WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:02.919 You're having a good start to the day. I sure 2 00:00:03.000 --> 00:00:05.960 am looking forward to talking to gardeners. That's my happy place. 3 00:00:06.040 --> 00:00:09.240 So welcome to garden Line. My name is Skip Rictor. 4 00:00:09.240 --> 00:00:11.320 I'm your host, and if you would like to give 5 00:00:11.359 --> 00:00:13.800 me a call to talk about anything related to gardening, 6 00:00:14.279 --> 00:00:15.720 all you have to do is pick up a phone 7 00:00:15.720 --> 00:00:18.440 and I'll seven to one three, two to one two 8 00:00:18.800 --> 00:00:22.120 k t r H seven to one three, two to 9 00:00:22.120 --> 00:00:25.839 one two k t RH. I know we have listeners 10 00:00:25.839 --> 00:00:27.640 who do this, but I just want to remind the 11 00:00:27.679 --> 00:00:30.039 rest of you that if you take your phone and 12 00:00:30.120 --> 00:00:34.000 go to the iHeartMedia app or whatever whatever app you 13 00:00:34.119 --> 00:00:37.399 use for connecting to radio, you can find the garden 14 00:00:37.399 --> 00:00:40.960 Line radio show and just listen to it on your phone. 15 00:00:41.280 --> 00:00:42.960 Some people go out in the garden in the morning, 16 00:00:43.079 --> 00:00:45.119 which is the time to get work done around here, 17 00:00:45.200 --> 00:00:48.799 right especially in the summer, and they just listen on 18 00:00:48.840 --> 00:00:50.520 the phone as they were. Who knows, you might turn 19 00:00:50.560 --> 00:00:52.560 over some kind of bug and need to take a 20 00:00:52.560 --> 00:00:55.200 picture of it and send it to me for identification. 21 00:00:55.719 --> 00:00:58.039 Well here, we're here for that too. We can help 22 00:00:58.280 --> 00:01:01.640 recommend different kinds of plan we can help you diagnose 23 00:01:02.039 --> 00:01:06.280 different diseases and insects, we identify weeds, any kind of 24 00:01:06.359 --> 00:01:09.079 thing like that. We're happy to do it because our 25 00:01:09.120 --> 00:01:11.920 goal is for you to have success. It's as simple 26 00:01:11.920 --> 00:01:17.480 as that I would in terms of how I look 27 00:01:17.519 --> 00:01:19.959 at this exchange between you and I here on the 28 00:01:20.040 --> 00:01:22.200 radio is I'm here to help you have a more 29 00:01:22.239 --> 00:01:26.280 bountiful garden and a more beautiful landscape. That is the goal. 30 00:01:26.519 --> 00:01:29.599 And we were going to turn that thumb green topic 31 00:01:29.640 --> 00:01:33.480 by topic as we continue to cover the various things 32 00:01:33.480 --> 00:01:37.000 that are part of success in gardening here in the southeast, 33 00:01:37.400 --> 00:01:40.280 a greater Houston area and really across a good section 34 00:01:40.359 --> 00:01:42.599 of the state to folks that listen. Done in this 35 00:01:42.840 --> 00:01:48.120 quadrant of the state. I this past week have been 36 00:01:48.159 --> 00:01:52.239 getting ready to head out of town for a little bit. 37 00:01:52.280 --> 00:01:54.439 I'm going to I've got some folks here who can 38 00:01:54.480 --> 00:01:57.000 do my watering of course for me and things. But 39 00:01:58.280 --> 00:02:01.879 there are a number of tips that I'm gonna give 40 00:02:02.680 --> 00:02:06.319 for helping you to maybe make a trip like that. 41 00:02:06.359 --> 00:02:08.919 What do you do when you're trying to get out 42 00:02:08.919 --> 00:02:13.080 of town and you need to, you know, make sure 43 00:02:13.080 --> 00:02:17.919 your plants are taken care of. Well, we're gonna do that. 44 00:02:18.879 --> 00:02:22.120 For example. One thing that I do that just makes 45 00:02:22.159 --> 00:02:24.599 it really easy is I've got a number of different plants. 46 00:02:24.639 --> 00:02:27.520 I've got a couple of gingers, for example, that are 47 00:02:27.560 --> 00:02:32.840 in containers still the garden nursery container, and they just 48 00:02:32.840 --> 00:02:36.840 don't like to get super dry. And so when what 49 00:02:36.919 --> 00:02:39.000 I've done is moved them where they were from where 50 00:02:39.039 --> 00:02:41.520 they were where I could water them every day, to 51 00:02:41.719 --> 00:02:44.400 run the back to a very very bright, shady spot 52 00:02:44.439 --> 00:02:46.360 with a little dapple shade through the day, but not 53 00:02:46.479 --> 00:02:49.400 much more than that, and put them in a big 54 00:02:49.439 --> 00:02:53.680 old washtub, big old galvanized washtub. I put about maybe 55 00:02:53.719 --> 00:02:56.599 two inches or so of water in the bottom, depending 56 00:02:56.599 --> 00:02:58.840 on how far I'm how long it'll be gone away, 57 00:02:59.680 --> 00:03:03.120 and set them in there, and that gives them a 58 00:03:03.159 --> 00:03:07.159 bottom of watering where the water just wicks up into 59 00:03:07.199 --> 00:03:09.759 the plant and keeps them from going into major drop stress. 60 00:03:10.639 --> 00:03:16.400 I also will throw some mosquito granules in. It's a 61 00:03:16.439 --> 00:03:19.919 little area like that's too small for a whole mosquito dunk, 62 00:03:19.919 --> 00:03:21.680 but you can break them apart, put some of the 63 00:03:21.719 --> 00:03:24.439 crumbles in there, and now when the mosquitoes come along, 64 00:03:24.520 --> 00:03:27.439 go oh boy, let's lay eggs in there. Well, you 65 00:03:27.520 --> 00:03:30.719 just have basically a disease of their larvae, then they 66 00:03:30.759 --> 00:03:33.479 cannot take off and succeed. That works really well if 67 00:03:33.520 --> 00:03:35.400 you can have somebody, if you're going to be gone 68 00:03:35.439 --> 00:03:37.840 an extended trip, you could have somebody come by maybe 69 00:03:37.879 --> 00:03:42.759 every four days three days and just check on that 70 00:03:42.840 --> 00:03:44.599 and make sure you get enough water in it. Some 71 00:03:44.639 --> 00:03:47.240 people use a little three foot wide you know kids 72 00:03:47.560 --> 00:03:50.919 waiting pools, those little super cheap plastic things. Those are 73 00:03:50.960 --> 00:03:53.840 great for this. You put the water in there and 74 00:03:53.879 --> 00:03:56.479 you have even a better amount of water. Just think 75 00:03:56.479 --> 00:03:59.039 of it this way. The bigger the reservoir holding that 76 00:03:59.280 --> 00:04:03.360 supplemental water for waking up into the plant, the less 77 00:04:03.400 --> 00:04:05.039 that water is going to drop. You're going to get 78 00:04:05.039 --> 00:04:07.960 evaporation from the surface anyway. But if you have a 79 00:04:07.960 --> 00:04:10.199 big old kiddy waiting pool on little one plant in 80 00:04:10.240 --> 00:04:13.080 the middle, well lasts a long time because that's a 81 00:04:13.080 --> 00:04:15.560 lot of water. They can wake up in there. Anyway. 82 00:04:15.599 --> 00:04:18.519 That's just one tip for when you're going on a trip. 83 00:04:18.560 --> 00:04:22.519 Another one would be to make sure your bird feeders 84 00:04:22.519 --> 00:04:24.720 are filled up, or better yet, get one of the 85 00:04:24.759 --> 00:04:26.839 low bird compact bird cylinders. 86 00:04:26.879 --> 00:04:27.040 You know. 87 00:04:27.040 --> 00:04:32.800 Wild birds has us the compact cylinders of seed, and 88 00:04:33.319 --> 00:04:36.120 those last a longer time because it takes the birds 89 00:04:36.120 --> 00:04:37.920 a little more to peck those seeds out of there. 90 00:04:38.000 --> 00:04:41.759 So a couple of vacation tips there for your plants 91 00:04:42.920 --> 00:04:45.639 or for going on trips. Let's see, we're going to 92 00:04:45.720 --> 00:04:49.839 go now to talk to Abraham. Is this Abraham? 93 00:04:51.120 --> 00:04:55.319 Yes, it is h I'm good. 94 00:04:55.360 --> 00:04:56.079 How can we help? 95 00:04:57.240 --> 00:05:04.240 Yes, sir, I have plants, reaper, turning, gask working and 96 00:05:04.560 --> 00:05:08.639 roast pepper, all three of them. The leaves are small, 97 00:05:08.720 --> 00:05:12.360 they don't grow big, like see a bushy plant, and 98 00:05:12.480 --> 00:05:15.040 they're black and they've been like that all season. I'm 99 00:05:15.040 --> 00:05:19.680 just wondering what I could do to to have it 100 00:05:19.879 --> 00:05:20.879 beautiful plants. 101 00:05:21.040 --> 00:05:26.639 You know, black is in dead black as in like 102 00:05:26.680 --> 00:05:28.279 a mold type looking thing. 103 00:05:29.519 --> 00:05:36.920 Oh okay, okay, gotcha, well U turnovers, go ahead. 104 00:05:38.120 --> 00:05:40.639 I said the leaves are small, they don't grow big, 105 00:05:42.000 --> 00:05:44.240 and this kind of. 106 00:05:45.360 --> 00:05:48.959 All right. Well, the fact that they're not growing large 107 00:05:49.120 --> 00:05:51.759 is definitely assigned. Something's wrong. It could be a virus 108 00:05:52.240 --> 00:05:55.319 in the plant, and which there's no cure for. It 109 00:05:55.439 --> 00:05:57.920 just is what it is. Once a virus gets in, 110 00:05:58.399 --> 00:06:02.040 you can't cure it, so we tend to pull those 111 00:06:02.079 --> 00:06:06.279 plants out and put new ones in. It could also 112 00:06:06.360 --> 00:06:09.319 be related to stresses, you know, as the plant has 113 00:06:09.399 --> 00:06:13.920 various stresses from droughts to whatever, it affects its ability 114 00:06:13.959 --> 00:06:18.680 to put on fresh, large, healthy leaves. When I see 115 00:06:18.680 --> 00:06:22.120 the black, that's now making me think that there's something 116 00:06:22.439 --> 00:06:25.800 that is sucking juices out of either that pepper plant 117 00:06:25.920 --> 00:06:30.279 or some plant above it and then dropping honeydew onto 118 00:06:30.360 --> 00:06:34.759 the foliage which is the black. If you turn leaves 119 00:06:34.800 --> 00:06:38.480 over underneath, you should see you may see aphids, you 120 00:06:38.519 --> 00:06:41.920 may see white flies. Meatia bugs can do that, but 121 00:06:42.000 --> 00:06:44.879 you would have already noticed the white cottony material from them. 122 00:06:45.480 --> 00:06:47.560 But there are a number of little insects that feed 123 00:06:48.040 --> 00:06:51.480 underneath the leaf that can cause that honeydew which causes 124 00:06:51.519 --> 00:06:54.399 the black city mold. As far as the plant health overall, 125 00:06:54.439 --> 00:06:56.360 have you tried giving them a boost of some sort 126 00:06:56.399 --> 00:07:00.279 of liquid fertilizer. 127 00:07:00.360 --> 00:07:01.319 That's what I was gonna try. 128 00:07:01.319 --> 00:07:05.439 And next yeah, yeah, I'll tell you what I would. 129 00:07:06.199 --> 00:07:08.680 I would grab, you know, just to get a kind 130 00:07:08.720 --> 00:07:13.120 of a quicker boost or something like that. There are 131 00:07:13.160 --> 00:07:15.800 some great products out there that do that. Know. Microlife 132 00:07:15.839 --> 00:07:18.839 has a fisher mulsion. They've got a seaweed type product 133 00:07:18.879 --> 00:07:22.199 called Lotion Harvest. And then they've got one that is 134 00:07:22.240 --> 00:07:23.000 a seven. 135 00:07:22.759 --> 00:07:23.399 To one four. 136 00:07:23.639 --> 00:07:28.279 It's the orange label. It's called Biomatrix. It's a little 137 00:07:28.319 --> 00:07:31.439 quart bottle. You shake it up, mix a little in water, 138 00:07:31.639 --> 00:07:34.959 and you put it down in it. It will if 139 00:07:35.000 --> 00:07:38.079 it's gonna If the problem is a nutrient problem, you 140 00:07:38.120 --> 00:07:41.399 should see a pretty quick result from a trying that. 141 00:07:42.199 --> 00:07:44.680 So I think you may have more than one thing 142 00:07:44.720 --> 00:07:49.120 going on. Again, if it were a problem with the virus, 143 00:07:49.199 --> 00:07:52.079 then there's no curing it. If you would like, I 144 00:07:52.120 --> 00:07:58.160 can put you on hold and have my producer pick 145 00:07:58.199 --> 00:08:00.360 it up and give you an email address, and if 146 00:08:00.399 --> 00:08:03.759 you could send me some really good close up photos 147 00:08:04.040 --> 00:08:07.519 of that plant, the foliage, so I can see what 148 00:08:07.560 --> 00:08:10.800 you mean by small leaves or black leaves, and where 149 00:08:10.800 --> 00:08:12.480 it is on the bush and that kind of thing. 150 00:08:12.759 --> 00:08:14.959 Turn over a leaf for two and take a good, 151 00:08:15.240 --> 00:08:17.839 well focused picture of the bottom of the leaf, and 152 00:08:17.920 --> 00:08:20.120 I think I can get better nail it down to 153 00:08:20.199 --> 00:08:24.399 exactly what's going on all right with us today? You know, 154 00:08:24.480 --> 00:08:27.079 we love feed stores here on guard Line. And if 155 00:08:27.120 --> 00:08:30.279 you are up in Tomball, especially out to the west direction, 156 00:08:31.000 --> 00:08:33.519 D and De feed is your hometown feed store. You 157 00:08:33.559 --> 00:08:35.399 just go out twenty nine to twenty and they're right 158 00:08:35.440 --> 00:08:37.080 out there on the left hand side, just a little 159 00:08:37.120 --> 00:08:39.519 bit outside of Tomball. And when you go to D 160 00:08:39.559 --> 00:08:42.039 and D you're going to find ever fertilizer that I 161 00:08:42.080 --> 00:08:43.960 talk about here on guarden Line. So I mean, if 162 00:08:43.960 --> 00:08:47.759 you're interested in getting something that is going to feed 163 00:08:47.799 --> 00:08:50.320 your lawn for any season of the year, you follow 164 00:08:50.360 --> 00:08:53.000 my schedule. You see all the different products on there. 165 00:08:53.320 --> 00:08:56.480 Maybe it's you know, putting up barricade to prevent weeds 166 00:08:56.559 --> 00:09:00.240 or other. They've got it all right there at D 167 00:09:00.399 --> 00:09:04.320 D Feed. Now you'll also find the age leaf mol compost, 168 00:09:04.360 --> 00:09:07.320 an heirloom rose, soil of fruit berry, citrus, and veggie 169 00:09:07.399 --> 00:09:11.399 nerb mixes, all those good mixes from heirloom soils. They've 170 00:09:11.399 --> 00:09:14.399 got those as well. The phone number is two eight 171 00:09:14.480 --> 00:09:18.240 one three five. You need to stop in there. They've 172 00:09:18.240 --> 00:09:21.519 got plants out front too, and inside a lot of 173 00:09:21.600 --> 00:09:24.759 quality feed. If you've got pets, you're going to find many, 174 00:09:24.919 --> 00:09:28.960 many options for very high quality feed for your pets 175 00:09:29.000 --> 00:09:31.639 there at D and D Feed. Just so easy to 176 00:09:31.639 --> 00:09:34.240 get in and out of there. I'm very very convenient 177 00:09:34.240 --> 00:09:38.960 again out on just west to Tomball's head out. Now 178 00:09:39.000 --> 00:09:41.879 we're going to go to Cyprus, Texas and talk to Rick. 179 00:09:42.159 --> 00:09:46.639 Hello Rick, Hello scoop, good morning, and thank you for 180 00:09:46.679 --> 00:09:48.879 taking my call today. 181 00:09:48.960 --> 00:09:52.279 Yes, sir, Well, so I. 182 00:09:52.919 --> 00:09:56.679 Have a question. I just bought a couple of acres 183 00:09:56.720 --> 00:10:01.679 out in kind of the random Chapel Hill area. It's uh, 184 00:10:01.840 --> 00:10:05.399 it's a little south of two ninety in between Chapel 185 00:10:05.440 --> 00:10:10.360 Hill and Brenham. And it's it's kind of a just 186 00:10:10.600 --> 00:10:14.679 a prairie, kind of open rolling hill, kind of peace 187 00:10:14.720 --> 00:10:17.799 of land. And I'm wanting to plant some trees on it, 188 00:10:18.080 --> 00:10:21.720 but I don't know which trees would would do really 189 00:10:21.799 --> 00:10:25.399 well there and that would kind of grow big and 190 00:10:25.399 --> 00:10:27.639 and and in a short period of time. And the 191 00:10:27.679 --> 00:10:30.600 second question is is there a place out in that 192 00:10:30.720 --> 00:10:34.360 direction that you would recommend that could talk to me 193 00:10:34.399 --> 00:10:38.159 about native landscaping and things that would do well in 194 00:10:38.159 --> 00:10:38.720 that area. 195 00:10:40.240 --> 00:10:42.080 Well, I would I would probably head up to Anti 196 00:10:42.120 --> 00:10:44.799 grosenpor Him, which is just in the backyard up there. 197 00:10:44.799 --> 00:10:48.600 It's north of Brenham. Uh, independence area that's pretty close 198 00:10:48.639 --> 00:10:51.240 to you up there. Uh. And they do carry a 199 00:10:51.279 --> 00:10:53.879 lot of native plants and you could visit with them 200 00:10:53.919 --> 00:10:56.879 about it. Uh. You know that you're you're out in 201 00:10:56.960 --> 00:10:59.639 beautiful country. Out there by the way, congratulations on on 202 00:10:59.759 --> 00:11:02.240 the and the property, and but there's just not a 203 00:11:02.240 --> 00:11:05.519 lot of you know, garden centers all over the place 204 00:11:05.600 --> 00:11:07.879 once you get out a little more rural like that. 205 00:11:07.960 --> 00:11:10.200 So Antiq Rose of you a good a good one 206 00:11:10.519 --> 00:11:14.879 to talk to. You know that as you come in 207 00:11:15.000 --> 00:11:18.120 toward the Houston area, we've got a lot of garden 208 00:11:18.159 --> 00:11:21.200 centers that are excellent when it comes to native plants. 209 00:11:21.240 --> 00:11:24.240 And so you hear me talk about those on Guardline 210 00:11:24.279 --> 00:11:25.759 all the time. That's a little bit of a drive 211 00:11:25.799 --> 00:11:29.000 in to do that, but still worth worthwhile. 212 00:11:32.000 --> 00:11:35.360 Okay, what would you recommend tree wise? If I wanted 213 00:11:35.360 --> 00:11:38.879 to plant some trees that were that we're going to 214 00:11:38.919 --> 00:11:41.879 grow and get some shade, and I realized it's not 215 00:11:41.919 --> 00:11:45.399 going to happen overnight, but something that would grow, you know, 216 00:11:46.240 --> 00:11:48.679 a something within the part, you know, within five years 217 00:11:48.799 --> 00:11:51.000 or so, what would you recommend? 218 00:11:52.159 --> 00:11:54.759 Are we talking about trees around the yard out there 219 00:11:54.879 --> 00:11:57.159 or are you talking about trees lining the roadway or 220 00:11:57.200 --> 00:11:59.919 coming in your drive or what what kind of location? 221 00:12:00.039 --> 00:12:00.799 And are you talking. 222 00:12:00.600 --> 00:12:04.639 About, yeah, kind of around the yard area. If I 223 00:12:04.679 --> 00:12:07.519 wanted to put just not like right up against the house, 224 00:12:07.639 --> 00:12:12.200 but you know, just to have some trees around where 225 00:12:12.200 --> 00:12:14.879 the yard is gonna be right. 226 00:12:15.320 --> 00:12:17.840 Well, there's a couple of there's a number of great 227 00:12:17.879 --> 00:12:19.519 trees that could be done for that. Now, if you've 228 00:12:19.519 --> 00:12:21.440 got an area that can be a little on the 229 00:12:21.519 --> 00:12:24.360 droughty side, which it sounds like in your yard, that's 230 00:12:24.559 --> 00:12:27.279 not going to need to be the case, but droughty 231 00:12:27.360 --> 00:12:29.720 type trees. The cedar elm is a good native elm 232 00:12:29.759 --> 00:12:34.720 that does very well out in that area. That's one 233 00:12:34.759 --> 00:12:36.960 that a lot of people like and go to. If 234 00:12:37.000 --> 00:12:38.960 you've got some things you can put a little water 235 00:12:39.039 --> 00:12:42.399 on as you need it. Red oaks there is a 236 00:12:42.720 --> 00:12:46.159 red oak called nuttall and u T t a l 237 00:12:46.480 --> 00:12:50.720 or Schumart s h u m a r d. Both 238 00:12:50.759 --> 00:12:52.879 of those red oaks will do very well. They get 239 00:12:52.919 --> 00:12:55.440 a good growth rate if you water them and fertilize 240 00:12:55.480 --> 00:12:58.840 them and keep the weeds away when they're young, let 241 00:12:58.879 --> 00:13:01.879 them have a mulched area around them. Those two would 242 00:13:01.919 --> 00:13:05.840 be good and then they're you know, just there's just 243 00:13:05.919 --> 00:13:09.080 so many other good trees. There's several different types of 244 00:13:09.120 --> 00:13:12.399 elms that are are quality, and a couple of that 245 00:13:12.519 --> 00:13:14.879 are pretty easy to find. Like I mentioned, the seat 246 00:13:14.919 --> 00:13:19.679 around the lace bark elm or Chinese elm is another 247 00:13:19.759 --> 00:13:23.799 name for it. That is another decent tree. I would 248 00:13:23.840 --> 00:13:25.720 recommend on all these. You go online, take a look 249 00:13:25.759 --> 00:13:27.639 at pictures and see if that's what you like to 250 00:13:27.679 --> 00:13:30.399 look at. And we're talking about big shade trees, right, 251 00:13:30.519 --> 00:13:32.120 not not smaller trees. 252 00:13:33.080 --> 00:13:33.360 Yeah. 253 00:13:33.480 --> 00:13:35.600 Yeah, you know, a couple of big a couple of 254 00:13:35.600 --> 00:13:38.080 big shade trees. And then maybe some trees that give 255 00:13:38.200 --> 00:13:41.679 some color you know as well that aren't so big. 256 00:13:41.720 --> 00:13:45.000 Maybe some kind of mix, you know, some ornamental type. 257 00:13:45.159 --> 00:13:49.440 Okay, yeah, so out in the sun. You know, great 258 00:13:49.519 --> 00:13:53.000 myrtles or are a good choice. We still use them 259 00:13:53.000 --> 00:13:55.039 a lot around here. And there's crapes that will get 260 00:13:55.120 --> 00:13:58.120 up thirty feet tall if you like them that. I 261 00:13:58.279 --> 00:14:01.360 like the one Natches, which has white blooms, but it 262 00:14:01.399 --> 00:14:04.360 has a beautiful cinnamon colored bark, and it gets quite large. 263 00:14:04.399 --> 00:14:06.799 You could even prune it or purchase it as a 264 00:14:06.840 --> 00:14:11.080 single trunk tree and continue to maintain that form. So 265 00:14:11.200 --> 00:14:13.720 it's not like the three stems coming out of the 266 00:14:14.000 --> 00:14:17.120 ground typical krape myrtle bush, but it's more of a 267 00:14:17.159 --> 00:14:21.519 trained up into a tree like farm Chinese fringe. Fringe 268 00:14:21.559 --> 00:14:25.039 tree has white blooms in the spring, shaggy white blooms 269 00:14:25.039 --> 00:14:28.279 and a nice little pleasant honey like fragrance to the blooms. 270 00:14:28.759 --> 00:14:33.159 That would be another good one. Vitex is a blue 271 00:14:33.519 --> 00:14:38.519 typically blue, dark blue to purple flowering plant that makes 272 00:14:38.600 --> 00:14:41.600 more of a multi stem shrub, but it will it's 273 00:14:41.679 --> 00:14:44.480 almost impossible to make it cooperate and turn into a 274 00:14:44.519 --> 00:14:47.879 tree form, but that would be an option. And then 275 00:14:47.919 --> 00:14:50.159 there's some others that are a little more touching go 276 00:14:50.399 --> 00:14:53.320 like red bud. They kind of prefer to be understory. 277 00:14:53.360 --> 00:14:56.080 Although they can grow in full sun. You just have 278 00:14:56.159 --> 00:14:58.320 to keep them watered so they don't get stressed. And 279 00:14:58.360 --> 00:15:02.240 some of those have kind of burgundy like foliage instead 280 00:15:02.240 --> 00:15:02.919 of just green. 281 00:15:05.000 --> 00:15:07.679 All right, well that's been really helpful. Thank you so much. 282 00:15:08.039 --> 00:15:09.320 I appreciate all your all. 283 00:15:09.240 --> 00:15:12.600 Your help with that, you bet. Well that's the quick answer. 284 00:15:12.679 --> 00:15:14.399 Now you know, there's one hundred trees we could be 285 00:15:14.440 --> 00:15:16.080 talking about on here. We take the rest of the 286 00:15:16.120 --> 00:15:20.639 show just to talk trees. But that helps you, all right, 287 00:15:20.799 --> 00:15:25.200 Thank you, thank you very much, Thank you pie, you bet. 288 00:15:25.799 --> 00:15:27.720 I'd like to give us a call seven one three 289 00:15:27.840 --> 00:15:31.399 two one two fifty eight seventy four. You hear me 290 00:15:31.440 --> 00:15:34.200 talk about night foss products all the time because there's 291 00:15:34.279 --> 00:15:38.399 a lot of high quality night foss products there. Summer 292 00:15:40.320 --> 00:15:45.919 regimen is basically focuses on the silver bag. It's called 293 00:15:45.919 --> 00:15:48.639 super turf by the way, and super turf gives you 294 00:15:48.720 --> 00:15:51.840 gradual release of nutrients over time and you can still 295 00:15:51.879 --> 00:15:55.960 put that out now. It will prevent that flush of 296 00:15:56.080 --> 00:16:00.279 growth that an immediate release fertilizer can cause, which means 297 00:16:00.320 --> 00:16:04.159 you're mowing a lot more and you're essentially having the 298 00:16:04.279 --> 00:16:06.679 water to kind of keep up with that because excessive 299 00:16:06.759 --> 00:16:09.799 nitrogen is not a good thing. But super turf takes 300 00:16:09.840 --> 00:16:12.759 that nitrogen and it spreads it out slowly over time. 301 00:16:12.840 --> 00:16:14.919 It's as if you're going out there every day giving 302 00:16:14.960 --> 00:16:17.519 a little bite d That's kind of what it amounts to. 303 00:16:17.919 --> 00:16:20.519 Super Turf's available in many different places. You go out 304 00:16:20.519 --> 00:16:23.480 to Katie Ace Hardware on Pinook, You're going to find 305 00:16:23.519 --> 00:16:25.480 it there. You're going to find it at Ace Hardware 306 00:16:25.519 --> 00:16:28.720 City or Memorial Drive in Houston. You can find super 307 00:16:28.720 --> 00:16:32.399 Turf at Stanton Shopping Center, North Taylor and Alvin as well. 308 00:16:32.679 --> 00:16:35.720 Super Turf just one of mini quality products from the 309 00:16:35.720 --> 00:16:42.399 folks at Nitrophiles. I was getting my plants ready for vacation, 310 00:16:42.559 --> 00:16:46.639 as I talked about a little bit earlier, and one 311 00:16:46.720 --> 00:16:49.840 of the things that I noticed, you know, I tend 312 00:16:49.840 --> 00:16:51.759 to go out and find these plants I just can't 313 00:16:51.799 --> 00:16:53.559 live without, and I buy them and I bring them home, 314 00:16:54.320 --> 00:16:57.679 and then I do what I tell you not to do, 315 00:16:57.919 --> 00:16:59.960 you know, buy the plant, bring it home, and there's 316 00:17:00.080 --> 00:17:02.600 no place to put it. Because remember brown stuff comes 317 00:17:02.639 --> 00:17:07.640 before green stuff, meaning the soil at its peak quality 318 00:17:07.920 --> 00:17:11.279 is your first goal, first goal, because then you put 319 00:17:11.319 --> 00:17:13.880 the plan in and you're going to have long term success. 320 00:17:14.759 --> 00:17:17.079 The other way around, bring it home and PLoP it 321 00:17:17.119 --> 00:17:20.839 into an unprepared plot is not a plan for success, 322 00:17:20.960 --> 00:17:23.720 and it's just an excuse for a lot of painful 323 00:17:23.759 --> 00:17:26.559 watching that plant not thrive and maybe even having to 324 00:17:26.559 --> 00:17:29.200 buy another one. So anyway, I've got some plants that 325 00:17:29.240 --> 00:17:31.440 are sitting in pots getting watered by me every day, 326 00:17:31.519 --> 00:17:33.599 So instead of the garden center having to water them 327 00:17:33.599 --> 00:17:37.559 every day, I'm watering them every day. And so I've 328 00:17:37.599 --> 00:17:39.880 got some soil prep that I'm trying to get done, 329 00:17:40.000 --> 00:17:42.960 because you know, it is important to get it right, 330 00:17:43.440 --> 00:17:47.839 and soil prep means can mean different things depending on 331 00:17:48.039 --> 00:17:51.960 the soil you're dealing with pretty much any soil needs 332 00:17:52.160 --> 00:17:56.480 organic matter, decomposed organic matter. We call that compost. That's 333 00:17:56.559 --> 00:18:00.000 what that's organic matter that we have decomposed on purpose 334 00:18:00.680 --> 00:18:04.200 to put into the soil. When you add compost to 335 00:18:04.240 --> 00:18:07.960 a clay, it takes that heavy clay that is dense 336 00:18:08.039 --> 00:18:10.519 and air and water can hardly move through it at all, 337 00:18:11.160 --> 00:18:16.480 and it loosens it up and creates clumps of soil particles, 338 00:18:16.599 --> 00:18:20.319 so there's airspace that can now flow through. The analogy 339 00:18:20.359 --> 00:18:23.160 I use for that is like a bowl of popcorn. 340 00:18:23.559 --> 00:18:25.680 So a bowl of popcorn, you know, you've got all 341 00:18:25.680 --> 00:18:30.160 these clumpy looking individual things, but there's airspace in between them, 342 00:18:30.279 --> 00:18:32.880 and that's that is building the soil. That's done with 343 00:18:33.000 --> 00:18:36.200 organic matter. It can also be done with expanded shale. 