Speaker 1: Welcome to k t r H Garden Line with Scamp Richard.
Speaker 2: It's crazy gas trim.
Speaker 3: Just watch him as us so many good things to
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Speaker 4: Gas.
Speaker 3: Not a sign credits gas sun beam down between.
Speaker 2: Well, good morning folks. Oh, we are glad to have
Speaker 2: you with us this morning, and we're gonna have a
Speaker 2: good day talking about plants. Every day is a good
Speaker 2: day when you talk about plants. Right, Well, how about
Speaker 2: you give us a call if you've got a question
Speaker 2: and we will talk about plants. Our phone number is
Speaker 2: seven one three two one two k t r H
Speaker 2: seven one three two one two kt r H. Now
Speaker 2: if I say talk about plants, we can talk about bugs.
Speaker 2: We can come out in diseases. That's kind of boring,
Speaker 2: isn't it. Oh goodness? And we can talk about weeds,
Speaker 2: Yes we can. I was you know this fall I've
Speaker 2: been in a number of different appearances out and about,
Speaker 2: and it seems like weeds or what everybody wants to
Speaker 2: talk about. People show up with a bag full of
Speaker 2: plants for ID and they're all weeds. It's okay, I
Speaker 2: know weeds are an issue. Just a reminder that fall
Speaker 2: aster is blooming in our LUNs now, and if you
Speaker 2: have it, you'll know it. And here's how you know it.
Speaker 2: The weed is very blue green, dark blue green, so
Speaker 2: it really stands out, especially if you're a grass is struggling.
Speaker 2: And it has little tiny daisy like flowers with a
Speaker 2: lot of skinny little petals, way more petals than a
Speaker 2: daisy would. But these things are about dime size and
Speaker 2: they're all over the place. And there's one thing you
Speaker 2: do right now for it is hand pull it. I
Speaker 2: know you didn't want to hear that. Make sure the
Speaker 2: soil is wet so it comes out easily and doesn't
Speaker 2: break off. All you got to do is give it
Speaker 2: an irrigation and grab it at the very base. It
Speaker 2: may be a weed the size of the steerwheel in
Speaker 2: your car in terms of width, flat as a pancake
Speaker 2: because you've been mowing the lawn and it goes horizontally
Speaker 2: really easily, and you just grab it where it comes
Speaker 2: out of the ground and find that spot. Wiggle a
Speaker 2: little bit and it comes straight up out of the ground.
Speaker 2: Get it out of there before it's at seeds. However,
Speaker 2: flower is gonna have about fifty seeds in itever and
Speaker 2: the plant can have just dozens and dozens and dozens
Speaker 2: of flowers, and so you got to get it out.
Speaker 2: Don't try to spray it. You're not going to kill
Speaker 2: it with a spray. Now that it is, as we say,
Speaker 2: gone reproductive, meaning it's blooming and setting seeds in general,
Speaker 2: post emergent broadly, if we control does not do a
Speaker 2: good job after those weeds have gone reproductive. Okay, so
Speaker 2: just keep that in mind. Now's the time to get
Speaker 2: that hand pulled. And it is called fall aster. It's
Speaker 2: been there all well almost all year. It's sprouted when
Speaker 2: the weather warmed up and been kind of hiding from you.
Speaker 2: In a they can lot of it'll get like knee high,
Speaker 2: well higher than knee high, but in our lawns it
Speaker 2: just goes sideways and does a good job of it's
Speaker 2: a survivor. Well, you are listening to the garden Line.
Speaker 2: I'm your host, Skip Richter, and our phone number is
Speaker 2: seven to one three two one two k t r H. Now,
Speaker 2: in the fall, we have three things that we are
Speaker 2: focusing on in our lawns, and that is our fall fertilization. Secondly,
Speaker 2: dealing with the weeds that are going to be germinating,
Speaker 2: for next spring's big appearance that they'll germinate. Now, sit
Speaker 2: there all winter, and then in spring they take off
Speaker 2: growing bloom set seeds. And the best way to note
Speaker 2: to think about that is our blue bonnet, our beloved
Speaker 2: state flower, the blue bonnet. It sprouts in the fall,
Speaker 2: get a little bit of coal front, a little bit
Speaker 2: of water, little rain from it, and hear that thing
Speaker 2: comes up, but you don't see it almost all winter.
Speaker 2: It's there, but it's tiny, and then it takes off growing.
Speaker 2: That's what our winter weeds do, So now is it
Speaker 2: time to prevent them. Third thing is dealing with the
Speaker 2: upcoming disease infections, which are large patch or brown patch,
Speaker 2: big circles in the lawn and take all root rot.
Speaker 2: Nitrofos has set us up to take care of all
Speaker 2: three with what they call the Texas three step. It's
Speaker 2: a good name for it. You just dance across the
Speaker 2: lawn with the fertilizer, which is the fall special, the barricade,
Speaker 2: which is the prevention of weeds. It prevents weeds when
Speaker 2: they try to sprout, It kills them before they get
Speaker 2: up and establish. And then third the nitrophoss eagle turf
Speaker 2: fungeicides a systemic protectant. Now the fertilizer is time to
Speaker 2: get it down. The sooner you get it down, the
Speaker 2: more good it can do. Because as it gets cold
Speaker 2: that grass come quit growing and the fertilizer isn't as
Speaker 2: helpful as it would be right now, so get it
Speaker 2: done now, out especially now, get the barricade down. Now,
Speaker 2: watered in about half inch of water. Move it into
Speaker 2: the soil. That is required for it to work. You
Speaker 2: gotta watered in. Third, get the Eagle turf fungicide down
Speaker 2: now it also it's okay to water after that. You
Speaker 2: don't have to water after the Eagle Turf fungicide, but
Speaker 2: if you do, it moves into the soil and it's
Speaker 2: taken up by the roots as well as the top
Speaker 2: parts of the plant. So three steps fall special wind riser,
Speaker 2: the night frost barricade and the Eagle Turf fungicide. You
Speaker 2: can find this at Court Hardware down at Stafford Katie
Speaker 2: A s hardburre Kase it as does plants and things
Speaker 2: out in Brenham And for those of you up in Willis,
Speaker 2: just head over to Growers Outlet and you'll find it there.
Speaker 2: We're going to head to the phones now and talk
Speaker 2: to JJ. Hello, JJ, welcome to guarden Line.
Speaker 5: Ground and got plenty of plants, pot plants right above
Speaker 5: the ground. Do I have to ground that?
Speaker 2: I'm sorry, JJ, I lost the first part of which
Speaker 2: she said, could you repeat it for me? Please?
Speaker 5: I raised plants in pots and they're elevated above the ground.
Speaker 4: Do I have to ground them?
Speaker 6: Plants?
Speaker 4: I've had a friend to me, then.
Speaker 7: I have to ground it.
Speaker 2: Absolutely not. Across the country, people grow plants in pots
Speaker 2: on tables. Soken. I need you to turn that radio off.
Speaker 2: But no, you can. You can just grow them. You
Speaker 2: can set them wherever you want to set them and
Speaker 2: grow them there. Okay, all right, I believe we took
Speaker 2: care of that. Let's now head out to Parlant and
Speaker 2: talk to Kay.
Speaker 4: Hello.
Speaker 2: Okay, welcome to guarden Line.
Speaker 8: Hi, good morning, Thank you for taking my call. Yes,
Speaker 8: I just have a question. I have a great big
Speaker 8: crpe myrtle in my backyard and it keeps putting up,
Speaker 8: you know, the suckers keep coming up and I keep
Speaker 8: cutting and cutting. Is there any way to stop them?
Speaker 2: Temporary number number one? Yeah, what you need to do,
Speaker 2: okas you need to cut them off as close to
Speaker 2: the trunk as you can. Don't leave little stubs that
Speaker 2: just leaves more buds to come out, So off as
Speaker 2: close as you can and then spray it there is.
Speaker 2: There are various sprays that have the word sucker in
Speaker 2: the name, like sucker stopper. That is an example of one.
Speaker 9: Uh.
Speaker 2: And you spray that. It's a hormone and it tells
Speaker 2: the plant not to grow a shoot right there. Now.
Speaker 2: It's not permanent, it's not like it lasts forever. But
Speaker 2: if you when you make your cuts, go ahead and
Speaker 2: spray that cut surface and it works pretty good.
Speaker 8: Okay, okay, Well I was afraid the spray anything, you know,
Speaker 8: I didn't want it to damage the other plant. But
Speaker 8: thank you, yes, I will do that. You bet have
Speaker 8: a great day.
Speaker 2: Bye bye you too. Thank you appreciate your call. All right,
Speaker 2: time for me to take a little break. We'll be
Speaker 2: right back, folks. Seven one three two one two kat
Speaker 2: r H. All right, folks, good to be back. Let's
Speaker 2: keep going here on garden line. If you'd like to
Speaker 2: give us a call. Seven to one three two one
Speaker 2: two five eight seven four are KTRH seven one three
Speaker 2: two one two KTRH last Saturday, I was out at
Speaker 2: Nature's Way Resources and thanks to Ian John for having
Speaker 2: me out. It was great. They had their fall festival.
Speaker 2: We had a really good time, and I just wanted
Speaker 2: to remind you their Fungal Friday sale is still on.
Speaker 2: That's twenty percent off their fungal compost. Fungal compost can
Speaker 2: also be used for top dressing or you can put
Speaker 2: it down in your soil. It's an outstanding product, works
Speaker 2: very well on any kind of plants. So Friday's the
Speaker 2: time to get out there and get you a great
Speaker 2: deal twenty percent off on the fungal compost. Of course,
Speaker 2: it's a good time all the time to be out
Speaker 2: at Nature's Way. You know, their mix of products is
Speaker 2: just amazing. I mean they have they have blends. Let
Speaker 2: me just give you an example. They have bent blends
Speaker 2: for your blueberry growing. You know, they have a little
Speaker 2: more acid living place. They got the cactus and desert mix.
Speaker 2: Of course, they got quality potting soil, rose soil mixes
Speaker 2: for gardens and flower beds, just general landscaping kinds of mixes,
Speaker 2: all kinds of different mulches. I mean I could just
Speaker 2: go all day talking about their products and a lot
Speaker 2: of the products we talk about here in the Greater
Speaker 2: Houston area, like leaf mold, composed rose soil, they were
Speaker 2: born at Nature's Way, so they've been doing this a
Speaker 2: long time. Right now, they've got a really good sale
Speaker 2: in the nursery and they have a lot of great
Speaker 2: native plants too, by the way. They have fruit trees,
Speaker 2: they have houseplanted shrubs, all kinds of things. But now
Speaker 2: through December first fifty percent off their nursery plants. So
Speaker 2: I don't know you're going to ever find a better
Speaker 2: sale than that fifty percent off their nursery plants. At
Speaker 2: Nature's Way Resources and Nature's Way Resources on Sherbrook Circle,
Speaker 2: you go north on forty five where fourteen eighty eight
Speaker 2: comes in from the left from Magnolia. You turn right
Speaker 2: across the railroad tracks and make another right and you're there, easy,
Speaker 2: easy to get to and lots of good quality things.
Speaker 2: I was out about in the countryside the other day
Speaker 2: and was in Anti Rosing for him, and I love
Speaker 2: going there and you will too if you haven't been there.
Speaker 2: Those of you who have know what I'm talking about.
Speaker 2: Anti Rosingporium is just a wonderful destination for gardeners, and
Speaker 2: I would say, if you're gonna make that little trip
Speaker 2: out to Independence, Texas and it's not far, I mean,
Speaker 2: it's a very nice little outing, be a good thing
Speaker 2: to do today or tomorrow afternoon. Even antique rose Emporium
Speaker 2: is it's like a wonderland. So take some friends with
Speaker 2: you and just enjoy walking around. It looks great. They
Speaker 2: are loaded. They're overflowing actually for fall. Of course they
Speaker 2: got roses and roses and then have some more roses.
Speaker 2: Everything you do you want a shrub large? Do you
Speaker 2: want a small shrub? Do you want one that's almost thornless?
Speaker 2: Do you want a climber? Do you want a climber
Speaker 2: that repeat blooms? Do you want one suitable for a container?
Speaker 2: What color do you want? What fragrance? Do you see
Speaker 2: what I'm talking about? Anti rosing? For him? Now they're
Speaker 2: gearing up for their fall Festival of Roses, and you
Speaker 2: need to write this down. By the way, I always
Speaker 2: listen to garden Line with a pen or paper in hand,
Speaker 2: because I was giving you stuff like this. You need
Speaker 2: to write down Fall Festival of Roses November one, two
Speaker 2: and three. The first day is a ticketed garden party.
Speaker 2: That's Friday, November first, and then Saturday and Sunday are
Speaker 2: free and open to the public. They're going to have
Speaker 2: speakers like Rosarian by the way, Chris Weisinger, the Bulb Hunter,
Speaker 2: is going to be there, Mike's Rent from micro Life
Speaker 2: will be there, Henry Flowers, doctor Stephen George with the
Speaker 2: earth Kind program from up in the Dallas area. Doctor
Speaker 2: George is a hoot. In fact, I'm going to say
Speaker 2: he's Toot's good friend of mine and you will. You
Speaker 2: will be rolling listening to that character talk. He is
Speaker 2: really good. They're going to have an artist in market
Speaker 2: and food trucks and plants of all types. Of course,
Speaker 2: they got the gift items and of certainly of course roses.
Speaker 2: When you go to Antique Rosenpium, tell them I sent you.
Speaker 2: You got to listen to this part. Tell them I
Speaker 2: sent you. Get ten percent off at discount even if
Speaker 2: you go order online. When you order online in our
Speaker 2: coupon codes skip twenty twenty four skip twenty twenty four.
Speaker 2: Antique roses. Of course they're roses, but there's so much more.
Speaker 2: You can give them a call at ninety seventy nine
Speaker 2: eight three six fifty five forty eight, or do this.
Speaker 2: Just go to Antique Roseemporium dot com. There you can
Speaker 2: find out everything that's going on, all the plants that
Speaker 2: they have, and Antique Roseemporium dot com will get you
Speaker 2: all set up. Four roses and a lot more. And
Speaker 2: they really do have a lot more, some really nice
Speaker 2: herbs and vegetables and other things right now out there. Well,
Speaker 2: we are in the big middle of fall according to
Speaker 2: the calendar. And remember, don't look at the thermometer, look
Speaker 2: at the calendar. That's what's important when it comes to
Speaker 2: our fall gardening. For example, if you wait until it
Speaker 2: cools off and we get a cold front and some
Speaker 2: rain to put out your pre emergency may be a
Speaker 2: little late doing that. If you wait put out your fertilizer,
Speaker 2: well it'll be there in the ground, but the plant
Speaker 2: roots won't be as active as they were when it
Speaker 2: was a little warmer warmer like now. Ace Hardware has
Speaker 2: got all of those things that you keep hearing me
Speaker 2: talk about, like your fall fertilization from all the different
Speaker 2: companies organic and synthetic. At Ace Hardware, they've got things
Speaker 2: like the barricade. They've got things like the Eagle, which
Speaker 2: is the fungicide for a brown patch and take all
Speaker 2: root right as well. They've got the fire ant control
Speaker 2: and it is still time to do that. Knock those
Speaker 2: fire ants out now with a bait. And there's several
Speaker 2: reasons to use a bait. Number one, it gets all
Speaker 2: the mounds, even the ones you don't see. Okay, a
Speaker 2: mound treatment, you're just playing whack them mole with the bait.
Speaker 2: You get them all. ACE Hardware has several different brands
Speaker 2: of bait including come and Get It. Most aces I've
Speaker 2: been in as i've looked, have got to come and
Speaker 2: get It, which is an organic mate for Finrance if
Speaker 2: you want to go that route. And when you're in ACE,
Speaker 2: you're gonna find seasonally everything you need. They're fixing the
Speaker 2: load up here and get us ready for the holiday
Speaker 2: season with lights and things. I'll tell you more about
Speaker 2: that later, but that's just like ACE. They're always on
Speaker 2: top of things and always everything you need. I was
Speaker 2: in there the other day needing some plumbing parts for
Speaker 2: some plumbing that I was doing, and just you know,
Speaker 2: it makes it easy because you go to ACE and
Speaker 2: you know they have it. That's why they say ACE
Speaker 2: is the place there's forty ACE stores in the Greater
Speaker 2: Houston area. You can go to ACE Hardware dot Com
Speaker 2: find the store near you, and you're all set up.
Speaker 2: So get in there and get it all done. Get
Speaker 2: your fertilizers, any kind of weed controlling, kind of disease control,
Speaker 2: pass control, and all the tools you need, everything else
Speaker 2: you need to have a beautiful, beautiful place. And ACE
Speaker 2: is the place for a beautiful place. We are listening
Speaker 2: to garden Line and our phone number seven one three
Speaker 2: two one two five eight seven four seven one three
Speaker 2: two one two fifty eight seventy four. One of my
Speaker 2: daughters was out an antique rosenporium just a whole about
Speaker 2: a week or so ago, picking up some roses for
Speaker 2: their place they have just moved into, and I recently
Speaker 2: moved into a new place for them, and uh, they
Speaker 2: just are getting it fixed up so nice. And one
Speaker 2: of the things they wanted to get done with some roses,
Speaker 2: well that's they got them fixed up out there at
Speaker 2: the antique rosing porium, which is no surprise, beautiful stuff.
Speaker 2: They bought some gorgeous some climbers and shrub roses that
Speaker 2: have unbelievable fragrance out there. We talk about issues with
Speaker 2: trees a lot, you know, I say on guard line,
Speaker 2: and we used to say this, and we do say
Speaker 2: this in the Agrlife Extension office around the state. Three
Speaker 2: things that make the phone ring are the three t's, trees, turf,
Speaker 2: and tomatoes. Tomato and the vegetable garden number one question
Speaker 2: by far. In fact, I should have added them up
Speaker 2: over the years. I would almost say that probably thirty
Speaker 2: percent at least twenty five percent of all questions coming
Speaker 2: in on vegetables or about tomatoes. But the two big
Speaker 2: ones really are trees and turf. You gotta take care
Speaker 2: of your trees are the most valuable part of your landscape.
Speaker 2: And Affordable Tree Service is the place to call someone
Speaker 2: ask me this week. You know, hey, what I was
Speaker 2: driving and I heard you talk about Martin Spoon Moore
Speaker 2: an affordable tree and I didn't write it. I couldn't
Speaker 2: write it down. All right, we'll allow it. If you're driving.
Speaker 2: We don't want to want you to have a wreck.
Speaker 2: Just send them the number seven one three six nine
Speaker 2: two six sixty three seven to one three six nine
Speaker 2: nine twenty six sixty three. Here's the website for those
Speaker 2: of you who like to go about that direction. Aff
Speaker 2: tree Service dot com, a f ftree service dot com.
Speaker 2: Martinal Prune. He does deep root feeding, he checks your
Speaker 2: trees overall health. You're gonna do any kind of thing
Speaker 2: like you know, trenching or doing something around the tree's
Speaker 2: root system, you got to call Martin first to come
Speaker 2: out because once the damage is done, you know, if
Speaker 2: you do it and then the tree is not looking good, well,
Speaker 2: I mean, you know, he doesn't have magic potions. He
Speaker 2: does good job. He's not miracle work, all right, So
Speaker 2: don't wait until after you've done the damage. Call him
Speaker 2: before so he can help you avoid that so important. Uh,
Speaker 2: you got to get him booked though it is we're
Speaker 2: in the big middle of tree middle where at the
Speaker 2: beginning of the tree prime pruning season it'll go all
Speaker 2: the way through the end of winter. And he stays busy.
