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Speaker 3: Good morning, congratulations tow you early birds this morning. Good
Speaker 3: to have you with us here on Garden Line. We're
Speaker 3: looking forward to visiting with you about the kinds of
Speaker 3: gardening questions you might be interested in visiting about. I
Speaker 3: can I can tell you this right now, boy. Everybody's
Speaker 3: brains and minds and hearts are on getting the garden
Speaker 3: in good shape. But getting that lawn and good shape.
Speaker 3: Yesterday I was out at Sienamultch and thanks to the
Speaker 3: folks at malt for having us out yesterday. It was
Speaker 3: a good time. We were out there with a lot
Speaker 3: of different folks from different groups and it was I
Speaker 3: don't know, it's kind of an opportunity is to visit
Speaker 3: with some of our sponsors were sitting over there across
Speaker 3: from us. There are next to us. Actually there's a
Speaker 3: microlife was there and folks from Medina were also there.
Speaker 3: That was nice to getting to kind of reconnect with
Speaker 3: some of the folks that are sponsors of our show.
Speaker 3: Visit with them about their products and things. Had a
Speaker 3: lot of people that came by. That was especially nice. Also,
Speaker 3: Heirloom Soils was out there, got to visit with Louis.
Speaker 3: So thanks to everybody that came out. But I can
Speaker 3: tell you this based on the question. It's like malan, malan, malon.
Speaker 3: That is the big thing that people are interested in.
Speaker 3: And within that category weeds. Weeds. Weeds are the ones
Speaker 3: that I was hearing the most of it. That's because
Speaker 3: all those school season weeds have now burst into their
Speaker 3: top growth of the whole their whole cool season period,
Speaker 3: setting their seeds. They've been blooming and setting seeds and
Speaker 3: they're flinging them everywhere, and those weeds look huge, and
Speaker 3: it's like the blue bonnet. You know, bluebonnets sprouted last
Speaker 3: fall on the roadsides, but you didn't see them. They
Speaker 3: were there in November and December, January, we didn't see them.
Speaker 3: And all of a sudden, as the weather warms up
Speaker 3: in the days get a little bit longer, here comes
Speaker 3: a lot of growth and blooms. Of course we enjoy
Speaker 3: those now, but right after the blooms, they're going to
Speaker 3: be popping those seed pods. They literally do pop and
Speaker 3: flinging them everywhere, and then next year we get more
Speaker 3: blue bonnets. The same thing happens in your lawn with
Speaker 3: chickweed and clover, and let's see what else carpet weed.
Speaker 3: Another one that we deal with is cleavers. That's one
Speaker 3: that feels like belcrow sticks to you. It's also called
Speaker 3: the crow weed. So at this point in the season,
Speaker 3: I would highly recommend you consider just pulling them up
Speaker 3: by hand as much as you can. Even if they
Speaker 3: break off. They are annual weeds. They're not going to
Speaker 3: have time to re sprout and grow and set seeds
Speaker 3: and all that. Just get them out of there for now,
Speaker 3: and be careful to doing it. Have a bucket, put
Speaker 3: them in there with all those hundreds and hundreds of
Speaker 3: weed seeds that are on them, because otherwise, even if
Speaker 3: you sprayed it and killed it, which it's harder to
Speaker 3: do at this stage, but even if you did, you're
Speaker 3: gonna be leaving the seeds behind. Those seats are not
Speaker 3: going to be killed because they've already formed in some
Speaker 3: cases now those that haven't. Of course, you could prevent that,
Speaker 3: but anyway, that seems to be a concern of a
Speaker 3: lot of people. And I know everybody varies in their
Speaker 3: tolerance to weeds. So you may be the kind of
Speaker 3: person that if there's one weed anywhere on your property,
Speaker 3: it's like a neon sign at midnight. I mean, it
Speaker 3: just shows up and it bugsy, can't stand it. And
Speaker 3: then on the other spectrum, there are people that just
Speaker 3: go moh them, they're green. It all looks green. Just
Speaker 3: mow the weed, don't worry about it. Okay, Well, you're
Speaker 3: probably somewhere in between those two. But that's your yard,
Speaker 3: as we like to say, I use that term a
Speaker 3: lot of visiting with family members. Well I think this,
Speaker 3: but that's your yard, meaning I can't tell you what
Speaker 3: to do. But you know what I've noticed about family members,
Speaker 3: they can tell you what to do. Doesn't mean you
Speaker 3: have to listen, but they can tail with some of
Speaker 3: your gone. Boy, I hear that. Jungle and is a
Speaker 3: product that Nitrofos provides all over this area, and it
Speaker 3: basically it is simply a very good container mix. So
Speaker 3: whether you have a houseplant inside, if you do grab
Speaker 3: their jungle l and water saving potting soil. If you
Speaker 3: have an outdoor container, you're doing jungle and flour and
Speaker 3: vegetable potting soil. Make sure your containers have drainage holes
Speaker 3: so extra water can get out, because jungle land will
Speaker 3: drain well and it will hold on to some moisture,
Speaker 3: so you're not watering it twice a day every day.
Speaker 3: It's just a good product. You're going to find it
Speaker 3: places like Bearings Hardware on Bissinet, Bearings Hardware on Westtheimer,
Speaker 3: Enchanted Forest, Chanted Forest down in the Richmond Rosenberg area
Speaker 3: on FM twenty seven fifty nine. Places you can find
Speaker 3: that jungle in if you're interested in visiting this morning
Speaker 3: about any question you might have. Now it's a good
Speaker 3: time to call. It's always quiet first thing Sunday morning
Speaker 3: before it picks up a little bit. So seven one
Speaker 3: three two one two k t RH seven to one
Speaker 3: three two one two k t r h GI me call. Well,
Speaker 3: we'll talk about the things like that I was telling
Speaker 3: you about Enchanted for us. I always like to go
Speaker 3: out there because it's different every time I go. I mean,
Speaker 3: it's the same place, the same you know, quality plans,
Speaker 3: the same layout and whatnot, but the product line is
Speaker 3: always evolving through the year. You know, you've got your standards.
Speaker 3: That would be something like, for example, the trees and
Speaker 3: shrubs and whatnot that are always there, but the color
Speaker 3: changes as we go through the seasons, and they're always
Speaker 3: on top of things. Are right now, there's just lots
Speaker 3: of beautiful, beautiful summer color, for example, kalladiums. Kalladiums like
Speaker 3: warm weather, and we're getting to the warm weather. And
Speaker 3: if you want to brighten up a shady area, kaladiums
Speaker 3: are a great way to do it. They are. In fact,
Speaker 3: here's just a principle of kind of landscaping that you
Speaker 3: might think about. There's no rules out there, but here's one.
Speaker 3: When you go into shady areas, it's harder to see
Speaker 3: dark colors, So something like a purple, a deep purple
Speaker 3: in a shade area, it's going to kind of just
Speaker 3: disappear into the darkness. But white jumps out like runway lights.
Speaker 3: It just really shows up. So if you're going to
Speaker 3: go with a pink, lighter pinks show up better than
Speaker 3: darker reds and pinks, And in dark areas, you can
Speaker 3: really draw the eye into there with that light colored materials,
Speaker 3: and kaladiums are a great one. Of course, they got
Speaker 3: them out there. They've got a lot of I think, Oh,
Speaker 3: they have an excellent supply of Chinese French tree. And
Speaker 3: if you've never seen a Chinese fringe, go too Enchanted Forest.
Speaker 3: There's one bloom and now it looks awesome. I love that.
Speaker 3: It's my favorite spring blooming tree. And of course they
Speaker 3: got a lot of this, They got a lot of everything.
Speaker 3: The desert roses are in a little succulent called Lithops
Speaker 3: that I think is really cool. Looks like came from
Speaker 3: another planet to me. And there are always a place
Speaker 3: to get plants for your butterfly, attracting both the larval
Speaker 3: food sources and the adult food sources. By the way,
Speaker 3: they are on FM twenty seven fifty nine the website
Speaker 3: Enchanted Forest, Richmond, t X dot com. Do yourseff a
Speaker 3: favor to day and run out there and check that
Speaker 3: place out. I'll be right back. Remember when there were
Speaker 3: groups of four or five people that sang together and
Speaker 3: permonized way back, Hey, welcome to Gardener. We're easing the
Speaker 3: into the music this morning. I know you know, if
Speaker 3: I were to play something loud and obnoxious might cause
Speaker 3: you to spill your cup of coffee. We're not going
Speaker 3: to do that to you this morning. I was mentioning
Speaker 3: earlier the fact that everybody has questions about their yard
Speaker 3: right now, and weeds are the probably the number one
Speaker 3: topic that I'm hearing overall. I mentioned that the cool
Speaker 3: season weeds are going to seed, and so you got
Speaker 3: to get them out of there with the seeds if
Speaker 3: you can. I understand if you can, if you've got
Speaker 3: a whole yard full of weeds and you can't pull them,
Speaker 3: but just remember, every time you pull a weed up,
Speaker 3: that's one weed, but you're probably pulling up one hundred seed.
Speaker 3: And so you know that's the decision to make. There's
Speaker 3: a way to do it, or harsh somebody to do it.
Speaker 3: As far as the weeds for summer, they are beginning
Speaker 3: to sprout as well they have been, and barricade is
Speaker 3: a product you put down that stops them from sprouting. Now,
Speaker 3: Barricade doesn't kill the weeds that you see in your
Speaker 3: yard right now, the ones that are big and blooming
Speaker 3: and everything else. It prevents the ones that haven't come
Speaker 3: up yet. And so that's happening for our summer weeds.
Speaker 3: So things like cribgrass and grasspur and all the summer
Speaker 3: weeds we deal with Barricade's a product that we would
Speaker 3: suggest you put down ahead of those weeds germinating in
Speaker 3: order to shut them down. Now, ten pound bags going
Speaker 3: to cover about five thousand square feet, so it goes
Speaker 3: a long way. And whether the weeds are broadly for grassy,
Speaker 3: it's got a very broad spectrum of weed control. So
Speaker 3: the vast majority of weeds you could possibly have in
Speaker 3: your yard that are coming from seed, barricade's going to
Speaker 3: be effective against those weeds. Now, you got to get
Speaker 3: it down. You gotta water it in. It takes about
Speaker 3: a half inch of water, maybe a third of it.
Speaker 3: It's just enough to get it to the soil surface
Speaker 3: and moved into the soil. And you're going to find
Speaker 3: barricade at places like Plantation, Ace Hardware out on FM
Speaker 3: three fifty nine down in the Richmond Rosenberg area, Court
Speaker 3: Hardware on South Maine in the Stafford area, and M
Speaker 3: and D Cypress up there on Luetta. These places carry
Speaker 3: nitroposs products which are available all over the place, easy,
Speaker 3: easy to find. Yesterday it was done at Siena Mulch
Speaker 3: and we had a good time with everybody that came
Speaker 3: out there. Thank you for that and your questions gave
Speaker 3: me a lot of products. The three sixty tree stabilizer
Speaker 3: is a very popular one. That was for sure, and
Speaker 3: some other products from different sponsors and things, but people
Speaker 3: had a good time ave it had to be that
Speaker 3: did come down and give the secret password brown stuff
Speaker 3: before green stuff, so that way that guaranteed you a
Speaker 3: three sixty tree stabilizer when you showed up for that one.
Speaker 3: So I'm looking at this week and trying to figure out,
Speaker 3: you know, what do I want to do out in
Speaker 3: the garden, because you know, when you're when you're a gardener,
Speaker 3: or we just enjoyed taking care of your lawn whatever,
Speaker 3: there's always things you can do. I mean, there's never
Speaker 3: like nothing to do out there, either replenishing molts or
Speaker 3: mowing or edging, or getting the flower beds soils prepared
Speaker 3: for planting, pulling old things out, putting new things in
Speaker 3: and by the way, landscapes. Landscapes are not made to
Speaker 3: be permanent. They just aren't. I mean, it would be
Speaker 3: nice if they were, but the truth is they evolved
Speaker 3: and they grew up. I was looking at a picture
Speaker 3: of the house I grew up in years ago, and
Speaker 3: the shrubs were over the eaves I mean they had
Speaker 3: been little, nice shrubs, but now they were just taking
Speaker 3: over the front of the house. It's trying to pull
Speaker 3: those out and put new ones in, or cut them
Speaker 3: way back and let them come back. But by the
Speaker 3: time a shrub hits that stage, there's probably a better
Speaker 3: shrub you could purchase to put in in that spot.
Speaker 3: So don't be afraid to change out your landscape. In
Speaker 3: some ways, I guess it's kind of like painting the
Speaker 3: inside of your house, or changing the curtains, or rearranging
Speaker 3: or ripple, you know, redoing some furniture. There's always different layouts.
Speaker 3: Of course, the out in the landscape, it becomes a
Speaker 3: thing of plants just grow and they just kind of
Speaker 3: overgrow their area and things. So choose dwarf plants when
Speaker 3: you can to keep them more manageable. But don't be
Speaker 3: afraid to change things out. It could be that you
Speaker 3: bought them and it just isn't doing well. That's okay,
Speaker 3: change it out. It could be the use to get
Speaker 3: tired of it. You don't want to look at that anymore.
Speaker 3: Maybe you want a new flower bed. Maybe there's two
Speaker 3: trees you're tired of mowing in circles. Around and you're
Speaker 3: going to make a nice oval flowerbed to go around
Speaker 3: each one, or whatever shape you want it to be.
Speaker 3: Always be looking at ways to change things out. It
Speaker 3: keeps it interesting, It makes it more beautiful, and it's okay.
Speaker 3: Don't feel like when you plant things it just always
Speaker 3: has to stay like that. It doesn't. And if you're
Speaker 3: fighting against shrubs, trying to keep them from encroaching on
Speaker 3: the sidewalks and all that kind of thing, maybe it's
Speaker 3: time to consider replacing those and coming up with something
Speaker 3: kind of different. Just a thought, just something to be considering. Anyway.
Speaker 3: So I was thinking about my week and I realized
Speaker 3: we moved into this house a few years ago, and
Speaker 3: I just haven't done much going forward in the landscape
Speaker 3: as much as I've done going backwards. What I mean
Speaker 3: is there are a lot of plants that were either unsightly,
Speaker 3: or they were located in an area where I just
Speaker 3: didn't want them, or they were not performing very well,
Speaker 3: and so we would pull those out. It doesn't bother
Speaker 3: me to kill a plant, and so got them out
Speaker 3: of there and someone relocating that's another thing we do.
Speaker 3: And then getting the flower beds they're already I've gotten
Speaker 3: the soil in them, right, I've gotten good and mulching
Speaker 3: on them. And you would say, well, why do you
Speaker 3: mulch when you don't even have plants in because of weeds?
Speaker 3: You know, you go out there and you clean up
Speaker 3: a bed and you get it all looking nice, and
Speaker 3: you walk away and leave that soil bear, and two
Speaker 3: weeks later the weeds are everwhere, and it's very discouraging.
Speaker 3: So when you get the soil right, cover it with
Speaker 3: a good thick layer of malt, and then just pull
Speaker 3: the mulch back when you want a plant. That's why
Speaker 3: I think the way you ought to do it. I'm
Speaker 3: going to be planning some more orchard trees this week.
Speaker 3: Get those going. Every time I see it like a
Speaker 3: fruit tree, maybe it's a satsuma orange or a peach
Speaker 3: or whatever the free tree is, I think, you know, oh,
Speaker 3: I would love to grow that. I'm going to plant that.
Speaker 3: And then you plant it and you sit there looking
Speaker 3: at this little stick in the ground or however big
Speaker 3: it is, and it's like, okay, I got to wait
Speaker 3: for fruit now. So in order to be able to
Speaker 3: enjoy fruit, the time to plant that fruit tree is today.
Speaker 3: In fact, there's an old thing that the best time
Speaker 3: to plant a tree is forty years ago. That's a
Speaker 3: landscape tree. The second best time is today. And that
Speaker 3: goes true with fruit trees, not forty years ago. But
Speaker 3: the best time to plant a fruit tree is about
Speaker 3: four years ago, and the second best time is today.
Speaker 3: So why don't you get out there. Our garden centers
Speaker 3: have a lot of beautiful, beautiful fruit trees of all types.
Speaker 3: Just to remember, fruit needs sunlight. That is the number
Speaker 3: one thing that goes wrong when I over the years
Speaker 3: of almost forty years now i'm doing this. The thing
Speaker 3: I see, the mistake I see made most is lack
Speaker 3: of sunlight. If there were a second one, it would
Speaker 3: be probably a tie just in terms of the amount
Speaker 3: of times I see the problem, and that is either
Speaker 3: lack of good drainage or lack of a pollinator variety
Speaker 3: for fruit that needs a pollinator. Not all does, some do.
Speaker 3: But you plant one apple tree, for example, they need pollinators.
Speaker 3: You plant one apple tree and it immediately becomes a
Speaker 3: member of the lonely Hearts club. It's got to have
Speaker 3: another variety there for pollination. So something to keep in mind.
Speaker 3: Southwest fertilizer, I talk about all the time, because I
Speaker 3: know of no place anywhere, and I mean that, I
Speaker 3: mean anywhere around this whole region that has the selection
Speaker 3: that they do at Southwest Fertilizer. If they don't have it,
Speaker 3: you don't need it. It's as simple as that. Every
Speaker 3: fertilizer I talk about on guarden line, every product on
Speaker 3: my schedules is a Southwest fertilizer, and then some many
Speaker 3: many more. So are you looking for things from Azamite,
Speaker 3: things from Nature's Way resources, heirloom soils, Medina products, microlife,
Speaker 3: Nilsen's turf Star, nitrofost, just on and on down the line.
Speaker 3: They're all there. And if you have a very unusual
Speaker 3: weed that's difficult to control with most products, they're going
Speaker 3: to have something at Southwest Fertilizer that will will get
Speaker 3: control of it. Quality products, they have expert advice. Of course,
Speaker 3: you get that old fashioned service. They've been around since
Speaker 3: nineteen fifty five. This is our seventieth anniversary year now
Speaker 3: Southwest Fertilizer dot com. That's the website seven to one
Speaker 3: three six sixty six one seven four to four. If
Speaker 3: you want to give them a call, and if you
Speaker 3: just want to drive out there, that suggest you do that.
Speaker 3: I enjoy walking through there and just seeing all the
Speaker 3: tools and products that they have. Corner of Businet and Renwick.
Speaker 3: Corner of Businet and Renwick, Southwest Fertilizer. Of course, in
Speaker 3: Southwest Houston, people drive a long way to go there too.
Speaker 3: I you know, it's their selection is so good that
Speaker 3: someone may come from the other side of town because
Speaker 3: as they know, when they get there it's going to
Speaker 3: be a one stop shop. They're going to get what
Speaker 3: they want. That makes sense to me too. I was
Speaker 3: talking yesterday with someone about they were looking for a
Speaker 3: little rose fertilizer. They had one rose bush and they
Speaker 3: were looking for a fertilizer for it, and I was saying, well,
Speaker 3: why don't you just get Nelson's Nutra Star rose food
Speaker 3: and because it's perfect for that. Now, there are a
Speaker 3: lot of different products on the market for a lot
Speaker 3: of different kinds of plants. One thing I like about
Speaker 3: Nilsen Plant Foods, fertilizer, jars Is, and that's the nutri
Speaker 3: Star line that I'm talking about, is that there is
Speaker 3: a Nutra Star for pretty much everything you'd want to grow.
Speaker 3: So it may be that you want to grow camellias.
Speaker 3: I'm excused. Yeah, so you would want an acid loving plant.
Speaker 3: Maybe you are interested in going plume arias. There's a
Speaker 3: nutral star plumeria. Maybe it's let's see boogin vellas. There's
Speaker 3: a neutral star for booga and villas, and then for
Speaker 3: fruit trees, and then for vegetables, and then on and
Speaker 3: on down the line. There is a neutrastar product for
Speaker 3: every plant you want to grow. And sometimes it may be,
Speaker 3: you know an acid loving plant. Well maybe it doesn't
Speaker 3: save a Genia sweet spire, or say you know some
Speaker 3: particular acid loving plant on the label, but it's for
Speaker 3: that too. And so when you go in and get
Speaker 3: a jar of Nelson plant food, the vegetable garden outstanding one.