344 00:18:36.319 --> 00:18:40.279 Expanded shale lasts a long time. Think of it as 345 00:18:40.480 --> 00:18:43.200 just remember the old gray kitty litter. Think of that, 346 00:18:43.400 --> 00:18:46.720 but imagine it getting fired to a super hot, super 347 00:18:46.960 --> 00:18:50.960 hot hot level with steam that causes those particles to 348 00:18:51.000 --> 00:18:54.839 expand and sort of turn into Swiss cheese that mixed 349 00:18:54.839 --> 00:18:57.000 into your soil at about three inches takes a lot 350 00:18:57.039 --> 00:18:58.720 of it to make a difference in a clay, but 351 00:18:58.799 --> 00:19:02.160 about three inches mixed in will make a huge difference 352 00:19:02.160 --> 00:19:03.960 in a clay, or you can do small amounts over 353 00:19:04.039 --> 00:19:06.160 time as well. Well, it's time for me to take 354 00:19:06.160 --> 00:19:08.000 a break. I'm going to shut up right now and 355 00:19:08.039 --> 00:19:10.200 I'll be right back in a minute with your calls 356 00:19:10.240 --> 00:19:13.440 at seven one three, two, one two, five eight seven four. 357 00:19:15.119 --> 00:19:18.400 Welcome back, Welcome back to garden LINEA glad to have 358 00:19:18.440 --> 00:19:21.000 you listening on a Saturday morning. It's going to be 359 00:19:21.039 --> 00:19:23.240 a good day. I'm looking forward to getting out today 360 00:19:23.680 --> 00:19:26.440 after the show and getting some things done. You know 361 00:19:26.480 --> 00:19:28.519 what they say, have you ever heard the turn the 362 00:19:28.519 --> 00:19:34.039 cobblers' kids go barefoot? Well, sometimes I'm glad you can't 363 00:19:34.039 --> 00:19:37.319 see my yard. There's certain times when I'm traveling. I 364 00:19:37.400 --> 00:19:40.839 was out at the Texas Nursery and Landscape Association this 365 00:19:40.920 --> 00:19:44.240 past week, their convention in San Antonio. Man, was that 366 00:19:44.279 --> 00:19:47.680 ever a great convention. Saw a lot of good folks there, 367 00:19:48.359 --> 00:19:50.559 just the ioids and I go into that. But when 368 00:19:50.559 --> 00:19:52.160 I go away, and then when I sit in here 369 00:19:52.200 --> 00:19:54.759 and talk to you about gardening, I'm not outside taking 370 00:19:54.759 --> 00:19:57.119 care of my own. So I'm really love catching up 371 00:19:57.119 --> 00:20:00.200 to do. But I can do that. That's okay, my 372 00:20:01.240 --> 00:20:05.920 okra patch right now is looking great. It is. You know, 373 00:20:06.000 --> 00:20:09.720 Okra loves this weather. The more miserable you are outside 374 00:20:09.799 --> 00:20:12.920 in summer, the happier Okra seems to be. It can 375 00:20:12.960 --> 00:20:16.000 take hot, it can take humid. It's from It's from Africa, 376 00:20:16.319 --> 00:20:19.279 basically a portion of Africa up and kind of in 377 00:20:19.319 --> 00:20:24.400 the direction up toward I don't know, middle Eastern area, 378 00:20:24.519 --> 00:20:26.839 you know, kind of through there. And in fact, they've 379 00:20:26.839 --> 00:20:32.319 debated whether India, Africa where exactly did okra originate. But 380 00:20:32.359 --> 00:20:35.920 the bottom line is it loves Houston, it loves out 381 00:20:35.960 --> 00:20:40.240 East Texas. It is very happy in the South in general, hot, humid, 382 00:20:40.440 --> 00:20:43.680 that's its happy place. Got something going on because I 383 00:20:43.759 --> 00:20:46.319 was gone. I had something that kind of got past prime. 384 00:20:46.400 --> 00:20:48.680 And you know, with okra, you don't want to let 385 00:20:48.680 --> 00:20:53.160 those things get past prime. Some some cultures pick okra. 386 00:20:53.319 --> 00:20:57.759 It's small, small sizes. In Turkey, they pick it when 387 00:20:57.799 --> 00:21:02.160 it's like a inch inch and a half long and 388 00:21:02.279 --> 00:21:04.839 dry it and put it on strings and then that 389 00:21:05.000 --> 00:21:06.680 string just think of it like a big old mop, 390 00:21:06.720 --> 00:21:08.559 you know, with all the strands of a mop. They 391 00:21:08.559 --> 00:21:10.640 just put it in a soup pot and cook the 392 00:21:10.680 --> 00:21:14.599 ochre that way. It's like it's like a tea bag 393 00:21:14.640 --> 00:21:17.839 and tea bag making tea or something. But first time 394 00:21:17.880 --> 00:21:19.880 I saw that is amazing. I've got a little package 395 00:21:19.880 --> 00:21:22.960 of that. But we tend to pick it a little longer, 396 00:21:22.960 --> 00:21:26.039 when it's maybe three inches four inches long somewhere in there. 397 00:21:26.759 --> 00:21:29.279 In general, some ocres can go a little longer. Some 398 00:21:29.359 --> 00:21:31.359 don't go as far. But I'll tell you this, when 399 00:21:31.400 --> 00:21:36.200 you go too far, it is woody, it's got the 400 00:21:36.240 --> 00:21:39.240 fibers in it. It is no longer a succulent little 401 00:21:40.119 --> 00:21:45.000 something you want to eat. Just a point about that also, though, 402 00:21:45.440 --> 00:21:48.440 is when you're harvesting okre, if you'll bend the pod, 403 00:21:48.559 --> 00:21:51.680 if it snaps cleanly in two with no low fibers 404 00:21:51.720 --> 00:21:54.799 hanging on, that's one sign that it's still at a 405 00:21:54.839 --> 00:21:57.799 good tender. And remember it's not the size that the 406 00:21:57.839 --> 00:22:01.240 pod achieves. It determines whether or not it's tough for 407 00:22:01.359 --> 00:22:05.079 woody or tender. It's honey days since bloom, So basically 408 00:22:05.160 --> 00:22:07.200 when you get about three or four days past bloom, 409 00:22:08.559 --> 00:22:12.000 that ocre should be in your kitchen by that time. 410 00:22:12.839 --> 00:22:15.880 Sometimes you have little pods just the plant's stress. They're 411 00:22:15.920 --> 00:22:17.359 not growing very fast, and you go, oh, well, that's 412 00:22:17.359 --> 00:22:19.960 small enough. No, it's not this, it's not how long 413 00:22:20.039 --> 00:22:23.160 does that pod reach? It's it's honey days pass blooe. 414 00:22:23.160 --> 00:22:25.640 That's your tender. All right, let's go. We're gonna head 415 00:22:25.759 --> 00:22:28.680 straight out to Spring, Texas and talk to Phil. 416 00:22:28.720 --> 00:22:33.839 Hey, Phil, morning skit. I've got a large morning lovel 417 00:22:34.119 --> 00:22:38.799 It's about thirty five feet tall. And during the hurricane, 418 00:22:38.920 --> 00:22:42.200 I lost a couple of fairly large branches, so it 419 00:22:42.319 --> 00:22:46.079 started dropping leaves and the blooms aren't chilling out stuff 420 00:22:46.119 --> 00:22:47.440 like that. Is that pretty normal? 421 00:22:50.079 --> 00:22:50.200 Uh? 422 00:22:50.759 --> 00:22:54.799 Well, drought itself can cause leaf drop when it goes 423 00:22:54.799 --> 00:22:56.759 through periods that are hot and dry, and we're kind 424 00:22:56.759 --> 00:22:59.440 of in one now, although I would say it hadn't 425 00:22:59.480 --> 00:23:02.400 been hot right long enough to be where we'd worry 426 00:23:02.400 --> 00:23:05.440 about drought stress on a krapmer. But that could be 427 00:23:05.480 --> 00:23:07.200 a factor to it, you know, the damage that it 428 00:23:07.240 --> 00:23:10.960 went through could be a factor in summertime. Unless you 429 00:23:10.960 --> 00:23:12.680 give them a lot of water, they can they can 430 00:23:12.720 --> 00:23:15.799 start to kind of look like you're describing. 431 00:23:17.039 --> 00:23:18.640 Well years ago. 432 00:23:18.720 --> 00:23:22.200 I say it. I'm sorry. Let me just say when 433 00:23:22.200 --> 00:23:23.759 I say a lot of water, I don't mean your 434 00:23:23.759 --> 00:23:25.799 water in them every day. I mean that they just 435 00:23:25.839 --> 00:23:28.799 have a constant adequate supply of moisture as opposed to 436 00:23:28.880 --> 00:23:31.480 being allowed to go a love droughty. But go ahead. 437 00:23:32.400 --> 00:23:36.359 So they're in the irrigation system, which runs two times 438 00:23:36.359 --> 00:23:39.559 a week. So what I was going to mention is 439 00:23:39.599 --> 00:23:41.839 that a few years ago I made the mistake of 440 00:23:42.000 --> 00:23:45.000 printing a thing during the summer and take some large 441 00:23:46.920 --> 00:23:50.240 a couple of not real big lands, but fairly large, 442 00:23:50.480 --> 00:23:53.319 and it did the same thing. Start, dropped off sleeves 443 00:23:53.359 --> 00:23:56.200 and went into high renation sort of, and they came 444 00:23:56.240 --> 00:23:57.119 back the next year. 445 00:23:58.799 --> 00:24:04.559 I've never heard about ruining causing that, so I I 446 00:24:04.559 --> 00:24:07.319 don't think that's the I don't think that's a pruning thing, 447 00:24:07.519 --> 00:24:10.319 even though it seems to be associated with it when 448 00:24:10.359 --> 00:24:11.440 you've done it in the past. 449 00:24:13.200 --> 00:24:16.200 Okay, well, my question really is is should I go 450 00:24:16.240 --> 00:24:19.160 ahead and fertilize this now, which I would usually do. 451 00:24:21.119 --> 00:24:23.960 You could do that, you sure could. It's it. Uh, 452 00:24:24.799 --> 00:24:26.480 you know, it's not going to hurt the planet at all. 453 00:24:26.640 --> 00:24:30.480 And if you're lacking nutrients, that is helpful. Typically in 454 00:24:30.519 --> 00:24:32.839 the summer, what we're lacking is water. That's the thing 455 00:24:32.880 --> 00:24:36.079 we're worried about, uh, and not so much nutrients. But 456 00:24:36.160 --> 00:24:39.519 you can provide a little bit of fertilizer. There's some 457 00:24:39.759 --> 00:24:44.599 you know, good quality products out there that are designed 458 00:24:44.839 --> 00:24:48.839 specifically to make uh with the ratios and stuff that 459 00:24:48.839 --> 00:24:49.960 would do best for trees. 460 00:24:51.119 --> 00:24:51.240 Right. 461 00:24:51.359 --> 00:24:55.039 Well, let me let me make one comment about watering film. 462 00:24:55.480 --> 00:24:58.319 If you're watering three times a week, that would be 463 00:24:58.400 --> 00:25:01.839 too often. If you you give a kripe myrtle a 464 00:25:01.960 --> 00:25:05.440 good inch inch and a half of water once a week, 465 00:25:05.680 --> 00:25:08.599 that is that should be more than enough, because we're 466 00:25:08.640 --> 00:25:10.920 going to wet the soil really deeply and then let 467 00:25:10.960 --> 00:25:14.480 it dry out really well, instead of building a very 468 00:25:14.720 --> 00:25:18.759 shallow root system with those frequent little squirts of water 469 00:25:19.240 --> 00:25:22.839 right at the surface that are not soaking as far in. 470 00:25:23.079 --> 00:25:26.079 So you might want to gradually move from three times 471 00:25:26.079 --> 00:25:28.720 a week toward once a week by applying a little 472 00:25:28.720 --> 00:25:30.160 more water when you apply it. 473 00:25:31.640 --> 00:25:35.920 Okay, all right, well I'll do that, all right, thank you, Buch. 474 00:25:36.039 --> 00:25:41.720 All right, yes, sir, take care. I've been talking about 475 00:25:41.759 --> 00:25:45.759 this weed wiper that I put online. I talk about 476 00:25:45.799 --> 00:25:48.000 the last couple of weekends, I believe. But if you 477 00:25:48.000 --> 00:25:50.160 haven't heard it yet or seen it yet, you need 478 00:25:50.200 --> 00:25:53.359 to go online to my website Gardening with Skip dot com. 479 00:25:53.400 --> 00:25:56.960 Gardening with Skip dot Com. There's also two articles on 480 00:25:57.160 --> 00:25:59.720 nuts Edge there that I think you will find to 481 00:25:59.759 --> 00:26:03.319 be very very helpful, especially the in depth one which 482 00:26:03.319 --> 00:26:06.519 helps you understand what you're up against and how to 483 00:26:06.799 --> 00:26:08.839 what do they say, know your enemy. You've got to 484 00:26:08.960 --> 00:26:11.400 understand how that little creature works so that you can 485 00:26:11.480 --> 00:26:17.880 provide good protection for it. Hey, that weed wiper. Questions 486 00:26:17.880 --> 00:26:20.119 have come in, Where do I get that little thing 487 00:26:20.200 --> 00:26:23.920 with the section cops. Well, they're pretty widely available. I'll 488 00:26:23.920 --> 00:26:25.240 tell you where I know you can get them. As 489 00:26:25.319 --> 00:26:29.680 a Southwest fertilizer. Bob's got those in stock over there now, 490 00:26:29.680 --> 00:26:31.640 and I say that if you'll do a run on it. 491 00:26:31.720 --> 00:26:34.119 The next person that shows up you may say it's 492 00:26:34.160 --> 00:26:38.519 on order, but seriously, Bob has everything at Southwest Fertilizer, 493 00:26:38.559 --> 00:26:42.480 every fertilizer. I talk about every product you could possibly 494 00:26:42.519 --> 00:26:50.720 need for insects, diseases, weeds, fertilizing, supplementing plants. They're all there, organic, synthetic, 495 00:26:51.000 --> 00:26:55.519 the tools, everything you need, like the little device that 496 00:26:55.640 --> 00:26:57.799 you would make your own homemade weed wiper. And go 497 00:26:57.880 --> 00:26:59.880 to Gardening with Skip dot com and see what that 498 00:27:00.079 --> 00:27:03.039 looks like and then swing by Southwest fertilizer corner of 499 00:27:03.119 --> 00:27:06.519 Bis and Nut and Runwick in southwest Houston. Well, I 500 00:27:06.519 --> 00:27:08.559 believe it's time for me to take a little break. 501 00:27:08.799 --> 00:27:11.640 When we come back, Alex, you'll be our first up. 502 00:27:14.559 --> 00:27:18.319 I was talking with Ty Strickland. He's the guy that 503 00:27:18.400 --> 00:27:21.759 owns fixed my slab foundation repair. Oh, I guess it 504 00:27:21.799 --> 00:27:24.160 is about week and a half, two weeks ago, I believe, 505 00:27:24.519 --> 00:27:26.920 And I'm just asking him some questions. One of my 506 00:27:27.000 --> 00:27:31.400 daughters is building or purchasing a house over in another 507 00:27:31.400 --> 00:27:34.400 part of the state, and there were some issues on 508 00:27:34.440 --> 00:27:37.240 the foundation. And I'm telling you that Ty knows it all. 509 00:27:37.720 --> 00:27:39.400 He has been doing well. He's been doing it for 510 00:27:39.400 --> 00:27:42.039 twenty three years in the Greater Houston area. And you know, 511 00:27:42.079 --> 00:27:45.000 when it rains, these soils, these clays here in Houston, 512 00:27:45.039 --> 00:27:47.920 they swell up real big and then when it gets dry, 513 00:27:47.960 --> 00:27:49.839 they shrink up. That's where you get the big cracks 514 00:27:49.880 --> 00:27:52.440 in the backyard and a heavy clay soil. Well, when 515 00:27:52.480 --> 00:27:56.759 that happens, it wrecks havoc on foundations and driveways and sidewalks. 516 00:27:57.279 --> 00:27:59.839 Ty knows how to go in do an accurate assessment, 517 00:28:00.079 --> 00:28:02.759 tell you exactly what's going on and whether you need 518 00:28:03.480 --> 00:28:05.240 it to be fixed or not. I'm telling you he 519 00:28:05.359 --> 00:28:07.400 is not just out there. Every time he shows up 520 00:28:07.400 --> 00:28:09.799 he tells someone they have to hire him to fix something. 521 00:28:10.279 --> 00:28:13.119 An honest fella, and he I was talking to him. 522 00:28:13.160 --> 00:28:15.519 He says, you know, if if it hasn't changed more 523 00:28:15.559 --> 00:28:18.640 than certain such and such amount, then you don't need 524 00:28:18.680 --> 00:28:20.279 to mess with it. It's not worth going in to 525 00:28:20.319 --> 00:28:22.599 mess with And he'll do that. You call him, You 526 00:28:22.640 --> 00:28:25.119 tell him that you're a guardline listener. First of all, 527 00:28:25.119 --> 00:28:27.319 that's going to get you a free estimate. Uh So, 528 00:28:27.359 --> 00:28:29.440 if you see cracks in your brick, cracks in your 529 00:28:29.440 --> 00:28:31.880 sheet rock, if you see doors that if you have 530 00:28:31.960 --> 00:28:34.119 doors that are sticking that used to you know, open 531 00:28:34.160 --> 00:28:38.079 and close real easily, all signs of potential foundation repair. 532 00:28:38.480 --> 00:28:40.440 Don't put it off. Go ahead and give him a call. 533 00:28:40.680 --> 00:28:43.799 Two eight one two five five forty nine forty nine 534 00:28:43.839 --> 00:28:47.880 two eight one two five five four nine four nine 535 00:28:48.279 --> 00:28:52.000 fixmslab dot com. When you call tie and fix my slab, 536 00:28:52.359 --> 00:28:54.960 you know they're going to show up on time. You 537 00:28:55.000 --> 00:28:56.759 know they're going to give you a fair price, and 538 00:28:56.799 --> 00:28:58.920 you know that when they fix it, it's fixed. Right. 539 00:28:59.240 --> 00:29:04.319 That is important. Let's head out to Richmond. Texas and 540 00:29:04.359 --> 00:29:10.279 talk to Alex. Hello, Alex, thanks you are you? I'm good, sir. 541 00:29:10.279 --> 00:29:12.240 How can we help? Hey? 542 00:29:12.240 --> 00:29:18.920 So, I've been a Virginia buttonweed infestation. Obviously the pre 543 00:29:19.000 --> 00:29:22.960 emergent doesn't do anything for it. And with the temperatures 544 00:29:22.960 --> 00:29:26.160 where they're right now, is there anything that's spray on it? 545 00:29:26.200 --> 00:29:29.920 Is it in St? Augustine? Yes, sir? Is your long? 546 00:29:30.079 --> 00:29:34.519 You're long? Okay? The best option you've got is called Celsius. 547 00:29:34.680 --> 00:29:39.440 It's not cheap, but it is effective and it will 548 00:29:39.480 --> 00:29:46.799 work very, very well as far as temperatures. It can 549 00:29:46.839 --> 00:29:50.359 go up above ninety, whereas the others once you get 550 00:29:50.359 --> 00:29:52.680 in the upper eighties and you cross ninety, it's like 551 00:29:53.240 --> 00:29:56.640 you may not want to do that, but this one can. Now, 552 00:29:56.680 --> 00:29:58.880 I wouldn't go outside on a ninety five degree day 553 00:29:58.880 --> 00:30:01.400 with a sun bacon down right right. Then I'd get 554 00:30:01.440 --> 00:30:03.640 up early in the morning and do it while we 555 00:30:03.680 --> 00:30:05.359 still have as cool as we're going to be, which 556 00:30:05.400 --> 00:30:08.480 is about eighty degrees around here, first thing in the morning, 557 00:30:08.839 --> 00:30:11.279 and so go ahead and do it at that time. 558 00:30:11.319 --> 00:30:14.680 But it is effective. However, Virginia button weed is a 559 00:30:14.720 --> 00:30:16.640 tough one and it's going to take more than one 560 00:30:16.680 --> 00:30:20.960 application most likely, so read the Celsius label carefully. You 561 00:30:21.039 --> 00:30:23.359 may have to come back a little bit later in 562 00:30:23.400 --> 00:30:26.880 the season and hit it again. Very importantly. We'll be 563 00:30:27.000 --> 00:30:31.079 next spring when you're first seeing the good growth on 564 00:30:31.200 --> 00:30:33.759 Virginia button weed. It temperature is a little bit cooler 565 00:30:33.759 --> 00:30:36.160 at that time, and that will be the time to 566 00:30:36.240 --> 00:30:39.400 start next year. You have more effective results than you 567 00:30:39.480 --> 00:30:42.000 will typically trying to hit it in the middle of summer. 568 00:30:44.039 --> 00:30:46.400 All right, I'll find some Celsius they need to order 569 00:30:46.440 --> 00:30:47.799 online or will the garden center se it. 570 00:30:49.400 --> 00:30:50.759 You're going to find that as the gardens that you 571 00:30:50.839 --> 00:30:54.160 find it. ACE Hardware stores probably too. If you're out 572 00:30:54.200 --> 00:30:57.680 there in Richmond Rosenberg area, you've got the plantation ACE. 573 00:30:57.720 --> 00:30:59.440 It's not too far away from you out there, and 574 00:30:59.480 --> 00:31:02.000 there's some there's a you can got ACE Hardware dot 575 00:31:02.039 --> 00:31:05.359 Com and find the store locator if you don't already 576 00:31:05.359 --> 00:31:08.039 know where your aces are out in that year. Also 577 00:31:08.160 --> 00:31:11.480 coming in from you, you come into Southwest Fertilizer Business 578 00:31:11.559 --> 00:31:13.279 and Renwick and they're going to add to you there. 579 00:31:15.920 --> 00:31:18.559 All right, skipe, I appreciate it, all. 580 00:31:18.519 --> 00:31:23.119 Right, you take care. Appreciate call very much. Yeah, I 581 00:31:23.119 --> 00:31:26.640 feel like I'm becoming a broken record on Celsius. It's 582 00:31:26.720 --> 00:31:30.000 not the only product out there that you need to 583 00:31:30.119 --> 00:31:33.000 use for weed control. There's a lot of good products, 584 00:31:33.039 --> 00:31:35.839 but I tell you, once we hit the summertime, a 585 00:31:35.920 --> 00:31:39.119 lot of the things, the Trimex and whatnot, the two forty's, 586 00:31:39.359 --> 00:31:41.759 all those kinds of mixes and stuff that are in 587 00:31:41.920 --> 00:31:45.000 various products. It's just too hard on your Saint Augustine 588 00:31:45.160 --> 00:31:48.519 when it's hot. And the last thing we need is 589 00:31:48.559 --> 00:31:51.279 to stress our Saint Augustine trying to kill a weed 590 00:31:51.640 --> 00:31:54.079 and then end up will take our root rot infecting 591 00:31:54.079 --> 00:31:56.359 it because it got stressed and weakened. And that's how 592 00:31:56.400 --> 00:32:02.359 it works. Plants in some ways are like people in 593 00:32:02.400 --> 00:32:05.680 that if you don't take care of your body and 594 00:32:05.759 --> 00:32:08.920 you don't eat right, and you don't sleep enough, you know, 595 00:32:08.960 --> 00:32:12.039 and on and on, you don't exercise at all, you're 596 00:32:12.039 --> 00:32:14.400 more likely to get sick. It doesn't mean it will 597 00:32:14.480 --> 00:32:16.559 get sick and you won't. You can't get sick if 598 00:32:16.559 --> 00:32:19.680 you're healthy. It just means you're more likely to. And 599 00:32:19.720 --> 00:32:23.440 there are diseases that are opportunists that they jump onto 600 00:32:23.599 --> 00:32:27.200 a weak patient and they're able to move in and 601 00:32:27.319 --> 00:32:30.359 take over and take all root rot on Saint Augustine. 602 00:32:30.559 --> 00:32:33.279 Is that kind of disease. You can have a perfectly 603 00:32:33.319 --> 00:32:36.400 healthy lawn, you go through some drought stress, you apply 604 00:32:36.559 --> 00:32:39.680 a herbicide that is not okay to use in the summertime. 605 00:32:39.720 --> 00:32:42.200 It weakens your grass and all of a sudden, take 606 00:32:42.240 --> 00:32:44.400 all it shows up. Where did it come from? It 607 00:32:44.440 --> 00:32:48.799 was there? What had happened? The patient got weak and 608 00:32:48.839 --> 00:32:53.359 the disease moved in. The hypoxylan canker on trees causes 609 00:32:53.359 --> 00:32:56.160 the bark to fall off and kills trees. Same kind 610 00:32:56.200 --> 00:33:00.640 of organism we call those opportunists. I mentioned Ace Hardware, 611 00:33:00.720 --> 00:33:05.880 the plantation Ace down there in the Richmond Rosenberg area. 612 00:33:05.920 --> 00:33:09.519 There's Ace Hardware's all over. Just go to Acehardware dot 613 00:33:09.519 --> 00:33:13.279 com and you'll find the one near you. Congratulations to 614 00:33:13.359 --> 00:33:16.480 the folks out at Langham Creek Ace Hardware. Now that's 615 00:33:16.519 --> 00:33:19.680 on five twenty nine in Cypress. It's the intersection of 616 00:33:19.759 --> 00:33:23.400 Barker Cypress in five twenty nine, So Barker Cypress North 617 00:33:23.440 --> 00:33:27.400 south five twenty nine east west. Right there Langham Creek 618 00:33:27.480 --> 00:33:30.799 Ace Hardware. They're having their reopening. They opened up and 619 00:33:30.839 --> 00:33:33.000 got going and then they did a revamp of the 620 00:33:33.039 --> 00:33:37.200 store and now is their reopening. Oh my gosh, listen, 621 00:33:37.240 --> 00:33:41.039 you need to do this. It's Friday, August thirtieth. Next Friday, 622 00:33:41.880 --> 00:33:46.160 Saturday thirty first, and Sunday the first, next weekend. Okay, 623 00:33:46.440 --> 00:33:49.599 I say next. Excuse me, I'm two weekends away. My 624 00:33:49.720 --> 00:33:54.920 brain is shifting here anyway, thirtieth, thirty first and first, 625 00:33:55.680 --> 00:33:58.240 Why am I telling you about this? Lots of fun activities, 626 00:33:58.319 --> 00:34:02.400 vendor demonstrations. They're going to draw for really sweet prizes 627 00:34:02.839 --> 00:34:05.799 on There'll be a still discount day on Saturday. If 628 00:34:05.839 --> 00:34:10.199 you want still Power equipment, awesome quality brand, they'll have 629 00:34:10.239 --> 00:34:14.599 a discount special, really good discount on Saturday, and lots 630 00:34:14.639 --> 00:34:17.679 of exclusive deals on many items. Like on Friday, they're 631 00:34:17.719 --> 00:34:22.039 given away an Eggo Power Plus straight shaft battery string 632 00:34:22.079 --> 00:34:24.719 Treamer two hundred and fifty dollars machine. Given it away. 633 00:34:24.719 --> 00:34:27.239 It's part of the giveaway. They'll be demos on Weber 634 00:34:27.280 --> 00:34:29.239 grills and on Sunday they're going to give away the 635 00:34:29.280 --> 00:34:32.800 Weber Spirit two gas grill four hundred and fifty dollars 636 00:34:32.880 --> 00:34:35.639 value and demonstrating the Big Green Egg and other things. 637 00:34:35.719 --> 00:34:38.039 Do you see what I'm saying? Fifteen percent off still 638 00:34:38.039 --> 00:34:41.920 By the way, on that Saturday, August thirty first, and 639 00:34:41.960 --> 00:34:45.000 then on Sunday they're given away a paint, a room makeover, 640 00:34:45.039 --> 00:34:48.960 a two hundred dollars value and demoing trigger grills. It's 641 00:34:49.000 --> 00:34:51.800 barbecue season. You need to get by. But what a 642 00:34:51.840 --> 00:34:56.000 great opportunity, and that is Langham Crease Creek Ace Hardware 643 00:34:56.360 --> 00:34:58.840 at the intersection of Barker Cypress and FM five point 644 00:34:58.840 --> 00:35:05.840 twenty nine. Let's see here. I'm gonna go now, Janey 645 00:35:06.360 --> 00:35:10.320 in Missouri City. Janie, welcome to garden Line. I've got 646 00:35:10.320 --> 00:35:12.079 a little bit of time here. See if we can 647 00:35:12.119 --> 00:35:14.199 get your call done. If not, well we'll finish it 648 00:35:14.239 --> 00:35:16.599 after the noon break on the top of the eye. 649 00:35:16.679 --> 00:35:20.199 Okay, Well, I have two questions for you that are 650 00:35:20.280 --> 00:35:23.599 sort of related to the burrel storm. I had a 651 00:35:23.679 --> 00:35:25.760 degree that was out in my front yard, and of 652 00:35:25.760 --> 00:35:27.960 course it was there for a while, and I now 653 00:35:28.079 --> 00:35:32.280 have several dead patches, and I used the has to 654 00:35:32.360 --> 00:35:35.880 grow laws treatment on it, and I was wondering whether 655 00:35:35.960 --> 00:35:39.840 I needed to do more rating to clear up the 656 00:35:39.880 --> 00:35:42.599 group they did grasp. I've cleaned out all the leaves 657 00:35:42.599 --> 00:35:44.519 as much as I can, and I've had it most 658 00:35:44.559 --> 00:35:47.159 several times, and I didn't know what else I could 659 00:35:47.360 --> 00:35:48.719 treat that dad area with. 660 00:35:51.119 --> 00:35:54.519 Okay, is it a bigger irregular area that's dead? 661 00:35:55.880 --> 00:35:59.199 Well, it's about three feet by three feet? 662 00:36:00.639 --> 00:36:03.559 Oh okay, all right, all right, well I'm not gonna 663 00:36:03.559 --> 00:36:05.719 be able to fully answer it before I already hear 664 00:36:05.760 --> 00:36:08.519 the music plan. You hang on, and when you come back, 665 00:36:08.559 --> 00:36:11.159 we'll take that to the next stop. Can you think 666 00:36:11.159 --> 00:36:14.159 of anything that happened there other than it just suddenly 667 00:36:14.199 --> 00:36:17.679 it died and nothing got spilled or dumped or applied. 668 00:36:18.159 --> 00:36:22.280 It was where the debris was from virel from my tree. 669 00:36:23.559 --> 00:36:26.880 Yeah, okay, but nothing else of then? All right, well 670 00:36:27.079 --> 00:36:28.920 we'll get right back on it when we come back. 671 00:36:29.039 --> 00:36:33.440 You hang on, okay, thank you, you bet? 672 00:36:34.079 --> 00:36:35.239 All right, folks, I'll. 673 00:36:44.719 --> 00:37:21.639 Just watch you as Welcome. 674 00:37:04.079 --> 00:37:08.239 Back, Welcome back to Garden Line. I'm your host, Skip Richter, 675 00:37:08.400 --> 00:37:10.679 and we are here to do what to help you 676 00:37:10.760 --> 00:37:14.639 have a more bountiful garden, a more beautiful landscape. All 677 00:37:14.679 --> 00:37:16.440 you need to do is give us a call if 678 00:37:16.480 --> 00:37:19.039 you wish at seven to one three two one two 679 00:37:19.639 --> 00:37:22.320 k t r H. Seven to one three two one 680 00:37:22.360 --> 00:37:27.519 two k t r H. If you looked out at 681 00:37:27.519 --> 00:37:31.159 your landscape and thought you know it's time to take 682 00:37:31.159 --> 00:37:33.519 this thing up a level. It's kind of getting boring here, 683 00:37:33.639 --> 00:37:36.039 or it's been boring here. Maybe it's a sea of 684 00:37:36.079 --> 00:37:38.880 green right now. Maybe you want to design some outdoor 685 00:37:38.920 --> 00:37:42.519 living areas, like a nice hardescape where you could have 686 00:37:42.599 --> 00:37:45.960 things like a fountain or like a waterfall, or what 687 00:37:46.199 --> 00:37:49.920 like a barbecue pit designed in. Maybe you want landscape lighting. 