Speaker 2: So you got to call him and book him to
Speaker 2: come out, get him a you know, it doesn't matter
Speaker 2: if he comes out in February or whatever. Just book
Speaker 2: him now to get that done. And the number again
Speaker 2: seven one three six two six six three. I in
Speaker 2: my garden and yard I was I was out. We're
Speaker 2: fixing the put in a patio. I've got an area
Speaker 2: that I've prepared a while back and just kind of
Speaker 2: got away from the project doing some other things. But
Speaker 2: I've got some crushed road based top materials down. I'm
Speaker 2: fixing to put a flat stone patio in in the
Speaker 2: backyard and uh, you know, just a dry not cement
Speaker 2: today in or anything. Our soil moves too much for
Speaker 2: for cemount without lots of extra efforts.
Speaker 6: Uh.
Speaker 2: Anyway, so we're gonna get that out. And I was
Speaker 2: just getting all that set up doing some other things.
Speaker 2: I've still got some nuts edge popping up here and there.
Speaker 10: You know.
Speaker 2: I I've got a publication online about how to control it,
Speaker 2: and what I tell you online works. It does work
Speaker 2: if you follow my instructions online at gardening with Skip
Speaker 2: dot com.
Speaker 11: Uh.
Speaker 2: The publication up there is called nutsedge and in Depth.
Speaker 2: But anyway, and so I had some coming up and
Speaker 2: one of my fine textured zoysias nuts edge shows up
Speaker 2: like a Neon sign in that find texture zus. And
Speaker 2: I was just doing the wiper, the product that you
Speaker 2: need to do for it. Had some coming up still
Speaker 2: in a flower bed. I had a flower bed that
Speaker 2: was loaded in nuts edge and it's down to probably
Speaker 2: oh less than a tenth of the nuts edge that
Speaker 2: it had, and it will never get a chance to
Speaker 2: come up and have sunlight. I will win, and I
Speaker 2: am winning just staying on it. But that means I'm
Speaker 2: practicing what I preach. If you want to beat nut's edge,
Speaker 2: you cannot let it come up for air. In other words,
Speaker 2: it comes up, and you let it sit there for
Speaker 2: three weeks capturing sunlight. And it's just you're increasing the
Speaker 2: problem when you do that, You're going backwards. It's not
Speaker 2: just one plant. That one plan is making daughters, and
Speaker 2: those daughters are making daughters, and that's how it becomes
Speaker 2: a problem. So stay with it. Well, enough of the
Speaker 2: nuts sete lecture. Let's go to Janet Important Natures. Hey, Jenet,
Speaker 2: welcome to gardenline.
Speaker 11: Hey, good morning. I was wondering how deep how deep
Speaker 11: you plant tulip bobs?
Speaker 2: How deep you plant.
Speaker 12: Uh huh tulip bombs.
Speaker 2: Tulips four times three to four times the width of
Speaker 2: the bulb deep?
Speaker 11: Okay, okay, okay, all right, sure, thank you, okay, all.
Speaker 2: Right, Janet, you take care, Thank you having the call.
Speaker 2: All right now, I havn one three two one two
Speaker 2: k t r H. If you'd like to give me
Speaker 2: a call listen. If you are planning on doing your
Speaker 2: fall fertilization, do not delay. Now's the time to get
Speaker 2: it done. And Microlife has an excellent fertilizer. It's called
Speaker 2: brown Patch, and it sounds like it'll be a fungicide
Speaker 2: to kill diseases. Well, what it really is. It's a
Speaker 2: nutrient pack fertilizer designed for fall that is also packed
Speaker 2: with microbes. And when you get good microbes out there,
Speaker 2: there are many species of microbes that help fight bad microbes.
Speaker 2: That's kind of how nature works. And the sixty three
Speaker 2: different beneficial microbe strains in another product that I like
Speaker 2: to put down with the brown Patch, and that's MicroB
Speaker 2: Grow Bioanoculent. So here's here's here's how it works. You
Speaker 2: put on the Microlife brown Patch, follow the label, put
Speaker 2: it down the bag, put it on the proper rate,
Speaker 2: and then I would suggest you get also the Microbe
Speaker 2: Grow bio Andoculent. It only is it only takes about
Speaker 2: five to ten pounds per thousand square feet. This isn't
Speaker 2: a fertilizer. It is just loaded with sixty three different
Speaker 2: strains of beneficial micro organism. You put those two down,
Speaker 2: you watermen really good, and you have provided a lot
Speaker 2: of additional microbes just splashing up there on the plant
Speaker 2: surfaces and everything else as you irrigated in or as
Speaker 2: it rains. And that's your fall fertilization. And that is
Speaker 2: the double package from the folks at Microlife for your
Speaker 2: fall lawn care. And it's important to get that done soon,
Speaker 2: very soon, don't alive. I'd say this weekend would be
Speaker 2: the time to get it done. Those organic materials are
Speaker 2: going to decompose as microbes get a hold of them
Speaker 2: and break them down, and that's what they do. They
Speaker 2: release the nutrients. That's what happens to the leaves that
Speaker 2: fall on the forest floor. Microbes turn them into plant
Speaker 2: food and so Microlife if you want more information, Microlifefertilizer
Speaker 2: dot com is where you can find out where you
Speaker 2: can buy it, which I already save you some time
Speaker 2: and tell you everywhere pretty much everywhere I see that
Speaker 2: stuff A feed stores and garden centers, ace hardware stores,
Speaker 2: the Southwest fertilizer, lots of lots of places. Let's go
Speaker 2: to friends with now, and we're going to visit with Marcus.
Speaker 2: Hey Marcus, Welcome to guarden Line.
Speaker 1: Good morning, morning morning.
Speaker 13: I got about five foot crate myrtles in my front yard.
Speaker 13: I got two of them, and they've always blossom from
Speaker 13: the top and they're really nice and thirty. After the
Speaker 13: freeze a couple of years ago, they kind of start
Speaker 13: growing from the bottom or in the middle, and they
Speaker 13: stop growing from the top. How would I change that?
Speaker 2: Okay, well, it's because the freeze knocked it out. The
Speaker 2: freeze came when they weren't ready. You know, plants harden off,
Speaker 2: they get ready for winter, and we had a December
Speaker 2: freeze that hit them and they were not ready. And
Speaker 2: I've seen crate myrtles killed all the way to the
Speaker 2: ground and then they're re sprouting. So you just got
Speaker 2: to print out all that dead top growth. Now if
Speaker 2: it's if it's really a mess and it's ugly, you
Speaker 2: can take some of the shoots at the bottom and
Speaker 2: reform your tree out of that or your bush out
Speaker 2: of that. Meaning you're going to cut all of them
Speaker 2: away except for maybe three or four and then reform
Speaker 2: the tree by pruning those into the shape of a
Speaker 2: tree as it grows. If it's not that bad, and
Speaker 2: you've got some parts above ground that still look good.
Speaker 2: Then you just need to cut the dead back to
Speaker 2: where there's healthy wood. But you kind of need to
Speaker 2: look at them carefully. You may walk around them and
Speaker 2: see a trunk or a branch that has major sunken
Speaker 2: areas where it's like part of it is alive, but
Speaker 2: part of it is dead, And that probably needs to
Speaker 2: come out.
Speaker 13: Right because I know it is it growing like in
Speaker 13: the middle. They got branches popping out in the middle,
Speaker 13: but there's not there's notting on the top. So if
Speaker 13: I cut it down where they start growing, then it's
Speaker 13: gonna look like a shrub. And the Hoa's already sent
Speaker 13: me a letter saying cut your shrubs. And I'm like,
Speaker 13: they're not shrubs, they're great myrtles.
Speaker 2: And so what you're gonna do, yeah, Marcus, So what
Speaker 2: you're gonna do is if you want to leave, if
Speaker 2: you want to cut them back to where in the
Speaker 2: middle they're sprouting out, you got to cut out everything
Speaker 2: but maybe a couple of branches on each of those
Speaker 2: stalks in the middle, because you know, crape myrtle comes
Speaker 2: out of the ground and although there are single trunk
Speaker 2: forms usually they have about three trunks, and then those
Speaker 2: three trunks fork, each of them becomes two, and then
Speaker 2: each of those two comes two more. And so you're
Speaker 2: gonna go back and like you got a trunk, and
Speaker 2: at midway up it's just got all these sprouts coming out,
Speaker 2: you know, cut it down to two sprouts there and
Speaker 2: cut the top out, and that's gonna be gonna be
Speaker 2: pretty hacked up looking. So I can't see your myrtle
Speaker 2: to you know, tell you go right here and make
Speaker 2: this cut. Some people have just gone to the bottom,
Speaker 2: cut them out there and then chosen three more trunks
Speaker 2: to come back with and then pruned into a beautiful
Speaker 2: shape those three. Let them come up and branch, and
Speaker 2: then let the branches come up and branch. But depending
Speaker 2: on how serious the cold image is, that's your approach.
Speaker 2: Just think about a beautiful look at the most beautiful
Speaker 2: grant murder you've ever seen, and look at how the
Speaker 2: branches form on that. And that's how you're going to
Speaker 2: prim this to be all right, A lot of shrubby,
Speaker 2: a lot of shrubby stuff is gonna have to come out.
Speaker 2: I wouldn't do it now though, that would just spur
Speaker 2: new growth and if we have another December freeze, then
Speaker 2: it's really in trouble. From that, Wait until we get
Speaker 2: into egoes fully.
Speaker 14: Dormant, Okay, which will be when?
Speaker 2: Hell, we'll see depends on the weather.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 2: You know I've been. I've been down in your area,
Speaker 2: your south of Houston.
Speaker 5: You know.
Speaker 2: It could be January. It just depends on the weather
Speaker 2: we have. But I would do the printing if I
Speaker 2: if you can wait that long in the HOA will
Speaker 2: wait that long. I would do it probably in oh,
Speaker 2: mid January, something like that would be a good time.
Speaker 14: All right, sir, sounds great, Thank you, thanks.
Speaker 2: For the call. Appreciate that. Hey, I'm going to be
Speaker 2: in a chanted forest and chanted forest down to Richmond today.
Speaker 2: I will be there today from eleven thirty to one thirty.
Speaker 2: Actually I could probably get there about eleven forty five,
Speaker 2: but anyway, come on out. I've got a little bit
Speaker 2: of a road to get there today. But about eleven
Speaker 2: forty five ish to one thirty one forty five, I'll
Speaker 2: be there doing Q and A giving out Medina products.
Speaker 2: Medina's provided a bunch of free giveaways for us if
Speaker 2: you can get there at ten o'clock. Debbie Ping's one
Speaker 2: of the staff members there in Channed Forest is going
Speaker 2: to be doing a program on shade plants, and she's
Speaker 2: just really good at plants that put up with low
Speaker 2: low light. And you just want to go hear her
Speaker 2: and then stick around shop a little bit and I'll
Speaker 2: show up. Well, they've got a channed forest. They've got
Speaker 2: fall veggies and color, oh galore. It's everywhere if you
Speaker 2: need herbs or vegetables or just annual plant perennial plants.
Speaker 2: They also have got great shipments of shrubs and trees,
Speaker 2: including red buds and holly's, maples, oaks, magnolias. They even
Speaker 2: have a good shipment of fruit trees. Then, and you
Speaker 2: know our pollinators and Chennifors really specializes in plants that
Speaker 2: attract butterflies and the various pollinators that we have. And
Speaker 2: the days are getting short and those pollinators are looking
Speaker 2: for things to eat, our things to feed on, and
Speaker 2: so you just really hard to beat the natives. Salvia's
Speaker 2: and antanas or excellent choices for those as well. When
Speaker 2: you walk in two enchanted for us, you just go
Speaker 2: up and talk to one of the folks there. They
Speaker 2: know what they're talking about. They can point you to
Speaker 2: plants that'll do well. And if you'll come today June
Speaker 2: about eleven, let's say eleven forty five. I'll be a
Speaker 2: little conservative there. I make it there earlier, but eleven
Speaker 2: forty five and about one forty five, I'll be there
Speaker 2: answering your questions and I can point you in the
Speaker 2: direction of some of those planets. You can bring me
Speaker 2: some samples and bags too, by the way, I'll be
Speaker 2: happy to help with those. All right, Well, here we
Speaker 2: are on another break. I got to run for that.
Speaker 2: Michael and Humble, you be our first up when I
Speaker 2: come back. Welcome back to Garden Line, folks. Good to
Speaker 2: have you with us as always, if you'd like to
Speaker 2: give me a call seven to one three two one
Speaker 2: two ktr eight. Simple as that. You know, fall is
Speaker 2: the season to get things planted, especially the most important
Speaker 2: of all the great things we should plant in the fall,
Speaker 2: or the trees and shrubs, the woody ornamentals. And the
Speaker 2: reason is you need time for those root systems to
Speaker 2: establish before next summer when it will be blazing hot
Speaker 2: and dry when next summer arrives. So now's the time
Speaker 2: to get them planted. I would say don't plant a
Speaker 2: tree without grabbing a three sixty tree stabilizer. Rather than
Speaker 2: getting the wires out and cutting wires and hitting stakes
Speaker 2: in the ground and you know, finding pieces of garden
Speaker 2: hose to go around the tree so you don't cut
Speaker 2: into it with a wire. Just get a three state
Speaker 2: three sixty tree stabilizer. You can just put a post
Speaker 2: in the ground. Simplest thing would just be to get
Speaker 2: a tea post. The stabilizer has an attachment where you
Speaker 2: it attaches to the te post and it holds it.
Speaker 2: If you've got a larger tree, you want to go
Speaker 2: one kind of north south, one kind of east west,
Speaker 2: so you're holding it from both directions that way, no
Speaker 2: matter way which way the wind blows, it's got it
Speaker 2: well stabilized. You can find these things. They last forever too,
Speaker 2: and they hold the tree with a little slack so
Speaker 2: it can move just a little, which is important on
Speaker 2: it getting well established and having a good strong trunk.
Speaker 2: You don't want to just honker it down where you
Speaker 2: can't move it. All three sixty tree stabilizers designed to
Speaker 2: do that. You can get them at RCW Nursery. You
Speaker 2: can get them at Buchanan's Native Plants way downs out
Speaker 2: in Alvin Jorges Head and Gardens. They have them there.
Speaker 2: Over at the Arborgate in Tomball Plants for All Seasons
Speaker 2: has got them on two forty nine and now south
Speaker 2: Well Southwest Fertilizer has them shooting. I mentioned that one
Speaker 2: and now the new place is cnmlch Ciena Malts is
Speaker 2: now carrying the three sixty tree stabilizer. I'm going to
Speaker 2: head now to Humble and we're going to talk to Michael. Hello, Michael,
Speaker 2: Welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 15: Yes, sir, the quick question here is is that I
Speaker 15: purchased a Sam Houston peach tree in the spring and
Speaker 15: I in the pot, you know, and the whole purpose
Speaker 15: was to do this, it said so I had won
Speaker 15: the year before and when the winter came it.
Speaker 7: Didn't make it.
Speaker 15: So I've transplanted this peach tree into a bigger pot
Speaker 15: since then and it's doing well.
Speaker 4: It's about seven or eight feet.
Speaker 15: Tall by now, and I'm wondering when would be a
Speaker 15: good time to put it in the ground, and then
Speaker 15: of course after winter, because I was just going to
Speaker 15: move it into the garage when it starts dropping, you
Speaker 15: know where it doesn't do so well.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, Michael, the best time would just be
Speaker 2: go ahead and get it done. Sam Houston peach peaches
Speaker 2: in general, they can take our winners just fine. And
Speaker 2: if you planted it now, you would be able to
Speaker 2: give it more time to get roots established for next
Speaker 2: summer coming. They peaches don't like being in pots. And
Speaker 2: in fact, if you had it outside, if you want
Speaker 2: to wait until the leaves fall off, you can do
Speaker 2: that and then plant it. But I would get it
Speaker 2: done before winner if I were you, and take it
Speaker 2: out of the pot. How big how big across the
Speaker 2: top of the pot is it? I mean we're talking
Speaker 2: about something the size of the steering wheel in your
Speaker 2: car or something bigger or smaller.
Speaker 15: Well, the pot itself at the top is probably, oh,
Speaker 15: I don't know, twelve eighteen inches wide. Yeah, it's probably
Speaker 15: eighteen inches when.
Speaker 2: You put it in the ground, and you're gonna see
Speaker 2: some roots going around the outside. And this is going
Speaker 2: to be hard to do, but I need you to
Speaker 2: get a box cutter, knife or printers and go vertically
Speaker 2: through the outside of that root ball and cut the
Speaker 2: roots from top to bottom on the outside that are
Speaker 2: making a circle. They will branch underground then and it'll
Speaker 2: establish better in the long run. So if you want
Speaker 2: to wait until the cooler, go ahead.
Speaker 7: I'm sorry.
Speaker 15: As opposed to taking it out of the pots, is just.
Speaker 2: You know, no, you're planting. No, you're planning in the ground.
Speaker 2: So when when it comes out of the pot and
Speaker 2: you're about to put it in the ground, don't put
Speaker 2: it in the ground with roots going in circles. Cut
Speaker 2: those roots because everywhere you cut them, they'll they'll branch
Speaker 2: and fork out and go into the soil around the plant.
Speaker 15: Okay, okay, all right, I understand, okay, all right, yeah,
Speaker 15: And I usually use the fertilizer that that's meant for
Speaker 15: you know, fruit trees.
Speaker 2: Well for for this, don't don't don't put fertilizer in
Speaker 2: the planning hole. Just put in the ground and next spring,
Speaker 2: when it starts to grow, then start with that fertilizer
Speaker 2: for fruit trees.
Speaker 5: Okay, okay, thank you, sir.
Speaker 2: I appreciate it, you bet, thank you for the call.
Speaker 2: Appreciate that we we were talking, you know about the
Speaker 2: importance of soil. I always say brown stuff before green stuff,
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Speaker 2: to three pm two day. They're closed tomorrow and during
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Speaker 2: You get the sack and the age leaf mol compos
Speaker 2: one qbic yard of it for ninety nine bucks. Boy
Speaker 2: Bear jump on that one. We're going to go now
Speaker 2: to Meadows Place and talk to Jim. Hey Jim, welcome
Speaker 2: to garden line.
Speaker 4: Hello Skiff, thank you.
Speaker 13: Uh.
Speaker 4: Saint Augustine Yard, been following your schedule. Everything was looking good.
Speaker 6: Uh.
Speaker 4: I was watering once a week with a with a
Speaker 4: good soap. The grass in the front yard. The blades
Speaker 4: are turning brown. It's not it's not take all or
Speaker 4: round patch. And I started with the barricade and the
Speaker 4: eagle fund you side got that down and was going
Speaker 4: to apply the fertilizer today. Question with adding with adding
Speaker 4: bug out max and as amite help this time of
Speaker 4: the year. Are is that a waste of money? Now?
Speaker 4: And wait till the spring.
Speaker 2: There there is no pest to put the bug out
Speaker 2: for now. There's no reason to put bug out now.
Speaker 2: None of the lawn pests are active now. But the asmite.
Speaker 2: You know, anytime, if you haven't done it in the
Speaker 2: past year, I would go ahead and do the asamite.
Speaker 4: Also, I did it last fall. Was the last time
Speaker 4: I used it?
Speaker 2: Yeah, well you can do it again now. You can
Speaker 2: do it again now, you know, in the absence of
Speaker 2: a soil test to see what exactly you needed. There's
Speaker 2: nothing wrong going ahead and doing that again now. But
Speaker 2: as far as the browning, I think you're fertilizing a
Speaker 2: little bit of water is gonna is gonna help out.