Speaker 3: Talked to someone yesterday about their vegetable garden one. Five
Speaker 3: different sources of nitrogen that evenly release out over a
Speaker 3: period of time, the azalea and acid loving plants. It
Speaker 3: doesn't matter which one you get, it's going to be
Speaker 3: a quality fertilizer. And there's about a dozen places around
Speaker 3: town now where you can take that old jar when
Speaker 3: it's empty back in and refill it. That makes a
Speaker 3: lot of sense. Yeah, Nelson plant food, quality foods. Just
Speaker 3: use some myself the other day. All right here, Well,
Speaker 3: I don't quite have enough time to run to a call,
Speaker 3: but we are going to be. Let's see when I
Speaker 3: come back. I tell you we'll go to Angela and
Speaker 3: Katie and Ryan and Cleveland. You'll hang on. You'll be
Speaker 3: our first two up when we come back. I want
Speaker 3: to let you know that next Saturday, April fifth, from
Speaker 3: twelve thirty to two thirty, I'm going to be at
Speaker 3: Warren's Southern Gardens out in Kingwood. Warrens Southern Gardens out
Speaker 3: in Kingwood, and I hope you'll come out and see me.
Speaker 3: We're going to be doing some giveaways there. And you
Speaker 3: hear me talk about Warrens all the time. It's our
Speaker 3: standing place, and come on out and see me. I
Speaker 3: want you to look at that place, see the kinds
Speaker 3: of color and plants and pots and everything that they have.
Speaker 3: We'll be doing a lot of diagnosis and identification. So
Speaker 3: maybe your neighbor has a flower and you will know
Speaker 3: what it is so you can get some well, take
Speaker 3: a picture of it and bring it to me, or
Speaker 3: take samples of things in your yard. All those weeds
Speaker 3: we're worried about. Right now, bring me some samples in
Speaker 3: a bag. We'll look at those. I would say the
Speaker 3: doctor's in, but I don't have my doctorate. I guess
Speaker 3: I could say I'm not a doctor. I just play
Speaker 3: one on the radio. I don't know if that works
Speaker 3: or not, but anyway, i'd be glad to diagnose and
Speaker 3: help you find solutions to those problems out at Warren's
Speaker 3: next Saturday, right after lunch. All right, time for me
Speaker 3: to take a break. We'll come back with your calls
Speaker 3: in just a moment. Hey, welcome back, Welcome back to
Speaker 3: the guard Line. Good to have you with us. We're
Speaker 3: going to run out to the phones now and head
Speaker 3: to Katie and talk to Angela this morning. Hello Angela,
Speaker 3: Welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 8: Hi, good morning Skip. A couple of years ago, we
Speaker 8: adopted a couple healers and LUSK and PD confiscated and
Speaker 8: I guess they were from the streets or something. I
Speaker 8: don't know, but my point was that is they eat everything,
Speaker 8: so I have to be careful what I put down.
Speaker 8: But last year, and I'm sure we weren't the only ones,
Speaker 8: we were just infested with just crazy. And I used
Speaker 8: to go to an old time country that and he's like,
Speaker 8: put borax down and you know, in a carpet, walk
Speaker 8: on it for a week, vacuum.
Speaker 9: To thatp You're good.
Speaker 8: So for years every March, I pre treat the house,
Speaker 8: do a couple of things in the yard, and everything's good.
Speaker 8: But my problem was, I think my husband keeps talking
Speaker 8: about diazinon. Isn't that poisonous to the dogs?
Speaker 3: Yeah, you're well, you're not gonna You're not gonna find
Speaker 3: that now, So okay, yeah, okay, I'm not a I
Speaker 3: am not a veterinarian or anything like.
Speaker 8: That, but no, I just anything in the yard.
Speaker 3: Right. Well, what what I do for my own dogs
Speaker 3: is we use the product that goes on the dog.
Speaker 3: There's one that you put on the dogs on their haunches,
Speaker 3: you know, above the shoulders there that that goes in.
Speaker 3: And there's another one that you actually like for heartworms
Speaker 3: and fleas and things. There's pills that you give them periodically,
Speaker 3: and we use that and that alone is pretty good.
Speaker 3: But if you have to treat the yard when you're outside,
Speaker 3: I just hate using basically nuke in the whole place
Speaker 3: with a pest side, even on organic pests. I just
Speaker 3: don't generally like to do that. But there are some
Speaker 3: products that work indoors. I used to spray the growth
Speaker 3: regulators like pre corps, and you could put those and
Speaker 3: what happens is if the fleas drop off a dog
Speaker 3: or lay eggs or whatever, and then they try to
Speaker 3: develop the larva, they never grow up, and so it's
Speaker 3: not like a poison to kill the flea. It's more
Speaker 3: of a shuts them down at whatever life stage and
Speaker 3: they never go any further. And that works pretty good too,
Speaker 3: But I talk to your vet on that one. I
Speaker 3: think that would probably work better. There are some general
Speaker 3: insecticides that you can put all through the yard that
Speaker 3: people use and they get down in the thatch and
Speaker 3: control the fleas that are out there. But I tell
Speaker 3: you that that stuff you you, the pills you give
Speaker 3: to the dog, that is the single best thing we've had.
Speaker 3: That's me.
Speaker 10: I use a too.
Speaker 8: I use av X too on the dogs.
Speaker 11: But the yard is the issue.
Speaker 8: I've got, you know, neighbors with dogs, and I don't
Speaker 8: know what they do to control with. But about a
Speaker 8: month ago I bought this diameass gifts, Did I say
Speaker 8: it right? And a couple of weeks ago, I went
Speaker 8: to Cornelia's nursery and bought the complete insect killer and
Speaker 8: sprayed in the yard. And no, I guess it's about
Speaker 8: a month ago because that's when I used the vans
Speaker 8: on them too, and it seemed to give them the control.
Speaker 8: When I bathed one of them yesterday, the blood from
Speaker 8: her rear end area that came off from our getting
Speaker 8: eaten with fleas, I just I'm like, Okay, I gotta
Speaker 8: do something. I also read fear if I put cear
Speaker 8: chips in my landscaping ground trees, would that do anything?
Speaker 3: Essentially? No, it's a little cedar repels some insects, but
Speaker 3: then it ages out there and it's not working anymore.
Speaker 3: So I tell you I would. I would call a
Speaker 3: good pest control operator and consider having them come out
Speaker 3: and do something. I know pest bros, the one that
Speaker 3: I talk about all here here on guard Line. They
Speaker 3: have stuff they can put in the yard that will last.
Speaker 3: It puts it downe in the grass and it will last.
Speaker 3: You can talk to them about your concern jo I
Speaker 3: got a dog. I don't want anything. You know, it's
Speaker 3: going to be hurting them and things. But the pest Bros.
Speaker 3: Is a group that will come out to Katie. They
Speaker 3: go out that far west and they can they can
Speaker 3: take care of this for.
Speaker 8: You, all right, So we'll give them a call.
Speaker 11: Yeah, get your brain.
Speaker 8: I'm just beside myself, so.
Speaker 3: Right right, Well, let me give you a phone number
Speaker 3: just in case you decide to go ahead and call them.
Speaker 3: It's A two eight one two oh six forty six
Speaker 3: seventy two eight one six forty six. Okay, thanks a lot.
Speaker 3: Good luck with getting that under control. That is that
Speaker 3: is no fun, I know.
Speaker 11: All right, thank you so much.
Speaker 3: Bad Well, all I'm talking about the pest Bros. They
Speaker 3: do all kinds of things. They do Turmite controls that
Speaker 3: last for all, Like they have an option that lasts
Speaker 3: for ten years for control protecting your house from termites.
Speaker 3: That is a long time and it works, and it's
Speaker 3: put in a place where you know, it's not like
Speaker 3: they nuke the whole yard. It's it's putting a little
Speaker 3: trench around the house and it just protects the things
Speaker 3: going through this soil trying to get into your house
Speaker 3: like that, Like the termites. They I always always talking
Speaker 3: about their mosquito bucket system. That's very new very innovative
Speaker 3: and very low talks, very effective compared to you know,
Speaker 3: constantly fogging all the time trying to keep them out.
Speaker 3: You can go to their website. It's the pest bros
Speaker 3: dot com the pest b r os dot com for
Speaker 3: all that kind of pest control. And they do cover
Speaker 3: from Katie all the way across the Bay Town, from
Speaker 3: up in the Woodlands, all the way down Texas City area.
Speaker 3: So pretty much you hear about boys just about there,
Speaker 3: they're covering your area. We're gonna go now out to
Speaker 3: Cleveland and talk to Ryan. Hey, Ryan, Hello, sir, how
Speaker 3: are you well? Thank you good? I have a question.
Speaker 5: I was pruning all my fruit trees and I missed
Speaker 5: an apple tree.
Speaker 12: Is it too late to prune a red delicious?
Speaker 5: Have some water spirit that are going kind of vertical
Speaker 5: brushes vertical limbs I missed.
Speaker 3: You can prune, Yeah, you can prune any all through
Speaker 3: the season if you want. It's best to prune at
Speaker 3: the end of winter. But if you got a water
Speaker 3: sprout that is gonna be a huge pruning wound if
Speaker 3: you wait until the end of the year to prune it.
Speaker 3: So go ahead and prune them now. Uh, and just yeah,
Speaker 3: that's the thing. Got to keep the light coming into
Speaker 3: your tree because light helps the plants set fruit buds
Speaker 3: and blossoms. And yeah, that's it.
Speaker 12: Okay, doty to put anything on the scar at this
Speaker 12: time with.
Speaker 3: No not at all. Just make a good cut, don't
Speaker 3: leave a stub, it'll just die. No need to treat
Speaker 3: the wound at all.
Speaker 12: Okay, thank you, sir. I appreciate it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, thanks, Ryan, appreciate your call very much. If you've
Speaker 3: been out talking about Katie there have you've been out
Speaker 3: to Nelson Nursery and Water Gardens is an outstanding place.
Speaker 3: I was just looking at some of the new arrivals.
Speaker 3: I always try to keep up with what are these places,
Speaker 3: what are they carrying? What they have and stuff? And well,
Speaker 3: they got a lot of new things that have come
Speaker 3: in up there, all kinds of beautiful color herbs and
Speaker 3: vegetables and flowers and shrubs, and the water lilies are
Speaker 3: in now. So if you got a little water pond,
Speaker 3: if you're thinking about getting a water feature in your landscape,
Speaker 3: you need go check them out. Nelson water Gardens and
Speaker 3: Nursery or Nursery and water Gardens actually is the way
Speaker 3: we say it to eight one three, nine to one
Speaker 3: forty seven sixty nine two eight one three nine one
Speaker 3: four seven sixty nine. They got their Easter egg hunt
Speaker 3: coming up on Saturday, April nineteenth. I know that's way
Speaker 3: out there, but I think you ought to prepare for that.
Speaker 3: Kiddos can come out from nine to ten and enjoy themselves.
Speaker 3: They have a real nice little thing for the kids
Speaker 3: out there for the Easter hunt and then the sip
Speaker 3: and stroll, which is always fun out there Saturday, April
Speaker 3: twenty fifth from five to seven, so it's a late day.
Speaker 3: You get out. They have some refreshment there for you.
Speaker 3: You can walk around, enjoy the sound of water, and
Speaker 3: just have a good time. Nelson Nursery and Water Gardens.
Speaker 3: You gotta walk through the store to get into the nursery,
Speaker 3: and that's a good thing because their house plants are gorgeous.
Speaker 3: It's some of them beautiful, just gorgeous house plants that
Speaker 3: they have there, very very nice. And I like that too.
Speaker 3: Remember we garden inside our house as well. We're gonna
Speaker 3: head Oh nope, I gotta break dad. Gum it, Matt.
Speaker 3: We almost made it to you. We're gonna get to you.
Speaker 3: First thing, when we come right back from a break here,
Speaker 3: I just want to remind you that next Saturday I
Speaker 3: will be at Warren Southern Gardens. That is April fifth,
Speaker 3: from twelve thirty to two thirty, just after lunch, Warren
Speaker 3: Southern Gardens in Kingwood. All right, time for a break.
Speaker 3: I'll be right back. All right, we're back. Welcome back
Speaker 3: to garden Line. Hey, if you'd like to give us
Speaker 3: a call seven one three two one two fifty eight
Speaker 3: seventy four. We're gonna head out now to Cypress. First
Speaker 3: thing this segment and talk to Matt. Hey, Matt, welcome
Speaker 3: to garden Line.
Speaker 13: Good morning, Skip, morning Skip. I need your help to identify,
Speaker 13: excuse me, the insect that is on my sweet sunset
Speaker 13: banana pepper plant. There, okay, on the on the top
Speaker 13: of the plant, you can see brown, oh not splotches
Speaker 13: or whatever.
Speaker 14: Uh.
Speaker 13: And then there are a little white teeny teeny looks
Speaker 13: like almost.
Speaker 15: Like when you get a scalp problem.
Speaker 13: It's white.
Speaker 16: And when I okay, when I rub my finger on it, uh,
Speaker 16: it feels like a gauze and it'll go away. What
Speaker 16: do you think that kind of insect is?
Speaker 3: Well, if you want that most accurate answer. I'm gonna
Speaker 3: need to see a picture of the splotches and the white,
Speaker 3: but I think you're talking about cast skins of aphids
Speaker 3: for the white, the little white flex that look like
Speaker 3: dander or something that that sounds like cast skins of aphids,
Speaker 3: which aphids shed their skin just like a snake does. Uh,
Speaker 3: And so that means you may still have aphids, or
Speaker 3: maybe benefit insects have cleaned them up and they just
Speaker 3: skins left behind. But turn the leaves over, look for
Speaker 3: a little on a pepper. Look for little things that
Speaker 3: are either kind of a greenish color or yellowish green color,
Speaker 3: or maybe even darker color than that. If you see that,
Speaker 3: just blast them off with water, or you can spray
Speaker 3: them with insecticidal soap. But either way that that generally
Speaker 3: keeps them in control. Okay, the splotches I need to see.
Speaker 3: There are a number o the splotches tan or black
Speaker 3: or do they have yellow rings around them or can
Speaker 3: you describe it to me? And also the size of
Speaker 3: the splotches.
Speaker 13: They're about two to three inches long and about an
Speaker 13: inch wide. Brown on top of the leaf.
Speaker 3: Two to three inches long splotches.
Speaker 15: Yes, boy, but you think it's an aphit of some sort.
Speaker 3: Well not the splotches, the little white cast skins, but
Speaker 3: two to three inches long is huge, as big as
Speaker 3: your thumb, bigger than your thumb. Uh yeah, I need
Speaker 3: I need to see that. Uh you know, grab a leaf,
Speaker 3: take a picture. I'm gonna put you on hold. If
Speaker 3: you want to do this, my producer will give you
Speaker 3: an email send it to me, and if I get
Speaker 3: it in time today, I'll do it for the end.
Speaker 3: I'll talk about it for the end of the show.
Speaker 15: Okay, it's dark outside.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's okay, that's okay. Well, you know you do
Speaker 3: have a flash.
Speaker 16: I do, but I won't know what I'm doing.
Speaker 3: That's the true I know. Yeah, well you know, even
Speaker 3: even at that, I would when you do go out
Speaker 3: later when slight and pick up pick a leaf, bring
Speaker 3: it inside or show me. They just take a picture
Speaker 3: of the planet and then take a picture of splotch.
Speaker 3: Make sure it's in good sharp focus.
Speaker 13: All righty, thank you, Skip, you have a wonderful day
Speaker 13: and remain safe.
Speaker 3: Okay, I'll do that, and I'm putting you on hole
Speaker 3: right now for Jonathan to pick up. You know that
Speaker 3: reminds me I've been getting emails or people send me
Speaker 3: their pictures, and I appreciate that because you know, if
Speaker 3: you're describing something to me and I'm picturing it in
Speaker 3: my mind, there's a good chance what you're seeing and
Speaker 3: what I'm picturing are not the same thing. That just
Speaker 3: is the way things work. So when you take a
Speaker 3: picture that's in sharp focus and send it to me,
Speaker 3: I can look at it and then you follow up
Speaker 3: with a call. I'm not able to answer emails in general,
Speaker 3: just because there's way too many to be able to.
Speaker 3: It's all out of whatever do. But I will be
Speaker 3: happy to send it to me. I'll hold on to them.
Speaker 3: Then when you call, we can talk about it. But anyway,
Speaker 3: I want to make a couple of points. Number one,
Speaker 3: sharp focus. Get If you send me a fuzzy picture,
Speaker 3: I will give you a fuzzy answer. You want a good,
Speaker 3: accurate answer, right. Sharp focus is so important and sometimes
Speaker 3: our cameras get fooled. You know, you hold a leaf
Speaker 3: up and you take a picture of it, and it
Speaker 3: focuses on the landscape behind the leaf you're holding up
Speaker 3: instead of the leaf you're holding up. So check your pictures,
Speaker 3: make sure they're in sharp focus, because I don't want
Speaker 3: to waste your time on having to go out and
Speaker 3: take another picture and stuff so we can get to
Speaker 3: the bottom of it. The other thing is if you
Speaker 3: will attach them to the email rather than embed them
Speaker 3: in the email. So the attached ones, I click on
Speaker 3: the attachment and that picture opens up and I can
Speaker 3: zoom in, I can move around. It's easy. The embedded ones.
Speaker 3: If it's a big picture, I can open that email
Speaker 3: up as big as my whole computer screen, and I'm
Speaker 3: still scrolling around trying to find, you know, get the
Speaker 3: big picture, and to go to the trouble of trying
Speaker 3: to save it then and open it. I just I'm
Speaker 3: not able to do that in the time when we're
Speaker 3: going on the show here. So anyway attach rather than embed.
Speaker 3: Embedding is just like pasting it into the text. Don't
Speaker 3: do that. Don't do that. Okay, hopefully that will help.
Speaker 3: Visiting with Luis from Heirloom Soils yesterday out there at
Speaker 3: Siena Mulch and we're talking about some of the products
Speaker 3: and things that they had. They donated a couple of
Speaker 3: products is giveaways there. I appreciate them doing that. Someone
Speaker 3: asked me about their veggie and herb mix, and they
Speaker 3: were saying, no, well, is this just for vegetables. No, no,
Speaker 3: it's not. It's a good plant bedding. What I'm gonna
Speaker 3: trying to say, I guess betting plant or garden bed situation.
Speaker 3: It's a good mix period, and I've even used it
Speaker 3: in larger containers. I think it works well for that.
Speaker 3: But the veggie nerb mix, yes, if you have a
Speaker 3: flower bed, get some of that. It'll do good. They'll
Speaker 3: grow well in that. You know, it's primarily focused on
Speaker 3: vegetable and herb gardens. But that's a very very sotle mix.
Speaker 3: So they also have a leaf mol compost available and
Speaker 3: you can get it. Let's say you were going to
Speaker 3: do some compost out nursing yourself. It's a little work
Speaker 3: to do that, but you can. Or you just wanted
Speaker 3: a high quality compost put in the soil, get their
Speaker 3: leaf mold compost. Heirloom Soils will sell you the product
Speaker 3: in several different ways, making it so convenient for you.
Speaker 3: So number one, a lot of places you go carry
Speaker 3: the bags of heirloom soil. So that's one way right there.
Speaker 3: You can drive out to Porter, Texas where the warrens,
Speaker 3: rock and mulches, and that's where the heirloom soil products are,
Speaker 3: and you can pick them up bulk, maybe have them
Speaker 3: dump it in your pickup or on a trailer, or
Speaker 3: you can call them and say, hey, deliver me a
Speaker 3: bulk put on the driveway and we're going to haul
Speaker 3: it around use it everywhere we need it. Or this
Speaker 3: is even better, a one cubic yard super sack. It
Speaker 3: holds a whole cubic yard of you fill in the blank.
Speaker 3: It could be leaf mold compost, it could be veggie
Speaker 3: and herb mix. It could be you know, things like
Speaker 3: hardwood malt or pine bark malt or I mean they
Speaker 3: sell a lot of things by the supersack. And now
Speaker 3: you need three sacks minimum for a delivery because to
Speaker 3: just bring one sack and go across the timbuck, I
Speaker 3: just the expense of getting it there is too high.
Speaker 3: So one keep guard supersacks available that way as well.
Speaker 3: And so many different products from them. We could spend
Speaker 3: probably half a show just going into all the different products,
Speaker 3: listing the products that they have and talking about them,
Speaker 3: just a little bit about each one. Anyway, airloomsoils dot
Speaker 3: Com go to Airloomsoils dot com. They got a good
Speaker 3: calculator there on the website, makes it easy for you
Speaker 3: to know exactly how much that you need. And you
Speaker 3: can read about each of these products, from their potting
Speaker 3: soils for containers, to the bed mixes and many many
Speaker 3: other things that they offer. It's good stuff. They don't
Speaker 3: they don't sell you junk. When you buy a product
Speaker 3: from them, it's going to be a quality product. And
Speaker 3: I know that because I've used them. I've used them myself.
Speaker 3: That's I love their products that they produce. You're listening
Speaker 3: to Guardline. Our phone number is seven one three two
Speaker 3: one two kt r H seven one three two one
Speaker 3: two kt r H. You can give us a call.
