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Speaker 1: Well, good morning, Good Sunday morning, gardener. Good to have
Speaker 1: you with us this morning. Welcome to garden Line. I'm
Speaker 1: your host, Skip Rictor, and we're here to help you
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Speaker 1: This afternoon, I have some things I'm wanting to get
Speaker 1: my hands on, uh in as far as gardening is concerned,
Speaker 1: and one of them is some plant propagation. I've got
Speaker 1: several different plants that I want to propagate, in other words,
Speaker 1: make more of and you can do that by seed.
Speaker 1: That's what nature does every day, is casting seeds out
Speaker 1: from one plant to grow more. And you can also
Speaker 1: do it about cuttings. There's other ways to propagate as well.
Speaker 1: But I'm going to be doing some cutting rooting myself,
Speaker 1: and I just haven't gotten around to it. I've got
Speaker 1: a little light table indoors. That's a nice quality light.
Speaker 1: You get a good loose media one that grows. Excuse
Speaker 1: me that that you can moisten, but that isn't sop
Speaker 1: and soggy wet. Really important to have good oxygen down
Speaker 1: at the bottom of the cuttings when you put them
Speaker 1: down in a growing mix to root them. I've got
Speaker 1: some rooting hormone I keep in the refrigerator. That's how
Speaker 1: you keep it fresh. And it's just a dust. You
Speaker 1: can also buy it as a liquid. Just put a
Speaker 1: little around the cutting, put it down into the mix
Speaker 1: that you are going to use for rooting, and then
Speaker 1: some kind of clear cover over the top that allows
Speaker 1: all the light to get through, but it doesn't allow
Speaker 1: the moisture out. You don't need them to dry out.
Speaker 1: Think about this, that cutting has no way of taking
Speaker 1: up moisture. It is rootless when you put it in there.
Speaker 1: But as it develops roots, then it can begin to
Speaker 1: take up its own moisture. And you don't have to
Speaker 1: pull it out every day to look at it and
Speaker 1: see if it has roots. If you do that, a
Speaker 1: little tender root will break off and the cutting will die.
Speaker 1: So you just wait and when you see new growth
Speaker 1: starting on your cuttings, new little growth starting to grow out.
Speaker 1: You know it's got something down that's taking up nutrients
Speaker 1: to support that growth, and that means it has a root.
Speaker 1: Rather than yank it out, I'll take a little fork,
Speaker 1: like to use a little plastic fork just to get
Speaker 1: underneath the cutting, kind of lift it up with the
Speaker 1: fork and then kind of shake it just a little
Speaker 1: bit and you can see the rooting media begin to
Speaker 1: fall off and you can see the roots. Then you
Speaker 1: pot it up into a new container and you're good
Speaker 1: to go. Anyway. I've got several people that are wanting
Speaker 1: some plants that I have, and so I'm just going
Speaker 1: to root some cuttings today and get some of that done.
Speaker 1: It's some the other day as well. It's a lot
Speaker 1: of fun to do it now. Once they're kind of
Speaker 1: established with some roots on them, they don't need to
Speaker 1: stay indoors under lights. It's just it's so blazing hot
Speaker 1: in the months to come that I just usually start
Speaker 1: mine inside to do that. There's one other way that
Speaker 1: you can start a cutting that's almost like guaranteed success.
Speaker 1: It's close to guaranteed success, and that is with what's
Speaker 1: called a layer la ye er. So let's say you
Speaker 1: have a vining rows, you know, a climbing they call
Speaker 1: them climbing roses. But and you go out toward the
Speaker 1: end of the vine and you bend it, and as
Speaker 1: you bend that it sort of cracks and it becomes
Speaker 1: like a hinge, like an like your elbow. Okay, so
Speaker 1: picture your elbow. Your fist is the end of the vine.
Speaker 1: And you put that elbow under ground or in a
Speaker 1: pot under the soil, have some way to pin it down.
Speaker 1: Set a heavy rock on it, take a little bent
Speaker 1: coat hanger and pin it down into the soil. Keep
Speaker 1: that area moist. That wound will begin to callous where
Speaker 1: your elbow is, and roots will begin to form, and
Speaker 1: you just kind of have to check on it periodically,
Speaker 1: not very often, every couple of weeks, maybe a little bit.
Speaker 1: And once it's going got roots of its own, you
Speaker 1: cut it loose from mom. In other words, between your
Speaker 1: I keep using my arm as the example, but between
Speaker 1: your elbow and your bicep. You know it's connected to
Speaker 1: your body that way, right, So you just cut it
Speaker 1: off there and now it's its own plant. You can
Speaker 1: dig it up. I like to do it in containers,
Speaker 1: because then you've already got it in a container and
Speaker 1: you just keep going anyway. There's a lot of ways
Speaker 1: to propagate, and propagating is fun. It's a great way
Speaker 1: to share things also that you just can't find anywhere.
Speaker 1: You know, maybe or maybe a plant has a wonderful memory,
Speaker 1: you know, like it's one that you got from Grandma's
Speaker 1: house before she passed. And now the house is gone,
Speaker 1: it's no longer in the family, but everybody remembers that
Speaker 1: you fill in the blank a shrub that was outside, uh,
Speaker 1: and now you can share that with your other family
Speaker 1: members as a memory of Grandma, for example. See what
Speaker 1: I'm talking about. It's good to know how to do
Speaker 1: some cuttings. Well, I'll tell you what we are getting
Speaker 1: my excuse me, uh, looking at a time to take
Speaker 1: a break here. I'll come right back, and Lisa in Seabrook,
Speaker 1: you're gonna be our first stop when we come back. Alrighty,
Speaker 1: welcome back. Good to have you with us here on
Speaker 1: garden Line. Look forward to visiting with you about the
Speaker 1: questions you might have this morning. Seven one three two
Speaker 1: one two kat r let's go out to the phones.
Speaker 1: Now we're going to head out to Seabrook and visit
Speaker 1: with Lisa. Hello, Lisa, Welcome to Gardenline.
Speaker 3: Good morning, Good morning. We're looking for a small white
Speaker 3: flowering tree, and yesterday I saw something called by Burnham.
Speaker 3: Does that row well here?
Speaker 1: Well, there's about one hundred and fifty different by Burnham's
Speaker 1: literally probably more than that out there. There's some that
Speaker 1: make little small bushes or some that get a little
Speaker 1: bit taller. Some do okay here, and some do very
Speaker 1: well here, and some need to be further north. It's
Speaker 1: kind of a it's kind of hard to answer as
Speaker 1: a single question, but there are a few that do
Speaker 1: really good. There one that you might like. There's some
Speaker 1: native ones, and if I were you, I would you're
Speaker 1: done in Seabrook, I'd run over to Moss Nursery and
Speaker 1: ask them what kinds they have, what kins they can
Speaker 1: get that will be more tree form. If you go
Speaker 1: a little further west from here, Rusty black Harvo Burnham
Speaker 1: is really popular as a native tree. We have a
Speaker 1: number of native I Burnhams here in the country, and
Speaker 1: so that one is good. It can be a little
Speaker 1: tricky to get started, but once it's established it's nice.
Speaker 1: It has fall color and makes little berries that attract
Speaker 1: the birds and things. But yeah, it just depends on
Speaker 1: which one. The southern arrow wood, I wouldn't say it's
Speaker 1: tree size, but it can get a little bit larger.
Speaker 1: That would be a possibility. Just make sure you get
Speaker 1: the southern one. So those are some of the things
Speaker 1: if you're looking for other kinds of trees. Now, the
Speaker 1: Chinese fringe I like a lot, but it gets it
Speaker 1: probably you're going to see it eventually up around twenty
Speaker 1: feet maybe tall is a tree. I don't know if
Speaker 1: that's too big for what you're looking for or not. Okay, okay.
Speaker 1: It has shaggy white blooms in the spring. You can
Speaker 1: do an online search to see pictures of it. And
Speaker 1: the blooms have a nice little fragrance, very light fragrance.
Speaker 1: But there's so many of them that when you walk around,
Speaker 1: you pick that fragrance up, which is nice.
Speaker 3: Okay, thank you, you bet.
Speaker 4: You bet.
Speaker 1: We'll go over and talk to him at mosque because
Speaker 1: they know what they're talking about over there, and they
Speaker 1: can you know, they can point you in the right direction.
Speaker 1: If there's a specific by Burnham you like to, you
Speaker 1: run across and you want to call back some time,
Speaker 1: I'd be happy to visit with you about you know,
Speaker 1: more specifics, but most of them think of most by
Speaker 1: Burnhams as big shrubs, and some of them can be
Speaker 1: trained into kind of a tree form and do pretty good.
Speaker 1: All right, Lisa, Well, thanks for the call. Good luck
Speaker 1: with that. You take care if you are dealing with
Speaker 1: gray leaf spot in your Saint Augustine, and you may
Speaker 1: well be. Listen, gray leaf spots everywhere and the conditions,
Speaker 1: environmental conditions make it become a problem. Okay, So you
Speaker 1: go all through the heat of summer and you see
Speaker 1: very little greatly spot at that time. But about now
Speaker 1: the temperatures are a little milder, but we're getting more rainfall.
Speaker 1: And then some people turn their sprinklers on way too often,
Speaker 1: and that's when Gravey's spot takes off. An eagle turf
Speaker 1: fungicide from nitrofoss can shut it down. It can shut
Speaker 1: it down. Just remember your overwatering is one of the
Speaker 1: things contributing to gray leaf spot in your Saint Augustine lawns.
Speaker 1: So number one's let's back off good soaking not very
Speaker 1: often when you need to treat for it. Eagle turf fungicide,
Speaker 1: Eagle turf fung aside from nitrofoss You're gonna find Eagle
Speaker 1: at Ace Hardware. City of Memorial. You're gonna find an
Speaker 1: m dat and Rosenberg Bearings hardware on Bisonette and on
Speaker 1: West Timer, and also plants fall seasons, plants for all
Speaker 1: seasons as well. All righty, let's now head out the
Speaker 1: League City and we're going to talk to Walter this morning.
Speaker 1: Hey Walter, good morning.
Speaker 3: Good morning.
Speaker 5: I sent you an email with quick tim regarding the
Speaker 5: lawn changing colors to yellow, and I sent three pictures
Speaker 5: along with the emails. Now, I forgot to mention to
Speaker 5: you as something funny. Something funny is that I have
Speaker 5: two oak trees and the leaves are like green and yellow,
Speaker 5: and it seems to me that the lawn is taking
Speaker 5: over the color of the yellow from the trees. I
Speaker 5: don't know if that's a possibility or not, but I
Speaker 5: follow your schedule and watering and fertilizing, and I'm not
Speaker 5: really sure why this yellow. And it looks like I'm
Speaker 5: the only one in the block that getting the grass
Speaker 5: that is yellow.
Speaker 1: Okay, so I have your pictures. I want you to
Speaker 1: after we talk today and the sun comes up, go
Speaker 1: out and pick some of the yellowish grass blades and
Speaker 1: hold them up to the light. And I think what
Speaker 1: you're going to see is when you look close, it's
Speaker 1: striped yellow and green through up and down the length
Speaker 1: of the grass blade. That's an iron deficiency. And I'm
Speaker 1: ninety nine percent sure you're going to see that based
Speaker 1: on the photos from a distance that you sent me.
Speaker 1: If that's true, you can try an iron supplement on
Speaker 1: the lawn and that will help replace the there's iron
Speaker 1: in your soil. The grass can't get it because it's
Speaker 1: in a form. Grass is not able to pick up
Speaker 1: right now. So a supplement can help green it up
Speaker 1: for you, and that would be a good idea. Be
Speaker 1: very careful with your iron supplement because you've got driveways
Speaker 1: and walkways and things. And if you get iron supplements
Speaker 1: on concrete, it stains at a rust color. So after
Speaker 1: you apply it, get your blower broom and get it
Speaker 1: off the surfaces and then watered in really good. It
Speaker 1: should do pretty good. I think you will also do
Speaker 1: well if you get it as a liquid form. A
Speaker 1: fertile home has a micro nutrient iron and other micro
Speaker 1: nutrients supplement. It's by fertile home. It's in a gray bottle,
Speaker 1: and it has more than just iron, It has manganese
Speaker 1: and other things in it. And I might just do
Speaker 1: it that way, maybe a hose hose en sprayer, and
Speaker 1: that ought to green it up. Now, having set all that,
Speaker 1: the question is why isn't the grass getting the iron
Speaker 1: that's there in your soil one form One reason may
Speaker 1: be if you have high pH or hyphosphorus or other things,
Speaker 1: or there's a lack of iron. But another may be
Speaker 1: a disease called take all root rot, which kills roots.
Speaker 1: And when roots die, their ability to take up nutrients
Speaker 1: goes down, or you may if they're not there, they
Speaker 1: can't take them up at all. So the overall grass
Speaker 1: plant is lacking because it doesn't have enough of a
Speaker 1: root system to do that. If take all is the problem,
Speaker 1: you're just going to need to go to my schedule,
Speaker 1: my schedule on my website UH for UH Lawn Pest
Speaker 1: Disease and weed Management, and you'll see take all root
Speaker 1: run in the fungicide row going across and it tells
Speaker 1: you when, and then at the bottom it tells you
Speaker 1: what to use to control the take all. I can't
Speaker 1: diagnose take all just from a distant picture of a lawn,
Speaker 1: but having seen this so many times, I would say
Speaker 1: there's a fifty to fifty chance that take All may
Speaker 1: be involved. But still that fertilum supplement would be a
Speaker 1: good IDEA.
Speaker 5: Great, thanks so much. That's very comprehensive, and have a wonderful.
Speaker 1: Day, all right, hopefully not too comprehensivell right, thank you, Walter.
Speaker 1: I appreciate, appreciate your call very much. It's it's summer season,
Speaker 1: and when it's summer, there are storms, and whether there
Speaker 1: are storms, our trees can sustain severe damage. Remember last summer,
Speaker 1: two storms came through and what was power out for
Speaker 1: two weeks with each one, and at least some places
Speaker 1: around town. You need to pureniture right to develop good structure.
Speaker 1: And by the way, printing starts when you put the
Speaker 1: tree in the ground. It's a little scrainy tree in
Speaker 1: the ground. That's when we call it training at that stage,
Speaker 1: but it's pruning that's when it begins. If you wait
Speaker 1: until the tree is twenty feet high to begin pruning,
Speaker 1: you're messing up because you've already developed narrow branch angles.
Speaker 1: There's already structural things that aren't going to be good
Speaker 1: and strong. So you want to start your trees early.
Speaker 1: And that's where I would hire someone to come in
Speaker 1: and help you with the training from the beginning. But
Speaker 1: if you already have an established tree, you need someone
Speaker 1: that knows what they're talking about to do the pruning.
Speaker 1: And that process is not it's not that difficult. Just
Speaker 1: remember that. It's like a lot of things in life.
Speaker 1: The sooner you deal with an issue, the less problems
Speaker 1: you're going to have, the less difficulty you're going to
Speaker 1: have and trying to deal with it. Okay, don't put
Speaker 1: things off, don't be an ostrich, put your head in
Speaker 1: the scind if. I like to tell people this, if
Speaker 1: if you go outside with a saw, you're admitting guilt.
Speaker 1: And here's what that means. If you have a young
Speaker 1: tree and you see branches and you go, this isn't
Speaker 1: a good spot. I'm going to take my lopper prunters
Speaker 1: and prune this off and you stay with it diligently
Speaker 1: like that, you almost never need to get the saw out. Okay, now,
Speaker 1: I realize there's situations where you got to solve branches,
Speaker 1: but I'm just trying to keep create the concept that
Speaker 1: the bigger the branches you're sawing off, the more you
Speaker 1: have put off a problem that could have been dealt
Speaker 1: with earlier. So don't from the time it goes in
Speaker 1: the ground begin the prunting process and get somebody that
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna take a little break here, David and Tumbull.
Speaker 1: I don't have time to give you justice on your call.
Speaker 1: Will take you first when we come right back. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: welcome back to the guard line. Folks. What are we
Speaker 1: going to talk about today? You told me. I mean,
Speaker 1: I got a lot of things I can talk about
Speaker 1: a lot on my mind gardening wise, but hey, this
Speaker 1: is about you. It's about your yard, your garden, your
Speaker 1: flower bed. Let me give you one encouragement today this week,
Speaker 1: well this week, how about today? Today? Be a good
Speaker 1: day anyway, Get involved with a kid with gardening, if
Speaker 1: you've got children, if you've got grandchildren, however you go
Speaker 1: about it, get a kid out there in the garden,
Speaker 1: get their hands in the dirt, and let them just
Speaker 1: get dirty, make a mess, and have fun in the soil.