Speaker 2: Just make sure and use a fall fertilizer.
Speaker 4: You know, not right, I've got that ready to go
Speaker 4: in summer.
Speaker 2: All right, i'd like you're ready to go.
Speaker 4: I appreciate the information. Have a great day, Jim.
Speaker 2: Thanks good luck with getting that lawn in top top shape.
Speaker 2: Plants for All Seasons is at really just north of
Speaker 2: Luetta on Highway two forty nine, Tomball Parkway, just north
Speaker 2: of Luetta right there on two forty nine. The website
Speaker 2: is Plants for All Seasons dot com. Here's the phone
Speaker 2: number two eight one three seven six sixteen forty six
Speaker 2: two eight one three seven six one six four six.
Speaker 2: This family operated business. Will you you heard me talk
Speaker 2: about them. You go in there and any question you have,
Speaker 2: they're going to build an trick. Go in there, and
Speaker 2: any plant that you need that grows here, they're gonna
Speaker 2: point you to it. They're going to tell you how
Speaker 2: to take care of it. And I mean, if you
Speaker 2: want to go in there, maybe there's plenty you didn't
Speaker 2: buy from them. Just go in there and ask them
Speaker 2: a question about it and they'll help you. And they
Speaker 2: may they may tell you, well, here, here's one of
Speaker 2: the problems. Is you need this product or that plant.
Speaker 2: Here's a plant to replace it with a maybe not.
Speaker 2: They've got all the stuff you hear me talk about
Speaker 2: when it comes to fall fertilizing and weed prevention and
Speaker 2: all of that plans for all seasons. Been doing this
Speaker 2: since nineteen seventy three. And it's because they know what
Speaker 2: they're doing. Let's take care of their customer. I'm gonna
Speaker 2: take a little break here, Mike and Surfside. You will
Speaker 2: be first when we come back.
Speaker 1: R H Garden Line with scared Rickards.
Speaker 14: Just watching.
Speaker 16: Alrighty folks, let's just jump right in here and get
Speaker 16: going on this next hour on Garden Line.
Speaker 2: We're glad you're listening this morning. And if you are
Speaker 2: one of the people that are shy and don't like
Speaker 2: to call in, or maybe I don't know, just never
Speaker 2: have why not call in today? Like to talk to
Speaker 2: you our phone number seven one three two to one
Speaker 2: two kt r H seven one three two one two
Speaker 2: kat r H. For those of you down in league
Speaker 2: City and all of the surrounding communities. I want to
Speaker 2: tell you about your hometown feed store. I'm talking about
Speaker 2: League City Feed now, oh coming to Reale, Clare, Lake City, Baycliff, Webster, Lamark,
Speaker 2: San Leone, Dickinson, Santa Fe, all of those communities, that
Speaker 2: whole region down there. This is your feed store now.
Speaker 2: They are open from Monday through Saturday from nine to six.
Speaker 2: Closed on Sunday. They'll be closed tomorrow, but today Monday
Speaker 2: through Saturday nine to six, So you can swing by
Speaker 2: after work during the week or today, it'd be a
Speaker 2: good time to go buy. When you get there, you're
Speaker 2: going to find your fall fertilizers that I keep telling
Speaker 2: you about. You're going to find things to control pests
Speaker 2: and weeds and diseases. Do you need to get out
Speaker 2: there and get a premergant down or something They can
Speaker 2: get you fixed up at League City Feed. You know,
Speaker 2: the Thunderbergs have been running this store since it's been
Speaker 2: over forty years ago that the store was originally built.
Speaker 2: And when you go in there, you get the old
Speaker 2: fashioned service. They carry the bags out for you. You know
Speaker 2: it's you. It's that traditional feed store. Maybe I don't
Speaker 2: know maybe you grew up and your parents or somebody,
Speaker 2: grandpa or something took you to a feed store. That's
Speaker 2: that feel that that is just a night I love.
Speaker 2: I love going in feed stores. I love the everything
Speaker 2: from just the aroma of a feed store. I just
Speaker 2: I just think that's cool stuff. Well, this this is
Speaker 2: that kind league city feed. They take care of you.
Speaker 2: They got the products you need. What more do you want?
Speaker 2: If you want to give them a call to eight
Speaker 2: one three three two sixteen twelve two eight one three
Speaker 2: three two one six one two. We're going to go
Speaker 2: now to surf side and talk to Mike. Hello, Mike,
Speaker 2: Welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 4: Hey, thanks Skip, I you got a question for you.
Speaker 4: I've got some gorgeous eggplant bushes loaded down with blooms,
Speaker 4: but the fruit's not setting. I'm curious to see, you know,
Speaker 4: being being the time of the year, going in the fall,
Speaker 4: should I just go ahead and pull these plants up
Speaker 4: and go in with my fall crop? You know, the spinach,
Speaker 4: the kale, turn ups, mustard. What do you think? You know?
Speaker 2: It's it's a tough call. We're getting late enough now
Speaker 2: to wear for even if fruits sat today for them
Speaker 2: to reach a stage harvestable stage is kind of iffy
Speaker 2: because if we get some cooler weather in here, it's
Speaker 2: going to slow them down, and then they slow down
Speaker 2: to the point essentially not moving along at all. I
Speaker 2: don't know. If they were mine and they had a
Speaker 2: few fruit on some, I may leave one and you know,
Speaker 2: then try to plant the rest sort of head your bet,
Speaker 2: or you could just pull them out and move on.
Speaker 2: It's time to come the other stuff in? Yeah, what
Speaker 2: has happened to the other stuff in?
Speaker 7: What happened?
Speaker 4: They went under salt water? You know when we had
Speaker 4: the most recent hurricane, and they were under smalt water
Speaker 4: for I don't know three or four days, lost all
Speaker 4: their leaves, and I figured they were dead. What do
Speaker 4: you know, they start They just turned up to be
Speaker 4: beautiful plants. My okre did the same thing, lost all
Speaker 4: the leaves. I thought they were gonners. I've got more
Speaker 4: ocre than I've ever had right right.
Speaker 2: Now, So we'll good, good, good for you.
Speaker 4: I don't know the salt water helped them out or not,
Speaker 4: but it's interesting.
Speaker 2: Well appreciate something, right, all right. We'll take care and
Speaker 2: have have fun. Have fun in the garden there, Mike,
Speaker 2: all right, bye bye. That's that's funny. You know, plants
Speaker 2: sometimes surprise you.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 2: You know, there's a natural instinct in plants when not
Speaker 2: not every plant all the time, but basically when a
Speaker 2: plant is about to die, for example, it will often
Speaker 2: set more fruit than normal. I've seen that with peaches.
Speaker 2: You know, where a peach tree is struggling, going down,
Speaker 2: and all of a sudden, it just sets a lot
Speaker 2: of fruit. It's almost like a survival thing. Got to
Speaker 2: keep the species going. You know, We've got to get
Speaker 2: a lot of seeds out there because I'm about to croak.
Speaker 2: I don't know exactly what the plant's thinking, but I'll
Speaker 2: tell you that that is not unusual to see. I
Speaker 2: was talking about, but plants fall seasons. A little bit
Speaker 2: before we went to that last break, and I forgot
Speaker 2: to tell you this. They've got some beautiful fall bulbs,
Speaker 2: like the amarillas bulbs you know, have the beautiful giant
Speaker 2: trumpets on them. You can plant them in the garden.
Speaker 2: You can use them for forcing or something. They've got those,
Speaker 2: They got the paper whites in that are looking good.
Speaker 2: And they also have got a stock of strawberries and
Speaker 2: they got some in a couple of weeks ago that
Speaker 2: are just beautiful little plants. Now's the time to get
Speaker 2: your strawberries planet. So if you thought about putting in,
Speaker 2: you know a few strawberries in the garden, or you
Speaker 2: can put them in as long as you got a
Speaker 2: sunny flower bed, you can plant them in there if
Speaker 2: you want. Strawberries planted in the fall are the best
Speaker 2: because by the time we get past this brunt of
Speaker 2: the winter, they'll be producing and carry you all the
Speaker 2: way into May. So plunch fall season's got you set
Speaker 2: up on those as well. Nitrofoss has their three step
Speaker 2: program and the three steps are fertilizer, weed prevention and
Speaker 2: disease prevention. Fertilizer weed prevention, disease prevention. If you're going
Speaker 2: to do those processes any or all, now is the
Speaker 2: time you have to get it done. And here's why.
Speaker 2: Fertilizer is the Nitrofoss Fall Special designed for fall. It's
Speaker 2: got the balance of nutrients. It's on my schedule. It's
Speaker 2: on my schedule if you go to gardening with Skip
Speaker 2: dot com. It's got that blend of nutrients that helps
Speaker 2: a plant go into fall, produce the carbohydrates to have
Speaker 2: more cold heartiness, and to come out stronger in the spring.
Speaker 2: It also that part of the three step program is
Speaker 2: the barricade. That's a weed pre emergent. I use the
Speaker 2: baseball analogy because it works for me, maybe it makes
Speaker 2: sense to you. That is that if you're going to
Speaker 2: hit a baseball, you got to start swinging before the
Speaker 2: ball gets the plate. And when the picture let's go
Speaker 2: of the ball pretty quick, then your bat better start
Speaker 2: moving the pictures thrown the ball. When it comes to weeds,
Speaker 2: when we get a call front and little rain, those
Speaker 2: weed seeds are going to come up. The fall weed
Speaker 2: seeds that's clover and hand bit and chickweed and cleavers
Speaker 2: and carpet weed and just a bunch of them that
Speaker 2: we see in the spring. Okay, they're sprouting. Now you've
Speaker 2: got to get the pre emergent barricade down before they sprout.
Speaker 2: Put it down, watered in a half inch of water.
Speaker 2: There you go. Third step disease prevention. Brown patch is coming.
Speaker 2: It will arrive. Some yards have it real bad, some
Speaker 2: yards don't have it. There's a variation in that. But
Speaker 2: fall is when you see the big brown circles, and
Speaker 2: if you're going to prevent them, you got to get
Speaker 2: ahead of time, right, That's called prevention. Once the brown
Speaker 2: circles appear, they're gonna stay brown no matter what you
Speaker 2: spray on them, because they've already killed the grass blades.
Speaker 2: AND's wait until it warms up to regrain. So get
Speaker 2: it down now. Not fruss eagle turf fung just side
Speaker 2: now one two three fall special barricade eagle turf fung aside.
Speaker 2: Those are the three steps. You can get it at
Speaker 2: Bear Bearing's Hardware, the one on Best and on West Teimer,
Speaker 2: all spa Ace in the Woodlands Lake Hardware and Angleton
Speaker 2: and in Lake Jackson, and you can find them at
Speaker 2: RCW Nursery as well. Folks, Time for a break. I'll
Speaker 2: be right back list today if you'd like to give
Speaker 2: us a call. Seven one three two one two k
Speaker 2: t r H seven one three two one two k
Speaker 2: t r H A simple as that. Well, let's see
Speaker 2: here I wanted to I wanted to talk a little
Speaker 2: bit about RCW Nursery as we get going in in
Speaker 2: this next segment. R CW is the garden center that
Speaker 2: is where Hiway two forty nine Tomball Parkway comes into
Speaker 2: belt wag eight. RCW nursery is always a place to
Speaker 2: go to get whatever you need, Like right now, do
Speaker 2: you need fall vegetables? Do you need beautiful color like
Speaker 2: crotons and and annual flowers? Do you need? What do
Speaker 2: you need?
Speaker 9: Uh?
Speaker 2: They are having a really really nice I think, really
Speaker 2: really nice deal going on in terms of shrubs and
Speaker 2: trees and things like that. All trees fifteen percent off
Speaker 2: fifteen percent off, so you know fall is the time
Speaker 2: to plant those things. Well, they've got you covered and
Speaker 2: they grow on themselves up at the Williams Tree Farm
Speaker 2: up in Plantersville, Texas. But do you need like a
Speaker 2: beautiful shumard red oak or maybe add blanchard southern magnolia. Gosh,
Speaker 2: those things are quarridous. They've got that up there. They
Speaker 2: have many many other trees too, and shrubs and they
Speaker 2: always have a good selection of roses at RCW. Well,
Speaker 2: I won't tell you this next Saturday. Next Saturday, I'm
Speaker 2: going to be there for their fall Fling next Saturday
Speaker 2: RCW Nursery. That's the twenty sixth of October. I'll be
Speaker 2: there from twelve noon to two pm. They're going to
Speaker 2: have barbecue lunch. They're gonna have prizes and sales and games.
Speaker 2: We're gonna be giving away some stuff there while I'm
Speaker 2: there again there right there, We're two forty nine and
Speaker 2: Tomball Parkway. Come together. Easy to get to r CW
Speaker 2: Nurseries dot com. That's how you can find out more.
Speaker 2: Put her on your calendar next Saturday, come out and
Speaker 2: see me there. Look forward to visiting with you. This
Speaker 2: past week, I did a lot of traveling, actually went
Speaker 2: out of state, and I was like, when I traveled
Speaker 2: to go see, you know what's beautiful in that area.
Speaker 2: I was out in North Carolina and you know, just
Speaker 2: looking at garden centers and looking you know, I always
Speaker 2: go to arboreatams and places like that when I get
Speaker 2: a chance. But I tell you, I say this all
Speaker 2: the time here. You don't know how fortunate you are
Speaker 2: in the greater Houston area with the kinds and numbers
Speaker 2: of garden centers that we have. I you know, I
Speaker 2: was out in the Raleigh and Durham and what's the
Speaker 2: other town in that triple City's Raleigh Durham, not Wait Forest. Anyway,
Speaker 2: I was at a that triangle and there's a great arboretum,
Speaker 2: the Ralston Arboretum in Raleigh, but when it came to
Speaker 2: garden centers, it is like, what that that's not gardens.
Speaker 2: I mean, you come here, north, south, east, West, and Central,
Speaker 2: we have garden centers that you would want to take
Speaker 2: your family too. When they visit, you know, it's like, Okay,
Speaker 2: we're having a good time, but jump in the car.
Speaker 2: I want to show you something. That's the kind of
Speaker 2: garden centers.
Speaker 4: We have here.
Speaker 2: And really we are really really fortunate in that, and
Speaker 2: I hope you take advantage of that. I mean, no
Speaker 2: matter where you live, there is an outstanding garden center
Speaker 2: not too far from you. And I know a lot
Speaker 2: of people that kind of do the horticultural tourism, meaning
Speaker 2: they'll cross all the way to other side of town
Speaker 2: just to go see something different, you know, just to
Speaker 2: go see something new. And that's cool. That's fortunate to
Speaker 2: be here. So anyway, that just something I observed again
Speaker 2: and I said it before, But you go to San Antonio,
Speaker 2: some good guard garden centers, Austin some good garden centers,
Speaker 2: Dallas some good garden centers, but not as many, and
Speaker 2: not every kind of garden center you can imagine. No,
Speaker 2: Like you're really into native plants, or you're really really
Speaker 2: into I don't know, you fill in the blank. There's
Speaker 2: gonna be a garden center that covers that in our area. Anyway.
Speaker 2: I'm just bragging about our garden centers because they are outstanding.
Speaker 2: You know, when I talk about plants, I always tell
Speaker 2: you that the foundation you set for the plant is
Speaker 2: at least as important, if not more important, than the
Speaker 2: plants you put in. Now, it's important to plant adapted plant,
Speaker 2: but it's most important to get the soil right. Brown
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Speaker 2: the plant right. Okay. Landscaper's Pride has got an array
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Speaker 2: soil in it and organics. It would be really good
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Speaker 2: bed level up if you will. If your beds sunk down,
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Speaker 2: and bring it up and it would do really, really well.
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Speaker 2: it's cool. You have to melt. Malt keeps weed seeds
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Speaker 2: it's beautiful, it's naturally black, and it works really well.
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Speaker 2: our phone number is seven to one three two one
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Speaker 2: going to go to Spring, Texas and we're going to
Speaker 2: talk to Lance.
Speaker 4: Now.
Speaker 2: Hello Lance, welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 17: Good mornings, Thank you very much, and good morning to you.
Speaker 7: Skip.
Speaker 4: I've got a question for you today.
Speaker 17: I remember trying to well, this thing's kind of like
Speaker 17: part of the family. I've got a naval orange tree
Speaker 17: that barely serve. It was almost twenty feet high, makes
Speaker 17: navals beside naval oranges larger than softballs. I mean they
Speaker 17: were really nice and sweet and wonderful, and every year,
Speaker 17: and I've been keeping this thing for like twenty years,
Speaker 17: but every year I would cover it with a parachute
Speaker 17: and then put you know, a surplus parachute and cover
Speaker 17: it and then put some high pressure sodium lights under
Speaker 17: it to keep it warm. And unfortunately last year the
Speaker 17: wind managed to whip up the edge of them, or
Speaker 17: not last year on big freeze it the wind got
Speaker 17: under it and froze it back to right at the
Speaker 17: right at the graph line, and I started nursing it
Speaker 17: back because I couldn't really tell am I above it?
Speaker 17: I'm below it? I actually think now last year I
Speaker 17: got a few oranges and they were small, But this
Speaker 17: year it's looking pretty good, and they're they're probably they're
Speaker 17: larger than baseballs now, and they normally I harvest them
Speaker 17: around December. They're kind of a late late planet, I guess.
Speaker 17: But my question is how do I distinguish I mean,
Speaker 17: it's right at the graph I guess. Question one is
Speaker 17: if I've got a native root growing amongst the good shootes,
Speaker 17: will there be any transfer of that native fruit? I
Speaker 17: don't know what you would call it into the new
Speaker 17: fruit there?
Speaker 5: I mean, you.
Speaker 17: Follow me, the natural will it affect the quality of
Speaker 17: the orange that I've got hanging? And then the second
Speaker 17: question is how do you distinguish I mean, I've got
Speaker 17: some shootes with oranges on them.
Speaker 7: And I've got some shoes that don't.
Speaker 17: Have oranges on them, and they're an echine diameter. I mean,
Speaker 17: they've gotten pretty good sized.
Speaker 1: Okay, what do I do?
Speaker 2: All right? So here here's the answer. The answer to
Speaker 2: the question of is the rootstock gonna transfer something into
Speaker 2: the fruit? Now, it won't do that. The shoots coming
Speaker 2: up are either rootstock or they're your naval oranges. And
Speaker 2: if you got oranges on them last year, those are
Speaker 2: definitely the naval orange, because the rootstock will produce little, tiny,
Speaker 2: bitter fruit that doesn't come close to comparing to the
Speaker 2: sizing and quality of a naval orange. Typically, the rootstocks
Speaker 2: are much thornier too. That that is okay. Some types
Speaker 2: of citrus are naturally thorny more so than others, but
Speaker 2: rootstocks are very thorny, and so I think you would know.
Speaker 2: The other thing is when you look at the rootstock,
Speaker 2: if instead of having single leaves, it's got leaves and
Speaker 2: clusters of three that are smaller. Okay, clusters of three
Speaker 2: that are smaller, that's a sign of a rootstock also.
Speaker 2: But sounds like, at least in part, you're back in
Speaker 2: business with the naval.
Speaker 17: Large yeah, I think I am, because if anything, the
Speaker 17: questionable limbs that I was concerned about are actually large.
Speaker 17: I mean they're not, and the leaves are very.
Speaker 7: They're they're good size, good size leaves.
