WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.200 --> 00:00:00.240 H. 2 00:00:33.479 --> 00:00:37.920 Welcome to kt r H Garden Line with Skip Rickards. 3 00:00:37.520 --> 00:00:44.799 Showy gas can you do trip? 4 00:00:45.600 --> 00:00:57.280 You just watch it as worse Openso. 5 00:00:52.920 --> 00:00:54.240 Baby b things to see? 6 00:00:54.320 --> 00:00:55.600 What in the. 7 00:00:57.679 --> 00:00:58.039 Gas? 8 00:00:58.079 --> 00:00:58.320 Baby? 9 00:00:58.359 --> 00:00:59.079 Can you day? 10 00:01:16.560 --> 00:01:16.719 Well? 11 00:01:16.799 --> 00:01:22.439 Good morning, congratulations tow you early birds this morning. Good 12 00:01:22.439 --> 00:01:26.000 to have you with us here on Garden Line. We're 13 00:01:26.040 --> 00:01:28.560 looking forward to visiting with you about the kinds of 14 00:01:28.599 --> 00:01:33.799 gardening questions you might be interested in visiting about. I 15 00:01:33.840 --> 00:01:37.879 can I can tell you this right now, boy. Everybody's 16 00:01:37.879 --> 00:01:41.439 brains and minds and hearts are on getting the garden 17 00:01:41.879 --> 00:01:44.640 in good shape. But getting that lawn and good shape. 18 00:01:45.000 --> 00:01:48.319 Yesterday I was out at Sienamultch and thanks to the 19 00:01:48.319 --> 00:01:50.799 folks at malt for having us out yesterday. It was 20 00:01:50.840 --> 00:01:53.519 a good time. We were out there with a lot 21 00:01:53.560 --> 00:01:57.159 of different folks from different groups and it was I 22 00:01:57.200 --> 00:01:59.120 don't know, it's kind of an opportunity is to visit 23 00:01:59.159 --> 00:02:02.599 with some of our sponsors were sitting over there across 24 00:02:02.640 --> 00:02:04.719 from us. There are next to us. Actually there's a 25 00:02:04.879 --> 00:02:10.840 microlife was there and folks from Medina were also there. 26 00:02:11.280 --> 00:02:15.039 That was nice to getting to kind of reconnect with 27 00:02:15.080 --> 00:02:18.240 some of the folks that are sponsors of our show. 28 00:02:18.439 --> 00:02:20.919 Visit with them about their products and things. Had a 29 00:02:20.919 --> 00:02:24.919 lot of people that came by. That was especially nice. Also, 30 00:02:24.960 --> 00:02:27.319 Heirloom Soils was out there, got to visit with Louis. 31 00:02:28.000 --> 00:02:31.199 So thanks to everybody that came out. But I can 32 00:02:31.240 --> 00:02:34.400 tell you this based on the question. It's like malan, malan, malon. 33 00:02:35.400 --> 00:02:37.759 That is the big thing that people are interested in. 34 00:02:38.360 --> 00:02:42.360 And within that category weeds. Weeds. Weeds are the ones 35 00:02:42.400 --> 00:02:44.360 that I was hearing the most of it. That's because 36 00:02:44.879 --> 00:02:47.960 all those school season weeds have now burst into their 37 00:02:48.840 --> 00:02:52.400 top growth of the whole their whole cool season period, 38 00:02:53.159 --> 00:02:56.280 setting their seeds. They've been blooming and setting seeds and 39 00:02:56.280 --> 00:02:58.960 they're flinging them everywhere, and those weeds look huge, and 40 00:02:59.000 --> 00:03:01.919 it's like the blue bonnet. You know, bluebonnets sprouted last 41 00:03:01.960 --> 00:03:04.759 fall on the roadsides, but you didn't see them. They 42 00:03:04.759 --> 00:03:08.400 were there in November and December, January, we didn't see them. 43 00:03:08.719 --> 00:03:11.360 And all of a sudden, as the weather warms up 44 00:03:11.360 --> 00:03:13.520 in the days get a little bit longer, here comes 45 00:03:14.080 --> 00:03:16.639 a lot of growth and blooms. Of course we enjoy 46 00:03:16.719 --> 00:03:18.680 those now, but right after the blooms, they're going to 47 00:03:18.680 --> 00:03:22.120 be popping those seed pods. They literally do pop and 48 00:03:22.360 --> 00:03:25.560 flinging them everywhere, and then next year we get more 49 00:03:25.560 --> 00:03:28.039 blue bonnets. The same thing happens in your lawn with 50 00:03:28.159 --> 00:03:32.960 chickweed and clover, and let's see what else carpet weed. 51 00:03:33.360 --> 00:03:35.919 Another one that we deal with is cleavers. That's one 52 00:03:35.960 --> 00:03:39.240 that feels like belcrow sticks to you. It's also called 53 00:03:39.280 --> 00:03:42.240 the crow weed. So at this point in the season, 54 00:03:42.759 --> 00:03:45.879 I would highly recommend you consider just pulling them up 55 00:03:45.879 --> 00:03:48.360 by hand as much as you can. Even if they 56 00:03:48.360 --> 00:03:51.240 break off. They are annual weeds. They're not going to 57 00:03:51.319 --> 00:03:53.400 have time to re sprout and grow and set seeds 58 00:03:53.439 --> 00:03:56.599 and all that. Just get them out of there for now, 59 00:03:57.479 --> 00:04:00.240 and be careful to doing it. Have a bucket, put 60 00:04:00.240 --> 00:04:03.159 them in there with all those hundreds and hundreds of 61 00:04:03.199 --> 00:04:06.479 weed seeds that are on them, because otherwise, even if 62 00:04:06.479 --> 00:04:08.479 you sprayed it and killed it, which it's harder to 63 00:04:08.520 --> 00:04:11.479 do at this stage, but even if you did, you're 64 00:04:11.520 --> 00:04:14.400 gonna be leaving the seeds behind. Those seats are not 65 00:04:14.439 --> 00:04:17.000 going to be killed because they've already formed in some 66 00:04:17.120 --> 00:04:20.160 cases now those that haven't. Of course, you could prevent that, 67 00:04:20.959 --> 00:04:24.040 but anyway, that seems to be a concern of a 68 00:04:24.079 --> 00:04:26.720 lot of people. And I know everybody varies in their 69 00:04:26.759 --> 00:04:29.000 tolerance to weeds. So you may be the kind of 70 00:04:29.000 --> 00:04:32.160 person that if there's one weed anywhere on your property, 71 00:04:32.879 --> 00:04:35.519 it's like a neon sign at midnight. I mean, it 72 00:04:35.639 --> 00:04:38.680 just shows up and it bugsy, can't stand it. And 73 00:04:38.720 --> 00:04:40.920 then on the other spectrum, there are people that just 74 00:04:40.959 --> 00:04:43.480 go moh them, they're green. It all looks green. Just 75 00:04:43.519 --> 00:04:45.519 mow the weed, don't worry about it. Okay, Well, you're 76 00:04:45.759 --> 00:04:50.000 probably somewhere in between those two. But that's your yard, 77 00:04:50.040 --> 00:04:52.560 as we like to say, I use that term a 78 00:04:52.600 --> 00:04:55.800 lot of visiting with family members. Well I think this, 79 00:04:56.000 --> 00:04:59.040 but that's your yard, meaning I can't tell you what 80 00:04:59.120 --> 00:05:02.959 to do. But you know what I've noticed about family members, 81 00:05:03.160 --> 00:05:04.959 they can tell you what to do. Doesn't mean you 82 00:05:04.959 --> 00:05:07.600 have to listen, but they can tail with some of 83 00:05:07.680 --> 00:05:13.319 your gone. Boy, I hear that. Jungle and is a 84 00:05:13.360 --> 00:05:18.439 product that Nitrofos provides all over this area, and it 85 00:05:18.680 --> 00:05:23.600 basically it is simply a very good container mix. So 86 00:05:23.720 --> 00:05:26.480 whether you have a houseplant inside, if you do grab 87 00:05:26.519 --> 00:05:28.720 their jungle l and water saving potting soil. If you 88 00:05:28.759 --> 00:05:32.199 have an outdoor container, you're doing jungle and flour and 89 00:05:32.319 --> 00:05:35.639 vegetable potting soil. Make sure your containers have drainage holes 90 00:05:35.680 --> 00:05:38.040 so extra water can get out, because jungle land will 91 00:05:38.120 --> 00:05:40.639 drain well and it will hold on to some moisture, 92 00:05:40.720 --> 00:05:42.839 so you're not watering it twice a day every day. 93 00:05:44.120 --> 00:05:45.879 It's just a good product. You're going to find it 94 00:05:46.000 --> 00:05:49.839 places like Bearings Hardware on Bissinet, Bearings Hardware on Westtheimer, 95 00:05:50.680 --> 00:05:55.319 Enchanted Forest, Chanted Forest down in the Richmond Rosenberg area 96 00:05:55.319 --> 00:05:58.759 on FM twenty seven fifty nine. Places you can find 97 00:05:58.759 --> 00:06:03.560 that jungle in if you're interested in visiting this morning 98 00:06:03.600 --> 00:06:06.360 about any question you might have. Now it's a good 99 00:06:06.360 --> 00:06:09.199 time to call. It's always quiet first thing Sunday morning 100 00:06:09.720 --> 00:06:11.959 before it picks up a little bit. So seven one 101 00:06:12.000 --> 00:06:15.160 three two one two k t RH seven to one 102 00:06:15.240 --> 00:06:18.240 three two one two k t r h GI me call. Well, 103 00:06:18.360 --> 00:06:21.000 we'll talk about the things like that I was telling 104 00:06:21.040 --> 00:06:23.279 you about Enchanted for us. I always like to go 105 00:06:23.319 --> 00:06:27.720 out there because it's different every time I go. I mean, 106 00:06:27.759 --> 00:06:31.000 it's the same place, the same you know, quality plans, 107 00:06:31.199 --> 00:06:36.360 the same layout and whatnot, but the product line is 108 00:06:36.399 --> 00:06:40.040 always evolving through the year. You know, you've got your standards. 109 00:06:40.519 --> 00:06:43.120 That would be something like, for example, the trees and 110 00:06:43.199 --> 00:06:46.959 shrubs and whatnot that are always there, but the color 111 00:06:47.360 --> 00:06:49.879 changes as we go through the seasons, and they're always 112 00:06:49.920 --> 00:06:52.279 on top of things. Are right now, there's just lots 113 00:06:52.360 --> 00:06:58.160 of beautiful, beautiful summer color, for example, kalladiums. Kalladiums like 114 00:06:58.279 --> 00:07:01.079 warm weather, and we're getting to the warm weather. And 115 00:07:01.160 --> 00:07:03.959 if you want to brighten up a shady area, kaladiums 116 00:07:04.000 --> 00:07:06.639 are a great way to do it. They are. In fact, 117 00:07:06.879 --> 00:07:11.120 here's just a principle of kind of landscaping that you 118 00:07:11.199 --> 00:07:15.120 might think about. There's no rules out there, but here's one. 119 00:07:15.439 --> 00:07:18.000 When you go into shady areas, it's harder to see 120 00:07:18.079 --> 00:07:22.120 dark colors, So something like a purple, a deep purple 121 00:07:22.759 --> 00:07:25.399 in a shade area, it's going to kind of just 122 00:07:25.480 --> 00:07:30.600 disappear into the darkness. But white jumps out like runway lights. 123 00:07:30.639 --> 00:07:33.120 It just really shows up. So if you're going to 124 00:07:33.199 --> 00:07:35.879 go with a pink, lighter pinks show up better than 125 00:07:36.120 --> 00:07:40.000 darker reds and pinks, And in dark areas, you can 126 00:07:40.079 --> 00:07:45.120 really draw the eye into there with that light colored materials, 127 00:07:45.160 --> 00:07:47.160 and kaladiums are a great one. Of course, they got 128 00:07:47.240 --> 00:07:48.600 them out there. They've got a lot of I think, Oh, 129 00:07:48.839 --> 00:07:52.199 they have an excellent supply of Chinese French tree. And 130 00:07:52.240 --> 00:07:55.319 if you've never seen a Chinese fringe, go too Enchanted Forest. 131 00:07:55.360 --> 00:07:59.480 There's one bloom and now it looks awesome. I love that. 132 00:07:59.560 --> 00:08:01.759 It's my favorite spring blooming tree. And of course they 133 00:08:01.839 --> 00:08:03.399 got a lot of this, They got a lot of everything. 134 00:08:03.399 --> 00:08:07.959 The desert roses are in a little succulent called Lithops 135 00:08:08.040 --> 00:08:10.040 that I think is really cool. Looks like came from 136 00:08:10.040 --> 00:08:14.160 another planet to me. And there are always a place 137 00:08:14.199 --> 00:08:18.639 to get plants for your butterfly, attracting both the larval 138 00:08:18.639 --> 00:08:21.160 food sources and the adult food sources. By the way, 139 00:08:21.160 --> 00:08:24.480 they are on FM twenty seven fifty nine the website 140 00:08:24.600 --> 00:08:29.800 Enchanted Forest, Richmond, t X dot com. Do yourseff a 141 00:08:29.839 --> 00:08:31.439 favor to day and run out there and check that 142 00:08:31.480 --> 00:08:43.759 place out. I'll be right back. Remember when there were 143 00:08:43.799 --> 00:08:48.519 groups of four or five people that sang together and 144 00:08:48.559 --> 00:08:55.200 permonized way back, Hey, welcome to Gardener. We're easing the 145 00:08:55.240 --> 00:08:57.360 into the music this morning. I know you know, if 146 00:08:57.399 --> 00:09:01.080 I were to play something loud and obnoxious might cause 147 00:09:01.120 --> 00:09:02.480 you to spill your cup of coffee. We're not going 148 00:09:02.519 --> 00:09:04.840 to do that to you this morning. I was mentioning 149 00:09:04.879 --> 00:09:07.720 earlier the fact that everybody has questions about their yard 150 00:09:07.879 --> 00:09:10.759 right now, and weeds are the probably the number one 151 00:09:10.759 --> 00:09:16.399 topic that I'm hearing overall. I mentioned that the cool 152 00:09:16.399 --> 00:09:18.559 season weeds are going to seed, and so you got 153 00:09:18.600 --> 00:09:19.919 to get them out of there with the seeds if 154 00:09:19.919 --> 00:09:22.120 you can. I understand if you can, if you've got 155 00:09:22.159 --> 00:09:24.159 a whole yard full of weeds and you can't pull them, 156 00:09:24.279 --> 00:09:26.000 but just remember, every time you pull a weed up, 157 00:09:26.039 --> 00:09:28.360 that's one weed, but you're probably pulling up one hundred seed. 158 00:09:29.039 --> 00:09:32.440 And so you know that's the decision to make. There's 159 00:09:32.440 --> 00:09:34.039 a way to do it, or harsh somebody to do it. 160 00:09:34.600 --> 00:09:37.519 As far as the weeds for summer, they are beginning 161 00:09:37.519 --> 00:09:40.559 to sprout as well they have been, and barricade is 162 00:09:40.600 --> 00:09:44.159 a product you put down that stops them from sprouting. Now, 163 00:09:44.200 --> 00:09:46.279 Barricade doesn't kill the weeds that you see in your 164 00:09:46.360 --> 00:09:48.360 yard right now, the ones that are big and blooming 165 00:09:48.399 --> 00:09:51.240 and everything else. It prevents the ones that haven't come 166 00:09:51.320 --> 00:09:54.279 up yet. And so that's happening for our summer weeds. 167 00:09:54.320 --> 00:09:57.360 So things like cribgrass and grasspur and all the summer 168 00:09:57.519 --> 00:10:01.159 weeds we deal with Barricade's a product that we would 169 00:10:01.240 --> 00:10:05.399 suggest you put down ahead of those weeds germinating in 170 00:10:05.480 --> 00:10:08.039 order to shut them down. Now, ten pound bags going 171 00:10:08.039 --> 00:10:10.080 to cover about five thousand square feet, so it goes 172 00:10:10.080 --> 00:10:12.799 a long way. And whether the weeds are broadly for grassy, 173 00:10:12.879 --> 00:10:16.919 it's got a very broad spectrum of weed control. So 174 00:10:17.039 --> 00:10:19.919 the vast majority of weeds you could possibly have in 175 00:10:19.960 --> 00:10:22.919 your yard that are coming from seed, barricade's going to 176 00:10:22.960 --> 00:10:26.799 be effective against those weeds. Now, you got to get 177 00:10:26.799 --> 00:10:28.679 it down. You gotta water it in. It takes about 178 00:10:28.679 --> 00:10:30.440 a half inch of water, maybe a third of it. 179 00:10:30.440 --> 00:10:32.679 It's just enough to get it to the soil surface 180 00:10:33.399 --> 00:10:35.120 and moved into the soil. And you're going to find 181 00:10:35.159 --> 00:10:40.240 barricade at places like Plantation, Ace Hardware out on FM 182 00:10:40.360 --> 00:10:43.120 three fifty nine down in the Richmond Rosenberg area, Court 183 00:10:43.159 --> 00:10:46.480 Hardware on South Maine in the Stafford area, and M 184 00:10:46.559 --> 00:10:51.639 and D Cypress up there on Luetta. These places carry 185 00:10:51.919 --> 00:10:56.720 nitroposs products which are available all over the place, easy, 186 00:10:56.759 --> 00:11:02.639 easy to find. Yesterday it was done at Siena Mulch 187 00:11:02.840 --> 00:11:04.679 and we had a good time with everybody that came 188 00:11:04.720 --> 00:11:07.120 out there. Thank you for that and your questions gave 189 00:11:07.159 --> 00:11:10.480 me a lot of products. The three sixty tree stabilizer 190 00:11:10.559 --> 00:11:14.080 is a very popular one. That was for sure, and 191 00:11:14.159 --> 00:11:17.159 some other products from different sponsors and things, but people 192 00:11:17.200 --> 00:11:18.840 had a good time ave it had to be that 193 00:11:18.960 --> 00:11:21.639 did come down and give the secret password brown stuff 194 00:11:21.679 --> 00:11:25.000 before green stuff, so that way that guaranteed you a 195 00:11:25.039 --> 00:11:28.240 three sixty tree stabilizer when you showed up for that one. 196 00:11:29.480 --> 00:11:31.320 So I'm looking at this week and trying to figure out, 197 00:11:31.360 --> 00:11:33.480 you know, what do I want to do out in 198 00:11:33.519 --> 00:11:36.919 the garden, because you know, when you're when you're a gardener, 199 00:11:37.159 --> 00:11:39.919 or we just enjoyed taking care of your lawn whatever, 200 00:11:40.679 --> 00:11:44.039 there's always things you can do. I mean, there's never 201 00:11:44.159 --> 00:11:47.799 like nothing to do out there, either replenishing molts or 202 00:11:47.879 --> 00:11:52.600 mowing or edging, or getting the flower beds soils prepared 203 00:11:52.639 --> 00:11:55.559 for planting, pulling old things out, putting new things in 204 00:11:55.679 --> 00:12:00.360 and by the way, landscapes. Landscapes are not made to 205 00:12:00.440 --> 00:12:02.720 be permanent. They just aren't. I mean, it would be 206 00:12:02.840 --> 00:12:06.919 nice if they were, but the truth is they evolved 207 00:12:07.080 --> 00:12:09.120 and they grew up. I was looking at a picture 208 00:12:09.240 --> 00:12:12.840 of the house I grew up in years ago, and 209 00:12:13.440 --> 00:12:17.000 the shrubs were over the eaves I mean they had 210 00:12:17.039 --> 00:12:19.360 been little, nice shrubs, but now they were just taking 211 00:12:19.360 --> 00:12:21.440 over the front of the house. It's trying to pull 212 00:12:21.480 --> 00:12:23.240 those out and put new ones in, or cut them 213 00:12:23.279 --> 00:12:25.879 way back and let them come back. But by the 214 00:12:25.919 --> 00:12:28.120 time a shrub hits that stage, there's probably a better 215 00:12:28.159 --> 00:12:30.159 shrub you could purchase to put in in that spot. 216 00:12:30.240 --> 00:12:33.320 So don't be afraid to change out your landscape. In 217 00:12:33.360 --> 00:12:35.360 some ways, I guess it's kind of like painting the 218 00:12:35.360 --> 00:12:40.080 inside of your house, or changing the curtains, or rearranging 219 00:12:40.120 --> 00:12:43.960 or ripple, you know, redoing some furniture. There's always different layouts. 220 00:12:44.000 --> 00:12:47.000 Of course, the out in the landscape, it becomes a 221 00:12:47.080 --> 00:12:49.679 thing of plants just grow and they just kind of 222 00:12:49.759 --> 00:12:53.320 overgrow their area and things. So choose dwarf plants when 223 00:12:53.320 --> 00:12:55.879 you can to keep them more manageable. But don't be 224 00:12:55.919 --> 00:12:58.519 afraid to change things out. It could be that you 225 00:12:58.600 --> 00:13:01.120 bought them and it just isn't doing well. That's okay, 226 00:13:01.200 --> 00:13:03.120 change it out. It could be the use to get 227 00:13:03.159 --> 00:13:05.200 tired of it. You don't want to look at that anymore. 228 00:13:05.320 --> 00:13:07.639 Maybe you want a new flower bed. Maybe there's two 229 00:13:07.679 --> 00:13:10.240 trees you're tired of mowing in circles. Around and you're 230 00:13:10.240 --> 00:13:12.840 going to make a nice oval flowerbed to go around 231 00:13:12.840 --> 00:13:14.759 each one, or whatever shape you want it to be. 232 00:13:15.679 --> 00:13:18.039 Always be looking at ways to change things out. It 233 00:13:18.120 --> 00:13:21.919 keeps it interesting, It makes it more beautiful, and it's okay. 234 00:13:22.240 --> 00:13:24.919 Don't feel like when you plant things it just always 235 00:13:24.960 --> 00:13:28.279 has to stay like that. It doesn't. And if you're 236 00:13:28.399 --> 00:13:31.120 fighting against shrubs, trying to keep them from encroaching on 237 00:13:31.159 --> 00:13:33.600 the sidewalks and all that kind of thing, maybe it's 238 00:13:33.639 --> 00:13:37.759 time to consider replacing those and coming up with something 239 00:13:37.840 --> 00:13:43.759 kind of different. Just a thought, just something to be considering. Anyway. 240 00:13:43.840 --> 00:13:47.039 So I was thinking about my week and I realized 241 00:13:47.879 --> 00:13:49.799 we moved into this house a few years ago, and 242 00:13:49.919 --> 00:13:54.879 I just haven't done much going forward in the landscape 243 00:13:54.919 --> 00:13:57.440 as much as I've done going backwards. What I mean 244 00:13:57.519 --> 00:14:01.240 is there are a lot of plants that were either unsightly, 245 00:14:02.000 --> 00:14:04.679 or they were located in an area where I just 246 00:14:04.799 --> 00:14:08.039 didn't want them, or they were not performing very well, 247 00:14:08.399 --> 00:14:11.279 and so we would pull those out. It doesn't bother 248 00:14:11.320 --> 00:14:14.200 me to kill a plant, and so got them out 249 00:14:14.240 --> 00:14:18.720 of there and someone relocating that's another thing we do. 250 00:14:19.799 --> 00:14:22.279 And then getting the flower beds they're already I've gotten 251 00:14:22.320 --> 00:14:25.120 the soil in them, right, I've gotten good and mulching 252 00:14:25.159 --> 00:14:27.240 on them. And you would say, well, why do you 253 00:14:27.320 --> 00:14:29.759 mulch when you don't even have plants in because of weeds? 254 00:14:30.519 --> 00:14:32.039 You know, you go out there and you clean up 255 00:14:32.039 --> 00:14:34.120 a bed and you get it all looking nice, and 256 00:14:34.159 --> 00:14:36.919 you walk away and leave that soil bear, and two 257 00:14:37.000 --> 00:14:41.000 weeks later the weeds are everwhere, and it's very discouraging. 258 00:14:41.080 --> 00:14:43.240 So when you get the soil right, cover it with 259 00:14:43.320 --> 00:14:45.279 a good thick layer of malt, and then just pull 260 00:14:45.320 --> 00:14:47.559 the mulch back when you want a plant. That's why 261 00:14:47.879 --> 00:14:49.879 I think the way you ought to do it. I'm 262 00:14:49.919 --> 00:14:52.759 going to be planning some more orchard trees this week. 263 00:14:53.360 --> 00:14:56.759 Get those going. Every time I see it like a 264 00:14:56.759 --> 00:14:59.279 fruit tree, maybe it's a satsuma orange or a peach 265 00:14:59.360 --> 00:15:02.399 or whatever the free tree is, I think, you know, oh, 266 00:15:02.519 --> 00:15:04.879 I would love to grow that. I'm going to plant that. 267 00:15:05.000 --> 00:15:07.240 And then you plant it and you sit there looking 268 00:15:07.279 --> 00:15:09.360 at this little stick in the ground or however big 269 00:15:09.399 --> 00:15:11.960 it is, and it's like, okay, I got to wait 270 00:15:12.000 --> 00:15:14.879 for fruit now. So in order to be able to 271 00:15:15.000 --> 00:15:17.799 enjoy fruit, the time to plant that fruit tree is today. 272 00:15:17.799 --> 00:15:20.000 In fact, there's an old thing that the best time 273 00:15:20.000 --> 00:15:22.039 to plant a tree is forty years ago. That's a 274 00:15:22.159 --> 00:15:25.840 landscape tree. The second best time is today. And that 275 00:15:26.200 --> 00:15:28.519 goes true with fruit trees, not forty years ago. But 276 00:15:28.960 --> 00:15:30.600 the best time to plant a fruit tree is about 277 00:15:30.600 --> 00:15:33.759 four years ago, and the second best time is today. 278 00:15:33.879 --> 00:15:36.279 So why don't you get out there. Our garden centers 279 00:15:36.320 --> 00:15:40.240 have a lot of beautiful, beautiful fruit trees of all types. 280 00:15:40.360 --> 00:15:43.440 Just to remember, fruit needs sunlight. That is the number 281 00:15:43.480 --> 00:15:47.440 one thing that goes wrong when I over the years 282 00:15:47.480 --> 00:15:50.720 of almost forty years now i'm doing this. The thing 283 00:15:50.759 --> 00:15:54.000 I see, the mistake I see made most is lack 284 00:15:54.000 --> 00:15:57.080 of sunlight. If there were a second one, it would 285 00:15:57.120 --> 00:16:00.679 be probably a tie just in terms of the amount 286 00:16:00.679 --> 00:16:03.679 of times I see the problem, and that is either 287 00:16:03.799 --> 00:16:09.279 lack of good drainage or lack of a pollinator variety 288 00:16:09.440 --> 00:16:12.720 for fruit that needs a pollinator. Not all does, some do. 289 00:16:13.440 --> 00:16:18.480 But you plant one apple tree, for example, they need pollinators. 290 00:16:18.759 --> 00:16:22.000 You plant one apple tree and it immediately becomes a 291 00:16:22.039 --> 00:16:25.159 member of the lonely Hearts club. It's got to have 292 00:16:25.200 --> 00:16:29.080 another variety there for pollination. So something to keep in mind. 293 00:16:30.600 --> 00:16:33.879 Southwest fertilizer, I talk about all the time, because I 294 00:16:33.919 --> 00:16:37.559 know of no place anywhere, and I mean that, I 295 00:16:37.600 --> 00:16:41.840 mean anywhere around this whole region that has the selection 296 00:16:42.159 --> 00:16:44.679 that they do at Southwest Fertilizer. If they don't have it, 297 00:16:44.919 --> 00:16:48.240 you don't need it. It's as simple as that. Every 298 00:16:48.240 --> 00:16:51.080 fertilizer I talk about on guarden line, every product on 299 00:16:51.120 --> 00:16:55.120 my schedules is a Southwest fertilizer, and then some many 300 00:16:55.200 --> 00:16:59.080 many more. So are you looking for things from Azamite, 301 00:17:00.759 --> 00:17:06.319 things from Nature's Way resources, heirloom soils, Medina products, microlife, 302 00:17:06.599 --> 00:17:10.200 Nilsen's turf Star, nitrofost, just on and on down the line. 303 00:17:10.200 --> 00:17:12.880 They're all there. And if you have a very unusual 304 00:17:12.920 --> 00:17:16.279 weed that's difficult to control with most products, they're going 305 00:17:16.359 --> 00:17:19.720 to have something at Southwest Fertilizer that will will get 306 00:17:19.839 --> 00:17:23.599 control of it. Quality products, they have expert advice. Of course, 307 00:17:23.599 --> 00:17:25.680 you get that old fashioned service. They've been around since 308 00:17:25.759 --> 00:17:29.680 nineteen fifty five. This is our seventieth anniversary year now 309 00:17:30.200 --> 00:17:33.720 Southwest Fertilizer dot com. That's the website seven to one 310 00:17:33.799 --> 00:17:36.359 three six sixty six one seven four to four. If 311 00:17:36.400 --> 00:17:38.240 you want to give them a call, and if you 312 00:17:38.319 --> 00:17:40.759 just want to drive out there, that suggest you do that. 313 00:17:40.839 --> 00:17:42.680 I enjoy walking through there and just seeing all the 314 00:17:42.720 --> 00:17:46.359 tools and products that they have. Corner of Businet and Renwick. 315 00:17:46.880 --> 00:17:50.079 Corner of Businet and Renwick, Southwest Fertilizer. Of course, in 316 00:17:50.160 --> 00:17:53.880 Southwest Houston, people drive a long way to go there too. 317 00:17:53.960 --> 00:17:57.279 I you know, it's their selection is so good that 318 00:17:57.359 --> 00:17:59.960 someone may come from the other side of town because 319 00:18:00.000 --> 00:18:02.319 as they know, when they get there it's going to 320 00:18:02.359 --> 00:18:03.920 be a one stop shop. They're going to get what 321 00:18:03.960 --> 00:18:11.519 they want. That makes sense to me too. I was 322 00:18:11.559 --> 00:18:16.599 talking yesterday with someone about they were looking for a 323 00:18:16.640 --> 00:18:21.480 little rose fertilizer. They had one rose bush and they 324 00:18:21.559 --> 00:18:23.480 were looking for a fertilizer for it, and I was saying, well, 325 00:18:23.480 --> 00:18:26.880 why don't you just get Nelson's Nutra Star rose food 326 00:18:28.160 --> 00:18:32.039 and because it's perfect for that. Now, there are a 327 00:18:32.039 --> 00:18:34.359 lot of different products on the market for a lot 328 00:18:34.400 --> 00:18:36.759 of different kinds of plants. One thing I like about 329 00:18:36.880 --> 00:18:41.200 Nilsen Plant Foods, fertilizer, jars Is, and that's the nutri 330 00:18:41.319 --> 00:18:44.000 Star line that I'm talking about, is that there is 331 00:18:44.039 --> 00:18:46.440 a Nutra Star for pretty much everything you'd want to grow. 332 00:18:47.160 --> 00:18:50.440 So it may be that you want to grow camellias. 333 00:18:50.480 --> 00:18:53.640 I'm excused. Yeah, so you would want an acid loving plant. 334 00:18:54.079 --> 00:18:56.920 Maybe you are interested in going plume arias. There's a 335 00:18:57.039 --> 00:19:01.319 nutral star plumeria. Maybe it's let's see boogin vellas. There's 336 00:19:01.359 --> 00:19:03.200 a neutral star for booga and villas, and then for 337 00:19:03.279 --> 00:19:05.319 fruit trees, and then for vegetables, and then on and 338 00:19:05.400 --> 00:19:08.440 on down the line. There is a neutrastar product for 339 00:19:08.519 --> 00:19:11.359 every plant you want to grow. And sometimes it may be, 340 00:19:11.519 --> 00:19:14.119 you know an acid loving plant. Well maybe it doesn't 341 00:19:14.160 --> 00:19:17.480 save a Genia sweet spire, or say you know some 342 00:19:17.599 --> 00:19:21.160 particular acid loving plant on the label, but it's for 343 00:19:21.240 --> 00:19:23.359 that too. And so when you go in and get 344 00:19:23.400 --> 00:19:27.880 a jar of Nelson plant food, the vegetable garden outstanding one. 345 00:19:27.960 --> 00:19:30.880 Talked to someone yesterday about their vegetable garden one. Five 346 00:19:30.920 --> 00:19:34.200 different sources of nitrogen that evenly release out over a 347 00:19:34.240 --> 00:19:37.440 period of time, the azalea and acid loving plants. It 348 00:19:37.440 --> 00:19:39.240 doesn't matter which one you get, it's going to be 349 00:19:39.240 --> 00:19:41.960 a quality fertilizer. And there's about a dozen places around 350 00:19:42.000 --> 00:19:44.119 town now where you can take that old jar when 351 00:19:44.119 --> 00:19:47.119 it's empty back in and refill it. That makes a 352 00:19:47.160 --> 00:19:52.880 lot of sense. Yeah, Nelson plant food, quality foods. Just 353 00:19:53.000 --> 00:19:57.920 use some myself the other day. All right here, Well, 354 00:19:57.960 --> 00:20:01.319 I don't quite have enough time to run to a call, 355 00:20:01.839 --> 00:20:05.680 but we are going to be. Let's see when I 356 00:20:05.720 --> 00:20:07.400 come back. I tell you we'll go to Angela and 357 00:20:07.519 --> 00:20:10.200 Katie and Ryan and Cleveland. You'll hang on. You'll be 358 00:20:10.200 --> 00:20:12.559 our first two up when we come back. I want 359 00:20:12.640 --> 00:20:17.440 to let you know that next Saturday, April fifth, from 360 00:20:17.480 --> 00:20:19.279 twelve thirty to two thirty, I'm going to be at 361 00:20:19.279 --> 00:20:23.960 Warren's Southern Gardens out in Kingwood. Warrens Southern Gardens out 362 00:20:23.960 --> 00:20:26.039 in Kingwood, and I hope you'll come out and see me. 363 00:20:26.279 --> 00:20:28.319 We're going to be doing some giveaways there. And you 364 00:20:28.359 --> 00:20:30.240 hear me talk about Warrens all the time. It's our 365 00:20:30.319 --> 00:20:32.839 standing place, and come on out and see me. I 366 00:20:32.880 --> 00:20:35.079 want you to look at that place, see the kinds 367 00:20:35.119 --> 00:20:37.519 of color and plants and pots and everything that they have. 368 00:20:38.240 --> 00:20:41.759 We'll be doing a lot of diagnosis and identification. So 369 00:20:42.799 --> 00:20:44.880 maybe your neighbor has a flower and you will know 370 00:20:44.920 --> 00:20:46.759 what it is so you can get some well, take 371 00:20:46.799 --> 00:20:48.960 a picture of it and bring it to me, or 372 00:20:49.079 --> 00:20:52.519 take samples of things in your yard. All those weeds 373 00:20:52.799 --> 00:20:55.519 we're worried about. Right now, bring me some samples in 374 00:20:55.559 --> 00:20:57.839 a bag. We'll look at those. I would say the 375 00:20:57.839 --> 00:21:01.000 doctor's in, but I don't have my doctorate. I guess 376 00:21:01.160 --> 00:21:03.559 I could say I'm not a doctor. I just play 377 00:21:03.599 --> 00:21:05.799 one on the radio. I don't know if that works 378 00:21:05.880 --> 00:21:08.799 or not, but anyway, i'd be glad to diagnose and 379 00:21:08.960 --> 00:21:12.000 help you find solutions to those problems out at Warren's 380 00:21:12.079 --> 00:21:15.799 next Saturday, right after lunch. All right, time for me 381 00:21:15.839 --> 00:21:17.839 to take a break. We'll come back with your calls 382 00:21:17.839 --> 00:21:22.920 in just a moment. Hey, welcome back, Welcome back to 383 00:21:22.920 --> 00:21:25.160 the guard Line. Good to have you with us. We're 384 00:21:25.160 --> 00:21:27.359 going to run out to the phones now and head 385 00:21:27.400 --> 00:21:31.279 to Katie and talk to Angela this morning. Hello Angela, 386 00:21:31.400 --> 00:21:32.519 Welcome to garden Line. 387 00:21:33.279 --> 00:21:37.119 Hi, good morning Skip. A couple of years ago, we 388 00:21:37.160 --> 00:21:42.480 adopted a couple healers and LUSK and PD confiscated and 389 00:21:42.559 --> 00:21:44.400 I guess they were from the streets or something. I 390 00:21:44.400 --> 00:21:50.160 don't know, but my point was that is they eat everything, 391 00:21:50.839 --> 00:21:53.240 so I have to be careful what I put down. 392 00:21:54.440 --> 00:21:57.480 But last year, and I'm sure we weren't the only ones, 393 00:21:57.960 --> 00:22:04.079 we were just infested with just crazy. And I used 394 00:22:04.119 --> 00:22:06.680 to go to an old time country that and he's like, 395 00:22:06.759 --> 00:22:09.599 put borax down and you know, in a carpet, walk 396 00:22:09.680 --> 00:22:11.039 on it for a week, vacuum. 