688 00:37:49.920 --> 00:37:52.639 Maybe you got a spot that's soggy wet after a 689 00:37:52.760 --> 00:37:56.320 rain and it needs to not be because plants like 690 00:37:56.360 --> 00:37:59.400 good drainage. Well, Pierscapes can help you with that. Peerscapes 691 00:37:59.480 --> 00:38:03.119 does all all of those things. They can do landscape lighting, 692 00:38:03.480 --> 00:38:05.760 They can take a wet spot and dry it out. 693 00:38:05.800 --> 00:38:08.199 And by the way, we had all that rain this year, 694 00:38:08.239 --> 00:38:10.480 so that ought to tell you where you had places 695 00:38:10.519 --> 00:38:13.400 that stay wet too long. Now's a good time it's 696 00:38:13.480 --> 00:38:16.159 drying out, and so you know, he can't he can't 697 00:38:16.199 --> 00:38:18.360 go out and fix the thing when it's as still 698 00:38:18.360 --> 00:38:20.480 a swamp. So this would be a good time to 699 00:38:20.480 --> 00:38:23.480 get Pierscapes a call. You can reach Pierscapes a number 700 00:38:23.519 --> 00:38:25.800 of ways. The two I would suggest, first of all, 701 00:38:25.840 --> 00:38:28.440 go to the website. I just really even if you're 702 00:38:28.519 --> 00:38:31.000 not thinking I'm not going to do anything right. Go 703 00:38:31.039 --> 00:38:34.400 to the website and check it out pierce scapes dot com. 704 00:38:34.480 --> 00:38:37.880 You will get inspiration and ideas and you'll go, oh wow, 705 00:38:38.840 --> 00:38:40.639 that would be great in my yard. I could do 706 00:38:40.719 --> 00:38:44.280 that absolutely, or give them a call two eight one three, 707 00:38:44.440 --> 00:38:49.079 seven oh five zero six zero. Take your landscape to 708 00:38:49.119 --> 00:38:51.960 the next level, no matter where you are now, take 709 00:38:52.000 --> 00:38:54.280 it up to the next level, or maybe two levels 710 00:38:54.280 --> 00:38:59.800 off if you want to go all out piercescapes dot com. 711 00:39:00.000 --> 00:39:03.360 I head to let's see, we're going to Magnolia, Texas 712 00:39:03.400 --> 00:39:06.440 and talking to Sunday. Now, Hey Sunday, welcome to Guardline. 713 00:39:07.079 --> 00:39:07.840 Thank you, Stiff. 714 00:39:07.880 --> 00:39:08.800 How are you this morning? 715 00:39:10.039 --> 00:39:11.480 I'm well, thanks. 716 00:39:12.119 --> 00:39:16.000 I have two questions. One, my roses are have been 717 00:39:16.119 --> 00:39:20.159 losing leaf. I had one that started doing that, so 718 00:39:20.360 --> 00:39:23.760 I cut it back and I treated all of them 719 00:39:23.800 --> 00:39:27.320 with that bio advanced Rose and flower tear, which is 720 00:39:27.320 --> 00:39:32.280 the fertilizer insect control and disease control. I don't see 721 00:39:32.320 --> 00:39:35.800 where that did anything. I watered them about twice a 722 00:39:35.840 --> 00:39:40.280 week and I still lost leave on probably three of 723 00:39:40.320 --> 00:39:41.199 the rose bushes. 724 00:39:43.639 --> 00:39:50.000 And then okay, well, when when roses do that? First 725 00:39:50.039 --> 00:39:53.559 of all, it is a brutal, hot, stressful season for them, 726 00:39:53.639 --> 00:39:57.000 so that in and of itself is already giving them 727 00:39:57.000 --> 00:40:00.480 a bit of a challenge if you if you add 728 00:40:00.519 --> 00:40:04.039 to that either soil that is too wet or that 729 00:40:04.199 --> 00:40:06.519 is too dry, you know, go through a little drought, 730 00:40:06.760 --> 00:40:08.880 or you keep it too wet or nature keeps it 731 00:40:08.920 --> 00:40:13.480 too wet, you can also have some you know, significant 732 00:40:13.519 --> 00:40:17.719 issues with them doing the kinds of symptoms you're describing 733 00:40:18.199 --> 00:40:21.719 right there. So I would, you know, I would say 734 00:40:23.239 --> 00:40:28.280 probably just watch the soul moisture. First of all. A 735 00:40:28.360 --> 00:40:32.519 little nutrients are always important for roses, but right now 736 00:40:33.079 --> 00:40:36.199 I would hold off on that, especially if you've done 737 00:40:36.320 --> 00:40:38.840 any kind of fertilizing before, and if you use the 738 00:40:38.840 --> 00:40:42.960 biodvents that has fertilizer in it, mostly phosphorus, but it's 739 00:40:42.960 --> 00:40:44.039 got fertilizer in it. 740 00:40:45.480 --> 00:40:49.119 All right, okay? And should I just leave them alone, 741 00:40:49.280 --> 00:40:52.840 or should I boyhead cut out the dead stalks and 742 00:40:52.880 --> 00:40:55.039 cut them back, or should I just wait? 743 00:40:57.639 --> 00:41:03.480 I you know, generally with my roses, I'll at the 744 00:41:03.599 --> 00:41:06.400 end of August do a shearing back on them, and 745 00:41:06.440 --> 00:41:08.960 then I'll water them and fertilize them to get a 746 00:41:09.000 --> 00:41:12.800 boost of new growth. Because October is an awesome rose 747 00:41:12.840 --> 00:41:15.599 month and to start getting that new shoots growing. You 748 00:41:15.599 --> 00:41:17.639 could do that same thing in September if you want 749 00:41:17.679 --> 00:41:19.360 to early September, if you want to do it at 750 00:41:19.360 --> 00:41:21.599 that time, but you want to get new growth because 751 00:41:21.599 --> 00:41:23.840 every time you get a new shoot, the roses will 752 00:41:23.880 --> 00:41:27.440 form on the end of a new shoot. Okay, so 753 00:41:27.480 --> 00:41:29.800 the more when you cut them back and where you 754 00:41:29.880 --> 00:41:32.679 had one shoot, now it sprouts into two, you just 755 00:41:32.719 --> 00:41:34.800 double the amount of roses that you can have on 756 00:41:34.840 --> 00:41:36.880 that plant. Does that make sense? 757 00:41:36.880 --> 00:41:37.119 Okay? 758 00:41:37.360 --> 00:41:39.320 What fur launch er? 759 00:41:39.440 --> 00:41:42.599 Do you suggest anything on them? 760 00:41:43.000 --> 00:41:44.920 I think whether there's a number of good ones. Are 761 00:41:44.960 --> 00:41:48.679 you particularly interested in organic or synthetic or what? 762 00:41:52.400 --> 00:41:56.559 I don't have particular Okay, well. 763 00:41:56.400 --> 00:41:59.679 There are how many roses do you have? By the way, 764 00:41:59.719 --> 00:42:04.440 I mean roughly? What do we talk about, like about twelve? Okay, 765 00:42:04.719 --> 00:42:06.800 well you can I was going to say, you can 766 00:42:06.840 --> 00:42:09.519 go and purchase you know, Nitroposs and Nelson both have 767 00:42:09.559 --> 00:42:12.559 a high quality rose foods that are available in little 768 00:42:12.599 --> 00:42:15.639 canisters and you can sprinkle that around and water it 769 00:42:15.639 --> 00:42:19.119 in and it will it will do the job for you. Now, 770 00:42:19.239 --> 00:42:21.679 twelve roses, that's quite a bit for a little canister. 771 00:42:21.800 --> 00:42:23.679 You may want to buy something in a little larger 772 00:42:23.719 --> 00:42:27.039 bag because roses are something we do fertilize more than 773 00:42:27.079 --> 00:42:30.920 once through the season because again vigor equals more ballooms, 774 00:42:31.679 --> 00:42:36.239 and so we are feeding them regularly. But you are 775 00:42:36.360 --> 00:42:39.519 let's see, you're up in the magnolia Yeah, up in 776 00:42:39.559 --> 00:42:44.719 the Magnolia area. Yeah, I can come down your coat. 777 00:42:45.159 --> 00:42:45.320 Well. 778 00:42:45.440 --> 00:42:48.480 Arbrogate has a rose food and the other thing. In fact, 779 00:42:48.480 --> 00:42:51.840 they've got there. They're one two three completely easy system 780 00:42:51.920 --> 00:42:56.559 at Arburgate. That's a soil, a compost, and a fertilizer. 781 00:42:56.880 --> 00:43:00.679 The fertilizer in that has a really good ratio roses. 782 00:43:01.639 --> 00:43:06.280 So that would be Arbigate's one two three easy system. 783 00:43:06.639 --> 00:43:11.440 They call it Organic Soil Complete, Organic compost complete, and 784 00:43:11.599 --> 00:43:15.199 organic food complete. It's organic food complete one. But get 785 00:43:15.199 --> 00:43:17.920 that bag. You want to sprinkle it around your roses, 786 00:43:17.960 --> 00:43:20.920 follow the label and scratch it into the soil and 787 00:43:20.960 --> 00:43:24.400 then water it in real well, okay, because it's an organic, 788 00:43:24.440 --> 00:43:27.800 it's going to be microbially broken down, so you need 789 00:43:27.880 --> 00:43:31.320 good moist soil around those particles and it will go 790 00:43:31.440 --> 00:43:33.960 to town. It's an excellent fertilizer for that. 791 00:43:33.960 --> 00:43:37.639 That's what I want okay, wonderful, Thank you very much. 792 00:43:38.039 --> 00:43:40.960 I've noticed my oaks in the front bark have started 793 00:43:41.000 --> 00:43:44.960 to lose some leaves. Not a lot, but I've noticed 794 00:43:44.960 --> 00:43:48.400 some leaf dropping. Is it because of the heat and 795 00:43:48.440 --> 00:43:54.079 because they are because they need more water? Sorry, that's my. 796 00:43:56.000 --> 00:44:00.519 Yeah, I hear that like those I'm sorry, that's okay. 797 00:44:01.840 --> 00:44:05.320 The you said it was a live oak, Is that 798 00:44:05.400 --> 00:44:06.039 what you said? 799 00:44:06.639 --> 00:44:10.079 I don't know. I've got I've got three oaks out there. 800 00:44:10.159 --> 00:44:12.559 I don't know what kind they are, but I know. 801 00:44:12.559 --> 00:44:13.239 They're oak tree. 802 00:44:14.440 --> 00:44:16.239 Got you. Well, I gotta I gotta run a break, 803 00:44:16.280 --> 00:44:19.239 but so real quick. A good soaking on an infrequent 804 00:44:19.280 --> 00:44:21.960 basis will be fine, but you can also have some 805 00:44:22.039 --> 00:44:24.719 transitioning of leaves. What I'm gonna put you on hold, 806 00:44:25.320 --> 00:44:27.960 my producer will pick it up, and I want you 807 00:44:28.039 --> 00:44:31.960 to send me a photo of that so I can 808 00:44:32.039 --> 00:44:35.400 see exactly what you got. Okay, uh, sorry, thank you, 809 00:44:35.840 --> 00:44:37.480 But let me look at the photo and then I'll 810 00:44:37.559 --> 00:44:40.119 on the oaks and i'll comment. All right, folks, time 811 00:44:40.159 --> 00:44:42.719 for a break. We'll be right back. Have you with 812 00:44:42.800 --> 00:44:46.480 us today. We are we're talking about all kinds of 813 00:44:46.480 --> 00:44:49.199 things gardening, and we are in the big middle of 814 00:44:49.559 --> 00:44:51.719 your calls as we try to help you have a 815 00:44:51.719 --> 00:44:55.119 more bountiful garden, more beautiful landscape. One way that you 816 00:44:55.159 --> 00:44:58.480 can have a more bountiful and beautiful garden and landscape 817 00:44:58.559 --> 00:45:03.440 is Medina Hast Supergrow Plus. Now Medina's got a has 818 00:45:03.519 --> 00:45:05.480 to grow line. There's regular has to grow, has to 819 00:45:05.519 --> 00:45:08.280 grow for lawns, which is a great product to use 820 00:45:08.320 --> 00:45:11.679 on your lawns. This is Supergrow Plus, another great product 821 00:45:11.679 --> 00:45:14.000 for the lawn This one's kind of unique. It's a 822 00:45:14.039 --> 00:45:17.239 sixteen zero two fertilizer. A one court bottle hooks up 823 00:45:17.280 --> 00:45:20.480 to a garden hose. Covers about four thousand square feet, 824 00:45:20.559 --> 00:45:22.760 so you can ten minutes drag a hose around your 825 00:45:22.840 --> 00:45:26.480 yard and you're done. You've applied your fertilization too. It's 826 00:45:26.519 --> 00:45:29.239 got part of the nitrogen is in a slow release form. 827 00:45:29.639 --> 00:45:32.800 It also has seaweed extract, it's got molassets, it's got 828 00:45:32.880 --> 00:45:36.880 humic acid in it. Just a very very high quality 829 00:45:36.920 --> 00:45:41.559 product that does cause the plants to respond positively. Some people, 830 00:45:41.599 --> 00:45:43.679 in fact, don't just use it for their lawns, they'll 831 00:45:43.679 --> 00:45:46.000 spray their gardens with it. A flowers, You got a 832 00:45:46.000 --> 00:45:48.599 little plant that's sitting there, kind of needs a little boost. 833 00:45:48.679 --> 00:45:50.280 We'll just squared it with some of the has to 834 00:45:50.320 --> 00:45:52.760 grow Supergrow plus. I bet you are going to see 835 00:45:53.079 --> 00:45:56.519 a very good response from it, especially if it's related 836 00:45:56.599 --> 00:46:01.079 to a lack of nutrients in the soil. Is from Medina, 837 00:46:01.159 --> 00:46:03.320 just another one of the many good products that you 838 00:46:03.360 --> 00:46:07.440 will find with Medina. We're going to head out now 839 00:46:07.519 --> 00:46:09.920 to southwest Houston and I'm going to talk to Maxie. 840 00:46:10.039 --> 00:46:15.400 Hello, Maxi, Hi, good morning. My question is about powdery mildew. 841 00:46:15.920 --> 00:46:20.679 I have a saucer magnolia. It's never gotten very tall 842 00:46:20.719 --> 00:46:26.599 because it's planted in clay, and it had lots and 843 00:46:26.639 --> 00:46:29.840 lots of leaves and a few buds. But I have 844 00:46:30.000 --> 00:46:34.119 powdery mildew every year. Last year I used a more 845 00:46:34.199 --> 00:46:39.320 popular spray, didn't affect the powdery mildew, didn't affect the plant. 846 00:46:39.440 --> 00:46:42.519 This year, I got a different one and I sprayed 847 00:46:42.519 --> 00:46:46.159 it and most of the leaves, probably eighty percent of 848 00:46:46.159 --> 00:46:51.199 the leaves fell off. Now it has new leaves at 849 00:46:51.239 --> 00:46:56.199 the bottom. So what shall I do about my powdery mildew? 850 00:46:57.599 --> 00:47:00.239 Okay, tell me again the plant that we're talking about. 851 00:47:00.360 --> 00:47:06.280 It's locals call it tulip tree, and I think Okay, 852 00:47:06.679 --> 00:47:09.119 scientifically sauc or magnolia. 853 00:47:10.400 --> 00:47:13.199 Oh okay, so yeah, I know what you're about. Okay, Well, 854 00:47:13.199 --> 00:47:15.559 that one we got it on its southern the southern 855 00:47:15.639 --> 00:47:17.320 end of where it wants to live. You can grow 856 00:47:17.360 --> 00:47:19.719 them here, but we're now on the low end. So 857 00:47:19.840 --> 00:47:22.880 hot weather. Hot weather will cause the edges of the 858 00:47:22.920 --> 00:47:25.440 leaves to tips of the leaves to brown and shrivel 859 00:47:25.480 --> 00:47:28.559 and curl up. And if it's enough, if you throw 860 00:47:28.559 --> 00:47:30.480 a little drought in with it, you can you can 861 00:47:30.480 --> 00:47:33.760 get some significant damage. The powdery mildey will also cause 862 00:47:33.800 --> 00:47:36.920 that damage, as you've seen on that I would There 863 00:47:36.960 --> 00:47:39.079 are a number of different products that you can use 864 00:47:39.119 --> 00:47:43.239 for it. There is an ingredient called beylaton b A 865 00:47:43.639 --> 00:47:48.079 y L E t O n b A y l 866 00:47:48.000 --> 00:47:54.639 l Okay. That is a fungicide ingredient that works pretty well. 867 00:47:54.639 --> 00:47:57.000 And Maxie, you are just a hop skipping a jump 868 00:47:57.039 --> 00:47:59.920 away from Southwest fertilizer on biss and ut and run. 869 00:48:00.360 --> 00:48:04.519 And I guarantee that has probably several types. Yeah, he's 870 00:48:04.559 --> 00:48:07.199 got several types of beilaton. You can just tell him. 871 00:48:07.199 --> 00:48:09.480 You talk to me on guardline and and that, uh, 872 00:48:09.519 --> 00:48:11.800 you got powdery mildew. And I was suggesting he has 873 00:48:12.280 --> 00:48:14.800 that's not the only ingredient that will control powdery mildew, 874 00:48:14.840 --> 00:48:17.079 but it is systemic into the planet a little bit, 875 00:48:17.559 --> 00:48:20.400 so that it's not just a surface thing that washes 876 00:48:20.400 --> 00:48:22.960 off with the next rain, and it'll give you a 877 00:48:22.960 --> 00:48:26.039 little bit longer term control. I would suggest that one. 878 00:48:26.119 --> 00:48:28.320 I mean, I could recommend other things, but I think 879 00:48:28.960 --> 00:48:31.199 that would be the one i'd start with in your 880 00:48:31.280 --> 00:48:33.000 situation on that particular plant. 881 00:48:33.880 --> 00:48:36.239 Well, do do you think it's a little weird that 882 00:48:36.360 --> 00:48:38.519 I sprayed the plant and all the leaves sail off? 883 00:48:38.920 --> 00:48:42.480 I mean, it was perfectly healthy except a little powdery 884 00:48:42.519 --> 00:48:46.679 mill down do especially down the veins. 885 00:48:46.480 --> 00:48:49.840 It could have been coincidental, but it could have been. 886 00:48:49.920 --> 00:48:51.519 I don't want to accuse you anything because I don't 887 00:48:51.519 --> 00:48:53.360 know how you mixed it, but you know, it could 888 00:48:53.360 --> 00:48:53.679 have been. 889 00:48:54.000 --> 00:48:56.000 Oh what didn't just to spray? 890 00:48:56.440 --> 00:48:59.639 Just to spray, it's like a hose end. 891 00:49:00.760 --> 00:49:03.719 No, not oppose, it's just. 892 00:49:03.280 --> 00:49:03.639 Just the. 893 00:49:06.079 --> 00:49:10.840 Oh was it labeled for use on plants? 894 00:49:12.199 --> 00:49:19.239 Yes, sir, for my okay, I'm just checking and sure, okay, yes. 895 00:49:21.440 --> 00:49:25.960 Just because I listen, I've had people spray things that 896 00:49:27.119 --> 00:49:28.639 basically it was like putting gasoline. 897 00:49:28.760 --> 00:49:33.119 Oh, yeah, no, Dand I thought about soap. I do 898 00:49:33.199 --> 00:49:35.760 have a soap that the plants love as long as 899 00:49:35.760 --> 00:49:38.920 it didn't have it on the leavest after it's treated. 900 00:49:38.880 --> 00:49:42.679 Well the thing. Yeah, and don't do soaps now when 901 00:49:42.719 --> 00:49:45.639 you put soap out on a hot sunny day, you 902 00:49:45.679 --> 00:49:48.440 can burn the hack out of with that as well. 903 00:49:48.679 --> 00:49:50.119 I don't know, I mean it could it could have 904 00:49:50.159 --> 00:49:53.599 been the product. But you know, products that are labeled 905 00:49:53.639 --> 00:49:56.159 for something, they're designed, but they ought to have a 906 00:49:56.199 --> 00:49:59.360 warning on the label. But uh, it could have been 907 00:49:59.440 --> 00:50:01.000 could have been the on a day you put it on, 908 00:50:01.159 --> 00:50:03.800 and it could have just been coincidental that I don't know, 909 00:50:03.880 --> 00:50:06.119 for whatever reason, you happen to spray on the day 910 00:50:06.119 --> 00:50:07.480 that this problem was going to hit. 911 00:50:08.400 --> 00:50:12.280 But it's hard to be happy to go to Southwest Fertilizer. 912 00:50:12.320 --> 00:50:13.960 I love selflest fertilizer. 913 00:50:15.199 --> 00:50:18.800 Yeah, I know you too, I do too. It's one 914 00:50:18.840 --> 00:50:21.000 stop shopping, isn't it? 915 00:50:21.079 --> 00:50:21.400 All right? 916 00:50:21.480 --> 00:50:26.599 Maxie, thanks for the call much Bye you bet you 917 00:50:26.679 --> 00:50:27.679 take care bye bye. 918 00:50:29.119 --> 00:50:29.679 Uh. 919 00:50:29.719 --> 00:50:32.920 Those of you who still haven't gotten around to having 920 00:50:32.960 --> 00:50:36.719 your trees looked at in terms of any needed pruning 921 00:50:36.800 --> 00:50:39.360 for summer, you know, summer's the storm season. And I 922 00:50:39.400 --> 00:50:42.960 don't just mean hurricanes, although that certainly is a big deal. 923 00:50:43.840 --> 00:50:46.199 Anytime you have a storm, if you're if you've got 924 00:50:46.320 --> 00:50:48.559 narrow branch angles, if you've got trees that have been 925 00:50:48.559 --> 00:50:51.760 poorly trained or pruned, they need to be looked at. 926 00:50:51.880 --> 00:50:56.119 And Affordable Tree, Affordable Tree Martin spoon More is our 927 00:50:56.159 --> 00:50:59.639 go to person for tree care here on Guardline. Martin 928 00:50:59.840 --> 00:51:02.039 is he's been doing this for a long time. He 929 00:51:02.079 --> 00:51:04.519 knows what he's doing. But I'm telling you I can't 930 00:51:04.519 --> 00:51:07.679 express enough the importance of proper tree care coming into 931 00:51:07.719 --> 00:51:10.039 the storm season. From the time you plant a tree 932 00:51:10.239 --> 00:51:14.480 until whatever day it is that you're looking at that 933 00:51:14.519 --> 00:51:17.280 it could be thirty years later. From that time, you 934 00:51:17.320 --> 00:51:19.599 want to make sure that tree was trained and pruned 935 00:51:19.639 --> 00:51:22.119 properly and right. Because you get people that don't know 936 00:51:22.159 --> 00:51:25.440 what they're doing. They run it and there's no refixing it. 937 00:51:25.880 --> 00:51:28.280 You know, they can get turn somebody loose with the chainsaw. 938 00:51:28.280 --> 00:51:30.760 It doesn't know what they're doing, and you got a 939 00:51:30.800 --> 00:51:34.559 problem in your hands. Martin spoon More Affordable Tree Service 940 00:51:34.639 --> 00:51:37.480 can do it right. Seven one three, six, nine nine 941 00:51:37.719 --> 00:51:41.000 twenty six sixty three seven one three, sixty nine nine 942 00:51:41.000 --> 00:51:44.599 two six sixty three, or go to aff Tree service 943 00:51:44.679 --> 00:51:48.039 dot com. When you call affordable Tree, you're going to 944 00:51:48.079 --> 00:51:51.119 talk to Martin or his wife Joe. The owners answer 945 00:51:51.320 --> 00:51:53.960 the phone. If you talk to anybody else, just hang up. 946 00:51:54.039 --> 00:51:57.280 You've called the wrong Affordable Tree seven one three six 947 00:51:57.480 --> 00:52:02.159 nine nine two six sixty three. We're going to head 948 00:52:02.159 --> 00:52:05.719 out now to Highland area, I believe, is that right? 949 00:52:05.760 --> 00:52:08.559 Are we talking to Houston? Oh? 950 00:52:13.280 --> 00:52:19.360 Yeah, I wanted a question about you Beheo grass. I've 951 00:52:19.360 --> 00:52:22.000 got a loan that's infested with beheo. Is there a 952 00:52:22.119 --> 00:52:26.119 herbicide that's specifically for herb bo gray? 953 00:52:27.760 --> 00:52:31.639 There are some that are pretty effective against it, and 954 00:52:32.079 --> 00:52:36.039 I believe one called man or m A n O R. 955 00:52:36.440 --> 00:52:39.679 I'm want check that just to make sure don't get 956 00:52:39.679 --> 00:52:44.880 a lot of beheo grass calls. Huh didn't show up 957 00:52:44.880 --> 00:52:48.199 here to find it here in a second. But the 958 00:52:49.599 --> 00:52:55.000 getting bigger. Yeah, it's a tough grass. I mean it 959 00:52:55.039 --> 00:52:58.960 can take you know, it can take the drought. So 960 00:52:59.599 --> 00:53:03.119 it's a disease that I mean a weed that it 961 00:53:03.280 --> 00:53:07.519 is a challenge to be able to deal with. I 962 00:53:07.599 --> 00:53:13.519 understand that. Uh yeah, it's it's called the ingredient. And 963 00:53:13.599 --> 00:53:20.119 do you have a pan or pencil handy. Yeah, let 964 00:53:20.119 --> 00:53:22.920 me see here. It's met sulfur on methyl and I'm 965 00:53:22.920 --> 00:53:26.239 gonna I'm gonna spell that out because there are other 966 00:53:26.320 --> 00:53:30.000 herbicides that have met sulfur on methyl in them. Now, 967 00:53:30.039 --> 00:53:32.239 they're not going to be cheap, I can tell you that, 968 00:53:32.559 --> 00:53:36.440 but this is a unique situation. One of them is 969 00:53:36.480 --> 00:53:40.800 called ms M turf. But here's the ingredient m E 970 00:53:40.960 --> 00:53:48.239 T s u L. If you are O N met 971 00:53:48.840 --> 00:53:53.679 sull f on. If you are O N methyl U 972 00:53:53.840 --> 00:53:56.639 and one of the ones would be ms M turf. 973 00:53:56.760 --> 00:53:57.079 Now you. 974 00:53:58.639 --> 00:54:01.519 I don't know, I don't know your area of that 975 00:54:01.679 --> 00:54:03.719 well to know where where to send you. If you 976 00:54:03.760 --> 00:54:05.800 got an ACE hardware store on they may be able 977 00:54:05.840 --> 00:54:07.360 to they may have that, they may be able to 978 00:54:07.400 --> 00:54:14.079 get it for you. Uh I would, all right, well 979 00:54:14.079 --> 00:54:17.400 I would, I would try that. But it's not a 980 00:54:17.519 --> 00:54:22.039 super super common thing. So mm hmm. But will it killed? 981 00:54:22.079 --> 00:54:28.239 Is that it makes stand with it? No? No, But 982 00:54:28.760 --> 00:54:31.320 you have to be careful and want and read the 983 00:54:31.360 --> 00:54:35.000 label carefully because that is one that you know during 984 00:54:35.360 --> 00:54:37.960 certain kinds of weather conditions and issues, and we were 985 00:54:38.000 --> 00:54:40.559 real careful with it. Uh. So don't just get in 986 00:54:40.559 --> 00:54:45.559 a hurry, but it does kill bhagrass, and it is labeled. 987 00:54:45.880 --> 00:54:50.599 It is labeled for for use if you it is 988 00:54:50.679 --> 00:54:53.599 but that, but remember this, and I just have to 989 00:54:53.599 --> 00:54:57.719 give these caveats because it doesn't matter. A product can 990 00:54:57.760 --> 00:55:00.679 be labeled for use on a plant, but if you 991 00:55:00.719 --> 00:55:03.280 misuse it, you still hurt that plant. So it doesn't 992 00:55:03.320 --> 00:55:05.840 mean that it won't it can't hurt the planet. It 993 00:55:05.920 --> 00:55:09.679 just means, yeah, the other thing you need, Yeah, the 994 00:55:09.719 --> 00:55:14.440 other thing you need to be careful with is uh, 995 00:55:14.719 --> 00:55:18.639 don't overapply it and then watered in real good on 996 00:55:19.960 --> 00:55:22.880 around root zones of trees and shrubs, which is basically 997 00:55:22.920 --> 00:55:25.960 the whole yard. But if you get it down in 998 00:55:26.000 --> 00:55:28.679 the roots, it can do damage. Not kill the whole 999 00:55:28.719 --> 00:55:31.599 tree necessarily, but do damage to trees and shrubs. So 1000 00:55:31.679 --> 00:55:36.039 this is a specialized product with special caveats. But follow 1001 00:55:36.079 --> 00:55:39.159 that label carefully and it will do the job on 1002 00:55:39.239 --> 00:55:43.679 the pail for you. Thank you much, all right, sir, 1003 00:55:43.880 --> 00:55:46.760 you take care. Appreciate that time for us to take 1004 00:55:46.800 --> 00:55:49.599 a little break here top or for the half hour news. 1005 00:55:49.880 --> 00:55:51.840 I'll be right back at seven one three two one 1006 00:55:51.920 --> 00:55:56.000 two k t RH Welcome back to garden Line, Glad 1007 00:55:56.039 --> 00:55:58.119 to have you with us. We are looking forward to 1008 00:55:58.119 --> 00:56:00.320 talking to you about the kind of questions you have, 1009 00:56:00.400 --> 00:56:02.559 the kind of things you're interested in. You know, we 1010 00:56:02.639 --> 00:56:05.239 love feed stores here on Guarden Line and down in 1011 00:56:05.360 --> 00:56:08.239 League City. You've got a great one. League City Feed 1012 00:56:08.280 --> 00:56:12.880 has been around for forty years now, and it's the 1013 00:56:12.960 --> 00:56:14.639 kind of place you go in. It's that old time 1014 00:56:14.679 --> 00:56:18.679 feed store that carries your products to you to the car, 1015 00:56:18.760 --> 00:56:20.840 your bags or whatever you need carried out to the car. 1016 00:56:21.199 --> 00:56:23.679 It's the kind that's going to have all the fertilizers 1017 00:56:23.760 --> 00:56:26.000 you hear me talk about on Guardline. If I say, 1018 00:56:26.039 --> 00:56:28.119 well here, if it's on my schedule, you know, here's one. 1019 00:56:28.320 --> 00:56:30.840 They're going to have it there. It also is a 1020 00:56:30.840 --> 00:56:32.800 place where you're going to find pest disease and weed 1021 00:56:32.880 --> 00:56:38.119 management products and quality pet foods as well. League City 1022 00:56:38.159 --> 00:56:43.719 Feed is on Highway three, a few blocks south of 1023 00:56:43.800 --> 00:56:46.440 Highway ninety six. So on Highway three a few blocks south. 1024 00:56:46.840 --> 00:56:48.960 So if you're in League City, just head south on three. 1025 00:56:49.199 --> 00:56:51.880 It's not very far blow Highway ninety six. So all 1026 00:56:51.920 --> 00:56:54.559 of those communities out there, Santa Fe and Dickinson and 1027 00:56:54.639 --> 00:56:57.760 Lamar and Baycliffe, Clear Lake City, all of those this 1028 00:56:57.840 --> 00:57:00.639 is your hometown feed store. They are going to have 1029 00:57:00.800 --> 00:57:03.039 a wide variety. Also, they're gonna have some soils like 1030 00:57:03.119 --> 00:57:07.519 heirloom soils, superquality airloom soils as well. They've got backyard chickens. 1031 00:57:07.519 --> 00:57:09.320 They can get you fixed up on that as well. 1032 00:57:09.519 --> 00:57:12.199 League City Feeds open Monday through Saturday nine to six, 1033 00:57:12.440 --> 00:57:15.119 closed on Sunday, so any day of the week I 1034 00:57:15.159 --> 00:57:16.719 have to work on the way home, you can swing 1035 00:57:16.800 --> 00:57:19.239 by there and grab what you need. Two eight one 1036 00:57:19.679 --> 00:57:23.440 three three two sixteen twelve two eight one three three 1037 00:57:23.559 --> 00:57:30.639 two sixteen twelve for League City feed I was earlier 1038 00:57:30.760 --> 00:57:33.800 talking about going on vacation and take care of your plants, 1039 00:57:33.840 --> 00:57:36.079 you know, making sure they have adequate water. Also taking 1040 00:57:36.079 --> 00:57:39.880 care of the birds and being ready for that. You know, 1041 00:57:39.920 --> 00:57:42.920 it's always a good time to put down mulch as well. 1042 00:57:42.960 --> 00:57:45.559 Now most people don't think about, oh, I'm about to 1043 00:57:45.639 --> 00:57:47.880 go up and hike the rocky mountains. I think I'll 1044 00:57:47.920 --> 00:57:52.960 stop and put mulch down first. Well, when you have 1045 00:57:53.280 --> 00:57:56.400 sunlight hitting the soil, nature plants weeds. And when nature 1046 00:57:56.440 --> 00:57:59.199 plants weeds, you get to pull the weeds up or 1047 00:57:59.280 --> 00:58:02.199 hold them. I'll hold them off if you need to 1048 00:58:02.239 --> 00:58:04.960 do that, but nobody wants to do that. I mean, 1049 00:58:05.360 --> 00:58:08.440 ninety five degrees outside sun, bacon down fire, it's crawling 1050 00:58:08.519 --> 00:58:10.599 up your arms. You don't be pulling weeds out there. 