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Speaker 1: Between well, well, well, good morning, Wenda Guten Morgan. However
Speaker 1: you want to say it good to see you this morning. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I said, See, I have to picture someone's out there
Speaker 1: when I'm talking. It just makes it easier. Otherwise it's
Speaker 1: like you're talking to the wall. So anyway, a little
Speaker 1: inside shot there on how we do things here on
Speaker 1: the Garden Line. Hey, if you would like to give
Speaker 1: us call this morning, Well it's always you know, Sunday mornings,
Speaker 1: first thing is always the best time to get right through.
Speaker 1: So there's your little tip for the day. But anyway,
Speaker 1: you can give me a call seven one three two
Speaker 1: one two ktr H seven one three two one two
Speaker 1: k t r H. I am looking forward to a
Speaker 1: good day to day. Yesterday was great thanks to Southwest
Speaker 1: Fertilizer Bob having us out there. It was it was
Speaker 1: really fun. Got to talk to a lot of good
Speaker 1: folks and we had a lot of fun too. Actually
Speaker 1: did some walking around the store and whatnot, and Bolly,
Speaker 1: I tell you, every time I go into that place,
Speaker 1: I'm just surprised at all of the product and at
Speaker 1: the tools. A ninety foot wall of tools. That's just amazing.
Speaker 1: I don't know how they I don't know how they
Speaker 1: do that. It's it's a lot. But he also carries
Speaker 1: those specialty things, you know, the Skips weed wiper. If
Speaker 1: you go on my website Gardening with Skip dot com,
Speaker 1: I have a thing called Skip's Homemade weed Wiper, and
Speaker 1: it's a grabber tool that you put sponges on and
Speaker 1: make a tool to apply herbicides directly to a weed,
Speaker 1: so it doesn't put a lot of chemical and environment
Speaker 1: and it doesn't hurt the plants around it anyway. You
Speaker 1: just got to go see it. Anyway, Bob's got those
Speaker 1: grabber tools in there so people can do that. We
Speaker 1: had some folks picking them up yesterday. And then he's
Speaker 1: got that kneeling bench that I talk about a lot
Speaker 1: in there. I love kneeling benches. I fell in love
Speaker 1: with them sometime after forty when I woke up the
Speaker 1: first morning and realized that I was sore, but I
Speaker 1: had no earthly idea why some of you are not
Speaker 1: and going, yeah, I know which do well. Anyway, He's
Speaker 1: got those, but he's got all kinds of other good
Speaker 1: stuff in there as well. So it was good see
Speaker 1: see them, and thanks again for those of you who
Speaker 1: came out. I want to remind you or tell you
Speaker 1: for the first time. Next Saturday, from twelve to two,
Speaker 1: I'm going to be at Memorial City Ace Hardware, and
Speaker 1: so I hope you'll come out to see me. I'll
Speaker 1: talk a little bit more about that as we go
Speaker 1: through the day, but anyway, just kind of make a
Speaker 1: note for those of you in that area come on out.
Speaker 1: Look forward to seeing you. In my own yard and
Speaker 1: garden today i'd see I think probably later afternoon today.
Speaker 1: I'm going to get outside and put her around just
Speaker 1: a little bit. No big projects, just a couple of things.
Speaker 1: I have a lime tree that is sitting in the pot.
Speaker 1: It goes in and the soil is right beside it,
Speaker 1: and so I just need to put all that together
Speaker 1: and get that thing potted up. I've been holding on
Speaker 1: to it for a while, you know. It's one of
Speaker 1: those things that ends up. You bring it home and
Speaker 1: it sits there for a little while because you're running
Speaker 1: around doing other things. Time to get that in the
Speaker 1: ground or in the pot. That is one thing I
Speaker 1: like about pots is the convenience and the versatility. Number one.
Speaker 1: The containers are beautiful, or they can be, and you
Speaker 1: can move them around. And you're thinking, yeah, have you
Speaker 1: ever tried to pick up a pot full of soil?
Speaker 5: Yes?
Speaker 1: I have, and I'll never do that again. What I
Speaker 1: do is I have a little dolly. You tilt the pot,
Speaker 1: slide the dolly lip underneath the edge, and then put
Speaker 1: a strap around the pot like I attach it to
Speaker 1: the dolly on one side, go around the pot and
Speaker 1: attach it on the other side. And then once it's
Speaker 1: snugly pulled up against the dolly, you can tilt that
Speaker 1: thing and basically one hand take a pretty darn heavy
Speaker 1: thing anywhere you want to go. And you can move
Speaker 1: pots to sunnier or less sunny spots. If you decide,
Speaker 1: you know what, this is a little too much sun,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna give it a little afternoon shade. You just
Speaker 1: roll it over to that spot. It's easy to do.
Speaker 1: And anyway, the thing I like about pots or containers
Speaker 1: with this plant is Cetrus has fragrant blooms, and I
Speaker 1: love to smell the blooms of citrus. It's to me,
Speaker 1: it's almost as it's almost equal to the benefit of
Speaker 1: getting the citrus fruit themselves. But anyway, so this pot
Speaker 1: will go by my patio where when I sit out there,
Speaker 1: I can enjoy the fragrance. And yesterday I was talking
Speaker 1: about some nice fragrant plants that we can put out,
Speaker 1: or that I am putting out. I've put out some ginger,
Speaker 1: some hedicium white butterfly ginger. Oh my gosh, it's heavenly
Speaker 1: the fragrance. I have some confederate jasmine, also called star
Speaker 1: jasmine that's about to go in on a back fence.
Speaker 1: That is heavenly fragrance as well. I have something called
Speaker 1: lemon verbina no excuse me, almond verbina. Lemon verbenas an
Speaker 1: herb almon verbina, and it makes a shrub a bush.
Speaker 1: You can share it back, and the more you share it,
Speaker 1: the more terminals you get. And that's where the flowers are.
Speaker 1: And these white, long, almost like a bottle brush type flower,
Speaker 1: but smaller, are very fragrant too. I love that one.
Speaker 1: I've got a sweet osmanthus that I also put in
Speaker 1: the bed. These are mostly on the southwest side of
Speaker 1: the patio because that's where the prevailing wind comes in
Speaker 1: the summertime across there. So when you sit on the patio,
Speaker 1: you know, you tend to get more of the wind
Speaker 1: blowing from that direction, not always, but some, And so
Speaker 1: we'll enjoy those fragrance. And now this citrus tree and
Speaker 1: a container is going to go as be part of
Speaker 1: the mix too. I like to compare visual and audio
Speaker 1: using the adjectives for the other. Like I mean, for example,
Speaker 1: it's going to be a cacophony of fragrances. Yeah, I know,
Speaker 1: cacophony means a sound thing, but it's going to be
Speaker 1: a cacophony of fragrances on that patio, and so I'm
Speaker 1: looking forward to that anyway, Just some thoughts for you there.
Speaker 1: You may want to create some of the same things.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of other great plants that could go
Speaker 1: into the same mix as well. If you've not doneation
Speaker 1: on your lawn in a while, you need to get
Speaker 1: out there and do it. And a great product for
Speaker 1: that is sweet Green from nitrofoss. Sweet green has eleven
Speaker 1: percent nitrogen which is one of the higher nitrogen organic
Speaker 1: type products you're gonna ever find. You put it down,
Speaker 1: it dissolves into the soil very easily. Those carbon chains
Speaker 1: and sweet green are loved by beneficial bacteria and you're
Speaker 1: going to get a nice green up of your lawn.
Speaker 1: You goun to find sweet green at plants and things
Speaker 1: up in Brenham. You can find it at Fisher's Hardware
Speaker 1: down in Baytown or our Lake Hardware clue on Dixie Drive.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna take a little break here real quick and
Speaker 1: I'll be right back. Stick around when we come back.
Speaker 1: Chris and nasa Abe you'll be our first up. Well,
Speaker 1: good morning, welcome back to the guard Line. Glad to
Speaker 1: have you with us this morning. You can go straight
Speaker 1: out of the phones here and talk to Chris in
Speaker 1: nasa abey. Hey, Chris, welcome to Guardline. Cool you know, yes, sir, yes, sir.
Speaker 6: I've got a couple of bald spots in the yard,
Speaker 6: uh you know, all the way down to dirt and
Speaker 6: some a couple are in the in total shade, and
Speaker 6: then some of them are in the you know, full sun.
Speaker 6: I was wondering, I was thinking about getting some of
Speaker 6: that Scot's easy seed that they sell at.
Speaker 1: ACE and try that out unless you try suggest something different.
Speaker 1: What kind of yard do you have? What's the grass Augustine? Okay, yeah,
Speaker 1: it'll look real weird to put those seeds in uh
Speaker 1: uh to be in there, and there's not a Saint
Speaker 1: Augustine seed, So I would what I would do is
Speaker 1: even if you go you can go places, just buy
Speaker 1: like a a piece for two or three of sod
Speaker 1: uh you know the lower size of your dormat at
Speaker 1: the door. Uh, And you can take those and you
Speaker 1: cut them up and cut one of them up and
Speaker 1: maybe three different pieces if you want, and that way
Speaker 1: spread them out in those different patches and holes that
Speaker 1: you have watered in real good. Remember the water at
Speaker 1: twice a day each one twice a day the first week,
Speaker 1: once a day the second week, and then after that
Speaker 1: you can start backing off. But that will fill in
Speaker 1: really fast with a nice mature plant and make a
Speaker 1: natural blend into what you already have.
Speaker 7: That's okay, great. Do I need to prepare the soil
Speaker 7: before I do that? That's you know, yeah, yeah, if
Speaker 7: you broke it up a little bit. If you broke
Speaker 7: it up a little bit with a rake. You could
Speaker 7: put a little bit of very fine compost in there.
Speaker 7: Don't put anything chunky at all, but just a little bit.
Speaker 7: You don't need a whole lot. And then when you lay.
Speaker 1: Your sid, first of all, wet the soil first, and
Speaker 1: then lay the sod on top. And then make sure
Speaker 1: you press it down so you get good sod to soil.
Speaker 1: Contact that black clay that comes in with the sod underneath,
Speaker 1: make sure it's touching the soil. There's nothing this air
Speaker 1: air gap underneath it, is what I'm trying to say.
Speaker 1: And then and then water it. That the most important
Speaker 1: thing on that stuff surviving is don't you know, lay
Speaker 1: a bunch of sod and an hour and a half later,
Speaker 1: come back and start water. And just go ahead and
Speaker 1: water it as you're getting it laid down, and then
Speaker 1: again twice a day for the first week, once a
Speaker 1: day the second week. Okay, Well, good Jill, thank you
Speaker 1: for your help, sir you bet, Chris, thanks for the call.
Speaker 1: Appreciate that heirloom soils is really a source of all
Speaker 1: kinds of good products. I was talking to somebody the
Speaker 1: other day and they I can't remember what was it. Oh,
Speaker 1: I know what it was. They were wanting to plant
Speaker 1: some rose bushes, and I said, well, there's some thing
Speaker 1: called rose and Bloomers blend from heirloom soil. It's excellent
Speaker 1: for that. And it says and bloomers because you know,
Speaker 1: you may have even remembered Randy talking about way back,
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Speaker 1: usually for all kinds of things. Well that I think
Speaker 1: that's this title Rose and Blue is just say, hey,
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Speaker 1: if you want to put it in a flower bit,
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Speaker 1: feel they can identify. Okay, that's the one I need
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Speaker 1: things they say, but they can expand out to other things.
Speaker 1: Airloom sauce has got fruit bery and citrus mix. They've
Speaker 1: got a nice landscape ped mix too, by the way.
Speaker 1: And then if you're looking for special things to maybe
Speaker 1: improve your soil in general, kind of a you're going
Speaker 1: to kind of be a do it yourself or in
Speaker 1: putting certain things in. You can buy expanded shell from
Speaker 1: you can buy expanded shell blend to a compost, or
Speaker 1: you can buy aged leaf mole compost by the bag
Speaker 1: from them. Airloom Soils can be delivered to your house too,
Speaker 1: or you can go get it if you want to
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Speaker 1: That was another question I get. Sometimes people say, well
Speaker 1: I don't know how much to get You know, well,
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Speaker 1: the bed is, and it will help you know exactly
Speaker 1: how much you need, whether you need to buy it
Speaker 1: by the cubic yard, which if it's any sized job
Speaker 1: at all, you do, or whether you know you just
Speaker 1: go get some one cubic footbags and fill it in
Speaker 1: that way. Anyway, Heirloomsoils dot com. That's what you need
Speaker 1: to know. And just know this that every time I've
Speaker 1: gotten one of their products and used it, and I've
Speaker 1: done it a bunch. I see really good results, and
Speaker 1: I wouldn't be recommending. I don't recommend things that I
Speaker 1: have not had personal experience with or seen direct research on.
Speaker 1: And to know that when I'm telling you something, you're
Speaker 1: going to have good results with it too. Used as
Speaker 1: directed as they always say, I never kind of had
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Speaker 1: not going to go wrong with it. And if you've
Speaker 1: listened to Guardenline one time, you've heard me say more
Speaker 1: than one time that you got to start with the soil.
Speaker 1: Get the soil right, and then the plants you put
Speaker 1: in are going to have better success. That's how that works.
Speaker 1: Along with doing good soils, doing quality nutrient additions. You know,
Speaker 1: the nutrients are part of what I call the brown stuff,
Speaker 1: the soil, the compost, the nutrients, all of that, the fertilizer,
Speaker 1: that's all the foundation. And Neilson Plant Food has some
Speaker 1: really cool products that They've got a line called Nutristar
Speaker 1: that comes in screwtop lid jars, and the nutri Star
Speaker 1: is named by the plant that's it's really designed for
Speaker 1: and again there's some variability there. You don't have to
Speaker 1: just use it on that one kind of plant. But
Speaker 1: there's a nutri Star for hibiscus, there's a nutri Star
Speaker 1: for vegetables, there's nutri Star for plumerias. I mean, on
Speaker 1: and on and on. The one I want to tell
Speaker 1: you about right now is the hibiscus and flowering tropicals food.
Speaker 1: If you don't have hibiscus in your landscape, you need to.
Speaker 1: Whether it's the perennial hibiscus it dies to the ground,
Speaker 1: comes back and has flowers as big as dinner plates
Speaker 1: that are either pink or red or white or swirled
Speaker 1: or some version of those three colors, or a tropical
Speaker 1: hibiscus which are absolutely sleunningly gorgeous. Nutristar Hibiscus and flowering
Speaker 1: tropical food is great for all of that. And you know,
Speaker 1: if it's got flowers on it, Hibiscus and flying tropicals
Speaker 1: can do a good job for it. It gives you
Speaker 1: multiple acidifying sources to make sure that the nutrient release
Speaker 1: is in it is given out over time, but that
Speaker 1: the pH of your soil is adequate for those plants
Speaker 1: that you're growing. Get a good high potassium content make
Speaker 1: sure it's resistance. Potassium helps build a better how do
Speaker 1: I say, drought resilience within a plant. It's one of
Speaker 1: the functions of potassium, cold heartiness and other function of potassium.
Speaker 1: But however you want to go about it. Nutra Star
Speaker 1: Hibiscus and flowering tropicals, one of the many nutri Star
Speaker 1: products by Nelson's is something you need to check into.
Speaker 1: And by the way, there's about a dozen places around
Speaker 1: town where you can take your empty jars in. Instead
Speaker 1: having to buy more jars and throw away plastic, you
Speaker 1: just refill them and it's it's more economical, but it's
Speaker 1: also helps keep that plastic out of the environment, which
Speaker 1: I think is a great way to go. You're listening
Speaker 1: to Gardenline my phone number seven one three two one
Speaker 1: two KTRH seven one three two one two KTRH. Give
Speaker 1: us a call. We'll help you with the kinds of
Speaker 1: plants you're wanting to grow. I was mentioning fragrant flowers
Speaker 1: and some of the ones we're doing around the landscape.
Speaker 1: There are many other good examples of flowers that have
Speaker 1: a nice fragrance. Sometimes it's subtle, sometimes it's overwhelming. You
Speaker 1: know what a gardena is or example of one that's
Speaker 1: just it's perfume, but it's a good, strong fragrance. Then
Speaker 1: there are things that are a little more subtle. Some
Speaker 1: of the old time petunias, old fashioned petunias, kind of
Speaker 1: the cottage garden type. They're wild and lanky and probably
Speaker 1: not gonna make it in a lot of flower beds
Speaker 1: because they don't have the neat, clean appearance that our
Speaker 1: modern petunias do. Some of those old ones have a
Speaker 1: lovely little fragrance. Earlier this spring, when the Chinese fringe
Speaker 1: was blooming, it was just my favorite spring blooming tree.
Speaker 1: Chinese fringe has a nice little honey to me. It's
Speaker 1: a kind of a honey like fragrance, and it has
Speaker 1: so many blooms, just shaggy all over the plant that
Speaker 1: when you get one of those and the breeze is
Speaker 1: blow in the right direction, it's another nice fragrant plant
Speaker 1: that you can enjoy. Remember, in gardening, we have not
Speaker 1: just the visual. You know, people think about, well, I
Speaker 1: want to have a landscape, and what you think as well?
Speaker 1: You picture this front of your house or backyard and
Speaker 1: you see all the beautiful plants and there's all these colors.
Speaker 1: Maybe you've got evergreens and deciduous But that's all visual, right,
Speaker 1: And also part of the visual is big bold leaves
Speaker 1: like an elephant ear or a kalladium, or narrow leaves
Speaker 1: that are a fine leaf grass clump of grass for example.
Speaker 1: Those are all parts of the visual. But gardening also
Speaker 1: includes the sense that you smell and choosing to put
Speaker 1: some nice fragrant plants that you love in. That's a
Speaker 1: wonderful thing. A lot of us grew up with fragrant memories,
Speaker 1: you know, maybe it was the smell of cookies in
Speaker 1: grandma's kitchen, you know, when you're a kid growing up,
Speaker 1: or something along those lines. Smells are one of the
Speaker 1: things we remember best throughout our lives, to the very end.
Speaker 1: I mean we smells are a memory that sticks in
Speaker 1: our brains. And you may have some fragrances of the
Speaker 1: past of flowers that maybe grandy grew or something like that.
Speaker 1: You can bring those in and you can re experience that.
Speaker 1: So anyway, that's a freak. Another aspect of gardening is
Speaker 1: movement and sound. Do you know that plants make sounds, Well,
Speaker 1: sometimes they do. Movement would be like the swaying grass
Speaker 1: in the breeze. There's a beauty to that and the
Speaker 1: grass sea head's coming up above it. And I'm not
Speaker 1: talking about long grass. I'm talking about big clumps of
Speaker 1: grass like maiden grass, Miscanthus or mules or others. And
Speaker 1: the sounds if you've ever sat underneath the clump of bamboo.
Speaker 1: And by the way, I would plant clumping bamboo, not
Speaker 1: running bamboo, because running bamboo can out run you. It's
Speaker 1: like putting bermuda grass in your flower bed. It takes off.
Speaker 1: It's a great plant. But if you don't have room,
Speaker 1: or if you don't it contained underground, it don't do that.
Speaker 1: But anyway, sit underneath bamboo and the breeze. Summer breeze
Speaker 1: is blowing and the bamboo leaves are kind of stiff
Speaker 1: and paper, if you will, and it almost sounds like
Speaker 1: it's raining as you're sitting under there, as those leaves
Speaker 1: rub against each other. That's a really interesting sound of
Speaker 1: the garden. And then there's the butterflies what I call
Speaker 1: flying flowers coming by that you can attract in. There's
Speaker 1: watching the pollinators work on the flowers. There's hummingbirds that
Speaker 1: come in. So there's that visual that can be added
Speaker 1: to it and the songs of the birds that come in.
