WEBVTT 1 00:00:01.000 --> 00:00:05.120 Welcome to Katie r H. Garden Line with Skip Richard. 2 00:00:05.080 --> 00:00:21.039 Show crazy here Trim just watch him as many. 3 00:00:20.839 --> 00:00:23.679 Good pace to sup botas quick. 4 00:00:25.199 --> 00:00:37.960 Gas not a sound class gas the sun beamon of between. 5 00:00:39.960 --> 00:00:44.079 All right, let's do this show. Welcome to Garden Line, folks. 6 00:00:45.679 --> 00:00:47.719 I'm on my second cup of coffee, so I'm gonna 7 00:00:47.719 --> 00:00:54.520 be slightly coherent, slightly I want to overdo it. We're 8 00:00:54.560 --> 00:00:57.600 to answer gardening questions today or just to talk about gardening, 9 00:00:57.679 --> 00:01:00.439 whichever you prefer. All you gotta do is me call 10 00:01:00.520 --> 00:01:03.200 seven to one three two and two k t r 11 00:01:03.399 --> 00:01:06.719 H seven one three two and two kt ore h, 12 00:01:07.000 --> 00:01:09.640 and we will visit with you about the things that 13 00:01:09.680 --> 00:01:14.519 are most of interest to you. Let's see what was 14 00:01:14.560 --> 00:01:16.719 I Oh, I had a few things I wanted to 15 00:01:16.760 --> 00:01:22.400 discuss this morning. One of them is herbs. There are 16 00:01:22.400 --> 00:01:24.319 a lot of people that really are into growing herbs. 17 00:01:24.319 --> 00:01:27.000 I mean that is like, well, any kind of plant 18 00:01:27.079 --> 00:01:29.840 has its little group that are crazy about that group. 19 00:01:29.879 --> 00:01:31.760 You know, there's people that are all into orchids, or 20 00:01:31.760 --> 00:01:34.560 people that are all into plumerias or all into vegetables 21 00:01:34.640 --> 00:01:37.159 or whatever. Herbs are a good group to grow that. 22 00:01:37.239 --> 00:01:39.920 I think more people ought to grow. And the reason 23 00:01:39.959 --> 00:01:43.000 I say that is they're easy, really easy to grow. 24 00:01:43.599 --> 00:01:46.560 Most of the herbs that we would plant here just 25 00:01:46.799 --> 00:01:50.000 do super super well. Or rosemary about as drought tolerant 26 00:01:50.040 --> 00:01:53.519 as any shrub you're going to get. It grows very 27 00:01:53.560 --> 00:01:56.400 well here. It looks good in a container. It looks 28 00:01:56.400 --> 00:01:58.480 good in the ground if you got it spilling over 29 00:01:58.519 --> 00:02:00.799 the side of a pot, or or maybe you have 30 00:02:00.879 --> 00:02:04.680 a landscape structure where you've got like a rock wall 31 00:02:04.840 --> 00:02:07.680 or something and the rosemary can kind of tumble down 32 00:02:07.719 --> 00:02:09.879 that the trailing tops of rosemary do good with that. 33 00:02:09.960 --> 00:02:13.120 Basil is easy to grow. Good Night basil? Who doesn't 34 00:02:13.159 --> 00:02:17.000 like pesto? Right, So there's lots of kind of basils, 35 00:02:17.199 --> 00:02:21.240 Lemon basil and the standard Genobeese, the standard type we 36 00:02:21.280 --> 00:02:24.400 would make the pesto out of. There's a holy basil. 37 00:02:24.520 --> 00:02:28.879 There is a tie basil. I like the African blue 38 00:02:28.919 --> 00:02:33.360 basil because I don't use it as much culinarily you can, 39 00:02:33.879 --> 00:02:39.199 but I prefer the standard pesto types of basil. But 40 00:02:39.240 --> 00:02:42.400 the African blue is unbelievable for pollinators. If you want 41 00:02:42.439 --> 00:02:44.919 to see what pollinators are around, I don't mean just 42 00:02:45.000 --> 00:02:47.439 honey bees and bumble bees. There's a lot of kinds 43 00:02:47.439 --> 00:02:50.240 of pollinators. They love that plant. They do really well. 44 00:02:50.319 --> 00:02:53.080 Chives are easy to grow, and chives are cool. You 45 00:02:53.120 --> 00:02:55.639 just take your scissors out there, you're making some scrambled eggs, 46 00:02:56.000 --> 00:02:58.240 cut a few chive leaves off, chop them up, drop 47 00:02:58.280 --> 00:03:01.599 them in there, and you're on your way. Herbs are 48 00:03:01.639 --> 00:03:03.719 just easy, and you don't have to have an herb garden. 49 00:03:03.719 --> 00:03:06.240 You can make one of those beautiful you know, Louis 50 00:03:06.280 --> 00:03:11.120 the fourteenth all geometrically pretty circular, looks like a wagon wheel. 51 00:03:11.120 --> 00:03:13.919 Whatever design you want of an herb garden, or you 52 00:03:13.919 --> 00:03:18.159 can just include herbs around the landscape. So I think 53 00:03:18.159 --> 00:03:21.240 we got to grow more herbs. We got some great 54 00:03:21.680 --> 00:03:24.759 independent garden centers that have selections of herbs that are 55 00:03:24.759 --> 00:03:29.960 outstanding around the Greater Houston area. And again, herbs are easy, 56 00:03:30.280 --> 00:03:32.360 and I just enjoy some of the herbs. I just 57 00:03:32.479 --> 00:03:33.599 enjoy smelling them. 58 00:03:33.879 --> 00:03:34.120 We have. 59 00:03:34.240 --> 00:03:38.280 I think my wife has three types of time in 60 00:03:37.960 --> 00:03:41.360 her in her flower beds. In the times just spilling 61 00:03:41.400 --> 00:03:44.360 over the side, as is the oregano, and just every 62 00:03:44.400 --> 00:03:45.960 time I walk by, I've got to rub it and 63 00:03:46.000 --> 00:03:49.000 smell it because it smells so good. But anyway, think 64 00:03:49.000 --> 00:03:51.319 about that. I just put in some here. I guess 65 00:03:51.639 --> 00:03:53.719 I hope this would fall in the herb category, at 66 00:03:53.800 --> 00:03:57.240 least for me. Pineapple sage. It's a type of salvia. 67 00:03:58.120 --> 00:04:01.719 It has red tubular blooms typically late in the season, 68 00:04:02.280 --> 00:04:06.000 late summer early fall, because it's triggered by the shortening 69 00:04:06.080 --> 00:04:09.759 day length to bloom. So hummingbirds like it when they're 70 00:04:09.800 --> 00:04:14.080 passing through. But the leaves smell like pineapple. It's really nice. 71 00:04:14.120 --> 00:04:18.199 There's lemon scented herbs, all kinds. So anyway, think about that. 72 00:04:18.319 --> 00:04:22.120 Maybe add an herber to your landscape and use your imagination. 73 00:04:22.319 --> 00:04:25.639 Like I said, in a flower beds, we've got three 74 00:04:25.639 --> 00:04:28.560 different kinds of herbs just growing because they're pretty and 75 00:04:28.600 --> 00:04:32.839 they're nice and they cascade over the sides. You're listening 76 00:04:32.879 --> 00:04:35.360 to Garden Line. I'm your host, Skip Richter, and we're 77 00:04:35.399 --> 00:04:38.439 here to help you have success in your garden. Gardening 78 00:04:38.680 --> 00:04:40.720 is a lot of fun, and or at least it 79 00:04:40.759 --> 00:04:43.439 should be, and we can find ways to make it 80 00:04:43.480 --> 00:04:45.319 more fun. Sometimes it just takes a little bit of 81 00:04:45.360 --> 00:04:48.000 a mental reset, but usually it just takes a little 82 00:04:48.000 --> 00:04:52.000 bit of good information so that you plant plants that 83 00:04:52.079 --> 00:04:54.439 want to grow at your place, and you have the 84 00:04:54.480 --> 00:04:57.000 soil prepared so they're happy to grow at your place. 85 00:04:57.600 --> 00:05:02.040 And after that it's just set back and enjoy in 86 00:05:02.480 --> 00:05:05.680 the lawns. Boy, I got some pictures yesterday of gray 87 00:05:05.839 --> 00:05:11.319 leaf spot. Gray leaf spot is it's here. This is 88 00:05:11.360 --> 00:05:13.720 its favorite time of the year, early summer. When things 89 00:05:13.720 --> 00:05:16.800 begin to cool off, excuse me, begin to heat up. 90 00:05:17.160 --> 00:05:21.279 Let's put it correctly, gray leaf spot starts to show up. 91 00:05:21.360 --> 00:05:24.759 It loves moisture, so getting a lot of rain has 92 00:05:24.800 --> 00:05:29.560 helped it in some areas this summer. Also, that sprinkler 93 00:05:29.639 --> 00:05:32.120 system that comes on and what's the ground every other 94 00:05:32.199 --> 00:05:34.600 year I was talking to about yesterday that there's sprinkler's 95 00:05:34.639 --> 00:05:37.240 coming on three times a week. There's no reason you 96 00:05:37.360 --> 00:05:39.519 need to water your lawn three times a week unless 97 00:05:39.519 --> 00:05:41.800 it's a brand new lawn. You know, you're just kind 98 00:05:41.800 --> 00:05:44.439 of getting into about the third week of establishing a 99 00:05:44.480 --> 00:05:47.800 brand new lawn. Our lawns can do fine with much 100 00:05:47.879 --> 00:05:50.120 less than that. If you look up my lawn care schedule, 101 00:05:50.360 --> 00:05:53.759 it's actually the lawn pest, Disease and Weed Management schedule. 102 00:05:54.079 --> 00:05:57.399 It is on my website Gardening with Skip dot com. 103 00:05:57.800 --> 00:06:02.639 That schedule says that starting about mid aprilish and going 104 00:06:02.680 --> 00:06:06.040 through mid to late July is big time gray leaf 105 00:06:06.040 --> 00:06:08.439 spot season. That's when we watch for it, and it 106 00:06:08.439 --> 00:06:10.920 can occur at other times, but this is when we 107 00:06:11.000 --> 00:06:14.600 see it at its worst. And the pictures I saw yesterday, 108 00:06:14.680 --> 00:06:16.839 I think it was about the worst gray leaf spot 109 00:06:16.879 --> 00:06:20.160 I've ever seen. It was. It was to a point 110 00:06:20.199 --> 00:06:21.959 where if you stood at the street, you could look 111 00:06:21.959 --> 00:06:24.759 at the lawn and go, wow, what's wrong there? It 112 00:06:24.800 --> 00:06:27.560 was significant. Usually gray leaf spots kind of cosmetic and 113 00:06:27.600 --> 00:06:30.800 we don't we generally, I don't generally spray for it, 114 00:06:30.839 --> 00:06:32.839 but you can and if you're going to do that, 115 00:06:33.160 --> 00:06:36.279 night Foss has a product called Eagle fung a side. 116 00:06:36.319 --> 00:06:38.920 Eagle Fungicide is good for a number of different things. 117 00:06:39.160 --> 00:06:41.480 If you've got you know you're dealing with large patch 118 00:06:41.560 --> 00:06:43.920 or take all root rot or gray leaf spot and 119 00:06:43.959 --> 00:06:47.040 some other rizac Tonia summer patches, it's a good one 120 00:06:47.040 --> 00:06:49.160 for that. You can find night Foss products in many 121 00:06:49.199 --> 00:06:52.279 places Bearings Hardware on Bissinet and as well as the 122 00:06:52.279 --> 00:06:55.720 one on West Timer we'll carry night Foss products and 123 00:06:55.800 --> 00:06:59.600 Jennie Forest down there in the Richmond Rosenberg area. We'll 124 00:06:59.639 --> 00:07:04.519 also carry the nitrofoss products. So you might just just 125 00:07:04.639 --> 00:07:07.519 check out that if you feel like you want to 126 00:07:07.560 --> 00:07:11.160 do a spray to control things like the leaf spot, 127 00:07:11.240 --> 00:07:16.399 it's an excellent choice for doing that very much. So 128 00:07:16.600 --> 00:07:18.279 I'll tell you what, let's take a break. I'm gonna 129 00:07:18.279 --> 00:07:21.000 go just a bit early to break here, and I 130 00:07:21.079 --> 00:07:24.639 will be right back with your calls. All right, folks, 131 00:07:24.680 --> 00:07:27.120 welcome back, Welcome back to the garden line. Good to 132 00:07:27.160 --> 00:07:30.319 have you with us. Boy, yesterday I was talking about 133 00:07:30.319 --> 00:07:32.920 something going on at Warren Southern Gardens and I actually 134 00:07:32.959 --> 00:07:36.079 had to bring in somebody from Warrens to clarify and 135 00:07:36.120 --> 00:07:38.439 make sure that it was true. And here's what it is. 136 00:07:38.519 --> 00:07:42.439 It is a mega sale out there Warren Southern Garden 137 00:07:42.439 --> 00:07:46.000 in Kingwood, Texas. Twenty percent off purchases of one hundred 138 00:07:46.040 --> 00:07:48.639 dollars or more. So you buy one hundred dollars, you 139 00:07:48.680 --> 00:07:52.079 pay eighty get the idea. Now here's the deal for 140 00:07:52.160 --> 00:07:55.920 those of you who want to do a major renovation 141 00:07:56.279 --> 00:07:59.959 around your property. I'm talking about. Maybe you want metal art, 142 00:08:00.360 --> 00:08:03.000 Maybe you want a bunch of really nice pottery of 143 00:08:03.040 --> 00:08:06.199 all kinds. You know, the beautiful, gorgeous glaze pottery you're 144 00:08:06.240 --> 00:08:08.279 looking for trees, you're looking for shrubs, you're wanting to 145 00:08:08.279 --> 00:08:11.560 put in roses and all other kinds of perennials and plants, 146 00:08:11.600 --> 00:08:14.560 and you need some fertilizers and soil products. And you 147 00:08:14.600 --> 00:08:16.600 get the idea. I mean, I'm talking about a big 148 00:08:16.639 --> 00:08:20.639 deal for purchases of three thousand or more. That's forty 149 00:08:20.680 --> 00:08:24.879 percent off. So think about this. You ring up three 150 00:08:24.879 --> 00:08:28.000 thousand dollars, you pay eighteen hundred, you get the idea. 151 00:08:28.040 --> 00:08:31.040 That's the minimum level there, that's right at three thousand. 152 00:08:31.399 --> 00:08:33.440 And now, I know three thousands a lot, but if 153 00:08:33.480 --> 00:08:35.720 you're going to be doing a big renovation, is not 154 00:08:35.840 --> 00:08:38.720 a lot, in fact, But you're not going to find 155 00:08:38.759 --> 00:08:42.159 a better chance to do it then right now. And 156 00:08:42.200 --> 00:08:44.320 it's at Warns. It's this month for the rest of 157 00:08:44.360 --> 00:08:46.759 the month. Started yesterday, you go through the end of 158 00:08:46.799 --> 00:08:49.200 the month May thirty first. But for those of you 159 00:08:49.240 --> 00:08:52.840 that are considering it, here's a chance to really get 160 00:08:52.840 --> 00:08:54.720 a good deal. And if you've been to Warrens before, 161 00:08:54.720 --> 00:08:56.320 in fact, just go out there and check it out. 162 00:08:56.679 --> 00:08:58.759 But walk around and look at it. It's a gorgeous, 163 00:08:58.879 --> 00:09:02.320 gorgeous place, stock with all kinds of things. And I'm 164 00:09:02.360 --> 00:09:06.519 telling you, well, you. This is your public service announcement. 165 00:09:06.799 --> 00:09:09.440 Go check it out. It's good. Say hey to miss 166 00:09:09.519 --> 00:09:11.240 d if she's out there when you're there. She does 167 00:09:11.279 --> 00:09:14.720 custom potting jobs where you know, they put together different 168 00:09:14.799 --> 00:09:18.200 kinds of combo containers for businesses, for homes or you know, 169 00:09:18.320 --> 00:09:21.360 hanging baskets and all kinds of things. Really nice. I 170 00:09:21.360 --> 00:09:23.759 didn't war in southern guarden. Anyway, there was your There 171 00:09:23.799 --> 00:09:27.320 was your official announcement for those of you who are 172 00:09:27.360 --> 00:09:32.000 looking to do something major. All right, let's head out 173 00:09:32.080 --> 00:09:35.799 to southwest Houston. Now we're going to go and talk 174 00:09:35.879 --> 00:09:38.679 to Wayne. Hello, Wayne, welcome to garden Line. 175 00:09:39.480 --> 00:09:41.639 Well, thank you so much. Skip. 176 00:09:42.519 --> 00:09:44.279 First of all, I won't say I am slowly now 177 00:09:44.480 --> 00:09:48.480 at your level of knowledge of gardening, it's just amazing. 178 00:09:50.360 --> 00:09:54.440 Well, Wayne, I make everything up. So I'm glad I 179 00:09:54.519 --> 00:09:55.240 convinced you. 180 00:09:56.320 --> 00:10:00.000 Just kid, very good. I have something for you. 181 00:10:00.120 --> 00:10:04.240 Not long ago, I planted a rose, and I also 182 00:10:04.279 --> 00:10:09.919 put a row of landscape bricks around it, maybe about 183 00:10:10.720 --> 00:10:13.759 fourteen inches out from the base of the rolls. And 184 00:10:13.799 --> 00:10:16.279 then I went back to resetting the bricks, and as 185 00:10:16.320 --> 00:10:20.279 I moved them, I noticed a colony of ants right 186 00:10:20.360 --> 00:10:21.759 up under the bricks. 187 00:10:22.879 --> 00:10:26.639 So do you know if they were fire ants or 188 00:10:26.759 --> 00:10:28.639 just don't know for sure what kind? 189 00:10:28.759 --> 00:10:30.399 Well, tiny ants. 190 00:10:31.879 --> 00:10:37.559 Okay, well, most answer are not a problem. There's a 191 00:10:37.600 --> 00:10:39.480 couple of ants that we don't want to have around. 192 00:10:39.519 --> 00:10:42.480 One of them is the carpenter ant that choose into 193 00:10:42.480 --> 00:10:45.720 wood and does structural damage to wood. The other is 194 00:10:45.759 --> 00:10:48.519 fire ants did bite us. But all the other ants 195 00:10:48.559 --> 00:10:51.440 are out there just contributing kind of the balance and 196 00:10:51.519 --> 00:10:53.879 things of nature. They're not eating our plants, they're not 197 00:10:53.919 --> 00:10:58.279 biting us, and so you know, if it's not fire ants, 198 00:10:58.279 --> 00:11:00.440 I wouldn't worry about it. I just know that they're 199 00:11:00.480 --> 00:11:01.519 they're doing what they do. 200 00:11:01.799 --> 00:11:01.960 Now. 201 00:11:02.000 --> 00:11:04.200 A lot of insecticides will kill ants. I mean, you 202 00:11:04.200 --> 00:11:06.440 can use all kinds. If it were fire ants, I 203 00:11:06.480 --> 00:11:08.840 would suggest you get a bait and just sprinkle it 204 00:11:08.960 --> 00:11:12.120 all around. There are organic baits and they're synthetic baits, 205 00:11:13.559 --> 00:11:15.799 and you can take care of them best that way. 206 00:11:16.759 --> 00:11:19.399 But any kind of an insecticide will kill ants. We 207 00:11:19.559 --> 00:11:22.279 just when we have colonies sometimes you know, you kill 208 00:11:22.279 --> 00:11:24.240 a bunch of them that you see you're not actually 209 00:11:24.320 --> 00:11:26.399 getting to the queen and the rest of the colony. 210 00:11:28.120 --> 00:11:34.799 Okay, But overall, they're not anything to be openly concerned. Okay, 211 00:11:35.000 --> 00:11:37.360 Now there are hundreds of species of ants running and 212 00:11:37.480 --> 00:11:38.320 running around there. 213 00:11:39.159 --> 00:11:40.039 Yeah yeah, yeah. 214 00:11:40.080 --> 00:11:44.519 What about also just yesterday plant, I mean you put 215 00:11:45.559 --> 00:11:51.840 a row of landscape uh bricks close to the house. 216 00:11:52.320 --> 00:11:55.080 So do I need to be concerned about ant allonis 217 00:11:55.120 --> 00:11:55.600 in there? 218 00:11:57.279 --> 00:11:57.440 Now? 219 00:11:57.639 --> 00:12:01.080 Ant? So you know, they they usually live or living 220 00:12:01.159 --> 00:12:04.200 underground and are near the surface and the mulch and 221 00:12:04.240 --> 00:12:06.960 in other things, and so don't worry about that. It's 222 00:12:07.039 --> 00:12:10.080 just not not anything you need to worry about that. 223 00:12:10.080 --> 00:12:12.799 That's that one is no sweat. 224 00:12:13.840 --> 00:12:17.039 Okay, one more thing about ants opting in this house 225 00:12:17.320 --> 00:12:21.600 there some years and every year they want to migrate 226 00:12:21.960 --> 00:12:26.000 into the kitchen and I have to you know, hot. 227 00:12:27.679 --> 00:12:29.559 Stuff to tear from them, but. 228 00:12:29.519 --> 00:12:32.120 They go away, but then they will come back. I 229 00:12:32.120 --> 00:12:34.559 happen to leave something out from time to time, you know, 230 00:12:34.639 --> 00:12:35.679 on a regular basis. 231 00:12:36.919 --> 00:12:38.240 Any comment on that. 232 00:12:38.399 --> 00:12:42.360 Yeah, yeah, there's a there. There's some different kinds of 233 00:12:42.440 --> 00:12:44.440 ants that that we see a lot inside, you know, 234 00:12:44.480 --> 00:12:47.919 farroh ants and others can come inside. And like I said, 235 00:12:48.000 --> 00:12:51.120 literally there are like hundreds of species and you look 236 00:12:51.159 --> 00:12:52.759 at them and they all look like ants. But there's 237 00:12:52.799 --> 00:12:55.399 there's a lot of different kinds, so different ants want 238 00:12:55.399 --> 00:12:59.120 to eat different things. Some go after sugary substances, some 239 00:12:59.200 --> 00:13:02.039 go after oils and proteins. So fire ants are after 240 00:13:02.200 --> 00:13:05.480 oils and proteins, that's what they like. So the baits 241 00:13:05.600 --> 00:13:07.799 for fire ants are put on an oil or a 242 00:13:07.799 --> 00:13:11.720 protein base, those little granules. There are little stations you 243 00:13:11.759 --> 00:13:14.120 can buy. The ones I've seen look like little black 244 00:13:14.159 --> 00:13:16.960 squares that ants can go in the holes and inside 245 00:13:16.960 --> 00:13:19.639 there is the bait for them. Depending on the kind 246 00:13:19.639 --> 00:13:22.039 of ant you have, you would get a different bait, 247 00:13:22.120 --> 00:13:23.759 so you may have to kind of try one and 248 00:13:23.799 --> 00:13:26.639 then try another and see. But they work pretty good, 249 00:13:26.679 --> 00:13:28.960 and you just set them on the counter wherever the 250 00:13:29.000 --> 00:13:31.879 ants are coming from. Typically, you know, if you got 251 00:13:31.919 --> 00:13:34.240 a little tiny crack in the let's say you had 252 00:13:34.279 --> 00:13:37.240 tile on the backsplash of your counter and there's a 253 00:13:37.279 --> 00:13:38.960 little piece where the crowd is out of it, and 254 00:13:39.000 --> 00:13:40.759 the ants are coming in and out of there. Maybe 255 00:13:40.759 --> 00:13:42.919 they're coming up from under the cabinet, or if you 256 00:13:42.919 --> 00:13:44.480 can put it kind of close to where you think 257 00:13:44.519 --> 00:13:47.879 they're coming from, that does a little better job. But 258 00:13:47.879 --> 00:13:50.639 they'll find it, and that's the best way. Other than 259 00:13:50.679 --> 00:13:53.559 that you're ending up spraying, and then you're putting the 260 00:13:53.600 --> 00:13:57.399 pesticides on indoor surfaces and things which you generally would 261 00:13:57.399 --> 00:13:58.080 try to avoid. 262 00:13:58.960 --> 00:14:01.159 Yeah, that's exactly what was happening. There was a crack 263 00:14:01.200 --> 00:14:03.679 in the grout and they were just and right on 264 00:14:03.720 --> 00:14:06.200 the other side of the well, outside their little planner 265 00:14:06.480 --> 00:14:09.080 and they were just coming up right through the what happened. 266 00:14:09.360 --> 00:14:11.639 They are pretty amazing, and they find. 267 00:14:12.440 --> 00:14:15.240 They are pretty amazing. Yeah, they are. And you know, 268 00:14:15.279 --> 00:14:17.159 if it's just one little spot they're coming in, we 269 00:14:17.200 --> 00:14:20.159 can take a little cock and just dab it right 270 00:14:20.200 --> 00:14:23.519 on there and close the door. But they'll probably find 271 00:14:23.519 --> 00:14:24.159 another way in. 272 00:14:24.440 --> 00:14:28.519 So exactly exactly, okay, all right, I'll just have to 273 00:14:28.519 --> 00:14:30.759 deal with it, okay, skip. 274 00:14:30.840 --> 00:14:34.759 Thanks all right, Yeah, thanks for the call. Appreciate that. 275 00:14:34.879 --> 00:14:37.799 Good to talk to you. All Right, there we go, 276 00:14:38.240 --> 00:14:40.600 we are. Let's see here. Let me give you a 277 00:14:40.600 --> 00:14:43.200 phone number seven one three two one two k t 278 00:14:43.440 --> 00:14:45.759 r H seven one three two one two k t 279 00:14:46.080 --> 00:14:49.559 R h uh. Microlife fertilizers have been around for a 280 00:14:49.559 --> 00:14:51.600 long time. In fact, they've been around over thirty five 281 00:14:51.679 --> 00:14:54.120 years here in the Greater Houston area. The number one 282 00:14:54.120 --> 00:14:57.200 selling organic fertilizer in Houston is Microlife six two six 283 00:14:57.399 --> 00:15:01.120 six two four. It is a green bag, easy to 284 00:15:01.159 --> 00:15:03.799 see green bag Microlife sixty four. It's not going to 285 00:15:03.840 --> 00:15:05.679 burn your lawn or other plants. It's not a salt 286 00:15:05.679 --> 00:15:09.320 based fertilizer. It's an organic fertilizer. Put it on the soil. 287 00:15:09.759 --> 00:15:12.120 Microbes get a hold of it. They take all the 288 00:15:12.200 --> 00:15:14.120 nutrients and are in it, and turn it loose into 289 00:15:14.120 --> 00:15:17.000 the soil, which is what microbes do every day, and 290 00:15:17.480 --> 00:15:20.440 they then release it to the plants. That's how that works. 291 00:15:20.480 --> 00:15:22.840 It's good for anything on a floor you're going to 292 00:15:22.840 --> 00:15:25.399 put it on, I mean turf grass, as alias, flowers, vegetables, 293 00:15:25.440 --> 00:15:28.120 tree shrubs, roses, you know, use it in containers if 294 00:15:28.159 --> 00:15:32.679 you want. Now Microlife has products for other things. You know, 295 00:15:32.799 --> 00:15:36.039 there is a product for acid loving plants. I was 296 00:15:36.120 --> 00:15:38.759 just looking at some the other day yesterday as a 297 00:15:38.759 --> 00:15:41.960 matter of fact, that an ace hardware store Langham Creek 298 00:15:42.000 --> 00:15:47.519 Case over there on Barker Cypress by Copperfield, and we 299 00:15:47.519 --> 00:15:49.440 were talking about some of the fertilizers and they have 300 00:15:49.600 --> 00:15:53.240 the azalea the kind of a it's kind of a 301 00:15:53.919 --> 00:15:58.200 reddish bag, a reddish pink if I'm describing that right. 302 00:15:58.240 --> 00:16:02.039 Bag for the acid living plant. You can use this specifics, 303 00:16:02.080 --> 00:16:05.720 no problem with that. But the green bag can be 304 00:16:05.799 --> 00:16:09.120 used for anything. Really, it's a very good fertilizer. Typically 305 00:16:09.200 --> 00:16:11.320 we use it for our lawn. It's got more minerals 306 00:16:11.360 --> 00:16:14.399 than you can imagine, over one hundred different minerals in it. 307 00:16:14.399 --> 00:16:18.080 Doesn't contain any manures, lots of beneficial microbes in it. 308 00:16:18.720 --> 00:16:21.759 Microbes rule the world. Microbes are what makes plant, what 309 00:16:21.879 --> 00:16:25.200 make plants happy out there in nature. They do it all. 310 00:16:25.720 --> 00:16:28.159 I should drone on for an hour sometime on microbes 311 00:16:28.159 --> 00:16:30.960 because there it is unbelievable what all they do for 312 00:16:31.080 --> 00:16:33.759 our plants and for us too. By the way, now 313 00:16:33.759 --> 00:16:37.200 you're going to find Microlife sixty four by bags, you 314 00:16:37.200 --> 00:16:39.799 know for lawn fertilizing, or you can find it in 315 00:16:39.879 --> 00:16:42.799 the jugs, a large clear plastic jug with a big 316 00:16:42.879 --> 00:16:46.399 fat lid on top. I had many independent garden centers, 317 00:16:46.399 --> 00:16:49.919 speed stores, Southwest Fertilizer, ace hardware stores. These are, you know, 318 00:16:50.080 --> 00:16:52.919 Microlife's easy to find. You can go to microlifefertilizer dot 319 00:16:52.960 --> 00:16:57.000 com find the fullest of retailers. And while you're there, though, 320 00:16:57.120 --> 00:16:59.519 look at the other products. You know, I could spend 321 00:16:59.600 --> 00:17:02.879 a whole show just talking about each of the micro 322 00:17:02.919 --> 00:17:05.759 life products. There's that many of them and they work. 323 00:17:06.000 --> 00:17:08.480 I know that because I've used them and I still do. 324 00:17:10.640 --> 00:17:12.960 You're listening to Gardenline. Our phone number is seven one 325 00:17:13.000 --> 00:17:16.160 three two one two k t r H. Seven one 326 00:17:16.240 --> 00:17:20.039 three two one two k t r H. So we're 327 00:17:20.119 --> 00:17:24.319 entering summer, which means we're coming up into hurricane season here. 328 00:17:24.480 --> 00:17:26.440 And those of you who've been here very long, no, 329 00:17:27.200 --> 00:17:28.759 you know, it's a roll of the dice. You never 330 00:17:28.799 --> 00:17:30.279 know what kind of year it's going to be. But 331 00:17:30.359 --> 00:17:34.759 when hurricane comes through their issues, we lose power typically, 332 00:17:35.039 --> 00:17:39.640 uh And when that happens, you need to be ready 333 00:17:39.680 --> 00:17:42.079 for it. And you know, there's a lot of different 334 00:17:42.119 --> 00:17:44.799 ways to do that. You can buy a little gas 335 00:17:44.839 --> 00:17:48.359 power generator to sit outside and you have to go outside, 336 00:17:48.400 --> 00:17:50.079 but gas in it and fire it up and get 337 00:17:50.079 --> 00:17:52.000 it running and it'll it'll run a few things. You 338 00:17:52.039 --> 00:17:54.880 can run your freezer off a one or something like that. 339 00:17:55.519 --> 00:18:00.519 But Quality Home Products they sell a Generak automatic stand 340 00:18:00.519 --> 00:18:05.359 by generator that absolutely it takes care of everything for you. Now, 341 00:18:05.400 --> 00:18:07.519 the folks at Quality Home you can buy generators from 342 00:18:07.559 --> 00:18:10.799 a lot of places. Folks at Quality home. It's all 343 00:18:10.839 --> 00:18:14.319 about service, and I really mean that. You talk to 344 00:18:14.359 --> 00:18:16.799 them and you go, look, I need a generator, and 345 00:18:16.839 --> 00:18:19.559 they start asking questions. You know, well, do you just 346 00:18:19.680 --> 00:18:22.920 need to you know, get your freezer from going bad 347 00:18:23.200 --> 00:18:25.240 if you're gone when the power goes out, or do 348 00:18:25.279 --> 00:18:27.480 you want something that you can run your home as 349 00:18:27.759 --> 00:18:31.000 off of? And you know, they understand, They try to 350 00:18:31.039 --> 00:18:34.160 understand what do you need and then they fit you 351 00:18:34.200 --> 00:18:37.720 to the right generator and from there it's just beginning. 352 00:18:38.519 --> 00:18:41.960 That's when they begin to look at things like, okay, 353 00:18:42.000 --> 00:18:44.920 we've got the regulations, the permits and things. They handle 354 00:18:44.960 --> 00:18:46.960 all that for you. You got to get a slab. They 355 00:18:46.960 --> 00:18:48.720 don't bring a little cheap slab and drop it on 356 00:18:48.759 --> 00:18:52.000 the ground. They pour a slab that is thick and 357 00:18:52.039 --> 00:18:56.440 your lawnmower is kno going to knock out of the way. 358 00:18:56.480 --> 00:18:59.519 I'm telling you, they do everything right. And after you 359 00:18:59.559 --> 00:19:02.200 have the generator and they walk away, I'll say it again, 360 00:19:02.440 --> 00:19:06.200 it's just beginning. Three hundred and sixty five days a year, 361 00:19:06.799 --> 00:19:11.119 twenty four hours a day, their customer service never stops. 