Speaker 1: That is part of the fun of gardening. I know
Speaker 1: some of you, you know, have sterilized kind of situations.
Speaker 1: You keep kids in because you know when to get sick.
Speaker 1: A kid that plays in the dirt. And this is
Speaker 1: medically true. When we're exposed to a lot of things
Speaker 1: like that, running around barefoot and stuff, it builds your
Speaker 1: immune system and you're healthier. But a child that learns
Speaker 1: to grow flowers and vegetables and things is more likely
Speaker 1: to eat healthier Because I grew it, I'm going to
Speaker 1: eat it. It's really different. Broccoli looks different when you
Speaker 1: grew it, as opposed to when your mom's trying to
Speaker 1: shove it down your throat.
Speaker 6: Right.
Speaker 1: Oh, by the way, today is National go barefoot Day,
Speaker 1: so throw the shoes off. Nobody wears shoes today National
Speaker 1: barefoot Day. Oh boy, I remember those days running barefoot
Speaker 1: all summer. There we go. All right, we're gonna go out.
Speaker 1: The phones out, I'm gonna head the tumball. We're gonna
Speaker 1: talk to David this morning. Hey, David, welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 4: Good morning, Good morning, sir.
Speaker 7: Hey.
Speaker 8: I've got a grapefruit tree and a meyer lemon tree
Speaker 8: that I planted about the same time, about a little
Speaker 8: over a year ago. And the grapefruit tree, they both
Speaker 8: were probably about a foot and a half tall when
Speaker 8: I put them in the ground, and the grapefruit tree
Speaker 8: now is about four feet tall. It's it's the limbs
Speaker 8: are spreading out. It looks really good. It's doing real well.
Speaker 8: The meyer lemon, if it was a foot tall when
Speaker 8: I planted it, it's only a foot and a half
Speaker 8: tall now and it's not doing at the same rate.
Speaker 8: Is that just normal for that type of fruit? Or
Speaker 8: doing something wrong?
Speaker 5: Not that not that.
Speaker 1: Unusual? Uh that that lack of growth. So it could
Speaker 1: be a lot of things, and it could be more
Speaker 1: than one too, probably not just one. Uh, lack of sunlight,
Speaker 1: lack of good drainage in the soil, lack of moisture,
Speaker 1: depend upon the soil going into a stress. Well there
Speaker 1: erutriance done in them.
Speaker 8: Well they're only about ten feet apart from each other.
Speaker 8: And I'm putting the microt the tickers and fruit. I've
Speaker 8: been putting that down about every two months, and I'm
Speaker 8: going it's just not seem for what there it littles healthy.
Speaker 1: All right, Well, you're doing everything you should do. Uh,
Speaker 1: good sunlight. Let's see the other the other thing. And
Speaker 1: I doubt this is the cause. But just keep in
Speaker 1: mind that in the early days of these the early
Speaker 1: years for two or three years of these plants getting
Speaker 1: the fruit off so that it puts all its energy
Speaker 1: into growing gives you way more fruit in the long run.
Speaker 1: You know, I know, we want we've got a little bloom.
Speaker 1: We want to have a fruit, a few fruit. But
Speaker 1: that also really stunts them back. But I don't know
Speaker 1: what else to tell you if it's really too early
Speaker 1: for it to be a girdle a girdled stem. But
Speaker 1: you might just dig down around the base of the
Speaker 1: stem and make sure there's not something strangling the stem.
Speaker 1: Sometimes the little tag, those little tags that loop around
Speaker 1: and go through you know, there's a hole in the
Speaker 1: tag and you wrap it around the tree and go
Speaker 1: back through the hole. Sometimes those can be real tight
Speaker 1: on the base of a stem or something else strangling
Speaker 1: like that. I don't think that's the problem. But we're
Speaker 1: kind of grabbing at straws here because everything else that
Speaker 1: could go wrong you seem to have done right. So
Speaker 1: I'll just continue to fertilize. You might want to give
Speaker 1: them a little boost of something with some nitrogen and
Speaker 1: see if you can push a little bit more growth
Speaker 1: on them. That would be good. Are you real sure
Speaker 1: that the soil where that lemon is is very well drained.
Speaker 8: I only imagine because I mean they're both on pretty
Speaker 8: level ground. They're only about ten feet apart from each other.
Speaker 8: So I'm going, well, I don't know, Okay, I'll take
Speaker 8: and see you.
Speaker 1: But okay, well, okay, well I'm going to eliminate that
Speaker 1: then from the possibilities, but I would get a booster nitrogen.
Speaker 9: You know, the.
Speaker 1: Product you're using for microlife is excellent, but they also
Speaker 1: have a supplement that it's called bio bio Matrix. It's
Speaker 1: a little orange quart bottle and you can folier spray
Speaker 1: with that as well, and I would try a drench
Speaker 1: of that. It's a seven one three, I believe I
Speaker 1: need to look at the bottle again the third number.
Speaker 1: It's something like a seven one three. It's got mostly
Speaker 1: nitrogen and you just drench it over the soil in
Speaker 1: a watering can. Can spray it on foliage. It's hard
Speaker 1: to get folier feed and a citrus, but if you
Speaker 1: try to do that, do it early, early in the
Speaker 1: morning when it's cool, and spray your folier spray upward
Speaker 1: to hit the bottom of the leaves, and you may
Speaker 1: get a little bit of a boost into the plant.
Speaker 1: That way, but a good drenching of the root system
Speaker 1: is also good. That That's about all I got for
Speaker 1: you now, other than going out there and uh, threatening
Speaker 1: the plant that you're going to yank it out of
Speaker 1: the ground and throw it in the burn pile if
Speaker 1: it start growing, and that I go out there and
Speaker 1: sing you how's your well? Do you have a good voice,
Speaker 1: because that could also be the problem that might be growth.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 1: All right, thank you for the call. Appreciate that. All right,
Speaker 1: let's see here where we we're going to go now
Speaker 1: to a task. Casita and doctor Jim, Hey Jim, welcome
Speaker 1: to guarden Line.
Speaker 10: Good morning.
Speaker 11: The best way check moisture in the ground.
Speaker 3: How do you do it?
Speaker 10: Another one?
Speaker 11: You're checking your trees?
Speaker 1: Are we talking about fairly new planeted trees, you know,
Speaker 1: in the first couple of years or what are.
Speaker 4: We talking about?
Speaker 6: Yeah? Okay, all new, they're all new.
Speaker 1: Well, you know, the just the simple primitive way would
Speaker 1: be to go out there, get you a hand trowel
Speaker 1: or something, dig down about four inches or so, about
Speaker 1: four or five inches, and then just feel the soil
Speaker 1: and see how it's doing and kind of get a
Speaker 1: feel from it. That way literally a feel from it.
Speaker 9: Uh.
Speaker 1: There are moisture meters that are very erratic in their accuracy,
Speaker 1: depending on so particle size and as to how well
Speaker 1: they actually measure. When it's a tree in an area
Speaker 1: that you think maybe getting could get too much water,
Speaker 1: some people will put a pipe down into the grain.
Speaker 1: And let's say, I'm going to just make up a
Speaker 1: number here, but let's say you got a pipe that
Speaker 1: was about oh an inch and half in diameter and
Speaker 1: you put it down into the ground at the depth
Speaker 1: of the root ball that you planted. Then you can
Speaker 1: come along with a little doll stick and stick it
Speaker 1: down in that pipe and then pull it back out
Speaker 1: and you can see if it's wet at the bottom
Speaker 1: or not. You can see if they're standing water in
Speaker 1: it or if you see what I'm saying, and you
Speaker 1: always want to water it and don't overwater it. That
Speaker 1: that keeps you from kind of overwatering it, because if
Speaker 1: water is coming up in that pipe, that's not good.
Speaker 1: But the only other thing is just going by the
Speaker 1: temperatures and doing a good moderate soaking just periodically to
Speaker 1: help it along. And that's you know, you kind of
Speaker 1: have to learn your soil, if you have sandy soil
Speaker 1: or clay soil or whatever, frequency of watering is going
Speaker 1: to vary a lot. Okay.
Speaker 11: And also was just told that you should never water
Speaker 11: a newly planted tree day. Is that correct?
Speaker 1: Well, that is a very good question.
Speaker 11: And the reason why they said that because you should
Speaker 11: give you should give the roots a chance to expand
Speaker 11: and find water on their own. Is that true?
Speaker 1: I wouldn't say it that way. I tell you what
Speaker 1: here in a nutshell is the deal on this when
Speaker 1: you buy it. Let's see, you know, butterle of tree
Speaker 1: for a tree whatever, and it's sitting in a garden center.
Speaker 1: They're watering it every day to make sure it has
Speaker 1: a good soaking and it stays wet. It depends on
Speaker 1: the time and it's cooler and cloud and stuff. They're
Speaker 1: not watering it every day. But my point is it
Speaker 1: needs constant water because the whole root system is right
Speaker 1: there in the pot, and the holes drain out well,
Speaker 1: so you don't overwater it, so it doesn't hurt the
Speaker 1: water like that. When you put it in the ground,
Speaker 1: the root system is still the same and the top
Speaker 1: is still pumping water out through the leaves on warm
Speaker 1: sunny days, so you are having to water frequently to
Speaker 1: keep that little root ball moist. You don't want to
Speaker 1: overwater it and get soggy. That is deadly to a tree.
Speaker 1: But on the other hand, even in moist soil, the
Speaker 1: water can't wig end fast enough into that root ball
Speaker 1: to supply the tree. You're going to need to water
Speaker 1: the base of it. And gradually you're watering a bigger
Speaker 1: area but less frequently, And it's just a it's a transition.
Speaker 1: That's why it's so much better to plant and fall
Speaker 1: and winter in spring because the demands aren't so high.
Speaker 1: When you plant in July and August, you can you
Speaker 1: can plant then and keep a tree alive. But that
Speaker 1: it's a touch and goat thing. Not too much water,
Speaker 1: not enough water, you know what I'm saying. So what
Speaker 1: you said about watering every day, Yeah, I could see
Speaker 1: a situation where you would water very lightly every day
Speaker 1: that rootball, just don't overwater it. That's early on, But
Speaker 1: as soon as you can, you're wanting to back off,
Speaker 1: and you're wanting to switch your watering cycle to where
Speaker 1: eventually within by the time that you get the end
Speaker 1: of the first summer, you should be watering about once
Speaker 1: a week, and that ought to be more than enough.
Speaker 10: The next question you mentioned, Hey, hey.
Speaker 1: Jim, I'm gonna have to put I might to put
Speaker 1: you on. I got to put you on. Who go
Speaker 1: to a break? Hang on, we'll come back. Alrighty, we're
Speaker 1: hopping here on Guarden Line. Good to have you with us.
Speaker 1: I guess what I did yesterday? I barbecued. I had
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Speaker 1: to go now back to a task Asita and Jim,
Speaker 1: I think you had a quick follow up question.
Speaker 11: Right, and also to help you out on that that
Speaker 11: Microlife Biometrics is a seven to one three Ye that
Speaker 11: last call you have seven three okay, yeah, okay, yeah.
Speaker 11: When mixing I mix the four to two three with
Speaker 11: the microlife, soil and plant energy. I made a mix
Speaker 11: of that. You have mentioned something about spring. You said
Speaker 11: spray upwards under the leaf, but if you just spray
Speaker 11: inside and under it and all around, that also helps correct.
Speaker 1: Yeah, So the reason folio feeding is an unnatural way
Speaker 1: for plants to kind of take in nutrients there. Plants
Speaker 1: are designed taking nutrients from the roots. Okay, but if
Speaker 1: you follow your feed in the morning, the stomates, which
Speaker 1: are little openings in the bottom of the leaf are open,
Speaker 1: and you get better take in of the nutrients. And
Speaker 1: not all nutrients are taken in the same on leaves
Speaker 1: for folio feeding. Centris tends to have a waxy kind
Speaker 1: of leaf surface anyway, a little shining, and so just
Speaker 1: spraying over the top you're not going to get the uptake.
Speaker 1: But in the morning, when the stowmates are open, spring
Speaker 1: upward to the undersurfaces would be the way to go
Speaker 1: about that. All righty, thank you sir. I'm gonna I'm
Speaker 1: gonna need yeah, I'm gonna need to run, but thanks
Speaker 1: for the call. Jim. Look forward to, uh, you know,
Speaker 1: seeing some pictures of these these beautiful trees that you're
Speaker 1: taking care of you take care you too, talking about
Speaker 1: the ace hardware and just you know, find everything you
Speaker 1: need there. They have everything. I mean they have. You
Speaker 1: can get the propane tank there. If you've got a
Speaker 1: gas type grill, that's another another thing. Uh, and any
Speaker 1: kind of outdoor beautification around, you know, a patio of
Speaker 1: landscape stuff. They've got all this good stuff for it. Hey,
Speaker 1: have you been to Plants for All Seasons recently? Plants
Speaker 1: for All Seasons is at Luetta and Tumball Parkway, which
Speaker 1: is highway to So if you're going north from Houston
Speaker 1: toward Tomball, you exit Luetta across over Luetta and it's
Speaker 1: right there on the right hand side. And if you're
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Speaker 1: bright shady area is a perfect plant for that. It's
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Speaker 1: maybe a little smaller than that, and then these bloomstalks
Speaker 1: that are just beautiful. They make a cup flowers too,
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Speaker 1: the airways. I guess you could say, I don't know,
Speaker 1: tell that sounds a little bit corny to me. But
Speaker 1: we want to help you have success. And today is
Speaker 1: going to be a good day to get out and
Speaker 1: enjoy this afternoon, we're gonna have some nice weather at least,
Speaker 1: you know, as far as I'm concerned whether we can
Speaker 1: we can actually get out and get a little bit
Speaker 1: done in Sometimes when it comes to gardening and gardening tasks,
Speaker 1: I think we we tend to kind of make something
Speaker 1: bigger than it needs to be. You know, we think,
Speaker 1: oh my gosh, I got to do this, I don't
Speaker 1: know how to do this and stuff. It's really it's
Speaker 1: really not that difficult, and when you take it in
Speaker 1: small chunks, it works pretty good.
Speaker 6: Now.
Speaker 1: I'm I need to take my own advice there, because
Speaker 1: I get out gardening and I feel like I got
Speaker 1: to get it all done today, you know, and I
Speaker 1: go and go Instead of spending a short time out
Speaker 1: getting some things done and going doing some other stuff
Speaker 1: come back to another time. I just tend to stick
Speaker 1: around and nothing else nothing else gets done that day
Speaker 1: but my gardening. And when summer comes and it's blazing hot,
Speaker 1: that is not a good way to do. Get a
Speaker 1: little work done early, early in the morning, get maybe
Speaker 1: a little done toward the end of the day. It's
Speaker 1: still warm at the end day. But pace yourself. Take
Speaker 1: care of yourself too, by the way, take care of
Speaker 1: yourself because a lot of things that they sneak up
Speaker 1: on us. For example, a heat stroke is one that
Speaker 1: can sneak up on you. I remember, I've never had
Speaker 1: heat stroke. I have had heat exhaustion, and that scared
Speaker 1: me enough to kind of get my attention. But skin damage,
Speaker 1: you know, take care of that. I bought some little
Speaker 1: sleeves that you slide up your arm. They're actually a
Speaker 1: kind that like bicyclists might wear. On one end your thumb,
Speaker 1: there's a hole for your thumb and your fingers to
Speaker 1: come out, and the sleeve just goes over the top
Speaker 1: of your hand and all the way back, all the
Speaker 1: way up into your bicep underneath your short sleeve shirt.
Speaker 1: And I use those driving in the car, but I
Speaker 1: also get out there and do some gardening. There's some
Speaker 1: nice brands out there. Come in different colors and shape,
Speaker 1: sizes and things. But take care of your skin. Sun
Speaker 1: damages is cumulative. And these sleeves you may be thinking, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's blazing hot. I don't wear them. It's cooler to
Speaker 1: wear them. When I put that sleeve on, it's very
Speaker 1: it's very thin, a very kind of spandexy, I guess
Speaker 1: very you know, stretchy. And when I go out and
Speaker 1: if your body perspires just a little bit, it cools
Speaker 1: off real fast. It blocks the direct sun from getting on.
