Speaker 1: You're having a good start to the day. I sure
Speaker 1: am looking forward to talking to gardeners. That's my happy place.
Speaker 1: So welcome to garden Line. My name is Skip Rictor.
Speaker 1: I'm your host, and if you would like to give
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Speaker 1: one two k t RH. I know we have listeners
Speaker 1: who do this, but I just want to remind the
Speaker 1: rest of you that if you take your phone and
Speaker 1: go to the iHeartMedia app or whatever whatever app you
Speaker 1: use for connecting to radio, you can find the garden
Speaker 1: Line radio show and just listen to it on your phone.
Speaker 1: Some people go out in the garden in the morning,
Speaker 1: which is the time to get work done around here,
Speaker 1: right especially in the summer, and they just listen on
Speaker 1: the phone as they were. Who knows, you might turn
Speaker 1: over some kind of bug and need to take a
Speaker 1: picture of it and send it to me for identification.
Speaker 1: Well here, we're here for that too. We can help
Speaker 1: recommend different kinds of plan we can help you diagnose
Speaker 1: different diseases and insects, we identify weeds, any kind of
Speaker 1: thing like that. We're happy to do it because our
Speaker 1: goal is for you to have success. It's as simple
Speaker 1: as that I would in terms of how I look
Speaker 1: at this exchange between you and I here on the
Speaker 1: radio is I'm here to help you have a more
Speaker 1: bountiful garden and a more beautiful landscape. That is the goal.
Speaker 1: And we were going to turn that thumb green topic
Speaker 1: by topic as we continue to cover the various things
Speaker 1: that are part of success in gardening here in the southeast,
Speaker 1: a greater Houston area and really across a good section
Speaker 1: of the state to folks that listen. Done in this
Speaker 1: quadrant of the state. I this past week have been
Speaker 1: getting ready to head out of town for a little bit.
Speaker 1: I'm going to I've got some folks here who can
Speaker 1: do my watering of course for me and things. But
Speaker 1: there are a number of tips that I'm gonna give
Speaker 1: for helping you to maybe make a trip like that.
Speaker 1: What do you do when you're trying to get out
Speaker 1: of town and you need to, you know, make sure
Speaker 1: your plants are taken care of. Well, we're gonna do that.
Speaker 1: For example. One thing that I do that just makes
Speaker 1: it really easy is I've got a number of different plants.
Speaker 1: I've got a couple of gingers, for example, that are
Speaker 1: in containers still the garden nursery container, and they just
Speaker 1: don't like to get super dry. And so when what
Speaker 1: I've done is moved them where they were from where
Speaker 1: they were where I could water them every day, to
Speaker 1: run the back to a very very bright, shady spot
Speaker 1: with a little dapple shade through the day, but not
Speaker 1: much more than that, and put them in a big
Speaker 1: old washtub, big old galvanized washtub. I put about maybe
Speaker 1: two inches or so of water in the bottom, depending
Speaker 1: on how far I'm how long it'll be gone away,
Speaker 1: and set them in there, and that gives them a
Speaker 1: bottom of watering where the water just wicks up into
Speaker 1: the plant and keeps them from going into major drop stress.
Speaker 1: I also will throw some mosquito granules in. It's a
Speaker 1: little area like that's too small for a whole mosquito dunk,
Speaker 1: but you can break them apart, put some of the
Speaker 1: crumbles in there, and now when the mosquitoes come along,
Speaker 1: go oh boy, let's lay eggs in there. Well, you
Speaker 1: just have basically a disease of their larvae, then they
Speaker 1: cannot take off and succeed. That works really well if
Speaker 1: you can have somebody, if you're going to be gone
Speaker 1: an extended trip, you could have somebody come by maybe
Speaker 1: every four days three days and just check on that
Speaker 1: and make sure you get enough water in it. Some
Speaker 1: people use a little three foot wide you know kids
Speaker 1: waiting pools, those little super cheap plastic things. Those are
Speaker 1: great for this. You put the water in there and
Speaker 1: you have even a better amount of water. Just think
Speaker 1: of it this way. The bigger the reservoir holding that
Speaker 1: supplemental water for waking up into the plant, the less
Speaker 1: that water is going to drop. You're going to get
Speaker 1: evaporation from the surface anyway. But if you have a
Speaker 1: big old kiddy waiting pool on little one plant in
Speaker 1: the middle, well lasts a long time because that's a
Speaker 1: lot of water. They can wake up in there. Anyway.
Speaker 1: That's just one tip for when you're going on a trip.
Speaker 1: Another one would be to make sure your bird feeders
Speaker 1: are filled up, or better yet, get one of the
Speaker 1: low bird compact bird cylinders.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 1: Wild birds has us the compact cylinders of seed, and
Speaker 1: those last a longer time because it takes the birds
Speaker 1: a little more to peck those seeds out of there.
Speaker 1: So a couple of vacation tips there for your plants
Speaker 1: or for going on trips. Let's see, we're going to
Speaker 1: go now to talk to Abraham. Is this Abraham?
Speaker 3: Yes, it is h I'm good.
Speaker 1: How can we help?
Speaker 3: Yes, sir, I have plants, reaper, turning, gask working and
Speaker 3: roast pepper, all three of them. The leaves are small,
Speaker 3: they don't grow big, like see a bushy plant, and
Speaker 3: they're black and they've been like that all season. I'm
Speaker 3: just wondering what I could do to to have it
Speaker 3: beautiful plants.
Speaker 4: You know, black is in dead black as in like
Speaker 4: a mold type looking thing.
Speaker 1: Oh okay, okay, gotcha, well U turnovers, go ahead.
Speaker 3: I said the leaves are small, they don't grow big,
Speaker 3: and this kind of.
Speaker 1: All right. Well, the fact that they're not growing large
Speaker 1: is definitely assigned. Something's wrong. It could be a virus
Speaker 1: in the plant, and which there's no cure for. It
Speaker 1: just is what it is. Once a virus gets in,
Speaker 1: you can't cure it, so we tend to pull those
Speaker 1: plants out and put new ones in. It could also
Speaker 1: be related to stresses, you know, as the plant has
Speaker 1: various stresses from droughts to whatever, it affects its ability
Speaker 1: to put on fresh, large, healthy leaves. When I see
Speaker 1: the black, that's now making me think that there's something
Speaker 1: that is sucking juices out of either that pepper plant
Speaker 1: or some plant above it and then dropping honeydew onto
Speaker 1: the foliage which is the black. If you turn leaves
Speaker 1: over underneath, you should see you may see aphids, you
Speaker 1: may see white flies. Meatia bugs can do that, but
Speaker 1: you would have already noticed the white cottony material from them.
Speaker 1: But there are a number of little insects that feed
Speaker 1: underneath the leaf that can cause that honeydew which causes
Speaker 1: the black city mold. As far as the plant health overall,
Speaker 1: have you tried giving them a boost of some sort
Speaker 1: of liquid fertilizer.
Speaker 3: That's what I was gonna try.
Speaker 1: And next yeah, yeah, I'll tell you what I would.
Speaker 1: I would grab, you know, just to get a kind
Speaker 1: of a quicker boost or something like that. There are
Speaker 1: some great products out there that do that. Know. Microlife
Speaker 1: has a fisher mulsion. They've got a seaweed type product
Speaker 1: called Lotion Harvest. And then they've got one that is
Speaker 1: a seven.
Speaker 5: To one four.
Speaker 1: It's the orange label. It's called Biomatrix. It's a little
Speaker 1: quart bottle. You shake it up, mix a little in water,
Speaker 1: and you put it down in it. It will if
Speaker 1: it's gonna If the problem is a nutrient problem, you
Speaker 1: should see a pretty quick result from a trying that.
Speaker 1: So I think you may have more than one thing
Speaker 1: going on. Again, if it were a problem with the virus,
Speaker 1: then there's no curing it. If you would like, I
Speaker 1: can put you on hold and have my producer pick
Speaker 1: it up and give you an email address, and if
Speaker 1: you could send me some really good close up photos
Speaker 1: of that plant, the foliage, so I can see what
Speaker 1: you mean by small leaves or black leaves, and where
Speaker 1: it is on the bush and that kind of thing.
Speaker 1: Turn over a leaf for two and take a good,
Speaker 1: well focused picture of the bottom of the leaf, and
Speaker 1: I think I can get better nail it down to
Speaker 1: exactly what's going on all right with us today? You know,
Speaker 1: we love feed stores here on guard Line. And if
Speaker 1: you are up in Tomball, especially out to the west direction,
Speaker 1: D and De feed is your hometown feed store. You
Speaker 1: just go out twenty nine to twenty and they're right
Speaker 1: out there on the left hand side, just a little
Speaker 1: bit outside of Tomball. And when you go to D
Speaker 1: and D you're going to find ever fertilizer that I
Speaker 1: talk about here on guarden Line. So I mean, if
Speaker 1: you're interested in getting something that is going to feed
Speaker 1: your lawn for any season of the year, you follow
Speaker 1: my schedule. You see all the different products on there.
Speaker 1: Maybe it's you know, putting up barricade to prevent weeds
Speaker 1: or other. They've got it all right there at D
Speaker 1: D Feed. Now you'll also find the age leaf mol compost,
Speaker 1: an heirloom rose, soil of fruit berry, citrus, and veggie
Speaker 1: nerb mixes, all those good mixes from heirloom soils. They've
Speaker 1: got those as well. The phone number is two eight
Speaker 1: one three five. You need to stop in there. They've
Speaker 1: got plants out front too, and inside a lot of
Speaker 1: quality feed. If you've got pets, you're going to find many,
Speaker 1: many options for very high quality feed for your pets
Speaker 1: there at D and D Feed. Just so easy to
Speaker 1: get in and out of there. I'm very very convenient
Speaker 1: again out on just west to Tomball's head out. Now
Speaker 1: we're going to go to Cyprus, Texas and talk to Rick.
Speaker 4: Hello Rick, Hello scoop, good morning, and thank you for
Speaker 4: taking my call today.
Speaker 1: Yes, sir, Well, so I.
Speaker 4: Have a question. I just bought a couple of acres
Speaker 4: out in kind of the random Chapel Hill area. It's uh,
Speaker 4: it's a little south of two ninety in between Chapel
Speaker 4: Hill and Brenham. And it's it's kind of a just
Speaker 4: a prairie, kind of open rolling hill, kind of peace
Speaker 4: of land. And I'm wanting to plant some trees on it,
Speaker 4: but I don't know which trees would would do really
Speaker 4: well there and that would kind of grow big and
Speaker 4: and and in a short period of time. And the
Speaker 4: second question is is there a place out in that
Speaker 4: direction that you would recommend that could talk to me
Speaker 4: about native landscaping and things that would do well in
Speaker 4: that area.
Speaker 1: Well, I would I would probably head up to Anti
Speaker 1: grosenpor Him, which is just in the backyard up there.
Speaker 1: It's north of Brenham. Uh, independence area that's pretty close
Speaker 1: to you up there. Uh. And they do carry a
Speaker 1: lot of native plants and you could visit with them
Speaker 1: about it. Uh. You know that you're you're out in
Speaker 1: beautiful country. Out there by the way, congratulations on on
Speaker 1: the and the property, and but there's just not a
Speaker 1: lot of you know, garden centers all over the place
Speaker 1: once you get out a little more rural like that.
Speaker 1: So Antiq Rose of you a good a good one
Speaker 1: to talk to. You know that as you come in
Speaker 1: toward the Houston area, we've got a lot of garden
Speaker 1: centers that are excellent when it comes to native plants.
Speaker 1: And so you hear me talk about those on Guardline
Speaker 1: all the time. That's a little bit of a drive
Speaker 1: in to do that, but still worth worthwhile.
Speaker 4: Okay, what would you recommend tree wise? If I wanted
Speaker 4: to plant some trees that were that we're going to
Speaker 4: grow and get some shade, and I realized it's not
Speaker 4: going to happen overnight, but something that would grow, you know,
Speaker 4: a something within the part, you know, within five years
Speaker 4: or so, what would you recommend?
Speaker 1: Are we talking about trees around the yard out there
Speaker 1: or are you talking about trees lining the roadway or
Speaker 1: coming in your drive or what what kind of location?
Speaker 1: And are you talking.
Speaker 4: About, yeah, kind of around the yard area. If I
Speaker 4: wanted to put just not like right up against the house,
Speaker 4: but you know, just to have some trees around where
Speaker 4: the yard is gonna be right.
Speaker 1: Well, there's a couple of there's a number of great
Speaker 1: trees that could be done for that. Now, if you've
Speaker 1: got an area that can be a little on the
Speaker 1: droughty side, which it sounds like in your yard, that's
Speaker 1: not going to need to be the case, but droughty
Speaker 1: type trees. The cedar elm is a good native elm
Speaker 1: that does very well out in that area. That's one
Speaker 1: that a lot of people like and go to. If
Speaker 1: you've got some things you can put a little water
Speaker 1: on as you need it. Red oaks there is a
Speaker 1: red oak called nuttall and u T t a l
Speaker 1: or Schumart s h u m a r d. Both
Speaker 1: of those red oaks will do very well. They get
Speaker 1: a good growth rate if you water them and fertilize
Speaker 1: them and keep the weeds away when they're young, let
Speaker 1: them have a mulched area around them. Those two would
Speaker 1: be good and then they're you know, just there's just
Speaker 1: so many other good trees. There's several different types of
Speaker 1: elms that are are quality, and a couple of that
Speaker 1: are pretty easy to find. Like I mentioned, the seat
Speaker 1: around the lace bark elm or Chinese elm is another
Speaker 1: name for it. That is another decent tree. I would
Speaker 1: recommend on all these. You go online, take a look
Speaker 1: at pictures and see if that's what you like to
Speaker 1: look at. And we're talking about big shade trees, right,
Speaker 1: not not smaller trees.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, a couple of big a couple of
Speaker 4: big shade trees. And then maybe some trees that give
Speaker 4: some color you know as well that aren't so big.
Speaker 4: Maybe some kind of mix, you know, some ornamental type.
Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, so out in the sun. You know, great
Speaker 1: myrtles or are a good choice. We still use them
Speaker 1: a lot around here. And there's crapes that will get
Speaker 1: up thirty feet tall if you like them that. I
Speaker 1: like the one Natches, which has white blooms, but it
Speaker 1: has a beautiful cinnamon colored bark, and it gets quite large.
Speaker 1: You could even prune it or purchase it as a
Speaker 1: single trunk tree and continue to maintain that form. So
Speaker 1: it's not like the three stems coming out of the
Speaker 1: ground typical krape myrtle bush, but it's more of a
Speaker 1: trained up into a tree like farm Chinese fringe. Fringe
Speaker 1: tree has white blooms in the spring, shaggy white blooms
Speaker 1: and a nice little pleasant honey like fragrance to the blooms.
Speaker 1: That would be another good one. Vitex is a blue
Speaker 1: typically blue, dark blue to purple flowering plant that makes
Speaker 1: more of a multi stem shrub, but it will it's
Speaker 1: almost impossible to make it cooperate and turn into a
Speaker 1: tree form, but that would be an option. And then
Speaker 1: there's some others that are a little more touching go
Speaker 1: like red bud. They kind of prefer to be understory.
Speaker 1: Although they can grow in full sun. You just have
Speaker 1: to keep them watered so they don't get stressed. And
Speaker 1: some of those have kind of burgundy like foliage instead
Speaker 1: of just green.
Speaker 4: All right, well that's been really helpful. Thank you so much.
Speaker 4: I appreciate all your all.
Speaker 1: Your help with that, you bet. Well that's the quick answer.
Speaker 1: Now you know, there's one hundred trees we could be
Speaker 1: talking about on here. We take the rest of the
Speaker 1: show just to talk trees. But that helps you, all right,
Speaker 1: Thank you, thank you very much, Thank you pie, you bet.
Speaker 1: I'd like to give us a call seven one three
Speaker 1: two one two fifty eight seventy four. You hear me
Speaker 1: talk about night foss products all the time because there's
Speaker 1: a lot of high quality night foss products there. Summer
Speaker 1: regimen is basically focuses on the silver bag. It's called
Speaker 1: super turf by the way, and super turf gives you
Speaker 1: gradual release of nutrients over time and you can still
Speaker 1: put that out now. It will prevent that flush of
Speaker 1: growth that an immediate release fertilizer can cause, which means
Speaker 1: you're mowing a lot more and you're essentially having the
Speaker 1: water to kind of keep up with that because excessive
Speaker 1: nitrogen is not a good thing. But super turf takes
Speaker 1: that nitrogen and it spreads it out slowly over time.
Speaker 1: It's as if you're going out there every day giving
Speaker 1: a little bite d That's kind of what it amounts to.
Speaker 1: Super Turf's available in many different places. You go out
Speaker 1: to Katie Ace Hardware on Pinook, You're going to find
Speaker 1: it there. You're going to find it at Ace Hardware
Speaker 1: City or Memorial Drive in Houston. You can find super
Speaker 1: Turf at Stanton Shopping Center, North Taylor and Alvin as well.
Speaker 1: Super Turf just one of mini quality products from the
Speaker 1: folks at Nitrophiles. I was getting my plants ready for vacation,
Speaker 1: as I talked about a little bit earlier, and one
Speaker 1: of the things that I noticed, you know, I tend
Speaker 1: to go out and find these plants I just can't
Speaker 1: live without, and I buy them and I bring them home,
Speaker 1: and then I do what I tell you not to do,
Speaker 1: you know, buy the plant, bring it home, and there's
Speaker 1: no place to put it. Because remember brown stuff comes
Speaker 1: before green stuff, meaning the soil at its peak quality
Speaker 1: is your first goal, first goal, because then you put
Speaker 1: the plan in and you're going to have long term success.