362 00:19:11.400 --> 00:19:14.720 You can go to QUALITYTX dot com or give them 363 00:19:14.720 --> 00:19:18.279 a call seven one three Quality talk to them find 364 00:19:18.319 --> 00:19:20.720 out that find out about these just look into this. 365 00:19:21.200 --> 00:19:23.200 It takes a while for the whole process of getting 366 00:19:23.200 --> 00:19:25.839 a generator, so don't delay. But I'll tell you this, 367 00:19:26.759 --> 00:19:29.960 I would never consider buying a generator from a different 368 00:19:29.960 --> 00:19:34.359 place because I've seen the service. I've looked at the reviews, 369 00:19:34.400 --> 00:19:37.119 I've looked at the awards that they win, and I've 370 00:19:37.160 --> 00:19:41.039 talked to people, and this is the company. It's not 371 00:19:41.319 --> 00:19:44.559 just the product you're buying. Although Generatic Automats and by 372 00:19:44.599 --> 00:19:47.799 Generator is a good generator, it's the service. It's the 373 00:19:47.880 --> 00:19:52.680 company that's what this is about. With quality home. Alrighty, 374 00:19:52.680 --> 00:19:55.000 where are we here, I'm gonna take a little break. 375 00:19:56.440 --> 00:19:59.599 I'm flying this morning. I'm gonna take a little break 376 00:19:59.599 --> 00:20:01.480 here in a minute. When when I come back from break, 377 00:20:02.079 --> 00:20:05.640 Jim in a task, Asida and Terry out there in Splendora. 378 00:20:06.039 --> 00:20:08.640 We're gonna come to you first. For the rest of you, 379 00:20:08.680 --> 00:20:10.240 if you'd like to give me a call seven one 380 00:20:10.319 --> 00:20:14.119 three two one two kat r H seven one three 381 00:20:14.400 --> 00:20:19.160 two one two kt r H. I will let's see here. 382 00:20:20.319 --> 00:20:23.279 Also as we get back, I want to discuss a 383 00:20:23.359 --> 00:20:27.839 little bit about some fruit trees that don't need spraying, 384 00:20:28.000 --> 00:20:31.079 So much. Uh, don't let me forget that. Somebody may 385 00:20:31.160 --> 00:20:34.240 have to call and remind me of We'll be right back, 386 00:20:34.960 --> 00:20:37.160 all right, Welcome back to garden Line folks. Good to 387 00:20:37.160 --> 00:20:41.359 have you with us. I wanted to say a few 388 00:20:41.359 --> 00:20:44.000 things about in Channa Gardens. I talk about them all 389 00:20:44.000 --> 00:20:45.920 the time, but in Chenna Gardens is out there in 390 00:20:46.079 --> 00:20:49.319 Richmond Rosenberg. In fact, it's on the Katie Fullsher side 391 00:20:49.319 --> 00:20:52.000 of Richmond. You just get out there to FM three 392 00:20:52.240 --> 00:20:55.279 fifty nine and that's where it's located. It's been around 393 00:20:55.279 --> 00:20:58.000 since nineteen ninety five. You know, the Lenderman family has 394 00:20:58.079 --> 00:21:01.480 been part of that community for a long time, taking 395 00:21:01.519 --> 00:21:04.920 care of people with really quality plants and quality service. 396 00:21:05.200 --> 00:21:08.440 That's the bottom line. Now. I like going out there 397 00:21:08.480 --> 00:21:11.759 because it's just an unforgettable experience. You pull up, you 398 00:21:11.759 --> 00:21:13.519 get out of the car, and you look around and 399 00:21:13.559 --> 00:21:15.880 you go where do I again? Because it's a very 400 00:21:15.960 --> 00:21:21.000 nice expanse of all kinds of cool things. Anyone can 401 00:21:21.000 --> 00:21:23.440 find stuff they're interested in out there, from little Ferry 402 00:21:23.440 --> 00:21:26.039 gardens all the way out to beautiful rose bushes and 403 00:21:26.079 --> 00:21:29.960 fruit trees and certainly hanging baskets and containers and you 404 00:21:30.079 --> 00:21:32.440 name it. It's an unmatched selection of plants and the 405 00:21:32.480 --> 00:21:36.160 knowledge that they have their team as enthusiastic as they come. 406 00:21:36.440 --> 00:21:39.400 Really you can bring photos and samples in to get 407 00:21:39.400 --> 00:21:41.400 some help with that find out what you need to do. 408 00:21:42.119 --> 00:21:43.960 Or you can just walk out and ask questions about 409 00:21:44.000 --> 00:21:46.200 you know, I got this area, and you describe it 410 00:21:46.400 --> 00:21:48.559 and they'll show you a whole bunch of plant ideas 411 00:21:48.640 --> 00:21:51.079 that would do really really well here. They know what 412 00:21:51.240 --> 00:21:54.400 they're talking about. That's important. While you're there, you can 413 00:21:54.480 --> 00:21:57.640 grab the fertilizers you hear me talk about from Microlife 414 00:21:57.680 --> 00:22:00.279 and nitrofoss and Nelson plant Food and Mendina. You can 415 00:22:00.279 --> 00:22:03.559 get soils from Nature's way in airloom soils out there 416 00:22:03.559 --> 00:22:07.599 at in Chenna Gardens FM three fifty nine. Katie fullsher Cider, Richmond, 417 00:22:08.000 --> 00:22:14.119 Enchented Gardens, Richmond dot com, Enchenda Gardens, Richmond dot com. 418 00:22:14.359 --> 00:22:16.279 Let's go out now to a test asita and we're 419 00:22:16.279 --> 00:22:17.519 going to talk to Jim. Morning. 420 00:22:17.640 --> 00:22:20.880 Jim, good morning, sir, and thank you so much for 421 00:22:20.960 --> 00:22:24.279 taking my call the question this morning. I actually have 422 00:22:24.920 --> 00:22:28.640 two questions. One, you talk about watering and you have 423 00:22:28.759 --> 00:22:34.279 mentioned it's better to deep water than just lightwater several times. 424 00:22:34.680 --> 00:22:37.440 Correct, yes, correct? 425 00:22:37.599 --> 00:22:41.599 Okay. Now when you say deep water, now, once you 426 00:22:41.720 --> 00:22:44.400 do that, that means you do it less time. 427 00:22:44.759 --> 00:22:48.559 Correct, right, okay, correct, Okay. 428 00:22:48.799 --> 00:22:52.079 So let's go to the sprinkler system. So on your 429 00:22:52.160 --> 00:22:56.559 lawn do you recommend Now, this is Saint Augustine. I'm 430 00:22:56.599 --> 00:22:59.039 over here in a task Gasita. You know kind of 431 00:22:59.039 --> 00:23:03.599 dirt we've got. Basically, how long do you want us 432 00:23:03.680 --> 00:23:06.480 to run the water for and how many times a week? 433 00:23:08.240 --> 00:23:09.839 What you need to do, Jim, is you need to 434 00:23:09.839 --> 00:23:13.359 put something out there to measure irrigation. It could be 435 00:23:13.400 --> 00:23:15.440 a rain gauge set in the lawn. It could be 436 00:23:15.480 --> 00:23:19.079 a straight sided container like an empty into being can 437 00:23:19.160 --> 00:23:21.920 or something. And you need to turn your system on 438 00:23:22.039 --> 00:23:25.200 for about twenty minutes and then look at how much 439 00:23:25.240 --> 00:23:28.400 water you catch. So if you multiply that times three, 440 00:23:28.480 --> 00:23:31.279 that's how much you put out in an hour, and 441 00:23:31.359 --> 00:23:33.759 you want to apply about it at least a half 442 00:23:33.799 --> 00:23:36.519 inch of water and better an inch of water when 443 00:23:36.559 --> 00:23:41.039 you water. That's what I so deeply and thoroughly, and 444 00:23:41.079 --> 00:23:42.880 then you don't need a water for a long time, 445 00:23:43.240 --> 00:23:45.720 a good while, many days before you have to come 446 00:23:45.759 --> 00:23:48.079 back and do it again. So that's how you go 447 00:23:48.119 --> 00:23:50.039 about knowing how long to run it. Now you may 448 00:23:50.079 --> 00:23:52.000 have to run it for a while, have it go 449 00:23:52.079 --> 00:23:54.400 off and set for forty five minutes, and come back 450 00:23:54.440 --> 00:23:57.839 on again. Because generally you cannot put an inch of 451 00:23:57.920 --> 00:24:01.119 water on the ground at one time in many of 452 00:24:01.160 --> 00:24:02.599 the soil types we have here. 453 00:24:03.519 --> 00:24:06.000 So you do want us to put at least one 454 00:24:06.119 --> 00:24:08.920 inch of water on the ground. Is that correct? 455 00:24:09.200 --> 00:24:11.559 Yeah? Yeah, And I would I would just say a 456 00:24:11.599 --> 00:24:14.119 half inch to an inch, not don't go over it, 457 00:24:14.599 --> 00:24:18.480 that's unnecessary, okay, half all right? 458 00:24:18.519 --> 00:24:21.480 Now the second part is, I don't know if you remember. 459 00:24:21.880 --> 00:24:24.039 I just did all my beds in the front of 460 00:24:24.039 --> 00:24:28.039 the house and I put organic molts down. Okay, Now 461 00:24:28.200 --> 00:24:31.319 I want to put bark on top of that. A 462 00:24:31.359 --> 00:24:34.240 lot of people put bark just for a decorative color, 463 00:24:34.319 --> 00:24:39.039 but I want a useful bark. I want to bark 464 00:24:39.119 --> 00:24:41.519 that's going to hold the moisture in. What do you 465 00:24:41.640 --> 00:24:44.039 recommend I get that's a functional bark. 466 00:24:46.119 --> 00:24:49.480 For functional bark, I like just a shredded hardwood bark, 467 00:24:49.799 --> 00:24:53.359 double ground. It could be a bark that's been partially 468 00:24:53.400 --> 00:24:57.359 composted h and it locks together. It's kind of it's 469 00:24:57.400 --> 00:25:01.440 got a curvy, jagged way that it just sort of 470 00:25:01.440 --> 00:25:05.079 holds together really well, unlike like a pine bark, which 471 00:25:05.119 --> 00:25:08.880 is more rounded and smoother. But anyway, any bark, any bark, 472 00:25:08.880 --> 00:25:11.799 will do whichever kind you like the looks. 473 00:25:11.559 --> 00:25:15.799 Of well, I'm trying to get functionality on it, not 474 00:25:16.000 --> 00:25:17.440 just look. Yeah, thank you sir. 475 00:25:17.559 --> 00:25:20.839 Okay, yeah, no, I would do a good shredded bark, 476 00:25:21.599 --> 00:25:23.400 and then I think you'll do well with that. Hey, 477 00:25:23.400 --> 00:25:25.279 thanks for the call though, Jim appreciate it. 478 00:25:25.440 --> 00:25:26.839 You take care, thank you, sir. 479 00:25:27.240 --> 00:25:32.359 All righty well, Southwest Fertilizer has been around since nineteen 480 00:25:32.440 --> 00:25:35.279 fifty five. I'm the fifth garden Line host, the fifth 481 00:25:35.279 --> 00:25:37.599 garden Line host. This goes back to before garden Line 482 00:25:37.640 --> 00:25:41.880 was garden Line to talk about Southwest Fertilizer. Because listen, 483 00:25:42.119 --> 00:25:44.759 when you last for seventy years, you're doing things right. 484 00:25:45.000 --> 00:25:48.039 You're taking care of people. They want to come back 485 00:25:48.279 --> 00:25:50.279 because they don't go in and you go, well, we 486 00:25:50.319 --> 00:25:52.640 ain't got that, and what about this, Well we don't 487 00:25:52.680 --> 00:25:55.119 have any of that either, or maybe it'll come next week. 488 00:25:55.839 --> 00:25:58.440 They carry everything they If they don't have it, you 489 00:25:58.440 --> 00:25:59.920 don't need it. That's way I like to put it. 490 00:26:00.480 --> 00:26:06.640 So whether it's fertilizers, insecticides, fungicides, organic synthetic tools, everything 491 00:26:06.759 --> 00:26:09.240 and expert advice. You can bring a sample in there, 492 00:26:09.759 --> 00:26:11.720 let them, as we say, get the pair of eyes 493 00:26:11.759 --> 00:26:13.799 on it. Bob Patterson and his team will look at 494 00:26:13.839 --> 00:26:15.960 it and they'll make sure you get the right products. 495 00:26:15.960 --> 00:26:18.160 You're not wasting your time and money. You're going to 496 00:26:18.200 --> 00:26:23.599 get friendly service, quality products and unbelievable unmatched selection. Corner 497 00:26:23.640 --> 00:26:28.000 of Bissinet and Runwick. Southwest Fertilizer, for example, they carry 498 00:26:28.039 --> 00:26:31.920 the Sweet Green, which is Nitroposs's organic type product. It 499 00:26:32.039 --> 00:26:36.200 is a eleven percent nitrogen. Bob carries it there at Southwest. 500 00:26:37.160 --> 00:26:41.720 The Sweet Green is really a unique product. Number one, 501 00:26:41.720 --> 00:26:45.519 it smells good. Number two, it's got a high level 502 00:26:45.559 --> 00:26:47.920 of nitrogen in it. You only need about ten pounds 503 00:26:47.960 --> 00:26:51.000 per thousand square feet when you're using Sweet Green, and 504 00:26:52.000 --> 00:26:54.880 it works well. It dissolves into the soil. Microbes gets 505 00:26:55.039 --> 00:26:57.960 really excited because it's high carbon product, and that's what 506 00:26:58.000 --> 00:27:01.440 microbes want is carbon. Can you find Sweet Green a 507 00:27:01.440 --> 00:27:04.440 lot of places like night FoST products, but the Sweet 508 00:27:04.440 --> 00:27:07.880 Green could be used repeatedly through the summer and small doses. 509 00:27:08.119 --> 00:27:11.720 It's not a slow release, but It is an excellent 510 00:27:11.759 --> 00:27:14.599 product for getting a pretty good quick green up and 511 00:27:14.680 --> 00:27:18.960 for doing so in a way that it just makes sense. 512 00:27:19.279 --> 00:27:20.960 I have found it to be excellent. In fact, I 513 00:27:21.039 --> 00:27:22.720 got a bag right now that I'm about to put 514 00:27:22.759 --> 00:27:25.200 out in a second fertilization that I'm doing this summer, 515 00:27:25.559 --> 00:27:29.200 and Sweet Green is the product. I'll set out to 516 00:27:29.519 --> 00:27:33.519 Splendora and talk to Terry. Hey, Terry, welcome to Guardline. 517 00:27:34.680 --> 00:27:37.759 Thank you, good morning. I have a couple of questions. 518 00:27:38.160 --> 00:27:42.400 We purchased a property right behind our house and we've 519 00:27:42.400 --> 00:27:44.319 cleared out all the underbrush and it has quite a 520 00:27:44.359 --> 00:27:48.440 few mature trees where it creates a pretty good canopy 521 00:27:48.640 --> 00:27:53.440 with minimal sunlight, honestly, and I would like to keep 522 00:27:53.480 --> 00:27:55.319 those trees, but I would also like to get some 523 00:27:55.440 --> 00:28:00.000 groundcover of some sort going particularly right around the tree. 524 00:28:00.079 --> 00:28:03.279 He's kind of as like dressing around him, like shrub 525 00:28:03.319 --> 00:28:03.759 type things. 526 00:28:03.799 --> 00:28:06.319 I was wondering what would be best in like low light. 527 00:28:07.920 --> 00:28:12.039 That Okay, this is is this a large, large area 528 00:28:12.039 --> 00:28:13.799 where you're gonna be planting a lot of it or 529 00:28:13.880 --> 00:28:15.200 is just not. 530 00:28:15.319 --> 00:28:17.599 Well, it's about two and a half acres and there's 531 00:28:18.039 --> 00:28:20.440 groups of trees that I would like to decorate around 532 00:28:21.000 --> 00:28:23.759 several of them. 533 00:28:23.960 --> 00:28:26.759 You know. Usually for something like that, we would look 534 00:28:26.799 --> 00:28:29.279 to some different kinds of native plants. But when you 535 00:28:29.319 --> 00:28:32.880 get into a lot of shade, there's nothing that's real, 536 00:28:33.319 --> 00:28:37.039 really dense and beautiful, like something like a yopone, which 537 00:28:37.039 --> 00:28:38.839 would beautiful lot in the sun. When you get it 538 00:28:38.880 --> 00:28:40.839 in a lot of shade, it's it's not very dense, 539 00:28:40.880 --> 00:28:44.680 and so that wouldn't be as good of a choice. 540 00:28:45.200 --> 00:28:47.559 If it's an area you can water. There are a 541 00:28:47.680 --> 00:28:49.599 number of things that will put up with that kind 542 00:28:49.599 --> 00:28:53.920 of shade. I like a plant called leopard plant. It's 543 00:28:53.960 --> 00:28:57.200 also called tractor seed plant because it has big round leaves. 544 00:28:57.200 --> 00:28:59.480 It sort of looks like a tractor seat. Not quite 545 00:28:59.519 --> 00:29:02.480 that big, but very pretty. But you're gonna have to 546 00:29:02.519 --> 00:29:04.599 water it, and it'll put up with very deep shade. 547 00:29:05.119 --> 00:29:09.319 Uh if you give it some water to help sustain it. Otherwise, 548 00:29:09.440 --> 00:29:11.640 we probably ought to go back and look at some 549 00:29:11.839 --> 00:29:14.160 of the natives and just realize you're going to not 550 00:29:14.279 --> 00:29:15.279 quite have the density. 551 00:29:16.880 --> 00:29:20.240 Yes, sir, I like some of my neighbors they have 552 00:29:20.839 --> 00:29:23.519 I believe it's oleander planted around. Some of their trees 553 00:29:23.519 --> 00:29:27.079 are pretty big, like they encompass the whole trunk of. 554 00:29:27.000 --> 00:29:30.200 The tree area there as well. 555 00:29:30.279 --> 00:29:34.119 Or oh, now, I don't know what that is that 556 00:29:34.200 --> 00:29:36.839 your neighbors, but only ander needs sun, lots of sun, 557 00:29:37.039 --> 00:29:39.160 and so I wouldn't I wouldn't put it in too 558 00:29:39.240 --> 00:29:42.519 much shade. Uh that that would. But it's a good 559 00:29:42.559 --> 00:29:45.720 tough plant as far as you know, standing drought and whatnot, 560 00:29:45.920 --> 00:29:47.880 so that may be a benefit of it. 561 00:29:47.920 --> 00:29:50.720 There. 562 00:29:50.559 --> 00:29:55.720 There are some other Leopard plant is a plant that 563 00:29:55.839 --> 00:29:59.119 you can put out and it does pretty good. Uh. 564 00:29:59.200 --> 00:30:03.240 And and there's a bunch of natives, you know, the you're 565 00:30:03.279 --> 00:30:08.960 out in Splendora. If you were to Buchanna's native plants 566 00:30:09.000 --> 00:30:13.000 down in the heights, they specialize in natives and they 567 00:30:13.039 --> 00:30:15.720 would have a few ideas for some things that might 568 00:30:15.759 --> 00:30:18.279 do well there. There is a native plant called beauty 569 00:30:18.400 --> 00:30:23.599 berry American beauty berry. It's deciduous, but it grows in 570 00:30:24.079 --> 00:30:27.319 dry shade. And I mean you can water it too, 571 00:30:27.400 --> 00:30:30.319 but it's a good one to consider. I might talk 572 00:30:30.319 --> 00:30:32.160 to the folks of Buchanans and see what else they 573 00:30:32.200 --> 00:30:34.440 might have there. And then in Splendora, you're close to 574 00:30:34.599 --> 00:30:37.480 Nature's way resources and they have native plants and their 575 00:30:37.559 --> 00:30:41.680 nursery there. There where fourteen eighty eight comes into forty five, 576 00:30:42.119 --> 00:30:45.200 just south of Conro. You might try those places and 577 00:30:45.240 --> 00:30:49.319 get some more ideas of things that they carry. Okay, okay, 578 00:30:49.319 --> 00:30:53.640 thank you sir. You bet good luck with that. Appreciate 579 00:30:53.720 --> 00:30:56.079 that if you haven't been to Plants for all seasons. 580 00:30:56.079 --> 00:30:59.960 They're up on Tomboi Parkway high Way to forty nine. 581 00:31:01.039 --> 00:31:03.440 They've been around a long time since the nineteen seventies, 582 00:31:03.880 --> 00:31:06.960 and they are excellent because when you go in there, 583 00:31:07.079 --> 00:31:09.039 you find plants that want to grow here, and you 584 00:31:09.119 --> 00:31:12.039 find advice for people that have grown plants here for 585 00:31:12.079 --> 00:31:14.839 a very long time from people that have grown plants 586 00:31:14.839 --> 00:31:16.960 here for a very long time. They know what they're 587 00:31:17.000 --> 00:31:20.759 talking about, they absolutely do. And they just have excellent 588 00:31:20.799 --> 00:31:25.960 selection wonderful plants, beautiful plants for indoors, plants for outdoors, 589 00:31:26.039 --> 00:31:28.960 beautiful salvias. Right now, I got some gorgeous salvias in 590 00:31:29.920 --> 00:31:34.440 awesome succulents. Just their succulent collection is really really nice. 591 00:31:34.559 --> 00:31:37.599 And then of course flowers color, all kinds of perennials, 592 00:31:37.599 --> 00:31:39.799 all kinds of annuals, whatever you're looking for. They just 593 00:31:39.799 --> 00:31:42.960 got some sweet potatoes in. Recently, it is time to 594 00:31:43.039 --> 00:31:46.880 begin to get some sweet potatoes going very easy to grow, 595 00:31:47.079 --> 00:31:50.079 and you know, you get to enjoy the fruits of 596 00:31:50.160 --> 00:31:52.279 your labor as a result. I'm going to take a 597 00:31:52.319 --> 00:31:54.680 quick break here and I'll be back with your questions. 598 00:31:55.200 --> 00:31:58.880 All right, welcome back to Garden Lines. Glad to have 599 00:31:58.960 --> 00:32:00.559 you with us this morning. If you'd like to give 600 00:32:00.599 --> 00:32:02.839 me a call seven to one three two one two 601 00:32:02.960 --> 00:32:05.799 ktr H seven one three two un two kt r H. 602 00:32:06.880 --> 00:32:10.160 I talked earlier about storms and how they knock our 603 00:32:10.200 --> 00:32:14.359 power out. Affordable Tree Service is our go to here 604 00:32:14.400 --> 00:32:17.160 on guard Line for taking care of your trees, and 605 00:32:17.519 --> 00:32:21.160 that means a lot of things. That means making sure 606 00:32:21.200 --> 00:32:24.200 they're prune properly. That could be deep root feeding, it 607 00:32:24.240 --> 00:32:27.799 could be disease and pest control on your trees. Maybe 608 00:32:27.839 --> 00:32:29.880 you've got a beautiful tree and you're going to put 609 00:32:29.920 --> 00:32:35.359 in a sidewalk or driveway or an underground utility typeline 610 00:32:35.440 --> 00:32:38.599 you know, gas or electric or something or water rather 611 00:32:39.200 --> 00:32:42.960 u A. The Affordable Tree Service can come out and 612 00:32:43.000 --> 00:32:45.640 they can advise you on that so you don't make 613 00:32:45.680 --> 00:32:49.599 a mistake that does major damage to the most important plant, 614 00:32:49.640 --> 00:32:52.119 the most expensive plant in your landscape, and that is 615 00:32:52.160 --> 00:32:56.279 your tree. Now affordable tree Service Martin spoon More's company. 616 00:32:56.319 --> 00:32:58.440 This is a family business, so when you call them 617 00:32:58.440 --> 00:33:01.920 at seven one three six six sixty three, you're going 618 00:33:01.960 --> 00:33:04.599 to talk probably to Martin's mom. She's usually the one 619 00:33:04.599 --> 00:33:06.759 that answers a phone there. Tell her you heard about 620 00:33:06.839 --> 00:33:10.640 us on Guardline. Gardenline customers are their priority, so make 621 00:33:10.680 --> 00:33:13.519 sure and tell them that, uh seven one three six 622 00:33:13.720 --> 00:33:19.160 nine nine two six six three. They also are can 623 00:33:19.200 --> 00:33:21.720 do things like stump grinding. They can also come out 624 00:33:21.759 --> 00:33:25.480 and do consultations and things take care of your trees. 625 00:33:26.480 --> 00:33:28.960 They've been in the tree businesses family for over fifty 626 00:33:29.000 --> 00:33:32.160 four years. They know what they're doing and it's always 627 00:33:32.160 --> 00:33:33.960 a good time. If you have not had your trees 628 00:33:34.000 --> 00:33:37.839 trimmed or pruned or looked at in recent history, you 629 00:33:38.000 --> 00:33:41.160 definitely need to get somebody out there to do that. 630 00:33:41.240 --> 00:33:42.960 So when a storm comes there, as strong as they 631 00:33:42.960 --> 00:33:45.200 can be, no storm is going to take you know, 632 00:33:45.279 --> 00:33:47.119 two hundred and fifty mile an hour win or no 633 00:33:47.200 --> 00:33:49.799 tree turn fifty mile an hour wind just hammering it. 634 00:33:50.559 --> 00:33:54.200 But there's a lot you can do to minimize damage 635 00:33:54.279 --> 00:33:57.599 or to avoid damage in most cases, and it starts 636 00:33:57.680 --> 00:34:00.720 with proper pruning and proper pruning isn't just something you 637 00:34:00.720 --> 00:34:03.480 do to an old tree. It's something you do through 638 00:34:03.519 --> 00:34:06.279 the life of the tree. And so being trained properly, 639 00:34:06.440 --> 00:34:10.519 being guided into a long, strong structure, long living, strong 640 00:34:10.559 --> 00:34:14.199 structure is important and affordable tree service folks can do 641 00:34:14.239 --> 00:34:16.480 that for you. Seven to one three six ninety nine 642 00:34:16.800 --> 00:34:21.920 two six six three Spinking of trees. I have a 643 00:34:21.920 --> 00:34:25.760 couple of citrus trees that I planted this year out 644 00:34:25.840 --> 00:34:27.800 in the orchard. I call it the orchard. It's a 645 00:34:27.840 --> 00:34:30.840 little strip alongside the house. Got three fruit trees in it. 646 00:34:31.320 --> 00:34:36.079 But anyway, uh, in the orchard. The citrus trees I 647 00:34:36.119 --> 00:34:38.199 planted and then came out the next day and they 648 00:34:38.199 --> 00:34:41.280 were leaning at forty five degree angles because the wind 649 00:34:41.280 --> 00:34:43.480 blew through there. And you know, they are a little 650 00:34:43.480 --> 00:34:46.199 skinny trees, and the little steaks they came with weren't 651 00:34:46.239 --> 00:34:49.039 worth anything. So what did I do. I got a 652 00:34:49.079 --> 00:34:51.840 three sixty tree stabilizer and put one on each tree. 653 00:34:52.039 --> 00:34:54.840 Now that's a little device. It's a it's a plastic 654 00:34:55.039 --> 00:34:59.599 arm that is extremely strong and reinforced. One side goes 655 00:34:59.639 --> 00:35:02.119 onto a post. I had the little attachment so you 656 00:35:02.119 --> 00:35:03.840 can put it on t posts. They come with that 657 00:35:04.760 --> 00:35:07.000 and the other side has a loose strap that attaches 658 00:35:07.039 --> 00:35:09.800 to the tree. When you stake a tree, you don't 659 00:35:09.840 --> 00:35:12.280 need to go out and get wires and stake it 660 00:35:12.320 --> 00:35:15.079 down and have stuff to trip over. And you're putting 661 00:35:15.199 --> 00:35:18.039 like a piece of what garden hose over the wire 662 00:35:18.079 --> 00:35:19.920 so it doesn't cut into the branch of the tree. 663 00:35:20.400 --> 00:35:23.159 What you need is just a tree stabilizer. Now, have 664 00:35:23.159 --> 00:35:24.960 you got a lot of wind and a little bit 665 00:35:25.119 --> 00:35:28.159 you know, larger than my little citrus trees, Well, you 666 00:35:28.159 --> 00:35:30.400 could put two of them in kind of one north south, 667 00:35:30.440 --> 00:35:32.719 one east west, and then no matter which way the 668 00:35:32.719 --> 00:35:37.079 wind blows, you're covered on that. They really really work. 669 00:35:37.199 --> 00:35:39.280 And the one thing I like about them, in addition 670 00:35:39.320 --> 00:35:41.480 to the fact that they hold onto your tree well, 671 00:35:42.079 --> 00:35:45.280 is that the strap allows you to strap it in 672 00:35:45.400 --> 00:35:50.119 loosely so it can move. When plant tissues move, they 673 00:35:50.159 --> 00:35:54.679 get stronger. And here's an example. If you've got tomato 674 00:35:54.719 --> 00:35:57.800 seedlings that you're growing, you grow them inside and still 675 00:35:57.800 --> 00:36:00.159 air because you're starting them in the late winter for 676 00:36:00.239 --> 00:36:03.639 your spring crop, and they just get spindley. They have 677 00:36:03.719 --> 00:36:06.320 no strength to the stem. But if you'll take your 678 00:36:06.320 --> 00:36:09.760 hand and rub them over, those seedlings, I say pets. 679 00:36:09.800 --> 00:36:12.159 Your tomato plants, just rub your hand over them loosely 680 00:36:12.239 --> 00:36:15.039 to move them around. They get stronger. If you do 681 00:36:15.079 --> 00:36:17.119 that once or twice a day, you will have a 682 00:36:17.239 --> 00:36:23.199 much stronger plant because that movement creates strength in the tissues. 683 00:36:23.679 --> 00:36:28.400 Same thing for a steak tree. Movement makes the trunk stronger, 684 00:36:28.559 --> 00:36:31.519 and movement makes those roots at the base that are 685 00:36:31.559 --> 00:36:35.920 anchoring the trunk to provide stability stronger. So you want 686 00:36:35.960 --> 00:36:39.320 to set your tree stabilizers to allow a little bit 687 00:36:39.360 --> 00:36:42.599 of movement. That's very important. And of course tree stabilizers 688 00:36:42.599 --> 00:36:45.519 are perfect for that three sixty tree stabilizer. You're going 689 00:36:45.559 --> 00:36:47.320 to get them at Arborgate and find them a bit 690 00:36:47.320 --> 00:36:50.320 at a cenamultch down south of Buchan as Native plants 691 00:36:50.320 --> 00:36:53.760 in the Heights jorgesid and Gardens down in Alvin. Plants 692 00:36:53.760 --> 00:36:56.920 for all seasons on two forty nine and RCW Nursery 693 00:36:56.920 --> 00:36:59.719 where two forty nine comes into belt Wag eight easy 694 00:36:59.719 --> 00:37:02.360 to find. They are well built and they last a 695 00:37:02.519 --> 00:37:06.440 very long time. Have some on hand. You can even 696 00:37:06.519 --> 00:37:09.800 use them for those multi trunked crpe myrtles. They put 697 00:37:09.840 --> 00:37:12.440 one on one trunk, put one on another, maybe just 698 00:37:12.480 --> 00:37:17.280 to hold the overall plant in a good spot. I 699 00:37:17.360 --> 00:37:20.920 like it when people use their noggin. My dad used 700 00:37:20.920 --> 00:37:22.920 to say, use your head for something other than to 701 00:37:22.960 --> 00:37:27.920 hang your hat on. Thanks Dad. But when you use 702 00:37:27.960 --> 00:37:30.840 your noggin to come up with a device that's new 703 00:37:30.960 --> 00:37:33.960 that works, that's just a great win wind. That's a 704 00:37:34.199 --> 00:37:39.360 three sixty tree stabilizer is Nelson plant Food has a 705 00:37:39.400 --> 00:37:42.920 product called Hibiscus and Flowering Tropicals. It's in the nutri 706 00:37:43.000 --> 00:37:45.599 Star line. So if I can just kind of the 707 00:37:46.079 --> 00:37:49.559 real quick version over Nelson. Nelson's got the turf Star line, 708 00:37:49.679 --> 00:37:52.679 bags of stuff for your lawn. They have the color 709 00:37:52.800 --> 00:37:56.119 Star plant food, which is a wonderful plant food for 710 00:37:56.239 --> 00:37:58.079 all kinds of things that bloom. And then they have 711 00:37:58.159 --> 00:38:01.960 the nutri Star line and Nutristar has there's a Nutril 712 00:38:02.000 --> 00:38:05.800 Star for plumerias, the nutri Star for vegetables, and you 713 00:38:05.880 --> 00:38:09.880 know for everything. Hibiscus and flowering tropicals. I don't care 714 00:38:09.960 --> 00:38:12.719 what kind of flowering tropical you have, what kind of 715 00:38:12.760 --> 00:38:17.719 flowering plant like that Nutral Star Hibiscus and Flowering Tropicals 716 00:38:17.719 --> 00:38:20.679 from Nelson. You need to try it. It works. The 717 00:38:20.760 --> 00:38:23.960 fertilizer last, you just put small amounts around the plants 718 00:38:24.079 --> 00:38:26.400 keep them blooming, and that's true of all the nutri 719 00:38:26.480 --> 00:38:30.440 star products from those All right, well, I hear music, 720 00:38:30.480 --> 00:38:33.039 which means I got to quit talking, and we're going 721 00:38:33.079 --> 00:38:35.039 to go to a little break. When we come back, 722 00:38:35.159 --> 00:38:38.159 you can be the first up this Sunday morning seven 723 00:38:38.239 --> 00:38:41.760 one three two one two k t R seven one 724 00:38:41.800 --> 00:38:46.000 three two one two kt r H. When I come back, 725 00:38:46.119 --> 00:38:49.000 I'll be discussing a few things that I think are 726 00:38:49.039 --> 00:38:52.239 timely for those of you who have lawns and gardens 727 00:38:52.239 --> 00:38:54.320 and trees. I still want to have that conversation about 728 00:38:54.320 --> 00:38:59.519 fruit trees that are less prone to disease issues. But 729 00:38:59.639 --> 00:39:11.800 we'll get that and when we come back. All right, folks, 730 00:39:12.519 --> 00:39:15.119 we're back. Welcome back to garden Line. I'm your host, 731 00:39:15.199 --> 00:39:18.599 Skip Richter. And what are we doing here, Well, we're 732 00:39:18.639 --> 00:39:21.320 here to help you have a bountiful garden, a beautiful landscape, 733 00:39:21.320 --> 00:39:24.519 and more fun in the process. That's what we would 734 00:39:24.559 --> 00:39:29.880 love to happen, because gardening's supposed to be fun. You 735 00:39:30.280 --> 00:39:33.000 want to beautify your place just so you appreciate the 736 00:39:33.039 --> 00:39:35.320 look of it. You want to make your gardens more 737 00:39:35.360 --> 00:39:37.519 bountiful so you have more flowers. Maybe you want to 738 00:39:37.519 --> 00:39:40.480 cut flower garden. That's something we don't talk about much 739 00:39:40.519 --> 00:39:42.360 here that we can help you with that as well. 740 00:39:43.320 --> 00:39:45.599 Maybe you want vegetables and herbs, and you like things 741 00:39:45.679 --> 00:39:48.559 you can eat, like fruit trees for example. That's another 742 00:39:48.559 --> 00:39:53.639 good idea. We certainly can do that. Regarding fruit trees 743 00:39:53.639 --> 00:39:55.119 i mentioned, I want to talk about some that you 744 00:39:55.119 --> 00:39:58.480 don't spray so much. First of all, blueberries. Blueberries do 745 00:39:58.559 --> 00:40:00.960 not require a lot of sprays. That does not mean 746 00:40:01.119 --> 00:40:03.960 that there's no insects or diseases it can attack of blueberry. 