed extracts, things like humic

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acid, things like Medina so ele
activator, and it's ready to go.

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And Medina products are widely available.
You're going to find them, but look

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for has to grow six twelve six. If you're going to do any planting,

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and my gosh, it's spring,
you've got to be doing some planting.

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This is the gardening season everybody gets
excited about. Of course, I

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add faull to it. I think
falls are a great great season. Two.

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But you know here in Houston,
you can grow things any month out

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of the year. Well, do
you have some questions about some things going

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on in your landscape or some things
you're planning on doing. Give me a

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call seven to one three two one
two five eight seven four seven one three

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to fifty eight seventy four. It's
always a little quiet first thing in the

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morning. I think some of you
wake up like I do. And that

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she got one eye at half open
and then the other about an hour later,

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the other eye hits half masked as
she slowly crawl into consciousness. I

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know I did that this morning.
I have to get up early so I'm

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ready to go when it's time for
the show. But it's one of my

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favorite things to do is talk with
gardeners and help gardeners to have success.

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Now you've heard me say this before, but if you think you have a

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brown thumb, you don't. And
if you want to say you have a

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brown thumb, then I'll just come
back and say, well, what you

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have is an uninformed thumb. Because
the reason Grandma could plan everything and it

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just seemed to grow wasn't because she
had magic. It's Grandma just knew how

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to do things. And the more
you learn, the more you the more

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your plants become beautiful and bountiful.
How about that your knowledge makes your thumb

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green? That that is really really
true when you look at six I hear

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people all the time talk about I
did this, I did that to my

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plants, And as I'm hearing it, I'm going, Okay, well you

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may have gotten buy with it,
but that is not good for the plants.

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You know, they like fertilizing the
triple thirteen all the time, year

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after year in your lawns. Don't
do that. I can tell you why.

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Probably don't want to listen to me
drone on about the chemistry of the

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soil. But grass does not take
up roots in a one one one ratio.

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It just doesn't. It's not how
it takes it up. So you

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know, yeah, use it once
or twice or three times or whatever,

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but it's not the best way to
go. And we help you understand things

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like that. That is important.
And always I talk about the soil because

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it is the so We get excited
about flowers and foliage and fruit and vegetables

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and all of that. It's all
about the soil. If you want bountiful

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tomatoes, make the soil right before
you plant. You on a beautiful lawn

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e month after month, continue to
work toward improving that so well. The

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folks at Ciena Molts they absolutely can
help you do that. I mean,

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the quality of products they have is
second to none. Whether it's just compost,

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or whether it is a bed mix
like a rose soil for example,

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whether it is Moltz to go on
the top so you're not pulling weeds when

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the temperatures one hundred degrees outside and
that's coming someday. Cienamlts dot com.

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They're down in just north of Road
Sharon, near where Highway six and two

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eighty eight come together on FM five
twenty one. So if you live in

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Meridian or Riverstone or Sandy Point,
Pomona Fresno, Iowa Colony, all of

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those areas out near Bresspin State Park, this is your local place and they'll

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deliver within twenty miles of the location. If you need a bulk order,

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they can get you fixed uff on
that. If you're going to do some

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landscaping and need some rock, maybe
Riverstone for a drainway, or maybe some

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flat stones for creating a patio,
Siena Moltz can get you fixed up.

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They have the products. Oh let's
see, here's time for the phones.

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How about that. Let's go to
southwest Houstern. We're going to talk to

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Jeff. Hello Jeff, good morning, Skip. You're not alone out there.

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We're up it's it's a great day. I'm glad you brought up has

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to grow. But I wanted to
mention first that, you know, the

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older I get, the smarter Grandma
was. I've come to realize, okay,

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and it's it's more and more true
every day I have some hass to

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grow that I've had for over a
year. Is it's still good. Yes,

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it's been sitting in the you know, in the garage. It's not

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it's overly heated. They're overly cool. It's good. Go for it.

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You shake it up, hurt,
I will. I just planted a bunch

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of stuff. So I'm going to
take your three week advice. Yeah,

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yeah, I wouldn't recommend, you
know, keeping products like that for years

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and years, but there's no problem
using that at all. Very good,

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thank you, and so all I
had. All right, Jeff, thanks

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man south West Houston. All right, take care, appreciate your call.

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Yep, that is true. It
does does very very well. It does

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well. Let's see, we're going
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and talk to Jay. Hello Jay, Hello, good morning. So I

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have two distinct questions for you.
The first one relates to garden beds and

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bring vegetables for spring summer. I
recently received a Facebook closet of a friend

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which stated tomatoes hate cucumbers and the
purpose of the post was to say that

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certain vegetables enjoy going next to each
other and certain do not. And I

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was skeptical of it, but I
was curious to know if you had the

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advice on that particular topics. That's
a good question. There is something to

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different kinds of vegetable grouping, But
a lot of stuff you hear out there

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is just hearsay that's been being spread
around without any research to back it up

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at all. So if you don't
do it, do it. But as

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far as me saying yeah, that
works, I can't. But there are

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examples of where it can work.
It can work in different ways too.

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It may be that one plant helps
repel pests off another plant, or draws

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pests away from the other plant.
It can be that the interactions the volatiles

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that go up in the air affect
what insects are drawn in or not.

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And it can have that kind of
effect as well, like maybe drawing in

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some beneficial insects or some predators.
But in general it's broad I've looked and

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looked for research and I found a
lot of stuff, but it's really here

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and there and the whole idea of
all these combinations. I would look at

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that skeptically, not to say nothing, there's no truth in it, would

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just be very skeptical about that.
For example, one time we were looking

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at how to control squash vine borne
We read that if you plant tansy around

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the squash plants, the vine bors
will be repelled. We tried a trial

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where we actually replicated it, and
we found there we had plants where the

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tansy had so overgrown the squash you
had to pull the tansy apart to find

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the squash plant. And the squash
plant had a vine boor in it,

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so the vine borer was doing a
better job finding the squash than I was

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among the tansy. So that's just
an example one that didn't work. But

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a lot of things get spread around
and so be skeptical, but don't just

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assume there's no truth to any of
it. All right, Yeah, that

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makes sense. I had one more
question, if you have time, sure,

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completely unrelated. I'm interested in growing
a pineapple, and I've seen the

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number of videos on how to buy
a pineapple in the store, pull off

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the crown, it out just right, and then plant it and grow a

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pineapple plant from it. And I
was curious to all these videos that I've

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seen are from people in Florida,
like zone ten, and I believe that

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there's a possibility that one could grow
a fruiting pineapple plant here where we are,

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and which I believe is still nine. But I was curious to know

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if you've heard of any success stories. Yeah, there is. So what

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you do is you take the top
out, get all the fleshy stuff.

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When you cut the top off,
you're left with a little pineapple and stuff

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right there around the base of Yeah, shut off. Get that off.

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You don't have to let it dry
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down into potting mix and get it
started. It will root pretty quickly,

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and once it's established, I would
keep it in a container for a while

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because if you're going to enter the
cool season, you're going to have to

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protect it here. It gets a
little too cold for it here. But

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after it's established a decent sized plant, you can take an apple, set

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it in the top of the pineapple, and cover the whole thing with a

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like a dry cleaner bag. And
what that does is it traps the ethylene

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the apple is giving off, and
it initiates the bloom process in the pineapple.

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look, but maybe you leave it
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it out and then after a period
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a bloomstalk. And again you want
to have a nice, good sized plant.

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months. It's like a year to
get a good pineapple to develop. Maybe

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a little longer. Yeah, and
just follow that, follow the stuff you're

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reading online. But that's how you
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bloom with that apple. Okay,
hey, Jay, I'm gonna have But

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I hope that is helpful. Thank
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Thank you so much. Yeah,
I appreciate your call a lot. You

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know, while while you're out there
taking care of your lawns and gardens and

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things, this is a time to
be doing fertilizing, and Microlife has some

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outstanding products for that. The green
Bag the six two four is an outstanding

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lawn fertilizer. Works very very well
of us in my lawn. They also

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have the humates plus. That's the
purple bag, and it has a little

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bit of nutrient in it. It's
got four percent potassium. But you're not

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putting it on for that. You're
putting it on for the microbes that are

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in it, and for the fact
that humus is basically concentrated compost in a

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bag. So the whole process that
nature goes through drops leaves on the ground,

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rotsham into composts, keeps decaying and
decomposing away into humus. That's microlife,

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humantes plus humus in a bag.
You just do it when you're doing

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your fertilize. Also do an application
of the microlife and you'll see results.

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It'll build your soil over time.
It was time to turn the microphone over

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to Nikki for the news, and
here we go. Give us a call

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

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Line. Glad to have you listening
this morning. And hey, all those

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folks up around Carlos, Texas,
who knows where that is? Well,

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I'll tell you this, Carlos,
Texas, I call it God's Country.

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Is beautiful up there. That's where
Grin's County Feed and Farm is. So

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if you are in Brian College Station, Navasota, or if you're out and

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all the little small communities out east
of there like Iola and beat Eyes and

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Rones, Perrie, Shiro, Richards
Anderson, maybe the subdivisions King Oak and

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mere Wood. Well there you go. You've got a hometown feed store right

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in your backyard. They carry the
products that I talk about, the fertilizers,

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night foss and microlife and Nelson's for
example, They've got Medina products there.

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You can get your tree huger,
sprinkler there, you can get your

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landscape pride souls there. They just
have a wide variety of all kinds of

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thanks plus all the things you need
for your pet food, for your ag

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supplies. Do you need pond supplies, They've got them. They even bring

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in fish periodically in fish stocking.
Just give them a call, check them

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out, go buy and visit.
It's on State Highway thirty and Carlos,

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Texas, Grimes County Feet Grimes County
Feed and Farm. The roy family has

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been just the place. First of
all, the family's been in the community

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for a long time and they live
lives of service there. They support their

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community, but they have just really
created a nice feed so I enjoy going

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in all the time. I enjoy
visiting with them, and I'm tell you

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this, they will treat their customers
right. That is absolutely the case.

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You see, We're going to go
out and now to Mike and Nevisota.

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Mike, thanks for waiting. Good
to have you on garden Line. How

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can we help, Yes, sir, appreciate, appreciate the show and appreciate

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you. Just get a quick thing
the I have a small vineyard, uh,

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basically just a little bit over a
quarter acre, about forty vines that

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are down on the ground for about
three years now. But I have some

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of the vines that don't throw,
and I was just wondering why that might

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be. Are these blocked dubas vines
or what kind of grade for you growing

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up Cabernier sau Migno. It's a
challenging one to deal with. Here.

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Let me do this. I'm going
to refer you if you will talk to

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the folks in the horticulture department at
A and M. They have a specialist,

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a couple of folks that that may
be able to help you there.

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Fran Uh and Justin Fran and Justin
uh Co and talk to either one of

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those. That is their specialty.
And I've been to field days they've done

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out there in Grimes County, uh
for for rapes out there, and they

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can probably guide you on it better
them. Not fruiting could be due to

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several different things, but I would
I will refer you to them if you

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go to the if you do a
search for Aggie Horticulture for that website,

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you can get the phone number and
find out about those those folks. I

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would ask them that question because they're
going to walk in through a series of

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questions, you know, like what
is your disease control program? What is

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the bigger like on the vines,
and a lot of things like that.

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Okay, sure, sure, yeah
right, I'll give you a much better

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answer by referring you to them on
that they specialize in its commercial rape.

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All right, excellent, Well,
I do appreciate it, appreciate you,

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Thank you. I appreciate your call
very much, much appreciated. Let's see,

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we're going to go now to pair
Land and talk to Pat. Hello,

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Pat, A, good morning.
My question My question is is I

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buy them every year and it doesn't
matter if I get a hanging basket or

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if I plant it, it dies. And I was raised in Corpus where

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they were just everywhere, and I
would like to know. I do see

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some people able to have just really
gorgeous spoken villas. Yes, I'd like

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to know if you have advice on
that. Well, they don't have that

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many problems. You know, certainly
when we have winter cold, especially in

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a container plant, you're going to
have trouble there. You got to protect

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and bring them in or whatever.
They also don't like soggy conditions. And

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although they're dropping tolerant in a container, it can go too dry too too

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fast, and so you do need
a moisture to have health and vigor in

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the vines. And I okay,
it's going to be one of those things,

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either too wet or to dry.
Most likely they like lots of sun,

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but that's not going to kill the
plant. It'll make it weak and

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spin lee to not get enough light. Uh yeah, I think I would

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look at also fertilizing. There are
some really nice Boogainvillia foods, for example,

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out there on the market, and
probably we didn't have to say Boogainvillia

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food on it. Uh, to
be fine to use on booga and villias,

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just a good you know, a
good quality fertilizer. We'll provide them,

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but I would, I would look
at some of those kinds of things.

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Have you When you say they die, is there any pattern to them

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dying? I mean, in other
words, do the leaves turn yellow?

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Did they just dry up? Yeah? I've had both of those situations.

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Yeah, final, but I try
every year because they're so gorgeous. Okay,

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Well, when you're out, when
you're out chopping around, look for

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nitrocass makes something called Boogainvillia fertilizer.
It's a twenty six ten. Those are

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the Cree numbers, twenty six twenty
six ten, and that'll give you like

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four months of release. Just follow
the label and how much to put on

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there, and that will make sure
you have a vigor from a nutrient standpoint,

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and then just watch the soul moisture
a little bit. Other than that,

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I don't know what else would just
black kill them? All righty,

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I'll try again, thank you.
Oh yeah, you gotta try again right

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now. Vegas are loaded up.
I was at checking out RCW NURSIP.

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My gosh, they have a loaded
amount of Boogo and villias out there,

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and it just all our garden centers
really are loading up on those days.

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This is the time they are,
aren't they. Thanks for the call,

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Brenda or Pat, thank you.
That's okay, bye, all right,

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bye bye. Oh gosh, listen, it's time to make sure your trees

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are taking care of. Summer is
coming. If you planted a tree in

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the last year, it's still in
those first few years that are touching go

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and you need to provide good care. If you have an established tree,

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training them right is very important.
I've look at my wife was talking to

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me about a tree the other day
and it's like we were talking about the

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branching on it, and it was
just my comment was, yes, people

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plan them and they don't train them
early, and now they're old and you've

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got these structural issues because they weren't
taken care of from the beginning. Affordable

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tree service they can do that Martin. Martin can come out and do a

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consultation cost one hundred fifty bucks,
but if you hire him to then do

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the work, that one hundred and
fifty goes into the cost of what you're

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getting done, so you're not out
the one fifty, but have him take

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a look. If you're going to
do anything around trees, you have to

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have a good, knowledgeable person out
there to guide you. And we have

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way too many people that have a
pickup and a chainsaw and think they're a

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tree service and not. You drive
around town, you see the results of

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that kind of damage and it's for
life on a tree. Seven three,

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six, nine nine twenty six sixty
three is how you reach Martin Either here

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Joe will answered, the owners answer
the phone. There afftree service dot com.

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He stays busy. Tell him your
garden line listener. That moves you

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up in the list and call now
because he books out a little bit of

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a distance because he does good work. And that's what happens. When you

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do a good job, people call
you and ask for help. I'm gonna

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have to take a little quick break
here, but we will be back,

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Brenda. You will be first up
when we come back. The number is

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seven one three two one two kt
R H. Yes, indeed, hey,

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I was I mentioned Narcy W.
Wallerger. You know. RCW Nurseries

408
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is at Beltway eight uh and Tamball
Parkway. RCW Nursery dot com. That's

409
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a website. Boy are they ever
stocked up. They have some beautiful Peggy

410
00:30:57.279 --> 00:31:02.960
Martin roses on Trellis's right now,
so you kind of have a little instant

411
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display right there. It looks really
good ornamental peaches like the flowering peppermint peach.

412
00:31:08.200 --> 00:31:11.480
Have you ever seen peppermint peach.
It looks like peppermint candy with the

413
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pink and the white all mixed up
in it. They got beautiful spireas.

414
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That's the one of the things that
announces spring. It's beautiful spyrias with the

415
00:31:21.319 --> 00:31:25.799
white blooms, cascading blooms. I
mentioned that they had the booga bee as.

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00:31:25.839 --> 00:31:29.799
Boy do they ever. It's easy
easy at RCW, easy to get

417
00:31:29.839 --> 00:31:33.640
to right there, Tamba Park right
two forty nine and belt Way eight,

418
00:31:34.039 --> 00:31:38.960
easy to find, easy to get
to RCW nurseries dot com. Go check

419
00:31:40.000 --> 00:31:42.599
them out. It is loaded with
color there. We're going to head to

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Woodville now and talk to Brenda.
Hello, Brenda, good morning, good

421
00:31:47.960 --> 00:31:53.799
morning. We moved here a few
years ago and our yard is basically just

422
00:31:53.960 --> 00:31:59.599
wheat. Well it's sandy soil and
it's basically just weeds. We have not

423
00:31:59.720 --> 00:32:02.240
been able to get any grass to
grow at all because we do have moles,

424
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but anyhead, we don't know really
where to start anymore. Okay,

425
00:32:08.400 --> 00:32:13.640
Well, look at your grass and
look for grass in and among the weeds.

426
00:32:13.680 --> 00:32:15.880
If you've got grass about, let's
say there's a living grass about a

427
00:32:15.960 --> 00:32:20.559
foot apart, it'll cover back over
when we get the weeds under control and

428
00:32:20.599 --> 00:32:22.559
start taking care of it again,
you can get it to cover back.

429
00:32:22.680 --> 00:32:27.400
If it's bigger areas than that,
you probably need to either look at putting

430
00:32:27.519 --> 00:32:31.480
some sad pieces in here and there, or residing sections, or if not,

431
00:32:31.640 --> 00:32:36.559
the whole thing. Those are kind
of the options to start. After

432
00:32:36.680 --> 00:32:38.920
that, I want you to go
online and look at my lawn care schedule.

433
00:32:39.319 --> 00:32:45.240
It's at gardening with Skip dot com
and it tells you gardening with Skip,

434
00:32:45.480 --> 00:32:49.599
Gardening with Skip, that's me dot
com. Okay, And I've got

435
00:32:49.680 --> 00:32:53.599
a schedule for lawn care which is
proper fertilizing, mowing, aerting, watering,

436
00:32:53.680 --> 00:32:57.519
those things. It tells you what
to do when, what the products

437
00:32:57.559 --> 00:33:01.000
are organic and synthetic. And then
I have the lawn pest, disease and

438
00:33:01.079 --> 00:33:06.400
weed management schedule. These are free
for downloading. They are multicolored, real

439
00:33:06.519 --> 00:33:09.000
easy to follow. And that second
one tells you, of course, what

440
00:33:09.160 --> 00:33:12.519
goes wrong with the lawn, how
do you kill weeds? What do you

441
00:33:12.680 --> 00:33:15.759
use when? How do you prevent
the seeds from establishing? And when?

442
00:33:15.000 --> 00:33:17.799
How do you kill weeds that are
already growing? And when? And so

443
00:33:19.079 --> 00:33:22.279
your question is, you know,
one hundred questions in one because there's one

444
00:33:22.319 --> 00:33:24.559
hundred different things going on there.
But with those schedules, I think you

445
00:33:24.599 --> 00:33:27.400
can take care of it. And
if you have any other questions, just

446
00:33:27.480 --> 00:33:30.839
call me back and I would be
happy to go into detail on any specifics

447
00:33:30.880 --> 00:33:35.279
that you might have. Okay,
thank you very much, Thank you,

448
00:33:35.319 --> 00:33:39.119
Brenda. Good luck getting that back
in shape again. Do you need a

449
00:33:39.160 --> 00:33:44.640
feed store up there in the Magnolia
area. I'm talking about FM twenty nine

450
00:33:44.839 --> 00:33:47.319
seventy eight those of you who live
up in that region. Just they're really

451
00:33:47.480 --> 00:33:52.359
just close to Grand Parkway in Highway
to forty nine. Well that's Spring Creek

452
00:33:52.400 --> 00:33:57.160
Feed Center. Spring Creek Feed is
a wonderful store a visit, beautiful inside,

453
00:33:57.240 --> 00:34:00.240
great people, the way they treat
you there, friendly and they carry

454
00:34:00.279 --> 00:34:05.359
all the fertilizers I talk about.
If you have weeds, diseases or past

455
00:34:05.640 --> 00:34:08.039
they've got the products that work on
them. They have a nice little garden

456
00:34:08.119 --> 00:34:13.000
center on the outside of the store
that they've really expanded this year. I

457
00:34:13.159 --> 00:34:15.840
was very impressed with all the changes
that they'd brought on. Hey, if

458
00:34:15.880 --> 00:34:21.440
you're for h r FFA raising livestock, if you for a former military or

459
00:34:21.519 --> 00:34:24.360
senior citizen, there's discounts for that, and they'll even special order too,

460
00:34:24.480 --> 00:34:28.400
by the way, so if they
don't have it, they probably can get

461
00:34:28.440 --> 00:34:32.639
it at Spring Creek Feet Again.
They're on in Magnolia on twenty nine seventy

462
00:34:32.679 --> 00:34:37.800
eight. Real easy to find,
easy to get to, and just a

463
00:34:37.920 --> 00:34:44.559
pleasant place to shop. Always like
going by and visiting them there. I've

464
00:34:44.679 --> 00:34:49.960
been talking about the different kinds of
fertilizers and whatnot that you might be needing

465
00:34:50.000 --> 00:34:55.840
to put on your lawn. Nitropos
Imperial is their immediate release fertilizer that we

466
00:34:57.000 --> 00:35:00.559
use for spring green up, and
I talked about earlier my schedule. If

467
00:35:00.599 --> 00:35:04.480
you look at my schedule, it
has the spring green up time as going

468
00:35:04.559 --> 00:35:08.320
from maybe late February up until toward
the end of March. Mid March to

469
00:35:08.480 --> 00:35:13.519
late March is a good time to
be doing still the spring greenup. What

470
00:35:13.679 --> 00:35:16.039
that does is it gives immediate nutrients
out there so the grass can take it

471
00:35:16.159 --> 00:35:20.639
up and get greener. And that's
what Imperial does. It's a fifteen to

472
00:35:20.639 --> 00:35:22.639
five to ten And here's the easy
one. It's in a red bag,

473
00:35:23.119 --> 00:35:30.119
red bag nitrofoss red bag fifteen five
to ten Imperial for quick greenup. That

474
00:35:30.440 --> 00:35:34.960
will provide that greenup as the temperature
warms and grass begins growing faster and it's

475
00:35:35.079 --> 00:35:38.559
slowly waken up. We still got, in Saint Augustine's opinion, it's still

476
00:35:38.599 --> 00:35:44.280
a little on the cool side out
there. So when that happens, we'll

477
00:35:44.320 --> 00:35:50.159
be talking about things like slow and
release fertilizers, which you can use them,

478
00:35:50.239 --> 00:35:52.360
but it just takes the longer to
release the nutrients. Right now,

479
00:35:52.440 --> 00:35:55.679
the spring greenup is fine or the
slow release, either the way you want

480
00:35:55.719 --> 00:36:00.119
to go. Red bag Imperial spring
greenup from nitrofoss. Where do you get

481
00:36:00.199 --> 00:36:06.159
nitrofoss? Everywhere? I mean night
foss products are available in places like all

482
00:36:06.239 --> 00:36:09.280
spas, ace hardware up in the
Woodlands area, plants for all seasons,

483
00:36:09.400 --> 00:36:14.880
just talking about them earlier on Highway
to forty nine, or plants and things

484
00:36:14.960 --> 00:36:21.639
up in Brenham all have those nitrofoss
products. I wanted to been meaning to

485
00:36:22.280 --> 00:36:25.320
kind of give a shout out for
a Joge down in Jorges Hidden Gardens.

486
00:36:25.360 --> 00:36:30.119
He's down in Alvin is one of
our newer sponsors on garden Line. I

487
00:36:30.360 --> 00:36:36.679
was like going down visiting with Jorge
He. I think they have a some

488
00:36:36.880 --> 00:36:39.760
sort of a spring meetup going on
down there. He and dest I believe

489
00:36:39.840 --> 00:36:45.119
have one going on today down there. But Joorges Hidden Gardens is a place

490
00:36:45.280 --> 00:36:49.719
that just every time you go,
it's expanding and there's more that's going on.

491
00:36:50.199 --> 00:36:53.519
They've got lots of vegetables right now. They have perennials like salvi and

492
00:36:53.639 --> 00:36:58.320
lantana, for example, and Mexican
heather. Mexican heather. I use it

493
00:36:58.400 --> 00:37:02.119
to line my driveway between the driveway
and whatever else is growing in the bed

494
00:37:02.400 --> 00:37:07.480
right beside it. Mexican Heather's excellent
for that. Honey Bees love it.

495
00:37:07.800 --> 00:37:10.800
Speaking of pollinators and things, milkweed, he's got milkweed on it. He's

496
00:37:10.800 --> 00:37:15.400
got fruit trees that are really at
an age where you're going to see in

497
00:37:15.480 --> 00:37:20.840
the next year to fruit on those
on those plants. He's got grapes if

498
00:37:20.880 --> 00:37:23.719
you ever thought about putting grapes out, and lots of different kinds of berries

499
00:37:23.840 --> 00:37:29.480
all at Jorges Hidden Gardens. And
again if you haven't been there before,

500
00:37:29.880 --> 00:37:35.559
JORGEE is down there in Alvin on
Elizabeth Street, just south the Highway six

501
00:37:35.639 --> 00:37:38.880
in Alvin on Elizabeth Street. That
is how you find it. And he's

502
00:37:38.920 --> 00:37:44.320
going to have things like the three
sixty tree stabilizer that we talk about here.

503
00:37:44.400 --> 00:37:46.880
He's got that as well. He
got plenty of good stock of that

504
00:37:47.079 --> 00:37:51.880
and fertilizers and other things. Those
of you done in that area, you

505
00:37:51.960 --> 00:37:53.239
really need to swing by there and
check it out. I think you,

506
00:37:53.599 --> 00:37:58.960
I think you'd be very impressed.
You're listening to garden Line. Our phone

507
00:37:59.039 --> 00:38:04.079
number is seven two to one two
fifty eight seventy four seven one three two

508
00:38:04.119 --> 00:38:08.119
one two five eight seven four if
you'd like to give us a call.