Speaker 1: The other way around, bring it home and PLoP it
Speaker 1: into an unprepared plot is not a plan for success,
Speaker 1: and it's just an excuse for a lot of painful
Speaker 1: watching that plant not thrive and maybe even having to
Speaker 1: buy another one. So anyway, I've got some plants that
Speaker 1: are sitting in pots getting watered by me every day,
Speaker 1: So instead of the garden center having to water them
Speaker 1: every day, I'm watering them every day. And so I've
Speaker 1: got some soil prep that I'm trying to get done,
Speaker 1: because you know, it is important to get it right,
Speaker 1: and soil prep means can mean different things depending on
Speaker 1: the soil you're dealing with pretty much any soil needs
Speaker 1: organic matter, decomposed organic matter. We call that compost. That's
Speaker 1: what that's organic matter that we have decomposed on purpose
Speaker 1: to put into the soil. When you add compost to
Speaker 1: a clay, it takes that heavy clay that is dense
Speaker 1: and air and water can hardly move through it at all,
Speaker 1: and it loosens it up and creates clumps of soil particles,
Speaker 1: so there's airspace that can now flow through. The analogy
Speaker 1: I use for that is like a bowl of popcorn.
Speaker 1: So a bowl of popcorn, you know, you've got all
Speaker 1: these clumpy looking individual things, but there's airspace in between them,
Speaker 1: and that's that is building the soil. That's done with
Speaker 1: organic matter. It can also be done with expanded shale.
Speaker 1: Expanded shale lasts a long time. Think of it as
Speaker 1: just remember the old gray kitty litter. Think of that,
Speaker 1: but imagine it getting fired to a super hot, super
Speaker 1: hot hot level with steam that causes those particles to
Speaker 1: expand and sort of turn into Swiss cheese that mixed
Speaker 1: into your soil at about three inches takes a lot
Speaker 1: of it to make a difference in a clay, but
Speaker 1: about three inches mixed in will make a huge difference
Speaker 1: in a clay, or you can do small amounts over
Speaker 1: time as well. Well, it's time for me to take
Speaker 1: a break. I'm going to shut up right now and
Speaker 1: I'll be right back in a minute with your calls
Speaker 1: at seven one three, two, one two, five eight seven four.
Speaker 1: Welcome back, Welcome back to garden LINEA glad to have
Speaker 1: you listening on a Saturday morning. It's going to be
Speaker 1: a good day. I'm looking forward to getting out today
Speaker 1: after the show and getting some things done. You know
Speaker 1: what they say, have you ever heard the turn the
Speaker 1: cobblers' kids go barefoot? Well, sometimes I'm glad you can't
Speaker 1: see my yard. There's certain times when I'm traveling. I
Speaker 1: was out at the Texas Nursery and Landscape Association this
Speaker 1: past week, their convention in San Antonio. Man, was that
Speaker 1: ever a great convention. Saw a lot of good folks there,
Speaker 1: just the ioids and I go into that. But when
Speaker 1: I go away, and then when I sit in here
Speaker 1: and talk to you about gardening, I'm not outside taking
Speaker 1: care of my own. So I'm really love catching up
Speaker 1: to do. But I can do that. That's okay, my
Speaker 1: okra patch right now is looking great. It is. You know,
Speaker 1: Okra loves this weather. The more miserable you are outside
Speaker 1: in summer, the happier Okra seems to be. It can
Speaker 1: take hot, it can take humid. It's from It's from Africa,
Speaker 1: basically a portion of Africa up and kind of in
Speaker 1: the direction up toward I don't know, middle Eastern area,
Speaker 1: you know, kind of through there. And in fact, they've
Speaker 1: debated whether India, Africa where exactly did okra originate. But
Speaker 1: the bottom line is it loves Houston, it loves out
Speaker 1: East Texas. It is very happy in the South in general, hot, humid,
Speaker 1: that's its happy place. Got something going on because I
Speaker 1: was gone. I had something that kind of got past prime.
Speaker 1: And you know, with okra, you don't want to let
Speaker 1: those things get past prime. Some some cultures pick okra.
Speaker 1: It's small, small sizes. In Turkey, they pick it when
Speaker 1: it's like a inch inch and a half long and
Speaker 1: dry it and put it on strings and then that
Speaker 1: string just think of it like a big old mop,
Speaker 1: you know, with all the strands of a mop. They
Speaker 1: just put it in a soup pot and cook the
Speaker 1: ochre that way. It's like it's like a tea bag
Speaker 1: and tea bag making tea or something. But first time
Speaker 1: I saw that is amazing. I've got a little package
Speaker 1: of that. But we tend to pick it a little longer,
Speaker 1: when it's maybe three inches four inches long somewhere in there.
Speaker 1: In general, some ocres can go a little longer. Some
Speaker 1: don't go as far. But I'll tell you this, when
Speaker 1: you go too far, it is woody, it's got the
Speaker 1: fibers in it. It is no longer a succulent little
Speaker 1: something you want to eat. Just a point about that also, though,
Speaker 1: is when you're harvesting okre, if you'll bend the pod,
Speaker 1: if it snaps cleanly in two with no low fibers
Speaker 1: hanging on, that's one sign that it's still at a
Speaker 1: good tender. And remember it's not the size that the
Speaker 1: pod achieves. It determines whether or not it's tough for
Speaker 1: woody or tender. It's honey days since bloom, So basically
Speaker 1: when you get about three or four days past bloom,
Speaker 1: that ocre should be in your kitchen by that time.
Speaker 1: Sometimes you have little pods just the plant's stress. They're
Speaker 1: not growing very fast, and you go, oh, well, that's
Speaker 1: small enough. No, it's not this, it's not how long
Speaker 1: does that pod reach? It's it's honey days pass blooe.
Speaker 1: That's your tender. All right, let's go. We're gonna head
Speaker 1: straight out to Spring, Texas and talk to Phil.
Speaker 7: Hey, Phil, morning skit. I've got a large morning lovel
Speaker 7: It's about thirty five feet tall. And during the hurricane,
Speaker 7: I lost a couple of fairly large branches, so it
Speaker 7: started dropping leaves and the blooms aren't chilling out stuff
Speaker 7: like that. Is that pretty normal?
Speaker 8: Uh?
Speaker 1: Well, drought itself can cause leaf drop when it goes
Speaker 1: through periods that are hot and dry, and we're kind
Speaker 1: of in one now, although I would say it hadn't
Speaker 1: been hot right long enough to be where we'd worry
Speaker 1: about drought stress on a krapmer. But that could be
Speaker 1: a factor to it, you know, the damage that it
Speaker 1: went through could be a factor in summertime. Unless you
Speaker 1: give them a lot of water, they can they can
Speaker 1: start to kind of look like you're describing.
Speaker 9: Well years ago.
Speaker 1: I say it. I'm sorry. Let me just say when
Speaker 1: I say a lot of water, I don't mean your
Speaker 1: water in them every day. I mean that they just
Speaker 1: have a constant adequate supply of moisture as opposed to
Speaker 1: being allowed to go a love droughty. But go ahead.
Speaker 7: So they're in the irrigation system, which runs two times
Speaker 7: a week. So what I was going to mention is
Speaker 7: that a few years ago I made the mistake of
Speaker 7: printing a thing during the summer and take some large
Speaker 7: a couple of not real big lands, but fairly large,
Speaker 7: and it did the same thing. Start, dropped off sleeves
Speaker 7: and went into high renation sort of, and they came
Speaker 7: back the next year.
Speaker 1: I've never heard about ruining causing that, so I I
Speaker 1: don't think that's the I don't think that's a pruning thing,
Speaker 1: even though it seems to be associated with it when
Speaker 1: you've done it in the past.
Speaker 7: Okay, well, my question really is is should I go
Speaker 7: ahead and fertilize this now, which I would usually do.
Speaker 1: You could do that, you sure could. It's it. Uh,
Speaker 1: you know, it's not going to hurt the planet at all.
Speaker 1: And if you're lacking nutrients, that is helpful. Typically in
Speaker 1: the summer, what we're lacking is water. That's the thing
Speaker 1: we're worried about, uh, and not so much nutrients. But
Speaker 1: you can provide a little bit of fertilizer. There's some
Speaker 1: you know, good quality products out there that are designed
Speaker 1: specifically to make uh with the ratios and stuff that
Speaker 1: would do best for trees.
Speaker 10: Right.
Speaker 1: Well, let me let me make one comment about watering film.
Speaker 1: If you're watering three times a week, that would be
Speaker 1: too often. If you you give a kripe myrtle a
Speaker 1: good inch inch and a half of water once a week,
Speaker 1: that is that should be more than enough, because we're
Speaker 1: going to wet the soil really deeply and then let
Speaker 1: it dry out really well, instead of building a very
Speaker 1: shallow root system with those frequent little squirts of water
Speaker 1: right at the surface that are not soaking as far in.
Speaker 1: So you might want to gradually move from three times
Speaker 1: a week toward once a week by applying a little
Speaker 1: more water when you apply it.
Speaker 7: Okay, all right, well I'll do that, all right, thank you, Buch.
Speaker 1: All right, yes, sir, take care. I've been talking about
Speaker 1: this weed wiper that I put online. I talk about
Speaker 1: the last couple of weekends, I believe. But if you
Speaker 1: haven't heard it yet or seen it yet, you need
Speaker 1: to go online to my website Gardening with Skip dot com.
Speaker 1: Gardening with Skip dot Com. There's also two articles on
Speaker 1: nuts Edge there that I think you will find to
Speaker 1: be very very helpful, especially the in depth one which
Speaker 1: helps you understand what you're up against and how to
Speaker 1: what do they say, know your enemy. You've got to
Speaker 1: understand how that little creature works so that you can
Speaker 1: provide good protection for it. Hey, that weed wiper. Questions
Speaker 1: have come in, Where do I get that little thing
Speaker 1: with the section cops. Well, they're pretty widely available. I'll
Speaker 1: tell you where I know you can get them. As
Speaker 1: a Southwest fertilizer. Bob's got those in stock over there now,
Speaker 1: and I say that if you'll do a run on it.
Speaker 1: The next person that shows up you may say it's
Speaker 1: on order, but seriously, Bob has everything at Southwest Fertilizer,
Speaker 1: every fertilizer. I talk about every product you could possibly
Speaker 1: need for insects, diseases, weeds, fertilizing, supplementing plants. They're all there, organic, synthetic,
Speaker 1: the tools, everything you need, like the little device that
Speaker 1: you would make your own homemade weed wiper. And go
Speaker 1: to Gardening with Skip dot com and see what that
Speaker 1: looks like and then swing by Southwest fertilizer corner of
Speaker 1: Bis and Nut and Runwick in southwest Houston. Well, I
Speaker 1: believe it's time for me to take a little break.
Speaker 1: When we come back, Alex, you'll be our first up.
Speaker 1: I was talking with Ty Strickland. He's the guy that
Speaker 1: owns fixed my slab foundation repair. Oh, I guess it
Speaker 1: is about week and a half, two weeks ago, I believe,
Speaker 1: And I'm just asking him some questions. One of my
Speaker 1: daughters is building or purchasing a house over in another
Speaker 1: part of the state, and there were some issues on
Speaker 1: the foundation. And I'm telling you that Ty knows it all.
Speaker 1: He has been doing well. He's been doing it for
Speaker 1: twenty three years in the Greater Houston area. And you know,
Speaker 1: when it rains, these soils, these clays here in Houston,
Speaker 1: they swell up real big and then when it gets dry,
Speaker 1: they shrink up. That's where you get the big cracks
Speaker 1: in the backyard and a heavy clay soil. Well, when
Speaker 1: that happens, it wrecks havoc on foundations and driveways and sidewalks.
Speaker 1: Ty knows how to go in do an accurate assessment,
Speaker 1: tell you exactly what's going on and whether you need
Speaker 1: it to be fixed or not. I'm telling you he
Speaker 1: is not just out there. Every time he shows up
Speaker 1: he tells someone they have to hire him to fix something.
Speaker 1: An honest fella, and he I was talking to him.
Speaker 1: He says, you know, if if it hasn't changed more
Speaker 1: than certain such and such amount, then you don't need
Speaker 1: to mess with it. It's not worth going in to
Speaker 1: mess with And he'll do that. You call him, You
Speaker 1: tell him that you're a guardline listener. First of all,
Speaker 1: that's going to get you a free estimate. Uh So,
Speaker 1: if you see cracks in your brick, cracks in your
Speaker 1: sheet rock, if you see doors that if you have
Speaker 1: doors that are sticking that used to you know, open
Speaker 1: and close real easily, all signs of potential foundation repair.
Speaker 1: Don't put it off. Go ahead and give him a call.
Speaker 1: Two eight one two five five forty nine forty nine
Speaker 1: two eight one two five five four nine four nine
Speaker 1: fixmslab dot com. When you call tie and fix my slab,
Speaker 1: you know they're going to show up on time. You
Speaker 1: know they're going to give you a fair price, and
Speaker 1: you know that when they fix it, it's fixed. Right.
Speaker 1: That is important. Let's head out to Richmond. Texas and
Speaker 1: talk to Alex. Hello, Alex, thanks you are you? I'm good, sir.
Speaker 1: How can we help? Hey?
Speaker 11: So, I've been a Virginia buttonweed infestation. Obviously the pre
Speaker 11: emergent doesn't do anything for it. And with the temperatures
Speaker 11: where they're right now, is there anything that's spray on it?
Speaker 1: Is it in St? Augustine? Yes, sir? Is your long?
Speaker 1: You're long? Okay? The best option you've got is called Celsius.
Speaker 1: It's not cheap, but it is effective and it will
Speaker 1: work very, very well as far as temperatures. It can
Speaker 1: go up above ninety, whereas the others once you get
Speaker 1: in the upper eighties and you cross ninety, it's like
Speaker 1: you may not want to do that, but this one can. Now,
Speaker 1: I wouldn't go outside on a ninety five degree day
Speaker 1: with a sun bacon down right right. Then I'd get
Speaker 1: up early in the morning and do it while we
Speaker 1: still have as cool as we're going to be, which
Speaker 1: is about eighty degrees around here, first thing in the morning,
Speaker 1: and so go ahead and do it at that time.
Speaker 1: But it is effective. However, Virginia button weed is a
Speaker 1: tough one and it's going to take more than one
Speaker 1: application most likely, so read the Celsius label carefully. You
Speaker 1: may have to come back a little bit later in
Speaker 1: the season and hit it again. Very importantly. We'll be
Speaker 1: next spring when you're first seeing the good growth on
Speaker 1: Virginia button weed. It temperature is a little bit cooler
Speaker 1: at that time, and that will be the time to
Speaker 1: start next year. You have more effective results than you
Speaker 1: will typically trying to hit it in the middle of summer.
Speaker 11: All right, I'll find some Celsius they need to order
Speaker 11: online or will the garden center se it.
Speaker 1: You're going to find that as the gardens that you
Speaker 1: find it. ACE Hardware stores probably too. If you're out
Speaker 1: there in Richmond Rosenberg area, you've got the plantation ACE.
Speaker 1: It's not too far away from you out there, and
Speaker 1: there's some there's a you can got ACE Hardware dot
Speaker 1: Com and find the store locator if you don't already
Speaker 1: know where your aces are out in that year. Also
Speaker 1: coming in from you, you come into Southwest Fertilizer Business
Speaker 1: and Renwick and they're going to add to you there.
Speaker 11: All right, skipe, I appreciate it, all.
Speaker 1: Right, you take care. Appreciate call very much. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: feel like I'm becoming a broken record on Celsius. It's
Speaker 1: not the only product out there that you need to
Speaker 1: use for weed control. There's a lot of good products,
Speaker 1: but I tell you, once we hit the summertime, a
Speaker 1: lot of the things, the Trimex and whatnot, the two forty's,
Speaker 1: all those kinds of mixes and stuff that are in
Speaker 1: various products. It's just too hard on your Saint Augustine
Speaker 1: when it's hot. And the last thing we need is
Speaker 1: to stress our Saint Augustine trying to kill a weed
Speaker 1: and then end up will take our root rot infecting
Speaker 1: it because it got stressed and weakened. And that's how
Speaker 1: it works. Plants in some ways are like people in
Speaker 1: that if you don't take care of your body and
Speaker 1: you don't eat right, and you don't sleep enough, you know,
Speaker 1: and on and on, you don't exercise at all, you're
Speaker 1: more likely to get sick. It doesn't mean it will
Speaker 1: get sick and you won't. You can't get sick if
Speaker 1: you're healthy. It just means you're more likely to. And
Speaker 1: there are diseases that are opportunists that they jump onto
Speaker 1: a weak patient and they're able to move in and
Speaker 1: take over and take all root rot on Saint Augustine.
Speaker 1: Is that kind of disease. You can have a perfectly
Speaker 1: healthy lawn, you go through some drought stress, you apply
Speaker 1: a herbicide that is not okay to use in the summertime.
Speaker 1: It weakens your grass and all of a sudden, take
Speaker 1: all it shows up. Where did it come from? It
Speaker 1: was there? What had happened? The patient got weak and
Speaker 1: the disease moved in. The hypoxylan canker on trees causes
Speaker 1: the bark to fall off and kills trees. Same kind
Speaker 1: of organism we call those opportunists. I mentioned Ace Hardware,
Speaker 1: the plantation Ace down there in the Richmond Rosenberg area.
Speaker 1: There's Ace Hardware's all over. Just go to Acehardware dot
Speaker 1: com and you'll find the one near you. Congratulations to
Speaker 1: the folks out at Langham Creek Ace Hardware. Now that's
Speaker 1: on five twenty nine in Cypress. It's the intersection of
Speaker 1: Barker Cypress in five twenty nine, So Barker Cypress North
Speaker 1: south five twenty nine east west. Right there Langham Creek
Speaker 1: Ace Hardware. They're having their reopening. They opened up and
Speaker 1: got going and then they did a revamp of the
Speaker 1: store and now is their reopening. Oh my gosh, listen,
Speaker 1: you need to do this. It's Friday, August thirtieth. Next Friday,
Speaker 1: Saturday thirty first, and Sunday the first, next weekend. Okay,
Speaker 1: I say next. Excuse me, I'm two weekends away. My
Speaker 1: brain is shifting here anyway, thirtieth, thirty first and first,
Speaker 1: Why am I telling you about this? Lots of fun activities,
Speaker 1: vendor demonstrations. They're going to draw for really sweet prizes
Speaker 1: on There'll be a still discount day on Saturday. If
Speaker 1: you want still Power equipment, awesome quality brand, they'll have
Speaker 1: a discount special, really good discount on Saturday, and lots
Speaker 1: of exclusive deals on many items. Like on Friday, they're
Speaker 1: given away an Eggo Power Plus straight shaft battery string
Speaker 1: Treamer two hundred and fifty dollars machine. Given it away.
