WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.200 --> 00:00:01.360 To ensure they keep them there. 2 00:00:01.399 --> 00:00:05.839 Texas Congressman Troy Nell's sponsored companion legislation over in the House. 3 00:00:06.240 --> 00:00:10.039 Houston's new police chief, No Diaz, was introduced Friday after 4 00:00:10.080 --> 00:00:12.400 spending the last five years as the chief of Police 5 00:00:12.400 --> 00:00:16.039 and Katie Diaz thankful for the opportunity now in Houston. 6 00:00:16.239 --> 00:00:17.519 I truly believe in the Mayor. 7 00:00:17.519 --> 00:00:19.239 I can't thank you enough for the opportunity. 8 00:00:19.440 --> 00:00:20.760 This is a very vibrant city. 9 00:00:20.879 --> 00:00:22.920 I'm not going to get on my soapbox about the 10 00:00:22.960 --> 00:00:25.359 crime rate or anything like that, but I think that 11 00:00:25.440 --> 00:00:27.480 this city should be the pinnacle. 12 00:00:27.679 --> 00:00:30.719 He is also a former Texas ranger and correctional officer 13 00:00:30.760 --> 00:00:35.920 with the td C. J Chevron is leaving California for 14 00:00:35.960 --> 00:00:38.359 a new headquarters right here in town. The company is 15 00:00:38.399 --> 00:00:42.200 moving its corporate headquarters to Houston. California suits Chevron over 16 00:00:42.479 --> 00:00:46.320 what it claimed was a downplaying of climate change. Also, 17 00:00:46.439 --> 00:00:49.359 Tesla is recalling nearly two million vehicles in the US 18 00:00:49.439 --> 00:00:52.240 due to issues with the hood. The National Highway Traffic 19 00:00:52.240 --> 00:00:54.960 Safety Administration says the recall stems from issues with the 20 00:00:55.039 --> 00:00:58.200 software that detects when a hood is on. Last vehicles 21 00:00:58.240 --> 00:01:00.880 affected includes certain twenty twenty one on to twenty four 22 00:01:01.280 --> 00:01:04.319 model three, Model S and Model X vehicles, along with 23 00:01:04.400 --> 00:01:08.599 Model Y vehicles that were manufactured since twenty twenty. Our 24 00:01:08.599 --> 00:01:11.040 next update is at six thirty. I'm Jared Lewis on 25 00:01:11.120 --> 00:01:13.959 Houston's news, weather and traffic station News Radio seven forty 26 00:01:14.040 --> 00:01:14.680 k t r H. 27 00:01:16.040 --> 00:01:18.719 K t r H Garden Line does not necessarily endorse 28 00:01:18.760 --> 00:01:23.040 any of the products or services advertised on this program. 29 00:01:23.079 --> 00:01:26.799 Welcome to k t r H Garden Line with Skip Richter. 30 00:01:29.079 --> 00:01:44.840 By Yes Trap just watch him as many birthdays the crazy. 31 00:01:52.439 --> 00:01:59.000 Sid Good morning, so good Saturday morning. 32 00:01:59.159 --> 00:01:59.280 Man. 33 00:02:00.120 --> 00:02:03.400 Congratulations on being up at this hour to join us 34 00:02:03.400 --> 00:02:06.359 on Garden Line. I'm your host, Skip Richter, and we 35 00:02:06.439 --> 00:02:09.039 are looking forward to visiting with you about the things 36 00:02:09.120 --> 00:02:11.520 that you're curious about in your garden. Maybe you've got 37 00:02:11.520 --> 00:02:15.360 a strange insect, a strange spot on the leaf, you 38 00:02:15.439 --> 00:02:18.719 need a plan identified or diagnosed or whatever. We can 39 00:02:18.879 --> 00:02:22.039 do all those sort of things here. Just welcome to 40 00:02:22.039 --> 00:02:25.039 give us a call at your convenience and tell us 41 00:02:25.120 --> 00:02:29.199 what you would like to talk about. You know, the topics. 42 00:02:29.240 --> 00:02:31.680 I can tell you the things I'm getting emails about, 43 00:02:31.759 --> 00:02:36.039 things I'm getting calls about, the things that typically are 44 00:02:36.120 --> 00:02:39.479 on people's minds at this time of the year. But 45 00:02:40.199 --> 00:02:44.159 it's mostly about what you care about, what you're interested about. 46 00:02:44.199 --> 00:02:46.639 What are the issues that you're having in your garden. Well, 47 00:02:46.680 --> 00:02:48.199 let me give you a phone number so you can 48 00:02:48.280 --> 00:02:51.439 give us a call seven to one three two one 49 00:02:51.560 --> 00:02:55.680 two fifty eight seventy four seven one three two one 50 00:02:55.719 --> 00:03:00.400 two five eight seven four. That's how you get here 51 00:03:00.439 --> 00:03:04.680 on garden Line. If you have been struggling with some 52 00:03:04.800 --> 00:03:09.120 different aspects of lawn care, gardening or whatever, let's see 53 00:03:09.120 --> 00:03:10.759 if we can get down to the bottom of it 54 00:03:10.800 --> 00:03:13.840 and do some diagnosis. Some of you have sent a 55 00:03:14.039 --> 00:03:16.919 photo in during the week ahead of your phone call. 56 00:03:17.000 --> 00:03:19.319 I appreciate that that is how I most like to 57 00:03:19.360 --> 00:03:20.879 do it. That way when you call me. I'm not 58 00:03:20.919 --> 00:03:24.560 trying to picture something you know in my head that 59 00:03:24.599 --> 00:03:28.000 you're describing, because I find that that doesn't always line 60 00:03:28.080 --> 00:03:30.879 up really good when I try to picture what somebody 61 00:03:30.960 --> 00:03:35.560 is describing. Well, it looks like the rain has led 62 00:03:35.599 --> 00:03:38.599 off for a little while now, and we sure did 63 00:03:38.680 --> 00:03:41.439 get plenty of it, I tell you. Compared to last year, 64 00:03:41.479 --> 00:03:45.879 where we were so blazing hot for so long with 65 00:03:46.120 --> 00:03:49.840 no rain, this year has been different. Up to now, 66 00:03:50.159 --> 00:03:52.960 I'm not trying to jinx it or anything by saying that, 67 00:03:53.599 --> 00:03:56.479 because you know, summer does bring its droughts, and it 68 00:03:56.520 --> 00:03:59.400 does bring it certainly brings its hot weather, which we've 69 00:03:59.479 --> 00:04:02.360 yet to experience here. I think it's going to be 70 00:04:02.360 --> 00:04:03.639 that way a little bit this week. It's going to 71 00:04:03.719 --> 00:04:06.719 warm up quite a bit. And so just a reminder. 72 00:04:07.319 --> 00:04:10.120 If you have plants that you put in, let's say, 73 00:04:10.120 --> 00:04:13.520 in the last few months, this is a good time 74 00:04:13.599 --> 00:04:17.639 to remind yourself that those root systems are still quite limited. 75 00:04:18.240 --> 00:04:20.439 You pulled it out of a cylinder in a pot 76 00:04:20.639 --> 00:04:23.480 full of a pot full of soil, and the roots 77 00:04:23.480 --> 00:04:25.879 were all within that cylinder of soil. When you put 78 00:04:25.879 --> 00:04:28.160 it in the ground, they start to move out into 79 00:04:28.160 --> 00:04:31.839 the soil around them. But that's a gradual process over time. 80 00:04:32.759 --> 00:04:35.040 And so we have to remember that that plant still 81 00:04:35.120 --> 00:04:38.879 has an artificially small root system because we grew a 82 00:04:38.879 --> 00:04:42.240 pot and we have to continue to water it, and 83 00:04:42.279 --> 00:04:44.560 we need to water it where the roots are, so 84 00:04:44.680 --> 00:04:47.279 you may see, well, I certainly want to water that 85 00:04:47.360 --> 00:04:50.519 original cylinder area, but a little bit beyond it as well. 86 00:04:50.680 --> 00:04:54.199 When you water, and I've seen people make the mistake 87 00:04:54.240 --> 00:04:56.439 of they reach around out and feel the soil and 88 00:04:56.519 --> 00:04:58.879 it's moist, but that's the soil, you know, foot away 89 00:04:58.920 --> 00:05:03.040 from the plant system, and they're not roots out there yet, 90 00:05:03.439 --> 00:05:05.759 depending on how long ago you plant it, and so 91 00:05:05.959 --> 00:05:08.920 always focus that water on the area where the original 92 00:05:08.920 --> 00:05:12.319 cylinder was and then gradually moving out, you know, certainly 93 00:05:12.399 --> 00:05:16.319 six inches foot even two feet as the months go 94 00:05:16.439 --> 00:05:19.639 on from that area, making sure that has water because 95 00:05:19.639 --> 00:05:21.839 we're trying to keep that plan alive, but we're also 96 00:05:21.879 --> 00:05:25.600 trying to help it thrive. That is our goal, and 97 00:05:25.680 --> 00:05:29.639 summertimes a stressful time. You can plant in summer. You 98 00:05:29.680 --> 00:05:33.000 can go to the garden centers this weekend and get 99 00:05:33.040 --> 00:05:36.079 you some good plants, bring them home and plan them. 100 00:05:36.360 --> 00:05:38.000 And if you take care of them right and take 101 00:05:38.040 --> 00:05:42.920 care primarily means give them adequate watering during these first months, 102 00:05:43.720 --> 00:05:47.199 they will have success. And remember that we are now 103 00:05:47.240 --> 00:05:51.199 in August. September is also a summer month here in 104 00:05:51.240 --> 00:05:55.199 our area. And then in October we typically start to 105 00:05:55.279 --> 00:05:58.680 see a little bit better of a break from the 106 00:05:58.720 --> 00:06:01.879 heat a little bit at the end September, but it's 107 00:06:01.920 --> 00:06:07.399 not that much. It's temporary typically, so we've got several 108 00:06:07.480 --> 00:06:12.720 months really that a summer warm season annual will look 109 00:06:12.800 --> 00:06:15.199 good in your landscape. And if you drive around town 110 00:06:15.240 --> 00:06:17.600 look at landscapes, there are a sea of green. There's 111 00:06:17.600 --> 00:06:21.439 green grass, green trees, green shrubs, green ground covers. You see. 112 00:06:21.480 --> 00:06:24.160 You get the idea put some color in there, and 113 00:06:24.199 --> 00:06:26.959 you can do it. You know, if you plant marigoles, 114 00:06:27.079 --> 00:06:30.720 or if you plant angelonia, if you plant any foliage 115 00:06:30.759 --> 00:06:34.279 plants that have bright colors, they're gonna look good for 116 00:06:34.399 --> 00:06:37.000 a good while. You're gonna get plenty out of them. 117 00:06:37.279 --> 00:06:40.160 So it's still a good time to get planting done. 118 00:06:40.639 --> 00:06:43.920 And those plants will go away when the first frost comes. 119 00:06:44.000 --> 00:06:47.319 They are warm season annuals, not cold season annuals, and 120 00:06:47.360 --> 00:06:51.759 we can continue to plant those. If you've never planted 121 00:06:51.759 --> 00:06:55.199 stuff that blooms in the fall, it's still a good 122 00:06:55.199 --> 00:06:58.000 time to plant that. That stuff will start blooming, some 123 00:06:58.120 --> 00:07:00.399 of it toward the end of August. I'm a lot 124 00:07:00.439 --> 00:07:05.040 in September and even in October and fall flowers are 125 00:07:05.399 --> 00:07:08.560 beautiful in the landscape, and so go ahead and get 126 00:07:08.600 --> 00:07:12.399 some of those started. Sometimes sometimes I think about the 127 00:07:12.399 --> 00:07:15.639 fact that in spring, everybody's a gardener, you know, everybody 128 00:07:16.120 --> 00:07:19.079 is planting the things that are going to look good 129 00:07:19.240 --> 00:07:21.839 in spring. That's an easy time, but think of your 130 00:07:21.920 --> 00:07:24.079 landscape all four months the year. I may talk about 131 00:07:24.079 --> 00:07:26.759 that a little bit more here in just a bit. 132 00:07:26.920 --> 00:07:28.519 Right now, we're going to go out to the phones 133 00:07:28.639 --> 00:07:32.399 and talk to Dave. Hello, Dave, welcome to garden Line. 134 00:07:33.240 --> 00:07:36.759 Good morning, Thank you very much. I have a neighbor 135 00:07:36.959 --> 00:07:39.360 and he's a real good guy. The problem is that 136 00:07:40.120 --> 00:07:45.480 give me probably about probably about two or three months ago, 137 00:07:45.839 --> 00:07:49.759 he burned a big patch of his of his front 138 00:07:49.839 --> 00:07:53.600 lawn with fertilizer. It don it looks like he lit 139 00:07:53.600 --> 00:07:58.160 it on fire now now as not as brown and black. 140 00:07:58.240 --> 00:08:02.439 And only thing that's thriving with there are the weeds. 141 00:08:02.959 --> 00:08:05.360 We were talking the other day. How would he repair 142 00:08:05.399 --> 00:08:07.480 it and and get rid of the weeds. 143 00:08:08.600 --> 00:08:11.519 It depends on what the weeds are, and then he 144 00:08:11.639 --> 00:08:16.600 has options. For someone with no tolerance to weeds, then 145 00:08:16.639 --> 00:08:19.920 you would need to use either a grassy or a 146 00:08:19.959 --> 00:08:22.800 broad leaf we control product, or something that kills both 147 00:08:22.879 --> 00:08:26.759 to get rid of them existing weeds. If there's no 148 00:08:26.879 --> 00:08:29.399 lawn there, he could use something that kills everything, or 149 00:08:29.399 --> 00:08:34.080 that just kills grass if they're grassy weeds, and then 150 00:08:34.639 --> 00:08:38.320 follow that up with plugging in some sod around them, 151 00:08:38.399 --> 00:08:40.799 or filling it in. However he wants to go about it, 152 00:08:41.399 --> 00:08:44.559 watering it, and really good sod will still establish quite 153 00:08:44.559 --> 00:08:47.840 well right now. This weather is fine for our warm 154 00:08:47.840 --> 00:08:51.200 season turf if you water it, and that would be 155 00:08:51.240 --> 00:08:53.480 one option. Some people are a little less or a 156 00:08:53.519 --> 00:08:56.279 little more tolerant of the green and the weeds, and 157 00:08:56.320 --> 00:08:59.399 they don't want to spray, and so if the areas 158 00:08:59.399 --> 00:09:01.559 are huge, you can't do hand pulling. If they're not 159 00:09:01.600 --> 00:09:04.679 so big, some hand pulling is an option, or you 160 00:09:04.759 --> 00:09:07.600 can just get in there and rototill them a little bit, 161 00:09:07.639 --> 00:09:09.799 pull those weeds out, get them by the way, rake 162 00:09:09.879 --> 00:09:12.759 it smooth, and then put the sawed in. So that'd 163 00:09:12.759 --> 00:09:16.080 be another option. But if it's a perennial weed, Dave, 164 00:09:16.240 --> 00:09:19.559 I would I would either very carefully hand dig it, 165 00:09:19.600 --> 00:09:22.240 which I suspect people are not going to want to 166 00:09:22.279 --> 00:09:26.000 go do, or and then but I would I would 167 00:09:26.000 --> 00:09:28.279 spray it because it's just going to come back. Rototilling 168 00:09:28.360 --> 00:09:31.240 doesn't necessarily kill perennial weeds. 169 00:09:31.480 --> 00:09:33.960 With the saw grow with the saw grow all right 170 00:09:34.039 --> 00:09:36.720 in that area where because like I said, you put 171 00:09:36.720 --> 00:09:39.919 too much fertilizer down would fertilize. 172 00:09:40.240 --> 00:09:43.960 Yeah, the reason The reason excess excess fertilizer hurts is 173 00:09:44.000 --> 00:09:46.120 one of two reasons. If it was a weed and feed, 174 00:09:46.320 --> 00:09:48.840 which this was definitely not the time to be using that, 175 00:09:50.120 --> 00:09:54.039 then there may be some residual from the herbicide that 176 00:09:54.120 --> 00:09:56.759 was in the product. It was just fertilizer, then it's 177 00:09:56.840 --> 00:09:59.960 just a salt burn, and a good drenching with water 178 00:10:00.440 --> 00:10:02.799 will wash that away, just like if you sprinkle table 179 00:10:02.840 --> 00:10:05.440 salt real strong in your lawn and you kill grass 180 00:10:05.440 --> 00:10:08.759 with it. You just desolve it and wash it away 181 00:10:08.799 --> 00:10:11.279 with some fishings, good flushings. 182 00:10:11.440 --> 00:10:13.279 You'll be glad to hear that. He'll be glad to 183 00:10:13.279 --> 00:10:15.879 hear it back, and that's what he's been doing. So okay, 184 00:10:16.120 --> 00:10:17.120 thank you very much. 185 00:10:17.679 --> 00:10:20.480 All Right, Dave, thanks a lot, appreciate your call very much. 186 00:10:20.919 --> 00:10:23.360 Bye bye. Well, we're going to take a little break 187 00:10:23.360 --> 00:10:25.519 here and i'll be right back. The number if you'd 188 00:10:25.559 --> 00:10:27.519 like to give us a call seven one three two 189 00:10:27.600 --> 00:10:31.840 one two fifty eight seventy four, and we're going to 190 00:10:31.919 --> 00:10:34.679 talk about the things that are interesting to you, maybe 191 00:10:34.759 --> 00:10:36.600 questions that you have. If you give us a call 192 00:10:36.960 --> 00:10:41.440 seven one three two one two kt r h uh 193 00:10:41.720 --> 00:10:45.840 insects will invade our turf at times and they give 194 00:10:45.840 --> 00:10:49.960 you significant damage. That our prime insects season, it's really summer, 195 00:10:50.440 --> 00:10:54.840 mid to late summer especially, that's when chinchbugs attack. As 196 00:10:54.840 --> 00:10:57.559 we get a little further into the summer is when 197 00:10:57.639 --> 00:10:59.679 we would see if we're going to see it a 198 00:11:00.000 --> 00:11:04.320 significant sod webworm attack. Nitrofoss has a product called bug 199 00:11:04.360 --> 00:11:07.120 Out Max. Bug Out Max is designed to deal with 200 00:11:07.200 --> 00:11:09.840 insects like that. It's a granule, You spread it out, 201 00:11:09.960 --> 00:11:13.440 you water it in. It releases the product off the 202 00:11:13.480 --> 00:11:16.159 granule and insects that are down there in the thatch, 203 00:11:16.720 --> 00:11:19.720 like chinchbugs, that's where they hide, like sod webworms, that's 204 00:11:19.720 --> 00:11:22.320 where they spend their day, come out evening to do 205 00:11:22.360 --> 00:11:25.879 their feeding on the leaves. It'll hit them hard, it'll 206 00:11:25.960 --> 00:11:28.279 knock them out, and within forty eight hours it's pretty 207 00:11:28.360 --> 00:11:30.039 much done. It's work, but it's going to keep working 208 00:11:30.080 --> 00:11:33.120 all summer. It lasts, it does last, so you don't 209 00:11:33.159 --> 00:11:34.919 have to do it over and over again. Don't do that. 210 00:11:35.120 --> 00:11:37.799 Just give it a good application and you'll be good 211 00:11:38.120 --> 00:11:40.080 for the rest of that season. You're going to find 212 00:11:40.080 --> 00:11:43.639 that product as well as other Nitrofoss products. It bearings, hardware, 213 00:11:43.679 --> 00:11:45.240 both the one on buss and up the one on 214 00:11:45.320 --> 00:11:49.080 Westheimer Plantation ace out there and Katie carries it as 215 00:11:49.080 --> 00:11:51.679 well as does Hiden and feed on I forty five 216 00:11:51.720 --> 00:11:56.080 North on that area a stupener airline. Actually they carry 217 00:11:56.320 --> 00:12:01.440 nitrofoss bug out Max as well. Talking before going in 218 00:12:01.480 --> 00:12:03.240 to break about a number of things, we were talking 219 00:12:03.240 --> 00:12:07.759 about the importance of continuing to have good color in 220 00:12:07.759 --> 00:12:11.159 our landscapes. And just because it's summer doesn't mean our 221 00:12:11.240 --> 00:12:13.759 landscapes have to turn into a sea of green. They 222 00:12:13.799 --> 00:12:17.480 just don't. And you can fix that by planting good 223 00:12:17.559 --> 00:12:19.799 heat tolerant plants. And there's a lot of them out there. 224 00:12:19.799 --> 00:12:22.120 And our good garden centers, you know, the mom and 225 00:12:22.159 --> 00:12:25.200 popsy independent garden centers. I talk about it on garden Line. 226 00:12:25.720 --> 00:12:28.519 They have the expertise to point you to the right plants, 227 00:12:30.159 --> 00:12:33.279 the places the person. Sometimes you go out and talk 228 00:12:33.320 --> 00:12:36.039 to somebody that was not even working in the plant 229 00:12:36.039 --> 00:12:39.240 world for the previous years of their life and they 230 00:12:39.279 --> 00:12:41.559 just show up and suddenly they got to answer plant questions. 231 00:12:42.320 --> 00:12:45.320 You get that quality of answer that you would expect 232 00:12:45.360 --> 00:12:48.559 from someone that just doesn't have the knowledge. Our independent 233 00:12:48.600 --> 00:12:51.519 garden centers it is not that way. For example, Plants 234 00:12:51.519 --> 00:12:53.759 for All Seasons. Plants for All Seasons is a garden 235 00:12:53.799 --> 00:12:57.759 center where they've been doing this, the Flowery family since 236 00:12:57.840 --> 00:13:00.600 nineteen seventy three. I would say they've got a few 237 00:13:00.679 --> 00:13:03.159 years in the business. And when you go in there, 238 00:13:03.200 --> 00:13:04.840 I don't care if you've got a brown thumb or 239 00:13:04.840 --> 00:13:08.440 a green thumb or what color thumb. They will help 240 00:13:08.519 --> 00:13:11.519 you find success by pointing you to the right plants, 241 00:13:11.600 --> 00:13:13.080 telling you how to care for them. You got a 242 00:13:13.159 --> 00:13:15.399 problem with something you bought and it's now bug is 243 00:13:15.440 --> 00:13:18.879 eating it or whatever, bring it in. Bring the bug in, 244 00:13:19.120 --> 00:13:21.480 let them see or take a picture of it, and 245 00:13:21.519 --> 00:13:23.879 they will know what to do. And if a product 246 00:13:23.919 --> 00:13:27.159 is necessary, they'll tell you which one actually works, and 247 00:13:27.240 --> 00:13:30.519 that is important. You can take them photos or whatever 248 00:13:30.559 --> 00:13:34.240 you want now. They're located just north of Luetta on 249 00:13:34.559 --> 00:13:38.440 FM two forty nine. That's Tombol Parkway. So if you're 250 00:13:38.440 --> 00:13:42.000 going up toward Tomba, you just exit Luetta, crossover Luetta 251 00:13:42.039 --> 00:13:44.600 and start looking to the right because you're almost there. 252 00:13:45.440 --> 00:13:48.919 Two eight, one three seven six sixteen forty six two 253 00:13:48.960 --> 00:13:52.600 eight one three seven six one six four six or 254 00:13:52.960 --> 00:13:57.759 Plants for All Seasons dot com. We're going to go 255 00:13:57.799 --> 00:14:01.720 to the phones. Now to Manville, Texas and talk to Adolf. 256 00:14:01.840 --> 00:14:05.159 Hello, Adolf, Yes, sir, good morning. 257 00:14:06.120 --> 00:14:07.399 A question about. 258 00:14:08.840 --> 00:14:10.559 How to prevent and maybe you. 259 00:14:10.559 --> 00:14:15.919 Were just talking about it, infestation of I guess the 260 00:14:16.000 --> 00:14:21.240 worm that gets into the canna and it ruins the 261 00:14:21.399 --> 00:14:25.919 beautiful leaves, Yes, and the plane itself. 262 00:14:27.720 --> 00:14:31.879 So once a little moss lasy egg and it hatches 263 00:14:31.879 --> 00:14:36.360 out into the caterpillar, that caterpillar will move inside the 264 00:14:36.879 --> 00:14:39.799 canna whirls, you know as a kenna leaf comes out. 265 00:14:39.840 --> 00:14:43.440 It's it's world. It's a rolled up like you roll 266 00:14:43.480 --> 00:14:46.519 up in the newspaper, and so they get inside there, 267 00:14:46.559 --> 00:14:49.320 so step you spray on the outside doesn't get to them. 268 00:14:49.679 --> 00:14:52.120 Sometimes you can, you know, turn your nozzle and squirt 269 00:14:52.159 --> 00:14:55.559 some stuff down in that whirl. But BT will kill them, 270 00:14:55.799 --> 00:14:59.279 and spend no said, will kill them. I think I 271 00:14:59.320 --> 00:15:02.679 would probably go with Spindo said, because it does soak 272 00:15:02.759 --> 00:15:07.159 into the leaf tissue, but which BT doesn't do. And 273 00:15:07.240 --> 00:15:10.799 so even a caterpillar feeding from the other side of 274 00:15:10.840 --> 00:15:13.639 the leaf that you sprayed can be controlled with it. 275 00:15:13.840 --> 00:15:15.600 But you got to stay with it because once they 276 00:15:15.639 --> 00:15:17.440 get in there and tie it all together where the 277 00:15:17.519 --> 00:15:21.320 leaf weren't unfurl, and it's just they can do significant 278 00:15:21.360 --> 00:15:24.720 damage and it's easier to catch them early. So I 279 00:15:24.720 --> 00:15:26.919 would say at the first sign of any holes in 280 00:15:26.960 --> 00:15:30.600 the leaves, you should probably start that spraying. 281 00:15:31.600 --> 00:15:33.240 Okay, when when would that be. 282 00:15:34.919 --> 00:15:38.879 Do they attack in a certain time of year or 283 00:15:39.039 --> 00:15:41.919 is it early spring or just well. 284 00:15:41.799 --> 00:15:44.600 It's it's warm seas, it's warm season, and I've seen 285 00:15:44.639 --> 00:15:47.320 them at different times, so there's not really a you know, 286 00:15:47.519 --> 00:15:51.679 on June first spray for this past it's a just 287 00:15:52.279 --> 00:15:53.759 you don't know when they're going to show up, and 288 00:15:53.759 --> 00:15:56.799 they may not show up. I had cannis for years 289 00:15:56.840 --> 00:15:58.759 that didn't have a problem, and then all of a 290 00:15:58.799 --> 00:16:01.519 sudden one year they found bit and so I start 291 00:16:01.600 --> 00:16:03.799 having to deal with them. So you just you know, 292 00:16:04.120 --> 00:16:07.240 it's nature, So just kind of watch for it and 293 00:16:07.279 --> 00:16:11.559 see did they get hard last year? Did they get 294 00:16:11.559 --> 00:16:12.639 your canos last year? 295 00:16:13.720 --> 00:16:15.080 So last year and this year? 296 00:16:16.120 --> 00:16:20.600 Okay? Uh So I would probably start watching for them, 297 00:16:20.639 --> 00:16:24.320 certainly by the time we get to about April even 298 00:16:24.919 --> 00:16:29.279 and especially in May and June. But somebody who doesn't 299 00:16:29.279 --> 00:16:31.159 have them could suddenly get them even now. 300 00:16:33.159 --> 00:16:35.399 Okay, And what did what did you say to. 301 00:16:35.360 --> 00:16:39.879 You to you use okay, I would use something spin 302 00:16:40.120 --> 00:16:43.159 Spino said, s P I N O S A D 303 00:16:43.480 --> 00:16:51.279 like sad ah. That's that is a liquid. Now there 304 00:16:51.360 --> 00:16:55.960 are synthetic pesticides that will kill them too. Most people 305 00:16:56.000 --> 00:16:58.480 would rather, you know, go with something that's a little 306 00:16:58.519 --> 00:17:01.120 more natural as their first choice, and I think in 307 00:17:01.159 --> 00:17:03.279 this case that would do the trick. Sometimes we don't 308 00:17:03.279 --> 00:17:06.079 have a great natural option, but with this we do. 309 00:17:07.519 --> 00:17:11.599 Okay, Now, if if a worm does get in there, 310 00:17:11.599 --> 00:17:15.319 and I'll see the leaf all curve up, yeah it's 311 00:17:15.440 --> 00:17:18.960 it's I guess it's kind of late. But would you 312 00:17:19.079 --> 00:17:23.480 suggest that I just cut yes leaf all together? 313 00:17:23.839 --> 00:17:27.000 And yes, I would just cut it off. I would 314 00:17:27.000 --> 00:17:28.559 cut it off below that. If you want to cut 315 00:17:28.599 --> 00:17:30.200 it off at the ground, you could. But if you 316 00:17:30.240 --> 00:17:32.400 just want to cut it off below that and get 317 00:17:32.440 --> 00:17:33.839 it in the trash and get it out of there, 318 00:17:33.880 --> 00:17:36.359 because you don't know, maybe a pupil stage already, it's 319 00:17:36.400 --> 00:17:39.559 about to come out as an adult moth. So that's 320 00:17:39.559 --> 00:17:42.920 called sanitation, just getting the getting the bad stuff out, 321 00:17:43.279 --> 00:17:46.319 and that certainly is legit. Now that alone is not 322 00:17:46.440 --> 00:17:49.960 going to be a solution to can of leaf rovers 323 00:17:49.960 --> 00:17:53.039 because he ended up cutting up your whole patch of Canni's. 324 00:17:53.119 --> 00:17:56.599 But just when you got one there, if you're like, okay, 325 00:17:56.640 --> 00:17:58.640 this one, I can't get to this one, you can 326 00:17:58.680 --> 00:18:01.079 cut that out if you want. But there's no problem 327 00:18:01.119 --> 00:18:04.680 with just just spraying once you know they're there, just 328 00:18:05.240 --> 00:18:09.240 about once every week or ten days, just spray with 329 00:18:09.319 --> 00:18:11.279 the spinosa, get it on the leaves. You may need 330 00:18:11.319 --> 00:18:17.119 to use a spreader sticker because kenna leaves water tends 331 00:18:17.160 --> 00:18:19.640 to ball up, beat up on the leaf and roll 332 00:18:19.720 --> 00:18:23.200 off U and so a spreader sticker would help get 333 00:18:23.240 --> 00:18:26.200 that spread out. So when the when the pest arrives, 334 00:18:27.039 --> 00:18:28.000 you've got good. 335 00:18:27.759 --> 00:18:31.759 Coverage and the sticker is what some. 336 00:18:33.240 --> 00:18:36.319 Well, now there's a there are some spreader stickers, one 337 00:18:36.319 --> 00:18:38.960 called Turbo. I believe Turbo. I'm trying to think of 338 00:18:38.960 --> 00:18:41.880 some other names. But any you go to a good 339 00:18:41.880 --> 00:18:44.720 Ace hardware store, you're going to find spreader stickers out 340 00:18:44.759 --> 00:18:45.519 in your area. 341 00:18:46.839 --> 00:18:51.400 Okay, yeah, there's one in Pariland. Okay, thank you much? 342 00:18:51.480 --> 00:18:54.200 Sure is there's several of them down there? All right? 