509
00:38:09.679 --> 00:38:15.559
I was visiting with someone, actually
exchanging email with someone from ACE Hardware the

510
00:38:15.639 --> 00:38:17.440
other day and just talking about what's
going on there? What are you guys

511
00:38:17.519 --> 00:38:21.559
doing right now? And he reminded
me, well, it's raining outside,

512
00:38:21.679 --> 00:38:24.519
so we've got we've got all kinds
of supplies for that. You know,

513
00:38:24.639 --> 00:38:29.599
ACE is a place for everything that
you need, and I mean that especially

514
00:38:29.679 --> 00:38:32.760
your lawn, your garden, but
your patio, your home, They've got

515
00:38:32.840 --> 00:38:37.360
that as well. Do you need
a pair of goloshes today, or rubber

516
00:38:37.400 --> 00:38:39.760
boots, rain boots, They've got
those. Do you need a poncho a

517
00:38:39.960 --> 00:38:44.920
rain gear, They've got that.
See that's what I'm talking about when I

518
00:38:45.000 --> 00:38:49.079
talk about ACE. I just spend
the whole show naming all the stuff that

519
00:38:49.199 --> 00:38:52.440
they have, you know, from
small engine type things to indoor plumbing and

520
00:38:52.559 --> 00:38:57.719
wiring and everything you would expect from
a hardware store. But then you get

521
00:38:57.800 --> 00:39:01.000
into the indoor decorating, the outdoor
ring of lights to make that ambiance in

522
00:39:01.079 --> 00:39:06.639
your patio, they've got it.
And right now, the fertilizers you need,

523
00:39:07.000 --> 00:39:08.719
if you hear me talk about them
on garden Line, they're going to

524
00:39:08.719 --> 00:39:12.880
be at your ACE Hardware store and
you need to go by there and pick

525
00:39:12.920 --> 00:39:16.119
them up because they have an excellent
supply. They're always getting a bunch in

526
00:39:16.199 --> 00:39:21.280
an ACE Hardware. So where's your
store, Acehardware dot Com. Go there,

527
00:39:21.639 --> 00:39:24.320
Acehardware dot Com. When you go
there, what you're going to find

528
00:39:24.800 --> 00:39:28.719
is a store locator. You may
scroll down to the bottom to find it,

529
00:39:28.840 --> 00:39:31.880
but store locator will tell you where
all the forty stores are, and

530
00:39:31.960 --> 00:39:37.079
you're going to find some that are
really really close to you. I always

531
00:39:37.119 --> 00:39:38.840
love going in and shopping. It. It is because you never know.

532
00:39:39.519 --> 00:39:45.360
Everyone's independently owned. They're each different, so they're no too, they're exactly

533
00:39:45.480 --> 00:39:49.679
alike. But they all are going
to have the basic supplies you would expect

534
00:39:50.119 --> 00:39:52.199
because they are the place to go, and they all are going to have

535
00:39:52.280 --> 00:39:55.639
everything you need for your lawn and
your garden. You need a wilburrow,

536
00:39:55.760 --> 00:40:00.280
do you need garden hoses? Do
you need sprinklers? Go there. In

537
00:40:00.360 --> 00:40:05.800
fact, if you go outside and
say out loud, I'm going to ace

538
00:40:05.880 --> 00:40:08.000
hardware, and all your plants will
start greening up because they know you're going

539
00:40:08.039 --> 00:40:12.840
to bring them some good things.
Okay, maybe that's a stretch, just

540
00:40:12.960 --> 00:40:15.800
a little bit, but I like
you, by the way, too,

541
00:40:16.000 --> 00:40:21.760
I have heard I'm not saying.
I'm just saying that if you play garden

542
00:40:21.840 --> 00:40:27.159
line on the radio or on your
phone with a speaker on around plants,

543
00:40:27.320 --> 00:40:34.159
they start turning greener. I'm just
hadn't been tested with research, but that's

544
00:40:34.199 --> 00:40:37.960
what people tell me. I'll leave
it at that. That is funny.

545
00:40:39.719 --> 00:40:43.199
I tell a good thing to do
on a rainy days go to the be

546
00:40:43.360 --> 00:40:46.599
Supply. Be Supply out in Dayton
has got every kind of supply you would

547
00:40:46.639 --> 00:40:51.199
need for taking your honey bees.
But they also have a couple of things

548
00:40:51.360 --> 00:40:54.199
that you really need to think about, and one is if you've even thought

549
00:40:54.239 --> 00:41:00.679
about keeping bees, the be Supply
has classes. They have class that are

550
00:41:00.760 --> 00:41:02.800
going on all through the spring.
The next one is March twenty third.

551
00:41:02.920 --> 00:41:07.320
Couple weeks later on April thirteenth,
there's one. On April twenty seventh,

552
00:41:07.360 --> 00:41:12.119
there's one. They also had b
tours for those of you who maybe aren't

553
00:41:12.159 --> 00:41:15.679
wanting to keep bees but just want
to learn about bees or simple honey.

554
00:41:15.280 --> 00:41:20.400
Wow. I sampled their honey one
time. It was unbelievable. And by

555
00:41:20.440 --> 00:41:24.559
the way, the website is thebsupply
dot com vbsupply dot com. I love

556
00:41:24.679 --> 00:41:30.880
going by and simpling honey. Did
you know that like orange honey and wildflower

557
00:41:30.960 --> 00:41:37.199
honey and BlackBerry honey are all unique
in their flavor. Have you ever tried

558
00:41:37.280 --> 00:41:43.920
cream honey? Oh my gosh,
I got to I can't talk about this

559
00:41:44.039 --> 00:41:45.320
in the studio. It makes me
on a run home, heat up a

560
00:41:45.639 --> 00:41:51.199
morning biscuit with some butter and cream
honey. Oh my, gosh, that's

561
00:41:51.320 --> 00:41:54.840
like crack. I mean that is
good stuff, not responsible for addictions to

562
00:41:55.519 --> 00:42:00.000
cream, honey, to supply.
Gonna be taking a break here. Our

563
00:42:00.039 --> 00:42:04.719
phone number is seven one three seventy
four. Hey, I'm going to be

564
00:42:04.719 --> 00:42:07.880
a Buchanan's Native Plants today. I'm
going to tell you more about that when

565
00:42:07.920 --> 00:42:13.679
I come back, but plan on
after the show. Coming by Katie r

566
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H. Garden Line does not necessarily
endorse any of the products or services advertised

567
00:42:16.639 --> 00:42:22.760
on this program. Welcome to Katie
r H. Garden Line with Skip Rictor.

568
00:42:22.880 --> 00:42:38.760
Its crazy here Trim. Just watch
him as well. Man. It

569
00:42:39.159 --> 00:42:55.800
takes the sea blotzy gas closing not
a sign gas sun. Welcome back to

570
00:42:55.920 --> 00:43:00.320
Garden Line. Good to have you
with us today. Still dark outside.

571
00:43:01.199 --> 00:43:07.360
It's a good time to plotting and
planning your activities this week. I'm replanting

572
00:43:07.480 --> 00:43:09.199
grass. I've talked about that for
a couple of weeks now. That is

573
00:43:09.239 --> 00:43:14.360
what's coming up for me this coming
week. Get past this low rainfall here.

574
00:43:15.199 --> 00:43:17.880
Good time to get that in the
ground and get it taken care of.

575
00:43:19.119 --> 00:43:23.199
That is an important thing to make
sure that we get done. Now.

576
00:43:23.599 --> 00:43:28.280
If you already got a lawn and
you're struggling with weed problems, and

577
00:43:28.400 --> 00:43:30.840
if you got a lawn, weeds
tend to go along with it, especially

578
00:43:30.920 --> 00:43:36.000
when the lawn gets thin. What
you're seeing right now in your lawn,

579
00:43:36.280 --> 00:43:39.800
that's broad leaf weeds. Broad leaf
weeds. They're winter weeds from the cool

580
00:43:39.840 --> 00:43:44.960
season. Okay, the clover,
the hembit, the chickweed, the cleavers

581
00:43:45.119 --> 00:43:49.440
or a velcrow plant some people call. All of those weeds are from cool

582
00:43:49.480 --> 00:43:53.639
season. You can shut them down
with a post emergent product that contains trimac

583
00:43:53.880 --> 00:43:59.599
and nelson or nitroposs rather nitrous fertilizers. Has put together a fifteen to five

584
00:43:59.719 --> 00:44:01.800
ten. Now there, Imperial is
the red bag fifteen five ten. This

585
00:44:01.960 --> 00:44:07.559
is something different. It's a bluish
bag and it has a trimech ingredient that

586
00:44:07.760 --> 00:44:13.320
kills broadly weeds. So when the
weeds are damp, let this rain get

587
00:44:13.360 --> 00:44:15.960
over it. Don't put it on
now, you don't want it to wash

588
00:44:15.119 --> 00:44:19.719
off. Don't let the rain wash
it off. When it stops raining,

589
00:44:20.320 --> 00:44:24.480
go out and dampen the weed.
Just dampen them and spread it like a

590
00:44:24.559 --> 00:44:30.239
fertilizer, and the granule stick to
the moist weeds and then give it a

591
00:44:30.320 --> 00:44:34.159
day or two to kind of fully
move into that weed and then go ahead

592
00:44:34.159 --> 00:44:37.440
and a little just enough to wash
it to the sill surface, just a

593
00:44:37.480 --> 00:44:40.400
little bit of irrigation on that.
And what that does is it soaks in

594
00:44:40.480 --> 00:44:44.239
and it kills the broadleaf weeds.
It doesn't hurt your vawn, especially in

595
00:44:44.320 --> 00:44:46.960
the temperatures we're having right now.
It's got that fifteen five to ten quick

596
00:44:47.079 --> 00:44:52.360
release analysis. This would be in
place of your spring green up. This

597
00:44:52.760 --> 00:44:57.840
is in itself a spring green up
product. It just has that broadlyaf weed

598
00:44:57.920 --> 00:45:00.840
control in it as well, and
it worked very very well on that and

599
00:45:00.960 --> 00:45:05.800
can shut those down. And you
can get it everywhere you get nitropuss products,

600
00:45:05.920 --> 00:45:07.800
and as I always say, they're
super super widely of it. It's

601
00:45:07.840 --> 00:45:12.679
not hard to find nitropuss anywhere.
Go to Katie Hardware, for example,

602
00:45:12.800 --> 00:45:15.880
Katie Ace Hardware. They've got it
there, Ace Hardware up in Memorial or

603
00:45:15.920 --> 00:45:20.039
in the Memorial Driver. Yes,
they have it. They have it also

604
00:45:20.119 --> 00:45:25.880
Stanton Shopping Center in Alvin they've also
got Nitropuss products like this Nitrofuss fifteen five

605
00:45:25.920 --> 00:45:30.440
to ten with the trimec as a
post emergent in it. Let's head out

606
00:45:30.599 --> 00:45:35.920
to the heights and we're gonna talk
to Ray. Hello, Ray, hie

607
00:45:36.000 --> 00:45:37.079
yip. How are you doing,
Todick? I'm good, sir. How

608
00:45:37.119 --> 00:45:42.519
can we help? I just want
to know if third laser gets old.

609
00:45:42.840 --> 00:45:45.599
My yard's not very big, and
I got a big bag of furd lasser

610
00:45:45.639 --> 00:45:47.519
and it's you know, just getting
older and older. Yeah, just use

611
00:45:47.559 --> 00:45:51.920
it, Go ahead and use it. It'll be fine. You hadn't gotten

612
00:45:51.960 --> 00:45:54.360
all wet or anything, right,
it's still dry fur leisure. No,

613
00:45:54.559 --> 00:46:01.679
it's been in the road yep.
Other thing, I got a little area

614
00:46:02.119 --> 00:46:07.679
between my driveway and the street.
It's about about two foot wide. It's

615
00:46:07.719 --> 00:46:12.599
real hot and sometime can't can't keep
the grass growing there. So what else

616
00:46:12.639 --> 00:46:16.880
can I put there beside the grass? Well, you could go with a

617
00:46:19.079 --> 00:46:24.519
you could go with a groundcover that
is drought resistant. That would be in

618
00:46:24.599 --> 00:46:29.079
one option. There's things like seedom, for example, that are very drought

619
00:46:29.159 --> 00:46:32.760
resistant. Are you not able to
water it at all? Is that?

620
00:46:34.000 --> 00:46:38.559
Well? Well, it got tortured
last couple of summers. Yeah, even

621
00:46:38.599 --> 00:46:43.159
with water, and you know it
just and and it's so hot, the

622
00:46:43.239 --> 00:46:46.360
sidewalk so hot, in the streets
so hot. Yeah, and then between

623
00:46:46.639 --> 00:46:51.360
it's just every year. It makes
th most of the summer, but it

624
00:46:51.440 --> 00:46:57.440
seems like every summer he gets it. Yeah, but but it you don't

625
00:46:57.480 --> 00:47:00.920
have to walk on this area,
right, No, okay, no,

626
00:47:00.679 --> 00:47:05.719
yeah. So there's there's a lot
of different groundcovers that will will take that.

627
00:47:06.320 --> 00:47:13.880
There's something called frog fruit that's a
groundcover that's a native and it spreads

628
00:47:13.960 --> 00:47:15.679
on the ground horizontally. You're gonna
have to edge it to keep it off

629
00:47:15.719 --> 00:47:21.920
the sidewalking things. It's it's a
very low growing native plant that's very tough.

630
00:47:22.480 --> 00:47:25.239
It would like some moisture if you
want to look its best. It

631
00:47:25.320 --> 00:47:29.800
needs a little bit of moisture.
But it's a it's a pretty tough plant.

632
00:47:29.840 --> 00:47:32.079
It grows out in nature where you
know, nature here doesn't know is

633
00:47:32.119 --> 00:47:37.639
water it as often as most plants
would want. So that'd be an example

634
00:47:37.679 --> 00:47:40.000
of that. I mean, there's
there's just a lot of different low growing

635
00:47:40.079 --> 00:47:43.840
plants that you could put in there, but I'd quit trying the lawn in

636
00:47:43.920 --> 00:47:46.800
that area and go with a low
growing groundcolor. Well, a good deal,

637
00:47:47.000 --> 00:47:51.719
all right, day, Thanks for
the call. I appreciate that you.

638
00:47:51.760 --> 00:47:55.039
I appreciate that very much. I'm
going to be at Buchanan's Plants today.

639
00:47:55.599 --> 00:47:59.880
By the way, a Buchanan plant
is in the Heights, I say

640
00:48:00.159 --> 00:48:02.960
Cannon's plants, Bukenan's native plants.
That's the proper name for it, because

641
00:48:02.960 --> 00:48:07.920
that's what they specialize in, is
native plants. Now I said specialized.

642
00:48:08.239 --> 00:48:13.039
While they're going to have every kind
of native you can imagine. I mean

643
00:48:13.079 --> 00:48:16.039
they even specify them down to this
is one that's native in the Houston area

644
00:48:16.280 --> 00:48:21.079
or just native to this part of
Texas or Texas itself. They're gonna have

645
00:48:21.239 --> 00:48:23.239
all of those kinds of things.
But they also are going to have every

646
00:48:23.280 --> 00:48:25.920
other kind of plants you need.
You got a shady area that you are

647
00:48:27.000 --> 00:48:30.920
trying to, you know, get
some color or some beauty in b Cannan's

648
00:48:30.960 --> 00:48:36.280
plants as a whole section just for
that whatever kind of plant, fruits,

649
00:48:36.440 --> 00:48:42.320
vegetables, herbs, flowers, annual
flowers, perennial flowers, ornamental grasses,

650
00:48:42.480 --> 00:48:45.960
houseplants, you name it. They're
on East Eleventh Street in the Heights,

651
00:48:45.599 --> 00:48:49.559
and it's always a fun time to
go out to Buchanans. Even on a

652
00:48:49.639 --> 00:48:52.519
rainy day like today. You're going
to have you know, they got their

653
00:48:52.559 --> 00:48:55.960
house plant area and the selection of
houseplants is unbelievable out there, and that's

654
00:48:55.960 --> 00:49:00.800
a completely covered greenhouse area, just
really easy to get in and get out.

655
00:49:00.280 --> 00:49:04.760
Buchanansplants dot Com. That's the website. I hope you'll come see me.

656
00:49:04.800 --> 00:49:07.480
I'm going to be there from eleven
am to one pm today, So

657
00:49:07.679 --> 00:49:12.679
after the radio show I'm on head
over there, make a beeline for Buchanans.

658
00:49:12.960 --> 00:49:15.840
Come out and see me. Hey, you got some problems, Bring

659
00:49:15.920 --> 00:49:19.719
me pictures, bring me samples,
put them in a zip bag and bring

660
00:49:19.800 --> 00:49:22.480
them in. Let's take a look
at them. I always like to meet

661
00:49:22.519 --> 00:49:24.880
folks that are listening to garden Line, and I would love to meet you

662
00:49:25.000 --> 00:49:29.079
today. We'll find a nice dry
spot out there in the greenhouse where we

663
00:49:29.119 --> 00:49:35.360
can hang out and really really happy
to help you find success by pointing you

664
00:49:35.440 --> 00:49:39.119
to the right product or the right
plants, or even making just some suggestions

665
00:49:39.199 --> 00:49:44.440
for those areas. Like we were
just talking a moment ago about you know

666
00:49:44.519 --> 00:49:46.840
what do we do in this area
where it's dry and grass won't grow.

667
00:49:47.199 --> 00:49:51.119
I'll tell you, and I can
tell you this. Buchanans is going to

668
00:49:51.159 --> 00:49:54.239
have four or five different good options
for every kind of area, just like

669
00:49:54.400 --> 00:50:00.199
that, so make a note today
after the show, come on over during

670
00:50:00.280 --> 00:50:04.840
the hour before and after lunch.
I'll be right there for two hours answering

671
00:50:05.039 --> 00:50:07.480
gardening questions. We're going to head
out now. Let's see. I tell

672
00:50:07.480 --> 00:50:10.000
you what, no inn in League
City. You're gonna be the first up

673
00:50:10.000 --> 00:50:14.480
when we come back. I'm up
against a break and we'll be right back.

674
00:50:14.519 --> 00:50:17.960
Our phone number is seven one three
two one two fifty eight seventy four.

675
00:50:19.920 --> 00:50:22.119
Welcome back the guard Line. Hey, good to have you with us

676
00:50:22.159 --> 00:50:24.920
today. We are talking about things
to do this time of the year,

677
00:50:25.199 --> 00:50:30.800
and there is plenty to get done
this time of the year. Now it's

678
00:50:30.800 --> 00:50:34.360
a little wet outside, I know
that, but you need to write down

679
00:50:34.760 --> 00:50:38.920
some information. And if you live
down in the south and a little bit

680
00:50:38.960 --> 00:50:45.800
to the west area and you need
compost top dressing done, you need air

681
00:50:45.880 --> 00:50:47.440
ration done, and you need somebody, need somebody that's going to do it

682
00:50:47.559 --> 00:50:52.039
right, B and B turf Pros, that's the one. That's the one

683
00:50:52.079 --> 00:50:55.760
you need to call. The phone
number. Always listen to guard Line with

684
00:50:55.840 --> 00:51:00.320
a pen in your hand. Here
it comes seven to one to three two

685
00:51:00.400 --> 00:51:05.239
three four fifty five ninety eight seven
one three two t two, three,

686
00:51:05.400 --> 00:51:09.159
four, fifty five ninety eight B
and B Turfpros dot com. So where

687
00:51:09.199 --> 00:51:13.880
do they serve, Well, they
serve sugar Land, they serve Missouri City.

688
00:51:14.320 --> 00:51:17.840
Uh. They go as far east
as Pearland, down Fresno and along

689
00:51:17.920 --> 00:51:22.199
Highway six like Ciena and our Cola
and Iowa Colony and Menville, all those

690
00:51:22.280 --> 00:51:27.440
communities are served by B and B
turf Pros. BnB does it right.

691
00:51:27.480 --> 00:51:30.840
They've got the equipment to spread the
compost. They've got the equipment to do

692
00:51:30.960 --> 00:51:35.079
a good job aerating your soil.
And when you are dealing with clay soil,

693
00:51:35.320 --> 00:51:38.719
especially with the compaction and the fact
that you don't get oxygen on the

694
00:51:38.840 --> 00:51:44.960
root system as well, aeration with
compost top dressing is one of the best

695
00:51:45.000 --> 00:51:49.440
things you can do to improve your
sod, to improve your lawn, to

696
00:51:49.519 --> 00:51:54.599
make the grass plant healthy. BnB
turf prosbnbturf pros dot com or seven to

697
00:51:54.639 --> 00:52:00.239
one three two, three, four, five, five nine eight For all

698
00:52:00.320 --> 00:52:02.320
of you down in that region,
you need to give them a call.

699
00:52:04.079 --> 00:52:07.920
We're gonna head out now to Robert
in Jersey Village. Hello, Robert,

700
00:52:08.599 --> 00:52:10.960
Hello there, how you doing this
morning? I'm good, sir, How

701
00:52:10.960 --> 00:52:15.840
are you today, I'm doing fantastic. I got a quick question for you,

702
00:52:15.599 --> 00:52:21.400
Hm. I got this product called
bio Advance and it's a three and

703
00:52:21.519 --> 00:52:24.440
one weeding feed. Is that a
good Is that? Is that a good

704
00:52:24.480 --> 00:52:30.440
product? You know? Uh?
To put down right now? Do you

705
00:52:30.480 --> 00:52:34.440
have it in front of you?
You haven't had it? Uh? I

706
00:52:34.599 --> 00:52:37.679
do not, sir? Okay,
let me let me see I can find

707
00:52:37.239 --> 00:52:43.039
what's in bio advant I think is
that a well, let's see, I

708
00:52:43.079 --> 00:52:47.840
think that it used to be called
wortho uh uh, let's see. I'm

709
00:52:47.840 --> 00:52:52.119
I'm gonna have to look. I'm
gonna have to look look that up again.

710
00:52:52.719 --> 00:52:53.719
It would not be First of all, I'll tell you that it would

711
00:52:53.760 --> 00:52:59.360
not be one of the ones that
in general I recommend. Okay, now

712
00:52:59.440 --> 00:53:01.199
are you are you talking about does
it have a fertilizer in it or is

713
00:53:01.239 --> 00:53:07.599
it just the insect disease and Mike, No, it does have the fertilizer

714
00:53:07.679 --> 00:53:13.119
in there too. Okay, Yeah, it's a weighting feed. Yeah.

715
00:53:13.400 --> 00:53:17.280
Oh gosh, I'm trying to find
there's BioAdvance. Everything I'm finding is just

716
00:53:17.400 --> 00:53:22.920
the insect trying to find. Yeah, it's a Bioadvanced three and one weeding

717
00:53:22.000 --> 00:53:27.320
feed. Okay, it's always hard
to find there we go. I found

718
00:53:27.360 --> 00:53:30.719
it for Southern lawns. So that
is going to not tell me what's in

719
00:53:30.840 --> 00:53:34.880
it? Isn't that nice of them
to not tell me what I need to

720
00:53:34.960 --> 00:53:38.639
know? I okay here, First
of all, the fertilizer wise, it's

721
00:53:38.719 --> 00:53:44.519
it's okay. The the ratio and
everything is okay. It's got a lot

722
00:53:44.599 --> 00:53:47.440
of nitrogen in it and a little
bit of potassium, so that that part

723
00:53:47.559 --> 00:53:52.280
is okay. It's just not one
of the ones that I generally recommend,

724
00:53:52.519 --> 00:53:58.239
and so I'm not finding the ingredient
and I'm still looking for it. That

725
00:53:58.320 --> 00:54:00.599
would be the way I could tell
you if it's a control your weeds or

726
00:54:00.800 --> 00:54:04.559
not. And it looks like I
find it, okay, clicked my way

727
00:54:04.679 --> 00:54:07.519
into the answer I'm looking for.
Uh, I came up an oxygen.

728
00:54:07.960 --> 00:54:14.000
Yeah, it'll it'll control some weeds
in a post emergent way, some weeds

729
00:54:14.039 --> 00:54:15.840
in a post emergent way. If
I were you, though I would I

730
00:54:15.840 --> 00:54:22.480
would probably at this point in time, I would just use the UH Nitrofoss's

731
00:54:22.800 --> 00:54:25.119
the one that has fifteen five to
ten with the trimac in it. I

732
00:54:25.199 --> 00:54:30.400
think you're going to probably be more
pleased with that. Okay, okay,

733
00:54:30.800 --> 00:54:34.719
one other question. I'm going to
make it quick and easy. I have

734
00:54:34.960 --> 00:54:37.159
some you know, cause I know
last year we had the drought and my

735
00:54:37.360 --> 00:54:42.519
backyard, you know, Saint Augustine
grass and it was nice and thick,

736
00:54:42.599 --> 00:54:45.159
and of course the drought kind of
killed a lot of grass and I got

737
00:54:45.280 --> 00:54:50.440
patches. I got patches. You
know. Is there any way that I

738
00:54:50.559 --> 00:54:52.960
can I know they don't make a
Saint Augustine's seed. What is the best

739
00:54:53.000 --> 00:54:57.760
way for me to you know,
to uh get those patches back together?

740
00:54:58.199 --> 00:55:00.480
Uh your lawn iss Saint august team, now, just I want to be

741
00:55:00.559 --> 00:55:04.559
sure I'm right about that? Is
that correct? Yes, sir, Yes,

742
00:55:04.599 --> 00:55:08.519
sir. So I would say that
I would just plug in with some

743
00:55:08.639 --> 00:55:15.039
Saint Augustine. And if you've got
living grass, it's within a foot of

744
00:55:15.119 --> 00:55:19.280
another patch of a little spot of
living grass, it'll close over with good

745
00:55:19.320 --> 00:55:22.079
long care through the summer. Areas
longer than a foot apart, further than

746
00:55:22.119 --> 00:55:25.840
a foot apart, that's where I
would put in a little You could put

747
00:55:25.840 --> 00:55:30.119
a whole side piece. You could
cut it up and the strips and put

748
00:55:30.159 --> 00:55:34.480
them in to make it golo further
or you could just resawd sections. But

749
00:55:34.639 --> 00:55:37.760
that's probably your best way to go
about it, Okay. And when I

750
00:55:37.880 --> 00:55:40.079
do that, I go ahead and
put dirt over that, and you know,

751
00:55:40.199 --> 00:55:45.440
for the lines correct put the patches. You don't put it over it,

752
00:55:45.920 --> 00:55:49.480
but you you just set those patches
down in the scratch up this so

753
00:55:49.559 --> 00:55:52.480
a little bit. Set the patches
down in there, and then make sure

754
00:55:52.519 --> 00:55:57.320
and water it regularly a couple of
times a day when it's not raining,

755
00:55:57.840 --> 00:56:00.199
uh, for the right week,
and then about about once a day for

756
00:56:00.239 --> 00:56:05.559
another week. All right it sir, hey, thank you for the information.