Speaker 1: It's part of the giveaway. They'll be demos on Weber
Speaker 1: grills and on Sunday they're going to give away the
Speaker 1: Weber Spirit two gas grill four hundred and fifty dollars
Speaker 1: value and demonstrating the Big Green Egg and other things.
Speaker 1: Do you see what I'm saying? Fifteen percent off still
Speaker 1: By the way, on that Saturday, August thirty first, and
Speaker 1: then on Sunday they're given away a paint, a room makeover,
Speaker 1: a two hundred dollars value and demoing trigger grills. It's
Speaker 1: barbecue season. You need to get by. But what a
Speaker 1: great opportunity, and that is Langham Crease Creek Ace Hardware
Speaker 1: at the intersection of Barker Cypress and FM five point
Speaker 1: twenty nine. Let's see here. I'm gonna go now, Janey
Speaker 1: in Missouri City. Janie, welcome to garden Line. I've got
Speaker 1: a little bit of time here. See if we can
Speaker 1: get your call done. If not, well we'll finish it
Speaker 1: after the noon break on the top of the eye.
Speaker 2: Okay, Well, I have two questions for you that are
Speaker 2: sort of related to the burrel storm. I had a
Speaker 2: degree that was out in my front yard, and of
Speaker 2: course it was there for a while, and I now
Speaker 2: have several dead patches, and I used the has to
Speaker 2: grow laws treatment on it, and I was wondering whether
Speaker 2: I needed to do more rating to clear up the
Speaker 2: group they did grasp. I've cleaned out all the leaves
Speaker 2: as much as I can, and I've had it most
Speaker 2: several times, and I didn't know what else I could
Speaker 2: treat that dad area with.
Speaker 1: Okay, is it a bigger irregular area that's dead?
Speaker 2: Well, it's about three feet by three feet?
Speaker 1: Oh okay, all right, all right, well I'm not gonna
Speaker 1: be able to fully answer it before I already hear
Speaker 1: the music plan. You hang on, and when you come back,
Speaker 1: we'll take that to the next stop. Can you think
Speaker 1: of anything that happened there other than it just suddenly
Speaker 1: it died and nothing got spilled or dumped or applied.
Speaker 2: It was where the debris was from virel from my tree.
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, but nothing else of then? All right, well
Speaker 1: we'll get right back on it when we come back.
Speaker 9: You hang on, okay, thank you, you bet?
Speaker 1: All right, folks, I'll.
Speaker 12: Just watch you as Welcome.
Speaker 1: Back, Welcome back to Garden Line. I'm your host, Skip Richter,
Speaker 1: and we are here to do what to help you
Speaker 1: have a more bountiful garden, a more beautiful landscape. All
Speaker 1: you need to do is give us a call if
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Speaker 1: your landscape and thought you know it's time to take
Speaker 1: this thing up a level. It's kind of getting boring here,
Speaker 1: or it's been boring here. Maybe it's a sea of
Speaker 1: green right now. Maybe you want to design some outdoor
Speaker 1: living areas, like a nice hardescape where you could have
Speaker 1: things like a fountain or like a waterfall, or what
Speaker 1: like a barbecue pit designed in. Maybe you want landscape lighting.
Speaker 1: Maybe you got a spot that's soggy wet after a
Speaker 1: rain and it needs to not be because plants like
Speaker 1: good drainage. Well, Pierscapes can help you with that. Peerscapes
Speaker 1: does all all of those things. They can do landscape lighting,
Speaker 1: They can take a wet spot and dry it out.
Speaker 1: And by the way, we had all that rain this year,
Speaker 1: so that ought to tell you where you had places
Speaker 1: that stay wet too long. Now's a good time it's
Speaker 1: drying out, and so you know, he can't he can't
Speaker 1: go out and fix the thing when it's as still
Speaker 1: a swamp. So this would be a good time to
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Speaker 1: of ways. The two I would suggest, first of all,
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Speaker 1: I head to let's see, we're going to Magnolia, Texas
Speaker 1: and talking to Sunday. Now, Hey Sunday, welcome to Guardline.
Speaker 9: Thank you, Stiff.
Speaker 13: How are you this morning?
Speaker 1: I'm well, thanks.
Speaker 13: I have two questions. One, my roses are have been
Speaker 13: losing leaf. I had one that started doing that, so
Speaker 13: I cut it back and I treated all of them
Speaker 13: with that bio advanced Rose and flower tear, which is
Speaker 13: the fertilizer insect control and disease control. I don't see
Speaker 13: where that did anything. I watered them about twice a
Speaker 13: week and I still lost leave on probably three of
Speaker 13: the rose bushes.
Speaker 1: And then okay, well, when when roses do that? First
Speaker 1: of all, it is a brutal, hot, stressful season for them,
Speaker 1: so that in and of itself is already giving them
Speaker 1: a bit of a challenge if you if you add
Speaker 1: to that either soil that is too wet or that
Speaker 1: is too dry, you know, go through a little drought,
Speaker 1: or you keep it too wet or nature keeps it
Speaker 1: too wet, you can also have some you know, significant
Speaker 1: issues with them doing the kinds of symptoms you're describing
Speaker 1: right there. So I would, you know, I would say
Speaker 1: probably just watch the soul moisture. First of all. A
Speaker 1: little nutrients are always important for roses, but right now
Speaker 1: I would hold off on that, especially if you've done
Speaker 1: any kind of fertilizing before, and if you use the
Speaker 1: biodvents that has fertilizer in it, mostly phosphorus, but it's
Speaker 1: got fertilizer in it.
Speaker 13: All right, okay? And should I just leave them alone,
Speaker 13: or should I boyhead cut out the dead stalks and
Speaker 13: cut them back, or should I just wait?
Speaker 1: I you know, generally with my roses, I'll at the
Speaker 1: end of August do a shearing back on them, and
Speaker 1: then I'll water them and fertilize them to get a
Speaker 1: boost of new growth. Because October is an awesome rose
Speaker 1: month and to start getting that new shoots growing. You
Speaker 1: could do that same thing in September if you want
Speaker 1: to early September, if you want to do it at
Speaker 1: that time, but you want to get new growth because
Speaker 1: every time you get a new shoot, the roses will
Speaker 1: form on the end of a new shoot. Okay, so
Speaker 1: the more when you cut them back and where you
Speaker 1: had one shoot, now it sprouts into two, you just
Speaker 1: double the amount of roses that you can have on
Speaker 1: that plant. Does that make sense?
Speaker 9: Okay?
Speaker 13: What fur launch er?
Speaker 9: Do you suggest anything on them?
Speaker 1: I think whether there's a number of good ones. Are
Speaker 1: you particularly interested in organic or synthetic or what?
Speaker 13: I don't have particular Okay, well.
Speaker 1: There are how many roses do you have? By the way,
Speaker 1: I mean roughly? What do we talk about, like about twelve? Okay,
Speaker 1: well you can I was going to say, you can
Speaker 1: go and purchase you know, Nitroposs and Nelson both have
Speaker 1: a high quality rose foods that are available in little
Speaker 1: canisters and you can sprinkle that around and water it
Speaker 1: in and it will it will do the job for you. Now,
Speaker 1: twelve roses, that's quite a bit for a little canister.
Speaker 1: You may want to buy something in a little larger
Speaker 1: bag because roses are something we do fertilize more than
Speaker 1: once through the season because again vigor equals more ballooms,
Speaker 1: and so we are feeding them regularly. But you are
Speaker 1: let's see, you're up in the magnolia Yeah, up in
Speaker 1: the Magnolia area. Yeah, I can come down your coat.
Speaker 12: Well.
Speaker 1: Arbrogate has a rose food and the other thing. In fact,
Speaker 1: they've got there. They're one two three completely easy system
Speaker 1: at Arburgate. That's a soil, a compost, and a fertilizer.
Speaker 1: The fertilizer in that has a really good ratio roses.
Speaker 1: So that would be Arbigate's one two three easy system.
Speaker 1: They call it Organic Soil Complete, Organic compost complete, and
Speaker 1: organic food complete. It's organic food complete one. But get
Speaker 1: that bag. You want to sprinkle it around your roses,
Speaker 1: follow the label and scratch it into the soil and
Speaker 1: then water it in real well, okay, because it's an organic,
Speaker 1: it's going to be microbially broken down, so you need
Speaker 1: good moist soil around those particles and it will go
Speaker 1: to town. It's an excellent fertilizer for that.
Speaker 13: That's what I want okay, wonderful, Thank you very much.
Speaker 13: I've noticed my oaks in the front bark have started
Speaker 13: to lose some leaves. Not a lot, but I've noticed
Speaker 13: some leaf dropping. Is it because of the heat and
Speaker 13: because they are because they need more water? Sorry, that's my.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I hear that like those I'm sorry, that's okay.
Speaker 1: The you said it was a live oak, Is that
Speaker 1: what you said?
Speaker 13: I don't know. I've got I've got three oaks out there.
Speaker 13: I don't know what kind they are, but I know.
Speaker 9: They're oak tree.
Speaker 1: Got you. Well, I gotta I gotta run a break,
Speaker 1: but so real quick. A good soaking on an infrequent
Speaker 1: basis will be fine, but you can also have some
Speaker 1: transitioning of leaves. What I'm gonna put you on hold,
Speaker 1: my producer will pick it up, and I want you
Speaker 1: to send me a photo of that so I can
Speaker 1: see exactly what you got. Okay, uh, sorry, thank you,
Speaker 1: But let me look at the photo and then I'll
Speaker 1: on the oaks and i'll comment. All right, folks, time
Speaker 1: for a break. We'll be right back. Have you with
Speaker 1: us today. We are we're talking about all kinds of
Speaker 1: things gardening, and we are in the big middle of
Speaker 1: your calls as we try to help you have a
Speaker 1: more bountiful garden, more beautiful landscape. One way that you
Speaker 1: can have a more bountiful and beautiful garden and landscape
Speaker 1: is Medina Hast Supergrow Plus. Now Medina's got a has
Speaker 1: to grow line. There's regular has to grow, has to
Speaker 1: grow for lawns, which is a great product to use
Speaker 1: on your lawns. This is Supergrow Plus, another great product
Speaker 1: for the lawn This one's kind of unique. It's a
Speaker 1: sixteen zero two fertilizer. A one court bottle hooks up
Speaker 1: to a garden hose. Covers about four thousand square feet,
Speaker 1: so you can ten minutes drag a hose around your
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Speaker 1: It also has seaweed extract, it's got molassets, it's got
Speaker 1: humic acid in it. Just a very very high quality
Speaker 1: product that does cause the plants to respond positively. Some people,
Speaker 1: in fact, don't just use it for their lawns, they'll
Speaker 1: spray their gardens with it. A flowers, You got a
Speaker 1: little plant that's sitting there, kind of needs a little boost.
Speaker 1: We'll just squared it with some of the has to
Speaker 1: grow Supergrow plus. I bet you are going to see
Speaker 1: a very good response from it, especially if it's related
Speaker 1: to a lack of nutrients in the soil. Is from Medina,
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Speaker 1: to southwest Houston and I'm going to talk to Maxie.
Speaker 14: Hello, Maxi, Hi, good morning. My question is about powdery mildew.
Speaker 14: I have a saucer magnolia. It's never gotten very tall
Speaker 14: because it's planted in clay, and it had lots and
Speaker 14: lots of leaves and a few buds. But I have
Speaker 14: powdery mildew every year. Last year I used a more
Speaker 14: popular spray, didn't affect the powdery mildew, didn't affect the plant.
Speaker 14: This year, I got a different one and I sprayed
Speaker 14: it and most of the leaves, probably eighty percent of
Speaker 14: the leaves fell off. Now it has new leaves at
Speaker 14: the bottom. So what shall I do about my powdery mildew?
Speaker 1: Okay, tell me again the plant that we're talking about.
Speaker 14: It's locals call it tulip tree, and I think Okay,
Speaker 14: scientifically sauc or magnolia.
Speaker 1: Oh okay, so yeah, I know what you're about. Okay, Well,
Speaker 1: that one we got it on its southern the southern
Speaker 1: end of where it wants to live. You can grow
Speaker 1: them here, but we're now on the low end. So
Speaker 1: hot weather. Hot weather will cause the edges of the
Speaker 1: leaves to tips of the leaves to brown and shrivel
Speaker 1: and curl up. And if it's enough, if you throw
Speaker 1: a little drought in with it, you can you can
Speaker 1: get some significant damage. The powdery mildey will also cause
Speaker 1: that damage, as you've seen on that I would There
Speaker 1: are a number of different products that you can use
Speaker 1: for it. There is an ingredient called beylaton b A
Speaker 1: y L E t O n b A y l
Speaker 1: l Okay. That is a fungicide ingredient that works pretty well.
Speaker 1: And Maxie, you are just a hop skipping a jump
Speaker 1: away from Southwest fertilizer on biss and ut and run.
Speaker 1: And I guarantee that has probably several types. Yeah, he's
Speaker 1: got several types of beilaton. You can just tell him.
Speaker 1: You talk to me on guardline and and that, uh,
Speaker 1: you got powdery mildew. And I was suggesting he has
Speaker 1: that's not the only ingredient that will control powdery mildew,
Speaker 1: but it is systemic into the planet a little bit,
Speaker 1: so that it's not just a surface thing that washes
Speaker 1: off with the next rain, and it'll give you a
Speaker 1: little bit longer term control. I would suggest that one.
Speaker 1: I mean, I could recommend other things, but I think
Speaker 1: that would be the one i'd start with in your
Speaker 1: situation on that particular plant.
Speaker 14: Well, do do you think it's a little weird that
Speaker 14: I sprayed the plant and all the leaves sail off?
Speaker 14: I mean, it was perfectly healthy except a little powdery
Speaker 14: mill down do especially down the veins.
Speaker 1: It could have been coincidental, but it could have been.
Speaker 1: I don't want to accuse you anything because I don't
Speaker 1: know how you mixed it, but you know, it could
Speaker 1: have been.
Speaker 14: Oh what didn't just to spray?
Speaker 1: Just to spray, it's like a hose end.
Speaker 14: No, not oppose, it's just.
Speaker 7: Just the.
Speaker 1: Oh was it labeled for use on plants?
Speaker 14: Yes, sir, for my okay, I'm just checking and sure, okay, yes.
Speaker 1: Just because I listen, I've had people spray things that
Speaker 1: basically it was like putting gasoline.
Speaker 14: Oh, yeah, no, Dand I thought about soap. I do
Speaker 14: have a soap that the plants love as long as
Speaker 14: it didn't have it on the leavest after it's treated.
Speaker 1: Well the thing. Yeah, and don't do soaps now when
Speaker 1: you put soap out on a hot sunny day, you
Speaker 1: can burn the hack out of with that as well.
Speaker 1: I don't know, I mean it could it could have
Speaker 1: been the product. But you know, products that are labeled
Speaker 1: for something, they're designed, but they ought to have a
Speaker 1: warning on the label. But uh, it could have been
Speaker 1: could have been the on a day you put it on,
Speaker 1: and it could have just been coincidental that I don't know,
Speaker 1: for whatever reason, you happen to spray on the day
Speaker 1: that this problem was going to hit.
Speaker 14: But it's hard to be happy to go to Southwest Fertilizer.
Speaker 14: I love selflest fertilizer.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I know you too, I do too. It's one
Speaker 1: stop shopping, isn't it?
Speaker 4: All right?
Speaker 1: Maxie, thanks for the call much Bye you bet you
Speaker 1: take care bye bye.
Speaker 6: Uh.
Speaker 1: Those of you who still haven't gotten around to having
Speaker 1: your trees looked at in terms of any needed pruning
Speaker 1: for summer, you know, summer's the storm season. And I
Speaker 1: don't just mean hurricanes, although that certainly is a big deal.
Speaker 1: Anytime you have a storm, if you're if you've got
Speaker 1: narrow branch angles, if you've got trees that have been
Speaker 1: poorly trained or pruned, they need to be looked at.
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Speaker 1: go to person for tree care here on Guardline. Martin
Speaker 1: is he's been doing this for a long time. He
Speaker 1: knows what he's doing. But I'm telling you I can't
Speaker 1: express enough the importance of proper tree care coming into
Speaker 1: the storm season. From the time you plant a tree
Speaker 1: until whatever day it is that you're looking at that
Speaker 1: it could be thirty years later. From that time, you
Speaker 1: want to make sure that tree was trained and pruned
Speaker 1: properly and right. Because you get people that don't know
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Speaker 1: out now to Highland area, I believe, is that right?
Speaker 1: Are we talking to Houston? Oh?
Speaker 15: Yeah, I wanted a question about you Beheo grass. I've
Speaker 15: got a loan that's infested with beheo. Is there a
Speaker 15: herbicide that's specifically for herb bo gray?
Speaker 1: There are some that are pretty effective against it, and
Speaker 1: I believe one called man or m A n O R.
Speaker 1: I'm want check that just to make sure don't get
Speaker 1: a lot of beheo grass calls. Huh didn't show up
Speaker 1: here to find it here in a second. But the
Speaker 1: getting bigger. Yeah, it's a tough grass. I mean it
Speaker 1: can take you know, it can take the drought. So
Speaker 1: it's a disease that I mean a weed that it
Speaker 1: is a challenge to be able to deal with. I
Speaker 1: understand that. Uh yeah, it's it's called the ingredient. And
Speaker 1: do you have a pan or pencil handy. Yeah, let
Speaker 1: me see here. It's met sulfur on methyl and I'm
Speaker 1: gonna I'm gonna spell that out because there are other
Speaker 1: herbicides that have met sulfur on methyl in them. Now,
Speaker 1: they're not going to be cheap, I can tell you that,
Speaker 1: but this is a unique situation. One of them is
Speaker 1: called ms M turf. But here's the ingredient m E
Speaker 1: T s u L. If you are O N met
Speaker 1: sull f on. If you are O N methyl U
Speaker 1: and one of the ones would be ms M turf.