Speaker 1: So I'm kind of droning on here, but I want
Speaker 1: you to think of your garden as broader than just oh,
Speaker 1: here's a prettiful, pretty flower. Beautiful flower. I'm gonna put
Speaker 1: it in this front bed. That's fine, But garden goes way,
Speaker 1: way way beyond that. Speaking of in Channy Gardens out
Speaker 1: in Richmond, Rosenberg is an awesome garden center and be
Speaker 1: a good place to visit this afternoon too. By the way,
Speaker 1: the website if you'll write this down Enchanted Gardens Richmond
Speaker 1: dot com in Chennigardens Richmond dot com. When you get there,
Speaker 1: you're gonna be greeted by an enthusiastic team that's as
Speaker 1: helpful as they come. They know how to help you
Speaker 1: have success, and you're going to have every part and
Speaker 1: piece that you need to put together to make beauty,
Speaker 1: whether it's a flower bed, a combination container you're creating,
Speaker 1: or maybe rose bushes and shrubs along the periphery of
Speaker 1: your landscape as backdrops. Enchanted Gardens Richmond dot com. Go there,
Speaker 1: have a good time and take some friends with you,
Speaker 1: because it's really a great outing for everybody. I'm going
Speaker 1: to take a break and I'll be right back after
Speaker 1: the news. All right, Welcome back, folks, Welcome back to
Speaker 1: guarden Line. One of my favorite garden centers to visit
Speaker 1: is down there in Seabrook. It's way southwest in Houston.
Speaker 1: Those of you in that whole region, you know it.
Speaker 1: It's Moss Nursery. And Moss Nursery is not just another
Speaker 1: garden center.
Speaker 8: It is.
Speaker 1: First of all, it's a seventy year old, fan only
Speaker 1: operated garden center. It is eight acres to find everything
Speaker 1: you want, I mean, and when you wander through it,
Speaker 1: it is every time you turn a corner, more plants,
Speaker 1: seasonal color, every kind of flower you can imagine, gorgeous
Speaker 1: hanging baskets to give you that instant you got. Somebody
Speaker 1: come with over tonight and you want to degorate that
Speaker 1: back patio hanging baskets are boom. You're there in one purchase.
Speaker 1: It looks great no matter what you're looking for. Beautiful
Speaker 1: shrubs like you have twenty different kinds of azalias that
Speaker 1: they have their beautiful blooming shrubs, you know, talking of
Speaker 1: that white Chinese fringe tree and ping Magnolia's the Japanese
Speaker 1: Magnoia is the ones that were blooming. They're the first
Speaker 1: things to bloom just about in the spring. It's beautiful
Speaker 1: and the house plant selection is outstanding. You're not going
Speaker 1: to find anything if you're looking for something different, you know,
Speaker 1: like I don't have one of those already. It's a
Speaker 1: great place for that. Jim has some really quirky T
Speaker 1: shirts designs that he's come up with. He has a
Speaker 1: thing called the eyeball plant and you got to go
Speaker 1: see it. It's cool. But anyway, you can get a
Speaker 1: T shirt with that on it. Like I said, you
Speaker 1: never know around the next corner what you're going to find.
Speaker 1: At Moss Nursery, Toddville Road, Seabrook, Texas, Mosnursery dot com
Speaker 1: and here's the phone number two eight one four seven
Speaker 1: four twenty four eighty eight. We're going to head up
Speaker 1: to Willis now and talk to Sherry. Hey, Sherry, welcome
Speaker 1: to garden.
Speaker 9: Line, Thank you, good morning. Last year we had a
Speaker 9: problem with our tomato plants. Our tomatoes, the second batch
Speaker 9: of them, they started getting yellow and they had these
Speaker 9: big I think they were stink boats, some green, some brown.
Speaker 9: They were awful.
Speaker 8: And yeah, so this year, my.
Speaker 9: Husband started making these structures put nettie over, which I
Speaker 9: don't know how they get pollinated if you put in
Speaker 9: net sober, but that's one question. And then yesterday he
Speaker 9: headed off distractor supply and got this stuff called bio.
Speaker 9: It's danced and sits right on them, and it's got
Speaker 9: thy flood drends in them.
Speaker 1: Okay, and.
Speaker 9: I really don't want to ingest that stuff. And you know,
Speaker 9: we we're trying to go organic, but you know, also
Speaker 9: we can't have these bugs.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I get it. Well, I don't have a bioadvanced
Speaker 1: label in front of me, so I don't know if
Speaker 1: it's labeled for vegetables or not.
Speaker 9: Yes, it is exactly a vegetable, it.
Speaker 1: Is, okay, good, good, Well, I mean, yeah, that's an option.
Speaker 1: The problem with stink bugs is once you're adults flying around,
Speaker 1: if you try to kill them, it takes a good potent.
Speaker 1: Not just any insecticide will will work on that. What
Speaker 1: I would do, the garden mesh, if that's what we're
Speaker 1: talking about, has it's almost like a the window screens
Speaker 1: on your house, but it's a very off fabric and
Speaker 1: very light weight. So if you put that over them
Speaker 1: the bugs can't get inside, and then you just lift
Speaker 1: it up to do your harvesting tomatoes. Now, bees that
Speaker 1: go and buzz the flower, especially bumblebees, they can help
Speaker 1: with pollination by shaking the flower, but they're primarily pollinated
Speaker 1: by wind moving the plants. This isn't a pollen that
Speaker 1: the bee takes from one flower to another, but inside
Speaker 1: the flower, when wind moves them or a bumblebee buzzes them,
Speaker 1: it shakes pollen loose and it falls inside that flower
Speaker 1: to the pistol where it's received and pollinates. So you
Speaker 1: can just you can do that. If your tomatoes are
Speaker 1: in a very protected spot. Sometimes you need to go
Speaker 1: out and shake the cage every now and then to
Speaker 1: help them with that process. But out in the garden
Speaker 1: with wind blowing, and wind will blow to some degree
Speaker 1: through that mesh fabric. Okay, so that's an option. The
Speaker 1: other thing I recommend on stink bugs and leaf footed
Speaker 1: bugs is learn go online and do a search and
Speaker 1: find out what their eggs and their nymphs look like.
Speaker 1: The eggs are going to be little barrel for stink bugs.
Speaker 1: They're gonna look like little barrels that are all stacked together.
Speaker 1: And I say little, I mean tiny, you know, way
Speaker 1: smaller than a beebe way smaller. But you can see
Speaker 1: them in clusters and you go, that's a that's a
Speaker 1: true bug egg, like a stink bug. And then when
Speaker 1: they hatch out, the nymphs herd together. They hang out
Speaker 1: together in little groups on the leaf and at that
Speaker 1: stage they don't have wings, they can't fly away, and
Speaker 1: you can pull up. You just have a little pale
Speaker 1: or whatever, a bowl of soapy water under them and
Speaker 1: swat the branch and they all fall in the soapy
Speaker 1: water and you just took a dozen of them out
Speaker 1: that way. Once they're adults and they're flying around, now
Speaker 1: we're having to grab some more potent products to spray,
Speaker 1: and it's hard to it's hard to have as effective
Speaker 1: of a control without just nuke in the whole place.
Speaker 9: Okay, so you think just putting this, what is the
Speaker 9: screening that you recommended calls to be bought some netting
Speaker 9: from Famii poll.
Speaker 1: Well, it may have been what he bought. Usually we
Speaker 1: save the word netting for things that have holes maybe
Speaker 1: a half inch to an inch that you're keeping birds
Speaker 1: out with. The mesh holds the size of your window screens.
Speaker 1: But it's a very soft fabric that just lays over
Speaker 1: the plants and you can do that.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 1: Some people will also take Organza bags. I don't know,
Speaker 1: I had to learn what Organza was. You may be familiar,
Speaker 1: but it's little, very very fine white mesh bags that
Speaker 1: often have a draw string on them and they're used
Speaker 1: for like, oh, I don't know, bridal party gifts, you know,
Speaker 1: by the bride gives them out or something. But if
Speaker 1: you go online and do a search for Organza bags,
Speaker 1: you just need to buy them the size that you
Speaker 1: need to go around your tomatoes or your tomato clusters,
Speaker 1: and you just slip them over and pull the draw string.
Speaker 1: You don't even have to tie it, just pull it
Speaker 1: and it stays there and it helps keep birds away
Speaker 1: from them, and it also keeps bugs away from the fruit.
Speaker 1: And they're very cheap. You can buy them online by
Speaker 1: the hundred and they're not much money at all. So
Speaker 1: I would try that also. But you got to bag
Speaker 1: every tomato with.
Speaker 9: Those, yeah, well, and they're so dense in there. There's
Speaker 9: a fun of tomato.
Speaker 10: That's fun.
Speaker 9: Yeah, Okay, that'd be a job. So yeah, with this side,
Speaker 9: Luorin is that poison for humans?
Speaker 1: Ciflutheran is well, Okay, I'm gonna let me just address
Speaker 1: because we've got a lot of people listening. The word
Speaker 1: poison is misused a lot. Salt is a poison, aspirin
Speaker 1: is a poison. There's a certain amount of either of
Speaker 1: those that if you eat it, it will kill you.
Speaker 1: And so poison is a term that really is based
Speaker 1: on the dose that you get. Okay, so anything, pretty
Speaker 1: much anything can be poisonous if you take the right amount.
Speaker 1: I know what you mean when you ask that, so
Speaker 1: I'll answer it according to what you're really asking. But
Speaker 1: I just needed to address that word poison. The Ciflutheran
Speaker 1: is a synthetic pyrethroid. It's one of the synthetic pirethroids
Speaker 1: that's labeled for a lot of applications in the garden
Speaker 1: and landscape and whatnot. And so if you follow the label.
Speaker 1: The research that was done is to like how long
Speaker 1: do you need to wait after you spray whatever the
Speaker 1: product is, before you re enter that garden area and
Speaker 1: also before you would be able to harvest it. It's
Speaker 1: called days to harvest, and that's the time that's deemed
Speaker 1: to be acceptable to use. People have strong opinions about
Speaker 1: what they spray on their plants, and a lot of
Speaker 1: people don't want to mess with something that is a
Speaker 1: synthetic ex ecticide. And I understand that it's fine, but
Speaker 1: you got to follow the label if you're going to
Speaker 1: use something like that. That's where we get into trouble
Speaker 1: is when we mix things too strong, when we spray
Speaker 1: them one day and then we harvest the food the
Speaker 1: next day, and you're supposed to wait seven days maybe
Speaker 1: or you see what I'm saying. You just got to
Speaker 1: follow the label and then and wash your produce. I
Speaker 1: think in my gardens, I just don't try to spray
Speaker 1: stink bugs. I just don't. I use Arganza bags. I
Speaker 1: use the mesh covering over tomatoes and just block them
Speaker 1: out and make it simple that way. It's for some
Speaker 1: people that's too much trouble. I understand that, but it's
Speaker 1: up to you. But if someone's labeled for use on
Speaker 1: a product, you got to follow the label.
Speaker 9: Okay, Well that's very helpful. Thank you so much.
Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, thanks a lot. Appreciate your call very much. Well,
Speaker 1: that was a lot of discussion, a lot of information,
Speaker 1: but I stuff I wanted to say and make sure
Speaker 1: people here and understand that that is important.
Speaker 8: Uh.
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Speaker 1: line two eight one three seven oh fifty sixty two
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Speaker 1: take a break and I'll be back. Walk off the earth.
Speaker 1: You never listen to them there. You're kind of cute,
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Speaker 1: you with us. It is time to put on the
Speaker 1: summer fertilizations on your lawn. If you have not fertilized
Speaker 1: last let's say six weeks or so, go ahead and
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Speaker 1: a very long time. You're gonna get like four months
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Speaker 1: you go, in the feed stores, in the Ace hardware stores,
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Speaker 1: Another place where you'll find nite foss products like the
Speaker 1: super turf really does works. Talking to someone the other
Speaker 1: day that was asking me about that quote that sprinkler
Speaker 1: you talk about. At first it was like, I don't
Speaker 1: talk about long spring, what are you talking about. Well,
Speaker 1: come to find out they're talking about tree hugger sprinklers.
Speaker 1: Tree hugger is a sprinkler that's like a hinge. It
Speaker 1: sort of looks like pac Man. You know how pac
Speaker 1: Man goes across the screen and it's like opening and
Speaker 1: closing his mouth. Well, imagine, you know, take put your
Speaker 1: two thumbs together, curve your hands and then bring your
Speaker 1: your fingers together to make a circle, and then use
Speaker 1: your thumbs is the hens to open it up. That's
Speaker 1: what a TreeHugger sprinkler looks like. And you hook it
Speaker 1: up to a hose. You can get a little one
Speaker 1: seven inches. They have eleven inch and fifteen inch sizes.
Speaker 1: If you just planted a plant, you can barely turn
Speaker 1: them on and it'll wet that root ball, which is
Speaker 1: right where all the water needs to go when a
Speaker 1: new plant goes in the ground because it doesn't have
Speaker 1: roots further out. And then as you turn it up more,
Speaker 1: you water a larger and larger area. So maybe you're saying, well,
Speaker 1: I didn't plant a plant, Well do you have a
Speaker 1: young tree, maybe a tree that's I don't know, been
Speaker 1: in the ground five years, and we're going to get
Speaker 1: into summer, it's going to get hot, it's gonna quit raining.
Speaker 1: At times, you crank that sprinkler up and you rescue
Speaker 1: the tree. Or if you're trying to get it to
Speaker 1: grow fast, you can hang a hammock in the tree.
Speaker 1: That's my goal. When I plant a tree, you can
Speaker 1: make it continue to grow fast by continuing to ply
Speaker 1: water and avoid that stress. Tree here or sprinklers aren't
Speaker 1: just for trees. They're great for planting a rose bush
Speaker 1: or a shrub. And you can find them in a
Speaker 1: lot of places. For example, you can find them in
Speaker 1: D and D f Eden Supply. You're going to find
Speaker 1: them at Southwest Fertilizer. I saw some just yesterday there,
Speaker 1: kt Ace Hardware, K and M Hardware, A Task Cassida, Uh,
Speaker 1: You're going to find them at Inchinna Gardens and Forest,
Speaker 1: and you're gonna find them at Warren Southern Gardens out
Speaker 1: in Kingwood, RCW Nurseries Arborgate, Nelson Water Garden and nursery
Speaker 1: out in the KT area. Lots of places carry the
Speaker 1: tree hugger sprinkler. I would suggest you get one because
Speaker 1: you're going to have a use for it again anytime
Speaker 1: you plan something, and then for the years that follow
Speaker 1: you can it'll water. You get that large one and
Speaker 1: crank it up, and I mean it'll water a very
Speaker 1: large area underneath the tree. They work cool invention in
Speaker 1: my opinion. You're listening to garden Line our phone number
Speaker 1: seven one three two one two k t r H
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Speaker 1: Buchanan's plants. Have you heard they? You know they last
Speaker 1: year twice during storms their whole checkout area was crushed
Speaker 1: by falling limbs and things. And they have rebuilt. Now
Speaker 1: they've got there what they call the barn the barn,
Speaker 1: and it is a very solid structure. But one of
Speaker 1: the cool things about it is, first of all, congratulations
Speaker 1: to Buchanans for continuing to essentially dig out of the
Speaker 1: rubble and come back and just keep that place in
Speaker 1: awesome shape.
Speaker 8: Well.
Speaker 1: Now customers can stand underneath the cover if it were
Speaker 1: drizzling or something, if the sun is baking down. You
Speaker 1: got a roof over your head out there, some shade.
Speaker 1: It makes it really nice checking out. And of course
Speaker 1: those of you who've been to Buchanans you know when
Speaker 1: you go there there's going to be everything on earth
Speaker 1: that you could possibly want, and a whole lot of
Speaker 1: what's that never seen one of those before. They specialize
Speaker 1: in native plants, but they have every kind of plant.
Speaker 1: Their houseplant selection is outstanding. For example, you know those
Speaker 1: aren't native plants typically. Cannons is an awesome place. It's fun,
Speaker 1: and it's in the Heights. It's on Eleventh Street in
Speaker 1: the Heights. You can go to Buchanansplants dot com. Bookmark
Speaker 1: that website, sign up for their newsletter and you will
Speaker 1: find it to be extremely informative as well. I always
Speaker 1: love to go. They're talking to to them the other day,
Speaker 1: Zach and Heather, and they're excited. You know it's again,
Speaker 1: I don't. Those are some resilient folks because they have
Speaker 1: been through it in the last twelve months and now
Speaker 1: it's a hopeful new thing and the place is just better.
Speaker 1: It's just better. That's what it amounts to. Let's see
Speaker 1: here we are, we are talking to next to James
Speaker 1: in Spring, Texas. James, if I can find the right button,
Speaker 1: there we go. Hey James, welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 11: Good morning, Good morning. Question, is it seems like there's
Speaker 11: been a few butterful this year. What should I plant
Speaker 11: to attract butterflies?
Speaker 8: Oh?
Speaker 1: My goodness, you have so many good plants that will
Speaker 1: do that. I don't even know where to begin. You
Speaker 1: need to keep in mind that the butterflies are attracted
Speaker 1: to certain flowers, So choosing flowers that attract the kind
Speaker 1: of butterfly you want. If you want golf friddllary, it's
Speaker 1: an orange butterfly. You need passion vine for the larva
Speaker 1: to feed on. And then the larval food sources. Milkweed
Speaker 1: attracts monarchs for larval food. And you know there's a
Speaker 1: you're not too far away from Buchanans and they have
Speaker 1: a lot of great butterfly plants over there. I would
Speaker 1: suggest swinging by there and just say what would you
Speaker 1: recommend as a group in general for butterflies. And they're
Speaker 1: going to have a lot of options, And again, you
Speaker 1: and I could talk for an hour about that because
Speaker 1: there's so many, but most people want some milkweed for monarchs.
Speaker 1: Maybe a passion vine for gulf fritillary caterpillars to bring
Speaker 1: those in if you've got a zenias. And oh, what's
Speaker 1: the other one that is escaping my brain right now?
Speaker 1: I'll think of it a little bit later. Oh the
Speaker 1: summer bloomer with orange and yellow flowers called Pride of
Speaker 1: Barbados that attracts the swallowtails one type of the swallowtail
Speaker 1: that's a yellow and black and really well, So talk
Speaker 1: to a good nursery like that and I think they'll
Speaker 1: get you off to a good start.
Speaker 11: Thank you so much, God bless you.
Speaker 1: Bet. Remember just feed the adults and feed the babies
Speaker 1: with the planets you choose. Thanks James, appreciate your call
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Speaker 1: music is here, which means skip gets to quick talking.
Speaker 1: But not until I tell you that next Saturday, albe
Speaker 1: at Memorial City Ace. Memorial City ACE is on Memorial Drive.
Speaker 1: Memorial City Ace A Memorial Drive, Saturday, May third, twelve
Speaker 1: to two, twelve to two, noon to two. I'll be there.
Speaker 1: Come on out and see me. Memorial City ACE Hardware.
Speaker 1: You get to see a really nice ace hardware store.
Speaker 1: I'll be doing the things we usually do, answering questions,
Speaker 1: looking at samples, identifying plants, and just visiting with you
Speaker 1: to solve problems. By yesterday people brought me a lot
Speaker 1: of plant problems and we had a good time in
Speaker 1: the process. I'm gonna take a little break here. We'll
Speaker 1: be right back after the news. Hey, welcome back. Good
Speaker 1: to have you with us. You're listening to Garden Line.
Speaker 1: I'm your host, Skip Richter, and we're here to help
Speaker 1: you have a bountiful garden and a beautiful landscape. That
Speaker 1: is what we're all about. And if we can give
Speaker 1: you some advice along those lines, if you've got some
Speaker 1: questions about things like that, seven one three two one
Speaker 1: two KTRH, give me a call. We'll visit and hopefully
Speaker 1: get to the bottom of this thing. I have to
Speaker 1: I've been answering gardening questions for over thirty seven years now.
Speaker 1: I worked for thirty five years as a county agrolife
Speaker 1: extension horticulturist. Every county in Texas has an extension office
Speaker 1: that serves that county. Two hundred and fifty four counties
Speaker 1: in the state. I think two hundred and fifty or
Speaker 1: fifty two actually have offices in the county. And if
Speaker 1: you get out in West Texas where they're more jack
Speaker 1: rabbits and people, you may have two counties served by
Speaker 1: a single office. But bottom line is you have a
Speaker 1: county agent and your office. In urban areas, there are
Speaker 1: in addition to agriculture agents and family and community health
Speaker 1: agents or for age agents, you also have horticulture agents.
Speaker 1: Sometimes there's a few of us around the state. Here
Speaker 1: in the Houston listening area, if you've got an orange,
Speaker 1: you've got a horticulturist. If you're up in Conroe, you've
Speaker 1: got a horticulture. Rises County has a horticulturist. Houston has
Speaker 1: a horticulturist, a couple of horticultures. I believe they are
Speaker 1: now for bengk County, Brazoria County, Galveston County. I'll leaving out.