1051 00:58:10.800 --> 00:58:13.679 Put down maltch. Put in a quality thick layer of 1052 00:58:13.760 --> 00:58:17.360 mulch about three inches. It depends on the density of 1053 00:58:17.360 --> 00:58:19.400 the mults. You know, if you get something real chunky 1054 00:58:19.400 --> 00:58:21.719 and loose, you're gonna have to put a little thicker. 1055 00:58:21.800 --> 00:58:25.320 If you had something that's very dense, not much space 1056 00:58:25.400 --> 00:58:28.400 between the particles as compared to a big old chunky malts, 1057 00:58:28.679 --> 00:58:30.599 then you wouldn't have to go as deep, but about 1058 00:58:30.599 --> 00:58:34.360 three inches. As a good general rule of thumb, I 1059 00:58:34.519 --> 00:58:40.239 use all kinds of things that basically are organic based 1060 00:58:40.440 --> 00:58:44.039 as mulches. We've got some super high quality mulches here 1061 00:58:44.039 --> 00:58:46.760 in the Greater Houston area. You got folks like Nature's 1062 00:58:46.800 --> 00:58:49.079 Way that produces a beautiful mult Up there in the 1063 00:58:49.159 --> 00:58:53.199 Conroad direction, we've got airloom soils out Porter direction produces 1064 00:58:53.199 --> 00:58:58.159 a super high quality mult Landscaper's Pride produces good quality 1065 00:58:58.239 --> 00:59:01.800 mulches for you. It's not hard to find and equality mulch, 1066 00:59:01.880 --> 00:59:04.880 but we've got to use it. It's an inexpensive way 1067 00:59:05.000 --> 00:59:07.679 to save yourself a lot of work, and I would 1068 00:59:07.760 --> 00:59:10.440 highly recommend you do that. We're going to go back 1069 00:59:10.440 --> 00:59:13.840 out to the phones now and talk to Hank in 1070 00:59:14.119 --> 00:59:19.440 West U. Hello Hank, and welcome to garden Line. Hello, Skip, 1071 00:59:19.559 --> 00:59:24.719 how are you? I'm good, sir, awesome, So I got your. 1072 00:59:26.559 --> 00:59:27.840 Excellent good. 1073 00:59:28.000 --> 00:59:30.400 Yeah, as you can tell, I've got what. 1074 00:59:30.360 --> 00:59:34.480 I think are some fairly common shrubs. The builder put 1075 00:59:34.559 --> 00:59:37.480 these in like seventeen years ago, and I've never had 1076 00:59:37.480 --> 00:59:41.159 any problems with them until recently. And now they're getting 1077 00:59:41.159 --> 00:59:45.519 these you know, portions that are just turning their dying 1078 00:59:45.599 --> 00:59:46.760 and turning white. 1079 00:59:47.000 --> 00:59:48.800 I'm hoping they'll be able. That's right. I stop the 1080 00:59:48.840 --> 00:59:54.119 spread of that well. So that shrub brow is a 1081 00:59:54.159 --> 00:59:58.199 series of individual shrubs. So wherever a branch is attached 1082 00:59:58.239 --> 01:00:01.599 to a plant that is having the problem, those branches 1083 01:00:01.599 --> 01:00:05.239 are going downhill. What I see is the completely loss 1084 01:00:05.239 --> 01:00:08.079 of color, that dead that you described that as white, 1085 01:00:08.119 --> 01:00:12.280 that tan color dead is gone. But next to it 1086 01:00:12.360 --> 01:00:14.639 is a branch that is going It is on its 1087 01:00:14.679 --> 01:00:17.639 way down. I would dig that plant up. It's not 1088 01:00:17.719 --> 01:00:21.679 coming back to life. Pull it up and gets try 1089 01:00:21.760 --> 01:00:24.000 to get roots. As you pull it up a little 1090 01:00:24.039 --> 01:00:27.360 bit and look at those roots and see what you see. 1091 01:00:27.440 --> 01:00:31.679 You might see roots that look like the Michelin man, 1092 01:00:31.840 --> 01:00:36.280 all bumpy and naughty, and you know, like a string 1093 01:00:36.280 --> 01:00:40.440 of pearls. Sometimes along a roote little knives instead of 1094 01:00:40.480 --> 01:00:43.400 a normal root look. And that is nematodes. That is 1095 01:00:43.440 --> 01:00:47.039 a possibility there. You may see on the stem splits 1096 01:00:47.079 --> 01:00:49.280 at the bottom or other things that are the sign 1097 01:00:49.360 --> 01:00:52.360 of a canker disease that is killing those I can't 1098 01:00:52.400 --> 01:00:54.800 tell you what is doing it. I can tell you 1099 01:00:54.880 --> 01:00:56.920 things that could be doing it, which I just did. 1100 01:00:58.079 --> 01:00:59.800 But I can tell you this. It is a root 1101 01:01:00.039 --> 01:01:03.440 problem or possibly a base of the stem problem. That 1102 01:01:03.480 --> 01:01:07.280 what you're seeing something is preventing the flow of water 1103 01:01:07.440 --> 01:01:09.159 nutrients up into the shrub. 1104 01:01:11.119 --> 01:01:15.039 Okay, and you think by removing that section of the 1105 01:01:15.079 --> 01:01:19.840 bush it will it could help prevent it from continuing 1106 01:01:19.920 --> 01:01:21.360 on to the other well shrugs. 1107 01:01:22.119 --> 01:01:26.800 If if it's root related, that no, that won't it. 1108 01:01:27.079 --> 01:01:29.159 Nematodes You're not going to get them out of the soil, 1109 01:01:29.199 --> 01:01:32.559 and they will spread over time. They tend to make 1110 01:01:32.760 --> 01:01:36.440 plants less efficient. It's not like a nematoad gets on 1111 01:01:36.480 --> 01:01:39.159 it and the whole plant dies. It's like it's think 1112 01:01:39.199 --> 01:01:41.320 of it as like ticks on a dog. If you will, 1113 01:01:41.360 --> 01:01:43.199 I mean two texts is not going to kill a dog. 1114 01:01:43.239 --> 01:01:46.960 But if you just were completely in festivtext that would 1115 01:01:47.039 --> 01:01:49.719 be too much of a drain and and take the 1116 01:01:49.760 --> 01:01:53.679 health of the of the target organism down. So it 1117 01:01:53.679 --> 01:01:56.159 could be that it could also be there's a root 1118 01:01:56.400 --> 01:01:59.159 rot that uh, the last thing I want you to do. 1119 01:01:59.199 --> 01:02:00.840 If you don't see not on the roots, if you 1120 01:02:00.840 --> 01:02:03.920 don't see splits in the stem, then take your knife 1121 01:02:03.960 --> 01:02:06.599 a sharp knife could be a box cutter blade, and 1122 01:02:06.719 --> 01:02:12.159 slice down through the stem vertically like you're splitting the stem, 1123 01:02:12.239 --> 01:02:15.639 not cutting into it, straight into it, but the direction 1124 01:02:15.760 --> 01:02:18.960 parallel with the stem. And look for strips of brown 1125 01:02:19.239 --> 01:02:22.480 and the tissues that should be creamy white underneath. That 1126 01:02:22.639 --> 01:02:24.920 is the fungal disease. Once you find one of those, 1127 01:02:25.440 --> 01:02:27.719 let me know and we can tell you what you 1128 01:02:27.760 --> 01:02:29.880 can or can't do. Some things there's nothing you can do. 1129 01:02:29.960 --> 01:02:30.840 Some things you can't. 1130 01:02:32.760 --> 01:02:35.199 In the case of nematodes, is there something that I 1131 01:02:35.199 --> 01:02:40.039 could sprinkle on the you know, near their base of 1132 01:02:40.119 --> 01:02:41.480 the shrubs? 1133 01:02:42.159 --> 01:02:45.039 Yeah, not really. There are products that have claims to 1134 01:02:45.119 --> 01:02:50.000 be nomaticidal. We don't have a silver bullet for nematodes. 1135 01:02:51.760 --> 01:02:54.400 There's things you're keeping the soil extra moist so the 1136 01:02:54.400 --> 01:02:58.440 plants don't struggle because the nematodes are making them inefficient 1137 01:02:58.519 --> 01:03:02.519 and taking up water. There are some products you can 1138 01:03:02.559 --> 01:03:05.079 water into the soil. I have not had one yet 1139 01:03:05.159 --> 01:03:07.960 that I noticed really worked. I'm not saying none of 1140 01:03:07.960 --> 01:03:13.360 them do, but jury's out. Let me leave it that way. 1141 01:03:13.360 --> 01:03:15.360 The jury's out on those, and I don't think you're 1142 01:03:15.360 --> 01:03:17.719 going to find the magical cure you're looking for. 1143 01:03:19.239 --> 01:03:20.639 You got it all right? 1144 01:03:20.719 --> 01:03:23.280 Well, let me let me take your advice. 1145 01:03:23.400 --> 01:03:25.559 I'll check the roots out and see if I can 1146 01:03:25.559 --> 01:03:29.079 determine what it may be and give you a heart. 1147 01:03:29.599 --> 01:03:31.920 Take pictures along the way so that if you do 1148 01:03:31.960 --> 01:03:34.000 get back to me on this email you can you 1149 01:03:34.039 --> 01:03:37.280 can show me what you saw. Thanks a lot, I appreciate, Hank. 1150 01:03:37.320 --> 01:03:39.400 I'll do a call. Good luck with getting to the 1151 01:03:39.400 --> 01:03:42.840 bottom of that one. Let's see here. It's time for 1152 01:03:42.880 --> 01:03:45.679 me to take a little break. When we come back, Dwayne, 1153 01:03:45.719 --> 01:03:48.039 you will be our first up, so just hang in 1154 01:03:48.079 --> 01:03:50.880 there and our phone number is seven one three one 1155 01:03:51.000 --> 01:03:53.320 two K t R H. If you'd like to give 1156 01:03:53.400 --> 01:03:56.159 us a call. Here glad you're with us today. We're 1157 01:03:56.159 --> 01:03:59.679 going to head back out to the phone calls right away. Uh, 1158 01:03:59.800 --> 01:04:03.280 and we'll start with Dwayne. Hello, Dwayne, Welcome to guarden Line. 1159 01:04:04.280 --> 01:04:08.760 Good morning, Skip, a longtime listener, first time caller. I 1160 01:04:09.119 --> 01:04:12.000 have for the last several years, most probably ten years, 1161 01:04:12.039 --> 01:04:15.480 been growing Eastern screech owls in the front yard in 1162 01:04:15.559 --> 01:04:18.920 an owl box. And I built a handbuilt box in 1163 01:04:18.960 --> 01:04:21.280 the backyard for the rooster to set in during the 1164 01:04:21.400 --> 01:04:25.079 day so the other birds wouldn't catch him. Well, a 1165 01:04:25.119 --> 01:04:28.559 couple of years ago I U the bees swarmed and 1166 01:04:28.559 --> 01:04:32.039 they got in this owl box. Last week they're trimming 1167 01:04:32.119 --> 01:04:35.400 the power lines at the back of the fence here, 1168 01:04:36.039 --> 01:04:39.639 and of course they didn't trim that particular tree. I 1169 01:04:39.719 --> 01:04:42.760 need someone there to come rescue these bees and give 1170 01:04:42.800 --> 01:04:46.239 them a good home. Do you have any recommendations? 1171 01:04:48.559 --> 01:04:54.559 Oh? Boy, I would. I think I would call bee 1172 01:04:54.639 --> 01:04:57.320 supply out in a date and hang on one second. 1173 01:04:59.280 --> 01:05:01.239 I didn't look at then, but that's a pretty good 1174 01:05:01.360 --> 01:05:04.679 drive if they turned in decline. Do you have any 1175 01:05:04.760 --> 01:05:05.960 second chances there? 1176 01:05:07.000 --> 01:05:10.000 Well, what they could do is they could probably tell 1177 01:05:10.039 --> 01:05:11.760 you who could do it. If they can't. 1178 01:05:12.400 --> 01:05:12.480 Uh. 1179 01:05:12.719 --> 01:05:18.800 The phone number is nine three six seven six o 1180 01:05:19.000 --> 01:05:23.599 seven three nine nine three six seven seven six oh 1181 01:05:23.719 --> 01:05:26.199 seven three nine. You know that for those of you 1182 01:05:26.280 --> 01:05:28.400 listening that don't know what I'm talking about here, this 1183 01:05:28.480 --> 01:05:30.679 isn't a company that their job is to come out 1184 01:05:30.679 --> 01:05:33.000 and get these. It's there a B supply company. They 1185 01:05:33.000 --> 01:05:35.400 have all the equipment stuff, but they're going to be 1186 01:05:35.440 --> 01:05:37.280 the ones that are in the know. The website is 1187 01:05:37.440 --> 01:05:41.960 the b supply dot com. Where are you located, Duean. 1188 01:05:43.000 --> 01:05:45.480 I'm here inside the lupp here on Buffalo speed Boy 1189 01:05:45.559 --> 01:05:47.440 and I did look at their site and he does 1190 01:05:47.519 --> 01:05:50.719 have some impressive videos and know the different types the 1191 01:05:50.920 --> 01:05:55.679 yeahlum No Corona, the Texas flight thousand and something. I 1192 01:05:55.719 --> 01:05:57.440 was looking just last week. 1193 01:05:57.880 --> 01:05:58.119 Yeah. 1194 01:05:58.239 --> 01:06:03.199 Also, uh, just give for his liability if I get 1195 01:06:03.199 --> 01:06:06.880 another bee hive on my back. That's who is something? 1196 01:06:07.159 --> 01:06:10.679 What is the liability issues? The wife is just hysterical 1197 01:06:10.760 --> 01:06:15.639 about one of the mowers getting beast under something like 1198 01:06:15.719 --> 01:06:16.559 that or something. 1199 01:06:17.400 --> 01:06:22.679 Yeah, yeah, I understand you're talking to you. No, talk 1200 01:06:22.760 --> 01:06:27.159 to Paul Paul Fagala at the Bee Supply. He can 1201 01:06:27.199 --> 01:06:29.199 tell you and tell you all about those kind of 1202 01:06:29.199 --> 01:06:31.400 issues like people that want to put a beehive in 1203 01:06:31.440 --> 01:06:33.840 the backyard and they're in a neighborhood. Can you do it? 1204 01:06:33.880 --> 01:06:37.639 And answer is basically us, but he's more the expert 1205 01:06:37.679 --> 01:06:40.679 on that. Also, if you have trouble finding someone local, 1206 01:06:40.760 --> 01:06:45.760 called the Harris County Extension officeye agra Life Extension Office 1207 01:06:45.800 --> 01:06:50.559 in Harris County. Uh, they the horticulture folks there should 1208 01:06:50.639 --> 01:06:54.280 have access to a list of people that might be 1209 01:06:54.320 --> 01:06:58.679 willing to come out and capture a wild hive or 1210 01:06:58.800 --> 01:07:01.320 kill a wild hive, whichever you need to go about it. 1211 01:07:01.840 --> 01:07:04.119 But that would be that would be my answer number three. 1212 01:07:04.360 --> 01:07:06.639 And so I'll eat one one way or another. You 1213 01:07:06.719 --> 01:07:07.880 can get this under control. 1214 01:07:08.639 --> 01:07:10.760 Well, it's an easy rescue. All they've got to do 1215 01:07:10.840 --> 01:07:13.480 is click the wires and there the box. It's ready 1216 01:07:13.480 --> 01:07:17.119 to go. It's just they're busy this morning and this heat. 1217 01:07:17.400 --> 01:07:20.119 They're outside and it looks really like it's something out 1218 01:07:20.119 --> 01:07:22.559 of a horror movie because the bees are outside. No, 1219 01:07:22.719 --> 01:07:27.039 they're just cooling to hide down. Yeah, so I will 1220 01:07:27.079 --> 01:07:28.800 give a bee supes I called there. 1221 01:07:29.679 --> 01:07:35.679 I do appreciate it, thanks, sir, appreciate you very much. 1222 01:07:36.239 --> 01:07:38.880 Let's see where are we going next? Uh, do a 1223 01:07:38.920 --> 01:07:41.039 quick check on time we're going to go to Katie 1224 01:07:41.360 --> 01:07:45.199 and talk to Mark. Hello, Mark, good morning. 1225 01:07:46.199 --> 01:07:49.400 I was watering my yard this week and I noticed 1226 01:07:49.400 --> 01:07:53.199 a bunch of tiny tan moths, and my memory tells 1227 01:07:53.199 --> 01:07:55.199 me that might be a sign that I'm going to 1228 01:07:55.280 --> 01:07:56.440 get sid webworms. 1229 01:07:56.760 --> 01:07:57.400 Is that correct? 1230 01:07:57.400 --> 01:08:00.440 And if so, what do I do about it? 1231 01:08:00.519 --> 01:08:04.559 Well, sid webworms, before you see all the grass being eaten, 1232 01:08:04.639 --> 01:08:07.280 do appear as little moths When you walk across the lawn. 1233 01:08:07.400 --> 01:08:09.079 They come flying up out of the lawn. They just 1234 01:08:09.119 --> 01:08:10.760 go a little bit and then they settle back down 1235 01:08:10.800 --> 01:08:11.360 into the lawn. 1236 01:08:12.079 --> 01:08:15.199 But yeah, they are. 1237 01:08:15.079 --> 01:08:17.880 One of one hundred different moths that could be out 1238 01:08:17.880 --> 01:08:21.039 there doing that. So just because you see moths doesn't 1239 01:08:21.079 --> 01:08:24.880 mean you have side web worms. There is some good information. 1240 01:08:25.279 --> 01:08:27.840 In fact, I tear what I'm gonna I'm gonna post 1241 01:08:27.960 --> 01:08:30.720 something online to our Facebook page. This week, I name 1242 01:08:30.760 --> 01:08:33.920 and put it on the website about side webworms and 1243 01:08:34.520 --> 01:08:37.680 what to do if I were you go out at night, 1244 01:08:38.199 --> 01:08:40.119 get your little flashlight, get out on the hands and 1245 01:08:40.199 --> 01:08:43.640 knees and anywhere you see grass blades being eaten, and 1246 01:08:43.720 --> 01:08:47.239 they chew the sides of grass blades, They just chew 1247 01:08:47.279 --> 01:08:51.520 them up. But they're nocturnal. The caterpillars are nocturnal, and 1248 01:08:51.560 --> 01:08:54.600 you don't want to spray until you know you have 1249 01:08:54.680 --> 01:08:58.800 sid webworms be unnecessary. But when you do, then you 1250 01:08:58.840 --> 01:09:02.680 can put an appropriate insecticide spray down and shut them down. 1251 01:09:04.760 --> 01:09:08.319 You're a store out there, and Katie, they're going to 1252 01:09:08.439 --> 01:09:10.800 have a lot of different options for side web or. 1253 01:09:12.720 --> 01:09:14.560 A very cool things. 1254 01:09:15.920 --> 01:09:18.359 Yes, and I will get something if I get it 1255 01:09:18.399 --> 01:09:20.960 up on my website, I'll announce it on the air here. 1256 01:09:21.479 --> 01:09:24.279 But that that's something we need to do. But it's time, 1257 01:09:24.439 --> 01:09:26.359 it's the season when if we're going to happen, you'll 1258 01:09:26.359 --> 01:09:29.520 have them, but don't don't pull the trigger too quick 1259 01:09:29.640 --> 01:09:31.359 until you know you've got them. 1260 01:09:31.920 --> 01:09:34.760 Okay, But is it a spray and that's something granular 1261 01:09:34.800 --> 01:09:35.640 that you apply. 1262 01:09:37.199 --> 01:09:42.319 There there are granulars that insecticides, you know, the nitroposs 1263 01:09:42.319 --> 01:09:46.720 bug out is a granular. Then you wet the lawn 1264 01:09:46.920 --> 01:09:49.439 and it washes off, the granule gets downe and that 1265 01:09:49.680 --> 01:09:52.560 it's real good for chinch bugs. It will kill side 1266 01:09:52.560 --> 01:09:54.920 web worms. But a lot of time there are in 1267 01:09:54.960 --> 01:09:57.199 the thatch during the day and then they go out 1268 01:09:57.239 --> 01:09:59.560 and eat on the leaves. So another approach is to 1269 01:09:59.600 --> 01:10:02.800 spray the foliage of the grass. The grass weeds, and 1270 01:10:02.840 --> 01:10:05.359 when they come up and eat that, it gets them directly. 1271 01:10:05.479 --> 01:10:07.680 So there's there's more than one way to go about 1272 01:10:07.800 --> 01:10:11.520 controlling them. But on my online have you ever looked 1273 01:10:11.520 --> 01:10:16.159 at my lawn care schedules online by any chance? Yes? 1274 01:10:16.199 --> 01:10:16.399 I have. 1275 01:10:17.920 --> 01:10:20.479 Okay, So the lawn cair is of course fertilizing the 1276 01:10:20.479 --> 01:10:23.680 other one pest control. It lists when side web worms 1277 01:10:24.079 --> 01:10:28.119 tend to attack, if they attack this year, and it 1278 01:10:28.159 --> 01:10:30.239 has the products at the bottom that are all the 1279 01:10:30.239 --> 01:10:32.640 ones you would use to control them. 1280 01:10:33.039 --> 01:10:34.680 Okay, great, I'll go look at that again. 1281 01:10:36.079 --> 01:10:38.319 All right, you take care. Thanks a lot, appreciate that. 1282 01:10:38.359 --> 01:10:45.880 Thank you very much. I'm having trouble getting my trouble 1283 01:10:45.880 --> 01:10:48.680 getting my mouth to work here. Hey, for those of 1284 01:10:48.680 --> 01:10:52.319 you who are out on the west side of town, 1285 01:10:52.399 --> 01:10:58.359 your hometown garden center, your absolute destination, mom and pop 1286 01:10:58.520 --> 01:11:01.760 independent garden center, you need to go to Nelson Water 1287 01:11:02.000 --> 01:11:06.239 Gardens and Nursery, nursery and water gardens. They're in Katie. 1288 01:11:06.239 --> 01:11:08.800 You go out to Katie, you turn north on Katie 1289 01:11:08.800 --> 01:11:11.199 Fort Ben Road, and you almost throw a rock and 1290 01:11:11.279 --> 01:11:14.680 hit Nelson Water Nursery and water Gardens. From there. Of course, 1291 01:11:14.680 --> 01:11:18.279 they have nursery plants, they've got outstanding selection and a 1292 01:11:18.439 --> 01:11:20.439 lot of great deals right now. You know, this is 1293 01:11:20.479 --> 01:11:21.800 a time of the year when you can pick up 1294 01:11:21.840 --> 01:11:25.279 some really good deals and they are loaded up on 1295 01:11:25.439 --> 01:11:28.840 some things that save a dollar and get you some 1296 01:11:28.920 --> 01:11:31.239 quality plants. Bring them home, take care of them. You 1297 01:11:31.239 --> 01:11:33.359 can plan them now, you can wait and plant them 1298 01:11:33.399 --> 01:11:34.640 in the fall. If you want to hold on to 1299 01:11:34.720 --> 01:11:37.039 them and water, it's up to you. Kind of like 1300 01:11:37.279 --> 01:11:39.520 I was talking about my situation where I don't have 1301 01:11:39.600 --> 01:11:41.800 the beds ready yet. Well I got the plants. They're 1302 01:11:41.840 --> 01:11:44.960 just waiting to go into the beds. They have beautiful 1303 01:11:44.960 --> 01:11:47.479 water gardens supplies. I mean, do you want them to 1304 01:11:47.479 --> 01:11:50.239 come out and create a waterfall or one of those 1305 01:11:50.279 --> 01:11:55.079 disappearing fountains where the water just circulates through the beautiful 1306 01:11:55.199 --> 01:12:00.800 glazed pottery back into the rocky pebbles and things below 1307 01:12:00.840 --> 01:12:04.039 it back into the plant the fountain again, I can't 1308 01:12:04.039 --> 01:12:07.680 even talk. They've got that. They invented that. By the way, 1309 01:12:08.159 --> 01:12:10.079 if do you want to do it yourself, they can 1310 01:12:10.119 --> 01:12:12.239 sell you the stuff you need to do it yourself 1311 01:12:12.279 --> 01:12:13.560 and tell you how to do it if you want 1312 01:12:13.560 --> 01:12:15.680 to go that route. But I'll tell you they have 1313 01:12:15.760 --> 01:12:18.920 an excellent plant selection every time I go there, I'm surprised. Oh, 1314 01:12:18.920 --> 01:12:21.279 I didn't know you had that. And they're just they 1315 01:12:21.319 --> 01:12:25.920 just do first rate job. And summer is houseplant season 1316 01:12:26.520 --> 01:12:29.119 in the sense of we spend more time inside because 1317 01:12:29.159 --> 01:12:31.800 of the heat. You should see in the foyer when 1318 01:12:31.800 --> 01:12:34.039 you walk right into the store. Look at the houseplants. 1319 01:12:34.039 --> 01:12:39.000 For me, I mean it is beautiful. I like something 1320 01:12:39.079 --> 01:12:42.359 other than just green, and they have it. They've got 1321 01:12:42.399 --> 01:12:45.600 a lot of irrigations and colors and things and house 1322 01:12:45.640 --> 01:12:49.479 plants that you can choose. Nelson Watergarden and Nursery, Nelson 1323 01:12:49.560 --> 01:12:55.000 Watergardens dot com, Nelson Watergardens dot Com. Out there in 1324 01:12:55.079 --> 01:12:58.720 Katie Well, I hear the music playing, which means I 1325 01:12:58.920 --> 01:13:01.359 need to quit talking and we need to go to 1326 01:13:01.359 --> 01:13:04.079 copy our of the break bill in spring. You are 1327 01:13:04.119 --> 01:13:06.880 our first caller when we come back from break and 1328 01:13:07.319 --> 01:13:10.520 we'll go to you first. I just want to remind 1329 01:13:10.560 --> 01:13:15.359 you about my website, Gardening with Skip dot Com. There 1330 01:13:15.520 --> 01:13:19.000 you'll find information on controlling nut set a brand new publication, 1331 01:13:19.119 --> 01:13:21.159 two of them. As a matter of fact, you'll find 1332 01:13:21.199 --> 01:13:23.680 information on how to build a weed wiper so that 1333 01:13:23.800 --> 01:13:26.840 you can control weeds and hard to get spots. You 1334 01:13:26.920 --> 01:13:29.039 just need to go check it out. I think people 1335 01:13:29.159 --> 01:13:29.880 like what you're saying. 1336 01:13:29.880 --> 01:13:39.000 That orse any of the products or services advertised on 1337 01:13:39.039 --> 01:13:41.319 this program. 1338 01:13:41.359 --> 01:13:45.960 Welcome to kt r H Garden Line with Skip Richter's. 1339 01:13:53.920 --> 01:13:55.479 Just watch him as. 1340 01:14:00.520 --> 01:14:09.439 So many good things to see back again again. 1341 01:14:09.960 --> 01:14:11.319 They're not a sound. 1342 01:14:15.680 --> 01:14:16.399 The side. 1343 01:14:19.600 --> 01:14:24.479 Welcome back, Welcome back to guard Line. Glad you are 1344 01:14:24.520 --> 01:14:26.319 still with us this morning. We've got a lot to 1345 01:14:26.359 --> 01:14:29.399 talk about. There is plenty plenty to be talking about 1346 01:14:29.479 --> 01:14:33.159 right now. Uh last hour, we're talking about a product 1347 01:14:33.159 --> 01:14:37.399 called bug Out Max by Nitrophoss, and you know we're 1348 01:14:37.520 --> 01:14:41.760 discussing I think the call was about sod web worms 1349 01:14:41.800 --> 01:14:44.600 being a possible problem going on in that lawn. You know, 1350 01:14:44.720 --> 01:14:47.800 this is a season when chinchbugs and sod web worms 1351 01:14:47.840 --> 01:14:51.359 both are gonna be appearing. If they're going to appear 1352 01:14:51.359 --> 01:14:53.479 in your lawn, and so it's it's the time they 1353 01:14:53.640 --> 01:14:58.920 like the biggest population. There's several generations of chinchbugs through 1354 01:14:58.960 --> 01:15:01.439 the course of the summer seat and the first one 1355 01:15:01.680 --> 01:15:04.359 very very small. But then when you have the second one, 1356 01:15:04.439 --> 01:15:08.479 or in some areas even a third, that's when you 1357 01:15:08.560 --> 01:15:10.239 start to see the long brining out and you got 1358 01:15:10.239 --> 01:15:12.560 big problems and that's when you need to step in 1359 01:15:12.800 --> 01:15:15.039 very quickly. So you got a spot in your lawn 1360 01:15:15.119 --> 01:15:17.319 and it looks like it needs water, and you water 1361 01:15:17.399 --> 01:15:20.479 and it doesn't get better. Get on your hands and knees, 1362 01:15:20.560 --> 01:15:22.920 part the part the grass and look for a little 1363 01:15:22.960 --> 01:15:26.039 black and white bugs about an eighth of an inch long. 1364 01:15:26.119 --> 01:15:27.640 You go on line and see what they look like. 1365 01:15:28.279 --> 01:15:30.439 But if you got chinchbugs, you need to treat sooner 1366 01:15:30.560 --> 01:15:32.880 rather than later because they kill grass. We have a 1367 01:15:32.960 --> 01:15:35.680 lot of problems in our grass that don't kill the grass, 1368 01:15:36.159 --> 01:15:38.960 but chinchbugs kill the grass and they only get worse, 1369 01:15:38.960 --> 01:15:40.920 and you got to step in soon. And night Fruss 1370 01:15:40.920 --> 01:15:44.840 bug Out Max is designed to do just that. It 1371 01:15:44.880 --> 01:15:48.039 goes down it's granules, they go down into the thatch area. 1372 01:15:48.119 --> 01:15:51.680 Then you water it and the insecticide comes off of 1373 01:15:51.680 --> 01:15:54.319 those granules and it's now present out in the thatch. 