Speaker 3: We can talk about the things that you are most
Speaker 3: interested in. As someone was asking me for a product,
Speaker 3: what was a good natural product that I can use
Speaker 3: to FOLLI er feed my plants and uh or what
Speaker 3: is a product that you know I can drench into
Speaker 3: the soil to feed my plants and things. And we're
Speaker 3: we're discussing some of the microlife liquids. There's a lot
Speaker 3: of good microlife liquid products out there on the market
Speaker 3: available to you. One of them is Ocean Harvest. Ocean
Speaker 3: Harvest has a blue label, comes in a quart, comes
Speaker 3: in a gallon. It's a four to two three fertilizer.
Speaker 3: It's fish based, uh and that is a high quality
Speaker 3: organic product because it's not going to burn your plants,
Speaker 3: and it does have a good nutrient content. And you
Speaker 3: can drench it on the soil, you can sprayed on
Speaker 3: the foliage. It works good both ways. Ocean Harvest blue label.
Speaker 3: Now you can also get their seaweed product. That's another
Speaker 3: good one. It's a green label. There's a lot of
Speaker 3: products from Microlife. You go to Microlifefertilizer dot com find
Speaker 3: out about them. This is one of the most wide
Speaker 3: spread brands in the Greater Houston area and way way
Speaker 3: beyond that too, by the way, and every time I've
Speaker 3: tried one, and I've tried a lot of them, they
Speaker 3: work well. I can't believe the first hour is over.
Speaker 3: That went fast, all right, Well, we need to kick
Speaker 3: it into gear for the second hour. We'll be right
Speaker 3: back for that. Just another reminder if you're up northwest,
Speaker 3: or actually if you're anywhere and haven't been to Warren
Speaker 3: Southern Gardens, come on out on next Saturday, that's April fifth,
Speaker 3: from twelve thirty to two thirty, So grab a sandwich.
Speaker 3: You can need it there in front of me. If
Speaker 3: you want, show up at twelve thirty. We're gonna help
Speaker 3: you with your plant questions. Have a lot of time
Speaker 3: to eye to eye, talk and visit, and we'll be
Speaker 3: doing some fun, cool giveaways as well.
Speaker 2: Welcome to kat r h Garden Line with Skip Richard.
Speaker 3: It's crazy.
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Speaker 3: Hey, good morning. Welcome to everyone joining us for this
Speaker 3: hour a garden Line. I'm your host, Skip Richtor, and
Speaker 3: we're here to help you have a bountiful garden, a
Speaker 3: beautiful landscape and more fun in the process. That's the
Speaker 3: important part at the end. You know, gardening is not
Speaker 3: supposed to be labor. It's not supposed to be what.
Speaker 3: I have a brown thumb. I can't grow anything I
Speaker 3: want you. I would like to have your attention for
Speaker 3: just a minute. I know you're doing something important there,
Speaker 3: but just just for a second. You don't have a
Speaker 3: brown thumb. You don't have a brown thumb. People say
Speaker 3: that some people have a green thumb and therefore everything
Speaker 3: they do in the garden it just works. And someone
Speaker 3: has a brown thumb and everything they do they just
Speaker 3: kill the plant and it doesn't work. You don't have
Speaker 3: a brown thumb. Now you may have an uninformed thumb.
Speaker 3: Because people like Granny that could just grow anything in
Speaker 3: her garden, Well, Granny was just giving plants what they wanted.
Speaker 3: That's the bottom line. She was giving plants what they wanted.
Speaker 3: So when you provide a plant the things that it wants,
Speaker 3: you have got that green thumb looking garden and you
Speaker 3: can do that. That's why we're here on garden Line
Speaker 3: to inform your thumb. So bring your thumb to the
Speaker 3: radio with you and we will talk to your thumb
Speaker 3: along with you. And it's as simple as that. Plants
Speaker 3: like light, plants like drainage. Plants need water, plants need nutrients.
Speaker 3: It needs to be a plant that wants to grow here.
Speaker 3: It needs to be the season for that plant. There
Speaker 3: are a lot of things like that, but it's not
Speaker 3: your thumb that's the problem. But if you want to
Speaker 3: think that way, well, bring your thumb to garden Line.
Speaker 3: We'll talk to it and we'll get it informed, and
Speaker 3: you will see results. It's as simple as that. So
Speaker 3: just a little encouragement there from garden Line to you.
Speaker 3: All right, folks, if you'd like to give me a
Speaker 3: call seven one three two one two kt r H
Speaker 3: seven one three two one two k t RH just
Speaker 3: give me a call. We'll talk about the things that
Speaker 3: are interest to you. If you will see some really
Speaker 3: cool stuff, some cool plants and things. I always like
Speaker 3: going by Plants for all seasons. Plants for all seasons
Speaker 3: is the garden center right there on Tomball Parkway FM
Speaker 3: two forty nine. If you're heading up toward Tomball exit Luetta,
Speaker 3: across over Luetta and it's right there, right on two
Speaker 3: forty nine, easy, easy to find. Plants for all seasons
Speaker 3: is the kind of place that is going to have
Speaker 3: the plants that grow here, that do well here, because listen,
Speaker 3: the floweries have been around it. That's at that location
Speaker 3: since nineteen seventy three, are just real close to right there.
Speaker 3: Nineteen seventy three. That's a long time ago. Do the math.
Speaker 3: I mean that garden center and that family has been
Speaker 3: gardening in this area and helping gardeners in this area.
Speaker 3: So when you go in for advice. You bring them
Speaker 3: a picture, you bring them a plant sample. You just
Speaker 3: go in and say, hey, I want to create a
Speaker 3: beautiful container on the outside of the patio there, but
Speaker 3: I don't know how to do it. Well. They'll take
Speaker 3: you around, they'll help you find select some plants that
Speaker 3: are appealing to you, tell you how to combine them.
Speaker 3: They have some great containers. I've got a couple of
Speaker 3: great containers I got there, and plants for All Seasons
Speaker 3: that just are outstanding, and so it's as simple as that.
Speaker 3: You can go to the website Plants for All Seasons
Speaker 3: dot com, or you can give them a call two
Speaker 3: eight one three seven six one six four six. Check
Speaker 3: out the new indoor store that they have there where
Speaker 3: they have all kinds of quality tools and seeds and
Speaker 3: a lot of other fun stuff, including products to help
Speaker 3: solve problems that you may run across in your landscape.
Speaker 3: Right there, Plants for All Seasons. I am going to
Speaker 3: be this coming week. I've got some containers that I
Speaker 3: need to finish. We planted a combo container last week
Speaker 3: with some beautiful cascading those petunias, the supertunias. If you
Speaker 3: haven't ever had supertunias. You need to check them out.
Speaker 3: They're popular. They're widely available now. But they have smaller flowers,
Speaker 3: but more and I mean those things will bloom so
Speaker 3: much you can't hardly see a leaf. It's just wall
Speaker 3: to wall color on the plant. I don't know how
Speaker 3: he gets un light and survived, but they do. They
Speaker 3: sure do supertunias. Anyway, our dogs decided that that soil
Speaker 3: needed to be explored, and so there's a hole in
Speaker 3: them and I put the well back in. I was
Speaker 3: gone yesterday down it's the animals got back at the
Speaker 3: end of the day, looked at the container and there's
Speaker 3: holes bigger, and so I'm gonna have to have a
Speaker 3: word with my Golden Retrievers, Ellie and Tax. They are
Speaker 3: gardening dogs. And I don't know if you know this,
Speaker 3: but dogs. You go to the AKC American Kennel Club
Speaker 3: and you see dogs by groups. You know, there's hunting dogs,
Speaker 3: there's sporting dogs. You know all the different kinds of
Speaker 3: groups of dogs that they have. Well, Golden Retrievers are
Speaker 3: supposed to be a hunting type dog and that they
Speaker 3: go out and they retrieve, you know, you shoot a
Speaker 3: duck and they go get the duck and bring it
Speaker 3: back or whatever. Anyway, that's their name, Golden Retriever. My
Speaker 3: goldens don't know that they know they're retrievers, but they
Speaker 3: think they're plant retrievers. When Ellie was a little puppy,
Speaker 3: I went out and planted some four inch pots of
Speaker 3: echination in a back bed, and Ellie was there with me.
Speaker 3: She hangs out with me all the time. And I
Speaker 3: went inside drink water, came back out a little bit later,
Speaker 3: and she's sitting there at the back door with a
Speaker 3: four inch pot of echination that she had brought back
Speaker 3: to me. She had retrieved it. So I need to
Speaker 3: call AKC and I'm going to suggest that within the
Speaker 3: dog groups that they have a gardening dog group a
Speaker 3: Golden Retriever. Now, I also need to find a good
Speaker 3: pet trainer. And I don't want them to teach them
Speaker 3: not to dig in my garden. I want to teach
Speaker 3: them how to dig up weeds and bring weeds back,
Speaker 3: how to discern between the two. Wouldn't that be good?
Speaker 3: If that works out, I will have puppies for sale
Speaker 3: for two thousand dollars apiece before too long, And I'll
Speaker 3: let you know here on garden line. I love those dogs,
Speaker 3: I don't love what they do in my garden, that's
Speaker 3: for sure. Ellie the Golden Retriever. All right, I have
Speaker 3: a picture. I need to put this on Facebook. I
Speaker 3: have a picture. I was out gathering leaves in the
Speaker 3: final leaf harvest of the year. By the way, I
Speaker 3: probably know this, but the final leaf harvest of the
Speaker 3: year is uh, the when the live oaks shed all
Speaker 3: their leaves and come off and everybody's putting their leaves
Speaker 3: out to the curb. They're so nice they do that
Speaker 3: for me, and I go buy and pick the leaves up,
Speaker 3: bring them home, use them in my gardens. I have
Speaker 3: lots of places for leavest me maybe talk about sometimes
Speaker 3: the different ways you use leaves in a garden. But
Speaker 3: they're in the car with me, looking out the door,
Speaker 3: having a good time. They're excited about me bringing home
Speaker 3: leaves because while I think those leaves are going to
Speaker 3: be put in my garden, they think those leaves are
Speaker 3: going to be scattered to Kingdom come when they play
Speaker 3: in them. I have a feeling they may be more
Speaker 3: right than I am about what actually ends up happening
Speaker 3: to those leaves in the garden. Well, all right, enough
Speaker 3: about my dogs, but they are I think some of
Speaker 3: you can probably relate to some of the issues of
Speaker 3: having dogs. They're in the garden. Let's take a little break.
Speaker 3: I'll be back with your calls in just a moment.
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Speaker 3: All right, folks, welcome back to the Garden Line. Glad
Speaker 3: you're with us today. I got plenty of things we
Speaker 3: can talk about regarding our gardens and success. If you
Speaker 3: would like to give me a call seven to one
Speaker 3: three two one two kt R eight seven one three
Speaker 3: two one two kt R eight. Now, Nitrovos has a
Speaker 3: fast release product called Imperial. We've talked about it before.
Speaker 3: It's the red bag. The red bag when you put
Speaker 3: it down and it gets wet from rain or irrigation,
Speaker 3: it dissolves away. It goes into the soil, I mean,
Speaker 3: and immediately in first few days you're getting a whole
Speaker 3: lot of take up already going on into your grass plants.
Speaker 3: By the night Foss Imperial now fifteen five to ten
Speaker 3: is the three one two ratio that was developed at
Speaker 3: Langra universities across the South by doing turf research and
Speaker 3: looking at what what does grass take up? You know,
Speaker 3: let's take grass plants, take ampart and look at what
Speaker 3: they take up, and then let's fertilize accordingly. And that
Speaker 3: that's why we have that three one two ratio today
Speaker 3: and four one to also by the way, so it's
Speaker 3: the same formula even though it was created many years ago.
Speaker 3: It's the same formula and the same old red orange
Speaker 3: bag and it still works. Of course, that hasn't changed
Speaker 3: at all. It's a long established, tried and true product
Speaker 3: night Foss Imperial. So if you want to give a
Speaker 3: quick boost to your plans or your lawn and you
Speaker 3: would like to see a quick green up and results.
Speaker 3: Do that now if you've used night Foss Imperial, wait
Speaker 3: about six weeks after that before you start your summer
Speaker 3: slower release. And I'll talk about some of those products
Speaker 3: a little bit later. But night Foss Imperial is available
Speaker 3: at places like M and D and Cyprus on Luetta Road,
Speaker 3: the M and D down in Rosenberg on Avenue I
Speaker 3: Auspawls Ace up in the Woodlands, just three examples of
Speaker 3: places that carry nitro foss products. I was talking with
Speaker 3: some of the folks yesterday at c Animals and they
Speaker 3: were saying, well, I did I did my Imperial about
Speaker 3: three weeks ago or something I believe it was, and
Speaker 3: I said, well, give it another three weeks. Let's you
Speaker 3: know it's gonna last. I mean, even though it's immediately available,
Speaker 3: it's not like next week you got to do it again. No,
Speaker 3: it'll last. And so wait a little bit, but then
Speaker 3: move into the slow releases. That's important. You're going to
Speaker 3: find night Fuss and products available at most of your
Speaker 3: ACE Hardware stores. Really, you know, Ace Hardware Texas carries everything.
Speaker 3: I mean they do. In fact, if you use that
Speaker 3: website Ace Hardware Texas. You'll find the stores that are
Speaker 3: part of our local Houston group here Ace Hardwaretexas dot
Speaker 3: com and you'll get the map, find the ones near you,
Speaker 3: and when you go there, you're going to get the
Speaker 3: products you're looking for for your lawn and garden. You know,
Speaker 3: I'm talking about fertilizers and talking about pest and weed
Speaker 3: and disease control. We're talking about tools for your garden
Speaker 3: as well. You know, we all need quality tools to
Speaker 3: take care of the things. And then there is the
Speaker 3: other things that are offered to make your outdoor living
Speaker 3: so wonderful. The barbecue pits and the strings of lights
Speaker 3: and all the different stuff that you have in your
Speaker 3: outdoor settings where you just want to go and enjoy
Speaker 3: the move. Had some family over and yesterday evening we
Speaker 3: were outside enjoying just that wonderful ambiance and setting of
Speaker 3: the back patio with family and that sort of makes
Speaker 3: expands your home into outdoor living areas.
Speaker 11: And you know that.
Speaker 3: I mean, you have those there, but Ace Hardware is
Speaker 3: one that can get you all set up for all
Speaker 3: the things you need for that. And you're going to
Speaker 3: find Ace Hardware stores like J and RA, Ace up
Speaker 3: in Porter, Bay City. Ace down on Seventh Street in
Speaker 3: Bay City, Lake Conroy Ace Hardware they're on Highway one
Speaker 3: oh five West, and Single Ranch Ace Hardware down on
Speaker 3: Mason Road in Katie, Texas. There's a few examples of
Speaker 3: the many Ace Hardware stores that we have. Let's go
Speaker 3: ahead and head out. Now, we're going to do a
Speaker 3: little phone call in and head out to talk to Ricky. Hey, Ricky,
Speaker 3: welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 12: Good morning.
Speaker 6: I'm having a problem with the best I can figure out.
Speaker 6: It's called spur. Grass is covered with it, but your
Speaker 6: art is covered with it and I can't figure out
Speaker 6: how to get rid of it.
Speaker 12: Ricky.
Speaker 3: Does it look like a grass or does it have
Speaker 3: kind of frilly little leaves like parsley or something like that.
Speaker 6: Yes, like parsley or something. And it sticks too, all right,
Speaker 6: like a little sticker in the kids feet.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, I hate that. You're going to need to
Speaker 3: right away get a post emergent broad leaf weed control.
Speaker 3: And I know the leaves aren't broad but it is.
Speaker 3: It is technically a broad leaf plant. It's it's not
Speaker 3: a grass badly, So get something that you spray on
Speaker 3: the weeds to kill them. Post emergent, and there are
Speaker 3: you know, there's a lot of brands out there, and
Speaker 3: so you go to a good A good what what
Speaker 3: part of the Houston area.
Speaker 9: Are you in?
Speaker 3: What what region it's in?
Speaker 6: Hemps hemp stay.
Speaker 3: It oh out in Hempstead. Okay, well just go go
Speaker 3: to one of your garden centers, ace hardware stores, whatever
Speaker 3: you can get to out there. Uh, and uh find
Speaker 3: a product for post emergent. Broad Leaf we control, bon
Speaker 3: Eye makes one called weed Beater.
Speaker 22: Uh.
Speaker 3: There is one from Fertilo called weed free Zone. There's
Speaker 3: a bunch of them, high yields, got them and all
Speaker 3: the different brands that are on them are on the
Speaker 3: shelves or your garden centers and feed stores and things.
Speaker 3: They're going to have them out there. But Broadleaf post emergent.
Speaker 3: Mix it according to the label and go out and
Speaker 3: spot spray it and do it soon so you shut
Speaker 3: it down before it produces a lot of stickers. You
Speaker 3: want to you want to do it as early as
Speaker 3: you can.
Speaker 6: Uh, Okay, don't come in a grainule about two or
Speaker 6: three acres out of eat that.
Speaker 3: Holy yeah, well on that one. I think what we
Speaker 3: need to probably be doing this is not like a
Speaker 3: right now thing because you already have a plants, but
Speaker 3: putting out a pre emergent, pre emergent product before that
Speaker 3: thing even germinates, and that that would be something that
Speaker 3: you would begin to be doing in the fall of
Speaker 3: next year. So but for right now, for right now, yeah,
Speaker 3: you just you just need to I mean you can.
Speaker 3: You can put a fertilizer that has a post emergent
Speaker 3: in it, But with those little leaves in there, I
Speaker 3: think I don't think your your control effectiveness is going
Speaker 3: to be as good as it would be if you
Speaker 3: if you spray liquid on them. Plus now you would
Speaker 3: also be buying fertilizer for two acres so or high
Speaker 3: very much you, So, yeah, I would, I would do
Speaker 3: the spray. Do you have a little tractor with a
Speaker 3: boom on the back or anything like that.
Speaker 6: No, but I believe I got a little track, believe
Speaker 6: I carena sprayer.
Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, that's probably the thing I would do.
Speaker 6: Then for it.
Speaker 3: Good luck, good luck, we got it. We need to
Speaker 3: be able to turn those kids barefoot this summer, so
Speaker 3: good luck getting in control of it. You Pat, you
Speaker 3: take care, appreciate your call. Arburgate Garden Center up in
Speaker 3: Tumbull is one of those premier places that you just
Speaker 3: need to go. You know, if I have family come
Speaker 3: to town or something, it's like, Okay, hop in the car,
Speaker 3: we're gonna go someplace fun. And even the kids enjoy
Speaker 3: it because, you know, the landscape, bling and stuff they've
Speaker 3: got out there all over the place. I mean, you
Speaker 3: walk through the Arborgate, the gift shops are amazing, and
Speaker 3: yes there's more than one. And of course the plants.
Speaker 3: When you go to the Arborgate, you're getting the most
Speaker 3: outstanding options of plants that you're gonna find any place.
Speaker 23: It really is.
Speaker 3: They carry fruit trees year round for example, not just
Speaker 3: seasonally out there, herbs, vegetables, beautiful blooming plants, you know,
Speaker 3: camellias and roses and all the other shrubs and trees
Speaker 3: that blue. They've got those. If you're looking for things
Speaker 3: for shade, if you're looking for tropicals, gorgeous house plants
Speaker 3: as well. Arbigate is the place to go. While you're there,
Speaker 3: you want to pick up their one two three completely
Speaker 3: easy system. It's a food that feeds anything with roots.
Speaker 3: It also has calcium too, by the way, it's an
Speaker 3: organic food. And then a soil and a compost that
Speaker 3: works on all your applications. The soil and the compost
Speaker 3: both contain expanded shale, which really is important in our
Speaker 3: clay soils here in the Greater Houston area. Very very easy,
Speaker 3: completely organic, completely easy. And they can deliver that soil
Speaker 3: and compost to you in bulk too, by the way,
Speaker 3: So I mean if you want you don't want to
Speaker 3: buy eight hundred bags, you know, talk to them about
Speaker 3: the bulk delivery. They can bring it right out to you.
Speaker 3: And that's through the whole region here. They deliver pretty
Speaker 3: far with those products as well. Arburgate is on twenty
Speaker 3: nine to twenty west of Tomball. You'll see it on
Speaker 3: the left hand side. Look for Treshel Road before or
Speaker 3: after Arborgate and it's a loop that goes around behind
Speaker 3: Arburgate and go in that backway so you can use
Speaker 3: that new parking lot. Very safe, very easy access. It's
Speaker 3: gonna go out here now to Cypress and talk to Melanie. Hey, Melanie,
Speaker 3: welcome to guarden Line.
Speaker 11: Good morning, Skip.
Speaker 8: I got two questions for you.