Speaker 1: I think I covered it all. My apologies, I forgot
Speaker 1: someone in that group. But anyway, you got county horticulture
Speaker 1: so you can call on. That's where you go to
Speaker 1: find out information about getting your soil tested. That's where
Speaker 1: you go to get general gardening advice. And I encourage
Speaker 1: you to take advantage of that. They have a connection
Speaker 1: to the specialists at the university. So you may walk
Speaker 1: in and go, I heard this thing is called mole
Speaker 1: crickets in the yard, And what do I do about that?
Speaker 1: And do I need to worry about it? That's a
Speaker 1: good question. I don't think I've had a molk. I've
Speaker 1: had one or two molkirk. But anyway, they can put
Speaker 1: you in touch with church specialists, with entomologists, resources that
Speaker 1: will help you with that. So call your county extension agent,
Speaker 1: take advantage of them. Look, Abraham Lincoln created the Extension
Speaker 1: Service in the United States. He signed into law the
Speaker 1: Extension Services. So every state in the country has through
Speaker 1: a number of laws over the time. I know I'm
Speaker 1: doing a history lesson here, but it is worth noting
Speaker 1: every state has a Langret college at A and M.
Speaker 1: It's for Texas, LSUS for Louisiana, Oklahoma State, Mississippi State,
Speaker 1: Auburn University, un City of Florida, University of Georgia. Those
Speaker 1: are all lang Grant universities that was created by a
Speaker 1: federal act. Where the common folks back in that day
Speaker 1: maybe couldn't go to Harvard or some of the place
Speaker 1: to a private school. And these were schools that were
Speaker 1: available to the people that other purposes in doing them.
Speaker 1: And then there was the research out wing created by
Speaker 1: a different act. That means we have horticultural, agricultural, whatever
Speaker 1: kinds of research going on at these universities so that
Speaker 1: we get good answers that have been tested, improven, not
Speaker 1: just somebody's opinion. That's important. And then they said, well, okay,
Speaker 1: we've got the university where we can teach kids and
Speaker 1: train people for the next generation. We've got the research
Speaker 1: where we can learn more and have locally proven good
Speaker 1: answers to things, improve the life of people through development
Speaker 1: of research. Now we got to get the word out
Speaker 1: to people, and that was the Extension Service. We say
Speaker 1: it was taking the university to the people. That is
Speaker 1: kind of an old motto, if you will, of the
Speaker 1: Extension Service, taking the university to the people. And so
Speaker 1: back in the old days you would have a wagon.
Speaker 1: There's a guy named semen Nap here in Texas. Actually
Speaker 1: Texas is where the Extension Service was created, and now
Speaker 1: it serves all the states. But seman Nap, I say
Speaker 1: where it was created. It's where the idea and the
Speaker 1: functioning of that really began from the extension being created.
Speaker 1: Seeman Nap would take a wagon, he'd go out to
Speaker 1: the countryside, go to a farmer, have a big farm day.
Speaker 1: All the farmers in the area come. See. They would
Speaker 1: plant let's say they were growing cotton there, and they
Speaker 1: would plant some new varieties of cotton that were more
Speaker 1: productive that had been developed by research, and so you'd
Speaker 1: have the regular cotton, then you'd have these new varieties,
Speaker 1: and then later on you have a big farm day
Speaker 1: and all the farmers come and see. You know, it's
Speaker 1: kind of like Missouri, the show me state, when they're
Speaker 1: looking at Joe, their fellow farmer, and he's got it
Speaker 1: on his place, and it's clear this works or this
Speaker 1: doesn't work. It spreads the innovation and as a result,
Speaker 1: through the decades and America's ability to feed his population,
Speaker 1: to feed the world in many ways really changed. You know,
Speaker 1: farmer doesn't just feed twelve people anymore like in the
Speaker 1: horse drawn plow days. Maybe that amount we're talking about
Speaker 1: forty plus people and more depending on the crops. And
Speaker 1: all that innovation happened because of that system that our
Speaker 1: leaders back in the day, including Abraham Lincoln, signing that
Speaker 1: Extension Act into law that they had the vision to
Speaker 1: do that, and the benefits are there. So now I
Speaker 1: doubt you have a cotton patch that you're taking care of.
Speaker 1: There very few farmers in our world today compared to
Speaker 1: the population, but everybody's got a garden or a lawn
Speaker 1: or has questions about other aspects of life. And those
Speaker 1: resources are there at your Agricultural Extension Office your Texas
Speaker 1: A and M. They call it the AGRA Life AGRA
Speaker 1: as a combination of Agriculture and Life Agrolife Extension Office,
Speaker 1: and you should take advantage of that. And they have
Speaker 1: a lot. I'm a horticulture so I'm talking about gardening,
Speaker 1: but they have information. The four each program is done
Speaker 1: out of there for youth development, the Family and Community
Speaker 1: Health program. It does things related to everything from diabetes
Speaker 1: and heart disease prevention, you know, exercise and all kinds
Speaker 1: of things. And back in the day it was about
Speaker 1: how to can vegetables and soak clothes and they still
Speaker 1: do that kind of stuff. But it's a good resource
Speaker 1: and it's there for you, so you should take advantage
Speaker 1: of it. Well, that was a I guess you could say,
Speaker 1: a long commercial for the extension service. But I spent
Speaker 1: thirty five years doing it. I believe in it, and
Speaker 1: it's something that what do they call things, the best
Speaker 1: kept secret? We like to not have it be in
Speaker 1: any way, shape or form a secret. Well tell you what.
Speaker 1: I've been talking so long. I'm going to take a
Speaker 1: little break here. We'll be back with your question. Seven
Speaker 1: one three two one two kt r H. I guess
Speaker 1: that means I need to start talking. We're back. Thanks
Speaker 1: for thanks for enduring my long extension description. I just uh,
Speaker 1: I'm always amazing how many people I find that don't
Speaker 1: have access to some good information. I guess I should
Speaker 1: throw out there one more thing about that. There's a
Speaker 1: website called that aggrolife has and it's there. It's essentially
Speaker 1: just to be called the bookstore. I'll tell you a
Speaker 1: little bit more about it in just a minute. But
Speaker 1: a lot of the publications you can download from up there.
Speaker 1: So maybe you have I don't know, some kind of
Speaker 1: indoor pest, silverfish or whatever is in indoors you want
Speaker 1: to deal with, you can go find a publication on
Speaker 1: it and read about it. And it's all part of
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Speaker 1: four fifty five ninety eight. Give them a call. And
Speaker 1: if you go to the website too, by the way,
Speaker 1: you can see the kind of work they do and
Speaker 1: it's it is gorgeous stuff, really really nice. First you
Speaker 1: look at it and you go, Okay, I want that
Speaker 1: at my house. I want it to look like that.
Speaker 1: We'll call them they can do that. I was stopping
Speaker 1: by yesterday. I went by Plans for All Seasons up
Speaker 1: on Highway to forty nine visiting. Was Sherry there and uh,
Speaker 1: just talking about what's going on, how this spring has been,
Speaker 1: the different plants and things that they have, and you know,
Speaker 1: there's so much knowledge in that Flowerty family that started
Speaker 1: Plants for All Seasons back in what nineteen seventy three,
Speaker 1: I believe, So they have been in that spot since
Speaker 1: Tomball Parkway was hardly a goat path. I mean, they've
Speaker 1: been there for a very long time. They know the area,
Speaker 1: they know the soils, and people there know them. They
Speaker 1: go because they depend on them. They know I'm going
Speaker 1: to get a good answer. I'm going to get a
Speaker 1: good plant. I'm going to get good service at Plants
Speaker 1: for All Seasons. That's what it's about. And they'll do that. Now.
Speaker 1: If you need a specific location where they are is
Speaker 1: they are where Luetta comes into two forty nine. They're
Speaker 1: on Highway two forty nine Tomball Parkway, just north of Luetta,
Speaker 1: right there on the right hand side going north two
Speaker 1: eight one three seven six sixteen forty six two eight
Speaker 1: one three seven six sixteen forty six. You can follow
Speaker 1: them on social media and go to the website Plants
Speaker 1: for All Seasons dot com. But go check it out.
Speaker 1: The place is gorgeous or it is spring. I mean,
Speaker 1: if there is a time when garden centers are just
Speaker 1: opulent with plants, is that a private way to use
Speaker 1: to wear it opulate? If there's a time when they're
Speaker 1: opulent with plant, now is it? And oh my gosh,
Speaker 1: that place is gorgeous, loaded ready to go. That is true.
Speaker 1: My some of my family members were purchasing some plants
Speaker 1: that they're going to take home and turn their landscape
Speaker 1: into something beautiful and you know the color. We were
Speaker 1: talking about different kinds of plants that they might want
Speaker 1: to put in. We're hitting a season now where the
Speaker 1: things that looked good in spring in the next let's
Speaker 1: say two months, maybe about about two months from now
Speaker 1: are going to be struggling with summer. A lot of them,
Speaker 1: but not all. We have summer hardy plants, plants that
Speaker 1: can survive in the heat and in the intense heat
Speaker 1: actually that we have here. And as you're out there
Speaker 1: landscaping your yard and you go buy a quality garden center,
Speaker 1: and I hope you will go to an independent garden center.
Speaker 1: There are a lot of places you can buy plants
Speaker 1: in town, but a good independent garden center is going
Speaker 1: to give you the most knowledge about plants and the
Speaker 1: most service after the sale that you're going to get,
Speaker 1: because that's what they're about. That's what they do. And
Speaker 1: we have them north, south, east, and west here in
Speaker 1: the greater Houston area, oh in central and you go
Speaker 1: in you can find the things you need and the
Speaker 1: advice you need, and that is worth a lot. I
Speaker 1: see people taking up plants home from certain places, not
Speaker 1: independent garden centers, and I just, you know, am thinking,
Speaker 1: okay that you're going to get about a month out
Speaker 1: of that, and it's gone, so let's go back and
Speaker 1: let's get something different.
Speaker 7: Right.
Speaker 1: Of course I don't walk up to them and nose
Speaker 1: in like that, but i'd like to. I hate to
Speaker 1: see people. They're gonna feel like they have a brown thumb,
Speaker 1: and they don't. They just went to a brown thumb
Speaker 1: source of plants, if you will, instead of going to
Speaker 1: a good independent garden center.
Speaker 7: Pest Bros.
Speaker 1: Is our pest control company here on Garden Line, and
Speaker 1: they service the greater Houston area. Really. I mean, if
Speaker 1: you're down all the way in down Texas City, all
Speaker 1: the way up to the Woodlands, or from Katie across
Speaker 1: the Baytown, you're in their area that they serve. They
Speaker 1: have an outstanding termite service with high tech, the newest
Speaker 1: cutting edge technology and products for controlling termites preventing them
Speaker 1: from getting into your house. And believe me, you get
Speaker 1: termites in your house and it'll spoil your day. There's
Speaker 1: no need for that. You can have them come out
Speaker 1: and treat for that. They'll deal with fire ants in
Speaker 1: the yard while varmint's in the yard. Cockroaches running through
Speaker 1: the house. You know your maybe your mother in law
Speaker 1: came over and now she's screaming running through the house
Speaker 1: because there's cockroaches chasing her through. Well, you can fix that,
Speaker 1: or they can. Pest Bros. Thepestbros dot com. That's their website,
Speaker 1: thepestbros dot com. Here's a number you want to write
Speaker 1: this one down two eight one two oh six forty
Speaker 1: six seventy two eight one six forty six seventy And
Speaker 1: they also are the place I keep talking about the
Speaker 1: mosquito control buckets that they provide. You just got to
Speaker 1: go ask them about I have them tell you about
Speaker 1: the mosquito control buckets. It is a wonderful service. They
Speaker 1: put them at your house. They do it through during
Speaker 1: the mosquito season. They come out each month and service them.
Speaker 1: And those buckets don't just control the mosquitoes that go
Speaker 1: in the bucket, uh, they spread that control to other
Speaker 1: places where mosquitoes will be laying eggs. So you can
Speaker 1: always kill an adult mosquito. But what about where they're
Speaker 1: laying eggs that you don't know about. You know, some
Speaker 1: place that holds water for a little bit. Mosquitos are
Speaker 1: very adept at that. With the buckets, you got mosquitoes
Speaker 1: that are working for you to prevent mosquito breeding around
Speaker 1: your landscape and actually some to your neighbors on each side.
Speaker 1: I was visiting with the folks at Affordable Tree Service
Speaker 1: a while back, and you've you've heard me talk about
Speaker 1: Affordable Tree Service. Randy talked about Affordable Tree Service. In fact,
Speaker 1: this family business, Martin Spoon Moore's company, Affordable Tree UH,
Speaker 1: is still going strong. You can give them a call
Speaker 1: at seven one three six nine nine two six six
Speaker 1: three and make an appointment. The team is out, they're busy,
Speaker 1: they're active. Tell them you're UH from Garden Line. Garden
Speaker 1: Line customers are their priority. When you call, you probably
Speaker 1: talk to Martin's mom Toji is a family known business. Martin,
Speaker 1: his wife, Joe and now Martin's mom all part of
Speaker 1: the team there.
Speaker 5: UH.
Speaker 1: If you want to learn more about some of the
Speaker 1: specific services they offer, you can go to the website
Speaker 1: aff Tree Service dot com aff Tree Service dot com,
Speaker 1: but call them. That's the way you connect and get them,
Speaker 1: get on the schedule for them to come out. Seven
Speaker 1: to one, three, two, six six three. Look, hurricane season,
Speaker 1: we're on the doorstep of it. But we know last year.
Speaker 1: We learned last year you don't need a hurricane for
Speaker 1: trees to fall down all over the place and put
Speaker 1: power out for two weeks around this area. Uh, get
Speaker 1: ahead of time. They'll do trimming, they'll do feeding, they'll
Speaker 1: do everything you need to make your trees survive and
Speaker 1: don't fall on your house or your neighbor's house too.
Speaker 1: By the way, Affordable Tree Service seven to one three
Speaker 1: six nine nine two six six three. I get to
Speaker 1: talking and I lose track of the clock, so I
Speaker 1: have to stop every now and then. Look, you get
Speaker 1: me talking about plants or talking too gardeners, and I
Speaker 1: tell you, I, uh, yeah, I can. I can drone
Speaker 1: on ask my family. I was out at Nelson Watergarden
Speaker 1: and Nursery the other day, Uh, visiting with Ralph out there,
Speaker 1: and uh, you know that family has been in the business,
Speaker 1: if you will, for a long time. And he has
Speaker 1: a water garden. He's just saying, Nelson Water Gardens. They're
Speaker 1: nationally recognized experts. People know them and they their contribution
Speaker 1: to the industry is incredible. If you want to have
Speaker 1: a beautiful water garden, if you want to have a
Speaker 1: little waterfall designed and installed in your landscape, if you
Speaker 1: would just like a pond, or if you would like
Speaker 1: something they invented, which is the disappearing fountain. It's like
Speaker 1: a large you have a large, beautiful piece of pottery,
Speaker 1: and you know the water comes out of the top,
Speaker 1: goes to the bottom and then recirculates. They can make
Speaker 1: that for you and they can turn any pot into
Speaker 1: one of those. They've designed the system to do it,
Speaker 1: and it is so nice. The birds will be glad
Speaker 1: that you did it. The sound of rushing water is
Speaker 1: absolutely therapeutic, and they can do that. But remember it's
Speaker 1: Nelson Nursery and water gardens. So what do you want
Speaker 1: in the way of plants? House plants inside. When you
Speaker 1: walk through the building, on your way to the back,
Speaker 1: you pass by some of the most beautiful splints you're
Speaker 1: gonna find, really pretty, and then you hit the section
Speaker 1: where there's the herbs and vegetables and where there's flowers
Speaker 1: and all kinds of ornamental plants all the way up
Speaker 1: to shrubs and trees and fruit and you name it.
Speaker 1: It's a great place to go. I think my favorite thing,
Speaker 1: and I'm a plant person, but my favorite thing is
Speaker 1: just here in the sound of water, when you're walking
Speaker 1: around so beautiful. They've got a koi pone in the back.
Speaker 1: And if you take your little kids with you, and
Speaker 1: I hope you will tell them that you would like
Speaker 1: to get some koifood, they'll give you a little packet
Speaker 1: of koyfood that the kids can take. And these koi
Speaker 1: come up out of the water a few inches and
Speaker 1: open their little round mouths and the kids can drop
Speaker 1: the koyfood in them. Trust me, the kids will like that.
Speaker 1: They will love it. It's just another reason to go
Speaker 1: out there to Nelson Water Gardens. That's the website too,
Speaker 1: by the way, Nelsonwatergardens dot com. Nelson Watergardens dot com.
Speaker 1: It's a little quiet on the phones right now. If
Speaker 1: you'd like to gave me call seven one three two
Speaker 1: one two k t r H. Seven one three two
Speaker 1: one two k t r H. We'll be glad to
Speaker 1: help you with the kinds of questions you might add.
Speaker 1: I am adding things to the website now. If you
Speaker 1: haven't been to my website. Uh, I would encourage you
Speaker 1: to go.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 1: The website is gardening with Skip dot Com. Gardening with
Speaker 1: skip dot com. All right, so when you go there
Speaker 1: to gardening with skip dot I know I keep saying that,
Speaker 1: but people need repetition, right Anyway, when you go to
Speaker 1: Gardening with Skip dot com, uh, you will find a
Speaker 1: lot of publications that we have put up there, and
Speaker 1: specifically we've got you can see my upcoming appearances on there.
Speaker 1: I just put up a publication called lawn Care one
Speaker 1: oh one, Long Care one oh one. And if you
Speaker 1: want what are the basics, what are the key things
Speaker 1: to have a gorgeous lawn, it's going to tell you
Speaker 1: on there. It talks about mowing and watering and fertilizing
Speaker 1: and weeds and aeration. You can download it and print
Speaker 1: it out if you want. But if you're just looking
Speaker 1: for how do I do this well? Gardening with skip
Speaker 1: dot com, that's where you want to go. And long
Speaker 1: Care one on one is the latest of things we
Speaker 1: put out there. I've got a publication on nuts edge.
Speaker 1: We've talked about nuts edge a lot. Yesterday at Southwest Fertilizer.
Speaker 1: People they that weed is ubiquitous and It is one
Speaker 1: of the most difficult weeds that we have to control
Speaker 1: in our landscapes, and so in order to control it,
Speaker 1: we got to be able to understand how it grows
Speaker 1: and use the right products with the right timing. And
Speaker 1: that's on that publication as well. Again, it's free, getting
Speaker 1: cheaper than free. Hey, Naevias Superturf silver bag by Natropos,
Speaker 1: It's time. It's time to put it down. It's going
Speaker 1: to take care of your lawn from now all the
Speaker 1: way to the fall. Fertilization nightfis. Superturf is a silver bag.
Speaker 1: It's a nineteen four to ten fertilizer that really works.
Speaker 1: You're going to find it at D and D Feed
Speaker 1: and Tomball Fishers Hardware out in Pasadena as well as
Speaker 1: the Fishers in Laporte and Mont Bellevue. It works. Look
Speaker 1: for the silver bag. All right, I'm gonna have to
Speaker 1: take a little break here. When we come back from break,
Speaker 1: Dwayne in Mont Bellevue, you will be our first caller
Speaker 1: up seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four. Hey,
Speaker 1: we're back. Welcome back to the garden line, folks. Good
Speaker 1: to have you with us. We are here to help
Speaker 1: you have a bountiful garden, a beautiful landscape and more
Speaker 1: fun in the process. And boy, that last part is important.
Speaker 1: You should be enjoying things out in the garden and
Speaker 1: there are a lot of things we can do to
Speaker 1: make it more enjoyable, and we'll talk about those. We
Speaker 1: do talk about those each day. We have garden Line
Speaker 1: Saturdays in Sunday six am to ten am. And as
Speaker 1: you call with your questions, we can also go into
Speaker 1: some specifics on how do you have success that helps
Speaker 1: things be enjoyable. How do you make less work for
Speaker 1: what you get out of it that makes it more enjoyable.
Speaker 1: How do you avoid pest problems that makes it more enjoyable?