Speaker 17: But I'll look for clusters at three and if I
Speaker 17: see that, shall just leave the tree alone. I mean
Speaker 17: I can go put some survey ors marking flagging on
Speaker 17: them or something and then cut them later.
Speaker 2: Or yeah, I would let them at this point. I'd
Speaker 2: let them sit until the underwinter to not to stimulate
Speaker 2: growth by pruning. But but at that time, cut them
Speaker 2: off as close to the base as you can. And
Speaker 2: I've got to run there telling me it's commercial time here,
Speaker 2: but good luck with that. And as always on garden
Speaker 2: line lands, the advice is free. I just asked for
Speaker 2: half the produce that you get.
Speaker 7: We got about twenty there, so we'll let you know.
Speaker 7: Thank you much.
Speaker 2: All right, You take care, you take care, all right, folks,
Speaker 2: I'll be right back. Let's do this. Let's do some
Speaker 2: garden line today. We've got a lot of questions we
Speaker 2: need to answer, and I have some comments I would
Speaker 2: like to make just to help you as to what
Speaker 2: do we need to be worrying about and doing right now.
Speaker 2: One thing we need to be doing right now, not
Speaker 2: worrying about, but doing, is getting down our fall fertilization
Speaker 2: and Microlife has got you covered with their brown patch.
Speaker 2: Microlife brown patch, now that is not a fungicide. That
Speaker 2: is a fertilizer for fall. It's designed for fall. The
Speaker 2: ratio nutrients is right for fall. But it's a fertilizer
Speaker 2: that's chock full of microbial content to help fight against problems.
Speaker 2: You know, there are good microbes and there's bad microbes.
Speaker 2: There are microbes that fight disease. There's a lot of
Speaker 2: different things out there in the world that we have
Speaker 2: just in the last few decades begun to learn more
Speaker 2: and more about. And one of the things is that
Speaker 2: when you have a population covering a plant surface of
Speaker 2: good microbes, it's very difficult for a disease sport Land
Speaker 2: and to establish successfully. Microlife brown patch is a good
Speaker 2: fall fertilizer. Get it down soon. You need to get
Speaker 2: it down. It's going to decompose away and release those
Speaker 2: nutrients to your grass to get it ready for fall
Speaker 2: and for coming out strong in the spring too. I
Speaker 2: would follow that up with Microlife bio inoculant. Now, that
Speaker 2: is a maroon burgundycuter maroon bag. Bioinoculon has sixty three
Speaker 2: different strains of microbes. For example, it's got Bacilli subtlest.
Speaker 2: Bacillis subtlest is a natural in fact that you can
Speaker 2: buy Basilli subtlest in a bottle as a fungicide. It's
Speaker 2: got bacillis. Okay, are you ready for this nerd alert
Speaker 2: amelo licopations Bacillis amelo licopations. These bacillis are like bt
Speaker 2: that kills caterpillars, but these kill fungus, they do, and
Speaker 2: it's got sixty three of them. I just gave you
Speaker 2: two Microlife products are widely available. Microlife Fertilizer dot com.
Speaker 2: That is the website if you want to find out
Speaker 2: where you can get some yourself, and I hope you do.
Speaker 2: We're going to go to clue leg now and talk
Speaker 2: to Mario. Hello Mario, and welcome to garden.
Speaker 5: Hey, kif you've been great for me, I really appreciate you. Hey,
Speaker 5: I have a couple of questions. You already answered one
Speaker 5: a moment ago about Paul fertilizer. But the other question,
Speaker 5: a related question, is I still have some weeds and
Speaker 5: I'm wondering if I can put both down today. That
Speaker 5: was my plan, but I don't want to do something
Speaker 5: that's gonna have a problem with the grass.
Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, so you've got weeds any Are there any
Speaker 2: little flowering weeds that you see a couple?
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's not a lot of those.
Speaker 2: Down, Okay, So anything with a flower on it, a
Speaker 2: post emergent weed control is not going to knock it out.
Speaker 2: And plus it's probably already made seed. So even if
Speaker 2: you kill them, you still got the seed. As much
Speaker 2: as you can pull those out and put them in
Speaker 2: a five gallon bucket and get them out of there,
Speaker 2: throw them in the trash, that is saving you a
Speaker 2: lot of headaches next year. So I different people have
Speaker 2: different ability to get on hands and knees and do that,
Speaker 2: and different time availability, but that is something for weeds
Speaker 2: that are flowering and have and seed. Now, as far
Speaker 2: as killing weeds post emergently, the brown, the warm season
Speaker 2: weeds are pretty much at a stage where it's going
Speaker 2: to be very difficult to kill them anyway. But now's
Speaker 2: when you would put down the pre emergent because all
Speaker 2: the cool season weeds will be germinating really soon. And
Speaker 2: down there in Clare Lake, all you need to get
Speaker 2: is a little cold front and some some rain, and
Speaker 2: you're gonna have to eat sprouting everywhere. So don't don't
Speaker 2: delay on getting down your barricade application. If you have
Speaker 2: not done one, if you've done one since spring then
Speaker 2: or since summer, don't don't do another one?
Speaker 5: And but can I do them together, the fertilizer and
Speaker 5: the uh, the pre emergence, Okay, great, can don't.
Speaker 2: Don't don't put the yeah, don't put them in the
Speaker 2: hopper at the same time, because particle size is different
Speaker 2: on those two. Yeah, but one then turn on, load
Speaker 2: up and do the other one same day, same time. Yes,
Speaker 2: go for it.
Speaker 5: Okay, great, your thanks bye bye.
Speaker 2: Yeah, thanks bye bye. Good looking that line and tiptop
Speaker 2: shape our phone number seven one three two one two
Speaker 2: five eight seven four seven one three two one two
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Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 2: Buchanan's Native Plants in the Heights is it's just a
Speaker 2: fun place to go. If you haven't been there, maybe
Speaker 2: you live some distance awayta you gotta consider it that
Speaker 2: it'd be a good outing today or tomorrow afternoon. Maybe
Speaker 2: get out. They are loaded up with pumpkins. When I
Speaker 2: was there a few weeks ago, Oh my gosh. And
Speaker 2: when I say pumpkins, I'm talking about pumpkins and gourds
Speaker 2: and every kind of weird, gnarly looking thing we put
Speaker 2: on our tables to decorate for Thanksgiving all the way
Speaker 2: to pumpkins for carving, or pumpkins for making pie, or
Speaker 2: the what they call the fairy tale pumpkin. It's kind
Speaker 2: of an almost pinkish orange kind of squatty thing. I
Speaker 2: guess it looks like Cinderella's coach probably, But anyway, they
Speaker 2: got mums there. They've got beautiful, beautif full house plants,
Speaker 2: just unbelievable fall vegetables. Of course it's Buchanans. They got
Speaker 2: native plants. They specialize in native plant You're not gonna
Speaker 2: find a better place to get a variety of Nati
Speaker 2: plants anywhere in the region of the Buchanans. Nati plants
Speaker 2: in the Heights. They're on Eleventh Street there in the Heights.
Speaker 2: And fall is for planting. So you know, I've been
Speaker 2: saying this all fall. I guess I'll keep saying it
Speaker 2: for a while. But you can plan any month of
Speaker 2: the year here in the Greater Houston area, you pretty
Speaker 2: much can. If in summer it's harder. You got to
Speaker 2: kind of touch and go water them. Just live it,
Speaker 2: not too much. Fall is so easy. You put them
Speaker 2: in the ground, you give them a good soaking, maybe
Speaker 2: a little bit more here and there, but just don't delay.
Speaker 2: You're giving your plants a head start. And listen, do
Speaker 2: you remember summer? Remember this summer, Like every summer, it
Speaker 2: is hard to be a plant. And so why not
Speaker 2: get the roots in the ground now and let them
Speaker 2: get growing. You know, roots of plants will grow. And
Speaker 2: when the temperature is even in the low fifties. Uh,
Speaker 2: And so they are slowly establishing. And I tell you
Speaker 2: you get a head start. And plus there's some good
Speaker 2: deals on plants now, so fall planting. That's it again.
Speaker 2: Buchanan Street, eleventh Big Cannon Street. Buchanan's Native Plants on
Speaker 2: Eleventh Street in the Heights. Here's the website. Go there,
Speaker 2: check it out, look at the educational materials and sign
Speaker 2: up for their newsletter. Buchanansplants dot com. Buchanans Plants dot com.
Speaker 2: Buchanan Street. Maybe they should name eleventh Street Buchanan Street
Speaker 2: that would be a good idea, all right, listening to
Speaker 2: garden Line. My phone number is seven to one three
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Speaker 2: I stocked up my bird feeders yesterday and I had
Speaker 2: some hummingbird feeders that were kind of kind of yeh,
Speaker 2: been out a little bit too long because I went
Speaker 2: on a trip for a week. Well, came in, cleaned
Speaker 2: them all up. They're ready to go back out. You know,
Speaker 2: you put hummingbird feeders out because sometimes you'll get a
Speaker 2: hummingbird or too that just hangs around. There are some
Speaker 2: that are doing that now. They'll hang around here during
Speaker 2: the cool season. So you can put a feeder out
Speaker 2: if you'd like to do that. But right now, what
Speaker 2: you need to know is that the Wile Birds is
Speaker 2: going to be the place where you get everything you
Speaker 2: need for birds. That's a quality. They're feeders are quality.
Speaker 2: I have more than one, and they are excellent bird houses.
Speaker 2: And when it comes to bird seed, listen, they they
Speaker 2: bag seed that goes into bird's stomachs. And you think, well,
Speaker 2: doesn't everybody know you buy a cheap bird seed that's
Speaker 2: full of red bebes and the birds kick it out,
Speaker 2: and then you got these weeds coming up on the
Speaker 2: ground below them. They the bird seed blends that are
Speaker 2: cheap are cheap. Okay, that's just the best way to
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Speaker 2: buy sunflower seeds, which birds love, they go crazy over that.
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Speaker 2: all you need to do to find one of the
Speaker 2: six Wallbirds stores near you. Time for a break, I'll
Speaker 2: be right back. Welcome back to garden Line. We are
Speaker 2: here to answer your gardening questions. So all you have
Speaker 2: to do is give me a call. It's seven one
Speaker 2: three two one two kt rh on three two one
Speaker 2: two kt r H I wanted to tell you a
Speaker 2: little bit about Cienamulch. I talk about them all the
Speaker 2: time because they are an outstanding source of I'll just
Speaker 2: say this, the brown stuff the foundation for success with plants.
Speaker 2: When you go to see in a Malts, you need
Speaker 2: things like, you know, a quality soil like a rose
Speaker 2: soil or maybe maybe heirloom soils, veggie nerb nex. They
Speaker 2: carry that there. One of the products from Landscaper's pride,
Speaker 2: like the black velvet for example. They carry that. There
Speaker 2: lots of different options from maltz to soil, to compost,
Speaker 2: to sand, to gravel to stone palletts. You're gonna put
Speaker 2: a little patio in your backyard, you need to stop
Speaker 2: in see an A malt You're open Monday through Friday,
Speaker 2: seven thirty to five today seven thirty to two. Closed
Speaker 2: on Sunday. So here's your chance today to go buy there.
Speaker 2: Pick up some stuff there at FM five twenty one,
Speaker 2: which is near where Highway six and two eighty eight
Speaker 2: come ge, just north of road sharing the website just
Speaker 2: write this down Sienna Maltz dot com, Sienna Maltz dot com,
Speaker 2: that whole region down south of Houston. This is your place.
Speaker 2: They deliver within about oh twenty miles or so with
Speaker 2: for a small fee. And when you're in there, part
Speaker 2: of the brown stuff also grabs some fertilizer. And if
Speaker 2: you hear me talk about a fertilizer, it's at Sienna Moltz.
Speaker 2: They got microlife, They've got asamite, they got Nelson's, they
Speaker 2: got heirloom soils, they got nitrophoss, they got Medina products
Speaker 2: and I said, Landscaper's pride products there And you know
Speaker 2: people that know what they're doing. They use me Cnamal's
Speaker 2: like BMB turf Pros for example, they do the compos
Speaker 2: stop dressing. They use c Animals products for that because
Speaker 2: they know it's a quality product. You're not going to
Speaker 2: go wrong with Cienamalts. You can buy it bulk, you
Speaker 2: can buy it by the bag. But whatever you do,
Speaker 2: go buy there and buy it. And I'll tell you this,
Speaker 2: you are not going to be treated better at any
Speaker 2: place than you are at Cenatz. They're friendly, they're helpful.
Speaker 2: They just just if you ever said I go I'm
Speaker 2: going to a mulch place because I want to have fun,
Speaker 2: well you can say that about Ciana Mount. Every time
Speaker 2: I go by there. I just leave feeling good. I
Speaker 2: enjoy enjoy visiting with the folks and just just seeing
Speaker 2: the quality products that they have there at Sanna Mulch.
Speaker 2: Brown stuff before green stuff. So get some. They will
Speaker 2: get you set up for success. Out well in Kingwood,
Speaker 2: way out and those are you in Kingwood. Don't think
Speaker 2: you're wet in Kingwood, but those in Houston. Yeah, out
Speaker 2: there in Kingwood not too far away. Actually, nice little drive.
Speaker 2: Warrens Southern Gardens, Kingwood Garden Center, both of those are
Speaker 2: outstanding places to go visit. You know, they're open seven
Speaker 2: days a week, so it makes it really easy to
Speaker 2: get out there. Warren's is on North Park Drive, Kingwood
Speaker 2: Garden Centers on Stone Hollow Drive. Right now, they are
Speaker 2: having something called a Pansy's Party. And here's what that means.
Speaker 2: A teen four inch pansies. That's a full flat. You
Speaker 2: got to buy the whole full flat, eighteen four inch
Speaker 2: pots full of pansies. Twenty four nine now through November three.
Speaker 2: It's time to get that done. They've got fertilizer that
Speaker 2: you want to get when you get your pants. You
Speaker 2: want to mix that into the soil and plant your pansies.
Speaker 2: Watered in really good, and then as they begin to grow,
Speaker 2: fertilize them again. You got to push those things. You
Speaker 2: got to get growth, and oh my gosh, they will bloom,
Speaker 2: bloom bloom. We just pansies. Don't even think we have
Speaker 2: winter done here. They're so called party. They also have
Speaker 2: some special low prices on some bed mixes and composts
Speaker 2: and other things. If you want to oversee your lawn,
Speaker 2: they have Rye grass in stock right now for doing that.
Speaker 2: They have Emerald Rellis bulbs in stock, lots of veggies,
Speaker 2: beautiful moms, something else. When you're out there at Warren's,
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Speaker 2: call on the phone. Either way you go about it.
Speaker 2: Join the newsletter there for information and some really good
Speaker 2: deals out there at Warren's Southern Gardens, And oh my gosh,
Speaker 2: the place is gorgeous right now. Fun, fun day to
Speaker 2: get out and go do that. It's one of those
Speaker 2: destination garden centers you just love to go visit and
Speaker 2: all of you over there are Kingwood and Mbol and
Speaker 2: New Caney, Porter, Splendora, that whole part of the region.
Speaker 2: It's just down the street Warren's Southern Gardens and Kingwood
Speaker 2: Garden Center. You're listening to garden Line. I'm your host,
Speaker 2: Skip Richter, and we have got got a little bit
Speaker 2: of time here. If you'd like to give us a call,
Speaker 2: we can probably fit that in for we have to
Speaker 2: go at the top of the hour seven one three
Speaker 2: two one two kt r H seven one three two
Speaker 2: one two k t RH. I want to remind you
Speaker 2: that today I'm going to be an enchanted forest from
Speaker 2: about eleven forty five to one forty five, somewhere in
Speaker 2: that rain time range. I'm getting there as close to
Speaker 2: eleven thirty as I can. Let's put it that way.
Speaker 2: I'll be doing Q and A. Come on out, let's visit.
Speaker 2: What is your question? Bring me samples for identity identifying,
Speaker 2: Bring me samples for diagnosing. We can do that. Put
Speaker 2: them in a little bag, plastic bags or nothing escapes.
Speaker 2: If you've got photos on your phone, bring those. You
Speaker 2: got a weed that you want control, pull it out,
Speaker 2: put it in a bag, or take a picture of it,
Speaker 2: but make sure it's a good, sharp, clear focus picture.
Speaker 2: I'll be there. I want to remind you. Debbie Ping,
Speaker 2: one of the staff members out there at in Chenna Forest,
Speaker 2: is going to be doing a shade plant lecture at
Speaker 2: ten o'clock today. So the minute I stop garden Line,
Speaker 2: the minute I shut up, Debbie starts talking. How about that?
Speaker 2: That's how that works. And then I'll be there about
Speaker 2: eleven forty five and we'll be doing that for at
Speaker 2: least a couple hours. Out there, I'm going to be
Speaker 2: giving away Medina products. Medina's given us some really qu
Speaker 2: giveaways by the way that we'll be providing. And while
Speaker 2: you're out there, leave room in the car because you
Speaker 2: are going to see an awesome selection of vegetables and
Speaker 2: herbs and annual color. If you can leave room for
Speaker 2: a shrub or a tree, they've got some outstanding selections
Speaker 2: out there, including fruit trees. By the way, out at
Speaker 2: Enchanted Forest. Now, Enchanted Forest is on FM twenty seven
Speaker 2: fifty nine. So if you were in Richmond, you're heading
Speaker 2: up towards sugar Land, towards Houston sugar Land direction, you
Speaker 2: turn to the right. They're on FM twenty seven to
Speaker 2: fifty nine. Okay, so come on down and see me.
Speaker 2: If you've never been there, I don't care where you
Speaker 2: live in town. You need to swing by and check
Speaker 2: this place out. It is really really cool and I'll
Speaker 2: be giving away those Medina products. By the way, while
Speaker 2: I'm talking about Medina, Medina Plus is kind of like
Speaker 2: a Cadillac product that they produce. You know, you've known
Speaker 2: about Medina Soil Activator for a long time. It'scot where
Speaker 2: I don't know, a zillions, ten bazillion different kinds of
Speaker 2: microbes and other ingredients that help stimulate plant growth. Well,
Speaker 2: Medina Plus also has over forty trace elements. So take
Speaker 2: Medina Soil Activator and you know, enhance it with over
Speaker 2: forty different trace elements. Things like CID of cainans that's
Speaker 2: a natural growth hormone. Seaweed extract is where you get
Speaker 2: that magnesium, iron, zinc, and just I can't name them all,
Speaker 2: a lot of different things. You're going to increase blooming,
Speaker 2: you're going to increase the fruit set and leaf growth
Speaker 2: if you're going to transplant. And I hope it's fall,
Speaker 2: I mean I hope it's fall. I hope you'll transplant
Speaker 2: trees and shrubs and vegetables and herbs, everything you put
Speaker 2: in the ground. Just get your watering can, put some
Speaker 2: Medina Plus in it, mix it up according to the
Speaker 2: label and drench it over the plank, get it on
Speaker 2: the foliage, get it on the roots especially, soak it
Speaker 2: down into the soil. It's going to do really well,
Speaker 2: and it just helps your plants hit the ground running.
Speaker 2: That's at least the way I like to put it.
Speaker 2: You can use it as a folder if you want
Speaker 2: too foldier sprays. It's not going to burn plants. Medina
Speaker 2: Plus want of mini products from the folks at Medina
Speaker 2: and follow us for planting. And if you're going to plant,
Speaker 2: you got to get some of the Medina Plus water
Speaker 2: in with that. Just keep it on your shelf because
Speaker 2: you're going to want to do foldier feeding, You're going
Speaker 2: to want to water plants in whenever you plant them.
