Speaker 1: Welcome to Katie r H. Garden Line with Skip Richard.
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Speaker 3: All right, let's do this show. Welcome to Garden Line, folks.
Speaker 3: I'm on my second cup of coffee, so I'm gonna
Speaker 3: be slightly coherent, slightly I want to overdo it. We're
Speaker 3: to answer gardening questions today or just to talk about gardening,
Speaker 3: whichever you prefer. All you gotta do is me call
Speaker 3: seven to one three two and two k t r
Speaker 3: H seven one three two and two kt ore h,
Speaker 3: and we will visit with you about the things that
Speaker 3: are most of interest to you. Let's see what was
Speaker 3: I Oh, I had a few things I wanted to
Speaker 3: discuss this morning. One of them is herbs. There are
Speaker 3: a lot of people that really are into growing herbs.
Speaker 3: I mean that is like, well, any kind of plant
Speaker 3: has its little group that are crazy about that group.
Speaker 3: You know, there's people that are all into orchids, or
Speaker 3: people that are all into plumerias or all into vegetables
Speaker 3: or whatever. Herbs are a good group to grow that.
Speaker 3: I think more people ought to grow. And the reason
Speaker 3: I say that is they're easy, really easy to grow.
Speaker 3: Most of the herbs that we would plant here just
Speaker 3: do super super well. Or rosemary about as drought tolerant
Speaker 3: as any shrub you're going to get. It grows very
Speaker 3: well here. It looks good in a container. It looks
Speaker 3: good in the ground if you got it spilling over
Speaker 3: the side of a pot, or or maybe you have
Speaker 3: a landscape structure where you've got like a rock wall
Speaker 3: or something and the rosemary can kind of tumble down
Speaker 3: that the trailing tops of rosemary do good with that.
Speaker 3: Basil is easy to grow. Good Night basil? Who doesn't
Speaker 3: like pesto? Right, So there's lots of kind of basils,
Speaker 3: Lemon basil and the standard Genobeese, the standard type we
Speaker 3: would make the pesto out of. There's a holy basil.
Speaker 3: There is a tie basil. I like the African blue
Speaker 3: basil because I don't use it as much culinarily you can,
Speaker 3: but I prefer the standard pesto types of basil. But
Speaker 3: the African blue is unbelievable for pollinators. If you want
Speaker 3: to see what pollinators are around, I don't mean just
Speaker 3: honey bees and bumble bees. There's a lot of kinds
Speaker 3: of pollinators. They love that plant. They do really well.
Speaker 3: Chives are easy to grow, and chives are cool. You
Speaker 3: just take your scissors out there, you're making some scrambled eggs,
Speaker 3: cut a few chive leaves off, chop them up, drop
Speaker 3: them in there, and you're on your way. Herbs are
Speaker 3: just easy, and you don't have to have an herb garden.
Speaker 3: You can make one of those beautiful you know, Louis
Speaker 3: the fourteenth all geometrically pretty circular, looks like a wagon wheel.
Speaker 3: Whatever design you want of an herb garden, or you
Speaker 3: can just include herbs around the landscape. So I think
Speaker 3: we got to grow more herbs. We got some great
Speaker 3: independent garden centers that have selections of herbs that are
Speaker 3: outstanding around the Greater Houston area. And again, herbs are easy,
Speaker 3: and I just enjoy some of the herbs. I just
Speaker 3: enjoy smelling them.
Speaker 4: We have.
Speaker 3: I think my wife has three types of time in
Speaker 3: her in her flower beds. In the times just spilling
Speaker 3: over the side, as is the oregano, and just every
Speaker 3: time I walk by, I've got to rub it and
Speaker 3: smell it because it smells so good. But anyway, think
Speaker 3: about that. I just put in some here. I guess
Speaker 3: I hope this would fall in the herb category, at
Speaker 3: least for me. Pineapple sage. It's a type of salvia.
Speaker 3: It has red tubular blooms typically late in the season,
Speaker 3: late summer early fall, because it's triggered by the shortening
Speaker 3: day length to bloom. So hummingbirds like it when they're
Speaker 3: passing through. But the leaves smell like pineapple. It's really nice.
Speaker 3: There's lemon scented herbs, all kinds. So anyway, think about that.
Speaker 3: Maybe add an herber to your landscape and use your imagination.
Speaker 3: Like I said, in a flower beds, we've got three
Speaker 3: different kinds of herbs just growing because they're pretty and
Speaker 3: they're nice and they cascade over the sides. You're listening
Speaker 3: to Garden Line. I'm your host, Skip Richter, and we're
Speaker 3: here to help you have success in your garden. Gardening
Speaker 3: is a lot of fun, and or at least it
Speaker 3: should be, and we can find ways to make it
Speaker 3: more fun. Sometimes it just takes a little bit of
Speaker 3: a mental reset, but usually it just takes a little
Speaker 3: bit of good information so that you plant plants that
Speaker 3: want to grow at your place, and you have the
Speaker 3: soil prepared so they're happy to grow at your place.
Speaker 3: And after that it's just set back and enjoy in
Speaker 3: the lawns. Boy, I got some pictures yesterday of gray
Speaker 3: leaf spot. Gray leaf spot is it's here. This is
Speaker 3: its favorite time of the year, early summer. When things
Speaker 3: begin to cool off, excuse me, begin to heat up.
Speaker 3: Let's put it correctly, gray leaf spot starts to show up.
Speaker 3: It loves moisture, so getting a lot of rain has
Speaker 3: helped it in some areas this summer. Also, that sprinkler
Speaker 3: system that comes on and what's the ground every other
Speaker 3: year I was talking to about yesterday that there's sprinkler's
Speaker 3: coming on three times a week. There's no reason you
Speaker 3: need to water your lawn three times a week unless
Speaker 3: it's a brand new lawn. You know, you're just kind
Speaker 3: of getting into about the third week of establishing a
Speaker 3: brand new lawn. Our lawns can do fine with much
Speaker 3: less than that. If you look up my lawn care schedule,
Speaker 3: it's actually the lawn pest, Disease and Weed Management schedule.
Speaker 3: It is on my website Gardening with Skip dot com.
Speaker 3: That schedule says that starting about mid aprilish and going
Speaker 3: through mid to late July is big time gray leaf
Speaker 3: spot season. That's when we watch for it, and it
Speaker 3: can occur at other times, but this is when we
Speaker 3: see it at its worst. And the pictures I saw yesterday,
Speaker 3: I think it was about the worst gray leaf spot
Speaker 3: I've ever seen. It was. It was to a point
Speaker 3: where if you stood at the street, you could look
Speaker 3: at the lawn and go, wow, what's wrong there? It
Speaker 3: was significant. Usually gray leaf spots kind of cosmetic and
Speaker 3: we don't we generally, I don't generally spray for it,
Speaker 3: but you can and if you're going to do that,
Speaker 3: night Foss has a product called Eagle fung a side.
Speaker 3: Eagle Fungicide is good for a number of different things.
Speaker 3: If you've got you know you're dealing with large patch
Speaker 3: or take all root rot or gray leaf spot and
Speaker 3: some other rizac Tonia summer patches, it's a good one
Speaker 3: for that. You can find night Foss products in many
Speaker 3: places Bearings Hardware on Bissinet and as well as the
Speaker 3: one on West Timer we'll carry night Foss products and
Speaker 3: Jennie Forest down there in the Richmond Rosenberg area. We'll
Speaker 3: also carry the nitrofoss products. So you might just just
Speaker 3: check out that if you feel like you want to
Speaker 3: do a spray to control things like the leaf spot,
Speaker 3: it's an excellent choice for doing that very much. So
Speaker 3: I'll tell you what, let's take a break. I'm gonna
Speaker 3: go just a bit early to break here, and I
Speaker 3: will be right back with your calls. All right, folks,
Speaker 3: welcome back, Welcome back to the garden line. Good to
Speaker 3: have you with us. Boy, yesterday I was talking about
Speaker 3: something going on at Warren Southern Gardens and I actually
Speaker 3: had to bring in somebody from Warrens to clarify and
Speaker 3: make sure that it was true. And here's what it is.
Speaker 3: It is a mega sale out there Warren Southern Garden
Speaker 3: in Kingwood, Texas. Twenty percent off purchases of one hundred
Speaker 3: dollars or more. So you buy one hundred dollars, you
Speaker 3: pay eighty get the idea. Now here's the deal for
Speaker 3: those of you who want to do a major renovation
Speaker 3: around your property. I'm talking about. Maybe you want metal art,
Speaker 3: Maybe you want a bunch of really nice pottery of
Speaker 3: all kinds. You know, the beautiful, gorgeous glaze pottery you're
Speaker 3: looking for trees, you're looking for shrubs, you're wanting to
Speaker 3: put in roses and all other kinds of perennials and plants,
Speaker 3: and you need some fertilizers and soil products. And you
Speaker 3: get the idea. I mean, I'm talking about a big
Speaker 3: deal for purchases of three thousand or more. That's forty
Speaker 3: percent off. So think about this. You ring up three
Speaker 3: thousand dollars, you pay eighteen hundred, you get the idea.
Speaker 3: That's the minimum level there, that's right at three thousand.
Speaker 3: And now, I know three thousands a lot, but if
Speaker 3: you're going to be doing a big renovation, is not
Speaker 3: a lot, in fact, But you're not going to find
Speaker 3: a better chance to do it then right now. And
Speaker 3: it's at Warns. It's this month for the rest of
Speaker 3: the month. Started yesterday, you go through the end of
Speaker 3: the month May thirty first. But for those of you
Speaker 3: that are considering it, here's a chance to really get
Speaker 3: a good deal. And if you've been to Warrens before,
Speaker 3: in fact, just go out there and check it out.
Speaker 3: But walk around and look at it. It's a gorgeous,
Speaker 3: gorgeous place, stock with all kinds of things. And I'm
Speaker 3: telling you, well, you. This is your public service announcement.
Speaker 3: Go check it out. It's good. Say hey to miss
Speaker 3: d if she's out there when you're there. She does
Speaker 3: custom potting jobs where you know, they put together different
Speaker 3: kinds of combo containers for businesses, for homes or you know,
Speaker 3: hanging baskets and all kinds of things. Really nice. I
Speaker 3: didn't war in southern guarden. Anyway, there was your There
Speaker 3: was your official announcement for those of you who are
Speaker 3: looking to do something major. All right, let's head out
Speaker 3: to southwest Houston. Now we're going to go and talk
Speaker 3: to Wayne. Hello, Wayne, welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 1: Well, thank you so much. Skip.
Speaker 5: First of all, I won't say I am slowly now
Speaker 5: at your level of knowledge of gardening, it's just amazing.
Speaker 3: Well, Wayne, I make everything up. So I'm glad I
Speaker 3: convinced you.
Speaker 1: Just kid, very good. I have something for you.
Speaker 5: Not long ago, I planted a rose, and I also
Speaker 5: put a row of landscape bricks around it, maybe about
Speaker 5: fourteen inches out from the base of the rolls. And
Speaker 5: then I went back to resetting the bricks, and as
Speaker 5: I moved them, I noticed a colony of ants right
Speaker 5: up under the bricks.
Speaker 3: So do you know if they were fire ants or
Speaker 3: just don't know for sure what kind?
Speaker 1: Well, tiny ants.
Speaker 3: Okay, well, most answer are not a problem. There's a
Speaker 3: couple of ants that we don't want to have around.
Speaker 3: One of them is the carpenter ant that choose into
Speaker 3: wood and does structural damage to wood. The other is
Speaker 3: fire ants did bite us. But all the other ants
Speaker 3: are out there just contributing kind of the balance and
Speaker 3: things of nature. They're not eating our plants, they're not
Speaker 3: biting us, and so you know, if it's not fire ants,
Speaker 3: I wouldn't worry about it. I just know that they're
Speaker 3: they're doing what they do.
Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 3: A lot of insecticides will kill ants. I mean, you
Speaker 3: can use all kinds. If it were fire ants, I
Speaker 3: would suggest you get a bait and just sprinkle it
Speaker 3: all around. There are organic baits and they're synthetic baits,
Speaker 3: and you can take care of them best that way.
Speaker 3: But any kind of an insecticide will kill ants. We
Speaker 3: just when we have colonies sometimes you know, you kill
Speaker 3: a bunch of them that you see you're not actually
Speaker 3: getting to the queen and the rest of the colony.
Speaker 5: Okay, But overall, they're not anything to be openly concerned. Okay,
Speaker 5: Now there are hundreds of species of ants running and
Speaker 5: running around there.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, yeah.
Speaker 5: What about also just yesterday plant, I mean you put
Speaker 5: a row of landscape uh bricks close to the house.
Speaker 5: So do I need to be concerned about ant allonis
Speaker 5: in there?
Speaker 4: Now?
Speaker 3: Ant? So you know, they they usually live or living
Speaker 3: underground and are near the surface and the mulch and
Speaker 3: in other things, and so don't worry about that. It's
Speaker 3: just not not anything you need to worry about that.
Speaker 3: That's that one is no sweat.
Speaker 5: Okay, one more thing about ants opting in this house
Speaker 5: there some years and every year they want to migrate
Speaker 5: into the kitchen and I have to you know, hot.
Speaker 1: Stuff to tear from them, but.
Speaker 5: They go away, but then they will come back. I
Speaker 5: happen to leave something out from time to time, you know,
Speaker 5: on a regular basis.
Speaker 1: Any comment on that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, there's a there. There's some different kinds of
Speaker 3: ants that that we see a lot inside, you know,
Speaker 3: farroh ants and others can come inside. And like I said,
Speaker 3: literally there are like hundreds of species and you look
Speaker 3: at them and they all look like ants. But there's
Speaker 3: there's a lot of different kinds, so different ants want
Speaker 3: to eat different things. Some go after sugary substances, some
Speaker 3: go after oils and proteins. So fire ants are after
Speaker 3: oils and proteins, that's what they like. So the baits
Speaker 3: for fire ants are put on an oil or a
Speaker 3: protein base, those little granules. There are little stations you
Speaker 3: can buy. The ones I've seen look like little black
Speaker 3: squares that ants can go in the holes and inside
Speaker 3: there is the bait for them. Depending on the kind
Speaker 3: of ant you have, you would get a different bait,
Speaker 3: so you may have to kind of try one and
Speaker 3: then try another and see. But they work pretty good,
Speaker 3: and you just set them on the counter wherever the
Speaker 3: ants are coming from. Typically, you know, if you got
Speaker 3: a little tiny crack in the let's say you had
Speaker 3: tile on the backsplash of your counter and there's a
Speaker 3: little piece where the crowd is out of it, and
Speaker 3: the ants are coming in and out of there. Maybe
Speaker 3: they're coming up from under the cabinet, or if you
Speaker 3: can put it kind of close to where you think
Speaker 3: they're coming from, that does a little better job. But
Speaker 3: they'll find it, and that's the best way. Other than
Speaker 3: that you're ending up spraying, and then you're putting the
Speaker 3: pesticides on indoor surfaces and things which you generally would
Speaker 3: try to avoid.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's exactly what was happening. There was a crack
Speaker 5: in the grout and they were just and right on
Speaker 5: the other side of the well, outside their little planner
Speaker 5: and they were just coming up right through the what happened.
Speaker 5: They are pretty amazing, and they find.
Speaker 3: They are pretty amazing. Yeah, they are. And you know,
Speaker 3: if it's just one little spot they're coming in, we
Speaker 3: can take a little cock and just dab it right
Speaker 3: on there and close the door. But they'll probably find
Speaker 3: another way in.
Speaker 5: So exactly exactly, okay, all right, I'll just have to
Speaker 5: deal with it, okay, skip.
Speaker 3: Thanks all right, Yeah, thanks for the call. Appreciate that.
Speaker 3: Good to talk to you. All Right, there we go,
Speaker 3: we are. Let's see here. Let me give you a
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Speaker 3: R h uh. Microlife fertilizers have been around for a
Speaker 3: long time. In fact, they've been around over thirty five
Speaker 3: years here in the Greater Houston area. The number one
Speaker 3: selling organic fertilizer in Houston is Microlife six two six
Speaker 3: six two four. It is a green bag, easy to
Speaker 3: see green bag Microlife sixty four. It's not going to
Speaker 3: burn your lawn or other plants. It's not a salt
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Speaker 3: Microbes get a hold of it. They take all the
Speaker 3: nutrients and are in it, and turn it loose into
Speaker 3: the soil, which is what microbes do every day, and
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Speaker 3: were talking about some of the fertilizers and they have
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Speaker 3: Doesn't contain any manures, lots of beneficial microbes in it.
Speaker 3: Microbes rule the world. Microbes are what makes plant, what
Speaker 3: make plants happy out there in nature. They do it all.
Speaker 3: I should drone on for an hour sometime on microbes
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Speaker 3: the jugs, a large clear plastic jug with a big
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Speaker 3: You're listening to Gardenline. Our phone number is seven one
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Speaker 3: three two one two k t r H. So we're
Speaker 3: entering summer, which means we're coming up into hurricane season here.
Speaker 3: And those of you who've been here very long, no,
Speaker 3: you know, it's a roll of the dice. You never
Speaker 3: know what kind of year it's going to be. But
Speaker 3: when hurricane comes through their issues, we lose power typically,
Speaker 3: uh And when that happens, you need to be ready
Speaker 3: for it. And you know, there's a lot of different
Speaker 3: ways to do that. You can buy a little gas
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Speaker 3: where are we here, I'm gonna take a little break.
Speaker 3: I'm flying this morning. I'm gonna take a little break
Speaker 3: here in a minute. When when I come back from break,
Speaker 3: Jim in a task, Asida and Terry out there in Splendora.
Speaker 3: We're gonna come to you first. For the rest of you,
Speaker 3: if you'd like to give me a call seven one
Speaker 3: three two one two kat r H seven one three
Speaker 3: two one two kt r H. I will let's see here.