343 00:18:54.519 --> 00:18:57.119 If all right? Well, thanks a lot, appreciate the call. 344 00:18:57.720 --> 00:19:01.960 Thank you, yep, CANi Lee rollers boy that essentially I 345 00:19:01.960 --> 00:19:04.799 have a video I to post that online to our 346 00:19:04.839 --> 00:19:09.960 Facebook page a video of a wasp eating a canile roller, 347 00:19:10.039 --> 00:19:13.440 and wasps are the number one The number one food 348 00:19:13.480 --> 00:19:18.039 for wasps is caterpillars. And so when we have caterpillars 349 00:19:18.039 --> 00:19:20.440 that we don't want, you know, not butterfly of them maybe, 350 00:19:20.480 --> 00:19:23.079 but when we have caterpillars we don't want, like a 351 00:19:23.119 --> 00:19:26.880 candi leaf roller or a webworm, wasps are out there 352 00:19:26.880 --> 00:19:30.079 getting them. And so we you know, you see wasp, 353 00:19:30.119 --> 00:19:31.599 we think it's going to sting me. I got to 354 00:19:31.680 --> 00:19:34.680 kill the nest. Well, if you're allergic to them, I 355 00:19:34.759 --> 00:19:37.920 understand the health concern. If the nest is right where 356 00:19:37.960 --> 00:19:39.759 you got to walk into the door every day, I 357 00:19:39.880 --> 00:19:42.839 understand the concern. But if they're not bothering you and 358 00:19:42.839 --> 00:19:45.880 they're off to the side, just know that's what they're 359 00:19:45.880 --> 00:19:49.039 doing all day, capturing caterpillars, bringing them back to the 360 00:19:49.519 --> 00:19:53.559 to the nest. I think I had mentioned this before 361 00:19:53.559 --> 00:19:58.160 on Garland, but we heard once that some entomologists in 362 00:19:58.200 --> 00:20:03.319 the Midwest with a extension system there they estimated seven 363 00:20:03.359 --> 00:20:06.680 thousand caterpillars a year at a good with a good 364 00:20:06.759 --> 00:20:11.400 large sized wasp nest. That's a lot of caterpillars. I 365 00:20:11.480 --> 00:20:15.440 mentioned ACE hardware when we were visiting there with Adolph. 366 00:20:16.240 --> 00:20:18.240 Ace Hardware's are all over the place. So if you 367 00:20:18.279 --> 00:20:20.440 heard me say that you got forty of them to 368 00:20:20.440 --> 00:20:22.839 shoes from. You just go to Ace Hardware dot com. 369 00:20:22.880 --> 00:20:25.960 That's where you'll find the store locator and you can 370 00:20:25.960 --> 00:20:28.240 get a little map of all the Ace hardwares that 371 00:20:28.279 --> 00:20:32.599 are all over the Greater Houston area. Now when you're 372 00:20:32.920 --> 00:20:37.160 when you're looking for anything to control pests, anything to 373 00:20:37.240 --> 00:20:42.400 control diseases, maybe it's mosquitoes. Boy, we got them now 374 00:20:42.519 --> 00:20:46.160 there They have hatched out somewhere in my neighborhood and 375 00:20:46.279 --> 00:20:50.240 I go outside and they're waiting. Well, the mosquito dunks 376 00:20:50.319 --> 00:20:53.160 to stop the larvae, or a foger or whatever you're 377 00:20:53.319 --> 00:20:56.640 using to control mosquito, it's at Ace Hardware. They carry 378 00:20:56.640 --> 00:21:01.279 it all fire ants I'm seeing Barman where I was 379 00:21:01.440 --> 00:21:04.000 in my yard. I didn't know I had them there 380 00:21:04.119 --> 00:21:06.960 because they were underground. They're not visible at that point. 381 00:21:07.279 --> 00:21:09.440 And with the rain, here comes the soil, I say, 382 00:21:09.480 --> 00:21:11.640 boiling to the surface. You know, it's just the little 383 00:21:11.720 --> 00:21:14.559 mound starts to grow up out of the ground. Fire 384 00:21:14.640 --> 00:21:17.119 ant baits. There's a lot of good firet baits, both 385 00:21:17.119 --> 00:21:22.000 synthetic and organic options for fireant control at ACE Hardware, 386 00:21:22.519 --> 00:21:24.519 as well as everything else you need to have a 387 00:21:24.599 --> 00:21:29.599 bountiful garden and a beautiful landscape. Ace makes it really easy. Well, 388 00:21:29.640 --> 00:21:31.720 it looks like it's time for me to take another break. 389 00:21:31.920 --> 00:21:33.920 I will be back in just a moment if you 390 00:21:34.079 --> 00:21:36.480 want to give us a call. Seven one three two 391 00:21:36.599 --> 00:21:43.039 one two fifty eight seventy four Living Goodness Today. We're 392 00:21:43.039 --> 00:21:45.480 weird to talk about the things that interest you. What 393 00:21:45.480 --> 00:21:48.559 what would you like? Maybe you're looking at your landscape 394 00:21:48.720 --> 00:21:52.240 and let's just say you have to close your eyes 395 00:21:52.279 --> 00:21:55.000 when you drive in every day because things aren't looking 396 00:21:55.039 --> 00:21:58.160 so great. I talk to people all the time like that. Heck, 397 00:21:58.200 --> 00:22:00.519 there's times when I come back from a VIC I've 398 00:22:00.519 --> 00:22:02.839 been away and it's like, oh, man, I know what 399 00:22:02.880 --> 00:22:05.000 I got to get doing. Well, if you're trying to 400 00:22:05.039 --> 00:22:08.119 improve things, maybe you would like some more color in 401 00:22:08.119 --> 00:22:10.640 the last day. Maybe you would like some new beds 402 00:22:11.119 --> 00:22:14.599 that really frame the home that really you know, whatever 403 00:22:14.759 --> 00:22:16.839 is of interest. You know, people drive around town and 404 00:22:16.839 --> 00:22:19.240 they see stuff and they go that is gorgeous. I 405 00:22:19.440 --> 00:22:22.799 take a picture of it, and that'll be your guide 406 00:22:23.359 --> 00:22:25.279 for what you might like to do. At your house, 407 00:22:25.720 --> 00:22:28.119 and if you go to a place like puer Scapes, 408 00:22:28.680 --> 00:22:32.279 they're professionals in every aspect of the game. I mean 409 00:22:32.319 --> 00:22:35.880 they can do. They can fix your irrigation system. They 410 00:22:35.920 --> 00:22:38.039 can take an area that doesn't drain well. Boy, if 411 00:22:38.039 --> 00:22:39.720 you got one of those, you should know it. After 412 00:22:39.720 --> 00:22:42.279 the rains we've been having a while back, they can 413 00:22:42.319 --> 00:22:44.359 fix that, make the drainage better, so you can grow 414 00:22:44.400 --> 00:22:47.759 plants that need good drainage. Do you want landscape lighting? 415 00:22:47.920 --> 00:22:50.920 Maybe you just like the way that the beds and 416 00:22:51.000 --> 00:22:53.960 the design and everything look. Showing that picture and say 417 00:22:54.039 --> 00:22:55.960 what can we do for my yard? Show them a 418 00:22:55.960 --> 00:22:59.799 picture of your yard. They are experts. That's what they 419 00:22:59.839 --> 00:23:02.039 do every day. And if you go to their website 420 00:23:02.039 --> 00:23:04.759 you'll see what I'm talking about. And I really would 421 00:23:04.759 --> 00:23:08.079 ask that you do that, even if you're not necessarily 422 00:23:08.119 --> 00:23:10.839 thinking about doing something in your yard right now. Go 423 00:23:11.000 --> 00:23:15.759 check it out. It is inspirational. Piercescapes dot com. Piercescapes 424 00:23:15.799 --> 00:23:17.880 dot com. You can call them at two eight one 425 00:23:18.000 --> 00:23:21.640 three seven oh fifty sixty. You can call them up. 426 00:23:21.720 --> 00:23:24.799 They'll do other things too. They'll do a quarterly maintenance service. 427 00:23:24.839 --> 00:23:28.240 For example, if you have some beds, and you want 428 00:23:28.240 --> 00:23:30.160 somebody to come in to do mulching, make sure the 429 00:23:30.160 --> 00:23:33.599 weeds are taken care of, put new color in when 430 00:23:33.640 --> 00:23:36.160 we go from season to season. You know, whatever color 431 00:23:36.240 --> 00:23:39.000 changes you want. They can do all of that. They 432 00:23:39.000 --> 00:23:41.720 can do mulching of the surface and all the stuff 433 00:23:41.759 --> 00:23:45.759 you do to keep a bed looking good. Piercecapes dot Com. 434 00:23:45.839 --> 00:23:48.759 You need to check them out. You will. You will 435 00:23:48.759 --> 00:23:52.640 get inspiration, I promise you. That's absolutely beautiful work those 436 00:23:52.640 --> 00:23:55.640 folks do. We're gonna go now back to the phones 437 00:23:55.680 --> 00:23:58.880 and we're gonna go to Edwina and Hello Edwin, and 438 00:23:58.920 --> 00:24:00.119 welcome to Guardenline. 439 00:24:00.960 --> 00:24:02.599 Thank you for taking a call. 440 00:24:03.279 --> 00:24:04.759 I'm calling a back that I have. 441 00:24:05.759 --> 00:24:11.960 A volunteer in my gardens. It it grew up freestons. 442 00:24:12.160 --> 00:24:17.480 I did not plant it. It has little teeny tiny 443 00:24:18.279 --> 00:24:23.160 flowers look like incredibly miniatured daisies, and. 444 00:24:23.039 --> 00:24:26.000 Then it developed little green. 445 00:24:26.279 --> 00:24:29.799 Fairies or balls or whatever, and then it falls to 446 00:24:30.160 --> 00:24:34.839 deck and I have no clue what it is. 447 00:24:34.839 --> 00:24:38.279 Is it a vine or is it like on upright 448 00:24:38.319 --> 00:24:39.920 stalks or what plant form is? 449 00:24:40.079 --> 00:24:43.000 It's just upright stacks long stins. 450 00:24:44.039 --> 00:24:47.440 Okay, you know I want to there are bazilion plants 451 00:24:47.440 --> 00:24:49.599 out there. And I think the best way for me 452 00:24:49.640 --> 00:24:52.039 to give you an accurate answer would be for you 453 00:24:52.079 --> 00:24:56.680 to send me a photo or photos. Okay, do take 454 00:24:56.720 --> 00:24:59.599 some photo, Take something up really close, you like, with 455 00:24:59.640 --> 00:25:02.119 your hand in the photo, or something that shows me sighs. 456 00:25:02.200 --> 00:25:04.039 So if I see those little flowers, I know exactly 457 00:25:04.039 --> 00:25:06.319 how big they are. Anything that shows size like that. 458 00:25:06.880 --> 00:25:09.519 Take a picture of the whole thing from a distance, too, 459 00:25:09.880 --> 00:25:12.160 and I'll be happy to give you an id. And 460 00:25:12.240 --> 00:25:13.599 are you wanted to get rid of it or you 461 00:25:13.640 --> 00:25:14.559 just want to know what it is? 462 00:25:16.359 --> 00:25:17.880 Oh, I didn't want to get rid of it. I 463 00:25:18.039 --> 00:25:21.039 just find it fastly. But it's a little teer. It 464 00:25:21.599 --> 00:25:24.279 came out of dirt, and I'm assuming some bird that 465 00:25:24.480 --> 00:25:27.839 drops the thing in all right, all. 466 00:25:27.799 --> 00:25:32.359 Right, well, all right, Chris will give you my email 467 00:25:32.440 --> 00:25:35.000 to send them to and and I'll be happy to 468 00:25:35.359 --> 00:25:38.519 if I see it soon enough, I'll talk about it 469 00:25:38.559 --> 00:25:41.119 on the show today. If not, you know, I can 470 00:25:41.279 --> 00:25:44.160 reply to you just in the email. All right, Thank you, 471 00:25:44.200 --> 00:25:48.200 appreciate appreciate your call very much. Let's go now to 472 00:25:48.440 --> 00:25:52.160 friends would and talk to Connie. Hello Connie, welcome to 473 00:25:52.200 --> 00:25:52.920 garden Line. 474 00:25:53.279 --> 00:25:57.920 Thank you, good morning, nutcrass is my bane. It's growing 475 00:25:57.960 --> 00:26:01.680 in the floor stick ever, and I can't bend over 476 00:26:01.720 --> 00:26:05.119 to pick it up and pull it out. And since 477 00:26:05.160 --> 00:26:09.559 they don't still glad to say it anymore, the substitute 478 00:26:09.920 --> 00:26:11.480 called round up doesn't work. 479 00:26:12.519 --> 00:26:17.079 Okay, that's right, and really glefsate didn't either. It mainly 480 00:26:17.480 --> 00:26:23.359 was a top burn and nuts edge is a complicated 481 00:26:23.400 --> 00:26:26.559 creature and I actually I thought i'd have it up 482 00:26:26.559 --> 00:26:31.000 by this weekend. I'm almost done with a publication on nutsedge. 483 00:26:31.240 --> 00:26:34.759 There's purple nutsedge and yellow nut sedge, and they each 484 00:26:35.160 --> 00:26:37.680 they're different in some ways that are important to know 485 00:26:37.720 --> 00:26:39.759 when you're going to control them. And I'm going to 486 00:26:39.839 --> 00:26:42.839 put that up on my website. It should be up 487 00:26:43.079 --> 00:26:46.960 early this coming week. Also going up on the website 488 00:26:47.039 --> 00:26:50.279 is how to build a weed wiper. It's a free 489 00:26:50.279 --> 00:26:52.880 thing on how to build a weed wiper, and that way, 490 00:26:52.920 --> 00:26:56.680 it's basically a stick with sponges on it that allow 491 00:26:56.799 --> 00:26:59.720 you to wipe the product on nuts edge without getting 492 00:26:59.720 --> 00:27:02.079 it on desirable plants. And if you have a giant patch, 493 00:27:02.079 --> 00:27:06.960 you're gonna have to spray that. There are products. Where 494 00:27:07.039 --> 00:27:08.279 is the nuts sedge growing? 495 00:27:09.759 --> 00:27:12.559 It's growing by itself, through the moult, and I have 496 00:27:12.680 --> 00:27:17.839 stick molts. Okay, I don't have to worry about surrounding plants. 497 00:27:18.319 --> 00:27:24.559 Okay. Well, then there's a product called Manage. In fact, 498 00:27:24.599 --> 00:27:26.839 there's a there's a couple of products out there. One 499 00:27:26.839 --> 00:27:31.359 of them is called Manage, and Manage is very effective. 500 00:27:31.400 --> 00:27:36.000 It's probably the best product at managing nutsedge that we have, 501 00:27:36.960 --> 00:27:40.000 and you can find it. There's another product that is 502 00:27:40.039 --> 00:27:45.000 the set. In fact, there's you know what, I'm sorry, 503 00:27:45.119 --> 00:27:47.759 I'm take that Manage back. I was just thinking about 504 00:27:47.799 --> 00:27:52.119 something else. It's called sedge hammer. But sedge hammer plus 505 00:27:52.519 --> 00:27:55.440 is available in a lot of different places. You are 506 00:27:55.480 --> 00:27:57.680 down in the Friendswood area, you can probably get it 507 00:27:57.720 --> 00:28:00.359 at any of your ACE hardware stores, and there's a 508 00:28:00.440 --> 00:28:04.200 number of ACE hardware stores in your area. But sedge hammer, 509 00:28:04.720 --> 00:28:07.319 just think of a hammer killing your sedge. It's easy 510 00:28:07.319 --> 00:28:10.599 to remember. There are other versions. High Yield has a 511 00:28:10.680 --> 00:28:15.000 nutsedge control, Martin's has a nutsedge control, Monterey has a 512 00:28:15.079 --> 00:28:17.440 nutsedge control. Just go to a place and knows what 513 00:28:17.440 --> 00:28:19.440 they're talking about, like an ACE Hardware down in your 514 00:28:19.440 --> 00:28:25.200 area and ask for something for nuts edge. But a 515 00:28:25.240 --> 00:28:30.799 sedge hammer is the easiest, probably to tell them about. 516 00:28:31.400 --> 00:28:33.759 Okay, I will do that, all right. 517 00:28:33.839 --> 00:28:38.920 Now. That said, as we go through the year, the 518 00:28:38.960 --> 00:28:43.680 effectiveness of products varies, and the most important time to 519 00:28:43.759 --> 00:28:47.240 control nutsedge is when in the spring, when the new 520 00:28:47.279 --> 00:28:49.880 shoots come out, when they have three to five leaves, 521 00:28:50.279 --> 00:28:52.960 you need to start on them. Then it hits a 522 00:28:53.000 --> 00:28:55.880 point when it gets past five leaves that it's not 523 00:28:56.119 --> 00:29:00.160 taking products down. The products will kill the top. They 524 00:29:00.200 --> 00:29:02.480 won't go down and kill the nut like they will 525 00:29:02.519 --> 00:29:05.160 early on. So this is going to be one you 526 00:29:05.160 --> 00:29:07.920 need to stick around for. And I just would say 527 00:29:07.720 --> 00:29:11.559 my website is gardening with skip dot com. That's where 528 00:29:11.559 --> 00:29:15.000 my schedules are. This will be up early this week, 529 00:29:15.200 --> 00:29:18.960 and I would encourage you. The long version is for pages, 530 00:29:19.119 --> 00:29:22.119 but it has a lot of information that you really 531 00:29:22.160 --> 00:29:24.960 need to know and think about. Uh. And then I'll 532 00:29:25.000 --> 00:29:27.519 have a short version that's just a one sheet. Here's 533 00:29:27.519 --> 00:29:30.200 what you do. But either way you go about it, 534 00:29:30.680 --> 00:29:32.519 check those out so you make sure when you go 535 00:29:32.599 --> 00:29:35.039 after it you're not wasting your time and money. 536 00:29:35.039 --> 00:29:36.920 Right right right, all right. 537 00:29:36.920 --> 00:29:39.880 Complicated creature it. 538 00:29:39.720 --> 00:29:42.680 Is, and it's not easy. It's one of the number 539 00:29:43.240 --> 00:29:44.799 if you were to look around the world at the 540 00:29:44.839 --> 00:29:47.440 top five weeds. That's one of them. That's one of them. 541 00:29:47.759 --> 00:29:50.160 All right, Thank you, Connie, I appreciate I appreciate you 542 00:29:50.200 --> 00:29:51.839 call very much. We got to run to a break. 543 00:29:51.880 --> 00:29:54.440 When we come back, Lynn, you'll be our first up. 544 00:30:00.200 --> 00:30:02.359 Glad you're with us today. Looking forward to talking to 545 00:30:02.400 --> 00:30:05.079 you about the things that are of interest to you 546 00:30:05.240 --> 00:30:08.279 to help you have a more bountiful garden and certainly 547 00:30:08.279 --> 00:30:12.319 a more beautiful landscape. If you're looking for a natural 548 00:30:12.519 --> 00:30:16.039 fertilizer product that would give your lawn a really good 549 00:30:16.079 --> 00:30:19.599 and quick boost. By the way, Sweet Green from Nitrovoss 550 00:30:19.720 --> 00:30:22.599 is a product that'll do that. It's a molasses based product, 551 00:30:22.680 --> 00:30:26.000 and being molasses based, it's going to provide carbon, which 552 00:30:26.319 --> 00:30:30.359 anytime organic gardeners know this. When you put molasses in 553 00:30:30.400 --> 00:30:33.440 the soil, it gives a boost of beneficial microbes in 554 00:30:33.480 --> 00:30:37.079 the soil by being a source of carbon for them. Now, 555 00:30:37.200 --> 00:30:40.160 Sweet Green by Nitrofoss is eleven percent nitrogen, so it's 556 00:30:40.160 --> 00:30:43.079 a good boost you're going to want to put about. Generally, 557 00:30:43.119 --> 00:30:46.039 I would say we would put ten pounds of it out. 558 00:30:46.599 --> 00:30:49.480 I think if it were me, this is my advice 559 00:30:49.519 --> 00:30:51.319 on it right now, I would do half of it 560 00:30:51.680 --> 00:30:54.480 now because you don't need all of that at one time, 561 00:30:54.759 --> 00:30:58.519 So about five pounds per thousand square feet right now, 562 00:30:58.839 --> 00:31:01.160 and then six to eight weeks later do it again 563 00:31:01.240 --> 00:31:03.759 with the other five pounds, and that will give you 564 00:31:03.799 --> 00:31:07.240 a more even feed across the summer season. Makes it 565 00:31:07.279 --> 00:31:08.839 a little easier to do that. You're going to find 566 00:31:08.960 --> 00:31:12.039 night Foss products like sweet Green at Enchanted Forest, which 567 00:31:12.079 --> 00:31:16.039 is out in the Richmond Rosenberg area RCW Nursery up 568 00:31:16.079 --> 00:31:18.920 on Tomball Parkway, FM two forty nine. They have it 569 00:31:19.079 --> 00:31:21.960 up there as well, and I would say maybe one 570 00:31:22.000 --> 00:31:24.599 other place growers Outlet up in Willis. How about that. 571 00:31:24.640 --> 00:31:26.880 There's a lot of places I could name. Sweet green 572 00:31:27.000 --> 00:31:30.799 is widely available, and being a product from Nitrofos, you 573 00:31:30.839 --> 00:31:32.599 know you're going to find it in a lot of 574 00:31:32.640 --> 00:31:37.519 different kinds of garden centers, feed stores. Certainly places like 575 00:31:37.559 --> 00:31:41.680 Ace Hardware Store, StAst Fertilized, they all carry products like 576 00:31:41.839 --> 00:31:45.839 sweet Green from Nitrofos. We're now going to head out 577 00:31:45.920 --> 00:31:49.440 to sugar Land to talk to Lynn. Hello, Lynn, welcome 578 00:31:49.480 --> 00:31:50.039 to guard Line. 579 00:31:50.960 --> 00:31:54.160 Good morning. Say my high biscus this year have been 580 00:31:54.279 --> 00:32:02.240 absolutely gorgeous, and yesterday I noticed there's white powder or 581 00:32:02.359 --> 00:32:04.400 on the ends of some of the stems and at 582 00:32:04.440 --> 00:32:09.119 the base of some of the flowers. Okay, it's fat pottery. 583 00:32:10.039 --> 00:32:13.920 M If you kind of poke around in it, you 584 00:32:13.960 --> 00:32:16.480 may find some little bugs in there crawling around a 585 00:32:16.480 --> 00:32:23.480 little uh, kind of cottonknee bugs, just plump little bugs. 586 00:32:23.759 --> 00:32:26.680 If you find that and you're not squeamish, take your 587 00:32:26.720 --> 00:32:29.440 thumb and forefinger and just squish them and kind of 588 00:32:29.480 --> 00:32:32.319 push down and then slide your thumb to the side 589 00:32:32.400 --> 00:32:35.359 just to kind of squish them out that. If you 590 00:32:35.440 --> 00:32:39.359 see kind of a pinkish goo, that's mealy bugs that 591 00:32:39.480 --> 00:32:43.039 you're seeing, and meaie bugs are a challenge. There are 592 00:32:43.079 --> 00:32:47.640 some other plants or bugs that can cause that powdery look, 593 00:32:48.039 --> 00:32:50.559 but mealy bugs, if it's hibiscus, that will be the 594 00:32:50.559 --> 00:32:52.240 first one that I would think about. 595 00:32:53.000 --> 00:32:58.119 Me I think there is I think there are some 596 00:32:58.119 --> 00:33:00.160 something in that pottery I took. 597 00:33:00.240 --> 00:33:04.039 Not tell right. So medibugs have a lot of coating 598 00:33:04.079 --> 00:33:07.880 on their body, waxy stuff coming out, and it's just 599 00:33:07.960 --> 00:33:10.400 almost impossible to get a spray on them. If you 600 00:33:10.440 --> 00:33:13.920 were going to try to spray, I would say insecticidal 601 00:33:14.000 --> 00:33:19.039 soap or horticultural oil or even nam oil squirted directly 602 00:33:19.160 --> 00:33:23.160 on that little group of mealybugs would be something to try. 603 00:33:24.319 --> 00:33:26.599 The oils, I would not. I would move it out 604 00:33:26.599 --> 00:33:29.599 of the sun, the direct sun to use those, because 605 00:33:29.720 --> 00:33:32.160 it's going to be blazing hot this week, and we 606 00:33:33.119 --> 00:33:35.839 oil on plants or soap on plants when the sun 607 00:33:35.880 --> 00:33:39.039 is shining, and that good but horticultural lobient option. If 608 00:33:39.079 --> 00:33:43.880 it were mine, I would take a strong water pistol 609 00:33:43.960 --> 00:33:48.119 gun for the hose, you know those little spray guns. Yeah, 610 00:33:48.119 --> 00:33:49.759 And I would put my hand behind it and I 611 00:33:49.799 --> 00:33:52.200 would just try to blast them off of there. They're 612 00:33:52.240 --> 00:33:54.559 not going to land on the ground and go crawl 613 00:33:54.640 --> 00:33:57.319 back up on the plant, at least not to any degree. 614 00:33:57.759 --> 00:34:01.039 And I would physically remove them. They do natural enemies, 615 00:34:02.319 --> 00:34:07.839 excuse me. Whenever you spray pesticides, you often kill natural 616 00:34:07.920 --> 00:34:11.079 enemies too, and then the media has become even more 617 00:34:11.119 --> 00:34:14.159 of a problem. So the blast with water or the 618 00:34:14.519 --> 00:34:18.639 just the spray of oil directly onto those particular critters 619 00:34:18.719 --> 00:34:21.800 is important anytime you find them anywhere, if it's just 620 00:34:21.880 --> 00:34:24.480 on the ends of a shoot somewhere. Printing it out 621 00:34:24.920 --> 00:34:26.719 is also a good idea. Just get them out of 622 00:34:26.719 --> 00:34:29.920 the area, because again they're hard to control with sprays. 623 00:34:30.559 --> 00:34:33.480 Oh great, Well, yeah, that's absolutely gorgeous. But I did 624 00:34:33.480 --> 00:34:37.519 take a pose and use the jet spray and spray 625 00:34:37.679 --> 00:34:41.199 all said. I took a scott tell to to see 626 00:34:41.199 --> 00:34:43.880 if I could see anything in it, but I didn't. 627 00:34:45.360 --> 00:34:48.280 And also, if I can say go ahead. 628 00:34:48.679 --> 00:34:50.559 I was going to, Well, if you blast them as 629 00:34:50.599 --> 00:34:53.440 good as you can, once it dries, you look back. 630 00:34:53.960 --> 00:34:56.360 It wouldn't hurt to get a little cotton swab and 631 00:34:56.440 --> 00:34:59.360 put some rubbing alcohol on it and just kind of 632 00:34:59.440 --> 00:35:01.719 dab it in there, because that will cut through that 633 00:35:01.920 --> 00:35:04.920 and kill them. Also so that some people use a 634 00:35:04.960 --> 00:35:07.519 Q tip, I think that's a little too tedious for me, 635 00:35:07.679 --> 00:35:10.760 but whatever works for you. But the main thing is 636 00:35:10.840 --> 00:35:12.719 you're just there. You know, you don't have an acre 637 00:35:12.760 --> 00:35:15.320 of hibiscus, So you got a plan or two or three, 638 00:35:15.360 --> 00:35:19.960 and you can do some regular checking and prompt control 639 00:35:20.039 --> 00:35:22.440 because they tend to stick around. 640 00:35:23.519 --> 00:35:26.199 All right, that's great. Let me say one more thing. 641 00:35:27.079 --> 00:35:31.760 Yesterday I had Tears Landscapes put in a French train 642 00:35:31.840 --> 00:35:34.280 and they did a fabulous top job. 643 00:35:34.639 --> 00:35:37.159 Well that's wonderful to hear. I'm glad here. I wouldn't 644 00:35:37.159 --> 00:35:40.199 expect anything less, but they really are good at that. 645 00:35:40.280 --> 00:35:42.119 So good for you. You're going to be able to grow 646 00:35:42.159 --> 00:35:43.239 more stuff back there. 647 00:35:44.199 --> 00:35:47.519 Well I needed it, Chris Well, thank you very much. 648 00:35:48.400 --> 00:35:50.800 Yes, you bet, thank you. I appreciate that. Collin, thanks 649 00:35:50.880 --> 00:35:53.679 for that report on them too. If you're up in 650 00:35:53.760 --> 00:35:56.440 the Tombol area and you're looking for a feed store, 651 00:35:56.960 --> 00:35:59.119 D and D feeds out west of town. D and 652 00:35:59.159 --> 00:36:02.800 D Feed carries ever fertilizer I talk about on guarden line. 653 00:36:03.199 --> 00:36:05.480 They have a good supply. They have a good supply 654 00:36:05.679 --> 00:36:09.760 of pest management products inside as well. D and D 655 00:36:09.880 --> 00:36:14.039 Feed is going to carry those soil products like from heirloom, 656 00:36:14.079 --> 00:36:17.519 the age leapmo compost, the rose soil, the fruit berry, citrus, 657 00:36:17.679 --> 00:36:19.679 veggie and herbs. All those you're going to find them 658 00:36:19.679 --> 00:36:21.480 at D and D Feed. They have a selection of 659 00:36:21.519 --> 00:36:25.599 plants seasonally out front also, but when you go inside, 660 00:36:25.719 --> 00:36:28.000 that's where you're going to find a lot of things 661 00:36:28.000 --> 00:36:31.199 to help you have a beautiful, bountiful garden and landscape. 662 00:36:31.280 --> 00:36:34.559 D and D Feed just to the west of Tomball 663 00:36:34.840 --> 00:36:37.119 on twenty nine to twenty. Their number if you'd like 664 00:36:37.119 --> 00:36:39.440 to give them a call two eight one three five 665 00:36:39.559 --> 00:36:43.159 one seventy one forty four to eight one three five 666 00:36:43.239 --> 00:36:49.519 one seventy one forty four. Head out now to Steve 667 00:36:49.639 --> 00:36:50.320 and Tomball. 668 00:36:50.440 --> 00:36:56.719 Hello, Steve, hey, Skip, Hey, I'm in a constant war 669 00:36:56.840 --> 00:36:59.679 here with the storm leaf feed or at. I got 670 00:36:59.719 --> 00:37:03.519 some block and I called in a couple of weeks ago. 671 00:37:03.599 --> 00:37:05.519 You were going to send me the recipe to mix 672 00:37:05.599 --> 00:37:07.159 with it, and. 673 00:37:07.239 --> 00:37:08.239 I just used it. 674 00:37:09.000 --> 00:37:10.840 Did you send me an email? Did I get an 675 00:37:10.840 --> 00:37:11.480 email from you? 676 00:37:12.559 --> 00:37:15.599 I gave it to your skull cleaner, you call clean? 