Speaker 2: It's just a good product to have, so always keep
Speaker 2: it around. It's not just like something on the schedule
Speaker 2: that like, oh you only use Medina Plus. If no,
Speaker 2: you were twelve minths out here, makes it well that
Speaker 2: hour went fast. Huh oh, well, we'll be right back.
Speaker 2: We got another couple hours in us here. I hope
Speaker 2: you will hang around. Give us a call seven one
Speaker 2: three two one two KTRH. If you call soon enough,
Speaker 2: you need the very first up. When I come back
Speaker 2: from the break, just again, Enchanted four TuS today. Get
Speaker 2: in your car head down there. I'm going to get
Speaker 2: there as close to eleven thirty as I can, and
Speaker 2: I'll be there answering your gardening question. So come on
Speaker 2: out and see me. Let's visit. I always like to
Speaker 2: meet listeners face to face, you know, on garden Line.
Speaker 2: I got a few minutes that I can talk with
Speaker 2: you and answer a question to get to some other question.
Speaker 10: Uh.
Speaker 2: But when you come out to an appearance like this today,
Speaker 2: we have eye eye time is what they call it FaceTime,
Speaker 2: and we can visit. I may even walk over and
Speaker 2: point you to a plant and discuss some other things
Speaker 2: like that when we're there at Enchanted Forest FM twenty.
Speaker 1: Welcome to kt r H Garden Line with Scip Richard.
Speaker 3: It's just watch him as many a side.
Speaker 2: All right, folks, welcome back to Jardenline. It is good
Speaker 2: to be back with you. We got lots to talk
Speaker 2: about and I want to get right to it. So
Speaker 2: first thing I wanted to mention to you is if
Speaker 2: you have not done your fall fertilization, the folks at
Speaker 2: Nelson have you covered with a nice combo product. And
Speaker 2: what do I mean by that? What it's called carbo load.
Speaker 2: Carbo load. Why carbo load because it is the blend
Speaker 2: of nutrients for fall fertilization that helps that plant produce carbohydrates.
Speaker 2: Sunlight on leaves with good nutrition equals carbohydrates. Carbohydrates equal
Speaker 2: cold hardiness, carbohydrates equal stronger growth in the spring, simple
Speaker 2: as that carbo load does just that carboload also contains
Speaker 2: a pre emergent herbicide, so you do not want to
Speaker 2: delay putting it down. Get it done a sap. All
Speaker 2: we need is the cold front and some rain, and
Speaker 2: we're gonna have weeds sprouting all over the place for
Speaker 2: cool season. That'll be big and messy in the spring.
Speaker 2: That's that's when you really notice them. But they sprout now.
Speaker 2: So get carbo load down, watered in about half inch
Speaker 2: of water, get that into the surface and prevent those
Speaker 2: weeds heats from getting started. So it's kind of like
Speaker 2: a two pack punch here. We got carbo load with
Speaker 2: the nutrients, the perfect blend of nutrients with the pre
Speaker 2: emergent harbicide all in one, watered in all from the
Speaker 2: folks at Nelson, part of their turf star Line carbo
Speaker 2: load for fall. I'm going to head now, excuse me,
Speaker 2: head now out to Galveston, Texas, and we're going to
Speaker 2: talk to John. Hello, John, welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 9: Hello, Mitch, how are you this morning?
Speaker 7: Super good?
Speaker 4: God?
Speaker 9: Yeah, and Midge. We have been gone a couple months.
Speaker 9: Excuse me, skip that, pardon me, had been gone a
Speaker 9: couple months, and when we got back here about ten
Speaker 9: days ago, I noticed some brown patch in front in
Speaker 9: my front yard. So I treated with a product that
Speaker 9: nitroposs recommended, Eagle point three ninety six. I can see.
Speaker 9: I think that brown spot is maybe expanding or worsening
Speaker 9: because places where the grass is completely dead, you recommended
Speaker 9: a product of a few minutes ago brown spot. Would you
Speaker 9: double dose? Would you put that over the top of that?
Speaker 9: Would you do nothing? Would you double dose with Eagle?
Speaker 2: If you put Eagle out at the right rate and
Speaker 2: followed the instructions, you don't need to do it again.
Speaker 2: It's there. It's a systemic. It gets in the soil
Speaker 2: that if you water it in, it gets in the
Speaker 2: soil and it it actually is taken up by the
Speaker 2: roots as well as being taken up by the fold.
Speaker 2: And what happened is brown patch. You know, the conditions
Speaker 2: were right, and so it started infecting and then you
Speaker 2: put the eagle down and then you saw more damage.
Speaker 2: It's because it was already infecting in that other area
Speaker 2: and the brown patches are just appearing. That's why we
Speaker 2: always try to get it in ahead of time. But
Speaker 2: it should stop additional brown patch infection for you. Now,
Speaker 2: those brown spots, they're going to sit there and in
Speaker 2: spring they'll regrown, regrow, regreen. Brown patch doesn't kill grass,
Speaker 2: but it does make it look ugly.
Speaker 4: Yeah right, Yeah, you've done.
Speaker 2: You've done all you can do.
Speaker 9: So in terms of the rest of the yard, and
Speaker 9: it's been treated. But this little patch where I have
Speaker 9: brown potch is only about it's only about twenty four feet.
Speaker 9: Would you just dig that out and throw in new
Speaker 9: grass maybe in a month or so so kind of kitches.
Speaker 2: No, No, your grass would be fine. And the grass
Speaker 2: is not going to grow in this cool upcoming cool
Speaker 2: weather and stuff, So you're good. Just you know, just
Speaker 2: ignore the brown for now, and it will they will.
Speaker 2: It will come back when we warm up a little
Speaker 2: bit in the spring.
Speaker 9: And Okay, thank you so much.
Speaker 2: Yeah, John, good luck with that down there in Galveston.
Speaker 2: Appreciate your call, all right, folks. That's how that works.
Speaker 2: It's as simple as that. You know. In Chenne Gardens
Speaker 2: down there in Richmond is one of our destination garden centers.
Speaker 2: You know, we love love going to visit places like
Speaker 2: in Channa Gardens. They are on three fifty nine. That's
Speaker 2: the Katie Fulsher side of Richmond. So if you're in Richmond,
Speaker 2: you're heading toward Katie Fullsher direction. Well, that's find FM
Speaker 2: three fifty nine and that's when you find in Chenny Gardens.
Speaker 2: If you want to make it simple on yourself, just
Speaker 2: go to the website Enchanted Gardens Richmond dot com. Enchanted
Speaker 2: Gardens Richmond dot com. They had an event there just
Speaker 2: I don't know, a day or so ago. It was
Speaker 2: called the Harvest Hound Event and people brought in their dogs,
Speaker 2: kind of dressed them up a little bit and put
Speaker 2: them with pumpkins and mums and things like that. Just
Speaker 2: go to their Facebook page and look at the pictures.
Speaker 2: It's great. That was great. You can do that. Bring
Speaker 2: your kids in. They've got the pumpkin house. This is
Speaker 2: just a whole wall, exterray wall full of pumpkins. They've
Speaker 2: got all kinds of great. Let's just save photographic spots
Speaker 2: for your photogenic children. How about that? And you too,
Speaker 2: By the way, adults can do I think it's just
Speaker 2: allowed for adults to do that as well. While you're
Speaker 2: out there, you're going to find everything you want to
Speaker 2: find it a nursery in the fall time, from plants
Speaker 2: of course, to the things to help plants grow, like
Speaker 2: the kinds of fertilizers you hear me talk about on
Speaker 2: garden Line, things I recommend on Guardline. You're going to
Speaker 2: find it enchanted gardens. They are open today Monday through Saturday,
Speaker 2: actually eight to five and tomorrow ten to four. Either day.
Speaker 2: Good time to get out to enchanted gardens and enjoy yourself.
Speaker 2: I love those dog pictures. Let's go to West U
Speaker 2: and we're going to talk to Charlie. Hey, Charlie, welcome
Speaker 2: to guard Line.
Speaker 4: Thank you.
Speaker 6: I've got some bugs on hibiscus and I set some
Speaker 6: photos in.
Speaker 9: Did you.
Speaker 2: Uh, I've got it here I'm pulling them up. Let's
Speaker 2: see here, give me just one second, okay, let's talk.
Speaker 2: Tell me, tell me about the history on this thing.
Speaker 6: Oh yesterday, when did you first see them?
Speaker 4: Okay, yesterday? Well, well my wife said I got some
Speaker 4: bugs there.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Uh, mostly what I see are where aphids used
Speaker 2: to be. I'm sure you got some aphids still on it.
Speaker 2: I see a few, But all those little white, shrivelly
Speaker 2: looking things, those are the skins of aphids. Aphids. Just
Speaker 2: like a snake sheds its skin, aphids shed their skin.
Speaker 2: And so you see all these little white, dried things.
Speaker 2: That's that's nothing to work about it. It's just like
Speaker 2: the dead, empty skin of an aphid. Uh, I don't
Speaker 2: see many. If you wanted to blast it with some water,
Speaker 2: maybe just get a good stream and blast it from
Speaker 2: all angles. I think that would be fine. The answer there,
Speaker 2: because they're helping take care of the aphis answer dairy
Speaker 2: farmers and aphids are dairy cattle. That's how that works.
Speaker 6: Okay, So yeah, I can blast it with water, or
Speaker 6: I can just kind of let then take care of them.
Speaker 2: Maybe, well, well they actually they're they're promoting the aphids.
Speaker 2: They take care of them. And stuff. So uh, the
Speaker 2: ants aren't doing you any good, but I would blast
Speaker 2: it with water just to get a few of them off.
Speaker 2: But in general you don't have a big problem to
Speaker 2: worry about there.
Speaker 4: Okay, all right, Uh, well.
Speaker 6: More question please if you get time of Yeah, you
Speaker 6: have new side has been there. This is the fourth
Speaker 6: week now and anyway, it's not going to grow much
Speaker 6: in a cool wather. Okay, do I need the water?
Speaker 6: It's been so dry in Houston as rain there for.
Speaker 2: Just a good soaking a couple times a week for now,
Speaker 2: and then after about two or three weeks you can
Speaker 2: back off and we won't worry about it for fall
Speaker 2: once it cools off a little bit, don't worry about Hey,
Speaker 2: I got a run for a break here. But thank
Speaker 2: you for the for the call, Charlie, appreciate that. All right, folks,
Speaker 2: I'll be right. Welcome back to guard Line. Glad you
Speaker 2: are with us today. We've got lots of things we
Speaker 2: need to be covering today and when we get into
Speaker 2: your calls here in just a moment, if you'd like
Speaker 2: to give us a call seven one three two one
Speaker 2: two five eight seven four Spring Creek feed is just
Speaker 2: let's think of it as Magnoia northeast of tom Ball
Speaker 2: direction on twenty nine seventy eight FM twenty nine seventy eight.
Speaker 2: It is your hometown feed store up there, and boy
Speaker 2: is it ever a feed store. Beautiful beautiful place.
Speaker 18: You know.
Speaker 2: You walk in and it's like, wait a minute, did
Speaker 2: I walk into a feed store or a boutique. I mean,
Speaker 2: it says scot Lots of cool stuff, but when it
Speaker 2: comes to gardening. They got all the fertilizers, the full
Speaker 2: line of turf Star from Nelson, They got micro Life,
Speaker 2: they got nitroposs. They have things to control weeds or
Speaker 2: diseases or pasts. The staff there is friendly and they
Speaker 2: are courteous, and it's just it's a pleasure to shop
Speaker 2: there at Spring Creek Feed if you're an FFA or
Speaker 2: four H if you are were in the military, or
Speaker 2: or in the military, if you are a senior citizen.
Speaker 2: There's discounts for all of those groups there, and they
Speaker 2: can also special order products and they do offer a
Speaker 2: delivery service at well as well. Spring Creek Feed Center
Speaker 2: on FM twenty nine seventy eight. Just minutes away from
Speaker 2: gand Parkway and Highway to forty nine up there, in
Speaker 2: that area. Hey, I'm going to go now out to
Speaker 2: Steven and Steven it says you're in the Rio Grand Valley.
Speaker 2: Is that right?
Speaker 14: That's right?
Speaker 2: How you doing, I'm good, I'm good. How come you
Speaker 2: help it?
Speaker 14: Okay?
Speaker 19: So I recently moved to the valley and my front yard,
Speaker 19: I've got Japanese plum trees, the Japanese blueberry, I apologize,
Speaker 19: Japanese blueberry, and the sooty black mold on the trunk
Speaker 19: and the leaves, and it's starting to affect the other plants,
Speaker 19: the other shrubs in front of the house, and maybe
Speaker 19: even the grass underneath.
Speaker 9: M hmm.
Speaker 2: Well is growing. It's grown on a sugary substance that
Speaker 2: an insect is producing. There as several insects that can
Speaker 2: do that. It could be aphids, could be scale, could
Speaker 2: be mealy bugs, could be white flies. I mean, but
Speaker 2: it kind of doesn't matter what it is. The control
Speaker 2: is going to be the same. If you put a
Speaker 2: systemic insecticide down in the soil, you drench it into
Speaker 2: the soil, it will take it up and the plumbing
Speaker 2: of that plant will have the insecticide in it, and
Speaker 2: so anything sucking juices out of the plant, which is
Speaker 2: what's causing the city mold. Something sucking juices, It poisons them,
Speaker 2: and it kills them. That is the simplest way to go.
Speaker 2: You can also try using insecticidal soap spray's horticulture of
Speaker 2: oil sprays on a Japanese blueberry. It's hard to get
Speaker 2: good coverage, and with both the soap and the you
Speaker 2: have to coat the insect with the pesticide to kill
Speaker 2: it with the soap or the oil. So I would
Speaker 2: say for you and a Japanese blueberry, the best thing
Speaker 2: would be to use a systemic And I hear you
Speaker 2: have help there with you on the phone. Can I
Speaker 2: give you something to write down?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 14: Absolutely, that's what I was gonna ask for.
Speaker 2: Do you have a suggestion, Yeah, I'm going to give you,
Speaker 2: like just a few letters of two different ingredients that
Speaker 2: either one would work. One is I am I do oh,
Speaker 2: I am I d oh. The full name is a metacloprid.
Speaker 2: But if you just go in and look for a
Speaker 2: systemic insecticide with I AM I d oh, that's the
Speaker 2: other ingredient. Different products is d I n O dino
Speaker 2: t e F dino TEF. Actually it's but either yeah,
Speaker 2: either a metacloprid or dinotephron. Just look for those first
Speaker 2: few letters. Only ingredients that only products that they begin
Speaker 2: with those letters. Okay, you don't need both one or
Speaker 2: the other, all right.
Speaker 14: And and I would I would treat the tree.
Speaker 19: I'll treating the ground all around the tree and the
Speaker 19: shrubs and.
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, right read the label. Basically, you're gonna mix
Speaker 2: it up and you're gonna drench it around the base
Speaker 2: of the tree. You didn't come out maybe three feet
Speaker 2: around the tree. But basically you're getting it into the
Speaker 2: soil for the roots to pick up. So it takes
Speaker 2: a quantity of water to get it down in there.
Speaker 2: This is also definitely a drudge.
Speaker 14: Got it is is also affecting my Saint Augustine.
Speaker 2: No, no, it's just whenever an insect produces honeydew, anything
Speaker 2: under the plant or or drifting out from that is
Speaker 2: going to get the city mold on it. I mean,
Speaker 2: you get city mold on a picnic table if it's
Speaker 2: underneath the tree. With these kind of insects.
Speaker 14: Okay, we also have a lot of leaves start falling.
Speaker 2: Off well, and that can happen a little drought stress
Speaker 2: if it gets dry and then finally range or you
Speaker 2: water it that they'll do that. Japanese blueberry will lose
Speaker 2: those old leaves. Sometimes they even turn a pretty red
Speaker 2: color before they fall off. But it's the older leaves
Speaker 2: and it's not you know it, it's not a sign
Speaker 2: that the tree is about to die or anything. That's
Speaker 2: just a stress response, and so I wouldn't I wouldn't
Speaker 2: worry about that. Just make sure that you keep them
Speaker 2: adequately moist.
Speaker 19: And one last question, how long you take uh to
Speaker 19: get back to read the benefit the benefits?
Speaker 7: Uh?
Speaker 2: It takes a few weeks for that to get down
Speaker 2: in the soil and then move up in the plant.
Speaker 2: But this isn't a life and thing. The trees. Okay,
Speaker 2: if you do nothing, the tree will live. It'll just
Speaker 2: be ugly. So uh yeah, just go ahead and get
Speaker 2: it done sooner rather than later. As it cools off,
Speaker 2: you know, the trees not taking up and moving water
Speaker 2: as fast and so it slows it down even more
Speaker 2: the results. But you should be all right, very good.
Speaker 14: All right, Hey, thanks very much, appreciate it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, all right, thanks for the call. Take care, Yes,
Speaker 2: thanks Matte, good good to talk to you. All right.
Speaker 2: Here we go uh. Someone called earlier and asked about
Speaker 2: as you know, can I do am now? The answers
Speaker 2: no matter when you call me. The answers yes, January
Speaker 2: through December. You can do as anytime you want. It's
Speaker 2: a trace mineral supplement. Trace mineral supplement things that are
Speaker 2: needed in tiny quantities, but that are essential, So you
Speaker 2: don't put it out like a standard fertilizer where you're
Speaker 2: putting a whole lot out because it's you know, nitrogen,
Speaker 2: and fertilizer promotes growth and makes your long green, all
Speaker 2: that kind of stuff. Now, asimite is just put out
Speaker 2: in small quantities, like a forty four pound bag will
Speaker 2: cover six to twelve thousand square feet. Goes a long way.
Speaker 2: Don't overdo it. Follow the label, don't do that. If
Speaker 2: a teaspoons good or tablespoons better, do it at the
Speaker 2: right rate. Some micronutrient needed in micro amounts but essential
Speaker 2: as amite. You can go to asmite texas dot com
Speaker 2: find out more. If you have a vegetable garden, I
Speaker 2: would recommend doing it in there as well. About ten
Speaker 2: pounds per thousand square feet in a vegetable garden should
Speaker 2: be about right as a mite provides those essential nutrients
Speaker 2: that you need. Okay, I see what I was had
Speaker 2: something in my head that I was gonna talk about,
Speaker 2: and now my brain just went blank on it. Oh well,
Speaker 2: does that happened to you? Just not happen as much
Speaker 2: as it does now. Right. Moss Nursery down in Seabrook
Speaker 2: is one of those garden centers you got to go to.
Speaker 2: There's not another nursery in town that is like Moss Nursery.
Speaker 2: There's not. It is a destination nursery. It is eight
Speaker 2: acres of a gardener's paradise. This garden center has been
Speaker 2: around for a very long time, and people that are
Speaker 2: anywhere in that region. In fact, I know people from
Speaker 2: Crosstown that go down there to see it. That massive
Speaker 2: pottery selection, acres of every kind of plant you can imagine.
Speaker 2: Their house, bat plant greenhouse is outstanding and when you
Speaker 2: walk through, you're going to see all kinds of strange stuff.
Speaker 2: You know, Jim goes all over the world bring stuff back,
Speaker 2: African masks and mineral specimens and taxidermy mounts and even
Speaker 2: some old swords and things. I mean, you never know
Speaker 2: when you turn a corner what you're going to see
Speaker 2: at Moss Nursery. Their house plant greenhouse, as I said,
Speaker 2: is awesome. If you need plants for dark rooms, plants
Speaker 2: for bright rooms. If you're into succulents and cacti. You
Speaker 2: want something to stay small, you want something to get tall.