1374 01:15:54.359 --> 01:15:57.239 So stuff crawling around in the thatch that would be 1375 01:15:57.720 --> 01:16:01.079 the side web worms in the in the daytime, they 1376 01:16:01.159 --> 01:16:03.520 hide down there and they come out at night, and 1377 01:16:03.560 --> 01:16:06.039 the chinch bugs are down there all the time. And 1378 01:16:06.359 --> 01:16:08.880 that is going to be an effective product. When you 1379 01:16:09.039 --> 01:16:12.760 use nightro Vous bugout Max, you're going to have success 1380 01:16:12.800 --> 01:16:15.600 in getting those under control, and you can find Night 1381 01:16:15.640 --> 01:16:18.680 of Fuss bug Out Max. You can find in a 1382 01:16:18.720 --> 01:16:21.680 lot of places. Ace Hardware and Sinkle Ranch carries that 1383 01:16:21.800 --> 01:16:26.039 particular product, a tascaseda Ace on Timber Forest Drive carries it. 1384 01:16:26.239 --> 01:16:29.680 Lake Hardware and Clute and Jim's Hardware up in Montgomery, 1385 01:16:30.159 --> 01:16:33.439 they both are all carry Night Fuss Bug Out Max. 1386 01:16:34.199 --> 01:16:38.560 I'm going to head now to Bill in Spring, Texas. Hello, Bill, 1387 01:16:38.640 --> 01:16:39.760 Welcome to garden Line. 1388 01:16:40.800 --> 01:16:43.800 Good morning Skip. I have a question about a high 1389 01:16:43.800 --> 01:16:48.960 biscus that I just repotted. It was doing very well 1390 01:16:49.199 --> 01:16:52.960 and it has blooms on it like crazy, But the 1391 01:16:53.000 --> 01:17:00.600 blooms are not opening up. They just come to top 1392 01:17:00.720 --> 01:17:02.840 look like they're going to open, and then they just 1393 01:17:02.960 --> 01:17:05.319 fall off and die. What did I do? 1394 01:17:06.079 --> 01:17:13.640 Hmm, that's very interesting. Uh, nothing you did? I think 1395 01:17:14.800 --> 01:17:17.960 you may be we may be looking at some insect 1396 01:17:18.199 --> 01:17:21.199 feeding inside. There's a thing called threaps that can feed 1397 01:17:21.279 --> 01:17:24.720 inside flowers and cause problems. I've not I have a 1398 01:17:24.760 --> 01:17:28.159 tropical hibiscus and I have not had problems with them 1399 01:17:28.199 --> 01:17:30.840 not opening up. Sometime they will abord a bloom if 1400 01:17:30.840 --> 01:17:34.680 they go through a stress. If you have like are 1401 01:17:34.720 --> 01:17:39.680 these in containers bill in the ground in contain. Okay, 1402 01:17:39.800 --> 01:17:42.399 so in a container. Yeah, mine's in a container too, 1403 01:17:42.840 --> 01:17:45.319 And I've got mine. I had it in an area 1404 01:17:45.399 --> 01:17:47.920 that was just the full brunt of the western sun 1405 01:17:48.199 --> 01:17:50.680 for hours and hours, and I moved it to a 1406 01:17:50.720 --> 01:17:53.640 little more protected spot because I couldn't watered enough to 1407 01:17:53.720 --> 01:17:56.720 keep that container so adequately moist, and just even a 1408 01:17:56.760 --> 01:18:01.319 temporary little drought period there, they'll they'll abort bloom. So 1409 01:18:01.359 --> 01:18:03.039 you may be looking at that. You may be looking 1410 01:18:03.039 --> 01:18:06.039 at a little insight called thrips. If you get some 1411 01:18:06.119 --> 01:18:08.680 blooms that you know, okay, this one is gonna open, 1412 01:18:08.800 --> 01:18:11.159 but it's you know, it hadn't turned brown or hadn't 1413 01:18:11.159 --> 01:18:15.359 started dying yet. Just take it and kind of put 1414 01:18:15.399 --> 01:18:17.800 it over a white piece of paper and just tap 1415 01:18:17.920 --> 01:18:20.880 the bloom and see what falls out. If you see 1416 01:18:20.920 --> 01:18:25.479 some little, tiny, skinny, scrawny things that are hopping around 1417 01:18:25.479 --> 01:18:29.840 down in there, that is thrips. And they can affect ballooms. Generally, 1418 01:18:29.880 --> 01:18:32.760 they don't cause a hibiscus bloom to abort, though I 1419 01:18:32.840 --> 01:18:34.399 think it's more of a water problem. 1420 01:18:35.479 --> 01:18:42.960 Okay, all right, Well that I've read some about some 1421 01:18:43.399 --> 01:18:46.640 cage and high biscus and they're done excellent. This is 1422 01:18:46.880 --> 01:18:51.640 just a regular gorgeous yes. And but it's said in 1423 01:18:51.680 --> 01:18:54.159 there that high biscus like to be root bound. And 1424 01:18:54.199 --> 01:18:59.000 I'm just wondering if it's maybe because I just repotted 1425 01:18:59.039 --> 01:19:01.920 that into a large your pot. 1426 01:19:04.159 --> 01:19:07.720 Well, that it's more of a thing where plants like 1427 01:19:07.840 --> 01:19:10.720 bouba and villia is one that we say needs to 1428 01:19:10.720 --> 01:19:12.880 be a little or does better when routebount. It's just 1429 01:19:12.880 --> 01:19:15.840 because you get them in a big, luxurious growing soil 1430 01:19:15.880 --> 01:19:19.079 and they just go vegetative and you know, buy them 1431 01:19:19.119 --> 01:19:20.680 settling in and blooming better. 1432 01:19:21.279 --> 01:19:21.520 Uh. 1433 01:19:21.560 --> 01:19:27.920 And so I think, no, you're you're repotting it unless 1434 01:19:28.039 --> 01:19:30.319 you lost some roots in the repotting. Maybe they dried 1435 01:19:30.399 --> 01:19:32.039 out because you can get it in the new container 1436 01:19:32.079 --> 01:19:33.880 fast enough, or you didn't get it watered in real 1437 01:19:33.960 --> 01:19:37.600 good or something. That's all gonna fix itself. Just just 1438 01:19:37.680 --> 01:19:41.560 start providing good soakings on regular bases. Maybe a little 1439 01:19:41.560 --> 01:19:44.319 boost of fertilizer wouldn't hurt. And I think it's going 1440 01:19:44.399 --> 01:19:45.319 to turn around for you. 1441 01:19:46.159 --> 01:19:48.479 All right, Well, thank you, apprechie. 1442 01:19:49.199 --> 01:19:51.640 All right, yeah, yes, sir, thank you for the call. 1443 01:19:51.760 --> 01:19:58.079 I appreciate that. Bye bye, uh Landscaper's Pride is a 1444 01:19:58.119 --> 01:20:02.079 company I mentioned them earlier as a company that's those 1445 01:20:02.159 --> 01:20:06.359 quality soil and maltz products. And you know, summer's the 1446 01:20:06.399 --> 01:20:08.680 time to have mulching, and they've got all kinds of mulches. 1447 01:20:08.720 --> 01:20:11.680 They've got, you know, cedar molt, Cyprus molts, they ground 1448 01:20:11.720 --> 01:20:15.359 hardwood mulches, and pine bark malts are most popular one 1449 01:20:15.359 --> 01:20:18.439 and more. But they also have high quality soil mixes. 1450 01:20:18.520 --> 01:20:21.439 Gardener's Magic is an organic pine based blend. It's got 1451 01:20:21.520 --> 01:20:25.119 humis in it, screened pine composted rice holts and a 1452 01:20:25.239 --> 01:20:28.520 chicken pellet fertilizer gives you about three months feeding with that. 1453 01:20:28.680 --> 01:20:30.960 It's ideal for raised beds and you can use it 1454 01:20:31.000 --> 01:20:34.840 in containers and it does super well too. Mushroom Compost 1455 01:20:34.960 --> 01:20:38.720 is regionally sourced, as are their other products, and it's 1456 01:20:38.760 --> 01:20:42.359 composted with age pine and it Mushroom compost is just 1457 01:20:42.479 --> 01:20:45.039 rocket fuel to give plants a boost to get them 1458 01:20:45.039 --> 01:20:50.159 going healthy. Soil compost is made with one recycled composted 1459 01:20:50.199 --> 01:20:53.359 plant material. It's got a neutral pH and it just 1460 01:20:53.560 --> 01:20:57.960 is an excellent product in general for amending and improving 1461 01:20:58.000 --> 01:21:01.039 any soil. And then black humus, dark and organic mixed. 1462 01:21:01.079 --> 01:21:04.960 It's compassed at Pineburg based, very very nicely screened. It's 1463 01:21:05.000 --> 01:21:08.439 got a loamy topsoil in it which helps hold water 1464 01:21:08.560 --> 01:21:10.760 in the soil. It's good for putting in a new 1465 01:21:10.760 --> 01:21:14.399 bed or really most any gardening situation you're looking at. 1466 01:21:14.439 --> 01:21:18.319 And all that's from Landscaper's Pride. Widely available products. You 1467 01:21:18.359 --> 01:21:21.800 can go online Landscaperspride dot com and find out where 1468 01:21:21.840 --> 01:21:23.239 you can get them. But I'll just tell you this. 1469 01:21:23.359 --> 01:21:25.920 It's a lot of places widely available here in the 1470 01:21:25.920 --> 01:21:30.039 Greater Houston area. Let's end out now. I'll tell you 1471 01:21:30.079 --> 01:21:33.079 what before before we do, Curtis, I was about to 1472 01:21:33.199 --> 01:21:34.800 move to you. I've got to run to it. I'm 1473 01:21:34.880 --> 01:21:37.199 up against a break here. I'll be right back and 1474 01:21:37.239 --> 01:21:41.119 you'll be first up. You can put on your lawns. 1475 01:21:41.159 --> 01:21:46.319 It has a good boost of nitrogen and stimulates biological activity. 1476 01:21:46.840 --> 01:21:49.720 Sweegering Sweegering for Nait Fross is an example of that 1477 01:21:49.800 --> 01:21:52.560 kind of product. It's got eleven percent nitrogen. It is 1478 01:21:52.680 --> 01:21:58.439 on a molasses based molasses based so organic gardeners know 1479 01:21:58.640 --> 01:22:01.479 you put molasses on the soil well. That carbon is 1480 01:22:01.640 --> 01:22:07.439 rocket fuel for stimulating beneficial microbial development. For example, bacteria. 1481 01:22:07.560 --> 01:22:11.119 Beneficial bacteria in the soil feed on that carbon and 1482 01:22:11.159 --> 01:22:14.760 it really kicks them into high gear. Nitrofoss. Sweet Green 1483 01:22:15.520 --> 01:22:18.520 is available widely all over the Houston area, as are 1484 01:22:18.600 --> 01:22:20.479 other night foss products. You're going to find it at 1485 01:22:20.479 --> 01:22:24.359 Shades of Texas up in the woodlands, for example, Enchanted 1486 01:22:24.439 --> 01:22:28.880 Gardens out there in Richmond. Rosenberg is going to carry 1487 01:22:28.920 --> 01:22:32.079 that one also, as well as to Fishers Hardware, the 1488 01:22:32.079 --> 01:22:35.600 one in southeaston on Southmore, the one over and Laporte 1489 01:22:35.680 --> 01:22:39.359 on South Broadway Street. Both of those Fishers Hardware, you're 1490 01:22:39.399 --> 01:22:43.680 going to find night foss products like sweet Green. Let's 1491 01:22:43.680 --> 01:22:46.920 go to the phones and we're going to now go 1492 01:22:46.960 --> 01:22:50.680 to Friends Wood and talk to Curtis. Hello Curtis, Welcome 1493 01:22:50.680 --> 01:22:52.039 to garden Line. 1494 01:22:52.560 --> 01:23:00.760 Good morning, Skip. I have a my home has been 1495 01:23:01.000 --> 01:23:04.720 raised and I have now have a crawl space under 1496 01:23:04.800 --> 01:23:11.239 it and the surrounding wall is a cement block with 1497 01:23:12.319 --> 01:23:17.760 a sixteen by eight inch vents in it, and one 1498 01:23:17.800 --> 01:23:23.159 of those vents has been knocked out and apparently the 1499 01:23:23.239 --> 01:23:28.359 possums and raccoons have decided that's a nice place to 1500 01:23:28.399 --> 01:23:28.880 move in. 1501 01:23:30.439 --> 01:23:33.079 Well, I'm sure they appreciate you creating that spot for them. 1502 01:23:35.720 --> 01:23:39.920 Well, I want to close it back off, but I 1503 01:23:39.960 --> 01:23:42.279 don't want to close it off with them in there 1504 01:23:43.520 --> 01:23:48.640 and have them die and the smell and everything else. 1505 01:23:48.800 --> 01:23:53.319 Is there any suggestions for getting them out of there, 1506 01:23:53.399 --> 01:23:56.920 knowing that they're out of there before I seal it up. 1507 01:23:58.479 --> 01:24:03.239 Yeah, that's a that's a good question. Boy. I don't 1508 01:24:03.279 --> 01:24:06.520 know how you would know they're not in there. I 1509 01:24:06.520 --> 01:24:09.960 guess you know, if you if you had something like 1510 01:24:09.960 --> 01:24:11.720 a little board that they had to push over to 1511 01:24:11.800 --> 01:24:15.520 come out through that hole, if you put the board 1512 01:24:15.600 --> 01:24:19.239 up at night then or or during the day, then 1513 01:24:19.279 --> 01:24:21.640 maybe you could see that they had knocked it down 1514 01:24:21.680 --> 01:24:23.880 and gone through or something. But there could be more 1515 01:24:23.960 --> 01:24:27.279 than one, and that wouldn't that wouldn't really do the trick. 1516 01:24:27.520 --> 01:24:31.479 Well, I've set up a game camera and I've seen 1517 01:24:32.039 --> 01:24:35.279 two raccoons and one possum come out of there. 1518 01:24:36.880 --> 01:24:41.319 Okay, huh. And how big is this area underneath there? 1519 01:24:43.600 --> 01:24:46.600 Well, it's under the whole house two thousand square. 1520 01:24:46.279 --> 01:24:51.520 Feet oh okay, the whole nine yards Okay. Yeah. Other 1521 01:24:51.600 --> 01:24:55.199 than having somebody go under there and check, which is 1522 01:24:55.319 --> 01:25:00.000 going to be a task, right, I would I don't 1523 01:25:00.079 --> 01:25:01.960 no way to tell you to know if they're out 1524 01:25:02.039 --> 01:25:07.199 or not. Uh. There is a publication on possum control 1525 01:25:07.880 --> 01:25:11.880 uh that's available on the agro Life Learn website. It's 1526 01:25:11.960 --> 01:25:16.520 Agrolife Learn one word A E G R I L 1527 01:25:16.560 --> 01:25:19.520 I F E L E A R n uh and 1528 01:25:20.199 --> 01:25:23.359 basically what they are going to recommend in that publication 1529 01:25:23.479 --> 01:25:26.520 it's free. By the way, I'm sorry I started to 1530 01:25:26.520 --> 01:25:29.079 give you the website and I didn't finish. Agrolife Learn 1531 01:25:29.319 --> 01:25:33.840 dot T A m U which stands for Texas A 1532 01:25:33.960 --> 01:25:37.560 and M University dot E E d U which stands 1533 01:25:37.600 --> 01:25:38.239 for education. 1534 01:25:38.960 --> 01:25:39.119 Uh. 1535 01:25:39.199 --> 01:25:41.399 So agro Life Learning now that what they're going to 1536 01:25:41.399 --> 01:25:46.199 tell you basically is, uh, live trapping, you know things 1537 01:25:46.319 --> 01:25:50.760 like that. The problem is you you have to put 1538 01:25:50.800 --> 01:25:52.840 them into another get them out of there and into 1539 01:25:52.880 --> 01:25:55.600 another area. So that can be a little bit interesting 1540 01:25:55.680 --> 01:25:59.000 when you've got an upset possumer raccoon and one of 1541 01:25:59.000 --> 01:26:01.079 those like have a art live traps. 1542 01:26:01.960 --> 01:26:06.760 But if I if I trap some, the city will 1543 01:26:06.760 --> 01:26:12.640 come and take them, Oh will they Okay, yeah, the 1544 01:26:13.199 --> 01:26:16.399 relocates into one of the one of the parks. 1545 01:26:16.720 --> 01:26:19.159 Okay, Well that's what I would do. 1546 01:26:19.680 --> 01:26:20.000 Uh. 1547 01:26:20.079 --> 01:26:22.520 You know, they're they're going to come to various kinds 1548 01:26:22.520 --> 01:26:25.119 of baits any pretty much any type of food. If 1549 01:26:25.159 --> 01:26:29.239 you use fruit like apple, pear, banana in the bait, 1550 01:26:30.039 --> 01:26:31.960 you don't tend to get like a dog or cat 1551 01:26:32.000 --> 01:26:36.640 that goes into that trap. So that that's one way 1552 01:26:36.680 --> 01:26:40.880 to kind of interest the possum without interesting the the 1553 01:26:40.920 --> 01:26:41.840 neighborhood pets. 1554 01:26:44.960 --> 01:26:48.720 Okay, I understand that's good to suggest. 1555 01:26:48.359 --> 01:26:51.880 All right, okay, yeah, unless, well, I'm not going to 1556 01:26:51.920 --> 01:26:54.000 say that on the air. I'm sorry. I was about 1557 01:26:54.039 --> 01:26:54.760 to say. 1558 01:26:55.600 --> 01:26:58.439 No, I'm not going to shoot him. 1559 01:27:00.279 --> 01:27:02.560 No, no, no, I wasn't gonna say that. No, We're 1560 01:27:02.560 --> 01:27:04.560 gonna look, I'm gonna I know how to quit when 1561 01:27:04.560 --> 01:27:07.720 I'm behind. Hey, Curtis, thank you, thank you for the call. 1562 01:27:07.840 --> 01:27:13.000 Good luck getting those possums under control. Boy, that is hilarious. 1563 01:27:13.399 --> 01:27:15.960 Uh let's go now to Paarland and we're gonna talk 1564 01:27:16.000 --> 01:27:19.000 to Archie. Hey, Archie morning, Skip. 1565 01:27:20.000 --> 01:27:23.119 I'm gonna put out some fertilizer today and it's gonna 1566 01:27:23.119 --> 01:27:26.880 be organic. But I've got bags of Microlife sixty four 1567 01:27:26.920 --> 01:27:30.800 and I've also got bags of Microlife Humates plus. Which 1568 01:27:30.840 --> 01:27:32.640 do you think would be better to put out today? 1569 01:27:33.560 --> 01:27:33.680 Uh? 1570 01:27:34.600 --> 01:27:39.319 Have you used Teammates plus this year yet? No? No, Okay, 1571 01:27:39.399 --> 01:27:42.840 I would, I would do both because they do different things. 1572 01:27:43.279 --> 01:27:48.520 He makes it. Yeah, both. The sixty four is your 1573 01:27:48.640 --> 01:27:52.319 organic basic three one two fertilizer that is outstanding and 1574 01:27:52.359 --> 01:27:56.039 works very very well. I would, I would do that. Uh. 1575 01:27:55.720 --> 01:27:58.239 The the humates plus has a little potassium in it. 1576 01:27:58.319 --> 01:28:02.000 But your primer it's it's like hunt compost concentrated into 1577 01:28:02.000 --> 01:28:04.520 a bag. It's you know, you can take a big 1578 01:28:04.600 --> 01:28:08.039 old chunk of leaves and tournamented composts, and you can 1579 01:28:08.079 --> 01:28:10.720 take that big old chunk of composts and you turn 1580 01:28:10.760 --> 01:28:12.520 it into humans and now you got very little of 1581 01:28:12.560 --> 01:28:16.680 it because it's the final decomposition process. So that's something 1582 01:28:16.720 --> 01:28:20.720 you put out periodically just to add the humus to 1583 01:28:20.800 --> 01:28:24.239 the soil, just to improve slowly over time soil condition 1584 01:28:25.039 --> 01:28:27.760 down there in the lawn. So it think of it 1585 01:28:27.800 --> 01:28:31.000 as separate from fertilizing. It's kind of a different purpose. 1586 01:28:31.039 --> 01:28:33.079 Although the purpose of both is to make your lawn 1587 01:28:33.159 --> 01:28:35.840 nice and healthy. It's working a little bit in a 1588 01:28:35.840 --> 01:28:38.880 different way. So you can use them both and there's 1589 01:28:38.960 --> 01:28:40.479 not an overlap issue there. 1590 01:28:41.960 --> 01:28:42.119 Now. 1591 01:28:42.159 --> 01:28:44.079 I did put some as of mind out earlier in 1592 01:28:44.159 --> 01:28:46.359 the summer, back in early June. 1593 01:28:46.640 --> 01:28:49.520 That's okay, right, and that would give you some of 1594 01:28:49.560 --> 01:28:53.079 the micro nutrients, which is good. Sounds like you're doing 1595 01:28:53.119 --> 01:28:55.399 a lot of good things there, got a lot of great. 1596 01:28:55.119 --> 01:28:57.560 Product as long as my energy holds up. 1597 01:29:00.319 --> 01:29:03.279 All right. My neighbor has the same problem. 1598 01:29:03.359 --> 01:29:07.159 The lady call this morning about where he had a 1599 01:29:07.199 --> 01:29:09.800 bunch of fencing that was down and he piled up 1600 01:29:09.840 --> 01:29:12.000 the fencing and the city just picked it up yesterday. 1601 01:29:12.439 --> 01:29:14.920 But I mean, the little grass looks dead where it's 1602 01:29:14.960 --> 01:29:18.399 been there for weeks land land there. If if he 1603 01:29:18.680 --> 01:29:23.039 if he sprays that area with like something like the 1604 01:29:23.479 --> 01:29:25.119 has to grow, would that be good? 1605 01:29:28.199 --> 01:29:32.439 Uh, well, if he's got living grass runners in that area, 1606 01:29:32.640 --> 01:29:36.640 that would be good. If it's truly all dead, you 1607 01:29:36.760 --> 01:29:38.880 got to get the plants in there to apply the 1608 01:29:38.880 --> 01:29:42.119 has to grow to, meaning you got and get it 1609 01:29:42.159 --> 01:29:42.560 ridded in. 1610 01:29:43.439 --> 01:29:46.159 Yeah, it looks mushy to me, you know, kind of 1611 01:29:46.199 --> 01:29:46.880 just yellow. 1612 01:29:46.960 --> 01:29:51.119 It could be mushy. Yeah, that yellow and mushy is all. 1613 01:29:51.239 --> 01:29:54.319 It's all. Okay, Just get down on your hands and knees, 1614 01:29:54.359 --> 01:29:56.720 look at the runners and if the runners have some 1615 01:29:56.840 --> 01:30:00.039 green to them, then they're going to resprought foliage and 1616 01:30:00.039 --> 01:30:02.239 you'll be back in business in time, and that has 1617 01:30:02.319 --> 01:30:04.520 to grow would be a very hast I would use 1618 01:30:04.560 --> 01:30:12.359 the Hast grow for lawns or the super supergrow. You 1619 01:30:12.359 --> 01:30:14.479 could use that. There's nothing wrong with using it. But 1620 01:30:14.520 --> 01:30:17.640 the hods is going to have a three one. It's 1621 01:30:17.640 --> 01:30:22.840 gonna have a fertilize boost. Okay, Well that's what I 1622 01:30:22.920 --> 01:30:25.159 got you can use. I'm just telling you what the 1623 01:30:25.159 --> 01:30:27.920 has to grow for lawns. You're getting the fertilization, all right, 1624 01:30:28.000 --> 01:30:29.119 address to the other. 1625 01:30:29.239 --> 01:30:31.600 But I had an extra you know, container of that. 1626 01:30:31.680 --> 01:30:32.800 I was just gonna get it to them so I 1627 01:30:32.800 --> 01:30:33.760 could put it out there. 1628 01:30:35.079 --> 01:30:38.479 Anywhere you got plants, you can use it. That's okay, 1629 01:30:38.520 --> 01:30:42.640 that's for sure. All right, Thanks so much. Good you had. 1630 01:30:42.720 --> 01:30:46.399 Thanks Arch appreciate that a lot. Uh yeah, a lot 1631 01:30:46.399 --> 01:30:49.479 of good has to grow products and other products from Medina. 1632 01:30:50.119 --> 01:30:50.239 Uh. 1633 01:30:50.399 --> 01:30:52.199 When was the last time you're up at Plants for 1634 01:30:52.199 --> 01:30:54.840 All Seasons? I was visiting with Sherry and Kelly at 1635 01:30:54.880 --> 01:30:59.800 the Texas Nurcery and Landscape Association show just the other day. Boy, 1636 01:30:59.880 --> 01:31:03.880 I teya that Plants for All Seasons is the kind 1637 01:31:03.920 --> 01:31:06.199 of garden center where you go in to get all 1638 01:31:06.279 --> 01:31:10.119 kinds of quality plants, quality products to help boost those 1639 01:31:10.119 --> 01:31:14.920 plants like fertilizers and incredible advice. And so you walk 1640 01:31:15.000 --> 01:31:16.840 in there. You got a bag, you got a picture, 1641 01:31:17.000 --> 01:31:20.479 some plant, this is dying. What's this bug? Here's a weed? 1642 01:31:20.520 --> 01:31:22.920 How do I kill it? Whatever your question is, walk 1643 01:31:22.920 --> 01:31:25.479 in there, because they know what they're talking about. The 1644 01:31:25.520 --> 01:31:29.000 min arounds is nineteen seventy three. They're right there, just 1645 01:31:29.159 --> 01:31:33.000 north of Luetta on FM two forty nine, which is 1646 01:31:33.039 --> 01:31:36.600 Tomball Parkway, Tomboll Parkway. And you go in there and 1647 01:31:36.640 --> 01:31:38.920 you're going to find the quality and the help. By 1648 01:31:39.000 --> 01:31:41.840 the way, too, that you need to have success. That 1649 01:31:41.960 --> 01:31:45.520 is very very important. And Plants for All Seasons dot 1650 01:31:45.560 --> 01:31:50.199 Com is the website. Plants for All Seasons dot Com. 1651 01:31:50.239 --> 01:31:53.079 That's the website. And then what is the phone number? 1652 01:31:53.239 --> 01:31:58.119 Seven excuse me two eight one three seven six sixteen 1653 01:31:58.199 --> 01:32:04.640 forty six one three seven six sixteen forty six. It's 1654 01:32:04.640 --> 01:32:09.000 as simple as that. Plants for All Seasons dot Com. 1655 01:32:09.359 --> 01:32:11.439 I was love going by there and visiting with them 1656 01:32:11.439 --> 01:32:14.079 because they are a wealth of information. By the way, 1657 01:32:14.680 --> 01:32:17.960 they've got tomato plants, all kinds of good quality ones, 1658 01:32:18.159 --> 01:32:21.079 you know, like sun gold for example, the beautiful old 1659 01:32:21.159 --> 01:32:25.560 cherry yellow cherry tomato they've got beautiful foliage plants beautiful, 1660 01:32:25.600 --> 01:32:28.039 but goona. It's just all kinds of things. There's always 1661 01:32:28.079 --> 01:32:31.279 something that you need to be planting from plants for 1662 01:32:31.359 --> 01:32:34.319 all seasons, every month of the year. Head out there, 1663 01:32:34.880 --> 01:32:38.920 check them out. You are listening to Garden Line and 1664 01:32:39.079 --> 01:32:42.640 we're here to help you have more success in whatever 1665 01:32:42.680 --> 01:32:44.159 you're trying to grow. If you want to give us 1666 01:32:44.159 --> 01:32:47.199 a call seven one three two one two fifty eight 1667 01:32:47.560 --> 01:32:50.840 seventy four seven one three two one two fifty eight 1668 01:32:50.960 --> 01:32:53.520 seventy four, you can get on the board with Chris 1669 01:32:53.600 --> 01:32:55.640 and you can be the first up when we come 1670 01:32:55.680 --> 01:32:58.039 back from break, which we're about to head to in 1671 01:32:58.359 --> 01:33:02.079 just one moment. I want to remind you of something 1672 01:33:02.159 --> 01:33:05.359 coming up or tell you about something coming up. The 1673 01:33:05.479 --> 01:33:08.800 second Annual Strawberry Jamboree is going to be down in 1674 01:33:08.880 --> 01:33:12.880 Lake Jackson, Texas at the Lake Jackson Civic Center. It'll 1675 01:33:12.920 --> 01:33:17.640 be September twenty first, from eight to twelve. September twenty first, 1676 01:33:17.680 --> 01:33:21.039 from eight to twelve. There are everything you want to 1677 01:33:21.079 --> 01:33:24.119 know about success with strawberries is going to be in 1678 01:33:24.159 --> 01:33:26.640 that program and you need to be doing the planting. 1679 01:33:26.640 --> 01:33:30.119 In October there'll be the opportunity to order some strawberry plants, 1680 01:33:30.119 --> 01:33:33.920 if you'll be that wonderful speakers a freest or a 1681 01:33:33.960 --> 01:33:38.479 strawberry shortcake contest. Now there, that alone is worth the 1682 01:33:38.520 --> 01:33:40.560 reason to go. I'll tell you more about it when 1683 01:33:40.560 --> 01:33:42.159 I come back. Right now, we're going to take a 1684 01:33:42.239 --> 01:33:45.720 quick break the guard Line. We are glad to have 1685 01:33:45.800 --> 01:33:47.439 you with us today. Hey, we're going to go out 1686 01:33:47.479 --> 01:33:50.199 to Missouri City now and talk to Paul. Hey, Paul, 1687 01:33:50.239 --> 01:33:51.279 welcome to guard Line. 1688 01:33:52.479 --> 01:33:56.479 Pull skip I cold last week. We're regarding this issue, 1689 01:33:56.479 --> 01:33:59.880 but I need some follow up. I had an area 1690 01:34:00.279 --> 01:34:05.600 maybe's three by eight of bermuda grass that I wanted 1691 01:34:05.640 --> 01:34:09.199 to kill, so I sprayed around up on it, killed it, 1692 01:34:10.039 --> 01:34:12.520 and over the last two days, I've been digging all 1693 01:34:12.600 --> 01:34:18.600 that up, going after the roots deep with a pickaxe, 1694 01:34:19.239 --> 01:34:22.800 you know, swinging down from over my head and digging 1695 01:34:22.880 --> 01:34:25.920 down deep. And I've rotated all the dirt out. But 1696 01:34:26.880 --> 01:34:29.720 now I want to make sure I've killed all the roots. 1697 01:34:30.479 --> 01:34:32.319 I pulled up a lot of roots, but there's still 1698 01:34:32.399 --> 01:34:38.079 a little fragment here, like residual stuff. Can I spray 1699 01:34:38.199 --> 01:34:40.760 again with round up and then maybe in a week's 1700 01:34:40.840 --> 01:34:43.399 time come back with the sod. 1701 01:34:43.439 --> 01:34:43.680 Or what. 1702 01:34:45.800 --> 01:34:47.880 Well, not yet. Here's what you need to do. First 1703 01:34:47.880 --> 01:34:50.079 of all, you want the area to be all smoothed out, 1704 01:34:50.560 --> 01:34:54.920 so pickaxe generally leaves it pretty rough, so any kind 1705 01:34:54.960 --> 01:34:58.680 of raking breaking it up, smoothing it out. Then water it, 1706 01:34:58.960 --> 01:35:03.000 put in air, put sprinkler on that bare dirt area, 1707 01:35:03.319 --> 01:35:05.600 that whole area, and your neighbors are going to talk 1708 01:35:05.600 --> 01:35:08.239 about you because you're water and dirt and but that's okay. 1709 01:35:08.319 --> 01:35:13.079 They talk about us anyway. The reason your water in 1710 01:35:13.159 --> 01:35:17.000 the dirt is to get any bermuda, grass or other 1711 01:35:17.319 --> 01:35:20.520 weeds that are under the soil that are gonna that 1712 01:35:20.600 --> 01:35:22.720 are perennials that are going to sprout out. It's it's 1713 01:35:22.800 --> 01:35:25.359 to encourage them to come on up and show their face. 1714 01:35:26.159 --> 01:35:29.079 And once you have some foliage on those weeds, and 1715 01:35:29.279 --> 01:35:31.680 I doubt you got all the bermuda with one spray, 1716 01:35:32.359 --> 01:35:36.039 but that'll be your time to know, then spray it again. 1717 01:35:36.560 --> 01:35:36.640 Uh. 1718 01:35:36.880 --> 01:35:40.479 And then once you've sprayed it, you can you know, 1719 01:35:40.560 --> 01:35:43.640 within the week you can lay sod down in that area. 1720 01:35:43.760 --> 01:35:45.319 It's not going to be a problem for the sod. 1721 01:35:45.439 --> 01:35:48.119 You just want the soil to be loosened in the 1722 01:35:48.239 --> 01:35:51.319 surface so that sod contacts it really well. 1723 01:35:53.159 --> 01:35:55.960 Okay, so I can water it. But then about how 1724 01:35:56.079 --> 01:35:58.239 long good do you think it's going to take before 1725 01:35:59.359 --> 01:36:02.239 some bermuta it just starts to show your face because 1726 01:36:02.279 --> 01:36:03.399 this could take a month. 1727 01:36:03.520 --> 01:36:09.800 It depends probably not. The bottom line is it depends 1728 01:36:09.840 --> 01:36:12.279 on how much of a bermuda sprig you got under there. 1729 01:36:12.319 --> 01:36:13.960 I mean, if you had a perfectly healthy one, it 1730 01:36:14.000 --> 01:36:16.479 would pop up in a few days. If you've got 1731 01:36:16.560 --> 01:36:18.840 one that you know, you really knocked it back, but 1732 01:36:18.920 --> 01:36:22.199 it kind of comes back to life and not to life, 1733 01:36:22.239 --> 01:36:26.439 but it starts to regroup and come back. That could 1734 01:36:26.439 --> 01:36:29.479 take a couple of weeks before you see it coming 1735 01:36:29.560 --> 01:36:32.279 back again. But the goal is just you know, since 1736 01:36:32.319 --> 01:36:34.960 you're going to reside, you don't want to see bermuda 1737 01:36:35.039 --> 01:36:38.079 grass right back in there after you reside. So we 1738 01:36:38.199 --> 01:36:39.640 just want to make sure we got it all is. 1739 01:36:39.760 --> 01:36:41.760 And that's what you called about is doing that. 1740 01:36:42.039 --> 01:36:43.920 So okay, yeah, very good. 1741 01:36:44.000 --> 01:36:48.520 Sometime as long as you keep it moist, it will 1742 01:36:48.640 --> 01:36:50.560 encourage it to grow. I don't care how hot it gets, 1743 01:36:50.600 --> 01:36:53.119 some bermuna will come back up through there. Also, you 1744 01:36:53.159 --> 01:36:56.479 should know this that when you want to kill bermuda grass, 1745 01:36:56.640 --> 01:36:59.760 the bermuda grass needs to be healthy and growing. If 1746 01:36:59.800 --> 01:37:03.920 it's drought stressed, that glacys will not kill it well. 1747 01:37:04.760 --> 01:37:08.399 If it's healthy and lush growing, that life say, kills 1748 01:37:08.439 --> 01:37:10.720 it very well. So the goal is to get it 1749 01:37:10.840 --> 01:37:14.399 healthy and growing lushly. And so that's what the water 1750 01:37:14.520 --> 01:37:15.079 is all about. 