747 00:40:04.280 --> 00:40:07.559 It just means that, unlike some plants probably on the 748 00:40:07.599 --> 00:40:10.960 spray end of the spectrum, or grapes and apples and 749 00:40:11.000 --> 00:40:14.360 peaches for example, those are three that you're gonna have 750 00:40:14.360 --> 00:40:17.960 hard time raising them without significant losses if you don't 751 00:40:18.000 --> 00:40:20.519 do some spray in here in our climate an area. 752 00:40:20.719 --> 00:40:23.639 But blueberries is not so much. Figs another one. Yes, 753 00:40:23.719 --> 00:40:25.800 they get some rust on the leaves and things, but 754 00:40:26.400 --> 00:40:30.719 in general figs don't require a lot of spraying. Per Simmons. 755 00:40:31.119 --> 00:40:34.360 Per Simmons is the Rodney Dangerfield of all the fruit. 756 00:40:34.400 --> 00:40:37.239 Y'all remember Rodney Dangerfield, the guy that couldn't get any respect, 757 00:40:37.280 --> 00:40:41.039 can't get any respect. Well, that's per simmons. It's a 758 00:40:41.119 --> 00:40:44.039 wonderful fruit. It tastes grayes like a bag full of 759 00:40:44.280 --> 00:40:49.119 yummy jelly or good ripe soft percentmon. They grow wild. 760 00:40:49.239 --> 00:40:52.559 We have wild per simmons here in the southeastern United States, 761 00:40:52.559 --> 00:40:57.800 including that's part of Texas, and you you just don't 762 00:40:57.800 --> 00:40:59.960 have to spray them. You just don't. You can raise 763 00:41:00.159 --> 00:41:04.519 those without sprays. Jujubis they have their own issues, but 764 00:41:04.800 --> 00:41:06.719 jujubis are not one that you're going to have to 765 00:41:06.719 --> 00:41:09.199 do a lot of spraying on. Another good one that 766 00:41:09.280 --> 00:41:12.039 you could grow. And there's some others. So if you're 767 00:41:12.039 --> 00:41:14.440 looking to have fruit but you don't want to have 768 00:41:14.519 --> 00:41:17.079 to do a lot of spraying, those are some ideas 769 00:41:17.079 --> 00:41:18.760 to kind of help you get off to a good start. 770 00:41:20.320 --> 00:41:24.559 Ace Hardware stores are the place to get everything you 771 00:41:24.639 --> 00:41:30.119 need for your lawn garden care, everything from houseplants to 772 00:41:30.239 --> 00:41:33.400 outdoor lawns, to trees, shrubs and vegetables and so on, 773 00:41:33.559 --> 00:41:36.880 rose bushes. Ace Hardware's got all the products for that, 774 00:41:37.039 --> 00:41:40.880 from fertilizers to pest control and disease control to weed control. 775 00:41:41.079 --> 00:41:45.760 We'd prevention, we'd killing existing weeds and then making outdoor 776 00:41:45.800 --> 00:41:49.159 areas so beautiful, so beautiful I was in an ACE 777 00:41:49.920 --> 00:41:53.920 story yesterday and looking at some of the different product lines, 778 00:41:54.000 --> 00:41:57.119 and I'm telling you that I was very impressed with 779 00:41:57.719 --> 00:42:00.840 the breadth of products that they had for covering a 780 00:42:00.880 --> 00:42:04.039 lot of different kinds of issues, including fertilizers and things 781 00:42:04.199 --> 00:42:05.880 that you hear me talk about. Here on guard Line, 782 00:42:06.199 --> 00:42:09.280 you can go to Acehardwaretexas dot com. Don't forget the 783 00:42:09.320 --> 00:42:12.360 Texas ACE Hardware Texas dot com that gives you the 784 00:42:12.440 --> 00:42:16.400 list of my area ACE Hardware stores here on guard line, 785 00:42:16.880 --> 00:42:19.000 and you can find one near you where you will 786 00:42:19.039 --> 00:42:21.599 go and see some really cool stuff. And I'll promise 787 00:42:21.639 --> 00:42:23.679 you this, when you go into ACE, You're going to 788 00:42:23.760 --> 00:42:26.159 see a number of things where you go, oh, I 789 00:42:26.199 --> 00:42:29.440 didn't expect that to be here, really cool stuff. We 790 00:42:29.480 --> 00:42:31.760 walked into the one yesterday. We're over at Langham Creek, 791 00:42:32.800 --> 00:42:35.280 and when we first walked in, just look off to 792 00:42:35.320 --> 00:42:39.119 the right and there's all these things for indoors, beautifying 793 00:42:39.400 --> 00:42:43.440 inside the home kitchen and all just lots of cool stuff. 794 00:42:43.800 --> 00:42:46.320 You look to the right and oh, there's the barbecue pits, 795 00:42:46.480 --> 00:42:49.119 and boy they're barbecue pits at ICE. You know they've 796 00:42:49.159 --> 00:42:52.360 got some specials going on still right now, in barbecue pits. 797 00:42:52.400 --> 00:42:54.519 And we're talking about name brands, you know, things like 798 00:42:54.639 --> 00:42:59.760 Big Green Egg and Trager and Rectech and Weber for 799 00:42:59.800 --> 00:43:03.199 Ale and all of the bling you need to go 800 00:43:03.280 --> 00:43:06.480 with them, all of the accessories and everything else. You're 801 00:43:06.480 --> 00:43:08.599 going to find it at your local ACE Hardware store. 802 00:43:08.679 --> 00:43:12.119 Just go to ACE Hardware Texas dot com and find 803 00:43:12.159 --> 00:43:15.119 your stores and there's gonna be more than one within 804 00:43:15.159 --> 00:43:19.480 a reasonable distance to you. That's what I love about ACE. 805 00:43:19.559 --> 00:43:24.079 It's all the options. All right, Let's go out to 806 00:43:24.280 --> 00:43:26.559 sugar Land now and we are going to visit with 807 00:43:26.679 --> 00:43:30.159 Debbie this morning. Hello Debbie, Hi. 808 00:43:30.000 --> 00:43:35.000 Good morning. Thank you for taking my call. Can you 809 00:43:35.039 --> 00:43:37.880 tell me what to do with the tree stump that 810 00:43:38.000 --> 00:43:41.800 has I think it's funcus little white things growing out 811 00:43:41.800 --> 00:43:45.119 of it. They're not mushrooms, but they're all over the base. 812 00:43:45.280 --> 00:43:50.159 Okay, what do you want out of that tree stump? 813 00:43:50.320 --> 00:43:53.039 Do you want it gone? Do you want to decorate it? 814 00:43:53.280 --> 00:43:56.039 You know? What? What are you? What is your desires? Well? 815 00:43:56.119 --> 00:43:59.199 Gone would be good, but I have plants on top 816 00:43:59.239 --> 00:44:01.519 of it. Now that decorative. 817 00:44:02.920 --> 00:44:07.360 Okay, okay, well gone would mean having somebody come out 818 00:44:07.400 --> 00:44:10.920 with a stump grinder. Affordable treat gets that as do others, 819 00:44:11.760 --> 00:44:13.880 and grinding the whole thing out. If you want to 820 00:44:13.960 --> 00:44:15.960 leave it for now as a place to set plants 821 00:44:15.960 --> 00:44:19.280 and maybe try to you know, do some decorating around it. 822 00:44:20.079 --> 00:44:22.679 You can put plants on the top that cascade over 823 00:44:22.679 --> 00:44:25.079 the sides. You can you can plant an ivy that 824 00:44:25.159 --> 00:44:26.880 mounds up over the top of it. I mean, there's 825 00:44:26.920 --> 00:44:29.840 different ways. If you want it to rot away faster, 826 00:44:30.480 --> 00:44:33.920 drilling holes down in it, big old half inch drill. 827 00:44:34.000 --> 00:44:36.440 Just go straight down as deep as you can with 828 00:44:36.519 --> 00:44:38.920 the drill and drill a whole bunch of holes in it. 829 00:44:39.159 --> 00:44:42.199 And you can put things like even just piling compost 830 00:44:42.280 --> 00:44:46.119 over it and then keeping it moist will really speed 831 00:44:46.159 --> 00:44:47.840 the Decay'd be like if you took a little piece 832 00:44:47.840 --> 00:44:50.159 of two by four and you put it underneath all 833 00:44:50.199 --> 00:44:52.920 your mulch against the soil where it was wet all 834 00:44:52.960 --> 00:44:55.360 the time, and you know, moist that tube before is 835 00:44:55.360 --> 00:44:57.519 going to rot pretty quick. You can make the stump 836 00:44:57.760 --> 00:45:00.360 rot faster that way. If you want to make the 837 00:45:00.920 --> 00:45:03.559 slower approach to getting rid of it, and all the 838 00:45:03.639 --> 00:45:07.639 major roots that come out at the surface, you know 839 00:45:07.719 --> 00:45:10.119 that flare out and go in all directions getting all 840 00:45:10.159 --> 00:45:14.039 that decayed. The more you cover it up with wet 841 00:45:14.400 --> 00:45:17.320 organic matter and soil, the faster it'll decompose. 842 00:45:17.559 --> 00:45:25.000 Oh okay, so are these things growing out of it fungus? 843 00:45:25.880 --> 00:45:31.800 Yes. The number one thing to decay wood is our fungi. 844 00:45:32.039 --> 00:45:35.440 You know, we got things like bacteria and actinomycets and 845 00:45:35.480 --> 00:45:37.840 all kinds of microbes that decay stuff in the soil. 846 00:45:38.239 --> 00:45:40.880 When it gets to wood, all that lignant. It's hard 847 00:45:40.920 --> 00:45:44.719 to Bacteria have trouble breaking that down. But fungi it's 848 00:45:44.800 --> 00:45:47.599 not a problem at all. So whenever you see white 849 00:45:47.639 --> 00:45:50.519 stuff in the mulch in your yard, or white stuff 850 00:45:50.559 --> 00:45:52.840 growing underneath a piece of wood land on the ground, 851 00:45:53.400 --> 00:45:55.920 that just means fungi or on the job and they're 852 00:45:55.960 --> 00:45:57.199 turning it back into soil. 853 00:45:58.360 --> 00:46:01.000 Oh okay, thank you very much. 854 00:46:01.519 --> 00:46:09.519 All right, all right, all right, bye bye. The folks 855 00:46:09.559 --> 00:46:12.559 at Medina have a lot of great products, and you know, 856 00:46:12.599 --> 00:46:15.320 I always kind of think, well, what is the product 857 00:46:15.360 --> 00:46:16.880 to tell you I talk about has to grow six 858 00:46:16.960 --> 00:46:19.519 twelve six plant food. I use it like as a 859 00:46:19.559 --> 00:46:22.559 transplant solution, but that's just one way you can use it. 860 00:46:23.039 --> 00:46:24.960 But I want to tell you about Medina Plus today 861 00:46:25.199 --> 00:46:30.440 Medina Plus is basically Medina Soil Activator plus over forty 862 00:46:30.440 --> 00:46:33.559 different trace elements. Lots of growth hormones are in there, 863 00:46:34.159 --> 00:46:37.119 and those nutrients, you know, the things like magnesium and 864 00:46:37.119 --> 00:46:40.719 iron and zinc, and then even vitamins and stuff are 865 00:46:40.800 --> 00:46:44.559 in that concoction. You're going to see benefits in many 866 00:46:44.599 --> 00:46:47.239 ways to your plants. You can use it as a drench, 867 00:46:47.320 --> 00:46:48.920 but I would use it as a fold of your 868 00:46:48.920 --> 00:46:51.079 feet as well. You can just pour it over or 869 00:46:51.079 --> 00:46:52.960 spray it on the foliage of plants, let it go 870 00:46:53.000 --> 00:46:55.480 down in the soil as well, doesn't matter what kind 871 00:46:55.519 --> 00:46:58.639 of planet it is. Medina Plus works and people that 872 00:46:58.679 --> 00:47:01.320 have used it and know that Medina Soil Activator has 873 00:47:01.320 --> 00:47:04.039 been around a long time and now they've just taken 874 00:47:04.079 --> 00:47:07.880 it up another level with the essential micronutrients and the 875 00:47:07.880 --> 00:47:11.480 hormones from seaweed extract to the Medina pross product that 876 00:47:11.760 --> 00:47:14.360 is outstanding. I need to take a little break here. 877 00:47:14.679 --> 00:47:17.360 We will be back with your calls in just a moment. 878 00:47:17.920 --> 00:47:20.679 Welcome back to garden Line. Good to be with you today. 879 00:47:21.280 --> 00:47:22.679 What do you want to talk about? You want to 880 00:47:22.679 --> 00:47:25.719 talk about vegetables or fruit or flowers or growing a 881 00:47:25.920 --> 00:47:30.119 cut flower garden. Maybe making sure your trees are the 882 00:47:30.199 --> 00:47:32.800 ones that want to grow here, you know, planting. What 883 00:47:32.840 --> 00:47:34.960 are the varieties of trees and the types of trees 884 00:47:34.960 --> 00:47:37.280 that do well here. We have a lot of options. 885 00:47:37.360 --> 00:47:40.280 I mean, we're fortunate in this area to have a 886 00:47:40.440 --> 00:47:44.159 lot of different options for trees. Just something to think 887 00:47:44.159 --> 00:47:47.199 about is back in the day, as we say, I 888 00:47:47.199 --> 00:47:49.119 don't know when the day was, but people say, back 889 00:47:49.119 --> 00:47:52.239 in the day, back in the day, our lots in 890 00:47:52.360 --> 00:47:56.719 the in towns were huge, you know, a third of 891 00:47:56.719 --> 00:47:59.000 an acre lot. I mean, there are big lots back 892 00:47:59.039 --> 00:48:02.719 in those time. There still are, but it was common 893 00:48:02.760 --> 00:48:06.320 and you could plant this giant, beautiful big tree and 894 00:48:06.480 --> 00:48:08.679 live oaks and all kinds of things that just spread 895 00:48:08.679 --> 00:48:13.119 out and it's all good. Now lots just keep getting 896 00:48:13.159 --> 00:48:15.800 smaller and smaller. You drive by neighborhoods where it looks like, 897 00:48:15.880 --> 00:48:17.480 you know what, I think he could reach out his 898 00:48:17.599 --> 00:48:20.559 window and close his neighbor's blinds from the house because 899 00:48:20.599 --> 00:48:24.280 they're so close together. And that kind of a lot. 900 00:48:24.440 --> 00:48:27.000 You need a smaller tree, and we have medium sized trees. 901 00:48:27.000 --> 00:48:29.719 We have small sized trees too, some that are very small. 902 00:48:29.760 --> 00:48:31.480 One of my favorite trees I've been saying that this 903 00:48:31.599 --> 00:48:37.119 spring is the Chinese fringe tree is at It grows 904 00:48:37.159 --> 00:48:40.119 at a moderate rate and it gets to a medium 905 00:48:40.159 --> 00:48:43.320 size medium to small, depending on what you call medium 906 00:48:43.360 --> 00:48:45.920 and what you call small. But we had one at 907 00:48:45.960 --> 00:48:49.679 the Bear Creek Extension Office before some floods took that away. 908 00:48:50.440 --> 00:48:53.840 At the tree I think is still there, it was 909 00:48:53.960 --> 00:48:59.679 probably twenty twenty five feet even tall it had gotten. 910 00:49:00.000 --> 00:49:04.159 It's pretty large for a Chinese fringe. But in blooms 911 00:49:04.159 --> 00:49:06.519 in the spring, with shaggy white blooms that are fragrant, 912 00:49:06.679 --> 00:49:10.159 honey fragrant, it is just nice. We've got crape myrtles 913 00:49:10.239 --> 00:49:13.559 like natches, which is a white blooming crpe myrtle with 914 00:49:13.800 --> 00:49:19.119 gorgeous cinnamon colored bark, exfoliating bark that like crape myrtles have, 915 00:49:19.920 --> 00:49:21.960 and that would be a nice So you can train 916 00:49:22.039 --> 00:49:24.199 it to a single trunk make a really nice little 917 00:49:24.199 --> 00:49:26.639 tree out of that. There are many other examples. Those 918 00:49:26.679 --> 00:49:28.679 are just two of what I'm talking about. But if 919 00:49:28.679 --> 00:49:31.320 you're picking a tree for your place, think about things 920 00:49:31.400 --> 00:49:33.880 like what do I want it for? Do I want 921 00:49:33.920 --> 00:49:35.719 it to shade the roof of my house or a 922 00:49:35.719 --> 00:49:38.519 western wall or a back patio, So in the summer, 923 00:49:38.559 --> 00:49:41.559 I can go out there and enjoy it, enjoy the 924 00:49:41.800 --> 00:49:45.039 break from the sun. Do I want something with blooms 925 00:49:45.039 --> 00:49:47.400 that I can look at? Remember this, when you plant 926 00:49:47.400 --> 00:49:52.440 a tree like that thirty foot tall soon to be natches, well, 927 00:49:52.599 --> 00:49:54.639 you can see blooms, but you got to look straight 928 00:49:54.719 --> 00:49:56.480 up to see them. Because they're way up there in 929 00:49:56.519 --> 00:49:59.199 the air, you don't notice them as much. If you 930 00:49:59.239 --> 00:50:02.719 want something that looms and people driving by can appreciate, 931 00:50:02.840 --> 00:50:04.360 or when you drive up to your home you can 932 00:50:04.360 --> 00:50:08.719 appreciate the blooms, maybe one of the shrub slash trees, 933 00:50:08.800 --> 00:50:12.280 and there are plants that in a sense. Crape myrtle 934 00:50:12.320 --> 00:50:14.639 can almost be that, but it can either be like 935 00:50:14.639 --> 00:50:16.599 a large shrub or it can be a small tree. 936 00:50:17.199 --> 00:50:20.519 A good example you know of things that are like 937 00:50:20.599 --> 00:50:26.760 a shrub slash tree would be something like yopan can 938 00:50:26.800 --> 00:50:30.880 make a very small tree or a shrub. Southern wax 939 00:50:30.960 --> 00:50:33.760 myrtle can make a very small tree or a shrub. 940 00:50:33.800 --> 00:50:36.360 You can train it to a single trunk and nice 941 00:50:36.599 --> 00:50:40.000 like out beside a patio or something like that. I 942 00:50:40.079 --> 00:50:43.039 mentioned crape myrtles. There are other examples, though, of things 943 00:50:43.119 --> 00:50:46.880 that fit that Bill Vitex is one of my favorite 944 00:50:46.960 --> 00:50:50.920 trees slash shrubs. Vitex doesn't want to be a tree, 945 00:50:50.960 --> 00:50:53.760 it wants to be a multi stem shrub. I'm working 946 00:50:53.800 --> 00:50:55.719 on a pruning system right now to see if it 947 00:50:55.800 --> 00:51:00.119 works to turn my Vitex into a small tree with 948 00:51:00.119 --> 00:51:03.760 a single trunk. Don't try this at home, by text 949 00:51:03.880 --> 00:51:06.280 will fight you. But if I figured it out, I'll 950 00:51:06.280 --> 00:51:08.320 tell you if I figure out something that works, I'm 951 00:51:08.320 --> 00:51:10.199 in the middle. I think I'm gonna win, but we'll see. 952 00:51:10.599 --> 00:51:14.239 Vy text gets the last word on that. But anyway, 953 00:51:14.239 --> 00:51:17.800 texts beautiful blue purple blooms all through summer. There is 954 00:51:17.800 --> 00:51:23.719 a white blooming form as well. Hummingbirds, beneficial insects that 955 00:51:23.840 --> 00:51:28.920 like flower pollinators love it, butterflies even And it's just 956 00:51:28.960 --> 00:51:31.000 a good tree. And it blooms in the summer for 957 00:51:31.079 --> 00:51:33.239 crying out loud. If you shear it back, you can 958 00:51:33.280 --> 00:51:36.039 even get it to bloom again. It blooms on the terminals. 959 00:51:36.400 --> 00:51:38.519 So that's a really good tree to plant. So think 960 00:51:38.519 --> 00:51:40.760 about that. How big is your place? Where do you 961 00:51:40.800 --> 00:51:44.360 want to view the tree from? You know, are you 962 00:51:44.400 --> 00:51:46.280 gonna are you going to sit under it for shade 963 00:51:46.360 --> 00:51:48.039 or are you going to get some flowers. There are 964 00:51:48.079 --> 00:51:50.599 even trees that produce fruit of course that could be used. 965 00:51:51.320 --> 00:51:54.559 So anyway, consider that gets you a nice tree that 966 00:51:54.559 --> 00:51:55.880 does well. I tell you a good place to get 967 00:51:55.920 --> 00:51:59.320 tree period is RCW Nursery. They grow their own trees 968 00:51:59.400 --> 00:52:03.039 up there and Plantsville. RCW is located where Tomball Parkway 969 00:52:03.039 --> 00:52:08.440 and belt Way eight come together, and they absolutely have 970 00:52:08.519 --> 00:52:11.039 the best that you're going to see. It could be 971 00:52:11.119 --> 00:52:14.239 down you know, small shrubs, yopon, dorfiopon, different things like that, 972 00:52:14.360 --> 00:52:17.159 azaleas and whatnot. Certainly roses got one of the best 973 00:52:17.199 --> 00:52:20.119 selection of roses anywhere. But when it comes to trees, 974 00:52:20.360 --> 00:52:22.920 they bring them in, you know, from fifteen gallons on 975 00:52:23.039 --> 00:52:27.400 up the two hundred gallons ornamental tree shade trees. Their 976 00:52:27.559 --> 00:52:30.119 species and varieties that want to grow here, that's what 977 00:52:30.159 --> 00:52:32.679 they raise. As they grow these, they grow them right, 978 00:52:32.880 --> 00:52:37.880 so you get a well anchored, nice trained plant when 979 00:52:37.880 --> 00:52:39.760 you buy it. You can plant it yourself. You can 980 00:52:39.800 --> 00:52:41.840 have RCW plant for you either way you want to go. 981 00:52:42.559 --> 00:52:46.519 But check out our CW Nurseries RCW Nurseries dot com. 982 00:52:46.559 --> 00:52:50.280 Tombo Parkway in Beltway eight easy access, and I'll promise 983 00:52:50.320 --> 00:52:53.079 you this you will get a quality tree. It is 984 00:52:53.159 --> 00:52:56.079 the place to get your trees just they just do 985 00:52:56.199 --> 00:52:59.159 an outstanding job. And of course I'm not even talking 986 00:52:59.159 --> 00:53:01.800 about all the other cool stuff from color and flowers 987 00:53:01.800 --> 00:53:05.360 and vegetables and herbs that they have there at RCW. 988 00:53:06.639 --> 00:53:10.000 I love it. If you have not done an azamite 989 00:53:10.000 --> 00:53:13.039 application to your lawn recently, you gota go ahead and 990 00:53:13.079 --> 00:53:17.280 get that done. We have our fertilizing seasons and if 991 00:53:17.360 --> 00:53:21.079 you go online to Gardening with Skip dot com, that's 992 00:53:21.119 --> 00:53:24.280 my website, Gardening with Skip. That's what we're doing here 993 00:53:24.320 --> 00:53:27.800 on guard line. There is a lawn care schedule on 994 00:53:27.920 --> 00:53:30.079 there and it tells you when to fertilize. It tells 995 00:53:30.079 --> 00:53:34.119 you what products to two sprum for that fertilization. Typically 996 00:53:34.159 --> 00:53:38.320 we're fertilizing in the spring and we're fertilizing in the 997 00:53:38.360 --> 00:53:41.440 fall as the two primaries. Then we have a midsummer 998 00:53:41.440 --> 00:53:45.239 fertilization we can do where if your lawn needs a 999 00:53:45.239 --> 00:53:48.199 little extra boost or maybe used a product that doesn't 1000 00:53:48.320 --> 00:53:50.159 last a long time, you could come back and do 1001 00:53:50.239 --> 00:53:55.239 that third in the summer. But azamite is nutrients, but 1002 00:53:55.320 --> 00:53:59.599 it's nutrients that aren't the kind in a fertilizer with 1003 00:53:59.639 --> 00:54:02.239 three nombers on the bag that really push fast growth 1004 00:54:02.239 --> 00:54:05.760 and greenness. Azamite is a nutrient for all the things 1005 00:54:05.800 --> 00:54:09.320 that plants need that they have to have, that are essential, 1006 00:54:09.719 --> 00:54:12.559 that are needed in small amounts, and so you can 1007 00:54:12.639 --> 00:54:16.079 do azmite at any time. Most people will do as mite 1008 00:54:16.079 --> 00:54:18.559 when they fertilize, you know, they go out and spread 1009 00:54:18.599 --> 00:54:21.559 fertilizer and bring the hopper back, put azmite in it, 1010 00:54:21.639 --> 00:54:23.679 and go out and spread asmite. That's how you would 1011 00:54:23.679 --> 00:54:25.920 go about and do it. It could do it in either order, 1012 00:54:26.960 --> 00:54:28.920 so you could do it now. It's easy to remember 1013 00:54:28.960 --> 00:54:31.400 that way. But there's nine a month of the year 1014 00:54:31.440 --> 00:54:34.440 where you can't put azmite down and it doesn't take much. 1015 00:54:34.639 --> 00:54:36.519 Just you know, a forty four pound bag is going 1016 00:54:36.559 --> 00:54:40.159 to cover six to twelve thousand square feet, and so 1017 00:54:40.800 --> 00:54:42.840 the main thing is just make sure and get that 1018 00:54:42.880 --> 00:54:46.880 done periodically because that helps build that sole bank account 1019 00:54:46.960 --> 00:54:51.320 of nutrients. Very important. Hey, it's got a lot quiet 1020 00:54:51.320 --> 00:54:53.039 on the phone, sore. If anybody's got a call, be 1021 00:54:53.039 --> 00:54:55.039 happy to visit with you at seven one three two 1022 00:54:55.079 --> 00:54:58.480 one two ktrh. Otherwise I'm just gonna keep talking about things. 1023 00:54:58.480 --> 00:55:02.239 I'm interested in things that are important. You know, when 1024 00:55:02.679 --> 00:55:05.239 I worked with the AGR Life Extension Service as a 1025 00:55:05.239 --> 00:55:10.360 horticulturist for thirty five years here in Texas, we used 1026 00:55:10.360 --> 00:55:13.159 to say that the three things that make the phone 1027 00:55:13.239 --> 00:55:17.840 ring are trees, turf, and tomatoes, the three teas. The 1028 00:55:17.920 --> 00:55:20.840 way I like to put it is, everybody cares about 1029 00:55:20.880 --> 00:55:22.880 what's wrong with my lawn? How do I grow lawn? 1030 00:55:23.119 --> 00:55:26.320 All the long questions, and trees, what's wrong with my tree? 1031 00:55:26.360 --> 00:55:28.440 What's a good tree? How do I pert tree? All 1032 00:55:28.519 --> 00:55:30.719 that kind of tree questions. Those are the two big ones. 1033 00:55:30.719 --> 00:55:33.840 And then tomatoes. Tomatoes rule the garden. As I always say, 1034 00:55:33.840 --> 00:55:36.639 no one ever calls me about their Cole Robbie, it's all. 1035 00:55:37.119 --> 00:55:40.599 It's typically a tomato call, and other vegetables as well. 1036 00:55:40.880 --> 00:55:43.360 But the three tea's make the phone ring. And so 1037 00:55:43.400 --> 00:55:48.199 the turf, that's probably the biggest one. Lots of questions 1038 00:55:48.239 --> 00:55:52.159 about turf. And you know, people, well, my lawn is thin, 1039 00:55:52.760 --> 00:55:56.159 my lawn is it's getting weedy because the sunlight's hitting 1040 00:55:56.159 --> 00:55:59.880 the soil. The lawn is not thick. Trench bugs hit 1041 00:56:00.199 --> 00:56:02.719 last year, take all root ride has been affecting it. 1042 00:56:02.719 --> 00:56:07.239 It's compacted, and so the grass just isn't thriving a drought. 1043 00:56:07.400 --> 00:56:09.239 You know, it got kind of dry and died back 1044 00:56:09.280 --> 00:56:11.880 a little bit. What do I do Well, One of 1045 00:56:11.880 --> 00:56:13.760 the most important things if you want to have a 1046 00:56:13.760 --> 00:56:17.480 beautiful green lawn is to do a core aeration and 1047 00:56:17.519 --> 00:56:19.880 a compost top dressing. Now, why didn't I just say 1048 00:56:20.000 --> 00:56:25.440 aer ration. Well, it's because a core aerration pops plugs 1049 00:56:26.000 --> 00:56:28.800 of soil out of the ground and drops them on 1050 00:56:28.840 --> 00:56:31.400 the surface. It doesn't just push a hole in the ground. 1051 00:56:31.840 --> 00:56:34.320 And by opening it up that way, any fats that 1052 00:56:34.440 --> 00:56:39.119 you have, those dissolving plugs of soil get in around 1053 00:56:39.159 --> 00:56:42.239 the thatch and speed the decomposition of it. You open 1054 00:56:42.320 --> 00:56:45.239 up holes in the soil. You breathe life into your lawn. 1055 00:56:45.400 --> 00:56:48.039 You throw compost top dressing over it, just a thin 1056 00:56:48.119 --> 00:56:50.880 layer like a third of an inch compost top dressing 1057 00:56:50.920 --> 00:56:53.599 over the top of that. After you air rate and 1058 00:56:53.679 --> 00:56:56.760 you really have set your line up to bounce back 1059 00:56:56.840 --> 00:57:01.039 and look good, water infiltrates faster in those hole. Nutrients 1060 00:57:01.039 --> 00:57:03.559 can move down in there like your fertilizers and things. 1061 00:57:03.880 --> 00:57:08.360 It works. The folks at year round Houston serve inside 1062 00:57:08.400 --> 00:57:12.400 the Beltway inside belt Wait eight year round Houston Dot com. 1063 00:57:12.400 --> 00:57:16.119 That's the website year round, Houston dot com. You can 1064 00:57:16.159 --> 00:57:19.239 also give Cliff a call eight three to two eight 1065 00:57:19.360 --> 00:57:22.639 eight four fifty three thirty five. And if he's out 1066 00:57:22.719 --> 00:57:25.599 on a job, which he often is, uh, then just 1067 00:57:25.679 --> 00:57:27.960 leave a message and he will call you back very fast. 1068 00:57:27.960 --> 00:57:31.599 Eight three to two eight eight four fifty three thirty five. 1069 00:57:31.679 --> 00:57:34.000 Talk to them if you're inside the beltway, talk to 1070 00:57:34.039 --> 00:57:36.960 them about coming out and doing a core aeration and 1071 00:57:37.000 --> 00:57:41.639 compost top dressing on your lawn. Let's head to West 1072 00:57:41.719 --> 00:57:44.760 Houston now and we're going to visit with Gary. Hey, Gary, 1073 00:57:44.960 --> 00:57:46.039 welcome to garden line. 1074 00:57:46.719 --> 00:57:50.079 Yeah, good morning, Skip. Yeah, I wanted to call in 1075 00:57:50.039 --> 00:57:50.360 and talk. 1076 00:57:50.360 --> 00:57:53.159 I've got a small little I've got I think come 1077 00:57:53.199 --> 00:57:57.360 down from four plants, tomato plants in five gallon containers. 