677 00:37:15.679 --> 00:37:19.079 Okay, yeah, yeah, I'm gonna I'm gonna put you on 678 00:37:19.119 --> 00:37:21.079 hold and ask you to do that again. I do 679 00:37:21.199 --> 00:37:25.800 not remember seeing an email, So just send me a 680 00:37:25.800 --> 00:37:27.840 fresh one, and that way it'll be on the top 681 00:37:27.880 --> 00:37:30.199 of my list, and I'll send you what you do, 682 00:37:30.360 --> 00:37:32.800 how you do it, what you mix and everything, how 683 00:37:32.800 --> 00:37:35.199 to go about it, and we'll make sure and get 684 00:37:35.239 --> 00:37:39.119 that covering for you. Okay, okay, yeah, all right, I 685 00:37:39.199 --> 00:37:41.920 apologize for that if we didn't get that done the 686 00:37:41.920 --> 00:37:45.440 first time. Yeah, leave cut our ants. They're not something 687 00:37:45.760 --> 00:37:50.400 to mess with. Well I hear the music. That means 688 00:37:50.519 --> 00:37:53.119 we're putting an hour in the books here on garden Line. 689 00:37:53.519 --> 00:37:56.800 Just a reminder, if you go to my website Gardening 690 00:37:56.960 --> 00:38:00.480 with Skip dot com you'll find my lawncare our guides 691 00:38:00.519 --> 00:38:03.920 in there. That would be the lawn care schedule, which 692 00:38:04.000 --> 00:38:06.599 is bowing water and fertilizing, you know, how do you 693 00:38:06.679 --> 00:38:08.880 care for your lawn? And then the other schedule is 694 00:38:08.920 --> 00:38:12.679 the pest disease and we'd management schedule and that's how 695 00:38:12.679 --> 00:38:14.920 do you deal with all the things that want to 696 00:38:14.960 --> 00:38:18.400 mess up your lawn. And so you can find either 697 00:38:18.480 --> 00:38:21.320 of those. By the way, both of them have organic 698 00:38:21.440 --> 00:38:24.559 and synthetic options out there for you. We put the 699 00:38:24.599 --> 00:38:27.119 product's names on the label that we would recommend for 700 00:38:27.159 --> 00:38:29.840 the particular things you run into. It just makes it 701 00:38:29.840 --> 00:38:32.559 easy to go shop to turn them out, take them 702 00:38:32.559 --> 00:38:36.480 with you. Hr H. 703 00:38:38.280 --> 00:38:41.280 Kt RH Garden Line does not necessarily endorse any of 704 00:38:41.320 --> 00:38:44.719 the products or services advertised on this program. 705 00:38:44.760 --> 00:38:48.679 Welcome to kt RH Garden Line with Scared Ricter. 706 00:38:48.639 --> 00:39:14.920 It's just watch him as well. 707 00:39:15.039 --> 00:39:19.480 Welcome the Garden Laws. We are glad you're with us today. 708 00:39:19.920 --> 00:39:22.880 We're here to talk about the things that interest you. 709 00:39:22.920 --> 00:39:25.719 What is that well, give us a call seven one 710 00:39:25.800 --> 00:39:29.159 three two one two k t r H seven one 711 00:39:29.239 --> 00:39:35.840 three two one two k t r H. That talking 712 00:39:35.880 --> 00:39:38.360 to earlier about I was mentioning the fact that our 713 00:39:38.440 --> 00:39:41.360 landscapes are sea of green and the importance of you know, 714 00:39:41.440 --> 00:39:44.320 putting some color in the landscapes. And I know it's 715 00:39:44.519 --> 00:39:46.719 it's hot outside, and I know you know that takes 716 00:39:46.760 --> 00:39:50.639 the enthusiasm out of gardening for gardeners, but the morning 717 00:39:50.639 --> 00:39:52.920 hours are still good times to be out and to 718 00:39:53.000 --> 00:39:55.159 take care of things in the lawn and landscape, and 719 00:39:55.159 --> 00:39:59.239 whether you're planting new plants or in establishing getting them 720 00:39:59.239 --> 00:40:01.519 going so you can still have that beauty. Don't wait 721 00:40:01.559 --> 00:40:05.239 till fall to have beauty, or if you're dealing with 722 00:40:05.280 --> 00:40:07.440 problems in the landscape and now's the time to get 723 00:40:07.480 --> 00:40:10.840 out there. There's a saying that the best fertilizer or 724 00:40:10.880 --> 00:40:13.280 the is the footprints of the gardener, and what that 725 00:40:13.320 --> 00:40:15.480 basically means is the more you get out in your garden, 726 00:40:15.840 --> 00:40:18.679 the better your garden is going to do. That basically 727 00:40:18.760 --> 00:40:20.199 is what it amounts to, and it's for a lot 728 00:40:20.239 --> 00:40:24.280 of different reasons. I would say also the best pest 729 00:40:24.360 --> 00:40:27.880 and disease control is the footprints of the gardener. And 730 00:40:27.920 --> 00:40:32.400 when it comes to diseases, we have very few things 731 00:40:32.760 --> 00:40:37.239 that are curative in the way of sprays. We have 732 00:40:37.400 --> 00:40:42.199 things most fungicides specterocides and things are preventative. They do 733 00:40:42.320 --> 00:40:45.760 best at preventing, especially fungicides when it comes to that. 734 00:40:46.320 --> 00:40:49.840 So I've noticed in lawns these last few weeks, with 735 00:40:50.000 --> 00:40:52.519 all the rain and cloudy weather that comes with rain 736 00:40:52.920 --> 00:40:55.960 that we had, there has been an uptick in gray 737 00:40:56.079 --> 00:40:59.239 leaf spot in Saint Augustine. Gray leaf spot is a 738 00:40:59.400 --> 00:41:02.679 little well it's the name says it. It's a little 739 00:41:02.719 --> 00:41:06.639 gray spots on the blades of Saint Augustine grass. Now, 740 00:41:06.679 --> 00:41:08.480 from a distance, you may look at it and it 741 00:41:08.559 --> 00:41:11.159 kind of has a yellowing look to it. It's just 742 00:41:11.159 --> 00:41:14.159 something because there's very yellow leaves in it. Those are 743 00:41:14.239 --> 00:41:16.440 leaves that have a lot of spots on them, and 744 00:41:16.480 --> 00:41:17.760 if you get up close and look at it, you 745 00:41:17.760 --> 00:41:21.280 can see those spots. I mean they're everywhere. Now people say, well, 746 00:41:21.280 --> 00:41:24.480 where did it come from. Well, it's ubiquitous. And that's 747 00:41:24.519 --> 00:41:27.960 true of a lot of diseases. And an example I 748 00:41:28.000 --> 00:41:30.400 get this isn't a disease, but if you had brick 749 00:41:30.440 --> 00:41:32.320 on the side of your house in a shady area, 750 00:41:32.960 --> 00:41:35.360 there's no algae on the brick. But if you start 751 00:41:35.480 --> 00:41:37.760 if you had a mester going and it kept that 752 00:41:37.880 --> 00:41:42.599 brick wet or moist suddenly you would see algae growing everywhere. 753 00:41:42.639 --> 00:41:45.000 Where did the algae come from. It's out there, it's 754 00:41:45.000 --> 00:41:48.559 in the environment. You just gave it the environment that 755 00:41:48.639 --> 00:41:52.320 it wants to thrive. And the same is true with diseases. 756 00:41:53.079 --> 00:41:57.320 When you shade Saint Augustine a lot, when you increase 757 00:41:57.400 --> 00:42:01.079 the humidity, you keep the leaves, the grass blades wet 758 00:42:01.239 --> 00:42:04.079 longer periods of time. Gray leaf spot's going to be 759 00:42:04.079 --> 00:42:07.880 a problem. Excessive amounts of nitrogen also push the grass 760 00:42:08.400 --> 00:42:13.639 toward certain problems like gray leaf spot. So when you 761 00:42:13.679 --> 00:42:15.400 see that in the lawn, there's a couple of things 762 00:42:15.400 --> 00:42:17.639 you can do. People want to spray it, and you 763 00:42:17.760 --> 00:42:22.719 can spray to prevent further infection, but you're not going 764 00:42:22.760 --> 00:42:25.559 to cure the spots that are there. And I had 765 00:42:25.559 --> 00:42:27.320 some in my lawn a little bit earlier when we 766 00:42:27.400 --> 00:42:30.159 had that kind of rain we were having, and I 767 00:42:30.360 --> 00:42:34.280 just keep going, just mow it and keep going. The 768 00:42:34.320 --> 00:42:37.079 grass comes back in and it ends up looking pretty good. 769 00:42:37.519 --> 00:42:39.760 In fact, it might right now if I went out, 770 00:42:39.840 --> 00:42:41.440 I'd have to get on my hands and knees down 771 00:42:41.440 --> 00:42:44.000 in there to find that old gray leaf spot infected blades. 772 00:42:44.559 --> 00:42:46.119 But if you want to spray, you have to use 773 00:42:46.119 --> 00:42:50.360 a fungicides bit. It's better with any fungicide treatment to 774 00:42:50.440 --> 00:42:53.320 be preventative because once you have the spots, it's not 775 00:42:53.360 --> 00:42:55.199 going to cure it. It's not going to make what's 776 00:42:55.320 --> 00:42:58.960 their goal away. It just prevents additional infections. I hope 777 00:42:59.000 --> 00:43:03.360 that makes sense. That is kind of the bottom line 778 00:43:03.719 --> 00:43:06.679 on when we're dealing with certain kinds of disease problems. 779 00:43:06.679 --> 00:43:10.320 But if you see that gray leaf spot, then that 780 00:43:10.559 --> 00:43:15.239 is a good sign that you know it's been those conditions. 781 00:43:16.599 --> 00:43:19.039 I'm going to do a little right up on it. 782 00:43:19.119 --> 00:43:20.880 And you know what I'm going to do in order 783 00:43:21.000 --> 00:43:22.800 to have some gray leaf spot to do in the 784 00:43:22.880 --> 00:43:25.000 right up, go out to a corner of my yard 785 00:43:25.039 --> 00:43:27.280 and throw a piece of plywood on the grass. Just 786 00:43:27.360 --> 00:43:28.920 leave it there on the grass. What does that do? 787 00:43:29.079 --> 00:43:32.880 That shades it and that creates the perfect humidity chamber 788 00:43:32.960 --> 00:43:36.079 underneath there for disease proliferation. Leave it on there for 789 00:43:36.079 --> 00:43:38.119 about a week and then pick it up. Maybe not 790 00:43:38.159 --> 00:43:40.760 at full we just check it periodically, but you will 791 00:43:40.760 --> 00:43:43.079 start to see gray leaf spot all over those leaves, 792 00:43:43.079 --> 00:43:45.119 and so I can get some really good pictures of it. 793 00:43:45.119 --> 00:43:47.199 It's not gonna kill my grass. I guess if I 794 00:43:47.280 --> 00:43:50.559 left the plywood long enough, it would. But that just 795 00:43:50.960 --> 00:43:54.239 proves the point of what causes that disease to proliferate 796 00:43:54.280 --> 00:43:58.360 because underneath that that plywood piece of ply with that, 797 00:43:58.440 --> 00:44:00.559 you're going to see the disease, where right around it 798 00:44:00.599 --> 00:44:04.800 you didn't. What's the difference environment, the environment that promotes 799 00:44:05.079 --> 00:44:10.559 or the environment that doesn't promote the disease. Well, hopefully 800 00:44:10.599 --> 00:44:13.400 that made a little bit of sense. You were listening 801 00:44:13.480 --> 00:44:16.280 to Gardenline. I'm your host, Skip Richter. Our phone number 802 00:44:16.280 --> 00:44:17.840 if you'd like to give us a call is seven 803 00:44:17.880 --> 00:44:21.400 to one three two one two five eight seven four 804 00:44:21.559 --> 00:44:24.400 seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four. 805 00:44:24.400 --> 00:44:28.119 By the way, having a beautiful lawn is a goal 806 00:44:28.280 --> 00:44:30.400 for many people. I mean, lawns are the carpets of 807 00:44:30.400 --> 00:44:33.920 our landscape. And Medina has a new product that's part 808 00:44:33.960 --> 00:44:37.880 of their hastrogro line called super Grow Plus. Medina super 809 00:44:37.920 --> 00:44:42.440 Grow Plus. It's a sixteen zero two fertilizer sixteen O 810 00:44:42.639 --> 00:44:45.559 two that's the ratio of nutrients or the amount of 811 00:44:45.639 --> 00:44:48.760 nutrients on it. It contains about a fifth of the 812 00:44:48.840 --> 00:44:51.800 nitrogen in a slow release form, which is nice. It 813 00:44:51.840 --> 00:44:54.719 contains a lot of other cool stuff like seaweed extract 814 00:44:54.840 --> 00:44:59.400 and molasses and humic acid and an iron in a 815 00:44:59.480 --> 00:45:03.599 keylated and when you're seeing yellowing areas of your lawn, 816 00:45:04.039 --> 00:45:06.480 I would get some hash to grow Supergrow Plus. It 817 00:45:06.519 --> 00:45:09.440 hooks up to a garden hose, covers about four thousand 818 00:45:09.480 --> 00:45:12.800 square feet. It'll take you about ten minutes. It takes about 819 00:45:12.840 --> 00:45:15.920 ten minutes to just run over that area that one 820 00:45:16.000 --> 00:45:18.920 court bottle and you can give a quick boost a 821 00:45:19.000 --> 00:45:22.239 folier feed along with it going down in the ground 822 00:45:22.400 --> 00:45:25.480 and the roots take it up too. That's all happening 823 00:45:25.880 --> 00:45:29.320 with has to Grow Supergrow Plus widely available, like all 824 00:45:29.360 --> 00:45:32.840 Medina products are, that is one that is new. I'm 825 00:45:32.840 --> 00:45:34.719 pretty excited about it. I think it's a really good 826 00:45:34.760 --> 00:45:39.239 addition to their line. In fact, this week coming week, 827 00:45:39.320 --> 00:45:41.239 I've got some areas where I'm going to go out 828 00:45:41.320 --> 00:45:44.000 and use that again on my lawn because of the 829 00:45:44.039 --> 00:45:47.960 results that we see. Our phone number if you'd like 830 00:45:48.000 --> 00:45:49.880 to give me a call seven one three two one 831 00:45:50.000 --> 00:45:53.599 two kt r H seven one three two one two 832 00:45:54.000 --> 00:45:56.440 kt r H. You hear me talking about birds all 833 00:45:56.480 --> 00:46:00.280 the time, and I have a bird feeder that has 834 00:46:00.360 --> 00:46:02.119 a little camera in it. My kids gave it to 835 00:46:02.159 --> 00:46:04.880 me a couple of Christmases ago, and it's got a 836 00:46:04.880 --> 00:46:06.840 little camera in it and you hook up. You got 837 00:46:06.840 --> 00:46:09.599 an app on your phone and whenever a bird lands, 838 00:46:10.400 --> 00:46:13.119 it takes a picture, and it also take videos. It's 839 00:46:13.119 --> 00:46:18.000 pretty smart. It knows you know just how to how 840 00:46:18.000 --> 00:46:21.199 to do that, and you get some really good close ups. 841 00:46:21.280 --> 00:46:23.119 I mean it's almost like, you know, you look through 842 00:46:23.119 --> 00:46:26.719 one of those those peep holes in your door where 843 00:46:26.719 --> 00:46:29.239 you can see who's standing outside your house, and then 844 00:46:29.239 --> 00:46:32.280 they put their face up to the people. That's kind 845 00:46:32.320 --> 00:46:34.159 of what the birds look like, except that it's not 846 00:46:34.280 --> 00:46:37.440 such a FISHII effect in it. But I was at 847 00:46:37.480 --> 00:46:40.280 my granddaughter with me and we were taking a look 848 00:46:40.840 --> 00:46:45.039 at some of the email messages or the notifications I 849 00:46:45.039 --> 00:46:48.199 should say that I got saying somebody's been at your feeder. 850 00:46:48.239 --> 00:46:50.519 And so it's kind of cool, pretty exciting. We've seeing 851 00:46:50.519 --> 00:46:52.880 all kinds of birds. You can collect them. It'll also 852 00:46:54.039 --> 00:46:56.239 it has some other cool features in it. But the 853 00:46:56.280 --> 00:46:58.760 bottom line is I had to put some new fresh 854 00:46:58.840 --> 00:47:00.559 feed in and when I went out to do that, 855 00:47:00.679 --> 00:47:03.719 I noticed that there was a lot of moldy feed 856 00:47:03.840 --> 00:47:06.000 down in the bottom from all this rain, I hadn't 857 00:47:06.079 --> 00:47:08.239 checked it in a while, so you want to wash 858 00:47:08.280 --> 00:47:10.920 that out really good. You know, birds can get diseases too, 859 00:47:11.400 --> 00:47:13.679 and so you always want to keep those feeders clean 860 00:47:13.800 --> 00:47:16.639 and you want to use a quality feed. That is important, 861 00:47:16.800 --> 00:47:20.559 and that's where Warbirds Unlimited comes in. Most cheap feeds 862 00:47:20.559 --> 00:47:22.519 out there are going to contain a lot of the 863 00:47:22.559 --> 00:47:25.800 little red bebies. That's a type of seed that birds 864 00:47:25.840 --> 00:47:28.360 don't particularly care for. They kick it on the ground 865 00:47:28.400 --> 00:47:30.880 and they don't care for it. So when you buy 866 00:47:30.920 --> 00:47:33.239 a pound of that feed, you don't get a pound 867 00:47:33.559 --> 00:47:36.880 of bird food. You get some on the ground and 868 00:47:36.920 --> 00:47:39.880 then some in the birds. Warbirds Unlimited feeds are not 869 00:47:39.960 --> 00:47:43.280 that way. You can buy blends for various kinds of 870 00:47:43.360 --> 00:47:46.559 birds for various times of the year. They have it 871 00:47:46.599 --> 00:47:49.960 all right now. I think the Nesting super blend is 872 00:47:50.000 --> 00:47:52.559 a really good one. They have many good blends, and 873 00:47:52.559 --> 00:47:54.559 if you walk into Wallbirds, I'll tell you which one 874 00:47:54.880 --> 00:47:56.880 is the best one to use. You also need to 875 00:47:56.960 --> 00:48:02.239 check out their Wallbirds Unlimited Squirrel excluding feeder. I'm telling 876 00:48:02.320 --> 00:48:04.840 you if you get frustrated with squirrels getting out and 877 00:48:04.840 --> 00:48:07.440 eating all the bird seed and you've tried everything squirrels 878 00:48:07.440 --> 00:48:10.519 are smart. You got to try this feeder. It really 879 00:48:10.639 --> 00:48:12.480 really works. Took a little video of at the other day. 880 00:48:12.480 --> 00:48:16.039 I'm on post on Facebook that it's just you know, 881 00:48:16.599 --> 00:48:19.280 squirrels just can't get in. They just don't get into it. 882 00:48:19.320 --> 00:48:21.599 And it's all Wallbirds Unlimited. If you go to WBU 883 00:48:21.679 --> 00:48:28.079 dot com forward Slash Houston, WBU dot Com forward Slash Houston, 884 00:48:28.159 --> 00:48:30.119 you'll see the Wallbird stores. There are six of them 885 00:48:30.239 --> 00:48:32.599 here in the Houston area. What's time for me to 886 00:48:32.599 --> 00:48:34.880 take a break. I'll be right back and as we 887 00:48:35.039 --> 00:48:37.760 come back, John and Tomball you'll be our first up. 888 00:48:37.840 --> 00:48:41.559 As well as if you are dealing with weeds in 889 00:48:41.599 --> 00:48:45.039 your landscape, it's because you're allowing the sunlight to hit 890 00:48:45.079 --> 00:48:47.679 the soil if they're coming from seed, and you got 891 00:48:47.719 --> 00:48:50.840 to keep the soul surface covered. That's called maltching. That's 892 00:48:50.880 --> 00:48:54.280 what the forest does. That's what nature does. And when 893 00:48:54.320 --> 00:48:57.159 that happens, you don't have as many weed problems. And listen, 894 00:48:57.239 --> 00:49:00.360 when it's ninety five plus degrees outside, I want to 895 00:49:00.360 --> 00:49:03.239 be out there pulling weeds right well. Landscaper's pride has 896 00:49:03.239 --> 00:49:05.920 got you set. They've got a number of different high 897 00:49:05.960 --> 00:49:08.880 quality products that are mulches that go on the surface 898 00:49:09.119 --> 00:49:11.599 that help, and I've talked about those for weeks now, 899 00:49:11.800 --> 00:49:18.079 different various ones. There's a number also of quality soil 900 00:49:18.199 --> 00:49:21.119 amending type products. They have a healthy soil compost, it's 901 00:49:21.119 --> 00:49:26.400 made recycle composted plant material. It's got a neutral pH 902 00:49:26.519 --> 00:49:29.760 and it releases its nutrients back into the soil. Black 903 00:49:29.840 --> 00:49:33.599 Humus is a dark, rich organic mix of composted pine 904 00:49:33.599 --> 00:49:37.800 bark with loamy topsoil. Helps will hold water in that 905 00:49:37.960 --> 00:49:40.239 soil mix, and it's great for a brand new bed 906 00:49:40.440 --> 00:49:43.159 or for renovating a bed as well, does well in 907 00:49:43.159 --> 00:49:46.199 pretty much any growing condition. Mushroom composts. Those of you 908 00:49:46.239 --> 00:49:48.880 are familiar with mushroom composts know that it's really a boost. 909 00:49:48.960 --> 00:49:52.679 It's regionally sourced here, it's composted with age pine, and 910 00:49:52.719 --> 00:49:58.239 that product also really stimulates organic activity. Someday I have 911 00:49:58.239 --> 00:50:00.199 to tell you a story about mushroom compost and the 912 00:50:00.199 --> 00:50:02.440 difference it made in a test we did a while back. 913 00:50:02.679 --> 00:50:06.199 Landscaper Spride's got that Gardener's Magic's organic pine based mix, 914 00:50:06.360 --> 00:50:10.760 Got Humus, got screen pine composted rice holes chicken pillet fertilizer, 915 00:50:10.800 --> 00:50:12.960 which is going to give you about a three month release. 916 00:50:13.199 --> 00:50:16.760 It's really ideal for raisbed gardens and container gardens, all 917 00:50:16.800 --> 00:50:19.079 from Landscaper's Pride and you can just go to their 918 00:50:19.119 --> 00:50:23.320 website Landscaperspride dot com to find out where you can 919 00:50:23.400 --> 00:50:26.519 purchase it near you, and there are many many places 920 00:50:26.519 --> 00:50:29.679 that carry it here in the greater Houston area. We're 921 00:50:29.719 --> 00:50:32.679 going to go now out to Tomball, Texas and talk 922 00:50:32.760 --> 00:50:33.199 to John. 923 00:50:33.280 --> 00:50:36.079 Hello, John, good morning, Skip. 924 00:50:37.480 --> 00:50:38.159 I'm doing well. 925 00:50:38.199 --> 00:50:40.119 Thank you good. 926 00:50:40.519 --> 00:50:40.719 So. 927 00:50:40.960 --> 00:50:45.599 My problem is it's not necessarily Carolina creeper, but it's 928 00:50:45.639 --> 00:50:52.360 one of the creeper vines. Basically, there's a traveling route 929 00:50:52.639 --> 00:50:55.760 about about as big around as my thumb that it'll 930 00:50:55.800 --> 00:51:03.480 send up shoots that have pointed, diamond shaped leaves and 931 00:51:04.119 --> 00:51:09.159 about clusters of five or six. And I'll used a 932 00:51:09.199 --> 00:51:12.559 couple of different herbicides and I'll burn the top down, 933 00:51:13.280 --> 00:51:17.079 but I'll never get something that it's not playing that 934 00:51:17.079 --> 00:51:18.280 that traveling route. 935 00:51:19.159 --> 00:51:20.440 Okay, I'll pull them up. 936 00:51:20.719 --> 00:51:23.599 I'll pull that root and it's ten feet long. 937 00:51:24.719 --> 00:51:28.840 Okay. So I think what you're talking about is something 938 00:51:28.880 --> 00:51:32.639 called pepper vine, but it doesn't really matter which it is. 939 00:51:32.719 --> 00:51:34.559 What you're gonna want to do is get a product 940 00:51:34.639 --> 00:51:39.159 containing trichlope here t r I c l O p 941 00:51:39.480 --> 00:51:43.679 y r, and you you can spray it on the leaves. 942 00:51:44.039 --> 00:51:45.960 You can use a wiper applicator to put it on 943 00:51:46.000 --> 00:51:49.000 the leaves, and you can also use a little sponge 944 00:51:49.079 --> 00:51:53.239 brush to paint it if you will. The product product 945 00:51:53.239 --> 00:51:56.199 straight in this case, and the brush along the vine 946 00:51:56.280 --> 00:52:00.440 itself so that vine is very thin skinned and that 947 00:52:00.519 --> 00:52:03.320 tricl a peer soaks in and it will kill it 948 00:52:03.320 --> 00:52:05.199 that way as well. But you have to stay with 949 00:52:05.280 --> 00:52:09.039 it because it's got so much underground crawling around structure. 950 00:52:10.119 --> 00:52:13.119 Just one application is not going to go through and 951 00:52:13.199 --> 00:52:15.639 kill everything all the way back wherever the vine came 952 00:52:15.760 --> 00:52:18.639 originally came from. So just stay with it. But when 953 00:52:18.639 --> 00:52:20.880 it comes up, if you do that each time, you'll 954 00:52:20.920 --> 00:52:23.599 knock it way back and you'll eventually win. But t 955 00:52:23.800 --> 00:52:28.400 r I c l O p y r is the ingredient, 956 00:52:28.920 --> 00:52:31.639 and you'll find it in poison ivy killers and stump 957 00:52:31.679 --> 00:52:35.840 and brush killers, and the brands and the names are varied, 958 00:52:35.920 --> 00:52:37.960 but that's the ingredient to look for. 959 00:52:39.280 --> 00:52:41.320 Okay, very good, Well. 960 00:52:42.960 --> 00:52:45.880 Yeah, you're up there. Like in Tombo, if you've got 961 00:52:45.880 --> 00:52:47.880 to D and D feed on twenty and twenty west. 962 00:52:47.880 --> 00:52:49.760 They're going to have a tricle appear out there. 963 00:52:51.320 --> 00:52:53.360 Very good, All right, much appreciate it. 964 00:52:53.360 --> 00:52:55.920 Thank you for your help, you bet, thank you. I 965 00:52:56.000 --> 00:53:01.760 appreciate your call. Let's see here, get to our next call. 966 00:53:01.880 --> 00:53:05.400 We're going to go to talk to Ken out in Magnolia. Hello, Ken, 967 00:53:05.440 --> 00:53:05.840 Welcome to. 968 00:53:05.840 --> 00:53:07.519 Gardline, Boria. 969 00:53:07.599 --> 00:53:08.639 Sir, how are you? 970 00:53:08.760 --> 00:53:12.599 Thanks for taking my call? All right, thank you for 971 00:53:12.639 --> 00:53:13.480 taking my call. 972 00:53:14.079 --> 00:53:15.920 What my issue is is I have. 973 00:53:16.159 --> 00:53:21.119 A Kalopenia plant that was doing really well and it 974 00:53:21.559 --> 00:53:23.760 all of a sudden, I noticed that the leaves were 975 00:53:23.760 --> 00:53:26.920 starting to droop a lot, and I thought it was 976 00:53:26.960 --> 00:53:29.880 a water issue. Check the soiled soil was fine and everything, 977 00:53:29.880 --> 00:53:31.400 and I think what it may be is it may 978 00:53:31.400 --> 00:53:35.159 be root rot. Is there any way too, Is there 979 00:53:35.199 --> 00:53:37.079 any way of taking care of that? 980 00:53:39.840 --> 00:53:42.719 Not really with something that's a little warm seedan you're 981 00:53:42.800 --> 00:53:46.320 like a kalopena would be. It may be root rot. 982 00:53:46.480 --> 00:53:51.360 It could be some other things. There are diseases that 983 00:53:51.480 --> 00:53:54.719 plug the plumbing of the plant. They get inside the 984 00:53:54.800 --> 00:53:57.360 structures that take water from the roots to the top. 985 00:53:58.119 --> 00:54:00.280 It could be one of those, and there's not a 986 00:54:00.320 --> 00:54:06.159 good control on that edible plant. Uh, okay to control that. 987 00:54:06.440 --> 00:54:09.440 It could be nematodes and the soil. Nematods can be 988 00:54:09.480 --> 00:54:11.559 a real problem for plants as well. 989 00:54:11.599 --> 00:54:17.639 Okay, if it's yeah, yes, or go ahead. I'm sorry now, 990 00:54:17.639 --> 00:54:22.000 I'm just gonna say if it's that, yes, go ahead, yeah, 991 00:54:23.159 --> 00:54:23.480 all right. 992 00:54:23.519 --> 00:54:26.480 If it's if it's nematods, uh, there's not a cure 993 00:54:26.559 --> 00:54:28.840 for it, but there's things you can do over time 994 00:54:29.400 --> 00:54:33.880 to control their numbers, to lessen their numbers. But the 995 00:54:33.920 --> 00:54:36.519 main thing would be don't plant anything there that gets 996 00:54:36.519 --> 00:54:40.000 nematods for the next several years, and and and take 997 00:54:40.039 --> 00:54:42.639 out the steps. But you would have to get some roots, 998 00:54:42.679 --> 00:54:44.360 kind of wash them out of the ground to take 999 00:54:44.400 --> 00:54:45.960 a look at them, because they're gonna have lots of 1000 00:54:46.000 --> 00:54:49.000 little hard knots or bumps on them, like a string 1001 00:54:49.000 --> 00:54:50.679 of pearls, but much uglier than that. 1002 00:54:52.000 --> 00:54:57.199 Okay, okay, all right, well I appreciate it. I'll try 1003 00:54:57.239 --> 00:54:58.000 that any Thank. 1004 00:54:57.880 --> 00:55:01.000 You, and a ken if you if you want to, 1005 00:55:02.800 --> 00:55:04.480 if you want to take pictures of what you see 1006 00:55:04.480 --> 00:55:06.760 and send it to me, I'll be happy to take 1007 00:55:06.800 --> 00:55:08.440 a look. So I can put you on hold if 1008 00:55:08.480 --> 00:55:11.800 you would like, and when you get some pictures like 1009 00:55:11.920 --> 00:55:14.079 the roots and you want to know is this nematodes 1010 00:55:14.159 --> 00:55:16.400 or whatever? Just you just email them to I'll put 1011 00:55:16.440 --> 00:55:16.920 you on hold. 1012 00:55:17.400 --> 00:55:21.400 And okay, I'm actually. 1013 00:55:21.079 --> 00:55:23.920 Driving, so sent a man a different time. 1014 00:55:24.039 --> 00:55:25.400 That's okay, but I appreciate it, sir. 1015 00:55:25.480 --> 00:55:26.159 Thank you very much. 1016 00:55:26.159 --> 00:55:27.800 Imp great date you met. 1017 00:55:28.800 --> 00:55:31.039 Good to talk to you. Let's see we need to 1018 00:55:31.119 --> 00:55:33.800 run out now to Orange, Texas and talk to Joey. 1019 00:55:33.880 --> 00:55:39.800 Hey, Joey, hey, boss Hey, I got a lemon tree 1020 00:55:39.840 --> 00:55:42.599 that's grown back after the freeze, and. 1021 00:55:42.599 --> 00:55:45.159 I was wondering if I could uh graph that. 1022 00:55:45.840 --> 00:55:50.519 If so work, I could get a graph from. 1023 00:55:49.960 --> 00:55:52.480 You would just have to find somebody that has what 1024 00:55:52.559 --> 00:55:54.960 you want to graph to it. You can pretty much 1025 00:55:54.960 --> 00:55:57.239 probably graph pretty much any kind of citrus to it 1026 00:55:57.280 --> 00:55:59.840 that you want. But if you want another myerline under 1027 00:55:59.840 --> 00:56:02.000 some thing and you're just doing it for your backyard 1028 00:56:02.039 --> 00:56:05.719 home plant that I think that that's fine. You just 1029 00:56:05.960 --> 00:56:08.199 you gotta find somebody that Scott one and what you'll 1030 00:56:08.239 --> 00:56:10.320 do is you want to use at this time of year, 1031 00:56:10.360 --> 00:56:13.079 you'll want to use a tea bud and you can 1032 00:56:13.119 --> 00:56:15.679 go online to find out how do you do tea buds? 1033 00:56:16.599 --> 00:56:18.639 And then I would I would do that near the 1034 00:56:18.679 --> 00:56:22.079 bottom of the plant, wrap it up really good with 1035 00:56:22.159 --> 00:56:27.119 something to hold the moisture in, and then once you 1036 00:56:27.199 --> 00:56:30.360 see there's still life in the bud that you put in, 1037 00:56:30.800 --> 00:56:33.519 then you end up kind of breaking the top over 1038 00:56:34.360 --> 00:56:36.719 and that forces that bud to push out in a row. 1039 00:56:37.480 --> 00:56:38.599 But that's that's what. 1040 00:56:38.480 --> 00:56:40.719 You do, okay. 1041 00:56:40.960 --> 00:56:43.360 And I can do that like a couple of different spots. 