Speaker 1: You just got good SPF factor and it makes gardening easier.
Speaker 1: The first time someone convinced me that gardening in a
Speaker 1: long sleeve shirt was actually cooler than gardening and shirt sleeves,
Speaker 1: and it's really true, especially if it wicks the moisture
Speaker 1: away pretty well. All right, well that's enough advice. I'm
Speaker 1: not your mom, but I do. I do like to
Speaker 1: remind people of those things because they are important. We
Speaker 1: want you to take care of yourself. Out in the
Speaker 1: garden yesterday we were watching the birds coming to our feeder.
Speaker 1: I have the eliminator feeder from wild Birds Unlimited. It's
Speaker 1: one of my several feeders, but the eliminator from wild
Speaker 1: Birds on Limited. The squirrels can't get in it. They
Speaker 1: climb up the pole, they try to reach over there.
Speaker 1: When they grab a hold of it, the door shuts
Speaker 1: and they can't get to the food. And they don't
Speaker 1: like that, and I do like that. And we were
Speaker 1: watching birds coming to the feeders, and just so many
Speaker 1: kinds of birds now are out and about. You know,
Speaker 1: it's nesting season. This is a time when birds need
Speaker 1: an extra powerful blend that's going to have the oils,
Speaker 1: the proteins, the calcium and things like that that are
Speaker 1: all part of everything from laying eggs to skeletal development
Speaker 1: of the birds. And wild Birds Unlimited has something called
Speaker 1: Nesting Super Blend. It's only available there. You can't get
Speaker 1: it anywhere else. You can buy it in bags, you
Speaker 1: can buy it by those compressed seed cylinders. So whatever
Speaker 1: kind of feeder you have, you can put the Nesting
Speaker 1: super Blend in it, and you need to. It is
Speaker 1: a good support for our birds at this time. Now
Speaker 1: you're going to find Nesting Super Blend at any of
Speaker 1: our six wild Birds Unlimited stores here in the Houston AIO.
Speaker 1: So if you're listening to me and you're up in Cypress, well,
Speaker 1: there's one on Barker Cypress. Maybe you're kind of West
Speaker 1: Houston and a Memorial Drive store would be the one
Speaker 1: close to you. Maybe kind of south in a little
Speaker 1: to the west, the bel Air store may be the
Speaker 1: best one for you. If you're in Pairland on East Broadway,
Speaker 1: you'll find a wild Birds. In clear Lake, there's one
Speaker 1: on El Dorado, and in Kingwood on Kingwood Drive another
Speaker 1: wild Bird's unlimited store. Now, while you're there, check out
Speaker 1: everything they have and spend some time talking to them.
Speaker 1: Take your questions, and these folks know what they're talking about.
Speaker 1: They really do. They're experts, and if you have questions,
Speaker 1: they can help you. They can help you find the solutions.
Speaker 1: I love their bird seed for a number of reasons,
Speaker 1: but mainly because it is quality seed without all the filler.
Speaker 1: If you want to sell bird seed and you want
Speaker 1: to sell it cheap, and I use the word cheap
Speaker 1: not in a positive way, you just fill it full
Speaker 1: of the lower red bebes. And I've seen bird seed
Speaker 1: that is like sixty seventy percent red bebes. That's a
Speaker 1: sortum and it just birds don't like that. That's not
Speaker 1: I mean, if they're starving to death, de leat it,
Speaker 1: but that is not what they like. It ends up
Speaker 1: on the ground and it sprouts, and now you got
Speaker 1: weeds under your bird feeder because you planted the weeds
Speaker 1: there by putting that in the feeder. Get a quality feed.
Speaker 1: Wild Birds Unlimited has blends for different seasons. They have
Speaker 1: different blends for different kinds of birds, different groups of birds,
Speaker 1: and then they have something called no mess blends. So
Speaker 1: when you get a no mess blend, you're getting this
Speaker 1: certain amount of certain kinds of seed blend, but you're
Speaker 1: getting it so there's zero mess. For example, if there's
Speaker 1: sunflowers in it, the shells are already off, so you
Speaker 1: don't have a blow pole sunflower shells underneath the feeder.
Speaker 1: That's the no messed option, no mess option, and they
Speaker 1: will will sell you probably and cylinders if you want
Speaker 1: to go that way, or loose bags, however you want
Speaker 1: to go about it. They have quality products and you
Speaker 1: see the difference. I've seen it in my feeders, just
Speaker 1: the enthusiasm and the amount of birds that are coming.
Speaker 1: They're just lining up down the block to get in there.
Speaker 1: Because I love quality seed, and that's exactly what they
Speaker 1: get from wild Birds unlimited. All right, So there you go.
Speaker 1: If you've never gotten into birds, you need to try.
Speaker 1: Just get one bird feeder, put it out where you
Speaker 1: sit in the morning with your cup of coffee, and
Speaker 1: you will really really enjoy it. It is addictive. Though
Speaker 1: you've been warned all right on talking about gardening and
Speaker 1: garden line. I wanted to talk a little bit about
Speaker 1: some herbs today, and I'm not going to have time
Speaker 1: to get too far into them here before I take
Speaker 1: a break, but I just wanted to start with basil.
Speaker 1: Basil loves hot weather. I didn't even want to grow
Speaker 1: when it's cool spring weather. It wants hot weather. And
Speaker 1: there are so many kinds of basil from the standard
Speaker 1: Genoees kind of type basil that you would think of
Speaker 1: when you're thinking about cooking with basil and making pestos
Speaker 1: and things like that, to all these flavored basils. You know,
Speaker 1: there's basils that are a lemony flavor. I have the
Speaker 1: African blue basil. I'm not particularly fond of it culinary wise,
Speaker 1: but some people love that flavor. There's basils with the
Speaker 1: licorice type of flavor, the tie basil and things, and
Speaker 1: I grow the African blue just for the pollinators. I've
Speaker 1: never seen a plant that's just so covered with pollinators
Speaker 1: all the time. Is African blue basil when it goes
Speaker 1: to blum. It's a very good, hardy plant. But why
Speaker 1: not add some basil to your gardens this year. It
Speaker 1: could go in a flower bed, it can go in
Speaker 1: a vegetable garden. It doesn't matter where you put it
Speaker 1: in a container. But we went out the other day
Speaker 1: and we were harvesting herbs. One of my daughters was
Speaker 1: out chopping through our oregano bringing some in because we
Speaker 1: were doing some cooking. And it's just nice having fresh
Speaker 1: herbs yourself, and they're not hard to grow. I'll talk
Speaker 1: about that more. We come back. All right now, we're
Speaker 1: gonna take a little break if you'd like to give
Speaker 1: me a call. Seven one three two one two KTRH.
Speaker 1: All right, folks, we're back. Good Davey back. Thanks for
Speaker 1: hanging around with us on garden Line this morning. We've
Speaker 1: got some interesting questions here. In fact, let's head up
Speaker 1: to Cyprus and visit with Martha this morning. Hey, Martha,
Speaker 1: welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 12: Thanks Jim. I had this plant. I got it a
Speaker 12: couple of years ago and had it repotted into a
Speaker 12: bigger pot, and I put it out on the atrium for.
Speaker 10: The cold weather and when I look and then.
Speaker 12: I forgot about it. So I looked at it just
Speaker 12: recently and it had grown tremendously and the big leaves
Speaker 12: had fallen down as you be. And I don't know
Speaker 12: whether to cut them off whether. I don't know what
Speaker 12: I should do with that plant. It's pretty healthy, but
Speaker 12: I don't know what to do with it.
Speaker 1: Yes, well, that's a kellal lily, the one you sent
Speaker 1: me the photos of. And Kellalies are wonderful plants, that is.
Speaker 1: You know, there's eight hundred thousand bazillion kinds of plants
Speaker 1: out there, and believe it or not, in almost forty
Speaker 1: years now, I haven't gotten around all of them yet.
Speaker 1: And so keller lily is one that I began working
Speaker 1: with more last year, and we planted a bunch of it,
Speaker 1: and I thought it in a pot, and we thought
Speaker 1: they had all died because they kind of shrunk back
Speaker 1: and shribbled. But I just set the pot out of
Speaker 1: the way because and the time at the moment to
Speaker 1: mess with it. In this spring, we came out the
Speaker 1: same thing as we looked and all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: here comes kllalilies out of the pot. Oh that's great,
Speaker 1: But yours look a little lanky and kellalily And it's
Speaker 1: a native environment. It's an African plant. I'm pretty sure that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure that's right. Anyway, it gets a lot
Speaker 1: of sun, full sun kind of thing. Now, I've always
Speaker 1: felt like maybe we should put it in a little
Speaker 1: bit of a break from the hottest time of the day.
Speaker 1: So when we get into hotter summer weather, maybe give
Speaker 1: it a little bit of a very late day shade.
Speaker 1: But it'll be a more compact plant that way. When
Speaker 1: it gets super lanky and the petiols are thin of
Speaker 1: what you described, Martha and what's in your photos, they
Speaker 1: kind of flop over, and I wouldn't remove them. If
Speaker 1: they turn yellow, go ahead and cut them back near
Speaker 1: where they attach at the base. But they are capturing sunlight,
Speaker 1: and they're making carbohydrates, and they're feeding the little bulbs
Speaker 1: that are that are in the soil there. So make
Speaker 1: sure that you leave the leaves on as long as
Speaker 1: you can, as long as they're doing something for you.
Speaker 12: Well, is it better to plant it out in the ground.
Speaker 1: Some people do. Yeah, some people do. They they like
Speaker 1: consistently moist soil. It's a little dry, they're not going
Speaker 1: to be happy. So in a container, you need to
Speaker 1: water them regularly to keep that soul moist. Some people
Speaker 1: even go to the step of getting a tray that
Speaker 1: they can put water in and then they set the
Speaker 1: plant in that tray. And I don't mean like the
Speaker 1: plant is immersed in water. I mean just like maybe
Speaker 1: the bottom inch of the soil in the pot is underwater,
Speaker 1: and so it can constantly lick the water up. And
Speaker 1: that way you don't forget to water it. You just
Speaker 1: have to throw some mosquito dunks in there periodically, so
Speaker 1: you don't breed mosquitoes in that.
Speaker 12: Oh okay, okay, okay, all right, I'll try that. I
Speaker 12: mean because it looks really healthy. I was shocked when
Speaker 12: I looked at it because I hadn't looked at it
Speaker 12: for a lunch.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, look, no, it does look very healthy and
Speaker 1: it's beautiful.
Speaker 9: Now.
Speaker 1: The sunlight they're capturing now helps build the energy reserves.
Speaker 1: And I said earlier a bulb, it's actually a rhizome
Speaker 1: to produce the flowers. So at the end of the season,
Speaker 1: your foliage is gonna, you know, just kind of disappear
Speaker 1: away and the plan will go dormant. And then in
Speaker 1: winter let them be dry, just let them sit, let
Speaker 1: the pots sit there, and you don't have to worry
Speaker 1: about water or anything in the winter. And then when
Speaker 1: the spring growth comes, you will have those bulbs that
Speaker 1: have the energy they need to be able to bloom
Speaker 1: better for you next year.
Speaker 12: Okay, okay, okay, all right, okay, thanks, I guess I'll
Speaker 12: keep it.
Speaker 1: Oh gosh, you got to keep it? Yeah, you bet,
Speaker 1: you bet.
Speaker 6: Well.
Speaker 1: Enjoy it. They're beautiful.
Speaker 12: Yeah, it's in an atrium and it does get some there.
Speaker 12: But I should put it out, probably right, I mean
Speaker 12: I put it, I think so, yeah, from the winter.
Speaker 1: And yes, I but pot we had last year that
Speaker 1: I didn't have in good sunlight, uh, and then it
Speaker 1: came out this year. It was lanky like that because
Speaker 1: it's not an enough sun uh. And it had one
Speaker 1: we call them blooms, but their spaths, those those colorful
Speaker 1: structures that are on top of a calo lily. It
Speaker 1: only had one for the whole plant. And it's just
Speaker 1: because it didn't have the energy. It's all about sunlight.
Speaker 1: Carbon energy for any kind of I didn't.
Speaker 12: See any flowers at all. I didn't I've never seen
Speaker 12: any flowers on it. Do I need to feed it?
Speaker 1: Then we'll take good care of it, okay, all right?
Speaker 1: Well moderate, just just moderate something with a good phosphorus content. Yeah,
Speaker 1: just a oh gosh, yeah, just a moderate amount. As
Speaker 1: you can see, it doesn't lack for nitrogen. It's it's
Speaker 1: got some bigger in it. It looks okay, but just
Speaker 1: a moderate amount. Don't don't overdo it because then it
Speaker 1: gets real floppy and lanky. All right, thanks for the
Speaker 1: thanks for the call. I appreciate that, Martha. All right,
Speaker 1: next year, when you take care of it, uh, send
Speaker 1: me a picture of all the blooms on it. Will
Speaker 1: take a look at those. Uh yeah, kalallyes. You see
Speaker 1: those in stores now, they're selling them, you know, full
Speaker 1: of blooms. They have been for a little while now,
Speaker 1: they've been probably the last month I've been seeing them
Speaker 1: out there in stores. It's a good plant.
Speaker 6: You know.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of plants like that. We just don't
Speaker 1: we don't use them enough and and deal with them enough,
Speaker 1: and they end up it's like that's hard to grow.
Speaker 1: It doesn't work.
Speaker 6: Well.
Speaker 1: All you had need is to know is what a
Speaker 1: plant wants. You got to think like a plant, you know.
Speaker 1: That's why I said there's no green thumbs, there's just
Speaker 1: informed thumbs. Well, now, if you got a kalally, give
Speaker 1: it good sunlight, keep it constantly moist, do not let
Speaker 1: it dry out. Let it dry out in summer I
Speaker 1: mean in the winter, and set dormant and bring it
Speaker 1: back out and you'll have It's easy care. It really
Speaker 1: is easy. We did nothing, do nothing for our calilies
Speaker 1: from the end of the season all the way up
Speaker 1: until spring. When you start to see new growth. That's
Speaker 1: when you bring it out and give it some good
Speaker 1: sunlight again. All right, there you go, and some people,
Speaker 1: if some of you grow them in the shade in
Speaker 1: your beds, give me a call. I'd like to hear
Speaker 1: about what you do, how much light they get, and
Speaker 1: everything like that. I know you can, and so maybe
Speaker 1: that that would be of interest to some other folks
Speaker 1: to hear about your success. Medina. Medina is a lawn
Speaker 1: and garden product source for all kinds of good things.
Speaker 1: There are two products I want to tell you about
Speaker 1: right now. One of them is and they both go
Speaker 1: on a hose end. They're a bottle that has a
Speaker 1: little screw attachment onto the garden hose. One of them
Speaker 1: is Medina has to grow lawn, has to grow lawn.
Speaker 1: Remember when a bottle says the name of a plant,
Speaker 1: that doesn't mean you can't use it on other plants.
Speaker 1: It just means that's what they're primarily marketing it for,
Speaker 1: is lawns. Okay, it's a It is a twelve four eight.
Speaker 1: That's a three one two ratio, which is what I
Speaker 1: like to see in a lawn fertilizer. Twelve for a
Speaker 1: Medina has to grow on You look it up at
Speaker 1: the garden hose, you go over your lawn, just follow
Speaker 1: the instructions. It's easy. It's just really easy to do.
Speaker 1: I like it because if you've got some spots that
Speaker 1: they just need a boost, you can go out there
Speaker 1: with your hose end sprayer. The hose end sprayer be
Speaker 1: in the bottle itself and you can just kind of
Speaker 1: dose those areas, I say, feather it out into the others.
Speaker 1: You know, just you don't have just a line like
Speaker 1: with a dry fertilizer, where you drop it and then
Speaker 1: where it's not it's like green here, not green there.
Speaker 1: You can just kind of feather it out and really
Speaker 1: kind of give a boost to some little spots. But
Speaker 1: it's not just for that, it's for your lawn. The
Speaker 1: other product for Medina is called Supergrow Plus. Super Grow
Speaker 1: Plus same thing, bottle, hook it up to a garden hose.
Speaker 1: I mean these things are for sale in larger quantities too,
Speaker 1: like gallons. But Supergrow Plus is a sixteen zero two
Speaker 1: that is a boost of nitrogen and it's excellent for lawns.
Speaker 1: It works very very well. I've used both of them.