Speaker 3: Also as we get back, I want to discuss a
Speaker 3: little bit about some fruit trees that don't need spraying,
Speaker 3: So much. Uh, don't let me forget that. Somebody may
Speaker 3: have to call and remind me of We'll be right back,
Speaker 3: all right, Welcome back to garden Line folks. Good to
Speaker 3: have you with us. I wanted to say a few
Speaker 3: things about in Channa Gardens. I talk about them all
Speaker 3: the time, but in Chenna Gardens is out there in
Speaker 3: Richmond Rosenberg. In fact, it's on the Katie Fullsher side
Speaker 3: of Richmond. You just get out there to FM three
Speaker 3: fifty nine and that's where it's located. It's been around
Speaker 3: since nineteen ninety five. You know, the Lenderman family has
Speaker 3: been part of that community for a long time, taking
Speaker 3: care of people with really quality plants and quality service.
Speaker 3: That's the bottom line. Now. I like going out there
Speaker 3: because it's just an unforgettable experience. You pull up, you
Speaker 3: get out of the car, and you look around and
Speaker 3: you go where do I again? Because it's a very
Speaker 3: nice expanse of all kinds of cool things. Anyone can
Speaker 3: find stuff they're interested in out there, from little Ferry
Speaker 3: gardens all the way out to beautiful rose bushes and
Speaker 3: fruit trees and certainly hanging baskets and containers and you
Speaker 3: name it. It's an unmatched selection of plants and the
Speaker 3: knowledge that they have their team as enthusiastic as they come.
Speaker 3: Really you can bring photos and samples in to get
Speaker 3: some help with that find out what you need to do.
Speaker 3: Or you can just walk out and ask questions about
Speaker 3: you know, I got this area, and you describe it
Speaker 3: and they'll show you a whole bunch of plant ideas
Speaker 3: that would do really really well here. They know what
Speaker 3: they're talking about. That's important. While you're there, you can
Speaker 3: grab the fertilizers you hear me talk about from Microlife
Speaker 3: and nitrofoss and Nelson plant Food and Mendina. You can
Speaker 3: get soils from Nature's way in airloom soils out there
Speaker 3: at in Chenna Gardens FM three fifty nine. Katie fullsher Cider, Richmond,
Speaker 3: Enchented Gardens, Richmond dot com, Enchenda Gardens, Richmond dot com.
Speaker 3: Let's go out now to a test asita and we're
Speaker 3: going to talk to Jim. Morning.
Speaker 6: Jim, good morning, sir, and thank you so much for
Speaker 6: taking my call the question this morning. I actually have
Speaker 6: two questions. One, you talk about watering and you have
Speaker 6: mentioned it's better to deep water than just lightwater several times.
Speaker 3: Correct, yes, correct?
Speaker 6: Okay. Now when you say deep water, now, once you
Speaker 6: do that, that means you do it less time.
Speaker 3: Correct, right, okay, correct, Okay.
Speaker 6: So let's go to the sprinkler system. So on your
Speaker 6: lawn do you recommend Now, this is Saint Augustine. I'm
Speaker 6: over here in a task Gasita. You know kind of
Speaker 6: dirt we've got. Basically, how long do you want us
Speaker 6: to run the water for and how many times a week?
Speaker 3: What you need to do, Jim, is you need to
Speaker 3: put something out there to measure irrigation. It could be
Speaker 3: a rain gauge set in the lawn. It could be
Speaker 3: a straight sided container like an empty into being can
Speaker 3: or something. And you need to turn your system on
Speaker 3: for about twenty minutes and then look at how much
Speaker 3: water you catch. So if you multiply that times three,
Speaker 3: that's how much you put out in an hour, and
Speaker 3: you want to apply about it at least a half
Speaker 3: inch of water and better an inch of water when
Speaker 3: you water. That's what I so deeply and thoroughly, and
Speaker 3: then you don't need a water for a long time,
Speaker 3: a good while, many days before you have to come
Speaker 3: back and do it again. So that's how you go
Speaker 3: about knowing how long to run it. Now you may
Speaker 3: have to run it for a while, have it go
Speaker 3: off and set for forty five minutes, and come back
Speaker 3: on again. Because generally you cannot put an inch of
Speaker 3: water on the ground at one time in many of
Speaker 3: the soil types we have here.
Speaker 6: So you do want us to put at least one
Speaker 6: inch of water on the ground. Is that correct?
Speaker 3: Yeah? Yeah, And I would I would just say a
Speaker 3: half inch to an inch, not don't go over it,
Speaker 3: that's unnecessary, okay, half all right?
Speaker 6: Now the second part is, I don't know if you remember.
Speaker 6: I just did all my beds in the front of
Speaker 6: the house and I put organic molts down. Okay, Now
Speaker 6: I want to put bark on top of that. A
Speaker 6: lot of people put bark just for a decorative color,
Speaker 6: but I want a useful bark. I want to bark
Speaker 6: that's going to hold the moisture in. What do you
Speaker 6: recommend I get that's a functional bark.
Speaker 3: For functional bark, I like just a shredded hardwood bark,
Speaker 3: double ground. It could be a bark that's been partially
Speaker 3: composted h and it locks together. It's kind of it's
Speaker 3: got a curvy, jagged way that it just sort of
Speaker 3: holds together really well, unlike like a pine bark, which
Speaker 3: is more rounded and smoother. But anyway, any bark, any bark,
Speaker 3: will do whichever kind you like the looks.
Speaker 6: Of well, I'm trying to get functionality on it, not
Speaker 6: just look. Yeah, thank you sir.
Speaker 3: Okay, yeah, no, I would do a good shredded bark,
Speaker 3: and then I think you'll do well with that. Hey,
Speaker 3: thanks for the call though, Jim appreciate it.
Speaker 6: You take care, thank you, sir.
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Speaker 3: Splendora and talk to Terry. Hey, Terry, welcome to Guardline.
Speaker 1: Thank you, good morning. I have a couple of questions.
Speaker 7: We purchased a property right behind our house and we've
Speaker 7: cleared out all the underbrush and it has quite a
Speaker 7: few mature trees where it creates a pretty good canopy
Speaker 7: with minimal sunlight, honestly, and I would like to keep
Speaker 7: those trees, but I would also like to get some
Speaker 7: groundcover of some sort going particularly right around the tree.
Speaker 7: He's kind of as like dressing around him, like shrub
Speaker 7: type things.
Speaker 1: I was wondering what would be best in like low light.
Speaker 3: That Okay, this is is this a large, large area
Speaker 3: where you're gonna be planting a lot of it or
Speaker 3: is just not.
Speaker 7: Well, it's about two and a half acres and there's
Speaker 7: groups of trees that I would like to decorate around
Speaker 7: several of them.
Speaker 3: You know. Usually for something like that, we would look
Speaker 3: to some different kinds of native plants. But when you
Speaker 3: get into a lot of shade, there's nothing that's real,
Speaker 3: really dense and beautiful, like something like a yopone, which
Speaker 3: would beautiful lot in the sun. When you get it
Speaker 3: in a lot of shade, it's it's not very dense,
Speaker 3: and so that wouldn't be as good of a choice.
Speaker 3: If it's an area you can water. There are a
Speaker 3: number of things that will put up with that kind
Speaker 3: of shade. I like a plant called leopard plant. It's
Speaker 3: also called tractor seed plant because it has big round leaves.
Speaker 3: It sort of looks like a tractor seat. Not quite
Speaker 3: that big, but very pretty. But you're gonna have to
Speaker 3: water it, and it'll put up with very deep shade.
Speaker 3: Uh if you give it some water to help sustain it. Otherwise,
Speaker 3: we probably ought to go back and look at some
Speaker 3: of the natives and just realize you're going to not
Speaker 3: quite have the density.
Speaker 7: Yes, sir, I like some of my neighbors they have
Speaker 7: I believe it's oleander planted around. Some of their trees
Speaker 7: are pretty big, like they encompass the whole trunk of.
Speaker 1: The tree area there as well.
Speaker 3: Or oh, now, I don't know what that is that
Speaker 3: your neighbors, but only ander needs sun, lots of sun,
Speaker 3: and so I wouldn't I wouldn't put it in too
Speaker 3: much shade. Uh that that would. But it's a good
Speaker 3: tough plant as far as you know, standing drought and whatnot,
Speaker 3: so that may be a benefit of it.
Speaker 1: There.
Speaker 3: There are some other Leopard plant is a plant that
Speaker 3: you can put out and it does pretty good. Uh.
Speaker 3: And and there's a bunch of natives, you know, the you're
Speaker 3: out in Splendora. If you were to Buchanna's native plants
Speaker 3: down in the heights, they specialize in natives and they
Speaker 3: would have a few ideas for some things that might
Speaker 3: do well there. There is a native plant called beauty
Speaker 3: berry American beauty berry. It's deciduous, but it grows in
Speaker 3: dry shade. And I mean you can water it too,
Speaker 3: but it's a good one to consider. I might talk
Speaker 3: to the folks of Buchanans and see what else they
Speaker 3: might have there. And then in Splendora, you're close to
Speaker 3: Nature's way resources and they have native plants and their
Speaker 3: nursery there. There where fourteen eighty eight comes into forty five,
Speaker 3: just south of Conro. You might try those places and
Speaker 3: get some more ideas of things that they carry. Okay, okay,
Speaker 3: thank you sir. You bet good luck with that. Appreciate
Speaker 3: that if you haven't been to Plants for all seasons.
Speaker 3: They're up on Tomboi Parkway high Way to forty nine.
Speaker 3: They've been around a long time since the nineteen seventies,
Speaker 3: and they are excellent because when you go in there,
Speaker 3: you find plants that want to grow here, and you
Speaker 3: find advice for people that have grown plants here for
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Speaker 3: And then of course flowers color, all kinds of perennials,
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Speaker 3: got some sweet potatoes in. Recently, it is time to
Speaker 3: begin to get some sweet potatoes going very easy to grow,
Speaker 3: and you know, you get to enjoy the fruits of
Speaker 3: your labor as a result. I'm going to take a
Speaker 3: quick break here and I'll be back with your questions.
Speaker 3: All right, welcome back to Garden Lines. Glad to have
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Speaker 3: which means I got to quit talking, and we're going
Speaker 3: to go to a little break. When we come back,
Speaker 3: you can be the first up this Sunday morning seven
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Speaker 3: I'll be discussing a few things that I think are
Speaker 3: timely for those of you who have lawns and gardens
Speaker 3: and trees. I still want to have that conversation about
Speaker 3: fruit trees that are less prone to disease issues. But
Speaker 3: we'll get that and when we come back. All right, folks,
Speaker 3: we're back. Welcome back to garden Line. I'm your host,
Speaker 3: Skip Richter. And what are we doing here, Well, we're
Speaker 3: here to help you have a bountiful garden, a beautiful landscape,
Speaker 3: and more fun in the process. That's what we would
Speaker 3: love to happen, because gardening's supposed to be fun. You
Speaker 3: want to beautify your place just so you appreciate the
Speaker 3: look of it. You want to make your gardens more
Speaker 3: bountiful so you have more flowers. Maybe you want to
Speaker 3: cut flower garden. That's something we don't talk about much
Speaker 3: here that we can help you with that as well.
Speaker 3: Maybe you want vegetables and herbs, and you like things
Speaker 3: you can eat, like fruit trees for example. That's another
Speaker 3: good idea. We certainly can do that. Regarding fruit trees
Speaker 3: i mentioned, I want to talk about some that you
Speaker 3: don't spray so much. First of all, blueberries. Blueberries do
Speaker 3: not require a lot of sprays. That does not mean
Speaker 3: that there's no insects or diseases it can attack of blueberry.
Speaker 3: It just means that, unlike some plants probably on the
Speaker 3: spray end of the spectrum, or grapes and apples and
Speaker 3: peaches for example, those are three that you're gonna have
Speaker 3: hard time raising them without significant losses if you don't
Speaker 3: do some spray in here in our climate an area.
Speaker 3: But blueberries is not so much. Figs another one. Yes,
Speaker 3: they get some rust on the leaves and things, but
Speaker 3: in general figs don't require a lot of spraying. Per Simmons.
Speaker 3: Per Simmons is the Rodney Dangerfield of all the fruit.
Speaker 3: Y'all remember Rodney Dangerfield, the guy that couldn't get any respect,
Speaker 3: can't get any respect. Well, that's per simmons. It's a
Speaker 3: wonderful fruit. It tastes grayes like a bag full of
Speaker 3: yummy jelly or good ripe soft percentmon. They grow wild.
Speaker 3: We have wild per simmons here in the southeastern United States,
Speaker 3: including that's part of Texas, and you you just don't
Speaker 3: have to spray them. You just don't. You can raise
Speaker 3: those without sprays. Jujubis they have their own issues, but
Speaker 3: jujubis are not one that you're going to have to
Speaker 3: do a lot of spraying on. Another good one that
Speaker 3: you could grow. And there's some others. So if you're
Speaker 3: looking to have fruit but you don't want to have
Speaker 3: to do a lot of spraying, those are some ideas
Speaker 3: to kind of help you get off to a good start.
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Speaker 3: Debbie this morning. Hello Debbie, Hi.
Speaker 8: Good morning. Thank you for taking my call. Can you
Speaker 8: tell me what to do with the tree stump that
Speaker 8: has I think it's funcus little white things growing out
Speaker 8: of it. They're not mushrooms, but they're all over the base.
Speaker 3: Okay, what do you want out of that tree stump?
Speaker 3: Do you want it gone? Do you want to decorate it?
Speaker 3: You know? What? What are you? What is your desires? Well?
Speaker 8: Gone would be good, but I have plants on top
Speaker 8: of it. Now that decorative.
Speaker 3: Okay, okay, well gone would mean having somebody come out
Speaker 3: with a stump grinder. Affordable treat gets that as do others,
Speaker 3: and grinding the whole thing out. If you want to
Speaker 3: leave it for now as a place to set plants
Speaker 3: and maybe try to you know, do some decorating around it.
Speaker 3: You can put plants on the top that cascade over
Speaker 3: the sides. You can you can plant an ivy that
Speaker 3: mounds up over the top of it. I mean, there's
Speaker 3: different ways. If you want it to rot away faster,
Speaker 3: drilling holes down in it, big old half inch drill.
Speaker 3: Just go straight down as deep as you can with
Speaker 3: the drill and drill a whole bunch of holes in it.
Speaker 3: And you can put things like even just piling compost
Speaker 3: over it and then keeping it moist will really speed
Speaker 3: the Decay'd be like if you took a little piece
Speaker 3: of two by four and you put it underneath all
Speaker 3: your mulch against the soil where it was wet all
Speaker 3: the time, and you know, moist that tube before is
Speaker 3: going to rot pretty quick. You can make the stump
Speaker 3: rot faster that way. If you want to make the
Speaker 3: slower approach to getting rid of it, and all the
Speaker 3: major roots that come out at the surface, you know
Speaker 3: that flare out and go in all directions getting all
Speaker 3: that decayed. The more you cover it up with wet
Speaker 3: organic matter and soil, the faster it'll decompose.
Speaker 8: Oh okay, so are these things growing out of it fungus?
Speaker 3: Yes. The number one thing to decay wood is our fungi.
Speaker 3: You know, we got things like bacteria and actinomycets and
Speaker 3: all kinds of microbes that decay stuff in the soil.
Speaker 3: When it gets to wood, all that lignant. It's hard
Speaker 3: to Bacteria have trouble breaking that down. But fungi it's
Speaker 3: not a problem at all. So whenever you see white
Speaker 3: stuff in the mulch in your yard, or white stuff
Speaker 3: growing underneath a piece of wood land on the ground,
Speaker 3: that just means fungi or on the job and they're
Speaker 3: turning it back into soil.
Speaker 9: Oh okay, thank you very much.
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Speaker 3: I always kind of think, well, what is the product
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Speaker 3: But I want to tell you about Medina Plus today
Speaker 3: Medina Plus is basically Medina Soil Activator plus over forty
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Speaker 3: ways to your plants. You can use it as a drench,
Speaker 3: but I would use it as a fold of your
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Speaker 3: Welcome back to garden Line. Good to be with you today.
Speaker 3: What do you want to talk about? You want to
Speaker 3: talk about vegetables or fruit or flowers or growing a
Speaker 3: cut flower garden. Maybe making sure your trees are the
Speaker 3: ones that want to grow here, you know, planting. What
Speaker 3: are the varieties of trees and the types of trees
Speaker 3: that do well here. We have a lot of options.
Speaker 3: I mean, we're fortunate in this area to have a
Speaker 3: lot of different options for trees. Just something to think
Speaker 3: about is back in the day, as we say, I
Speaker 3: don't know when the day was, but people say, back
Speaker 3: in the day, back in the day, our lots in
Speaker 3: the in towns were huge, you know, a third of
Speaker 3: an acre lot. I mean, there are big lots back
Speaker 3: in those time. There still are, but it was common
Speaker 3: and you could plant this giant, beautiful big tree and
Speaker 3: live oaks and all kinds of things that just spread
Speaker 3: out and it's all good. Now lots just keep getting
Speaker 3: smaller and smaller. You drive by neighborhoods where it looks like,
Speaker 3: you know what, I think he could reach out his
Speaker 3: window and close his neighbor's blinds from the house because
Speaker 3: they're so close together. And that kind of a lot.
Speaker 3: You need a smaller tree, and we have medium sized trees.
Speaker 3: We have small sized trees too, some that are very small.
Speaker 3: One of my favorite trees I've been saying that this
Speaker 3: spring is the Chinese fringe tree is at It grows
Speaker 3: at a moderate rate and it gets to a medium
Speaker 3: size medium to small, depending on what you call medium
Speaker 3: and what you call small. But we had one at
Speaker 3: the Bear Creek Extension Office before some floods took that away.
Speaker 3: At the tree I think is still there, it was
Speaker 3: probably twenty twenty five feet even tall it had gotten.