757
00:56:05.719 --> 00:56:07.679
All right, Robert, thank you. I appreciate appreciate your call.

758
00:56:08.519 --> 00:56:13.599
I have a good day you as
well. Take care. Those of you

759
00:56:13.719 --> 00:56:17.239
down in the Richmond Rosenberg area who
haven't been to in Channey Forest need to

760
00:56:17.280 --> 00:56:21.719
go. In fact, if you
are anywhere in the general listening area,

761
00:56:21.760 --> 00:56:23.559
you need to go check out in
Channet Forest. It is an amazing,

762
00:56:23.800 --> 00:56:30.320
amazing gardens. They just got some
foliage color in that is outstanding, and

763
00:56:30.440 --> 00:56:36.679
that includes colius and it also includes
the koaladiums, which you know, we

764
00:56:36.800 --> 00:56:39.800
used to think of colius and kladiums
as shade plants. And they are great

765
00:56:40.000 --> 00:56:43.159
color in the shade. You know, blooms are hard to come by,

766
00:56:43.239 --> 00:56:45.880
but these two plants will give you
color in the shade. But both of

767
00:56:46.000 --> 00:56:52.920
them, kalladiums and colius have some
forms that are just outstanding for the sun.

768
00:56:52.159 --> 00:56:55.039
Is why they take the full brun
of the sun. What else do

769
00:56:55.079 --> 00:56:59.599
you need? Blue days of Obulus, they got it. Wishbone flower,

770
00:57:00.079 --> 00:57:06.079
the bloomer in bright shade, Pentas, butterfly, magnet, Angelonius. I'm

771
00:57:06.079 --> 00:57:09.239
gonna talk about those later today.
Impatience for the shade. I'm saving Angeloonia

772
00:57:09.239 --> 00:57:13.679
because I want to talk about that
for a little bit this Saturday today,

773
00:57:14.280 --> 00:57:17.000
March sixteenth, ten am. Right
after the show ends, John Panzarella,

774
00:57:17.079 --> 00:57:22.239
the Citrus Expert, is gonna be
talking about citrus and avocado ad Enchanted Forest,

775
00:57:22.440 --> 00:57:25.960
Where is it? FM twenty seven
fifty nine If you're in If you're

776
00:57:27.000 --> 00:57:30.039
in Richmond, heading to our sugar
Land way off to the right, FM

777
00:57:30.159 --> 00:57:37.280
twenty seven fifty nine, just go
to Enchanted Forest Richmond dot or excuse me,

778
00:57:37.480 --> 00:57:43.679
TX dot com. Enchanted Forest,
Richmond, TX dot com. It's

779
00:57:43.679 --> 00:57:45.880
always a good day to be out
there. Love going there. Let's go

780
00:57:46.079 --> 00:57:49.800
to League City. Now we're going
to talk to Annie. Hello, Ann,

781
00:57:50.639 --> 00:57:53.400
how are you great? To talk
to you? I have actually a

782
00:57:53.519 --> 00:57:59.639
segue on your last call. I
do have frog fruit as a little turn.

783
00:57:59.760 --> 00:58:04.960
It's to a lawn. I have
had plants though that are growing,

784
00:58:07.039 --> 00:58:10.719
and I measured it about ten to
fourteen inches tall, So I'm thinking it's

785
00:58:10.880 --> 00:58:20.079
a weed interspersed with the fruit.
So what can I put down to kill

786
00:58:20.159 --> 00:58:24.239
that without killing the frog fruit?
And then I have one second question that

787
00:58:24.599 --> 00:58:29.559
you're right that is not frog fruit. Frog fruit stays I would say about

788
00:58:29.559 --> 00:58:35.159
four inches or so at the most
high. What you would need to do

789
00:58:36.000 --> 00:58:40.079
is have a wiper type applicator like
a sponge, with a product that would

790
00:58:40.199 --> 00:58:45.679
kill whatever kind of weed you're dealing
with. It could be a general product

791
00:58:45.800 --> 00:58:50.320
like a glyphosate round up being an
example of that, but whatever will kill

792
00:58:50.400 --> 00:58:55.760
weeds in general. Post emergent wiped
on the taller weed without getting it on

793
00:58:55.840 --> 00:58:59.639
the frog fruit. That's the approach
you would use. You know what I've

794
00:58:59.719 --> 00:59:04.039
done, And as I've gotten those
little tools you used to grab a jar

795
00:59:04.119 --> 00:59:07.639
office shelf, they've got a little
pistol grip and on the other end they're

796
00:59:07.639 --> 00:59:09.880
about three feet long and they squeeze
and grab a jar or something. You

797
00:59:09.880 --> 00:59:14.760
know what I'm talking about, Yes, I do. I'll put two sponges

798
00:59:14.840 --> 00:59:17.400
on there. Take a kitchen sponge, a little small kitchen sponge, standard

799
00:59:17.480 --> 00:59:22.480
sponge, cut it in half and
you can glue them on. Bolt them

800
00:59:22.519 --> 00:59:23.519
on. However, you don't get
them on, and then you squirt the

801
00:59:23.559 --> 00:59:29.000
sponge with the product and you just
reach down and wipe. Just squeeze it

802
00:59:29.239 --> 00:59:34.119
on the bad plant and it moves
down and kills it without getting it on

803
00:59:34.239 --> 00:59:37.719
your frog fruit. That's about the
only way I can suggest, once the

804
00:59:37.840 --> 00:59:43.599
two are intertwined. Okay, Then
the second question, again, it's a

805
00:59:43.760 --> 00:59:50.840
pretty quick one. I'm recovering a
garden bit that's well a produce bid.

806
00:59:51.039 --> 00:59:54.840
It's going to be edible fruit,
and I've dug it out and dug it

807
00:59:54.960 --> 01:00:01.920
out, and I'm still getting grass
grown in there. It's foul on now

808
01:00:01.960 --> 01:00:07.159
I don't have food in there yet, So any suggestions on what I can

809
01:00:07.239 --> 01:00:10.679
do? Do you know what kind
of grass? Off hand, it looks

810
01:00:10.800 --> 01:00:16.280
like some nutgrass which I've been pulling
out, but it also looks like it

811
01:00:16.400 --> 01:00:22.199
might be Sant augustine growing through well
Saint Augustine, And when you cover it

812
01:00:22.360 --> 01:00:25.880
up, it dies. It can't
punch through something, it can't crawl out

813
01:00:25.920 --> 01:00:29.719
of the ground like bermuda. Bermuda
is the worst. Are you pretty sure

814
01:00:29.719 --> 01:00:32.639
it's not bermuda? Well, it
may be bermuda then, because it's definitely

815
01:00:32.719 --> 01:00:37.679
coming up. That's one where again
you have to get a post emergent product.

816
01:00:38.280 --> 01:00:44.159
There's two approaches to the bermuda.
One is to use a grass only

817
01:00:44.599 --> 01:00:47.280
weed killer. And there's a number
of brands out there. If you go

818
01:00:47.559 --> 01:00:53.280
to an ACE hardware store and tell
them I need a grass only weed killer,

819
01:00:53.760 --> 01:00:57.199
they can point you to one.
You know, it may have a

820
01:00:57.320 --> 01:01:01.480
name like grass be Gone or getter. I mean, there's all these names,

821
01:01:01.559 --> 01:01:05.559
but they just go grass. You
can use that, or you can

822
01:01:05.719 --> 01:01:10.119
use the Glyphos Saint product. That's
the round, right, Yeah, go

823
01:01:10.159 --> 01:01:15.400
ahead. It's going to be for
food though, So that's what I'm wondering

824
01:01:15.480 --> 01:01:17.960
about. That it's label for use. It's label for use in the garden

825
01:01:19.480 --> 01:01:22.159
food gardens. In fact, you
if you sprayed it and got it on

826
01:01:22.239 --> 01:01:25.840
the soil, I'm within like a
week, you can plant seeds and it

827
01:01:25.880 --> 01:01:30.320
won't hurt them. They'll come right
up. They'll be fine. But one

828
01:01:30.400 --> 01:01:32.840
of those two approaches. So other
than that, you're doing the hand digging,

829
01:01:34.039 --> 01:01:37.719
and whether it's nuts edge or bermuda, you got to get ever sprig

830
01:01:37.760 --> 01:01:39.840
of it. And once you get
things planted, it's hard to dig it

831
01:01:39.920 --> 01:01:45.360
all out without killing the plant you
got. Thank you, Thank you so

832
01:01:45.519 --> 01:01:47.280
much. Ski. Yeah, you're
wise to get deal with it while it's

833
01:01:47.320 --> 01:01:52.960
still follow Make sure I got rid
of some this past week, and I'll

834
01:01:53.000 --> 01:01:57.639
wait about a week or two after
I think I got it all. Maybe

835
01:01:57.760 --> 01:02:01.280
water the ground if it's dry,
and then watch for re sprouts because there'll

836
01:02:01.320 --> 01:02:04.679
be some you missed, and then
you can go back out and get those.

837
01:02:04.760 --> 01:02:07.360
Okay, thank you, all right, Dan, thank you very much.

838
01:02:07.400 --> 01:02:10.000
Sorry you're in that situation. But
I can feel your pain. I

839
01:02:10.079 --> 01:02:15.119
guarantee you I've been there. Do
you love birds? I do. Birds

840
01:02:15.159 --> 01:02:19.800
add color, they add movement,
they add songs. I love sitting out

841
01:02:19.840 --> 01:02:22.199
early in the morning and listening to
birds sing. First thing. They I

842
01:02:22.199 --> 01:02:25.239
don't know what it is, but
they wake up talking. I'm not a

843
01:02:25.320 --> 01:02:30.880
morning person. I've lived with mourning
people before, and I'm telling you birds

844
01:02:30.920 --> 01:02:36.039
are mourning people. They wake up
singing and going crazy. While birds unlimited

845
01:02:36.239 --> 01:02:39.119
is your store for everything that you
need for birds. Do you need bird

846
01:02:39.159 --> 01:02:43.159
feeders? Do you need bird seed? By the way, listen, there's

847
01:02:43.199 --> 01:02:46.360
a lot of cheap bird seed out
there. And by cheap I mean not

848
01:02:46.639 --> 01:02:52.199
quality. I don't mean inexpensive,
because when you buy a bird seed that

849
01:02:52.400 --> 01:02:57.400
is fifty to seventy percent, the
little red bebes at birds are basically not

850
01:02:57.480 --> 01:03:00.840
going to want to eat that is
not even money. The way, what

851
01:03:01.000 --> 01:03:05.480
the bird gets to eat out of
that bag is not much, so you're

852
01:03:05.480 --> 01:03:08.480
paying more for it. Wibirds has
quality feed. This is nesting season.

853
01:03:09.000 --> 01:03:15.800
Birds need something like Walbird's Superblend.
It's got sunflower chips, peanuts, dried

854
01:03:15.880 --> 01:03:17.920
meal worms, all and on and
on, all the things they need to

855
01:03:19.079 --> 01:03:22.880
raise high protein is high protein,
high fat food for raising a nest full

856
01:03:22.920 --> 01:03:29.960
of young Go to WBU dot com, forward slash Houston, WBU dot com

857
01:03:30.440 --> 01:03:35.719
forward slash Houston and you can find
the six stores from Waldbirds here in the

858
01:03:35.760 --> 01:03:37.960
Houston area. It's time for Nicki
and the news. I'll be right back

859
01:03:38.000 --> 01:03:43.800
at seven one three two one two
kt RH. Welcome back to the garden

860
01:03:43.880 --> 01:03:46.760
Line. We're glad to have you
with us this morning. On a day's

861
01:03:46.760 --> 01:03:50.320
got a little bit of rain forecast
for us today, but we're not worried

862
01:03:50.320 --> 01:03:53.280
about that. Heck, we live
in southeast Texas. It rains. That's

863
01:03:53.360 --> 01:03:57.840
a good thing. People somewhere else
are wishing they had rain. I was

864
01:03:57.880 --> 01:04:02.360
talking to some of the the turf
on the turf growers down in the Gulf

865
01:04:02.440 --> 01:04:08.320
Coast and just talking about you know, when it rains a lot, it's

866
01:04:08.360 --> 01:04:12.800
hard to get a machine in the
fields to do the harvesting. But at

867
01:04:12.800 --> 01:04:15.880
the same time, when you got
hundreds of acres of turf and you're trying

868
01:04:15.920 --> 01:04:18.639
to keep it alive and you're watering
and watering and watering it, that's expensive

869
01:04:18.679 --> 01:04:21.440
too. So it is good to
get a little bit of rain in to

870
01:04:21.599 --> 01:04:26.360
keep everything going and moving. And
boy, the turf is just really waking

871
01:04:26.519 --> 01:04:30.400
up well right now. Lots of
good, good, healthy growth coming on

872
01:04:30.519 --> 01:04:33.880
it. And that is important because
I'm going to be I'll be planting some

873
01:04:34.199 --> 01:04:40.039
this next week, hopefully if the
rain allows me to. For those of

874
01:04:40.119 --> 01:04:43.519
you that are struggling with the lawn, consider patching some in. I you

875
01:04:43.599 --> 01:04:45.159
know, as a general guide,
I usually say, well, if you

876
01:04:45.239 --> 01:04:49.039
got living grass about ever foot and
you take care of it right this summer.

877
01:04:49.400 --> 01:04:53.400
By midsummer, you can get that
to close over pretty good for most

878
01:04:53.480 --> 01:04:57.880
grasses. However, if it's struggling
with diseases, if you're not watering it

879
01:04:58.159 --> 01:05:00.920
and all kinds of too many weeds
that are choking it out, well,

880
01:05:00.960 --> 01:05:04.320
then no it's not going to cover
in time. Bigger areas than that,

881
01:05:04.480 --> 01:05:09.480
you ought to consider either plugging some
in, which is a lot of labor,

882
01:05:09.679 --> 01:05:13.119
but it makes the turf go further. You can do a little plugging

883
01:05:13.199 --> 01:05:15.679
here and there all through the season
if you want, or you just come

884
01:05:15.719 --> 01:05:20.719
in and your reside sections. That's
the faster, easier way to make it

885
01:05:20.880 --> 01:05:25.039
have success. And we can talk
more about how to do that sometimes,

886
01:05:25.119 --> 01:05:29.039
but yeah, faster, easier,
easier way to go about it. By

887
01:05:29.079 --> 01:05:32.000
the way, for your lawns,
we talk about the spring green up that

888
01:05:32.199 --> 01:05:36.599
is that is the optional fertilization.
We have each spring on our on my

889
01:05:36.800 --> 01:05:45.719
lawn Care scheduled at gardening with Skip
dot com. There as we get into

890
01:05:45.760 --> 01:05:50.320
April, we start talking about slow
release fertilizers and so you know, plants

891
01:05:50.440 --> 01:05:56.559
don't have this hard black and white
line about today you can use this tomorrow

892
01:05:56.639 --> 01:05:59.599
you can't. I mean, it's
a it's a gradual thing. If you

893
01:05:59.719 --> 01:06:06.679
did an early spring greenup, then
you're good for about three or four weeks,

894
01:06:08.159 --> 01:06:13.039
I'll say four weeks to get you
on into the slow release time when

895
01:06:13.119 --> 01:06:16.400
we would apply the summer slow releases. They gradually feed over time because by

896
01:06:16.440 --> 01:06:19.639
then the grass is growing fast.
You can also put a slow release on

897
01:06:19.760 --> 01:06:23.480
now you can do that if you
want. You're not going to get the

898
01:06:23.599 --> 01:06:27.719
immediate greenup from it, but it
will feed your lawn over several months.

899
01:06:27.760 --> 01:06:31.239
And Nitrofoss makes one of those.
It is called Superturf. That's a good

900
01:06:31.320 --> 01:06:36.159
name for it, Superturf. It's
in a silver bag. The Superturf is

901
01:06:36.199 --> 01:06:42.000
a nineteen four to ten fertilizer,
so it's basically essentially a four to one

902
01:06:42.559 --> 01:06:45.880
two ratio of nutrients, a four
to one two ratio, and it releases

903
01:06:46.000 --> 01:06:51.199
that nitrogen because half the nitrogen in
Superturf is slow release. It also has

904
01:06:51.360 --> 01:06:57.039
iron that really promotes nice, good
green color. In the spring season.

905
01:06:57.159 --> 01:07:00.800
When this was a little cooler and
we get a lot of rains and stuff,

906
01:07:00.880 --> 01:07:03.599
you'll see some yellowing in your grass
and that's a temporary iron deficiency.

907
01:07:04.519 --> 01:07:11.199
And super Turf nineteen four ten.
The silver bag from nitrofoss can help fix

908
01:07:11.320 --> 01:07:15.360
that. That can help remedy that
specific situation. Now, where do you

909
01:07:15.480 --> 01:07:18.480
get it? Well, how about
going to Shades of Texas in the Woodlands.

910
01:07:18.639 --> 01:07:24.119
They have it there, Enchanted Gardens
down in Richmond Rosenberg, Yep,

911
01:07:24.320 --> 01:07:28.119
they have it down there as well. And you can find it at Fisheryardware

912
01:07:28.199 --> 01:07:33.840
both the Southmore location in South Euston
and the Laporte location which is on Broadway

913
01:07:33.880 --> 01:07:39.280
Street down in Laporte. We're going
to go back to the phones now and

914
01:07:39.480 --> 01:07:44.840
we're going to talk with Carolyn.
Hello, Carolyn, good morning, Good

915
01:07:44.880 --> 01:07:49.280
morning. I have a question about
my Swiss yard. It's one that I

916
01:07:49.400 --> 01:07:56.159
have had a whole winter. It's
still producing. But will it continue throughout

917
01:07:56.239 --> 01:07:59.400
the summer? I would do I
need to replace it? It will,

918
01:08:00.079 --> 01:08:03.360
it will keep going. Charred is
amazing. It can't take the coldest of

919
01:08:03.480 --> 01:08:09.119
cold, but a little protection you
get it through a winter and yours obviously

920
01:08:09.239 --> 01:08:15.199
made it. And then in the
summer I have I've done different things that

921
01:08:15.280 --> 01:08:17.520
I thought would have killed the charred
with the heat, and it kept going.

922
01:08:17.600 --> 01:08:21.199
One year I had so much.
Don't tell anybody, it's just hearing

923
01:08:21.279 --> 01:08:24.840
me. Talking right now. I
hope no one's listening. I had so

924
01:08:25.000 --> 01:08:30.399
much crabgrass in my vegetable garden that
I took a weed eater to take charred

925
01:08:30.600 --> 01:08:33.560
and crabgrass to the ground so that
I could mulch it and kill the crab

926
01:08:33.640 --> 01:08:40.600
grass. Those old charred stumps re
sprouted in May and kept growing all through

927
01:08:40.640 --> 01:08:44.720
the summer. That's stump. I
mean. So I don't recommend that as

928
01:08:44.800 --> 01:08:48.159
a practice, but I'm telling you
charred is tougher than you think. It

929
01:08:48.279 --> 01:08:54.119
has to have water though, but
it'll keep going for you. Oh well,

930
01:08:54.199 --> 01:08:57.479
that's wonderful that I won't have to
replace it. There you go,

931
01:08:58.039 --> 01:09:01.119
yeah, great, Thank you you
bet Carolyn, and enjoy that charge.

932
01:09:01.159 --> 01:09:05.119
That's a good vegetable that's not grown
enough. You take care of it.

933
01:09:05.239 --> 01:09:10.520
It's very helpful. It is all
sorts of good nutrients. It is very

934
01:09:10.600 --> 01:09:14.159
good. That's all kinds of fresh
greens are. Hey, thanks to the

935
01:09:14.239 --> 01:09:16.520
call. I appreciate that. I
appreciate you calling. Yep, you can.

936
01:09:18.279 --> 01:09:23.439
It's amazing how resilient charred can be. But with anything, you know,

937
01:09:23.520 --> 01:09:29.560
when we talk about things surviving through
summer, it is always with the

938
01:09:29.680 --> 01:09:34.800
caveat that you're going to keep it
adequately moist, because that's important. Those

939
01:09:34.840 --> 01:09:39.880
of you up in Montgomery, your
hometown garden center is an A Plant and

940
01:09:39.920 --> 01:09:43.319
Produce. They're on the east side
of Montgomery on Highway one oh five.

941
01:09:43.720 --> 01:09:46.039
And now I say those of you
in Montgomery, I mean Lake Conroe,

942
01:09:46.359 --> 01:09:51.880
even Conroe, that whole region up
there. You've got ana plant and produce

943
01:09:51.960 --> 01:09:58.399
and they always have things coming in
their supply of plants. Is It's just

944
01:09:58.640 --> 01:10:02.079
it's always being renewed, always something
fresh, always something coming in. Do

945
01:10:02.199 --> 01:10:05.319
you need color, They've got it. Do you want vegetables, They've got

946
01:10:05.399 --> 01:10:10.039
it. Do you need maybe a
flowering tree, Yeah, they have it.

947
01:10:10.239 --> 01:10:14.399
They have it today. They got
someone that is coming out today to

948
01:10:14.439 --> 01:10:18.319
talk about raising worms to make castings. Isn't that amazing? Yes you can

949
01:10:18.359 --> 01:10:21.960
do. I've done that before too, by the way, But out of

950
01:10:23.039 --> 01:10:26.560
A and A you just know that
you're going to get good quality materials.

951
01:10:26.640 --> 01:10:29.119
If I talk about a fertilizer,
A and A is going to have it.

952
01:10:29.199 --> 01:10:30.960
They have my schedule there at the
counter. They told me they were

953
01:10:31.000 --> 01:10:34.359
printing some of those up to have
on hand. A and A Plants and

954
01:10:34.399 --> 01:10:40.279
Produce just on the east side of
Montgomery on Highway one oh five. So,

955
01:10:41.279 --> 01:10:43.479
by the way, their landscape crews
will go out there and do some

956
01:10:43.600 --> 01:10:46.119
early cleanup of the homes around the
Lake Conroy area. Do you want somebody

957
01:10:46.159 --> 01:10:48.760
to come out and kind of spruce
it up and get things looking good.

958
01:10:49.319 --> 01:10:54.119
Give a NA a call, have
one of their landscape crews come out and

959
01:10:54.279 --> 01:11:00.920
do that. We are now going
to go to League and talk to GD

960
01:11:00.079 --> 01:11:06.000
Hello, gd Hi, good morning. Yeah. I have a question about

961
01:11:06.880 --> 01:11:14.800
what is the best soil preparation to
replant Saint Augustine's sod and should the soil

962
01:11:15.039 --> 01:11:18.239
be tilled. We have a lot
of clay soil here and I'm also trying

963
01:11:18.319 --> 01:11:26.279
to build up certain areas to support
better drainage. Okay, so what I

964
01:11:26.319 --> 01:11:29.520
would do, this is what I
am doing at my yard. I've got

965
01:11:29.560 --> 01:11:32.840
a heavy clay soil and it's sticky
as all get out. I'm putting a

966
01:11:32.880 --> 01:11:38.239
couple inches of a sandy loam soil, high quality soil, not just sand,

967
01:11:38.640 --> 01:11:42.880
but a sandy loam soil, something
that if you can get something that's

968
01:11:42.920 --> 01:11:46.479
close to a top soil, a
couple inches of that down and then rototilling

969
01:11:46.560 --> 01:11:50.119
it end of the surface. Now, when the clay is gouey wet Rototilling

970
01:11:50.279 --> 01:11:54.600
is not a good practice. But
if it just drives out a little bit,

971
01:11:55.439 --> 01:11:58.680
rototil it into the surface couple of
inches, just to mix those two

972
01:11:59.319 --> 01:12:04.159
so you don't have heart just a
heavy clay going right from something like sand,

973
01:12:04.239 --> 01:12:09.119
sitting on top of it. Little
rototilling in and then lay your side

974
01:12:09.159 --> 01:12:14.720
down. And when you lay the
side, you want to press it into

975
01:12:14.880 --> 01:12:18.199
contact with the soil so there's no
air gap underneath it. And you need

976
01:12:18.319 --> 01:12:23.479
to water it in right away,
not thirty minutes later. Just go ahead

977
01:12:23.520 --> 01:12:27.359
once it gets laid. What I'm
gonna do in my yard is I'll lay

978
01:12:27.399 --> 01:12:30.800
a section, I'll turn on the
turn on the water a little, move

979
01:12:30.880 --> 01:12:34.520
a sprinkler around on it, and
then lay another section and move that sprinkler

980
01:12:34.560 --> 01:12:38.239
and move it, and then eventually
you can turn on your home system.

981
01:12:38.279 --> 01:12:43.119
But home systems often are very inefficient, and new sod is going to especially

982
01:12:43.159 --> 01:12:45.079
when the temperature rises up, it's
going to need water a couple times a

983
01:12:45.199 --> 01:12:53.760
day, or morning and the afternoon, and then after a few days of

984
01:12:53.800 --> 01:12:56.479
that, a week or maybe less
of that, you can go to once

985
01:12:56.520 --> 01:12:59.960
a day. The same thing.
You're not trying to create a swamp.

986
01:13:00.319 --> 01:13:05.359
But you're trying to that sad gud
has a one half inch thin layer of

987
01:13:05.439 --> 01:13:09.720
soil on it and that's all the
roots that it has when it comes in.

988
01:13:10.319 --> 01:13:14.199
So you need to keep that alive
until it can get roots in the

989
01:13:14.279 --> 01:13:16.640
ground. That's why the light,
frequent watering. Okay, I've got to

990
01:13:16.720 --> 01:13:20.079
run, got to run for a
break. If i'm If you need to

991
01:13:20.119 --> 01:13:24.239
hang on, you're welcome to do
that, but I appreciate your call.