397 00:22:10.720 --> 00:22:11.440 To thatp You're good. 398 00:22:11.960 --> 00:22:15.559 So for years every March, I pre treat the house, 399 00:22:16.640 --> 00:22:19.799 do a couple of things in the yard, and everything's good. 400 00:22:20.440 --> 00:22:23.319 But my problem was, I think my husband keeps talking 401 00:22:23.359 --> 00:22:27.680 about diazinon. Isn't that poisonous to the dogs? 402 00:22:28.440 --> 00:22:30.559 Yeah, you're well, you're not gonna You're not gonna find 403 00:22:30.599 --> 00:22:35.880 that now, So okay, yeah, okay, I'm not a I 404 00:22:36.279 --> 00:22:38.079 am not a veterinarian or anything like. 405 00:22:38.039 --> 00:22:42.200 That, but no, I just anything in the yard. 406 00:22:43.279 --> 00:22:46.440 Right. Well, what what I do for my own dogs 407 00:22:46.559 --> 00:22:49.400 is we use the product that goes on the dog. 408 00:22:49.799 --> 00:22:51.880 There's one that you put on the dogs on their haunches, 409 00:22:52.039 --> 00:22:55.440 you know, above the shoulders there that that goes in. 410 00:22:55.519 --> 00:22:59.119 And there's another one that you actually like for heartworms 411 00:22:59.200 --> 00:23:02.880 and fleas and things. There's pills that you give them periodically, 412 00:23:04.039 --> 00:23:07.359 and we use that and that alone is pretty good. 413 00:23:07.599 --> 00:23:10.240 But if you have to treat the yard when you're outside, 414 00:23:10.559 --> 00:23:14.960 I just hate using basically nuke in the whole place 415 00:23:15.000 --> 00:23:17.400 with a pest side, even on organic pests. I just 416 00:23:17.440 --> 00:23:20.200 don't generally like to do that. But there are some 417 00:23:20.279 --> 00:23:24.039 products that work indoors. I used to spray the growth 418 00:23:24.119 --> 00:23:27.839 regulators like pre corps, and you could put those and 419 00:23:28.079 --> 00:23:31.599 what happens is if the fleas drop off a dog 420 00:23:31.680 --> 00:23:34.279 or lay eggs or whatever, and then they try to 421 00:23:34.319 --> 00:23:36.559 develop the larva, they never grow up, and so it's 422 00:23:36.599 --> 00:23:39.200 not like a poison to kill the flea. It's more 423 00:23:39.200 --> 00:23:41.839 of a shuts them down at whatever life stage and 424 00:23:41.960 --> 00:23:44.200 they never go any further. And that works pretty good too, 425 00:23:44.240 --> 00:23:47.519 But I talk to your vet on that one. I 426 00:23:47.519 --> 00:23:50.400 think that would probably work better. There are some general 427 00:23:50.480 --> 00:23:53.680 insecticides that you can put all through the yard that 428 00:23:54.039 --> 00:23:58.160 people use and they get down in the thatch and 429 00:23:58.240 --> 00:24:00.960 control the fleas that are out there. But I tell 430 00:24:01.000 --> 00:24:04.119 you that that stuff you you, the pills you give 431 00:24:04.160 --> 00:24:06.960 to the dog, that is the single best thing we've had. 432 00:24:07.559 --> 00:24:07.960 That's me. 433 00:24:08.400 --> 00:24:09.960 I use a too. 434 00:24:11.119 --> 00:24:13.359 I use av X too on the dogs. 435 00:24:13.799 --> 00:24:16.000 But the yard is the issue. 436 00:24:16.039 --> 00:24:18.279 I've got, you know, neighbors with dogs, and I don't 437 00:24:18.279 --> 00:24:21.839 know what they do to control with. But about a 438 00:24:21.880 --> 00:24:25.400 month ago I bought this diameass gifts, Did I say 439 00:24:25.440 --> 00:24:28.000 it right? And a couple of weeks ago, I went 440 00:24:28.039 --> 00:24:33.519 to Cornelia's nursery and bought the complete insect killer and 441 00:24:33.640 --> 00:24:37.000 sprayed in the yard. And no, I guess it's about 442 00:24:37.039 --> 00:24:38.920 a month ago because that's when I used the vans 443 00:24:38.960 --> 00:24:42.599 on them too, and it seemed to give them the control. 444 00:24:42.920 --> 00:24:47.079 When I bathed one of them yesterday, the blood from 445 00:24:47.160 --> 00:24:50.240 her rear end area that came off from our getting 446 00:24:50.359 --> 00:24:54.240 eaten with fleas, I just I'm like, Okay, I gotta 447 00:24:54.519 --> 00:24:59.160 do something. I also read fear if I put cear 448 00:24:59.240 --> 00:25:04.680 chips in my landscaping ground trees, would that do anything? 449 00:25:06.200 --> 00:25:09.880 Essentially? No, it's a little cedar repels some insects, but 450 00:25:09.920 --> 00:25:12.839 then it ages out there and it's not working anymore. 451 00:25:13.519 --> 00:25:16.240 So I tell you I would. I would call a 452 00:25:16.279 --> 00:25:20.279 good pest control operator and consider having them come out 453 00:25:20.319 --> 00:25:23.079 and do something. I know pest bros, the one that 454 00:25:23.119 --> 00:25:25.720 I talk about all here here on guard Line. They 455 00:25:25.759 --> 00:25:28.440 have stuff they can put in the yard that will last. 456 00:25:28.640 --> 00:25:30.640 It puts it downe in the grass and it will last. 457 00:25:30.720 --> 00:25:32.200 You can talk to them about your concern jo I 458 00:25:32.200 --> 00:25:34.039 got a dog. I don't want anything. You know, it's 459 00:25:34.039 --> 00:25:37.559 going to be hurting them and things. But the pest Bros. 460 00:25:37.319 --> 00:25:40.319 Is a group that will come out to Katie. They 461 00:25:40.319 --> 00:25:42.920 go out that far west and they can they can 462 00:25:42.920 --> 00:25:44.079 take care of this for. 463 00:25:44.039 --> 00:25:46.440 You, all right, So we'll give them a call. 464 00:25:47.119 --> 00:25:48.640 Yeah, get your brain. 465 00:25:49.119 --> 00:25:51.720 I'm just beside myself, so. 466 00:25:51.839 --> 00:25:54.559 Right right, Well, let me give you a phone number 467 00:25:54.640 --> 00:25:56.759 just in case you decide to go ahead and call them. 468 00:25:56.960 --> 00:26:00.680 It's A two eight one two oh six forty six 469 00:26:00.839 --> 00:26:05.359 seventy two eight one six forty six. Okay, thanks a lot. 470 00:26:05.400 --> 00:26:07.559 Good luck with getting that under control. That is that 471 00:26:07.680 --> 00:26:08.880 is no fun, I know. 472 00:26:09.240 --> 00:26:11.359 All right, thank you so much. 473 00:26:12.880 --> 00:26:16.480 Bad Well, all I'm talking about the pest Bros. They 474 00:26:16.519 --> 00:26:19.160 do all kinds of things. They do Turmite controls that 475 00:26:19.279 --> 00:26:22.240 last for all, Like they have an option that lasts 476 00:26:22.279 --> 00:26:25.200 for ten years for control protecting your house from termites. 477 00:26:25.240 --> 00:26:28.240 That is a long time and it works, and it's 478 00:26:28.279 --> 00:26:31.319 put in a place where you know, it's not like 479 00:26:31.400 --> 00:26:33.279 they nuke the whole yard. It's it's putting a little 480 00:26:33.319 --> 00:26:35.880 trench around the house and it just protects the things 481 00:26:35.920 --> 00:26:37.599 going through this soil trying to get into your house 482 00:26:37.720 --> 00:26:41.440 like that, Like the termites. They I always always talking 483 00:26:41.440 --> 00:26:45.279 about their mosquito bucket system. That's very new very innovative 484 00:26:45.319 --> 00:26:49.880 and very low talks, very effective compared to you know, 485 00:26:50.000 --> 00:26:52.440 constantly fogging all the time trying to keep them out. 486 00:26:52.680 --> 00:26:55.000 You can go to their website. It's the pest bros 487 00:26:55.279 --> 00:26:59.680 dot com the pest b r os dot com for 488 00:26:59.759 --> 00:27:01.599 all that kind of pest control. And they do cover 489 00:27:01.839 --> 00:27:04.640 from Katie all the way across the Bay Town, from 490 00:27:04.720 --> 00:27:07.200 up in the Woodlands, all the way down Texas City area. 491 00:27:07.359 --> 00:27:10.000 So pretty much you hear about boys just about there, 492 00:27:10.319 --> 00:27:13.480 they're covering your area. We're gonna go now out to 493 00:27:13.559 --> 00:27:17.720 Cleveland and talk to Ryan. Hey, Ryan, Hello, sir, how 494 00:27:17.720 --> 00:27:22.000 are you well? Thank you good? I have a question. 495 00:27:22.880 --> 00:27:25.200 I was pruning all my fruit trees and I missed 496 00:27:25.359 --> 00:27:26.359 an apple tree. 497 00:27:26.839 --> 00:27:29.039 Is it too late to prune a red delicious? 498 00:27:30.160 --> 00:27:32.319 Have some water spirit that are going kind of vertical 499 00:27:32.319 --> 00:27:34.799 brushes vertical limbs I missed. 500 00:27:35.000 --> 00:27:38.319 You can prune, Yeah, you can prune any all through 501 00:27:38.359 --> 00:27:41.240 the season if you want. It's best to prune at 502 00:27:41.240 --> 00:27:43.160 the end of winter. But if you got a water 503 00:27:43.200 --> 00:27:46.839 sprout that is gonna be a huge pruning wound if 504 00:27:46.880 --> 00:27:49.160 you wait until the end of the year to prune it. 505 00:27:49.279 --> 00:27:53.440 So go ahead and prune them now. Uh, and just yeah, 506 00:27:53.559 --> 00:27:55.880 that's the thing. Got to keep the light coming into 507 00:27:55.920 --> 00:27:59.319 your tree because light helps the plants set fruit buds 508 00:27:59.359 --> 00:28:02.720 and blossoms. And yeah, that's it. 509 00:28:02.839 --> 00:28:05.480 Okay, doty to put anything on the scar at this 510 00:28:05.559 --> 00:28:05.960 time with. 511 00:28:06.960 --> 00:28:09.160 No not at all. Just make a good cut, don't 512 00:28:09.240 --> 00:28:12.279 leave a stub, it'll just die. No need to treat 513 00:28:12.319 --> 00:28:13.319 the wound at all. 514 00:28:13.759 --> 00:28:15.119 Okay, thank you, sir. I appreciate it. 515 00:28:15.880 --> 00:28:20.200 Yeah, thanks, Ryan, appreciate your call very much. If you've 516 00:28:20.279 --> 00:28:23.559 been out talking about Katie there have you've been out 517 00:28:23.599 --> 00:28:27.240 to Nelson Nursery and Water Gardens is an outstanding place. 518 00:28:27.960 --> 00:28:32.359 I was just looking at some of the new arrivals. 519 00:28:32.359 --> 00:28:34.799 I always try to keep up with what are these places, 520 00:28:35.279 --> 00:28:37.440 what are they carrying? What they have and stuff? And well, 521 00:28:37.480 --> 00:28:39.240 they got a lot of new things that have come 522 00:28:39.279 --> 00:28:42.799 in up there, all kinds of beautiful color herbs and 523 00:28:42.920 --> 00:28:46.440 vegetables and flowers and shrubs, and the water lilies are 524 00:28:46.480 --> 00:28:48.200 in now. So if you got a little water pond, 525 00:28:48.319 --> 00:28:51.839 if you're thinking about getting a water feature in your landscape, 526 00:28:51.960 --> 00:28:55.279 you need go check them out. Nelson water Gardens and 527 00:28:55.400 --> 00:28:58.519 Nursery or Nursery and water Gardens actually is the way 528 00:28:58.559 --> 00:29:01.359 we say it to eight one three, nine to one 529 00:29:01.720 --> 00:29:04.960 forty seven sixty nine two eight one three nine one 530 00:29:05.039 --> 00:29:07.119 four seven sixty nine. They got their Easter egg hunt 531 00:29:07.200 --> 00:29:09.480 coming up on Saturday, April nineteenth. I know that's way 532 00:29:09.519 --> 00:29:11.480 out there, but I think you ought to prepare for that. 533 00:29:12.200 --> 00:29:15.200 Kiddos can come out from nine to ten and enjoy themselves. 534 00:29:15.240 --> 00:29:16.799 They have a real nice little thing for the kids 535 00:29:16.839 --> 00:29:19.599 out there for the Easter hunt and then the sip 536 00:29:19.599 --> 00:29:23.880 and stroll, which is always fun out there Saturday, April 537 00:29:23.960 --> 00:29:26.480 twenty fifth from five to seven, so it's a late day. 538 00:29:27.079 --> 00:29:29.599 You get out. They have some refreshment there for you. 539 00:29:29.599 --> 00:29:31.920 You can walk around, enjoy the sound of water, and 540 00:29:32.119 --> 00:29:35.759 just have a good time. Nelson Nursery and Water Gardens. 541 00:29:35.759 --> 00:29:38.920 You gotta walk through the store to get into the nursery, 542 00:29:39.119 --> 00:29:43.240 and that's a good thing because their house plants are gorgeous. 543 00:29:43.319 --> 00:29:47.759 It's some of them beautiful, just gorgeous house plants that 544 00:29:47.799 --> 00:29:51.400 they have there, very very nice. And I like that too. 545 00:29:51.559 --> 00:29:56.200 Remember we garden inside our house as well. We're gonna 546 00:29:56.240 --> 00:29:59.640 head Oh nope, I gotta break dad. Gum it, Matt. 547 00:30:00.480 --> 00:30:02.200 We almost made it to you. We're gonna get to you. 548 00:30:02.240 --> 00:30:05.240 First thing, when we come right back from a break here, 549 00:30:05.759 --> 00:30:08.400 I just want to remind you that next Saturday I 550 00:30:08.440 --> 00:30:11.359 will be at Warren Southern Gardens. That is April fifth, 551 00:30:11.400 --> 00:30:14.680 from twelve thirty to two thirty, just after lunch, Warren 552 00:30:14.759 --> 00:30:18.960 Southern Gardens in Kingwood. All right, time for a break. 553 00:30:18.960 --> 00:30:26.000 I'll be right back. All right, we're back. Welcome back 554 00:30:26.000 --> 00:30:27.400 to garden Line. Hey, if you'd like to give us 555 00:30:27.400 --> 00:30:30.640 a call seven one three two one two fifty eight 556 00:30:30.839 --> 00:30:33.880 seventy four. We're gonna head out now to Cypress. First 557 00:30:33.880 --> 00:30:36.799 thing this segment and talk to Matt. Hey, Matt, welcome 558 00:30:36.799 --> 00:30:38.680 to garden Line. 559 00:30:38.960 --> 00:30:47.039 Good morning, Skip, morning Skip. I need your help to identify, 560 00:30:47.720 --> 00:30:53.119 excuse me, the insect that is on my sweet sunset 561 00:30:53.480 --> 00:30:57.839 banana pepper plant. There, okay, on the on the top 562 00:30:57.880 --> 00:31:04.759 of the plant, you can see brown, oh not splotches 563 00:31:05.119 --> 00:31:06.200 or whatever. 564 00:31:07.079 --> 00:31:07.200 Uh. 565 00:31:07.319 --> 00:31:11.079 And then there are a little white teeny teeny looks 566 00:31:11.119 --> 00:31:12.680 like almost. 567 00:31:12.359 --> 00:31:18.160 Like when you get a scalp problem. 568 00:31:18.680 --> 00:31:19.319 It's white. 569 00:31:19.799 --> 00:31:23.920 And when I okay, when I rub my finger on it, uh, 570 00:31:24.200 --> 00:31:27.559 it feels like a gauze and it'll go away. What 571 00:31:27.599 --> 00:31:29.880 do you think that kind of insect is? 572 00:31:31.200 --> 00:31:35.079 Well, if you want that most accurate answer. I'm gonna 573 00:31:35.079 --> 00:31:37.599 need to see a picture of the splotches and the white, 574 00:31:37.759 --> 00:31:42.880 but I think you're talking about cast skins of aphids 575 00:31:43.240 --> 00:31:45.880 for the white, the little white flex that look like 576 00:31:46.000 --> 00:31:51.559 dander or something that that sounds like cast skins of aphids, 577 00:31:51.640 --> 00:31:54.920 which aphids shed their skin just like a snake does. Uh, 578 00:31:54.960 --> 00:31:59.200 And so that means you may still have aphids, or 579 00:31:59.200 --> 00:32:01.559 maybe benefit insects have cleaned them up and they just 580 00:32:01.640 --> 00:32:05.160 skins left behind. But turn the leaves over, look for 581 00:32:05.160 --> 00:32:07.440 a little on a pepper. Look for little things that 582 00:32:07.480 --> 00:32:12.960 are either kind of a greenish color or yellowish green color, 583 00:32:13.200 --> 00:32:18.599 or maybe even darker color than that. If you see that, 584 00:32:18.839 --> 00:32:21.400 just blast them off with water, or you can spray 585 00:32:21.440 --> 00:32:25.640 them with insecticidal soap. But either way that that generally 586 00:32:25.759 --> 00:32:29.559 keeps them in control. Okay, the splotches I need to see. 587 00:32:29.839 --> 00:32:32.839 There are a number o the splotches tan or black 588 00:32:33.200 --> 00:32:36.640 or do they have yellow rings around them or can 589 00:32:36.680 --> 00:32:38.880 you describe it to me? And also the size of 590 00:32:38.920 --> 00:32:40.240 the splotches. 591 00:32:40.519 --> 00:32:44.640 They're about two to three inches long and about an 592 00:32:44.720 --> 00:32:47.839 inch wide. Brown on top of the leaf. 593 00:32:49.640 --> 00:32:52.440 Two to three inches long splotches. 594 00:32:52.720 --> 00:33:03.599 Yes, boy, but you think it's an aphit of some sort. 595 00:33:05.039 --> 00:33:08.839 Well not the splotches, the little white cast skins, but 596 00:33:10.359 --> 00:33:12.400 two to three inches long is huge, as big as 597 00:33:12.440 --> 00:33:17.960 your thumb, bigger than your thumb. Uh yeah, I need 598 00:33:18.279 --> 00:33:20.680 I need to see that. Uh you know, grab a leaf, 599 00:33:20.759 --> 00:33:24.039 take a picture. I'm gonna put you on hold. If 600 00:33:24.039 --> 00:33:26.559 you want to do this, my producer will give you 601 00:33:26.599 --> 00:33:28.279 an email send it to me, and if I get 602 00:33:28.279 --> 00:33:30.119 it in time today, I'll do it for the end. 603 00:33:30.160 --> 00:33:31.599 I'll talk about it for the end of the show. 604 00:33:32.559 --> 00:33:34.160 Okay, it's dark outside. 605 00:33:35.079 --> 00:33:40.480 Yeah, that's okay, that's okay. Well, you know you do 606 00:33:40.559 --> 00:33:45.240 have a flash. 607 00:33:45.440 --> 00:33:47.359 I do, but I won't know what I'm doing. 608 00:33:48.240 --> 00:33:52.240 That's the true I know. Yeah, well you know, even 609 00:33:52.599 --> 00:33:54.880 even at that, I would when you do go out 610 00:33:54.960 --> 00:33:57.519 later when slight and pick up pick a leaf, bring 611 00:33:57.559 --> 00:33:59.559 it inside or show me. They just take a picture 612 00:33:59.559 --> 00:34:01.160 of the planet and then take a picture of splotch. 613 00:34:01.240 --> 00:34:02.680 Make sure it's in good sharp focus. 614 00:34:02.880 --> 00:34:06.079 All righty, thank you, Skip, you have a wonderful day 615 00:34:06.119 --> 00:34:07.200 and remain safe. 616 00:34:07.279 --> 00:34:10.039 Okay, I'll do that, and I'm putting you on hole 617 00:34:10.119 --> 00:34:14.159 right now for Jonathan to pick up. You know that 618 00:34:14.239 --> 00:34:18.239 reminds me I've been getting emails or people send me 619 00:34:18.239 --> 00:34:21.840 their pictures, and I appreciate that because you know, if 620 00:34:21.840 --> 00:34:24.480 you're describing something to me and I'm picturing it in 621 00:34:24.559 --> 00:34:27.000 my mind, there's a good chance what you're seeing and 622 00:34:27.079 --> 00:34:29.840 what I'm picturing are not the same thing. That just 623 00:34:29.960 --> 00:34:32.880 is the way things work. So when you take a 624 00:34:32.920 --> 00:34:35.199 picture that's in sharp focus and send it to me, 625 00:34:35.880 --> 00:34:37.400 I can look at it and then you follow up 626 00:34:37.400 --> 00:34:41.079 with a call. I'm not able to answer emails in general, 627 00:34:41.599 --> 00:34:45.000 just because there's way too many to be able to. 628 00:34:45.119 --> 00:34:48.800 It's all out of whatever do. But I will be 629 00:34:48.920 --> 00:34:51.159 happy to send it to me. I'll hold on to them. 630 00:34:51.199 --> 00:34:54.000 Then when you call, we can talk about it. But anyway, 631 00:34:54.199 --> 00:34:55.880 I want to make a couple of points. Number one, 632 00:34:56.280 --> 00:34:59.840 sharp focus. Get If you send me a fuzzy picture, 633 00:35:00.039 --> 00:35:02.960 I will give you a fuzzy answer. You want a good, 634 00:35:03.000 --> 00:35:06.679 accurate answer, right. Sharp focus is so important and sometimes 635 00:35:06.719 --> 00:35:08.800 our cameras get fooled. You know, you hold a leaf 636 00:35:08.880 --> 00:35:10.320 up and you take a picture of it, and it 637 00:35:10.400 --> 00:35:14.639 focuses on the landscape behind the leaf you're holding up 638 00:35:14.679 --> 00:35:17.320 instead of the leaf you're holding up. So check your pictures, 639 00:35:17.320 --> 00:35:19.559 make sure they're in sharp focus, because I don't want 640 00:35:19.559 --> 00:35:21.559 to waste your time on having to go out and 641 00:35:21.840 --> 00:35:24.239 take another picture and stuff so we can get to 642 00:35:24.239 --> 00:35:27.360 the bottom of it. The other thing is if you 643 00:35:27.440 --> 00:35:31.480 will attach them to the email rather than embed them 644 00:35:31.800 --> 00:35:35.320 in the email. So the attached ones, I click on 645 00:35:35.360 --> 00:35:37.840 the attachment and that picture opens up and I can 646 00:35:37.920 --> 00:35:40.679 zoom in, I can move around. It's easy. The embedded ones. 647 00:35:40.679 --> 00:35:43.559 If it's a big picture, I can open that email 648 00:35:43.639 --> 00:35:46.320 up as big as my whole computer screen, and I'm 649 00:35:46.360 --> 00:35:49.880 still scrolling around trying to find, you know, get the 650 00:35:49.880 --> 00:35:52.599 big picture, and to go to the trouble of trying 651 00:35:52.599 --> 00:35:55.039 to save it then and open it. I just I'm 652 00:35:55.079 --> 00:35:56.880 not able to do that in the time when we're 653 00:35:56.880 --> 00:36:00.639 going on the show here. So anyway attach rather than embed. 654 00:36:01.559 --> 00:36:04.480 Embedding is just like pasting it into the text. Don't 655 00:36:04.519 --> 00:36:08.360 do that. Don't do that. Okay, hopefully that will help. 656 00:36:09.880 --> 00:36:13.679 Visiting with Luis from Heirloom Soils yesterday out there at 657 00:36:13.920 --> 00:36:17.000 Siena Mulch and we're talking about some of the products 658 00:36:17.000 --> 00:36:18.840 and things that they had. They donated a couple of 659 00:36:18.880 --> 00:36:23.320 products is giveaways there. I appreciate them doing that. Someone 660 00:36:23.480 --> 00:36:26.119 asked me about their veggie and herb mix, and they 661 00:36:26.159 --> 00:36:29.599 were saying, no, well, is this just for vegetables. No, no, 662 00:36:29.639 --> 00:36:36.440 it's not. It's a good plant bedding. What I'm gonna 663 00:36:36.440 --> 00:36:39.440 trying to say, I guess betting plant or garden bed situation. 664 00:36:39.599 --> 00:36:43.119 It's a good mix period, and I've even used it 665 00:36:43.159 --> 00:36:45.920 in larger containers. I think it works well for that. 666 00:36:46.679 --> 00:36:49.159 But the veggie nerb mix, yes, if you have a 667 00:36:49.159 --> 00:36:52.800 flower bed, get some of that. It'll do good. They'll 668 00:36:52.800 --> 00:36:56.280 grow well in that. You know, it's primarily focused on 669 00:36:56.400 --> 00:37:00.639 vegetable and herb gardens. But that's a very very sotle mix. 670 00:37:00.719 --> 00:37:03.960 So they also have a leaf mol compost available and 671 00:37:04.000 --> 00:37:06.400 you can get it. Let's say you were going to 672 00:37:06.480 --> 00:37:09.079 do some compost out nursing yourself. It's a little work 673 00:37:09.079 --> 00:37:11.559 to do that, but you can. Or you just wanted 674 00:37:11.599 --> 00:37:14.400 a high quality compost put in the soil, get their 675 00:37:14.480 --> 00:37:19.880 leaf mold compost. Heirloom Soils will sell you the product 676 00:37:19.920 --> 00:37:22.599 in several different ways, making it so convenient for you. 677 00:37:22.719 --> 00:37:25.360 So number one, a lot of places you go carry 678 00:37:25.360 --> 00:37:28.079 the bags of heirloom soil. So that's one way right there. 679 00:37:28.440 --> 00:37:32.280 You can drive out to Porter, Texas where the warrens, 680 00:37:32.360 --> 00:37:35.760 rock and mulches, and that's where the heirloom soil products are, 681 00:37:35.960 --> 00:37:38.280 and you can pick them up bulk, maybe have them 682 00:37:38.320 --> 00:37:40.880 dump it in your pickup or on a trailer, or 683 00:37:40.960 --> 00:37:43.599 you can call them and say, hey, deliver me a 684 00:37:43.639 --> 00:37:46.079 bulk put on the driveway and we're going to haul 685 00:37:46.159 --> 00:37:49.320 it around use it everywhere we need it. Or this 686 00:37:49.400 --> 00:37:52.840 is even better, a one cubic yard super sack. It 687 00:37:52.880 --> 00:37:56.119 holds a whole cubic yard of you fill in the blank. 688 00:37:56.199 --> 00:37:58.280 It could be leaf mold compost, it could be veggie 689 00:37:58.280 --> 00:38:00.679 and herb mix. It could be you know, things like 690 00:38:00.719 --> 00:38:03.199 hardwood malt or pine bark malt or I mean they 691 00:38:03.280 --> 00:38:06.239 sell a lot of things by the supersack. And now 692 00:38:06.239 --> 00:38:10.000 you need three sacks minimum for a delivery because to 693 00:38:10.239 --> 00:38:12.960 just bring one sack and go across the timbuck, I 694 00:38:13.320 --> 00:38:16.480 just the expense of getting it there is too high. 695 00:38:16.679 --> 00:38:20.800 So one keep guard supersacks available that way as well. 696 00:38:20.880 --> 00:38:24.039 And so many different products from them. We could spend 697 00:38:24.199 --> 00:38:27.159 probably half a show just going into all the different products, 698 00:38:27.199 --> 00:38:29.519 listing the products that they have and talking about them, 699 00:38:29.559 --> 00:38:33.280 just a little bit about each one. Anyway, airloomsoils dot 700 00:38:33.320 --> 00:38:35.440 Com go to Airloomsoils dot com. They got a good 701 00:38:35.480 --> 00:38:38.480 calculator there on the website, makes it easy for you 702 00:38:38.599 --> 00:38:41.920 to know exactly how much that you need. And you 703 00:38:41.920 --> 00:38:44.679 can read about each of these products, from their potting 704 00:38:44.719 --> 00:38:48.679 soils for containers, to the bed mixes and many many 705 00:38:48.719 --> 00:38:51.320 other things that they offer. It's good stuff. They don't 706 00:38:51.719 --> 00:38:56.239 they don't sell you junk. When you buy a product 707 00:38:56.239 --> 00:38:59.000 from them, it's going to be a quality product. And 708 00:38:59.039 --> 00:39:01.599 I know that because I've used them. I've used them myself. 709 00:39:01.639 --> 00:39:06.360 That's I love their products that they produce. You're listening 710 00:39:06.360 --> 00:39:08.920 to Guardline. Our phone number is seven one three two 711 00:39:09.000 --> 00:39:13.320 one two kt r H seven one three two one 712 00:39:13.440 --> 00:39:16.679 two kt r H. You can give us a call. 713 00:39:16.920 --> 00:39:19.400 We can talk about the things that you are most 714 00:39:19.519 --> 00:39:23.599 interested in. As someone was asking me for a product, 715 00:39:23.679 --> 00:39:25.880 what was a good natural product that I can use 716 00:39:26.239 --> 00:39:28.920 to FOLLI er feed my plants and uh or what 717 00:39:29.119 --> 00:39:31.119 is a product that you know I can drench into 718 00:39:31.159 --> 00:39:33.079 the soil to feed my plants and things. And we're 719 00:39:33.400 --> 00:39:36.639 we're discussing some of the microlife liquids. There's a lot 720 00:39:36.679 --> 00:39:40.519 of good microlife liquid products out there on the market 721 00:39:40.519 --> 00:39:42.880 available to you. One of them is Ocean Harvest. Ocean 722 00:39:42.920 --> 00:39:45.480 Harvest has a blue label, comes in a quart, comes 723 00:39:45.519 --> 00:39:48.280 in a gallon. It's a four to two three fertilizer. 724 00:39:48.320 --> 00:39:51.679 It's fish based, uh and that is a high quality 725 00:39:51.840 --> 00:39:55.559 organic product because it's not going to burn your plants, 726 00:39:55.920 --> 00:39:58.480 and it does have a good nutrient content. And you 727 00:39:58.519 --> 00:40:00.480 can drench it on the soil, you can sprayed on 728 00:40:00.519 --> 00:40:04.440 the foliage. It works good both ways. Ocean Harvest blue label. 729 00:40:04.760 --> 00:40:07.960 Now you can also get their seaweed product. That's another 730 00:40:07.960 --> 00:40:10.719 good one. It's a green label. There's a lot of 731 00:40:10.719 --> 00:40:13.920 products from Microlife. You go to Microlifefertilizer dot com find 732 00:40:13.960 --> 00:40:16.159 out about them. This is one of the most wide 733 00:40:16.440 --> 00:40:20.239 spread brands in the Greater Houston area and way way 734 00:40:20.280 --> 00:40:23.800 beyond that too, by the way, and every time I've 735 00:40:23.840 --> 00:40:26.559 tried one, and I've tried a lot of them, they 736 00:40:26.599 --> 00:40:31.679 work well. I can't believe the first hour is over. 737 00:40:31.880 --> 00:40:34.760 That went fast, all right, Well, we need to kick 738 00:40:34.800 --> 00:40:36.519 it into gear for the second hour. We'll be right 739 00:40:36.639 --> 00:40:40.920 back for that. Just another reminder if you're up northwest, 740 00:40:41.079 --> 00:40:43.000 or actually if you're anywhere and haven't been to Warren 741 00:40:43.039 --> 00:40:47.559 Southern Gardens, come on out on next Saturday, that's April fifth, 742 00:40:47.599 --> 00:40:50.880 from twelve thirty to two thirty, So grab a sandwich. 743 00:40:50.880 --> 00:40:52.159 You can need it there in front of me. If 744 00:40:52.159 --> 00:40:55.239 you want, show up at twelve thirty. We're gonna help 745 00:40:55.280 --> 00:40:57.679 you with your plant questions. Have a lot of time 746 00:40:57.719 --> 00:40:59.960 to eye to eye, talk and visit, and we'll be 747 00:41:00.079 --> 00:41:02.440 doing some fun, cool giveaways as well. 748 00:41:04.280 --> 00:41:08.079 Welcome to kat r h Garden Line with Skip Richard. 749 00:41:08.159 --> 00:41:11.039 It's crazy. 750 00:41:15.239 --> 00:41:24.679 Trim just watch him as world so many good things 751 00:41:24.719 --> 00:41:32.400 to sup Botasys back again. 752 00:41:33.119 --> 00:41:36.599 Not a sound glass, gas. 753 00:41:38.639 --> 00:41:40.440 The sun Beamon. 754 00:41:46.199 --> 00:41:50.840 Hey, good morning. Welcome to everyone joining us for this 755 00:41:51.000 --> 00:41:53.360 hour a garden Line. I'm your host, Skip Richtor, and 756 00:41:53.440 --> 00:41:55.280 we're here to help you have a bountiful garden, a 757 00:41:55.320 --> 00:41:59.320 beautiful landscape and more fun in the process. That's the 758 00:41:59.400 --> 00:42:01.679 important part at the end. You know, gardening is not 759 00:42:01.800 --> 00:42:05.840 supposed to be labor. It's not supposed to be what. 760 00:42:06.199 --> 00:42:08.159 I have a brown thumb. I can't grow anything I 761 00:42:08.639 --> 00:42:11.119 want you. I would like to have your attention for 762 00:42:11.239 --> 00:42:13.079 just a minute. I know you're doing something important there, 763 00:42:13.119 --> 00:42:15.880 but just just for a second. You don't have a 764 00:42:15.960 --> 00:42:20.639 brown thumb. You don't have a brown thumb. People say 765 00:42:20.760 --> 00:42:23.239 that some people have a green thumb and therefore everything 766 00:42:23.280 --> 00:42:26.239 they do in the garden it just works. And someone 767 00:42:26.320 --> 00:42:28.079 has a brown thumb and everything they do they just 768 00:42:28.159 --> 00:42:30.199 kill the plant and it doesn't work. You don't have 769 00:42:30.280 --> 00:42:33.400 a brown thumb. Now you may have an uninformed thumb. 770 00:42:34.000 --> 00:42:38.519 Because people like Granny that could just grow anything in 771 00:42:38.599 --> 00:42:42.119 her garden, Well, Granny was just giving plants what they wanted. 772 00:42:42.599 --> 00:42:44.960 That's the bottom line. She was giving plants what they wanted. 