Speaker 3: It's pretty large for a Chinese fringe. But in blooms
Speaker 3: in the spring, with shaggy white blooms that are fragrant,
Speaker 3: honey fragrant, it is just nice. We've got crape myrtles
Speaker 3: like natches, which is a white blooming crpe myrtle with
Speaker 3: gorgeous cinnamon colored bark, exfoliating bark that like crape myrtles have,
Speaker 3: and that would be a nice So you can train
Speaker 3: it to a single trunk make a really nice little
Speaker 3: tree out of that. There are many other examples. Those
Speaker 3: are just two of what I'm talking about. But if
Speaker 3: you're picking a tree for your place, think about things
Speaker 3: like what do I want it for? Do I want
Speaker 3: it to shade the roof of my house or a
Speaker 3: western wall or a back patio, So in the summer,
Speaker 3: I can go out there and enjoy it, enjoy the
Speaker 3: break from the sun. Do I want something with blooms
Speaker 3: that I can look at? Remember this, when you plant
Speaker 3: a tree like that thirty foot tall soon to be natches, well,
Speaker 3: you can see blooms, but you got to look straight
Speaker 3: up to see them. Because they're way up there in
Speaker 3: the air, you don't notice them as much. If you
Speaker 3: want something that looms and people driving by can appreciate,
Speaker 3: or when you drive up to your home you can
Speaker 3: appreciate the blooms, maybe one of the shrub slash trees,
Speaker 3: and there are plants that in a sense. Crape myrtle
Speaker 3: can almost be that, but it can either be like
Speaker 3: a large shrub or it can be a small tree.
Speaker 3: A good example you know of things that are like
Speaker 3: a shrub slash tree would be something like yopan can
Speaker 3: make a very small tree or a shrub. Southern wax
Speaker 3: myrtle can make a very small tree or a shrub.
Speaker 3: You can train it to a single trunk and nice
Speaker 3: like out beside a patio or something like that. I
Speaker 3: mentioned crape myrtles. There are other examples, though, of things
Speaker 3: that fit that Bill Vitex is one of my favorite
Speaker 3: trees slash shrubs. Vitex doesn't want to be a tree,
Speaker 3: it wants to be a multi stem shrub. I'm working
Speaker 3: on a pruning system right now to see if it
Speaker 3: works to turn my Vitex into a small tree with
Speaker 3: a single trunk. Don't try this at home, by text
Speaker 3: will fight you. But if I figured it out, I'll
Speaker 3: tell you if I figure out something that works, I'm
Speaker 3: in the middle. I think I'm gonna win, but we'll see.
Speaker 3: Vy text gets the last word on that. But anyway,
Speaker 3: texts beautiful blue purple blooms all through summer. There is
Speaker 3: a white blooming form as well. Hummingbirds, beneficial insects that
Speaker 3: like flower pollinators love it, butterflies even And it's just
Speaker 3: a good tree. And it blooms in the summer for
Speaker 3: crying out loud. If you shear it back, you can
Speaker 3: even get it to bloom again. It blooms on the terminals.
Speaker 3: So that's a really good tree to plant. So think
Speaker 3: about that. How big is your place? Where do you
Speaker 3: want to view the tree from? You know, are you
Speaker 3: gonna are you going to sit under it for shade
Speaker 3: or are you going to get some flowers. There are
Speaker 3: even trees that produce fruit of course that could be used.
Speaker 3: So anyway, consider that gets you a nice tree that
Speaker 3: does well. I tell you a good place to get
Speaker 3: tree period is RCW Nursery. They grow their own trees
Speaker 3: up there and Plantsville. RCW is located where Tomball Parkway
Speaker 3: and belt Way eight come together, and they absolutely have
Speaker 3: the best that you're going to see. It could be
Speaker 3: down you know, small shrubs, yopon, dorfiopon, different things like that,
Speaker 3: azaleas and whatnot. Certainly roses got one of the best
Speaker 3: selection of roses anywhere. But when it comes to trees,
Speaker 3: they bring them in, you know, from fifteen gallons on
Speaker 3: up the two hundred gallons ornamental tree shade trees. Their
Speaker 3: species and varieties that want to grow here, that's what
Speaker 3: they raise. As they grow these, they grow them right,
Speaker 3: so you get a well anchored, nice trained plant when
Speaker 3: you buy it. You can plant it yourself. You can
Speaker 3: have RCW plant for you either way you want to go.
Speaker 3: But check out our CW Nurseries RCW Nurseries dot com.
Speaker 3: Tombo Parkway in Beltway eight easy access, and I'll promise
Speaker 3: you this you will get a quality tree. It is
Speaker 3: the place to get your trees just they just do
Speaker 3: an outstanding job. And of course I'm not even talking
Speaker 3: about all the other cool stuff from color and flowers
Speaker 3: and vegetables and herbs that they have there at RCW.
Speaker 3: I love it. If you have not done an azamite
Speaker 3: application to your lawn recently, you gota go ahead and
Speaker 3: get that done. We have our fertilizing seasons and if
Speaker 3: you go online to Gardening with Skip dot com, that's
Speaker 3: my website, Gardening with Skip. That's what we're doing here
Speaker 3: on guard line. There is a lawn care schedule on
Speaker 3: there and it tells you when to fertilize. It tells
Speaker 3: you what products to two sprum for that fertilization. Typically
Speaker 3: we're fertilizing in the spring and we're fertilizing in the
Speaker 3: fall as the two primaries. Then we have a midsummer
Speaker 3: fertilization we can do where if your lawn needs a
Speaker 3: little extra boost or maybe used a product that doesn't
Speaker 3: last a long time, you could come back and do
Speaker 3: that third in the summer. But azamite is nutrients, but
Speaker 3: it's nutrients that aren't the kind in a fertilizer with
Speaker 3: three nombers on the bag that really push fast growth
Speaker 3: and greenness. Azamite is a nutrient for all the things
Speaker 3: that plants need that they have to have, that are essential,
Speaker 3: that are needed in small amounts, and so you can
Speaker 3: do azmite at any time. Most people will do as mite
Speaker 3: when they fertilize, you know, they go out and spread
Speaker 3: fertilizer and bring the hopper back, put azmite in it,
Speaker 3: and go out and spread asmite. That's how you would
Speaker 3: go about and do it. It could do it in either order,
Speaker 3: so you could do it now. It's easy to remember
Speaker 3: that way. But there's nine a month of the year
Speaker 3: where you can't put azmite down and it doesn't take much.
Speaker 3: Just you know, a forty four pound bag is going
Speaker 3: to cover six to twelve thousand square feet, and so
Speaker 3: the main thing is just make sure and get that
Speaker 3: done periodically because that helps build that sole bank account
Speaker 3: of nutrients. Very important. Hey, it's got a lot quiet
Speaker 3: on the phone, sore. If anybody's got a call, be
Speaker 3: happy to visit with you at seven one three two
Speaker 3: one two ktrh. Otherwise I'm just gonna keep talking about things.
Speaker 3: I'm interested in things that are important. You know, when
Speaker 3: I worked with the AGR Life Extension Service as a
Speaker 3: horticulturist for thirty five years here in Texas, we used
Speaker 3: to say that the three things that make the phone
Speaker 3: ring are trees, turf, and tomatoes, the three teas. The
Speaker 3: way I like to put it is, everybody cares about
Speaker 3: what's wrong with my lawn? How do I grow lawn?
Speaker 3: All the long questions, and trees, what's wrong with my tree?
Speaker 3: What's a good tree? How do I pert tree? All
Speaker 3: that kind of tree questions. Those are the two big ones.
Speaker 3: And then tomatoes. Tomatoes rule the garden. As I always say,
Speaker 3: no one ever calls me about their Cole Robbie, it's all.
Speaker 3: It's typically a tomato call, and other vegetables as well.
Speaker 3: But the three tea's make the phone ring. And so
Speaker 3: the turf, that's probably the biggest one. Lots of questions
Speaker 3: about turf. And you know, people, well, my lawn is thin,
Speaker 3: my lawn is it's getting weedy because the sunlight's hitting
Speaker 3: the soil. The lawn is not thick. Trench bugs hit
Speaker 3: last year, take all root ride has been affecting it.
Speaker 3: It's compacted, and so the grass just isn't thriving a drought.
Speaker 3: You know, it got kind of dry and died back
Speaker 3: a little bit. What do I do Well, One of
Speaker 3: the most important things if you want to have a
Speaker 3: beautiful green lawn is to do a core aeration and
Speaker 3: a compost top dressing. Now, why didn't I just say
Speaker 3: aer ration. Well, it's because a core aerration pops plugs
Speaker 3: of soil out of the ground and drops them on
Speaker 3: the surface. It doesn't just push a hole in the ground.
Speaker 3: And by opening it up that way, any fats that
Speaker 3: you have, those dissolving plugs of soil get in around
Speaker 3: the thatch and speed the decomposition of it. You open
Speaker 3: up holes in the soil. You breathe life into your lawn.
Speaker 3: You throw compost top dressing over it, just a thin
Speaker 3: layer like a third of an inch compost top dressing
Speaker 3: over the top of that. After you air rate and
Speaker 3: you really have set your line up to bounce back
Speaker 3: and look good, water infiltrates faster in those hole. Nutrients
Speaker 3: can move down in there like your fertilizers and things.
Speaker 3: It works. The folks at year round Houston serve inside
Speaker 3: the Beltway inside belt Wait eight year round Houston Dot com.
Speaker 3: That's the website year round, Houston dot com. You can
Speaker 3: also give Cliff a call eight three to two eight
Speaker 3: eight four fifty three thirty five. And if he's out
Speaker 3: on a job, which he often is, uh, then just
Speaker 3: leave a message and he will call you back very fast.
Speaker 3: Eight three to two eight eight four fifty three thirty five.
Speaker 3: Talk to them if you're inside the beltway, talk to
Speaker 3: them about coming out and doing a core aeration and
Speaker 3: compost top dressing on your lawn. Let's head to West
Speaker 3: Houston now and we're going to visit with Gary. Hey, Gary,
Speaker 3: welcome to garden line.
Speaker 1: Yeah, good morning, Skip. Yeah, I wanted to call in
Speaker 1: and talk.
Speaker 10: I've got a small little I've got I think come
Speaker 10: down from four plants, tomato plants in five gallon containers.
Speaker 10: All right, I've got some what I thought was some
Speaker 10: good soil. I couldn't find jungle land. They didn't have
Speaker 10: it at Memorial City when I needed it.
Speaker 1: But okay, so but I got some.
Speaker 10: Good stuff put it in there and put them in
Speaker 10: about March first, and every every year, I've got some
Speaker 10: kind of problem just the way it is, and I'm.
Speaker 1: Happy to hang out through the break.
Speaker 10: If nobody wants to call, but I want to talk
Speaker 10: about the uh, the stress that I you know, it
Speaker 10: drains through. It drains very very well, right, almost too good,
Speaker 10: and I wanted to talk about and I'm not setting up,
Speaker 10: at least not right now. I'm not setting up drip irrigation,
Speaker 10: but wanted to talk about a way to keep it
Speaker 10: from you know, it gets moist it drains quickly, dries
Speaker 10: up quickly, and you know how it is. Maybe I
Speaker 10: got to do two times a day, et cetera. But
Speaker 10: I'm but I'm getting blossom and rot pretty bad on
Speaker 10: a couple of them, and I've lost ten ten tomatoes.
Speaker 10: I'm kind of used to that early in season, but
Speaker 10: now I'm dealing with it now and I shouldn't be.
Speaker 3: Okay, So here here's the deal. First of that. Yeah, yeah, So,
Speaker 3: blossom endrite is primarily a fluctuation and soil moisture issue.
Speaker 3: It's it's caused by lack of calcium to the tip
Speaker 3: of the tomato, but it's there could be enough calcium
Speaker 3: in your soil, so generally adding castium to the soil
Speaker 3: doesn't fix it, but working on the fluctuation does. In
Speaker 3: a real chunky mix it drains extra well, maybe almost
Speaker 3: too well. Your tomato is more likely to go through
Speaker 3: that too dry, too wet, or very wet to too dry. More. Also,
Speaker 3: five gallons is really a minimum for growing a tomato,
Speaker 3: unless it's just a little tiny dwarf tomato. Now when
Speaker 3: when if you can give them more soil next next
Speaker 3: time you do this, that would be helpful. Getting the
Speaker 3: soil that holds moisture a little bit better but still
Speaker 3: drains well would be important. Uh, And so that that's
Speaker 3: what I would recommend. H blossom enrat tends to be
Speaker 3: worse on the earlier tomatoes of the season, and not
Speaker 3: as bad as time goes on. But you can have
Speaker 3: it anytime if he goes see that moisture fluctuation, So
Speaker 3: I would I would get a bigger a bigger plot
Speaker 3: next time, and just do everything you can to keep
Speaker 3: it moighty. It may mean water and twice a day. Yeah,
Speaker 3: all right, I got about ten seconds here, Gary.
Speaker 1: Okay, that's all right, that's good enough. I appreciate it.
Speaker 3: Skip all right, Well, good luck with that. Give me
Speaker 3: a call back sometime. We'll glad to continue this or
Speaker 3: another conversation. All right, Uh, let's see here Chris in spring.
Speaker 3: You'll be our first when we come back from this break.
Speaker 3: Thank you all for listening to the Guarden Line. We
Speaker 3: love to visit with you about planet that's not happy
Speaker 3: place sitting and talking to gardeners about plants. I'll be
Speaker 3: right back, all right, welcome back. Good have you with
Speaker 3: us here on Garden Line. Listen. I keep telling you
Speaker 3: that you need to go to Moss Nursery and see this.
Speaker 3: I know everybody down there knows it. It must have
Speaker 3: been around for a good night seventy years. So everybody
Speaker 3: in the Seabrook area certainly knows it in that whole region.
Speaker 3: But for the rest of you, it is worth a
Speaker 3: trip down. You go down to Chema the boardwalk, get
Speaker 3: your buy to eat, and run over to Moss Nursery
Speaker 3: and Seabrook and enjoy yourself. Eight acres crammed with gorgeous plants.
Speaker 3: There are flowering things everywhere. I've been talking about bluemin trees.
Speaker 3: I'm talking about shrubs and about flowers. Hanging baskets, Oh
Speaker 3: my gosh, Jim has nice selection of hanging baskets there
Speaker 3: at Moss. You know, every time I go, I just wander,
Speaker 3: which is how you need to shop at Moss. Just
Speaker 3: wander around, look at everything, and every time you turn
Speaker 3: a corner, you're going to see something that's like what
Speaker 3: is that? And it typically is some kind of piece
Speaker 3: of artwork that's very unusual. But there are if you know,
Speaker 3: it doesn't matter what kind of plant or interesting, Jim
Speaker 3: is going to have really cool ones. Now. For example,
Speaker 3: the birds and us were fern look like a fern.
Speaker 3: It looks different, but it's with big, old, wide, strappy leaves.
Speaker 3: He's got plenty of those. He has a new there's
Speaker 3: a new kind of porch of laca that I've never seen.
Speaker 3: This porch of laka molo kenniensis, I believe, is how
Speaker 3: they say that heat and drought tolerant, very unusual looking plant.
Speaker 3: You go into his greenhouses and who knows what you're
Speaker 3: gonna find in there. Lots of things for the sun,
Speaker 3: you know, things when it gets hot and it's humid
Speaker 3: and it's blazing and you're like dying outside during the
Speaker 3: middle of the day. Must have got the plants you
Speaker 3: need to have out there in the garden. A mendavilla
Speaker 3: is beautiful plant. There's one called sun parasol blueforia. That
Speaker 3: if you've seen men of bell as before, you know
Speaker 3: you're typically looking at some pinks and colors like that. Well,
Speaker 3: men to be a sun blue blue foria. It's I
Speaker 3: say that is a beautiful vine with just kind of
Speaker 3: a purplish lavender bloom that is just gorgeous and all
Speaker 3: kinds of tropical kinds of things. You know, if you
Speaker 3: like for indoors or something like and in theoryum, those
Speaker 3: are gorgeous plants with the colorful little bloom and leaf
Speaker 3: structures on them. It doesn't matter what you're looking for.
Speaker 3: Moss has it. But listen, you gotta go down, you
Speaker 3: gotta walk around, you gotta see this place. It is
Speaker 3: really really nice. And that includes containers. You're gonna find
Speaker 3: a lot of containers there you don't see anywhere else.
Speaker 3: But that's typical moss. They carry things as well as
Speaker 3: the common things. They carry things that you don't see
Speaker 3: just anywhere else. All you gotta do is go to
Speaker 3: Toddville Road and Seabrook that's where they're located. Or go
Speaker 3: to the website Moss Nursery dot com m aas by
Speaker 3: the way, that's how we spell it. Let's go out
Speaker 3: to spring. Now, let's Visabeth Chris. Hey Chris, welcome to
Speaker 3: guard Line. Hey skop, good morning.
Speaker 11: I was calling about excuse me, gray leafs, gray leaf spot.
Speaker 11: I've had it, treated it the last four years and
Speaker 11: it comes back almost every late March early April.
Speaker 1: I treat it with dak.
Speaker 11: Nel four ounces to one gallon of water.
Speaker 1: I put some.
Speaker 11: Turbo spreader so it sticks to the blades. So I
Speaker 11: got it again. I treated it a month ago. It's
Speaker 11: back now it's spread into my neighbors adjoining yard in
Speaker 11: my backyard.
Speaker 1: What am I doing wrong? And is this ever going
Speaker 1: to stop?
Speaker 3: Am I treating it right? Yeah? Well that's a good product.
Speaker 3: Dknil is a good product for it. So is Eagle.
Speaker 3: It is an Eagles a nitopas product that contains micaelobutan
Speaker 3: nill and it's a systemic. It moves in and it
Speaker 3: does a good job on a number of different turf
Speaker 3: type diseases. So you might want to consider that one.
Speaker 3: Great leaf spot is very environmentally related. So when we
Speaker 3: go from the cooler spring and it warms up a
Speaker 3: little bit going into summer and then you get a
Speaker 3: lot of leaf wetness. It could be rain it could
Speaker 3: be irrigation, but just keeping those grass blades a little
Speaker 3: on the wet side and also in shade. It's even worse.
Speaker 3: Gray leaf spot takes off and does its thing. It's
Speaker 3: primarily early late fall or excuse me, late spring to
Speaker 3: about midsummer. A problem that we have here. So you
Speaker 3: can treat it chemically, but the more you back off
Speaker 3: on frequency of watering and the backing off a little
Speaker 3: bit on nitrogen. Sometimes if you push it with too
Speaker 3: much nitrogen, you make it prone to certain problems like
Speaker 3: gray leaf spot. So those would be my tips for it,
Speaker 3: other than that, you know, using the fungicides, but trying
Speaker 3: to get in ahead of it. You know, but when
Speaker 3: it's going to occur, and if you forget when it's
Speaker 3: gonna occur, you can go to my schedule on at
Speaker 3: gardening with skip dot com my lawn pest disease, and
Speaker 3: we'd manage the schedule. I got a little bar in
Speaker 3: there across the chart that shows when to look for
Speaker 3: gray leaf spot and try to get ahead of rather
Speaker 3: than reacting to it.