Speaker 2: Moss has got it and then some and right now
Speaker 2: it's time to plant woody ornamentals. They are loaded with
Speaker 2: woody ornamentals. It's time to put out color plants for fault.
Speaker 2: They're loaded for that. We're hitting the time now to
Speaker 2: put down our our actual coal season plants, you know,
Speaker 2: pansies and things like that. Moss is always going to
Speaker 2: have what's in season. They're at fifty five eleven Toddville
Speaker 2: Road in Seabrook's the Here's the website. Just go to
Speaker 2: the website Moss Nursery dot com. Here's how you spell
Speaker 2: it m a As Nursery dot com. I'm going to
Speaker 2: head now out to Lake City and talk to Jim.
Speaker 2: Hello Jim, Welcome to garden Lining.
Speaker 10: Good morning, Skip, Skip. I just have a question about
Speaker 10: the quantity of fertilizer and put out for thousand square
Speaker 10: feet of the nitrofoss eight twelve sixteen, and I think
Speaker 10: you had mentioned divide the first number into one hundred.
Speaker 2: For summer fertilizers. Yes, for summer, and that's to get
Speaker 2: the nitrogen level to a pound per thousand square feet.
Speaker 2: But in fall, we're not needing that much nitrogen, so
Speaker 2: you would drop that down a little bit. I would say, probably,
Speaker 2: I haven't looked at the bag recently. The bag should
Speaker 2: tell you exactly what to put out, but I would
Speaker 2: say you're probably looking at Hang on just a second,
Speaker 2: let me do probably about eight pounds of that per
Speaker 2: thousand square feet.
Speaker 10: Yes, well the bag does say six point six pounds
Speaker 10: per thousands.
Speaker 2: Okay, there you go. I was even overshooting it. Okay, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: go with that. Go with that. And it's because in
Speaker 2: fall we need a little nitrogen to go up with
Speaker 2: the potassium into the plant, but we don't want so
Speaker 2: much nitrogen that it stimulates a lot of late season growth.
Speaker 2: Then we run into brown patch issues being worse. So
Speaker 2: follow the label.
Speaker 10: I got you.
Speaker 4: That's what I know.
Speaker 10: You always said follow the label, and that's where I
Speaker 10: was coming in THEEAH confusion.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, okay, that's it. Well you did the right thing.
Speaker 2: Thanks for calling to clarify that.
Speaker 10: Thanks for your help all right.
Speaker 2: Yes, sir, bye bye. Our phone number is seven one
Speaker 2: three two one two five eight seven four seven four
Speaker 2: seven one three two one two five eight seven four.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna take a little break here for a little
Speaker 2: bit of news and I'll be right back. Just want
Speaker 2: to remind you today after the show eleven thirty to
Speaker 2: one thirty eleven forty five to one forty five and
Speaker 2: Shanton Forest Garden Center down in the Richmond Rosenberg area
Speaker 2: on FM twenty seven to fifty nine, come out and
Speaker 2: see me. Welcome back to guard Line. Good to have
Speaker 2: you with us. Hey, we got some room on the
Speaker 2: phones if you'd like to give us a call seven
Speaker 2: one three two one two ATRH seven to one three
Speaker 2: two one two. KTRH is just visiting with Jim about
Speaker 2: the Nitroposs Fall Special fertilizer. That's the eight twelve six
Speaker 2: eight twelve six. Notice that first number is kind of low.
Speaker 2: That's what we want for fall. Nitrogen is important in
Speaker 2: being taken up with the potassium for fall cold heartiness.
Speaker 2: But you don't want to overdo the nitrogen. That's why
Speaker 2: we switched to false special the brown bag by Nitrofoss
Speaker 2: in the fall. It's part of their three step program.
Speaker 2: What are the three steps? Well, first the fall special fertilizer.
Speaker 2: Second the barricade preventative weed control. It prevents weed seeds
Speaker 2: from getting established. Doesn't kill existing weeds, it prevents them.
Speaker 2: But that's why you got to do it now, because
Speaker 2: cool season weeds are going to be germinating. In fact,
Speaker 2: they probably are in some places already. And then finally
Speaker 2: the third step is eagle turf fungicide that prevents the
Speaker 2: brown patch also called large patch, and the Takeollo route,
Speaker 2: which will also infact in the fall. If you look
Speaker 2: at my schedule, I say do that in October and
Speaker 2: do it again in November. I would do it twice
Speaker 2: for the take all, especially now for the brown patch.
Speaker 2: Just once is enough. But one, two, three, Fall Special barricade,
Speaker 2: Eagle turf funderside. All three together you can find them
Speaker 2: an Enchened Forrest down there in Richmond, Rosenberg. You're going
Speaker 2: to find it at Ace Hardware City, a Memorial Drive,
Speaker 2: Jim's Hardware, Montgomery, Stanton Shopping Center in Alvin, all places
Speaker 2: that carry that Texas three step by Nitrofoss. And it
Speaker 2: is time upset again. It is time to get all
Speaker 2: three done. Do not delay. When you're playing baseball, you
Speaker 2: don't wait until the catchers has the ball to start swinging,
Speaker 2: do you No, You swing ahead of time to get
Speaker 2: ahead of it. That's what you got to do with
Speaker 2: these three products. Get it done now. All righty, We're
Speaker 2: going to go to clear Lake now and talk to Ann. Hello, Anne,
Speaker 2: Welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 11: Good morning. I have a problem with my camellias. They
Speaker 11: have a bad case of powdery mildew.
Speaker 9: What can I do?
Speaker 2: Powdery mildew on camellias? Uh? Can you describe what you're
Speaker 2: seeing to me?
Speaker 11: It's just a white covering on the underside of the leagues.
Speaker 2: Okay, Uh, that doesn't sound like powdery. But anyway, any
Speaker 2: kind of a mildew or a fungus or something like
Speaker 2: that can be Yes, yeah, it didn't as a fungus.
Speaker 11: But okay, I did name oil. Yeah, I sprayed it
Speaker 11: twice with name oil and it didn't help at all.
Speaker 2: You know, I don't I don't think it's a funus.
Speaker 2: I think that's an insect thing. Here's what I need
Speaker 2: you to do, and I don't want to send you
Speaker 2: in the wrong direction. I need you to take some pictures.
Speaker 2: Pick a leaf off, set it on the table and
Speaker 2: take a good close picture, make sure it's in sharp focus,
Speaker 2: and then email it to me. If you need me to,
Speaker 2: I'll put you on hold and our producer will give
Speaker 2: you the email and let me see that picture. Maybe
Speaker 2: before the end of the day I can answer it.
Speaker 2: If not, I will tomorrow. Okay, all right, I'm putting
Speaker 2: you on hold and Chris is gonna pick it up.
Speaker 2: You bet. I'm gonna go now to Dickinson and talk
Speaker 2: to Less. Hello, les, Hey, how you doing. I'm well,
Speaker 2: thank you.
Speaker 14: A couple of questions quick.
Speaker 20: I'm looking for like a bible or something as far
Speaker 20: as literature on gardening and you know, step by step,
Speaker 20: you know, year round type deal.
Speaker 14: Do you recommend anything?
Speaker 18: Oh?
Speaker 2: Yeah, Well, a guy named Doug Welch wrote a Texas
Speaker 2: garden book that is excellent. Texas Gardening by Doug Welch.
Speaker 2: There is a guy named Neil Sperry up in Dallas
Speaker 2: that wrote a Texas garden book as well that is outstanding.
Speaker 2: I wrote one called month by Month Gardening in Texas.
Speaker 2: It's for the whole state, but it goes by section.
Speaker 2: You know what part of the state you do this,
Speaker 2: that and the other. That's more I how to care
Speaker 2: for your landscape, what to plant, what to fertilize, the
Speaker 2: wind to perune, all that kind of stuff. So all
Speaker 2: three of those books I think would would do a
Speaker 2: good job for what you're looking for.
Speaker 20: Okay, And I'm sure they're all on online.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, they're online. You can find them in bookstores
Speaker 2: and online.
Speaker 7: Okay.
Speaker 20: Now, second question, like answer bugs in your fla in
Speaker 20: your vegetable beds instead of using I don't want to
Speaker 20: use any kind of chemicals. And it is dieticious heart.
Speaker 20: It's a good product to use.
Speaker 4: That's it's good for.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's good for some things that sometimes I tell
Speaker 2: you less the thing we need to do is go
Speaker 2: bug by bug kind of on it. There's not just
Speaker 2: like a one. Fire ants are just yes, fire ants,
Speaker 2: all the above fire ants. Okay. I would get a
Speaker 2: bait called come and get It, Come and get it
Speaker 2: fire ant bait. I believe it's made by fertilom It
Speaker 2: is organic and it is a bait. It contains spinosa.
Speaker 2: You sprinkle it very lightly all around. The ants pick
Speaker 2: it up, they take it back to the queen that
Speaker 2: kills the colony. That is the best least toxic way
Speaker 2: you can go for fire ants. All right, thank you?
Speaker 2: All right? All right, so thanks for the thanks for
Speaker 2: the call. Appreciate that and good luck with that. Wish
Speaker 2: you well. Where are we doing on time? Have we
Speaker 2: got time? Let's see here? Good time for another call.
Speaker 2: Let's go to West Houston and talk to Ken. Hey, Ken,
Speaker 2: welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 12: Thank you, really enjoy your program.
Speaker 21: I'm calling about pride and far Batis plants that decorated
Speaker 21: by backyard all summer and are beautiful, but the blooms
Speaker 21: are gone now and leaving a very string dangly plant.
Speaker 2: Yes, that I would get rid of.
Speaker 21: And the question is can I prove them to the
Speaker 21: ground now or should I wait till cold comes and
Speaker 21: turns them brown and then prove them?
Speaker 2: You know, if you can wait, I'd wait. And here's why.
Speaker 2: Printing is a stimulating process. And now once cold has
Speaker 2: killed them back, you know, cutting off dead things doesn't
Speaker 2: stimulate anything. But if you got a branch and you
Speaker 2: print it, you know how on a tree, you print
Speaker 2: a branch and all of a sudden, here come all
Speaker 2: these shoots out of where you pruned. We don't want
Speaker 2: Pride of Barbados, which is kind of cold tender. We
Speaker 2: don't want to encourage it to grow late in the season.
Speaker 2: I don't know that it would be the end of
Speaker 2: the world or anything to print it now, but if
Speaker 2: you can wait until a good coal comes through and
Speaker 2: knocks it back and then print it. Also throw some
Speaker 2: good multch, a thick layer of mulch over the base,
Speaker 2: and that way that crown of the plant is protected.
Speaker 2: So in the spring it comes back. It's going to
Speaker 2: be a slow one to come back. It's a sleepy
Speaker 2: head doesn't want to grow until about May. But mulch
Speaker 2: kind of helps protect that. After you've done the prunting.
Speaker 12: Okay, good advice.
Speaker 21: I might mention that this plant has really thrived in
Speaker 21: my backyard and I must have a dozen volunteers that
Speaker 21: popped up in various.
Speaker 2: Now there you go. Yeah, well it's a beauty, isn't it.
Speaker 2: It's a beauty. Yeah, really is Well, thank you, I
Speaker 2: appreciate I appreciate that very much. You take care. Think again.
Speaker 2: Thanks for that. Call the folks at Greenpro. They know
Speaker 2: how to do aerration and compost top dressing. Aeration and
Speaker 2: compost top dressing. So for they got a deal going
Speaker 2: right now and it's from now through fall. They will
Speaker 2: airate for free if you purchase a two yard minimum
Speaker 2: of compost top dressing, have them do that service to
Speaker 2: your lawn. Price to start at five seventy five plus tax.
Speaker 2: This is a one of the single most invigorating things
Speaker 2: you can do for your plants is do that aeration
Speaker 2: and then a compost stop dressing. I say, plants for
Speaker 2: your lawn. Greenpro dot Net. That's the website two eight
Speaker 2: one three five to one forty seven thirty three. They
Speaker 2: serve about forty five miles from Magnolia, So just think
Speaker 2: of Interstate forty five and Interstate ten the northwest quadrant.
Speaker 2: That is the area for green Pro again, greenpro dot
Speaker 2: net two eight one three five to one forty seven
Speaker 2: thirty three. We'll take a break. I'll be right back
Speaker 2: to have you with us here on guarden line. We
Speaker 2: got lots of gardening still left in us today. We'll
Speaker 2: be going till ten o'clock, at which time I'm gonna
Speaker 2: jump in a car and make a bee line for
Speaker 2: enchanted forest. We'll I'll be from about eleven thirty eleven
Speaker 2: forty five two about one forty five. So I hope
Speaker 2: you come out and see me. Enchanted Forest is done
Speaker 2: in Richmond on FM twenty seven fifty nine. I hope
Speaker 2: you come on out. I talk about ACE Hardware all
Speaker 2: the time because when people call me and they're looking
Speaker 2: for this fertilizer, that pesticide or you know, controlling weeds
Speaker 2: or diseases or insects or something, I know there's an
Speaker 2: ACE near them, and I know ACE is going to
Speaker 2: have what they need. And ACE carry's tools. They carry,
Speaker 2: you know, everything you need outside like watering hoses and
Speaker 2: wheelbarrows and all that, but all the different products to
Speaker 2: have success with your plants. ACE Hardware is going to
Speaker 2: have those and everything else you need inside and outside
Speaker 2: the house, whether you're doing plumbing or electrics, electrical, or
Speaker 2: maybe you're looking for some applying indoors or some beautiful,
Speaker 2: beautiful items for the home. You know, ACE Hardware is
Speaker 2: not just a hardware store. It is a hardware store,
Speaker 2: but it is that and so much more. You're going
Speaker 2: to find some really cool gifts at ACE Hardware. With
Speaker 2: this season coming up, you're going to go see somebody
Speaker 2: for Thanksgiving, stop in at ACE Hardware and grab a
Speaker 2: really nice gift. And I'm not I am not kidding.
Speaker 2: I mean really, you you walk into an Ace Hardware,
Speaker 2: you're gonna find something that you go, you know what,
Speaker 2: Mom or Grandma or the kids or whoever you're going
Speaker 2: to see Aunt Millie, they would love to have that item.
Speaker 2: And while you're there, you can grab the fertilizers for fall,
Speaker 2: you can grab the we control, you can grab the
Speaker 2: disease control because it's all going to be there. You
Speaker 2: can grab the fire ant control too. I told someone
Speaker 2: a while ago we were talking about fire ant baits
Speaker 2: and mentioned come and get it as an organic one.
Speaker 2: I've seen that in ACE Hardware stores as well. All
Speaker 2: you have to do is go to Acehardware dot Com,
Speaker 2: find the store locator, forty stores near you. Forty stores
Speaker 2: near you. Let's go to Pleasantville, New We're going to
Speaker 2: talk to Debrah. Well, Hello Debrah, and welcome to garden.
Speaker 22: Well, good morning, Skip. I have a question about some
Speaker 22: left over peat moss that I bought for takeoff right
Speaker 22: ahead in my yard. So I'm I'm restarting a yard
Speaker 22: and I got some swinter rye glass. Can I use
Speaker 22: that peat moss now to sprinkle on those three yards. Yeah,
Speaker 22: I see it's coming out little hairs.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so you want to you want to let it
Speaker 2: get up first. Uh okay, and because you're gonna put
Speaker 2: pete moss out about a third of an inch deep
Speaker 2: and uh so you know you don't want to cover
Speaker 2: up a seed and block the light out. So let
Speaker 2: it get on up and then you can spread that
Speaker 2: peat moss all around on it.
Speaker 6: Uh.
Speaker 2: You gotta watered in after you spread it. You want
Speaker 2: to get it wet and get it down there around
Speaker 2: the grass runners. That's where it does its suppressive uh
Speaker 2: activity on the on the take off.
Speaker 22: Okay, what about the what is it? What about the
Speaker 22: the new said I laid down? Can I put some
Speaker 22: peat moss? I do that new son on top and
Speaker 22: help it, because I don't have time to water it
Speaker 22: a lot, and I've already lost.
Speaker 4: The square or two.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Well, I am not sitting gonna replace good water.
Speaker 2: And it's still that side has almost no root system,
Speaker 2: and it's got to get roots in the ground. So
Speaker 2: as frequently as you can water it, the better. Unfortunately,
Speaker 2: got a little dry spell. We're going through here and
Speaker 2: not going and so you got to get the water
Speaker 2: out there. On it, uh, if you don't want to
Speaker 2: lose it. But pete moska on top of it if
Speaker 2: you want. But just a little bit, just about third.
Speaker 22: Of them, okay, all right, So I can go in
Speaker 22: through my pet moss on the rye grass, and my
Speaker 22: old problem would take all root right on the other yards.
Speaker 22: It's two different yards. And just wait for them the
Speaker 22: new rcke.
Speaker 2: Just as long as the just as long as the
Speaker 2: rye grass is tall enough to where when you put
Speaker 2: pete moss on it you're not smothering seeds. You know,
Speaker 2: the leaves will stick up through it. Then it'll be.
Speaker 22: Okay, I'll wait, Thank you, Sorry.
Speaker 2: Bye, good to talk to you again. You take care
Speaker 2: all right, folks. That is that hey, Arbigate Garden Center.
Speaker 2: You know it's it's a wonderland. It is a destination
Speaker 2: and it is fun. And when you go to Arbrogate,
Speaker 2: by the way, those of you who've been living under
Speaker 2: a rock and don't know where Arbrogate is, it's a
Speaker 2: mile and a half west of two forty nine on
Speaker 2: twenty nine to twenty in Tomball. And you got to
Speaker 2: go just to see the take friends or family and
Speaker 2: go see yeah, people coming in for you know the
Speaker 2: holidays or something, get out take them out there to
Speaker 2: Arbrogate too. Arbrogate dot Com is their website. They are
Speaker 2: loaded with fall color, but they're also loaded with some
Speaker 2: really cool gifts and things for people that don't. They
Speaker 2: pretty much have everything right, You know how hard it
Speaker 2: is to shop. How about an air plant? Do you
Speaker 2: know what airplan is? At Tealanzia's. It's like they're kin
Speaker 2: to pineapples and bal moss. And if Bama is any indication,
Speaker 2: I think you might be able to grow an airplant.
Speaker 2: They're easy to grow, and they're cool, and they're different
Speaker 2: and I don't know, it's just something different. And Arborgate
Speaker 2: is loaded with not only the standards vegetables and fruit
Speaker 2: trees they fruit all year round out there, and herbs
Speaker 2: and beautiful, beautiful color plant Right now, that place is popping,
Speaker 2: And they even have a kind of a special going
Speaker 2: on on a lot of their fall and Halloween type decorations.
Speaker 2: Twenty five percent off on a lot of the ones
Speaker 2: that they carry out there. And so this would be
Speaker 2: a great time to get you one of those Talavera
Speaker 2: pumpkins or something else like that. You know that you
Speaker 2: would just enjoy and use year after year. It's all
Speaker 2: at the Arborgate on twenty nine to twenty about a
Speaker 2: mile and a half west of two forty nine. While
Speaker 2: you're at Arburgate, grab their food, their organic food complete,
Speaker 2: their organic soil complete, and they're organic compoost complete. Those
Speaker 2: three bags are the brown stuff that helps all the
Speaker 2: green stuff you bring home from Arborgate to thrive. The
Speaker 2: brown stuff is the foundation. Organic food complete, Organic soil complete,
Speaker 2: Organic compost complete. Only at Arburgate. We're gonna head now
Speaker 2: to Lake Jackson and talk to Charlie. Hey, Charlie, welcome
Speaker 2: to garden Line.