773 00:42:45.360 --> 00:42:48.000 So when you provide a plant the things that it wants, 774 00:42:48.719 --> 00:42:53.280 you have got that green thumb looking garden and you 775 00:42:53.320 --> 00:42:55.119 can do that. That's why we're here on garden Line 776 00:42:55.159 --> 00:42:57.280 to inform your thumb. So bring your thumb to the 777 00:42:57.400 --> 00:42:59.920 radio with you and we will talk to your thumb 778 00:43:00.159 --> 00:43:03.199 along with you. And it's as simple as that. Plants 779 00:43:03.280 --> 00:43:06.960 like light, plants like drainage. Plants need water, plants need nutrients. 780 00:43:07.440 --> 00:43:09.320 It needs to be a plant that wants to grow here. 781 00:43:09.519 --> 00:43:11.400 It needs to be the season for that plant. There 782 00:43:11.400 --> 00:43:13.559 are a lot of things like that, but it's not 783 00:43:13.679 --> 00:43:15.840 your thumb that's the problem. But if you want to 784 00:43:15.880 --> 00:43:18.360 think that way, well, bring your thumb to garden Line. 785 00:43:18.519 --> 00:43:20.719 We'll talk to it and we'll get it informed, and 786 00:43:20.920 --> 00:43:23.840 you will see results. It's as simple as that. So 787 00:43:24.400 --> 00:43:27.559 just a little encouragement there from garden Line to you. 788 00:43:28.239 --> 00:43:29.880 All right, folks, if you'd like to give me a 789 00:43:29.920 --> 00:43:32.639 call seven one three two one two kt r H 790 00:43:32.760 --> 00:43:36.440 seven one three two one two k t RH just 791 00:43:36.519 --> 00:43:38.199 give me a call. We'll talk about the things that 792 00:43:38.320 --> 00:43:42.000 are interest to you. If you will see some really 793 00:43:42.039 --> 00:43:44.920 cool stuff, some cool plants and things. I always like 794 00:43:45.000 --> 00:43:47.960 going by Plants for all seasons. Plants for all seasons 795 00:43:48.079 --> 00:43:51.559 is the garden center right there on Tomball Parkway FM 796 00:43:51.639 --> 00:43:55.400 two forty nine. If you're heading up toward Tomball exit Luetta, 797 00:43:55.440 --> 00:43:58.239 across over Luetta and it's right there, right on two 798 00:43:58.320 --> 00:44:01.960 forty nine, easy, easy to find. Plants for all seasons 799 00:44:02.119 --> 00:44:04.079 is the kind of place that is going to have 800 00:44:04.159 --> 00:44:07.679 the plants that grow here, that do well here, because listen, 801 00:44:08.039 --> 00:44:10.800 the floweries have been around it. That's at that location 802 00:44:11.239 --> 00:44:14.199 since nineteen seventy three, are just real close to right there. 803 00:44:15.159 --> 00:44:18.159 Nineteen seventy three. That's a long time ago. Do the math. 804 00:44:18.320 --> 00:44:22.079 I mean that garden center and that family has been 805 00:44:22.119 --> 00:44:25.199 gardening in this area and helping gardeners in this area. 806 00:44:25.320 --> 00:44:27.360 So when you go in for advice. You bring them 807 00:44:27.360 --> 00:44:29.480 a picture, you bring them a plant sample. You just 808 00:44:29.559 --> 00:44:30.960 go in and say, hey, I want to create a 809 00:44:31.000 --> 00:44:34.599 beautiful container on the outside of the patio there, but 810 00:44:34.840 --> 00:44:37.800 I don't know how to do it. Well. They'll take 811 00:44:37.840 --> 00:44:40.159 you around, they'll help you find select some plants that 812 00:44:40.199 --> 00:44:42.039 are appealing to you, tell you how to combine them. 813 00:44:42.360 --> 00:44:44.119 They have some great containers. I've got a couple of 814 00:44:44.239 --> 00:44:47.039 great containers I got there, and plants for All Seasons 815 00:44:47.079 --> 00:44:50.639 that just are outstanding, and so it's as simple as that. 816 00:44:50.800 --> 00:44:53.079 You can go to the website Plants for All Seasons 817 00:44:53.239 --> 00:44:55.440 dot com, or you can give them a call two 818 00:44:55.480 --> 00:44:59.440 eight one three seven six one six four six. Check 819 00:44:59.480 --> 00:45:03.440 out the new indoor store that they have there where 820 00:45:03.440 --> 00:45:06.119 they have all kinds of quality tools and seeds and 821 00:45:06.199 --> 00:45:09.199 a lot of other fun stuff, including products to help 822 00:45:09.280 --> 00:45:12.719 solve problems that you may run across in your landscape. 823 00:45:12.960 --> 00:45:17.480 Right there, Plants for All Seasons. I am going to 824 00:45:17.519 --> 00:45:21.079 be this coming week. I've got some containers that I 825 00:45:21.199 --> 00:45:26.199 need to finish. We planted a combo container last week 826 00:45:26.400 --> 00:45:33.079 with some beautiful cascading those petunias, the supertunias. If you 827 00:45:33.159 --> 00:45:35.559 haven't ever had supertunias. You need to check them out. 828 00:45:35.599 --> 00:45:40.159 They're popular. They're widely available now. But they have smaller flowers, 829 00:45:40.320 --> 00:45:43.039 but more and I mean those things will bloom so 830 00:45:43.119 --> 00:45:45.280 much you can't hardly see a leaf. It's just wall 831 00:45:45.360 --> 00:45:47.480 to wall color on the plant. I don't know how 832 00:45:47.559 --> 00:45:50.239 he gets un light and survived, but they do. They 833 00:45:50.280 --> 00:45:55.960 sure do supertunias. Anyway, our dogs decided that that soil 834 00:45:56.119 --> 00:45:59.039 needed to be explored, and so there's a hole in 835 00:45:59.119 --> 00:46:01.599 them and I put the well back in. I was 836 00:46:01.679 --> 00:46:03.800 gone yesterday down it's the animals got back at the 837 00:46:03.880 --> 00:46:05.679 end of the day, looked at the container and there's 838 00:46:05.719 --> 00:46:07.679 holes bigger, and so I'm gonna have to have a 839 00:46:07.760 --> 00:46:11.760 word with my Golden Retrievers, Ellie and Tax. They are 840 00:46:11.960 --> 00:46:13.800 gardening dogs. And I don't know if you know this, 841 00:46:14.119 --> 00:46:20.320 but dogs. You go to the AKC American Kennel Club 842 00:46:20.480 --> 00:46:23.960 and you see dogs by groups. You know, there's hunting dogs, 843 00:46:24.239 --> 00:46:28.679 there's sporting dogs. You know all the different kinds of 844 00:46:28.719 --> 00:46:32.599 groups of dogs that they have. Well, Golden Retrievers are 845 00:46:32.639 --> 00:46:36.320 supposed to be a hunting type dog and that they 846 00:46:36.360 --> 00:46:38.719 go out and they retrieve, you know, you shoot a 847 00:46:38.800 --> 00:46:40.480 duck and they go get the duck and bring it 848 00:46:40.599 --> 00:46:44.559 back or whatever. Anyway, that's their name, Golden Retriever. My 849 00:46:44.719 --> 00:46:47.639 goldens don't know that they know they're retrievers, but they 850 00:46:47.679 --> 00:46:50.440 think they're plant retrievers. When Ellie was a little puppy, 851 00:46:50.800 --> 00:46:52.960 I went out and planted some four inch pots of 852 00:46:53.159 --> 00:46:56.880 echination in a back bed, and Ellie was there with me. 853 00:46:57.199 --> 00:47:00.119 She hangs out with me all the time. And I 854 00:47:00.159 --> 00:47:03.000 went inside drink water, came back out a little bit later, 855 00:47:03.119 --> 00:47:06.440 and she's sitting there at the back door with a 856 00:47:06.519 --> 00:47:09.320 four inch pot of echination that she had brought back 857 00:47:09.400 --> 00:47:12.159 to me. She had retrieved it. So I need to 858 00:47:12.199 --> 00:47:15.800 call AKC and I'm going to suggest that within the 859 00:47:16.239 --> 00:47:18.840 dog groups that they have a gardening dog group a 860 00:47:18.920 --> 00:47:22.320 Golden Retriever. Now, I also need to find a good 861 00:47:22.519 --> 00:47:25.960 pet trainer. And I don't want them to teach them 862 00:47:26.039 --> 00:47:27.639 not to dig in my garden. I want to teach 863 00:47:27.679 --> 00:47:30.400 them how to dig up weeds and bring weeds back, 864 00:47:30.920 --> 00:47:32.960 how to discern between the two. Wouldn't that be good? 865 00:47:33.920 --> 00:47:36.320 If that works out, I will have puppies for sale 866 00:47:36.360 --> 00:47:40.039 for two thousand dollars apiece before too long, And I'll 867 00:47:40.119 --> 00:47:43.559 let you know here on garden line. I love those dogs, 868 00:47:44.039 --> 00:47:46.599 I don't love what they do in my garden, that's 869 00:47:46.679 --> 00:47:51.400 for sure. Ellie the Golden Retriever. All right, I have 870 00:47:51.440 --> 00:47:53.400 a picture. I need to put this on Facebook. I 871 00:47:53.480 --> 00:47:55.880 have a picture. I was out gathering leaves in the 872 00:47:55.960 --> 00:47:59.119 final leaf harvest of the year. By the way, I 873 00:48:00.039 --> 00:48:03.159 probably know this, but the final leaf harvest of the 874 00:48:03.280 --> 00:48:08.840 year is uh, the when the live oaks shed all 875 00:48:08.880 --> 00:48:12.400 their leaves and come off and everybody's putting their leaves 876 00:48:12.400 --> 00:48:13.800 out to the curb. They're so nice they do that 877 00:48:13.880 --> 00:48:15.400 for me, and I go buy and pick the leaves up, 878 00:48:15.480 --> 00:48:17.199 bring them home, use them in my gardens. I have 879 00:48:17.440 --> 00:48:20.400 lots of places for leavest me maybe talk about sometimes 880 00:48:20.440 --> 00:48:22.679 the different ways you use leaves in a garden. But 881 00:48:22.800 --> 00:48:24.760 they're in the car with me, looking out the door, 882 00:48:24.920 --> 00:48:27.360 having a good time. They're excited about me bringing home 883 00:48:27.480 --> 00:48:30.199 leaves because while I think those leaves are going to 884 00:48:30.239 --> 00:48:32.679 be put in my garden, they think those leaves are 885 00:48:32.719 --> 00:48:35.000 going to be scattered to Kingdom come when they play 886 00:48:35.039 --> 00:48:37.760 in them. I have a feeling they may be more 887 00:48:37.880 --> 00:48:40.639 right than I am about what actually ends up happening 888 00:48:40.960 --> 00:48:44.719 to those leaves in the garden. Well, all right, enough 889 00:48:44.760 --> 00:48:48.760 about my dogs, but they are I think some of 890 00:48:48.800 --> 00:48:51.239 you can probably relate to some of the issues of 891 00:48:51.320 --> 00:48:54.480 having dogs. They're in the garden. Let's take a little break. 892 00:48:54.639 --> 00:48:57.000 I'll be back with your calls in just a moment. 893 00:48:57.480 --> 00:48:59.719 Seven three two one two, Kat. 894 00:49:01.440 --> 00:49:02.440 Taking a hatchet. 895 00:49:02.719 --> 00:49:04.440 Two hour bloated deureaucracy. 896 00:49:04.679 --> 00:49:07.639 People voted for major gouvernment perform as done is doing 897 00:49:07.719 --> 00:49:08.400 its job, and. 898 00:49:08.440 --> 00:49:10.199 That's what people are going to get. 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Now, Nitrovos has a 958 00:52:18.519 --> 00:52:21.840 fast release product called Imperial. We've talked about it before. 959 00:52:22.239 --> 00:52:25.360 It's the red bag. The red bag when you put 960 00:52:25.400 --> 00:52:28.440 it down and it gets wet from rain or irrigation, 961 00:52:28.800 --> 00:52:31.280 it dissolves away. It goes into the soil, I mean, 962 00:52:31.360 --> 00:52:35.039 and immediately in first few days you're getting a whole 963 00:52:35.079 --> 00:52:38.280 lot of take up already going on into your grass plants. 964 00:52:38.320 --> 00:52:40.760 By the night Foss Imperial now fifteen five to ten 965 00:52:41.119 --> 00:52:43.760 is the three one two ratio that was developed at 966 00:52:44.239 --> 00:52:48.119 Langra universities across the South by doing turf research and 967 00:52:48.199 --> 00:52:51.559 looking at what what does grass take up? You know, 968 00:52:52.280 --> 00:52:54.280 let's take grass plants, take ampart and look at what 969 00:52:54.360 --> 00:52:56.599 they take up, and then let's fertilize accordingly. And that 970 00:52:56.800 --> 00:52:59.360 that's why we have that three one two ratio today 971 00:52:59.400 --> 00:53:02.360 and four one to also by the way, so it's 972 00:53:02.400 --> 00:53:05.559 the same formula even though it was created many years ago. 973 00:53:06.039 --> 00:53:09.039 It's the same formula and the same old red orange 974 00:53:09.079 --> 00:53:11.960 bag and it still works. Of course, that hasn't changed 975 00:53:12.000 --> 00:53:14.559 at all. It's a long established, tried and true product 976 00:53:15.079 --> 00:53:16.800 night Foss Imperial. So if you want to give a 977 00:53:16.920 --> 00:53:20.559 quick boost to your plans or your lawn and you 978 00:53:20.599 --> 00:53:23.840 would like to see a quick green up and results. 979 00:53:24.039 --> 00:53:26.760 Do that now if you've used night Foss Imperial, wait 980 00:53:26.800 --> 00:53:29.760 about six weeks after that before you start your summer 981 00:53:30.320 --> 00:53:32.440 slower release. And I'll talk about some of those products 982 00:53:32.440 --> 00:53:34.800 a little bit later. But night Foss Imperial is available 983 00:53:34.840 --> 00:53:38.079 at places like M and D and Cyprus on Luetta Road, 984 00:53:38.920 --> 00:53:42.000 the M and D down in Rosenberg on Avenue I 985 00:53:42.440 --> 00:53:45.440 Auspawls Ace up in the Woodlands, just three examples of 986 00:53:45.480 --> 00:53:50.360 places that carry nitro foss products. I was talking with 987 00:53:50.440 --> 00:53:52.519 some of the folks yesterday at c Animals and they 988 00:53:52.559 --> 00:53:55.440 were saying, well, I did I did my Imperial about 989 00:53:55.840 --> 00:53:57.679 three weeks ago or something I believe it was, and 990 00:53:57.719 --> 00:54:00.440 I said, well, give it another three weeks. Let's you 991 00:54:00.480 --> 00:54:03.920 know it's gonna last. I mean, even though it's immediately available, 992 00:54:04.159 --> 00:54:06.880 it's not like next week you got to do it again. No, 993 00:54:07.000 --> 00:54:09.679 it'll last. And so wait a little bit, but then 994 00:54:09.960 --> 00:54:14.480 move into the slow releases. That's important. You're going to 995 00:54:14.559 --> 00:54:18.000 find night Fuss and products available at most of your 996 00:54:18.039 --> 00:54:21.800 ACE Hardware stores. Really, you know, Ace Hardware Texas carries everything. 997 00:54:22.039 --> 00:54:25.719 I mean they do. In fact, if you use that 998 00:54:25.840 --> 00:54:29.559 website Ace Hardware Texas. You'll find the stores that are 999 00:54:29.599 --> 00:54:34.159 part of our local Houston group here Ace Hardwaretexas dot 1000 00:54:34.280 --> 00:54:37.480 com and you'll get the map, find the ones near you, 1001 00:54:37.719 --> 00:54:39.360 and when you go there, you're going to get the 1002 00:54:39.440 --> 00:54:42.079 products you're looking for for your lawn and garden. You know, 1003 00:54:42.079 --> 00:54:44.840 I'm talking about fertilizers and talking about pest and weed 1004 00:54:44.880 --> 00:54:48.440 and disease control. We're talking about tools for your garden 1005 00:54:48.480 --> 00:54:51.719 as well. You know, we all need quality tools to 1006 00:54:51.840 --> 00:54:54.559 take care of the things. And then there is the 1007 00:54:55.119 --> 00:54:57.840 other things that are offered to make your outdoor living 1008 00:54:58.199 --> 00:55:03.280 so wonderful. The barbecue pits and the strings of lights 1009 00:55:03.440 --> 00:55:06.639 and all the different stuff that you have in your 1010 00:55:06.719 --> 00:55:09.880 outdoor settings where you just want to go and enjoy 1011 00:55:09.960 --> 00:55:13.480 the move. Had some family over and yesterday evening we 1012 00:55:13.599 --> 00:55:19.360 were outside enjoying just that wonderful ambiance and setting of 1013 00:55:19.440 --> 00:55:23.519 the back patio with family and that sort of makes 1014 00:55:24.639 --> 00:55:26.719 expands your home into outdoor living areas. 1015 00:55:26.760 --> 00:55:27.239 And you know that. 1016 00:55:27.400 --> 00:55:29.719 I mean, you have those there, but Ace Hardware is 1017 00:55:29.760 --> 00:55:32.159 one that can get you all set up for all 1018 00:55:32.199 --> 00:55:33.639 the things you need for that. And you're going to 1019 00:55:33.719 --> 00:55:36.440 find Ace Hardware stores like J and RA, Ace up 1020 00:55:36.519 --> 00:55:39.480 in Porter, Bay City. Ace down on Seventh Street in 1021 00:55:39.519 --> 00:55:42.519 Bay City, Lake Conroy Ace Hardware they're on Highway one 1022 00:55:42.559 --> 00:55:45.960 oh five West, and Single Ranch Ace Hardware down on 1023 00:55:46.079 --> 00:55:49.480 Mason Road in Katie, Texas. There's a few examples of 1024 00:55:49.559 --> 00:55:54.000 the many Ace Hardware stores that we have. Let's go 1025 00:55:54.159 --> 00:55:56.360 ahead and head out. Now, we're going to do a 1026 00:55:56.400 --> 00:56:00.840 little phone call in and head out to talk to Ricky. Hey, Ricky, 1027 00:56:01.079 --> 00:56:02.039 welcome to garden Line. 1028 00:56:04.119 --> 00:56:04.760 Good morning. 1029 00:56:06.679 --> 00:56:10.639 I'm having a problem with the best I can figure out. 1030 00:56:10.679 --> 00:56:15.440 It's called spur. Grass is covered with it, but your 1031 00:56:15.519 --> 00:56:18.000 art is covered with it and I can't figure out 1032 00:56:18.039 --> 00:56:18.960 how to get rid of it. 1033 00:56:20.480 --> 00:56:20.719 Ricky. 1034 00:56:20.800 --> 00:56:23.320 Does it look like a grass or does it have 1035 00:56:23.599 --> 00:56:27.039 kind of frilly little leaves like parsley or something like that. 1036 00:56:28.039 --> 00:56:31.480 Yes, like parsley or something. And it sticks too, all right, 1037 00:56:31.679 --> 00:56:33.880 like a little sticker in the kids feet. 1038 00:56:34.000 --> 00:56:38.320 Yeah. Yeah, I hate that. You're going to need to 1039 00:56:38.760 --> 00:56:43.559 right away get a post emergent broad leaf weed control. 1040 00:56:43.639 --> 00:56:45.480 And I know the leaves aren't broad but it is. 1041 00:56:45.800 --> 00:56:48.679 It is technically a broad leaf plant. It's it's not 1042 00:56:48.800 --> 00:56:52.119 a grass badly, So get something that you spray on 1043 00:56:52.199 --> 00:56:54.679 the weeds to kill them. Post emergent, and there are 1044 00:56:55.239 --> 00:56:57.559 you know, there's a lot of brands out there, and 1045 00:56:57.719 --> 00:57:01.119 so you go to a good A good what what 1046 00:57:01.280 --> 00:57:03.199 part of the Houston area. 1047 00:57:03.039 --> 00:57:03.400 Are you in? 1048 00:57:03.679 --> 00:57:05.079 What what region it's in? 1049 00:57:05.280 --> 00:57:06.760 Hemps hemp stay. 1050 00:57:06.559 --> 00:57:11.280 It oh out in Hempstead. Okay, well just go go 1051 00:57:11.440 --> 00:57:14.760 to one of your garden centers, ace hardware stores, whatever 1052 00:57:14.920 --> 00:57:17.880 you can get to out there. Uh, and uh find 1053 00:57:18.199 --> 00:57:21.239 a product for post emergent. Broad Leaf we control, bon 1054 00:57:21.320 --> 00:57:23.639 Eye makes one called weed Beater. 1055 00:57:24.360 --> 00:57:24.480 Uh. 1056 00:57:24.880 --> 00:57:28.639 There is one from Fertilo called weed free Zone. There's 1057 00:57:28.639 --> 00:57:31.159 a bunch of them, high yields, got them and all 1058 00:57:31.239 --> 00:57:33.039 the different brands that are on them are on the 1059 00:57:33.119 --> 00:57:35.800 shelves or your garden centers and feed stores and things. 1060 00:57:36.280 --> 00:57:39.119 They're going to have them out there. But Broadleaf post emergent. 1061 00:57:39.239 --> 00:57:40.880 Mix it according to the label and go out and 1062 00:57:40.960 --> 00:57:43.559 spot spray it and do it soon so you shut 1063 00:57:43.599 --> 00:57:47.079 it down before it produces a lot of stickers. You 1064 00:57:47.199 --> 00:57:48.840 want to you want to do it as early as 1065 00:57:48.920 --> 00:57:49.199 you can. 1066 00:57:49.920 --> 00:57:58.159 Uh, Okay, don't come in a grainule about two or 1067 00:57:58.199 --> 00:57:59.519 three acres out of eat that. 1068 00:58:00.599 --> 00:58:07.760 Holy yeah, well on that one. I think what we 1069 00:58:07.880 --> 00:58:10.559 need to probably be doing this is not like a 1070 00:58:10.679 --> 00:58:13.000 right now thing because you already have a plants, but 1071 00:58:13.440 --> 00:58:17.159 putting out a pre emergent, pre emergent product before that 1072 00:58:17.280 --> 00:58:19.840 thing even germinates, and that that would be something that 1073 00:58:20.639 --> 00:58:24.719 you would begin to be doing in the fall of 1074 00:58:24.920 --> 00:58:29.360 next year. So but for right now, for right now, yeah, 1075 00:58:29.519 --> 00:58:31.559 you just you just need to I mean you can. 1076 00:58:31.760 --> 00:58:34.199 You can put a fertilizer that has a post emergent 1077 00:58:34.320 --> 00:58:36.440 in it, But with those little leaves in there, I 1078 00:58:36.559 --> 00:58:40.760 think I don't think your your control effectiveness is going 1079 00:58:40.840 --> 00:58:42.639 to be as good as it would be if you 1080 00:58:42.800 --> 00:58:47.079 if you spray liquid on them. Plus now you would 1081 00:58:47.079 --> 00:58:50.360 also be buying fertilizer for two acres so or high 1082 00:58:50.400 --> 00:58:53.000 very much you, So, yeah, I would, I would do 1083 00:58:53.119 --> 00:58:55.079 the spray. Do you have a little tractor with a 1084 00:58:55.119 --> 00:58:56.639 boom on the back or anything like that. 1085 00:58:58.119 --> 00:59:00.559 No, but I believe I got a little track, believe 1086 00:59:00.599 --> 00:59:01.599 I carena sprayer. 1087 00:59:02.639 --> 00:59:04.760 Yeah, okay, that's probably the thing I would do. 1088 00:59:04.880 --> 00:59:05.559 Then for it. 1089 00:59:06.719 --> 00:59:10.400 Good luck, good luck, we got it. We need to 1090 00:59:10.400 --> 00:59:13.119 be able to turn those kids barefoot this summer, so 1091 00:59:14.079 --> 00:59:19.559 good luck getting in control of it. You Pat, you 1092 00:59:19.679 --> 00:59:25.159 take care, appreciate your call. Arburgate Garden Center up in 1093 00:59:25.280 --> 00:59:28.280 Tumbull is one of those premier places that you just 1094 00:59:28.400 --> 00:59:30.960 need to go. You know, if I have family come 1095 00:59:31.039 --> 00:59:33.800 to town or something, it's like, Okay, hop in the car, 1096 00:59:33.960 --> 00:59:36.199 we're gonna go someplace fun. And even the kids enjoy 1097 00:59:36.239 --> 00:59:38.719 it because, you know, the landscape, bling and stuff they've 1098 00:59:38.760 --> 00:59:40.679 got out there all over the place. I mean, you 1099 00:59:40.800 --> 00:59:44.440 walk through the Arborgate, the gift shops are amazing, and 1100 00:59:44.519 --> 00:59:48.320 yes there's more than one. And of course the plants. 1101 00:59:48.519 --> 00:59:51.440 When you go to the Arborgate, you're getting the most 1102 00:59:51.559 --> 00:59:55.000 outstanding options of plants that you're gonna find any place. 1103 00:59:55.360 --> 00:59:55.920 It really is. 1104 00:59:56.239 --> 00:59:59.400 They carry fruit trees year round for example, not just 1105 00:59:59.480 --> 01:00:04.440 seasonally out there, herbs, vegetables, beautiful blooming plants, you know, 1106 01:00:04.599 --> 01:00:09.079 camellias and roses and all the other shrubs and trees 1107 01:00:09.239 --> 01:00:12.239 that blue. They've got those. If you're looking for things 1108 01:00:12.280 --> 01:00:16.599 for shade, if you're looking for tropicals, gorgeous house plants 1109 01:00:16.639 --> 01:00:19.280 as well. Arbigate is the place to go. While you're there, 1110 01:00:19.320 --> 01:00:21.360 you want to pick up their one two three completely 1111 01:00:21.440 --> 01:00:24.599 easy system. It's a food that feeds anything with roots. 1112 01:00:24.719 --> 01:00:27.159 It also has calcium too, by the way, it's an 1113 01:00:27.239 --> 01:00:30.639 organic food. And then a soil and a compost that 1114 01:00:30.960 --> 01:00:34.440 works on all your applications. The soil and the compost 1115 01:00:34.519 --> 01:00:38.599 both contain expanded shale, which really is important in our 1116 01:00:39.239 --> 01:00:42.760 clay soils here in the Greater Houston area. Very very easy, 1117 01:00:42.840 --> 01:00:46.320 completely organic, completely easy. And they can deliver that soil 1118 01:00:46.360 --> 01:00:48.719 and compost to you in bulk too, by the way, 1119 01:00:49.159 --> 01:00:50.920 So I mean if you want you don't want to 1120 01:00:50.960 --> 01:00:53.719 buy eight hundred bags, you know, talk to them about 1121 01:00:53.719 --> 01:00:56.320 the bulk delivery. They can bring it right out to you. 1122 01:00:56.920 --> 01:00:59.760 And that's through the whole region here. They deliver pretty 1123 01:00:59.760 --> 01:01:03.760 far with those products as well. Arburgate is on twenty 1124 01:01:03.880 --> 01:01:06.599 nine to twenty west of Tomball. You'll see it on 1125 01:01:06.639 --> 01:01:09.519 the left hand side. Look for Treshel Road before or 1126 01:01:09.639 --> 01:01:12.320 after Arborgate and it's a loop that goes around behind 1127 01:01:12.480 --> 01:01:16.119 Arburgate and go in that backway so you can use 1128 01:01:16.159 --> 01:01:20.039 that new parking lot. Very safe, very easy access. It's 1129 01:01:20.119 --> 01:01:24.880 gonna go out here now to Cypress and talk to Melanie. Hey, Melanie, 1130 01:01:24.960 --> 01:01:25.880 welcome to guarden Line. 1131 01:01:27.079 --> 01:01:28.119 Good morning, Skip. 1132 01:01:29.400 --> 01:01:30.679 I got two questions for you. 1133 01:01:30.760 --> 01:01:33.199 The one is I'm going to plant a tomato and 1134 01:01:33.320 --> 01:01:35.760 it's in a pot that I had a tomato in 1135 01:01:35.920 --> 01:01:38.679 last year. Should I remove the dirt, put new dirt 1136 01:01:38.719 --> 01:01:41.559 in there, or just refresh it with some composts. 1137 01:01:42.039 --> 01:01:45.000 Just refresh it with some fresh potting mix or veggie 1138 01:01:45.039 --> 01:01:48.039 and herb mix or something like that. And no, you 1139 01:01:48.079 --> 01:01:49.719 don't need to remove the old. The only time you 1140 01:01:49.719 --> 01:01:52.239 would remove the old is if you had a root 1141 01:01:52.360 --> 01:01:55.519 disease that killed the old one, or if you had nematodes. 1142 01:01:55.760 --> 01:01:57.400 When you pull the old plant up, you saw those 1143 01:01:57.440 --> 01:01:59.960 bumps on the roots. Then I would get all that 1144 01:02:00.119 --> 01:02:03.480 soil out and even kind of sterilize that pot to 1145 01:02:03.639 --> 01:02:07.400 kill everything before putting fresh soil in. But ninety nine 1146 01:02:07.880 --> 01:02:10.000 point nine percent of the time you don't need to 1147 01:02:10.079 --> 01:02:10.519 replace it. 1148 01:02:11.599 --> 01:02:12.239 Oh thank you. 1149 01:02:12.599 --> 01:02:12.760 Now. 1150 01:02:12.880 --> 01:02:15.639 My other big, big problem is we bought a little 1151 01:02:15.719 --> 01:02:17.039 house up in Atlanto. 1152 01:02:18.400 --> 01:02:19.719 That is like a desert up there. 1153 01:02:19.760 --> 01:02:23.480 They don't get much rain, and this lot nobody's lived 1154 01:02:23.519 --> 01:02:24.360 there for a long time. 1155 01:02:24.480 --> 01:02:26.199 It is full of stickers. 1156 01:02:27.039 --> 01:02:29.280 I put out pre emergent last fall. 1157 01:02:29.920 --> 01:02:32.280 What can I do now when I'm going to go 1158 01:02:32.360 --> 01:02:34.519 back up there? And about a week or two, should 1159 01:02:34.559 --> 01:02:35.880 I use more pre emergent? 1160 01:02:38.199 --> 01:02:41.960 Yes, as soon as possible. And when you say stickers, 1161 01:02:42.000 --> 01:02:44.199 there's typically out there you're going to have a lot 1162 01:02:44.239 --> 01:02:47.719 of grass burrs in that area. But there are several 1163 01:02:47.800 --> 01:02:51.880 plants that have stickers, and so you know, it depends 1164 01:02:51.920 --> 01:02:54.920 on the specific plant and as the timing. But if 1165 01:02:54.960 --> 01:02:57.559 you look at my schedule, we're putting out a warm 1166 01:02:57.639 --> 01:03:02.360 season pre emergence start here in February up there, it 1167 01:03:02.400 --> 01:03:05.639 would probably be about early to mid march. You would 1168 01:03:05.719 --> 01:03:09.000 want to get that out right, and so we're we're 1169 01:03:09.280 --> 01:03:11.679 bumping the end here. You need to get it out quick. 1170 01:03:11.920 --> 01:03:14.360 But and it needs to be wet. How big of 1171 01:03:14.440 --> 01:03:16.400 a property is that? Can you irrigate it? 1172 01:03:18.559 --> 01:03:18.760 Well? 1173 01:03:20.599 --> 01:03:23.320 Okay, it doesn't have an irrigation system, but I've got 1174 01:03:23.360 --> 01:03:25.519 a guy ok there, and I've already left a couple 1175 01:03:25.559 --> 01:03:28.920 of bags of the pre emergent and ask them to 1176 01:03:28.960 --> 01:03:31.400 get it out. I was trying to get him to 1177 01:03:31.480 --> 01:03:32.440 time it with some rain. 1178 01:03:32.920 --> 01:03:35.519 But yeah, to do it for me. 1179 01:03:35.800 --> 01:03:37.400 But that will help to go ahead and do it. 1180 01:03:37.400 --> 01:03:38.119 Again, right. 1181 01:03:40.400 --> 01:03:43.320 If you did it last fall, yes, but don't don't 1182 01:03:43.400 --> 01:03:47.400 do it twice. You know, within like a month or 1183 01:03:47.440 --> 01:03:50.960 a week or you know something. He needs to if 1184 01:03:50.960 --> 01:03:54.280 you put it okay, good, well get it out soon 1185 01:03:54.559 --> 01:03:56.719 and hopefully that'll shut it down. And then just pray 1186 01:03:56.800 --> 01:03:57.360 for rain. 1187 01:03:58.719 --> 01:04:02.360 And and if there's still stickers there. 1188 01:04:02.800 --> 01:04:05.800 I remember hearing Randy one time talk about maybe taking 1189 01:04:05.880 --> 01:04:08.679 a toast sack bur lap sap and sack or something 1190 01:04:08.719 --> 01:04:12.360 and running it through the yard to pick that yeup. 1191 01:04:12.719 --> 01:04:16.159 Which yes, uh, And I was talking to somebody at 1192 01:04:16.360 --> 01:04:19.320 CNIMAL yesterday about that idea. They were saying they had 1193 01:04:19.360 --> 01:04:23.039 grasspers everywhere U And that is for grasspers, not for 1194 01:04:23.159 --> 01:04:25.760 the little burweed that I was just talking to Ricky about, 1195 01:04:25.840 --> 01:04:30.880 but for grassbers. You can do that. You get a 1196 01:04:31.000 --> 01:04:36.079 little you know, bur lap basically what toasacs are, and uh, 1197 01:04:36.599 --> 01:04:39.079 just drag it around. You just kind of had to 1198 01:04:39.079 --> 01:04:40.400 figure out how to rig it up, but you just 1199 01:04:40.519 --> 01:04:42.840 drag it around over there. And I mean those grassbers 1200 01:04:42.920 --> 01:04:44.360 really stick to it. And that's not going to get 1201 01:04:44.400 --> 01:04:46.320 everyone out, but they've got a lot of them out. 1202 01:04:47.760 --> 01:04:51.159 And the more and the more you fertilize and water, 1203 01:04:51.519 --> 01:04:55.960 the worse the graspper, I mean, the less grassper problems 1204 01:04:56.039 --> 01:04:59.920 you have. They like a very drowdy, sandy, poor soil, 1205 01:05:00.599 --> 01:05:03.159 and as you get to water and the fertilizing and things, 1206 01:05:03.519 --> 01:05:06.400 they don't thrive in that, like your lawn will thrive 1207 01:05:06.480 --> 01:05:10.119 in that so just a few tips there. I think 1208 01:05:10.159 --> 01:05:11.800 you're on the right track though, Melanie. 1209 01:05:12.920 --> 01:05:16.639 All right, we'll try and see what happens, all right, 1210 01:05:16.880 --> 01:05:21.920 and good for that for that drought area. What which 1211 01:05:22.039 --> 01:05:24.679 grass that nobody up there Harvey has any grass in 1212 01:05:24.760 --> 01:05:25.199 their yard? 1213 01:05:26.159 --> 01:05:26.320 You know? 1214 01:05:26.679 --> 01:05:31.079 Well, yeah, and it you're going to be an infrequent visitor, 1215 01:05:31.199 --> 01:05:32.480 is that right out there? 1216 01:05:33.159 --> 01:05:33.320 Yes? 1217 01:05:33.400 --> 01:05:36.280 I am, okay, you know, bermuda grass is about as 1218 01:05:36.360 --> 01:05:38.119 tough as you're going to get when you look at 1219 01:05:38.199 --> 01:05:41.440 droughts and issues like that, and you can do the bermuda. 1220 01:05:41.599 --> 01:05:44.079 It looks best when you water and when you mow 1221 01:05:44.159 --> 01:05:47.280 it a lot, but it's a survivor. The Saint Augustine 1222 01:05:47.679 --> 01:05:51.079 needs water in order to survive and do well. So hey, 1223 01:05:51.320 --> 01:05:53.280 the only thing you've heard me say that when I 1224 01:05:53.400 --> 01:05:55.719 give advice, people have to bring me half their produce. 1225 01:05:55.880 --> 01:05:58.880 In this case, I just need some barbecue from Cooper's. 1226 01:05:59.079 --> 01:06:01.280 If you'll bring that back, I will call it even. Hey, 1227 01:06:01.320 --> 01:06:09.639 thanks for the called, Melodie, I got to run. I 1228 01:06:10.000 --> 01:06:12.599 could save you five. 1229 01:06:13.599 --> 01:06:14.039 All right. 