Speaker 1: Okay, what should I do after I treat it?
Speaker 11: Should I do some dinus soil exervators should do more
Speaker 11: composts because I've already erated composts. You know, like your
Speaker 11: schedule said, is there anything to do after post treatment?
Speaker 3: Well, yeah, any kind of things like that are good
Speaker 3: for the lawn, But as far as if you've treated
Speaker 3: for the grey leaf spot, those other things aren't going
Speaker 3: to make the grey leaf spot go away. And they're
Speaker 3: just good for lawn grass, lawn grass growth and health
Speaker 3: and strength and all that kind of thing. They're not
Speaker 3: a they don't go after grey leaf spot. And how
Speaker 3: is it that it's been a year where I've seen
Speaker 3: a lot of pictures uh spores, uh spores from those spots.
Speaker 3: There's little tiny black dots in the spots that are
Speaker 3: you can't hardly see them with a naked eye. They
Speaker 3: release spores that float around the yard and then they
Speaker 3: land on a grass blade and they don't infect until
Speaker 3: that grass blade stays wet for a certain period of time,
Speaker 3: and then the spore, just like a wheat seed, sprouts
Speaker 3: and it infects the leaf. And that's how you get
Speaker 3: more of it.
Speaker 11: Okay, because this in my backyard too. My backyard's pretty
Speaker 11: big and it's it's pretty hard to treat with the
Speaker 11: pump spray it'd be be back there for several hours.
Speaker 11: I don't know, this is going to leave the backyard
Speaker 11: alone and see what happens.
Speaker 3: Well, the the eagle is a granule, and so you
Speaker 3: could put it out with your fertilizer spreader. That would
Speaker 3: be another option.
Speaker 1: Okay, it's a spreader.
Speaker 3: Okay, good deal. Nitrofoss Eagle, Yeah, nitropos egle.
Speaker 1: All right, thank you sir.
Speaker 3: All right, you bet, you bet appreciate the call. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Nit Frous Eagle is one of the many products from
Speaker 3: Nitrofoss that works really well on problems like that gray
Speaker 3: leaf spot. The Michaelo butte to nil is a systemic
Speaker 3: fungicide moves into the plant tissues and it lasts a while.
Speaker 3: So Dacani is a great product for leaf spots. You
Speaker 3: get it on the leaf and it stops the spots there.
Speaker 3: But the michael buttee goes into the plant tissue and
Speaker 3: it's going to be around for longer. You know. I
Speaker 3: ain't could wash the daconel off, but that microbutiny, being
Speaker 3: locally systemic, is going to give you a little bit
Speaker 3: better length of time. By the way, you can find
Speaker 3: it places like M and D and Rosenberg on Avenue I.
Speaker 3: If you go to Court Hardware in Stafford, they carry
Speaker 3: products from Nitravas. That's on South Maine and then up
Speaker 3: in Cyprus. The M and D and Cypress on Loveetta
Speaker 3: Road carries Nitavas products as well. All right here, boy,
Speaker 3: time is flying today. I'm telling you speaking of Nitrovass products.
Speaker 3: The super turf, the nineteen four to ten silver bag
Speaker 3: for summer. It will carry you if you put superturf
Speaker 3: out now, if you haven't fertilized in let's say six
Speaker 3: weeks with a slow release or anything. You've put superturf
Speaker 3: out now and it'll carry all the way up to
Speaker 3: your fall fertilization if you return your clippings and have
Speaker 3: them recycle those nutrients back into the turf. Nitrovas Superturf
Speaker 3: silver bag easy to spot from anywhere. You go to
Speaker 3: Langham Creek Case Hardware on FM five to you go
Speaker 3: up to the Woodlands to Auspa Ace or maybe down
Speaker 3: down in the Kadi area to the Ace on Mason Road.
Speaker 3: A single ranch all carry nit Foss products like that
Speaker 3: super turf, so make sure and have it on hand
Speaker 3: for the next time you're going to want to fertilize
Speaker 3: because it works. I was visiting with the folks up
Speaker 3: at D and D Feed the other asked up by
Speaker 3: there and just checking out what they have in stock,
Speaker 3: and as always it's a lot, boy, they have tons
Speaker 3: of things. You know, of course, all the fertilizers I
Speaker 3: talk about from nitrofoss and Microlife and turf Star from
Speaker 3: Nelson and Medina, and they carry heirloom soils products there,
Speaker 3: the Nelson plant food for the turf typeline and for
Speaker 3: the little jars. They have both of those, and it
Speaker 3: is just a good place to shop. You're going to
Speaker 3: find a lot of things that you need for your
Speaker 3: lawn and for your garden to have success. And some
Speaker 3: really high quality pet foods too, in addition to the
Speaker 3: feeds for livestock other things. D and D Feed's located
Speaker 3: three miles west of two forty nine. It's three miles
Speaker 3: west of two forty nine on Highway twenty nine to
Speaker 3: twenty so, just west of tom Ball. Go by and
Speaker 3: say hated the Dover family, Jeff and the whole crew
Speaker 3: really there at D and D Feed and Supply. Let
Speaker 3: me take a little break and we'll come back with
Speaker 3: our last short segment. Here of this hour. All right,
Speaker 3: thanks for hopping hopping here on Guardenline. Good to have
Speaker 3: you back with us. You'd like to give me a
Speaker 3: call seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy
Speaker 3: four seven one three two one two fifty eight to
Speaker 3: seventy four. Earlier today, I was visiting with someone and
Speaker 3: they were asking me about managing mosquitoes and uh and
Speaker 3: ants and other things like that. Well, well, Pest Brothers
Speaker 3: is our go to pest control company in the Greater
Speaker 3: Houston area. And when I say Greater Houston, I'm talking
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Speaker 3: from over in Katie, all the way across the Baytown.
Speaker 3: They cover those areas and they deal with whatever pest
Speaker 3: you have indoor pass cockroaches in the house, oh my gosh, uh,
Speaker 3: fire ants outside, oh my goodness. And termites. Boy, you
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Speaker 3: two eight one two o six forty six seventy. I
Speaker 3: don't know. Lots of people have been asking me about
Speaker 3: their bucket system for mosquitoes because I talk about it.
Speaker 3: I got some calls from college station and other places
Speaker 3: the other day because I heard about it on guarden Line. Well,
Speaker 3: ask them to tell you about their mosquito management system.
Speaker 3: I call it the bucket system, but it is really
Speaker 3: cool stuff. If you don't like mosquitos, you'll of this system,
Speaker 3: that's for sure. We're going to go up now to
Speaker 3: Northwest Houston and talk to Marcie. Hey, Marcy, welcome to garden.
Speaker 6: Line High Skip. Good morning. My question is.
Speaker 8: What is what is a female tree in.
Speaker 6: A male tree?
Speaker 8: Is that true that we are planting more male trees?
Speaker 3: That's why we're.
Speaker 9: Suffering from allergies.
Speaker 8: I was reading something about Okay.
Speaker 3: That is a great question. That is a great question.
Speaker 3: Here's the deal. Uh huh, okay.
Speaker 12: Sounds you because I have allergies right now, and I mean,
Speaker 12: what's going on out there that they said that? Because
Speaker 12: I'll tell you Okay, let me tell.
Speaker 3: Me, let me, let me talk, and I'm going to
Speaker 3: tell you Marcia. So here's the deal with male and female.
Speaker 3: Here's the deal with male and female trees. Most trees,
Speaker 3: Most plants are both male and female, like peach blossom
Speaker 3: has male and female parts. Per simons have separate can
Speaker 3: have separate male and female flowers on the same tree.
Speaker 3: But some plants have separate male and female trees. Papayas
Speaker 3: are an example of a tree that's male or female.
Speaker 3: And when you're talking about allergies, the eastern red cedar,
Speaker 3: the ash juniper in Central Texas, those are separate male
Speaker 3: and female trees. And so there, if you plant the
Speaker 3: female tree, you don't get pollen. But if you plant
Speaker 3: a male tree, you do. And if you look at
Speaker 3: a site at an ash juniper or a cedar, you
Speaker 3: can't look at it and go, oh, that's a male
Speaker 3: or female. It just you end up finding out that
Speaker 3: it is. But in some plants that is separated. But
Speaker 3: in general, we have a lot of allergies. We have
Speaker 3: allergies to grass pollen, we have allergies to like elm
Speaker 3: tree pollen. There's not male and female elm trees there's
Speaker 3: there's not. But with the with the ash juniper in
Speaker 3: the cedar, there are male and female trees, and it
Speaker 3: would be nice if we could distinguish between the two
Speaker 3: to avoid that kind of problem. And that is it
Speaker 3: in a nutshell. Let's let's see here. Let's go to
Speaker 3: Mike and Conroe. Hello, Mike, welcome to garden Line. How
Speaker 3: you doing, Steve, I'm doing good. How are you today?
Speaker 1: I'm great.
Speaker 13: I'm building a house up in Conroe, not too far
Speaker 13: from like the dam. Most of the properties kind of
Speaker 13: a sandy loam on the property line. There's a My
Speaker 13: neighbor has a shop that's relatively close, and I have
Speaker 13: a section that I can see through. So I'm trying
Speaker 13: to find something that will be in evergreen and totally
Speaker 13: block out that view. I have some I don't know
Speaker 13: if there's a little small seeds or some got a
Speaker 13: little evergreen, but if they won't get much over seven
Speaker 13: eight feet tall. I was just wanting to see what
Speaker 13: your recommendation was. I appreciate it.
Speaker 3: Okay, Well, what the first thing is to consider your
Speaker 3: eye line of sight? You know, like, for example, if
Speaker 3: someone is sitting down on a patio and a chair
Speaker 3: You look at the line of sight to what you
Speaker 3: want to block, and then consider how far it is
Speaker 3: from you. The closer you put a bush to where
Speaker 3: you were viewing from, the less tall that bush needs
Speaker 3: to be in order to block the view. As you
Speaker 3: get closer and closer to let's say the shop or
Speaker 3: something you're wanting to block, you need a bigger and
Speaker 3: bigger plant to fully block that view, so that that's
Speaker 3: part of the decision in which plant to plant. Good
Speaker 3: screening plants include things like there is a cherry laurel
Speaker 3: that does very well. It's an evergreen. There's a several
Speaker 3: cultivars of it. One's called brighton tight, and it makes
Speaker 3: a taller screen in time. There are many hollies that
Speaker 3: do a good job of that. In the native plant range,
Speaker 3: we've got things like the southern wax myrtle. It's not
Speaker 3: going to get super tall, but it will achieve some
Speaker 3: height in time, maybe six feet or so in a
Speaker 3: reasonable amount of time. And then there is a yopon
Speaker 3: and any shrub, the more you share it, the denser
Speaker 3: it becomes, and the better of a screen it becomes.
Speaker 3: Yopon is also an evergreen plant that you could put in.
Speaker 3: So those are a few plants that you might want
Speaker 3: to consider. I don't think i'd do the mere lemon
Speaker 3: there for various reasons. Number one, it's cold tender, and
Speaker 3: so if you ended up getting a bad bed freeze,
Speaker 3: then you've lost your screen and you're starting over. So
Speaker 3: I'd rather go with something that's a little better. There's
Speaker 3: also a plant called oh gosh, I just don't mind
Speaker 3: on the name of it. I'm going to think of
Speaker 3: it in a minute here. But Japanese You the Japanese
Speaker 3: u gets quite tall and with a little shearing, makes
Speaker 3: a really nice dense screen. Japanese u. You see these
Speaker 3: around town, just with making a wall of foliage. So
Speaker 3: those are a few options. All right, did I lose
Speaker 3: I guess I lost them there. Okay, Well, let's see
Speaker 3: I was talking about yesterday about Airloom soils and all
Speaker 3: the different products they offer and the leaf mall compost.
Speaker 3: They will bring leaf moll compost to your house in
Speaker 3: a cubic yard supersack, drop it on the ground right
Speaker 3: there in the driveway wherever you want it. But when
Speaker 3: you do delivery on the supersacks, I believe they have
Speaker 3: a three sack minimum for delivery, and there is spees
Speaker 3: for delivery. Of course, anytime you're hauling bulky stuff around town,
Speaker 3: there's an extra charge for sure on that. You can
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Speaker 3: That's where the soil yard is located at Warren's Rock
Speaker 3: and multch out there two eight, one, three five four
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Speaker 3: go online to the Heirloom Soils website airloomsoils dot com.
Speaker 3: You'll find there all of the products they offer, many
Speaker 3: many things available by the bag at area garden centers
Speaker 3: and feed stores and ace hardware stores and I mean
Speaker 3: just all kinds of places. Southwest Fertilizer Course has them.
Speaker 3: But either way you want to go about it, you're
Speaker 3: going to find the product you need. Do you want
Speaker 3: to grow veggies and herbs, get their veggie and herb mix.
Speaker 3: It's outstanding. Do you want to fill in an area
Speaker 3: of la lawn you're about to plant, get the lawn
Speaker 3: mix that is outstanding. Whatever you're getting from Heirloom Soils
Speaker 3: is going to be quality made and it's going to
Speaker 3: be something that causes your plants to thrive in I
Speaker 3: always say brown stuff before green stuff. Set the foundation
Speaker 3: before you put in the plants. Heirloom soils awesome place
Speaker 3: to get a very very solid foundation so you can
Speaker 3: have success. Everybody's going to think you have a green
Speaker 3: thumb and all you have is the phone number for
Speaker 3: heirloom soils. That's it. That's how you do it. All right,
Speaker 3: I am almost out of time here. Let's go ahead.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna go to Huntsville here and talk to Charles. Charles,
Speaker 3: I'll see if we can get it done. If not,
Speaker 3: we'll hold you over and finish the after the top
Speaker 3: of the hour.
Speaker 14: I'm up here forty miles north of Huntsville, Alabama, in Tennessee.
Speaker 14: My wife just bought a beautiful little Meyer lemon at
Speaker 14: the nursery. It's in a pot about eighteen inches tall,
Speaker 14: and it's about a foot and a half tall. When
Speaker 14: is the best time to transplant that into a larger container,
Speaker 14: which ultimately maybe its final container because we're gonna have
Speaker 14: to wheel it inside in the winter.
Speaker 3: Okay, okay, you're talking about a redbud.
Speaker 14: Did you say, no, a Meyer?
Speaker 3: What was the plant? Oh? Meyer lemon? I'm sorry, I'm
Speaker 3: looking at another call Meyer lemon. Now do it now, get
Speaker 3: it as much time as you can. They don't want
Speaker 3: to grow in the cool season. They just want to
Speaker 3: try to get by, and so I would do it asap.
Speaker 3: It in the new spot. Put some good quality fertilizer
Speaker 3: around it, watered in real good and keep it moist.
Speaker 3: The most important thing on the containerized citrus like that
Speaker 3: is don't let it dry out too much. I'm gonna
Speaker 3: the music is about to cut me off. If you
Speaker 3: want to hang around, we can continue this. If not,
Speaker 3: I do wish you well. All right, folks, welcome back
Speaker 3: to your guardline. Good to have you with us this morning.
Speaker 3: Got some callers on hold here. We're about to get
Speaker 3: to I wanted to make a statement about some liquid
Speaker 3: products from Microlife. I use the Biomatrix. That is a
Speaker 3: orange label liquid. It comes in quartz, comes in gallons.
Speaker 3: I use it for a lot of things. It is
Speaker 3: it's got primarily nitrogen in it, not much phosphorus, which
Speaker 3: is okay for a lot of uses, and a moderate
Speaker 3: amount of potassium. I use it for houseplants, anything, foliage,
Speaker 3: indoors especially. It's very good for that. Now you can
Speaker 3: go outdoors and you can provide the same boost to
Speaker 3: whatever kind of plants that you're trying to get a
Speaker 3: little bigger. And a lot of times, let me just
Speaker 3: say something, a lot of times you'll see fertilizers for
Speaker 3: blooming plants that had a lot of phosphorus in them,
Speaker 3: and that's because phosphorus is very important for blooming. But
Speaker 3: it's also important for blooming to have vigor in the plants.
Speaker 3: If let's say you planted some trailing petunias this spring
Speaker 3: and they're kind of dwindling a little bit, and you
Speaker 3: know at some point here they're not going to bloom
Speaker 3: as well. You when it starts to go downhill a
Speaker 3: little bit, don't wait until it's not blooming at all,
Speaker 3: cut it back, share it back, and then get you
Speaker 3: a nitrogen type product to apply, like the biomatrix the
Speaker 3: orange label, and apply to that plant to boost fresh
Speaker 3: new foliage growth new leaves, and the leaves capture sunlight
Speaker 3: and the sunlight in the plant is utilized to make
Speaker 3: growth and to make blooms to make carbohydrates. So nitrogen
Speaker 3: is important for blooming. Not overdoing nitrogen, but don't forget
Speaker 3: that is also important. So that biometrix is just a
Speaker 3: good product to use on a lot of different things,
Speaker 3: a lot of situations. It's available from the folks at Microlife.
Speaker 3: We're going to go back out to Huntsville, Alabama and
Speaker 3: continue our conversation with Charles. Hey, Charles, welcome to guard lineback.
Speaker 3: Good to have you back.
Speaker 14: Said, to get that Meyer lemon into the large container
Speaker 14: that's going to be its home the rest of its life,
Speaker 14: which is on wheels, and we can pull it into
Speaker 14: the garage. But what should I what fertilizer should I
Speaker 14: use on that after we transplant it into the larger one.
Speaker 3: You know, at this point I would probably use and
Speaker 3: there are some good fruit tree fertilizers. You know you're
Speaker 3: out there in Huntsville. I don't know what kind of
Speaker 3: brands and stuff you have access to out there, but
Speaker 3: fertilizers for fruit trees will be fine. You don't, okay.
Speaker 3: I would just get a good lawn fertilizer with a
Speaker 3: three one two ratio of nutrients. So an example would
Speaker 3: be fifteen five ten are twenty one seven fourteen or
Speaker 3: do you see what I'm saying. The I'm just giving
Speaker 3: you that's the ratio. It doesn't those numbers aren't what's important.