Speaker 1: I like both of them. I would recommend that you
Speaker 1: use both of them. And so it just gives you
Speaker 1: the ability to do that precision application. Now, if you
Speaker 1: get anything that needs a boost of nitrogen and get
Speaker 1: it growing. Could be your herb garden, could be your
Speaker 1: tomato plants and a vegetable garden or something else, you
Speaker 1: can use these Medina lawn products for that and it'll
Speaker 1: do the same good thing for those other plants as well.
Speaker 1: All righty Medina products from Medina. Now you're gonna find
Speaker 1: Medina products everywhere you go to Southwest Fertilizer. I mean
Speaker 1: they got probably every Medina product under the sun. You're
Speaker 1: going to find them at garden centers, you know you're
Speaker 1: your independent garden centers. You're going to find them at
Speaker 1: feed stores. You're going to find them at these hardware stores.
Speaker 1: They're widely available, easy to find, and they work, that's
Speaker 1: the bottom line. As they work. You're listening to garden Line.
Speaker 1: My number here is seven one three two one two
Speaker 1: kt r H seven one three two one two kt
Speaker 1: RH makes it really easy to give a call and
Speaker 1: we'll talk about the things that are of interest to you.
Speaker 1: I'm going to go back to herbs. I was talking
Speaker 1: about herbs before break and I mentioned the fact that
Speaker 1: basil loves heat. It's easy, easy, easy to grow. Give
Speaker 1: it lots of sun and enjoy it. Most types of
Speaker 1: basil will start to bloom and set seeds. If you're
Speaker 1: going for basil foliage to eat, that's not a good
Speaker 1: thing because when it starts blooming and setting seeds, it
Speaker 1: doesn't produce the big, old, nice leaves that you're wanting
Speaker 1: to harvest. It kind of runs out and it puts
Speaker 1: all its energy into blooming and setting seed. That's when
Speaker 1: the pollinators get very interested in it, though, so you
Speaker 1: can go for that. I will share my basil back
Speaker 1: periodically to get fresh new growth on it, give it
Speaker 1: a little boost of energy with some nitrogen that has
Speaker 1: to grows twelve four eight has to grow on would
Speaker 1: be a good one to use for basil to give
Speaker 1: it a little boost. But anyway, you give it a
Speaker 1: boost and get some fresh new growth out and then
Speaker 1: you just can enjoy it. Again. Consider all the different
Speaker 1: kinds I mentioned oregano. There's several types of oregano, several
Speaker 1: types of oregano that you can plant. Oregano makes a
Speaker 1: great groundcover. I would highly recommend you get herbs out
Speaker 1: of the herb garden if you want to make a
Speaker 1: beautiful Louis the fourteenth type geometric, all trimmed up in
Speaker 1: everything herb garden, go for it, do that right, but
Speaker 1: put herbs in your vegetable garden. I have chives at
Speaker 1: the end of my rose. I have a regano growing
Speaker 1: at the end of the I put basil at the
Speaker 1: end of the tomato. In fact, if you're going to
Speaker 1: grow tomatoes, why not put basil on one end and
Speaker 1: a regano in the other. And you're just ready to
Speaker 1: go for all the stuff you do with tomatoes right
Speaker 1: there in your garden.
Speaker 3: Do that.
Speaker 1: Time is another great one. It's not as vigorous as
Speaker 1: a regano and spreading, but it stays nice and low
Speaker 1: for the most part, and it does really well. I
Speaker 1: think we My wife has like three a time growing
Speaker 1: in her planting garden and it looks really good. Makes
Speaker 1: a good good groundcover. You can do all of these
Speaker 1: and containers as well. So if you have a big
Speaker 1: old pot full of flowers and things, why not you
Speaker 1: let some oregano or time spill over the edge of it.
Speaker 1: There's always a place for herbs. They're fun to grow,
Speaker 1: and it's not a healthier way to season up your
Speaker 1: food than with the herbs you grew yourself fresh from
Speaker 1: your garden. I need to take a little break here
Speaker 1: and we will be back with your calls at seven
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Speaker 13: My questions about day lilies. Okay, I have a number
Speaker 13: of them that have shrouded up, and I find out
Speaker 13: why they call them day lilies. They roll up at
Speaker 13: night or in the evening. But anyway, what is it
Speaker 13: okay to put them in a container?
Speaker 1: You can grow day lilies in the container if you
Speaker 1: keep it adequately watered, and do it in a container
Speaker 1: with a volume of soil in it, not just like
Speaker 1: a little gallon bucket, you know. I mean you need
Speaker 1: you need to give them plenty of soil to work with,
Speaker 1: but you could do that. They're pretty tough plants, all right,
Speaker 1: all right?
Speaker 13: Do I feed them anything?
Speaker 1: Get you a fertilizer that has a good middle number
Speaker 1: content that's phosphorus, and apply it just periodically. You can
Speaker 1: do it in the spring. You can do it in
Speaker 1: the summer if you need to. But the bottom line
Speaker 1: is you just want to keep them healthy. You don't
Speaker 1: want to push them into lots of growth in our lawns.
Speaker 1: We're always pushing them with nitrogen to make them grow
Speaker 1: because we want them green and full and thick. With
Speaker 1: daylilies and other flowering plants for that matter, our goal
Speaker 1: is the flowers, and so we don't have to over
Speaker 1: push with nitrogen and things. But you can get a
Speaker 1: lot of good products. The folks at Nelson Plant Food
Speaker 1: have a number of different products that will do very well.
Speaker 1: There's one called color Star. Color Star you'll find it
Speaker 1: little in your area wherever Nelson products are sold, and
Speaker 1: follow the label on it. But color Star would be
Speaker 1: an excellent one for use on your.
Speaker 13: Dayly Lisa, I put one of them in a quart
Speaker 13: container and took it to my neighbor as a gift.
Speaker 13: Would that be too small for it.
Speaker 1: For long term? Yeah, for long term it would. I'm
Speaker 1: not sure what we're I'm not real sure we're talking
Speaker 1: about day lilies here. Are you real sure that that's
Speaker 1: the name of this plant?
Speaker 13: No, I'm not really right now. I don't have a
Speaker 13: way to get the information to you. I can ask
Speaker 13: a friend maybe to do it, but it may be another.
Speaker 1: That's fine. Let me ask you this what color of
Speaker 1: the blooms?
Speaker 13: They're a cream white.
Speaker 1: Okay, creamy white. And are they shaped like a trumpet?
Speaker 1: Or are they shaped like a.
Speaker 13: Trumpet? It's just one boom to a stam. This stem
Speaker 13: is the size of a straw. It looks like about okay,
Speaker 13: well over foot tall, and they have a ball at
Speaker 13: the bottom.
Speaker 1: Okay, Well, maybe maybe we're dealing with the dailily. There
Speaker 1: are several plants that have that fit that description. But
Speaker 1: whatever it is, the the advice I gave you is
Speaker 1: is going to be sound for the whatever kind of
Speaker 1: plant that fits that description.
Speaker 13: All right, thank you very much.
Speaker 1: All right, all right, all right, you take care of yourself.
Speaker 1: Good to talk to you.
Speaker 13: All right, thank you, bye bye.
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Speaker 1: your questions. Listen, phone number you need this one seven
Speaker 1: one three two one two k t r H. You
Speaker 1: don't talk about today. I'm kind of going on about herbs.
Speaker 1: And we'll continue to here for a while because I'm
Speaker 1: trying to convince you that you need to grow more herbs.
Speaker 1: I really think you do. There are very few plants
Speaker 1: that are so versatile as herbs. There are herbs that bloom.
Speaker 1: I planted some pineapple sage the other day. Pineapple sage
Speaker 1: is a Salvia, Okay, so there's a lot of great Salvius.
Speaker 1: Salvia is my favorite genus of plants that is out there.
Speaker 1: If I had to pick one genus, it would be Salvius.
Speaker 1: And I like a lot of plants, but I would
Speaker 1: pick Salvius. Anyway. I planted some pineapple stage in late summer,
Speaker 1: and in fall it puts out even the most for
Speaker 1: the whole year. Red tubular, long, skinny blooms that hummingbirds love.
Speaker 1: Of course, it has a pineapple fragrance to the foliage,
Speaker 1: but in fall it is quite the bloomer. Another fall
Speaker 1: blooming herb is Mexican mint marigol. Some people call it
Speaker 1: Mexican marigol mint. That is not the name. It's not
Speaker 1: a mint. It is a marigold Mexican mint marigold. Okay.
Speaker 1: It has a licorice smell smelling foliage. So think of
Speaker 1: black jelly beans. That's what the foliage smells like on it.
Speaker 1: In fall, it loads up a clusters of little yellow
Speaker 1: daisy like flowers that are absolutely beautiful. So that would
Speaker 1: be another good one to plant now so that you
Speaker 1: could enjoy it in the fall. There are herbs for flowers,
Speaker 1: There are herbs for flavors, There are herbs for beautiful foliage.
Speaker 1: Try some herbs this year. I'm going to take a break.
Speaker 1: We'll be right back with your calls. Welcome back to Guardline.
Speaker 1: Good to have you with us today. Hey, uh, bugs
Speaker 1: bugs in the lawn? What do you do? What do
Speaker 1: you do for chinchbugs? It's not quite chinchbug season yet,
Speaker 1: it's coming. If you get my schedule, the long pest
Speaker 1: disease and we'd management schedule. You see when we start
Speaker 1: to look for chinchbugs, you see when we treat for grubs.
Speaker 1: You see when we deal with you know, various things
Speaker 1: through the year. That's what the schedules put there. What
Speaker 1: about fire ants, that's another one they're always around. It
Speaker 1: seems like, well, bug Out Max Granules covers it all.
Speaker 1: Bug Out Max is a lawn and garden insect control
Speaker 1: and you put it out on your lawn and it
Speaker 1: deals with all the different things we're dealing with, from
Speaker 1: grubs to fire ants to caterpillars that are chomping on things.
Speaker 1: Even if you have fleas out there and the maybe
Speaker 1: you got a dog and there's fleas living in the thatch.
Speaker 1: That's part of the cycle of fleas and then they
Speaker 1: bring them inside. Bug out Max granules by Nitrofoss that
Speaker 1: will shut them down. Now, so where do you get
Speaker 1: that kind of thing? Well, for example, you could get
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Speaker 1: to Langham Creek Ace Hardware that's on five pot twenty
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Speaker 1: Foss products. Let's go to the phones now. We're going
Speaker 1: to head out to Magnolia and talk to Jane. Hello, Jane,
Speaker 1: Welcome to garden Line. Hello, Hello, Hi, how can I help?
Speaker 14: I have a really tall crate myrtle like it's over
Speaker 14: my rooftop and like every time this tiny year, I
Speaker 14: feel like it's raining underneath it.
Speaker 4: But it's really not raining.
Speaker 14: It's kind of like a gummy white substance.
Speaker 10: And I don't know what it is.
Speaker 1: Gummy white. Well, I'm not sure if it's.
Speaker 14: White or clear, but it feels like it's raining underneath
Speaker 14: underneath that tree. Nowhere else in the in the whole ark,
Speaker 14: but underneath that tree.
Speaker 1: Well, well, uh have you ever you know, you know
Speaker 1: how people are like sitting outside and they got drinks
Speaker 1: and they got the little umbrellas in their drink. You've
Speaker 1: seen that, right, Yeah, you need to get umbrellas because
Speaker 1: of what I'm about to tell you. Oh, bugs are
Speaker 1: peeing on you. That's what's happening, and so you need
Speaker 1: a little umbrella for your drinks, so your iced tea
Speaker 1: or whatever. Out there. Bugs there are insects that suck
Speaker 1: the sap out of plants and they get the they
Speaker 1: get the minerals and nutrient kinds of things out of it.
Speaker 1: But they drink so much that it's going in one
Speaker 1: end and out the other end of the bug. And
Speaker 1: they're just constantly squirting that little little bits out and
Speaker 1: so it doesn't really hurt the tree much. The trees
Speaker 1: able to more than make up for it, but it does.
Speaker 1: Sometimes some of those substances are very sugary, and we
Speaker 1: get honeydew, and therefore we get a city mold, the
Speaker 1: black city mold growing. That's some types of insects are
Speaker 1: causing that. There's other types that they just pe out
Speaker 1: a little watery substance, and that's what it is. Now.
Speaker 1: You can look at it two ways. You know. You
Speaker 1: can look at it for what it is and get
Speaker 1: grossed out, or you can look at it as a
Speaker 1: nice missed system that helps cool you last summer when
Speaker 1: you're sitting underneath getting a little spray of the let's
Speaker 1: just say.
Speaker 10: A little bit.
Speaker 14: There's a little bit of black black on the bark
Speaker 14: at the very bottom of the tree, like a dark Yeah.
Speaker 1: Well, crape myrtles also have crepe myrtle bark scale and aphids,
Speaker 1: and both of those put out the sugary water that
Speaker 1: causes the city growth. What you're describing to me as
Speaker 1: a different insect is more of a plant hopper, and
Speaker 1: so yeah, that's that's it. Well, I don't know, I mean,
Speaker 1: you could nuke your tree and kill everything. Now it's not.
Speaker 1: And I just don't like, you know, sending people out
Speaker 1: to nuke the tree with insecticides because something with six
Speaker 1: legs is crawling around on it, So I would I
Speaker 1: would ignore it. Just yeah, just you can get you
Speaker 1: can get the little umbrellas, I'm sure on Amazon for
Speaker 1: a good price. And so there you go. Maybe get
Speaker 1: your an umbrella while you're at it. Sounds good, all right,
Speaker 1: all right, thank you, take care you best. Thank you.
Speaker 1: It's go to League City and talk to Carol. Hey, Carol,
Speaker 1: welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 13: Hello.
Speaker 9: I spoke to you last year about my white beach
Speaker 9: spider lily that have fungus on them, and you told
Speaker 9: me to get two products, the try try dimophon and
Speaker 9: my clothes get to nil. And I found the second one,
Speaker 9: but the first one the only place I can find
Speaker 9: that is online for two hundred and fifty dollars a gallon.
Speaker 9: Do you have any alternate in or anything.
Speaker 1: That, Yeah, you're talking about try a dimophon, Yes, sir?
Speaker 1: Was that the first one? Okay? Yes, sir, you know
Speaker 1: I I'm actually not remembering exactly what it was. I
Speaker 1: think you was the problem some little spots on the
Speaker 1: leaves and then if you turn a leaf over, there's
Speaker 1: kind of a dusty, rusty colored thing underneath there. Yes, okay,
Speaker 1: well there are there's triadim ifon in more economical packages
Speaker 1: than that. That's just a fun just side. I wish
Speaker 1: if I saw a picture. My hesitation is this, I
Speaker 1: could suggest some things. But really, if I could see
Speaker 1: a picture of the spots again and make sure I
Speaker 1: know which disease it is, I could better target recommendation
Speaker 1: to you. Okay, so.
Speaker 10: Excuse me.
Speaker 9: The second one you guys made is uh, it controls
Speaker 9: it somewhat, but it just comes back with a vengeance
Speaker 9: before I can put it on there. Even every ten days.
Speaker 1: Oh wow, we'll see Michael. Butte nil. It's systemic and
Speaker 1: so it should last for a lot longer than that.
Speaker 1: I'm not sure.
Speaker 6: We can do this.
Speaker 1: A couple of ways you could. You could get a
Speaker 1: product called daco nil d A C O N I L.
Speaker 1: That is a brand of the ingredient that's in it. Uh,
Speaker 1: the ingredient. I keep giving you these long chemical names,
Speaker 1: but that's really the best way to recommend something. But
Speaker 1: Chloro thallo nil is dacoil and it is very good
Speaker 1: against rust type diseases. If indeed this is a rust.
Speaker 1: So I I just I just want to know that
Speaker 1: we got we got the right disease. And so if
Speaker 1: you want to do this, if you'd like to go
Speaker 1: and take a picture of what you're seeing, show me
Speaker 1: the whole plant, and then show me up close and
Speaker 1: good sharp focus, check focus before you send them the
Speaker 1: top of the leaf, and then show me the bottom
Speaker 1: of the leaf on these spots. Then I can nail
Speaker 1: it down and get it right and not waste your
Speaker 1: time and money on something that may not work that well.
Speaker 1: Because Michael buttinhil if it quickly is not working, then
Speaker 1: we don't need to be using it because it if
Speaker 1: it works, it works, and you shouldn't you shouldn't have
Speaker 1: that experience with it. But that's how it is. You
Speaker 1: just like you go to the doctor and they don't
Speaker 1: have like one medicine for everything that could make you sick, right,
Speaker 1: and so that's how it is with these fungicides as well.