Speaker 23: Good morning, and have a quick question about I have
Speaker 23: a big oak tree in my backyard and it's a
Speaker 23: low area and I'm wanting to put some dirt in
Speaker 23: because when it rains, that area has standing water for
Speaker 23: a period of time and it always goes right there
Speaker 23: and it looks like it's going to be about four
Speaker 23: to six inches that I'm gonna need to add dirt.
Speaker 23: Is that too much because there are exposed roots?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I wouldn't do it. I don't want to smother it.
Speaker 2: Three inches YEA three is three is pushing it and
Speaker 2: it'd be better not to even do three if you
Speaker 2: can avoid it. But it's also a function, Charlie, of
Speaker 2: what percentage of the root system do you cover. And
Speaker 2: I'm here putting, you know, let's say you're putting some
Speaker 2: soiled around, you know, four feet out from the oak
Speaker 2: tree in all directions. Well, that's not a big deal.
Speaker 2: But when you start to cover a good volume of
Speaker 2: the area underneath the tree branch spread, then you can
Speaker 2: do some problems. So I would do it in stages,
Speaker 2: maybe two inches now, you know, we get into next year,
Speaker 2: a couple of inches sometime in the year, and then
Speaker 2: just do it that way. But also consider how you
Speaker 2: might read might divert that water away wherever it's coming from.
Speaker 2: Maybe that'd be another opportunity to to you know, kind
Speaker 2: of avoid that standing water. But yeah, just don't overdo it. Fantastic,
Speaker 2: Thank you.
Speaker 23: I enjoyed your show and I've called a few times
Speaker 23: and over the years or else the last couple of years.
Speaker 12: And good advice.
Speaker 2: Thank you, slad you have, glad you have, Thank you, Charlie.
Speaker 2: Good luck with that. Do definitely wish you well. Nature's
Speaker 2: way resources, you know. I was out there, oh for
Speaker 2: the Fall festival on Saturday the twelfth, had a great time.
Speaker 2: They always put on a good show out there. They
Speaker 2: still have their Fungal Friday sale on twenty percent off
Speaker 2: their fungal composts twenty percent off. That's a superb deal
Speaker 2: right there. Fungal compost is good for top dressing, it's
Speaker 2: good for mixing in the soil. It is good for
Speaker 2: a lot of things. I mean, it's like Nature's Way products.
Speaker 2: Nature's Way knows how to put in or create some
Speaker 2: of the most outstanding products for putting out in your
Speaker 2: garden and in your lawn, in your landscape, because it
Speaker 2: all begins in the soil, and Nature's Way is all
Speaker 2: about the soil. Right now through December first, they got
Speaker 2: their year in sale in the nursery. You know, I
Speaker 2: have a nursery and they sell plants out there. Nature's Way.
Speaker 2: Nice selection of natives and many many other kinds of plants, fruit, trees, houseplants, shrubs,
Speaker 2: you name it. Well, it excludes the native sun perennials,
Speaker 2: but fifty percent off their native plants through December first,
Speaker 2: So head out there, grab some of those. Now is
Speaker 2: the time to get them planted. And why you're in
Speaker 2: Nature's Way You're going to get everything you need in
Speaker 2: the way of brown stuff to make that green stuff happy,
Speaker 2: to build the foundation for the plants that you're bringing home.
Speaker 2: They're on if you go up Highway forty five or
Speaker 2: fourteen eighty eight comes in, you turn right across the
Speaker 2: railroad tracks and they're they're at Sherwood Circle right there.
Speaker 2: Makes it easy, easy to find them. Sherwood Circle. Well,
Speaker 2: I believe we're putting this hour in the books. Wow,
Speaker 2: there's time's flying this morning. They say time flies when
Speaker 2: you're having fun. You know what, Permit the frog says,
Speaker 2: time's fun when you're having flies. I'm sorry, I'm a dad.
Speaker 2: All I know are dad jokes. That's fun to do.
Speaker 2: Don't forget today. In fact, go ahead and get your
Speaker 2: car fired up. It won't be long here. We're going
Speaker 2: to go out to Enchanted Forest in Richmond Rosenberg area.
Speaker 2: They are on FM twenty seven fifty nine Enchanted Forest.
Speaker 2: Come out and see it. If you've never been doing Shandon,
Speaker 2: I don't care where you leave. You need to come
Speaker 2: and see this place. It is outstanding. I love going
Speaker 2: out there. I'll be there for two hours. Get there
Speaker 2: probably a little after eleven thirty here for a couple
Speaker 2: of hours answering your questions. We'll be giving away Madina
Speaker 2: products and wonderful products then they did by Medina. Bring
Speaker 2: me samples, bring me photos, Let's solve these problems, and
Speaker 2: most of all, let's just meet and have a good time.
Speaker 1: So this new dog, welcome to Katie r H. Garden
Speaker 1: Line with Scar Rictor.
Speaker 3: It's so weesy. Just watch him as so many things
Speaker 3: to susy away.
Speaker 2: Side, Welcome back side, Welcome back to garden Line, Welcome back.
Speaker 2: I'm your host, Skip Richtor, and we're here to answer
Speaker 2: your gardening questions. Well, I like to put it is,
Speaker 2: we're here to help you have a more bountiful garden
Speaker 2: and a more beautiful landscape. Simple as that. How can
Speaker 2: we do that? Give us a call seven one three
Speaker 2: two one two k t r H. Seven to one
Speaker 2: three two one two k t r H. I've told
Speaker 2: you about r CW Nursery a number of times and
Speaker 2: I just have to repeat myself. Now is the time
Speaker 2: to get out to r c W Nursery. You know
Speaker 2: they are having uh just a number of things going on.
Speaker 2: Number there, for example that their fruit tree or they're
Speaker 2: trees excuse me. Trees, shade trees, things like the magnolia,
Speaker 2: southern magnolia and the schumart oaks, those kinds of trees, beautiful,
Speaker 2: beautiful ones. They are on fifteen percent off sale. That
Speaker 2: is outstanding. That is outstanding now. They also they've had
Speaker 2: specials on shrubs this weekend, twenty percent off shrubs. The
Speaker 2: Cajun hibiscus has been on. I was just enjoying my
Speaker 2: Cajun hibiscus I got there. It's a it is so beautiful.
Speaker 2: It is it still is just beautiful. And no matter
Speaker 2: what you're looking for, maybe a lace bark elm would
Speaker 2: be a nice one to add a burrow because a
Speaker 2: good one to add, for example, lots of good trees
Speaker 2: there and that's the place to do it. And by
Speaker 2: the way, don't forget next week on Saturday. Next Saturday,
Speaker 2: I'll be at RCW, that's October the twenty six I'll
Speaker 2: be there from twelve to two. So if you live
Speaker 2: up in that area, come out and see me. Love
Speaker 2: for you to do that, and while you're there, pick
Speaker 2: up some of the great specials that they have going on.
Speaker 2: They also are loaded on fall color, they're loaded on vegetables,
Speaker 2: and everything. Pretty much, if you need a plant, they're
Speaker 2: gonna have it. They're ready to go. ARCW is what
Speaker 2: I call the get it, Got It nursery because if
Speaker 2: they don't have something which is rare, they can get
Speaker 2: it for you. They can order it for you and
Speaker 2: bring it in most cases, and while you're out there,
Speaker 2: you can pick up the fertilizers I talk about here
Speaker 2: on garden Line. By the way, RCW Nursery dot Com
Speaker 2: is the website. And where are they located? Right where
Speaker 2: Beltway eight comes into FM two forty nine, also called
Speaker 2: Tomball Parklay. We're going to heading out to Cleveland and
Speaker 2: we're gonna talk to Carrie. Hello, Kerry, Welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 18: Hello there, how you doing.
Speaker 2: I'm well, sir, How can we help? I got I
Speaker 2: got some pecan trees.
Speaker 18: I got all about twelve pecan trees. There are different
Speaker 18: types in pat hole and pipe chail and whatnot. Anyway,
Speaker 18: the pecans they put on pecans in the spring, and lighter.
Speaker 4: They have.
Speaker 2: Get from black spots on.
Speaker 18: Them and then okay they'll finally turn black and they're light.
Speaker 18: I mean, they're they're ninety good. But what I'm asking
Speaker 18: is I think this is a fungus. But you tell me,
Speaker 18: I don't know.
Speaker 2: Okay, Well, how old are these trees that you have.
Speaker 18: Now they're almost at thirty years old?
Speaker 2: Okay? And has this been going on the whole time?
Speaker 19: Know?
Speaker 18: At first day I had a few cons, not many,
Speaker 18: but a few cons. And for for the last about
Speaker 18: six years, I have not had en cons at all.
Speaker 7: They all turn black.
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, Well, what's happening is there? There are a
Speaker 2: couple of diseases. There's diseases of the foliage, and when
Speaker 2: you kill foliage, you can't fill the kernels because foliage
Speaker 2: makes the carbohydrates that go in to make a pecan kernel.
Speaker 2: But there's also diseases of the trunk I mean, excuse me,
Speaker 2: the shuck, the shuck around the pecan. And interestingly enough,
Speaker 2: the material that goes inside the nut to make the
Speaker 2: kernel has to go through the shuck, and that shuck,
Speaker 2: if you get a black rotting disease on it, it
Speaker 2: blocks the flow into the pecan and you will not
Speaker 2: have good, healthy filled pecans. They'll be all black and
Speaker 2: shriveled inside. And so controlling diseases of both foliage and
Speaker 2: the shuck itself is important. The problem is you got
Speaker 2: quite a few trees there, a dozen, and pecan trees
Speaker 2: thirty years old are pretty good size, So you've got
Speaker 2: to have quite a sprayer to not only reach the
Speaker 2: top of the tree, but give you good coverage. If
Speaker 2: you can get that kind of sprayer, you can put
Speaker 2: fungicides out during the season that stop those decays from happening.
Speaker 2: Over here in the eastern half of the state, we
Speaker 2: get enough rain to where we have a lot more
Speaker 2: disease problems than you would, you know, west of Interstate
Speaker 2: thirty five in central Texas for example. Yeah, do you
Speaker 2: think you can do you have that kind of sprayer
Speaker 2: or can you can you find a way to spray
Speaker 2: if not get.
Speaker 18: Uh oh, maybe a little more with the sprayers that
Speaker 18: are that I have. Uh huh, it's really really hard
Speaker 18: to reach the very very top about the last five
Speaker 18: favors top of the tree.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, if you can get all out of it,
Speaker 2: if you can get all that done, then you're probably okay.
Speaker 2: You just don't want to be standing underneath it having
Speaker 2: the spray come back all over you. You know, sometimes
Speaker 2: on our child, witch too high spray and it ends
Speaker 2: up coming back on me. So but uh, there are
Speaker 2: there are some products out there. What I would do
Speaker 2: if I were you, See you're out in Cleveland, you
Speaker 2: might try talking to one of your ACE hardware stores.
Speaker 2: You got a couple of them out that direction. That yeah,
Speaker 2: uh yeah, yeah, M and D. Well talk to M
Speaker 2: and D and see what they can carry for pecan
Speaker 2: disease control.
Speaker 6: Uh.
Speaker 2: If you, you know, want to email me, I can
Speaker 2: send you some suggested products for it, but it's not
Speaker 2: going to be real easy to find. You may end up.
Speaker 2: Uh if I M and D cannot get something for you, Uh,
Speaker 2: just email me back and I'll see if I can
Speaker 2: find another option. But start there with M and D.
Speaker 2: You need a disease control for pecans, and that's going
Speaker 2: to take a kind of a specialty product to do
Speaker 2: a good job of that.
Speaker 18: Okay, a question. I have tried spray with copper soul fight.
Speaker 18: I'm not doing good at all if I keep that up.
Speaker 2: Cop Copper is okay on some diseases, but not the
Speaker 2: one you have. Copper's not going to be the solution.
Speaker 2: And I'm hitting a hard break here coming up, so
Speaker 2: i gotta run, but I'm gonna put you on hole.
Speaker 2: Carrie and Chris can give you an email for me
Speaker 2: and just follow up with that and I'll take care
Speaker 2: of you. All right, folks, I'll be right back. Yes today.
Speaker 2: I just want to remind you that as soon as
Speaker 2: this hour of the show is up, the show is
Speaker 2: up at ten o'clock, I'm gonna head over to Intended
Speaker 2: for Us. I'll get there about oh, probably eleven thirty today,
Speaker 2: maybe eleven forty five, and I'll be there for two hours.
Speaker 2: So come on out and see me. We're gonna be
Speaker 2: giving away Medina products and I'll be answering your gardening questions.
Speaker 2: And believe me, they are stocked up on all kinds
Speaker 2: of cool plants and decorations for fall. It'll be a
Speaker 2: fun time. I promise you that if you want to
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Speaker 2: I've seen their work. They also only use quality products
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Speaker 2: when they're going to do top dressing, they're going to
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Speaker 2: if you are in that region, you know from over Oh,
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Speaker 2: a stress condition, especially compaction. Then a good eraation encompassed
Speaker 2: tob dressing. We're going to go now to talk to Joe. Hello,
Speaker 2: Joe Welsome Garden Line. Thank you.
Speaker 12: I want two questions please.
Speaker 2: One.
Speaker 24: I have a shady area and I would like to
Speaker 24: plant ground cover.
Speaker 12: What would you suggest? That's my first question. Ivy.
Speaker 2: There's a lot of good groundcovers, Joe, Ivy is fine,
Speaker 2: English Ivy. The prime with the English Ivy is it
Speaker 2: just takes over the world, climbs up your trees constantly.
Speaker 2: It's a sprawler real fast. So that's one that people
Speaker 2: will use. If the shade is bright, you can use
Speaker 2: an Asian jasmine in those areas. That's another vining type
Speaker 2: of groundcover, but it needs decent light for it to
Speaker 2: do well. I see people just plant pardon it has
Speaker 2: some light's not a lot, okay. Loriope and mondo grad
Speaker 2: both can be planted as a solid groundcover, and that
Speaker 2: takes a lot of plants, but it makes a really
Speaker 2: nice dense groundcover if it's moderate light. The Aztec grass
Speaker 2: is think of it as a white and green striped riope.
Speaker 2: Aztet grass is not grass. It's more like loripe, but
Speaker 2: it's white and green stripes. So it really brightens the
Speaker 2: shady areas. Shady areas are already dark, and then when
Speaker 2: you put a dark green ground cover, it just sort
Speaker 2: of disappears in there. And it's nice to use something
Speaker 2: with some lighter colors like that. Course, ferns would be
Speaker 2: good for an area like that.
Speaker 24: Next question that is, I built some aubors. They're about
Speaker 24: ten feet high, and what can I plant that'll grow
Speaker 24: over the top and that gets hit too hard when
Speaker 24: we get that freeze every year. What would be something
Speaker 24: that'll be climbing climbing roses?
Speaker 2: Yeah, climbing roses. The climbing rose is fine. Most climbing
Speaker 2: roses only bloom in the spring, but that's fine. I've
Speaker 2: got an arbor that has a climbing rose. It's a
Speaker 2: spring bloomer on it and uh, they do fine. Another
Speaker 2: thing you could do is there's a type of wisteria
Speaker 2: that has kind of a burgundy flower, a deep deep
Speaker 2: blood red burgundy colored flower. It's called Chinese wisteria, and
Speaker 2: it it does well on an arbor. It's a it's
Speaker 2: a woody vine. There's there's a lot of different plants
Speaker 2: you can put an arbor. Some of them, though, are
Speaker 2: just a little too enthusiastic, if you know what I mean.
Speaker 2: You know, they want to take over the world, and
Speaker 2: they can overwhelm an arbor. So we'd like to stay
Speaker 2: away from those.
Speaker 12: This Chinese with steria, what color? It has a flowery
Speaker 12: you said.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's it's not like the regular. When people say
Speaker 2: with steria, you picture those bloomed blue to purple colored
Speaker 2: like clusters of grapes thinging everywhere. This has a small
Speaker 2: or cluster that's a deep burgundy blood red. Uh and
Speaker 2: it but it's also a woody wisteria vine that you
Speaker 2: can put on an arbor without it just taking everything over.
Speaker 12: Is there any other thing that flowers that you would suggest.
Speaker 2: Well, there's trumpet creeper, Madam Galen is a variety of
Speaker 2: trumpet creeper with big flowers. But I'm telling you that
Speaker 2: thing is such a vigorous thing and sometimes they'll sucker
Speaker 2: on you that I would hesitate to do that on it.
Speaker 2: You could do a coral. Don't do coral. Oh gosh,
Speaker 2: the name is just escaping me. I just cross vine
Speaker 2: cross vine called tangerine beauty. That one has smaller, thin vines,
Speaker 2: but it really runs all over the place, and so
Speaker 2: you trim it when it gets too far. But it
Speaker 2: has spring flowers that are a tangerine orange color, very pretty,
Speaker 2: and that would be an option as well.
Speaker 12: On the trellis tangerine.
Speaker 2: Tangerine beauty is the variety cross vine cross vine vine. Yeah,
Speaker 2: but do you want to get tangerine beauty. That's the
Speaker 2: prettiest one.
Speaker 12: Okay, thank you for your house.
Speaker 2: All right, good luck with that. You take care, yes, sir,
Speaker 2: you as well. That is Those are all great vines.
Speaker 2: I love vines. We don't have enough vines by the
Speaker 2: way people are planting. People don't plant enough vines. That
Speaker 2: is an underplanted plant. We live in the South and
Speaker 2: it gets hot in the summer, and arbor with vines
Speaker 2: over it. It makes an outdoor area livable, and i'd
Speaker 2: encourage you to do that. Do you have a western
Speaker 2: wall that it just the sun bakes it at the
Speaker 2: end of the day and then you got that heat
Speaker 2: radiating into the house half the night. Put a viine
Speaker 2: on it. We should use vines more, all right. I
Speaker 2: told you about Nelson carbo Load. That is their fall
Speaker 2: fertilizer carbo Load. It's fertilizer and it's weed prevention. It's
Speaker 2: a pre emergent. We'd prevention all in one. I want
Speaker 2: to tell you about nutristar Genesis from Nelson. Genesis is
Speaker 2: designed for transplanting plants. So whether you're moving something from
Speaker 2: one pot up to a bigger pot. If you're doing that,
Speaker 2: mix some Genesis into the soil in the new pot
Speaker 2: to help get that plant off to a good start.
Speaker 2: If you're putting something in the ground, like maybe you're
Speaker 2: gonna plant a rose bush this year, or maybe Joe's
Speaker 2: gonna put a vine in this year, you know, well,
Speaker 2: how about putting some Genesis in the soil around it.
Speaker 2: It's one of the few fertilizers I would say mix
Speaker 2: into the soil and it's okay. It's not gonna burn
Speaker 2: your roots. It's not salt based, all right. It's got
Speaker 2: micro riz in, it got beneficial bacteria. It's got other
Speaker 2: fungi too, by the way, that support that soil micro
Speaker 2: biome that's so important. When you mix genesis into the
Speaker 2: ground and water your plan in, well those roots come
Speaker 2: out and they're in their happy place and they really
Speaker 2: show it. And I've seen that myself. It really does work.