1042 00:56:43.400 --> 00:56:45.119 Would that be okay? 1043 00:56:45.159 --> 00:56:48.119 You could? I would do two on it, and not 1044 00:56:48.280 --> 00:56:50.880 by one under the other, but like one on one side, 1045 00:56:50.880 --> 00:56:53.159 one on the other. And if you fail, you'll get 1046 00:56:53.199 --> 00:56:56.239 reach sprouting of the rootstock, and then you can try 1047 00:56:56.239 --> 00:56:59.280 it again in the wintertime, late winter or something. You 1048 00:56:59.320 --> 00:57:02.559 can do something a cleft graph that works really well too, 1049 00:57:02.960 --> 00:57:03.960 or even in the spring. 1050 00:57:04.360 --> 00:57:08.159 Yes, sir, all right, okay, Dan, yes, sir. 1051 00:57:08.239 --> 00:57:08.880 I appreciate you. 1052 00:57:08.960 --> 00:57:12.719 Hew both all right, Joey, thanks a lot. I like 1053 00:57:12.800 --> 00:57:18.239 that lemon question and orange Texas that isn't citrus. I 1054 00:57:18.239 --> 00:57:23.599 don't know what it is, very cool, listen. Arburgate Garden 1055 00:57:23.639 --> 00:57:28.119 Center is one of the places that you have to 1056 00:57:28.159 --> 00:57:30.519 take people when they come visit. It's also a place 1057 00:57:30.559 --> 00:57:35.800 you have to go yourself. Arburgate is a wonderland garden Center. 1058 00:57:35.960 --> 00:57:38.199 It just it. I see people get out of their 1059 00:57:38.199 --> 00:57:40.639 cars there and they're smiles on their faces as there 1060 00:57:40.719 --> 00:57:43.119 is on mine, because you just look and you go, 1061 00:57:43.199 --> 00:57:46.440 oh my gosh, it's Disneyland. Here we go. They got 1062 00:57:46.639 --> 00:57:49.320 plants of every kind, you can imagine, stuff you never 1063 00:57:49.360 --> 00:57:52.880 heard of. They have people walking around that are experts, 1064 00:57:52.920 --> 00:57:55.679 Beverly and Kennon and the whole team there. They know 1065 00:57:55.760 --> 00:57:58.440 what they're talking about, and they can guide you to 1066 00:57:58.559 --> 00:58:02.960 plants for any situation you've got. You just describe the 1067 00:58:03.000 --> 00:58:05.400 situation and they can help you find the right plant 1068 00:58:05.440 --> 00:58:07.360 for that. They carry the products that you want to 1069 00:58:07.400 --> 00:58:10.480 go with it, such as their completely easy one two 1070 00:58:10.480 --> 00:58:13.519 three system. It's a soil for anything with roots. It 1071 00:58:13.719 --> 00:58:16.920 is a compost for anything with roots, and it is 1072 00:58:16.960 --> 00:58:19.920 a fertilizer for anything with roots. And when you get 1073 00:58:19.960 --> 00:58:23.000 those three, you've done what I always harp on here 1074 00:58:23.000 --> 00:58:25.000 on Guardline, and that is take care of the brown 1075 00:58:25.079 --> 00:58:28.159 stuff before you worry about the green stuff. 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I think quality I had a 1096 00:59:35.599 --> 00:59:37.840 guy from Quality Home last weekend and it was like 1097 00:59:37.960 --> 00:59:40.519 they got I don't know, thousands of calls a day 1098 00:59:41.119 --> 00:59:44.079 coming in there. So be patient with them. They are 1099 00:59:44.159 --> 00:59:46.760 doing all they can. They're covered up, but you're not 1100 00:59:46.880 --> 00:59:50.679 going to find a quality generator with the service from 1101 00:59:50.679 --> 00:59:53.280 the time you call them and are asking questions about 1102 00:59:53.280 --> 00:59:56.280 which one do I need to the time they walk away, 1103 00:59:56.800 --> 00:59:59.719 to the time months or years later when you need 1104 00:59:59.760 --> 01:00:05.559 help Quality home products seven one three Quality or if 1105 01:00:05.599 --> 01:00:07.559 you want to go to the website, which I'd recommend 1106 01:00:07.559 --> 01:00:11.119 you do qualitytx dot com. We're going to take a 1107 01:00:11.119 --> 01:00:13.519 break now, we'll be right back. And when we come back, 1108 01:00:13.559 --> 01:00:16.400 by the way, Eric and Cyprus, Bread and sugar Land 1109 01:00:16.480 --> 01:00:23.159 and John in League City here I need to go home. Hey, 1110 01:00:23.239 --> 01:00:26.639 welcome back to garden Line, your host, Skip Richter. We're 1111 01:00:26.639 --> 01:00:29.000 glad you're listening today. We got plenty to talk about. 1112 01:00:29.000 --> 01:00:30.960 In fact, we're going to run straight to the phones 1113 01:00:30.960 --> 01:00:33.280 here if you'd like to give us a call seven 1114 01:00:33.360 --> 01:00:36.760 one three two one two kt r H. Go to 1115 01:00:36.800 --> 01:00:39.519 sugar Land now and talk to Fred. Hello, Fred, Welcome 1116 01:00:39.559 --> 01:00:40.599 to Gardenland. 1117 01:00:41.039 --> 01:00:45.280 Skip, good morning. Do you prefer on landscape bids the 1118 01:00:45.400 --> 01:00:50.079 use of pine mark mulch or hardwood malt? And in 1119 01:00:50.159 --> 01:00:53.400 putting it in? Are you an advocate of removing the 1120 01:00:53.519 --> 01:00:57.199 leaves and old mulch? Are just going on top of it? 1121 01:00:57.760 --> 01:00:58.559 Good questions? 1122 01:00:59.000 --> 01:00:59.400 Uh? 1123 01:01:00.199 --> 01:01:03.840 One is fine either mulch is fine. Pine bark tends 1124 01:01:03.880 --> 01:01:07.119 to be a little slower to decompose, so it lasts 1125 01:01:07.159 --> 01:01:10.400 a little bit longer, but that can be a plus. 1126 01:01:10.519 --> 01:01:14.480 But also the fact that mulch is decomposing is building 1127 01:01:14.519 --> 01:01:18.639 that soil over time, and so I don't see rapid 1128 01:01:18.639 --> 01:01:22.760 decomposition is really a big deal. Certainly not a big negative. 1129 01:01:23.320 --> 01:01:26.239 So either way you can go is just fine. As 1130 01:01:26.280 --> 01:01:29.800 far as whether you remove old stuff, no, put the 1131 01:01:29.840 --> 01:01:32.960 new stuff on top. Think about the forest. Every year, 1132 01:01:33.039 --> 01:01:35.559 new leaves fall on top of the old leaves that 1133 01:01:35.599 --> 01:01:39.159 were just laying their dead dry, and now those covered 1134 01:01:39.199 --> 01:01:42.719 leaves begin to decompose and every bit of organic matter 1135 01:01:42.840 --> 01:01:45.400 releases all the nutrients that are in it back into 1136 01:01:45.440 --> 01:01:51.000 the soil, stimulates microbial, beneficial microbes, and just makes the 1137 01:01:51.079 --> 01:01:54.400 root zone much much better. So yes, leave the old, 1138 01:01:54.480 --> 01:01:55.320 don't pull it out. 1139 01:01:57.800 --> 01:02:00.960 Okay, Well, thank you. 1140 01:02:00.320 --> 01:02:04.440 I appreciate your appreciate your question. We're going to go 1141 01:02:04.480 --> 01:02:06.679 now to Cyprus and talk to Eric. Hello. 1142 01:02:06.840 --> 01:02:10.280 Eric, Hey, Skip, I got a couple of things I 1143 01:02:10.280 --> 01:02:14.960 want to ask you about. First. This last spring, I 1144 01:02:15.039 --> 01:02:18.320 got my first crop of burweed in the backyard. I'd 1145 01:02:18.360 --> 01:02:21.599 never seen it before. I've got kind of a sparse backyard, 1146 01:02:22.360 --> 01:02:25.320 and I'll be darn at that stuff didn't just pop 1147 01:02:25.440 --> 01:02:29.239 up everywhere, and uh, once it gets mature and you 1148 01:02:29.320 --> 01:02:32.239 start walking on it, it is not fun to get 1149 01:02:32.280 --> 01:02:34.719 that people and those things out of your feet. So 1150 01:02:34.800 --> 01:02:38.480 my question for you is what do I do to 1151 01:02:38.679 --> 01:02:41.960 kill it? Maybe for the next season it it burned 1152 01:02:41.960 --> 01:02:46.519 off and disappeared kind of Uh, but I've got I've 1153 01:02:46.519 --> 01:02:48.679 got kids running around the backyard, and I've got an 1154 01:02:48.679 --> 01:02:51.440 above ground pool, So I'm thinking, I really don't. You know, 1155 01:02:51.480 --> 01:02:54.639 it's not friendly the bare feet. So what's your best 1156 01:02:55.800 --> 01:02:56.599 your solution. 1157 01:02:57.639 --> 01:03:02.639 You're you're saying, uh, Eric, that that the plants themselves 1158 01:03:02.679 --> 01:03:04.960 of the weed are pretty much gone, now right, Is 1159 01:03:04.960 --> 01:03:05.760 that what you're telling me? 1160 01:03:06.079 --> 01:03:06.440 Yeah? 1161 01:03:06.519 --> 01:03:09.559 Yeah, once it got hot, they just shrilled up. But 1162 01:03:09.599 --> 01:03:12.840 then again there's still those birds. They don't disappear necessarily, 1163 01:03:12.880 --> 01:03:16.599 but they okay, yeah, yeah. 1164 01:03:16.639 --> 01:03:19.880 So basically, you know you're not gonna get the birds 1165 01:03:19.920 --> 01:03:22.079 out of the of the lawn that are already there, 1166 01:03:22.199 --> 01:03:24.199 and that certainly is a lot of seeds, so it 1167 01:03:24.239 --> 01:03:27.480 will be back. The number one thing you need to 1168 01:03:27.519 --> 01:03:31.519 do is the mow water fertilized regimen that builds the 1169 01:03:31.639 --> 01:03:35.800 densest possible lawn. The denser your lawn the less sunlight 1170 01:03:35.840 --> 01:03:38.639 hits the soil, the less bur weed seed can sprout 1171 01:03:38.760 --> 01:03:42.079 and successfully establish a plant. I suspect that last summer's 1172 01:03:42.119 --> 01:03:44.480 heat and drought did a little bit of thinning in 1173 01:03:44.519 --> 01:03:47.079 your lawn and probably opened the door for this year 1174 01:03:47.119 --> 01:03:49.760 to be such a rough year with those. But so 1175 01:03:50.159 --> 01:03:51.880 if you go online, I don't know if you've ever 1176 01:03:51.960 --> 01:03:55.760 downloaded my schedule from gardening with Skip dot com, but 1177 01:03:55.920 --> 01:03:58.679 it tells you exactly when and what to apply and 1178 01:03:58.760 --> 01:04:02.320 how to mow and water and everything to have that success. 1179 01:04:02.360 --> 01:04:05.599 So that's number one. Number two is you can use 1180 01:04:05.639 --> 01:04:09.239 a pre emergent herbicide if you feel like you still 1181 01:04:09.320 --> 01:04:12.559 you know you haven't achieved that fully deep denslan. A 1182 01:04:12.599 --> 01:04:16.559 pre emergent herbicide will prevent wheat seeds from germinating. And 1183 01:04:16.639 --> 01:04:19.960 we talk about barricade from nitrofoss that will control grassy 1184 01:04:20.039 --> 01:04:24.639 and broad leaf weeds. With each product you use, it's 1185 01:04:24.679 --> 01:04:27.679 not like every weed out there it'll kill, you know, 1186 01:04:27.719 --> 01:04:30.360 there's some that it's better at than others. There's a 1187 01:04:30.360 --> 01:04:34.360 product called Gallery that is focused just on broad leaves 1188 01:04:34.400 --> 01:04:39.199 but doesn't control grassys. The barricade will do both. So 1189 01:04:39.280 --> 01:04:41.880 if you try something and you don't feel like you 1190 01:04:41.960 --> 01:04:43.920 had the success you needed, you may want to switch 1191 01:04:44.320 --> 01:04:47.400 to something different. It may be better against that weed. 1192 01:04:47.760 --> 01:04:51.239 But either way, on my schedule that now this I'm 1193 01:04:51.280 --> 01:04:53.639 talking about the other schedule now, the pest disease and 1194 01:04:53.639 --> 01:04:56.639 wheat management. It tells you exactly the products to use 1195 01:04:57.119 --> 01:04:59.679 and when to apply them because you've got to get 1196 01:04:59.679 --> 01:05:03.039 in before the the burweeds sprouts. 1197 01:05:05.440 --> 01:05:08.559 I've been kind of stingy on the on the chemicals 1198 01:05:08.559 --> 01:05:10.960 in the backyard because I've got pets back there they 1199 01:05:11.000 --> 01:05:13.320 go around and two on the grass. And then of 1200 01:05:13.320 --> 01:05:17.400 course I mentioned already grandkids. So any of these or 1201 01:05:17.440 --> 01:05:21.559 most of these safe after you apply. I mean, I 1202 01:05:21.599 --> 01:05:23.719 know there's the spray that's going to get on the 1203 01:05:23.719 --> 01:05:26.559 planet itself, and then there's the granule it's just going 1204 01:05:26.639 --> 01:05:28.360 to kind of be on the on the ground. But 1205 01:05:28.559 --> 01:05:30.119 that's that's been my main concern. 1206 01:05:30.920 --> 01:05:34.239 Yeah, I understand, and and people have different opinions about that. 1207 01:05:34.679 --> 01:05:37.559 There's certainly any chemical, whether it's used to control weeds 1208 01:05:37.559 --> 01:05:40.480 in the lawn or suffuse around the house, even can 1209 01:05:40.519 --> 01:05:44.480 be dangerous if if your exposure to it is great enough, 1210 01:05:44.559 --> 01:05:47.559 or they use it in certain ways. You shouldn't Uh, 1211 01:05:47.599 --> 01:05:50.679 so that I'll lead that decision for sure up to you. 1212 01:05:51.559 --> 01:05:55.079 But if you wanted to go with an organic product, 1213 01:05:55.119 --> 01:05:59.760 the only one out there that has some success is 1214 01:06:00.239 --> 01:06:03.920 gluten meal. The problem with corn gluten meal is due 1215 01:06:04.000 --> 01:06:06.880 to things in nature I won't bore you with, but 1216 01:06:07.280 --> 01:06:12.599 basically too much moisture, soul moisture. It often is not successful. 1217 01:06:12.639 --> 01:06:16.679 But that's the organic pre emergent option that's on my schedule. 1218 01:06:18.199 --> 01:06:23.519 I still thought that the turf density really is what 1219 01:06:23.559 --> 01:06:26.880 you're going to want based on listening to your question there, Eric, 1220 01:06:27.760 --> 01:06:30.840 And you could also do if it's compacted and it's 1221 01:06:30.840 --> 01:06:33.039 a clay, you could have it aer rated and do 1222 01:06:33.119 --> 01:06:37.719 accomplished top dressing that stimulates density and growth as well, 1223 01:06:38.039 --> 01:06:40.400 So that would be another option for you. 1224 01:06:42.159 --> 01:06:45.760 Yeah, there's some large sections where there's no there's no more, 1225 01:06:46.440 --> 01:06:48.960 say in Augustine, it's like mostly crab grass. So I'm 1226 01:06:48.960 --> 01:06:51.559 thinking it's going to be a dig it up and 1227 01:06:51.760 --> 01:06:56.159 side some of these sections because there's no recruit and. 1228 01:06:56.159 --> 01:07:00.559 Do it now may soon because grass can can root 1229 01:07:00.679 --> 01:07:02.760 in in this hot weather. You just have to when 1230 01:07:02.800 --> 01:07:04.679 you sod for the first week, you're gonna water it 1231 01:07:04.760 --> 01:07:07.400 twice a day and not too much water, but water 1232 01:07:07.480 --> 01:07:09.960 twice a day, then water once a day for the 1233 01:07:09.960 --> 01:07:12.360 next week, and then gradually wean it off. But you 1234 01:07:12.400 --> 01:07:15.440 can get sod to take and if you've got big areas, 1235 01:07:15.519 --> 01:07:17.960 there's no getting the turf dense because there's no turf, 1236 01:07:18.880 --> 01:07:22.679 so definitely sodding it now would be important. 1237 01:07:22.840 --> 01:07:25.760 All right, And this is an area where that gets 1238 01:07:26.199 --> 01:07:28.639 it gets kind of flooded when it rains. I mean, 1239 01:07:28.760 --> 01:07:31.519 my yard can have inches of water. So if it 1240 01:07:31.559 --> 01:07:34.719 goes fresh sod with that liluin it, you think it 1241 01:07:35.360 --> 01:07:36.800 is a wet period After that. 1242 01:07:37.639 --> 01:07:40.320 Well, a wet period not so much. You know, if 1243 01:07:40.320 --> 01:07:42.679 it's under water for a week, that's not good. But 1244 01:07:43.800 --> 01:07:46.960 I think based on what we're saying, making sure you 1245 01:07:46.960 --> 01:07:49.760 get grass down where there's not grass, and then everywhere 1246 01:07:49.840 --> 01:07:52.039 you can make it as dense as you can, that's 1247 01:07:52.079 --> 01:07:54.719 really going to be your way out of this. Hey, 1248 01:07:54.760 --> 01:07:59.119 I got a really quick if you yeah, thank you 1249 01:07:59.199 --> 01:08:02.880 very much, appreciate call uh. Our phone number is seven 1250 01:08:02.920 --> 01:08:05.280 one three two one two k t r H. When 1251 01:08:05.320 --> 01:08:08.000 we come back, John and John. We got two John's 1252 01:08:08.000 --> 01:08:09.880 win in Crosby won in League City. You're the first 1253 01:08:09.920 --> 01:08:17.159 two guys out. Welcome back. To garden Line. I'm your host, 1254 01:08:17.560 --> 01:08:20.600 Skip Ricord. We're here to answer gardening questions. All you 1255 01:08:20.640 --> 01:08:22.680 got to do is call us at seven one three 1256 01:08:23.039 --> 01:08:26.079 two one two k t R H. And we're gonna 1257 01:08:26.159 --> 01:08:29.479 run right out here to League City, Texas and talk 1258 01:08:29.520 --> 01:08:33.159 to John. Welcome to garden Line, John, Good morning, Skip. 1259 01:08:33.199 --> 01:08:33.399 Hey. 1260 01:08:33.479 --> 01:08:37.159 I apologize if you've answered this question probably a thousand 1261 01:08:37.159 --> 01:08:39.560 times by now, but I think I have what it 1262 01:08:39.600 --> 01:08:43.960 looks like brown patch. It's a circular yellowish area and 1263 01:08:44.840 --> 01:08:47.359 although I thought that was only in cooler temperatures, but 1264 01:08:48.399 --> 01:08:52.039 it looks like brown patch anyway, first you think it 1265 01:08:52.039 --> 01:08:54.000 is brown patch, and then secondly will this Will this 1266 01:08:54.159 --> 01:08:56.600 go away on its own with the heat unless rain, 1267 01:08:56.880 --> 01:09:00.079 or or do I need to treat this area? 1268 01:09:00.159 --> 01:09:02.199 So it could be brown patch or it could be 1269 01:09:02.199 --> 01:09:05.399 another brown patch. The genus is Rhizoctonia, and there are 1270 01:09:05.399 --> 01:09:08.640 a number of different rhizoctonias that will attack your lawn. 1271 01:09:09.319 --> 01:09:12.520 There's one they refer to as summer patch. It's a 1272 01:09:12.560 --> 01:09:16.279 little different strain of the disease, but it really doesn't 1273 01:09:16.279 --> 01:09:20.680 matter which it is. We have had cooler temperatures, not 1274 01:09:21.079 --> 01:09:24.880 fall cooler temperatures, but our summer we had some days 1275 01:09:24.920 --> 01:09:27.960 that were didn't make it past the mid eighties. And 1276 01:09:29.039 --> 01:09:31.479 so with all the wet conditions were right and we 1277 01:09:31.479 --> 01:09:33.399 saw a little bit of it crop out, I would 1278 01:09:33.479 --> 01:09:35.279 not worry about it right now. You're not going to 1279 01:09:35.359 --> 01:09:38.960 fix where it's already infected. It'll regreen, new grass blades 1280 01:09:39.000 --> 01:09:41.800 will come back in there, and so I would just 1281 01:09:41.880 --> 01:09:45.800 say focus on don't over water your grass shouldn't need 1282 01:09:45.840 --> 01:09:47.680 water in more than once a week if it's got 1283 01:09:47.680 --> 01:09:49.760 a decent root system, if you're not dealing with some 1284 01:09:49.960 --> 01:09:52.079 take all root rod or some other disease, once a 1285 01:09:52.159 --> 01:09:55.239 week should be enough at the most twice a week. 1286 01:09:55.279 --> 01:09:57.119 But give it a good soaking early in the morning 1287 01:09:57.119 --> 01:09:59.560 so it dries out then as the sun comes up 1288 01:09:59.600 --> 01:10:02.119 and shine on it. And I think you can just 1289 01:10:02.159 --> 01:10:03.359 grow your way out of this one. 1290 01:10:04.960 --> 01:10:08.039 Okay, you don't think this is something that's gonna get 1291 01:10:08.079 --> 01:10:11.000 worse if as long as the weather stays a little warmer, I. 1292 01:10:11.000 --> 01:10:14.479 Don't think so, No, I really don't. And so now 1293 01:10:14.520 --> 01:10:17.880 if if there's something I'm not aware of, like maybe 1294 01:10:17.920 --> 01:10:20.319 there's a water leak in that area and it's just 1295 01:10:20.359 --> 01:10:24.800 staying real wet and there's other issues going on, well 1296 01:10:24.840 --> 01:10:28.960 those kind of things that's outside the box. But in general, uh, 1297 01:10:29.079 --> 01:10:33.880 the rizectonia diseases, with proper watering and some good warm temperatures, 1298 01:10:33.880 --> 01:10:38.720 you shouldn't you shouldn't be seeing the issues continue with that, Okay. 1299 01:10:39.359 --> 01:10:41.520 And if it did start to grow, what would you 1300 01:10:41.600 --> 01:10:43.960 recommend I treat it with? 1301 01:10:44.319 --> 01:10:45.159 On what five? 1302 01:10:46.720 --> 01:10:49.640 Yeah, that's that's a good question. On my on my 1303 01:10:49.720 --> 01:10:53.000 schedule which is online at gardening with Skip dot com. 1304 01:10:53.039 --> 01:10:54.960 You can go read it, download it. In fact, I 1305 01:10:55.039 --> 01:10:57.479 encourage everybody to just download it and have it on 1306 01:10:57.560 --> 01:11:01.479 your computer or print it out in the garage. So 1307 01:11:01.600 --> 01:11:05.119 if you look where we talk about fungicides for the 1308 01:11:05.199 --> 01:11:08.399 large patch or brown patch, nightro Fast has something called 1309 01:11:08.439 --> 01:11:11.039 Total brown Patch Control, and they have another product called 1310 01:11:11.079 --> 01:11:16.439 Eagle Microlife has a product that has got brown patch 1311 01:11:16.479 --> 01:11:18.960 in the name of the product, and they are looking 1312 01:11:19.239 --> 01:11:22.039 instead of for chemicals to control it, they're looking more 1313 01:11:22.039 --> 01:11:25.960 at microbial activity to help suppress that in their product. 1314 01:11:26.319 --> 01:11:29.520 So you've got organic and synthetic options, you know, for 1315 01:11:29.600 --> 01:11:32.840 dealing with some of these diseases. But I'm telling you, 1316 01:11:32.840 --> 01:11:35.079 if it were my yard, I don't think I would 1317 01:11:35.119 --> 01:11:37.640 bother worrying about spraying it. But if you need to 1318 01:11:38.000 --> 01:11:42.880 it's on the schedule. Okay, thank you very much. All right, 1319 01:11:42.920 --> 01:11:46.960 thanks for the call, appreciate that you wish you well 1320 01:11:47.199 --> 01:11:52.319 getting that under control. I'm sure it will will, bet 1321 01:11:52.399 --> 01:11:54.399 that it will fix itself. Now we're going to go 1322 01:11:54.439 --> 01:11:57.359 to Crosby and talk to another John. Welcome to Guardline, John. 1323 01:11:59.119 --> 01:12:03.000 Thank you for taking A year ago, I bought aload 1324 01:12:03.079 --> 01:12:06.479 of mulch and put around my Mexican heather, my hedges 1325 01:12:06.520 --> 01:12:07.239 and my trees. 1326 01:12:08.039 --> 01:12:09.520 This year everything is dead. 1327 01:12:09.840 --> 01:12:18.439 How do I neutralize that mulch? Well, I would be 1328 01:12:18.680 --> 01:12:23.039 very surprised if putting mulch around a tree just killed 1329 01:12:23.079 --> 01:12:28.439 it like that that fast. That doesn't sound right. When 1330 01:12:28.520 --> 01:12:31.560 you put the mulch out, did you smell anything like 1331 01:12:32.520 --> 01:12:37.079 ammonia or kind of a sulfury swamp gas smell, a 1332 01:12:37.199 --> 01:12:38.800 sewer smell or anything like that. 1333 01:12:40.359 --> 01:12:41.479 I don't remember. 1334 01:12:41.520 --> 01:12:46.079 It was over a year ago. Yeah, okay, Well, I 1335 01:12:46.119 --> 01:12:49.159 don't think it's the multch that did it. Why now 1336 01:12:49.239 --> 01:12:53.960 you're saying how many plants? Is it more than one tree? 1337 01:12:54.680 --> 01:12:56.319 I have a maple tree that killed it. 1338 01:12:56.800 --> 01:12:59.439 I had Mexican heather around the front of my house 1339 01:13:00.079 --> 01:13:03.039 in front of the hedges, and it killed everything that 1340 01:13:03.119 --> 01:13:04.199 I put the maultchround. 1341 01:13:05.399 --> 01:13:07.680 Was this a store bought mult or was this something 1342 01:13:07.800 --> 01:13:10.039 you got from somebody who ground up a bunch of 1343 01:13:10.079 --> 01:13:12.000 trees and dumped it in your driveway or what. 1344 01:13:13.479 --> 01:13:13.760 It was? 1345 01:13:13.800 --> 01:13:15.239 A bolt mulch. 1346 01:13:15.439 --> 01:13:17.000 I don't know where the guy got it, but I 1347 01:13:17.000 --> 01:13:18.199 bought a pickup load. 1348 01:13:19.119 --> 01:13:23.640 Okay, Well there, you know there's there is the possibility 1349 01:13:23.800 --> 01:13:27.319 of toxic mults and toxic composts and products and stuff 1350 01:13:27.319 --> 01:13:30.319 when people don't do it right. That's why we take 1351 01:13:30.359 --> 01:13:33.760 great pains to talk about like airloom soils and landscaper's 1352 01:13:33.800 --> 01:13:37.239 pride and nature's way up in the Conro area because 1353 01:13:37.279 --> 01:13:41.640 they do it right. But it's possible to have those 1354 01:13:41.720 --> 01:13:44.720 kinds of things, and it's possible for those to kill plants. 1355 01:13:45.800 --> 01:13:48.720 But usually you know, you've kind of like when you're 1356 01:13:48.720 --> 01:13:51.920 putting it out, you're going, man, this stuff stinks really bad, 1357 01:13:52.000 --> 01:13:56.199 and you know something's a little bit wrong. You know, 1358 01:13:56.279 --> 01:13:59.479 I at this point, I don't think I would worry 1359 01:13:59.479 --> 01:14:02.720 about it. And so long that a lot of the 1360 01:14:02.800 --> 01:14:08.479 things that happened because inappropriate decomposing of the product. Uh, 1361 01:14:08.760 --> 01:14:11.560 they've kind of run their course and it should be okay. Now, 1362 01:14:11.600 --> 01:14:13.840 if you wanted to pull it all out and put 1363 01:14:13.880 --> 01:14:17.079 fresh melt in. You could, but I don't know an 1364 01:14:17.119 --> 01:14:20.520 ongoing issue that if you put it out that long 1365 01:14:20.560 --> 01:14:23.680 ago that would still be around to be a concern. 1366 01:14:23.920 --> 01:14:28.359 So that that's my two cents worth on it. Okay, Yeah, 1367 01:14:28.399 --> 01:14:32.920 I've just got to replan everything. That's a shame. I 1368 01:14:33.720 --> 01:14:36.359 hate to see that happen. I appreciate you. Call John, 1369 01:14:36.880 --> 01:14:39.640 you take care. Yeah, I was talking about while ago 1370 01:14:39.640 --> 01:14:43.079 about Microlife has their brown Patch product in a bag. 1371 01:14:43.640 --> 01:14:45.840 Microlife has a number of different products. You know. They 1372 01:14:45.920 --> 01:14:47.600 got the Green which is the one we think of 1373 01:14:47.640 --> 01:14:51.199 as the lawn fertilizer six two four, which you can 1374 01:14:51.319 --> 01:14:54.479 use for anything you want, the Humans Plus which is 1375 01:14:54.560 --> 01:14:57.680 zero zero four, which is an excellent product for helping. 1376 01:14:58.399 --> 01:15:00.640 Just think of it as concentrated comple in a bag. 1377 01:15:01.119 --> 01:15:06.079 Microlife also has a lot of really quality liquid products. 1378 01:15:06.079 --> 01:15:09.319 You can get a fish emulsion type product called Ocean Harvest. 1379 01:15:09.359 --> 01:15:12.720 They have a seaweed type product. They also have their 1380 01:15:12.760 --> 01:15:16.279 Biomatrix that's an orange labeled bottle. I use it a 1381 01:15:16.319 --> 01:15:19.279 lot for houseplants. It's not just for ausplants. I could 1382 01:15:19.279 --> 01:15:20.960 be using it outside. I don't know why. I just 1383 01:15:21.039 --> 01:15:23.439 kind of started using an own houseplants on winter. And 1384 01:15:25.119 --> 01:15:27.319 you know it's excellent for all kinds of things. It's 1385 01:15:27.359 --> 01:15:30.479 full of microbes like all microlife products are. And so 1386 01:15:30.800 --> 01:15:34.079 you know you're doing the thing I always say, and 1387 01:15:34.159 --> 01:15:37.680 that is what brown stuff before green stuff. In other words, 1388 01:15:38.239 --> 01:15:40.760 get the foundation right, get the soil right, make the 1389 01:15:40.840 --> 01:15:44.079 microbes happy, which makes the roots happy, and then when 1390 01:15:44.119 --> 01:15:47.800 you have your plants, they're going to thrive. Microlife Fertilizer 1391 01:15:47.840 --> 01:15:49.279 dot com is the website. If you want to find 1392 01:15:49.319 --> 01:15:50.600 out where to get it. I can just tell you this. 1393 01:15:50.640 --> 01:15:54.359 It's widely available all over the place. We're going to 1394 01:15:54.399 --> 01:15:58.960 head now out to Paul. Hello, Paul, Welcome to Guardenline. 