1078 00:57:57.519 --> 00:58:01.320 All right, I've got some what I thought was some 1079 00:58:01.400 --> 00:58:03.559 good soil. I couldn't find jungle land. They didn't have 1080 00:58:03.599 --> 00:58:05.440 it at Memorial City when I needed it. 1081 00:58:05.480 --> 00:58:09.119 But okay, so but I got some. 1082 00:58:09.079 --> 00:58:11.599 Good stuff put it in there and put them in 1083 00:58:11.960 --> 00:58:14.960 about March first, and every every year, I've got some 1084 00:58:15.079 --> 00:58:18.199 kind of problem just the way it is, and I'm. 1085 00:58:18.039 --> 00:58:19.679 Happy to hang out through the break. 1086 00:58:19.719 --> 00:58:21.760 If nobody wants to call, but I want to talk 1087 00:58:21.800 --> 00:58:25.440 about the uh, the stress that I you know, it 1088 00:58:25.559 --> 00:58:30.719 drains through. It drains very very well, right, almost too good, 1089 00:58:31.719 --> 00:58:34.280 and I wanted to talk about and I'm not setting up, 1090 00:58:34.360 --> 00:58:36.800 at least not right now. I'm not setting up drip irrigation, 1091 00:58:37.199 --> 00:58:40.800 but wanted to talk about a way to keep it 1092 00:58:40.840 --> 00:58:44.880 from you know, it gets moist it drains quickly, dries 1093 00:58:44.960 --> 00:58:48.079 up quickly, and you know how it is. Maybe I 1094 00:58:48.119 --> 00:58:50.199 got to do two times a day, et cetera. But 1095 00:58:50.320 --> 00:58:53.960 I'm but I'm getting blossom and rot pretty bad on 1096 00:58:55.119 --> 00:58:58.559 a couple of them, and I've lost ten ten tomatoes. 1097 00:58:58.599 --> 00:59:00.599 I'm kind of used to that early in season, but 1098 00:59:00.719 --> 00:59:03.880 now I'm dealing with it now and I shouldn't be. 1099 00:59:06.039 --> 00:59:11.719 Okay, So here here's the deal. First of that. Yeah, yeah, So, 1100 00:59:11.840 --> 00:59:16.559 blossom endrite is primarily a fluctuation and soil moisture issue. 1101 00:59:16.639 --> 00:59:19.119 It's it's caused by lack of calcium to the tip 1102 00:59:19.159 --> 00:59:22.280 of the tomato, but it's there could be enough calcium 1103 00:59:22.280 --> 00:59:25.159 in your soil, so generally adding castium to the soil 1104 00:59:25.239 --> 00:59:28.599 doesn't fix it, but working on the fluctuation does. In 1105 00:59:28.639 --> 00:59:31.400 a real chunky mix it drains extra well, maybe almost 1106 00:59:31.480 --> 00:59:35.199 too well. Your tomato is more likely to go through 1107 00:59:35.199 --> 00:59:40.400 that too dry, too wet, or very wet to too dry. More. Also, 1108 00:59:40.599 --> 00:59:44.400 five gallons is really a minimum for growing a tomato, 1109 00:59:44.760 --> 00:59:47.519 unless it's just a little tiny dwarf tomato. Now when 1110 00:59:47.719 --> 00:59:50.039 when if you can give them more soil next next 1111 00:59:50.039 --> 00:59:52.199 time you do this, that would be helpful. Getting the 1112 00:59:52.320 --> 00:59:54.639 soil that holds moisture a little bit better but still 1113 00:59:54.719 --> 00:59:58.280 drains well would be important. Uh, And so that that's 1114 00:59:58.280 --> 01:00:01.599 what I would recommend. H blossom enrat tends to be 1115 01:00:01.639 --> 01:00:04.159 worse on the earlier tomatoes of the season, and not 1116 01:00:04.360 --> 01:00:06.480 as bad as time goes on. But you can have 1117 01:00:06.559 --> 01:00:10.000 it anytime if he goes see that moisture fluctuation, So 1118 01:00:10.119 --> 01:00:12.519 I would I would get a bigger a bigger plot 1119 01:00:12.599 --> 01:00:15.920 next time, and just do everything you can to keep 1120 01:00:15.920 --> 01:00:19.079 it moighty. It may mean water and twice a day. Yeah, 1121 01:00:19.159 --> 01:00:21.800 all right, I got about ten seconds here, Gary. 1122 01:00:22.559 --> 01:00:25.119 Okay, that's all right, that's good enough. I appreciate it. 1123 01:00:25.119 --> 01:00:29.320 Skip all right, Well, good luck with that. Give me 1124 01:00:29.320 --> 01:00:32.000 a call back sometime. We'll glad to continue this or 1125 01:00:32.039 --> 01:00:37.119 another conversation. All right, Uh, let's see here Chris in spring. 1126 01:00:37.159 --> 01:00:39.800 You'll be our first when we come back from this break. 1127 01:00:40.880 --> 01:00:42.480 Thank you all for listening to the Guarden Line. We 1128 01:00:42.679 --> 01:00:44.960 love to visit with you about planet that's not happy 1129 01:00:44.960 --> 01:00:47.880 place sitting and talking to gardeners about plants. I'll be 1130 01:00:48.000 --> 01:00:52.519 right back, all right, welcome back. Good have you with 1131 01:00:52.599 --> 01:00:57.480 us here on Garden Line. Listen. I keep telling you 1132 01:00:57.840 --> 01:00:59.840 that you need to go to Moss Nursery and see this. 1133 01:01:00.719 --> 01:01:02.880 I know everybody down there knows it. It must have 1134 01:01:02.880 --> 01:01:07.079 been around for a good night seventy years. So everybody 1135 01:01:07.079 --> 01:01:09.880 in the Seabrook area certainly knows it in that whole region. 1136 01:01:10.559 --> 01:01:12.199 But for the rest of you, it is worth a 1137 01:01:12.280 --> 01:01:14.559 trip down. You go down to Chema the boardwalk, get 1138 01:01:14.599 --> 01:01:16.760 your buy to eat, and run over to Moss Nursery 1139 01:01:16.760 --> 01:01:21.599 and Seabrook and enjoy yourself. Eight acres crammed with gorgeous plants. 1140 01:01:21.639 --> 01:01:25.400 There are flowering things everywhere. I've been talking about bluemin trees. 1141 01:01:25.440 --> 01:01:28.599 I'm talking about shrubs and about flowers. Hanging baskets, Oh 1142 01:01:28.639 --> 01:01:32.159 my gosh, Jim has nice selection of hanging baskets there 1143 01:01:32.199 --> 01:01:36.079 at Moss. You know, every time I go, I just wander, 1144 01:01:36.599 --> 01:01:38.320 which is how you need to shop at Moss. Just 1145 01:01:38.360 --> 01:01:41.199 wander around, look at everything, and every time you turn 1146 01:01:41.239 --> 01:01:44.239 a corner, you're going to see something that's like what 1147 01:01:44.480 --> 01:01:46.679 is that? And it typically is some kind of piece 1148 01:01:46.679 --> 01:01:51.800 of artwork that's very unusual. But there are if you know, 1149 01:01:52.559 --> 01:01:55.559 it doesn't matter what kind of plant or interesting, Jim 1150 01:01:55.679 --> 01:01:58.239 is going to have really cool ones. Now. For example, 1151 01:01:58.239 --> 01:02:00.760 the birds and us were fern look like a fern. 1152 01:02:00.800 --> 01:02:03.679 It looks different, but it's with big, old, wide, strappy leaves. 1153 01:02:03.760 --> 01:02:05.960 He's got plenty of those. He has a new there's 1154 01:02:06.000 --> 01:02:08.400 a new kind of porch of laca that I've never seen. 1155 01:02:08.400 --> 01:02:13.719 This porch of laka molo kenniensis, I believe, is how 1156 01:02:13.760 --> 01:02:17.119 they say that heat and drought tolerant, very unusual looking plant. 1157 01:02:17.199 --> 01:02:19.719 You go into his greenhouses and who knows what you're 1158 01:02:19.719 --> 01:02:22.239 gonna find in there. Lots of things for the sun, 1159 01:02:22.519 --> 01:02:25.159 you know, things when it gets hot and it's humid 1160 01:02:25.199 --> 01:02:28.440 and it's blazing and you're like dying outside during the 1161 01:02:28.440 --> 01:02:31.280 middle of the day. Must have got the plants you 1162 01:02:31.320 --> 01:02:33.440 need to have out there in the garden. A mendavilla 1163 01:02:33.679 --> 01:02:37.599 is beautiful plant. There's one called sun parasol blueforia. That 1164 01:02:37.880 --> 01:02:39.599 if you've seen men of bell as before, you know 1165 01:02:39.599 --> 01:02:43.800 you're typically looking at some pinks and colors like that. Well, 1166 01:02:46.280 --> 01:02:49.360 men to be a sun blue blue foria. It's I 1167 01:02:49.440 --> 01:02:52.159 say that is a beautiful vine with just kind of 1168 01:02:52.159 --> 01:02:55.159 a purplish lavender bloom that is just gorgeous and all 1169 01:02:55.280 --> 01:02:57.320 kinds of tropical kinds of things. You know, if you 1170 01:02:57.440 --> 01:03:01.119 like for indoors or something like and in theoryum, those 1171 01:03:01.159 --> 01:03:04.880 are gorgeous plants with the colorful little bloom and leaf 1172 01:03:04.920 --> 01:03:08.079 structures on them. It doesn't matter what you're looking for. 1173 01:03:08.320 --> 01:03:10.360 Moss has it. But listen, you gotta go down, you 1174 01:03:10.400 --> 01:03:13.119 gotta walk around, you gotta see this place. It is 1175 01:03:13.320 --> 01:03:16.719 really really nice. And that includes containers. You're gonna find 1176 01:03:16.719 --> 01:03:18.559 a lot of containers there you don't see anywhere else. 1177 01:03:18.719 --> 01:03:22.280 But that's typical moss. They carry things as well as 1178 01:03:22.400 --> 01:03:24.840 the common things. They carry things that you don't see 1179 01:03:25.159 --> 01:03:27.880 just anywhere else. All you gotta do is go to 1180 01:03:27.880 --> 01:03:30.480 Toddville Road and Seabrook that's where they're located. Or go 1181 01:03:30.559 --> 01:03:34.559 to the website Moss Nursery dot com m aas by 1182 01:03:34.599 --> 01:03:36.920 the way, that's how we spell it. Let's go out 1183 01:03:36.920 --> 01:03:40.760 to spring. Now, let's Visabeth Chris. Hey Chris, welcome to 1184 01:03:40.800 --> 01:03:43.239 guard Line. Hey skop, good morning. 1185 01:03:43.760 --> 01:03:47.320 I was calling about excuse me, gray leafs, gray leaf spot. 1186 01:03:47.840 --> 01:03:51.440 I've had it, treated it the last four years and 1187 01:03:51.480 --> 01:03:55.800 it comes back almost every late March early April. 1188 01:03:56.679 --> 01:03:57.920 I treat it with dak. 1189 01:03:57.840 --> 01:03:59.840 Nel four ounces to one gallon of water. 1190 01:04:00.119 --> 01:04:00.760 I put some. 1191 01:04:01.519 --> 01:04:04.920 Turbo spreader so it sticks to the blades. So I 1192 01:04:04.960 --> 01:04:08.119 got it again. I treated it a month ago. It's 1193 01:04:08.199 --> 01:04:11.639 back now it's spread into my neighbors adjoining yard in 1194 01:04:11.719 --> 01:04:12.480 my backyard. 1195 01:04:13.159 --> 01:04:16.880 What am I doing wrong? And is this ever going 1196 01:04:16.960 --> 01:04:17.280 to stop? 1197 01:04:17.559 --> 01:04:24.360 Am I treating it right? Yeah? Well that's a good product. 1198 01:04:24.400 --> 01:04:26.960 Dknil is a good product for it. So is Eagle. 1199 01:04:27.119 --> 01:04:31.480 It is an Eagles a nitopas product that contains micaelobutan 1200 01:04:31.559 --> 01:04:34.079 nill and it's a systemic. It moves in and it 1201 01:04:34.119 --> 01:04:36.599 does a good job on a number of different turf 1202 01:04:36.679 --> 01:04:39.239 type diseases. So you might want to consider that one. 1203 01:04:40.320 --> 01:04:47.000 Great leaf spot is very environmentally related. So when we 1204 01:04:47.199 --> 01:04:49.559 go from the cooler spring and it warms up a 1205 01:04:49.599 --> 01:04:52.760 little bit going into summer and then you get a 1206 01:04:52.800 --> 01:04:55.360 lot of leaf wetness. It could be rain it could 1207 01:04:55.360 --> 01:04:58.559 be irrigation, but just keeping those grass blades a little 1208 01:04:58.599 --> 01:05:03.559 on the wet side and also in shade. It's even worse. 1209 01:05:04.519 --> 01:05:07.679 Gray leaf spot takes off and does its thing. It's 1210 01:05:07.800 --> 01:05:13.119 primarily early late fall or excuse me, late spring to 1211 01:05:13.280 --> 01:05:17.840 about midsummer. A problem that we have here. So you 1212 01:05:17.880 --> 01:05:20.519 can treat it chemically, but the more you back off 1213 01:05:20.639 --> 01:05:25.559 on frequency of watering and the backing off a little 1214 01:05:25.599 --> 01:05:28.239 bit on nitrogen. Sometimes if you push it with too 1215 01:05:28.320 --> 01:05:32.239 much nitrogen, you make it prone to certain problems like 1216 01:05:32.800 --> 01:05:35.679 gray leaf spot. So those would be my tips for it, 1217 01:05:35.719 --> 01:05:38.920 other than that, you know, using the fungicides, but trying 1218 01:05:38.960 --> 01:05:40.599 to get in ahead of it. You know, but when 1219 01:05:40.639 --> 01:05:42.360 it's going to occur, and if you forget when it's 1220 01:05:42.360 --> 01:05:44.840 gonna occur, you can go to my schedule on at 1221 01:05:44.880 --> 01:05:47.400 gardening with skip dot com my lawn pest disease, and 1222 01:05:47.440 --> 01:05:49.880 we'd manage the schedule. I got a little bar in 1223 01:05:49.920 --> 01:05:52.480 there across the chart that shows when to look for 1224 01:05:52.519 --> 01:05:55.199 gray leaf spot and try to get ahead of rather 1225 01:05:55.199 --> 01:05:56.239 than reacting to it. 1226 01:05:57.039 --> 01:05:58.960 Okay, what should I do after I treat it? 1227 01:05:58.960 --> 01:06:02.559 Should I do some dinus soil exervators should do more 1228 01:06:02.599 --> 01:06:05.159 composts because I've already erated composts. You know, like your 1229 01:06:05.199 --> 01:06:08.159 schedule said, is there anything to do after post treatment? 1230 01:06:08.239 --> 01:06:11.800 Well, yeah, any kind of things like that are good 1231 01:06:11.800 --> 01:06:14.079 for the lawn, But as far as if you've treated 1232 01:06:14.159 --> 01:06:16.920 for the grey leaf spot, those other things aren't going 1233 01:06:16.960 --> 01:06:19.239 to make the grey leaf spot go away. And they're 1234 01:06:19.239 --> 01:06:22.199 just good for lawn grass, lawn grass growth and health 1235 01:06:22.239 --> 01:06:24.079 and strength and all that kind of thing. They're not 1236 01:06:24.159 --> 01:06:27.920 a they don't go after grey leaf spot. And how 1237 01:06:28.119 --> 01:06:29.880 is it that it's been a year where I've seen 1238 01:06:29.920 --> 01:06:35.320 a lot of pictures uh spores, uh spores from those spots. 1239 01:06:35.360 --> 01:06:37.880 There's little tiny black dots in the spots that are 1240 01:06:38.119 --> 01:06:40.519 you can't hardly see them with a naked eye. They 1241 01:06:41.400 --> 01:06:43.960 release spores that float around the yard and then they 1242 01:06:44.039 --> 01:06:48.039 land on a grass blade and they don't infect until 1243 01:06:48.079 --> 01:06:51.519 that grass blade stays wet for a certain period of time, 1244 01:06:51.760 --> 01:06:54.440 and then the spore, just like a wheat seed, sprouts 1245 01:06:54.559 --> 01:06:56.719 and it infects the leaf. And that's how you get 1246 01:06:56.760 --> 01:06:57.280 more of it. 1247 01:06:58.440 --> 01:07:01.320 Okay, because this in my backyard too. My backyard's pretty 1248 01:07:01.320 --> 01:07:03.719 big and it's it's pretty hard to treat with the 1249 01:07:03.719 --> 01:07:07.119 pump spray it'd be be back there for several hours. 1250 01:07:07.159 --> 01:07:08.679 I don't know, this is going to leave the backyard 1251 01:07:08.679 --> 01:07:09.880 alone and see what happens. 1252 01:07:11.920 --> 01:07:17.960 Well, the the eagle is a granule, and so you 1253 01:07:17.960 --> 01:07:20.440 could put it out with your fertilizer spreader. That would 1254 01:07:20.480 --> 01:07:21.119 be another option. 1255 01:07:21.159 --> 01:07:22.480 Okay, it's a spreader. 1256 01:07:22.519 --> 01:07:26.440 Okay, good deal. Nitrofoss Eagle, Yeah, nitropos egle. 1257 01:07:26.880 --> 01:07:28.039 All right, thank you sir. 1258 01:07:30.039 --> 01:07:33.119 All right, you bet, you bet appreciate the call. Yeah. 1259 01:07:33.199 --> 01:07:35.719 Nit Frous Eagle is one of the many products from 1260 01:07:35.800 --> 01:07:39.199 Nitrofoss that works really well on problems like that gray 1261 01:07:39.239 --> 01:07:44.199 leaf spot. The Michaelo butte to nil is a systemic 1262 01:07:44.239 --> 01:07:47.840 fungicide moves into the plant tissues and it lasts a while. 1263 01:07:48.000 --> 01:07:51.360 So Dacani is a great product for leaf spots. You 1264 01:07:51.360 --> 01:07:54.920 get it on the leaf and it stops the spots there. 1265 01:07:55.360 --> 01:07:57.840 But the michael buttee goes into the plant tissue and 1266 01:07:57.920 --> 01:08:00.039 it's going to be around for longer. You know. I 1267 01:08:00.079 --> 01:08:03.119 ain't could wash the daconel off, but that microbutiny, being 1268 01:08:03.199 --> 01:08:06.079 locally systemic, is going to give you a little bit 1269 01:08:06.119 --> 01:08:08.000 better length of time. By the way, you can find 1270 01:08:08.039 --> 01:08:12.119 it places like M and D and Rosenberg on Avenue I. 1271 01:08:12.119 --> 01:08:14.960 If you go to Court Hardware in Stafford, they carry 1272 01:08:15.599 --> 01:08:18.560 products from Nitravas. That's on South Maine and then up 1273 01:08:18.600 --> 01:08:20.640 in Cyprus. The M and D and Cypress on Loveetta 1274 01:08:20.720 --> 01:08:26.560 Road carries Nitavas products as well. All right here, boy, 1275 01:08:26.640 --> 01:08:31.079 time is flying today. I'm telling you speaking of Nitrovass products. 1276 01:08:31.079 --> 01:08:35.119 The super turf, the nineteen four to ten silver bag 1277 01:08:35.359 --> 01:08:39.279 for summer. It will carry you if you put superturf 1278 01:08:39.279 --> 01:08:41.199 out now, if you haven't fertilized in let's say six 1279 01:08:41.239 --> 01:08:45.159 weeks with a slow release or anything. You've put superturf 1280 01:08:45.159 --> 01:08:46.760 out now and it'll carry all the way up to 1281 01:08:46.800 --> 01:08:50.279 your fall fertilization if you return your clippings and have 1282 01:08:50.439 --> 01:08:54.359 them recycle those nutrients back into the turf. Nitrovas Superturf 1283 01:08:54.520 --> 01:08:57.720 silver bag easy to spot from anywhere. You go to 1284 01:08:57.880 --> 01:09:00.920 Langham Creek Case Hardware on FM five to you go 1285 01:09:01.000 --> 01:09:03.439 up to the Woodlands to Auspa Ace or maybe down 1286 01:09:03.920 --> 01:09:07.399 down in the Kadi area to the Ace on Mason Road. 1287 01:09:07.479 --> 01:09:11.000 A single ranch all carry nit Foss products like that 1288 01:09:11.199 --> 01:09:14.520 super turf, so make sure and have it on hand 1289 01:09:14.960 --> 01:09:17.000 for the next time you're going to want to fertilize 1290 01:09:17.000 --> 01:09:22.560 because it works. I was visiting with the folks up 1291 01:09:22.560 --> 01:09:24.359 at D and D Feed the other asked up by 1292 01:09:24.439 --> 01:09:28.119 there and just checking out what they have in stock, 1293 01:09:28.199 --> 01:09:31.560 and as always it's a lot, boy, they have tons 1294 01:09:31.640 --> 01:09:33.600 of things. You know, of course, all the fertilizers I 1295 01:09:33.600 --> 01:09:36.279 talk about from nitrofoss and Microlife and turf Star from 1296 01:09:36.359 --> 01:09:40.319 Nelson and Medina, and they carry heirloom soils products there, 1297 01:09:41.000 --> 01:09:44.520 the Nelson plant food for the turf typeline and for 1298 01:09:44.600 --> 01:09:47.560 the little jars. They have both of those, and it 1299 01:09:47.760 --> 01:09:49.479 is just a good place to shop. You're going to 1300 01:09:49.560 --> 01:09:52.159 find a lot of things that you need for your 1301 01:09:52.239 --> 01:09:55.039 lawn and for your garden to have success. And some 1302 01:09:55.079 --> 01:09:57.479 really high quality pet foods too, in addition to the 1303 01:09:58.600 --> 01:10:02.159 feeds for livestock other things. D and D Feed's located 1304 01:10:02.239 --> 01:10:04.880 three miles west of two forty nine. It's three miles 1305 01:10:04.960 --> 01:10:08.439 west of two forty nine on Highway twenty nine to 1306 01:10:08.479 --> 01:10:11.039 twenty so, just west of tom Ball. Go by and 1307 01:10:11.039 --> 01:10:13.159 say hated the Dover family, Jeff and the whole crew 1308 01:10:13.239 --> 01:10:17.199 really there at D and D Feed and Supply. Let 1309 01:10:17.239 --> 01:10:18.720 me take a little break and we'll come back with 1310 01:10:18.720 --> 01:10:22.800 our last short segment. Here of this hour. All right, 1311 01:10:22.840 --> 01:10:26.079 thanks for hopping hopping here on Guardenline. Good to have 1312 01:10:26.119 --> 01:10:28.000 you back with us. You'd like to give me a 1313 01:10:28.039 --> 01:10:31.119 call seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy 1314 01:10:31.159 --> 01:10:33.079 four seven one three two one two fifty eight to 1315 01:10:33.079 --> 01:10:36.199 seventy four. Earlier today, I was visiting with someone and 1316 01:10:36.239 --> 01:10:41.680 they were asking me about managing mosquitoes and uh and 1317 01:10:42.159 --> 01:10:45.720 ants and other things like that. Well, well, Pest Brothers 1318 01:10:46.039 --> 01:10:50.199 is our go to pest control company in the Greater 1319 01:10:50.239 --> 01:10:52.479 Houston area. And when I say Greater Houston, I'm talking 1320 01:10:52.479 --> 01:10:55.000 about from the Woodlands, all the way down to Texas City, 1321 01:10:55.279 --> 01:10:57.560 from over in Katie, all the way across the Baytown. 1322 01:10:57.840 --> 01:11:00.600 They cover those areas and they deal with whatever pest 1323 01:11:00.680 --> 01:11:05.239 you have indoor pass cockroaches in the house, oh my gosh, uh, 1324 01:11:05.399 --> 01:11:09.119 fire ants outside, oh my goodness. And termites. Boy, you 1325 01:11:09.119 --> 01:11:11.119 talk about the one pass I can do the most 1326 01:11:11.520 --> 01:11:16.159 monetary damage to your home. That's termites. They have special 1327 01:11:16.399 --> 01:11:19.159 ways of dealing with them that are very effective but 1328 01:11:19.279 --> 01:11:22.560 also the safest possible manner. That's how Pest Brothers does 1329 01:11:22.600 --> 01:11:26.920 their business. You can go to the website Vpestbros dot 1330 01:11:26.960 --> 01:11:31.880 Com Thepestbros dot Com or give them a call seven 1331 01:11:32.039 --> 01:11:36.399 or two eight one two o six forty six seventy 1332 01:11:36.840 --> 01:11:40.920 two eight one two o six forty six seventy. I 1333 01:11:40.920 --> 01:11:43.319 don't know. Lots of people have been asking me about 1334 01:11:43.319 --> 01:11:45.840 their bucket system for mosquitoes because I talk about it. 1335 01:11:45.880 --> 01:11:48.439 I got some calls from college station and other places 1336 01:11:48.800 --> 01:11:51.399 the other day because I heard about it on guarden Line. Well, 1337 01:11:51.800 --> 01:11:54.520 ask them to tell you about their mosquito management system. 1338 01:11:54.560 --> 01:11:57.479 I call it the bucket system, but it is really 1339 01:11:57.520 --> 01:12:00.840 cool stuff. If you don't like mosquitos, you'll of this system, 1340 01:12:01.079 --> 01:12:03.199 that's for sure. We're going to go up now to 1341 01:12:03.239 --> 01:12:06.920 Northwest Houston and talk to Marcie. Hey, Marcy, welcome to garden. 1342 01:12:06.680 --> 01:12:10.199 Line High Skip. Good morning. My question is. 1343 01:12:11.720 --> 01:12:14.079 What is what is a female tree in. 1344 01:12:13.960 --> 01:12:15.399 A male tree? 1345 01:12:16.000 --> 01:12:19.800 Is that true that we are planting more male trees? 1346 01:12:20.239 --> 01:12:21.119 That's why we're. 1347 01:12:20.960 --> 01:12:22.880 Suffering from allergies. 1348 01:12:23.600 --> 01:12:25.560 I was reading something about Okay. 1349 01:12:27.239 --> 01:12:29.479 That is a great question. That is a great question. 1350 01:12:29.640 --> 01:12:34.600 Here's the deal. Uh huh, okay. 1351 01:12:34.800 --> 01:12:40.399 Sounds you because I have allergies right now, and I mean, 1352 01:12:40.920 --> 01:12:44.399 what's going on out there that they said that? Because 1353 01:12:44.399 --> 01:12:47.239 I'll tell you Okay, let me tell. 1354 01:12:47.079 --> 01:12:48.760 Me, let me, let me talk, and I'm going to 1355 01:12:48.800 --> 01:12:52.640 tell you Marcia. So here's the deal with male and female. 1356 01:12:52.800 --> 01:12:56.199 Here's the deal with male and female trees. Most trees, 1357 01:12:56.760 --> 01:13:00.960 Most plants are both male and female, like peach blossom 1358 01:13:01.000 --> 01:13:05.119 has male and female parts. Per simons have separate can 1359 01:13:05.159 --> 01:13:08.199 have separate male and female flowers on the same tree. 1360 01:13:08.560 --> 01:13:14.479 But some plants have separate male and female trees. Papayas 1361 01:13:14.520 --> 01:13:17.119 are an example of a tree that's male or female. 1362 01:13:17.239 --> 01:13:20.520 And when you're talking about allergies, the eastern red cedar, 1363 01:13:20.960 --> 01:13:26.159 the ash juniper in Central Texas, those are separate male 1364 01:13:26.199 --> 01:13:29.479 and female trees. And so there, if you plant the 1365 01:13:29.560 --> 01:13:33.000 female tree, you don't get pollen. But if you plant 1366 01:13:33.039 --> 01:13:34.760 a male tree, you do. And if you look at 1367 01:13:34.760 --> 01:13:37.720 a site at an ash juniper or a cedar, you 1368 01:13:37.760 --> 01:13:39.119 can't look at it and go, oh, that's a male 1369 01:13:39.199 --> 01:13:41.720 or female. It just you end up finding out that 1370 01:13:41.800 --> 01:13:45.479 it is. But in some plants that is separated. But 1371 01:13:45.560 --> 01:13:47.439 in general, we have a lot of allergies. We have 1372 01:13:47.479 --> 01:13:51.199 allergies to grass pollen, we have allergies to like elm 1373 01:13:51.640 --> 01:13:55.880 tree pollen. There's not male and female elm trees there's 1374 01:13:56.279 --> 01:13:59.239 there's not. But with the with the ash juniper in 1375 01:13:59.279 --> 01:14:01.039 the cedar, there are male and female trees, and it 1376 01:14:01.119 --> 01:14:03.279 would be nice if we could distinguish between the two 1377 01:14:03.880 --> 01:14:07.439 to avoid that kind of problem. And that is it 1378 01:14:07.560 --> 01:14:12.560 in a nutshell. Let's let's see here. Let's go to 1379 01:14:12.880 --> 01:14:17.279 Mike and Conroe. Hello, Mike, welcome to garden Line. How 1380 01:14:17.279 --> 01:14:21.880 you doing, Steve, I'm doing good. How are you today? 1381 01:14:22.960 --> 01:14:23.479 I'm great. 1382 01:14:24.520 --> 01:14:27.600 I'm building a house up in Conroe, not too far 1383 01:14:27.600 --> 01:14:31.680 from like the dam. Most of the properties kind of 1384 01:14:31.680 --> 01:14:37.239 a sandy loam on the property line. There's a My 1385 01:14:37.319 --> 01:14:42.279 neighbor has a shop that's relatively close, and I have 1386 01:14:42.319 --> 01:14:47.239 a section that I can see through. So I'm trying 1387 01:14:47.279 --> 01:14:52.560 to find something that will be in evergreen and totally 1388 01:14:52.640 --> 01:14:55.760 block out that view. I have some I don't know 1389 01:14:55.760 --> 01:15:00.199 if there's a little small seeds or some got a 1390 01:15:00.239 --> 01:15:02.920 little evergreen, but if they won't get much over seven 1391 01:15:03.000 --> 01:15:05.279 eight feet tall. I was just wanting to see what 1392 01:15:05.359 --> 01:15:09.600 your recommendation was. I appreciate it. 1393 01:15:09.680 --> 01:15:15.119 Okay, Well, what the first thing is to consider your 1394 01:15:15.359 --> 01:15:18.640 eye line of sight? You know, like, for example, if 1395 01:15:18.680 --> 01:15:21.079 someone is sitting down on a patio and a chair 1396 01:15:22.079 --> 01:15:24.359 You look at the line of sight to what you 1397 01:15:24.399 --> 01:15:26.680 want to block, and then consider how far it is 1398 01:15:26.760 --> 01:15:29.680 from you. The closer you put a bush to where 1399 01:15:29.720 --> 01:15:34.399 you were viewing from, the less tall that bush needs 1400 01:15:34.439 --> 01:15:36.319 to be in order to block the view. As you 1401 01:15:36.359 --> 01:15:38.800 get closer and closer to let's say the shop or 1402 01:15:38.840 --> 01:15:41.239 something you're wanting to block, you need a bigger and 1403 01:15:41.239 --> 01:15:44.399 bigger plant to fully block that view, so that that's 1404 01:15:44.520 --> 01:15:48.479 part of the decision in which plant to plant. Good 1405 01:15:49.199 --> 01:15:53.840 screening plants include things like there is a cherry laurel 1406 01:15:54.279 --> 01:15:58.079 that does very well. It's an evergreen. There's a several 1407 01:15:58.199 --> 01:16:01.239 cultivars of it. One's called brighton tight, and it makes 1408 01:16:01.279 --> 01:16:04.760 a taller screen in time. There are many hollies that 1409 01:16:04.840 --> 01:16:07.199 do a good job of that. In the native plant range, 1410 01:16:07.239 --> 01:16:10.079 we've got things like the southern wax myrtle. It's not 1411 01:16:10.119 --> 01:16:12.600 going to get super tall, but it will achieve some 1412 01:16:12.680 --> 01:16:15.680 height in time, maybe six feet or so in a 1413 01:16:15.720 --> 01:16:19.520 reasonable amount of time. And then there is a yopon 1414 01:16:20.119 --> 01:16:23.439 and any shrub, the more you share it, the denser 1415 01:16:23.479 --> 01:16:25.399 it becomes, and the better of a screen it becomes. 1416 01:16:25.439 --> 01:16:31.039 Yopon is also an evergreen plant that you could put in. 1417 01:16:31.680 --> 01:16:34.720 So those are a few plants that you might want 1418 01:16:34.720 --> 01:16:37.279 to consider. I don't think i'd do the mere lemon 1419 01:16:37.720 --> 01:16:41.560 there for various reasons. Number one, it's cold tender, and 1420 01:16:41.640 --> 01:16:44.000 so if you ended up getting a bad bed freeze, 1421 01:16:44.039 --> 01:16:46.720 then you've lost your screen and you're starting over. So 1422 01:16:46.720 --> 01:16:48.880 I'd rather go with something that's a little better. There's 1423 01:16:48.920 --> 01:16:52.720 also a plant called oh gosh, I just don't mind 1424 01:16:53.039 --> 01:16:54.880 on the name of it. I'm going to think of 1425 01:16:54.920 --> 01:17:00.640 it in a minute here. But Japanese You the Japanese 1426 01:17:00.800 --> 01:17:04.239 u gets quite tall and with a little shearing, makes 1427 01:17:04.279 --> 01:17:07.600 a really nice dense screen. Japanese u. You see these 1428 01:17:07.640 --> 01:17:11.000 around town, just with making a wall of foliage. So 1429 01:17:11.039 --> 01:17:15.720 those are a few options. All right, did I lose 1430 01:17:15.920 --> 01:17:19.079 I guess I lost them there. Okay, Well, let's see 1431 01:17:20.239 --> 01:17:22.520 I was talking about yesterday about Airloom soils and all 1432 01:17:22.520 --> 01:17:26.680 the different products they offer and the leaf mall compost. 1433 01:17:26.800 --> 01:17:29.680 They will bring leaf moll compost to your house in 1434 01:17:29.760 --> 01:17:33.520 a cubic yard supersack, drop it on the ground right 1435 01:17:33.560 --> 01:17:35.960 there in the driveway wherever you want it. But when 1436 01:17:35.960 --> 01:17:38.159 you do delivery on the supersacks, I believe they have 1437 01:17:38.199 --> 01:17:41.159 a three sack minimum for delivery, and there is spees 1438 01:17:41.199 --> 01:17:44.640 for delivery. Of course, anytime you're hauling bulky stuff around town, 1439 01:17:44.680 --> 01:17:47.560 there's an extra charge for sure on that. You can 1440 01:17:47.560 --> 01:17:49.560 get m a call if you don't go out to porter. 