Speaker 24: The one is I'm going to plant a tomato and
Speaker 24: it's in a pot that I had a tomato in
Speaker 24: last year. Should I remove the dirt, put new dirt
Speaker 24: in there, or just refresh it with some composts.
Speaker 3: Just refresh it with some fresh potting mix or veggie
Speaker 3: and herb mix or something like that. And no, you
Speaker 3: don't need to remove the old. The only time you
Speaker 3: would remove the old is if you had a root
Speaker 3: disease that killed the old one, or if you had nematodes.
Speaker 3: When you pull the old plant up, you saw those
Speaker 3: bumps on the roots. Then I would get all that
Speaker 3: soil out and even kind of sterilize that pot to
Speaker 3: kill everything before putting fresh soil in. But ninety nine
Speaker 3: point nine percent of the time you don't need to
Speaker 3: replace it.
Speaker 23: Oh thank you.
Speaker 9: Now.
Speaker 24: My other big, big problem is we bought a little
Speaker 24: house up in Atlanto.
Speaker 23: That is like a desert up there.
Speaker 24: They don't get much rain, and this lot nobody's lived
Speaker 24: there for a long time.
Speaker 23: It is full of stickers.
Speaker 24: I put out pre emergent last fall.
Speaker 23: What can I do now when I'm going to go
Speaker 23: back up there? And about a week or two, should
Speaker 23: I use more pre emergent?
Speaker 3: Yes, as soon as possible. And when you say stickers,
Speaker 3: there's typically out there you're going to have a lot
Speaker 3: of grass burrs in that area. But there are several
Speaker 3: plants that have stickers, and so you know, it depends
Speaker 3: on the specific plant and as the timing. But if
Speaker 3: you look at my schedule, we're putting out a warm
Speaker 3: season pre emergence start here in February up there, it
Speaker 3: would probably be about early to mid march. You would
Speaker 3: want to get that out right, and so we're we're
Speaker 3: bumping the end here. You need to get it out quick.
Speaker 3: But and it needs to be wet. How big of
Speaker 3: a property is that? Can you irrigate it?
Speaker 13: Well?
Speaker 24: Okay, it doesn't have an irrigation system, but I've got
Speaker 24: a guy ok there, and I've already left a couple
Speaker 24: of bags of the pre emergent and ask them to
Speaker 24: get it out. I was trying to get him to
Speaker 24: time it with some rain.
Speaker 6: But yeah, to do it for me.
Speaker 11: But that will help to go ahead and do it.
Speaker 25: Again, right.
Speaker 3: If you did it last fall, yes, but don't don't
Speaker 3: do it twice. You know, within like a month or
Speaker 3: a week or you know something. He needs to if
Speaker 3: you put it okay, good, well get it out soon
Speaker 3: and hopefully that'll shut it down. And then just pray
Speaker 3: for rain.
Speaker 6: And and if there's still stickers there.
Speaker 24: I remember hearing Randy one time talk about maybe taking
Speaker 24: a toast sack bur lap sap and sack or something
Speaker 24: and running it through the yard to pick that yeup.
Speaker 3: Which yes, uh, And I was talking to somebody at
Speaker 3: CNIMAL yesterday about that idea. They were saying they had
Speaker 3: grasspers everywhere U And that is for grasspers, not for
Speaker 3: the little burweed that I was just talking to Ricky about,
Speaker 3: but for grassbers. You can do that. You get a
Speaker 3: little you know, bur lap basically what toasacs are, and uh,
Speaker 3: just drag it around. You just kind of had to
Speaker 3: figure out how to rig it up, but you just
Speaker 3: drag it around over there. And I mean those grassbers
Speaker 3: really stick to it. And that's not going to get
Speaker 3: everyone out, but they've got a lot of them out.
Speaker 3: And the more and the more you fertilize and water,
Speaker 3: the worse the graspper, I mean, the less grassper problems
Speaker 3: you have. They like a very drowdy, sandy, poor soil,
Speaker 3: and as you get to water and the fertilizing and things,
Speaker 3: they don't thrive in that, like your lawn will thrive
Speaker 3: in that so just a few tips there. I think
Speaker 3: you're on the right track though, Melanie.
Speaker 24: All right, we'll try and see what happens, all right,
Speaker 24: and good for that for that drought area. What which
Speaker 24: grass that nobody up there Harvey has any grass in
Speaker 24: their yard?
Speaker 9: You know?
Speaker 3: Well, yeah, and it you're going to be an infrequent visitor,
Speaker 3: is that right out there?
Speaker 19: Yes?
Speaker 3: I am, okay, you know, bermuda grass is about as
Speaker 3: tough as you're going to get when you look at
Speaker 3: droughts and issues like that, and you can do the bermuda.
Speaker 3: It looks best when you water and when you mow
Speaker 3: it a lot, but it's a survivor. The Saint Augustine
Speaker 3: needs water in order to survive and do well. So hey,
Speaker 3: the only thing you've heard me say that when I
Speaker 3: give advice, people have to bring me half their produce.
Speaker 3: In this case, I just need some barbecue from Cooper's.
Speaker 3: If you'll bring that back, I will call it even. Hey,
Speaker 3: thanks for the called, Melodie, I got to run. I
Speaker 3: could save you five.
Speaker 13: All right.
Speaker 3: Welcome back to garden Line. Good to have you with us. Hey,
Speaker 3: if you would like to ask a gardening question seven
Speaker 3: one three two one two fifty eight seventy four while
Speaker 3: Ago I was talking about my night Fiss Imperial, and
Speaker 3: I said that, you know, after about six weeks after
Speaker 3: you've done that, you would want to put on a
Speaker 3: slower release. And that product from night Fross is called
Speaker 3: Nitrofos super Turf. Now it's easy to spot. It's a
Speaker 3: silver bag. The only thing I know that's in a
Speaker 3: silver bag. And the garden centers and the Ace Hardware
Speaker 3: stores and the you know, feed stores and all the
Speaker 3: places you go for these things.
Speaker 11: Uh.
Speaker 3: Silver Superturf is a nineteen four ten nineteen four ten,
Speaker 3: those are the three numbers on the bag. But it
Speaker 3: releases slowly, so that nineteen percent nitrogen is going to
Speaker 3: be released out over about of sixteen weeks or four months.
Speaker 3: So it gives you a long, gradual feed, which is
Speaker 3: exactly what you want for good healthy grass. It's not
Speaker 3: all top growth momo mo momo. It also helps develop roots.
Speaker 3: When you overfertilize, you create problems in the summertime. Super
Speaker 3: Turf's designed to fertilize gradually for you. Now you're going
Speaker 3: to find superturf at places like the Ace Hardware and
Speaker 3: Sinkle Ranch and also Katie. Ace Hardware too. By the way,
Speaker 3: on Penoak, you're going to find it at Ace Hardware
Speaker 3: CITYO Memorial Drive as well. Lots of places carry Night
Speaker 3: to Foss products. Let's head out now to Houston and
Speaker 3: talk to Jim. Hey, Jim, welcome to Guardline.
Speaker 23: Good morning, Good morning. I've decided to have the aeration
Speaker 23: and top dressing done for my yard this year. I
Speaker 23: have a number of areas where the grass has really
Speaker 23: died back, and I have open patches everything from two
Speaker 23: inches to six inches to a foot in some areas,
Speaker 23: and I'm wondering if it would be better before the
Speaker 23: top dressing is done to lay some sand into those
Speaker 23: open areas to help to facilitate the grass running. Is
Speaker 23: that something that I would want to do? Or just
Speaker 23: let the top dressing do that for me.
Speaker 3: Well, if the areas are low or kind of need
Speaker 3: filling in, or you know you got roots you're trying
Speaker 3: to bring the soil up so the roots don't stick
Speaker 3: out and things like that, then then that bringing in
Speaker 3: soil or sand is advisable. There's nothing wrong with putting
Speaker 3: some sand in there. If you can find a loamy
Speaker 3: top soil, that's that's even better. But if you whatever,
Speaker 3: if you need, if you need to fill in and stuff,
Speaker 3: I would go ahead and do that before you do
Speaker 3: the top dressing.
Speaker 13: And so is it?
Speaker 6: Okay?
Speaker 3: Is your soil a clay? Did you say I missed that?
Speaker 23: If you did, Jim, well, I'm in West Houston. So
Speaker 23: my base issue is I have three large oak trees
Speaker 23: and we don't get rain anymore. So that's my biggest
Speaker 23: issue is the ground has just become dry and compacted,
Speaker 23: even though we put water on it on a regular basis,
Speaker 23: and so we're just struggling with getting the Saint Augustine
Speaker 23: to stand up in the in the drought conditions.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I understand that. Well, the sand is not gonna
Speaker 3: help that because you know, water run drive through sand
Speaker 3: doesn't last. That's why tops so will probably be better
Speaker 3: for you if you're looking to do that. When you
Speaker 3: say when you say west or you inside the beltway
Speaker 3: or inside belt Way eight, I mean we're.
Speaker 23: Actually uh it ten and six is the is the
Speaker 23: closest intersection for us. So we're between ok yeah and eight?
Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, got got it? Good? All right?
Speaker 5: Well.
Speaker 3: BB turf Pros is a great uh top dress and
Speaker 3: aeration company they do a lot of different services like that.
Speaker 3: I don't know if you have someone in mind already.
Speaker 3: If you do, that's fine. If you do, not, provide
Speaker 3: you a phone number for them.
Speaker 23: If you're worries, we have actually we're using one of
Speaker 23: your one of your records. Okay, okay, good from the
Speaker 23: online so yeah, okay, sounds good. Yep, well good Lune,
Speaker 23: thanks much.
Speaker 6: I appreciate it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Jim, thanks a lot. And we'll pray for rain
Speaker 3: this year because we get that. Grasp on that. That's
Speaker 3: an important thing, all right, you take care? Yeah.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 3: For those of you up in Willis, Growers Outlet is
Speaker 3: a place you need to go see if you haven't
Speaker 3: been there, and I bet a lot of you have
Speaker 3: it and you need to. And when I say in Willis,
Speaker 3: I actually mean also in Conroe, in New Waverley and
Speaker 3: Lake Conroe, all the region up there, even the woodlands
Speaker 3: driving up. It's worth the trip up to Growers Outlet.
Speaker 3: The website is the thing you need to write down
Speaker 3: because that's where everything you're going to want to know is,
Speaker 3: and that is Growers Outlet in Willis dot com. That's
Speaker 3: easy to remember. What's the website for Growers Outlet in Willis. Yes,
Speaker 3: that's kindly who's on first Growers Outlet in Willis dot com. Now,
Speaker 3: when you go on the website, you're going to see
Speaker 3: all the plants, say carry, and they list what's in stock,
Speaker 3: and they list the price of them as well, which
Speaker 3: is not normally done by garden centers, but they do that.
Speaker 3: They've got veggies and bedding plants and perennials and beautiful
Speaker 3: firm baskets and beautify hanging baskets of things like verbina
Speaker 3: or petunias and those kinds of things. Of course, they
Speaker 3: have fruit and they've got a their complete garden center.
Speaker 3: You can even get your microlife and night Foss and
Speaker 3: Medina products there as well. Growers Outlet in Willis dot com.
Speaker 3: Go check it out. Let's go to West Houston. Now
Speaker 3: we're going to talk to Steve Hey. Steve, welcome to
Speaker 3: garden Line.
Speaker 12: Yester.
Speaker 11: Hello, how are you this morning?
Speaker 3: I'm well, thank you.
Speaker 11: I have a question that I was listed when you
Speaker 11: were talking to the lady about pre emergence. I think
Speaker 11: she was somewhere north of here that I'm talking about
Speaker 11: here in Houston. I've put out Barry Kay last fall okay,
Speaker 11: and I also did as night and but I it
Speaker 11: is growing, and I've seen a lot of clover, and
Speaker 11: I wonder and have I missed us about putting some
Speaker 11: more pre emerging out now?
Speaker 3: You're late, but it's all there's still plenty more weed
Speaker 3: germination that can occur. In fact, when you do it
Speaker 3: early on time in February, we recommend you do it
Speaker 3: maybe again sixty days later because that extends that protection
Speaker 3: on end of the summer because we have weeds germinating
Speaker 3: all through but a lot of a lot of the
Speaker 3: spring weeds have been germinating now for a while. Just
Speaker 3: looking here, you're in west East, so the yeah, you've
Speaker 3: been had weeds germinating on it in March here. But
Speaker 3: I've go ahead and get it down water. It makes
Speaker 3: you watered in because it doesn't start working until you
Speaker 3: water it in.
Speaker 11: Okay, it's maybe late, but it won't hurt anything. Doing
Speaker 11: something is better than that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's that's the case. Something is better than I.
Speaker 11: Found that a sack of bawnine weed beater. Should I
Speaker 11: should I use that at this time?
Speaker 3: That is a I need to look at the label
Speaker 3: on that one. That's I think it's called weed beater
Speaker 3: complete when it's in the sick. Is that correct?
Speaker 12: I think so?
Speaker 3: Yes, Okay, I need to look at the label on it.
Speaker 3: The weed beaters are generally a post emergent product, but
Speaker 3: on the complete I bet that's not the case. But
Speaker 3: I need you know, I can't pull it up right
Speaker 3: this minute. But if it's a pre emergent, now still
Speaker 3: the time you can get it down. If it's a
Speaker 3: post emergent, you gotta wet the leaves so it sticks
Speaker 3: to the leaves. But again, I can't allow vibrate on
Speaker 3: that until I take a look at the label on
Speaker 3: that particular one. There's several weed beaters out there on
Speaker 3: the market, and if.
Speaker 11: It says complete, it is a free emergent. Is that correct?
Speaker 11: Just this wee beater plus it's a post emergent.
Speaker 3: Well, hang on just a second, let me look at that.
Speaker 3: I'm sorry, what particular kinds of weeds are you? Are
Speaker 3: you dealing with in your line?
Speaker 11: Mainly clover? Of course, I've still got that horse herb,
Speaker 11: but that's a different story. We talked about that.
Speaker 12: Some months ago.
Speaker 11: Mainly it's clover and with the little pink flowers.
Speaker 3: Okay, well, hang on just a second. I just pulled
Speaker 3: up pulled up the label here right and take a
Speaker 3: look at it. Uh So if entra zone that is
Speaker 3: going to help a little bit with these types of things. Yeah.
Speaker 3: The pro diamine, that's a pre emergent. Yeah, that's primarily
Speaker 3: a pre emergent. Uh that you're doing on those So
Speaker 3: you get you you get it on the ground watered in.
Speaker 3: But uh, I mean to go on, I'm gonna I'm
Speaker 3: gonna have to I'm gonna have to run there telling
Speaker 3: me it's we're about to break for a commercial. Steve.
Speaker 6: Uh.
Speaker 3: If you I'm gonna put you on hold. If you
Speaker 3: want to hang on, we can continue this when we
Speaker 3: come back. Be right back folks.
Speaker 1: Today.
Speaker 3: Alrighty, welcome back guardline. Good heavy with us this morning.
Speaker 3: We're gonna go back out to Steve. Hey, Steve, let's
Speaker 3: continue that question line of questioning. Where where were we?
Speaker 11: One last question on the pre emergent. Uh, I think
Speaker 11: what you said, do not put out the barricade and
Speaker 11: the bow lead, that would be correct, correct, And the
Speaker 11: last question for you, I have a rose bed and
Speaker 11: I was I did not put any preer berge. And
Speaker 11: that's ray It hurt the roses.
Speaker 10: I weeded it and then put rose compost, and then
Speaker 10: pine bark malchs and then I weeded and there's still
Speaker 10: I mean, what is there anything else I can do?
Speaker 6: Uh?
Speaker 3: The most important thing you do in your rose bed
Speaker 3: is pine bark, malt or any any kind of malts,
Speaker 3: no matter what kind of malt, but malt.
Speaker 6: Uh.
Speaker 3: That's going to prevent the weed seeds from getting started.
Speaker 3: And occasionally you stir the mult up a little bit,
Speaker 3: put some fresh on top to keep it blocking all
Speaker 3: the sunlight. Now, if you've got weeds that are perennials,
Speaker 3: like a bermuda grass comes crawling in there, well, then
Speaker 3: you're gonna have to treat those weeds. But the most
Speaker 3: important thing in a rose bed is not try to
Speaker 3: use a pre emergent on it inside a bed, but
Speaker 3: to use your mult as your primary control.
Speaker 9: Great, thank you.
Speaker 11: And you say iron bark is the preferred because.
Speaker 3: I have some I no, I don't. I don't have
Speaker 3: a preferred on it. Pine bark is fine. It's attractive.
Speaker 3: People like the look of that so that you can
Speaker 3: use it for that reason. But a mulch is a
Speaker 3: mulch when you know whether it's shredded hardwood or double
Speaker 3: ground black mult or whatever. It's all you really want. Well,
Speaker 3: the first thing you want out of a mulch is
Speaker 3: for it to block the sunlight and stop weed seeds.
Speaker 3: Of course, you want it to hold moisture. You want
Speaker 3: it to moderate soil temperatures and so on. But yeah,
Speaker 3: any good mult you like the look of is a
Speaker 3: good mulch to use.
Speaker 11: Thank you very much for your time.
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Speaker 3: It does. It's a carbon chain, it's a sugar kind
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Speaker 3: In addition to the fact that you're getting eleven percent
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Speaker 3: I don't think that there's anything on earth that can
Speaker 3: make me want to make another trip around or even
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Speaker 3: If you got a thatch problem because you just overfertilized,
Speaker 3: maybe when you put compost top dressing down and then
Speaker 3: you core aerate. Core A rate means I don't push
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Speaker 3: always say it looks like a little mini dog convention
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Speaker 3: now to Clute, Clute, and we're going to talk to Trevor. Hey, Trevor,
Speaker 3: welcome to regardline.
Speaker 26: Wanting, sir, I got a question about some plants. I'm
Speaker 26: gonna have them come and put in my yard. I'm
Speaker 26: gonna have Moon Valley come and plant Golden Goddess bamboo. Okay,
Speaker 26: and I'd like to know how much should I water?
Speaker 26: They told me I should water them three times a week,
Speaker 26: But how much are we talking about?
Speaker 13: Do I know?
Speaker 12: Like when the soil is saturated soggy?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know when you say water so many times
Speaker 3: a week. It kind of depends on how much water
Speaker 3: you put down and what you're wanting to do with bamboo.
Speaker 3: Bamboo is grass. So imagine if you plugged some Saint
Speaker 3: Augustine out in your line and you're trying to get
Speaker 3: it to get its root system out and down. You're
Speaker 3: trying to get it to deal with the heat and
Speaker 3: the drought and all kinds of things. You water pretty
Speaker 3: frequently initially to help it get established, and then you
Speaker 3: ought to be able to back off and not water
Speaker 3: as often. Your goal with that bamboo, though, is to
Speaker 3: get it as healthy as you can, because I don't
Speaker 3: know if they told you this, but the first year
Speaker 3: bamboo basically just sits there. The second year it begins
Speaker 3: to grow pretty good, and then the third year you're
Speaker 3: really in business with the bamboo having the vigor. So
Speaker 3: treat it like grass. That means keep the soil moderately moist.
Speaker 3: So if you water three times a week. You're probably
Speaker 3: only going to put about a maybe a half inch
Speaker 3: or so of water down when you water, and that'll
Speaker 3: be enough. You can, you can. It just depends on
Speaker 3: the temperature, you know. And like the last month we've had,
Speaker 3: you wouldn't water three times a week, and when you
Speaker 3: get into July, you know you're gonna need to water more.
Speaker 3: But as we go month by month, it's getting more
Speaker 3: of a root system, and you ought to be able
Speaker 3: to get by with twice a week and then eventually
Speaker 3: once a week. It's fine. Fertilize it like you would
Speaker 3: have grass, because it is a grass and your goal
Speaker 3: is to get it healthy and growing. So that that
Speaker 3: would be my advice on that one.
Speaker 9: Well, thank you.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so I guess on enjoy.
Speaker 9: I guess I owe you some bamboo shoots.
Speaker 23: Is that correct?
Speaker 3: Yeah, well fishing poles. People don't make bamboo fishing poles anymore.
Speaker 3: So if you can just clean it up and get
Speaker 3: me give me a couple of I need to do
Speaker 3: some deep sea fishing for marling. So I hope you
Speaker 3: got a real big strong bamboo plant.
Speaker 12: All right, sounds good.
Speaker 3: I don't know where that came from, Maankes a lot, Trevor,
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Speaker 3: Now we're going to talk to Andy. Hey, Andy, welcome
Speaker 3: to garden Line.
Speaker 12: Hey, thanks, skip appreciate it.