1395 01:16:00.000 --> 01:16:00.760 Oh. 1396 01:16:01.000 --> 01:16:04.359 I have a story about a neighbor that built a fence, 1397 01:16:04.479 --> 01:16:08.000 readywood fence on their driveway between my house and theirs, 1398 01:16:08.359 --> 01:16:12.199 and then they put a some kind of vine or 1399 01:16:12.239 --> 01:16:16.479 something I don't know, and it's crossing over to my 1400 01:16:16.640 --> 01:16:22.159 house and climbing the brick wall. Okay, I want to, 1401 01:16:22.239 --> 01:16:24.239 you know, knock it out on my side. 1402 01:16:24.279 --> 01:16:27.439 Well, yeah, I'm hearing music playing, so I'm gonna give 1403 01:16:27.439 --> 01:16:29.920 you as quick an answer as I can. I think 1404 01:16:29.920 --> 01:16:33.319 you're going to need to use a product containing triclop 1405 01:16:33.399 --> 01:16:37.680 here t R I C l O P y R. Now, 1406 01:16:37.760 --> 01:16:40.560 hand removal is an option, but that's a lot of work. 1407 01:16:40.680 --> 01:16:43.600 And I'm suspecting from your question you're wanting to spray it. 1408 01:16:43.800 --> 01:16:46.760 So if I'm wrong, let me know. But trike clop 1409 01:16:46.880 --> 01:16:49.640 here is in products like poison ivy killer that's a 1410 01:16:49.640 --> 01:16:55.680 woody vine. It works on that brush and stump control products, 1411 01:16:56.520 --> 01:16:59.399 and you just know that. Don't spray it on your lawn. 1412 01:16:59.479 --> 01:17:02.159 Don't spray on any broadly plant you like, like a 1413 01:17:02.199 --> 01:17:04.720 shrub or a flower or whatever, because it will kill 1414 01:17:04.800 --> 01:17:07.960 those two. But that would be your best bet. I'm 1415 01:17:07.960 --> 01:17:10.479 gonna put you on hold. If we're done, you can 1416 01:17:10.600 --> 01:17:12.800 head out. If not, hang around. We'll talk when we 1417 01:17:12.880 --> 01:17:13.279 come back. 1418 01:17:21.079 --> 01:17:25.079 Welcome to CAZy r H Garden Line with skin rickards. 1419 01:17:33.640 --> 01:17:35.239 Just watch you as. 1420 01:17:40.560 --> 01:17:50.680 Many things. Hey, Welcome back to garden line and a 1421 01:17:50.760 --> 01:17:53.399 good day for gardening. You know that every day is 1422 01:17:53.399 --> 01:17:55.720 a good day for gardening. I mean people say, what 1423 01:17:55.800 --> 01:17:57.920 if it's pouring down rain outside, Well, do you have 1424 01:17:57.960 --> 01:18:00.319 house plants? Do you want to start some sea? Do 1425 01:18:00.319 --> 01:18:02.760 you want to read some cuttings indoors? See what I'm 1426 01:18:02.760 --> 01:18:05.680 saying it's always a good day for gardening, even learning 1427 01:18:05.680 --> 01:18:09.119 about gardening or talking about gardening, which is what we're 1428 01:18:09.119 --> 01:18:12.840 doing here seven one three two one two fifty eight 1429 01:18:12.960 --> 01:18:15.159 seventy four. If you would like to talk about some 1430 01:18:15.239 --> 01:18:18.479 things going on around your garden and your landscape, I'm 1431 01:18:18.479 --> 01:18:21.479 going to head straight out to Friendswood and talk to Mark. Now, 1432 01:18:21.680 --> 01:18:28.880 Hello Mark, and welcome to garden Line. Coll Hey, Mark, 1433 01:18:29.000 --> 01:18:29.880 you're on garden Line. 1434 01:18:30.159 --> 01:18:31.840 Oh Hi, good morning. 1435 01:18:32.119 --> 01:18:36.600 Sure is joy your show? I'm Prince Wood and uh 1436 01:18:36.800 --> 01:18:41.279 we cut down a couple of chuck init great myrtles 1437 01:18:41.279 --> 01:18:44.079 when we bought the house. They're probably twenty five foot 1438 01:18:44.119 --> 01:18:46.960 doll something like that, and it was we can have 1439 01:18:47.079 --> 01:18:50.159 it with our patio cracking him. So we cut up 1440 01:18:50.239 --> 01:18:54.199 down about six months ago. And now we're having large 1441 01:18:54.319 --> 01:18:58.960 bushes just come out of the malts in the where 1442 01:18:59.000 --> 01:19:02.279 they were located, and I wondered, is there something that 1443 01:19:02.359 --> 01:19:06.640 can pour off those bushes to killing. 1444 01:19:08.039 --> 01:19:10.479 Well, you don't even need to use that much product. 1445 01:19:10.640 --> 01:19:14.079 What you need to get is something that contains the 1446 01:19:14.279 --> 01:19:19.319 ingredient trichlope here t R I c l O P 1447 01:19:20.199 --> 01:19:24.960 y R tracle peer is found in poison ivy control products. 1448 01:19:25.039 --> 01:19:27.520 It's found in brush control or some of them will 1449 01:19:27.560 --> 01:19:32.640 call stump and brush remover. Whatever it is you're gonna 1450 01:19:32.720 --> 01:19:37.199 you're gonna find tricle peer present in that product. You're 1451 01:19:37.199 --> 01:19:40.239 out there in Richmond Rosenberg area, you got plantation Ace 1452 01:19:40.279 --> 01:19:42.199 it's not too far from me. You got some great 1453 01:19:42.239 --> 01:19:45.600 garden centers out in that area, so it's easy to find, 1454 01:19:45.760 --> 01:19:49.119 easy to find that product. The way to use it 1455 01:19:49.159 --> 01:19:52.039 is you can spray that on the foliage and it'll 1456 01:19:52.039 --> 01:19:53.840 take it up and go down in it and do 1457 01:19:53.960 --> 01:19:57.279 the job. You can also cut things off, like when 1458 01:19:57.279 --> 01:19:59.479 you first cut that stump off, if you had put 1459 01:19:59.520 --> 01:20:02.720 triple here right when you cut it, same day, same hour, 1460 01:20:03.079 --> 01:20:06.159 but trickle up here around the outside edge of that 1461 01:20:06.239 --> 01:20:09.039 cut stump, all that fresh wound would have taken it 1462 01:20:09.079 --> 01:20:11.199 in and you can kill it things that way too 1463 01:20:11.279 --> 01:20:16.159 with it. If you've got desirable plants alex that are nearby, 1464 01:20:16.760 --> 01:20:20.199 I would excuse me mark that are nearby, I would 1465 01:20:20.279 --> 01:20:25.680 avoid spraying because it can drift over and it'll kill 1466 01:20:25.680 --> 01:20:27.640 lots of things, not just stuff you don't like. 1467 01:20:29.680 --> 01:20:32.079 Okay, would that be at ACE Hardware. 1468 01:20:32.520 --> 01:20:34.359 Yeah, you can get that at ACE Hardwhere you've got 1469 01:20:34.399 --> 01:20:36.800 a plantation Ace. That's probably pretty close to you out there, 1470 01:20:37.279 --> 01:20:40.000 and okesman Rosenberg for example. 1471 01:20:41.439 --> 01:20:46.079 All right, well, surety, thank you listening to these morning 1472 01:20:46.159 --> 01:20:50.000 shows on the weekends for decades, and sure you appreciate 1473 01:20:50.119 --> 01:20:52.079 what you done to carry on. 1474 01:20:53.359 --> 01:20:56.359 Well, thank you. I appreciate comments and thanks for being 1475 01:20:56.359 --> 01:21:00.520 a listener. Take care, good luck to getting that under control. 1476 01:21:00.760 --> 01:21:04.159 We're gonna now head out to Richmond, Texas. Well we're 1477 01:21:04.199 --> 01:21:07.119 just kind of excuse me, not Richmond, Texas. What did 1478 01:21:07.159 --> 01:21:11.720 I do here? Oh? Finding the right button here to 1479 01:21:11.840 --> 01:21:15.039 Riah Richmond. We're going to talk to Alex. Hello Alex, 1480 01:21:15.079 --> 01:21:16.119 and welcome to garden Line. 1481 01:21:17.439 --> 01:21:19.760 Thanks give good morning, Good morning. 1482 01:21:21.079 --> 01:21:21.319 Hey. 1483 01:21:21.399 --> 01:21:24.479 So I've got an elm tree. It's planted a couple 1484 01:21:24.479 --> 01:21:27.800 of years ago. It's maybe five inches in diameter. And 1485 01:21:27.920 --> 01:21:32.720 when Hurricane Barrel came through between the rain and the wind, 1486 01:21:33.520 --> 01:21:36.560 I can see the top of the roots, and if 1487 01:21:36.600 --> 01:21:41.039 I actually push on the tree, it does move slightly underground. 1488 01:21:41.079 --> 01:21:44.119 I just want to know if I need to get 1489 01:21:44.159 --> 01:21:47.239 tea posts and restake it, or just kind of cover 1490 01:21:47.279 --> 01:21:49.560 it with some composts and let the roots do their 1491 01:21:49.560 --> 01:21:50.359 thing underground. 1492 01:21:52.039 --> 01:21:56.880 So this tree is not leaning way over, it's just moving. 1493 01:21:57.239 --> 01:21:57.800 Is that right. 1494 01:21:59.279 --> 01:22:02.159 Yeah, sure, not not a lot of lean though. It's 1495 01:22:02.199 --> 01:22:04.399 just it's just slightly wiggily when I when I push 1496 01:22:04.439 --> 01:22:04.640 on it. 1497 01:22:04.720 --> 01:22:08.680 Yeah. Well, other people are going to have issues like this, 1498 01:22:08.720 --> 01:22:10.479 so I'm going to answer a little more than your 1499 01:22:10.560 --> 01:22:12.439 question because I know we have other folks listening, and 1500 01:22:12.479 --> 01:22:15.000 one size doesn't fit all. When a tree has been 1501 01:22:15.000 --> 01:22:18.520 in the ground, let's say three years or less, we 1502 01:22:18.560 --> 01:22:21.479 say you can stand them back up, stake them in place, 1503 01:22:21.520 --> 01:22:22.920 and you're going to need to leave the stake there 1504 01:22:22.960 --> 01:22:26.399 for a good while, uh, and it'll be it'll eventually 1505 01:22:26.640 --> 01:22:29.319 get strong again. If it's been in the ground longer 1506 01:22:29.319 --> 01:22:33.239 than that, which yours probably has, right, then we always say, well, yeah, 1507 01:22:33.239 --> 01:22:35.119 I don't lean them back up again, but. 1508 01:22:35.119 --> 01:22:38.399 Yours is because it's been there about two years. 1509 01:22:38.920 --> 01:22:42.119 Oh too. Okay, Well, then what I would do is 1510 01:22:42.159 --> 01:22:46.159 I would get some with that size trunk, I'd probably 1511 01:22:46.199 --> 01:22:48.439 get some guy wires in this case. Normally I like 1512 01:22:48.560 --> 01:22:52.039 the three sixty tree stabilizer, but this is a huge 1513 01:22:52.119 --> 01:22:55.560 tree with a canopy that's pretty strong, so you could 1514 01:22:55.680 --> 01:22:57.920 use the stabilizers if you use two or three of 1515 01:22:57.960 --> 01:23:00.880 them on it, or you you just use the wires 1516 01:23:00.880 --> 01:23:04.560 but pull it into place, and you're going to need 1517 01:23:04.600 --> 01:23:07.760 to leave these there. If it can move a little bit, 1518 01:23:07.920 --> 01:23:11.840 that's good. You don't need it to just be totally immovable, 1519 01:23:11.880 --> 01:23:14.359 but just a little little motion in the wind is okay. 1520 01:23:14.960 --> 01:23:17.000 And it's going to take a long time for it 1521 01:23:17.079 --> 01:23:21.600 to establish a strong supportive root system because roots will 1522 01:23:21.600 --> 01:23:24.600 grow out, but there'll be little, tiny roots, and you know, 1523 01:23:24.640 --> 01:23:28.520 they're not enough to support the tree. What it had 1524 01:23:28.640 --> 01:23:30.760 was not enough to support it with the wind we had. 1525 01:23:31.239 --> 01:23:34.199 So I would say this may be a two year 1526 01:23:34.399 --> 01:23:38.399 or longer, probably three year process of you letting it 1527 01:23:38.439 --> 01:23:41.000 get a good root system before you turn it loose 1528 01:23:41.079 --> 01:23:43.359 to stand on its own in the wind. But in 1529 01:23:43.399 --> 01:23:45.600 the meantime, especially as we get into the second year, 1530 01:23:45.680 --> 01:23:49.359 letting that trunk move a little bit helps create that 1531 01:23:49.479 --> 01:23:56.239 resiliency that you want. All right, so I appreciate it. 1532 01:23:56.560 --> 01:23:59.560 We'll Plantation have that true stabilizer Plantation Marwak. 1533 01:24:00.399 --> 01:24:04.239 They probably do. It's widely available. Plant that's the year. Yeah, 1534 01:24:04.319 --> 01:24:08.760 Richmond Plantation Ace probably has that out there. I'm trying 1535 01:24:08.800 --> 01:24:12.760 to think of who else carries it down in your area. 1536 01:24:12.840 --> 01:24:15.199 I know, if you if you come up to Southwest 1537 01:24:15.239 --> 01:24:18.800 feed and fertilizer which is in southwest Houston, kind of 1538 01:24:18.800 --> 01:24:23.279 sugar land direction. They have it there too, So just 1539 01:24:23.560 --> 01:24:25.319 come around and see plantation a' is gonna be a 1540 01:24:25.319 --> 01:24:27.279 lot closer to you, so you might want to start that, 1541 01:24:27.960 --> 01:24:31.239 but then I know you can get it southwest. Good do. 1542 01:24:31.399 --> 01:24:33.199 I'll take plantation then, Shannon, Thanks, Gip. 1543 01:24:33.239 --> 01:24:37.520 I appreciate it, all right, good take care? All right, 1544 01:24:37.960 --> 01:24:40.119 let's see here. We are going to go ahead and 1545 01:24:40.159 --> 01:24:43.399 go to Houston area and talk to Carol. 1546 01:24:43.479 --> 01:24:48.880 Hello, Carol, Hi, good morning. I am having trouble. 1547 01:24:48.600 --> 01:24:50.199 With basket grass. 1548 01:24:50.880 --> 01:24:55.960 Started out as a little spot in one corner. Had 1549 01:24:56.079 --> 01:25:00.479 pulled it up, thought we had it under control, and 1550 01:25:00.960 --> 01:25:05.479 it just seems to keep traveling and taking over the yard. 1551 01:25:05.760 --> 01:25:10.640 We've used weed killer that doesn't hurt Saint Augustine but 1552 01:25:10.800 --> 01:25:15.000 just kills the weeds. But once again, when we get 1553 01:25:15.079 --> 01:25:20.239 some good rain, it seems to revive itself and travel further. 1554 01:25:20.640 --> 01:25:25.319 And the latest we used was a I think it 1555 01:25:25.359 --> 01:25:26.720 was a crab. 1556 01:25:27.880 --> 01:25:31.199 Grass powder okay, and has. 1557 01:25:31.000 --> 01:25:33.640 A touch of cinnamon in it, I believe, and that 1558 01:25:33.880 --> 01:25:39.239 kills it, but we never get the grass back before 1559 01:25:39.800 --> 01:25:43.640 it pops up again, okay, and then it moves farder. 1560 01:25:45.079 --> 01:25:48.119 Okay, well, Carol, I'm up against the heartbreak, so you 1561 01:25:48.199 --> 01:25:50.079 hang on and when we come back, we'll dive into 1562 01:25:50.119 --> 01:25:52.119 this one. By the way, did you email me about 1563 01:25:52.159 --> 01:25:53.199 this or not? Because I got an. 1564 01:25:53.159 --> 01:25:55.319 Email this, Yes, I did, I send photos? 1565 01:25:55.399 --> 01:25:58.600 Okay, good, all right, we'll be right back, folks, if 1566 01:25:58.600 --> 01:25:59.720 you want to give us a call and get on 1567 01:25:59.720 --> 01:26:04.800 the board. Chris seven kat r h. I'm good heavy 1568 01:26:04.800 --> 01:26:07.359 with us. We are going to jump right back into 1569 01:26:07.399 --> 01:26:12.640 our conversation with Carol about basket grass. Okay, Carol, I 1570 01:26:12.680 --> 01:26:17.399 saw the photos and yeah, yeah, plenty of it. Basket 1571 01:26:17.479 --> 01:26:22.199 grass is very difficult to deal with. The cinnamon product agrillon, 1572 01:26:22.279 --> 01:26:27.279 I believe is effective at just turning it black quickly 1573 01:26:27.399 --> 01:26:31.600 and burning it back, but it does come back from that. Yeah, 1574 01:26:31.640 --> 01:26:34.479 And what you've got some big areas where there's essentially 1575 01:26:34.520 --> 01:26:38.520 a no Saint Augustine. And so if you leave that gap, 1576 01:26:38.680 --> 01:26:41.159 let's say the vacuum, nature likes to fill up the 1577 01:26:41.239 --> 01:26:45.720 vacuum with weeds and uh so, uh A couple of 1578 01:26:45.720 --> 01:26:48.640 options hand digging, which I know you're not going to 1579 01:26:48.720 --> 01:26:50.239 do that in the amount of area you got, but 1580 01:26:50.319 --> 01:26:53.560 that is one control where you get out every route 1581 01:26:54.000 --> 01:26:55.840 thing you can get out of there and just pull 1582 01:26:55.880 --> 01:26:58.279 it all out. That is a more thorough way than 1583 01:26:59.520 --> 01:27:00.399 a lot of others. 1584 01:27:00.880 --> 01:27:01.039 Uh. 1585 01:27:01.079 --> 01:27:04.640 There are only two products that seem to work on it. 1586 01:27:04.680 --> 01:27:06.479 And by the way, basket grass when you get over 1587 01:27:06.520 --> 01:27:12.039 on the east coast and it's a it invades forests. 1588 01:27:12.079 --> 01:27:15.119 I mean, it is a bad weed, and they they 1589 01:27:15.159 --> 01:27:17.720 have tried everything they can on it, and it's kind 1590 01:27:17.720 --> 01:27:20.600 of come down to Glyphos eight, which is the product 1591 01:27:20.600 --> 01:27:25.079 in roundup, or something called clethodim C L A T 1592 01:27:25.399 --> 01:27:29.199 h O d I M. The brand name. First of all, 1593 01:27:29.239 --> 01:27:31.239 Clethod is going to be very hard to find. But 1594 01:27:31.319 --> 01:27:36.640 the brand name is grass Out Max herbicide. Okay, it 1595 01:27:37.159 --> 01:27:40.479 kills grasses as round Up does too, So when you 1596 01:27:40.640 --> 01:27:44.119 use either of those, you're going to kill basket grass 1597 01:27:44.159 --> 01:27:48.560 and Saint Augustine. But that's the sacrifice and then you 1598 01:27:48.680 --> 01:27:52.840 come back in with SOD to reside those areas right 1599 01:27:52.880 --> 01:27:57.439 on top of where it was. Oh okay, either Some 1600 01:27:57.479 --> 01:27:59.680 people don't like using Glyphos and it's fine. 1601 01:28:00.239 --> 01:28:00.399 Uh. 1602 01:28:01.039 --> 01:28:08.079 The clethendem agrissell grassout Max grass out Max. I don't 1603 01:28:08.119 --> 01:28:10.840 know why. Well, anyway, that is going to be hard 1604 01:28:10.840 --> 01:28:14.199 to find you might let's see you are okay, you 1605 01:28:14.279 --> 01:28:19.600 might try calling Southwest Fertilizer and they have it, or 1606 01:28:19.880 --> 01:28:23.359 or just get the glip was available everywhere, but now 1607 01:28:23.520 --> 01:28:27.319 round Up is being put out with ingredient other than 1608 01:28:27.359 --> 01:28:30.640 glyph ess. It's actually several ingredients in the new Roundup 1609 01:28:30.720 --> 01:28:33.960 and so you would have to purposefully study labels to 1610 01:28:34.000 --> 01:28:36.720 make sure you're getting the glacoys if you're going to 1611 01:28:36.800 --> 01:28:42.079 get basket grass control. So basically it's kill, kill everything 1612 01:28:42.119 --> 01:28:44.479 and replant in those areas. 1613 01:28:43.920 --> 01:28:48.359 Okay, well we'll definitely give that one a try. 1614 01:28:49.359 --> 01:28:50.720 Okay, you take care. 1615 01:28:50.840 --> 01:28:51.439 I appreciate it. 1616 01:28:51.800 --> 01:28:52.119 Thanks. 1617 01:28:52.640 --> 01:28:52.880 Bye. 1618 01:28:54.800 --> 01:28:58.920 Oh man. Uh you know, ACE Hardware is also a 1619 01:28:58.960 --> 01:29:01.119 great place where you can find and all kinds of products. 1620 01:29:01.159 --> 01:29:03.760 And you know ACE is they're all over the place. 1621 01:29:03.840 --> 01:29:06.119 I don't care what part of the listening area you 1622 01:29:06.159 --> 01:29:09.159 are in, there's going to be an ACE Hardware near you. 1623 01:29:09.199 --> 01:29:11.960 We have forty stores in the Greater Houston area and 1624 01:29:12.079 --> 01:29:15.399 they always are going to carry products that you need 1625 01:29:15.479 --> 01:29:19.239 for your lawn, your garden, your landscape. ACE Hardware is 1626 01:29:19.520 --> 01:29:22.920 the place to get good quality products in a wide 1627 01:29:23.000 --> 01:29:26.560 variety for landscapes that includes tools and hoses and it 1628 01:29:26.600 --> 01:29:28.880 includes the things you need on your patio, like a 1629 01:29:28.920 --> 01:29:32.039 barbecue pit, for example, like a string of lights to 1630 01:29:32.239 --> 01:29:35.239 make things look really nice out there on a summer evening. 1631 01:29:36.039 --> 01:29:39.880 And certainly right now mosquito control and fire and control. 1632 01:29:40.319 --> 01:29:43.600 The floods of rain have really brought those to the forefront, 1633 01:29:44.079 --> 01:29:45.600 and you've got to get out there and deal with it. 1634 01:29:45.640 --> 01:29:47.560 And you walk into an ACE Hardware and you say, look, 1635 01:29:47.960 --> 01:29:50.119 I got mosquitoes. What are the options that I have? 1636 01:29:50.319 --> 01:29:51.960 And they're going to tell you. They're going to show 1637 01:29:52.000 --> 01:29:54.680 you the mosquito dunks that you put in standing water, 1638 01:29:54.680 --> 01:29:56.680 They're going to show you fogers, they're going to show 1639 01:29:56.720 --> 01:30:00.840 you mosquito repellents and a lot of other options for mosquitoes. 1640 01:30:01.119 --> 01:30:05.239 And fire ant control. The time to get your bates 1641 01:30:05.279 --> 01:30:07.520 out to control fire ants, that's the best you know. 1642 01:30:07.560 --> 01:30:10.960 There's both organic and synthetic baits and you have options 1643 01:30:10.960 --> 01:30:14.319 there as well as direct mount treatment controls. So you 1644 01:30:14.399 --> 01:30:16.399 just have to get out and take care of it 1645 01:30:16.479 --> 01:30:18.520 early on. And now's a good time to do that. 1646 01:30:18.560 --> 01:30:20.279 And ACE Hardware is a good place to get it. 1647 01:30:20.560 --> 01:30:23.039 And all the fertilizers I talk about here on Guardline, 1648 01:30:23.079 --> 01:30:26.079 you're going to find those at ACE Hardware stores as well. 1649 01:30:26.399 --> 01:30:29.079 Go to Ace Hardware dot com and look for the 1650 01:30:29.119 --> 01:30:32.720 store locator and it will tell you where the stores 1651 01:30:32.760 --> 01:30:35.600 are near you. It because a really nice, big old map, 1652 01:30:35.680 --> 01:30:37.840 and you get a lot of options when it comes 1653 01:30:37.880 --> 01:30:41.119 to Ace Hardware. We're going to go now to talk 1654 01:30:41.199 --> 01:30:42.800 to Claudia. 1655 01:30:42.960 --> 01:30:49.439 Hello, Claudia, Hi, thank you for taking my call and 1656 01:30:49.680 --> 01:30:54.880 stick you about brains and fire ant control and whatnot. 1657 01:30:55.920 --> 01:31:01.199 I have mushrooms, a lot of mushrooms We've been dealing 1658 01:31:01.239 --> 01:31:06.039 with even before Barrel came through, especially around my Create myrtles. 1659 01:31:06.399 --> 01:31:09.640 So I've been fertilizing regularly. So I'm not sure if 1660 01:31:09.640 --> 01:31:13.560 I'm maybe overfertilizing. I'm not sure if that's even a thing, 1661 01:31:14.159 --> 01:31:16.960 but I just want I've been just taking them out 1662 01:31:17.439 --> 01:31:22.199 as much as I can. It's just books sightly, not 1663 01:31:22.520 --> 01:31:26.720 very curve appealing, but I just wanted to get some advice. 1664 01:31:28.119 --> 01:31:31.720 Okay. Well, So as far as fertilizing, I've got a 1665 01:31:31.760 --> 01:31:35.079 schedule online that tells you how often to fertilize and 1666 01:31:35.119 --> 01:31:38.119 the products that work best, and so you're welcome to 1667 01:31:38.199 --> 01:31:41.399 download that or just look at it on my website, okay, 1668 01:31:41.840 --> 01:31:47.640 And I'd follow that don't over fertilize, but fertilize everything 1669 01:31:47.760 --> 01:31:51.000 is you know what they say, everything in moderation, whether 1670 01:31:51.079 --> 01:31:53.079 it's the mount of food we eat or the mind 1671 01:31:53.079 --> 01:31:57.319 of fertilizer we put on our lawns. So follow that. 1672 01:31:57.520 --> 01:32:01.279 As far as the mushrooms, they are not disease. The 1673 01:32:01.279 --> 01:32:04.560 ones you're seeing are not in disease of anything. What 1674 01:32:04.600 --> 01:32:08.359 they are doing is they're decomposing organic matter under the surface. 1675 01:32:09.079 --> 01:32:13.079 And one of mushroom's biggest jobs is to take what 1676 01:32:13.239 --> 01:32:17.359 was once living organic material and turn it back into dirt, 1677 01:32:17.880 --> 01:32:22.000 back into soil, and so it's actually a sign that 1678 01:32:22.119 --> 01:32:24.199 good things are happening under the surface. 1679 01:32:24.319 --> 01:32:24.520 Now. 1680 01:32:24.560 --> 01:32:26.960 I know people don't like the looks of them. There's 1681 01:32:27.000 --> 01:32:30.720 no spray for them. They're just if you want to 1682 01:32:30.760 --> 01:32:34.000 go in and remove them, that's fine. I like to 1683 01:32:34.239 --> 01:32:36.239 kind of this is sort of tongue in cheek joking, 1684 01:32:36.279 --> 01:32:38.199 but if you've got a good golf club, you can 1685 01:32:38.239 --> 01:32:41.000 have a lot of fun out there with the mushrooms 1686 01:32:41.079 --> 01:32:44.079 in here you are, So that's another maybe that'll make 1687 01:32:44.119 --> 01:32:47.600 you feel better, But seriously, it's just part of nature, 1688 01:32:47.680 --> 01:32:49.560 and we're going to see more of them again when 1689 01:32:49.600 --> 01:32:51.159 we get into fall. Get a little bit of cool 1690 01:32:51.159 --> 01:32:53.359 front and some rain, they're going to pop up again. 1691 01:32:54.239 --> 01:32:57.000 But right now it's just the weather that is rotted 1692 01:32:57.079 --> 01:32:59.640 all on and they should sort of dissipate a while 1693 01:32:59.760 --> 01:33:02.840 until the weather conditions are right again for them to 1694 01:33:02.880 --> 01:33:04.760 set up send up more mushrooms. 1695 01:33:05.720 --> 01:33:09.119 Okay, just just to kind of follow up on that, 1696 01:33:09.199 --> 01:33:12.760 does does the mulge have something to do with that 1697 01:33:12.960 --> 01:33:16.560 is too much multch? Did that have something to. 1698 01:33:16.560 --> 01:33:20.600 Do or it's not. No, it's not too much mult 1699 01:33:20.920 --> 01:33:24.279 But there is a fungal network that grows in that 1700 01:33:24.399 --> 01:33:28.760 mult starting to decompose it, and that my seleial network 1701 01:33:28.880 --> 01:33:33.399 is what they call it. When it is the right conditions, 1702 01:33:33.640 --> 01:33:38.119 it basically fruits or sends up its spore producing structures 1703 01:33:38.119 --> 01:33:39.479 so it can reproduce itself. 1704 01:33:39.840 --> 01:33:39.960 Uh. 1705 01:33:40.479 --> 01:33:43.479 And that would be the mushrooms that you see. So 1706 01:33:44.159 --> 01:33:47.960 it's there. It's everywhere. You don't even see mushrooms. It's there. 1707 01:33:48.399 --> 01:33:51.319 It just when the conditions are right, they pop up. 1708 01:33:51.359 --> 01:33:53.319 And so, yes, you see that in molts. There's a 1709 01:33:53.359 --> 01:33:55.720 lot of different kinds of things that pop up in multch, 1710 01:33:56.239 --> 01:33:59.720 but they're they're not a they're not a concern. 1711 01:33:59.520 --> 01:34:02.760 For your plan as Okay, Well, thank you. I will 1712 01:34:02.840 --> 01:34:07.039 take a look at your fertilizing schedule. I appreciate it my. 1713 01:34:07.079 --> 01:34:12.000 Call you bet you bet well. That fertilizing schedule and 1714 01:34:12.399 --> 01:34:15.880 the past disease and we'd management schedule are on the 1715 01:34:15.920 --> 01:34:21.079 website Gardening with Skip dot com Gardening with Skip dot com. 1716 01:34:21.199 --> 01:34:24.800 You can find them there. There's also articles, you know, seasonally, 1717 01:34:24.840 --> 01:34:27.880 I'll put things up. I'm about to put up several 1718 01:34:27.920 --> 01:34:31.000 things that most listeners are going to want to go 1719 01:34:31.039 --> 01:34:35.800 look at. One of them is an extensive description write 1720 01:34:35.880 --> 01:34:41.279 up on nuts edge. People call it nutgrass nuts edge. 1721 01:34:41.319 --> 01:34:44.760 It's like four pages of information. It's a lot, but 1722 01:34:45.520 --> 01:34:47.960 there are details that if you're really going to go 1723 01:34:48.039 --> 01:34:50.560 after nuts edge, it would be helpful to know, Like 1724 01:34:50.680 --> 01:34:53.199 did you know there's a purple and a yellow nut sedge? 