Speaker 2: It's from Nelson. Plant food comes in a jar, clear
Speaker 2: jar with a screw top lid, and it works. Genesis
Speaker 2: for transplanting your plants. And as I keep saying, I
Speaker 2: hope you, I hope you're planting right now. There's not
Speaker 2: a better season for transplanting than we're in right at
Speaker 2: this time. We love our feed stores here on guard Line,
Speaker 2: and you know the D and D feed store out
Speaker 2: west of Tombol, they're about three miles west of two
Speaker 2: forty nine on FM twenty nine to twenty. This place
Speaker 2: is great. I mean they expanded it recently last summer
Speaker 2: and summer for it anyway, they recently expanded it. It's
Speaker 2: even better now. When you go inside, you're gonna find
Speaker 2: the stuff that I talk about. You know, you hear
Speaker 2: me talking about nitrofoss and you hear me talk about
Speaker 2: microlife and Nelson turf Star and Medina products and heirloom
Speaker 2: soils and you know the Nelson all the different Nelson products,
Speaker 2: Landscaper's Pride soils. They've got all of that at D
Speaker 2: and D Feed and Supply. They also, of course their feet,
Speaker 2: so they got feed. They got quality, high quality dog foods,
Speaker 2: a little uh, I don't know what you call it,
Speaker 2: but I call it a dog deli. It's like a
Speaker 2: little special things bones and stuff that are flavored for
Speaker 2: them to chew on. If I go to D and
Speaker 2: D my dogs find out I didn't bring them anything,
Speaker 2: I'm in I'm in trouble because they know about the
Speaker 2: dog deli at D and D Feed, D and DE Feed.
Speaker 2: Here's the phone number. Two eight one three five one
Speaker 2: seventy one forty four. Two eight one three five one
Speaker 2: seventy one forty four. Listen the dovers open this in
Speaker 2: nineteen eighty nine and the place just keeps getting better again.
Speaker 2: Three miles west of two forty nine on just outside
Speaker 2: a Tomball. While you're there, grab you your fire ut bait.
Speaker 2: It's time to get that done. Anything you need to
Speaker 2: do to control weeds, diseases, and insects, you're gonna find
Speaker 2: plenty of it. They're in D and D feed, they
Speaker 2: really do. I was in there not too longer than
Speaker 2: an outstanding selection of those products.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 2: You are listening to garden Line our phone number seven
Speaker 2: one three two one two k t RH seven to
Speaker 2: one three two one two k t r H. Have
Speaker 2: you ever been down to Jorges Hidden Gardens? That is
Speaker 2: probably our southernmost Am I right about that?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 2: I say I thought southern most garden center I talk
Speaker 2: about here on garden Line. They're in Alvin, Texas.
Speaker 5: Now.
Speaker 2: Horay just keeps getting that place better and better every
Speaker 2: time I go. There's some new things that they have.
Speaker 2: You know, when you go to Hoges, you're gonna find
Speaker 2: plenty of woody ornamentals, tree shrubs and all sizes, two
Speaker 2: huge ones. If you want Peggy Martin row. That's a
Speaker 2: rose I have on my trellis. They always have to
Speaker 2: veggies and tomatoes and whatnot. Lots of fruit trees, always
Speaker 2: have fruit trees there. That's a place where you're going
Speaker 2: to get that three sixty tree stabilizer. So when you
Speaker 2: buy a tree from Morae. Grab that three sixty tree
Speaker 2: stabilizer so you can stake it and take care of it.
Speaker 2: Or hees got citrus trees, he's got other kinds of fruit.
Speaker 2: Just go buy and see him. Orges Hidden Gardens. They
Speaker 2: are on Elizabeth Street in Alvin, just south of Highway nine.
Speaker 2: So all of you down there in Alvin, Dickinson Hillcrest, Alcoa, Altalloma,
Speaker 2: or Arcadia, Santa Fe, this is your hometown garden center.
Speaker 2: Go check them out this weekend. I'm gonna take a break, folks,
Speaker 2: I'll be right back. Things about plants and whatnot. Had
Speaker 2: a call come in a Heidi from Tree Search Farms
Speaker 2: did a little Hey, here's another idea. I was talking
Speaker 2: to Joe about a plant for a vine on a trellis,
Speaker 2: and she was suggesting a butterfly vine. That's Miscagnia micruptra.
Speaker 2: I believe it is the species. It's a good one,
Speaker 2: and why they call it butterfly vine. Okay, it has
Speaker 2: little yellow flowers, Okay, fair enough, but then the flowers
Speaker 2: are replaced by seed pods that look like butterflies. You
Speaker 2: just got to go see it or look it up.
Speaker 2: See what I'm talking about. But they're really cool. People
Speaker 2: will let them dry and then pick them and use
Speaker 2: them in arrangements. You know, maybe spray paint them, put
Speaker 2: some glitter on them or whatever if they want to
Speaker 2: dress them up. But that's a good vine that is
Speaker 2: a billowing, strong grower. I mean, it'll produce a good
Speaker 2: solid vine on a trellis for sure. So it's just
Speaker 2: another option there that you might want to keep in mind.
Speaker 2: I was talking about Jorge two. By the way, Orges
Speaker 2: Hidden Gardens down in Alvin Horace got a shipment of
Speaker 2: blueberries in I mean like ten different varieties and they've
Speaker 2: got both the rabbit eye type and the Southern high
Speaker 2: bush type. Those are two different kinds of blueberries, and
Speaker 2: it's important that when you buy them you get at
Speaker 2: least two varieties of the same type. Okay, so too
Speaker 2: rabbit eyes or to Southern high bush, and he has
Speaker 2: some of each one. If you want to know more
Speaker 2: about blueberries, the Aggi Horticulture website has a really good
Speaker 2: publication on blueberries. And do you just go to Aggie.
Speaker 2: Just do a search for Aggie Horticulture, go to the
Speaker 2: fruit and nut page and there is a publication at
Speaker 2: that page on every kind of fruit you can grow,
Speaker 2: from avocados to I don't know what is a fruit
Speaker 2: that begins with z is, but anyway, it got the
Speaker 2: whole nine yards, and if you go there you can
Speaker 2: learn about the different sections of the state where we
Speaker 2: can grow these, and then the different varieties and some
Speaker 2: information on them. But just remember that when you get
Speaker 2: rabbit eyes, you want to get a second rabbit eye.
Speaker 2: Now they'll produce some fruit by themselves, but they do
Speaker 2: better when they have a second variety to pollinate them,
Speaker 2: because you get more seeds pollinated, and therefore the berries
Speaker 2: will be bigger. So don't buy one blueberry by at
Speaker 2: least two of the same type rabbit eye and so
Speaker 2: high bush and I know where he's got like tiff
Speaker 2: blue and climax. Those are all those are examples of
Speaker 2: rabbit eye types. And he's got one called sharp blue
Speaker 2: and Biloxi. Biloxi, I know is a southern high Bush's.
Speaker 2: I see some others on the list, So take take
Speaker 2: a look, Premiere, that's a rabbit eye. But he's got
Speaker 2: them therein so now it'd be a good time to
Speaker 2: get those things planned before you put them in the ground.
Speaker 2: By the way, take a box cutter knife and cut
Speaker 2: vertically through the root ball that came out of the
Speaker 2: container roots cylinder, cut vertically in four places around the
Speaker 2: plant about an inch deep, and then separate those roots out.
Speaker 2: They will establish better that way if you'll do that. Well,
Speaker 2: that was a lot of fast information right there. Let's
Speaker 2: head out to talk to Evelyn. Hello, Evelyn, welcome to
Speaker 2: garden line.
Speaker 11: My grandpa.
Speaker 1: So yesterday I checked on.
Speaker 2: My Yeah, thank you. I appreciate that.
Speaker 3: They're good.
Speaker 11: But today they're gone. And would deer go close enough
Speaker 11: to the house to eat them or was that something else?
Speaker 2: You know, it could be a lot of things. There's
Speaker 2: some little caterpillars of one that will go out at night.
Speaker 2: You don't see them in the day. They go out
Speaker 2: at night and they cut off your seedlings. They chop
Speaker 2: them down like someone chopping down trees in the forest,
Speaker 2: and they cut them off right at the ground and
Speaker 2: you'll see the seedling kind of laying there. Usually. Now,
Speaker 2: if it were deer, the seedlings should be completely gone
Speaker 2: overnight like they were there today. They're not there in
Speaker 2: the morning, that kind of thing. And if that's the case,
Speaker 2: you may also see deer tracks, so it could be
Speaker 2: the one could be a seedling, or it could be
Speaker 2: the deer tracks. It also could be a disease. But
Speaker 2: then you just see the rotted, fallen over, shriveled up
Speaker 2: seedling the next morning. So it's gonna be one of
Speaker 2: those three.
Speaker 11: Did you eat sweetpeas?
Speaker 5: Though?
Speaker 2: Well, deer eat just about everything. There are a few
Speaker 2: plants they don't like, but yeah, they'll eat sweetpeas. They
Speaker 2: sure will. I'll eat sweet peas, so yeah, dere will
Speaker 2: love them. But seriously, you with deer, you just have
Speaker 2: to almost put like a little fence cage type thing
Speaker 2: over them to keep them out of there because deer
Speaker 2: they yeah, they'll do a lot of damage.
Speaker 11: And should I try sweet peas and gammer?
Speaker 2: Should I try a different seedling?
Speaker 4: Now?
Speaker 2: You should try sweetpeas again. Fall is a great time
Speaker 2: to plant them, and you did the right thing planning
Speaker 2: them in the fall because they grow slowly through the winter,
Speaker 2: and next spring you're just gonna have good, good yields.
Speaker 2: Is this the flowering type, the type that you grow
Speaker 2: for flowers or the type you grow for eating.
Speaker 16: Flowers?
Speaker 2: Okay, well, then in the spring is when they'll take
Speaker 2: off vining and grow in the flowers, and by fall
Speaker 2: planting them, they have a head start, so you're doing
Speaker 2: the right thing. Just replant them. If you don't see
Speaker 2: any when you came out, where all of your seedling's gone,
Speaker 2: or just some of them.
Speaker 12: I think all of them, I don't know.
Speaker 11: I saw like a shriveled husk, but I don't know
Speaker 11: if it was one of them or if it was
Speaker 11: something else.
Speaker 2: Okay, okay, well what you should do. I don't know
Speaker 2: if you did this first time around, But if you
Speaker 2: soak those seeds overnight, like let's say you're gonna plant
Speaker 2: tomorrow tonight, you would put them in in warm water
Speaker 2: and let them soak all night, and then when you
Speaker 2: plant them, they're gonna come up faster that way. But
Speaker 2: then figure out something you can cover them with when
Speaker 2: they come up, you know. I it could be wire,
Speaker 2: like the kind of wire you put under a rabbit cage,
Speaker 2: you know, for them to hop around on, or something
Speaker 2: that just keeps the deer from getting to those seedlings.
Speaker 14: Okay, thank you, Yeah.
Speaker 2: You bet, Thank you for the call. Appreciate that. Take
Speaker 2: care all right, there you go, there you go, And
Speaker 2: I got called Grandpa. I think I know that Evelyn.
Speaker 2: There you go. All right, so we are. We are
Speaker 2: ready to go for some more calls. If you'd like
Speaker 2: to give us a call. All grandchildren are welcome to
Speaker 2: call me. First time that's ever happened, I think, well,
Speaker 2: let me see this radio show. That's the first time
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Speaker 2: I'll be right back with your calls. We are on
Speaker 2: our final segment today before I head out to Enchanted
Speaker 2: Forest Garden Center down in Richmond area. If you have
Speaker 2: a chance to come out, please come out and see me.
Speaker 2: I'll be there. I'm aiming for eleven thirty and maybe
Speaker 2: a few minutes later that I get there, but I'll
Speaker 2: be there for at least two hours answering your gardening
Speaker 2: questions and giving away Guess what, Medina has donated some
Speaker 2: really cool stuff that I'll be giving away in addition
Speaker 2: to giving away hopefully good accurate advice. I try to
Speaker 2: do that. Like I say on Guardline, they're any stupid questions,
Speaker 2: just stupid answer so the pressure is on me and
Speaker 2: other words, to not give a stupid answer. Well, we're
Speaker 2: gonna we're gonna try that out right now, and I'm
Speaker 2: going to go out to Brenham, Texas and we're going
Speaker 2: to talk to Leonard. Hey, Leonard, welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 7: Good morning. What you said weren't very much about the
Speaker 7: bricks and growing vines on it on the west side
Speaker 7: of your house, and you seem to say that that
Speaker 7: might cut out some in the heat. So I was
Speaker 7: very interested in that. I was concerned about with that
Speaker 7: for brick, the strength of it or could it climb
Speaker 7: up into your attic maybe or yeah, amazing, you.
Speaker 2: Know any Okay, yeah, I get it. I get it.
Speaker 2: Well it's a good question, Leonard. The answer on your
Speaker 2: brick is no, it's okay, we'll hurt your brick. You
Speaker 2: got to get if you're gonna have it stick to
Speaker 2: the brick, you got to get a vine that has
Speaker 2: what's called hold fasts, and those are little discs the
Speaker 2: vine produces on what are the equivalent of aerial roots
Speaker 2: that stick to something. And so it's not the vines
Speaker 2: that twine around stuff. It's not the vines that have
Speaker 2: little curlicues that go out there and grab stuff like
Speaker 2: a cucumber vine does. But it's the hole fast. But
Speaker 2: what I would do is if you could put up
Speaker 2: a wall in front of it of a strong material,
Speaker 2: like a livestock panel or something like that, it could
Speaker 2: grow on that and then there'd be a space between
Speaker 2: the wall and the brick. The only thing you have
Speaker 2: to worry about, Leonard, is those things with hole fasts
Speaker 2: when they get up and start touching your painted eaves. Yeah,
Speaker 2: they can do some damage there because when you pull
Speaker 2: them off, you're left with that little woody thing sticking
Speaker 2: to your paint. And and that's not good.
Speaker 7: Okay, all right, that's great. Another thing real quick for
Speaker 7: you don't mind here and bred and we have a
Speaker 7: problem with gumbo. I've got quite a bit of it.
Speaker 7: You just can't find a place that a nice sandy loan.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 7: But I'd like to some fig some pig trees and
Speaker 7: other fruit trees. And I want to big big hose
Speaker 7: that I hear that you don't you don't replace that
Speaker 7: dirt that you took out with this good soil. You
Speaker 7: got to put back that gumbo. But yeah, even gumbo.
Speaker 2: So yeah, even gumbo. But but here's you got two options.
Speaker 2: First of all, let me say this. Figs are happy
Speaker 2: in gumbo. They are. Uh. You know, Houston had a
Speaker 2: several hundred acres of figs back in long ago, uh,
Speaker 2: commercially produced to southwest of Houston.
Speaker 6: Uh.
Speaker 2: And so figs are happy in that kind of soil.
Speaker 2: That's all the rice paddy country out there, and they
Speaker 2: can grow in that. I had a fig in some
Speaker 2: horrible sticky soil at my house up you know it.
Speaker 2: Just all you have to do is just give them
Speaker 2: adequate water and they're happy. Now. The second thing, if
Speaker 2: you wanted to take it up a notch, you could
Speaker 2: spread compost over a large area and roto till it
Speaker 2: in to improve the soil a little bit, and then
Speaker 2: dig the hole and plant the fig into that mix. Okay,
Speaker 2: And so you're not putting compost in the hole. You're
Speaker 2: you're mending the whole bed area. And then you're digging
Speaker 2: the hole and using the amended soil that came out
Speaker 2: of the hole to go back in.
Speaker 7: So you don't ever put like rose soil in there, not.
Speaker 2: In a hole, because here's what happens if you dig
Speaker 2: a hole one time one time in Houston, I went
Speaker 2: to a place that had a whole row of red
Speaker 2: Tippotinia shrubs alongside the building, and they were all dying,
Speaker 2: and it was black clay soil. And when I went
Speaker 2: I grab grabbed a shrub kind of pulled on it,
Speaker 2: and it came right out of the ground and the
Speaker 2: roots were black and gooey and smell like swamp gas.
Speaker 2: Because what happened is you dig a hole and now
Speaker 2: you've got an underground bathtub, and you fill it full
Speaker 2: of nice compost and put your plan in it. And
Speaker 2: when it rains too much or you irrigate too much,
Speaker 2: that organic matter decomposes anaerobically can get oxygen, and you
Speaker 2: get some nasty stuff coming out of there. So don't
Speaker 2: make an underground bathtub and fill it with compost and
Speaker 2: plant roots. Just amend the whole thing and figs will
Speaker 2: grow in black clay. Don't worry about that.
Speaker 7: That's a good illustration, now I understand that. Thank you
Speaker 7: so much. All right, I've got If you've got time,
Speaker 7: box woods.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I got I got time. Sure, go ahead, I
Speaker 2: got box with.
Speaker 7: I did five boxwood probably three months ago. And they're
Speaker 7: all dying and Uh, I really I did everything I
Speaker 7: could do, maybe doing what you just said about digging
Speaker 7: a hole. I did add some really good soil after
Speaker 7: I took out the plants that were there before and
Speaker 7: I replaced them all with these boxwoods. And now they're dying.
Speaker 7: And I really I've got a big investment with labor
Speaker 7: and plants and everything. I don't want to lose them.
Speaker 7: But they're just dying.
Speaker 2: Describe dying to me. What is the whole plant going
Speaker 2: at once? Do you lose one branch at a time
Speaker 2: or what.
Speaker 7: There's twenty five of them in a row there, and
Speaker 7: some of the plants have still got a little bit
Speaker 7: of green on it, but the three fourths of it,
Speaker 7: the leaves are just really brown. And these are new
Speaker 7: little much the whole plant. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2: They're box woods.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 2: I know you've invested in them, and so we're going
Speaker 2: to try to help you with that. In general, I'm
Speaker 2: getting to where I hate to even recommend because they
Speaker 2: get they can get nematodes in the roots that can
Speaker 2: wear them down, take them down. They can get a
Speaker 2: root disease, several root diseases, and then they can get
Speaker 2: the box with blight, which tends to attack the top,
Speaker 2: and it usually hits a branch at a time. The
Speaker 2: bottom line is, there's not a good control for any
Speaker 2: of that, none of it, None of the things that
Speaker 2: attack box woods. Do we have a great spray for
Speaker 2: other than one or two of the root rots that
Speaker 2: we can drench the soil for.
Speaker 7: But yeah, well I'm gonna pull them all out and
Speaker 7: try to figure out something that would be nice edge
Speaker 7: in front of my house.
Speaker 2: Okay, so let's let's do this, Leonard. If you will
Speaker 2: follow a branch that's browning, not dead, but browning so
Speaker 2: on its way, take your pocket knife and slice vertically
Speaker 2: down that branch and look inside. If you see, like
Speaker 2: if you cut it off with printers and you see
Speaker 2: a ring of black, that's one disease. If you see
Speaker 2: just see discolor under the inside the branch all over,
Speaker 2: that's like black gray brant, dark dark brown, that's a
Speaker 2: disease indication. Pull up some roots when you got one
Speaker 2: that's dying, and look for knots on the roots instead
Speaker 2: of normal roots. It looks like a string of pearls,
Speaker 2: or it's even knotted up worse than that, looks almost
Speaker 2: like the michelin Man all bumpy and lumpy and everything.
Speaker 2: If you see any of that and you want to
Speaker 2: send me a picture, I could take a look at it.
Speaker 2: I'm going to put you on hold and if you
Speaker 2: choose to hang on and Chris will pick it up
Speaker 2: and we will get you an email where you can
Speaker 2: take some pictures and send them to me and I'll
Speaker 2: be happy to diagnose it at the next step.
Speaker 7: Okay, fantastic, Thank you so much.
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