Speaker 5: We bought this house last summer and then I had
Speaker 5: called and asked you a couple of questions on them,
Speaker 5: on killing weeds and different stuff, and you'd ask me
Speaker 5: if there was straight Saint Augustine or if it was
Speaker 5: Saint Augustine and Bermuda or this or that, and it
Speaker 5: was actually Saint Augustine, Bermuda and a lot of wheats.
Speaker 12: So I got a lot of wheats.
Speaker 5: Okay, what I want to do, I think, and it
Speaker 5: needs pressure to level the whole thing off. Anyway, This
Speaker 5: Saint Augustine isn't really great. So what I was thinking
Speaker 5: of doing is seating Bermuda all through it, okay, including
Speaker 5: dirt out. I didn't know if there's what's the exact
Speaker 5: process to do, and if there's a like a brand
Speaker 5: or strain of Bermuda that would be best out here
Speaker 5: or to work with Saint Augustine.
Speaker 3: Well, that's good. Both of those are legit grasses and
Speaker 3: they each have their pros and cons, so just to
Speaker 3: you know, just to go quick on them. Basically, the
Speaker 3: Saint Augustine is going to be more shade tolerant than
Speaker 3: the Bermuda. Uh, and it's a it's a soft grass
Speaker 3: that you know, run around barefoot and rolling around the
Speaker 3: grass and stuff. It's a nice grass for that. The
Speaker 3: Bermuda grass is more resilient to drought and wear and
Speaker 3: tear if you do a lot of it. That's why
Speaker 3: you don't see Saint Augustine football fields. You see Bermuda
Speaker 3: football fields. But the Bermuda also though, you get chiggers
Speaker 3: in it and you go rolling around in the grass
Speaker 3: and uh, you know, it's kind of itchy. And so
Speaker 3: that that is one thing I'm not fond of Bermuda
Speaker 3: for the other thing is Bermuda grass. In order to
Speaker 3: look its best, you got to mow it frequently. And
Speaker 3: it's a great turf grass. Nothing's wrong with the turf grass,
Speaker 3: I mean in terms of just being outstanding, but you
Speaker 3: need to mow it regularly. That's why golf courses look
Speaker 3: so good in football fields and things. They are mowing
Speaker 3: those things very very frequently, so you can go either way.
Speaker 3: That and zoys is another good grass. You ought to
Speaker 3: consider that one as well. It's an outstanding grass. If
Speaker 3: you go you're up there in College Station, the Aggie
Speaker 3: Turf has a website. It's Aggie Turf dot t a
Speaker 3: m U dot ed u Aggie Turf dot t a
Speaker 3: m U dot ed u dot. At the bottom left,
Speaker 3: it'll be the turf varieties and or turf types and
Speaker 3: they'll be saying it'll list them all. If you click
Speaker 3: on Bermuda, it'll give you a long list of bermuda
Speaker 3: seed varieties. Bermuda is one of the grasses we can
Speaker 3: plant from seed. It's not easy to do because you're
Speaker 3: dealing with a little tiny seedlings there and you get
Speaker 3: a gully washer rain all the seeds off to one spot,
Speaker 3: but you can do it. And all the varieties that
Speaker 3: they would recommend are listed there. You can go shopping
Speaker 3: for one of those. And being in the area you're in,
Speaker 3: you go up to producer's co op. They're going to
Speaker 3: have some grass seeds up there probably for you.
Speaker 5: Quick question, do I do the dirt first and then
Speaker 5: the seed or the soil or the seed and then
Speaker 5: the soil.
Speaker 3: You got different approaches. One would be to get out
Speaker 3: there and spray and kill all the weeds and kill
Speaker 3: all the Saint Augustine, and you're going to kill some
Speaker 3: of the bermuda with it anyway, because when you seed,
Speaker 3: your bermuda is going to be a different bermuda than
Speaker 3: what's growing in your lawn right now, and so there
Speaker 3: may be a little difference in rate of growth or
Speaker 3: coloring or something. So it might be good just to
Speaker 3: get rid of everything and then start over with your seed.
Speaker 5: Oh okay, okay, So I do fit the dirt down
Speaker 5: first to level it off, and then.
Speaker 3: Yes, yes, get the dirt and all that first, and
Speaker 3: then plant your seeds. Go ahead and get that done
Speaker 3: pretty soon. Bermuda is going to be really interested in
Speaker 3: growing in April, so start that work, uh, that soil work,
Speaker 3: so that you can be ready to go. Hey, I'm
Speaker 3: up against the heartbreak. But thanks for calling. Call back
Speaker 3: Andy anytime you like. Appreciate that.
Speaker 12: Thanks, Get five folks.
Speaker 3: M all right, we're going to run. I'll be right back. Folks. Alrighty,
Speaker 3: welcome back to guard Line. Good to have you with
Speaker 3: us today. The phone number you will need this if
Speaker 3: you would like to call seven one three two one
Speaker 3: two k t r H seven one three two and
Speaker 3: two k t r H. Just you know, talking about
Speaker 3: the weeds and things, but weeds and lawns. Weeds and lawns,
Speaker 3: that's a topic of the day. But if that's what
Speaker 3: you want to know about, then Carl, we'll talk about that.
Speaker 3: That's good. Just a reminder that our warm season weeds
Speaker 3: have been germinating now for a couple of several weeks.
Speaker 11: Uh.
Speaker 3: And depending on where you live. I realize we've got
Speaker 3: people listening in Galveston and Huntsville and Louisiana on down
Speaker 3: to Corpus, so you know, all those areas are a
Speaker 3: little different on the timing. But bottom line is you
Speaker 3: got warm seasoned weeds in all those areas. Germany right now.
Speaker 3: You got to get the barricade down if you're gonna
Speaker 3: prevent them. If you're going to prevent them, okay, you
Speaker 3: put it down, you water it in. It forms a barricade.
Speaker 3: The weed tries to sprout, the weed seed, can't you
Speaker 3: never see the weed. It's working invisibly.
Speaker 13: Now.
Speaker 3: The alternative after the weed sprout is to come back
Speaker 3: with a post emergent and try to kill them, but
Speaker 3: that brings a whole bunch of other issues, like damaging
Speaker 3: other desirable plants, or it gets hot and you're damaging
Speaker 3: your grass with some of those products. So it's easiest
Speaker 3: just to prevent them in the first place, and barricade
Speaker 3: does that. Now you're gonna find barricade and other nitrofost
Speaker 3: products it places like Fisher Shardbrow in Southomore down in Pasadena,
Speaker 3: or the Fisher Shardburn La Port and Broadway are the one.
Speaker 3: There's three of them down there. Actually there's another one.
Speaker 3: Let me just tell you about a four melt. Bellevue
Speaker 3: has a fishures on FM thirty one eighty and Baytown
Speaker 3: has one. See it's on twelve hundred Alexander down there
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Speaker 3: don't think that that's all they have. They have got
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Speaker 3: wide variety, and they have things that you don't find
Speaker 3: anywhere else. They are extremely good at bringing in things
Speaker 3: that work, that are new and that are cool. And
Speaker 3: part of the new cool are those natives that we
Speaker 3: just haven't had on the market before, and Buchanans gets
Speaker 3: them and they bring them in. And they have natives
Speaker 3: for shade, they have natives for sunny areas. They certainly do.
Speaker 3: If you want natives that attract butterflies or that attract hummingbirds.
Speaker 3: If you're looking for natives that are fly powering vines
Speaker 3: or flowering tree. Do you see what I'm saying, they
Speaker 3: have them there. If you're in the Houston area and
Speaker 3: you want a native that is from Houston that he
Speaker 3: grows right there at your agree there before we lived there, right,
Speaker 3: and they've got that. If you want just a general
Speaker 3: Texas natives from outside the Houston area. But they do
Speaker 3: real well here. They have those. Have I made my
Speaker 3: point Eleventh Street in the Heights. Buchanansplants dot Com. Go
Speaker 3: to the website, sign up for the newsletter. Awesome, awesome
Speaker 3: newsletter and good information on there, but most of all,
Speaker 3: just get out there and enjoy a trip out to
Speaker 3: Bugannon's plants. It's a wonderful place. We're going to go
Speaker 3: down now to Angleton and we're going to talk to
Speaker 3: Bonnie next. Hey, Bonnie, welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 11: Good morning, sir. How are you this morning?
Speaker 3: I'm doing well, thank you.
Speaker 13: I have a.
Speaker 25: Mimosa tree and it's a small ones. It's probably half
Speaker 25: to three quarters of an inch in diameter, and last
Speaker 25: year it got really long and whispy, and I cut
Speaker 25: it back about a third in early March, and now
Speaker 25: it is sprouting from the very top and the very bottom.
Speaker 25: And I was wondering which one I should leave, or
Speaker 25: I should leave both of them.
Speaker 11: The bottom one actually looks like a little tree. The
Speaker 11: top one is just like, you know, little branches coming out.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well, esthetically, what do you want it to look like?
Speaker 3: If the one that's already there looks good to you,
Speaker 3: then leave it and cut the ones at the bottom off.
Speaker 3: If not, you can cut that trunk off at the
Speaker 3: bottom and you'll have a multi stemmed trunk coming out
Speaker 3: from the base. After that mimosa is a lanky plant.
Speaker 3: It just naturally grows that way. People often will take
Speaker 3: them and they'll they may even use like a tree
Speaker 3: stabilizer three sixty tree stableized are to hold them in
Speaker 3: place so that trunk goes upright, uh and then begins
Speaker 3: to branch out up at the top. But there's not
Speaker 3: a right way to trim those they it's just the
Speaker 3: growth habit of the plant and what you aesthetically want
Speaker 3: to look at, what your goal is for it?
Speaker 11: All right, well, I thank you very much.
Speaker 9: Sure.
Speaker 3: Yeah, So if you leave that trunk, you can straighten
Speaker 3: it up, put a three sixty stabilizer on it, get
Speaker 3: it pointed the way you want, and then just let
Speaker 3: those branches up there grow and it'll form a head
Speaker 3: or a top to the plant. And that's that's certainly
Speaker 3: an option. But thank you binding for the call that
Speaker 3: those are plants, that old Southern plant been around a
Speaker 3: long time, and it has its you know, they have
Speaker 3: their detractors. But it is a beautiful blooming plant, that's
Speaker 3: for sure.
Speaker 6: Thank you.
Speaker 25: Okay, So if this was your mimosa, what would you do, sir?
Speaker 3: Well, if I could see it, I could tell you that,
Speaker 3: but I from what I'm hearing from you. Unless that
Speaker 3: existing trunk is just really not good, I would try
Speaker 3: straightening it up and going with the trunk you already
Speaker 3: have because you got a head start there. But again
Speaker 3: I need to see it to be sure.
Speaker 9: But thank you.
Speaker 3: Thank you very much for the call. Appreciate it. Call
Speaker 3: back you anytime you're listening to garden Line our phone
Speaker 3: number seven one three two one two kat rh give
Speaker 3: me a call. We'll talk about the things that are
Speaker 3: of interest to you. Hey, it's time. If you love
Speaker 3: doing your gardening stuff organically, then you definitely If you
Speaker 3: don't already know about it, you need to know about
Speaker 3: Microlife the green bag six two four Microlife six two
Speaker 3: four of the green bag that is the lawn fertilizer,
Speaker 3: number one selling organic fertilizer in Houston. It doesn't burn
Speaker 3: your lawn, doesn't burn other plants. And by the way,
Speaker 3: I use it for things other than the one, because
Speaker 3: it's good for a lot of different things. You can
Speaker 3: use it on. Put it on Azelia's although Microlife has
Speaker 3: an acid loving plant food as well, flowers, back digetable.
Speaker 3: I've use it in vegetable gardens all number of times,
Speaker 3: tree shrubs, roses containers. I mean, it's not going to burn.
Speaker 3: It's a good fertilizer that works. It contains billions of
Speaker 3: beneficial microbes. And you know, you can buy it by
Speaker 3: the jug or you can buy it by the bag.
Speaker 3: I usually buy it by the bag. You know, bulk
Speaker 3: is always more economical. But either way, it's a good
Speaker 3: product and it's widely available. Now, when you do that,
Speaker 3: consider also getting their concentrated compost in the bag. It's
Speaker 3: a Humus type price in a purple bag. Okay, hum
Speaker 3: mates plus. So consider that one hu mats plus that
Speaker 3: is not put on to make your grass all green
Speaker 3: and grow fast. It's put on to improve soil and
Speaker 3: it's got some nutrient in it, but it's put on
Speaker 3: to improve your soil quality and texture because that's what
Speaker 3: humus does, the final decomposition. So when you take composts
Speaker 3: and you let it break down further and further, you're
Speaker 3: heading toward Humus and hum mats plus concentrated composts in
Speaker 3: the bag. So green bag plus purple bag. Think of
Speaker 3: it that way for microlife easy to find all over town.
Speaker 3: You're listening to the guardline. We're here to help you
Speaker 3: have success. In your gardens. If you'd like to give
Speaker 3: us a call, I'll be happy to visit with you
Speaker 3: about the things that might be of interest to you.
Speaker 3: I was checking out in Chanted Gardens. That that is
Speaker 3: the garden center that is on the Katie Folscher side
Speaker 3: of Richmond. So if you're in Richmond and you're heading
Speaker 3: up toward Katie Folscher, the actual road there on is
Speaker 3: an intersection there, it's FM three point fifty nine. Had
Speaker 3: to stop and think there for a second. I would
Speaker 3: suggest you first just go to the website and that
Speaker 3: way you see where they are, you find information out,
Speaker 3: phone numbers, whatever you need. Let's see the website is
Speaker 3: the name of the garden center, Enchanted Gardens Richmond dot com.
Speaker 3: In Chanted Gardens Richmond dot com mitteran since nineteen ninety five.
Speaker 3: And I'm telling you the folks there, they're enthusiastic, they're helpful,
Speaker 3: and no matter what you need, it's there. And if
Speaker 3: you want to do some creating on your own, they
Speaker 3: can help you with that. Like maybe I'm one of
Speaker 3: their nice metal wire hanging baskets that's cocoa core lined
Speaker 3: that you fill up and you plant all kinds of things.
Speaker 3: It could be one that hangs in the shade of
Speaker 3: shade leving plants. It could be something that's in the
Speaker 3: sun with blooming, trailing plants coming out of it. I mean,
Speaker 3: the possibilities are endless. And they know about the brown
Speaker 3: stuff before green stuff because they carry microlife and nitrofoss
Speaker 3: and Nelson plant food and Medina soil products. You know,
Speaker 3: you hear me talk about Nature's Way and heirloom soil.
Speaker 3: They carry products from both of those. They're at intended
Speaker 3: gardens in Richmond. They're open Monday through Saturday eight to
Speaker 3: five today ten am to four pm. So when I
Speaker 3: quit talking on garden line, they open the doors. They're
Speaker 3: at intended gardens, not because I quit talking on guardenline,
Speaker 3: but that just happens to fall to the same time.
Speaker 3: I'll promise you this, if you go with friends, family,
Speaker 3: take them out there. It is a wonderful place to visit.
Speaker 3: It's really nice, really nice place. Let's uh, let's head
Speaker 3: out to Conroe now, and we're going to talk to Dan.
Speaker 12: Hello.
Speaker 3: Dan, Hi, I.
Speaker 7: Met you at your willis Ace Hardware several weeks ago,
Speaker 7: and oh good, yeah, purchase. I purchased barricade and I
Speaker 7: put barricade on my Saint Augustine lawn and then I
Speaker 7: followed it up with the the red uh fimus I
Speaker 7: believes fertilized.
Speaker 12: Anyway, Yes, I have a lot.
Speaker 7: I still have a lot of clover coming up in
Speaker 7: my yard and I'm wanting I was hearing you say
Speaker 7: you could spray it with something. Is there something I
Speaker 7: can spray that with? Now go back and try to
Speaker 7: get rid.
Speaker 12: Of the clothes.
Speaker 3: Yes, uh, yes, so what what what if it is clover?
Speaker 3: There are other plants that look like clover. There's oxalas,
Speaker 3: and there's medic and there's others. So I if it's
Speaker 3: coming up now, it's probably not clover. Clover is a
Speaker 3: cool season weed, and the cool season weeds are flowering
Speaker 3: and dying. That's what they're going to be doing the
Speaker 3: next month.
Speaker 11: So on some of this.
Speaker 3: Ah, Okay, that sounds like an oxalis to me. You
Speaker 3: need a post emergent you post emergent broad leaf weed
Speaker 3: control product. Okay. So you're there in the you know,
Speaker 3: the conro area. You got some places that you can
Speaker 3: go that you know are going to be kind of
Speaker 3: what you're looking for. But I would I would suggest
Speaker 3: that you get a spray in this case, and mix
Speaker 3: it in water and put that spray out and make
Speaker 3: sure you get it on the plants. It always helps
Speaker 3: to also purchase a surfactant. A surfactant is basically an
Speaker 3: additive to the spray that makes it stick to slick
Speaker 3: leaves and not roll off, so you get better results
Speaker 3: because of that. Okay, now you are not too far
Speaker 3: away from.
Speaker 12: Gosh.
Speaker 3: I just I just drew a blank my head Growers outlet.
Speaker 3: That's what I was trying to say. Yeah, yeah, thank you,
Speaker 3: thanks for helping me through this. Yeah. Yeah, they're going
Speaker 3: to have you know, there's product like Bow Night has
Speaker 3: one called weed Beater Ultra that I would suggest, Furlong's
Speaker 3: Weed Free Zone, there's one from high Yield, there's one
Speaker 3: from Monoey. All these manufacturers have some version of a
Speaker 3: broad leaf post emergent weed control. But get it done now.
Speaker 3: The sooner you apply it, the better. Mix it according
Speaker 3: to the label. Don't make it too strong, follow the label,
Speaker 3: and do it soon. If it's gonna rain, when you're
Speaker 3: gonna spray within the next let's say six hours, I
Speaker 3: would wait to spray until after the rain.
Speaker 7: Okay, give me the night considered.
Speaker 11: Give me.
Speaker 12: Up.
Speaker 3: I'll tell you what. You know, what I'm at a
Speaker 3: I'm at a heartbreak. Hang on, Dan, I'm gonna have
Speaker 3: to answer that on the other side. Pots all right,
Speaker 3: take off your shoes. This is sock hop times. There
Speaker 3: we go. Well, little Bill Haley in the comments going there. Hey,
Speaker 3: welcome back to Gardline. Good to have you with us.
Speaker 3: We're going to go back to Conro now and continue
Speaker 3: our conversation with Diane. So, Diane, you were asking about
Speaker 3: broadly options, and I'm just giving you a few here,
Speaker 3: you know, because there's there's a lot of them out there,
Speaker 3: but weed beater ultra uh or there are several weed
Speaker 3: beater products, but the spray is not the granule for
Speaker 3: what for what you're needing to do. Don't do the
Speaker 3: complete bag of granules.
Speaker 11: Do do ultra questions?
Speaker 7: Or I bought I bought a I bought a multi
Speaker 7: purpose sprayer. Can I just put it in that and
Speaker 7: use a multi proper sprayer for that?
Speaker 3: What do you mean by multipurpose sprayer?
Speaker 7: Well, it's a big plastic holds a gallon.
Speaker 6: It's a plastic bottle.
Speaker 12: With a pump on it.
Speaker 7: I oh, and I've never done this before, and I
Speaker 7: bought the sprayer when I met.
Speaker 13: You that day.
Speaker 7: The man that was there for the fertilizer, he had
Speaker 7: told me I could get the strong vinegar to kill
Speaker 7: the weeds in a garden area that I'm not.
Speaker 11: Going to and I want to keep this all good.
Speaker 7: Well, I bought this sprayer and when I opened it
Speaker 7: up and I read the directions inside, it says, don't
Speaker 7: use vinegar in it.
Speaker 23: What kind of sprayer can I use vinegar in?
Speaker 3: Oh boy?
Speaker 13: Uh?
Speaker 3: Basically, something with plastic parts is not going to be
Speaker 3: as affected. The problem with vinegar being an acid, it
Speaker 3: can it has a corrosive effect on it can have
Speaker 3: a corrosive effect on some metals and stuff. So yeah,
Speaker 3: that people do vinegar and sprayers, but then they just
Speaker 3: wash them out real good. But meaning put some fresh
Speaker 3: water in there and run it through, and run it through,
Speaker 3: and run it through. Make sure you completely rents out
Speaker 3: those lines. A couple of times with it and you'll
Speaker 3: be all right. So back back to the back to
Speaker 3: the product. First of all, that sprayer you got to
Speaker 3: stoop down to spray the ground, right.
Speaker 12: Well, I don't think so.
Speaker 6: It's got a long handle on it.
Speaker 3: Oh, okay, okay, I was picturing the wrong kind of thing.
Speaker 7: I mean, I don't I think.