Speaker 9: Okay, okay, well I'll do that. Then I'll send your
Speaker 9: picture and see if we can get the right products
Speaker 9: for it.
Speaker 1: All right, happy to do that. Thanks for your call, Carol,
Speaker 1: look forward to that. I'm going to put you on hold.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna put your hold and I'll handro pickout and
Speaker 1: he'll give you the email that you're gonna need. All Right, folks,
Speaker 1: the music means time to go to a top of
Speaker 1: the hour break. Well, this morning is flying by already
Speaker 1: eight o'clock almost. Well, I'm glad you're listening. I hope
Speaker 1: you're having a good day, and I hope you have
Speaker 1: plans for a really nice afternoon getting out there in
Speaker 1: the gardens. Remember that herbs are for everybody, and herbs
Speaker 1: are for everywhere. Containers, flower beds, I can even I've
Speaker 1: seen people use solid burnett, which makes a little mound
Speaker 1: of leaves that tastes like cucumbers. Solid burnett as a
Speaker 1: little lining around the bed like you would use litt
Speaker 1: riopy or something. I've seen people do that with chives too.
Speaker 1: That's another idea. Just a pute for you. Well, welcome back,
Speaker 1: Welcome back to the garden Line. We look forward to
Speaker 1: helping you with the kinds of questions that you might
Speaker 1: have today. I want you to have success. Listen, Gardening
Speaker 1: is fun. The best hobby there is period.
Speaker 6: It just is.
Speaker 1: I'm not I'm okay, I'm biased, but that doesn't mean
Speaker 1: I'm wrong, you know what I'm saying. It is a great,
Speaker 1: great hobby. I've enjoyed it my whole life, considered a
Speaker 1: blessing to be able to be for my whole life
Speaker 1: really working in a field that I absolutely enjoy. So
Speaker 1: two happy places probably near the top of my list.
Speaker 1: One is visiting with gardeners. We're doing that right now,
Speaker 1: did it for thirty five years in the agrofe Extension
Speaker 1: Agent Texas A and M. And the other is sitting
Speaker 1: out in my garden and just messing with plants and
Speaker 1: watching bugs. You know, I enjoy learning and watching. It
Speaker 1: is a fascinating world to go out there and just
Speaker 1: be still a while and see what's going on.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 1: I talked about African blue basil being such a great
Speaker 1: pollinator attractor because it gets a a pretty good sized
Speaker 1: basil bush and it it just blooms and blims and
Speaker 1: blooms and blooms and blooms, and you sit there and
Speaker 1: you look at them, and you see the different things
Speaker 1: coming in. You learn a lot about them, and uh,
Speaker 1: it just it's a wonderful field.
Speaker 4: Now.
Speaker 1: I know some of you arek go sit and stare
Speaker 1: at your basil. But whatever kind of gardening you like,
Speaker 1: I don't care if it's houseplants, if you like just
Speaker 1: playing with plant propagation and starting seeds and growing transplants.
Speaker 1: If you maybe the lawn is that, maybe you are
Speaker 1: the lawn ranger of the neighborhood and that is what
Speaker 1: makes you happy, A perfect pristine lawn that just looks good. Well,
Speaker 1: go aheadside and be happy, enjoy that. Gardening has something
Speaker 1: for everybody, no matter what you're growing. And I've gotten
Speaker 1: a lot of emails Toda. I'm waiting on some follow
Speaker 1: up calls from these folks that have done emails. But
Speaker 1: lots of pests, lots of disease problems and things. If
Speaker 1: Southwest Fertilizer, you just need to put that on your rolodex.
Speaker 1: Remember we used rolodexes. Southwest Fertilizer corner of bus Nutt
Speaker 1: and Runwick website, Southwest Fertilizer dot com phone number seven
Speaker 1: to one three six sixty six seventeen forty four seven
Speaker 1: to one three six sixty six one seven four four.
Speaker 1: They've got everything that you need.
Speaker 9: Uh.
Speaker 1: You know, a while ago someone was calling me and
Speaker 1: they had well it was Carol talking about the the
Speaker 1: lily and want to make sure we got that disease right. Well,
Speaker 1: I don't care which of the many types of leaf
Speaker 1: spot diseases and things that attack a lily. She has
Speaker 1: the answer and the solution to its at Southwest Fertilizer
Speaker 1: because they carry the whole thing. That is, when it
Speaker 1: comes to diseases. It's like the pharmacy for plants. Everything
Speaker 1: that you would need to manage or deal with the
Speaker 1: disease is there. If it's insects, same thing. If it
Speaker 1: is spider mite's same thing, If it's weeds, same thing,
Speaker 1: they have it off. They don't have it, You don't
Speaker 1: need it. It's as simple as that. Southwest Fertilizer corner
Speaker 1: bus Nutt and Runwick stop ey there, say to Bob
Speaker 1: and the team, if you've got a question about something,
Speaker 1: you can take a picture in. You can take a
Speaker 1: sample in samples even better, put them in a little
Speaker 1: ziplock bag so something doesn't crawl away, and take it
Speaker 1: to them. They'll do an assessment of it and you know,
Speaker 1: points you to the right thing. So anyway, that Waspertilizers
Speaker 1: the place you need to know, and the phone numer
Speaker 1: you need to know right now, is seven to one
Speaker 1: to three two one two KTRH. So you can give
Speaker 1: us a call and we can talk about the things
Speaker 1: that are of most interest to you. Yesterday I was
Speaker 1: talking about Moss Nursery and I made a statement. I
Speaker 1: saw some information from us about a place called the
Speaker 1: Clay Pigeon. It's a grand opening and some of the
Speaker 1: bands that are going to be there and the fact
Speaker 1: they're having a crawfish boil and everything there, and we
Speaker 1: got some calls on it. And as I looked into it,
Speaker 1: what I found out was, well, actually Jim's got a
Speaker 1: new place in Austin, Texas, South Austin on Slaughter Creek Drive. Now,
Speaker 1: I know we have people that listen from Austin and
Speaker 1: from that area. But if you are inclined to go
Speaker 1: over there, if you live over there, the klappage in
Speaker 1: Grand Opening Extravaganza Saturday, June fourteenth, from twelve to six pm.
Speaker 1: There will be a crawfish boil. There's gonna be music.
Speaker 1: Of course, it's Austin. You've gotta have music, all kinds
Speaker 1: of interesting stuff, pop up market and a lot of
Speaker 1: other fun things. Anyway, that is, if you want more information,
Speaker 1: just follow the Moss Nursery on social media. They've got
Speaker 1: stuff posted. They even have a little qurer code you
Speaker 1: can click on with your camera to find out more.
Speaker 1: If you don't have plans for this afternoon, how about
Speaker 1: a plan? The plan is to go to Moss Nursery
Speaker 1: and go check out.
Speaker 15: What they have.
Speaker 1: Moss has got every category of plant in spades. As
Speaker 1: they say, it is an outstanding place. If you are looking,
Speaker 1: I'll say house plants. You know, house plan is a
Speaker 1: term we made up. No plant is native to houses,
Speaker 1: but plants that can take a very low light or
Speaker 1: prefer a low light environment. We typically them houseplants, but
Speaker 1: then a lot of those, like cactine succulents, they need
Speaker 1: more light. And you can find the same things at
Speaker 1: Moss's Houseplant get any kind of category you want. They
Speaker 1: have gorgeous staghorn ferns hanging from trees out there. You
Speaker 1: just have to go see them. They're unbelievably beautiful staghorn ferns,
Speaker 1: whatever kind of plant you're looking for. Hanging baskets, hundreds
Speaker 1: and hundreds of hanging baskets for summer color. Things that
Speaker 1: will look good today. You got folks coming over this
Speaker 1: afternoon or this evening. Go get you some color from
Speaker 1: Moss Nursery, hanging baskets, container color, whatever, and you can
Speaker 1: have beauty instantly. Moss Nursery, Toddville Road, Seabrook, Texas two
Speaker 1: eight one four seven four twenty four eighty eight two
Speaker 1: eight one four seven four twenty four eighty eight. We're
Speaker 1: going to go down to Tomball and talk to Jody. Hey, Jody,
Speaker 1: welcome to garden Line. Good morning, Thank you for having
Speaker 1: me morning, Happy to do it. How can I help?
Speaker 16: Yes, sir, I've recently purchased some guardinas and they're still
Speaker 16: in the containers that I purchased them in. I've only
Speaker 16: had them for a week. They're on the northeast side
Speaker 16: of my home, which is where I wanted to plant them.
Speaker 16: But I'm doing something wrong. I'm either overwatering or not
Speaker 16: watering enough because they're literally turning black.
Speaker 1: Okay, is a tissue itself? It's a tissue itself collapsing
Speaker 1: or is it like a coating that if you wet
Speaker 1: your thumb and rubbed it, you could rub the black
Speaker 1: off the leaf?
Speaker 6: Uh?
Speaker 16: Well, I can't get anything to rub off on my hand.
Speaker 16: It just literally looks like it's dying like it's burnt.
Speaker 16: I'm thinking maybe they're just they can't tolerate the heat.
Speaker 1: Oh, they can take the heat. That typically if you
Speaker 1: give them a little late day shade is good. But
Speaker 1: they need plenty of sun to be able to bloom
Speaker 1: their best. So I think the problem is in the roots.
Speaker 1: Lay one of those containers over, kind of bump on
Speaker 1: it a little bit, and then slide it sideways out
Speaker 1: of the container. And if the roots on the outside
Speaker 1: aren't nice and creamy white colored, then you had a
Speaker 1: root loss. And that could have been due to soggi,
Speaker 1: it could have been due to dry Either one kills
Speaker 1: roots and they need to probably be moved into a
Speaker 1: very bright shade so the demands are lower on the
Speaker 1: plant and given some time to recover and be real
Speaker 1: careful with the watering during that time. Hopefully it's not
Speaker 1: so far gone that you have difficulty saving them. But
Speaker 1: that that is what I would do on those. And
Speaker 1: make sure and get you when you get guardian, You'll
Speaker 1: always get you a good acid loving fertilizer. And you
Speaker 1: know up there and which which direction from Tomball or you.
Speaker 3: Northwest?
Speaker 1: Oh? Okay, well there you go. I mean Arbigate's kind
Speaker 1: all kinds of good stuff in there that they know
Speaker 1: what to give you for guardena so they can get
Speaker 1: you all set up. But first let's just get those
Speaker 1: things on their feet. Check the roots. If you've lost
Speaker 1: a lot of roots, it's gonna be touch and go.
Speaker 1: But just wait before you plan them. Let's try to
Speaker 1: get them some new growth on them and get some
Speaker 1: healthy roots on the outside and then put them in
Speaker 1: the ground. Okay, okay, good, perfect, Thank you all right, Jody,
Speaker 1: you bet, thank you for call. Appreciate that very much.
Speaker 1: You two. I've got to run to a break here.
Speaker 1: Kevin or Kelvill and Tomball and Bill and Galveson you'll
Speaker 1: be our first two up. Welcome back to the garden Line, folks,
Speaker 1: Little Dolly Parton to get us go on this hour.
Speaker 1: We're going to head now down to Tomball. Let me
Speaker 1: get my right mouse. We have problems with today and
Speaker 1: we're gonna talk to Kevin. Hey, Kevin, welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 3: Good morning ship, thanks for taking my call.
Speaker 5: Molds.
Speaker 6: How can I get rid of moles?
Speaker 3: Yeah, warns don't seem to work.
Speaker 1: Uh and and I just want to make sure we're
Speaker 1: talking about moles and not gophers, right or do we
Speaker 1: need to picking that one out? And okay, all right,
Speaker 1: so moles. First of all, I'm gonna I'm gonna point
Speaker 1: you at a publication that will be very helpful for you.
Speaker 1: If you go to the agrolife Learn website agro Life Learn,
Speaker 1: there is a publication on managing mold damage and you
Speaker 1: just do a search for it. But managing mold damage
Speaker 1: it goes into the oh gosh, I can, It goes
Speaker 1: into the specific options that you have, some options involved
Speaker 1: bringing a pest control operator around to do it and whatnot.
Speaker 1: But it's just agro Life Learn a mu dot Eed,
Speaker 1: you do a search for mole, so mole publication when
Speaker 1: you go there, when you look at it, what it's
Speaker 1: going to tell you is your your basic options are
Speaker 1: trapping from a homeowner standpoint, okay, And there's a couple
Speaker 1: kinds of traps. One kind is a loop. The trap
Speaker 1: sits on the ground. The loop is underground, the mole
Speaker 1: goes through. It's kind of gross, but the mole goes
Speaker 1: through and that loop snaps up on the mole. The
Speaker 1: other is a spike that goes down from the top.
Speaker 1: It's called a harpoon type trap. It tells you how
Speaker 1: to find out which it runs, are active, where to
Speaker 1: set the trap, how to set the trap and stuff. Uh,
Speaker 1: and that is the that is kind of what's in
Speaker 1: your control. The idea of poisons don't really work the
Speaker 1: toxicans because moles don't really eat grain baits and things.
Speaker 1: But and the and then other things that only a
Speaker 1: PCO can do are out there, but that that's probably
Speaker 1: the best way for you to deal with them.
Speaker 3: The traps are better than the poison.
Speaker 1: From what I hear. Now, I'm not a wildlife damage
Speaker 1: management expert at all, but from what I've heard, the
Speaker 1: toxican the baits that are available for moles not usually
Speaker 1: that effective. They just don't eat grain baits and stuff.
Speaker 1: Maybe something new is on the market, but yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3: They haven't work so far. Okay, I'll get that.
Speaker 15: To try and thank you.
Speaker 1: All right, thank you very much, appreciate your call. Let's
Speaker 1: see here, oh, Airloom soils. Heirloom soils is kind of
Speaker 1: a one stop shop for anything you need to get
Speaker 1: the ground ready for planting or to improve the ground
Speaker 1: around existing plants. Bed mixes like things for roses and
Speaker 1: other bloomers, things for fruit trees, things for vegetables and herbs.
Speaker 1: Whatever it is, airlom soils has got a blend for you.
Speaker 1: Just go to the website airloomsoils dot com and learn
Speaker 1: about it all the products they have, and then head
Speaker 1: out to your local garden center, feed stores. All kinds
Speaker 1: of places carry airloom soils products. You can buy them
Speaker 1: by the bag. If you're going to do a big
Speaker 1: job and maybe revamping a big bed or building a
Speaker 1: big bed, you can have them deliver by the cubicyard
Speaker 1: to your place, either dumping it on the driveway or
Speaker 1: bringing it by what they call supersacks cubicyard holding sacks,
Speaker 1: or you can go out there and get it. Go
Speaker 1: to Porter. It's out on Highway fifty nine Inporter, Texas,
Speaker 1: the Warrange Rock and Malt location where airloom soils comes from.
Speaker 1: They have that stuff out there as well. But start
Speaker 1: by going to airloomsoils dot com airloomsols dot com find
Speaker 1: out the products that they have, all kinds of things.
Speaker 1: They also have shale too. You hear me talk about
Speaker 1: expanded sheales sometime and how it holds up longer than
Speaker 1: organic matter. Does even in keeping a clay soil open.
Speaker 1: You can get it from there. Airlom Soils makes a
Speaker 1: combo of malt or compost and shale too. You can
Speaker 1: buy them both together in a bag. Airloom Sols quality products.
Speaker 1: I say that because I've used them and I've seen
Speaker 1: the results. Let's now, let's see we're going to head
Speaker 1: to Bill in Galveston. Hey, Bill, welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 1: Thanks get good morning. I sent you two photos good
Speaker 1: morning of some powdered plants. One has its leaves as well,
Speaker 1: the other one's doesn't have it. So what's the difference
Speaker 1: and they got the same treatment, same place. Yeah, those
Speaker 1: are angel wing bagone. Well not angel wings or regular pogonias.
Speaker 11: Uh.
Speaker 1: And you know, different things can cause the foliage to
Speaker 1: fall off. It could have gone through a dry period.
Speaker 1: That's very likely, Uh, saggy wet soil. If the those
Speaker 1: hanging plastic hanging baskets the drainage holes are plugged or
Speaker 1: whatever and they're not draining, well, it could be that.