Speaker 1: And how do you create something that when you step
Speaker 1: back and look at it, you have a sense of accomplishment,
Speaker 1: just a job well done right that makes it more enjoyable. Well,
Speaker 1: we're going to head out now to Mont Bellevue and
Speaker 1: talk to Dwayne. Hello, Dwayne, welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 8: Good morning, thanks for taking my call. Hey, I have
Speaker 8: a quick question about mulberry trees. Do they do well
Speaker 8: in the Beach City area?
Speaker 1: They will? You know, I wouldn't stick them out, you know,
Speaker 1: and where they're subjected to any kind of salt spray
Speaker 1: or any issue like that. But in general, mulberry is
Speaker 1: very widely available. And I say salt spray, you know,
Speaker 1: Beach City is not going to have too much of
Speaker 1: that because it's in the Trinity Bay, but it'll do
Speaker 1: just fine.
Speaker 8: Okay. What would be the best thing to when I'm
Speaker 8: going to transplant the best fertilized or ashually put in
Speaker 8: the ground to give it a good start?
Speaker 1: Okay, So you want to make sure and don't put
Speaker 1: any fertilizer in the ground when you plant. Just get
Speaker 1: the plant. Are you are you buying one in a pot?
Speaker 1: Or you said transplant, are you digging one up?
Speaker 8: Well? No, they was giving some away yesterday in.
Speaker 1: Mount bellvuew okay, And I got a two levelm okay.
Speaker 1: So you just put it in the ground. Dig a
Speaker 1: hole that's only as deep as the container that you have,
Speaker 1: So like if it's one gallon pot, don't dig a
Speaker 1: hole that's a foot and a half deep because it
Speaker 1: ends up settling. And you want to plant it at
Speaker 1: exactly the level that the soil in the container is
Speaker 1: not deeper and little highers okay, but not much and
Speaker 1: then watered in really good. Loosen the soil up around it.
Speaker 1: As before you make the planting, use the soil from
Speaker 1: the that you dug out of a hole to go
Speaker 1: back in to plant the mulberry. Don't put a bunch
Speaker 1: of composts, and don't put fertilizer in the hole. And
Speaker 1: then as it begins to grow, once you see new
Speaker 1: growth happening on it about six weeks later, give it
Speaker 1: just a little bit of fertilizer and you can just
Speaker 1: use a lawn fertilizer on that to help it get going.
Speaker 1: That you already you know, if you're going to fertilize
Speaker 1: the lawn, you already got a big bag of it.
Speaker 1: And it's very economical compared to smaller doses or smaller
Speaker 1: containers of fertilizer per pound of nutrients. So I would
Speaker 1: just use that. I mean, you can go out and
Speaker 1: buy something that's for trees and shrubs, but I find
Speaker 1: loan fertilizer works just great on that new tree. It's
Speaker 1: primary of the nitrogen you're looking for.
Speaker 8: Okay, thanks for your helping.
Speaker 1: Yes, give me. Let me give you one more tip
Speaker 1: doing if you when you're planting it can build a
Speaker 1: little doughnut berm of soil around it. Maybe, oh I
Speaker 1: don't know, a foot out in both directions, so two
Speaker 1: feet across the circle.
Speaker 11: Uh.
Speaker 1: Then you when you water, you can fill that berm
Speaker 1: and it'll soak straight down into the root zone and
Speaker 1: you can give it good soakings because early on as
Speaker 1: the temperature heats up, that's the touching go time that
Speaker 1: that plan is trying to get a good root system
Speaker 1: out so it's resilient and it doesn't have one yet.
Speaker 1: And so watering that inside that doughnut, filling it up
Speaker 1: and letting it soak in will increase your survival and
Speaker 1: early or early growth.
Speaker 8: All right, okay, great, Thanks all right.
Speaker 1: D Wayne, thanks for the call. Appreciate that very much.
Speaker 1: Phone number seven one three two one two k t
Speaker 1: R H. Seven one three two one two k t
Speaker 1: R h.
Speaker 7: Uh.
Speaker 1: It is mosquito season. If you look around after these
Speaker 1: rains we've had, here they come. I'm just telling you,
Speaker 1: here they come. I would get out today and get
Speaker 1: some miske dunks. Mosquito dunks are available all over the place.
Speaker 1: Ace hardware stores, feed stores, all our independent garden centers,
Speaker 1: you know, Southwest Fertilizer. I saw a bunch on the
Speaker 1: wall yesterday down there. Mosquito dunks are a disease of mosquitoes.
Speaker 1: Isn't that interesting? Just a disease mosquitoes, actually mosquitoes and
Speaker 1: fungus gnats, which happens when you overwater your houseplants and
Speaker 1: other plants. But anyway, mosquitoes, they won't hurt lady beetles.
Speaker 1: They won't hurt birds or cats, or dogs or any
Speaker 1: other insects, good or bad insects. They don't hurt any
Speaker 1: of them except mosquitoes. That's what they go after, and
Speaker 1: fungus gnats. So you put a mosquito dunk in each
Speaker 1: of those little round doughnuts, dissolves in about gives you
Speaker 1: about thirty days, and it covers about one hundred square
Speaker 1: feet of water surface. So if you've just got some
Speaker 1: little areas, like you know you got to catch basin
Speaker 1: under your pots, mosquitoes breed there. So you can break
Speaker 1: one of those dunks up and just put a few
Speaker 1: granules in that area. You put it in bird bass,
Speaker 1: you put it in a lot of things, and it works.
Speaker 1: And let me tell you this, the mosquitoes are already
Speaker 1: land eggs. They're already regulars out there. So the sooner
Speaker 1: you get that in water, the better, because we're about
Speaker 1: to have mosquitoes everywhere with the rains. We just had
Speaker 1: mosquito dunk. Grab some, keep them on hand. I'd keep them,
Speaker 1: you know, in a cool, protected spot, not in a
Speaker 1: super super hot outdoor area, because it is a disease
Speaker 1: of mosquitoes, and they work. I don't know what else
Speaker 1: to say about it other than that they work.
Speaker 12: I was.
Speaker 1: Yesterday looking at We've got some tomatoes and several places
Speaker 1: out in the gardens, and I've got one that is
Speaker 1: actually in my wife's garden. It's a vego bed up
Speaker 1: on top of a patio in the back. It's doing great.
Speaker 1: I mean, it is just thriving and doing so well.
Speaker 1: And then I had a couple that are actually in
Speaker 1: the vegetable garden area in the backyard and the trees,
Speaker 1: you know. And I should have paid attention to this
Speaker 1: when I planted, I know better. Anyway, I put them
Speaker 1: in the ground where I want. I wanted to move
Speaker 1: into a different spot, and I put them in the ground.
Speaker 1: And I was just watching the sun pattern yesterday, and
Speaker 1: I don't have that many hours of sun. There's probably
Speaker 1: four five hours or so of sun that these are getting.
Speaker 1: That's not quite enough for tomatoes. And you can look
Speaker 1: at how they're growing and how they're producing, and yeah,
Speaker 1: it's not quite enough for tomatoes. If something is going
Speaker 1: to bloom and fruit in your garden, think of it
Speaker 1: as fruiting vegetables. Tomatoes, cucumbers, peppers, eggplant, squash. Those are
Speaker 1: all fruiting vegetables. You need to give them at least
Speaker 1: six hours of sun and more is even better. Okay,
Speaker 1: if it is a rooting vegetable, it's not carrot season,
Speaker 1: but things that grow roots like a turnip or a carrot,
Speaker 1: or a radish or a beat it needs to get
Speaker 1: lots of sun too, because and why is that. It's
Speaker 1: because in order to grow a tomato or a squash
Speaker 1: or a carrot root or whatever, you need a lot
Speaker 1: of carbohydrates. And you get carbohydrates when sun shines on
Speaker 1: leaves and in shade, the plant can't do. It's like
Speaker 1: putting a solar panel in the shade doesn't work very good.
Speaker 1: If you've got an area that's a little too shady
Speaker 1: for those, But you still want to grow vegetables, put
Speaker 1: your leafy greens there they can grow and do okay
Speaker 1: with less sun than is required by the fruiting and
Speaker 1: rooting vegetables. So there's just a little tip for you
Speaker 1: to keep in mind.
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Speaker 1: You will not be left in the dark. And with
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Speaker 1: we say there's things like once in a lifetime storms,
Speaker 1: Well we had two of them last year, took out
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Speaker 1: a break. I'll be right back with our last segment
Speaker 1: of the hour. All right, having some fun here on
Speaker 1: garden Line, making sure you're with us, dozing off. I mean,
Speaker 1: do you remember Alvin and the Chipmunks. Yeah. I don't
Speaker 1: know what to say about that other than it was unique,
Speaker 1: that's for sure. Welcome back to Guardline. Good to have
Speaker 1: you with us. And I wanted to talk about Growers
Speaker 1: Outlet up in Willis. Grows Outlet is a garden center
Speaker 1: that's on seventy five, just south of Willis Highway seventy five,
Speaker 1: just minutes away from forty five. And that whole region
Speaker 1: up there, whether it's New Waverley or Willis or Conroe
Speaker 1: or you know, like Conroy area, they serve that while area.
Speaker 1: People even drive up from the Woodlands to go up
Speaker 1: to it. You can go to that website and you
Speaker 1: should a garden. Excuse me, growers with drive one more time.
Speaker 1: Growers Outlet in Willis. Growers Outlet in Willis dot com.
Speaker 1: You'll find what they have for sale. They put their
Speaker 1: availability online. They put the prices of things online. If
Speaker 1: you want to go there. When you get there, you
Speaker 1: can find fertilizers from Microlife and Nitrofoss and Medina to
Speaker 1: make sure you have success with plants. But you are
Speaker 1: going to be very impressive with this place. Have a
Speaker 1: nice little gift shop inside. They at their products that
Speaker 1: they sell to go with your plants. When it comes
Speaker 1: to plants, from betty plants to herbs, to vegetables, to
Speaker 1: fruit trees, to shrubs and trees. Beautiful hanging baskets. They
Speaker 1: have some mato fern hanging baskets that are just breathtaking,
Speaker 1: gorgeous and beautiful flowering hanging baskets. It's all there, but
Speaker 1: you got to go to see it. See what I'm
Speaker 1: talking about. Growers outlet Willis dot com. That's it. That's
Speaker 1: as simple as that. Today when I get to this afternoon,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna head out in pot up a couple of
Speaker 1: things that are waiting on me and jungle land outdoor potting.
Speaker 1: So it's called jungle l and Flower and Vegetable Planting
Speaker 1: soil Okay, Flower and Vegetable Planting sail comes in the
Speaker 1: bags distributed by Nitrofoss. It's a blend of Canadian blonde
Speaker 1: peete with four different sources of aged organic matter. And
Speaker 1: basically with the microwrise of fungi that revitalized potting plants,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna get really good lasting color. That's how that
Speaker 1: stuff works. It rains well, but it holds water also,
Speaker 1: and that combination is a sweet spot that jungle nd hits.
Speaker 1: You put it in a good sized pot, You put
Speaker 1: the right kind of plan in there that wants to
Speaker 1: be in the spot where you're gonna put it, and
Speaker 1: you're gonna have success. You're gonna find jungle Land and
Speaker 1: other nitrofoss products at places like Bearing Hardware on Bissonet
Speaker 1: or the Bearing Chardware in West Teimer. Go out to
Speaker 1: Enchanted Forest on FM twenty seven to fifty nine out
Speaker 1: in the Richmond Rosenberg area. They carry nitrofoss products out
Speaker 1: there as well. So anyway, gonna get out and gonna
Speaker 1: get that done. I love putting my hands in the dirt,
Speaker 1: and I don't want to get into a lot of
Speaker 1: work and stuff today, but I will get into doing
Speaker 1: those things. If you've got metal furniture, like let's say
Speaker 1: the aluminium or rot iron or cast iron types, maybe
Speaker 1: even decorative things outside and they're not looking great, you
Speaker 1: need to call Houston Powder coders. And here's what I
Speaker 1: want you to do. Don't you take a picture of it?
Speaker 1: Email that picture to sales at Houstoncoders dot com. Sales
Speaker 1: at Houston cooders dot com. They'll give you a quick quote.
Speaker 1: This is what it costs. If you're in the Houston area,
Speaker 1: they'll come pick it up and when they're done, they'll
Speaker 1: bring it back to you one hundred plus colors that
Speaker 1: they can powder coat that to look it is gorgeous.
Speaker 1: It ren news it and they do all the other
Speaker 1: things that are needed to get it fixed up, whether
Speaker 1: it's rusting, or need a little bit of welding here
Speaker 1: or there, or new hardware on it, they can do
Speaker 1: all of that. Here's the number two eight one, six seven,
Speaker 1: six thirty eight eighty eight. If you want to learn
Speaker 1: more about them, you can go to Houston Powdercoders dot
Speaker 1: com Houston Powdercoders dot com and you will see the
Speaker 1: work that they do, and it is very very good work,
Speaker 1: very good work. The other day, not too long ago,
Speaker 1: I was down visiting with Jorge a while back here
Speaker 1: and just looking at all the operation that they got
Speaker 1: set up down there, and you know, they just keep
Speaker 1: it just keeps getting better. Down there. Harny grows a
Speaker 1: lot of trees. He grows larger shrubs and things. So
Speaker 1: if you if you want to get a quality plant
Speaker 1: planted for you like that, he'll come out and do it.
Speaker 1: That's all part of the system. Now. If you're looking
Speaker 1: for things like maybe Peggy Martin roses, he's always got
Speaker 1: some of those on it. It seems like he's got
Speaker 1: a lot of beautiful ones. And when it comes to
Speaker 1: fruit trees, oh my gosh, last time I got there,
Speaker 1: he had like nine different kinds of peach trees, a
Speaker 1: lot of the low chill ones that are that are
Speaker 1: better for growing down there. By the way, he's in Alvin, Texas,
Speaker 1: way south of Houston on Highway six. You just from
Speaker 1: from Alvin, you head down six like you're going to
Speaker 1: Santa Fe and he's off down to the right. So
Speaker 1: that's kind of the specific region where you'll find him.
Speaker 1: Jes Hidden Gardens. He carries the three sixty tree stabilizers
Speaker 1: that are there. He asks some of his own fertilizer
Speaker 1: from Nelson Plant feed folks that they make up there,
Speaker 1: and whatever you're looking for, I mean lots of good citrus.
Speaker 1: I saw blueberries, I saw bedding, plants, vegetables, herbs, everything,
Speaker 1: Jorgce Hidden Gardens. So I just need to go out
Speaker 1: and see him again Elizabeth Street and Alvin Oryce Hidden
Speaker 1: Gardens or he's a character too. He's a lot of fun.
Speaker 1: He's got a good sense of humor and it is
Speaker 1: a real upbeat attitude about things like enjoy hanging out
Speaker 1: with Horay, you're listening to the guard line. We're gonna
Speaker 1: take a little break here in just a bit. But
Speaker 1: I did want to remind you first of all that
Speaker 1: I'm going to be at Memorial City Ace Hardware. Memorial
Speaker 1: City Ace Hardware that is on Memorial Drive in Houston, Texas,
Speaker 1: of course on the west side. So if you let's
Speaker 1: see her so I can get I'm trying to pull
Speaker 1: something up here on my computer. Yeah, get a little
Speaker 1: map here right off Memorial Drive. When you go there,
Speaker 1: you're gonna find what you would expect from an Ace
Speaker 1: Hardware store, and that is a lot of products to
Speaker 1: help you have a more beautiful indoor your house indoors,
Speaker 1: but also that outdoor area. You know you want a
Speaker 1: beautiful landscape. Ace Hardware is the one to give you
Speaker 1: that because they carry the fertilizers I talk about on
Speaker 1: guard line. They carry products to control pests, weeds, and diseases.
Speaker 1: You go into an ACE Hardware store, you're going to
Speaker 1: find the tools and other supplies for gardening, such as
Speaker 1: garden hoses and a watering devices, tools for pruning, tools
Speaker 1: for digging, tools for dealing with weeds, or whatever. Ace
Speaker 1: Hardware has got you covered. You want to enjoy your patio,
Speaker 1: why not go to ACE Hardware and get a string
Speaker 1: of lights to create that ambiance outdoors. They've got that
Speaker 1: there and a lot lot more and perhaps my face
Speaker 1: favorite addition to the patio or quality barbecue pits. You know,
Speaker 1: I'm talking about things like Big green Egg. By the way,
Speaker 1: there's probably I think Big Green Egg may well be
Speaker 1: a cult. And then there's Trager, Oh my gosh, the
Speaker 1: pellet fed grills and Weber grills and every kind of
Speaker 1: supply you would need to go with your barbecue. And
Speaker 1: I mean, you're gonna want to just live outside when
Speaker 1: you've been to ACE Hardware and you get your patios
Speaker 1: set up like that. And ACE Hardware's are all over
Speaker 1: the place, it's easy to find them. Here's the website.
Speaker 1: ACE Hardware Texas dot com, Ace Hardware Texas dot com.
Speaker 1: Check it out. Come see me next Saturday. What is
Speaker 1: that may third be there from twelve to two answering
Speaker 1: your gardening questions. We'll have some giveaways there as well,
Speaker 1: doing that we usually do that. Come on out, all right, folks.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna take a little break here, fill up my
Speaker 1: coffee cup, and we'll be back for our third hour
Speaker 1: of the morning at eight o'clock hour with your gardening questions.
Speaker 1: If you would like to be one of the first
Speaker 1: up at that time, seven one three two one two
Speaker 1: k t RH talk to Alejandro, get you on the board,
Speaker 1: and we will visit with you out the things that
Speaker 1: you want to know about regarding success and fun in
Speaker 1: the garden. Be right back, all right, folks, we're back.
Speaker 1: What are we going to talk about today? I got
Speaker 1: some things in mind, but why don't you set the
Speaker 1: agenda here with your questions? Seven one three two one
Speaker 1: two k t r H seven one three two one
Speaker 1: two k t r H. Simple as that sweet green
Speaker 1: by Nitropuss is a it's an outstanding fertilizer. It's eleven
Speaker 1: percent nitrogen, which in an organic product is a lot.
Speaker 1: You put it down, you watered in, it goes into
Speaker 1: the ground and sugar basic product type things are basically
Speaker 1: carbon chains, right, and that carbon is very important to
Speaker 1: beneficial microbes. That's part of what they do in the
Speaker 1: soil is feed on decaying organic matter, that carbon that's
Speaker 1: in it, because it's a fuel source for them. So
Speaker 1: sweet green provides that kind of boost for beneficial microbes
Speaker 1: in the swam. Now you're gonna find sweet green. Oh gosh,
Speaker 1: it's at a lot of places. For example, if you
Speaker 1: went to Plants for All Seasons on two forty nine,
Speaker 1: I saw some in there just yesterday. RCW Nurse Trees
Speaker 1: carries night foss products, hiding and feed on. Stubner Airline
Speaker 1: carries night foss products, and as do many many many
Speaker 1: places all over there, all over town. But let's do this.
Speaker 1: Let's head to Roast Sharon this morning, and we're going
Speaker 1: to talk to Kim. Hello, Kim, welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 13: Oh, thank you, Skip.
Speaker 14: Hey.
Speaker 15: I just had a acre of and cleared off, and
Speaker 15: you know how they bring in the machinery that like
Speaker 15: brings it down to saw dust. My question is I
Speaker 15: have an attachment for my tractor. Should I go ahead
Speaker 15: and grade that some more, or like these places it
Speaker 15: has this heavy sawdust because I remember you tell me
Speaker 15: where there's bare lights, sunlight gets a weed. So I'm
Speaker 15: trying to be proactive on that. So do you think
Speaker 15: I should go ahead and grade that some more?
Speaker 1: So tell me about the land? What are you going
Speaker 1: to do there on that property? And a plant of
Speaker 1: pasture or what.
Speaker 15: I haven't really considered it. I find out a garden
Speaker 15: in a couple of areas, but it was, you know,
Speaker 15: heavily wooded and all, and I mean it's beautiful now.
Speaker 15: So I'm just wondering, like in some of them areas
Speaker 15: there's heavy mulch, So should I like kind of distribute
Speaker 15: that grade it with my uh crater?
Speaker 1: Yeah, if you can spread it around a little bit.
Speaker 1: I mean that certainly helps when they when they grind
Speaker 1: that stuff up and leave it lay in the spot,
Speaker 1: it does act as a molt. So it's going to
Speaker 1: give you some benefit like that.