1725 01:34:53.399 --> 01:34:55.720 Did you know the way they produce the tubers the 1726 01:34:55.800 --> 01:34:59.840 nuts is different? Did you know that there's times at 1727 01:34:59.840 --> 01:35:02.159 the year on a nuts edge plant where you can 1728 01:35:02.199 --> 01:35:04.680 effectively control it, and then there's times of the year 1729 01:35:04.720 --> 01:35:07.720 where you're not going to get effective control. And there's 1730 01:35:07.800 --> 01:35:10.479 products and they differ in what you can use and 1731 01:35:10.520 --> 01:35:13.239 so on. So anyway, what are the organic options, what 1732 01:35:13.319 --> 01:35:16.319 are there synthetic options for controlling nut set. I'll also 1733 01:35:16.359 --> 01:35:18.239 have a one pager on nuts edge. For those of 1734 01:35:18.239 --> 01:35:20.000 you who do not want to read all the details, 1735 01:35:20.000 --> 01:35:21.600 just tell me what to do. There will be a 1736 01:35:21.640 --> 01:35:24.439 one pager for that. And then I'm putting up a 1737 01:35:24.479 --> 01:35:28.640 publication on a weed wiper. So when you have weeds 1738 01:35:28.720 --> 01:35:32.119 that are growing among your desirable plants, how do you 1739 01:35:32.199 --> 01:35:35.119 spray them without getting spray on your desirable plants? And 1740 01:35:35.239 --> 01:35:38.159 some people use a shield so you kind of like 1741 01:35:38.199 --> 01:35:40.399 have a think of it as a board or whatever 1742 01:35:40.439 --> 01:35:42.640 you want. Some people like cut the bottom out of 1743 01:35:42.640 --> 01:35:45.840 a milk partner and put that over the spray nozzle 1744 01:35:46.159 --> 01:35:48.000 and that way they can set it down and no 1745 01:35:48.279 --> 01:35:51.640 spray escapes. There's ways to do that, but my weed 1746 01:35:51.720 --> 01:35:54.399 wiper is also a good option. You can reach in 1747 01:35:54.479 --> 01:35:57.159 there and get the product right on the weed without 1748 01:35:57.199 --> 01:35:59.960 touching your plant. And for people that would rather go 1749 01:36:00.000 --> 01:36:03.520 garden more organically, typically the products you use on a 1750 01:36:03.520 --> 01:36:06.079 weed wiper are not going to be organic products they make. 1751 01:36:06.199 --> 01:36:09.960 They could be, but at least you're putting a minimum 1752 01:36:10.039 --> 01:36:12.479 out and you're getting it just on the surface of 1753 01:36:12.520 --> 01:36:15.600 the weeds foliage, and you're not spraying it out everywhere. 1754 01:36:15.640 --> 01:36:17.159 And getting it all over the swell and putting a 1755 01:36:17.159 --> 01:36:19.960 lot of product in the environment. So anyway, just some 1756 01:36:20.000 --> 01:36:22.199 things to be watching for early next week. They'll be 1757 01:36:22.279 --> 01:36:24.399 up on the website. I'll talk about them next weekend 1758 01:36:24.960 --> 01:36:28.039 when we come back as well. If you live done 1759 01:36:28.039 --> 01:36:30.279 in the League City area, and when I say League 1760 01:36:30.279 --> 01:36:35.920 City area, I mean clear Lake City, elkam Into, Reale, Lamark, Baycliffe, Dickinson, 1761 01:36:35.960 --> 01:36:39.000 Santa Fe. Leake City Feed is your hometown feed store 1762 01:36:39.359 --> 01:36:42.560 now a phone number two eight one three three two 1763 01:36:43.000 --> 01:36:46.880 sixteen twelve, the hours Monday through Saturday nine to six, 1764 01:36:47.039 --> 01:36:49.439 closed on Sunday. You know, at League City Feed you're 1765 01:36:49.439 --> 01:36:52.239 always going to find every product you need to manage 1766 01:36:52.319 --> 01:36:54.720 things in your landscape. I've been talking about tricle up 1767 01:36:54.760 --> 01:36:57.479 here today. A lot they've got that at League City Feed. 1768 01:36:57.520 --> 01:37:00.600 They have the fertilizers I talk about at Lee City Feed, 1769 01:37:00.640 --> 01:37:03.239 and you get the old time service carry the sacks 1770 01:37:03.239 --> 01:37:06.600 out or whatever the products are to your car for you. 1771 01:37:07.359 --> 01:37:10.640 And it's just a good opportunity to find what you need. 1772 01:37:10.800 --> 01:37:12.720 And it's easy, easy to get to. It's just a 1773 01:37:12.800 --> 01:37:16.039 few blocks south of Highway or of Highway ninety six 1774 01:37:16.159 --> 01:37:20.439 on Highway three in League City. Stop by there, say hi, 1775 01:37:20.840 --> 01:37:23.800 tell them hello, and find what you're looking for. It's 1776 01:37:23.800 --> 01:37:25.600 time for me to take a little break and that's 1777 01:37:25.600 --> 01:37:29.199 what we're going to do right now. Garden Line, thanks 1778 01:37:29.199 --> 01:37:31.640 for joining us today. I'm your host, Skip Richter. And 1779 01:37:31.680 --> 01:37:33.560 what are we here for. Well, we're here to help 1780 01:37:33.680 --> 01:37:37.239 you have a more bountiful garden and a more beautiful landscape. 1781 01:37:37.319 --> 01:37:39.840 That's what it comes down to. Gardening is the best 1782 01:37:39.880 --> 01:37:42.840 hobby I think in the whole world. And I'm biased, 1783 01:37:42.840 --> 01:37:45.279 but that doesn't mean I'm wrong. I just want to 1784 01:37:45.319 --> 01:37:49.439 say that. So get out there and let's have success. 1785 01:37:49.720 --> 01:37:51.479 You know a lot of people feel like, oh, I 1786 01:37:51.479 --> 01:37:53.880 have a brown thumb, I can't grow anything. No, you 1787 01:37:53.880 --> 01:37:56.520 don't have a brown thumb. You have an uninformed thumb. 1788 01:37:56.520 --> 01:37:59.359 And we inform thumbs here on garden Line. And the 1789 01:37:59.359 --> 01:38:02.359 more you learn, the more you understand what the simple 1790 01:38:02.359 --> 01:38:06.000 basics are that plants need, the better success you can have, 1791 01:38:06.199 --> 01:38:08.239 and we point you to that kind of information. We 1792 01:38:08.319 --> 01:38:10.399 point you to the garden centers where you can find 1793 01:38:10.399 --> 01:38:14.279 the best selection and the best advice before and after 1794 01:38:14.359 --> 01:38:17.520 the sale. Here in the area, we talk about the 1795 01:38:17.640 --> 01:38:19.960 kind of places that carry a lot of products the 1796 01:38:20.000 --> 01:38:23.479 feed stores, the hardware store, the basically the Ace hardware store, 1797 01:38:23.800 --> 01:38:26.760 Southwest Fertilizer, all those kinds of places where you're going 1798 01:38:26.840 --> 01:38:29.600 to find exactly what you're looking for. For example, Southwest, 1799 01:38:29.600 --> 01:38:33.319 I'll just use that as an example. Southwest is a 1800 01:38:33.319 --> 01:38:36.159 place where I like to say they don't have it, 1801 01:38:36.239 --> 01:38:40.640 you don't need it, because they have it. They have 1802 01:38:41.479 --> 01:38:44.439 the widest selection I know of in the whole region 1803 01:38:45.079 --> 01:38:48.159 of any kind of thing, whether it's to kill weeds, 1804 01:38:48.239 --> 01:38:51.000 to deal with pests, to deal with diseases, to fertilize 1805 01:38:51.039 --> 01:38:55.159 your lawn. If you hear me say a product fertilizers, 1806 01:38:55.159 --> 01:38:59.159 pest control, whatever on Guardline, they have it at Southwest Fertilizer. 1807 01:38:59.640 --> 01:39:02.520 If it's synthetic, they have it. If it's organic, they 1808 01:39:02.560 --> 01:39:05.399 have it. It's the place you can go for everything 1809 01:39:05.479 --> 01:39:10.239 that you need. Again, knowledgeable people. They can look at 1810 01:39:10.239 --> 01:39:12.640 a sample, they can look at a photo. They can 1811 01:39:12.680 --> 01:39:15.159 point you to something that you need. They won't sell 1812 01:39:15.199 --> 01:39:17.159 you something that's not going to work. They won't sell 1813 01:39:17.159 --> 01:39:19.840 you something you don't need. It'll advise you on that. 1814 01:39:19.920 --> 01:39:22.439 Do you need tools and eighty foot wall of tools 1815 01:39:22.439 --> 01:39:26.119 in Southwest? Do you need the new cool kneeling bench. 1816 01:39:26.159 --> 01:39:28.840 I say nude. It's I haven't had it in my 1817 01:39:28.880 --> 01:39:30.880 whole life, but I'll tell you this, it's a top 1818 01:39:30.920 --> 01:39:33.680 five tools of all the tools I own. Top five 1819 01:39:34.079 --> 01:39:36.680 kneeling bench. It falls up, you pop it open. It's 1820 01:39:36.720 --> 01:39:39.680 real easy. You can set on it like a seat, 1821 01:39:39.800 --> 01:39:41.640 or you can flip it over and kneel down on 1822 01:39:41.680 --> 01:39:44.840 it and the legs become handles to get back up. 1823 01:39:45.319 --> 01:39:48.760 Remember that if you're anywhere north of forty and you 1824 01:39:48.800 --> 01:39:51.239 go out gardening all Saturday and you're up and down, 1825 01:39:51.399 --> 01:39:54.159 you don't realize it, but a hundred times, yeah, you 1826 01:39:54.199 --> 01:39:56.399 wake up the next morning in your body has a 1827 01:39:56.439 --> 01:39:59.199 few things to say about that. Well, the nailing bench 1828 01:39:59.199 --> 01:40:01.760 will change your life, change your gardening life. It's a 1829 01:40:01.960 --> 01:40:04.399 really cool took at Southwest Fertilizer. Of course they have 1830 01:40:04.439 --> 01:40:07.640 them there Southwest Fertilizers on the corner of Businet and 1831 01:40:07.720 --> 01:40:10.840 Runwick Businet and Runwick in Southwest Houston. You can go 1832 01:40:10.840 --> 01:40:15.479 to the website Southwest Fertilizer dot com, you know, or 1833 01:40:15.640 --> 01:40:18.159 just just swing by there and check it out. You 1834 01:40:18.239 --> 01:40:20.720 find a lot of cool things. For example, when you're 1835 01:40:20.760 --> 01:40:25.119 at Southwest they're going to have Nitrofoss's Superturf. You've heard 1836 01:40:25.119 --> 01:40:28.640 me talk about Nitrofoss super Turf a number of times 1837 01:40:28.640 --> 01:40:31.720 here on guarden Line. It is a product designed by 1838 01:40:31.800 --> 01:40:36.159 Nitrofos to provide a gradual feeding over a long time. 1839 01:40:37.159 --> 01:40:40.640 It's the silver bag by Nitropos. The only silver bag 1840 01:40:40.920 --> 01:40:44.920 of fertilizer I'm aware of anywhere is Nitrovas Superturf, and 1841 01:40:45.000 --> 01:40:46.840 that's certainly here in the Houston area. That's the one 1842 01:40:46.920 --> 01:40:49.920 you're going to find. Nitrovas Superturf is a nineteen four 1843 01:40:49.960 --> 01:40:52.560 to ten fertilizer. It's going to give you a gradual 1844 01:40:53.079 --> 01:40:56.560 release over three months or more. So you do it 1845 01:40:56.640 --> 01:40:58.880 if you haven't done, if you haven't fertilized this summer already, 1846 01:40:59.039 --> 01:41:00.960 put that thing down now, but go ahead and get 1847 01:41:00.960 --> 01:41:02.760 it done, because it's going to carry you all the 1848 01:41:02.760 --> 01:41:05.800 way into the fall fertilization. Now it is going to 1849 01:41:06.119 --> 01:41:08.920 buy gradually feeding. It's going to cut down on your 1850 01:41:08.960 --> 01:41:11.840 mowing by about twenty five percent because you don't have 1851 01:41:11.880 --> 01:41:14.119 this flesh of growth like if you use something that 1852 01:41:14.199 --> 01:41:18.279 was immediately available. It is designed for our soils, it's 1853 01:41:18.399 --> 01:41:21.479 designed for our climate, and it's easy to find Superturf. 1854 01:41:21.560 --> 01:41:24.119 It's going to be at places like Plans for all 1855 01:41:24.159 --> 01:41:27.880 seasons on two forty nine, the Southwest Feed and Fertilizer 1856 01:41:28.000 --> 01:41:29.640 that I was just talking about. Or if you're in 1857 01:41:29.720 --> 01:41:33.359 Brennam plants and things carry it as well as other 1858 01:41:33.439 --> 01:41:37.520 nitrofoss products. Superturf is an excellent product and it'll work 1859 01:41:37.920 --> 01:41:42.640 very well on your lawn. You are listening to garden Line. 1860 01:41:42.680 --> 01:41:45.560 If you would like to ask us a gardening question, 1861 01:41:45.720 --> 01:41:47.359 all you have to do is give us a call. 1862 01:41:47.560 --> 01:41:50.359 Give me a call seven one three two one two 1863 01:41:50.760 --> 01:41:53.880 fifty eight seventy four seven one three two one two 1864 01:41:53.920 --> 01:41:57.960 five eight seven four. We'll be happy to visit with 1865 01:41:58.039 --> 01:42:02.520 you about it. And let's just they lead you to success. 1866 01:42:02.279 --> 01:42:04.600 That that is my goal is I want. I want 1867 01:42:04.600 --> 01:42:10.239 gardening to be fun for you. It just really frustrates 1868 01:42:10.319 --> 01:42:13.479 me and breaks my heart when I hear gardeners or 1869 01:42:13.520 --> 01:42:17.399 someone say, yeah, I tried growing stuff and everything died 1870 01:42:17.560 --> 01:42:19.840 and didn't work. Or I grew tomatoes and I never 1871 01:42:19.920 --> 01:42:23.600 got a tomato and we can fix that. Give us 1872 01:42:23.640 --> 01:42:26.279 a call. We will help you have success. That is 1873 01:42:26.279 --> 01:42:29.319 what we're here for. You never fail at gardening. I 1874 01:42:29.439 --> 01:42:32.439 need you to hear me about that. You never fail 1875 01:42:33.159 --> 01:42:39.119 at gardening. You only temporarily don't succeed. And if you 1876 01:42:39.159 --> 01:42:41.720 stay with it and if you figure out what went wrong, 1877 01:42:42.279 --> 01:42:45.720 you can have success. It's not that difficult. It can 1878 01:42:45.760 --> 01:42:47.720 be done. I don't want people to feel like they 1879 01:42:47.720 --> 01:42:50.399 have brown thumbs. There no such a thing. I don't 1880 01:42:50.399 --> 01:42:53.520 want people to feel like that they can't grow anything. 1881 01:42:53.600 --> 01:42:56.960 That you know that whatever it's it's it's always a 1882 01:42:57.000 --> 01:43:00.239 start over and you need to understand something too. I 1883 01:43:00.279 --> 01:43:03.680 don't care how good of a horticulturist you are. You 1884 01:43:03.800 --> 01:43:07.520 kill plants sometimes. Someone once said one of the best 1885 01:43:07.560 --> 01:43:11.640 horticulturists in the country, and many years ago, he said, 1886 01:43:12.079 --> 01:43:13.720 to be a good horticulturist, she got to kill a 1887 01:43:13.760 --> 01:43:16.319 lot of plants. And so that's your permission to kill 1888 01:43:16.319 --> 01:43:18.760 some plants. As you get better and as you learn, 1889 01:43:19.399 --> 01:43:23.000 nature throws us curves and we have to deal with that. 1890 01:43:23.199 --> 01:43:25.520 Every year is different, which I think is kind of 1891 01:43:25.560 --> 01:43:27.279 part of the fun of it because we get to 1892 01:43:27.359 --> 01:43:29.760 keep challenging. Plus it gives us something else to gripe about, 1893 01:43:29.840 --> 01:43:32.880 as if we needed that. We can complain about the weather. 1894 01:43:34.479 --> 01:43:38.359 But if you just get your boots back on and 1895 01:43:38.520 --> 01:43:42.159 head back out there and get your rotortailler or your spade, 1896 01:43:42.239 --> 01:43:44.479 get rid of the plant you got, and let's start 1897 01:43:44.520 --> 01:43:47.960 over again. You will have success. Stick with it. I've 1898 01:43:48.000 --> 01:43:51.359 talked to somebody recently that was having problems with their soil. 1899 01:43:51.640 --> 01:43:54.199 They were just having an issue with soil, and we 1900 01:43:54.279 --> 01:43:56.279 talked about, you know, what could you do to help it? 1901 01:43:56.359 --> 01:43:59.640 About bottom line in time, as you can turn any 1902 01:43:59.680 --> 01:44:05.039 area into your version of Eden around your place. I 1903 01:44:05.039 --> 01:44:07.279 hope you'll I hope you believe that, and I hope 1904 01:44:07.319 --> 01:44:08.920 you give us a call on guard Line and let 1905 01:44:09.039 --> 01:44:12.159 us help you do just that. We're going to head 1906 01:44:12.159 --> 01:44:15.079 out to Crosby, Texas now and talk to Gerald. 1907 01:44:15.720 --> 01:44:20.359 Hello, Gerald, good morning. Now are you well. I have 1908 01:44:20.399 --> 01:44:23.960 a problem with my front yard. I mean it's got 1909 01:44:24.000 --> 01:44:26.720 every kind of grass there is to be had growing 1910 01:44:26.800 --> 01:44:33.239 in it, a Bermuda, Johnson, and plus weeds. I've got 1911 01:44:34.279 --> 01:44:40.640 that Virginia button weed and clover and some kind of stuff. 1912 01:44:40.640 --> 01:44:44.600 It's kind of a purple liish looking stuff. Okay, it 1913 01:44:44.800 --> 01:44:48.359 just kind of spreads and I need to know what 1914 01:44:48.560 --> 01:44:53.680 I can put on that to kill the weeds and 1915 01:44:53.760 --> 01:44:57.920 help the grass grow. I mean I put my neighbor 1916 01:44:57.960 --> 01:45:02.119 told me that that stay green furlized that you can 1917 01:45:02.159 --> 01:45:07.119 get from lows will kill the button weed. And it did. 1918 01:45:07.319 --> 01:45:11.760 It killed some other but it didn't. It didn't even 1919 01:45:11.800 --> 01:45:13.720 bother the clover. In fact, I think it helped it 1920 01:45:13.760 --> 01:45:17.479 grow more. And that other weed, I don't know what 1921 01:45:17.560 --> 01:45:17.920 it is. 1922 01:45:18.079 --> 01:45:20.720 But all right, so Gerald, this is gonna be a 1923 01:45:20.760 --> 01:45:22.760 little bit of involved question and I have to go 1924 01:45:22.800 --> 01:45:25.279 to a break, so hang on. When we come back, 1925 01:45:25.319 --> 01:45:27.560 we'll tackle it and try to help you turn that 1926 01:45:27.560 --> 01:45:30.119 that place around and get what you're looking for out 1927 01:45:30.119 --> 01:45:32.279 of it. Thank you very much. Just hang on with 1928 01:45:32.319 --> 01:45:34.359 me and I'll be right back. Okay, all right, we're 1929 01:45:34.359 --> 01:45:36.520 gonna take take a break, Folks. When we come back, 1930 01:45:36.560 --> 01:45:39.279 we'll be with Gerald. Steve, you're next up. If you 1931 01:45:39.319 --> 01:45:41.359 would like to be on guard line seven one three two, 1932 01:45:41.600 --> 01:45:43.560 two fifty eight seventy four. 1933 01:45:45.199 --> 01:45:48.840 Hey Ward me, I'll got the same hot. 1934 01:45:48.880 --> 01:45:50.479 Welcome back to the guard line. Good to have you 1935 01:45:50.520 --> 01:45:53.439 with us. We are going to head back out to 1936 01:45:53.920 --> 01:45:56.119 Crosby and continue our discussion with Gerald. 1937 01:45:56.439 --> 01:45:56.720 Gerald. 1938 01:45:56.920 --> 01:45:58.800 Uh, it sounds like you kind of have the history 1939 01:45:58.800 --> 01:46:01.199 of weeds going on out there in the lawn. As 1940 01:46:01.199 --> 01:46:05.239 you were starting to name things, I think if you've 1941 01:46:05.279 --> 01:46:09.439 got a decent amount of lawn still left, like let's 1942 01:46:09.479 --> 01:46:11.520 say with then you know there's not areas bigger than 1943 01:46:11.560 --> 01:46:14.079 about a foot apart where lawn can crawl back in. 1944 01:46:15.159 --> 01:46:18.439 You can go at it with controlling the weeds and 1945 01:46:18.560 --> 01:46:21.920 as you bring the turf back in, try to do both. 1946 01:46:22.399 --> 01:46:25.199 If you've got big areas that are just mostly weeds 1947 01:46:25.720 --> 01:46:28.399 wider than a foot or so apart, it may be 1948 01:46:28.520 --> 01:46:31.520 better to just go in and get rid of everything 1949 01:46:31.960 --> 01:46:34.479 in that area and then put some resow or plugs 1950 01:46:34.520 --> 01:46:37.079 back in to start working your way across. And you 1951 01:46:37.079 --> 01:46:39.199 can do that progressively through your lawn if you don't 1952 01:46:39.199 --> 01:46:41.720 want to tackle the whole thing at once, or you 1953 01:46:41.760 --> 01:46:46.159 can take it all on at once. But the various 1954 01:46:46.399 --> 01:46:49.600 weeds that you mentioned johnsyngrass, You mentioned Virginia button weed 1955 01:46:49.640 --> 01:46:52.119 and some others, and those are all those are all 1956 01:46:52.119 --> 01:46:54.680 pernicious weeds that aren't real easy to get rid of. 1957 01:46:55.680 --> 01:46:59.960 Using the right products is important because some things will 1958 01:47:00.119 --> 01:47:02.279 kill your Saint Augustine too, and you don't want that. 1959 01:47:03.159 --> 01:47:05.319 But most of the weeds you mentioned are broad leaf. 1960 01:47:05.479 --> 01:47:08.199 Most of them are broadly and so a broad leaf 1961 01:47:08.239 --> 01:47:16.159 weed control product would be probably a way to consider going. Okay, Now, 1962 01:47:16.199 --> 01:47:18.800 the thing about thing about broad leafs in the heat 1963 01:47:19.079 --> 01:47:21.560 is most products that are on the market that are 1964 01:47:21.600 --> 01:47:25.800 for spraying onto existing broad leaf weeds will really hurt 1965 01:47:25.800 --> 01:47:28.600 Saint Augustine when the temperature is above eighty five and 1966 01:47:28.880 --> 01:47:32.880 we now for a long time above eighty five. So 1967 01:47:34.159 --> 01:47:37.000 that would mean in spring and in fall is your 1968 01:47:37.039 --> 01:47:40.159 opportunity to do some weed tackling with those products. There's 1969 01:47:40.199 --> 01:47:47.520 one that is called Celsius, like the temperature, that is 1970 01:47:47.680 --> 01:47:52.319 not cheap. It is pricey, but it's pricey because it's 1971 01:47:52.359 --> 01:47:55.279 a special product. You can use it in warmer weather. 1972 01:47:55.359 --> 01:47:58.239 I still would do it early in the morning, and 1973 01:47:58.359 --> 01:48:00.600 it is very effective against things that are hard to 1974 01:48:00.680 --> 01:48:03.960 kill like Virginia button weed. Even with Celsius, you may 1975 01:48:04.000 --> 01:48:06.600 not need to make two applications on your button weed 1976 01:48:06.680 --> 01:48:08.840 starting when you first start to see a good stand 1977 01:48:08.840 --> 01:48:12.840 of it coming up in spring, but those those would 1978 01:48:12.840 --> 01:48:16.079 be your your options either way, you're going to be 1979 01:48:16.079 --> 01:48:20.119 at it for a while. But yeah, that's what that's 1980 01:48:20.159 --> 01:48:20.920 my first thoughts. 1981 01:48:22.119 --> 01:48:26.840 Okay, so just maybe you know, even get into like 1982 01:48:26.880 --> 01:48:31.880 a weed and feed, wouldn't knocked some of that stuff out. 1983 01:48:33.159 --> 01:48:35.439 I would I would not do that I think in 1984 01:48:35.479 --> 01:48:39.159 a situation, I in general, I prefer to use separate 1985 01:48:39.199 --> 01:48:43.880 fertilizer and weed control. Separate them. And the reason is 1986 01:48:44.000 --> 01:48:47.000 each weed and feed it has a certain kind of fertilizer, 1987 01:48:47.199 --> 01:48:49.760 and it has a certain kind of weed control, and 1988 01:48:49.840 --> 01:48:52.399 maybe the one it has doesn't control the weed you have. 1989 01:48:53.239 --> 01:48:56.439 Do you see what I'm saying. And the timing and everything. 1990 01:48:56.520 --> 01:48:58.720 Sometimes the weed and feeds, if it's a pre emergent, 1991 01:48:58.800 --> 01:49:00.960 the timing can be a little off as to when 1992 01:49:01.000 --> 01:49:03.000 you would want to fertilize and when you would want 1993 01:49:03.000 --> 01:49:04.479 to put on a premerge, and it may not be 1994 01:49:04.560 --> 01:49:07.520 the same. Uh So I would I would rather go 1995 01:49:07.560 --> 01:49:09.880 at this separately, you know. I mean, if it could 1996 01:49:09.880 --> 01:49:12.159 come down to you send me a bunch of pictures 1997 01:49:12.199 --> 01:49:13.880 of the different weeds you got, we could take a 1998 01:49:13.880 --> 01:49:16.079 look at them and I could say, okay, start with 1999 01:49:16.159 --> 01:49:18.800 this one and let's get everything you can. But it's 2000 01:49:18.840 --> 01:49:24.399 also legit in situations where it's just almost all weeds 2001 01:49:25.159 --> 01:49:27.680 in areas to just go ahead and start from scratch, 2002 01:49:27.880 --> 01:49:30.560 start over and put some side in and go go 2003 01:49:30.640 --> 01:49:32.319 with it that way, even if it meant doing it 2004 01:49:32.359 --> 01:49:34.199 a little at a time to spread the work and 2005 01:49:34.279 --> 01:49:35.880 the time and the cost out over time. 2006 01:49:37.079 --> 01:49:41.000 Yeah, all right, I think, thank you. 2007 01:49:41.399 --> 01:49:46.159 I appreciate that you bet. Bye bye. We are now 2008 01:49:46.199 --> 01:49:50.359 going ahead. Let's who's been waiting here? Steve and East Houston. Hey, Steve, 2009 01:49:50.439 --> 01:49:51.239 welcome regard line. 2010 01:49:51.399 --> 01:49:51.520 Hi. 2011 01:49:52.159 --> 01:49:56.600 Yeah, hey, good morning, Skip. I'd like to I'd like 2012 01:49:56.680 --> 01:50:01.520 to cut back my land leaf coreopsis. 2013 01:50:01.800 --> 01:50:07.800 It is through blooming, okay, is that you can cut 2014 01:50:07.800 --> 01:50:08.199 it back? 2015 01:50:09.119 --> 01:50:09.479 Okay? 2016 01:50:11.000 --> 01:50:13.439 I mean, but you had some more to the question. 2017 01:50:13.520 --> 01:50:16.199 I believe, no that I. 2018 01:50:16.119 --> 01:50:16.720 Guess that was. 2019 01:50:17.039 --> 01:50:17.840 I just didn't. 2020 01:50:20.199 --> 01:50:22.800 I guess I was reluctant to cut it back because 2021 01:50:22.840 --> 01:50:25.399 I'm afraid that if I cut it back, we have 2022 01:50:25.479 --> 01:50:29.479 another cost twelve weeks, sixteen weeks of growing something like 2023 01:50:29.479 --> 01:50:31.560 that before we get a freeze or anything like that. 2024 01:50:31.680 --> 01:50:35.239 So I didn't want to harm the plant. 2025 01:50:35.960 --> 01:50:40.279 I see. Yeah, well, let's see Caryopsis. A lot of 2026 01:50:40.319 --> 01:50:43.239 times we refer to them as TICKSI that's another name, 2027 01:50:43.239 --> 01:50:46.840 because it's a wildflower as well as a garden flower. 2028 01:50:48.319 --> 01:50:50.800 You know, it's it's it's a good tough plant. But 2029 01:50:50.880 --> 01:50:53.399 it does have its season, which is pretty much what 2030 01:50:53.439 --> 01:50:59.439 you're telling me has happened there with it. I would me, 2031 01:50:59.560 --> 01:51:02.720 damn trying to think of the best weight to suggest 2032 01:51:03.439 --> 01:51:07.680 something for it. It is going to have I replant 2033 01:51:07.720 --> 01:51:12.079 mine each year, and so I don't if you tried 2034 01:51:12.119 --> 01:51:15.520 cutting it back. If you could go back cutting all 2035 01:51:15.560 --> 01:51:19.279 the twiggy stuff out down to where there's actual foliage, 2036 01:51:19.279 --> 01:51:23.680 it's got a strappy foliage. Follow that with a little 2037 01:51:23.720 --> 01:51:28.239 sprinkling a fertilizer and then a good soaking, a good soaking, 2038 01:51:28.319 --> 01:51:31.800 and that would allow you to give a boost of 2039 01:51:31.840 --> 01:51:33.800 the plant to come back out and maybe you'll get 2040 01:51:33.800 --> 01:51:35.800 a little bit more blooming out of it that way. 2041 01:51:35.880 --> 01:51:38.079 That's that certainly is worth a try if you feel 2042 01:51:38.079 --> 01:51:39.600 like your plants are in decent health. 2043 01:51:40.920 --> 01:51:45.560 Okay, all right, I'll try that. And I call it 2044 01:51:45.680 --> 01:51:49.880 nutgrass just just a broad leaved weed killer. 2045 01:51:51.880 --> 01:51:56.159 No, I can't answer nutgrass and in a quick answer 2046 01:51:56.199 --> 01:52:00.039 online on the air, but I'm gonna give you my 2047 01:52:00.119 --> 01:52:04.079 website and if you write this down gardening with Skip 2048 01:52:04.520 --> 01:52:08.199 dot com. Early this next week, three different things are 2049 01:52:08.239 --> 01:52:12.159 going up that all address dealing with nutgrass, and I 2050 01:52:12.199 --> 01:52:15.039 would encourage you to take a look at those, because again, 2051 01:52:15.119 --> 01:52:17.680 it's it's a little more complicated than just go spray 2052 01:52:17.720 --> 01:52:20.640 this on it. Uh, the go spray this on it. 2053 01:52:20.800 --> 01:52:25.640 Answer is to use a product called sedgehammer. Sedge hammer, 2054 01:52:26.359 --> 01:52:30.359 but I would rather you take a look at this 2055 01:52:30.479 --> 01:52:34.039 publication I'm putting up before you go out and start spraying. 2056 01:52:34.399 --> 01:52:36.920 I think you'll you'll do a better job with whatever 2057 01:52:37.000 --> 01:52:37.720 you choose to do. 2058 01:52:37.840 --> 01:52:43.399 Then, Okay gardening with Skip dot Com. 2059 01:52:43.399 --> 01:52:46.560 That's right, that it's okay gardening with Thank you? All right, 2060 01:52:47.079 --> 01:52:50.399 thank you very much. Appreciate appreciate your call very much. 2061 01:52:50.920 --> 01:52:54.119 Oh boy, let's see here. Where do we go next? Uh, 2062 01:52:54.600 --> 01:52:57.319 We're going to go to Devanna up there in Katie 2063 01:52:57.319 --> 01:52:58.760 And it looks like we're going to talk about the 2064 01:52:58.760 --> 01:52:59.640 same thing, Divanna. 2065 01:53:01.560 --> 01:53:07.920 Yes, I recently had a cleanup done in my yard 2066 01:53:08.079 --> 01:53:11.520 that they removed the nut sedge. 2067 01:53:11.239 --> 01:53:11.840 That I had. 2068 01:53:12.640 --> 01:53:15.600 Now that the beds are clean, should I go and 2069 01:53:16.159 --> 01:53:17.640 spray it with the sedge hammer. 2070 01:53:18.840 --> 01:53:22.239 No, you have to spray that on existing nutsedge. 