Speaker 1: But that's the difference. And I know what you're probably
Speaker 1: gonna tell me is, Yeah, but they're hanging side by
Speaker 1: side of water and the same and I don't have
Speaker 1: an answer for that. But it's not an insect, it's
Speaker 1: not a disease. It is some sort of a stress
Speaker 1: in the root system that's causing that defiliation. So I
Speaker 1: should make sure that that the drain holes are up
Speaker 1: from that flog. Yeah, make sure you know, water it
Speaker 1: a lot and see if a bunch of water runs
Speaker 1: out the bottom. If it doesn't, then stick a pencil
Speaker 1: up through the holes or something kind of open them up.
Speaker 1: So I don't know what could be done there clogging them,
Speaker 1: but just check for that. Bottom line is it's in
Speaker 1: the roots that we're seeing the problem.
Speaker 6: Now.
Speaker 1: If it a root rock got into them, then it
Speaker 1: may eventually kill the whole plant. You know, it may
Speaker 1: may not be that. You just wait and it gets better,
Speaker 1: but you just have to wait and see on that one.
Speaker 3: Okay, thanks so much.
Speaker 1: All right, thanks for the call. Appreciate you call very much.
Speaker 1: You take care. Well, what are we looking at here? Yeah,
Speaker 1: we got some time. Let's now head to talk to
Speaker 1: John and Tom Ball. Hey, John, welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 6: Yes, sir, I bought some a couple of months ago,
Speaker 6: some Ingleston Hollies and some magnolia.
Speaker 1: Okay, So.
Speaker 6: How often show fertilized in the beginning and for how
Speaker 6: long consistently?
Speaker 1: Okay? Yeah, So when when you put a new plant
Speaker 1: in the ground, new tree or shrub in the ground,
Speaker 1: it does not need fertilizer for a while. You get it,
Speaker 1: let it get established. When you start seeing new growth occurring,
Speaker 1: like the plant is getting established and doing doing well,
Speaker 1: you can begin to fertilize it gradually. Uh, you said
Speaker 1: Eagleston Holly. And remind me of the second plant that you.
Speaker 6: Said, Magnolia, Magnolia little Jim.
Speaker 1: Okay, well, I would get I would get a plant
Speaker 1: food for acid loving plants.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 1: And so depending on you know what, what kind of
Speaker 1: product you prefer to use.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 1: The folks at Microlife have a microlife product for acaid
Speaker 1: loving plants. It's kind of in a deep pink kind
Speaker 1: of bag, pinkish red bag, and it works really well.
Speaker 1: It being an organic not salt based, it's you're not
Speaker 1: going to burn plants with it. You can mix it
Speaker 1: into the soil a little bit, scratch it into the
Speaker 1: surface so it can decompose a way. But it's gonna
Speaker 1: take a while before those plants have the root system
Speaker 1: that's out now in your soil and your planting beds
Speaker 1: to be able to need and take up the nutrients
Speaker 1: that they need. What was in the container when you
Speaker 1: bought them is enough to hold them for a good while,
Speaker 1: at least six weeks.
Speaker 6: Okay, So I have fertilized it through arburgate. They're they're fertilizer.
Speaker 6: So I think they told me once a month, and
Speaker 6: I wouldn't show them that. Is that just too much monthly?
Speaker 1: That's fine? Yeah, you could do that and arbigate. They're
Speaker 1: fertilizers organic. It's an organic type fertilizer. So again you're
Speaker 1: not salvation. I come them. Just gradually feed them as
Speaker 1: you go by a little bit at a time. You're
Speaker 1: getting the soil built, you're getting the soul better, and
Speaker 1: just what they're telling you there, just follow out. That
Speaker 1: would be just fine for their organic Yeah, all right, sir,
Speaker 1: you take care. Thanks for the call. Appreciate that very much.
Speaker 1: Whenever we are fertilizing plants, I just want to remind
Speaker 1: everybody of something sometimes I talk about fertilizer like you're
Speaker 1: giving a plant a boost. Like I was talking about,
Speaker 1: you know, the Medina Hosen spray application of a higher
Speaker 1: nitrogen product where you're just getting that nitrogen out in
Speaker 1: there to give it a boost, and that nitrogen is
Speaker 1: very volatile. That comes, it goes. The nitrogen that's there
Speaker 1: today is not going to be the nitrogen that's there
Speaker 1: a month from now. I mean, it gets taken up
Speaker 1: by microbes, it goes off, it's a gas, it washes away.
Speaker 1: There's a cycle in the soil of nitrogen, but all
Speaker 1: the other nutrients, especially. We're building a bank account in
Speaker 1: this and so when you're using a product and you're
Speaker 1: doing it over and over again over time. You know
Speaker 1: he was talking about the arrogate organic product. You are
Speaker 1: putting lots of nutrients in the soil, lots of different nutrients,
Speaker 1: not just three, and as a result, you're building that
Speaker 1: bank account. So as these trees began to grow, he
Speaker 1: had magnolia and eaglestunt whatever you're planting. The roots go
Speaker 1: out there and they go, hey, I need a little
Speaker 1: bit of this or that or the other. It could
Speaker 1: be phosphorus, or it could be potassium. It could be
Speaker 1: magnesium or sulfur or zinc or manganese or whatever. The
Speaker 1: bank account has it and it's ready to go and
Speaker 1: That is how we think of fertilizing, not just a
Speaker 1: boost that's more than nitrogen, but building the bank account
Speaker 1: so the plant can have success. I'm going to take
Speaker 1: a quick break and Mike and surf side, you're my
Speaker 1: first step when we come back. All right, In our
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Speaker 1: them something to attract mosquitos, so they come in there,
Speaker 1: they lay their eggs. Those eggs will hatch into larvae
Speaker 1: that will never become an adult mosquito and then mama
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Speaker 1: When it lands to lay eggs there, that water will
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Speaker 1: We're going to head now to surf Side and talk
Speaker 1: to Mike this morning. Hello, Mike, Welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 17: Hey, thanks Kip. Hey, quick question for I was just
Speaker 17: thinking about this today. When is the optimum time to
Speaker 17: pick your vegetables. Would it be the morning or the
Speaker 17: evening or the middle of the day or does it
Speaker 17: even matter?
Speaker 1: It can matter. Some things don't matter, like potatoes underground,
Speaker 1: it's not they don't technically ripen. They get bigger o carrots,
Speaker 1: for example. I try to do my harvesting in the morning,
Speaker 1: and so do commercial farmers. Once the day heats up,
Speaker 1: there's something called field heat that's in the vegetables. You know,
Speaker 1: those tomatoes are hotter hanging on the vine if you
Speaker 1: will when it's twenty five degrees outside, and so if
Speaker 1: you when you pick things in the morning, especially things
Speaker 1: that are prone to declining and quality, like sweet corn
Speaker 1: being the ultimate. You pick it while it's cool, you
Speaker 1: bring it in. You either use it or store it
Speaker 1: or refrigerator, you know, whatever you're going to do, and
Speaker 1: it lasts a lot longer than if you waited until
Speaker 1: mid afternoon to pick sweet corn and you bring it in.
Speaker 1: The declines is going much faster at that time, So
Speaker 1: avoid the field heat. Pick in the morning in general
Speaker 1: that it doesn't matter for everything.
Speaker 17: That's exactly what's kind. For tomatoes would probably best in
Speaker 17: the morning, I'm guessing probably.
Speaker 1: Also be a little better. But tomatoes, yeah, tomatoes and cucumbers,
Speaker 1: a squash and things. But it's not it's not a
Speaker 1: big deal, you know, on them. I mean they you
Speaker 1: see tomatoes sitting outside on a road sides down for days,
Speaker 1: you know, underneath the cover of shade. Uh, and they're
Speaker 1: getting hot. But it's not as big a deal for them.
Speaker 1: But you know, all things being equal, just.
Speaker 17: Pick in the morning, okay, cool, appreciate it.
Speaker 1: Here here's when here's when you pick a tomato an
Speaker 1: hour before the bird shows up to pecket. I understand,
Speaker 1: all right, Mike, thanks a lot for your question.
Speaker 3: Appreciate it.
Speaker 1: You take care, Bye bye. That is true. We're gonna
Speaker 1: go to Follsher now and talk to Bob. Hey, Bob,
Speaker 1: Welcome to the garden Line.
Speaker 3: Hiki.
Speaker 10: Thanks thanksgaking my call. I've got these tests that have
Speaker 10: been attacking some pottered plants that have in my patio,
Speaker 10: and I sent you some photos. They're they're not all
Speaker 10: the same. The one that's thinks the most prevalent is this.
Speaker 10: It's this white material. I'm assuming it's kind of an insect,
Speaker 10: but I can't really finding me on those. It's but
Speaker 10: there's all this kind of black gunk that it's leaving,
Speaker 10: and it's it's gone over four different plants of line.
Speaker 10: And then I got a couple others, one which has
Speaker 10: some little white bugs on them, and another one they're
Speaker 10: kind of I wondering if there's the mighty spider mites
Speaker 10: that they're kind of like a very very very very
Speaker 10: tiny kind of brownish color. Yeah, yeah, And I'm just
Speaker 10: wondering the uh.
Speaker 1: Is one of those that it looks like a camellia.
Speaker 1: Is that what it is, that's right shrub. Okay, Yeah,
Speaker 1: that is called T scale, that little white scale. It
Speaker 1: sucks the juices out of the plant and then it
Speaker 1: basically peas out sugar water. And that's why you get
Speaker 1: a city mold that'll be growing there. It's already starting
Speaker 1: but growing pretty soon. The best thing on that would
Speaker 1: be a systemic insecticide that gets into the plumbing of
Speaker 1: the plant, so when those scale insects suck the juice out,
Speaker 1: they get the point in that way, something on the
Speaker 1: outside of the leaf will be poisoned because it's not
Speaker 1: sucking juices out of the plant, and a product ingredient
Speaker 1: mid oh cloprid im I do clo p r I
Speaker 1: d e mid oh cloprid on the camellia specifically, will
Speaker 1: help shut that down. The T scale. All right, there's
Speaker 1: some other systemics, you know, depending on where you shop.
Speaker 1: You're out there in full sure, you've got a really
Speaker 1: good ACE hardware store not too far for evening plantation
Speaker 1: ACE on three fifty nine. They're going to have a
Speaker 1: number of products like that out there, and I would
Speaker 1: try that. Then there's another plant that has white stuff,
Speaker 1: but it's along the veins of the of the leaf
Speaker 1: that is also a scale. There may be some meai
Speaker 1: bugs on that one too, but they're on the veins
Speaker 1: because that's where they can get the main pipeline of
Speaker 1: the plumbing and get more juices out of it. And
Speaker 1: it's the same solution for that plant, Okay. And then
Speaker 1: the final one, I am amid cloak prid I AM
Speaker 1: I D O c l O p r I D.
Speaker 1: And there's a lot of brands of a middle clo
Speaker 1: prid in fact, oh gosh, yeah, there's just there's just
Speaker 1: a bunch of brands of it. You don't you don't
Speaker 1: have to really, Uh yeah, it's the the I just
Speaker 1: tell telling them about a product a little bit earlier, uh,
Speaker 1: that had some in it. But the other thing, uh,
Speaker 1: the the plant with the kind of silvery centers of
Speaker 1: the leafs with green edges that could be spider mites.
Speaker 1: I'm too far away in the photo to see for sure,
Speaker 1: but it looks a little like spider mites to me.
Speaker 1: Blasts of water from up underneath that plant, up under
Speaker 1: the leaves to dislodge them insecticidal soap spray early in
Speaker 1: the morning before the sun comes out and starts baking down,
Speaker 1: but both waters and insecticidal soap. You have to get
Speaker 1: the plant the bug wet. You have to blast it
Speaker 1: with the spray of water or soap. If a one
Speaker 1: leaf is over another leaf and so those bugs are
Speaker 1: protected by the leaf below it, You're not going to
Speaker 1: get control with those products.
Speaker 10: Okay.
Speaker 1: So thorough, be thorough.
Speaker 11: Okay.
Speaker 10: And the one with a little white bug are those
Speaker 10: the photo with a little white bugs? Are those spider mates? Two?
Speaker 10: Are those like acids?
Speaker 1: Is this the one? You only have three photos?
Speaker 18: Right?
Speaker 10: Four?
Speaker 6: One two three?
Speaker 1: Four? Okay? So we did the scale, We did this
Speaker 1: silver leaf plant, and then the other comments I'm made
Speaker 1: Where there are along the veins of the leaf that
Speaker 1: is scale, also are mealely bugs. It could be mealy
Speaker 1: bugs also on that leaf. I'm what I'm seeing is
Speaker 1: a combination. But that's another amiddo clopri job right there.
Speaker 10: Okay, okay, okay, okay, got it all right.
Speaker 1: Good luck, Thank you you bet appreciate your call. Glad
Speaker 1: we could be of assistance to you. Microlife fertilizers, so
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Speaker 1: They'll both give your plants a good boost and it's
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Speaker 3: All right.
Speaker 1: Welcome back to Guardlande and good to have you with
Speaker 1: us this morning on a nice Sunday morning. You got
Speaker 1: a question, you'd like to give me a call? Seven
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Speaker 1: or two here before we get to the end of
Speaker 1: this hour, Maybe one call, I believe looking at the clock.
Speaker 1: Nitrophis super turf is a product you hear me talk
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Speaker 1: was designed many years ago based on research from Langra
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Speaker 1: message from the turf folks, and that is your fertilizers
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Speaker 1: one two ratio is a general general guide. That's that's
Speaker 1: a good ballpark to aim for. And they need to
Speaker 1: release the nutrients slowly over time. That is the best way. Now,
Speaker 1: you can take an immediate release fertilizer and if you
Speaker 1: overdo it, you get a lot of top growth. But
Speaker 1: what happens is you get to mowmore because it grows
Speaker 1: like crazy on the top, nice deep green, but the
Speaker 1: root system actually is less than if you fertilize properly.
Speaker 1: That's a weird thing, but it's true. And so with
Speaker 1: nine to five superturf, you put it down and for
Speaker 1: four months it is feeding your lawn for you over time.
Speaker 1: It's designed for that design for our hot, humid summers
Speaker 1: and our Southern turf grasses like Saint Augustine Bermuda enjoys you. Now,
Speaker 1: when you put it down and return your clippings, they
Speaker 1: are going to release nutrients slowly over time is they
Speaker 1: decompose also, which means the next fertilization you've got is
Speaker 1: going to be the one if you put it down now,
Speaker 1: the next fertilization you have is going to be the
Speaker 1: one in the fall. This false fertilization nine five superturf
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Speaker 1: on Alexander and Brenham Plants and things on Highway three
Speaker 1: sixty five Night to five superturb the silver bag makes
Speaker 1: it easy to find. And remember, let's go out now
Speaker 1: to League City, Texas, and we're going to talk to Carol. Hello, Carol,
Speaker 1: welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 9: Hello. Did you get my picture skip of atha lilies?
Speaker 1: Oh gosh, I did, yeah, that those are excellent photos.
Speaker 1: By the way, they are very ugly that I was
Speaker 1: looking at them, though I didn't see the under Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: you did send me an underside of the leaf. Okay,
Speaker 1: it could be rust, or it could be what it
Speaker 1: is is it's a fungal leaf spot that that I'm
Speaker 1: sure of, and so any kind of a systemic fungicide
Speaker 1: should do a good job of shutting that down. It
Speaker 1: could be rust at the stage it's in right now,
Speaker 1: I can't definitively say, but watch the bottom sides of
Speaker 1: those leaves. If it's rust, out of the bottom, it's
Speaker 1: like the little leaf explodes out these little, tiny, tiny
Speaker 1: microscopic orange spores, and you'll see them coming out of
Speaker 1: the bottom. You rub your thumb across it, and there'll
Speaker 1: be orange on your thumb, like you rubbed it over
Speaker 1: something rusty. But that's the why they call it the
Speaker 1: rust fungus. But a systemic would be a good way
Speaker 1: to go. I would probably try did you tell me
Speaker 1: you had tried the one called propacnasole, no shock? Okay? Okay,
Speaker 1: I would try one called propa conasole, okay. And it's
Speaker 1: p r oh pr oh p I co o n
Speaker 1: A z o l e pro con a zouls o
Speaker 1: l E. Propa Conasol is a good funda side for
Speaker 1: a number of different things. It's available over the counter
Speaker 1: and you can just basically get it pretty much anywhere.
Speaker 1: Garden centers and feed stores, H eight hardware stores, places
Speaker 1: like that. Okay, City you've got some. Yeah, you've got
Speaker 1: You've got a League City feed store that I'll bet
Speaker 1: you has Propa Connasol. It's right there just south of
Speaker 1: Highway three.