Speaker 3: It's the ratio. The bigger the numbers, the less you use.
Speaker 3: But follow the label on it. And I've used lawn
Speaker 3: fertilizers on my fruit trees for a number of years
Speaker 3: and they do just fine with that.
Speaker 14: Okay, you helped me out.
Speaker 1: Thank you so much.
Speaker 3: All right, take care out there. Good good to have
Speaker 3: you on Gardenline. Thanks for calling in. Appreciate that Nelson
Speaker 3: Water Garden and Nursery is out there in Katie. And
Speaker 3: if you have not been to Nelson, you need to go.
Speaker 3: This is our West Houston destination garden center. It really
Speaker 3: is Nelson Water Gardens. You head out ten and when
Speaker 3: you get to Katie, you just turn north on Katie
Speaker 3: Fort Ben Road. When you get up to Nelson's it's
Speaker 3: on the right hand side's not very far up the street.
Speaker 3: You're going to find some interesting things. Number one, you're
Speaker 3: going to find the water gardens. They're nationally known for
Speaker 3: their water gardens. You've seen those big, beautiful ceramic containers
Speaker 3: that have water spilling over the sides and then it
Speaker 3: recirculates back through the container. It's called a disappearing fountain.
Speaker 3: They invented that and they've got tons of containers. I
Speaker 3: just go see. I can't even just adequately describe to
Speaker 3: you the beauty and the variety of all those beautiful
Speaker 3: water containers because they do waterfalls and stuff as well.
Speaker 3: But it's water gardens and nursery. Nelson Water Gardens and Nursery.
Speaker 3: The nursery is also outstanding beautiful plants. When you walk in.
Speaker 3: I always go through the shop the store to get
Speaker 3: that back to the plants and back because I love
Speaker 3: looking at the houseplants that are in the store. They're beautiful.
Speaker 3: If you need a quick gift for somebody, go in
Speaker 3: there and grab on those houseplants. It looks good from
Speaker 3: the time you bought it, it just looks good. And
Speaker 3: then when you get to the back, so many different
Speaker 3: options from cacti to succulents, to beautiful vines, to herbs
Speaker 3: and vegetables and tropical hibiscus and everything else. Nelson Water
Speaker 3: Garden and Nursery. They are on Katy Fort Ben Road
Speaker 3: again just north of the KD Freeway. Enterstate ten. Nelson
Speaker 3: Watergardens dot Com. Nelson Watergardens dot Com. We're gonna head
Speaker 3: out now to Bay City and talk to Terry this morning. Hello, Terry,
Speaker 3: Welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 15: Hi Skip, Okay, I have two questions for you. First,
Speaker 15: First of all, my Peggy Martin roses they bloomed. They
Speaker 15: were gorgeous. Now it's a miss. It's like, oh my gosh,
Speaker 15: they're sending out new growth. However, underneath I see all
Speaker 15: this like where the where the roses had bloomed there,
Speaker 15: like if you could dead head them, which you can't,
Speaker 15: you would need to. But all these blooms now they
Speaker 15: turned brown and it seems like it had some mass
Speaker 15: of vines that h I wish I could cut them out,
Speaker 15: but they they're old, and they grew and they made
Speaker 15: a hedge, a higher hedge about three feet tall. And
Speaker 15: the problem is they're on a structure that I made.
Speaker 15: It's a lattice work structure and I had it zip
Speaker 15: tied to t posts and I guess during the winter
Speaker 15: the zip tize they dry rotted, the froze or something,
Speaker 15: and now my lattice work is coming down. It's like
Speaker 15: I need to redo my structure. But to do that,
Speaker 15: I would have to like pretty much cut my Peggy
Speaker 15: Martin's way low. So I could just redo my structure,
Speaker 15: but I don't want to kill my Peggy Martins. So
Speaker 15: what's your suggestion?
Speaker 3: All right, So what you want to do? Roses bloom
Speaker 3: on new growth, so you can cut of rose back
Speaker 3: as much as you want and it'll come back. Now
Speaker 3: I would unhook that lattice if that's kind of what's
Speaker 3: already happening with the zip tize. Get your new structure
Speaker 3: put on there, and then take the rose and begin
Speaker 3: to tie it back to the new structure, and you
Speaker 3: can prune back as much as you want. It will regrow.
Speaker 3: And so as it begins to regrow, if you can
Speaker 3: orient the vines more horizontal than vertical, that helps it
Speaker 3: fill in faster and you'll have a really good bloom
Speaker 3: on it. That's also true with your winter pruning on
Speaker 3: your Peggy Martin. But you can just guide it as
Speaker 3: you want, and it's a very vigorous plant. I had
Speaker 3: a Peggy Martin. Here's an example of what Peggy can take, Terry.
Speaker 3: I had a Peggy Martin that got up about six
Speaker 3: feet tall after I planted it, and my two Golden
Speaker 3: retrievers chewed it off at a foot high. It came back,
Speaker 3: it got up again. It was about eight feet tall.
Speaker 3: They chewed it off at knee high. I put a
Speaker 3: wire cage around it, and it grew and now it's
Speaker 3: filling the trellis and just beautiful. Peggy Martin is tough.
Speaker 3: Don't be afraid to cut on it, even if it's
Speaker 3: a dog chewing it off for you. It's gonna survive
Speaker 3: it and it'll come back. Okay. So get that structure
Speaker 3: built strong. Yeah, yeah, get it Bill strong for long
Speaker 3: term holding that Peggy Martin because she's a vigorous one.
Speaker 15: Yeah, well too. There's no one winding anything, you know,
Speaker 15: there's no one winding on that. It's gonna have to
Speaker 15: be cut down. I just wanted to hello because I
Speaker 15: can't unwind it from the structure, So that answers that question.
Speaker 15: Now I have a question.
Speaker 3: About Hey, hey, well, Terry, hang on, I got to
Speaker 3: go to a break right quick. Just hang on. We'll
Speaker 3: take your next question right when we come back. Thanks
Speaker 3: a lot. We'll put you on hold for a second here,
Speaker 3: all right, Well, I got to catch you off guard
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Speaker 15: Okay, it's about redbud trees I bought. I'm obsessed with them.
Speaker 15: I have one that's huge and it's under pine trees
Speaker 15: and it's gorgeous. So I had the opportunity to buy
Speaker 15: four more and they're on they're in pots and I
Speaker 15: haven't decided we're on a plant them. And I want
Speaker 15: to know. I always thought they were kind of meant
Speaker 15: to be like an undergrowth tree, like a dogwood or something,
Speaker 15: and that's where my big one is. But could I
Speaker 15: have these new ones in full sun or it's an
Speaker 15: aren't a good idea?
Speaker 3: The Eastern red bud, the standard red bud you see
Speaker 3: around here, is not as happy in full sun as
Speaker 3: it is and as an understory tree. There is a
Speaker 3: red bud called Texas red bud. Now, the difference is
Speaker 3: the Eastern the leaf is not shiny. It is a
Speaker 3: little thinner compared to the Texas, which has a shiny,
Speaker 3: leathery Yeah, okay, so yeah, the Texas could go in
Speaker 3: the sun, just fine. The Eastern you're gonna you can
Speaker 3: put it in sun, but you just need to keep
Speaker 3: it adequately watered. And you know it, it would be
Speaker 3: happier if it was a little more shade. But i'd
Speaker 3: give it. You got the plants already, I'd give it
Speaker 3: a try.
Speaker 15: Okay, Well, thank you so much. I'm going to do that,
Speaker 15: all right, Yeah, thank you.
Speaker 3: I appreciate the call, Terary. You take care. So yeah,
Speaker 3: let's uh, let's talk about a red budge just for
Speaker 3: a moment. They're actually the three types of red buds
Speaker 3: that you can find in our area. There is the
Speaker 3: standard type, which is the Eastern red bud. Eastern redbud
Speaker 3: that the leaves are very heart shaped, they are thinner,
Speaker 3: and they are not shiny in their appearance. Okay, the
Speaker 3: Texas red bud is native out in this direction out west.
Speaker 3: It has a leathery leaf, thicker meaning it's what I
Speaker 3: mean by that, and it's shinier and instead of being
Speaker 3: a long pointed tip on the heart shaped leaf, it's
Speaker 3: more rounded. It's got a little tip on it, but
Speaker 3: not as much Texas red bud much more sun tolerant,
Speaker 3: very tough, very tough plant. It's hard to find them,
Speaker 3: and they red buds are promiscuous. They cross, and so
Speaker 3: if you have a Texas red bud and you save
Speaker 3: seed off of it, and there's probably Eastern red buds
Speaker 3: all around the neighborhood somewhere, and they're gonna end up
Speaker 3: being a mix between the two, which is just how
Speaker 3: they are. But Texas redbud if you can find. And
Speaker 3: then there's a Mexican red bud that has smaller leaves
Speaker 3: that are very rounded and they are wavy on the
Speaker 3: edges like kind of like a wavy as you go
Speaker 3: around the edge, kind of like maybe the edges of
Speaker 3: some types of a cray paper or something. Anyway, that's
Speaker 3: another good tolerant heat tolerant ones intolerant one, but it
Speaker 3: forms more of a bushy looking small tree than the
Speaker 3: types that you would think of when you think of
Speaker 3: red buds. Anyway, those three are all available, they all
Speaker 3: have their place in our area, but just something to
Speaker 3: be aware of it, Chris. Redbuds come also in trailing types.
Speaker 3: There's one called Traveler that it's it's like it the
Speaker 3: branches hanging down at like pendant direction. That is kind
Speaker 3: of cool. There's red buds that are white. That's another one.
Speaker 3: There's red buds that have beautiful foliage. Some have burgundy foliage,
Speaker 3: some have kind of an orange and yellow, almost like
Speaker 3: a sunrise coming up kind of foliage. So if you're
Speaker 3: gonna buy a red bud, do a little shopping around,
Speaker 3: find the one that fits what you want, and you
Speaker 3: can find it here locally at our great independent garden centers.
Speaker 3: You're listening to garden Line. Our phone number if you'd
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Speaker 3: eight seven four. League City Feed done in League City.
Speaker 3: It's right there. It's easy to get to you. Just
Speaker 3: if you're coming across Highway ninety six into League City.
Speaker 3: You turn south on Highway three and a few blocks
Speaker 3: south of ninety six on the east side, if you're
Speaker 3: going south, on the left hand, left hand side is
Speaker 3: League City Feed. It's been around since what forty years ago?
Speaker 3: I believe, actually it was over forty years ago that
Speaker 3: the Thunderberg family first built it. The third generation now
Speaker 3: runs it with that same old fashioned good feed store approach,
Speaker 3: and that means we're going to carry your feed sacks
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Speaker 3: you need here. You know, do you want to have
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Speaker 3: Gets the products that you need to control pests, weeds
Speaker 3: and diseases and get you your fertilizers right there at
Speaker 3: League City Feed again a few blocks south of ninety
Speaker 3: six on Highway three. We've covered a lot of ground
Speaker 3: today on different things. I was talking about fruit trees
Speaker 3: and disease issues and things like that. Diseases are more
Speaker 3: prominent in areas where it rains than they are in
Speaker 3: arid areas, and that is a significant factor. There are
Speaker 3: Let's take up a con tree for example. It's kind
Speaker 3: of interesting. Pecans get several different kinds of leaf diseases,
Speaker 3: and the more it rains, the more the disease problems occur.
Speaker 3: There's a disease called scab that causes the leaves to
Speaker 3: get big black areas on them and really messes up production.
Speaker 3: It gets on the shucks as well, and there are
Speaker 3: other diseases on pecans. If you were to look at
Speaker 3: a map of Texas and you took Interstate thirty five
Speaker 3: as the north south dividing line. East of that line,
Speaker 3: we have to plant varieties that are scab resistant in
Speaker 3: order to have success. Unless you want to run a
Speaker 3: sprayer every weekend. The spray or pecan trees, which nobody
Speaker 3: wants to do. West of that line, they can plant
Speaker 3: other varieties that are gray varieties, but they just don't
Speaker 3: have the scab resistance. If you go to the Aggie
Speaker 3: Horticulture website Aggie Horticulture, up, tax and m there is
Speaker 3: a fruit and nuts section on the front page. You
Speaker 3: click on that and you will get a publication on
Speaker 3: every kind of fruit and that you would want to grow.
Speaker 3: I mean, avocados are on there all the way down
Speaker 3: to I don't know what a ze fruit, but they've
Speaker 3: got it's all on there. And when you open the
Speaker 3: pecan publication, what you'll see is that map I'm describing,
Speaker 3: and it'll have a list of the varieties for both
Speaker 3: sides of the line. So if you're gonna plant a pecan,
Speaker 3: you need to plant one that is resistant to scab
Speaker 3: so you have a hope of at least having it
Speaker 3: produced pecans. Now, as far as getting pecans, you're gonna
Speaker 3: have to talk to your neighborhood squirrels about that because
Speaker 3: they have first shot and they are there are vandals,
Speaker 3: they are thieves, and I understand that with dumplings they
Speaker 3: make good food. Other than that pecan fed squirrel. Here's
Speaker 3: pretty good deed. Other than that, you don't end up
Speaker 3: getting a lot of pecans. You get shade underneath the
Speaker 3: pecan tree, though. But if you're gonna chose a variety,
Speaker 3: choose one that's gab resistant. You need two varieties of
Speaker 3: pecans to give you a good crop with cross pollination. Now,
Speaker 3: earlier I was talking about male and female trees. This
Speaker 3: is not a male and female issue with pecans. All
Speaker 3: pecans have both male and female. Right, The nuts are
Speaker 3: the female. The catkins the little pipe cleaner little things
Speaker 3: that drop on the ground after pollination. That's the male park.
Speaker 3: But some pecan trees the catkins come out before the
Speaker 3: nutlets are receptive to pollen, and on others the nutlets
Speaker 3: are receptive to pollen before the catkins come out. All right,
Speaker 3: So when you plant one of each type, both types
Speaker 3: benefit and you get a good crop on both types.
Speaker 3: This publication explains, it's way too much to explain that
Speaker 3: on the air. But before you plant a pecan tree,
Speaker 3: pick a variety it's scab resistant. If there's other pecans
Speaker 3: in the area, don't worry about plant and two trees.
Speaker 3: There's gonna be pollen. It's wind blown pollen. It's gonna
Speaker 3: be everwhere You're gonna be good. No need to worry
Speaker 3: about that, but that is something at least to be
Speaker 3: aware of if you have not done your summer on
Speaker 3: fertilization yet. Nitrofoss Super Turf the silver Bag nineteen four
Speaker 3: ten is the product that will carry you all the
Speaker 3: way at this point in the sea, all the way
Speaker 3: in the fall. Now, if you already did a slow
Speaker 3: release earlier in the late spring or early summer, well
Speaker 3: it's not early summer yet. Sometime in the spring, don't
Speaker 3: do super turf again. Now, Okay, you wait a little
Speaker 3: while and then a few months later do super Dirk.
Speaker 3: But bottom line is it will carry you for four
Speaker 3: months sixteen weeks and so with the return of clippings,
Speaker 3: that basically takes you into the fall fertilization season as
Speaker 3: your next fertilization. It's a nice slow release product works
Speaker 3: very well designed for our types of grass we grow here,
Speaker 3: which is Lleisier Bermuda in Saint Augustine, and for the
Speaker 3: soils and climate that we're in right here. You're going
Speaker 3: to find super Turf at places like m and d
Speaker 3: up in Cyperson and Luetta Katie Ace Hardware on pen Oak.
Speaker 3: If you go up I forty five North Hiden and
Speaker 3: feed that area Hiden and feed on Stubner Airline carries
Speaker 3: night Frost products. Also, it's time for me to take
Speaker 3: a little break here in just a moment. When we
Speaker 3: come back and in North Houston, you will be our
Speaker 3: first up uh and we will also come back to
Speaker 3: your questions. All you got to do is call me
Speaker 3: it seven one three two one two k t R
Speaker 3: H and we'll be happy to help you have a
Speaker 3: more bountiful garden, a more beautiful garden, and definitely more
Speaker 3: fun in the process. That's the most important part of gardening.
Speaker 3: We have fun on guarden line. I mean, why would
Speaker 3: I play yodling music if I wasn't trying to have fun.
Speaker 3: Maybe maybe you run out of the room and hold
Speaker 3: your ears, But I think it's fun. All right, Enough
Speaker 3: of all that, take a little break here, we'll be
Speaker 3: right back within. Oh boy, culinary bum I forget. Oh
Speaker 3: that's a fun. You gotta grow tomatoes down. If you
Speaker 3: got a pulse, get you a big container at least
Speaker 3: five down all put your good tomato in it. Now
Speaker 3: we're here in the summertime, little lake plant tomatoes. But
Speaker 3: anyway you'll enjoy them. Hey, I tell you what you
Speaker 3: could do though. On Saturday, May thirty first, you can
Speaker 3: go to Enchended Forests from two thirty to four thirty
Speaker 3: is their tomato tasting contest. Whether you're a home gardener
Speaker 3: or you know tomato super fan or just love a
Speaker 3: juicy after noon tomato, this event is for you, all right.
Speaker 3: Tomato Tasting Contest and Chendi Forest Saturday May thirty first,
Speaker 3: two thirty to four thirty pm. Now, when you're out
Speaker 3: in an Enchended forest, you're going to find every kind
Speaker 3: of plant you might possibly want. When you when you
Speaker 3: walk up, just look at all the color that's out front.
Speaker 3: Oh my gosh, it's gorgeous. I was out there the
Speaker 3: other day. But they have a lot of pollinator favorites,
Speaker 3: a beautiful selection of nectar rich plants that support those
Speaker 3: pollinators like bees and butterflies. They also attrack hummingbirds, things
Speaker 3: like native milkweed. They have several varieties of that. Akin
Speaker 3: a share a coneflower beautiful. I love that plant. Lentanas
Speaker 3: another good one. And then there's some plants that are
Speaker 3: not so easy to find that provide larval food for
Speaker 3: the butterflies. You know, if you want butterflies, you got
Speaker 3: to feed the babies well. Dutchman's pipeline attracts a type
Speaker 3: of a swallowtail type butterfly, Texas elbow bush and a
Speaker 3: good navy plant there that attracts things in ninety different
Speaker 3: types of salvia. That's my favorite genera of plants at
Speaker 3: almost ninety. Yes, there are ninety different types, and they
Speaker 3: got them there at Enchanted Forest. So don't forget to
Speaker 3: put that on your calendar. Seid he May thirty. First,
Speaker 3: get out there and get some tomato taste and done.