1441 01:17:49.880 --> 01:17:52.840 That's where the soil yard is located at Warren's Rock 1442 01:17:52.880 --> 01:17:56.119 and multch out there two eight, one, three five four 1443 01:17:56.279 --> 01:18:00.640 nineteen fifty scheduling things like that. Or you can just 1444 01:18:00.680 --> 01:18:05.079 go online to the Heirloom Soils website airloomsoils dot com. 1445 01:18:05.159 --> 01:18:08.159 You'll find there all of the products they offer, many 1446 01:18:08.199 --> 01:18:11.760 many things available by the bag at area garden centers 1447 01:18:11.760 --> 01:18:15.319 and feed stores and ace hardware stores and I mean 1448 01:18:15.399 --> 01:18:18.079 just all kinds of places. Southwest Fertilizer Course has them. 1449 01:18:18.880 --> 01:18:20.720 But either way you want to go about it, you're 1450 01:18:20.720 --> 01:18:22.479 going to find the product you need. Do you want 1451 01:18:22.479 --> 01:18:24.880 to grow veggies and herbs, get their veggie and herb mix. 1452 01:18:24.960 --> 01:18:27.119 It's outstanding. Do you want to fill in an area 1453 01:18:27.119 --> 01:18:29.319 of la lawn you're about to plant, get the lawn 1454 01:18:29.399 --> 01:18:33.800 mix that is outstanding. Whatever you're getting from Heirloom Soils 1455 01:18:33.960 --> 01:18:36.479 is going to be quality made and it's going to 1456 01:18:36.520 --> 01:18:39.760 be something that causes your plants to thrive in I 1457 01:18:39.800 --> 01:18:42.880 always say brown stuff before green stuff. Set the foundation 1458 01:18:43.119 --> 01:18:47.760 before you put in the plants. Heirloom soils awesome place 1459 01:18:47.920 --> 01:18:51.000 to get a very very solid foundation so you can 1460 01:18:51.039 --> 01:18:52.960 have success. Everybody's going to think you have a green 1461 01:18:53.000 --> 01:18:54.960 thumb and all you have is the phone number for 1462 01:18:55.000 --> 01:18:59.039 heirloom soils. That's it. That's how you do it. All right, 1463 01:19:00.520 --> 01:19:03.239 I am almost out of time here. Let's go ahead. 1464 01:19:03.239 --> 01:19:05.560 I'm gonna go to Huntsville here and talk to Charles. Charles, 1465 01:19:05.600 --> 01:19:07.199 I'll see if we can get it done. If not, 1466 01:19:07.319 --> 01:19:10.119 we'll hold you over and finish the after the top 1467 01:19:10.159 --> 01:19:10.560 of the hour. 1468 01:19:11.520 --> 01:19:15.439 I'm up here forty miles north of Huntsville, Alabama, in Tennessee. 1469 01:19:16.039 --> 01:19:19.039 My wife just bought a beautiful little Meyer lemon at 1470 01:19:19.039 --> 01:19:23.239 the nursery. It's in a pot about eighteen inches tall, 1471 01:19:23.720 --> 01:19:26.199 and it's about a foot and a half tall. When 1472 01:19:26.319 --> 01:19:29.880 is the best time to transplant that into a larger container, 1473 01:19:30.359 --> 01:19:33.720 which ultimately maybe its final container because we're gonna have 1474 01:19:33.720 --> 01:19:35.119 to wheel it inside in the winter. 1475 01:19:35.439 --> 01:19:41.039 Okay, okay, you're talking about a redbud. 1476 01:19:41.119 --> 01:19:43.359 Did you say, no, a Meyer? 1477 01:19:44.079 --> 01:19:46.840 What was the plant? Oh? Meyer lemon? I'm sorry, I'm 1478 01:19:46.840 --> 01:19:51.520 looking at another call Meyer lemon. Now do it now, get 1479 01:19:51.560 --> 01:19:53.920 it as much time as you can. They don't want 1480 01:19:53.920 --> 01:19:56.199 to grow in the cool season. They just want to 1481 01:19:56.199 --> 01:19:59.560 try to get by, and so I would do it asap. 1482 01:20:00.079 --> 01:20:03.520 It in the new spot. Put some good quality fertilizer 1483 01:20:04.119 --> 01:20:06.520 around it, watered in real good and keep it moist. 1484 01:20:06.560 --> 01:20:09.439 The most important thing on the containerized citrus like that 1485 01:20:09.600 --> 01:20:12.119 is don't let it dry out too much. I'm gonna 1486 01:20:12.359 --> 01:20:14.159 the music is about to cut me off. If you 1487 01:20:14.159 --> 01:20:16.279 want to hang around, we can continue this. If not, 1488 01:20:16.520 --> 01:20:21.119 I do wish you well. All right, folks, welcome back 1489 01:20:21.119 --> 01:20:22.960 to your guardline. Good to have you with us this morning. 1490 01:20:24.439 --> 01:20:26.640 Got some callers on hold here. We're about to get 1491 01:20:26.680 --> 01:20:30.680 to I wanted to make a statement about some liquid 1492 01:20:30.760 --> 01:20:35.199 products from Microlife. I use the Biomatrix. That is a 1493 01:20:35.359 --> 01:20:38.199 orange label liquid. It comes in quartz, comes in gallons. 1494 01:20:38.640 --> 01:20:40.600 I use it for a lot of things. It is 1495 01:20:41.079 --> 01:20:44.560 it's got primarily nitrogen in it, not much phosphorus, which 1496 01:20:44.640 --> 01:20:46.800 is okay for a lot of uses, and a moderate 1497 01:20:46.800 --> 01:20:50.520 amount of potassium. I use it for houseplants, anything, foliage, 1498 01:20:50.560 --> 01:20:53.479 indoors especially. It's very good for that. Now you can 1499 01:20:53.520 --> 01:20:56.000 go outdoors and you can provide the same boost to 1500 01:20:56.039 --> 01:20:57.800 whatever kind of plants that you're trying to get a 1501 01:20:57.800 --> 01:20:59.920 little bigger. And a lot of times, let me just 1502 01:21:00.039 --> 01:21:02.600 say something, a lot of times you'll see fertilizers for 1503 01:21:02.720 --> 01:21:05.279 blooming plants that had a lot of phosphorus in them, 1504 01:21:05.439 --> 01:21:09.000 and that's because phosphorus is very important for blooming. But 1505 01:21:09.119 --> 01:21:12.520 it's also important for blooming to have vigor in the plants. 1506 01:21:12.680 --> 01:21:16.359 If let's say you planted some trailing petunias this spring 1507 01:21:17.119 --> 01:21:19.920 and they're kind of dwindling a little bit, and you 1508 01:21:19.920 --> 01:21:21.720 know at some point here they're not going to bloom 1509 01:21:21.720 --> 01:21:25.119 as well. You when it starts to go downhill a 1510 01:21:25.159 --> 01:21:27.359 little bit, don't wait until it's not blooming at all, 1511 01:21:27.920 --> 01:21:30.119 cut it back, share it back, and then get you 1512 01:21:30.239 --> 01:21:34.439 a nitrogen type product to apply, like the biomatrix the 1513 01:21:34.439 --> 01:21:38.119 orange label, and apply to that plant to boost fresh 1514 01:21:38.159 --> 01:21:42.600 new foliage growth new leaves, and the leaves capture sunlight 1515 01:21:42.720 --> 01:21:46.600 and the sunlight in the plant is utilized to make 1516 01:21:46.840 --> 01:21:51.079 growth and to make blooms to make carbohydrates. So nitrogen 1517 01:21:51.199 --> 01:21:55.199 is important for blooming. Not overdoing nitrogen, but don't forget 1518 01:21:55.279 --> 01:21:57.840 that is also important. So that biometrix is just a 1519 01:21:57.880 --> 01:21:59.880 good product to use on a lot of different things, 1520 01:22:00.000 --> 01:22:04.199 a lot of situations. It's available from the folks at Microlife. 1521 01:22:05.720 --> 01:22:08.680 We're going to go back out to Huntsville, Alabama and 1522 01:22:08.840 --> 01:22:12.239 continue our conversation with Charles. Hey, Charles, welcome to guard lineback. 1523 01:22:12.479 --> 01:22:13.199 Good to have you back. 1524 01:22:15.359 --> 01:22:18.600 Said, to get that Meyer lemon into the large container 1525 01:22:18.640 --> 01:22:20.600 that's going to be its home the rest of its life, 1526 01:22:20.920 --> 01:22:23.039 which is on wheels, and we can pull it into 1527 01:22:23.079 --> 01:22:26.359 the garage. But what should I what fertilizer should I 1528 01:22:26.439 --> 01:22:29.359 use on that after we transplant it into the larger one. 1529 01:22:32.319 --> 01:22:36.039 You know, at this point I would probably use and 1530 01:22:36.079 --> 01:22:38.600 there are some good fruit tree fertilizers. You know you're 1531 01:22:38.640 --> 01:22:40.119 out there in Huntsville. I don't know what kind of 1532 01:22:40.119 --> 01:22:43.840 brands and stuff you have access to out there, but 1533 01:22:44.359 --> 01:22:47.680 fertilizers for fruit trees will be fine. You don't, okay. 1534 01:22:47.720 --> 01:22:50.279 I would just get a good lawn fertilizer with a 1535 01:22:50.520 --> 01:22:57.279 three one two ratio of nutrients. So an example would 1536 01:22:57.279 --> 01:23:02.920 be fifteen five ten are twenty one seven fourteen or 1537 01:23:02.960 --> 01:23:06.119 do you see what I'm saying. The I'm just giving 1538 01:23:06.119 --> 01:23:09.960 you that's the ratio. It doesn't those numbers aren't what's important. 1539 01:23:09.960 --> 01:23:12.920 It's the ratio. The bigger the numbers, the less you use. 1540 01:23:13.880 --> 01:23:18.159 But follow the label on it. And I've used lawn 1541 01:23:18.159 --> 01:23:20.960 fertilizers on my fruit trees for a number of years 1542 01:23:21.000 --> 01:23:22.800 and they do just fine with that. 1543 01:23:23.920 --> 01:23:25.279 Okay, you helped me out. 1544 01:23:25.319 --> 01:23:26.159 Thank you so much. 1545 01:23:27.920 --> 01:23:31.079 All right, take care out there. Good good to have 1546 01:23:31.119 --> 01:23:34.720 you on Gardenline. Thanks for calling in. Appreciate that Nelson 1547 01:23:34.720 --> 01:23:38.039 Water Garden and Nursery is out there in Katie. And 1548 01:23:38.119 --> 01:23:40.319 if you have not been to Nelson, you need to go. 1549 01:23:40.439 --> 01:23:45.880 This is our West Houston destination garden center. It really 1550 01:23:45.920 --> 01:23:49.159 is Nelson Water Gardens. You head out ten and when 1551 01:23:49.159 --> 01:23:51.560 you get to Katie, you just turn north on Katie 1552 01:23:51.640 --> 01:23:54.600 Fort Ben Road. When you get up to Nelson's it's 1553 01:23:54.600 --> 01:23:56.479 on the right hand side's not very far up the street. 1554 01:23:57.039 --> 01:23:59.680 You're going to find some interesting things. Number one, you're 1555 01:23:59.720 --> 01:24:03.239 going to find the water gardens. They're nationally known for 1556 01:24:03.279 --> 01:24:09.800 their water gardens. You've seen those big, beautiful ceramic containers 1557 01:24:09.840 --> 01:24:12.279 that have water spilling over the sides and then it 1558 01:24:12.439 --> 01:24:15.560 recirculates back through the container. It's called a disappearing fountain. 1559 01:24:15.800 --> 01:24:20.319 They invented that and they've got tons of containers. I 1560 01:24:20.680 --> 01:24:24.000 just go see. I can't even just adequately describe to 1561 01:24:24.039 --> 01:24:27.680 you the beauty and the variety of all those beautiful 1562 01:24:27.720 --> 01:24:30.479 water containers because they do waterfalls and stuff as well. 1563 01:24:30.800 --> 01:24:34.199 But it's water gardens and nursery. Nelson Water Gardens and Nursery. 1564 01:24:34.239 --> 01:24:37.479 The nursery is also outstanding beautiful plants. When you walk in. 1565 01:24:38.319 --> 01:24:42.159 I always go through the shop the store to get 1566 01:24:42.159 --> 01:24:44.680 that back to the plants and back because I love 1567 01:24:44.760 --> 01:24:48.199 looking at the houseplants that are in the store. They're beautiful. 1568 01:24:48.399 --> 01:24:50.359 If you need a quick gift for somebody, go in 1569 01:24:50.359 --> 01:24:52.720 there and grab on those houseplants. It looks good from 1570 01:24:52.760 --> 01:24:55.119 the time you bought it, it just looks good. And 1571 01:24:55.159 --> 01:24:57.840 then when you get to the back, so many different 1572 01:24:57.840 --> 01:25:03.079 options from cacti to succulents, to beautiful vines, to herbs 1573 01:25:03.119 --> 01:25:07.880 and vegetables and tropical hibiscus and everything else. Nelson Water 1574 01:25:07.920 --> 01:25:10.199 Garden and Nursery. They are on Katy Fort Ben Road 1575 01:25:10.279 --> 01:25:13.800 again just north of the KD Freeway. Enterstate ten. Nelson 1576 01:25:14.079 --> 01:25:18.720 Watergardens dot Com. Nelson Watergardens dot Com. We're gonna head 1577 01:25:18.720 --> 01:25:22.600 out now to Bay City and talk to Terry this morning. Hello, Terry, 1578 01:25:22.640 --> 01:25:23.720 Welcome to garden Line. 1579 01:25:24.560 --> 01:25:30.159 Hi Skip, Okay, I have two questions for you. First, 1580 01:25:30.399 --> 01:25:33.640 First of all, my Peggy Martin roses they bloomed. They 1581 01:25:33.640 --> 01:25:38.640 were gorgeous. Now it's a miss. It's like, oh my gosh, 1582 01:25:38.880 --> 01:25:43.560 they're sending out new growth. However, underneath I see all 1583 01:25:43.600 --> 01:25:47.199 this like where the where the roses had bloomed there, 1584 01:25:47.239 --> 01:25:49.359 like if you could dead head them, which you can't, 1585 01:25:49.960 --> 01:25:53.880 you would need to. But all these blooms now they 1586 01:25:53.920 --> 01:25:56.439 turned brown and it seems like it had some mass 1587 01:25:56.479 --> 01:25:59.960 of vines that h I wish I could cut them out, 1588 01:26:00.159 --> 01:26:04.079 but they they're old, and they grew and they made 1589 01:26:04.079 --> 01:26:07.560 a hedge, a higher hedge about three feet tall. And 1590 01:26:07.600 --> 01:26:10.319 the problem is they're on a structure that I made. 1591 01:26:10.600 --> 01:26:13.520 It's a lattice work structure and I had it zip 1592 01:26:13.600 --> 01:26:17.800 tied to t posts and I guess during the winter 1593 01:26:17.920 --> 01:26:21.880 the zip tize they dry rotted, the froze or something, 1594 01:26:22.119 --> 01:26:24.600 and now my lattice work is coming down. It's like 1595 01:26:24.680 --> 01:26:27.600 I need to redo my structure. But to do that, 1596 01:26:27.640 --> 01:26:30.760 I would have to like pretty much cut my Peggy 1597 01:26:30.760 --> 01:26:33.359 Martin's way low. So I could just redo my structure, 1598 01:26:33.640 --> 01:26:35.600 but I don't want to kill my Peggy Martins. So 1599 01:26:35.680 --> 01:26:36.560 what's your suggestion? 1600 01:26:38.359 --> 01:26:40.880 All right, So what you want to do? Roses bloom 1601 01:26:40.880 --> 01:26:44.159 on new growth, so you can cut of rose back 1602 01:26:44.159 --> 01:26:47.319 as much as you want and it'll come back. Now 1603 01:26:47.760 --> 01:26:51.079 I would unhook that lattice if that's kind of what's 1604 01:26:51.079 --> 01:26:54.000 already happening with the zip tize. Get your new structure 1605 01:26:54.039 --> 01:26:58.800 put on there, and then take the rose and begin 1606 01:26:58.880 --> 01:27:01.560 to tie it back to the new structure, and you 1607 01:27:01.600 --> 01:27:04.199 can prune back as much as you want. It will regrow. 1608 01:27:04.840 --> 01:27:07.720 And so as it begins to regrow, if you can 1609 01:27:07.800 --> 01:27:12.960 orient the vines more horizontal than vertical, that helps it 1610 01:27:13.000 --> 01:27:15.800 fill in faster and you'll have a really good bloom 1611 01:27:15.840 --> 01:27:18.319 on it. That's also true with your winter pruning on 1612 01:27:18.359 --> 01:27:22.279 your Peggy Martin. But you can just guide it as 1613 01:27:22.279 --> 01:27:25.439 you want, and it's a very vigorous plant. I had 1614 01:27:25.439 --> 01:27:30.119 a Peggy Martin. Here's an example of what Peggy can take, Terry. 1615 01:27:30.439 --> 01:27:32.640 I had a Peggy Martin that got up about six 1616 01:27:32.680 --> 01:27:35.000 feet tall after I planted it, and my two Golden 1617 01:27:35.039 --> 01:27:38.479 retrievers chewed it off at a foot high. It came back, 1618 01:27:38.640 --> 01:27:41.560 it got up again. It was about eight feet tall. 1619 01:27:41.680 --> 01:27:45.239 They chewed it off at knee high. I put a 1620 01:27:45.399 --> 01:27:48.800 wire cage around it, and it grew and now it's 1621 01:27:48.840 --> 01:27:52.039 filling the trellis and just beautiful. Peggy Martin is tough. 1622 01:27:52.079 --> 01:27:53.880 Don't be afraid to cut on it, even if it's 1623 01:27:53.920 --> 01:27:56.600 a dog chewing it off for you. It's gonna survive 1624 01:27:56.680 --> 01:27:59.680 it and it'll come back. Okay. So get that structure 1625 01:27:59.720 --> 01:28:04.000 built strong. Yeah, yeah, get it Bill strong for long 1626 01:28:04.119 --> 01:28:06.800 term holding that Peggy Martin because she's a vigorous one. 1627 01:28:07.600 --> 01:28:10.680 Yeah, well too. There's no one winding anything, you know, 1628 01:28:10.720 --> 01:28:12.680 there's no one winding on that. It's gonna have to 1629 01:28:12.720 --> 01:28:15.520 be cut down. I just wanted to hello because I 1630 01:28:15.560 --> 01:28:19.000 can't unwind it from the structure, So that answers that question. 1631 01:28:19.279 --> 01:28:20.520 Now I have a question. 1632 01:28:20.239 --> 01:28:24.079 About Hey, hey, well, Terry, hang on, I got to 1633 01:28:24.119 --> 01:28:25.800 go to a break right quick. Just hang on. We'll 1634 01:28:25.840 --> 01:28:28.319 take your next question right when we come back. Thanks 1635 01:28:28.319 --> 01:28:30.319 a lot. We'll put you on hold for a second here, 1636 01:28:30.960 --> 01:28:34.399 all right, Well, I got to catch you off guard 1637 01:28:34.439 --> 01:28:36.439 with some word music every now and then. So there 1638 01:28:36.479 --> 01:28:38.760 we go. Some of you are out there dancing in 1639 01:28:38.760 --> 01:28:40.680 your later hose, and I know that I ca can 1640 01:28:40.720 --> 01:28:46.119 see you from here. Wild Birds Unlimited those three words. 1641 01:28:46.119 --> 01:28:47.920 That's what you need to know when it comes to 1642 01:28:48.000 --> 01:28:51.239 anything birds. I don't care what it is. They know 1643 01:28:51.680 --> 01:28:54.520 their stuff. You can go in with any kind of questions. 1644 01:28:54.960 --> 01:28:57.119 You walk in there, you're gonna find any kind of product. 1645 01:28:57.199 --> 01:29:00.399 And the seed selections they have. The collection that they 1646 01:29:00.399 --> 01:29:03.760 have are outstanding. Right now, we're in nesting season, so 1647 01:29:04.000 --> 01:29:07.479 they have an exclusive product only available at Wilbirds Unlimited 1648 01:29:07.520 --> 01:29:10.960 called Nesting Superblend. That's the one to be using right now. 1649 01:29:10.960 --> 01:29:14.119 It's got everything birds need when they're laying eggs or 1650 01:29:14.159 --> 01:29:16.920 hatching out checks and raising checks and everything like that. 1651 01:29:17.079 --> 01:29:22.199 It is an awesome product. The feeders that you put 1652 01:29:22.199 --> 01:29:23.640 it in it can be. You can buy it by 1653 01:29:23.680 --> 01:29:25.520 loose bags. You can put it in any feeder are 1654 01:29:25.520 --> 01:29:27.760 You can buy the little cylinders that are compacted. The 1655 01:29:27.800 --> 01:29:31.159 birds peck the seeds out. Nesting super Blend is available 1656 01:29:31.399 --> 01:29:33.920 that way as well at Wildbirds Unlimited. By the way, 1657 01:29:33.920 --> 01:29:36.880 we have six Wildbirds and Limited stores here in the 1658 01:29:36.880 --> 01:29:39.880 Greater Houston area. There's one on Cypress on Barker Cypress. 1659 01:29:40.079 --> 01:29:42.399 There's one in Houston on bel Air, another one in 1660 01:29:42.439 --> 01:29:46.880 Houston out Western Memorial Drive. Pearland has the store on 1661 01:29:46.920 --> 01:29:49.640 East Broadway. Clear Lake has one on El Dorado, and 1662 01:29:49.680 --> 01:29:52.560 if you got in Kingwood, you got a Wildbird's Unlimited 1663 01:29:52.600 --> 01:29:56.000 store on Kingwood Drive. While are you there, make sure 1664 01:29:56.039 --> 01:29:58.600 and pick up my favorite hummingbird feeder. That is the 1665 01:29:58.680 --> 01:30:02.319 hy Perch hummingbird, a lot flat hummingbird feeder, so when 1666 01:30:02.319 --> 01:30:04.359 the birds get to it, you can kind of see them. 1667 01:30:04.359 --> 01:30:06.039 It's not like a bird is hiding on the other 1668 01:30:06.079 --> 01:30:08.439 side of the feeder. I love it. It works really well. 1669 01:30:08.680 --> 01:30:11.760 I just reloaded it. I had some hummingbirds come into it, 1670 01:30:11.880 --> 01:30:14.920 reloaded it and put it out yesterday for another round. 1671 01:30:15.680 --> 01:30:18.640 I love while Birds Unlimited and you will too, but 1672 01:30:18.960 --> 01:30:21.840 I got to warn you it's addictive. It is addictive. 1673 01:30:22.279 --> 01:30:24.720 We're gonna go back to Bay City and Terry, you 1674 01:30:24.760 --> 01:30:27.399 were gonna follow up with another question. I think, how 1675 01:30:27.399 --> 01:30:27.960 can we help? 1676 01:30:29.039 --> 01:30:33.520 Okay, it's about redbud trees I bought. I'm obsessed with them. 1677 01:30:33.600 --> 01:30:36.680 I have one that's huge and it's under pine trees 1678 01:30:37.199 --> 01:30:40.840 and it's gorgeous. So I had the opportunity to buy 1679 01:30:40.880 --> 01:30:44.319 four more and they're on they're in pots and I 1680 01:30:44.399 --> 01:30:46.720 haven't decided we're on a plant them. And I want 1681 01:30:46.760 --> 01:30:49.560 to know. I always thought they were kind of meant 1682 01:30:49.600 --> 01:30:52.560 to be like an undergrowth tree, like a dogwood or something, 1683 01:30:53.000 --> 01:30:55.239 and that's where my big one is. But could I 1684 01:30:55.239 --> 01:30:57.880 have these new ones in full sun or it's an 1685 01:30:57.880 --> 01:30:58.720 aren't a good idea? 1686 01:31:01.760 --> 01:31:05.359 The Eastern red bud, the standard red bud you see 1687 01:31:05.359 --> 01:31:08.720 around here, is not as happy in full sun as 1688 01:31:08.720 --> 01:31:12.079 it is and as an understory tree. There is a 1689 01:31:12.119 --> 01:31:15.960 red bud called Texas red bud. Now, the difference is 1690 01:31:16.000 --> 01:31:19.840 the Eastern the leaf is not shiny. It is a 1691 01:31:19.840 --> 01:31:24.800 little thinner compared to the Texas, which has a shiny, 1692 01:31:25.359 --> 01:31:28.960 leathery Yeah, okay, so yeah, the Texas could go in 1693 01:31:29.000 --> 01:31:32.399 the sun, just fine. The Eastern you're gonna you can 1694 01:31:32.439 --> 01:31:35.920 put it in sun, but you just need to keep 1695 01:31:35.960 --> 01:31:39.079 it adequately watered. And you know it, it would be 1696 01:31:39.199 --> 01:31:41.479 happier if it was a little more shade. But i'd 1697 01:31:41.479 --> 01:31:43.239 give it. You got the plants already, I'd give it 1698 01:31:43.279 --> 01:31:43.640 a try. 1699 01:31:44.640 --> 01:31:47.199 Okay, Well, thank you so much. I'm going to do that, 1700 01:31:48.079 --> 01:31:50.000 all right, Yeah, thank you. 1701 01:31:50.000 --> 01:31:56.159 I appreciate the call, Terary. You take care. So yeah, 1702 01:31:56.279 --> 01:31:58.800 let's uh, let's talk about a red budge just for 1703 01:31:58.840 --> 01:32:01.720 a moment. They're actually the three types of red buds 1704 01:32:01.720 --> 01:32:05.159 that you can find in our area. There is the 1705 01:32:05.199 --> 01:32:09.800 standard type, which is the Eastern red bud. Eastern redbud 1706 01:32:10.880 --> 01:32:15.520 that the leaves are very heart shaped, they are thinner, 1707 01:32:15.640 --> 01:32:19.439 and they are not shiny in their appearance. Okay, the 1708 01:32:19.479 --> 01:32:23.239 Texas red bud is native out in this direction out west. 1709 01:32:23.920 --> 01:32:27.079 It has a leathery leaf, thicker meaning it's what I 1710 01:32:27.119 --> 01:32:30.439 mean by that, and it's shinier and instead of being 1711 01:32:30.520 --> 01:32:34.239 a long pointed tip on the heart shaped leaf, it's 1712 01:32:34.239 --> 01:32:36.239 more rounded. It's got a little tip on it, but 1713 01:32:36.279 --> 01:32:39.520 not as much Texas red bud much more sun tolerant, 1714 01:32:39.720 --> 01:32:42.640 very tough, very tough plant. It's hard to find them, 1715 01:32:43.119 --> 01:32:46.680 and they red buds are promiscuous. They cross, and so 1716 01:32:46.800 --> 01:32:48.560 if you have a Texas red bud and you save 1717 01:32:48.640 --> 01:32:51.399 seed off of it, and there's probably Eastern red buds 1718 01:32:51.399 --> 01:32:54.439 all around the neighborhood somewhere, and they're gonna end up 1719 01:32:54.479 --> 01:32:57.239 being a mix between the two, which is just how 1720 01:32:57.279 --> 01:33:00.239 they are. But Texas redbud if you can find. And 1721 01:33:00.239 --> 01:33:02.800 then there's a Mexican red bud that has smaller leaves 1722 01:33:02.840 --> 01:33:06.279 that are very rounded and they are wavy on the 1723 01:33:06.439 --> 01:33:09.359 edges like kind of like a wavy as you go 1724 01:33:09.399 --> 01:33:12.000 around the edge, kind of like maybe the edges of 1725 01:33:12.079 --> 01:33:14.880 some types of a cray paper or something. Anyway, that's 1726 01:33:14.920 --> 01:33:18.920 another good tolerant heat tolerant ones intolerant one, but it 1727 01:33:19.079 --> 01:33:22.640 forms more of a bushy looking small tree than the 1728 01:33:23.119 --> 01:33:24.800 types that you would think of when you think of 1729 01:33:24.840 --> 01:33:27.039 red buds. Anyway, those three are all available, they all 1730 01:33:27.119 --> 01:33:29.760 have their place in our area, but just something to 1731 01:33:29.800 --> 01:33:32.920 be aware of it, Chris. Redbuds come also in trailing types. 1732 01:33:32.960 --> 01:33:36.800 There's one called Traveler that it's it's like it the 1733 01:33:36.920 --> 01:33:41.640 branches hanging down at like pendant direction. That is kind 1734 01:33:41.640 --> 01:33:44.520 of cool. There's red buds that are white. That's another one. 1735 01:33:44.560 --> 01:33:48.279 There's red buds that have beautiful foliage. Some have burgundy foliage, 1736 01:33:48.319 --> 01:33:52.479 some have kind of an orange and yellow, almost like 1737 01:33:52.520 --> 01:33:55.239 a sunrise coming up kind of foliage. So if you're 1738 01:33:55.239 --> 01:33:58.199 gonna buy a red bud, do a little shopping around, 1739 01:33:58.359 --> 01:34:01.439 find the one that fits what you want, and you 1740 01:34:01.479 --> 01:34:04.479 can find it here locally at our great independent garden centers. 1741 01:34:06.159 --> 01:34:08.720 You're listening to garden Line. Our phone number if you'd 1742 01:34:08.720 --> 01:34:10.479 like to give me a call seven one three two 1743 01:34:10.520 --> 01:34:14.319 to one two KTR eight seven one three two, one, two, five, 1744 01:34:14.520 --> 01:34:18.760 eight seven four. League City Feed done in League City. 1745 01:34:19.000 --> 01:34:20.920 It's right there. It's easy to get to you. Just 1746 01:34:21.800 --> 01:34:24.640 if you're coming across Highway ninety six into League City. 1747 01:34:24.680 --> 01:34:28.840 You turn south on Highway three and a few blocks 1748 01:34:28.880 --> 01:34:32.000 south of ninety six on the east side, if you're 1749 01:34:32.039 --> 01:34:34.520 going south, on the left hand, left hand side is 1750 01:34:34.600 --> 01:34:37.479 League City Feed. It's been around since what forty years ago? 1751 01:34:37.520 --> 01:34:40.359 I believe, actually it was over forty years ago that 1752 01:34:40.479 --> 01:34:43.760 the Thunderberg family first built it. The third generation now 1753 01:34:43.800 --> 01:34:49.279 runs it with that same old fashioned good feed store approach, 1754 01:34:49.319 --> 01:34:51.399 and that means we're going to carry your feed sacks 1755 01:34:51.399 --> 01:34:53.399 out for you. We're going to carry the products that 1756 01:34:53.479 --> 01:34:54.880 you need here. You know, do you want to have 1757 01:34:54.880 --> 01:34:57.920 a beautiful yard and garden. You want to get the 1758 01:34:57.960 --> 01:35:03.039 fertilizers I recommend on garden Line, night foss ASMI, microlife 1759 01:35:03.399 --> 01:35:06.560 soils like Airloom soils, and Nelson plant Food. There's another 1760 01:35:06.560 --> 01:35:09.560 one that they carry, they're League City Feed. They're open 1761 01:35:09.600 --> 01:35:12.279 Monday through Saturday, nine to six, closed on Sunday, but 1762 01:35:12.439 --> 01:35:14.600 nine to six means you're on the way home from work, 1763 01:35:14.640 --> 01:35:17.000 you can swing by there get you some quality dog food. 1764 01:35:17.640 --> 01:35:20.159 Gets the products that you need to control pests, weeds 1765 01:35:20.159 --> 01:35:23.319 and diseases and get you your fertilizers right there at 1766 01:35:23.399 --> 01:35:26.039 League City Feed again a few blocks south of ninety 1767 01:35:26.039 --> 01:35:30.840 six on Highway three. We've covered a lot of ground 1768 01:35:30.880 --> 01:35:33.079 today on different things. I was talking about fruit trees 1769 01:35:33.119 --> 01:35:37.920 and disease issues and things like that. Diseases are more 1770 01:35:37.960 --> 01:35:40.399 prominent in areas where it rains than they are in 1771 01:35:40.600 --> 01:35:46.399 arid areas, and that is a significant factor. There are 1772 01:35:46.960 --> 01:35:49.199 Let's take up a con tree for example. It's kind 1773 01:35:49.199 --> 01:35:52.880 of interesting. Pecans get several different kinds of leaf diseases, 1774 01:35:52.960 --> 01:35:55.840 and the more it rains, the more the disease problems occur. 1775 01:35:56.680 --> 01:36:00.439 There's a disease called scab that causes the leaves to 1776 01:36:00.439 --> 01:36:04.960 get big black areas on them and really messes up production. 