1230 01:06:15.400 --> 01:06:17.599 Welcome back to garden Line. Good to have you with us. Hey, 1231 01:06:17.679 --> 01:06:20.920 if you would like to ask a gardening question seven 1232 01:06:20.960 --> 01:06:24.039 one three two one two fifty eight seventy four while 1233 01:06:24.079 --> 01:06:26.159 Ago I was talking about my night Fiss Imperial, and 1234 01:06:26.239 --> 01:06:29.119 I said that, you know, after about six weeks after 1235 01:06:29.199 --> 01:06:31.679 you've done that, you would want to put on a 1236 01:06:31.760 --> 01:06:34.599 slower release. And that product from night Fross is called 1237 01:06:35.159 --> 01:06:38.719 Nitrofos super Turf. Now it's easy to spot. It's a 1238 01:06:38.840 --> 01:06:40.760 silver bag. The only thing I know that's in a 1239 01:06:40.880 --> 01:06:43.519 silver bag. And the garden centers and the Ace Hardware 1240 01:06:43.559 --> 01:06:45.840 stores and the you know, feed stores and all the 1241 01:06:45.880 --> 01:06:47.159 places you go for these things. 1242 01:06:47.679 --> 01:06:47.800 Uh. 1243 01:06:48.000 --> 01:06:52.159 Silver Superturf is a nineteen four ten nineteen four ten, 1244 01:06:52.239 --> 01:06:54.719 those are the three numbers on the bag. But it 1245 01:06:54.960 --> 01:06:58.480 releases slowly, so that nineteen percent nitrogen is going to 1246 01:06:58.519 --> 01:07:02.320 be released out over about of sixteen weeks or four months. 1247 01:07:02.679 --> 01:07:05.639 So it gives you a long, gradual feed, which is 1248 01:07:05.760 --> 01:07:09.639 exactly what you want for good healthy grass. It's not 1249 01:07:09.800 --> 01:07:13.880 all top growth momo mo momo. It also helps develop roots. 1250 01:07:13.960 --> 01:07:18.719 When you overfertilize, you create problems in the summertime. Super 1251 01:07:18.760 --> 01:07:21.800 Turf's designed to fertilize gradually for you. Now you're going 1252 01:07:21.840 --> 01:07:24.159 to find superturf at places like the Ace Hardware and 1253 01:07:24.239 --> 01:07:27.559 Sinkle Ranch and also Katie. Ace Hardware too. By the way, 1254 01:07:27.599 --> 01:07:30.679 on Penoak, you're going to find it at Ace Hardware 1255 01:07:30.719 --> 01:07:34.239 CITYO Memorial Drive as well. Lots of places carry Night 1256 01:07:34.320 --> 01:07:38.039 to Foss products. Let's head out now to Houston and 1257 01:07:38.119 --> 01:07:40.639 talk to Jim. Hey, Jim, welcome to Guardline. 1258 01:07:40.719 --> 01:07:44.280 Good morning, Good morning. I've decided to have the aeration 1259 01:07:44.480 --> 01:07:49.119 and top dressing done for my yard this year. I 1260 01:07:49.239 --> 01:07:53.960 have a number of areas where the grass has really 1261 01:07:54.039 --> 01:07:56.840 died back, and I have open patches everything from two 1262 01:07:56.920 --> 01:07:59.199 inches to six inches to a foot in some areas, 1263 01:08:00.000 --> 01:08:02.239 and I'm wondering if it would be better before the 1264 01:08:02.360 --> 01:08:07.079 top dressing is done to lay some sand into those 1265 01:08:07.480 --> 01:08:12.199 open areas to help to facilitate the grass running. Is 1266 01:08:12.239 --> 01:08:14.519 that something that I would want to do? Or just 1267 01:08:14.639 --> 01:08:16.039 let the top dressing do that for me. 1268 01:08:18.119 --> 01:08:21.680 Well, if the areas are low or kind of need 1269 01:08:21.800 --> 01:08:24.399 filling in, or you know you got roots you're trying 1270 01:08:24.399 --> 01:08:26.239 to bring the soil up so the roots don't stick 1271 01:08:26.279 --> 01:08:28.720 out and things like that, then then that bringing in 1272 01:08:29.359 --> 01:08:35.359 soil or sand is advisable. There's nothing wrong with putting 1273 01:08:35.399 --> 01:08:37.319 some sand in there. If you can find a loamy 1274 01:08:37.399 --> 01:08:40.159 top soil, that's that's even better. But if you whatever, 1275 01:08:40.359 --> 01:08:42.279 if you need, if you need to fill in and stuff, 1276 01:08:42.279 --> 01:08:44.199 I would go ahead and do that before you do 1277 01:08:44.319 --> 01:08:45.039 the top dressing. 1278 01:08:46.000 --> 01:08:47.600 And so is it? 1279 01:08:47.760 --> 01:08:48.039 Okay? 1280 01:08:48.960 --> 01:08:51.640 Is your soil a clay? Did you say I missed that? 1281 01:08:51.720 --> 01:08:54.600 If you did, Jim, well, I'm in West Houston. So 1282 01:08:55.800 --> 01:08:58.079 my base issue is I have three large oak trees 1283 01:08:58.399 --> 01:09:01.920 and we don't get rain anymore. So that's my biggest 1284 01:09:01.960 --> 01:09:06.239 issue is the ground has just become dry and compacted, 1285 01:09:06.520 --> 01:09:10.039 even though we put water on it on a regular basis, 1286 01:09:10.600 --> 01:09:13.479 and so we're just struggling with getting the Saint Augustine 1287 01:09:13.560 --> 01:09:16.319 to stand up in the in the drought conditions. 1288 01:09:17.319 --> 01:09:20.520 Yeah, I understand that. Well, the sand is not gonna 1289 01:09:20.920 --> 01:09:23.960 help that because you know, water run drive through sand 1290 01:09:24.199 --> 01:09:26.479 doesn't last. That's why tops so will probably be better 1291 01:09:26.560 --> 01:09:28.319 for you if you're looking to do that. When you 1292 01:09:28.439 --> 01:09:30.880 say when you say west or you inside the beltway 1293 01:09:31.359 --> 01:09:34.920 or inside belt Way eight, I mean we're. 1294 01:09:34.760 --> 01:09:37.920 Actually uh it ten and six is the is the 1295 01:09:38.000 --> 01:09:42.640 closest intersection for us. So we're between ok yeah and eight? 1296 01:09:42.840 --> 01:09:45.880 Yeah, okay, got got it? Good? All right? 1297 01:09:45.960 --> 01:09:46.119 Well. 1298 01:09:46.399 --> 01:09:49.840 BB turf Pros is a great uh top dress and 1299 01:09:50.560 --> 01:09:53.600 aeration company they do a lot of different services like that. 1300 01:09:54.560 --> 01:09:56.920 I don't know if you have someone in mind already. 1301 01:09:56.920 --> 01:09:58.840 If you do, that's fine. If you do, not, provide 1302 01:09:58.840 --> 01:09:59.880 you a phone number for them. 1303 01:10:00.159 --> 01:10:02.399 If you're worries, we have actually we're using one of 1304 01:10:02.479 --> 01:10:06.079 your one of your records. Okay, okay, good from the 1305 01:10:06.720 --> 01:10:11.640 online so yeah, okay, sounds good. Yep, well good Lune, 1306 01:10:11.640 --> 01:10:12.159 thanks much. 1307 01:10:12.159 --> 01:10:12.720 I appreciate it. 1308 01:10:13.560 --> 01:10:15.600 Yeah, Jim, thanks a lot. And we'll pray for rain 1309 01:10:15.680 --> 01:10:18.760 this year because we get that. Grasp on that. That's 1310 01:10:18.800 --> 01:10:24.159 an important thing, all right, you take care? Yeah. 1311 01:10:24.800 --> 01:10:24.880 Uh. 1312 01:10:25.319 --> 01:10:27.960 For those of you up in Willis, Growers Outlet is 1313 01:10:28.000 --> 01:10:29.880 a place you need to go see if you haven't 1314 01:10:29.880 --> 01:10:31.880 been there, and I bet a lot of you have 1315 01:10:32.000 --> 01:10:34.359 it and you need to. And when I say in Willis, 1316 01:10:34.399 --> 01:10:37.119 I actually mean also in Conroe, in New Waverley and 1317 01:10:37.279 --> 01:10:40.680 Lake Conroe, all the region up there, even the woodlands 1318 01:10:40.960 --> 01:10:43.840 driving up. It's worth the trip up to Growers Outlet. 1319 01:10:44.600 --> 01:10:47.039 The website is the thing you need to write down 1320 01:10:47.399 --> 01:10:50.079 because that's where everything you're going to want to know is, 1321 01:10:50.319 --> 01:10:54.479 and that is Growers Outlet in Willis dot com. That's 1322 01:10:54.520 --> 01:10:58.960 easy to remember. What's the website for Growers Outlet in Willis. Yes, 1323 01:10:59.199 --> 01:11:03.000 that's kindly who's on first Growers Outlet in Willis dot com. Now, 1324 01:11:03.039 --> 01:11:04.720 when you go on the website, you're going to see 1325 01:11:04.720 --> 01:11:07.760 all the plants, say carry, and they list what's in stock, 1326 01:11:07.960 --> 01:11:10.560 and they list the price of them as well, which 1327 01:11:10.640 --> 01:11:14.359 is not normally done by garden centers, but they do that. 1328 01:11:14.520 --> 01:11:17.600 They've got veggies and bedding plants and perennials and beautiful 1329 01:11:17.640 --> 01:11:22.520 firm baskets and beautify hanging baskets of things like verbina 1330 01:11:22.920 --> 01:11:25.840 or petunias and those kinds of things. Of course, they 1331 01:11:25.880 --> 01:11:28.399 have fruit and they've got a their complete garden center. 1332 01:11:28.920 --> 01:11:31.000 You can even get your microlife and night Foss and 1333 01:11:31.079 --> 01:11:36.239 Medina products there as well. Growers Outlet in Willis dot com. 1334 01:11:36.359 --> 01:11:41.520 Go check it out. Let's go to West Houston. Now 1335 01:11:41.560 --> 01:11:44.520 we're going to talk to Steve Hey. Steve, welcome to 1336 01:11:44.560 --> 01:11:45.000 garden Line. 1337 01:11:45.119 --> 01:11:45.319 Yester. 1338 01:11:46.199 --> 01:11:47.560 Hello, how are you this morning? 1339 01:11:48.279 --> 01:11:49.119 I'm well, thank you. 1340 01:11:50.359 --> 01:11:53.239 I have a question that I was listed when you 1341 01:11:53.319 --> 01:11:58.720 were talking to the lady about pre emergence. I think 1342 01:11:58.840 --> 01:12:02.600 she was somewhere north of here that I'm talking about 1343 01:12:02.640 --> 01:12:07.960 here in Houston. I've put out Barry Kay last fall okay, 1344 01:12:08.880 --> 01:12:13.720 and I also did as night and but I it 1345 01:12:13.920 --> 01:12:17.960 is growing, and I've seen a lot of clover, and 1346 01:12:18.439 --> 01:12:21.680 I wonder and have I missed us about putting some 1347 01:12:21.840 --> 01:12:23.399 more pre emerging out now? 1348 01:12:24.960 --> 01:12:28.960 You're late, but it's all there's still plenty more weed 1349 01:12:29.119 --> 01:12:32.199 germination that can occur. In fact, when you do it 1350 01:12:32.479 --> 01:12:35.520 early on time in February, we recommend you do it 1351 01:12:35.760 --> 01:12:41.119 maybe again sixty days later because that extends that protection 1352 01:12:41.359 --> 01:12:43.680 on end of the summer because we have weeds germinating 1353 01:12:43.760 --> 01:12:47.079 all through but a lot of a lot of the 1354 01:12:47.159 --> 01:12:52.119 spring weeds have been germinating now for a while. Just 1355 01:12:52.279 --> 01:12:55.760 looking here, you're in west East, so the yeah, you've 1356 01:12:55.760 --> 01:12:59.439 been had weeds germinating on it in March here. But 1357 01:12:59.800 --> 01:13:01.600 I've go ahead and get it down water. It makes 1358 01:13:01.640 --> 01:13:04.239 you watered in because it doesn't start working until you 1359 01:13:04.319 --> 01:13:04.720 water it in. 1360 01:13:05.960 --> 01:13:09.880 Okay, it's maybe late, but it won't hurt anything. Doing 1361 01:13:10.000 --> 01:13:11.039 something is better than that. 1362 01:13:12.560 --> 01:13:17.039 Yeah, that's that's the case. Something is better than I. 1363 01:13:17.159 --> 01:13:22.640 Found that a sack of bawnine weed beater. Should I 1364 01:13:23.399 --> 01:13:25.199 should I use that at this time? 1365 01:13:26.960 --> 01:13:29.319 That is a I need to look at the label 1366 01:13:29.399 --> 01:13:31.960 on that one. That's I think it's called weed beater 1367 01:13:32.159 --> 01:13:34.319 complete when it's in the sick. Is that correct? 1368 01:13:35.079 --> 01:13:35.680 I think so? 1369 01:13:35.920 --> 01:13:38.920 Yes, Okay, I need to look at the label on it. 1370 01:13:39.279 --> 01:13:43.039 The weed beaters are generally a post emergent product, but 1371 01:13:43.279 --> 01:13:46.199 on the complete I bet that's not the case. But 1372 01:13:46.319 --> 01:13:48.319 I need you know, I can't pull it up right 1373 01:13:48.359 --> 01:13:52.960 this minute. But if it's a pre emergent, now still 1374 01:13:52.960 --> 01:13:54.279 the time you can get it down. If it's a 1375 01:13:54.319 --> 01:13:57.159 post emergent, you gotta wet the leaves so it sticks 1376 01:13:57.159 --> 01:14:00.439 to the leaves. But again, I can't allow vibrate on 1377 01:14:00.520 --> 01:14:03.279 that until I take a look at the label on 1378 01:14:03.359 --> 01:14:06.039 that particular one. There's several weed beaters out there on 1379 01:14:06.119 --> 01:14:07.720 the market, and if. 1380 01:14:07.640 --> 01:14:15.199 It says complete, it is a free emergent. Is that correct? 1381 01:14:15.720 --> 01:14:18.159 Just this wee beater plus it's a post emergent. 1382 01:14:20.159 --> 01:14:22.520 Well, hang on just a second, let me look at that. 1383 01:14:22.760 --> 01:14:25.640 I'm sorry, what particular kinds of weeds are you? Are 1384 01:14:25.680 --> 01:14:27.199 you dealing with in your line? 1385 01:14:28.600 --> 01:14:33.279 Mainly clover? Of course, I've still got that horse herb, 1386 01:14:33.560 --> 01:14:36.199 but that's a different story. We talked about that. 1387 01:14:36.359 --> 01:14:37.039 Some months ago. 1388 01:14:39.279 --> 01:14:42.359 Mainly it's clover and with the little pink flowers. 1389 01:14:44.079 --> 01:14:47.520 Okay, well, hang on just a second. I just pulled 1390 01:14:47.600 --> 01:14:49.319 up pulled up the label here right and take a 1391 01:14:49.359 --> 01:14:52.239 look at it. Uh So if entra zone that is 1392 01:14:52.359 --> 01:14:59.560 going to help a little bit with these types of things. Yeah. 1393 01:15:00.079 --> 01:15:03.000 The pro diamine, that's a pre emergent. Yeah, that's primarily 1394 01:15:03.039 --> 01:15:05.840 a pre emergent. Uh that you're doing on those So 1395 01:15:06.359 --> 01:15:08.600 you get you you get it on the ground watered in. 1396 01:15:10.199 --> 01:15:14.800 But uh, I mean to go on, I'm gonna I'm 1397 01:15:14.840 --> 01:15:16.600 gonna have to I'm gonna have to run there telling 1398 01:15:16.640 --> 01:15:19.119 me it's we're about to break for a commercial. Steve. 1399 01:15:19.760 --> 01:15:19.880 Uh. 1400 01:15:20.159 --> 01:15:21.479 If you I'm gonna put you on hold. If you 1401 01:15:21.479 --> 01:15:23.399 want to hang on, we can continue this when we 1402 01:15:23.479 --> 01:15:25.319 come back. Be right back folks. 1403 01:15:29.239 --> 01:15:29.600 Today. 1404 01:15:30.199 --> 01:15:40.079 Alrighty, welcome back guardline. Good heavy with us this morning. 1405 01:15:40.520 --> 01:15:44.760 We're gonna go back out to Steve. Hey, Steve, let's 1406 01:15:44.800 --> 01:15:48.439 continue that question line of questioning. Where where were we? 1407 01:15:49.560 --> 01:15:54.920 One last question on the pre emergent. Uh, I think 1408 01:15:55.159 --> 01:15:57.800 what you said, do not put out the barricade and 1409 01:15:58.199 --> 01:16:03.720 the bow lead, that would be correct, correct, And the 1410 01:16:03.840 --> 01:16:06.800 last question for you, I have a rose bed and 1411 01:16:07.399 --> 01:16:10.159 I was I did not put any preer berge. And 1412 01:16:10.319 --> 01:16:11.680 that's ray It hurt the roses. 1413 01:16:12.279 --> 01:16:17.319 I weeded it and then put rose compost, and then 1414 01:16:17.399 --> 01:16:22.640 pine bark malchs and then I weeded and there's still 1415 01:16:23.600 --> 01:16:26.279 I mean, what is there anything else I can do? 1416 01:16:28.680 --> 01:16:28.800 Uh? 1417 01:16:29.399 --> 01:16:31.279 The most important thing you do in your rose bed 1418 01:16:31.399 --> 01:16:34.199 is pine bark, malt or any any kind of malts, 1419 01:16:34.239 --> 01:16:35.720 no matter what kind of malt, but malt. 1420 01:16:36.399 --> 01:16:36.479 Uh. 1421 01:16:36.680 --> 01:16:39.479 That's going to prevent the weed seeds from getting started. 1422 01:16:39.520 --> 01:16:41.319 And occasionally you stir the mult up a little bit, 1423 01:16:41.439 --> 01:16:44.000 put some fresh on top to keep it blocking all 1424 01:16:44.039 --> 01:16:47.680 the sunlight. Now, if you've got weeds that are perennials, 1425 01:16:47.800 --> 01:16:50.600 like a bermuda grass comes crawling in there, well, then 1426 01:16:50.640 --> 01:16:54.800 you're gonna have to treat those weeds. But the most 1427 01:16:54.880 --> 01:16:56.880 important thing in a rose bed is not try to 1428 01:16:57.000 --> 01:16:59.439 use a pre emergent on it inside a bed, but 1429 01:16:59.560 --> 01:17:01.960 to use your mult as your primary control. 1430 01:17:03.399 --> 01:17:04.279 Great, thank you. 1431 01:17:04.720 --> 01:17:07.640 And you say iron bark is the preferred because. 1432 01:17:07.439 --> 01:17:10.920 I have some I no, I don't. I don't have 1433 01:17:11.000 --> 01:17:14.079 a preferred on it. Pine bark is fine. It's attractive. 1434 01:17:14.479 --> 01:17:17.079 People like the look of that so that you can 1435 01:17:17.439 --> 01:17:20.039 use it for that reason. But a mulch is a 1436 01:17:20.119 --> 01:17:23.039 mulch when you know whether it's shredded hardwood or double 1437 01:17:23.119 --> 01:17:27.239 ground black mult or whatever. It's all you really want. Well, 1438 01:17:27.640 --> 01:17:29.439 the first thing you want out of a mulch is 1439 01:17:29.560 --> 01:17:32.720 for it to block the sunlight and stop weed seeds. 1440 01:17:33.000 --> 01:17:34.760 Of course, you want it to hold moisture. You want 1441 01:17:34.800 --> 01:17:38.039 it to moderate soil temperatures and so on. But yeah, 1442 01:17:38.680 --> 01:17:40.600 any good mult you like the look of is a 1443 01:17:40.640 --> 01:17:41.520 good mulch to use. 1444 01:17:42.640 --> 01:17:44.159 Thank you very much for your time. 1445 01:17:44.840 --> 01:17:47.640 Thank you ansty thanks a lot. You take care appreciate 1446 01:17:47.680 --> 01:17:50.319 the call seven one three two one two k t 1447 01:17:50.520 --> 01:17:52.239 r H. You want to give us a call? Uh 1448 01:17:52.600 --> 01:17:56.560 sweet green from nitrofoss. I was telling someone yesterday down 1449 01:17:56.600 --> 01:17:58.680 seeing a mulch and we were done, my sweet green 1450 01:17:58.720 --> 01:18:01.399 and they were putting it out and on one of 1451 01:18:01.439 --> 01:18:03.960 the things they said, is it smells so good? And 1452 01:18:04.359 --> 01:18:07.960 yes it does. It's a molasses based product. Organic gardeners 1453 01:18:08.000 --> 01:18:12.119 have known long time molasses stimulates microbial activity in the soil. 1454 01:18:12.800 --> 01:18:15.399 It does. It's a carbon chain, it's a sugar kind 1455 01:18:15.439 --> 01:18:20.039 of thing, and that by stimulating the microbes, you are 1456 01:18:20.159 --> 01:18:24.439 going to improve the zone around the roots in that way. 1457 01:18:24.680 --> 01:18:26.840 In addition to the fact that you're getting eleven percent 1458 01:18:26.960 --> 01:18:29.560 nitrogen in the product to put down. Now you just 1459 01:18:29.680 --> 01:18:32.039 watered in, it dissolves, way goes down in the soil 1460 01:18:32.039 --> 01:18:34.840 and it does its work. Sweet Green from night Foss 1461 01:18:34.920 --> 01:18:38.039 is available a variety of places, plants for all seasons. 1462 01:18:38.079 --> 01:18:42.560 On two forty nine, you know, right there add Luetta. 1463 01:18:42.720 --> 01:18:45.279 Right at Luetta in two forty nine you go out 1464 01:18:45.279 --> 01:18:48.560 to RCW Nursery. They carry night to FoST products, DND 1465 01:18:48.640 --> 01:18:50.920 feed and tomol. There you go, there's another one that 1466 01:18:51.079 --> 01:18:54.800 carries night Foss products like the Sweet Green, so easy 1467 01:18:54.880 --> 01:18:58.199 to find in the Greater Houston area. That smells good. 1468 01:18:58.680 --> 01:19:00.479 I jokingly say, you put it in the back of 1469 01:19:00.520 --> 01:19:02.880 your car, you're going to want to make another trip 1470 01:19:02.960 --> 01:19:06.960 around Loop six ten just because it smells so good. Well, 1471 01:19:08.039 --> 01:19:10.640 I don't think that there's anything on earth that can 1472 01:19:10.720 --> 01:19:14.560 make me want to make another trip around or even 1473 01:19:14.600 --> 01:19:18.399 one trip around Loop six ten, But I guess it's 1474 01:19:18.439 --> 01:19:23.840 better than driving through the gallery maybe. Anyway, that's that's 1475 01:19:23.920 --> 01:19:28.119 a fact. Someone was asking me about the top dressing 1476 01:19:28.319 --> 01:19:30.840 and they're up. They're kind of up north and west 1477 01:19:31.640 --> 01:19:34.319 of the Houston in the Houston area, and green Pro 1478 01:19:34.720 --> 01:19:36.920 is the place that I send people for their green 1479 01:19:37.039 --> 01:19:43.119 Pro is a expert in providing compost top dressing and 1480 01:19:43.640 --> 01:19:47.479 also a core aeration of the soil. They know how 1481 01:19:47.520 --> 01:19:49.479 to do that. They've got the equipment that does it 1482 01:19:49.640 --> 01:19:52.119 right now. You can run equipment. You can have them 1483 01:19:52.319 --> 01:19:55.840 dump the lead more compost or whatever in your yards. 1484 01:19:55.920 --> 01:19:57.960 Have somebody do it. But it's a lot of work. 1485 01:19:58.039 --> 01:19:59.600 You got to clean up the equipment and get it 1486 01:19:59.680 --> 01:20:02.199 back to go get it in the first place. It's 1487 01:20:02.199 --> 01:20:05.159 a mess, but it's easy when you just call green Pro, 1488 01:20:05.319 --> 01:20:06.960 they come in, they do the work. They know how 1489 01:20:07.000 --> 01:20:10.159 to do that. When you do compost top dressing and corroation, 1490 01:20:10.399 --> 01:20:14.920 you're feeding the soil biology. It really helps our clay 1491 01:20:15.000 --> 01:20:18.600 soils to do that, to alleviate compaction, to improve the 1492 01:20:18.720 --> 01:20:22.000 soil's internal drainage, to help it capture more water when 1493 01:20:22.079 --> 01:20:25.680 it does rain and soak in because it water tends 1494 01:20:25.680 --> 01:20:28.000 to run right off the top of a clay. If 1495 01:20:28.039 --> 01:20:30.600 your lawn is recovering from things like take all or 1496 01:20:30.680 --> 01:20:34.560 brown patch or gingerbugs or drought or whatever, correation in 1497 01:20:34.640 --> 01:20:36.159 compost top dressing is good. 1498 01:20:36.279 --> 01:20:36.399 Now. 1499 01:20:36.439 --> 01:20:39.479 If you got a thatch problem because you just overfertilized, 1500 01:20:39.560 --> 01:20:42.600 maybe when you put compost top dressing down and then 1501 01:20:42.680 --> 01:20:45.239 you core aerate. Core A rate means I don't push 1502 01:20:45.279 --> 01:20:48.000 a hole in the soil open. I pop a plug 1503 01:20:48.079 --> 01:20:50.920 of soil out and drop it on the surface. I 1504 01:20:50.960 --> 01:20:54.039 always say it looks like a little mini dog convention 1505 01:20:54.239 --> 01:20:58.399 happened out there, but that soil melts away into the 1506 01:20:58.520 --> 01:21:02.720 thatch and it helps speed decomposition at that. There you go. Okay, 1507 01:21:02.920 --> 01:21:05.239 a lot of technical details. Bottom line is do it 1508 01:21:05.319 --> 01:21:08.319 it works. They do about a forty five mile area 1509 01:21:08.399 --> 01:21:12.439 from Magnolia so Spring, Cyprus or Woodlands Conroe, Willis Magnolia 1510 01:21:12.880 --> 01:21:15.920 over to Montgomery and you know, down down to it ten. 1511 01:21:16.039 --> 01:21:19.960 So basically it's the Interstate forty five, Interstate ten Northwest quadrant. 1512 01:21:20.640 --> 01:21:26.399 Greenprotexas dot com, greenpro Texas dot com. If you want 1513 01:21:26.399 --> 01:21:28.600 to give them a call eight three to two, three 1514 01:21:28.760 --> 01:21:33.880 five one zero zero three to two. Let's head out 1515 01:21:33.960 --> 01:21:37.119 now to Clute, Clute, and we're going to talk to Trevor. Hey, Trevor, 1516 01:21:37.319 --> 01:21:38.199 welcome to regardline. 1517 01:21:38.920 --> 01:21:41.800 Wanting, sir, I got a question about some plants. I'm 1518 01:21:41.840 --> 01:21:44.520 gonna have them come and put in my yard. I'm 1519 01:21:44.520 --> 01:21:49.399 gonna have Moon Valley come and plant Golden Goddess bamboo. Okay, 1520 01:21:49.479 --> 01:21:52.880 and I'd like to know how much should I water? 1521 01:21:53.039 --> 01:21:56.600 They told me I should water them three times a week, 1522 01:21:56.800 --> 01:21:58.039 But how much are we talking about? 1523 01:21:58.119 --> 01:21:58.439 Do I know? 1524 01:21:58.640 --> 01:22:01.039 Like when the soil is saturated soggy? 1525 01:22:02.319 --> 01:22:02.520 Yeah? 1526 01:22:02.880 --> 01:22:05.560 Yeah, you know when you say water so many times 1527 01:22:05.600 --> 01:22:09.399 a week. It kind of depends on how much water 1528 01:22:09.520 --> 01:22:12.600 you put down and what you're wanting to do with bamboo. 1529 01:22:12.640 --> 01:22:16.439 Bamboo is grass. So imagine if you plugged some Saint 1530 01:22:16.479 --> 01:22:20.000 Augustine out in your line and you're trying to get 1531 01:22:20.039 --> 01:22:22.279 it to get its root system out and down. You're 1532 01:22:22.319 --> 01:22:23.960 trying to get it to deal with the heat and 1533 01:22:24.079 --> 01:22:27.720 the drought and all kinds of things. You water pretty 1534 01:22:27.760 --> 01:22:31.680 frequently initially to help it get established, and then you 1535 01:22:31.880 --> 01:22:33.479 ought to be able to back off and not water 1536 01:22:33.640 --> 01:22:36.479 as often. Your goal with that bamboo, though, is to 1537 01:22:36.600 --> 01:22:40.239 get it as healthy as you can, because I don't 1538 01:22:40.239 --> 01:22:41.920 know if they told you this, but the first year 1539 01:22:42.000 --> 01:22:45.520 bamboo basically just sits there. The second year it begins 1540 01:22:45.600 --> 01:22:47.640 to grow pretty good, and then the third year you're 1541 01:22:47.680 --> 01:22:50.439 really in business with the bamboo having the vigor. So 1542 01:22:50.720 --> 01:22:54.279 treat it like grass. That means keep the soil moderately moist. 1543 01:22:54.680 --> 01:22:56.760 So if you water three times a week. You're probably 1544 01:22:56.840 --> 01:22:59.920 only going to put about a maybe a half inch 1545 01:23:00.279 --> 01:23:04.239 or so of water down when you water, and that'll 1546 01:23:04.279 --> 01:23:07.720 be enough. You can, you can. It just depends on 1547 01:23:07.800 --> 01:23:11.720 the temperature, you know. And like the last month we've had, 1548 01:23:12.000 --> 01:23:14.199 you wouldn't water three times a week, and when you 1549 01:23:14.279 --> 01:23:17.039 get into July, you know you're gonna need to water more. 1550 01:23:17.479 --> 01:23:20.920 But as we go month by month, it's getting more 1551 01:23:20.960 --> 01:23:22.359 of a root system, and you ought to be able 1552 01:23:22.399 --> 01:23:24.359 to get by with twice a week and then eventually 1553 01:23:24.399 --> 01:23:27.239 once a week. It's fine. Fertilize it like you would 1554 01:23:27.279 --> 01:23:29.800 have grass, because it is a grass and your goal 1555 01:23:29.960 --> 01:23:32.039 is to get it healthy and growing. So that that 1556 01:23:32.119 --> 01:23:33.600 would be my advice on that one. 1557 01:23:34.640 --> 01:23:35.159 Well, thank you. 1558 01:23:36.479 --> 01:23:38.039 Yeah, so I guess on enjoy. 1559 01:23:38.279 --> 01:23:39.880 I guess I owe you some bamboo shoots. 1560 01:23:39.920 --> 01:23:40.479 Is that correct? 1561 01:23:41.359 --> 01:23:45.119 Yeah, well fishing poles. People don't make bamboo fishing poles anymore. 1562 01:23:45.239 --> 01:23:47.399 So if you can just clean it up and get 1563 01:23:47.479 --> 01:23:49.239 me give me a couple of I need to do 1564 01:23:49.439 --> 01:23:52.359 some deep sea fishing for marling. So I hope you 1565 01:23:52.479 --> 01:23:54.760 got a real big strong bamboo plant. 1566 01:23:55.720 --> 01:23:57.000 All right, sounds good. 1567 01:23:57.039 --> 01:23:59.600 I don't know where that came from, Maankes a lot, Trevor, 1568 01:24:01.199 --> 01:24:05.840 Oh boy, you're listening to Guardline. Our phone number here 1569 01:24:05.920 --> 01:24:08.560 is seven one three two one two k t r 1570 01:24:08.760 --> 01:24:11.199 H seven one three two one two k t. 1571 01:24:11.680 --> 01:24:12.159 R H. 1572 01:24:14.000 --> 01:24:18.520 Well RCW Nurseries at the corner of Beltway eight and 1573 01:24:18.600 --> 01:24:23.000 Tomball Parkway. Go there, go look at the roses. They're gorgeous. Now, 1574 01:24:23.119 --> 01:24:25.920 go look at the boogain villas. Unbelievably even have the 1575 01:24:25.960 --> 01:24:30.359 standards like Boogain Villas with a trunk r CW nurseries 1576 01:24:30.399 --> 01:24:32.359 dot com. When you go there, you're gonna find the 1577 01:24:32.439 --> 01:24:37.359 products you need, brown Stuff before green Stuff, Nitrofoss, Microlife, 1578 01:24:37.479 --> 01:24:41.279 turf Star, much much more. Really there. It's a favorite 1579 01:24:41.319 --> 01:24:43.880 of rosarians. And I would say it's a place you 1580 01:24:43.960 --> 01:24:46.840 go for your trees because they grow their own trees 1581 01:24:47.159 --> 01:24:49.880 up in Plannersville. They grow the kinds that want to 1582 01:24:49.920 --> 01:24:52.520 grow here. They grow them in a way that is 1583 01:24:52.720 --> 01:24:55.600 gonna help that be a successful tree. And they also 1584 01:24:55.680 --> 01:24:58.439 have the three sixty tree stabilizers on hand, so get 1585 01:24:58.479 --> 01:25:00.720 one of those when you when you go get your tree. 1586 01:25:01.199 --> 01:25:04.239 But whatever you do, just go out and check it out. 1587 01:25:04.359 --> 01:25:07.439 Lots of beautiful color, lots of beautiful plants, and it's 1588 01:25:07.520 --> 01:25:11.680 just a great place. It's a shop RCW nurseries dot com. 1589 01:25:13.159 --> 01:25:19.159 You need to go see those folks. Alrighty music means 1590 01:25:19.560 --> 01:25:22.359 stop talking, go get a cup of coffee. I think 1591 01:25:22.399 --> 01:25:25.760 I will do just both of them. I want to 1592 01:25:25.800 --> 01:25:30.760 remind you that next Saturday, from twelve thirty to two thirty, 1593 01:25:30.880 --> 01:25:36.720 right after lunch, i'llbeit Warrens Southern Gardens in Kingwood. All 1594 01:25:36.760 --> 01:25:38.279 of you in that region, I hope you'll come by. 1595 01:25:38.319 --> 01:25:40.479 I love I love to meet the people that listen 1596 01:25:40.520 --> 01:25:42.920 to the Garden Line and also you know here on 1597 01:25:43.000 --> 01:25:46.199 the on the radio. I've been just a few minutes 1598 01:25:46.239 --> 01:25:47.680 with you because I got to move on to another 1599 01:25:47.760 --> 01:25:50.840 call or other things. But when we do these appearances, 1600 01:25:51.000 --> 01:25:52.840 it's a time to sit eye to eye and talk 1601 01:25:54.000 --> 01:25:59.039 and also take pictures. We down at Cinamulch the other 1602 01:25:59.159 --> 01:26:03.000 day or yesterday, bring me some samples, bring me pictures. 1603 01:26:03.079 --> 01:26:05.880 Will help solve the problems and help your place look good. 1604 01:26:06.359 --> 01:26:08.720 And I'll be giving away some really cool things as well. 1605 01:26:08.720 --> 01:26:11.479 I'll tell you more about that later, but really cool 1606 01:26:11.520 --> 01:26:12.479 gift and giveaways. 1607 01:26:12.960 --> 01:26:13.680 Kat r H. 1608 01:26:13.800 --> 01:26:16.359 Garden Line does not necessarily endorse any of the products 1609 01:26:16.439 --> 01:26:20.520 or services advertised on this program. Welcome to kat r 1610 01:26:20.720 --> 01:26:25.479 h Garden Line with Skip Rictory. 1611 01:26:31.720 --> 01:26:33.239 Just watch him as. 1612 01:26:38.119 --> 01:26:41.239 Us so many things to septas. 1613 01:26:48.479 --> 01:26:48.640 SI. 1614 01:26:51.520 --> 01:26:55.680 All right, folks, let's do this again. Welcome back to 1615 01:26:55.720 --> 01:26:58.399 the garden Line. I'm your host, Skip Richter. We're here 1616 01:26:58.439 --> 01:27:00.960 to help you have a bountiful garden of beautiful landscape, 1617 01:27:01.000 --> 01:27:03.760 and I like to say more fun in the process, 1618 01:27:03.920 --> 01:27:06.880 because I think that is a very important part of gardening. 1619 01:27:07.119 --> 01:27:12.239 Gardening is a wonderful, relaxing opportunity to be out in nature. 