Speaker 5: You know.
Speaker 1: Just remember that there's gonna be a lot of bear soil.
Speaker 1: Even as you great with your tractor, you're gonna be
Speaker 1: left with you know, quite a bit of bear soil there, right,
Speaker 1: And uh, when when that are you in Brazoria County
Speaker 1: or Harris Brazoria. Okay, yes, sir, uh I would. I
Speaker 1: would talk to the folks at the Brazoria County Extension
Speaker 1: office down there. I believe it's in Angleton.
Speaker 11: Uh.
Speaker 1: Anyway, the the ag agent should be able to advise
Speaker 1: you on maybe some type of a pasture type grass
Speaker 1: that you could spread seed of out there in it
Speaker 1: and get you something going that's that's gonna hold the
Speaker 1: spot me later on if you want to get rid
Speaker 1: of it. I mean, if you know right away you're
Speaker 1: gonna put an orchard or something in, well, I wouldn't
Speaker 1: put the grass in. But uh, because even with spreading
Speaker 1: those those ground up woodships and things, you're gonna have
Speaker 1: a lot of weeds come through and you're gonna be
Speaker 1: out there brush hoogging it or doing something for it.
Speaker 1: So I would say, think about what you wanted to
Speaker 1: look like, or if you're not sure, I think a
Speaker 1: grass pasture would be at least a good way because
Speaker 1: you can mow that and it's a lot more attractive
Speaker 1: than you're gonna have shrubs and brush coming up in there. Anyway,
Speaker 1: even after the grinding, you're gonna have a lot of
Speaker 1: dormant weed seeds that have been laying there waiting for this,
Speaker 1: and now they're gonna come up. So uh, just think
Speaker 1: ahead on that and save yourself a little bit of trouble.
Speaker 1: But as far as can you do the spreading with
Speaker 1: with your box blade and whatnot, yes, you could do
Speaker 1: you could do some of that, Okay.
Speaker 13: I was just yeah, because.
Speaker 15: There is some beautiful moult, I think I'm gonna gather
Speaker 15: at seven ads and spread along in my little garden
Speaker 15: here there.
Speaker 1: But okay, okay, I was just wanting to make sure.
Speaker 15: I've got huge, some huge oaks that has some a
Speaker 15: lot of shade, so I will have to drows Yeah.
Speaker 1: So okay, well okay, grass is yeah, grass nook can
Speaker 1: grow into those, that's for sure, right right, I do
Speaker 1: you know that?
Speaker 8: All right?
Speaker 1: Well, I'll touch face with my egg and see what
Speaker 1: they shouldest. That's a good idea. All right, you take care,
Speaker 1: all right, great, thanks for you, have a great day.
Speaker 1: Bye bye you too, bye bye. I uh this was yesterday,
Speaker 1: actually yesterday in the afternoon. We're sitting there watching some
Speaker 1: birds out off our patio. It's become one of my
Speaker 1: favorite things to do late in the day. Go out
Speaker 1: there relax a little bit, UH, And there were a
Speaker 1: pair of cardinals that were going to the feeder. The
Speaker 1: feeder is UH in that case was the UH. It's
Speaker 1: a hopper type feeder that has made a recycled plastic
Speaker 1: and very durable. And it's from Birds Unlimited, which is
Speaker 1: where you get anything that you want if you want
Speaker 1: it to be quality and if it's for birds' that's
Speaker 1: what it amounts to. You know, you buy birds seed
Speaker 1: a lot of places and typically those seeds, those bags
Speaker 1: of seed are filled with I call it the little
Speaker 1: red bebies. Birds don't like that stuff. I few birds
Speaker 1: will eat it a little bit, but I mean basically
Speaker 1: it gets kicked out on the ground. When you go
Speaker 1: to wild Birds Unlimited you can buy seed. It's going
Speaker 1: to go into birds tummy, not second rate. We're not
Speaker 1: gonna eat this stuff. They fill those bags with stuff
Speaker 1: that birds eat. You can even buy no mess blends.
Speaker 1: So maybe something had sunflower seed in it, which is
Speaker 1: a great seed for birds, but you don't want the
Speaker 1: shells because they crack them open to get the seed
Speaker 1: in out of the inside. Well that's called a no
Speaker 1: mess blend. Now, the folks at Waldbirds Unlimited have a
Speaker 1: perfect blend for this time of the year. It's called
Speaker 1: Nesting Super Blends, only available at Wallbirds Unlimited. It's got
Speaker 1: everything that birds need during the nesting season. You know,
Speaker 1: when they're laying eggs, when they're hatching young, when they're
Speaker 1: developing that skeletal development inside the bird that needs calcium.
Speaker 1: It's got that. They need protein, They've got that in there.
Speaker 1: You can find Nesting Super Blended any of the six
Speaker 1: Wilbirds and Limited stores here in the Greater Houston area.
Speaker 1: Go to WBU dot com, forward slash Houston WBU for
Speaker 1: Wilbirdsunlimited dot com forward Slash Houston, Kingwood, Clare Lake, Pearland, Cyprus,
Speaker 1: Houston on bel Air, Houston on Memorial Drive. Those are
Speaker 1: all wild Birds Unlimited stores. You need to check them out.
Speaker 1: Time for me to take a little break here. I
Speaker 1: will be back with your calls, and Melanie and Helen
Speaker 1: you'll be our first two up. And alrighty, when this
Speaker 1: is the last time you hear at barbershop, do you
Speaker 1: know how hard it is to find a barbershop song
Speaker 1: that talks about gardening. We're a full service here at
Speaker 1: Garden Line, Arbrogate Garden center up in Townball is a
Speaker 1: destination and if you haven't been there, you've got to go.
Speaker 1: I mean, this is a place. It's like going to
Speaker 1: botanical garden, except a botanical garden filled with knowledgeable people
Speaker 1: that want to help you have success and are willing
Speaker 1: to take time and walk around with you to find
Speaker 1: the right plants or the right plant combination that you're
Speaker 1: looking for. Arburgate's outstanding. It just is what do you
Speaker 1: want to grow? Maybe you want to put fruit trees.
Speaker 1: They carry fruit trees twelve months out of the year
Speaker 1: at Arburgate. They have shrubs, they have roses, they have perennials.
Speaker 1: Do you have shady spots? Go into the little shade
Speaker 1: area and they've got all kinds of wonderful plants there
Speaker 1: in the shade. That's where I got one of my endiction.
Speaker 1: What butterfly gingers was maybe two of them came from
Speaker 1: Arburgate and the great great plants and again service, that
Speaker 1: is what it's about. Knowledgeable people that are friendly, that
Speaker 1: are helpful. And now they've last year, they are recent,
Speaker 1: not too long ago. Last year they added the back
Speaker 1: parking lot which is off Trichel Road, so instead of
Speaker 1: parking in the front or parking along the road two
Speaker 1: forty nine, don't do that, go around Trasher Road in
Speaker 1: the back. It is an awesome parking lot with the
Speaker 1: best entrance accessibility into Arbigate. You're going to get try
Speaker 1: it out and before you go home. What's the rule
Speaker 1: on guarden line, brown stuff before green stuff? Right, That
Speaker 1: means nutrients and that means organic matter for your soil.
Speaker 1: Get their one two three completely easy system, organic food complete,
Speaker 1: anything with roots, it'll feed it Organic soil complete, which
Speaker 1: has expanded jail in it an organic compost complete, which
Speaker 1: also has expanded jail. Now, if you want the soil
Speaker 1: and the compost, but you want it in volume, you
Speaker 1: don't want to buy eight hundred bags, call Arbrogate, tell
Speaker 1: them I need a bulk delivery and they will do that.
Speaker 1: They can deliver those bulk to you as well. Arburgate,
Speaker 1: for those of you who didn't know, is a mile
Speaker 1: and a half west of two forty nine on twenty
Speaker 1: nine to twenty and Tom Ball and I don't care
Speaker 1: where you live. If you live way out of Houston
Speaker 1: and you're hearing my voice right now, you got to
Speaker 1: come to Houston and see the arbor Gate people drive.
Speaker 1: I know people in Briancott Station drive down all the
Speaker 1: time for Arburgate because it is just awesome, great place
Speaker 1: to go. All right, let's head out here. Let's go
Speaker 1: to Cyprus this morning, and we're going to talk to Melanie. Hello, Melanie,
Speaker 1: welcome to garden.
Speaker 15: Good morning.
Speaker 5: Oh ready to get out in my yard today? And
Speaker 5: I had a question, And I know you've covered this
Speaker 5: before and I can't remember, but I had my yard
Speaker 5: man put some last summer. He put mulch in, and
Speaker 5: I wanted him to use that black yell malt from
Speaker 5: Landscape's Pride.
Speaker 13: He didn't use that.
Speaker 8: I don't know what to use.
Speaker 5: But it's real grey looking now, you know. And do
Speaker 5: I need to take that out first before I put
Speaker 5: the other mulch down?
Speaker 8: Oh?
Speaker 1: Do you put mulch? Add mulch on top of all?
Speaker 1: Think about the forest? Yeah, the forest, The trees droply,
Speaker 1: they look like leaves for the whole year. Next year
Speaker 1: they drop leaves on those leaves, and the old leaves
Speaker 1: start to rot and make what is the best forest
Speaker 1: floor soil around? Okay? You do you do that in
Speaker 1: your beds by adding mult on top of the malts
Speaker 1: rather than taking the old away.
Speaker 5: Okay, so put it on top and then that other
Speaker 5: will kind of.
Speaker 1: You don't have to use it. You don't have to
Speaker 1: use this. Yeah. Well you don't have to use as
Speaker 1: much malt that way either, you know, because you've already
Speaker 1: got molts there. It just you just want to freshen
Speaker 1: it up on top. It doesn't take as much to
Speaker 1: do that another reason.
Speaker 13: Okay, that's what I wanted to hear.
Speaker 1: So that's good news, all right.
Speaker 8: I thought i'd heard say that before.
Speaker 13: It's just so ugly.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, well okay, I think I think dead stuff
Speaker 1: on the ground is pretty so anyway, I know what
Speaker 1: you're talking about. Though, it's your yard.
Speaker 13: Okay, I'll do it.
Speaker 1: You take care, bye bye. That is true green Pro.
Speaker 1: You've heard me talk about green Pro. The folks at
Speaker 1: Greenpro are experts of providing top quality compost top dressing,
Speaker 1: fertilizing and cororation too, the perfect companion to compost top dressing.
Speaker 1: What does that mean For those of you who hear
Speaker 1: me say that, I don't know what I'm talking about.
Speaker 1: Corrooration pops a plug of soil out of the ground
Speaker 1: and drops it on the surface as it sort of
Speaker 1: melts away in the rain and irrigation. It helps thatch
Speaker 1: decompose faster. But the most important thing is that hole
Speaker 1: brings oxygen down deeper into the soil. The compost top
Speaker 1: dressing will fall partially of it will fall down in
Speaker 1: that hole and will decompose away, and microbial activity just
Speaker 1: goes crazy. I mean, it really really thrives in that situation.
Speaker 1: One of the best things you can do not only
Speaker 1: to feed the soil biology in your soil, but to
Speaker 1: alleviate compaction, to help the soil take in moisture, rainfall,
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Speaker 1: The northwest quadrant that's primarily the area they service. Give
Speaker 1: them a call eight three to two three five one
Speaker 1: zero zero three two, or just go to the website
Speaker 1: greenpro Texas dot com. Alrighty, We're gonna go now to
Speaker 1: Humble and talk to Helen. Well, Hello, Helen, Welcome to
Speaker 1: garden Line.
Speaker 8: Well, good morning, Skip.
Speaker 10: Earlier I had you tele Acller not to put fertilizer
Speaker 10: in when you're planning a new plant that you've purchased,
Speaker 10: not to put it in the hold. And that's what
Speaker 10: I've been doing.
Speaker 13: So maybe help me on that.
Speaker 10: That's the only thing I need to know.
Speaker 1: So did you ever watch I Love Lucy on TV
Speaker 1: with Lucy and DESI? All right, remember how he would say, Lucy,
Speaker 1: you got some splaining to do. So you're basically telling me, Skip,
Speaker 1: you got some splaining to do about this fertilizer in
Speaker 1: the planning hole. And I'll explain it right now. Basically,
Speaker 1: you can put a slow release fertilizer in a planning
Speaker 1: hole if you want. You can do that. Salt based fertilizer.
Speaker 1: Synthetic salt based in the planning hole can be concentrated
Speaker 1: and burn roots as they try to grow. The plant
Speaker 1: you're putting in has already got fertilizer in the root
Speaker 1: zone that it's in in that pot. They've they've been doing.
Speaker 1: That's how they grew the plant. They put you see
Speaker 1: the little round bbies up on top sometimes from that.
Speaker 1: But when you put it in the ground, we don't
Speaker 1: need to put fertilizer right then, I mean to me,
Speaker 1: I guess an analogy is like giving a baby a
Speaker 1: t bone steak. What are they going to do with that?
Speaker 5: You know?
Speaker 1: And let's let that plant get established once it's grown
Speaker 1: about six weeks or so, then begin to fertilize on
Speaker 1: the top, scratch it into the soil and water it
Speaker 1: in gradually. But people think the fertilizer in the planning
Speaker 1: hole is just gonna make it go crazy, unless you
Speaker 1: were using like medina has to grow six twelve six.
Speaker 1: That's a super deluded liquid that you're putting in a
Speaker 1: water and can to drench down into the root zone.
Speaker 1: That's okay, that's okay, But don't just don't dry salt
Speaker 1: based fertilizer in the planning hole. I usually say don't
Speaker 1: put it in the planning hole because it's hard for
Speaker 1: people to hear all that I just said and remember
Speaker 1: all that, and you know, keep tracking. So I just said,
Speaker 1: can't put fertilizer in the planning hole.
Speaker 5: All right, all right.
Speaker 8: I appreciate that.
Speaker 10: All right, Heaven blessing.
Speaker 1: All right, Helen, you too, thank you for the call.
Speaker 1: I appreciate that a lot. Spring Creek Feed is up there,
Speaker 1: just north and east of Tombol. It's kind of well
Speaker 1: at Graham Parkway Highway two forty nine area up that direction.
Speaker 1: They're on FM twenty nine seventy eight, FM twenty nine
Speaker 1: seventy eight. Now when you drive down FM twenty nine
Speaker 1: seventy eight, you're going to look over the side and
Speaker 1: see this beautiful big feed store, Spring Creek Feed. They
Speaker 1: carry fertilizers from Nelson, Turf, star Line, Microlife, nitrofoss. They
Speaker 1: have herbicides for weed control, fungicides, pesticides, and a very friendly,
Speaker 1: courteous staff that will greet you and point you at
Speaker 1: the things that you need. Of course, when you're in there,
Speaker 1: if you need some pet food and products, they've got
Speaker 1: good quality pet food and products in there. If senior citizens,
Speaker 1: military and youth from FFA and four H programs get
Speaker 1: a discount, so let them know about that. If you
Speaker 1: need special order, they can do that and they also
Speaker 1: offer a delivery service. Another good reason to go to
Speaker 1: Spring Creek Feed FM twenty nine seventy eight. Let's head
Speaker 1: to Austin County now and we're going to talk to Doris. Hello, Doris,
Speaker 1: are you I'm doing well? Thank you.
Speaker 16: I'm just calling to see if you got my pictures
Speaker 16: I sent yesterday.
Speaker 1: I did not. Did they come in from a phone
Speaker 1: number that ends in eighty one twenty two?
Speaker 8: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Okay, well that's you. I'm saying this not just for you, Doris,
Speaker 1: but for everybody listening. There's different services like my Pick's
Speaker 1: Messages and others where you can send something to an email,
Speaker 1: but it comes in and I can't see who it's from.
Speaker 1: I can't see that there's not a title of it.
Speaker 1: And as a security measure, I just am not able
Speaker 1: to open those up. And so I'm glad you followed
Speaker 1: that up with a phone call. Now, knowing it's you,
Speaker 1: I will go ahead and open this up. There's a
Speaker 1: lot of bad stuff going online and I'm extra super
Speaker 1: careful as a result of that. Okay, you send me
Speaker 1: a picture of your tree ivy. I see the tree
Speaker 1: ivy right, all right. Tree ivy is a unique plant.
Speaker 1: It is a cross between Japanese aurelio, which is called
Speaker 1: a fatsia. You see those growing outside in the Houston
Speaker 1: area as a little shrub like plant, and English ivy,
Speaker 1: which crawls all over creation. Tree ivy is used a
Speaker 1: lot of times as a houseplant or very very very
Speaker 1: shady outdoor areas. I think you were wanting to know
Speaker 1: how big it gets? Is that correct? Yes, it'll get
Speaker 1: about six feet high roughly, if you wanted. It tends
Speaker 1: to start as a as a single trunk coming up
Speaker 1: and if you tip that, if you take a little
Speaker 1: snippers and cut the kind of two or three inches
Speaker 1: out of it, it will start branching out, which is
Speaker 1: what happens when you pretty much cut the end off
Speaker 1: any branch and a plant, and it'll make a little
Speaker 1: bit bushier and you can maintain pain that size lower.
Speaker 1: So let's say you wanted I'm just gonna make up
Speaker 1: numbers here, but you want to be about four feet
Speaker 1: high only, okay, So then you would when it gets
Speaker 1: about two feet high, you would tip it and it
Speaker 1: would branch, and then as those branches get up close
Speaker 1: to three feet or so, you would tip it again,
Speaker 1: and you can kind of make it to be a
Speaker 1: little bush here that way.
Speaker 16: Okay, so I'm gonna have to transplant this thing pretty
Speaker 16: same that, uh.
Speaker 1: Yes, uh huh, or having in a big container. You
Speaker 1: can grow them in a container if you want.
Speaker 16: Well, I have one in that it's in that four
Speaker 16: inch container and it's grown at least four inch.
Speaker 1: Yeah, not in a four inch container. Oh okay, all right,
Speaker 1: that was going to say that thing's on steroids. If
Speaker 1: it's done spot, Yeah, you can transplant it into a
Speaker 1: bigger pot. Yeah, you can do. It's not cold hardy. Really.
Speaker 1: Oh no, wait a minute, I think I don't know
Speaker 1: what the cold heartiness on that is. It may well
Speaker 1: be cold hearty. It needs to be in a very
Speaker 1: a very very bright shade. Now that plant's been around,
Speaker 1: oh gosh, it's about nineteen early nineteen hundreds when it
Speaker 1: was developed I think in France or something. Somebody crossed
Speaker 1: those things to come.
Speaker 8: Up with it.
Speaker 1: All right, well, good luck with it, have fun. I
Speaker 1: just have ten seconds left. I'm sorry, I'm going to
Speaker 1: have to go, but use a houseplant food. Nelson Plant
Speaker 1: Food has houseplant foods by the jars that can help
Speaker 1: you with that. Thanks, thanks for your call. Gotta go, folks.
Speaker 1: All right, we're back. Good to have you back with
Speaker 1: us here on garden Line. My goal bountiful gardens, beautiful
Speaker 1: landscapes and people having more fun out there guard and
Speaker 1: doing it. That's what we try to do. We take
Speaker 1: out the idea that you have a brown thumb, because
Speaker 1: you don't. In fact, I'd like you to pause with
Speaker 1: me right here. I'm only going to do this once.
Speaker 1: Say to yourself, I do not have a brown thumb.
Speaker 1: Now you didn't do it. I do not have a
Speaker 1: brown thumb. There you go, all right, you don't. And
Speaker 1: here's why. A brown thumb is simply an uninformed thumb.
Speaker 1: Now you may go, well, grandma could drop a pencil
Speaker 1: in the ground and it would rint and grow into
Speaker 1: a pine tree. Okay, all right, Number one, I don't
Speaker 1: believe that. But number two, Grandma was just doing things
Speaker 1: that plants want. You knew how to make plants happy,
Speaker 1: and that's why it looked like Grandma had a green thumb.
Speaker 1: There's no natural It's not like some people. I just
Speaker 1: kill ever plant I touch. Well, maybe in the past,
Speaker 1: but not in the future. Let's talk. I've got a
Speaker 1: website gardening with skip dot com to help you have success.
Speaker 1: We do a garden show four hours each day Saturday
Speaker 1: and Sunday over the weekends six am to ten am.