992
01:13:24.359 --> 01:13:29.760
Our phone number is seven one three
two two fifty eight seventy four Man Raindy

993
01:13:29.840 --> 01:13:31.840
day in Texas. Welcome to garden
line. Good to have you back right

994
01:13:31.920 --> 01:13:36.840
now. So you hear me say
the same thing over and over again,

995
01:13:38.279 --> 01:13:42.880
and it's because it's important if I
repeat it, it's important. And what's

996
01:13:42.960 --> 01:13:46.880
important. Fix the soil before you
plant the plants, and after you plant

997
01:13:46.920 --> 01:13:53.119
the plants, continue to make the
soil better. Brown stuff makes green stuff

998
01:13:53.199 --> 01:13:59.880
better. Brown stuff comes first Nature's
way resources. They have long term been

999
01:14:00.079 --> 01:14:02.800
a leader when it comes to compost. When it comes to soil blends.

1000
01:14:02.960 --> 01:14:06.479
Do you need rose soil, do
you need you know of kind of a

1001
01:14:06.840 --> 01:14:13.119
mix for vegetables or herbs or fruit
trees or whatever. Talk to John,

1002
01:14:13.399 --> 01:14:17.920
talk to Ian Nature's Way, ask
him what's the best situation for this,

1003
01:14:18.159 --> 01:14:24.800
and they can guide it. They
custom they customize the blends they have specifically

1004
01:14:25.239 --> 01:14:28.760
for certain types of plant success.
You can give them a call at nine

1005
01:14:28.840 --> 01:14:32.479
three six three two one sixty nine
to ninety. They're on forty Intertate forty

1006
01:14:32.520 --> 01:14:36.439
five up toward Conro right where fourteen
eighty eight comes in. Just cross over

1007
01:14:36.520 --> 01:14:41.880
the railroad tracks and you're there.
While you're there, they've got native plants,

1008
01:14:42.000 --> 01:14:45.079
they have fruit trees. They've got
a lot of different things in their

1009
01:14:45.119 --> 01:14:49.800
garden center as well. But they
are known for quality products like roast soil

1010
01:14:49.840 --> 01:14:54.920
and leathmo composts, which they invented, by the Way, and fungal Friday's

1011
01:14:55.159 --> 01:15:01.039
every Friday ten percent off bagged fungal
composts and twenty percent off fungal compost at

1012
01:15:01.159 --> 01:15:06.680
Nature's Way Resources. When you start
right like that, you're gonna have success.

1013
01:15:06.880 --> 01:15:13.760
When you PLoP a plant into an
unprepared plot, you're gonna have trouble.

1014
01:15:14.479 --> 01:15:19.319
Don't do that. Make success easy
with Nature's Way Resources. We're going

1015
01:15:19.399 --> 01:15:23.760
to go now out to talk to
Forest and the Galley of Hello Forest,

1016
01:15:25.039 --> 01:15:30.600
Good morning Skip. I am scheduled
to get my lawn air rated and top

1017
01:15:30.720 --> 01:15:33.159
dressed, but that's not going to
happen for a couple of weeks. And

1018
01:15:33.199 --> 01:15:39.720
I'm real tempted to put down some
Weednator or some other you know, spring

1019
01:15:40.399 --> 01:15:43.880
fertilizer because I haven't done that yet. Should I hold off or could I

1020
01:15:43.920 --> 01:15:47.239
go ahead and do it? Do
you have current weeds that you're seeing everywhere?

1021
01:15:47.319 --> 01:15:50.920
Do you have a problem with weeds
right now? Well? Yes,

1022
01:15:51.560 --> 01:15:55.880
I put down the barricade a couple
of weeks ago, and I actually spot

1023
01:15:56.000 --> 01:16:01.560
treated weeds, but I mean I've
got them, so okay. Well,

1024
01:16:01.720 --> 01:16:06.079
if you were saying you mentioned the
weed Nator and Nelson Weedenator is an excellent

1025
01:16:06.159 --> 01:16:12.000
product to kill weeds are existing in
your lung already. What you need to

1026
01:16:12.039 --> 01:16:14.960
do, though, is you need
to apply it when the weeds are wet.

1027
01:16:15.119 --> 01:16:16.640
The surface is wet. The soil
doesn't have to be wet. The

1028
01:16:16.840 --> 01:16:20.239
leaf surface of the weeds needs to
be wet. So if we know we're

1029
01:16:20.279 --> 01:16:23.600
done with rain right at the end, you can go in there and put

1030
01:16:23.600 --> 01:16:26.680
a little weedenator down. It'll stick
to the weeds and it'll soak in.

1031
01:16:27.960 --> 01:16:31.039
After about a couple a day or
two, go ahead and water it into

1032
01:16:31.079 --> 01:16:33.840
the ground to get the fertilizer down
in the ground. After that, it's

1033
01:16:33.880 --> 01:16:38.520
a slow release. It works very
very well, and it's going to give

1034
01:16:38.560 --> 01:16:44.079
you like a couple of several two
or three months probably of release of nutrients.

1035
01:16:44.079 --> 01:16:46.520
It's it's very slow, but it
gives you some early and then as

1036
01:16:46.880 --> 01:16:53.399
the soil warms up, it unlocks
more and more of that nutrient that's in

1037
01:16:53.560 --> 01:17:00.720
the product. But don't worry about
doing it before aeration. No, I

1038
01:17:00.840 --> 01:17:05.520
wouldn't. I would. You could
do it before, but don't do it

1039
01:17:05.960 --> 01:17:10.680
like the day before. You need
to let it undisturbed for about a day.

1040
01:17:11.119 --> 01:17:15.479
Then you could do your aeration and
follow with a little bit of water

1041
01:17:15.680 --> 01:17:19.560
to kind of wash it down.
Yeah, gotcha, perfect, Good luck

1042
01:17:19.600 --> 01:17:24.840
with that. Appreciate that very much. Glad to have your call. If

1043
01:17:24.880 --> 01:17:30.119
you are looking to have a beautiful, just a gorgeous flower pot on the

1044
01:17:30.239 --> 01:17:33.520
patio, maybe you're going to grow
vegetables, maybe you're gonna grow flowers.

1045
01:17:34.239 --> 01:17:41.000
Jungle Land distributed by Nitroposs. Jungle
Land is a quality soil mix for containers.

1046
01:17:41.039 --> 01:17:45.119
It's designed for that it's called jungle
Land flour and vegetable planting soil.

1047
01:17:45.520 --> 01:17:50.760
Now there's also an indoor version called
jungle Land water saving potting Salt's got the

1048
01:17:50.800 --> 01:17:55.359
little crystals at whole moisture and release
it to roots as the soil begins to

1049
01:17:55.399 --> 01:18:00.159
get dry. These products are available
everywhere you get nitrofoss products is all over

1050
01:18:00.319 --> 01:18:03.840
the place. For example, King
of Ace Hardware has got those. The

1051
01:18:04.039 --> 01:18:10.840
arbor Gate up in Tomball, the
shades of Green or shades of Texas excuse

1052
01:18:10.880 --> 01:18:14.560
me, Shades of Texas on Genoa
Red Bluff down in South Houston. Those

1053
01:18:14.600 --> 01:18:18.159
are all places you can get jungle
and other nitroph nitrofoss product. I'm having

1054
01:18:18.239 --> 01:18:23.960
trouble talking today. Other night fross
products available there as well. Let's run

1055
01:18:24.199 --> 01:18:27.800
out to Jersey Village now we're going
to talk to George. Hey, George,

1056
01:18:28.800 --> 01:18:31.000
h good morning Skip. I have
a few questions for you. I

1057
01:18:31.000 --> 01:18:35.359
remember you talking about instead of watering
on a specific schedule, just to go

1058
01:18:35.479 --> 01:18:39.560
about four inches down and look at
the soil and grab a handfle see what

1059
01:18:39.680 --> 01:18:42.800
it feels like. Oh, I
avoid going down on my knees. Is

1060
01:18:43.000 --> 01:18:46.760
any chance I get so? How
about a moisture meter? Those things any

1061
01:18:46.800 --> 01:18:50.439
good? Are there one that you
could recommend? The second thing is my

1062
01:18:50.560 --> 01:18:54.199
wife, as was agent. You
see wonders hopping. They don't get any

1063
01:18:54.239 --> 01:18:57.600
bigger, beautiful flowers, but they're
only about go two to three feet in

1064
01:18:57.680 --> 01:19:01.560
diameter. And the other question,
as tomatoes, she says, if you

1065
01:19:01.640 --> 01:19:05.880
pinch off the flowers, the first
flower just better. And any place where

1066
01:19:05.880 --> 01:19:11.319
a where a brass come out of
the main stems, she says, there

1067
01:19:11.319 --> 01:19:14.479
are suckers that grow it right when
those two come together, to pinch those

1068
01:19:14.520 --> 01:19:16.079
out too. So all right,
what do you think, George? I'm

1069
01:19:16.119 --> 01:19:19.119
gonna answer half that, and after
we come back from the hour break,

1070
01:19:19.159 --> 01:19:23.199
which is coming pretty quick here,
I'll try to Well, maybe i'll get

1071
01:19:23.239 --> 01:19:26.399
them all answered. We'll just see
see how far I can get. Let's

1072
01:19:26.439 --> 01:19:30.640
start with the meters. I'm sorry, say it again, the meter.

1073
01:19:31.399 --> 01:19:36.239
Yeah, the meters. Those are
moderately accurate for moisture. They're okay,

1074
01:19:36.520 --> 01:19:40.000
they're not great. If you don't
want to get down and feel the soil,

1075
01:19:40.439 --> 01:19:43.319
you can use one. But by
the time you've been over to do

1076
01:19:43.479 --> 01:19:46.159
the meter, you can almost be
down. Hey, you need to get

1077
01:19:46.199 --> 01:19:48.960
one of those kneeling benches. That's
what I use because if I go up

1078
01:19:48.960 --> 01:19:53.880
and down a lot, I'll pay
for it the next day. So I

1079
01:19:53.960 --> 01:19:57.840
have one of those kneeling folding kneeling
benches are excellent. Yeah, and they

1080
01:19:57.920 --> 01:20:00.520
got little handles. It makes it
easy to get back up again. Anyway.

1081
01:20:00.000 --> 01:20:03.239
The meters are okay, they're not
the best. I usually say go

1082
01:20:03.359 --> 01:20:06.520
down, dig down four inches and
feel the soil because that's deep enough to

1083
01:20:06.560 --> 01:20:10.720
where if there's moisture, you ought
to feel it. You know, if

1084
01:20:10.760 --> 01:20:13.479
you feel the top inch, well
it could dry out. But they're still

1085
01:20:13.520 --> 01:20:16.680
moisture done in the root zone.
But anyway, you could go either way.

1086
01:20:16.880 --> 01:20:21.079
Just know the meters aren't fully accurate
usually unless you spend quite a bit.

1087
01:20:21.159 --> 01:20:28.319
Okay, as far as let's see
what was the azaleas, Yeah,

1088
01:20:28.720 --> 01:20:32.560
azalea's. Part of that is due
to the genetics of the plant. Not

1089
01:20:32.720 --> 01:20:38.840
all azaleas reach the same mature size, but a lot of it is due

1090
01:20:38.880 --> 01:20:45.000
to growing conditions. Azalias want moist
soil consistently. They want highly organic soil.

1091
01:20:45.079 --> 01:20:48.800
They preferred a little on the acidic
side. They need moisture, but

1092
01:20:48.920 --> 01:20:55.039
they need good drainage too, so
if the soil is compacted, if it

1093
01:20:55.119 --> 01:20:58.520
gets on the dry side. That's
all going to stunt them and slow down

1094
01:20:58.640 --> 01:21:01.960
growth. So i'd get a big
can get bigger. Pardon they can get

1095
01:21:02.000 --> 01:21:06.159
bigger? Then, yeah, they
can unless it's just a variety that you

1096
01:21:06.239 --> 01:21:11.159
know is just reaching the size that
you have, but you ought to want

1097
01:21:11.199 --> 01:21:15.079
to consider. Get you The Microlife
makes a fertilizer for acid loving plants.

1098
01:21:15.560 --> 01:21:20.039
It's in a kind of a pinkish
red bag. Uh, and it will

1099
01:21:20.079 --> 01:21:24.840
be good. It's good for azaleas, blueberries, camellias, gardens, all

1100
01:21:24.920 --> 01:21:30.560
those plants. It's a naturally slow
release organic product that is a good blend

1101
01:21:30.600 --> 01:21:33.640
of nutrients. And i'd recommend you
grab you some of that, all right,

1102
01:21:34.199 --> 01:21:38.399
some of that and do it.
Do it now, do it again

1103
01:21:38.520 --> 01:21:41.560
in midsummer, and do it again
towards the end of summer. Okay,

1104
01:21:42.119 --> 01:21:47.920
okay, all right now. Tomatoes, yes, tomatoes, taste the flowers

1105
01:21:47.960 --> 01:21:53.600
off, the first growth flowers too. Tomatoes come in three types. Determinant

1106
01:21:53.640 --> 01:21:58.359
they reach a certain size, set
fruit and that's it. Indeterminant which is

1107
01:21:58.520 --> 01:22:01.479
vine and vine and grow and gross
and then semi determine, which is of

1108
01:22:01.520 --> 01:22:05.760
course in between. If you are
going to steak your tomatoes, you want

1109
01:22:05.800 --> 01:22:10.560
to remove all the suckers that come
out where a leaf comes out, like

1110
01:22:10.640 --> 01:22:15.439
you were referring to H and you
that way you get larger, earlier fruit

1111
01:22:15.920 --> 01:22:20.560
on your tomatoes. If you want
to cage them, I still remove a

1112
01:22:20.680 --> 01:22:25.239
couple of the early suckers to get
them up and growing, and then maybe

1113
01:22:25.359 --> 01:22:30.159
let them go to about three or
four vines inside the cage, removing the

1114
01:22:30.359 --> 01:22:35.279
other suckers because it just gets so
wadded up with foliage if you don't remove

1115
01:22:35.319 --> 01:22:40.800
any suckers that, yeah, it's
a problem. I wouldn't remove fruit though,

1116
01:22:41.199 --> 01:22:44.760
you never need to remove fruit.
Okay, all right, well,

1117
01:22:44.880 --> 01:22:46.600
thank you, all right much,
all right, good luck with that.

1118
01:22:46.720 --> 01:22:53.680
Hey we got them all done.
That's good. I appreciate that. Thanks

1119
01:22:53.760 --> 01:22:57.479
a lot for that. Hey,
we you're listening to garden Line, and

1120
01:22:57.880 --> 01:23:00.279
I'm going to be here answering gardening
Uessians all morning. In fact, i'll

1121
01:23:00.279 --> 01:23:03.359
be here tomorrow as well. Today's
a good day to get out, but

1122
01:23:03.560 --> 01:23:08.079
I'm going to get out. I'm
going to be at Buchanan's Plants. Bugannon's

1123
01:23:08.159 --> 01:23:11.680
is providing some cool stuff for giveaways. I don't know. I have about

1124
01:23:12.119 --> 01:23:14.920
almost seven or eight different kinds of
things. I'm going to be given away

1125
01:23:15.800 --> 01:23:18.119
all kinds of things that you will
find to be a real cool gift.

1126
01:23:19.039 --> 01:23:24.239
If you would like, we will
answer any gardening questions you have. Just

1127
01:23:24.319 --> 01:23:27.600
show up there, bring me a
sample, bring me a plant in a

1128
01:23:27.720 --> 01:23:30.119
ziplock bag, or bring me photos. Get up close, make sure they're

1129
01:23:30.119 --> 01:23:34.039
in sharp focus. Let's figure it
out together. You got a Problemary,

1130
01:23:34.119 --> 01:23:40.560
you have trouble with plants just not
performing. I promise you the Buchanans is

1131
01:23:40.600 --> 01:23:44.439
going to have a plant or two, or three or six to that area

1132
01:23:45.119 --> 01:23:47.000
that will do just well, and
we can point you to those. But

1133
01:23:47.000 --> 01:23:49.479
it made me come out. Let's
do some of the giveaways. Let's have

1134
01:23:49.560 --> 01:23:53.239
some fun with Q and A together. I'll even walk around a little bit

1135
01:23:53.279 --> 01:23:57.000
and do some shopping with you.
You've got time. Buchanan's Plants right after

1136
01:23:57.199 --> 01:24:01.000
the show today at eleven am to
one pm. Kat r H Garden Line

1137
01:24:01.079 --> 01:24:04.760
does not necessarily endorse any of the
products or services advertised on this program.

1138
01:24:06.600 --> 01:24:16.560
Welcome to kat r H Garden Line
with Skip Richter's Shoes, Crazy Gas Can

1139
01:24:17.560 --> 01:24:35.680
Trim just watch him as many good
things to seept Crazy INASMS Club not a

1140
01:24:35.960 --> 01:24:48.119
Sundays Gas Sun Beam and welcome back
to the Garden Line. Hey, it's

1141
01:24:48.159 --> 01:24:54.279
good to have you with us.
Glad you're listening today. Good morning to

1142
01:24:54.359 --> 01:24:57.319
be inside listening to the radio.
Right now, we're starting to get a

1143
01:24:57.359 --> 01:25:00.800
little glow in the sky, meaning
the day is is coming. We're ready

1144
01:25:00.840 --> 01:25:02.880
to get out and do things.
I'm going to be out in the battle

1145
01:25:02.960 --> 01:25:06.399
b it b Canna's Nursery today.
I hope you'll come by and see me

1146
01:25:06.520 --> 01:25:13.399
from eleven to one pm eleven am
to one pm, answering your gardening questions

1147
01:25:13.560 --> 01:25:16.000
and I don't know, just talking
gardening in general. We'll even put up

1148
01:25:16.039 --> 01:25:18.760
with a little bit of bragging.
I know you grew the biggest tomato in

1149
01:25:18.760 --> 01:25:25.239
the neighborhood last year. I'm a
skeptic. Show me some pictures. We'll

1150
01:25:25.359 --> 01:25:29.720
take a look at that. Anyway, I love getting out and visiting with

1151
01:25:30.000 --> 01:25:32.600
people that listen to Garden Line.
It's always good to visit with the listeners

1152
01:25:32.680 --> 01:25:38.000
out there. For those you got
in Kingwood, you've got Warren's Garden Center

1153
01:25:38.319 --> 01:25:43.319
out there. You've also got Kingwood
Garden Center, right, both of those

1154
01:25:43.600 --> 01:25:45.800
are out in that area, so
it's real easy to go to Warren's Southern

1155
01:25:45.880 --> 01:25:49.600
gardens and pick up whatever you need. Our Kingwood Garden Center just so darn

1156
01:25:50.119 --> 01:25:55.039
handy. A lot of people are
jealous because you got two great nurseries just

1157
01:25:55.159 --> 01:25:59.119
side by side right out there,
and boy are they ever loaded. Color.

1158
01:25:59.560 --> 01:26:03.640
Warren's got some fashion azalias in that
are outstanding. In fact, you

1159
01:26:03.840 --> 01:26:06.960
look at them and it's like does
the plant have leaves or is it just

1160
01:26:08.039 --> 01:26:13.000
solid blooms. I mean they're literally
that thick. Do you want gaudy in

1161
01:26:13.119 --> 01:26:17.319
your landscape? Go check out the
beautiful hibiscus, the tropical hibiscus that they

1162
01:26:17.359 --> 01:26:21.079
have. The colors, I can't
describe them, you just have to go

1163
01:26:21.279 --> 01:26:26.319
see them there. Beautiful I mentioned
earlier, Colius of her sun and shade.

1164
01:26:26.840 --> 01:26:30.520
They've got that out there. It's
just easy to find everything that you're

1165
01:26:30.560 --> 01:26:33.439
looking for. And anytime you go
to a garden center, you got to

1166
01:26:33.479 --> 01:26:39.239
pick up salvia's and they have one
called Rocking Deep Purple. It's a Salvia

1167
01:26:39.279 --> 01:26:45.199
gar nittica type. Salvia attracts hummingbirds, bees, butterflies, you name it.

1168
01:26:45.279 --> 01:26:48.319
I mean they are a magnet.
And last thing, I mean,

1169
01:26:48.479 --> 01:26:53.920
I could go all day here.
They have some ten gallon bougainvillias that are

1170
01:26:54.039 --> 01:26:59.239
on a little trellis. It is
just a wall of color. You have

1171
01:26:59.520 --> 01:27:02.039
to go look at them. They're
unbelievable. They also haven't trained as standards.

1172
01:27:02.079 --> 01:27:04.960
What's that mean? That means we
take a bunch of trunks of the

1173
01:27:05.000 --> 01:27:10.239
boogavilia, put them all together like
a little miniature tree, prune everything off,

1174
01:27:10.279 --> 01:27:14.319
and then they have this beautiful rounded
head full of blooms. All at

1175
01:27:14.359 --> 01:27:17.880
Warren Garden Center, Kingwoo Garden Center
Warren's Garden Center, two great places to

1176
01:27:18.000 --> 01:27:21.640
shop and find everything you need.
We're going to go now to sugar Land.

1177
01:27:21.680 --> 01:27:26.640
We're gonna talk to Greg. Hello, Greg, Hi, Skip.

1178
01:27:27.039 --> 01:27:32.880
I have questions on azaleas and boogain
beas. Okay, are those good summer

1179
01:27:33.560 --> 01:27:41.399
plants as far as uh being able
to survive the heat or hollows those plants

1180
01:27:41.560 --> 01:27:45.119
do. Yeah, they both can
take the heat. Azelias for the most

1181
01:27:45.159 --> 01:27:49.640
part, wants shade. Bougainvillia's definitely
want full sun. Azalea's bloom in the

1182
01:27:49.720 --> 01:27:57.159
spring some repeat bloom, okay,
but boogin mainly spring for azalias uh,

1183
01:27:57.359 --> 01:28:02.039
and then Bougainvillia's boog and villas they
bloom on in through the season. Though.

1184
01:28:02.199 --> 01:28:04.640
If you can keep them going.
They may do it in waves,

1185
01:28:05.079 --> 01:28:10.960
but you can you can have an
extended bloom on those. And yeah,

1186
01:28:11.000 --> 01:28:16.239
I'm thinking about pulling some shrubs that
died during the freeze that I was thinking

1187
01:28:16.279 --> 01:28:25.520
about just putting those plants, those
flowers in that in that soil that after

1188
01:28:25.640 --> 01:28:31.039
I pulled the shrubs out, just
go back and I could do that suner

1189
01:28:31.119 --> 01:28:38.319
shade. Are you talking about suner
shade? I'm talking about mostly sun.

1190
01:28:38.680 --> 01:28:42.319
Okay, mostly son h Yeah,
you could, you could do that.

1191
01:28:43.840 --> 01:28:46.079
They're just a lot of good blooming
shrubs for sun. I wouldn't put the

1192
01:28:46.119 --> 01:28:51.439
azaleas in the sun. They are
somewhat cold tender. I know you're down

1193
01:28:51.479 --> 01:28:56.760
in Sugarland, so you you know
you're not far up north. I don't

1194
01:28:56.800 --> 01:29:01.159
know that I would plant them as
just a general shrub, but unless you

1195
01:29:01.279 --> 01:29:05.479
can look, unless it's okay for
everything to be barren in the winter time

1196
01:29:05.560 --> 01:29:10.479
when the leaves fall off, but
there are probably I would consider some of

1197
01:29:10.560 --> 01:29:15.279
the good shrub roses for sun for
blooms that go all through the season.

1198
01:29:15.359 --> 01:29:20.079
Mm hmm, okay, well I
have the knockout roses in the front,

1199
01:29:21.079 --> 01:29:30.479
and so uh, the boog and
vans will be okay. They're okay in

1200
01:29:30.640 --> 01:29:33.000
Sun. They're okay in Sun.
Yeah. But you know, you're just

1201
01:29:33.119 --> 01:29:36.079
down the street down there, you're
just down the street from in Chenna Gardens.

1202
01:29:36.119 --> 01:29:39.560
You ought to just run by there. H. They are going to

1203
01:29:39.640 --> 01:29:42.560
have a wide variety of roses,
and they're going to have a lot of

1204
01:29:42.640 --> 01:29:45.439
other good blooming plants. And they're
very knowledgeable there to China Gardens. They'll

1205
01:29:45.920 --> 01:29:49.239
they'll be able to tell you,
Okay, here's another example plant option,

1206
01:29:49.479 --> 01:29:54.079
here's another one that they carry.
They're going to have everything. So there,

1207
01:29:54.800 --> 01:29:58.800
have you been to in Chenna Gardens
before? No, that's what that's

1208
01:29:58.920 --> 01:30:03.039
right down south Rosenberg. Yeah,
you had to head down south. It's

1209
01:30:03.199 --> 01:30:09.520
it's if you're in Rosenberg going up
toward fullsher north toward Katie that direction.

1210
01:30:10.199 --> 01:30:14.319
They're on FN three point fifty nine. Just it's what you need to do.

1211
01:30:14.520 --> 01:30:18.760
The website's easy. It's Enchanted Gardens
Richmond dot com and you can get

1212
01:30:18.800 --> 01:30:21.319
a map to it and all that
kind of stuff. They got all the

1213
01:30:21.359 --> 01:30:26.920
fertile pass that I recommend, and
more plants there I can imagine. By

1214
01:30:26.960 --> 01:30:30.600
the way, they're open. They're
open till five o'clock and tomorrow from ten

1215
01:30:30.680 --> 01:30:35.079
to four if you if you can
get out and that's in charge an enchanted

1216
01:30:35.520 --> 01:30:40.720
garden, Jenny Gardens, and they're
going to have a lot. They have

1217
01:30:40.760 --> 01:30:45.079
antique roses, hybrid roses, and
then Bougainville is everything else. They're going

1218
01:30:45.119 --> 01:30:47.960
to have it all right there.
Okay, thank you so much, Thank

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01:30:48.000 --> 01:30:53.399
you appreciate appreciate that call a lot. We're going to go now, let's

1220
01:30:53.439 --> 01:30:56.960
see. I'll tell you what I
want to I want to mention. I

1221
01:30:57.720 --> 01:31:02.039
mentioned this earlier, but if you've
got existing weeds, that's cool season weeds.

1222
01:31:02.159 --> 01:31:06.159
Warm season weeds have not had a
chance yet to take off and grow

1223
01:31:06.560 --> 01:31:11.720
and become big visible problems. Those
are cool season weeds that you're seeing.