Speaker 12: Now you.
Speaker 1: I don't know, I don't know your area of that
Speaker 1: well to know where where to send you. If you
Speaker 1: got an ACE hardware store on they may be able
Speaker 1: to they may have that, they may be able to
Speaker 1: get it for you. Uh I would, all right, well
Speaker 1: I would, I would try that. But it's not a
Speaker 1: super super common thing. So mm hmm. But will it killed?
Speaker 1: Is that it makes stand with it? No? No, But
Speaker 1: you have to be careful and want and read the
Speaker 1: label carefully because that is one that you know during
Speaker 1: certain kinds of weather conditions and issues, and we were
Speaker 1: real careful with it. Uh. So don't just get in
Speaker 1: a hurry, but it does kill bhagrass, and it is labeled.
Speaker 1: It is labeled for for use if you it is
Speaker 1: but that, but remember this, and I just have to
Speaker 1: give these caveats because it doesn't matter. A product can
Speaker 1: be labeled for use on a plant, but if you
Speaker 1: misuse it, you still hurt that plant. So it doesn't
Speaker 1: mean that it won't it can't hurt the planet. It
Speaker 1: just means, yeah, the other thing you need, Yeah, the
Speaker 1: other thing you need to be careful with is uh,
Speaker 1: don't overapply it and then watered in real good on
Speaker 1: around root zones of trees and shrubs, which is basically
Speaker 1: the whole yard. But if you get it down in
Speaker 1: the roots, it can do damage. Not kill the whole
Speaker 1: tree necessarily, but do damage to trees and shrubs. So
Speaker 1: this is a specialized product with special caveats. But follow
Speaker 1: that label carefully and it will do the job on
Speaker 1: the pail for you. Thank you much, all right, sir,
Speaker 1: you take care. Appreciate that time for us to take
Speaker 1: a little break here top or for the half hour news.
Speaker 1: I'll be right back at seven one three two one
Speaker 1: two k t RH Welcome back to garden Line, Glad
Speaker 1: to have you with us. We are looking forward to
Speaker 1: talking to you about the kind of questions you have,
Speaker 1: the kind of things you're interested in. You know, we
Speaker 1: love feed stores here on Guarden Line and down in
Speaker 1: League City. You've got a great one. League City Feed
Speaker 1: has been around for forty years now, and it's the
Speaker 1: kind of place you go in. It's that old time
Speaker 1: feed store that carries your products to you to the car,
Speaker 1: your bags or whatever you need carried out to the car.
Speaker 1: It's the kind that's going to have all the fertilizers
Speaker 1: you hear me talk about on Guardline. If I say,
Speaker 1: well here, if it's on my schedule, you know, here's one.
Speaker 1: They're going to have it there. It also is a
Speaker 1: place where you're going to find pest disease and weed
Speaker 1: management products and quality pet foods as well. League City
Speaker 1: Feed is on Highway three, a few blocks south of
Speaker 1: Highway ninety six. So on Highway three a few blocks south.
Speaker 1: So if you're in League City, just head south on three.
Speaker 1: It's not very far blow Highway ninety six. So all
Speaker 1: of those communities out there, Santa Fe and Dickinson and
Speaker 1: Lamar and Baycliffe, Clear Lake City, all of those this
Speaker 1: is your hometown feed store. They are going to have
Speaker 1: a wide variety. Also, they're gonna have some soils like
Speaker 1: heirloom soils, superquality airloom soils as well. They've got backyard chickens.
Speaker 1: They can get you fixed up on that as well.
Speaker 1: League City Feeds open Monday through Saturday nine to six,
Speaker 1: closed on Sunday, so any day of the week I
Speaker 1: have to work on the way home, you can swing
Speaker 1: by there and grab what you need. Two eight one
Speaker 1: three three two sixteen twelve two eight one three three
Speaker 1: two sixteen twelve for League City feed I was earlier
Speaker 1: talking about going on vacation and take care of your plants,
Speaker 1: you know, making sure they have adequate water. Also taking
Speaker 1: care of the birds and being ready for that. You know,
Speaker 1: it's always a good time to put down mulch as well.
Speaker 1: Now most people don't think about, oh, I'm about to
Speaker 1: go up and hike the rocky mountains. I think I'll
Speaker 1: stop and put mulch down first. Well, when you have
Speaker 1: sunlight hitting the soil, nature plants weeds. And when nature
Speaker 1: plants weeds, you get to pull the weeds up or
Speaker 1: hold them. I'll hold them off if you need to
Speaker 1: do that, but nobody wants to do that. I mean,
Speaker 1: ninety five degrees outside sun, bacon down fire, it's crawling
Speaker 1: up your arms. You don't be pulling weeds out there.
Speaker 1: Put down maltch. Put in a quality thick layer of
Speaker 1: mulch about three inches. It depends on the density of
Speaker 1: the mults. You know, if you get something real chunky
Speaker 1: and loose, you're gonna have to put a little thicker.
Speaker 1: If you had something that's very dense, not much space
Speaker 1: between the particles as compared to a big old chunky malts,
Speaker 1: then you wouldn't have to go as deep, but about
Speaker 1: three inches. As a good general rule of thumb, I
Speaker 1: use all kinds of things that basically are organic based
Speaker 1: as mulches. We've got some super high quality mulches here
Speaker 1: in the Greater Houston area. You got folks like Nature's
Speaker 1: Way that produces a beautiful mult Up there in the
Speaker 1: Conroad direction, we've got airloom soils out Porter direction produces
Speaker 1: a super high quality mult Landscaper's Pride produces good quality
Speaker 1: mulches for you. It's not hard to find and equality mulch,
Speaker 1: but we've got to use it. It's an inexpensive way
Speaker 1: to save yourself a lot of work, and I would
Speaker 1: highly recommend you do that. We're going to go back
Speaker 1: out to the phones now and talk to Hank in
Speaker 1: West U. Hello Hank, and welcome to garden Line. Hello, Skip,
Speaker 1: how are you? I'm good, sir, awesome, So I got your.
Speaker 16: Excellent good.
Speaker 1: Yeah, as you can tell, I've got what.
Speaker 17: I think are some fairly common shrubs. The builder put
Speaker 17: these in like seventeen years ago, and I've never had
Speaker 17: any problems with them until recently. And now they're getting
Speaker 17: these you know, portions that are just turning their dying
Speaker 17: and turning white.
Speaker 1: I'm hoping they'll be able. That's right. I stop the
Speaker 1: spread of that well. So that shrub brow is a
Speaker 1: series of individual shrubs. So wherever a branch is attached
Speaker 1: to a plant that is having the problem, those branches
Speaker 1: are going downhill. What I see is the completely loss
Speaker 1: of color, that dead that you described that as white,
Speaker 1: that tan color dead is gone. But next to it
Speaker 1: is a branch that is going It is on its
Speaker 1: way down. I would dig that plant up. It's not
Speaker 1: coming back to life. Pull it up and gets try
Speaker 1: to get roots. As you pull it up a little
Speaker 1: bit and look at those roots and see what you see.
Speaker 1: You might see roots that look like the Michelin man,
Speaker 1: all bumpy and naughty, and you know, like a string
Speaker 1: of pearls. Sometimes along a roote little knives instead of
Speaker 1: a normal root look. And that is nematodes. That is
Speaker 1: a possibility there. You may see on the stem splits
Speaker 1: at the bottom or other things that are the sign
Speaker 1: of a canker disease that is killing those I can't
Speaker 1: tell you what is doing it. I can tell you
Speaker 1: things that could be doing it, which I just did.
Speaker 1: But I can tell you this. It is a root
Speaker 1: problem or possibly a base of the stem problem. That
Speaker 1: what you're seeing something is preventing the flow of water
Speaker 1: nutrients up into the shrub.
Speaker 16: Okay, and you think by removing that section of the
Speaker 16: bush it will it could help prevent it from continuing
Speaker 16: on to the other well shrugs.
Speaker 1: If if it's root related, that no, that won't it.
Speaker 1: Nematodes You're not going to get them out of the soil,
Speaker 1: and they will spread over time. They tend to make
Speaker 1: plants less efficient. It's not like a nematoad gets on
Speaker 1: it and the whole plant dies. It's like it's think
Speaker 1: of it as like ticks on a dog. If you will,
Speaker 1: I mean two texts is not going to kill a dog.
Speaker 1: But if you just were completely in festivtext that would
Speaker 1: be too much of a drain and and take the
Speaker 1: health of the of the target organism down. So it
Speaker 1: could be that it could also be there's a root
Speaker 1: rot that uh, the last thing I want you to do.
Speaker 1: If you don't see not on the roots, if you
Speaker 1: don't see splits in the stem, then take your knife
Speaker 1: a sharp knife could be a box cutter blade, and
Speaker 1: slice down through the stem vertically like you're splitting the stem,
Speaker 1: not cutting into it, straight into it, but the direction
Speaker 1: parallel with the stem. And look for strips of brown
Speaker 1: and the tissues that should be creamy white underneath. That
Speaker 1: is the fungal disease. Once you find one of those,
Speaker 1: let me know and we can tell you what you
Speaker 1: can or can't do. Some things there's nothing you can do.
Speaker 1: Some things you can't.
Speaker 16: In the case of nematodes, is there something that I
Speaker 16: could sprinkle on the you know, near their base of
Speaker 16: the shrubs?
Speaker 1: Yeah, not really. There are products that have claims to
Speaker 1: be nomaticidal. We don't have a silver bullet for nematodes.
Speaker 1: There's things you're keeping the soil extra moist so the
Speaker 1: plants don't struggle because the nematodes are making them inefficient
Speaker 1: and taking up water. There are some products you can
Speaker 1: water into the soil. I have not had one yet
Speaker 1: that I noticed really worked. I'm not saying none of
Speaker 1: them do, but jury's out. Let me leave it that way.
Speaker 1: The jury's out on those, and I don't think you're
Speaker 1: going to find the magical cure you're looking for.
Speaker 9: You got it all right?
Speaker 1: Well, let me let me take your advice.
Speaker 16: I'll check the roots out and see if I can
Speaker 16: determine what it may be and give you a heart.
Speaker 1: Take pictures along the way so that if you do
Speaker 1: get back to me on this email you can you
Speaker 1: can show me what you saw. Thanks a lot, I appreciate, Hank.
Speaker 1: I'll do a call. Good luck with getting to the
Speaker 1: bottom of that one. Let's see here. It's time for
Speaker 1: me to take a little break. When we come back, Dwayne,
Speaker 1: you will be our first up, so just hang in
Speaker 1: there and our phone number is seven one three one
Speaker 1: two K t R H. If you'd like to give
Speaker 1: us a call. Here glad you're with us today. We're
Speaker 1: going to head back out to the phone calls right away. Uh,
Speaker 1: and we'll start with Dwayne. Hello, Dwayne, Welcome to guarden Line.
Speaker 18: Good morning, Skip, a longtime listener, first time caller. I
Speaker 18: have for the last several years, most probably ten years,
Speaker 18: been growing Eastern screech owls in the front yard in
Speaker 18: an owl box. And I built a handbuilt box in
Speaker 18: the backyard for the rooster to set in during the
Speaker 18: day so the other birds wouldn't catch him. Well, a
Speaker 18: couple of years ago I U the bees swarmed and
Speaker 18: they got in this owl box. Last week they're trimming
Speaker 18: the power lines at the back of the fence here,
Speaker 18: and of course they didn't trim that particular tree. I
Speaker 18: need someone there to come rescue these bees and give
Speaker 18: them a good home. Do you have any recommendations?
Speaker 1: Oh? Boy, I would. I think I would call bee
Speaker 1: supply out in a date and hang on one second.
Speaker 18: I didn't look at then, but that's a pretty good
Speaker 18: drive if they turned in decline. Do you have any
Speaker 18: second chances there?
Speaker 1: Well, what they could do is they could probably tell
Speaker 1: you who could do it. If they can't.
Speaker 9: Uh.
Speaker 1: The phone number is nine three six seven six o
Speaker 1: seven three nine nine three six seven seven six oh
Speaker 1: seven three nine. You know that for those of you
Speaker 1: listening that don't know what I'm talking about here, this
Speaker 1: isn't a company that their job is to come out
Speaker 1: and get these. It's there a B supply company. They
Speaker 1: have all the equipment stuff, but they're going to be
Speaker 1: the ones that are in the know. The website is
Speaker 1: the b supply dot com. Where are you located, Duean.
Speaker 18: I'm here inside the lupp here on Buffalo speed Boy
Speaker 18: and I did look at their site and he does
Speaker 18: have some impressive videos and know the different types the
Speaker 18: yeahlum No Corona, the Texas flight thousand and something. I
Speaker 18: was looking just last week.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 18: Also, uh, just give for his liability if I get
Speaker 18: another bee hive on my back. That's who is something?
Speaker 18: What is the liability issues? The wife is just hysterical
Speaker 18: about one of the mowers getting beast under something like
Speaker 18: that or something.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I understand you're talking to you. No, talk
Speaker 1: to Paul Paul Fagala at the Bee Supply. He can
Speaker 1: tell you and tell you all about those kind of
Speaker 1: issues like people that want to put a beehive in
Speaker 1: the backyard and they're in a neighborhood. Can you do it?
Speaker 1: And answer is basically us, but he's more the expert
Speaker 1: on that. Also, if you have trouble finding someone local,
Speaker 1: called the Harris County Extension officeye agra Life Extension Office
Speaker 1: in Harris County. Uh, they the horticulture folks there should
Speaker 1: have access to a list of people that might be
Speaker 1: willing to come out and capture a wild hive or
Speaker 1: kill a wild hive, whichever you need to go about it.
Speaker 1: But that would be that would be my answer number three.
Speaker 1: And so I'll eat one one way or another. You
Speaker 1: can get this under control.
Speaker 18: Well, it's an easy rescue. All they've got to do
Speaker 18: is click the wires and there the box. It's ready
Speaker 18: to go. It's just they're busy this morning and this heat.
Speaker 18: They're outside and it looks really like it's something out
Speaker 18: of a horror movie because the bees are outside. No,
Speaker 18: they're just cooling to hide down. Yeah, so I will
Speaker 18: give a bee supes I called there.
Speaker 1: I do appreciate it, thanks, sir, appreciate you very much.
Speaker 1: Let's see where are we going next? Uh, do a
Speaker 1: quick check on time we're going to go to Katie
Speaker 1: and talk to Mark. Hello, Mark, good morning.
Speaker 19: I was watering my yard this week and I noticed
Speaker 19: a bunch of tiny tan moths, and my memory tells
Speaker 19: me that might be a sign that I'm going to
Speaker 19: get sid webworms.
Speaker 1: Is that correct?
Speaker 9: And if so, what do I do about it?
Speaker 1: Well, sid webworms, before you see all the grass being eaten,
Speaker 1: do appear as little moths When you walk across the lawn.
Speaker 1: They come flying up out of the lawn. They just
Speaker 1: go a little bit and then they settle back down
Speaker 1: into the lawn.
Speaker 7: But yeah, they are.
Speaker 1: One of one hundred different moths that could be out
Speaker 1: there doing that. So just because you see moths doesn't
Speaker 1: mean you have side web worms. There is some good information.
Speaker 1: In fact, I tear what I'm gonna I'm gonna post
Speaker 1: something online to our Facebook page. This week, I name
Speaker 1: and put it on the website about side webworms and
Speaker 1: what to do if I were you go out at night,
Speaker 1: get your little flashlight, get out on the hands and
Speaker 1: knees and anywhere you see grass blades being eaten, and
Speaker 1: they chew the sides of grass blades, They just chew
Speaker 1: them up. But they're nocturnal. The caterpillars are nocturnal, and
Speaker 1: you don't want to spray until you know you have
Speaker 1: sid webworms be unnecessary. But when you do, then you
Speaker 1: can put an appropriate insecticide spray down and shut them down.
Speaker 1: You're a store out there, and Katie, they're going to
Speaker 1: have a lot of different options for side web or.
Speaker 19: A very cool things.
Speaker 1: Yes, and I will get something if I get it
Speaker 1: up on my website, I'll announce it on the air here.
Speaker 1: But that that's something we need to do. But it's time,
Speaker 1: it's the season when if we're going to happen, you'll
Speaker 1: have them, but don't don't pull the trigger too quick
Speaker 1: until you know you've got them.
Speaker 19: Okay, But is it a spray and that's something granular
Speaker 19: that you apply.
Speaker 1: There there are granulars that insecticides, you know, the nitroposs
Speaker 1: bug out is a granular. Then you wet the lawn
Speaker 1: and it washes off, the granule gets downe and that
Speaker 1: it's real good for chinch bugs. It will kill side
Speaker 1: web worms. But a lot of time there are in
Speaker 1: the thatch during the day and then they go out
Speaker 1: and eat on the leaves. So another approach is to
Speaker 1: spray the foliage of the grass. The grass weeds, and
Speaker 1: when they come up and eat that, it gets them directly.
Speaker 1: So there's there's more than one way to go about
Speaker 1: controlling them. But on my online have you ever looked
Speaker 1: at my lawn care schedules online by any chance? Yes?
Speaker 9: I have.
Speaker 1: Okay, So the lawn cair is of course fertilizing the
Speaker 1: other one pest control. It lists when side web worms
Speaker 1: tend to attack, if they attack this year, and it
Speaker 1: has the products at the bottom that are all the
Speaker 1: ones you would use to control them.
Speaker 19: Okay, great, I'll go look at that again.
Speaker 1: All right, you take care. Thanks a lot, appreciate that.
Speaker 1: Thank you very much. I'm having trouble getting my trouble
Speaker 1: getting my mouth to work here. Hey, for those of
Speaker 1: you who are out on the west side of town,
Speaker 1: your hometown garden center, your absolute destination, mom and pop
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Speaker 1: Gardens and Nursery, nursery and water gardens. They're in Katie.