Speaker 1: You can listen to past shows. By the way, uh,
Speaker 1: if you go to the ktr CH website. In fact,
Speaker 1: if you go to my website gardening with Skip dot com,
Speaker 1: there is a listen to garden line button. It's brand
Speaker 1: news right up at the top or near the top,
Speaker 1: and if you click on it, you can go listen
Speaker 1: to pass shows or you can listen live. Both of
Speaker 1: them are available through that button right there. So let's
Speaker 1: do this. Let's get you some good resources and get
Speaker 1: you some good advice, and then if you've got questions,
Speaker 1: we're not covering them. There's not a publication for everything
Speaker 1: up there, that's for sure. Give me a call. Seven
Speaker 1: one three two one two ktr H seven one three
Speaker 1: two and two k t r H. All right, that
Speaker 1: was a soapbox. Thanks for bearing with me. One of
Speaker 1: the most important things we do, in fact, the single
Speaker 1: most important thing we do to have success with plants
Speaker 1: is to put them in soil that they can thrive in.
Speaker 1: Plants live in their roots. Okay, so that's a term
Speaker 1: that yes set Plants eat sunlight and you got to
Speaker 1: pick the right ones, and got to fertilize the water.
Speaker 1: I get all that, but the biggest mistake I see
Speaker 1: people making is they PLoP a poor plant into an
Speaker 1: unprepared plot. And that's too many peas for one sentence,
Speaker 1: and you shouldn't do that. You go out, you get
Speaker 1: your good quality compost or bed mix. You mix it
Speaker 1: in the soil or pile it up on top of
Speaker 1: the soil. You get fertilizer that is the nutrients those
Speaker 1: plants want, and you mix it into the ground and
Speaker 1: as the plant grows, you continue to do the fertilizer
Speaker 1: to it. And when you do that, your plant's going
Speaker 1: to hit the ground running and thrive. Ciena Maltch is
Speaker 1: the one stop shop for all things brown stuff. Cenamulch
Speaker 1: is located near Highway six and two eighty eight on
Speaker 1: FM two or excuse me five twenty one FM five
Speaker 1: twenty one south of Houston in the Sienna area. Go
Speaker 1: to the website cnmultch dot com cnamltch dot com find
Speaker 1: out about them. When you get there, what are you
Speaker 1: gonna find. You're gonna find great composts. You're gonna find
Speaker 1: blends like airloom, soils of veggy nerve mix, for example.
Speaker 1: You can find rose soil there, for example, you can
Speaker 1: find mulches and all kinds of things. They deliver within
Speaker 1: about twenty miles of their location. But you're also when
Speaker 1: you're there going to find microlife products and Nilsen's Star
Speaker 1: Line and Nilsen's plant food jars, products from Medina, products
Speaker 1: from nitrofoss products like asomite. Remember I said it was
Speaker 1: all things brown stuff. You go to see aemalt, you
Speaker 1: get the stuff you need or have them delivered if
Speaker 1: you're within twenty miles and you have gotten yourself prepared
Speaker 1: to set the foundation for success, and you will see
Speaker 1: that your thumb is greener this year simply because you
Speaker 1: took that first right step. I'm going to head out
Speaker 1: now to Spring, Texas and we're going to talk to
Speaker 1: Mark this morning on garden Line. Hey, Mark, welcome to the.
Speaker 14: Garden Line morning, Skip. Thanks for taking my call. I
Speaker 14: guess some issues with some bermuda growing in my Saint Augustine.
Speaker 14: Saint Augustine's are doing real well, but want to get
Speaker 14: ahead and knock out the bermuda before it takes over
Speaker 14: my lawn. Looking for some suggestions. What are your thoughts.
Speaker 1: Well, the the your your options with the one that
Speaker 1: you have with that situation is if the bermuda's in
Speaker 1: certain areas, you can kill everything and then replant Saint
Speaker 1: Augustine in those areas. That's when my daughter's redoing the
Speaker 1: lawn like that, and they add bermuda and Saint Augustine
Speaker 1: and they're starting over. They're getting rid of everything and
Speaker 1: making sure that.
Speaker 14: Did that last year just playing. I just did the
Speaker 14: whole whole lawn, and I think unfortunately high yard folks
Speaker 14: bring in seeds and so forth.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Well, and what also happens is, like my daughter's place,
Speaker 1: they've sprayed it twice already, because the first time you
Speaker 1: miss some spots and then you spray it again. And
Speaker 1: now I was out there just yesterday and they've got
Speaker 1: a few little spots where Bermuda's coming back. So you
Speaker 1: got to stick with it and make sure it's all
Speaker 1: out of there, or you just didn't accomplish you know,
Speaker 1: a whole lot. And so it's just a tip. The
Speaker 1: other thing that you can there are there is a
Speaker 1: way that commercial landscapers can do a combo of two
Speaker 1: different products. Uh, and they're very expensive to purchase, so
Speaker 1: like a person with one yard, it's probably too much.
Speaker 1: But if you wanted to email me, I can put
Speaker 1: you on hold a give you my email and if
Speaker 1: you'll send me that and say need info on the
Speaker 1: Bermuda and Saint Augustine, I can tell you a little
Speaker 1: bit about it. But like I said, it's it's not
Speaker 1: cheap and typically it's going to be something that you
Speaker 1: have somebody to come in and do. But I can
Speaker 1: give you more info if you'd like me too, Just
Speaker 1: hang on and let me.
Speaker 14: Is there anything like an over the counter type stuff
Speaker 14: that's sold as you look for hardware store knock it out?
Speaker 1: No, no, nothing over the counter for that stuff requires
Speaker 1: special purchase and stuff. So anyway, like I said, I'm
Speaker 1: willing to send some information to you, but but those
Speaker 1: are the options. Kill everything and start over, but make
Speaker 1: sure you've got it all before you start over, and
Speaker 1: then doing this other thing that commercial folks can do
Speaker 1: in the lawn.
Speaker 14: All right, Well, I appreciate it, thank you ver much.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so sorry we don't have better news, but that's
Speaker 1: that's a combo. That's not a lot of solutions to
Speaker 1: but thank you. I appreciate, appreciate your call very much.
Speaker 1: As amite I mentioned, you know, seeing them all scares amite. Well,
Speaker 1: Azemite is carried by a lot of different places around town.
Speaker 1: I mean wherever you are. If it's a good independent
Speaker 1: garden center, if it's an acehard restore, feed stores, places
Speaker 1: like that, you can find azamite. Now what is it.
Speaker 1: It's trace minerals. So do you need a lot? No,
Speaker 1: you don't need a lot. You need a little. It's
Speaker 1: not like nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium that you need a
Speaker 1: lot of. You need a little bit. It's called trace,
Speaker 1: that's why. But they're essential. A grass plant can't grow
Speaker 1: without boron. Did you know that without without molybdenum. Did
Speaker 1: you know you can't grow? You say, nexting long without boron,
Speaker 1: zinc or molobdinum. You can't because they're essential. Asmite carries
Speaker 1: trace minerals and you can find more information at asmite
Speaker 1: Texas dot com. And you can find azamite all over
Speaker 1: town so many places. Pretty much every time I go
Speaker 1: into a place, I see asmite there. All right, let's
Speaker 1: see here, we're hitting up against a break. So I
Speaker 1: tell you what I'm gonna do in order to have
Speaker 1: a little more time for the calls coming in here.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go ahead and go to break. At this point,
Speaker 1: I just want to remind you that next Saturday, May third,
Speaker 1: from twelve to two, I'll be at Memorial Ace Hardware.
Speaker 1: Memorial Ace Hardware a Memorial Drive in West Houston. Now,
Speaker 1: if you want to find any Ace Hardware store like that,
Speaker 1: that's part of our group here on garden Line. You
Speaker 1: go to Ace Hardware Texas dot com. Ace Hardware Texas
Speaker 1: dot com and you'll find places like the Memorial Ace Hardware.
Speaker 1: I think it's called Hardware City on there, Hardware City
Speaker 1: on Memorial Drive. All right, hope to see you next week.
Speaker 1: Take a break, Skip from Webster. You'll be first up
Speaker 1: when we come back. All right, little Western swing from
Speaker 1: asleep at the wheel this morning. Let's head straight out
Speaker 1: to the phones this segment and we're going to head
Speaker 1: to Webster and talk to Skip. Hey, Skip, welcome to
Speaker 1: garden Line. Good to have you with us.
Speaker 2: Hey, yep, I hope you're having a good day this morning.
Speaker 3: Anyway, I am.
Speaker 2: I have two questions.
Speaker 8: One is we had a plant.
Speaker 2: My wife had planted some tulips and anyway, there were
Speaker 2: these little white looking worms that came out of me yesterday.
Speaker 8: It turned out.
Speaker 2: So they're supposed to be rat maggots. Are they bad
Speaker 2: for the soil? I mean, I know their cause primarily
Speaker 2: because the soil was too wet. But are they bad
Speaker 2: for the soil? Is just something you deal with. Do
Speaker 2: they go away or do you need to replace the soil?
Speaker 2: And second question, trying to grow we're failing miserably. Give
Speaker 2: us some advice on how to grow cilantro properly.
Speaker 1: So lantra. Okay, let's go back to the rat maggot
Speaker 1: who said it was a rat maggot? How did you
Speaker 1: come up with that?
Speaker 2: My wife okay, oh, okay, sure of it and said
Speaker 2: it was a rat maggot.
Speaker 1: Okay, so it must have had a long tail on it.
Speaker 1: Is that right?
Speaker 2: No, it didn't have a tail, honey, so worse? Oh okay,
Speaker 2: Oh I'm sorry, okay.
Speaker 1: Okay, all right, Well then that that's a rat maggot.
Speaker 1: That's actually a type of hoverfly. Uh, first time I've
Speaker 1: ever had a rat maggot call. But hoverflies in general
Speaker 1: a kind of beneficial insects. Some some species of them
Speaker 1: do a good job of pest control and stuff. But
Speaker 1: they typically are literally in the water like mosquito wriglars,
Speaker 1: mosquito larvae. Uh, and so they shouldn't be hurting the plant. Now,
Speaker 1: the there is there are roots maggots that come out
Speaker 1: of the soil that do feed on roots, and so
Speaker 1: that would be you know, if you if you feel
Speaker 1: like these things are causing the plant a problem, any
Speaker 1: kind of an insecticide in the soil of that plant
Speaker 1: would would take care of it. But I'm a little unsure,
Speaker 1: you know about the id for sure. And yeah, I
Speaker 1: just don't think that it's going to be a problem.
Speaker 1: If it truly is a rat maggot, I don't think
Speaker 1: I would worry about it a lot. So anyway, now,
Speaker 1: the cilantro cilantro is a plant that does best here
Speaker 1: if you plant it in the fall and it takes
Speaker 1: some cool weather. Does pretty good in the spring. As
Speaker 1: our day length gets longer, it bolts. And when it bolts,
Speaker 1: that means it sends up a little umbrella like white
Speaker 1: flower head on it. They're kind of attractive flowerheads. But
Speaker 1: at that point the cilandro quick it's producing that you
Speaker 1: don't get the leaves, and the reason you grew it,
Speaker 1: you know, to season your freeholism chara freholis or whatever.
Speaker 1: Then you don't usually have the foliage to do that.
Speaker 1: So that is a problem that is caused by day length,
Speaker 1: and we can't change that. If the cilantro itself is
Speaker 1: not doing well, let me ask you this, is it
Speaker 1: looking a little on the sharp truce light green side,
Speaker 1: or that is showing its concern or what are you
Speaker 1: seeing when you say you're having trouble with it?
Speaker 2: It turns light green and then dies quickly after that.
Speaker 1: Okay, Usually that is a problem. It's going to be
Speaker 1: something in the soil. It could be overwatering so staying
Speaker 1: too wet. It could also be some sort of a
Speaker 1: root rot occurring on it. I think that second is
Speaker 1: unlikely but possible. So getting it in a nice, well
Speaker 1: drained mix, getting it in some good sunlight where the
Speaker 1: soil you can give it a good watering but the
Speaker 1: soil will dry out well, and then maybe an addition
Speaker 1: of some nitrogen into the mix. It could also be
Speaker 1: missing Typically that doesn't call it to cause it to
Speaker 1: just dye, but it will cause it to lose color,
Speaker 1: heading toward yellow from green. But that I would just
Speaker 1: get me a good solution. Of a liquid that you
Speaker 1: could put that down. There's a product called Biomatrix from Microlife.
Speaker 1: It's an orange label and a quart bottle or a gallon,
Speaker 1: and I would try that and you put it in water.
Speaker 1: Put it in water and can drench it over your
Speaker 1: cilantro and see if it perks up. And if that's
Speaker 1: the case, then it was the nitrogen that was lacking.
Speaker 2: Okay, all right, well that's it anyway, love your show,
Speaker 2: appreciate your time, and thank you very much.
Speaker 8: Have a great day, all.
Speaker 1: Right now, now good luck with that. I don't if
Speaker 1: you've been listening to Guardenline, you know, I don't charge
Speaker 1: for my advice, but I do ask for half the
Speaker 1: produce you grow as a result of it. So if
Speaker 1: you want to go ahead and put the cilantro in
Speaker 1: some free holies, you know, charo free holies, I'll take
Speaker 1: that as well. Just drop it off at the station
Speaker 1: and we'll call it even. All right.
Speaker 2: I could actually take that happen, have done it before
Speaker 2: for Michael Berry.
Speaker 1: So oh my gosh, oh no, oh my god, are
Speaker 1: you kidding me? Okay, I wish I wouldn't on the air.
Speaker 1: I'd like to pursue that one man, I'm stay out
Speaker 1: of trouble. Stay just kidding you my end of it.
Speaker 1: Oh gosh, thanks a lot a skip, I appreciate that.
Speaker 8: Hey.
Speaker 1: RCW Garden Center awesome garden center located where two forty
Speaker 1: nine and belt Wait eight come together. It's easy to
Speaker 1: get to get down there. And when you get there,
Speaker 1: you're gonna find whatever the season is, you're gonna find
Speaker 1: the plants. I mean, they've been having roses and back
Speaker 1: in February they still got roses out there, a good selection.
Speaker 1: You're gonna find the tropical hibiscus, like the Cajun types
Speaker 1: of hibiscus that I like so much. They're there. They're there, annuals, perennials, groundcovers, herbs, vegetables,
Speaker 1: they always have it.
Speaker 2: All.
Speaker 1: RCW is known as they get it got at nursery,
Speaker 1: and that's because they don't have it. They'll do their
Speaker 1: best to find it. They grow their own trees up
Speaker 1: there in Plannersville at Williamson Tree Farm, and so you're
Speaker 1: getting a good species that wants to grow in this area,
Speaker 1: that has been produced in a way that sets it
Speaker 1: up for success. And they'll come out and plant them
Speaker 1: for you too. By the way, uh so, r CW
Speaker 1: nurseries dot com. That is what you need to look for.
Speaker 1: R CW nurseries dot com. Let's head out to Cyprus
Speaker 1: and talk to Matt. Hey, Matt, welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 8: Good morning, skip.
Speaker 13: Question.
Speaker 6: Please, what's chewing on my Juliet?
Speaker 10: Have made a plant?
Speaker 8: Believes?
Speaker 1: What do you see? What does it look like?
Speaker 12: Well, I don't see anything but the leaves.
Speaker 1: Or their holes? Are there are holes in the leaves? Yes, sir, yeah,
Speaker 1: all right. It's a beetle or a caterpillar, doesn't matter
Speaker 1: which of the two it is. Find a product containing
Speaker 1: spin no sid it's an organic product. S p I
Speaker 1: n O s A D spin nose sad and spray
Speaker 1: the foliage. It'll soak into the tissues. It's organic. And
Speaker 1: whichever beetle our caterpillar comes along doing that, it'll shut.
Speaker 16: Them down, all right, laying little black babies.
Speaker 12: And I've been rubbing him with latex gloves on and
Speaker 12: it's a green mush like to get them off the leak.
Speaker 1: Okay, but let's do this, Matt. Yeah, I tell you what.
Speaker 1: I'm not picturing it, but if you will take a
Speaker 1: close up picture and send it to me. I'll be
Speaker 1: happy to do it, but you got to make sure
Speaker 1: it's in good sharp focus. As close as you can
Speaker 1: get with a camera and still get good focus. I'm
Speaker 1: going to put you on hole because I need to run.
Speaker 1: But send me those photos. My producer will give you
Speaker 1: the email to send them to and I do, I
Speaker 1: really do appreciate your call. Yesterday I was at Southwest
Speaker 1: Fertilizer and Southwest Fertilize has been around since nineteen fifty five,
Speaker 1: seventieth year. Happy anniversary to them. That is quite an accomplishment.
Speaker 1: They got everything you need in the way of controlling pasts,
Speaker 1: dealing with you know, whatever, you're dealing with weeds? Do
Speaker 1: you want to prevent weeds? Do you want to control weeds?
Speaker 1: I was in there looking at their tools yesterday. They
Speaker 1: got that grabber tool that I used to make my
Speaker 1: homemade weed wiper. They have got some really nice pole
Speaker 1: saws and just every kind of tool you can imagine.
Speaker 1: The wall is ninety feet long that they have their
Speaker 1: tools on. So what do you need? I'll tell you this,
Speaker 1: If Southwest Fertilizer doesn't have something for gardening that you need,
Speaker 1: you don't need it because they have everything to control things,
Speaker 1: to manage weeds, to fertilize your lawn, the tools you need,
Speaker 1: the spreaders for fire ants and are a uh, fertilizers
Speaker 1: in the lawn, and on and on and on down
Speaker 1: the way southwest. Fertilizers on the corner of the Byssinet
Speaker 1: and Runwick. Corner of Abyssinet and Runwick. They got a
Speaker 1: little shop in the back to the fixed small engines.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 1: And I would just recommend you go by there and
Speaker 1: check it out. Seven one three six sixty six one
Speaker 1: seven four four. All right, time for me to take
Speaker 1: a break and guess what we got one more hour
Speaker 1: guardline today. The day is flying by. Hang around. We'll
Speaker 1: be right back with your calls if you like to
Speaker 1: get on the board ahead of time. Seven one three
Speaker 1: two one two k t r H seven one three
Speaker 1: two one two k t RH Remember next Saturday, May third,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be at Memorial City. ACE Hardware Memoris City,
Speaker 1: ACE Hardware Memorial Drive. I think they also call it
Speaker 1: Hardware City. I believe that's correct.
Speaker 11: Uh.
Speaker 1: And if you go to ACE Hardware Texas dot com,
Speaker 1: Ace Hardware Texas dot com, you're gonna find all the
Speaker 1: garden line ACE Hardware stores throughout the greater Houston area.
Speaker 1: I think thirty three different locations, Sarah, So check it
Speaker 1: out and come see me those weeds have been wondering about.
Speaker 1: Pull them up, stick him in a bag. That bug
Speaker 1: you found, put it, pull it, put it in a bag,
Speaker 1: stick it in the fraser, shut it down, and then
Speaker 1: bring it with you next Saturday. All right, folks, we're back.
Speaker 1: You're listening to Garden Line. I'm your host, Skip Richter,
Speaker 1: and we're here to help you have a bountiful garden,
Speaker 1: a beautiful landscape, and more fun in the process. Let's
Speaker 1: just make it simple. That's that's basically what we're about here.
Speaker 1: You can give me a call and let's say we're
Speaker 1: in our last segment of the day of the weekend.
Speaker 1: In fact, we're here Saturday and Sunday's from six am
Speaker 1: to ten am, and we are entering the last hour
Speaker 1: of Sunday here the Sunday Show. I hope you're having
Speaker 1: a good Sunday. By the way, uh, if you would
Speaker 1: like to give me a call, now would be a
Speaker 1: good time to do it. Seven to one three two
Speaker 1: one two k t r H seven to one three
Speaker 1: two one two kt r H. I I was making
Speaker 1: sure that we're getting some plants planted properly in a
Speaker 1: bed that I was working on the other day. And
Speaker 1: part of that process is to make sure that when
Speaker 1: you plant, that plant is set up for success. And
Speaker 1: I've talked about brown stuff for green stew, you know,
Speaker 1: getting the right uh soil amendments in making sure it
Speaker 1: drains well. I've got one spot where it was a
Speaker 1: little bit low for the plant that I was going
Speaker 1: to plant, uh, so I brought in some organic matter
Speaker 1: built up that bed to give it a little bit
Speaker 1: better drainage in there. Uh and then getting those nutrients tried.