1224
01:31:13.640 --> 01:31:16.000
Night Fuss makes a product that's a
fifteen five to ten, which is your

1225
01:31:16.319 --> 01:31:20.920
early greenup. It's the early greenup
that is an optional application to do an

1226
01:31:20.960 --> 01:31:24.880
early greenup. If you're going to
do that, if you use a n

1227
01:31:25.119 --> 01:31:30.000
Foss fifteen five to ten with trimec. It's a broadly post emergent weed control.

1228
01:31:30.520 --> 01:31:33.239
So here's what we need. We
need to wet the leaves of the

1229
01:31:33.319 --> 01:31:38.600
weeds in the grass just with a
just a squirt of water just enough to

1230
01:31:38.600 --> 01:31:41.720
get them wet. Don't do it
before a gully washer rain. You need

1231
01:31:41.760 --> 01:31:44.920
to wait till the rains through and
then just wet the leak. Get them

1232
01:31:44.960 --> 01:31:48.640
wet, put down the trimeac with
the fifty five to ten. It's a

1233
01:31:48.800 --> 01:31:54.000
nitrofoss product. Again, it's easy. It's easy to find. Night foss

1234
01:31:54.000 --> 01:31:58.319
products are available just pretty much everywhere. I mean, and this bag is

1235
01:31:58.399 --> 01:32:02.159
easy. I like the color coding, but it's a bluish colored bag that

1236
01:32:02.439 --> 01:32:08.279
is going to Just make sure it
says trimec as the ingredient and then leave

1237
01:32:08.279 --> 01:32:11.760
it about a day, let it
soak into the leaf tissue of the weed,

1238
01:32:12.000 --> 01:32:15.039
and then water it in to get
the fertilizer into the ground. Just

1239
01:32:15.119 --> 01:32:18.159
a tiny bit of water will do
it. That product itself will kill those

1240
01:32:18.239 --> 01:32:23.560
weeds that are existing and then provide
the nutrients for your yard. And where

1241
01:32:23.560 --> 01:32:27.720
do you get nitrofosh products. Well, here's a few places. You can

1242
01:32:27.800 --> 01:32:30.720
get them at Fisher's Hardware in Baytown. Down in Baytown, you can get

1243
01:32:30.760 --> 01:32:34.199
them at Lake Hardware down in Angleton. You can get them at D and

1244
01:32:34.279 --> 01:32:38.279
D Feed up in Tomball. We're
going to take a little break. We'll

1245
01:32:38.319 --> 01:32:42.600
be right back our phone number seven
one three two one two fifty eight seventy

1246
01:32:42.640 --> 01:32:45.960
four. Welcome back to the Garden
Line. Good to have you with us

1247
01:32:45.039 --> 01:32:48.359
today. Got a lot to talk
about. This is spring, as spring

1248
01:32:48.439 --> 01:32:51.760
has sprung, as they say,
and boy are we ever in the big

1249
01:32:51.840 --> 01:32:56.399
middle of it with plants and all
kinds of things. It's time to fertilize

1250
01:32:56.399 --> 01:33:00.840
your lawn. I've been talking about
that. Get down your earth spring green

1251
01:33:00.920 --> 01:33:05.439
up if you want to do that. One the slower release products that we

1252
01:33:05.600 --> 01:33:09.800
use through the summer that time is
we're kind of up on the edge of

1253
01:33:09.840 --> 01:33:12.199
it. We've sort of got one
foot in spring green up what foot and

1254
01:33:12.239 --> 01:33:15.039
slowerly is going on with some of
these products now, But either way you

1255
01:33:15.119 --> 01:33:17.399
want to go, it's a good
time to be doing that. Also,

1256
01:33:17.479 --> 01:33:21.680
azamite azmite is a trace mineral element. What does that mean. It means

1257
01:33:23.239 --> 01:33:27.079
there are nutrients that the plant doesn't
need a lot of, but that are

1258
01:33:27.319 --> 01:33:31.720
essential for plant living growth development,
and so you may not need much of

1259
01:33:31.800 --> 01:33:35.479
them, but you absolutely have to
have them. They're essential. Asamite is

1260
01:33:35.560 --> 01:33:42.079
full of those trace minerals, those
micro nutrients. You can go to Azamite

1261
01:33:42.159 --> 01:33:45.920
Texas Dot com and find out more. It goes a long way because you're

1262
01:33:45.079 --> 01:33:47.920
just using a little you're not putting
it out at the quantity you would put

1263
01:33:47.920 --> 01:33:53.039
out fertilizers. Now, this is
something that like a forty four pound bag

1264
01:33:53.119 --> 01:33:57.439
will cover six to twelve thousand square
feet, So you want to make sure

1265
01:33:57.479 --> 01:34:01.399
you're setting on your spreader is crank
really down to not put very much out

1266
01:34:01.479 --> 01:34:05.960
and you can find out more about
that. But azimite is an excellent product

1267
01:34:06.000 --> 01:34:08.920
for doing that. You can do
it anytime of the year. You won't

1268
01:34:09.000 --> 01:34:12.760
do it now, be just as
fine as any So get you some asmite

1269
01:34:12.920 --> 01:34:15.039
and get out there and get going. Where do you get it, Well,

1270
01:34:15.079 --> 01:34:18.960
it's widely available, as mite is
widely available in fact, Southwest Fertilizer.

1271
01:34:19.079 --> 01:34:25.439
Of course that's cheating. Southwest Fertilizer
has everything, So saying it's available

1272
01:34:25.479 --> 01:34:30.119
at Southwest is like, okay,
what's new. I mean that everybody knows

1273
01:34:30.159 --> 01:34:33.239
that Southwest has all the fertilizers.
I recommend you know, when we talk

1274
01:34:33.279 --> 01:34:41.600
about nitropost when we talk about Nelson's, when we talk about the microlife fertilizers,

1275
01:34:41.680 --> 01:34:45.960
when we talk about the Medina products, they got all of that and

1276
01:34:45.079 --> 01:34:48.039
then some. They have everything you
need. If you've got a pest,

1277
01:34:48.199 --> 01:34:53.039
disease or weed, they can fix
it. Bring a sample, walk in

1278
01:34:53.199 --> 01:34:55.800
with a photo, show them what
you got. Make sure it's a good

1279
01:34:55.880 --> 01:35:00.800
crisp photo. Train staff very knowledgeable, you know, and Aaron for a

1280
01:35:00.880 --> 01:35:05.079
right hand man. Aaron knows exactly
where to point you, and so do

1281
01:35:05.239 --> 01:35:11.000
other folks working there at Southwest Fertilizer. It's good to walk in be treated

1282
01:35:11.119 --> 01:35:15.159
right with knowledgeable answers. You know, you've been to these places where you

1283
01:35:15.199 --> 01:35:17.319
ask a question. As you start
asking it, you watch the eyes glaze

1284
01:35:17.319 --> 01:35:20.760
over and you realize they have no
idea. They're going to make something up.

1285
01:35:20.800 --> 01:35:26.079
But they have no idea. That's
not Southwest Fertilizer. You go in

1286
01:35:26.199 --> 01:35:28.920
there, you get what you need. They've got it all. They got

1287
01:35:29.000 --> 01:35:31.920
the A'SM. I. They also, by the way, have the Nitrofuss

1288
01:35:31.960 --> 01:35:35.880
super Turf. That's the nineteen four
to ten. That is the silver bag.

1289
01:35:36.239 --> 01:35:42.720
The silver bag very very important.
The silver bag is what you need

1290
01:35:43.119 --> 01:35:46.880
for slow release. Now, if
you just did the fast release the Nitropuss

1291
01:35:46.920 --> 01:35:50.520
Imperial, go ahead and get the
silver bag. Hold off though, give

1292
01:35:50.600 --> 01:35:54.680
it, you know, give that
night Fuss Imperial about three or four weeks

1293
01:35:54.800 --> 01:35:57.880
and then put the silver bag down. If you didn't do it, go

1294
01:35:57.960 --> 01:36:02.039
ahead and do the silver bag now. Tterfost super Turf is an excellent slowly

1295
01:36:02.159 --> 01:36:09.159
products give you your nutrients over time. It's going to provide them gradually over

1296
01:36:09.279 --> 01:36:12.880
time. And when you do that, you just put it down and you

1297
01:36:12.960 --> 01:36:15.960
forget about it. It's going to
feed your LNG gradually like you want.

1298
01:36:15.199 --> 01:36:18.520
Knight Foss products are easy to find. They're available ever where. I keep

1299
01:36:18.560 --> 01:36:21.199
telling you that where are some places. Well, let me give you a

1300
01:36:21.199 --> 01:36:25.279
few examples. You can get them
at Kingwood Ace Hardware. You can get

1301
01:36:25.319 --> 01:36:28.399
them up at the Arbor Gate.
You can get them down in South Houston

1302
01:36:28.479 --> 01:36:32.119
on Genoa Redblock at Shades of Texas. Lots of places to get the Knight

1303
01:36:32.239 --> 01:36:38.239
Foss products. Let's now go out
to West and we're going to talk to

1304
01:36:38.359 --> 01:36:42.199
Jonas. Hello Jonas, Good morning, Skipp, Thanks for a gee my

1305
01:36:42.319 --> 01:36:45.920
call. I have a couple of
questions about my highbiscus plants. They're potted,

1306
01:36:45.119 --> 01:36:46.960
have about eight of them, and
I took care of them in the

1307
01:36:47.000 --> 01:36:50.399
winter and put them inside and they're
fine, but they're very lanky. They

1308
01:36:50.479 --> 01:36:54.239
have all these stems in them,
many from the base, and they're not

1309
01:36:54.479 --> 01:36:57.399
very bushy, and I don't know
whether that's just a part of their genetics

1310
01:36:57.520 --> 01:37:00.600
or not. And even though they're
doing well, sometimes some of the leaves,

1311
01:37:00.640 --> 01:37:04.960
even little ones after in yellow.
Other leaves that are more mature have

1312
01:37:05.159 --> 01:37:09.840
furled and have developed a brownish look
to them with little holes in them.

1313
01:37:10.119 --> 01:37:13.479
Okay, And I basically don't know. How can I make them bush here

1314
01:37:13.600 --> 01:37:17.359
if that is possible? And what
fertilizer should I use? Yeah, good

1315
01:37:17.439 --> 01:37:23.640
questions, Paul. You can with
the with a hibiscus, that's not unusual

1316
01:37:23.760 --> 01:37:27.600
coming out of wintertime, so I
wouldn't I wouldn't worry about that at all.

1317
01:37:28.000 --> 01:37:31.439
You're gonna I am yellow. The
yellowing, Yeah, that could be

1318
01:37:31.479 --> 01:37:35.760
a water too much, too little. That's kind of normal for them.

1319
01:37:36.000 --> 01:37:40.520
They wanted to warm up before they're
really going to get going. I would

1320
01:37:40.600 --> 01:37:46.159
get you some Nitrofoss makes a liquid, I mean not a liquid, a

1321
01:37:46.279 --> 01:37:53.359
dry product. It's called Hibiscus fertilizer. It is a twelve three sixteen product

1322
01:37:53.439 --> 01:37:57.159
and Nitrofoss sold all over the place, but their Hibiscus fertilizer, the twelve

1323
01:37:57.920 --> 01:38:01.960
three sixteen I would fertilize them with
that and watered in really well. And

1324
01:38:02.039 --> 01:38:06.720
when you watered in, you're going
to get a response as those nutrients are

1325
01:38:06.760 --> 01:38:11.079
released and as they pick up and
they go with it. Now, if

1326
01:38:11.119 --> 01:38:16.279
you want the water soluble version that
you mix you know, the fertilizers you

1327
01:38:16.359 --> 01:38:19.359
mix up in water and you water
your plants with them, that would be

1328
01:38:19.479 --> 01:38:25.720
their space city hibiscus, and it's
an eighteen ten twenty eight. Wherever nitrophossis

1329
01:38:25.760 --> 01:38:30.479
sold. Either of those Hibiscus work. One is for mixing up and using

1330
01:38:30.600 --> 01:38:33.520
the solution to water your plants.
The other is a dry fertilizer you do

1331
01:38:33.720 --> 01:38:36.479
just like any other dry fertilizer.
You put down as you water, it

1332
01:38:36.600 --> 01:38:44.560
releases. It's a twelve three sixteen, right, The one that is water

1333
01:38:44.800 --> 01:38:50.199
soluble. Well, the one that's
dry first of all is twelve three sixteen.

1334
01:38:50.760 --> 01:38:56.199
The one that is water soluble is
an eighteen ten twenty eight. It's

1335
01:38:56.239 --> 01:39:00.640
a little higher in the potassium levels
there. But both of those are going

1336
01:39:00.680 --> 01:39:02.279
to work just fine. As far
as pruning them, yeah, you can.

1337
01:39:02.399 --> 01:39:05.319
You can trim them back. Don't
let them put on too much growth

1338
01:39:05.359 --> 01:39:09.319
before you trim them back. You
don't waste that energy. But if you

1339
01:39:09.359 --> 01:39:15.119
trim them back, they'll sprout out
just fine. Okay. And the fertilization

1340
01:39:15.239 --> 01:39:17.079
should be a time of year or
at any time. I would do it

1341
01:39:17.239 --> 01:39:20.479
now, and then I would continue
to do it. As the weather warms

1342
01:39:20.560 --> 01:39:24.600
up. Growth is going to speed
up, and you could if you do

1343
01:39:24.760 --> 01:39:27.920
the dry version, you could do
it every couple of months on it.

1344
01:39:28.079 --> 01:39:31.239
If you want to use the soluble
one, and just whenever you water once

1345
01:39:31.239 --> 01:39:35.079
a week, apply a good application
of that. That would be fine too,

1346
01:39:36.600 --> 01:39:40.399
Okay, all right, Now,
once in a while, I do

1347
01:39:40.479 --> 01:39:44.039
add coffee grounds to them. That's
fine, that's fine. It's a little

1348
01:39:44.039 --> 01:39:46.560
bit of cidifying. But that's okay. But I'm gonna have to not have

1349
01:39:46.640 --> 01:39:50.279
to run Jonas. But thank you
for that question. Good luck with those.

1350
01:39:50.479 --> 01:39:55.119
Yeah, they're beautiful plants. You're
you're fortunate to have some of those

1351
01:39:55.199 --> 01:39:59.840
on hand. I wan't tell you
about a garden center that some of you

1352
01:40:00.159 --> 01:40:02.920
not been to. A lot of
you have. It's well, really well

1353
01:40:03.000 --> 01:40:08.359
known about folks that if you've ever
been there, you know it's a destination.

1354
01:40:08.600 --> 01:40:11.039
So that's kind of a mystery.
What am I talking about? Nelson

1355
01:40:11.119 --> 01:40:15.840
Water Garden it's your West Houston garden
center. Now what Nelson water Garden,

1356
01:40:16.239 --> 01:40:20.840
I should say the nursery, Nelson
Nursery, because really it is a full

1357
01:40:21.159 --> 01:40:27.800
fledged nursery. Do you need tomatoes
and herbs and flowers and the whole thing.

1358
01:40:27.920 --> 01:40:31.199
It's a garden center, right,
but water Gardens is where they got

1359
01:40:31.239 --> 01:40:35.439
their start and they are a specialty
I mean, I'm telling you, do

1360
01:40:35.560 --> 01:40:42.199
you need specialty fish like koi and
shabukin? Do you need beautiful lilies?

1361
01:40:42.520 --> 01:40:45.000
Do you know that they have got
a bunch of tropical lilies. Those are

1362
01:40:45.000 --> 01:40:48.560
the kinds that aren't winter hardy,
and they've got a whole bunch of the

1363
01:40:49.000 --> 01:40:54.399
hardy varieties too. The colors of
the flowers are excellent. In fact,

1364
01:40:54.399 --> 01:40:58.079
they're already starting to bloom out there. And the little containers that they have

1365
01:40:58.199 --> 01:41:01.399
for water garden you can get them
in a seven court pots just beautiful.

1366
01:41:01.760 --> 01:41:04.640
They know what they're talking about.
Do you need fish? Do you need

1367
01:41:05.039 --> 01:41:10.159
to feed your fish? Do you
need I said they were a garden center.

1368
01:41:10.239 --> 01:41:13.920
They got micro life six two four
plenty of that and other products as

1369
01:41:13.960 --> 01:41:17.560
well on hand. Now Nelson Water
Gardens out in Katie. You head to

1370
01:41:17.640 --> 01:41:21.479
Katie you just go north, just
north of Iten, turn right about a

1371
01:41:21.600 --> 01:41:28.439
Stone's throw up there on Katie Fort
Ben Road, Katie Fort Ben Road,

1372
01:41:28.800 --> 01:41:30.800
and you need to go, and
you need to take friends because the way

1373
01:41:30.880 --> 01:41:34.640
that place is set up, it's
like you're walking through a water wonderland.

1374
01:41:34.800 --> 01:41:40.880
You will see fountains, waterfalls,
just you just need to go. Take

1375
01:41:40.960 --> 01:41:44.479
my word for this one. Nelson
Water Gardens out there in Katie. It

1376
01:41:44.680 --> 01:41:48.840
is definitely definitely a destination, one
of a kind place. You're listening to

1377
01:41:48.920 --> 01:41:53.479
garden Line and we're here to answer
gardening questions. Would you like to give

1378
01:41:53.560 --> 01:41:58.159
us a call? Seven to one
three two one two kt R eight seven

1379
01:41:58.199 --> 01:42:05.079
to one three two one two kt
R H Landscaper's Pride has one of the

1380
01:42:05.159 --> 01:42:13.119
widest selections of stuff to make your
plants thrive that you're going to find.

1381
01:42:13.800 --> 01:42:18.119
We're talking about a company that bags
and also sells by bulk by the way

1382
01:42:18.199 --> 01:42:24.439
too, but twenty seven different bagged
products. Just go to write this down,

1383
01:42:24.520 --> 01:42:29.600
go to the website Landscaperspride dot com
Landscaperspride dot com. There you're going

1384
01:42:29.640 --> 01:42:30.880
to find out what they have and
you're going to find out where to get

1385
01:42:30.880 --> 01:42:35.079
it because it's available widely, and
so let me give you some examples.

1386
01:42:35.159 --> 01:42:41.880
That premium pot dirt. It's an
OMRI certified, that's the official organic certification.

1387
01:42:43.119 --> 01:42:47.000
It's a soil. It's proven for
really short term high potency growth on

1388
01:42:47.119 --> 01:42:50.119
flowering plants like I want to.
It's packed with nutrients. How do I

1389
01:42:50.159 --> 01:42:55.399
get these things going? Stuff like
worm castings and sand and vermiculide and more

1390
01:42:55.720 --> 01:42:59.319
so, if you've got an annual
bed you're doing a seasonal color change,

1391
01:42:59.359 --> 01:43:02.479
you know, those and violas and
whatnot need to come out and we're going

1392
01:43:02.520 --> 01:43:05.880
to put in some petunias and angeloni
and all kinds of things. This is

1393
01:43:05.960 --> 01:43:11.439
an excellent product for that. They
have a landscaper's mix that's good. The

1394
01:43:11.520 --> 01:43:14.279
drainage is outstanding on the product.
Or do you need to make a bed

1395
01:43:14.439 --> 01:43:16.279
or do you need to renovate a
bit, do you need a rose mix?

1396
01:43:16.399 --> 01:43:19.960
Yeah, they have those as well. Like I said, twenty seven

1397
01:43:20.279 --> 01:43:27.319
different products Landscaperspride dot com. You're
going to find everything there including where to

1398
01:43:27.359 --> 01:43:36.319
get them, and they are very
very widely available. The landscapes around town

1399
01:43:36.800 --> 01:43:41.640
I know, and I've looked at
my own at times time to redo the

1400
01:43:41.760 --> 01:43:45.720
garden they need us, They need
us to fertilize them, they need us

1401
01:43:45.760 --> 01:43:49.279
to replant some things, they need
us to help them look better. And

1402
01:43:49.439 --> 01:43:53.479
I hope you're planning on doing that. I know we got a rainy day.

1403
01:43:53.600 --> 01:43:56.039
I know we've got a couple of
rain days here. That's okay.

1404
01:43:56.600 --> 01:43:59.119
That yes, And if you want
to get out to a garden center and

1405
01:43:59.199 --> 01:44:01.960
have the staff yourself, you know, not quite like that. Today's a

1406
01:44:02.000 --> 01:44:05.319
good day. Yeah, the products
are there, and listen, when the

1407
01:44:05.399 --> 01:44:08.960
sun comes out, you're going to
want to get going, So why not

1408
01:44:09.159 --> 01:44:13.399
have the supplies and products already ready
to go. Today is a good day

1409
01:44:13.479 --> 01:44:15.880
to get out and do that.
It's also a good time to listen to

1410
01:44:15.960 --> 01:44:18.319
Nikky and the news, which I'm
going to pass the baton over to her.

1411
01:44:18.720 --> 01:44:21.399
Seven one three two one two k
t r H. If you'd like

1412
01:44:21.479 --> 01:44:26.119
to get on the boards with Josh, we'll be right back. Welcome back

1413
01:44:26.119 --> 01:44:30.239
to guard Line. We're looking forward
to visiting with you butt your gardening questions.

1414
01:44:30.560 --> 01:44:33.119
What what do you wonder about?
What are you struggling with? Do

1415
01:44:33.159 --> 01:44:36.359
you need some ideas? Give us
a call seven one three two one two

1416
01:44:38.079 --> 01:44:43.560
five eight seven four seven one three
two fifty eight seventy four. I was

1417
01:44:43.600 --> 01:44:47.720
at Anti Grozenporium just not too long
ago when they had their big shin dig

1418
01:44:47.840 --> 01:44:51.399
out there in the spring, and
I'm telling the place looks good and it

1419
01:44:51.920 --> 01:44:55.960
just the blue bonnets, and right
now they even better. It got to

1420
01:44:56.000 --> 01:45:00.039
be better today because they're on their
way up out there. Wonderful drive in

1421
01:45:00.119 --> 01:45:01.279
the country, a great place to
be. You know, they've got their

1422
01:45:01.359 --> 01:45:06.600
nurtiery and display gardens and they are
roses, but they are so much more.

1423
01:45:06.920 --> 01:45:12.560
I mean they the place began as
an antique rose place and it is

1424
01:45:12.720 --> 01:45:16.159
the go to place for that.
Foreshore people get roses shipped all over the

1425
01:45:16.199 --> 01:45:20.119
country from the antiq rosen Porium.
And you can go because it's in your

1426
01:45:20.159 --> 01:45:25.039
backyard and you can see the place
the display gardens. But when you get

1427
01:45:25.079 --> 01:45:29.000
there, you're going to find houseplants
and herbs and flowers and fruit trees and

1428
01:45:29.520 --> 01:45:33.760
flowering trees and all kinds of native
species there. On twenty third of March,

1429
01:45:34.079 --> 01:45:38.520
just next weekend, ten am,
they're going to have a beneficial insect

1430
01:45:38.600 --> 01:45:43.720
presentation. Same day will be a
children's activity at four pm and it'll be

1431
01:45:43.840 --> 01:45:46.279
all about ladybugs. I'll even the
kids will get to do a Ladybug release,

1432
01:45:46.399 --> 01:45:49.880
so that'll be kind of fun and
cool. March thirtieth is their Easter

1433
01:45:49.960 --> 01:45:55.079
egg hunt coming up. They'll be
posting a lot more stuff to social media,

1434
01:45:55.199 --> 01:45:59.279
so follow them on social media.
The Antique rosen Phum. If you

1435
01:45:59.359 --> 01:46:03.680
would like to accommodate or have them
accommodate a tour, maybe even a presentation

1436
01:46:03.880 --> 01:46:08.479
to your group. They can do
lunch and learns. They can do gardencraft

1437
01:46:08.560 --> 01:46:14.199
workshops during the week and on Sundays
too during the spring. Go just email

1438
01:46:14.279 --> 01:46:19.800
them events at Wereroses dot com,
Events at real we are Roses dot com.

1439
01:46:19.920 --> 01:46:24.760
That's the email now if you want
to call them nine seven nine eight

1440
01:46:24.840 --> 01:46:30.439
three six fifty five forty eight nine
seven nine eight three six five five four

1441
01:46:30.600 --> 01:46:35.960
eight Our best of all, just
go to Antique Roseemporium dot com. Antique

1442
01:46:36.000 --> 01:46:43.119
Roseanmporium dot com. Love that place, so excited to see it continuing on

1443
01:46:43.399 --> 01:46:47.920
under new ownership and it just keeps
getting better and better. I want to

1444
01:46:47.960 --> 01:46:51.159
head out now to Comstead in Texas
and we're going to talk to Jerry.

1445
01:46:51.359 --> 01:46:57.079
Hello, Jerry Yellow Jip. Actually
I live in Belbo and that's where I'm

1446
01:46:57.119 --> 01:47:00.920
calling you from day with a hailstorm. And I don't know if you've talked

1447
01:47:00.960 --> 01:47:05.000
about it yet this morning, but
I have a few trees in my yard

1448
01:47:05.039 --> 01:47:09.399
and there are trees in town that
literally have no leaves left on them.

1449
01:47:09.680 --> 01:47:13.680
Okay, the hail took everything off
the trees and just left the branches.

1450
01:47:14.159 --> 01:47:17.239
Wow. Wow, is that going
to cause an issue this summer because those

1451
01:47:17.319 --> 01:47:23.840
trees no longer have leaves with producing
energy? Uh no, Well, it's

1452
01:47:23.920 --> 01:47:26.720
gonna weaken the tree, but the
tree will be fine if it was in

1453
01:47:26.800 --> 01:47:30.399
good health going into the winter.
In that hailstorm, the tree has plenty

1454
01:47:30.439 --> 01:47:33.199
of carbohydrates to put on a new
set of leaves. We just need you

1455
01:47:33.359 --> 01:47:38.720
to not let any more hailstorms come
through. That would be helpful, but

1456
01:47:39.560 --> 01:47:41.720
it'll put out new leaves. What
you're gonna see, though, is on

1457
01:47:41.840 --> 01:47:45.520
some of the branches on the up
facing side, those hailstones, if they

1458
01:47:45.600 --> 01:47:49.760
were that many, that much,
they're gonna have damaged some of the barks.