Speaker 1: You go out to Katie, you turn north on Katie
Speaker 1: Fort Ben Road, and you almost throw a rock and
Speaker 1: hit Nelson Water Nursery and water Gardens. From there. Of course,
Speaker 1: they have nursery plants, they've got outstanding selection and a
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Speaker 1: a time of the year when you can pick up
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Speaker 1: can plan them now, you can wait and plant them
Speaker 1: in the fall. If you want to hold on to
Speaker 1: them and water, it's up to you. Kind of like
Speaker 1: I was talking about my situation where I don't have
Speaker 1: the beds ready yet. Well I got the plants. They're
Speaker 1: just waiting to go into the beds. They have beautiful
Speaker 1: water gardens supplies. I mean, do you want them to
Speaker 1: come out and create a waterfall or one of those
Speaker 1: disappearing fountains where the water just circulates through the beautiful
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Speaker 1: it back into the plant the fountain again, I can't
Speaker 1: even talk. They've got that. They invented that. By the way,
Speaker 1: if do you want to do it yourself, they can
Speaker 1: sell you the stuff you need to do it yourself
Speaker 1: and tell you how to do it if you want
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Speaker 1: an excellent plant selection every time I go there, I'm surprised. Oh,
Speaker 1: I didn't know you had that. And they're just they
Speaker 1: just do first rate job. And summer is houseplant season
Speaker 1: in the sense of we spend more time inside because
Speaker 1: of the heat. You should see in the foyer when
Speaker 1: you walk right into the store. Look at the houseplants.
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Speaker 1: Katie Well, I hear the music playing, which means I
Speaker 1: need to quit talking and we need to go to
Speaker 1: copy our of the break bill in spring. You are
Speaker 1: our first caller when we come back from break and
Speaker 1: we'll go to you first. I just want to remind
Speaker 1: you about my website, Gardening with Skip dot Com. There
Speaker 1: you'll find information on controlling nut set a brand new publication,
Speaker 1: two of them. As a matter of fact, you'll find
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Speaker 1: Welcome back, Welcome back to guard Line. Glad you are
Speaker 1: still with us this morning. We've got a lot to
Speaker 1: talk about. There is plenty plenty to be talking about
Speaker 1: right now. Uh last hour, we're talking about a product
Speaker 1: called bug Out Max by Nitrophoss, and you know we're
Speaker 1: discussing I think the call was about sod web worms
Speaker 1: being a possible problem going on in that lawn. You know,
Speaker 1: this is a season when chinchbugs and sod web worms
Speaker 1: both are gonna be appearing. If they're going to appear
Speaker 1: in your lawn, and so it's it's the time they
Speaker 1: like the biggest population. There's several generations of chinchbugs through
Speaker 1: the course of the summer seat and the first one
Speaker 1: very very small. But then when you have the second one,
Speaker 1: or in some areas even a third, that's when you
Speaker 1: start to see the long brining out and you got
Speaker 1: big problems and that's when you need to step in
Speaker 1: very quickly. So you got a spot in your lawn
Speaker 1: and it looks like it needs water, and you water
Speaker 1: and it doesn't get better. Get on your hands and knees,
Speaker 1: part the part the grass and look for a little
Speaker 1: black and white bugs about an eighth of an inch long.
Speaker 1: You go on line and see what they look like.
Speaker 1: But if you got chinchbugs, you need to treat sooner
Speaker 1: rather than later because they kill grass. We have a
Speaker 1: lot of problems in our grass that don't kill the grass,
Speaker 1: but chinchbugs kill the grass and they only get worse,
Speaker 1: and you got to step in soon. And night Fruss
Speaker 1: bug Out Max is designed to do just that. It
Speaker 1: goes down it's granules, they go down into the thatch area.
Speaker 1: Then you water it and the insecticide comes off of
Speaker 1: those granules and it's now present out in the thatch.
Speaker 1: So stuff crawling around in the thatch that would be
Speaker 1: the side web worms in the in the daytime, they
Speaker 1: hide down there and they come out at night, and
Speaker 1: the chinch bugs are down there all the time. And
Speaker 1: that is going to be an effective product. When you
Speaker 1: use nightro Vous bugout Max, you're going to have success
Speaker 1: in getting those under control, and you can find Night
Speaker 1: of Fuss bug Out Max. You can find in a
Speaker 1: lot of places. Ace Hardware and Sinkle Ranch carries that
Speaker 1: particular product, a tascaseda Ace on Timber Forest Drive carries it.
Speaker 1: Lake Hardware and Clute and Jim's Hardware up in Montgomery,
Speaker 1: they both are all carry Night Fuss Bug Out Max.
Speaker 1: I'm going to head now to Bill in Spring, Texas. Hello, Bill,
Speaker 1: Welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 23: Good morning Skip. I have a question about a high
Speaker 23: biscus that I just repotted. It was doing very well
Speaker 23: and it has blooms on it like crazy, But the
Speaker 23: blooms are not opening up. They just come to top
Speaker 23: look like they're going to open, and then they just
Speaker 23: fall off and die. What did I do?
Speaker 1: Hmm, that's very interesting. Uh, nothing you did? I think
Speaker 1: you may be we may be looking at some insect
Speaker 1: feeding inside. There's a thing called threaps that can feed
Speaker 1: inside flowers and cause problems. I've not I have a
Speaker 1: tropical hibiscus and I have not had problems with them
Speaker 1: not opening up. Sometime they will abord a bloom if
Speaker 1: they go through a stress. If you have like are
Speaker 1: these in containers bill in the ground in contain. Okay,
Speaker 1: so in a container. Yeah, mine's in a container too,
Speaker 1: And I've got mine. I had it in an area
Speaker 1: that was just the full brunt of the western sun
Speaker 1: for hours and hours, and I moved it to a
Speaker 1: little more protected spot because I couldn't watered enough to
Speaker 1: keep that container so adequately moist, and just even a
Speaker 1: temporary little drought period there, they'll they'll abort bloom. So
Speaker 1: you may be looking at that. You may be looking
Speaker 1: at a little insight called thrips. If you get some
Speaker 1: blooms that you know, okay, this one is gonna open,
Speaker 1: but it's you know, it hadn't turned brown or hadn't
Speaker 1: started dying yet. Just take it and kind of put
Speaker 1: it over a white piece of paper and just tap
Speaker 1: the bloom and see what falls out. If you see
Speaker 1: some little, tiny, skinny, scrawny things that are hopping around
Speaker 1: down in there, that is thrips. And they can affect ballooms. Generally,
Speaker 1: they don't cause a hibiscus bloom to abort, though I
Speaker 1: think it's more of a water problem.
Speaker 23: Okay, all right, Well that I've read some about some
Speaker 23: cage and high biscus and they're done excellent. This is
Speaker 23: just a regular gorgeous yes. And but it's said in
Speaker 23: there that high biscus like to be root bound. And
Speaker 23: I'm just wondering if it's maybe because I just repotted
Speaker 23: that into a large your pot.
Speaker 1: Well, that it's more of a thing where plants like
Speaker 1: bouba and villia is one that we say needs to
Speaker 1: be a little or does better when routebount. It's just
Speaker 1: because you get them in a big, luxurious growing soil
Speaker 1: and they just go vegetative and you know, buy them
Speaker 1: settling in and blooming better.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 1: And so I think, no, you're you're repotting it unless
Speaker 1: you lost some roots in the repotting. Maybe they dried
Speaker 1: out because you can get it in the new container
Speaker 1: fast enough, or you didn't get it watered in real
Speaker 1: good or something. That's all gonna fix itself. Just just
Speaker 1: start providing good soakings on regular bases. Maybe a little
Speaker 1: boost of fertilizer wouldn't hurt. And I think it's going
Speaker 1: to turn around for you.
Speaker 23: All right, Well, thank you, apprechie.
Speaker 1: All right, yeah, yes, sir, thank you for the call.
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Speaker 1: what before before we do, Curtis, I was about to
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Speaker 1: go to the phones and we're going to now go
Speaker 1: to Friends Wood and talk to Curtis. Hello Curtis, Welcome
Speaker 1: to garden Line.
Speaker 9: Good morning, Skip. I have a my home has been
Speaker 9: raised and I have now have a crawl space under
Speaker 9: it and the surrounding wall is a cement block with
Speaker 9: a sixteen by eight inch vents in it, and one
Speaker 9: of those vents has been knocked out and apparently the
Speaker 9: possums and raccoons have decided that's a nice place to
Speaker 9: move in.
Speaker 1: Well, I'm sure they appreciate you creating that spot for them.
Speaker 9: Well, I want to close it back off, but I
Speaker 9: don't want to close it off with them in there
Speaker 9: and have them die and the smell and everything else.
Speaker 9: Is there any suggestions for getting them out of there,
Speaker 9: knowing that they're out of there before I seal it up.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's a that's a good question. Boy. I don't
Speaker 1: know how you would know they're not in there. I
Speaker 1: guess you know, if you if you had something like
Speaker 1: a little board that they had to push over to
Speaker 1: come out through that hole, if you put the board
Speaker 1: up at night then or or during the day, then
Speaker 1: maybe you could see that they had knocked it down
Speaker 1: and gone through or something. But there could be more
Speaker 1: than one, and that wouldn't that wouldn't really do the trick.
Speaker 9: Well, I've set up a game camera and I've seen
Speaker 9: two raccoons and one possum come out of there.
Speaker 1: Okay, huh. And how big is this area underneath there?
Speaker 9: Well, it's under the whole house two thousand square.
Speaker 1: Feet oh okay, the whole nine yards Okay. Yeah. Other
Speaker 1: than having somebody go under there and check, which is
Speaker 1: going to be a task, right, I would I don't
Speaker 1: no way to tell you to know if they're out
Speaker 1: or not. Uh. There is a publication on possum control
Speaker 1: uh that's available on the agro Life Learn website. It's
Speaker 1: Agrolife Learn one word A E G R I L
Speaker 1: I F E L E A R n uh and
Speaker 1: basically what they are going to recommend in that publication
Speaker 1: it's free. By the way, I'm sorry I started to
Speaker 1: give you the website and I didn't finish. Agrolife Learn
Speaker 1: dot T A m U which stands for Texas A
Speaker 1: and M University dot E E d U which stands
Speaker 1: for education.
Speaker 21: Uh.
Speaker 1: So agro Life Learning now that what they're going to
Speaker 1: tell you basically is, uh, live trapping, you know things
Speaker 1: like that. The problem is you you have to put
Speaker 1: them into another get them out of there and into
Speaker 1: another area. So that can be a little bit interesting
Speaker 1: when you've got an upset possumer raccoon and one of
Speaker 1: those like have a art live traps.
Speaker 9: But if I if I trap some, the city will
Speaker 9: come and take them, Oh will they Okay, yeah, the
Speaker 9: relocates into one of the one of the parks.
Speaker 1: Okay, Well that's what I would do.
Speaker 24: Uh.
Speaker 1: You know, they're they're going to come to various kinds
Speaker 1: of baits any pretty much any type of food. If
Speaker 1: you use fruit like apple, pear, banana in the bait,
Speaker 1: you don't tend to get like a dog or cat
Speaker 1: that goes into that trap. So that that's one way
Speaker 1: to kind of interest the possum without interesting the the
Speaker 1: neighborhood pets.
Speaker 9: Okay, I understand that's good to suggest.
Speaker 1: All right, okay, yeah, unless, well, I'm not going to
Speaker 1: say that on the air. I'm sorry. I was about
Speaker 1: to say.
Speaker 9: No, I'm not going to shoot him.
Speaker 1: No, no, no, I wasn't gonna say that. No, We're
Speaker 1: gonna look, I'm gonna I know how to quit when
Speaker 1: I'm behind. Hey, Curtis, thank you, thank you for the call.
Speaker 1: Good luck getting those possums under control. Boy, that is hilarious.
Speaker 1: Uh let's go now to Paarland and we're gonna talk
Speaker 1: to Archie. Hey, Archie morning, Skip.
Speaker 25: I'm gonna put out some fertilizer today and it's gonna
Speaker 25: be organic. But I've got bags of Microlife sixty four
Speaker 25: and I've also got bags of Microlife Humates plus. Which
Speaker 25: do you think would be better to put out today?
Speaker 9: Uh?
Speaker 1: Have you used Teammates plus this year yet? No? No, Okay,
Speaker 1: I would, I would do both because they do different things.
Speaker 1: He makes it. Yeah, both. The sixty four is your
Speaker 1: organic basic three one two fertilizer that is outstanding and
Speaker 1: works very very well. I would, I would do that. Uh.
Speaker 1: The the humates plus has a little potassium in it.
Speaker 1: But your primer it's it's like hunt compost concentrated into
Speaker 1: a bag. It's you know, you can take a big
Speaker 1: old chunk of leaves and tournamented composts, and you can
Speaker 1: take that big old chunk of composts and you turn
Speaker 1: it into humans and now you got very little of
Speaker 1: it because it's the final decomposition process. So that's something
Speaker 1: you put out periodically just to add the humus to
Speaker 1: the soil, just to improve slowly over time soil condition
Speaker 1: down there in the lawn. So it think of it
Speaker 1: as separate from fertilizing. It's kind of a different purpose.
Speaker 1: Although the purpose of both is to make your lawn
Speaker 1: nice and healthy. It's working a little bit in a
Speaker 1: different way. So you can use them both and there's
Speaker 1: not an overlap issue there.
Speaker 9: Now.
Speaker 25: I did put some as of mind out earlier in
Speaker 25: the summer, back in early June.
Speaker 1: That's okay, right, and that would give you some of
Speaker 1: the micro nutrients, which is good. Sounds like you're doing
Speaker 1: a lot of good things there, got a lot of great.
Speaker 25: Product as long as my energy holds up.
Speaker 1: All right. My neighbor has the same problem.
Speaker 25: The lady call this morning about where he had a
Speaker 25: bunch of fencing that was down and he piled up
Speaker 25: the fencing and the city just picked it up yesterday.
Speaker 25: But I mean, the little grass looks dead where it's
Speaker 25: been there for weeks land land there. If if he
Speaker 25: if he sprays that area with like something like the
Speaker 25: has to grow, would that be good?
Speaker 1: Uh, well, if he's got living grass runners in that area,
Speaker 1: that would be good. If it's truly all dead, you
Speaker 1: got to get the plants in there to apply the
Speaker 1: has to grow to, meaning you got and get it
Speaker 1: ridded in.
Speaker 25: Yeah, it looks mushy to me, you know, kind of
Speaker 25: just yellow.
Speaker 1: It could be mushy. Yeah, that yellow and mushy is all.
Speaker 1: It's all. Okay, Just get down on your hands and knees,
Speaker 1: look at the runners and if the runners have some
Speaker 1: green to them, then they're going to resprought foliage and
Speaker 1: you'll be back in business in time, and that has
Speaker 1: to grow would be a very hast I would use
Speaker 1: the Hast grow for lawns or the super supergrow. You
Speaker 1: could use that. There's nothing wrong with using it. But
Speaker 1: the hods is going to have a three one. It's
Speaker 1: gonna have a fertilize boost. Okay, Well that's what I
Speaker 1: got you can use. I'm just telling you what the
Speaker 1: has to grow for lawns. You're getting the fertilization, all right,
Speaker 1: address to the other.
Speaker 25: But I had an extra you know, container of that.
Speaker 25: I was just gonna get it to them so I
Speaker 25: could put it out there.
Speaker 1: Anywhere you got plants, you can use it. That's okay,
Speaker 1: that's for sure. All right, Thanks so much. Good you had.
Speaker 1: Thanks Arch appreciate that a lot. Uh yeah, a lot
Speaker 1: of good has to grow products and other products from Medina.
Speaker 26: Uh.
Speaker 1: When was the last time you're up at Plants for
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Speaker 1: I teya that Plants for All Seasons is the kind
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Speaker 1: in there. You got a bag, you got a picture,
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Speaker 1: Seven excuse me two eight one three seven six sixteen
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Speaker 1: to Missouri City now and talk to Paul. Hey, Paul,
Speaker 1: welcome to guard Line.
Speaker 27: Pull skip I cold last week. We're regarding this issue,
Speaker 27: but I need some follow up. I had an area
Speaker 27: maybe's three by eight of bermuda grass that I wanted
Speaker 27: to kill, so I sprayed around up on it, killed it,
Speaker 27: and over the last two days, I've been digging all
Speaker 27: that up, going after the roots deep with a pickaxe,
Speaker 27: you know, swinging down from over my head and digging
Speaker 27: down deep. And I've rotated all the dirt out. But
Speaker 27: now I want to make sure I've killed all the roots.
Speaker 27: I pulled up a lot of roots, but there's still
Speaker 27: a little fragment here, like residual stuff. Can I spray
Speaker 27: again with round up and then maybe in a week's
Speaker 27: time come back with the sod.
Speaker 26: Or what.
Speaker 1: Well, not yet. Here's what you need to do. First
Speaker 1: of all, you want the area to be all smoothed out,
Speaker 1: so pickaxe generally leaves it pretty rough, so any kind
Speaker 1: of raking breaking it up, smoothing it out. Then water it,
Speaker 1: put in air, put sprinkler on that bare dirt area,
Speaker 1: that whole area, and your neighbors are going to talk
Speaker 1: about you because you're water and dirt and but that's okay.
Speaker 1: They talk about us anyway. The reason your water in
Speaker 1: the dirt is to get any bermuda, grass or other
Speaker 1: weeds that are under the soil that are gonna that
Speaker 1: are perennials that are going to sprout out. It's it's
Speaker 1: to encourage them to come on up and show their face.
Speaker 1: And once you have some foliage on those weeds, and
Speaker 1: I doubt you got all the bermuda with one spray,
Speaker 1: but that'll be your time to know, then spray it again.
Speaker 9: Uh.
Speaker 1: And then once you've sprayed it, you can you know,
Speaker 1: within the week you can lay sod down in that area.