1620 01:27:12.359 --> 01:27:14.920 Well you know, the research palls up a mild high 1621 01:27:14.960 --> 01:27:18.000 on all the benefits of being out in nature to 1622 01:27:18.159 --> 01:27:21.279 our minds and certainly the exercise for our bodies, the 1623 01:27:21.359 --> 01:27:23.840 fresh air and all of that. So you shouldn't have 1624 01:27:23.920 --> 01:27:25.600 to go out there or be afraid to go out 1625 01:27:25.600 --> 01:27:28.199 in the garden for what you might see. Meaning, ugh, 1626 01:27:28.359 --> 01:27:30.560 I think I killed another plant. We can help you 1627 01:27:30.680 --> 01:27:32.359 with that. We can help you with that, but don't 1628 01:27:32.359 --> 01:27:36.720 be afraid. I'm officially giving you permission to kill plants. Okay, 1629 01:27:37.800 --> 01:27:40.079 now what does that mean? That just means don't sweat it. 1630 01:27:40.319 --> 01:27:43.640 Sometimes things don't work. Planes die. One of the best 1631 01:27:43.680 --> 01:27:46.920 horticultures in the country. Guy named jac Ralston North Carolina. 1632 01:27:47.319 --> 01:27:49.119 He said, to be a good horticulturist, you got to 1633 01:27:49.199 --> 01:27:51.720 kill a lot of plants. And that's true. That's how 1634 01:27:51.760 --> 01:27:54.840 we learn. We learn from our mistakes and the mistakes 1635 01:27:54.880 --> 01:27:58.520 of others. But the case of a garden, it either 1636 01:27:58.640 --> 01:28:01.680 involves a very ugly desi or a plant dying. When 1637 01:28:01.760 --> 01:28:04.479 we talk about the mistakes of others. I have a 1638 01:28:04.560 --> 01:28:07.119 talk I do called seem like a good idea at 1639 01:28:07.159 --> 01:28:10.039 the time. It's a presentation I do for groups and stuff, 1640 01:28:10.279 --> 01:28:12.640 and basically it's just a bunch of pictures of things 1641 01:28:12.800 --> 01:28:15.880 that someone created or did, and at the time it 1642 01:28:16.039 --> 01:28:19.199 made sense. And then you see kind of that it 1643 01:28:19.319 --> 01:28:22.520 wasn't a good idea, and it's it's fun. We're having fun. 1644 01:28:23.520 --> 01:28:26.800 But it give yourself, give you some permission. You can 1645 01:28:26.960 --> 01:28:31.319 you can always redo it. Nothing in the garden has 1646 01:28:31.439 --> 01:28:35.840 to be permanent. All right, there you go. Well, Peerscapes 1647 01:28:35.960 --> 01:28:39.760 is our preferred garden line provider here and the reason 1648 01:28:39.880 --> 01:28:43.520 is because of the work they do. Puerscapes does stunningly 1649 01:28:43.600 --> 01:28:46.359 beautiful work. If you will just do and if you 1650 01:28:46.840 --> 01:28:49.279 hear nothing else I'm saying about them, just hear this. 1651 01:28:49.800 --> 01:28:53.199 Peerscapes dot Com peerscapes dot com. Look at the work 1652 01:28:53.239 --> 01:28:57.079 they do outstanding landscape lighting. Do you have a drainage 1653 01:28:57.239 --> 01:28:59.920 problem in an area, they can do the subservice drain 1654 01:29:00.319 --> 01:29:02.840 and they can fix it so plants will thrive there 1655 01:29:03.000 --> 01:29:08.119 instead of drowned there. They also do a quarterly maintenance. 1656 01:29:08.159 --> 01:29:10.479 They can come out and spruce up the beds, you know, 1657 01:29:10.640 --> 01:29:13.920 put some refresh mulch in, replace the color when it 1658 01:29:14.039 --> 01:29:17.399 needs that, check the irrigation system, do any trimming that's 1659 01:29:17.439 --> 01:29:19.760 part of the quarterly maintenance program. If you have them 1660 01:29:19.840 --> 01:29:22.880 do that. Maybe you want to create a beautiful outdoor, 1661 01:29:23.039 --> 01:29:26.319 hardescape area or a hard scape pathway in the garden, 1662 01:29:26.479 --> 01:29:28.039 they can do all of that. You just got to 1663 01:29:28.079 --> 01:29:30.960 go to the website pierscapes dot com. There you will 1664 01:29:31.000 --> 01:29:33.680 see examples of what they can do. Now the phone 1665 01:29:33.760 --> 01:29:37.680 number two eight one three seven fifty sixty two eight 1666 01:29:37.800 --> 01:29:41.800 one three seven zero five zero six zero. 1667 01:29:43.520 --> 01:29:44.000 That works. 1668 01:29:45.119 --> 01:29:48.920 If you've got some more furniture in your patio or 1669 01:29:49.119 --> 01:29:52.399 outdoor area, or really any kind of a metal out 1670 01:29:52.479 --> 01:29:55.239 there in that area, Houston powder coders can make it 1671 01:29:55.359 --> 01:29:57.680 look new. Do you don't have to get out there 1672 01:29:57.760 --> 01:30:00.840 with spray paint and have their streaks and going down 1673 01:30:01.000 --> 01:30:03.319 or with a brush or whatever. And what about the rust? 1674 01:30:03.720 --> 01:30:05.720 How do you deal with that and try to shut 1675 01:30:05.800 --> 01:30:09.520 that down. Houston Powder Cutter knows how to do their thing, 1676 01:30:09.960 --> 01:30:12.000 and then they do. You can take a picture of 1677 01:30:12.079 --> 01:30:15.079 your furniture and they do. By the way, it's not 1678 01:30:15.279 --> 01:30:18.279 just furniture. It's wrought iron, it's cast iron, it's aluminum, 1679 01:30:18.319 --> 01:30:21.359 patio furniture, it's any kind of metal out there. They're 1680 01:30:21.399 --> 01:30:24.039 going to be able to put a beautiful coating on it. 1681 01:30:24.119 --> 01:30:27.119 But they also do finishing and repair. So for example, 1682 01:30:27.199 --> 01:30:29.720 maybe a little a couple of well wells need to 1683 01:30:29.760 --> 01:30:32.239 be made on it, you know, to put it back together. 1684 01:30:32.680 --> 01:30:35.760 Maybe it needs a new sling fabric or vinyl straps 1685 01:30:35.800 --> 01:30:38.560 on some of the furniture. Maybe the old hardware bolts 1686 01:30:38.640 --> 01:30:41.920 and things are rusty. They'll replace those with stainless steel. 1687 01:30:41.920 --> 01:30:46.199 They'll put new plastic feed and endcaps on things. Whatever 1688 01:30:46.279 --> 01:30:48.880 you have, they know how to do it. Take a picture, 1689 01:30:49.119 --> 01:30:53.199 go to email it to sales at Houstoncoders dot com. 1690 01:30:53.359 --> 01:30:56.520 Sales at Houstoncoders dot com. They'll give you a quick quote. 1691 01:30:56.600 --> 01:30:58.680 They do pick up and delivery in the Greater Houston 1692 01:30:58.720 --> 01:31:01.640 area and you can follow them on social media to 1693 01:31:01.760 --> 01:31:07.159 see examples of their work. Houston Powdercoders dot com, Houston 1694 01:31:07.239 --> 01:31:10.920 powder coads dot com two eight one six seven, six 1695 01:31:11.439 --> 01:31:15.600 thirty eight eighty eight. Let's set up to college station. 1696 01:31:15.760 --> 01:31:18.199 Now we're going to talk to Andy. Hey, Andy, welcome 1697 01:31:18.199 --> 01:31:18.800 to garden Line. 1698 01:31:19.760 --> 01:31:21.239 Hey, thanks, skip appreciate it. 1699 01:31:22.039 --> 01:31:25.479 We bought this house last summer and then I had 1700 01:31:25.680 --> 01:31:27.560 called and asked you a couple of questions on them, 1701 01:31:28.079 --> 01:31:30.880 on killing weeds and different stuff, and you'd ask me 1702 01:31:30.960 --> 01:31:33.680 if there was straight Saint Augustine or if it was 1703 01:31:33.720 --> 01:31:36.720 Saint Augustine and Bermuda or this or that, and it 1704 01:31:36.920 --> 01:31:40.159 was actually Saint Augustine, Bermuda and a lot of wheats. 1705 01:31:40.319 --> 01:31:41.279 So I got a lot of wheats. 1706 01:31:41.319 --> 01:31:46.159 Okay, what I want to do, I think, and it 1707 01:31:46.680 --> 01:31:50.079 needs pressure to level the whole thing off. Anyway, This 1708 01:31:50.239 --> 01:31:54.039 Saint Augustine isn't really great. So what I was thinking 1709 01:31:54.119 --> 01:31:59.760 of doing is seating Bermuda all through it, okay, including 1710 01:32:00.239 --> 01:32:03.600 dirt out. I didn't know if there's what's the exact 1711 01:32:03.680 --> 01:32:06.640 process to do, and if there's a like a brand 1712 01:32:06.760 --> 01:32:09.520 or strain of Bermuda that would be best out here 1713 01:32:10.199 --> 01:32:11.880 or to work with Saint Augustine. 1714 01:32:13.359 --> 01:32:16.439 Well, that's good. Both of those are legit grasses and 1715 01:32:16.560 --> 01:32:19.119 they each have their pros and cons, so just to 1716 01:32:19.520 --> 01:32:22.680 you know, just to go quick on them. Basically, the 1717 01:32:22.880 --> 01:32:25.399 Saint Augustine is going to be more shade tolerant than 1718 01:32:25.439 --> 01:32:29.520 the Bermuda. Uh, and it's a it's a soft grass 1719 01:32:29.840 --> 01:32:32.800 that you know, run around barefoot and rolling around the 1720 01:32:32.840 --> 01:32:35.479 grass and stuff. It's a nice grass for that. The 1721 01:32:35.560 --> 01:32:40.560 Bermuda grass is more resilient to drought and wear and 1722 01:32:40.760 --> 01:32:42.399 tear if you do a lot of it. That's why 1723 01:32:42.720 --> 01:32:45.439 you don't see Saint Augustine football fields. You see Bermuda 1724 01:32:45.520 --> 01:32:51.760 football fields. But the Bermuda also though, you get chiggers 1725 01:32:51.800 --> 01:32:53.880 in it and you go rolling around in the grass 1726 01:32:54.199 --> 01:32:56.960 and uh, you know, it's kind of itchy. And so 1727 01:32:57.399 --> 01:33:00.000 that that is one thing I'm not fond of Bermuda 1728 01:33:00.239 --> 01:33:02.640 for the other thing is Bermuda grass. In order to 1729 01:33:02.680 --> 01:33:05.199 look its best, you got to mow it frequently. And 1730 01:33:05.359 --> 01:33:08.000 it's a great turf grass. Nothing's wrong with the turf grass, 1731 01:33:08.039 --> 01:33:13.399 I mean in terms of just being outstanding, but you 1732 01:33:13.520 --> 01:33:15.840 need to mow it regularly. That's why golf courses look 1733 01:33:15.920 --> 01:33:18.039 so good in football fields and things. They are mowing 1734 01:33:18.119 --> 01:33:21.439 those things very very frequently, so you can go either way. 1735 01:33:21.840 --> 01:33:23.920 That and zoys is another good grass. You ought to 1736 01:33:23.960 --> 01:33:27.119 consider that one as well. It's an outstanding grass. If 1737 01:33:27.159 --> 01:33:30.279 you go you're up there in College Station, the Aggie 1738 01:33:30.359 --> 01:33:34.359 Turf has a website. It's Aggie Turf dot t a 1739 01:33:34.640 --> 01:33:38.560 m U dot ed u Aggie Turf dot t a 1740 01:33:38.840 --> 01:33:42.000 m U dot ed u dot. At the bottom left, 1741 01:33:42.079 --> 01:33:44.960 it'll be the turf varieties and or turf types and 1742 01:33:45.039 --> 01:33:47.159 they'll be saying it'll list them all. If you click 1743 01:33:47.199 --> 01:33:50.199 on Bermuda, it'll give you a long list of bermuda 1744 01:33:50.359 --> 01:33:53.800 seed varieties. Bermuda is one of the grasses we can 1745 01:33:53.920 --> 01:33:56.600 plant from seed. It's not easy to do because you're 1746 01:33:56.640 --> 01:33:58.640 dealing with a little tiny seedlings there and you get 1747 01:33:58.640 --> 01:34:01.920 a gully washer rain all the seeds off to one spot, 1748 01:34:02.520 --> 01:34:04.960 but you can do it. And all the varieties that 1749 01:34:05.000 --> 01:34:07.720 they would recommend are listed there. You can go shopping 1750 01:34:07.800 --> 01:34:10.079 for one of those. And being in the area you're in, 1751 01:34:10.199 --> 01:34:12.000 you go up to producer's co op. They're going to 1752 01:34:12.039 --> 01:34:14.159 have some grass seeds up there probably for you. 1753 01:34:15.560 --> 01:34:18.800 Quick question, do I do the dirt first and then 1754 01:34:18.880 --> 01:34:23.079 the seed or the soil or the seed and then 1755 01:34:23.119 --> 01:34:23.560 the soil. 1756 01:34:24.840 --> 01:34:27.439 You got different approaches. One would be to get out 1757 01:34:27.479 --> 01:34:30.359 there and spray and kill all the weeds and kill 1758 01:34:30.439 --> 01:34:32.439 all the Saint Augustine, and you're going to kill some 1759 01:34:32.520 --> 01:34:35.439 of the bermuda with it anyway, because when you seed, 1760 01:34:35.680 --> 01:34:38.439 your bermuda is going to be a different bermuda than 1761 01:34:38.520 --> 01:34:41.720 what's growing in your lawn right now, and so there 1762 01:34:41.840 --> 01:34:44.399 may be a little difference in rate of growth or 1763 01:34:45.000 --> 01:34:47.640 coloring or something. So it might be good just to 1764 01:34:47.680 --> 01:34:50.479 get rid of everything and then start over with your seed. 1765 01:34:51.680 --> 01:34:54.680 Oh okay, okay, So I do fit the dirt down 1766 01:34:54.760 --> 01:34:56.319 first to level it off, and then. 1767 01:34:56.560 --> 01:35:00.039 Yes, yes, get the dirt and all that first, and 1768 01:35:00.119 --> 01:35:02.039 then plant your seeds. Go ahead and get that done 1769 01:35:02.079 --> 01:35:04.359 pretty soon. Bermuda is going to be really interested in 1770 01:35:04.439 --> 01:35:08.399 growing in April, so start that work, uh, that soil work, 1771 01:35:08.920 --> 01:35:10.399 so that you can be ready to go. Hey, I'm 1772 01:35:10.479 --> 01:35:12.840 up against the heartbreak. But thanks for calling. Call back 1773 01:35:12.880 --> 01:35:14.600 Andy anytime you like. Appreciate that. 1774 01:35:14.720 --> 01:35:15.960 Thanks, Get five folks. 1775 01:35:16.640 --> 01:35:26.520 M all right, we're going to run. I'll be right back. Folks. Alrighty, 1776 01:35:26.600 --> 01:35:29.319 welcome back to guard Line. Good to have you with 1777 01:35:29.439 --> 01:35:31.720 us today. The phone number you will need this if 1778 01:35:31.720 --> 01:35:33.960 you would like to call seven one three two one 1779 01:35:34.039 --> 01:35:36.359 two k t r H seven one three two and 1780 01:35:36.479 --> 01:35:39.039 two k t r H. Just you know, talking about 1781 01:35:39.079 --> 01:35:41.720 the weeds and things, but weeds and lawns. Weeds and lawns, 1782 01:35:41.760 --> 01:35:43.880 that's a topic of the day. But if that's what 1783 01:35:44.119 --> 01:35:46.680 you want to know about, then Carl, we'll talk about that. 1784 01:35:47.000 --> 01:35:50.399 That's good. Just a reminder that our warm season weeds 1785 01:35:50.439 --> 01:35:52.960 have been germinating now for a couple of several weeks. 1786 01:35:53.279 --> 01:35:53.359 Uh. 1787 01:35:53.520 --> 01:35:56.680 And depending on where you live. I realize we've got 1788 01:35:56.680 --> 01:36:01.000 people listening in Galveston and Huntsville and Louisiana on down 1789 01:36:01.039 --> 01:36:04.119 to Corpus, so you know, all those areas are a 1790 01:36:04.119 --> 01:36:06.600 little different on the timing. But bottom line is you 1791 01:36:06.680 --> 01:36:09.600 got warm seasoned weeds in all those areas. Germany right now. 1792 01:36:10.000 --> 01:36:11.920 You got to get the barricade down if you're gonna 1793 01:36:11.920 --> 01:36:15.159 prevent them. If you're going to prevent them, okay, you 1794 01:36:15.239 --> 01:36:17.920 put it down, you water it in. It forms a barricade. 1795 01:36:18.079 --> 01:36:20.600 The weed tries to sprout, the weed seed, can't you 1796 01:36:20.760 --> 01:36:23.079 never see the weed. It's working invisibly. 1797 01:36:23.760 --> 01:36:23.840 Now. 1798 01:36:23.920 --> 01:36:27.239 The alternative after the weed sprout is to come back 1799 01:36:27.399 --> 01:36:29.640 with a post emergent and try to kill them, but 1800 01:36:30.039 --> 01:36:32.880 that brings a whole bunch of other issues, like damaging 1801 01:36:32.960 --> 01:36:35.640 other desirable plants, or it gets hot and you're damaging 1802 01:36:35.720 --> 01:36:38.199 your grass with some of those products. So it's easiest 1803 01:36:38.279 --> 01:36:40.399 just to prevent them in the first place, and barricade 1804 01:36:40.439 --> 01:36:44.399 does that. Now you're gonna find barricade and other nitrofost 1805 01:36:44.439 --> 01:36:47.960 products it places like Fisher Shardbrow in Southomore down in Pasadena, 1806 01:36:48.119 --> 01:36:50.960 or the Fisher Shardburn La Port and Broadway are the one. 1807 01:36:51.039 --> 01:36:53.560 There's three of them down there. Actually there's another one. 1808 01:36:53.920 --> 01:36:55.640 Let me just tell you about a four melt. Bellevue 1809 01:36:55.680 --> 01:36:58.880 has a fishures on FM thirty one eighty and Baytown 1810 01:36:58.960 --> 01:37:02.439 has one. See it's on twelve hundred Alexander down there 1811 01:37:03.119 --> 01:37:06.840 in the Baytown area. Many places to get night foster 1812 01:37:06.880 --> 01:37:12.000 products here in the Greater Houston area. If you are 1813 01:37:12.119 --> 01:37:14.359 into native plants, or if you want to be, you know, 1814 01:37:14.560 --> 01:37:17.399 like you've heard about natives, you'd like to try some 1815 01:37:17.520 --> 01:37:20.119 different native plants, You're not going to find a better 1816 01:37:20.199 --> 01:37:24.079 place than Buchanans native plants. They're specialists in that. Now, 1817 01:37:24.239 --> 01:37:26.439 don't think that that's all they have. They have got 1818 01:37:27.039 --> 01:37:29.079 every kind of plant you can imagine that you find 1819 01:37:29.119 --> 01:37:31.680 it in any garden center. I mean, they have a 1820 01:37:31.880 --> 01:37:34.640 wide variety, and they have things that you don't find 1821 01:37:34.720 --> 01:37:40.439 anywhere else. They are extremely good at bringing in things 1822 01:37:40.520 --> 01:37:43.560 that work, that are new and that are cool. And 1823 01:37:43.760 --> 01:37:46.279 part of the new cool are those natives that we 1824 01:37:46.399 --> 01:37:48.760 just haven't had on the market before, and Buchanans gets 1825 01:37:48.800 --> 01:37:50.920 them and they bring them in. And they have natives 1826 01:37:50.960 --> 01:37:53.960 for shade, they have natives for sunny areas. They certainly do. 1827 01:37:54.600 --> 01:37:58.079 If you want natives that attract butterflies or that attract hummingbirds. 1828 01:37:58.359 --> 01:38:00.800 If you're looking for natives that are fly powering vines 1829 01:38:01.159 --> 01:38:03.479 or flowering tree. Do you see what I'm saying, they 1830 01:38:03.600 --> 01:38:05.960 have them there. If you're in the Houston area and 1831 01:38:06.000 --> 01:38:08.880 you want a native that is from Houston that he 1832 01:38:09.000 --> 01:38:12.640 grows right there at your agree there before we lived there, right, 1833 01:38:13.800 --> 01:38:16.359 and they've got that. If you want just a general 1834 01:38:16.439 --> 01:38:19.439 Texas natives from outside the Houston area. But they do 1835 01:38:19.600 --> 01:38:22.479 real well here. They have those. Have I made my 1836 01:38:22.640 --> 01:38:27.800 point Eleventh Street in the Heights. Buchanansplants dot Com. Go 1837 01:38:27.880 --> 01:38:31.039 to the website, sign up for the newsletter. Awesome, awesome 1838 01:38:31.119 --> 01:38:34.000 newsletter and good information on there, but most of all, 1839 01:38:34.159 --> 01:38:36.560 just get out there and enjoy a trip out to 1840 01:38:36.640 --> 01:38:40.079 Bugannon's plants. It's a wonderful place. We're going to go 1841 01:38:40.159 --> 01:38:42.399 down now to Angleton and we're going to talk to 1842 01:38:42.479 --> 01:38:44.960 Bonnie next. Hey, Bonnie, welcome to garden Line. 1843 01:38:46.039 --> 01:38:47.920 Good morning, sir. How are you this morning? 1844 01:38:48.760 --> 01:38:49.760 I'm doing well, thank you. 1845 01:38:51.880 --> 01:38:52.399 I have a. 1846 01:38:52.479 --> 01:38:57.880 Mimosa tree and it's a small ones. It's probably half 1847 01:38:58.000 --> 01:39:00.880 to three quarters of an inch in diameter, and last 1848 01:39:00.960 --> 01:39:07.359 year it got really long and whispy, and I cut 1849 01:39:07.439 --> 01:39:13.359 it back about a third in early March, and now 1850 01:39:13.600 --> 01:39:17.720 it is sprouting from the very top and the very bottom. 1851 01:39:18.479 --> 01:39:22.359 And I was wondering which one I should leave, or 1852 01:39:22.560 --> 01:39:23.720 I should leave both of them. 1853 01:39:23.800 --> 01:39:26.800 The bottom one actually looks like a little tree. The 1854 01:39:26.880 --> 01:39:30.479 top one is just like, you know, little branches coming out. 1855 01:39:31.560 --> 01:39:34.840 Yeah, well, esthetically, what do you want it to look like? 1856 01:39:35.000 --> 01:39:38.039 If the one that's already there looks good to you, 1857 01:39:38.399 --> 01:39:40.319 then leave it and cut the ones at the bottom off. 1858 01:39:40.880 --> 01:39:42.600 If not, you can cut that trunk off at the 1859 01:39:42.640 --> 01:39:46.720 bottom and you'll have a multi stemmed trunk coming out 1860 01:39:47.199 --> 01:39:52.039 from the base. After that mimosa is a lanky plant. 1861 01:39:52.239 --> 01:39:54.920 It just naturally grows that way. People often will take 1862 01:39:54.960 --> 01:39:57.720 them and they'll they may even use like a tree 1863 01:39:57.760 --> 01:40:01.359 stabilizer three sixty tree stableized are to hold them in 1864 01:40:01.479 --> 01:40:05.520 place so that trunk goes upright, uh and then begins 1865 01:40:05.600 --> 01:40:09.199 to branch out up at the top. But there's not 1866 01:40:09.359 --> 01:40:12.359 a right way to trim those they it's just the 1867 01:40:12.479 --> 01:40:15.359 growth habit of the plant and what you aesthetically want 1868 01:40:15.399 --> 01:40:17.199 to look at, what your goal is for it? 1869 01:40:18.920 --> 01:40:20.479 All right, well, I thank you very much. 1870 01:40:20.520 --> 01:40:20.720 Sure. 1871 01:40:21.479 --> 01:40:23.880 Yeah, So if you leave that trunk, you can straighten 1872 01:40:23.920 --> 01:40:26.399 it up, put a three sixty stabilizer on it, get 1873 01:40:26.439 --> 01:40:28.720 it pointed the way you want, and then just let 1874 01:40:28.800 --> 01:40:31.239 those branches up there grow and it'll form a head 1875 01:40:31.359 --> 01:40:34.159 or a top to the plant. And that's that's certainly 1876 01:40:34.159 --> 01:40:37.239 an option. But thank you binding for the call that 1877 01:40:37.439 --> 01:40:41.279 those are plants, that old Southern plant been around a 1878 01:40:41.359 --> 01:40:44.279 long time, and it has its you know, they have 1879 01:40:44.359 --> 01:40:48.479 their detractors. But it is a beautiful blooming plant, that's 1880 01:40:48.520 --> 01:40:48.880 for sure. 1881 01:40:49.039 --> 01:40:49.279 Thank you. 1882 01:40:49.479 --> 01:40:52.359 Okay, So if this was your mimosa, what would you do, sir? 1883 01:40:53.720 --> 01:40:56.119 Well, if I could see it, I could tell you that, 1884 01:40:56.520 --> 01:41:00.199 but I from what I'm hearing from you. Unless that 1885 01:41:00.560 --> 01:41:06.319 existing trunk is just really not good, I would try 1886 01:41:06.399 --> 01:41:08.520 straightening it up and going with the trunk you already 1887 01:41:08.560 --> 01:41:12.039 have because you got a head start there. But again 1888 01:41:13.119 --> 01:41:14.359 I need to see it to be sure. 1889 01:41:14.920 --> 01:41:15.359 But thank you. 1890 01:41:15.600 --> 01:41:17.840 Thank you very much for the call. Appreciate it. Call 1891 01:41:17.960 --> 01:41:21.199 back you anytime you're listening to garden Line our phone 1892 01:41:21.239 --> 01:41:24.239 number seven one three two one two kat rh give 1893 01:41:24.239 --> 01:41:26.239 me a call. We'll talk about the things that are 1894 01:41:26.239 --> 01:41:30.000 of interest to you. Hey, it's time. If you love 1895 01:41:30.840 --> 01:41:34.960 doing your gardening stuff organically, then you definitely If you 1896 01:41:35.000 --> 01:41:36.640 don't already know about it, you need to know about 1897 01:41:36.680 --> 01:41:41.000 Microlife the green bag six two four Microlife six two 1898 01:41:41.079 --> 01:41:43.079 four of the green bag that is the lawn fertilizer, 1899 01:41:43.199 --> 01:41:46.920 number one selling organic fertilizer in Houston. It doesn't burn 1900 01:41:47.119 --> 01:41:49.159 your lawn, doesn't burn other plants. And by the way, 1901 01:41:49.199 --> 01:41:51.319 I use it for things other than the one, because 1902 01:41:51.359 --> 01:41:53.079 it's good for a lot of different things. You can 1903 01:41:53.199 --> 01:41:56.800 use it on. Put it on Azelia's although Microlife has 1904 01:41:56.880 --> 01:42:00.359 an acid loving plant food as well, flowers, back digetable. 1905 01:42:00.359 --> 01:42:03.079 I've use it in vegetable gardens all number of times, 1906 01:42:03.399 --> 01:42:06.439 tree shrubs, roses containers. I mean, it's not going to burn. 1907 01:42:06.920 --> 01:42:09.720 It's a good fertilizer that works. It contains billions of 1908 01:42:09.840 --> 01:42:13.560 beneficial microbes. And you know, you can buy it by 1909 01:42:13.600 --> 01:42:14.960 the jug or you can buy it by the bag. 1910 01:42:15.000 --> 01:42:17.159 I usually buy it by the bag. You know, bulk 1911 01:42:17.279 --> 01:42:21.159 is always more economical. But either way, it's a good 1912 01:42:21.239 --> 01:42:24.359 product and it's widely available. Now, when you do that, 1913 01:42:24.560 --> 01:42:29.319 consider also getting their concentrated compost in the bag. It's 1914 01:42:29.359 --> 01:42:32.479 a Humus type price in a purple bag. Okay, hum 1915 01:42:32.479 --> 01:42:35.960 mates plus. So consider that one hu mats plus that 1916 01:42:36.119 --> 01:42:38.239 is not put on to make your grass all green 1917 01:42:38.319 --> 01:42:41.600 and grow fast. It's put on to improve soil and 1918 01:42:41.680 --> 01:42:43.640 it's got some nutrient in it, but it's put on 1919 01:42:43.800 --> 01:42:46.319 to improve your soil quality and texture because that's what 1920 01:42:46.479 --> 01:42:50.880 humus does, the final decomposition. So when you take composts 1921 01:42:50.960 --> 01:42:53.800 and you let it break down further and further, you're 1922 01:42:53.840 --> 01:42:57.319 heading toward Humus and hum mats plus concentrated composts in 1923 01:42:57.359 --> 01:43:00.600 the bag. So green bag plus purple bag. Think of 1924 01:43:00.680 --> 01:43:03.920 it that way for microlife easy to find all over town. 1925 01:43:06.039 --> 01:43:08.039 You're listening to the guardline. We're here to help you 1926 01:43:08.279 --> 01:43:10.159 have success. In your gardens. If you'd like to give 1927 01:43:10.199 --> 01:43:12.439 us a call, I'll be happy to visit with you 1928 01:43:12.680 --> 01:43:15.840 about the things that might be of interest to you. 1929 01:43:16.560 --> 01:43:20.239 I was checking out in Chanted Gardens. That that is 1930 01:43:20.319 --> 01:43:24.640 the garden center that is on the Katie Folscher side 1931 01:43:24.640 --> 01:43:28.319 of Richmond. So if you're in Richmond and you're heading 1932 01:43:28.880 --> 01:43:32.159 up toward Katie Folscher, the actual road there on is 1933 01:43:32.560 --> 01:43:36.960 an intersection there, it's FM three point fifty nine. Had 1934 01:43:37.000 --> 01:43:39.319 to stop and think there for a second. I would 1935 01:43:39.359 --> 01:43:41.920 suggest you first just go to the website and that 1936 01:43:42.039 --> 01:43:44.960 way you see where they are, you find information out, 1937 01:43:45.000 --> 01:43:49.199 phone numbers, whatever you need. Let's see the website is 1938 01:43:50.039 --> 01:43:54.439 the name of the garden center, Enchanted Gardens Richmond dot com. 1939 01:43:54.600 --> 01:43:57.680 In Chanted Gardens Richmond dot com mitteran since nineteen ninety five. 1940 01:43:58.199 --> 01:44:02.039 And I'm telling you the folks there, they're enthusiastic, they're helpful, 1941 01:44:02.640 --> 01:44:05.560 and no matter what you need, it's there. And if 1942 01:44:05.600 --> 01:44:08.560 you want to do some creating on your own, they 1943 01:44:08.600 --> 01:44:10.479 can help you with that. Like maybe I'm one of 1944 01:44:10.520 --> 01:44:15.880 their nice metal wire hanging baskets that's cocoa core lined 1945 01:44:16.479 --> 01:44:18.800 that you fill up and you plant all kinds of things. 1946 01:44:19.000 --> 01:44:20.560 It could be one that hangs in the shade of 1947 01:44:20.640 --> 01:44:22.760 shade leving plants. It could be something that's in the 1948 01:44:22.960 --> 01:44:25.680 sun with blooming, trailing plants coming out of it. I mean, 1949 01:44:26.439 --> 01:44:29.800 the possibilities are endless. And they know about the brown 1950 01:44:29.840 --> 01:44:33.279 stuff before green stuff because they carry microlife and nitrofoss 1951 01:44:33.319 --> 01:44:36.560 and Nelson plant food and Medina soil products. You know, 1952 01:44:36.760 --> 01:44:38.800 you hear me talk about Nature's Way and heirloom soil. 1953 01:44:38.880 --> 01:44:42.000 They carry products from both of those. They're at intended 1954 01:44:42.079 --> 01:44:44.680 gardens in Richmond. They're open Monday through Saturday eight to 1955 01:44:44.800 --> 01:44:48.800 five today ten am to four pm. So when I 1956 01:44:48.880 --> 01:44:51.760 quit talking on garden line, they open the doors. They're 1957 01:44:51.920 --> 01:44:54.560 at intended gardens, not because I quit talking on guardenline, 1958 01:44:54.600 --> 01:44:57.000 but that just happens to fall to the same time. 1959 01:44:57.359 --> 01:44:59.840 I'll promise you this, if you go with friends, family, 1960 01:45:00.039 --> 01:45:02.760 take them out there. It is a wonderful place to visit. 1961 01:45:02.800 --> 01:45:08.399 It's really nice, really nice place. Let's uh, let's head 1962 01:45:08.439 --> 01:45:11.279 out to Conroe now, and we're going to talk to Dan. 1963 01:45:11.640 --> 01:45:11.880 Hello. 1964 01:45:12.039 --> 01:45:14.279 Dan, Hi, I. 1965 01:45:14.399 --> 01:45:17.880 Met you at your willis Ace Hardware several weeks ago, 1966 01:45:18.439 --> 01:45:22.000 and oh good, yeah, purchase. I purchased barricade and I 1967 01:45:22.039 --> 01:45:26.159 put barricade on my Saint Augustine lawn and then I 1968 01:45:26.279 --> 01:45:31.359 followed it up with the the red uh fimus I 1969 01:45:31.439 --> 01:45:34.279 believes fertilized. 1970 01:45:34.880 --> 01:45:36.520 Anyway, Yes, I have a lot. 1971 01:45:36.720 --> 01:45:38.960 I still have a lot of clover coming up in 1972 01:45:39.039 --> 01:45:41.760 my yard and I'm wanting I was hearing you say 1973 01:45:41.760 --> 01:45:43.840 you could spray it with something. Is there something I 1974 01:45:43.920 --> 01:45:46.520 can spray that with? Now go back and try to 1975 01:45:46.720 --> 01:45:47.199 get rid. 1976 01:45:47.119 --> 01:45:48.840 Of the clothes. 1977 01:45:48.920 --> 01:45:54.039 Yes, uh, yes, so what what what if it is clover? 1978 01:45:54.279 --> 01:45:57.239 There are other plants that look like clover. There's oxalas, 1979 01:45:57.479 --> 01:46:01.119 and there's medic and there's others. So I if it's 1980 01:46:01.279 --> 01:46:04.279 coming up now, it's probably not clover. Clover is a 1981 01:46:04.359 --> 01:46:07.840 cool season weed, and the cool season weeds are flowering 1982 01:46:07.920 --> 01:46:09.800 and dying. That's what they're going to be doing the 1983 01:46:09.880 --> 01:46:10.319 next month. 1984 01:46:10.880 --> 01:46:13.000 So on some of this. 1985 01:46:14.159 --> 01:46:18.279 Ah, Okay, that sounds like an oxalis to me. You 1986 01:46:18.399 --> 01:46:22.039 need a post emergent you post emergent broad leaf weed 1987 01:46:22.199 --> 01:46:27.359 control product. Okay. So you're there in the you know, 1988 01:46:27.479 --> 01:46:31.039 the conro area. You got some places that you can 1989 01:46:31.119 --> 01:46:33.159 go that you know are going to be kind of 1990 01:46:33.199 --> 01:46:36.159 what you're looking for. But I would I would suggest 1991 01:46:36.560 --> 01:46:39.199 that you get a spray in this case, and mix 1992 01:46:39.319 --> 01:46:42.800 it in water and put that spray out and make 1993 01:46:42.880 --> 01:46:44.960 sure you get it on the plants. It always helps 1994 01:46:45.039 --> 01:46:49.800 to also purchase a surfactant. A surfactant is basically an 1995 01:46:49.920 --> 01:46:52.800 additive to the spray that makes it stick to slick 1996 01:46:52.960 --> 01:46:56.279 leaves and not roll off, so you get better results 1997 01:46:56.840 --> 01:47:00.720 because of that. Okay, now you are not too far 1998 01:47:00.840 --> 01:47:02.079 away from. 1999 01:47:03.600 --> 01:47:03.800 Gosh. 2000 01:47:03.880 --> 01:47:10.199 I just I just drew a blank my head Growers outlet. 2001 01:47:10.239 --> 01:47:14.760 That's what I was trying to say. Yeah, yeah, thank you, 2002 01:47:14.960 --> 01:47:19.239 thanks for helping me through this. Yeah. Yeah, they're going 2003 01:47:19.319 --> 01:47:21.640 to have you know, there's product like Bow Night has 2004 01:47:21.680 --> 01:47:25.239 one called weed Beater Ultra that I would suggest, Furlong's 2005 01:47:25.279 --> 01:47:28.159 Weed Free Zone, there's one from high Yield, there's one 2006 01:47:28.239 --> 01:47:31.720 from Monoey. All these manufacturers have some version of a 2007 01:47:31.840 --> 01:47:35.079 broad leaf post emergent weed control. But get it done now. 2008 01:47:35.199 --> 01:47:38.239 The sooner you apply it, the better. Mix it according 2009 01:47:38.279 --> 01:47:41.479 to the label. Don't make it too strong, follow the label, 2010 01:47:41.920 --> 01:47:45.439 and do it soon. If it's gonna rain, when you're 2011 01:47:45.479 --> 01:47:48.439 gonna spray within the next let's say six hours, I 2012 01:47:48.479 --> 01:47:50.479 would wait to spray until after the rain. 2013 01:47:51.760 --> 01:47:54.079 Okay, give me the night considered. 