1459
01:47:49.800 --> 01:47:54.039
You're gonna have some wounds on the
tree, but there's no action that

1460
01:47:54.159 --> 01:47:57.359
you can take about that. Now. Again, with the tree having good

1461
01:47:57.399 --> 01:48:00.840
health, it will quickly close over
those undes. Spring is the best time

1462
01:48:00.920 --> 01:48:05.800
for wound healing, so you should
be okay, Well, I'll tell you

1463
01:48:05.880 --> 01:48:09.880
how much hell we had. I
had literally a foot and a half of

1464
01:48:10.000 --> 01:48:17.000
hal in my ditch. Good not
what size? What size were half inch

1465
01:48:17.119 --> 01:48:21.319
to one inch diameter? Man,
that'll that'll do it. Yeah. And

1466
01:48:21.399 --> 01:48:25.960
it looks like a tornado may have
come through because some of the damage that's

1467
01:48:26.000 --> 01:48:29.680
here. I don't they haven't confirmed
that yet, but I mean we've got

1468
01:48:30.159 --> 01:48:33.920
there's some mobile homes around here that
are destroyed. Wow. Yeah, so

1469
01:48:34.079 --> 01:48:38.680
it uh, it was pretty bad
and it was only for I'll send you

1470
01:48:38.760 --> 01:48:42.439
a video if you want. It
was only about two minutes. Yeah,

1471
01:48:42.479 --> 01:48:45.479
but it just take down. Yeah, go ahead, if you don't mind

1472
01:48:45.520 --> 01:48:47.359
me keeping it and using it,
I'd be happy to. I'm gonna put

1473
01:48:47.359 --> 01:48:50.479
you on hole when we're done here. And Josh, we'll give you an

1474
01:48:50.479 --> 01:48:54.239
email you can you can send it
to. Okay. Yeah, I need

1475
01:48:54.279 --> 01:48:58.000
to call Dean Nilson because Nelson Fertilizers
out there and see how they fared through

1476
01:48:58.079 --> 01:49:01.840
that. That's uh okay up in
front of town. It looked like it

1477
01:49:01.920 --> 01:49:05.520
came from the southwest to the northeast. Is what the path looks like now.

1478
01:49:05.560 --> 01:49:11.159
Okay, So it would have missed
him. But all right, yeah,

1479
01:49:11.359 --> 01:49:15.039
all right, Jay, I'm gonna
I'm gonna put you on hold and

1480
01:49:15.640 --> 01:49:21.000
we'll please send or have Josh give
you the the email. I'm sorry to

1481
01:49:21.039 --> 01:49:25.600
hear about that. That is a
mess, and I've been through those things

1482
01:49:25.720 --> 01:49:29.479
before, and boy, can that
ever do a lot of damage? Uh?

1483
01:49:29.680 --> 01:49:31.199
You know, our landscapes is like
every time you turn around, there's

1484
01:49:31.239 --> 01:49:34.520
something else. Last summer's drought and
heat was brutal and a lot of people

1485
01:49:34.560 --> 01:49:39.359
are struggling. I'm replacing a lawn
because of it. When I left for

1486
01:49:39.439 --> 01:49:42.479
two weeks, took two weeks in
the heat of summer, full stress.

1487
01:49:42.560 --> 01:49:45.159
My water didn't come on, and
I don't know word got out to the

1488
01:49:45.239 --> 01:49:49.520
insects and diseases because chinchbugs, for
the first time ever, showed up like

1489
01:49:50.119 --> 01:49:56.199
I had been invaded by hundreds of
thousands of soldiers marching across the lawn.

1490
01:49:56.840 --> 01:50:00.359
Uh take all root right, hammered
it as well, Peerscapes can fix out.

1491
01:50:00.560 --> 01:50:03.239
So right now, look out the
window. Do you see standing water

1492
01:50:04.319 --> 01:50:06.439
by the end of the day,
By the end of Sunday, maybe you

1493
01:50:06.520 --> 01:50:11.119
will. What do you do about
that? Plants don't like swamps, very

1494
01:50:11.159 --> 01:50:15.680
few plants can live with suburged roots. Peer Scapes can fix that. They

1495
01:50:15.720 --> 01:50:19.439
can come in and fix the drainage. Is your irrigation system on the blink

1496
01:50:20.319 --> 01:50:25.159
when you turn it on, does
it apply water evenly over the whole area?

1497
01:50:25.680 --> 01:50:29.039
They can fix that. Do you
want to turn the backyard into a

1498
01:50:29.079 --> 01:50:33.079
showplace? They specialize in that.
It's easy, easy to get hold of

1499
01:50:33.119 --> 01:50:40.920
them. Just go to their website
piercescapes dot com, piercescapes dot com,

1500
01:50:41.199 --> 01:50:45.119
or call them two eight one,
three, seven oh fifty sixty. Whatever

1501
01:50:45.279 --> 01:50:50.279
you need to fix what's broken or
to turn what you got into a showplace,

1502
01:50:50.359 --> 01:50:55.680
Peerscapes can do exactly that. And
right now is a good time to

1503
01:50:55.800 --> 01:51:00.520
talk about that drainage issue because it's
real clear where you have problem. Take

1504
01:51:00.560 --> 01:51:02.479
pictures of it, by the way, take pictures right now when you see

1505
01:51:02.560 --> 01:51:05.039
the problem, so you can show
it to them and say this is where

1506
01:51:05.039 --> 01:51:08.399
it is, this is what we
need to fix, and they can do

1507
01:51:08.479 --> 01:51:10.880
that. They're very good at that. By the way, We're gonna go

1508
01:51:10.920 --> 01:51:15.560
to Missouri now and talk to Josh. Is this Missouri city or Missouri state,

1509
01:51:15.920 --> 01:51:19.000
No, sir, it's Missouri state. I've been bringing garden line up

1510
01:51:19.039 --> 01:51:24.279
here for about twenty years. Now, go way to go? Hey,

1511
01:51:24.600 --> 01:51:29.479
where are you in Missouri? South
central? More on the kind of more

1512
01:51:29.520 --> 01:51:32.960
on the west side though, I'm
just north of Springfield. North of Springfield?

1513
01:51:33.680 --> 01:51:39.960
Is that Ralla? No? Not
Ralla? What? Actually? Strangely,

1514
01:51:40.000 --> 01:51:43.319
I'm just outside of Houston, Missouri. Oh yes, I know.

1515
01:51:43.479 --> 01:51:47.159
Isn't that amazing? I used to
live in Mountain Grove, just an hour

1516
01:51:47.359 --> 01:51:53.119
east of Springfield, and I went
all through that region Neo Show and Springfield.

1517
01:51:53.920 --> 01:51:57.079
But anyway, enough talk about old
times, Josh, how can I

1518
01:51:57.159 --> 01:52:00.319
help? I'm trying to figure out
a way to get it. Is some

1519
01:52:00.520 --> 01:52:04.359
greenbrier, it seems to if anything
I use on it, what have you

1520
01:52:04.479 --> 01:52:12.159
tried? Uh? Fertile oam kills
all. I've even tried the round up

1521
01:52:12.239 --> 01:52:15.560
type products. No matter what I
do, it just comes right back.

1522
01:52:15.640 --> 01:52:20.479
I've used a really sticky stuff that's
just four vines even you know, that

1523
01:52:21.600 --> 01:52:27.520
suck down in the winter, but
they just come back. Okay. Is

1524
01:52:27.600 --> 01:52:30.079
this a more of a farm like
size or is this a backyard or what

1525
01:52:30.159 --> 01:52:34.439
are we talking about? Either?
I've got them in my yard, in

1526
01:52:34.600 --> 01:52:39.600
my gardens and all around the poem
too. I just can't seem to get

1527
01:52:39.640 --> 01:52:42.680
a handle on it anywhere. So
if you got big old vines coming out

1528
01:52:42.680 --> 01:52:45.960
of the ground size of your thumb, those are going to be storage roots.

1529
01:52:45.000 --> 01:52:50.000
You probably need to try to dig
up because there are products that work,

1530
01:52:50.119 --> 01:52:55.319
but when you have that much storage
power in the ground, it's hard

1531
01:52:55.399 --> 01:52:59.159
to knock them. It'll take several
applications. But here's what you need to

1532
01:52:59.199 --> 01:53:05.920
get. You need to get a
product that contains trimech TRII mec trimechr.

1533
01:53:06.359 --> 01:53:10.800
That's the ingredient. Now it's put
in lawn and garden stuff, but you

1534
01:53:10.880 --> 01:53:14.319
want to get a good strong It
may be called brush be gone, it

1535
01:53:14.439 --> 01:53:18.359
may be called poison ivy killer,
but the ingredient is trimech. Second,

1536
01:53:18.439 --> 01:53:21.439
you need to get a little bit
of diesel oil. Just a little bit

1537
01:53:21.439 --> 01:53:26.199
of diesel oil. And then you
need to go to a website that's a

1538
01:53:26.479 --> 01:53:30.079
Texas A and M website called brush
Busters. And if you do a Google

1539
01:53:30.119 --> 01:53:35.880
search for brush Busters and Greenbrier,
you'll get a page that tells you how

1540
01:53:35.920 --> 01:53:39.680
to mix it up and use it. The diesel is there to help it

1541
01:53:39.920 --> 01:53:43.520
stick, and you have to get
it on the new stems. You just

1542
01:53:43.680 --> 01:53:46.279
get spray it or painted on the
new stems and growth. It translocates down

1543
01:53:46.840 --> 01:53:49.359
and it works pretty good. I
got to run for a break here,

1544
01:53:49.840 --> 01:53:56.359
but that's the solution, digging and
or using that combo of a product,

1545
01:53:56.439 --> 01:53:59.560
and that that'll get done for you. Thank you for the call. I

1546
01:53:59.600 --> 01:54:01.760
appreciate et that. For those of
you who'll like to call seven one three

1547
01:54:01.880 --> 01:54:06.760
two one two fifty eight seventy four, I'll be right back. Welcome back

1548
01:54:06.800 --> 01:54:10.439
to garden Line. Glad to have
you today, boy Josh, great job

1549
01:54:10.520 --> 01:54:15.720
on all these rain songs. It's
a good day for rain songs, for

1550
01:54:15.920 --> 01:54:17.720
sure, and there are a lot
of them. You get to thinking about

1551
01:54:17.760 --> 01:54:21.000
it. The first thing comes to
my mind is bj Thomas, rain drops

1552
01:54:21.079 --> 01:54:24.600
keep falling on my head. By
the way, that's one of the few

1553
01:54:24.640 --> 01:54:30.520
times you hear me sing on the
radio. There are a bunch of rain

1554
01:54:30.600 --> 01:54:34.760
songs out there. That's it.
Man. Hey, Uh, Soil Soil

1555
01:54:34.920 --> 01:54:38.600
is first, right, Soil is
important. How do we say it?

1556
01:54:38.720 --> 01:54:42.319
I can say it ten different ways. Brown stuff before green stuff. Brown

1557
01:54:42.359 --> 01:54:45.399
Stuff makes the green stuff happy.
Start with the brown stuff, then do

1558
01:54:45.520 --> 01:54:48.279
the green stuff. The success of
the green stuff depends on the brown stuff.

1559
01:54:49.279 --> 01:54:55.079
Airlom Soils. They specialize in the
brown stuff. Do you need a

1560
01:54:55.279 --> 01:54:58.640
roset soil blend, They got it. Do you need a veggie and herb

1561
01:54:58.720 --> 01:55:02.079
mix, They got it. Do
you need a top quality leaf more compost,

1562
01:55:02.560 --> 01:55:06.479
they have it. They have everything
that I mean, a wide variety

1563
01:55:06.479 --> 01:55:09.680
of product. Just go to the
website. Go to the website, it's

1564
01:55:09.680 --> 01:55:16.600
easy. You can go to Heirlooms
Soils of Texas dot com Airloomsols off Texas

1565
01:55:16.640 --> 01:55:19.279
dot com. Find out everything you
need. They got it in bulk,

1566
01:55:19.319 --> 01:55:23.479
they got it in bags, And
depending on where you live, you may

1567
01:55:23.520 --> 01:55:27.239
not have to get your soul from
the porter location. There is, for

1568
01:55:27.359 --> 01:55:30.199
example, up in the Tumble area
they have a place where you can get

1569
01:55:30.239 --> 01:55:33.680
bulk there as well. But bags
are widely available all over. But remember

1570
01:55:33.760 --> 01:55:36.960
this, before you put the green
stuff in the ground, make sure that

1571
01:55:38.079 --> 01:55:42.760
you've already created a bed that is
going to make it. Make the plant

1572
01:55:42.960 --> 01:55:45.479
happy and help it to thrive,
help it to produce, help it to

1573
01:55:45.520 --> 01:55:49.239
be beautiful. That's what airloomsl is
all about. Simple as that. We're

1574
01:55:49.279 --> 01:55:53.479
going to go out Tonederland and talk
to Dora. Now, Hello, Dora,

1575
01:55:55.000 --> 01:56:01.359
Hello, that can we help today
I'm leading to find out how far

1576
01:56:01.479 --> 01:56:09.720
to cut back the roots on live
oak trees. We have three large live

1577
01:56:09.760 --> 01:56:15.199
oak trees twenty four feet from our
driveway that's in our neighbor's yard. And

1578
01:56:15.359 --> 01:56:17.159
I don't want to kill the trees, but I need to cut the boots

1579
01:56:17.199 --> 01:56:21.680
back. We just had the driveway
replaced twenty three thousand dollars and I can't

1580
01:56:21.680 --> 01:56:28.600
afford to do that again. I
need to cut those trees. Those mac

1581
01:56:28.680 --> 01:56:32.239
half far do I need to cut
up half posts and I cut them without

1582
01:56:32.319 --> 01:56:36.039
killing the trees. Well, it's
a percentage game. You know, a

1583
01:56:36.119 --> 01:56:41.199
tree that's strong versus a tree that's
weak. That's different. I'm sorry.

1584
01:56:42.239 --> 01:56:46.039
It's a percentage game, meaning that
if the tree were strong, it could

1585
01:56:46.079 --> 01:56:51.239
take more of that than a tree
that's already struggling weak. The percentage of

1586
01:56:51.399 --> 01:56:56.199
roots that you remove, Like if
you remove thirty percent of the roots from

1587
01:56:56.239 --> 01:57:00.079
a tree, then you got big
problems. But a root here and there.

1588
01:57:00.199 --> 01:57:02.680
What I would do is I would
do this over the next three or

1589
01:57:02.720 --> 01:57:09.439
four years. We would over the
next three or four years, I would

1590
01:57:09.520 --> 01:57:13.920
cut the roots. I would cut
one right now, just completely remove it,

1591
01:57:14.359 --> 01:57:17.039
and I would do it about two
feet away from that that driveway two

1592
01:57:17.119 --> 01:57:23.520
feet away from the tree of the
driveway, or or within at least within

1593
01:57:23.560 --> 01:57:27.239
a foot of the driver go ahead
and cut it back there. You can

1594
01:57:27.359 --> 01:57:30.319
then next year cut another root,
or this fall cut another route, and

1595
01:57:30.439 --> 01:57:34.279
then just let's gradually take them off
just to keep from totally shocking the tree.

1596
01:57:34.359 --> 01:57:36.640
It sounds like you're gonna have to
remove quite a bit of root,

1597
01:57:38.840 --> 01:57:44.319
So that what I was thinking about, just taking doing a trench down the

1598
01:57:44.439 --> 01:57:47.199
driveway, say two feet away from
the driveway, to find out where the

1599
01:57:47.279 --> 01:57:51.880
roots off. How far away the
tree tree from the driveway. How far

1600
01:57:53.079 --> 01:57:57.439
is the tree from the driveway twenty
four feet? Oh, that's pretty far

1601
01:57:57.520 --> 01:58:00.680
out. Good. You could probably
get away with that trend then and do

1602
01:58:00.880 --> 01:58:05.399
that. You really need to cut
them all as I go down the trench,

1603
01:58:05.560 --> 01:58:10.319
just cut all the down. If
you can get out about a foot

1604
01:58:10.359 --> 01:58:14.880
deep with a trench, that that
will do. You might want to have

1605
01:58:15.199 --> 01:58:17.000
an arborist come out and look at
it, because I'm not picking. I'm

1606
01:58:17.039 --> 01:58:20.039
not seeing it on site, so
I may have a different opinion if I

1607
01:58:20.199 --> 01:58:25.159
was there looking at it, me
saying you, probably that's fine to go

1608
01:58:25.199 --> 01:58:30.159
ahead, get it done soon.
But an arborist might need to come out

1609
01:58:30.199 --> 01:58:33.239
there. I don't think that affordable
tree goes out that far, but they

1610
01:58:33.359 --> 01:58:38.640
might. You might consider giving him
a call. I think that's probably so

1611
01:58:38.880 --> 01:58:44.279
far that just his travel time is
probably so if I trench that tree,

1612
01:58:44.520 --> 01:58:49.159
I can go down that trench and
cut those cut those branches, say half

1613
01:58:49.239 --> 01:58:53.399
far away from my driveway? Can
I do that? I would do it

1614
01:58:53.479 --> 01:58:58.000
about a foot or two from the
driveway. Okay, yeah, okay,

1615
01:58:58.079 --> 01:59:00.520
that's what I'm needing to know they're
going to. When they did the driveway,

1616
01:59:00.720 --> 01:59:08.840
they covered all of that stuff up
just with dirt, and so I

1617
01:59:08.920 --> 01:59:12.520
can't see the roots. We saw
some of the roots because my husband kind

1618
01:59:12.520 --> 01:59:15.079
of dug around to find some,
gotcha. But they're all all right,

1619
01:59:15.159 --> 01:59:18.520
So fifty eight feet of them.
Yeah, oh my gosh. So Dora,

1620
01:59:18.640 --> 01:59:21.399
I'm saying, I think you can
do that, but I think you

1621
01:59:21.520 --> 01:59:26.119
need to get an arborist to look
and be sure that that's not too much

1622
01:59:26.439 --> 01:59:30.439
of a root removal. Based on
the dots from the tree, I think

1623
01:59:30.520 --> 01:59:32.159
it's okay, but it is going
to be a heck of a shock.

1624
01:59:32.279 --> 01:59:35.520
That's a lot more roots than i'd
like to cut. So you may want

1625
01:59:35.520 --> 01:59:40.720
to do. Well, there's three
trees. Okay, there's three of them.

1626
01:59:40.960 --> 01:59:45.520
Okay, well, same same answer, same answer on those, okay,

1627
01:59:45.119 --> 01:59:49.960
okay, So do you have a
number for that that fight for a

1628
01:59:50.000 --> 01:59:53.680
four three tree? Yeah, I'll
give you the number. I think you're

1629
01:59:53.720 --> 01:59:56.520
too far out for them, but
they can tell you that, and they

1630
01:59:56.600 --> 02:00:02.039
can refer you to somebody. It's
seven to one three six nine twenty six

1631
02:00:02.760 --> 02:00:10.079
sixty three seven one three six nine
nine two six six three talk to martiners

1632
02:00:10.159 --> 02:00:13.720
like Joe. Okay, thank you
for the call. Good luck with that.

1633
02:00:13.960 --> 02:00:15.439
Yeah, that's a you know,
it is a percentage game, and

1634
02:00:15.520 --> 02:00:19.279
so it's kind of hard to know
for sure if you're doing any transplanting.

1635
02:00:19.359 --> 02:00:24.760
And I have been doing transplanting of
house plants for example. Uh. And

1636
02:00:25.159 --> 02:00:29.239
I've been transplanting where I started some
vegetables inside and moving them up to bigger

1637
02:00:29.319 --> 02:00:32.119
pot. I'm about to be doing
all my outdoor color planting. I've been

1638
02:00:32.199 --> 02:00:36.720
trying to get around to it with
this yard project. What I use is

1639
02:00:36.840 --> 02:00:45.279
Nutristar Genesis Transplant Mix that's by Nilsen
Nelson Fertilizer nutri Star Genesis Transplant Mix.

1640
02:00:45.399 --> 02:00:49.000
It's a six' one three fertilizer. It's got humates in it, it's

1641
02:00:49.079 --> 02:00:56.159
got lots of endo and ectomycorrhizol fungi
that helped the roots survive that process and

1642
02:00:56.359 --> 02:01:01.399
thrive. And it has other nutrients
in courage ensomatic production there in the plant.

1643
02:01:01.479 --> 02:01:04.760
Basically, it's enhancing the biology of
the soil. So here's what you

1644
02:01:04.880 --> 02:01:08.520
do. You get your soil that
you're about to use to pot up the

1645
02:01:08.600 --> 02:01:14.399
plant into bigger container. You mix
in the nutri star genesis in that soil,

1646
02:01:14.640 --> 02:01:17.520
and then you do your transplanting and
so the material, the potting soil,

1647
02:01:17.560 --> 02:01:21.279
the material, the growing mix that
you're using already has the genesis in

1648
02:01:21.359 --> 02:01:26.000
it. Then and you just go
to town and you will find good success.

1649
02:01:26.159 --> 02:01:29.640
I had great results when I was
doing some peppers this spring, and

1650
02:01:29.720 --> 02:01:32.720
I'm about to use it again for
some flowers that were about to go put

1651
02:01:32.760 --> 02:01:36.199
out. It works really well.
And where do you get products like that?

1652
02:01:36.399 --> 02:01:42.399
Well. Ace Hardware Store carries a
wide variety of products. You're going

1653
02:01:42.439 --> 02:01:45.800
to find the fertilizers I recommend for
your lawn at Ace Hardware. You're going

1654
02:01:45.880 --> 02:01:50.199
to find everything you need for pest
control, disease control, and weed control.

1655
02:01:50.319 --> 02:01:53.920
Do you need Azamite. They're going
to have it at Ace Hardware as

1656
02:01:53.960 --> 02:01:57.399
well. There's forty of them in
the Greater Houston area. So yeah,

1657
02:01:57.479 --> 02:02:00.000
even down there toward needer Land Way, you got head up around Beaumint.

1658
02:02:00.079 --> 02:02:03.880
You got you in Ace Hardware store
that is going to have everything you need

1659
02:02:04.000 --> 02:02:06.359
for your lawn in your garden.
Do you need a wheelbarrow? Do you

1660
02:02:06.439 --> 02:02:11.880
need shovels? Do you need rakes
right now? Do you need goloshes or

1661
02:02:12.199 --> 02:02:15.319
rubber boots? Do you need a
ponchoed? Are you out in these rainy

1662
02:02:15.359 --> 02:02:18.439
weather? Hey, we like the
garden and the rain. Right, neighbors

1663
02:02:18.520 --> 02:02:23.359
talk about you, but they talk
about you anyway. Ace Hardware even has

1664
02:02:23.439 --> 02:02:27.399
that they are the place to go. Ace is the place, and go

1665
02:02:27.520 --> 02:02:30.279
to Ace Hardware dot com, find
the store locator. You can find the

1666
02:02:30.359 --> 02:02:34.359
ones nearest you, and there will
be some nearest you, with forty of

1667
02:02:34.399 --> 02:02:40.119
them in the Greater Houston area.
Well, here we are. It's about

1668
02:02:40.159 --> 02:02:44.760
time for a little break. I
believe should be hearing some music here coming

1669
02:02:44.800 --> 02:02:49.119
pretty quick here, we're ending the
hour. I'm going to be at Buchanan's

1670
02:02:49.479 --> 02:02:55.840
Native Plants, Buchanans Native Plants,
and I will be there today. After

1671
02:02:55.960 --> 02:03:00.479
the show, I'm going to head
that way and from eleven o'clock till one

1672
02:03:00.520 --> 02:03:04.520
o'clock albeit at Buchnnans. You're going
to find me at Buchanans where I can

1673
02:03:04.600 --> 02:03:10.359
answer your gardening questions, where I
can identify plants, where I can identify

1674
02:03:10.560 --> 02:03:14.159
weeds, where I can recommend what
do you do for that? Bring me

1675
02:03:14.239 --> 02:03:17.479
some stuff and ziplock bags, bring
me some photos to look at. Let's

1676
02:03:17.520 --> 02:03:21.359
talk about it. I always like
to meet garden line listeners and today's a

1677
02:03:21.399 --> 02:03:24.600
great day to do it. I
mean, even if it starts raining,

1678
02:03:24.680 --> 02:03:30.760
you can go into this huge greenhouse
that they have full of house plants and

1679
02:03:30.079 --> 02:03:33.079
it is just let me tell you
this, ibrim is. You you go

1680
02:03:33.119 --> 02:03:39.199
to Buchanans today, You're going to
find a half dozen, a dozen or

1681
02:03:39.279 --> 02:03:44.279
more houseplants that you don't have that
you need to have. There's so many

1682
02:03:44.439 --> 02:03:47.279
cool ones. They always have something
new coming in there. Of course,

1683
02:03:47.800 --> 02:03:54.439
Ukenan's Native Plants is the place with
the awesome native selection as well as the

1684
02:03:54.520 --> 02:04:00.199
selection of tomatoes and peppers and earths
and flowers and everything else you want up

1685
02:04:00.199 --> 02:04:03.760
that kat r H Garden Line does
not necessarily endorse any of the products or

1686
02:04:03.800 --> 02:04:11.720
services advertised on this program. Welcome
to kt r H Garden Line with Skip

1687
02:04:11.920 --> 02:04:28.840
rictor it's weel crazy gaz Trim.
Just watch you as so many good things

1688
02:04:28.880 --> 02:04:41.039
to sup botzy gas back again,
not a sad welcome back to the garden

1689
02:04:41.119 --> 02:04:44.439
Line. Hey, it's good to
have you today. Good morning to be

1690
02:04:44.479 --> 02:04:48.159
sitting inside listening to the radio talking
about gardening, because this afternoon. I

1691
02:04:48.359 --> 02:04:53.600
know some folks melt if they get
wet with a low rain, but I

1692
02:04:53.720 --> 02:04:56.560
don't, and I love getting out. And I know when you go to

1693
02:04:56.600 --> 02:05:00.159
a garden center all day like this, that's not gonna be as crowded as

1694
02:05:00.199 --> 02:05:02.159
it normally would be. And it
gives you a chance to do shopping on

1695
02:05:02.239 --> 02:05:05.800
your own, have a better selection
actually, and kind of get staff to

1696
02:05:05.840 --> 02:05:10.359
yourself in a sense, and that
you can ask lots of questions, get

1697
02:05:10.439 --> 02:05:16.359
some help. Our quality home mom
and pop independent garden centers. They have

1698
02:05:16.720 --> 02:05:20.159
staff that knows what they're talking about. They carry stuff that grows in Houston.