2071 01:53:22.680 --> 01:53:23.720 Okay, okay. 2072 01:53:24.680 --> 01:53:27.560 Depending on the kind of nut sege you have. There's 2073 01:53:27.600 --> 01:53:32.560 a product called image I m Age that is very effective. 2074 01:53:32.840 --> 01:53:35.960 But it was you spray it on the foliage, but 2075 01:53:36.000 --> 01:53:39.079 it also about twenty four hours later you watered in 2076 01:53:39.159 --> 01:53:43.079 and it also has root activity. But in landscape beds. 2077 01:53:43.159 --> 01:53:45.800 There are a number of plants that it can damage, 2078 01:53:46.199 --> 01:53:48.239 and so you have to read the label to see 2079 01:53:48.600 --> 01:53:51.239 what you can and can't use it around. But that's 2080 01:53:51.279 --> 01:53:53.720 one that even if you don't have the nutsedge up there, 2081 01:53:53.880 --> 01:53:56.520 you could spray, you could water it in. I would 2082 01:53:56.520 --> 01:53:59.239 wait until you had something to spray before you do. 2083 01:53:59.239 --> 01:54:02.239 It, Okay, Well, I just wanted to keep it, you know, 2084 01:54:02.359 --> 01:54:04.920 controlled now now that the beds are cleaned. 2085 01:54:06.079 --> 01:54:07.760 Yeah, so I'll just wait. 2086 01:54:09.079 --> 01:54:11.439 Yes, go look at my stuff online at gardening. We 2087 01:54:11.479 --> 01:54:13.680 skipped dot bom. As soon as I can get it 2088 01:54:13.720 --> 01:54:15.199 up there, I will. It will be early in the 2089 01:54:15.199 --> 01:54:16.039 week at the latest. 2090 01:54:16.520 --> 01:54:19.680 Uh all right, thank you, Yeah, you bet. 2091 01:54:19.479 --> 01:54:21.359 And it will be back and you will be up 2092 01:54:21.359 --> 01:54:24.439 for about But that's okay. We're just informing you with 2093 01:54:24.479 --> 01:54:27.560 that publication on here's how you do it. But you 2094 01:54:27.680 --> 01:54:30.479 just have to remember when Nut SAIDs you can't stop 2095 01:54:31.039 --> 01:54:36.359 you can't stop it. You you bet? Thank you very much. 2096 01:54:36.439 --> 01:54:37.319 I appreciate that. 2097 01:54:37.720 --> 01:54:38.039 All right. 2098 01:54:38.159 --> 01:54:41.920 I hear music. So Ken, I'm friends with Steve your park. 2099 01:54:41.920 --> 01:54:43.760 We're gonna come to you when we get back from 2100 01:54:43.760 --> 01:54:47.159 this break. Yeah. Nut's edge is a formidable foe. And 2101 01:54:47.199 --> 01:54:50.000 that's why I'm putting three different things online about it. 2102 01:54:50.199 --> 01:54:52.840 It will help you, uh, a little bit of a 2103 01:54:52.920 --> 01:54:55.000 sordid way to put it. But I like to tell 2104 01:54:55.039 --> 01:54:57.840 people when you go after nuts edge, it's like you're 2105 01:54:57.840 --> 01:54:59.520 trying to drown it. You got to hold it under 2106 01:54:59.520 --> 01:55:02.840 water until a bubble squid coming out, because if you 2107 01:55:03.000 --> 01:55:05.159 let it up, it takes a gulf of air and 2108 01:55:05.239 --> 01:55:07.520 you're right back where you started. And a lot of 2109 01:55:07.560 --> 01:55:11.000 you been right back where you started with unsuccessful attempts 2110 01:55:11.319 --> 01:55:13.560 tape control that such, we'll be right back. 2111 01:55:14.680 --> 01:55:16.159 Scarp Rickard's. 2112 01:55:17.600 --> 01:55:31.359 Crazy here gas trip, just watch him as well. Many 2113 01:55:31.800 --> 01:55:44.079 thanks the sea botasy gas, you're. 2114 01:55:40.479 --> 01:55:43.680 Not a side gas. 2115 01:55:46.000 --> 01:55:48.439 The sun beaming. 2116 01:55:47.920 --> 01:55:49.000 Down between. 2117 01:55:51.399 --> 01:55:54.119 Well, come back, welcome back to guard Line. Hey, it's 2118 01:55:54.119 --> 01:55:57.520 good to have you with us today. I appreciate you 2119 01:55:57.880 --> 01:56:01.399 listening in and we are gonna start this hour. First 2120 01:56:01.399 --> 01:56:04.960 of all, I wanted to tell you about Jorges Hidden Gardens. Now, 2121 01:56:05.000 --> 01:56:08.840 those of you that are down south of Houston, this 2122 01:56:09.239 --> 01:56:13.520 is a local garden center. We call them the Mom 2123 01:56:13.520 --> 01:56:17.600 and Pops and this is and it's the independent garden 2124 01:56:17.640 --> 01:56:21.039 center that's down in Alvin, Texas. Now you probably heard 2125 01:56:21.039 --> 01:56:22.880 about Horayes before. I don't know if you've heard been, 2126 01:56:22.960 --> 01:56:25.680 but you need to go visit. They're open on Fridays 2127 01:56:25.680 --> 01:56:28.640 from nine to three, and on Saturdays from eight to four, 2128 01:56:28.680 --> 01:56:30.920 and on Sundays from eight to four, so it's easy 2129 01:56:31.000 --> 01:56:34.279 on the weekends to find time there that you can 2130 01:56:34.319 --> 01:56:38.159 go in and check things out. There on Elizabeth Street 2131 01:56:38.279 --> 01:56:41.159 in Alvin, just south of Highway six Elizabeth Street, So 2132 01:56:41.199 --> 01:56:44.520 those of you in Alvin and Santa Fe, Dickinson Hillcrest, 2133 01:56:44.520 --> 01:56:48.520 Algoa Arcadia, how about Alta Loma, this is your hometown 2134 01:56:48.520 --> 01:56:51.920 garden center just real close by there. Seasonally through the 2135 01:56:52.000 --> 01:56:53.720 year they got all kinds of things. You know, there'll 2136 01:56:53.720 --> 01:56:56.239 be times where there's tomato plants and other kinds of 2137 01:56:56.319 --> 01:56:59.199 vegetables and herbs and whatnot. They always have a good 2138 01:56:59.199 --> 01:57:02.840 selection of fruit trees, fruit trees that are lower chill 2139 01:57:02.920 --> 01:57:06.319 that do well down in that area. I know this 2140 01:57:06.359 --> 01:57:09.239 past year, I was so impressed with the Peggy Martin roses. 2141 01:57:09.239 --> 01:57:11.640 If they had already on little trellis'es that did good 2142 01:57:11.960 --> 01:57:14.479 krape myrtles. Lots of different trees and things, and they 2143 01:57:14.520 --> 01:57:17.720 carry that three sixty tree stabilizer that you hear me 2144 01:57:17.760 --> 01:57:21.760 talk about from time to time. Hojrges Hidden Gardens on 2145 01:57:21.840 --> 01:57:26.079 Elizabeth Street down in Alvin again Fridays ninety three, Saturdays 2146 01:57:26.119 --> 01:57:30.399 eight to four, Sundays eight to four. We're going to 2147 01:57:30.479 --> 01:57:32.279 head to the phones now and I'm going to head 2148 01:57:32.319 --> 01:57:35.399 to friends Wood and talk to Ken. Hello, Ken, Welcome 2149 01:57:35.399 --> 01:57:37.079 to garden line. Hey, good morning, Skip. 2150 01:57:37.960 --> 01:57:38.399 Can you hear me? 2151 01:57:38.439 --> 01:57:40.399 Okay, yes, sir? 2152 01:57:41.439 --> 01:57:44.039 Yeah, Hey, So yeah, I've got a beautiful, you know, 2153 01:57:44.079 --> 01:57:48.560 Saint Augustine grass yard and over probably the last ten years, 2154 01:57:48.560 --> 01:57:53.399 been using you know, popular chemical companies here to fertilize 2155 01:57:53.399 --> 01:57:56.039 and set aside and all that. And you know, in 2156 01:57:56.079 --> 01:58:00.720 my mind, these companies are always over fertilizing, and ultimately, 2157 01:58:00.920 --> 01:58:04.000 you know, every year my yard is I guess, you know, 2158 01:58:04.039 --> 01:58:06.520 I see things. I think it's insects or fungus or whatever. 2159 01:58:06.560 --> 01:58:10.399 But every year it's gotten a little worse, and you know, 2160 01:58:10.479 --> 01:58:12.640 I think we finally, my wife and I've decided that 2161 01:58:12.720 --> 01:58:14.760 it's take all root rot. And this year it's been 2162 01:58:14.800 --> 01:58:18.079 really bad, I guess because of all the rain and 2163 01:58:19.159 --> 01:58:21.840 you know, everything that we've read, it's like there, we're 2164 01:58:21.920 --> 01:58:24.000 just in a really bad place and it's really hard 2165 01:58:24.039 --> 01:58:28.920 to control. And you know, I so anyways, I'd like 2166 01:58:28.960 --> 01:58:31.039 to hear your thoughts. I have some other thoughts about 2167 01:58:31.159 --> 01:58:33.880 how to turn it around, but I really wanted an 2168 01:58:33.920 --> 01:58:34.760 extraored opinion. 2169 01:58:35.960 --> 01:58:36.159 Right. 2170 01:58:36.720 --> 01:58:41.600 Well, there's not a there's not just a one step 2171 01:58:41.840 --> 01:58:44.479 on controlling and take all root rot. If you go 2172 01:58:44.520 --> 01:58:48.960 to my schedules online at gardening with skip dot com U, 2173 01:58:49.079 --> 01:58:52.800 there is a whole row across there that's kind of 2174 01:58:52.800 --> 01:58:57.039 shaded light brown tan colored and it's the disease row. 2175 01:58:57.199 --> 01:59:00.159 And you'll notice that in the spring there is an 2176 01:59:00.159 --> 01:59:04.279 optional application for take all in March through early April 2177 01:59:04.920 --> 01:59:08.119 UH and then in the fall. October and November are 2178 01:59:08.159 --> 01:59:11.039 two important times to treat for take all. Root rot. 2179 01:59:11.800 --> 01:59:16.159 One of the most effective products for take all and 2180 01:59:16.199 --> 01:59:19.439 it's on it's on that schedule if you go. If 2181 01:59:19.439 --> 01:59:24.239 you go and look at it is the ingredient azoxystrobin 2182 01:59:24.600 --> 01:59:27.880 and it's a z O x y S t r 2183 01:59:28.000 --> 01:59:34.079 O ezoxystrobin. Now that that is important. Also important is 2184 01:59:34.560 --> 01:59:39.000 proper aeration of the soil. Compost top dressings are helpful 2185 01:59:39.039 --> 01:59:42.640 for that. Any kind of a microboile enriched fertilizer is 2186 01:59:42.680 --> 01:59:45.920 also going to be helpful for that. There's a product 2187 01:59:46.159 --> 01:59:49.119 and i'd have to go look look for it. But 2188 01:59:49.239 --> 01:59:52.600 it's by fertil and it contains micro nutrients. It's it's 2189 01:59:52.640 --> 01:59:57.399 got not just iron, but it's got molebdenum, it's got zinc, 2190 01:59:57.560 --> 02:00:00.560 and it's got manganese in it and iron I know, 2191 02:00:00.800 --> 02:00:04.640 and zinc and it When take All hits a grass plant, 2192 02:00:04.720 --> 02:00:07.199 it kills the roots and if you don't have root tips, 2193 02:00:07.199 --> 02:00:09.680 you're not able to take up some of these micronutrients, 2194 02:00:09.720 --> 02:00:12.840 like iron, for example. So what it's like doing is 2195 02:00:12.880 --> 02:00:15.520 it's like bypassing the root system. When you put it 2196 02:00:15.560 --> 02:00:18.640 in a hose in sprayer and spray it on your plant. 2197 02:00:19.000 --> 02:00:21.520 That does not cure take All, but it's like being 2198 02:00:21.560 --> 02:00:23.479 in the hospital and you can't eat. They give you 2199 02:00:23.520 --> 02:00:26.640 an IV until you can eat. And so it's the 2200 02:00:26.680 --> 02:00:29.800 IV to foldy or spray it with your hoseen sprayer. 2201 02:00:30.640 --> 02:00:34.199 So that is part of the process. Using the azoxystrobin 2202 02:00:34.399 --> 02:00:36.960 is part of the process. And there's there's different forms 2203 02:00:37.000 --> 02:00:41.239 of azoxystrobin. One is called heritage. There is another one 2204 02:00:42.439 --> 02:00:45.479 I think it's I believe it's a disease X. I'm 2205 02:00:45.479 --> 02:00:47.520 trying to think of which of the products. But anyway, 2206 02:00:47.680 --> 02:00:53.800 just look for a zoxystrobin. Yeah, and so those things 2207 02:00:54.680 --> 02:00:56.680 water it more often, you know, I talk about water 2208 02:00:56.720 --> 02:00:59.319 in once a week, maybe twice a week when you've 2209 02:00:59.319 --> 02:01:01.880 got to take all a light. Watering a little more 2210 02:01:01.880 --> 02:01:05.079 often is helpful because it lacks the root system, the 2211 02:01:05.119 --> 02:01:08.039 deep extensive root system, so you're having to pamper it 2212 02:01:08.039 --> 02:01:10.960 along a little bit more. I'd rather not wader that often, 2213 02:01:11.000 --> 02:01:14.279 but when you're lacking roots, that keeps the plant from dying. 2214 02:01:14.720 --> 02:01:18.039 To give it, yeah, water, all of those are steps. 2215 02:01:18.319 --> 02:01:21.439 Anything you do to acidify the surface of the soil 2216 02:01:22.399 --> 02:01:27.359 would be help. Is iron helpful in that iron is 2217 02:01:27.399 --> 02:01:30.800 helpful if it's in a form they can use now. 2218 02:01:32.439 --> 02:01:35.600 Soil wise, you're saying acidify the soil, and I you know, 2219 02:01:35.920 --> 02:01:38.920 we've certainly read about that, and that's where composts can. 2220 02:01:38.800 --> 02:01:44.039 Help, right. Composts can help. There are some research by 2221 02:01:44.079 --> 02:01:48.039 an m up in Dallas where peat moss purchasing it 2222 02:01:48.159 --> 02:01:52.439 by those bales. It's like compress square plastic covered bales 2223 02:01:52.439 --> 02:01:55.319 of peat moss. There are three point eight cubic feet 2224 02:01:55.359 --> 02:01:57.960 that covers about one thousand feet a third of an 2225 02:01:57.960 --> 02:02:00.439 inch deep, and so you have to work out getting 2226 02:02:00.439 --> 02:02:04.520 it out there. But that's sounds like that's a. 2227 02:02:04.479 --> 02:02:08.319 Tough thing to deal with, and we've read about that, 2228 02:02:08.439 --> 02:02:10.800 and there's a couple of companies here in Houston. I 2229 02:02:10.840 --> 02:02:14.560 guess that's specialize in, you know, very specific compost for 2230 02:02:14.640 --> 02:02:15.159 this issue. 2231 02:02:15.279 --> 02:02:19.600 Right, Yeah, that's right. You're you're a little bit outside 2232 02:02:19.680 --> 02:02:22.119 the edge of BMB turf Pros. But I would give 2233 02:02:22.159 --> 02:02:25.439 them a call. They're there. Number is seven to one 2234 02:02:25.520 --> 02:02:29.720 three two three four fifty five ninety eight. Now they 2235 02:02:29.760 --> 02:02:32.880 specialize in compost, stop dressing, quality compos stop dssing. I 2236 02:02:32.920 --> 02:02:35.079 don't know if they would be able to put the 2237 02:02:35.079 --> 02:02:38.479 peede out or not, but I've done it myself just 2238 02:02:38.520 --> 02:02:41.239 by breaking it up into a into a wheelbarrow, making 2239 02:02:41.279 --> 02:02:44.399 little piles around, and then using a rake upside down 2240 02:02:44.439 --> 02:02:47.760 to break from that plan to spread it around a 2241 02:02:47.800 --> 02:02:52.880 little bit. So those are all things that help, and 2242 02:02:52.960 --> 02:02:55.319 you just have to stay with it, that's the bottom line. 2243 02:02:55.399 --> 02:02:58.359 Yeah, I guess I was thinking about you've mentioned aeration, 2244 02:02:58.479 --> 02:03:00.720 and for sure, you know, I'm you know, I've been 2245 02:03:00.720 --> 02:03:02.319 feeling this for a while. You know, it gets it 2246 02:03:02.399 --> 02:03:05.880 just gets squshy, squishy underneath your feet when you're mowing, 2247 02:03:06.119 --> 02:03:08.960 you know, whether I guess because the roots are going away, 2248 02:03:09.880 --> 02:03:13.000 but yeah, I think I was thinking about this this 2249 02:03:13.119 --> 02:03:18.159 spring actually aerating, just fall aeriating and then actually raking 2250 02:03:18.199 --> 02:03:19.800 in sand and the peat moss. 2251 02:03:20.640 --> 02:03:24.239 Yeah, it's not an official recommendation, but I would I 2252 02:03:24.279 --> 02:03:27.920 could also see using a wettable sulfur in a hose 2253 02:03:27.960 --> 02:03:31.680 in sprayer mixed not a hose end. Yeah, hose hose 2254 02:03:31.720 --> 02:03:35.119 insprayer to just go over the lawn and acidify that 2255 02:03:35.239 --> 02:03:37.399 runner area right at the top of the soil. So 2256 02:03:37.479 --> 02:03:40.479 that'd be another option. Hey, im against a hard break here, Kim, 2257 02:03:40.560 --> 02:03:43.119 but hopefully that gives you some tools to keep working 2258 02:03:43.159 --> 02:03:45.680 on it. Don't hesitate to call back over time. If 2259 02:03:45.720 --> 02:03:48.479 we need to continue this conversation, I'd be happy to 2260 02:03:48.520 --> 02:03:51.359 do that. You take care, all right, folks, time for 2261 02:03:51.399 --> 02:03:53.680 a break. If you'd like to call seven one three 2262 02:03:53.800 --> 02:03:56.199 two one two kt r H, I'll be right back 2263 02:03:56.640 --> 02:03:58.279 you with us. So we're going to hit the ground 2264 02:03:58.359 --> 02:04:00.520 run in here. A while ago I was bench BnB 2265 02:04:00.640 --> 02:04:02.560 turf pros. Some of you may have heard it and 2266 02:04:02.880 --> 02:04:04.920 was like, Okay, what did that? What do they do? 2267 02:04:05.000 --> 02:04:05.159 Well? 2268 02:04:05.279 --> 02:04:10.640 BnB, they're south of Houston and they cover an area 2269 02:04:10.720 --> 02:04:13.760 that goes I don't know about as far. Let's say 2270 02:04:13.760 --> 02:04:16.880 to the west as sugar Land and north as Missouri City, 2271 02:04:17.560 --> 02:04:19.800 all the way across to Pearland and then down to 2272 02:04:19.880 --> 02:04:24.399 places like Iowa Colony or Coola, Sienna, Fresno, that whole 2273 02:04:24.479 --> 02:04:28.760 area down there. They do top dressing and they do 2274 02:04:28.880 --> 02:04:32.560 core aeration, and so to have them come out is 2275 02:04:32.760 --> 02:04:36.920 really a boost for your lawn. Core aeration helps get 2276 02:04:36.960 --> 02:04:41.399 oxygen on the soil and helps break up compaction top dressing, 2277 02:04:41.439 --> 02:04:43.399 compost top dressing. And by the way, they only use 2278 02:04:43.520 --> 02:04:46.720 the highest quality compost top dressing like Ciena Maltch for example, 2279 02:04:46.800 --> 02:04:49.159 that is high quality stuff they use that they use 2280 02:04:49.199 --> 02:04:52.079 the fertilizers like Microlife that we talk about here on Guardline. 2281 02:04:52.119 --> 02:04:55.039 They only use top quality products and companies that I 2282 02:04:55.079 --> 02:04:58.199 trust here on guarden Line. BnB turf Pros, you're not 2283 02:04:58.239 --> 02:05:02.039 going to get better customer service ride themselves in making 2284 02:05:02.119 --> 02:05:05.279 sure that they listen to you and they have a 2285 02:05:05.319 --> 02:05:09.159 relationship with you in terms of being someone you depend 2286 02:05:09.199 --> 02:05:16.199 on BB Turfpros dot Com. BB Turfpros dot Com seven 2287 02:05:16.279 --> 02:05:20.000 one three two three four, five five nine eight. Seven 2288 02:05:20.079 --> 02:05:24.560 one three two three four, five five nine eight You 2289 02:05:24.600 --> 02:05:26.840 need to give them a call. They do go above 2290 02:05:26.880 --> 02:05:29.399 and beyond and if you look at their ratings, and 2291 02:05:29.439 --> 02:05:31.520 I can just tell you this from working with them, 2292 02:05:31.520 --> 02:05:34.800 seeing the jobs they do and stuff their top notch 2293 02:05:34.960 --> 02:05:38.239 bb b MB turf pros dot com at the website 2294 02:05:38.279 --> 02:05:42.800 doesn't have the end in it. It's bb turfpros dot Com. 2295 02:05:43.039 --> 02:05:45.359 I'm going to head out now. We're get back to 2296 02:05:45.399 --> 02:05:47.760 the phones here. We're gonna go to Cypress and talk 2297 02:05:47.800 --> 02:05:52.199 to Danny. Hello, Danny, good morning morning. 2298 02:05:53.760 --> 02:05:56.319 Hey, I've got a I got a problem with crab 2299 02:05:56.439 --> 02:06:00.319 grass in my Saint Augustine. Grass and everything I read 2300 02:06:00.399 --> 02:06:05.319 about or see is not for use on Saint Augustine. 2301 02:06:05.359 --> 02:06:05.920 You get any. 2302 02:06:05.760 --> 02:06:10.960 Suggestions, well, killing grass and grass is pretty much impossible 2303 02:06:10.960 --> 02:06:15.359 to do once they're both growing. Like whatever you would 2304 02:06:15.399 --> 02:06:19.399 spray on crabgrass that's growing would hurt your Saint Augustine. 2305 02:06:19.600 --> 02:06:22.000 So what we do with crabgrass? You got two things. 2306 02:06:22.199 --> 02:06:24.880 First of all, fortunately it's grass and it's green, so 2307 02:06:25.000 --> 02:06:28.279 if you mow it, it doesn't look as bad as 2308 02:06:28.279 --> 02:06:31.079 some weeds could. Because you're in the meantime, you're going 2309 02:06:31.159 --> 02:06:34.319 to try to grow your Saint Augustine denser and denser 2310 02:06:34.840 --> 02:06:37.800 by mowing, watering, and fertilizing and that's my lawn care 2311 02:06:37.880 --> 02:06:43.000 schedule online. Then you will want next spring in actually 2312 02:06:43.000 --> 02:06:46.279 in February to put down a pre emergent herbicide, and 2313 02:06:46.319 --> 02:06:49.680 that's on my lawn pest disease and weed management schedule. 2314 02:06:49.720 --> 02:06:51.439 I make a list of what you can use out 2315 02:06:51.439 --> 02:06:55.119 there and like barricade, for example, and you put that 2316 02:06:55.239 --> 02:06:57.359 down and watered in, and then you do it. You're 2317 02:06:57.359 --> 02:07:00.720 gonna have to do it again as we get probably 2318 02:07:00.920 --> 02:07:05.079 to about May may June, because the product I put 2319 02:07:05.079 --> 02:07:08.600 out doesn't last forever, and crabgrass will sprout all summer, 2320 02:07:08.640 --> 02:07:11.680 and so you want to stop it from sprouting later. 2321 02:07:12.239 --> 02:07:15.960 But the pre emergent is the way to stop it. 2322 02:07:16.439 --> 02:07:20.439 But really, ultimately, if you're not building density, you're just 2323 02:07:20.439 --> 02:07:22.600 going to continue to have wheat problems popping up. 2324 02:07:23.760 --> 02:07:27.560 Okay, okay, I understand. I appreciate it. Thank you very much. 2325 02:07:28.399 --> 02:07:31.399 You bet good luck. I wish you well. With that. 2326 02:07:31.439 --> 02:07:34.039 We're going to now go out to Samuel and Sugarland. 2327 02:07:34.159 --> 02:07:38.720 Hey Samuel, good morning, Welcome to guard Line. Yeah morning, 2328 02:07:38.760 --> 02:07:39.079 thank you. 2329 02:07:40.119 --> 02:07:42.319 So I got a little dilemma. Maybe you can give 2330 02:07:42.319 --> 02:07:44.800 me some I guess I kind of have the same 2331 02:07:44.960 --> 02:07:48.119 issue that your last caller had. But I think I 2332 02:07:48.119 --> 02:07:50.279 got a little worse because I've been using True Green. 2333 02:07:50.399 --> 02:07:52.840 I hate to say their name on there, but I 2334 02:07:52.880 --> 02:07:54.840 haven't seen a lot of results that come out every 2335 02:07:54.840 --> 02:07:57.920 six weeks. And I got the same issue with crabgrass. 2336 02:07:57.920 --> 02:08:04.439 I got like four leaf clover looking okay grass just 2337 02:08:04.479 --> 02:08:07.399 about every kind of week you can see is is sprouting. 2338 02:08:07.479 --> 02:08:09.399 I fertilized twice a year. I guess I need to 2339 02:08:09.399 --> 02:08:12.960 fertilize a little more, but it's taken over my yard 2340 02:08:13.199 --> 02:08:15.399 and I don't know what else to do. I use 2341 02:08:15.439 --> 02:08:18.359 the scott stuff, but out in sugar Land, it looks 2342 02:08:18.399 --> 02:08:21.119 like the grass that we have out there isn't top notch. 2343 02:08:21.119 --> 02:08:23.960 It's kind of the Saint Augustine stuff. 2344 02:08:25.039 --> 02:08:27.960 Okay. So a couple of things you just heard me 2345 02:08:28.119 --> 02:08:30.840 probably talk about BnB turf pros coming out and doing 2346 02:08:31.000 --> 02:08:34.920 core aeration and compost top dressing. That, okay, is very 2347 02:08:34.920 --> 02:08:37.359 helpful for getting your lawn denture and getting it going. 2348 02:08:37.359 --> 02:08:39.680 If the lawn in general just don't look good, you 2349 02:08:39.720 --> 02:08:42.479 know it needs some help. Maybe it's a heavy clay soil, 2350 02:08:42.520 --> 02:08:44.439 because you got quite a few heavy clay soils out 2351 02:08:44.439 --> 02:08:48.880 there in sugar Land, right, So mowing, watering and fertilizing. 2352 02:08:48.960 --> 02:08:52.359 That's my lawn care schedule and it's online at gardening 2353 02:08:52.560 --> 02:08:56.439 with skip dot comets free to download. And then I 2354 02:08:56.479 --> 02:08:59.680 have a lawn pest disease and we'd management schedule. That's 2355 02:08:59.720 --> 02:09:02.720 the one you also need to download. It starts in 2356 02:09:02.760 --> 02:09:05.319 the spring. It tells you right when to apply the 2357 02:09:05.359 --> 02:09:09.359 pre emergence and when to and what to apply, and 2358 02:09:09.399 --> 02:09:12.479 then it tells you with post emergence like I've already 2359 02:09:12.479 --> 02:09:14.640 got weeds up, Now what can I use to kill them? 2360 02:09:14.960 --> 02:09:16.840 I'd much rather you go with one of the products 2361 02:09:16.880 --> 02:09:19.359 on there. I know you're naming a bunch of brands 2362 02:09:19.359 --> 02:09:22.279 and things out there. There's a bazillion things out on 2363 02:09:22.319 --> 02:09:25.239 the market. I'm focusing on the ones that I know 2364 02:09:25.319 --> 02:09:28.399 will work for you. And so that doesn't mean something 2365 02:09:28.399 --> 02:09:31.479 else won't work. It just means I don't know, I 2366 02:09:31.520 --> 02:09:33.920 mean it, who knows. We'd have to talk about the 2367 02:09:33.960 --> 02:09:36.039 specific one. 2368 02:09:36.640 --> 02:09:39.800 It is it about? Is it not? I don't mean 2369 02:09:39.800 --> 02:09:43.760 to catch off? Is it uh non productive to use 2370 02:09:43.840 --> 02:09:46.920 the uh A service that comes out? Are they not 2371 02:09:47.520 --> 02:09:48.399 results focused? 2372 02:09:48.439 --> 02:09:48.720 I mean? 2373 02:09:49.399 --> 02:09:52.960 Or is it more of a fact. 2374 02:09:52.039 --> 02:09:54.880 You know, without getting into companies and stuff a service 2375 02:09:56.199 --> 02:09:59.560 with with people that they hire that know what they're 2376 02:09:59.600 --> 02:10:03.319 doing can do a very good job. You can also 2377 02:10:03.359 --> 02:10:06.039 do it yourself either way you choose, or you could 2378 02:10:06.079 --> 02:10:08.439 download my schedule and you could tell them this is 2379 02:10:08.479 --> 02:10:10.520 what I to use. I want you to put this 2380 02:10:10.640 --> 02:10:13.439 down and you tell them what to use. They may 2381 02:10:13.520 --> 02:10:16.159 argue with you, but you can always hire somebody else 2382 02:10:16.199 --> 02:10:17.359 if they're not going to be. 2383 02:10:18.720 --> 02:10:22.319 I got you, yep, yep, Okay, all right, I guess 2384 02:10:22.359 --> 02:10:24.520 I'll look at your schedule there, look at what you're 2385 02:10:24.600 --> 02:10:26.760 using and get better shot. I mean, I'm sitting on 2386 02:10:26.880 --> 02:10:27.640 no right now. 2387 02:10:27.720 --> 02:10:31.079 So yeah, well, you know, we got a number of 2388 02:10:31.119 --> 02:10:34.199 things mow water and fertilized are critical. Do it properly. 2389 02:10:34.239 --> 02:10:35.840 It tells you on the schedule how to do that. 2390 02:10:36.359 --> 02:10:39.479 And then if you're going to do accomplos stop dressing 2391 02:10:39.520 --> 02:10:42.159 or an aeration, that's also on that same schedule, the 2392 02:10:42.239 --> 02:10:45.840 long care schedule, getting those done can be helpful too. 2393 02:10:46.199 --> 02:10:48.199 So there's a lot of ways we can approach this. 2394 02:10:48.399 --> 02:10:50.359 The goal at the end is just get that grass 2395 02:10:50.359 --> 02:10:53.880 growing faster and green and healthy, and that takes care 2396 02:10:53.920 --> 02:10:55.680 of the majority of your WEAD problems. And then when 2397 02:10:55.680 --> 02:10:57.840 you have things that it doesn't take care of, which 2398 02:10:57.880 --> 02:11:00.319 there are things that it won't take care of. You 2399 02:11:00.359 --> 02:11:03.439 can go after those with a specific product that I 2400 02:11:03.520 --> 02:11:05.239 would recommend for those problems. 2401 02:11:05.279 --> 02:11:09.199 Okay, okay, I'll get a look at your website. I 2402 02:11:09.239 --> 02:11:10.840 love your show. I appreciate the info. 2403 02:11:12.119 --> 02:11:16.199 All right, happy, happy to help. Let's see where we're 2404 02:11:16.199 --> 02:11:18.840 going now. We've got a lot of board here we're 2405 02:11:18.840 --> 02:11:24.359 trying to clear out. Let's go to Houston area, tuc To. Rick. Hello, Rick, 2406 02:11:24.479 --> 02:11:26.680 Welcome to garden line. 2407 02:11:27.319 --> 02:11:32.279 Yeah, no more. I've got an issue with is back 2408 02:11:32.319 --> 02:11:32.960 on an issue with a. 2409 02:11:33.159 --> 02:11:37.039 Sandy leaf put in the groundcover in my front bids 2410 02:11:37.439 --> 02:11:41.399 and I'm noticing it's getting a yellow leaf spots on it. 2411 02:11:41.840 --> 02:11:44.039 Overwatering or is it that something different? 