Speaker 9: Starting appreciated because last year I ended up just cutting
Speaker 9: them off to the ground in about August and they
Speaker 9: came back real nice without the rust on them again.
Speaker 9: But then my pros and now we're starting all over again.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Yeah, that's it. And you know the bottom line
Speaker 1: on it is you just have to stay with it.
Speaker 1: Diseases are better prevented than cured. That's just that's just
Speaker 1: the bottom line on it. And what I've seen, you know,
Speaker 1: and looking at things, if you wait, like the leaves
Speaker 1: you sent me that have all those spots, they're gone.
Speaker 1: I mean, if you don't leave them for a while.
Speaker 1: But I would take everything out, it's gonna be a
Speaker 1: pretty good printing and I'd get it all out of there.
Speaker 1: Because that's like when they say typhoid Mary, you know
Speaker 1: one sick person that gets all the others sick. Uh,
Speaker 1: And I think that, Yeah, yeah, I think that that
Speaker 1: would be probably your best bet, but I would try
Speaker 1: the proper condis. I think you're gonna probably have the
Speaker 1: best bet with that for an over the counter should
Speaker 1: that for whatever reason that work, there is something like
Speaker 1: the resistance in diseases. We can switch you to another one,
Speaker 1: but let's start with that one.
Speaker 15: Okay.
Speaker 9: I hope I can find it at my League City Feed.
Speaker 9: I appreciate to hear.
Speaker 1: Thank you, Oh, League City Feet'll have it. If not,
Speaker 1: you've got a nice hardware store there down there, they'll
Speaker 1: have it. To Propagonazo. Just go go ahead, talk to Jeff,
Speaker 1: one of the folks there at League City Feed. Well,
Speaker 1: all right, thank you. All right, folks, we've got to
Speaker 1: go to a break here, Glenn and Richards, We're gonna
Speaker 1: come to you first when we get back from this
Speaker 1: little break. Hey, I want a low public service announcement.
Speaker 1: On Saturday, August second, Saturday, second all day, eight am
Speaker 1: to four pm. OBA, the Organic Horticulture Benefits Alliance is
Speaker 1: hosting their Oba Palooza, the fourth annual. I'll be there speaking.
Speaker 1: Joe Gardner, awesome speaker, will be there and many other
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Speaker 1: All right, folks, we're back. We got one hour left today,
Speaker 1: one hour left this weekend on garden Line. Oh the way,
Speaker 1: We're glad you're listening in with us today. I hope
Speaker 1: you're enjoying the show. I'm gonna head straight out to
Speaker 1: the phones this hour. We're gonna go to Richard's and
Speaker 1: talk to Glenn. Hey Glenn, welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 18: Good morning.
Speaker 1: Morning.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 18: I had a question on uh, different type of grasses
Speaker 18: uh that you see you might see in h field
Speaker 18: black fields and the ditches and whatever, you know, driving
Speaker 18: in rural areas.
Speaker 13: Uh.
Speaker 18: Yeah, I'm just trying to figure out I need to
Speaker 18: I need to get some seed down some bear property.
Speaker 18: You know, it's a pretty pretty large area, and I'm
Speaker 18: just trying to figure out what type of seed I
Speaker 18: would need, you know, something that's kind of low maintenance.
Speaker 18: Beat got hogg it, you know, a couple of two or.
Speaker 15: Three times a year. Uh yeah, kind of low maintenance
Speaker 15: and just to kind of fill in.
Speaker 18: Or fill up, you know, fill the.
Speaker 1: The payor dirt that I have right now. Yeah, got you.
Speaker 1: Uh so that's a it's kind of an agriculture pasture,
Speaker 1: uh type question. Uh, I would recommend that you give
Speaker 1: a call to your agg agent with Aggerlife Extension for
Speaker 1: Grimes County, and that is mister Matt Pfeiffer. Matt Pfeiffer
Speaker 1: is over in the office. Uh yeah, to Grimes County.
Speaker 6: Off.
Speaker 1: Let me just give you a phone number. Ready, you
Speaker 1: got you got a pin or paper paper handy hold on?
Speaker 14: Uh?
Speaker 1: Yes you bet nine eight seven three thirty nine O
Speaker 1: seven eight seven three thirty nine O seven. He's going
Speaker 1: to have access to a lot of the agrolife information
Speaker 1: on pastures, the best best pasture grasses and management of
Speaker 1: them and things like that.
Speaker 9: Uh.
Speaker 1: And he he could point you in the right direction
Speaker 1: most likely. It's give me something that could be seated.
Speaker 1: There's a few, like certain types of bermuda that are
Speaker 1: used from spriggs. But I think you're going to want
Speaker 1: more of a native pasture type grass most likely. And
Speaker 1: that's going to be the guy that can He can
Speaker 1: better point you to that than I can. I. I
Speaker 1: I focus on grass that you grow to look at
Speaker 1: in the lawn, you know, and and I get you
Speaker 1: a better answer for what you're looking. Yeah, yeah, tried,
Speaker 1: all right?
Speaker 15: That some common bermuda and I mean it took, but uh,
Speaker 15: yeah it is and it's very expensive, the common bermuda.
Speaker 1: So yeah, well yeah, well you know, maybe Matt and
Speaker 1: the last name I wist spell it p p f
Speaker 1: e I f E r p f E I f
Speaker 1: are all right, okay, by just give him out a
Speaker 1: call telling skip sent you and uh and he'll he'll
Speaker 1: be able to walk through through it with you, get
Speaker 1: you in the right direction. Thank you, okay, sir, I
Speaker 1: appreciate that. Thank you, Bet, thanks for the call. Appreciate
Speaker 1: your call very much. Uh you too. For everybody listening.
Speaker 1: Every county in Texas is served by an AGROLFE Extension office,
Speaker 1: and in that office you have, uh all the counties
Speaker 1: are going to have somebody that works in agriculture in general,
Speaker 1: and that would be everything from raising livestock to growing
Speaker 1: pasture grasses and things, uh to farm ponds and whatnot.
Speaker 1: They're going to have a four h and youth agent,
Speaker 1: which pretty much I've just heard about. Four h It's
Speaker 1: an awesome youth development program teaches leadership and all kinds
Speaker 1: of wonderful skills for youth that's not just about stock shows.
Speaker 1: Four each is good. And then a family and community
Speaker 1: health agent, and back a long time ago, the Family
Speaker 1: and Community health position focused on things like sewing, making
Speaker 1: clothing and canning vegetables and food and other things. Now
Speaker 1: there's still those kinds of educational materials, but they do
Speaker 1: things they go away beyond that, like health prevention diabetes
Speaker 1: and heart disease, things like exercising programs like Walk across
Speaker 1: Texas wonderful progress. Listen, the extension service is something everybody
Speaker 1: outn't know who your agent is agunts are and reach
Speaker 1: out to them to take advantage of that. In all
Speaker 1: the areas, all two hundred and fifty four counties of
Speaker 1: Texas in this part of the state, every county has
Speaker 1: an office. You get out far enough in West Texas
Speaker 1: where there are jackpipe rabbits than people, and you may
Speaker 1: have an office that serves more than one county. But
Speaker 1: over here everybody, every county has got an extension office
Speaker 1: with several agents. Now, just while I'm rolling on that,
Speaker 1: if you are in Harris County, or in Galveston County,
Speaker 1: or in Fort Bend County, or in Brazoria County, or
Speaker 1: in Brass County or in Montgomery County, I'm probably forgetting
Speaker 1: somebody you have a horticulture agent as well in those
Speaker 1: counties that run the master Gardening program and do all
Speaker 1: the horticulture education. All right, so public service announcement. I'm
Speaker 1: getting a bunch of those out today. Let's head now
Speaker 1: to Missouri City and we're going to talk to Ray. Hello, Ray,
Speaker 1: welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 4: Hey, good morning, Skipton, thanks for taking my call. I
Speaker 4: don't know if this is your area of expertise, but
Speaker 4: I'll give it a shot.
Speaker 6: Okay.
Speaker 4: In my backyard, I have Saint Augustine grass and there
Speaker 4: are a few places that's sinking and it's not level,
Speaker 4: so I want to put some top soil to level
Speaker 4: it off. My question is will the grass grow back
Speaker 4: or do you think I'm going to have to reside
Speaker 4: those areas where put the top soil.
Speaker 1: How deep do you think you're gonna need to put
Speaker 1: the soil?
Speaker 4: Maybe no more than three inches, maybe not even that high.
Speaker 1: Okay, okay, So, and you did say Saint Augustine? Correct?
Speaker 11: Correct?
Speaker 1: Okay, So Saint Augustine, if you completely covered up, it
Speaker 1: kills it. It can't, you know, if it's got a
Speaker 1: few if it's got grass blades sticking up, they get sunlight,
Speaker 1: the end of those runners will push on up and
Speaker 1: come back to the surface and you'll fill back in.
Speaker 1: So if I were you, I would do it in
Speaker 1: small amounts, maybe do an inch at a time, and
Speaker 1: I would use topsoil, a good loamy topsoil blend on
Speaker 1: the surface there. Some people use a kind of a
Speaker 1: sand and loan blend, and some people put a little
Speaker 1: compost in it, but not too much compost because that
Speaker 1: shrinks back down over time, and you're trying to raise
Speaker 1: the soil level, not raise it up and have it
Speaker 1: go right back down again. So a topsoil about an
Speaker 1: inch at a time time, let it grow back in
Speaker 1: and get thick and pretty, and then do another inch
Speaker 1: in those areas, and that'll kind of give you a
Speaker 1: way to you know, as you're looking at it, going now,
Speaker 1: I need a little more over there, a little more
Speaker 1: over here. Now. If you want to get it all
Speaker 1: done at once, you can do it all at once,
Speaker 1: but then you're going to need to put some side
Speaker 1: back in on those spots where you've covered it with
Speaker 1: three inches of soil. Okay, I would I would.
Speaker 4: Do exactly That's what I needed to know, all right,
Speaker 4: Appreciate the information thank you.
Speaker 1: You bet, thank you. Appreciate your call. Ray, thanks a lot.
Speaker 1: Uh listen, if you are trying to reach us here
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Speaker 1: burnout or chives as lining about like you would line
Speaker 1: with the little riopy or something. Herbs can be ornamental,
Speaker 1: like rosemary. If you have a Let's say you have
Speaker 1: a like relief in your landscape topographically, you know there's
Speaker 1: a high bed and then something lower. You can have
Speaker 1: rosemary spilling over the side the trailing types and they
Speaker 1: bloom really well, which attracts pollinators by the way it
Speaker 1: supports pollinators. Or you can have upright rosemary shrubs very
Speaker 1: drought resilient. Give them good drainage. They don't want to
Speaker 1: be in a swamp, but give them good drainage, and
Speaker 1: once they're established, you're going to be doing very little,
Speaker 1: if any watering to your rosemary because it's a very
Speaker 1: very good tough plant. There are herbs that are groundcovers,
Speaker 1: like oregano and thyme, we could be using those. And
Speaker 1: there's herbs that have beautiful flowers. I mentioned Mexico at
Speaker 1: myrgold and I mentioned what was that pineapple, sayes salvia
Speaker 1: that have beautiful flowers. Those are just two examples. There's
Speaker 1: way more than that. The term herb can be spread
Speaker 1: pretty far and wide over a lot of different things,
Speaker 1: and they are beneficial. One time I was in a
Speaker 1: garden up in Montgomery County, had the extension office there,
Speaker 1: and I saw a little mud Dauber type wasp and
Speaker 1: it was on time blooms in their herb garden, and oh,
Speaker 1: that's interesting, And I thought that mud Dauber is getting
Speaker 1: something out of those time blooms. And it flew off
Speaker 1: and I saw it flew off to a fence, and
Speaker 1: I followed it and it was making the little round
Speaker 1: marble shaped mudballs. I'm not talking about the big long
Speaker 1: cigar shaped things that are underneath your eaves that you hate.
Speaker 1: About a little tiny round marble. You've probably seen them
Speaker 1: on the screen to your house. I took that mud
Speaker 1: ball and broke it open. You know it was in
Speaker 1: it almost a dozen looper caterpillars. They were out in
Speaker 1: the garden eating leaves. So that mud Dauber was out
Speaker 1: there getting loopers and bringing them back and feeding it
Speaker 1: to its babies. And the herbs were also serving a
Speaker 1: function in that whole cycle. Herbs bringing in beneficial insects, parasitoid,
Speaker 1: wasp lay eggs, and aphids that cause the aphids to
Speaker 1: turn into a mummy. It's really cool if you're an aphi.
Speaker 1: It's like watching the movie Alien. But that herbs are
Speaker 1: an important part of our landscapes. Again, containers in beds
Speaker 1: wherever you want to grow them. They are herbs to
Speaker 1: grow and you should try some. And plus I just
Speaker 1: like smelling them. You know, I cannot pass by rosemary
Speaker 1: without rubbing on the on the leaves of it and
Speaker 1: just smelling my hand as I go buy same thing
Speaker 1: with copper canyon daisy and some others. When my kids
Speaker 1: were little, one of my daughters, we had one of
Speaker 1: those topiary rosemary's inside that's like shape like a Christmas tree.
Speaker 1: You know, you buy them at Christmas and bring them
Speaker 1: in and you know they're shape like a Christmas tree,
Speaker 1: and then you put them outside and plant them when
Speaker 1: the holidays are done. She would go out and hug
Speaker 1: the thing. I mean, she would bear hug that rosemary
Speaker 1: and she'd run down the hall. And I'd walk down
Speaker 1: the hall later, and I think Mussolini had invaded or something.
Speaker 1: I mean, there was like this Italian scent of wonderful
Speaker 1: rosemary fill in the house. I love herbs, as I
Speaker 1: hope you can tell, and you should too, give some
Speaker 1: a try. You can grow culinary ginger. There's another herb,
Speaker 1: I'll call it a herb. You can buy the little
Speaker 1: ginger sections in the store, plant them in the ground
Speaker 1: about two inches deep. They need lots of consistent soil moisture,
Speaker 1: don't let them dry out. And they need shade, but
Speaker 1: bright shade. So under the eaves of your house is
Speaker 1: a great place to plant those. If you keep them
Speaker 1: moist molt the soil that little bit you planted will
Speaker 1: expand and you can actually harvest a crop of ginger
Speaker 1: from your own beds. Just remember shade, shade, shade, but
Speaker 1: bright shade and moisture, and you can do that. People.
Speaker 1: Some people grow all kinds of things like that that
Speaker 1: are culinary. All right, well, there you go. That's my
Speaker 1: best shot at trying to get you to grow some
Speaker 1: herbs this year. Try something new. Every year we ought
Speaker 1: to be trying something new, maybe a new plant. It
Speaker 1: may be no way to grow a plant, however you
Speaker 1: want to go about it. Try something new. Too much
Speaker 1: fun to have in horticulture in your lawn. It's time
Speaker 1: to be doing the slow release fertilizers, the ones that
Speaker 1: take a long time to gradually release those good nutrients
Speaker 1: into the turf. And Neilson plant Food has a product
Speaker 1: called Slow and Easy. Slow and Easy, and that's a
Speaker 1: good name for it. It has it's designed. Dean designed
Speaker 1: that with several different types of nitrogen fertilizer in it,
Speaker 1: nitrogen compounds and some types of nitrogen. Some forms are
Speaker 1: immediately available. Some forms with some soul moisture and some warmth,
Speaker 1: they begin to release faster. Others it doesn't matter how
Speaker 1: wet it is, they're not going to release the nitrogen.
Speaker 1: There's biological activity that's going on to help break that
Speaker 1: down and get it out. But the combination is with
Speaker 1: Slow and Easy you get a gradual feed over four
Speaker 1: months plus. I mean, it really feeds long term. And
Speaker 1: you can find Nelson Slow and Easy in a lot
Speaker 1: of places that carry no some products. And when you
Speaker 1: put it down, you're good. You're good to go until
Speaker 1: my fall schedule application. If you download my lawn care
Speaker 1: schedule at gardening with Skip dot com, you'll see when
Speaker 1: to apply it in the fall, when to apply fall fertilizers.