1699
02:05:20.279 --> 02:05:24.399
They're not a chain. They get
stuff shipped all over the country and

1700
02:05:24.840 --> 02:05:28.560
kind of cookie cutter, one size
almost fits all. No, they don't

1701
02:05:28.680 --> 02:05:32.560
do that. They hire people that
are gardeners that no gardening, that are

1702
02:05:32.640 --> 02:05:39.520
experts in the field. And without
dissing any specific companies and names and stuff.

1703
02:05:39.920 --> 02:05:43.600
I've been into plenty of places where
I walked in and decide to cure.

1704
02:05:43.600 --> 02:05:45.119
I always like to do this,
ask somebody a question, just to

1705
02:05:45.159 --> 02:05:49.840
see how they enter it in these
places, and you come to find out

1706
02:05:49.960 --> 02:05:54.079
that, yeah, they've been in
a garden center for about a week.

1707
02:05:54.479 --> 02:05:59.680
They were doing something totally unrelated to
gardening before that. And I'm happy to

1708
02:05:59.720 --> 02:06:01.920
have a job. But that's not
who you go to for advice. That

1709
02:06:02.119 --> 02:06:05.960
is not who you go to for
advice. You got to know what you're

1710
02:06:06.039 --> 02:06:11.039
talking about. And RCWI is an
example of the kind of place that mom

1711
02:06:11.159 --> 02:06:14.960
and pop that knows what they're talking
about. They've been growing stuff here for

1712
02:06:15.039 --> 02:06:18.319
a long time. They even grow
their own trees right up up in Plantersville

1713
02:06:18.359 --> 02:06:21.119
at the farm. And so if
they grow, if they sell you a

1714
02:06:21.239 --> 02:06:26.000
tree, they know that it belongs
here, that it grows here, that

1715
02:06:26.079 --> 02:06:29.279
it thrives here. You can walk
in and say, hey, I've got

1716
02:06:29.319 --> 02:06:31.239
this situation, what would be a
good tree for this spot, and they

1717
02:06:31.279 --> 02:06:34.560
can tell you that. They can
point you to the right plants, they

1718
02:06:34.680 --> 02:06:39.119
come out and plant them for you. The trees, they can come out

1719
02:06:39.199 --> 02:06:42.079
and do that service, which you
don't need to be breaking your back trying

1720
02:06:42.119 --> 02:06:45.800
to do that. RCW, though, is way more than that. I

1721
02:06:45.880 --> 02:06:50.199
mean, they have roses, they
have boogainvillias, they have hibiscus. Go

1722
02:06:50.359 --> 02:06:55.399
by and just ask them, say
show me your Cajun hibiscus. And I

1723
02:06:55.479 --> 02:06:59.359
don't know that I've seen a more
beautiful tropical hibiscus than the Cajun groups of

1724
02:06:59.439 --> 02:07:05.640
hibiscus that they have, just absolutely
beautiful. RCW Nursery is one that I

1725
02:07:05.840 --> 02:07:10.239
often go to just to see what's
going on in the trade right now,

1726
02:07:10.640 --> 02:07:14.039
what is going on in fact at
RCW right now today. As a matter

1727
02:07:14.079 --> 02:07:16.600
of fact, they're going to have
somebody from the Houston ROAs Society out there

1728
02:07:16.640 --> 02:07:23.159
answering questions about growing roses because RCW
is a place that specializes in roses.

1729
02:07:23.640 --> 02:07:27.880
They'll be there from twelve to two
pm today and the over two hundred rose

1730
02:07:28.000 --> 02:07:30.680
varieties to choose from. They're gonna
have refreshments and snacks and all kinds of

1731
02:07:30.800 --> 02:07:34.840
things. So even drawing for gifts
and stuff. It's just a good place

1732
02:07:34.920 --> 02:07:38.840
to go. And when you go
there. You know you're getting good advice,

1733
02:07:39.000 --> 02:07:43.479
accurate advice. Let's go out now
to West Houston and we're going to

1734
02:07:43.520 --> 02:07:46.159
talk to Carol this morning. Hello
Carol, Oh, good morning Skip.

1735
02:07:46.479 --> 02:07:54.439
I actually live in West University.
Then, okay, anyway, I have

1736
02:07:54.920 --> 02:08:03.479
two tulip trees. One is doing
very poorly and the other one is almost

1737
02:08:03.760 --> 02:08:09.479
completely dead anyhow, And they've been
here a long time, used to make

1738
02:08:09.319 --> 02:08:18.600
just tons of tulips or Japanese magnolia. And so I need to cut one

1739
02:08:18.720 --> 02:08:22.159
down and I'm gonna try to save
the other one. But do you have

1740
02:08:22.479 --> 02:08:28.720
a recommendation for saving the one that
has a little bit of life? And

1741
02:08:28.960 --> 02:08:35.039
then maybe what should I plant to
replace the one that's almost completely dead?

1742
02:08:35.439 --> 02:08:39.039
Can you think of anything, Carol, that's changed around this plant? Like

1743
02:08:39.720 --> 02:08:46.560
was it shady somewhat before now it's
sunny or vice versa. Did you did

1744
02:08:46.600 --> 02:08:50.640
you did the drainage change in the
yard? You know, you know what

1745
02:08:50.680 --> 02:08:52.319
I'm saying, what's different? Why
did it used to do good? Now

1746
02:08:52.399 --> 02:08:56.199
it's not. It's when I'm trying
to figure out I don't. I don't

1747
02:08:56.239 --> 02:09:03.359
know. It's very puzzling because I
haven't changed anything. Okay, I've lived

1748
02:09:03.399 --> 02:09:09.479
your twelve years and I have and
I inherited that they were here, so

1749
02:09:09.359 --> 02:09:13.439
I don't know. Okay, well
it's okay. Uh. You know,

1750
02:09:13.560 --> 02:09:18.560
without any additional info or seeing the
site, I'm having to give a best

1751
02:09:18.640 --> 02:09:26.680
guess. So last summer, the
heat was unusually brutal for unusually long and

1752
02:09:26.800 --> 02:09:31.319
the drought was brutal, and it
could be that the plant, just with

1753
02:09:31.520 --> 02:09:35.439
the way its root system was set
up, just wasn't able to get enough

1754
02:09:35.640 --> 02:09:39.920
moisture to keep it going and it
weakened it. Now, drought can kill

1755
02:09:39.960 --> 02:09:43.319
a plant, but it can also
weaken it that leads to other problems.

1756
02:09:43.760 --> 02:09:48.279
Those plants don't have, just real
common problems that I would sayd this disease

1757
02:09:48.439 --> 02:09:52.199
or that insect that's attacking them.
I think I'm going to say that it's

1758
02:09:54.479 --> 02:09:56.800
we need to improve the soil and
we need to keep that soul moist going

1759
02:09:56.880 --> 02:10:03.720
into the summer, and so using
a fertilizer for acidic plants would be fine.

1760
02:10:03.760 --> 02:10:05.960
If you want to use. Microlife
has a nice one and a reddish

1761
02:10:07.000 --> 02:10:11.079
pink bag that is for acid loving
plants. It's an organic product. You

1762
02:10:11.119 --> 02:10:13.760
can spread it out, mix it
in a little bit to just the soil

1763
02:10:13.840 --> 02:10:20.800
surface around it multually well, pushing
a spading fork into the ground around the

1764
02:10:20.920 --> 02:10:26.560
plant in a lot of places and
just pulling back on the handle and wiggling

1765
02:10:26.640 --> 02:10:28.079
it a little bit. You know
what I'm saying. You're sort of opening

1766
02:10:28.159 --> 02:10:33.079
a hole. You're not spading the
ground up. You're just going vertically down

1767
02:10:33.159 --> 02:10:37.880
in and cracking the soil open a
little bit and then covering it with a

1768
02:10:37.920 --> 02:10:45.039
good quality leaf mold compost as well
as you've already put then the fertilizer down

1769
02:10:45.439 --> 02:10:48.359
to move down into those holes and
wash in. I think we can improve

1770
02:10:48.399 --> 02:10:52.600
the soil a little bit. I
think that we can ned that nutrient and

1771
02:10:52.720 --> 02:10:56.439
then as we go into summer,
just making sure a good soaking on an

1772
02:10:56.479 --> 02:11:01.439
infrequent basis is what's in your control
to try to save that plant. It's

1773
02:11:01.520 --> 02:11:05.800
not looking good, okay. And
that microlife product is that the one that

1774
02:11:07.199 --> 02:11:09.720
you applied as Zalea's Is it that
one? Yeah? It's it's a pinkish,

1775
02:11:11.000 --> 02:11:13.840
reddish, pinkish bag. Yeah.
Uh. And and that would be

1776
02:11:15.000 --> 02:11:16.319
that'd be the one that I would
use, And I would look at the

1777
02:11:18.119 --> 02:11:22.560
the plant and with for every inch
of trunk diameter, I don't know,

1778
02:11:22.600 --> 02:11:26.199
how bigger bigger cross it is?
Uh? You know, is the trunk

1779
02:11:26.279 --> 02:11:28.319
the size of a Coca cola can? Is it the size of a golf

1780
02:11:28.399 --> 02:11:33.880
ball? What size is it?
Uh? For every inch across, give

1781
02:11:33.920 --> 02:11:39.159
it about four cups of that acidifying
microlife spread out all around underneath the branch

1782
02:11:39.239 --> 02:11:45.880
out as far as the branches go. Okay, and then uh for the

1783
02:11:45.960 --> 02:11:50.119
one that I mean there's just literally
one branch living and it was massive.

1784
02:11:52.239 --> 02:11:58.279
What replacement would you recommend? And
it is close to the house, that's

1785
02:11:58.960 --> 02:12:05.079
the other thing. So something that
won't damage the foundation. Yeah, well

1786
02:12:05.159 --> 02:12:09.399
you could go back with that same
plant. I'm actually I'm coming up against

1787
02:12:09.479 --> 02:12:11.840
I'm at a break. Actually,
I need to stop here, but I

1788
02:12:11.880 --> 02:12:16.239
would do that. You could do
an English dog wood, looks pretty good

1789
02:12:16.439 --> 02:12:18.439
in those areas. Another one that
you would do the same kind of soul

1790
02:12:18.560 --> 02:12:22.840
treatments and stuff for that's a shrub. If it's in lots of sun.

1791
02:12:22.960 --> 02:12:26.840
You could do a very dwarf crepe
myrtle. There are some that only get

1792
02:12:26.840 --> 02:12:31.079
about seven feet high you could do. So those would be some options that

1793
02:12:31.159 --> 02:12:33.359
I would think about. But I'm
sorry I have to cut short here,

1794
02:12:33.439 --> 02:12:35.119
but I do need to run,
but thank you for the Thank you very

1795
02:12:35.199 --> 02:12:39.880
much for the question. Our number
is seven one three two one two kt

1796
02:12:39.119 --> 02:12:43.000
RH and I'll be right back.
Welcome back to garden Line. Good to

1797
02:12:43.119 --> 02:12:46.600
have you with us today. Good
day to be talking about gardening and planning

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for gardening and getting all those kinds
of things done. Hey, if you

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are wanting to pot up some plants
and you want a quality mix to grow

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them, end jungle Land, write
that down jungle Land. Jungle Land is

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a product extremeuted by Nitrofoss that is
an excellent blend for your indoor and outdoor

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plants. But it's two different products. One is jungle and flour and vegetable

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02:13:11.199 --> 02:13:18.560
that is for outside flower and vegetable
planting soil outdoors. Super drainage holds water

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02:13:18.680 --> 02:13:24.319
adequately, holds nutrients well, and
just really and ignites a really solid growth

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02:13:24.439 --> 02:13:30.279
and beautiful blooms for your container plants
indoors. Jungle Land water saving potting soil.

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02:13:30.520 --> 02:13:33.520
It's got the crystals, the little
crystals that swell up with water and

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02:13:33.680 --> 02:13:37.840
then that water's available even as the
soil begins to dry out. That'll do

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it. It makes it easy to
have success. I like to say it

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makes the soil more forgiving. Should
the person in charge of caring for the

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plants forget to water. That's one
way to look at it. Where do

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you find it? Go to Kingwood, Go to the Ace Hardware there.

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02:13:52.760 --> 02:13:56.840
Go to the Arbigate up in Tombol, they've got it. Go to Shades

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02:13:56.840 --> 02:14:00.840
of Texas out on Genoa Red Bluff
Road. They've got that jungle land as

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well as other nitropost products. Also. Let's go now out to the heights

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and we're gonna talk to Maria.
Hello, Maria, Good morning Skip.

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I have some box with shrubs that
are just kind of overgrown, and I

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really want to cut them down.
Is that okay to do that? To

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Punam you bring them down shorder so
they grow fuller. Yeah, it's okay.

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When you cut them back enough,
you're gonna end up cutting off all

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the green and they will re sprout, but they're gonna look horrible for a

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while. But sometimes when you got
way too big, you need to go

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below where you want them to be
to make your cuts, because as they

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02:14:39.279 --> 02:14:43.399
re sprout and they get about six
eight inches of growth, you're gonna cut

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the tips out of those and cause
them to branch more and then they six

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eight inches of growth. You're gonna
cut the tips out and get it to

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branch more so you build that density
back. It won't come back dense,

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it'll come back lanky, and with
shearing you can rebuild them at the size

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you want. But to do that
you got to start a little shorter.

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Okay, perfect, Thank you,
Good luck with that. Thank you,

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you bet, you bet. If
you have planted a tree, or if

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you're a gunna plant a tree,
you need the three sixty Tree Stabilizer.

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What that is is think of it
as a stiff arm that grabs onto a

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post on one end and grabs onto
the tree on the other. But on

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the tree end you've got a very
flexible rubbery strap and you want to make

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02:15:31.199 --> 02:15:35.640
it loose. Trees need to move
a little bit. We're trying to keep

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them from blowing over right with the
steak and strap. They need to move

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02:15:39.359 --> 02:15:43.399
a little bit to develop trunk strength, and it's designed for that. It's

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an excellent design really for a product. The other end can grab anything from

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a fence post to one of those
little metal t posts. It's designed to

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02:15:52.560 --> 02:15:56.000
hold onto all that really well.
You can put two of them in at

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02:15:56.119 --> 02:15:58.800
right angles to hold the wind from
north, south, east, and west.

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02:16:00.479 --> 02:16:03.479
The nice thing I like about them
is those posts are really close to

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the trunk when you hammer a t
post in and you don't have this long

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02:16:07.880 --> 02:16:11.720
guywire going out there to trip over
in all directions around the tree. And

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they last forever. And where do
you get them well, or is hidden

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02:16:15.600 --> 02:16:18.520
gardens. I was talking about Jorge
Don and Alvin earlier. He's got them

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02:16:18.039 --> 02:16:22.479
Southwest fertilizer. Well, of course
they got them. They carry everything plants

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02:16:22.520 --> 02:16:26.199
for all seasons, Arborgate Buchanans where
I'll be later today, RCW nurses.

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02:16:26.319 --> 02:16:31.200
They all have three sixty tree stabilizers
and I would not plant a tree without

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02:16:31.239 --> 02:16:35.239
one. Since I got one,
it's like okay, and I'm going to

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have it for years. They last
forever, So it is an investment,

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and you spend some money on the
tree. Right, they're not cheap.

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02:16:43.719 --> 02:16:46.959
Trees are not cheap, so why
not make sure that it gets off to

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the best start. And that's the
best way I know to do that when

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02:16:50.840 --> 02:16:54.319
it comes to securing that tree early
in its life when it's going to need

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02:16:54.440 --> 02:17:00.799
that. Our phone number is seven
to one three two one two five eight

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02:17:01.159 --> 02:17:05.000
seven four seven, one, three, two, two, fifty eight seventy

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02:17:05.200 --> 02:17:09.280
four. Give us a call and
let's talk to you about what you need.

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02:17:09.760 --> 02:17:13.200
Nature's Way resources. Hey, jo, have fun at the shindig.

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They head out there a weekend or
two ago. I hear it was.

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02:17:16.319 --> 02:17:18.239
I hear it was a great time. It always is out there. I

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went last year to one and just
really had a good time out it.

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Nature's Way. You know, Nature's
Way is. They're kind of like the

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the grandfather of the Houston area soil
yards in terms of they were doing composts

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before compost was cool and so widely
available, before roast soil and leaf mold

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02:17:39.319 --> 02:17:46.319
compost were household names. They were
inventing the things. Okay, Nature's Way.

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02:17:46.520 --> 02:17:52.280
John his experience in soul science and
microbes and how to make compost right,

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02:17:52.440 --> 02:17:56.200
take your time, make it right, screen it down to the right

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02:17:56.319 --> 02:18:01.559
size product. That's what they do. They have fungal Fridays. We're ten

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dollars off bag fungo products, twenty
dollars off bulk. They do bulk deliveries.

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Also, they've got a nice little
native nursery out there where you can

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pick up plants when you're out and
about. Here's the number. Write the

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phone number down nine three six three
two one sixty nine ninety nine three six

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02:18:20.600 --> 02:18:26.600
three two one sixty nine ninety They're
on Sherbrooke Circle, south of Conroe on

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forty five. For more information,
go to the website Nature'sway Resources dot com

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Nature's Way Resources dot com. Let's
go to Beaumont. Now we're going to

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talk to jam Hello, Jen,
Hi, how are you? I'm good?

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How are you today? Oh?
Not good. I have a lot

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of weeds in my yard. I
put down on microfossia. It was a

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02:18:52.840 --> 02:18:56.440
weed and feed and it didn't kill
all of them. I have something that

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looks like a geranium. Leaves look
like a deramum I'm trying to kill now,

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okay, you already put the weed
and feed down. I would get

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a product. There are several out
there on the market. Bonnyd makes one

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02:19:13.799 --> 02:19:18.159
called weed Beater, Ultra uh Fertilan
makes one called weed free Zone. And

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02:19:18.280 --> 02:19:22.319
you want to just mix them up
in a little spray tank and don't spray

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02:19:22.319 --> 02:19:24.920
the whole yard. Just squirt the
weeds that you have. You don't have

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02:19:26.000 --> 02:19:28.559
to drench them, just have to
barely get them wet and that will shut

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02:19:28.639 --> 02:19:33.559
them down. Pretty quick. Weeds. Broad leaf weeds are now entering a

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02:19:33.719 --> 02:19:37.520
reproductive phase where they're a little harder
to kill, and so those products would

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02:19:37.520 --> 02:19:41.239
be the best thing you could do
in terms of getting rid of them right

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02:19:41.360 --> 02:19:43.879
now. They're probably going to be
going away on their own in time.

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02:19:45.479 --> 02:19:50.239
Most of those are setting seeds,
do blooming, setting seeds, and heading

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02:19:50.319 --> 02:19:52.120
out for summer. But that would
be what I do, all right.

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02:19:54.559 --> 02:19:58.920
One quick question. Can I move
a Vye Techs tree right now? Yeah?

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Us, but do it immediately,
cut the top back by about a

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third, get as much of the
roots as you can. Have the whole

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02:20:09.200 --> 02:20:13.239
already dug where you're moving it to
so you can put it in, get

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02:20:13.360 --> 02:20:16.680
soiled in water as you're filling the
soil back end to settle the soil around

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02:20:16.719 --> 02:20:20.200
the roots. And if you want
to be a little extra careful, if

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you have any kind of a shading
material, you can throw it over the

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02:20:22.840 --> 02:20:26.559
tree for a little while just to
help it as it gets started, because

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02:20:26.600 --> 02:20:31.760
you're entering about to enter a hot
season and you need to get as much

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02:20:31.840 --> 02:20:33.719
root growth as you can before then. I would use any kind of a

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02:20:33.799 --> 02:20:39.360
root stimulator you want on it,
putting some slow release fertilizers around the tree

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and watering them in really well too. I got to run to another call,

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02:20:43.360 --> 02:20:48.120
but thank you very much. I
appreciate your question. Good luck with

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02:20:48.280 --> 02:20:50.479
that move. My text is pretty
tough. By the way, it is

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02:20:50.520 --> 02:20:54.840
pretty tough. It's kind of hard
to kill. Arbigate Nursery is always a

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02:20:54.840 --> 02:20:58.159
fun place to go. It's another
one of those destinations and you would not

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02:20:58.280 --> 02:21:03.959
believe how far people drive to get
to Arburgate just because it's the kind of

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02:21:03.040 --> 02:21:07.239
place that is a showplace. People
love to go there. Arborgate, for

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02:21:07.440 --> 02:21:11.239
example, is going to be the
place to get every kind of plant that

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02:21:11.319 --> 02:21:16.399
you would need. Do you need
tomatoes, peppers, other vegetables, do

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02:21:16.440 --> 02:21:22.559
you need herbs? Their selection is
outstanding. Color shrubs, trees, spring

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02:21:22.680 --> 02:21:26.920
blooming shrubs, spring blooming trees,
fruit trees. I could just go on

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02:21:28.079 --> 02:21:30.520
and on. Do you have shady
areas that you need to figure out?

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02:21:30.559 --> 02:21:33.200
What am I going to do in
this area? They can help you with

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02:21:33.319 --> 02:21:37.360
that. They Beverdy always keeps stocked
up on everything that you would need for

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02:21:37.440 --> 02:21:41.319
your garden, the things to support
your garden. The thing you need to

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02:21:41.399 --> 02:21:43.600
know about Arburgate right now is they
got a brand new parking lot and back.

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02:21:43.799 --> 02:21:48.760
You just turn either before or after
the nursery. As you're going down

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02:21:48.799 --> 02:21:52.760
twenty nine to twenty turn down Trisher
Road. It'll take you around the back

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02:21:52.799 --> 02:21:56.559
of Arburgate and the parking is all
weather. You will not get your feet

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02:21:56.600 --> 02:22:01.360
wet today. Parking in the back
of Arburgate and walking right in. It's

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02:22:01.360 --> 02:22:05.399
a good heartscape path and man,
it makes it so easy, so easy.

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Let's go out to Katie now and
we're going to talk to Dennis.

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Hello, Dennis, Hello, good
morning to you question. I've got a

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02:22:15.120 --> 02:22:20.600
couple of pineapple oranges and a grapefruit
that got broomed back by the freeze and

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02:22:20.719 --> 02:22:24.680
they're starting to grow back out above
the graft. My question is at the

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top of the trees, they're brown, and I think that the wood is

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02:22:30.639 --> 02:22:35.040
dead. Should I prune it back
now or should I just wait to see

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if I get eventual growth from that
browner wood. Yeah, if it's not

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02:22:41.040 --> 02:22:43.520
sprouting new growth, it probably isn't. But if you take your thumbnail or

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02:22:43.559 --> 02:22:48.959
a little pocket knife and scrape the
bark, if it's paper sacked brown underneath,

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02:22:48.000 --> 02:22:52.360
it's dead. If it's cream to
light light green, it's alive.

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And you may still get a sprout
from it, but I think if you're

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not seeing sprouts now, it's probably
not alive. Okay. And I know

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the important part is it's above the
graph, correct, Oh, absolutely,

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02:23:05.840 --> 02:23:09.000
yes, yes, And the shoots
below the graph will tend to be very

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02:23:09.120 --> 02:23:13.239
thorny compared to the above growth,
although there are some types of citrus that

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are a bit thorny. But yeah, look at the graph line. And

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if it's coming from below that,
just when they're small, you can take

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your thumb and rub them right off. They just break right off real easily.

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Okay, all right, thank you, you bet, good luck with

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02:23:28.959 --> 02:23:35.559
that citrusism wonderful, wonderful plan.
I've had some people telling me this past

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02:23:35.639 --> 02:23:39.719
season, you know, they're just
tired of struggling with citrus and stuff.

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02:23:39.840 --> 02:23:43.440
Don't do that. Citrus is good
to eat the blue. It's worth growing

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02:23:43.520 --> 02:23:46.879
of citrus just for the blooms.
I mean, they are so fragrant,

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02:23:48.079 --> 02:23:52.760
so heavenly and wonderful. I love
those things. Love it. If you

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02:23:52.239 --> 02:23:56.680
have got weeds in your lawn and
you have not done a fertilization, turf

1951
02:23:56.760 --> 02:24:01.719
star weed needer by Nelson's is one
you need to think about. Turfstar Weedinator

1952
02:24:01.239 --> 02:24:07.319
has a very unique broad leaf post
emergent weed control product. Inside of it.

1953
02:24:07.559 --> 02:24:13.000
You get the weeds. Leaves need
to be wet, so look,

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02:24:13.239 --> 02:24:16.639
turn on the sprinkler. Not enough
to wet the soil, just enough to

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02:24:16.680 --> 02:24:22.680
wet the leaves. Get your spreader
for fertilizer. Get some turf Star weedinator

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02:24:22.840 --> 02:24:26.159
and sprinkle it out there. It'll
stick to the leaves because that's why we

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02:24:26.280 --> 02:24:28.600
wet them first. Then give it
a day or two and then water it

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02:24:28.639 --> 02:24:33.200
into the ground. And now you've
got a slow release fertilizer. It's gonna

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02:24:33.280 --> 02:24:35.680
last you for weeks and weeks and
weeks, two or three months. Even

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02:24:37.239 --> 02:24:43.719
excellent excellent product Turftar Weedenator from Nelson's
as all Nelson's products, quality products that

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02:24:43.000 --> 02:24:46.799
work. I'm going to take a
break. It's time for the news and

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02:24:46.879 --> 02:24:50.479
Nikki. Our number is seven one
three two fifty eight seventy four. I'll

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be right back. Welcome back to
Guardline. Good to have you with us

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02:24:54.159 --> 02:24:58.280
today. What do you wanna talk
about? You tell me give me a

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02:24:58.360 --> 02:25:01.959
call seven to one three two one
two fifty eight seventy four. Seven one

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02:25:03.040 --> 02:25:05.040
three two two fifty eight seventy four
I just want to remind you I'm going

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02:25:05.079 --> 02:25:09.280
to be at Buchanan's Nursery today and
we've got some giveaways. Buchannans provide some

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02:25:09.399 --> 02:25:13.319
really cool stuff. We can give
you a number of things about ever fifteen

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02:25:13.360 --> 02:25:16.799
minutes while I'm there. I will
be there from eleven to one, eleven

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02:25:16.840 --> 02:25:20.879
to one. Good time to get
out, grab you some lunch before or

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02:25:20.879 --> 02:25:24.719
after. Come on by, bring
me a sample, bring me a photo.