2014 01:47:55.319 --> 01:47:55.640 Give me. 2015 01:47:59.800 --> 01:48:00.119 Up. 2016 01:48:00.399 --> 01:48:01.800 I'll tell you what. You know, what I'm at a 2017 01:48:01.880 --> 01:48:03.640 I'm at a heartbreak. Hang on, Dan, I'm gonna have 2018 01:48:03.680 --> 01:48:10.920 to answer that on the other side. Pots all right, 2019 01:48:11.000 --> 01:48:16.319 take off your shoes. This is sock hop times. There 2020 01:48:16.399 --> 01:48:20.840 we go. Well, little Bill Haley in the comments going there. Hey, 2021 01:48:20.880 --> 01:48:22.479 welcome back to Gardline. Good to have you with us. 2022 01:48:22.520 --> 01:48:24.800 We're going to go back to Conro now and continue 2023 01:48:24.840 --> 01:48:28.399 our conversation with Diane. So, Diane, you were asking about 2024 01:48:28.399 --> 01:48:31.079 broadly options, and I'm just giving you a few here, 2025 01:48:31.640 --> 01:48:33.560 you know, because there's there's a lot of them out there, 2026 01:48:33.960 --> 01:48:37.479 but weed beater ultra uh or there are several weed 2027 01:48:37.520 --> 01:48:40.399 beater products, but the spray is not the granule for 2028 01:48:40.560 --> 01:48:42.880 what for what you're needing to do. Don't do the 2029 01:48:43.239 --> 01:48:45.199 complete bag of granules. 2030 01:48:45.319 --> 01:48:46.880 Do do ultra questions? 2031 01:48:47.039 --> 01:48:50.399 Or I bought I bought a I bought a multi 2032 01:48:50.439 --> 01:48:53.800 purpose sprayer. Can I just put it in that and 2033 01:48:54.000 --> 01:48:55.479 use a multi proper sprayer for that? 2034 01:48:57.439 --> 01:48:59.520 What do you mean by multipurpose sprayer? 2035 01:49:00.199 --> 01:49:02.479 Well, it's a big plastic holds a gallon. 2036 01:49:02.600 --> 01:49:05.439 It's a plastic bottle. 2037 01:49:05.199 --> 01:49:05.960 With a pump on it. 2038 01:49:07.000 --> 01:49:10.840 I oh, and I've never done this before, and I 2039 01:49:10.960 --> 01:49:13.199 bought the sprayer when I met. 2040 01:49:13.119 --> 01:49:13.720 You that day. 2041 01:49:14.000 --> 01:49:16.840 The man that was there for the fertilizer, he had 2042 01:49:16.880 --> 01:49:19.359 told me I could get the strong vinegar to kill 2043 01:49:19.439 --> 01:49:21.439 the weeds in a garden area that I'm not. 2044 01:49:21.520 --> 01:49:23.760 Going to and I want to keep this all good. 2045 01:49:24.119 --> 01:49:27.079 Well, I bought this sprayer and when I opened it 2046 01:49:27.199 --> 01:49:30.720 up and I read the directions inside, it says, don't 2047 01:49:30.800 --> 01:49:31.560 use vinegar in it. 2048 01:49:31.840 --> 01:49:34.039 What kind of sprayer can I use vinegar in? 2049 01:49:37.039 --> 01:49:37.479 Oh boy? 2050 01:49:37.880 --> 01:49:38.000 Uh? 2051 01:49:39.079 --> 01:49:41.800 Basically, something with plastic parts is not going to be 2052 01:49:41.840 --> 01:49:45.600 as affected. The problem with vinegar being an acid, it 2053 01:49:45.760 --> 01:49:49.760 can it has a corrosive effect on it can have 2054 01:49:49.840 --> 01:49:54.119 a corrosive effect on some metals and stuff. So yeah, 2055 01:49:54.279 --> 01:49:56.880 that people do vinegar and sprayers, but then they just 2056 01:49:57.159 --> 01:50:00.520 wash them out real good. But meaning put some fresh 2057 01:50:00.600 --> 01:50:02.800 water in there and run it through, and run it through, 2058 01:50:02.840 --> 01:50:05.680 and run it through. Make sure you completely rents out 2059 01:50:05.760 --> 01:50:08.079 those lines. A couple of times with it and you'll 2060 01:50:08.119 --> 01:50:10.960 be all right. So back back to the back to 2061 01:50:11.039 --> 01:50:13.079 the product. First of all, that sprayer you got to 2062 01:50:13.119 --> 01:50:15.079 stoop down to spray the ground, right. 2063 01:50:16.760 --> 01:50:17.600 Well, I don't think so. 2064 01:50:17.800 --> 01:50:19.159 It's got a long handle on it. 2065 01:50:20.000 --> 01:50:23.319 Oh, okay, okay, I was picturing the wrong kind of thing. 2066 01:50:25.119 --> 01:50:26.079 I mean, I don't I think. 2067 01:50:28.239 --> 01:50:30.880 Okay, well, there are sprayers with plastic parts, and that 2068 01:50:31.000 --> 01:50:33.000 may be. That may be a better way to go 2069 01:50:33.119 --> 01:50:37.039 on it. But anyway, beside that, bone eyed weed beater 2070 01:50:37.479 --> 01:50:43.640 is what you're looking for. Weed beater ultra is one 2071 01:50:43.720 --> 01:50:47.520 of the weed beaters. Ultra is fine, except as it 2072 01:50:47.640 --> 01:50:51.159 heats up, it can damage your grass. So spray early 2073 01:50:51.239 --> 01:50:52.880 in the morning and get it done in the next 2074 01:50:52.920 --> 01:50:55.319 couple of weeks before the weather starts getting too hot. 2075 01:50:56.039 --> 01:50:56.159 Uh. 2076 01:50:56.439 --> 01:51:01.960 Then fertiloon weed free zone, furloan treesons another one. But listen, 2077 01:51:02.159 --> 01:51:05.159 you go back in your ACE hardware store there and 2078 01:51:05.600 --> 01:51:07.399 and just tell them you need a broad leaf post 2079 01:51:07.479 --> 01:51:09.920 emergent WEEKI or they're gonna have several options for you. 2080 01:51:10.479 --> 01:51:13.279 And some of them may say something like trimech on 2081 01:51:13.439 --> 01:51:17.640 the label. That's another description of a group of three 2082 01:51:17.920 --> 01:51:21.800 ingredients specifically, but many. I need to make a fact 2083 01:51:21.840 --> 01:51:25.119 sheet on this because it may it would make it 2084 01:51:25.159 --> 01:51:27.600 so much easier for folks to follow. But I'll see 2085 01:51:27.600 --> 01:51:29.760 if I can get that done. But he anyway, good, look, 2086 01:51:30.600 --> 01:51:31.319 I just hit. 2087 01:51:31.239 --> 01:51:34.479 Those spots where I'm seeing the spray is directly on 2088 01:51:34.640 --> 01:51:36.039 those wes Okay. 2089 01:51:36.199 --> 01:51:38.840 On those weads directly. You don't need to drench them. 2090 01:51:39.159 --> 01:51:41.920 Just when you dampen the leaf, that's it. If you 2091 01:51:42.000 --> 01:51:44.600 spray more and it drips off your waist and spray 2092 01:51:44.800 --> 01:51:50.640 all right. Thank you, Dan Lost, I'm sorry I cut 2093 01:51:50.960 --> 01:51:53.359 you off there before you I came back on that. 2094 01:51:54.039 --> 01:51:54.159 Uh. 2095 01:51:54.720 --> 01:51:57.199 Ace Hardware stores are good, you know she was talking 2096 01:51:57.199 --> 01:51:59.520 about the one up there in the Willis area. There's 2097 01:51:59.520 --> 01:52:01.760 a lot of at Ace harder Sturch. If you go 2098 01:52:01.840 --> 01:52:05.960 to Acehardware Texas dot com, Acehardware Texas dot com. You 2099 01:52:06.039 --> 01:52:08.359 can find the stores in our local Houston group that 2100 01:52:08.439 --> 01:52:10.760 we talked about here on guard Line. And yes, there 2101 01:52:10.880 --> 01:52:13.199 is the one up there in aceh If you are 2102 01:52:13.279 --> 01:52:16.840 done in League City, there is a League City Ace 2103 01:52:16.840 --> 01:52:19.159 Hardware if you're over in Victoria. First of all, thanks 2104 01:52:19.159 --> 01:52:21.119 for listening to guard Line. You got the one on 2105 01:52:21.560 --> 01:52:25.279 Navora Street there all seasons. ACE Hardware is the one 2106 01:52:25.479 --> 01:52:27.640 that we were just talking about with Diane up in 2107 01:52:28.000 --> 01:52:30.439 the Willis area, and then out in Kingwood we got 2108 01:52:31.000 --> 01:52:35.199 Ka and m Ace Hardware, Don and Wharton, Wharton Feed 2109 01:52:35.279 --> 01:52:37.840 and Ace Hardware. And I'm just listening to you. There's 2110 01:52:37.920 --> 01:52:40.560 dozens of them, dozens of them, So go check out 2111 01:52:40.680 --> 01:52:44.399 ACE Hardware Texas dot com. Any kind of product you 2112 01:52:44.479 --> 01:52:46.800 hear me talking about needen, I would first start with 2113 01:52:46.880 --> 01:52:49.680 your East Hardware store locally. You're probably gonna find it there. 2114 01:52:51.239 --> 01:52:53.560 You're listening to Gardenline. I'm your host, Skip Richter, and 2115 01:52:53.640 --> 01:52:56.840 we're here to help you have success in your garden. 2116 01:52:57.039 --> 01:53:01.159 That's what we're looking for. And when it comes to summertime, 2117 01:53:01.840 --> 01:53:05.279 our lawns really wake up and start to grow when 2118 01:53:05.319 --> 01:53:08.119 it gets hot. Saint Augustine doesn't care about our heat. 2119 01:53:08.319 --> 01:53:10.680 It does care about lack of moisture in the soil. 2120 01:53:11.319 --> 01:53:14.399 And to the degree that nutrients are lacking, growth will 2121 01:53:14.439 --> 01:53:16.720 be lacking. So what do you do Well, you don't 2122 01:53:16.800 --> 01:53:20.039 overfertilize with nitrogen because it's already wanting to grow, but 2123 01:53:20.199 --> 01:53:23.119 you give it nitrogen because it supports growth. The reason 2124 01:53:23.199 --> 01:53:26.439 alon is green is because of nitrogen and magnesium primarily, 2125 01:53:27.359 --> 01:53:30.279 and the reason that a lawn is growing is because 2126 01:53:30.399 --> 01:53:35.520 of nitrogen. So Nitropos has created a product called Nitropos Superturf. 2127 01:53:36.079 --> 01:53:39.319 It's the Silver Bag Silver Bag now it's a nineteen 2128 01:53:39.520 --> 01:53:43.439 four ten fertilizer that's four one two ratio, which is 2129 01:53:43.600 --> 01:53:49.520 excellent for turf. By releasing the nitrogen slowly, super turf 2130 01:53:49.720 --> 01:53:53.479 gradually feeds your lawn over four months. And if it 2131 01:53:53.600 --> 01:53:56.880 released it fast, you would mow more because you've overdone 2132 01:53:56.880 --> 01:54:00.239 the nitrogen right. But it doesn't do that. It takes 2133 01:54:00.319 --> 01:54:05.520 the It takes the thinking and doing work and does 2134 01:54:05.600 --> 01:54:08.600 it for you. You put on super turf now and 2135 01:54:09.000 --> 01:54:11.079 you enjoy it for four months, a beautiful law and 2136 01:54:11.119 --> 01:54:12.840 don't have to worry about it again. Really, you know, 2137 01:54:12.840 --> 01:54:15.000 I mean you can. Some people are putting it on 2138 01:54:15.119 --> 01:54:17.520 this month, some next month, and they're going to carry 2139 01:54:17.560 --> 01:54:19.640 them all the way really into the when it's time 2140 01:54:19.680 --> 01:54:23.159 to do fall fertilization. But anyway, superterf from night Foss 2141 01:54:23.279 --> 01:54:27.039 available places like M and D Beamer Uh, it's in 2142 01:54:27.359 --> 01:54:30.359 a Sagemont area. If you go to the Colar Lake area. 2143 01:54:30.439 --> 01:54:32.920 You got the M and D on Bay Area Boulevard 2144 01:54:33.000 --> 01:54:35.960 done and Alvin Stanton shopping Center on North Taylor. Well, 2145 01:54:36.000 --> 01:54:39.119 these are all places where you can find nitro foss products. 2146 01:54:41.479 --> 01:54:43.199 Let me see give you the number again if you'd 2147 01:54:43.279 --> 01:54:45.640 like to call. We've where are we now? Well, we 2148 01:54:45.760 --> 01:54:48.039 got a little over an hour left here on guardline 2149 01:54:48.119 --> 01:54:48.560 this morning. 2150 01:54:49.159 --> 01:54:49.279 Uh. 2151 01:54:49.479 --> 01:54:51.960 The phone number is seven one three two one two 2152 01:54:52.239 --> 01:54:55.439 k t r H. Seven one three two one two 2153 01:54:55.640 --> 01:54:56.119 k t r H. 2154 01:54:56.199 --> 01:54:56.600 Gim me call. 2155 01:54:56.720 --> 01:55:00.159 Let's talk about the things that you're interested in now 2156 01:55:00.199 --> 01:55:04.039 if you're down south and east. In fact, you don't 2157 01:55:04.079 --> 01:55:06.479 even have to be down there. Moss Nursery is a 2158 01:55:06.520 --> 01:55:08.439 place you need to go. I don't care where you live. 2159 01:55:08.520 --> 01:55:11.520 You're listening. Maybe you've done in Victoria. Drive up here. 2160 01:55:11.800 --> 01:55:15.039 I know it's a drive, but this is called horticultural tourism. 2161 01:55:15.119 --> 01:55:16.720 We got a lot of great nurseries here you need 2162 01:55:16.760 --> 01:55:19.800 to come see. But Moss Nursery is done in Seabrook 2163 01:55:20.079 --> 01:55:26.239 and it is so unique. Eight acres on eight acres, 2164 01:55:26.600 --> 01:55:29.800 and just you wander and every time you turn a corner, 2165 01:55:30.000 --> 01:55:31.800 you know there's First of all, there's pottery. 2166 01:55:31.880 --> 01:55:32.000 Ever. 2167 01:55:32.359 --> 01:55:35.560 They have the biggest pottery selection i've seen. It's not 2168 01:55:35.760 --> 01:55:38.520 just another garden center. This is a seventy year old 2169 01:55:38.560 --> 01:55:42.640 family operated garden center that is everything you need for 2170 01:55:42.720 --> 01:55:46.279 your landscape, your garden and your interior homescape too. You 2171 01:55:46.359 --> 01:55:49.079 know we're talking about house plans. Go check out the 2172 01:55:49.159 --> 01:55:52.880 house Plant Greenhouse. It is awesome and Before you walk 2173 01:55:52.920 --> 01:55:56.520 into it, you have to walk past these giant staghorn ferns, 2174 01:55:56.600 --> 01:55:59.079 and you know, staghorn ferns are really cool, and you 2175 01:55:59.199 --> 01:56:01.119 buy little ones from them to get started. Are you 2176 01:56:01.199 --> 01:56:04.600 can buy these monsters that are hanging by chains from 2177 01:56:04.680 --> 01:56:08.720 the trees that are just stunning. But that's how they 2178 01:56:08.800 --> 01:56:11.159 do things there. They have bones eye plants that they 2179 01:56:11.239 --> 01:56:14.000 get in Over there, they have you know, little starters, 2180 01:56:14.359 --> 01:56:16.479 probably fifty to one hundred different kinds of bones eye 2181 01:56:16.560 --> 01:56:21.000 baby plants, and it's a great way to get started 2182 01:56:21.079 --> 01:56:23.279 in a cool hobby like that. Do you want blooming 2183 01:56:23.359 --> 01:56:27.279 trees like Chinese fringe? Are the deciduous magnolias that just 2184 01:56:27.359 --> 01:56:32.359 bloomed recently? Red buds? They've got those. Whatever you're looking for, 2185 01:56:32.960 --> 01:56:35.640 and if you're looking for color for your landscape beds, 2186 01:56:35.960 --> 01:56:39.520 everything from melyssam to zenias A to z it's all 2187 01:56:39.600 --> 01:56:43.600 there at Moss Nursery on todd Brook Toddville Road in 2188 01:56:43.760 --> 01:56:47.439 c Brook, Texas. Moss Nursery dot com. It's spelled m 2189 01:56:47.520 --> 01:56:51.880 aa s Nursery dot com. Time for me to take 2190 01:56:51.880 --> 01:56:53.960 a quick break. When we come back, Bridget and Don 2191 01:56:54.039 --> 01:57:02.000 you'll be our first two up. Texas all right, every done, 2192 01:57:02.000 --> 01:57:05.640 and then I gotta throw a little bit of yoldling music. 2193 01:57:05.720 --> 01:57:08.000 And I'm not gonna subject you to too much here, 2194 01:57:08.119 --> 01:57:10.760 but don Walser, how many of you saw the movie 2195 01:57:11.159 --> 01:57:14.840 Secondhand Lions. This is the theme song from that movie. 2196 01:57:15.560 --> 01:57:17.239 If you haven't seen that movie, you need to see it. 2197 01:57:17.279 --> 01:57:19.760 It's pretty cool. That's right, and he gets to yodling 2198 01:57:19.840 --> 01:57:22.600 here on us. So where we're gonna move on? Listen. 2199 01:57:22.680 --> 01:57:25.720 Spring Creek Feed Center is your hometown garden center for 2200 01:57:25.800 --> 01:57:29.279 those of you up in the Magnolia area on FM 2201 01:57:29.560 --> 01:57:32.880 twenty nine seventy eight. This is near Grand Parkway Highway 2202 01:57:32.920 --> 01:57:35.039 to forty nine, kind of north and a little west 2203 01:57:35.119 --> 01:57:38.640 of Tomball itself. They have a wide range of fertilizers 2204 01:57:38.680 --> 01:57:41.359 that I talk about, from Nelson turf Stars to Microlife 2205 01:57:41.399 --> 01:57:44.960 to nitrofoss. They carry products from pretty much all the 2206 01:57:45.039 --> 01:57:48.960 manufacturers you hear me suggesting people use for the things 2207 01:57:49.000 --> 01:57:51.560 they're looking for right now. They've got half whiskey barrels 2208 01:57:51.720 --> 01:57:56.279 and whole whiskey barrel planners. They're really cool. From the 2209 01:57:56.439 --> 01:57:59.720 Jack Daniels whiskey barrel planners. That's kind of cool. You'll 2210 01:57:59.720 --> 01:58:02.039 find some plants there as well. They carry those and 2211 01:58:02.520 --> 01:58:05.800 again all the products you need with friendly service in 2212 01:58:05.960 --> 01:58:08.680 Magnolia on FM twenty nine to seventy eight Spring Creek 2213 01:58:08.720 --> 01:58:13.199 Feed Center. They have special options that can also allow you, 2214 01:58:13.319 --> 01:58:15.159 for example, maybe they don't have something you need to 2215 01:58:15.199 --> 01:58:17.760 special order, talk to them about that. They'll work with 2216 01:58:17.840 --> 01:58:20.359 you on that. They do a really really good job 2217 01:58:20.439 --> 01:58:23.760 of that. They carry products. You know, I was talking 2218 01:58:23.760 --> 01:58:27.199 to somebody about Medina the other day. Medina products. There's 2219 01:58:27.199 --> 01:58:29.039 so many of them. I spin Hole show just talking 2220 01:58:29.079 --> 01:58:31.840 about Medina. But the has to grow six twelve six. 2221 01:58:31.880 --> 01:58:33.520 I was telling them you need to get that because 2222 01:58:33.560 --> 01:58:35.840 you mix it in water, you drench it onto the 2223 01:58:35.920 --> 01:58:38.560 plants when you plant them. Now you can use it 2224 01:58:38.600 --> 01:58:42.000 as a foldier feed. But this is planning spring planting season, 2225 01:58:42.119 --> 01:58:44.880 so I'm focusing on it in this way. Has to 2226 01:58:45.000 --> 01:58:48.840 grow six twelve six plant food hiphosphorus. You drench it 2227 01:58:48.880 --> 01:58:51.239 on the plant to help that root system as it 2228 01:58:51.359 --> 01:58:55.039 begins to go and take off. Do it a week later, 2229 01:58:55.159 --> 01:58:57.239 do it a week after that, like three times a 2230 01:58:57.279 --> 01:59:00.560 week or two apart, and that will give your plant 2231 01:59:00.760 --> 01:59:03.039 the best chance to hit the ground run. And again 2232 01:59:03.319 --> 01:59:07.479 it's from Medina, widely available, easy to find at most 2233 01:59:07.520 --> 01:59:10.159 of the police places that you hear me talk about 2234 01:59:10.159 --> 01:59:13.199 sponsoring this show, garden center, speed stores, that kind of thing, 2235 01:59:13.600 --> 01:59:16.760 Ace hardware stores. You're going to find Medina products. Let's 2236 01:59:16.800 --> 01:59:19.159 head out to Spring and we're going to talk to Bridget. Hey, 2237 01:59:19.239 --> 01:59:20.560 bridget Welcome to Gardline. 2238 01:59:20.600 --> 01:59:21.880 Good morning, Good morning. 2239 01:59:22.399 --> 01:59:23.319 I have a quick question. 2240 01:59:24.159 --> 01:59:27.960 My son asked me why his Saint Augustine was making 2241 01:59:28.039 --> 01:59:31.640 these tufts of extra long blades when he's cutting it. 2242 01:59:31.720 --> 01:59:35.600 It's all the same time he's using nitrofoss schedule, he's 2243 01:59:35.680 --> 01:59:36.640 using the barricade. 2244 01:59:36.720 --> 01:59:37.520 It's not weeds. 2245 01:59:39.399 --> 01:59:41.520 I don't think it's a sprinkler issue. It's just he's 2246 01:59:41.560 --> 01:59:45.199 got these tufts of extra long Saint Augustine going on 2247 01:59:45.399 --> 01:59:47.680 any thoughts on that, And it's not the whole grass. 2248 01:59:47.720 --> 01:59:51.720 It's just yeah that when you say it is in 2249 01:59:51.880 --> 01:59:54.359 using the word tuffs, that's kind of curious. I'm not 2250 01:59:54.520 --> 01:59:57.359 sure I've seen what you're talking about. Uh, if he 2251 01:59:57.439 --> 02:00:01.159 could take a picture up close, maybe one of the yard, 2252 02:00:01.279 --> 02:00:02.840 kind of from a little bit of a distance showing 2253 02:00:02.880 --> 02:00:05.399 the tufts and then up close showing them, showing that 2254 02:00:05.600 --> 02:00:07.880 grass that's in the touts, it may be another kind 2255 02:00:07.920 --> 02:00:10.119 of grass run in there. There are some grasses that 2256 02:00:10.239 --> 02:00:12.760 look a lot like Saint Augustine, the weeds that grow 2257 02:00:12.840 --> 02:00:16.279 in Saint Augustine, So that bridget. That's the only way 2258 02:00:16.279 --> 02:00:17.520 I can give you a good answer on. 2259 02:00:17.600 --> 02:00:20.800 It, because I'll get down there and look a little closer. 2260 02:00:20.880 --> 02:00:23.960 Then yeah, let me put you let me well, I'm 2261 02:00:24.000 --> 02:00:25.600 going to put you on hold, and if you want, 2262 02:00:25.800 --> 02:00:28.479 you can you can get an email from a producer 2263 02:00:28.640 --> 02:00:30.560 and then send me a photo and I'll be happy 2264 02:00:30.640 --> 02:00:34.520 to tackle that. Okay, okay, thank you, all right, thank you, 2265 02:00:34.920 --> 02:00:38.039 thank you very much. Appreciate you waiting. Uh yeah, that's 2266 02:00:38.199 --> 02:00:38.880 very unusual. 2267 02:00:39.239 --> 02:00:39.359 Uh. 2268 02:00:39.720 --> 02:00:42.159 The tree hugger sprinkler or something I talk about all 2269 02:00:42.199 --> 02:00:45.279 the time, and listen, I wish they would call it 2270 02:00:45.439 --> 02:00:48.640 the plant hugger sprinkler because it's good for trees, but 2271 02:00:48.720 --> 02:00:51.319 it's good for shrubs, it's good for roses, it's good 2272 02:00:51.359 --> 02:00:54.520 for that with steria vine that you planted the woody, 2273 02:00:54.560 --> 02:00:56.960 with steria vine you plant in the ark. It goes 2274 02:00:57.039 --> 02:00:59.720 around a plant and you decide how much of an 2275 02:00:59.760 --> 02:01:01.399 air you want to water. You turn it on a 2276 02:01:01.439 --> 02:01:03.800 little bit in little weather, a little area like seven 2277 02:01:03.880 --> 02:01:07.199 inches across or fifteen inches across. You turn it on 2278 02:01:07.319 --> 02:01:08.800 more and you can water a tree. It's been in 2279 02:01:08.840 --> 02:01:11.199 a ground five years and it's big, and you're rescuing 2280 02:01:11.239 --> 02:01:13.520 it from summer one hundred degrees with no rain for 2281 02:01:13.680 --> 02:01:18.319 four weeks or whatever. Tree huggers are very useful. Hang 2282 02:01:18.359 --> 02:01:20.239 them in the garage. You're gonna want them, You're gonna 2283 02:01:20.319 --> 02:01:21.920 use them over and over again. You can go to 2284 02:01:22.000 --> 02:01:25.760 tree Hugger Sprinklers dot com. Tree Hugger Sprinklers dot com. 2285 02:01:26.600 --> 02:01:31.680 They absolutely it's just one of the coolest new products 2286 02:01:31.720 --> 02:01:32.119 we've seen. 2287 02:01:32.399 --> 02:01:32.479 Now. 2288 02:01:32.479 --> 02:01:35.279 If you're an independent nursery or garden center, hardware store, 2289 02:01:35.359 --> 02:01:38.039 feedstore and you want to stock the products, contact the 2290 02:01:38.119 --> 02:01:40.279 good people at tree Hugger Sprinklers and they'll help you 2291 02:01:40.399 --> 02:01:42.399 get set up to do that because these are things 2292 02:01:42.439 --> 02:01:45.840 people are gonna want. Tree Hugger Sprinklers dot Com right now. 2293 02:01:45.920 --> 02:01:48.720 You can find them at Southwest Fertilizers, Sinkle Ranch ase 2294 02:01:48.880 --> 02:01:52.680 kDas K and m A S and A Tascasita fulshere 2295 02:01:52.760 --> 02:01:55.920 Ace and Channing Forest and Gardens done in in the 2296 02:01:56.199 --> 02:01:59.479 Richmond Rosenberg area, Kingwood Garden Center and Warren's out there 2297 02:01:59.479 --> 02:02:03.319 in Kingwood rcw Arborgate Nelson water Garden and nursery and 2298 02:02:03.399 --> 02:02:05.600 Katie d and D Feeding tom All. I mean, I'm 2299 02:02:05.640 --> 02:02:08.279 getting tired reading all these places. League City Feed and 2300 02:02:08.359 --> 02:02:10.920 then I just talked about Spring Creek Feed Center. They 2301 02:02:11.000 --> 02:02:13.239 have them there too. We're going to go back to 2302 02:02:13.319 --> 02:02:16.479 the phones now and talk to Don in Sugarland. Hey Don, 2303 02:02:17.479 --> 02:02:18.000 good morning. 2304 02:02:18.039 --> 02:02:18.359 Skip. 2305 02:02:18.680 --> 02:02:18.800 Uh. 2306 02:02:19.119 --> 02:02:21.239 I'm in a part of Fort Bean County that has 2307 02:02:21.439 --> 02:02:25.199 the citrus counker disease and a couple of years ago 2308 02:02:25.279 --> 02:02:28.520 they took out one of my grapefruit trees, which. 2309 02:02:28.359 --> 02:02:29.600 Are happy about. 2310 02:02:29.760 --> 02:02:33.159 But anyway, they said there's no cure for that stuff 2311 02:02:33.239 --> 02:02:36.079 and the only thing they recommend was copper based panja 2312 02:02:36.159 --> 02:02:40.279 sides springing about once a week for I guess until eternity. 2313 02:02:41.039 --> 02:02:43.720 Uh is there any update on that or is there 2314 02:02:43.760 --> 02:02:44.600 anything you run? 2315 02:02:44.760 --> 02:02:44.880 Now? 2316 02:02:46.760 --> 02:02:47.279 No, there's not. 2317 02:02:47.479 --> 02:02:48.319 It's just kill. 2318 02:02:50.720 --> 02:02:56.520 It is well. Uh, you know, they just think of 2319 02:02:56.560 --> 02:02:58.880 it as you got a crowd of people and then 2320 02:02:58.920 --> 02:03:02.439 you got someone that's uh you know, coffin I E 2321 02:03:02.600 --> 02:03:05.279 bowl or whatever going through the crowd. 2322 02:03:05.840 --> 02:03:05.960 Uh. 2323 02:03:06.399 --> 02:03:08.880 It's it's gonna infact a lot of people. And that's 2324 02:03:08.880 --> 02:03:10.840 why theyre that's why they do kill the trees and 2325 02:03:11.039 --> 02:03:13.880 and they need to be killed because it it if 2326 02:03:14.239 --> 02:03:16.600 the more of a stronghold it sets up, the more 2327 02:03:16.640 --> 02:03:18.960 people can't grow centrius there in that area, and so 2328 02:03:19.119 --> 02:03:21.399 getting it out is the only way. There's a little 2329 02:03:21.439 --> 02:03:26.199 insect that spreads. There's citrus canker and then there's citrus greening, 2330 02:03:26.319 --> 02:03:28.560 and both of them are reasons why you can't buy 2331 02:03:28.640 --> 02:03:33.159 citrus in Montgomery and Fort Bend and Harris and several 2332 02:03:33.239 --> 02:03:36.239 other counties in this area and carry them outside the 2333 02:03:36.319 --> 02:03:39.239 county because they are trying to quarantine it and shut 2334 02:03:39.319 --> 02:03:39.600 it down. 2335 02:03:40.279 --> 02:03:43.199 Will the copper base on just saw it do anytime. 2336 02:03:44.279 --> 02:03:47.720 It was the canker that one disease it will help 2337 02:03:47.880 --> 02:03:52.239 suppress because copper is a is uh is an effective 2338 02:03:52.279 --> 02:03:57.680 product against bacteria and against u some fungi as well too, 2339 02:03:57.760 --> 02:04:01.520 by the way, but it's not gonna cure that. It's 2340 02:04:01.600 --> 02:04:04.319 not going to cure the plant. I would have to 2341 02:04:04.399 --> 02:04:07.439 go look on citrus greening on the schedule, you got it. 2342 02:04:07.880 --> 02:04:09.840 I don't think copper is a good long term solution 2343 02:04:10.039 --> 02:04:12.359 at all. And here's why. The more you spray copper, 2344 02:04:12.479 --> 02:04:15.319 at some point you're putting too much copper around that plant. 2345 02:04:15.720 --> 02:04:20.000 And there that is an issue that's you just don't 2346 02:04:20.000 --> 02:04:26.600 want to get into but I would have to the 2347 02:04:26.720 --> 02:04:30.760 stems stems as well and the branches. There is a 2348 02:04:30.920 --> 02:04:33.479 I think the website is citrus greening dot com. Did 2349 02:04:33.520 --> 02:04:36.000 they tell you about that website any chance? 2350 02:04:36.640 --> 02:04:39.079 Was the counter at one point? 2351 02:04:40.159 --> 02:04:47.239 I'm sorry? Yeah, yeah, yeah, okay. I keep switching between 2352 02:04:47.359 --> 02:04:51.720 the two because they're both here and they're both an 2353 02:04:51.800 --> 02:04:56.520 equal and equal problem. There is information on citrus canker 2354 02:04:56.720 --> 02:05:00.920 on the Texas Department of Agriculture website. University of Florida 2355 02:05:01.039 --> 02:05:05.439 Extension has a really good publication on citrus canker, and 2356 02:05:05.560 --> 02:05:07.479 I would I would go to one of those two 2357 02:05:07.920 --> 02:05:11.039 sources for more information on how to how to deal 2358 02:05:11.079 --> 02:05:14.840 with it. I don't think, all right, sir, they told 2359 02:05:14.920 --> 02:05:18.079 us there was any cure for it, so yeah, whether no, 2360 02:05:18.199 --> 02:05:21.000 there's not a curing it, And the sooner you get 2361 02:05:21.079 --> 02:05:23.920 rid of a plant that has it, the better chance 2362 02:05:24.000 --> 02:05:26.960 you have of being able to have citrus in the future. 2363 02:05:27.159 --> 02:05:28.680 Yeah, okay, okay, I appreciate that. 2364 02:05:28.760 --> 02:05:30.159 I want to get your tight time, all right. 2365 02:05:30.159 --> 02:05:33.039 So sorry to be the bearer of bad news. That's 2366 02:05:33.079 --> 02:05:37.479 a bad one, that's for sure. Okay, Well, you're listening 2367 02:05:37.520 --> 02:05:40.680 to Guardline and we Unfortunately, we have some issues we 2368 02:05:40.760 --> 02:05:43.840 have to deal with here like that that citrus canker 2369 02:05:43.960 --> 02:05:47.600 and citrus greening are just they ruin your day, that's 2370 02:05:47.640 --> 02:05:49.600 for sure. As you're in Houston down and kind of 2371 02:05:49.680 --> 02:05:52.600 southwest area, I know was a hotspot for a while. 2372 02:05:52.640 --> 02:05:54.560 Bridge would come in through there and all the way 2373 02:05:54.640 --> 02:05:57.680 down into Fort ben County. There's some hotspots and it's 2374 02:05:57.760 --> 02:06:02.000 a shame. It's a shame, but it is what it is. Unfortunately. Well, 2375 02:06:02.520 --> 02:06:05.159 let's see Warren Southern Gardens and Kingwood Garden Center out 2376 02:06:05.239 --> 02:06:07.680 in the Kingwood area are both open seven days a week, 2377 02:06:07.760 --> 02:06:10.199 so you can go by today. Warren's is on North Park, 2378 02:06:10.640 --> 02:06:12.680 Kingwood is on Stone Hollow. I'm going to be at 2379 02:06:12.720 --> 02:06:17.039 Warren Southern Gardens next Saturday from twelve thirty to two thirty, 2380 02:06:17.239 --> 02:06:19.319 so grab you some lunch or bring a sandwich and 2381 02:06:19.439 --> 02:06:23.039 eat in front of me. We'll talk. Well, first of all, 2382 02:06:23.039 --> 02:06:25.039 you're going to enjoy shop in the garden center. They 2383 02:06:25.199 --> 02:06:28.840 just have an outstanding selection of all kinds of things. 2384 02:06:28.920 --> 02:06:34.520 I mean really really nice selection, whether it's flowers or fruit, 2385 02:06:34.640 --> 02:06:37.960 or vegetables or you name it. Beautiful containers. I help 2386 02:06:38.000 --> 02:06:41.680 you with the continent designing a container planting too. It's 2387 02:06:41.760 --> 02:06:43.960 just they're both great garden centers to go to. I 2388 02:06:44.039 --> 02:06:47.239 love the gift shop there at a Kingwood Garden Center. 2389 02:06:47.279 --> 02:06:51.159 It's really outstanding. And they have a great plant selection too. Again. 2390 02:06:51.279 --> 02:06:54.560 Warren Southern Gardens on North Park, Kingwood Garden Center on 2391 02:06:54.720 --> 02:06:58.640 Stone Hollow serving that whole area, Kingwood Humble, A Taska Seed, 2392 02:06:58.680 --> 02:07:01.920 a Porter Valley Ranch, cany. All you folks have some 2393 02:07:02.039 --> 02:07:05.439 outstanding garden centers, and you're gonna find the stuff, the 2394 02:07:05.520 --> 02:07:10.319 brown stuff before green stuff, Microlife, Nitrofoss, turf Star, Hairloom soils, 2395 02:07:11.000 --> 02:07:14.279 Nelson plant Food, see what I'm talking about. They even 2396 02:07:14.319 --> 02:07:18.159 have the Microlife and Nelson plant Food filling stations. So 2397 02:07:18.279 --> 02:07:20.960 you buy Microlife or Nelson and a jar. When the 2398 02:07:21.039 --> 02:07:24.000 jar's empty, just go over to Warren's and Kigwood and 2399 02:07:24.159 --> 02:07:26.039 you just pull a little handle and refill your jar. 2400 02:07:26.159 --> 02:07:32.399 It's economical and you don't throw away plastic. All right, Well, 2401 02:07:32.479 --> 02:07:34.439 that our's in the books, which means we got one 2402 02:07:34.520 --> 02:07:37.479 more hour of garden line today. If you would like 2403 02:07:37.600 --> 02:07:40.000 to call ahead and get on the boards with it, Oh, 2404 02:07:40.000 --> 02:07:42.359 well you can be the first step seven one three 2405 02:07:42.880 --> 02:07:47.199 two one two KTRH. I'm gonna go grab some coffee. 