1751 01:37:17.039 --> 01:37:19.479 Okay, thank you for your advice. 1752 01:37:21.039 --> 01:37:25.000 Thanks sir, I appreciate that call very much. Let's see here. 1753 01:37:25.239 --> 01:37:27.359 We are going to now go to the heights and 1754 01:37:27.560 --> 01:37:28.159 talk to Mike. 1755 01:37:28.399 --> 01:37:32.880 Hello, Mike Heykski. A friend of mine has a house 1756 01:37:32.920 --> 01:37:37.479 in Shenandoah, wants to sell it eventually in a near future. 1757 01:37:38.960 --> 01:37:41.119 Lots of damage from the trees that have been taken out, 1758 01:37:41.560 --> 01:37:47.199 but she'd liked to have her backyard look presentable in 1759 01:37:47.399 --> 01:37:51.159 terms of putting it for sale and instead of sodding. 1760 01:37:52.239 --> 01:37:59.359 Instead of sodding Saint Augustine, uh, thinking she's having someone 1761 01:37:59.479 --> 01:38:02.680 come in to smooth the line out because when the 1762 01:38:02.760 --> 01:38:05.199 tree people came in that there's a lot of ruts 1763 01:38:05.399 --> 01:38:12.600 in the backyard and add some soil recommendation bermuta seed 1764 01:38:13.880 --> 01:38:18.039 are instead of siding, but trying to do it economically 1765 01:38:18.760 --> 01:38:21.319 because it's going to be most likely a house is 1766 01:38:21.399 --> 01:38:24.640 going to be sold as is, but also wants to 1767 01:38:24.720 --> 01:38:26.680 make it presentable the yard. 1768 01:38:28.199 --> 01:38:30.000 How soon do they want to put it on the market. 1769 01:38:31.760 --> 01:38:33.479 Probably sometime next year. 1770 01:38:34.720 --> 01:38:38.199 Yeah, oh okay, yeah bermuda, you can do the bermuda 1771 01:38:38.279 --> 01:38:43.199 seed now, okay, So they could do bermuda seed. They 1772 01:38:43.319 --> 01:38:47.800 just want to get a good semi dwarf type of bermuda. 1773 01:38:47.800 --> 01:38:51.159 They're bermudas that are coastal bermuda that grows in pastures 1774 01:38:51.199 --> 01:38:54.239 for cattle to eat. Very tall, right, there's bermuda's that 1775 01:38:54.319 --> 01:38:56.279 are so short they make golf course greens. Eve want 1776 01:38:56.279 --> 01:38:58.520 a medium one like would be used on a football field, 1777 01:38:58.600 --> 01:39:02.199 for example, or a golf course fight. And there's cultivars 1778 01:39:02.239 --> 01:39:05.640 of seed like that that you could use. I know 1779 01:39:05.760 --> 01:39:09.119 you're in the heights. You might talk to Bob out 1780 01:39:09.279 --> 01:39:13.880 at Southwest Fertilizer. He does carry seeds of some different 1781 01:39:13.920 --> 01:39:17.640 things and he probably has one. There is a website 1782 01:39:17.760 --> 01:39:23.399 called Aggie Turf Aggie Turf on there in the lower 1783 01:39:23.479 --> 01:39:27.039 left corner of it. It has like types of turf grasses, 1784 01:39:27.119 --> 01:39:28.680 and if you click on that and then click on 1785 01:39:28.760 --> 01:39:32.800 the bermuda and scroll down, there's a list of all 1786 01:39:32.880 --> 01:39:38.199 the sodded varieties and there's a list of the seeded varieties, 1787 01:39:38.319 --> 01:39:39.840 and just look at that whole list. If you can 1788 01:39:39.880 --> 01:39:42.640 find anything on that list, you know it's going to work. 1789 01:39:43.520 --> 01:39:45.279 If it's not. If you find one that's not on 1790 01:39:45.359 --> 01:39:47.079 the list, as long as you check it out and 1791 01:39:47.560 --> 01:39:50.680 it's a semi dwarf bermuta, that'll work okay. But what 1792 01:39:50.760 --> 01:39:55.800 they're going to have to do is water frequently, because 1793 01:39:56.239 --> 01:39:59.920 tender little bermuda seedlings in the heat of summer turn 1794 01:40:00.600 --> 01:40:03.359 turn to toast quickly if it dries out. They don't 1795 01:40:03.399 --> 01:40:06.800 have a root system yet to speak of, so they 1796 01:40:06.960 --> 01:40:09.239 just need to get sprinklers set up out there and 1797 01:40:09.399 --> 01:40:12.159 run them for a little while. And I'm pretty much 1798 01:40:12.199 --> 01:40:16.600 every day just getting keeping the surface moist and because 1799 01:40:17.199 --> 01:40:21.079 it's touch and go until that bermuda seed becomes a 1800 01:40:21.239 --> 01:40:24.479 robust plant with rhizomes and underground storage and all of that. 1801 01:40:25.319 --> 01:40:28.399 And at that point, and the more often you mow bermuda, 1802 01:40:28.479 --> 01:40:32.600 the better it looks. Saint Augustine is forgiving of infrequent mowing, 1803 01:40:33.159 --> 01:40:34.840 but if they put it on the market and want 1804 01:40:34.880 --> 01:40:36.600 it to look good, they need to get somebody in 1805 01:40:36.640 --> 01:40:40.159 there mowing at every five at the most seven days 1806 01:40:40.960 --> 01:40:44.640 to get it looking as good as it's going to look. Okay, 1807 01:40:45.239 --> 01:40:46.720 question time for it? All right? 1808 01:40:46.840 --> 01:40:52.319 What what's the period of time that's recommended to sh 1809 01:40:52.920 --> 01:40:56.600 to plant the seed or slight of them here in 1810 01:40:56.680 --> 01:40:57.640 Texas and Houston. 1811 01:40:57.840 --> 01:41:02.199 Yeah, well, you know, I would just say sooner rather 1812 01:41:02.239 --> 01:41:04.640 than later. You know, as we get closer and closer 1813 01:41:04.680 --> 01:41:07.600 to fall, when it cools off, bermuda is going to 1814 01:41:07.640 --> 01:41:12.000 slow to growth to almost nothing, and so you want 1815 01:41:12.039 --> 01:41:14.640 to get as robust of a plant as you can 1816 01:41:14.720 --> 01:41:17.520 get before we go into winter, or you have issues 1817 01:41:17.560 --> 01:41:20.239 with that. So I wouldn't put it off until September. 1818 01:41:20.359 --> 01:41:22.199 I would, I would. I would do it right now. 1819 01:41:22.359 --> 01:41:24.000 And if you have to do it in September, do 1820 01:41:24.079 --> 01:41:26.640 it in early September. See what I'm saying, Just as 1821 01:41:26.840 --> 01:41:30.000 much time as possible. Okay, Yeah, I got a run 1822 01:41:30.039 --> 01:41:32.720 to break. Thank you, Mike. I appreciate appreciate your call. 1823 01:41:33.359 --> 01:41:36.359 When we come back Christ in Jersey Village and Morgan 1824 01:41:36.479 --> 01:41:38.199 up in Spring Branch, we are going to come to 1825 01:41:38.279 --> 01:41:43.399 you first, go back to garden line. Good to have 1826 01:41:43.560 --> 01:41:46.119 you with us today. Hey, have you noticed that the 1827 01:41:46.479 --> 01:41:49.039 hummingbirds are back? Yep. I looked out the other day 1828 01:41:49.319 --> 01:41:51.720 and there was a hummingbird flying around? Did I have 1829 01:41:51.800 --> 01:41:52.399 a feeder out? 1830 01:41:53.000 --> 01:41:53.039 No? 1831 01:41:53.920 --> 01:41:56.479 Was it disappointed? Probably? Will he come back? I hope. 1832 01:41:56.560 --> 01:41:59.800 So time to get your hummingbird feeders out. If you 1833 01:42:00.079 --> 01:42:01.840 don't have a humming bird feeder, you got to go 1834 01:42:01.880 --> 01:42:05.439 buy Wildbirds and get their high perch feeder. Ask them 1835 01:42:05.920 --> 01:42:08.600 they got a bunch of hummingbird feeders. My favorite is 1836 01:42:08.720 --> 01:42:11.000 the high perch. Go by and say I want to 1837 01:42:11.000 --> 01:42:13.039 see your high perch feeder and why is that so special? 1838 01:42:13.399 --> 01:42:15.880 And get you one and get it out. It is time. 1839 01:42:16.399 --> 01:42:18.319 Get you a good quality sugar water. You don't have 1840 01:42:18.359 --> 01:42:21.479 to but red food color and a feeder. They also 1841 01:42:21.760 --> 01:42:28.439 sell quality hummingbird liquid feed there at Wildbirds Unlimited. What 1842 01:42:28.520 --> 01:42:30.720 you're gonna find is that it's a little slower to 1843 01:42:30.800 --> 01:42:32.960 go bad. You know, in the hot weather, sugary water, 1844 01:42:34.399 --> 01:42:38.079 sugar tends to fermat out there, and you don't want 1845 01:42:38.159 --> 01:42:40.239 that happening. So you need to clean the feeders out. 1846 01:42:40.680 --> 01:42:43.000 You need to replace. Don't put a whole feeder fold. 1847 01:42:43.039 --> 01:42:45.399 If you don't have a bunch of hummingbirds coming, you 1848 01:42:45.520 --> 01:42:48.640 need to put After about three days out there outside, 1849 01:42:48.760 --> 01:42:50.479 you probably need to go ahead and just wash it 1850 01:42:50.520 --> 01:42:53.399 out and put some fresh in because it does go bad. 1851 01:42:53.600 --> 01:42:59.199 But Wildbirds Unlimited WBU dot com forward slash Euston continue 1852 01:42:59.279 --> 01:43:02.800 to put out your quality super blend and other quality 1853 01:43:02.840 --> 01:43:07.720 feats from Wildbirds because the birds are molting. You should 1854 01:43:07.720 --> 01:43:09.600 see how ugly the birds coming to my feet are. 1855 01:43:09.960 --> 01:43:12.560 They're feathers. It looks like they ran through a weed eater. 1856 01:43:12.920 --> 01:43:16.079 They're just in their molting. They're getting their new foliage 1857 01:43:16.119 --> 01:43:18.399 and they can't fly around. It's harder to fly around 1858 01:43:18.439 --> 01:43:21.119 as much. So having a good feeder nearby where they 1859 01:43:21.159 --> 01:43:25.199 can go and get a dependable snack is really really important. 1860 01:43:25.279 --> 01:43:29.600 And Wildbird's Unlimited as you cover WBU dot com forward 1861 01:43:29.680 --> 01:43:34.119 slash Houston WBU dot Com forward slash Houston for the 1862 01:43:34.199 --> 01:43:38.800 six Wildbirds Unlimited stores near you. Let's go to Jersey 1863 01:43:38.880 --> 01:43:41.640 Village now and talk to Chris. Hey, Chris, welcome to 1864 01:43:41.680 --> 01:43:47.079 garden Line. Oh, thank you for taking my call. You 1865 01:43:47.199 --> 01:43:49.119 bet Okay. 1866 01:43:50.399 --> 01:43:51.079 Two things. 1867 01:43:52.039 --> 01:43:53.600 I've got a really big yard. 1868 01:43:53.960 --> 01:43:56.399 It's a double lot on a corner, about a third 1869 01:43:56.439 --> 01:43:58.199 of an acre backyard. 1870 01:43:58.279 --> 01:44:00.960 I'm not worried about in this heat. 1871 01:44:01.119 --> 01:44:03.359 How often should I water if it's not yard? 1872 01:44:05.920 --> 01:44:09.319 All right? If you've got a good quality soil, of 1873 01:44:09.479 --> 01:44:12.239 any close to a decent soil, and if you have 1874 01:44:12.560 --> 01:44:16.199 a fairly healthy grass plant already, you can water once 1875 01:44:16.239 --> 01:44:19.800 a week even in the sun. You can also that 1876 01:44:20.399 --> 01:44:22.319 just doesn't seem often enough, so you can go to 1877 01:44:22.399 --> 01:44:24.319 twice a week. But the goal is to put an 1878 01:44:24.359 --> 01:44:26.560 inch of water down a week. So if you tried 1879 01:44:26.600 --> 01:44:29.199 to put an inch down at at one time, cress, 1880 01:44:29.399 --> 01:44:32.800 you would find it running off. So we do cycle soap, 1881 01:44:32.880 --> 01:44:35.920 which means your sprinkler comes on, you know, however long, 1882 01:44:36.000 --> 01:44:37.760 and then goes off for forty five minutes it comes 1883 01:44:37.840 --> 01:44:40.920 back on again. What that does is it gets a 1884 01:44:41.039 --> 01:44:44.039 good deep soaking, which encourages your grass to have a 1885 01:44:44.159 --> 01:44:48.119 good deep resilient root system, which is important in the heat. 1886 01:44:49.199 --> 01:44:53.399 And it also by not watering all the time, oxygen 1887 01:44:53.479 --> 01:44:56.560 gets down in the soil between waterings better and that's 1888 01:44:56.640 --> 01:44:58.279 also important for your root system. 1889 01:44:59.479 --> 01:45:06.840 Okay, one last, yeah, one last question. 1890 01:45:07.560 --> 01:45:08.119 I've got. 1891 01:45:09.520 --> 01:45:14.960 Crepe myrtles front and back, and my buddy, who's really knowledgeable, said, 1892 01:45:15.000 --> 01:45:16.399 you're never supposed. 1893 01:45:16.039 --> 01:45:20.960 To trim them in the hot sun or when it's hot. 1894 01:45:21.039 --> 01:45:22.640 You're supposed to wake to cooler weather. 1895 01:45:22.720 --> 01:45:23.520 It's that right. 1896 01:45:25.239 --> 01:45:28.800 In general with anybody ornamental it's better to do any 1897 01:45:29.000 --> 01:45:33.600 significant amount of pruning when the when we're in the 1898 01:45:33.960 --> 01:45:34.840 late winter time. 1899 01:45:35.279 --> 01:45:39.840 That that's the okay, but you can And one last 1900 01:45:39.920 --> 01:45:45.960 thing show, I just wanted to tell you how much you. 1901 01:45:48.520 --> 01:45:51.199 Appreciate. That's very kind to you say that, Chris, good luck. 1902 01:45:51.279 --> 01:45:56.039 We have throw your plants out there. Thank you, sir, Yes, sir, 1903 01:45:56.560 --> 01:45:58.680 all right, where are we going next? We're going to 1904 01:45:58.760 --> 01:46:01.560 go to spring Brand and talk to Morgan. Hey, Morgan, 1905 01:46:02.680 --> 01:46:04.560 Hey there, I got a quick question. I hope it 1906 01:46:04.600 --> 01:46:06.600 is a quick question, but it's got multiple pieces to it. 1907 01:46:07.039 --> 01:46:11.319 So I've got some old kitty litter that I've had 1908 01:46:11.399 --> 01:46:13.520 in the back of the car for about a year 1909 01:46:13.600 --> 01:46:16.039 now to help take it to decrease the humidity in 1910 01:46:16.079 --> 01:46:19.479 the car. And so now I want to the the 1911 01:46:19.600 --> 01:46:22.560 k litter is like clay kitty litter. I don't have 1912 01:46:22.640 --> 01:46:25.000 the original packaging, so I don't know what the actual 1913 01:46:25.079 --> 01:46:27.600 chemicals are there in it. What I want to do 1914 01:46:28.399 --> 01:46:32.039 is I've also got about a gallon of coffee grounds 1915 01:46:32.039 --> 01:46:34.239 that I've been that I've been collecting. Now I understand 1916 01:46:34.319 --> 01:46:37.760 that caught that count of grounds are good, UH can 1917 01:46:37.840 --> 01:46:40.680 be a good fertilizer. And you know, provide petrins to 1918 01:46:40.840 --> 01:46:43.039 your soil or your garden. And here's what I want 1919 01:46:43.079 --> 01:46:46.000 to do, because because the auth the grounds are so 1920 01:46:46.359 --> 01:46:48.840 or so, they can they can come up. I want 1921 01:46:48.880 --> 01:46:53.159 to use the clay kitty litter as an agitator, but 1922 01:46:53.720 --> 01:46:55.920 as I'm spreading it out in my yard, and I 1923 01:46:56.000 --> 01:46:59.520 don't know how safe kitty litter. 1924 01:46:59.319 --> 01:47:04.800 Would be for that purpose. It's fine, it's fine if 1925 01:47:04.800 --> 01:47:08.000 you want to do that. It's like it's not going 1926 01:47:08.079 --> 01:47:09.840 to the kidding leader is not going to hurt anything. 1927 01:47:09.960 --> 01:47:13.840 It hasn't been fired to the too hot enough temperatures 1928 01:47:14.239 --> 01:47:18.199 to do what expanded shale can do in terms of 1929 01:47:18.319 --> 01:47:21.840 improving a clay. So you're basically adding the equivalent of 1930 01:47:21.920 --> 01:47:24.680 a clay to the to the soil. But if you're 1931 01:47:24.760 --> 01:47:27.680 using it just to kind of spread out the coffee 1932 01:47:27.680 --> 01:47:29.600 grounds a little bit, it's not going to hurt anything 1933 01:47:29.680 --> 01:47:31.960 to do that. The only difference is a particle size 1934 01:47:32.039 --> 01:47:34.079 is different, So as you try to put it in 1935 01:47:34.159 --> 01:47:36.880 a spread or the small particles tend to settle down 1936 01:47:36.920 --> 01:47:39.840 to the bottom and the large particles as it's bouncing along, 1937 01:47:40.000 --> 01:47:42.119 tend to rise up. So you're not going to get 1938 01:47:42.119 --> 01:47:44.359 a real good even spread that way, I think I 1939 01:47:44.399 --> 01:47:47.039 would just take the coffee grounds, dry them out well 1940 01:47:47.479 --> 01:47:49.680 and then put them in with those little hand whirllybirds. 1941 01:47:49.720 --> 01:47:51.920 I don't know how many pounds of coffee grounds you got, 1942 01:47:52.000 --> 01:47:56.399 but it shouldn't be worried about if you hand whirlybird. Okay, 1943 01:47:56.479 --> 01:47:59.760 well you could do that in two or three fills 1944 01:47:59.800 --> 01:48:02.720 of of a handspreader, you know, just walking around. If 1945 01:48:02.720 --> 01:48:08.479 you want to do that, it's called a wordlybird. Well, 1946 01:48:09.680 --> 01:48:12.479 put fire ant bait. Fire ant bait. You hold it 1947 01:48:12.560 --> 01:48:14.560 in one hand, you pull a trigger and you crank 1948 01:48:14.800 --> 01:48:17.600 on the other side. It's got a little hopper about 1949 01:48:17.840 --> 01:48:21.239 about half gallon sized hopper on them. It's it's got 1950 01:48:21.279 --> 01:48:24.560 the push and walk behind spreaders. It's it's a little 1951 01:48:24.800 --> 01:48:26.479 handheld which just for a little bit. 1952 01:48:26.560 --> 01:48:28.159 Yeah, I've got I've got I've got a walk behind 1953 01:48:28.199 --> 01:48:29.600 the spread which is what I plan on using. 1954 01:48:29.760 --> 01:48:32.720 So okay, well, that's going to just make sure that 1955 01:48:33.000 --> 01:48:35.840 that you've thoroughly dried those coffee grounds out. 1956 01:48:37.600 --> 01:48:37.760 Well. 1957 01:48:38.000 --> 01:48:39.000 Thanks so much for your show. 1958 01:48:39.279 --> 01:48:42.840 By yes, sar, thank you appreciate the call very much. 1959 01:48:43.800 --> 01:48:46.239 Uh well, I tell you, if we're time is moving 1960 01:48:46.239 --> 01:48:48.560 along here, you know, Ice Hardware stores where you're gonna 1961 01:48:48.560 --> 01:48:51.279 find everything you need for your lawn, your garden. That's 1962 01:48:51.399 --> 01:48:54.119 just Ace Hardware. And where is ACE Hardware. Go to 1963 01:48:54.239 --> 01:48:57.560 Ace Hardware dot Com. Look at the store locator and 1964 01:48:57.760 --> 01:49:00.680 I think with forty around here, you're gonna one near you. 1965 01:49:01.439 --> 01:49:04.560 Congratulations to Langham Creek Ase Hardware. I was there a 1966 01:49:04.600 --> 01:49:07.239 little bit earlier this year for an event. They are 1967 01:49:07.279 --> 01:49:10.399 on FM five twenty nine in Cypress at the intersection 1968 01:49:10.680 --> 01:49:14.119 of Barker, Cypress and five twenty nine. So all of 1969 01:49:14.199 --> 01:49:17.239 you up there in that Greater Copperfield area, this is 1970 01:49:17.319 --> 01:49:20.720 your local ACE Hardware store, Langham Creek. They're having a 1971 01:49:21.119 --> 01:49:25.319 big shindig. It is on Friday, the thirtieth of August, 1972 01:49:25.439 --> 01:49:28.159 Saturday the thirty first, and Sunday, the first of September. 1973 01:49:28.760 --> 01:49:34.039 Tons of giverways, demonstrations by vendors, prizes. On Saturday they're 1974 01:49:34.119 --> 01:49:37.680 having fifteen percent off Still units. Still is one of 1975 01:49:37.720 --> 01:49:41.640 those power equipment companies that makes high quality equipment. They're there. 1976 01:49:42.039 --> 01:49:46.960 The giveaway on Friday is an Ego battery string tremor 1977 01:49:47.000 --> 01:49:50.079 ten or fifty dollars value though to be demonstrating Weber grills. 1978 01:49:50.119 --> 01:49:52.960 On Saturday, they're giving away a Weber Spirit to gas 1979 01:49:53.039 --> 01:49:55.840 grill four hundred and fifty dollars grill, giving it away 1980 01:49:56.239 --> 01:49:59.479 as a prize. They'll demonstrate Big Green Egg and something 1981 01:49:59.520 --> 01:50:03.199 called Guy Coney's Pizza Oven. Oh my gosh, it's really cool. 1982 01:50:03.199 --> 01:50:05.279 It's like you're a little private pizza oven. You can 1983 01:50:05.319 --> 01:50:08.920 sit outside like you would you barbecue or whatever. All right, Well, anyway, 1984 01:50:09.000 --> 01:50:11.640 Sunday they're giving away a painting room makeover two hundred 1985 01:50:11.640 --> 01:50:16.000 dollars value in demonstrating trigger grill. This is this is 1986 01:50:16.680 --> 01:50:19.439 a really nice deal. There are all kinds of prize 1987 01:50:19.479 --> 01:50:26.319 demonstrations that still discount on Saturday, and then great deals, 1988 01:50:26.520 --> 01:50:29.720 exclusive deals on a variety of other items, all at 1989 01:50:29.800 --> 01:50:33.640 Langham Creek Ace Hardware on FM five twenty nine. It's 1990 01:50:33.680 --> 01:50:37.439 at the intersection of five twenty nine and Barker Cypress Road. 1991 01:50:37.760 --> 01:50:39.560 Real easy to get to. Like I said, it's in 1992 01:50:39.640 --> 01:50:42.680 your backyardperfield, and all of you around that area need 1993 01:50:42.720 --> 01:50:45.199 to run over there and check out this revamped It's 1994 01:50:45.239 --> 01:50:48.119 called the reopening because I was there when they were 1995 01:50:48.199 --> 01:50:52.159 open earlier in the year. They revamped that place and 1996 01:50:52.319 --> 01:50:56.079 now it's like a grand reopening going on. He's hard 1997 01:50:57.720 --> 01:51:00.199 We're gonna take a little break John in Memoria, our 1998 01:51:00.319 --> 01:51:01.199 very first color up. 1999 01:51:01.319 --> 01:51:11.760 When we come back from this break, Firstcenter dot Com 2000 01:51:11.880 --> 01:51:12.560 Traffic Center. 2001 01:51:14.279 --> 01:51:17.479 This report is sponsored by Bank of America. 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I'm Jarret Lewis six nine 2013 01:51:56.640 --> 01:51:59.840 o'clock on News Radio seven forty KRH with traffic in 2014 01:52:00.000 --> 01:52:00.640 whether chigither. 2015 01:52:00.880 --> 01:52:03.319 Here's Gary mack now up to over an hour, Back 2016 01:52:03.600 --> 01:52:06.159 back to sixty nine. The Southwest Freeway north down at 2017 01:52:06.239 --> 01:52:09.520 Chimney Rock roadwork a total closure. You're bumper to bumper 2018 01:52:09.840 --> 01:52:12.239 beginning at Guester. This one will hang around weather till 2019 01:52:12.359 --> 01:52:14.600 noon today. Right now alternates, I got you the West 2020 01:52:14.640 --> 01:52:17.640 Park Toway Feller Bulov already even vissing it if you 2021 01:52:17.760 --> 01:52:21.000 so choose a half hour back up on iten westbound 2022 01:52:21.039 --> 01:52:23.680 roadwork in two to three left lanes between Woods and 2023 01:52:23.840 --> 01:52:27.720 Peach Ridge in Waller County. Also, Fyia Texas play the 2024 01:52:27.800 --> 01:52:31.119 Giants at noon today over at NRG and we'll provide updates. 2025 01:52:31.560 --> 01:52:34.840 I'm Gary Mack in the classic Elite GMC Traffic Center. 2026 01:52:35.920 --> 01:52:38.760 A heat advisories in effect into light PM on this Saturday. 2027 01:52:38.800 --> 01:52:41.479 There will maybe an isolated thunderstorm popping up. Otherwise sunny 2028 01:52:41.520 --> 01:52:43.359 with a high ninety eight, the heate in decks close 2029 01:52:43.399 --> 01:52:45.760 to one ten. Overnight party cloudy with a low down 2030 01:52:45.760 --> 01:52:47.880 to eighty so more hot weather. Tomorrow expects sunshine with 2031 01:52:47.920 --> 01:52:49.439 a high year one hundreday and the heat in decks 2032 01:52:49.479 --> 01:52:51.520 around one ten and a sunny Monday with a high 2033 01:52:51.560 --> 01:52:54.399 climbing to one oh one. I'm meaty rialogist Jeff Marr 2034 01:52:54.479 --> 01:52:55.600 from the Weather Channel. 2035 01:52:55.359 --> 01:52:57.319 Sunny and eighty four at the k T reach Top 2036 01:52:57.359 --> 01:53:00.239 tax Defenders, twenty four hour Weather Center, k H News 2037 01:53:00.319 --> 01:53:03.199 Time nine oh one. Our top story. Former President Donald 2038 01:53:03.239 --> 01:53:06.960 Trump is campaigning in the major swing state of Pennsylvania. 2039 01:53:07.079 --> 01:53:10.720 Later on this evening. The stop in Wilkes Barr comes 2040 01:53:10.960 --> 01:53:13.960 about a month after the assassination attempt on his life 2041 01:53:14.000 --> 01:53:17.000 in Butler, Pennsylvania. Trump says he would like to eventually 2042 01:53:17.079 --> 01:53:19.800 go back to Butler for another rally and as well 2043 01:53:19.840 --> 01:53:22.279 as honor the man who was killed as a result 2044 01:53:22.319 --> 01:53:25.720 of that shooting, Corey Comparatory, a former fire chief. 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Vice President Harris spoken rawling North 2056 01:54:00.159 --> 01:54:03.079 Carolina yesterday. She already took the idea of no tax 2057 01:54:03.159 --> 01:54:06.319 on tips from former President Donald Trump. She's also announced 2058 01:54:06.319 --> 01:54:10.319 a raise in the federal minimum wage if elected. A 2059 01:54:10.399 --> 01:54:13.399 new Rasmussen reports poll is showing that half of likely 2060 01:54:13.520 --> 01:54:16.640 voters believe the media is carrying the water for the 2061 01:54:16.800 --> 01:54:20.319 Harris For Kamala Harris and her campaign for president, just 2062 01:54:20.399 --> 01:54:22.880 fourteen percent say the media will be helping Trump get 2063 01:54:22.920 --> 01:54:26.319 elected in About twenty six percent believe most reporters will 2064 01:54:26.399 --> 01:54:30.239 offer unbiased coverage. The Supreme Court is striking down a 2065 01:54:30.359 --> 01:54:34.079 proposed Title nine change from the Biden Harris administration. Some 2066 01:54:34.560 --> 01:54:37.760 argued that the White House was trying to allow men 2067 01:54:37.920 --> 01:54:41.239 into women's sports. The role would have allowed biological men 2068 01:54:41.319 --> 01:54:43.239 to be in women's bathrooms and locker rooms in ten 2069 01:54:43.319 --> 01:54:47.359 states that permitted it based on their state law. US 2070 01:54:47.439 --> 01:54:51.439 officials say they are monitoring IMPOCS, which is moving throughout 2071 01:54:51.479 --> 01:54:52.359 parts of Europe. 2072 01:54:52.800 --> 01:54:56.159 Mpox, the virus formerly known as monkey pox, is spreading 2073 01:54:56.239 --> 01:54:59.640 quickly around the world following a summer outbreak in Africa 2074 01:54:59.720 --> 01:55:03.520 that's saw a new variant infect more than fourteen thousand people, 2075 01:55:03.720 --> 01:55:07.079 causing more than five hundred deaths. The World Health Organization 2076 01:55:07.159 --> 01:55:10.560 has labeled the outbreak a global health emergency, and now 2077 01:55:10.680 --> 01:55:14.279 the variant has spread to Europe, with Sweden reporting at 2078 01:55:14.359 --> 01:55:17.640 least one case which they say they have under control. 2079 01:55:17.720 --> 01:55:21.199 OxyS Jonathan Siri K Cherrich News Time nine oh four. 2080 01:55:21.359 --> 01:55:24.319 Jury deliberations are picking back up Monday in the civil 2081 01:55:24.399 --> 01:55:28.600 trial against the accused Santa Fe High School gunman's parents. 2082 01:55:28.760 --> 01:55:31.000 Closing arguments wrapped up on Friday. 2083 01:55:31.079 --> 01:55:33.479 If we want to solve this problem, it starts right 2084 01:55:33.520 --> 01:55:37.840 at home. You're responsible for your kids. If you're gonna 2085 01:55:37.840 --> 01:55:40.880 bring them into the world, be responsible for him. If 2086 01:55:40.920 --> 01:55:45.399 you're gonna bring weapons into your home, be responsible for him. 2087 01:55:45.479 --> 01:55:49.920 That's the plaintiff's attorney, Clint McGuire. Earlier this week, Houston 2088 01:55:49.960 --> 01:55:52.760 police say a man allegedly shot three people after an 2089 01:55:52.880 --> 01:55:55.680 argument in North Houston early this morning. The incident happened 2090 01:55:55.760 --> 01:55:58.159 just after one at a home on Fulton Street and 2091 01:55:58.199 --> 01:56:00.920 Harrington Street, and a separate shooting a man is being 2092 01:56:01.079 --> 01:56:04.079 looked for accused of shooting his ex girlfriend in the face. 2093 01:56:04.720 --> 01:56:07.560 Astros losers for the first time in eight games, falling 2094 01:56:07.560 --> 01:56:09.760 to the White Sox last night at minute made five 2095 01:56:09.840 --> 01:56:12.119 to four the final. Today's game has a six ' 2096 01:56:12.159 --> 01:56:14.600 ten first pitch. Our next update will be at nine thirty. 2097 01:56:14.680 --> 01:56:17.119 I'm Jared Lewis, News Radio seven forty k t r. 2098 01:56:17.279 --> 01:56:20.520 H kt r H Garden Line does not necessarily endorse 2099 01:56:20.600 --> 01:56:22.920 any of the products or services advertised on this program. 2100 01:56:24.479 --> 01:56:28.319 Welcome to kt r H Garden Line with Skip Richard. 