1777 01:36:05.279 --> 01:36:07.960 It gets on the shucks as well, and there are 1778 01:36:07.960 --> 01:36:11.239 other diseases on pecans. If you were to look at 1779 01:36:11.359 --> 01:36:15.119 a map of Texas and you took Interstate thirty five 1780 01:36:15.359 --> 01:36:20.239 as the north south dividing line. East of that line, 1781 01:36:20.680 --> 01:36:25.640 we have to plant varieties that are scab resistant in 1782 01:36:25.760 --> 01:36:27.840 order to have success. Unless you want to run a 1783 01:36:27.880 --> 01:36:30.399 sprayer every weekend. The spray or pecan trees, which nobody 1784 01:36:30.439 --> 01:36:33.640 wants to do. West of that line, they can plant 1785 01:36:33.640 --> 01:36:36.159 other varieties that are gray varieties, but they just don't 1786 01:36:36.159 --> 01:36:38.600 have the scab resistance. If you go to the Aggie 1787 01:36:38.640 --> 01:36:44.760 Horticulture website Aggie Horticulture, up, tax and m there is 1788 01:36:44.800 --> 01:36:47.199 a fruit and nuts section on the front page. You 1789 01:36:47.239 --> 01:36:49.760 click on that and you will get a publication on 1790 01:36:49.920 --> 01:36:52.399 every kind of fruit and that you would want to grow. 1791 01:36:52.520 --> 01:36:55.199 I mean, avocados are on there all the way down 1792 01:36:55.319 --> 01:36:58.479 to I don't know what a ze fruit, but they've 1793 01:36:58.479 --> 01:37:01.479 got it's all on there. And when you open the 1794 01:37:01.479 --> 01:37:04.880 pecan publication, what you'll see is that map I'm describing, 1795 01:37:05.000 --> 01:37:07.000 and it'll have a list of the varieties for both 1796 01:37:07.000 --> 01:37:09.119 sides of the line. So if you're gonna plant a pecan, 1797 01:37:09.680 --> 01:37:12.760 you need to plant one that is resistant to scab 1798 01:37:13.239 --> 01:37:15.159 so you have a hope of at least having it 1799 01:37:15.199 --> 01:37:18.119 produced pecans. Now, as far as getting pecans, you're gonna 1800 01:37:18.119 --> 01:37:20.640 have to talk to your neighborhood squirrels about that because 1801 01:37:20.680 --> 01:37:24.479 they have first shot and they are there are vandals, 1802 01:37:24.960 --> 01:37:29.640 they are thieves, and I understand that with dumplings they 1803 01:37:29.680 --> 01:37:32.560 make good food. Other than that pecan fed squirrel. Here's 1804 01:37:32.600 --> 01:37:36.159 pretty good deed. Other than that, you don't end up 1805 01:37:36.199 --> 01:37:38.920 getting a lot of pecans. You get shade underneath the 1806 01:37:38.960 --> 01:37:41.800 pecan tree, though. But if you're gonna chose a variety, 1807 01:37:41.920 --> 01:37:45.039 choose one that's gab resistant. You need two varieties of 1808 01:37:45.119 --> 01:37:50.279 pecans to give you a good crop with cross pollination. Now, 1809 01:37:50.359 --> 01:37:53.600 earlier I was talking about male and female trees. This 1810 01:37:53.680 --> 01:37:56.720 is not a male and female issue with pecans. All 1811 01:37:56.760 --> 01:38:01.960 pecans have both male and female. Right, The nuts are 1812 01:38:01.960 --> 01:38:05.640 the female. The catkins the little pipe cleaner little things 1813 01:38:05.640 --> 01:38:08.800 that drop on the ground after pollination. That's the male park. 1814 01:38:09.079 --> 01:38:12.960 But some pecan trees the catkins come out before the 1815 01:38:13.039 --> 01:38:17.760 nutlets are receptive to pollen, and on others the nutlets 1816 01:38:17.880 --> 01:38:21.640 are receptive to pollen before the catkins come out. All right, 1817 01:38:21.880 --> 01:38:25.239 So when you plant one of each type, both types 1818 01:38:25.279 --> 01:38:28.199 benefit and you get a good crop on both types. 1819 01:38:28.840 --> 01:38:31.640 This publication explains, it's way too much to explain that 1820 01:38:31.840 --> 01:38:34.560 on the air. But before you plant a pecan tree, 1821 01:38:34.560 --> 01:38:37.640 pick a variety it's scab resistant. If there's other pecans 1822 01:38:37.640 --> 01:38:39.880 in the area, don't worry about plant and two trees. 1823 01:38:40.039 --> 01:38:42.520 There's gonna be pollen. It's wind blown pollen. It's gonna 1824 01:38:42.560 --> 01:38:45.119 be everwhere You're gonna be good. No need to worry 1825 01:38:45.159 --> 01:38:47.600 about that, but that is something at least to be 1826 01:38:47.640 --> 01:38:51.640 aware of if you have not done your summer on 1827 01:38:51.840 --> 01:38:55.920 fertilization yet. Nitrofoss Super Turf the silver Bag nineteen four 1828 01:38:56.039 --> 01:38:58.800 ten is the product that will carry you all the 1829 01:38:58.800 --> 01:39:00.560 way at this point in the sea, all the way 1830 01:39:00.600 --> 01:39:02.720 in the fall. Now, if you already did a slow 1831 01:39:02.760 --> 01:39:06.439 release earlier in the late spring or early summer, well 1832 01:39:06.520 --> 01:39:09.479 it's not early summer yet. Sometime in the spring, don't 1833 01:39:09.479 --> 01:39:12.039 do super turf again. Now, Okay, you wait a little 1834 01:39:12.039 --> 01:39:14.159 while and then a few months later do super Dirk. 1835 01:39:14.239 --> 01:39:18.159 But bottom line is it will carry you for four 1836 01:39:18.199 --> 01:39:22.000 months sixteen weeks and so with the return of clippings, 1837 01:39:22.239 --> 01:39:25.560 that basically takes you into the fall fertilization season as 1838 01:39:25.600 --> 01:39:28.880 your next fertilization. It's a nice slow release product works 1839 01:39:29.000 --> 01:39:32.039 very well designed for our types of grass we grow here, 1840 01:39:32.039 --> 01:39:35.560 which is Lleisier Bermuda in Saint Augustine, and for the 1841 01:39:35.600 --> 01:39:37.880 soils and climate that we're in right here. You're going 1842 01:39:37.920 --> 01:39:41.359 to find super Turf at places like m and d 1843 01:39:41.720 --> 01:39:45.119 up in Cyperson and Luetta Katie Ace Hardware on pen Oak. 1844 01:39:46.079 --> 01:39:48.640 If you go up I forty five North Hiden and 1845 01:39:48.680 --> 01:39:52.439 feed that area Hiden and feed on Stubner Airline carries 1846 01:39:52.520 --> 01:39:55.920 night Frost products. Also, it's time for me to take 1847 01:39:55.960 --> 01:39:58.199 a little break here in just a moment. When we 1848 01:39:58.239 --> 01:40:01.680 come back and in North Houston, you will be our 1849 01:40:01.720 --> 01:40:05.079 first up uh and we will also come back to 1850 01:40:05.119 --> 01:40:07.239 your questions. All you got to do is call me 1851 01:40:07.319 --> 01:40:10.319 it seven one three two one two k t R 1852 01:40:10.520 --> 01:40:13.199 H and we'll be happy to help you have a 1853 01:40:13.279 --> 01:40:17.960 more bountiful garden, a more beautiful garden, and definitely more 1854 01:40:18.039 --> 01:40:21.159 fun in the process. That's the most important part of gardening. 1855 01:40:21.359 --> 01:40:23.119 We have fun on guarden line. I mean, why would 1856 01:40:23.119 --> 01:40:25.359 I play yodling music if I wasn't trying to have fun. 1857 01:40:25.760 --> 01:40:27.640 Maybe maybe you run out of the room and hold 1858 01:40:27.680 --> 01:40:30.960 your ears, But I think it's fun. All right, Enough 1859 01:40:31.000 --> 01:40:33.000 of all that, take a little break here, we'll be 1860 01:40:33.079 --> 01:40:38.880 right back within. Oh boy, culinary bum I forget. Oh 1861 01:40:38.960 --> 01:40:43.000 that's a fun. You gotta grow tomatoes down. If you 1862 01:40:43.079 --> 01:40:47.119 got a pulse, get you a big container at least 1863 01:40:47.119 --> 01:40:50.560 five down all put your good tomato in it. Now 1864 01:40:50.560 --> 01:40:53.119 we're here in the summertime, little lake plant tomatoes. But 1865 01:40:53.359 --> 01:40:56.479 anyway you'll enjoy them. Hey, I tell you what you 1866 01:40:56.520 --> 01:40:59.760 could do though. On Saturday, May thirty first, you can 1867 01:40:59.760 --> 01:41:04.439 go to Enchended Forests from two thirty to four thirty 1868 01:41:04.600 --> 01:41:08.640 is their tomato tasting contest. Whether you're a home gardener 1869 01:41:08.760 --> 01:41:12.119 or you know tomato super fan or just love a 1870 01:41:12.199 --> 01:41:16.760 juicy after noon tomato, this event is for you, all right. 1871 01:41:17.000 --> 01:41:20.520 Tomato Tasting Contest and Chendi Forest Saturday May thirty first, 1872 01:41:20.600 --> 01:41:23.880 two thirty to four thirty pm. Now, when you're out 1873 01:41:23.880 --> 01:41:25.960 in an Enchended forest, you're going to find every kind 1874 01:41:25.960 --> 01:41:28.399 of plant you might possibly want. When you when you 1875 01:41:28.439 --> 01:41:30.680 walk up, just look at all the color that's out front. 1876 01:41:30.760 --> 01:41:32.560 Oh my gosh, it's gorgeous. I was out there the 1877 01:41:32.640 --> 01:41:35.720 other day. But they have a lot of pollinator favorites, 1878 01:41:35.800 --> 01:41:38.960 a beautiful selection of nectar rich plants that support those 1879 01:41:39.000 --> 01:41:42.239 pollinators like bees and butterflies. They also attrack hummingbirds, things 1880 01:41:42.239 --> 01:41:45.279 like native milkweed. They have several varieties of that. Akin 1881 01:41:45.359 --> 01:41:49.079 a share a coneflower beautiful. I love that plant. Lentanas 1882 01:41:49.239 --> 01:41:51.520 another good one. And then there's some plants that are 1883 01:41:51.560 --> 01:41:55.760 not so easy to find that provide larval food for 1884 01:41:55.840 --> 01:41:58.880 the butterflies. You know, if you want butterflies, you got 1885 01:41:58.880 --> 01:42:03.000 to feed the babies well. Dutchman's pipeline attracts a type 1886 01:42:03.119 --> 01:42:07.159 of a swallowtail type butterfly, Texas elbow bush and a 1887 01:42:07.159 --> 01:42:10.520 good navy plant there that attracts things in ninety different 1888 01:42:10.520 --> 01:42:13.560 types of salvia. That's my favorite genera of plants at 1889 01:42:13.640 --> 01:42:16.399 almost ninety. Yes, there are ninety different types, and they 1890 01:42:16.399 --> 01:42:19.880 got them there at Enchanted Forest. So don't forget to 1891 01:42:19.880 --> 01:42:21.720 put that on your calendar. Seid he May thirty. First, 1892 01:42:21.760 --> 01:42:24.479 get out there and get some tomato taste and done. 1893 01:42:24.800 --> 01:42:27.880 Watch that contest and you will have a good time. 1894 01:42:28.039 --> 01:42:31.159 They are located on FM twenty seven fifty nine. Here's 1895 01:42:31.199 --> 01:42:33.840 the website. This has everything you want to know. Please 1896 01:42:33.840 --> 01:42:40.159 write this down Enchanted Forest, Richmond TX dot com. Entended 1897 01:42:40.199 --> 01:42:44.039 Forest Richmond, TX dot com. Let's it out to North 1898 01:42:44.079 --> 01:42:48.680 Houston and we are gonna if I can find my mouse, 1899 01:42:49.039 --> 01:42:52.399 we're gonna talk to Ann. Hello, Ann, Welcome to Garden Law. 1900 01:42:53.479 --> 01:42:56.159 Thank you. I have one question for you this morning. 1901 01:42:56.920 --> 01:42:58.840 I'm at the point where I'm ready to put in 1902 01:42:58.920 --> 01:43:02.039 some mulch and a new flower bed, and I was 1903 01:43:02.039 --> 01:43:05.560 wondering if it should be the black mulch or the 1904 01:43:05.600 --> 01:43:06.760 brown hardwood mulch. 1905 01:43:09.159 --> 01:43:12.520 Either one's fine. I don't like dyed mulches, but there 1906 01:43:12.520 --> 01:43:16.439 are some mulches that are normally dark colored. But the 1907 01:43:16.520 --> 01:43:22.039 dyed mulches those artificial eyes natural brown. Yeah, a lot 1908 01:43:22.039 --> 01:43:23.880 of times dyed mulch is too for other people that 1909 01:43:23.920 --> 01:43:27.199 are listening. They grind up palettes and then they turn 1910 01:43:27.239 --> 01:43:29.840 them black or red or whatever color, and that is 1911 01:43:29.920 --> 01:43:31.239 not a good mulch material. 1912 01:43:31.359 --> 01:43:34.119 Yeah, so black is not a good multch to use. 1913 01:43:35.880 --> 01:43:39.520 Dyed mulch is not a good There's some naturally dark mulches, 1914 01:43:39.760 --> 01:43:42.760 so just be and dark isn't the problem. But the 1915 01:43:42.840 --> 01:43:45.960 dyed ones, the ones that truly just look artificially black. 1916 01:43:47.000 --> 01:43:51.039 Okay, all right, thank you very much, have a great day. 1917 01:43:51.760 --> 01:43:53.880 Yeah, thank you, Anne. I appreciate you hanging around and 1918 01:43:54.319 --> 01:43:57.520 get a chance to visit with you. If you are 1919 01:43:57.600 --> 01:44:00.439 doing containers, and I hope you are on your pa 1920 01:44:00.720 --> 01:44:04.640 jungle land and it's an outdoor version and an indoor version. 1921 01:44:04.680 --> 01:44:07.119 I'm gonna talk about the outdoor right now. Jungle land 1922 01:44:07.199 --> 01:44:10.159 flour and vegetable planting soil. You get you a good 1923 01:44:10.199 --> 01:44:12.479 pot that has good drainage holes. You put jungle land 1924 01:44:12.520 --> 01:44:14.359 in it, and you put your plants in it. Add 1925 01:44:14.359 --> 01:44:16.600 a little bit of fertilizer to it, and you are 1926 01:44:16.640 --> 01:44:20.119 on your way to success. Jungle Land is made of 1927 01:44:20.439 --> 01:44:23.960 several sources of decomposed organic matter and the micorize of 1928 01:44:24.000 --> 01:44:26.720 fungi that work with plant roots to help the plant 1929 01:44:26.840 --> 01:44:30.920 be more successful, helps fi disease, It helps with drought, resilience, 1930 01:44:30.960 --> 01:44:34.760 and other things those micorhizal fungi do. I like jungle 1931 01:44:34.800 --> 01:44:37.720 land because it drains, it doesn't get too sop and 1932 01:44:37.760 --> 01:44:42.800 soggy wet, but it also holds adequate amount of moisture 1933 01:44:42.840 --> 01:44:45.359 so you're not under water it every day. Okay, get 1934 01:44:45.399 --> 01:44:47.720 your good sized container, find some jungle land. You can 1935 01:44:47.760 --> 01:44:51.520 go to places all over town carry nitrofoss types of products. 1936 01:44:51.520 --> 01:44:54.640 You know, you go to the Plants for All Seasons 1937 01:44:54.760 --> 01:44:56.920 high Way two forty nine. You'll find many night foss 1938 01:44:56.920 --> 01:44:59.880 products there. D ANDD feed and Tomball carries night foss products. 1939 01:45:00.079 --> 01:45:03.680 Fisher's Hardware down in Pasadena on Sophomore another place where 1940 01:45:03.720 --> 01:45:08.399 you'll find nino FoST products. Let's end up to the 1941 01:45:08.439 --> 01:45:11.880 woodlands now and we're gonna be with visit a little 1942 01:45:11.880 --> 01:45:14.399 bit with Edward this morning. Hey, Edward, are you there? 1943 01:45:15.640 --> 01:45:18.439 Yes, I'm here? HOI? How are you today? 1944 01:45:18.479 --> 01:45:18.840 All right? 1945 01:45:18.880 --> 01:45:19.600 How can we help? 1946 01:45:21.720 --> 01:45:24.399 I've been told and Emperor's tree is super beautiful. I've 1947 01:45:24.439 --> 01:45:27.319 seen a few pictures. Do they grow well in the 1948 01:45:27.359 --> 01:45:30.520 Houston area? And where can I get one? We ordered 1949 01:45:30.520 --> 01:45:33.680 one online but ran it over with the lawnmower, and 1950 01:45:33.720 --> 01:45:36.159 that was when I was leaving in Caan Antonio. But 1951 01:45:36.800 --> 01:45:39.800 I'm backed now and was wondering. You know, I think 1952 01:45:39.840 --> 01:45:40.960 about interest trees. 1953 01:45:43.000 --> 01:45:45.439 I wouldn't admit that I ran over it with a lawnmower, Edward. 1954 01:45:45.479 --> 01:45:47.800 I would just say I pruned it a little too low. 1955 01:45:48.600 --> 01:45:52.720 Maybe that would be the way to put it. No, Yeah, seriously, 1956 01:45:53.439 --> 01:45:58.640 they grow fast, but fast fast growing trees typically are 1957 01:45:58.680 --> 01:46:02.960 not strong in their wood structure, and sometimes they're not 1958 01:46:03.039 --> 01:46:05.920 long lived. And impest tree is not a very strong 1959 01:46:06.239 --> 01:46:09.960 wood structure. I believe I need to check on the 1960 01:46:09.960 --> 01:46:12.239 cold you're in the woodlands. I need to check on 1961 01:46:12.239 --> 01:46:14.119 the cold heartiness on that to be sure. I think 1962 01:46:14.159 --> 01:46:19.640 it's probably okay. But the I generally don't recommend them, 1963 01:46:19.720 --> 01:46:23.199 and they're hard to find because they're not a recommended 1964 01:46:23.640 --> 01:46:30.319 tree for the air. Did they produce? They are? They 1965 01:46:30.359 --> 01:46:33.479 are absolutely super beautiful. I mean, you know, if you 1966 01:46:33.560 --> 01:46:35.720 wanted to use it as a short term thing for 1967 01:46:35.760 --> 01:46:37.880 an area to but get it away from the house 1968 01:46:37.920 --> 01:46:40.119 and everything like that can look, we can see it. 1969 01:46:40.760 --> 01:46:43.439 But in general, we just don't recommend them. And there 1970 01:46:43.600 --> 01:46:45.479 are a lot of good fast there's a lot of 1971 01:46:45.479 --> 01:46:47.800 fast growing trees that we don't recommend. I like that. 1972 01:46:48.640 --> 01:46:51.600 Okay, Well, I'm out trying to make ANX living door 1973 01:46:51.680 --> 01:46:53.840 dashing today, so make sure you take your door dasher. 1974 01:46:54.159 --> 01:46:54.920 Have a great day. 1975 01:46:55.760 --> 01:46:58.680 Oh, we always do. We always do. We appreciate that. 1976 01:46:59.199 --> 01:47:02.159 And uh and as far as uh, as far as 1977 01:47:02.159 --> 01:47:04.520 the rest of your gardening activities, you just remember pruning 1978 01:47:04.640 --> 01:47:09.359 shears and lappers are different than lawnmower blades, so uh, 1979 01:47:10.680 --> 01:47:14.199 don't use your pu in your trees anymore. Edward By, 1980 01:47:16.159 --> 01:47:20.000 that's a good one. I like that. That's fun. Yeah, 1981 01:47:20.039 --> 01:47:23.000 it happens. So today, what if we talked about we 1982 01:47:23.000 --> 01:47:24.520 talked about pruning your tree with the lawn, but we 1983 01:47:24.560 --> 01:47:27.640 also talked about me and my dogs, my my Golden 1984 01:47:27.640 --> 01:47:31.199 Retrievers that pruned Peggy Martin down to the almost the 1985 01:47:31.239 --> 01:47:36.039 ground twice she out outlasted them thanks to a little 1986 01:47:36.119 --> 01:47:39.560 help for me with some hardware cloth wrapped around the trunk. 1987 01:47:40.720 --> 01:47:46.319 If you've got metal items outdoors, you can paint them, 1988 01:47:46.880 --> 01:47:49.079 but that's not the best way to go and it 1989 01:47:49.119 --> 01:47:53.960 doesn't last. Houston powder coats. Powder coating is a magical process. 1990 01:47:54.000 --> 01:47:56.560 They put them in this big room and there's there 1991 01:47:56.680 --> 01:48:00.359 there is a uh, the release of almost a dust 1992 01:48:00.479 --> 01:48:02.960 like substance into the air that just sticks to the 1993 01:48:03.000 --> 01:48:06.560 metal and it gives a beautiful coating on this metal. 1994 01:48:06.640 --> 01:48:11.079 And Houston powder coders can do over one hundred colors. Okay. 1995 01:48:11.159 --> 01:48:13.439 So I was in their shop one day looking at 1996 01:48:13.479 --> 01:48:15.199 some of the work that was out there, and I 1997 01:48:15.239 --> 01:48:17.359 saw something over the corner and it was kind of rusty, 1998 01:48:17.399 --> 01:48:18.800 and I go, you're all about to get to that one, 1999 01:48:18.800 --> 01:48:20.800 because they can take rusty metal and clean it up 2000 01:48:20.880 --> 01:48:23.199 and get it ready for powder coating. They said, no, 2001 01:48:23.279 --> 01:48:26.039 that's finished, and I walked over to it and someone 2002 01:48:26.119 --> 01:48:29.920 had picked a really rust looking color for the color 2003 01:48:29.960 --> 01:48:32.000 of that metal because they wanted it to look rusty. 2004 01:48:32.199 --> 01:48:34.520 But now it's hanging on the side of a house 2005 01:48:34.680 --> 01:48:37.520 and it's not running rust stains down the bricks of 2006 01:48:37.560 --> 01:48:40.600 the house because it's powder coated. That's what I'm talking about. 2007 01:48:40.920 --> 01:48:44.920 Outdoor furniture, aluminum, patio furniture, wrought iron, cast iron, whatever 2008 01:48:44.960 --> 01:48:47.319 you got. Here's what you do. You take a picture 2009 01:48:48.039 --> 01:48:52.760 and you send that picture to sales at Houstoncoders dot com. 2010 01:48:52.760 --> 01:48:55.439 They'll give you a quock quote on it and they 2011 01:48:55.479 --> 01:48:58.199 will pick it up. They'll do the job, they'll deliver it. 2012 01:48:58.279 --> 01:49:00.720 If you're in the greater Houston area, send that picture 2013 01:49:00.720 --> 01:49:02.880 to get your quote on it. You can call them 2014 01:49:02.920 --> 01:49:06.600 up two eight one six seven six thirty eight eighty 2015 01:49:06.640 --> 01:49:10.720 eight two eight one six seven six thirty eight eighty eight, 2016 01:49:11.000 --> 01:49:15.359 or just go to the website Houston Powdercoders dot com. 2017 01:49:15.439 --> 01:49:17.680 Check them out on social media too. There on on 2018 01:49:18.079 --> 01:49:21.119 like Facebook, for example, you can see beautiful examples of 2019 01:49:21.199 --> 01:49:23.039 the kind of works that they do. If it's metal, 2020 01:49:23.119 --> 01:49:26.279 if it's outside. Houston powder Coders is the place you 2021 01:49:26.319 --> 01:49:29.600 need to know about. Gon'll take a quick break and 2022 01:49:29.640 --> 01:49:31.520 we'll be back with your calls. If you'd like to 2023 01:49:31.560 --> 01:49:33.359 be one of the first s up, now'd be a 2024 01:49:33.359 --> 01:49:35.720 good time to call seven one three two one two 2025 01:49:36.359 --> 01:49:40.279 kt r H seven one three two one two five 2026 01:49:40.439 --> 01:49:44.000 eight seven four Give Alejandro call. He'll get you on 2027 01:49:44.000 --> 01:49:46.000 the board and we'll be talking to you in just 2028 01:49:46.039 --> 01:49:50.239 a bit. All right, welcome back. Good to be back 2029 01:49:50.239 --> 01:49:51.840 with you here on Guardenline. By the way, I was 2030 01:49:51.880 --> 01:49:55.960 talking about that Enchanted for Us Tomato tasting contest that 2031 01:49:56.199 --> 01:49:58.600 is Saturday, May thirty. First. I know that's a little 2032 01:49:58.600 --> 01:50:00.000 bit ahead, but you know you got to get your 2033 01:50:00.000 --> 01:50:03.680 schedule down two thirty to four thirty pm. I have 2034 01:50:03.680 --> 01:50:05.439 had some questions about it, and I just want to 2035 01:50:05.439 --> 01:50:08.119 tell you here's here's what's going on. That you can 2036 01:50:08.199 --> 01:50:12.359 bring a tomato to enter there in the contest. Okay, Uh, 2037 01:50:12.680 --> 01:50:15.079 there are you know, there's limits to two entries per 2038 01:50:15.159 --> 01:50:16.960 category and there's several categories. 2039 01:50:17.439 --> 01:50:17.680 Uh. 2040 01:50:17.800 --> 01:50:20.119 You got to get them there by two thirty to 2041 01:50:20.279 --> 01:50:23.159 check in and display, and they'll start judging at three o'clock. 2042 01:50:23.680 --> 01:50:27.039 Uh they will. They're going to have categories for the 2043 01:50:27.079 --> 01:50:31.840 best the best tasting tomato by the judges, and then 2044 01:50:31.880 --> 01:50:35.560 the People's choice, the crowd favorite tomato. Uh, the biggest 2045 01:50:35.600 --> 01:50:38.960 tomato by weight. And are you ready for this? All 2046 01:50:39.000 --> 01:50:42.319 you seamstresses need to hear this. The best tomato themed 2047 01:50:42.399 --> 01:50:46.560 costumed creativity encouraged. So whatever that means. You figured out 2048 01:50:46.600 --> 01:50:49.119 have fun. That is going to be going on. They're 2049 01:50:49.119 --> 01:50:53.840 going to be judging on taste and appearance and you know, sweetless, acidity, complexity, 2050 01:50:53.880 --> 01:50:56.439 all that. This is like, this is for the tomato 2051 01:50:56.520 --> 01:50:58.960 nuts out there. In fact, even if you're not a 2052 01:50:58.960 --> 01:51:00.960 tomato nut, this gonna be a lot of fun. Go 2053 01:51:01.000 --> 01:51:03.000 out there and take the kids with you. All Right, 2054 01:51:03.199 --> 01:51:05.560 We're going to run to Dayton, Texas right now and 2055 01:51:05.560 --> 01:51:07.680 talk to Marshall. Hey Marshall, welcome to guard Line. 2056 01:51:08.399 --> 01:51:11.279 Hey, Skip, how you doing today? 2057 01:51:11.439 --> 01:51:12.520 I'm doing well, thank you. 2058 01:51:13.880 --> 01:51:17.199 Hey. Yes, I'm question about a plum tree. 2059 01:51:17.840 --> 01:51:20.640 It's it's doing real good, but it's got a little 2060 01:51:20.640 --> 01:51:23.479 bit of sap coming out of the trunk near the bottom, 2061 01:51:24.119 --> 01:51:26.560 and I want to know what's causing that and what 2062 01:51:26.600 --> 01:51:28.159 I need to do to fix that. 2063 01:51:30.159 --> 01:51:32.600 Okay, So it could be a borer in the base 2064 01:51:32.640 --> 01:51:35.119 of the trunk there, or is actually it's called a 2065 01:51:35.159 --> 01:51:38.279 peach tree board, but it attacks plums because they're closely related. 2066 01:51:38.720 --> 01:51:43.319 That drills into the base of the trunk and then 2067 01:51:43.399 --> 01:51:47.840 the tree itself bleed sap because it's a wound that's created. 2068 01:51:48.560 --> 01:51:50.960 What I would do is take my knife and just 2069 01:51:51.000 --> 01:51:53.279 scrape the bark back right there. First of all, look 2070 01:51:53.319 --> 01:51:56.239 for any sawdust in the sap that you might see 2071 01:51:56.840 --> 01:51:59.000 and scrape the bark back, and if there's a hole, 2072 01:51:59.279 --> 01:52:02.680 a tunnel or the bug went in, then that's the bore. 2073 01:52:03.159 --> 01:52:05.520 If there's not, it's just let's say you see some 2074 01:52:05.640 --> 01:52:08.319 disccolored bark instead of being a kind of a creamy 2075 01:52:08.399 --> 01:52:14.319 light green color, it's brown streaked or darker. Then that 2076 01:52:14.479 --> 01:52:17.239 is a kinker, which can occur on plumb trees. There's 2077 01:52:17.279 --> 01:52:19.600 a number of cankers. There's no spray for the cankers 2078 01:52:19.640 --> 01:52:23.600 at all. For the plumb borer or for the peach 2079 01:52:23.640 --> 01:52:26.600 tree borer, you can put some sprays on them, but 2080 01:52:26.680 --> 01:52:29.760 that's a whole nother thing. I would suggest probably you're 2081 01:52:29.760 --> 01:52:32.199 not dealing with the borer right now, but if you 2082 01:52:32.319 --> 01:52:35.359 check and find the whole, you can email me and 2083 01:52:35.399 --> 01:52:38.520 I can send you information on what to do about it. 2084 01:52:38.920 --> 01:52:41.760 If you do indeed find the bore, it's going to 2085 01:52:41.760 --> 01:52:45.560 be a longer term process. Then just you squirt something 2086 01:52:45.600 --> 01:52:48.039 on it and the boar dies because it's hidden inside 2087 01:52:48.079 --> 01:52:50.680 the tree. If it's a bore, but I'm going to 2088 01:52:50.720 --> 01:52:54.279 put you on hold a marshall and let Alejandro give 2089 01:52:54.319 --> 01:52:58.000 you an email address if you run into that problem. 2090 01:52:58.000 --> 01:53:00.560 But I do like folks when they send emails with pictures. 2091 01:53:00.920 --> 01:53:02.760 Go ahead and give me a call on the show 2092 01:53:02.840 --> 01:53:05.640 to follow up and we can enter it there. I 2093 01:53:05.680 --> 01:53:08.439 think it's probably a kinker, and I don't think there's 2094 01:53:08.439 --> 01:53:11.960 a solution other than some fertilizer some water to get 2095 01:53:12.000 --> 01:53:14.800 your tree as strong and healthy as you can where 2096 01:53:14.800 --> 01:53:17.840 it can wall off and fight off that problem. 2097 01:53:18.479 --> 01:53:20.359 Okay, I sure appreciate it. 2098 01:53:21.960 --> 01:53:23.760 All right, I'll put you on hope for a second. 2099 01:53:23.760 --> 01:53:26.840 If you want to get that email, that is important. Hey, 2100 01:53:26.840 --> 01:53:30.720 CNA Moltz Ciena Molts down south of Houston near Sienna, 2101 01:53:30.840 --> 01:53:33.359 your highway six and two eighty eight. What you need 2102 01:53:33.399 --> 01:53:36.680 to know is the website. Write it down Sienna Maltz 2103 01:53:36.800 --> 01:53:39.720 dot com, cienamlts dot com. Tell you how to get there, 2104 01:53:40.000 --> 01:53:42.000 tell you things they carry. You know you're going to 2105 01:53:42.039 --> 01:53:45.479 find anything. You know I talk about all the time, 2106 01:53:45.520 --> 01:53:48.640 bronze up before green stuff. The soil is a foundation. 2107 01:53:49.000 --> 01:53:51.159 You get the soil right, then you plant the good 2108 01:53:51.239 --> 01:53:55.199 plants and you are on your way to success. Don't 2109 01:53:55.560 --> 01:53:58.600 grab a plant and PLoP it into an unprepared plot. 2110 01:53:59.039 --> 01:54:02.760 Get the soil right with Ciena Malts now they deliver 2111 01:54:02.840 --> 01:54:05.520 within about twenty miles of their location down there for 2112 01:54:05.600 --> 01:54:08.199 a fee, of course. But whether you want a rose 2113 01:54:08.279 --> 01:54:10.880 type soil, a vegetable and herb type soil, or whatever 2114 01:54:10.920 --> 01:54:14.920 you're looking for, whether you're looking for nutrients, microlife fertilizers, 2115 01:54:15.039 --> 01:54:22.079 Nelson fertilizers, Medina fertilizers, nitrophoss fertilizers, asamite and airloom source 2116 01:54:22.119 --> 01:54:27.159 products as well. Down at Sienna Malts siennamaltz dot com. 2117 01:54:27.399 --> 01:54:30.079 That's what you need to know. We're going to head 2118 01:54:30.159 --> 01:54:35.640 now to Freeport and talk to Margaret. Hello, Margaret, Hello, 2119 01:54:36.479 --> 01:54:40.920 how are you? Huh? I'm good. How can we help today? 2120 01:54:41.600 --> 01:54:44.399 I wanted to know what the best thing to do 2121 01:54:44.880 --> 01:54:49.520 for scale on a sega palm. 2122 01:54:49.560 --> 01:54:54.920 Oh boy. Uh So that's a problem. That are your 2123 01:54:54.960 --> 01:54:58.840 sago palms turning white, especially underneath the fronds. 2124 01:54:59.399 --> 01:55:01.560 Well, it's all on top of it, it's all over. 2125 01:55:03.600 --> 01:55:08.920 Okay, Well, horticultural oil is probably your best bet at 2126 01:55:08.920 --> 01:55:11.279 this point. So what you're gonna do is get a 2127 01:55:11.319 --> 01:55:14.319 horticultural oil product, mix it up, and then early in 2128 01:55:14.319 --> 01:55:16.479 the morning for the sun really heats up a lot, 2129 01:55:17.439 --> 01:55:19.439 or very very late in the day after the sun 2130 01:55:19.560 --> 01:55:23.359 is going down spray those surfaces, and oil is not 2131 01:55:23.439 --> 01:55:28.359 a poison. Oil smothers scale, So you you need to 2132 01:55:28.399 --> 01:55:30.800 have good coverage. If there's a little patch of scale 2133 01:55:30.840 --> 01:55:33.760 that your oil spray doesn't hit, it will not be killed. 2134 01:55:33.880 --> 01:55:36.600 So that thorough coverage is important. And on a sago 2135 01:55:36.640 --> 01:55:38.279 that can be a little bit of a challenge trying 2136 01:55:38.279 --> 01:55:40.319 to get that oil to it, but that's what you 2137 01:55:40.399 --> 01:55:43.439 need to do. That will smother h and it does. 2138 01:55:43.680 --> 01:55:46.399 It does a pretty good job of shutting down the 2139 01:55:46.479 --> 01:55:49.840 issues with scale. And boy, does does scale ever have 2140 01:55:49.840 --> 01:55:53.760 have a difficult or is it ever difficult to control 2141 01:55:53.800 --> 01:55:55.000 the sago scale? 2142 01:55:57.199 --> 01:56:03.119 Do you cut the proms off before you I mean, 2143 01:56:03.600 --> 01:56:05.720 treat it and then cut them off or what because 2144 01:56:05.720 --> 01:56:07.159 they're dying? 