Speaker 3: Okay, well, there are sprayers with plastic parts, and that
Speaker 3: may be. That may be a better way to go
Speaker 3: on it. But anyway, beside that, bone eyed weed beater
Speaker 3: is what you're looking for. Weed beater ultra is one
Speaker 3: of the weed beaters. Ultra is fine, except as it
Speaker 3: heats up, it can damage your grass. So spray early
Speaker 3: in the morning and get it done in the next
Speaker 3: couple of weeks before the weather starts getting too hot.
Speaker 7: Uh.
Speaker 3: Then fertiloon weed free zone, furloan treesons another one. But listen,
Speaker 3: you go back in your ACE hardware store there and
Speaker 3: and just tell them you need a broad leaf post
Speaker 3: emergent WEEKI or they're gonna have several options for you.
Speaker 3: And some of them may say something like trimech on
Speaker 3: the label. That's another description of a group of three
Speaker 3: ingredients specifically, but many. I need to make a fact
Speaker 3: sheet on this because it may it would make it
Speaker 3: so much easier for folks to follow. But I'll see
Speaker 3: if I can get that done. But he anyway, good, look,
Speaker 3: I just hit.
Speaker 7: Those spots where I'm seeing the spray is directly on
Speaker 7: those wes Okay.
Speaker 3: On those weads directly. You don't need to drench them.
Speaker 3: Just when you dampen the leaf, that's it. If you
Speaker 3: spray more and it drips off your waist and spray
Speaker 3: all right. Thank you, Dan Lost, I'm sorry I cut
Speaker 3: you off there before you I came back on that.
Speaker 25: Uh.
Speaker 3: Ace Hardware stores are good, you know she was talking
Speaker 3: about the one up there in the Willis area. There's
Speaker 3: a lot of at Ace harder Sturch. If you go
Speaker 3: to Acehardware Texas dot com, Acehardware Texas dot com. You
Speaker 3: can find the stores in our local Houston group that
Speaker 3: we talked about here on guard Line. And yes, there
Speaker 3: is the one up there in aceh If you are
Speaker 3: done in League City, there is a League City Ace
Speaker 3: Hardware if you're over in Victoria. First of all, thanks
Speaker 3: for listening to guard Line. You got the one on
Speaker 3: Navora Street there all seasons. ACE Hardware is the one
Speaker 3: that we were just talking about with Diane up in
Speaker 3: the Willis area, and then out in Kingwood we got
Speaker 3: Ka and m Ace Hardware, Don and Wharton, Wharton Feed
Speaker 3: and Ace Hardware. And I'm just listening to you. There's
Speaker 3: dozens of them, dozens of them, So go check out
Speaker 3: ACE Hardware Texas dot com. Any kind of product you
Speaker 3: hear me talking about needen, I would first start with
Speaker 3: your East Hardware store locally. You're probably gonna find it there.
Speaker 3: You're listening to Gardenline. I'm your host, Skip Richter, and
Speaker 3: we're here to help you have success in your garden.
Speaker 3: That's what we're looking for. And when it comes to summertime,
Speaker 3: our lawns really wake up and start to grow when
Speaker 3: it gets hot. Saint Augustine doesn't care about our heat.
Speaker 3: It does care about lack of moisture in the soil.
Speaker 3: And to the degree that nutrients are lacking, growth will
Speaker 3: be lacking. So what do you do Well, you don't
Speaker 3: overfertilize with nitrogen because it's already wanting to grow, but
Speaker 3: you give it nitrogen because it supports growth. The reason
Speaker 3: alon is green is because of nitrogen and magnesium primarily,
Speaker 3: and the reason that a lawn is growing is because
Speaker 3: of nitrogen. So Nitropos has created a product called Nitropos Superturf.
Speaker 3: It's the Silver Bag Silver Bag now it's a nineteen
Speaker 3: four ten fertilizer that's four one two ratio, which is
Speaker 3: excellent for turf. By releasing the nitrogen slowly, super turf
Speaker 3: gradually feeds your lawn over four months. And if it
Speaker 3: released it fast, you would mow more because you've overdone
Speaker 3: the nitrogen right. But it doesn't do that. It takes
Speaker 3: the It takes the thinking and doing work and does
Speaker 3: it for you. You put on super turf now and
Speaker 3: you enjoy it for four months, a beautiful law and
Speaker 3: don't have to worry about it again. Really, you know,
Speaker 3: I mean you can. Some people are putting it on
Speaker 3: this month, some next month, and they're going to carry
Speaker 3: them all the way really into the when it's time
Speaker 3: to do fall fertilization. But anyway, superterf from night Foss
Speaker 3: available places like M and D Beamer Uh, it's in
Speaker 3: a Sagemont area. If you go to the Colar Lake area.
Speaker 3: You got the M and D on Bay Area Boulevard
Speaker 3: done and Alvin Stanton shopping Center on North Taylor. Well,
Speaker 3: these are all places where you can find nitro foss products.
Speaker 3: Let me see give you the number again if you'd
Speaker 3: like to call. We've where are we now? Well, we
Speaker 3: got a little over an hour left here on guardline
Speaker 3: this morning.
Speaker 19: Uh.
Speaker 3: The phone number is seven one three two one two
Speaker 3: k t r H. Seven one three two one two
Speaker 3: k t r H.
Speaker 12: Gim me call.
Speaker 3: Let's talk about the things that you're interested in now
Speaker 3: if you're down south and east. In fact, you don't
Speaker 3: even have to be down there. Moss Nursery is a
Speaker 3: place you need to go. I don't care where you live.
Speaker 3: You're listening. Maybe you've done in Victoria. Drive up here.
Speaker 3: I know it's a drive, but this is called horticultural tourism.
Speaker 3: We got a lot of great nurseries here you need
Speaker 3: to come see. But Moss Nursery is done in Seabrook
Speaker 3: and it is so unique. Eight acres on eight acres,
Speaker 3: and just you wander and every time you turn a corner,
Speaker 3: you know there's First of all, there's pottery.
Speaker 11: Ever.
Speaker 3: They have the biggest pottery selection i've seen. It's not
Speaker 3: just another garden center. This is a seventy year old
Speaker 3: family operated garden center that is everything you need for
Speaker 3: your landscape, your garden and your interior homescape too. You
Speaker 3: know we're talking about house plans. Go check out the
Speaker 3: house Plant Greenhouse. It is awesome and Before you walk
Speaker 3: into it, you have to walk past these giant staghorn ferns,
Speaker 3: and you know, staghorn ferns are really cool, and you
Speaker 3: buy little ones from them to get started. Are you
Speaker 3: can buy these monsters that are hanging by chains from
Speaker 3: the trees that are just stunning. But that's how they
Speaker 3: do things there. They have bones eye plants that they
Speaker 3: get in Over there, they have you know, little starters,
Speaker 3: probably fifty to one hundred different kinds of bones eye
Speaker 3: baby plants, and it's a great way to get started
Speaker 3: in a cool hobby like that. Do you want blooming
Speaker 3: trees like Chinese fringe? Are the deciduous magnolias that just
Speaker 3: bloomed recently? Red buds? They've got those. Whatever you're looking for,
Speaker 3: and if you're looking for color for your landscape beds,
Speaker 3: everything from melyssam to zenias A to z it's all
Speaker 3: there at Moss Nursery on todd Brook Toddville Road in
Speaker 3: c Brook, Texas. Moss Nursery dot com. It's spelled m
Speaker 3: aa s Nursery dot com. Time for me to take
Speaker 3: a quick break. When we come back, Bridget and Don
Speaker 3: you'll be our first two up. Texas all right, every done,
Speaker 3: and then I gotta throw a little bit of yoldling music.
Speaker 3: And I'm not gonna subject you to too much here,
Speaker 3: but don Walser, how many of you saw the movie
Speaker 3: Secondhand Lions. This is the theme song from that movie.
Speaker 3: If you haven't seen that movie, you need to see it.
Speaker 3: It's pretty cool. That's right, and he gets to yodling
Speaker 3: here on us. So where we're gonna move on? Listen.
Speaker 3: Spring Creek Feed Center is your hometown garden center for
Speaker 3: those of you up in the Magnolia area on FM
Speaker 3: twenty nine seventy eight. This is near Grand Parkway Highway
Speaker 3: to forty nine, kind of north and a little west
Speaker 3: of Tomball itself. They have a wide range of fertilizers
Speaker 3: that I talk about, from Nelson turf Stars to Microlife
Speaker 3: to nitrofoss. They carry products from pretty much all the
Speaker 3: manufacturers you hear me suggesting people use for the things
Speaker 3: they're looking for right now. They've got half whiskey barrels
Speaker 3: and whole whiskey barrel planners. They're really cool. From the
Speaker 3: Jack Daniels whiskey barrel planners. That's kind of cool. You'll
Speaker 3: find some plants there as well. They carry those and
Speaker 3: again all the products you need with friendly service in
Speaker 3: Magnolia on FM twenty nine to seventy eight Spring Creek
Speaker 3: Feed Center. They have special options that can also allow you,
Speaker 3: for example, maybe they don't have something you need to
Speaker 3: special order, talk to them about that. They'll work with
Speaker 3: you on that. They do a really really good job
Speaker 3: of that. They carry products. You know, I was talking
Speaker 3: to somebody about Medina the other day. Medina products. There's
Speaker 3: so many of them. I spin Hole show just talking
Speaker 3: about Medina. But the has to grow six twelve six.
Speaker 3: I was telling them you need to get that because
Speaker 3: you mix it in water, you drench it onto the
Speaker 3: plants when you plant them. Now you can use it
Speaker 3: as a foldier feed. But this is planning spring planting season,
Speaker 3: so I'm focusing on it in this way. Has to
Speaker 3: grow six twelve six plant food hiphosphorus. You drench it
Speaker 3: on the plant to help that root system as it
Speaker 3: begins to go and take off. Do it a week later,
Speaker 3: do it a week after that, like three times a
Speaker 3: week or two apart, and that will give your plant
Speaker 3: the best chance to hit the ground run. And again
Speaker 3: it's from Medina, widely available, easy to find at most
Speaker 3: of the police places that you hear me talk about
Speaker 3: sponsoring this show, garden center, speed stores, that kind of thing,
Speaker 3: Ace hardware stores. You're going to find Medina products. Let's
Speaker 3: head out to Spring and we're going to talk to Bridget. Hey,
Speaker 3: bridget Welcome to Gardline.
Speaker 27: Good morning, Good morning.
Speaker 12: I have a quick question.
Speaker 27: My son asked me why his Saint Augustine was making
Speaker 27: these tufts of extra long blades when he's cutting it.
Speaker 27: It's all the same time he's using nitrofoss schedule, he's
Speaker 27: using the barricade.
Speaker 23: It's not weeds.
Speaker 27: I don't think it's a sprinkler issue. It's just he's
Speaker 27: got these tufts of extra long Saint Augustine going on
Speaker 27: any thoughts on that, And it's not the whole grass.
Speaker 3: It's just yeah that when you say it is in
Speaker 3: using the word tuffs, that's kind of curious. I'm not
Speaker 3: sure I've seen what you're talking about. Uh, if he
Speaker 3: could take a picture up close, maybe one of the yard,
Speaker 3: kind of from a little bit of a distance showing
Speaker 3: the tufts and then up close showing them, showing that
Speaker 3: grass that's in the touts, it may be another kind
Speaker 3: of grass run in there. There are some grasses that
Speaker 3: look a lot like Saint Augustine, the weeds that grow
Speaker 3: in Saint Augustine, So that bridget. That's the only way
Speaker 3: I can give you a good answer on.
Speaker 27: It, because I'll get down there and look a little closer.
Speaker 3: Then yeah, let me put you let me well, I'm
Speaker 3: going to put you on hold, and if you want,
Speaker 3: you can you can get an email from a producer
Speaker 3: and then send me a photo and I'll be happy
Speaker 3: to tackle that. Okay, okay, thank you, all right, thank you,
Speaker 3: thank you very much. Appreciate you waiting. Uh yeah, that's
Speaker 3: very unusual.
Speaker 23: Uh.
Speaker 3: The tree hugger sprinkler or something I talk about all
Speaker 3: the time, and listen, I wish they would call it
Speaker 3: the plant hugger sprinkler because it's good for trees, but
Speaker 3: it's good for shrubs, it's good for roses, it's good
Speaker 3: for that with steria vine that you planted the woody,
Speaker 3: with steria vine you plant in the ark. It goes
Speaker 3: around a plant and you decide how much of an
Speaker 3: air you want to water. You turn it on a
Speaker 3: little bit in little weather, a little area like seven
Speaker 3: inches across or fifteen inches across. You turn it on
Speaker 3: more and you can water a tree. It's been in
Speaker 3: a ground five years and it's big, and you're rescuing
Speaker 3: it from summer one hundred degrees with no rain for
Speaker 3: four weeks or whatever. Tree huggers are very useful. Hang
Speaker 3: them in the garage. You're gonna want them, You're gonna
Speaker 3: use them over and over again. You can go to
Speaker 3: tree Hugger Sprinklers dot com. Tree Hugger Sprinklers dot com.
Speaker 3: They absolutely it's just one of the coolest new products
Speaker 3: we've seen.
Speaker 5: Now.
Speaker 3: If you're an independent nursery or garden center, hardware store,
Speaker 3: feedstore and you want to stock the products, contact the
Speaker 3: good people at tree Hugger Sprinklers and they'll help you
Speaker 3: get set up to do that because these are things
Speaker 3: people are gonna want. Tree Hugger Sprinklers dot Com right now.
Speaker 3: You can find them at Southwest Fertilizers, Sinkle Ranch ase
Speaker 3: kDas K and m A S and A Tascasita fulshere
Speaker 3: Ace and Channing Forest and Gardens done in in the
Speaker 3: Richmond Rosenberg area, Kingwood Garden Center and Warren's out there
Speaker 3: in Kingwood rcw Arborgate Nelson water Garden and nursery and
Speaker 3: Katie d and D Feeding tom All. I mean, I'm
Speaker 3: getting tired reading all these places. League City Feed and
Speaker 3: then I just talked about Spring Creek Feed Center. They
Speaker 3: have them there too. We're going to go back to
Speaker 3: the phones now and talk to Don in Sugarland. Hey Don,
Speaker 3: good morning.
Speaker 28: Skip.
Speaker 13: Uh.
Speaker 28: I'm in a part of Fort Bean County that has
Speaker 28: the citrus counker disease and a couple of years ago
Speaker 28: they took out one of my grapefruit trees, which.
Speaker 9: Are happy about.
Speaker 28: But anyway, they said there's no cure for that stuff
Speaker 28: and the only thing they recommend was copper based panja
Speaker 28: sides springing about once a week for I guess until eternity.
Speaker 28: Uh is there any update on that or is there
Speaker 28: anything you run?
Speaker 6: Now?
Speaker 3: No, there's not.
Speaker 12: It's just kill.
Speaker 3: It is well. Uh, you know, they just think of
Speaker 3: it as you got a crowd of people and then
Speaker 3: you got someone that's uh you know, coffin I E
Speaker 3: bowl or whatever going through the crowd.
Speaker 6: Uh.
Speaker 3: It's it's gonna infact a lot of people. And that's
Speaker 3: why theyre that's why they do kill the trees and
Speaker 3: and they need to be killed because it it if
Speaker 3: the more of a stronghold it sets up, the more
Speaker 3: people can't grow centrius there in that area, and so
Speaker 3: getting it out is the only way. There's a little
Speaker 3: insect that spreads. There's citrus canker and then there's citrus greening,
Speaker 3: and both of them are reasons why you can't buy
Speaker 3: citrus in Montgomery and Fort Bend and Harris and several
Speaker 3: other counties in this area and carry them outside the
Speaker 3: county because they are trying to quarantine it and shut
Speaker 3: it down.
Speaker 28: Will the copper base on just saw it do anytime.
Speaker 3: It was the canker that one disease it will help
Speaker 3: suppress because copper is a is uh is an effective
Speaker 3: product against bacteria and against u some fungi as well too,
Speaker 3: by the way, but it's not gonna cure that. It's
Speaker 3: not going to cure the plant. I would have to
Speaker 3: go look on citrus greening on the schedule, you got it.
Speaker 3: I don't think copper is a good long term solution
Speaker 3: at all. And here's why. The more you spray copper,
Speaker 3: at some point you're putting too much copper around that plant.
Speaker 3: And there that is an issue that's you just don't
Speaker 3: want to get into but I would have to the
Speaker 3: stems stems as well and the branches. There is a
Speaker 3: I think the website is citrus greening dot com. Did
Speaker 3: they tell you about that website any chance?
Speaker 9: Was the counter at one point?
Speaker 3: I'm sorry? Yeah, yeah, yeah, okay. I keep switching between
Speaker 3: the two because they're both here and they're both an
Speaker 3: equal and equal problem. There is information on citrus canker
Speaker 3: on the Texas Department of Agriculture website. University of Florida
Speaker 3: Extension has a really good publication on citrus canker, and
Speaker 3: I would I would go to one of those two
Speaker 3: sources for more information on how to how to deal
Speaker 3: with it. I don't think, all right, sir, they told
Speaker 3: us there was any cure for it, so yeah, whether no,
Speaker 3: there's not a curing it, And the sooner you get
Speaker 3: rid of a plant that has it, the better chance
Speaker 3: you have of being able to have citrus in the future.
Speaker 28: Yeah, okay, okay, I appreciate that.
Speaker 12: I want to get your tight time, all right.
Speaker 3: So sorry to be the bearer of bad news. That's
Speaker 3: a bad one, that's for sure. Okay, Well, you're listening
Speaker 3: to Guardline and we Unfortunately, we have some issues we
Speaker 3: have to deal with here like that that citrus canker
Speaker 3: and citrus greening are just they ruin your day, that's
Speaker 3: for sure. As you're in Houston down and kind of
Speaker 3: southwest area, I know was a hotspot for a while.
Speaker 3: Bridge would come in through there and all the way
Speaker 3: down into Fort ben County. There's some hotspots and it's
Speaker 3: a shame. It's a shame, but it is what it is. Unfortunately. Well,
Speaker 3: let's see Warren Southern Gardens and Kingwood Garden Center out
Speaker 3: in the Kingwood area are both open seven days a week,
Speaker 3: so you can go by today. Warren's is on North Park,
Speaker 3: Kingwood is on Stone Hollow. I'm going to be at
Speaker 3: Warren Southern Gardens next Saturday from twelve thirty to two thirty,
Speaker 3: so grab you some lunch or bring a sandwich and
Speaker 3: eat in front of me. We'll talk. Well, first of all,
Speaker 3: you're going to enjoy shop in the garden center. They
Speaker 3: just have an outstanding selection of all kinds of things.
Speaker 3: I mean really really nice selection, whether it's flowers or fruit,
Speaker 3: or vegetables or you name it. Beautiful containers. I help
Speaker 3: you with the continent designing a container planting too. It's
Speaker 3: just they're both great garden centers to go to. I
Speaker 3: love the gift shop there at a Kingwood Garden Center.
Speaker 3: It's really outstanding. And they have a great plant selection too. Again.
Speaker 3: Warren Southern Gardens on North Park, Kingwood Garden Center on
Speaker 3: Stone Hollow serving that whole area, Kingwood Humble, A Taska Seed,
Speaker 3: a Porter Valley Ranch, cany. All you folks have some
Speaker 3: outstanding garden centers, and you're gonna find the stuff, the
Speaker 3: brown stuff before green stuff, Microlife, Nitrofoss, turf Star, Hairloom soils,
Speaker 3: Nelson plant Food, see what I'm talking about. They even
Speaker 3: have the Microlife and Nelson plant Food filling stations. So
Speaker 3: you buy Microlife or Nelson and a jar. When the
Speaker 3: jar's empty, just go over to Warren's and Kigwood and
Speaker 3: you just pull a little handle and refill your jar.
Speaker 3: It's economical and you don't throw away plastic. All right, Well,
Speaker 3: that our's in the books, which means we got one
Speaker 3: more hour of garden line today. If you would like
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Speaker 3: I'm coming a little bit incoherent here so to see
Speaker 3: if I can clean things up with another cup of coffee.
Speaker 3: I hope you haven't a good Sunday morning.
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Speaker 3: Stop all right, folks, thanks for joining us here on
Speaker 3: Guardline this morning. We've got an hour left, so here
Speaker 3: we go. You got plenty to talk about. Some people
Speaker 3: be calling in on various topics we got that are
Speaker 3: very timely and pertinent right now. Number is seven one
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Speaker 3: and two k tige Asmyte is a product that is
Speaker 3: mined in Utah and contains trace minerals. And there seems
Speaker 3: to be confusion when I talk to folks about what's
Speaker 3: a trade. What does trace mineral mean? Does that mean?