2412 02:11:45.920 --> 02:11:49.640 It's a groundcover that is did you have a name 2413 02:11:49.680 --> 02:11:50.039 for it? 2414 02:11:51.199 --> 02:11:51.920 Sandy leaf? 2415 02:11:52.039 --> 02:11:56.840 They call it sandy leaf, Oh, san leya fig. Probably 2416 02:11:57.039 --> 02:12:01.840 it's got a run sandpapery leaf. Yeah, that's probably the Okay, 2417 02:12:02.119 --> 02:12:04.960 that's a ficus type plant that grows as a groundcover. 2418 02:12:05.600 --> 02:12:08.279 When it's showing some yellow, probably the it's on the 2419 02:12:08.319 --> 02:12:10.720 oldest leaves. If a little suit sticks up, it's got 2420 02:12:10.760 --> 02:12:12.359 a bunch of leaves on it, it's gonna be on 2421 02:12:12.399 --> 02:12:15.279 the older ones typically, and that could be a fluctuation 2422 02:12:15.399 --> 02:12:18.359 in soul moisture gets a little dry and then it 2423 02:12:18.520 --> 02:12:23.399 gets water and stuff. Probably not a disease unless it 2424 02:12:23.479 --> 02:12:26.880 were some sort of a root rot from excessive soil moisture, 2425 02:12:27.000 --> 02:12:31.960 soggy soggy conditions. There's I've never seen a leaf spot 2426 02:12:32.079 --> 02:12:35.399 become a problem on that on that plant. Uh so 2427 02:12:35.479 --> 02:12:39.079 I'm gonna guess that it could just be a lack 2428 02:12:39.119 --> 02:12:42.199 of nitrogen too, But that plant is so tough even 2429 02:12:42.279 --> 02:12:44.880 without a lot of nitrogen. It should it should look okay. 2430 02:12:46.760 --> 02:12:49.079 Yeah, well, so it's good. It's okay in the shade 2431 02:12:49.079 --> 02:12:49.560 and sun. 2432 02:12:49.640 --> 02:12:50.920 So that's why I figured, I don't know why. 2433 02:12:50.840 --> 02:12:57.640 I'll go watering it or so okay, so just uh yeah, yeah. 2434 02:12:57.640 --> 02:12:59.560 And you can always dig down about three inches of 2435 02:12:59.600 --> 02:13:03.159 a little babe in your hand and feel the soil. 2436 02:13:03.279 --> 02:13:05.079 I mean, you know, you can feel the interesting dry 2437 02:13:05.079 --> 02:13:08.399 and moist and if it's if it's wet, then definitely 2438 02:13:08.439 --> 02:13:10.479 don't need a water. If it's getting a little on 2439 02:13:10.520 --> 02:13:12.920 the dry, set give it some water. But that's not 2440 02:13:12.960 --> 02:13:14.760 a picky plant, so it's not like you got to 2441 02:13:14.800 --> 02:13:16.840 get it just right. It's not a hydrangeur or something 2442 02:13:16.840 --> 02:13:20.079 but you got to keep just happy. So actually, that'll 2443 02:13:20.119 --> 02:13:22.880 do it. I throw a little nitrogen, a little omfertilizer 2444 02:13:22.920 --> 02:13:24.720 on it. You can do that and that'll kind of 2445 02:13:24.720 --> 02:13:26.720 boost it, give it a little extra growth. I just 2446 02:13:26.800 --> 02:13:29.920 wouldn't do that past about August. I'd get that done 2447 02:13:30.000 --> 02:13:31.600 now rather than later done. 2448 02:13:31.840 --> 02:13:34.399 Okay, okay, thank you, Sary. 2449 02:13:34.159 --> 02:13:34.239 So. 2450 02:13:36.279 --> 02:13:40.039 Appreciate appreciate your call very much. H You know, we're 2451 02:13:40.039 --> 02:13:43.479 talking about clay soils and compaction. You know, clay soils 2452 02:13:43.520 --> 02:13:46.359 also when they get wet, they swell. When they get dry, 2453 02:13:46.399 --> 02:13:50.800 they shrink, and that's movement. That's why your sidewalks heave 2454 02:13:50.840 --> 02:13:54.399 and crack, and your driveway heaves and crack, and unfortunately, 2455 02:13:54.399 --> 02:13:58.359 your house foundation heaves and cracks. Fix my slab foundation repair. 2456 02:13:58.479 --> 02:14:00.760 Ti Strickland been doing this twenty three years. 2457 02:14:00.760 --> 02:14:00.960 Here. 2458 02:14:01.399 --> 02:14:04.600 I have picked Tie's brain. I just can't believe how 2459 02:14:04.680 --> 02:14:06.279 much he knows, because every time I ask him the 2460 02:14:06.319 --> 02:14:08.479 next question, he knows the answer to that too. He 2461 02:14:08.600 --> 02:14:12.479 is an expert and he specializes in three things. Showing 2462 02:14:12.560 --> 02:14:15.199 up on time. Oh my gosh, how refreshing for a 2463 02:14:15.239 --> 02:14:18.600 service person to show up on time, fixing it, fixing 2464 02:14:18.640 --> 02:14:22.159 it right. He knows what he's doing, and he does 2465 02:14:22.199 --> 02:14:24.319 it right and then fair priced, giving you a fair 2466 02:14:24.359 --> 02:14:26.840 price for the job. What more can you ask for? 2467 02:14:27.399 --> 02:14:29.359 If you tell him you're a guardline listener, you get 2468 02:14:29.399 --> 02:14:33.199 a free estimate. That's important. Tell him that you can 2469 02:14:33.279 --> 02:14:36.239 go to his website fixmslab dot com. You can give 2470 02:14:36.319 --> 02:14:39.520 him a call two eight one two FI five forty 2471 02:14:39.600 --> 02:14:43.439 nine forty nine. Say that again two eight one two 2472 02:14:43.439 --> 02:14:48.840 FI five four nine four nine fix myslab dot com. 2473 02:14:48.840 --> 02:14:51.039 If you got cracks in the brick outside, cracks in 2474 02:14:51.079 --> 02:14:54.520 the sheet rock inside, door sticking, those are warning signs. 2475 02:14:54.560 --> 02:14:56.479 Have him come out. It's a free estimate. Have him 2476 02:14:56.479 --> 02:14:58.199 come out and take a look at it and see 2477 02:14:58.239 --> 02:15:00.920 what you think. Don't delay. Come back to the garden Line. 2478 02:15:00.960 --> 02:15:04.279 Good heavy with us. Glad you are here, that is 2479 02:15:04.319 --> 02:15:06.239 for sure. Hey, we're going to go back to the 2480 02:15:06.279 --> 02:15:08.600 phones right away. Here we've got some folks have been waiting. 2481 02:15:09.079 --> 02:15:12.720 Talk to Gary first in West Houston. Welcome to garden Line. 2482 02:15:12.720 --> 02:15:16.399 Gary, all right, thank you. Skip two quick questions. 2483 02:15:16.439 --> 02:15:19.680 One on my zoijow, which is you know, really thick 2484 02:15:19.760 --> 02:15:22.800 and fairly healthy except for some weeds here and there. 2485 02:15:24.279 --> 02:15:28.439 When I put down granular fertilizer nitrofoss what have you. 2486 02:15:28.800 --> 02:15:34.439 It's so thick that the fertilizer lays on top, and 2487 02:15:35.279 --> 02:15:38.199 I wanted to make sure I didn't burn anything or whatever, 2488 02:15:38.319 --> 02:15:41.920 and I would basically have to walk around and drill 2489 02:15:41.960 --> 02:15:45.239 it down into the grass with a jet spray. 2490 02:15:45.920 --> 02:15:50.119 How careful do I have to be in doing that? 2491 02:15:50.479 --> 02:15:52.680 Or is just wetting it and let it sit there 2492 02:15:52.720 --> 02:15:55.000 on top of the grass not a bad thing? 2493 02:15:56.760 --> 02:15:59.600 Well, good, good question. First of all, congratulations on having 2494 02:15:59.640 --> 02:16:08.399 turfed dence. That's impressive. So so yeah, yeah, you must 2495 02:16:08.399 --> 02:16:12.039 have a very fine texture zoysia, something like Xeon or Emerald. 2496 02:16:13.159 --> 02:16:20.000 Yeah it's Emerald, Emerald, Emerald. Okay, Well, so you can 2497 02:16:20.079 --> 02:16:22.520 water it in. You can water it and it should 2498 02:16:22.560 --> 02:16:25.119 dissolve the particles you met the water a little while 2499 02:16:25.199 --> 02:16:27.800 and then a little bit later water again. It should 2500 02:16:27.840 --> 02:16:30.159 dissolve and move on in. And that would be better 2501 02:16:30.199 --> 02:16:33.000 than just leaving it on the surface, because that's where 2502 02:16:33.040 --> 02:16:35.600 you would get a salt burn from a salt based 2503 02:16:35.639 --> 02:16:39.799 synthetic type fertilizers like you're talking about. I don't you know, 2504 02:16:39.879 --> 02:16:42.479 I don't think raking it in in any way is 2505 02:16:42.520 --> 02:16:44.440 going to be practical. And plus that's a lot of 2506 02:16:44.479 --> 02:16:47.040 work to have to rake your lawn because you fertilized it. 2507 02:16:47.719 --> 02:16:50.799 So I think that's probably your best bet is to 2508 02:16:51.200 --> 02:16:54.159 is to give it a good soaking, watering and let 2509 02:16:54.239 --> 02:16:57.680 it work its way in, you know it almost I 2510 02:16:57.719 --> 02:17:00.079 don't know. I'm just are you doing a lot of 2511 02:17:00.120 --> 02:17:04.120 mowing and fertilizing and watering of the lawn. I'm kind 2512 02:17:04.120 --> 02:17:06.440 of curious about the level of density you're getting. 2513 02:17:08.399 --> 02:17:10.959 I haven't done. I haven't overfertilized it at all. 2514 02:17:11.079 --> 02:17:13.319 As a matter of fact, it's probably been two months 2515 02:17:13.319 --> 02:17:15.600 and nuts because I was using Imperial. I didn't I 2516 02:17:15.639 --> 02:17:17.639 didn't have any slow release. I wanted to get rid 2517 02:17:17.639 --> 02:17:20.159 of the Imperial. So I don't mind doing it every 2518 02:17:20.159 --> 02:17:24.600 couple of months. But I am mowing it if I can. 2519 02:17:24.879 --> 02:17:27.319 I I mow it once a week with a real mower, 2520 02:17:27.440 --> 02:17:30.479 and I let the long guys do it once a 2521 02:17:30.479 --> 02:17:33.719 week because they've got a bagger, you know. So it's 2522 02:17:33.799 --> 02:17:36.200 kind of a twice a week thing. And I'm keeping it. 2523 02:17:36.520 --> 02:17:40.200 Try and keep it almost to an inch you know, 2524 02:17:40.360 --> 02:17:40.639 inch and. 2525 02:17:40.639 --> 02:17:44.319 A half cover. Okay, now that's making now, now that's 2526 02:17:44.360 --> 02:17:49.280 making some sense. Yeah, yeah, you're and the other I'm 2527 02:17:49.319 --> 02:17:50.879 not surprised as sitting on top. 2528 02:17:52.120 --> 02:17:52.360 Yeah. 2529 02:17:52.440 --> 02:17:55.440 And the the other quick question I had was, and 2530 02:17:55.479 --> 02:17:59.239 somebody talked about crabgrass earlier. But Image has a product 2531 02:17:59.280 --> 02:18:01.799 says it kills sets, and it says on it it 2532 02:18:01.879 --> 02:18:05.559 kills crabgrass and that it's safe you know for a 2533 02:18:05.680 --> 02:18:10.040 zoision as some other lawns. Does it really kill crab 2534 02:18:10.079 --> 02:18:10.680 grass or not? 2535 02:18:12.559 --> 02:18:15.360 Well, if it has got on the label, then there 2536 02:18:15.479 --> 02:18:18.399 it does. The thing the label doesn't tell you is 2537 02:18:18.479 --> 02:18:20.639 how good it is. You know, there's things that are 2538 02:18:20.719 --> 02:18:24.680 labeled like for nuts edge that is like, for example, 2539 02:18:24.840 --> 02:18:28.559 image is only fair against yellow nutsedge, but it's good 2540 02:18:28.600 --> 02:18:32.959 against purple nutsedge. And so depending on the counter nuts 2541 02:18:32.959 --> 02:18:34.799 sage you have. This is going back to the fact 2542 02:18:34.799 --> 02:18:39.319 that I'm putting these this information up there because sometimes 2543 02:18:39.319 --> 02:18:41.639 a good quick answer is not the most accurate answer. 2544 02:18:42.319 --> 02:18:45.399 But that may be part of it there, and with 2545 02:18:45.479 --> 02:18:47.879 any weed that's going to be the case. So crabgrass, 2546 02:18:48.399 --> 02:18:51.879 image should do a pretty good job. Image has It 2547 02:18:51.879 --> 02:18:54.639 has effect on the foliage of the weed you're putting 2548 02:18:54.639 --> 02:18:58.280 it on, but it also has root effect. So when 2549 02:18:58.319 --> 02:19:02.760 you spray image after twenty four hours, you want to 2550 02:19:02.760 --> 02:19:05.280 put on about a half inch of water and that 2551 02:19:05.399 --> 02:19:08.840 moves the product then down into the soil because it's 2552 02:19:08.840 --> 02:19:11.559 already soaked into the foliage spray. Then it moves the 2553 02:19:11.600 --> 02:19:14.799 extra down in the soil where it will affect the roots. 2554 02:19:15.040 --> 02:19:15.200 Uh. 2555 02:19:15.239 --> 02:19:17.479 And so it has a double way that it works 2556 02:19:17.520 --> 02:19:20.239 after those. But again depends on the kind of nutsedge. 2557 02:19:20.520 --> 02:19:23.879 Yeah, okay, yeah, and for and for nut size yourself, 2558 02:19:23.920 --> 02:19:26.639 I mean such hammer Plus say it's safe to use 2559 02:19:26.680 --> 02:19:30.280 on the zoisa, especially for spot treatment and that other area. 2560 02:19:30.280 --> 02:19:32.360 Sedge hammer spot yeah. 2561 02:19:32.159 --> 02:19:35.280 Summer, it's good for people that got. 2562 02:19:35.200 --> 02:19:39.399 Yeah, it does, right, And sedge hammer is a brand. 2563 02:19:39.479 --> 02:19:42.000 Sedgehammer Plus is a brand which, by the way, already 2564 02:19:42.000 --> 02:19:46.719 has a surfactant in it. Uh. There are other versions 2565 02:19:46.840 --> 02:19:51.600 of that same ingredient, halo sulfron. Monterey has one called 2566 02:19:51.680 --> 02:19:56.239 nutgrass Killer. Two High Yield has nutsedge and horse tail control. 2567 02:19:56.520 --> 02:19:59.200 Martin's has nutsedge Eliminator, and all of those are the 2568 02:19:59.239 --> 02:20:05.959 same ingredients and so one. Yeah, it does it is 2569 02:20:06.040 --> 02:20:09.239 it's good to excellent on both yellow and purple. That's it. 2570 02:20:10.639 --> 02:20:13.200 Yeah, Well, thank you very much, Skip, have a great 2571 02:20:13.440 --> 02:20:14.239 have a great right. 2572 02:20:15.280 --> 02:20:17.559 Well, it sounds like you need to call better homes 2573 02:20:17.559 --> 02:20:19.479 and gardens and have come take a picture of you 2574 02:20:19.559 --> 02:20:20.719 and your lawn out there. 2575 02:20:21.200 --> 02:20:21.600 I got a. 2576 02:20:23.719 --> 02:20:25.200 Yeah, I got a lot of pictures on my lawn 2577 02:20:25.239 --> 02:20:28.520 on my phone. So I'm a freak, all right, I'm 2578 02:20:29.360 --> 02:20:30.159 obsession of it. 2579 02:20:30.520 --> 02:20:35.000 Thanks Skip, all right, you're one of those lawn rangers. 2580 02:20:35.159 --> 02:20:38.559 Thanks a lot. I appreciate appreciate your call. Gary, appreciate 2581 02:20:38.600 --> 02:20:40.959 that very much. Uh, let's see, We're going to see 2582 02:20:41.000 --> 02:20:43.520 if we can get take care of James and sugar Land. 2583 02:20:43.520 --> 02:20:43.639 Here. 2584 02:20:43.719 --> 02:20:45.600 James, you got about a minute left. How can we. 2585 02:20:45.559 --> 02:20:50.200 Help continuing the discussion on uh take all patch? Is 2586 02:20:50.239 --> 02:20:53.559 it worth trying to treat it now? You say in 2587 02:20:53.559 --> 02:20:55.200 the spring and in the fall, But do you put 2588 02:20:55.239 --> 02:20:56.079 anything out now? 2589 02:20:57.040 --> 02:20:59.559 You know, I had my neighbor and I both had 2590 02:20:59.559 --> 02:21:01.319 a little take all in a part of our yard, 2591 02:21:01.440 --> 02:21:04.799 and I did treat it recently. The effect of that 2592 02:21:04.879 --> 02:21:07.760 treatment is not as good as treating it at the 2593 02:21:07.760 --> 02:21:10.840 times on my schedule, but it helps a little, And 2594 02:21:10.879 --> 02:21:12.639 so I went ahead and did it because I'm trying 2595 02:21:12.680 --> 02:21:14.559 to shut it down. I'm pretty much throwing everything but 2596 02:21:14.639 --> 02:21:16.600 the kitchen sink at it. 2597 02:21:16.799 --> 02:21:18.000 That's why it is. 2598 02:21:17.959 --> 02:21:21.879 The one disease that kills your lawn. And so that's a. 2599 02:21:22.079 --> 02:21:22.959 Well, what about. 2600 02:21:25.079 --> 02:21:27.000 Okay, if I need to put out sawd am I 2601 02:21:27.040 --> 02:21:29.120 wasting my time until I can figure out if I 2602 02:21:29.159 --> 02:21:31.200 can get this under control. 2603 02:21:31.600 --> 02:21:34.200 No, no, you can put out the sod. Just keep 2604 02:21:34.239 --> 02:21:36.159 it as healthy as you can. Take All is an 2605 02:21:36.159 --> 02:21:40.959 opportunist disease. When you stress your grass with shade, with 2606 02:21:41.239 --> 02:21:45.440 certain kinds of weed killers, with compacted soil and so on. 2607 02:21:45.639 --> 02:21:49.280 With drought, that's another one. Uh, then take all gets 2608 02:21:49.280 --> 02:21:52.959 the chance to move in and attack. Otherwise the grass 2609 02:21:53.000 --> 02:21:55.799 is somewhat resilient against it. Hey, I've got to run 2610 02:21:56.319 --> 02:22:00.920 to another break. But yeah, that lay on it, stay 2611 02:22:00.920 --> 02:22:03.799 on it. That's the way to get ahead of it. 2612 02:22:04.000 --> 02:22:06.559 You take yes, sir, you take care, James. We'll be 2613 02:22:06.639 --> 02:22:13.239 right back. Cool stuff. Hey, welcome back. We're glad to 2614 02:22:13.239 --> 02:22:17.760 have you with us. Nelson Plant Food is a creator 2615 02:22:17.879 --> 02:22:20.719 of some of the best fertilizer products that you're going 2616 02:22:20.760 --> 02:22:23.239 to find for whatever you want to grow. I mean, 2617 02:22:23.360 --> 02:22:25.920 they've got their turf Star line, things like Bruce's Brew. 2618 02:22:26.000 --> 02:22:29.079 Bruces Brew is a product that is going to be 2619 02:22:29.360 --> 02:22:32.040 a quick release product you can use anytime of the year. 2620 02:22:32.120 --> 02:22:34.799 And we talk about slow releases. Slow releases are fine, 2621 02:22:34.879 --> 02:22:37.799 like Nelson's Slow and Easy. You can take a quick release. 2622 02:22:37.959 --> 02:22:41.520 You can divide up the application into smaller applications, or 2623 02:22:41.680 --> 02:22:44.440 what we normally use is we talk about using Bruce's 2624 02:22:44.479 --> 02:22:47.159 Brew like in the springtime and in the fall time 2625 02:22:47.319 --> 02:22:51.799 as we're getting going on our lawns. It's an excellent product, 2626 02:22:52.200 --> 02:22:56.360 very very excellent product. Now when we're talking about fall 2627 02:22:56.440 --> 02:22:58.799 that is when we look at their carbo load product. 2628 02:22:58.799 --> 02:23:00.920 That's one coming up and I'll talk about that more, 2629 02:23:01.319 --> 02:23:03.319 but for right now, I want to focus a little 2630 02:23:03.319 --> 02:23:05.600 bit on the Nutri Star and Nature Star line. The 2631 02:23:05.639 --> 02:23:08.559 nutri Star is a tree and shrub line that is 2632 02:23:08.959 --> 02:23:12.159 excellent for all kinds of well Nutrire Star is a 2633 02:23:12.200 --> 02:23:14.600 number of lines. They've got the tree and shrub, which 2634 02:23:14.639 --> 02:23:17.040 is good for all your woody ornamentals, So any kind 2635 02:23:17.040 --> 02:23:20.479 of tree, any kind of shrub, any kind of woody vine. 2636 02:23:21.079 --> 02:23:24.319 That is what you need Nutrastar, tree and shrub to do. 2637 02:23:24.399 --> 02:23:27.159 Five different sources of nitrogen in that product, by the way, 2638 02:23:27.719 --> 02:23:29.319 and you can feed them three or four times a 2639 02:23:29.399 --> 02:23:31.360 year just to keep that growth going. You know, when 2640 02:23:31.360 --> 02:23:33.440 you plant a tree, your goal is how soon can 2641 02:23:33.440 --> 02:23:35.920 I hang a hammock in that thing? Get it growing 2642 02:23:36.280 --> 02:23:39.159 with nutri Star tree and shrub. Nature Star is their 2643 02:23:39.239 --> 02:23:42.120 organic all purpose fertilizer. So see what I'm talking about. 2644 02:23:42.200 --> 02:23:45.159 Nelson plant Food. I didn't even talk about color Star. 2645 02:23:45.319 --> 02:23:47.920 That's another one they got. Nelson Plant Trees a wide 2646 02:23:48.000 --> 02:23:51.200 variety of products. They're all quality, they all work, and 2647 02:23:51.239 --> 02:23:54.000 they're all widely available, so you can find one near you. 2648 02:23:54.680 --> 02:23:56.440 I want to head out now to Deer Park and 2649 02:23:56.479 --> 02:23:59.680 we're going to talk to Steve. Hello, Steve, welcome to Damline. 2650 02:24:00.799 --> 02:24:06.280 Yes, hey, Skip, I sent you an email and yes 2651 02:24:06.520 --> 02:24:08.719 I was wondering you had a chance to look at it. 2652 02:24:10.120 --> 02:24:15.159 Yes I have. And that is called dovewed and doveweed weed. 2653 02:24:16.520 --> 02:24:20.399 It's an annual opportunist. It's kind of caught in between 2654 02:24:20.520 --> 02:24:23.840 grasses and broad leaf control. So things that kill grasses 2655 02:24:23.879 --> 02:24:25.639 mer or may not work. Things that kill broad leaf 2656 02:24:25.680 --> 02:24:29.639 marmorn not works. It's very difficult to manage dove weed. 2657 02:24:29.840 --> 02:24:34.120 Usually once you have it, then we're we're talking about 2658 02:24:34.639 --> 02:24:37.719 applying something to kill everything in that spot, like a 2659 02:24:37.879 --> 02:24:41.719 Glacis type product would do. It kills the doveweed to 2660 02:24:41.799 --> 02:24:43.760 kiss the grass. It kills everything. But you're just going 2661 02:24:43.799 --> 02:24:46.399 in and you're creating a clean slate to start over 2662 02:24:47.040 --> 02:24:51.680 uh pre emergence. Most of the pre emergence available in 2663 02:24:51.719 --> 02:24:55.479 the in the retail market just are not going to 2664 02:24:55.479 --> 02:24:59.000 work on that particular weed very well. But the products 2665 02:24:59.040 --> 02:25:02.760 that do work landscape care companies have access to, but 2666 02:25:03.120 --> 02:25:05.840 those are pricey. There we spend one hundreds of dollars 2667 02:25:05.959 --> 02:25:09.639 or more on some of those products, and so are 2668 02:25:10.000 --> 02:25:11.920 it'd be nice to have a pre emergent to just 2669 02:25:12.000 --> 02:25:14.959 prevent the little annual seeds of doveweed from coming up. 2670 02:25:15.479 --> 02:25:17.159 But I just don't to know of a good one 2671 02:25:17.200 --> 02:25:21.159 that's been proven effective so on that particular weed. So 2672 02:25:21.600 --> 02:25:23.280 that leaves us with the alternative. 2673 02:25:25.040 --> 02:25:27.799 A weed and feed wouldn't take care of it, would it? 2674 02:25:28.200 --> 02:25:30.280 No, Because that's going to either be a pre emergent 2675 02:25:30.399 --> 02:25:33.079 or a post emergent. And I would rather feed when 2676 02:25:33.079 --> 02:25:35.680 it's time to feed, and weed when it's time to weed, 2677 02:25:36.159 --> 02:25:38.879 and separate those out because this this weed is a 2678 02:25:38.879 --> 02:25:42.280 good example there are products that are not going to 2679 02:25:42.280 --> 02:25:44.760 touch it. In weed and feeds, there's pre emergent weeden 2680 02:25:44.799 --> 02:25:46.799 feeds and you're not going to touch it. There's going 2681 02:25:46.840 --> 02:25:49.159 to be some post emergent weeden feeds that don't have 2682 02:25:49.280 --> 02:25:51.440 what it takes to really knock it out. It just 2683 02:25:51.879 --> 02:25:56.120 you don't get satisfaction. And I don't want to hedge hedge. 2684 02:25:56.280 --> 02:25:58.479 I don't want to send you out there to buy 2685 02:25:58.520 --> 02:26:00.559 something that's not going to give you the results you're 2686 02:26:00.600 --> 02:26:01.120 gonna need. 2687 02:26:01.799 --> 02:26:03.719 So I need a glass of fate product. 2688 02:26:05.120 --> 02:26:10.639 Glyphosate glyphose a Now, okay, get out, wait until it's 2689 02:26:10.680 --> 02:26:12.280 not so hot to do it, or do you need 2690 02:26:12.319 --> 02:26:15.559 to do it right now? You could do it well, 2691 02:26:15.600 --> 02:26:17.959 I do it now. Start early in the morning when 2692 02:26:18.000 --> 02:26:20.360 it's cool, and just spray over it. Just know that 2693 02:26:20.440 --> 02:26:24.120 glyphase kills broad leaf and grassy wheat. Now round Up 2694 02:26:24.959 --> 02:26:27.600 these companies frustrate the heck out of me because they 2695 02:26:27.760 --> 02:26:31.920 confuse things. It used to be that round Up had glyphosate. 2696 02:26:32.319 --> 02:26:36.239 Now round Up has two or three other things instead 2697 02:26:36.319 --> 02:26:39.000 of glyphosate in it, so you would have to find 2698 02:26:39.040 --> 02:26:41.639 glyphos aide. It's in a lot of different brands to 2699 02:26:41.680 --> 02:26:45.200 put out there on it. But just know this, if 2700 02:26:45.239 --> 02:26:47.719 it's green and you get it on the green tissues, 2701 02:26:47.920 --> 02:26:50.799 glyphosate is going to kill your grass. It's going to 2702 02:26:50.920 --> 02:26:54.239 kill it any flowers nearby that you let it drift onto. 2703 02:26:54.440 --> 02:26:56.360 So you want to be careful when you apply it. 2704 02:26:57.440 --> 02:27:01.280 Okay, all right, now every side? 2705 02:27:02.399 --> 02:27:05.200 Yeah, and the only alternative. And in the picture you sent, 2706 02:27:05.719 --> 02:27:08.639 I couldn't tell for sure, but it looked like it's 2707 02:27:08.680 --> 02:27:13.200 almost one dove weed. So that would be one where 2708 02:27:13.239 --> 02:27:15.079 I would say, yeah, I just go spread. You could 2709 02:27:15.159 --> 02:27:19.000 also go in and with a hoe slicing about a 2710 02:27:19.040 --> 02:27:22.440 half inch under the surface. Just hoe it all out 2711 02:27:22.440 --> 02:27:25.079 of there. But you're still going to have seeds that 2712 02:27:25.079 --> 02:27:27.000 then re sprout. You got to be ready to go 2713 02:27:27.079 --> 02:27:29.879 with that. Maybe you would then receive those areas because 2714 02:27:29.920 --> 02:27:32.639 they're pretty large too. You can't wait on grass to 2715 02:27:32.719 --> 02:27:35.120 crawl in from the sides of areas that large. It 2716 02:27:35.200 --> 02:27:39.159 takes too long. So I just throw that as another area. 2717 02:27:39.639 --> 02:27:42.520 Another option for people that don't want to use a 2718 02:27:42.520 --> 02:27:44.280 harvest that product, such as clapsate. 2719 02:27:45.120 --> 02:27:47.000 I know you're probably running out of time. But if 2720 02:27:47.000 --> 02:27:50.840 I waited and let it go into winter and then 2721 02:27:50.879 --> 02:27:54.360 it died back for the winter I suppose, and then 2722 02:27:54.520 --> 02:27:57.719 treated it in the spring, would it be easier or 2723 02:27:57.879 --> 02:28:01.280 hard work be a mistake neither. 2724 02:28:01.600 --> 02:28:04.239 It's an annual, so you'd be getting it back from 2725 02:28:04.319 --> 02:28:06.319 seeds in the spring. You know what, There is one 2726 02:28:06.360 --> 02:28:07.959 other product I can't believe I didn't think of this. 2727 02:28:08.280 --> 02:28:11.799 There's one other product. It's Agrilawn. It's a cinnamon based 2728 02:28:11.799 --> 02:28:16.000 product that's in a round paper canister and you turn 2729 02:28:16.040 --> 02:28:19.600 it upside down and you shake the cinnamon onto the weed. 2730 02:28:20.000 --> 02:28:22.600 The weed needs to be wet, so you need to, 2731 02:28:23.559 --> 02:28:26.479 you know, turn on the water hosen, just get it wet, 2732 02:28:26.559 --> 02:28:29.399 and that makes the cinnamon stick to the weed and 2733 02:28:29.479 --> 02:28:33.799 it'll turn it brown, I mean black, it just really fast. 2734 02:28:34.120 --> 02:28:38.559 Now that product is say one more time, agri lawn, 2735 02:28:39.399 --> 02:28:44.360 a g agroln lawn. But like I said, you're mixing. 2736 02:28:44.440 --> 02:28:47.079 It's not liquid, it's not a granule you put out. 2737 02:28:47.399 --> 02:28:50.120 It is a canister of cinnamon dust. Think of it 2738 02:28:50.159 --> 02:28:51.920 that way. That's the best way to think of it. 2739 02:28:52.200 --> 02:28:54.840 And you if you've got wet weeds, it will not 2740 02:28:54.959 --> 02:28:57.559 kill your Saint Augustine. But if you got wet weeds, 2741 02:28:57.600 --> 02:28:59.719 it'll kill it. And so it may be a little 2742 02:28:59.719 --> 02:29:01.959 ex if if you've got a big area, because this 2743 02:29:02.079 --> 02:29:05.120 is a it's like a one pound canister and you're 2744 02:29:05.200 --> 02:29:07.399 literally dusting all the weeds with it. 2745 02:29:07.959 --> 02:29:10.719 And so okay, that sounds like a good option. 2746 02:29:10.799 --> 02:29:14.280 I think it will give you very fast results and 2747 02:29:14.440 --> 02:29:16.760 I think that's probably what I would do. But in 2748 02:29:16.799 --> 02:29:20.760 the meantime, let's either plug in grass, sod in grass, 2749 02:29:20.840 --> 02:29:23.959 or do whatever we can to cover bear soil because 2750 02:29:23.959 --> 02:29:26.399 this weed's just going to keep coming back every year. 2751 02:29:27.719 --> 02:29:30.440 Okay, all right, thank you, you have a good weekends. 2752 02:29:31.159 --> 02:29:34.120 All right, thank you. I appreciate your call very much. 2753 02:29:34.479 --> 02:29:39.440 You know it's season to trim your trees for storms, 2754 02:29:39.479 --> 02:29:43.680 and Affordable Tree does that. Martin at Affordable Tree knows 2755 02:29:43.719 --> 02:29:46.120 how to take care of trees. He does, that's what 2756 02:29:46.200 --> 02:29:48.879 he does. 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