Speaker 1: It's not going to be a problem for the sod.
Speaker 1: You just want the soil to be loosened in the
Speaker 1: surface so that sod contacts it really well.
Speaker 27: Okay, so I can water it. But then about how
Speaker 27: long good do you think it's going to take before
Speaker 27: some bermuta it just starts to show your face because
Speaker 27: this could take a month.
Speaker 1: It depends probably not. The bottom line is it depends
Speaker 1: on how much of a bermuda sprig you got under there.
Speaker 1: I mean, if you had a perfectly healthy one, it
Speaker 1: would pop up in a few days. If you've got
Speaker 1: one that you know, you really knocked it back, but
Speaker 1: it kind of comes back to life and not to life,
Speaker 1: but it starts to regroup and come back. That could
Speaker 1: take a couple of weeks before you see it coming
Speaker 1: back again. But the goal is just you know, since
Speaker 1: you're going to reside, you don't want to see bermuda
Speaker 1: grass right back in there after you reside. So we
Speaker 1: just want to make sure we got it all is.
Speaker 1: And that's what you called about is doing that.
Speaker 27: So okay, yeah, very good.
Speaker 1: Sometime as long as you keep it moist, it will
Speaker 1: encourage it to grow. I don't care how hot it gets,
Speaker 1: some bermuna will come back up through there. Also, you
Speaker 1: should know this that when you want to kill bermuda grass,
Speaker 1: the bermuda grass needs to be healthy and growing. If
Speaker 1: it's drought stressed, that glacys will not kill it well.
Speaker 1: If it's healthy and lush growing, that life say, kills
Speaker 1: it very well. So the goal is to get it
Speaker 1: healthy and growing lushly. And so that's what the water
Speaker 1: is all about.
Speaker 27: Okay, thank you for your advice.
Speaker 1: Thanks sir, I appreciate that call very much. Let's see here.
Speaker 1: We are going to now go to the heights and
Speaker 1: talk to Mike.
Speaker 5: Hello, Mike Heykski. A friend of mine has a house
Speaker 5: in Shenandoah, wants to sell it eventually in a near future.
Speaker 5: Lots of damage from the trees that have been taken out,
Speaker 5: but she'd liked to have her backyard look presentable in
Speaker 5: terms of putting it for sale and instead of sodding.
Speaker 5: Instead of sodding Saint Augustine, uh, thinking she's having someone
Speaker 5: come in to smooth the line out because when the
Speaker 5: tree people came in that there's a lot of ruts
Speaker 5: in the backyard and add some soil recommendation bermuta seed
Speaker 5: are instead of siding, but trying to do it economically
Speaker 5: because it's going to be most likely a house is
Speaker 5: going to be sold as is, but also wants to
Speaker 5: make it presentable the yard.
Speaker 1: How soon do they want to put it on the market.
Speaker 5: Probably sometime next year.
Speaker 1: Yeah, oh okay, yeah bermuda, you can do the bermuda
Speaker 1: seed now, okay, So they could do bermuda seed. They
Speaker 1: just want to get a good semi dwarf type of bermuda.
Speaker 1: They're bermudas that are coastal bermuda that grows in pastures
Speaker 1: for cattle to eat. Very tall, right, there's bermuda's that
Speaker 1: are so short they make golf course greens. Eve want
Speaker 1: a medium one like would be used on a football field,
Speaker 1: for example, or a golf course fight. And there's cultivars
Speaker 1: of seed like that that you could use. I know
Speaker 1: you're in the heights. You might talk to Bob out
Speaker 1: at Southwest Fertilizer. He does carry seeds of some different
Speaker 1: things and he probably has one. There is a website
Speaker 1: called Aggie Turf Aggie Turf on there in the lower
Speaker 1: left corner of it. It has like types of turf grasses,
Speaker 1: and if you click on that and then click on
Speaker 1: the bermuda and scroll down, there's a list of all
Speaker 1: the sodded varieties and there's a list of the seeded varieties,
Speaker 1: and just look at that whole list. If you can
Speaker 1: find anything on that list, you know it's going to work.
Speaker 1: If it's not. If you find one that's not on
Speaker 1: the list, as long as you check it out and
Speaker 1: it's a semi dwarf bermuta, that'll work okay. But what
Speaker 1: they're going to have to do is water frequently, because
Speaker 1: tender little bermuda seedlings in the heat of summer turn
Speaker 1: turn to toast quickly if it dries out. They don't
Speaker 1: have a root system yet to speak of, so they
Speaker 1: just need to get sprinklers set up out there and
Speaker 1: run them for a little while. And I'm pretty much
Speaker 1: every day just getting keeping the surface moist and because
Speaker 1: it's touch and go until that bermuda seed becomes a
Speaker 1: robust plant with rhizomes and underground storage and all of that.
Speaker 1: And at that point, and the more often you mow bermuda,
Speaker 1: the better it looks. Saint Augustine is forgiving of infrequent mowing,
Speaker 1: but if they put it on the market and want
Speaker 1: it to look good, they need to get somebody in
Speaker 1: there mowing at every five at the most seven days
Speaker 1: to get it looking as good as it's going to look. Okay,
Speaker 1: question time for it? All right?
Speaker 5: What what's the period of time that's recommended to sh
Speaker 5: to plant the seed or slight of them here in
Speaker 5: Texas and Houston.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, you know, I would just say sooner rather
Speaker 1: than later. You know, as we get closer and closer
Speaker 1: to fall, when it cools off, bermuda is going to
Speaker 1: slow to growth to almost nothing, and so you want
Speaker 1: to get as robust of a plant as you can
Speaker 1: get before we go into winter, or you have issues
Speaker 1: with that. So I wouldn't put it off until September.
Speaker 1: I would, I would. I would do it right now.
Speaker 1: And if you have to do it in September, do
Speaker 1: it in early September. See what I'm saying, Just as
Speaker 1: much time as possible. Okay, Yeah, I got a run
Speaker 1: to break. Thank you, Mike. I appreciate appreciate your call.
Speaker 1: When we come back Christ in Jersey Village and Morgan
Speaker 1: up in Spring Branch, we are going to come to
Speaker 1: you first, go back to garden line. Good to have
Speaker 1: you with us today. Hey, have you noticed that the
Speaker 1: hummingbirds are back? Yep. I looked out the other day
Speaker 1: and there was a hummingbird flying around? Did I have
Speaker 1: a feeder out?
Speaker 15: No?
Speaker 1: Was it disappointed? Probably? Will he come back? I hope.
Speaker 1: So time to get your hummingbird feeders out. If you
Speaker 1: don't have a humming bird feeder, you got to go
Speaker 1: buy Wildbirds and get their high perch feeder. Ask them
Speaker 1: they got a bunch of hummingbird feeders. My favorite is
Speaker 1: the high perch. Go by and say I want to
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Speaker 1: And get you one and get it out. It is time.
Speaker 1: Get you a good quality sugar water. You don't have
Speaker 1: to but red food color and a feeder. They also
Speaker 1: sell quality hummingbird liquid feed there at Wildbirds Unlimited. What
Speaker 1: you're gonna find is that it's a little slower to
Speaker 1: go bad. You know, in the hot weather, sugary water,
Speaker 1: sugar tends to fermat out there, and you don't want
Speaker 1: that happening. So you need to clean the feeders out.
Speaker 1: You need to replace. Don't put a whole feeder fold.
Speaker 1: If you don't have a bunch of hummingbirds coming, you
Speaker 1: need to put After about three days out there outside,
Speaker 1: you probably need to go ahead and just wash it
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Speaker 1: They're just in their molting. They're getting their new foliage
Speaker 1: and they can't fly around. It's harder to fly around
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Speaker 1: six Wildbirds Unlimited stores near you. Let's go to Jersey
Speaker 1: Village now and talk to Chris. Hey, Chris, welcome to
Speaker 1: garden Line. Oh, thank you for taking my call. You
Speaker 1: bet Okay.
Speaker 9: Two things.
Speaker 1: I've got a really big yard.
Speaker 28: It's a double lot on a corner, about a third
Speaker 28: of an acre backyard.
Speaker 1: I'm not worried about in this heat.
Speaker 19: How often should I water if it's not yard?
Speaker 1: All right? If you've got a good quality soil, of
Speaker 1: any close to a decent soil, and if you have
Speaker 1: a fairly healthy grass plant already, you can water once
Speaker 1: a week even in the sun. You can also that
Speaker 1: just doesn't seem often enough, so you can go to
Speaker 1: twice a week. But the goal is to put an
Speaker 1: inch of water down a week. So if you tried
Speaker 1: to put an inch down at at one time, cress,
Speaker 1: you would find it running off. So we do cycle soap,
Speaker 1: which means your sprinkler comes on, you know, however long,
Speaker 1: and then goes off for forty five minutes it comes
Speaker 1: back on again. What that does is it gets a
Speaker 1: good deep soaking, which encourages your grass to have a
Speaker 1: good deep resilient root system, which is important in the heat.
Speaker 1: And it also by not watering all the time, oxygen
Speaker 1: gets down in the soil between waterings better and that's
Speaker 1: also important for your root system.
Speaker 3: Okay, one last, yeah, one last question.
Speaker 1: I've got.
Speaker 29: Crepe myrtles front and back, and my buddy, who's really knowledgeable, said,
Speaker 29: you're never supposed.
Speaker 1: To trim them in the hot sun or when it's hot.
Speaker 1: You're supposed to wake to cooler weather.
Speaker 9: It's that right.
Speaker 1: In general with anybody ornamental it's better to do any
Speaker 1: significant amount of pruning when the when we're in the
Speaker 1: late winter time.
Speaker 29: That that's the okay, but you can And one last
Speaker 29: thing show, I just wanted to tell you how much you.
Speaker 1: Appreciate. That's very kind to you say that, Chris, good luck.
Speaker 1: We have throw your plants out there. Thank you, sir, Yes, sir,
Speaker 1: all right, where are we going next? We're going to
Speaker 1: go to spring Brand and talk to Morgan. Hey, Morgan,
Speaker 1: Hey there, I got a quick question. I hope it
Speaker 1: is a quick question, but it's got multiple pieces to it.
Speaker 30: So I've got some old kitty litter that I've had
Speaker 30: in the back of the car for about a year
Speaker 30: now to help take it to decrease the humidity in
Speaker 30: the car. And so now I want to the the
Speaker 30: k litter is like clay kitty litter. I don't have
Speaker 30: the original packaging, so I don't know what the actual
Speaker 30: chemicals are there in it. What I want to do
Speaker 30: is I've also got about a gallon of coffee grounds
Speaker 30: that I've been that I've been collecting. Now I understand
Speaker 30: that caught that count of grounds are good, UH can
Speaker 30: be a good fertilizer. And you know, provide petrins to
Speaker 30: your soil or your garden. And here's what I want
Speaker 30: to do, because because the auth the grounds are so
Speaker 30: or so, they can they can come up. I want
Speaker 30: to use the clay kitty litter as an agitator, but
Speaker 30: as I'm spreading it out in my yard, and I
Speaker 30: don't know how safe kitty litter.
Speaker 1: Would be for that purpose. It's fine, it's fine if
Speaker 1: you want to do that. It's like it's not going
Speaker 1: to the kidding leader is not going to hurt anything.
Speaker 1: It hasn't been fired to the too hot enough temperatures
Speaker 1: to do what expanded shale can do in terms of
Speaker 1: improving a clay. So you're basically adding the equivalent of
Speaker 1: a clay to the to the soil. But if you're
Speaker 1: using it just to kind of spread out the coffee
Speaker 1: grounds a little bit, it's not going to hurt anything
Speaker 1: to do that. The only difference is a particle size
Speaker 1: is different, So as you try to put it in
Speaker 1: a spread or the small particles tend to settle down
Speaker 1: to the bottom and the large particles as it's bouncing along,
Speaker 1: tend to rise up. So you're not going to get
Speaker 1: a real good even spread that way, I think I
Speaker 1: would just take the coffee grounds, dry them out well
Speaker 1: and then put them in with those little hand whirllybirds.
Speaker 1: I don't know how many pounds of coffee grounds you got,
Speaker 1: but it shouldn't be worried about if you hand whirlybird. Okay,
Speaker 1: well you could do that in two or three fills
Speaker 1: of of a handspreader, you know, just walking around. If
Speaker 1: you want to do that, it's called a wordlybird. Well,
Speaker 1: put fire ant bait. Fire ant bait. You hold it
Speaker 1: in one hand, you pull a trigger and you crank
Speaker 1: on the other side. It's got a little hopper about
Speaker 1: about half gallon sized hopper on them. It's it's got
Speaker 1: the push and walk behind spreaders. It's it's a little
Speaker 1: handheld which just for a little bit.
Speaker 30: Yeah, I've got I've got I've got a walk behind
Speaker 30: the spread which is what I plan on using.
Speaker 1: So okay, well, that's going to just make sure that
Speaker 1: that you've thoroughly dried those coffee grounds out.
Speaker 27: Well.
Speaker 30: Thanks so much for your show.
Speaker 1: By yes, sar, thank you appreciate the call very much.
Speaker 1: Uh well, I tell you, if we're time is moving
Speaker 1: along here, you know, Ice Hardware stores where you're gonna
Speaker 1: find everything you need for your lawn, your garden. That's
Speaker 1: just Ace Hardware. And where is ACE Hardware. Go to
Speaker 1: Ace Hardware dot Com. Look at the store locator and
Speaker 1: I think with forty around here, you're gonna one near you.
Speaker 1: Congratulations to Langham Creek Ase Hardware. I was there a
Speaker 1: little bit earlier this year for an event. They are
Speaker 1: on FM five twenty nine in Cypress at the intersection
Speaker 1: of Barker, Cypress and five twenty nine. So all of
Speaker 1: you up there in that Greater Copperfield area, this is
Speaker 1: your local ACE Hardware store, Langham Creek. They're having a
Speaker 1: big shindig. It is on Friday, the thirtieth of August,
Speaker 1: Saturday the thirty first, and Sunday, the first of September.
Speaker 1: Tons of giverways, demonstrations by vendors, prizes. On Saturday they're
Speaker 1: having fifteen percent off Still units. Still is one of
Speaker 1: those power equipment companies that makes high quality equipment. They're there.
Speaker 1: The giveaway on Friday is an Ego battery string tremor
Speaker 1: ten or fifty dollars value though to be demonstrating Weber grills.
Speaker 1: On Saturday, they're giving away a Weber Spirit to gas
Speaker 1: grill four hundred and fifty dollars grill, giving it away
Speaker 1: as a prize. They'll demonstrate Big Green Egg and something
Speaker 1: called Guy Coney's Pizza Oven. Oh my gosh, it's really cool.
Speaker 1: It's like you're a little private pizza oven. You can
Speaker 1: sit outside like you would you barbecue or whatever. All right, Well, anyway,
Speaker 1: Sunday they're giving away a painting room makeover two hundred
Speaker 1: dollars value in demonstrating trigger grill. This is this is
Speaker 1: a really nice deal. There are all kinds of prize
Speaker 1: demonstrations that still discount on Saturday, and then great deals,
Speaker 1: exclusive deals on a variety of other items, all at
Speaker 1: Langham Creek Ace Hardware on FM five twenty nine. It's
Speaker 1: at the intersection of five twenty nine and Barker Cypress Road.
Speaker 1: Real easy to get to. Like I said, it's in
Speaker 1: your backyardperfield, and all of you around that area need
Speaker 1: to run over there and check out this revamped It's
Speaker 1: called the reopening because I was there when they were
Speaker 1: open earlier in the year. They revamped that place and
Speaker 1: now it's like a grand reopening going on. He's hard
Speaker 1: We're gonna take a little break John in Memoria, our
Speaker 1: very first color up.
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Speaker 32: Here's Gary mack now up to over an hour, Back
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Speaker 32: roadwork in two to three left lanes between Woods and
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Speaker 32: A heat advisories in effect into light PM on this Saturday.
Speaker 32: There will maybe an isolated thunderstorm popping up. Otherwise sunny
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Speaker 31: Time nine oh one. Our top story. Former President Donald
Speaker 31: Trump is campaigning in the major swing state of Pennsylvania.
Speaker 31: Later on this evening. The stop in Wilkes Barr comes
Speaker 31: about a month after the assassination attempt on his life
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Speaker 31: go back to Butler for another rally and as well
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Speaker 31: for Trump's opponent, Vice President Kamala Harris, she's facing heavy
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Speaker 33: Vice President Kamala Harris is touting her plan as a
Speaker 33: way to build up the middle class and doubling down
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Speaker 33: for first time home buyers, restoring the child tax credit,
Speaker 33: which expired in twenty twenty one, and a federal ban
Speaker 33: on grocery price gouging.
Speaker 31: Box is Madeline Rivera. Vice President Harris spoken rawling North
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Speaker 31: new Rasmussen reports poll is showing that half of likely
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Speaker 31: Harris For Kamala Harris and her campaign for president, just
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Speaker 34: Mpox, the virus formerly known as monkey pox, is spreading
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Speaker 34: causing more than five hundred deaths. The World Health Organization
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Speaker 34: the variant has spread to Europe, with Sweden reporting at
Speaker 34: least one case which they say they have under control.
Speaker 31: OxyS Jonathan Siri K Cherrich News Time nine oh four.
Speaker 31: Jury deliberations are picking back up Monday in the civil
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Speaker 31: Closing arguments wrapped up on Friday.
Speaker 8: If we want to solve this problem, it starts right
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Speaker 8: bring them into the world, be responsible for him. If
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Speaker 31: That's the plaintiff's attorney, Clint McGuire. Earlier this week, Houston
Speaker 31: police say a man allegedly shot three people after an
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Speaker 31: just after one at a home on Fulton Street and
Speaker 31: Harrington Street, and a separate shooting a man is being
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Speaker 31: Astros losers for the first time in eight games, falling
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Speaker 1: and Memorial. Hello John, and how can we help? Yes,
Speaker 1: thank you.
Speaker 35: I've just noticed ever since the hurricane, it just seems
Speaker 35: like my pine trees are dropping an awful lot of
Speaker 35: pine needles and just kind of curious what that means.