2145 01:56:09.600 --> 01:56:14.680 Well, once they're once you're losing them. Yeah, once you're 2146 01:56:14.720 --> 01:56:17.279 losing them, they might as well come off as long 2147 01:56:17.319 --> 01:56:19.720 as they're still green. I would leave them because those 2148 01:56:19.800 --> 01:56:22.960 leaves are making sunlight and so you get a little 2149 01:56:23.000 --> 01:56:26.800 bit of a benefit from that if you if you're 2150 01:56:26.840 --> 01:56:30.279 gonna spray, remove the leaves, you're gonna remove first so 2151 01:56:30.319 --> 01:56:33.560 you can get in there with that horticultural oil. And 2152 01:56:33.600 --> 01:56:36.119 there's a lot of brands of it out there, but 2153 01:56:36.319 --> 01:56:39.840 not Yeah, it's not Dorman oil, it's horticultural oil. I mean, 2154 01:56:39.880 --> 01:56:41.520 I could name a brand or two. But wherever you 2155 01:56:41.560 --> 01:56:44.640 go shop there, if it's a good independent garden center, 2156 01:56:46.560 --> 01:56:50.640 well you know there's brands like Ultrafine and Organocide and 2157 01:56:50.680 --> 01:56:53.359 sun Spray, but there are many others. Don't don't worry 2158 01:56:53.359 --> 01:56:55.399 about writing down the brand. Go to a place and 2159 01:56:55.439 --> 01:56:58.399 that's what they're talking about, like an independent garden center, 2160 01:56:58.439 --> 01:57:01.399 and tell them you need a horticleture oil. You're gonna 2161 01:57:01.439 --> 01:57:04.119 need to spray the entire plant once a week for 2162 01:57:04.199 --> 01:57:07.399 one month because you never get it all the first time. 2163 01:57:09.319 --> 01:57:11.000 It won't hurt new growth, right. 2164 01:57:10.880 --> 01:57:16.880 Say it again, it won't hurt new but no, it doesn't. 2165 01:57:17.000 --> 01:57:22.520 But yeah, but that new growth probably doesn't have scale 2166 01:57:22.520 --> 01:57:26.119 on it yet, and so you can spray it. But 2167 01:57:26.279 --> 01:57:29.720 I like to spray in the morning when it's cool. Sometimes, 2168 01:57:29.800 --> 01:57:31.720 when you got an oil spray and you put it 2169 01:57:31.760 --> 01:57:33.600 on a plant and the sun is baking down and 2170 01:57:33.640 --> 01:57:35.760 it's one hundred degrees, you're going to get some burn 2171 01:57:35.840 --> 01:57:38.239 from the oil. But in general I like to go 2172 01:57:38.319 --> 01:57:41.279 up early in the morning and do that, and you 2173 01:57:41.279 --> 01:57:43.760 know it's gonna take a while. The scale doesn't scream 2174 01:57:43.840 --> 01:57:45.880 and jump off. I mean, it's gonna sit there and 2175 01:57:45.920 --> 01:57:48.239 it'll die and it'll still be on there for a while. 2176 01:57:48.680 --> 01:57:51.680 But four times once a week apart should get that 2177 01:57:51.800 --> 01:57:59.000 under control for you. Okay, great, okay, Now do you 2178 01:57:59.039 --> 01:58:02.520 have more than do you have more than one oil spray? 2179 01:58:07.520 --> 01:58:09.199 What do you mean more than one old spray? 2180 01:58:09.479 --> 01:58:10.680 We hadn't got anything. 2181 01:58:10.479 --> 01:58:13.439 Yet, I'm sorry, more than one? More than one sago palm? 2182 01:58:13.520 --> 01:58:17.439 My b right, No, I think we just we just 2183 01:58:17.479 --> 01:58:18.199 have the one. 2184 01:58:20.159 --> 01:58:28.239 It Uh No, it's specific to those. But there is 2185 01:58:28.279 --> 01:58:32.600 a product that is systemic that goes you drench it 2186 01:58:32.680 --> 01:58:34.880 on the roots, you don't spray it on the scale, 2187 01:58:35.239 --> 01:58:37.600 and it goes up in the plant and kills the 2188 01:58:37.680 --> 01:58:40.319 scale that are sucking juices out of the plant. 2189 01:58:40.760 --> 01:58:40.960 Uh. 2190 01:58:41.000 --> 01:58:44.800 And it's called a safari s a f A R 2191 01:58:45.000 --> 01:58:49.039 I like an African safari. Uh. And if you can 2192 01:58:49.079 --> 01:58:52.880 find that, it's not cheap, but it's it's been pretty good. 2193 01:58:52.960 --> 01:58:56.439 And by putting that poison in the plumbing of the plant, 2194 01:58:56.920 --> 01:58:59.800 only the things sucking juices out of the plant are killed. 2195 01:58:59.840 --> 01:59:02.760 And it's not like a flowering plant where you're gonna 2196 01:59:02.760 --> 01:59:05.479 have pollinators there and you're worried about that. So for 2197 01:59:05.520 --> 01:59:07.399 a sego that would be another option. 2198 01:59:09.159 --> 01:59:11.840 Okay, so that would that would kill the scale? 2199 01:59:13.159 --> 01:59:14.680 What's out spray at the whole place? 2200 01:59:14.720 --> 01:59:18.119 Yes, okay, you bet it would. I'm sorry I got 2201 01:59:18.199 --> 01:59:21.560 to run, but good luck with that. I appreciate that 2202 01:59:22.159 --> 01:59:24.319 buchanan NATed Plants in the Heights. I talk about it 2203 01:59:24.359 --> 01:59:27.399 all the time. Buchanans Plants dot Com is the website. 2204 01:59:27.439 --> 01:59:30.239 You gotta go there. You gotta look at what they 2205 01:59:30.279 --> 01:59:33.439 have to offer. It is amazing, in fact, what I 2206 01:59:33.520 --> 01:59:34.840 like to do. I'm gonna come back a little bit. 2207 01:59:34.880 --> 01:59:37.119 I want to tell you more about Buchanans because it 2208 01:59:37.199 --> 01:59:39.600 is a place you really need to visit. And you 2209 01:59:39.680 --> 01:59:42.920 got to go to the website because it is so helpful. 2210 01:59:43.359 --> 01:59:45.760 Sign up for their newsletter. I'll come back to you 2211 01:59:45.760 --> 01:59:49.680 a little more about them in the meantime. Enjoy this 2212 01:59:49.720 --> 01:59:51.800 little break. I need to get a fresh cup of coffee, 2213 01:59:51.880 --> 01:59:54.319 and we'll be right back with your questions. If you'd 2214 01:59:54.359 --> 01:59:55.760 like to be one of the first up, go ahead 2215 01:59:55.800 --> 01:59:57.560 and get on the board with all one hundred now 2216 01:59:57.880 --> 02:00:01.159 seven one three two, one two fifty eight seventy four 2217 02:00:01.399 --> 02:00:13.319 seven one three two one two kt r H. All right, folks, 2218 02:00:13.359 --> 02:00:17.640 welcome back. Guess what we got more? One more hour 2219 02:00:17.680 --> 02:00:20.600 of garden Line today. We got one more hour of 2220 02:00:20.640 --> 02:00:23.000 guard Line this whole weekend. I'll be back next Saturday. 2221 02:00:23.039 --> 02:00:26.079 We're here every Saturday and Sunday from six am to 2222 02:00:26.199 --> 02:00:29.479 ten am, so you can call in at anytime. You 2223 02:00:29.479 --> 02:00:32.119 can listen to us, of course on kt r H 2224 02:00:32.239 --> 02:00:36.159 seven forty am on your radio. People listen on their 2225 02:00:36.199 --> 02:00:39.600 computers and even leave it. Listen on the app, the 2226 02:00:39.680 --> 02:00:43.920 iHeartMedia app. You download that on your phone and take 2227 02:00:43.920 --> 02:00:45.760 a phone with you. You can go and do some gardening 2228 02:00:45.800 --> 02:00:48.079 and who knows, maybe you see a bug, take a picture, 2229 02:00:48.359 --> 02:00:50.439 email it to me. We'll talk about it live from 2230 02:00:50.479 --> 02:00:53.800 your garden. Here on garden Line. We can do that too. 2231 02:00:54.159 --> 02:00:56.119 Works well. I was talking about Buchanans for I went 2232 02:00:56.159 --> 02:00:59.439 in to break Buchanansplas dot com is the website and 2233 02:00:59.479 --> 02:01:03.199 you need to and here's the reason. It is outstanding 2234 02:01:03.319 --> 02:01:06.079 when it comes to information about gardening. You should sign 2235 02:01:06.159 --> 02:01:10.840 up for their newsletter. Their newsletter it's educational, it just 2236 02:01:10.920 --> 02:01:14.239 really is. I mean, when you go there, you will 2237 02:01:14.279 --> 02:01:18.159 see why I get so excited about Beginn's plants. They 2238 02:01:18.399 --> 02:01:21.399 know what they're talking about. They carry things that other 2239 02:01:21.439 --> 02:01:25.039 people don't. Someone was asking me earlier about some plants 2240 02:01:25.079 --> 02:01:27.600 for shade that would do well in shade and stuff, 2241 02:01:27.640 --> 02:01:31.119 and I just was noticing this past week with Buchanan's 2242 02:01:31.880 --> 02:01:36.079 inland seots. Inland Seots is a clumping grass that has 2243 02:01:36.279 --> 02:01:40.920 these nodding seedheads that sort of look like oat seed heads, 2244 02:01:41.479 --> 02:01:44.199 and it does well in the shade. It's spread slowly 2245 02:01:44.239 --> 02:01:47.600 by rhizomes around and when they dry. I think they're 2246 02:01:47.640 --> 02:01:52.199 beautiful in arrangements when they dry as well. But it's 2247 02:01:52.239 --> 02:01:54.680 a good native plant that we can use here. And 2248 02:01:54.720 --> 02:01:57.880 they have so many options for nice native plants that 2249 02:01:57.960 --> 02:02:00.079 do well. You want to you want to have a 2250 02:02:00.119 --> 02:02:04.600 butterfly garden, well, Buchanans has got tons of flowers and 2251 02:02:04.640 --> 02:02:07.680 things at Butterflies love both the adults, feeding the adults 2252 02:02:07.720 --> 02:02:09.960 and the larva taking care of the larva. In fact, 2253 02:02:10.520 --> 02:02:12.039 if you got your pen and pencil out, you know 2254 02:02:12.079 --> 02:02:14.399 you always should listen to guarden line with a paper 2255 02:02:15.439 --> 02:02:18.399 and a pen or pencil handy. Because here's one thing 2256 02:02:18.479 --> 02:02:23.199 I'm not about to tell you. Butterfly host gardening at 2257 02:02:23.239 --> 02:02:27.279 Buchanan's Plants Saturday, June seventh, ten am to eleven am, 2258 02:02:27.359 --> 02:02:31.720 right after guard Line's over ten to eleven Saturday June seventh, 2259 02:02:31.840 --> 02:02:35.039 Butterfly host gardening. It's a free class, so go and 2260 02:02:35.159 --> 02:02:38.960 enjoy it. Will you will enjoy it. They have excellent 2261 02:02:39.000 --> 02:02:41.760 programs there as well, lots of other things going on. 2262 02:02:41.840 --> 02:02:44.159 If you got kids, Oh my gosh, you got to 2263 02:02:44.199 --> 02:02:46.720 get your kids involved in their summer program. You know, 2264 02:02:46.800 --> 02:02:49.039 with school out starting in May going all the way 2265 02:02:49.039 --> 02:02:54.680 through September, there's something to do regularly on a regular basis. 2266 02:02:54.800 --> 02:02:58.600 On Saturdays, they're at Buchanan's Native Plants for the kids. 2267 02:02:58.640 --> 02:03:01.119 But if you were on the website or if you 2268 02:03:01.159 --> 02:03:04.600 were on receiving their newsletter, you would know about that. 2269 02:03:05.880 --> 02:03:08.319 All right, there you go. That's a public service announcement. 2270 02:03:08.920 --> 02:03:12.319 Let's head out to Lamark and we're gonna be visit 2271 02:03:12.359 --> 02:03:14.439 with Sean. Hey, Sean, welcome to garden Line. 2272 02:03:15.560 --> 02:03:20.359 Good morning, Skip. My sister wants to put some nitrofos out. 2273 02:03:20.800 --> 02:03:22.720 I told her to use the green bag or the 2274 02:03:22.760 --> 02:03:26.760 gray bag. She wants to use the nitrofoss Whedon feed. 2275 02:03:27.640 --> 02:03:30.600 I told her that that Whedon feed was probably with 2276 02:03:30.640 --> 02:03:34.319 the Actressine would probably kill the small trees and plants 2277 02:03:34.359 --> 02:03:35.439 she's planted. 2278 02:03:36.479 --> 02:03:42.760 If she puts out that night asine either sure, yeah, no, 2279 02:03:42.800 --> 02:03:44.520 need to do that now. Don't do the wheat and 2280 02:03:44.560 --> 02:03:48.319 feed now atresine, candemnic shrubs and trees. That's why I 2281 02:03:48.359 --> 02:03:51.840 don't generally recommend it here on garden line. But you 2282 02:03:51.840 --> 02:03:54.960 don't need a weed and feed now. Yeah, you said gray. 2283 02:03:55.000 --> 02:03:57.239 I think you meant like the silver gray bag. Yeah, 2284 02:03:57.239 --> 02:03:59.880 that's the one around now. And if she's worried about weed, 2285 02:04:00.520 --> 02:04:03.279 get barricade from night to foss and put it out. 2286 02:04:03.359 --> 02:04:06.640 If you haven't done barricade in the let's say within 2287 02:04:06.720 --> 02:04:10.239 the last sixty days, you can do another application to 2288 02:04:10.479 --> 02:04:16.760 extend the weed seed prevention program on into the summer further. 2289 02:04:17.880 --> 02:04:20.239 So that's an option. If she feels like she needs 2290 02:04:20.279 --> 02:04:22.680 a pre emergent, I would do barricade, and I would 2291 02:04:22.720 --> 02:04:25.119 do it now. Not everybody needs to do that, but 2292 02:04:25.600 --> 02:04:28.600 it you know, some types of weeds will continue to 2293 02:04:28.680 --> 02:04:31.239 germinate on through the summer, and so that's the way 2294 02:04:31.279 --> 02:04:33.920 to extend it. But silver bag and stay away from 2295 02:04:33.920 --> 02:04:35.800 the weed and feed right now, we don't need to 2296 02:04:35.800 --> 02:04:36.319 be doing that. 2297 02:04:37.199 --> 02:04:38.760 Okay, I'll tell her that information. 2298 02:04:38.920 --> 02:04:43.319 Thank you, all right, thank you. Now she's your sister, 2299 02:04:43.439 --> 02:04:46.399 so she listens to everything you say. Right, My sister 2300 02:04:46.800 --> 02:04:49.760 listens to everything I tell her and believes everything and 2301 02:04:49.800 --> 02:05:00.880 does everything I tell her to do. I get it, 2302 02:05:00.920 --> 02:05:02.800 I get it. I'm just playing around with you. You 2303 02:05:02.840 --> 02:05:06.359 know how it is the families. Okay, well you take 2304 02:05:06.399 --> 02:05:09.119 care good to visit with you, sir. I appreciate that 2305 02:05:10.479 --> 02:05:14.159 for sure. Speaking of that Nightropas Superturf, the silver bag 2306 02:05:14.359 --> 02:05:16.560 we were talking about there, silver or gray, whichever you 2307 02:05:16.840 --> 02:05:19.840 call it, nineteen four town. It's going to last for 2308 02:05:20.000 --> 02:05:23.039 sixteen weeks and you can get it down now. If 2309 02:05:23.039 --> 02:05:26.399 you haven't done a primer, excuse me, good night, if 2310 02:05:26.399 --> 02:05:29.000 you have not done a slow release fertilizer this summer 2311 02:05:29.079 --> 02:05:33.159 yet or this spring, go ahead and do that. Get 2312 02:05:33.159 --> 02:05:36.119 that down now. You're going to find Nitopas Superturf at 2313 02:05:36.199 --> 02:05:38.439 RCW Nursery. I know they carry it up there. If 2314 02:05:38.439 --> 02:05:40.720 you go to Laporte. If you're done in the Port 2315 02:05:41.000 --> 02:05:44.439 South Broadway's got Fisher's hardware. If you're in Sagemont, M 2316 02:05:44.439 --> 02:05:48.520 and D. Beamer on Beamer is an excellent, excellent place 2317 02:05:48.560 --> 02:05:52.800 to get night foss products like this super turf. I'm 2318 02:05:52.800 --> 02:05:55.640 going to head now to a task Asita and we're 2319 02:05:55.640 --> 02:05:57.760 going to talk to Jim. Hey, Jim, welcome back. 2320 02:05:58.960 --> 02:05:59.800 Oh, thank you sir. 2321 02:06:00.119 --> 02:06:00.399 Morning. 2322 02:06:00.800 --> 02:06:04.920 Okay. The place is the front yard okay, in the 2323 02:06:05.239 --> 02:06:09.640 new flower bed, in the whole front yard okay, close 2324 02:06:09.680 --> 02:06:15.399 to the house. And it is a red star corraline 2325 02:06:16.520 --> 02:06:17.600 plant tree. 2326 02:06:17.720 --> 02:06:18.039 Okay. 2327 02:06:19.319 --> 02:06:22.560 I bought it in a small container and it's such 2328 02:06:22.600 --> 02:06:25.199 a pretty plant. What do you think of this plant? 2329 02:06:27.119 --> 02:06:30.319 It's a good one. It's it's one of the foliage plants. 2330 02:06:30.840 --> 02:06:35.119 And in summer, we have a lot of the blooming 2331 02:06:35.119 --> 02:06:38.199 options we have in spring don't bloom well in the summer, 2332 02:06:38.279 --> 02:06:41.680 and so when we use foliage plants in our plantings, 2333 02:06:42.239 --> 02:06:44.800 we maintain color for a long period of time, whether 2334 02:06:44.840 --> 02:06:47.760 it's brown or not. And cordline has a beautiful dark 2335 02:06:48.239 --> 02:06:52.039 dark color, reddish purple, whichever kind of you get. Uh. 2336 02:06:52.079 --> 02:06:54.239 And that's a good one. 2337 02:06:55.840 --> 02:06:56.439 Thank you, sir. 2338 02:06:56.640 --> 02:07:00.359 I have a great day, all right, Thanks Jim, appreciate 2339 02:07:00.399 --> 02:07:03.039 the call. You take care all right? There you have 2340 02:07:03.119 --> 02:07:10.760 it so talking about different things regarding products in the 2341 02:07:10.880 --> 02:07:15.119 yard and whatnot. I just think that people need to 2342 02:07:15.159 --> 02:07:18.039 call Pierscapes just to see what they do. Maybe you're 2343 02:07:18.079 --> 02:07:20.720 not in the market right now for landscape ork, but 2344 02:07:20.800 --> 02:07:22.760 go call them because I think you find you may 2345 02:07:22.760 --> 02:07:27.479 find you are. They do design and installation on the 2346 02:07:27.479 --> 02:07:30.760 big scale, or they can do you know, smaller scale things. 2347 02:07:31.359 --> 02:07:35.039 But when it comes to the accessories of the landscape, 2348 02:07:35.039 --> 02:07:38.720 and by that I mean like you know, a rock walkway, hardescape. 2349 02:07:38.720 --> 02:07:42.960 In other words, need to improve the lighting around your house, 2350 02:07:43.039 --> 02:07:45.560 they can do that, a rock border or lots of 2351 02:07:45.640 --> 02:07:48.600 options like that. They can add those little things that 2352 02:07:48.680 --> 02:07:51.880 make you want to extend your living area outside because 2353 02:07:51.920 --> 02:07:54.720 they make it so special. If you've got drainage issues, 2354 02:07:54.760 --> 02:07:57.479 you've got irrigation issues, they can fix all of that. 2355 02:07:57.600 --> 02:08:00.079 And don't forget they have that quarterly maintenance where they 2356 02:08:00.079 --> 02:08:02.680 come out once a quarter. They take care of your beds, 2357 02:08:02.720 --> 02:08:07.359 They replace color plants as needed. They can do the mulching, 2358 02:08:07.920 --> 02:08:10.840 improving the mult sprucing it up, making sure the irrigation 2359 02:08:11.039 --> 02:08:13.640 is working, doing trimming that needs to be done. It's 2360 02:08:13.680 --> 02:08:17.279 all gonna happen by you going to the website piercescapes 2361 02:08:17.439 --> 02:08:19.600 dot com are giving them a call. Two eight one 2362 02:08:20.000 --> 02:08:23.680 three seventy fifty sixty two eight one three seven oh 2363 02:08:23.960 --> 02:08:27.800 five zero six zero. I will be right back with 2364 02:08:27.880 --> 02:08:33.319 your calls already, we're back. Welcome back to Guardline. Good 2365 02:08:33.319 --> 02:08:35.840 to have you with us. Uh listen, if you have 2366 02:08:35.960 --> 02:08:38.279 not been to Arburgate recently, you need to go. I 2367 02:08:38.319 --> 02:08:40.079 was out there the other day and I'm telling you 2368 02:08:40.640 --> 02:08:43.399 the place looks awesome. Of course that's not news. It's 2369 02:08:43.399 --> 02:08:46.279 always awesome out there, and they have selection like you 2370 02:08:46.319 --> 02:08:49.920 cannot imagine. Allow yourself some time, go around, drive around 2371 02:08:49.960 --> 02:08:52.199 to the back the parking lot off Traisher Road behind 2372 02:08:52.279 --> 02:08:54.800 Arbrogates the way you need to go in, and then 2373 02:08:55.199 --> 02:08:56.800 take some people with you. First of all, it's a 2374 02:08:56.840 --> 02:08:59.520 fun outing to get together, walk around, look at plants 2375 02:08:59.520 --> 02:09:03.239 and talk about. When you find an Arbrogate person there, 2376 02:09:03.439 --> 02:09:05.479 whether it's Beverly or Kennan or any of the people 2377 02:09:05.520 --> 02:09:08.119 that are out there walking around, they will take time 2378 02:09:08.439 --> 02:09:10.920 and they will help you have success. It's not like 2379 02:09:11.039 --> 02:09:14.119 you know, I'm looking for a what I'm looking for, 2380 02:09:14.279 --> 02:09:18.000 I'm looking for, uh, maybe a hibiscus, and they go, well, 2381 02:09:18.039 --> 02:09:20.960 they're right over there behind. No, they walk you over there, 2382 02:09:21.079 --> 02:09:23.119 they take you to them, they show you, they answer 2383 02:09:23.159 --> 02:09:26.800 your questions, and because they want you to have success. 2384 02:09:26.960 --> 02:09:30.159 That's why they're so popular, the selection that they have 2385 02:09:30.279 --> 02:09:33.520 quality plants that belong here, the fact that they carry 2386 02:09:33.520 --> 02:09:36.000 things you're not going to find other places, and then 2387 02:09:36.039 --> 02:09:39.920 the service. The service that they give you is outstanding. Now, 2388 02:09:40.119 --> 02:09:43.479 Arbrogate is a true gardener's garden center. I mean people 2389 02:09:43.840 --> 02:09:47.640 drive from all over they Arborgate is well known way 2390 02:09:47.680 --> 02:09:50.880 outside our area. So while you're there, though, remember the rule. 2391 02:09:50.920 --> 02:09:53.680 Brown stuff before green stuff. Grab a bag of the 2392 02:09:53.800 --> 02:09:57.680 organic food Complete. That's an Arburgate product. It's a fertilizer, 2393 02:09:58.039 --> 02:10:01.640 the organic soil Complete, and the Organic compass Complete. Those 2394 02:10:01.640 --> 02:10:05.319 three bags help you set the foundation the bronze stuff 2395 02:10:05.399 --> 02:10:08.319 for success. Now, if you want bulk of the soil 2396 02:10:08.439 --> 02:10:11.439 or the compost, ask them about it and they can 2397 02:10:11.479 --> 02:10:13.600 set you up to get a bulk delivery to wherever 2398 02:10:13.600 --> 02:10:16.479 you live. They'll drop it off for you there. And 2399 02:10:16.600 --> 02:10:18.960 that way, if you're doing a whole big bed, you 2400 02:10:19.000 --> 02:10:20.880 don't have to buy eight hundred bags. You can just 2401 02:10:20.880 --> 02:10:24.000 get a good bulk delivery and do that. Whatever kind 2402 02:10:24.000 --> 02:10:28.079 of garden you're interested in, from pollinator gardens to hummingbird 2403 02:10:28.159 --> 02:10:32.680 gardens to just beautiful heat tolerant summer color. They've got 2404 02:10:32.680 --> 02:10:37.159 you covered at Arburgate. I'm going to head now up 2405 02:10:37.319 --> 02:10:40.479 to Hempstead and we're going to talk to Jerry. Hey, Jerry, 2406 02:10:40.720 --> 02:10:41.920 welcome to garden lind. 2407 02:10:43.119 --> 02:10:43.319 Yeah. 2408 02:10:43.479 --> 02:10:46.800 I have San Augustine for grass, and I've got my Conjr. 2409 02:10:47.520 --> 02:10:50.000 Growing in one section and I can't figure out how 2410 02:10:50.039 --> 02:10:53.479 to get rid of it. I allowed the stand to 2411 02:10:53.520 --> 02:10:55.720 grow to about four and a half inches sticking that 2412 02:10:55.840 --> 02:10:57.399 I would basically had it out. 2413 02:10:58.079 --> 02:11:03.079 Didn't work, Okay, Yeah, dichondra. 2414 02:11:05.000 --> 02:11:07.439 And and you're a are we sure that you're talking 2415 02:11:07.520 --> 02:11:10.920 about dichondra and not dollar weed? I just want to 2416 02:11:10.960 --> 02:11:11.279 be sure. 2417 02:11:11.439 --> 02:11:13.039 Yeah, I believe it's. 2418 02:11:13.000 --> 02:11:15.760 Not what was completely It's got looks like a clover 2419 02:11:15.920 --> 02:11:18.359 leaf at the end. It's it's split on one part 2420 02:11:18.399 --> 02:11:18.800 of the leaf. 2421 02:11:20.479 --> 02:11:22.920 Yeah, yeah, yeah, I got you. Okay, Yeah, that's it. 2422 02:11:23.079 --> 02:11:23.960 That is dichondra. 2423 02:11:24.359 --> 02:11:24.520 Uh. 2424 02:11:24.600 --> 02:11:28.880 Dichondra is a challenging weed because it grows way down 2425 02:11:29.079 --> 02:11:32.119 in the grass. It can coexist even with pretty dense 2426 02:11:32.159 --> 02:11:35.199 Saint Augustine. You'll normally I say, uh, you know, if 2427 02:11:35.199 --> 02:11:37.119 you've got a good dense lawn, it chokes out most 2428 02:11:37.159 --> 02:11:40.920 weed problems. Well, the chondra can survive in a good 2429 02:11:41.239 --> 02:11:44.239 dense lawn U, so in order to control it, you 2430 02:11:44.279 --> 02:11:49.439 can use a broad leaf U post emergent weed control product. Uh. 2431 02:11:49.920 --> 02:11:52.680 There are things like the TRIMEC type products that are 2432 02:11:52.680 --> 02:11:54.640 put out. You just want to be careful with those 2433 02:11:55.319 --> 02:11:59.399 that you don't have a a lot of. Like if 2434 02:11:59.439 --> 02:12:02.319 it's real hot weather and you're trying to control it, 2435 02:12:02.560 --> 02:12:06.079 uh and you get spray on your Saint Augustine and 2436 02:12:06.119 --> 02:12:08.560 the temperatures are in the upper eighties or nineties, you 2437 02:12:08.600 --> 02:12:11.079 can do some damage on it. So you want to 2438 02:12:11.119 --> 02:12:15.119 avoid that. But otherwise spray in the morning. 2439 02:12:17.640 --> 02:12:21.039 Most of what I've read that will kill him Augustine, 2440 02:12:22.000 --> 02:12:24.039 and that's what I'm trying to avoid. So I used 2441 02:12:24.079 --> 02:12:30.000 to h fertile Uh the wet wet eater or something like. 2442 02:12:30.000 --> 02:12:32.199 That didn't do anything. 2443 02:12:33.039 --> 02:12:38.399 Well, there's fur yeah, there there is Bone Eyed has 2444 02:12:39.359 --> 02:12:43.159 a weed beater that is effective on it. And Fernlom 2445 02:12:43.319 --> 02:12:46.319 has a weed result called fur loan. Gosh, I just 2446 02:12:46.439 --> 02:12:49.560 want blank on the Fertilom product name. Anyway, those are 2447 02:12:49.640 --> 02:12:53.079 their multi ingredient products. And like I said, if it's 2448 02:12:53.079 --> 02:12:55.720 hot weather and you spray them on Saint Augustine, it's 2449 02:12:55.840 --> 02:12:58.439 very stressful and can be damaging to Saint Augustine. But 2450 02:12:58.680 --> 02:13:01.439 if you get out like tomorrow morning when it's cooler 2451 02:13:01.479 --> 02:13:03.920 and you spray them, it's still okay to use those 2452 02:13:04.199 --> 02:13:07.199 on on your Saint Augustine lawn. You can also use 2453 02:13:07.199 --> 02:13:10.199 a product called celsius that's a little less of a 2454 02:13:10.239 --> 02:13:14.800 temperature concern, uh than the the multi products you know, 2455 02:13:14.840 --> 02:13:17.760 the trimech We call them three way herbicides. They put 2456 02:13:17.760 --> 02:13:22.039 three different ingredients in because that way they cover more 2457 02:13:22.119 --> 02:13:25.000 than one of the different weeds that you know you 2458 02:13:25.079 --> 02:13:28.399 typically have to deal with. So any either way you 2459 02:13:28.399 --> 02:13:30.680 want to go about it, you can. You can control it. 2460 02:13:31.359 --> 02:13:33.920 You just have to just have to make sure you 2461 02:13:33.920 --> 02:13:34.760 get your apply to. 2462 02:13:36.239 --> 02:13:40.159 The Celsius isn't gonna be as bad on the grass 2463 02:13:40.560 --> 02:13:41.760 in higher temperatures? 2464 02:13:41.800 --> 02:13:45.399 Is that what you're telling me it? Yes, yes, you 2465 02:13:45.439 --> 02:13:48.399 can go up in temperatures with celsius. Now, any one 2466 02:13:48.720 --> 02:13:54.039 ingredient doesn't control all weeds, so that that's what you wanna, 2467 02:13:54.399 --> 02:13:56.720 that's what you want to be careful with. Uh. But 2468 02:13:57.319 --> 02:14:00.479 with the dichondra, you're gonna you're gonna find goods excess 2469 02:14:01.159 --> 02:14:03.960 managing it. You know, a number of a number of 2470 02:14:04.000 --> 02:14:06.520 different ways. There's not just like one product that you 2471 02:14:06.520 --> 02:14:08.159 can use that will control. 2472 02:14:07.840 --> 02:14:12.520 Okay, I'll try that makes sense, it makes. 2473 02:14:12.279 --> 02:14:17.880 Some sense, okay, all right? Uh oh. One last thing. 2474 02:14:18.000 --> 02:14:22.880 Put a spreader sticker in there. It's also called a surfactant, uh. 2475 02:14:23.079 --> 02:14:25.680 That is mixed in with it and it helps it 2476 02:14:25.800 --> 02:14:29.680 stick to those leaves. Okay, all right, I will good luck, 2477 02:14:31.479 --> 02:14:37.560 Thanks Jerry, appreciate your call. All right. That that will 2478 02:14:37.560 --> 02:14:39.760 do it. Hey, if you're dealing with fire ants in 2479 02:14:39.800 --> 02:14:44.640 your lawn uh and anywhere around outside. Uh, night Fass 2480 02:14:44.640 --> 02:14:47.600 has a product called fire ant Killer, and it basically 2481 02:14:48.399 --> 02:14:51.119 is a product that will do a quick kill on 2482 02:14:51.199 --> 02:14:52.880 your fireant. You can put her on mounds and it'll 2483 02:14:52.920 --> 02:14:55.039 knock them out. You've spread it out in a wider 2484 02:14:55.039 --> 02:14:58.159 area if you like. But night Fast fire Ant Killer works. 2485 02:14:58.199 --> 02:14:59.600 It's good to have a bag on hand if you 2486 02:14:59.640 --> 02:15:01.960 want to go out there. Some mountains pop up. You 2487 02:15:02.000 --> 02:15:04.159 need to shut them down so you can have a 2488 02:15:04.159 --> 02:15:06.680 garden party in the next couple of days. Go ahead 2489 02:15:06.680 --> 02:15:09.399 and get that the Fiant Killer from Nitropos. Like other 2490 02:15:09.520 --> 02:15:11.880 Nitofoss products, You're going to find it at places like 2491 02:15:12.439 --> 02:15:16.359 Mott Bellevue Fisher's Hardware. On three FM thirty one eighty 2492 02:15:16.399 --> 02:15:18.720 they've got it out there. If you go down to 2493 02:15:18.760 --> 02:15:20.840 Stanton Shopping Center and Alvin, you're going to find it. 2494 02:15:20.880 --> 02:15:23.359 Lots of places carry Nito foss products, but the Fiant 2495 02:15:23.439 --> 02:15:26.119 Killer works. And boy are we ever in firence season, 2496 02:15:26.600 --> 02:15:29.319 that's for sure. By the way, I did a video 2497 02:15:29.399 --> 02:15:32.960 on Facebook a good while back, is a couple of 2498 02:15:33.000 --> 02:15:37.119 weeks ago. I think that talks about how to know 2499 02:15:37.199 --> 02:15:39.800 when to put baits out for fire ants, and baits 2500 02:15:39.840 --> 02:15:42.239 are also very effective, and it tells you how to 2501 02:15:42.319 --> 02:15:45.399 know when to apply bait. There's times of the day 2502 02:15:45.439 --> 02:15:47.720 when it gets hot the fire ants aren't as active 2503 02:15:47.760 --> 02:15:51.319 out and feeding. So anyway, check that out. Let's go 2504 02:15:51.359 --> 02:15:54.439 to friends with now and we're going to visit with Bill. Hey, Bill, 2505 02:15:54.479 --> 02:15:57.199 Welcome to garden line. Lloyes Kip. 2506 02:15:58.119 --> 02:16:03.039 I've got a couple of four year old, uh, Texas 2507 02:16:03.039 --> 02:16:07.479 pink pomegranate trees. They're about say, eight to nine feet tall. 2508 02:16:08.399 --> 02:16:09.279 They look really good. 2509 02:16:09.560 --> 02:16:10.199 Uh. 2510 02:16:10.600 --> 02:16:14.520 They put out these kind of reddish orange flowers that 2511 02:16:14.600 --> 02:16:16.319 look like kind of a carnation. 