Speaker 3: Watch that contest and you will have a good time.
Speaker 3: They are located on FM twenty seven fifty nine. Here's
Speaker 3: the website. This has everything you want to know. Please
Speaker 3: write this down Enchanted Forest, Richmond TX dot com. Entended
Speaker 3: Forest Richmond, TX dot com. Let's it out to North
Speaker 3: Houston and we are gonna if I can find my mouse,
Speaker 3: we're gonna talk to Ann. Hello, Ann, Welcome to Garden Law.
Speaker 12: Thank you. I have one question for you this morning.
Speaker 12: I'm at the point where I'm ready to put in
Speaker 12: some mulch and a new flower bed, and I was
Speaker 12: wondering if it should be the black mulch or the
Speaker 12: brown hardwood mulch.
Speaker 3: Either one's fine. I don't like dyed mulches, but there
Speaker 3: are some mulches that are normally dark colored. But the
Speaker 3: dyed mulches those artificial eyes natural brown. Yeah, a lot
Speaker 3: of times dyed mulch is too for other people that
Speaker 3: are listening. They grind up palettes and then they turn
Speaker 3: them black or red or whatever color, and that is
Speaker 3: not a good mulch material.
Speaker 12: Yeah, so black is not a good multch to use.
Speaker 3: Dyed mulch is not a good There's some naturally dark mulches,
Speaker 3: so just be and dark isn't the problem. But the
Speaker 3: dyed ones, the ones that truly just look artificially black.
Speaker 12: Okay, all right, thank you very much, have a great day.
Speaker 3: Yeah, thank you, Anne. I appreciate you hanging around and
Speaker 3: get a chance to visit with you. If you are
Speaker 3: doing containers, and I hope you are on your pa
Speaker 3: jungle land and it's an outdoor version and an indoor version.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna talk about the outdoor right now. Jungle land
Speaker 3: flour and vegetable planting soil. You get you a good
Speaker 3: pot that has good drainage holes. You put jungle land
Speaker 3: in it, and you put your plants in it. Add
Speaker 3: a little bit of fertilizer to it, and you are
Speaker 3: on your way to success. Jungle Land is made of
Speaker 3: several sources of decomposed organic matter and the micorize of
Speaker 3: fungi that work with plant roots to help the plant
Speaker 3: be more successful, helps fi disease, It helps with drought, resilience,
Speaker 3: and other things those micorhizal fungi do. I like jungle
Speaker 3: land because it drains, it doesn't get too sop and
Speaker 3: soggy wet, but it also holds adequate amount of moisture
Speaker 3: so you're not under water it every day. Okay, get
Speaker 3: your good sized container, find some jungle land. You can
Speaker 3: go to places all over town carry nitrofoss types of products.
Speaker 3: You know, you go to the Plants for All Seasons
Speaker 3: high Way two forty nine. You'll find many night foss
Speaker 3: products there. D ANDD feed and Tomball carries night foss products.
Speaker 3: Fisher's Hardware down in Pasadena on Sophomore another place where
Speaker 3: you'll find nino FoST products. Let's end up to the
Speaker 3: woodlands now and we're gonna be with visit a little
Speaker 3: bit with Edward this morning. Hey, Edward, are you there?
Speaker 9: Yes, I'm here? HOI? How are you today?
Speaker 16: All right?
Speaker 3: How can we help?
Speaker 9: I've been told and Emperor's tree is super beautiful. I've
Speaker 9: seen a few pictures. Do they grow well in the
Speaker 9: Houston area? And where can I get one? We ordered
Speaker 9: one online but ran it over with the lawnmower, and
Speaker 9: that was when I was leaving in Caan Antonio. But
Speaker 9: I'm backed now and was wondering. You know, I think
Speaker 9: about interest trees.
Speaker 3: I wouldn't admit that I ran over it with a lawnmower, Edward.
Speaker 3: I would just say I pruned it a little too low.
Speaker 3: Maybe that would be the way to put it. No, Yeah, seriously,
Speaker 3: they grow fast, but fast fast growing trees typically are
Speaker 3: not strong in their wood structure, and sometimes they're not
Speaker 3: long lived. And impest tree is not a very strong
Speaker 3: wood structure. I believe I need to check on the
Speaker 3: cold you're in the woodlands. I need to check on
Speaker 3: the cold heartiness on that to be sure. I think
Speaker 3: it's probably okay. But the I generally don't recommend them,
Speaker 3: and they're hard to find because they're not a recommended
Speaker 3: tree for the air. Did they produce? They are? They
Speaker 3: are absolutely super beautiful. I mean, you know, if you
Speaker 3: wanted to use it as a short term thing for
Speaker 3: an area to but get it away from the house
Speaker 3: and everything like that can look, we can see it.
Speaker 3: But in general, we just don't recommend them. And there
Speaker 3: are a lot of good fast there's a lot of
Speaker 3: fast growing trees that we don't recommend. I like that.
Speaker 9: Okay, Well, I'm out trying to make ANX living door
Speaker 9: dashing today, so make sure you take your door dasher.
Speaker 9: Have a great day.
Speaker 3: Oh, we always do. We always do. We appreciate that.
Speaker 3: And uh and as far as uh, as far as
Speaker 3: the rest of your gardening activities, you just remember pruning
Speaker 3: shears and lappers are different than lawnmower blades, so uh,
Speaker 3: don't use your pu in your trees anymore. Edward By,
Speaker 3: that's a good one. I like that. That's fun. Yeah,
Speaker 3: it happens. So today, what if we talked about we
Speaker 3: talked about pruning your tree with the lawn, but we
Speaker 3: also talked about me and my dogs, my my Golden
Speaker 3: Retrievers that pruned Peggy Martin down to the almost the
Speaker 3: ground twice she out outlasted them thanks to a little
Speaker 3: help for me with some hardware cloth wrapped around the trunk.
Speaker 3: If you've got metal items outdoors, you can paint them,
Speaker 3: but that's not the best way to go and it
Speaker 3: doesn't last. Houston powder coats. Powder coating is a magical process.
Speaker 3: They put them in this big room and there's there
Speaker 3: there is a uh, the release of almost a dust
Speaker 3: like substance into the air that just sticks to the
Speaker 3: metal and it gives a beautiful coating on this metal.
Speaker 3: And Houston powder coders can do over one hundred colors. Okay.
Speaker 3: So I was in their shop one day looking at
Speaker 3: some of the work that was out there, and I
Speaker 3: saw something over the corner and it was kind of rusty,
Speaker 3: and I go, you're all about to get to that one,
Speaker 3: because they can take rusty metal and clean it up
Speaker 3: and get it ready for powder coating. They said, no,
Speaker 3: that's finished, and I walked over to it and someone
Speaker 3: had picked a really rust looking color for the color
Speaker 3: of that metal because they wanted it to look rusty.
Speaker 3: But now it's hanging on the side of a house
Speaker 3: and it's not running rust stains down the bricks of
Speaker 3: the house because it's powder coated. That's what I'm talking about.
Speaker 3: Outdoor furniture, aluminum, patio furniture, wrought iron, cast iron, whatever
Speaker 3: you got. Here's what you do. You take a picture
Speaker 3: and you send that picture to sales at Houstoncoders dot com.
Speaker 3: They'll give you a quock quote on it and they
Speaker 3: will pick it up. They'll do the job, they'll deliver it.
Speaker 3: If you're in the greater Houston area, send that picture
Speaker 3: to get your quote on it. You can call them
Speaker 3: up two eight one six seven six thirty eight eighty
Speaker 3: eight two eight one six seven six thirty eight eighty eight,
Speaker 3: or just go to the website Houston Powdercoders dot com.
Speaker 3: Check them out on social media too. There on on
Speaker 3: like Facebook, for example, you can see beautiful examples of
Speaker 3: the kind of works that they do. If it's metal,
Speaker 3: if it's outside. Houston powder Coders is the place you
Speaker 3: need to know about. Gon'll take a quick break and
Speaker 3: we'll be back with your calls. If you'd like to
Speaker 3: be one of the first s up, now'd be a
Speaker 3: good time to call seven one three two one two
Speaker 3: kt r H seven one three two one two five
Speaker 3: eight seven four Give Alejandro call. He'll get you on
Speaker 3: the board and we'll be talking to you in just
Speaker 3: a bit. All right, welcome back. Good to be back
Speaker 3: with you here on Guardenline. By the way, I was
Speaker 3: talking about that Enchanted for Us Tomato tasting contest that
Speaker 3: is Saturday, May thirty. First. I know that's a little
Speaker 3: bit ahead, but you know you got to get your
Speaker 3: schedule down two thirty to four thirty pm. I have
Speaker 3: had some questions about it, and I just want to
Speaker 3: tell you here's here's what's going on. That you can
Speaker 3: bring a tomato to enter there in the contest. Okay, Uh,
Speaker 3: there are you know, there's limits to two entries per
Speaker 3: category and there's several categories.
Speaker 6: Uh.
Speaker 3: You got to get them there by two thirty to
Speaker 3: check in and display, and they'll start judging at three o'clock.
Speaker 3: Uh they will. They're going to have categories for the
Speaker 3: best the best tasting tomato by the judges, and then
Speaker 3: the People's choice, the crowd favorite tomato. Uh, the biggest
Speaker 3: tomato by weight. And are you ready for this? All
Speaker 3: you seamstresses need to hear this. The best tomato themed
Speaker 3: costumed creativity encouraged. So whatever that means. You figured out
Speaker 3: have fun. That is going to be going on. They're
Speaker 3: going to be judging on taste and appearance and you know, sweetless, acidity, complexity,
Speaker 3: all that. This is like, this is for the tomato
Speaker 3: nuts out there. In fact, even if you're not a
Speaker 3: tomato nut, this gonna be a lot of fun. Go
Speaker 3: out there and take the kids with you. All Right,
Speaker 3: We're going to run to Dayton, Texas right now and
Speaker 3: talk to Marshall. Hey Marshall, welcome to guard Line.
Speaker 1: Hey, Skip, how you doing today?
Speaker 3: I'm doing well, thank you.
Speaker 1: Hey. Yes, I'm question about a plum tree.
Speaker 4: It's it's doing real good, but it's got a little
Speaker 4: bit of sap coming out of the trunk near the bottom,
Speaker 4: and I want to know what's causing that and what
Speaker 4: I need to do to fix that.
Speaker 3: Okay, So it could be a borer in the base
Speaker 3: of the trunk there, or is actually it's called a
Speaker 3: peach tree board, but it attacks plums because they're closely related.
Speaker 3: That drills into the base of the trunk and then
Speaker 3: the tree itself bleed sap because it's a wound that's created.
Speaker 3: What I would do is take my knife and just
Speaker 3: scrape the bark back right there. First of all, look
Speaker 3: for any sawdust in the sap that you might see
Speaker 3: and scrape the bark back, and if there's a hole,
Speaker 3: a tunnel or the bug went in, then that's the bore.
Speaker 3: If there's not, it's just let's say you see some
Speaker 3: disccolored bark instead of being a kind of a creamy
Speaker 3: light green color, it's brown streaked or darker. Then that
Speaker 3: is a kinker, which can occur on plumb trees. There's
Speaker 3: a number of cankers. There's no spray for the cankers
Speaker 3: at all. For the plumb borer or for the peach
Speaker 3: tree borer, you can put some sprays on them, but
Speaker 3: that's a whole nother thing. I would suggest probably you're
Speaker 3: not dealing with the borer right now, but if you
Speaker 3: check and find the whole, you can email me and
Speaker 3: I can send you information on what to do about it.
Speaker 3: If you do indeed find the bore, it's going to
Speaker 3: be a longer term process. Then just you squirt something
Speaker 3: on it and the boar dies because it's hidden inside
Speaker 3: the tree. If it's a bore, but I'm going to
Speaker 3: put you on hold a marshall and let Alejandro give
Speaker 3: you an email address if you run into that problem.
Speaker 3: But I do like folks when they send emails with pictures.
Speaker 3: Go ahead and give me a call on the show
Speaker 3: to follow up and we can enter it there. I
Speaker 3: think it's probably a kinker, and I don't think there's
Speaker 3: a solution other than some fertilizer some water to get
Speaker 3: your tree as strong and healthy as you can where
Speaker 3: it can wall off and fight off that problem.
Speaker 4: Okay, I sure appreciate it.
Speaker 3: All right, I'll put you on hope for a second.
Speaker 3: If you want to get that email, that is important. Hey,
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Speaker 3: tell you things they carry. You know you're going to
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Speaker 3: That's what you need to know. We're going to head
Speaker 3: now to Freeport and talk to Margaret. Hello, Margaret, Hello,
Speaker 3: how are you? Huh? I'm good. How can we help today?
Speaker 17: I wanted to know what the best thing to do
Speaker 17: for scale on a sega palm.
Speaker 3: Oh boy. Uh So that's a problem. That are your
Speaker 3: sago palms turning white, especially underneath the fronds.
Speaker 17: Well, it's all on top of it, it's all over.
Speaker 3: Okay, Well, horticultural oil is probably your best bet at
Speaker 3: this point. So what you're gonna do is get a
Speaker 3: horticultural oil product, mix it up, and then early in
Speaker 3: the morning for the sun really heats up a lot,
Speaker 3: or very very late in the day after the sun
Speaker 3: is going down spray those surfaces, and oil is not
Speaker 3: a poison. Oil smothers scale, So you you need to
Speaker 3: have good coverage. If there's a little patch of scale
Speaker 3: that your oil spray doesn't hit, it will not be killed.
Speaker 3: So that thorough coverage is important. And on a sago
Speaker 3: that can be a little bit of a challenge trying
Speaker 3: to get that oil to it, but that's what you
Speaker 3: need to do. That will smother h and it does.
Speaker 3: It does a pretty good job of shutting down the
Speaker 3: issues with scale. And boy, does does scale ever have
Speaker 3: have a difficult or is it ever difficult to control
Speaker 3: the sago scale?
Speaker 17: Do you cut the proms off before you I mean,
Speaker 17: treat it and then cut them off or what because
Speaker 17: they're dying?
Speaker 3: Well, once they're once you're losing them. Yeah, once you're
Speaker 3: losing them, they might as well come off as long
Speaker 3: as they're still green. I would leave them because those
Speaker 3: leaves are making sunlight and so you get a little
Speaker 3: bit of a benefit from that if you if you're
Speaker 3: gonna spray, remove the leaves, you're gonna remove first so
Speaker 3: you can get in there with that horticultural oil. And
Speaker 3: there's a lot of brands of it out there, but
Speaker 3: not Yeah, it's not Dorman oil, it's horticultural oil. I mean,
Speaker 3: I could name a brand or two. But wherever you
Speaker 3: go shop there, if it's a good independent garden center,
Speaker 3: well you know there's brands like Ultrafine and Organocide and
Speaker 3: sun Spray, but there are many others. Don't don't worry
Speaker 3: about writing down the brand. Go to a place and
Speaker 3: that's what they're talking about, like an independent garden center,
Speaker 3: and tell them you need a horticleture oil. You're gonna
Speaker 3: need to spray the entire plant once a week for
Speaker 3: one month because you never get it all the first time.
Speaker 12: It won't hurt new growth, right.
Speaker 3: Say it again, it won't hurt new but no, it doesn't.
Speaker 3: But yeah, but that new growth probably doesn't have scale
Speaker 3: on it yet, and so you can spray it. But
Speaker 3: I like to spray in the morning when it's cool. Sometimes,
Speaker 3: when you got an oil spray and you put it
Speaker 3: on a plant and the sun is baking down and
Speaker 3: it's one hundred degrees, you're going to get some burn
Speaker 3: from the oil. But in general I like to go
Speaker 3: up early in the morning and do that, and you
Speaker 3: know it's gonna take a while. The scale doesn't scream
Speaker 3: and jump off. I mean, it's gonna sit there and
Speaker 3: it'll die and it'll still be on there for a while.
Speaker 3: But four times once a week apart should get that
Speaker 3: under control for you. Okay, great, okay, Now do you
Speaker 3: have more than do you have more than one oil spray?
Speaker 17: What do you mean more than one old spray?
Speaker 1: We hadn't got anything.
Speaker 3: Yet, I'm sorry, more than one? More than one sago palm?
Speaker 17: My b right, No, I think we just we just
Speaker 17: have the one.
Speaker 3: It Uh No, it's specific to those. But there is
Speaker 3: a product that is systemic that goes you drench it
Speaker 3: on the roots, you don't spray it on the scale,
Speaker 3: and it goes up in the plant and kills the
Speaker 3: scale that are sucking juices out of the plant.
Speaker 6: Uh.
Speaker 3: And it's called a safari s a f A R
Speaker 3: I like an African safari. Uh. And if you can
Speaker 3: find that, it's not cheap, but it's it's been pretty good.
Speaker 3: And by putting that poison in the plumbing of the plant,
Speaker 3: only the things sucking juices out of the plant are killed.
Speaker 3: And it's not like a flowering plant where you're gonna
Speaker 3: have pollinators there and you're worried about that. So for
Speaker 3: a sego that would be another option.
Speaker 8: Okay, so that would that would kill the scale?
Speaker 17: What's out spray at the whole place?
Speaker 3: Yes, okay, you bet it would. I'm sorry I got
Speaker 3: to run, but good luck with that. I appreciate that
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Speaker 3: You gotta go there. You gotta look at what they
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Speaker 3: like to do. I'm gonna come back a little bit.