Speaker 23: You know?
Speaker 12: What does it mean?
Speaker 3: And well, what it means is that you need a
Speaker 3: little bit of it. But it's essential. So just because
Speaker 3: you need a little, it's still essential. So so how
Speaker 3: does that work? Okay, well, let's let's do this. Let's
Speaker 3: take boron for example. Now, how many times have you
Speaker 3: seen a fertilizer that says with boron on it it
Speaker 3: doesn't it doesn't. You don't see that. And so what
Speaker 3: happens is if you could go to your yard and
Speaker 3: take every molecule of boron out of the ground, grass
Speaker 3: couldn't grow, roses, couldn't grow vegetables. I mean, you can't
Speaker 3: grow plants without boron. And that's one of many. You know,
Speaker 3: there's like twenty roughly twenty different elements that plants need
Speaker 3: in order to survive. Now they don't need a lot
Speaker 3: of them, but they need them. They're essential. And that's azamite.
Speaker 3: That's what we're talking about. That's why we put it down.
Speaker 3: We put other regular fertilizers down because they have nitrogen
Speaker 3: makes the grass grow right and makes it green and go.
Speaker 3: But that grass in order to grow in the bank
Speaker 3: account of your soil, you have to have the trace
Speaker 3: minerals also called micronutrients that support that growth. You can
Speaker 3: go to Azamite Texas dot com Azomite Texas dot Com
Speaker 3: find out more information about it. But I'll tell you
Speaker 3: this just when you hear me talk about retailers, garden center,
Speaker 3: speed stores, nurseries, Southwest Fertilizers, Ace Hardware stores, those places,
Speaker 3: you're probably going to find asmite wherever you go. I mean,
Speaker 3: it's really widespread here in this area. Does well. Nitrophos is.
Speaker 3: Super turf is the fertilizer that is for summertime, and
Speaker 3: you in summertime begins. We'll just say that now if
Speaker 3: you've used the fast green up, wait six weeks after
Speaker 3: that to put down your super turf. If you haven't
Speaker 3: used the fast green up, put the super turf down now.
Speaker 3: You can do it now if you want. It's going
Speaker 3: to give you four weeks or four months of feeding
Speaker 3: and it releases gradually. And you can walk into a store,
Speaker 3: look across the store and see the super Turf bags
Speaker 3: because they're all silver. It so easy. Only thing like that,
Speaker 3: it's really easy to find them. Went out, where do
Speaker 3: you get it? Well, go down to Ace Hardware or
Speaker 3: Lake hard excuse me, in Clute on Dixie Drive. You
Speaker 3: go to Branham to Fisher's Hardware, plants and things excuse me.
Speaker 3: Fishers in Baytown, plants and things in Brenham. There we go,
Speaker 3: crossing them up. Just examples of the many places that
Speaker 3: carry Knight to Foster products here in the greater Houston area.
Speaker 3: All right, here, we're going to go now to Donna
Speaker 3: in Beaumont. Hello, Donna, Welcome to Garden Line.
Speaker 23: Hi, Skip, I just wanted to call and let your
Speaker 23: listeners know that hummingbirds are here.
Speaker 6: I was outside yesterday and I saw one on my azalea.
Speaker 11: Plants, and oh my gosh.
Speaker 23: I thought I didn't realize they would be here so early.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well that's that. No, they do come early sometimes.
Speaker 3: If a few people told me they've seen them over
Speaker 3: the wintertime, one hanging around that didn't just decide to
Speaker 3: hang out that. I appreciate you letting me know that
Speaker 3: it's time to get your hummingbird feeders.
Speaker 11: I guess right, yes, sir.
Speaker 6: I guess so. I was very surprised when I saw it.
Speaker 6: I had never seen one on the azaleas before, but
Speaker 6: there it was.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Well that's good. That's good. Well, thanks for letting
Speaker 3: me know that. I appreciate that. Okay, good good report
Speaker 3: you got. Thank you you as well. Yeah, So that
Speaker 3: means that it's time to head over to Wallbirds and
Speaker 3: get that feeder that I keep talking about for hummingbirds.
Speaker 3: It's my favorite hummingbird feeder. It is, and it it's
Speaker 3: just why do I like it? Well, you know hummingbird feeders,
Speaker 3: there's a lot of them out there on the market.
Speaker 3: You put your gater and the humming birds come. This
Speaker 3: is called the high perch hummingbird feeder. The top covers
Speaker 3: red and it's leakproof and proof. It's got a little
Speaker 3: ant moat so ants can't get in there to the nectar.
Speaker 3: But it's flat and so you can see the birds better.
Speaker 3: You know, with a hummingbird feeder, they go around the
Speaker 3: other side and you don't see them. But this one
Speaker 3: it's better viewing and it works easy. It's a nice,
Speaker 3: little beautiful feeder. But they have them at wild Birds Unlimited.
Speaker 3: Wild Birds Unlimited is the place really to get anything
Speaker 3: you need for birds, including advice. Those folks know what
Speaker 3: they're talking about. You can get the wild Birds Unlimited
Speaker 3: eliminator feeder. That's a tall one. My favorite feeder I
Speaker 3: have for birds eat and because it keeps the squirrels
Speaker 3: out and it really works. Trust me. Trust me, you
Speaker 3: should hear the way the birds talk when the language
Speaker 3: they use are the birds the squirrels they can't get
Speaker 3: in and the language they use. Now, now's the time
Speaker 3: for nesting. Super blend at Wabird's unlimited and it's set
Speaker 3: up to be four birds when they're building the nests,
Speaker 3: laying the young and raising the young. Very important to
Speaker 3: have calcium in the diet, high protein in the diet.
Speaker 3: It even has mealworms in it, which it's like crack
Speaker 3: for birds. They love that stuff.
Speaker 13: You go to.
Speaker 3: Walbird's store near you. There's six of them. One in
Speaker 3: clear Lake, there's one in Kingwood, one in Paarland, one
Speaker 3: in Cyprus. There's two in Houston area here, one on
Speaker 3: Memorial Drive on the west side, one on bel Air
Speaker 3: down South. Just go to WBU dot com forward slash
Speaker 3: Houston to find the Wallbirds store that's near you. And
Speaker 3: we're going to go out to Kingwood now and talk
Speaker 3: to Bill. Hey, Bill, welcome to guarden Line.
Speaker 9: Good for you.
Speaker 13: Skip.
Speaker 1: I have a I'm trying to raise a bunch of
Speaker 1: telphens here. Well, my family we make a thing called
Speaker 1: sweet held a penis, So I'm.
Speaker 23: Trying to raise it a whole bunch of different Okay.
Speaker 1: So the problem, however, it is, is that in the
Speaker 1: raised bed that I've got all the Callapenia plants in there,
Speaker 1: at night whenever I don't I'm not out there with
Speaker 1: my head light, there's a butt, there's a worm or something,
Speaker 1: and I find what it is that is eating the
Speaker 1: leaves off of the baby Callafenia pepper plants or actually, okay,
Speaker 1: I'm betting the stems in there, and so it's at
Speaker 1: night and I don't know what's going on. I was
Speaker 1: wondering if you had.
Speaker 3: A pigeons, well, cutting the stems sounds like a caterpillar
Speaker 3: that we'll get down at the bottom and play Paul
Speaker 3: Bunion with your plants and just cut them off like
Speaker 3: it did with a saw or something. Uh, that's a possibility.
Speaker 3: The eating the leaves could be a beetle or a caterpillar.
Speaker 3: There's nocturnal versions of both. I would suggest spring plants
Speaker 3: with spin. No said, now, that's an ingredient comes in
Speaker 3: many brand names. But it's s P I N like spin,
Speaker 3: and then the letter O and then sad like sad spin,
Speaker 3: oh sad, and spray them really good and that will
Speaker 3: control both caterpillars and beetles, and I think that will
Speaker 3: shut it down. But you need to get that done
Speaker 3: pretty quick where they do too much damage, because those
Speaker 3: young plants, as you know, can't support that much damage
Speaker 3: without really being set back.
Speaker 12: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I've read the book on Mexico pepper and they say
Speaker 1: that peer get damaged when they're young, they will hardly
Speaker 1: recover completely.
Speaker 3: Okay, yep, that's right. Well, good luck with that out
Speaker 3: there in Kingwood. Just bring me half your peppers if
Speaker 3: this works, that's all I ask. Thanks Bill. All right,
Speaker 3: We're going to go now to Paarland and talk to Jim.
Speaker 3: Hey Jim, welcome to Guardland.
Speaker 6: Good morning, Skip. I have a problem with my grass
Speaker 6: since you had took an email with a couple of pictures.
Speaker 9: I had some more, but I.
Speaker 3: See it.
Speaker 6: It would only let me send two pictures.
Speaker 3: That's okay, I see all I need to see good photos.
Speaker 3: That is Zoysio grass, right, yes, sir, uh huh. I
Speaker 3: think you have take all root rot in it. From
Speaker 3: the photos it looks exactly like take all root Rot.
Speaker 3: If you go online to garden skip, Yeah, go to
Speaker 3: gardening with Skip dot com. I talk about take all
Speaker 3: and when to deal with it and what to use.
Speaker 3: It's all on there. Uh and you're right now. I
Speaker 3: would probably get some Spagnum Pete moss bales. They are
Speaker 3: like three cubic foot compacted square bail plastic wrapped things.
Speaker 3: You put one bail out per thousand square feet and
Speaker 3: it only is going to cover at about a third
Speaker 3: of an inch deep and watered in. That'll help for now.
Speaker 3: If you spray a product that's an iron supple and
Speaker 3: a zinc supplement on it, and there's some on the market.
Speaker 3: Fertilom has one that will help the grass now too,
Speaker 3: I tell it, Bill, Jim. I want to spend a
Speaker 3: little more time with you on this, and I have
Speaker 3: to go to break. Just hang on. I'll pick you
Speaker 3: right back up when we come back.
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Speaker 3: A band sound beating brand. Alrighty, we're back on the
Speaker 3: garden line here. I am gonna run straight back out
Speaker 3: to Jim. We were in the middle of an important
Speaker 3: topic that I think a lot of you are going
Speaker 3: to want to know about. So, Jim, we were discussing
Speaker 3: the take on. What I'm ninety nine percent sure is
Speaker 3: take all root Rot in your zoysio grass and on
Speaker 3: my schedule, which for everybody else listening is at gardening
Speaker 3: with Skip dot com. It's a free download Take All
Speaker 3: root Rot. We have two treatment times, primarily that we're
Speaker 3: focusing on it. One of them, perhaps the most important one,
Speaker 3: is in I October and then a repeat treatment in November.
Speaker 3: Going into the cool season. We can still make a treatment.
Speaker 3: Now it's not as effective, but you got to do something.
Speaker 3: So what I had suggested for Jim is get some
Speaker 3: spagnum peat moss, break it up, put it in a wheelbarrow.
Speaker 3: You make little piles around the yard and then turn
Speaker 3: a I use a soil rake and turn it upside
Speaker 3: down where the times are pointing upward, and it's like
Speaker 3: you're playing shuffleboard. You know, you're scooting it back and
Speaker 3: forth and spreading it out as thin as you can.
Speaker 3: It's about a third of an inch, so three cubic
Speaker 3: three point eight cubic foot bail. That's three point eight
Speaker 3: cubic feet covers about a thousand square feet and then
Speaker 3: watered in. That's for now. Spraying the foliage with a
Speaker 3: product that is going to contain micro nutrients. And Fertilom
Speaker 3: has one in a gray bottle. Ferdlum does and I
Speaker 3: can't remember the name of it, but it's going to
Speaker 3: contain iron and zinc and it's from Fertilom, So that
Speaker 3: would you can find that the disease kills roots, so
Speaker 3: by doing the folier spray, you'll notice yellowing when take
Speaker 3: All is attacking a lawn, and it's because the roots
Speaker 3: can't get the plants can't get ironed because the roots
Speaker 3: are being killed. So it's kind of like you're using
Speaker 3: an IV to go around you know, when you can't
Speaker 3: feed the patient food, you're using the IV to get
Speaker 3: around it. And that is another step in it. The
Speaker 3: other thing that I wanted to mention is when you spray,
Speaker 3: if you look on the schedule, there are several products
Speaker 3: on there. The best ingredient is a zoxy stroban and
Speaker 3: it's on my schedule. And I think, Jim, you said
Speaker 3: you had the schedule.
Speaker 6: Right, Yes, sir, I'm looking at it.
Speaker 3: Okay, good. A zoxy Stroban's the first one listed. There
Speaker 3: used to be some other forms of azoxystrobin. The only
Speaker 3: one I'm aware of on the market right now is
Speaker 3: in a product and I'm going to give you the
Speaker 3: name of it. It's one single product, so you don't
Speaker 3: have options to my knowledge, and it's Scot's disease. These
Speaker 3: ex Scot's disease e X capital E capital X, and
Speaker 3: I would do that now and watered in because that
Speaker 3: that disease product can go in the grass through the
Speaker 3: roots as well. Now it's better to use it before
Speaker 3: the problem is as extensive as it is becoming your
Speaker 3: lawn because there's not a lot of roots there to
Speaker 3: take it up. But you go ahead and use it now.
Speaker 3: In the meantime, do extra care, you know, normally I
Speaker 3: say water once or twice a week. Just realize that
Speaker 3: grass and them it's roots. So when it gets hot
Speaker 3: and the sun is shining, it's gonna be more drowdy
Speaker 3: than a grass that does have roots would be. So
Speaker 3: even though the soils a little on the dry side,
Speaker 3: it's struggling. And so keep it moist adequately moist, and
Speaker 3: then the peat moss, the using the micro nutrient products
Speaker 3: spray that you do. You're gonna have to do the
Speaker 3: spray for that uh and then then in fall, be
Speaker 3: ready to do it again in October and again in November,
Speaker 3: and you can turn it around. You may see some
Speaker 3: continued decline just because this disease has moved pretty aggressively
Speaker 3: into your lawn.
Speaker 6: Yes, sir, I've got some areas on behind forum. I'm
Speaker 6: looking worse in still good shape. Is there anything I
Speaker 6: need to do to keep it from getting into that area?
Speaker 3: I would I would do the disease X on that,
Speaker 3: and I think you should be good there. Disease. It's
Speaker 3: because diseases in general implants are much easier to prevent
Speaker 3: than to cure, and so don't wait until it looks
Speaker 3: real bad when you know, just go ahead and do it.
Speaker 3: Be sure. Okay, okay, hey, thanks for calling it that
Speaker 3: when I got your email. That's an important one. And
Speaker 3: I know a lot of people have take on don't
Speaker 3: even know they have it. So thanks, you appreciate the call.
Speaker 3: All right, We're gonna go now to Paarland and talk
Speaker 3: to Howard. Hey, Howard, welcome to guarden Line.
Speaker 6: Hey, Skip, thank you for taking my call. I sank
Speaker 6: you in some pictures this morning, some broccoli that was growing. Yes,
Speaker 6: I've never grown broccoli, so I'm not sure when to
Speaker 6: harvest it or how to harvest it. And I put
Speaker 6: up ten across the head of the broccoli or the
Speaker 6: point of reference.
Speaker 3: I got your pictures, and here's the thing on the broccoli.
Speaker 3: You can eat broccoli at any point, you know, once
Speaker 3: you see the little quarter size heads pop up, you
Speaker 3: could eat that if you want it. We generally let
Speaker 3: it get as big as it's going to get. But
Speaker 3: when you see those buds really swelling and the broccoli
Speaker 3: heads starting to loosen a little bit, you need to
Speaker 3: get it picked because it's going to be blooming soon.
Speaker 3: So anytime along the way, I generally let them reach
Speaker 3: whatever full size is going to be. And that varies
Speaker 3: with varieties and whatnot, but you just harvest them at
Speaker 3: that time and that that's your best bet. Now, you
Speaker 3: also had an amarillis flower in your pictures. That's the
Speaker 3: red trump like blooms. Those are amarillas, and they're a
Speaker 3: great one to play.
Speaker 6: I salvage that. I found it kind of growing, like
Speaker 6: in a pile of leaves and six and I salvaged
Speaker 6: it and planted it, and it's been doing quite well.
Speaker 6: I've had it now for several years.
Speaker 3: It's a it's a good one. It's a good, dependable bulb.
Speaker 6: And then the other question was, I have I planted
Speaker 6: a couple of avocado pits. Now one of them is
Speaker 6: growing into a nice tree. There's another tree right next
Speaker 6: to it in the same pot, and I'm not really
Speaker 6: sure what kind of tree it is. And those are
Speaker 6: the ones I send you that they have small leaves.
Speaker 6: They're just coming out now.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's kind of hard for me to tell on that.
Speaker 3: In some ways looks like a young pekan tree coming
Speaker 3: up in the pot, which squirrels will do that. They'll
Speaker 3: put a pecan seed in our a kernel or nut
Speaker 3: in the ground. It kind of looks like that, but
Speaker 3: we needed to get bigger for me to be able
Speaker 3: to identify it for sure.
Speaker 6: All right, I'll wait look at a little figure, all right,
Speaker 6: Skip one question. After I harvest the brocoli, do I
Speaker 6: uproot the plants or are they going to continue growing
Speaker 6: additional stocks?
Speaker 3: You will get some smaller site shots coming off of it,
Speaker 3: so just be patient. We're getting a little late in
Speaker 3: the season, but I think you'll still get another harvest
Speaker 3: of much much smaller little florents florretts. Okay, I thank you,
Speaker 3: you bet. I appreciate that very much. Anti ros and Porium.
Speaker 3: It's a go to place for all kinds of plants.
Speaker 3: I know it says roses, and they are roses, but
Speaker 3: there's so much more. You go there and you find
Speaker 3: things like natives and herbs and flowers and fruit trees,
Speaker 3: and houseplants for example. They've got a lot of fresh
Speaker 3: new arrivals coming in. They have their two new exclusively
Speaker 3: Antique Rose and Porium Bread roses, and that's Glass Slipper
Speaker 3: and Cupid's Sweetheart. You just need to go out there
Speaker 3: and see them. Some good events coming up, by the way,
Speaker 3: definitely want to know about these. The buy one, get
Speaker 3: one rose sale is this weekend, which means it ends today.
Speaker 3: You buy one rose, you get the next rows thirty
Speaker 3: percent off. It's valid for two gallon roses only, and
Speaker 3: it excludes the in person mystery roses, but any any
Speaker 3: of the roses that are in two gallon there thirty
Speaker 3: percent off the second one when you buy the first April, second,
Speaker 3: and ninth, or the Children's in the Gardens workshops coming up.
Speaker 3: Tickets are now live on the website. They start at
Speaker 3: ten am, ages three through ten. There's a Lady Beetle
Speaker 3: release come up. Here's what you need to do. You
Speaker 3: need to go to Antique Roseanmporium dot com and look
Speaker 3: at their events Antique Rowsimporium dot com. There's a lot
Speaker 3: of good events coming up. Is a Rose and Herb
Speaker 3: conference on April twenty six. You got to get registered
Speaker 3: for it. Now you just need to go get your tickets,
Speaker 3: get registered and all of that, because this is the
Speaker 3: place you don't want to miss and there's not a
Speaker 3: better time than March and April's see Antique Rose and Porum.
Speaker 3: I mean, on the drive out there, the blue bonnets
Speaker 3: are singing to you. Is gorgeous out there on the
Speaker 3: hillsides and he grows up for him. You need to
Speaker 3: go check them out. We're going to go talk to
Speaker 3: Bill now in Spring, Texas. Hey, Bill, Welcome to garden.
Speaker 12: Line the Morning Ship.
Speaker 30: I have a question about dogwood trees. Want to plant one,
Speaker 30: but I don't know if the varieties that are available.
Speaker 30: I'm planning on going to RCW Nursery and Buchanans.
Speaker 3: Yeah, those will both have them. Well, I think they don't,
Speaker 3: haven't checked lately, but what they have is going to
Speaker 3: be a variety that grows here. The white dogwoods, I've noticed,
Speaker 3: seem to perform better than the pink ones. Now that's
Speaker 3: not I mean I see pink dogwoods around and they're
Speaker 3: surviving just fine. But I think the white ones are
Speaker 3: a little better. If you if you know a wooded
Speaker 3: area that has dogwoods, in it. And this is just
Speaker 3: kind of a little side comment. Getting some soil right
Speaker 3: around the base of a dogwood digner the underneath the leaves,
Speaker 3: and just get a little bit of soil and put
Speaker 3: that in the planting hole where you're planting. And there
Speaker 3: are some things in the soil that are fungi that
Speaker 3: are beneficial for dogwoods, and it helps with establishment. You
Speaker 3: don't have to have that to plant a dogwood, but
Speaker 3: I've just noticed that that seems to help a little bit.