Speaker 1: And we have so many good products that we can
Speaker 1: you know that you take microlife for example, Microlife has
Speaker 1: got a lot of granular products. We've got the sixty
Speaker 1: four for typically for long. They've got the humans plus,
Speaker 1: which I encourage you to do with your fertilization. That
Speaker 1: is a purple bag zero zero four. You're basically putting
Speaker 1: it down to improve soil quality and microbial activity.
Speaker 8: Uh.
Speaker 1: And then they get the acidifier as a six two
Speaker 1: four now that one for azilias, for blueberries, for camellias,
Speaker 1: for Guardena's, even roses it's a good fertilizer for that.
Speaker 1: Those all work, and then they have more and more
Speaker 1: and more down the line. I have time to read
Speaker 1: about all of the different ones they have, but the liquids.
Speaker 1: Don't forget the liquids. UH. There I talk about biomatrix,
Speaker 1: the seven to one three that is a higher nitrogen concentration.
Speaker 1: You mix it in water. You will not burn plants
Speaker 1: with it, uh, And you can drench plants in. You
Speaker 1: can spray the foliage if you want, or you could
Speaker 1: do for outdoors especially UH, I would do the Ocean
Speaker 1: Harvest which is a four to two three blue label,
Speaker 1: and super seweed, which is a green label. It is
Speaker 1: a little bit of potassium in it, but you're primarily
Speaker 1: putting it on there for some of the growth regulators
Speaker 1: and other things that are present. And that combination organic
Speaker 1: gardeners for a long time. You know, they don't want
Speaker 1: to use the salt based fertilizers of blue water. If
Speaker 1: you will that, you know, you mix up and drench
Speaker 1: your houseplants with. So they would use a combination of
Speaker 1: fish and motion and seaweed well, that or Ocean Harvest
Speaker 1: blue plus the super Seaweed green. Those two together. That's
Speaker 1: what organic gardeners have been aware of, its good product
Speaker 1: combination for a very very long time. It's all from Microlife. Gosh,
Speaker 1: Microlife so widely available. I mean, you know, go to
Speaker 1: a hardware store, go to our ace hardware stores, go
Speaker 1: to a feed store. You hear about me talk about
Speaker 1: on Gardenline. Go to our independent garden centers. You hear
Speaker 1: me talk about certainly. I was in Southwest Fertilizer yesterday.
Speaker 1: My gosh, that had a whole wall of that stuff there.
Speaker 1: It's easy to find the Microlife products, both granular and
Speaker 1: by liquid. But the main thing is don't just hear
Speaker 1: about it. Actually go get some and start trying it
Speaker 1: out and see the results that you get. I've been
Speaker 1: pleased when I've used them. Let's head now out to
Speaker 1: Lake Jackson and we're going to talk to Ron this morning.
Speaker 1: Hey Ron, welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 8: Good morning, Skip.
Speaker 12: I had a question about dollar weed. We had a
Speaker 12: lot of weeds in the yard this year, but most
Speaker 12: of them we've gotten rid of with healthy Saint Augustine
Speaker 12: and doing some sprying, but the dollar weeds seem to
Speaker 12: keep coming back in the yard and also in the
Speaker 12: flower bed we had had them cleaned out and multipoot down,
Speaker 12: but dollar weed are popping back out.
Speaker 1: Can you help us there? Yeah? Yeah, let's start with
Speaker 1: some cultural things. The wetter it stays, the more dollar
Speaker 1: weed is just going to become solid in a lawn.
Speaker 1: It loves wet, So your lawn doesn't need nearly as
Speaker 1: much water as dollar weed wants. Okay, So if you'll
Speaker 1: give your lawn of good soaking and then let it
Speaker 1: dry out considerably before you water again, you know, once
Speaker 1: a week. If you can get on that schedule about
Speaker 1: an inch down, it's not gonna make dollar weed go away,
Speaker 1: but at least now you're not encouraging it at the
Speaker 1: same time you're trying to fight it. So I would
Speaker 1: let things dry out like that. If you get a
Speaker 1: product that is a combination product, you know, the trimech
Speaker 1: kinds of products, they work, They work well on the
Speaker 1: dollar weed. You just want to watch once our temperatures
Speaker 1: are in the upper eighties and especially in the nineties,
Speaker 1: some of those products can be a little bit hard
Speaker 1: on your turf, your Saint Augustine turf, And so what
Speaker 1: I would suggest is spray that early in the morning
Speaker 1: while it's still cool the coolest time of the day,
Speaker 1: and do it sooner rather than later, because these things
Speaker 1: heat up it's harder to control. You can also use
Speaker 1: a product called Celsius on it. It comes in little
Speaker 1: pockets that make one gallon of spray. And you want
Speaker 1: to use a spreader sticker or a surf factant that
Speaker 1: those are basically the same thing. Spreader sticker, insurfactant. Dollar weed.
Speaker 1: It's got a shiny leaf and you want your spray
Speaker 1: to spread out and not just roll off the leaf. Okay,
Speaker 1: so that's what the spreader sticker that you put with it.
Speaker 8: It is very good. Thank you you show.
Speaker 1: Okay, you back, Thanks for the call. Appreciate that. All right,
Speaker 1: fun fact. We try to give you fun facts here
Speaker 1: on guarden Line. Did you know that there are products
Speaker 1: made from dollar weed that you can consume. I don't
Speaker 1: know much about it. I'm not saying go graze your
Speaker 1: dollar weed. But I was in a Vietnamese grocery store
Speaker 1: southeast of Houston a good while back, and in the
Speaker 1: cooler I saw this drink can and it had a
Speaker 1: picture a dollar weed on it, and I thought, okay,
Speaker 1: I got to see what this is about. And it
Speaker 1: was a very sweet serpy drink. Yes I bought it. Yes,
Speaker 1: I put it in my mouth and my tummy because
Speaker 1: I have to experience things right growing up. If you
Speaker 1: tell me don't touch that, what's going to happen? I
Speaker 1: touch it and then I learned and why you told
Speaker 1: me not to touch it. But anyway, it was too
Speaker 1: sweet for me, but I just thought, yeah, there you go.
Speaker 1: You know, with weeds, one thing I like is if
Speaker 1: you can't beat them, eat them. Well, in this case,
Speaker 1: drink it. Yeah. You know, you can eat chick weed,
Speaker 1: you can eat dandelion greens. There are other weeds that
Speaker 1: you can eat as well. I won't go into all
Speaker 1: the edible weeds, but just fun facts, I think. So
Speaker 1: I'm amused by them. At least Warren Southern Gardens and
Speaker 1: Kingwood Garden Center out there in Kingwood. I don't know
Speaker 1: how you got two in the same town, but you're fortunate.
Speaker 1: Great garden centers. You know, they're not cookie cutters at
Speaker 1: all of each other. Each one has its own unique
Speaker 1: features and you know, and so you need to see
Speaker 1: them both. Warren's is on North park Stone Hollow Drive
Speaker 1: is where you'll find Kingwood Garden Center. Both of them
Speaker 1: are open seven days a week. They have Microlife and
Speaker 1: Nelson plant Food filling stations. Remember I said, like you
Speaker 1: go to the grocery store and you get peanuts and
Speaker 1: put them in a bag by pulling the handle down.
Speaker 1: Microlife fertilizer and Nelson plant food jars both can be
Speaker 1: filled at those places. And I think that's really cool.
Speaker 1: That's a really added bonus or reason to go. You're
Speaker 1: gonna find all the fertilizers from Nitrofossion, Microlife, and Nel,
Speaker 1: some turf star bags, and heirloom soils and nail some
Speaker 1: of course, and now some plant food. Uh, mosquita dunks too.
Speaker 1: Time to grab some of those. You should always have
Speaker 1: those on hand. You're gonna find them at both. But
Speaker 1: what you're mainly going to find is a lot of beauty,
Speaker 1: a lot of beauty. If you want your landscape to
Speaker 1: be transformed, and you need color, and you need hanging baskets,
Speaker 1: and you do flowering shrubs and all of that, go
Speaker 1: to warn Southern Gardens are Kingwood Garden Center, both open
Speaker 1: seven days a week out there in Kingwood. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: take a break and I'll be back with your calls
Speaker 1: at seven one three two one two KTRH. All right, folks,
Speaker 1: let's go seven one three two one two KTRH. Youd
Speaker 1: like to give me a call. I hope you are
Speaker 1: planning on putting some containers on your patio if you
Speaker 1: don't have room for vegetable garden, and especially if you've
Speaker 1: got kids, little kids, get a big container and grow
Speaker 1: some vegetables in it. There are a lot of vegetables.
Speaker 1: Pretty much any vegetable can be grown a container. Some
Speaker 1: of them you need a larger container, but you can
Speaker 1: do that. If you want to grow flowers with kids,
Speaker 1: that's fun. Let them plant some zinnia seed or sunflower
Speaker 1: seeds and watch the whole thing grow. It's a wonder
Speaker 1: that they just need to experience as and that is
Speaker 1: the wonder of growing things yourself. You know, groceries, vegetables
Speaker 1: don't come from grocery stores. They come from the dirt,
Speaker 1: and they come from farms, and they come from our backyards.
Speaker 1: And if you're going to do a container jungle and
Speaker 1: flour and vegetable planting, soil is a good choice because
Speaker 1: it drains well and it also holds water. You don't
Speaker 1: want it all the water is run out but at
Speaker 1: the same token, you don't have to become a soggy,
Speaker 1: boggy mess, mucky mess. So Jungle ms designed for the
Speaker 1: It's got four different sources of aged composts. It's got
Speaker 1: Canadian bloon pede, it's got microiel fungi in it. And
Speaker 1: whether you're grown vegetables, foliage or color plants, it's a
Speaker 1: good choice for that. You're going to find it at
Speaker 1: a lot of places carry night foss products. You know,
Speaker 1: you can get night frost at Ace Hardware, Citium Memorial
Speaker 1: Drive up in the Woodlands, you go to Aspa Ace
Speaker 1: Kirgandohl Road and find it out in Katie a Sinkle
Speaker 1: Ranch and Katie Hardware Ace on Pinoak. Both of those
Speaker 1: are going to carry nitro FoST products like Jungle, and
Speaker 1: just being an example, let's head out to Cyprus and
Speaker 1: we're going to talk to Fred. Hey, Fred, Welcome to
Speaker 1: garden Line. Hello, good morning, good morning.
Speaker 13: Yes, my question is I have four oak trees in
Speaker 13: the front yard and the one to the left of
Speaker 13: me is always having roots shoes. So I was just
Speaker 13: thinking this morning about just taking all this cutting the
Speaker 13: grass out and saw it that's good grass, and then
Speaker 13: taking Yeah much soil? How far deep are I go
Speaker 13: down to really clear all that out? We said, We've
Speaker 13: been playing this for years and we always have it
Speaker 13: in control. But yeah, I'm getting a little bit older
Speaker 13: and I'm gonna have to get people to do it now.
Speaker 1: Mm hmm. Okay, So are these live oaks?
Speaker 8: Yes?
Speaker 1: Okay. So what happens is when you get a shoot
Speaker 1: and you cut it off around the base of the shoote,
Speaker 1: there's already a bunch of buds ready to go. The
Speaker 1: plant is expecting you to cut it off, and they've
Speaker 1: already prepared to come back. So if you go down
Speaker 1: where it attaches to the root and just cut it
Speaker 1: away at the base, don't leave any bit of a mound.
Speaker 1: Don't leave what looks like a little hersy's kiss there
Speaker 1: at the bottom, you know where it swelled up and
Speaker 1: then the shot came out. Cut all that out, and
Speaker 1: then apply something called sucker stopper. Sucker stopper is a
Speaker 1: hormone that tells a plant don't do that. Okay. Now,
Speaker 1: it's not to be one hundred percent, it's not gonna
Speaker 1: last forever, but that's step one. When you feel things
Speaker 1: back in, then get a really thick ground cloth like
Speaker 1: you see at a garden center, that black stuff on
Speaker 1: those ground that they set plant pots on. That kind
Speaker 1: of stuff, A real good, thick, dense one, not something cheap,
Speaker 1: but a quality one. You you know, you can just
Speaker 1: ask go to your retailers there and make sure you're
Speaker 1: getting the thickest one that they have. So put that
Speaker 1: down and then put any kind of a somewhat heavy
Speaker 1: cover over it. Some people will use kind of a
Speaker 1: like a riverstone or some other decorative kind of a
Speaker 1: rock material on it. But that oak will send up
Speaker 1: more shoots in the future. It's genetically in that tree
Speaker 1: to do that.
Speaker 8: You know.
Speaker 1: There's different kinds of live oaks, believe it or not,
Speaker 1: and some types are prone toward roots suckering more than others.
Speaker 1: But you're gonna have to.
Speaker 8: This was oak.
Speaker 16: Well or not.
Speaker 1: I Yeah, it's a live oak. It's just a live
Speaker 1: oak basically. But Southern live oaks, you know, the the
Speaker 1: across the Gulf coast south, those are typically not so
Speaker 1: bad at suckering. Oaks that are you'd find over west
Speaker 1: of here do tend to sucker a lot and so
Speaker 1: it But the point is you bought it at a
Speaker 1: garden center. Who knows where it came from. But I'm
Speaker 1: just telling you. You said one is doing it, the
Speaker 1: others not. And that's why anytime you rototill around or
Speaker 1: disturb the roots or make wounds, you're gonna get suckering
Speaker 1: popping up. So trying to minimize that. Putting in a
Speaker 1: flower bed and watering it a lot and all that
Speaker 1: kind of stuff tends to promote suckering as well, So
Speaker 1: try to avoid those things. But there's no way to
Speaker 1: make that tree change its ways other than excavating all
Speaker 1: your and then yeah, to the route to wherever it's coming.
Speaker 1: It's going to be coming out somewhere near the surface,
Speaker 1: somewhere near the soil surface, so you sho didn't have
Speaker 1: to go very deep. Yeah, all right, yeah, yes, sir,
Speaker 1: thank you, all right, Frett, you bet, thanks for the question. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that is a problem that we have to deal with
Speaker 1: ACE Hardware stores throughout the area. You hear me talk
Speaker 1: about ACE all the time in our garden Line group
Speaker 1: of ACE Hardware stores. There's thirty plus here in the group.
Speaker 1: And ACE Hardware Texas dot Com is the website. And
Speaker 1: I say that right up front because that's pretty much
Speaker 1: what you need to know. The second thing you need
Speaker 1: to know, other than go to ACE Hardware Texas dot
Speaker 1: com to find your local ACE store, is that you
Speaker 1: unless you've been in ACE recently, you are not aware
Speaker 1: of all the good stuff that they have. I walk
Speaker 1: into Aces, and you know, each one's independently owned, so
Speaker 1: the local owner. It's all. It's going to be an
Speaker 1: ACE Hardware store with all the typical stuff you'd expect
Speaker 1: from ACE Hardware, which is everything you need for beauty
Speaker 1: and bound and everything in the lawn and the garden,
Speaker 1: and some really cool indoor decorations too. But each one
Speaker 1: can set it up their own way, and you're gonna
Speaker 1: walk in. You're gonna go, well, I didn't know you
Speaker 1: could do that. You know, maybe you are wanting to
Speaker 1: beautify your kitchen and dining area and you love the farmhouse. Look,
Speaker 1: let's just say you're gonna go into ACE and go, oh,
Speaker 1: I didn't know they had that kind of stuff here. No, No,
Speaker 1: we didn't. And every time I walk into an ACE,
Speaker 1: I see more stuff that I didn't know they had. Ace.
Speaker 1: The motto ACE is a place is true. It really
Speaker 1: is the place, and just go check some out. Go
Speaker 1: to Acehardware Texas dot com. That's the website. Find your
Speaker 1: ACE Hardware store. Go check them out. I think you'll
Speaker 1: be surprised, and especially if you're trying to do your
Speaker 1: lawn fertilization and flower beds and just all the stuff
Speaker 1: you need to have a beautiful, bountiful place. Ace is
Speaker 1: a place you're listening to Guarden Line. Our phone number
Speaker 1: is seven one three one two kt r H seven
Speaker 1: one three two one two k t r H. Nelson
Speaker 1: Plant Food has a fertilizer part of the Turf Star line.
Speaker 1: That's all Nelson's bags of turf promoting fertilizers called Bruce's Brew.
Speaker 1: And Bruce's Brew is a unique creature and here's why.
Speaker 1: We have fertilizers that are sol based fertilizers. You put
Speaker 1: them down, they dissolve away the nutrients. I mean like
Speaker 1: within a couple of days, the plant roots are taking
Speaker 1: that nutrient up because they're immediately available. They're not long lasting,
Speaker 1: but they are immediately available. We use those in our
Speaker 1: spring green up often. Then they're the slow release that
Speaker 1: lasts for months and months and months they go through summer.
Speaker 1: Bruce's Brew lives in the border between those It is got.
Speaker 1: It does have the immediate release feature, but it also
Speaker 1: has nutrients that will release evenly over time for a
Speaker 1: good while, and so you're kind of getting both with
Speaker 1: Bruce Brew. It helps with root development, which is so
Speaker 1: important in the summer heat for our lawn turf grasses.
Speaker 1: The carbon based sources of nitrogen in Bruce's brew help
Speaker 1: feed soil microbes, and so microbes rule the world and
Speaker 1: they basically are why your plants are happy. If they're happy,
Speaker 1: because microbes are in there making that root zone what
Speaker 1: a plant wants. So anyway you get healthy soil, you
Speaker 1: get healthy plants, you have less problems with pests and diseases,
Speaker 1: and that includes your lawn. And you'll check out the
Speaker 1: Bruces Brew from Nelson plant Food, part of the turf
Speaker 1: Star line. Good stuff.
Speaker 5: In my.
Speaker 1: Orchard, I've got a couple of citrus trees right now,
Speaker 1: and I'm about to put a peach tree in. I
Speaker 1: was meant to get it done in the wintertime, but
Speaker 1: you know, there's this thing called a round to it
Speaker 1: that I usually don't have on hand a lot of times,
Speaker 1: and I didn't have my round to it so I
Speaker 1: could get around to it anyway. I'm planting a fig
Speaker 1: tree as well, and your figs do so. Did you
Speaker 1: know that figs used to be an industry on the
Speaker 1: Gulf Coast, hundreds of acres of figs. Imagine that if
Speaker 1: you have one fig tree, you know how productive they
Speaker 1: can be. One hundred acres of figs, Oh my gosh.
Speaker 1: And all the soils west to Houston, you know, the
Speaker 1: clay soils that became rice patties. In time, there was
Speaker 1: an industry there where we grew figs. And you know,
Speaker 1: you get some really bad freezes ever now and then
Speaker 1: they can take a fig past the ground and kill them.
Speaker 1: I don't know if that happened or if it was
Speaker 1: just the fact that other parts of the country began
Speaker 1: to grow, like California figs in large quantities or whatever. Anyway,
Speaker 1: we don't see that industry, but that didn't change the
Speaker 1: fact that figs put up with our soils. I had
Speaker 1: a fig tree.
Speaker 8: That was.
Speaker 1: Huge when we moved into this house. And when you
Speaker 1: get a fig you want to get one that has
Speaker 1: a closed eye or a drop of resin in the
Speaker 1: little eye that's a belly button on the fig fruit,
Speaker 1: because bugs get in there. The sour them and then
Speaker 1: wasps are attracted to them. And you can't eat a
Speaker 1: sour fig, so get one with a closed eye. This
Speaker 1: one had an open eye, so I got rid of
Speaker 1: the tree. It is a horribly poor drained area clay soil,
Speaker 1: and that fig tree's roots went down five inches. This
Speaker 1: a huge fig tree five inches deep, and they went sideways.
Speaker 1: If you'd flipped it upside down, it looked like a tabletop.
Speaker 1: I'd never seen that before, but it told me something.
Speaker 1: Even in bad soil, you can grow figs here, and
Speaker 1: you ought to try that. They do really, really well.
Speaker 1: Maybe you're heading out to in Jenniforest, for example, they
Speaker 1: carry figs. They carry other fruit trees as well, but
Speaker 1: in Chenni forest can get you set up on that.