Speaker 1: Al they'll do that when they're in stresses. You know,
Speaker 1: all evergreens drop leaves. The leaves are not forever the
Speaker 1: plant just always has leaves on it, so whether it's
Speaker 1: a live oak, they go through periods where they drop
Speaker 1: some of the old leaves, especially as the new growth
Speaker 1: comes on. Pines will do that. But also stresses I
Speaker 1: don't know that the hurricane is causing the demit or
Speaker 1: any effects of that hurricane are causing it, but you know,
Speaker 1: they get dry, they get thirsty, just whatever. That can
Speaker 1: happen a lot as long as they have adequate soul moisture.
Speaker 1: And it just has gotten hot and dried these last
Speaker 1: couple of weeks, but overall we've had a pretty good year,
Speaker 1: so I'm not as concerned about it as I might otherwise.
Speaker 35: Be okay, perfect And then just quick quick question, what's
Speaker 35: your favorite privacy edge between houses these days?
Speaker 1: Oh boy, that's a tough one. One of the challenges
Speaker 1: because our properties have gotten smaller over the decades from
Speaker 1: back when everybody have had a third of an acre
Speaker 1: lot to now you reach out your window and you
Speaker 1: can close your neighbors blinds hardly leaning out is that
Speaker 1: we have to have thin hedges because otherwise it just
Speaker 1: takes up the whole property. When it comes to thin,
Speaker 1: then we're looking at more upright, narrow growing things or
Speaker 1: junipers that are grown for that purpose. There's a variety
Speaker 1: of different trees that can kind of fit that bill.
Speaker 1: You want a plant that's going to be evergreen. Sometimes
Speaker 1: what I'll do when the property line is really limiting
Speaker 1: us is I'll use a trellis that goes above the
Speaker 1: privacy fence, so it may be tall posts. Then maybe
Speaker 1: a livestock panel or something stretched across and grow an
Speaker 1: evergreen vine on that. So you end up with a
Speaker 1: really nice screen, but you don't have something that's ten
Speaker 1: feet wide sticking out in your lawn and on the
Speaker 1: other side of the fence.
Speaker 22: Well, thank you, I really appreciate it.
Speaker 1: You bet, John, You take our Yeah, John, take care that. Yeah.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of different options if you had a
Speaker 1: little more information, Like, for example, you're trying to block
Speaker 1: a house it's fifteen feet away, it's gonna be hard
Speaker 1: to do with anything if it's a longer distance. Just
Speaker 1: think about where you sit and what you see, and
Speaker 1: that'll tell you how high it needs to be. The
Speaker 1: closer the hedge or screen is to you, the shorter
Speaker 1: it needs to be the block of you. The further
Speaker 1: away it gets, the taller. It needs to be the
Speaker 1: block of you. Just some things like that. All right,
Speaker 1: Thanks for the call, appreciate that. We're going to now
Speaker 1: head out to Bill and Conroe. Hello Bill, Welcome to
Speaker 1: guard Line.
Speaker 36: Hey Skip, good morning. I've cleaned out my backyard and
Speaker 36: killed the sod and breaked it out and got some
Speaker 36: drainage in there, and so I'm getting ready to.
Speaker 26: Lay down some new side. And my question is this.
Speaker 36: I know, Funus kind of lives in his dormant in
Speaker 36: the dirt all the time and everything else. Would it
Speaker 36: make any sense to use this opportunity to put something down.
Speaker 2: That would.
Speaker 36: Kill some fungicide that's I might be lying there.
Speaker 1: You know, Bill, it wouldn't. It would be a complete
Speaker 1: waste of your money. There isn't a fungicide we put
Speaker 1: in the soil that then controls everything that might come
Speaker 1: later on the turf. So I would wait until you
Speaker 1: have your turf, and then as you start to see
Speaker 1: an issue, you can deal with it at that point
Speaker 1: in time. But most fungicides, they just don't have that
Speaker 1: kind of link of protection or root uptake. In the
Speaker 1: case of what you're describing, that would require root uptake
Speaker 1: and a fungicide. Yeah, and so I would, I would wait,
Speaker 1: I would, I would wait. If you go online, I
Speaker 1: don't know if you've seen my lawn care schedule and
Speaker 1: my pest yeah, and management schedules. Yeah. Yeah, at gardening
Speaker 1: with skip dot com and look at that. And there's
Speaker 1: a fungus row as you go across from January to December,
Speaker 1: and it talks about the things we do and when
Speaker 1: on that, and I would more focus on that. But
Speaker 1: I'm not one to just want to nuke everything with
Speaker 1: insecticides and fundicides every time I turn around. I'd rather
Speaker 1: try to manage it and use it when I need it.
Speaker 1: You know. It's like you're taking an antibiotic every day
Speaker 1: in case you might get sick some day. That's not
Speaker 1: a good plan. And so yeah, the watch the schedule.
Speaker 1: It is important to step in. Go ahead. Yeah, well
Speaker 1: let me see it's early.
Speaker 4: Okay.
Speaker 36: Follow up question is, what about doing something for insects
Speaker 36: is the same kind of deal?
Speaker 26: Why do it?
Speaker 12: Now?
Speaker 36: Why Why waste all that killers in the lawn when
Speaker 36: you don't even know what you have or don't have
Speaker 36: the same thing the same thing again, I got a
Speaker 36: wide I just got a bunch of dirt there.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, Well, when when it comes to insects, basically
Speaker 1: we're dealing with two things for our this is Saint
Speaker 1: Augustine I assume, is that right? Yeah, okay, yeah, when
Speaker 1: it comes to insects, we're talking about chinchbugs and sideweb
Speaker 1: worms and grubs three three pests and there's a very
Speaker 1: specific time on those. We're in that time on those,
Speaker 1: but in nothing ahead of time will help. All right,
Speaker 1: all right, I'm gonna I'm gonna have to gearrun bill,
Speaker 1: but yeah, good luck with all that. I hope that helped.
Speaker 1: Gary and Alvin. You'll be first up when we come back.
Speaker 1: If you want to give Chrystal, call seven one three
Speaker 1: two one two. Kat r H will get you on
Speaker 1: the board. We'll be ready to talk to you next
Speaker 1: and glad you're with us today. Hey, have you been
Speaker 1: down to Jeges Hidden Gardens. It's done in Alvin. You
Speaker 1: heard me talk about it before. It's on Elizabeth Street
Speaker 1: in Alvin and they're open today by the way, from
Speaker 1: eight to four and tomorrow again from eight to four.
Speaker 1: When you get down to Hoorze Sidden Gardens, you're going
Speaker 1: to find a wide variety of things. Number one. They
Speaker 1: have a variety of products, for example, the tree stabilizer
Speaker 1: three sixty tree stabilizer. If you've got a young tree,
Speaker 1: that's the thing you need for that, and they've got
Speaker 1: them right there, including his own proprietary blend fertilizer products.
Speaker 1: He has got a good selection of fruit trees, lots
Speaker 1: of citrus right now is on hand. And if you
Speaker 1: need like let's say you want to grow an apple, well,
Speaker 1: you know, apples are for up north, but we have
Speaker 1: varieties that will grow down here. And Hora carries things
Speaker 1: like anna and Dorset golden, for example, that can handle
Speaker 1: the lower chill that we receive down in this area.
Speaker 1: So you're going to find a lot of things like that.
Speaker 1: They're at Horae Sidden Gardens. You're also at Hoges going
Speaker 1: to be able to find the things that you need
Speaker 1: to have success in terms of plants, for shade plants
Speaker 1: that are perennial that come out year after year, the
Speaker 1: tropical look you know, you like the big old elephant
Speaker 1: ear looking things, you like the the I like foxdale fern.
Speaker 1: He's got those. They are very tough plants to grow,
Speaker 1: very tough and resilient. Or he's got all of that.
Speaker 1: But remember today eight to four tomorrow eight to four
Speaker 1: again or Haes Hidden Gardens there on Alvin Street. Excuse me,
Speaker 1: Elizabeth Street and Alvin, Texas just south Highway sixth seventeen
Speaker 1: seven twenty one Elizabeth Street. Go check them out. We're
Speaker 1: going to head now over to Alvin speaking of or
Speaker 1: Haes Hidden Gardens, and we're going to talk to Gary. Hello.
Speaker 26: Gary, Yes, sir, my wife has several raised garden beds.
Speaker 26: They're like four foot by four foot, and we have
Speaker 26: lots of rabbits. We have twelve full grown rabbits. She
Speaker 26: breeds most of the rabbits and the and it's cooler
Speaker 26: the rabbit manure. Can you put too much on? And
Speaker 26: then you only two on the raised beds there like
Speaker 26: four foot but four foot and you got several of them.
Speaker 26: And like I said, putting the rabbit maneuver on there?
Speaker 26: Can you put too much? And we're not raised anything
Speaker 26: right now? Can we go ahead and put the rabbit
Speaker 26: maneuver on there?
Speaker 7: Will it?
Speaker 26: Uh?
Speaker 10: Uh?
Speaker 26: And there again they the dozen full grown that we
Speaker 26: have produce a whole lot of maneuver. But is this
Speaker 26: good or bad? And then also we were trying to
Speaker 26: raise what we can feed the rabbits.
Speaker 1: All right, sounds good. Well, yeah, it's wonderful manure. My
Speaker 1: kid drese rabbits when they were growing up. We had
Speaker 1: rabbits for more years than I care to remember. And
Speaker 1: but we didn't call it manure. We called it funny pooh.
Speaker 1: In fact, if you want to sound, if you want
Speaker 1: to sound a little more, you know, high falutin, you
Speaker 1: just call it pooh de boney, pooh de boney. It sounds,
Speaker 1: it sounds exotic. It's the same stuff. It's not like
Speaker 1: chicken manu where it's really easy to burn plants with it.
Speaker 1: Rabbit manure is typically not that hot. Now, can you
Speaker 1: put too much? We can put too much of anything,
Speaker 1: you know, anything, you can overdo it. But in general
Speaker 1: we don't worry about it burning like rabbits can do.
Speaker 1: I would say, if you put out you know, you know,
Speaker 1: maybe a half inch at a time, kind of scratched
Speaker 1: it into the surface, that would be a pretty good
Speaker 1: application rate.
Speaker 26: Wow, half inch in much.
Speaker 1: No, not at one time, but you know, experiment with
Speaker 1: it and see. You know, some plants do not need
Speaker 1: much fertilizer. Other plants are heavy feeders, so I would
Speaker 1: adjust according to that as well.
Speaker 26: Okay, and then we're not we're trying to grow what
Speaker 26: the rabbits will eat. Worse, we can't never have let
Speaker 26: grown carrots, of course, but other kails and things like
Speaker 26: that that we can feed the rabbits.
Speaker 15: Do that.
Speaker 26: What do you recommend?
Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, that's what I do on those. What I
Speaker 1: would do is that you're talking about vegetable grun there,
Speaker 1: so I would before you can't, I would put the
Speaker 1: rabbit manure down at about an inch inch and a
Speaker 1: half and rototillert in is deeply, are spaded in as
Speaker 1: deeply as practical, and then plant and and then that
Speaker 1: way you're not having to put the maneuver around existing plants,
Speaker 1: which is a little more challenging in a dense vegetable garden.
Speaker 26: Sure, okay, very good, appreciate it.
Speaker 1: So but it works. It works very well. It's already pelletized,
Speaker 1: so once it's dry, you can you can put it
Speaker 1: in a sack and store it for later if you want.
Speaker 1: Have you ever thought about raising earthworms underneath there are
Speaker 1: those cages?
Speaker 26: No, no, never never considered that.
Speaker 1: The red wiggler, not nightcrawlers, but red earthworms. There's also
Speaker 1: something called a brown noseworm that's basically like a red wigular.
Speaker 1: They go crazy into there and they'll transform that manure
Speaker 1: and it's almost like you're turning it into a compost material.
Speaker 1: Plus you get fishing worms or some people even purchase
Speaker 1: those things. People that have vermiculture bins where they add
Speaker 1: worms to to decompose food scraps. They'll buy your red
Speaker 1: regular worms to put in their verma culture bend. So
Speaker 1: I know you're not looking for another business to get into,
Speaker 1: but that's just another option. And they can take our
Speaker 1: temperatures better, uh than like the nightcrawlers can.
Speaker 26: Yes, sir, I appreciate you.
Speaker 1: That's more than you, more than you ask. So thanks
Speaker 1: sont Gary, thanks for listening.
Speaker 9: Thank you.
Speaker 1: Good care. You are listening to garden Line. I'm your host,
Speaker 1: Skip Rickor and we're here to answer your gardening questions.
Speaker 1: That's what we try to do. Here. We're going to
Speaker 1: head out to Austin County and talk to Doris.
Speaker 22: Hello, Doris, Hello, can you hear me?
Speaker 1: How can we help today? I can?
Speaker 6: Okay, I have urbinas. I have the purple ones, the
Speaker 6: white ones, and the red ones, and they were doing
Speaker 6: really well. Now some of the bushes are getting white
Speaker 6: spots like on their leaves and they're starting to die
Speaker 6: from underneath.
Speaker 9: What's wrong with.
Speaker 1: Them, Well, Verbina is a pretty tough plant, but when
Speaker 1: we get to the full brunt of Texas summers, it's
Speaker 1: stressed and so it is easy for issues to arise
Speaker 1: from them. I think though, that the white spots, if
Speaker 1: they're very very small specks, that kind of more and
Speaker 1: more of them occur until the leaf almost turns white.
Speaker 1: That is a piercing sucking insect that is sucking juices
Speaker 1: out of those leaves from the underside of the leaf.
Speaker 1: They hide under the leaf and they suck the juices out,
Speaker 1: and so getting a blast of spray up under there
Speaker 1: to kill them would be one option to try to
Speaker 1: bring those under control. But we have several different kinds
Speaker 1: of plants, from lace bugs to a little plant hoppers
Speaker 1: and others that can cause that kind of damage.
Speaker 6: Some of these are almost white, but I don't see
Speaker 6: anything under the leak.
Speaker 1: That's what you will some of these things are. They're
Speaker 1: they're skittish and by the time you turn it over
Speaker 1: they've hopped away. So you kind of have to go
Speaker 1: out in the morning, maybe look at the top of
Speaker 1: the leaves. Some of them may be up there, but
Speaker 1: when you turn them over, if it's a lace bug,
Speaker 1: the uh, they don't jump around, they'll be there. You
Speaker 1: can turn it over and you'll see them. So another
Speaker 1: sign of lace bugs is little black tar like spots.
Speaker 1: That's they're poop underneath the leak. They stick it to
Speaker 1: the bottom of the leaf. I don't know why.
Speaker 15: Uh.
Speaker 1: And the other kind, the piercing sucking plant hoppers, those
Speaker 1: are the more skittish ones uh. And you just kind
Speaker 1: of have to to go out real carefully and slowly
Speaker 1: turn it over to see them. But there'll be little
Speaker 1: bugs that are about the size of a of an aphid,
Speaker 1: a big plump black aphid. Typically they're very dark colored,
Speaker 1: but that would be something to look for.
Speaker 6: And what do I use on them?
Speaker 1: There's there are a number of products that will knock
Speaker 1: them down. Pyrietherns is an organic type spray that you
Speaker 1: could use to knock them down, a pyrite and spray,
Speaker 1: you could use really any insecticide labeled for use on
Speaker 1: your flowers. You just want to be careful because you
Speaker 1: got bees. And so sometimes I'll do that real late
Speaker 1: in the day, uh, and so that that it all
Speaker 1: dries up and the next days the bees come out.
Speaker 1: You know, the the product isn't just wet there on
Speaker 1: the leaf where or the flowers where bees would be
Speaker 1: infected affected.
Speaker 6: Okay, all right, all right, thank you very much.
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Speaker 1: Welcome back to garden Line. Glad to have you with
Speaker 1: us this morning. We have got a little bit of
Speaker 1: time live. We got about thirty minutes left in the
Speaker 1: show today, a little less than that. Actually, if you'd
Speaker 1: like to give us a call, this would be a
Speaker 1: good time. Seven one three two one two five eight
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Speaker 1: seventy four. We're gonna go out to college station now
Speaker 1: and talk to Andy. Hello, Andy, and welcome to Garden Lines.
Speaker 24: Hey, Skip, how you doing? I appreciate you taking my
Speaker 24: call again. I uh talk to you last week. I
Speaker 24: was putting a kind of a crushed granite walk away
Speaker 24: and circle around for a for my fire pits and
Speaker 24: smokers and stuff. I had said I had Saint Augustine.
Speaker 24: When I looked a little bit closer and it's a
Speaker 24: it's a lot of permuta and weeds mixed in with
Speaker 24: it as well too. So I guess my my thought
Speaker 24: is prepare it? Do I?
Speaker 9: Uh?
Speaker 24: Do I do the round up and at first, and
Speaker 24: then let it sit for a while. Maybe do it
Speaker 24: twice before I before I do anything to it or
Speaker 24: what for preparing for it?
Speaker 1: Okay, yes, twice would be the case, because you don't
Speaker 1: always get it all the first time. Lifeasay run ups
Speaker 1: just one name. By the way, if you go to
Speaker 1: a store now and buy something that says round up,
Speaker 1: it probably isn't life usay because when the in the
Speaker 1: retail market, the homeowner market, uh, that's being pulled, pulled
Speaker 1: and its other ingredients and they're being called round up.
Speaker 1: I wish they wouldn't do that, but that is what
Speaker 1: companies do. But anyway, so gli, I'm gonna use the
Speaker 1: word glyphosay because that's the ingredient you can find in
Speaker 1: a lot of other brands. I've been round up.
Speaker 14: Uh.
Speaker 1: That kills broad leaf and grasses, and it moves down
Speaker 1: in the plant and it kills the underground parts too,
Speaker 1: which is why it's so good for taking bermuda grass out.