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02:25:24.959 --> 02:25:28.120
Let's talk about what you want to
do. Let's identify things that need

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02:25:28.200 --> 02:25:33.520
to be managed. Let's identify some
of the plants it might do well in

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02:25:33.600 --> 02:25:37.479
a particular area. And Buchanan's gonna
have plenty of on hand. They got

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02:25:37.520 --> 02:25:41.920
a nice little greenhouse area there that
is all covered up. It's a huge

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02:25:41.959 --> 02:25:45.120
area, and I'll have a table
in there. We'll be answering questions.

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02:25:45.159 --> 02:25:48.200
I may even, you know,
not too long of line. I may

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02:25:48.239 --> 02:25:52.200
even help walk you over to someplace
and show you some plants that would work

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02:25:52.280 --> 02:25:56.520
well for you. Or perhaps one
of the very helpful staff at Buchanans would

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02:25:56.559 --> 02:25:58.799
be available to do that, of
course, as well as they always are.

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02:26:00.040 --> 02:26:03.920
That's why we love to go to
that place. Good good information,

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02:26:03.120 --> 02:26:09.319
good assistance, if you have not
put a premergent nervous side out and you

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02:26:09.440 --> 02:26:11.719
are wanting to get one done this
year, you need to get done right

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02:26:11.799 --> 02:26:18.120
away, right away. Barricade by
nitrofoss is a product that prevents seeds of

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02:26:18.399 --> 02:26:26.200
broad leaf weeds and grasses both from
germinating and establishing a plant when they try

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02:26:26.239 --> 02:26:30.920
to sprout and grow. Barricade is
a barricade on the soil surface. It

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02:26:31.000 --> 02:26:35.639
shuts them down. You apply it
at the proper rate. Don't do it

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02:26:35.719 --> 02:26:39.600
before a gully washer rain, don't
do it twice as much as it says

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02:26:39.680 --> 02:26:43.639
on the label. Follow the label. And part of following the label is

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02:26:45.280 --> 02:26:48.520
we move it into the soil surface
with about a half inch of water when

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02:26:48.559 --> 02:26:52.079
you turn on the sprinter and get
about a half inch to get it down

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02:26:52.159 --> 02:26:54.879
in the soil surface. That way, when a weed tries to sprout,

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02:26:56.079 --> 02:26:58.559
it's there ready for it, and
it takes off and it does its job

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02:27:00.079 --> 02:27:03.879
up some down they cannot they cannot
survive, They cannot grow with that kind

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02:27:03.959 --> 02:27:09.440
of product, the barricade product itself, and they're preventing the growth. It's

1996
02:27:09.559 --> 02:27:13.159
much easier to prevent a weed than
to kill one that's already existing and barricade

1997
02:27:13.159 --> 02:27:16.879
will do that. So where do
you get nitrofoss barricade? Well, how

1998
02:27:16.920 --> 02:27:20.600
about going to a Tasca see to
Ace Hardware. Yep, they've got it

1999
02:27:20.680 --> 02:27:24.520
there Lake Hardware in Lake Jackson.
It's called Lake Hardware Clute. They've got

2000
02:27:24.760 --> 02:27:28.639
the barricade products for you to use
there as well. You know it's easy

2001
02:27:28.680 --> 02:27:33.040
to find nitroposs product. How about
Ace at Sincle Ranch. That's another one

2002
02:27:33.079 --> 02:27:37.200
they even thought about at a Kadie
direction Ace Hardware Sinkle Ranch, Katie Ace

2003
02:27:37.239 --> 02:27:41.600
Hardware. They barricade is widely available, as are all the nitrofoss products.

2004
02:27:41.799 --> 02:27:45.600
We're going to head now to let's
see where are we going. We're going

2005
02:27:45.639 --> 02:27:50.319
to Clear Lake and talking to Mario. Hello, Mario, good job.

2006
02:27:50.760 --> 02:28:00.200
I got I've got a question about
the best way to fertilize my shrubs which

2007
02:28:00.280 --> 02:28:05.559
were hit pretty hard in the freeze
and then the drought. So what what's

2008
02:28:05.639 --> 02:28:11.440
the best formula compy, well,
the combination of things, you know what

2009
02:28:11.520 --> 02:28:18.600
I'm trying to say that with best
Yeah, you got options, You've got

2010
02:28:18.639 --> 02:28:22.799
options. Or Nitropos makes a tree
and shrub fertilizer. It's a sixteen four

2011
02:28:22.879 --> 02:28:26.520
eight fertilizer works really well. It's
their green bag from Nitroposs, so that

2012
02:28:26.680 --> 02:28:33.280
works well. I'll tell you I
use just regular turf fertilizer. Trees and

2013
02:28:33.360 --> 02:28:39.520
shrubs were primarily growing them for the
greenery, right the leaves and those most

2014
02:28:39.600 --> 02:28:43.840
of them were not getting fruit and
flowers from and so just a good lawn

2015
02:28:43.879 --> 02:28:48.719
fertilizer will work as well on your
shrubs. So if you put out,

2016
02:28:48.360 --> 02:28:52.840
are these in flower beds or are
these like growing in the lawn or what?

2017
02:28:54.280 --> 02:28:58.319
Yeah, they're they're they're hedge that
I have across the front of my

2018
02:29:00.319 --> 02:29:05.600
flower beds. Okay, all right, well you can go either way and

2019
02:29:05.040 --> 02:29:09.239
both ways will work. You know, the Mitroposs products are easy to find,

2020
02:29:09.360 --> 02:29:13.600
the green bag, tree and trup
fertilizer. That'd probably be the first

2021
02:29:13.680 --> 02:29:18.239
choice on those. But again they
you know, the fertilizers we've been talking

2022
02:29:18.280 --> 02:29:22.760
about for lawn care will work good
on your shrubs as well. Okay,

2023
02:29:24.079 --> 02:29:28.760
my wife purchased some Vigoro I believe
it was thirteen thirteen thirteen. What do

2024
02:29:28.840 --> 02:29:31.479
you think good? Is that gonna
help? You think? If you got

2025
02:29:31.520 --> 02:29:35.319
it already on hand, you can
use it once, but get away from

2026
02:29:35.440 --> 02:29:41.319
the triple thirteen's and the twelve twenty
four twelves and stuff. As an ongoing

2027
02:29:41.479 --> 02:29:46.239
fertilizer. The middle number is higher
than it needs to be on those.

2028
02:29:46.440 --> 02:29:48.479
It's not going a hurting thing to
use one or two or three times here

2029
02:29:48.520 --> 02:29:54.200
and there, but over time it's
going in the wrong direction. And so

2030
02:29:54.680 --> 02:29:56.840
go ahead and here's what you got. It's fine, go ahead and use

2031
02:29:56.879 --> 02:30:00.399
it. But in general, then
let's go toward the kinds of things I'm

2032
02:30:00.440 --> 02:30:03.920
talking about here on guarden line.
If you go to my website, Gardening

2033
02:30:03.120 --> 02:30:07.879
with Skip dot com and look at
the lawn care sheet, the fertilizers on

2034
02:30:09.040 --> 02:30:11.680
there will work good for your trees
and shrubs. Just don't use anything that

2035
02:30:11.840 --> 02:30:18.200
has weed control in it on trees
and trucks. Right, Okay, yeah,

2036
02:30:18.399 --> 02:30:20.479
it's not all right, Well,
thank you and lawn Weeds for fertilizing

2037
02:30:20.520 --> 02:30:24.520
shrubs and trees. All right,
well, thank you so much. You've

2038
02:30:24.520 --> 02:30:28.000
always have been very helpful. Appreciate
you all right, Mario, thanks for

2039
02:30:28.079 --> 02:30:31.239
the call. Appreciate that very much. When was the last time you were

2040
02:30:31.319 --> 02:30:35.959
down at Moss Nursery. Moss Nurseries
and Seabrook For those of you who haven't

2041
02:30:37.000 --> 02:30:41.600
been down there, and that place
it's a wonderland. I mean we're talking

2042
02:30:41.680 --> 02:30:45.399
about you've never been, you need
to go. And people drive a long

2043
02:30:45.520 --> 02:30:48.680
way to get to Moss Nursery because
it's worth it. It is that kind

2044
02:30:48.719 --> 02:30:54.559
of a destination place. Uh.
The trucks line up down the block.

2045
02:30:54.799 --> 02:30:58.600
I mean they are constantly getting deliveries. They are loaded with vegetables right now.

2046
02:31:00.079 --> 02:31:03.760
They just got a shipment of some
cactie in that is outstanding. I

2047
02:31:03.799 --> 02:31:09.159
mean such a wide, nice variety
of things. They've got one hundred and

2048
02:31:09.159 --> 02:31:13.200
fifty Chinese fringe trees that are in
bloom. Listen. That is my favorite

2049
02:31:13.680 --> 02:31:18.920
spring blooming tree is Chinese fringe.
It doesn't get huge like a big shade

2050
02:31:18.920 --> 02:31:22.440
tree, so it fits a lot
of modern lots. Moss is loaded up

2051
02:31:22.680 --> 02:31:28.399
with some stunning hanging baskets. They've
got fruit trees. They've got I think

2052
02:31:28.479 --> 02:31:31.479
they have in the last three,
no, last five days, they've gotten

2053
02:31:31.559 --> 02:31:35.799
three loads of tropical plants, and
three loads of tropical plants, over one

2054
02:31:35.879 --> 02:31:43.680
hundred staghorn ferns. Listen, go
in the houseplant greenhouse and just you'll be

2055
02:31:43.840 --> 02:31:48.200
stunned at what they have. But
especially if you're interested in cacti. They

2056
02:31:48.559 --> 02:31:52.120
have a heck of a selection.
So where's Moss Nursery. It's done in

2057
02:31:52.200 --> 02:31:58.719
Seabrook on Toddville Road. Here's the
website. Are you ready Mossmaas Nursery dot

2058
02:31:58.799 --> 02:32:07.000
com. Moss Nursery dot com.
Trust me, allow yourself some time because

2059
02:32:07.399 --> 02:32:11.959
it takes time to see this unbelievably
expensive place. We are going to head

2060
02:32:13.040 --> 02:32:18.040
now to Jersey Village to talk to
Courtney. I love Courtney. Good morning.

2061
02:32:18.120 --> 02:32:20.000
This is Courtney and David on the
phone. Hey, Courtney and David.

2062
02:32:22.639 --> 02:32:26.000
We have loved our front yard too
much. In the last two years.

2063
02:32:26.040 --> 02:32:28.840
With the drought and everything has killed
our Saint Augustine. Right now we

2064
02:32:30.159 --> 02:32:35.319
have mostly weeds and we don't know
what to do to start over with Saint

2065
02:32:35.360 --> 02:32:39.239
Augustine or pick another a species of
grass, and we're just looking for some

2066
02:32:39.360 --> 02:32:43.120
advice. Well, that's a good
question. Any kind of grass needs water

2067
02:32:43.280 --> 02:32:46.479
to stay alive and look good.
You know, things like bermuda grass.

2068
02:32:46.559 --> 02:32:50.440
They'll they'll go brown and look horrible
and then they come back from their underground

2069
02:32:50.479 --> 02:32:54.680
rhizomes and they look okay. But
if you want grass to look good,

2070
02:32:54.680 --> 02:32:58.399
you gotta water it. That's the
bottom line, Bermuda is very drought tolerant.

2071
02:33:00.239 --> 02:33:03.159
He's okay on drought tolerant. Saint
Augustine not as much, although when

2072
02:33:03.200 --> 02:33:07.319
you get into shade, Saint Augustine's
the best, and Zoysia is right there

2073
02:33:07.399 --> 02:33:13.000
with it, real close to it. There's broadly types of Oisia and narrow

2074
02:33:13.079 --> 02:33:16.479
leaf types of Louisia. I'm going
to give you a short cut because I

2075
02:33:16.559 --> 02:33:18.680
can't talk for an hour on this
one, and there's over an hour worth

2076
02:33:18.719 --> 02:33:24.079
of talking to do. If you
go to a website called Aggie Turf aggieturf

2077
02:33:24.200 --> 02:33:28.399
dot com that is the website for
the turf Department, and you click on

2078
02:33:28.639 --> 02:33:33.239
turf grasses in the bottom left and
it will explain every type of turf grass,

2079
02:33:33.360 --> 02:33:37.600
what the pros and the cons are, and you can even see pictures

2080
02:33:37.639 --> 02:33:41.479
of it. And that's what I
would recommend that you do. Then just

2081
02:33:41.559 --> 02:33:46.719
follow my schedule at Gardening with Skip
dot com. It's a free download schedule

2082
02:33:46.239 --> 02:33:50.280
Gardening with Skip dot com, and
that'll tell you how to take care of

2083
02:33:50.360 --> 02:33:54.239
it. There's another schedule on the
same website for dealing with the weeds and

2084
02:33:54.319 --> 02:33:58.559
problems that are on there. But
is your area mostly sunny or shady.

2085
02:34:01.840 --> 02:34:05.319
We have a mixture of both,
Okay, I would say Zeuyzier, Saint

2086
02:34:05.319 --> 02:34:09.000
Augustine or probably the two to choose
from. And I got to run to

2087
02:34:09.079 --> 02:34:11.559
a break, right If you want
to hang on around, I'll talk to

2088
02:34:11.600 --> 02:34:13.879
you after break a little more about
it. But I'm gonna have to run

2089
02:34:13.920 --> 02:34:16.079
to a break. I'm gonna put
you on hold for right now. Okay,

2090
02:34:16.399 --> 02:34:20.639
thank you? All right? You
bet our phone number seven one three

2091
02:34:20.719 --> 02:34:24.840
two one two fifty eight seventy four. Welcome back to guard line. What

2092
02:34:24.920 --> 02:34:28.200
are we going to talk about today? You tell me our phone number seven

2093
02:34:28.239 --> 02:34:33.799
one three two one two fifty eight
seventy four. Seven one three two one

2094
02:34:33.920 --> 02:34:43.000
two five eight seven four if you
have. We talk about spring fertilizing in

2095
02:34:43.120 --> 02:34:46.200
two different ways. One is you
can do an early spring greenup, and

2096
02:34:46.360 --> 02:34:50.319
that is an immediately available product by
the time we get to about April.

2097
02:34:50.399 --> 02:34:56.559
First we start talking about the summer
fertilizers, which are the slow release fertilizers

2098
02:34:56.680 --> 02:35:01.959
over time. Now, if you
did a spring greenup, let's say since

2099
02:35:03.000 --> 02:35:05.639
the first of March, you're going
to hold off a little bit on the

2100
02:35:05.680 --> 02:35:09.399
summer fertilizer spring green up. It
gives you about a month worth of fertilizing.

2101
02:35:09.280 --> 02:35:13.360
But the slow release that is what
we begin applying about the first of

2102
02:35:13.440 --> 02:35:16.520
March or first of April. And
if you're not going to do a spring

2103
02:35:16.600 --> 02:35:20.159
green up, you can actually start
it now if you like. And Nitrophoss

2104
02:35:20.239 --> 02:35:24.719
has one called Superturf. It's a
silver bag. Think of it as your

2105
02:35:24.799 --> 02:35:31.159
warm season gradual release fertilizer. It's
a nineteen four to ten fertilizer that's a

2106
02:35:31.239 --> 02:35:35.760
nitrogen low phosphorus, which is good
for turf to have it lower, and

2107
02:35:35.879 --> 02:35:39.840
then a medium amounto phosphorus. It's
about half the nitrogen is in a slow

2108
02:35:39.920 --> 02:35:43.799
release form. It even has a
little bit of iron to promote good color,

2109
02:35:43.959 --> 02:35:48.280
good green color because early in the
spring sometimes you get a little yellowing

2110
02:35:48.319 --> 02:35:50.760
on our Saint Augustine. You may
have noticed that in the past and it

2111
02:35:50.879 --> 02:35:54.680
bounces back. Well. Super Turf
can help with that. Now. Super

2112
02:35:54.760 --> 02:35:58.079
Turf is a night Fross product,
so it's available in a wide variety of

2113
02:35:58.159 --> 02:36:00.920
places. It's easy to find super
Turf. If you can go to Katie

2114
02:36:00.959 --> 02:36:05.040
Ace Hardware, for example, they're
gonna have Supertf fertilizer. You can go

2115
02:36:05.120 --> 02:36:09.680
to in Chenne Gardens or Enchented Forest
down in Richmond Rosenberger. They'll both carry

2116
02:36:11.040 --> 02:36:15.280
the super Turf fertilizers. You can
go to Stanton Shopping Center down in Alvin.

2117
02:36:15.440 --> 02:36:20.040
They're gonna have super turf. Maybe
Kingwood Ace Hardware another place to get

2118
02:36:20.319 --> 02:36:24.879
super turf as well as other nitrofoss
products. I want to go now to

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02:36:24.879 --> 02:36:31.239
Katie and we're gonna talk to Don. Hello, Don, Hey, good

2120
02:36:31.280 --> 02:36:35.799
morning. I'm doing good today.
How are you doing? I'm doing all

2121
02:36:35.879 --> 02:36:41.639
right. I had a question about
my magnolia tree. Okay, is this

2122
02:36:41.840 --> 02:36:46.079
yeah, you know, is this
your evergreen magnolia or like the tulip magnolia

2123
02:36:46.159 --> 02:36:52.520
that just blooms in the spring.
You know, I thought it was it's

2124
02:36:52.680 --> 02:36:56.079
it's I thought it was both.
But it does have the it does have

2125
02:36:56.200 --> 02:37:01.600
the bloom. Oh oh, I
guess that's the big white blooms. Yes,

2126
02:37:01.799 --> 02:37:05.319
that's okay, that's the other magnolia. All right, what's happening?

2127
02:37:05.639 --> 02:37:11.600
Well, you know, we've had
we've had them. They're probably uh twenty

2128
02:37:11.920 --> 02:37:18.440
thirty feet tall. They're really have
been, you know, good good for

2129
02:37:18.520 --> 02:37:24.879
our backyard. But they the last
year or so they've just not been real

2130
02:37:26.040 --> 02:37:30.040
full. Okay, like they had
before, and they just look a little

2131
02:37:30.079 --> 02:37:33.200
puny. All right, well,
here's what you do. They like acidic

2132
02:37:33.280 --> 02:37:37.840
soil fertilized with an acidic fertilizer.
Microlife has one that is a pink bag.

2133
02:37:39.200 --> 02:37:43.239
That's for azis and communes and it
does good for those. Make sure

2134
02:37:43.319 --> 02:37:46.520
the soil is loosened up a little
bit and has good organic matter content.

2135
02:37:46.680 --> 02:37:50.920
Lots of composter over the top will
be very helpful for that. And then

2136
02:37:52.040 --> 02:37:56.399
adequately water with a good deep soaking
drink. Drought. We lost magnolias and

2137
02:37:56.559 --> 02:38:00.280
sections of magnolias last year due to
the lack of water. So those those

2138
02:38:00.319 --> 02:38:05.600
are the three steps that are in
your control. Watering, fertilizing, adequate

2139
02:38:05.719 --> 02:38:09.559
soil moisture, and that's everything you
can do to try to give that tree

2140
02:38:09.639 --> 02:38:11.879
its best chance to get back in
vigor again. They are slow growing,

2141
02:38:13.799 --> 02:38:16.799
but they are easy to keep going
that way. All right, sir,

2142
02:38:18.000 --> 02:38:22.319
Hey, that sounds great. I'm
going to ACE hardware. I'll get on

2143
02:38:22.479 --> 02:38:26.600
it. Can't go wrong with ACE. Got some good ACE and the katy

2144
02:38:26.719 --> 02:38:31.639
area too. Say hi for us
at a garden line when you're out there.

2145
02:38:31.680 --> 02:38:35.159
Appreciate it. We'll do yeah.
Thank you so much. You take

2146
02:38:35.239 --> 02:38:39.399
care. You take care. You're
talking about trees. What do you do

2147
02:38:39.479 --> 02:38:41.840
when trees die? Well? You
replace them with another tree, a good

2148
02:38:41.920 --> 02:38:46.479
tree that's going to do well.
Sometimes people plant trash trees. That is

2149
02:38:46.719 --> 02:38:50.760
just a problem waiting to happen.
You need a quality tree. Verdant Tree

2150
02:38:50.840 --> 02:38:56.520
Farm gross quality trees. Not only
is the species one that belongs here,

2151
02:38:56.200 --> 02:39:00.360
but it's grown in a way that
you've got a good, strong, healthy

2152
02:39:00.399 --> 02:39:03.879
tree, and they grow them huge. Do you want to like the instant

2153
02:39:03.959 --> 02:39:09.600
tree kind of thing? Seven hundred
gallon containers they have those. They have

2154
02:39:09.719 --> 02:39:13.040
a wide selection of palms, including
very cold hearty palms too. The right

2155
02:39:13.120 --> 02:39:16.159
palm for really any budget that you
might have. They you go there,

2156
02:39:16.239 --> 02:39:20.239
you pick it out, they bring
it, they plant it, they do

2157
02:39:20.399 --> 02:39:22.559
it right, guide you on how
to take care of it, and if

2158
02:39:22.600 --> 02:39:28.000
they planted it, they give you
a one year warranty. Verdant Treefarm dot

2159
02:39:28.120 --> 02:39:31.520
com is a website. There's one
out on Barker Cypress and West Houston,

2160
02:39:31.600 --> 02:39:35.799
one in Central Town where Yale and
Ten come together, and down in Pairland

2161
02:39:35.840 --> 02:39:41.239
there's also a Verdant Tree Farm.
Verdanttreefarm dot com. Don't delay the scenery.

2162
02:39:41.360 --> 02:39:43.959
Plant a tree now, the better
it is and the better it'll do

2163
02:39:43.200 --> 02:39:50.040
when summer comes around. I want
to talk one more time about jungle land

2164
02:39:50.159 --> 02:39:56.000
for containers. I talked about it
earlier, and you when you put a

2165
02:39:56.079 --> 02:39:58.719
plant and a container, all the
water nutrients it gets have to come out

2166
02:39:58.760 --> 02:40:03.559
of that container. So you need
a top quality soil that doesn't stay too

2167
02:40:03.639 --> 02:40:07.479
boggy, soggy wet, but it
drains well. But it also holds moisture.

2168
02:40:07.040 --> 02:40:13.719
Jungle land flour and vegetable planting soil
for your outdoor planting. We'll do

2169
02:40:13.840 --> 02:40:18.520
that indoors. Go with jungle land
water saving potting soils. Got the little

2170
02:40:18.559 --> 02:40:22.639
crystals that whole water well. And
it's distributed by nitroposs So where do you

2171
02:40:22.719 --> 02:40:26.399
get it all over the place?
Where do you get nitrofas, It's everywhere.

2172
02:40:26.479 --> 02:40:31.239
Allspasees in the woodlands has nitropass products, plants for all seasons on two

2173
02:40:31.319 --> 02:40:35.719
forty nine plants and things up in
Brenham all good places to get that.

2174
02:40:35.399 --> 02:40:39.200
Well. Let's head out now to
Richmond and we're going to talk to Ruth.

2175
02:40:39.440 --> 02:40:45.600
Hello, Ruth, good morning morning. I'm so happy to get through

2176
02:40:46.000 --> 02:40:54.639
to you. I have a rural
setting on several acres, and I've been

2177
02:40:54.719 --> 02:40:58.680
here for thirty years, but just
let normal kind of take place. We

2178
02:40:58.840 --> 02:41:05.799
have had areas near the house where
we had Saint Augustine in small amounts,

2179
02:41:05.760 --> 02:41:13.079
but my role is too on the
back acres, especially to start some native

2180
02:41:13.120 --> 02:41:22.520
grasses. And I know that occasionally
you've talked about buying native plants and possibly

2181
02:41:22.639 --> 02:41:26.920
native grasses, but I want to
know how to get started and can I

2182
02:41:28.040 --> 02:41:31.360
do seed? And I want something
specific for our area. Yeah, do

2183
02:41:31.479 --> 02:41:35.639
you have a do you have a
real sunny spot where you're wanting to grow

2184
02:41:35.719 --> 02:41:41.159
it? Well? I have I
have an area near the house that is

2185
02:41:43.200 --> 02:41:48.479
near a large oak tree that I
need to put something in because we previously

2186
02:41:48.559 --> 02:41:52.959
had some flagstone that's been taken up
and I do want to have something there.

2187
02:41:54.200 --> 02:41:58.799
But in general, yes, it
is going to be in sunny spots.

2188
02:41:58.440 --> 02:42:01.719
Okay, most of the native grasses
are going to need it. There's

2189
02:42:01.760 --> 02:42:07.479
a there's a mix that some local
folks that put together called the Southeast Texas

2190
02:42:07.680 --> 02:42:13.360
Native Seed Mix, and it's going
to have Florida paspalam. It's going to

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have something called little blue stem not
root bristle grass, and I I mean

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a dozen plus over a dozen different
grasses in it, and so overall it

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does good. But it's going to
be more of a meadow than a lawn.

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So you just need to know when
you're going with native grasses in this

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area, almost everything's going to get
up pretty tall. Okay, okay,

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now when does this the larger area
I'm talking about, would we normally use

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a shredder on attractor and shredder.
Yeah, when I when you go with

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native grasses, do they need they
need an occasional shredding or do you just

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let them go or you can go
either way. They don't need shredding,

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but you can shred some that's fine. But just do a search. Go

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do a search online and put in
to your search Southeast Texas Native Seed mix

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and it'll be one of the ones
that comes up. There's a company in

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Junction called Native American Seed and they
sell mixes for each region of the state.

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You go to a Native American Seed
and Junction, Texas, they can

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also sell you a mix for this
region. And they have knowledgeable people on

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staff that will tell how to plan
on how to care for them and stuff.

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Hey, Ruth, I hear the
music I'm gonna have to run,

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but I hope that works well for
you to get it done this spring when

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they establish fastest, so don't delay
much longer. All right, Thank you

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appreciate that call. Then, a
busy day, about to head out to

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Buchanan's Native Plants and the Heights.
We'll be given away all kinds of things

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there. They got a whole selection
of cool stuff to give away. I'll

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be there from eleven to one and
answering your guarding questions. Come on and

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see me. Let's a visit.
Love to meet the listeners. This funny

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ruth said, have trouble getting it
through. My mom used to say that

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out all the time too, but
I think she knows something different.