Speaker 1: I want to tell you that they're really good. That
Speaker 1: one of their fortes in addition to having everything is
Speaker 1: native plants like Salvia's and lantanas, and plants that attract
Speaker 1: pollinators specifically and are locally sourced and do well in
Speaker 1: our soils here, beautiful, drought resilient, huge range of varieties, bees, butterflies.
Speaker 1: What do you want to bring in? Hummingbirds? They got it.
Speaker 1: Their plants thrive in this climate. They carry premium locally
Speaker 1: made composts too. That really makes our local soils come
Speaker 1: alive for the plants. Enchended Forest FM twenty seven to
Speaker 1: fifty nine, FM twenty seven to fifty nine. If you
Speaker 1: were in Richmond, you're heading towards sugar Land up fifty
Speaker 1: nine or Ice sixty nine. Now it is, it's off
Speaker 1: to the right twenty seven to fifty nine. Go there,
Speaker 1: but check out this website. It's awesome. Enchanted Forest, Houston, TX.
Speaker 1: And I'm saying that right, enchanted forest. I just went
Speaker 1: blank right at the time I was starting to say
Speaker 1: it enchanted forest Houston. No, that's not right, intended Forest Richmond.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, TX dot com. There I finally got it.
Speaker 1: Enchended Forest, Richmond, TX dot com. I don't know why
Speaker 1: I kept trying to add Houston to it. Go to
Speaker 1: that website. It's awesome. I take a little break here.
Speaker 1: We'll be back with your calls in just a moment.
Speaker 1: There you go. Welcome back to garden Line. Good to
Speaker 1: have you with us. If you would like to give
Speaker 1: me a call seven to one to three, uh seven
Speaker 1: to three two one two k t R H seven
Speaker 1: one three two one two K t r H. Feel
Speaker 1: free to do so. In fact, now it would be
Speaker 1: a pretty good time to call Medina products. Gosh, there's
Speaker 1: so many of them, uh, and I'd like to tell
Speaker 1: you about all of them, but I can't tell it ever.
Speaker 1: One that's out there. You hear me talk about has
Speaker 1: to grow six T six plant food a lot because
Speaker 1: it's an awesome product, it really is. I use it.
Speaker 1: My primary use for it is i'd mix it in
Speaker 1: water and drench in my new transplants, uh, and do
Speaker 1: it when you plant, do it a week later, do
Speaker 1: it a week later, three times, three drenches. Got good
Speaker 1: phosphorcinate to help that root development and help the plant
Speaker 1: get off to a good start. It's got humide, humic acid,
Speaker 1: it's got a Medina soil activator, stimulate biological activities, got
Speaker 1: seaweed extracts, and it's just good. You can also use
Speaker 1: as a foldo if you want. But there are many
Speaker 1: other good Medina products out there on the market, and
Speaker 1: I think you ought to explore some of these. There
Speaker 1: is some really outstanding, in my opinion, effective products for
Speaker 1: having success with whatever you're trying to grow. So, for example,
Speaker 1: maybe you are interested in creating beautiful flowers. There are
Speaker 1: Medina products that will fit every kind of flower that
Speaker 1: you possibly could want to grow. Right, So for example,
Speaker 1: let's just see, I'm going to try to open with
Speaker 1: these up. I've got to issue going there, we go
Speaker 1: grab the wrong, wrong one. I was giving away some
Speaker 1: samples yesterday of Medina products and they were it was
Speaker 1: the fish emulsion type product, it was the seaweed type product,
Speaker 1: and it was that hast grow type product when I
Speaker 1: was a Southwest fertilizer and I love those. They all
Speaker 1: work super super well. And the hastro grow is the
Speaker 1: one that I was just telling you about. Whatever you're
Speaker 1: whatever you're wanting to try to grow, whatever kind of
Speaker 1: every kind of plant, Medina is designed to number one,
Speaker 1: build the soil. That's what they do. They create all
Speaker 1: kinds of from compost nutrient liquids that they put out
Speaker 1: there to beneficial microbes that can be sprinkled out and
Speaker 1: used to really pretty much all the products that they have.
Speaker 1: If you are wanting to get your lawn boosted, there's
Speaker 1: two excellent things. And by the way, I say for lawns,
Speaker 1: but you can use these on a lot of different
Speaker 1: kinds of plants. One of them is Medina has to
Speaker 1: Grow Lawn. It's a twelve four eight liquid hooks up
Speaker 1: to a garden hose and you just go to town.
Speaker 1: It's got Medina soil activator also in it in addition
Speaker 1: to the twelve four eight, and it's got humakuemic acid
Speaker 1: in it. So it's like getting a lawn cair kit
Speaker 1: in a bottle really and it works. I've used it.
Speaker 1: It works. Medina has to Grow Lawn twelve four eight.
Speaker 1: That's one of them. The other one and this product
Speaker 1: is Medina has to Grow super Grow. There's a lot
Speaker 1: of grows going on here. Medina has to grow Supergrow Plus.
Speaker 1: That one has a little like a green band across
Speaker 1: the product that says super Grow Plus. It's a sixteen
Speaker 1: zero two no phosphorus. And I won't tell you this.
Speaker 1: They've done a lot of studies on lawns. I did
Speaker 1: a study in Austin, Texas and a neighborhood of two
Speaker 1: hundred homes. And it don't think Austin's different than Houston
Speaker 1: in this regard. It'd be similar here. Two hundred homes.
Speaker 1: We did a soil sampling of all those homes. Not
Speaker 1: one home needed phosphorus in that neighborhood. When you you know,
Speaker 1: back in the days of Dewey Compton, they were saying
Speaker 1: triple thirteen all the time for everything, and that middle
Speaker 1: number thirteen builds up. Nitrogen washes away and it volatileizes away.
Speaker 1: Potassium will move down through the soil with a good
Speaker 1: drenching rain, but phosphorus sticks to the soil and as
Speaker 1: you use it, it builds up, and when you overuse
Speaker 1: you end up with a lot. So that Supergirl plus
Speaker 1: the sixteen zero two, it's fine. Don't worry about the
Speaker 1: phosphorus not being there. I would say it is extremely
Speaker 1: rare that not putting phosphorus on is going to cause
Speaker 1: your lawn of problem. Okay, it's extremely rare. We recommend
Speaker 1: three one two four one two type ratios because that's
Speaker 1: what the turf scientists tell us the grass would like
Speaker 1: to have. But I would say, get a sol sample.
Speaker 1: You may not need that metal number early at all. Anyway,
Speaker 1: supergro Plus, hook it up to a garden host, spray
Speaker 1: it on your lawn. You get results. People spray it
Speaker 1: in their vegetable gardens. That boost of nitrogen you can
Speaker 1: do that. You can spray it however you want to
Speaker 1: use it, just use it. It's an excellent product from Medina.
Speaker 1: I know I'm droning on about Medina now, but I
Speaker 1: just want to tell you there's a lot of great
Speaker 1: products and they're widely available here in the greater Houston area.
Speaker 1: All right, well, let's head out to spring right now.
Speaker 1: We're going to talk to Chris. Hey, Chris, Welcome to
Speaker 1: garden Line.
Speaker 17: Hey, Skip, good morning.
Speaker 8: I had a question.
Speaker 17: Should I be worried if my lantanas if not emerged back.
Speaker 17: My bluop plumbagos are here, They've been here a month ago,
Speaker 17: but my lantanas are just there's still nothing dormant.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they should be doing something. They're not. They haven't
Speaker 1: been actively growing. But I have some at my house
Speaker 1: and down a row, I have some that are coming out.
Speaker 1: I have three or four inches of growth, and some
Speaker 1: of them aren't emerging at all. And I haven't gone
Speaker 1: in there to look closely at them. But I suspect
Speaker 1: we had a cold snap that might have gotten those.
Speaker 1: And not all lantanas are equal in cold heartiness, and
Speaker 1: so that could be part of the factor. The way
Speaker 1: cold comes, you know, and it can also be go
Speaker 1: ahead and cut them back to a couple of inches high,
Speaker 1: and then take your thumbnail and scrape the bark at
Speaker 1: the very base and dig back the molts or whatever's
Speaker 1: around them, and scrape the bark with your thumbnail again.
Speaker 1: And if you're not getting something that looks creamy or
Speaker 1: green green is in there, you probably lost that one.
Speaker 1: If you see some, give them a little more time,
Speaker 1: they'll probably send out a bud. Okay, that's what I
Speaker 1: was wondering.
Speaker 17: Should just replant or give it a few more weeks?
Speaker 1: Okay, Yeah, Okay, that's your call. That's your call. Yeah.
Speaker 1: The fact that you reminded me I need to get
Speaker 1: out and crawl around and do that to mine. Thanks.
Speaker 17: I keep hoping every day I go out here that
Speaker 17: they'll be sprouting, but nothing.
Speaker 1: All right, Well let's see, all right, we'll see how
Speaker 1: it turns out. All right, take care, Thanks, Thanks, thanks,
Speaker 1: thank you, sir. Bye bye. Nature's Way resources. Uh did
Speaker 1: you know Nature's Way as a two acre actually bigger
Speaker 1: than that now two acre nursery fruit trees, natives got
Speaker 1: house plants, I got vegetables. One of the largest varieties
Speaker 1: of native plants you're gonna find in this area. Lots
Speaker 1: of really cool plants, But why do you go to
Speaker 1: Nature's Way? Well, native plants, but also their their products.
Speaker 1: You know, way before compost was cool, uh, and there
Speaker 1: were so many places producing compost here. Nature's Way was
Speaker 1: leading the way and creating things like roastsoil and like
Speaker 1: leaf mold composts. Those are two examples of things born
Speaker 1: at Nature's Way. They still have those, and they have
Speaker 1: much much more. Every Friday they have something called fungal
Speaker 1: based compost. Now, when you decompose wood and woody products
Speaker 1: and things like that, grind them up and decompose them
Speaker 1: and stuff you get, it's fungi that do most of
Speaker 1: the work for you. And fungal based compost is on
Speaker 1: sale every Friday at Nature's Way. You can buy bags
Speaker 1: for ten percent off or you can buy bulk for
Speaker 1: twenty percent off. So that's a good deal. You can
Speaker 1: go out there and get it with your truck. You
Speaker 1: can have them deliver it to your house. You can
Speaker 1: go find it in garden centers. Go around to garden
Speaker 1: centers and you're going to find Nature's Way products in
Speaker 1: mini garden centers. I was at Plants Fall Seasons yesterday
Speaker 1: and solved Nature's Way Products there Nature's Way Resources dot com.
Speaker 1: That's the website, Nature'sway Resources dot com. You need to
Speaker 1: go check it out. It's a cool They redid the
Speaker 1: website and it's very good, very helpful. By the way,
Speaker 1: if you want to give them a call. Nine three
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Speaker 1: Anti Grows and Porium. Since nineteen eighty three, Antigros and
Speaker 1: Porium has been a must visit destination for gardeners and
Speaker 1: families in general alike. It's beautiful. They are roses because
Speaker 1: it's the Rose and Porium, but they are so much more.
Speaker 1: They've got navy plants and herbs and flowers. They carry
Speaker 1: free trees and houseplants, and then there's their nursery and
Speaker 1: display gardens. It it's fun to walk through there. It
Speaker 1: just is, and I would recommend you do that. A
Speaker 1: plan outing and if you're going to drive out, there's
Speaker 1: not far I depend on where you live. It's not
Speaker 1: that far up in the Independence, Texas area. It's just
Speaker 1: a little north of Brenham. It's a good out. I
Speaker 1: always love it during wildflower seasons which goes long around here,
Speaker 1: especially Blue Bunnet, and it's a great place to visit.
Speaker 1: Now when you're there, a couple things. You need to
Speaker 1: walk through the gardens and see all of the plants
Speaker 1: that they carry. They are awesome, absolutely awesome. I want
Speaker 1: to remind you about a couple of things going on
Speaker 1: out there. They're going to have their twenty twenty five
Speaker 1: Spring Photo Contest and if you want to find all
Speaker 1: the details the prize details. First of all, how about this.
Speaker 1: One of the prizes is a one hundred dollars Anti
Speaker 1: CROs im Porium gift certificate. If you want to find
Speaker 1: out how to enter, go to their social look for
Speaker 1: Anti CROs impoum and Instagram or Facebook and find out
Speaker 1: how to enter and take part in this. That's fun
Speaker 1: right there now. On May tenth, Saturday that's coming up
Speaker 1: not too far from now, from eleven am to one
Speaker 1: pm is a Mother's Day tea and luncheon. They're going
Speaker 1: to have a special Mother's Day tam luncheon right out
Speaker 1: there in the gardens themselves. They're going to have finger
Speaker 1: sandwiches and salads and fruits vegetables and hummus dips and
Speaker 1: it's just a nice setting with some really cool, dainty desserts,
Speaker 1: as they put it, for a sweet finish. One other
Speaker 1: reminder is May twenty fourth through twenty six is water
Speaker 1: conserving products weekend. Santa Texas sales tax is held off
Speaker 1: on water conserving products that weekend, so that's Memorial weekend.
Speaker 1: Don't forget about that, so follow them on social media,
Speaker 1: follow their newsletter. Go to Antique Roseemporium dot com, Antique
Speaker 1: Rosenporium dot com. Lots of good information there at your
Speaker 1: stock have a bib on because when you see their roses,
Speaker 1: you're gonna start drooling and you mess up your shirt.
Speaker 1: But I love going to antiqu rosing Porium. Really cool stuff.
Speaker 1: By the way, they still have those two new roses
Speaker 1: they just released called Glass Slipper and Cupid's Sweetheart, So
Speaker 1: you got to check those out. I've been mentioning it.
Speaker 1: Today I'm gonna remind you once more. It's time to
Speaker 1: get the summer slow release products out on your lawn.
Speaker 1: And Nitropos's silver bag makes it easy. Stand across the store.
Speaker 1: Maybe you're in ace hardware store and you look way
Speaker 1: over there and there's gardens, and you see that silver
Speaker 1: bag from across the store. It's easy to spot. Nineteen
Speaker 1: four to ten slow release, four months of feeding. You
Speaker 1: do it, now you're done. You take care of summer
Speaker 1: fertilizing all the way up until it's time to start
Speaker 1: talking about fall fertilizing. Nitrofos super turf. So why would
Speaker 1: you put that out?
Speaker 8: Well?
Speaker 1: Number one, it's it saves time. You do it, now
Speaker 1: you're done. Number two, it's designed so that our southern
Speaker 1: grasses like Bermuda grass in Augustine' zoysia, that it feeds
Speaker 1: them well with a ratio that they want. Number Three,
Speaker 1: it releases that slowly so that over time you don't
Speaker 1: get a flush of top growth where you're mow mow, mowing,
Speaker 1: trying to keep up with it, and then the root
Speaker 1: system is smaller. Did you know that when you overdo
Speaker 1: nitrogen on a turf grass plant, you get top growth,
Speaker 1: it's greener and greener and wonderful. You got to mow it,
Speaker 1: but the root growth actually is less than on a
Speaker 1: plant that is fertilized properly. Night five super Turf is
Speaker 1: designed to put a gradual release out through that whole
Speaker 1: summer season, so you don't have to do the mo
Speaker 1: moo moo. And now you've got a few grubs chomping
Speaker 1: on the roots, and your root system is already smaller
Speaker 1: than it should be. And you see the problem with
Speaker 1: drought and other things. All right, you have been I
Speaker 1: have explained it as best I can. Night five superturf,
Speaker 1: silver bag. Find it all kinds of places. If you were,
Speaker 1: let's say, at RCW Nursery, Tombo Parkway, you can find
Speaker 1: that kind of thing. Plants fell seasons on the wet
Speaker 1: I know they carried it there. D and de feed
Speaker 1: and Tomball is another place you're going to find night
Speaker 1: fish products like this silver bag is super turf. Well,
Speaker 1: let's see. I wanted to mention. There's one other thing
Speaker 1: I'd like to talk about before we're all done with today,
Speaker 1: and that is including herbs in your landscape. A lot
Speaker 1: of people think when they think of herbs, they think
Speaker 1: of an herb garden, and those are beautiful. They're typically
Speaker 1: geometric designs and they're all cool. That's fine, you can
Speaker 1: do that, but herbs can be grown anywhere. My wife
Speaker 1: has herbs in a flower bed that's raised and the
Speaker 1: oregano is spilling over the sides. It looks really good.
Speaker 1: By the way the time is spilling over the sides,
Speaker 1: it looks good, and then they're the flowers in the bed.
Speaker 1: You can put herbs in a hanging basket or a
Speaker 1: container if you want. They work really well for that.
Speaker 1: Some herbs even give you flowers. For example, Salvia pineapple sage.
Speaker 1: It's a type of salvia and it has red tubular
Speaker 1: flowers mostly in late summer and fall. But when the
Speaker 1: hummingbirds find those, they go crazy. They love those things,
Speaker 1: and the leaves smell like pineapples. Another herb that has
Speaker 1: blooms that attracts palms especially would be trailing rosemary. Trailing
Speaker 1: rosemary blooms more than upright rosemary, and yes she has
Speaker 1: trailing rosemary and her flower beds is what raised flower
Speaker 1: beds as well. In my vegetable gardens, I have chives
Speaker 1: because chives bloom and they bring in beneficial pollinators and
Speaker 1: other insects. I like to put a regano at the
Speaker 1: end of a row, you know. I think a cool
Speaker 1: combination is if you've got a road tomatoes and you
Speaker 1: put some oregano in one end and some basil inter
Speaker 1: mixed in the other, you just got your pesto garden
Speaker 1: ready to go right there. I mean, throw some tony
Speaker 1: tea's in at the other end if you want. But
Speaker 1: it's all right there. There's no rule that you can't
Speaker 1: plant herbs in a vegetable garden. I do it at
Speaker 1: the end of the rose because I don't want to
Speaker 1: have to go through let's say I was gonna spade
Speaker 1: or till the bed. I don't want to have to
Speaker 1: work around all the herbs, so I do them on
Speaker 1: the end of the rose. But you can do that
Speaker 1: however you want to grow them. You ought to grow
Speaker 1: some herbs. There's herbs that are wonderful for culinary, herbs
Speaker 1: that are wonderful for attracting and supporting beneficial insects, and
Speaker 1: then of course herbs that bring in the pollinators. And
Speaker 1: we need to do a good job of supporting those
Speaker 1: because those guys are working for you. You know, they
Speaker 1: are actually out there. You don't even know it. But
Speaker 1: right now, out in your garden, there's some aphid that
Speaker 1: is getting a wasp, landing beside it and laying an
Speaker 1: egg in it, and it'll be like the movie Alien
Speaker 1: that eggle hatch. The larvae will grow and eat out
Speaker 1: the inside of the aphid. If you want the gory details.
Speaker 1: It's used through the aphids chest and it sticks the
Speaker 1: aphid to the leaf because dead aphids don't hold onto
Speaker 1: leaves very well. And then it grows up inside the
Speaker 1: aphid comes out as a wasp to go and lay
Speaker 1: eggs in a whole bunch of other aphids. What does
Speaker 1: that wasp do for nourishment? Nectar and pollen, that's what
Speaker 1: it does for nourishment. Now, if you've got I'll just
Speaker 1: use tomatoes as an example. We got a lot of
Speaker 1: plants to get aphis, and if you've got some tomatoes
Speaker 1: with aphids, wouldn't you like to have nourishment for Mama
Speaker 1: was right there? And when I say was, I'm talking
Speaker 1: about something size of a nat almost it's very small.
Speaker 1: That's just an example of why we need to mix
Speaker 1: our gardens up. Listen, a farm needs to be monoculture
Speaker 1: so you can go across all the acreage and get
Speaker 1: all the cotton out of there, or the sorghum or
Speaker 1: whatever you're growing out of the farm. Our gardens should
Speaker 1: not be monocultures. They should be mixed. We can do
Speaker 1: that with containers. We can do that by mixing up
Speaker 1: the plantings. No one said flowers can't be in a
Speaker 1: vegetable garden. And by the way, herbs are very attractive,
Speaker 1: and some herbs are really cool to use in flower
Speaker 1: beds or lining a pathway like solid burnat cucumber flavored leaves,
Speaker 1: little mounds rupertty lining a pathway chives another one that
Speaker 1: does that. All right, I got quit talking, but there's
Speaker 1: an idea for you. Have fun out in the garden
Speaker 1: this week and go visit some garden centers this afternoon.