2101 01:56:37.079 --> 01:56:50.279 Just watch him as many Welcome back to Garden Line. 2102 01:56:52.439 --> 01:56:54.439 We are glad to have you back here. We are 2103 01:56:55.079 --> 01:56:58.439 answering your gardening questions. We're helping you have a more 2104 01:56:58.520 --> 01:57:02.960 bountiful garden when you have a more beautiful landscape. That 2105 01:57:03.399 --> 01:57:07.399 is our goal. We love to have a beautiful home 2106 01:57:07.439 --> 01:57:09.840 place right. We love to get out and enjoy plants. 2107 01:57:09.880 --> 01:57:11.760 We like to look good when you drive up or 2108 01:57:11.840 --> 01:57:14.439 drive by on the street. And we want to have 2109 01:57:14.479 --> 01:57:16.600 those areas that we can go out and enjoy. And 2110 01:57:17.600 --> 01:57:20.000 there's a way to do all of that to have success. 2111 01:57:20.079 --> 01:57:21.960 I don't care if you just want to have a 2112 01:57:22.079 --> 01:57:24.600 lawn in trees or if you want to go all out. 2113 01:57:24.720 --> 01:57:26.600 You want an orchard, you want free trees, you want 2114 01:57:26.680 --> 01:57:30.760 vegetable gardens and flower beds and herbs and all the above, 2115 01:57:30.800 --> 01:57:33.399 and then some or even questions about house plants. We 2116 01:57:33.439 --> 01:57:35.600 can handle with those two. Just give us a call. 2117 01:57:35.720 --> 01:57:38.560 Seven one three two one two five eight seven four 2118 01:57:38.640 --> 01:57:42.159 seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four 2119 01:57:42.840 --> 01:57:47.399 Quality Home Products of Texas is a source of quality 2120 01:57:47.520 --> 01:57:52.439 generators a brand like for example, Generak. A Generak is 2121 01:57:52.680 --> 01:57:57.079 that you've got the powerful uh automatic standby generator sits 2122 01:57:57.119 --> 01:57:59.439 outside the house and the power goes off and it 2123 01:57:59.520 --> 01:58:02.199 comes on. I says, that's I mean a matter of seconds, 2124 01:58:02.319 --> 01:58:05.600 the thing kicks into gear. Well, it's not just the 2125 01:58:05.720 --> 01:58:08.960 quality generators that they sell, Yes, that's important, but it's 2126 01:58:09.039 --> 01:58:13.439 the service. Quality. 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They can fix up all of that. 2137 01:58:43.720 --> 01:58:45.960 They can get the slab poard, which they do. Most 2138 01:58:46.039 --> 01:58:49.520 generators bring a thin Most companies bring a thin slab 2139 01:58:49.600 --> 01:58:51.800 in set it down. Generator goes all the way to 2140 01:58:51.840 --> 01:58:53.279 the edge of the slab, so you hit it with 2141 01:58:53.319 --> 01:58:55.520 the lawnmar when you go by it. Not quality home. 2142 01:58:56.239 --> 01:58:59.119 That is just one tiny example of the many ways 2143 01:58:59.159 --> 01:59:00.920 they go above and be on. That's why they have 2144 01:59:01.000 --> 01:59:04.560 fourteen thousand and five star abews. That's why eight times 2145 01:59:04.720 --> 01:59:08.520 the Better Business Bureau highest award for customer service, the 2146 01:59:08.560 --> 01:59:12.279 Pinnacle Award, eight times they've won it. Family owned operations 2147 01:59:12.359 --> 01:59:17.000 since nineteen eighty nine, They've been in business a long time. 2148 01:59:17.039 --> 01:59:20.000 They're a Houston company. Give them a call seven to 2149 01:59:20.000 --> 01:59:23.079 one to three quality or just go to the website 2150 01:59:23.199 --> 01:59:28.960 Quality tx dot com, qualitytx dot com. Don't delay. There's 2151 01:59:29.000 --> 01:59:31.439 a process involved in getting a generator set up at 2152 01:59:31.439 --> 01:59:34.159 your place. We got a long storm season still to come, 2153 01:59:34.560 --> 01:59:35.960 and that'd be a good time to get my call. 2154 01:59:37.680 --> 01:59:39.640 Let's head out now. We're going to go to John 2155 01:59:39.800 --> 01:59:44.359 and Memorial. Hello John, and how can we help? Yes, 2156 01:59:44.520 --> 01:59:44.800 thank you. 2157 01:59:45.520 --> 01:59:48.640 I've just noticed ever since the hurricane, it just seems 2158 01:59:48.680 --> 01:59:51.479 like my pine trees are dropping an awful lot of 2159 01:59:51.840 --> 01:59:55.640 pine needles and just kind of curious what that means. 2160 01:59:57.800 --> 02:00:00.520 Al they'll do that when they're in stresses. You know, 2161 02:00:00.760 --> 02:00:05.680 all evergreens drop leaves. The leaves are not forever the 2162 02:00:05.840 --> 02:00:08.600 plant just always has leaves on it, so whether it's 2163 02:00:08.640 --> 02:00:10.960 a live oak, they go through periods where they drop 2164 02:00:11.039 --> 02:00:13.039 some of the old leaves, especially as the new growth 2165 02:00:13.119 --> 02:00:16.680 comes on. Pines will do that. But also stresses I 2166 02:00:16.800 --> 02:00:20.479 don't know that the hurricane is causing the demit or 2167 02:00:20.560 --> 02:00:24.079 any effects of that hurricane are causing it, but you know, 2168 02:00:24.159 --> 02:00:27.880 they get dry, they get thirsty, just whatever. That can 2169 02:00:27.960 --> 02:00:32.159 happen a lot as long as they have adequate soul moisture. 2170 02:00:33.239 --> 02:00:36.319 And it just has gotten hot and dried these last 2171 02:00:36.399 --> 02:00:39.079 couple of weeks, but overall we've had a pretty good year, 2172 02:00:39.520 --> 02:00:42.800 so I'm not as concerned about it as I might otherwise. 2173 02:00:42.880 --> 02:00:48.439 Be okay, perfect And then just quick quick question, what's 2174 02:00:48.479 --> 02:00:51.359 your favorite privacy edge between houses these days? 2175 02:00:53.119 --> 02:00:59.000 Oh boy, that's a tough one. One of the challenges 2176 02:00:59.239 --> 02:01:02.920 because our properties have gotten smaller over the decades from 2177 02:01:03.000 --> 02:01:04.960 back when everybody have had a third of an acre 2178 02:01:05.079 --> 02:01:07.560 lot to now you reach out your window and you 2179 02:01:07.600 --> 02:01:13.239 can close your neighbors blinds hardly leaning out is that 2180 02:01:13.319 --> 02:01:16.560 we have to have thin hedges because otherwise it just 2181 02:01:16.640 --> 02:01:19.479 takes up the whole property. When it comes to thin, 2182 02:01:19.600 --> 02:01:23.079 then we're looking at more upright, narrow growing things or 2183 02:01:23.199 --> 02:01:26.880 junipers that are grown for that purpose. There's a variety 2184 02:01:26.880 --> 02:01:28.840 of different trees that can kind of fit that bill. 2185 02:01:29.239 --> 02:01:32.560 You want a plant that's going to be evergreen. Sometimes 2186 02:01:32.680 --> 02:01:35.680 what I'll do when the property line is really limiting 2187 02:01:35.800 --> 02:01:39.239 us is I'll use a trellis that goes above the 2188 02:01:40.119 --> 02:01:44.359 privacy fence, so it may be tall posts. Then maybe 2189 02:01:44.479 --> 02:01:49.560 a livestock panel or something stretched across and grow an 2190 02:01:49.680 --> 02:01:52.239 evergreen vine on that. So you end up with a 2191 02:01:52.319 --> 02:01:55.279 really nice screen, but you don't have something that's ten 2192 02:01:55.359 --> 02:01:57.359 feet wide sticking out in your lawn and on the 2193 02:01:57.439 --> 02:01:58.479 other side of the fence. 2194 02:02:02.880 --> 02:02:04.319 Well, thank you, I really appreciate it. 2195 02:02:05.960 --> 02:02:10.479 You bet, John, You take our Yeah, John, take care that. Yeah. 2196 02:02:10.800 --> 02:02:13.199 There's a lot of different options if you had a 2197 02:02:13.239 --> 02:02:18.000 little more information, Like, for example, you're trying to block 2198 02:02:18.039 --> 02:02:21.199 a house it's fifteen feet away, it's gonna be hard 2199 02:02:21.199 --> 02:02:23.960 to do with anything if it's a longer distance. Just 2200 02:02:24.079 --> 02:02:27.680 think about where you sit and what you see, and 2201 02:02:28.119 --> 02:02:30.000 that'll tell you how high it needs to be. The 2202 02:02:30.079 --> 02:02:34.079 closer the hedge or screen is to you, the shorter 2203 02:02:34.239 --> 02:02:36.600 it needs to be the block of you. The further 2204 02:02:36.720 --> 02:02:38.439 away it gets, the taller. It needs to be the 2205 02:02:38.479 --> 02:02:41.079 block of you. Just some things like that. All right, 2206 02:02:41.720 --> 02:02:44.640 Thanks for the call, appreciate that. We're going to now 2207 02:02:44.720 --> 02:02:47.800 head out to Bill and Conroe. Hello Bill, Welcome to 2208 02:02:47.880 --> 02:02:48.359 guard Line. 2209 02:02:49.479 --> 02:02:54.000 Hey Skip, good morning. I've cleaned out my backyard and 2210 02:02:54.520 --> 02:02:57.800 killed the sod and breaked it out and got some 2211 02:02:57.960 --> 02:02:59.800 drainage in there, and so I'm getting ready to. 2212 02:03:00.359 --> 02:03:04.279 Lay down some new side. And my question is this. 2213 02:03:04.600 --> 02:03:07.600 I know, Funus kind of lives in his dormant in 2214 02:03:07.720 --> 02:03:10.239 the dirt all the time and everything else. Would it 2215 02:03:10.319 --> 02:03:14.439 make any sense to use this opportunity to put something down. 2216 02:03:14.319 --> 02:03:14.920 That would. 2217 02:03:16.319 --> 02:03:19.359 Kill some fungicide that's I might be lying there. 2218 02:03:21.000 --> 02:03:23.119 You know, Bill, it wouldn't. It would be a complete 2219 02:03:23.159 --> 02:03:27.359 waste of your money. There isn't a fungicide we put 2220 02:03:27.399 --> 02:03:31.079 in the soil that then controls everything that might come 2221 02:03:31.159 --> 02:03:35.359 later on the turf. So I would wait until you 2222 02:03:35.439 --> 02:03:37.520 have your turf, and then as you start to see 2223 02:03:37.520 --> 02:03:39.960 an issue, you can deal with it at that point 2224 02:03:40.039 --> 02:03:44.479 in time. But most fungicides, they just don't have that 2225 02:03:44.760 --> 02:03:48.359 kind of link of protection or root uptake. In the 2226 02:03:48.439 --> 02:03:51.239 case of what you're describing, that would require root uptake 2227 02:03:51.319 --> 02:03:54.119 and a fungicide. Yeah, and so I would, I would wait, 2228 02:03:54.439 --> 02:03:56.680 I would, I would wait. If you go online, I 2229 02:03:56.720 --> 02:03:58.920 don't know if you've seen my lawn care schedule and 2230 02:03:59.039 --> 02:04:03.399 my pest yeah, and management schedules. Yeah. Yeah, at gardening 2231 02:04:03.479 --> 02:04:06.079 with skip dot com and look at that. And there's 2232 02:04:06.119 --> 02:04:09.560 a fungus row as you go across from January to December, 2233 02:04:09.960 --> 02:04:11.960 and it talks about the things we do and when 2234 02:04:12.119 --> 02:04:15.640 on that, and I would more focus on that. But 2235 02:04:16.399 --> 02:04:19.159 I'm not one to just want to nuke everything with 2236 02:04:19.399 --> 02:04:23.039 insecticides and fundicides every time I turn around. I'd rather 2237 02:04:23.239 --> 02:04:25.279 try to manage it and use it when I need it. 2238 02:04:25.680 --> 02:04:27.800 You know. It's like you're taking an antibiotic every day 2239 02:04:27.800 --> 02:04:29.560 in case you might get sick some day. That's not 2240 02:04:29.640 --> 02:04:34.680 a good plan. And so yeah, the watch the schedule. 2241 02:04:35.760 --> 02:04:40.680 It is important to step in. Go ahead. Yeah, well 2242 02:04:40.760 --> 02:04:42.479 let me see it's early. 2243 02:04:44.279 --> 02:04:44.520 Okay. 2244 02:04:44.600 --> 02:04:48.279 Follow up question is, what about doing something for insects 2245 02:04:48.399 --> 02:04:49.439 is the same kind of deal? 2246 02:04:50.039 --> 02:04:50.560 Why do it? 2247 02:04:50.720 --> 02:04:50.840 Now? 2248 02:04:50.920 --> 02:04:55.760 Why Why waste all that killers in the lawn when 2249 02:04:55.840 --> 02:04:57.359 you don't even know what you have or don't have 2250 02:04:57.479 --> 02:05:00.560 the same thing the same thing again, I got a 2251 02:05:00.600 --> 02:05:02.279 wide I just got a bunch of dirt there. 2252 02:05:03.880 --> 02:05:08.920 Yeah, yeah, Well, when when it comes to insects, basically 2253 02:05:09.000 --> 02:05:12.159 we're dealing with two things for our this is Saint 2254 02:05:12.159 --> 02:05:17.000 Augustine I assume, is that right? Yeah, okay, yeah, when 2255 02:05:17.039 --> 02:05:19.359 it comes to insects, we're talking about chinchbugs and sideweb 2256 02:05:19.439 --> 02:05:22.720 worms and grubs three three pests and there's a very 2257 02:05:22.800 --> 02:05:26.239 specific time on those. We're in that time on those, 2258 02:05:26.840 --> 02:05:31.840 but in nothing ahead of time will help. All right, 2259 02:05:32.119 --> 02:05:34.560 all right, I'm gonna I'm gonna have to gearrun bill, 2260 02:05:35.079 --> 02:05:38.000 but yeah, good luck with all that. I hope that helped. 2261 02:05:38.520 --> 02:05:40.800 Gary and Alvin. You'll be first up when we come back. 2262 02:05:41.039 --> 02:05:43.880 If you want to give Chrystal, call seven one three 2263 02:05:44.000 --> 02:05:46.279 two one two. Kat r H will get you on 2264 02:05:46.319 --> 02:05:48.279 the board. We'll be ready to talk to you next 2265 02:05:49.199 --> 02:05:51.720 and glad you're with us today. Hey, have you been 2266 02:05:51.920 --> 02:05:55.359 down to Jeges Hidden Gardens. It's done in Alvin. You 2267 02:05:55.479 --> 02:05:59.079 heard me talk about it before. It's on Elizabeth Street 2268 02:05:59.239 --> 02:06:01.439 in Alvin and they're open today by the way, from 2269 02:06:01.520 --> 02:06:03.960 eight to four and tomorrow again from eight to four. 2270 02:06:04.800 --> 02:06:06.600 When you get down to Hoorze Sidden Gardens, you're going 2271 02:06:06.640 --> 02:06:08.760 to find a wide variety of things. Number one. They 2272 02:06:08.840 --> 02:06:12.720 have a variety of products, for example, the tree stabilizer 2273 02:06:12.840 --> 02:06:15.800 three sixty tree stabilizer. If you've got a young tree, 2274 02:06:15.920 --> 02:06:18.039 that's the thing you need for that, and they've got 2275 02:06:18.119 --> 02:06:23.439 them right there, including his own proprietary blend fertilizer products. 2276 02:06:23.600 --> 02:06:26.119 He has got a good selection of fruit trees, lots 2277 02:06:26.159 --> 02:06:28.960 of citrus right now is on hand. And if you 2278 02:06:29.039 --> 02:06:31.039 need like let's say you want to grow an apple, well, 2279 02:06:31.079 --> 02:06:33.399 you know, apples are for up north, but we have 2280 02:06:33.640 --> 02:06:36.399 varieties that will grow down here. And Hora carries things 2281 02:06:36.520 --> 02:06:39.840 like anna and Dorset golden, for example, that can handle 2282 02:06:40.039 --> 02:06:43.279 the lower chill that we receive down in this area. 2283 02:06:43.800 --> 02:06:45.640 So you're going to find a lot of things like that. 2284 02:06:45.960 --> 02:06:50.359 They're at Horae Sidden Gardens. You're also at Hoges going 2285 02:06:50.439 --> 02:06:53.199 to be able to find the things that you need 2286 02:06:53.560 --> 02:06:57.720 to have success in terms of plants, for shade plants 2287 02:06:58.560 --> 02:07:01.039 that are perennial that come out year after year, the 2288 02:07:01.199 --> 02:07:03.520 tropical look you know, you like the big old elephant 2289 02:07:03.520 --> 02:07:07.359 ear looking things, you like the the I like foxdale fern. 2290 02:07:07.439 --> 02:07:10.960 He's got those. They are very tough plants to grow, 2291 02:07:11.600 --> 02:07:14.319 very tough and resilient. Or he's got all of that. 2292 02:07:14.680 --> 02:07:17.960 But remember today eight to four tomorrow eight to four 2293 02:07:18.239 --> 02:07:21.880 again or Haes Hidden Gardens there on Alvin Street. Excuse me, 2294 02:07:22.039 --> 02:07:26.079 Elizabeth Street and Alvin, Texas just south Highway sixth seventeen 2295 02:07:26.199 --> 02:07:29.760 seven twenty one Elizabeth Street. Go check them out. We're 2296 02:07:29.800 --> 02:07:33.600 going to head now over to Alvin speaking of or 2297 02:07:33.680 --> 02:07:36.680 Haes Hidden Gardens, and we're going to talk to Gary. Hello. 2298 02:07:36.840 --> 02:07:44.119 Gary, Yes, sir, my wife has several raised garden beds. 2299 02:07:44.439 --> 02:07:47.560 They're like four foot by four foot, and we have 2300 02:07:47.760 --> 02:07:50.479 lots of rabbits. We have twelve full grown rabbits. She 2301 02:07:50.640 --> 02:07:52.880 breeds most of the rabbits and the and it's cooler 2302 02:07:53.279 --> 02:07:56.319 the rabbit manure. Can you put too much on? And 2303 02:07:56.359 --> 02:08:00.239 then you only two on the raised beds there like 2304 02:08:00.319 --> 02:08:02.920 four foot but four foot and you got several of them. 2305 02:08:02.960 --> 02:08:05.159 And like I said, putting the rabbit maneuver on there? 2306 02:08:05.239 --> 02:08:07.399 Can you put too much? And we're not raised anything 2307 02:08:07.520 --> 02:08:09.119 right now? Can we go ahead and put the rabbit 2308 02:08:09.199 --> 02:08:09.840 maneuver on there? 2309 02:08:09.880 --> 02:08:10.159 Will it? 2310 02:08:10.840 --> 02:08:10.960 Uh? 2311 02:08:11.359 --> 02:08:11.439 Uh? 2312 02:08:11.560 --> 02:08:14.760 And there again they the dozen full grown that we 2313 02:08:14.880 --> 02:08:17.479 have produce a whole lot of maneuver. But is this 2314 02:08:17.600 --> 02:08:20.119 good or bad? And then also we were trying to 2315 02:08:20.239 --> 02:08:21.720 raise what we can feed the rabbits. 2316 02:08:23.520 --> 02:08:27.560 All right, sounds good. Well, yeah, it's wonderful manure. My 2317 02:08:27.680 --> 02:08:29.960 kid drese rabbits when they were growing up. We had 2318 02:08:30.039 --> 02:08:32.520 rabbits for more years than I care to remember. And 2319 02:08:33.319 --> 02:08:38.479 but we didn't call it manure. We called it funny pooh. 2320 02:08:38.960 --> 02:08:40.840 In fact, if you want to sound, if you want 2321 02:08:40.880 --> 02:08:43.880 to sound a little more, you know, high falutin, you 2322 02:08:44.039 --> 02:08:47.439 just call it pooh de boney, pooh de boney. It sounds, 2323 02:08:48.079 --> 02:08:51.840 it sounds exotic. It's the same stuff. It's not like 2324 02:08:51.960 --> 02:08:54.159 chicken manu where it's really easy to burn plants with it. 2325 02:08:54.319 --> 02:08:57.800 Rabbit manure is typically not that hot. Now, can you 2326 02:08:57.920 --> 02:09:00.319 put too much? We can put too much of anything, 2327 02:09:00.680 --> 02:09:04.119 you know, anything, you can overdo it. But in general 2328 02:09:04.359 --> 02:09:06.600 we don't worry about it burning like rabbits can do. 2329 02:09:06.760 --> 02:09:09.239 I would say, if you put out you know, you know, 2330 02:09:09.359 --> 02:09:11.760 maybe a half inch at a time, kind of scratched 2331 02:09:11.800 --> 02:09:13.760 it into the surface, that would be a pretty good 2332 02:09:13.760 --> 02:09:14.680 application rate. 2333 02:09:16.880 --> 02:09:18.600 Wow, half inch in much. 2334 02:09:20.640 --> 02:09:24.239 No, not at one time, but you know, experiment with 2335 02:09:24.319 --> 02:09:26.680 it and see. You know, some plants do not need 2336 02:09:26.800 --> 02:09:29.800 much fertilizer. Other plants are heavy feeders, so I would 2337 02:09:29.840 --> 02:09:31.479 adjust according to that as well. 2338 02:09:33.359 --> 02:09:35.880 Okay, and then we're not we're trying to grow what 2339 02:09:36.039 --> 02:09:38.479 the rabbits will eat. Worse, we can't never have let 2340 02:09:38.560 --> 02:09:42.159 grown carrots, of course, but other kails and things like 2341 02:09:42.239 --> 02:09:43.680 that that we can feed the rabbits. 2342 02:09:44.039 --> 02:09:44.239 Do that. 2343 02:09:44.720 --> 02:09:45.560 What do you recommend? 2344 02:09:45.640 --> 02:09:49.399 Okay, yeah, that's what I do on those. What I 2345 02:09:49.399 --> 02:09:51.960 would do is that you're talking about vegetable grun there, 2346 02:09:52.000 --> 02:09:55.039 so I would before you can't, I would put the 2347 02:09:55.199 --> 02:09:57.760 rabbit manure down at about an inch inch and a 2348 02:09:57.800 --> 02:10:00.840 half and rototillert in is deeply, are spaded in as 2349 02:10:00.880 --> 02:10:05.520 deeply as practical, and then plant and and then that 2350 02:10:05.640 --> 02:10:09.279 way you're not having to put the maneuver around existing plants, 2351 02:10:09.319 --> 02:10:12.399 which is a little more challenging in a dense vegetable garden. 2352 02:10:13.159 --> 02:10:17.760 Sure, okay, very good, appreciate it. 2353 02:10:17.840 --> 02:10:21.239 So but it works. It works very well. It's already pelletized, 2354 02:10:21.600 --> 02:10:24.159 so once it's dry, you can you can put it 2355 02:10:24.239 --> 02:10:26.399 in a sack and store it for later if you want. 2356 02:10:26.520 --> 02:10:29.399 Have you ever thought about raising earthworms underneath there are 2357 02:10:29.439 --> 02:10:30.039 those cages? 2358 02:10:30.600 --> 02:10:33.319 No, no, never never considered that. 2359 02:10:33.920 --> 02:10:40.159 The red wiggler, not nightcrawlers, but red earthworms. There's also 2360 02:10:40.359 --> 02:10:43.960 something called a brown noseworm that's basically like a red wigular. 2361 02:10:44.560 --> 02:10:47.560 They go crazy into there and they'll transform that manure 2362 02:10:47.760 --> 02:10:51.479 and it's almost like you're turning it into a compost material. 2363 02:10:52.279 --> 02:10:55.119 Plus you get fishing worms or some people even purchase 2364 02:10:55.199 --> 02:10:59.119 those things. People that have vermiculture bins where they add 2365 02:10:59.239 --> 02:11:03.640 worms to to decompose food scraps. They'll buy your red 2366 02:11:03.720 --> 02:11:06.239 regular worms to put in their verma culture bend. So 2367 02:11:06.600 --> 02:11:09.239 I know you're not looking for another business to get into, 2368 02:11:09.399 --> 02:11:12.399 but that's just another option. And they can take our 2369 02:11:12.479 --> 02:11:16.279 temperatures better, uh than like the nightcrawlers can. 2370 02:11:17.960 --> 02:11:19.439 Yes, sir, I appreciate you. 2371 02:11:20.119 --> 02:11:23.159 That's more than you, more than you ask. So thanks 2372 02:11:23.199 --> 02:11:24.680 sont Gary, thanks for listening. 2373 02:11:25.239 --> 02:11:25.560 Thank you. 2374 02:11:26.600 --> 02:11:32.800 Good care. You are listening to garden Line. I'm your host, 2375 02:11:32.840 --> 02:11:35.640 Skip Rickor and we're here to answer your gardening questions. 2376 02:11:36.359 --> 02:11:38.279 That's what we try to do. Here. We're going to 2377 02:11:38.319 --> 02:11:41.560 head out to Austin County and talk to Doris. 2378 02:11:41.640 --> 02:11:46.600 Hello, Doris, Hello, can you hear me? 2379 02:11:47.000 --> 02:11:48.760 How can we help today? I can? 2380 02:11:50.359 --> 02:11:53.960 Okay, I have urbinas. I have the purple ones, the 2381 02:11:54.079 --> 02:11:58.119 white ones, and the red ones, and they were doing 2382 02:11:58.199 --> 02:12:01.920 really well. Now some of the bushes are getting white 2383 02:12:02.000 --> 02:12:05.560 spots like on their leaves and they're starting to die 2384 02:12:05.720 --> 02:12:06.520 from underneath. 2385 02:12:09.119 --> 02:12:09.680 What's wrong with. 2386 02:12:09.760 --> 02:12:14.159 Them, Well, Verbina is a pretty tough plant, but when 2387 02:12:14.199 --> 02:12:17.319 we get to the full brunt of Texas summers, it's 2388 02:12:17.439 --> 02:12:21.359 stressed and so it is easy for issues to arise 2389 02:12:21.479 --> 02:12:24.239 from them. I think though, that the white spots, if 2390 02:12:24.279 --> 02:12:28.319 they're very very small specks, that kind of more and 2391 02:12:28.439 --> 02:12:31.000 more of them occur until the leaf almost turns white. 2392 02:12:32.039 --> 02:12:35.760 That is a piercing sucking insect that is sucking juices 2393 02:12:35.800 --> 02:12:38.439 out of those leaves from the underside of the leaf. 2394 02:12:38.560 --> 02:12:41.479 They hide under the leaf and they suck the juices out, 2395 02:12:41.680 --> 02:12:44.760 and so getting a blast of spray up under there 2396 02:12:44.840 --> 02:12:47.800 to kill them would be one option to try to 2397 02:12:47.840 --> 02:12:50.920 bring those under control. But we have several different kinds 2398 02:12:50.960 --> 02:12:54.760 of plants, from lace bugs to a little plant hoppers 2399 02:12:55.199 --> 02:12:58.199 and others that can cause that kind of damage. 2400 02:13:00.039 --> 02:13:04.600 Some of these are almost white, but I don't see 2401 02:13:04.600 --> 02:13:05.720 anything under the leak. 2402 02:13:07.479 --> 02:13:10.920 That's what you will some of these things are. They're 2403 02:13:11.199 --> 02:13:13.520 they're skittish and by the time you turn it over 2404 02:13:13.600 --> 02:13:15.840 they've hopped away. So you kind of have to go 2405 02:13:15.880 --> 02:13:17.319 out in the morning, maybe look at the top of 2406 02:13:17.359 --> 02:13:18.960 the leaves. Some of them may be up there, but 2407 02:13:19.119 --> 02:13:21.840 when you turn them over, if it's a lace bug, 2408 02:13:22.199 --> 02:13:25.199 the uh, they don't jump around, they'll be there. You 2409 02:13:25.239 --> 02:13:28.119 can turn it over and you'll see them. So another 2410 02:13:28.199 --> 02:13:31.640 sign of lace bugs is little black tar like spots. 2411 02:13:31.720 --> 02:13:34.479 That's they're poop underneath the leak. They stick it to 2412 02:13:34.520 --> 02:13:36.159 the bottom of the leaf. I don't know why. 2413 02:13:36.840 --> 02:13:36.960 Uh. 2414 02:13:37.239 --> 02:13:41.720 And the other kind, the piercing sucking plant hoppers, those 2415 02:13:41.920 --> 02:13:45.439 are the more skittish ones uh. And you just kind 2416 02:13:45.479 --> 02:13:48.159 of have to to go out real carefully and slowly 2417 02:13:48.279 --> 02:13:50.000 turn it over to see them. But there'll be little 2418 02:13:50.039 --> 02:13:53.239 bugs that are about the size of a of an aphid, 2419 02:13:54.319 --> 02:13:57.720 a big plump black aphid. Typically they're very dark colored, 2420 02:13:58.479 --> 02:14:00.840 but that would be something to look for. 2421 02:14:02.560 --> 02:14:03.720 And what do I use on them? 2422 02:14:06.600 --> 02:14:08.880 There's there are a number of products that will knock 2423 02:14:08.920 --> 02:14:12.680 them down. Pyrietherns is an organic type spray that you 2424 02:14:12.760 --> 02:14:15.159 could use to knock them down, a pyrite and spray, 2425 02:14:16.159 --> 02:14:19.279 you could use really any insecticide labeled for use on 2426 02:14:19.399 --> 02:14:22.239 your flowers. You just want to be careful because you 2427 02:14:22.359 --> 02:14:24.800 got bees. And so sometimes I'll do that real late 2428 02:14:24.880 --> 02:14:27.640 in the day, uh, and so that that it all 2429 02:14:27.760 --> 02:14:29.840 dries up and the next days the bees come out. 2430 02:14:30.439 --> 02:14:33.520 You know, the the product isn't just wet there on 2431 02:14:33.600 --> 02:14:36.199 the leaf where or the flowers where bees would be 2432 02:14:36.279 --> 02:14:37.920 infected affected. 2433 02:14:38.039 --> 02:14:42.119 Okay, all right, all right, thank you very much. 2434 02:14:43.800 --> 02:14:45.960 All right, you take care, good luck with that doors. 2435 02:14:47.000 --> 02:14:55.800 Thank you. 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They can 2445 02:15:25.119 --> 02:15:29.000 do a quality and pretty rapid compost top dressing a 2446 02:15:29.079 --> 02:15:31.960 lot longer than you taking wheelbarrows and dumping it around 2447 02:15:32.039 --> 02:15:35.000 everywhere and then raking it to try to smooth it out. 2448 02:15:35.439 --> 02:15:37.239 Hire them to come in and do that. They air 2449 02:15:37.319 --> 02:15:40.359 rate the lawn. They've got a good aeration machine that 2450 02:15:40.520 --> 02:15:42.640 pulls the plugs out of the soil and drops them 2451 02:15:42.680 --> 02:15:44.760 on the surface. And for a lot of lawns that 2452 02:15:44.800 --> 02:15:48.159 are struggling, when you do that, you're getting oxygen down 2453 02:15:48.199 --> 02:15:51.439 into the soil. You're getting oxygen into the soil, and 2454 02:15:51.840 --> 02:15:53.960 you're getting that compost done in the soil, and the 2455 02:15:54.079 --> 02:15:56.920 soil just gets better and the roots thrive, and as 2456 02:15:56.960 --> 02:16:01.279 a result, an old struggling drought stress, whatever it's struggling 2457 02:16:01.319 --> 02:16:06.560 with lawn can be really greatly enhanced. Bbturfpros dot com. 2458 02:16:06.880 --> 02:16:10.600 That's a website, eb purfpros dot com or seven one 2459 02:16:10.720 --> 02:16:14.560 three two three four, five five nine eight. They basically 2460 02:16:14.680 --> 02:16:18.279 cover the southern part from it ten or Sugarland down 2461 02:16:18.399 --> 02:16:21.199 south and over as far as Paarland. That's the region 2462 02:16:21.239 --> 02:16:23.680 they cover. Give them a call seven one three, two 2463 02:16:23.840 --> 02:16:25.720 three four five five nine eight. 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Actually, if you'd 2565 02:21:39.639 --> 02:21:40.799 like to give us a call, this would be a 2566 02:21:40.840 --> 02:21:44.159 good time. Seven one three two one two five eight 2567 02:21:44.360 --> 02:21:47.120 seven four seven one three two one two fifty eight 2568 02:21:47.319 --> 02:21:49.959 seventy four. We're gonna go out to college station now 2569 02:21:50.000 --> 02:21:52.959 and talk to Andy. Hello, Andy, and welcome to Garden Lines. 