2406 02:07:47.399 --> 02:07:50.680 I'm coming a little bit incoherent here so to see 2407 02:07:50.720 --> 02:07:54.079 if I can clean things up with another cup of coffee. 2408 02:07:54.439 --> 02:07:55.880 I hope you haven't a good Sunday morning. 2409 02:08:05.119 --> 02:08:09.720 Welcome to Katie r h Garden Line with Skip Richter's. 2410 02:08:09.239 --> 02:08:18.319 Smell the crazy heres gas can trim you just watch 2411 02:08:18.439 --> 02:08:21.199 him as well, Boss. 2412 02:08:24.600 --> 02:08:30.159 Many good things to seep baas guys like gas again 2413 02:08:30.279 --> 02:08:37.399 you Saba sid gas and gas. 2414 02:08:39.479 --> 02:08:42.560 The sun bemon of tweets. 2415 02:08:48.159 --> 02:08:52.880 Stop all right, folks, thanks for joining us here on 2416 02:08:52.960 --> 02:08:55.800 Guardline this morning. We've got an hour left, so here 2417 02:08:55.880 --> 02:08:58.359 we go. You got plenty to talk about. Some people 2418 02:08:58.479 --> 02:09:01.159 be calling in on various topics we got that are 2419 02:09:01.319 --> 02:09:04.760 very timely and pertinent right now. Number is seven one 2420 02:09:04.800 --> 02:09:07.720 three two on two ktr H seven one three two 2421 02:09:07.760 --> 02:09:11.760 and two k tige Asmyte is a product that is 2422 02:09:11.880 --> 02:09:16.039 mined in Utah and contains trace minerals. And there seems 2423 02:09:16.039 --> 02:09:18.439 to be confusion when I talk to folks about what's 2424 02:09:18.479 --> 02:09:20.800 a trade. What does trace mineral mean? Does that mean? 2425 02:09:21.560 --> 02:09:21.720 You know? 2426 02:09:21.920 --> 02:09:22.680 What does it mean? 2427 02:09:22.880 --> 02:09:25.399 And well, what it means is that you need a 2428 02:09:25.479 --> 02:09:28.359 little bit of it. But it's essential. So just because 2429 02:09:28.399 --> 02:09:32.760 you need a little, it's still essential. So so how 2430 02:09:32.800 --> 02:09:34.760 does that work? Okay, well, let's let's do this. Let's 2431 02:09:34.760 --> 02:09:37.359 take boron for example. Now, how many times have you 2432 02:09:37.399 --> 02:09:40.520 seen a fertilizer that says with boron on it it 2433 02:09:40.600 --> 02:09:44.000 doesn't it doesn't. You don't see that. And so what 2434 02:09:44.159 --> 02:09:46.439 happens is if you could go to your yard and 2435 02:09:46.600 --> 02:09:50.960 take every molecule of boron out of the ground, grass 2436 02:09:51.039 --> 02:09:54.600 couldn't grow, roses, couldn't grow vegetables. I mean, you can't 2437 02:09:54.680 --> 02:09:58.479 grow plants without boron. And that's one of many. You know, 2438 02:09:58.560 --> 02:10:02.600 there's like twenty roughly twenty different elements that plants need 2439 02:10:02.760 --> 02:10:04.760 in order to survive. Now they don't need a lot 2440 02:10:04.840 --> 02:10:08.119 of them, but they need them. They're essential. And that's azamite. 2441 02:10:08.319 --> 02:10:10.399 That's what we're talking about. That's why we put it down. 2442 02:10:10.840 --> 02:10:14.319 We put other regular fertilizers down because they have nitrogen 2443 02:10:14.479 --> 02:10:17.079 makes the grass grow right and makes it green and go. 2444 02:10:17.479 --> 02:10:20.600 But that grass in order to grow in the bank 2445 02:10:20.640 --> 02:10:22.840 account of your soil, you have to have the trace 2446 02:10:22.960 --> 02:10:27.520 minerals also called micronutrients that support that growth. You can 2447 02:10:27.560 --> 02:10:31.600 go to Azamite Texas dot com Azomite Texas dot Com 2448 02:10:32.000 --> 02:10:36.000 find out more information about it. But I'll tell you 2449 02:10:36.079 --> 02:10:38.920 this just when you hear me talk about retailers, garden center, 2450 02:10:38.960 --> 02:10:43.319 speed stores, nurseries, Southwest Fertilizers, Ace Hardware stores, those places, 2451 02:10:43.960 --> 02:10:46.279 you're probably going to find asmite wherever you go. I mean, 2452 02:10:46.439 --> 02:10:52.840 it's really widespread here in this area. Does well. Nitrophos is. 2453 02:10:52.960 --> 02:10:57.880 Super turf is the fertilizer that is for summertime, and 2454 02:10:58.560 --> 02:11:01.880 you in summertime begins. We'll just say that now if 2455 02:11:01.920 --> 02:11:05.239 you've used the fast green up, wait six weeks after 2456 02:11:05.359 --> 02:11:07.479 that to put down your super turf. If you haven't 2457 02:11:07.600 --> 02:11:10.279 used the fast green up, put the super turf down now. 2458 02:11:10.399 --> 02:11:12.720 You can do it now if you want. It's going 2459 02:11:12.800 --> 02:11:15.520 to give you four weeks or four months of feeding 2460 02:11:16.520 --> 02:11:19.600 and it releases gradually. And you can walk into a store, 2461 02:11:19.720 --> 02:11:22.159 look across the store and see the super Turf bags 2462 02:11:22.159 --> 02:11:25.039 because they're all silver. It so easy. Only thing like that, 2463 02:11:25.239 --> 02:11:27.560 it's really easy to find them. Went out, where do 2464 02:11:27.640 --> 02:11:30.439 you get it? Well, go down to Ace Hardware or 2465 02:11:30.520 --> 02:11:33.560 Lake hard excuse me, in Clute on Dixie Drive. You 2466 02:11:33.680 --> 02:11:39.000 go to Branham to Fisher's Hardware, plants and things excuse me. 2467 02:11:39.560 --> 02:11:43.079 Fishers in Baytown, plants and things in Brenham. There we go, 2468 02:11:43.439 --> 02:11:46.159 crossing them up. Just examples of the many places that 2469 02:11:46.199 --> 02:11:49.319 carry Knight to Foster products here in the greater Houston area. 2470 02:11:51.520 --> 02:11:54.159 All right, here, we're going to go now to Donna 2471 02:11:54.319 --> 02:11:57.560 in Beaumont. Hello, Donna, Welcome to Garden Line. 2472 02:11:58.800 --> 02:12:01.560 Hi, Skip, I just wanted to call and let your 2473 02:12:01.680 --> 02:12:03.720 listeners know that hummingbirds are here. 2474 02:12:03.960 --> 02:12:08.079 I was outside yesterday and I saw one on my azalea. 2475 02:12:07.720 --> 02:12:10.199 Plants, and oh my gosh. 2476 02:12:09.920 --> 02:12:13.399 I thought I didn't realize they would be here so early. 2477 02:12:14.760 --> 02:12:17.479 Yeah, well that's that. No, they do come early sometimes. 2478 02:12:17.560 --> 02:12:19.800 If a few people told me they've seen them over 2479 02:12:19.840 --> 02:12:23.199 the wintertime, one hanging around that didn't just decide to 2480 02:12:23.359 --> 02:12:26.279 hang out that. I appreciate you letting me know that 2481 02:12:26.640 --> 02:12:28.359 it's time to get your hummingbird feeders. 2482 02:12:28.399 --> 02:12:30.479 I guess right, yes, sir. 2483 02:12:30.399 --> 02:12:33.560 I guess so. I was very surprised when I saw it. 2484 02:12:33.680 --> 02:12:36.199 I had never seen one on the azaleas before, but 2485 02:12:36.319 --> 02:12:36.880 there it was. 2486 02:12:38.239 --> 02:12:41.199 Yeah. Well that's good. That's good. Well, thanks for letting 2487 02:12:41.239 --> 02:12:44.920 me know that. I appreciate that. Okay, good good report 2488 02:12:46.199 --> 02:12:49.640 you got. Thank you you as well. Yeah, So that 2489 02:12:49.840 --> 02:12:51.920 means that it's time to head over to Wallbirds and 2490 02:12:52.039 --> 02:12:55.279 get that feeder that I keep talking about for hummingbirds. 2491 02:12:55.319 --> 02:13:00.319 It's my favorite hummingbird feeder. It is, and it it's 2492 02:13:00.520 --> 02:13:03.640 just why do I like it? Well, you know hummingbird feeders, 2493 02:13:03.800 --> 02:13:05.359 there's a lot of them out there on the market. 2494 02:13:05.439 --> 02:13:07.880 You put your gater and the humming birds come. This 2495 02:13:08.079 --> 02:13:11.159 is called the high perch hummingbird feeder. The top covers 2496 02:13:11.279 --> 02:13:14.640 red and it's leakproof and proof. It's got a little 2497 02:13:14.640 --> 02:13:17.279 ant moat so ants can't get in there to the nectar. 2498 02:13:18.079 --> 02:13:22.199 But it's flat and so you can see the birds better. 2499 02:13:22.439 --> 02:13:24.279 You know, with a hummingbird feeder, they go around the 2500 02:13:24.319 --> 02:13:25.840 other side and you don't see them. But this one 2501 02:13:26.000 --> 02:13:30.039 it's better viewing and it works easy. It's a nice, 2502 02:13:30.039 --> 02:13:33.680 little beautiful feeder. But they have them at wild Birds Unlimited. 2503 02:13:33.840 --> 02:13:39.880 Wild Birds Unlimited is the place really to get anything 2504 02:13:40.039 --> 02:13:44.520 you need for birds, including advice. Those folks know what 2505 02:13:44.680 --> 02:13:48.359 they're talking about. You can get the wild Birds Unlimited 2506 02:13:48.600 --> 02:13:51.640 eliminator feeder. That's a tall one. My favorite feeder I 2507 02:13:51.720 --> 02:13:54.920 have for birds eat and because it keeps the squirrels 2508 02:13:54.960 --> 02:13:58.479 out and it really works. Trust me. Trust me, you 2509 02:13:58.840 --> 02:14:01.840 should hear the way the birds talk when the language 2510 02:14:01.880 --> 02:14:05.199 they use are the birds the squirrels they can't get 2511 02:14:05.239 --> 02:14:08.159 in and the language they use. Now, now's the time 2512 02:14:08.199 --> 02:14:11.239 for nesting. Super blend at Wabird's unlimited and it's set 2513 02:14:11.359 --> 02:14:14.680 up to be four birds when they're building the nests, 2514 02:14:14.800 --> 02:14:17.920 laying the young and raising the young. Very important to 2515 02:14:18.079 --> 02:14:21.359 have calcium in the diet, high protein in the diet. 2516 02:14:21.760 --> 02:14:24.159 It even has mealworms in it, which it's like crack 2517 02:14:24.239 --> 02:14:25.600 for birds. They love that stuff. 2518 02:14:26.159 --> 02:14:26.479 You go to. 2519 02:14:26.479 --> 02:14:28.680 Walbird's store near you. There's six of them. One in 2520 02:14:28.760 --> 02:14:32.239 clear Lake, there's one in Kingwood, one in Paarland, one 2521 02:14:32.640 --> 02:14:35.039 in Cyprus. There's two in Houston area here, one on 2522 02:14:35.119 --> 02:14:37.239 Memorial Drive on the west side, one on bel Air 2523 02:14:37.319 --> 02:14:41.479 down South. Just go to WBU dot com forward slash 2524 02:14:41.520 --> 02:14:45.640 Houston to find the Wallbirds store that's near you. And 2525 02:14:45.760 --> 02:14:47.319 we're going to go out to Kingwood now and talk 2526 02:14:47.359 --> 02:14:49.199 to Bill. Hey, Bill, welcome to guarden Line. 2527 02:14:51.600 --> 02:14:52.079 Good for you. 2528 02:14:52.239 --> 02:14:52.479 Skip. 2529 02:14:53.960 --> 02:14:56.560 I have a I'm trying to raise a bunch of 2530 02:14:56.600 --> 02:15:02.399 telphens here. Well, my family we make a thing called 2531 02:15:02.479 --> 02:15:04.079 sweet held a penis, So I'm. 2532 02:15:04.000 --> 02:15:06.399 Trying to raise it a whole bunch of different Okay. 2533 02:15:08.600 --> 02:15:11.439 So the problem, however, it is, is that in the 2534 02:15:11.600 --> 02:15:14.800 raised bed that I've got all the Callapenia plants in there, 2535 02:15:15.199 --> 02:15:18.319 at night whenever I don't I'm not out there with 2536 02:15:18.439 --> 02:15:22.439 my head light, there's a butt, there's a worm or something, 2537 02:15:22.520 --> 02:15:25.760 and I find what it is that is eating the 2538 02:15:25.840 --> 02:15:30.039 leaves off of the baby Callafenia pepper plants or actually, okay, 2539 02:15:30.479 --> 02:15:33.920 I'm betting the stems in there, and so it's at 2540 02:15:34.039 --> 02:15:35.640 night and I don't know what's going on. I was 2541 02:15:35.720 --> 02:15:36.560 wondering if you had. 2542 02:15:36.520 --> 02:15:43.960 A pigeons, well, cutting the stems sounds like a caterpillar 2543 02:15:44.720 --> 02:15:47.159 that we'll get down at the bottom and play Paul 2544 02:15:47.199 --> 02:15:49.560 Bunion with your plants and just cut them off like 2545 02:15:49.640 --> 02:15:52.880 it did with a saw or something. Uh, that's a possibility. 2546 02:15:52.960 --> 02:15:55.960 The eating the leaves could be a beetle or a caterpillar. 2547 02:15:56.119 --> 02:16:00.520 There's nocturnal versions of both. I would suggest spring plants 2548 02:16:00.600 --> 02:16:03.800 with spin. No said, now, that's an ingredient comes in 2549 02:16:03.880 --> 02:16:07.279 many brand names. But it's s P I N like spin, 2550 02:16:08.199 --> 02:16:12.520 and then the letter O and then sad like sad spin, 2551 02:16:12.920 --> 02:16:16.560 oh sad, and spray them really good and that will 2552 02:16:16.600 --> 02:16:21.680 control both caterpillars and beetles, and I think that will 2553 02:16:21.880 --> 02:16:23.520 shut it down. But you need to get that done 2554 02:16:23.560 --> 02:16:25.920 pretty quick where they do too much damage, because those 2555 02:16:25.960 --> 02:16:28.960 young plants, as you know, can't support that much damage 2556 02:16:29.000 --> 02:16:30.359 without really being set back. 2557 02:16:32.079 --> 02:16:32.280 Yeah. 2558 02:16:32.840 --> 02:16:37.040 I've read the book on Mexico pepper and they say 2559 02:16:37.120 --> 02:16:40.399 that peer get damaged when they're young, they will hardly 2560 02:16:40.719 --> 02:16:41.719 recover completely. 2561 02:16:42.959 --> 02:16:46.159 Okay, yep, that's right. Well, good luck with that out 2562 02:16:46.200 --> 02:16:48.120 there in Kingwood. Just bring me half your peppers if 2563 02:16:48.159 --> 02:16:54.399 this works, that's all I ask. Thanks Bill. All right, 2564 02:16:54.639 --> 02:16:56.600 We're going to go now to Paarland and talk to Jim. 2565 02:16:56.879 --> 02:16:58.879 Hey Jim, welcome to Guardland. 2566 02:17:00.440 --> 02:17:03.040 Good morning, Skip. I have a problem with my grass 2567 02:17:03.760 --> 02:17:06.000 since you had took an email with a couple of pictures. 2568 02:17:06.079 --> 02:17:07.120 I had some more, but I. 2569 02:17:08.760 --> 02:17:09.040 See it. 2570 02:17:09.239 --> 02:17:11.040 It would only let me send two pictures. 2571 02:17:11.920 --> 02:17:15.079 That's okay, I see all I need to see good photos. 2572 02:17:15.440 --> 02:17:20.239 That is Zoysio grass, right, yes, sir, uh huh. I 2573 02:17:20.360 --> 02:17:23.200 think you have take all root rot in it. From 2574 02:17:23.239 --> 02:17:26.000 the photos it looks exactly like take all root Rot. 2575 02:17:26.079 --> 02:17:29.520 If you go online to garden skip, Yeah, go to 2576 02:17:29.600 --> 02:17:31.840 gardening with Skip dot com. I talk about take all 2577 02:17:31.959 --> 02:17:33.959 and when to deal with it and what to use. 2578 02:17:34.079 --> 02:17:37.840 It's all on there. Uh and you're right now. I 2579 02:17:37.879 --> 02:17:42.000 would probably get some Spagnum Pete moss bales. They are 2580 02:17:42.120 --> 02:17:48.200 like three cubic foot compacted square bail plastic wrapped things. 2581 02:17:48.680 --> 02:17:51.879 You put one bail out per thousand square feet and 2582 02:17:52.040 --> 02:17:54.079 it only is going to cover at about a third 2583 02:17:54.120 --> 02:17:56.959 of an inch deep and watered in. That'll help for now. 2584 02:17:57.639 --> 02:18:00.399 If you spray a product that's an iron supple and 2585 02:18:00.479 --> 02:18:02.920 a zinc supplement on it, and there's some on the market. 2586 02:18:03.040 --> 02:18:06.159 Fertilom has one that will help the grass now too, 2587 02:18:06.200 --> 02:18:07.719 I tell it, Bill, Jim. I want to spend a 2588 02:18:07.719 --> 02:18:09.079 little more time with you on this, and I have 2589 02:18:09.159 --> 02:18:11.079 to go to break. Just hang on. I'll pick you 2590 02:18:11.200 --> 02:18:12.479 right back up when we come back. 2591 02:18:13.399 --> 02:18:17.000 To stop the flow of inaccurate information, a twenty five 2592 02:18:17.079 --> 02:18:20.120 percent increase in listening to our news and talk is 2593 02:18:20.239 --> 02:18:21.360 being added to your day. 2594 02:18:21.639 --> 02:18:23.200 Check in even more often. 2595 02:18:23.159 --> 02:18:25.840 Will possibly increase it or not, we'll see how it is. 2596 02:18:26.360 --> 02:18:29.399 Use radio seven forty ktrh. 2597 02:18:32.680 --> 02:18:33.399 Eighteen twenties. 2598 02:18:33.520 --> 02:18:36.840 When we're five years into prohibition, the government is starting 2599 02:18:36.879 --> 02:18:38.520 to go Okay, this doesn't work here. 2600 02:18:38.639 --> 02:18:41.120 I'm at Helms and on season three of Snapoo, we're 2601 02:18:41.159 --> 02:18:43.479 taking you back to the nineteen twenties and the tale 2602 02:18:43.639 --> 02:18:46.719 of Formula six. 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What I'm ninety nine percent sure is 2664 02:21:41.479 --> 02:21:44.399 take all root Rot in your zoysio grass and on 2665 02:21:44.600 --> 02:21:48.719 my schedule, which for everybody else listening is at gardening 2666 02:21:48.840 --> 02:21:51.879 with Skip dot com. It's a free download Take All 2667 02:21:52.000 --> 02:21:55.440 root Rot. We have two treatment times, primarily that we're 2668 02:21:55.479 --> 02:21:59.120 focusing on it. One of them, perhaps the most important one, 2669 02:21:59.600 --> 02:22:02.639 is in I October and then a repeat treatment in November. 2670 02:22:03.319 --> 02:22:06.319 Going into the cool season. We can still make a treatment. 2671 02:22:06.440 --> 02:22:10.000 Now it's not as effective, but you got to do something. 2672 02:22:10.079 --> 02:22:13.319 So what I had suggested for Jim is get some 2673 02:22:13.479 --> 02:22:16.360 spagnum peat moss, break it up, put it in a wheelbarrow. 2674 02:22:16.440 --> 02:22:18.680 You make little piles around the yard and then turn 2675 02:22:18.760 --> 02:22:21.319 a I use a soil rake and turn it upside 2676 02:22:21.360 --> 02:22:24.479 down where the times are pointing upward, and it's like 2677 02:22:24.600 --> 02:22:28.040 you're playing shuffleboard. You know, you're scooting it back and 2678 02:22:28.200 --> 02:22:30.280 forth and spreading it out as thin as you can. 2679 02:22:30.399 --> 02:22:33.280 It's about a third of an inch, so three cubic 2680 02:22:33.639 --> 02:22:37.000 three point eight cubic foot bail. That's three point eight 2681 02:22:37.040 --> 02:22:40.280 cubic feet covers about a thousand square feet and then 2682 02:22:40.360 --> 02:22:43.840 watered in. That's for now. Spraying the foliage with a 2683 02:22:43.959 --> 02:22:48.520 product that is going to contain micro nutrients. And Fertilom 2684 02:22:48.639 --> 02:22:51.360 has one in a gray bottle. Ferdlum does and I 2685 02:22:51.479 --> 02:22:53.600 can't remember the name of it, but it's going to 2686 02:22:53.639 --> 02:22:55.920 contain iron and zinc and it's from Fertilom, So that 2687 02:22:56.000 --> 02:23:01.399 would you can find that the disease kills roots, so 2688 02:23:01.600 --> 02:23:05.399 by doing the folier spray, you'll notice yellowing when take 2689 02:23:05.479 --> 02:23:08.200 All is attacking a lawn, and it's because the roots 2690 02:23:08.239 --> 02:23:10.360 can't get the plants can't get ironed because the roots 2691 02:23:10.360 --> 02:23:12.760 are being killed. So it's kind of like you're using 2692 02:23:12.840 --> 02:23:15.280 an IV to go around you know, when you can't 2693 02:23:15.440 --> 02:23:18.040 feed the patient food, you're using the IV to get 2694 02:23:18.079 --> 02:23:21.680 around it. And that is another step in it. The 2695 02:23:21.840 --> 02:23:25.040 other thing that I wanted to mention is when you spray, 2696 02:23:25.760 --> 02:23:28.000 if you look on the schedule, there are several products 2697 02:23:28.079 --> 02:23:32.440 on there. The best ingredient is a zoxy stroban and 2698 02:23:32.559 --> 02:23:35.600 it's on my schedule. And I think, Jim, you said 2699 02:23:35.639 --> 02:23:36.840 you had the schedule. 2700 02:23:36.520 --> 02:23:39.040 Right, Yes, sir, I'm looking at it. 2701 02:23:40.040 --> 02:23:43.920 Okay, good. A zoxy Stroban's the first one listed. There 2702 02:23:44.079 --> 02:23:47.159 used to be some other forms of azoxystrobin. The only 2703 02:23:47.239 --> 02:23:49.680 one I'm aware of on the market right now is 2704 02:23:49.760 --> 02:23:52.159 in a product and I'm going to give you the 2705 02:23:52.280 --> 02:23:55.680 name of it. It's one single product, so you don't 2706 02:23:55.719 --> 02:24:00.200 have options to my knowledge, and it's Scot's disease. These 2707 02:24:00.799 --> 02:24:08.239 ex Scot's disease e X capital E capital X, and 2708 02:24:08.360 --> 02:24:11.680 I would do that now and watered in because that 2709 02:24:12.479 --> 02:24:15.680 that disease product can go in the grass through the 2710 02:24:15.760 --> 02:24:19.440 roots as well. Now it's better to use it before 2711 02:24:19.520 --> 02:24:22.440 the problem is as extensive as it is becoming your 2712 02:24:22.520 --> 02:24:24.840 lawn because there's not a lot of roots there to 2713 02:24:24.920 --> 02:24:27.040 take it up. But you go ahead and use it now. 2714 02:24:27.680 --> 02:24:31.440 In the meantime, do extra care, you know, normally I 2715 02:24:31.520 --> 02:24:35.040 say water once or twice a week. Just realize that 2716 02:24:35.159 --> 02:24:37.479 grass and them it's roots. So when it gets hot 2717 02:24:37.600 --> 02:24:41.479 and the sun is shining, it's gonna be more drowdy 2718 02:24:41.719 --> 02:24:44.959 than a grass that does have roots would be. So 2719 02:24:45.200 --> 02:24:47.920 even though the soils a little on the dry side, 2720 02:24:47.959 --> 02:24:52.440 it's struggling. And so keep it moist adequately moist, and 2721 02:24:52.600 --> 02:24:57.959 then the peat moss, the using the micro nutrient products 2722 02:24:58.000 --> 02:25:00.680 spray that you do. You're gonna have to do the 2723 02:25:00.760 --> 02:25:04.440 spray for that uh and then then in fall, be 2724 02:25:04.600 --> 02:25:07.639 ready to do it again in October and again in November, 2725 02:25:07.760 --> 02:25:11.239 and you can turn it around. You may see some 2726 02:25:11.440 --> 02:25:15.559 continued decline just because this disease has moved pretty aggressively 2727 02:25:15.680 --> 02:25:16.360 into your lawn. 2728 02:25:18.920 --> 02:25:23.120 Yes, sir, I've got some areas on behind forum. I'm 2729 02:25:23.159 --> 02:25:26.319 looking worse in still good shape. Is there anything I 2730 02:25:26.440 --> 02:25:28.760 need to do to keep it from getting into that area? 2731 02:25:29.600 --> 02:25:31.360 I would I would do the disease X on that, 2732 02:25:31.959 --> 02:25:34.399 and I think you should be good there. Disease. It's 2733 02:25:34.559 --> 02:25:38.319 because diseases in general implants are much easier to prevent 2734 02:25:38.600 --> 02:25:41.559 than to cure, and so don't wait until it looks 2735 02:25:41.639 --> 02:25:44.440 real bad when you know, just go ahead and do it. 2736 02:25:44.719 --> 02:25:49.840 Be sure. Okay, okay, hey, thanks for calling it that 2737 02:25:50.040 --> 02:25:52.399 when I got your email. That's an important one. And 2738 02:25:52.559 --> 02:25:54.799 I know a lot of people have take on don't 2739 02:25:54.840 --> 02:25:57.079 even know they have it. So thanks, you appreciate the call. 2740 02:25:59.239 --> 02:26:01.360 All right, We're gonna go now to Paarland and talk 2741 02:26:01.440 --> 02:26:03.879 to Howard. Hey, Howard, welcome to guarden Line. 2742 02:26:05.120 --> 02:26:08.000 Hey, Skip, thank you for taking my call. I sank 2743 02:26:08.000 --> 02:26:13.360 you in some pictures this morning, some broccoli that was growing. Yes, 2744 02:26:13.959 --> 02:26:16.120 I've never grown broccoli, so I'm not sure when to 2745 02:26:16.200 --> 02:26:18.159 harvest it or how to harvest it. And I put 2746 02:26:18.239 --> 02:26:21.079 up ten across the head of the broccoli or the 2747 02:26:21.120 --> 02:26:21.840 point of reference. 2748 02:26:22.799 --> 02:26:25.399 I got your pictures, and here's the thing on the broccoli. 2749 02:26:25.520 --> 02:26:28.559 You can eat broccoli at any point, you know, once 2750 02:26:28.600 --> 02:26:31.959 you see the little quarter size heads pop up, you 2751 02:26:32.000 --> 02:26:34.319 could eat that if you want it. We generally let 2752 02:26:34.360 --> 02:26:36.000 it get as big as it's going to get. But 2753 02:26:36.079 --> 02:26:39.479 when you see those buds really swelling and the broccoli 2754 02:26:39.520 --> 02:26:41.840 heads starting to loosen a little bit, you need to 2755 02:26:41.840 --> 02:26:43.799 get it picked because it's going to be blooming soon. 2756 02:26:44.520 --> 02:26:47.479 So anytime along the way, I generally let them reach 2757 02:26:47.639 --> 02:26:50.319 whatever full size is going to be. And that varies 2758 02:26:50.360 --> 02:26:53.879 with varieties and whatnot, but you just harvest them at 2759 02:26:53.920 --> 02:26:55.920 that time and that that's your best bet. Now, you 2760 02:26:56.000 --> 02:26:58.840 also had an amarillis flower in your pictures. That's the 2761 02:26:58.959 --> 02:27:02.920 red trump like blooms. Those are amarillas, and they're a 2762 02:27:02.959 --> 02:27:03.680 great one to play. 2763 02:27:05.799 --> 02:27:07.719 I salvage that. I found it kind of growing, like 2764 02:27:07.799 --> 02:27:11.879 in a pile of leaves and six and I salvaged 2765 02:27:11.879 --> 02:27:13.959 it and planted it, and it's been doing quite well. 2766 02:27:14.000 --> 02:27:15.440 I've had it now for several years. 2767 02:27:16.239 --> 02:27:19.200 It's a it's a good one. It's a good, dependable bulb. 2768 02:27:20.799 --> 02:27:24.079 And then the other question was, I have I planted 2769 02:27:25.000 --> 02:27:27.680 a couple of avocado pits. Now one of them is 2770 02:27:27.760 --> 02:27:31.600 growing into a nice tree. There's another tree right next 2771 02:27:31.600 --> 02:27:33.239 to it in the same pot, and I'm not really 2772 02:27:33.280 --> 02:27:34.920 sure what kind of tree it is. And those are 2773 02:27:34.920 --> 02:27:36.440 the ones I send you that they have small leaves. 2774 02:27:36.440 --> 02:27:37.319 They're just coming out now. 2775 02:27:38.319 --> 02:27:40.559 Yeah, it's kind of hard for me to tell on that. 2776 02:27:41.280 --> 02:27:45.600 In some ways looks like a young pekan tree coming 2777 02:27:45.680 --> 02:27:48.159 up in the pot, which squirrels will do that. They'll 2778 02:27:48.159 --> 02:27:51.120 put a pecan seed in our a kernel or nut 2779 02:27:51.239 --> 02:27:54.000 in the ground. It kind of looks like that, but 2780 02:27:54.200 --> 02:27:55.920 we needed to get bigger for me to be able 2781 02:27:55.920 --> 02:27:57.120 to identify it for sure. 2782 02:27:58.479 --> 02:28:01.520 All right, I'll wait look at a little figure, all right, 2783 02:28:03.520 --> 02:28:05.680 Skip one question. After I harvest the brocoli, do I 2784 02:28:05.879 --> 02:28:08.159 uproot the plants or are they going to continue growing 2785 02:28:08.280 --> 02:28:09.319 additional stocks? 2786 02:28:10.159 --> 02:28:12.760 You will get some smaller site shots coming off of it, 2787 02:28:12.920 --> 02:28:15.239 so just be patient. We're getting a little late in 2788 02:28:15.319 --> 02:28:18.000 the season, but I think you'll still get another harvest 2789 02:28:18.079 --> 02:28:23.520 of much much smaller little florents florretts. Okay, I thank you, 2790 02:28:24.360 --> 02:28:27.440 you bet. I appreciate that very much. Anti ros and Porium. 2791 02:28:27.760 --> 02:28:29.840 It's a go to place for all kinds of plants. 2792 02:28:29.920 --> 02:28:31.920 I know it says roses, and they are roses, but 2793 02:28:31.959 --> 02:28:34.360 there's so much more. You go there and you find 2794 02:28:35.319 --> 02:28:37.959 things like natives and herbs and flowers and fruit trees, 2795 02:28:38.000 --> 02:28:40.280 and houseplants for example. They've got a lot of fresh 2796 02:28:40.440 --> 02:28:43.920 new arrivals coming in. They have their two new exclusively 2797 02:28:44.120 --> 02:28:48.760 Antique Rose and Porium Bread roses, and that's Glass Slipper 2798 02:28:49.280 --> 02:28:52.000 and Cupid's Sweetheart. You just need to go out there 2799 02:28:52.280 --> 02:28:55.000 and see them. Some good events coming up, by the way, 2800 02:28:55.200 --> 02:28:58.159 definitely want to know about these. The buy one, get 2801 02:28:58.239 --> 02:29:02.600 one rose sale is this weekend, which means it ends today. 2802 02:29:03.239 --> 02:29:05.799 You buy one rose, you get the next rows thirty 2803 02:29:05.840 --> 02:29:09.680 percent off. It's valid for two gallon roses only, and 2804 02:29:09.840 --> 02:29:13.879 it excludes the in person mystery roses, but any any 2805 02:29:13.879 --> 02:29:17.000 of the roses that are in two gallon there thirty 2806 02:29:17.040 --> 02:29:21.760 percent off the second one when you buy the first April, second, 2807 02:29:21.840 --> 02:29:25.120 and ninth, or the Children's in the Gardens workshops coming up. 2808 02:29:25.280 --> 02:29:27.559 Tickets are now live on the website. They start at 2809 02:29:27.639 --> 02:29:31.159 ten am, ages three through ten. There's a Lady Beetle 2810 02:29:31.239 --> 02:29:33.360 release come up. Here's what you need to do. You 2811 02:29:33.479 --> 02:29:37.600 need to go to Antique Roseanmporium dot com and look 2812 02:29:37.600 --> 02:29:40.360 at their events Antique Rowsimporium dot com. There's a lot 2813 02:29:40.440 --> 02:29:42.760 of good events coming up. Is a Rose and Herb 2814 02:29:42.840 --> 02:29:45.920 conference on April twenty six. You got to get registered 2815 02:29:46.000 --> 02:29:49.280 for it. Now you just need to go get your tickets, 2816 02:29:49.319 --> 02:29:51.559 get registered and all of that, because this is the 2817 02:29:51.600 --> 02:29:53.360 place you don't want to miss and there's not a 2818 02:29:53.440 --> 02:29:56.440 better time than March and April's see Antique Rose and Porum. 2819 02:29:56.479 --> 02:29:58.799 I mean, on the drive out there, the blue bonnets 2820 02:29:58.799 --> 02:30:01.360 are singing to you. Is gorgeous out there on the 2821 02:30:01.440 --> 02:30:03.959 hillsides and he grows up for him. You need to 2822 02:30:04.040 --> 02:30:07.559 go check them out. We're going to go talk to 2823 02:30:07.680 --> 02:30:11.879 Bill now in Spring, Texas. Hey, Bill, Welcome to garden. 2824 02:30:11.719 --> 02:30:13.719 Line the Morning Ship. 2825 02:30:14.840 --> 02:30:19.159 I have a question about dogwood trees. Want to plant one, 2826 02:30:19.399 --> 02:30:23.040 but I don't know if the varieties that are available. 2827 02:30:23.399 --> 02:30:27.600 I'm planning on going to RCW Nursery and Buchanans. 2828 02:30:29.000 --> 02:30:32.319 Yeah, those will both have them. Well, I think they don't, 2829 02:30:32.399 --> 02:30:35.680 haven't checked lately, but what they have is going to 2830 02:30:35.680 --> 02:30:39.920 be a variety that grows here. The white dogwoods, I've noticed, 2831 02:30:40.040 --> 02:30:43.399 seem to perform better than the pink ones. Now that's 2832 02:30:43.479 --> 02:30:47.399 not I mean I see pink dogwoods around and they're 2833 02:30:47.440 --> 02:30:49.280 surviving just fine. But I think the white ones are 2834 02:30:49.280 --> 02:30:53.959 a little better. If you if you know a wooded 2835 02:30:54.000 --> 02:30:56.200 area that has dogwoods, in it. And this is just 2836 02:30:56.319 --> 02:31:00.680 kind of a little side comment. Getting some soil right 2837 02:31:00.719 --> 02:31:04.079 around the base of a dogwood digner the underneath the leaves, 2838 02:31:04.120 --> 02:31:05.680 and just get a little bit of soil and put 2839 02:31:05.719 --> 02:31:08.239 that in the planting hole where you're planting. And there 2840 02:31:08.280 --> 02:31:11.559 are some things in the soil that are fungi that 2841 02:31:11.639 --> 02:31:15.920 are beneficial for dogwoods, and it helps with establishment. You 2842 02:31:15.959 --> 02:31:17.879 don't have to have that to plant a dogwood, but 2843 02:31:17.959 --> 02:31:21.680 I've just noticed that that seems to help a little bit. 2844 02:31:22.120 --> 02:31:24.920 So get a good one watered in well. If it's 2845 02:31:24.920 --> 02:31:27.280 got circling roots, if you can kind of unwind them, 2846 02:31:27.360 --> 02:31:29.440 that's good. If not, you need to cut them. But 2847 02:31:29.600 --> 02:31:31.799 get them in a spot where they get morning sun 2848 02:31:32.479 --> 02:31:35.040 and they get some afternoon shade. That's how they grow 2849 02:31:35.079 --> 02:31:39.079 along the roadsides. And then also make sure the soil 2850 02:31:39.159 --> 02:31:41.840 has lots of compost, the organic matter in it and 2851 02:31:41.920 --> 02:31:44.760 good drainage. Make them think they're living in a forest 2852 02:31:44.920 --> 02:31:49.799 by doing that to the soil. All right, thank you, skip, yes, sir, 2853 02:31:50.079 --> 02:31:55.719 thank you. I appreciate your call very much. Jungle land 2854 02:31:55.959 --> 02:32:00.239 is the product from nitrofoss that is for containers. There's 2855 02:32:00.280 --> 02:32:04.079 two jungle lands. There's the indoor with water saving crystals. 