Speaker 1: Slow and Easy will take you from now all the
Speaker 1: way through there. It's a super product. It works very
Speaker 1: very well, and it's widely available here in the Greater
Speaker 1: Houston area. Take care of your lawn and return your
Speaker 1: clippings now. If it rains for a week, and by
Speaker 1: the time you get out there. You know the grass
Speaker 1: is the tall. You could lose a toddler in the
Speaker 1: front yard. Well, then you're going to have to bag
Speaker 1: those up. But I would use them as mulches. I
Speaker 1: would use them as walkway materials. Put them in a
Speaker 1: compost pile. Don't throw away those are free nutrients. Listen,
Speaker 1: when you put fertilizer on your lawn and you grow
Speaker 1: grass clippings, and you cut off those grass clippings, they
Speaker 1: are full of the nutrients that the plant took up.
Speaker 1: So do you want to, as I say, rent fertilizer,
Speaker 1: put it down, grow grass clippings, pay somebody to haul
Speaker 1: it off your curb, or do you want to recycle
Speaker 1: your fertilizer grass clippings or nature's own slow release fertilizer.
Speaker 1: You just get to decide when you mow. Am I
Speaker 1: going to mulch them back in? Or am I going
Speaker 1: to use them for my compost in my beds and
Speaker 1: I walkways? Or am I going to pay somebody to
Speaker 1: haul away the fertilizer I bought? All right, Time for
Speaker 1: me to take a little break here. We'll be back
Speaker 1: with your calls seven to one three two one two
Speaker 1: KTRH got wide open lines right now. If you don't hesitate,
Speaker 1: you can be one of the first one or two up.
Speaker 1: All right, welcome back to Guarden Line. Folks.
Speaker 6: Have you with us?
Speaker 1: Uh, let's see here, I'm gonna just go straight out
Speaker 1: and talk to uh. Let's see. We're gonna get on
Speaker 1: the phone to Houston, talk to Glenn. I think this
Speaker 1: morning or this next call here. But first I've got
Speaker 1: to grab the right mouse. It's an epidemic today. There
Speaker 1: we go, Glenn. Welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 7: Hey, good morning, Skipt. I wanted to ask you some
Speaker 7: things about my pecan trees.
Speaker 15: Uh.
Speaker 7: I don't want to say trees plurally, because what it
Speaker 7: actually is it's it's two trunks coming from the same
Speaker 7: root system, okay. And I've never had any pecans on it.
Speaker 7: And I was told by someone that I would need
Speaker 7: to have a female pecan tra I don't know. I
Speaker 7: couldn't tell you a male from a female tree, So
Speaker 7: I don't know what I've got out there, Okay, But
Speaker 7: but it's been there for some years, never had any
Speaker 7: pecans on it. And there's some neighbors behind me that
Speaker 7: have some pecan trees, probably within fifty yards and I
Speaker 7: don't know what that they've they've buried pecans in the past,
Speaker 7: but they've always been rotten inside, so I don't know
Speaker 7: what's going on on with those. But okay, what do
Speaker 7: I need to do to get this pecan tree to
Speaker 7: bear bear pecans?
Speaker 1: What is the rough diameter of those trunks about? You know,
Speaker 1: waist higher, so we're talking about eight inches ten inches?
Speaker 1: Four inches?
Speaker 19: How about well they're roughly twelve inches.
Speaker 1: Okay, all right, So just a clarification first, the people
Speaker 1: that said there's male and female pecans, that's not true.
Speaker 1: But what they were trying to say wash There's two
Speaker 1: types of pecans. One the pollen those little pipe cleaner
Speaker 1: looking catkins that hang down and fall on the ground
Speaker 1: later that they come first, and then the individual little
Speaker 1: tiny pecan nutlets become receptive to pollen. The other type,
Speaker 1: it's vice versa. The pecan nutlets are receptive and then
Speaker 1: that tree's pollen is shed toward the end of that
Speaker 1: or a little bit later. So you want one of
Speaker 1: both types, either pollen first or nutlets receptive first. There
Speaker 1: are so many pecan trees around the area, and there
Speaker 1: is some they're wind pollinated, not be pollinated. That generally,
Speaker 1: you don't have to worry about putting two different types
Speaker 1: of pecans in your yard. They'll pollinate themselves. And if
Speaker 1: you've got a neighbor with trees, they probably are the
Speaker 1: are going to pollinate your trees for you. If you
Speaker 1: don't know which type you have. Next spring, go out
Speaker 1: and if you can reach a branch to look at it.
Speaker 1: Notice when the nutlets come out, little tiny ones, I
Speaker 1: mean they're like a quarter inch long when they first
Speaker 1: come out. And then look at the pollen, and you're
Speaker 1: going to see one is going to be before the other.
Speaker 1: If the ends on the nutlets are already black or brown,
Speaker 1: that means they're done. They've already either been pollinated or not.
Speaker 1: And just see which happens first. And that's the type
Speaker 1: of pecan you have. So I suspect around your neighborhood
Speaker 1: you're going to have some pecan dust pollen that is
Speaker 1: adequate to pollinate your tree. If that's not the case,
Speaker 1: then you would need to plant one that's the other
Speaker 1: type from what you have. There's a website. Do you
Speaker 1: have a pin or paper handy there where you could
Speaker 1: write something down?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Yeah, yes, I want you to go to a website
Speaker 1: and the name of it is Aggie Horticulture. I'm not
Speaker 1: going to read out the URL. Just do a search
Speaker 1: for Aggie Horticulture. On that page. There's the very front
Speaker 1: page you'll see where you click on fruits and nuts
Speaker 1: and you click there and you get a list of
Speaker 1: ever possible kind of fruit and nut you could ever grow,
Speaker 1: and go down to the pecan one and look at it,
Speaker 1: print it out, read it online. It's free to do
Speaker 1: whatever you want to do with it. And read a
Speaker 1: little bit about those and the varieties and that thing
Speaker 1: I just got through describing to you about pollen first
Speaker 1: or nutlets first, and when you determine what you have,
Speaker 1: you can use that publication to pick a variety that's
Speaker 1: the other kind from what you have.
Speaker 3: Alight.
Speaker 7: One more thing, very quickly is last year I had
Speaker 7: a real issue with the webworms on this tree.
Speaker 4: It was they were really really bad.
Speaker 1: Do they watch come out later later on, like in
Speaker 1: the fall?
Speaker 3: Is that is that when they make their way back.
Speaker 1: Around the worst webworms or late summer and fall, we
Speaker 1: have a spring population that ever now and then can
Speaker 1: be kind of bad. Usually is not too bad, but
Speaker 1: start looking in August for webs and and you can
Speaker 1: break those up with a long pole or a strong
Speaker 1: stream of water. You can spray the trees. Most people
Speaker 1: in a residential neighborhood are not going to go to that,
Speaker 1: but just breaking them up. But they're number one predator
Speaker 1: is paper wasps. They build a little paper nests under
Speaker 1: your heaves. They eat web worm and other caterpillars all day.
Speaker 1: That's their number one food.
Speaker 7: Well back when I was in the pest control because
Speaker 7: I had a spray rig on my truck where I reached.
Speaker 19: Okay, very high, but I don't know there you go there,
Speaker 19: but that's fu of them, you know. Yeah, all right, Glenn,
Speaker 19: good luck, Thanks for you all right, thank you.
Speaker 1: Yes, sir, thank you very much. Appreciate the call.
Speaker 7: Uh.
Speaker 1: Nelson Water Gardens. Nelson Nursery and Water Gardens is out
Speaker 1: there in Katie. It's your West Houston destination garden center.
Speaker 1: It is, and it's a great one too. You go
Speaker 1: in there. First of all, drive to Katie out I
Speaker 1: ten turn north on Katie for Ben Road, and then
Speaker 1: just up the street a little bit on the right
Speaker 1: will be Nelson Nursery and Water Gardens. You're going to
Speaker 1: find the most beautiful pottery I've ever seen, and all
Speaker 1: the kinds of those tall vase like urns that you
Speaker 1: used to make a water recycling or yeah, recirculating kind
Speaker 1: of fountain that by the way, Nelson invented that. Uh
Speaker 1: you you can buy them there or you can you
Speaker 1: can take any container that can turn it into one
Speaker 1: of those. But they are just beautiful. They have the
Speaker 1: fish to go in ponds, they have the things like
Speaker 1: lily pads and others to go in ponds. But their
Speaker 1: nursery is just loaded with gorgeous plants, all kinds of things,
Speaker 1: from the houseplants that are inside to the plants on
Speaker 1: the outside. This is a good time. And I'm telling you,
Speaker 1: as we get into summer and things get hot, you
Speaker 1: need heat loving plants like vinkas and like pentas and
Speaker 1: zinnias and other things. They've got all of that at
Speaker 1: Nelson Water Garden. And also at Nelson Water Garden, you're
Speaker 1: going to find the beautiful sound of water that alone
Speaker 1: is worth going and grab a kid to go with
Speaker 1: you and go in. When you and some child you
Speaker 1: know there, your kids, your grandkids, whatever, or maybe your spouse,
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna leave that one there. They tell them
Speaker 1: you would like some fish food to feed the fish,
Speaker 1: and they'll give you a little a handful of fish
Speaker 1: pellets and the kids can go out in the back.
Speaker 1: There's a big old pond in the back where you
Speaker 1: can reach down and the fish literally come up a
Speaker 1: little bit out of the water and you can just
Speaker 1: drop the fish food right in their mouth and kids
Speaker 1: will love that. I love to go and just listen
Speaker 1: to the sound of water. There are a few things
Speaker 1: as therapeutic as water. But I got to warn you
Speaker 1: you're gonna want to come home with some kind of
Speaker 1: a water feature from Nelson Nursery and Water Gardens because
Speaker 1: they are so so cool. Well, I need to take
Speaker 1: a little break when we come back. We got two
Speaker 1: calls and that is Dwayne in Mount Bellevue and Jim
Speaker 1: in a task Casita and y'all will finish up the day.
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Speaker 3: Hey, good morning, Skip, thanks for taking my call. I
Speaker 3: sent you some pictures of a fist tree that I
Speaker 3: planted in early twenty twenty four, and unfortunately it didn't
Speaker 3: survive the freeze. So I have new limbs coming up
Speaker 3: in the picture you can see. And I read all
Speaker 3: kind of articles. I'm not sure if I'm supposed to
Speaker 3: cut some back to send it out to get more
Speaker 3: fig down the road, or if I just need to
Speaker 3: let it stay like it is.
Speaker 1: If I were you, I would not prune it at
Speaker 1: this time. The fig lost, you know, its top growth
Speaker 1: to the freeze. But basically it needs to get a
Speaker 1: lot of leaves in sunlight, making carbohydrates to build power
Speaker 1: and strengthen that plant so they can grow faster and
Speaker 1: bear well. So for now I'd leave it alone. But
Speaker 1: what I would do is I would get rid of
Speaker 1: the grass around it. You can find a product that
Speaker 1: kills just grass. You got bermuda grass around it, and
Speaker 1: you got your Saint Augustine around that. If you could
Speaker 1: give that fig about a two foot in all direction circle,
Speaker 1: whatever you can afford to give it esthetically, go ahead
Speaker 1: and kill the grass in that big circle area and
Speaker 1: put a nice mult over the top. You can even
Speaker 1: compost over the surface of the soil and get that
Speaker 1: fig growing. And that was that will do more for
Speaker 1: making it grow and become a nice big tree that
Speaker 1: will bear for you than even fertilizing will. Just that
Speaker 1: grass is a strong competitor with the fig. So that
Speaker 1: doesn't mean don't fertilize. You could also fertilize, but I'm
Speaker 1: just and uh, if you're looking, have you ever been
Speaker 1: to my website gardening with skip dot com.
Speaker 3: I've been there a few tip.
Speaker 1: Yes, okay, okay, good, Well, when you go there, there's
Speaker 1: a thing called herbicides for skip'sweed wiper. Basically, it's a
Speaker 1: list of herbicides according to the weed you're going after,
Speaker 1: and there's two on there. I think there's two, uh uh,
Speaker 1: maybe more that are just grass killers, so you can
Speaker 1: spray them. If they get on the fig, it won't
Speaker 1: hurt it. If you spray them in your contunity bed,
Speaker 1: it's not going to hurt the petunias. They kill grass,
Speaker 1: and I would use one of those. You're gonna have
Speaker 1: to probably do it more than once, but that's the safest.
Speaker 1: If you get in there, you know, with the equivalent
Speaker 1: of the old round up type stuff, and you get
Speaker 1: it on the figure, you're gonna kill your fig. So
Speaker 1: I like that grass on the killers. But they're there.
Speaker 1: It's on the website herbicide less set up there. But
Speaker 1: I would get going on it. That's the biggest favor
Speaker 1: you can do it. It also keeps the weed eater
Speaker 1: in the lawn mower away, which which is important.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah. So one more question is you can see where
Speaker 3: the day it stop is it's still about three foot
Speaker 3: Do I just go ahead and cut that back?
Speaker 1: Okay? Okay, yeah, you can just if it's dead, just
Speaker 1: cut it off there at the ground. Yeah, all right,
Speaker 1: good luck. Now you know, the rule on garden line
Speaker 1: is I don't well. The rule on guardline win is
Speaker 1: I don't charge for advice, but I do expect half
Speaker 1: the produce you grow as a result of my advice.
Speaker 1: So I love figs. Just bring half of what you
Speaker 1: produce to the to the show and we'll call it even.
Speaker 3: All right, Well, once I get some strawberry big failure,
Speaker 3: I'll bring you some.
Speaker 1: Have a good well, I am pulling your leg. I
Speaker 1: gotta have a little fun with you. Thanks a lot, ma'am,
Speaker 1: appreciate it. Have a good weekend. We're gonna go now
Speaker 1: to Tascasita and talk to Jim this morning. Jim, you
Speaker 1: are the caboose of the show today. How can we help? Okay?
Speaker 11: So today's question is about technique application.
Speaker 3: Okay, and here's what it is. I spread some good compost.
Speaker 1: On the bed.
Speaker 11: Now I've got shredded tee deer bark.
Speaker 1: Okay.
Speaker 6: What I'm doing.
Speaker 11: Question is when I spread it, I'm spreading it wet
Speaker 11: because it spreads a lot easier, believe it or not,
Speaker 11: and more evenly. Now, the next question is do I
Speaker 11: keep the bark tight or do I keep it loose
Speaker 11: on the ground, on the bed itself.
Speaker 1: You said.
Speaker 11: The bottom line is, I'm looking at it now and
Speaker 11: it looks really good wet underneath.
Speaker 10: But you tell me what to do with the rest
Speaker 10: of it.
Speaker 1: Now, just leave it loose. I don't I can't quite
Speaker 1: picture it. But like if you have long strips of
Speaker 1: cedar and so it literally was just like all this
Speaker 1: light and air going through, because it's so like a
Speaker 1: pile of sticks, then you probably need to grind it
Speaker 1: up a little bit more. But you don't need to
Speaker 1: press it down. You need to press it down.
Speaker 11: Don't need to press it down.
Speaker 3: Okay, Oh I skip, thanks a lot for help.
Speaker 1: I have a great day. Thank you, Thank you man,
Speaker 1: you too. Shit you call well, folks. I've got a
Speaker 1: little bit of time here for me to talk about
Speaker 1: one or two things, but I just want to thank
Speaker 1: you for listening today. It's been a good day on
Speaker 1: the phones with you. Guys. We want to help you
Speaker 1: have success. Just remember, if you have questions during the week,
Speaker 1: send me a photo, but then follow up with a call,
Speaker 1: follow up with it all. I'm just not able to
Speaker 1: take on answering emails and you know, kind of end
Speaker 1: up a lot of times questions you sort of like
Speaker 1: you become pimpals going back and forth, and I'm just
Speaker 1: not able to I wish I could. But if you'll
Speaker 1: send me your question with some photos attached, then call
Speaker 1: on Saturday or Sunday and we'll talk about it. We've
Speaker 1: had a number of people that have done that.
Speaker 6: So the.
Speaker 1: Idea is when you send a photo, to make sure
Speaker 1: it's in sharp focus, and I need to see what
Speaker 1: you're seeing, and so I usually like a picture of
Speaker 1: the overall setting. So I get a picture of that
Speaker 1: overall plant, and then up close, maybe turn a leaf over,
Speaker 1: take a picture of the underside. Check them before you
Speaker 1: send them. You want a good, sharp answer, not a
Speaker 1: fuzzy answer, So don't send me a fuzzy photo, send
Speaker 1: me a good sharplaint and we will help you. Looking
Speaker 1: forward to helping you and pointing you in the right direction.
Speaker 1: It's time for us to go. I hope you have
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