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Speaker 3: little break. I need to get a fresh cup of coffee,
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Speaker 3: email it to me. We'll talk about it live from
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Speaker 3: people don't. Someone was asking me earlier about some plants
Speaker 3: for shade that would do well in shade and stuff,
Speaker 3: and I just was noticing this past week with Buchanan's
Speaker 3: inland seots. Inland Seots is a clumping grass that has
Speaker 3: these nodding seedheads that sort of look like oat seed heads,
Speaker 3: and it does well in the shade. It's spread slowly
Speaker 3: by rhizomes around and when they dry. I think they're
Speaker 3: beautiful in arrangements when they dry as well. But it's
Speaker 3: a good native plant that we can use here. And
Speaker 3: they have so many options for nice native plants that
Speaker 3: do well. You want to you want to have a
Speaker 3: butterfly garden, well, Buchanans has got tons of flowers and
Speaker 3: things at Butterflies love both the adults, feeding the adults
Speaker 3: and the larva taking care of the larva. In fact,
Speaker 3: if you got your pen and pencil out, you know
Speaker 3: you always should listen to guarden line with a paper
Speaker 3: and a pen or pencil handy. Because here's one thing
Speaker 3: I'm not about to tell you. Butterfly host gardening at
Speaker 3: Buchanan's Plants Saturday, June seventh, ten am to eleven am,
Speaker 3: right after guard Line's over ten to eleven Saturday June seventh,
Speaker 3: Butterfly host gardening. It's a free class, so go and
Speaker 3: enjoy it. Will you will enjoy it. They have excellent
Speaker 3: programs there as well, lots of other things going on.
Speaker 3: If you got kids, Oh my gosh, you got to
Speaker 3: get your kids involved in their summer program. You know,
Speaker 3: with school out starting in May going all the way
Speaker 3: through September, there's something to do regularly on a regular basis.
Speaker 3: On Saturdays, they're at Buchanan's Native Plants for the kids.
Speaker 3: But if you were on the website or if you
Speaker 3: were on receiving their newsletter, you would know about that.
Speaker 3: All right, there you go. That's a public service announcement.
Speaker 3: Let's head out to Lamark and we're gonna be visit
Speaker 3: with Sean. Hey, Sean, welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 1: Good morning, Skip. My sister wants to put some nitrofos out.
Speaker 1: I told her to use the green bag or the
Speaker 1: gray bag. She wants to use the nitrofoss Whedon feed.
Speaker 5: I told her that that Whedon feed was probably with
Speaker 5: the Actressine would probably kill the small trees and plants
Speaker 5: she's planted.
Speaker 3: If she puts out that night asine either sure, yeah, no,
Speaker 3: need to do that now. Don't do the wheat and
Speaker 3: feed now atresine, candemnic shrubs and trees. That's why I
Speaker 3: don't generally recommend it here on garden line. But you
Speaker 3: don't need a weed and feed now. Yeah, you said gray.
Speaker 3: I think you meant like the silver gray bag. Yeah,
Speaker 3: that's the one around now. And if she's worried about weed,
Speaker 3: get barricade from night to foss and put it out.
Speaker 3: If you haven't done barricade in the let's say within
Speaker 3: the last sixty days, you can do another application to
Speaker 3: extend the weed seed prevention program on into the summer further.
Speaker 3: So that's an option. If she feels like she needs
Speaker 3: a pre emergent, I would do barricade, and I would
Speaker 3: do it now. Not everybody needs to do that, but
Speaker 3: it you know, some types of weeds will continue to
Speaker 3: germinate on through the summer, and so that's the way
Speaker 3: to extend it. But silver bag and stay away from
Speaker 3: the weed and feed right now, we don't need to
Speaker 3: be doing that.
Speaker 1: Okay, I'll tell her that information.
Speaker 3: Thank you, all right, thank you. Now she's your sister,
Speaker 3: so she listens to everything you say. Right, My sister
Speaker 3: listens to everything I tell her and believes everything and
Speaker 3: does everything I tell her to do. I get it,
Speaker 3: I get it. I'm just playing around with you. You
Speaker 3: know how it is the families. Okay, well you take
Speaker 3: care good to visit with you, sir. I appreciate that
Speaker 3: for sure. Speaking of that Nightropas Superturf, the silver bag
Speaker 3: we were talking about there, silver or gray, whichever you
Speaker 3: call it, nineteen four town. It's going to last for
Speaker 3: sixteen weeks and you can get it down now. If
Speaker 3: you haven't done a primer, excuse me, good night, if
Speaker 3: you have not done a slow release fertilizer this summer
Speaker 3: yet or this spring, go ahead and do that. Get
Speaker 3: that down now. You're going to find Nitopas Superturf at
Speaker 3: RCW Nursery. I know they carry it up there. If
Speaker 3: you go to Laporte. If you're done in the Port
Speaker 3: South Broadway's got Fisher's hardware. If you're in Sagemont, M
Speaker 3: and D. Beamer on Beamer is an excellent, excellent place
Speaker 3: to get night foss products like this super turf. I'm
Speaker 3: going to head now to a task Asita and we're
Speaker 3: going to talk to Jim. Hey, Jim, welcome back.
Speaker 6: Oh, thank you sir.
Speaker 1: Morning.
Speaker 6: Okay. The place is the front yard okay, in the
Speaker 6: new flower bed, in the whole front yard okay, close
Speaker 6: to the house. And it is a red star corraline
Speaker 6: plant tree.
Speaker 3: Okay.
Speaker 6: I bought it in a small container and it's such
Speaker 6: a pretty plant. What do you think of this plant?
Speaker 3: It's a good one. It's it's one of the foliage plants.
Speaker 3: And in summer, we have a lot of the blooming
Speaker 3: options we have in spring don't bloom well in the summer,
Speaker 3: and so when we use foliage plants in our plantings,
Speaker 3: we maintain color for a long period of time, whether
Speaker 3: it's brown or not. And cordline has a beautiful dark
Speaker 3: dark color, reddish purple, whichever kind of you get. Uh.
Speaker 3: And that's a good one.
Speaker 6: Thank you, sir.
Speaker 3: I have a great day, all right, Thanks Jim, appreciate
Speaker 3: the call. You take care all right? There you have
Speaker 3: it so talking about different things regarding products in the
Speaker 3: yard and whatnot. I just think that people need to
Speaker 3: call Pierscapes just to see what they do. Maybe you're
Speaker 3: not in the market right now for landscape ork, but
Speaker 3: go call them because I think you find you may
Speaker 3: find you are. They do design and installation on the
Speaker 3: big scale, or they can do you know, smaller scale things.
Speaker 3: But when it comes to the accessories of the landscape,
Speaker 3: and by that I mean like you know, a rock walkway, hardescape.
Speaker 3: In other words, need to improve the lighting around your house,
Speaker 3: they can do that, a rock border or lots of
Speaker 3: options like that. They can add those little things that
Speaker 3: make you want to extend your living area outside because
Speaker 3: they make it so special. If you've got drainage issues,
Speaker 3: you've got irrigation issues, they can fix all of that.
Speaker 3: And don't forget they have that quarterly maintenance where they
Speaker 3: come out once a quarter. They take care of your beds,
Speaker 3: They replace color plants as needed. They can do the mulching,
Speaker 3: improving the mult sprucing it up, making sure the irrigation
Speaker 3: is working, doing trimming that needs to be done. It's
Speaker 3: all gonna happen by you going to the website piercescapes
Speaker 3: dot com are giving them a call. Two eight one
Speaker 3: three seventy fifty sixty two eight one three seven oh
Speaker 3: five zero six zero. I will be right back with
Speaker 3: your calls already, we're back. Welcome back to Guardline. Good
Speaker 3: to have you with us. Uh listen, if you have
Speaker 3: not been to Arburgate recently, you need to go. I
Speaker 3: was out there the other day and I'm telling you
Speaker 3: the place looks awesome. Of course that's not news. It's
Speaker 3: always awesome out there, and they have selection like you
Speaker 3: cannot imagine. Allow yourself some time, go around, drive around
Speaker 3: to the back the parking lot off Traisher Road behind
Speaker 3: Arbrogates the way you need to go in, and then
Speaker 3: take some people with you. First of all, it's a
Speaker 3: fun outing to get together, walk around, look at plants
Speaker 3: and talk about. When you find an Arbrogate person there,
Speaker 3: whether it's Beverly or Kennan or any of the people
Speaker 3: that are out there walking around, they will take time
Speaker 3: and they will help you have success. It's not like
Speaker 3: you know, I'm looking for a what I'm looking for,
Speaker 3: I'm looking for, uh, maybe a hibiscus, and they go, well,
Speaker 3: they're right over there behind. No, they walk you over there,
Speaker 3: they take you to them, they show you, they answer
Speaker 3: your questions, and because they want you to have success.
Speaker 3: That's why they're so popular, the selection that they have
Speaker 3: quality plants that belong here, the fact that they carry
Speaker 3: things you're not going to find other places, and then
Speaker 3: the service. The service that they give you is outstanding. Now,
Speaker 3: Arbrogate is a true gardener's garden center. I mean people
Speaker 3: drive from all over they Arborgate is well known way
Speaker 3: outside our area. So while you're there, though, remember the rule.
Speaker 3: Brown stuff before green stuff. Grab a bag of the
Speaker 3: organic food Complete. That's an Arburgate product. It's a fertilizer,
Speaker 3: the organic soil Complete, and the Organic compass Complete. Those
Speaker 3: three bags help you set the foundation the bronze stuff
Speaker 3: for success. Now, if you want bulk of the soil
Speaker 3: or the compost, ask them about it and they can
Speaker 3: set you up to get a bulk delivery to wherever
Speaker 3: you live. They'll drop it off for you there. And
Speaker 3: that way, if you're doing a whole big bed, you
Speaker 3: don't have to buy eight hundred bags. You can just
Speaker 3: get a good bulk delivery and do that. Whatever kind
Speaker 3: of garden you're interested in, from pollinator gardens to hummingbird
Speaker 3: gardens to just beautiful heat tolerant summer color. They've got
Speaker 3: you covered at Arburgate. I'm going to head now up
Speaker 3: to Hempstead and we're going to talk to Jerry. Hey, Jerry,
Speaker 3: welcome to garden lind.
Speaker 11: Yeah.
Speaker 18: I have San Augustine for grass, and I've got my Conjr.
Speaker 18: Growing in one section and I can't figure out how
Speaker 18: to get rid of it. I allowed the stand to
Speaker 18: grow to about four and a half inches sticking that
Speaker 18: I would basically had it out.
Speaker 9: Didn't work, Okay, Yeah, dichondra.
Speaker 3: And and you're a are we sure that you're talking
Speaker 3: about dichondra and not dollar weed? I just want to
Speaker 3: be sure.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I believe it's.
Speaker 18: Not what was completely It's got looks like a clover
Speaker 18: leaf at the end. It's it's split on one part
Speaker 18: of the leaf.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I got you. Okay, Yeah, that's it.
Speaker 3: That is dichondra.
Speaker 10: Uh.
Speaker 3: Dichondra is a challenging weed because it grows way down
Speaker 3: in the grass. It can coexist even with pretty dense
Speaker 3: Saint Augustine. You'll normally I say, uh, you know, if
Speaker 3: you've got a good dense lawn, it chokes out most
Speaker 3: weed problems. Well, the chondra can survive in a good
Speaker 3: dense lawn U, so in order to control it, you
Speaker 3: can use a broad leaf U post emergent weed control product. Uh.
Speaker 3: There are things like the TRIMEC type products that are
Speaker 3: put out. You just want to be careful with those
Speaker 3: that you don't have a a lot of. Like if
Speaker 3: it's real hot weather and you're trying to control it,
Speaker 3: uh and you get spray on your Saint Augustine and
Speaker 3: the temperatures are in the upper eighties or nineties, you
Speaker 3: can do some damage on it. So you want to
Speaker 3: avoid that. But otherwise spray in the morning.
Speaker 18: Most of what I've read that will kill him Augustine,
Speaker 18: and that's what I'm trying to avoid. So I used
Speaker 18: to h fertile Uh the wet wet eater or something like.
Speaker 16: That didn't do anything.
Speaker 3: Well, there's fur yeah, there there is Bone Eyed has
Speaker 3: a weed beater that is effective on it. And Fernlom
Speaker 3: has a weed result called fur loan. Gosh, I just
Speaker 3: want blank on the Fertilom product name. Anyway, those are
Speaker 3: their multi ingredient products. And like I said, if it's
Speaker 3: hot weather and you spray them on Saint Augustine, it's
Speaker 3: very stressful and can be damaging to Saint Augustine. But
Speaker 3: if you get out like tomorrow morning when it's cooler
Speaker 3: and you spray them, it's still okay to use those
Speaker 3: on on your Saint Augustine lawn. You can also use
Speaker 3: a product called celsius that's a little less of a
Speaker 3: temperature concern, uh than the the multi products you know,
Speaker 3: the trimech We call them three way herbicides. They put
Speaker 3: three different ingredients in because that way they cover more
Speaker 3: than one of the different weeds that you know you
Speaker 3: typically have to deal with. So any either way you
Speaker 3: want to go about it, you can. You can control it.
Speaker 3: You just have to just have to make sure you
Speaker 3: get your apply to.
Speaker 18: The Celsius isn't gonna be as bad on the grass
Speaker 18: in higher temperatures?
Speaker 3: Is that what you're telling me it? Yes, yes, you
Speaker 3: can go up in temperatures with celsius. Now, any one
Speaker 3: ingredient doesn't control all weeds, so that that's what you wanna,
Speaker 3: that's what you want to be careful with. Uh. But
Speaker 3: with the dichondra, you're gonna you're gonna find goods excess
Speaker 3: managing it. You know, a number of a number of
Speaker 3: different ways. There's not just like one product that you
Speaker 3: can use that will control.
Speaker 1: Okay, I'll try that makes sense, it makes.
Speaker 3: Some sense, okay, all right? Uh oh. One last thing.
Speaker 3: Put a spreader sticker in there. It's also called a surfactant, uh.
Speaker 3: That is mixed in with it and it helps it
Speaker 3: stick to those leaves. Okay, all right, I will good luck,
Speaker 3: Thanks Jerry, appreciate your call. All right. That that will
Speaker 3: do it. Hey, if you're dealing with fire ants in
Speaker 3: your lawn uh and anywhere around outside. Uh, night Fass
Speaker 3: has a product called fire ant Killer, and it basically
Speaker 3: is a product that will do a quick kill on
Speaker 3: your fireant. You can put her on mounds and it'll
Speaker 3: knock them out. You've spread it out in a wider
Speaker 3: area if you like. But night Fast fire Ant Killer works.
Speaker 3: It's good to have a bag on hand if you
Speaker 3: want to go out there. Some mountains pop up. You
Speaker 3: need to shut them down so you can have a
Speaker 3: garden party in the next couple of days. Go ahead
Speaker 3: and get that the Fiant Killer from Nitropos. Like other
Speaker 3: Nitofoss products, You're going to find it at places like
Speaker 3: Mott Bellevue Fisher's Hardware. On three FM thirty one eighty
Speaker 3: they've got it out there. If you go down to
Speaker 3: Stanton Shopping Center and Alvin, you're going to find it.
Speaker 3: Lots of places carry Nito foss products, but the Fiant
Speaker 3: Killer works. And boy are we ever in firence season,
Speaker 3: that's for sure. By the way, I did a video
Speaker 3: on Facebook a good while back, is a couple of
Speaker 3: weeks ago. I think that talks about how to know
Speaker 3: when to put baits out for fire ants, and baits
Speaker 3: are also very effective, and it tells you how to
Speaker 3: know when to apply bait. There's times of the day
Speaker 3: when it gets hot the fire ants aren't as active
Speaker 3: out and feeding. So anyway, check that out. Let's go
Speaker 3: to friends with now and we're going to visit with Bill. Hey, Bill,
Speaker 3: Welcome to garden line. Lloyes Kip.
Speaker 19: I've got a couple of four year old, uh, Texas
Speaker 19: pink pomegranate trees. They're about say, eight to nine feet tall.
Speaker 19: They look really good.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 19: They put out these kind of reddish orange flowers that
Speaker 19: look like kind of a carnation.
Speaker 3: And none of them sat.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 19: I can't see any stamen on the flowers. I'm wondering
Speaker 19: what's going on here?
Speaker 3: Not getting pollination on them? Maybe that's interesting. I mean,
Speaker 3: why would they not set.
Speaker 19: Yeah, they just kind of turn around and fall off.
Speaker 3: And uh, is it after rainy periods? Are you seeing it?
Speaker 3: You know, after we've had a go ahead.
Speaker 19: We no, I mean it's uh, you know, this has
Speaker 19: been going on for pretty much their whole life. Uh.
Speaker 19: They put out the flowers. I've even gone over and
Speaker 19: kind of you know, rubbed them, trying to see if
Speaker 19: there's anything I could do to help, and they just
Speaker 19: turn brown and tall off.
Speaker 3: I don't know if what's going on. Yeah, well, I
Speaker 3: don't know what to tell you on that one. There
Speaker 3: is a publication on palm granite on the Aggie Horticulture
Speaker 3: website right now, the site is down. I was checking
Speaker 3: it earlier today, but it's Aggie Horticulture and it's just
Speaker 3: being maintained right now. They're doing some stuff. But when
Speaker 3: you go back to it, the fruit and nut section
Speaker 3: has a whole publication on palm grant it that you
Speaker 3: can download free or just look out on the screen
Speaker 3: and it goes into a lot of details about those
Speaker 3: And I don't have it in front of me. I
Speaker 3: can't pull it up or anything to see what else
Speaker 3: we might be looking at. But you should be getting
Speaker 3: some fruit on those things. Palm grants we run into
Speaker 3: problems even when they have fruit, and we get rainy
Speaker 3: weather that's kind of hard on fruit, rots and things
Speaker 3: like that. But no, we haven't.
Speaker 19: I mean it's been pretty drawn. Got an irrigation system
Speaker 19: that you know, I'm running here, and so they're getting water.
Speaker 19: I use a thirteen actually fourteen fourteen fourteen fertilizer. I
Speaker 19: don't don't really know. And the other question I had
Speaker 19: pertains to a pecan tree I have that volunteered from
Speaker 19: one of my other pecan trees. Not sure what it is,
Speaker 19: but it's beautiful.
Speaker 1: It's like twenty feet.
Speaker 19: Tall, good spread and all that, and it's about nine
Speaker 19: years old and has not tried to produce any pecans yet.
Speaker 19: I was wondering whether they just take a lot longer.