2570 02:21:54.879 --> 02:21:57.120 Hey, Skip, how you doing? I appreciate you taking my 2571 02:21:57.280 --> 02:22:00.760 call again. I uh talk to you last week. I 2572 02:22:00.879 --> 02:22:03.799 was putting a kind of a crushed granite walk away 2573 02:22:03.840 --> 02:22:06.520 and circle around for a for my fire pits and 2574 02:22:06.920 --> 02:22:11.319 smokers and stuff. I had said I had Saint Augustine. 2575 02:22:11.360 --> 02:22:12.959 When I looked a little bit closer and it's a 2576 02:22:13.479 --> 02:22:16.639 it's a lot of permuta and weeds mixed in with 2577 02:22:16.840 --> 02:22:19.639 it as well too. So I guess my my thought 2578 02:22:19.760 --> 02:22:21.159 is prepare it? Do I? 2579 02:22:21.600 --> 02:22:21.719 Uh? 2580 02:22:23.040 --> 02:22:25.479 Do I do the round up and at first, and 2581 02:22:25.600 --> 02:22:27.520 then let it sit for a while. Maybe do it 2582 02:22:27.639 --> 02:22:30.319 twice before I before I do anything to it or 2583 02:22:30.399 --> 02:22:31.719 what for preparing for it? 2584 02:22:33.639 --> 02:22:38.840 Okay, yes, twice would be the case, because you don't 2585 02:22:39.200 --> 02:22:44.120 always get it all the first time. Lifeasay run ups 2586 02:22:44.200 --> 02:22:46.840 just one name. By the way, if you go to 2587 02:22:46.920 --> 02:22:49.680 a store now and buy something that says round up, 2588 02:22:49.959 --> 02:22:53.719 it probably isn't life usay because when the in the 2589 02:22:53.840 --> 02:22:58.200 retail market, the homeowner market, uh, that's being pulled, pulled 2590 02:22:58.239 --> 02:23:00.959 and its other ingredients and they're being called round up. 2591 02:23:01.000 --> 02:23:03.440 I wish they wouldn't do that, but that is what 2592 02:23:03.799 --> 02:23:07.200 companies do. But anyway, so gli, I'm gonna use the 2593 02:23:07.239 --> 02:23:10.040 word glyphosay because that's the ingredient you can find in 2594 02:23:10.120 --> 02:23:11.680 a lot of other brands. I've been round up. 2595 02:23:12.239 --> 02:23:12.360 Uh. 2596 02:23:12.680 --> 02:23:16.159 That kills broad leaf and grasses, and it moves down 2597 02:23:16.200 --> 02:23:18.440 in the plant and it kills the underground parts too, 2598 02:23:18.479 --> 02:23:21.120 which is why it's so good for taking bermuda grass out. 2599 02:23:21.760 --> 02:23:25.799 If your If your main weed weeds are grassy, you 2600 02:23:25.920 --> 02:23:29.280 can use a grass only killer as an alternative to 2601 02:23:29.399 --> 02:23:32.840 the glyphosay. But if you've got broad leaf weeds, the 2602 02:23:32.920 --> 02:23:37.159 grass only killers won't work. Okay, can you spell the 2603 02:23:37.239 --> 02:23:38.000 name of that product? 2604 02:23:38.040 --> 02:23:38.440 What is that. 2605 02:23:40.959 --> 02:23:42.239 Glyphosate? Yeah? 2606 02:23:42.440 --> 02:23:48.120 G L Y P H O S A T E. 2607 02:23:48.879 --> 02:23:50.879 I tell you something I want I want you to do. 2608 02:23:51.159 --> 02:23:51.239 Uh. 2609 02:23:51.680 --> 02:23:54.760 Have you ever been to my website, Gardening with Skip 2610 02:23:54.879 --> 02:23:55.360 dot com? 2611 02:23:57.000 --> 02:23:57.319 Actually? 2612 02:23:57.399 --> 02:24:02.360 Now, if okay, if not write that down gardening with 2613 02:24:02.920 --> 02:24:07.559 Skip dot com. When you go there, there's a tag 2614 02:24:07.639 --> 02:24:11.760 for all the publications, and I have a publication called 2615 02:24:11.840 --> 02:24:16.399 herbicide products to use with Skip's weed wiper tool. It's 2616 02:24:16.440 --> 02:24:19.280 the only publication that starts off saying herbicide at the beginning. 2617 02:24:19.719 --> 02:24:22.200 If you click on that, it's products that I put 2618 02:24:22.239 --> 02:24:25.639 on the list for using with a little homemade tool 2619 02:24:25.680 --> 02:24:27.879 I show you how to make. By the way, this 2620 02:24:28.360 --> 02:24:31.040 tool is not for the kind of bermuda situation you have. 2621 02:24:31.639 --> 02:24:36.719 But those products you see products for brushyweeds, products for 2622 02:24:36.920 --> 02:24:41.360 grass plants, products for plants with underground bulbs like wild 2623 02:24:41.399 --> 02:24:44.600 onion and garlic in the lawn. But if you look there, 2624 02:24:44.920 --> 02:24:48.399 you can find the products for each of those that 2625 02:24:48.559 --> 02:24:51.040 work well and for grassyweeds. That's kind of what we've 2626 02:24:51.040 --> 02:24:53.719 been talking about. Those products are there, even though that 2627 02:24:53.799 --> 02:24:56.440 publications made for things to put on the weed wiper. 2628 02:24:57.159 --> 02:24:59.760 Those are the products you would use to control to 2629 02:24:59.799 --> 02:25:02.479 get that bermua kill back. And then again, like you said, 2630 02:25:03.000 --> 02:25:05.719 get water it good, give it some time to try 2631 02:25:05.760 --> 02:25:07.920 to get it to come back up again, show its face. 2632 02:25:08.200 --> 02:25:10.319 So do you have something else to spray a second time? 2633 02:25:11.680 --> 02:25:11.840 Oh? 2634 02:25:12.040 --> 02:25:14.159 Awesome, that is great. I appreciate that. 2635 02:25:14.479 --> 02:25:17.520 Yeah, I didn't really look at it before and as much. 2636 02:25:17.639 --> 02:25:20.159 And it's a it's we've just been in the house 2637 02:25:20.200 --> 02:25:22.760 a couple of months now. It's ten years old, and 2638 02:25:22.879 --> 02:25:25.079 so we've been mowing a couple of times a week 2639 02:25:25.200 --> 02:25:27.120 to keep the weeds down and stuff. So I didn't 2640 02:25:27.159 --> 02:25:30.399 actually really notice we had a lot more going on 2641 02:25:30.520 --> 02:25:31.360 in there than I thought. 2642 02:25:33.559 --> 02:25:37.319 Yeah, yeah, it's often the way it is. That's all right, 2643 02:25:37.360 --> 02:25:41.920 and good luck, Thank you. Take one last one last 2644 02:25:42.040 --> 02:25:45.440 where did the wise ending? Before you go? You get 2645 02:25:45.559 --> 02:25:48.879 much better killed with whatever you spray if the target 2646 02:25:49.000 --> 02:25:53.399 weed is healthy and vigorous growing. If it's drought stressed, 2647 02:25:53.840 --> 02:25:56.360 these products don't work well at all. So you want 2648 02:25:56.399 --> 02:25:58.120 to water it, do whatever you guy do. You want 2649 02:25:58.120 --> 02:26:00.479 to get it up and growing and where it's moving 2650 02:26:00.600 --> 02:26:02.479 and then it takes that herbicide up and you get 2651 02:26:02.559 --> 02:26:06.680 much better results. So just a final thought there, Okay, 2652 02:26:07.399 --> 02:26:09.840 oh yeah, I got you. I'll take it down into 2653 02:26:09.879 --> 02:26:14.360 the roots so it does better. Yeah, thanks Ben, you 2654 02:26:14.479 --> 02:26:16.360 take care. Hey, our phone number if you'd like to 2655 02:26:16.399 --> 02:26:19.760 give us a call seven one three two one two 2656 02:26:20.200 --> 02:26:23.479 five eight seven four seven one three two one two 2657 02:26:23.879 --> 02:26:27.079 fifty eight seventy four out at the Texas Nursery and 2658 02:26:27.159 --> 02:26:32.159 Landscape Association Convention in San Antonio that's this past week. Uh, well, 2659 02:26:32.200 --> 02:26:34.000 that was a great convention. I saw a lot of 2660 02:26:34.040 --> 02:26:36.239 good friends out there. I ran into the folks at 2661 02:26:36.319 --> 02:26:39.959 Nelson Plant Food, Dean uh the guy who created Nelson 2662 02:26:40.000 --> 02:26:43.040 Plant Food, Dean Nelson, and also Shelby and some of 2663 02:26:43.079 --> 02:26:44.920 the other folks that work with them, and we're just 2664 02:26:45.079 --> 02:26:47.959 visiting about the different products they have, what all they 2665 02:26:48.000 --> 02:26:51.399 have on hand. And they have a lot of quality products. 2666 02:26:51.479 --> 02:26:55.040 You know, there's the fertilizer bag lines, that's the turf 2667 02:26:55.520 --> 02:26:59.799 Star line. That's where you find Bruce's Brew, which releases 2668 02:27:00.520 --> 02:27:02.959 it's a perfect blend of nutrients and it releases them 2669 02:27:03.360 --> 02:27:08.680 initially pretty good, and then it has some ongoing slow release. 2670 02:27:09.239 --> 02:27:12.159 Slow and Easy is another turf Star product. That one. 2671 02:27:12.760 --> 02:27:15.920 It releases some early, but it releases for three or 2672 02:27:15.959 --> 02:27:18.520 four months going forward. I would say at this point, 2673 02:27:18.639 --> 02:27:21.120 if you needed a fertilizer to hold you until we 2674 02:27:21.200 --> 02:27:23.479 get to the fall, maybe a little Bruce's Brew would 2675 02:27:23.479 --> 02:27:25.520 be a good one for the lawn there. Now, when 2676 02:27:25.559 --> 02:27:28.040 it comes to trees and shrubs, there's the nutri Star 2677 02:27:28.200 --> 02:27:31.440 for tree and shrub. There's nutri Star for all kinds 2678 02:27:31.479 --> 02:27:35.239 of for tropical plants, for vining plants. It's just a 2679 02:27:35.319 --> 02:27:37.840 wide variety. So little jars, plastic jars, you can find 2680 02:27:37.879 --> 02:27:40.120 them a lot of different places. The thing I like 2681 02:27:40.200 --> 02:27:44.079 about those nutri Star jars, about the color Star jars, 2682 02:27:44.319 --> 02:27:46.280 is that you can go to a garden center. Certain 2683 02:27:46.319 --> 02:27:49.680 garden centers have the little refill stations. It's kind of 2684 02:27:49.719 --> 02:27:51.719 like when you buy peanuts in the grocery store. You 2685 02:27:51.760 --> 02:27:53.600 pull the little handle down and fill up the bag. 2686 02:27:53.680 --> 02:27:55.680 You know what I'm talking about. Well, it's like that, 2687 02:27:56.040 --> 02:27:59.040 but you get a lot of really good savings on 2688 02:27:59.120 --> 02:28:01.239 the fertilizer because they're not having to make a jar 2689 02:28:01.399 --> 02:28:04.399 and sell it to you and the environments not trying 2690 02:28:04.399 --> 02:28:06.399 to figure out what to do with even more plastic. 2691 02:28:06.760 --> 02:28:09.159 Because you buy a jar in another jar and another jar, 2692 02:28:09.399 --> 02:28:11.879 you can just refill them the Nelson plant few jars. 2693 02:28:12.040 --> 02:28:16.360 So just another reason that Nelson products are so handy 2694 02:28:16.479 --> 02:28:19.760 and they do work very very well. I've used them myself. 2695 02:28:19.840 --> 02:28:22.639 One of my favorites, by the way, is Genesis Transplant Mix. 2696 02:28:22.959 --> 02:28:24.920 I'll have to tell you more about that at another time, 2697 02:28:25.040 --> 02:28:27.600 But if you're going to transplant anything into the ground, 2698 02:28:27.879 --> 02:28:32.040 mix a little Genesis transplant mix into the soil around there, 2699 02:28:32.440 --> 02:28:35.680 then dig the hole and replant and you will see results. 2700 02:28:35.719 --> 02:28:37.920 If you're going to pot something up, mix it into 2701 02:28:37.959 --> 02:28:41.319 the potting salt that you're about to use. Genesis Transplant 2702 02:28:41.399 --> 02:28:44.000 Mix from Nelson just another good one. We're going to 2703 02:28:44.040 --> 02:28:49.159 go to Spring now and talk to Nicole. Hello, Nicole, Hello, 2704 02:28:49.440 --> 02:28:53.360 how are you? I'm good? How can we help? 2705 02:28:54.719 --> 02:28:58.319 I have a weed in my flower bed that I 2706 02:28:58.600 --> 02:29:01.920 am constantly fighting and I cannot figure out what to 2707 02:29:02.000 --> 02:29:02.479 do about it. 2708 02:29:02.639 --> 02:29:04.120 It pulls up very easily. 2709 02:29:04.920 --> 02:29:08.920 It has it's almost a fern type leaf. It has 2710 02:29:09.120 --> 02:29:09.959 very tiny. 2711 02:29:09.799 --> 02:29:12.239 Little leafs on it, spores on the back. 2712 02:29:12.639 --> 02:29:12.799 Huh. 2713 02:29:14.479 --> 02:29:15.959 It almost reminds me of like. 2714 02:29:16.000 --> 02:29:19.079 A little mimosa leaf, like a little mimosa tree leaf. 2715 02:29:19.239 --> 02:29:20.920 I mean that's what it sort of looks like a 2716 02:29:21.239 --> 02:29:24.680 little tiny leaves. And I don't know what did you 2717 02:29:24.799 --> 02:29:26.319 to keep this thing from coming back? 2718 02:29:27.920 --> 02:29:29.559 Got you? What did you say it had on the 2719 02:29:29.600 --> 02:29:35.440 back of the leaf spores? Okay, I know what it is. 2720 02:29:35.559 --> 02:29:37.079 I've got to go to break and it's gonna take 2721 02:29:37.079 --> 02:29:38.959 a while to talk about this. When hang on, we'll 2722 02:29:39.000 --> 02:29:41.719 be right back with you and we will solve the 2723 02:29:41.799 --> 02:29:45.239 problem to the mystery weed. Thanks. Thanks a lot, Nicole 2724 02:29:45.360 --> 02:29:49.120 and Tiffany. You'll be the next up. After we solve 2725 02:29:49.239 --> 02:29:53.680 Nichole's problem, we'll be right back all right, all right, 2726 02:29:53.799 --> 02:29:56.280 welcome back. Good to have you with us here on 2727 02:29:56.559 --> 02:29:58.760 Garden Line. I'm your host, Skip Richter, and we're here 2728 02:29:58.840 --> 02:30:02.200 to answer your gardening question. We speaking of gardening questions. 2729 02:30:02.239 --> 02:30:05.479 We were just talking to Tiffany, no excuse me, Nicole 2730 02:30:05.680 --> 02:30:09.360 in spring and Nicole that we just called chamber bitter 2731 02:30:10.120 --> 02:30:13.120 and it is the weed of summer. It's slow to 2732 02:30:13.200 --> 02:30:15.399 wake up in the spring. A lot of spring things 2733 02:30:15.479 --> 02:30:18.239 pop up like crabgrass and they're growing. This one's a 2734 02:30:18.280 --> 02:30:21.719 little bit slower, but when it shows up, it can 2735 02:30:21.959 --> 02:30:27.200 be just proliferating through a thin lawn or through garden 2736 02:30:27.280 --> 02:30:30.680 beds and things. The answers to what to do about is, 2737 02:30:30.719 --> 02:30:34.559 first of all, any if you can hoe or hand 2738 02:30:34.680 --> 02:30:37.360 pull when it's first coming up, depending on where it's growing. 2739 02:30:37.399 --> 02:30:39.920 You can't hoe in the lawn, but just taking a 2740 02:30:40.000 --> 02:30:42.959 hole right underneath the surface, don't. You're not chopping with 2741 02:30:43.079 --> 02:30:45.479 a hoe, you're just slicing it off under the surface. 2742 02:30:46.040 --> 02:30:49.319 That's the best because pretty quickly it starts producing what 2743 02:30:49.479 --> 02:30:52.719 you were calling a spore, that's actually the seed bop pod. 2744 02:30:53.799 --> 02:30:55.920 It has a tiny little bloom you'll never think of 2745 02:30:56.000 --> 02:30:58.959 as a flower, and then it produces these seed pods 2746 02:30:59.040 --> 02:31:02.239 all along the lea petiole underneath, their little balls all 2747 02:31:02.280 --> 02:31:06.000 along there. And so once it's doing that, you're about 2748 02:31:06.079 --> 02:31:08.879 to have a lot of seeds, and so you're gonna 2749 02:31:08.879 --> 02:31:10.680 have to be dealing with it a year after year. 2750 02:31:11.239 --> 02:31:14.120 So the earlier you can hand pull it, the better 2751 02:31:14.559 --> 02:31:17.719 mulches will keep it from coming up if the mulch 2752 02:31:17.799 --> 02:31:20.639 blocks all the sunlight out. So that's another thing, and 2753 02:31:20.719 --> 02:31:22.639 I realized we'd have to go back in time to 2754 02:31:22.760 --> 02:31:25.760 do some of those steps, but that's FYI for next year. 2755 02:31:26.520 --> 02:31:32.200 You can spray it with a product like Celsius for example. 2756 02:31:32.440 --> 02:31:37.760 It does a pretty good job on it, but once 2757 02:31:37.879 --> 02:31:41.639 it's getting really woody and established, it's hard to kill 2758 02:31:41.719 --> 02:31:42.280 with sprays. 2759 02:31:43.959 --> 02:31:47.840 Okay, okay, yeah, it's it just pops up so quickly, 2760 02:31:48.079 --> 02:31:50.680 and it's like I can I pull it. It's easy 2761 02:31:50.719 --> 02:31:53.159 to pull handful. I mean, it's really easy to pull 2762 02:31:53.200 --> 02:31:54.879 out of the ground. It's not one of those ones 2763 02:31:54.920 --> 02:31:57.559 that has the chaining root or anything like that. 2764 02:31:57.840 --> 02:32:04.559 It's just that's everywhere. Yep. Well, like what in general, 2765 02:32:04.680 --> 02:32:06.879 where is it? And what is it a flower bed 2766 02:32:07.280 --> 02:32:08.319 or what are you seeing it? Then? 2767 02:32:09.360 --> 02:32:12.879 Yes, mostly it's in the flowerbed. It's on the edge 2768 02:32:12.920 --> 02:32:16.600 of the flower bed where I don't have any bushes 2769 02:32:17.520 --> 02:32:21.000 or plants, you know, close to the rocks. And we've 2770 02:32:21.120 --> 02:32:24.040 molted we most every spring, so I don't know if 2771 02:32:24.040 --> 02:32:24.559 the molts just. 2772 02:32:24.600 --> 02:32:31.000 Got thin or I don't know. Yeah, yes, that is 2773 02:32:31.120 --> 02:32:33.479 what it is. Because when a seed sprouts, that tiny 2774 02:32:33.559 --> 02:32:35.879 little seed has some stored energy, but not a lot, 2775 02:32:36.280 --> 02:32:38.760 and so if you prevent it from being able to 2776 02:32:38.840 --> 02:32:43.719 reach sunlight, you'll kill it. And I don't suppose you 2777 02:32:43.840 --> 02:32:46.879 still subscribe to a print copy of the newspaper, do you? 2778 02:32:47.559 --> 02:32:52.559 Most people I don't. Yeah, the newspaper for it. When 2779 02:32:52.600 --> 02:32:54.680 it first comes up, you can lay newspaper on it, 2780 02:32:54.840 --> 02:32:57.760 four to six sheets thick, and wet that newspaper so 2781 02:32:57.840 --> 02:32:59.680 it sort of sticks down, and then throw mulch on 2782 02:32:59.760 --> 02:33:02.639 top and you're done. That works really well because it 2783 02:33:02.719 --> 02:33:06.200 completely blocks the light out. The newspaper does. Yeah, four 2784 02:33:06.239 --> 02:33:08.680 to six sheets thick, just so it doesn't tear so easy. 2785 02:33:09.239 --> 02:33:11.719 But you don't have to go buy newspaper, just gets 2786 02:33:11.719 --> 02:33:14.680 you a good mulge to smother it. I will often 2787 02:33:14.840 --> 02:33:18.120 use like a rake in a garden bed, just kind 2788 02:33:18.120 --> 02:33:21.520 of to really roughly rake the soil to kind of 2789 02:33:21.680 --> 02:33:23.360 tear it up, and then throw a mulch on top 2790 02:33:23.399 --> 02:33:27.520 of it. Whatever it takes. Just just don't give it sunlight, 2791 02:33:27.760 --> 02:33:29.319 and then once it's up you're going to have to 2792 02:33:29.559 --> 02:33:31.680 In a flower bed, you're not going to use celsius. 2793 02:33:31.959 --> 02:33:37.639 But if it's a bear area without other desirable plants, 2794 02:33:38.200 --> 02:33:42.000 you could use a glycysate type herbicide that kills whatever 2795 02:33:42.040 --> 02:33:44.799 you spray it on, and that it would kill it. 2796 02:33:45.000 --> 02:33:47.520 Those post emergin will kill it even if it's getting 2797 02:33:47.520 --> 02:33:50.639 a little bit older. But my big concern once it 2798 02:33:50.799 --> 02:33:52.760 gets a little bit older is that you've already got 2799 02:33:52.879 --> 02:33:57.200 viable seeds, So just to kill it isn't sufficient. I 2800 02:33:57.319 --> 02:33:59.399 want those seeds out of there before they drop on 2801 02:33:59.479 --> 02:34:01.319 the ground, right. 2802 02:34:01.639 --> 02:34:04.079 Right, okay, all right, thank you very much. 2803 02:34:04.079 --> 02:34:07.559 I appreciate it. You didn't have anything better to do 2804 02:34:07.719 --> 02:34:10.239 on a ninety five degree day in the middle of summers, 2805 02:34:10.280 --> 02:34:11.959 And get out on your hands and knees and pull 2806 02:34:12.280 --> 02:34:16.959 chamber better rights, rights into the mix, and it'll be 2807 02:34:17.600 --> 02:34:18.399 a perfect day. 2808 02:34:19.280 --> 02:34:22.000 Super fun, super fun. I water the flower bed this morning. 2809 02:34:22.000 --> 02:34:22.959 I'm gonna make them really. 2810 02:34:22.879 --> 02:34:23.639 Easy to pull out. 2811 02:34:25.639 --> 02:34:28.639 That's smart, That is smart. All right, Nicole, you take care. 2812 02:34:28.879 --> 02:34:31.280 Good to talk to you. We're going to go to 2813 02:34:31.319 --> 02:34:35.680 Cypress and talk to Tiffany. Hello, Tiffany, welcome, reguardline, Hi. 2814 02:34:35.719 --> 02:34:36.879 Skip, good morning. 2815 02:34:37.399 --> 02:34:39.399 I have a three point question. 2816 02:34:40.840 --> 02:34:45.360 When do you recommend like heavy pruning for our front 2817 02:34:45.399 --> 02:34:51.040 and backyard ornamentals? When do you recommend for trees and 2818 02:34:51.200 --> 02:34:53.920 then create myrtles. I know you mentioned it this morning 2819 02:34:54.000 --> 02:34:56.600 with a gentleman that you like to wait till the 2820 02:34:56.879 --> 02:35:00.319 end of winter because we do little pruning here there. 2821 02:35:00.440 --> 02:35:03.120 But I mean, like the heavy pruning. 2822 02:35:02.840 --> 02:35:06.040 When do you recommend for those those three. 2823 02:35:06.680 --> 02:35:10.360 Heavy pruning is best done on a woody ornamental plant, 2824 02:35:10.799 --> 02:35:13.239 a tree or shrub or woody vine. It's best done 2825 02:35:13.319 --> 02:35:16.319 in the late wintertime. But if you need to get 2826 02:35:16.319 --> 02:35:17.879 a little trimming here and there, you can do that 2827 02:35:18.000 --> 02:35:21.719 at any time. And sometimes there's extenuating circumstances where you 2828 02:35:21.760 --> 02:35:24.920 can't wait that long, and that's fine too, But just 2829 02:35:25.719 --> 02:35:29.079 remember that if it blooms only in the spring, like 2830 02:35:29.319 --> 02:35:33.840 a climbing rose is oftener once blooming roses, or if 2831 02:35:33.879 --> 02:35:36.959 it is like a dogwood or a red bud or 2832 02:35:37.000 --> 02:35:40.920 a spyreea shrub or something that flowering quints it just 2833 02:35:41.000 --> 02:35:43.719 blooms in the spring, you want to prune it in 2834 02:35:43.799 --> 02:35:46.440 the summertime right after it blooms, or in the spring 2835 02:35:46.559 --> 02:35:49.200 late spring, early summer, right after it blooms. If you 2836 02:35:49.280 --> 02:35:52.680 prune those now, they're trying to set buds for next 2837 02:35:52.719 --> 02:35:55.200 springs bloom and you'd be cutting with the blue buds 2838 02:35:55.319 --> 02:35:58.120 or the ability for them to develop a wooden time. 2839 02:36:00.159 --> 02:36:03.399 Right, Okay, that sounds great. And saying with trees, I 2840 02:36:03.520 --> 02:36:06.639 know that no affordable tree service. They are so wonderful, 2841 02:36:06.719 --> 02:36:09.000 but they I mean, is it a time when you 2842 02:36:09.200 --> 02:36:12.360 really recommend for them to come out just about February 2843 02:36:12.559 --> 02:36:13.239 ish as well? 2844 02:36:15.319 --> 02:36:18.120 Well, that would be ideal. Now, a tree service like that, 2845 02:36:18.520 --> 02:36:22.200 they can't do every customer's printing all it one month 2846 02:36:22.559 --> 02:36:25.399 would work? Sure, you trimming like, they'll come out like 2847 02:36:25.559 --> 02:36:27.600 let's say right now, you got a tree with some 2848 02:36:27.719 --> 02:36:30.760 branch problems, they'll come out now and do it. If 2849 02:36:30.799 --> 02:36:34.200 you've got a tree that needs a selective printing to 2850 02:36:34.360 --> 02:36:37.000 make it a little more resilient in storms, they'll come 2851 02:36:37.040 --> 02:36:40.760 out now and do that. So you can do printing 2852 02:36:40.799 --> 02:36:45.479 any time of the year. Ideally with woody ornamentals, we 2853 02:36:45.520 --> 02:36:47.639 would like to do most of it at the end 2854 02:36:47.639 --> 02:36:48.040 of winter. 2855 02:36:48.319 --> 02:36:53.479 But you do what you gotta do, right, No, that 2856 02:36:53.719 --> 02:36:56.760 sounds great. I really appreciate it. And just a little 2857 02:36:56.879 --> 02:37:00.719 side note. Earlier this morning, a gentleman called about having 2858 02:37:00.879 --> 02:37:04.399 raccoons and possums under his house. And my mother and 2859 02:37:04.520 --> 02:37:06.799 father in law live in Lake Conroe, and my father 2860 02:37:06.920 --> 02:37:10.319 in law had two little raccoons that loved making beds 2861 02:37:10.360 --> 02:37:10.600 in his. 2862 02:37:10.760 --> 02:37:12.040 Boat, like under the cover. 2863 02:37:12.799 --> 02:37:16.079 So he put two humane traps and just like you said, 2864 02:37:16.280 --> 02:37:19.719 he cut up apples. They really loved that and they 2865 02:37:19.799 --> 02:37:22.079 would be in there and so and then he has 2866 02:37:22.159 --> 02:37:24.600 this park that's you know, pretty far from them, but 2867 02:37:24.719 --> 02:37:27.600 he would take them out there, very wooded park, not 2868 02:37:27.719 --> 02:37:30.840 many busy streets around. And so that might be what 2869 02:37:31.000 --> 02:37:32.719 that gentleman could do. He might have to do it 2870 02:37:32.799 --> 02:37:35.760 one at a time since he has a party under 2871 02:37:35.840 --> 02:37:36.239 his house. 2872 02:37:37.559 --> 02:37:38.719 Well, thank you so much. 2873 02:37:38.959 --> 02:37:43.200 If we love your show, appreciate you, Thank you so much. 2874 02:37:43.239 --> 02:37:45.639 Appreciate your calls very much. We are going to now 2875 02:37:45.760 --> 02:37:48.920 run out and run out to Diana and Cyprus. Diana, 2876 02:37:48.959 --> 02:37:51.079 I'm watching the clock go in here. Let's see if 2877 02:37:51.079 --> 02:37:51.920 we can get your call in. 2878 02:37:53.159 --> 02:37:55.840 Okay, I have to laugh because that was my daughter 2879 02:37:55.959 --> 02:37:58.799 that just called kiddy. 2880 02:37:58.520 --> 02:38:02.280 Oh son or grandfather calling next. 2881 02:38:04.360 --> 02:38:04.959 A mother. 2882 02:38:05.079 --> 02:38:07.680 I said that that that's our daughter that just called 2883 02:38:07.680 --> 02:38:08.959 it about you know, the preening. 2884 02:38:09.399 --> 02:38:09.520 Uh. 2885 02:38:09.639 --> 02:38:12.600 But I have a question real quick. My husband and 2886 02:38:12.639 --> 02:38:14.680 I were both real sick during you know, the early 2887 02:38:14.799 --> 02:38:17.079 part of the summer, and all of our plants in 2888 02:38:17.159 --> 02:38:22.200 our yard was just absolutely gorgeous, and but our that 2889 02:38:22.399 --> 02:38:24.600 illness kind of extended what we couldn't get out and 2890 02:38:24.799 --> 02:38:27.159 take care of our plants like we normally would and 2891 02:38:27.760 --> 02:38:30.959 monitor our yard. But our knocked out rose bushes say, 2892 02:38:31.159 --> 02:38:34.239 look like the way I can describe it is, how 2893 02:38:34.680 --> 02:38:38.239 if you were to take Brussels sprout's or roccolini and 2894 02:38:38.479 --> 02:38:41.440 roast them in the oven? How kind of Well, there's 2895 02:38:41.559 --> 02:38:44.799 up some edges they're they're doing that, and one of 2896 02:38:44.840 --> 02:38:47.399 them we think we've completely lost. But I'm trying to 2897 02:38:47.399 --> 02:38:50.239 see what I can do to save these others. And 2898 02:38:50.319 --> 02:38:52.799 then another question too real quick, is that our yard 2899 02:38:53.520 --> 02:38:56.600 was beautiful. The back is still looks good, but the 2900 02:38:56.639 --> 02:38:59.959 front started dying. Uh and our Saint August. 2901 02:39:01.559 --> 02:39:04.399 Okay, I'm gonna have to stop you because the music 2902 02:39:04.520 --> 02:39:08.159 is already playing here. So about those roses, good soul 2903 02:39:08.280 --> 02:39:10.959 moisture is very important, and in the heat it is 2904 02:39:11.079 --> 02:39:14.399 too stressful for them, So that is the main thing. 2905 02:39:14.520 --> 02:39:16.680 Wait and watch they'll they could look bad and then 2906 02:39:16.760 --> 02:39:18.959 bounce tr it back. And if they don't come back, 2907 02:39:19.799 --> 02:39:21.719 I know a lady up in the Cypress area. Her 2908 02:39:21.799 --> 02:39:23.639 name is Tiffany, and I bet you could get her 2909 02:39:23.680 --> 02:39:25.840 to come over and replant the roses for you. That's 2910 02:39:25.879 --> 02:39:28.799 the least she could do after all that you've done 2911 02:39:28.840 --> 02:39:32.760 for her her whole life. For crying out loud, Diana, 2912 02:39:33.120 --> 02:39:38.040 I hope that he'll listen on the next call. It 2913 02:39:38.239 --> 02:39:42.159 could possibly be like like black spot of black Spot, 2914 02:39:42.239 --> 02:39:45.079 which causes black spots and leaves. The leaves turn yellow 2915 02:39:45.120 --> 02:39:45.680 and fall off. 2916 02:39:46.639 --> 02:39:46.760 You know. 2917 02:39:46.879 --> 02:39:49.799 It could be powdering mildew on the leaves too. Uh, 2918 02:39:50.079 --> 02:39:52.479 you could send me some pictures. I'm going to put 2919 02:39:52.520 --> 02:39:55.879 you on hold and maybe my producer can give you 2920 02:39:55.959 --> 02:39:57.879 an email and we can talk again tomorrow. 2921 02:40:04.040 --> 02:40:05.399 The Snap to sell your car