Speaker 1: If your If your main weed weeds are grassy, you
Speaker 1: can use a grass only killer as an alternative to
Speaker 1: the glyphosay. But if you've got broad leaf weeds, the
Speaker 1: grass only killers won't work. Okay, can you spell the
Speaker 1: name of that product?
Speaker 20: What is that.
Speaker 1: Glyphosate? Yeah?
Speaker 9: G L Y P H O S A T E.
Speaker 1: I tell you something I want I want you to do.
Speaker 9: Uh.
Speaker 1: Have you ever been to my website, Gardening with Skip
Speaker 1: dot com?
Speaker 19: Actually?
Speaker 1: Now, if okay, if not write that down gardening with
Speaker 1: Skip dot com. When you go there, there's a tag
Speaker 1: for all the publications, and I have a publication called
Speaker 1: herbicide products to use with Skip's weed wiper tool. It's
Speaker 1: the only publication that starts off saying herbicide at the beginning.
Speaker 1: If you click on that, it's products that I put
Speaker 1: on the list for using with a little homemade tool
Speaker 1: I show you how to make. By the way, this
Speaker 1: tool is not for the kind of bermuda situation you have.
Speaker 1: But those products you see products for brushyweeds, products for
Speaker 1: grass plants, products for plants with underground bulbs like wild
Speaker 1: onion and garlic in the lawn. But if you look there,
Speaker 1: you can find the products for each of those that
Speaker 1: work well and for grassyweeds. That's kind of what we've
Speaker 1: been talking about. Those products are there, even though that
Speaker 1: publications made for things to put on the weed wiper.
Speaker 1: Those are the products you would use to control to
Speaker 1: get that bermua kill back. And then again, like you said,
Speaker 1: get water it good, give it some time to try
Speaker 1: to get it to come back up again, show its face.
Speaker 1: So do you have something else to spray a second time?
Speaker 12: Oh?
Speaker 1: Awesome, that is great. I appreciate that.
Speaker 24: Yeah, I didn't really look at it before and as much.
Speaker 24: And it's a it's we've just been in the house
Speaker 24: a couple of months now. It's ten years old, and
Speaker 24: so we've been mowing a couple of times a week
Speaker 24: to keep the weeds down and stuff. So I didn't
Speaker 24: actually really notice we had a lot more going on
Speaker 24: in there than I thought.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, it's often the way it is. That's all right,
Speaker 1: and good luck, Thank you. Take one last one last
Speaker 1: where did the wise ending? Before you go? You get
Speaker 1: much better killed with whatever you spray if the target
Speaker 1: weed is healthy and vigorous growing. If it's drought stressed,
Speaker 1: these products don't work well at all. So you want
Speaker 1: to water it, do whatever you guy do. You want
Speaker 1: to get it up and growing and where it's moving
Speaker 1: and then it takes that herbicide up and you get
Speaker 1: much better results. So just a final thought there, Okay,
Speaker 1: oh yeah, I got you. I'll take it down into
Speaker 1: the roots so it does better. Yeah, thanks Ben, you
Speaker 1: take care. Hey, our phone number if you'd like to
Speaker 1: give us a call seven one three two one two
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Speaker 1: fifty eight seventy four out at the Texas Nursery and
Speaker 1: Landscape Association Convention in San Antonio that's this past week. Uh, well,
Speaker 1: that was a great convention. I saw a lot of
Speaker 1: good friends out there. I ran into the folks at
Speaker 1: Nelson Plant Food, Dean uh the guy who created Nelson
Speaker 1: Plant Food, Dean Nelson, and also Shelby and some of
Speaker 1: the other folks that work with them, and we're just
Speaker 1: visiting about the different products they have, what all they
Speaker 1: have on hand. And they have a lot of quality products.
Speaker 1: You know, there's the fertilizer bag lines, that's the turf
Speaker 1: Star line. That's where you find Bruce's Brew, which releases
Speaker 1: it's a perfect blend of nutrients and it releases them
Speaker 1: initially pretty good, and then it has some ongoing slow release.
Speaker 1: Slow and Easy is another turf Star product. That one.
Speaker 1: It releases some early, but it releases for three or
Speaker 1: four months going forward. I would say at this point,
Speaker 1: if you needed a fertilizer to hold you until we
Speaker 1: get to the fall, maybe a little Bruce's Brew would
Speaker 1: be a good one for the lawn there. Now, when
Speaker 1: it comes to trees and shrubs, there's the nutri Star
Speaker 1: for tree and shrub. There's nutri Star for all kinds
Speaker 1: of for tropical plants, for vining plants. It's just a
Speaker 1: wide variety. So little jars, plastic jars, you can find
Speaker 1: them a lot of different places. The thing I like
Speaker 1: about those nutri Star jars, about the color Star jars,
Speaker 1: is that you can go to a garden center. Certain
Speaker 1: garden centers have the little refill stations. It's kind of
Speaker 1: like when you buy peanuts in the grocery store. You
Speaker 1: pull the little handle down and fill up the bag.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm talking about. Well, it's like that,
Speaker 1: but you get a lot of really good savings on
Speaker 1: the fertilizer because they're not having to make a jar
Speaker 1: and sell it to you and the environments not trying
Speaker 1: to figure out what to do with even more plastic.
Speaker 1: Because you buy a jar in another jar and another jar,
Speaker 1: you can just refill them the Nelson plant few jars.
Speaker 1: So just another reason that Nelson products are so handy
Speaker 1: and they do work very very well. I've used them myself.
Speaker 1: One of my favorites, by the way, is Genesis Transplant Mix.
Speaker 1: I'll have to tell you more about that at another time,
Speaker 1: But if you're going to transplant anything into the ground,
Speaker 1: mix a little Genesis transplant mix into the soil around there,
Speaker 1: then dig the hole and replant and you will see results.
Speaker 1: If you're going to pot something up, mix it into
Speaker 1: the potting salt that you're about to use. Genesis Transplant
Speaker 1: Mix from Nelson just another good one. We're going to
Speaker 1: go to Spring now and talk to Nicole. Hello, Nicole, Hello,
Speaker 1: how are you? I'm good? How can we help?
Speaker 40: I have a weed in my flower bed that I
Speaker 40: am constantly fighting and I cannot figure out what to
Speaker 40: do about it.
Speaker 38: It pulls up very easily.
Speaker 41: It has it's almost a fern type leaf. It has
Speaker 41: very tiny.
Speaker 22: Little leafs on it, spores on the back.
Speaker 26: Huh.
Speaker 40: It almost reminds me of like.
Speaker 41: A little mimosa leaf, like a little mimosa tree leaf.
Speaker 41: I mean that's what it sort of looks like a
Speaker 41: little tiny leaves. And I don't know what did you
Speaker 41: to keep this thing from coming back?
Speaker 1: Got you? What did you say it had on the
Speaker 1: back of the leaf spores? Okay, I know what it is.
Speaker 1: I've got to go to break and it's gonna take
Speaker 1: a while to talk about this. When hang on, we'll
Speaker 1: be right back with you and we will solve the
Speaker 1: problem to the mystery weed. Thanks. Thanks a lot, Nicole
Speaker 1: and Tiffany. You'll be the next up. After we solve
Speaker 1: Nichole's problem, we'll be right back all right, all right,
Speaker 1: welcome back. Good to have you with us here on
Speaker 1: Garden Line. I'm your host, Skip Richter, and we're here
Speaker 1: to answer your gardening question. We speaking of gardening questions.
Speaker 1: We were just talking to Tiffany, no excuse me, Nicole
Speaker 1: in spring and Nicole that we just called chamber bitter
Speaker 1: and it is the weed of summer. It's slow to
Speaker 1: wake up in the spring. A lot of spring things
Speaker 1: pop up like crabgrass and they're growing. This one's a
Speaker 1: little bit slower, but when it shows up, it can
Speaker 1: be just proliferating through a thin lawn or through garden
Speaker 1: beds and things. The answers to what to do about is,
Speaker 1: first of all, any if you can hoe or hand
Speaker 1: pull when it's first coming up, depending on where it's growing.
Speaker 1: You can't hoe in the lawn, but just taking a
Speaker 1: hole right underneath the surface, don't. You're not chopping with
Speaker 1: a hoe, you're just slicing it off under the surface.
Speaker 1: That's the best because pretty quickly it starts producing what
Speaker 1: you were calling a spore, that's actually the seed bop pod.
Speaker 1: It has a tiny little bloom you'll never think of
Speaker 1: as a flower, and then it produces these seed pods
Speaker 1: all along the lea petiole underneath, their little balls all
Speaker 1: along there. And so once it's doing that, you're about
Speaker 1: to have a lot of seeds, and so you're gonna
Speaker 1: have to be dealing with it a year after year.
Speaker 1: So the earlier you can hand pull it, the better
Speaker 1: mulches will keep it from coming up if the mulch
Speaker 1: blocks all the sunlight out. So that's another thing, and
Speaker 1: I realized we'd have to go back in time to
Speaker 1: do some of those steps, but that's FYI for next year.
Speaker 1: You can spray it with a product like Celsius for example.
Speaker 1: It does a pretty good job on it, but once
Speaker 1: it's getting really woody and established, it's hard to kill
Speaker 1: with sprays.
Speaker 40: Okay, okay, yeah, it's it just pops up so quickly,
Speaker 40: and it's like I can I pull it. It's easy
Speaker 40: to pull handful. I mean, it's really easy to pull
Speaker 40: out of the ground. It's not one of those ones
Speaker 40: that has the chaining root or anything like that.
Speaker 1: It's just that's everywhere. Yep. Well, like what in general,
Speaker 1: where is it? And what is it a flower bed
Speaker 1: or what are you seeing it? Then?
Speaker 40: Yes, mostly it's in the flowerbed. It's on the edge
Speaker 40: of the flower bed where I don't have any bushes
Speaker 40: or plants, you know, close to the rocks. And we've
Speaker 40: molted we most every spring, so I don't know if
Speaker 40: the molts just.
Speaker 1: Got thin or I don't know. Yeah, yes, that is
Speaker 1: what it is. Because when a seed sprouts, that tiny
Speaker 1: little seed has some stored energy, but not a lot,
Speaker 1: and so if you prevent it from being able to
Speaker 1: reach sunlight, you'll kill it. And I don't suppose you
Speaker 1: still subscribe to a print copy of the newspaper, do you?
Speaker 1: Most people I don't. Yeah, the newspaper for it. When
Speaker 1: it first comes up, you can lay newspaper on it,
Speaker 1: four to six sheets thick, and wet that newspaper so
Speaker 1: it sort of sticks down, and then throw mulch on
Speaker 1: top and you're done. That works really well because it
Speaker 1: completely blocks the light out. The newspaper does. Yeah, four
Speaker 1: to six sheets thick, just so it doesn't tear so easy.
Speaker 1: But you don't have to go buy newspaper, just gets
Speaker 1: you a good mulge to smother it. I will often
Speaker 1: use like a rake in a garden bed, just kind
Speaker 1: of to really roughly rake the soil to kind of
Speaker 1: tear it up, and then throw a mulch on top
Speaker 1: of it. Whatever it takes. Just just don't give it sunlight,
Speaker 1: and then once it's up you're going to have to
Speaker 1: In a flower bed, you're not going to use celsius.
Speaker 1: But if it's a bear area without other desirable plants,
Speaker 1: you could use a glycysate type herbicide that kills whatever
Speaker 1: you spray it on, and that it would kill it.
Speaker 1: Those post emergin will kill it even if it's getting
Speaker 1: a little bit older. But my big concern once it
Speaker 1: gets a little bit older is that you've already got
Speaker 1: viable seeds, So just to kill it isn't sufficient. I
Speaker 1: want those seeds out of there before they drop on
Speaker 1: the ground, right.
Speaker 40: Right, okay, all right, thank you very much.
Speaker 1: I appreciate it. You didn't have anything better to do
Speaker 1: on a ninety five degree day in the middle of summers,
Speaker 1: And get out on your hands and knees and pull
Speaker 1: chamber better rights, rights into the mix, and it'll be
Speaker 1: a perfect day.
Speaker 40: Super fun, super fun. I water the flower bed this morning.
Speaker 40: I'm gonna make them really.
Speaker 14: Easy to pull out.
Speaker 1: That's smart, That is smart. All right, Nicole, you take care.
Speaker 1: Good to talk to you. We're going to go to
Speaker 1: Cypress and talk to Tiffany. Hello, Tiffany, welcome, reguardline, Hi.
Speaker 42: Skip, good morning.
Speaker 6: I have a three point question.
Speaker 42: When do you recommend like heavy pruning for our front
Speaker 42: and backyard ornamentals? When do you recommend for trees and
Speaker 42: then create myrtles. I know you mentioned it this morning
Speaker 42: with a gentleman that you like to wait till the
Speaker 42: end of winter because we do little pruning here there.
Speaker 9: But I mean, like the heavy pruning.
Speaker 42: When do you recommend for those those three.
Speaker 1: Heavy pruning is best done on a woody ornamental plant,
Speaker 1: a tree or shrub or woody vine. It's best done
Speaker 1: in the late wintertime. But if you need to get
Speaker 1: a little trimming here and there, you can do that
Speaker 1: at any time. And sometimes there's extenuating circumstances where you
Speaker 1: can't wait that long, and that's fine too, But just
Speaker 1: remember that if it blooms only in the spring, like
Speaker 1: a climbing rose is oftener once blooming roses, or if
Speaker 1: it is like a dogwood or a red bud or
Speaker 1: a spyreea shrub or something that flowering quints it just
Speaker 1: blooms in the spring, you want to prune it in
Speaker 1: the summertime right after it blooms, or in the spring
Speaker 1: late spring, early summer, right after it blooms. If you
Speaker 1: prune those now, they're trying to set buds for next
Speaker 1: springs bloom and you'd be cutting with the blue buds
Speaker 1: or the ability for them to develop a wooden time.
Speaker 42: Right, Okay, that sounds great. And saying with trees, I
Speaker 42: know that no affordable tree service. They are so wonderful,
Speaker 42: but they I mean, is it a time when you
Speaker 42: really recommend for them to come out just about February
Speaker 42: ish as well?
Speaker 1: Well, that would be ideal. Now, a tree service like that,
Speaker 1: they can't do every customer's printing all it one month
Speaker 1: would work? Sure, you trimming like, they'll come out like
Speaker 1: let's say right now, you got a tree with some
Speaker 1: branch problems, they'll come out now and do it. If
Speaker 1: you've got a tree that needs a selective printing to
Speaker 1: make it a little more resilient in storms, they'll come
Speaker 1: out now and do that. So you can do printing
Speaker 1: any time of the year. Ideally with woody ornamentals, we
Speaker 1: would like to do most of it at the end
Speaker 1: of winter.
Speaker 42: But you do what you gotta do, right, No, that
Speaker 42: sounds great. I really appreciate it. And just a little
Speaker 42: side note. Earlier this morning, a gentleman called about having
Speaker 42: raccoons and possums under his house. And my mother and
Speaker 42: father in law live in Lake Conroe, and my father
Speaker 42: in law had two little raccoons that loved making beds
Speaker 42: in his.
Speaker 4: Boat, like under the cover.
Speaker 42: So he put two humane traps and just like you said,
Speaker 42: he cut up apples. They really loved that and they
Speaker 42: would be in there and so and then he has
Speaker 42: this park that's you know, pretty far from them, but
Speaker 42: he would take them out there, very wooded park, not
Speaker 42: many busy streets around. And so that might be what
Speaker 42: that gentleman could do. He might have to do it
Speaker 42: one at a time since he has a party under
Speaker 42: his house.
Speaker 6: Well, thank you so much.
Speaker 42: If we love your show, appreciate you, Thank you so much.
Speaker 1: Appreciate your calls very much. We are going to now
Speaker 1: run out and run out to Diana and Cyprus. Diana,
Speaker 1: I'm watching the clock go in here. Let's see if
Speaker 1: we can get your call in.
Speaker 6: Okay, I have to laugh because that was my daughter
Speaker 6: that just called kiddy.
Speaker 1: Oh son or grandfather calling next.
Speaker 18: A mother.
Speaker 6: I said that that that's our daughter that just called
Speaker 6: it about you know, the preening.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 6: But I have a question real quick. My husband and
Speaker 6: I were both real sick during you know, the early
Speaker 6: part of the summer, and all of our plants in
Speaker 6: our yard was just absolutely gorgeous, and but our that
Speaker 6: illness kind of extended what we couldn't get out and
Speaker 6: take care of our plants like we normally would and
Speaker 6: monitor our yard. But our knocked out rose bushes say,
Speaker 6: look like the way I can describe it is, how
Speaker 6: if you were to take Brussels sprout's or roccolini and
Speaker 6: roast them in the oven? How kind of Well, there's
Speaker 6: up some edges they're they're doing that, and one of
Speaker 6: them we think we've completely lost. But I'm trying to
Speaker 6: see what I can do to save these others. And
Speaker 6: then another question too real quick, is that our yard
Speaker 6: was beautiful. The back is still looks good, but the
Speaker 6: front started dying. Uh and our Saint August.
Speaker 1: Okay, I'm gonna have to stop you because the music
Speaker 1: is already playing here. So about those roses, good soul
Speaker 1: moisture is very important, and in the heat it is
Speaker 1: too stressful for them, So that is the main thing.
Speaker 1: Wait and watch they'll they could look bad and then
Speaker 1: bounce tr it back. And if they don't come back,
Speaker 1: I know a lady up in the Cypress area. Her
Speaker 1: name is Tiffany, and I bet you could get her
Speaker 1: to come over and replant the roses for you. That's
Speaker 1: the least she could do after all that you've done
Speaker 1: for her her whole life. For crying out loud, Diana,
Speaker 1: I hope that he'll listen on the next call. It
Speaker 1: could possibly be like like black spot of black Spot,
Speaker 1: which causes black spots and leaves. The leaves turn yellow
Speaker 1: and fall off.
Speaker 5: You know.
Speaker 1: It could be powdering mildew on the leaves too. Uh,
Speaker 1: you could send me some pictures. I'm going to put
Speaker 1: you on hold and maybe my producer can give you
Speaker 1: an email and we can talk again tomorrow.
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