2512 02:16:17.399 --> 02:16:18.479 And none of them sat. 2513 02:16:18.760 --> 02:16:18.880 Uh. 2514 02:16:19.279 --> 02:16:23.000 I can't see any stamen on the flowers. I'm wondering 2515 02:16:23.800 --> 02:16:24.720 what's going on here? 2516 02:16:27.199 --> 02:16:31.760 Not getting pollination on them? Maybe that's interesting. I mean, 2517 02:16:32.200 --> 02:16:34.000 why would they not set. 2518 02:16:35.159 --> 02:16:37.479 Yeah, they just kind of turn around and fall off. 2519 02:16:39.600 --> 02:16:44.520 And uh, is it after rainy periods? Are you seeing it? 2520 02:16:44.760 --> 02:16:49.719 You know, after we've had a go ahead. 2521 02:16:50.000 --> 02:16:52.200 We no, I mean it's uh, you know, this has 2522 02:16:52.239 --> 02:16:55.760 been going on for pretty much their whole life. Uh. 2523 02:16:57.239 --> 02:17:01.559 They put out the flowers. I've even gone over and 2524 02:17:01.639 --> 02:17:03.799 kind of you know, rubbed them, trying to see if 2525 02:17:03.799 --> 02:17:06.360 there's anything I could do to help, and they just 2526 02:17:07.200 --> 02:17:08.399 turn brown and tall off. 2527 02:17:08.440 --> 02:17:13.159 I don't know if what's going on. Yeah, well, I 2528 02:17:13.399 --> 02:17:15.559 don't know what to tell you on that one. There 2529 02:17:15.600 --> 02:17:19.440 is a publication on palm granite on the Aggie Horticulture 2530 02:17:19.440 --> 02:17:22.200 website right now, the site is down. I was checking 2531 02:17:22.239 --> 02:17:26.959 it earlier today, but it's Aggie Horticulture and it's just 2532 02:17:27.000 --> 02:17:30.000 being maintained right now. They're doing some stuff. But when 2533 02:17:30.000 --> 02:17:31.840 you go back to it, the fruit and nut section 2534 02:17:31.920 --> 02:17:34.120 has a whole publication on palm grant it that you 2535 02:17:34.159 --> 02:17:36.600 can download free or just look out on the screen 2536 02:17:36.959 --> 02:17:39.280 and it goes into a lot of details about those 2537 02:17:39.440 --> 02:17:41.879 And I don't have it in front of me. I 2538 02:17:42.000 --> 02:17:45.079 can't pull it up or anything to see what else 2539 02:17:45.239 --> 02:17:47.639 we might be looking at. But you should be getting 2540 02:17:47.639 --> 02:17:50.200 some fruit on those things. Palm grants we run into 2541 02:17:50.200 --> 02:17:52.559 problems even when they have fruit, and we get rainy 2542 02:17:52.600 --> 02:17:55.239 weather that's kind of hard on fruit, rots and things 2543 02:17:55.280 --> 02:17:57.440 like that. But no, we haven't. 2544 02:17:57.479 --> 02:18:01.280 I mean it's been pretty drawn. Got an irrigation system 2545 02:18:01.280 --> 02:18:04.120 that you know, I'm running here, and so they're getting water. 2546 02:18:04.440 --> 02:18:11.760 I use a thirteen actually fourteen fourteen fourteen fertilizer. I 2547 02:18:11.799 --> 02:18:14.040 don't don't really know. And the other question I had 2548 02:18:14.879 --> 02:18:19.959 pertains to a pecan tree I have that volunteered from 2549 02:18:20.000 --> 02:18:24.520 one of my other pecan trees. Not sure what it is, 2550 02:18:24.559 --> 02:18:25.520 but it's beautiful. 2551 02:18:25.559 --> 02:18:26.840 It's like twenty feet. 2552 02:18:26.639 --> 02:18:30.879 Tall, good spread and all that, and it's about nine 2553 02:18:30.959 --> 02:18:35.760 years old and has not tried to produce any pecans yet. 2554 02:18:36.000 --> 02:18:38.760 I was wondering whether they just take a lot longer. 2555 02:18:41.239 --> 02:18:43.760 A seedling tree you mean when you say they. 2556 02:18:45.520 --> 02:18:48.159 Well, yeah, it was a seedling tree was in my 2557 02:18:48.239 --> 02:18:52.079 flower bed and I transplanted it, and gosh, it's got 2558 02:18:52.079 --> 02:18:56.120 to be about eight inches maybe seven eight inches in 2559 02:18:56.200 --> 02:19:00.920 diameter at the bottom and just beautiful, but it hadn't 2560 02:19:00.920 --> 02:19:02.200 put out any pecan. 2561 02:19:04.719 --> 02:19:09.559 So real quick as pecans grow, they mature and just 2562 02:19:09.719 --> 02:19:13.399 like animals and people and things, they hit a reproductive 2563 02:19:13.440 --> 02:19:17.000 stage where they're able to have fruit, and so that 2564 02:19:17.040 --> 02:19:19.959 can be twelve fourteen years down the line on a 2565 02:19:19.959 --> 02:19:23.079 pecan tree, and it depends on groin conditions and a 2566 02:19:23.079 --> 02:19:25.159 lot of other things, the genetics of the tree. But 2567 02:19:25.239 --> 02:19:29.200 seedlings are starting off as an immature tree, and so 2568 02:19:29.239 --> 02:19:32.600 they have to go through this aging process that takes 2569 02:19:32.600 --> 02:19:35.120 a good while. That's why people like to buy grafted 2570 02:19:35.159 --> 02:19:38.799 trees because they can go straight to you know, having 2571 02:19:38.840 --> 02:19:42.360 fruit pretty soon, as opposed to a seedling type tree. 2572 02:19:43.200 --> 02:19:46.239 Okay, so I should just expect maybe five years or 2573 02:19:46.280 --> 02:19:48.280 so and maybe it'll start producing. 2574 02:19:49.559 --> 02:19:52.319 Maybe if I more Yeah, and with good conditions, it 2575 02:19:52.360 --> 02:19:54.440 ought to begin to do that. But yeah, the seedlings 2576 02:19:54.440 --> 02:19:56.760 are meaniful. They have a central lead or trunk and 2577 02:19:57.399 --> 02:19:59.840 very very different look than than a grafted pecan. 2578 02:20:01.280 --> 02:20:04.239 It's actually the best looking of a lot of countries. 2579 02:20:04.280 --> 02:20:07.920 It's grown up straight. You got a nice little spread 2580 02:20:08.239 --> 02:20:10.200 to provide some good shade in the afternoon. 2581 02:20:10.280 --> 02:20:17.319 So yeah, so let me Yeah, so I was just 2582 02:20:17.600 --> 02:20:21.360 thinking about your pomegrantited thing too. They don't require pollination. 2583 02:20:21.440 --> 02:20:23.479 I think I suggested maybe that was a problem that 2584 02:20:23.520 --> 02:20:26.479 they don't require that they are self fruitful. So I 2585 02:20:26.520 --> 02:20:28.680 don't know. I do know that when they're younger they 2586 02:20:28.760 --> 02:20:30.920 don't set fruit. But yours is old enough to where 2587 02:20:30.959 --> 02:20:33.760 it should be. I've got a run. I'm against some 2588 02:20:33.959 --> 02:20:36.760 second heartbreak here, but good luck with that. And thank 2589 02:20:36.840 --> 02:20:38.959 you for the call. Bill. I appreciate that when we 2590 02:20:39.000 --> 02:20:42.840 come back, Bob and Kingwood, you'll be our first up. Alrighty, 2591 02:20:43.840 --> 02:20:45.479 welcome back to the Guardline, folks. Good to have you 2592 02:20:45.520 --> 02:20:48.719 with us. Got so many things we can talk about. 2593 02:20:49.040 --> 02:20:52.479 If you have someone asked earlier about using a pre 2594 02:20:52.479 --> 02:20:54.440 emergent and we were talking about you know, well you 2595 02:20:54.479 --> 02:20:57.360 can do the second application of that now. That is 2596 02:20:57.399 --> 02:20:59.159 one thing we can be doing. It is also a 2597 02:20:59.200 --> 02:21:01.920 time to be looking at the gray leaf spot. If 2598 02:21:01.920 --> 02:21:04.280 you've got a bad situation coming from it, there are 2599 02:21:04.319 --> 02:21:06.879 ways we can manage that and prevent it. It's time 2600 02:21:06.920 --> 02:21:09.840 to do your summer fertilizations in the lawn with a 2601 02:21:09.840 --> 02:21:13.040 good slow release. Need take care of that. Well, I'll 2602 02:21:13.040 --> 02:21:14.239 tell you where you can go and get all that 2603 02:21:14.520 --> 02:21:18.239 Ace Hardware Ace Hardware. If you go to the website 2604 02:21:18.319 --> 02:21:22.239 for my local ACE Hardware group, it's Acehardware Texas. Dot Com. 2605 02:21:22.280 --> 02:21:24.719 That's this whole region ACE Hardware Tech. I say region 2606 02:21:24.719 --> 02:21:26.280 because all the way down to Rockport, all the way 2607 02:21:26.280 --> 02:21:31.360 over to Beaumont, and so on. ACE Hardware Texas dot Com. 2608 02:21:31.399 --> 02:21:33.600 Find your store and go in there and find what 2609 02:21:33.719 --> 02:21:36.840 you need to have a beautiful lawn, a beautiful landscape, 2610 02:21:36.879 --> 02:21:40.760 a bountiful garden, and make it easier on yourself. Get 2611 02:21:40.760 --> 02:21:42.760 some of their quality tools. You can take care of 2612 02:21:42.799 --> 02:21:46.959 things and make gardening even more fun than it already is. 2613 02:21:47.280 --> 02:21:51.079 Acehardware Texas dot Com. Let's go out to Kingwood. Now 2614 02:21:51.479 --> 02:21:54.079 we're going to talk to Bob. Hey, Bob, welcome to 2615 02:21:54.120 --> 02:21:54.760 garden Line. 2616 02:21:55.479 --> 02:21:58.639 Hey, Skip, give me a minute to give you what 2617 02:21:58.719 --> 02:22:00.639 I'm trying to get to A nine. You could straighten 2618 02:22:00.680 --> 02:22:05.000 me out what I use something besides glyco phosphate and 2619 02:22:05.120 --> 02:22:08.200 round up around my pebble beds around the house where 2620 02:22:08.280 --> 02:22:11.040 a bunch of weeds come back. While I was waiting, 2621 02:22:11.120 --> 02:22:14.120 I just did a quick Google search, and sure enough, 2622 02:22:14.159 --> 02:22:16.959 I guess if I'm thinking about want to get rid 2623 02:22:16.959 --> 02:22:20.200 of using the glycophosphate, there's a bunch of products out there. 2624 02:22:20.479 --> 02:22:23.200 So I was just going to use the vinegar salt 2625 02:22:23.360 --> 02:22:26.920 and so give me some ideas on why not to 2626 02:22:26.959 --> 02:22:28.639 waste time on doing which ones. 2627 02:22:30.440 --> 02:22:34.200 Okay, vinegar, salt, soap and oils and other things that 2628 02:22:34.239 --> 02:22:37.120 are sold as herbicides burn the top of the plant off, 2629 02:22:37.360 --> 02:22:39.680 and if it's an annual plant, that kills it so 2630 02:22:39.760 --> 02:22:42.440 it does a fine job. If it's a perennial plant, 2631 02:22:42.520 --> 02:22:44.239 it pops back up out of the ground because they 2632 02:22:44.280 --> 02:22:48.120 don't translocate down and kill the whole plant. Like glyphosate, 2633 02:22:48.239 --> 02:22:52.479 which was the original round up dead Now yeah, there 2634 02:22:52.639 --> 02:22:56.280 is now the over the counter round up is now 2635 02:22:56.399 --> 02:23:00.760 not glyphis. It is other things. It's three different things combined. 2636 02:23:01.399 --> 02:23:04.319 They put three in there because each works differently. You know, 2637 02:23:04.399 --> 02:23:07.680 want to do better on woody kinds of things and 2638 02:23:07.719 --> 02:23:11.000 so on. But if you want to get off to 2639 02:23:11.120 --> 02:23:13.360 something else, if you want to get off of roundup 2640 02:23:13.360 --> 02:23:15.719 onto something else, well, another thing that you can do 2641 02:23:16.479 --> 02:23:20.559 is get a product with glue phoscinate g l U 2642 02:23:21.040 --> 02:23:26.079 p h O s I n at E glue fascinate. 2643 02:23:26.159 --> 02:23:27.559 And here's what I want you to do. If you 2644 02:23:27.600 --> 02:23:32.520 go to my website gardening with Skip dot com, Gardening 2645 02:23:32.559 --> 02:23:36.440 with skip dot Com on there there's a number of 2646 02:23:36.559 --> 02:23:41.239 very hopeful publications. Look at the publication list, you can 2647 02:23:41.239 --> 02:23:44.520 click on it. There there's a product called Herticide Products 2648 02:23:44.760 --> 02:23:48.959 for application with skipsweed wiper. If you go to that list, 2649 02:23:49.559 --> 02:23:52.200 no matter what kind of weed you have, it lists 2650 02:23:52.479 --> 02:23:57.920 the ingredients that will most effectively control that weed. If 2651 02:23:57.959 --> 02:24:00.159 it's a woodyweed, if it's a grass, if it's a 2652 02:24:00.200 --> 02:24:03.159 broad leaf weed, if it's wild onions, if it's nuts edge. 2653 02:24:03.239 --> 02:24:05.920 Each of those there's different products that I would suggest 2654 02:24:06.000 --> 02:24:09.000 you would have better success with. So if you look 2655 02:24:09.040 --> 02:24:12.879 at something that controls grasses and bro leaves like glaphisat 2656 02:24:12.959 --> 02:24:15.319 or round up did. By the way, there's there's new 2657 02:24:15.479 --> 02:24:17.680 there's still glavaste on the market. It's just not called 2658 02:24:17.719 --> 02:24:21.319 round up anymore. But there's one called Gluefascinate, and you 2659 02:24:21.360 --> 02:24:24.319 can find it in a product called Finale. You can 2660 02:24:24.319 --> 02:24:27.600 find it in a product called Bioadvanced Weed and Grass Killer. 2661 02:24:28.360 --> 02:24:33.079 But it isn't quite as effective as the old roundup was, 2662 02:24:33.840 --> 02:24:36.079 but it does a very good job and it works faster, 2663 02:24:36.440 --> 02:24:37.920 and so if you had to do it a second 2664 02:24:37.959 --> 02:24:40.360 time later, you could do that. But that would be 2665 02:24:40.799 --> 02:24:46.600 an alternative that translocates down and kills the whole plant. 2666 02:24:48.159 --> 02:24:51.079 Is Celsius any safer than round. 2667 02:24:50.920 --> 02:24:57.280 Up Celsius is, yes, but it it is only going 2668 02:24:57.360 --> 02:25:00.280 to control broad leaf weeds, and you can use in 2669 02:25:00.319 --> 02:25:02.520 the lawn that's where it has its label for, not 2670 02:25:02.639 --> 02:25:06.120 flower beds or vegetable gardens. And it won't control grassy 2671 02:25:06.159 --> 02:25:10.719 weeds or woody, witty kinds of weeds you know, coming 2672 02:25:10.760 --> 02:25:12.920 up more difficult. There are weeds that are more difficult 2673 02:25:13.000 --> 02:25:17.000 control and it won't control those. So it's not an 2674 02:25:17.040 --> 02:25:21.319 equivalent of using roundup, but it does control some of 2675 02:25:21.319 --> 02:25:23.760 the broad leaf weeds in the lawn. 2676 02:25:26.000 --> 02:25:27.360 Okay, thank you, skip. 2677 02:25:28.840 --> 02:25:31.120 Yeah you bet check that. Check that list out though. 2678 02:25:31.159 --> 02:25:35.799 I think that'll be that'll be helpful for you. All righty, 2679 02:25:36.159 --> 02:25:39.399 Nature's Way resources. You know, when I think about bronze stuff, 2680 02:25:39.440 --> 02:25:42.639 when I think about the foundation for success with your plants, 2681 02:25:43.479 --> 02:25:46.200 you can't you can't think about that much without Nature's 2682 02:25:46.200 --> 02:25:49.280 Way popping right up into your head. Because they've been 2683 02:25:49.280 --> 02:25:52.399 doing this for a long time. Many of the products 2684 02:25:52.440 --> 02:25:56.120 we talk about in generic ways now started in Nature's Way. 2685 02:25:56.200 --> 02:25:58.280 You know, things like leaf, molk, compost and wrote saw 2686 02:25:58.399 --> 02:26:02.239 being two prime examples. Ian Ferguson and the whole team 2687 02:26:02.280 --> 02:26:04.719 there at Nature's Way are doing a heck of a 2688 02:26:04.799 --> 02:26:08.319 job maintaining the quality products that they that you would 2689 02:26:08.360 --> 02:26:12.719 expect from Nature's Way, and the nice diversity of products too. 2690 02:26:12.799 --> 02:26:14.840 They have products for all kinds of things. Do you 2691 02:26:14.920 --> 02:26:17.159 want to double ground mult or a rose soil, or 2692 02:26:17.200 --> 02:26:20.520 a garden and flowerbed mix, or something for acid loving 2693 02:26:20.559 --> 02:26:23.520 plants like blueberries, or something to grow your citrus trees in. 2694 02:26:23.639 --> 02:26:26.440 How about a leaf mole compost for top dressing. They've 2695 02:26:26.440 --> 02:26:28.959 had all of that and way way more. Go to 2696 02:26:29.000 --> 02:26:31.200 the website and find out everything you need to know, 2697 02:26:31.360 --> 02:26:33.399 how to get there, how to reach them, how to 2698 02:26:33.440 --> 02:26:40.239 call them. Nature's Way Resources dot com. Remember every Friday 2699 02:26:40.319 --> 02:26:43.799 is Fungo Friday. There's a sale ten percent off bags 2700 02:26:43.799 --> 02:26:47.719 of fungo based compass and twenty percent off bulk fungal 2701 02:26:47.760 --> 02:26:50.479 based compost. That's a good that's a good savings. So 2702 02:26:50.520 --> 02:26:54.719 they will also deliver bulk to where you live. We're 2703 02:26:54.719 --> 02:26:58.040 going to go now to Spring and talk to Charles. Hey, Charles, 2704 02:26:58.159 --> 02:26:59.360 welcome to Garden Line. 2705 02:27:00.639 --> 02:27:01.239 High Skip. 2706 02:27:01.520 --> 02:27:02.159 Uh. 2707 02:27:02.520 --> 02:27:07.360 So, I've got four bottle brush plants that I planted. 2708 02:27:07.639 --> 02:27:13.000 I redid the the yard with compost and and and calminure, 2709 02:27:13.360 --> 02:27:17.879 and I planted them and they're all, they're all dying. 2710 02:27:18.159 --> 02:27:22.760 And I went online and I tried the I put 2711 02:27:22.840 --> 02:27:26.319 on some that iron cholly because I thought that might 2712 02:27:26.360 --> 02:27:30.120 be the problem. But it's not from lack of water 2713 02:27:30.360 --> 02:27:35.120 or sunlight. They get all full sun and it looks 2714 02:27:35.159 --> 02:27:38.280 as if they're not getting enough water. But I know 2715 02:27:38.399 --> 02:27:41.600 that's not the problem. And I thought you might have 2716 02:27:41.719 --> 02:27:43.360 some advice to help me. 2717 02:27:45.440 --> 02:27:51.600 Yeah, you can have chlorosis on bottle brush and iron 2718 02:27:51.680 --> 02:27:55.159 will will help with that. They like they need so 2719 02:27:55.319 --> 02:27:58.719 moisture to do their best, but they don't want soggy 2720 02:27:58.719 --> 02:28:01.319 wet feet. So if you dig down with a little hand, 2721 02:28:01.399 --> 02:28:04.159 trowel around them, maybe go down about four inches or 2722 02:28:04.200 --> 02:28:07.239 so and feel the soil. If it's starting to be 2723 02:28:07.319 --> 02:28:09.280 dry to the touch, it's time to water them. If 2724 02:28:09.319 --> 02:28:12.479 it's still wet, hold off and do well. If you 2725 02:28:12.799 --> 02:28:14.680 wanted to send me a picture of the plants and 2726 02:28:14.719 --> 02:28:16.840 what you're seeing, I could take a look. Maybe I'll 2727 02:28:16.840 --> 02:28:20.079 see something else going on on the picture. But a 2728 02:28:20.120 --> 02:28:24.040 moderate amount of fertilizer. Don't fertilize them too late in 2729 02:28:24.079 --> 02:28:26.600 the season, by the way, don't I wouldn't fertilize them 2730 02:28:26.600 --> 02:28:30.440 past August for sure. They're somewhat cold tender, and so 2731 02:28:30.879 --> 02:28:33.639 when you push something into late fall growth, you're more 2732 02:28:33.680 --> 02:28:37.440 susceptible to cold injury when winter hits. So hold off 2733 02:28:37.479 --> 02:28:40.479 on that. But right now, some fertilizer would probably be helpful. 2734 02:28:40.879 --> 02:28:43.319 But I'm going to picture on hold, Charles, and if 2735 02:28:43.360 --> 02:28:45.600 you would like to send me some pictures, I'd be 2736 02:28:45.639 --> 02:28:47.440 glad to take a look at them. And maybe there's 2737 02:28:47.479 --> 02:28:50.120 something I'm not picturing that I see in the photo. 2738 02:28:51.079 --> 02:28:55.639 Okay, we'll do all right, all right. 2739 02:28:55.559 --> 02:29:01.719 We'll just hang on one second. Aleandro pick up here. Well, yeah, 2740 02:29:02.079 --> 02:29:04.440 bottle brush. I love bottle brush. Boy. You talk about 2741 02:29:04.479 --> 02:29:07.920 a pollinator plant. The honey bees line up down the 2742 02:29:08.000 --> 02:29:11.239 block to get to your bottle brush trees. They love it. Uh, 2743 02:29:11.959 --> 02:29:14.559 some are more hearty than others. But we've had a 2744 02:29:14.559 --> 02:29:17.520 couple of doozy winners in the last five or six 2745 02:29:17.680 --> 02:29:21.319 or seven that have hit bottle brush pretty hard. And 2746 02:29:21.360 --> 02:29:24.040 there one of the plants we grow that. I still 2747 02:29:24.040 --> 02:29:26.479 think we got to grow u. But just be aware 2748 02:29:26.680 --> 02:29:29.840 that that that can happen here, especially those of you 2749 02:29:29.879 --> 02:29:31.920 who are listening to me up north. I ten, you know, 2750 02:29:31.920 --> 02:29:34.799 I know people in Huntsville and college station listening and stuff. 2751 02:29:35.079 --> 02:29:36.799 It's a little more of a challenge to grow them 2752 02:29:36.840 --> 02:29:39.239 up there than it would be down you know, I 2753 02:29:39.239 --> 02:29:42.840 don't know, down toward the coast in Galveston and all 2754 02:29:42.879 --> 02:29:46.799 out that way. All right, well, let me take a 2755 02:29:46.840 --> 02:29:49.120 little break here, it's time for that. I'll come back 2756 02:29:49.159 --> 02:29:51.559 with your calls in just a moment at seven one three, 2757 02:29:51.680 --> 02:29:56.200 two one two fifty eight seventy four. Welcome back to 2758 02:29:56.280 --> 02:30:01.479 guard Line. We had a little bit of a glitch. 2759 02:30:01.760 --> 02:30:04.079 The Gremlins got in for the end of the show today. 2760 02:30:04.440 --> 02:30:06.440 So we're gonna do We're going to continue to show. 2761 02:30:08.040 --> 02:30:10.239 I believe that I'm gonna have to hold off on 2762 02:30:10.639 --> 02:30:13.479 maybe one call we can take. For this last segment, 2763 02:30:14.159 --> 02:30:16.040 I want to talk a little bit about some of 2764 02:30:16.079 --> 02:30:19.000 the Nelson plant food products that are available by the jar. 2765 02:30:19.239 --> 02:30:22.360 That would be the nutri Star products, the color Star products. 2766 02:30:23.040 --> 02:30:25.680 I've talked about Nutstar of the flour. The color Star 2767 02:30:26.239 --> 02:30:29.239 comes in two forms. And if you have a plant 2768 02:30:29.239 --> 02:30:33.280 that flowers an annual flower, perennial flower, shrubs, trees, any 2769 02:30:33.319 --> 02:30:37.479 flowers and containers are in your landscape. Color Star is 2770 02:30:37.520 --> 02:30:40.120 a product that has been around for over forty years 2771 02:30:40.200 --> 02:30:44.120 and it really works. Now. The Colorstar Plus has added 2772 02:30:44.159 --> 02:30:47.600 fungicide in it, a systemic fungicide to help protect your 2773 02:30:47.600 --> 02:30:51.920 plants for those fungus susceptible types of plants. 2774 02:30:52.879 --> 02:30:53.559 Either way you. 2775 02:30:53.559 --> 02:30:57.040 Go, you're gonna have beautiful success. It's got slurlease ingredients 2776 02:30:57.040 --> 02:30:58.959 can give you about three or four months of feeding 2777 02:30:59.559 --> 02:31:02.840 and they perform and I'm telling you you don't have 2778 02:31:02.840 --> 02:31:06.120 to day my work for it. They have people all 2779 02:31:06.159 --> 02:31:09.280 over the country that ordered this stuff to be shipped 2780 02:31:09.280 --> 02:31:12.280 out of Texas to these other places because they tried 2781 02:31:12.319 --> 02:31:14.559 to sample. They liked it. They can't get anything like 2782 02:31:14.600 --> 02:31:17.239 it in their area, and so they called Ian at 2783 02:31:17.239 --> 02:31:20.239 Nelson Blent Food and say, I need you to ship 2784 02:31:20.280 --> 02:31:24.280 me colors are And it's that popular of the product 2785 02:31:24.520 --> 02:31:27.360 because it works. You need to have someone hand because 2786 02:31:27.360 --> 02:31:30.879 you always got an opportunity to feed something with that 2787 02:31:30.959 --> 02:31:35.159 quality product. It does work well. All right, Yeah, we're 2788 02:31:35.239 --> 02:31:37.719 still chasing gremlins, but we I think we got it. 2789 02:31:38.159 --> 02:31:41.360 We're going to go to Larry and Spring Branch. Larry, 2790 02:31:41.399 --> 02:31:43.559 Welcome to garden Line. 2791 02:31:43.680 --> 02:31:47.760 Sarah, Good mornings. Get I have good morning, and I 2792 02:31:47.760 --> 02:31:53.159 believe it might be called spur weed. It's got a 2793 02:31:53.200 --> 02:31:56.239 small yellow flower on it, but it's got these spurs 2794 02:31:56.280 --> 02:31:57.920 on when you grab all of it, try to pull 2795 02:31:57.920 --> 02:32:01.319 it out in your fingers. That's for sure. 2796 02:32:01.440 --> 02:32:05.239 It stings it. Okay, got So what you what you're 2797 02:32:05.239 --> 02:32:07.399 gonna what you're gonna want to do, Larry is, get 2798 02:32:07.479 --> 02:32:11.719 you a product that has a three way broad leaf 2799 02:32:11.959 --> 02:32:15.920 post emergent weed control. So that could be things like 2800 02:32:17.079 --> 02:32:19.879 fertil and weed free zone. It could be boon eyed 2801 02:32:19.920 --> 02:32:24.799 weed beater. Uh. But there are a number of products 2802 02:32:24.799 --> 02:32:28.479 that are like that. ACE has one called lawn weed Killer. 2803 02:32:28.639 --> 02:32:31.280 Those products are hard on Saint Augustine when the weather 2804 02:32:31.399 --> 02:32:34.079 is warm. But you need to hit it as soon 2805 02:32:34.120 --> 02:32:36.879 as possible to get control of that spur weed because 2806 02:32:36.879 --> 02:32:39.959 it's not easy to control what what you're describing. Rather 2807 02:32:40.559 --> 02:32:42.879 uh and so go early in the morning when it's 2808 02:32:42.920 --> 02:32:45.760 the coolest time of the day and apply it as 2809 02:32:45.799 --> 02:32:49.760 a spot treat on those weeds then uh, and and 2810 02:32:49.879 --> 02:32:52.440 get ahead of them. And see I've not tried celsius 2811 02:32:52.440 --> 02:32:55.399 on that weed, but uh it may work as well. Uh. 2812 02:32:55.440 --> 02:32:57.760 But uh, we're kind of entering the time now where 2813 02:32:57.760 --> 02:33:02.200 those broad leaf herbs can be damaging to Saint Augustine. 2814 02:33:02.280 --> 02:33:04.920 So early in the morning, cool time of day spot 2815 02:33:04.959 --> 02:33:07.200 treat and I think that gives you the best chance 2816 02:33:07.239 --> 02:33:08.319 of success. 2817 02:33:09.440 --> 02:33:11.520 All right, very good. Would it be best to put 2818 02:33:11.559 --> 02:33:14.639 you apply that to my weed wiper and hit those 2819 02:33:14.680 --> 02:33:15.719 things individually? 2820 02:33:17.479 --> 02:33:20.600 Yeah, if the weed's up enough where you can grab 2821 02:33:20.639 --> 02:33:22.879 it with the weed wiper, that would be fine. That 2822 02:33:23.000 --> 02:33:28.440 minimizes otherwise, just a very low pressure spray so it's 2823 02:33:28.479 --> 02:33:31.959 not creating a foggy miss that's drifting everywhere. With a 2824 02:33:31.959 --> 02:33:34.479 spray NOZZLEO. You can also spot treat them that way too, 2825 02:33:36.680 --> 02:33:39.680 So I've got a lot about the weed wiper. Yeah, 2826 02:33:39.879 --> 02:33:41.280 if you have a lot of the weed wiperud be 2827 02:33:41.319 --> 02:33:43.840 a little bit tedious to do for that, but anyway, 2828 02:33:44.079 --> 02:33:47.520 all right, thanks Larry, I do appreciate your call. Listen, 2829 02:33:47.559 --> 02:33:50.520 if you've got indoor plants and you haven't potted them 2830 02:33:50.600 --> 02:33:53.520 up in a recent period of time, meaning you haven't 2831 02:33:53.559 --> 02:33:56.879 bumped them up to a larger sized pot. Jungle land 2832 02:33:57.040 --> 02:34:00.840 indoor plant soil is a good one. It's actually called 2833 02:34:00.879 --> 02:34:04.760 jungle l and water saving potting soil. You just take 2834 02:34:04.760 --> 02:34:07.319 your old plant out, look around the outside of that 2835 02:34:07.440 --> 02:34:09.920 root ball, kind of use your fingers or a knife 2836 02:34:10.000 --> 02:34:13.399 or something to cut away some outdoor roots outdoor outside 2837 02:34:13.479 --> 02:34:18.040 the perimeter roots that are circling around and then repot 2838 02:34:18.079 --> 02:34:19.639 it up and it would be good to go. Jungle 2839 02:34:19.719 --> 02:34:22.319 Land water saving potting soil is excellent if you got 2840 02:34:22.440 --> 02:34:24.719 anytime you're bumping a plant up from one size to 2841 02:34:24.760 --> 02:34:27.200 another in your house, that would be a good time 2842 02:34:27.239 --> 02:34:29.840 to use it. Just remember that his plants get really 2843 02:34:29.920 --> 02:34:33.000 large for the container. You have to water more often 2844 02:34:33.239 --> 02:34:36.200 and they're a little more stressed because their root system 2845 02:34:36.280 --> 02:34:40.239 is just too confined to support the top that they 2846 02:34:40.280 --> 02:34:42.159 have to support. So it doesn't hurt to bump them 2847 02:34:42.239 --> 02:34:44.680 up every now and then just to help give them 2848 02:34:44.719 --> 02:34:46.639 a little bit more room to grow and jungle Land 2849 02:34:46.680 --> 02:34:48.639 from Nitrofossil do that. You're going to find it at 2850 02:34:49.239 --> 02:34:51.559 M and D in Clare Lake on barry A Boulevard. 2851 02:34:51.639 --> 02:34:54.079 You'll find it at Stanton Shopping Center and North Taylor 2852 02:34:54.600 --> 02:34:57.440 down an Alvin area and up in Brenham at Plants 2853 02:34:57.479 --> 02:34:59.760 and Things on Highway three sixty five. All of this 2854 02:35:00.280 --> 02:35:04.399 is carry nitrofoss products and so that's where you would 2855 02:35:04.399 --> 02:35:08.920 begin your search. Well, it's been an interesting day, kind 2856 02:35:08.920 --> 02:35:11.559 of wound up today with the gremlins and the system, 2857 02:35:11.600 --> 02:35:15.120 but we survived it. Thanks for listening to Guardline this weekend. 2858 02:35:15.200 --> 02:35:17.159 It's been good to talk to you and enjoyed that. 2859 02:35:18.000 --> 02:35:20.879 We'll be back again next Saturday six am to ten 2860 02:35:20.920 --> 02:35:24.399 am on Sunday as well. In the meantime, don't forget 2861 02:35:24.440 --> 02:35:29.440 my website. Skip. My website is gardening with Skip dot 2862 02:35:29.440 --> 02:35:32.000 com and when you get there, you're gonna find all 2863 02:35:32.120 --> 02:35:35.200 kinds of helpful things. And so I haven't talked about 2864 02:35:35.200 --> 02:35:39.399 the updates we've done to the page recently, but for example, 2865 02:35:39.479 --> 02:35:42.920 there is a publication called Great Gardens Begin with Great Soil. 2866 02:35:43.239 --> 02:35:45.799 It you know, browns up before greenstop. It tells you 2867 02:35:45.840 --> 02:35:50.399 all about that. There's one on herbicide products for specific weeds. 2868 02:35:50.799 --> 02:35:53.000 So if you're looking to kill wild onions in your 2869 02:35:53.079 --> 02:35:55.440 yard and you can't get them killed, well look at 2870 02:35:55.440 --> 02:35:58.159 my publication. It talks about what to use for each 2871 02:35:58.200 --> 02:36:00.920 type of week. Then there's one on lawn Caro one 2872 02:36:00.920 --> 02:36:03.840 on one on one that is everything you need to 2873 02:36:03.879 --> 02:36:07.319 know for the basics of a dense, beautiful green lawn.