2856 02:32:04.079 --> 02:32:06.840 I've talked about that before. The jungle n outdoor is 2857 02:32:06.959 --> 02:32:10.200 called flour and vegetable potting soil. You put it in 2858 02:32:10.280 --> 02:32:12.600 a container that has good drain coatrols in it, and 2859 02:32:12.680 --> 02:32:15.200 it will drain away the excess water while holding enough 2860 02:32:15.280 --> 02:32:18.120 to keep the plant going and not having to water 2861 02:32:18.280 --> 02:32:20.680 so much. Because it does hold water well, I bet 2862 02:32:20.719 --> 02:32:23.600 it drains the access. That's kind of the combo there 2863 02:32:23.680 --> 02:32:27.000 we're looking for. You're gonna find nitrofoss products at places 2864 02:32:27.200 --> 02:32:31.319 like a Allspas Ace in the Woodlands. You're gonna find 2865 02:32:31.319 --> 02:32:34.559 an ACE hardware, Cidium Memorial. You go to d and 2866 02:32:34.600 --> 02:32:39.000 Defeed and Tumble, they carry nitrofoss products. And the MD 2867 02:32:39.239 --> 02:32:43.159 Beamer on Sagemont another good place to find nitrofoss products. 2868 02:32:44.879 --> 02:32:46.399 I'm gonna have to take a little break here for 2869 02:32:46.520 --> 02:32:49.200 the news when I come back. Krista and Richmond, thanks 2870 02:32:49.280 --> 02:32:51.280 for being patient. If you can be a little more patient, 2871 02:32:51.319 --> 02:32:53.399 you'll be my first up when we come back from 2872 02:32:53.440 --> 02:33:10.159 our break. All right, folks, welcome back to Gardenline. Get 2873 02:33:10.159 --> 02:33:13.959 ahead with us. We got a bunch of calls to 2874 02:33:14.040 --> 02:33:18.719 jump into here. Just one second. Nelson Plant Food Bruce's 2875 02:33:19.040 --> 02:33:23.760 Brew is their quickly available fertilizer from the folks at 2876 02:33:23.799 --> 02:33:25.799 now some part of the turf Star line. Now, it's 2877 02:33:25.879 --> 02:33:29.799 not just like a regular immediate release fast release. It 2878 02:33:29.920 --> 02:33:34.360 does release initially some good nutrient levels for your plants, 2879 02:33:34.440 --> 02:33:37.600 but it also drags that release out a little bit 2880 02:33:37.920 --> 02:33:40.440 so you get a continued feeding. Not as long as 2881 02:33:40.719 --> 02:33:44.399 you know. The Nelson plant food your products slow and easy, 2882 02:33:44.639 --> 02:33:46.760 but it is a good one to use and it's 2883 02:33:46.840 --> 02:33:49.840 going to get you. I would say, you know, definitely 2884 02:33:49.840 --> 02:33:52.079 get eight weeks out of that before you need to 2885 02:33:52.120 --> 02:33:55.000 go into the slow releases. It's an excellent product. It's 2886 02:33:55.079 --> 02:33:59.079 got the ratios of nutrients that help grass do its best, 2887 02:34:00.000 --> 02:34:02.559 and I like that delayed release of some of the 2888 02:34:02.680 --> 02:34:05.799 nutrients is in it. It's carbon based nitrogen sources to 2889 02:34:05.879 --> 02:34:08.079 feed the soil of microbes. And you know, when you 2890 02:34:08.159 --> 02:34:10.959 have healthy soil, you have healthy grass. It's less vulnerable 2891 02:34:11.040 --> 02:34:14.559 to pest and disease problems. And Nelson plant foods are 2892 02:34:14.600 --> 02:34:19.799 widely available throughout the greater Houston area. Here, let's go 2893 02:34:20.079 --> 02:34:22.040 back to the phones now and we're going to go 2894 02:34:22.280 --> 02:34:26.680 talk to Rick in Montgomery. Is that correct? 2895 02:34:28.719 --> 02:34:28.920 Hello? 2896 02:34:30.200 --> 02:34:34.559 Hey, Rick, are you in Montgomery. Yes, sir, all right, 2897 02:34:34.639 --> 02:34:35.319 how can we help? 2898 02:34:37.079 --> 02:34:40.799 My wife and I recently purchased an arbqueena olive tree 2899 02:34:40.920 --> 02:34:42.280 from the Montgomery. 2900 02:34:43.319 --> 02:34:46.559 Gardeners what they have every year. 2901 02:34:47.360 --> 02:34:49.719 And we're we've been gardners for our whole life, but 2902 02:34:49.799 --> 02:34:52.040 we've never really dealt with an. 2903 02:34:51.920 --> 02:34:53.079 Queen an olive tree. 2904 02:34:53.120 --> 02:34:57.120 And I was wondering, I sure planet should be planted 2905 02:34:57.200 --> 02:34:57.680 in the ground. 2906 02:34:59.520 --> 02:34:59.920 Mm hmm. 2907 02:35:00.760 --> 02:35:04.639 Two keys you do plant in the ground. Two keystock 2908 02:35:04.879 --> 02:35:09.760 to growing your Arbiquinia olive is good drainage and good sunlight. 2909 02:35:10.200 --> 02:35:13.680 So start with that. Find find a spot with good sunlight. 2910 02:35:13.879 --> 02:35:15.799 And then if the drainage is at all in question, 2911 02:35:15.959 --> 02:35:18.479 you need to build up a really good, significant raised 2912 02:35:18.520 --> 02:35:21.520 mound because those roots need not to sit in soggy 2913 02:35:22.120 --> 02:35:26.760 so that's important. Get it in the ground, and once 2914 02:35:26.840 --> 02:35:29.040 it's been in the ground for about six weeks, start 2915 02:35:29.079 --> 02:35:33.040 to fertilize it. I would use a lawn fertilizer, not 2916 02:35:33.200 --> 02:35:35.840 something with weed controlled in it, just fertilizer, and I 2917 02:35:35.879 --> 02:35:38.040 would use that at a rate of about a cup 2918 02:35:38.440 --> 02:35:41.879 per inch of trunk diameter. Again starting about six weeks 2919 02:35:42.079 --> 02:35:45.319 after you've planted the olive, and the more you keep 2920 02:35:45.440 --> 02:35:48.479 grass away, the faster it's going to grow. The more 2921 02:35:48.559 --> 02:35:50.719 you molt the soil around it and keep you know, 2922 02:35:51.000 --> 02:35:53.520 keep the weed eater and lawn more away from damaging 2923 02:35:53.600 --> 02:35:57.079 the bark and the grass from competing, the better your growth. 2924 02:35:56.920 --> 02:35:57.399 Is going to be. 2925 02:35:57.840 --> 02:36:01.440 When we get to this fall, olive are marginally hardy 2926 02:36:01.479 --> 02:36:04.840 in our area, and a newly planted plant is always 2927 02:36:04.959 --> 02:36:07.959 a little less hardy than a well established one. So 2928 02:36:09.000 --> 02:36:12.040 this next winter, as we get into temperatures that are 2929 02:36:12.079 --> 02:36:14.399 going to drop down in the mid twenties, you definitely 2930 02:36:14.520 --> 02:36:18.000 need to have a good cover over that to get 2931 02:36:18.239 --> 02:36:20.680 get it, give it a few two or three years 2932 02:36:20.760 --> 02:36:24.159 to get well established and and it'll be a little 2933 02:36:24.200 --> 02:36:25.399 bit hardier that way. 2934 02:36:26.840 --> 02:36:29.639 Okay, okay, excellent, all righty. 2935 02:36:31.000 --> 02:36:32.120 One more question. 2936 02:36:33.079 --> 02:36:38.319 Curry leaf tree. We just I rooted a curry leaf. 2937 02:36:38.719 --> 02:36:43.440 Plant, and from my understanding is those should not be 2938 02:36:43.559 --> 02:36:45.200 planted in the ground here in Texas. 2939 02:36:48.000 --> 02:36:52.319 I'm trying to curry leaf plant. Do you do you 2940 02:36:52.360 --> 02:36:58.520 have you know the name for that curry leaf It's 2941 02:36:58.719 --> 02:37:01.840 it's like, yeah, it's like a little kind of a 2942 02:37:01.920 --> 02:37:05.760 tropical tree with a whole bunch of leaves along the petioles. 2943 02:37:05.879 --> 02:37:10.040 Is I think that's the one that you're referring to. Yeah, yeah, 2944 02:37:10.799 --> 02:37:13.559 they'll actually make a little bush and stuff. They're not 2945 02:37:14.920 --> 02:37:18.200 really cold hearty. They'll go to zone nine. But you 2946 02:37:18.319 --> 02:37:21.680 know you're I would say it's a little bit of 2947 02:37:21.760 --> 02:37:24.680 a risk for you on that. So people, you can 2948 02:37:24.719 --> 02:37:25.639 grow them in a container. 2949 02:37:26.360 --> 02:37:26.799 You can do that. 2950 02:37:27.000 --> 02:37:30.079 There's not a problem with growing them in a large container. 2951 02:37:30.799 --> 02:37:33.600 Container limits the size. But if you've got a good 2952 02:37:33.719 --> 02:37:36.399 large container, you know that's that's enough of a curry 2953 02:37:36.479 --> 02:37:38.760 plant to get what you want out of it. If 2954 02:37:38.799 --> 02:37:40.639 you put it in the ground, just know that we're 2955 02:37:40.680 --> 02:37:43.079 going to get some winners in here that are gonna 2956 02:37:43.319 --> 02:37:46.600 are going to do some significant damage to it. Yeah 2957 02:37:47.040 --> 02:37:50.239 they could. They could. But anytime you have a plant 2958 02:37:50.360 --> 02:37:51.639 like that, by the way, and this is true of 2959 02:37:51.680 --> 02:37:54.600 olives too, et ceteras, when we're going to have a 2960 02:37:54.680 --> 02:37:56.760 really cold spell and you don't feel like you can 2961 02:37:57.120 --> 02:38:00.799 protect it adequately, you can mound about a foot high 2962 02:38:00.879 --> 02:38:04.559 mound of soil around the trunk and get through that winter, 2963 02:38:04.799 --> 02:38:07.000 and if it kills it back, it kills it back 2964 02:38:07.120 --> 02:38:09.760 to that mound, and then when you pull the soil 2965 02:38:09.840 --> 02:38:12.399 back away, you'll get reef sprouting and you haven't lost 2966 02:38:12.479 --> 02:38:14.399 the plane. You just lost the top growth on it. 2967 02:38:15.120 --> 02:38:18.319 But I'm gonna have to run. Yeah, I got to 2968 02:38:18.360 --> 02:38:20.639 run to another call. But good luck with that. Yeah, 2969 02:38:20.680 --> 02:38:22.360 that one. I don't think I've ever had a call 2970 02:38:22.440 --> 02:38:27.719 on curry leaf tree before. So that's cool, all right, folks. 2971 02:38:28.959 --> 02:38:31.159 That that's a new one. I like them now. It 2972 02:38:31.280 --> 02:38:32.559 makes me want to go out and buy one of 2973 02:38:32.600 --> 02:38:37.840 those Nature's Way resources is the well, let's just put 2974 02:38:37.879 --> 02:38:42.600 it this way. They're the grandfather of brown stuff before 2975 02:38:42.639 --> 02:38:46.760 green stuff in the greater Houston area. They've been doing 2976 02:38:46.799 --> 02:38:51.159 this long before compost was cool. Okay. And so when 2977 02:38:51.159 --> 02:38:53.120 you got to Nature's Way, which is on I forty 2978 02:38:53.159 --> 02:38:56.239 five North, it's just to the right across the railroad tracks. 2979 02:38:56.280 --> 02:38:58.360 When you get to where fourteen eighty eight comes in, 2980 02:38:58.879 --> 02:39:01.639 you're going to find the those lines of products that 2981 02:39:01.840 --> 02:39:05.719 cover everything from acid loving plants to fruit trees, to 2982 02:39:05.920 --> 02:39:09.280 vegetables to mulches for the top of the so high 2983 02:39:09.399 --> 02:39:12.040 quality multus for the top of the saw, many versions. 2984 02:39:12.559 --> 02:39:14.760 You can buy their products by the bag in many places. 2985 02:39:14.920 --> 02:39:16.360 You can also go pick them up or you can 2986 02:39:16.399 --> 02:39:18.559 have them delivered. Oh, either way, you want to go 2987 02:39:18.959 --> 02:39:22.159 check out the new website. It's cool Nature's Way Resources 2988 02:39:22.239 --> 02:39:24.840 dot Com or give them a call. Nine three six 2989 02:39:25.239 --> 02:39:28.799 two seven three twelve hundred. Ninety three six two seven 2990 02:39:28.959 --> 02:39:33.639 three twelve hundred. We're going to go now to Baytown 2991 02:39:33.719 --> 02:39:36.360 and talk to Henry. Hey, Henry, welcome to garden Line. 2992 02:39:36.959 --> 02:39:38.680 Hey, it's good talking to you again. I just a 2993 02:39:38.719 --> 02:39:39.600 real quick question. 2994 02:39:40.360 --> 02:39:43.760 I had some trees removed, maybe over ten years ago, 2995 02:39:43.959 --> 02:39:46.079 and then they grind, you know, they grind it all 2996 02:39:46.120 --> 02:39:48.399 the way to the ground, et cetera. And every once 2997 02:39:48.399 --> 02:39:49.360 in a while I got to go out there and 2998 02:39:49.360 --> 02:39:52.200 I got to keep putting soil on there because it's 2999 02:39:52.280 --> 02:39:55.200 kind of had got holes in there. And someone told me, 3000 02:39:55.280 --> 02:39:58.079 I need to put sane in there first, then put 3001 02:39:58.120 --> 02:39:59.120 the soil on top. 3002 02:39:59.520 --> 02:40:02.799 That way, say it will create like a base. Is 3003 02:40:02.840 --> 02:40:03.280 that true? 3004 02:40:04.440 --> 02:40:04.479 No? 3005 02:40:05.200 --> 02:40:07.719 No, just put good soil. Put the soil that's in 3006 02:40:07.799 --> 02:40:09.760 your kind of soil that's in your yard. If you can, 3007 02:40:10.319 --> 02:40:13.559 but a good top soil on there. I usually tell people, 3008 02:40:13.959 --> 02:40:16.120 and they're having you know, some people are listening to 3009 02:40:16.200 --> 02:40:19.079 this that maybe are having a tree ground. Get all 3010 02:40:19.079 --> 02:40:20.879 the wood chips you can out of it, because those 3011 02:40:20.959 --> 02:40:24.200 woodships will decompose away and the soil will sink and 3012 02:40:24.319 --> 02:40:26.200 you're never going to get all the wood chips out. 3013 02:40:26.319 --> 02:40:29.600 So when you re put the soil in, after you've 3014 02:40:30.159 --> 02:40:32.600 ground and got out all, you can make it a 3015 02:40:32.680 --> 02:40:35.000 picture's mound. Raise it up a little bit because it 3016 02:40:35.040 --> 02:40:37.399 will sink down and then it'll be more level. But 3017 02:40:37.559 --> 02:40:40.799 in your case, maybe most of the sinking's been done, Henry, 3018 02:40:40.879 --> 02:40:43.520 I don't know. You have a feel for that, and 3019 02:40:43.680 --> 02:40:45.440 so you may not have to pile it up too high. 3020 02:40:46.040 --> 02:40:48.840 But yeah, just just make a mound over those areas. 3021 02:40:49.719 --> 02:40:51.719 Yeah, I think that's what the problem is because I 3022 02:40:51.840 --> 02:40:54.760 have been I've been doing it for the last five years, 3023 02:40:54.840 --> 02:40:55.719 keep adding soil. 3024 02:40:56.239 --> 02:40:58.319 So when I get the soil, I'm gonna go ahead 3025 02:40:58.399 --> 02:41:00.680 and make it like a picture mount. Se you what happens. 3026 02:41:01.920 --> 02:41:04.639 Yeah, I think that's I think that's what I would 3027 02:41:04.680 --> 02:41:05.799 do on it. 3028 02:41:05.879 --> 02:41:08.360 All right, good luck, thank you, all. 3029 02:41:08.319 --> 02:41:11.799 Right, take care out there in Beytow. You bet looks 3030 02:41:11.879 --> 02:41:14.959 like we got off the line just in time. Somebody 3031 02:41:15.239 --> 02:41:17.479 rang the doorbell. They're probably coming to bring him some 3032 02:41:17.600 --> 02:41:19.879 soil to make that picture's mout. I bet that's what's 3033 02:41:19.959 --> 02:41:22.799 going on. You're listening to garden Line our phone number 3034 02:41:22.840 --> 02:41:25.760 seven one three two one two kt R h give 3035 02:41:25.799 --> 02:41:29.440 me a call. I got some time for well, maybe 3036 02:41:29.479 --> 02:41:31.680 not one in this hour, but you'll be first up 3037 02:41:32.040 --> 02:41:34.440 when we go the next hour. Have you ever been 3038 02:41:34.520 --> 02:41:37.799 down to Jorges Hidden Gardens. They're down in Alvin. Actually, 3039 02:41:37.920 --> 02:41:40.600 if you are actually in the main part of Alvin, 3040 02:41:41.000 --> 02:41:43.600 you're gonna get on Highway six and go south towards 3041 02:41:43.639 --> 02:41:46.520 Santa Fe a little bit, and I would say about 3042 02:41:46.559 --> 02:41:50.200 halfway Santa Fe, off to the right, you will come 3043 02:41:50.280 --> 02:41:52.479 to Jorges Hidden Gardens. It's set off the road a 3044 02:41:52.520 --> 02:41:57.239 little bit there, so just it's on Elizabeth Street. Elizabeth 3045 02:41:57.319 --> 02:41:59.680 Street is the one that we're talking about. 3046 02:42:00.239 --> 02:42:00.360 Now. 3047 02:42:00.719 --> 02:42:02.840 When you go down there, you're going to find a 3048 02:42:03.000 --> 02:42:05.360 lot of quality plants. Right now, they've got some nice 3049 02:42:05.399 --> 02:42:10.520 blueberries that I mean, they're excellent, very very nice blueberries. 3050 02:42:10.719 --> 02:42:13.639 And you hear me talk about my favorite spring flowering tree, 3051 02:42:13.680 --> 02:42:17.200 which is Chinese fringe tree. They've got them. Horay has 3052 02:42:17.200 --> 02:42:19.200 got Horay has a lot of different kinds of trees 3053 02:42:19.200 --> 02:42:20.799 and all kinds of sizes. Some of them you're going 3054 02:42:20.840 --> 02:42:22.559 to hire him to come out and plant and he'll 3055 02:42:22.600 --> 02:42:25.719 do that too. By the way. At Jorgez Hidden Gardens 3056 02:42:25.799 --> 02:42:29.440 again on Elizabeth Street, South of Highway six. Now while 3057 02:42:29.479 --> 02:42:32.520 you're there, you can get the three sixty tree stabilizer. 3058 02:42:32.799 --> 02:42:35.520 You know what I think about those, They are absolutely 3059 02:42:36.000 --> 02:42:40.200 important to any kind of a new planting. They allow 3060 02:42:40.280 --> 02:42:42.440 that tree to move a little bit and it's just 3061 02:42:42.559 --> 02:42:44.639 good to use them. I'll just leave it at that. 3062 02:42:45.200 --> 02:42:49.440 But he carries those at Horagez Hidden Gardens. While you're there, 3063 02:42:49.559 --> 02:42:53.680 check out the flowers, beautiful vinkas or Madagascar periwinkles and 3064 02:42:53.799 --> 02:42:56.920 their beautiful roses. Got a lot of the Peggy Martin, 3065 02:42:57.319 --> 02:43:01.079 for example, That is an outstanding rose that he carries 3066 02:43:01.159 --> 02:43:04.639 there and even has them on little trellises. But there's 3067 02:43:04.799 --> 02:43:06.799 way more than just one kind of rose there. He 3068 02:43:06.879 --> 02:43:09.319 also has peaches, a lot of the varieties of peaches 3069 02:43:09.360 --> 02:43:11.840 that are lower chill that need to be planted down 3070 02:43:11.959 --> 02:43:15.520 south in that area. He carries those and so that's 3071 02:43:16.239 --> 02:43:18.520 that is a great place to go for your fruit 3072 02:43:18.600 --> 02:43:20.639 trees as well. So you just need to get out there. 3073 02:43:20.959 --> 02:43:24.879 Jorges Hidden Gardens on Elizabeth Street kind of in between 3074 02:43:25.680 --> 02:43:28.840 Alvin and Santa Fe area, just south of Highway six. 3075 02:43:29.479 --> 02:43:30.399 Go check him out. 3076 02:43:32.040 --> 02:43:32.399 All right. 3077 02:43:32.479 --> 02:43:34.239 Time for me to take a quick break and we'll 3078 02:43:34.280 --> 02:43:36.280 be right back for our last segment of the day, 3079 02:43:46.840 --> 02:43:52.159 oh Man, summer is coming time for some drift away music. 3080 02:43:53.760 --> 02:43:56.000 Welcome back to Guardenline. Good to have you with us. Listen. 3081 02:43:56.600 --> 02:43:59.680 We've been talking off and on today about compost, top 3082 02:43:59.760 --> 02:44:05.399 dress and core aeration. And if you live south and west, 3083 02:44:05.440 --> 02:44:07.440 I had to get a map in my head here 3084 02:44:07.600 --> 02:44:10.440 south and west to Houston, like from sugar Land and 3085 02:44:10.479 --> 02:44:13.120 Missouri City on the west end, all the way down 3086 02:44:13.159 --> 02:44:15.600 across to Pearland and Manville and then includes all the 3087 02:44:15.840 --> 02:44:18.360 up and down Highway six places like Fresno and Cia, 3088 02:44:18.520 --> 02:44:22.120 Racola and Iowa Colony. BMB Turf Bros. Is a company 3089 02:44:22.159 --> 02:44:24.479 I need to know about, and they do compost top 3090 02:44:24.600 --> 02:44:27.719 dressing and they do core aeration. They are quality equipment 3091 02:44:27.799 --> 02:44:32.159 that does the job right. They only use quality, top 3092 02:44:32.520 --> 02:44:35.639 quality leaf more compost from Ciena mos So that tells 3093 02:44:35.680 --> 02:44:37.959 you right there, they're getting it from Siena. You're talking 3094 02:44:37.959 --> 02:44:40.600 about good stuff there. They only use products that I 3095 02:44:40.639 --> 02:44:43.600 recommend here on Guardenline. So it's as simple as that. 3096 02:44:43.760 --> 02:44:47.479 I have no qualms about telling you BMB Turf Pros. 3097 02:44:47.520 --> 02:44:50.280 Another reason I love BEMB Turf Pros is it's a 3098 02:44:50.319 --> 02:44:54.719 family owned service that provides honest, quality work. They care 3099 02:44:54.959 --> 02:44:58.879 about making you happy. They want to ensure your satisfaction, 3100 02:44:59.399 --> 02:45:02.239 and they make that personal connection. This isn't an you know, 3101 02:45:02.520 --> 02:45:05.600 call the call center and whatever I mean. This is 3102 02:45:06.079 --> 02:45:08.479 they want to personally make that connection because they know 3103 02:45:08.559 --> 02:45:11.879 you'll come back because they do good work. And that's 3104 02:45:11.920 --> 02:45:14.920 the kind of service folks. We love to have. BB 3105 02:45:15.479 --> 02:45:18.719 turf Pros dot com. No end in the website. BB 3106 02:45:19.159 --> 02:45:22.040 turf Pros dot com. Seven to one three two three 3107 02:45:22.120 --> 02:45:25.319 four fifty five ninety eight seven one three two three 3108 02:45:25.399 --> 02:45:29.680 four five five nine eight. Let's set up to Conroe. 3109 02:45:29.760 --> 02:45:32.120 Now we're going to talk to Bill in Conroe. Hey Bill, 3110 02:45:32.319 --> 02:45:33.200 Welcome to guard Line. 3111 02:45:34.239 --> 02:45:36.440 Hey Skip, I got a follow up question on take 3112 02:45:36.479 --> 02:45:39.440 all root rot. You went through three steps. I had 3113 02:45:39.520 --> 02:45:43.200 it really bad and I just last week replaced the SOD. 3114 02:45:43.680 --> 02:45:45.479 So my question is, can you do any of the 3115 02:45:45.520 --> 02:45:49.079 three steps the beete, moss, iron zinc at war shargest place. 3116 02:45:51.200 --> 02:45:54.239 I would not, Now I would not. Here's the thing 3117 02:45:54.239 --> 02:45:57.879 about take all. Take all is an opportunist a disease. 3118 02:45:58.280 --> 02:46:01.559 So when you have a healthy eat grass, it's not 3119 02:46:01.719 --> 02:46:04.200 like take all just shows up and kills it. But 3120 02:46:04.319 --> 02:46:07.520 when the grass gets weak, take all is kind of ubiquitous, 3121 02:46:07.639 --> 02:46:10.120 is out there in nature, but the grass gets weak 3122 02:46:10.559 --> 02:46:13.159 and then it moves in, and as it moves in, 3123 02:46:13.520 --> 02:46:16.559 it takes away what the grass needs to recover, and 3124 02:46:16.680 --> 02:46:19.680 that's a root system. So it's like it's like a 3125 02:46:19.719 --> 02:46:23.000 snowball going downhill when take all starts moving in. But 3126 02:46:23.399 --> 02:46:25.680 I use a human example of you know, if you 3127 02:46:26.239 --> 02:46:28.799 exercise and eat, write, and get a lot of sleep, 3128 02:46:29.000 --> 02:46:31.440 and then the person right next to you doesn't do 3129 02:46:31.520 --> 02:46:33.040 any of the above, and you both go to a 3130 02:46:33.159 --> 02:46:37.120 party where someone may have a cold, you're less likely 3131 02:46:37.239 --> 02:46:39.159 to come home sick than maybe they would be. And 3132 02:46:39.360 --> 02:46:41.760 I don't know how good of a medical analogy that is, 3133 02:46:41.879 --> 02:46:44.719 but the point is, keep your grass healthy and take 3134 02:46:44.719 --> 02:46:47.319 it all is not a problem. Let your grass gets 3135 02:46:47.360 --> 02:46:50.520 stressed from drought or disease or using a broad leaf 3136 02:46:50.559 --> 02:46:53.440 herbicide in hot weather, and take all will be there. 3137 02:46:55.920 --> 02:46:58.239 When do I start fertilizing a new side? 3138 02:46:58.920 --> 02:47:02.600 He well, I no, yeah, at. 3139 02:47:02.639 --> 02:47:06.040 Least a month. I Actually I put a long in 3140 02:47:06.159 --> 02:47:08.000 last year and I didn't fertilize it all year because 3141 02:47:08.000 --> 02:47:10.159 I got too busy. I should have needed it, but 3142 02:47:10.280 --> 02:47:13.799 I just didn't get to it. But I at least 3143 02:47:14.079 --> 02:47:15.600 a month. First of all, it's got to get a 3144 02:47:15.680 --> 02:47:17.559 root system down in there, and it takes a while 3145 02:47:17.920 --> 02:47:20.520 to fully get a good deep root system, several weeks, 3146 02:47:21.319 --> 02:47:24.200 and then you can do a little fertilizing on it. 3147 02:47:24.319 --> 02:47:26.440 I'll say a month after you put it in. That's 3148 02:47:26.479 --> 02:47:28.559 the kind I mean. And there's no row rush. 3149 02:47:29.799 --> 02:47:32.200 This could have been an even for what numbers do 3150 02:47:32.319 --> 02:47:33.520 I use in the fertilizer for this? 3151 02:47:34.760 --> 02:47:39.879 A ratio of three one, two, three times as much 3152 02:47:40.040 --> 02:47:44.079 nitrogen the first number as the middle lower. Okay, Now, 3153 02:47:44.239 --> 02:47:46.239 do you have a brand that you prefer that you've 3154 02:47:46.360 --> 02:47:50.520 used in the past? I like, Okay, well I would 3155 02:47:50.600 --> 02:47:54.680 get nitrofoss Silver Bags, super Turf. By the time you 3156 02:47:54.920 --> 02:47:57.680 are going to start fertilizing this, it's definitely time for that. 3157 02:47:57.840 --> 02:48:00.399 And it feeds it gradually, so you're not going to 3158 02:48:00.440 --> 02:48:02.799 get a flush of growth, but it'll help that lawn 3159 02:48:02.920 --> 02:48:05.440 get really dense if you give it adequate water. 3160 02:48:07.159 --> 02:48:07.360 Yeah. 3161 02:48:07.559 --> 02:48:12.000 That sounds great. Okay, very good, thanks a lot, all right, you. 3162 02:48:12.079 --> 02:48:15.040 Bet, Bill, And remember that regular mowing is one of 3163 02:48:15.079 --> 02:48:17.559 the most important things to having a beautiful lawn, So 3164 02:48:17.719 --> 02:48:20.079 is that new lawn is getting rooted in and stuff. 3165 02:48:20.159 --> 02:48:22.879 The more often you mow, the better it's going to look. 3166 02:48:23.879 --> 02:48:25.000 All right, thank you. 3167 02:48:27.280 --> 02:48:32.959 Prophylactic on the fumus funder side. I have read that 3168 02:48:33.040 --> 02:48:34.399 on the internet several places. 3169 02:48:36.360 --> 02:48:39.559 Not now, Not now. The first fungus that you're going 3170 02:48:39.639 --> 02:48:44.079 to be dealing with is a gray leaf spot when 3171 02:48:44.200 --> 02:48:48.159 we get into a little warmer weather and too much nitrogen, 3172 02:48:48.399 --> 02:48:51.760 too much water, and too much shade. All three of 3173 02:48:51.840 --> 02:48:56.440 those pushed the grass toward great leaf spot infection. So 3174 02:48:56.920 --> 02:49:00.559 do what you can to avoid those three, uh, and 3175 02:49:00.879 --> 02:49:06.840 you'll be okay, okay, all right, right, thank you. Got 3176 02:49:06.879 --> 02:49:08.879 any other questions or called, send me a picture and 3177 02:49:09.000 --> 02:49:12.559 follow up with a phone call, and we'll walk you 3178 02:49:12.639 --> 02:49:15.719 through this year in your lawn. Happy to do very much. 3179 02:49:17.079 --> 02:49:21.600 All right, you take care. That's good. Speaking of lawn things, 3180 02:49:21.680 --> 02:49:23.600 and I could have mentioned this, he said he'd liked 3181 02:49:23.719 --> 02:49:26.920 Nitropos products. But Sweet Green is another one that's an 3182 02:49:26.959 --> 02:49:32.319 eleven percent nitrogen product from Nitrofos that is a sugary 3183 02:49:32.520 --> 02:49:36.559 based that dissolves away and it really supercharges the microbes 3184 02:49:36.639 --> 02:49:42.319 in the soil. They love molasses type things. Even that 3185 02:49:42.559 --> 02:49:44.680 is an excellent product. You can put it down. It's 3186 02:49:44.719 --> 02:49:49.159 not like a salt base that would be immediately released, 3187 02:49:49.360 --> 02:49:52.760 but pretty quick that gets in the soil and microbes 3188 02:49:52.799 --> 02:49:54.840 do their work on it and start the process of 3189 02:49:54.920 --> 02:49:58.760 getting the actual nutrient. The grass takes up available sweet 3190 02:49:58.760 --> 02:50:01.479 green from nitrofos. To find sweet green and other night 3191 02:50:01.559 --> 02:50:05.879 fosh products, places like RCW Nursery plans for all seasons 3192 02:50:05.920 --> 02:50:09.760 on Luetta. You go out to ACE Hardware on single Rants. 3193 02:50:09.799 --> 02:50:12.959 That's the one on on Mason Road Langham Creek, which 3194 02:50:13.040 --> 02:50:15.680 is on five twenty nine Langham Creek Ace on the 3195 02:50:15.760 --> 02:50:18.079 air edge of Copperfield, which by the way, they redid 3196 02:50:18.159 --> 02:50:21.040 their store this past year and looks really good inside. 3197 02:50:21.639 --> 02:50:24.280 And then go down to Stafford Courth hard round South Maine. 3198 02:50:24.360 --> 02:50:26.920 It's going to carry night to frost products as well, 3199 02:50:27.120 --> 02:50:29.760 makes it easy to find them widely available here in 3200 02:50:29.879 --> 02:50:33.959 this area. Well, what am I looking at here? I've 3201 02:50:34.040 --> 02:50:38.040 got probably not enough time for another call, so we're 3202 02:50:38.040 --> 02:50:40.760 going to close down the calls here on garden Line 3203 02:50:41.120 --> 02:50:44.520 and I'll just go out with a few comments. First 3204 02:50:44.600 --> 02:50:46.200 of all, I hope you have a good time in 3205 02:50:46.280 --> 02:50:50.040 the in the garden this week. Enjoy yourself. Find something 3206 02:50:50.040 --> 02:50:53.360 you've never grown before and grow it. Try something you've 3207 02:50:53.399 --> 02:50:57.879 never tried before in the garden. I guarantee you this. 3208 02:50:58.120 --> 02:51:01.120 If you're listening to my voice, you need one more 3209 02:51:01.440 --> 02:51:05.000 at least container of beautiful color plants to set this 3210 02:51:05.200 --> 02:51:09.239 spring just ablaze with color and summer too. By the way, 3211 02:51:09.319 --> 02:51:13.120 containers are versatile, fast and easy, and we don't use 3212 02:51:13.280 --> 02:51:16.799 enough of them. And you can group containers together. Some 3213 02:51:16.920 --> 02:51:19.520 people think, well, you know a container, put one container there. 3214 02:51:19.600 --> 02:51:21.959 Well you can do that, but you get three different 3215 02:51:22.000 --> 02:51:25.000 containers of different heights with different kinds of plants growing 3216 02:51:25.079 --> 02:51:29.120 in them, and it makes just this giant arrangement of 3217 02:51:29.239 --> 02:51:31.600 beauty that can be on a patio, it can be 3218 02:51:31.680 --> 02:51:33.959 on a porch. I saw one once going into a 3219 02:51:34.000 --> 02:51:36.239 front door where it was real shady, real dark, and 3220 02:51:36.319 --> 02:51:41.959 then overhang there and they had used the chartruse colored 3221 02:51:41.959 --> 02:51:45.280 sweet potato mine coming out of it. They had impatience 3222 02:51:45.319 --> 02:51:47.319 around it because they can put up with the shade. 3223 02:51:47.920 --> 02:51:51.159 They had a shade loving taller plant in there. It's gorgeous, 3224 02:51:51.520 --> 02:51:54.520 so don't let any area go ugly, and you can 3225 02:51:54.600 --> 02:51:57.440 put a beautiful container in it. There's the end of 3226 02:51:57.479 --> 02:52:00.440 the day tip for you. We get out and go 3227 02:52:00.639 --> 02:52:04.520 visit our garden centers. They are loaded right now, excellent time. 3228 02:52:04.760 --> 02:52:06.600 And if you're going to plan a woody ornamental and 3229 02:52:06.680 --> 02:52:10.000 that includes a rose, get it done now. It has 3230 02:52:10.079 --> 02:52:14.079 the best chance of establishing well and surviving when you 3231 02:52:14.200 --> 02:52:16.280 don't plan it when it's so darn hot, So get 3232 02:52:16.319 --> 02:52:18.159 it done now, give it some time to get roots 3233 02:52:18.200 --> 02:52:20.639 in the ground. We want you to have success. Hey, 3234 02:52:20.719 --> 02:52:23.440 gardening is fun, have a good time. We'll be back 3235 02:52:23.959 --> 02:52:28.639 next weekend. Remember Gardeningwithskip dot com.