Speaker 3: A seedling tree you mean when you say they.
Speaker 19: Well, yeah, it was a seedling tree was in my
Speaker 19: flower bed and I transplanted it, and gosh, it's got
Speaker 19: to be about eight inches maybe seven eight inches in
Speaker 19: diameter at the bottom and just beautiful, but it hadn't
Speaker 19: put out any pecan.
Speaker 3: So real quick as pecans grow, they mature and just
Speaker 3: like animals and people and things, they hit a reproductive
Speaker 3: stage where they're able to have fruit, and so that
Speaker 3: can be twelve fourteen years down the line on a
Speaker 3: pecan tree, and it depends on groin conditions and a
Speaker 3: lot of other things, the genetics of the tree. But
Speaker 3: seedlings are starting off as an immature tree, and so
Speaker 3: they have to go through this aging process that takes
Speaker 3: a good while. That's why people like to buy grafted
Speaker 3: trees because they can go straight to you know, having
Speaker 3: fruit pretty soon, as opposed to a seedling type tree.
Speaker 19: Okay, so I should just expect maybe five years or
Speaker 19: so and maybe it'll start producing.
Speaker 3: Maybe if I more Yeah, and with good conditions, it
Speaker 3: ought to begin to do that. But yeah, the seedlings
Speaker 3: are meaniful. They have a central lead or trunk and
Speaker 3: very very different look than than a grafted pecan.
Speaker 19: It's actually the best looking of a lot of countries.
Speaker 19: It's grown up straight. You got a nice little spread
Speaker 19: to provide some good shade in the afternoon.
Speaker 3: So yeah, so let me Yeah, so I was just
Speaker 3: thinking about your pomegrantited thing too. They don't require pollination.
Speaker 3: I think I suggested maybe that was a problem that
Speaker 3: they don't require that they are self fruitful. So I
Speaker 3: don't know. I do know that when they're younger they
Speaker 3: don't set fruit. But yours is old enough to where
Speaker 3: it should be. I've got a run. I'm against some
Speaker 3: second heartbreak here, but good luck with that. And thank
Speaker 3: you for the call. Bill. I appreciate that when we
Speaker 3: come back, Bob and Kingwood, you'll be our first up. Alrighty,
Speaker 3: welcome back to the Guardline, folks. Good to have you
Speaker 3: with us. Got so many things we can talk about.
Speaker 3: If you have someone asked earlier about using a pre
Speaker 3: emergent and we were talking about you know, well you
Speaker 3: can do the second application of that now. That is
Speaker 3: one thing we can be doing. It is also a
Speaker 3: time to be looking at the gray leaf spot. If
Speaker 3: you've got a bad situation coming from it, there are
Speaker 3: ways we can manage that and prevent it. It's time
Speaker 3: to do your summer fertilizations in the lawn with a
Speaker 3: good slow release. Need take care of that. Well, I'll
Speaker 3: tell you where you can go and get all that
Speaker 3: Ace Hardware Ace Hardware. If you go to the website
Speaker 3: for my local ACE Hardware group, it's Acehardware Texas. Dot Com.
Speaker 3: That's this whole region ACE Hardware Tech. I say region
Speaker 3: because all the way down to Rockport, all the way
Speaker 3: over to Beaumont, and so on. ACE Hardware Texas dot Com.
Speaker 3: Find your store and go in there and find what
Speaker 3: you need to have a beautiful lawn, a beautiful landscape,
Speaker 3: a bountiful garden, and make it easier on yourself. Get
Speaker 3: some of their quality tools. You can take care of
Speaker 3: things and make gardening even more fun than it already is.
Speaker 3: Acehardware Texas dot Com. Let's go out to Kingwood. Now
Speaker 3: we're going to talk to Bob. Hey, Bob, welcome to
Speaker 3: garden Line.
Speaker 20: Hey, Skip, give me a minute to give you what
Speaker 20: I'm trying to get to A nine. You could straighten
Speaker 20: me out what I use something besides glyco phosphate and
Speaker 20: round up around my pebble beds around the house where
Speaker 20: a bunch of weeds come back. While I was waiting,
Speaker 20: I just did a quick Google search, and sure enough,
Speaker 20: I guess if I'm thinking about want to get rid
Speaker 20: of using the glycophosphate, there's a bunch of products out there.
Speaker 20: So I was just going to use the vinegar salt
Speaker 20: and so give me some ideas on why not to
Speaker 20: waste time on doing which ones.
Speaker 3: Okay, vinegar, salt, soap and oils and other things that
Speaker 3: are sold as herbicides burn the top of the plant off,
Speaker 3: and if it's an annual plant, that kills it so
Speaker 3: it does a fine job. If it's a perennial plant,
Speaker 3: it pops back up out of the ground because they
Speaker 3: don't translocate down and kill the whole plant. Like glyphosate,
Speaker 3: which was the original round up dead Now yeah, there
Speaker 3: is now the over the counter round up is now
Speaker 3: not glyphis. It is other things. It's three different things combined.
Speaker 3: They put three in there because each works differently. You know,
Speaker 3: want to do better on woody kinds of things and
Speaker 3: so on. But if you want to get off to
Speaker 3: something else, if you want to get off of roundup
Speaker 3: onto something else, well, another thing that you can do
Speaker 3: is get a product with glue phoscinate g l U
Speaker 3: p h O s I n at E glue fascinate.
Speaker 3: And here's what I want you to do. If you
Speaker 3: go to my website gardening with Skip dot com, Gardening
Speaker 3: with skip dot Com on there there's a number of
Speaker 3: very hopeful publications. Look at the publication list, you can
Speaker 3: click on it. There there's a product called Herticide Products
Speaker 3: for application with skipsweed wiper. If you go to that list,
Speaker 3: no matter what kind of weed you have, it lists
Speaker 3: the ingredients that will most effectively control that weed. If
Speaker 3: it's a woodyweed, if it's a grass, if it's a
Speaker 3: broad leaf weed, if it's wild onions, if it's nuts edge.
Speaker 3: Each of those there's different products that I would suggest
Speaker 3: you would have better success with. So if you look
Speaker 3: at something that controls grasses and bro leaves like glaphisat
Speaker 3: or round up did. By the way, there's there's new
Speaker 3: there's still glavaste on the market. It's just not called
Speaker 3: round up anymore. But there's one called Gluefascinate, and you
Speaker 3: can find it in a product called Finale. You can
Speaker 3: find it in a product called Bioadvanced Weed and Grass Killer.
Speaker 3: But it isn't quite as effective as the old roundup was,
Speaker 3: but it does a very good job and it works faster,
Speaker 3: and so if you had to do it a second
Speaker 3: time later, you could do that. But that would be
Speaker 3: an alternative that translocates down and kills the whole plant.
Speaker 20: Is Celsius any safer than round.
Speaker 3: Up Celsius is, yes, but it it is only going
Speaker 3: to control broad leaf weeds, and you can use in
Speaker 3: the lawn that's where it has its label for, not
Speaker 3: flower beds or vegetable gardens. And it won't control grassy
Speaker 3: weeds or woody, witty kinds of weeds you know, coming
Speaker 3: up more difficult. There are weeds that are more difficult
Speaker 3: control and it won't control those. So it's not an
Speaker 3: equivalent of using roundup, but it does control some of
Speaker 3: the broad leaf weeds in the lawn.
Speaker 20: Okay, thank you, skip.
Speaker 3: Yeah you bet check that. Check that list out though.
Speaker 3: I think that'll be that'll be helpful for you. All righty,
Speaker 3: Nature's Way resources. You know, when I think about bronze stuff,
Speaker 3: when I think about the foundation for success with your plants,
Speaker 3: you can't you can't think about that much without Nature's
Speaker 3: Way popping right up into your head. Because they've been
Speaker 3: doing this for a long time. Many of the products
Speaker 3: we talk about in generic ways now started in Nature's Way.
Speaker 3: You know, things like leaf, molk, compost and wrote saw
Speaker 3: being two prime examples. Ian Ferguson and the whole team
Speaker 3: there at Nature's Way are doing a heck of a
Speaker 3: job maintaining the quality products that they that you would
Speaker 3: expect from Nature's Way, and the nice diversity of products too.
Speaker 3: They have products for all kinds of things. Do you
Speaker 3: want to double ground mult or a rose soil, or
Speaker 3: a garden and flowerbed mix, or something for acid loving
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Speaker 3: going to go now to Spring and talk to Charles. Hey, Charles,
Speaker 3: welcome to Garden Line.
Speaker 20: High Skip.
Speaker 6: Uh.
Speaker 21: So, I've got four bottle brush plants that I planted.
Speaker 21: I redid the the yard with compost and and and calminure,
Speaker 21: and I planted them and they're all, they're all dying.
Speaker 21: And I went online and I tried the I put
Speaker 21: on some that iron cholly because I thought that might
Speaker 21: be the problem. But it's not from lack of water
Speaker 21: or sunlight. They get all full sun and it looks
Speaker 21: as if they're not getting enough water. But I know
Speaker 21: that's not the problem. And I thought you might have
Speaker 21: some advice to help me.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you can have chlorosis on bottle brush and iron
Speaker 3: will will help with that. They like they need so
Speaker 3: moisture to do their best, but they don't want soggy
Speaker 3: wet feet. So if you dig down with a little hand,
Speaker 3: trowel around them, maybe go down about four inches or
Speaker 3: so and feel the soil. If it's starting to be
Speaker 3: dry to the touch, it's time to water them. If
Speaker 3: it's still wet, hold off and do well. If you
Speaker 3: wanted to send me a picture of the plants and
Speaker 3: what you're seeing, I could take a look. Maybe I'll
Speaker 3: see something else going on on the picture. But a
Speaker 3: moderate amount of fertilizer. Don't fertilize them too late in
Speaker 3: the season, by the way, don't I wouldn't fertilize them
Speaker 3: past August for sure. They're somewhat cold tender, and so
Speaker 3: when you push something into late fall growth, you're more
Speaker 3: susceptible to cold injury when winter hits. So hold off
Speaker 3: on that. But right now, some fertilizer would probably be helpful.
Speaker 3: But I'm going to picture on hold, Charles, and if
Speaker 3: you would like to send me some pictures, I'd be
Speaker 3: glad to take a look at them. And maybe there's
Speaker 3: something I'm not picturing that I see in the photo.
Speaker 21: Okay, we'll do all right, all right.
Speaker 3: We'll just hang on one second. Aleandro pick up here. Well, yeah,
Speaker 3: bottle brush. I love bottle brush. Boy. You talk about
Speaker 3: a pollinator plant. The honey bees line up down the
Speaker 3: block to get to your bottle brush trees. They love it. Uh,
Speaker 3: some are more hearty than others. But we've had a
Speaker 3: couple of doozy winners in the last five or six
Speaker 3: or seven that have hit bottle brush pretty hard. And
Speaker 3: there one of the plants we grow that. I still
Speaker 3: think we got to grow u. But just be aware
Speaker 3: that that that can happen here, especially those of you
Speaker 3: who are listening to me up north. I ten, you know,
Speaker 3: I know people in Huntsville and college station listening and stuff.
Speaker 3: It's a little more of a challenge to grow them
Speaker 3: up there than it would be down you know, I
Speaker 3: don't know, down toward the coast in Galveston and all
Speaker 3: out that way. All right, well, let me take a
Speaker 3: little break here, it's time for that. I'll come back
Speaker 3: with your calls in just a moment at seven one three,
Speaker 3: two one two fifty eight seventy four. Welcome back to
Speaker 3: guard Line. We had a little bit of a glitch.
Speaker 3: The Gremlins got in for the end of the show today.
Speaker 3: So we're gonna do We're going to continue to show.
Speaker 3: I believe that I'm gonna have to hold off on
Speaker 3: maybe one call we can take. For this last segment,
Speaker 3: I want to talk a little bit about some of
Speaker 3: the Nelson plant food products that are available by the jar.
Speaker 3: That would be the nutri Star products, the color Star products.
Speaker 3: I've talked about Nutstar of the flour. The color Star
Speaker 3: comes in two forms. And if you have a plant
Speaker 3: that flowers an annual flower, perennial flower, shrubs, trees, any
Speaker 3: flowers and containers are in your landscape. Color Star is
Speaker 3: a product that has been around for over forty years
Speaker 3: and it really works. Now. The Colorstar Plus has added
Speaker 3: fungicide in it, a systemic fungicide to help protect your
Speaker 3: plants for those fungus susceptible types of plants.
Speaker 6: Either way you.
Speaker 3: Go, you're gonna have beautiful success. It's got slurlease ingredients
Speaker 3: can give you about three or four months of feeding
Speaker 3: and they perform and I'm telling you you don't have
Speaker 3: to day my work for it. They have people all
Speaker 3: over the country that ordered this stuff to be shipped
Speaker 3: out of Texas to these other places because they tried
Speaker 3: to sample. They liked it. They can't get anything like
Speaker 3: it in their area, and so they called Ian at
Speaker 3: Nelson Blent Food and say, I need you to ship
Speaker 3: me colors are And it's that popular of the product
Speaker 3: because it works. You need to have someone hand because
Speaker 3: you always got an opportunity to feed something with that
Speaker 3: quality product. It does work well. All right, Yeah, we're
Speaker 3: still chasing gremlins, but we I think we got it.
Speaker 3: We're going to go to Larry and Spring Branch. Larry,
Speaker 3: Welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 16: Sarah, Good mornings. Get I have good morning, and I
Speaker 16: believe it might be called spur weed. It's got a
Speaker 16: small yellow flower on it, but it's got these spurs
Speaker 16: on when you grab all of it, try to pull
Speaker 16: it out in your fingers. That's for sure.
Speaker 3: It stings it. Okay, got So what you what you're
Speaker 3: gonna what you're gonna want to do, Larry is, get
Speaker 3: you a product that has a three way broad leaf
Speaker 3: post emergent weed control. So that could be things like
Speaker 3: fertil and weed free zone. It could be boon eyed
Speaker 3: weed beater. Uh. But there are a number of products
Speaker 3: that are like that. ACE has one called lawn weed Killer.
Speaker 3: Those products are hard on Saint Augustine when the weather
Speaker 3: is warm. But you need to hit it as soon
Speaker 3: as possible to get control of that spur weed because
Speaker 3: it's not easy to control what what you're describing. Rather
Speaker 3: uh and so go early in the morning when it's
Speaker 3: the coolest time of the day and apply it as
Speaker 3: a spot treat on those weeds then uh, and and
Speaker 3: get ahead of them. And see I've not tried celsius
Speaker 3: on that weed, but uh it may work as well. Uh.
Speaker 3: But uh, we're kind of entering the time now where
Speaker 3: those broad leaf herbs can be damaging to Saint Augustine.
Speaker 3: So early in the morning, cool time of day spot
Speaker 3: treat and I think that gives you the best chance
Speaker 3: of success.
Speaker 16: All right, very good. Would it be best to put
Speaker 16: you apply that to my weed wiper and hit those
Speaker 16: things individually?
Speaker 3: Yeah, if the weed's up enough where you can grab
Speaker 3: it with the weed wiper, that would be fine. That
Speaker 3: minimizes otherwise, just a very low pressure spray so it's
Speaker 3: not creating a foggy miss that's drifting everywhere. With a
Speaker 3: spray NOZZLEO. You can also spot treat them that way too,
Speaker 3: So I've got a lot about the weed wiper. Yeah,
Speaker 3: if you have a lot of the weed wiperud be
Speaker 3: a little bit tedious to do for that, but anyway,
Speaker 3: all right, thanks Larry, I do appreciate your call. Listen,
Speaker 3: if you've got indoor plants and you haven't potted them
Speaker 3: up in a recent period of time, meaning you haven't
Speaker 3: bumped them up to a larger sized pot. Jungle land
Speaker 3: indoor plant soil is a good one. It's actually called
Speaker 3: jungle l and water saving potting soil. You just take
Speaker 3: your old plant out, look around the outside of that
Speaker 3: root ball, kind of use your fingers or a knife
Speaker 3: or something to cut away some outdoor roots outdoor outside
Speaker 3: the perimeter roots that are circling around and then repot
Speaker 3: it up and it would be good to go. Jungle
Speaker 3: Land water saving potting soil is excellent if you got
Speaker 3: anytime you're bumping a plant up from one size to
Speaker 3: another in your house, that would be a good time
Speaker 3: to use it. Just remember that his plants get really
Speaker 3: large for the container. You have to water more often
Speaker 3: and they're a little more stressed because their root system
Speaker 3: is just too confined to support the top that they
Speaker 3: have to support. So it doesn't hurt to bump them
Speaker 3: up every now and then just to help give them
Speaker 3: a little bit more room to grow and jungle Land
Speaker 3: from Nitrofossil do that. You're going to find it at
Speaker 3: M and D in Clare Lake on barry A Boulevard.
Speaker 3: You'll find it at Stanton Shopping Center and North Taylor
Speaker 3: down an Alvin area and up in Brenham at Plants
Speaker 3: and Things on Highway three sixty five. All of this
Speaker 3: is carry nitrofoss products and so that's where you would
Speaker 3: begin your search. Well, it's been an interesting day, kind
Speaker 3: of wound up today with the gremlins and the system,
Speaker 3: but we survived it. Thanks for listening to Guardline this weekend.
Speaker 3: It's been good to talk to you and enjoyed that.
Speaker 3: We'll be back again next Saturday six am to ten
Speaker 3: am on Sunday as well. In the meantime, don't forget
Speaker 3: my website. Skip. My website is gardening with Skip dot
Speaker 3: com and when you get there, you're gonna find all
Speaker 3: kinds of helpful things. And so I haven't talked about
Speaker 3: the updates we've done to the page recently, but for example,
Speaker 3: there is a publication called Great Gardens Begin with Great Soil.
Speaker 3: It you know, browns up before greenstop. It tells you
Speaker 3: all about that. There's one on herbicide products for specific weeds.
Speaker 3: So if you're looking to kill wild onions in your
Speaker 3: yard and you can't get them killed, well look at
Speaker 3: my publication. It talks about what to use for each
Speaker 3: type of week. Then there's one on lawn Caro one
Speaker 3: on one on one that is everything you need to
Speaker 3: know for the basics of a dense, beautiful green lawn.