Speaker 3: So get a good one watered in well. If it's
Speaker 3: got circling roots, if you can kind of unwind them,
Speaker 3: that's good. If not, you need to cut them. But
Speaker 3: get them in a spot where they get morning sun
Speaker 3: and they get some afternoon shade. That's how they grow
Speaker 3: along the roadsides. And then also make sure the soil
Speaker 3: has lots of compost, the organic matter in it and
Speaker 3: good drainage. Make them think they're living in a forest
Speaker 3: by doing that to the soil. All right, thank you, skip, yes, sir,
Speaker 3: thank you. I appreciate your call very much. Jungle land
Speaker 3: is the product from nitrofoss that is for containers. There's
Speaker 3: two jungle lands. There's the indoor with water saving crystals.
Speaker 3: I've talked about that before. The jungle n outdoor is
Speaker 3: called flour and vegetable potting soil. You put it in
Speaker 3: a container that has good drain coatrols in it, and
Speaker 3: it will drain away the excess water while holding enough
Speaker 3: to keep the plant going and not having to water
Speaker 3: so much. Because it does hold water well, I bet
Speaker 3: it drains the access. That's kind of the combo there
Speaker 3: we're looking for. You're gonna find nitrofoss products at places
Speaker 3: like a Allspas Ace in the Woodlands. You're gonna find
Speaker 3: an ACE hardware, Cidium Memorial. You go to d and
Speaker 3: Defeed and Tumble, they carry nitrofoss products. And the MD
Speaker 3: Beamer on Sagemont another good place to find nitrofoss products.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna have to take a little break here for
Speaker 3: the news when I come back. Krista and Richmond, thanks
Speaker 3: for being patient. If you can be a little more patient,
Speaker 3: you'll be my first up when we come back from
Speaker 3: our break. All right, folks, welcome back to Gardenline. Get
Speaker 3: ahead with us. We got a bunch of calls to
Speaker 3: jump into here. Just one second. Nelson Plant Food Bruce's
Speaker 3: Brew is their quickly available fertilizer from the folks at
Speaker 3: now some part of the turf Star line. Now, it's
Speaker 3: not just like a regular immediate release fast release. It
Speaker 3: does release initially some good nutrient levels for your plants,
Speaker 3: but it also drags that release out a little bit
Speaker 3: so you get a continued feeding. Not as long as
Speaker 3: you know. The Nelson plant food your products slow and easy,
Speaker 3: but it is a good one to use and it's
Speaker 3: going to get you. I would say, you know, definitely
Speaker 3: get eight weeks out of that before you need to
Speaker 3: go into the slow releases. It's an excellent product. It's
Speaker 3: got the ratios of nutrients that help grass do its best,
Speaker 3: and I like that delayed release of some of the
Speaker 3: nutrients is in it. It's carbon based nitrogen sources to
Speaker 3: feed the soil of microbes. And you know, when you
Speaker 3: have healthy soil, you have healthy grass. It's less vulnerable
Speaker 3: to pest and disease problems. And Nelson plant foods are
Speaker 3: widely available throughout the greater Houston area. Here, let's go
Speaker 3: back to the phones now and we're going to go
Speaker 3: talk to Rick in Montgomery. Is that correct?
Speaker 9: Hello?
Speaker 3: Hey, Rick, are you in Montgomery. Yes, sir, all right,
Speaker 3: how can we help?
Speaker 28: My wife and I recently purchased an arbqueena olive tree
Speaker 28: from the Montgomery.
Speaker 12: Gardeners what they have every year.
Speaker 13: And we're we've been gardners for our whole life, but
Speaker 13: we've never really dealt with an.
Speaker 12: Queen an olive tree.
Speaker 3: And I was wondering, I sure planet should be planted
Speaker 3: in the ground.
Speaker 6: Mm hmm.
Speaker 3: Two keys you do plant in the ground. Two keystock
Speaker 3: to growing your Arbiquinia olive is good drainage and good sunlight.
Speaker 3: So start with that. Find find a spot with good sunlight.
Speaker 3: And then if the drainage is at all in question,
Speaker 3: you need to build up a really good, significant raised
Speaker 3: mound because those roots need not to sit in soggy
Speaker 3: so that's important. Get it in the ground, and once
Speaker 3: it's been in the ground for about six weeks, start
Speaker 3: to fertilize it. I would use a lawn fertilizer, not
Speaker 3: something with weed controlled in it, just fertilizer, and I
Speaker 3: would use that at a rate of about a cup
Speaker 3: per inch of trunk diameter. Again starting about six weeks
Speaker 3: after you've planted the olive, and the more you keep
Speaker 3: grass away, the faster it's going to grow. The more
Speaker 3: you molt the soil around it and keep you know,
Speaker 3: keep the weed eater and lawn more away from damaging
Speaker 3: the bark and the grass from competing, the better your growth.
Speaker 13: Is going to be.
Speaker 3: When we get to this fall, olive are marginally hardy
Speaker 3: in our area, and a newly planted plant is always
Speaker 3: a little less hardy than a well established one. So
Speaker 3: this next winter, as we get into temperatures that are
Speaker 3: going to drop down in the mid twenties, you definitely
Speaker 3: need to have a good cover over that to get
Speaker 3: get it, give it a few two or three years
Speaker 3: to get well established and and it'll be a little
Speaker 3: bit hardier that way.
Speaker 12: Okay, okay, excellent, all righty.
Speaker 3: One more question.
Speaker 12: Curry leaf tree. We just I rooted a curry leaf.
Speaker 16: Plant, and from my understanding is those should not be
Speaker 16: planted in the ground here in Texas.
Speaker 3: I'm trying to curry leaf plant. Do you do you
Speaker 3: have you know the name for that curry leaf It's
Speaker 3: it's like, yeah, it's like a little kind of a
Speaker 3: tropical tree with a whole bunch of leaves along the petioles.
Speaker 3: Is I think that's the one that you're referring to. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: they'll actually make a little bush and stuff. They're not
Speaker 3: really cold hearty. They'll go to zone nine. But you
Speaker 3: know you're I would say it's a little bit of
Speaker 3: a risk for you on that. So people, you can
Speaker 3: grow them in a container.
Speaker 12: You can do that.
Speaker 3: There's not a problem with growing them in a large container.
Speaker 3: Container limits the size. But if you've got a good
Speaker 3: large container, you know that's that's enough of a curry
Speaker 3: plant to get what you want out of it. If
Speaker 3: you put it in the ground, just know that we're
Speaker 3: going to get some winners in here that are gonna
Speaker 3: are going to do some significant damage to it. Yeah
Speaker 3: they could. They could. But anytime you have a plant
Speaker 3: like that, by the way, and this is true of
Speaker 3: olives too, et ceteras, when we're going to have a
Speaker 3: really cold spell and you don't feel like you can
Speaker 3: protect it adequately, you can mound about a foot high
Speaker 3: mound of soil around the trunk and get through that winter,
Speaker 3: and if it kills it back, it kills it back
Speaker 3: to that mound, and then when you pull the soil
Speaker 3: back away, you'll get reef sprouting and you haven't lost
Speaker 3: the plane. You just lost the top growth on it.
Speaker 3: But I'm gonna have to run. Yeah, I got to
Speaker 3: run to another call. But good luck with that. Yeah,
Speaker 3: that one. I don't think I've ever had a call
Speaker 3: on curry leaf tree before. So that's cool, all right, folks.
Speaker 3: That that's a new one. I like them now. It
Speaker 3: makes me want to go out and buy one of
Speaker 3: those Nature's Way resources is the well, let's just put
Speaker 3: it this way. They're the grandfather of brown stuff before
Speaker 3: green stuff in the greater Houston area. They've been doing
Speaker 3: this long before compost was cool. Okay. And so when
Speaker 3: you got to Nature's Way, which is on I forty
Speaker 3: five North, it's just to the right across the railroad tracks.
Speaker 3: When you get to where fourteen eighty eight comes in,
Speaker 3: you're going to find the those lines of products that
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Speaker 3: You can buy their products by the bag in many places.
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Speaker 3: have them delivered. Oh, either way, you want to go
Speaker 3: check out the new website. It's cool Nature's Way Resources
Speaker 3: dot Com or give them a call. Nine three six
Speaker 3: two seven three twelve hundred. Ninety three six two seven
Speaker 3: three twelve hundred. We're going to go now to Baytown
Speaker 3: and talk to Henry. Hey, Henry, welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 12: Hey, it's good talking to you again. I just a
Speaker 12: real quick question.
Speaker 31: I had some trees removed, maybe over ten years ago,
Speaker 31: and then they grind, you know, they grind it all
Speaker 31: the way to the ground, et cetera. And every once
Speaker 31: in a while I got to go out there and
Speaker 31: I got to keep putting soil on there because it's
Speaker 31: kind of had got holes in there. And someone told me,
Speaker 31: I need to put sane in there first, then put
Speaker 31: the soil on top.
Speaker 12: That way, say it will create like a base. Is
Speaker 12: that true?
Speaker 15: No?
Speaker 3: No, just put good soil. Put the soil that's in
Speaker 3: your kind of soil that's in your yard. If you can,
Speaker 3: but a good top soil on there. I usually tell people,
Speaker 3: and they're having you know, some people are listening to
Speaker 3: this that maybe are having a tree ground. Get all
Speaker 3: the wood chips you can out of it, because those
Speaker 3: woodships will decompose away and the soil will sink and
Speaker 3: you're never going to get all the wood chips out.
Speaker 3: So when you re put the soil in, after you've
Speaker 3: ground and got out all, you can make it a
Speaker 3: picture's mound. Raise it up a little bit because it
Speaker 3: will sink down and then it'll be more level. But
Speaker 3: in your case, maybe most of the sinking's been done, Henry,
Speaker 3: I don't know. You have a feel for that, and
Speaker 3: so you may not have to pile it up too high.
Speaker 3: But yeah, just just make a mound over those areas.
Speaker 31: Yeah, I think that's what the problem is because I
Speaker 31: have been I've been doing it for the last five years,
Speaker 31: keep adding soil.
Speaker 12: So when I get the soil, I'm gonna go ahead
Speaker 12: and make it like a picture mount. Se you what happens.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think that's I think that's what I would
Speaker 3: do on it.
Speaker 12: All right, good luck, thank you, all.
Speaker 3: Right, take care out there in Beytow. You bet looks
Speaker 3: like we got off the line just in time. Somebody
Speaker 3: rang the doorbell. They're probably coming to bring him some
Speaker 3: soil to make that picture's mout. I bet that's what's
Speaker 3: going on. You're listening to garden Line our phone number
Speaker 3: seven one three two one two kt R h give
Speaker 3: me a call. I got some time for well, maybe
Speaker 3: not one in this hour, but you'll be first up
Speaker 3: when we go the next hour. Have you ever been
Speaker 3: down to Jorges Hidden Gardens. They're down in Alvin. Actually,
Speaker 3: if you are actually in the main part of Alvin,
Speaker 3: you're gonna get on Highway six and go south towards
Speaker 3: Santa Fe a little bit, and I would say about
Speaker 3: halfway Santa Fe, off to the right, you will come
Speaker 3: to Jorges Hidden Gardens. It's set off the road a
Speaker 3: little bit there, so just it's on Elizabeth Street. Elizabeth
Speaker 3: Street is the one that we're talking about.
Speaker 13: Now.
Speaker 3: When you go down there, you're going to find a
Speaker 3: lot of quality plants. Right now, they've got some nice
Speaker 3: blueberries that I mean, they're excellent, very very nice blueberries.
Speaker 3: And you hear me talk about my favorite spring flowering tree,
Speaker 3: which is Chinese fringe tree. They've got them. Horay has
Speaker 3: got Horay has a lot of different kinds of trees
Speaker 3: and all kinds of sizes. Some of them you're going
Speaker 3: to hire him to come out and plant and he'll
Speaker 3: do that too. By the way. At Jorgez Hidden Gardens
Speaker 3: again on Elizabeth Street, South of Highway six. Now while
Speaker 3: you're there, you can get the three sixty tree stabilizer.
Speaker 3: You know what I think about those, They are absolutely
Speaker 3: important to any kind of a new planting. They allow
Speaker 3: that tree to move a little bit and it's just
Speaker 3: good to use them. I'll just leave it at that.
Speaker 3: But he carries those at Horagez Hidden Gardens. While you're there,
Speaker 3: check out the flowers, beautiful vinkas or Madagascar periwinkles and
Speaker 3: their beautiful roses. Got a lot of the Peggy Martin,
Speaker 3: for example, That is an outstanding rose that he carries
Speaker 3: there and even has them on little trellises. But there's
Speaker 3: way more than just one kind of rose there. He
Speaker 3: also has peaches, a lot of the varieties of peaches
Speaker 3: that are lower chill that need to be planted down
Speaker 3: south in that area. He carries those and so that's
Speaker 3: that is a great place to go for your fruit
Speaker 3: trees as well. So you just need to get out there.
Speaker 3: Jorges Hidden Gardens on Elizabeth Street kind of in between
Speaker 3: Alvin and Santa Fe area, just south of Highway six.
Speaker 3: Go check him out.
Speaker 12: All right.
Speaker 3: Time for me to take a quick break and we'll
Speaker 3: be right back for our last segment of the day,
Speaker 3: oh Man, summer is coming time for some drift away music.
Speaker 3: Welcome back to Guardenline. Good to have you with us. Listen.
Speaker 3: We've been talking off and on today about compost, top
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Speaker 3: Now we're going to talk to Bill in Conroe. Hey Bill,
Speaker 3: Welcome to guard Line.
Speaker 9: Hey Skip, I got a follow up question on take
Speaker 9: all root rot. You went through three steps. I had
Speaker 9: it really bad and I just last week replaced the SOD.
Speaker 9: So my question is, can you do any of the
Speaker 9: three steps the beete, moss, iron zinc at war shargest place.
Speaker 3: I would not, Now I would not. Here's the thing
Speaker 3: about take all. Take all is an opportunist a disease.
Speaker 3: So when you have a healthy eat grass, it's not
Speaker 3: like take all just shows up and kills it. But
Speaker 3: when the grass gets weak, take all is kind of ubiquitous,
Speaker 3: is out there in nature, but the grass gets weak
Speaker 3: and then it moves in, and as it moves in,
Speaker 3: it takes away what the grass needs to recover, and
Speaker 3: that's a root system. So it's like it's like a
Speaker 3: snowball going downhill when take all starts moving in. But
Speaker 3: I use a human example of you know, if you
Speaker 3: exercise and eat, write, and get a lot of sleep,
Speaker 3: and then the person right next to you doesn't do
Speaker 3: any of the above, and you both go to a
Speaker 3: party where someone may have a cold, you're less likely
Speaker 3: to come home sick than maybe they would be. And
Speaker 3: I don't know how good of a medical analogy that is,
Speaker 3: but the point is, keep your grass healthy and take
Speaker 3: it all is not a problem. Let your grass gets
Speaker 3: stressed from drought or disease or using a broad leaf
Speaker 3: herbicide in hot weather, and take all will be there.
Speaker 9: When do I start fertilizing a new side?
Speaker 6: He well, I no, yeah, at.
Speaker 3: Least a month. I Actually I put a long in
Speaker 3: last year and I didn't fertilize it all year because
Speaker 3: I got too busy. I should have needed it, but
Speaker 3: I just didn't get to it. But I at least
Speaker 3: a month. First of all, it's got to get a
Speaker 3: root system down in there, and it takes a while
Speaker 3: to fully get a good deep root system, several weeks,
Speaker 3: and then you can do a little fertilizing on it.
Speaker 3: I'll say a month after you put it in. That's
Speaker 3: the kind I mean. And there's no row rush.
Speaker 9: This could have been an even for what numbers do
Speaker 9: I use in the fertilizer for this?
Speaker 3: A ratio of three one, two, three times as much
Speaker 3: nitrogen the first number as the middle lower. Okay, Now,
Speaker 3: do you have a brand that you prefer that you've
Speaker 3: used in the past? I like, Okay, well I would
Speaker 3: get nitrofoss Silver Bags, super Turf. By the time you
Speaker 3: are going to start fertilizing this, it's definitely time for that.
Speaker 3: And it feeds it gradually, so you're not going to
Speaker 3: get a flush of growth, but it'll help that lawn
Speaker 3: get really dense if you give it adequate water.
Speaker 11: Yeah.
Speaker 9: That sounds great. Okay, very good, thanks a lot, all right, you.
Speaker 3: Bet, Bill, And remember that regular mowing is one of
Speaker 3: the most important things to having a beautiful lawn, So
Speaker 3: is that new lawn is getting rooted in and stuff.
Speaker 3: The more often you mow, the better it's going to look.
Speaker 3: All right, thank you.
Speaker 9: Prophylactic on the fumus funder side. I have read that
Speaker 9: on the internet several places.
Speaker 3: Not now, Not now. The first fungus that you're going
Speaker 3: to be dealing with is a gray leaf spot when
Speaker 3: we get into a little warmer weather and too much nitrogen,
Speaker 3: too much water, and too much shade. All three of
Speaker 3: those pushed the grass toward great leaf spot infection. So
Speaker 3: do what you can to avoid those three, uh, and
Speaker 3: you'll be okay, okay, all right, right, thank you. Got
Speaker 3: any other questions or called, send me a picture and
Speaker 3: follow up with a phone call, and we'll walk you
Speaker 3: through this year in your lawn. Happy to do very much.
Speaker 3: All right, you take care. That's good. Speaking of lawn things,
Speaker 3: and I could have mentioned this, he said he'd liked
Speaker 3: Nitropos products. But Sweet Green is another one that's an
Speaker 3: eleven percent nitrogen product from Nitrofos that is a sugary
Speaker 3: based that dissolves away and it really supercharges the microbes
Speaker 3: in the soil. They love molasses type things. Even that
Speaker 3: is an excellent product. You can put it down. It's
Speaker 3: not like a salt base that would be immediately released,
Speaker 3: but pretty quick that gets in the soil and microbes
Speaker 3: do their work on it and start the process of
Speaker 3: getting the actual nutrient. The grass takes up available sweet
Speaker 3: green from nitrofos. To find sweet green and other night
Speaker 3: fosh products, places like RCW Nursery plans for all seasons
Speaker 3: on Luetta. You go out to ACE Hardware on single Rants.
Speaker 3: That's the one on on Mason Road Langham Creek, which
Speaker 3: is on five twenty nine Langham Creek Ace on the
Speaker 3: air edge of Copperfield, which by the way, they redid
Speaker 3: their store this past year and looks really good inside.
Speaker 3: And then go down to Stafford Courth hard round South Maine.
Speaker 3: It's going to carry night to frost products as well,
Speaker 3: makes it easy to find them widely available here in
Speaker 3: this area. Well, what am I looking at here? I've
Speaker 3: got probably not enough time for another call, so we're
Speaker 3: going to close down the calls here on garden Line
Speaker 3: and I'll just go out with a few comments. First
Speaker 3: of all, I hope you have a good time in
Speaker 3: the in the garden this week. Enjoy yourself. Find something
Speaker 3: you've never grown before and grow it. Try something you've
Speaker 3: never tried before in the garden. I guarantee you this.
Speaker 3: If you're listening to my voice, you need one more
Speaker 3: at least container of beautiful color plants to set this
Speaker 3: spring just ablaze with color and summer too. By the way,
Speaker 3: containers are versatile, fast and easy, and we don't use
Speaker 3: enough of them. And you can group containers together. Some
Speaker 3: people think, well, you know a container, put one container there.
Speaker 3: Well you can do that, but you get three different
Speaker 3: containers of different heights with different kinds of plants growing
Speaker 3: in them, and it makes just this giant arrangement of
Speaker 3: beauty that can be on a patio, it can be
Speaker 3: on a porch. I saw one once going into a
Speaker 3: front door where it was real shady, real dark, and
Speaker 3: then overhang there and they had used the chartruse colored
Speaker 3: sweet potato mine coming out of it. They had impatience
Speaker 3: around it because they can put up with the shade.
Speaker 3: They had a shade loving taller plant in there. It's gorgeous,
Speaker 3: so don't let any area go ugly, and you can
Speaker 3: put a beautiful container in it. There's the end of
Speaker 3: the day tip for you. We get out and go
Speaker 3: visit our garden centers. They are loaded right now, excellent time.
Speaker 3: And if you're going to plan a woody ornamental and
Speaker 3: that includes a rose, get it done now. It has
Speaker 3: the best chance of establishing well and surviving when you
Speaker 3: don't plan it when it's so darn hot, So get
Speaker 3: it done now, give it some time to get roots
Speaker 3: in the ground. We want you to have success. Hey,
Speaker 3: gardening is fun, have a good time. We'll be back
Speaker 3: next weekend. Remember Gardeningwithskip dot com.